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FACE TWO
OAILY TlMES-ENTERPRItt*. THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA
THURSOAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 2. 1922.
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We are for Peach county.
Lloyd George’* throat gave out but
hit- spirit hasn't, yet.
Some of those~thaT^et stung call it
We are with the Fascist!* b*ci
they are against the Communists.
If the early bird has anything on the
chestnut, he is as fat as the dickens
Living wages are always gauged ac
cording to the way they want to Uve.
> be desired condition.
The landlord is immune from any
harm as long as he collects the
The gun toting habit Is a bad
for anybody, even the policemen, in
The candidate wouldn't be a fool it
he didn't think he was fooling with
foolish voters.
Italy's new cabinet U headed by
rery young man but one who will
nake his mark In the world.
often wonder what
1 their lot had
1 they first want
that spends his time i
4 the road doesn't get
hing aLout it?
anted the ”Y"
laid the fellow whr
3 succeed and didn'i
Th<- man that would steal a real old
apldated car from a poor old negro
rm-r, ought to be arrested for vs*
THE GOOD ROADS MATTER IN
GEORGIA
The idea of the Good Roads Bon<>
Issue in Georgia was unquestionably
sound. There are thousands of ad
herents of permanent highways, who
regret that some successful movement
was not concluded which would have
made possible the erection of a
tem of hlgbwaya of permanent
structlon throughout the state.
Road building has .become an
and one that ia being generally
plotted. There have been aome
uccessful attempts made at build
ing roads. Lamentable failures and
oi good money are seen on every
Yet the Idea Is sound and th
people are more and more beglnnln
» realise that without permanent
nil ways that are at a disadvantage.
The chief trouble Is politics usual!**.
Many counties of this state have is-
ucd road bonds for the purpose 0
.iking advantage of Federal Aid. This
ms been etlfled to a certain extent
ml only used In small projects, which
f themselves are good but which are
tot generally accepted as the most
Vasable plan of building roads
he statewide idea.
If Georgia had enough money
vhlch to erect a permanent highway
hroughout its length and breadth
tlngent on a certain percentage of
county assistance there w
•thing that all people would bene
fit by as well as enjoy. It Is Inanel:
foolish to think that every sectirn o!
every county could be touched i>.*
a system. No road was ever
built on that plan or with that Idea.
The main highways, those most trav
eled and therefore most useful ahould
»e the best.
This plan has been followed unlver
•ally throughout the world and no
better example of the use of ouch
highway bos come down to us than
m the Ancient Romans,
d their conquest through the whole
Europe by means of roads, which
they built and so built that they
ould stand all sorts of traffic. Other-
•lse the Romans never would have
ever established their empire.
Georgia needs some such system
und its people would be benefited
thereby to a more material extent
than in the piece-meal system which
1 now being carried out. Nobody
ants extravagance and debt staring
tern in the face, where It is
• the
: In i
easy manner. With roads of a
lanent construction and malntain-
,t a small cost Georgia would de-
Infinitely more benefit than It 1»
g to do In the haphazard way It
dug done at the present tlra<
THE LOCAL Y. M. C. ,
1 Thoi
1 pin-
i villa.
as developed to a point where it
distinctive and persistent forte
tetter citizenship among many
R whose time and interest
been enlisted in sate and sane
and exercise. Never before
It was started here twenty or
years ago has there been the
implisbec
It takes
t in 1
1 refit-
> this Instliu-
at least five
»r. Is Thom-
to give that
rshlps to this 1
Many a man who was robbed of a
payroll would have raised all sorts of
tala U the robbers bad been after bla
coal pile.
Syrup preserving Is going to be dem
onstrated at Tifton, but the chief tro».
ble down here is getting a good priCB
for what is preserved.
Our aloofness will be continued, bat
we «U! have an observer at Lausanne
and will reserve the right to object to
anything that we don't like.
The 1
that comments oa the
changes la women's stylos, hasn’t say.
thing also to 4o, or Isa’t Interested la
—ythlag much fast women.
