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and marine hospital service for the WHIP
ing out of the malady. but the extent Of
the cooperation of the Professionals is
still in doubt.
DIR. Stiles Summary
In summing up the situation DR.. Stiles
said:
I'VE in this country have been crying
about race suicide and we have been
overlooking race murder We have been
crying about child labor in the factories
and have been overlooking child misery
on the FARMS
After being introduced by Claude Ben
nett, chairman of the reception commit
tee of the University Club DR. Stiles be-
gan his lecture by general discussion
of the public health situation in this
country and how it is affected IN tie
wide divergence of climate and of soil
and by the commingling of races. Speak
ing Of the national characteristics he de-
clared that the people Of the United
States are not surpassed in extravaganza
by any other people on the globe.
mo country is so superlatively extrava-
CANT of human life as is the United
States" he declared. eff steamer dra ws
out of New York and is wrecked, causing
the loss of several hundred lives. the peo-
pie are aroused and some inspector must
be held responsible. But the fact that
from 5000 to 10000 persons die every
year from typhoid fever in this country
does not excite us in the least.
Yellow Fever Excites Alarm.
IF few cases of yellow fever appear
in the south. the country is excited. But
the fact that more persons died of tuber-
culoss in a single year than have died of
yellow fever in the last ia years does not
arouse us. We have little use for econo-
my in any line. including economy in hui
man life. l want to show one means of
economy in human life"
Presenting statistics of typhoid fever
and tuberculosis, he showed that these
diseases, classed as white mans dis
ease, have spread to the black race, 50
that the death rate from them is two or
three times as large as among the whites.
And now these diseases are being spread
by the colored race, SO that they are pay
ing back the white man in compound in
tereSt
THE reason for the spread of these dis
eases is the national ignorance regarding
sanitary conditions" said DIR. Stiles.
The hook worm disease, he said, is a
negro disease, but it has spread to the
whites of the south through soil pollution.
The worm, which is about half inch
long and as slim as needle, enters the
body of man in one of two Ways-through
the mouth in water or on vegetables, and
through the skin of the feet Because the
hook worm is spread through the soil, lie
said it is prevalent only in sections which
have sandy soil or which are wooded or
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Henry C. Pierce's Trial Monday.

AUSTIN, Tex, November 21.-Henry
Clay Pierce of st. Louis will be placed on
trial here Monday for alleged false
swearing. The case. which was contin-
ued last August, relates to an affidavit
filed by Mr. Pierce when the reorganiZed
Waters-Pierce Oil Company re-entered
the state in 1900 after having been GUST
ed for violation of the antitrust laws.
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No Increase in Passenger Rate

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
BALTIMORE, Md. November 1.-THE
report that the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road has taken steps to restore the 3
cents per mile passenger rate in West
Virginia is stated to be wholly without
foundation The company officially an
nounces that such action has been
taken nor is, any such action contem-
plated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-28
Arrested as Diamond Thieves.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, November If
Samuel and Simon Perrin were arrested
here yesterday on complaint of the Los
Angeles. Cal. police. the theft Of ST.
900 worth Of diamonds from ]. Rosen-
FranZ Of Les Angeles being the al,e-
CATION against them. The men, il is
said. will fight eXtradition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-28
HOW BILL Stiff
HIT THE CHAMPS
Story of a Fighter Who Was
Clumsy, But Had the
Kick of a Mule.

