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DOUGLAS COUNTY SENTINEL.
For Cleaning Tile,
Bathtubs, Kitchen Sinks,
® and Marble
Use 5APOLIO. Quickly removes
tlie stains and makes everything look
like new. See that the name
SAPOLIO i.j on every package.
ENOCH MORGAN'S SONS CO.
Sole Manufacturers
New York U. S. A.
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ISGEQ BLOOD
WITIRSTI BODY
(Workers Sick And Weak From
J Exertion Take Gude’s Pep-
to-Mangan
Comparison
FBRE WATER
otls for
and in
The* throe ir.or.t important n<
man are air, food and water,
each case purity in necessary. Pure
water is a luxury as well as a neces
sity. The abundant use of pure water
promotes health, while to lie deprived
of it is a hardship. Impure w a fa
fitment ‘and it may be a
[nger.
pblic water supply is a vrlu-
>ai asset, not. only enhgpc-
Jfiride, liut attracting to he
ly manufacturers who use wa-
|dr Industries and who desire
protection for their prop-
pftory of sanitary engineering
l tale of the misery and death
i drinking water infect*
jthe germs of such diseases as
typhoid fever and dysentery,
rterm “pure water" Is not a sat-
Dry one. In the first place pure
does not exist in nature. Ho
of its great dissolving power,
Toreign substances are always pres
ent, even though unseen. These sub
stances, mineral or organic, solid or
gaseous. living organisms, perhaps,
give to different waters the various
properties that collectively determine
its quality, or, as we say, itw purity.
J» tlie second place, these various for
eign substances act differently and
the amounts of the substances pres
ent, as well as their nature, determine
the quality of the water. A good drink
ing water may be a had water for
umo in tie* laundry, and it may corrode
pipes. On the other hand, a good water I
for boilers may he dangerous for a per- i
pun to drink. The term “pure water,” j
therefore, does not have a definite 1
moaning. , |
The first characteristic. of a water !
fit to be list'd for drinking, for brush- !
Jng the teeth, for cooking and for the
miscellaneous m en of tlie household, is
joafety from infection; that is, freedom
^rom the germs of disease. Hitter ex-
perience has shown that water may
cuuse typhoid lever by transporting the
living typhoid germs from some per
son sick of the disease to some well
person. This is a simple mechanical
transfer of the germs. The water plays
_po o.yher part than that of floating the
u«y i.ilings arotm. un/css we- *iut? v.u.
that/ it beeps them from drying up. Tht
typhoid germs do not multiply in the
water, hut, on tlie contrary, die out lit
tle by little, and so lose their power
to do harm.
The germs of these various diarrheal
diseases, typhoid fever, cholera and the
like, leave the bodies of s ick people
in HJ'/iy,' and bowel discharges. Sew
age is always liktoe to contain them.
If sewage finds its way into a lake’or
stream, or if the contents of a cesspool
or privy soak into the ground and per
colate to some well, the germs of these
diseases may he carried along, ready
to start the disease in some one who
drinks the infected water.
Water, that is contaminated with
sewage or with fecal discharges is dan
gerous to drink. It may not always
cause sickness, because the sewage
may not always contain germs from
persons sick of typhoid fever and oili
er water-borne diseases, but it is al
ways dangerous.
The surest and best method of safe
guarding tlie quality of a public water
supply is by some means of artificial
purification. This purification may be
carried on by boiling, filtraton, steril
ization with chloride of lime or liquid
chlorine. It is always weil to consult
the State Hoard of Health in relation
to waters that need any type of puri
fication. It is safe to say today that
almost any water can he purified anc
made safe and wholesome.
Always remember the following fact;.
In relation'to a water supply:
1. Pure water ia a luxury.
Men and women who toil, eitli
er physically or mentally, use up
energy. When # they overwork
they use up more energy, and
sometimes the blood gets in a run
down condition. Without rest
the blood cannot get back to nor
mal, so that it becomes clogged
with waste matter from over-ex
ertion.
The clogged blood virtually
withers tlie body. The strained
looks on pale faces, the thin,
bloodless arms; thesunkencheeks
and necks, the dead-tired feeling,
are the results of stale blood de-
privfng the system of life-giving
oxygen.
