McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1922-12-01
Letter From Washington
by LINDSAY s. PERKINS.

LuitoI luucpcIluSHL.
Lhave been waiting for Brother
Gooch to send in another of his
interesting letters from this city,
but while he is getting up one, |
will have to write and show that
| am still alive and keeping up
with McNairy county and her
good people.
see by the papers that cotton
is likely to go to thirty cents a
pound. The boil weevil brought
this about, but think of the many
whose entire crop has been des-
troyed, and who would lose out
If the price was a dollar pound.
A monument has been erected
somewhere in Alabama to this
"billion dollar insect" whose
ravages have caused so many
people to cut out cotton raising
altogether and put their land in
food crops, such as grain and
live stock. You can't eat cotton,
and planting it is gamble. The
weevil can be controlled by spray
ing or dusting with calcium ar
senate, but | believe it generally
costs more to do that than the
crop is worth.
Jim Wilmeth, who was SO un-
tremendously and harshly re-
moved from the position of Di-
rector of the Bureau of Engrav-
ing and Printing, has landed a
much better job with a great
financial institution having its
offices in the Munsey Building
on Pennsylvania avenue here.
He was out to my country place
the other day. and enjoyed roam
ing over the hills and talking of
old times in McNairy. Jim is
young yet, and will be heard
from again. He has all sorts of
chances to make money and rep
utation where he is now, and his
executive ability is such that he
would adorn any job the govern
ment might see fit to trust him
with. Keep your eye on him.
This is Cancer Week in Wash
ington, and medical authorities
from all over the country are
united in trying to find the best
way to combat the increasing
ravages Of this terrible scourge
Of humanity. The Presidents
family physician, DR.. Sawyer, is
on the committee of arrange
ments, and the best skill in the
country is concentrated on the
control Of cancer. It is now rec
ognized as absolutely incurable
except by means of removal by
the surgeons knife or by x-rays
or radium, and the knife is by
far the safest and surest means.
All people claiming to cure can
Ger with oils, salves and the like
are the meanest sort of quacks,
robbing dying people Of their
few dollars and giving no. hope
of relief. The main thing is to
act as soon as the first signs Of
the disease appear, and having
the vicious cancer cells removed
from the body. No one knows
just what causes it, but a million
and a quarter people died of it,
mostly Of cancer of the stomach,
during the past year, and the
number of deaths from it is stead.
lily increasing, while consump-
tion and some other formerly
very fatal diseases are now well
under control. Cancer is moi
contagious and not inherited; il
'.just grows, and If you have
d wart, mole or pimple that both
ers you, don't work at it your.
self, but go to a good doctor al
once and let himr remove it. for can
Ger often starts with such
growth. Just as chaulmoogrs
oil was found to cure leprosy
and antitoxin was discovered as
method of controlling diptheria
typhoid fever, etc., so a means
will be found for controlling can
GER.
A lady relative of mine noticed
one day this summer that he
left breast was much larger thar
the right. but there was no pail
or discomfort in it. The famil.
doctor told her he feared cancer
and advised an immediate oper
alton. The operating surgeon