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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-11-28
MAYO THINKS
100 YEARSOF
LIFE IS NEAR
The worlds Most Famous Sur
geon Gives Reason for Behev-
ing We Will Live Longer

NEW ORLEANS, La, Nov. Is
The average length of human life
will soon be 100 years.
Cancer will eventually be entirely
under the control of medical science.
tuberculosis will be a rare all
ment.
Good health will be the heritage
of every person in America.
These are the outstanding declara-
lions in an interview given exclusive
ly to NEA Service by DR.. William
Mayo, world famous surgeon, who
with his brother, conducts tho great
clinic that has made the little town
of Rochester, Mimi, known through
out the earth.
He gave this interview seated on
the deck of the yacht in which he has
been cruising the Mississippi
Modern medicine" he began,
"that in the past forty years has
given humanity life-span increase
from an average of forty-two years
to fifty-eight years, is on the TIRES
hold of discoveries compared to
which all the marvels of medicine
that have gone before are merest
child's play.
Medicine vii conquer the infirm-
;ties of age, and normal life expect
ancy of 100 years is by no means a
fantastic dream.
Henry of Navarro said that he
wanted to see every peasant in
France have a chicken in the pot. A
ruler of his power today would
change that prescription and want to
see health in every home in his realm
And it is possible.
Americas physicians and surg
cons are wide awake and alert in
their battle for public health. They
know what they are doing and are
becoming more expert day by day.
Less and less the public is accepting
disease and death as divine vista
tions and will of God. 1t was only
through our own indiscretions that
disease has shortened life. The doc
tors are making US get back to the
teachings of the Bible"
The famous physician leaned for
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CONCORD

Mrs. George Dozier anu ,wo sons
Hugh and Robert were shoppers in
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert CASTOR and
children, Otis, Louise and Ruth were
visitors in Americas Saturday after
noon.
Mrs. NJ. W. Bell and her children
Eliza and Mildred, Mrs. Gladys Wo-
mack, Mrs. Ella DeLoach and four
children, Johnnie, Flora, Samuel and
Glenn enjoyed the cane grinding
very much Tuesday night at Mr..
Leonard Shorts.
Miss Willie Anderson Buchanan
spent Thanksgiving very pleasantly
with her parent, Mr.. A. w. Buch-
anan.
Mrs. S. f. DeLoach entertained
with Thanksgiving dinner. She
served turkey, chicken, opposum and
birds, hot rolls cranberry sauce and
pickles, salads deviled eggs, potato
custards, eggs and the desert was
whipped cream peaches and cakes.
Those attending the dinner were ::
Mrs. NJ. H. Bell and two children,
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for that very reason are better equip
ped to face the problems of life.
Il am thoroughly in favor of short
skirts. l hope never again to see the
return of the day when woman's
skirts dragged on the ground and
collected all the dust and dirt of the
streets. And if woman wants to
bob her hair she should do so, it is
cleaner and more healthful"
Here the interviewer put ques-
ton.
CDR Mayo" he asked, "you'vev
saved lives. You're in the work you
love. You've had success, profess
sionally and financially. If you
could have your wish-any wish you
might make-what would it be-"
The physician smiled gently.
"If 1 had my WISH" he replied
I'd be young doctor juts starting
out again. Or, better yet, fresh
man at medical school.
at is wonderful to contemplate
the future of medicine With HUI
mility and an open mind, il our doc
tors work hard and take nothing for
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ward in his chair and almost shout.
ed the word "Cancerw
Il know that it can be cured now
in its earlier stages, and it is often
being cured by surgery after the ear
ly stages are past" he said.
I'VE are getting after cancer.
More and more often we are con-
quering it. We have not succeeded
entirely yet, but some day, maybe
not in my time, we will succeed.
Medicine is divided into TWO
camps on cancer. One camp believes
that cancer comes to the human
body from the outside. The other
camp works on the belief that cancer
lis produced inside the human body.
Il would not say that / am COM
pletely allied to either camp. Cancer
Is worldwide problem, and we know
this, at least-that it comes in many
cases from Invitations. z
"The Chinese, for example, shave
their heads nth rough razors. Can
Ger of the scalp is extraordinarily
prevalent in China.
go to Australia. There, where
sand is blown into the face oy hot
wind under blazing sun, you will
find cancer of the face prevalent.
go further into the orient, into
Kashmir, where the men climb in
couple of days from hot, damp val
leys to the piercing cold of the high
mountain passes, and you find them
wearing basket-like arrangement
strapped about the abdomen and con-
there was a smokers cancer on the
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Dr. Mayo, Famous Surgeon Predicts New Medical Ir11pl

