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i DOUGLAS VOL. If DOUGLAS COUNTY NEWS,- DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1926 NUMBER 1 UPSHAW SPEAKS TO LARGE CROWD Congressman William D. Up sha tv $pbke to a large crowd at the courthouse Saturday after noon. The house was well filled, notwithstanding the downpour of rain. Mr. Horace Russell, councilman ' of Atlanta, made the opening, in which he showed up Mr. Sims'as not being an economic mayor nor a friend to the working man. He was followed by Rev. Luke Rader, pastor of Central Baptist church, Atlanta. He said anyone who intimated taht Mr. Upshaw would say one thing, and do an other, told a lie. The congressman made a con vincing speech, making denial of the various charges of his opon- ents and stated that they were absolutely false- *2 The meeting was considered a i Success by those who heard the Ispeakers- Western Douglas Several from this part attended i the revival services at Ephesus last j week, conducted by Rev. Spinks. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Barber and 3 family have returned from Dallas, || where theyhave been visiting their ft son. p . fl. , ; f" Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Davis and j Mr. and Mis. Roy Davidson, of j Birmingham, Ala,, visited their j parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Da- ■ videos, last week. I Mrs. Clarence Hatchings and § Mrs. Edwai d . Earn visited in 8 Whitesburg Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. George McLarty were Atlanta visitors last Friday. ^The gammer sefrooMs nowlflring taught at Bellview by Mrs. Steye Waldroup. Mr. and Mrs. Hershe! Kemp spent the week-end in Winston. Mrs. Sam Bell spent last Satur day in Carrollton. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Barker, of Dallas, are visiting in this section. Mr. Homer Davidson and -fami ly, of Birmingham, Ala., are spending this week with his pa- . rents. VILLA RIDA VILLA SICA, Aug. 4—(Spend to The News) Villa Rica voted on Bonds today for the purpose of installing a Water Works 'Sys tem andcarried if by. a over-whel ming -majority of 188 to 37/ The vote shows the public spirit of the pepple of Villa Rica for the (progress of the town. - With the Power line now being inalalled by.the Georgia Railway and- Power Company Villa Rica can offer any advantages of any town the same size in Ge’orpia. <sxsxs>®®®®®® Man 77 Years Old Hikes 16,000 Miles . Vancouver, B. C-—W. A. Chap- man, seventy-seven, arrlved here recently after, completing a hike of 16,000 miles, which he began July 10/1923, forfl $5,000 prize. Pe finished. his task with two years to spare. Chapman left Milwaukee May 27, 1921, on the last lap of his jaunt-, hnd then Continued through \ Florida, North Carolina and West /Vir ginia. There he turned portli, passing through Indiana and Ohio and entered Canada lit Fort Francis. He lives in Millington, Conn. % Interest Growing In Highway Bridge Near Tallpoosa Tallapoosa, Ga. August 3. — Special,—Announcement made in Atlanta this week that thp plans were drawn and that the contract for the new Bankhead highway bridge over the Tallapoosa river at Bentley’s Mill, just east of Tallapoosa, would be let within 15 days, has . created wide interest in west Georgia and east Alabama counties, J. W‘ Hall, who move recently from Woodlawn to Tallapoosa and purchased the Bently proper ty on the river, has just delivered to the state highway department a free deed to a right-of-way through his property. KEATON’S KOMMENTORIES Hail to the advent of the Doug las County News! Long mgy it live, to represent the people, and the industries of this section, in all battles of progress, righteousness and truth/ Times have been extremely hard for several years past, yet our little “Burg’* has bravely carried on. and soon will be equipped with all the advantages of electri cal power, which, no doubt, will bring other industries to our city, as well as utilized to great adva tage by those already here. The pOsibiliti^s are vast and for reaching. Let me say right here that following the panic of 1920 too many of us lost ah confidence in the country, its products, and values.for we know the country is the- fbund^hTii'' economic and industrial sfgtem and if it fails nothing will Tong stand up- There are Georgia men spend ing time and money trying to induce foreign