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I. BE ADVISED
P KNOW THE TRUTH.
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You often wonder if such and such
statement you read in the paper is
true. If it is possible for things to
happen. If they are as bad as they
are said to be. This may be, and Is
likely so in some instances, but yes¬
terday we had two caees reported to
us are true, and woefully pitiful.
A family of father, wife and four
children. The oldest child had a
small sore to develop on bis lip. He
was IX years old, and a fine fellow.
He was given treatment for several
days, but the sore did not heal, and
the family physician was not satisfied.
He called for one of our experts who
examined the child, and without hes¬
itation diagnosed the disease as Syph¬
ilis. A specimen of his blood was
taken and examined for the germs,
and they were found, as the Labora¬
tory says, 4 plus. This father was
called to the office and he was ques¬
tioned, his blood was examined and
found negative. He was questioned
about hie wife. He had no reason to
think she could Ijiave the disease. She
came down the next day and gave a
specimen of blood for examination,
and it was found negative also. The
remaining children were also exam¬
ined, and each or 3 was found with
Syphilis. This was awful—terrible,
yet here was the fact. The cases were
only found because the family physi¬
cian had the liberality necessary to
his having the good eense to call an
expert. In time the sore would have
gotten well, and the child would have
more than likely had the smoldering
fires of Syphilitic infection for years
to come.
Later the germs would have en¬
trenched themselves in one or more
of the vital organs and the fire that
was hidden would have burst forth
with no power on earth to quench it.
That is the way with this enemy after
the first symptoms subside and you
think you are well. You go crazy, be¬
come a paralytic, you have chronic
liver trouble or your kidneys are in¬
volved and you die. *
While all this Is true, It is easy to
cure if taken in time. It can be cured,
tor we have authentic cases that have
contracted it for the third time.
We have gotten away from our
story. How did these four innocent
children get this disease? We do not
know. There are .many ways they
may have picked it up. Kissing, eat¬
ing and drinking after some one who
Itas It, using the same things that
have been handled by one who is what
doctors term in the “active stage."
We have a case that occurred in
achaol children reported by reliable
men, in which the infection was traced
to a fruit dealer. It was his habit to
■pit on his apples to polish them,
afterwards rubbing them with a cloth.
He was an active Syphilitic, and the
germs were carried in the sputum.
It pays to be advised. It pays to
know the truth. We are ready to
help you by advice and making labo¬
ratory teBts for you.
Another sad case has just been re¬
ported to us. A sweet, beautiful well
nourished line baby developed sore
eyes. They grew worse and worse.
A fight was on for the eyesight, night
and day, every hour, every moment
the baby was in the hands of the
nurse and doctor. It was hard to tell
whether it could ever see again. It
was gonorheal sore eyes. Where did
it get the germ? The family was
above suspicion, the mother and fa
ther had nothing. They, however,
trusted their baby to a negro girl as
nurge. She had gonorrhoea and with
her finger, accidentally conveyed the
germs too her charge.
It pays to be advised. It pays to
know the truth, it pays. It pays. St.
John says: “You shall know the truth
nnd the truth shall make you free.”
4 JUST A FEW LEFT.
The campaign for the suppression of
prostitution, which is essential to the
eradication of venereal disease, has
been so successful that only five seg
regated districts have been left in the
United States Public Health Service.
Twenty-nine States in which red
iight districts flourished have perma¬
nently closed houses of prostitution in
over 130 cities. In most of the States
not included in this list there were
no houses of prostitution or ‘'official”
xed light districts. To reopen these
or any red light district should be
classed ae a disloyal act.
In fact it is disloyal to the govern¬
ment and the innocent women and
children of our country. “They snail
not open,” should be the slogan.
The Slates which have practically
suppressed open prostitution are:
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas. Califor¬
nia, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Ken
tucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mich
Igan, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada.
New Jersey, New Mexico, North Car¬
olina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, South Carolina, South
Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia,
^Washington, West Virginia. Wyoming.
SHOWS THE NEED.
The need of free clinics for treat¬
ment 'of venereal diseases in the
smaller citiee was conclusively dem¬
onstrated with the opening of the one
in Danville, Virginia, this month.
Following a brief educational cam¬
paign of lectures and the distribution
of pamphlets 93 persons made applies
Uon for treatment-
THE CLEVELAND COURIER, CLEVELAND, GEORGIA. DECEMBER 26, 1919
VALUE OF
WASSERMAN TEST
BEFORE MARRIAGE
The Wasserman test is a test for
the presence of syphilis in the blood
stream of the human body. Syphilis
to one of the Venereal or social dis¬
eases, and is often spoken of as “bad
blood," etc. This disease is quite prev¬
alent. This diseasl* is communicable.
This disease is a deadly enemy not
only to men and women, but also to
their progeny. This disease to cura¬
ble.
