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YOU AND YOUR
CHILD ARE
IN DANGER
BE ADVISED
KNOW THE TRUTH.
You often wonder if such and suoh
statement you read in the paper is
true. If it is possible for things to
happen. If they are as bad as they
are said to be. This may he. and is
likely so in some instances, but yes
terday we had two cases reported to
us are true, and woefully pitiful.
A family of father, wife and four
children. The oldest child had a
small sore to develop on his lip. He
was 11 years old, and a fine fellow.
He was given treatment for several
days, but the sore did not heal, and
the family physician was not satisfied.
He called for one of our experts who
examined the child, and without hes
itation diagnosed the disease as Syph
ilis. A specimen of his blood was
taken and examined for the germs,
and they were found, as the Labora
tory says. 4 plus. This father was
called to the office and he was ques
tioned, fiis blood was examined and
found negative. He was questioned
about hie wife. He had no reason to
think she could have the disease. She
came down the npxt day and gave a
B|>ecimen of blood for examination,
and it was found negative also. The
remaining children were also exam
ined, and each one was found with
Syphilis. This was awful —terrible,
yet here was the fact. The cases were
only found because the family physi
cian had the liberality necessary to
|his having the good sense to call an
expert. In time the sore would have
gotten well, and the child would have
more thaa likely had the smoldering
fires of Syphilitic infection for years
to come.
Later the germs would have en
trenched themselves in one or more
of the vital organs and the fire that
was hidden would have burst forth
with no power on earth to quench it.
That is the way with this enemy after
the first symptoms subside and you
think you are well. You go crazy, be
come a paralytic, you have chronic
liver trouble or your kidneys are in
volved and you die.
While all this is true, It is easy to
cure if taken in time. It can be cured
for we have authentic cases that have
contracted it for the third time.
We have gotten away from out
story. How did these four innocent
children get this disease? We do not
know. There are many ways they
may have picked it up. Kissing, eat
ing and drinking after someone who
has it, using the same things that
have been handled by one who is what
doctors term in the “active stage."
We have a case that occurred in
-school children reported by reliable
men, in which the infection was traced
to a fruit dealer. It was his habit to
spit on his apples to polish them,
afterwards rubbing them with a cloth
He was an active Syphilitic, and the
germs were carried in the sputum.
It pays to be advised. It pays tc
know the truth. We are ready to
help you by advice and making labo
ratory tests for you.
• ‘Another sad case has just been re
ported to us. A sweet, beautiful well
nourished fine baby developed sore
eyes. They grew worse and worse
A fight was on for the eyesight, night
and day. every hour, every moment
the baby was in the hands of the
nurse and doctor. It was hard to tell
whether it could ever see again. It
was gonorheal sore eyes. Where did
it get the germ? The family was
nbove suspicion, the mother and fa
ther had nothing. They, however,
trusted their baby to a negro girl as
nurse. She had gonorrhoea and with
her finger, accidentally conveyed the
germs too her charge.
It pays to be advised. It payJ to
know the truth. It pays. It pays. St.
John says: “You shall know the truth
and the truth shall make you free."
JUST A FEW LEFT.
The campaign for the suppression of
prostitution, which is essential to the
eradication of venereal disease, has
been so successful that only five seg
regated districts have been left in the
United States Public Health Service.
Twenty-nine States in which red
light districts flourished have perma
nently closed houses of prostitution in
over 130 cities. In most of the States
not included in this list tbeie were
no houses of prostitution or "official"
red light districts. To reopen these
or any red light district should be
classed as a disloyal act.
In fact it is disloyal to the govern
ment and the innocent women and
children of our country. "They snail
not open,” should be the slogan.
The States which have practically
suppressed open prostitution are:
Alabama. Arizona. Arkansas, Califor
nia, Colorado. Florida. Georgia. Ken
tucky. Louisiana. Massachusetts. Mich
igan. Mississippi. Montana. Nevada.
New Jersey, New North Car
olina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania.
Rhode Island. South Carolina. South
Dakota. Tennessee. Texas, Virginia,
.Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming.
SHOWS THE NEED.
The need of free clinics for treat
ment of venereal diseases in the
smaller citiee was conclusively dem
one* rated with the opening of the one
1b Virginia, this month.
Following a brief educational cam
paign of lectures and the distribution
of pamphlets 82 person* made applica
tion for treatment.
ANOTHER WEAK
LINK DYSENTERY
The alarmingly high percentage of
unfitness among young men of mili
!ary age in the South Atlantic and
Cult States may serve as u n index to
the same relatively high percentage of
t nfitness of the population as a whol .
The South is keenly embarrassed over
this situation and rightly so. A great
slice of this unfitness is due to the
venereal or '‘social’’ disease. At first
this was thought to lie due to the ne
gro element of our population. Later
figures, however, revealed the fact
that the same high percentage of un
fitness exists among the white popu
lation.
