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The Douglas Enterprise
DOUGLAS. 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. : : :
No use sending for the doctor for “spring
fever.” The doctor has it, too.
Commencement tme is with us again. Let
us give loyal support to all the exercises of both
schools.
Coffee’s tobacco crop continues to look
good, and prospects for a big crop with a good
price, are still good.
THIS NATION OF YOURS.
No one realizes how things grow in Ameri
ca, how rapidly we are climbing toward really
gigantic enterprises, worthy in size of the rich
est country. Recently some figures of New
York’s National City Bank were published. In
May, 1893, deposits in that bank amounted to
twenty-two millions, and total resources to
twenty-five millions. On April 1 of this year
the bank’s deposits were seven hundred and for
ty millions, the total resources nine hundred
and thirty-four millions. In the report of this
April the bank showed among its assets more
than ninety-five millions of United States Gov
ernment bonds and certificates. And in thirty
days that have elapsed since the report was pub
lished, the bank has a profit of a million and a
quarter on the increased value of its Govern
ment bonds. This isn’t a government to sell
short, and not one to make its citizens worry.
DON’T BE A SCANDAL MONGER.
Why do you try to learn something of a de
rogatory nature about those you know?
Why make the simplest action appear as
if it were to be questioned?
By inunendo and by other means is it your
delight to circulate reports which cast a shadow
upon the reputations of persons?
W’hat good do you get out of defaming an
other?
If you could overlook certain little indiscre
tions and think of the good that osme person has
done and is doing you might be better pleased
with yourself?
W’hat comfort do you get from your sus
picions?
Perhaps your neighbor does do things that
are puzzling to you, but if you are not sure they
are wrong, you have no right to judge from ap
pearances.
Are you so good, so clean in your own
record, so unafraid and unashamed as far as
your own past is concerned that you can afford
to keep picking others to shreds, regardless of
the justice of your attachs?
There is none more merciless nor more un
fair than a scandal monger.—Houston Post.
ANOTHER TRIUMPH.
By a new process of transmitting pictures
by electricity the American Telephone and Tele
graph company has finally successfully triumph
ed after a long series of experiments to that end.
From Cleveland, Ohio, Monday evening,
fifteen pictures were transmitted to New York,
and without a single exception the details in
photography were brought out most sharply.
The reproduction of these pictures in the New
Y’ork newspapers of Tuesday illustrates beyond
further question that science has perfected an
other one of the world’s wonders, and that with
in a short time a prize fight, to illustrate, in
London, can be seen on the screen in New York,
round by round as it proceeds.
This new system is capable of wide exten
sion and is unlimited in its possibilities. In a
way it equals triumph of science on aerial navi
gation ; and it accentuates again the manifold
possibilities of further electrical development.
ffADiO' 1 WNrsySWi
A crystal is a better detector
than a tube. That is why crystal
detectors are used In most reflex
sets and in many other radio fre
quency seta. A tube is valuable be
cause you get regeneration and
amplification at the same time you
get detection, which means a louder
signal, but the tuba Is beaten by the
crystal when It comas to quality.
Keep the solution of your storage
battery at a level of % Inch above
the platee, otherwise the plates will
corrode and buckle, ruining the cell.
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An aerial for a crystal set should
be made long, as the crystal hae no
amplifying power and only picks up
energy Imposed on t* not having a
. bxttery to assist it. About
ISO feat is bast.
A one-tube regenerating set will
bring to all the stations that a
three-tube sat will the only advan
tage of a three-tube set being that
*T/ operate a loud speaker. An
audio frequency amplifier merely
amplifies the signal after the de
tector has made It audible.
Three dry cells will have to be
series for use with the
UV-190 and C-2M tubes, and if
more oells are added they will have
to be wired lr. parallel to the first
three In the first the series
THE COW, THE HOG, AND THE HEN.
The “Cow, Hog and Hen” program is well
under way in South Georgia, says the Waycross
Journal-Herald. The poultry sales which have
been held and the repeated running of poultry
buying cars have had an unusual result: That
of stimulating marvelously the interest in rais
ing more poultry for more profitable sales. The
demonstration has been made that—as the
cream checks from the creameries have been
wonderfully aiding the upkeep of the overhead
of farming in all the months, so the chicken
sales have brought in ready money for a prod
uct that has in most instances cost little to pro
duce and just at a time when the money is
“pow’ful handy to have around.” The selling
of poultry is stirring practical interest in more
poultry. It is acting like dipping out a pail of
water from a pond—encouraging more water
immediately to fill up the hole.
