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BETTER SANITARY
CONDITIONS NOW
DOCTORS TREAT 18,000 CASES
HOOKWORM IN THREE MONTHS.
DOUBTERS CONVINCED.
WORK OF BOARD OF HEALTH
Fro Literature May be Had on Blight
Ing Disease Other Diseases' Pre
vented New Vigor to Great Num
bers of People Education Helps.
, Raleigh. The rapidity with .which
a knowledge of the cause, harm, cure
and prevention of hookworm disease
has spread among our people stands
. without a parallel In the history of
preventable diseases. Only a year or
two ago there was found quite com
monly skepticism concerning the ex
istence of such a disease; but prac
tically all the doubters have now had
opportunities for seeing the worms,
the sufferers, their recoveries after
treatment, and are now actively lend
ing their support to the eradiflcation
of the disease.
The quarterly report of Dr. John
A. Ferrell, the state director of the
hookworm campaign for the three
months ending March 31, shows that
up to date the physicians of the state
have reported treating 18,000 cases of
hookworm disease, and that more
than 500 of the active physicians of
the state are treating the disease.
Moreover, it shows that the labora
tory of hygiene has examined since
the work began 17,000 specimens of
. feces for the eggs of the hookworm
which indicate the infection.
To prevent the further spread of
hookworm disease, typhoid fever and
other diseases similarly spread a
wave for better sanitary conditions
Is rapiflly spreading. "Clean-up week"
. and the compulsory use of sanitary
toilets are measures being inaugurat
ed in many towns and villages. Quite
a number of county and city boards
of education have ordered tho instal
lation of sanitary toilets at the
schools.
During the past twelve months
there have been distributed approxi
mately 200,000 pieces of stock litera
ture on the subject which include a
leaflet on hookworm disease, an illus
trated pamphlet on hookworm disease,
and an illustrated pamphlet on plans
and specifications of sanitary toilets.
These are sent free on request to 'the
hookworm commission, North Caro
lina board of health, Raleigh.
The campaign in a broad sense is
one for better sanitary conditions in
the South, an aggressive warfare not
against one, but against many dis
eases'. "The success of the cam
paign," says William H. Glasson, in
the April South Atlantic Quarterly,
"must lessen the heavy burden of
sickness, bring new vigor to great
numbers of people, and accomplish
the saving of thousands of lives."
United States Court May 22.
The actual work of United
States court will begin Tues
day, May 23. The trust damage suit
promises to hold the boards for sever
al weeks, more than a month most
probabjy, and will be a case of special
interest. The local counsel for the
American Tobacco- company are Ay
cock and Winston and especially nota
ble among counsel from a distance
for the trust will be Alton B. Parker
of New York. The suit is for trust
, methods alleged to have been used by
the American Tobacco company in de
stroying the business of the plaintiff
at Wilson and later at Norfolk.
To Map Out State Central Highway.
The inital run of President Varner
and the central committee of thp
state central highway over the pro
posed route the length of the state
from Morehead to the Tennessee line
is to start from Morehead May 8,
make Newbern May 9, Kinston May
10, Goldsboro May 11, Smithfield
May 12 and Raleigh May 13, this to
constitute the first "heat." There are
to be "central highway" days and
public demonstrations at each stop.
'Speakers at Annual Meeting of Bar.
For the annual session of the North
Carolina Bar association at Lake
Toxaway, June 23 to 30, Secretary T.
W. Davis announces arrangements
lor the address of welcome to be de
livered by W. E. Moore of Webster,
the response by Judge D. L. Ward of
Newbern and one of the principat
special addresses by Martin W. Lit
tleton, member of congress from New
York. Other features of the program
are being arranged. C. W. Tillett of
Charlotte is president of the associa
tloa.
NEW STATE HEALTH LAWS
Act of Legislature Construed Small.
Pox Victim Can, Roam at Will
Vaccination the Remedy.
Attorney General" Bickett is to be
asked for a ruling on the new state
health laws as revised by the general
assembly in the closing days of the
last session, especially as to quaran
tine and vaccination for smallpox.
