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The Lee Co. Journal
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF 1 + E COUNTY
~ AND CITY OF LEESBURG
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APublished Every Friday
J.P. HORNE. ............Editor
EDWIN F. GODWlN._Publisher
Entered at the Postoffice at
Leesbrug, Ga,, as second
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FRIDAY, APRIL, 13, .923,
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NEW YORK AND CHICAGO
yRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES
In this land of the free we learn
fiom experience that nothing i«
free. - We pay spiffegly for® every
thing that we get.
It is quite possible: to profit by
experience, but a fellow hates like
heck to pay the piper.
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They say that every American
citizen is a king in his own right,
etc. And perhaps that is the rea
"gon 80 many of us sit back and
wait for George Lo do it.
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Some men areso considerate they
jump every time their wives speak.
A biting dog makes very Dittle
noise. His yictim does that.
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Stop the argument’ when your
wife becomes excited. You have
won.
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An old dog may learn new tricks
but a new dog has to begin with the
old ones.
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Even a rich man is willing to ad
mit that he is poor when the tax
assessor comes around.
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Congress being off the job, noisy
March had no competition.
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The situation in Europe remains
unchanged. They are unable to
find & means of making things worse.
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Never go into a fight unless you
are able to run faster than the other
fellow. Otherwise, how would you
be able to catch him?
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The government is reported to be
investigating the latest sugar steal,
in the shape of the recent boost in
the price of that commodity. We
hope it amounts te something more
than an investigation, otherwise the
sugar thieves will be at it again as
soon as the hue and cry isforgotten.
Investigations are alright, pro
vided they result in conyictions and
proper punishment. But investi
gation that start out with a whoop
and end with a whine only serve to
disgust the public and impair its
confidence in the general govern
ment.
There are plenty of jails to hold
the thieves.
Chunk’em in!
One great troubles with country
towns is the fact that many of them
are burdened with social ecliques,
and anyone not a member of one of
the cliques pis left stranded—high
and dry.
This doesn’t do a town any good.
Instead, it does any community a
lot of harm through the creation of
social friction and jealously and hard
feelings. A good way to overcome
much of this detrimental influence
would be to bold a “‘Get-T'cgether’”
meeting about once each month. It ‘
could be given in whatever way the
people most desired, and everybody
could get acquainted with everybody
else. We might try it out in this
town with good results. Even if it
didn’t do anything else, we wouldi
all have an enjoyable evening—
gsomething that makes life aweeter|
and more worth living. |
OF COURSE IT PAXS 1
If you tell gome people that it
pays fo trade at home they will
question the accurancy of your statd® ‘
ment or merely content themselves
with a careless ‘‘perbaps.”’
For their benefit here is one of
the whys.
In modern days the prozperity of
a ecommunity depends upon the
amount of money in cireulation in
that community. 1
If a man goes to a near by city to
buy a suit of clothes the money h"i
pays for the suit is ALL taken ont
of the town, Itis gone, and the‘
town deesn’t see it again. ‘
But if he buys the suit from a
home dealer the wholezale cost only
goes out of town, The merchants
profit and overhead expense remding
in the home town.
Figured on the basis of a single
guit for a single individual, it
amounts to nothing of imporance,
but if multipiied into hundreds and
thousands of suits, and other ar
ticles of wearing apparel, and shoes,
and hardware, and millinery, and
farm implements, and building sup
plies, ard all of the other articles
that enter into our daily life, it can
readily be seen that the two items
of overhead expense and profits, if
all kept at home by the putr(mizing;
of iome dealers, would mean an
enormous amount of money kopU
in cireulation right here in our mvni
community. |
And YOU would get a part uf!
that money. |
It’s worth thinking over, because
it pays to trade at home.
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Perhaps our home people would
'do more trading at home if our home
) merchants would do more advertis
ing at home.
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~ CIVILIZED BARBARIANS
Ask the average citizen if there
are any harbarians in this country,
and he would at once say ‘'no.”’
But there are such monsters
There—in the guise of civilized peo
ple. They are the motor car killers,
‘those ‘‘don’t care a damn’’ drivers
‘who tear along at terriflic apeed in
congested districts, maiming and
killing pedestrians who do not jump
‘ with suflicient celerity.
~ If a man walks up to you and
kills youwith a gun or knife, we
call him a murderer and bhang him.
If a gpeed maniac runs overa per:
son and kills him, we callit by some
other name, the most charitable one
we can think of, and generally we
do™not punish him with anything
more severe than a nominal fine.
The courts, the prosecutors, and
even the people themselves are en
tirely too linient with such kiilers.
That is the reason so many people
at the wheel of a car seem to lose
‘ull regard for the rights of pedest
| rians where those rights interfere
‘with the reckless speed at which
| they Jike to drive.
