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EPIRUS: TO WHICH GREECE LAYS CLAIM Washington. July 23.—“ Toe eastern shore line of Adriatie sea, which continues southward as the eastern shore of the lonian sea, the exit of the Adriatic, has been a seething cauldron of racial strife from the time of the Persian and Roman empires to the peace con ference of 1919.” says a bulletin of the National Geographic socie ty The bulletin calls attention to the fact that the subsidence of the controversy between Italy and the new kingdom of the Serbs, ('mats and Slovenes over Fiume, seems merely to transfer ti e center of interest southward to the historic Epirus, now a part of Albania, which Greece wishes restored to her domain. “Five centuries before Christ, Epirus was set off like a little is land. apart from Alexander's vast domains, with Macedonia and Hel las and the lonian sea as its boun daries.” the bulletin continues. "The name, meaning ‘mainland,’ was given it to distinguish it from tlx- Grecian islands, which fringe its coast line. "Corinthians, Athenians and Spartans Poked upon the Epirotes as barbarians, though Aristotle be lieved Epirus the original home of the Hellenes. Today the major portion of the ancient area is com prised in Albania, among youngest and least known ol all the state* of Europe. Renown Won. “An oracle and a woman won for Epirus w ide renown in the an cient world. From prehistoric times messages of the gods were received at Dodona through the rustlings of the leaves on an oak tree, where Zeus was supposed to •lurk; and from Epirus came Olym pias, mother of Alexander the (Ireat, whose son’s renown does not overshadow her own major part in the history of her times. “Ruins ol the Dodona temples were discovered within the last half century a few miles south west of Janina. According to local tradition the first message w as de livered by a dove speaking with a human voice from a treetop. Pries tesses were called Peleaides, 'or doves. “Rivalry between the oracle of Zeus at Dodona and that ol' Apol lo at Delphi became keen. Priest esses of the former invented new ways of receiving messages, inclu ding interpretations of the mur murs of a brook, and the sounds of a metal-tipped whip as the wind drove it against a bronze tripod I * F “Croesus was supposed to have consulted the Dodona oranele about his proposed campaign against Cyrus, king of the Per sians He acted upon the more flat tering prophecy at Delphi which promised he would ‘destroy a greut kingdom.’ The prediction was verified; the kingdom des troyed was liis ow n. Biography Fascinating. “Few biographies of women are more fascinating that that of Oly mpias. She was the daughter of a king of Epirus, who traced his an cestry to a sini of Achilles. She marrieJj Philip 11, of Maeedon. iler character betrays an amaz ing compound of t lie devoted mo ther, the barbaric passion of a Cleopatra, and the astute states manship of Maria Theresa. Plu tarch gives a vivid description of her fantastic snake dances, Es tranged from Philip because of his infidelity, she was suspected of having a part in his murder. “Pyrrhus, descended from Al exander'.- aunt, wages a war with Rome and mare Epirus a power in worlr polities for a brief period. A century mid a half after his death the He.mans annihilated the forces of Person- at Pydna and the punishment meted out to Epirus for its part in the war was the des truction of 70 of her principal cities and enslavement of 150,000 of her citizens. The Kingdom never NATION WIDE DRIVE TO IM PROVE ALL LIVE STOCK United States Department of Ag riculture Announces Campaign to Eliminate Scrub Sires from Breed ing. Washington, D. C., This is the slogan of a national' better live-stock crusade, to get actively in motion October 1, that is announced by the United States Department of Agriculture, work ing in cooperation with the State agricultural colleges and other agencies interested in live-stock improvement. The campaign looks forward to the future food needs of this country’s increasing popu lations and results from long and careful observation of the live stock industry in this country, an' l was planned after extensive con sultation with specialists and breeders. The plan is to hasten the replacement of the of scrub domestic animals in the United States with pure-bred or high graeje stork, ancTulso to im prove lie quality of pure breds themselves. hTe goal in view is greater efficiency in production. The campaign will be the first organized crusade in a lurge coun try t" improve all live stock simul taneously. It will interfere in no way with any work in live-stock improvement now being conduct ed. but makes all the work more definite and effective by providing official recognition for progressive breeders. The campaign will be suuervis ed fr.mi the Department of Agri ulture i*i Wad ington, and in each State by the State agricultu ral college. County agents and other field workers of the Depart ment .if Agriculture an' l of the Slate colleges will handle the cam paign locally. Every live-stock ow ner actively cooperating and, keeping and using none but pure-; bred sires of good quality will be) given an emblem as an official re cognition of meritorious effort. THE FATTEST MAN” IN ALL Th.'J WORLD INTO THE UN WORLD. New York, duly 27.