About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (July 11, 1925)
- 4ES-RECORDER up Bt>)1 XSTABIJSHtD IST* P-.bll.hm A THOUGHT ■ to th* Act of • I 100 . ; Wit - In your patience possess ye your 11,1 *hMcin*i»ely •■titled to roulf.—Luke 21; 19. <»f al) newt di* • otherwise credited to _ new* published hete- of «peci*J diapetebe* , ■ r .. . . W The chief pang ol most trials is v ( not so much tbe actual suffering -Hnt.tirw, frost j| se |f as our own ypirit of resist w«iioi> Building. ance t () it.—Jean Nicholas Grou. stu dov he, ~ - ■ ■ wITORIALS look Medicine was' Control Lijt dreaded of h * a< ’icer. It is abov. . * Ke( j <ical science is q]£o todaj' with cd at H“ re ma y be \ ’0 000 a | rich Her ey vomen happi_ ld ., tbe <>l> ,edible I is . neith ,' nhn It ] v hundred f rr .ins die every j. a .. One man in ne woman in ev have reached the rs, die of cancer, statements were J. L. Campbell, of .riman of the Georgia nmission, of whom it he knows more about -■ than any other man uth. ' je of the vital impor- ■ ihis subject, of which is. known, we quote in Campbell’s address here sek before the Rotary «r,s follows: te | earliest recorded efforts ’’•st the spread of disease de by Edward .Tenner in ien hd vaccinated a co .111- with cowpox virus to pre e deve.opm'at cf smtll - magnitude of Ini: ent cannot be compre ithout a review of health s in the civilized world s a?;o. Official records epartment of Health of Britain show us that as 1802 England paid a toll of 45,000 deaths from <■ In France there were , 1 deaths annually, in F'rus ,ooo; while in Russia it med that more than two 1 died in a single year, icians of the early 19th ry tell us that, there were pO,OOO deaths from smallpox -y 25 years and that 50% jthe American Indians died Al the disease within a short .JjAftcr it was introduced to- Ixfzo by the Spaniards. in writing of the untimely death 'Com smallpox in 1694 of the >eautiful young Queen Mary, Lord Macaulay says “that disease ■over which science has since . achieved a glorious victory was then the most terrible of all the minister of death.. It was always present, filling the graveyards /witkv corpses, tormenting with I constant*fear all whom it had not \ yet stricken, leaving on those ’■whose lives it spared the hideous -J traces of its power, turning the baby into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and mak ing the eyes and cheeks of the be trothed n.aiden objects of horror to her lover.’’ Such was the havoc wrought by a single disease prior to the time of the immortal Jenner, who spent 18 years of his life work ing on this one problem. Today the official figures in our Bureau of Vital Statistics show that there were only 73 deaths from small pox in Georgia during the past 5 years, all of which were peo ple who had not been vaccinated. I'll the Spanish-American war 85* percent of all deaths among the troops were’ due to typhoid fever; while in the World War, in which there were more than 3,000,000 American boys, only 227 or fivetenths of one percent of all deaths were from typhoid fever. A few years ago the an nual death rate from diptheria was 96 pel 1 100,000, today less than 12 per 100,000 die of the same disease and within the last three years it has been found that diphtheria can be almost completely prevented by the use of to'-' 1 •. -ine. Yel ' lo>- “ >rve of 2 ' ■ » $10,000,000 sell 150 daily hon in AitaericuS. Profit weekly. Experience 1 For partciulars, write Watkins Co., 62-70 We Jenn. —11-t ! I its cause; but we now know a great deal about it and for vari ous reasons we tool that the death rate from its ravages can be reduced. We know (1) that early cancer is a local condition and can be cured by complete eradication; (2) that it is not con tagious, or infectious; (3) that it is not hereditary; that is, a can cer cell cannot be transmitted from parent to offspring; (4) with reasonable certainty, we know what organs and parts of the body will be attacked at cer tain ages and under what condi tions cancer will develop; (5) that almost 11)0,000 of cur brt citizens are dying annually and that one woman in every eight and one man in every fourteen who have attained the age of 40 years and over will die of cancer; (6) that it is not a blood disease and no one should be ashamed of having it. It simply begins at a point of long continued irritation, which if removed, will often pre vent the development of cancer; (7) that many forms, when left alone, spread to other parts of the body which are inaccessible to treament. The popular conception of a cancer is that it is an open sore which shows a tendency to in crease in size and depth and which does not yield to ordinary methods of treatment. Such a conception is erroneous; a sore may or may not be a can cer and, when it is, it may be one of the simpler