THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 8, 1921.
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1921.
LOVE DESTROYS FEAR: There is
no fear in love: but perfect love cast
?th out fear; because fear hatli tor
ment. He that feareth is not made per
fect in love. 1 John 4:18.
DR. LOR EN".
It is inconceivable that the medical
profession in America is behind the
movement to eject Dr. Lorenz, the
eminent Vienna specialist, from this
country to which he came to perform
'.i gratutious service to suffering human-
ity, to lend the acuteness of his marvel
lous science to the lame and the halt
In America simply as a token of his
personal appreciation for what Ameri
cans have done for the little children of
his home city.
Dr. Lorenz is not over here on a
money-making tour. AVere that a fact
we could understand how a very few
representatives of the medical frater
nity might take exception to such a
mission and move to have him expelled.
He came, however, without any promise
to be rewarded and without any motive
to make charges for his services. He
wanted only to indicate to this country,
he said, how thankful the people of
Vienna are for the saUaging agencies
et in motion there by the American
people and to show in his limited way
something of the depth of appreciation
which is in the heart of the Austrian
people because of such American serv
ices. It looks, therefore, worse than mere
ignorance and stupidity that a few
American doctors are making it so hot
for him that he is about to return to
his native country without the oppor
tunity further to express the gratitude
of his people through his ministrations
of mercy toward crippled American
children. If there is not more to the
3tory than we have seen in the des
patches, if there is not something being
withheld about him and his work, then
the only conclusion to be drawn is
that the small section of medical men in
this country who are bucking him are
moved -by a prejudice that is hardly
less than barbaric.
. The mere fact that this distinguished
scientist and surgeon is a Teuton, as
one Philadelphia doctor complained,
ought certainly not to weigh heavily
in the premises. If we propose to show
hostility toward everybody in this coun
try who has a little tinge of Teuton
blood in his veins, we will be kept
rather busy displaying our animosity,
and we might happen also to be called
upon by this inner devil of spite and
hate to take our weapons out against
some who have been particularly friend
ly to us, certainly against some who
are standing today among those at the
top in achievement in the arts and in
the sciences in this country.
ADVANCED STEP IN PUBLIC
HEALTH SERVICE.
A far-reaching step in the interest of
public health will have been taken when
the city and county join hands in the
promotion of this1 service and combine
their health agencies, as is about to be
done. There is no reason that such
a combination should not work satis
factorily and; successfully. Given an as
sistant and sufficient nurses, Dr. Mc
Phaul, who has been especially aggres
sive since coming to the headship of
this department in the city, ought to
be able to cover the entire county, treat
ing it as a whole and making his plans
with that end in vfew.
That, as a matter of fact, is the sen
sible program to follow out. There is no
reason to isolate the one from the
other, to lift the city out of the lap of
the county as a whole and regard it is
specially worthy and needful of health
offices which the balance- of the county J
can get along without. There is just as
much reason that a health officer should (
be utilized in the rural parts of the
county as in the city, there is just as
much work to be done, just, as fine a
field for educational efforts and just as
luminous an opportunity to institute
preventative measures for the promo
tion of health out there as there is in
the city which, heretofore, has enjoyed
a concentration of health energy.
The people of Mecklenburg may Avell
rejoice that such a movement is under
way, that the county commissioners
and the county board of education, with
the aid of an appropriation from the
State, have set aside enough money to
guarantee the services of a competent
health officer and nurses and that an
effort will be made, according to the
present understanding, to offer Dr. Mc
Phaul the work of supervising health
activities in the entire county, an as
sistant to be given him for these en
larged duties.
When we think soberly of the situa
tion, we will reach the conclusion that,
after all, nothing else is as important
as the health of the people and no other
form of public service is so far-reaching
as this. We can get along without a lot
of other things which we are demanding
and which are good enough in their
place, but we can not get along with
out our health. That is the basis of
everything. It is the first requisite of
a satisfactory social, civic and moral
life. It is the foundation of material
wellbeing. A sickly citizenship never
makes much commercial headway. An
unwell population is a constant liabil
ity. Disease and deformities of the body
bring about an economic loss that
would be staggering to run out into
figures. So that, when we contemplate
Ihe meaning and worth-whileness of
health, we will concede at the outset
that this sort of work is worth all it
may cost and that no money which is
extracted from the pockets of the people
in the form o ftaxes goes to a more per
manent and far-reaching purpose than
that devoted to public health activities.
