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KIURSDAY. FEBRUARY 10, 1021.
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and prevent com
plications take
The purified and refined
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Medicinal virtues retain
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Million Packets Of
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We believe In flowers around the
homes of the South. Flowers brighten
up the home surroundings and give
pleasure and satisfaction to those who
have them.
Wo have filled more than a million
packets of seeds, of beautiful yet
easily grown flowers to be given to
our customers this spring for the
beautifying of their homes.
Wouldn’t you liko to have five
packets of beautiful flowerß free?
YOU CAN GET THEM! Hastings'
1921 catalog is a lIG-page handsomely
Illustrated seed book with twenty
beautiful pages showing the finest va
rieties in their true natural colors.
It is full of helpful garden, flower and
farm Information that Is needed In
every home, anil, too, the catalog tells
you how to gqt these flower seeds ab
solutely froe.
Write for our 1921 catalog now. It
is the finest, most valuable and beau
tiful Bead book ever published, and
you will be mighty glad you’ve got it.
There is no obligation to buy any
thing. Just ask for the catalog. H.
G. HABTINGS CO., SEEDSMEN, AT
LANTA, GA.
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Judge’s Bright Idea.
Ossip was attomptlng to walk along
the Rtreet on his hands. A polloernnn
trrefited him. not agreeing that the
irorld hnd turned upside down. "How
imeh did you drinkV asked the Judge.
•Just one glass of wine.” "Well," re
marked the Judge, “It must have been
i magnifying glass."
Selfishness Welt Defined.
■ How narrow the survey of selfish
ness ! It Is like looking at a land
eooiie through the end of a tube, which
shows It only as a spot. It Is like be
ing on a mountain top with so stiff a
neck that you cannot turn your head
to see any part of the vast round of
vlslod except that which is Just be
fore your eyes.—A. &i. O. A.
Reading When Drowsy.
To read or stlid.v when tired or
drowsy Is to strain the eye to a dan
■erous degree, writes W. M. C’arharl
ju Public Health. Avoid evening study
whenever possible. If you are using
your eyes by artificial light oe sure the
Jlght does not shlue directly Into the
and try to have It come from be
id and to the left side so as to avoid
’ harmful glure.
I
life as Man’s Discipline.
‘tV-Ayhttad children are a kind of dls-
I *ipllne*of bmnajiity, and single men,
► ough they may be many times more
naritable, because their means are
3Ss exhausted, yet on the other side,
hey are more cruel and hard-hearted,
ecause their tenderness ts Dot so often
'ca^^^ipon. —From "The Essays of
M^^Hoacon.”
ALARMING INCREASE
IN FIREARM HOMICIDES
Bureau of Vital Statistics
f State Board of Health
If you will man a passenger train
of six coaches with a full crew and
fill every seat, permitting seventeen
to stand on the platforms and In the
aisles, you will have the homicide spe
cial of Georgia. Such a train may be
named and filled with those murdered
during the first nine months of 1920.
The State has a record of 384 homi
cides during that period, not includ
ing the infants murdered, either in
tentionally or through carelessness,
and burled without a death certificate
being filed and a bural permit being
secured, as is required by the state
statute.
The four rear coaches must be re
served for those murdered by fire
arms, for in addition to the 240 seats
29 will be found in the aisles, 48 wo
men, 221 men, a total of 269 persons
murdered by such weapons during the
first nine months of 1920. Asa mo
tive power for this special train, you
might imagine a huge pistol, since
that weapon was used in more than
\ ALL OTHEB METHODS J 1
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SUICIDES
M per cent of the cases to usher the
Individual into eternity.
The report of a suicide causes a
shudder to pass over the community,
the murder of a prominent citizen
arouses the anger of ail who know
him, hut the feeling that spreads like
a pall over the neighborhood when the
life of some innocent child
out by a pistol which was “not load
ed”' is beyond description.
Such conditions aro local and in re
ality receive little consideration, for
the morning after the burial the com
munity, excepting the home which has
been robbed, assumes a normal Inter
est in business affairs and nothing is
done to prevent the repetition of such
tragedies.
