GEORGIA LEADS COUNTRY
IN HYDROPHOBIA MENACE;
. PREVENTION CAMPAIGN OPENS
Statistics compiled by the
state board of health show that
the menace of hydrophobia was
greater last year in Georgia than
in any other state in the union,
and that in Fulton county, more
people were bitten by mad dogs
and forced to seek the preventa¬
tive treatment which insures im¬
munity from rabies, than in any
other county in the state.
Out of four people who died
in Georgia last year in the tor¬
tures of rabies, one was a little
Atlanta boy, J. W. Hale, Jr., the
son of Air. and Mrs. J. W. Hale,
of 435 Jonesboro road. Accord¬
ing to records of the state board,
he was bitten on the thumb on
September 13, and as a result of
this slight snatch which at first
seemed of no importance, he died
Oct. 31 after terrible sui
fering.
Following the 'announcement
of these facts, T. F. Sellers, lab¬
oratory director of the * state
board, urged that the city aid in
this condition by sup
porting the campaign of the At
lunta Humane Society to i id the
st u>ets ol stiaj dogs.
“It the society can find the
funds, or other means of clear-
1 11 F 1 H e streets o i
Atlanta of stray dogs,” he said,
“this department will guarantee
la marked decrease in rabies
among dogs here, and a decrease
lin the cases where people are bit¬
ten by the dogs and seek the
treatment which furnishes them
[immunity in 99.8 cases.
Seek $10,000 Fund
For the purpose of securing
[funds with which to carry out
its campaign to free the streets
bf stray dogs and to put into ef¬
fect a great humanitarium pro¬
gram which will aim to relieve
[suffering and pain whereevei
found the Humane Socity is now
peeking [asking the to support raise $10,00 of and in¬ is
every
dividual in Atlanta in this ef
brt. It plans measures of pri¬
son reform, it plans to aid home-
THE CITY OF MIAMI. FI A.
(By J. O. Adams.)
T had occasion to visit the city
>f Miami, in the state of Flor
fda, last week and it affords me
very [t great pleasure to say that
is , in my opinion, one of the
piost wonderful of the small
-ities in the world. It has a
population of 30,000 and there
ire, in my opinion, ten thousand
|it’ tifteen thousands visitors
[here at this time.
friends During mv stay I saw old
Jug from Gainesville, all do
\li well, all making money and
happy and .contented—-de
ighted with the climate and the
|ity.
We arrived in the city about
|ix dtli o’clock a. m„ and the friend
me on the trip began to
hake iun of me for carrying my
few big overcoat and as it was
P° early for breakfast and too
tte to go to bed, he tried to
lalk me about ten miles w'hile I
las carrying the overcoat in an
Ph>rt to take in the city before
fie natives knew we were in
>wn.
the first grand sight I saw
[as stood thi 1 Royal Palm Hotel and as
on the beautiful vrounds
' front of the 500-room hostel
with its beautiful flower gar
[j ! >; !0 and Ink evergreens, and 1 happen
up saw a very tall
lag-pole and perched upon it
| ptst as ;l large bird with its wings
retched in an effort to bal-
1(e 11 sell against the breezes
F 111 the Biscayne Bay and 1
to myself, “how can it be
i ! i f n ea -gl e * the emblem * of
[F'h and power and strength
b'eedoni is resting so earfv
I* ^H‘h _ 1,1,1 majesty 1 gazed further on thin point”
, on over
r. If ^autiful i 88 mi building «taken and and found that
rj‘ t t 1 1 bought eagle
was an was
r u °°mmon buzzard and not
file >an twenty could be seen
L" roof.
l,0l h of the Royal Palm
L® 1 each afternon, I had the
j [• ine o| listening best band to perhaps
H music in
U ,rior ’ s Band of New
r ! The people of Mi
h; ]’. .. ai<l $36,000 to
get this band
"'O' entertainment for ten
h cW a ,‘ afU ? listening to this
L- .r " mus ic for awhile and
| 01l1 T', n .°l ’°\ help v expensive but think it was,
I ’gbting of
Rob Evans said
less children and sick or old peo¬
ple, and it plans a continuous
campaign against cruelty to
dumb animals.
in its effort to meet the men¬
ace of hydrophobia by picking
up all stray dogs, it intends,
where nothing else can be done
with these waifs 'of the streets,
to put them to death painlessly
by asphyxiation.