—“ Jack Wilson, said to be the fattest man in the world, who weighed o>o pounds, died here today of paraly sis. When Wilson, who for years had, been exhibited in a sideshow at Coney Island, was taken to the hospital, it was found an ambu lance was too small to hold him an' l he was transferred in a motor truck. Ilis body will he taken to Chicago for burial. GIRLS SHORT COURSE. The Canning Club Hirls of th# fifth congressional district com pleted last Friday a most profita ble Short Course at Monroe. The excellent instruction they received in Jlome Economies together with jthe gi.od times they had, and t!7e new friendships formed made this indeed a happy and well spent peek for the girls. Those attend ing from Barrow County were: j Misses Lillie Chandler, Bertie |Sells. Mary .lane Perkins. Kossie ! Belle Barber, Marietta Duncan, and Ruth Bure!. Just ask these girls what good they received from the Short Course. recovered l'rom that blow. “Kpirus is extremely mountain ous. From ancient times to tho pre sent day its cattle and horses have been noted and it was famous for a peculiar breed of dog, the Molos sian. ” Phrenological. An odd reminder. says *ho Independ ent. of the days when phrenology was popular as a means of “rending char acter," with a sty din nt the tendency nf IK. professors to give complimentary explanations of the "humps," is fou..d In a letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning advertised for sale in n Lon don Bookseller's catalogue. It reads in part: "Do you believe In phrenol ogy? Pld you ever consult a phreno logical oracle? anil did It answer, 'My son, thou urt invincible?' ’’ STOP SOIL WASHING, SAYS MR FRENCH. He Holds That No Real?- Effective Soil-enriching Can Come With out First Stopping the Washing That Is Annually Costing Us Millions, and The Progressive Farmer AgTees With Him. By A L. French. In Progressive Fanner. Some people. 1 believe have a birthright a love for the soil that is so real that to see soil misused causes them tlie same pain that comes to any right-minded person when he sees an animal mistreat ed. With this love for the soil there naturally goes the desire and de termination to protect it as far as able; to make rich soil richer; and to give to poor soil every aid with in his power. My start in farming was on what I then thought, with my very limited observation, was poor soil. Since traveling over much of fhe United States, I have decided that the soil which received my youth- Jful ministrations and that finally ! became quuite a rich soil could not really he classed as poor at all. However, when 1 left ,my little rich farm and bought a much larg er one in a distant state, I secured some soil that I still maintain was really portr, practically all of it. So for a man who considers him self young still—and hopes always to feel that way about himself, whatever other may think—there has eome considerable experience with soils. Over the territory in which The Progressive Farmer cireuulates there is a considerable area of naturally poor soil, soil from which nature in the beginning withheld her gift of riches, or la ther. because of her moderate way* of tloing things, she hadn't unt round to attend to this class of soil when man jumped in and de manded Iris “pound of flesh.’’ These naturally poor soils are lfir! i: i! in someone or * all the three main pla'nt foods and, gene rally too, are lacking in lime and practically all are woefuully lack ing in humus. Wtth the advance of a gricultuural science, however, men who know and who can ac quire such soils, at a. reasonable price for a soil skeleton, are able to improve them at a profit and make of them very, productive soils finally. No one medicine will cure such soils of their proverty. So the pa tent. medicine farmer, had. best leave them entirely alone. A wide range of treatment must be resort ed to and carried out. simultane ously.. Phosphorus,- potash., and iime a>-e generally needed, and a light dressing of nitrogen to start into vigorous growth the various nitrogen-gathering crops we term legumes for these crops must be the base upon which a profitably rich soil is builded. Thu* the word ing of these soils must he intelli gently handled, for it has been proved that intelligent manipula tion of poor soils has much to do with their redemption. In some cases it is useless to pro ceed with other means until pro- per drainage lias been attended to. However, unless soils are really water-sobbed. proper breaking and the incorporating with the deiwi soil of organic, matter, with the application of lime in needed quantity, will do much to rectify poor drainage. Let us turn now from nature’s sins of ommision and consider isoils that are poor because of man’s sins of ommision and con sider soils that are poor because of man’s sins of commission, for out duty lies more directly in this lline because of the vast acreage of soil in our Southland that is in it-s present deplorable condition sim ply because of man’s ignorance or willtul misuse. The soil in our section that was once good and is now poverty stricken owes its present condition to one cause more than any other half dozen causes, and that major cause is washing. If a naturally fertile soil does not wash to any great extent, it will require years of the rneayest soil butchering to make it unproductive, because of the \ast amounts of dormant plant foods such soils held in their vir gin state. 