The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current, July 04, 1912, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextKINDERGARTENS ARE TO BE ESTABLISHED Legislature Will Be Asked For Law Permitting Their Trial. Georgia educators are deeply interested in the passage of the permissive Kindergarten l>ill which is to be presented at this session of the legislature by Rep resentative.!. Randolph Anderson of the First. District and which ! will have the hearty support of Chatham’s other Representatives, the Hon. .1. R. McCarthy and the Hon. A. A. Lawrence. The club women of the entire State are be hind the movement, giving it strong endorsement. The bill would have the effect not only of permitting public school boards to introduce Kin dergarten as an organic part of their system but of legalizing those public school Kindergartens already established in several i Georgia cities. Athens compar atively recently took over into its public school system the free Kindergartens started by t he wo man’s clubs, the value of the work as a foundation for educa tion and as essential to the varied needs of the little child having been clearly demonstrated. So convinced have the Athens edu rational authorities become of the value of the Kindergarten that the University of Georgia summer school last summer introduced a Kindergarten department under the supervision of Miss Hortense M. Oreutt, supervisor of the Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten As sociation of Savannah, and is con tinuing it this season with Miss Carol I*. Oppenheimer and Miss N*ra Edmonston, both of the Kate Baldwin Association, as di rectors, under Miss Oreutt. Columbus has had public school Kindergartens for a number of years, and Augusta has a Kinder garten in every public school in the city, Supt. Lawton I!. Evans being a firm believer in Kinder garten as an economic and indis pensable factor in elementary I education. Georgia's constitution, ante dating as it does educational i; knowledge of the Kindergartens, I does not allow for public educa tion before the age of six, as it ! does not allow for high school ; education, manual and vocational * training, languages, and other j branches that have been incorpo- c rated in its educational system of 1 latter years and legalized by 1 special legislation. The new Kin- i dergarten bill will obviate this ( difficulty, and will at least make > it possible for enlightened boards | of education in the State to take 1 account of those formative and important years in child develo- 1 ' ment, from 1 to 6, recognizing i society’s responsibility to give to i its little citizens at that time op- v portunities for the fullest growth in body, mind and spirit, and ] making, through proper direc- i tion, the energies and interests l of that period of life serve the ; whole cause of education. A Tragic Recitation. They say a notable French ac tress occasionally likes to play a little joke on her public, says the Kansas City Journal. Site went to London recently and had an audience in tears. A large, wide Englishman was weeping copious ly. ’“Sir, you seem moved,” re marked a Frenchman at bis side. “Yes, bow impressive she is. 1 cannot understand French, but I can understand the tragedy in her utterances.” “In that case.” said the Frenchman, “you may bo inter ested to know that she is reciting the multiplication table.” For Solo. BufT Orppington eggs for hatching. $1.50 t>or 15. Mrs. M. G. Wilcox, Uvalda, Ga. The Tax Problem. If we were each honest in the I giving in of our taxes, we would kick until some!>ody heard us | about the other fellow. We adopt the least troublesome and most cowardly practice of doing like the other fellow in evading and avoiding taxes. In the long run we pay just as much tax and steep ourselves in the crime of I perjury. The business men, land ’ owners and all who have the real interest of the country at heart, should co-operate with the coun ty commissioners in endeavoring *o solve the problem so as to make all bear an equal share in the burden of taxation,-Greenville Vindicator, Corpse Was In the Way, “I once attended a funeral in the southern part of Elkhart county, Indiana,”relates Wm. S, Burke, who is staying away from the Chicago convention because he hates a racket, according to the Cleveland l’laindealer. “The corpse had been an old friend of mine in the days before he was a corpse. We all gathered in the little settin’ room and tried to look solemn. Finally an old lady rustled in, made a loud noise with her black silk funeral regalia and then said: “‘Hannah, this here parlor looks real nice. Where’d you git t hat I here old clock ?’ “‘What,old clock?’snuffled the widow. ‘I ain’t got no clock you ain’t saw.’ “ ‘You have, too! That big old gran’father’s clock, over there agin the wall —I never seen that before. ’ “‘Laws, how you talk!’ cried the bereaved, bursting into tears. ‘That ain’t no clock—that there’s the deceased. I stood the caskit, endwise to make room fer the mourners.’ ” Echoes From Baltimore. Some of the delegates from the Northern states are having their first opportunity to study the old Southern “mammy” and pickaninny at firsthand, says the Baltimore correspondence of the New York Herald. The way to the convention hall lies through a district which contains many negro families, and today found many of the kindly faced aged black women, famed in stories and songs of the Southland, seat ed on the stoops of their homes watching the visitors go by. In variably they were surrounded by half a dozen cute little tar babies. The youngsters ranged in age from infants in arms to children of six or seven, and a single garment—a cheap ging ham frock was all they wore. When a band playing “Dixie” marched by at the head of the Tammany delegation it was a treat to watch the children and their aged guardians. The young sters kicked up their heels in a “puffecly scanlus” manner, clap ping their hands and had a great time. The “mammies” swayed back and forth to the inspiring strains. One of the most strik ing looking of the lot, her hair and face, the two extremes in white and black, plucked up courage to ask a policeman who the marchers were. “That’s Tammany,” said the policeman. “Who is doy?” inquired the negro at her elbow, "He done say deys too many,” ! she replied with a dubious shake | of her head. Representative Fitzgerald, of Brooklyn, one of the parliamen tary pilots in the present disturb ance, spends most of his time! riding in taxicabs between the two principal hotels. “How would you like to own i one of these hotels this week?” he was asked. Td sooner own a taxicab,” he replied. The Clark boomers have adopt ed the scheme of enlarging their buttons every day. They began with an ordinary sized disc bear ing the picture of the Missouri candidate, and yesterday they were featuring buttons as big as butter plates. “We’ll Ik 1 wearing platters be fore Thursday,” complained one man. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR-THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1012. PELLAGRA SHOWS LARGE INCREASE Georgia State Board of Health Urges Law to Keep Out Bad and Improperly Cured Corn. Atlanta, Ga., July 10. — (Special.) “Why should you pay good money for and consume had corn, any more than you would buy and eat decayed fish or fruit?'' asks the Georgia State Board of Health in a discussion of the disease, pellagra and its produc ing cause. Georgia has had her share and more of the increased number of cases of pellagra, acute and chronic, in recent years, and the State Hoard of Health is giving every possible attention to the study of the cause and prevention 1 of this disease which usually termi- ! nates fatally. The best scientific opinion of the j world today is agreed that the prou : able cause of pelagra is had corn — j corn which has been improperly cured, i which lias been cut green and in j winch fermentation sets up during j the process of drying out; or in j winch fermentation may lie produced by dampness due to careless handling [ after the grain has ripened. Some ; poisonous substance is thus produced in the grain, which the best medical I opinion throughout the world is now j confident, is the producing cause of pellagra. The State Board accepts this the ory, in the light of all the evidence — and it is abundant —as the correct one; but whether it be correct or not, certainly there is no answer to Hie argument presented in the Board’s (piery, “Why should anyone buy had corn?’’ it is known beyond question tiiat spoiled corn will kill horses and other animals, and that its effect upon the human system must there fore be deleterious. So why should anyone Imy it at all, even at reduced price, and take the dangerous chances? In fact, why should not the state itself take a hand and forbid the iin portation and sale in Georgia of bad or improperly cured corn? Such leg isiative action the