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Use Extreme Care With
Fireworks
Urging extreme care in the use of
firearms and fireworks during tha
approaching holiday season, Dr. T.
P. Abercromibe, director of tha
State Department of Public Health,
issues a warning to citizens against
the development of tetanus or lock
jaw, which often develops from
received in handling fire
arms or fireworks.
Tetanus, or lockjaw, he said, is a
disease that is preventable in that
there is a serum which will prevent
its development if administered
when it is suspected that the disease
has been contracted, and for this
reason persons receiving wounds
from fireworks or firearms should
see their physician at once for an
examination to determine if the
tetanus antitoxin is necessary.
Formerly most individuals who de
veloped lockjaw died painful deaths,
but since the tetanus antitoxin came
into use by physicians the number
of deaths from this disease has
greatly decreased. However, in
spite of a remedy for the prevention
of the disease and for its treatment,
forty people died from tetanus in
Georgia in 1936, thirteen of them
being white and twenty-seven ne
groes; four of these under one year
of age, one white and three negroes,
and four being babies under one
month of age, who died of lockjaw.
These latter four deaths, he said,
were quite likely due to infection
which set in because of failure to
have the proper dressing at the
time of birth.
In advocating extreme care in the
use of firearms and fireworks th<j
health director advised that persons
receiving wounds, especially when
they come in contact with the soil
that has been fertilized with barn
yard waste, should receive the im
munization dose of antitoxin.
For years Georgia has been de
pendent on the outside for much of
its meat, when by proper arrange
ment the state could raise its own
supply. Western meats are shipped
in by the carload, and our scrub and
better-class cattle are shipped out
and much of it is shipped back to us
for our purchase and consumption.
Every farmer could raise a small
herd of beef cattle. Even scrubs
could be cared for and made to de
velop into good beef, and that beef
sold within the state. We complain
of the high cost of living, but fail to
do much that we could to relieve the
situation.—Elberton Star.
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Way to A Merry Christmas
HANDSHAKING
The President has his hand-shak
ing down to a science. At a White
House reception, he can step up to
the head of a receiving line at 9
o'clock, ask an aide, “How many
have we got this evening?” and
figure out just when his task will be
finished.
He figures on the basis of 1,100
an hour, allowing for rest periods.
He can go into action at 9, shake
hands for three shifts for fifteen or
twenty minutes each, with two
breathing spells of four or five min
utes each, and be through at 10, or
shortly after.
The Roosevelt receptions range in
size from 900 to 1,100 —much small
er than the Hoover receptions of
three and four thousand.
Aides keep the line moving with
the precision of an assembly line
in an auto plant. Guests approach
ing in couples are instructed by
Aide No. 1 to form single column,
with “the gentleman first, please.”
Aide No. 2 says, “Name please?”
then pronounces the name to the
President, and if the guest is in
clined to linger, the aide gives him
a gentle tug at the arm.
The Pi-esident says, “How do you
do?” or “Good evening,” as he
shakes hands, but does not repeat
the name of the guest unless he is
a personal acquaintance.
Then he passes the guest’s hand
along to Mrs. Roosevelt, on his
right, as she gives a clasp scarcely
less hearty than her husband’s.
The progress of the line is some
what less rapid with the diplomatic
reception, for the foreign dignitaries
cannot be hustled.
DEATHS IN GEORGIA
DECREASE IN 1937
For the period from January 1
through August 31, 1937, deaths in
Georgia from typhoid fever, malaria,
diptheria, tuberculosis, pellagra, dys
entery, influenza, pneumonia, men
ingocoocus meningitis and infant
and maternal mortality have shown
a marked decrease as compared with
the same period during 1936, accord
ing to Dr. T. F. Abercrombie, direct
or of the State Department of Pub
lic Health.
Through August 31, 1937, there
was a total of 29,915 deaths report
ed caused by these diseases, while
the number for the same period in
1936 totaled 31,821, or a decrease
of 1,906 in the number of deaths
occuring in 1937 over 1936.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
“I AM THE DEAD !*'
(At the end of August the Na
tional Safety Council reported that
motor vehicles took 2,270 more lives
in the first seven months of this year
than in the corresponding period of
1936.)
I am the dead. One year ago I
was the sleeping infant in arms, the
frolicking child, the rollicking youth,
the laborer rushing to his work, the
mother at her shopping, the aged
person with faltering step.
