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THE DALTON CITIZEN, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1921.
The Dalton Citizen
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
S. SHOPS . . Editor
S. McCAMY Associate Editor
Official Organ of the United State* Circuit and District
Courts, Northwestern division, Northern District of Georgia.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF WHITFIELD COUNTY.
Why Not Build Roads?
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DALTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1921
Half the taxpayers do not know how the other
half dodges.
May, May, how r
natural.
we love you when you act
The municipal league of this state seems to
have struck a row of stumps.
Ex-President Wilson’s health is improving, ac
cording to reports coming from Washington.
Some people are so contrary that they will
declare it is pouring down rain when.there is not
a cloud to be seen in the sky.
Every strike that is now called is just another
step toward the open shop. The open shop prin
ciple seems to be right, and should prevail.
Favorite Quotations.
John T. Boifeuillet is running a series of art
icles in the Macon News giving favorite quota
tions of Macon people. If he’ll let us horn in,
we’ll give him ours, says our associate, Mr. T. S.
McCamy, and here it is:
Back in the dark ages when Georgia went dry
by legislative enactment, the last day of the wet
era fell on Sunday, and, being from a pure-in-
heart community as it were, we thought we had
looked upon the last of the eye when it was red,
for we couldn’t imagine its being sold on a Sun
day.
As it .happened, we were out at the old Atlanta
Athletic club with a good friend and true, and
right here we are getting around to that quotation.
Aforesaid friend has since passed on, peace to his
ashes, but on that occasion, we entered the club
for lunch, and it was while we were waiting for
the order to be filled that Friend Friend beckoned
a waiter and uttered a quotation that has remain
ed the favorite of ours to this good Ay. It was
short but it was truly expressive. He said:
“What’ll you have?”
The Rome Tribune-Herald says the Einstein
theory is nothing but German propaganda. We
are certainly glad to at last know just what it is.
By the way isn’t “Our Tom” a little bit slow
in monetizing Liberty bonds? And again we have
not yet got our part of that $50,000,000 greenback
issue.
Nothing else will add more to the material
prosperity of a state than good roads.
This state mapped out a good roads program
when it put the automobile license tax plan in op
eration. By this time evidence of its workability
should be in every community in the state, but
such is by no means the case, and we record this
fact in sorrow.
^ The state highway department does not seem
to be functioning to the good of the people in the
matter of building roads. Only in a few instances
comparatively speaking, is actual road building
by the state highway department going on.
Whitfield county pays into the road fund more
than $10,000 a year for automobile licenses. One
little project only has been put through in this
county, that of the bridge across Swamp Creek,
just to the south of J. B. Brown’s residence. Some
thing like $6,000 was spent on the bridge. If the
other counties of the state are faring no better
than this county, we would like to know where
so much money is going, and why such poor road
building progress is being made.
The people will not be satisfied wvith excuses
“Passing the buck,” from county commissioners
to the highway department and back doesn’t get
any roads.
Propaganda about what is going to be done
in the future doesn’t mean anything. *
Building roads is the only thing that will sat
isfy the people who are paying for them.
And furthermore, it takes something else be
sides talk and newspaper interviews to build roads
A little while back the people of this county
were cheered With the good news that the state,
in conjunction with the county, was going to
build a road from Dalton to the Catoosa county
line, take it over and then maintain it. The pro
ject was promptly approved by the commissioners
of this county, and the state engineers stated that
all would be well, and work would soon be begun
by the state highway department.
That is all so far. Our commissioners, through
the chairman, have sought, to find out when work
is to begin, but the best that has so far resulted
from their efforts, is the information that the
proposition is before the highway department,
loafing. In other words, it has not been approved
by the “high ups” in the state department.
These delays are irksome and expensive. The
legislature will meet next month, and one of the
first things it should do is to see what is the
matter with the department it created to build
roads. Right here may be the place for the new
governor to start in with his pruning knife. A
highway department that will not function is
worse than no department at all. If it cannot
build roads it should cease to exist and quit wast
ing money.