The Pfcdrick trial convinced some
talks that ho etrtahtiy *m not normal,
•ns It ho didn’t happen to be eras?
when ho committed a double murder.
dilution? The drive so far has
•n a lamentable failure. Nobody
* been particularly interested. The
has attained the desired goal, yet
uy of Its former supporters and
many, who have never given u a red
laying down on the
Job.
They say that success pays, that It
ill encourage further and more de
sirable efforts. It doesn't seem to
work in ThomasvUle in this proposi
tion. The Y isn't perfect by any
means, it hasn't reached the climax of
Its usefulness. Its Investment is too
large to let it stand idle. Dut Idle It
will be unless the people of Thotnns-
vllle support U with memberships.
This institution contributed to th«
city water and light plant over five
hundred dollars for water and lights
In • year. It paid off twelve handred
dollars for Improvement* that were
caused to be made by reaeon of a de
fective sewer under the building, car
rylng off water from the residential
section of ThonuuvOle. The building
’•» well kept sad well equipped. The
boys are interested and are getting
greet inspiration to become better
cttlzos and nobler men. 2s this going
to be the and or NT
ThomasvUle men and woman, ffl
1 the old saying goes. Either
or we don't? Either you Is
Ft. Which la you?
THE WORLD’i ALL RIGHT.
The question is being asked dally
the world is not getting worse with
the passing of each day. This ques
tion Is prompted by the news dis
patches from the four corners of the
globe, which tell of murder, arson,
rape, treason, and the like. The
front pages, and the Inside pages also
for that matter, of the dally papers
carry numbers of stories telling of
the brutal murder of a father and bus-
iand; of a wife being murdered In a
lonely spot in the woods; of a child
being put to death; of the abduction
f a young girl by a degenerate; of
homes broken up by a third partv;
of divorce scandals; of financial
frauds. International plots by smug
glers and others
The very essence of the news which
the public has forced upon it, is
testing to the mind of the average
reader. Murder mysteries are played
such an extent with all their
bldeonsness poTtTayed by the pen of
the lurid news reporter, until It has
eated the opinion In the minds
ime folks that the whole world has
>ne, or Is on Its way to the rocks.
We do not agree with this theory,
though admitting the situation appar
ently is as bad as it bas ever been lo
the history of the world. Present day
means of communication, linking the
very nooks and corner* of the world
into close connection with the big cen-
by means of wireless, telegraphy
and telephones, puts the scandals of
tnallest hamlet or the metropolis
in the same light before the great
ass of readers of the country.
When the war was in progress, the
papers were full of war news, because
t was the most important item of the
lay. and then came the peace confer-
nee with all its attendant importance
tnd the people demanded nows from
Paris, anxious to know what disposi
tion had been made of this or that
Imaginary boundary line which was
up for settlement. But aside from
politics, It seems that new* of the
nt time revolves around and
es from blood, murder and bate,
the three being almost Inseparable.
No. the world Is Just like It has al-
ays been—Just as God made it, ex
cept for a few alterations which have
n caused by the still lapse of the
•s and the progress of civilization,
lie a great majority of the people
3 Inhabit this planet have under-
e many changes, In that they have
t in God. and have snjgkt
-r the glittering bright lights of thi
'Id. with all its lust and shame.
THE PROMISED LAND (?)
HEDJAS
The possibility that Hedjax will
send an envoy to Washington raises
the interesting question: Where
would an American Minister to
Hedjaz live were he appointed ?*'
says n bulletin from the Washing,
ton, D. C., headquarera of the
National Geographic Society-
“The former Emir tf Mecca i*
King of Hedjaz and hiz capital is
Mecca, which no Chriitian is al
lowed to enter and where every Mo-
hammedan is supposed to go at
least once.
"Imagine the Crusades conducted
tourists trains at special conven
tion rates and you sense something
of the incongruity which attachos
the Moslem throngs who make
the steel-rail pilgrimage to Mecca.