labor to come here and farm, which is very foolish. They had better be trying to de vise and work-out some plan to prevent those already here; and oh the job, going bankrupt from Selling cheaper than they can pro duce. f ‘ In this resepet the Douglas ville Banking Co. is to be commended .for the way they have financed and backed up agriculture and kept the faith during -all those lean years.' |gjg« , - And Politics'llC warming up, if the- mighty pen of Tints. iV Watson was* not forever stilled by death an illuminating page would be written on the present Mexican situation. What a great pity that the brilliant jurist Waiter F. Geor ge let the old war. and League of Nations crowd persuade him he could support the World Court without paying the penalty, since Watson is dead. Hurrah for Dick Russell! Seiah. John H. Keaton. To the People |£ Douglas County: For fifty years I have served among you and always stood for Douglas County’s financial and moral uplift. In asking yorir support I want to tell you what I stand for as well as call your at tention to my record in serving the people of this county while in the Legislature. I am against all forms of bonds or other indebtedness that will increase the taxes of the people. I am in favor of amending the banking, laws of Georgia to more fully protect depositors and give more severe punishment to those who are destroying the banks, I am opposed to the Leg islature passing any resolution asking the United States GoDgress to adopt or favor the League of Nations or the World Court. I am in favor of investigation of all the departments looking to a more economical and less expensive ad ministration of the State’s busi ness. As to my record of what 1 have done for the people of this Comity and State: I was the author of thgg bill creating the'first pardon Board of Georgia; I was the author of the bill creating the State Tubercular: Sanitarium at Alto, Georgia, for the treatment ot consumptives where those unfortunates who are unable to pay expensive doctor^; bills can be cared for free of charge J I was author of the State Board of- Health Bill. Before this bill was passed all those bitten by mad dogs were forced to be treated at the Pasteur Institute in Atlanta at the rate of $200 per patient. This bill ofpt® frpe treatment for all .persons bitten by mad dogs. . The State § Board of Health treated during- the past year 2500 persons who were bittern by rabid animals,' Had they been com pelled to pay $200 at the Pasteur Iustituie as they had to do before passing, of this bill it would have cost the people of Georgia $500, - 000. The State Board, of Health also provides free typhoid vaciue, anti-toxin for diptheria and other diseases of like character to any one who is not able to buy it. 1 aiped in passing the bill that give the women of^Gebrgia the vote. ‘ This bill was to harmonize the Georgia law with the National law. I always favored the women voting, especially on educational and moral issues; I was one of the authors of the uniform Book Bill,, which saves thousands of dollars to the people in buying school books. I was ap pointed director of the Bankhead Highway and located’ it“ through Ijfeygjas County by my own efforts. in entering this race I did so at solicitations from every district in the! county, and if elected my best efforts will be to take care of the State and County’s interests, and whatever is coming to Douglas County 1 will see that it gets it as I have done heretofore. Thanking you for past favors I ask your continued support that I may serve the people, if possible, better than heretofore. I am yours for service, (Adv) T. iSi>- WHIJMiE Y FLOO D-WREG KE D/SO N INTERESTING PLACE Happiest and Busiest City of Mexico. i More Rain and CoM Than i Sun in w §unny” Italy Borne, Italy—Southern and central Italy’s proverbial suhniness have be come somewhat of a jest as a result of the constant drizzle, and biting chid rain which have been falling for 'sev eral weeks. Borne itself is beginning to present an astonishing spectacle with, its streets filled with pedestrians wearing overcoats and carrying um brellas. • The oldest inhabitants of southern Italy say that tlje summer has beeu unprecedented within ; their memory. Thousands of vacation seekers have been flocking back from the beach and mountain resorts. * The South has teen particularly, affected. Naples, where the heat is usually intense at this season, was swept by a cold rain- atom. ** , ■ ' . '*," Washington.