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The Douglas Enterprise
DOl GLAS, GEORGIA
Established 1888
Published Every Friday By
The Enterprise Publishing Company
W. R. Frier, Editor
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OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR COFFEE COUNTY
Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at
Douglas, Ga., under Act of Congress of Mch. 8, 1879
Member: —Georgia Press Association and Eleventh
District Press Association. : : :
A. & M. COMMENCEMENT.
The A. & M. commencement exercises are
on as this issue goes to press. The people of
Douglas and over the county should rally to
these exercises from night to night, and at
least pay # the school a visit before it closes.
The end of the present term closes a great
year’s work. The attendance has been good and
all classs have made rapid advancement. The
Principal and teachers have all worked in har
mony, and the student body as a whole has been
all that could be asked for.
Prof. Thrash is again to be complimented
on the year’s achievements. No principal in
the state has worked harder to bring about the
results that are now in evidence. The school’s
property is worth twice what it was when he
took charge a few years ago. The grounds have
been rebuilt and something of a permanent na
ture has been begun. The sanitary condition
of the buildings and grounds are A 1, and no
school in the state can make a better showing
along this line.
And right here, there is some talk of this
school losing its present principal. Prof.
Thrash, as we understand that he has been of
fered a similar position with the Powder Springs
school. We hope that the present trustees will
be able to keep him, as no school enjoys a more
equipped and efficient teacher and principal.
This community cannot afford to lose him, as he
stands for everything that is progressive and
indueive of better citizenship.
The A. & M. School has been worth a lot to
ths city and section, and under the present man
agement has grown to be recognized as among
the first of the* twelve Agricultural and Me
chanical schools of the state. May it continue
to grow', and we know it will, under the present
management and leadership.
« Ming all the Way!
There’s the thrill that comes with danger.
There’s the thrill which is a tribute to sheer beauty.
And—Thrill Supreme!—That which we know at the
sight of two lovers , obstacles surmounted and dan
gers passed , caught up amid roseate-tinted clouds
| of ecstasy. These and more
You Will Find In
The Hunchback of Notre Dame”
Rivoli Theatre, Douglas, Ga.
May 21st. and 22nd.
Admission: Adults sl.lO Includes War Tax
Three shows each day. Matinee, seats open to all.
Night shows all seats reserved, no extra charge.
Balcony, Ist day for Whites, 2nd day for Colored.
Write for reservations Phone 163
W. H. Carroll, Manager
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE. DOUGLAS, GEORGIA. MAY 16, 1924.
GEORGIA FORESTS GOI\6.
Among the many measures to be consider
ed at the coming session of the Georgia Legis
lature, there is none more important than the
“Forrestry Bill” presented last year, which due
to the congested condition of the Calendar failed
in reaching a stage of discussion on its merits.
The Bill will come up again this year in an
amended form, drawn more especially to make
reforestation possible by natural means.
Protection from forest fires and equitable
or fair taxation are the principal things neces
sary at this time, along wth which however
must necessrily come a State Board or Commis
sion, with sufficient funds to enable it to func
tion.
The timber .resources of Georgia are fast
fading away. In many counties the saw mills
are cutting short leaf old field pine, all that is
left and at the present rate these counties will
be practically devasted of lumber making trees
within the next few years. In other counties
the very young long leaf pines are being work
ed for turpentine and it seems that if some
measure is not taken promptly that five years
hence shall find many of our counties totally
dependent on other, possibly outside, sources
for lumber and that there will be no small trees
to work for turpentine.
This statement may be accepted by some
as farfetched, but we can refer to North Caro
lina and South Carolina as examples where a few
years ago the Naval Stores Industry was in its
bloopi, but which has now been forced to the
lower extremity of Georgia and down into Flor
ida, where it is on the race to its death or des
truction unless we rise up as a state and grow
new' tember to meet our requirements and it is
this which the Georgia Forestry Association is
endeavoring to make possible.
It would therefore appear as wisdom on the
part of our Georgia Legislators to give this
subject the closest kind of study and investi
gation and to adopt proper legislation as will en
able the state of Georgia to progress by being
able to produce indefinitely sufficient timber to
keep it in a position of being able to supply its
requirements and as a first rate state in the pro
duction of lumber and naval stores which by
right has been one of its greatest natural re
sources.
New developments are taking place for the
gubernatorial race this summer. It is likely
that Mayor Walter Sims, of Atlanta, will be a
candidate. If he does, the will have
a race.
f? This Week dh
We Spend, Also Save-Full Beard at 4- Why Except
Laborers?—Old Men Crave Learning—Money in the B.oie
Americans are saving money as
never before, and prohibitionists
will find comfort and ammunition
in that.