Today—37,ooo strong—l lie in
my grave, crushed, broken, lifeless
A year from now, 37,000 will join
me in the eternal silence of death.
You who opened wide the throt
tle—who tore terrifying through
city streets —who went at blinding
speed across country intersections —
who laughed and shouted before the
tire blew or the curve loomed sud
denly ahead—YOU sent me 37,000
strong to my doom.
You whose brakes were faulty—
You who wove in and >out of
traffic, the swine of the highway—
You who passed on a curve or a
hill—
You w'ho turned on blinding
lights—
You who benumbered your brain
with booze—
I am the dead. To you I cry out
from my grave for mercy to others
before they join me. WILL YOU
ANSWER?
—William F. McDermott, Liberty
Magazine.
Route No. 11, which begins above
Blairsville and extends to the Geor
gia-Florida line, seems to be in line
to become an all-paved highway be
fore many more months. In upper
Georgia there is an unpaved link be
tween Gainesville and Jefferson, and
between Monroe and Winder. In
lower Georgia the stretch from Lake
land to Nashville is being hardsur
faced, and when the other short
links are paved, Route 11 will be all
paved from North Carolina to Flori
da through the heart of Georgia.
Everybody’s Problem
Tuberculosis is no respecter of
persons. It hits
rich man, poor
man, beggar
man, thief, and
is still the lead
ing cause of
death for young
men and wo-
men between 15 and 45. Christmas
Seals help to meet everybody’s prob
lem.
THE DOG AT CHURCH
(By Louie D. Newton)
In a certain well known farming
neighborhood in middle Georgia they
were having protracted meeting in
August, and the visiting minister, a
city dweller, was much disturbed
when a bird dog walked down the
aisle and over to the amen corner
and looked all about and then drop
ped down for a nap under the pew.
After the service the visiting min
ister courteously rebuked the pastor
for not putting the dog out. “Why
sir,” explained the pastor, “you
don’t understand. That dog’s own
er is the chairman of our board of
deacons. The good deacon is quite
ill. The dog saw the people coming
to church, and having mourned for
his master since they took him away
to the hospital in the city, he seems
to think that maybe he will find his
master here at the church, where so
often he saw him come. Put him
out? No, we are glad that this fine
dog can remember his master as a
regular church goer, and we think it
is very beautiful that the dog identi
fies his master with his church.”
Now, I don’t know what you
think of that story, but I like it.
Wouldn’t it be a grand thing if the
world identified us so definitely with
the church? If our children, our
dogs, our friends, and even our ene
mies would think of the church when
they were looking for us? Wouldn’t
that be a fine thing? Give us more
men like that deacon, and more dogs
like that faithful pointer, and we
will have a country fortified against
any threat from any quarter.
Cut In Medicine Coats To Be Sought
In State
Augusta.—Dean R. C. Wilson, of
the University of Georgia School of
Pharmacy, says the school desires to
initiate a four-point program headed
by a project to reduce the cost of
medicine in Georgia.
Other points in the proposed pro
gram include the establishment of a
drug-plant industry, making a diag
nostic laboratory available to serve
communities not equipped with lab
oratories, and control of plant dis
ease through laboratory studies of
pharmacy students.
Dean Wilson estimated Georgia’s
minimum yearly expenditure for
medicine at $10,500,000. He said a
recent national study of medicine
costs included Toombs county, a
rural section, where the per capita
expenditure was $3.33 annually.
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Good in Sleeping and Parlor Car* on payment o!
proper charge* for space occupied.
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... for each mile traveled . . . return limit 6 months.
Good in Sleeping and Parlor Cars on payment of
proper charges for space occupied.
One Way Tickets
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of proper charges for space occupied.
AIR - CONDITIONED PULLMAN AND DINING CARS
Be Comfortable in the Safety of
TRAIN TRAVEL
Consult Your Local Ticket Agent, or Write
CLAUDE T. HUNT,
Assistant General Passenger Agent, Atlanta
SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM
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WANTED: Man with car to take
over profitable Rawleigh Route.
Established customers. Sales way
up this year. Must be satisfied with
earnings of S3O a week to start.
Write Rawleigh’s Dept. GAL-163-
101, Memphis, Tenn.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER
CARDS OF THANKS, ETC.
Cards of thanks, resolutions, obit
uaries, notices of entertainment
where an admission is to be charge!
or other notices not of a goner
news value, will be charged for l
the rate of one cent per word.