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(Last Week's Letter.)
Re\. Ralph Gril.m filled his regular
appointment here Sunday.
Miss Dell lharpe. who is teaching'
the I iger School, spent the week-end
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B.
J. Tharpe.
Mrs. S. L. Morris entertained on
Friday night in honor of her cousin,
Miss Josephine Morris. Dainty re
freshments were served and Victrola
music was furnished throughout
the evening. At a late hour the
guests departed, declaring Mrs. Mor
ris a most excellent hostess.
Miss Josephine Morris, who has
been vsiting her mother for the past
two weeks, returned to Atlanta on
Sunday.
Ovid Graham who has been dan
gerously ill with pneumonia, is some
what improved.
Mrs. Rebecca Osborne spent Fri
day night with her sister, Mrs. A. P.
Mclntyre, in the Sadie section.
Miss Roby Mason of Ailey spent
last week-end with Mr. and Mrs. M.
H. Darley.
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Graham vis
Said Uncle Silas—
" When I was young and full of pep I made plenty
of money and never had a care. I was a happy as a
jaybird in a tree full of doodle-bugs. Things changed
as I grew older.”
No doubt there was a change. There always is.
ll you spentl all as you go along you are sure to find
the going much rougher at the very time when you are
least able to stand it. "Come easy, go easy” is all ight I
so long as things continue to come. After that, needy
and dependent old age stares you in the face. Save a
little as you go along and keep it in our bank- That is
the sure remedv.
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ited their brother. Melvin Graham,
last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Make Morris made a
business trip to Vidalia last Friday. |
Mrs. Mahala Graham was the guest
of Mrs. Florence Hilton on Monday.
Mrs. L. V. Mitchell was the guest
of Mrs. S. L. Morris last Friday
night.
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Mrs. L. N. Sniith spent Tuesday
with Misses Birdie and Jennie Sutton
in Vidalia.
Miss Rebecca Pcole of Adrian came
down Tuesday to spend some time
with Rev. and Mrs. W. L. Duncan.
Rev. W. R. Hanson of Forsyth de
livered a splendid sermon at Bethel
church on Sunday night and Monday
morning. We folks down here are
always glad to see him come.
Rev. W. L. Duncan and tamily of
Adrian moved to our community a
few days ago. Also his father and
mother of Elizabeth City, N. C., are
with them to make their home.
Everybody is invited to attend the
services at Bethel church Saturday
night. Sunday and Sunday night.
THi) VIDALIA ADVANCE, VIDALIA GEORGIA
SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST.
—Toombs County.
By virtue of the power of sale in
a deed to secure debt, dated June 15,
1916, between John W. Poe of
Toombs county, Georgia, and the Cal
vert Mortgage Company, a corpora
tion of the State of Maryland, which
deed is recorded in Book 6, folio 347,
Clerk's office Superior Court Toombs
county, Georgia, the undersigned will
! sell at public outc y before the court
j house door in said county, on Sat
urday, February noth, 1921, between
the hours of 10 a. m. and 4 p. in.
to the highest bidder for cash, the
following described real estate, to
v\ it:
All that lot of land in the city of
Vidalia, Toombs county, Georgia, on
corner of Fourth and Jackson streets,
fronting on Jackson street 105 feet,
and running back an even width
along Fourth street 210 feet. Bound
ed North by Fourth street; East by
Jackson street; South by Mrs. Mary-
Outlaw, and West by Leader & Ro
sansky.
Being same property conveyed to
J. W. Poe by J. Wade Johnson by
Warranty deed dated May 8, 1912,
and recorded in Book 4, page 576.
Said lahd will be sold for the pur
pose of paying the indebtedness of
John W. Poe to the Calvert Mort
gage Company, and the expenses of
this proceeding, said indebtedness con
sisting of a series of notes, all
dated Vidalia. Ga., June 15th, 1916.