Each person unthoughtedly asks
himself the question, “What is one
death in three million people?” and
answer it, “Nothing,” and drives ahead
with his personal affairs. Tins senti
ment will change when it is realized
that in nine months, 1,532 persons in
Georgia lost their lives from some cause
other than disease. Of this number,
NEWS NOTES.
Pre-Natal Work For Georgia.
Dr. John Osborn Polak, in an ad
dress before the clinical section o'
the American College of Surgeons, re
cently quoted the following facts:
68% of all the deaths occurring li
women from 15 to 41 years are dm
to conditions connected with chile
bearing. 25% of all blindnes ii
the United Stutcs is due to infectloi
of the child at the time of birth. Om
woman out of 280 dies in childbirth
In Georgia as many as 15 to li
deaths caused by puerpural septicemic
are reported each month. These fact)
nr<f appalling. Proper prenatal care be
fore birth and proper care at time ol
the birth of the child would eliminate
these conditions. In a prenatal clink
conducted by Dr. Polak and his asso
elates at the Long Island College Hos
pital the percentage of still births
were reduced from 11% to 2%, unc
the maternal deaths from 1 In 2SO tc
1 In 1.250. Pacts like those provs
the value to the community of pre
natal work and show the absolute ne
cessity of such work for Georgia. As
yet. very little has been done, bul
plans are under way to supply tin
doctors and midwives with the propei
prophylactic medication against opthal
mia neonatorium (babies' sore eyes)
this medication to be obtained eithei
free or at a minimum cost. Also under
advisement are a series of lessons tc
midwives and methods for organizing
prenatal clinics. It is hoped that ever
at the beginning, the fight against
these conditions will be successful
Those interested in getting further
Information along this line should
write to the Division of Child Hygi
ene, State Board of Health, Atlanta
Georgia,
A statement has recently been mad{
that of all our federal tax 93% ol
It has gone to war expeditors.
If the United States Public Health
Service and on down through the lint
of public health work could get thR
amount of money for a short while
we feel quite sure that 20 years could
be added to the average life of oui
people.
Which expenditure would you pre
fer, the one designed to kill off the
people or one to prolong life? It ii
your money; why don't you say some
thing?
87 were suicides, 1,061 accidental
deaths, and 384 were homicides, show
ing a proportion of one suicide to 4
homicides and 17 accidental deaths.
All these deaths are said to be pre
ventable, yet suicides are ascribed
to conditions over which apparently
nothing less than the Almighty has
control. All accidental deaths can
not be prevented so long as floods and
storms are no better understood than
at present. All homicides will never
be stopped so long as a man’s nature
partakes of the human. But the condi
tions leading to and the Instruments
used In producing such deaths may
be taken from the people and In this
way the number reduced.
Of the 26,253 deaths recorded by the
State Bureau of Vital Statistics dur
ing the first three quarters of 1920, one
out of every 16 was due to some cause
other than disease, one in 23 due to
some accident, one in 65 was a homi
cide, and one in 290 a suicide. This
waste of human life is realized when
it is remembered that in every 100,000
people in Georgia there were 4 sui-
cides, that 17 are murdered, and that
48 meet an accidental death during the,
year.
State statutes and city ordinances
have been enacted controlling the au
tomobile on the streets and public
highways but the utter disregard for
such laws, both by the drivers of au
tomobiles and by officials whose duty
it Is to enforce them, Is shown plain
ly by the rapid Increase in the num
ber of deaths due to automobile acci
dents. This increase has kept pace
with the increase in the number of
deaths due to the careless handling of
firearms. July, August and September
of this year shows 42 deaths due to the
careless handling of firearms as com
pared with only 79 during the previous
six months, an increase of 34 per cent
every six months and at the present
rate of Increase, unless some check is
placed on such criminal carelessness,
there will be approximately 325 deaths
in 1921 from this cause.
The wave of crime sweeping over
this nation has at last reached Geor
those produced by firearms, those by
FREE FOR THE ASKING.
