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DRAWFUNNIES
Drawings By Bill Holman.
Verses By Hal Cochran.
Fifty billion cigarets’a year are smoked by Americans, or 460
a year for each man, woman and child. This information is from
a speech by Charles P. Titus, president <of New York Microscop-
Soclet y- A little arithmetic shows that the national cigaret
bdl is around 500 million dollars a year,’out of which Vide Sam
m the last fiscal year collected over 70 million dollars in
Quite a bit of mondy, to go up in smoke. i
John D. Rockefeller no longer is the richest man m the world,
* CC0 I. 1 *? t0 rumor amon S his big bankers. Wall Street Journal
, S ‘ 1 atement of w - c - Teagle, president of Standard Oil of
N. J., before senate committee, that John D. Rockefeller had not
* a *p ckh °lder in that company since 1920, is considered
confnmation of reports current in banking cirdes for some time
John D R^kef if HeEockefeller fortune has passed to
J ° hn R ” ke £ el ' er > ,r - Th" «as»n for this transfer of owner-
ship undoubtedly takes in the rather drastic inheritance taxes,
state and federal. The inheritance , tax can be dodged’ by giving
away property before death. And gifts-are not even taxable as
•a T*?*? is P °' y8amy ,n Every man has just one
wife (at least, one wife at a time), in exactly the same as
here in the United States. So daims Mufty Zade K. Zia Bey
visiting Boston. He’s son of a former Turkish ambassador to
Washington. Fresh from Constantinople, he insists the sultan
had only one wife, not a harem. Bey admits the existence of
harems, but says they are the dwelling places'of wives, brought
home as males of the family marry. No matter what question is
raised, there’s always the othtr side to be heard from.
THE BANNER-HERALD
'Tis true this elevator man
Can loudly laugh at strife.
Perhaps it is because he sees
The ups and downs of life.
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THIRD LARGEST WHEAT CROP
Winter wheat sowings this fall, estimated by the department
of agriculture recently at 46,OG9,000 acres are the third largest
ever planted by the farmers of the country, but the condition of
the crop is somewhat low, being 8.4 points below the ten year Dec
ember 1 average condition, according to a report sent out by the
Associated Press.
The crop reporting board made no forecast of the probable
production but an unofficial estimated, based on average aban
donment during this winter and average conditions prevailing
until harvest, places production at from 575,000,000 to 600,000,009
bushels. The first forecast of winter wheat production will be
made by the crop reporting board next May when its estimate of
acreage abandoned during the’ winter will be announced.
The plantings this fall of winter wheat are about 1,500,000
acres less than the revised estimate of the plantings a year ago
and about 5,400,000 acres less than those of the fall of 1918 when
the record area was sowed. They exceed the average sowings of
the last ten years, which is 42,451,500 acres, by almost 4,500,000
acres. The average area harvested in the last ten years is 38,-
416,200 acres, the average abandonments have been 9.7 per cent
and the range from 1.1 per cent during the winter of 1918-19 to
31.0 per cent during the winter of 1916-17.
Last year’s sowings, on larger acreage but with a poorer
condition on December 1, it having teen 76.0 per cent of a nor
mal, yielded a total production of 586,204,000 bushels, which is
approximately vhat this year’s sowings are forecast unofficially
to yield.
The area sown to rye this fall is 11.3 per cent less than sown
a year ago, the condition on December 1 is 7.9 points lower and
an official forecast of production places the crop at about 76,
500,000 bushels, which would be about 19,000,000 bushels less than
produced this year.
- The acreage of winter wheat sown in the southern states and
the conditions on December 1, were as follows: .
Virginia, 860,000 acres; condition, 81 per cent.
North Carolina, 615,000 acres artd 83 per cent.
South Carolina, 170,000 acres and 84 per cent. ^
Georgia,' 219,000 acres and 89 per cent. ‘
Tennessee, 453,000 acres and 83 per cent.
Alabama, 23,000 acres and 90 per cent.
Mississippi, 4,000 acres and 84 per cent.
Arkaniaa, 85,000 acres and 83 -^er cent ;<■■■- 1- i. . '
WE’RE GETTING BETTER
A mildewed old document, dated 1689, is discovered in Po
land. It describes the execution of a certain gentleman named
Casimir Lyszynski. After death, his body was 'burned, his ashes
put in a cannon and shot into the air toward Tartary. This hap
pened in Warsaw, and was an event not unusual in those days.
