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HOW ARE THE CHILDREN? They are things over in Ala bama! They have recently had an educa tional survey of the state at a cost of nearly twenty-five thousand dol lars. All this just to find out defi nitely what their needs were! The way it was brought about, the Leg islature appropriated ten thousand iollarvi, and the United States Bureau of Education did the rest. Tiie Bu reau of Education made the survey, at was done by specialists. There was a specialist in rural education, and a specialj ,t in higher education, and OMi in administration, and one in home economics, and one in agricul ture. and one in child health, and so on some twenty or more all to g ther. Their r port is published by ihe- Bureau of Education, Washington, and can be had for the asking. In that survey Chambers county was selected lor health studies, if you were to take tie states of Georgia and Alabama and put them together, Cham iters county would he almost in the middle. So that for all practical purposes it represents Georgia about ns well as does Alabama. The find ings in Chambers county ought to in terest Georgians. Studies were made in the schools of Chambers county of eyes, lids, teeth, height, weight, nutrition, ad vancement. and retardation. This i3 ju. t to tell you about the eyes. The rest will be saved for another story — for several other stories. 'I he best general eye test at our disposal is known as the “Snellen” test. The Snellen test consists of a chart of letters. The top row is of very large letters. The next row is not quite so large. The third row still less large, and then they get smaller and smaller to tiie bottom. And each row of letters is labelled, showing how tar away it can be read by the normal eye. The top row can be read at a distance of two hundred l’eet, the next row one hundred, then eighty feet, fifty feet, twenty feet, and ten feet. io. use the chart it is hung up on the wall, and the child placed back twenty feet from it. cine eye is test ed at a time, the other being covered but not closed. If be can read the let ters that should bo read at twenty feet, be has 20/20 vision in or normal vision. But if ho enn-oniy* read those that should be read at forty feet, he has 20/40, or half vis ion. and so on. Now here is what was found: One child in jjvery four had 20/20 vision in both eyes. Three out of lour children had less than cu/20 vis ion in at least one eye! * But a vision that is just a little sub normal in one or both eyes may not be serious. Say a vision of 10/2*o r. ith no otr.er sifins of eye-strain, would not be taken seriously, but should be kept under surveillance. About :>0 out of a hundred children were just a little below 20/20. In these cases the teachers were advised to keep on the lookout for evidences of eye strain, and that was all. If eye strain should develop in one of these chil dren, he should see an oculist at once. Then comes the serious group— those in which one or both eyes had a vision of 12/20 or less. There were about twenty out of a hundred that showed a vision that defective. In many cases it was only one eye defective, while tin other checked up to 20/20. When one eye is all right and the other a little off this is what happens: The good eye does most of the work, while the other loiters on job. Now the eye that is not working sutlers from disuse, and ac tually gets worse and worse. Chil dren even go blind in one eye with out the parents ever discovering it. Once in a group of 100 children, the writer found six that had practically the vision in one eye through disuse. (Sometimes when one eye falls into disuse, it goes cr - sed. This will very readily nappea if the muscles that aohl it straight are a little out of balance. Did you ever hear of a dec or putting glasses on a child to cor net cross-eyes? All he does is to correct the error or retraction and put the eye to work, and it straightens it self out.) In Chambers county. Alabama, it was found that s mo three out of a hundred children had almost lost the j vision of one eye through disuse. And 1 there is no reason to assume that | Chambers county, Alabama, is essen tially different from Troup county, Georgia, or any other county in Geor gia or Alabama, for that matter. The essential difference is that Cham bers county has found out about it, and has taken steps to have it eor rccted. That is the difference note. When you read this if it makes you want to start something in your coun ty. just see your County Health 'Of ficer and Superintend*.;: of Schools „.ud the president of your Woman's (Tub. and then one of yen write to the State Boatd of Health. Division cl Child Welfare. Atlanta, for in for te, at ioa and help in tattiag started. If you really mean aua.uesn s.-e tk e.