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SUMER SCHOOL
NINTH DISTRICT A. & ML SCHOOL
Clarkesville, Ga.
June 8 to July 11, 1931
Regular Normal Course, including Primary
and Intermediate Grades
Courses for Rural and Grade Teachers
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Especially Helpful for Young Teachers
Expenses $22.00 for Six Weeks Course
W. A. HATFIELD, Principal
Clarkesville, Ga.
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ACTS OR ACCIDENTS
It is true that accidents will hap
pen, but it is equally true that many
of them can be prevented.
There were in the United States
in 1929, 97,000 fatal accidents. Of
these 31,000, as the National Con
ference on Street and Highway
Safety points out, were motor ve
hicle mishaps and 54.6 per cent in
volved pedestrians. About 7,000 of
them occurred when vehicles collid
ed or crashed and 2,500 of them were
at railway grade crossings.
Many of these so-called accidents
were not really accidents. They
were the inevitable result of incom
petent automobile driving.
Yet only twelve states and the
District of Columbia attempt to keep
the incompetent driver off the roads
by issuing licenses only after manda
tory examination and driving test.
In these twelve states experience
has shown that many of the so-call
ed accidents can be avoided. The
drivers’ license law has come to be
recognized as insurance for the good
driver.
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Athens, Ga.
To And From South And West
Arrive: Depart:
10.05 P. M. Atlanta 6.52 A. M.
” Birmingham ”
1.00 A. M. Atlanta 4.45 A. M.
2.25 P. M. Atlanta 2.25 P. M.
” B’ham.-Memphis ”
To And From North And East
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” Rich.-Norfolk
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THOUSAND DISASTERS
RECEIVED RED CROSS
AI9 IN 50 YEARS
American Society to Celebrate
Its Birth Year With Nation
wide Observance
Tornadoes, floods, forest fires and
other calamities and upheavals of na
ture have vlßlted the United States
more than one thousand times in the
last half century.
All of these were of severe Intensity,
causing loss of life and great property
damage. Minor catastrophes were not
counted In this list of disasters, which
has been made public by the American
Ked Cross. In connection with the cele
bration this year of its fiftieth birth
day.
It was on the evening of May 21,
1881, In the modest home of Miss Clara
Barton in Washington, I). C„ that the
American Association of the Bed Cross
was first formed. Before the year was
out, and before, Indeed, the United
States Government had officially
moved to approve the Treaty of
Geneva, adding this nation to the com
pany of thirty-two others adhering to
the treaty to protect wounded in war
fare. Miss Barton had plunged the small
society into a disaster relief task.
First Red Cross Unit
This was in the north woods of
Michigan, where forest fires swept the
homestead farms of pioneering fam
ilies. Miss Barton, as president of the
Red Cross, had organized a branch In
Dansville, New York, where she was
sojourning. This little group Imme
diately raised money, food, clothing
and other supplies and sent them to
the forest fire victims. In Rochester
and Syracuse, New York, nearby, word
spread of this charitable enterprise,
and Red Cross auxiliaries were organ
ized there to help. So began the disas
ter relief work of the Red Cross fifty
years ago. In the Intervening years,
millions of men, women and children
have been aided. Thousands of homes
have been restored. Thousands of
persons, overwhelmed by floods, tor
nadoes, and fires until all they pos
sessed had been wiped away, have
been rehabilitated and prosperity and
happiness again smiled upon them.
This year has been dedicated by the
Red Cross and its chapters in 3,500
communities to commemoration of the
events which led to the birth of the
society in the United States.
President Hoover Speaks
The celebration of the anniversary
was inaugurated in Washington at a
dinner, attended by many distin
guished men and women, at which
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes
presided, and President Hoover, who
13 the president of the American Ked
Cross, was the chief speaker. Judge
Max Huber of Geneva, Switzerland,
the president of the International Com
mittee of the Red Cross, in which fifty
seven nations are joined in a Red
Cross brotherhood, also was a speaker,
as were Chairman John Barton Payne
of the American Red Cross, and Miss
Mabel T. Boardman, secretary, and
veteran leader of the society.
The Red Cross standard, which flies
all around the world where mercy is
needed, was first introduced as an
ideal in our modern civilization In
Geneva in 18G4, when the international
Red Cross convention, afterward to be
known as the Treaty of Geneva, was
signed by twelve countries agreeing
that on the battlefield the wounded
should be given aidjsy doctors, nurses
and others, who should wear the sign
of the Red Cross, and be treated as
neutrals in the warfare.
Two Americans attended this first
convention, the American Minister
George C. Fogg, and Charles S. P.
