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The Lee Co. Journal
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF 1 EE COUNTY
AND CITY OF LEESBURG
Published Every Friday
. P. HORNE, Editor and Publisher
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Entered at the Postoffice at
Leesbrug, Ga,, as second
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FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1922 .
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THE TOWN YOU LIVE IN,
Stand up for it. |
Think well of it. ‘
Speak in its favor.
Encourage its industries. i
Patronize its merchants,
Hurrah for the enthusiastic.
Cheer every live enterprize.
See all that is beautiful in it.
Chant praises to the good it pos
gesses.
Sing of its wonders, for you’ll
find it has some.
Praise it and laud it and bea
part and parcel of it if you wish
thrift to come,
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Patronisze home industries. Buy
of your neighbors and keep the
money at home.
It cannot yet be told who's going
to win the coal strike though it is
dead easy to discern that the pub
lic will lose it.
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Despite the wpopular ccnception,
very few newspaper men lie awake
figuring routes to help politicians or
to hurt anybody.
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Safe Mowers in New York city
blasted a safe next door to the police
station. Funny how soundly those
fellows sleep in waking hours
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And now comes a critical Senator
who complaing that Mr Taft dines
out most every night ‘‘with his legs
under the tables of the idle rich.”’
Does he expect hin: to put them on
the table?
A German statesman now pro
poses the levying of a tax of §lOO
on every Frenchman entering Ger
many. France, however, is collect
ing a considerably larger fee on the
several hundred thousand Germans
who entered France in 1914,
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The commencement season will
soon he on and many a ‘‘sweet
thing’’ dressed principally in organ
die and rouge will expatiate on the
theoretical poetry of life while her
Dad digs like the duece for the duds
in which she dolls herself.
it st e <@ e eet
It’s fl 7 time and the best swatter
you ecan use is cleanliness and sani
tary precaution. Itis but an em
bodiment of the principle that an
ouace of prevention is worth a pound
of cure.
Let this leak through your head
as referring personally to you, mnlj
not to the other fellow, then the
good of it will be easily perceptible. !
BEFO OR ARTER.
While visiting in Florida recently
a tourist chanced upon a lanky and
seedy individual lounging wpon his
door step.
**Are you a native of this town,”
asked the traveler.
“Am I what,”’ languidly replied
the one addressed.
“*Are you a nativeof this town?”
“What’s that?”’
At this junction there appeared
at the open door of the cabin the
mans wife, tall, sallow, and gaunt,
After a careful survey of the ques
tioner she said: ““Ain’t you got no
sense, Bill? He means was you
livin’ heah when yo’ was born, or
was so’ born befo yo, begun living
keah. Now answer him.’’ 1
Don't try to run the whole earth {
Let every fellow have his own little
plot to mansge.
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It won't do for » married man to
gay to his wife, ‘‘Never mind.”
She is apt to take him at his word.
Teacher: ‘‘What is the highest
form of animal life?”
School boy: ‘'The Giraffe.”
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First Father: ‘““And does your
son show any signs of his college
training?’’
Second Dad: 'Ol yes, he's pur
ty badly crippled from a hurt he
got playin on the foothall team.
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CORRECT, SIT DOWN. {
A well known lawyer is telling a
good story about hinself and his
efforts to eorrect the manners of his
office hoy. One morning rot long
ago, the young autocrat blew into
the office and tos-ing hLis hat at a
table, exclaimed: ‘‘Say, Mr. Blank,
there’s a ball game at the park to
day and 'm going.”’
Now the attorney is not a hard
hearted man and was willing the
urchin should go, but thought he’d
teach Lim a little lesson in good
maners.
“*Jimmia,” he said, ‘‘that isn't
the. way to ask a favor. Now you
come over here and sit down and
I’ll show you how to do it.”’
The boy took the office chair and
lis employer picked up his cap and
stepped outside. He then cpened
the door softly and holding the cap
i his hand gaid quietly to the small
boy in the chair: ‘‘Please, sir,
there is a ball game at the park
this afternoon, and if you can spare
me 1 would like to get off and see
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In a flash the boy replied: ‘'\Why
certainly, Jimmie, and here i:a
dollar to pay your way and buy
peanuts and candy.”’