Casimir’s crime was denying (.he existence of God. Today he
could deny it until ho talked hims-lf blue in the face. All intel
ligent people would pity him for his vanity, ignorance and stu
pidity. But no one would think of executing him. A few would
argue—possibly convince him of the truth. Compare then with
now, and realize progress.
It was -only 133 years since counterfeiters were considered
guilty of treason and often burned alive in England. -The law
was repealed in 1790. A heart-rending instance was a little girl,
only 14, sentenced to be burned at the stake in 1782. The House
of Commons 'stormily debated her fate. When Sir William Mere
dith pardoned her, the fagots had been piled up for the fire.
She had been convicted of concealing counterfeiters’ dies inside
her corset, at the command of her employer.
Executions for witchcraft were common in the old days,
3,000 being “put away” in England during the Long Parliament,’
As late as 1716 Mrs. Hicks and her nine-year-old daughter were
hanged nt Huntington for ‘‘selling their souls to the devil and
raising a storm by pulling off their stockings and making a lather
of soap.” The authority, Barrmtcn, estimated that 30,000 were
executed in England on witchcraft charges.
It’s a terrible past that we have come out of. Wn’re not en
tirely out yet. Superstition and injustice still have their poison-
ous talons in- humsnity. But compare modern times with those
old days, and no argument is needed that we’re getting better,
ftogress is certain, and the struggle is not helpless. It must have
been Satan who invented the expression, “the good old days.”
Pancho Villa, former Mexican bandit, is reported to have
refused an offer of $50,000 for his memoirs. He says he wants
to bury the past and have his children hear of him, when they
grow up, only as a ranchman and benefactor of humanity,
it to the marines.
DAILY'
SERMONETTE
Man shall not lire 4 by bread
alone, but by every word that
proceedeth oat of the .month of
God.—Matthew 4:4.
Philosophy can bake us no
bread; but she can procure for
us God, freedom and immortal
ity.—Novalis.
. Berton Braley’s
Daily Poem
' THEGOOD 9
i SHEPHERDS
Once in a while a minister does
somethin? bad and sini«te r
And all the papers handle such
a scandal
For it’s news! ,
But, by and large, I urge—-a
w^io has the -job of clergyman
Is far too good and kindly f 0 r
us blindly '
To abuse.
say, in accents audible, most
ministers are laudable;
With faithfulness unswerving
they are serving
God and man;
They play not to the gallery, but
on a paltry salary
They counsel soothe, upbraid us.
and they aid us
All they cam.
Their usefulness is various; they
christen us and marry us.
They hd,, us &ce tb< T m "?
after sorrow —
UneB the brow
They teach us faith and charity
want and (n prosperity,
Their hearts are warm and am
ple; their example
Show us how! I
Of all the greed and vanity of
sad, confused humanity
Tk ® y r ,. » comprehension
worth the mention.
So I pen
T61, «s£r ,tiffli 40
hard-working.
Bunch of men!
(Copyright, 1922, l:sx Serv|ce ,
FOR THE BOUDOIR
an^lfr 3 * * h ® re Sulation Satin
and lace-tnmmed mules to which
we have become accustomed this
season we find elaobra” ones of
brocaded metal cloth, and of Chi
nese and oriental entbretteff.
SLEEVES FOR SPRING
By T. LARRY GANTT
. Last year the mountain' apple
crop was a practical failure, but
our market is now well supplied
with this popular fruit and they
Can be bought for one dollar a
bushel from wagons.> But there is
no need for our Importing apples,
g>r mis section is as well adapted
to their growth as the mountains
of Rabun or the hills around Cor
nelia. This flact has beem demon
strated by Mr. Davis .who lives on
the Mitchell bridge road just be
yond our incorporate limits. Mr.
Davis has a large bearing apple
orchard and grows as fine fruit
as I ever saw. His apples are
large in size and of delicious flav
or, the orchard being free from dls
ease. It does not take as much*
labor and care to keep apple trees
In condition ag % peach orchard,
and they are a much longer lived
tree than the peach. Mr. Ed
Clark, of Cornelia, tells me there
is as much money in bearing ap-
pleorchards as in a Flprida orange
urges Raising
OF APPLES^
* road these orchards l were being
pout down and the land planted in
•other crops. But there' are sec
tions like MarshallsviUe, Ga.,
where the peach was for years ana
Is still the standard money crop."
