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EXPERIMENTS SHOW DANGER
FROM TUBERCULOSIS INFEC
TION RETAINED IN BOOKS
IS SLIGHT.
Experiments recently undertaken to
test the possibility of tranwinlUlnK liv
ing tubercle germs In an Infective
form by moans of hooka used by tub
erculosis patients gave the following
results:
The patients were allowed to rough
upon sheets of paper and these were
then washed and the washings Inject
ed Into guiena pigs. An Interval of 24
hours elapsed between the contamina
atlon and tho washing of the papers.
Tuberculosis was produced In pigs
from eight of the pieces of paper,
while six papers caused no Infections.
The test was then repeated with pa
pers kept one month after contamina
tion. The guinea [tigs Inoculated ffom
these papers showed no signs of the
disease.
Similar tests were made with tho
thumb-marked pages from books from
a public library which had recently
been used by tuberulosle patients. Hut
no Infections resulted.
Sheets of paper were then thumb
smeared with diluted tuberculosis
sputum and six of these were washed
24 hours later and the washings In
jected Into as many guinea pigs. Of
these one died of sepsis, four showed
signs of tuberculosis and one was un
infected.
Six other sheets similarly treated
were kept for a month, and of these
only one produced tuberculosis In
guinea pigs.
It was further found that the expos
ure of such contaminated sheets to
moist heat at 95 degrees C for half an
hour served to kill all the tuberculosis
germs.
As a result of these experiments It Is
concluded that the danger of trans
mitting tuberculosis through the use
of books by Infected persons Is very
slight and can he practically removed
by the temporary withdrawal of such
books from circulation.
Our Washington Letter
(By Gilion Gardner).
Washington. Tim I’. H, Rureau of
Education, which Is a branch of the
Interior Department. Is made up of
approximately 200 employes, of this
number 130 appear on the official rolls
"" drawing a salary of $1 per year.
The source from which these men are
paid Is unknown. It Is known In «en
eral, however, that soma of them net
their salaries from the Rockefeller
General Kducatlonal Board and some
from the Sago Foundation or other
similar endowments of private ha pita I
The reports made by these employes
*o out as government publications
with the full prestige of official en
dorsement upon them.
Representative Ragsdale of South
Carolina promised a month ago to look
Into this matter and find officially for
the benefit of congress who pays the
salaries of these employes In the Bu
reau of Education. lie was challenged
to do so by Edward .1 Ward, who ap
peared before llie committee In favor
of a school forum lt|l| for the District
of Columbia and who told Ragsdale
that "he who pavs the piper calls the
tune.’ Ward lias hren anxious to get
the matter Investigated. Kugsdals has
not yet moved.
Another authority anxious for an In
vestigation Into this matter Is Frank
I. It alsh. chairman of the committee
on Industrial Relations The latter's
attention was first called to the sit
nation In the Bureau of Education by
the circulation a short time ngn ~f a
pamphlet on “Industrial Education."
prepared by the National Association
of Manufacturers, and distributed un
der government authority by the Rn
renn of Education. In a letter to I’ P.
Claxton. commtsslonei of education.
Mr Walsh denounced ibis pamphlet In
unmeasured terms, calling attention to
the fart thHt the National Association
of Manufacturers, the author of the
pamphlet. Is the same body exposed In
the so-called Mulhsll expose, when It
appeared that wholesale brU'crv was
list'd by this organisation In Influenc
Ing elections »nd attempting to In
fluence legislation Mr. Walsh wrote
to Commissioner Claxton:
"I cannot too strongly protest against
the action of a government official,
appointed and paid to promote the edu
cation of the nut ton's youth. In thus
giving recognition, sanction and ap
proval to on organisation which has
been discredited In the minds of all
de.-ent cillxens who are familiar with
Its record as a corrupting agency In
public life and a champion of the
grofcast and most shameful forms of
exploitation.
"At the very time when yeti were en
gaged In spreading the propaganda of
this organisation, Its official legislative
representative, the notorious J. A Em
ery. was appearing before committees
of congress In opposition to the Keat
ing child labor hill, and lie there stated
that. In attempting to block legislation
to keep children under H out of the
southern cotton mills, he was acting
for the hoard of directors of the asso
ciation whose literature you are dis
tributing.