State Hoard of Health strongly urges and recotn nn nils. The state now seeks to pro tect the people in the matter of the purity of their food products; but there is none in which the law should more carefully scrutinize than corn which is so widely and generally used as a food product both for man and beast. It is not necessary here to go into the many theories which have been adduced as to Hie cause of pellagra. With the single exception of the now generally accepted belief tiiat pellagra is caused by eating bad corn, every one of these theories has been dis proven or rejected as wholly iintena hie because of the fact that the condi tions involved, while they may ap pear in one section where pellagra is prevalent, are wholly lacking oth ers where the disease is just as bad or worse. As early as 1000 the deleterious effect of corn or maize products on j the human system was noted. It was j found to he a common food product with those affected with pellagra. The I disease has been found to prevail par ticularly In those countries in which the seasons are so short that the grain does not properly ripen; and also it has been shown to have made its appearance wherever people were In the habit of eating corn after it has undergone fermentative changes. It is well known that corn, when bad, | will quickly kill horses, and numerous . experiments have shown that extracts I, made from fermented corn possess toxic or poisonous properties. “It Is noteworthy, ’’ says the Board, “that In the United States pellagra did not make its appearance to any ] extent until Western corn growers be gan the practice of cutting the entire \ 1 stalk in a green state and piling them i, up together in the fields, there to re- j ‘ main exposed to all of the vicissitudes ;: of the weather until the winter was | far advanced, or e\Tui until the sue- | ceeding spring, when the demand for | corn came on in the Southern states.’’ ! , Here are some facts that are known ! 1 regarding pellagra: "Pellagra occurs In all countries i where corn products are habitually used as food; it does not occur in any country where such products are j • not habitually used as food; it did not exist in Europe prior to the introduc- j tion of maize, and did not attract at tention until this cereal had become a common article of diet , pellagra has ceased to exist in certain districts j where other crops have replaced corn ! and where It is no longer habitually used as food; pellagra has probably always existed in North America as It has long been known in Mexico, and the increase of it in this country unquestionably followed the introduc- ! tion of the Western method of liar- ; vesting corn in the green state." Concluding, the Board of Health ; I says; "As there is every reason to be i lieve that bad corn is the eause of i | pellagra, and no evidence that It Is I not. it is our duty to use every legiti > mate method to prevent its tYnporta j tton Into the state and its sale in our l markets. Even granting that pella ! gra is not produced by fermented | maize, we are surely entitled to good ' corn when we pay eur money for It; there can he no possible reason j for wishing to buy rotton corn, j "The thoroughly ripened and well- > 1 | preserved corn of these latitudes Is. | ! unquestionably, a good, wholesome 1 food, and can he eaten in the future j | as it has been tn the past without ill j effect; but the State Board of Health I ' deems that it is but doing its duty ; ■ | to the people of Georgia in solemnly ! | warning them against the evil conse- i ’ qucnces of eating the Western prod- 1 - net so long as the pernicious practice I . | continues of cultivating a weak an! vitiated plant combined with a moth 1 od of harvesting which is nothing less - j than criminal. j “The State Board of Health strong , ; ly urces the people of Georgia to give serious consideration to these facts S and to fn-dst that their representa tives pass a law which will prevent n the future the murder of our citi zens and the slaughter of our horses - hv the sale of corn which is unfit for consumption by man or beast.” GRAND AND PETIT JURORS Who Will Serve July Term Superior Court. GRAND JURORS L B MoLemore D S McArthur W II Dukes Grove Sharpe :0 C Holmes \Y G McDonald J L Hightower W B Greenway J \! Cook A R Davis J C Calhoun T J Irwin David Miller A T Johnson VV H Brown T A Peterson W T McCrimmon Willie B Connell F Lee Mcßae j R F Jordan A A Galbraith W H McArthur W T