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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-05-13
MALARIA.

Malaria is one of the most prevail
ent of all preventable diseases. In spite
of the fact that we have more accur
ate knowledge of malaria than perhaps
anv other disease, in spite of the fact
that we have accurate means of dag
rosis and treatment and assured meas
ures of prevention, malaria counts its
victims by thousands of thousands an
nually. In the United States alone
there are about $4,000 deaths from
malaria annually and in addition from
! 500 900 to 100000 suffer from its
effects.
| Only one other disease compares
with malaria in widespread distrlou-
ton and that is tuberculosis. Malaria
is the scourge of the tropics, 1t has
/ modified the worlds history by tend
ing to render the whole of the tropics
unsuitable for the full development OF
civilization.
Very malarious districts can not De
prosperous. If no measures of pre-
vention are instituted such localities
often end by being practically desert
ed and those who do live there are too
sicklv for hard work. There are sew
eral millions of our citizens in the
United States today whose wage earn
ing capacity is limited because of mild
and chronic forms of the disease.
The cause of malaria was one of the
first to be discovered and its mode OF
transmission was one of the most mril-
liant discoveries in sanitary science
The cause of the disease is due to the
presence of small organisms in the
blood. These germs are small living
animals which get inside the red blood
cells of the person having the disease
They grow in size and finally divide
into number of young germs. These
nay enter other red cells and repeat
the process. These germs may be seen
in the blood of persons with malaria
if the blood be examined with micro
scope. There is no other cause for
the disease. A person can not get ma
laria from bad water, bad food, ex-
posure to the sun, night air or in any
way except by getting the germs Oh
malaria into his blood.
The germs of malaria get into the
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-05-13
UR. JOHANNA WESTERDYK is
DISAPPOINTED IN CONDITION
OF THE WOMEN IN AMERICA

| THE HAGUE, Netherlands, May Il
"1he American woman has the suffrage
in some states, from child she is ac-
customed to appearing in public and
does so more easily than we do, but
che has not half the freedom OF move
raent of the Dutch woman" declared
hollands first woman professor, Or.
Johanna Westerdyk, to an interviewer
Dr Westerdyk recently was appointed
extraordinary professor of plant pain
o1oe-v at the State university at Ut
recbt- The remark was made as the re-
or1t If tour she undertook through
the United States.
! DR. Westerdyk was disappointed vita
the nosition of the American woman.
In speaking of America" she said
we are accustomed to imagine that
conditions everywhere there resemble
those in New York. But New York Is
much more European. In the small
university towns in the west and the
east things wear quite different as
meet II is true that the married wo-
man is less bound by domestic life. she
does not have to be at home in the
afternoon to get dinner ready. But
nm the other hand, a professors wife
has a very busy life without servant
in the house. For all have their own
house. and many their own car, which
thew drive themselves, but they don
keen a maid because servants are too
troublesome.
"The American woman sees to II
that she does not become house
drudge neither is she the slave OF
her children. Further, she gets help
from her husband. But one has the
feeling in dining with her that one is
Giving her extra trouble and work"
But what struck DR.. Westerdyk most
Of all was that the social intercourse
between the sexes was far from being
en- free and unfettered as in Holland
Her men colleagues, for instance
thought that she might not lodge in the
same hotel, nor enter a restaurant
with them, and that she could hardly
be with them in the university, unless
other women were present. At the bot
asicaI society, no women we're admit
ted. She was used to so different
condition at botanical congresses that
America, with its reputation of para
disc for women. had greatly disap-
pointed her.
Everything in America was ruled oS
convention, in the opinion Of Or. IVES
terdyk-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-05-13
Public Health Department
For the People Of Sumter
By DIR. W. B. M'wHORTER.

