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The Gainesville Eagle.
W. H. CRAIG,
Editor and Business Manager.
Entered at Gair-oxmlle, Ga., post-off.ce
as second-.-lass matter. .
Baffle Call: Bell Phone No. 56-
Thursday, March 26, 1914.
DOES GAINESVILLE NEED A FOOD
INSPECTOR?
The Woman’s Civic Club, since
its organization nearly two years
ago, has devoted its undivided at
ention to work pertaining to the
city’s welfare. With democratic
ideals, no ambition to participate in
city politics, non-religious, and im
partial both toward parties and in
dividuals, it has striven to deter
mine the city’s greatest needs, and
studied the best and quickest meth
ods of supplying them. And surely
this is the desire of every good citi
zen.
We feel that our efforts are noth
ing more than an expression of the
aim of every other public-spirited
organization, the Chamber of Com
merce, City Council, and our lo
cal papers.
Sometimes our efforts have met
with success: again, failure. Fail
ure means renewed endeavor on our
part. A good purpose need not be
routed by the first dissenting voice;
our obstacles are small in propor
tion to the merit of our goal.
One definite purpose, cherished in
the Club’s incipiency, and valiant
ly and persistently espoused by the
committee on sanitation and health,
has been to procure an inspector of
milk, meat and food,a man equipped
for the office by training, backed by
legislation, and maintained by the
city treasury. We have petitioned
to the Council that such an office be
created; we have appealed to our
legislators to support the cause.
So far, due to seemingly unavoid
able hindrances, we have failed.
But, still believing in the tremend
ous need, and encouraged by ex
pressions of approval on every side,
we shall continue to put a shoulder
to the wheel.
It would ill behoove any one of us
to presume to regulate another indi
vidual’s methods of operating his
business. Aside from the tactless
ness of such an act, and the prob
ability of failure, how many of us
are really sufficiently well informed
to know all the correct and safe
methods of handling food stuffs?
'Therefore, be it understood, we are
not attempting to expose any indi
vidual guilty of mercenary filth, or
to libel any man’s business methods;
but are the sources of our food sup
plies perfectly sanitary? How many
citizens of Gainesville know that
dairies are operated according to
government standards, that slaugh
ter houses observe strict precautions
of health and cleanliness, and that
only perfectly fit cattle are butch
ered? How many of us know that
produce and groceries are absolute
ly pure, properly handled and dis
tributed? A housekeeper receiving
unfresh, unclean, or unhealthful
milk, meat or vegetables, may re
turn them to the dealer, who may
promptly replace them. But is this
a safe basis for community trade?
If so, why does every other town in
the United States, large enough to
boast of a market and a dairy, con
sider it expedient to regulate the
handling of food according to stipu
lated laws. We do not imply that
any dealer in food supplies is will
fully unclean or a conscious menace
to our sanitary wellfare —but, should
we trust the safety and health of
our 8,000 men, women, and children
to the possible integrity of a few mer
chants? Our grocers, market men,
dairymen are not more unscrupu
lous than those elsewhere. But
we do not wait for those who main
tain themselves by the sale of li
quor to preach us temperance re
form. Surely we have no right to
expect the dairyman to lead in
milk reform —to voluntarily build
improved barns, cemented and ven
tilated; to keep only clean and
healthy cows, inspected by intelli
gent men, according to prescribed
regulations; to chill the .milk prop
erly and deliver promptly at correct
temperature. They will not trouble
themselves thus, when an indiffer
ent public will pay the same price (
for dirty milk, doped up with water
and chalk. Os course every mer
chant knows that “Honesty is the
best policy,” and that good material
is more saleable and a better adver
tisement. But we all have recol
lections of molded cheese, wormy
dates, rancid bu! ter and antiquated
beef, which somehow escaped
the dealer's rigorous censorship.
Maybe if you should visit the source
ot our town's milk supply, you I
might advocate a sterner criterion
tor the sick baby’s’ sole diet, than
the dairyman's own verdict.