Out of a total of 1,461 in Geor¬
gia who sought treatment
against hydrophobia last year
after being bitten by clogs, 180
lived in Fulton county. Of the
four who died out of the i,461
two failed to take treatment. Al¬
most absolute immunity was
given by the treatment. On the
whole where it is allow¬
ed to develop medical treatment
is useless. These facts are fi-<
nal prooi that where any indivi¬
dual is exposed to rabies he
should at once take the treat¬
ment offered by tne state Hoard
0 f ] lea nh
Maddest State
A recent £ paper * from the office
of the boar s ys: » At the pres
en p tq me our 0W n state enjoys
the distinction of being the
‘ ma ddest’ in the union with Al
a bama and North Carolina occu
pying second and third places
respectively.”
Comparative figures for 1919
show that where 1,400 people
were biten in Georgia that year
by dogs and treated to prevent
rabies, only 374 such cases oe
cured in South Carolina; 307, in
Alabama; 190, in Mississippi;
163, in Arkansas; 65, inVirgm
la; and 37, in Kentucky. The
same proposition with a slight
increase in number of cases,
holds good for this year.
The plans of the Atlanta Hu¬
mane Society to met the menace
of hydrophobia by clearing the
strets of Atlanta of stray dog
is dependent on one thing—the
success of its campaign to raise
$10,000 with which to carry out
its program of work, of which
this effort is a part.
to the fellow' about paying too
much for the church paw.
Miami is in close proximity to
the small but famous Bimini is
land. This island can be reach
ed from Miami by sea-plane in
about forty-five minutes, I am
told—I did not make the trip by
sea-plane or otherwise but Bi
mini is a most wonderful place;
thousands of people go there,
It is just a large rock covered
over with sand, just a part of
the Bahama islands and con
trolled by England, and upon the
West Indies group, and upon this
island there is situate a small ho
tel and somewhere around it is
a large warehouse and in this
warehouse is located a variety
of liquid which attracts the mul
titades from ocean to ocean.
costs just titty dollars to go
from Miami to Bimini by sea¬
plane and the trip is made in for
tf-five minutes but it requires
something more than a day to
go by boat. While I w T as in Mi¬
ami more than $50,000.00 worth
of whiskey was seized by the
United States near Biscayne
Bay.
I saw the beautiful grounds of
the James Deering estate, where
be has expended more than
million dollars. James Deering!
is a plough manufacturer and I
he has a brother in Miami
says that when his brother
have completed or finished beau- 1
tifying his estate, what that he ex- [
pects to show him money
can do in the hands of a man
knows how to spend it—his bro¬
ther has an equal number of
acres in the same section to be
improved.
There are many Wonderful
hotels in Miami; there are many
wonderful people there and I
know of no place in all the world
I had rather live.
I had the pleasure of inspect¬
ing the grounds and the home
of William Jennings Bryan. He
has moved his library to his
home there and will spend most
of his time in Miami in the fu¬
ture. Mr. Bryan and Hon. W.
S. Witham teach a Sunday
school class on the lawn in front
of the Royal Palm hotel each
Sunday morning when they are
in the city.
I saw the largest wooden
bridge in the world at Miami,
crossed Biscayne Bay. ♦
I visited Miami Beach and af¬
ter having visited Coney' Island,
THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
I would say that Miami Beach is
the more rapid place, (with all
that the word rapid implies) of
the two.
