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PUBLISHI .I) EVERY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL ORGAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
Entered at the 'Postoffice in Mt. Vernon, On. an Second-Class Mail Matter.
H B FOLSOM, Owner and Associate
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directs; and must ho in hand not later than Wednesday tnorninK of the first week of insertion
Mount Vernon, Ga., Thursday Morning, Nov IG, 1922.
Inferior Flour a Menace to Health.
Haste makes waste. In our ef
forts to save time, and in many >
instances the vain endeavor to
save money, we bring not only j
waste but material injury. Prog
ress is commendable —that form
of progress which goes from the
less useful things to the better
and more serviceable forms and
methods—but the idea of adopt
ing a custom which brings,direct
injury to the human body will
undermine the health and prog
ress of the race.
As an example of h*w the
American people have been in
duced to adopt a custom, possi
bly under the guise of economy,
but from which untold harm has
come, attention is called to the
use of chemically prepared flour,
which is sold throughout the Uni
ted States, and that in violation
of the Federal food laws. It is
alarming that the government
does not put a stop to it, the of
ficials of the food department
knowing as they do that, it is
bringing to early graves tens of
thousands of American people.
Hut it goes on and on, for the
people want something cheap and
something which they can j re ,
pare for food without the extra
step and a .few pennies required
to get something better and more
wholesome.
America produces more food
than any country on earth, and
yet her people will consume tons
of poison rather than take time
to investigate the food value and
quality of the supplies put on
their tables by unscrupulous
dealers it saves time, and it is
good for the undertaker. Any
first year student in chemistry is
able to locate the chemicals in
the ordinary brand of ready-pre
pared flour, but he lias been
trained up under the idea that it
is economy to use it, and he,
along with countless others, takes
his daily quoto of chemicals and
and fourth class flour from the
family table.
Why the government does not
require the analysis of the chem
ically prepared flour to be stamp
ed on the sack is a wonder, liv
ery state requires the analysis of
commercial fertilizer to he stamp
ed on the sack, for the protection
of the farmer, and whether he
cares for this protection, he pays
for it. But the manufacturer of
spurious flour doles out the poison
along with his low-grade flour 1
and nobody pays any attention
to him.
The New York Globe and Com
mercial Advertiser has recently
employed a chemist of national
reputation to investigate the
matter, and his Findings, as giv
en in a recent issue of the Macon
Telegraph, are alarming in the
extreme. From eight to ten mil
lion barrels of this stull" are used
in the South annually. Mr. Mc-
Cann. the chemist, shows that
but little pure flour is consumed
in the United States. He pur
chased thirty-seven different
brands in the open market and
shows that more than three
fourths of it was low-grade in
food value, and nothing more
than chemically treated starch.
His analysis shows a vast amount
of chemicals used in its prepara
tion for the market, and his ex
position shows how the chemicals
act and react before being used,
and how, after much of it be
come old and loses its chemical
property, it is returned to the
mills and redoped w ith spurious
chemicals.
Even the housewife can ex
amine this stuff and find insolu
ble particles of chemicals in the
flour of this character she is pre
paring for table use. Possibly
she thinks it harmless, and into
bread it is made, when even the
Italian macaroni makers refuse
to use it. The Western wheat
raisers is not to blame; he sells
his wheat on the open market
and is not responsible for the
pois.'.n put into into it. He does
not have to guarantee the grade
of flour, any more than the
Southern farmer is called on to
y iarantee ttie meal ground from
his corn.
Thousands of sacks of this
stuff is sold right here in Mont
gomery county every week. Our
merchants cannot guarantee it to
be pure: they sell it because of
the demand this idea of saving
time by getting food with the
powders and acid and salt and
what not already placed in it.
The cheapest baking powders
sold ari- more pure than the stuff
put into self-rising flour. This
exposure is not a reflection on
the merchant, but if the people
will awaken to the demands of
health they will stop eating this
:mvly labeled poison and demand
.mething better. If no better
il ur can be had, eat corn bread
made from pure Montgomery
c unty corn. No disgrace to eat
corn bread our parents and
grand-parents ate it three times
a dav, and they did not suffer
with pellagra and the manifold
troubles brought on by eating
low-grade flour doped up with
eh mica s known to be dangerous
to the human system.
