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FRIDAY, DEC. 13th
ADVIGE TO “FLU”
SPAIN AND ENGLAND REPORT
INCREASE IN TUBERCULOSIS
AFTER INFLUENZA
EPIDEMIC.
U. S. Public Health Service Warns
Public Against Tuberculosis.
~ One Million Cases Tubercu
losis in United States—Each a
Source of Danger.
influenza Convalescents Should Have
Lungs Examined—Colds Which Hang
On Often Beginning of Tuberculosis,
No Cause for Alarm if Tuberculosis
is Recognized Early—Patent Medi.
cines Not to Be Trusted.
Beware tuberculosis after in
fluenza. No need to worry if
you take precautions in time.
Don’t diagnose your own con
dition. Have your doctor exam
ine your lungs several times at
monthly intervals. Build up your
strength with right living, good
foed and plenty of fresh air.
Don’t waste money on patent
medicines advertised to cure tu
berculosis.
Become a fresh-air crank and
enjoy life.
Washington, D. C.—{Special.)—Ac
cording to a report made to the United
States Public Health Service, the epl
demic of influenza in Spain has al
ready caused an increase in the preva.
lence and deaths from pulmonary tu
berculosis. A similar assoclation be
tween influenza and tuberculosis was
recently made by Sir Arthur News
holme, the chief medical officer of the
English public health service, in his
analysis of the tuberculosis death rate
in England.
In order that the people of the Unit
ed States may profit by the experience
of other countries Surgeon General
Rupert Blue of the United States Pub
lic Health Service has just issued a
warning emphasizing the need of spe
cial precautions at the present time.
“Experience seems to indicate,” says
the Surgeon General, “that persons
whose resistance has been weakened
by an attack of influenza are peculiar
ly susceptible to tuberculosis. With
millions of its people recently affected
with influenza this country now of
fers conditions favoring the spread of
tuberculosis.”
One Million Consumptives in the
United States.
“Then you consider this a serious
menace?’ was asked. “In my opinion
it is, though I hasten to add it is dis
tinctly one against which the people
can guard. So far as one can estimate
there are at present about one million
cases of tuberculosis in the United
States. There s unfortunately no
complete census available to show ex
actly the number of tuberculosis per
sons in each state despite the fact that
most of the states have made the dis
euse reportable. In New York city,
where reporting has been in force for
meany years, over 35,000 cases of tu
berculosis are registered with the De
partment of Health. Those familiar
with the situation belleve that the ad
dition of unrecognized and unreported
cases would make the number nearer
50,000. The very careful health sur
vey conducted during the past two
vears in Framingham, Mass., revealed
200 cgses of tuberculosis in a popula
tion of approximately 15,000. If these
proportions hold true for the United
States as a whole they would Indlcate
that about one in every hundred per
sons is tuberculous. Each of these
corstitutes & source of danger to be
guarded against.”
What to Do.
In his statement to the public Sur
geon General Blue points out how
those who have had influenza should
protect themselves against tuberculo
sis. “All who have recovered from in
fluenza,” says the Surgeon General,
“should have their lungs carefully ex
amined by a competent physician. In
fact, it is desirable to have several ex
aminations made a month apart. Such
examinations cannot be made through
the clothing nor can they be carried
out in two or three minutes. If the
lungs are found to be free from tuber
eulosis every effort should be made to
keep them so. This can be done by
right living, good food and plenty of
fresh air.”
Danger Signs.
The Surgeon General warned espe
cially against certain danger signs,
such as “decline” and “colds which
hang on.”
These, ke explained, were often the
beginning of tuberculosis. “If you do
not get well promptly, if your cold
seems to hang on or your health and
strength decline, remember that these
are often the early signs of tuberculo
sis. Place yourself at once under the
care of a competent physician. Tuber
culosis is curable in the early stages.
Patent Medicines Dangerous in Tuber
culosis.
“Apove all do not trust In the mis
leading statements of unscrupulous
patent medicine fakers. There is no
specific medicine for the cure of tuber
culosis. The money spent on such
medicines is thrown away; it should
‘be spent instead for good food and de
cent living.” ,
One
Christmas Eve
na
By OTILLIA F. PFEIFFER
(Copyright, 1918, Western Newspaper Union.)
LDEN REVERE loved
everybody, all the
fl" world over, and all of
o ) the time. It was natur-
S o =/ al, therefore, that he
’ 4 W should expand beyond
y all limit when Yule
tide came around.
o There was a hidden
o ¢ sorrow in his life, but
he had not allowed it
to shadow the sunshine
of his nature. He had
saved up a tidy sum to marry win
some Viola Deane. Without warning
she and her father had vanished, 2nd
a week later it was learned by the
city papers she had wedded a man
Revere had never heard of before.
A tear-stained note had come to
him in the handwriting of the being
he had loved and lost. It bore only
five words: “It had to be—forgive.”
