The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current, December 07, 1922, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextPREVENTIVE MEDICINE IS ADVANCIMG Dr. George E. Vincent, Head of Rockefeller Foundation, Tells of Difficulties. HAS BEEN LONG, HARD PULL Notwithstanding Prejudice Against it 10,000 Are Now Engaged m Work In This Country—Progress Is Reported. New York. —It Ims been a long, hart!’ pull to raise preventive medicine t« Uie professional level of curative medicine. There are still am lal ulld econollib eijibarrussuielils facing t l»o sltideiit who otherwise Is willing to enter the public heultb service. And there is the constuut menace of political inter ference In the work of municipal, state uud nationul bureaus of public health. Os these things writes l)r. tJeorge K. Vincent, president of the Hocke feller Foundation, in the report <>l that Institution for 1921. Since July, 1018, the international health hoard of the foundation has spent •'ST.l'.i.f.- 62-MJS In Us battle agulnsl malaria, |» yellow fever, hookworm, tuberculosis i and the like. Long strides In winning Intelligent public co-operation by edit cation and In scientific research made 1021 a year of great satisfaction, al though Doctor Vincent warn- that "II is too early to feel complacent.” Idea of Health Revised. Doctor Vincent's review of last year notes the changing Ideals of hculth. He writes: "Advances In the cure and proven tion of diseases reflect a shifting of emphasis and a gradual revision of the Idea of health Itself. Being 'up and around' or ‘I can't complain' repre sents a far from stimulating concep tion of bodily prosperity, yet a ‘verti cal rather than a horizontal position' lei one criterion." The report reveals the growing de mand >o*' tralifl-d leaders In public health work. Doctor Vincent proceeds to any: “In the United States there are at present about 10,000 persons en gaged In public health work under fed eral. state and municipal or count! auspices. In (treat Britain probably an etpml number are giving all their time to the work of preventive medi cine. The number In the service of non-governmental agencies ot all kinds can scarcely be estimated but may rep resent nearly as many more. “The self-governing dominions em ploy a considerable number of proles atonal sanitarians. In continental Eu rope health organization Inis not ns a rule reached so high a degree of devel opment as in the British Isles la many tropical countries such as Lftdln, Java, the Philippines, both curative and pro ventltor-medlcltie are administered by corps of trained government official;- In all parts of the world there Is an In creasing demand for men and women competent to do different kinds of pub lic health work. “A forecast of the probable number needed during the next ten years in the United States calls for 20.000 persons. Curative Branch Magnified. “It la not to he denied that on the whole the best ability has been drafted Into the sendee of curative rather tlmti of preventive medicine. More than four hundred replica to questions re eently put to students now enrolled in leading Atncrh an medical schools dis close au attitude of Ignorance. litdlffer etice, even antipathy with respect t«■ a career la public health work. The rdit sons these young tneu give for not con sidering at all or for deciding against such a life work are: (1) It Is not a socially recognized, clearly profession* alleed calling; (2> there arc im> spci.a schools for adequate t ruining (It! tenure and promotion depend not <>u merit hut political ‘puli’; (4) salaries are meager; to) flic private practice , t curative medicine Is more reputable. Independent, protitable and satisfy in; “These young men are tn many re spects uninformed and tulsinforuynl. Preventive medicine has already gained the status of a profession and is m.tk lug rapid progress m pupil, favor. At least two special schools of high rank! are offering a thorough and appropriate training. An im leasing number of in, portant posts are freeing themselves from the trammels ~f -spoils peiiti, s “The salary received by a health j officer of full rank probably ex, ceils the Income of the average private pra, tltioner. , "Private practice Ims many di-ad vantages ; excessive <>\ ertitue and night work, poor colleetim*. the nee, ssity o. dunning patients, little chaneeto study, constant economic jiresstir*-. a heavy burden of unpaid service, coutpetit on with quacks and charlatans, temptation to surrender scientific ideals, l'uhlh health service, on the olhei hand, is making a strong appeal to many ttu.