b,ood in one way only This is through
the bite of a mosquito. Not all mus
ori+oas have the power to transInl
nolor;a ONLY the species known as
Anopheles. Only the female OF 0niS
species bites. 80
A female Anopheles mosquito ol'e' .
narsop in whose blood there are mar
arial narcotics. She draws the OlooO
80 ber stomach. When she bites
norson after this time, the young par
asi+os which have developed in her
hoav are injected into the person olI-
Ton The PARASITES then enter the req
Mood cells and a case of malaria de-
velops. %
Tbore are several different forms OF
malarial parasites, each causing a uil-
eamont form If malaria All are con-
troctod in the same way, however by
the bite of an infected mosquito
Three things are necessary LOT inc
.r,,.oad of malaria. First, persons with
malarial parasites in their blood oeo-
md ononbeles mosquitoes to bite such
rorsons and become injected. Third
healthy persons into whom the inject :
Cd MOSQUITO may inject the malariai
narasite when she bites them.
If is necessary to understand these
.,ings in order to apply proper meas
ures of prevention. The next aruc,e
w,m deal with the prevention of NAL
aria.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-05-13
WELLS TO BE TRIED CHARGED
WITH MURDER MONA SIhONS


COLUMBUS, O., May 12.--Weldon n
wells, %, went on trial for his life
here today. He is charged with the
murder last winter of Mora simons
2s. whose body was found with a 0ui-
10. hole through the head in room
at a fashionable hotel here.
wells, whose home is IN Huntins 'on
1rd was arrested there several days
after the killing. He was orough'
back to Columbus.
In until a short time before the
crime was committed, Wells was en-
Moved as a brokers clerk in Kansas
civ. where his mother nowlises.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-02-01
EDITORIAL
DRY LAW HITS MANY LINES

Prohibition prohibits some rob bery, some vagrancy, some business failures, some insanity and lot Of drunkenness, according to the ex pcrjence of Spokane, Washington, says the Spokane Chronicle.
 Arrests decreased from 1862 in 1915 to 1712 in 1916, the first year withou. saloons. The police re- cords show S37 arrests for drunken ness in 1916 against 2OS2 in 1915. Larceny cases decreased from SPA 10 9S and vagrancy was cut from 15T9 to 42S.
 People still drank beer and whts- ky-'he permit system allowed thds' and bootleggers were never idle But sDekane's liQuOr bill was cut b an even S4,OOO,O0O according Q the lest estimates.
 Retail business houses generally reported an increase of 25 per cent ia trade. Bank deposits jumped more than $1O,OOO,OOO, and bank clearing totalled S255,42O,4O1 in 1916, against $192,732,1O9 in 1915. Bank transactions reached $64S,- 71G,596, against S5O3,S69,590 dur ing the last year of the saloons.
 The Spokane Merchants assocfa- ton +cC k oyer assignments of stock valued at $475,OOO. in 1915 and S3S0,0OO in 1916. Dun's and Brad stIeers both showed a considerable decrease in business failures.
 Just how much credit can be giv- en to prohibition for business bet ternent can not be estimated, but it was demonstrated absolutely that prohibition did not hurt business and that it did improve collections, increase the volume of clothing, shoes, grocery and furniture sales and allow many men to keep at work who formerly lost considerable time.
 The Spokane county sheriff's of flee operated during 1916 at an exreuse $1O,O0O under the total for 1915. The county government maee a total saving of $2O,00O under the previous year. The city government made a reduction of SS6,O00 in improvement taxes gained $70,000 over the previous year.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-02-01
SLIDING TO DEATH.
A Psrilous Mountain Incident and .
 Lucky Escape.

