The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, August 14, 1919, Image 9
BREAD DISEASE WILL
COME BACK
Influenza Epidemic Sure to Return.
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Washington, Aug. 5?If you hope
| to keep your health this autumn, get
lyourself into the pink of physical con-!
tedition and take all possible precautions
to avoid infection. For the flu
is going to hit us again, and the
amount of damage it will do depends
largely upon how well we prepare for
it. This is the message of Dr. Ootto
Geier of Cincinnati, secretary of the'
American Medical Association.
Already the visitation of the most
dramatic and destructive plague of
TvmHorn times is beginning to grow'
dim in the memories of many people,
and this despite the fact that there
are reminders of it everywhere. Nearly
everyone has a friend who is not
able to work as he did before he got*
the flu. Nearly everyone who has i
traveled during the past year, and in- j
quired for old friends, has heard;
again and again the depressing words1
"he died of the flu."
Nearly everyone has noticed, too,
the surprising number of women with
short hair. Some of these are afflicted
with artistic inclinations but most
of them gave up their crowning glory
reluctantly enough after having the
flu. Indeed, in some sections the flu
is said to have created quite a vogue
"for bobbed hair.
Short hair is the least serious of
the after affects of influenza. Doctor
Geier says that it will add 40 per
rent more people will die than would!
have died had there been no flu.
They will die because this strangely
weakening disease has sapped their
resistansce to other diseases.
These fearful after affects of the
flu. even more than the number of;
lives it destroys at once, make it a1
national oalamity which we can ill af- j
ford to pass through again. The'
country is strewn with men who!
thought that they were in their prime1
and w'ho got over the flu only to find
that they were old and about done;
with women who can no longer be
wives or mother." since they had the
flu, and with children whose growth
has been checked. One or two more
winters with such epidemics, and the
United States will have suffered almost
as much loss of human power
as some European countries did
through the war.
In support of his claim that the influenza
epidemic will recur, Dr. Geier
cites the record of the nearly allied
disease of lagrippe, which appeared
in epidemic form in 1899. It did not
reach its peak until 1901, and two
years after that it recurred an d destroyed
thousands of lives. We have
1 1 ~ om ina nf CrlnDC
IlciU IWW UlUCI Cj'iuvunvw w* or or
influenza one in 1867 and the other
ir 1895, and both of these showed
the some recurrent quality.
In the face of this literal certainty
that we will have no combat influenza
again next year, we are totally unprepared
to do so. Medical science
knows little more about influenza today
than it did a year ago when the
scourge was spreading like a prairie
fire over all the world. For this reas^^on,
the doctors are making elaborate
| '^^and extensive researches into the
' cause and effect of the disease in order
to try to be better prepared for
the next outbreak. Medical men are
hopeful of discoveilng a specific remedy
for the flu as was done in the
cases of yellow fever, diptheria, and
typhus fever.
Among the medical men of this
country making studies of the flu are
Dr. William H. Park, famous bacteriologist
and head of the bureau of
laboratories of the department of
health in New York; Dr. John F.
Anderson, former director of the hygenic
laboratory of the federal government
and Dr. E. L. Fisk. director
of the Life Extension Institute,
The American Medical Association
is promoting this research work. At
Uo ww>on) <?nnvpntinn in Atlantic Citv
a resolution was adopted asking congress
to appropriate $1,500,000 to
stimulate and encourage research
work. This suggestion was acted upon
the other day, when Representative
Fess of Ohio, introduced a resolution
in congress for the appropriation of
that amount. The money is to be
turned over to the United States public
health service to be used for cooperation
in the research work that
is being carried on by the various
State health departments.
Not only are the medical men of the
country preparing for reappearance of
the disease, but civic organizations
in different communities which under
took to care for the numerous
victimso f the enidemic a year ago
are also making plans aeainst a recurrence
of the maladv. These organizations
do not intend to be caugh*
off their guard in the event of another
outbreak, and in a number of
towns throughout the United Statpa
special comnuuses nave utoi upturn ied
to make preparations for .lust such
an emergency. During he epidemic a
year aeo. many thousands of people
died solely for want of care.
