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Rabies
Hydrophobia, or rabies, as
the disease is known is increas
ing rapidly in Georgia. This is
the startling information contain
ed in a recent bulletin prepared
by the State Board of Health.
Years ago this disease was con
sidered dangerous only among
animals, but now it seems to be
spreading among humans, with
the result that in Georgia alone
during 1921, the last year for
which statistics are available, a
total of 1800 humans received
treatment for the disease.
Rabies, it is known, is spread
only by dogs. Other animals
and man contract the disease,
but only dogs convey infection
from one to another. This
much is known about the disease
which, once constituted a men
ace in England. Rabies, unless
treated effectually immediately
following infection, mean death
to the patient, either man or
beast. , w
The problem of combating
rabies is already a serious one,
and the one solution of its men
ace lies in the control of the
dogs. Every unmuzzled dog
that roams the streets of Ameri
cus constitutes a menace to the
community. So-called ‘dog
days’ have nothing at all to do
with rabies, infection may be
contracted at any season
rabies is transmitted through skin
abrasions, and the disease is one
of the most dangerous known
to medical science. Several cas
es were reported recently in
Sumter county, Dr. Stapleton
diagnosing the disease as ‘dumb
rabies.' This would indicate
that not all rabid animals go
‘mad,’ that many of these re
main apparently harmless inso
far as attacking other animals
or human beings is concerned.
A final solution of the prob
lem may dome some day in the
discovery of a specific for rabies,
lather in ’form of a serum or oth
er treatment, but this is look
ing far into the future. Just
now it would appear to be the
part of better judgment to turn
attention to control of dogs.
Owners of such animals should
co-operate by keeping their
dogs confined at home; when,
hpwever, they fail to do this, the
authorities are justified in taking
whatever action may be neces
sary to protect the public. Vag
rant dogs that prowl about the
streets and in back yards at
night should be exterminated.
This class of dogs serves no use
ful purpose; they belong to no
body, and their elimination
might prove of incalculable
benefit to the community. The
life of a single child is worth
more than all of the dogs in the
county, and these vagrant ani
mals constitute a constant men
ace.
Mah Jong
Chinese bandits who rob and
kill by night gamble all day
at mah jong. This is the rather
surprising information brought
to this country by a missionary
recently returned from the Ori
ent. For centuries it has been
recognized that a Chinese is tc
be trusted; that the pledged
word of a Chinese, howeve
humble his station, equals the
strongest bond possible to give
in that country. Now comes the
' report that mah jong players ar
being excepted from this ancient
ruling.
Maybe the news will affect
the popularity of the game in
this country; maybe not. There
are few devotees of mah jong
in Americus, yet it is interesting
to speculate how many of these
will forsake the game because of
the unsavory reputation the pas
time has in its native
country. How many of these
respectable men and women, do
you suppsoe would engage in
faro, or the ordinary chance
game of ‘craps?’ These games,
disgraced in our country, per
haps, enjoy a * popularity in (
China similar to that of mah
jong in America. It would ap
pear that most games' are what
you make them anyway; what
is gambling in .China is pastime
in America and what is gamb
ling in America, perhaps, is
tßPri re»pecfab|e m China,
OPINIONS OF
OTHER EDITORS !
GEORGIA BUYS GREAT BULL
Pabst King Segis Clover, the
best bred Holstein bull ever ship
ped South, and among the best
in America, has just been purchas
ed by the Georgia State College
of Agriculture from • Pabst Hol
stein Farms, to head the excellent
herd maintained on the college
Farm at Athens.
We are advised by Dr. Milton
P. Jarnagin that the sire of this
bull is King Segis Alcartra Prilly,
six times Grand Champion and
undefeated in the show ring. In
addition to being of the type that
wins in tho shows, he has demon
onstrated his ability to transmit
production by siring three world’s
record daughters, which is more
than can be claimed of any other
living bull. His first four first
calf daughters average 1000
pounds of butter for the year and
two of his two year old daugh
ters have produced over 27,000
pounds of milk in the year.
The dam is a daughter of Crea
tor with 23.12 pounds of butter
and 469 pounds of milk to her
credit in seven days as a Jersey
two-year old. She in turn is out
of one of the best daughters of
King Pon|iac Champion* with
35 pounds of butter to her cred
it in seven days. Cordele Dis
patch.
LEGAL EXECUTIONS
The execution in Nevada on
Friday of last week of a China
man guilty of murder attracted
a great! deal of attention all over
the country because it was the
first legal taking of human life
by means of lethal gas. The phy
• sicians, who witnessed the exe
cution from a safe distance and
separated from the condemned
by a glass window declare the
vengeance of the law was satis
fied in a painless way. They state
that Gee Jon, the first victim of
the new Nevada law, did not suf
fer in his passage into eternity.
