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I e--f m 9 TUBLISIIED EVERY THURSDAY LYLES HARRIS Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Subscriptions Payable in Advance) Cbe Year H-ht Months 10J tlx Months v -75 Lkgle Copies 5c ADVERTISING RATES Very reasonable, and will be made known Cyon request. We charge 5 cents a line for Cards of Shanks, Resolutions of Respect, and for n-, tkes of entertainments where admission is charged. Entered at the post-office at Franklin, N. C. for transmission through the . mails as seconds, class matter. County Club TOO much organization is just too bad. Not enough is unwise! We urge, with all the force and sincerity in our power, that serious, thought be given the idea of a Macon County dub. Time was when we could live to ourselves. That time is past. All interests are so closely interlocked that if only one part of our for ward movement is allowed to lag, the whole is seriously hampered. We may also imagine that what is done or not done in other parts does not effect us here. Any such pleasant mental gynmnastics are but imagination. The County Club is a national organization, with each individual county its own boss. The County Club is the contact by which we keep . p with and have a better understanding of all trends that effect our present and future welfare. Therefore, we submit that the County Club .idea is worthy of the full consideration of trery one in Macon county, first to come to a logical conclusion as to whether or not we should have one and second if we should, how best to go about forming it and when. A Useless Practice LAST week there was tried in the Superior court "of this county a case that dragged all concerned thru the most sorid details of filth and under-world actions imaginable. We do not know anything of the justness of the case nor are we conversant with the manner with which the case was conducted. Therefore, what we have to say in regard to it cannot be taken as any criticism in any way of any of those directly concerned in the case iti self, or of any of the court officials that were engaged in holding the case, nor the lawyers that worked on the case. We do think, that for the good of the whole community it would have been better for this case to liave been held en camera if such a thing could have been accomplished under our court regulations. Not only this case, but all others of a similar nature, should be held in the presence only of those t vitally con cerned. There is nothing to be gained, it seems to us, in gratifying the morbid curi osity f those not actually involved. The very life of organized society,, as we have made it today, depends on the obscuring of all unclean things. If it were not so vices and crimes would be out in the open and not as they are, relegated to the under-world or kept under the cover of darkness. If there is anything to gain by such exposures as we had in the case in question last week it would be a different thing. But is there? Only the plaintiff and the defendant are affected in the last analysis. No one can play with, mud and not. get their hands soiled. It is so with the mind. Hence, here is hoping that in the future such cases will be kept from addipg their bit of the unbeautiful to the thoughts of those not actually concerned. Only Feelings rELL, this is Friday. Owing to unrclcnt- I w 'nB circumsiances we are in one uevu of a frame of mind. This weeks paper is off the press. The Asheville Citizen farm page is written. Went to Asheville last night to see the boys at the Citizen printing plant. They work at night and all night to get the paper to us by breakfast tinie every morning. Got home just before day. The oldest boyihad; croup rest of the night. Bank notifies us, this: morning, that a note is due, and payable now emphasis on the and payable Now. Some man came along wanting to promote an air port. Another one to know why in the name, of goodness his paper did not come. Another one writes in to say that he has. subsenbed for his.-paper and we may either send it or his money. He looked up the sub list to see how much money was coming to him and meant to sendit. Found that his subscription ran out two weeks ago. A lady from Tennessee sends a post card which she forgot to sign or to give her pres ent address on and said please send my paper to so and so, I am not living here any more. We hope that she does not get a whiff of the language that we put on the air inaudibly, of cours. Another man came in and said that he was not getting his paper. Looked up his, card an 1 found tJ.at four papers are leaving, l!.c office addressed to him. A real friend came in and said that he wished we would do so and so. We looked up the thing that he pointed out and will make the improvement suggested by