There ought to be developed in this
connection and in association with the
plans for the merger of city and county
efforts along this line a plan by which
the school children, as well -as all chil
dren of the county, might have the bene
fit of clinics, by which they would be
examined at the opening of school to
see if they are physically competent
to proceed with' their studies, to? ascer
tain if they have any deformities which
will remain in the way of their mental
development, if left unattended, and to
make such a survey of their needs as
would1 fit in with their efforts in the
school house. That is being done
throughout the county generally, not
only in the schools, but in the colleges,
It has become a part of the education
al system to look, first "of all, to the
physical foundations of students, the
theory and the fact, too, being that un
less there is a physical basis, there will
never be any great mental superstruc
ture reared and unless there is the sure
ground of good health to build upon,
the development will always remain tot
tering and unsafe.
This newspaper- feels that a great
step forward is about to be made in
this community along this line and it
deserves the cordial sympathy and co
operation of the citizens generally.
CONFIRMATION OF MR. WATTS.
If there was ever any reason to sus
pect that the Legislature would fall out
over the confirmation of Colonel Watts
as State tax commissioner, his unan
imous Democratic endorsement by the
General Assembly must be -a tremen
dous setback to those who had thus
been speculating. As a matter of fact,
however, the idea that Colonel Watts
would be opposed by an element in the
Legislature that is thought to be none
loo friendly to him was conceived large
ly in imagination. AVhile there are
still many Democratic leaders who think
that Mr. Maxwell was the more logical
man for the place, there remains the
impression that Mr. Maxwell is filling
an office right now where he can be
of equal, if not greater benefit to the
people of the State generally.
Charlotte is having a host of visi
tors during the week. With the depart
ure of about 4,500 Shriners who have
been attending the annual meeting and
Fall ceremonial, we are face to face
immediately with the coming of several
hundred boys from all over the State
to attend a T. M. C. A. conference that
will present an especially' strong staff
of speakers and furnish a program that
promises to be of delight to the dele
gates and redound as well to the 'edifica
tion of any others who may come within
the purview of the convention.
NEEDS PUSHING.
The mere fact that the Boy Scout
movement is a good thing is not enough
to put the local campaign across. It
won't succeed on its own momentum,
Just because a thing is good and right
and virtuous by no means guarantees
that such a thing will prevail without
human activity concentrated behind1 it.
The trouble with the Boy Scout move
ment here, as indicated in this cam
paign, is not that the people are unap
preciative of it. but that there are not
enough of men who are trying to put
this particular effort across. Workers
4re needed; the field is white and invit
ing to the harvesters, but it will take
gleaning to gather the grapes.
GROWTH OF LIFE INSURANCE.
It is being brought out at the conven
tion of Life Insurance Presidents now
being held in New York City that the
amount of life insurance written during
1921 exceeds that of any other year with
the exception of 1920 which was an ex
ceptional year in this industry. Reports
from companies as to 1921 business in
dicate that 13,150,000 new policies were
written for an aggregate of $8,535,000,
000 insurance. In 1920 the number of
new policies was 13,248,000 insuring
$10,105,000,000. More than three times
as much life insurance is being written
today as was written 10 years ago.
Monroe need have no. fear that Mar
shal Foch will not be greeted by a crowd
of North Carolinians who, both for
numbers and for standing, will be thor
oughly representative and fitting for
the occasion. Charlotte will send its
quota down to the capital of Union and
expect to meet there a cosmopolitan
throng from all quarters of the State
to pay homage to the greatest living
exponent of the military art.
WHAT IF, THEY DO?
President Harding declares, in connec
tion with his Red Cross message, that
the. Amerocan people may never a?ain
be called upon to pour out their riches
for such a cause as this because "we are
Koing to succeed beyond our fondest
Lopes" in the armament conference.
But whatever success may come to
ti e armament conferences anJ. de
voutly trust that it will attain much
beyond what was in the minds of the
most ardent promoters of the move
ment, there will be no actual and ab
solute or permanent guarantee against
war by merely scrapping a few battle
ships and limitation of such naval arma
ment. w
Tho naxlons are merely considering
the advisability of eliminating some of
their present naval strength in the in
terest of peace. If they conclude that
ti.e limination of half of the present sea
f:rces, for instant:;.', will make for world-
peace, why not, as former Secretary
McAdoo suggested, scrap the whole
business and make it all the more sure?
What's the use of having any battleships
at all if the world is not going feo have
any other wars?