The barbarians maims and kills
‘lmcause he has never been taught
any better. It is a part of his na
ture. He has never been civilized.
The motor killer i 3 even worse
‘than the barbarian. He is civilized
and he knows Letter, but he doesn’t
do better because it interferes with
his speed and his pleasure.
We haven’t much use for a bar
barous barbarian. 1
We have even less use for a civi
lized barbarian—the speed maniac
of today.
Federal laws should be passed re~
quiring every motor yehicle to be
fitted with a device that would
make it possible for a car to he
driven at a€peed greater than twen.
ty-five miles an hour, and any vio
lation or evasion of that law should
be punishable at nothing less thana
term in a penitentiary.
And the speed regulators should
be manufactured and sold by the
government in order to pre
vent gouging and profiteering by
private manufacturers and dealers.
In no other way can the safety
of pedestrians be insured.
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Highest-Priccd Tobacco.
The highest-priced tobacco grown in
the world is produced in a certain area
pear the western coast of Cuba which
{s more than twenty-five miles square.
The fine aromatic tobacco grown there
can be produced nowbere else.—~Dßrook-
Jyn Eagle,
YHE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL, LEESBURG, GEORGIA
In ene of our cities a girl and her
f4lT7er are both attending the same
college. That’s a new one but it's
encournging. ;
There was a time when dad
thought he knew wore than the
youngsters. _But times are chang
ing, and young blood is keeping the
pace, and many of the dads are lag
ging behind, One dad at” least
is determined not to give his child
ven an opportunity to trip him up
wlong educational lines, It’s the
class room again for him,
Any lagging dads in this town
with the game amount of nerve?
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Word comes from Turkey to the
Moslem government will goon cause
alaw to be parsad limiting male
citizena to one wife each.
The Turk, damned from one end
of Christendom to theother, appears
to be taking a step upward, and for
the better.
In this country some of our gay
birds with money are breaking into
limelight with so many wives it is
difficult to understand how they
keep track of them without having
them catalogued and tagged.
But it’s all in a life time, even if
some lives are mighty full—of wives.
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Church Services
Leesburg
Baptist—J. H. Wyatt, Pastor.
Preaching 2nd, and 4th Sunday®
Morning and Evening.
Sunday School 10 o’clock a. m.
B. Y. P. U. 6 v’clock p.m. every
Sunday. "
W. M. U. Monday afternoon fol
lowing 2nd and 4th Sundays.
Mid Week Prayer Service and
Choir Practice Wednesday evening
7 o’clock.
Methodist—J. D. Snyder, Pastor.
Preaching 3rd Sunday, morning
ard evening.
Sunday School 10 o’clock every
Sunday.
Presbyterian—Rev. Grille, Pastor
Preaching Ist Sunday morning
and evening.
Sunday School 10 o’clock every
Sunday.
Had Wrong Pair Shrinking.
She evidently was a new clerk in
the department store, and was doing
her best to please. Theg customer
asked to see wool hose. Two pairs in
a size she wished were shown her.
One pair was a trifle larger than the
other.
The customer remarked that she
liked the smaller pair better, but that
she was afraid they were not quite
large enough. She wished they were
the same stze as the others.
The clerk promptly replied: *“Oh,
that is all right, madam. These, the
smaller ones, were made to shrink,
and the others were not. They were
made to stay the size they are.”
Complains Air Has Been Stolen,
The air is free, however much the
rest of our environment may be in
the possession of other folk, is a con
soling thought that may now be de
nied to us. At any rate, an American
¢itizen has become so depressed in his
mind that he has entered court and
declared that even the atmosphere
and all of its contents and component
parts have passed into the hands of
conspirators who violate the Sherumn‘
act by hogging up all of the 25,000
ether-wave lengths available to his‘
broadcasting station~The Nation's
Business, |
New Menace to the Automobile,
In the Fresno court a man is being
sued for damages as a result of fail.
ure to hang a tail light on a black
beifer. It seems this heifer had de
veloped a penchant for wandering
about country lanes and roads after
curfew time and a stranger in an auto
mobile bumped into her. We are left
in ignorance as to the fate of the
heifer, but the automobile was dam
aged to the amount of $229.52. The
owner of the automobile thinks the‘
owner of the heifer should pay.—~San
Francisco Chronicle.
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WHY DOES GEORGIA NEED
& A LARGER SANATORIUM?
}LACK OF ROOM CAUSE OF DELAY
\ IN ADMITTING OF
PATIENTS
State Of Georgla Loses $9,000,000 As
| Result Of Death From
Tuberculosis
Because the present Sanatorium has
only 100 beds.
