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Feeble-Mindedness Reliable statistics show that at least four out of every thou sand of the population of the United iStates are feebie-ruinded persons. This Is a condition not due to the lack of opportunity for proper training and ■education, but is the result of abnor gnal brain changes, which are either congenital in origin or due to injury and disease, at birth or in early in fancy. In at least two-thirds of instances, feeble-mindedness is due to bad her edity, poor family stock, defective ■germ plasm that carries on the taint from generation to generation. As an illustration of this hereditary condi tion, the famous Kallikok family is typical. Martin Kallikok, a soldier of the American Revolution, was father to an illegitimate child, born to a feeble minded girl. The descendants of this feeble-minded girl, traced to the sixth generation, number nearly 500 pau pers, prostitutes, criminals and degen erates, who have cost their state al ready one and one-half million dollars, and the end is not yet in sight. Among this class of people, the birth and death rate is found to he several times as high as among persons of normal development. The offspring of this group complicate the problems of the Juvenile Courts —the child-plac ing agencies—and children's institu tions and later become inmates of almshouses, jails, reformatories and prisons. The cost to the state for caring for this class of people, and protecting society from their delinquencies, is enormous. Feeble-Mindedness as Seen in the Court. Twenty five per cent to forty per cent of all repeated offenders in courts and prisons are feeble-minded persons. In order to see just how difficult a prob lem these individuals presented to the courts, an investigation was made of 10 feeble-minded persons by Dr. V. V. Anderson, in the Municipal Courts of Boston. The majority of these individuals began school at the usual age, had am pie opportunities for common school ed ucation, and left school at the age of 14, 15 and 16 years, but 73 per cent never got further than the fifth grade and showed, by the poor character of their school work, their inability to profit by the training society required lor its future citizens. Recognized as failures in school, these unfortunates were set adrift in early adolescence to earn a livelihood, but careful investigation showed that 75 per cent had never in their lives been self-supporting. Now, that same lack of capacity to learn, that same Inability to profit by mistakes—demon strated so forcibly in their failure to advance in school, and later to earn a livelihood —agaiu crops out in their inability to measure up to the moral standard of the community. This particular group of 100 feeble minded persons were arrested 1,825 times. The futility of employing measures intended for those capable of profiting by experience, is shown by the apparent inability of these persons to profit by what is done for them, and by the unfailing certainty with which they return to the courts to lx* handled over again. The court placed these persons on probation 432 times, but they had to be surrendered to the courts or placed within institutions, non penal in character, in almost every instance. The actual statistical results show ed that the chances were better than four to one against any one of these individuals being able to complete his probationary period without being re firrested. The court in addition gave 735 sentences, in fixed time, 106 years imprisonment, and in indeterminate sentences 250 years, but none of these measures have sufficed or will ever suffice to permanently change the course of their careers, f Finally as an explanation of all this social maladjustment, failure in school, inability to earn a living, and failure to conform to the standards of conduct of the community, or profit by the usual court and several meas ures given, we find that all of these individuals wore mental children, and had the mental level of the average American child of eleven years or under. Seventy-five per cent had the mental ity of the average American child of ten years or under. It is plain from the above, that we have been considering the conduct of a group of mental children, who In at tempting to compete on equal terms -with adults, were held to the ivspon sibility for behavior and were dealt •with by measures, designed for per sons able to profit by experience. Think of the economic waste that could have been saved, had society properly recognized, at a time when prevention was possible, the real prob lem presented by these individuals. Relationship of Feeble Mindedness to Other Conditions In Court. Studies in the same court of chronic alcoholics (the old rounders) show that 37 per cent were found fee ble-minded —7 per cent insane—and 7 per cent epileptic. Studies among drug-users showed 28' j per cent were feeble-minded. A group of 100 immoral girls were taken and examined just as they came into court. They belonged to the mild er type, rather than the old offender, for 81 per cent were either first or sec ond arrests. Of these 100 girls, 49 per cent had the mental level of the average Amer ican child of 12 years or under. For ty nine per cent, or nearly every other girl, was suffering from a serious