* A peach grower tells me that fin
er Elberta and other varieties of
peaches can be grown on tbe red
clay lands of upper Georgia than
on the grey and sandy soil lower-
down the'country. These paaches
have a brighter color acid b?*ter
flavor and-' command a hirher
price.
va^wS learn that leaves
r ary aJ? 08 * as much as neck-
lines. The very short versiS“’
Our land-owners should invest!
eate the possibilities of spple pro
duction and I am sure they would
eo into the business on an exten-
aeale. A good apple Is al-
“ <*> tto n. and when
an orchard Is planted the crop re
quires but little work once a year
acrTlnVt 1 !T eendition. And an
acre in standard apples will bring
the owner In more cash than sev
eral acres planted In cotton. There
are many crops that can be grown.
" ‘ hls aectlon far more valuable
than cotton, and our land-owners
ram d t d v. Tv 11 t0 ** ve, tigate them.
t ?! d th “ flfty ® Cres ,n bear-
Ing apples will bring io an income
of fren, ,5,000 to $18,000 a yetLr
The pecan Is also a fairly good
f“ ,' y cr ° p ’ but not so certain as
apples, >and I do not know that
tilfn wen adapted to this sec-
the 1 country.* d ° «•"» d °™
infe h ftfpH 8 ” 0t a "dapple grow-
5*‘! on anywhere than Jack
et ir B S" kS and tb ® “Pner sections
of ^adtson and Franklin.
e Sh< f Wey app,& on « °f ‘ha
Binnted h! .! ^" ter "WetieB. orU
gloated In Jackson county, and a
[^" e y i? r f h ag ° J the Parent
fb® land-owners In these
counties would turn their attention
1° few vL ‘ e i r orchar ds would in
FloS^. e. ” be aa TOl ®able as a
Florida orange grove, and all lands
greatly advanced in value.
THE PEACH . '
business : .
»
,rl? ere . are some four or five hun-
mandarin sieeve is often ,T.fS 11 I around Commerce and the acre-
lined with, contrasting matoriAL Sncrefse^s
I ba e enIars ^ and others
never say finer or more
peach trees than are
A Puzzle A Day 'I S3
ro. T en e t d f? wing shown above rep
resents the comer of a small
square pond. In the center of the
pond is a square fountain A
plumber sat out to repair the
fountain, and found two planks
which he could use as a bridge
each plank was, however? a fJot
too short to bridge the gap. How
did he overcome this difficulty?
v 4
I
J
Yesterday’s answer:
s hrte®n is the number which, if
multiplied by three-eighths of it
self (namely six) will give 96 as
the result
lnternrt?h, D J C ° mmerc O- And the
, owners have all
“ ^ ed modern methods for
peach culture and gathering and
shipping,their crops. But tt Is an pub,lc officii
expensive prop 0 SiUo n to care “ Volstead law
a peach orchqjd and it takes capl-
OTchard.”® ye “” “ K0 Iarft « Peach
orchards were planted along the
Jh® s ® aboard railroad In
wh b .n.^ ty and the owners,
when the crop hit had profitable
returns. But on my last trip thru
that section I noticed that the
prach business had nearly dwlnd-
ted away and the orchards wore
h® 1 "?, abandoned. The grafted
peach la not a long lived tree and
requires unceasing care and vigil-
If teep down the pests that
tree iSdf! f ° ,iase and ‘bo
My observation has been that
the peach business is a sort of
craze that Invades a section and
H, ® vcry one embarks In try
ing It. But In time It runs Its race
and the trees die out or are aban-
doned to the pests and something
else takes Its place.
„„ Many l- ear f ago. when 1 r lived in
South Carolina the land-owners
along the railroad from Augusta
to Columbia went wild over peach-
es and you saw miles of- orchards.
But the last time I traveled that
ABOUT THE
OTHER FRUIT
The cherry was once a popular
fruit and you saw laden trees
around nearly every farm home.
When I lived In Lexington, more
than two score years age. I had on
my lot a Dumber „ of fine cherry
trees, that bore tull crops every
year. But like the chestnut, the
cherry has disappeared in this
seotloh. Col. John w. Moody.’ of
Oglethorpe , countv who once own-
ed a nursery and Is an expert
fruit grower told-me that if there
was a cherry tree left in this coun
ty he did not know where it was.