Revere had kissed Viola as his
chosen bride under the mistletoe on
just such a snowy
moonltt occasion . A
as this Christmas ‘
eve, and in the ..I‘
loneliness of his
room he now saty ..'!E A\
wistfully, longing- ..I‘ 2% 9
ly, one by one A .
looking over the l ( \
mementoes of his \2 e
old love experi- . z 8
ence. Finally he =,
put them away : 3
and went down \
stairs. 0
“Get your ) | T
skates, sister,” he | ¢ 9"
hailed briskly,
“We mustn’t miss
a glorious night like this. The ice is
smooth and hard as glass. They're go
ing to have the town band and we'll
help the crowd keep happy. There
2o the chimes. Muffle up good and
warm, for it’s snappy outside.”
“Poor soul!” murmured Ruth, “think
ing only of others, when his heart may
be breaking.
They returned home two hours later,
flushed and enthusiastic over the rare
sport.
“Why, brother!”
At the doorstep Ruth paused, astare.
Her brother’s eyes followed her own.
Upon the doorstep lay a basket. From
a swaddling mass of pillow and coun
terpane a tiny cry issued.
“Alden, it's a baby! Oh, the cherub!
Quick! Get it into the house. You
angel! you treasure!” and under the
hanging lamp Ruth went into ecsta
sies while Alden whispered awe-
somely :
“What are we going to do with it?”
“Keep it, cherish it, love it of
course!” cried Ruth. “Heaven has
cent it to bless our lonely lives. See,
there is a serap of paper,” and Ruth
snatched it up and read: ‘“Because
Alden Revere is a man with a heart
of gold, a poor mother leaves to him
the care of her child.”
“] suppose I'd better hustle down
town and get a couple of gallons of
milk,” suggested Alden.
“Oh, you men !” mildly scolded Ruth.
“There’s plenty of milk in the house,
Alden!” she abruptly cried. *“My fur
collar! It's gone! I lost it on the
river. Your present last Christmas,
too. Oh, I remember now—l loosened
it in the old boat house and it must
have slipped off. Hurry and see.”
Alden fairly skimmed the ground.
As he entered the shadowy boat house
his foot touched the missing collar.
A slight moan echoed out. He
strained his sight to make out a fem
~inine form
crouched upon a
p. 3 \ bench.
“Who is it,” he
A questioned
. ¢ quickly.
i “I—l am Jjust
: resiing,” pulsated
e a feeble voice.
ey c-r E “In this cold
S e damp place?
o, \A Why, you will
!L“ P freeze! Who are
E"' = you? Come with
o me, if you need
- shelter and help.
_~ Sk Why—Viola!”
> He g athered
Wl F, ol her up in his
strong arms.
Breathless, reeling, exhausted, he
reached home to stagger into the room
where Ruth was cooing to the little
one, entranced with the rare bright
ness and comfort of the place.
“poor soul !” was all that Ruth said.
“T—] must go,” faltered their latest
guest, arousing, but Ruth’s arms were
around her neck.
“Tell me 211, dear,” she said tender
ly, and amid tears and sobs Viola re
cited the tragic story of her life;
forced to wed a man who held a
secret over her weak and vacillating
father, a man who squandered her
fortune, deserted her and was killed
in a drunken brawl. Meantime her
father had died, she was left alone
in the world, all alone!
“Not while two loyal hearts that
love you are here!” cried Alden
Revere, roused out of himself. “Oh
Viola, if all those weary years the old
love was imn your soul as in mine—go
no further. For you and this dear lit
tle one let this be—home!”
And the holy stars of Christmastide
shone softly down upon the humble
home, destined to be the abiding place
of perfect love and peace.
.
Christmas Is
. ’
Children’s Day
The message of Christmas is love,
Its emblem is radiant, thankful, cons
tented childhood. Without love and
without children there could be no
real Christmas. The form might sur
vive but the substance would be lack
ing.
Unhappy must be the adult who can
not make himself a child again in
spirit at the Yuletide. For Christmas
is the universal children’'s day. Men
and women are superfluous except as
they make thewmselves partners with
those whom the day glorifies.
Let us, then, lay aside the affecta
tion and arrogance of manhood and
womanhood and be children again,
Let us adopt their point of view and
put ourselves in their places—in the
places of these sons and daughters of
ours and of the sons and daughters of
our neighbors. It was only a year or
two ago, as it seems, when we hung
our well-worn stockings in a row along
the mantel shelf, while our fathers
and mothers looked on with unfeigned
pleasure at the innocent confidence we
showed in what the morrow would
bring forth.
Even as you and I. It all comes
back in a flood of memories. Life
was simpler then. Our desires were
less pretentious than those our chil
dren voice now. Mpdest remembrances
they were that bulged toe and heel of
the stockings mother knit.
Life and its circumstances change,
but the essence of Christmas never,
The same happy childhood, the same
restlessness, the same snail-like creep
ing of time as the holiday approaches
The same parenthood, too—the same
planning across the reading table after
the boys and girls are abed, the same
loving consideration of what this or
that child most desires and how far
the family purse can properly be
stretched to permit some further pur
chase.
Every home is assured a Christmas
if it has a great, warm heart pulsating
in tune with the hopes and joys of
childhood.—Exchange.
}f- ‘g( 12.?117 _
A Christmas Wireless.
