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Important County News
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Volume 26
COUNTY HEALTH
WEEKLY LETTER
Childhood Tuberculosis:
There are few people who do
not know of at least one case of
tuberculosis (or comsumption,
as it is sometimes called). And in
many cases of adults who have
tuberculosis it is found that the
children in the household have
become infected in varying de
grees. In fact almost everyone
has had the germs of tuberculosis
at some time. Many people are
able to fight the germ success
fully and build up an immuniza
tion, but sometimes the infection
is too severe, or the bodily re
sistance has been reduced by
other illnessor malnutrition, and
the result is a loosing battle with
some part of the body being
damaged in the fight.
How Tuberculosis Ac’s In A
Childhood Case:
1. The germ first enters the
child’s body from some active
case of tuberculosis.
2. When the germ attempts to
enter the lung, where it likes to
live it is stopped by small lung
glands, about the size and shape
of beans, which are located where
the windpipe seperates going to
each side. They stand on sentinel
duty trying to guard the lung
from invasion by impurities or
infections.
3. A fight ensues and some
times the lung gland is damaged
or partly destroyed. In time, the
damaged place is replaced by a
gritty substance.
4. On an x-ray plate, this gritty
material shows as a shadow on
the picture.
5. This shadow indicates that
the child has tuberculosis of the
lung glands, or childhood tub
erculosis. It is a warning signal
and tells definitely that the child
has had an unusually large in
fection of tuberculosis germs.
Later in life these children may
develop active tuberculosis of
the lungs.
Testing
The doctor has two ways of
determining a tuberculious con
dition in a child. A very simple
skin test given on the arm shows
whether there are tuberculosis
bacilli in the body; and if there
are, an X-ray picture is made of
the lungs to find out how severly
the diseased lungs glands have
been affected.
Children who should have these
tests are:
1. All those who have lived in
a home withan adult who has
tuberculosis.
2. All children who cannot be
brought up to a good state of
nutrition through careful diet,
exercise, and sleep, this of course
presumes that the child does not
have bookworms or malaria.
3. All those who are tired and
worn out.
4. All those who seem half sick
for some reason which is known
not to be malaria or hookworms
or undulant fever.
5, All those who are feverish,
especially in the afternoon from
some unknown cause.
Canning House Will
Open Tuesday and Friday
The canning house will be open
on Tuesday and Friday, through
the summer months. There will
be no charges except 5 cents for
the No. 3 cans, and 4 cents for
the No. 2 cans. This is to take
care of fuel used and the can
itself.
It will open at eight o’clock
and no products will be taken
for canning after four o’clock in
the afternoon.
Whwkr County lEaglr
SPORTSMAN CLUB
TO BE ORGANIZED
THURSDAY NIGHT
Through the efforts of our
local Game and Fish Protector
Mr. C. L. Harrell, of this dis
trict, there has been a meeting
planned to organize a Sportsman
club in Wheeler County. The
meeting is to be held onThurs
day night, June 24th, at 8:00 o’-
clock at the court house at
Alamo. This meeting is to orga
nize the Sportsman club so that
Wheeler County may participate
in the re-stocking of our quail,
deer, turkey and fish. It will only
be through the co-operation of
the land owners and sportsman
of the county that we may get
our share of these game and fish.
The more land owners and other
members we have to our rolls
the greater chance we will have
towards re-stocking all of our
shortage in this groupe.
It is our hope to have Mr. C.
M. Asprinwall, the district game
protector with us at this meeting-
Every citizen of the county is
invited to be present at this
meeting.
Pensions To Go To
More Widows of Wheeler
Approximately 6 or Badditional
Confederate veterans’ widows
will become pensioners in
Wheeler county under the re
cently passed constitutional
amendment authorizing payment
of pensions to all widows who
married Confederate soldiers
prior to January 1, 1920.
The estimate was made this
week by W. 0. Harrelson county
mdinary, who expects to receive
application blanks for the pen
sions here this week.
