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‘The Affairs of AnatoF Two Days To-day and To-morrow VOL. XXVIII. G. M. Districts and G. M. Officers In Barrow County. District Ne. 243, Houses. Court 2nd Tuesday in each month. A. I. Lyle, f. P., R. H. Kimball, N. P., J. W. Sims, |nd B B. Bradburry, constables. District No. 249, Bethlehem | Court |rd Saturday in each month. G. T. iWwards, J. P. J. T. Harrison, N. P., Bethlehem, Ga., Warren T. Thompson, Bethlehem, Ga., constable. District No. 1740, Auburn. Court 2d Saturday in each month. J. W. Clack, J. P.; J. O. Hawthorne, N. P.; Auburn, >Ga., W. H. Lorin, Auburn, Ga., consta ble. district No. 1741, Jones. Court 2nd Saturday in each month. W. C. Sorrels, J. P.; Erastus Perkins, N. P. I Winder, Ga„ J. W. Lackey, and It. It. Martin, Winder, constables. District No. 1742, Statham. Court 3rd Wednesday in each month. D. L. Hale, J. P.; T. J. Sikes, N. P.; Stat ham ; W. M. Stinchcomb, Statham, con stable. District No. 1743, Pentecost. Court ' Ist Saturday in each month. W. H. Greeson, J. P.; J. W. Doster, N. P; Winder, Ga., A. M. Haynie, Winder, constable. District No. 246, Chandlers. Court Ist Saturday in each mouth. R. W. Haynie, J. P; Tom Suddeth. N. P.; Winder; C. E. McDonald, Winder, con stable. District No. 316, Ben Smiths. Court 3rd Saturday in each month. N. D. Meadow, J. P.: W. J. Ethridge, N. P.: Carl, Ga.,; C. G. McDaniel and J. W. Elrod. Carl, Ga.. constables. District No. 1744, Cains. Court 4tli Saturday in each month. J. H. Parke. J. P.; T. A. Beaton, N. P.: Hoschton, Ga.; H. B. Fagin and J. M. Davis, Hoschton, Ga, constables. Good Health. If you would enjoy good health, keep your bowels regular. No one cjm rea sonably hope to feel well, when con stipated. When needed, take Cham berlain's Tablets. They are mild and gentle. STRANGE’S Sale Ready-to-Wear Here’s Your Chance Our sales have been far beyond our expectations, and now we are going to give our customers some real money. Come get yours. Read The Offerings: 1 lot Ladies’ Waist; Georgette and Crepe de Chine beaded and embroidered; worth up to (DJO QC* $4.75. Choice -------- 1 lot Dresses, Canton Crepe and Satin Canton; real up-to-the-minute garments. Come in black (fljOQ navy, beautiful, dresses; some worth up to $44.75. Choice - - - I O 1 lot Canton and Satin Dresses worth up to $34.75. Here’s where you find real Dollars. Choice $19.75 1 lot Satin Dresses; some beaded, some braided. Very pretty merchandise; worth up to (DJI O 'VC $24.75. Choice - - - - - - iJpIZ/./O . r ALL SUITS ONE-FOURTH OFF $25.00 Suits 25 Per Cent Off $18.75 $30.00 Suits 25 Per Cent Off $22.50 39.00 Suits fcfc Per Cent Off 29.81 49.75 Suits Per Cent Off 37.33 J. T. STRANGE COMPANY Department Store Che tDinfter AND THE BARROW TIMES Are City Officials Responsible To Its Citizens in Causing Disease From Preventable Causes An intelligent people must co-oper ate in the great work of eradication of disease, for the right to enjoy health is quite as sacred as that to possess property. Asa general proposition, our sanitary laws are very good but their administration still leaves much to be desired. To ignorance and carelessness must be attributed much of the causation ot disease in the centuries gone by. Out of the throes of suffering and death of the myriads who have preceded us we have obtained a certain enlight enments which, while not perfect, still makes it absurd to plead ignorance and lack of knowledge. The day is not far distant when it will be considered a crime for a city to continue to murder its citizens by furnishing them an impure water sup ply. Diseases which consign thou sands to the grave leave even worse results in their wake by passing on to the children a hopeless poverty, opening the gate to crime, prostitu tion and mendicancy. All the au thorities agree that contagions react on the moral fibre of a community or people, and contrariwise, where they live under healthful conditions great advancement in government, litera ture and science has been made. There is a moral obligation to be intelligent. Ignorance is a vice and when it results in injury to anyone it becomes a crime, moral, if not statutory. There is no excuse in this day for ignorance of any one in rela tion to the necessity for the purifica tion of all water supplies in cities where the death fate from water borne disease is higher than that in cities having perfectly satisfactory water. Responsibility is a word of tremen dous import. Its significance is akia to trust and these men who are re sponsible for and high minded in the conduct of human affairs realize their liability to be called to account when honored with leadership. There are men, however, upon whom responsibility rests lightly, per haps not wilfully but because of cir Winder, Barrow County, Georgia, Thursday, November 10, 1921. cnmstances beyond &eir control and in the management of their trusts they become indifferent to the only too common signs of inefficiency, which ultimately result in retrogression, if not disaster. The purpose of government is to protect Its citizens, and a government which fails to shield the