This picketing business is not
anything less than nagging per
sonified, and it is in no way con
ducive to the welfare of this or
any other country. It is an in
sidious, prolonged method of
hanging a grievance on the door
of private, corporate or national
interests, when existing differ
ent s may be settled by more
i amicable methods.
Houston county is the greatest
poach growing section of Georgia,
but it remained for the people of
the state to install a cannery for
it on the 7th inst. Lousy com
forters, after this (Montgomery)
county was riddled, spared no
pains to toll us that the county
would be more prosperous with
three-fourths of its territory cut
otf, but evidently the people of
Georgia, thanks to their wisdom,
did hot apply such ethics to old
Houston county.
Many men, of many minds, is
a condition unalterable and un
changeable, affecting practically
nil walks ami phases Qf life and
human endeavor, and differences
of opinion have existed since the
creation of man, Doubtless this
will be true until the end of time,
for in the wisdom of the Creator
no two men are made alike and
gifted with identical views; but
after all there is one question
that all citizens of this county
view alike.- as far ns oursbserva-l
tions have extended, both white
and black, and that is the need
of the county paper in every
home. We have yet to find a
man who disagrees to this, and]
yet there are still hundreds who,
deprive the household of this ne-;
cessity. The lack of the meager
sum required, strictly speaking,
is not the cause, for the price of
• a year’s subscription would not
i bankrupt any man. Must be
simply a difference in opinion
• and action, and this gulf is too
■ wide to be spanned by a single
> step.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR, MT. VERNON, GEORGIA.
They say cotton is still king,
and this is probably true, but it
is also apparent that the boll
weevil has made a race track out
of the rim of his crown.
The Montgomery Monitor came
to us last week bright and newsy
in its six pages of home print,
and having a prosperous and suc
cessful appearance from the
amount of local advertising carri
ed in its columns.
Announcement is made by Edi
tor H. B. Folsom that he has
leased the paper to Messrs. Her
man Mcßride and Charley Abt,
two young men of Mt. Vernon,
trained in the printing craft un
der the tutelage of Mr. Folsom
Mr. Folsom will be associated
with them and will do general
editorial work for the paper.
The combination ought to be a
winning one and if the business
men of Mt. Vernon continue to
give their home paper the fine
patronage to which it is entitled
and toward which end they have
made such an auspicious start,
we expect to see the Monitor one
of the best weeklies in this sec
tion of the state.—Vidalia Ad
vance.
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DR. V. M. BARCO
Chiropractic Specialist
Chronic and Nervous Diseases
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Bank of Soperton, Soperton, Ga.
Mrs. J. E. Thompson’s, Vidalia
At Soperton, Mon. Wed., Friday
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The Metter school was closed
last week because of a lack of
funds to pay the expense, but the
good people got busy and in just
a few days they raised a fund of
$10,000.00 and the school opened
again. Metter is a town that
does things and it has people in
it that know how to do. It is one
of the live towns in Georgia.—
Springfield Herald.
Our creamery at our door will
solve the family and farm cash
needs for the coming year. Let
any interested farmer investigate
Go down to our well-managed
creamery and talk with Mr. Man
ning, find out just what the thing
does, talk to the scores of farm
ers who are turning the trick
now and be satisfied. You don’t
need to take anybody’s written
word. Investigate and then act.
Haw’kinsville News-Dispatch.
Taylor county can ship as many
hogs as any county in Middle
Georgia, and we believe steps
! should be taken to market them
on the co-operative plan. Co
operative sales have been quite
successful elsewhere and we are
sure would be here. — Butler Her
ald.
We see where one Alabama
man sold another Alabama man
jan interest in a queen bee for
| $l5O. Wonder which one got
I stung.—Telfair Enterprise.
It is time to forget politics, to
quit nagging and for everybody to
stand squarely behind Senator
elect George and Governor-elect
Walker when they assume office.
We have had too much politics in
Georgia. We need to all get to
work for the material advance
ment of the State. —Adel News.
Hall’s Catarrh Medicine
Those who are in a “run down” condi
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them much more than when they are in
j good health. This tact proves that while
' Catarrh is a local disease, it is greatly
iniluenced by constitutional conditions.
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in improving the General Health.
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