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Maryland State Archives Jeffersonian, Towson, Maryland mdsa_sc3410_1_81-0901 Enlarge and print image (3M) |
| 0 R V A ORVAT MFG. JEWELER BIRTH-RATES AND RACIAL STOCK. The Only Manufacturing\ Jeweler in the City An Art School Graduate. You can immediately recognize the SUPERIORITY-the ARTISTIC TOUCH in all of aur work. - We specialize in Remodeling Jewdtary of every description. Large stock of Platinum and While Cold Rings—always on hand to set your diamond. If necessary, while you wait. OUR PRICES ARE LOW 228 N. LIBERTY ST. BALTIMORE. MD. > t\ ifti if! A A ¦*- "*- J>- -*- -*- -*¦ A A A A ¦*¦ »% A A »\ aft ff?TV™ WW WWW V W W V I INSURANCE In all its Brauohei WHEELER & COLE FRANKIl, WHEKLKR Ofiutt Bldg., TOWSON, MD. MADE IN BALTIMORE EFFERVESCES EVERYWHERE Oil Permanent Wave Hairdressing Shampooing Marcel Waving Massage and Hair Switches made ot your combings Address ^^33Sk 42 W. Lexington Street Established 1895 Phone, Calvert 0777 Dolls For Sale Dolls Restrung and Repaired. Monument* Tomb» Vault. Patapsco Granite Co. tCHAS. F. PEACH) WoodUwn 55-M. Opposite WoodUwn Cemetery Polishing Qranlte and JKarble, Coping, Baits and Steps t 1224-26 1 1* Greenmount Avenue £ Vernon 7100-01 £ FORMERLY CRANES "YOUR SWEETEST NEIGHBOR" A The Ice Cream of High- J 1 est Quality X X t ??»»?»???»????»??????? Foreign-born mothers in the United States have 33 per cent, more children than the native born, according to a recent census report discussed in American Medicine (New York). The birth registration area or the United Stales now contains 65.3 per cent, of the population and is composed of twenty-seven States and the District of Columbia. In this area during 1921 the birth-rate was 2 4.3 per thousand population, with the proportion of children born, 1,059 males to 1,000 females. We read: "This slight excess of male births is more than wiped out in the early mortality rate of infants, for during the same year the deaths of infants under one year of age evidenced a proportion of 1,314 males to 1,000 females. In general, it would be said that male birth exceed the number of female births, although there appears to be no tenable theory to account for this fact. By many it has been believed that wars and epidemics are followed by increases of masculinity of living births. The actual accumulation of data, however, would indicate a lack of sufficient material to justify this conclusion, despite the fact that it continues to exist as a tradition. Nor is it possible to interpret the evidence from foreign countries as sustaining this conjectural, intangible relation, when consideration is given to the sex of stillbirths, as well as living births. "In comparing the size of families, it is interesting to note that the average number of children ever born to the mother of 1921, and the average number of these children now living were, respectively, 3.3 and 2.9, for all white mothers. When considering the variations in the countries of birth of mothers, distinct variations are found. The white mothers born in the United States have an average of „three children, while foreign-born mothers have four. It is striking that the English stock averages three, whereas the Austrian and German average 4.3, Italian 4.4, and Polish 4.6. It is evident that foreign-born stock reproduces more extensively than do native American or English stock. Nor is this reproduction cut down very extensively by very greatly increased mortality rates among the foreign-born, so that the general increase of the American population is definitely away from the traditional Anglo-Saxon stock, so thoroughly approved of by those thinking in terms of the foundations of this country. "This variation in fecundity may be illustrated by a consideration of the distribution of children in the order of birth per thousand birth for white mothers. During 1921, 3 28.2 of each of the birth to American-born mothers were first children, as compared with 200.4 for all the foreign-born mothers. A special contrast is noted in the rate of 107 first children for Polish mothers, 143.9 for Austrian mothers, 157.5 for Hungarian mothers, and 323.3 for mothers born in England, Scotland and Wales. "There is, thus, ample evidence of the comparatively small families that are being raised by our native population. This fact merits consideration in formulating plans for giving adequate care to the infant population if one is to project the educational work where it will be of the greatest service. It clearly indicates, also ,that the complexion of American citizenship is undergoing a marked alteration in racial inheritances. The difference in mortality rates of children born of mothers in various countries opens many questions as to whether the discrepancies are due to racial stock, nurture, literacy, intellectual status, greater or less nervous stability, periods of breast feeding, or to entirely accidental causes. An analysis of factors such as these requires a considerable period of time, but merits the closest study. "It is frequently assumed that a low birth-rate carries with it, necessarily, a low infant mortality rate. While there is undoubted evidence that this combination actually exists, it would not follow that the low infant mortality rate is entirely due to the altered economic conditions incident J;o small families. The part that nationality, education, instruction in hygiene and medico-social agencies play has not received sufficiently careful statistical study to justify the conclusions so frequently urged by those advocating family limitations. There is little doubt, however, that the mere fact of small families is conducive to better care and more adequate physical protection. "With the downward trend of child-bearing among American-born mothers it becomes highly desirable to possess more accurate statistical information concerning the elements involved in still further lowering the infant mortality rate. At the present time American stock is undergoing a marked alteration, so