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VOL. XXXII. NO. 40
THE PUBLIC SERVANT
Cendant, COOK, NURSE, MAID, AT
clerk, butch
BAKER.
™. Anderson, Qommlssionsr of
Health, Baldwin County.) \
They prepare your food and that
of your children; they handle raw
foods to be eaten by you and your
children. They bathe, drees and care
for the baby, for you, for mother. Good
old colored mammy? Yes, she is free
from any dangerous disease. How do
you know that she Is, and what reason
have you to even suppose that she is?
A young girl? She always wears clean,
neat clothes, and apparently keeps her
body clean; she has never been sick.
Even if they are sick occasionally, how
many people think anything <jf it ?
Day after day they allow them to con
tinue caring for them and their chil
dren, Sore throat, sore eyes, appar
ent "fever blisters," frequent head
aches, general lassitude; yes, Lucy,
our nurse, has all those things once
in a while, but It is nothing serious,
and we still keep her and leave the
children with her. Occasionally this
servant will also have trouble with
her bladder, will lose her appetite, lose
weight and cough from a little throat
irritation.
You stop and think! Doesn’t the
thought of syphilis, gonorrhoea, tu
berculosis, skin disease, typhoid car
rier, ever occur to you as being pres
ent in your servants? Do you ever
send those servants to your physician
or to your health officer to be exam
ined? Why should it be possible
everyone under the sun to have any . nv
vant, vlnf™ or all yourself, nf fhsn.es ,, your A* dl8ea T,! child, nd . be . y ° Immune Ur 86r '
, ___.. . _ Your precious little child,
bilnd from gonorfhoaa contracted
irom the filth of your supposedly
clean nurse, incurably afflicted with
syphilis, tuberculoeis or any other dls
ease, all contracted from some ser
vant whom you trusted to care tor
them. To whom should the accusing
finger of responsibility be pointed’
To you, of course- no one else Do
you ever suppose for one minute that
any public servant is going to tell y you
if he nr oh*. 4 . . a -j .
with with any communicable nt rr, disease? They
wlll do this just as quickly as a bank
fln« ® lose,tsdoor8wmte11 yon
or ot lm its failure.
It will more than pay any mother
and father to think ot this, to have
their servants examined every four;
months at least. Consult your State
Board of Health, the United States
Public Health Service, the Tuberculo- j
sis Association, your family physl
clan, your local Department of
Health. To your utter amazement.
verify by them what nas been said.
One in Every 71 in
World Own* Motor Car
Washington.—The automobile
has invaded every nook of the
globe and In such quantity that
an owner is to be found in
i every seventy-first person. world On
the basis of 1,748,000,000
population for 1925, this means
that more than 24,000,000 per
sons are automobile owners.
These figures, announced by
the Commerce department, re
vealed that the United States
leads with the highest ratio to ,
population—one to every six
persons. Hawaii has one to
every eleven, and Canada one to
i thirteen.
In the lower ratios is Afghan
istan, with one to 1,200,000 per
sons; Hejaz, with only four
cars, or one for every 225,000;
Abyssinia, 1 to 138,338, and
China, 1 for every 81,871. The
Solomon islands, with 151,000
persons, has only two automo
biles, while Liberia has 54, or
one for every 54,259.
In 19 of the 59 countries sur
veyed, at least 90 per cent of
the automobiles owned were of
American manufacture; in sev
en, American-made car* consti
tuted 80 per cent Sooth
America had the greater pro
portion. European countries
showed a much lower ratio.
Cariooniafa Ideaa
The tiger as the symbol ot Tam
many Ball, the elephant of the Re
publican party and the donkey which
Republican papers use as emblematic
of Democrats are the Invention of
Thomas N–st. Originally the donkef>
which came first, was not applied A
|M Dtnwxarotte party.
GIBSON. QA., WEDNESDAY, AUG. 18, 1926
DREAMY MEXICO IS
SHOWING SOME PEP
Qr*»p» Boosting Spirit of Unit
ed Staten. *****
Dallas. —Dreamy Mexico, land of
tn a n s nt , is waking up. The ngwejt
in intellectual and material things la
l delightfully blending with the
and customs which keep Mexico pe
cullarly its own.
The boosting spirit of residents of
.the United States Is one of the things
being grasped and used by Mexican
citizens with civic pride
Particularly in those areas which
art reached by railroads carrying a
j large portion of the travel from the
United States is there a growing re
action to alien influence. Along these
llflfil the traveler sees movies still
shown in second-nm houses north of
the border. He is greeted by street
placards announcing baseball games
;tnd prize fights, and he finds dodgers
thrust into his hands urging him to
; attend.
f The chamber of commerce has be
come a real part of Mexican civ-ic life.
A typical special train, bound Into
Mexico, traveling along the west
; coast, may be taken as an example.