There is plenty of both labor and material,
and road work should no longer be delayed.
The rural public schools in this state are being
sadly neglected. It is a shame.
Lots of loose talk and exaggerated news stories
have done Georgia a lot of harm during the past
few weeks. That Williams affair has given the
South-haters and the sensation mongers the op
portunity of their lives to indict the whole state
of Georgia.
Do Your Bit.
Dalton is to be advertised, and .the advertis
ing campaign is to be conducted by the men who
know her worth as the center of a fine agricul
tural section, by those who have profited by her
industrial advantages, by those who have found
her climate healthful, and by those who not only
appreciate her possibilities for future growth but
are enthusiastically working to make them real
ities.
Dalton’s unalloyed patriotism caused her peo
ple to give first consideration to the nation’s busi
ness during the years of stress and to be less ac
tive in promoting enterprises for local advance
ment, but the post-war period has seen rise from
the embers of the Chamber of Commerce, the
Dalton Improvement League, which embodies all
of the good points of the old organization and to
which are added fresh enthusiasm and new blood.
The personnel of this league is composed of live-
wire men who are anxious to see our town move
forward.
The Dalton Improvement League believes in
Dalton, and feels if news of only half the possibil
ities this community holds were heralded afar
many new-comers to our section would be assured,
and much new capital brought here. To stimulate
interest in this advertising of our resources, the
league is to offer a prize for the slogan that will
best advertise Dalton. When the slogan has been
decided upon it will be used to make Dalton’s
place on the South’s map more prominent.
We could advertise Dalton with beautiful word-
pictures of the city, but flowery phrases will not
“bring home the bacon” unless incorporated in
the story of our town are real facts concerning in
dustrial opportunities and agricultural achieve
ments and possibilities. Facts and details are
what the home-seeker wants, and the most logical
way to ascertain the points of merit that should
be incorporated in this municipal advertising is
for each manufacturer, each farmer, and each
merchant to take a deep interest in it. It is a
question that mil affect every one, and if each
business man would make a survey of his ex
periences and report his findings, both advantages
and disadvantages found here, to the advertising
committee of the Improvement League, it would
prove a wonderful help in getting this campaign
launched immediately.
Dalton has a diversity of industries, from cot
ton mills to. broom factories, jail works to furni
ture manufactories, and all these are using raw
materials that can be secured right in our sec
tion. Living conditions here are pleasant, but
that statement will not suffice for the man who is
considering bringing a family here to rear. e
must have facts about housing conditions,
churches, schools and parks and streets and roads.
Rightly advertising a town means planning,
and is a work huge in scope. It is a task so im
portant it should have the interest and coopera
tion of every person who has a spark of interest
in the growth of Dalton. Will you not give
this your consideration, and furnish any facts and
figures that mil help our community grow?
Investigation by a federal grand jury sitting at
Macon proves there is no peonage being practiced
in Georgia except in rare instances. There is too
much talk about it.
According to John Spencer, of The Telegraph,
the Harding administration is entitled to one
count, in that it is due credit for the suspension
of Harvey’s Weekly. So far as .we are concerned
we are duly appreciative.
Seems to us like the official organ of the Ku
Klux Klan should be named something else be
sides “Searchlight.” People who disguise them
selves their blunders to perform are in need of
everything else more than a searchlight.
Johnny Spencer, speaking of the Weslyanites
feeding his column for a day, said: “Only last
year a Young Lady of the Class in Journalism, a
Young Lady not much bigger than a minute, took
it over.” Well, we never have heard of Mr. Spen
cer being as big as a Brobding, whatever you
call it, Yahoo, but may be he is.
It is getting so that a man isn’t obliged to
wear a silk shirt, which may indicate that we
are on the road toward normalcy.—Columbus
Enquirer-Sun. '
Silk shirts are so cheap now there is no in
ducement to wear ’em. ,
The New York police have locked up a fel
low for pretending to. be a witch. If they
should begin locking up hypocrites who pre
tend to be Curistians there would not be jail
room for the prisoners.—Sandersville Pro
gress.