Bowies, representative in Europe of
the United States Sanitary Commis
si*n, a volunteer organization Of sym
pathizers with the North in our Civil
War. Facts they gave resulted in adop
tion of some of the American ideas.
Returning to the United States, Fogg
and Bowles sought recognition of the
Geneva Treaty, but the Grant admin
istration took no Interest. Under
Hayes, the same lethargy was en
countered.
Clara Barton Founder
But there had emerged from the Civil
War period a middle-aged woman who
had seen much service on the battle
fields around • Washington. This was
Clara Barton. 11l health caused her to
make a trip to Europe in 1869. There
she became interested in the Red i
Cross idea, and joined a unit which ;
saw service in the Franco-Prusalan j
war. Upon her return home, she'
launched an active campaign for the
treaty, but met the same opposition
as her predecessors. However. Presi
dent Garfield, when he came into of
fice, recognized the merits of the
movement, and when death hy assassi
nation removed him, his successor,
President Arthur, sought approval by
the U. S. Senate of the treaty. Tlius
wa3 consummated a seventeen-year
fight in this nation for a humanitarian
ideal. Clara Barton was recognized as
the society’s founder and was its presi
dent for twenty-three years. She died
in 1912 at the age of 90 years.
It is not generally thought of. but
the flag so familiar in every civilized
nation as the emblem of the Red Cross,
had a simple derivation. Because the
originator of the movement, Henri
Dunant, was a Swiss, and the first
treaty to protect wounded in battle
was drafted and signed in Switzerland,
the flag of that Republic—a white cross
upon a red background—was reversed,
and the Red Cross came into being.
MEDICINE, DENTISTRY
LEADERS TO STUDY
COST OF MEDICAL CARE
Washington, D. C.—The problem
of the doctor bill on the family bud
get today brought to the nationul
capital 50 leaders in the fields of
medicine, dentistry, public health
and the social sciences.
At breakfast meetings tomorrow
they will begin a three-day deliber
ation on the cost of medical care,
with Interior Secretary Wilbur, who
also is a physician, presiding.
For three and a half years the
elaborate mechanism of the commit
tee on the cost of medical care, or
ganized with a five-year endowment,
has been fact-finding. Its inquiry,
including more than 30 intensive
studies, has been the most complete
of its kind ever undertaken.
The meeting tomorrow will be the
first for the purpose of formulating
conclusions (pom the vast store of
data.
The exports will discuss “various
proposals which appear to point the
way toward the provision of more
adequate medical service, precentive
and curative, for all of the people at
costs within their means,” the com
mittee headquarters announced.
Enumerated among the probable
topics of discussion were:
Paying doctor’s bill by install
ments, contract medicine or paying
for physicians’ care by the year,
group medicine as is now carried on
by many industries and universities,
and covering of the medical budget
by insurance.
Facts on extent of illness establish
ed by the committee, and to be used
as basis for discussions included:
On any average day 2 per cent of
the entire population, is ill.
The average man is ill about a
week out of each year.
The average woman is ill a week
and a half out of each year.
The average school child loses one
week in each school year because of
illness.
Wage earners lose 250,000,000
days a year.
There are 130,000,000 disabling
illnesses in the United States each
year.
Facts of medical facilities avail
able to care for these illnesses have
been ascertained by the commtitee
as follows:
A total of 1,500,000 persons are
devoting full time to the prevention
and cure of illnesses. This number
is surpassed only by the personnel
of the textile industry.
Hospitals number more than 7,-
000, with a bed capacity of 900,000,
and a capital investment of $3,000,-
000,000. Extensions to hospitals are
being added at the rate of a mil
lion dollars a day. /
The need for better organization
to bring medical facilities within
the reach of those suffering from
illness was established by the com
mittee through elaborate field sur
veys of a state, Vermont; a large
city, Philadelphia; and two represen
tative counties each with a town of
more y.han 10,000 population and
smaller villages, Shelby county, In
diana, and San Joaquin county,
California.
VET DIDN’T KNOW HE HAD
BULLET IN LEG 13 YEARS
Columbus. —For thirteen years
Carl Ebinger carried a German ma
chine gun bullet in his right leg and
did not know it.
It happened during the Meuse-Ar
gonne offensive in the fall of 1918.
Ebinger’s division, the 37th, was ap
proaching Montfaucon.
As they started across a clearing
in the forest the deadly rattle of an
enemy machine gun caused them to
fall to the ground to escape its fire.
Ebinger was hit three times, he
knows, although at the time he
thought he was hit only twice. Doc
tors removed two slugs.