Do you yourself know all the pre
cautions neccessary to the produc-
tion and distribution of perfectly
healthful food? If you do, congrat
ulate yourself. But be not unmind
ful of the B,ooowho are less fortunate
than yourself. As no stastistics of
deaths and their causes are kept in
Gaihesville, and no official report of
contagion compelled (and no factors
ire more potent in
contagion than unclean milk and
fly infected meat), it would be dif
ficult to state exactly to what extent
our infant mortality and typhoid
ravages have been due to these san
itary indiscretions.
But Gainesville needs a food in
spector! Every other town in the
State of Georgia, of our resources,
has one. Why can’t we afford it?
Can we afford not to? We will be
proud, will we not, to boast that our
city’s imbursements have been held
within the limits of our small taxes
—(lnfinitely smaller than that of
other towns our size); but while we
are urging this economy upon our
City Fathers, and eulogizing them
for their good municipal financier
ing, let’s bear in mind that we are
maintaining this financial economy
at the risk of human health and
happiness.
The problems of ways and means
we leave to our City Council. They
always manage to provide for the
community w’hat they feel it really
needs. Let each and every one of
us begin to talk for a food inspector
—agitate the question until our
united voices will swell into a de
mand so loud and insistent that we
cannot be denied. * * *
LET US CLEAN UP.
Editor Eagle:
Please allow me to second the
motion of “A Citizen” in last
week’s issue of the Eagle.
I do not know the author, but he
is along the right line.
Let all our people get together.
Let there be a sentiment —a deter
mination to clean up and make
Gainesville a place in which to live.
Let every lot—vacant or occupied
—every yard be made so clean as to
invite the most critical inspection.
External vigilance may not be the
price of Liberty, but it is the price
of Health.
Very respectively,
Another Citizen.
Won't be Comforted.
Editor Eagle:
Seems I condemn you and Mr.
Turner Quillian to the Legislature.
I find that it meets the want of the
people generally. They say the in
terests of the county can’t fall on
two better men. Why? Because
you are an up-to-date editor and
Mr. Quillian is an up-to-date farmer.
You have had the interests of the
county before you for twenty-five
years, and we think you are the
men we are looking for. Any
way, the man that wants to run
against you boys won’t get to sleep
any. So good luck to you both!
Jasper L. Pierce.
Detective Coker Refused New Trial.
The motion for a new trial for E*
A. Coker, an Atlanta detective, was
overruled this morning at a special
session of the Hall superior court by
Judge J. B. Jones, Coker’s attor
neys immediately rendering a bill
of exceptions and giving notice of
appeal to the court of appeals, Coker
giving bond of SIOO, Newport A.
Langford, chief of detectives of At
lanta, and T. N. Hanie, of this city,
signing the b.ond.
The Hall county grand jury at the
July term of last year issued an in
dictment against Coker, alleging
false imprisonment of H. H. Grigg,
a prominent produce merchant.
Coker came to Gainesville and ar
rested Grigg last April on a warrant
charging Grigg with having sworn
falsely to an account. Grigg was
carried to Atlanta and immediately
turned loose.
At the trial of Coker at the Janu
ary term of Hall superior court, the
defendant was fined SSO and costs.
His attorneys, W. D. Ellis and John
A. Boykin, of Atlanta, immediately
made motion for a new trial, the
date for hearing being set for today.
The state was represented by
Colonel B. P. Gaillard in the absence
of Solicitor McMillian, while Attor
neys W. D. Ellis and John A. Boy
kin, of Atlanta, represented the de
fendant.
A TEXAS WONDER.
The Texas Wonder cures kidney
and bladder troubles, removing
gravel, cures diabetes, weak and
’ame backs, rheumatism and all
irregularities of the kidneys and
bladder in both men and women.
Regulates bladder troubles in child,
reu. If not sold by your druggist,
will be sent by mail on receipt of SI.OO
One small bottle is two mQpihs treat
ment, and seldom fails ’to a
cure. Send for testimonals from this
and other states. Dr. E. W. Hall,
2926 Olive street, St Louis, Mo
Sold by druggist.
Arrows of Outrageous Fortune.
