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'k/ G 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.” —... • 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. ♦ It Certainly Looks Good, Too—Old Trash and Rubbish to be Removed from City Lot. ~ 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. Mi TIM t-AIIILLII 11 llßiftgfM HAIR BALSAM IMalßCMCltcaet bd4 bMOOfIM th. h«t* • Inxtmaal growth. Vails to Orwy Hair to its T truthful Onlor. ' Prevents hair tilling. aoe.nndft.wntßMgtre. : r? Victor-Victrola - 'l6X9* . r .//£? ifc- ■• 1’ ’ , I .1 • • ;.’ . ; I '' • ' - I L : , ■ ■ - —.-. - ■» ’■“'' The great home entertainer *i *-*•. There’s nothing you could wish for in the wav of music . and entertainment that isn’t at your command with a i Victor-Victrola in your home. { It is the ideal entertainer for just one person, or for the family circle, or for a group of friends. It not onlv plays 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? ►- Victor \ r ictrolas Si sto <?oo. Victors $lO to SIOO. Ferms to \ suit your convenience, it desired. PILGRIM-ESTES FURNITURE CO. Gainesville, Ga. ROYAL BAKING POWDER ABSOLUTELY PURE Insurer the most delicious and healthful food By the use of Royal Baking Powder a great many more articles of food may be readily made at home, all healthful, de licious, and economical, adding much variety and attractiveness to the menu. The“ Royal Baker and Pastry Cook,** containing five hundred practical receipts for all kinds of baking and cookery, free. Address Royal Baking Powder Co., New York. 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.