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The Hartwell Sun
—Established 1876
LEON MORRIS & LOUIE Lu MORRIS
Editors Publishers Proprietors
Entered in the Post Office at Hartwell,
Ga., as Second Class Mail Matter.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1924
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| 1_ BIBLE THOUGHT ||
mm For This Week ■■ ;j
| Bible Thoughts memorized, will prove a J
priceless heritage in after years.
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GOD’S KINDNESS:—For the
mountians shall departj,.and the hills
be removed; but my kindness shall
not depart from thee, neither shall
the covenant of my peace be re
moved, saith the Lord that hath
mercy on thee.—lsaiah 54: 10.
This is the horseless age,—but
folks-still have nightmares, as it were.
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Short skirts are coming back. That
doesn’t lower the price any, how
ever.
Thanksgiving’ll soon be here, —and
then Christmas, folks. Better begin
to shop early.
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In some women’s lives the husband
is a mere interruption with a mighty
little exclamation point after it.
Joe Jones very aptly says “A poor
loser, like the man,who is too poor
to lose, has no business betting.”
When you say the other fellow
doesn’t think, you probably mean
that he just doesn’t think as you do.
o
The fact that love in blind ex
plains satisfactorily why some wo
men marry some men, —and vice
versa.
o .
Well Said
Remember, folks, the first step in
national defense is to vote.—Calhoun
Times.
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Many an automobile driver who
now flaps his wings and sings sweet
carols, maybe, thought that the
“Stop, Look and Listen” signs were
put there for the railroad engineer.
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Whew!
Some men are like lightning bugs.
They can see where they have been
but cannot see where they are going.
—Calhoun Times.
The scientific boys tell us there’s
sufficient power in a drop of water
to drive your car miles. We hope
they never get it down to that point. I
The roads would have to be widened
and double-decked to hold the folks.
o
The Eighth-Ninth Districts Press
Association had a great time in
Athens last Friday. The next ses
sion will be held in Trox Bankston’s
town, Covington, Friday, December
12th. Covington is already making
preparations for the event.
Someone has said that if the church
members would quit buying liquor
and the church members would quit
making liquor there would be mighty
little trouble enforcing the prohibi
tion laws. And this is true right here >
in Hartwell and Hart county, as well
as other places.
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Joe Jones says when he goes out
to some of these evening socials he
always looks at the ladies with a bit
of trepiadition, so to speak, as they |
glide around in their “coming out
gowns (or dresses), for fear the
ladies might come out sure enough. ’
Why, you old rascal, Joe!
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They Do It Here, Too
It is against the State Law for
children under fifteen years of age to
drive an automobile unless they are •
accompanied by their parents or,
guardian. Yet there are children in
Crawfordville doing this every day,
not only placing therm rives in great
danger but other people of the town
as well.—Crawfordville Advocate-
Democrat.
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We stood in the court house late
last Friday afternoon and saw a
young white man sent to the gang
for selling liquor. Then a rather old
negro sent up for the same thing.
Both should have been sent to the
gang, and we hope all the rest of the
crowd in Hartwell and Hart county I
will land there. BUT, the fellow
that bought the liquor here in Hart
well is going about his business as
usual. What about the buyer?
He’s a poor dentist w’ho is unable
to get to the root of the matter.
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Why does the young man try to
keep on the right side of his best
girl when he knows that her heart
is on the left side.
“FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH”
By E.8.8.Jr.
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It is marvelous the change that can
1 come in just a few’ hundred miles of
. traveling in the South-w’est. One
way be chilled and his teeth chat
, tering with cold and be draped with
the heaviest sort of an overcoat and
then in a night’s ride on a fast train
wake up in a balmy climate with hot
breezes and a hot sun shining down
with all of a Summer’s sultriness. A
trip from Colorado to Texas, for in
stance. And that is not all, for con-
I ditions and customs and people,
| themselves, are just as different. A
i Colorado of breezy western people,
■: whose environment has been the wide
I open spaces with a cordiality and
■ generous nature and friendliness not
to be effaced and still—, just not
'i quite Southern; Into a Texas, still
• the West of course, but Southern to
the core, resplendent with old Dixie
( ideals and chivalry and customs. The
. cities themselves are set apart. A
Denver, of hustling appearance, and
a smart city air, having everything a
city should and yet lacking that
genteel air and show, whose people
look like “newcomes” and act like
them—, less carefully dressed, and
not possessing the fine features of
“ Southern lineage. A Dallas, whose
! streets are magically filled each day
t with packed humanity and a traffic
, of a New York and whose people look
' i the part and dress the part. A dis
! | ference, yes. The difference of fine
old Southern blood and generations
of fine family standing cropping out.