< | mid you wih get i .. re looking for! And not just for e-os either, but for whatever ails them— whatever is necessary to pre vent one-third of them growing up physical unfits. Purity and Virtue your son who is choosing his life time partner looks for purity and vir and thank God has a broad field ;or his choosing, but, my dear parent, vvaut about your daughter? Have ,ou taught her and dees she know ±e truth? TYPHOID FEVER ON - DECREASE IN SEOROSA From January Ist to September Ist ! 810. there were reported to the State E ,-ard of Health by the County Health Officers, City Health Officers, the various private practitioners of the State Seven Hundred and Sixty-nine .. >cs of typhoid fever. It is qu if e true that all cases of this disease are not reported by the physicians, but the vase majority ot ill cm are. Possibly an annual average tor the last ten years would have showed more than four times the number re ported this year. There is no way of ascertaining the exact number for any previous year, as the Georgia State Board of Healta did not be gin a systematic collection of these reports of contagious and infectious diseases until January, 1919. Several factors have been respon sible for the decline in prevalence of typhoid fever. Ist, a large number ■ f sanitary privies have been install ed in the sections where this dis ease had been quite a problem in the past. 2nd, a large quantity of vac cine, both plain and mixed, nus been administered this year by the family physicians and the health officers, up to September 23rd, the State Board of Health has seat out more than ioO,OOO doses. This, by far, exceeds the records far any other one year. The largest number of closes distrib uted during any previous year was about 120,000 during the year 1913. 3rd, the 1 ivisioa of Epidemiology of the State Board of Health has a sys tem of educr where cases of typhoid and where Gu* family piiysieraMßepcrts it to ! a bulletin on typhoid which treats briefiy of its "Frequeii ey and Fatalitjr,” "Cause,” ‘‘How to Avoid Typhojfi Fever,” “Sanitary Privies," "Flips,” “Good Water Sup plies,” “Typhoid Carriers,” “Value of Vaccination," “Precautions During Course of the Disease,” and “Precau tions cn Termination of the Disease.” Tiie department does not mail these bulletins to counties or cities having active health organization, but allow these departments to handle these diseases a, they see best. The disease is on the decrease in the state even now. The largest number of cases reported during any one week was for week ending June 23th, with 75 cases, while for week ending August 30th, there were only 40 cases reported. This, is the time of year typhoid is usualy most prevalent, but with the proper precautions from now until Oc tober 15th, we can bring about even a greater decrease. Typhoid, fever in Georgia is soon to be a thing of history. It will, in the near future, be driven completely from our midst. All other contagious and infectious diseases can be handled in the same manner when we wish to endure them no longer. Diphtheria. -Whooping Cough, Scarlet Fever, Venereal Dis . uses. Dysentery and many others will allow typhoid fever and Kaiser Bill v, hen they are fought with the same determined efforts. Gsvernmeni Seizes Remedies In the fight against nostrums recom mended for Venereal Disease, the Gov crr.mut has seized over four hundred different preparation;. A great many ( t the remedies formerly advertised ~s cures for those diseases have changed their ads to avoid seizure. The stcoks on the shelves of the drug pis; are liable to seizure, and. in the on e of wholesale firms, they are re turning all these goods to the nxanu f a purer, and they are relabeling and putting them in new cartons. This to avoid seizure, but the public should beware. They very fact that this is being none is an acknowledgment on the pert of the manufacturers that their goods are net what they claim ed for them, and that they are mis branded. A Test. When boiled and unboiled eggs get nixed, spin them and t’ae boiled ones will plu around quit** fust, while those which have not beeu cooked will hardly spin around oau*. PANIELSViHnE MO Ni 10 HOWPOWERFULISTRUTH I - * Ycu Are Needed Now —One-Eighih of All Illness Calls You To Battle The most competent of our Medical Authorities tell us that l-Bth of all hu man illness is da ,0 Venereal Dis eases. These are preventable diseas es. We have over 390,090 of our citi zens suffering from these diseases. We have been placed by the government, by actual figures, with 13.00% ol Venereal Diseases in the second mil lion men examined. The cities in Georgia are in an aw ful condition, Savannah leads all the cities of the United Spates in infec tions of Syphilis and Gonorrhea with 27.45%. Atlanta has 11.93%. Augusta 1C.91%. Macon 18.43': , and so it, goes. The awful consequences of these diseases are not realized by the peo ule. 60% of the sterility is due to Gonorrhea, 40% cf the blindness is chargeable to this cause. Here you are up against race suicide. About 30% of insanity is due to Syphilis. The “engagement chancre” and the “honeymoon appendicitis” are familiar to all physicians. 