Os course there is something
very gruesome and very harrow
ing aoout the idea of sitting a
man in a chair in a room alone,
sending the deadly gas into this
, chamber and watching the spark
of life go out of him. But the
authorities seem to agree—that
is the medical authorities—that
this plan is both effective and
prompt and that the victim, if
he suffers at all, is conscious for
only a fraction of a minute be
fore the lethal gasi becomes fatal.
The people in Nevada claim they
have made great . progress in
meeting the vengeance of the
law.
There was a time when those
upon whom the duty of execu
tions fell thought that the more
punishment the victim could have
the better the job was done. The
age of breaking men on the
wheel, of death by a series of
duckings in a pool and the use
of the bastinado, when men were
whipped upon the soles of their
feet, mark some of the progres
sive stages through which human
ity has passed until it has reach
ed this alleged painless method
out in the Middle West—Savan
nah Press.
“AT REEDS REQUEST.”
Senator Lenroot, chairman of
the Senate committee engaged
in probing the oil scandal, is a
fair minded man, as is evidenced
by a statement he made while
the committee was in session
Monday.
The Associated Press thus re
ports the incident:
“Chairman Lenroot said he
wished to explain outside of the
record’ that the questions which
had been.put to Mr. Doheny and
which resulted in the disclosure
of Mr. McAdoo’s employment as
counsel had been at the request
of Senator Reed, Democrat, Mis
souri.”
So “that’s that!"
It would be interesting to know
by what mental processes Senator
Lenroot reached the decision to
make the brief statement 'attri
buted to him. Senator Reed is
his senatorial colleague. Mr. Mc-
Adoo is not, and never has been
but there has been a great deal
more political sympathy between
senator Lenroot’s party and Sen
ator Reed than between that par
ty and McAdoo.
There seems to be little doubt
that the chairman of the com
mittee simply decided that the
public should know why a ques
tios which brought McAdoo’s
same into the oil hearing was
asked of Doheny, particularly as
Senator Reed is an announced
casdidate for the same high of
fice which McAdoo is seeking.
The matter presents Senator
Reed in a not enviable light
There was nothisg culpable in the
McAdoo law firm’s connection
with oil companies with which
Doheny was fair enough when he
mentioned McAdod is response to
Senator Lenroot’s question, to
state that none of the services
rendered by McAdoo, Cottos &
Franklin were in connection with
any «f the oil leases under inves
tigatios with efforts of Ameri
can oil intereests to secure fair
treatment at the hands of the
Mexican government. Npthing
has since been brought out to
justify a suspicion that the facts
were not exactly as they were
given to the Sesate committee by
Mr. McAdoo on Monday.
Senator Reed is privileged to
enjoy whatever Satisfaction he
can get out of his connection
with the case. Those who are
familiar with his record are hard
ly surprised. His reputation for
colitical fairness is not immacu
late, and his attempt to besmirch
another Democrat who happens
to be seeking the same hieh hon
or for which Reed himself is an
avowed but hopeless candidate
not surprising.—Albany Herald
Copyright, 1923, F) AH Y POFI\4 By
N. E. A. Service V/Mlu I 1 VJILIVI Bcrton Braley
ICONOCLASTS
There is a certain type of goof,
Who always has undoubted proof
That no great man alive or dead
Has said the things we think he said,
Or done the things we thought he did.
From Cheops and his pyramid
To Henry and his well known flivvfer,
This doubting Thomas will deliver
Proof that these big men recall
• Deserve no credit none at all. ,
It matters not what name you mention
In art, in' letters or invention,
Or who may be'the mighty giants
In war or politics or science,
These expert knockers will essay
To take their credit all away A
35nd give it to rome gent unknown
Who was “the power behind the throne.’’
Perhap; they’re right, but I prefer
To think my heroes really were
Heroic as I’ve always thought;
And that the things they said and wrought
Were mostly theirs—and mostly true.
I like illusions, so I do;
I ike my idols and I trust ’em
More than I trust the guys who’d bust ’em!
Old Days in
Americus
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times-Recorder. Feb.
15, 1914.)
A lovely party of Friday morning
was the one given by Mrs. H. 0.
Jones at her home on Harrold ave
nue, when she entertained four tab
les of players. Mrs. Taylor Lewis
received the prize for top score, a
book of recent fiction, and as favors
red carnations were given to each
guest.
Class Number Eleven of Furlow
Lawn Baptist Sunday school had
their reguar monthly social meeting
on Friday evening at the home of
their teacher, Mrs. R. L. Bivins. Be
sides the members of the class those
present were Misses Martha Ded
ham, Catherine Davenport, Mary
Elza Sheppard, Annie Allen, Ruth
McArthur, Nina B. Cannon, Orrie
Baggett, Bufa Gammage, Maud
Comer, Violet Tooten, Margaret Mo
gan Marthena and Bess Bivins.