An American who lives in China made the ascent of the sacred noun tain, Siaooutalshan, a year or two since, and made, or at least began to make, the descent in, much more un- premeditated manner.
 He had reached an altitude of over 5000 feet and, having lost the trail, branched off and climbed lower peak to see whether he could discover the right track. He managed to crawl to the top, and since the view was very fine he opened his paint box to make a sketch.
 AS he was sorting his brushes the stone on which he was sitting gave way, and he started sliding down the almost perpendicular slope, He tried to clutch the ground with his hands, He seized every projecting stone in the hope of stopping his precipltous de- scent, but at the speed at which he was going that was no easy matter.
 Death stared him in the face, for another 100 yards would bring him to the edge of a precipiee several hun dred feet high, over which he must in- evitably go. His hair stood on end as he approached the spot, and he can we'll remember the sound of his heavy paint box changing from rock to rock as 1t accompanied him in his descent
 A violent shock, which nearly tore his body in two made him think he had gone over; but, no-he had sudden. ly stopped.
 He opened his eyes, but he did not dare move, for his position, although much improved, was far from safe. His coat and strong leather strap that was slung under his arm had caught on a projecting stone, but single false movement on bis part would start him sliding down the slope again.
 Slowly, carefully, as he lay on the almost perpendicular slope, he tried to get a footing. When he had sue ceeded in doing that the great difh- culty was to turn round. After several anxious moments. each of which seem ed ages long, he succeeded, and there he was, half knceling, half lying, with his body on the ground, cldtching the rock that saved him.
 Then. when his agitation passed away, he managed to crawl up, cat fashion, to a position of safety.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-02-01

any other one thing. The indus tries that we have on the Pacific Coast require machinery and strue- tural steel and all th 6 other pro- ducts of iron. The cost of trans Portaqcns the lack of transporta- tion facilities and the demands up On the iron and steel industries of other sections of the country are all contributing factors to the 3m- portance of the establishment of such an industry here on the coasts With such an industry established, machinery7making and other manu- featuring institutions would spring up like mushrooms from one end of the coast to the other. In a short time hundreds Of thousands of skiIled and unskilled laRorers would find new avenues for employment. The foreign and domestic commerce would be greatly augmented, and the population of the country would increase vastly. {
 The Empire joins all those inter ested in Alaskan development in wishing all manner of success to the B. l. Thane Exploration Depart ment and to it's manager who has already contributed so much toward the advancement of Alaska. = Ju- neau Empire.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-02-01
JUNEAU NOW
 CLAIMS WIND

Do you know that Juneau is get ting to be an aYtully jealous burg? The latest sign of it's intense de- sIte ya grasp all that other towns in Alaska might have, either by rig of inheritance or otherwise, is shown in an article printad in the EmpIre for the 27th.
 Juneau, according to tho Empire, is now going to claim the merit of having the only real wind in the north, and for a number of years that right has belonged, as most people Of the north thought, solely and exclusively, to Skagway.
 The big daily deYotas almost whole page in describing the ad- vent of the annual wind to the to the capital city, comparing it to no other wind in the north, and ad- mits with apparent glee that the Ia ku was strong enough to take out the. strong plate glass windows or the Pacific Steamship company's of- flee, and then rub it into Skagway' by saying that Juneau's wind, not content with smashing the glass; amused itself for the next few hour stirring the glass with snow which i+ brought in from the out-of-doors' into a mess consisting of papers, dirt and other articles which were handy, ,i i'
 Then this same wind, losing none % it's playfulness, ripped some Of the tin lettering off the Palace thea ter, and then took off some of the vent pipes from the Gastineau ho- 6al >.. i.lxI .,ii al La al gila
 The Lone Fisherman was unable to make her regular trips, and the Prince Albert and City of Seattle stayed ia port, unable 70 buck the cross Taku.
 Yes, 1t appears that the skag- way wind is joke, and that Jul neau has the only real wind. Let tt be known es the Windy City.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-02-01
.Damp,ColdWeather
Brings Its Toll of Sickness to AL
 askan People.

Chilly, damp, changing weather ! hard on the kidneys. Even more irritating are colds, grip and pneumonia;
 They cOngest the kidneys;
 They bring backache and disor- dered kidney action.
 For weak kidneys use a tested remedy,
 10000 people publicly recon mend Doan's Kidney Pills.
 Frank Lang, 62O sayier St., Port land. Ore, says: Changes of tenn .rerature, together with hard work brought on trouble with my kidneys 4 catch often took me in the small Of my back and threw me off a lsdder. l felt the pain extending .uG my spine and down into my groins. It seemed like a paralytic stroke and for several days was practically unable to do anything, My kidneys acted too often, eaus- ing me a great deal of annoyance. Deans Kidney Pills fixed me up in good shape"
 Price soc, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for kidney remedy - get Doan's Kidney Pills-tbe same that Mir. Lang had. Foster-Milburn Co.,, Props, Buffalo. N. Y. ..
The daily Alaskan., 1917-02-01
Snmafhind lackind,