The State Board of Health issues
pamphlets at intervals and they art
free. If you are at all interested and
will drop a postal card to Georgia
State Board of Health, 131 Capito
Square, Atlanta, the literature will be
sent you by return mail. At presen'
you can get “Keeping Fit” for
“Outdoing the Ostrich,” for 1
eral public, “On Guard” f
“Man Power" for men, “G-
Book,” “The School Chil e
ucation in the Home” lor parents
“Sanitary Closets for Rural Homes;
and Schools,” “Diet Lists for Childrei !
from Infancy to Six Years of Age, ]
Score Cards for Children, literature or i
various phases of health work ii;
schools, Malaria—Lessons on Its Cause,
and Prevention.
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WRITE FOR INFORMATION.
The Division of Child Hygiene o!
the State Board of Health has as it:
object, (1) proper prenatal care of tin
child, (2) proper post partem cars
of the mother and child, (3) registra
tion ot the child’s birth, (4) propei
care of the infant and pre-school ag<
child, (5) a physical examination an(
follow-up work for every school child
in Georgia. Every organization inter
ested in helping to accomplish these
ends will receive advice, literature and
personal aid by addressing the State
Board of Health, Atlanta, Ga.
CHILDREN’S HEALTH CENTERS.
There are 16 children’s health cen
ters running in Georgia. The moth
ers bring their children to these cen
fera once a week or once every tw<
weeks for examination (the first tirm
they appear), and for general inspec
tion and weighing at the subsequen
visits. The doctor in charge has i
conference with each mother as ti
the physical condition of her childrei
and gives her advice as to feeding
time for sleeping, etc., and if necessary
refers the child to the family physi
clan or to a specialist. Much good is
done at these centers and the probabil
tty is that their number will be at leasi
three times as great before the much
dreaded (from the infant health stand
point), summer months come. Write
the State Board of Health for fnfor
at ion on children’s health centers.
te WINDER NEW"
gia at full tide. Unfortunately a great
deal of attention is given to petty
crimes, theft of property and the prac
tice of fraud in securing possession
of another’s goods. Less attention is
paid to the capital crime, murder.
While a few judges have seen fit
to charge the grand Juries with special
reference to the Investigation of
homicides, the standard of court efflc
ency in many cases seems to reach
no deeper into crime than the prose
cution of the bootlegger, gambler or
thief. In an effort to safeguard the
rights of the criminal, the rights of
the people to live are ignored; in an ef
fort to give the criminal the benefit of
the doubt, the security of life for the
citizen is made more doubtful. Pleas
of self-defense and that the murdered
person “had his hand on his pistol
poccket” have safely guided many a
cold-blooded assassin from the gallows
into the privileges of the complete lib
erty to commit the same crime the
second time.
Homicides a,re classified under three
titles, according to the method used,
HOMIC IDE 3
cutting and piercing instruments and
those produced by all other methods,
and even with this restricted classifi
cation more than 77 per cent of all
homicides are ascribed to one cause—
firearms.
And in place of the 165 homicides com
mitted by the use of firearms during
the first half of 1920, at the present
rate of increase, 204 will be recorded
during the last half, a total of 370 foi
the entire year. And the records ol
1921, to the chagrin of the law abid
ing citizens and to the everlasting dis
grace to the criminal courts of Geor
gia, will carry a record of 592 homi
cides, due to the use of firearms.
To the Homicide Special of Georgia,
composed of six coaches during the
first half of 1920, must be added foui
additional cars so as to accommodate
this increase. Eight carloads of peo
pie ushered Into eternity by the use ol
firearms, a sufficiently large numbei
to attract the attention not only of ev
ery peace officer in the state but alsc
of the incoming Legislature.
diphtheria antitoxin.
Not so very many years ago th
mention of the disease of diphtheria
struck terror into the hearts of both
parents and physicians. Twenty-five
years ago from 35 to 75 per cent oi
diphtheria cases were fatal. The
death rate during the past
; . in the larger cities varied
om five to fifteen per cent. This
jnarvelous decrease in death rate is
undoutbedly due to DIPHTHERIA
ANTITOXIN.