The Wake county authorities rule that
the new law eliminates compulsory
quarantine, prescribing merely that
physicians and quarantine officers may
quarantine and make specifically com
pulsory vaccination on the ground
that rigid quarantine is the logical
method of combatting the disease.
Some who are glad of the chauge say
that the quarantine has been costing
the county, the town and the state
authorities very many thousands of
dollars every year and that with the
vaccination as a safeguard quarantine
is needless and the vaccination will
cost far less. Interesting develop
ments are expected in the matter.
Physicians are said . to be generally
gratified at the change of base in Che
law. . ,
DISPUTE ON STRIP OF LAND
Notebook Found Bears Out Conten
tions of This State.
Attorney General Bickett, back
from a stay of several days in the
extreme western section of the state
taking testimony in the North Caro
lina vs. Tennessee boundary line dis
pute pending the past two years, says
the taking of evidence for this state
will be finished during May and that
when the testimony for Tennessee
will be taken in that state, all evi
dence to be in by July 1, most prob
ably, so that the evidence and argu
ment can be presented to the United
States Supreme Court soon there
after, with hope of speedy decision.
Mr. Bickett says that he has just un
earthed the field notebook of Col.
William Davenport, who was the sur
veyor on the part of North Carolina
for running the state line in 1821,
the book being the companion and
key for the official map made at that
t'me. This book was found recently
in a secret drawer of an old side
board in the old residence of Colonel
Davenport, now occupied by his
grandson, Col. William Davenport
Jones. Mr. Bickett says the note
book gives in detail the survey mile
by mile for the 116 miles surveyed
and fullv bears out the contentions
of North Carolina. The territory in
dispute is about 20 miles by three
miie3 and involves property that it
is estimated that development will
bring to the value of more than a
million dollars. The attorney general
say3 this state was forced to bring
the suit to settle the dispute which
was bringing about a state of law
lessness and clash of authority that
bade fair to bring Winchester rifles
irto play among the people. ,
Rifle Shoot Contest of Third Regiment
Company B, Raleigh, won the first
prize of $2Q in gold for the highest
team score in the competitive rifle
range shoot for the Third Regiment.
Company G, Reidsville, was second,
getting the $10 prize. The team
scores will not be made public until
after the shoots at Goldsboro for
Second Regiment and at Gastonia for
the First Regiment.
The highest individual score was
123 out of a possible 150, this being
made by Private J. L. Beavers, Com
pany G, Reidsville, and the second
highest 121 by Corporal Robert E.
Lee of Company B. Raleigh. The
prizes dependent on the ultimate
scores of teams in all three regiments
are the Dupont loving cup for 'best
team score and the Royster and the
McGehee gold medals for best indi
vidual scores.
Revision Freight Rates on Brick.
There was announced by the cor
poration commission a revision of car
load rates on brick with 65 cents as
the basis for the first five miles in
stead of 90 cents.
Ten miles is 90 cents instead of $1,
which is more for 20 miles, instead of
$1.10, the old rate. Fifty miles is
dropped to $1.30 instead of $1.50. One
hundred miles is made $1.80 instead
of $2. Two hundred miles is cut to
$2.65 from $3. For 300 miles the rate
is $3.40 instead of $3.70. This reduc
tion gives satisfaction.
T. P. A. Meets In Raleigh May 5.
Announcement is made that tho
North Carolina division, Travelers'
Protective association, meets in Ral
eigh May 5. There are eleven posts
comprising eight hundred "Knights of
the Grip" and fully 200 are expected
to attend the Raleigh convention. The
posts are Greensboro, Winston-Salem,
High Point, Raleigh, Asheville,"
Wilmington, Rocky Mount, Wilson,
Mount Airy, Hickory and Charlotte. 11
delegates are to be elected to the na
tional association in Philadelphia.
LABOR CHIEF HELD
ron TIES HORROI
SECRETARY-TREASURER McNAfc?
ARA OF INTERNATIONAL UNION
OP IRON WORKERS CAUGHT,
MUCH DYNAMITE FOUND
Labor Leaders Are Charged With Dy
namiting Los Angeles
Times' Plant. ..
Indianapolis, Ind. After months cf
investigation,, directed 1 by William ,.J.