So often we hear of the ill health
of the young wife. So often deformed
children are born into homes. So
often the happiness of homes are for¬
ever blighted, for this disease re¬
spects no person and recoils before
no virtue. Like pallid death it visits
with equal tread the palaces of the
rich and the huts of the poor.
A large percent of these misfor¬
tunes are due to the presence of syph¬
ilis existing at the time of marriage
either in the husband or wife, more
often in the former. It has been said
that most young men sow wild oats.
Let it also be remembered that "what¬
soever a man soweth that shall he
also reap.” We find according to the
statistics based upon the first million
jnen drafted into Jhe army that in
Georgia out of every hundred white
men eleven had one of the venereal
diseases. The negroes showed even
a higher percentage.
The majority of these men will prob¬
ably marry without being permanerftly
cured. The consequences may be kept
under cover, but that does not do
away with the fact that innocent wives
and children will suffer untold miser¬
ies. The husbund who is responsible
for such conditions besides suffering
from disease itself, no doubt has his
conscience hurt considerably. If the
wife has syphilis at the time of mar¬
riage the husband likewise becomes
infected.
The Wasserman teat made on the
blood of young people before mar¬
riage will help insure good health and
a happy home in a large number of
instances. This work is now done
free of charge by the laboratory of
State Board of Health. The young man
especially should take advantage of it
through his ohysician. They suggest
three negative tests taken at intervals
of two months each before advising
marriage.
Fathers and mothers, it is your duty
to safeguard the health and happiness
of your daughter. You should require
her suitor to show that he is free
from the Venereal diseases.
Brothers, it is up to you to help
preserve the health of your sister
and her associates.
Young man, it is your duty to pre¬
sent yourself to your sweetheart with¬
out blemish so far as the Venereal dis¬
eases are concerned. Y'ou should take
pride in showing her your certificate
of sound body.
Young woman, it is you- duty to
insist that your future companion
prove to you unmistakably that there
is no trace of Venereal diseases in
him. You would shrink from a man
with smallpox. You should not treat
Venereal diseases lighter, for their
consequences are oftentimes more de¬
structive than are those of smallpox.
If so asked, you should also take pride
in furnishing to your suitor a health
certificate, for syphilis can be inherit¬
ed, as well as acquired,
GA. STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.
The kitchen is the most important
room in the house from a health stand¬
point, says the State Board of Health.
Keep everything about it and every
one in it scrupulously clean.
A person can live weeks without
food, days without water, but only a
few minutes without an-, says the
State Board of Health, Atlanta, Ga.
Persons who pay but little attention
to the air they breathe are not care¬
ful as to drinking water and food.
Become a fresh air crank. Raise the
office windows.
BABIES’ SORE EYES
Babies’ Sore Eyes are often reported
to the Georgia State Board of Health.
This is an infection of the baby at
the time of birth and is easily pre¬
ventable. it is against the law in
Georgia for a physician or midwife
to attend at a birth without using a so¬
lution of Silver Nitrate in the baby's
eyes. Every citizen should know this
und insist that the drops be used.
They are as nearly 100% perfect as
anything we know of. Every mother
should see to it that it is used on her
baby’s eyes.
We have at our Academy for the
Blind a total of 80 children, 37 of
whom have been blind from birth be¬
cause of this venereal infection.
Seven cases were reported to the
Board of Health the second week in
November.
O, the awful suffering of the inno¬
cent! The terrible loss to the indi¬
vidual and the state!
GA. STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.
A clean house with plenty of fresh
air and sunshine to a long step in
the direction of health, says the State
Board of Health.
A clean house with plenty of fresh
air and sunshine is a long step in the
direction of health.
The rsiiwnys of the United State* are more than one-third,
nearly one yearly - half, of all the railways, of the than world. They of
carry a traffic iO much greater that
any other country that there is really no bash, for compari
, . ‘ apn. bined, Indeed, the traffic of any two nations may be com¬
and still it due* not approach the commerce of
I America borne upon American i^jjway*.
~{Jg/fttd Ststat Sananr Cummlna,
0 Ask Any Doughboy Who
Was “Over There”
and he will tell you that American railroads are
the best in the world.
He saw the foreign roads — in England and
France, the best in Europe — and in other Con¬
tinental countries — and he knows.
The part railroads have played in the develop¬
ment of the United States is beyond measure.
American railroads have achieved high stand¬
ards of public service by far-sighted and courage¬
ous investment of capital, and by the constant
striving of managers and men for rewards for work
well done.
YVe have the best railroads in the world — we
must continue to have the best.
But they must grow.
To the $20,000,000,000 now invested in our
railroads, there will have to be added in the next
few years, to keep pace with the nation’s business,
billions more for additional tracks, stations and
terminals, cars and engines, electric power houses
and trains, automatic signals, safety devices, the
elimination of grade crossings — and for recon¬
struction and engineering economies that will re¬
duce the cost of transportation.