A resident of Nevada who has re- gently returned from a trip through the east was interviewed by the Post. How did Niagara strike mel" said the traveller. "Well, to be candid. it was a little disappointing. There seemed to be something lacking-something, I couldn't see what, but something that I didn't see and felt I ought to see to make the picture complete" Perhaps 1t was man going over in a barrel.-- Kansas City Times.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-02-01
FREIGHTED WITH HOPE

Tho work being carried on by B. L. Tnane Exploration Depart ment of the Alaska Gastneau Min ing Company is treighted with hope for better things for Alaska. This department is on the outlook Ior new properties to develop and to give employment to labor and mar ketS for other producers and trades EeD, and thus to add to the QoPu- laJicn and prosperity of the Terri tory. Particularly hopeful are the facts that it is seriously en- gagged in an attempt to open iron mines. and thus provide the foun- dation for an iron and steel indus try on the Pacific Coast, and the circumstanoe that all the indica- tions point toward it's success.
 If it shall transpire in the course Of time that Alaska is play ing the part of Minnesota to grea, Pacific Coast iron and steel bust mess it will be fortunate for the Territory indeed. A diversity of in dustry counts for stability, and it has Q broadening effect ou Popula tion. The addition Of a new class of industries brings a community in touch with people that it was not in touch with before. It brings a new class of people to the communi ty, and new trade. It adds to the strength and quality of the com mercial and industrial fabric.
 Tho Pacific Coast needs Rn iron and steel industry now worse than
The daily Alaskan., 1917-02-01
Subscription Rates

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The daily Alaskan., 1917-02-01
MUSIC IN THE HOME.
lts Refining and Joyous Influence
 Should Be Welcomed.

its Refining and Joyous lnrushoo
 Should Be Welcomed.
 So much is done for the children nowadays. So many different sorts of knowledge are crammed Into them at school. They devote themselves to so many things mconnected either with childhood or home life. Meanwhile one opportunity-rlch in possibilities for happiness-is too often neglected Mir. Josef Stransky gives wise counsel in this matter:
 "The way to love music, to increase It's production, is to know 1t when you are yomg-young individually and young as a nation. l. Is much more difficult to prepare people to enjoy mu- sic after they are grown up and their minds have become crowded with vari- ous interests in life. The American nation should not let it's youth. slip by without filling the souls of the children with music.
 As yet the young people here do not have their minds directed definitely enough III uuSlCui CuuliutlS. I 0O AOL see groups of children standing about a piano in the twilight and singing to a mothers accompaniment. l do not see the boys of a neighborhood forming q small orchestra and playing really fine music. as they do in France and Germany"
 Mir. StranSky overstates his case somewhat. We know of New Eng land farmers family of six children, each playing a different instrument, who, with father and mother, make a real little orchestra. And there are a good many such groups of the sort MT. Stransky says he has not seen-young- sters about their mother at the plano. But there should be still more-many more. There cannot be too many, for, as the wise conductor says, music is something more than mere entertain ment. It is "a serious and permanent joy in life I" to keep the emo tions stirred, the imagination young" Golfers Weekly.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-02-01

Ths DaI1y GIasHan chargsa for ah publications not solicited, which includes all nOttces1 other than churches or tenaritahla societies.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-02-01
Eraa Advice.

"There are a great many people in this world who don't know what's good for them"
 Perhaps sO," replied the cynical man, "but they always have plenty of neighbors who would gladly tell them what is good for them if they would only n."-Birmingham Age-Herald
The daily Alaskan., 1917-02-01
Can't Go Far.

