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Evening star., 1912-09-22
A Warning About Exercise.
From Harper's Bazaar.

Nothing makes stronger appeal now,
as of old. than motherhood. To TIE new
woman" as to her predecessor, this sub
Ject is of vital interest, and in these
scientific days any causes which render
parturition easier or more difficult merit
our most careful attention. What is the
relation of modern athletics TO labor?
Are athletics menace to motherhood?
AT first thought one would unqualifiedly
reply that athletic training must be a
great advantage. A strong, robust girl
will. of course, have the strength to de-
liver child more easily and quickly than
her less muscularly trained sister A
careful investigation of the reports OF
many physicians OF large experience and
the highest reputation does not confirm
this idea. First of all, there Is a great
deal of unwise athletic training. Teachers
are put in charge of the physical train
ing CT girls who. while they may be su-
perior gymnasts themselves possess
neither tie Judgment nor the training to
estimate a girls physical condition.
guarding her when she needs guarding
and forcing her when she is merely mac
tive or Indifferent 1t is of ineStinlable
Importance that the physical director Of
the young girl or woman should have
great wisdom and common sense in the
oversight Of pupils.
Evening star., 1912-09-22
Girl Injured by Automobile.

Pauline Maurine. a seventeen -year-old
girl, whose home is at Chesapeake juno
ton. was struck and knocked down by an
automobile last night while crossing
Pennsylvania avenue at 18th street The
machine was driven by j. l.. Elliott, the
owner, who lives at Manassas, Va. She
was taken to Emergency Hospital in an
other machine and treated for cuts on
her head. The police report the acci-
dent was unavoidable.
Evening star., 1912-09-22
DROUGHT At AN END
Rain Comes Too Late, How
ever to Save the Crops.
DAMAGE NEAR LYNCHBURG
Prospect That Representative Flood
Will Have an Opponent.
VOTERS SEEK AN INDEPENDENT
Greensboro, N. c.. Votes an Issue of
Railway Bonds-Confederate
Veterans to Meet.
VOTERS SEEK AN INDEPENDENT

Special Correspondence OF The Star
LYNCHBCRG. Va. September u. 1917
The rains of Tuesday night, Wednes-
day and Thursday put an end to one of
the most serious droughts this section of
Virginia has had To contend with in sew
eral years. Coming it did in the sea
son for the maturing of the corn and
tobacco crops, when abnormally warm
weather prevailed for weeks. the damage
To crops from the drought cannot be esti-
mated. Except in areas of small extent
where local rains were experienced, the
corn crop was a practical failure. Much
o. the early planting OF the tobacco crop
was cut before ii should have been, but
this was necessary to prevent total de-
srructicn and the leaf is short. which re-
auces in no small measure its value Oh
the warehouse floors. However, the late
planting. and much of the crop is late
planting season in the spring. has been
benefited to great extent by the good
rains.
The rains too were sufficient to en-
able the planters TO get to their fall plow-
ing for the wheat crop. only meager
portion Of this having been accomplished
up to this time on account of the drought.
The drought came doubiy hard on many of
the farmers, who lost practically all OF
their wheat crop in the spring owing To
ravages of the Hessian fly and other ad-
Verse conditions.
Evening star., 1912-09-22
Charles w. Mills Missing.

The police have been asked To lind
Charles W. Mills, who has been missing
from his home. 500 9TH street southeast.
since September 4. He is described as
being twenty-six years old, five feet -four
inches in height. with auburn hair and
swarthy complexion.
Evening star., 1912-09-22
HYGIENE AND SANITATION.
SAVING THE BABIES.
Bv Frederic J. Haskin.