against cancer from both sides and is
closing in on it.
"Ani in tuberculosis, public cdu-
cation in sanitat'>~ health hes
done wonders. We know that we are
getting rid of tuberculosis by stamp
ing out the conditions that lrlng it.
And we are checking cancer by stop
ping it before it is cancer.
II lay it down as an absolute rule
that every human being, from earl
lest childhood, should go to a doctor
for complete and thorough exam
nation once year, at the very least
If humanity did that there is no way
of estimating the human lives Il at
would be saved and heightened.
THE newspapers cen help to an
extraordinary degree, pitiless pub
licity for all takers and quacks is
humanity's only protection against
the evils they bring"
Then DR.. Mayo turned to prohi-
oition. He explained that lack of
data prevented him from saying what
part of Americas Improvement in
general health is due to prohibition,
and declared:
1T was pure water that made pro
hibition in America, not any moral
issue or political policy. was in
Vienna when that city first got pure
drinking water, brought down to the
city from the mountain springs. The
Viennese suddenly learned that they
could drink water without fear of
sickness or death. In ten years after
that the consumption of wines and
beers in Vienna INCREASED 40 per
Icent.
,, National prohibition is not a
failure. Prohibition, as it now exists
in America is only process of edu-
eating the American people to the
need of prohibition, and an expert
nent leading to the institution of an
established means of governmental
control over Intoxicating liquors.
Something will soon be done to
regulate properly this great nation
at problem. The time will come
soon when a real method of sensible
control and regulation which will be
fair and just will be adopted.
"The American people are begin
ming to realize that something must
be done. That is precisely the pur-
pose of prohibition as we have it to-
day. 1t is working toward an end,
good end, and for that reason l
cannot feel that it is failure.
DR.. Mayo added that his clinic was
receiving fewer cases of alcoholism
than in pre-prohibition days, and that
surgical cases do not include as many
instances of lowered resistance due
to alcoholism as in former years.
The famous surgeon then took oc-
casion to defend modern youth and
the "jazz age" and scoffed at the
notion that conditions among young
people are worse than when he was
a boy.
eff anything, they are better" he
said. youth is more sophisticated !;
young people know more of evil and
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lower abdomen is extremely prevail
.ent there.
Locomotive engineers who sit
year after year with one leg close to
the firebox show strong tendency
OF develop cancer of the shin. Once
there was a smokers cancer on the
lips and tongue, particularly among
smokers of the old-fashioned clay
pipe. But clay pipes are 50 little
used now that we have one case Of
Smokers cancer where we used TO
have a hundred.
$50 we find that something always
goes ahead of cancer, seemingly.
And modern medicine is working
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Mr. and Mrs. w. S. Oliver and
daughter, Mary Belle.
Mrs. w. X. HOLSTER and son Curtis
Mr.. Ernest Logan and family were
the guests of his father DR.. A ].
Logan and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. CONNER and family
of Americas were the guest of Mrs.
Glade Daniel and family Friday.
Mr.. Allen made a business trip to
Americas Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs Eugene Daniel and
children visited their parents Thurs
day.
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MOTHERS

Watch for symptoms of worms in your
children. These parasites are the great
destroyers of child life. If you have
reason to think your child has worms, act
quickly. Give the little one dose or
two of Whites Cream Vermifuge. Worms
cannot exist where this time-tried and
successful remedy is used. 1t drives out
the worms and restores the rosy hue Of
health to baby cheeks. Price 35c. Sold by
NATHAN MURRAY. Druggist
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granted, they shall yet make this
world so much better place to live
in as few of us have ever dared to
dream.
And | wish that l was young
again and in the ranks and starting
life all over to work with them to
do it,"
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No wonder some babies are like
their fathers. All they do is loaf
around the house all day.
New Britain herald., 1925-01-13
Ralph Graves and Wife
 Injured in Auto Crash