Every building in the business
blocks, and in the resident sec¬
tions are newly painted, the
streets are clean, the officers are
sober and courteous, the roads
are all paveci, the tax rate is 67
mills and they assess the prop¬
erty at one-third of its value. I
was told that the city owns its
own light and power plant and
they have a gas plant stationed
out six miles in the country and
every home uses gas for heating
and cooking and the rates are
very reasonable.
The flowers in Florida wither
immediately after they are
plucked, but the potato vines
never die and the people do not
have to buy plants but once, for
tne reason tnat ail you have to
do is t turn under the old vines
and new ones come in their stead
THE EN1) OF HAGENBECK’S
The great zoological park at
Stellington, near Hamburg, Ger¬
many, has closed its gates. It
was long the prison of exotic,
unhappy beasts assembled from
the remotest and most inacces¬
sible parts of the world. Its
captive inmates, snatched from
the jungles and deserts, from
mountain fastnesses and polar
seas and transported over land
and water to an exile home,
have succumbed to disease and
death as the inocent victims of
the war.
Deprived of such food as alone
kept them alive, which the Ger¬
man government commandered
for its armies, the animals died
with increasing rapidity. Food
substitutes of divers sorts were
resorted to but failed to check
the great mortality. A fuel
stringency following the armis¬
tice brought about the end of
those who survived the worst
clays? of the war. In a statement
isued by the Hagenbeck firm it
appears that more than 2,000 an¬
imals and birds perished from
hunger and cold, which necessi¬
tated the closing of the park.
It is about 70 years since Mr.
Hagenbeck started the business
of exhibiting and exploiting wild
animals Three generations of
the family successively carried
it on and made Hamburg the
headquarters and emporium of
the wild animal traffic. It was
from this park that most of the
animals were obtained for the
circuses,, menageries,music
halls and zoos. The revenues
were large and great sums were
spent in transforming the land¬
scape in what appeared to be the
natural habitat of the animals.
The owners and promoters of
the enterprise made great prof¬
its and the name of Hagenbeck
has become notorious. But the
profits are gone, the stock in
trarfb starved and frozen. Stel
ligen wil become only to be a sad
and hateful memory, and the
world . - hide poorer for its pas¬
sing.
REMARKABLE FIGURES
We are told repeatedly that
the horse is passing out of sight,
two or three years more and
you may still discover the dust
of the trail over which he has
vanished, but he will be gone. In
the face of such assertion, gen¬
erally made by the auto truck
and advertisers, it is interesting
to read the statements of Mr. F.
E. Burrell, president of the Nat
Wholesale Sadling Associa-
1 ion. He says, following gov
eminent reports, that the tuim
her of horses increased m the
United States more than 1,701,
000 1 rom 1910 to 1920; that
since 1870 the horse population
has increased 203.o per cent, as
compared with L6.6 per cent
the rate for the human inhab
itantsitants. He says further
that the market price for horses
has increased 125 per cent since
1900, and that of the 6,500,000
farms inthis country, only 3 per
cent use tractors, and that the
harnes makers are making and
selling more harness than ever.
lorah.4 Allen
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Mr. and Mrs. Joseph McCord
visited Mr. J. T. Brooks last
week.
Mrs. Katie Cox is visiting Mrs.
W. T. Berry this week.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Jones
spent Wednesday afternoon with
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Byrd.
Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Harris and
son Edwin visited Mr. and Mrs.
J. B. Ellington Sunday. Mrs.
Harris atended Y. W. A. at
Macedonia.
Mr. and Mrs. H. F. George and
family and Miss Jessie May
Jones spent a Short time with
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Edwards at
Mt. Zion Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Smith of
Jersey visited Mr. and Mrs. W.
F. Summerour Sunday.
We are sorry to know' that
Mrs. B. F. Guinn has been sick.
Miss Christine George spent
Saturday night with Mrs. Mar¬
tha Byrd.
Mr. Olin Bohanon and brother
Marvin and Miss Edna Dingier
and Miss Jack Fill Yer visited
Irene George Sunday after
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Mr R Berry entertained
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night. All of the members and
several visitors w 7 ere present,
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candy were highly enjoyed by
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