The cherry slmplv died out and
When replanted thpy did not live
r? b® ar : There a-e some nursery
“ tack Refries, but I am speaking
of the old fashioned fruit of which
our mothers mad» pies. These lm
HU rt A d ”r et aberries are not suit
©d to this climate and only bear
ry off Cherries that the bI **ds car-
The O id-fashioned Indian white
English and ether varieties of
peaches that our ancestry grew,
have gone; and nursery stock has
taken its place. And those who
have never oaten an Indian o.
t™ 1 ® English peach do "not know
the taste of a g 0 od peach. Th»v
were grown from tho seed and A
tree would bear tor thirty or more
frem ' „| They Be ® m ed also immune
from disease, for we old people
never heard of the borers and oth-
."tT 601 P6StS l ' Ulin8 tmit trees.
In these good old times ncone
sprayed a fruit tree, and the ory
tlm?? U t° n .f VeD them was some-
times to trim oft limbs.
Upshaw Starts Home
After Parting Shot
At “Wet” Officials
Wimam I n N re T 2 J '’ —Representat lve
teLs stterorf w Sh L w ’ of Geor 6la who
has Stirred Washington by a house
speech demanding that high gov
ernment Officials and member! If
congress “practice what they
, re “* Prohibition, left
ptday for Atlanta. He will stop for
a or so in Asheville, N. c.
Before leaving, Representative
Upshaw wrote a letter to President
Harding urging that he issue a
Christmas or New Year’s day proc
lamation "calling on all eodddu-
zens and especially officials” to
refrain from breaking the Volstead
He describes the present sltua-
as one of "widespread disrc-i
ganl of the law,” and says the sal-'
vatlon of the national Ideals and!
preservation of good citizenship
Is at stake. It is not merely an eco- i
nomic question, he says, and hopes,!
the president will urge everybody,'
Including fraternal organizations,
and such organizations as the Kl-
wanls, Rotary and other clubs, and
public officials to get behind the
Constipation
Is Relieved
Prompt—Permanpnf—Urtlof
CARTER’S UTTT£ LIVER PITH
rarely faiL Purdy ante
vegetable—act ,
Cartel.,
1>Y ER
, •; , {f - v TUESDAY. npc^^
Many Prisoners b
v Are Releasedii
surely but gent
ly on ths liver.
'Reliera after
dinner die-
treee —re
tbe eye.
Da. BELL’S
Omnia, &-
fUSZ 3 * (TV
jcars 7j
YcmH be surprised at the remark
able qualities of this genuine old
ajrup of pine-tar honey. It loosens
hard-packed phlegm, acts as a
healing tonic on aora, inflamed ti>-
4 «aa«,Btopa coughs short. So pleasant*
ta£tag a&d harmless, tt is fine for
children's es well as adults' coughs.
*“ 8 - -* *-t for 30c Dr. Bair*.
nwMBERiAja’j?
TABLETS
•SOLD EVERYWHERE FOR-
CON5TIPATION
BILIOUSNESS
Headache
INDIGESTION
Stomach Trouble
DUBLIN.—(By The Associated
Press) !— Nearly three hundred
prisoners have been released in the
past fortnight it was stated at
Free State military headquarters
Saturday. Although the maiority
? f the® were gicen their freedom
m the last few days, it was in no
wis® a Christmas arrangement.
The course of signing a pledge
.not to bear arms agpinst the gov
ernment has been opened to all
prisoners for a considerable time
the officials added but the ap
proach/ of the holidays induced
many of the republican prisoners
to abandon their idea of armed ac
tivity. Owing to previous experi
ence with liberated persons break
ing their promises the military au
thorities made, a careful investiga
tion of every case before granting:
release.
Shorter Will Install
Dr. Blocker With
' Impressive Ceremony
ROME, GA.—The installation of
Shorter college’s new president.
Dr. D. J. Blocker, now a mem
ber of the faculty of William and
Mary college, Virginia, to. to take
place Thursday morning* January
4 and to be made an impressive
occasion.
Among the speakers who have
-already accepted invitations are
Governor-elect iClifford Walker
and Editor Louis Newton, of the
Christian Index. Deani Furry, 0 f
the college, is sending out invita
tions asking attendance at the in
stallation to ( scores of the south’s
noted educators and it is expected
that a large number will attend.
The procession to the college
will include the board of trus
teed, members of the faculty, stu
dents and visitors and many of
them will be attired in academic
dress.
CompoiJ
“Pape’s Cold
Acts Quick, Costs Litft
NeY _ e I Sickens!
