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About The Gibson record. (Gibson, Ga.) 1891-1954 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1926)
GIBSON RECORD Publwhedjto Nrafefc thcPeople ®l Glascock Coaaty a Weekly Kewspaper and as a Medium for the Adtaaftssit »! Ac 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 ON THE GASOLINE CIRCUIT A. B. CHAPIN , 4/ n ! <u'u*ky fncp! .i GoSt \ ! Th'lucky Stiff/ ’tyvi ’ A* W , J|+ , eousmvfr it V/lSR 1 WAS Aw' RlDlidS puTTiwff- 0V 1H OP / Ml ? vr^ I <*” ■Jr-. ‘ *>■' AI omwws- WIGHT 5 out —! . •er AT SWELL -HOTELS — ! . :V- «r * . %x*‘ YhVK if .c ■ J /K-ty-rv.'' i. a i ^ -Sft'fes •feg–ngr • • <b> - 1, 'UMS^i JS’S m fs z_.< m \ ciul A* ■r.zsz’p s. 11 i mi ! J ■ a" / ,5^ . t=«=^3; 2 ^ ■ m pdaei u 'm. A ■~Ov ' : •***d*£^l ikSGG– J ^ Ml i\\ ■ i U: r-m m . w. r j3> . r > .J > Yw IK S’ °**e -"3 m - – \ U,:w 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 " “ v ' is a course in - 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. Rather Unusual' m V V Jpl m m 1 J E*{i m. i |g; | % 1 \ rSm: 7-:S0m ■m v I__ SMSi Rm a–id If/A' '<> ^ * • ---- B i fflsSi–ii . No, this isn’t a Follies beauty or the bathing contest winner, but it i* an unusual picture ot Mme. Aaadita GalU Curci, famous Grand Ojtora song bird, about to hit the high “C’s” ^t Atlantic City. r j There’ll ' Be a Hot Time ~ ~ | §y •Gl^SrZr k. |: '{-A » g- iHi ‘ iJ “ A i j-. V ’ m W-Z- m j l– ' V t /Wroc*ST«|'<SiiW s 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.” $1.00 PER YEAR 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. _ 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 1S70. A « V b £ a