'At Medina the faithful leavi
pilgrim trail to Mecca. Before en
tering the gate* of their holy city
they discard all garments to pi
their worshippers’ uniform ..
apron and a piece of cluh thrown
their left shoulder. There
these modem Moslems engage ;n
the historic round of ceremories
which includes the stoning of Satin
and slaughter of sheep.
“All passengers other than Mo
hammedans must leave th» railway
trains at El-Ma’an and nou.Moslems
who enter Hedjaz by st-*nmei
proach no nearer Mecca than the
Holy City’s port, Jidda. The city
of Medina, where the bones of the
Prophet are believed to r ere sc. also
is forbidden though visitors an
excluded from its environj nor is it
jealously guarded as Mecra.
“The Damascus-Medinu railway
built to facilitate a religious cere
mony, enabled Fcisal to throw off
the Turkish yoke along tho Red Sea,
turning over the sovereignty thera
to his father, the present ruler,
while he entered Damascus ahead
of Allenby and now site o n the
thrown of Irak, Britain’s Mesopo
tamia mandatory.
“Geography conspires with reli
gion to make Hedjaz remote Be
fore the war no religion had been
less accurately mapped and
tained more untraversed areas than
Arabia. This seclusion, in Central
Arabia, arises from the vast desort
; Arabia’s far west, or Hedjaz,
s hermitage for other reason*.
There the mountain masses of bro
ken granite, and lava i.urfaces
which resemble a newly ploughed
field of many rocks, fores ^dl ttavcl
and often forbid habitation.
rea and shape Hedjaz is
comparable to California. In
other respect it resembles ou
Dormdoo state. Its mountain mas-
swirl into a figure 8, effectively
cutting off northern Hedjaz from
the southern part. Then the Uke-
ceascs. Instead of abundant
fertility in the loop of tho *8*' the
uthern division of Hedja.? in
a.1 land, which even Bedouins
. , . j scorn. There a few appoint and
. . ’ ””,° r * 4lM H.K!,,,i: m , tr:!«. „ke u exi,.
tence by cultivating the occasional
arable patches and by levying tri
bute upon the pilgrims. Mecca
dominates this region; hence the
Shereef of Mecca was a strong
figure under Turkish rule and
finds himself independent, largely
owing to the geography.
“The barrier that cuts Hedjaz in
ro Is a triangular plateau of lava
with its apex pointed to Rabigh, the
seaport where the British landed
supplies to aid the Arab uprising
against the Tories. One route
around this mass lies along the sea
by Rabigh, the other is far inland
by way of Medina. Its rough sur.
face makes this lava-table impass
able, lock of water makes it unin.
Ifjbitable. English geographers
have found no Arabs who had pene.
trated the plateau, airplanes cut
across parts of it only to find dim.
mal, waterless, stony wastes.
'Orthodox Mohammedans still In
sist that the hardships of camel
travel to Mecca are m part of the
virtue of making the pilgrimage.
From the railway through northern
Damascus the traveler may see
these caravans making their alow
way through a desolate country, and
at many atations are cisterns for
their refreshment
“Only imagination will save
the traveler from boredom on his
railway journey. Glimpses of ga
zelles, date palms and camel herds
and consciousness of pasting thru
Hauran, the Land of the Druses;
Amman, ruined city of the Biblical
Amoritee; and Maan, in the vicinity
of the rich city of Petra, constitute
the principal rewards of the mono-
tonous trip."
> to Ur down tu cud, 01 tb, tv'iwlodiii,.
The negro is being called to thf
Promised Land again. Many of them
ire migrating to tbe North by reasoi
if the Inducements offered In various
Industries, bringing In more pay than
they can get down South. They
going In the face of the disastrous
experience, that caused thousands
of them to die, and many moi
»me back home satisfied to remain
here they could work in an equable
climate, get a good living and b?
•nted and happy than In any other
place In the world.
The race riots that spread through-
U the North resulted from met
tagonisms that have not ceased. They
only lie dormant. Immigration of
labor from European countries
has been cut oft and the North wants
exploit the negroes of the South
in the same oil way, using them at
long as It suits them and then cutting
them loose without sympathy or any
effort to protect them when the de
mand le satisfied.
