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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.