varieties that can be cured by any one of sev eral remedies. Probably 50 per cent to 75 per cent cf the can cers advertised as cured by quacks were never cancers. The most serious cancers never appear as external sores; conse quently, the popular idea concern ing them must be revised before the death rate can be 1 educed. Unfortunately, early cancers de not causepain. If they did, the death rate could be materially lowered in a few years; people will seek medical aid for pain, while a deadly disease that does not cause pain. If they did, the Since the earliest time the composition of the body has, been an object of investigation by scientific men. Hippocrates and Galen taught that it was made up -of four fluids called humors blended in definite proportions. An excess of one or another of the fluids caused disease; espe cially was this true of cancer. The first quarter of the 19th century had passed before the true nature of animal tissue was discovered and it was demonstrat ed that the body as a whole was made of separate units called cells, just as a building is made up of separate units—brick, stones, etc. All the tissues of the body arise from a single cell called an ovum, made capable of growth by fer tilization.*, Within a few hours after fertilization the ovum has divided into a group of cells . which begin to assume different shapes and tasks. To one is as signed the duty of forming the brain, to another the liver, and to another the heart, and so on until every cell is employed. They Work in harmony under a law es tablished by Nature. Each or gan assumes a definite size and shape and is prepared to perform a definite function, so that at birth the completed body is pre sented to the world “with all the characteristics of the species to which the primitive cells belonged and many of the peculiarities of the parents from which they sprung.” In the unborn, or em bryonic body, cell development is rapid and is characterized by certain peculiarities, many of which are found in cancer cells. A knowledge of the above facts is necessary before we can un derstand that (1) a cancer is simply a new growth of cell aris ing from some organ or part of the body; (2) the cells of which this new growth is compbsed have reverted to the embryonic type; (3) they have lost their re lation to the laws of Nature, so that (4) they grow wildly into S® the surrounding structure, pene trate the veins and lymph ves ,l "seis; and are carried to distant Z parts ,of k the body, forming sec -4 opdary growth (metastases), and (5) they produce a toxin or poi fflßm Which destroys the life of -’heir h st., MUDD CENTER FOLKS ( WHAT TH&T F/EWSOI-T ) ' F /order. House. ? J I r .7 W-/ : / — AW— k ■ Jw IBM >r F Overhear® Near the Post Office. Seth- Smith: *1 TH’ Guv’meht lost itx Suit in thet tea Pot®ome scandal" Pop SLUPE :"tHet’s Nothin’! BYe clow lost HiS’N ®OWN To the SwiMMIN’ Hole an’ the only one. HE’S . \ 7->l ~ e IS2S OV NEA SERVICE IHC. -Z erly eradicated, may be cured, but, if allowed to spread, will soon become unmanageable. It would seem to the casual ob server that a cancer in so accessi ble a part of the body as the mouth would be recognized and cured at once, yet the reverse is true, fee the best statistics ob tainable ehow that at least 85 per cent of all cancers of the mouth are at the present time fatal. One of the most prominent sur geons in America has written an article entitled, “Cancer of the Mouth, a Preventable Disease,” and so it is. Ninety-five per cent of all can cers of the mouth occur in men who are over 45 years' age; the greatest number occurring at the age of 60 and above. Cancers of the mouth are infrequent in people who take care of their teeth, who do not use tobacco in ! excess, and who do not smoke cigars or a pipe. A white spot on the tongue, which is known to medical men as leukoplakia, has definitely been proven to be a precancer leison; however, if it is removed early it can be cured. It is much easier to prevent a can cer of the mouth than to cure one, and proper care of the mouth will prevent at least 75 per cent of these lesions. About 10 per cent of all can cers are located in the mammary glands. If the victim will con sult a competent physician early and follow his advice, a large number can be safely and per manently cured. A single lump, devoid of paip, in the breast of a woman past 35 jears of age is a danger signal that should not be overlooked. There is not one chance in a thousand that a wom an under 25 years of age will have a cancer of the breast, but many tumors in the breasts of young women become malignant as age advances. I wish to im press upon you the fact that can cer of the breast does not give pain. If it were as painful as toothache, nine out of every ten who now die of it would be saved. A lump in the