Workers go to the drug store
and get Gude’s Pepto-Mangan
when they feel weak and run
down. They take it in either the
liquid or the tablet form. That
makes the blood rich and red and
drives out the poisons. Life-giv
ing oxygen, carried by the little
red cells, renews the strength and
builds up the entire system.’Look
for the name “Gude’s Pepto-Man
gan’' on the package. Advertise
ment.
2. Pure
:{. Pure
ater in cheap,
water is dan?/
entity
5. impure water is expensive.
(>. Surface water must lie purified.
8. Qualities to bo sought In water—
wholosomonosM, cleanliness and
softness.
0. Kill ration makes water clean.
10. . Filtration makes water reasona
bly safe.
11. Filtration should be followed by
sterilization.
Hard water may be softened.
Filtration has been justified bi
experience.
Dr. J. F. Duffey
Registered Optometrist
Eyes Examine!
• I lasses Fi ted
At DutTcy’s Jewelry Store
Com: ’.on sense and patriotism i
essential to good citizenship. Unfor-J
lunately common sense is the most
unc.ryumon s-.vhi of sense. Likewise
good judgment, which is a correct j
gue:: '. as to the future ba ud on com* i
EEomi
non
, is also
ery unc
It i
v; on Id : com .good judynient If Sickness
ty and crime, as men with common
sense a ;roe that the chief function
of government, and the chief purpose
of statesmen would be to prevent sick
ness, but many people do not believe
that ignorance and poverty are the
chief causes of crime and that sickness
is the principal cause of ignorance and
poverty so much money is spent in
caring lor the finished product, the
criminal, the insane, the blind, the
deaf and dumb, and little money is
spent to stop the manufacturing of
such by preventable disease.
The law makers in some states and
cities have shown good judgment in
the appropriation of liberal sums for
the protection of the people’s health
tMul the results have been most satis
factory.
Florida places a tax of 1/2 of 1 mill
on all property and is providing very
ample protection for the people against
communicable diseases. This tax
yields 18.2 cents per person, while
Georgia appropriates only 1/6 that
amount per person.
The life of a citizen in Georgia is
APPROPRIATION PER CAPITA
BY STATES FOR THE PREVENTION OF DISEASE
GEORGIA 3.1c
ALABAMA 6.3c
lion and Virginia 229 million dollars i
worth of stuff.
VALUE OF CROPS
$323,290,000.
NifiTH CAROLINA, $412,374,600.
SOUTH CAROLIHH, $282,613,600.
ALABAViA, $240,001,GOO.
ViRGWA, $233,782,000.
In 1920, this crop if divided evenly
between all the people - would have
given each one $111.62 apiece, while
in Alabama the same division would
have given each'person $102.2-1 and in
Virginia .$102.84,
Of this group Georgia is tlie richest
slate per person. The assessed realty
valuation was $1,145,817,052 while
Virginia shows $823,534,703 and South
Carolina $208,139,650. These values
are the basis of taxation from which
source the state revenue is in the main
is secured. While corporations and
capitalists pay the tax, the amount
of that tax is added to i lie cost of
operation; and the man who buys the
ticket pays tlie tax; the corporation
or capitalist pays no tax, be acts as a
middle man and collects it from the
consumer. This total tax valuation
when prqrated among the people is an
index of what each individual con
tributes to the maintenance of the
government. In Georgia the assessed
realty valuation per capita is $395.67
as compared with $123,63 in South Car-
eleven
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The finest tobaccos perfectly
aged and blended
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HEALTH AND WE
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and
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UNLESS
You Just Try Our Prices
You Might not believe
Our entire ^tock has been
Marked Down 20 Per Cent
It’s a Fact, We Sell for CASH ONLY
That made it possible
NORTH CAROLINA 7,9c
SOUTH CAROLINA 9.2c
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Phone Your Order to
We deliver and yoa can pay the boy at the door.