The cow situation is progressing. There
are fewer ticks; more pastures, greater feed
crops planted—and more interest in dairy cat
tle. One of many such items of evidence is
found in the following from the Tifton Gazette:
Two carloads of purebred dairy cattle are
to be shipped into Colquitt county and sold at
cost to dairymen, or those who want to try
dairying. This plan will gradually build up the
dairy herds of any county and is a work that
should be encouraged and carried on in every
county, not only of South Georgia, but through
out the state. The seventeen creameries of
Georgia have a monthly output of approximate
ly a, quarter of a million pounds, and all of them
should be operated at capacity. Purebred dairy
cows will do much to bring this about.
And so the cow is keeping step with the
hen. The hog has lagged. But there are signs
that he will pick up and perk up and catch step
again.
The cow, hog and hen program does these
things—fore and aft: It forces the farmers
to plant feed crops—to feed the chickens, keep
the cows giving milk, and fatten the hogs; and
afterward, it results in more cash for the far
mer, coming frequently when he needs it most.
In an auxiliary way—it makes the living bet
ter on the farm, directly—with more milk and
butter, more chickens and eggs.
“WHAT CAN WE DO TO MOST EFFECTIVE
LY FIGHT THE WEEVIL?”
Of course this question covers the whole
field of cotton growing under boll weevil con
ditions. Among the most important things to
do and the things most strongly urged we find:
1. Soil improvement begun now and in
definitely continued by all known means.
2. Better cultivation with better imple
ments.
3. More summer and winter cover crops
for the soil’s improvement.
4. The addition of humus to the soil at
frequent intervals and in liberal quantities.
5. Kill live cotton stalks as soon as cotton
can be picked, or three to five weeks before the
first killing frost.
6. Use increased acre-applications of ferti
liser recommended by the state agricultural
college. Adjust analysis of fertilizer to natural
and acquired soil properties and conditions.
7. Plant only such acreage as will enable
you to give the best attention to it throughout
the season by frequent and thorough cultiva
tion, picking squares, poisoning. Do not plant
so large an acreage in cotton that a strong live
at-home policy will be interfered With.
8. Plant cotton only on the best cotton
land—well drained, warm, easily worked and
rich.
9. Do not thin too soon, and then leave
one to four plants to the hill eight to twelve
inches apart in rows rarely wider than four feet
or narrower than three feet.
10. Follow the recommendations of the
Southern Agricultural Workers with only such
modifications as may be advised for peculiar
state or local conditions.
The hot-enough-for-you chap came in with
the first warm weather, growling around as
usual.
Spring poets are thawing out, but they are
out of order when the mockingbirds are singing.
connection will give a voltage of
4'4 volts and the amperage of one
call, while the parallel connection
added to this will ,till retain the
4Va volts, but will raise the amper
age of each cell added to it.
Don’t let your set squeal. Use
• copper shield back of the con
densw- to the ground post. The
shield should not touch the con
denser shaft, should be square in
snape, with an arm rusming to the
ground and shellaced to the panel
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE. DGUGI.AS, GEORGIA, MAY 23, 1924.
imrr>^^ruDLry
By Arthur Brisbane
Mr. Jackson of Indiana.
Southwest and Northwest.
A Webber and Fields Offer?
A Tree for Tombstone.
Edwsrd Jackson, indorsed by the
Ku Klax Klan of Indiana, swept
tbs State for the Governorship
nomination. He got more votes
than all five of the other candidates
put together. Lew Shank, Mayor
of Indianapolis, most important
candidate against Jackson and
enemy of the Klan, was wiped out
10 to 1.
This election is important out
side of Indiana, and indicates that
tbs Ku Klux Klan has gained
rather than loet strength, and will
play an important part in the com
ing national election.
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An El Paso bank closes its doors,
in the Southwest, that should know
only prosperity. The other day an
important bank in the Northwest
was in trouble and only saved by
merging with another bank.
Farmers can’t make a living, and
while everything is done for rail
roads and other corporations, to
make sure that their stockholders
get dividends, nothing is done for
farmers except to give them
fatherly advice.
Something better must be done
before long or there will be trouble
in more banks, and trouble in two
old political parties.
Henry Ford bid real money for
Muscle Shoal 3, agreed tb manufac
ture fertilizers and the farmers
know that he would manufacture
them.
Many other concerns are now
bidding, but not real money. One
bid offers one hundred and twenty
million dollars, and reminds you of
the conversation between Messrs.
Weber and Fields, burlesque ac
tors, in the old days.
“I’d give $5,000 for that dog,”
says one. “But. Mike, w« ain’t got
$5,000,” says the other.