Being for the sum of $21.55 each; the
first of said notes due forty-tive
months „ alter date, and one each
month thereafter, except the forty
seventh and fiftieth, until the eighty
fourth month thereafter; all of said
notes bearing interest at 8 per cent
from maturity; it beingyprovided in
the deed above referred to that if
either of the said notes should not
be promptly paid at maturity that the
entire debt would become due at the
option of the holder, and for the pur
giving four weeks notice of the time,
•terms and place of sale by advertise
ment in a newspaper of general cir
culation in said county, the holder of
said notes should have authority to
sell said property at public outcry be
fore the Court House door in the
county where the land is situated;
and there having been default in the
payment of nine of said notes, the
power of sale becomes operative.
The amount which will beconfe due
to The Calvert Mortgage Comp
any on Saturday, February 26th, 1921,
is the sum of $774.00 due on the notes,
and $28.26 due on account of insur
ance premium paid on property se
curing the loan, total $802.26.
Said property will be sold as the
property of John W. Poe, and any
balance remaining after the payment
of said indebtness and the expenses
of said sale, will be paid to the said
John W. Poe, or his assigns, and the
Calvert Mortgage Company will
make to the purchaser a fee-simple
deed to said propeity.
THE CALVERT MORGAGE CO.,
Dasher & Mann,
v Attorneys at Law.
SPECIAL NOTICE
Arrival and depaiture of Passenger
Trains, Vidalia, Ga.
Arrives Leaves
10:55a Macon. Dublin 8 ;00a
7:20p Macon. Dublin 7:40p
For information as to through
schedules, fares, etc., apply to Ticket
Agent, or
C. J. ACOSTA. Traf. Mgr.,
Macon, Ga.
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ALARMING INCREASE
• IN FIREARM HOMICIDES
Bureau of Vital Statistics
State Board of Health
If you will man a passenger train
of six coaches with a full crew and
fill every seat, permitting seventeen
to stand on the platforms and in the
aisles, you will have the homicide spe
cial of Georgia. Such a train may be
named and filled with those murdered
during the first nine months of 1920.
The State has a record of 384 homi
cides during that period, not includ
ing the infants murdered, either in
tentionally or through carelessness,
and buried without a death certificate
being filed and a bural permit being
secured, as is required by the state
statute.
The four rear coaches must be re
served for those murdered by fire
arms. for in addition to the 240 seats
29 will be found in the aisles, 48 wo
men, 221 men, a total of 269 persons
murdered by such weapons during the
first nine months of 1920. As a mo
tive power for this special train, you
might imagine a huge pistol, since
that weapon was used in more than
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*ls per cent of the cases to usher the!
individual into eternity.
The report of a suicide causes a
shudder to pass over the community,
the murder of a prominent citizen
arouses the anger of all who knew
him, but the feeling that spreads like
a pall over the neighborhood when the
life of some innocent child is snuffed
out by a pistol which was “not load
ed"’ is beyond description.
Such conditions are local and in re
ality receive little consideration, for
the morning, after the burial the com
munity, excepting the home which has
been robbed, assumes a normal inter
est in business affairs and nothing is
done to prevent the repetition of such
tragedies.
Each person unthoughtedly asks
himself the Question, “What is one
death in three million people?" and
answer it, “Nothing,” and drives ahead
with his personal affairs. This senti
ment will change when It is realized
that in nine months, 1,532 persons in
Georgia lost their llvea from some cause
other than disease. Os this number,
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FREE FOR THE ASKING.
The State Board of Health issue: |
pamphlets at intervals and they an
free. If you are at all interested am
will drop a postal card to Georgii :
State Board of Health, 131 Capito ]
Square, Atlanta, the literature will bi ;
sent you by return mail. At presen (
you can get "Keeping Fit” for boys
“Outdoing the Ostrich,” for the gen
eral public, “On Guard” for girls I
“Man Power” for men, “Georgia Babj |
Book.” “The School Child,” “Sex Ed ,
ucation in the Home” for parents
“Sanitary Closets for Rural Homes
and Schools,” “Diet Lists for Childrei -
from Infancy to Six Years of Age,'
Score Cards for Children. literature or (
various phases of health work it (
schools. Malaria —Lessons on Its Caust
and Prevention.
