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FOURTH 07 JULY DEATHS
*■'- w ' COULD Bfe AVOIDED
Back in 1906 there were 104
deaths,in the United States flora
Fourth Of July tetanus, this figure
representing about the overage an
nual mortality. In 1914, as a result
of the institution of better prophy
lactic treatment by physicians and
the widespread agitation for a safe
and sane fourth, the number was re
duced to 3. A year ago the U. S.
Public Health Service expected and
predicted that every youngster-in the
United States wquld be safe from
this disease, bssing its estimate on
what had already been accomplished.
When the returns came in it was
found that a boy down in Maine had
been injured, developed tetanus and
died. That single fatality waa only
one among several hundred thousand
occurring in the United States dur
ing 1916 but it resulted from Fourth
of Jtily tetanus or lockjaw, a prevent
able disease, and was therefore un
necessary death. The loss of this
boy makes it necessary to again dis
seminate information regarding this
wholly avoidable infection.
The blank cartridge wound is the
great cause of Fourth of July teta
nus, but injuries from crackers and
firearms are at times responsible.
When driven into the tissues the
wodding carries with it innumerable
bacilli. If these be tetanus bacilli
the poisonous products or toxins re
sulting from their multiplication pro
duce the disease. Tetanus bacilli
only in the absence of oxygen. It
is for this reason that the physician
enlarges the wound of entrance and
after removing nil foreign material
dresses the injury in such a manner
' that development of the organisms
is inhibited. In order to accomplish
this it is usually necessary to admin
ister an anaesthetic. Antitetanic
serum is of great value as a prophy
lactic and it should invariably be
given in injuries of this character.
' Parents should realize that Fourth
of July tetanus is easy to prevent but
extremely difficult to cure, the dis
ease being attended with a mortality
of more than 96 per cent. No blank
cartridge wound is too trival to re
ceive careful medical attention.
However slight the injury may ap
pear summon a competent physician
who will at once administer the prop
er prophylactic measures. Reliance
upon home treatment may prove die
astrous and result in the needless
sacrifice of life
W. C. T. U. Column
By Mrs. K. J. Strozier
SCIENTIFIC TESTIMONY ON
BEER. .
The alarming growth of theuse of
beer among our people, and the
spreading delusion among many who
consider themselves temperate and
sober, that the encouragement of
beer drinking is an effective way of
promoting the came of temperance
and of aiding to stamp out the de
mon rum, impelled the Toledo Blade
to send a representative to a number
of the leading physicians of Toledo
to obtain their opinions as to the
real damage which indulgence in
malt liquors does the victim of that
form of intemperance.
Everyone is not only a gentleman
of the highest personal Character but
is a physician whose professional
abilities have been severely tested,
and received the. stamp of the high
est indorsement by the public and
their professional brethren. More
skilful physicians are not to be found
anywhere. We have not selected
those of known temperance princi
ples. What they say of beer is not
colored by any feeling for or against
temperance, but is the cold, bare ex
perience of men of science who
knows whereof they speak.
Dr. 3. H. Durgen, a practitioner
5 yearn, 28 in Toledo, says: “I think
beer kills quicker than any other 11
quor. attention \va3 first called to
its insiduous effects, when I began at."
ling for life insurance. I pa33- 1
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GROCERIES
Good
FresH
Pure
CHEAP
as caa be bought
anywhere fo»*
cash
R. R. Burke
Professional Cards.
F. E. WILLIAMS, M B.
Phyeioian and Surgeon.
VlKNMA, GA.
OSes over Walton Bros. Store
. slrtna. a. o. a. a. aoblay, a. a
BIVINS 4 MOBLEY,
PHYBIUIAMS AMD SOItflXONS.
.Oalla Promptly Answered.
VlKNMA, - • - GXOROIA.
L. L. WOODWARD,
Attoruoy-at-Law.
Vhnma, - - - Gkouoia.
V. 0. DAVK3
Physician and Surgeon
{Officein COOPER BUILDING
Oalla promptly annwerml
THE NITRATE PLANT
AT MUSCLE SHOALS
The establishment by the govern
ment of the mnch-talked-of nitrate
plant at muscle Shoals, on the Ten
nessee river, will mean more for the
entire south in an industrial way
than anything ever proposed for this
seftion.
The construction of this plant at
Muscle Shoals will not only supply
all of the nitrates that the govern
ment will need for the manufacture
of munitions of war, but it will also
generate 680,000 horsepower of hy
dro-electric current. This volume of
current would today run all of the
machinery in the south. In addition
to this it would automatically solve
the problem of the navigation of the
Tennessee river between the foot of
Muscle Shoals and Chattanooga, as
the erection of the great dam for the
purpose of generating hydro-electric
power to manufacture the nitrates
will at the same time make the Ten
nessee river practically navigable all
the year round to Knoxville.
