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PROTECT YOUR
DRINKING WATER
Wells and springs in rural districts
or in small towns are a menace to
health unless carefully protected from
sources of pollution—particularly that
from human sources. Such contamina
tion, carrying in the actual germs of
disease, may produce sickness in a
whole family or even a community,
where water for many persons is ob
tained from a contaminated well or
spring.
The diseases usually carried by wa
ter are those of the type of typhoid
fever and dysentery and diarrheal
troubles. Some rarer diseases may be
spread through water but this is more
unusual. The danger from water
borne diseases generally arises from
the entrance of sewage or drainage
from around privies and similar places.
This contaminated water flows intc
the well or into the ground near a well
or spring and hence into the water it
self. Sewage or polluted surface wa
ter contains millions of germs and,
very often, dangerous ones. These
germs when taken into the human
body through drinking water produce
serious diseases.
In order to protect wells, all surface
wash water must be excluded. This
may be done by making the upper
walls and top entirely water tight and,
so far as possible, preventing water
standing around the well. A leaking
top will allow filth from the feet to
wash Into the well when water spills
from the bucket.
A curb should be brought up above
the surface of the ground and a tight
cover, preferably of concrete, should
be constructed. If possible a pump
should be used. Under these condi
tions no surface wash water or water
spilled, washes back Into the well. All
closets, barn-yards and stables should
be moved or located not nearer than
100 to 200 feet from a well and pre
ferably upon ground draining away
from the water supply.
In some cases, highly contaminated
water or sewage enters the ground
and flows through underground fis
'eures (cracks and caverns) until it
contaminates the ground waters, even
at considerable distances. Any well
or spring in the neighborhood may
then be affected and made dangerous.
While some kinds of soil purify the
waters passing through, such purifi
cation cannot be relied on. The State
Board of Health has found that about
75 to 80 per cent of shallow or dug
wells furnish water more or less im
pure. If the right conditions arise
such wells will actually become infect
ed, that is they will contain living dis
ease germs, which will produce sick
ness. Ordinary cleaning of a well
under these circumstances, will pro
duce no improvement in the water for
It does not reach the source of the
trouble.
Protect the water in every possible
way from human and animal filth if
you wish to avoid the common water
borne diseases.
Below is the closing paragraph of
the government pamphlet “Keeping
Fit,” prepared for boys, designated
as C in our list of books for free die
tribution to boys of over 14 years
We will be glad to mail it on request:
Relationships With Girls.
Think of all girls as the future
mothers of the race, and understand
that one of their most important func
tions in life is to become the mothers
of healthy children who will make use
ful citizens, a nation as well as a
man may well be Judged by its atti
tude toward women.
The man who is fair will treat every
girl as he expects others to treat his
own sister. There is no finer thing
than the friendship of a true girl and
a true man.
Tbe man who seeks wine and loose
women is taking a big chance. Far
from being etrong, he is weak. The
man who does so, needlessly exposes
to danger the body and mind which
he has pledged to his country’s serv
ice. He is disloyal to the cause.
In an accident at sea, when every
one is anxious to reach the lifeboats,
4*he rule for all men is, ‘'women and
children first.” If a man rushes in
ahead of them, he is looked upon as
a coward. It is even more import
ant for men to protect girls and wom
en from other dangers, especially from
those dangers which threaten to ruin
their lives. We are fighting to pre
serve our homes from autocracy and
rapine. Let us see to it they are pro
tected also from internal enemies of
disease and disgrace. If we are ready
to die to protect our homes, we should
surely live in such a way as to safe
guard them.
Every mH.n who h&s flny principle
belfeves in fair play. He despises
cheating. If you are for the "square
deal.” you will adopt for your own life
the same standard you expect of the
woman you are to marry some day.
The chain of human beings reaches
into the infinite past and forward into
the infinite future. But one false step
may infect your own racial stock and
blight the lives of feenerations to
come, or even cut you off entirely
from your share of posterity. If a
man keeps his body in good condition
and lives a clean life his descendants
wtil thank him for a vigorous and un
tainted heritage. The spark of life
Is to be accepted as a sacred trust
to be transmitted undimmed to future
generat ions. —Georgia State Board ot
Health.
