The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-21

was saved from being on board vessel whose mysterious disappear rance is one of the most terrible tra- sedies of the sta of modern times.
 Shipbutldfng eccording to all ac- counen, ie. In rather better heart. A certafn number of new orders have been given out, which are decidedly welcome. SlncS they help to assure work over the. winter months. Com pared Nithsa $ear ago. tpe outlook in most eenfers fs certainly brighter. al- thouoM t cannot be described as TO- seafs even now. Like all other fn- dustries, shipbuilding is subjected to competition, but 1t has hitherto been thought that in certain branches of work. particularly those of a special character, the industry was practf- caiiy without rivals. A report which is to hand from Australia Is. in the circumstances. just little discon- certing, for 1t indicates that in the matter of a special type of vessel the steam dredger-England is likely to have rivals in the shape of her lcwn kith and kin in Australia. Sydney 1t seems. bought from this country some time back a dredger called the | Tethys Having got the dredger out and found 1t suited to local needs New South Wales now proposes to build one like her in it's own yards, at cost of S1i5.0oe.
 l Depressfon In Cotton.
 The Lancashire cotton trade Is now. and has been for several months past through a period of very acute de- | pression. Both branches of the trade spinning and misunderstanding are af- fected. and the outlook for the com I ing winter is far from reassuring | The causes which have brought about | this state of things are not merely | local. for sLancashires trouble is the l troubles also of other European coun- tries with any standing in the cot | ton industry. and 1t is equally the trouble of Engiands great competi- tor. the United States. While pro- duction has been greatly reduced the effect in the market as whole has been but slight. But because it has done some good and has seemed to | offer the only chance of relief from a situation that has long since become almost intolerable, the employers I have been persistent and at further meeting in Manchester of the Federa- tion of Master Cotton Spinners Asso- citations an extension of the short time movement was decided upon. At the London School of Tropical Medicine, Professor W. Osber, Regius Professor of Medicine. Oxford, deliver ed an address. at the opening of the winter session. on ''The Nation and the Tropics" Professor 0sler said there were two problems of the first rank in dealing with nations order and health and 1t was impossible to over rate the importance of modern sani- tation. The sanitary organization of | this country was in fairly satisfac- tory condition. but there remained complete victory over typhoid fever and the reduction of the mortality | from tuberculosis and children's dis eases. while not even a truce had as yet been arranged with that pro- | gressive foe cancer.
 Looking at the Empire at large they found at totally different state Of af- | fairs. Of the total population some 60,000.0 .000, perhaps lived under good and constantly improving sanitary conditions. but of the vast dependen- cies. with their teeming millions. there was 8 very different story to be told. l Of tropical diseases of the first fm- portance might be mentioned malaria. plague, cholera, yellow fever. dysen- | tery. beri-beri. and relapsing fever, l with certain parasitic disorders such l as anchylostomiasis These were the | great enemies of the tropics Of all but one they knew the germs and the I conditions of their growth. and in nearly all the mode of propa gation. | ance of effective organization. and experience in .,thfi Ikthpmy or oRapsms demonstrated on large scale of the ] efficiency of mode fn sam tafy aiieas6res { In one of the sworld's great death traps.
 Fatality Frbsnl lf,abersalo.is. 2lt
 After stating the statistics as to the Panama at different periods. pr. 0sier
 said that in 1908 the combined tro- pical diseases malaria. dysentery, and beri-beri. killed fewer there than the 1 two great killing diseases~of the tenn tperate zone. pneumonia and tuber- culosis. In Italy. parts of Africa. and the United States. the apti-maiarial campaign was being pushed On with the same vigor and success, and 6 wig orous fight was also being waged against the group of diseases caused by the trypanosomes. the dreaded sleeping sickness showing a steady diminution in Uganda. More than once within historic days it must have seemed as tfS the livery existersce of the race was threatened, soi vast and overpowering had been epidemic in- | vasion. eH
 Two things were necessary to those who took up the heavy burden of securing health in the tropics. First, they must have organized centres from which the work might proceed; a | model of this sort was the sleeping sickness bureau under the auspices of the Royal Society. Similarly organized central bodies had already dealt with l plague and malaria. These organiza- tions should be placed on a perman- ent basis and unified In some way under central tropical institute. t'
 different departments of which would be in touch with It's workers all over the world.
 | Money to Missions
 Millions were contributed annually for church missions, and it was not too much to ask for rich endowment for the missions of science. Tropical sanitation would loom larger and larger in the future. England had had the first start. but the Unite l States, Germany. France, Holland and Japan were in the field. and it beloved the country to equip adequately a school giving, it the necessary pro- fessorships, a large hospital labora- tories. museums. and libraries. He would also estaDlisb subsidiary school. in the tropics in connection with 1t. That was no visionary scheme but one well within the possibility of achieve ment. and 1t would not demand an endowment of more than $10.000. 900.
 We take nothing out of your clothe. hut the dirt.