—Nearly a thousand people Were reported drowned' whetf a dam broke and a wall of water de scended upoii .Leon, fifth city of •Mexico. “Blotting out of the center of Leon is a serious catastrophe to Mexico/-’ says a bulletin of the ‘ National Geographic society from its, head quarters in Washington, D 1 , O. “Com paratively it is a greater disaster than- the Johnstown or Bay ton floods, because Leon is .one of the most im portant .manufacturing centers - : of j Mexico. ' ■ “Leon's extensive : tanneries, 1 cotton | and. woolen mills, and other smmufac- j turies were close to ' the mountain - stream which runs: through the town, j Gomez,, the river is called, mid when its. waters broke. loose it sent a flood through;the heart, of what lias been j catted ‘the' happiest and' busiest oily of Mexico.’ Into; the: wash of the flood the workmen’s houses of adobe | ’ earth dissolved like lumps of sugar in ( hot -.tea. . Sow and Reap at the Same Time. ‘■Citizens of this industrial city can not he held to .account for not guard- ihg against such a menace. After; Leon had been .swept, in 1888/ by a si milari*flood which drowned 200 ,peo-' pie, retaining walls and dikes (more, than , a mile, in length, were, built -to,, protect the city. But apparently these walls could not cope with the rush of water. “Leon) full name Leon de 1® Aldamas, is On the main lino of ilm railroad from Mexico City to El Paso, in the westernmost corner of Texas, and has a population of 58,000. ftps’ 250 miles northwest of Mexico City, and therefore lies in the famous Mexi can highlands where altitude has/de nied the rights of latitude. A region that ought to be steamiagly tropical, or a hot desert has been* elevated to a temperate-zone climate. It is not uncommon to see barley being sown in oiie field while it is being reaped in the next. “Leon lies in such a fertile valley that agriculture holds its own 'easily against the competing demands of mining and manufacturing. Irriga tion, however, is at oncq necessary and picturesque. The fertile valley round about is dotted with small res ervoirs mirroring.the clear blue skies. *f “Citizens of Leon are proud of its Industry. ‘We*are nbt rich.’ they tell ( travelers, ‘but jve are workers.’ They are proi i of La Hormtga (The Anti m, •frlfctMJUWrY - Aik -Ju«U-iHfc.- | sumaWJ in Mexico. They grow en thusiastic over the cotton and woolen and-sihfc.HijI^usiM.inpdern New Eng land machinery. Yet large smoke- stacked factorie i are not to be seen, for two reasons. First, that electric power is the: free gift of mountain streams and second, much Of the man ufacturing is done in the home. The bridles and saddles for which Mexico Is famous are made largely at Leon. Their beauty lies in the tooling, tlie embroidery and the intricate silver ornaments. Tills is a task for the craftsman, and like the craftsman of (the MiclcUe ages, he (works, in Leon, at his home, ' p, “Names of. the ; garments made■ in Leon are new u> Uib average Ameri- ■ can... Different fashions reign so .there IS the serape, The irobozo,. the manta, and tlie poncho. The robozo is tile j peon. woman's equivalent;- of. the ex pensive mantilla of the. upper classes, The mauta ii ;v the whife , cotton/ gar ment' worn by Iaborers everywhere. The.-poncho and serape are woolen shawls which - serve /as overcoat, blanket or raincoat as the . need’ arises. Circuit of Romance. “A belle of Leon Is '.very particular that her father shallilive somewhere on Leon’s street, car line. ( It isn’t that Bite is concerned that her father have! easy transportation., back and fortfl. to work It isn’t that she wor ries about, bringing, the family sup plies Horne from market. Street cars in, Leon are vehicles of romance. De- /sp’ite the Hollywood pro vies! the senor * dOcs (not ...come' on a prancing mustang to his sfenouta in this corner of Mex ico. .He (comes by Street car. . “Wooing is called. ‘playing the bear’ in Mexico. Once a (young blood of most Mexican towns has fixed his fancy On a (girl he stands, long hours before her'house. ‘ Sometimes he fol lows. her as she promenades, but at ‘a respectful distance. If his atten tions are encouraged he receives an invitatibn to call with ,(the family'pres ent‘during the session. 