Burns, a New York detective, John
J. McNamara, International -secretary
of the Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers of America, the headquar
ters of which are in Indianapolis,
was arrested here charged -with com
plicity in 1e dynamiting of tha Loa
Angeles Times on October 1, 1310,
and the plant of the Llewellya Iron
works at Los Angeles.
Twenty-one persons were killed
when the plant of the Los Angeles
Time3 was destroyed.
Pour hours after McNamara was
arrested detectives found ' two quarts
Ef nitroglycerin and seventeen sticks
at dynamite In a barn three-quarters
of a mile west of Indianapolis. The
barn, the detectives say, was rented
by McNamara from T. H. Jones, the
owner.
Later investigation of the interna
tional offices of tho union disclosed
in a store room in tho basement of
the building sixty-four sticks (about
sixty pounda of dynamite, 200 feet of
fuse, 500 dynamite caps, ono dozen
small alarm clocks and a leather case
made to carry a ten-pound can cf
nitro-glycerin. Detective Burns took
possession of all the explosives.
McNamara's arrest followed an in
vestigation lasting several months,
during which a force of detectives
have been in Indianapolis'. Burns
himself made frequent trips to Indian
apolis, and was at all times in touch
with the force of detectives tiere.
Requisition papers from the. gov
ernor of California having been sign
ed by Governor Marshall before the
arrest, McNamara was taken to po
lice headquarters, where he was ar
raigned immediately before Judge
Collins in police court. Twenty min
utes after McNamara had been seized
in the association headquarters in the
American Central Life building, in
which a meeting of the executive
board of the organization was just ad
journing, he was taken from the city
by four detectives in an ambulance.
Responsibility for other destructive
explosions in different parts of the
country would be placed as the re
sult of an investigation now in prog
ress, Detective Burns said.
Indianapolis, Ind. Four hundred
pounds of dynamite were uncovered
in the heart cf the city- of Tiffin,
Ohio, according to information here
by Detective William J. Burns, who
left here secretly after having arrest
ed John J. McNamara, secretary
treasurer of the International Asso
ciation of Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers, at the headquarters in this
city.
PEACE IS IN SIGHT.
Five Days' Armistice Signed by Lead
er Madero and, Agent of Diaz.
Ela Paso, Texas. An armistice of
five days affecting the district be
tween Juarez and Chiuhuahua and
west of the latter city, was made ef
fective in an exchange of identical
letters signed by Gen. Francisco I
Madero for the rebels and Gen. Juan
Navarro for the government.
The truce provides that there shall
be no movement of troops of either
side during the five days and that
provisions and medicines may be
brought to either camp from the
American side without the payment
of duty.
Ojinaga, where a small Federal
force is besieged, is net covered in
the armistice, the Insurrecto activi
ties in that district being largly inde
pendent. However, the moral effect
tZ the cessation, of hostilities in Chi
huahua is regarded as certain to
make settlement in other parts
the country simple.
of
Wilson Wants Nomination.
Washington. Gov. Woodrow Wil
son is to swing around the circle and
light the bonfires for his 1912 boom
for president. Following tho govern
or's eminently successful experience
with the legislature just adjourned,
and coming close upon the formal
launching of the Harmon boom by
the Democratic delegation from Ohio
the report has set political . tongues
vagging. The three men now most
favorably considered for the nomina
tion are Harmon t Wilson and Clark.
THE MEW MATINEE IDOL
HMMM BOOM MCHED
OHIO MEN MAKE DECLARATION
OF THEIR CHOICE FOR
PRESIDENT,
Senator Pomerene s tho Leader of
the Governor Harmon
Campaign,
Washington. The formal launch
ing of the boom of Governor Judson
Harmon of Ohio for the presidency
took place in the rooms of Senator
Pomerene of Ohio in the senate office
building.
Senator Pomerene sent out a caH to
all the 16 Democratic congressmen
JUDSON HARMON.
Governor of Ohio.
nuin Ohio to attend the meeting to
discuss the outlook and devise ways
and means of promoting Mr. Har
mon's chances. All members of the
Ohio Democratic delegation were
present and it was stated by those
friendly that a unanimous declaration
In his favor will be made, probably
next week.