In his letter to Congressman Fess.
urging the federal appropriation. Dr.
Geier gives some impressive ficts
about the flu. He savs it caused half
a million deaths in this country la?=t
year, and that it cost the insurance
companies $240,000,000.
The epidemic loss to the countrv.
he says, is hard to estimate, but it
Is enormous. Economists agree that
a human life is worth at least $5,000
IU IUC kittle, ?U llirti ?II?- iiMin?-iai ?
value of be liven lost alono would be
about $2.5000.000. Add to this (he
, working time lost by people who were
sick, and the total economic loss to
' thp countrv is somewhat between
three and four billion. Dr. Gelr cites
these fienres to show that it will pav
the tax pavers to let congress spend
some of their money preparing: to
prevent a recurrence of the flu.
This loss of time and man power,
he says, is not really half so important
is the impairment of the country's
health? the lone lingering after
affects of the disease. As an example
of what these amount to in one
city. Dr. Geir states that the Red
Cross chapter in Cincinnati is spending
$200,000 in examining persons
who have had influenza, and finding
in an enormous percentage of cases
that they have come through the disease
with impaired organ ? heart,
kidney or lungs. It is also caring for
a great many invalids who were able
to make their own living before they
had the flu.
Dr. Geier firmly believes that the
flu problem can be solved by medical I
science. One after another, mysteri-1
ous diseases have appeared to kill and j
baffle, and one after another, they
have been conquered. Typhoid, yellow
fever, diphtheria, typhus?they were
each at one time as deadly and mysterious
as the flu is now. In each
case, the germ was discovered which
caused the disease and then a specific
was made or discovered which
would kill the germ.
This same method must and will i
be applied to the flu. Many eminent
scientists are making studies of the
subject. What is needed is an appropriation
and authority to enable the
public health service to coordinate all
these efforts and make them into a
national campaign against the plague.
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11,639,653 BALES,
HESTER REPORTS.
Says the Prop of Texas Is 541,000
Bales Less Than Last Year.
New Orleans, Aug, 9?Serretary
Hester's annual report on the commercial
cotton crop, issued today,
puts the crop of 1918-19 at 11,639,653
bales, a decrease under the crop
of 1917-18 of 1,301,281.
He says that the crop of Texas is i
541,000 bales less than last year, the
group of "other Gulf States" (embracing
Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas,
Tennessee, Oklahoma, Missouri,
Arizona, California, Kansas and
New Mexico) show a decrease of
381,000 bales, and the group of Atlantic
States (including Alabama,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia.
Florida. Kentucky and Virginia)
and increase of 655,000.
Crop grade average barely middling.
He puts the average per pound of
middling for the year at 30.36 cents
compared with 28.86 last year, 18.41
year before last and 11.99 in 1915-16
and the average commercial value
per bale at $155,14 against $147.39
last year and $94.82 the year before
and the value of the crop, including
the seed, at $2,045,251,868, against
$2,001,682,939 last year.
Mr. Hester's report of commercial
crop by States is as follows, in thousands
of bales.
Alabama 756 against 521 last year.
Arkansas 914 against 1,00,04.
Florida 34 against 50.
Georgia 2,029 against 1,980.
Louisiana 541 against 665.
Oklahoma 590 against 1,016.
Mississippi 1.154 against 979.
North Carolina etc 908 against
717.
South Carolina 1,491 against 1,295.
Tennessee, etc. 543 against 460.
Texas 2,680 against 3,220.
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$ Oxfords wort
? Ladies oxforc
f Ladies oxforc
X Ladies pump:
f Ladies pump;
? One lot of chi
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$ New shipmen
a the latest styles
V Priced specia
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$3.50; formerly
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Railroad Ave. next to pit
Total crop, bale 11,640, against
11,007 last year.
Mr. Hester says that the prices paid
for this crop have been the highest
witnessed for the past fifty-two yearn.
He then gives a table showing the
exports lor the five-year war period
compared with the five previous years
of the ante-war period showing a
total for the war period of 30,666,000
and calls attention to the fact, that
during the five year period prior to
the war Germany and her Allies took
13,000,000 of the balance while in the
war period they took only 349,000.