breast should nev er be rubbed or handled roughly, for the breast is abundantly suj>- plied with lymphatics through which cancer cells are carried to remote parts of th" body. Ma nipulation and massage break off clumps of cells from the original lesion, which are picked up and carried away by the lymphatics. Forty or f : fty per ecn- of can cers are located in the intestinal canal. ’ A large number of them occur in the stomachs of people past 45 years of age. Each year more than 40,000 people die in the Unite J States from cancer of the stomach, liver, and in testines. Our state, with 4 popu lation of a little over three mil lion, lost over 450 citizens last year from canc.r of the stom ach, liver and all bladder. About seven-eights o ’ them were white, and it is about ■ qually di vided among the two sexes. Cancer of the stomach is fre quently preceded by what is known to doctors as ulcer symp toms. Indigestion with nausea and vomiting, loss of fl&sh and constant gur,gilng aiqcompanied by slight pain, coming on after the individual is 40 years of age are signs that should not be over looked. The history of the case, laboratory analyses of the stom \ach content, and a careful X-ray * .examination will often 1 eveal a (cancer of the stomach that can Abe cured. / It is not so easy <0 diagnose a ’ << cancer in the intenstine, although we know (hat they arp THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER ' rus. This means that between nineteen and twenty thousand women die in the United States annually from this cause. Every woman who has borne one or more children and who has reach ed the ago of forty years should have a careful physical examina tion at least twice a year, for it is possible to detect early cancer of these organs. The principal symptoms presented are a slight water discharge between the pe riods, many times tinged with blood, excessive menstruation, excoriation about the external or gans, with lassitude, and a slight ‘ loss of fiesh. Perhaps 95 per cent of all cancers of the uterine cervix are due to ulceration and laceration. Cancer of the worn.b can be prevented by education, for if women will follow the sug ; gestions I have already made and consult their family physicians thousands of lives can be saved. We have spoken of cancers as I occurring in those of mature life and old age, but there is a form that attacks even young children and babies; in fact, it may be present in a baby at birth. This form of cancer is known as “sar coma.” It arises in certain organs of the body more often than in oth ers. it is fpund in the muscles or in the bones and joints. The lymph glands may be primarily involved. There are . many varieties of sarcoma: some are much more malignant than others; some grow very rapidly and yield to no treatment; oth ers grow slowly and do not re cur when removed. Saco'ma spraeds from the pri mary tumor to distant parts of the body by means of the blood stream. The cells grow into the vessels which pass thru the tu mor, are broken off, and carried to tlje lungs, the liver, brain, and, in fact, any part of the body. As soon as a tumor is discover ed, consult your doctor. Let him take the responsibility! While it is possible to cure, with reasonable certainty, early cancers it is just as impossible to cure a late one. The more dif ficult it is to cure a disease, the more remedies are suggested. At the present time we are ufeing ev ery means that offers even hope ful results in the treatment of cancer. Radium will almost sure ly cure small cancers about the face, eyelids and (often) those of the lips, though lip cancers are apt to recur or metastasize to the glands of the neck, where they cannot be controlled by the use of radium. At present, radium is the best remedy for cancer of the uterus. Surgery, which was long heralded as the best treat ment, should not now be advised for cancers in this location. Surgery alone offers hope for cancer of the breast, stomach, and intestines. However, X ray and radium are often bene ficial in the treatment of can cer in any part of th ebody. The best advice that we can give is to consult your family doctor if you have any suspicious symp toms. If he is not sure, have a consultation. It may save your life! Although the most brilliant minds in the world are engaged in research and millions of dollars are being spent annually, the cause of cancer has not yet been definitely discovered. A great deal has been found out about it and we know how to cure it when an early diagnosis is made. No one can cure a late cancer—the only hope is to have competent professional care early. There are many-kinds of cells • « Vl^an a body and’cancers T’ s "' of them; A couple of pedestals soar tc the sky, and their occupants make us all glad. Ycu’ve seen them, of course, in your little