“I know it, but ain’t it _ good
Ford offered to pay me Govern
ment 215 millions, during the pe
no of his lease, and he has the
money.
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Watchmakers assembled in Chi
cago predict that presently all
clocks and watches will automati
cally get time by ra iio. The im
pulse will be sent out and the watch
in your pocket will automatically
adjust itself.
If only we grew individually and
mentally as rapidly as we grow
scientifically and mechanically, but
alas, we don’t. Men with intelli
gence enough to make a watch and
then set it correctly by radio,
haven’t intelligence enough to get
rid of the superstitions that make
them hate and kill each other.
While Japan tells us how much
insulted they feel because we don’t
let them come into the United
States, the Chinese are warning
Matsui, Japan’s foreign minister,
that they, the Chinese, are much
insulted because they are not al
lowed to settle on Japanese soil.
Somebody in Japan must lack a
sense of humor.
In Presidential primary election
of Haverhill, Massachusetts, 693
men, 121 women, took the trouble
to vote out of 17,000 registered
voters. Proud Americans seem to
lack interest in politics. Had a
trained chimpaneee walked a tight
rope stretched above the principal
street of Haverhill, on primary day,
beating a drum as he walked, all
the 17,000 registered voters would
have been out to see that chimpan
zee.
There’s excitement in France
about the charge soldiers’
bones have been collected on bat
tlefields by junk dealers, ground up
and sold for fertilizer. The idea is
abominable to many, therefore the
official denial is welcome.
But what better use could ba
made of our “remains” than to fer
tilize the earth when we are gone?
To be buried at the foot of a fine
tree, with a little brass tablet on
the tree trunk, “John Jones W
proud to help this tree grow,*
would be a pleasanter resting place
than being tucked away with other
skeletons in a vault.
Of two American geese talking
to each other, often one is asking,
“What do you think about busi
ness? Will the national election
disturb prosperity, etc., etc.” The
United States hasn’t started on its
prosperity. With Mellon in the
Treasury the nation’s debts are cut
down. Meanwhile the people are
saving and putting away thirty
million dollars a day, in savings
banks and good investments. Why
PAINTED WALLS.—To remove
marks on painted walls caused by
striking matches on them, rub with
the cut surface of a lemon—then clean
with a cloth dipped in whiting. Wash
the surface with warm water and soap
and then wipe quickly with a clean
cloth wrung out of clear water.
RlCE.—Stir rice with a fork while
cooking instead of a spoon and the
grains will not be crushed.
YEP - ACCOPOINO TC> ED
PURDY-THE Sl* INCH HIvH
HE CAU6HT iS TEN INCHED
Slick Sleuth
Traffic Cop: “Stop you’re under
arrest.”
Motorist: “What for?”
. Traffic Cop: “Oh, no, you don’t,
Smarty! I ain’t going to give you a
chance to think up a lot of excuses.”
Clever Foot AVork
Deacon Brown: “Has that mule
ever kicked you?”
Mope Jones: “-No—he ain’t yet,
but frequent like he kicks the place
where I recently was.”
Cynical Sam’s Shop
Customer: “Have you any tender
beef today?”
Butcher: “Tender?—Yes, indeed,
this beef is as tender—as ’er—as 'er
—a woman’s heart.”
Customer: “Give me a pound of
sausage.”
Too Inqusitive
Resident: “This is a wonderfully
healthy town. When I came here I
couldn’t walk.”
Tourist: “And how long have you
been here?”
Resident: “I wa shorn here.”
Bond Bess Opines
How do they know a woman cannot
keep a secret when no woman has
ever tried?”
AHumerous Heckler
Political Spellbinder: “We pay
taxes and pay taxes. What I want to
know—where do the taxes go?”
Voice (from audience): “Up.”
Purdy’s Philos
“First come, first served” is a very
good motto, but I wouldn’t want to
read it in a cannibal’s camp.”
Debatable Point
“Do you believe that people follow
the same occupation in the next world
that they do on earth?”
“Well—l hardly think so—as an
example—My mother-in-law was an
ice-cream maker.”
Be Honest Now
Son: “Good-bye, Dad. I’ll write
you every day.”
Dad: “Heavens —if you think
you’re going to need money that ofte*
you'd better not go.”
That’s Why!
Husband: “Why do you feed every
tramp that come along here. They
never do any work.”
Wife: “I know it—but it’s such a
satisfaction to see a man eat a meal
without finding fault with the cook
ing."
'Oh. Splash!
Bill: “Come on over to the club.
I’ll take you into the new pool room.”
Blonde Bess: “Oh. I’d love to, but
I didn’t bring my bathing suit.”
