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Yesterday*’ Tragedies,
What Of Tomorrow?
(From Southern Textile Bulletin)
Wo are thinking of thos*.. <!uys
when women gathered around the
mill doors on Saturdays in order to
get the pay envelope* away from
their husbands before they reached
the bar rooms up town.
We are thinking of the man and
tired looking women and pitiful and
hungry children who appear at mill
offices every Monday morning with
the same old story, that the hus
band had not meant to waste all of
his pay, hut had come home drunk
and without a cent and that there
was no food in the house.
We are thinking about the oper
atives who were always missing on
Monday mornings and of those who
appeared with shaky nerves and of
the inefficient work of many who
could hardly keep going.
We are thinking of the days
when the State sold whiskey in
South Carolina and the dispensaries,
as they were ealled, stunk into high
Heaven because of t'he rgaft and
corruption which surrounded them.
We are thinking of 1913, during
which wc made an accurate check,
and probably of other years, when
over half of the superintendents
changed jobs, most discharges being
for excessive drinking.
We are thinking of many of the
greatest of the old-time superinten
dents who toppled from high posi
tions because of whiskey.
We are thinking of one of the
most pitiful spectacles we ever saw,
the appearance at our office of a
man, the one-time top notch super
intendent of the South, but a victim
of whiskey, and of his pleading with
us to get him a job as second hand
in carding or even as a card grinder.
We are thinking of the fact that
from that day whiskey was outlaw
ed, the saving deposits of the work
ing people began to climb, and we
are also thinking of the modern
propaganda to the effect the great
est of all economic losses, the pour
ing of a dollar’s worth of whiskey
down a man’s throat is justified if
it produces two cents worth of tax
money.
We are thinking of the twenty
five or more men we have seen
sprawling, dead drunk, • in gutters
within one block of the center of
the City of Charlotte, and of the
fact that ladies did not dare to
come up town on Saturday after
noon because of the multitude of
intoxicated men.
We are thinking of drunken and
shouting farmers starting home on
Saturday afternoons with horses on
a dead run, and we are wondering
what would have happened had
they been driving automobiles.
We are thinking of the several
times we have heard pistols crack
and seen bloody men plunge through
the swinging doors of bar rooms
and fall sidewalks.
We are thinking of the political
rings operated by the owners of bar
room* and of the elections won by
the use of liquor and are doubting
if the modern gangster is much
worse.
We are thinking of the days when
the burden of misery and suffering
and wrecked lives became so great
that even the influence and money
and whiskey of the bar room rings
could not stem the tide when in the
record-breaking time of two years
forty-six of the forty eight States
confirmed a constitutional amend
ment approving the outlawing of
whiskey.
We are thinking of the fact that
as lax as has been prohibition en
forcement and as bad as have been
conditions recently, no constructive
suggestion lias been brought tor
ward and nothing better has been
offered.
We are thinking how we would
lik<? to get the advocates of the re
peal of prohibition write out some
of their statements and assertions
and sign them, for there will be
days when such statements must
stand the test.
We are thinking and realizing that
•we are on our way back to the day
of the dispensary and ultimately the
bar room, and remembering the past
■we know that in our cotton mills
there are men who will go down
and there are women and little
children who must suffer.
We are thinking of the better
conditions which came to mill oper
atives as the result of prohibition
and of worse conditions which will
come again as the result of the re
turn of whiskey.
We are mindful of the increase
in drunkenness and immorality a
mong the so-called upper strata of
society, but our interests are of
those of the cotton mill employees
of the South and as we compare
their condition today with those of
dispensary and bar room days we
take our stand absolutely upon the
SLEEPING 147 DAYS—MISS
MAGUIRE A '’LIVING CORPSE"
Oak Park, 111.—A suburban phy
sician today pitted a rare serum
taken from the blood of pretty Pa
tricia Maguire, 27, who has been in
I coma 147 days, against the creep-
I ing death that threatens her.
Like the sleeping princess in the
■ fairy tale, the slender, dark-haired
■ girl has been virtually a ‘‘living
•corpse” since last February 15. A
| conference of physicians decided
! months ugo that she could not live.
i But the spark of life burned on,
I and that fact has made it possible
! for Dr. Eugene Traut to isolate for
the first time from a living human
being the streptococci that causes
American ‘‘sleeping sickness.”
“It is th most amazing case I
have ever r on or heard of,” Dr.
Thaut said today. “Because of Miss
Magufr strain-* vitality, I have
been able to isolate the germs and
develop a serum. I have adminis
tered the. serum and I hope it will
not only cure her, but will prove a
valuable addition to the store of
medical science.”
For nearly kix months the quiet
spoken, attractive private secretary
has lain almost inert in the Oak
Park home of her mother, Mrs.
Sadie Miley. At times her eyes
have flickered, but neither her moth
er nor her sister, Mrs. Gladys Han
sen, believe she recognized them.
Every two hours two nurses give
her liquid food through her nos
trils. Daily they massage her limbs
so they will not waste away.
“Strangely enough,” her mother
aid, “Patricia has grown heavier.
She weighed only 120 pounds when
she was taken ill, and now she
weighs almost 150.”
Dr. Traut explained the malady is
a brain infection. He cautioned
against confusing it with the
“sleeping sickness” prevalent in
Africa, and caused by the bite of
the tse-tse fly.
Why Skimp On Cotton?
The usual brevity of “shorts,”
sheets and other articles of cotton,
and the loss in consumption repre
sented by the failure of cotton
goods manufacturers to turn out
their goods in standard measure
ments, is commented upon in a com
munication appearing on the oppo
site page, from Thomas C. Powell,
for many yedrs vice president of
the Southern railway.
