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' fuying a^Libfrtjr-Bond. It ia
ynvestifient.. Buy one.
Itow wc can’t help but feel
> t, the spirit of co-operation
PP"!Lthat wns ao evident in our
today. ’
treme importance of unity, harmony
and coordinate effort as a weans to
ward the most effectual accomplish
ment of this important work.
His apparent qrillingness to devote
his time and space to the interest of
the schools can be interpreted in no
other way than genuine. He is in a
position to be used as a powerful ally
in perfecting the school system of
his county and those interested in the
schools will do well to encourage his
interest and use it to the best possi
ble advantage. .
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"istrict, which is the
3G| men between
these 196
sale caV a p U n a u together.
f June,
DAV11 the spread of the
: system, one school
-]y Cofintendent for the
appraf Ben Hill county has
nd nidd is studying it right
irt out 8 > n mind and it is
fvordAls week’s issue of the
joQbe There the superintend-
their j*ff if with the people. A
law, 1'tnust be. Laurens coun-
S Kfi on it. The Progressive
tj, ( school authorities there
-Qtnd.—Cordele Dispatch.
Dozers in middle Georgia who
j, ptly suffered such heavy loss
are said to be going about
g their crops cheerfully and
determination to produce
,g yet, If not again provident-
evented. This is asplendid
he kind that it takes to suc-
his is one’W the best agri-
sections inr&e State and if
ble, these farm-
et to accomplish
anetu realize that
te 1 Tuesday are
ty, <r war duty.
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HOW LOCAL TAX WORKS
IN OTHER COUNTIES
What Lawton B. Evans, Supt.
Richmond says about the local tax
system. ' >
The Board of Education of Rich
mond County is an unusually large
board. It.consist of forty members;
three from each of the five wards of
the city of Augusta; three from each
of thes ix militia districts; three
from each of the, two incorporated
villages; and the ordinary of the coun
ty. The meetings of the board have
the appearance of mas3 meetings on
the subject of education, and since
each member is paid two dollars {gr
each meeting he attends, and as the
meetings generally lust about thirty
minutes, I have usually found that
three or four absentees, from provi
dential causes, cover the list, of those
•c negroes.
f Doolj) 00 iy to ri\nain
tehell V, they to be'im- who do not urer-euV themselves,
agains^ them better. lh>'' "The members of the board are
elected for a term of three years, one-
third of the membership expiring an
nually. This keeps two-thirds of
members acting as older, amjr wiser
than the new ones who may come in
and since many members are retain
ed, we are not greatly disturbed by a
large influx of reformers.!
“It seems too that it is the height
fo folly, in an agricultural State like
Georgia, to have a school law or a set
of school conditions that gives a city
child a good school for nine months
in the year, and gives the country
child a poor school for five months in
the year. How can we ever make
more cotton, more corn, more oAts,
or raise more fruit and vegetables,
unless we have more people in the
country and teach them better meth
ods of farming? And how can it ever
be done under such dreadful condi
tions as prevail in many counties in
Georgia.
“Nearly every county in Georgia
has a large town in it,—some coun
ties have large cities.' Yet I know
i hat many of these cities and towns
have independent school systems, of
fering superior advantages to the city
and ’own children, end have cut loesc
from r thec ountrv and the country
schools. “This is a dierstrous, a moil
foolish policy, and the-State is oblig
ed to suffer by it in the future. It will
starve the rural child educationally,
and fatten the city child, just as long
as the rural child will stand for it,
and then he will move to town where
he thinks to find a better chance. And
who ran blame him, when the city and
town child gets nine months in school
and the country child gets only five.
“My objection to the city organlza
tion is that it is selfish and short
lighted, and will discourage the farm.
AMERICA’S HICH DUTY
(By John Sharp Williams, Vnited
States Senator from Mississippi.)
• The United States has entered np-
on the great-world conflict, which is
to decide whether Democracy shall
have a safe place in the sun on the
earth ur not. There is hardly any
duty higher than that which ought
to actuate each citizen to help furnish
a part of the money which win be
necessary fortthat purpose.
It is true that a man may be able
to lend his money out at 6, or 7, of
8, and in some places, even 10 Hfr
cent, but he might weU forego for JTOe
space of two or three years the pigu*
er rate of interest while he invested
in 3 1-2 per cent bonds f of t&f' United
States. His principal would' be safe.
The bonds are exempt front taxation,
except the inheritance tpx< and ex
changeable for later bonds of a high
er rate of interest if the 'United Stales
later during this war iesues such, and
are specifically freej* from any war
tax that may be le/Vied.