J. W. Townsend
Douglasville Shoe Re-Nury
Operated by C. R. Baggett & W’ H. Simon
We have purchased the Shoe Shop recently operated
by' Mr. Stringfellow. All our work guaranteed.
nonymous
tin* possessor of the for
te possessor of the latter,
ly look upon health as a
thing to which they tire entitled, even
after violating iho laws of nature.
They consider wealth us a goal to
which they only hope to attain by
attending to their business affairs with
the utmost diligence. They realize
that negligence in their business will
mean the loss of dollars and cents to
their pockets, yet they seem to think
that negligence ill the case of their
bodies will not have a similar effect
upon their health.
Consider for a moment the people of
your community. What is the en
deavor of those whom you engage in
conversation? In the great majority
of instances, is it not the desire to
accumulate material things? This is
all well and good. The ambition of i
every man should be to improve his
condition materially, at least to that
point that may be termed independent.
But is not health just as important,
and. upon second thought, will it not
be considered more important than
wealth of material things?
Some people are so dilegent in the
race for the accumulation of money
that they often make of themselves
physical wrecks by disobeying the sim
ple laws of nature relative to the up
keep of that most wonderful mechan
ism called the human body. After the
race is won and their goal is reached,
they will invariably see, probably too
late, that it would have been far bet
ter to have been less ifiligent in busi
ness or social activities and have giv
en more rest and care to their bodies.
We would be far better off in tlie long
run if we would spend one-half as
much thought upon the care of our
physical selves as we do to the pur
suit of riches. The poor man with a
sound body is far more happy than
the invalid rich.
The sick man 1s a liability to his
State, while the well man is an asset.
The cost for the care of one sick per
son will be more than sufifeient to
maintain the health of a score of
healthy people. So important was this
matter to the people of Georgia as
a whole that the Legislature a few
years ago created an organization
known as the State Hoard of Health
whose duty it is to advise the people
and help them to avoid sickness and
to maintain health.
The State Board of Health will be
glad to advise your community in re
gard to remedying any unsanitary, con
ditions and impure water supplies
which would invite the outbreak of an
epidemic of some kind. It gives in
struction how to successfuly combat
carriers of diseases such as flies, mos
quitoes, etc. Their laboratories aid
the physician in making diagnoses of
diseases such as malaria, typhoid fe
ver, diphtheria, gonorrhoea, syphilis,
etc., free of any cost to you. They
manufacture and distribute to you free
of charge typhoid vaccine and the Pas
teur treatment for bites of rabid p?R-
FLORIDA 13.2c
just as valuable as in Florida, a moth-1 »
or in Georgia thinks just as much of j I
her child as the mother in South Car
olina, and it costs just as much loi
liie cities and counties in Georgia tt
care for .the widows and orphans as i
does in North Carolina or Alabama.
Pride in •one’s state is the basis of
patriotism, patriotism is essential to
statesmanship, and the citizen who
does not believe any -of the above
statements must feel some embarrass
ment when he realizes that statesmen
who have had control in the past
permitted Georgia to lag behind its
neighbors in placing a money value on
the lives of its people.
Georgia is the largest state east of
the Mississippi. It covers an area of
59.4 ' square miles, about twice the
size of South Carolina with 30,495
square miles.
AREA IN SQUARE MILES
GEORGIA, 59,475.
iina. This group of states is as fol-
GEORGIA, $335,87.
! VIRG.N A, $356,63.
NORTH CAROLINA, 52,426.
ALABAMA, 52,279.
VIRGINIA, 42,279.
SOUTH KAROLINA, 30,495.
In crop production alone, not in
cluding any other element, of com
merce. Georgia is a close second to
North Carolina, which leads the group.
Tiie total crop value in 1920 was 412
million in North Carolina, 323 million
in Georgia, while South Carolina pro
duced 2S2 million, Alabama 240 mil
AUBAMj,_$306,73. \*
WORTH ML IU $193,35.
SMTrl CAROLINA, $123,fi3.
tin
to
ut thesan11
fiord the
at go
run
that a man in
should receive
times the proti
Carolina pa;
vet the opi
mg
• at least high enough
pie a goo<l and eAi-
. it stands to reason
nrgia paying on $395
pproximatel.v three
ion that one in South
m only $123 receives,
is true for the tax
l>a\er in South Carolina receives just
t#hree times the protection afforded
the tax payer in Georgia.