Mr Hester nuts the actual growth
for 1918-19 at 13,070,000 and he puts
the number of bales carried over in
the interior of the South, including
Southern mill stocks, at 3,571,000
against 2,184,000 carried over at the
close of 1917-18.
Mr. Hester then gives a statement
of the total catry-over of American
cotton in the United States and
abroad on July 31. These figures
show total in interior of .cotton belt
3,575,000 bales, United States port
stocks 1,213,000, Northern mill
stocks 504,000 total United States,
5,291,000, European mill stocks 28.5000,
European part mill stocks 1,248
total European port stocks 1,248,000,
total Europe 1,533,000; total
carry-over 6,824.000. He says
of the total carry-over 699,000 bales
were linters.
Consumption of the South in round
figures was given as 3,534,000 and
the North 2,500,000, a total of 6,034,000
bales of American cotton, including
linters. In addition to , this
American mills have consumed 173,000
bales of foreign cotton, making
a total consumption of American and
foreign growtn Dy American mius ui
6,207,000 against 7,6000,000 last
year.
Consumption of linters, included in
the preceding year was 449,000 bales,
including 293,600 in the South and
156,000 in the North against a total
last year of 1,100,000, includirg 600000
in the South and 500,000 lr the
North.
Mr. Hester puts the spindles in the
South at 15,187,000, including old,
new and idle and uncompleted,
against 14,786,000 last year, and says
there are in course of construction in
the mills and being added to new
mills in the South 209226 spindles.
He put the world's consumption oi
American cotton including linters al
10,620,000 against 12,282,000 bales
last year.
CREDITORS NOTICE
HaVing qualified as administratoi
of the estate of A. LeRoy Bethea, de
ceased, notice is hereby given that al!
persons holding claims against th<
said estate are hereby notified to pre
sent same duly authenticated withir
the time provided by law or this no
"? ?Ko,i (heir recov
lift Will picnu *i? wr?A V<. V..W..
ery. All persons indebted to said es
tate are hereby notified to make im
mdiate payment to the undersignet
qualified Administrator.
D. W. BETHEA,
8-7-3t.?386 Administrator.
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is worth up to 10.0
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s worth 5.00, $2.9
s worth 4.00, $2.C
ildren's, worth 2.0<
s and pumps all ret
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it of ladies fine ski
in high grade metei
lly at 8.00 to $17
skirts on sale, sp
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BARGAINS IN EA(
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cture show. DILLON,
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Professional Cards.
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OTIS M. PAGE, <
' (Formerly Major of Engr's U. S. A.) t
-Surveyor and Engineer. /
j Surveying, Drafting, Blue Printing, jj
Drainage, Sub-Divisions, Etc. |
Office Over Dillon Pharmacy. .
J Dillon, S. C.
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j " GIBSON & MULLER 1
Attorneys-at-Law 1
I over Malcolm Mercantile C? <
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Yaetlce in State and Federal Court* :'
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DR. J. H. HAMEK, JR. ,?
Dentist
' Office over Peoples Bank. i.
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i JOE P. LANE
Attomey-at-Law
Office Next to Bank of Dillon,
Main St. Dillon, S. C.
L. D. LIDE 1
Attorney-at-Law j
MARION, S. C- 1
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i DR. C. R. TABER J
Physician and Surgeon
Office at residence, No. 5 Harrison (
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Residence Phone No. 90.
i J. W. JOHNSON
Attorney-at-Law 1
.*ra?tlee in State and Federal Court* J
Marion, S. G. I
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L. B. HASELDEN J
Attorney at Law i
DILLON, S. 0.
Money to Lend on First Mortgage
Real Estate.
!! 8. O. HENSLEE, M. D.
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Spectacles Fitted.
| Office Hours 9 to 11 and 2 t? 4
i: Evening Hours by Appointment.
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DRS. ROGERS & DARWIN
Dentists
Office Over Bank of Dillon
5 HARGROVE A BRADDY
Attorneys-at-Law.
" Office first floor People Bank Bldg.
DILLON, 8. C.
NEW COLUMBIA SIX FOR SALE?