Savings bank deposits increased
last year one billion one hundred
and forty million, a good deal of
money, and that’s only a small part.
Other hundreds of millions were
invested in real estate, bonds,
stocks, etc. In the world’s historj
there is nothing like the way in
which the American people both
SPEND money and SAVE money.
Savings average thirty million
dollars a day, about thirty cents
a day for every man, woman and
child —not bad.
Yet you have pessimists predict
ing hard times and sensible busi
ness men actually frightened by
their own talk about “a bad Presi
dential year."
We are indeed “fearfully and
wonderfully made,” and well may
we praise the Lord. What horri
ble things MIGHT happen if our
glands ran wild, as in the case of
a little Russian boy four years old.
He wears a full beard and has such
abnormal power that he wrestles
successfully with grown men and
must be watched lest he strangle
his playmates, having the brain of
a child and no realization of power.
Doctors say the unfortunate boy
has excessive development of vari
ous glands, especially the thyroid.
Marvelously we are balanced,
and we should be grateful. At the
Equator, temperature 140, or the
North Pole, 50 below xero, the
temperature of your blood remains
the same, not a change of one de
gree, while outside temperature
changes two hundred degrees.
And the earth, that floating hot
house in which you live, sails
through frightfully cold ether per
manently at “absolute zero," cold
to us, and we are
protected from it.
Washington predicts that postal
employes will get an increase of
S3OO a year, “all except laborers."
WHY except the laborers? Their
children eat as much, wear out as
many shoes as others. The Gov
ernment can afford to pay its work
ers well, and should remember that
the child of a laborer may be the
most important citizen of the fu
ture, and, anyhow, should be well
fed. Keats, the poet, worth ten
See us for Job Work-- -The Enterprise
million average human beings, was
the son of a livery stable groom.
The Governor of Connecticut,
past fifty, will enter Yale Univer
sity, to specialize in history and
psychology when his term ends,
and that is normal. At fifty, men
really want knowledge and value
it. In early youth they crave ex
ercise and excitement.
In childhood we lock them up In
schools, forcing knowledge into
them by a pumping process, when
they ought to be out of doors. And
when they are old we turn them
out into the golf fields and let them
make geese of themselves, when
they really ought to be studying.
The Labor Government of Eng
land has abolished all duties on
automobiles, motor cycles, moving
picture films and watches —and
that, in spite of Great Britain’s
terrific war debt.
This highly intellectual Ameri
can Republic is planning a tax on
radio sets, which is about as intel
ligent as it would be to tax school
books or new ideas. To allow
twenty billion dollars’ worth of se
curities to go untaxed and put a
tax on human ingenuity is foolish,
to put it mildly.
Mason J. Aldrich bought a Bible
at auction for twenty-five cents,
and found in it two bills, one for
SIOO, the other for $2. A wonder
ful bargain, newspapers call it But
there are better things than $lO2
to be found in any Bible. There is
salvation, most important, and if
you are more interested in money
than salvation, as some are, you
can even make money by reading
the Bible.
Isaiah, Job, the Psalms stimu
late the mind, make the brain work.
A stimulated mind succeeds,
whether in making money, or
avoiding sin.
"To lend dignity to their bobbed
heads," English women wear fil
lets of green and gold, or little
spikes. In Goddess of Liberty fash
ion. The real dignity of a bobbed
head, is a well shaped skull. Noth
ing is more dignified than the sym
metrical head of an intelligent
woman, bobbed or not. Eventually
all women will cut their hair In
such fashion as to show the whole
forehead, the ears and the shape
of the back head. But it will take
time to get used to it.
Uncle JakiiljjjL
How gladly I welcome the
verdant spring onion, that sheds
o'er my garden its capable
breath. It’s good fer my cold—
or to poultice my bunion, and
helps to postpone when Pm
flirtin’ with death! Its virtues so
rare, that I gladly repeat ’em,
although they are easy and well
understood, —I challenge the
strongholds of science to beat
’em in uplift, sxcl’ision, perfum
ery and food! What matter if
friends an' %ompanions forsake
me, or face t’other way when I
toot my bazoo ? Of course I’ll
repent—if my sins overtake me,
and set by myself in a far
corner pew. . . . Let neighbors
insult me by holdin’ their noses,
and hintin’ that “polecats is on
the increase’’ —the onion don’t
smell like the ottar of roses, but
she lends her admirers content
ment and peacel And, while I
am keerful in idyll and lyric, *
and deftly avoid any statements
that clash —I’m quick to repel
any mental hysteric that enters
my kitchen an’ fools with my
hash!
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