him. Joe Ashear Just passed the window. Joe has been in Chiiago for two weeks. Said he would be in to see us in a seiond wonder if he brought any pre-Volstead or hand grenades back with him that makes us the object of his special attention. Alex Moore and a few friends standing in the door talking. Heard him sell 12 bushels ofviye we told a lot of folks last fall to plant rye guess they had rather buy it. Heard1 Alex say that he had sold one hundred and fifty bushels of rye this fall. He ran an add in the Press they always get' results. Man .came in and wanted us to go down and see a cow that is sick. Could hot go. Had to wsite this. Don't you wish we had gone ? From his description there is no use to go. Just a question of improper feeding and no shelter at all. Cow heavy with calf too. Cold rains played the devil, as usual. Get her right this time and she would be in the same fix in three weeks. Here are some more of the things that we have heard about ourselves and what we think of them. Will add that we are always glad to hear them good or bad. Real friends come to you and say the bad things. Friends not so real say the bad1 things behind your back or come and try to dam with faint praise. The ' good things always flatter our vanity mostly because they come in such small doses. Here they are: One person does not like some of our head ings. Another thinks they are fine. What can we do? Another one does not .see how a cow doc tor can publish a newspaper. Well, that just depends on the man, and his capacity for hard work. Maybe this party had not thought that probably the cow doctoring efforts of the man may have been a side line all the time. Still another says that we heard this second hand the. paper is just as he thought it would be, too frivilous. To this man we will say that wedo not give a hang if he does think so. We. will be just as frivilous as we please. If there was more laughing in' this good old county and a lot of us would quit taking ourselves so seriously we would find more pleasure in life. Another thinks that we should use -better wording in our writing in other words be more high brow. That is a good thing to do.. vOnly we had not had it brought to our at tention ajid we have had no way to observe it that there is any great amount of high brow stuff used in the way of language around these parts. We may try a little of this some time soon when and if we get,to feeling just right. : And so it goes on. As for us , we are going to just keep on doing the best we can and get as much fun doing it as we can, for tomorrow we ourselves may be with yesterday's ten thousand years Omar. vKyaiham may get mad just because we used a thought of his like it was our own if he wants too. Things could be a whole lot worse ifor us all of us. We may feel that we are often in hard luck and have great misfortune. Think of what we would have cause to think if we , had saint vitus dance and rheumatism at the same time. That was Mark Twain's idea of tough luck, and we agree. Drop in to see us any time you want to see just how little some troubles are when compared to others. Why, this morning we feel that if luck was a thing that .was selling by the slice, when t we went to get it they would raise the price. There is nothing that would cheer us up more than to have the fifteen hundred people of the county that are not taking the Press to send in their subscription for a year or five years or ten years. A few good orders for job printing and one or two for large display adds for next week's paper would not make us the least' bit angry either. " . V ' - Another wise guy thats some of the high brow stuff we spoke of said We are a great, cheat beause a lot of tfie farm stuff printed is igjffl the wrrtings: from Raleigh. 'Ah:,Lorj. brother. That ;is the stuff you are paying your tax money", for, arid " it's; things you don't know to boot. Better take the mat ter up with the proper authorities and have them get out something different for we are sure .going to continue clipping stuff as long as it carries facts that are applicable to this section. Gosh, now we got to quit. Bill has just yelled out that he needs forty more inches for the editorial page. Where are those scissors? ..Others'; Comments MORE ABOUT TUBERCULOSIS (Continued from last weekT v- - - ,- Person Hygiene of 'the Patient The person suffering from tuberculosis is cartful to safely dispose of all sputum by ex pectorating in a sputum cup that can be burned and seeing that it is burned when used. The mouth and nose are always covered with a gauze or napkin that can be burned when coughing or sneezing. The germs of the tubercle bacilli are spread mostly by. discharges from th$ mouth and nose. If, these discharges are disposed of by burning, never allowing them