Picture to yourselves, citizens of
the south, the hundreds of important
industries which would follow the i
tablishment of this great plant.
There would be huge electric fur
naces for the manufacture of the
finest grades of steel, establishments
for the production of aluminum from
the vast deposits of bauxite which
abound in the south, plants for the
production of ammonium phosphate,
where phosphate rock, brought from
the southern fields, will be combined
with the nitrates and convolved in
to that important ingredient of all j
commercial fertilizers, ammonium i
CHAS. S. QURR
Ininrauea
Office io'Vinuoa Nows
Bnilding
PHONE 181
DR. E. P. WHITEHEAD
DENTAL SURGEON
VIENNA, - GEORGIA
DR. T. E. BRADLEY
SPECIALIST '
Diseases of Eye, Ear, Nose and
Zb, Throat
Westbrook Bldg., Gordile, Ga.
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examining for life insurance. I pass
ed on unusually good risks five Ger
mans—young -business men—who
seemed in the best of health, and to
have superb constitution^. In a few
years I was amazed to see thewhole
five drop off, one after another, with
what ought to have been mild and
easily curable diseases. On compar
ing my experience with that of other
physicians I found they were all hav
ing similar luck with confirmed beer
drinkers, and my. practice since has
heaped confirmation on confirmation.
The first organ to be attacked is
.he kidneys; tho liver soon sympa
thizes, and then come3, most fre
quently, dropsy or Bright’s disease,
both certain to end fatally.
Dr. W. T. Ridenour: “I have no
ilcubt the rapid spread of Bright’s
disease is largely due to beer drink
ing. I havo always believed that
bayard Taylor fell a victim to the
German Beer that hepraisef so high-
He died of Bright's disease at
bO, when he should havo lived, with
Ms constitution, to a ripe old age. Ho
went just as beer drinkers are going
all tho time and everywhere.”
Dr. C. A. Kirkley: “I believe that
forty-nine out of fifty cases of chron
ic Bright's disease are directly pro
duced by it. I have never met with
a case in which the patient has not
been intemperate to a greater or less
degree. The proportion may be too
high, but that is certainly my exper
ience. Mr. Christian, a celebrated
author, states that three-fourths to
four-fifths of the coses met with in
Edinborough were in habitunl drunk
ards.'
Dr. S. S. Lungren, a leading home
opathic physician and surgeon, has
practiced in Toledo 25 years; “It is
Think of the profitable employ
ment which would be offered thous
ands of young men of the south, and
the capital which would bo brought
to this section.
But, most important and vita! of
all, think of the wonderful'y.produc
tive and profitable farms which
would result from the production of
high-grade cheap, commercial ferti
lizers for tho whole south. This is
infinitely the most important r.su't
which would accrue from the estab
lishment of this nitrate plant. Give
tho farmer cheap fertilizer?, increase
the production of his lands, and you
not only make the farmer rich and
independent, but at the sane time,
you build up cities and towns and
furnish life and substance for the
transportation companies.
Is 1 uch a plant then, worth tho
energy and effort required to secure
it Most emphatically, YUi! !ho lo-
caticn of such a plant in the south
is worth every effort that the peo
ple of this section can bring to bear
upon those in authority to induce
them to choose the Muscle ulioals lo-
tutii n.
ATLANTA BANK ISSUES
BOOKLET ON U. S. FLAG
Atlanta, Ga.,—In keeping with the
nation-wide patriotic movement
more American flags are being dis
played over public and office build
ings, hotels, clubs and honjes, than
ever before. Not content with all
this, ways and means have been
found to keep Old Glory flying
twenty-four hours a day and to have
... —...— — , — — it illuminated at night Atlanta
difficult to find any part of the con- j started its decorations on flag day,
firmed beer drinker's machinery that
is doing its work as it should. This
is why their life cords snap off like
glass rods when disease or accident
gives them a littlcblow. Beer drink
ing shortens life. .This is not a mere
opinion; it is a well settled recogniz
ed fact Physicians and insurance
companies accept this as unquestion
ably as any other undisputed fact of
science.
Toledo is essentially, a beer drink
ing city. The German population
is very large. Five of the largest
breweries in the country sre here..
Frobsbly more beer is drunk, in pro
portion to the population, than in any
city in the United States. The prac
tice of these physicians is, therefore,
largely among, beer drinkers, and
they have had nbnndaat opportuni
ties to know exactly its bearings on
health and disease.