people from, infection cannot be truthfully called either responsible, intelligent or moral. The greatest asset of any city or town is the health of the citizens, and the officials who secure this in the highest degree are those who ap preciate the responsibility placed upon them In iuis very important matter. Preventive measures in conserving the health of the community records success in direct ratio to the number of lives saved, and it is pleasing to note that the statistics of the last cen tury show an increase of fifteen years in the average human life. There is reason to hope that, in the future, this increase may be duplicated in a considerably shorter time, if earnest use is made of present day science. The plain fact is that not only does ignorance breed disease but the con verse is almost as true and that dis ease breeds ignorance, immorality and strife. In the light of the scien tific work at the present time, disease in its horrible wholesale form is con trollable if it cannot be entirely elim inated. This control or elimination is possible only when there is an awak ening of the sense of responsibility on the part of those who have been ele vated to the high places in govern ment. Short sighted humanity fails to appreciate nature's gifts until threat ened with their loss. This is true even of the greatest of them all, life itself. It is significant of our failure to value health. Now. Mr. Public Official, do you, a3 a city official, realize that you, person ally, are responsible for every death from a water borne disease, which occurs in your city unless you are consistently and persistently doln.j everything possible to prevent such death? * IS SOMETHING WRONG? Thlrty-Two Thousand Eight Hundred And Forty-Three Die. , / A recent study made by the Eureau of Vital Statistics of the Georgia State Board of Health of percentages of death In certain age periods has brought out the following interesting and astonishing facts: There were 82,843 deaths in Geor gia last year, 449 of these were deaths from typhoid and of these 18.8% were of children 1-9 years old. Malaria caused 559 deaths, the highest per cent in the series. 81.1% being in the 1-9 age group. Of the 863 deaths from whooping cough, 98.7% were in the 1-9 year group; of the 408 diphtheria deaths 95.4% were in this period; of the 2.643 deaths from tuberculosis, 3.2% were in the period; 1.6% of the 432 pellagra deaths occcurreJ in chil dren under nine years old; even the 1,252 deaths from cancer had a .6% incidence in this age group. The fig ures that show the most criminal neg ligence (since the simplest protection on the part of the parent would avoid most of them), are those showing that deaths from accidents give 15.9%, the highest percentage of all, to children from 1-9 years of age. Is something wrong? With the age period 1-9 represented by percentages, -—and high percentages, —of deaths un der every heading, the only conclusion that can be drawn is, that we are not considering our children the “nation's best asset” nor yet are we giving much consideration to the future, if the "hope of the future” is allowed to be sub ject to conditions so ruinous. There is something wrong; something wrong with the nation, state, county, city, community, school or home; something wrong with the child’s food, his clothes, his rest, or care. The Division of Child Hygiene, State Board of Health, will help you solve the problem of what you and your community can do for your child. Don’t forget the Foot Ball game to morrow (Frday) at 3:00 o’clock. Ad mission 50c. Don’t forget the Foot Ball game to morrow (Frday) at 3:00 o'clock. Ad mission 50c. BETHEL NEWS. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Ridgeway were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Har risou Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Lillie Bolton was the guest of her mother, Mrs. J. W. Adams Friday afternoon. Mrs. J. E. Adams was the guest of Mrs. T. W. Partee Friday afternoon. MesslrS.} Lucius Mcfrrls and Odell Starnes were the gviests of Mr. Willie Partee recently. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Adams and Mr. Ira Adams visited their grandfather, Mr. Milt Adams, of Oldfield, Sunday. We are sorry to report the illness of Mrs. G. W. Brown, and also Mrs. Joe W. C. JETT QUALITY ALWAYS BEST PRICES ALWAYS LESS The best EATS are always found here. \l\ pounds Sugar at.,. ~m . w SI.OO Fresh and Cured Meats and Groceries / W. C- JETT r Phone 55 The Affairs of Anatol* Two Days To-day and To-morrow Partin, who Is spending some tima with her daughter, Mrs. T. W. Partee, a very sick. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Edwards wer® the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ad ams Sunday. Mrs. Vista Gaddis, of County Lirie, spent Saturday night with her frfster, Mrs. G. W. Brown. The birthday dinuer given by Mis® Annie Brown Sunday in honor of her niuetechth birthday was enjoyed by Tanlac is made of roots, herbs and barks and contains no mineral# or opiates. Dr. G. W. DeLaPerriere & Sons. Atlanta Journal and Atlanta Con stitution local agency.—Herrin. No. 30