ab normal mental condition; feeble-mind edness ranking highest, 30 per cent. Syphilis and gonorrhoea were found present in 61 pr cent of these cases. It was found that there was a high correlation between the frequency of offense, and the mental condition of these girls, for 39 per cent of first of fenders, 47.2 per cent of second of fenders and 84.2 per cent of recidivist (repeated offenders) were suffering from serious abnormal mental condi tions. The Commission for the Feeble- Minded has the following articles for distribution: “Facts About Feeble-Mindedness.” "Tlie Durden of Feeble-Mindedness.” "What Is Practicable in the Way of Prevention of Mental Defect.” “Feeble-Mindedness and the Law from the Medical Viewpoint.” When They Come Home Your whole community will be at the station “wdien the boys come inarching home.” You are planning to honor these men with parades and celebrations of all kinds. Are you mak ing sure that the profiteers of vice are not planning to take advantage of the days of festivity to dishonor them be fore they get settled again in the nor mal ways of life? When men and girls are changing their occupations and ways of life, says a pamphlet issued by the Treasury Department, when war disciplines are being removed and wiien spirts are buoyant, the greatest temptations to self-indulgence and dangerous pleas ures occur. Cities and towns through out the country face now the most important crisis—the biggest emerg ency yet encountered in the fight against venereal diseases. What the War Has Taught Us “Our ignorance and failure in hand ling the problems of veneral diseases constitute the greatest crime of Ameri can civilization. This is the clearest lesson of the war." This was the con clusion of a medical officer in charge of the physical examinations of drafted men as they were admitted to one of our great army camps. He had been a physician in civil life, but not until he had seen with his own eyes the hundreds of diseased young soldiers as they filed by his examining table did he realize the extreme seriousness of the venereal problem. Hefore the war, physicians and pub lic health officers knew that gonorrhea was every year causing thousands of cases of blindness among infants, countless surgical operations on wo men, and sterility in both men and women; that syphilis was being trans mitted to offspring, causing physical and mental defectives, that it was a prolific cause of locomotor ataxia, paralysis, paresis or softening of the brain, insanity, miscarriages, diseases of the heart, blood vessels and other vital organs. Rut people generally did not know these things and few medical measures were taken. The war opened our eyes. Venereal Diseases a Peace Problem The examinations of drafted men sho-wed that five men came into the army with venereal disease for every one who contracted it after he was in the army. And the one w T ho con tracted it in the army, probably, was infected in a civil community outside of military control. Venereal disease is, therefore, not a military problem or war epidemic; it is a civilian problem and a peace problem, taken over by military authorities for the period of the war only where civil communities had failed in their duty. The draft and physical examinations of men merely resulted in digging underneath the sod of our civil life and showing that out of sight in every man's town, in every man's state there has been going on yearly a waste of manhood, womanhood and childhood by the rav ages of these preventable diseases; diseases whose causes we know, whose germs we can see and identify through the microscope; diseases which we can locate in an individual; diseases which are transmitted in the course of a business which has no possible constructive use or value, by carriers who have to advertise and can be easily detected. Your Responsibility Now the returning soldiers, who have been given intelligent protection and wholesome recreation, are to be turned back to the civil communities. The federal government must, of ne cessity. in the next few months, give up its wartime control. These men are your responsibility now. Some of these men are in your lodge, vour employ, your union, your church, your neighborhood, some are your own sons. To protect these men from vice means also the protection of the girls of your community from tempta tion and disgrace and the saving of future wives from disease and suffer ing. Your community must organize a S the military authorities did to make and keep your home town as easy a place in which to live clean as the army. Is your community accepting Us re construction task? The Georgia State Board of Health Is ready to assist all who make applica tion in this great work by supplying pamphlets and delivering lectures. They are making all laboratory tests for the physicians of the state when requested and furnish free of charge the expensive drug arspbenamive for the treatment of syphilis. STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. Extra Session Needed 7 Pass Good Road Law UNDER PROPOBED BILL THE AUTO OWNER WILL PAY THE WHOLE COST OF IMPROVED HIGHWAYS, TO COST $40,000,000 HOW IT WORKS OUT. Atlanta, Ga , January.