Our men cannyt get to France or
Belgium in any,considerable numbers
for-a year. The Government’s mon
ey received b'om the* subscriptions to
bonds may g-et there by wire, the
credit basrfd upon it may,' which is
the same> thing, and, after getting
there taikes the form of clothing ami
food,, /munitions, rifles and cannon,
aoA may help our Allies to iwn. Next
to the immediate duty of chasing sub
marined and sinking them wherever
they can be foupd, thereby reopening
the avenues overseas for the world's
commerce, there is nothing that can
do so much good as lending the Gov
ernment your money. And even in
that respect the man who subscribes
to a bond, putting what ready money
he can into it, has the satisfaction
of knowing that his money has help
ed build a destroyer or buy an armed
yacht, which in its turn has destroy
ed a submarine.!
The American people are not a
money-loving people in the sense that
a miser is. Their money getting takes
more the form of a game, which is
enjoyed because of its skill and the
clash of wits, and their love of the
possession of money is based more
upon the uses to which the money can
be put in elevating themselves and
their children and their neighbors
and the community in Which they live
than upon the money itself, on-the
reputation of having it.
We are the wealthiest people in the
world; this wealth ought now to serve
the country. It will be a shameful
thing that those who are not fit for
military service should allow those
who are fit to go to the front and be
maimed and mangled and perhaps
killed, while they stay at home and
refuse to do even so much as to loosen
their, purse string.
%
EAT MORE CORN'
for
Most Effective .Substitute
Wheat at our Dispbsal
linarily the quantity of corn
^iced in the United States is from
threeNto four times the quantity of
wheat, but only a very small portion
of the crop—from’B to 10 per cent—
hasf been used for human food. This
amount may be estimated in normal
'times at about 200,000,000 bushels
4 year. Not over 6 per cent has been
exported in-peace-times. A relative
ly slight increase in the corn acreage,
therefore will place many millions of
bushels more of human food at the
disposal of the world without inter
fering in any way with the feed need
ed for the support of live stock.
In the past, with an abundance of
grain of other kinds, corn has not
teen in great demand for human con
sumption. But with other grains no
longer abundant, circumstances will
compel more general recognition of
the value of com as human food.
The department is urging strongly
the wider use of corn in the diet. It
is the best substitute for wheat that'
we have and can be utilized ia breads
mushes and a variety of other ways.
Wc should make every effort to avail
ourselves of it.
NEW SET OF COMMANDMENTS
'S!gh
1C8 *r’s child in the nearby sections. The
'tics should be wise enough to spread
air protecting wings over the farm-
homes and foster them into
•ngth and vigor. Any other poi
nts suicidal.
ly objection to the district organ-
in is that the area is small. If
Stire State were thus organized,
Id of 146 county systems, we
• 1 have several thousand district
s. It partakes too much of the
eatf. school plan hy which a few
dn contribute according Co
ngs leans to run a certain school,
rfectly possible for a district
io poor to orgapize into a sep-
OUnfystem and to levy a local tax,
jjjit their children who need most
ared for, will be the least car-
Besides that, the increased
ry necessary, the confusion
•i„ i schools, the variety in the
“ ‘jeachers, and the conflict in the
.. ^d regulations of so many in-
•ent districts would be so dis-
* ” " g that endless confusion, dis-
- - -ind dissatisfaction would likely
It is hard enough for the
, ^'department to handle the pres-
' organization, but if it were en-
two-fold, the difficulties
|i be insurmountable,
phe solution of the question is
I in county local taxation, giving
jrge area and d sufficient school
|l to engage the attention and war-
the pay of a trained educator.”
LAWTON B. EVANS,
gg}|Supt. Richmond County Schools.'
At, ‘Much food is in the tillage of the
P>r; but there is that which is de-
oyed for want of judgment.
A rounded purse cannot live in har
y with a full garbage pail.—Fla
'.tension service. "
GIVE IMPORTANT PLACE
TO TICK ERADICATION
Washington, D. C.—Tick eradica-
tion should be given an important
place among the measures to be tak
en by southern communities to meet
existing conditions. An increased
supply of meat is one of the country’s
most urgent needs; and the South
cannot do its share toward furnishing
this increased meat supply until the
tick has been put out of the way.
It is proved every day in the South
that beef cattle that are being rob
bed of blood by ticks will not grow
or fatten properly and that milch
cows subject to the same drain give
only scanty food supplies of milk.
They cannot efficiently turn into food
for soldiers and civilians the / hun
dreds of pounds of grass, hay and
grain which they consume, They are
wasters—made so by the ticks that
fed on them.
These are animals .that live id spite
of the cattle fever germs which ticks
inject with their bites. There is the
added loss to be charged against
ticks of the cattle which die from
fever; and their number reaches into
the thousands.