mind’s eye- Let’s consider them mother and dad. We alt owe a debt that we never can pay, butat least we can meke just the best of it, by showing our thanks in our acts day by day—and they’ll have to imagine the rest of it. Right now is the time ycu can do little things that will show that, as daughter or sen, you are happy for *fcts that real hap piness brings io your parents, whenever they’re done. . Our lives, after all, ate too short to repay our folks for the things they have done for us. ’Tis best that we do one good act every day. What’s the answer It really means/fun for vs. Say, where is the daughter or son who’ll deny that there’s everything due Mon N’ Pop? Let's start eff teday to repay— ycu and I—lei’s start it, and then, never stop! P OTHER DAYS lN AMER’iCUS ! TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Timcs-Recorder, July 11, 1915.) Appreciating the fact that a “Great White Way” for the city ol Americus would be one of the best improvements that could possibly be pt in at this time, the young ladies of the city, under the able manage ment of Miss Annie Ruth Britton will put the first money in the bank to go towards -erecting this much needed improvement. “The Little Princess” is a play of the highest type and among those taking lead ing parts will be Miss Britton, Miss Maud Sherlock, Miss Mary Elza Sheppard, Miss Elizabeth Al len. Walter Philips, efficient manager of the local Kress store left today for his home in Augusta, where he .will spend his vacation with his mother. Miss Mattie Sargent gave a love ly rook party yesterday, entertain ing twelve of her friends. Secretary Hyman, Quimby Mel ton, Frank Stapleton and Lewis El lis leave in the morning for East man, going through the country by automobile. The car will be cover ed with booster banners. Mr. Frink Lanier spent yester day with Mrs. Lanier at Battle Creek, Mich. Both will join the Am ericus party today for California in Chicago. Os much interest in Americus and throughout the district is the an nouncement of Rep. C. ,R. Crisp of his intention to appoint Charles Huntington Wheatley, of Americus, to the vacancy at the United States Naval Academy. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Recorder, July It, 1905.) Eleven cents may bo paid for spot cotton in Americus today or tomorrow, if one is to judge by the strides made yesterday when the market shot up forty points and ten and three quarter cents was the price here. It is an even bet as to whether Americus will have an electric street railway before Jackson street is paved and declared finished. The work of sidewalks and paving start- : ed some time last year, and is still unfinished. Mr. G. Morgan Eldridge and family arc not at home at 117 Tay- ■ lor street, having leased the Dr. Campbell residence until recently occupied by Rev. R. E. Neighbor and family. Mrs. George Duncan has return ed home after a pleasant stay of two or three weeks among tne mountains of North Georgia. The Windsor Hotel company, clos ed a contract yesterday with Mr. John W. Shiver, the contractor and builder for extensive improvements upon the interior of the hotel. With ten or twelve cents cotton two months hence Americus is go ing to enter upon the most pros perous fall season known in many years. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY Monday, no paper published. Mosquitoes never know what a temper you have. Women’s clothes may be the most sensible. But a man can’t drop cigaret ashes down his collar. Distance lends enchantment ex cept when you are out of gas. Some clouds have silver linings and others are silver coated. Kissing too much may make your nose flat. even in the early stages may only hasten the growth of another. A . careful study must be made be fore the proper treatment can be administered. Any one suspici ous of having a cancer should see the family physicitm. The above from Dr. Camp bell is an authoritative state ment, one that should be care fully digested and remembered and his advice heeded. It may be the means of saving the life of one of our readers. Certain ly it has added materoially to our j store of knowledge on this all I important subject and -we are i deeply grateful to Dr. Campbell having grade it possible to J ~ -'i'r read- SATURDAY AFTERNOON. JULY 11. 