The Southern States are not alto
gether to blame for this embarrassing
state of affairs. Ignorance plays a
large part, but the distribution of
ignorance is fairly uniform over the
ountry at large. Probably the most
specific cause is climate. Our states
tre rated in the temperate zone, but
from the standpoint of health they are
ilmost semi-tropical. Hence we have
to contend with a great many factors
from which our sister states north of
us enjoy natural immunity. The
great scourges of hookworm and mal
aria are already familiar to us. Hoth
are tropical diseases and each has
played a large part in lowering the
physical fitness of our people. I’ella
;ra is also peculiar to the South and
has contributed its share.
There is one other important dis
ease which though not confined to the
South yet takes advantage of the fa
vorable climate, and not only causes
thousands of deaths annually, but
stunts and cripples the vitality of
nany other thousands, ‘Hus render
ing them susceptible to other dis
eases. This disease is called dysen
tery-
♦ tim lHnrio—amoebic
Dysentery is of two kinds amoebic
ind bacillary. Amoebic dysentery,
though not as contagious as the bac
illary form, is of much longer dura
tion and may last for years as chron
ic dysentery. It is also not as prev
ilent nor as fatal, but it incapacitates
the victim for a much longer time and
renders life a burden indeed. It is
rather difficult to cure, although treat
ment with emetin may arrest and
■iometimes effect a cure after long
treatment.
Bacillary dysentery is related to ty
phoid fever in many ways. It is a
food and water bourne disease. An
nfected water supply or dairy may
result in an epidemic particularly
imong children. The death rate is
highest among children under five
years of age. The so-called “summer
liarrhoea" of babies is often in real
ity bacillary dysentery originating
from carelessly handled dairy prod
ucts. Flies also play an important
part in spreadin dysentery. The fe
. . ■ c infnofnH irwti-
parl In aprenum *
al discharge from the infected indi
vidual is teeming with the germs.
>ven after the patient lias recovered.
If flies have access to this material
by means of the surface closet the
•erms may be distributed to many
triads of food. In this way trie sur
ace closet and the common house fly
ire responsible more than any other
factors for the spread of both ty
phoid and dysentery.
Unfortunately, medical science ha
not yet discovered a vaccine which
will immunize against dysentery. In
the end. however, this may not he
ho unfortunate. Far the most euc
essful way to combat disease is to
remove the original cause. Hence.
,f we can be sufficiently impressed
with the importance of sanitary sew
lge disposal and safs water supply
vaccination will become unnecessary.
report contagious
diseases.
It is verv important that all conta
gious diseases be reported by the phy
sician to the board of health, for only
!)V so doing can the source of the in
action be placed so that those who
ire well may avoid the contact, and
that knowing
ire well ma>
also for the reason that knowing
where the disease is, the Board of
Health can take steps to eradicate it.
This ie particularly true of the \ e
nefoal Diseases. If we can find the
airier, the discriminator of Syphilis
and Gonorrhea, we can then take
ueps to compel them to be treated.
These are two of the contagious dia
bases that the law is particularly
Ur ong on. It is a misdemeanor in
Georgia to subject another to either
it these diseases.
FREE FOR THE ASKING
Write for the following pam
phlets according to your need.
They explain the government's
campaign against venereal dis
uses and present the true faets of
tex:
Set A. For young men.
Set B. For the general public.
Set C. For boys.
Set D. For parents of children.
Set E. For girls and young
Aomea. ,
Set F. For educators.
Issued by the
GEORGIA STATE BOARD OF
HEALTH
JOE P BOWDOIN,
Division Venereal Diseases Control
Atlanta, Ga.
More Prevalent Than Tuberculosis
Syphilis is more prevalent than tu
berculosis and is rapidly being rec
ognised as the greatest killing dis
ease. It is the real cause in many
nasjs of pareats. locomotor ataxia and
aortic aneurism; in many cases of
cerebral hemorrhage and apoplexy in
the young uud of the organic dis
eases of the heart, liver and kid
neys. It is curable if taken iu time.
THE COUNTRY SUNDAY
SCHOOL.
If the Sunday school has been
allowed to die down, there should
he no further delay in reorganiz
ing it.
In our concern for the mental
develoyment of our children, we
should not forget the need for
moral training also. In the writ
er’s neighborhood a boy who was
to have graduated at the high
school last month—a bright boy in
iiis hooks—spent the commence
ment period in jail, having enter
ed a store at night and killed its
owner only a few' weeks before.
Proper moral training had not ac
companied his mental training.