Rastus was sorely wounded, says
the popular Magazine. From his
face gore flowed in rivulets, and in
the outer covering of his substantial
head there were sundry gashes and
openings. He had been the victim
bMVtjtUssault.
The physician who treated him for
his wounds was sympathetic.
“Great heaven!” he said. “Some
body has beaten you in a terrific
manner. You must have been liit
at least nine or ten times.”
“Dat ain't no joke,” said Rastus,
who was still trembling. “I don’t
b'lieve 1 wuz aide to git outobdeway
ol>anything dat wuz throwe datthe.”
“Then you ought to learn a lesson
from it,” suggested the doctor.
“Hereafter you ought to stay far
away from people who indulge in
this sort of thing.”
“Dar ain't no chance,” Rastus ob
jected gloomily. “You know, boss,
I ain’t got de price of no divo’ee.”
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To Stop Miscenegation.
Washington, March 21.—“ We feel
that the District should be in line
with the general sentiment of the
states,” says the statement of the
house committee on the District of
Columbia, which today favorably
reported the Clark bill prohibiting
the intermarriage of whites and ne
groes in the District. The state
ment points out that many states
have laws on this subject.
JUDGING
Expert Advice on Hew tc Go Through
a Picture Gallery.
i should recommend you to go
rough a picture gailerj as one seek
ing the face of a friend m a crowd
and tu let yourselves be led on by
yo-.’.r sympathies ' it you admire the
work of a man. dud out all you can
about dim; see his work as much aa
you van, especially his beginnings.
tn our times a distinction ls made be
tween painting which is decorative
ami painting which is pictorial, wfiidh
is. 1 think, an unfortunate distinction,
and one whict&sbould not exist, for all
pictures should decorate the walls or
places on Which they are placed. That
this distinction should exist is peakaps
our own fault in forgetting as we do
sometimes that a picture should be
agreeable to the eye in its color and
masses—the good oid painters never
forgot that
it seems to me that taste In a pic
ture is something like natural good
manners in man, not depending on the
elements—the clothes—or rhe picture,
but on the temperament it displays
and the measure of its harmony with
our acknowledged standards, for a
mans picture reveals his outlook on
the world and is in that sense a part
of him. If’we choose a person for a
friend, we like him. let us say, to ba
simple and natural, reliable and with
our swagger. Whether be is rich or
poor, grave or gay. does not matter
so long as we can depend on him.
And it seems to me that a picture to
be in good taste must have analogous
qualities— that.lt should, like our ideal
friend, be in accord with the beat
standards. It should be in barmooy
with the best we know.—From "Royal
Academy Lectures on Painting.** Ry
George CSanaeo. R. A.. It W. 8.
MIGRATING BIRDS.
Shore Limo and River Valleys Metß
Them tn Their Plight
Experiences of aeroplane pilots wH>
air currents have given to a notefl
English naturalist an explanation for
the fact that some birds tn making
their annual migrations fly along coast
Ijnes and along river valleys .Judging
from aeroplane experience birds would
find it required less effort tv fly along
such routes. In the daytime water
cools the air on most days, and over
the water there is a downward current
of air, as Indicated by the noticeable
sinking of aeroplanes and balloons
crossing over a pond. At the same
time there is more or less of an up
ward current of air along the shore
• inc.
LT ward currents, of jjit greatly help
and many "kinds of birds are
known to take full advantage of them
So the naturalist sees an opportunity
fei birds to take advantage of upward
currents of air in migrating by day If
•L' ; follow the coast of a sea or the
I. of a river. The effect would be
most marked on the windward side of
rhe water, so that if the birds do not
ti> r.'.ong that side near the water they
. to Whether at night there is an
r:p- reliable upward current of afr over
water is not so clearly established, but
ho believes it is likely and so would be
ol advantage to birds if they wished
Ir. IF i
\ further explanation of Biieb routes
fa i! r the birds might learn them in
11. < migrations, for shore lines are
rhe easiest of all markings on the earth
for an aviator to see and follow, while
a still night the waves un the shore
can be beard high in the air, marking
the shore Una.—Saturday Evening Post
Raai Horelaaa. *^**' S * ,^t -
Te Ehre wall tn the qutet routine M
to fin a little space beeaupe God
vffls it; to go on cheerfully with a
patty round of of little duties, little
avocations; to smile for the Joys at i
others whan the heart is aching—who ,
does this, his works will follow hfan.