'But in Leon the belles and beaux begin differently. The street car line In the city makes a loop. The beaux, therefore, find it expedient to board a street car and ride past the houses of tfieir beloved. Not once but, again and again and round and round. And as the car rolls along, each watches his especial house for a signal. For the girls, of course, the ^custom intro duces a delightful element of expect ancy. One never knows just When the street ear will found the'corner. One never knows whether the ‘bear’ will be on that ear. For the wooers of Leon it has thigs additional advan tage/ they get to see ail the girls en the circuit.” x . First Bale Georgia Cotton Brings $1 Lb. Savannah, G».j Augnst 3—The fri$t bale of Georgia-raised cotton of this season was sold at auction at the Savannah Cotton; exchange today for $1 a pound! The ex porters of Savannah made up a pool to buy it. It was raised in Bulloch county by J. R. and B. G; Bowen and was received by the Savannah Cotton Factorage com pany. It will be shipped to New York for resale. ROCK CARVINGS WORK OF INDIANS Scientist Disputes Story of Vik ing Exploration. Washington.—The ancient rook carvings, along the Columbia river, which are translated by Prof. Oluf Opsjon of Spokane as runic inscrip tions made by Vikings in the Eleventh century, tell a big story* but It Is aa Indian story and not a record of Vik ing exploration in western America. Mils statement was made by Herbert W. (Krieger, curator of ethnology of the National museum, who has Just re turned from three months’ stay in the (region of the rock pictures, Mr, Krieger spent some time study ing the petroglyphs, Which are numer ous along the Columbia river, and has « number pf photographs, including some frmn Vantage Ferry, where Pro fessor Ojjsjcm claims to have found runic inscriptions. “The pictures pecked in the hard basalt are extremely crude,” said Mr. Krieger, “and anyone can read into them anything he likes in order to make a plausible story. To say that ' faff are Viking remains Is*to read into them something that is not In the pictures themselves.” Crude as they are, some of the ob jects scratched out on the rocks are tsplcMly Indian, Mr. Krieger points out. In the carvings can be seen such . objects as bows and arrows and a rep- Tesentfitlon clearly meant for a feather head-dress. Considering the numerous rock pic tures along'the river ap a whole col- -lection r -he finds evidence that they tell the story of tribal migrations^ in search fe4,food_and.,the na&.at the -Co-', lumbla river as a path of migration. They are mostly hunting and fishing scenes, he. believes.! Mountain goats and cUrved horned mountain sheep are frequently portrayed. But why these artists left such records to be preserved In the hard stone and what it (was they wanted to communicate can only be guessed at, In the opinion of this ethnologist. They had ho sys- -tem of fixed, symbols with one or two exceptions, so there Is no hope of find ing a key to the mystery. !?-. Shove Man’s Heart From Right to Left; He Lives •( Columbus, : Ohio/#! Breathing nor mally, his . heart - action- steady! ' al though a little weak, and sleeping tlie sleep of the weary, Harry O. O.amer, forty-five, was., “resting .'as wejl ns could he expected.” in the new McKin ley hospital here aCter-one.of rite most !peculiar' operations ini record in. Ohio ' hospitals(.;,!-(.- >:.,(’(.(.:(, (.:(/'■,.-((:(-// : (/!%( ; /7|(' ■! GiameCs heart, forced' far over to* the right side by- an accumulation) of .pus m the left lung;, was shoved from the; right to tlie' normal side .by'. the, operation, during: which he-was ■ con scious throughout, i • ■ Minus thq sixth rib of .his left side and • suffering - only the natural sore ness left by (the incision,-Gramer Is on .the road to recovery, hospital attend ants said. 1 Cramer, a swifchinnn for life Big Four: railroad, and-Who -weighs over 2i)Ct;pou|i,ds, .suffered intense pains in his right pleura tefi days ago and con sulted Itr. F> S. Lawrence, house phy sician at the new McKinley hospital. A stethoscopie -(examination revealed his heart was beating oh the wrong side. An X-ray picture showed the twisted heart, the left lung congested and Highly inflated. The insertion of a hollow needle to drain the’ lung was unsuccessful and the operation became necessary. Cra mer, was so weakened that a local an esthetic only could be used. Physicians were unable to find the cause of the lung congestion. WACO BANK HEAD DECLARED GUILTY Buchanan, Ga., July 39.