’ We have a big Stock of Paper—
et us da your Joh Prinding.
Potato Plant For Sale.
1 Million Potato plants now ready
to ¢hip at 81,00 per thousand—
pure Porta Rica— Rush your order
to me and get the first. Can sup
ply any quantity.
J. W. LYONS,
Leesburg Ga.
WANTED
“Chickens anl Eggs wanted, we
Will Pay The Highest Cash Prices,
Wire Us At Our Expense.
OWENS FRUIT & PRODUCE CO
TAMPA, FLORIDA.
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’ Several thousand Sweet potato)
Plants-- Yellow Yam and Porto
'Ric:\—will be ready for sale .-\pril‘
10th—§1.75 per thousand. Place
your order now and get the first to
put out, These prices are F. O. 8,l
Leesburg. |
D. M. Melvin, 4
Leesburg, Ga. l
Cow Taken Up.
One black and white spotted cow,
blind in right eye, looks to be 6 or
7 years old came to my place in
November. Owner can get same by
paving damages and for this adv.
GUY 8. PRYOR,
Route No. 1 Leesburg, Ga.
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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL, LEESBURG, GEORGIA
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THE FARM JOURNAL SAYS:
A conii-book is food for thought,
Worry fills more graves than want.
Plant objectionable cats at the roots
of the grape-vines.
One way of showing love is to keep
the wood box filled.
See that your farm tools and imple
wments are under cover.
A blotter is something we look for
while the ok gets dry,
The aristocrat of the garden is the
one-time desplsed potato.
We wonder what barber set the style
tor shaving a mule's tail?
The birds are your feathered
friends; do you know why?
There 18 the rallway switch and also
the kind that father sometimes used.
Do not talk disarmament and then
give your children toy soldiers, guns
and tanks,
Some women won't be happy In
heaven unlegs they can scrub it out
twice a year,
There mauy be a greater thing in the
world than loyalty, but just now we
don’'t know what it is.
JUST THOUGHTS
Peculiarity of ignorarf‘e is that it is
hardly ever ashamed.
Telling folks not to be jealous is
like telling them not to worry.
No one hates rain like a man whose
pride 1s his tightly wrapped silken
cased umbrella.
There are a few high bluffs in the
West from which an Indian princess
did not leap,
Working In the vineyard also con
sists in turning the icecream freezer
nt the church festival.
Preparing for one's old age with a
big bank account is the surest way of
aaking one's heirs happy.
Art for art’s sake and the dance
for dance's sake are beyond reproach;
but both can become contaminated.
People are surprised at the quietude
of a reporter in the midst of excite
ment; but a reporter has seen 7,000
excitements,
A good many young men could serve
as the model for a Greek god if you
could ever get them to attitudinize
in that way.
NOTICE.
Al parties are hereby notified
that there is a City Ordinance pro
hibiting Cattle, Horses and Hogs
from running out on the streets- of
the City of Leesburg. It isthe duty
of the Marshal to put them up and
collect such amounts as the Ordi.
nance specifies and which T will be
forced to do from this date on.
This 10th day of February, 1922
A Forrester,
City Marshal.
For fifty years known to
the trade as the best for
service. :
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$48.00 to $385.00
Send for BAKER BOOK
LET describing the entire
line.
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Baker Gun Company
314 Broadway, New York
DOES IT PAY?
A Very Sensible Question To Asi,
It might be well enough if we
should pause occasionally and ask,
“Does it pay?” Yes, it does pay from
many angles, from every angle. “Do2s
it pay?’ usually carries with it the
natural supposition that you are talk:
ing about money—just money. Fru
gal people, people of foresight, people
who have small means or more liberal
should conserve their incomes, and
often ask and investigate thoroughly
“Does it pay?’ If it does not, stop,
find out the trouble and remedy it
The question, “does it pay?’ has
often been asked about the control
measures instituted by the Georgia
State Board of Health in the veneral
disease work. The question as to dol
lars and cents could not be definitely
answered because it requires time to
tell; it requires the collecting of statis
tics and the comparison of actual fig
ures. This time has come at least in
one of the State's institutions and
touching only one organ of the body
and only one disease, Brain Syphilis.