THE PARENT’S PART
You were shocked to hear that the
number of deaths resulting from the
influenza epidemic in 1918 was great
er than the total losses among the
American troops during the war. Is
it any less a shock to know that the
Army lost more days of service on
account of venereal diseases than
from any other disease? One hundred
and ninety-seven thousand such cases
W’ere reported in the army camps dur
ing the 15 months ending November,
1918. This meant a loss of approxi
mately two and one-half million train
ing days. Is it any wonder that the
Surgeon General of the Army stated
that if it were possible to rid his
meif either of all wounds or of all
venereal diseases he would rather rid
them of the venereal cases?
But venereal disease is not, pri
marily, a military problem or a war
time epidemic. Estimates show that
one man contracted the disease after
entering the service to every five be
fore entering it. This means that the
source of disease is in civilian com
munities —your communities. The
draft, with its examination of the na
tion’s men, resulted in digging un
derneath the sod of every-day life and
showing that out of sight in your
town, in your State, there is going on
yearly an untold waste of manhood,
womanhood and childhood by the rav
ages of these diseases.
Being highly contagious, they have
entered homes and marriage relations.
Women and children, not knowing the
cause, have suffered from them for
generations. Innocent young wives,
previously healthy, have been mutilat
ed by necessary surgical operations,
some have been made invalids, many
have remained childless, and others
have lost life itself. Babies have been
born dead or defective, others have
become blind a few hours after birth.
This is in addition to the thousands
of men who, thinking they were cured
by patent remedies, have been visit
ed years later by sterility, paralysis
and insanity.
Preventable Diseases
Nor is this terrible waste of health
and life inevitable. Syphilis and
gonorrhoea must be classed as pre
ventable contagious diseases. We
know and can identify through the
microscope the germs which cause
them. We know and can locate many
of the personal carriers. Exposure
to them can be practically minimized
to the vanishing point if we elimi
nate the entirely unnecessary and
harmful contacts of irregular sexual
intercourse. After the success of the
army camps in prevention by suppres
sion of prostitution, education, recre
ation and early treatment, we have
an exact method of attack upon them.
This is the first page from our pam
phlet, “Parents’ Part,” known as
Dinour Catalog of Pamphlets. If in
terested as a parent write for it.
Women And Children First
When the life-boats are to be low
ered and filled with distressed people,
endeavoring to save their lives, it is
“women and children first.” No man
should offer to take their place. So
it should alwaye be, whether under ac
cident or not. Just plain, every day
life should be “women and children
first,” with every warm-blooded gen
tleman, and it is most generally 50,
we are happy to state, but sometimes
due consideration is not given them
Especially is this true in the amount
of work done for them by adequate
appropriation of our towns, cities and
state for work along the lines of pre
ventable diseases. In Georgia the ap
propriation for work of the State Board
of Health has always been pitifully
small. If the work to be done is ac
complished, the legislature will neces
sarily have to be more liberal with
your Board of Health.
Did you know that at the end oi
the first year, of all babies born, 11%
are dead, at the end of five years 16%
are dead, at 20 years l/sth have pass
ed away, and at 30 years almost one
fourtn of the total number born have
died. Of the babies who die under
one year of age, 25% of them died oi
diarrhoea. Of all deaths that occur
in women who are over 15 years old,
35% of them are between the ages oi
15 and 24 years, and 42% of them
go between 25 and 44 years. 65%
of all the abdominal operations done
on women are due to Infection of gon
orrhoea. 90% of all babies' sore eyes
or babies born blind are due to the
same cause. 75% of childless mar
riages are due to the effects of this
disease. It is estimated that 50%
of insanity is due to syphilis. It ie es
timated that 85% of all children born
of parents infected with these dis
eases are either born dead, die very
young, or are feeble-minded, blind or
affected for life.
The above in a large measure are
preventable, and the deaths should not
occur. The loes. the suffering, the
pain, the death is borne by women
and babies.
To the men who are in power we
cry “Women and Children First. Let
us awake to the realization of the fact
that in a large measure health is pur
chasable. and that hard-cold-cash will
save thousands of our people, especial
ly women and children.