The truth of the matter is that, at
best, disarmament will only tend to
ward a postponement of war. Nothing
will be done by this conference looking
toward the setting up of some power
that will be effective in seeing to it
that armament agreements are carried
out. Nothing is being done to eliminate
the war-mind from the world. Nothing
is being done to bring about that men
tal disarmament which is certainly as
vital to the cause of peitce as the scrap
ping of a few battleships.
For that reason the President and his
advisers may find themselves greatly
deluded over their accomplishments,
even conceding that the technical pro
gram of the conference is carried out be
yond their fondest hopes.
The most essential thing to be done
in the interest of the peace of the world
is to brins the powers into an associa
tion whose whole program of ' action
will have to do with the elimination of
international friction and jealousy, an
association that will discuss the causes
of any offense which may be given a
nation, and an association that will have
the machinery and the force to dare any
member-power to make war against
another.
Hiram Hank's new dry goods clerk
has grown incensed, and knocked off
work. He only stopped to leave a note.
This is what they say he wrote:
"Yesterday Mrs. Wittless Brown de
sired some lace to drape a gown and
made me spend the afternoon in show
ing her some cheap maroon. In efforts
to please this hag Brown I pulled a
thousand samples down Boxes filled
wjth cotton thread fell down and crown
ed me on the head and 13 times I hurt
myself by ramming some sharpe pointed
shelf. Each time .she would feel the
lace and sigh, 'It's too thick at the base',
or tell me that she wished to buy some
fretwork that was not "so high. Then
I'd have to put it back and pull more
trimmings from the rack. She looked
at fringes and brocade of every kind
of shape and shade. Up and down the
shelves I sprang. Boxes hit me with a
bang. More than once I slipped and fell
in efforts to find stuff to sell. Lace
and trappings filled the floor, but still
she bellowed, 'Pull down more!' When
I'd shown her all we had the old has
seemed to be quite sad, and sigrhed.
'There's nothing in all that to mak.va
ribbon for my cat:' I'd have to be a
mental-lack before I'd put' those boxs
back. I did not even get a thank. I'll
have to leave you .Mister Hank."
That is why the clerk left town and
you can see this old hag Brown on a1
most any afternoon searching for some
cheap galloon. No one likes to sae her
face. The brainy clerk will hide his
lace. We hope some day she will drop
dead when some box falls upon her
head.
Copyright. 1921, by Xw Publishing Co.
MOTOR ASSOCIATION
FOR BLUE SUNDAY
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VITAL , FACTS AS TO CANCER.
The Health Bulletin, current issue, is
devoted to the dissemination of some
facts about cancer which, it says, is kill
ing 1.000 persons in North Carolina
every year. Many of these deaths, it
further concludes, were preventable if
the people had only possessed the proper
information about the disease and, by
reason of such information, had consult
ed competent doctors soon enough.
From what is presented by the Health
Bulletin and from what recently was
brought to the attention of the coun
try during the observance of "Cancer
Week", is it obvious that this disease
is one of the most widely-prevalent
causes of deaths in this country. In all
of continental United States, the annual
mortality from cancer is estimated at
90,000. It is probable that if all these
deaths were correctly ascertained and
certified, the total would reach 100,000
for the year 1920. The mortality rate
fOr cancer is somewhat below 85 per
100,000 per annum .As a group of dis
eases, cancer ranks with pneumonia,
tuberculosis, and kidney disease as one
of the five or six causes of death which
stand second only to heart disease in 'he
Census Bureau's annual report for 1917.
The mortality from cancer is appar
ently ' on the increase throughout all
civilized countries. In the United States
the annual increase in the cancer death
rate is approximately 2 1-2 per cent.- It
is almost exclusively a disease of adult
life, for of the total number of deaths
from cancer at all ages, about 95 per
cent occur after the age of 35 is reached.
Cancer appears in a variety of forms,
affecting practically every organ or part
of the body. The most important form
for both sexes is cancer of the stomach,
which, including the liver, accounts for
about 35,000 deaths per annum. The
number of deaths from cancer of the
female generative organs is about 13,
000 per annum; from cancer of the
female breast about 8,500 (a very high
frequency, for it occurs in only half
the population); from cancer of the
mouth and tongue about 3,500, from
cancer of the peritoneum, intestines
and rectum combined about 12,000 from
cancer of the skin about 3,500, and
from cancer of other organs or parts
about 14,500.