The physicians at our Insane Asylum
do not guess, they know. The latest
figures from that institution show a
decrese of new cases admitted last
year of 4 1-2 per cent as compared with
the year before, due as they state to
the early and proper treatment of the
cases in the hands of the general prac
titioner. Brain Syphilis runs from 20
to 30 per cent of all cases throughout
the country—say 25 per cent of all
those admitted. Georgia appropriates
one million dollars for the mainte
nance of her Insane Asylum, therefore,
$250,000 for Brain Syphilis. Four and
a half per cent of two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars is $10,250.00;
that was saved to the taxpayers last
year, or just $250.00 more than the
entire appropriation made by the legis
jature for this department. Does it
pay? ;
In about five years we can almost
eliminate this disease of Brain Syp
hilis. There is no excuse for its exis
tence; it is possible to eradicate it;
we must eradicate it. Will it pay?
In five to eight years you will have
cut your blindness in babies at least
50 per cent. It is possible for the re
duction to be 100 per cent; it would
be if all mothers were attended by a
physician who is capable, honest and
careful. The nthe 58 blind children
at your Academy for the Blind at
Macon would not need as the insti
tution does today an appropriation of
$20,000 per year to take care of them.
It requires 10 years (o complete the
course, or $200,000. Does it actually
pay? There is no excuse under heav
en for gonorrheal sore eyes; the poor
innocent suffers for others’ sins. We
can and we must eradicate this di
gease; it is possible; it must be done.
The law requires that the physician
or midwife put the drops in the baby’s
eyes when it is born; it is a chain
gang offense if this is not done, If
nitrate of silver, one per cent solution,
is applied the baby will not be blind.
Docs it pay?
Does it pay to confine and treat
infected prostitutes? Does the closing
and keeping closed Red Light Districts
pay? Is it possible by such methods
to control veneral diseases? Does it?
Answer us that? YES; Columbus,
Ga., under the present city adminis
tration, with co-operation of all de
partments, has proven beyond ques
tion that it pays. Actual figures of
Camp Benning will show you that
before this co-operation was given
they had an incidence of veneral di
cease of 300 per thousand men. This
has dropped to only 27 per thousand.
Does it pay? God alone knows kow
mucit it pays. We have been consid
ering only money; what is money?
Trash, as compared to babies who
can see and men and women with rea
son and not crazed with brain syphilis.
Trash, as compared to pure moral
lives and happy homes. The taxpay
ers of Georgia never made a finer,
sounder, better investment than in the
control of venereal diseases.
The program for the control should
bhe well rounded; it must have the
elements of education, repression and
treatment well balanced and well exe
cuted, with all who are interested co
operating and co-ordinating their
forces. The legislative department
should be liberal in their appropria
tions; the judicial department should
give their aid; the physicians should
be careful to diagnose and treat the
cases early and promptly and persist
ently. The people should seek knowl
edge that is easily obtainable; the
educators, public speakers and all our
civie and religious organizations
should participate in giving the en
lightment on sex education. :
The Georgia State Board of Health
will supply literature and send speak
ers when so desired and so far as the
appropriation they have will go.
It is possible to eradicate venereal
disease; will it pay?
HEALTH BEGINS AT HOME.
The frequency of diseases of a se
rious nature arising from insanitary
conditions, which take a terrible toll
of human lives unnecessarily, and cost,
in the aggregate, huge sums of money,
emphasizes the importance of taking
every possible step to obtain more san
itary conditions and to instill in the
minds of the people the importance of
making conditions in and around their
homes as sanitary as possible. It is
well understood by every intelligent
citizen that a very large percentage of
disease is preventable. The health of
the children demands clean homes
with sanitary surroundings. Typhoid
fever and dysentery, as well as diar
rhoea are now upon us. Vaccinate
against typhoid fever. Clean up and
sanitate against all. Write the State
Board of Health, Atlanta, for leaflets
and other information.
We should be ready in season and
out of season, if such a time may be
imagined, to give battle for health,
since that is the first in importance in
the plan of life.
Remember that tuberculosis comes
with a hack and a cough, and goes
with a hack and a coffin. Early diag
nosis and proper treatment give splen
did results. “
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