Every druggist here
each pa<~
pound” - ^ _
end grippe msiery .
or money returned ' Si
pain, headache, feveru|
flamed or congested
head relieved with fi
These safe, pleasant t,
only a few cents and
take then, instead of.
quinine. (Advertisement)
Lynch Retains
- Championship
DO YOU worn
ASKS THIS
“That I’m a Believol
Cardui GoJ
Weak She Rid
to Bed—But Read I
Story.
New Year Cards.—Mc
Gregor’s.
QrmXyocrcaMqukMy. Why
NEW YORK.—Joe Lynch of New
York retained hfe world bantam
weight championship Friday night
as a result of victory over Midget
Smith, Harlem challenger, in a 15-
round contest at Madison Square
Garden. Lacking the thrills of mo
championship encounters, t u -
J was largely a triumph of superior
boxing ability over nigged aggres-
1 slveness. ■ . tnea medicines and evi
Lynch clearly outpointed hls rival' °ad th. best of attention,
ut displayed no decisive punish- wasn't able to get op.
“I lay for three month,, not
I
j. Osawatomio. Kans.-H,, .
E. Keast, formerly of IlUno^l
Biding here, saya: "W. moral a J
State eleven year, ago. ,rvj |
good health for a long
then noma year or »> ngo 11
bad aick spell . . .
“I got eo weak I couldn’t,
couldn't stand on my faet I
had to go to bed.
“I Buffered a great deal.
•o nervous I feu I couldn't
“I tried medicines and i
—- --- — ..........in.-, IIVO
but displayed no decisive punish
ing prowess, with the exception of
one or two of the closing rounds.
Smith, an easy mark for Lynch’s
rangy left tried gamely but inef-
to do anything.
“My, husband la a bill p<
has circulars distributed.
gamely Dut met- nas circulars dlstribu
fectually to penetrate the chani^a. th sra chanced to be a _
pion’s defense. day Almanac among his nim
I read it, and told some of th,
liy to get me a bottle ot C,
Thoy laughed and sold I mi
take it. But I did. I began
a M^° lespoonful two hoti
. - 1 Q u Jt all other medicine*
took it (Cardui) faithfully, ud
weeks from the time I ben
take Cardui 1 was cut ot bi
ter than for months.
“I kept It up and continued t
prove until I was s well worn
Do you wonder .hat I am
liever in Cardui? 1 certainly
And I am sure there Is no I
tonic m.ule for women than Cu
Ail druggrists sell Cardui,
worn on.—Adr
pion’s defense.
. New Year Cards.—Mc
Gregor’s.
ALWAYS &SX US FOR
CALUMET
Tt. Economy BAKING POWDER
Arnold-Abney Co.
Desire Upholds Business
fhe basic changes that have taken place
m business during the past year or more
—specifically the change in price levels
and price tendencies—have caused
business, men everywhere to think less
superficially and more fundamentally
about business.
Great basic facts which were but lit
tle realized, c.-cept by thinkers along
economic lin-'-. have now become’clear-
er to the public ; t large, and to business
leaders in particular.
One such fact is that Desire is the
foundation of business. It is the desire
of the people for any article of com
merce that makes it profitable to pro
duce it. When that desire fails all die
agencies of its production must cease to
operate. ,
- This fact was considered academic
until the nation-wide cessation of liber
al, buying made it a matter , of cardinal
importance,. and the.question of the
hour became the means, if any, of re
storing the popular desire to do busi
ness—the desire!to buy^r
It came to be seen’that the public'de
sire for products of a business or an in
dustry was the only real and permanent
asset.- Every other assumed asset be
came a liability when that desire sub
sided.
It is upon this basic fact that Adver
tising rests.
It is the function of Advertising to
create desire.
The desire that is created by Adver
tising is always some specialized form
of an elemental need. Elemental needs,
;n their simple form, are the raw mate
rial out of which must be created the
Demand for the products of industry.
? Demand, in its turn, upholds civil
ization itself. . It ■ Is the one necessary
thing that inspires all human activity.
It is the function of Art and Industry
to take the raw materials of nature and
refine them ihto products that constitute
Supply. It is the function of Advertising
to take the raw materials of elemental
need for food, shelter, and clothing,
and refine them into the desires for the
finest products of Art and Industry, and
these desires constitute Demand, psy*
function is as important as the other-ft
And.now the time has come when this!
fact is realized as never beiore. i sr . i
1 ■ • ; ' J f|r
ms.