Every father or mother should
ask himself or herself if the Sun
day school is not needed to supple
ment the training given in home
and public school. And even if a
hoy learned nothing useful in Sun
day school, it might still be worth
while for him to go simply because
the Sunday school offers an oppor-
tunity for him to meet other boys
and girls in the right environment
and under wholesome influences.
The average hoy who has nothing
to do from sunup to sundown
every Sunday is pretty likely fo
get into mischief.
The moral and spiritual benefits,
of the country Sunday school,
therefore, should alone insure ef
forts to utilize and strengthen it,
while the social and intellectual 1
advantages which it offers may al
so he not improperly considered.
The Bible is one of the world’s
supreme pieces of literature, and
to study it Sunday after Sunday
will contribute not a little to any
body’s mental growth and equip
ment. —The Progressive Farmer.
Australia’s Artesian Basin.
The artesian basin of Australia
measures 569,000 square miles In ex
tent, and Is said to be the largest
known in the world, comprising 876,-
X)0 square miles in Queensland, 90,000
in South Australia, 83,000 In New South
Wales and 20,000 In the northern ter
ritory.
50 Good Farms For Sale
In Greene County
Greene County is one of the fines agricultural sec
tions in Georgia. The land is the very best; market and
railroad facilities unsurpassed and a climate that makes
for contentment and prosperity.
A FEW OF THE ATTRACTIVE FARMS
We ggive below a list of a few attractive farms we have to offer you in this noted'old
county: /
One tract of 1894 acres with 31 tenant houses, four 6-room dwellings, two large cow
barns that will hold seventy-five cows each, one large mule barn and smaller ones,; store
house at railroad station, three miles railroad front on farm, 300 acres of branch creek
and river bottoms, finest of pastures and very best grade of land.
This farm produced last year 350 bales cotton and 10,000 bushels of corn, and can be
made produce 500 bales. There are $30,000 worth of improvements on this farm, 4 miles
from Greenesboro, on public highway and adjoins lands now selling for $l5O per acre.
This farm can be bought for $65.00 per acre, $25,000 cash and balance to suit purchaser.
One tract of 140 acres, 12 miles from Greensboro on public road, brick dwelling, barn
and outbuildings; 11 tenant houses, pasture, 4 or 5 million feet saw timber, and red clay
subsoil. $35.00 per acre, ten to fifteen thousand dollars cash, balance to siyt purchaser.
312 acres 6 miles from Greenesboro on public road; good dwelling and outbuildings, pro
ductive land and big bargain at $35.00 per acre.
250 acres 3 miles out; 6-room dwelling, big barn and outbuildings, 3 tenant houses, pas
tures and well watered. For quick sale canbe bought for $6O per acre, adjoining lands
cannot be bought for $l5O per acre.
110 acres right at the town of Veazy, 6 miles from Greenesboro. Fine schools and
churches and store right at farm; one 6-room and one 3-room dwelling on place with
barns and pastures. It is a productive land with red clay subsoil and is only $6O per
acre.
ALL OF THEM BARGAINS
These farms are all great bargains and you will never find anything to equal them
at the price offered.
We mention a few of our farms to let you have an idea. Our prices range from $25 to
$lOO per acre with one-fourth to one-third cash and balance to suit \Ol .
Get in touch with us if you want good farms at prices that will enable you to pay tor
them and farms on which you can double your money in a few years if you want to sell
again.
Write or come to see us.
Toney & Spinks Realty Cos
GREENESBORO, GEORGIA
LIVER DIDNT ACT
DIGESTION WAS BAD
Sijl 65 year Old Kentucky Lady, Who Tells How She Was Relieved
Alter a Few Doses of Black-Draught.
MeadorsTllls, Ky.—Mra. Cynthia
Higginbotham, of this town, says: “At
my age. which la 65, the liver does
not act so well as when young. A few
years ago, my stomach was all out of
fix. X was constipated, my liver
didn’t act My digestion was bad, and
It took so little to upfet me. My ap
petite was gone. I was very weak...
I decided I would give Black-
Draught a thorough trial as I knew It
was highly recommended tor this
trouble. I began taking It X Celt'
better after a few doses. My appetite
Improved and I becamo stronger. My
bowels acted naturally sad the least
treublo was noon righted with a tew
doses of Black-Draught"
Seventy years of successful use Ca>
made Thedford’s Black-Draught •
standard, household remedy. Every
member, of every family, at times,
need the help that Black-Draught can
give in cleansing the system and re*
lievlng the troubles that come from
constipation. Indigestion, lazy liver,
etc. You cannot keep well unless your
stomach, liver and bowels s.re In good
working order. Keep them ihai way,
Try Black-Draught It acts promptly,
gently and In a natural way. If yon
feel sluggish, take a doss tonight
Yon will feel fresh tomorrow, Price
25c. s package—One tmt • dona
All druggists. 7. M