And futhermore there would not be enough left
outside to act as jailers.
Some of the felloWs who complain at times
that The News doesn’t print all the news
should be mightv thadkful it doesn’t.—Dawson
News.
And the same is true as regards this newspaper.
Some of these days we may rent a standing army
and print all the news for a week.
Late reports come to the effect that the new
county trust is sharpening its tools prepara
tory to carving out,a few more counties as
soon as the Georgia legislature meets.—Rome
Tribune-Herald.
There are enough counties in Georgia now for
two states of its size. Every time a new county is
created a new crop of office holders comes along to
plague the people.
In sentencing forty-one confessed and con
victed criminals tried for stealing Judge Evans
of the federal court, seemed inclined to the
opinion that they may have been forced to
steal express packages because they were un
derpaid,_which raises the question: Is theft
ever justifiable?—Commerce News.
Theft is never justifiable. “Thou shalt not
steal,” says the good Book. And another thing,
judicial curtain lectures are too often political, and
have no rightful place in judicial procedure.
The people of Georgia spent $12,000,000
last year for soft drinks and $20,000,000 for
gasoline. That’s $32,000,000 all for fun.—
Rome Tribune-Herald.
These figures, however, do not seem to in
clude the amount spent for unsoft drinks and
other ingredients used in having fun.—At
lanta Journal.
There is no way of estimating the amount spent
for the unsoft drinks; but we dare say that it
would take as many figures to set it down as are
employed in either amount above.
The Dalton Citizen is unable to understand
how a loafer can wear better and more clothes
than a respectable man who works. If you
’happen to have this mystery solved, please
pass us the tip, for we are tired of working
and need some new clothes.—Royston Record.
We wouldn’t mind giving up enough space
to pijblish recipe. We believe it would make
“right interestin’ reading.”—Columbus En- .
quirer-Sun.
But we don’t know the recipe. That’s what
we are trying to find out.
“Some of these days, says Luke McLuke,
a. genius is going to invent a skirt that can be
pulled around and worn the other way when
it gets shiny in the rear. But, Luke, that does
not interest us. The genius we are looking
and longing for is the one.who is going to in
vent a pair of trousers that will work the same
way,” says the Dalton Citizen. If Editor
Shope would practice sitting down or stand
ing up to pray he wouldn’t wear out the
knees of his trousers so fast.—Tifton Gazette.
Now what about that? The truth of the busi
ness is we do our praying while walking and dodg
ing the speed fiends.
Every time an opportunity presents itself The
Macon News stabs Mr. Wilson, and when there is
no opportunity it does the same thing. It must
be true that the punishment for being a Wilson
hater is to be one. The all prevading ill temper of
the News is the best evidence that this is true.
It seems that “Imperial Wizard” Simmons, of
the Ku Klux Klan. got his wires crossed with
reference to organizing the “Knights of the Air,”
at the request of General Pershing and others.
The general doesn’t seem to know anything about
it.
The trouble with the finances of Georgia to
day can be traced directly to the doors of tax-
dodgers, and by the way, most everybody belongs.
There ought to be a way of getting invisible prop
erty on the tax digest. This kind of property has
no more right to tax exemption than have lands,
live stock and houses.
In another place on this page The Citizen takes
pleasure in printing in full the analysis of the On
tario hydro-electric situation, as prepared by Mr.
W. R. Collier, an eminent hydro electric engineer.
We are giving space to this analysis for the in
formation it contains. It completely refutes the
statements published broadcast over Georgia by
the municipal league that the Ontario rates for
lights and power are cheaper than the rates
charged by the hydro-electric companies serving
this state. Read it carefully if you are interested.
It will enlighten you considerably, in view of
what you have been reading from municipal league
sources.
