The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-02

huS6ldn Jew VIII win,
 'These important changes have sig nifcant bearing upon the question of Jew ish immigration The Russian Jews hay ing determined to fight for his rights in his own land Is sure of accomplishing his purpose in the not distant future and the victory will greatly diminish if not altogether stop the Jewish immigration to the United States. In the immediate future, however, due to the awful events in the southern cities, the current of immigration will continue unabated for some time. But the Jewish immigrant
 being an ardent union man and enthus- iastie warrior for the rights of labor, the usual objections against tho immigrant from eastern Europe cannot be applied to him. The new Russian Jewish imrlerant is not a danger but powerful ally of the American workman in his struggle for social and economic betterment"
 Legrand Powers, of the census bureau at Washington, read an interesting paper on honest, safe and economical life in- surance. He pointed out the conditions un- der which assessment and fraternal in- surance companies are unsafe agencies for securing life insurance, and also those
 under which they may be trusted for fur nishing same. MT Powers said limited term insurance is the best form for those
 needing large life protection, but who are receiving very limited incomes. Old line 1 insurance with low expense of manage | ment is preferable for all who have an in
 come permitting of the accumulation of savings and who wish insurance for long l term years. Old line insurance with the present large expenses of administra 1 ton is less desirable for the average in l dividual for caring for savings and se- curing insurance than the best managed i fraternal insurance company announces.
 Fraternities, he said will become more
 scientific In their management and ae- l emulation of reserves and old line com l panies will in time become less expensive 1 in their management, and by both classes OF companies the public will come to have
 more economical life insurance, as well
 as honest and safe insurance.
 Discuss Yellow Fever.
 | By far the largest sectional meeting of l the conference of Scientists was that 1 which attended the symposium on yellow
 fever and other insect-borne diseases be- i fore the section on physiology and experi- mental medicine this afternoon. The ex-
 perienees of the fight in New Orleans last
 summer and the lessons to be drawn from 1 it and a description of the oroginal in 1 vestigations in Cuba under the Reed com
 mission proved subjects of greal inter- est to the visiting delegates. At the con clusion of the symposium there was prac | ticallX unanimous acceptance of the doc Urine Chat yellow fever is alone communi- | Cated by the BteROnNla 1aSelata.
 | Surgeon J. H. White of the marine hos pital service, who had charge of the fever l fight here, gave the results of Dr. Reed S i findings as they were observed in New l Orleans. Dr. James Carroll, who was a
 member of the Reed commission declared that without mosquitoes there could be no l yellow fever and detailed at length his experiences in Cuba. Dr. H. A. Veazies' ! paper concerned aestivo-autumnal fever, i it's cause, diagnosis and treatment. with
 some observation on the desti uetion of
 mosquitoes which spread the disease. and Dr. Quitman Kohnke New Orleans health 1 officer pointed out some of the difficulties
 of the recognition and prevention of yell | low fever based on recent experiences. l The discussion that followed applied es- I pecially to the necessity for the discov- l cry of some cuicicide which should be ef- | fectlve without danger and with the min l mum of destruction of property Other papers presented at the session were, "rhe
 Problem of Prophylaxis Against Malaria | in the United States" by w. s. Thayer; "The Protozoan Life Cycle" by Garry N Calkins: "The Practical Side of Mosquito Extermination =" by Henry Clay Weeks, and "Eilariasis and Trypanosome | Diseases" by Henry B. Ward.
 Underwood Reads Paper.
 Before the social section a paper on
 the restriction of European immigration
 
 was read. Assistant Secretary A. J.
 McKelway of the National Child Labor commission attracted much attention with paper on the child labor problem, giv- | ing the results of his studies in the south and pointing to the danger of race | degeneracy involved in sending little chil- dren to the mills. He said there wera
 probably 60,0OO children under II years at work in southern mills, and how to
 correct the evil was an American prob lem because 1t concerned the deprecia-
 tion of the purest American stock on the continent. Mr. Nick elway thought sentiment was now being so strongly aroused through his organization, the pulpit and the press, that adequate child
 labor legislation and law enforcement would be the inevitable result.
 Other interesting papers concerned the progress of the negroes of Virginia as property owners. by Charles F. Edgerton of the bureau of corporations at Wash
 ington, and the southern cotton mill
 workers and their conditions. by the Rev. J. A. Baldwin of Charlotte. N. c. Secretary Fred Muller of the New Or leans Board of Trade discussed the sta- tistical measurement of the commerce of the lower Mississippi valley.
 Free Alcohol for Arts.
 The section on chemistry passed a reso- lution strongly endorsing the passage by congress of an act providing for the sale of tax free alcohol under certain re- strictions. It was pointed out that Ameri- can manufacturers work at serious disadvantage as compared with those of Germany, France and Englard where the laws permit the sale of tax free alcohol for use in the arts and indus tries. Cheap alcohol, 1t was held. woul1 stimulate anonymously many industries in the United States and benefit the farmer,