The Harmon boomers were in con
ference for several hours, all of the
congressmen participating in the dis
cussion. It was learned that the prin
cipal matters considered were plans
of properly launching the Harmon
candidacy, and also the Democratic
candidate who might dim the Ohio
man's chances for the nomination.
DIAZ WILL NOT RESIGN.
Madero's Demand Is Treated With
Deri6ion.
Mexico City. The excitement caus
ed in the United States by the news
that the reply of President Diaz to
the demands of President Taft was of
a defiant nature brought a quick
change of attitude on the part of the
Mexican government.
Dispatches telling of President
Taft's refusal to be stampeded into
an unfriendly act had much to do
with moderating sentiments of Presi
dent's Diaz' advisers.
General Madero's demand that
President Diaz resign to prevent an
attack on Juarez was greeted with
derision.
Cannon Speaks Against Reciprocity.
Washington. Former Speaker Jo
seph S. Cannon held the floor of the
house in opposition to the Canadian
reciprocity agreement for three hours
and in a vigorous attack on Presi
dent Taft's pet policy, insisted that
the proposed legislation was Inimical
to the farmers. The gentleman whom
Henry Watterson of Louisville, Ky.,
referred to as "that magnificent old
reprobate" displayed his proverbial
vigor and powers of endurance un
der the strain of three hours' contin
ous speaking.
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URGES SPLIT IN THE SOUTH
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Secretary of the Treasury Makes a
NotabJo Address Before South
Carolina Bankers,
jSnmmefyflie, S, O Secretary Mac
Veagh, speaking before the South
Carolina Bankers' Association here,
made a piea to the Southern states
to break from one-party rule and be
come bi-partisari in their politics for
thei rown good. He declared it to
be of fundamental importance that
any party-governed nation should
have two available parties that the
political life of all the people shall
be at its best.
"Two parties with at least fairly
equal chances of governing are re
quired in the work of governing the
country, both locally and nationally,"
he said.
"I do not speak as a Republican."
he said, "I am a member of the Re
publican party and I am a" member
cf it because I believe in it I was
a member of the Democratic party
during Cleveland's time and I was
a member of it because I believed
Secretary MacVeagh discussed par
ty conditions in both the North and
South in a friendly spirit, and said
in it. But my interest, in bi-party
politics is not the interest of a par
ty man, but is the interest of a cit
izen of an American. I want you
to believe that my interest in seeing
the South under a two-party system
Is wholly , independent of the ques
tion whether one party or the other
shall prevail.
"The important thing to me is not
that any one party should win. It is
that there shall be two parties with
the possibility that either may win;
for this is party government in its
real meaning, and with its real equip
ment. If the South were alone con
cerned, bi-party everywhere would
still be a matter of sincere aspiration
to me. But the question is a larger
one its importance is national.
"With the same parties established
everywhere, North and South, and
everywhere marshalling and dividing
the people on the same lines of
thought and action, the last stone will
have been added to the immovable
foundation of our perfect union. Our
dreams can all then come true and
no single sacrifice of the great and
terrible Civil war will remain with
out its reward."
Paro-ri 'L-enied Stripling.
Atlanta. Thomas Edgar Stripling's
application for pardon has been de
clined by Governor Brown.
After fourteen years' of liberty,
which he achieved by breaking jail,
the man who slew W. J. Cornett in
the dead hours of the night la Har
ris county, in 1897, must don the
stripes of the convict and begin the
service of the sentence demanded of
him by the law for his crime, and
which will terminate only at the end
of his life.
From a life of respectability in
Danville, Va., where he had attained
by industry and sobriety to the office
of chief of police, and where, under
the assumed name of R. E. Morris,
he had come to be looked upon as a
man to be honored and trusted, he
must join the band of lost citizens,
and at the sacrifice of his liberty and
the forfeiture of all his rights, make
the atonement for his crime.
Preacher's onarges Untrue.
Albany, N. Y.' Investigation of the
charge made recently at the Method
ist conference at Saratoga by Rev. O.
R. Miller of the New York (?ivic
League, that a two hundred and fifty
thousand dollar fund had been raised
to force a Sunday baseball bill
through the New York legislature,
was concluded by the senate commit
tee on privileges and elections. It !s
understood that the senate committee
will report to the senate that no evi
dence has teen adduced to support
the charge.