Now that each pound of meat and
each glass of milk takes on an ad
ded value among the nation’s re.
sources, more cattle must be raised
and each animal must be made to
put on as great a weight of meat or
yield as much milk, as is economical
ly practicable. If this is to be accom.
plished in the south the first step
must be a drive against ticks. 1
methods for getting rid of these
pensive pests are well known ini/are
already being made efficient usq of
In many southern communities. I
ping vats filled with solutions that
v.-itt destroy the ticks on cottle, And
public interest which will insist that
ell cattle be dipped, are the essentials;
and when these have been acquired
in a community a new day for cattle
production is sure to dawn. Cattle
that have been freffil from ticks end
kept free as they may be at smalt
c. Ft, put on weight rapidly and mnk'.l
cattle raising among the abundant'
feed supplies of me South a truly
profitable cnterprise v
‘Thou Shalt Give Every Man a Square
Deal,” Declared the Greatest
by the Author.
Thou shalt not wait for something to
turn up, but thou shalt pull off thy
coat and go to work that thou'mayest
prosper in thy affairs and make the
word “failure" spell "success.”
Thou shalt not be content to go
about thy business looking like a
loafer, for thou sbouldst know thy
personal appearance Is better than a
letter of recommendation.
Thou shalt not try to make excuses,
nor shalt thou say to those who chide
thee, "I didn’t think.”
Thou shalt not wait to be told what
thou shalt do, nor In what manner thou
shalt do It, for thus may thy days
be. long on the Job which fortune hath
given thee.
Thou shalt not fall to maintain thine
own integrity, nor shalt thou be guilty
of anything that will lessen thy good
report for'thyself.
Thou shalt not covet the other fel
low’s Job, nor his salary, nor. the po
sition that he hath gained by his own
hard labor.
Thou shalt not fall to live within
thy Income, nor shalt thou* contract
any debts when tbou canst not see thy
way clear to pay them.
Thou shalt not be afraid to blow thy
own horn, for he who falleth to blow
his own horn at the proper occasion
flndet^hobody standing ready to blow
It for him.
Thou shalt not hesltafe to-say “No”
when thou meanest “No,” nor shalt
thou fail to remember that there are
times when it is unsafe ,to bind thyself
by a hasty Judgment.
Thou shalt give every man a square
deal. This Is the last and great com
mandment, and there Is no other like
unto it. Upon this commandment
hang all the laws and profits of the
business world.—Yeoman Battle Ax.
MORAL INERTIA IS TO BLAME
Often Responsible for Failure to Live
the Kind of Life That One Really
Wants tc Live.
How difficult It Is 'to live up to our
good resolutions wc all know from
experience, bu* a fact that we do not,
as a rule, take Into consideration Is
that moral Inertia is as much respon
sible for this condition as Is tempta
tion In Its varied forms. Granted that
we have the desire to lead good lives
and that we prefer that our thoughts
should run In cleat), clear channels
rather than In muddy, murky ofles we
do not always have, the tporal strength
necessary to put rttesU, desires into ef
fect, observes the Charleston News
and Courier. We'belleve, perhaps, that
we are stnmgenfthgn we really are and
that although/we may already be
launched upon a dangerous sea we can
moke n safe lmven at will. That we
often misjudge our power of accom
plishment In this .direction, however,
is not to be denied ns circumstances
demonstrate when we make the at
tempt to seek refuge from the dangers
that threaten us. On thk other hand,
We can gather strength from our trials
and unhappy experience If we will,
notwithstanding the blows they deal
and the discouragement they prompt.
Others hare accomplished the feat In
the past and still others will accom
plish It In the future, and these
thoughts alone should encourage those
of ns at the present who are stagger-
'tz5 under heavy burdens and fighting
unhappy handicaps to make a winning
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Wet Buckeye Hulls carry the
^ feed perfectly
rjOUGH-
K AGE is of
little val
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the concen
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sift to the bot-
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when they are wetted down a half hour or so before
using. Then they combine more thoroughly and uni
formly with the other forage than the old style hulls.
Use Buckeye Hulls properly and you will find them a
better roughage than old style hulls and far more eco
nomical. _ ’
Other Advantages
Buckeye Hulls cost much less
than old style hulls.
- They allow better assimilation of
food.
No trash or dust. No lint.
2000 pounds real roughage to the
ton—not 1500 pounds of rough-
age and 500 pounds of lint.
Sacked—easy to handle.
Takq less space in the ham.
Mr. E, W. Leonard, EUendale, Tenn
has been feeding Buckeye Hulls to three milch cows.
He says that the cows are giving more mUk and butter
and are in fine condition. He prefers Buckeye Hulls.
To secure the best results and to derelop the ensOsgo odor, wet the hulls
thoroughly twelve hours before feeding. It b ossy to do this by
wetting them down (right and morning for the next feeding. If at any flaw
this cannot bo done, w*t down at least thirty minutes. If you prefer to
feed the hulls dry, use only half as mqch by bulk as tf old stylo bull*.
Book of Mixed Feeds Free
Gives the right formula for every combination of feeds used in the
South. Tells how much to feed for maintenance, for milk, for fat
tening, for work. Describes Buckeye Hulls and gives directions for
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