"Yet. by lending the government
stamp and approval to this document,
you have placed It In the hands of
thousands of men and women who may
lie deceived by this misuse of govern
ment authority, and whose views on
the greatest education Issue of the time
mav thus tie unconsciously perverted
"Without giving the pamphtst an In
stant's consideration. It should have
been enough for you that II was pub
lished by the National Association of
Manufacturers, an organisation that
has earned the contempt of the Ameri
can people."
Mr Walsh charged that Commission
er Claxton had deliberately selected the
report of the N. A. M for distribution,
and quoted passages In which child
labor was defended and advocated. At
the same time, he charged Conunls
aloner Claxton with falling to send out
the report on Industrial education by
a government commission which In
vestigated the subject, nor had he sent
out the pronouncement of the American
Federation of Labor on the same sub
ject.
Other charges against the work of
the Bureau of Education have been
made from time to time; among them
that It has officially distributed liter
ature prepared by the lumber trust in
the Interest of that organisation.
PROTEIN AND PREPAREDNESS.
Protein, that element of diet which builds and repairs
waste, and restores the energy of the body, is found in
meat. For hundreds of years, the roast beef of old Eng
land was looked upon as the basis of her power. Roast
beef is no longer food for the common people of England,
and the aenemic condition of army recruits has astonished
the military authorities and filled them with apprehension.
The necessity for a liberal allowance of meat, the en
ergy maker, in the diet of the fighting man has led to the
feeding up of the millions now under arms in Europe on a
daily ration of meat to which they have never been accus
tomed.
The people of the United States are famous among
the nations for their remarkable energy. What this na
tion has created and accomplished in the few decades of
its existence, has no parallel in history.
The people of the United States have been big meat
caters.
They consumed, a few years ago. 172 pounds of meat
per capita annually, which is about four times the average
for the world—-39 pounds per capita.
But in the past few years, the people of this country
have been consuming less meat than formerly. Decreased
consumption has been produced by the increased price of
meat.
High prices have been due, in part, to foreign expor
tation, but more particularly, economists say, to the boost
ing of prices due to the combination and control of the
packers.
And now men who look into the future are warning
us against the threatened decrease in our stock of national
enery as the result of the falling off of protein in the na
tional dietary.
We can never have the most efficient kind of pre
paredness, we are told, unless we look well to our larders.
If we permit any corporation or special interests to
interfere with the production and distribution of our meat
supply, we deliberately permit our nation to turn from
strength to weakness.
The way to remedy such evils may not always be
clear, but no man should be ignorant of their existence.
What the people of this country want, they can have.
Our government was organized, in the beginning, for the
people, not for any set of rulers, nor any set of exploiters.
When the people actually want the public control of
the distribution of the nation’s food products, they are
going to get it.
MOVIES CENSORED BY SCIENCE
If you arc a movie fan you must have noticed the ex
treme youth of the most popular sweethearts in the screen
world. “Flappers”, it appears, now have their choice of
all the eligible men in the film plays.
The heroines of the glass screen for whom the shad
owy heroes and villians contend most desperately are just
out of school. These sweet young things get themselves
engaged with their golden hair a-hanging down their backs,
wearing kittenish innocence which saves them from seem
ing imprudent.
A man may be eligible as a lover and husband at any
old age, but according to movie plots, the most sought after
girls of the hour do their hair up on top of their heads for
the first time when they go to the altar.
Eugenically considered, this spectacle contains a dan
gerous teaching.
Scientists say that the children of a girl who marries
in her teens will bo weak and frail, and will lack both the
physical and mental qualities to which every child is en
titled, and which can only be insured if mothers are over
20 years of age.
Reverting to pioneer fashions in dress, to hoop skirts
and flowing curls, may vary and increase the charms of
beauty, but since the days of our great grandmothers, who
married at sweet sixteen, science has made some of its
greatest discoveries.
r I he science of eugenics has been entirely developed
since that time. Rut if its lessons are to he learned, it
must be apparently, at a considerable sacrifice of some of
our most popular theories of romance.
HYGIENE OF THE ICE BOX IS IMPORTANT.
This is the time of the year when the housewife’s at
tention turns toward the ice box. From now on the ice
box will he a necessity for the proper preservation of milk
and meat.
Where there are infants and young children in the
family the proper care of the milk requires ice in order
that it may be kept at a sufficient low temperature to pre
vent it from becoming a poison.