-ii ’ and women of imagination, courage and social spirit Jtist k cause it ,|o,-s not Involve most of these tilings and offers many positive attruetb-ns “Yet it must tie admitted that the sceptical undergraduates are riot wholly wrong. Public ignorance and Indifference, invidious comparisons lack of aound training in many officials prejudice against law enforcement, de lay the full appreciation of what pr>- ventlve medicine means to s,„ iety Fh, MtahUahmeut of adequate scluk-U has href) t, r* cut event. A few dlsbearten- Iri in-'ti.nccs of political tampering wifTi health departmcntH have occurred ot ~ , it is a'-n true that the level i - fa: to., lo.v, liven the Jew liighesf salaries suffer painfully In I compnri on with the annual Incomes , leading private consultants uud sut- j geong. • Politics Must Be Kept Out. “A greater shale of popular ad mire : <>n, larger fi/edom from control, t. personal relations with appre ciative it -ii-> idiiab. a deeper sense «>.’ j professional pride, probably are still the pot i u of Uie practitioner of cura tive medicine. "Tin- ,-ry is frequently heat'd that tip ,ei nnunlal .---i vlee or ‘must be al -it out of polfilcs.' In one sense , ttiis is ub obilely e- -,-ntial to cfli eiency. A public function which calls for technical expertm-ss is hopelessly j I hn'ndi, . pped If It la- treat eh as the -)-oi|s of a political boss or of a victor!- j otis party machine. To no public serv ice doe, this apply more stri kldfely | than to a department of health. '1 he moment efforts are made to Influence appointments, promotions, salaries, 1,,-licit , law enforcement, b.v political! pr<- sure for individual or party ends the th-tnora!itloli of tin.* work begins. "Ice d.-gice to which such things | | are jm»sMi hie ,■ an Index of the ihtelll- j ;,■iit-e, -pirii and ehnraeter of h eoni | munity . Y< t in another, the original, ! inclining of politi, , pilblie lteallh ought. ,il ays to be In polities. The safe ;ti r,l a of health of the people Is a ,-oiniiiunit.v tusk and responsibility. < tin, nf the essential ipialitieations I cf a mi dill henllh officer is the I ■tbllilj I . explain his policies so us to i ** win stipporl for them." lev tews Ccbetys Work. The i, port goes on to review the j work of ila- public health department it Johns Hopkins university, Harvard, ! the University id Pennsylvania and .'.',-w Y<- university. Then, writing of the i ttihli: laa,-tit of preventive and I u, . i ie,|i. im- ,-liub-.. where service 1 might b< laid at moaerute cost, Doctor Vincent says: "An expei iment 111 meeting litis de ikmil w • la un by the Cornell Uni versity .Medical school in New York city -hi November, 1921, with the co operation of a special committee of the tailed Hospital fund. The work of this cniiimitlee, which is helping to improve standards of dispensary man agement and -ervlee, is supported by tin- Iluel.el'ellei' foundation. The ini tial deli, il of the Cornell clinic demon stration, which is expected to become self supporting, was underwritten by this committee. • "The ,-.- cutittls of the plan are: (1) medo al, surgical and specialist service by well trained young doctors who are paid for their work; (2) supervision by the college faculty; (J) instruction of medical indents in the clinic; (4) ap pointments with patients untile by tele phone ,yg post to avoid waste in wait ing:, (5) clinics, in addition to day sessions, open two evenings a week for the convenience of patients employed during the day ; (ti) a charge of $1 for cat'll call, laboratory examinations and \ ray plains at cost, a complete dittg n, I iej i xamina I lon for patients l*e- ' t ir, ,l by physicians, for an inclusive fe,- of >'lo. On the day the clinic j opened Too persons presented them selves. There litis been a steadily grmvln;. patronage ever since. An In-j crc ..