The per capita crop value for 1919
was $207.33 in Georgia and $109.80 in
Alabama. The assessed realty valu
ation per capita in Georgia was
$395.67, in Alabama $306.73. A human
life in Georgia is of no less value than
in Alabama, yet although the Georgia
citizen produced $37.53 more and paid
taxes on $SS.74 more than the Alabama
citizen, Georgia invested only 3.1 cents
to protect that citizen’s health, while
Alabama invested 6.7 cents, more than
twice the amount for the same pur
pose. This is the reputation that
Georgia statesmen cannot brag of. it
is not u good advertisement to scatter
broadcast. It is no condition that
any good citizen can boast of.
I
FREE POST-GRADUATE COURSE
GIVEN BY EMORY UNIVERSITY.
GEORGIA PHYSICIANS INVITED
The week of July 11 to 16, inclusive.
Is one of the considerable moment to
the physicians of our State. Through
the kindness of Emory University a
week of intensive study of the ven-
' real diseases has been arranged. Six
days with six periods each have been
agreed upon by the. faculty. The fore
noons will be devoted to lectures by
the professors and from two o’clock
in the afternoons until night clinics
will he under way at all the hospitals
in the city, but especially at Gray
Clinic. Invitations have been sent out
to every physician in the state, and
when this article was written 300 had
accepted. The course is entirely free;
no charge whatever is made and tlie
prospect is that Atlanta will be the
Mecca for hundreds of our doctors for
the period mentioned above. It is ci
wonderful opportunity. It is a possible
that reduced railroad rates will
he granted, and the chairman of
the convention bureau has the matter
of hotel accommodations under his
care. The Chamber of Commerce are
| giving their attention to tlie matter,
and the Fulton County Medical So-
! ciety will be on the job to make the
: stay of the physicians pleasant as well
as profitable.
This is the first time that a Univer-
! pity has arranged an Institute-Clinic
! for venereal diseases, offering, it free
to the medical profession, and it is
i to be commended for its public spirit
1 in so doing.
PREVENTS MALARIA
There is a treatment that prevents
malaria and all those who live in sec
tions where mosquitoes thrive should
:>e sure to make use of it. You should
i-onsult your physician and get him to
prescribe the prophylactic treatment
and * see that every member of the
family takes it. Get rid o' the breed-
ng places of the mosquitoes and screen
rour homes.
Your Subscription
Now
*1 Year
Red Cross Gives
$310,000 to Aid '<
‘Clean-Up’ Drive
An appropriation of $310,000 for
Red Cross work in connection with the
“clean-up” campaign Instituted by the-
Government to bring the claims of all
disabled service men who are entitle*!
to Federal aid before the proper gov
ernment bureau for action, has been
made by the American Red Cross. I
The Executive Committee of the!
American Red Cross in making the!
appropriation authorized the uppropri-j
■qtion of $35,0(10 of this sum to the]
American Legion to defray the ex-j
jien.se of the Legion representatives
assigned to the various districts of!
the Veterans Bureau.
The remainder of tin* appropriation]
was authorized for apportionment!
among the several Divisions of the:
Red Cross for carrying on that part'
of the “clean-up” work that falls di
rectly upon the Red Cross organization.,
Atlanta, Ga., September 2, 1921.
Dear Editor:
I wish the State Board ol Health
were financially able to subscribe for
your paper; we could know you bet
ter and knowing you more intimately
we could, if possible, appreciate you
more. We are under lasting obliga
tions to you for your aid in the pre
vention of disease in our State. The
work will be greatly handicapped the
next two years, as we have been se
verely cut in our appropriation. With
your help, we hope to continue our
educational work, and will get out a
page similar to this about every 60
days. We hope that you can use ev
ery article, and if you cannot, and
do not care for our copy, will you
not drop me a line frankly so stating?
If you have any suggestions to make
as to the kind of matter, we will ap
preciate your saying so. We thank
you. Yours very truly.