The most miserable thing that could
happen to these people Is to take ad
vantage of this great opportunity and
then to find that It was all gall and
wormwood. The negroes, who have
good Jobe waiting for them may go
and get by with It. Those who haven't
but who are taking a chance are toeing
from the start. They will find living
conditions quite different from what
they are at home and in addition they
will find that their wages wUl be eaten
up In a very short time.
Take those who have gone. Why
did they come bnck It they were
tied? How many of them are going
again on any such fools’ errand* as
lured them there during the war?
Very few. tor they know where they
are happiest The labor exploiters,
who are trying to make them go with
promises of all sorts of glorious things,
are (skim of the worst sort and ought
to bn prosecuted tor chesting sad
WOODLAND.
Mr. J- S. Fulford, and daughter
Zeamie, were visitors to Thomasvflle,
last Wednesday.
Little Bailey Harper, Is sick at this
writing.
Mrs. Walter Booth, and daughter
Edith, attended tho quarterly con
ference at Tired Creek, Tuesday.
Messrs. Howard, and K. V. Wilder,
attended prayer meeting Sunday j
night
Mr. Pearce Elkins, was a visitor;
to Sunday school, Sunday.
Messrs. Burton Wadsworth, and
Ahm Barrett, spent Saturday night
with Mr. Lestev Griner.
Why Take A
Chance
with
YOUR LIFE
—or—
YOUR PROPERTY
Insure Both With
W. M. Parker
Phone 410 Mitchell Bidg.
HUHtMHWWHMHHHMIMUH
‘The Place to
Purchase Gifts*
For the wedding nothing le
more lasting than silver, more
sparkling than our cut glass
and our designs as shown In
China are among the prettiest
For your 8weetheart we can
furnish the spsrktlng diamond
from $25.00 up, and get a wed
ding ring to match. You can
please her with wrist watch,
pearls or mesh bags. No gift
nog d|sq o* an jo* news ooj
In your selection.
Louis H.Jerger
Where you buy Gifts that last.
Webster’s
Tested
Seeds
Large Packets
5c
CHARTER
CHOCOLATES
Assorted Nuts and Brazils
The best candy we ever
sold.
JJ.
Square Deal Druggist.
104 E. Jackson St.
PHONE 604.
Citizens Banking & Trnsl Co.
CAPITAL AND PROFITS, *112000
We do general Banking business.
Commerelsl and Savings Accounts Solicited.
Our Motto is: Service, Courtesy and Helpfulness.
DO BUSINESS WITH US.
J. T. Culpepper, Prest W. J. Bowen, Jr- Cash.
Use The Genuine
“Sterling” Mazda Lamps
and‘get the
Most Light for the‘Least Cost
Packed Five Lights to the Box
Robison Hardware Co.
117*119 t Jaduon «t P hm, »
A Rich Man Without
Money
One of our depositors is a
man of considerable wealth,
yet he carries less actual cash
with him than any man we
know.
“Why should I?” he asks.
“There is no need for any
one to carry large sums when
he has a checking account.”
Are you carrying a check
book? If not we invite you
to open an account with us.
It’s the modem method.
Bank of Thomasville
Designated Depository of Stats of Georgia, County of Thoman
and City of Thomasville,
B. a. WRIGHT, Preen
R. O. FLEETWOOD, Vlc#-Pr#e*t
R. THOMAS, Vlee-rres’L
P. C. SEARCY, Cashier.
J. 8. SEARCY. JR.. As*. Cashier.
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
Prices Reduced
ON
Ford Cars
Following Prices Effective To-day:
F. O. B. DETROIT
Chassis $235.00
Runabout 269.00
Touring 298.00
Ton Truck 38000
Coupe 53000
Sedan 595.00
Starter and demountable rims $95.00 extra on open models.
This reduction of $50d>0 on flat price of *11 models eitabUihej the lowest plane of
prices in tbe history of tbe Co mpany.
Place your order early to injure prompt delivery, or pbone 98 for * ulejmjn
wbo will call and explain our liberal time tile pUn without obligation.
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