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A COMMUNITY HOSPITAL.
(By G. D. Ross.)
. Winder, Get. 27. 1919.
J. L. Saul says that every sani
tarium in Atlanta is a paying in
vestment and the stock is not for
sale at $1.50. Why not organize a
stock company and build a hospi
tal at Winder that will prove a
paying investment and at the
same time supply a long-felt need?
Every community of two or
three thousand people is entitled
to a hospital of some sort. A re
constructed private residence
would he better than no hospital
at all. This community is able to
afford the funds for the building
of an ideal hospital. Even if the
hospital were not caring for and
curing a single member of the
community the institution would
be more than worth while as an
institution in which physicians
could acquire experience so that
they might be better able to meet
emergencies as they arise.
Last week T called attention to
two urgent cases of acute appen
dicitis where the surgeon arrived
in the nick of time. Any citizen
who wdll look back over the past
year and recall the cases that have
come under his observation must
concede that Winder and Barrow-
County are in great need of a
sanitarium. Winder is becoming a
manufacturing center. (Jins and
saw-mills are being run in the
other towns and outlying dis
tricts of the county, and where
people work around machinery
accidents will happen. Local doc
tors cannot always be found in
their offices,for the greater part
of the time they afe out in attend
ance upon the sick in the outlying
districts, and aside from improper
attention in other ways the maim
ed and bleeding are compelled to
await the return of a physician.
That there is a good hospital
twenty-five miles away is beside
the question. The transportation
may be bad, slow and uncertain.
Even if the transportation were
good and prompt the needs of the
patient are urgent and he or she
must have skilled operative at
tention immediately or die. How
are the doctors in a community to
acquire that necessary skill unless
they have access to a hospital?
Let us think first of the build
ing funds. There is only one
scheme by which money can be
raised, and that is to go with a 1
BAN ON CERTAIN CANNED
GOODS FOLLOWS DEATH OF
FIVE FROM POISONING.
Detroit, Oct. 25. —Following the
investigation of the death of five
persons believed to have been poi
soned at a dinner party a week
ago today, Dr. Francis M. Duf
•field, president of the department
of health, announced tonight he
would on Monday order all gro
cers in the city to discontinue tem
porarily the sale of certain canned
foodstuffs.
The victims are believed by de
partment of health officials to have
been poisoned by eating ripe olives
at the home of Murray W. Sales
in tie fashionable Grosse Point
suburb. Samples of the olives have
been sent to the University of
Michigan for analysis. Meanti nt
it is planned to prevent the sale
of si nilar preserved foods.
Twcrty-eigh* ’ives have been
lost in t he pas; two month s in var
ious rar*s the country, !)• Duf
field stated, through botulismuo
poisoning which is prevalent he
said, chiefly in aspargus, olives
and corn.
Packing the Soli.
"Jt has been estimated by authorities
tJtat a man weighing 170 pounds, wear
ing. No. 8 shoes, creates a pressure of
14 pounds to the square inch of surface
i where he steps. A horse weighing 1,-
r 400 pounds creates a pressure of ap
proximately 18 to 38 pounds per
square inch under his hoofs while pull
ing an average load. A tractor weigh
ing in the neighborhood of 1.800 pounds
exerts a pres ure only about tc..
pounds to the square inch.
subscription list into the commun
ity and get men and women who
have money to put down their
names for a specific sum. The
building funds must be raised up
on a business basis and the entire
community must take interest in
tlie enterprise. The minute that a
beginning is made to mix business
and charity, financing and philan
thropy, just that minute the whole
enterprise heads toward disaster.
It has been suggested to me that
subscribers should donate the
funds. To whom shall they do
nate? There will be plenty of loom
for charity and philanthropy after
a hospital has once been establish
ed at Winder. The big-hearted
will still have their opportunity
to donate funds to the poor and
afflicted, and the Home Missionary
Societies will be provided with
more convenient quarters in
which to display their charity.
There arc two hospital funds and
these should be kept entirely se
Name. No. Shares. Amount.
E. V. Saxon, M. D 20 : SI,OOO
S. T. Ross, M. D 20 SI,OOO
W. L. Matthews, M. D 20 SI,OOO
W. C. Horton 20 SI,OOO
Thos. A. Maynard 20 SI,OOO
R. L. Carithers 20 SI,OOO
•J. M. Williams 20 SI,OOO
C. B. Almond. M. D 20 SI,OOO
A. Y. Eavenson 4 200
Paul F. Brooksher 4 200
A. A. Camp 5 250
J. B. Williams 2 100
J. J. Wilson 5 250
W. M. Holsenbeck 5 ".. 250
G. A. Johns 5 250
W. E. Young 5 250
SENATOR POINDEXTER OUT
FOR PRESIDENCY.
Washington, October 26.—Sena
tor Miles Poindexter, of Washing
ton, in a statement today to the
people of the United States, an
nounced his candidacy for the re
publican nomination for president
and presented a platform of poli
cies and principles which he will
advocate in his campaign.