-nig number of doctors have hr,a;, lit path-in -for diagnosis and eon stlltntA-nll." v Retreat of Yellow Fever. The report cites the retreat of yel low lever in those sectors where it has been au ever present threat for at least two centuries. The supreme sue ritlvc made in this battle against yel low fever by Dr. ‘Jesse Lazear and Dr. Howard B. Cross is noted. The stub born tight against malaria, hookworm and tuberculosis Is reviewed Vhd the tight made by Dr. Henry Hausou in Smith America against yellow fever (first diagnosed as acute malaria) is set forili. telling in some detail of D - tor llru-ou's conscription of llsli iti the war ui , n the mosquito currier. "The result wns Anally accom plished." reads the report, “by enlist ing two local species of fish ro devour lie e gs and the larvae of the mos quito. Au attempt in the beginning of (be enmpj)ign to teach the people to 1 prevent breeding on their own premises failed Uu't ythlng had to be done by I the mosquito squad It wns found that by distributing tlsh two to four I small tisti to a container holding ten to tit;, , n gallon- the problem was - mpl bed by about 7T> per cent. The] ! T -0.000 tlsh distributed in tills drive j conquered the epidemic, 6,350 Miles of Twine Used. Indian Head. Canada. In the In dlan Head district farmers have used about suOiHHi pounds of twine. This means sonic bo.th i halt's, or bundles. Each bundle contains oNn feet In txvlne, , which means that if the total quantity consumed were run out In a single ’ st ratal It would teach ;13,000.000 feet, • or just 0,250 miles. ■ j „ ... 1 « Takes Goat sa Train to Give Children Milk Long Beach, Cal. A L. Crip- ! pen,* of Alburquerque, v M lots engaged railroad tu-eomnio- | datt-'lis from Long Beach to bis ! hotue in New Mexico for hint- j sdf *ds wife, their two cliU* ! j dtvn and two goats. Crtppen insisted tls- staterooms for ldin i-elf and family t>e located as near a- po—-iitle to the express or bad. go car where the goats i would j><‘ so tl>e children could j I have fresh milk. ! l a THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR, MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. Junior Red Cross - Praised for Work Influencing Peace The advancing standard of the Jun ior American Bed Cross made two out standing gains during the last year— one in tlte Held of domestic activity, which Is rapidly linking up the schools with the Junior program, the other a gain of a dozen countries in Europe pledged to organize Juniors on -the lines of the American organization. For this accomplishment the American Juniors earned the hearty endorse ment of the League of Red Cross So cieties for Its “creation of un Inter national spirit of human solidarity among young people with a view to preparation of a new civilization for peace.” The forthcoming annual report of the American Ited Cross for the year |! QUALITY, PRICE AND j |j SERVICE | :j Those are the Three EleTuents always jj , j; demanded by the ( ustomer, and it is £ | our aim to constantly supply all three j j STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES AND j jj HOUSEHOLD SUPPLIES, NOTIONS, Etc, | I Our line is kept up to a High Stand- l ard,-aml this to a very marked extent j accounts for our large list of satisfied ! jj customers whose tables we supply Fisk Fires and Tubes j ;i Made out of Exceptionally High-Class Material | land for Long, Hard Service Get the Old Reliable Line from Davis, the Grocer j; H. C. DAVIS j MOUNT VERNON, GA. # j THE UNIVERSAL CAR i ill, / ,y I j J LI 111 I JLytv f\\ I s&r<S HI ‘Mhul . sjkl 'tk 1 SALES and SERVICE BJ Win} Attention Ford Owners! Ford parts, like almost everything else worth while, are counterfeited. Imitation parts are manufactured to SELL at the highest possible rate of‘profit and the grades of steel used are consequently not L the same high quality, specially heat treated alloy steels specified in Ford formulas for the manufacture of GEN UINE FORD PARTS. Don’t be misled —Insist upon GENUINE FORD PARTS made by the Ford Motor Company. By so doings you will get from 35 to 100 per cent more wear from them, and you will pay the j lowest possible cost —the same everywhere. 