Large Amount of School
Books Sold in County
During the week of June 7,
County School Superintendent
W. H. K°nt, bought approxi
mately $1,000.00 worth of used
school books from the people of
Wheeler county.
The Superintendentsays there
is no excuse for all children from
six to eighteen years, being out
of school this fall, as the State is
expecting to furnish all Basal
Books free beginning this fill.
Martin’s Theatre Will
Be in Alamo Next Week
Messrs Martin and Jackson,
owners of the Martin’s new tent
theatre are no strangers to a
number of people of Wheeler
County, they being reared in
Johnson county, at Wrightsville.
They invite all to come out next
week and attend their show.
They will be in Alamo all next
week. A change of program each
night.
Read their advertisement in
this issue of the Eagle.
Salesmen Wanted
WANTED: Man with car to
take over profitable Rawleigh
Route. Established customers.
Must be satisfied with earning of
S3O a week to start. Write
Rawleigh’s, Dept. GAF 5 101,
Memphis, Tenn.
For Sale
Improved, treated and state
inspected P. R., potato plants,
for sale by W. G. Hartley, Alamo,
through June and July. Pricej
SI.OO per M.S
ALAMO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 18,1937
OUR ÜBERTIES
H. W. NALLEY
All this hullabaloo over court reorganization
has given opportunity to politicians to indulge in
oratoracle pyrotechnics, which in turn has caused
many honest citizens to fear that rights guaran
teed by the constitution are ingrave danger of
being lost.
The entire situation reminds one of the hard
headed, tight-fisted and illiterate faimer who
asked his minister to write him a prayer. He then
pinned the prayer as written to the head of his bed
and, to save time during the brief interval between
slipping off his galluses and pulling the bed clothes
up to his chin, he would jerk his thumb over his
shoulder with “Lord, them’s my sentiments.”
I recall a conversation I had in Savannah not
so long ago when I was stationed there for a week
in some United States court matters, with a
Presbyterian preacher while at lunch one day. He
told me he had a very good, a Catholic and a very
capable lawyer. He said he asked his friend
why he was Catholic, and this was the reply,—-“I
am a Catholic because I want to put my soul into
the keeping of an institution where I know 7 it. will
be safe and I can then go about my own business
in my own way without further worry.’’
The funny part came when I said, “That is a
very good illustration of the intellectual laziness
that is almost universal.’’ My ministrial friend
seemed shocked to think the lawyer’s reason was
a good one.
The average American citizen, when politici
ans are taken with oratorical cramps over the
“constitution, the paladium of our liberties,’’ will
thro up his hat, shout “you betcha”, slip off his
gallusses pull the bed clothes over his chin and
with a “them’s my sentiments,’’ so sound asleep
so far as doing any thinking about his civic duties
or social responsibilities. He seems to think his
rights and liberties are all safe in constitutional
cold storage and, loke the lawyer, he can go about
his own affairs in his own way without worry.
No constitution ever written or that ever will
be written can guarantee human rights or liberties
any more than a church is provided with safety
deposits valuts for the safe keeping of human
souls
The condition under which human liberties
flourish are constantly shiftingand the ingredients
of the mixture called freedom are undergoing
continual alteration
Human rights, liberty and freedom are
guaranteed only toa people with a desire for them,
but above all, with a collective mind constantly
alert to the meaning of the social changes that are
constantly taking place, and a willingness to ad
just themselves to those changes. Institutions,
customs and constitutional provisions that are
looked on today as a permanent badge of freedom,
may tomorrow be used as a means of oppression
against a people who assume their liberties are
safe in constitutional cold storage.
What’s New in Radio? '
' By J. F. Witkowski
Principal, School of Radio,
International Correspondence Schools;
Associate Member,
Institute of Radio Engineers
npHE police department of Evan ,
ston, Illinois, has acquired an
ambulance equipped with a two
way, short-wave radio for use in
accident cases. The radio makes it
possible to send on ahead to the doc- 1
tors at the hospital a description of |
the patient's injuries, enabling them (
to make any special arrangements.