—The demand for an extra session of the Georgia Legislature to be held this spring if possible appears to be spreading over the state, to judge from the expres sions of opinion in the Georgia press and the letters being sent to the capi tol. The people of the state are be ginning to realize that only through a special session, called to consider the subject of good roads legislation alone, can a bill be passed without danger of being lost in the hurry of the closing days of a regular session. All over Georgia the farmers and other citizens are awakening to the fact that delay is costing them money, and they readily realize that the ex pense of an extra session is small be side the cost of a lost year’s time be fore beginning actual road work. The farmer, too, is beginning to under stand that under the proposed good road system,. improved permanent roads will not cost him one cent, un less he happens to own an automobile. The automobile owner will pay the whole bill, without raising taxes or making any other public charge. All the official organizations which have been in conference to recommend a good roads law to be passed by the Legislature, have agreed to the prin cipal points to be included in the bill. Briefly, they are: To reorganize the state highway de partment so I*. will meet the require ments of the federal government and permit Georgia to use the $1,300,000 in the federal treasury as hei share of the government good roads fund. To increase automobile license fees to an average of S2O based on horse power of the car. To amend the state constitution to permit appropriating money for build ing and mainlining roads, and to is sue state bonds for these roads. To designate a system of state roads running from county seat to county line, and to fairly distribute the funds among the counties. To permit joint inter-county bond issues. It is proposed, under the law, to is sue, after the people have voted on it, a bond issue of $40,000,000. This money is to be spent at once on a great system of highways, mostly for paving the highways already graded throughout the state —the principal roads. The revenue from the inc* %ed au tomobile license fees, evji An the present number of cars in Georgia, will more than pay the interest and BUY A BUSH CAR. Four Cylinder,37V2 horse power motor for $1175. Six Cylinder, 40-horse power, 5-passenger, $1375. For designs and description call on Fred J. Fuller, or write the Bush Company, Bush Temple, North Clark stret, and Chicago Ave., Chicago, 111. Just say I am in the market for an automobile and wish designs and prices. My territory is unlimited. A 90 days guarantee against defects and workmanship. FRED J. FULLER, Agent. Bethlehem, Georgia. STUFFED UP WITH “A BAD COLD?” Get btwy with a bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery at once Coughs, colds and bronchia! attacks they are all likely to result in danger ous aftermaths unless chocked in time. And how effectively and quickly Dr. King’s New Discovery helps to do the checking work! Inflamed, irritated membranes are soothed, the mucous phlegm loosened freely, and quiet, restful sleep follows. _ All druggists have it. Sold since 1869 Constipation Emacipation No more lazy bowels, yellow com plextion, sick headache, indigestion, embarassing breath, when you use as a corrective Dr. King’s New Life Pills. They systematize the system and keep he world looking cheerful. WHEN YOU SUFFER FROM RHEUMATISM Almost any man will tell you that Sloan’s Liniment means relief For practically every man has used it who has suffered from rheumatic aches, soreness of muscles, stiffness of joints, tiie results of weather exposure. Women, too, by the hundreds of thousands, use it for relieving neuritis, lame backs, neuralgia, sick headache. Clean, refreshing, soothing, economical, quickly effective. Say “Sloan’s Lini ment” to your druggist. Got it today. Sloan's Liniment Kills Pain retire these bonds in twenty years, making any other tax unnecessary. The automobile owner is glad to pay the increased fee to get good roads, for they will save him five times the cost in tires alone, to say nothing of wear and tear on the car. Manufac turers agree that good roads will save at least SIOO per car each year. The saving in gasoline is remarkable. The roads to be constructed under this system provide for two highways from each county seat to the county line. Counties with two represents fives will have four such roads. It is anticipated that the present roads, already graded, will be used in most cases. But the roads to be improved will be designated by the state high way commission, upon recommenda tion by the highway engineer. The population, the traffic, and other fac tors, are to be considered. Under this bill, the country counties get all the best of the deal. For in stance, Tift county would be given four roads from Tifton to the county line, connecting with others there. There would be 36 miles of this road, costing $15,000 a mile, or $540,000. Tift county has perhaps 500 automo biles, which would pay a tax of $lO,- 000 a year. But Fulton county, with its many thousands of automobiles, would be awarded only a few miles of road, because the county, outside the city limits, is very small, and the mileage insignificant. Fulton’s license fees will pave roads for a dozen or two counties. But the Atlanta auto ists do not mind that, for they want good roads to