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•Aae four -ATHBNSr GEORGIA- THE BANNER-HERALD ATHENS. GA.• Published Even Ever gpwto Morning by Evening During the Week Except Saturday and on The Athena Publishing Company, Athene. Ga. B. BRASWELL 1-. Publisher and General Manager ‘ E. MARTIN Managing Editor •t the Athens Postoffice A Second Class Mail Matter unde; the Act of Congress March 8, 1879. C. PAPER—ASSOCIATED—PRESS—N. E. A. SERVICE ., BIEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS * i Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for repub non of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credits' hid paper, and also the local news published therein. Ail rights ol re publication of special dispatches are also reserved. C. Erwin, lent. Bowdre Phinizy, Secretary and Treasurer. H. J. Rom, Vico President Address all Business Communications direct to the Athens Publish ing Company, not to individuals. News articles intended fon publica tion shpuld be addressed to The Banner-Herald. y * ; BEAUTIFY THE VACANT LOT The- Banner-Herald has received during the past weelt a number of communications from citizens of Athens in regard to beautifying Athens—planting flowers in every available spot and keeping the streets cleaner. : r TTtis, to our mind, is one of the most important movements ever put under way in this city. Immacu late streets and a flower-adorned city would do more to advertise Athens'and attract new residents here tBan any other agency in the community. As one correspondent pointed out, a city in Penn sylvania has won national fame by having the school children plant flowers in vacant lots throughout the town. In that city flowers are to be seen on every hand. In fact, it is said that every telegraph post hfo a blooming vine of some description encircling it. Even in the winter these vines do not die entirely, aRd are quite effective as an adornment.' • If such results can be secured in Pennsylvania, what would be the outcome of such a plan in Athens, Where the soil is naturally adapted to flowers, and where we have sunshine the year round It is pleas ant to picture Athens with a flower-screen across that part of every vacant lot abutting the streets. Would it not be great for Athens to be known as “The City of Flowers.” It would be a fine thing for the schools of Athens to Interest the various classes in this proposition. The city should offer small cash prizes for -the most at tractive lots. It would be easy to secure permission ffom owners of the lots to have them cleared off and ..Beautified. Such a plan would create a spirit of friendly rivalry Jjetween each block and eacn com munity center in the city. ' The Boy Scouts, we are . .sure, would lend a hand, and there would be no end of enthusiasm and interest injected into the plan. : Flowers bloom readily the year round in Athens, There are already hundreds of beautifully kept yards and flower gardens in the city, and the fact that the. 1 huweries in and around Athens are being worked v ; overtime to meet the demand for flowers and shrub bery indicates the increasing interest here in such matters. Athens’ only eyesore is the vacant lots scat tered here and there throughout the city, and with these beautified, and made in keeping with the beau tiful yards and gardens of homes adjoining, Athens would truly become “The City of Flowers." . .This is a matter that should be given serious '-thought by every citizen. It will not only beautify H-the city, but will give the school children a new infer- „ est in life during the holiday months now near at hand. Once the ball is started to rolling—one va- cant lot beautified by a band of volunteer workers— . the movement would spread over the city like wild fire. . \ \ ARE YOU ALERT A magician -would find it easier to fool Einstein than to deceive Einstein’s eight-year-old son. So claims Arthur Buckley, official of the Society of American' Magicians. It’s common knowledge in the show business, that a stage wizard is most nervous when doing, his tricks before an audience containing a great many children. The grown-ups are fooled * casily.x But chancer are that the shrill voice of some youngster in the rear of the house will pipe out: “I seen how he done it.” Children are much more alert than their elders. One reason is because they find everything in life new and interesting and are con- p stantly watching for another bit of knowledge. In- tvrcFt keeps the brain geared up to a high, keen pitch. As we get older, we observe that life is an endless repetition, the same old stuff over and over with only ®"T° cc “ io nal surprise.' Naturally, we fall into the habit of not looking for something new. In turn, our , ,P. erce P‘* on 8. slows down K il qu,ck,y ’ So the stage magician [ vS.