Stanley Ketchell, with that terrific Shift
and deadly drive. is supposed to have
about the most terrible punch visible along
the fighting lines today. Old Bob Fitzsim-
mons had an unholy kick in either hand,
punch into anybodys system all bets
could be cashed III. Peter Maher could
hit like a fail if he happened to land,
and John J.. Sullivan could batter like
a blacksmith's hammer
But of all the fighters that ever threw
a mighty biff. Billy Stiff. vino now tends
quietly to a peaceful job in Chicago. had
the most awful smash, the most nerve
deadening crash-if it ever hit you. Billy
was unlucky fellow and didn't beat
many of the high-class men. He fought
willingness to be the trial horse made
him extremely useful, but he was under
natural handicaps which kept him from
being leading star. Nevertheless, old
Billy Stiff has one record that is almost
unique. ard with which he often refreshes
himself snow that his fighting days are
over.
He Hit Them All.
Billy Stiff during his extended ring
career, hit more champions and knock ed
more of them heels over head than any
other man that ever graced the game
save perhaps good old Fitzsimmons This
sturdy fellow was up against it every
possible way. He was too short for bat
tie with the reachy ones. too heavy for
the middleweghts too light for the heav-
les ard terribly slow on foot Being ire
mendous!y strong. game a lion and
carrying that wallop, he would have been
champion under London rules. but the
glove game was too fast for him. Bits
whole stock in trade was to set on his
heels. swing that piledriving right with a
tremendous sWoop, and fall headlong to
the floor when he missed. Many times
Stift's impetus has carried him around
twice before ne fell upon the carpet. and
he hardly ever had fight without doing
this revolving stunt from five to fifty
times.
1t would be taken for granted that this
slow-footed sawed off man. unable TO box
unable to rush or retreat with any speed
with nothing but bravery and that COM
ical swing, would be the softest sort of a
mark for the clever fighters. and that he
would never hit scienced man The
cracks all thought so, and they used to
snort with laughter at the idea of lighting
poor Bill. who. in addition to this slow
helplessness, was an old. old man as fight
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my place Then / have been counting
ON winning that fight and getting piece
of change there. Now, Bill, III you VIII
appear and save my forfeit you can nave
all the money you can get out OF The
fight.
Opponent Also Sick.
1T was a cinch that l was going to
save that forfeit il / could, especially
after Schmidt's mother gave me little
additional talk. But it was only by an
accident that i did. l was on the point
of going and telling Evans of the whole
thing, when l heard that he was sick,
too. So l hustled back to Schmidt $
house and told them to keep the fact OF
his illness quiet, and # any one came
there to send them to me.
Il did not have long to walt, Tor De-
fore the day was over Jack DlnnS,
who had posted the forfeit for Evans.
appeared at Schmidt's home and was
sent to me- / saw that he had some
thing on his chest and knew what II
was. He hummed and hawed around
for a while without coming to the point.
and finally l spurted out:
Now. you come to tell me ina.
want to make some arrangement about
that forfeit. Now. my man is SICK,
too. but 1 have been keeping it quiet,
because l knew you would not say
anything about your man being on the
blink if you knew about mine, aid
would go and claim the forfeit. | will
tell you what we will do. There will
be some money in that house. and II
the crowd is willing we might as well
get it. i will appear and save Schmidt $
forfeit and you appear and save Evans
then If the crowd says yes why, you
and ! will fight for the purse
This proposition nearly took Dinny, s
breath away, but he finally agreed.
though he declared that it was not his
style to fight a neutrality-suspicious. boy:
When we got there that night we found
a crowd that wanted to see fight, no
matter who went on. They readily agreed
to the change, and Dinny and myself
got ready | guess | was pretty fresh
kid, for 1 know that L was not oil
nervous, and when the crowd started 10
guy me on account of my youth, l shot
1t back good and strong.
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Canadian Miners on Strike.

EDMONTON, Alberta. November 81
Two hundred miners employed in the
Stanley coal mines around this city are
on strike today because of dissatisfaction
Will working conditions.
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Volcanologist to Study Eruptions.

NAPLES. November 21.-Frank y. Per-
ret. the American volcanologist, left here
today for the Island of Teneriffe, where
he will study the eruptions which are TAX
ing place and compare the phenomena
with those of Mount Nesuvius and Mount
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Fire at Seward. Alaska.