Friends of Miss Rebecca Cowles
are pleased to learn that she is re
covering from severe injuries sus
tained recently in a fall from a
carriage from which she was' alight
ing.
Mr. and Mrs. James Reese are
enjoying greatly their trip to Miami
and points on the Floriad peninsula,
where they went recently for a
pleasant stay of several weeks.
Col. C. M. Hunter is among
Columbus' well-known commercial
evangelists who picked out a g<md
place to spend Sunday.
Charles Crisp, Jr., has arrived
here from Washington and will re
main with relatives here duing the
stay of fps parents, Judge and Mrs.
Charles R. Crisp in Colorado, where
they have gone for an extended
visit.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
Monday morning no paper pub
lished.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times-Recorder. Feb.
15, 1894.)
Yesterday morning, after the ad
journment of mayor’s court a con
ference of the friends of Mr. My
rick for the prosecution of the au
thors of the libelous article that
had been published the previous day
Warrants were issued for the ar
rest of Messrs. Ansley, Cuerry,
Twitty and Francis and Judge Math
ews set for hearing at 2 o’clcok
At noon, Mr. J. B. Ansley made a
statement to the effect that his
name had ben signed to the article
without his knowledge of the con
tents or significance of the lan
guage used, and that he repudiated
the sentiment expressed.
High Private Ed Littleton, who
claims the distinction of being the
only living private of the late war,
has hit upon a happy scheme to
keep his larder supplied until the
plum and blackberry season comes
around. Last spring he posed as an
alliance lecturer in the back coun
ties where he was unknown io the
.people, and thus worked the fried
chicken and biscuit racket yith
great success. Can’t do that agsin
with safety so he proposes to go t
to work for Governor Northern
The following are the pupils
highest in scholarship in the sev
eral classes at Jackson street for
the past six weeks. First grade
A-B cass, Francis Harper, Emmie
Morgan, Louise Clarke: Clarke:
A class Mary Kitchens, Imogene
Davis, Ernest Slappey, First grade
B. 8., class Harris Council, Mamie
Bailey, Minnie Mayo. A class,
Katie Everett, Winnie Bragg, John
B. Walters. Second grade A-B
class, Emmett Horine, Susie Chap
man, Rosa Stubbs, A class, Marion
Harrison, Deville Parrott, Lizzie
Rutherford. Fourth grade
Baisden Kate Harris, Alice Boyd,'
Gussie fsther Morris, and
Mattie Lou Brugan. Seventh grade
A, Herbert Hawkins Susie Darby,
Waiter Page. __ _
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
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FAT
The famous Parisian dressmaker,
Mme. Madeline Voinnet, visits New
York and comments: “It’s a pity
j that all American women want to
>be thin. They lose something when
i they force flesh away—the fresh
i ness is lost and they are almost cer
tain to have a haggard appearance
which no amount of youthful clothes
can disguise. It’s a pity to go
against nature. I believe in being
natural.”
One answer to this is that it isn’t
natural for a woman to get too fat,
any more than it’s natural for her
to get too thin. The womanly at
temut to be than is more than a
fashionable urge. It reflects a de
sire for health, activity and grace.
• » •
MASKS
“It’s a pity to go against nature.
I believe in being natural,” says
Mme. Voinnet, which proves she is
as good at philosophy as at dress
making. A large part of our gen
eration wears a mask. It hides its
real self.. It apes others—tries to
live up to standards beyond its in
come—even affecting the strut and
shrug of movie stars.
When a person is not absolutely
natural, frankly and bluntly just
what God made him. it’s an admis
sion that he’s ashamed of himself.
Great personalities are always nat
ural, never masked.
« • «
NEXT
In the next war, the main object
will be to put the enemy to sleep
or otherwise temporarily out of bat
tle instead of butchery and death.
So predicts Benedict Crowell, form
erly of the War Department. Such
a policy would be changed after
prisoners began running into the
millions. Prisoners are a great nui
sance.
Ci owell makes this enticing pre
diction: “Airplanes will jump over
armies and attack the directing
brains behind.”
• • •
HUGO
Great preparations all over the
world to hqnor Hugo Grotius, the
Holland jurist, and the 300th an
niversary. of his treatise on war ar.d
peace. This treatise was the be
ginning of international law.
Nations are fairly well policed
and managed from within . On the
“world stage,” nations still are not
far removed from a condition of
banditry and lawlessness. They
make their subjects behave at home,
but forget the rules often indealing
with neighbors.
• » »
COUNTERFEIT
A Greek refugee in Anatolia made
an oriental rug,; three by six feet,
a perfect reproduction of an Ameri
can dollar bill. The rug finally
landed in the hands of an Akron
man. who paid 839 for it. He dis
played it in a store window. A
Secret Service agent saw it and
seized it as a violation of the U. S.
counterfeiting laws.