1 contend, as I have contended for years, that the elimination of washing is the basis upon which the redemption of our naturally rich but now poor soils must l>e builded. To overcome washing of rolling land, tlie temporary mea sure of terraeinb must be supple mented and followed up with soil binding sods that grow upon the land at least one year in every four, and if it is possible to so ar range a profitable rotation of crops—that sods cover the land one-half of the time the redemp tion of the soil will he 25 per cant more rapidly brought about gen erally. I have never been able to figure out how I could the most profitab ly improve our land without some livestock and grass and legumes grown as part of the regular farm rotation. The grass and legumes are grown primarily for the sake of the land, and the good livestock is kept on regularly from year to year to make a home market for the grass aiid legumes so their growing will not be an expense to the farm, J)ut*a source of income. But grass and livestock and le gumes alone will not make poor land rich. Years of cropping have reduced the available mineral plant foods in the soils and years of unrestricted washing have tak en from our rolling soils five times the plant food that the crops sold j have taken. bTese mineral plant I foods cannot he grown on the land, but must he brought there ■in the form of purchased feeds or from the vast stores in the mines and in the everlasting hills. I am not a beliver in soil-build ing in the South through tlie pur chase of stock feed direct, as the plant foods so secured are very much more expensive than those purchased direct as mineral ferti lizer. My plan lias always been to purchase lfiineral plant foods to help produce stock feed on the farm on which the livestock is maintained and some to sell. The good Lord knows, that, could the soils of the South he made rich throuugh purchased stock fats, there would be no poor soil in our section today; for we have been shipping it in for the past fifty years to feed one-half of the ani mals kept. It is pretty 'generally known now, because of experiments that have been conducted for years— what are the general plant food needs of certain soil types, and 1 consider it the part of wisdom for the soil-builder to make use of the information gathered at his exper iment stations at considerable cost. But I wish to state right here once more than you can purchase food until your grand-children are gray-headed and if you don’t stop the washing your land will- still be poor. It is absolute folly for us to tear down our mountains of phos phate rock and deplete our potash beds to enrich the Atlantic Ocean and the (iulf of Mexico. Now don't say that French can make his soil rich because he hasn't any money crop except livestock. For years he has sold more hay each year than has been sold from any farm in>ijis county of twice the acreage. More wheat, too. lias been sold from Sunny Home than from any other farm of its si/.e in the county. And he inis sold corn enough ir. one year— after the hogs an edattle require ments had been met —to pay for all the mineral fertilizer purchas ed in two. years Still tin* acres are growing richer year by year. But he has stopped the washing of the land, by underdrainage, deep plowing, grass—lots of it—mid le gumes all the time. Frightful Dream. Tittle Cllngir says the reason she s quitting her present boarding house s because she dreamed last night she sas married to a cannibal, and when the waked up a horrid little bug was sating on her.—Dallas News. PENTECOST. Rev. E. A. Caldwell, of Monroe, preached two very interesting ser mons here Saturday night and Sunday. Mrs. Minnie Luther and chil dren, of Commerce, spent last week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Prieke** Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Chandler and little son, Brunell, spent Sun day aftermuTh with Air. and Mrs. M. L. Williamson. Mrs. M. A. McCoy and Miss AYilda Pentecost spent Friday af ternoon with their aunt, Airs. Adeline Bowman. Mrs. S. F. Browne of Columbus, has returned home after a weeks’ visit to her daughter, Airs. R. M. Hardigree. Aliss Lila Harris, of Bogart, was the attractive guest of Aliss Grace Priekett recently. Alisses Pearlie and Zora Ham mond w ere the guests of Aliss Rosa Lee Chandler Sunday. Mr. and Airs. *Job Haynie and GIRLS WANTED One hundred gills wanted to make Overalls. Highest wages paid. Steady work’. Apply SUPT. BELL OVERALL CO., Winder, Ga. Public Sale I will sell to the highest bidder, at the old AY. S. Dunahoo home place in Chandler’s Dis trict, on Saturday August 2nd ;2 Mules, 2 Cows, Buggy and Harness, Farm Tor,ls and one two-horse "Wagon; the property of T. S. Dunahoo. late of said county, deceased. % L. E. DUNAHOO. LAND FOR SALE 130-acre farm for sale, near Mulberry, for the next 30 days. Will sell at a great sacrifice. It is cheap at SIOO per acre, but for next 30 days am offering it at only S6O per acre. Will give some terms. M. J. GRIFFETH WINDER. GEORGIA SPECIAL NEWS FOR ALL 1 buy and sell anything on topol tin globe. I sell Graphonolas, Singer Sewing Ma chines, Cows, Hogs, and Real K state lli.it will enable you to make the money to buy what you want. If von have something to trade, I am the man for you to see, for I can tickle you and you can tickle me. JNO. S. CRAFT children, of Tyro, were the guests of Mrs. H. A. Hardigree Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Elder and children of New Timothy, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. 0. W. Steed. Mrs. John Couch and Mrs. Shp£ spent Monday with Mrs. Adeline Bowman. Aliss Hattie Dunahcx was the at tractive guest of Aliss Marie Hay nie last week. Master Duncan and little Nell Hardigree, of Montreal, spen™ the week-end with their grand mother, Airs. H. A. Hardigree. Mr. Lamie Williamson spent Thursday night, with Mr. Roy Steed. Air. and Airs. Jeff Ray and chil dren, f South Georgia, spent last week with Air. and R. L. Ray. Airs. Ada Segars and Misses Eva, Nelie and Mira Dell Segars, of Winder, spent Tuesday with Air. and Airs. Grady Segars. Mr. Theo Pentecost of Bostwick, is -the guest of relatives here for a few days.