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Dallas is all this. It never has
looked better than it did the other
day to me. It was a treat to look
at the “passing parade” of such a
people. Beautiful girls, once more.
Handsomely gowned matrons. Aristo
cratic looking men. And all sleek
looking and with the hearty laugh
heard only in the South, or the cap
tivating smile lighting up the whole
face seen only through Dixie.
—o —
And it’s a fact, Dallas was a’hum
ming last week. The annual State
Fair was on, and in one week the
attendance record through the Fair
gates was 800,000 souls!! In one
day, Sunday, October the nineteenth,
209,103 people trod the Fair grounds.
It is said and I do not doubt it, that
the Texas State Fair at Dallas is
the second largest State Fair in the
United States, with only the Minne
sota State Fair at Minneapolis sur
passing it. I only know this, that
I went through the Fair-grounds
partially on Saturday and I was
amazed. Every moment was a
spectacle; every step a pause for
new wonder and thrills. And yet
I still remember when I use to think
that the Georgia State Fair was
something to brag about! Wot a Life,
Wot a Life!
Thankfully, through the influence
of an old time standing at the hotel
and the friendship of the head clerk,
I was able to secure a room. But I
had to share it with another old
“friend” of the Hotel. We were
introduced, I looked him over and
he we decided to “take a chance.”
He proved to be a very congenial
and likable fellow. You know, that’s
A “DEADLY PARALLEL”
The following article, based on
actual facts, is contributed by one
of the leading pastors of Methodism:
News Item
Among the three hundred guests
at the governor’s reception on Wed
nesday evening, no one was more
elegantly attired than Mrs. G.. Her
rare jewels added to her native
charm made her friends proud of her
in every way. Mrs. G. accompanied
by her two daughters will leave in
a few days for a four months’ Euro
pean trip.
Mr. I. left at noon today for Ocean
Beach, where his family is spending
the months of July and August. Mr.
I. goes over for week ends usually
but this week will remain until Thurs
day, as he and his wife are to be
hosts to a house party for several
days.
Church Records
With these same rings on her
fingers Mrs. G. called one afternoon
on the treasurer of her church and
informed him it was impossible for
her to comply with the suggestion
of the committee that she increase
her support to the church this year
by twenty-five cents a week on ac
count of increased cost of coal and
! labor. She would pay just as she
had been doing, viz., thirty-five cents
a week.
Mr. I. owns two automobiles, both
of which are used almost exclusively
for pleasure. He gives S2O a year
to his church and $5 a year to mis
sionary work. The committee had
' a hard time to secure a pledge for
this sum.
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“Just as we now give a harmless
anesthetic to an individual for a
surgical operation, so we may be able
in the future to put a whole nation
I to sleep for 48 hours by a combina
i tion of new chemical discoveries with
I radio-controlled, manless airplanes.”
Major General Squier, signal corps
expert, United States Army.
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“Radio is without question the
most valuable item of equipment ever
taken into the north by an Arctic
I explorer. It has enabled us to correct
our chronometers daily within one
tenth of a second. Without correct
time new lands cannot be placed ac
curately upon the map.”—Captain
Donald B. MacMillan.