Ralph Graves, editor of Worlds Work, and formerly editor of The New Britain Herald. and his wifi are in Washington, D. C.. hospital as a result of injuries received in an automobile accident in the Capital City Sunday night Their condition, however, is not serious and Mir Graves is expected to leave the hos pital in a few days. Mrs. Graves will, however, remain there s much longer period because examination nt her injuries shows that she suf fered a fractured leg A texieah collided with an automobile which Mir. Graves vas driving.
New Britain herald., 1925-01-13
Suspect Released

Stamford. Jan. 13.-The Stamford police on advice from the New Haven police stopped the Sprinfield express for New York and arrested a man who gave the name of John Forenesano, and his address at 24 Pine street, New Haven. A man of this name was said to be wanted in New Haven for attempt to kill man who was shot in that city early this forenoon. The man was held for the New Haven police. He professed to know nothing of the shooting. He is about 40 years of age and in other respects does not answer the descrip- tion of the man wanted by the New Haven police. He admitted however that he had boarded the train at New Haven this morning at S:OS o'clock.
 Forenesano was later released by the police as he was not the man wanted by the New Haven authori- ties.
New Britain herald., 1925-01-13
MRS. MCDONALD DIES
 IN HER IOIS7 YEAR
Last July She Said "First Hundred Years Are
 Hardest"
(Speclal 10 The HeraId.O


 Plainyille, Jan. 13.--Mrs. Margaret Mcdonald, aged 100 years and six died yesterday afternoon at St, Mary's home for the aged in West Hartford. She entered the institu- tion on December 10 after her com panion, Mrs. Margaret Condon, who had been living in Plainville with her, died and left her all alone in her homestead on Bank street.
 Mrs. McDonald was the oldest resident of Plainville and was well known for her cheeful outlook on life. She had been active all throughout her life and she always attended to her own house work and fed a flock of chickens which she kept on her property in Plain vile. Upon the completion of cen tury of life last July Ia, Mrs. Nc Donald remarked that ''The first hundred years were the hardest" and at that time, she appeared to be in the best of health with a keen mind and memory. clear sight and one of the kindiest dispositions possessed by any human being.
 She was born in the town of Freshford, County Kilkenny, Ire land, on July 15, 1924. She came to America when a girl of IS years and she came to Plainville where she made her home for the last S2 and half years. She was the Wid- ow of the late Peter Mcdonald, one of the first Irish settlers in the town. Her hundred years seemed 10 rest more lightly on her shoulders than did the years of many people only half that age and throughout her life in Plainville, she has kept abreast of the changes that have come and gone.
 Rightly have the people who knew her named the home on Bank street the Mcdonald homestead for Mrs Mcdonald, until she moved to the West Hartford institution. had lived there continuously for over 65 years.
 She was the mother of six, two Of whom are living. She was grand mother to six boys, all of whom are living. They are Bernard C. Skin- ner and John J. Skinner of New Britain; Peter r. Skinner of New Brunswick. N. l.; Frank and George R. skinner of Plainville. and John F.. Condon of Bristol. She leaves also 10 great at-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews in Southington and Meriden.
 Her body was brought to her old home on Bank street this afternoon and the funeral will he held from there Thursday morning at S:So. Services will be held in the Church of Our Lady of Mercy at o'clock. Rev. John E. Fay pastor, will offi- ciate and celebrate the requiem high mass and burial will be in st. Jos oph's cemetery
New Britain herald., 1925-01-13
HARTFORD PEOPLE SAY
 THEY'VE BEENFLEECED
Warrants Out for Brokers Losses May Total
 S1OO,OOO, Police Hear

