The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1922-12-22
Strictly Business Proposition

need argument. How people can al
ford to let their capital stock be
slowly absorbed and finally awake to
md themselves bankrupt is passing
strange. Good business men will not
DO so where finances are involved,
they will look carefully after their
monthly, weekly and daily statements;
they will keep in close touch with
the buying and selling ends; they will
see that the credit man does his part
and that the bills are promptly paid
or know the reason why. Yet, it is
passing strange that these same men,
and in fact, all men and women, neg
lect the greatest single asset in their
business. 1t is strange that men OF
intelligence, men of common sense,
men of judgment, will for day neg
lect their bodies and allow disease to
gradually grow. and undermine their
physical being. All business must and
does depend upon the people; without
the people there would be no business.
There would be no sound business
without some healthy people. If the
country, the men and women who
make up the world, are in poor health,
general business must suffer just that
much. If they are not we'll enough
to produce normally all things that
go towards this worlds needs, then
there must needs be lack. If any
part of community is sick, not only
the one who is sick is affected, but
his neighbors are not in as good
shape as they would be if he were
well. If in the course of business
someone fails to meet his obligations
and his creditor has to take this in
dividual loss, he subtracts just that
much from the balance of profit. 1t
is just so if one, whether he be a
producer or not, subtracts from the
health of the community; the profit
as a whole has been lowered.
The individual should have at least
one complete examination a year, and
he should scrupulously observe the or
ders of his physician. The community
needs constant care for the reason
that it is made up Of many individuals
The public health is the most essen
tial of all things to the progress of
the people, the community, the coun-
ty, the state, the nation, it matters not
what it costs in money; it cannot be
estimated in dollars and cents, yet it
can be cheaply bought.
A full-time health officer under the
Ellis Health Law can be employed at
a most reasonable figure. The health
unit can be made extensive or limited
as you wish, but in any size it is
well worth while. 1t is perhaps the
best form of health work known The
very best financial investment. The
greatest trouble at the present time
Is to get men who are adapted and
qualified for the work. The field of
preventive medicine is so different
from the care of the disease that it is
hard to find men qualified and adopt
ed to the care of the community as a
whole; men who are fitted for the
work are in demand.
1t Is indeed and in truth fine bust
ness to buy futures in fine, robust
health.
Your character can not be injured
except by your own acts.
From the lowest depth there is
path to the loftiest height.
Never ask your friends to do for you
what you can do for yourself.
Many delight more in giving pres
ents than in paying their debts.
The more honesty man has the
less he affects the air Of saint.
Talents are nurtured best in soil
tude, but character OF hfe's tempestu-
GUS sea.