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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 HERMAN VcBRIDE J l egse es and Publishers s, *S° ® Ycar » in Advance. CHsKLFS ABT I , e » l * ee ‘ ana " UDl,hncr s. *#•l,' silvertlie mantH most inTsrist.lv !*•» paid in advance, at the Irrsl rate, snd ss the law 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. — | DR. V. M. BARCO Chiropractic Specialist Chronic and Nervous Diseases {.Offices over Bank of Soperton, Soperton, Ga. Mrs. J. E. Thompson’s, Vidalia At Soperton, Mon. Wed., Friday At Vidalia, Tues. Thurs., Sat. EpxnJJJJ JJUJU! JAI aVf I Thedford’s | Fblackl DRAUGHT Usj j § (Vegetable) „,« 0 y FARM LOANS | X Quick Action Low Interest Lowest Commissions J. E. Hall or IN. L. Gill is, Jr., Soperton, Ua. I ATLANTA TRUST CO. I I Atlanta, Georgia 1 | QUALITY, PRICE AND j SERVICE jj These are the Three Elements always || denianded bv the customer, and it is j: % : our aim to constantly supply all three i| STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES AND jj HOUSEHOLD SUPPLIES, NOTIONS, Etc. jj; Our line is kept up to a High Stand- jj ard, and this to a very marked extent ij accounts for our large list ol satisfied ij customers whose tables we supply j; Fisk Tires and Tubes jj Made out of Exceptionally High-Class Material and for Long, Hard Service Get the Old Reliable Line from Davis, the Grocer H. C. DAVIS jj MOUNT VERNON, GA. mvi'ni niriri'nvnvrm —---------- ... ! I ! ► Georgia State * |E Press Expressions, t •AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 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 tion will notice that Catarrh bothers 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. HALL’S CATARRH MEDICINR con sists of an Ointment which Quickly i Relieves by local application, and the Internal Medicine, a Tonic, which assists in improving the General Health. Sold by druggists for over 40 Years. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio. I!THE HOUSEHOLD NEEDS | ARE CONSTANT | But no Need of the home is more x 0 important than something to supply the table. To this call we make 0 ready response by referring p you to our superb line of Fresh and Cured Meats 0 ! Fresh Fish and Oysters and Table Delicacies 0 (Bread Received Daily. See us for the || things that satisfy the taste 0 I SANITARY HARKET | | s. s. Bush MT. VERNON, GA. O IAILEY . DRUG . CO. § The Drug Store fills a very im portant place in any thrifty ii community. Ours is even more than this—it is !|: a Real Necesssity I DRUGS, TOILET ARTICLES 1 I i I GARDEN SEEDS, CANDIES 1 I | STATIONERY, SOFT DRINKS 1 I H CALL ON US DAY OR NIGHT. WE ARE IN 1 §j BUSINESS TO SERVE AND SATISFY § fj AILEY DRUG CO. | AILEY, GA. !| ! I THEY LAST A! | LIFETIME! \ jjjt j; $ How much more service could you # £ ask? Enough for anybody, you say. £- | The White Hickory t vvvwvvvvvvvvwvvvv JjjT * Wagon % vwvvvv £- * * * Has such a record. The makers put J the necessary qualities in them, and 4* # this enables us to sell them readily. Popular Sizes—One and Two-horse. J * the D. A. 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