Hartford. Jan. 1S. -- Warrants charging embe2zlement in connec- ton with the operation of broker age office at No. s State street, were issued today by Prosecuting At tOrney Nathan A. Schatz against N. A. Sier alias N. A. Sergent and E.. E. Reid who conducted the business under the firm name of N. A. Ser gent and Co. The warrants were is- sued following complaints made to the police today by eight patrons of the establishment whose claims to- tai more than s5O.0OO, and authori- ties expressed believe that when the claims against the concern are all received the losses may reach near ly S10r,oO0.
 Monday afternoon the office was closed by Deputy Sheriff Max Blumenthal who took possession un- der an attachment secured through German and Berman, counsel for Louis I. Peisner of Mddletown, who conducts a drug store in that city and whose losses through his deal ings with the concern are said to have reached a total of S22,S90.6S. The sheriff placed a paddock on the door.
 Lieut.. Frank Santoro in charge of the detective bureau at the Hartford police headquarters, listened to eight tales Of woe this morning from as many complainants before he introduced the complainants to Prosecutor Schatz for the issuance of the warrants. Detective Sergeant Charles r. Koenig was immediately assigned to the case in an effort to locate Sieir and Reid and reported the latter having been missing from the city since Saturday. and the former for a couple Of days prior tU that date.
 One Of the compIainants in- formed the police he had received check for S1,50o in paymen: for securities sold for him and when the check was offered for payment at the Merchants Bank and Trust Co.,, it was refused for lack of funds.
New Britain herald., 1925-01-13
USED BOYS TO GARRY
 HOOCH; SENT TO JAIL
Judge filling Has Little Mercy on Grove Street
 Man

Training schoolboys to be crim- inals on the part of Walczyk makes this sad case" was the comment of Judge Benjamin w. Alling In po- lice court this morning after he had listened to the stories told by two boys and the police regarding the alleged use of children by Joseph Walczyk in carrying on his illicit liquor business. Walczyk, who cons ducts store at Az Grove street.. was found guilty of violating the liquor laws, and in spite of the fact that it was his first offense, Judge filling imposed a fine of $200 and costs and sentenced him to jail for 50 days.
 Antony Koslinowicz of 107 Gold street, who was arrested by the po- lice on the same charges, was dis charged when the court found that the states claims that he was a partner in the store and was in real ity the one who was carrying on the liquor business had not been progen.
 In discharging Koslinowicz, Judge filling called his attention to the fact that he has been arrested and brought before the court three times on charges of violating the liquor laws, had served time in jail for the offence. and had been arrest, ed for frequenting. He warned him that if he was ever brought before him again on liquor charge, he would bind him over to the superior court where he would be assured of a sentence to states prison.
 The men were arrested by Sergt. Patrick A. McAvay and Policemen Thomas J. Feeney and Patrick J. O'Mara after the police caught the 13-year-old son of Koslinowicz get ting bottle of liquor in the cellar of the block at S6 Grove street. The police had been waiting in the cellar to the store and was paid s4 having learned that he was en- ployed carrying the liquor from the cellar ot the store and was paid $4 week for his services.
 Going out of the cellar, Feeney found the father of the boy stand ing in the cellar doorway, according
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New Britain herald., 1925-01-13
No Increase for PatrOlmen Or Members of Fire De- partment Included in Schedule Adopted.

After considering all petitions for salary increases, the common coun- cil committee oh salaries last night vote to recommend the following at the meeting of the council on Jan- uary 2l:
 Mayor, from $500 to s3,0G0: mayors clerk, from $500 to S1,2O0; town and city clerk, from $S,000 to $500; first clerk in city and town clerks office, from s1,15O to S1,25O; second clerk In town and city clerks office from $1,10O to $l,200; tax collector, from s3,00O 10 sS,S0O; dep uty tax collector. from S1,S00 to sl,- 400; clerk in tax collectors office, from SEQ week to $i,15O a year; registrars of voters, from S2,000 to S2,200; special clerk in assessors of fec, from SLIGO to sl,500; sealer of weights and measures. from si.500 to s1,7eoi corporation counsel from S3500 10 s4,0O0; chairman of the board of pGblic works, from $500 10 $500: secretary of the board of pub lie works, from sl,S5O to S2,0o0; etenographer in board of public works office, from SLIGO 10 s1.200; superintendent of sewers, from s2.- 500 to $2,GO0; city engineer. from s2,200 10 s2,50D: draftsman, from s2,2oo to S2,5O0; foremai Of filter beds, from sl,4O0O to sl,5oO; investi- gator in the charity department, from sl,50O to S1,65O; charity de- partment clerk, from sl,l00 to s1,- 200: city physician. from sl,2Qo to s1,4e0: superintendent of water de- partment from ss,ooO 10 sS,2oo: foreman of water department. from @, to tz,loo; secretary of water
New Britain herald., 1925-01-13
YONKERS MAN IS ACCUSED
 OF TORTURING YOUTH WHO
 WAS RIVAL FOR SAME GIRL
John Forenesano of Brook lyn Said to Have Object ed to Leo Cocilorio's Attention to Northford Girl.