There 18 at present a waiting list of
60 patients begging that they be admit
ted to treatment. There are seldom
less than 35 on this list.
During tlife past 18 months we have
averaged admission of 19 patients per
month, If we continue to be able to
do this, it will take over 3 months to
reach and admit to treatment the 60th
patient. These months of guffering to
the patient and heartaches for the fam
ily, not to mention the time lost in
curing the patient, and thie advance of
the disease, many cases lose all chances
of cure in three months, The average
time between receipt of application and
admission of the patient during the past
- year was b weeks.
Approximately 3,000 patients die of
Tuberculosis in Georgia annually. For
every death, it is estimated that there
are 10 other persons ill with Tubercu
losis.
Sociologigts value human life at $3,
000. If this figure is correct, Georgia
has a loss of $9,000,000 a year by reason
of deaths by Tuberculosis aione! The
loss from sickness from Tuberculosis
amounts to such a figure as to almost
stagger comprehension.
i Georgia is furnighing not a single bed
for the care of Tubercular Negroes, and
yet 46% of our population are Ne
‘ groes, and Tuberculosis is two or three
times more frequent among the Ne
groes, who are brought in close contact
‘with the White race as cooks, and ser
‘vants, and what s more serious, as
‘nurse girls for our children, and thus
gpreading the disease to the White race.
The larger Sanatorium would make it
possible to take care of 100 Negroes and
300 White. $500,000 would build a
modern Sanatorium to accomplish this.
The number of patients rejected in
1921 was 56, some because they were
too far advanced to be benefited by
the Sanatorium as equipped at pres
ent; some were discouraged by the
length of the wait and went elsewhere
for treatment; some died while wait
ing to be admitted. A larger, more
modern Sanatorium would reduce the
number of rejected patients and deaths
There are no accommodations for
the care of children, they cannot he
properly treated under the present
conditions. The new Sanatorium would
be built with this problem in mind, for
it ils in children that the disease i
found in its earliest stages, and most
can be done for Tuberculosis, both as
a disease and as a problem in Public
Health and Public Welfare,
THE SOCIAL DISEASES—
DESTROYERS OF
PUBLIC HEALTH
Disraeli, one of the greatest of Eng
land’s prime ministers, once said: “Pub
lic Health is the foundation upon which
rests the happiness of the people and
the welfare of the State.”
Nations rise and fall, dependent to
a very large extent on the public health
of the State. The great Roman Em
pire withstood all combined forces ar
rayed against it until undermined by
the gay, riotous and immoral living of
fts, own citizens.
Two of the greatest and most pow
erful enemies of any nation are the
social diseases of syphilis and gonor
rhoea. These diseases strike, not with
the initial force as some other dis
eases, such as typhoid and pneumonia,
but none the less sure as to the ulti
mate result on the health and life of
the individual.
They recognize no social status. In
the language of Horace, “They visit with
equal tread the palace of the rich and
the hut of the poor.” They not only
affect the individual whom they at
tack, but bring untold suffering and
unhappiness to his or her offspring.
Gonorrhoea is responsible for a large
percentage of blindness at birth. Syph
{lis is largely responsible for the de-‘
formity of children. Truly the sins of.
the father or mother are visited upoa
generations yet unborn.
At the entrance of the United States
into the world war, we realized for the
first time the menace to our national
life due to the prevalence of the so
cial diseases in the manhood called toI
arms. Our government at once saw the
necessity of stamping out these dis
eases, realizing that public health is
fundamental to all success. The pub
lic health was in grave danger and,
without .it as an asset, we could not
efticiently meet the severe physical and
mental requirements of the times.
In this wise the national Govern- |
ment is co-operating with the State
Boards of Health, which makes it pos
sible for its citizens to obtain labora
tory examination for these diseases iree
of charge to the individual. For fur
ther advice, consult with your family
physician, or write to the Georgia State
Board of Health, Atlanta, Georgia,
DOCTOR DOES NOT SIGN
D EATH CERTIFICATE
We have been told that about 30%
of the death certificates filed with the
State Board of Health are signed Ly
others than physicians. Does this
mean that about one-third of our peo |
ple who die are not attended by a
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cash or we will exchange anything we have for any
thing you have that has a market value or we will
help you get the cash. Come to see usmay-be we can
help you, let’s spend our money where it will go the
fartherest, our place is where you can do it. Good
stuff at reasonable prices, we are going to work to push
and pull regardless of what people say or think.
There are no obstacle but what we will under
take to remove, great or small. We can’t go back
there is no room at the bottom, we can go forward for
there are few at the top. ILet’s get this old greuch
look off our faces. Smile and the world will smile
with you. Let’s smile or bust.
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