There need never be a darling baby
die from diarrhoea, it is a preventable
disease. There need never be a young
mother taken to the operating room
for the result of the “social disease”
go-called. There need never be a baby
at our academy for the Blind because
"Born Blind” or "Babies’ Sore
Eyes.” Why all tbe deaths, the sor
row and anguish from preventable
causes!
"Women and Children First!”
Are You Interested?
In the protection of your family?
In the preservation of your own
health?
In the health and prosperity of your
community?
Did any of your family, neighbors
or friends have typhoid fever or dys
entery during the year 1918? Did any
one in whom you were especially in
terested lose their life on account
of some preventable condition?
Do you think your community is
doing what it should in the way of
preventing disease for the upbuilding
of the physical strength of those who
reside in your neighborhood?
Do you know that more than 50%
of all sickness is preventable and
that on the average, death comes 15
to 20 year earlier than it is due? .
Did ydu ever stop to think and
pray over this most serious affair?
An individual who happens to be a
business man. will adopt all kinds of
preventive measures when it comes
to preserving the life or health of
a herd of hogs or cattle. Does anti
cholera serum really prevent hog chol
era? Does “dipping" really and truly
prevent tick fever? These questions
are scarcely being asked by even
those who are most ignorant upon the
subject, and yet when it comes to a
proposition of investing a few pennies
m the protection of the health and
lives of those whom we should pro
tect with every drop of red American
blood in us, we are inclined to do one
or three things: Say we doubt wheth
er these so-called measures of pre
vention really prevent, or that we
think sickness is a result of or pun
ishment for sin, or that disease is a
matter of “happen so.”
The answer to the doubting
Thomas was given above, and the
same Thomas who does not believe
in protecting his baby, who has no
one except its parents to look to for
protection, will certainly dip his ticky
bull yearling because it makes him
grow.
' The man who thinks that sickness
comes as a result of sin is almost
correct, and it’s a great pity he does
not go a step further and learn what
this sin is. If vve should go into his
kitchen, his back yard or to his old
surface closet, I don’t think there
would be any question about the na
ture of the sin. It’s simply a result
of the sin of living In and actually
eating filth. Venereal diseases are
the result of filth and social sins.
“Happen so.” ..Nothing ever does
this. There is always a cause for
every effect. If you have typhoid
fever this summer, it certainly will
not be a “hapen so.” It will be due
to the fact that you have actually eat
en some filth —human filth. You have
failed to build you a sanitary closet,
or you have failed to be. yaccinated
Helps |
Sick
Women
Cardui, the woman’s
tonic, helped Mrs. Wil
liam Eversole, of Hazel
Patch, Ky. Read what
she writes: “I had a
general breaking-down
of my health. I was in
bed for weeks, unable to
get up. I had such a
weakness and dizziness,
... and the pains were
eery severe. A friend
told me 1 had tried every
*ung else, why not
Cardui ? ... 1 did, and
soon saw it was helping
me ... Alter 12 bottles,
I am strong and well.”
TAKE
CARDUI
The Woman’s Tonic
Do you feel weak, diz
zy, worn-out? Is your
lack of good health caused
from any of the com
plaints so common to
women? Then why not
give Cardui a trial? It
should surely do for you
what it has done for so
many thousands of other
women who suffered —it
should help you back to
health.
Ask some lady friend
who has taken Cardui.
She will tell you how it
helped her. Try Cardui.
AD Druggists
in
against this dreadful malady or you
Lave failed in both.
By all means take advantage of
these various protective measures.
The Georgia State Board of Health
will furnish you the vaccine and the
plan for your closet free of charge
and it also stands ready to help you
put into operation of the "EUis
Health Law” in your county if it is
not already in operation there.
Each individual in your county needs
to be awakened to the great import
ance of protecting their physical
strength. Every precaution should
be taken to prevent the spread of
disease. Real systematic health
work is a real asset to any commun
ity. It pays handsome dividends in
dollars. ts> Every family and each
member of the family, however, must
invest if each expect to be a stock
holder in this corporation. Each
must give a little time alid thought
to the proposition of health preser
vation. it is necessary to comply
with the advice of the directors
(Board of Health) and support the
president of this corporation (the
Healtli Officer).