To you and yours a wireless
Along the Good-will line
It brings a Christmas greeting
With love from me and mine.
. ‘g;g}:}fia r—
His Guess.
“Who was it sald ‘to him that hath
shall he given? ”
“T don’t remember, but I presume
it was some fellow who had eight
or nine neecktie holders and had just
received four more for Christmas.”
o e e s s
ADVERTISING IN THE
JOURNAL SELLS THE
With any grade of Potash goods desired
2ASR AT OSESWF A 3
Prof. B. W. KILGORE, director N. C. Agricultural Experiment Station Says:-
“The lack of Potash with us has been shown especially in cotton, tobacco and potatoes in coastal
plain sections. This has been especially true of cotton and potatoes, more potash having been used
on tobacco, relatively, than on these two crops.”
Dr. H. W. BARRE, director of S. C. Agricultural Experiment Station Says:-
“] will say that a survey recently made of the cotton situation in South Carolina leads us to be
lieve that at least 2577 reduction in the cotton crop has resulted this year from lack of potash. In
some cases not more than half a crop has been produced on light land that is very deficient in potash.
The appearance of the plants indicates that what is known as potash hunger is responsible for the de
creased yield. We are, therefore, recommending that liberal amounts of potash be used in feritlizers
for cotton next year. At the usual rates of application I feel that it will pay to use as much as 3% of
potash at the present prices.”
eTS S o P
Enquire of Royster Dealers Place orders early.
F.S. ROYSTER GUANO CO,
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THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
GERMAN CONDITIONS NOT |
SO BAD AS PAINTED
Washington, Dec. 11.—While the
state departinent today declined to
be specific as to its information con
cerning Germany, it intimated that
conditions in that nation are not as
bad as painted by press accounts.
There appears now to be a swing
toward more conservatism than re
cently. This is evidenced by reports
of counter revolutions, including the
rumored siege of Prince Henry of
Prussia against the reds at Thorn.
This government is watching close
ly the developments within Germany
as the time approaches for assem
bly of the national soviet congress.
This body, as already pointed out,
will set a date for elections. It prob
ably will also undertake to lay down
some basis for the future of the na
tion,
Bolshevism probably will not gain
the upper hand in Germany, it is
now felt, but the outgrowth of the
present ferment is regarded as like
ly to be a very liberal socialism.
It is doubtful that the peace con
ference will wait upon formation of
a stabilized government in Germany
before making its conclusion. If
there is an organization which can
conclude a peace, it will go ahead
with its treaty, according to the view
here.
As for Russia, it is said that there
will be representative Russians in
Paris, but that there will be no ac
tual delegates inasmuch as there is
not even a defacto regime in Russia
to appoint delegates.
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Every utensil and tank that comes in
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the medicine is pasteurized and sealed
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It is the wonderful combination of
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HOW,TO,_FIGHT
|
SPANISH INFLUENZA
BY DR. L. W. BOWERS.
Avoid crowds, coughs and cowards,
put fear neither germs nor Germausl
Keep the system in good order, take
plenty of exercise in the fresh air and
practice cleanliness. Remember a clean
mouth, a clean skin, and clean bowels
are a protecting armour against disease.
To keep the liver and bowels regular
and to carry away the poisons within,
it is best to take a vegetable pill every
other day, made up of May-apple, aloes,
jalap, and sugar - coated, to be had at
most drug stores, known as Dr. Pierce’s
Pleasant Pellets. If there is a sudden
onset of what appears like a hard cold,
one should go to bed, wrap warm, take
a hot mustard foot-bath and drink copi~
ously of hot lemonade. ' If pain develops
in head or back, ask the druggist for
Anuric (anti-uric) tablets. These will
flush the bladder and kidneys and carry
off poisonous germs. To control the
pains and aches take one Anuric tablet
every two hours, with frequent drinks of
lemonade. The pneumonia appears in
a most treacherous way, when'the infllx--|
enza victim is apparently recovering and
anxious to leave his bed. In recovering
from s bad attack of influenza or poeu
monia the system should be built up
with a good herbal tonic, such as Dr.
Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, made
without alcohol from the roots and barks
of American forest trees, or his Irontic
(iron tonic) tablets, which can be ob
tained at most drug stores, or send 10c.
to Dr. Pierce’s Invalids’ Hotel, Buffal,
N. Y., for trial packages d
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Experienced Veterinary Sprgeon
I have had 12 years’ exx;orience
in veterinary practice. Can give
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Lawyer
North side Public Square
MARIETTA, GA.
Holland & McCleskey
Attorneys At Law
Office in Reynolds Building
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Office in Manning’s new building.
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Res. Phone 191 Res. Phone 159-J
Drs. Perkinson & Blair
Physicians and Surgeons
Office Over Medford’s Cash Grocery
Office Telephone 23. g
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General Practitioner.
Office in Gober Building.
Residence Phone 78. Office phone 9
JOHN H. BOSTON, Jr.
Attorney at Law
Real Estate, Loans, and Title Work
Handled ZEspecially.
Campbell Wallace
Attorney at Law
Office in New Masfning Building
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Licensed Optometrist
Eyes Tested and Prescriptions Given
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