I Has been run 400 mikes. Insured
s against fire and theft SI,750.00.
Will sell for $1,750.00 or give a
? good trade in an Essex ( Dodge,
Hup or Ford if in first class order.
Apply to B. M. DuBose,
Brownsville, S. C.?ltp.
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1 Colds Cause Grip and Influenza
LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets remove the
cause. There it only one "Bromo Quinine."
' E. W. GROVE'S sUnstore oo box. 30c.
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SOUTH CAROLINA t
Victory Button Order Modified.
Word has just been received from
Washington so that Victory Buttons
:an now* be issued to all honorably
lischarged officers, enlisted men, field
:lerks, and members of the Army
Parses Corps who served on active
luty in the army of the United States
it any time between April 6, 1917,
md November 11, 1918.
This entitles the members of the
student Army Training Corps, who
vere excluded under Circular 187, W.
D., to be issued Victory Buttons.
The Army Recruiting Station in
savannah is issuing Victory Buttons
is rapidly as the claims come in.
l liey hppi'fll lQ r?ci j mail nnv iu ?
titles to t Victorv Button to make
ipplioation immediately. There will b
no delay, for he Victory Button is
3ent out the day the claim is received
ind the quantity of buttons on hand
s sufficient to take care of all.
TAX NOTICE.
I now ha\e in my hands the 1918
tax executions. I will have to close
them out by December 1st and all
iroperty on which taxes have not been
paid by that date will be sold on the
first Monday in December to satisfy
the executions. Some one will be in
the sheriff's office every Monday and
Saturday for the purpose of receiving
axes.
r-31-4tC66 S. V. Lane, Sheriff
No Worms in a Healthy Child
All children troubled with worms have an unhealthy
color, which Indicates poor blood, and as a
rule, there is more or less stomach disturbance
IROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC given regularlj
tor two or three weeks will edrich the blood, improve
the digestion, and act as a General Strength>nlng
Tonic to the whole system. Nature will ther
ihrowoffor dispel theVorms, and the Child will b<
n perfect health. Pleasant to take. 60c per bottle
PALMETTO HARDWARE Co.
Dillon, S. C.
L. A. WOODRUFF,
G. OPt.
Eye Slight Specialist
Oiffce New Jewelry Store
No. 10, Main St. MULLINS, S. C
WOFFORE
Spartanburg,
Located in the high Piedmont
long history of distinguished s
trains for character and leaders
ing Corps.
Write for catalogue now.
HENRY N. SNYDER,
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Tobacco
Receiving bi
tobacco sole
Dixon Bros.
J. M. Todd
D. G. Huggins
C. R. Brabham
W. F. Rogers & Huggi:
Cowser Alfred
Smith & Brown
G. B. Kearse
P. S . Conner
A. M. Brabham
J. M. Kearse
C. C. Rogers
J. W. Hill
Farmers never g
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Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days
Druggists refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fail*
> to cure Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles.
| Instantly relieves Itching Piles, and you can get
' restful sleep after the first application. Price 50c.
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GOOD HOUSES AT LOW
COST. 3
WHY? ? ? ? ? ? ^
(BECAUSE?We do a large
amount of work with special
Modern machinery instead of
by hand, and building in
large quantities as we do, we
eliminate the expense of plan
and specifications,
s BECAUSE?We get lumber
I from the forest, and other
i supplies in caiiots and we are
i satisfied with' a reasonable
profit.
i You can have a home right
[ now ! _ ! !
; We make a variety of sizes
and styles of ready to put up
; houses at prices of
$200.00 UP.
Write or 'phone us for our
illustrated free catalog, or
i come to sec us.
Dixie House Co.
CHARLESTON, S. C.
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Bicycles
I an ?
Bicycle Supplies.
I keep on hand at all
times a complete line
of Bicycles and Bicycle
Supplies.
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You can buy at closer
figures at my place
because I buy what
the people need and
and in larger quantities.
The place where Bicycles
are repaired
and rebuilt.
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> COLLEGE
South Carolina
section. A real college with a
ervice to the whole state. It
hip. U. S. Reserve Officers' Train?
President.
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