9074- of stillbirths are due to Syphilis, haring accidents. To this add the cripple children and feeblemindedness. We could prolong the truth but the necessity does not exist. We should cut down the appropria tion to our asylum and our Academy for the Blind by making adequate pro vision for the prevention of the dis eases that produce the causes for which they have to seek institutional care. Won’t you help by your influence on the side of right? Won’t you? Seif-Medipalion It is indeed poor business for one to attempt to administer to themselves when ill. If you are sick you need a physician, a sure-enough physician. Makeshifts are poor ecommiv. The best is none too good. ■kv in get ‘ ting a diagnosis and proper treatment i3 expensive, and Urn delay it self has put one so with a serious disease jjpst phy sicians cannot dojjKMjHxl. One of the tilings for one to do is buy sotnerproprietary or patent medicine, which by statements cunningly made mislead, and much money a3 well as time is iost even life itself. Especially is this true with remedies that are supposed to cure Venereal Disease. No one should use> a remedy put up for Venereal Dis ease: on the contrary go to a reput able clinic or a reliable, honest physi cian. Beware of those who advertise as specialist. Men who stand well with the profession, raen who are ethical, do not advertise; so we wish to warn you against quacks and those who talk j of guaranteed cures, or a cure in a j certain time. Avoid self-medication, avoid “pat ent” or advertised remedies, and all quack doctors who advertise. Mending Uneoleum. Did you ever try mending *iu> torn places in linoleum? It's easy. Just trim Urn edges of the hole with the scissors- -kitchen scissors—then place a linoleum patch underneath, or if you have none of this, use oilcloth. Paint t he edges on the wrong side. Press down tight against the patch and al low it to dry. Point all worn places, using paint the same color as the oil* r'-qp. ENJOYS HIS 3 MEALS A BAY Mr. Woolen Thinks Mooli cf ZIROfI Because it Made Him His Old Selr Again. Side people do not get much out of life. !n order to enjoy your meals, to do your work well, you must be strong and healthy. Pale, weak, nervous people frequently need iron to enrich their blood and to re store vitality to their system, and a good way to'supply the iron is to follow the example ot Mr. Clayton Wooten, of Scot and. Ga., who used Ziron Iron Tonic and aas this to say about it: “I have taken Ziron according to direct ions and i can truthfully say that it is a one tonic. It has done me all the good. Since 1 began taking it, I have gained eight pounds in weight and enjoy eating three meals a dav. 1 shall do all I can to re commend Ziron.” Try Ziron! Your druggist sells Ziron an a guarantee to refund your money if the first bottle fails to benefit. You can not lose anything, but very likely will gain much, by getting a bottle of Ziron, today! ZN 14 ■ i \our Blood Needs J.P. CARTER ( S.J. S;oss j GARTER-MOSS LUMBER COMPANY | BUILDING MATERIAL j _________ f Office and Yard • I Spring and Fulton Streets 1 Near Broad Street Phene 701 Athens, Georgia Lima Cement Plaster ' 'Windows Doors Blinds Mouldings Roll-Roofing Metal Roofing Ridoe Paper Valley Tin Metal Lath Hardwood Flooring and Doors Flooring Ceiling Siding Red Cepar and Pine Shingles Asfaltslate Shingles Fire Brick Building Paper Beaver Board Glass Nails Corner Bead Terra Cotta You Are Cordially Invited To come in and see our Fall Dis play of Millinery ant| Ready-to Wears. We carry a full line of Dresses- Coat Suits, Middy Suits and notions We shall $1 glad to have you viflifoisr store and see what a £ beautiful line we carry. We also carry an attractive line of Peter’s shoes and our Fall stock, is the most beautiful we have had. This line of Diamond Brand shoes is the best that can be bought, they are all leather, if you don’t believe it try a pair and you’ll be convin ced. W. P Carithers Comer, Ga. Bell Brothers Marble Company Marble Monuments of Quality 548 Thomas St. Phone 996 Atliens, Oa. Estimates and Designs Furnished on Request H. B. Nelms, Traveling Salesman, Hartvvem Ga Too Much for Father. A plain, blunt man has to have a good runny daughters to got used to calling the meet they have after get ting married a breakfast.—Colombo** v’Od Journal. - — - Aristocratic Neighborhood- Real Estate Agent — ' strlctlons on tbe property. T '** keep hens nor a dog that trae-*- L ' Q rg . vestry back for less than three i ttoos. Grants