to come in contact with another person, no one can be infected from the. tuberculous sufferer. The TB never kisses anyone if he coughs or expectorates. He does not kiss persons on the mouth when he does not cough or ex pectorate. He sleeps alone, preferably on a screened sleeping porch or in a well-ventilated room during all seasons of the year. Care of the Room, Bedding, Food, and Dishes of the Patient. The room of the patient is never dry-swept. The germs of the tubercle bacilli delight in riding on the little chariots of dust . stirred up in a dry-swept room. Damp sawdust, old tea leaves, or bits of wet paper .should be strewn on the floor before sweeping. If the house-keeper posses a vacuum cleaner, do the cleaning with that. In using disinfectants see that the surface of the entire room' and the entire surface , of everything in the room is gone over with the disinfectant. Sunlight and fresh air are the best disinfectants. See that the room receives plenty of sunshine and fresh air. It is best to keep the dishes of the patient separate from those of other members of the. family. This- is particularly true when there are germs in the patient's suptum. If not kept separate, boil them for five minutes, or soak two hours in a two-per-cerit disinfectant solu tion before being used. Dispose of surplus food by burning. If boiled, scraps of food may be fed to hogs, dogs and chickens. . The room of the patient is carefully screened to keep out flies. The bed linen and clothing of the patient are soaked for two hours in a two-per-cent disinfectant solution, or boiled for two hours before being sent to the laun dry with other bed linen and clothing. Fear of Tuberculosis When all of the proper precautions are ob served there is no need for the members, of his family or his neighbors to fear the TB. The Careful TB is not 'dangerous! The? mem bers of his family and his neighborsNvill riot "catch" tuberculosis by visiting in the room of tne id or snaicing nanus wiin mm. uerms oi tuberculosis do not float in the air around the careful TB, ready to prouncei upon any person who comes near him. The germs are all safely deposited in a sputum cup or caught on a gauze or napkin when coughing or sneezing, arid burned. The Treatment of the Disease Rest is the most important thing in the cure of tuberculosis. Rest, taken preferably in a good sanatorium, aided by fresh air, good foodi doctors, nurses, and whatever other measures the doctor deems wise, is the best cure for tuberculosis. The patient must always remem ber that he can never get too much rest. Rest will not make the TB patient weak. On the contrary, it is lack of rest, and hot the rest, which makes him weak. It is not necessary to go west, or change climate, in order to cure tuberculosis. Unless you have plenty of money do not go west. The nearer home you ' can take the cure to obtain the advantages of a good sanatorium, and a good tuberculosis doctor, the more likely you are to get well and remain well. The patient forgets while curing himself,, as much as possible, that he has any worries. He keeps himself, in a cheerful frame of mind, for the mental condition of the patient is one ofthe factors of the cure. A cheerful patient, who obeys his doctor's ' instructions, carefully follows the sanatorium routine, and believes in spite of everything that he is going to get well, usually will, if his condition is not too far advanced. ' A Physician for !the TB A good, physician is the TB's counsellor and friend, as well as doctor. The TB will have a good doctor from the day his first symptom appears, all through his cure, and afterward. The TB will .give his doctor. credit for knowing more1 about his disease , than he knows which he does ana will abide ' by his doctor's in structions. - Where Examinations May Be Secured Free of Charge f If you have any symptoms of tuberculosis, or if you have been exposed to tuberculosis, get yout doctor to give you a thorough ex - amination. If he is not satisfied with your condition, get him to write,, or write yourself, for a free physical examination at the Sana torium. Write to the Superintendent, Sana torium, N. C, for the. appointment. Do not come unless you have an appointment; if you do the Sanatorium' will have to charge you $5.00 for the examination. Sirice it takes about an hour to make the examination, the physi cians may be too busy to examine you under any conditions. Examinations given every day, except Sunday, from 8 to 11 a. m. ' The Extension Department of the North Carolina Sanatorium emplojw two traveling specialists, who hold free diagnostic clinics in counties and towns wl.trc rcptsis iv.r l.. . it services arc made. VLf re to Secure Free ExasKtL-it!: c:.i Ti culosis Tfie Extension Department o fthc North Carolina