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CLIPPINGS AND COMMENTS ♦
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The news item from Chicago stating that
a real estate dealer who sells a negro a piece
of property next to white people will be
“fired” off the real estate exchange ought to
carry enough humor to make a Georgia negro
pot licker cotton chopper laugh. That’s not
the kind of social equality a black man should
‘find that far beyond the Mason and Dixon
line.— Cordele Dispatch.
There is a heap of hyprocisy mixed up with
the negro question in the North. Some of the
northern negro baiters preach social equality for
hites and blacks in the South, but when it hits
them they draw away and begin to whine like a
whipped cur.
Some of these days, says Luke McLuke, a
genius is going to invent a skirt that can be
pulled around and worn the other way when
it gets shiny in the rear. But, Luke, that does
not interest us. The genius we are looking
for is the one who is going to invent a pair of
trousers that will work the same way.—Dal
ton Citizen.
One plain-spoken observer rises to remark
that if the skirts get much shorter they won’t
get shiny in the rear, and we reckon he’s
right about it. A little bit of a boy who had
gotten lost in a big department store not long
ago was asked by a lady who found him cry
ing and begging for his “mummy” why he
didn’t hang onto his “mummy’s” skirt. “I
couldn’t reach it,” was the plaintive answer.
And as he was too little to use stilts, his case
seemed to be hopeless.—Albanv Herald.
And after all who wants to see the return of
the dust-sweeping, germ-laden skirts of twenty
years ago? It used to take ten and twenty yards
of cloth to make one, whereas four yards will now
suffice.
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♦..ANALYSIS OF THE ONTARIO HYDRO- ♦
♦ ELECTRIC SITUATION ♦
♦ By W. R. Collier, Hydro-Electric Engineer. ♦
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An English woman 102 years old has tak-
'en up aviation. Well, girls will be girls.—Ma
con Telegraph.
And in so being it is hard to keep them from
going up in the air once in awhile.
Labor voted for a resolution asking for the
release of Debs from the federal prison. And
yet, organized labor wants the public to sup
port it and endorse its actions.—Commerce
Observer.
Well, the public is going to do nothing of the
kind. Here of recent times labor has turned to
be its own worst enemy, and it will gain no pub
lic sympathy by “resoluting” to turn the criminals
out of the penitentiaries.
To the Editor of The Dalton Citizen:
Much has been said by the promoters of the
Municipal League of Georgia, regarding the On
tario Hydro-Electric Commission. This commis
sion has been held up to the people of Georgia as a
cure-all for practically all of the ills of the State,
and the people have been led to believe that if
Georgia was given a hydro-electric commission
similar to the one in existence in Canada that all
of the people in the’State would be able to avail
themselves of the use of electricity and that all of
the farms in the State would have electricity for
the perfoming of all of the ordinary labor of
the farm. The real facts in the case as they ap
pear from the 1919 report of the hydro-electric
commission are briefly as follows:
The Canadian commission is in reality simply
a parent or over-lord organization, organized to
acquire existing water power developments, or to
make water power developments and to distribute
the power so obtained in wholesale quantities to
certain municipalities and manufacturers in Can
ada. In addition to these duties, the Hydro-Elec
tric Commission has entirely under its control the
local commissions appointed by the various mu
nicipalities to operate the local lighting and power
distribution. Cities operating their own distribu
ting systems have practically no control over these
systems, as they can issue no debentures or under
take no work in connection with their electrical
distribution systems without the approval of the
Hydro-Electric Commission. All rates' charged
by the municipalities to their customers for pow
er, lighting or cooking, and the rates charged by
the municipalities against themselves for street
lighting are fixed yearly by the Hydro-Electric
Commission and the commissions of the munici
palities receive from the Hydro-Electric Commis
sion, full printed instructions as to the rates that
they shall charge their customers, and the man
ner that they should operate their distributing
system and the Hydro-Electric Commission’r
auditors install in each town a system of account
ing and make frequent‘‘checks on the books so
that the Hydro-Electric Commission may be fully
informed as to the method followed by the mu
nicipalities in handling their customers.