Think it over carefuly and pray
erfully and let the State Board of
Health know what you expect do
in and for your community.—Georgia
State Board of Health.
Your Two Hundred
And Fifty Thousand
The institutional care of those in
fected with venereal disease in Geor
gia is costing the taxpayers of our
state over a quarter of a million dol
lars per year for the institutional
maintenance alone, not counting the
loss of man power and the investment
that we have in the plant.
How is that, Mr. Honest Home
Owner?
You are now paying for the sow
ing of wild oats of the poor unfor
tunates.
To Editor:
We are delighted at the response
our matter received at your hands.
We have received many clippings
from papers in every part of the state.
The war has brought us hard up
against a most serious problem.
With over 300,000 of our people in
fected, with our insane asylum run
ning over and the blind academy with
many children suffering from the ef
fects of these diseases, with an ex
pense of a quarter of a million dol
lars, it is time for false modesty and
prudery to step aside and let the
light of truth come in. The people
must realize the conditions that ex
ist. You can do your bit by giving
them’ the knowledge you have and
they will appreciate it. We thauk you.
JOE P. BOWDOIN.
Frightful Dream.
Tillie CUngcr says the renson she
5 quitting her present boarding house
•S because she dreamed last night she
,vds married to a cannibal, and when
she waked up a horrid little bug was
;ating on her. —Dalla? News.
1
Still Good.
“No men can act with effect who do
do not act in concert; no men <•—n net
in concert who not act \.;di confi
dence; no men cun act with uatidence
who are not bound together by com
mon opinions, common affe-tioas and
common interests.” —Burke.
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 rooting up the plants and de
stroying them. If the poison Ivy is In
large fields It may he necessary to
plow and cultivate the land. Ivy on
large trees, stone walls and buildings
ran he killed by arsenate of soda, at
the rate of two pounds to ten gallons
of water. Two or three applications
r suffi/’ione
Special Notice
Good i things come in small packages
Cj UAI.ITV. not quantity, counts. The difference
between the size of our Bevo bottle and the beer
QSJ bottle used by others is two ounces— one swallow.
This slight difference in quantity is their only
I 11? m talking point.
!j Many copied our bottle, others tried to imitate
fpl mm ;A our label and name, but none have succeeded in
producing the quality of
Hji 1 1 Bevo is classified by the U. S.
1 * ;l I I Government as a soft drink.
LLJ| ANHEUSER-BUSCH
WILL THRASH THIS SEASON.
We desire to let our old custo
mers know that we'will run our
thrashing machine this season,
and will be glad to do your thrash
mg for you again.
We Are Coming !
HILL, HOLLOWAY & SMITH..
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
aul 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
Is the Smile Worth While!
The Smile that ‘‘Won’t come off”—
There was a time when he didn’t smile,
When he drove his motor car:
For the engine knocked and thumped and backed
And gave him a terrible “jar”—
It’s different now, when he takes the wheel,
And starts for his daily spin;
He uses “GREEN FLAG” to lubricate.
And his car runs as smooth as a pin.
There are two great essential* in lubrication.
First, the quality of the OIL, and second, the correct
grads or “bodv” for your particular car.
The “GREEN FLAG” MOTOR OIL supplies
these two great essentials. It is the highest quality
Motor Oil, and is made in varying grades of consis
tency to meet the requirements of your particular
motor. Your dealer has a chart that guides you to
selection.
The quality of “GREEN FLAG” is all the guide
you need as to a CHOICE of motor oil. Keep it in
your mind, always, that you can not exercise too
much care in the selection of a motor oil; the correct
grade; and never try to run your car without a full
supply in the lubrication box. Then you’ll keep smil
ing like the man in the picture.
The following well-known and reliable dealers are
exclusive agents for “GREEN FLAG” MOTOR OIL
in this county. They guarantee “GREEN FLAG”.
It wfll pay you to go out of your way to buy “GREEN
FLAG” MOTOR OIU-
Woodruff Hardware Cos.
CHILDREN S DAY.
On next Sunday, June Htli,
Children’s Day will he at the
Wesleyan Methodist Clumdi.
Everybody invited to bring lunch
and stay all day.