QUESTIONS j
l| and Bible Answers |
= If Parents will eneocrare children to took up |g
How did Jesus begin his great
Sermon on the Mount”? See Matt, j
5:3-11. ]
THE HARTWELL SUN, HARTWELL, GA., OCTOBER 31, 1924
i : a funny thing all through life, most
' men can meet easily, because con
‘ genial and get along famously with
■ little trouble, but women are en
i tirely different. Two “strange” wo-
I men become adapted to each other
i about as easily as two strange bull
'■ dogs. They will have their ideas—,
i her clothes aren’t right or her jewerly
. is wrong or she speaks so incorrectly
■ or she’s “just common.” You know
• how ’tis. But anyway, my newly
, made friend fared very nicely and
. by the end of the first day, he knew
. a great deal about me and I knew
s equally as much about him. He was
a Race Horse owner, "doing” the
Fair and each day played his horses
to win or lose. At nights, as the
I hour grew late, we sat and talked
1 and I found him exceedingly enter-
■ taining for he had traveled all over
i the world and had tasted the highly
flavored life of an adventurer and
I traveler. The toss of a coin! The
i life of a race-horse promoter must
offer all the thrills and excitements
' that any human would want. My
1 friend was offered $4,000.00 for a
race-horse on Friday. He refused it.
On Saturday his horse was severely
: injured while racing and permanently
disabled.
Racing, and its life of suspended
• thrills is only one of the many odd
i professions (if you call it that)
that fills the gaps in this fast axis
tence of our now-adays. I have run
; into many unheard of callings, but
• at Boulder, Colo., a new one has ap
; peared in the raising of Rattle
i snakes. One man out there proposes
to have a ratle-snake farm and
. raise these 4’eptiles for a living. By
extracting the deadly poison from
i these snakes, he will be fully repaid
. hundreds of dollars for this fluid,
. which has an important commercial
use in chemistry. Another strange
money-making proposition I en
. countered at Laramie, Wyo. Here,
> several weeks ago four men were ac-
■ cidentally drowned and their bodies
• not recovered. An immediate call was
. sent to Minnesota where reside a
, crew of men who make their living
. recovering drowned persons. They
: have a system all their own and can
; drag a body of water expertly, and
■ always get results. Their charge is
$20.00 a day for each worker and
expenses, with a bonus of $200.00
, for each body recovered.
; Another month almost gone, Sep
. tember, a memory, and October glid-
■ ing by on the wings of the wind.
; Then November comes with its
: stealthy approach on December and
i Christmas. These have been a busy
, days with me but I “manage” a Foot
ball game every Saturday, generally.
Last Saturday it was Texas Univer-
s sity versus S. M. V. and this Saturday
I I shall see Florida lock horns with
, Texas University at Austin. Great
[ days, these! And they are all the
1 more zestful for foot-ball. I’ve little
• time for golf but I dream regularly
I about twice a week of making a
' “birdie” (dream, is right!) away
I back in Georgia on the Hartwell
; course. DANA.
■ MiMih
Hartwell Lodge No. 189 F. & A.
M., will hold its regular communica
tion next Tuesday night at 7:30
o’clock in the Masonic Hall.
All Qualified Masons cordially in
vited.
Officers will be elected and other
important business transacted at this
meeting.
ISHAM P. VICKERY, W. M.
B. S. HALL, Secretary.
Mrs. F. M. Thornton
Mrs. Elmira Thornton, wife of Mr.
F. M. Thornton, age 56, died at the
home in Bio community, Hart county,
early Saturday morning, October 25,
1924, and was buried Monday, the
27th, in the cemetery at Bio Baptist
church where she was a faithful
member for many years.
The deceased had been in ill health
for the past year, suffering a stroke
of paralysis about ten months ago,
from which she never fully re
covered. While on a visit to her
daughter, Mrs. George White, in Bel
ton, S. C., she was stricken again last
Thursday night. She was immediate
ly brought home and everything
possible done to stay the hand of
death, but with no avail.
Mrs. Thornton was born in Hart
county January 28, 1867, being the
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Ranson Cobb. On December 18, 1884,
she was married to Mr. F. Mattison
Thornton, who survives. Eight daugh
ters, and four sons, survive, as fol
lows: Mrs. J. C. Reid, Mrs. N. E.