dies before it is a year old. In others
only one baby out of ten dies. In the
whole United States 16o out or thou-
sand died in 1900 In Boston today 1t has
been cut to 127. All Of these things con-
clusively point to the fact that infant
mortality can be averted. AL that is re-
quired is a strict compliance with the
laws of health. Wherever these condi-
tions have been met children have been
saved. We often spend $4,000 to con-
vict single murderer, and sometimes
almost ten times as much. The same
amount spent in caring for the babies
and teaching how they should be guided
over the dangerous roads of infancy
would save hundreds Of babies from
death.
One authority has observed that the
benefactions of the rich in the direction
Of health seem to
Campaign Of be on the basis
Education Needed. ra,uah'e ,naa ~ to 'cure eure
disease than to prevent it. He says that
giving to hospital is spending money
that handful may be restored to health,
rather than giving it to the cause or
preventive medicine that townful may
be protected in theirs. He declares it is
past his understanding that philanthrOpic
people should regard it as more impor
tant to discover not-yet-found germ
than to discover a method of inducing
communities to kill the infinitely more
dangerous ones that already have been
found. Nowhere is this better evidenced
than in the case of infant mortality. 1t
has been estimated that two-thirds of all
the deaths of infants might be averted
by the mere application of the knowledge
we now possess. How to get that knowl-
edge applied is the problem. 1t is prob
lem that some communities are graduall-
ly solving. a problem whose solution lies
in careful campaign of education.
1t is interesting to note how some COM
munities are solving it. Boston has
been making inquiries among the mothers
of the city as to how they feed their ba-
bies. These inquiries have revealed the
fact that there are nearly twice as many
babies die that are bottle-fed as there
are among those who are nourished in
natures way. Today efforts are being
made to arouse the mothers of the city
to the Importance Of this. Other cities
are doing the same. Some time since
there was health show in Baltimore. A
nursing her child. Below it was this
legend: This baby is getting a square
deal. Is yours?'
Some cities have tried to solve the in
rant mortality problem by distributing
literature dealing with
Value of the subject of the care
Free Clinic. haon fonna that IN finita,S
more effective Is the idea of the free
clinic, which has been borrowed from
France by several cites. These clinics are
held at milk stations. hospital dispen
saries. schools and in open-air tents es-
pecially constructed for the purpose. Here
Evening star., 1912-09-22
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Evening star., 1912-09-22
On an Ocean Liner.

From Judge.
Maud-Afy neighbor at table doesn't look
very rich and yet she constantly SrowlS
about her trouble with servants.
Beatrice-Perhaps she keeps an intell-
gence office.
Evening star., 1912-09-22

No mart Of the program of the 1nterna-
tional Congress Of Hygiene and Demog-
ranhy. now being held in Washington,
will law hold on the American heart to a
greater degree than that which has for its
nurnose the collection and distribution of
the worlds knowledge of methods for the
prevention of infant mortality. Nearly
three hundred thousand babies less than
one year old die annually in the United
States. Out of each thousand babies
born, no less than 212 die before they pass
their second year. Once baby reaches
it's third year its chances to live to be
sixty years old are better than were it's
chances to live to he two years old.
That there are tens of thousands OF
preventable deaths among the 100000 ba-
bies that die in the United States in the
first year of life is easily shown. There
are a number of lines of indisputable evil
dence by which it may be proved. Swe-
den loses ninety-siX out of each thousand
children under one year old. We lose
165. Did we but take as good care Of our
babies as Swedish parents do Of theirs
nearly 10000 homes would be spared the
sadness Of having their babies taken
away by the hand of death. Did the
American mother protect her baby as we'll
as the mothers of Norway protect theirs
more than 10000 babies a year would
live who now fill new-made graves.
What Norway and Sweden have done
America can do. The mothers of New
Zealand make
Good Showing even better
in New Zealand. @haso of Sorwax
and Sweden. If our number of deaths
among babies under one year were pro-
portionate to that of New Zealand, more
than one-half Of all the babies who die
under one year Of age would be saved.
Statistics everywhere prove that baby
saving is not an untried theory. Where
poorer care of the little ones is taken
than we take of ours, there the number
of baby deaths is proportionately higher.
For instance, in Chile the death rate of
babies is nearly double our own, and
more than four times that of New Zea-
land. In European Russia three babies
die where two die in the United States,
and in Austria three die where one dies
in New Zealand.
But one does not have to look to foreign
countries to see the good results which
come firm baby-saving campaigns. A
study of our own progress will show the
results Of our rising tide OF health senti-
ment upon infant mortality. In 1890 the
deaths among infants less than one year
of age amounted to 20.5SO out of each
1ONOU born In 1900 they amounted to
16.J4o. In other words, in ten years there
was a saving of more than 1000 babies
year brought about by the Improvement
of the health conditions of the country
Another evidence of what can be done
in baby saving is to be found in con-
traStS between various American cities
In some Of them one baby out Of five
Evening star., 1912-09-22
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Evening star., 1912-09-22
Representative Flood Opposed.