It has often been stated by the promoters of
the Municipal League in Georgia that the Hydro
Electric Commission charges the municipalities for
the current furnished to them at the rate of $14.00
per horse power per year, but this is not borne
out by the report of the Hydro-Electric Commis
sion. As a matter of fact this is not true in s
single case. The Hydro-Electric Commission
makes certain charges during the year against
each municipality served; this charge represents
a payment on account and this charge is called an
“Interim Charge.” In the case of some large mu
nicipalities, this interim charge is as low as at the
rate of $14.00 per horsepower per year, but the
commission, in every case, readjusts the charge
for the year’s use equivalent to* the cost of furnish
ing this service by the commission. In practically
every case, this readjustment charge is for an ex
cess over the interim charge made from time to
time throughout the year. For instance, the in
terim charge made against the town of Embro,
during 1919, was at the rate of $60.00 per horse
power per year, but at the end of the year, after
the commission had figured up its expense, the
final charge rendered against the town was at the
rate of $128.00 per horsepower per year. In
case of the City of Galt, with a population of
slightly over 12,000 the interim charge was $20.00
per horsepower per year, while the final charge
was at the rate of $34.00 per horsepower per year.
In the case of Hamilton, with a population of ap
proximately 110,000, the interim cnarge was $14.00
per horsepower per year and the final charge was
at the rate of $25.90 per horsepower per year. It
is interesting to know that although the Hydro-
Electric Commission claims to serve the various
municipalities in Ontario at cost, that the rates
charged these municipalities for electricity are
higher than would be charged the same munic
ipalities for the same service if they were located
in Georgia, and were supplied electricity under the
authorized rates of the State Railroad Commission
For instance, Embro pays the Hydro-Electric Com
mission 3% cents per K. W. hour for its current
and the same service could be purchased in Geor
gia for 1.79 cents per K. \V. hour. Galt pays the
Hydro-Electric Commission at the rate of 1.38
cents per K. W. hour, and the same service could
be bought in Georgia for 1.18_ cents per K. W.
hour. Hamilton pays the Hydro-Electric Commis
sion 1.16 cents per K. W. hour, while the same
service could be purchased in ueorgia for 1.05
cents per K. W. hour.
It is note'd also in thb report of the Hydro-Elec
tric Commission that the amount charged against
the town each year for street lighting is consid
erably in excess of what similar towns in Georgia
pay. As an example, Embro pays $1.62 per capita
per year for its street light, while Dahlonega, in
Georgia, with practically the same population,
pays 48 cents per capita per year for its street
lights. Galt pays $1.29 per capita per year for its
street lights while Brunswick, with approximately
the same population, pays 65 cents per capita per
year for its street lights. Hamilton pays 67 cents
per capita per year for its street lights, while Sa
vannah, with less population, pays 60 cents per
capita per year for its street lights.
The municipalities, in addition to paying the
Hydro-Electric Commission for the current deliv
ered at high voltage at the substation; generally
located at the' city limits of the town, is obliged
to operate and maintain its own distributing sys
tem, stand the expense of bookkeeping, collections,
etc., and take care of the interest on the bonds,
the retiring of the bonds, and the depreciation on
the value of the local distributing system. The
cost of these municipal systems, of course, is con
siderable; the system in Embro, with a population
of 481 being valued at $8,619.94, while the system
in Hamilton, with a population of approximately
110,000 being valued at $1,398,570.52. Naturally,
since the Hydro-Electric Commission dictates the
rates that are to be charged by the municipality
and since the Hydro-Electric Commission figures
that the revenue from the sale of electricity by the
town should be just enough to pay the bill of
the Hydro-Electric Commission, it becomes neces
sary for the municipality to raise additional money
by taxation, in order that the expenses of operat
ing the local distributing system may be taken
care of. This generally results in an extremely
high tax rate in the towns served by the Hydro-
Electric Commission. As an example might be
mentioned Galt, where the tax rate is 39 mills, and
Hamilton where the tax rate is 35 mills. Some of
the towns being furnished current by the Hydro-
Electric Commission, find it necessary to have
a tax rate as high as 40 mills in order to take care
of the expenses of operating the city.