WRITE FOR INFORMATION. ,
The Division of Child Hygiene o! (
the State Board of Health has as its
object, (1) proper prenatal care of tin 1
child. (2) proper post partem cart (
of the mother and child, (3) registra i
tion of the child's birth, (4) propel <
care of the infant and pre-school agi; I
child, (5) a physical examination and j
follow-up work for every school child i
in Georgia. Every organization inter
ested in helping to accomplish these
ends will receive advice, literature and >
personal aid by addressing the State <
Board of Health, Atlanta, Ga. I
CHILDREN’S HEALTH CENTERS.
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There are 16 children’s health cen
ters running in Georgia. The moth- i
ers bring their children to these cen ,
fers once a week or once every twe
weeks for examination (the first time i
they appear), and for general inspec
tion and weighing at the subsequent
visits. The doctor in charge has a
conference with each mother as tc, j
the physical condition of her children
and gives her advice as to feeding, j i
time for sleeping, etc., a«d if necessary j
refers the child to the family physi-,
cian or to a specialist. Much good is ;
done at these centers and the probabil
ity is that their number will be at least
three times as great before the much
dreaded (from the inf&nt health stand
point), summtr months come. Write i
the State Board of Health for infor
ation on children’s health centers.
87 were suicides, 1,061 accidental
deaths, and 384 were homicides, show
ing a proportion of one suicide to 4
homicides and 17 accidental deaths.
All these deaths are said to be pre
ventable, yet suicides are ascribed
to conditions over which apparently
nothing less than the Almighty has
control. All accidental deaths can
not be prevented so long as floods and
storms ai'e no better understood than
at present. All homicides will never
be stopped so long as a man’s nature
partakes of the human. But the condi
tions leading to and the instruments
used in producing such deaths may
be taken from the people and in this
way the number reduced.
Os the 25,253 deaths recorded by the
State Bureau of Vital Statistics dur
ing the first three quarters of 1920, one
out of every 16 was due to some cause
other than disease, one in 23 due to
some accident, one in 65 was a homi
cide, and one in 290 a suicide. This
waste of human life is realized when
it is remembered that in every 100,000
people in Georgia there were 4 sui
cides, that 17 are murdered, and that
48 meet an accidental death during the
year.
State statutes and city ordinances
have been enacted controlling the au
tomobile on the streets and public
highways but the utter disregard for
such laws, both by the drivers of au-
I tomobiles and by officials whose duty
- it is to enforce them, is shown plain
ly by the rapid increase in the num
ber of deaths due to automobile accl
■ deflts. This increase has kept pace
- with the increase in the number of
i deaths aue to the careless handling of
firearms. July, August and September
i of this year shows 42 deaths due to the
, careless handling of firearms as com
pared with only 79 during the previous
, six months, an increase of 34 per cent
every six months and at the present
( rate of increase, unless some check is
placed on such criminal carelessness,
there will be approximately 325 deaths
in 1921 from this cause.
The wave of crime sweeping over
this nation has at last reached Geor
, those produced by firearms, those by
DIPHTHERIA ANTITOXIN.
Not so very many years ago the
mention of the disease of diphtheria
struck terror into the hearts of both
parents and physicians. Twenty-five
years ago from 35 to 75 per cent of
diphtheria cases were fatal. The
average death rate during the past
ten years in the larger cities varied
from five to fifteen per cent. This
marvelous decrease in death rate is
undoutbedly due to DIPHTHERIA
ANTITOXIN.
The Bureau of Vital Statistics has
found that during the past six years
for every death due to diphtheria,
there were three deaths due to typhoid
fever, two deaths due to malaria, two j
deaths due to measles, two deaths,
due to whooping cough, twelve deaths j
due to tuberculosis, seven deaths due :
to infantile diarrhoea and two deaths
due to dysentery. So there is no rea
son to become panic-stricken over a
case of diphtheria, provided the pa
tient is under the care of an Lntelli
gent physician who knows just when
and how to use diphtheria antitoxin.
Perhaps you know that the State
Board of Health furnishes antitoxin
at a very low cost to the people ol
Georgia. It is furnished free of charge
to anyone who is unable to pay for it.
In other words, any person who is
unable to pay for medical services is 1
entitled to free antitoxin. There is,
very little red tape necessary to ob ;
tain it. The physician attending the j
ease is usually in a position to know
the financial circumstances of his pa
tient and all the State Board ol
Health asks is that its patrons be
honest in declaring their status.