Some interest is felt here. especially on
the part of Amherst county people. who
1--we in that county and work in Lynch
burg. over the political situation in the
tenth congressional district They will
not feel satisfied that Representative
Flood will not be opposed for re-elec-
ton to Congress in November by an in
dependent candidate until the limit has
expired in which a candidate can have
his name on the onIcial ballot. 1t Is an
open secret that dsaffected democrats
I'm the valley counties of the tenth dis
trct are working like beavers to get out
a candidate against Flood, but il is prac-
tica'ly certain that up to this time they
have not been successful. II is known,
TOO. that several democrats east of the
Blue Ridge have been importuned to
come out on an independent ticket against
Iiood. but have turned the overtureS
Evening star., 1912-09-22

who resides in Bedford county, some
four miles from this city. is recovering
from the effects of lightning shock
which nearly caused his death He
was lying across a bed when the bolt
struck the house. The fluid passed
through the house. tearing off wealth
erboarding and plaster in the chamber,
and struck near Mr.. Burkholder sing
ing his hair. When the din caused by
the stroke cleared away Mr.. Burk-
holder was found unconscious, in
which condition he remained for fifteen
hours. 1t is expected that in time he
will fully recover.
Evening star., 1912-09-22
down without consideration.

down without consideration. Much of
the disaffection appears to be in Augusta
county and some of the opposition there,
1t is said. have gone so far as to prom
Use a big majority against Flood from
the valley counties, as well as support
from some newspapers which have hith-
erto stood with the democratic party.
An announcement Of such candidacy
within the next ten days, it is said by
those in close touch with the situation,
would not come as bolt from a clear
sky. With this is a, prediction that Rep
resentative Flood will never get another
nomination without contest. 1t is said
there would have been opposition this
year had the matter been left open until
after the state convention at Norfolk, at
which time delegates were chosen to the
Baltimore convention. The Flood OppOsi
ton seems to date back to the Norfolk
convention. and it is admitted that many
democrats in the valley counties would
vote for practically any candidate put up
in opposition to Mr.. Flood
Railway Bond Issue Approved.
The fact that Greensboro. N c. has
voted bonds to the amount Of 500. 600 to-
ward the proposed Lynchburg, Danville
and Carolinas railway, which is pro-
jected from Lynchburg through the two
Caroiinas to the south Atlantic seaboard.
makes the projected line take on an as
pect of certainty. The line was first
talked of several years ago. being pro-
NOTED from the start by Capt. T. o.
Trey. whose energy and thrift built the
Virginia Air Line from Strathmore to
Lindsay. and now "A part of the Chesa-
pcake and Ohio, connecting its James
t:ivcr division with the main line. 1t is
stated that the proposed route has been
surveyed from a point near Lynchburg
into Chatham county, y &. No official
statement has been made recently rela-
tive to the projected line. but it is cur
rently reported that actual work will be
under way within the next year. The
fact that the Greensboro bonds are avail
able either for this proposed road or
for any other that will within three
years give that city connection with the
Seaboard Air Line or the Norfolk South
ern Il would seem would be incentive
for it's promoters to get busy to lay claim
to this amount
Evening star., 1912-09-22
Expect Much
of Child Bureau.