McArthur Stepen Pittman I’, F Hamilton P H Clarke E Y Baldwin Wallace Moses W J Fntrill Willie Gay PETIT JURORS G W McCrimmon A 1) Wright 'TO McArthur II II Grimes N J N Vaughan W H Bright Ira Coney A G Hicks Sewell Courson Eli W Clements Jno W Clements John A Watson .1 B Burkhalter J A Clegg Hugh Morrison A .! Grimes J K Cromnrtie M A Peterson Isaac Brooks M Hutcheson .1 E Fowler G N Martin E E Ward law C F Gordon .1 C Carpenter W L Anderson W P Calhoun A Calhoun W T McQuaig Everett, Miller J W Calhoun J D McDaniel CD Williams J M Phillips .) W Hearn, Jr Mon roe Cle meets J M Meeks Crosby Williams A P Stone W C Mcßae TALIB JURORS Lister Canady II B Brady P L New J W Sumner L S Adams J M Whited J T Jordan Lucien Joyce A E McDonald W O Harrelson .1 M Fordhani R F Mcßae Geo J McEachern Elijah Miller G A Sammons Jesse I Fountain John J McArthur G R Barwick •I .1 Calhoun S I) Pittman Joel Davie S B Morris C W Cauley E J Nobles sor 6 doses “666” will cure any case of Chills and Fever. Price, 25c. A Note to You: June 30, 1912. We figure that we will never lose any trade or make any ene mies, foes or antagonists, by selling the best of PURE DRUGS and RELIABLE REMEDIES at right prices. Do you think we figure correct ly? Yours truly, Mt. Vernon Drug Company. Dwelling for Kent or For Sale. A comfortable six-room house, with garden spot, in choice resi dence section of Mt. Vernon, with I conveniences. For terms of rent j or sale apply at MONITOR OFFICE. E. M. RACKLEY | Dentist Office over Mt. Vernon Drug Co. MT. VERNON. OA. J. R. WATSON Dentist Soperton, Georgia 1)K. J. e: masrot* Refract ionist Glasses Corrrectly Ground and Fitted to the Eyes. Consultation Free. 109 Whitaker Street. SAVANNAH, GA Jf Have all Valuable Papers | Safely Protected IFire and life insurance policies, receipts for insurance pre- j miums, notes, deeds, mortgages, leases, contracts, bonds or 1 stocks; 1 Certificates of deposit, pension papers, army discharge i papers, naturalization papers, valuable private correspon- I dence, warrants, savings pass books, marriage certificates, ! abstracts or securities of any nature. j How are they protected from fire, loss, burglary or pry- 1 ing eyes? j A Safety Deposit Box I at The Mount Vernon Bank will afford you the best protec tion. A limited number of them still available. MT. VERNON BANK, MT. VERNON, GA. j MT. VERNON, GA. jj Dr. J. H. McAi-ltur, friends may some day S discover that he has no ® aSSEBigjBBBg J friends to treat. ® Grasp the Opportunity ® by ordering Ice-Cold Sundaes for two, naming. the pure I fruit juices that best please your fancy. Cooling to blood Qt) and cuticle. We have them. Open day and evening. JS; During the summer season we shall devote special atten- (¥) tion to this branch of our business, and the festive season will be made especially enjoyable to our patrons. $0 Sumerford Drug Co. I Proscription Druggists || Ailcy, Georgia 0 Money! Money! Money! We lend money cheaper on farm lands than any person making loans in Montgomery County. All we ask is to get our rate before making application to some one else for we can save you 1 to 2 per cent, interest. Loans closed without delay. Write us and we will come to see yon. The Lyons Loan i nd Abstract Company LYONS. GA, M. B. CALHO ! N. A tty at naw, Mt Vernon, Georgia. For Long Term Farm Loans. I am negotiating some very attractive Long Term Farm Loans for the best companies doing bus iness in Georgia, with lowest rates of interest and the most liberal j terms of payments I have several years experience in the loan business, am located at the county site and believe that :I am in position to give you the I best terms and as prompt services as an\ one. If vou need a loan see me before application. A. B. Hutcheson, I Mt. Yeruou, Ga. COURT NOTICE. i - Notice is hereby given to all 1 parties concerned that at the ad journed term of Montgomery Superior Court beginning on the fourth Monday in July that no criminal cases will be tried but the entire week devoted to the trial of civil cases. At the regu lar term on the first Monday in August the criminal docket will be first taken up and disposed of. This the 9th day of May, 1912. J. H. Martin, J. S. C. 0. J. C. DWELLING AND LOTS FOR SALE I offer for sale the W. 15. Langford dwel ling in Mt. Vernon. Five-room house and large lot and barn con- J veniently arranged. Four town lots and 1 garden. See me for quick bargain oil this property. W. F. McAllister, , 7 Iraida, Ga.