Members of the party are advised that
i* certain community several hundred
miles south plans a reception and the
; schedule permits a stop.
; On arrival a Mexican orchestra of
I J ists. stringed After instruments greets the the tour
a concert guests are
! conducted to carriages, perhaps rather
' dilapidated, but able to go. A ride
' 0Ter rough, unpaved streets, which
8€€m to begin nowhere and end
abruptly, winding past one-story
, adobe struetures seemingly placed
deflnlte P lan - end3 at the
chamber of commerce,
1 Then comes the official welcome,
but hearty. The speaker, his
words Interpreted sentence by sen
.tence, quickly offers greetings and be
fs gins typical community boosting. It
good taste for the musicians to
'break in with an –lr when, in the dl
sector's opinion, the speaker has made
!*a effective point
'WTten this is all over, the guests are
escorted to the reception. The popu
‘ latton > 8 there, and formality of intro
;<Jactl<>n ie salved. Mexican girls, on
W h ° le ’ are pretty - Thcy are
( dancer * and the Il ' u8ic is fro °' 1
Usually a community belle gives an
interpretation of a Mexican dance.
‘Then, if she Is a "modern,” likely as
not she will demonstrate the
When the departing guests return
to thetr train they find the orchestra
'of stringed Instruments on hand. Usu
ally It is late and the airs then played
ar * peculiarly those of
romantic and touched with the trag
^ that rapidly disappearing centu
lr,es of P eonIstn has Implanted.
v Young French t Mechanic B
I
; Invent* Flying Bicycle
Paris.—A young French mechanic
in a factory at Dijon has Just in
i vented a bicycle that flies.
According to a report received in
iParis, the Frenchman had been work
ing on his invention several years ami
has finally completed successful tests.
'The bicycle can be transformed lm
iraediately into a very small monoplane
And fly to a height of 150 feet. Trials
'were conducted without mishap and
the mechanic intends to present hie
unique invention to the public at the
beginning of August.
The successful manufacture of the
bicycle In large quantities will make
flying within the means of all, in the
opinion of the Inventor.
California Has Increase
in Number of Arrests
Sacramento, Calif.— Either Califor
nia police departments are becoming
Aore effective in snaring the elusive
criminal or the criminal element in
the state Is materially on the Increase,
for the number of arrests on seri
ous charges shows a gain of nearly
5,000 for the fiscal year Just ended.
Relativity
The highest mountain has about the
same relation to the size of the earth
as the thickness of a sheet of paper
pasted on an orange.
Women Beat in Adveraity
There Is in every true woman's
heart a spark of heavenly fire, which
beams and blazes In the dark hours
of adversity.—Washington Irving.
* Wktmical Elementa
Known
There A chemical element*
known to beginning with hy
drogen and fading with uranlom- Of
those. W have been discovered The
Utest discovery was rhenium, which
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American Citizenship Entrusted With Sacred
Duty Toward injfcftf the Dead
By HANFORjfaUc A–i staav rfe’eratary ci War.
The so-called Reds are in reality pot dangerous. They are usually
foreigners who do not understand or appreciate America. They can 'he
cured by education, experience,'information. The real danger is not in
the foreign Red, but the native yellow. These native yellows are the
defeatists of our national life.
at ^ he nef!cl , more t , lan anything . else good . Amer
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ican history, properly administered— thr kind of history that was written
at Belleau, Vaux, Soiasons, St. Mihiel, Mont Blanc and thr Argonim. G
T In the Belleau r> *' ood j stands , , Wlth «* a B reat . shadowy , , , legion . the men
of the Second division who did not come back — four thousand American
boys. - Whenever we of the Second gather together, unseen unheard,
they gather with us. All through life they will march heside you. Your
citizenship must count double. . They flied that and
you your children
might enjoy' American citizenship.
We who have seen American citizenship exemplified under every ad
versity know what its worth can be. We shall be unworthy of our trust if
we do not teach that conception of citizenship to our sons and if we do noi
insist that that which we shall leave them shall he kept inviolate.
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but it i* an unusual picture ot
Mme. Aaadita GalU Curci, famous
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New York is marshalling its
home from her record breaking
■ Aim ot the English channel. She
uils for home Aug. 21—leaving a
, 'cord, (the first woman) of l-iv*
hours across the channel—a m–ifc
which bids to stand for many
years.
V/orla’s Rarest Stamp
The rarest stamp in the v.orld is
tl:e 3 cent British Guinns of 1856.
Only one specimen Is known to exist
(n f, ' ,s .v e " r t ,le Postal uuthor! !es In
British Guiana ran short of stamps,
aDd temporarily supplied the lack by
having a crude design of n sliip,
around which they placed (he neces
sary lettering, printed In a local of
floe. This stamp was sold recently for
$40,000.