Technically correct, for it’s un
lawful to make or owu a reproduc
tion of a money design. But the
rug was later returned to its owner.
WlLip
Want to buy a lion? The animal
companies will go into the jungles
of Africa, catch and deliver a lion
to you for SSOO. Tigers are liste I
lately at SIOOO apiece, elephants
as low as $2500.
The elephane quotation interests
jprieptals as much as auto
teres't us. Many' centuries are
bridged in this contrast. And the
auto dumbfounds the out-of-the
way oriental as niuch as the jungle
beasts fascinate us» , M
THE NOISY LODGER CHECKS OUT _
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PRINCE OF WAILS FALLS
MURDER
Every Now and -Then We Have a
Few Killings
The latest murder in the thea
rical world was held in New York.
Well, it was New York’s time. Holly
wood had the last one.
This makes it about a tie between
the two places, New York and Hol
lywood. But it shows that New
York is struggling for her old-time
leadership in the field of art.
There is talk of moving the movie
studios to New York, if New York
can furnish enough scandals, mur
ders and such.
SOCIETY
The Teapot Dome scandal seems
co be all over except the shouting.
That is, the scandal is all settled
officially. Investigators have been
duly appointed and are going to
work. These men will make a
probe. When you hear of investiga
tors probing something it means
nothing.
MARKETS
It is estiamted that most ten
cent cigars are nickle cigars.
MEDICAL NOTES
The funniest thing is a dentist
having his landlord for a patient.
DAN 8088 SAYS
If this Prince of Wales gets
through Leap Year single he is the
greatest diplomat on earth.
SPORTS
The ball teams are getting ready.
Interviewing the various managers
we find every team will win the
pennant this year. All any team
will have to do is beat all the other
teams, and this seems simple. Every
team has a rookie capable of win
ning the pennant by himself. If
you don’t believe us go ask the
rookie.
CHURCH NEWS
It might help if we worried less
about what we are after here and
more about what we are hereafter I
HUNTING NEWS
Tennessc hunter claip»s he stran
gled a wildcat. Even if he had, no
jody would have believed him.
SPRING NEWS
Only a few weeks now until
.nany of us will be too sick to work,
out well enough to go fishing.
BOOZE NEWS
Booze is very dangerous. A still
blew up in Chicago and almost
killed a couple of men.
HORSES CAN READ NEWS
PAPERS
The Prince of Wales has two bad
habits. One is falling off of horses
and the other is straying single.
Both are very dangerous.
He fell off a horse the other day
and broke his collarbone. There is
some talk of changing bis title col
the Prince of Wails.
ITCHING ECZEMA
DRIED RIGHT UP
BY THIS SULPHUR
Any breaking out of the skin, even
fiery, itching eczema, can be quickly
overcome by applying a little Mentho-
Sulphur, says a noted skin specialist.
Because of its germ destroying proper
ties, this sulphur preparation instantly
brings case from skin irritation, soothes
gild .heals the eczema right up and
leaves the skin clear and smooth
• It seldom fails to relieve the torment
and disfigurement. Sufferers from skin
trouble should get a little jar of Rowles
Mentho-Sulphm from anv good drug
and use it liU a cold cream.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON FEBRUARY 15, 1924
This young fellow is cut of luck.
■ He has to keep on riding, because
some day he may need a horse to
escape from the women.
The wire doesn’t say if any wom
en were after him when he fell
and broke his collarbone. If they
were, he ’managed to escape, be
cause he is still single.
EDITORIAL
Spring is coming, according to
; the almanac. With spring will come
: spring fever. Os course it won’t
j exactly be spring fever. It will be
the regular laziness which we have
i all year! Spring gives us a chance
; to call this laziness by a more po
' lite name.
DATE ,
We suggest that February is short
' on days because March is so windy
i it blows in ahead of time.
The first public operatic perform
ance is believed to have been staged
223 years ago at a French royal
wedding.
J
Children’s coughs
often become dangerous when
neglected. Give Dr. Bell’s Pine-
Tar Honey at once- It contains
just the medicines your doacr
prescribes to break up a cough,
combined with the good old-time
remedy—pine-tar honey. It loos
ens hard-packed phlegm, stops
coughing and reduces inflamma
tion. Children love the taste.
All druggins. Be sure to get
the genuine.
DR. BELL’S Pine‘Tar Honey
BRONCHITIS
Site At bedtime rub the throat and
chest thoroughly with —
VICKS
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Kats for small .boys up to 10
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Odd lots from our $2.50 to $3.00
lines in all colors and all sizes, here
now at, each ~..,....51.45
The Best Yard-Wide Sheeting
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$1.50 All-Wool Serge at 95c
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1,000 Yards of White Outings
at Yard 15c '•
Fine White Outing, full width,
heavy twill, regularly 25c; here
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39c Devonshire Cloth at 25c
Short lengths just received from
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this sale 35c
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