Sanatorium keeps on hand at all times a supply of fresh readable literature on tuberculosis that it is glad to send free of charge to any person in the State request ing it. A, postal card with your name and address is all that is necessary to secure the literature. , ... In .addition to its other literature. THE SANATORIUM SUN is pubished the first of every month by the Extension Department of The North Carolina Sanatorium. The editor will gladly send a sample copy to any person requesting it. For 25 cents the publication wil be sent by mail to any address for a year. Supplies to help in the prevention of tuber culosis may be purchased at cost from the Extension Department. . THE FALL SEASON AND THE TOURISTS This is. a theme not new but it should never grow old : now comes the season which, of all the. year, makes the strongest appeal to na tives and visitors, who delight in outdoor life in the North Carolina mountains. For many years the people of this region have sought to make better known to those of other sections this fact about the mountains as a vacation resort. And now there is evidence that the word is being spread abroad'. The tourist department of the Chamber of Commerce reports a considerable gain in the number of visitors now enjoying the fall sea son here, as compared with the same period last year. It is also to be noted that there are where the chamber of commerce has been do ing some personal work in advertising Ashe ville and the rest of Western North Carolina. Sometimes, as this year, the equinox brings, rains and cloudy days to this section. That period of storms now seems to be past. If the remainder of October lives up to the promise of the past few days, and to the traditions of October weather, we are entering upon a per iod of unusually clear skies and invogorating air.' . ' '.. .' The long afternoons of sunshine . especially appeal to golfers, to the hikers who seek the mountain trails or to those Who prefer to drive their cars along the paved highways that pen etrate into -mountain altitudes which only a few years ago were inaccessible. In the forests the first autum colors are beginning to appear and will soon be at their best which, to any one who has ever seen them once, means something indescribably glorious. Asheville Times. v WHAT DAIRYING WILL DO An illustration of what the dairy industry will do for a community is seen in the Green5 wood, S. G, section where a fine creamery is maintained. Some 1,500 pounds of butter are made and sold weekly. ' The sum of $5,000 per month, in checks ranging from 50 cents to $150 is paid to the farmers of that section for the cream and milk which they sell tq the Greenwood Cream . ery. Mr. E. T. Crawford, manager of the cream ery, is authority for the statement that South Carolina is a coming dairy state. It' is impos sible to glut the market for there is nothing that can take the place of these two products and the demand always runs far ahead of the supply. The Greenwood creamery , can handle all the good clean handle all the good cream, sweet and, sour, that all the farmers in Greenwood count will send to it. And all over the country farmers sadly in need of shillings are giving up the fight against adverse farming conditions and are moving into the cities to find whatever work they can. Farm houses stand like dilapidated skeletons of their former selves weeds grow up where green pastures should .thrive and substantial rural communities that used to be are rapidly disappearing. "You should see the way dairying has built up south Alabama," Mr. Crawford said. "Twenty-five years ago that was one of the most poverty-stricken sections you could find. Farms and farm people presented a pathetic picture. Today it is one of the most prosperous parts of the country. Big, painted farm houses, fine automobiles, and well-dressed people are there. And dairying has done it." xv,w maiiji tuwis wuuia a man nave to keep to ciear tne equivalent of a hundred-dollar-a' month salary?" Mr. Crawford was asked tie should clear that on about ten cows" hp said. "After the initial cost and labor are over with, dairying, 'if a man sells his cream and milk to a creamery, gives the lagest amount of profit for the least expense and drudgery of almost any other form of farm work. "Dairying done, rightly, however, is a scien tific process andj requires study and you have to keep on the? job all the time. It is the young boys in school now whom we hope to raise up as dair&nen. This will doubtless be a dairying counf-y in the next generation. There is no reas why it should not be. The climate is ideal, the summers long, the wint ers short, rich pstures can be developed and good Jersey cowl thrive here." Gastonia Ga zette. ir
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