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ATHENS, GA. j Published £vcry Evenlag During the Wet . Sunday Morning by The Athena Publish! JcVExcept Saturday and oQ ig Company. Atf.ens, Ga. EARL. B. BRASWELL Publ ! CHARLES E. MARTIN Bier and General Manager Managing Editor Entofinkat the Athens Postnffice ns Set or the Act of Congress Mar, [ Class Mail .Matter under 1 h 8. 1879. „ MEMBER OF THE ASSOC!, The Associated Press ifr exclusively end Heat Ion of ail news dispatches credited tn| in this paper, and also the local news pirn ^publication of ape Ha I dispatches are a’fi TED PRESS led to the use for repub-- t or not otherwise credited Ished therein. All rights of reserved. ""Andrew C. Erwin, liowdre Phi® •President. Secretary and Trfi y. II. J. Howe, surer. Vice President. rtlcle aW. Address pH Unwlnesa Communications j Ing Company, not to individuals. N**v tion should fie mtdfrrssed to The ftann MEAT AND BREAD ■M There if no question-now bit that the Athens Curb Market is playing an important role in the economic life of northeast GArgia. Four hundred and fifty-cjght farmers in this section have applied and been granted permission Jto sell their products at the. Curb Market. This number represents nearly every community in Clarke aid the counties ad • joining"Clarke. Thousands of duce has been sold and (he fer things (he farmer cannot Has the Curb Market succ consumers and producers th Not a Curb Market day is h of thirty-five producers is on sumer. On Saturday’s as nuny as one hundred and twenty five sellers have bedfi counted. Sales run ning anywhere from $5 to $135 have been recorded on the Curb Market in a finale day. One woman bas reported jhe keeps her family in staple groceries from sale offc surplus from her'gar den. Another says she has paid money on hack debts in addition to aiding th| family “Keep body and soul” together—all from sail? on the Curb Market. One man reports sales amounting to more than $.100 since the market opened M;» 5 despite an enforced ahsense of two weeks when le was plowing. These facts tell theii; own itory. We have it from the farmers themselves that the Curb Market has ; dollars worth of pro- honey i;)ent in Athens laise or make, pded? We will let the nseives answer that. Id but that an average land to sell to the con- been a blessing. Buyers hal so, hut stronger than is the e been pleased and say Verbal testimony of pro ducer and consumer is their return trips to the >Iar- tliat the Market has solving the problem Qf ket. This is silent evidenci been and is helping some il making the. farm profitable, However, the Curb Marki has not entirely solved the problem. It has hut poi ted the way. , It is now left for us to "carry on” in t le program of which the Curb Market has been a pa t. We must raise more produce in Northeast Georg a and we must have facilities at hand to markel that produce. The meeting of producers called for next Saturday at the Chamber of Common b should result in laying the plans for future nctivit; . A canvas of the pro ducers will undoubtedly be started to ascertain just what they are planning to i iise for sale on the Curb Market and shipment. An , when this canvas is completed wo should have ti : machinery for handling any surplus that is ruised. We cannot wait until nex .season to make these plana. They must be made |NOW. Let not a single Northeast Georgian delegat d to uttend yds meeting fnil to respond. It is VITA ,. It may pave the way for uture prosperity. Right now it is MEAT AND BRE D. I ' YOUR SLAVE * Housework of American /women now is lightened by about 21 million piece of electrical apparatus, not counting lights. The 1 it of these electric labor- saving devices in the home vili interest mn: , 3,850,000 Vacuum clear ers. 3,500,000 Electric funs. 2,915,000 Electric clothe washers. 1,260,000 Heaters and r diators. 1,000,000 Toasters. 500,000 Coffee perculati rs. 437,000 Sowing machine . 116,000 Ironing machine: I 106,000 Dish washers. These are tne. devices hat lead. Others, course. The Wonder- is tha there aren’t more in use. There will be, in lime. In' 1880 the population ( t the United States wus less thnn half whut it is now In those days, less than a million dollars was invest J in the electric light and power Industryi Today the investment is i round five billion dollars, or about 5000 times us muc . In our whole country ar 22,500,000 homes, and 8,500,000 of them arc wirei for electrical service. In addition, the power lines ar ready to extendi the ser vice to-5,000,000 more hon >s as soon as they want the power. The electric light and p wer industry is growing so rapidly .that it requires a lillion dollars of new cap ital each year. Electricty?WiIl be the ma i fuel nnd power of the future. Wo have barely ci ered the Electrical Age. One of its greatest developm nts will be the conversion of coal into ( electric power i the mines, the power to be sent outjover the countrj by high tension wires or by radio. Among other thii pt, this will save tremen dous rums of money nnd ti le, by eliminating long hauls of coal from mjne to < msunier. Chained lightning is gro\ ing up into your heat slave,. Let there be a conventioi bureau organized and have some.one in authority vho is authorized to un derwrite any convention, be t small or largtv-nnd ar range a program which wil he in keeping'with the occasion and with the Atheijb spirit. Monroe and Winder, two] sister cities, have up a heated discussion that was pfecipitnted by a folder is sued and sign hoards put us along the highway be tween Atlanta and Athens Itating that it is nearer between these two places via Monroe than Winder. Winder disapprove* this claim and it may he that a committee from the two cities will join a party in logging the routes to establi* the claims. Oglethorpe county is not Satisfied with the main tenance work that the-State! Highway department has done on the roads of the county it has taken over. Lack of proper maintenance hvork is causing more criticism from individuals of the Highway depart ment thnn anything else andlunless the department gives more attention.to that.part of its work it won’t get very far with the general traveling public.