The Washington senator in his
statement of policies denounces
threats of labor leaders to tie up
the railroads as “government by
terror for a special class,” and de
clares that the government must
be made supreme to both capital
and labor, through insisting that
the just claims of labor should be
recoznized. Communism, Senator
Poindexter declares is inconsistent,
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If your car needs anew
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oline, Oils, Greases and FREE
AIR.
Yours To Serve
LeeJ. Oliver
Jackson Street Winder, Ga.
THE BARROW TIMES. WINDER. GEORGIA.
paratc and distinct, tine is the con
struction or building fund and t lie
other is the fund for permanent
support. 1 am at present endeav
oring to raise the building fund,
and the local physicians have pro
mised to maintain the institution,
should it not prove a paying in
vestment. Winder is the logical
point, not only for a small hospi
tal, but for a sanitarium of large
proportions. The institution would
have a vast territory to draw from
—Barrow, Jackson, Walton, Gwin
nett —and the first building should
he erected with a view to addi
tions.
So far 1 have mot with a grati
fying unity of spirit in this mat
ter, and, while 1 have had the
time to approach only a very small
number of citizens, I do not be
lieve it is going to be a hard task
to raise the building fund of $30,-
000. The list of subscribers so far
obtained is as follows:
with the vested rights of the la
borer to his wages.
Treating of international mat
ters, the platform remarks that
the “process of making a ‘supre
me sacrifice’ of America and of
‘joining our fortunes with the
fortunes of men everywhere’
should he stopped.”
In making his statement of prin
ciples. Senator Poindexter, who is
the first publicly announced can
didate for the republican nomina
tor asserted that his announce
ment of policy “makes it neces
sary” for the republican national
convention in 1920 to stand by his
platform, should he be chosen as
the party’s standard bearer.
For Meditation.
AH great reforms are based on
broad, geDerous principles.
LINCOLN TO LABOR
“I was born and have ever re
mained in the most human walks
of life. 1 have no wealthy popular
relations or friends to recommend
me.”
“1 am not ashemed to confess
that twenty-five years ago I was a
hired laborer mauling rails at
work or a flatboat—just what
might happen to any poor man’s
son.”
“Labor is prior to and indepen
dent of capital. Capital is only the
fruit of labor and could never
have existed if labor had not first
existed. Labor is the superior of
capital and deserves much the
higher consideration. ”
“Capital lias its rights which
are as worthy of protection as any
other rights. Nor is it denied that
there is and probably always will
he a relation between labor and
capital producing mutual bene
fits.”
“The strongest bond of human
sympathy, outside of the family
relation, should he the one uniting
‘suoijbu ]|i> jo 3|doad iffus.ioM ||b
and tongues, and kindreds. Nor
should this lead to a war upon
property or the owners of proper
ty. Property is the fruit of labor;
The Original Slat
Moldboard Plow
The John Deere, Syracuse, Slat Mold
board Turning Plow. The genuine; first
pattent; all others are imitations; get the
genuine; turns red land where others fail,
with less draft.
Same is true of the Riding Plow. Why
walk longer and suffer with tired, aching
limbs, when you can ride and do more and
better work.
Woodruff Hardware
Company
property is desirable; is a positive
good in the world. That some
should he rich shows that others
may become rich, and hence is
just encouragement to industry
and enterprise.
“Let not him who is houseless
pull down the house of another,
but lot him work diligently and
build one for himself, thus by <*-
ample assuring that his own shall
be safe from violence when built.”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
HOUSEWIVES ARE URGED TO
CEASE PURCHASING EGGS,
BUTTER AND COFFEE.
New York. October 2(l.—Copies
of resolutions urging housewives
of America to refrain from the
purchase of use of eggs, butter and
coffee except for consumption by
children or invalids were sent to
Attorney General Palmer today by
the National Housewives league;
which recently adopted them. The
league sets forth that the action
taken is purely an economic one,
“a lowering of prices by decreas
ed consumption.”
Old Familiar Discovery.
Every now and tlicn there comes n
substitute for gasoline, amply filling
the place of the old discoveries of per
petual motion. —New York Sun.
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DECATUR MAN INVENTS DE
VICE FOR BUILDERS
Decatur, Ga., Oct. 25.—J. IF.
Galloway, of Decatur, is the inven
tor and patentee of a builders’ de
vice which is designed to take the
place of the farmers’ square, all
angle squares and the plumb and
level. All who have seen the de
vice are enthusiastic as to its me
rits, and Mr. Galloway is arrang
ing to manufacture and market
his invention.
CONGRESS APPROVES HIGH
ER POSTAL PAY.
Washington, Oct. 25.—Enact
ment of the joint resolution pro
viding increased pay for postal
employes was completed today
with the adoption of the confer
ence report by the senate. The
measure goes to the president.
Fight F?r Honor.
Think well about great things; ami
know that thought is the only reality
tn this world. I,lft up nature to thin*
own stature; and let the whole uni
verse be for thep no more than the re
flection of thine own heroic .soul. Com
bat for honor's sake; that alone is
worthy of a man. And if it should fall
to thee to receive wounds, shed thy
Mood ns a beneficent dew. and smile. —
Cervantes.