1925 The best test of what we really value is to find out what we will fight for. Once-that was individual liberty. Is it now? , Inquire pf the night rides, who run men down for exercising their individual liberty to refuse to co operate with their fellows, in the tobacco or raisin business. Ask of the “entertainment com mittee,” that beats up the “scab"’ for exercising his individual liberty to stay out of the union, or to re frain from striking. Ask the trade association, which combines with the banks and the wholesalers to bankrupt the dealer who exercises the liberty of individual competition. Ask of the Ku Klux, who raid the man who was born different. The thing we fight for is not liberty. It is to coerce the other man to forego the liberty which we have eagerly surrendered, and to join with us tor uniformity, not individuality of action. Our traditional theories compel us, in words, to condemn all these things. But on which side, in fart, do Vs fight? NOT SO VERY FAR FROM SAVAGERY It is still a fighting world. One week, Persia introduces a Prussian system of universal mili tary service, and the next week quits the arms conference rather than submit to the search of ships that might be carrying arms. France, bec-EUSe it has been preaching the cruelty of poison gas, refrained for a while from using it against the Riff tribesmen, but when they proved hard to subdue by orthodox methods, it considered using it on them and hesitated to join with the other nations in out lawing gas generally . Every Solomon Island cannibal goes armed all the time, and fight ing is the chief concern of life. So would it be in civilized com munities, if we had not organized them with fighting police ,to figlh to keep the rest of us from fight- $5,000 Local Money To Loan J o LEWIS ELUS Troy G. Morrow ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Bell Building AMERICUS, QA. Americus Undertaking Co. NAT LEMASTER, Man»g*t Funeral Director* And Embalmer* Night Phone* 661 and 88 Dav Phones 88 and 231 L. G. COUNCIL, President T. E. BOLTON, Ass’t, Cashier C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. & Cashier. J. E. KIKER, Ass’t. Cashier The Planters Bank of Americus (Incorporated) Sound Principles Ba-’k takes pleasure IX Bi® rißwsßE *“ ,ervin « th o ** cu»tomer» nr' who expect the utmost in II eommer:ial banking service, Bn< i * et w **° do B . ot expect I? accommodations inconsistent with wound and conservative banking principles. Wrili RpSiMwSI Perhaps an account with - “• will prove beneficial to you. Capital and Surplus $350,000.00 RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 ROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING mg. Internationally, we are just em erging from the Solomon Island stage. And Persia, France, the Riffians and American jingo isolationists are the chief influences to keep us in that stage. * FREEDOM FOR WORK, NOT FROM IT It is not women suffrage, but the electric washing machine, that has emancipated women, said a speaker )>cfore. the National Electric Light Association. In other words, real emancipatiftn is freedom, not from autocracy, but from drudgery. That depends a good deal on what use is made of the new leisure. Drudgery is an ev#. But work «s a good. Machinery emancipated men from drudgery, but they used thit 'op portunity, not to escape from rVUFk, but to accomplish more work. Unless this turns out to tie true also of women, the electrization of the home wil) present new problems of neurotic idleness. The “delicatessen wife” isF, not emancipated. She is a victim, de prived of one occupation b.eforo she has adapted herself to another. . The old inefficient home absorb ed all. and more than all, of as woman’s energy, just to keep it go ing. The modern electric tiat ab sorbs much less then <all of it. It'is a great opportunity, for the woman of brains, self-control and resourcefulness. Inside or outside the home, paid or unpaid, she finds more inspiring activity, in place of the dwarfing drudgery she has escaped. She is free, not from work, but for work. ' But work of some sort is a ne cessity, for the normal life of either men or Women, The laziest man stretches out right after supper and sleeps until time to go to bed. As you look so are you going. And if you keep looking backward you will go that way. Changing ypur mind too fast may get it twisted. ? i ' ; • Dr. R.B. Strickland Dentist Americus, Georgia BELL BUILDING Over Western Union Telegraph Co- Money to Lend ON AMERICUS RESIDENCE PROPERTY J. Lewis Ellis Empire Bldg. Phone 830 EGG PRICES STRONGER Sell us your Eggs. We pay the top of the mar ket for Fresh Eggs. AMERICUS HATCHERY AND SUPPLY CO . Americus, Ga. i RAILROAD SCHEDULES Central of Georgia Railway Co. (Central Standard Time) Arriv, Depart 12:01 am Col-B’ham-Chgo 3:55 an» 1:53 Alb-Jaxv. 3:35 am 3:20 anr. Ja’v-Albany 11:42 pm 3:35 am Chgo-Cin-Atl 1:53 am 3:55 am Jax’v-Albany 12:01 am 5:29 am Macon-Atlanta 10:35 pm 6:34 am Albany 6:47 pm 10:10 am Columbus 3:15 pm 1:54 pm Atlanta-Macon 1:54 pnrj 1:54 pm Albany-Montg 1:54 pm 3:10 pm Albany 10:12 am 6:47 pm Atlanta Macon 4 am 10:35 pm Alby-Montgy 5:29 am 11:42 pm Chgo-St.L Atl 3:20 am *■■ - * * SEABOARD AIR LINE (Central Time) ’ Arrive Departs 7:55 am Cordele-Helena 9:35 am* 12:26 pir. Savh-Montg 3:?3 pm 3:23 pm Savh-Montg 12:2$ pm J. A. BOWEN, Local Agent.