To attract to the railroads in the future the in¬
vestment funds of many thrifty citizens, the direct¬
ing genius of the most capable builders and man¬
agers, and the skill and loyalty of the best work¬
men — in competition with other industries bid
fling for capital, managers and men — the railroad
industry must bold out fair rewards to capital, to
managers and to the men.
American railroads will continue to set world
standards and adequately serve the Nation’s needs
if they continue to be built and operated on the
American principle of rewards for work well done.
£ 7hib advertisement i&. published bu the
Q^bMxuiUotLoj tRaimxy meadiwx.
Those desiring information concerning the railroad situ¬
ation may obtain literature by writing to The Associa¬
tion of tiailuMy Executives, tl Broadway, New York.
FREE TRIAL
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Thomas A. Edison lias made it possible lor us to offer you a free trial of bis wonderful niusv.tl instru¬
ment—his New Diamond Amberola.
Hie Diamond Amberola makes it possible for music lovers in the remotest sections of the country to
enjoy the finest vocal and instrumental music produced in the world just as lifelike, just 1- imltirai as if the
singers and players came in person to their homes. Aiui now Mr. Edison permits us to make you a remark¬
able three days’ tree trial offer. There is every reason why you should accept and none why voti shouldn't,
unless you already are the owner of a
New Edison Diamond Atnhenda
We can afford to make this offer because we know
that very few Amberolas which we will place on trial as a
result of this advertisement will come back to our store.
The Amberola is so entertaining that nobody wants to part
with it once thev have it in their home.
ASK US FOR A COPY OF THE BOOKLET “ A MASTER PRODUCT OF A
MASTER MIND.”
This beautiful booklet describes the several
models of the Amberola and shows them in
natural colors. Select the model Amberola you
prefer and. from the Blue Amberol Record Cat¬
alog we will also send, choose any twelve of the
wonderful Blue Amberol Records (which are
almost unwearable and unbreakable). Ask us to
send the Amberola and records to your home
CLEVELAND PHONOGRAPH GOMPANY
Cleveland, Georgia
DID ADAM HAVE EVERY
KNOWN DISEASE?
Vital Statistics have recently re¬
vealed a most startling paradox. Judg¬
ing from the recent epidemic of in
fluenza it now seems that health is
no longer an asset or an ideal condi¬
tion. The healthy, robust and active
human body suffered a much Higher
rate of mortality than did the weaker
invalid defective. In other words, it
j would appear that ti e strong healthy
man succumbed more readily to the
influenza-pneumonia taum did the
weak, sickly defective individual.
Does this mean that our high stand¬
ard of physically perfect bumgn body
must give way to that which encour¬
ages disease and sickness? An expla¬
nation is in order.
We • -ca!! that as children we were
often inieutionully exposed by our
parents to such diseases a; measles,
mumps and whooping cough because it
was thought that in cnilnood luese in
, lections were much less harmful than
! in later life.
Sotti' one has suggested that our pri
j j hie meval forefather, the Adam, that attributed he
long life to 1 act was
j a host for every known human infec
j ! lion. This .startling deduction is based
on the idea that every known human
: infection tomes directly or indirectly
| from some other hitman host. Hence
j in the ultimate unuh is uid Adam is
! caught with the goods,
j Poor old Adam, how he must have
i suffered! How welcome death would
hast- bee;, ! tint he lived, and each
disfuioi.- stimulated more or less act¬
ive immunity. After a brief span
of a hundred years or more he had
handed down to his children and grand¬
children every known or imaginary
infection. He then lived very happily
! the remaining eight hundred years of
his life. But Itis children considered
! the price too great. Gradually the suc
j ceediug generations began to resort
I to one means or another to avoid the
i painful i vperiehee of disease and now
we have with us a wonderful type of
man who hasn't been sick a day in
| his life. With relentless glee influ
enza pounces upon him und carried
him away, while his brother who has
I suffered all his life with a multitude
I of chronic ills, survives to bury his
I children and his chiidnn’a children
and is finally dried up by the wind
! and blown away.
This is an ingenious explanation of
| our statistical paradox, but happily
I absurd on the face of it!
| Bane reasoning plausible has suggested explanation, a
\ much more
I When the great epidemic struck us
I we who were strong and robust, fly
! lag the flag of false security, safety be'guu
i to concern ourselves with the
I of the weaker ones it never occur
| |-ji{| to the normal individual that he
j I himself was protect in danger. him! He His was good too
health would
! busy to gel sick, too busy bustling
i the invalid, the weakling, the iufau
| tile, the senile off to bed. ’Twto well
| tor them- that ho did. But what hap
! pened to him? He who fought off the,
first symptoms of influenza aim took
i to bed from sheer prostration, be it
I was who ric-st re; ; ii> succumbed. He
j who feared to risk a frail body and
i fought it out in bed, be most fie
if neatly recovered.