For the proper care of food during the warm months
cleanliness of the ice box is essential.
The box should be cared for thoroughly at frequent
and regular intervals. The interior should be washed first
with cold water and soap and then rinsed with scalding
water. The drainage pipes should be kept free from slime.
Economy and health will both he served by placing the
drinking water in a receptacle next to the ice. This will
bring it to as low a temperature as is healthful.
Red meats should never be frozen or placed in con
tact with ice.
q JOUNNY
MM wpit ly
As tOLLCW:
n. y„ sunday—gorgie meddera had a lot of work to do
last satenl.v cleening up the backyard & hussling out the
ashes in his furnaso which his pa aint done all this winter
letting gorgie tackel the job his self on saterdv
and his ma wanted him to run a few erands to the
store & things like that besides minding the baby that af
ternoon while the sowing society met at her house which
is in the bronix neer the river only a few blocks away
that was what got gorgie in bad with his fambly being
as how a feller can walk to the river & it was a nise day
which looked just like spring and the fish wood bite
gorgie coddent get his own fishin tackel outer his
home bccaus his ma was keeping her lamps on the back
gate but he borrered a extra outfit from a kid in the next
block & they beet it
i was just going home that P. M. after work & i ran
across gorgie looking like he had a pain some plase in him
& i says hollo old skout whats up
nothing, gorgie replyd, been fishin all day
didjer catch anything, i inkwired. which is all ways
the thing to say when you don’*t see a guy hauling a flock
of fish home with him after he’s been fishin all day
that’s too bad. i replyd, i was hoping that youd catch
somthing
o. dont worry yourself, gorgie said, i will catch some
thing alrite, alrite—w hen i get home
johnny
IHci AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
MOLLIE IS NOT MAWKISHLY
SENTIMENTAL.
It was morning and the dim light of
the breaking day came through the
window when I fell asleep from pure
exhaustion. I remembered thinking,
as I . dropped into unconsciousness,
how wonderful it would be if I could
only know I was never coming back.
Yes, I know, little book, this is all
very cowardly and 1 have often told
you that 1 hate cowardice more than
anything else in the world but you
see my brain and heart are both per
fectly well. I can think the most won
derful jilans which 1 cannot carry out,
and my heart heats to the most music
in tlie world the music of action, and
yet I lie supine. My nerves tingle to
propel m.v physical being along its
way, to disseminate the force of their
desire, until their beating against this
plaster cast .becomes such martyrdom
as only those burned at the stake
might have known.
Nature, in her blind following of the
law, at times is merciful after all—l
fell asleep and did not wake until long
after luncheon and I awoke so weak
and worn that 1 could not think of my
misery nor could I wish for brighter
days. I only knew 1 was awake.
And then Mollie came in.
I never know how I missed Mollie,
until she returned bringing to me all
the strength of tier wonderful under
standing.
Mollie is not now. nor has she ever
been mawkishly sympathetic about my
illness.
1 don't like people to say. "L am so
sorry for you," when the only thought
they have about it is the Joy that they
are not in mi position and 1 am in
theirs.
After all. little book, how meaning
less are words. There is no man in the
world that that has not sometimes
cried out against the paucity of words
in which to express his* love. We are
silent when we are really grief strick
en I'ain only brings out inarticulaie
sounds and pleasure is best expressed
Nothing hut silver dollars wanted on
collection plate, Edwardsvllle (ill.)
v, ,
pastor announced for certain Sunday,
and 1155 were rung down on table In
front of pulpit.
Two well-dressed men sold Wiscon
sin farmer the Chicago street car on
which he was riding for 175. but the
ntotorman refused to give It up at the
end of the run.
Man In Lowestoft ran to street dur
ing German bombardment In time to
see shell explode under hls bedroom
1 m
ami burnt his trousers ami waistcoat,
which had been beside bed, on a near
by trow.
The Cat and the Canary!
CONFESSIONS
OF A WIFE
by smiles and laughter. A look may
not express the conventional sympa
thy that some may wish to declare, but
a look has conveyed to me more than
any word I have ever heard.
But, litte book, if Mollie has not
much of that rather superfluous af
fectation of sympathy, she has the
quickest and most sympathetic under
standing that 1 have ever known.