SEATTLE. Wash. November PA
dispatch from Seward, Alaska, says that
town has been partly destroyed by fire.
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Attorneys for the state conferred today
and declared that no continuance will
be asked 10y either side
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mountainous AS the worm is killed by
exposure to the sun and is unable to get
into clay soil, little of the disease 10
found in those sections of the south
where the soil is clay.
Cotton Mills Defended.
Dr. Stiles defended the cotton mills Of
the south valiantly. In many of the
factories. he said. the employees look i'll
and the breathing of the lint in the fac
tory is often blamed for their physical
condition. He maintained that the real
cause is the hookworm disease con-
tracted by the mill operatives before they
enter the factory. To show that the fac
tory conditions are not to be blamed
he presented statistics OF factories with
regard to the portion of employees suffer-
ing from hookworm disease. In the fac
tories which employ hands from the
sandy or mountainous regions. he showed
the hookworm sufferers are many; in
factories, however, where the employees
are from the regions Of clay soil, in which
the hookworm cannot thrive, the num-
Der of hookWorm patients is relatively
small and the disease has been found
much less prevalent among the mill en-
ployes of the second generation than
among those of the first generation.
The reason for this is because sanitary
conditions are placed around the mill
employees. while there is little attention
paid to sanitation IN the rural sections
of the south.
Millions of Sufferers.
The number OF sufferers from hook
worm diseases, DIR. Stiles said, has been
estimated at 100000. but he intimated
that this number was too small And he
declared that the eradication of the dis
ease from the south will mean a saving
of S1OO,00O,0 GO a year to that section.
The remedy, too, he declared. is very
simple. The patients are kept at work
in the mills regularly during treatment
They are given doses of epson salts and
thymol Saturday nignts and SUNDAY
mornings Ten per cent of the cases
are cured in one Sunday treatment. 30 per
cent after three Sundays, and 30 per
cent after five Sundays.
The plans Of the Rockefeller hookworm
commission, which will have charge of
the expenditure of the million dollars
donated by the Standard Oil magnate.
contemplate an educational campaign,
it was announced, for it is believed to be
impossible. with the means at hand, to
provide treatment for every sufferer from
the disease. The first move will be to
instruct every physician of the south, as
far as possible how to recognize the
operation Of the physicians, OF the min
listers and their churches. and of the
school teachers will next be sought.
The greatest help. the speaker indicat-
ed, is expected from the school teachers.
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appear and make arrangements to take
my place. Then / have been counting
ON winning that fight and getting piece
of change there Now, Bill, IL you VIII
appear and save my forfeit you can have
ali the money YOU can get ont of the
fS,rj,t
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ing in cooperation with the public health
and marine hospital service fer the WHIP
ing out of the malady, but the extent Of
the cooperation of the Professionals is
still in doubt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-28

mountainous. AS the worm is killed by
exposure to the sun and is unable to get
into clay soil, little of the disease 10
found in those sections of the south
where the soil is clay.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-30

order that their elders may sit com
fortably in the sunshine.
Los Angeles must ALWAYS have
plenty of accommodations for the chill
dren, plenty of schools, plenty of ap-
pliances, plenty of books plenty of
teachers. 1t is certainly matter of re-
joicing that the manner in which the
school bond issue was disposed of
proves there is an educational spirit
in Los Angeles, and that the people Of
this community are determined to have
an excellent school systematic best
in the west, and one of the finest in
the country. Now that education for
everybody who needs it is assured now
accommoda tions for all the children
are assured, now a square deal for
young America is assured, we can all
join with renewed zest and vigor in
the invitation to the new chum from
all the land an all the world to come
west and receive the benefits, both cli-
matte and commercial, of the health
lest and most prosperous community
of the healthiest and most prosperous
state of North America.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-30
SUGGESTS DoUBLE-DEcKED
STREET CARS FOR SMOKERS