White Plains, N. T., Jane 13.--The arrest of two Yonsers merchants on indictments chargingsthem with hav- ing tortured a youth to force him to cease his attempts to marry the daughter of one and the fiance of the other was revealed today.
 The defendants are William W. MacClymont, manager of the Yonkers real estate firm of J. Ro- maine Brown & Co.,, and his son-in- law, Randolph M. Steele, manager of the Newark, N. J., branch of a Wall street brokerage house. Their &C., cuser is William Holland, young clerk. All are residents of Yonkers.
 Holland complained to District At- torney Arthur Rowland that a mes sage had lured him to the Brown real estate offices the evening of last June 25th. On entering the place, he said MacClymont and Steele, who then was engaged 10 MacClymonts young daughter knocked him to the floor, kicked and cuffed him, ac- cusing him of attempting to cause Miss MacClymont to break her en- gagement and become his wife.
 Tells of Torture
 Holland said he told the two men he was In love with the girl and would continue to seek her consent to the marriage so long as she re- mained single. Thereupon, he said, Steele held him pinned to the floor while the girls father fastened to his wrists a pair of super -handcuffs known in police parlance as twisters, designed for use on refractory pris- oners. While Steele held him, Hol- land told the district attorney, Mac Clymont gradually frightened the grip of the steel chain causing torture which compelled him at the end or half an hour to make oath that he would never again see Miss Mac Clymont. He was then released. He called on Mir. Rowland the next day.
 Steele since has married the girl.
 Both MacClymont and Steele ap- peared before the grand jury, waived immunity and testified in their own behalf. The indictments were re- turned few days asb and the '"o were arrested yesterday and released on s1.O0O bail each. They will be brought to trial before County Judge Bleakley within a month.
New Britain herald., 1925-01-13
NO POWER TO STOP
 CONN. co. BUSSES IF. J. C. Says It Lacks Control | Over Hartford Line
 REPLIES TO PAONESSA
Expresses Belief Trolley Company's Vehicles Will Not Seriously Com- pete With Established Oak St. Service Because of Difference Of Fares.

Answering Mayor A. M. Paonessa's protest against Installation of Hart ford New Britain jitney service by the Connecticut Co.,, the public utili- ties commission has issued a state ment claiming the line was estab- |lished without consulting the P. U. c. and in conformity with legislative |acts.
 The commission also questions Mayor Paonessa's statement that in- Iterference with the Oak street line win result from the new bus route. Letter From F. U. c. The letter received at the mayors office follows:
 "The commission acknowledges receipt of your letter of the second instant relating to the installation by the Connecticut company of a jitney service between Hartford and New Britain.
 No certificate to operate a jitney service between Hartford and New
 Britain has been granted by this commission to the Connecticut com- pany, and the only hearing held by the commissioner relative to jitney service between the two cities was the one held on December 1, 1924, at which hearing you appeared rep Iresenting the City of New Britain.
 'The jitney service now being sup
 piled by the Connecticut Co.,, is by virtue of Chapter 2S7 of the public acts of 1921 which authorized all street railway companies to acquire, own and operate motor vehicles run ming upon a regular route, etc with
 out first obtaining from the Public Utilities Commission certificate of public convenience and necessity. 1t is only after the service has been inaugurated by street railway con- Ipany, and not before. that the sorv- ice rendered comes under the com missions regulation.
 Tn It's annual report for 1924, this commission has recommended for legislative consideration 8 revision of the existing law so as to provide that all street railway companies
 shall apply to the public utilities
 commission and obtain q certificate of public convenience and necessity
 before supplying service over any lline or route other than that over
 which they operate a street railway service.
 "The finding and order of the commission on the application of Mastco, Incorporated. which was is sued on the 9th instant, and copy
 of which was sent you, explains the attitude of the commission on the points of schedule and fare men, toned in your letter.
 "The competition between this new motor bus service and the Con- necticut Co.,, and the service now being supplied by Rocco r. Cacchil-
 To may be more apparent than real, since 1t does not seem probable that a passenger would ride on the Con- necticut Company's bus for 13
 cents, when he could obtain similar
 service from MT. Cacchilo for six
 cents. unless he intended to ride
 across town in New Britain, in which case he would probably avail Continued on Page Fifteen)