The Bureau of Vital Statistics has
found that during the past six years
for every death due to diphtheria
there were three deaths due to typhoid
fever, two deaths due to malaria, twe
deaths due to measles, two deaths
due to whooping cough, twelve deaths
due to tuberculosis, seven deaths dus
to infantile diarrhoea and two deaths
due to dysentery. So there is no rea
son to become panic-stricken over a
case of diphtheria, provided the pa
tient is under the care of an intelii
gent physician who knows ju3t wher
and how to use diphtheria antitoxin
Perhaps you know that the Stats
Board of Health furnishes antitoxir
at a very low cost to the people ol
Georgia. It is furnished free of chargs
to anyone who is unable to pay for it
In other words, any person who is
unable to pay for medical services is
entitled to free antitoxin. There is
very little red tape necessary to ob
tain it. The physician attending th<
ease is usually in a position to know
the financial circumstances of his pa
tient and all the State Board o!
Health asks is that its patrons be
honest in declaring their status.
In 1920 It cost the State of Geor
gia about $7,000 to render this service
to her people. 28,960,000 units of anti
toxin were distributed. This repre
sents a total cost of $17,476 which ths
public would have had to pay without
the aid of the State Board of Heatlh
This does not take into account the
number of lives, saved by rendering
antitoxin easily available to the pub
lie. The distribution of diphtheria
antitoxin is only one,of many services
equally important rendered the pub
lie by the State Board of Health.
'Why Not?
“Her color rose,” the story says.
Why not, wed like to know? Every
thing else tv nt tip in price. Why
shouldn’t rouge, also?—Boston Tran
script.
CITY CAFE CPEN FOR
BUSINESS
We wish to announce the opening of
our cafe at the cor. Candler & Jack
son streets, where we are ready to %
serve the public in a most satisfacto
ry manner.
The interior of building has been
thoroughly renovated and remodel
ed and everything is clean and san
itary.
A WARM WELCOME AWAITS
YOU. Everything priced reasonable.
SHORT ORDERS A SPECIALTY
CITY CAFE
JOB T. WILLIAMS—P. W. WILLIAMS
Proprietors
CASH STORE
Some prices that will appeal to your
Pocketbook:
Best full Cream Cheese 32c
3 cans Best Tomatoes 25c
Van Camp’s Pork & Beans 3 for 40c
Sweet Potatoes by the can 20c
Early June Peas, per can 24c
Rex Beans, per can 14c
Libby’s Grat. Pineapple 1J lb can 34c
Dime size Carnation Milk, can . . 8c
Largre size Carnation Milk, can 19c
Hominy, 2 lb cans 18c
Sauer Kraut, 2 lb cans 18c
Fresh River Herring* Salmon . . . 10c
Best Red Alaska Salmon, can . .15c
2 pound canned apples 20c
Calumet Baking: Powders, can .28c
Any 10c Baking: Powder, can. ... 8c
White Peas, per pound 6c
California Peaches ,per pound. 28c
Dried Apples, per pound 18c
Nice Cabbage, per pound 4 k
Irish Potatoes, per pound 4c
Pilot Knob Coffee, 4 lb. bucket $1.15
Ophir Coffee, 3 lb. bucket .... $1.25
1 lb. can Maxwell House colfee 4Gc
1 lb. Arno Colfee 40c
All 30c plug: tobacco 25c
All 10c size snuff, 3 for 25c
30c bottle snuff . . : 25c
20c Oat Meal, 2 for 25c
Grits per package h lb., 2 for 25c
5 gallons kerosene oil 1,15
BEST G RAN UI AT ED SUGAR, 12
POUNDS FOR SI,OO
Best gfrade Peaberry coffee, lb. 22
Best Blueridg*e coffee, 7 lbs for SI.OO
Good Cuba Molasses, gallon SI.OO
Best Patent Flour, per Bbl. . . $11.75
Snowdrift Lard, Blb bucket $1.65
Snow White Lard, Blb bucket $1.60
Pure Leaf Lard, 10 lb bucket $1.98
Nice White Fish, 2 lbs 25c
These are a few of our prices. Ev
erything in proportion. Come to see
us and let us supply your needs in
Groceries.
JOHN H. BAIRD
In Old Opera House on Broad St.
Clerk of Court’s Old Stand.
SUBSCRIPTION: $1.50 A YEAR
It may seem funny, to some people,
but to the horse
Cat it appears liraj the folks !u Hot
Springs that have a license to be stuck
up don’t use it. —Arkansas Thomas
Cat. *