PASADENA, Sept. 25.-TEditor Her.
oldJ: Stickler for human rights and
morals The hope of the future lies in
the union of all forces that WORK for
progress and the emancipation of man
kind from tyranny of human brutes
and class-made laws. The Herald s
Letter Box is doing a mighty sight of
good l wish to say amen to r. M. 8
remarks about the ungentlemanly
gentlemen who, thoughtlessly or other
wise, puff their filthy smoke-laden
breaths in the faces of people who
dislike and abhor It, Especially in a
street car, where women and children
are riding, I would suggest that the
street cars be made double-deck /,
the upper deck for human hogs who
drink to intoxication and smoke the
nauseous stuff called tobacco.
l am "A years old, but I hope to
live to see more women, young and
old, who have moral courage to resent
all infringement on their rights. And
l want to live to see the time when
our mothers would rather be queens
of their own homes than fashion favor
ties of our fashionable societies. With
the help of The Herald-the best
family newspaper in the west-we will
knock out the tobacco smoke nuisance
on street cars, as The Herald did the
bad mayor of Los Angeles city.
Eternal vigilance and The Herald in
our homes will exert influence that will
keep morality and common decency in
the ascendency. DIR. H. II. DOW.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-30
NEWLYWEDs NOT ABLE TO
ATTEND BOXERS PICNIC

LOS ANGELES, Sept 2S.-[Editor
Herald: Mr.. Newlywed and 1 regret
not being able to attend the Letter Box
picnics, but on account of his work Mr..
Newlywed is not at liberty in the day
time. However, we do appreciate meet
ing our friends in the Letter Box de-
partment of The Herald. None of us
realizes how widely the letters are read
and how much good they do. Friends
of mine in different states read The
Herald, and take a lively interest in the
discussions. The Letter Box writer's
set people thinking, and by the force
Of human thought old wrongs are in
the course of time wiped out, and new
and beautiful ideals of living become
established. The writer has met many
or at least a few-of the King Ar
thurs and Sir Galahads. always cher
ished as her ideals, in the columns of
the Letter Box. In time to come this
type will be the average man, and it is
comforting to know for a certainty
that the type is not so rare even now.
Keep hoping and wishing for a beauti-
full and true standard of living Gas the
New Thought people teach us) and our
wishes will become a reality.
MRS. NEWLYWED.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-30

to be ready for all emergencies. The
other is one of two bulldogs walking
round each other with cleaning teeth,
and each referring in low tones to the
approaching conflict.
It's a fine and consoling commentary
on the age in which we live and on
the fact that our world has had eigh-
teen centuries of Jesus of Nazareth to
study, to fight about, to play the fool
with, and, if we were only human
enough, to pattern by, and here we are
the bloodthirstiest nations of history
Bloodthirstiest because we have pos
sibilities Of slaughter in our war
equipments that no nation and no time
of the past ever dreamed of. We can
destroy more of human life and of the
products of human industry in one
hour than Ghengis Khan could in a
day. This accursed military spirit
possesses us so completely that we
can't celebrate civic event without
making a show of our means Of killing
each other the main part of the exhibit
ton There is an increasing clamor
for military education in our schools.
The combinations Of wealth that rule
in our land are demanding bayonet
protection from the robbed and out
ragged people. It's an old and we'll
tramped road we are travelling
SENEX
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-30
DUCKS, MANANA

TNLUCKY Friday for the ducks
but lucky for the hunters! To-
~ morrow, one-half hour before sun
rise, the period of grace for ducks
comes to an end, and the only
kind of grace they will experience
thereafter will be grace before meat.
But blessed be the memory of the
man who invented duck hunting.
1t is the sport of kings, metaphorically
speaking. Literally, we are we'll aware
there isn't a king in the pack who IS
eligible for membership in a South
California gun club, because there isn't
one who can shoot straight or can tell
the difference between a duck and a
dodo. excepting perhaps on a bill of
fare.
Health is on the wing with ducks,
and health brings prosperity. South
CaIifornians know the wisdom of living
by the way as they journey through
life, and day with the ducks mettles
them up for business.
At this section of the country the
overstrenuous districts may well look
with eager longing regard or perhaps
with envious eye, for here we under
stand business-and pleasure, and know
how to combine the two in order to
make up a sane, well balanced, useful
life.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-30
SAYS BAYoNET PROTECTION
FROM PEOPLE is DEMANDED