EGtPROGlTY BILL
PASSED BY HOUSE
DEMOCRATIC. "STEAM ROLLER"
AGAIN PROVED ITSELF EF
FECTIVE IN HOUSE.
NOT A SINGLE CHANGE
The BUI Is Practically Identical With
That Submitted at tho
Last Session.
Washington, The Canadian reci
procity pact was passed by the honso
by a vote of 269 to S9, eOl tho Demo
crats except 10 voting for tha meas.
ure, A majority cf the Republicans
present and voting voted, against it,
the number of represontatlvea favor
ing it being C7, while 73 Jte?ublicaa
and Aiken ef New erk a biaei
sheep," were against it t
In the effort to jnsure tha tiefoat
of the measure in the senate, ilepubi
ncaa opponents squgnt u Kieit tne
free list bill en the Canadian recit
precity hi!. Insurgent liepuhjieana
lined up with the Regulars while Un
cle Joe Cannon and Johp Balzeii apt
plauded vigorously he utterances el
Insurgents Murdoek, Lenreot anJ
Norris, and the latter, returned tho
compliment.
To Leader Underwood is due
large share of credit for he success
fuul work. He displayed rare skyjj
as Demcoratic floor leadep and engfc
neered the bill to final passage witfi)
consummate ability. !
A liberal allowance pf timt was
made to the opponents of the bill and!
it was put through without the aid ot
a special rule. All Georgia members)
were in favor of the bill, though sevi
eral had opposed It most actively in;
the party caucus. They bowed to thai
will of the majority, however, audi
cast their votes for the measure the
caucus had approved. ;
"It was made a party measure and!
we were bound by the action of the
caucus," said these opponents ia ex-j
planation of their votes. I
Ten Democrats, who said they had
been pledged against the measure py
their constituents in the last cam-j
paign, voted against it by special per
mission of tho caucus. '
It was amusing to hear men like
Mann and Cannon rail against then
Democratic majority, who were charn
pioning President Taft's pet measure
Some Insurgent Republicans like ten-j
root of Wisconsin were really sincere
in saying they wished meats and othj
er articles put on the free list. Theyt
were reminded by Leader Underwood
that they would have an opportunity!
shortly to vote in favor of admitting
free of duty meat products from Can-j
ada and all the ' rest of the worldj
iaey seemea cent, nowever, on aauj
ing this clause to the Canadian pacti
The Democrats were charged wi
bad faith in bringing in two separat
bills, the Republicans insisting thati
was generally admitted the recipro
ity bill would pass, but there wai
considerable doubt as to whether th
free list bill would get by the senate
One reason why Democrats oppos
ed any interference with the meaS'
uro they, had agreed upon in caucus,
aside from an unwillingness to hav
their program disarranged, was th
fear that any concessions granted"!
Canada outside of the specific sec-j
tions in the reciprocal agreement, was!
that it would cause complication
with other nations who were grant
ed all concessions allowed "the most
favored nations." !
Ottawa, Ont. News of the heavyj
majority given reciprocity at Wash-j
ipgton waa received with much sat-i
isfactlon by the government and Ub4
eral members who are supporting the
measure hera. The Canadian opponi
crt3 of the pact are now placing their
faith in the hope that the United!
States senate will long delay the hilt
or kill it j
"The vote at Washington will boj
a great aid to the Canadian friendd
of reciprocirj',' said a member of thej
Dominion government. "I expect taj
see the opposition at Ottawa collapsei
in the course of a few days and I be
lieve the measure will be finally pass!
ed by parliament as scon as it laj
finally dealt with at Washington.'
Threw n.s tve at Judge.
Viterbo, Italy. Of all the methods
adopted by the Camorrist prisoners
to excite sympathy or incite a riot;
none surpassed in novelty and effect
ivenes3 that cf Gaeteno Esposito,
who, at the end of a mad haranguej
tore a glass eye from his head and;
hurling it at the feet of the president,
stampedeed the court. Then he fell
in a faint, and President Uianchi sus
pended the sitting. According to tha
state, Esposito, who is known as a
usurer, is a dangerous malefactor and
leader of the Camorrists.