® 8 « easy to hoax us. •Magician Buckley, as quoted, conveys the idea W jtiat, the wiser a man is, he easier to fool him. For B "Stance, a very simple trick will baffle a profound W e “ mnn o£ only average intelligence is apt y to catch on. The psychology o^ this is that one of the character istics of deep thinking Is a tendency to concentrate i entirely on important subjects. Which explains why a person with a brilliant intellect often is .unable to | master card gamer, trivialities which the deep thinker .subconsciously is averse to Concentrating on. I *' The “heavy thinker,” apparently interested in the 4tage magician and. .trying to solve . the trick, has ’•" -*bont 95 per cent of his Brain power far away, brows- (fag unconsciourly oh important matters. The man ! fit lesser intelligence is not in a semi-trance or hyp- ; riotic state of interest ir\ important matters, so he is > ^ahle to rally his concentration 100 per cent on the magician’s tricks. - • This delve into psychology raises the interesting ' suggestion .that alertness is not necessarily a sign of i. 'omln power. On the other hand, it may indicate in telligence only average, or below. The absent-mind ed professor is the subject of many jokes. He, deep- V concentrated on things that really count, is far from alert. Often he has to have questions repeated two or three times before he “gets” them. But bring up one of.the important subjects that really interest him, and you find him as alert'as a hair-trigger. 1 It’s a queer machine, that gray brain inside our skulls. DAILY SErtHoNIT Therefore, by beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, immovable, el- ways abounding In the work of the- Lord, foratmueh as yo know that your labor It not In vein- In the Lord.~1 Cor. 15:58. Ia it not Cod’s will that we ahould press steadily on to our goal In obedience to Him, In chan nels of his ehoosflng, whether In gunshinc of shadow In the cheer* of spring or In the chill of winter, neither detained by pleasure nor deterred by pain?—Multhlo Bab cock. DID IT EVER OCCUR TO YOU? A Little of Everything And Not tych of Anything. By HUGH ROWB . I IN JUAREZ On the Mexican side of the Kio Grande Is Juarez. Anti there, wherever you cliancc to , stand, A bar Is Both sides of tho street, four sides of a square. Wherever you look, n bar is there and the sounds of revelry fill the nir. _.i Juarez But the click of tho chips is heard no more In Juarez You gamble not as you did of yora • Afar Is The hectic tlmo when you played roulet;»j; But still on tho ponies n guy can bet. r ’ No model city at least as yett Is Juarez. • El Paso's lively and full of pop. Not Juarez; The Mexicans move with a slower step. In Juarez Their nondescript soldiers slouch along Unhurriedly through tho dark- skinned throng, And life Is a sort of a slumber song In Juarez They tight the chickens and fight the bull lr. Juarez. And these nr-u ‘ nil the fights they pull. In Junrez For the blood of the Mexican swain Is hot. And n rival at times Is knifed or shot. Though It' doesn't happen an aw ful lot, hr Juarez . r Yet In the main they arc gettiug on Tn Junrez Beneath the shadow of Obregon .In Juarez And they work at times, but they mostly play Tn a careless happy-go-lucky way Otlte unprogresslve. but lillthc and gay, ’n Juarez --BERTON BRA1.EY The -Nashville Herald pre sents a moat interesting cal endar of things which are cal culated to kill a town. The author is unknown, but the list of the many ways in which a town can be killed, or to say the least, seriously damaged, is w6rth read ing: Fight on the streets. Oppose improvements. Mistrust public men. Run the town' down to strangers. Go to some other town to trade. Refuse to advertise in your pdt per. Do not invest a cent; lay out your money somewhere else. Be particular to discredit the. nnhlle sniriteH men ” we f « Und in th ° Houston Post I ugthen P vour face when a •» »*> “PPUcable to those en stranger speaks of locating in wc * ,v< STEARNS’ELECTRIC PASTE la ncarnted m the taarantatxl exterminator for Cockroaches. Watcrbufs. Ant*. Batt and ponXtnwto time tryln* to kill theee P*»ta with powcVin, liquid* or any experimental preparations. Ready for Uoo-Botter than Traps Soz. box. 03« Ifroj. box. 81M SOLD EVERYWHERE stranger speaks of locating your place. It n man wants to buy your property a.k two prices’ for it. If he wants anybody elsc’s in terfere and disc umge him. Refuse to see the merit of any scheme that docs not exactly ben efit you. Run down your newspapers. Run down your officers. Run down everybody and every thing but Number One. Talk in the loafing places of how bad times are, of everything and everybody is going to the “dcmnltion bow wows.” So many people, and especi ally the younger set, have no idea of the value of time. A minute means an hour in many cases and, yet this custom, even of a social nature, of causing peo ple to wait, is inexcusable and wrong in principle. Here is an in cident I read a few days' ago.’ - It is applicable, no doubt, in our own home city, so here it - goes for what it is worth: Bluebelle and Fred had been go ing together for a long time anc everybody" considered matters as settled. ’Bluebelle had already adopted an air of ownership very pretty at times, perhaps a little :rying now and then, if the truth be known. Then came the break. They were no longer seen togeth er, and at a dance there was ~ manifest coolness. ’ “What’s caused all this?” asked a friend of the girl. “He had called to take me to the theatre,” explained Bluebelle with a pout. ?I sent word that I’d be down in a minute and he said he’d be bock jn an hour.” we have published jokes on the lawyers and on • the doctors, but so far we have refrained from publish ing; any on the newspaper mar bdlleving in the old adage of aav- the best f ir the last. Here has been In Greenville for the past four weeks is perfecting plans, sending oul literature, writing let ters and arranging the details of the convention‘and la very much gratified with the progress that has been made and the success thyt has been acbieved ; Examinations Are To Begin Friday Examinations begin at the Uni versity Friday. March 16th. Immedi ately following the clone of the ex aminations the students wit be given a week's hoidsy. from March Zlth, through April 2nd. Reports from tho. University nro to the effect the work done this year ny tho students ha» been abovt the average and but few delinquents are expected following the_ mid-term tests.* IMPORTS for year. 1922 MUCH LARGER WASHINGTON — Imoprts du ring December Into the United States, wero valued at two hundred and ninety seven million dollars according to estimates by the De partment of Commerce, as compar ed with two hundred and thirty seven million dollars over tho month of December of lpst. year. For the calender-yeaV 13tt) lm- i ports'werc vatued at three ndliinn one hundred sixteen million ? fifty thousand dollars |„ r crease.of six hundred mill . n ,i * lars oyer 1931. ' u ' If yofl are 1 of the 95 in everv inn who suffer from Dandruff or mim •Mlp trouble, just try Mahdeen, f£ At mU BeAerShow. H.ir Diw„ r ., V-JSS’ i ? £L5£, I $5&£2. t B1U0USNE8S-SICK &SAMCH& OH lor an (((Tablet, (a vtceublo 05Client) to tooo and etresebea tho «cnt of dl(Mtloo end elltcl- notion. Improve. 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S. 8. today the great btoed- elearner, body-bnllJer, success bonder, and It's why result a hava made tears af Joy Sow from the souls of Ihon-. sands 1 Ur. V. 9. Schnff. 557 15U St, Washington, D, C, writes: “/ tried for vw*, to sot toUof /mat a Sag osae ot begs •SevrslUap /aged aaM f teak S. S. B. I a. mow oUolmtols eaewL awd it veal S. S. 5. that did iW Try It yoararlf. S. S. 8. la aold at all dreg ants In twa altca. Tha larger ■tat battle la the pore economical. S.S.S.s-1^'42! I&s. Face, Neck and Arm Easily Made Smooth, Saya Specialist Any breaking out /of the akin, -ven fiery, itching eczema can 'v •uickly overcome by applying a lif ts Mentho-Sulphur, declares a no- ed Bkln spon'ullst. Because ot (tn twin doBtroyliv properties, this eulphur preparation begina nt once tn soothe irritated skin and heal ruptlons such / as rush, pimples ind rln* worm. U seldom fails to remove tho torment and disfigurement, and vou do not havo to waft for relief *rom embarrassment. Improvo- mr it quickly chows. Sufferers from ikln trouble should obtain n small lar of Rowlos Mentho-Sulphur nny good druggist and use It like cold cream. (Advertisement) CUT THIS OUT—IT IS WORTH MONEY , Cut otf-J this slip, enclose 5e and mail it to Foley & Co.. 2835 Shef field Avo., Chicago, III, writing your name and .address clearly. You will receive in return,n trial package containing Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound for coughs, colds and croupt Foley Kidney PUls for painiL in (idea and back; rheumatism, backache, kidney and bladder ailments; and, Foley Ca- tharic Tables, a wholocomo and thoroughly clcanaing cathartic for constipation, biliousness, headaches and sluggish bowels.—Advertise- men'.’