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ILIC HEALTH NURSE
MENTIONED IN BIBLE
“I commend unto you Phoebe, our
ster, who is a servant of the Church
Dich is at Cenchrea,” wrote St. Paul
i the Romans, "that ye assist her in
hatsoever business she hath need
! you, for she hath been a succorer
' many and of myself also.”
Phoebe, explains Biblical history,
as a woman who went about nursing
I« sick and teaching them better
ethods of living. Phoebe was the
st public health nurse.
Public health nursing, which is one
' the most important enterprises in
* peace program of the American
id Cross, is not a new movement,
11 it is one which heretofore has
fer received its just meed of atten-
on as a factor in maintaining the
kith of the nation.
Phoebe’s sister in the twentieth cen-
ry is the community nurse who
aches better, cleaner living. Because
* betterment of public health is now
finitely accepted as an individual
id a community responsibility, the
ed Cross will make a definite effort
raise the standards of living in the
kited States by urging the employ
ât of public health nurses in all
ties, towns and rural districts, par-
ularly in those where there are no
ganized public health activities. A
althier, happier America—that is
hat the Red Cross is striving toward
its Roll Call the first weeks in No-
mber.
"OLE WORLD EMULATES
AMERICAN RED CROSS
20 Acres of Land
6 Acres Close in Land
in alfalfa
Prices and terms right and
easy
E. P. Dodd
raised 250 head of registered Duroc-
Jerseys. The amount Invested was
$2,300. At an auction sale 80 of the
surplus pigs were sold, and the re
turns from the sale, together with the
value of the remaining hogs, repre
sented $7,800.
Pig-club members had a prominent
part In the swine exhibits at the two
fairs held in the state and carried off
many prizes. Of the 2,105 hogs ex
hibited at the Southeastern fair, 345
were owned and raised by pig-club
boys who won 31 ribbons In the open
ring. Three of the prizes were junior
champions. Of the 350 hogs exhibited
at the state fair. 87 were owned and
raised by pig-club boys who won 39
ribbons in the open ring and $272 in
prizes. One of the ribbons was a
Junior champion. With 28 club pigs
one county won 27 ribbons and prizes
amounting to $817.50, Including the
state championship.
The state pig-club champion was the
11-year-old son of a small farmer who
bought his pig at an auction sale for
$27.50. At the end of the contest this
hog was worth $300. In one county
six pig-club boys, who started in their
club work with one small pig each,
will start hog farms this year. Three
I of these boys already have their hogs
| and land.
MOTHERS MUST NOT DIE,
SAYS THE RED CROSS
Sixteen thousand mothers die in
childbirth every year in the United
States of America, more than are thus
sacrificed in any other country of im
portance in the civilized world. The
American Red Cross has announced
its belief that these mothers, the very
flower of the womanhood of America GOOD RECORDS OF PIG CLUBS
and heroines every one, shall no longer
die through ignorance or neglect, if
the public health nursing resources of Boys and Girls Improve Methods of
Management and Increase the
the country can possibly be extended
Number of Purebreds.
to give them the necessary care. This
is one of the reasons tor the Third
Red Cross Roll Call which begins Sun (Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
day, November 2.
Members of boys’ and girls’ pig
clubs are the pioneers in introducing
MERCY WOMEN PRODUCE
purebred pigs and improved methods
FORTUNE IN GARMENTS of management In many parts of the
South, where the swine industry is
More than 8,000,000 women and girls making unprecedented progress.
participated in the sewing and knit
This Is true in a marked degree in
ting of the American Red Cross dür- Georgia. Among the pig clubs, the
ing the war. Most of these workers total sum represented by the hogs and
will be active in soliciting members pigs in the hands of the pig club mem
for the Red Cross for 1920, during bers of the state last year was almost
the ten days ending Armistice Day. a half million dollars. The Increase in
When It is remembered that these the number of purebred pigs raised
women and girls in two years' time by the club members In 1918 over 1917
produced nearly $100,000,000 worth of was more thhn 306 per cent. The in
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surgical articles and garments, includ crease in profits on hogs raised In 1918
ing more than 375.000.000 surgical over the previous year was more than PEDIGREE IS NOT ESSENTIAL
dressings, the fact that they are to
assist in the Roll Call is a practical 61 per cent.
Pig clubs were carried on In connec Officiala of Department of Agriculture
assurance that universal membership
Are Trying to Eliminate
tion with school work in many locali
will be achieved.
Inferior Animala.
ties. Fourteen school pigs In one
county, raised on the .waste from pu-
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Auto Accessories
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Used Cars for Sale
Elliott’s Tire Shop in Connection
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(Prepared by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture.)
Thousands of purebred scrubs are
scattered through this country, accord
ing to hog-extenslon men of the United
States Department of Agriculture, who
nre devoting their efforts to elimi
nating inferior pedigreed animals.
This, they say, applies to all kinds of
live stock, but Is perhaps more general
In the hog industry. Pedigrees are
necessary and valuable to the hog
breeder, yet the pedigree Is the means
of fooling a lot of farmers, particular
ly those who are about to start Into
the pure-bred hog business and who
have not had enough experience In
judging to select animals of good
tandard type. Buyers should not bo
contented simply with pure-bred ani-
mala, but should see In addition that
the animals they are about to pur-
hase have good quality, say the de-
irtment hog specialists.
THIRD
RED CROSS
ROLL CALL
t';ctmbtr 2 to 21, 10’9
Time to Re-Join
Useful Vegetable.
A shopper In a department store,
while waiting for change, overheard
one cash girl remark to a companion:
“Yes. his mother feeds him garlic so
she can find him In the dark!”—Har
per's Magazine.
With the Red Cross societies of
enty six nations co-operating as
embers, the League of Red Cross
riet ion is now actively engaged in
tending Red Cross efforts through-
Poisonous Insects.
• the world, says a cablegram to the
Following Is by Henry Lindlahr.
neric an Red Cross from Sir David M D. : "The danger of life from bites
inderson, director general of the and stings of poisonous reptiles and in-
sects have been greatly exaggerated.
The membership roster now in- According to popular opinion, anyone
ides, the cable said, the Red Cross bitten by a poisonous Insect or reptile,
the following countries: Argentina. as the rattlesnake. Gila monster or
°*r»lia. Belgium. Brazil, Canada, tarantula. Is doomed to die. while as
lina. Cuba, Denmark, France, Great a matter of fact statistics show that
itain, Greece, Holland. India. Italy, only from 2 to 7 per cent of such cases
Pan, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, prove fatal. In this as In many other
tugal, Roumania, Serbia. South instances, popular opinion should
fica, Spain, Sweden, the United rather be called ‘popular supersti-
ates and Venezuela.
Sion.'
Los Angeles Times.
French Restaurant
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Young Pigs Being Distributed to Club
Members.
! pile' lunch baskets, sold for $500 at an
auction sale. Twenty-two schools In
another county raised 22 purebred
hogs last winter on waste from the
pupils’ dinner baskets. One town of
2,000 people produced 35,000 pounds
of pork from pigs raised In back
yards. The white boys of the same
county raised $12.340 of meat hogs,
| and the negro boys $2,134.85.
| An all-cotton county reports an In-
| crease of 5,000 hogs In 1918. Fifty-
i seven olg club members In one county
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