toll of death in that fateful first two
years of existence is so heavy and so
pathetic that when the facts are fuilN
known il is believed that belated and
widespread action for the protection OF
the babies of the country Will follow.
And a beauty of a successful babysav-
ing campaign is that it would not only
save the babies, but tens of thousands of
adults as well. The lessons of public and
private sanitation which must be taught
for the salvation of the babies would pre-
tect the adult members of the family
from germ-caused diseases as well. Puri-
fy the milk supply for the baby and il IS
purified for father and mother and broth
ers and sisters. Swat the fly for baby's
sake and the whole family BENEFITS.
According o the best information the
census bureau has been able TO gather
concerning the birth rate of the United
States, more than 3,0O0,oG5 babies ara
born in this country each year. Their
hold on life is so precarlouS that the
number of them who die before their
first birthday comes around is equivalent
to one-fifth of all the deaths that occur.
According to the rates cited in the public
health movement symposium OF the
American Academy of Political and So-
cial Science nearly half million of them
will be committed dust to dust within
a year from birth. With no means what
ever to protect themselves they must ac-
cept the food that is given them. Some
one has observed that the business OF
being baby is an extrahazardous occu-
patton" and another has remarked that
.'the evils of babywasting are greater
than the evils of race suicide" adding
that it is not the number of babies born
that counts but the number that are en-
abled to grow to manhood and woman
hood. One of the most earnest efforts.
that the sanitarians OF the country are
going to make during the next decade Is
,nfh nf ha In fn eyiy
their babies a fair chance in their gamble
with fate That movement will be given
considerable impetus at the hygiene con-
gress.
Evening star., 1912-09-22
object lesson teaching is resorted to- and
usually with splendid results. Other cities

object lesson teaching is resorted 10. and
usually with splendid results. Other cities
make use of the visiting nurse. She goes
into a home of poverty. cleans up things
for the mother. and shows her just how
to do things. When she is tactfl she en-
lists the sympathy and cooperation of
the mother. and the chances of the child
escaping the peris of infancy are greatly
improved.
1t is certain that for long time TO
come the bottle-fed baby will continue in
the majority. Most of his dangers lie
in his bottle. Not only must the mother
be educated to care for the bottle and
its contents while it is i'm her hands,
but its contents must he protected before
il reaches her. The daily milk supply Of
Philadelphia is 100000 quarts. 1t is ham
died by 1900 milk dealers. supplied by 1900
producers. and brought from four states
Chicago uses million quarts day, and
it comes from 10000 cows on 1900
farms. New York gets it's suppl from
35. 900 farms located I'm six states. From
all this it will be seen that the proper
protection of a big city's milk supply
from the time it leaves the cow until it is
swallowed by the babies Is job of mon l.
mental proportions.
Evening star., 1912-09-22
DR.. Smiths Condition Improves.

Not a little felicitation is heard in
Lynchburg over the wonderful improve
ment in the condition in the past two or
three days of DR.. w. W. Smith, the pres
ident of the Randolph-Macon WOman's
College here. DR.. Smith is suffering from
Bright's disease. Early In the week his
condition was regarded very serious,
but before the close Of the week the ven-
cradle educator was in his office at the
college. busying himself in forming the
acquaintance of the new students and
greeting those returning for another ses-
sion. Later. much to the surprise OF
friends, DR.. Smith came down town and
laughed at the startling reports given out
from his sick chamber as to his condition.
That he is greatly improved is manifest,
and for it 6OJ students and nearly a hum
dred faculty members and the college
family are grateful.
Monday will see the Woman's College
down to class work, with 600 students
registered for work, the enrolment being
slightly larger than last dear although
the facilities are no larger than then, but
more students have found homes in River
mont families contiguous to the big college
than was the case a year ago>
Evening star., 1912-09-22
To Entertain Veterans.

The Rawley Martin Chapter, United
Daughters OF the Confederacy, of Chat
ham. will be hostess to the Confederate
veterans OF Pittsylvania county at Chat
ham September 80 at the annual din
ner for the veterans. The chapter will
bend every energy possible to make this
day even better than similar occasion
year ago. which was attended by hun
dreds of veterans from Pittsylvania and
adjoining counties. A committee COM
posed OF Mrs. j. +. Hart, Mrs. S. G.
Bennett Mrs. Edward Laner and Miss
Mamie Petty is arranging for the event.
The meeting of the Anti-Saloon League
OF Pittsylvania county will be held at
Green Pond Church September 20 at
which an address will be made by former
State Senator A F. Thomas Of this
city. Several addresses will be made
by speakers from this county
Evening star., 1912-09-22
Fair Association Active,