. it|for what it is worth: • “When I see a ragged man said thp chairman virtuously, aay td myself, there goes a n \vho has refused to make the mos of his gifts. There is no excusi for poverty, gentlemen. Everyom should rise. Everyone may carv' out a good position for himsel: if he wishes.” “Perhaps you are right,” Inter posed a member. “Only today ! met a newspaper man who told m< that twenty years ago he came t< Chicago with exactly *5 in hi pocket. He is now worth $40,000 end he owes this entirely to hi: own ability and energy, combine) with, good health and a high cod of .ethics, and to the fact that hi uncle recently died and left hin $30,995.” With only sixty fire dollars - from the goal of Athens' quota : for the Crawford W. Long me morial fund, everyone who has not subscribed to .this fund shouli do so today. Do not let it b said that the people of Athens tho-homo city of this great man failed to meet their allotted sum which was only one thousand dol lars. This campaign has'attract cd the attention of the people o the state and.It is high time tha our folks had come forward witl the full amount of their quote Here ia what Hon. Jamea B. Nevir editor of the Atlanta Georgian has to say of Athens and the fund “We fret and funfe about th never-ending “drives” of one sor and another. But, while we hav had many and varied drives, i nevertheless seems to remain tru tjiat any city deeply desirous o putting n drive across may do ac •“In Athena, for instance, a driv was put in motion .recently t< raise $1,000', as Clarke County** quota of a fund to place a bust o Dr. Crawford W. Long in Statuar ' in Washington City, aa an ised by the Georgia Legiala \thcns took that appeal ver- ly and sincerely ;to hearth ... leu* thing in Athens.” A Puzzle A Day ‘ VICAR i M * »,* • T v* * * * * I K * * » • w : The above is an Incomplete word square. The word “VICAR" reads from left to right and from top to bottom. Can you fill in the stare with letters so as t< form five words that read the same from top to bottom as from left to right? The letter “W” in the lower right-hand corner It fiven as a starter. Yesterday's answer: When the brakchian was struck by 8 sets of hanging cords, hr knew the train had poised undet nine bridges and tunnels, because the cords -arc placed at each cn< of a bridge or tunnel. As the. train went under twice as manj bridges as tunnels, and the total was nine, there were six bridgci and three tunnels. > * •/tlw'Vfw *• . ' j TDhen you run out oj Gasoline / «. . • ** there is a most effective danger signal to warn you—your car conies to a stop with out any particular amount of damage being done. It is different when you run out of lubricating oil in your motor: there are no warning signals, nothing to flag your attention until great damage has been done. The greatest single factor In the eco nomical and efficient operation of a motor car is the proper lubrication of its engine’ Sufficient quantity, the right quality, the proper weight or grade, and the frequent replacement of oil are the things you .want to watch. You can solve all these problems by putting nothing in your crank case but Folarine, consulting the chart of recom- mmidations to determine just what grade your'car requires, and renewing your oil completely after St has been used for six or seven hundred miles. There is no variation in the quality of • Polyline. Wherever you see a dealer who displays a Polarine sign, you may feel as sured that you can get there the finest motor oil on the mark “SPRING FEVER” Gude’s pepto-jMansfan Tonic and Blood Enriched- Every Mail Brings In quiries About Rates Tc Greenville, S. C. High way Convention. GREENVILLE, 8. C.—The out look of the coming meeting of the '.rnlted’.8tate* Good Roads Associa tion. Bankhead National Highway Association and United States Good Roads Show that meets In Orponvlllo, 8. C., daring she week of April 16-21, promises to be the greatest gathering of enthusiastic crowds that have ever assemble: in America, judging by the corres pondence .that la pouring Into the headquarters of theso organiza tions, which are in charge or Di rector Tenoral J .A. noumlroo. Every mall brings inquiries abo -t hotel rates, hotel accommodation •V . ., n , nn 1 and rooms, railroad rates and ox DAYS ARE HERE ■ lbU " p,co * he ,,l!ow A,re * dy tho assurances have been receive. S PRING ia the timtfof renewed life * ■ A ' 8 ' and vigor in Mother Earth, and b I 8n1 ?’ '“*• Georgia, Missis- should be with you. What you ? PP'y I 01 ™;*;. T** 8 *: Tcnne8,oc ' need is lliat best of ail “airing tonics," Man-land, Virginia and North Caro Gude’s Pcpto-Mangan, for over thirty ,ina - ■" well as the state of South years the regular spring medicine-in Carolina, which will furnish large hundreds of thousands of families, crowds of enthuslasXc good roads Take it for a short time, and ace bow boosters who are anxious to show the purified blood goes dancing through their wonderful country lo the your veins, how new strength and cn- visitors from tho other stated, and durance thrill every muscle and tissue, to receive Inspiration In regard to ..Your druggist has Gudc'a Pepto-, road building. , boy liquid and tablets. . The areedrllle chamber of com