Today when she came she must have
seen by my pain-drawn face that I was
very near the place where I would wel
come insanity if it meant forgetting
the present intolerable situation.
She also knew my sense of humor
was one of my strongest characteris
tics, and she took the chance that I
would perhaps smile at a story in
which for me the humor would be
sardonic, to say the least.
"By the way, Margie, I heard a story
today, which you will appreciate,” she
said.
“A n.an who had been born and
brought i p on the yanch and had never
seer or know woman, rode in to a bor
der town to see the sights.
"Immediately he fell in love with a
buxom waitress and they were mar
ried.
"The cowpuncher bought another
horse and the couple rode away to the
far off ranch, supposedly happy and
content.
"Two days afterward the cow
puncher came hack, looking very sor
rowful leading the other horse.
“ ‘Why, where is your wife?' asked
all the men about the hotel in concert
as he rode up.
“ ‘She broke her leg the second day
out,’ answered the cowpuncher, as the
tears ran down his face, ‘and I had to
shoot her.
" 'l tell you, I hated to do it, she was
such n good woman,’ he added with a
groan.”
I could not help smiling, little hook,
hut just the same I sometimes won
der if it were not for the best at
that.
(To Be Continued.)
ZEAL
San Bernardino, Cal.—Civet rat es
caped from cage In saloon here, whipped
Its own image In mirror, chased police
man from place, then demolished con
tents of bar.
PLANTING COTTON
SEED
N. L. Willet Seed Co.
AUGUSTA, GA.
90-DAY COTTONS.
Simpkins’ and King’s.
1 INCH STAPLE, BIG
BOLL.
Cleveland and Ideal.
IV4 INCH, BIG BOWL.
Keenan; Webber, Columbia.
Hartsville and also 1 3-8
inch, big boll, antiwilt
Keenan.
IVi INCH STAPLES
Allen’s Flora Dora and Sun
flower.
1 7-8 INCH STAPLES
Sea Island.
Earl F. Richter, although he is the
trolley car conductor in St. Paul, Minn,
standing 6 feet 7 inches, was nearly
hanged to death the other day when
the rope of a recalcitrant trolley pole
twined round his neck and lifted him
off his feet, the opportune arrival of
a policeman with a sh'arp knife being
the rescuing agent.
Some Hungry.
Bill—Do you suppose you could ever
be hungry enough to eat horse?
Jill—Why, I’ve been hungry enough
to eat a clothes horse! —Yonkers States
man.
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Fine Tools, Fishing Tackle, and
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Mr. Retailer, a Word, Please!
One thing you pay rent for is your
store window.
Do you make it pay dividends?
Does it show a profit?
It should. If it does not it is your
fault.
Here is one way to make it pay a
mighty certain way.
Read the newspapers. When you
see articles you have in stock advertised,
show them.
Show them at the time the advertis
ing is running.
Tie your store up to the dealer's
newspaper advertising.
That will bring the newspaper reader
into your store and that means business.
SUNDAY, MAY 2T.
Augusta Herald
APRIL CIRCULATION
DAILY AND SUNDAY HERALD.
The circulation of the Daily and Sun
day Herald for the month of April, 1916,
was as follows:
April 1 13,700
April 2 12,635
April 3 13,700
April 4 13,900
April 6 13,915
April 6 13,426
April 7 13,880
April 8 13,780
Apri 9 12,725
April 10 13,685
April 11 13,915
April 12 13,685
April 13 14,140
April 14 14,350
April 15 14,030
April 15 ....12.700
April 17 ....14,145
April 18 ....14,100
April 19 ....14,050
April 20 14,140
April 2i ...,i4,175
April 22 ....14,100
April 23 14,165
Apri 24 ....14,150
April 25 14,130
April 26 14,140
April 27 ....14,205
April 28 ....14,200
April 29 14,210
April 30 ....12,880
TOTAL FOR APRIL 414,785
DAILY AVERAGE 1j,826
The Augusta Herald, Daily and Sun
day, has a circulation in A"gusta ap
proximately twice as large as that of any
other Augusta newspaper. Advertisers
and agencies invited to test the accuracy
of these figures in comparison with the
claim of any other Augusta newspaper.
The Heraid is the only Augusta daily
which publishes in its own columns a
detailed statement of its circulation.
The Herald Is a charter member of ths
Aduit Bureau of Circulation.
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