The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-05
ANT|-CUN LAW IS
 DISMAL FAILURE New York Tough Element
 in Their Glory EAST TO WEST EXODUS Many Fertile Farms Springing up in Arid Plans of West-Tulane
 to Teach Tropical Medi-
 cine Classes
EAST TO WEST EXODUS
Ry ROBERT LEE CARTER

l ing citizens have been deprived or thelr l weapons seems to have encouraged the l laWless element.
 One day recently from Williamsburg to | Harlem the town was shot up until il sounded like a belated Fourth of July eel 1 ebration and over on Second avenue, 30 men in one room-a larger company than | ever crowded the Deadwood stage-were | held with their hands in the air by four armed men and robbed of money and val | uables
 One man. said to have been a member l of the gang which attempted to rob 1 saloonkeeper, died in the hospital yester- | day from a bullet wound inflicted by the saloonkeeper. and another man, an inno- cent merrymaker at a dance, is fatally
 wounded The casualties were kept Town by a strict compliance with the orders of the hold-up men and the poor marks manshp of the marauders.
 A rather anaIsing incident of the fes- tival of robbery was the fact that the po- lice in arraigning the man who shot one O. the men trying to hold him up entered an additional charge of possessing a re- vover, in violation of the Sullivan law. This caused Magistrate Freschi to re- | mark:
 .Whv. the burglar can say to the man he is trying to rob: 'F am committing a crime, and if you draw gun on me you
 will also be committing a crime, so you
 won't be any better than l. "
 # is doubtful if any city in the world can match New York for centenarans.
 Since 1909 54 people, each 100 years of age
 or over have died in this city, according to the vital statistics. Of these II died
 in 1909, 29 in 1910 and Il so far in 1911.
 or these ages people were natives of
 the United States r of Russia. IA of Ire land, of Germany, f of Austria, or
 France and l each of Poland and Italy.
 Thirty-three of these aged people were women and 24 men.
 The oldest of them, Esther Davis, who
 was IT years months of age when she died, was Russian. The oldest American was Abbie Bingham, who has seen 113 years months when death took her.
 This is a hard record to beat.
 The exodus from the east to settle on the reclaimed arid land of the west was | interestingly discussed the other day by | renman Marshall, a prominent fnancier | of Seattle. MT. Marshall has been a lead- |
 ing spirit in the reclamation of great | tracts of land, and he has seen vast num- |
 bers of people find homes and develop | fertile farms through the Irrigation of the sage brush plains.
 Tt is startling when one stops to think
 of it. said Mir. Marshall "The creation i that have laid idle and unproductive for
 centuries, has given homes and new leases
 of life to thousands of people The -eela- |
 nation service has done the greatest work this country thus far has undertaken, | and yet when 1t was first broached in l
 Congress there was great outcry at this proposed use of the public fund.
 There are many thousands of acres out there still waiting to be converted s.,+a .-i+, 1arac xrit1, ha ai1 of irrigation dtches. Today one may travel
 over long stretches of territory and see only a wide expanse of sage brush. There | it lies, waiting only the magic touch Of water, toward which engineers every | where are laboring. Six months from now these barren fields will be blossomins | and blooming with crops, made immensely rich through irrigation.
 Those familiar with the western coun-
 try marvel at what already has been done and we understand the possibilities of the future. Vast tracks of land have not and cannot be touched for years to come. An empire still awaits the irrigation men.
 The greater majority of the farmers who have bought these lands are from tho east, And, after all, 1t is the eastern farmer, who has been compelled to study |
 farming as a science to get results from his wornont land, who makes the most successful agriculturalist when he works a really rich soil. There is no waste in his system and these eastern farmers are getting wonderful results from their ,f | forts on these reclaime< lands"
 '0rhe Tulane university of Louisiana, | on October l, opened up school of trop- |
 ieal medicine that will become, in my |
 judgment, one of the greatest blessings this country has known says Dr. A. l.. | Metz. head of the department of chemis- |
 try of that university.
 Not only will this be of great benefit to | those countries in which our graduates | will be sent to operate. but to the United | States as commercial proposition. Com | merce always follows health. and whar | ever disease has been stamped out our trade has immediately increased This | new department is beginning to fill 'ip | with physicians who will take the post | graduate course, and young doctors are turning toward the university from wide- ly different sections of the country. 'The new school Is under the manase- ment of Dr. Creighton Welman, who has had much experience on both sides of the African coast and elsewhere. This will be the first school in the United States whose object 1t is to educate medical men to go into the tropical countries with which to have extensive commercial rela- tons and teach the doctrine of hygene. with the opening of the Panama canal the question of the sanitary condition of those countries to the south of us will become a most important one. New Or leans is the gateway of the traffic com ing north into the United States, and her | position at the mouth of the Mississippi | necessarily will make 1t her duty to pro- | tect all that region between the Allegha- nies on the east and the Rockies on the | west. The opening of the canal will put n..I< A1z tal.
 tire west coast of South and Central America. The commerce of the Orient,
 which will be stimulated by the new con dtions, will present additional health problems. The wisdom of the board of administration of Tulane university in es-
 tablishng this school, therefore, will be apparent.
 l "We are much better situated for work
 of this sort than the schools of tropical
 medicine fin London, Liverpool and Ham hurg A similar school maintained by she | United States government l may add. Is
 now in operation in Manila. Our doctors will enter their new fields of labor sup ported by the university, but later we
 hope to see funds come in through en- dowments from public spirited men who will approve of this great work. Amars-
 can physicians, trained to study and un-
 derstand conditions in tropical countries,
 already have stamped out yellow fever, | and through the destruction Of mosquitoes | malarial levers also have been eradicated
 "The only way to cope with such condi-
 tions is through the researches and ex- periences of trained men, and while they l are carrying the blessings of their medlcai
 skill to the people of those infected coun- krfo I,oxy alu hoo ,xrfv1o