tour over, and they want tourists to come to Atlanta. By the passage of the highway bill, the government appropriation becomes available for use, and the money from the increased auto fees can be used this year, even before the state bond issue amendment is passed. A year’s time paved will be of vast importance, especially as there soon will be thou sands of returned soldiers looking for work, and it must be provided in some way. But there are inquiries from fanners living off the main highways as what benefit they will derive from the im proved roads. The answer is this: The state road system will relieve the counties of having to keep up the main roads, which absorb most of the county money now. They can put this county money into the smaller and less important roads leading into the main highways. In a few years there will be a hard highway past every fanner’s gate. CALOMEL DIMES A SLUGGISH LIVED Crashes into sour bile, making you sick and you lose a day’s work. Calomel salivates! It’s mercury. Calomel acts like dynamite on a sluggish liver. When calomel comes into contact with sour bile it crashes into it, causing cramping and nausea. If you feel bilious, headachj, con stipated and all knocked out. go to your druggist and get a bottle of Dodson’s Liver Tone for a ‘ew cents, which is a harmless vegetable sub stitute for dangerous calomel. Take a spoonful and if :t doesn’t start your liver and straighten you up better and quicker than nasty calomel and without making you sick, you just go back and get your money. If you take calomel today you'll be sick and nauseated tomorrow; be sides, it may salivate you, while if you take Dodson’s Liver Tone you will wake up feeling great, full of ambition and ready for work or play. It is harmless, pleasant and safe to give to children; they like it. True and False Freedom. There are two freedoms —the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ougL t. —Charles Kings ley. Drink Buttermilk Freely. The use of buttermilk Is largely a matter of habit. Southern cities con sume nlmost as much buttermilk as sweet milk. The difficulty of keeping milk sweet has been largely responsi ble for the popularity of buttermilk as * beverage. The At the —' PR|CE YOU YOU WANT %CLOTHINojy WANT TO BUY w TO PAY. WHEM we recommend “SHIELD BRAND” as the most satisfactory and economical suits your money can buy, we are safe in appealing to your confidence in us, because the maker’s guarantee is behind every garment. Pick out the suit you like. Try it on. Notice the make and fit. The price is right. You must be pleased. * You will be pleased, J. M. BROOKSHER & SONS Eliminating Poison ivy. The cheapest and most effective method of eliminating poison ivy, ac cording to experts of the United States department of agriculture, is the sim ple one of rootiug up the plants and de stroying them. If the poison ivy is in large fields it may be necessarj to plow and cultivate the land. Ivy on large trees, stone walls and buildings can be killed by arsenate of soda, at the rate of two pounds to ten gallons of water. Two or three applications are sufficient TORNADO INSURANCE Your neighbor’s home burned only a few days or months ago, and a cyclone is likely to strike this section at any time, so INSURE with US anl lie down at night with a clear conscience and a peaceful mind. Don’t DELAY. It may mean the loss of your home. Any man can build a home once. A WISE man insures his property in a reliable insurance company so that when calamity comes he can build again. He owes the protection that it gives, to ihs peace of mind and the care of his loved ones. Kilgore, Radford& Smith Announcement Bedingfield GARAGE I have opened a Garage buiness on Athens street in the building loimerlv oc cupied by J. R. Jones, Jr., near Woodruff Foundry. You will find me there at any time during work hours. If you want a good job and prompt attention, bring your work to me. Special attention given to Chevro lets. I am equipped to do your work right, and will appreciate your patronage. Bedingfield GARAGE Athens St. Winder, Ga. TAX NOTICE. Third and Last Round. Those who have not made their •etunis will please meet me at the ilaces that 1 have advertised and nake your returns for the books will close May the Ist. I trust that every tax payer in Barrow ‘ounty will return their proper- ty. Chandler’s Court Ground, April 14, from 9 to 11 a. in. Johnson School house, April 14, from 12 to 2 p. m. j Ook Grove School house, Aprir 14, from 3 to 5 p. m. Miles Hunter Gin House, April 15. from 9 to 11 a. m. Statham, April 15, from 12 to 4 p. m. Wright’s Store, April 15, from 5 to 6 p. m. Bethlehem, April Is, from 9 to 12 a. m. Chancy’s Store, April 18, from 1 to 3 p. m. Maddox School, April 18, from 4 to G p. m. i>. I). Jone’s Store, April 21, from 9 to 11 a. m. 11. T. Vincent’s Store, April 21, from 12 to 1 p. m. Carl, April 22, from 9 to 12 a. m. Auburn, April 22, from 1 to 4 p. m. Thompson’s Mill, April 23, from 9 to 10 a. m. Cain’s Court Ground April 23, from 11 to 12 a. m. County Line, April 23, from 1 to 3 p. m. Mulberry, April 23, from 4 to 5 p. m. Will be at the court house eve •y Saturday. J. A. STILL. Tax Receiver of Barrow Count^j Tons of Maple Sugar. The output of maple sugar in the Vovinee of Quebec is about 14.300.000 ounds per annum.