Physicians at the hospital can trans
mit to the ambulance instructions
for any special first-aid treatment
that may be required.
♦ * *
Plans are being made to employ ।
the radio in the study of meteorol
ogical conditions in the hurricane
belt of the Caribbean. To obtain
data on atmospheric pressure, hum
idity and temperature in the storm
area, observation instruments and
small radio transmitters will be
hung from balloons to be released
in the patch of the storm. The bal
loons will be capable of reaching a
height 15 miles above the earth.
A pocket radio with a loud speaker
has been invented by a Danish en
gineer. The set is small enough to
be carried in a man’s pocket or a
woman’s handbag, and is said to be
capable of picking up any European
station. Commercial production of
the miniature radio has been started
at Copenhagen.
Congressman and Mrs. Hugh
Peterson and little son, Hugh,
Jr., are spending this week at
their home in Ailey.
Fred McDaniel and Merrill
Gross spent this week in Savan
nah.
MR. J. E. KING
PASSESTO BEYOND
Mr. J. E. King, 79, died at his
home about six miles south of <
Alamo this morningafter several •,
months illness. He with his fami- i
ly moved to this county several ।
years ago from Montgomery
county. He was an honest and
hard working rnan, being married
the second time he reared a
family of fourteen.
Funeral services will be held
to-morrow (Saturday) afternoon
at Bear Creek church. Interment
will be held in church cemetery
in Montgomery county.
He is survived by his wife,
the former Miss Rosa Rawlings>
daughter of the late Mr. and
Mrs. W. J. Rawlings, of this
county, 14 children six boys and
eight daughters, Willie, J. E. Jr.,
Wesley, Gilford, and Miss Lelah
King, of Scotland; Mrs. Olen
Street, Mrs. Elijah Street, Mrs,
Steve Pittman, of Alamo; George
King, and Mrs. Lester Radford,
of Atlanta; Baida King, and Mrs.
Rufus Love, of Vidalia; Mrs.
Christian Gonnel, of Florida, and
Mrs. Charles Fletcher, of Okla
' homa.
Thefarmers of Wheeler county
1 all seem to be well pleased with
■ the prospects of all crops at the
present time.
WHEELER 4-H
CBCONTEST
The Wheeler county 4-H Style
Review was held at the court
house in Alamo, June 11th.
Margaret Jones placed first and
will represent Wheeler county
in the District Style Review to
beheld in Statesboro in July.
Second —Sara Ellen Jones, third
—Rose Wynn, fourth —Elizabeth
McArthur.
The following girls took part:
Aprons— Estelle Foster.
Slacks—Thelma Foster.
Dresses —Margaret Jones,
Sara Helen Jones, Janette Good
man, Eloise Hinson, Betty Jane
Rivers, Hazel Anderson, Mary
Elizabeth Stone, Carolyn Morri
son, Vivian Harrelson, Rose
Wynn, Oretta Bright, Elizabeth
McArthur, Alice Clark, Louise
Clark. Geneva Sears represented
the Alamo knitting group, wear
ing a red knitted sweater.
A new part they had on pro
gram this year was the team
demonstrations. The following
girls took part:
Myrtle Braswell and Jewell
Browning, “Care of the Baby,”
assisted by Miss Barrett.
Mildred Foster and Ruth
Hertz, “Articles made from pine
needles and pine cones.”
Clara Clark and Rachel Till
man, “Homemade toys for the
small child.”
Edna Wilcher and Nellie Ruth
Wilcher, “Seam finishes.”
Rose Wynn and Oretta Bright,
“Making of wool flowers.”
The following Home Demon
stration Agents were judges:
Mrs. Z. B. Redding, of Mont
gomery county; Miss Nanere
Thompson, of Jeff Davis county,
and Mrs. Julia Kitchens, Telfair
county.