"Just met with a heavy loss. A ship in which was interested was wrecked"
 q got my money in canal boats, When one of them is wrecked we know where to find it."-Louisville Courier, Journal.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-02-01

Do your daughters help their moth er with the hOusewOrk?"
 We wouldn't think of expecting It. Muriel is temperamental, and Zaza is intense. ."-Pittsburgh Post.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-02-01
Of courss.

My friend, the glazier, has 6 sad life"
 ''Why shouldn't it be2 Isn't 1t fun of panes sP'-Baltimore American.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-12-19
Women Knew About Il.

We have a new wOrd--camOutlage
A new word but not new idea or Il
new art. We have had the camouflage
girl with us for some time, says an
exchange. CamOuilage, so the dictiOn-
airy people tell US, means painting to
deceive the eye. 1t is an art that is
being employed in the war. The tops
of submarines are being painted TO
look like the ripping green sea waves.
Battle ships and cruisers are being
painted so that their hulls will blend
with the gray sea mists. Along the
war fronts camOuflage is being used
to convey the impression to the enemy
balloon and airplane observers that
batteries are located where they are
not, also conceal the real location of
guns. ammunition cellars and strategic
troop movements. Paint is used to
deceive the eye. That is camoullage.
But is it new thing under the sun?
Go to! 1t is not so! Are we not all
distressingly familiar with the camOu-
tlage girl? The idea is just the sama
when applied to faces, we take it, as
in the case of the submarines and this
terrible tanks-to deceive the eye Of
the critical observer. CamOuilage as
applied to ships and armOred tanks
may be more or less of success, but
rs applied to the ladies it doesn't fool
even the wayfarlng man.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-12-19
The Strength of Woman.

1.-THE work women are doing in thia
war 7" exclaimed member of the rail-
roads war board, at Il banquet. "Driv-
ing ammunition trucks, digging
trenches; even, as in Russia, fighting
In the front line!
'WOman comes more and more to
resemble Cornelius Husk's daughter,
Name When Husky Name, as shs
was known in the township, presented
her future husband to the old man,
Corn Husk sighed and said:
"'Take her son, but take good keer
on her, for the little ladybird has been
riZ tender-like. Four acres day is
all ever asst her to pillow, and two
acres of corn is all she's been used TO
hoe 'twiXt sun-up and dark. She kin
do light work, sech as rail-splittin'
and well-diggin', but she amt used 10
rough stuff, and you must be gentle
with her. l tell you, son, it's hard for
the old man TO give his little sun
shine up. He'll have to split his own
wood and tend his own stock now"
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-12-19
indians in the Great War.

Indians have been volunteering for
service In the United States army since
1861. In 1892 Lieutenant Scott. later
chief Of the staff, organized and
trained Il troop of the Seventh caval-
ry, which was highly commended by
the inspector general of the war de-
partment.
The Indian Is trained as the Swiss
train their boys, so that they may be
able to fire gun accurately and earn
Il living. He has all the qualities of
q good sOldier-endurance patience,
courage and an instinct for scouting,
London Tit-Bits says.
The Canadian government recOg
nized the great fighting ability of the
many Indian nations and tribes who
volunteered their services for king and
country ut the outbreak of the war,
and there are hundreds of Indians en-
rolled In many of the different Cana
dian regiments at the front. Many
have made the supreme sacrifice,
among the first to fall being Lieut..
Cameron Brant of the Six Nations In
dams, who was a llneal descendant OF
the distinguished colonial warrior,
Capt. Joseph Brant of Revolutionary
fame.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-12-19
Women Replacing Men in Banks.

There is mt present no woman officer
of New York city bank, and only
one in New Jersey, but if the war lasts
long enough it may be, as it is in Cam
ada now, that the banks will virtually
be run by women, according to an ar
ticle in the New York Evening Post.
Already, it is estimated, 10000 women
have been taken on in the Wall street
district since the United States entered
the war, last April.
II will not be decidedly new field
for women to become officers Of banks,
for perhaps the majority of bank presi-
dents in New York have women secre-
taries and assistants who thoroughly
understand the workings of banks and
the duties of those in high places.