Years later rheumatism develop
ed. Ebinger applied for Compensa
tion and an X-ray was taken. The
third bullet was removed from his
leg, eight inches from where it en
tered.
DOESN’T MATTER
Just be a good fellow,
Whatever you do;
The sky may be gloomy
Or shiny or blue,
It doesn’t at all matter
The hue of the skies,
Just so the sun shines
In your heart and eyes.
So laugh and be glad,
For life’s but a joke;
Find the ribs of the world
And just land them a poke;
The skies may be dark
Or sunshiny and blue,
But the hue of the skies
Mustn’t matter to you.
—Houston Post.
ONE OF EVERY TEN
FAMILIES IN GEORGIA
OWNS RADIO SET
Washington.—One out of every
ten families in Georgia owns a rrdio
set, according to figures made pub
lic today by the census bureau.
These statistics show that according
to the 1930 census there wore G54,-
009 families in the state, with an
average of four and a half persona
each and that there were G 4.908
radio sets.
As fur as percentage figures go,
DeKulb led the list of counties, hav
ing 5,415 radios for its 16,595 fami
lies, 32.9 per cent.
The term “family,” as used in the
count, refers to a group of persons
whether related by blood or not, who
live together in one household. One
person, living alone, is not consid
ered a family, while on the other ex
treme, all the persons in an institu
tion or those living in a boarding
house, are counted as a “family.”
SUNKEN PILLARS
“I went to a function \fchere a bril
liant young man received a dis
tinguished honor. Fine speeches a
bout him were made and the mayor
of the city presented a gold modal,”
says Bruce Barton.
Back near the door sat a demure
old couple who seemed ill at ease.
Their faces were lined; their hands
showed the marks of hard labor.
They alone of all the guests did not
wear evening clothes.
But when the young man came
down from the platform he strode
quickly across the room and, reach
ing the old couple, put his arms a
round them.
The audience cheered.
J thought of Thomas Carlyle who,
when fame came to him, looked back
from the fashionable society of Lon
don to the rugged farm where he
had grown up, and the humble par
ents whose self-sacrifice had made
his career possible. Said he:
“I feel to my father, so great, tho
so neglected, so generous always to
ward me, a strange tenderness pecu
liar to the t;ase, infinitely soft and
near my heart. Was he not a sacri
fice to me?”
And he added: “I can see his life
in some measure as the sunken pillar
on which mine was to be built. Had
I stood in his place, could he not
have stood in mine and more?”
I thought of the father of Roper
Burns and the “pains he took to get
proper schooling for his boys, and
when that was no longer possible,
the sense and resolution with which
he set himself to supply the defficien
cy by his own influence. For many
years he was their chief companion;
he spoke to them seriously on all
subjects as if they were grown men;
at night when work was over, he
taught them arithmetic; he borrowed
books for them on history, science
and theology. . . He would go to his
daughter as she stayed afield herd
ing cattle, to teach her the names of
the grasses and wild flowers, or to
sit by her side when it thundered.”
I thought of the father of John
Stuart Mill, neglecting his own in
terests in order to work patiently at
the education of his boy; of Thomas
Lincoln, struggling to keep his pov
erty-stricken family together—of all
the uncounted hosts of hidden fath
ers.—“sunken pillars”—who suffered
oblivion cheerfully in order t sat
their sons nlight rise.
It would be fairer ii every :iftr
could be measured by a double stan
dard—first, by its own achievement;
second, by the careers of its children.
On this basis many obscure lives be
come glorious. .
And many a medal, placed in the
strong, achieving hands of brilliant
youth, should be passed back to the
gnarled hands of the little old cou
ple sitting shyly by the door.
A LIE DETECTOR
Chicago.—A lie detector worked
Saturday before it was called on.
James D. Crawford paused in *he
midst. of a breakfast and remember
ed the S9O he had left under his pil
low at ■ hotel. The was gone.
Bell-boys, chambermaids and oth
er attaches of the''hostelry submitted
to unavailing examination. Then
Detective Sergeant Harry Wright
observed casually that he must send
for a lie detector.
“What’s that?” inquired Elizabeth
Nceclham, Negro maid.
“Lie detector,” Wright repeated,
“it’s a machine that shows when a
woman lies.”
“You don’ need that, boss,” the
maid said. “Ah can find that money,
’thout any detectah. I’s a necroman
cer.”
She went into a seance.
“Mah necromancy tells me*to look
under this rug.”
And there it was.
Pondersosa and Bimmer Tomato-
Plants, for sale, 10 cents dozen.—
Mrs. J. O. Stockton.