Every one bears testimony that no
man can drink beer safely, that it is
an injury to any one who uses it in
any quantity, and that its effect on
the general.health of the country has
been even worse than that of whis
key. The indictment they with one
j accord present against beer drinking
| is simply terrible.
j The devilfish crushing a man in his
j long winding arms, and sucking his
| Mood from his mangled body, is not
| sr frightful an assailant as this dead-
: ly but insidious enemy, which fastens
! itself upon its victim, and daily be-
! comes more and more the wretched
i man’s monster, and finally drags him
j ;o his grave at a time when other
; men are in their prime of mental
;.rd bodily vigor.
June 14th and have kept it up for I
weeks, putting on many extra touch-
on the Glorious Fourth.
So impressed was the Fourth Na
tional Bank of Atlanta with the pa
triotism shown for the flag, that the
bank issued a beautiful booklet on
the American Flag, giving its full
history from the time it was official
ly adopted by congress on June 14th,
1777. The frontispiece contains a
picture of Betsy Ross House, in Phil
adelphia, the birthplace of the Amer
ican flag. \
Every school boy knows the story
of how a committee appointed by
congress, of Which Washington was
a member, called on Mrs. Betsy
Ross, the widow of John Ross, on ex
pert needlewman who conducted an
upholatry business at her home, and
arranged with her to make the flag.
“A design was shown her,” as the
Fourth National bank booklet points
out,” and she suggested that Wash
ington redraw it, which bedid. You
remember how she also suggested
that the stars should be five pointed,
and, taking a piece of paper, she
folded it deftly, and with a cut of the
scissors, showed how readily these
five-pointed stars could be made.
The booklet concludes with a copy
of tht Star Spangled Banner, which
from custom and common consent is
the national anthem.
He who builds up health lays up
trearure in'the Bank of Nature.
The U. S. Public Health Service
found 78 per cent of the rural homes
in a certain county unprovided with
sanitary conveniences of any kind.
Cholera is spread in thasame man.
ncr os typhoid fever-
Better wages make better health.
Better health makes better clti-
Have Manufacturing
Costs Advanced
Since 1880?
1916 Freight Service
At 1880. Rates
Every business man, whether manufacturer or merchant, knows that the cost of
every manufactured article has advanced ticmendously since 1880. The manufacturer
has, therefore, been forced to advance his price to the merchant, and the merchant to
advance his price to the consumer—in proportion to the increased cost of manufactur
ing—or else go into bankruptcy and close up shop.
The Railroads of Georgia are engaged exclusively in the manufacture 1 and' sale
of freight and passenger transportation. The transportation is manufactured out of
steel, and iron, and coal, and lumber, and crossties, and brick, and stone,, and con
crete, and human brawn and br^in.
The setting price of this manufactured article — transportation—was. arbitrarily-
fixed and promulgated in the year 1880 by the then newly organized Railroad Com
mission of the State of Georgia. The Railroads of Georgia are today operating, under
rates ACTUALLY MUCH LOWER than the rates fixed by the Commission! in. 1880.
THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A REVISION OF RATES UPWARD SINCE. 1:880..
Has there been an advance in the cost of raw materials which enter into- the-
manufacture of transportation—steel, iron, lumber, crossties, brick, stone,, concrete;.
LABOR?
There has! Below we present a table of 25 necessary articles Hr daffy use by
every railroad in Georgia, showing prices actually paid during the months of August,
1914, January, 1916, and March, 1916, and a fourth column showing the- percentage
of increase in prices actually paid by the Railroads of Georgia. The average increased;
cost of the 25 articles of daily use is 77.71 per cent, and much of it is paid, to, Georgia;
producers of the articles.
HERE ARE THE ARTICLES AND FIGURES IN DETAIL:
25 ARTICLES IN DAILY USE
August
1914.
ANOLE BARS, per 100 lbs., f. o. b. mill 4 1.50
FROGS, spring rail, 85-lb. No. 10
BOLTS, track, per 100 lbs
SPIKES, track, per 100 lbs [*’.
BAR IRON, per 100 lbs
BOILER TUBES, per ft., 11 gauge 2-In. O. D..
PLATES, boiler and tank, 12 ga., per 100 lbs..
COPPER, electrolytic (bearings, etc.) per lb..
FHEETS, galvanized, per 100 lbs
PIPE, black iron, 1%-In., per ft
IRON, pig No. 2, per ton 10.92
SHEETS, black, No. 2 Ga., per 100 lbs 1.85
TIN—PIG, straights, per 100 lbs 35.03
SPELTER, per 100 lbs 8.76
WASTE COTTON, per lb .052
COKE, foundry, per ton.. 2.33
STEEL BILLETS, per 100 lbs. 2.07
LUMBER, car sills 20.40
42.30
2.00
1.48
1.22
.07%
1.33
.12%
2.80
.046
January
1916.
$ 1.83%
46.62
2.47 ,
2.29
'1.95
.10%
2.98
.26
4.8
ANTIMONY, per lb.
