Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-07-31
This Business Pays More Than
100 Per Cent Profit-You
Are a Stakeholder.

We are interested the more in cor.
porations, business establishments.
and institutions in which our money
is invested. OF course, we all have a
passive interest in any enterprise
which will expand and develop OUT
resources, thereby benefiting the com
mercial activities of our state. Civic
pride compels us to recognize the far.
reaching effect of all institutions
which bring to us culture and refine
ment and the betterment of society.
However, we always show specific in.
terest in that particular institution in
which our capital is invested. For
where your treasure is, there will your
heart be also"
All Of our State institutions merit
the support they receive at the hands
of our legislature. They We're created
and are supported for the express pur-
pose of serving, in their various ways,
the people of the State, who maintain
them directly by payment of taxes.
Some of our institutions, however,
could do a much greater good to a
greater number Of people by being
supported commensurate with the
services rendered. Such institutions
which show large dividends on the
investent should have the whole heart
ed cooperation of our legislature For
instance, our State Board of Health
returns, reckoned in the commercial
value of its services, many times more
than the capital invested. It uses the
talents entrusted TO it well indeed.
Health of the individual is the foun-
dalton stone on which the progress
and success of the individual rests.
Any country which neglects the health
of its individuals must of necessity
weaken, crumble and give place to al
more sturdy people. There was once
the great Roman Empire.
If we would compare our State in
this particular to our neighboring
States we would at once see that
Georgia appropriates to its Health De-
partment much less per capita than
any of her surrounding sisters. They
have seen the good work of health
protection to their citizenry. realizing
that the sickness of each individual
is an economic loss to the State. They
take particular interest and pride in
these institutions which return to
them 80 large dividends in safeguard
ing health.
Our State Board of Health is doing
remarkably we'll in serving the peo
pie, in view of it's limited means.
However, so much better and more
expansive work could be done with
an increased investment. Which of
you would not increase your holdings
many fold in any business that was
earning for you, in value of services
rendered, more than 100 per cent on
your investment each year.
Last year the legislature appropr.
ated $4,000 to the State Board of
Health for the Venereal Disease Con !
troll Bureau. In the annual report Of
this institution for 1924, we find that
the laboratory of this division alone
made 1882 examinations, which, If
given the commercial value of $500
each as is charged by private insu-
tutions amounts to $99,160. large
amount of field work has been done
in addition toward eradication of We
nereal diseases, the value OF which
cannot be calculated in. dollars and
cents. This is only one of the many
departments of this institution each
of which show similar results We
think that such worthy institution
should have the financial support
which it so deservingly merits.