We may not know the etiology or
! influenza, we may not. uudei tand its
j laws of diasominai ion and transmis
j sion, hut certainly v.v have learned
! to respect the old apothem: ‘ Discre
j non is the better part of valor.
GA. STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.
CO-OPERATION IN ,
TUBERCULOSIS *
CAMPAIGN
The laboratory of the State Board
of Health, as is pretty generally
known, makes analysis of sputum for
patients anywhere in the state. Sam¬
ples may he sent either by the indi¬
vidual or through the family physician.
Up to the present lime in forwarding
reports on an analysis the only state¬
ment that has been made is that the
sample examined was either positive
or negative. Now, however, at the
suggestion of Mr. Sellers, Director of
the Laboratory, a little folder has
been prepared by the Division of
Tuberculosis to be inclosed with the
report on positive cases, giving some
suggestions as to the right course to
be pursued by the patient.
These suggestions are of sufficient
value to be quoted here:
“WHAT TO DO.
“The enclosed report shows that the
germs of tuberculosis have been found
in the stuff you cough up. This means
that you have consumption, it does
not mean that your case to hopeless,
but that you have NO TIME TO
WASTE doing the wrong thing.
“TIME IS WASTED;
“1. When you try to cure
yourself with patent m.di
icines,
“2. When a Quack Doctor
encourages you to think his
medicines will cure you,
“3. When you wander
around in search of a climate
that will cure you,
“4. When you give up.
“A TIME-SAVING
PRESCRIPTION:
“1. The outdoors, PURE
AIR and SUNLIGHT,
“2. REST for the body and
mind,
"3. Tbe right kind of
FOOD, and in the right quan¬
tities,
“4. DISCIPLINE.
“WHERE FILLED:
“1. Not at a Drug Store,
at all,
"2. Not in the Home, ex¬
cept very rarely,
“3. Always best in a SAN¬
ATORIUM.
“THE STATE
SANATORIUM.
“The State Sanatorium at
Alto, Ga., has been, since Sep¬
tember, 1918, under the con¬
trol of the State Board of
Health and the supervision of
the Raoul Foundation, now the
Division of Tuberculosis of
the State Board. Extensive
repairs have been made and
tbe most approved care and
treatment of patients are as¬
sured. Beds are now avail¬
able for 117 patients. A few
children will be admitted.
“A card addressed to
Dr. E. W. Giidden, Supt.,
State Sanatorium,
Aito, Ga.,
without costing you one cent or without obligat¬
ing >’°u in any way. Play them to vour heart’s
content for three days, and. if at the end of that
time, you do not care to purchase them, simply
tell us so and we will bring them back to our
store. That’s all. No obligation, no embarrass¬
ment, no red-tape and no strings to this offer.
It is as free to vou as tiie air you breathe.
or to—
“Mr Jae. P. Faulkner, Director,
Division of Tuberculosis,
131 Capitol Square,
Atlanta, Ga.,
will secure the, application
forms, or any desired infor¬
mation.”
Valuable Reminders.
It is important that the public should
j recognize that a positive sputum an
I alysis is only confirmatory, and that
| when the is bacillus already can be detected the
! disease of some duration.
A great step in the fight on tuber
! cttlosis will have been taken when
we cease to rely upon the sputum an
I alysis, but begin to make the chest
| and clinical examinations—that is, de
(ermine the presence of the disease
j long before the bacillus can be de¬
tected and at a time when a cure
may be looked upon as a practical cer¬
tainty. This is not to say that the
disease can not be cured after the
bacillus appears, but the chances for
recovery are many-fold greater if the
I discovery is made in the very early
stages.
Reaching the Sources.
The Vital Statistics Bureau is now
! receiving death returns from every
county in the state, and as these be
! come more nearly complete we shall
have a very definite idea of the prev
i alence of tuberculosis.
At the suggestion of Dr. Davis, the
1 Registrar, literature from the Divi¬
sion of Tuberculosis will be forwarded
j to some member of the family in ev
i ery instance where a death from tu
bereulosis has occurred. It is now
well established that new cases of
| the disease may be expected to de¬
velop in the family or among tbe
friends of persons who have died of
tuberculosis—in other words, the in
j fection always It spreads not be from such for a
i source. may apparent
| years, but when the break-down comes
I jt can usually be traced to some case
j with which there was contact.
This literature is to be sent to the
I family, simply as a warning, ao that
j proper precautionary measures may
! be taken. It is hoped that in a short
time it will be possible to examine all
| children, and adults as well, who may
have been in close contact with per¬
sons suffering from tuberculosis or
dying of it.
GA. STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.