50% OF GENUINE FORD PARTS RETAIL FOR LESS THAN 10c EACH Ask for Parts Price List .. When your Ford car, or Fordson tractor needs attention, call on us. For remember we are prop erly equipped, employ competent mechanics, and use Genuine Ford and Fordson parts in all repair work: Mcßride Motor Co. UVALDA, GA. | ! ended June .?0, 1922, will show 24.52 S schools enrolled, with a total of 4,483,- 345 (itij. ls wearing the "I Serve" but ton of the American Junior Red Cross -the badge of unselfish service earn ed by each individual member through personal sacrifice. In international school correspond ence 736 classes and schools engaged in friendly communication with 623 schools in European countries, 90 schools in United States territories, 13 in South Africa and 10 in a miscel laneous list of foreign countries. The work in foreign fields in establishing playgrounds, school libraries, sewing and fhanual training classes, homes j for war orphans, school reconstrue- j tion in devastated areas, encouraging | community gardens and many other | Ujtfivities was financed through the National Children's Fund raised by \ the Juniors at a cost of >338.237.40. During the year $56,922.79 was con tributed toward the fund, in which on July 1 there was a balance of >201,- 361.58. | i! P A QTfl DIA UnO UI \t\ For Infants and Children. ; Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria yf" Always M ■ - BG£LrS tllo J oiiatDi&s®® Signature g J ind ßcst» /cvAt l nvUher Opium, Morphine n nf Mineral. NqtNaucotic |l\| IT fiecijxaroUOeSAWLTMßßl 'PvnptinZxd \ |\£ V ' £5S*» | |J| ■ . /> A In : ’s*?y /;■ 0.-'V --4 4 A II I If - /1 » 111 i- ; - ' : - j ciarii'u- ■■■:'" I 11 |i | ! i AMpf LRemedyfor f f II 0 0 mstipauonandDiarrhoea, f \l A/» UOC . and ft • | lif k«i vJf for Over 111 J^S|»( Thirty Years - Petty’s Cotton Seed is Given First Prize Product Grown on Dawson Farm is Ranked Highest at Southeastern Fair in Atlanta. Dawson, Ga., Oct 23. —Petty’s : improved toote wilt resistant cot- 1 ton seed, grown and improved on ! the H. A. Petty farm, has won j another distinction of note, hav ing been awarded first prize at the Southeastern Fair, which was neld in Atlanta during the past j week. Petty’s seed have heretofore! won the distinction having rank ed first in the 1921 cotton varie- 1 ty test held at the Georgia State j College of Agriculture, with re gard to yield of lint cotton.per ! acre; also having ranked first in j yield acre" in the 1921 cotton va- 1 riety test held at the Coastal | Plain Experiment Station near: Tifton. On the farm of the; Georgia State College of Agri culture, some thirty odd varie ties of cotton were used in the| test, Petty’s improved tooie hav ing ranked first. We have the above seed for sale. See us at once if you \v nt these prize winners for your 1923 cotton crop. D. S. & W. G. WILLIAMSON, UVALDAj GEORGIA ; . : 11 Delays Over ] | ► « |g . The far nor no longer has to suffer « ► delays in u dug advances on improved : ► farm land' for improvements or other < l demands of the farmer. Finances have \ l taken a turn to the extent of making : !► * l Gash Plentiful l : ► and we can get it for the farmer at low 2 l rates of interest. Our companies are « ► anxious to 1 nd money to farmers who « t mav need it. without delays and with : ► satisfaction to borrower. If you want < ► action, along with cash, say “money” to « [ L. C. UNDERWOOD ] ► MT. VERNON, GA, 2 tu*iuAAiAiiii*UAlUUil»4iAiiUiAAAlAilUAUAUAl • Mr. Petty’began improving his cotton in 1916 or 1917 by the sin gle stalk selection method, being very careful to keep records on the different plots and having his cotton ginned on a private gin on i the H. A. Petty farm, thereby keeping his seed absolutely pure as he did not gin for the public. Mr. Petty has continued the 1 afove method until now, his suc cess is quite evident and the de mand for Petty’s improved cot -1 ton seed is much greater than the ! supply available and he cannot fill the orders received for seed. His cotton has made a very creditable showing in all sedtions i planted. Mr. Petty has made shipments of his seed, not only out of the State of Georgia*but out of the United States and in l to China and Italy.