Asheville, Dec. 8. The Asheville
Automotive Trades Association, meet
ing at the Battery Park hotel last
night, went on record as favoring a
blue Sunday for purchasers of gas,
oil and automobile accessories. Start
ing with the first of the year no
more sales' in these supplies will be
made by members of the association in
Asheville on Sundays.
Gnly the storage departments of the
firms adopting this action will be open
on Sunday,, all other branches of the
bi.pinesses being closed.
Tho Automobile Trades association
includes in its membership about 2r
of the leading- automobile dealers in
the city. The action taken last night
means that practically the entire gas
anci oil supply of the city will be under
lock on Sundays.
Traffic laws and the sale of second
hand cars were, discussed but no action
in the form of resolutions was takn.
WOMAN GANG LEADER
DOING FANCY WORK
Canon City, Colo., Dec. 8. Fancy
work, flower making and china paint
ing occupy the time of Colorado's best
known women Criminals serving sen
tences in the State penitentiary here.
Eva Lewis, black-eyed vixen of the
famous Lewis gang, is making fancy-work-in
the "big house." She is the
last of the band that engaged in many
a gun battle
Beside her, mumbling to herself, sits
Mrs. Garramcne. former proprietress of
Denver's only "murder farm," where
the aged Italian women slaw her vic
tims and buried them. She is mak
ing artificial flowers which are sent to
Italy to be sold on the streets of Rome.
May Jones, former queen of Den
ver's underworld in its ney-day, paints
china.
They have few words for visitors,
these women, as they work at their
hobbies behind the gray walls.
SHOT FOX FOR RABBIT.
Salisbury. Dec. 8 M. L. Early, while
hunting rabbits two miles from Salis
bury, shot an animal which hia Jiogs
were running thinking it was a rab
bit but it turned out to be a grey fox.
He crippled the fox which put up such
a strong fight with the dogs that a
second shot had to b5 taken to kill it.
The fox is a rare animal about here.
GASTON TO HAVE
OWN J5UILDING
Will Erect Building for De
linquents at Jackson
Training School.
Gastonia, Dec. 8. As the result of ac
tion by the board of county commission
ers in regular monthly session Monday
Gaston-county is to have in the near
future a cottage at the Stonewall Jack
son Training School at Concord for the
housing of juvenile delinquents from
this county. The sum of $21,000, the
amount stipulated by Superintendent J.
P. Cook as necessary for the construc
tion and furnishing of a building to
acomrnodate 30 boys was appropriated
for this purposa. It is understood that
the construction of this building- will
be commencewd at an early date.
Speaking on behalf of the committees
present at thejaoard meeting represent
ing the Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs, the
Woman's Club and. various other local
civic organizations, Mr. J. H. Separk
presented the matter to the hoard. He
made a strong plea for the appropria
tion, citing among other things the fact
thatt he State reformatory is so limited
in facilities that it is almost an impos
sibility to get a boy in. Gaston unfor
tunately has many boys who are too
young to be dealt with otherwise and
yet are of the criminal class which
needs training and from which the pub
lic needs protection. This building will
afford the means of taking care of at
.least 30 of these boys at a time.
THIN, FADED HAIR
NEEDS "DANDERINE"
TO THICKEN IT
35 cents buys a bottle
of "Danderine." Within
ten minutes after the
first application you caji
not find a single trace
of dandruff or falling
hair. Danderine is to
the hair what fresh .:
showers of rain and ;
sunshine are to vegeta-
tion. It goes right to
the roots, invigorates
and strengthens them
helping your hair to
grow long, thick and
luxuriant.
Girls! Girls! Don't
let your hair stay life
less, colorless, thin, scraggy. A single
application of delightrul Danderine will
double the beauty and radiance of your
hair and make it look twice as abun
dant. .
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OSTEOPATHY
Is the science of healing by
adjustment.
DR. H. F. RAY
313 Realty Bldg.
DRi FRANK LANE MILLER
610 Realty Bldg.
DR. ARTHUR M. DYE
224 Piedmont Bid?.
Osteopaths, Charlotte, N. C.
INFORMATION BY REQUEST
VICE-PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
SAYSj
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the taking of life insurance. It is
established that the protection of
one's family, or those near him, is
the one thing most to be desired, and
there is no medium of protection
that is better than life insurance.
Our government has given close at
tention to the insurance companies,
and they are on so sure a founda
tion that it is in substance a
guaranty method of protection for
our people."
Braswell & Crighton, Agents
Prudential Insurance Co. of America
803 Com'I Bank Bids. Phone 1607
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