Mention has been made of the large number of
farms being furnished current by the Ontario
Commission, but investigation does not bear out
’the fact that there is a large number of farms be
ing supplied with such service. Some isolated
farms are served by the Hydro-Electric Commis
sion, and in some cases several farmers join to
gether and form a syndicate, and thus purchase
current from the Hydro-Electric Commission. In
the case of syndicates, all of the cost of construct
ing the lines and the furnishing of transformers,
etc., is determined, and ten per cent of this cost
is yearly charged against the syndicate by the
Hydro-Electric Commission; this charge being
called a “Service Charge” by the commission. In
addition to this service charge the syndicate pays
to the commission a certain price per K. W. hour
used, and the sum of the service charge, plus the
K. W. hour charge is generally considerably in ex
cess of what the same service would cost a farm
er if he were situated near the lines of any of
the privately owned public utilities in Georgia.
For instance, the six farmers who compose syndi
cates number one, in the Waterloo township, paid
to the Hydro-Electric Commission, during the year
1919 $626.01 for their service, or at the rate of
$104.33 per farmer. In looking over the situation
in Georgia, it is found that a certain prosperous
farmer located on the Georgia Railroad and using
electricity on his farm, paid during 1919, the sum
of $93.20 for his service, as compared with the
$104.33 paid by the farmer in Canada. It is also
interesting to know that most of the farms in On-
Jario, using electricity, are farms located on the
outskirts of the towns or villages near the low
tension distributing lines owned by the municipal
ities. Very few farmers have found tlfat it was to
their financial advantage to take electricity from
the Ontario Commission if their farms were locat
ed on the high tension transmission lihes, on ac
count of the very heavy cost of building the serv
ice line to their farms, and the construction of the
necessary expensive high tension transformer sta
tion to lower the voltage so that the current could
be commercially used.
It is interesting to know that although the
Hydro-Electric Commission has been in existence
now for over ten years that they have not actually
developed more than 60,000 horsepower, which is
much less than the development that has been
made in the State*of Georgia by privately-owned
utilities within the past ten years. The remainder
of the power now controlled by the Ontario Com
mission was obtained by them by condemning and
taking over privately-owned companies. It is al
so interesting to know that only a comparatively
small amount of the territory in the Province of
Ontario is served with electricity by the Ontario
Hydro-Electric Commission. Most of the trans
mission lilies .extend along Lake Erie and Lake
Ontario where the power can be obtained com
paratively cheap from Niagara, while only a few
lines have befen extended north of Kitchener to
take care of sotne of the towns lying south of Geor
gian Bay. Practically no service at all is furnish
ed to any of the territory north of Healey Falls
and High FaRs, and it is probable that not one-
fourth of the territory in the Province of Ontario
is served at all by any lines owned by or controlled
by the Hydro-Electric Commission.
On account of the fact that the Ontario Com
mission has not developed the power in the Prov
ince of Ontario, it was found that the manufac
turers located in this part of Canada were suffer
ing acutely in 1920, on account of the shortage of
power. The condition became so alarming that
for DREARY DAYq
— BY JAMES WELLS **
Writer of Newspaper Verse, Hvrnn d
and Popular Song Lyrics : ' . " Potn
The Dollar.
What dOjinei^chase from morn til!
For whahdo menjiliwork and light?
For what do people toil all day
And then whene’er they get thi-lr „
Go give their hard-earned meed ,
The dollar. a " a J’ •'
What is it some men make their e 0f ]9
The dollar. e 1 1
While others throw it like a clod?
The dollar.
mat do some love for self alone
While others drop it like a stone >
(I wish I had .some of my own’)
The dollar.
What do we find is man’s best friend*?
The dollar.
What is if such a charm can lend?
The dollar. '
mat is it proves a comrade true
If you boss it, not it boss vou?