—Spec ial, W. W. Heaton, former presi dent of the Citizens bank at Waco, Ga., which failed last November, was found guilty of bank wreck ing by'a HaTalsbn county jury td- day. Mercy of the court was reco mmended by the juyy and Judge F. A. Irwin imposed a fine of a thousand dollars or! Mr. Heaton. This was*,a. hard fought case, beginning Monday afternoon and wag not ended until 10 o’clock Thursday night, the jury return ing its verdict at 1:30 this after noon. Several other cases are pending: against Mr. Heaton, growing out of the failure of the Waco and Tallapoosa banks, but they will not be tried in this session of the superior court.—Constitution. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH NEWS Sunday School at 9=45, J. O. Sayer Supt. Preaching by pastor at 11:00 B. Y- P. U. at 6:30 Fred Morris Pres. Evemi^g Sermon at 8 o’clock. The members of the First Bap tist church are earnestly request ed to be present at all these ser vices. The public cordially in vited. Just received a new line of pocket knives and razors, pome in and look them over, -r Banks; Bros. FISH TALES BACKED 1 1 BY RARE SPiCIMENS Saves Actress Who Leaps Into River After Spat Budapest.—For having leaped, fully clothed, into the raging waters of the swollen Danube and rescued the beau tiful Hungarian actress, Paula Csaky, Prince Domencio Bos^g, necretar^ , the Italian legation, is the hfero of , the hour.«While the prince and the; actress were (having tea in a-cafe on ! Margaretten island, in the river, they had; a quarrel and the temperamental actress-.leaped into the river. The prince-brought her ashore with great Museum Party Collects Deep-Sea Denizens. 4 . .' s ’ ——— ! Charleston, S. C.—Fish tales, the kind that are sometimes taken with ja little salt,- are bring told here, (backed by proof, however, In the form jof a,collection of hundreds of species (gathered by the schooner Blossom oa (its recent scientific cruise. “ (j Tlie Blossom traveled 20,000 miles [seeking specimens of pelagic littoral and island life for the Cleveland mu- : jseum. Of the more than 12,000 col lected, 5,000 were forms of bird life (and the. next'largest collection , com-' (sisted of fish. ■■ “Headed by (Gapt. George F. Sim mons, the expedition spent 31 months (gathering iho siiecimens. Sharks, the I deadly ban ac.uda, bonitos, tnnny fish,[ 'Vellow-tail , jacks, .(flying! fish, needle •(fish, skippers,, hall: beaks and grunts.) (Were only a' few of the hunters’ prey. ' j. Among . the taleresting ‘ specimens ( brought back is. the PoriuguCse man •of War^ known to sdqirce as a siphpn- ■'ophorfe; - The fish possesses tentacles ({speckled With- miejos^opic' bomb a (which explode when they land on its ivictim, and fire lnnjtue harpoons, in- (jecting an acid pofsyn into the. .flesh. Harpoon “Sea Devil.” ! . The “sea devil” or, “vampire of the | flea,” closely resembling the . stihgaree ; of these waters, was harpooned by .the I; (Blossom. It has been known to pulll the 'weight of a yessel > sifter (running| ( (afoul of. (the anchor (chain, /One blow: (from-one of tlie wings, which extendi fgl jinuCh as twelve feet from tip tql tip can stave in a whaleboat. ! The Blossom encountered cat sharks,; (jhrown, Wu.e. and deen.sea blue sharks, [and obtained several excellent speci mens of them,, including some newly. " ./born aboard ship; Man-eating sharks. - (known as tigers or!great^(whitet sharks,/ (were rarely met, I Several specimens of the deadly bar- jractida were, secured. These are the only fish the South American natives! (dread. ' :'(( . (y 1 | With two fangs, measuring an inch,/ (jutting out from jaws of from eight to-, * 'ten inches long, the barracuda is.- iequipped to feed upon any flesh itj meets/ It is from two to four feet long as a. rule and. attains a maximum (weight of seventy-five pouuds. Capture Qblden Dolphin. '(, ; Other fish caught Included the,gold) [en dolphin, of changing hues, and the oceanic bonito, reputed to be the- fast est inhabitant or the Ocean. One flip of its tail is said to be sufficient (carry'Its torpedo-shaped-body a di»i jtance ,of 160 feet or more. r , ( Midocean fishing did not prove very: (productive' and most of the specimens [were caught near Islands in the South [Atlantic. ' i