that the influences upon the future generations are bound up in the relative proportion of racial inheritances that are preserved through the reduction of infant mortality, as related to the actual birthrate. The social and hygienic significance of these two items is of more than passing statistical interest. It is inevitably linked up with countless health problems in the future." TRAINING ZEPPELIN CREWS FOR OCEAN FLIGHTS. The ' novel and intensive training methods for the crews of the great "Reparations Zeppelin," which is to be flown to this country from Frederichshafen, Germany, during the coming year, are attracting N great interest here among the Army, Navy and civilian aeronautical experts concerned in the lighter-than-air transportation industry, their established practice of training all the "sailors" of these great airships so that they will be in the best possible physical and mental con- ?X~X~X~X~X~X~X~X**t**X**X**J* Jmano swartz | i A Sale of I Fine Fur Coats $ At I Price | ? T :*: Buy Now And Save X I MANO SWARTZ I Furrier 225 N. Howard St. Baltimore, Md. x~j«M~HK~HK~H~H~x~K**x~i* dition, the navigating officers of the Zeppelin organization have commenced the intensive flight training. The "Reparations Zeppelin," which was allotted to this country by the Versailles Conference, is somewhat larger than the U. S. N. Shenandoah and will have a crew of more than 30, including the officers. This great ship will be flown from Frederichshafen, cruising down through part of the Alps, crossing part of Italy and Spain and without stopping will continue its voyage to America by way of the Azores. It will probably enter the country somewhere in the vicinity of Newport News, Va., and will continue on to St. Louis, thence up the Mississippi Valley to Chicago, crossing the City of Detroit and Lake Erie and finally landing, for the first time, at Lakehurst, ^7. J. This flight will be about 8,000 miles and it is likely that the Zeppelin will be in the air for nearly a week without coming down. She will carry an immense amount of fuel in the 106 tanks, each holding more than a barrel of ^gasoline. In addition to this a large quantity of oil, provisions and accessories will be carried, which will be necessary for the trip. The Zeppelin Company intends that the ship shall be as perfect as possible and its May-bach motors will function without trouble of any kind. These are now being tested. The success of the record-breaking voyage is largely dependent upon the crew handling the giant ship and for this reason these veterans are being given an extraordinary course of training. The chief feature of this is the actual flight training which is given under new conditions. All the men and officers have taken innumerable flights in Zeppelins and none will Jse strangers to flight. But the fact that they are to make the longest flight in the world makes it necessary for them to receive all the training possible. This is given in this way. The giant gondola in which the navigating instruments, quarters and necessary flight equipment is located has been finished. Three or four times a month the entire crew enter the gondola and close themselves in exactly as if they were- about to "hop off" for America. They take provisions, maps and everything needed for such a voyage. The commandant of the flying division of the Zeppelin Company instructs the captain of the Zeppelin that he is to leave at a specified time on a certain date, usually many years ago. The instructions may read: "You will leave at 9 o'clock on the morning of March 3rd, 1899," and the captain will do so. Once on board, with his navigating officer, he will work out the ;ght using the complete weather data of that date. This data is found in the volumes compiled from countless observations made by ship captains during March, 1899. It shows the conditions of the weather, the velocity of the wind, the temperature and general information of the ocean, at practically all places during every hour of the day. The Zeppelin captain knows the speedof his ship, how much fuel and oil he has, how much provisions there are on board and all other data. He knows that a wind of a certain velocity will slow his ship down or? help her along, according to its direction. He knows that the storms effect his flight in various ways and taking everything into consideration, he must work out the entire voyage, all the way from his home port to New. York and return. His crew are busy with their duties and do everything they would have to do under the suppositious circumstances outlined by the old Mariners' reckonings. The entire personnel remain on the gondola until the full voyage is completed. The captain keeps a detailed log of the flight and when they land this log is carefully compared with the ocean data and a criticism of the flight is written by the chief flight officer. Its excellence is the measure of the efficiency of the captaian and his men. In this way the Zeppelin organization is preparing to astonish the world with the most remarkable flight ever1 made. The Goodyear-Zeppelin Company, which controls all the Zeppelin patents in this country, is preparing to use the same method in training crews for the great "rigids" which are to be built and put into passenger service here. Data obtained from the U. S. Weather Bureau will be used for the trans-continental flights and efficient personnel will be trained and ready by the time the ships are ready for service. VALVE-IN-HEAD MOTOR CARS Auto Outing Company 21 E. North Avenue BALTIMORE Baltimore's Original & Reliable Home of the Buick Phone—Vemon 1140 j WORKING MEN I 1 14 will prove a mistake to *t* X spend hard cash for pants or ,i, Y "Trousers" until you see what £ X we can do in the way of value ,?, & far the cask spent, and that's X X all we ever give. N» Bargain »?. X can touch you if you buy from ,t, X us, and you are saf a. Buy re- JL X liable Pants.$2.00, $3.00 and $5.00 X X Square Deal 511. No bra»ch A »tt stores. 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