What is it that will see vou throimh*)
The dollar. " fetl ‘
Some Taters.
Commen-taters
Agi-taters
Prestidiga-taters
Dic-taters
Sweet taters.
The Shortest Poems.
Jh e shortest poem in the English Jungle h
said to be the following: ° e ls
We
De-
Spise
Flies.
But here is a still shorter and more expressive
Hearst, 1
Worst.
Annie Up-to-Date.
Monstrous Bridget Coughlin’s come to our house
to play
Our pianola savagely while we brush crumbs
away;
It’s twenty-five a week she gets for eating up our
hash
And taking every evening off to spend the dad-
blamed cash;
She won’t get up for breakfast till ten minutes
after eight;
She must be taxied everywhere because she’s over
weight;
And we must furnish homebrew for her weekly
■drinkipg bout,
’Cause she will up and leave us
If
we
don’t
watch
out
—H. W. Davis, in Kansas Industrialist.
Mizziz Merlindy Johnsing came to our house todav
To take a tiny little wad of soiled clothes away;
En you should of seen The Missus as she ran to
let her in,
You’d of thought that we were lookin’ for some
vurry wealthy kin;
En you should of seen yours truly, as smilingly en
bland,
Ho placed his modest savings in the Johnsing per
son’s hand;
En you should seen the both of us, as we kowtow
ed all about,
’Cause she’ll haul off en quit us
If
we
don’t
watch
out
—J. D. Spencer, in Macon Telegraph.
Miss Chlorinda Jackson came to our place today
To scrub and bake and sweep the porch and draw
a plumber’s pay;
She has to have her ham and eggs, and sausage on
♦he side,
And taters baked and layer cake and young spring
chicken fried;
And she must tote away at night enough to feed
her flock,
And from our larder bear away our hard-earned,
scanty stock;
For if we kicked she would get mad without a
bit o’ doubt,
And she’ll fly off and quit us
If
we
don’t
watch
out
Modest Gladys.
She fainted-right there in the store,
Did Gladys, yes she did;
While she was trying on some gloves,
She saw an undressed kid.
Mary and Her Little Garden.
Mary, Mary; quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
“I can not tell, kind sir,” she said,
“It’s covered o’er with snow.”
Come Up Smiling.
Be the matter what it may—
Come up smiling.
Skies of blue or rainy day—
Come up smiling.
Not a bit of use to frown
’Cause ill fortune gets you down—
Just keep stickin’ on aroun’—
And keep smiling.
Every time you get a fall.
Come up smiling.
Crying never does at all
. Come up smiling.
Only just one way to win:
If misfortune hedge you in,
Go ahead and work like sin—
And keep smiling.
the Ontario Manufacturers Association v’ere <.j r
pelled; in May, 1920, to send a delegation to
Adam Beck, chairman of the Hydro-Electric . at
mission, to register a protest and to clcman ^
some steps be taken at once by the commis ^
relieve the disastrous shortage in power. , t0
meeting, Sir Adam Beck’s attention was cai
the fact that a large number of the memo ^
the Manufacturers Association had sunere
siderable loss as a result of the failure or £
dro-Electric Commission of Ontario to supp
amount of power contracted for, and hir " a
Beck’s attention was also called to the fac
single member of the association had lost, ^j s
weeks, more than 36,000 hours of won- ^
factory. Attention was also called to j p ^
that such a state of affairs did
Province of Quebec where electricity -s oc . (a5
nished by privately-owned companies ana ‘ n d
a result of the shortage of power in nt j : n( juce-
the abundance of power in Queb e S’ s . locate
ment was being made to the manufacturers ‘ g ne
in Ontario to move their factories to QueD • fa-
instance was mentioned, that of the baia , e j
nadian Steel Corporation, Ltd., which wa .
in Toronto. This corporation needed at a* jjy-
horsepower to operate their business ana
dro-Electric Commission allowed them / oU tput
only 1,500 horsenower, thus curtailing tne
tremendously.