We Will Know Soon
Zipp: “Was your Uncle’s mind
sound and sane up to the very last?”
Zapp: “We don’t know yet. The
will hasn’t been read.”
Disturbed Schedule
Irate Father: “I just kicked that
young man who has been calling here,
into the middle of next week.”
Daughter: “Oh, how careless of
you, father; we had arranged to be
married on Monday.”
LEATHER SEATS.—To clean leath
er seats of chairs, rub lightly with a
soft rag that has been dipped in warm
milk. Then polish with a soft, dry
cloth.
BUTTER.—To cut butter smoothly
and cleanly, cover the knife with oiled
paper.
If Douglas
Is good enough for you to live
•n; —It is too good a town to
knock.
Boost Douglas
CHILDREN’S FOUNDERS ROLL
STONE MOUNTAIN MEMORIAL
The Children’s Founders Roll was
inaugurated by the Stone Mountain
Confederate Monumental Association*
in order the children of the South
might order a share in the carving of
the greatest monument that the world
has ever known.
It provides for the enrollment of
white children under eighteen years
of ag# in the great Book of Memory,
which will occupy the place of honor
in Memorial Hall at Stone Mountain;
and for the memorialization of Con
federate soldiers whom they wish to
honor.
Each child who makes a contribu
tion will receive a small bronze medal,
designed by Gutzon Borglum, showing
that he is one of the founders of the
memorial, and later, when his name
has been inscribed in the great volume
of The Children’s Founders Roll, he
will receive a certificate showing the
number of the page and the line on
which his name appears.
One dollar was named as the child
ren’s contribution because the Asso
ciation feels that it is small enough to
enable every child in the South to have
a part in the memorial. It also
makes it possible for all families to
enroll the names of their beloved Con
federate kinsmen whether or not they
feel that they can take one of the
adult Founders Roll memberships of
one thousand dollars.
•For each dollar contributed, a child
can enroll any Confederate Soldier
that he wishes to remember—his
grandfather, great grandfather, cous
in, uncle or friend.
One child may enroll as many names
as he likes, provided he sends in one
dollar for each name enrolled. For
each one dollar sent in the child will
receive one line for himself and the
person he wishes to memorialize. If
he desires to memorialize six persons,
his cotribution will be six dollars and
he will be given six lines in the Book
of Memory.
When there are two or more child
ren in a family, each child can me
morialize the same Confederate sol
dier or—as many children are doing
—the Confederate kin in both branches
of the family may be memorialized by
dividing the names between the child
ren, thus preserving the record of
both paterna' and maternal ancestors
and kin.
Contributions will be received in the
names of children who are dead—the
same rules governing these applica
tions as those of living children.
Hundreds of children from all parts
of the county have already enrolled
their names and cards bearing their
serial numbers have already been is
sued to them pending the completion
of the medal and the great book.
Each child’s name will be enrolled
in the order in which it is received at
the office of the Association.
Application blanks will be furnish
ed to all persons who desire to enroll
their children; and organizations, also,
may secure as many of the blanks as
they need to enroll the children.
Names may be sent in through the
mails without the application blank.
If every child in the South con
tributes his share to the memorial, it
will mean, not only that the children
will have the honor and glory of help
ing to build the world’s greatest
monument to the world’s greatest
heroes, but that they will have con
tributed substantially to the memor
ial fund, thereby enabling the work
to be finished much more quickly.
Years ago, when the mothers of the
present generation were children,
they met each year in memory of the
dead. With their own hands they
gathered the blossoms from their gar
dens, from the fields and woods, and
brought them where the women of
the South were gathered to weave
garlands. As childish fingers bound
those blossoms into fragrant circles
of remembrance, their hearts stirred
and leaped with a strange pride while
tears fell upon their eager little hands
among the flowers. From older lips,
they learned the story of the sixties
as they sat amidst memorial blossoms
and next day as they marched among
the serried ranks of the Confederate
dead to lay their garlands down, they
trod not by the dust of graves but by
the tombs of Glory.
The children of today no longer
meet to weave memorial wreaths,
though blossoms are laid each year
upon the graves of the Confederacy.
They have lost something of the heri
tage that older years have given to
the children of the South but now,
because of the Stone Mountain Me
morial, the South is being qtickened
again to love, to pride, to tears by the
memories of those heroic days.
May every child in the South have
his and her share in the weaving of
Memory’s wreath, so that when the
great book at the mountain stands
open for the world to see, not a name
shall be missing from that Roll of
Fame.
Applications should be sent to Mrs.
J. Rod Davis, chairman for Coffee
County, , ,