He may not be a hero to the world, bat i
he is one of God’s heroes.—Dean Ffer* I
rar. I
THE CITY’S NEW FENCE
ON MAIN STREET FINISHED.
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It Certainly Looks Good, Too—Old Trash and
Rubbish to be Removed from
City Lot.
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You know that old ramshackle
fence that we have been telling you
about down on Main street? Well it
is fixed—not fixed, but it has a new
fence entirely.
Ts that bullfrog, take's up its a,bode
in his pond this summer, he can’t
be seen from the street: neither can
pedestrians coming along the street
see the old broken-down vehicles,
wood, cast-iron, and other rubbish
that has long been familiar on this
lot, for here is why they can’t:
The fence in the first place hides
the lot from view, ami in the second
place, the stuff is going to be hauled
away.
Here is the proposition that our
live Mayor and Council have hit
upon to rid the lot of this stuff:
The old iron is going to be sold for
junk, and the wood is going to be
hauled out. ami given to the poor.
The city has many calls from the
needy for wood, and one of the
Councilmen tells us Unit on such
calls, instead of buying a load of
wood, the city him it right there and
will haul it from the city lot to sup
ply the call.
The Council ami Mayor are to be
congratulated upon this improve
ment. It was needed badly and
is duly appreciated by those passing
Main street.
Deafness Cannot be Cured
by local applications, as (hey cannot, reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There is
only one way to cure deafness, mid t lint, is
by constitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an inflamed condition of the mu
cous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling
sound or imperfect hearing, ami when it is
entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and
unless the inflammation can lie taken out
and this tube restored to its normal condi
tion, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out of ten are caused byCatarrh, which
is nothing but an inflamed condition of the
mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh)
that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
Send for circulars, free.
F. J. CHENY & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Take Hall’s Family Pills for constlpalon.
Rioter’s Daisy’s Eminent.
Fine Registered Jersey Bull for
service at J. W. W. Simmons’
stables. This is a full blood regis
tered Jersey Bull. Why raise scrub
stock when you can raise the best
just as cheap?
For Rent.
One good cottage; large garden
and orchard. W. B. Sloan.
For Sale or Rent.
5-room house on Simmons street;
one block from Green street car line.
R. Smith.
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Vails to Orwy
Hair to its T truthful Onlor.
' Prevents hair tilling.
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whatever kind of music you wish to hear, but furnisher
unequalcd music for dancing.
( Why not come in and hear the Victor-Victrola and find
out what splendid music it enables you to have at any time?
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Gainesville, Ga.
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The Humane Society.
The next meeting of the Humane
Society for Hall county will be held
sometime in April; due notice will
be given of the place and date.
PLANT NOW
Tomato Seed, Lettuce Seed, Radish, Etc.
Onion Sets 10c quart; cheaper with long sprouts.
Beans —1-2 pint, 10c; pint, 15c; quart, 25c.
Varieties: Stringless Green Pod.
Early Red Valentines.
German Wax.
Crystal Wax.
Tennessee Wonder.
Kentucky Wonder.
a
Blue Grass* Pound, 20c, or 6 pounds for SI.OO.
Ours is the best and purest Kentucky Seed.
Now is the time to sow.
George’s Drug Store,
Money to Loan.
We are prepared to negotiate Loans in any amount on
improved Farms in HallJCounty, on five years time, at low «
rates of interest* .<
HAM & THOMAS.
Rooms 8, 9. Granite Bldg. Phone 302
Bacon's Widow Voted $7,500.
Washington, D. C., March 19.
The senate voted today to pay to
the widow of Senator A. O. Bacon,
of Georgia, $7,500. a year's senatorial
salary. That is a senate custom at
the death of members.