The addition of only two inches
to the length of cotton shorts would
consume, Mr. Powell figures, in the
neighborhood of 20,000,000 yards
of cloth, and sheets long enough not
to leave the feet uncovered would
also be responsible for a large in
crease in cotton consumption.
Lack of proper tailoring for cot
ton suits in the north, according to
Mr. Powell, is giving the edge to
wool, and he regretfully notes the
recent decision of the postoffice de
partment to give to the jute manu
facturers the order for a huge
amount of twine because “the cot
ton twine makers could not meet
their price.”
Jute is imported from India. It
ig grown on land worth only a few
cents an acre, harvested by labor
receiving only 5 cents a day, and
manufactured by mill hands getting
from 15 to 20 cents a day. •
The only beneficiaries from the
sale of jute in this country are a
small group who formerly operated
mills in New England but who,
some years ago, dismantled the mills
and set up operations in India in
order to take advantage of the cheap
labor in that country.
Enough jute is used each year in
the United States to consume a
million bales of cotton were the
southern staple used. And yet con
gress, with prohibitive tariffs pro
tecting every other American pro
duct, has steadily refused to enact
a jute tariff which would give cot
ton manufacturers a fair chance in
competition with it.
Cotton can “come back” but it
must be by taking advantage of
every opportunity —and creating
new uses—for increased consump
tion.—Atlanta Constitution.
Wildcat Hunter* To Act A* Pig
Loste* Mount
Valdosta, Ga.—Many complaints
are being made by farmers residing
on the southern side of Lowndes
county about the ravages of wild
cats on young pigs.
The losses are reported to be
reaching into a goodly sum and par
ties of cat hunters are being organ
ized to raid the animals.
side of prohibition, fully realizing
that w r e are championing a losing
cause and one which is, for the mo
ment, exceedingly unpopular.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
FOR JUDGE SUPERIOR COURT
To The White Voters of The
Piedmont Circuit: I hereby an
nounce myself a candidate for Judge
of the Piedmont Circuit at the Demo
cratic Primary September 14, 1932.
I wish to thank the voters of this
circuit for their support in the past,
and if my administration of the law
has been satisfactory to the people
of the circuit, I will greatly appre
ciate your vote at said primary elec
tion. This April 16, 1932.
W. W. STARK.
FOR SOLICITOR GENERAL
To the White Voters of the Pied
mont Circuit: Remembering with
profoundest gratitude the confidence
expressed in me by the people of
this judicial circuit four years ago,
1 offer as a candidate for an indorse
ment term as Solicitor General of
the Piedmont Circuit, subject to the
white primary election of Septem
ber 14th. I do so with the consci
ousnesss that I have striven to the
best of my ability to perform faith
fully and impartially the important
duties of the office. I pledge a con
tinuation of these efforts, and most
earnestly solicit the vote and ac tive
support of all the citizens of the cir
cuit.
Respectully,
Clifford pratt.
Winder, Ga.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
To the Voters of Jackson County:
I hereby announce my candidacy for
Representative from Jackson Coun
ty, subject to the Democratic Pri
mary Election on September 14th,
next. If elected, I will serve the
County and State faithfully, and to
the best of my ability.
L. C. ALLEN.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
I hereby announce my candidacy
to succeed myself as one of the
Representatives of Jackson County,
subject to the Democratic Primary
to be held September 14, 1932. If
my past record meets with your ap
proval, and you sec fit to again give
me your support and influence, the
same will be greatly appreciated.
Personally, I feel that with my past
experience in the legislature I am
better prepared to serve in this ca
pacity than ever before. I appre
ciate the loyal support of my friends
in the past, and solicit the vote and
influence of all the qualified white
voters in the coming election.
Respectfully yours,
J. E. J. LORD.
FOR CONGRESS
To The Voters of the Ninth Con
gressional District of Georgia: In
viting careful consideration of my
record as your Representative in the
present Congress, I solicit your sup
port for the Democratic nomination
for Representative in the Seventy-
Third Congress of the United States,
which I shall seek at your hands in
the September primary. I deeply
appreciate your past expressions of
confidence in me.
Sincerely,
JNO. S. WOOD.
TO THE VOTERS OF JACKSON
COUNTY
I hereby announce my candidacy
for Representative of Jackson Coun
ty, subject to the rules and regula
tions of the Democratic Primary
election to be held on September
14, 1932. I solicit and will appre
ciate the vote and influence of every
man and woman in the county.
And remember, both ladies and gen
tlemen, that this announcement is
directed to you, soliciting your vote
and influence, and if I fail to see
all of you I want you to take this
announcement as a personnal call
upon you for your help. If I am
elected to this important office, I
will endeavor at all times to repre
sent my County and State to the
very best of my ability. Please re
member me when you go to cast
your ballot on September 14th, for
yc ir Representative in the Legisla
ture.
Yours very truly,
W. D. MARTIN.
NOTICE
To Whom It May Concern: Mae
Coburn hereby gives notice according
to law that she has filed petition re
turnable to the August Term, 1932,
of the Superior Court, Jackson
County, which convenes on the first
Monday in August, next, to be re
lieved of her disabilities placed on
her by final divorce decree render
ed on July 31, 1925, at Chambers,
in the Circuit Court of the 10th
Judicial Circuit, Polk County, State
of Florida, in case of Samuel G.
Coburn versus Mae Coburn. This
30th day of May, 1932.
C. T. Storey, Jr.,
Clerk Superior Court,
Jackson County, Ga.
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