The officials of the Lynchburg Inter-
state Fair Association are busy with prep
arations for the exhibition to be held Oc
tober II. This year the association made
no provision for harness racing, excepting
several local events, devoting race money
entirely to running cards. The innovation,
for such it is, will be watched with in
terest by the association to ascertain
whether or not harness racing is a draw
ing card for an old-time agricultural
fair. The association has offered larger
sums than heretofore for prizes. and will
give a very strong card of free attrac-
tions. 1t is believed the attendance will
be large if the weather conditions are
good.
Evening star., 1912-09-22
Colored Boy Goes to Prison.

Burke Wallace. fifteen-year-old col
ored boy. who shot at Operator Nash
OF the Southern railway at the Chat
ham depot. has been sentenced to ff-
teen years in prison for his crime The
negro has had a checkered career for
one of his years. having been charged
with many small offenses. which final
~ drew him three years in the state
rcformatory. Upon his return to Chat
nam. one night recently. apparently
without cause the boy shot at Nash
while the operator was at his key, the
ball penetrating the wall just above
his instrument.
r. S. Burkholder, a well-to- do farmer
Evening star., 1912-09-22

The founding Of the national child bu-
reau, with Miss Julia Lathrop at its head
Evening star., 1912-09-22
Value Of
Free Clinic.

more effective is the idea of the free
clinic. which has been borrowed from
France by several cites. These clinics are
held at milk stations. hospital dispen-
saries. schools and in open-air tents es-
pecially constructed for the purpose. Here
Evening star., 1912-09-22

Some cities have tried to solve the in
FAINT mortality problem by distributing
Evening star., 1912-09-22

One authority has observed that the
benefactions of the rich in the direction
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-05-23

OlQ WOMAN 10 De frightened by
noise" he said, today. ct will
stay in session despite the riot
ers."
CITY TRACTION EXPERT
ROASTS HALSTED LINE.
City Traction Expert M. C.
Buckley, following an investiga-
ton of the Halsted street car line.
scathingly denounced the trans
portation facilities on that line,
and recommended to the council
committee on local transporta-
ton that immediate steps be
taken to relieve the unwarranted
congestion.
The matter was referred to the
board. of supervising engineers,
with instructions to enforce cor
receive measures.
The report covers only that
part of the line between, w. Madi-
son street and 10Th street, and
the four rush hours the after
noon of May 7, and two the morn
ing of May 8 were used to base
the findings on.
eve found all cars overcrowd-
ed, and conditions at Madison
and Halsted streets demoraliz-
ing" says the report. Some cars
contained as many as 1870 people
each. AS many as 100 persons
were passed continually between
5 p. m. and 7 p. m. southbound
at the intersection of those two
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-05-23

FREIGHT TRAFFIC OUT Or
CHICAGO TIED UP
Freight traffic to the north,
south and west of Chicago is bad
1y tied up today as a consequence
of the general strike of union
freight handlers, called yester-
day.
New Orleans, Minneapolis and
St. Paul are the points most Sc
riously affected by the new strike
order. In several of the smaller
cities the men were ordered to
remain at work until further no.
tice.
Notwithstanding the claims of
the General Managers associa-
ton, handling the local situation
for the affected railroads, that
they were not embarrassed by the
walk-out, it is known that several
of the larger department stores
are having difficulty in securing
consignments of goods shipped to
them, and may demand that the /
differences between the roads and
their employees be settled to re-
lieve the congestion.
Yesterdays conference between !
the teamsters' union and officers
of the freight handlers adjourned
without taking any action, but
another meeting will be held to-
night. 1t is known that the /
teamsters are willing to enter
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-05-23

nnent are begging Count lisa to.
suspend proceedings until the
rioting is over.
Tisza will not do so.
Parliament is not a hysterical
old woman to be frightened by
noise" he said, today. ct will
stay in session despite the riot
. ers."