CORRECTION
'HYSICAL DEFECTS
It. Is one thing to make a physical
examination of a child and another to
j get. the defects corrected. It is a use
less waste of time to examine children
and not correct them. In some eases
it is a mistake to find and report a
defect that is not corrected, and we
question the wisdom of doing so. In
certain types of nervous make - up If
the child is found with a defect and
told about it and the correction is not
made, the fact of the defect will cause
the child to brood over it. To
accomplish the end sought all de
fects found should be corrected where
it is humanly possible to do so. The
examining physician should use
caution in making his exami
nations and in the type ot
child referred to above should make
a confidential report to the teacher
and parent. In fact, there is no rea
son to parade before the world and
the playmates of the child in particu
lar a defect of any sort. Every school
should have its children examined,
but especially the child of pre-school
age. Every school should in advance
have in mind the providing for the
correction of defects.
If the question of the geographic
distribution of hospitals is made it
will be found that we have about 42
general hospitals in Georgia, with
something over 4,000 beds, within
reach of almost every section of the
state. It seems to us that an arrange
ment could be made with them
to take defective children for
surgical corrections in groups
at reasonable rates, The Coun
ty Medical Societies could readi
ly arrange this and make the arrange
ment for the surgeon to do the work
If 15 or 20 cbildrea were taken at a
time for tonsils and adenoids a very
low rate could be made. This would
be much more desirable than clinics
at t {j e ac iiools or improvised hospi
r, Health think r- so. s ““ ,> UM 01
We hope that our county will make
arrangements for the taking care ol
all our children, but especially the
children of pre-school age.
If you lj,ve in a malarial section the
State Board of Health advises the dai
ly use of quinine.
Co.ilagioas m Thai Sense
“Now, sir,” said the professor ot
medicine, “tell me to what class of
maladies^.insoiunla belongs?" “Why—
er,” replied the medical student, “it’s
a contagious disease." “I never heard
It so described. W'.iere did you learn
of this?” ‘ Front experience. When
ever my neighbor's dog can’t sleep, I’m
Just as wakeful as he is.”
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MOST IMPORTANT
HUMAN NEED C
The three most important needs for
man are air, food and water, and la
each case purity is necessary. Pure wa
ter is a luxury as well as a necessity.
The abundant use of pure water pro
motes health, while to be deprived of
it is a hardship. Impure water is £
disappointment and it may be a !}'!■ j*3
tive danger.
The history of sanitary engine| m 55
tells sad tales of misery and death
suiting from drinking water infected
with the germs of such diseases as
cholera, typhoid fever and dysentery.
A recent typhoid fever epidemic in
a certain city in the West is a start
ling testimony of the damage a pol
luted water supply can cause.
This is a city of 10,000 Inhabitants.
Its water supply is derived from three
groups of deep wells bordering the
outskirts of the city. Water from the
wells flows through gravity lines to
several collecting reservoirs. A por
tion of one of the gravity lines was
constructed of vitrified tile with ce
mented joints. The water supply had
been used for years, and was thought
to be safe until 1
Last year 83 number of cases of
s t o m a c Sr disorders developed
in the city. Tills was shortly follow
ed by an outbreak of typhoid fever.
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One of the first steps was to order
all wa‘er boi'r-1 until a chlorinating
apparatus was installed to sterilize the
water. This precautionary measure
was taken before the cause of the
sickness was known.
The forces of the State Board of
Health then began a systematic In
vestigation to find the Bource of In
fection. The investigation Included
the milk supply, raw vegetable supr
the water suply, etc. The water su,
ply was finally singled out from the
mass of evidence as having spread
the disease, a thorough Investigation
of the supply determined, without
doubt, that the cause of the epidemic
was due to contamination from a pri
vate sewer.
The supply being derived from deep
wells, little attention had ever been
given the matter of chlorinating the
water. This severe epidemic proved
that even deep well supplies thr
some faulty construction can becuxnj
the source of great danger.
They estimated the cost to be at
least ?450,000.00, $15.00 for every in
habitant. The experience of this city
should serve as a warning to every
municipality in the United States. In
otrr own State there are a number of
cities that should consider carefully
this city’s typhoid fever epidemic.
This is only one of many examples
of disease and suffering caused by
drinking polluted water.
Is your city one of the cities that
is live-awake and having regular
monthly analysis made of its water
supply? If your city has not yet
waked up to the benefits of having
a safe water to drink at all times, and
wish to wake up and be progressive,
then write to the Georgia State
Board of Health for information con
cerning a Regular Monthly Analysis
of Water Supplies.
Dangeroua fs Keep
Buy iodine in small quantities
cause as It ages the alcqlipl^flf
rates and the tincture becoj r,
Unted, thereby greatly inc
•trength. O
Friaco’a Fine Park ■
Golden Gate park In San Francl^U
covers 1,013 acres, cost $800,000 when
first established and $6,000,000 since
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