TIRES, mill, 100 lbs •
SPRINGS, locomotive, per 100 lbs. .
SPRINGS, freight cars, per 100 lbs.
NAILS, wire, per 100 lb3
CROSSTIES, pine, each.
.08%
3.90
3.03
1.70
1.67
.35
.055
14.83
3.26
44.50
23.00
.069
3.50
2.65
25.00
.45%
4.33%
3.84%
Marchi
1916.
* 2.16%
48.42.
3.25
2.3T
2.25
.10%
3.25
.28
4.96
.06
15.00
3.56
48.42
25.33
.07%
3.59
2,16
BILLETS, forgings 25.00
2.38
.40
55.00
26.66
.45%
4.33%
3.84%
2.16
2.57
.40
55.00
PcL.
Increase
Mch. 16.
Over
Aug. 14.
44.45 Pc.
14.66 Pc.
63.63 Pc.
61.88 Pc.
85.64 Pc.
39.86 Pc.
146.76 Pc.
128.57 Pc.
77.68 Pc.
29.87 Pc.
35.88 Pc.
92.21 Pc.
37.80 Pc.
246.86 Pc.
38.68 Pc.
53.70 Pc.
33.17 Pc.
36.14 Pc.
424.17 Pc.
11.00 Pc.
24.87 Pc.
26.81 Pc.
54.00 Pc.
14.29 Pc.
120.00 Pc.
AVERAGE PERCENT OP INCREASE IN PRICE OP 25 ARTICLES, 77.71 Pc.
IMPORTANT NOTE:—In compiling the above figures, the percent Increase in March
1010, over August, 1014, the percent of increase to each railroad was totaled and the amount
divided by tho number of railroad* ulTcctcd. The figures in tho last column above are, there
fore, not based on tho figures shown in the first and third columns above, owing to outstand
ing contract* by many of tho railroads.
There has not been any decrease in the price of any article, consequently the
above increases has not been offset, but are NET.
Previous to the establishment of the 1880 freight tariff the Railroads' of Georgia
paid state taxes ONLY, the Constitutional Tax of five mills. The Railroads of Georgia
nntu now p!tv <*niintv A M n ctllu ll'/nc UrKlAk te n l.atvi anri/Mir I1..1
now pay city, county AND state taxes, which is a tremendous increase in taxes. But
shall f ' " '
TOWN IS BUILT ON POTASH
Thriving Community Grows Up Be-
caui. of Discovery of Almost
Pure Article.
we shall have more to say concerning taxes at a later date.
The above table does not take into consideration the greatest advance in the cost
of manufacturing transportation—and the most important one—LABOR. We shall pre
sent indisputable facts ahd figures concerning this important matter at a later date.
The people of Georgia expect and are entitled to transportation. It is a FUN
DAMENTAL BUSINESS NECESSITY. The service MUST be supplied. FAIR com
pensation should be paid for that service. Such payment is good business morals and
will enable the railroads to render GOOD service, to which the people are entitled.
A DECLARATION OF POLICY.
It is not and will not be the policy of the Railroads of Geor
gia to propose any system of rates which would unjustly discrim
inate against the Georgia producer in favor of producers located
without the state. Should this principle appear to be violated by
any technical construction of our petition we give assurance that
we will not propose, nor will we attempt to adopt, in actual
practice, any rates at variance with the same.
Intrastate rates should and must be made to conform to interstate rates. The re
vision of Georgia freight rates now proposed simply conforms to the principles fol
lowed by the Interstate Commerce Commission in its long and short haul order, issued
in compliance with Federal Law. No unjust discrimination of any character whatso
ever is contemplated, nor would such discrimination be tolerated.
The Railroads of Georgia
Holland, Neb., from a little railroad
aiding a year ago, with two or three
care standing on the track, has grown
until it has been placed on the railroad
map aa a full-fledged town, shipping
oat thirty ears a day. Hoffiand prom-
toes to grow still moro, tho Omaha
World-Herald lays.
It is all on account of potash and its
by-products. The fields at Hoffiand are
tho only ones in the United States
where the elmoet pure article Is
found. In Utah and southern Califor
nia, where the mineral la taken from
kelp bed,, the coat of reducing the
pore potash from the vegetable matter
makes tho marketable product expen
sive.
Hero it found an nhnost pure article
that neceeeltatea nothing hut pumping,
boiling end drying, when it is ready for
the reflnery, where It brings the here
tofore unknown price of f500 a ton. A
Chicago packing company •hat con
tracted for the town’e entire output for
five years.
Coffins, Caskets and Burial Rotes
We have a large assortment" to
select from and courteous and
careful attention will be given all
who need our services.
J. P. Heard & Sons Co.
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