The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-11-19
BELIEFS DON'T
ALTER FACTS
'acts are Stern-Why Not Know The
lruth-seek That Which Is Above
Price

Aoo hdy DelleVe That the millen-
mum Will or will not begin in the year
zoo0, but you must remember that
your belief will have no bearing ON
the events that are in store for that
year.
You may believe that the sun will
rise tomorrow morning, but it's rising
VIII De governed by the laws regulat.
ing the movement of the heavenly bod.
les and not by your opinion. Its ris.
mg and your belief are merely daily
colncidents. You may not believe
that 1t will rain today, but you NAV
nave to borrow your neighbor's UNI.
orella before night to get home with.
out getting wet.
You may not believe that there is
IN the state of Georgia an organiza-
uon that is vitality concerned in your
heaith and physical well-being. But
the fact stands that there is such a
BODY. The offices and laboratories Of
this organization, the State Board of
Health, are doing daily what is in
their power to keep away from your
nome that dreaded enemy, disease.
They are vitality interested in the pub.
Tic health of the citizens of this state.
You may not believe that for the
first six months of this year that the
state Board of Health furnished free
OF cost to the people of Georgia more
than $4,000 doses of typhoid vaccine,
out their records show that they did.
You may not believe that they treated
without charge more than one thous.
and patients bitten by rabid animals,
large percentage of which would
nave developed rabies had such treat.
ment not been administered, but such
is their record. You may not believe
That this institution is looking after
The purity of your water supply, but
the fact remains that they are ana.
lying daily numbers of samples Of
drinking water for the towns and cit.
les of this state, in order to insure
their people against epidemics of ty.
phoid and like diseases.
You may not believe that the State
Board of Health is daily making ex.
aminations of all kinds of specimens,
with view to diagnosis for the physi.
clan so that they can administer the
proper treatment for your sickness, in
order that you can soon take your
place again at the wheel, or in that
capacity which is your vocation. But
that is indeed very large part of
their work.
Your belief will probably be most
upset when they tell you that, based
upon the second million men drafted
into the army, only one other state of
all the states of the union showed a
larger per cent of venereaI infections
than did your state, but as has been
said, your belief does not reduce even
by one the number so afflicted
You ask what steps has your State
Board of Health taken to remedy
this condition. Representatives have
made lectures, have shown moving
pictures at various places in the state
and have established clinics for the
treatment of syphilis and gonorhea in
the larger cities Of the state. They
have instituted another phase of work
in their laboratories whereby examin.
atoms are made free of cost for syph.
Ills or gonorrhea.
If there is the least suspicion of the
existence of either disease in your
body, go Immediately and advise with
your family physician. Remember,
so long as the germs causing these
diseases are in your system, you are
sick and are not well.
Whatever your belief about other
things may be, you must believe the
universally known thing, and that is:
the building of a house, the gathering
of a crop, the security of the family,
the pursuit of happiness, liberty and
life itself depend upon health.