LONG BEACH, Sept. 27.-[Editor
Herald: A British admiral, or other
sea officer, just now with his ship talk
ing part in the Hudson-Fulton show
in New York bay, expresses himself as
earnestly in favor of big navies and
large armies, each we'll equipped and
ready always for battle, as the surest
guarantees for world peace, and his
views are getting to be the vogue of
chrstendom, especially since our bel
ligerent president Of the big stick"
cult, advanced the same defense Of
rlilitarism. Over in Germany, a strut
ting brigadier with many signs of the
favor of the kaiser on his breast
breaches the same doctrine in a late
Berlin magazine. The motives of the
two gentlemen, the roads by which
they reach their conclusions, are vastly
different.
The reccoat claims that battleships
grinning with cannon, especially when
the ships and the cannon are bigger
than the other nation carries. are the
surest preventive of war, and he quotes
French Tallyrand as saying that mo
nation should take a position upon any
question unless it is able to defend it
at the cannon's mouth" The subaltern
of the kaiser demands an increase of
the German navy because England is
getting ready for q fight, and Germany
must be as ready. One attempts to
establish a habit, a principle of mill
tarism as the right spirit for all ma
tionalities. The same spirit that would
arm every citizens with a belt of re-
vclvers, a knife in each boot and at
least one pocket fVll of hand grenades
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-30
EDUCATION

A S Los Angeles Herald for years has
n been a consistent, constant and
"A insistent advocate of education
and has kept before its ever increasing
circle of readers the importance of
making the world recognize this is the
principal educational center of the
west, it needs only to mention the fact
in order to remind it's readers it's atti-
tude toward the school bonds issue was
the natural sequel or rather compile
ment of it's attitude with regard to the
general educational question. This
newspaper, consistently and without
interruption, has been an advocate of
making such provision for educational
facilities in this wonderful metropolis
of the west that it's growth would not
outstrip readily the accommodations
provided for children who must re-
ceive their education here.
We have pointed out repeatedly that
nothing would interfere with or with
such deadly certainty arrest the growth
of any city as the reputation of being
a place where the children couldn't
get their education. A warning of this
kind will turn away prospective set
tiers from any city when everything
else is attractive and inviting, for the
simple and natural reason people who
are built right" will do more for the
children than for themselves, and will
not sacrifice the future prospects of
the young men or young women in
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-30
SOUTH CALIFORNIA
n OLITICAL independence of South
California would be a guarantee

n OLITICAL independence of South
California would be a guarantee
L of its prosperity, would attract
capital, would bring new settlers and
would give that individuality to this
great portion of the state which it's
circumstances, its history and its pros
poets warrant. Recent events show
there is a marked state division senti-
ment, arising not only from the patri-
otic aspects of the case, but from the
desire which is natural to every
healthy community as well as to every
healthy individual to make the best Of
opportunities.
AS it is the duty of an individual, so
it is the duty of a community to be
alive to opportunities to take advan-
tage of them and to move forward In
the march of progress. In its readi-
ness to respond to the call of opportu-
nifty lies the secret of the marvellous
success and prosperity of Los Angeles
and South California Occasion and
action follow each other with unerring
certainty, and, if we moy put it this
way, South California never yet has
made a miss" while Los Angeles has
kept pace with the promptings of des-
tiny and never has taken false or re-
grettable step.
Taking into consideration past and
present, there is every reason to be-
lieve the advocates of separate state
hood for South California are talking,
writing and working for the best in
terests of South California. Apart al
together from the strain on the tenn
per caused by iniquitous and unjust
assessment and taxation, there are
many more permanent reasons why
the friends of statehood should assert
their position from day to day in such
a way it will win national recognition
and will be one of the matters which
must commend itself to the attention
and interest of President Taft.
Maritime improvements and in
creased harbor facilities will give South
California a seaward as well as land
ward commercial Importance, and with
the completion of the Panama canal
the harbor interests of Los Angeles
will to a great extent be the harbor in
terests of the nation. which will find
it to its advantage to bring to and
keep at a standard of safety which
will be an absolute guarantee against
disturbance from without the mag
nificent seaport Of Greater Los An
geles, the maritime and commercial,
financial, educational, political and So
cial metropolis of South California.