OLD AGE PENSIONS
FAVORED 3 TO 1
Atlanta, June 12. —The vote
for old age pensions and other
social security benefits in the
general election last Tuesday
was almost three-to-one in favor
of the constitutional amendment,
it was revealed Friday afternoon.
Secretary of State John B,
Wilson certified the result of the
election on the constitutional
amendments to the state execu
tive department late Friday, after
handling more than 17,000 re s
ports to compile them.
Tne vote on the social security
amendment was 148,584 for and
55,829 against authorizing the
state to levy taxes for social se
curity, and 139,413 for to 56,286
against allowing the various
counties to participate in social
security payments.
The vote on $2,000 homestead
exemptions vas 132,781 for and
61,734 against, while the vote on
S3OO personal property exemp
tions was 135,266 for and 58,475
against.
The classification tax amend
ment showed a closer vote, being
121,513 for and 65,618 against,
while the extension of pensions
to widows of Confederate veter
ans married as late as 1920 had
the closest vote of all, or 116,962
for and 71,688 against.
The amendment providing for
the Legislature convening itself
was ratified by a vote of 118,726
for and 67,334 against.
All twenty six of the proposed
amendments were ratified by
safe majorities.
Local and Personal News
That Will
Interest and Inform You
Sample Copy 5c Number 17
ROOSEVELT MH
NOIJE MH
Ralph Smith, in his Cracker
land, published in the Atlanta
Journal, sums up the opposition
to the Supreme Court plan of
President Roosevelt in the fol
lowing manner:
Democratic opposition in the
Senate to judicial reform rests
more on a desire to “wreck
Roosevelt” than to save the
Supreme Court. . . . The bitter
ness and severity of the language
employed by the majority of the
Judiciary Committee—s eve n
Democrats and three Rebubli
cans —leaves no doubt of this
fact. ... It is the President the
:ommittee hopes to discredit —
the President to whom most o f
he “seven” are beholden for
heir presence in the Senate.
It is a great state paper, a
>eerlesscommittee report, in the
jpinion of the wrecking crew,
and yet we find the committee —
-seven Democrats and three Re
publicans—asserting that this
“utterly dangerous abandon
ment of constitutional principle,’’
this proposal that “violates every
sacred tradition of American
democracy” would do none of
the things the authors of the
report damn.
Yes, gentle reader, the com
mittee says.
1. The bill would not remove
age from the Supreme Bench.
2. It would not abolish divided
decision.
3. The power of any Federal
Court to hold laws unconstitu
tional would not be affected,
4. The bill would not prevent
any federal judge from issuing
an injunction.
Seems silly and ridiculous,
doesn’t it, to have the authors of
this report denounce the bill as
an “utterly dangerous abandon
ment of constitutional principle,”
a proposal that “violates every
sacred tradition of American
Democracy.”
Yes, friends, it’s Roosevelt
they’re after in the Senate, it
isn’t the Supreme Court they are
trying to save.
Mrs. Harland Sears
Undergoes Operation
Mrs. Harland Sears, of Canaj
Point, Florida, who has been
visiting her mother, Mrs. H. S.
Taylor for the past few days, was
carried to the Coleman hospital,
in Eastman, Monday and under
went a minor operation today.
Latest news from her bedside is
that she is getting along nicely.
Vidalia Man Built Over
100 Negro Churche
Vidalia, June 15.—J. F. Darby,
local businessman, probably has
erected over 100 Ndgro churches
in this section, taking a chance
on the installment plan.
During the past three years,
he has been forced to buy in three
of the Negrochurches when pay
ments ceased. Two of them are
rented to congregations. The
other has been made into an
apartment house and now houses
the fainiles of two Negro preach
ers.
Miss Helen Hurwitz, a student
nurse at the Macon hospital, Ma
con, is spending her vacation in
Alamo with homefolks^
We were glad to have Mr. Joe
B. Clark, of Glenwood, come in
and have his subscription to the
Eagle marked up for another
year.