In 1920 it cost the State of Geor
gia about $7,000 to render this service
to her people. 28,960,000 units of anti
toxin were distributed. This repre
sents a total cost of $17,476 which the
public would have had to pay without
the aid of the State Board of Heatlh
This does not take into account the
number of lives saved by rendering
antitoxin easily available to the pub
lie. The distribution of diphtheria
antitoxin is only one of many services
equally important rendered the pub
lie by the State Board of Health.
gia at full tide. Unfortunately a great
deal of attention Is given to petty
crimes, theft of property and the prao
tice of fraud In securing possession
of another’s goods. Less attention Is
paid to the capital crime, murder.
While a few judges have seen fit
to charge the grand juries with special
reference to the investigation of
homicides, the standard of court effio
ency in many cases seems to reach
no deeper into crime than the prose
cution of the bootlegger, gambler or
thief, in an effort to safeguard the
rights of the criminal, the rights of
the people to live are ignored; in an ef
fort to give the criminal the benefit of
the doubt, the security of life for tha
citizen is made more doubtful. Pleas
of self-defense and that the murdered
person “had his hand on his pistol
poccket” have safely guided many a
cold-blooded assassin from the gallows
into the privileges of the complete lib
erty to commit the same crime thß
second time.
Homicides are classified under three
titles, according to the method used,
cutting and piercing instruments and
those produced by all other methods,
and even with this restricted classifi
cation more than 77 per cent of all
homicides are ascribed to one cause
firearms.
And in place of the 165 homicides com
mitted by the use of firearms during
the first half of 1920, at the present
rate of increase, 204 will be recorded
during the last half, a total of 370 fo*
the entire year. And the records ol
1921, to the chagrin of the law abid
ing citizens and to the everlasting dia
grace to the criminal courts of Geor
gia, will carry a record of 592 hornl
cides, due to the use of firearms.
To the Homicide Special of Georgia,
composed of six coaches during thf
first half of 1920, must be added foul
additional cars so as to accommodate
this increase. Eight carloads of pea
pie ushered into eternity by the use ol
firearms, a sufficiently large numbai
to attract the attention not only of ev
ery peace officer in the start but also
of the Incoming Legislature.
NEWS NOTES.
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Pre-Natal Work For Georgia.
Dr. John Osborn Polak, in an ad
dress before the clinical section o',
the American College of Surgeons, re
cently quoted the following facts:
68% of all the deaths occurring i*
women from 15 to 44 years are du<
to conditions connected with chiK
hearing. 25% of all blindnes it
the United States is due to infectio*
of the child at the time of birth. Onl
woman out of 280 dies in childbirth
In Georgia as many as 15 to II
deaths caused by puerpural septicemil
are reported each month. These facti
are appalling. Proper prenatal care b®
fore birth and proper care at time oj
the birth of the child would eliminaU
these conditions. In a prenatal clini<
conducted by Dr. Polak and his asso
ciates at the Long Island College Hos
pital the percentage of still birthi
were reduced from 11% to 2%, ant
the maternal deaths from 1 in 280 t<
1 in 1,250. Facts like these provi
the value to the community of pre
natal work and show the absolute ne
cessity of such work for Georgia. Ai
yet, very little has been done, bu'
plans are under way to supply th«
doctors and midwives with the propel
prophylactic medication against opthal
mia neonatorium (babies’ sore eyes)
this medication to be obtained eittaex
free or at a minimum cost. Also undei
advisement are a series of lessons t<
midwives and methods for organizing
prenatal clinics. It is hoped that evel
at the beginning, the fight agains(
these conditions will be successful
Those Interested in getting furthei
information along this line shoult
write to the Division of Child Hygi
ene, State Board of Health, Atlanta
Georgia.
A statement has recently been mad<
that of all our federal tax 93% a
It has gone to war expeditors.
If the United States Public Healtl
Service and on down through the lini
of public health work could get thii
amount of money for a short whili
we feel quite sure that 20 years coull
be added to the average life of oui
people.
Which expenditure would you pre
fer, the one designed to kill off tht
people or one to prolong life? It it
your money; why don’t you say sornq
thing?