Reid, Mrs. Lois McConnell, Misses
Robbie Jo, Mary and Margie Thorn
ton, of Hart county; Mrs. George
White, of Belton, S. C.; Mrs. Law
rence C. Adams, of Atlanta; Mr.
Jas. A. Thornton, of Hartwell; Mr.
Fred Thornton, of Elberton; and
Messrs. Don and L. C. Thornton, of
Florida.
Ohe sister, Mrs. S. C. Baker, of
Hartwell, and four brothers, Mr. J.
E. Cobb, of Hartwell; Messrs. L. H.
and J. W. Cobb, of Hart county, and
Mr. George Cobb, of Belton, S. C.,
survive.
The funeral services Monday after
noon were conducted by Rev. T. M.
Galphin, a former pastor of Mrs.
Thornton, a large concourse of rela
tives and friends attending.
The sympathy of all is extended
the.bereaved husband and children,
sister and brothers. , (
Funeral director W. C. Page was
i in charge of the arrangements.
CHILDREN MAY SOLVE PROBLEM
OF TRAFFIC; AWARDS FOR ESSAYS
1
Hear And Their
By DANA
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, OUT AT Golden, Colo.
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WHERE THE school of mines is.
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, I WAS a guest one night.
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; AT THE S. A. E. House.
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’ AND AMONG the new men.
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. THERE WERE two from Georgia.
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’ MACON AND Atlanta.
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. TO BE exact.
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; AND WHEN we three.
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t ALL FROM the South.
;■ STARTED TO to talk.
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WE TALKED the same.
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AS ALL Southerners do.
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1 AMD FORGOT all else.
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■ BUT TALK of home.
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: AND THEN we paused.
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- AND LOOKED around.
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I AND DISCOVERED the fact.
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i THAT WE were the “show.”
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, AND ENTERTAINING the crowd.
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■ FOR ITS always that way.
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' WHEN SOUTHERNERS meet.
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; AND THE reasons plain.
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i AS I’LL explain.
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r SOUTHERNERS ARE just more
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I “gushing.”
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[ AND FRIENDLIER, and warmer.
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THAN THE “yankees” are.
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. I THANK YOU.
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DON TYLER
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Don Tyler of Los Anjeles, who won
first prize in the national oratorical
contest, the subject being the Consti
tution.
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It was Noah. Webster, not Daniel,
who was the dictionary maker.
Negligence Somewhere Is Responsible
For Three Million Illiterates In U. S.
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Three million native-born and two
million foreign-born illiterates in the
United States! By some bind of neg
lect in providing schools, in compel
ling parents to send their children
to school, or in making education
seem worth while, 3,000,000 of our
native-born population have had no
schooling whatever. Os the 2,000,-
000 foreign-born illiterates a great
many must have arrived within the
borders of the United States while
still of school age, so considerably
more than 3,000,000 of the illiterates
of the country have been counted in
our school population.
Now that all immigrants are re
quired to take a literacy test, illiter
acy among our foreign born should
finally disappear. But the problem of
providing education in some degree
for the nearly 5, 000,000 adults re
mains. It is immaterial for prac
tical purposes how they happened to
be here—whether they grew here or
came here. The duty is the same.
The mass of ignorance is with us and
it is hanging over us like a pall. It
can and must be removed. The
public-school plants and machinery
can be used. With some additions
in personnel and appropriations it
ought to be possible to teach all the
illiterate youths and adults of the
country to read newspaper English,
to write letters to friends and rela
tives, to read signs and directions,
and to make most of their wants
known in written language.
Without considering the wider,
finer life that would in this way be
brought to the illiterates, it will be
good business to change them to
literates. The time and money will
be well spent. Low earning capacity
and low average incomes go hand in
hand with illiteracy. Education pro
duces wealth. That alone is suffi
cient argument, though not the only
one, for eliminating illiteracy in this
I land of free schools. Whether or not
the States eliminate adult illiteracy,
they should see to it that every child
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Washington, D. C., Oct. 29.—Can
children solve the traffic problem?
In connection with the fourth
national safety educational campaign
announced by the Highway Educa
tion Board, American school children
are to be given an opportunity to
answer the vexing question that now
engages the attention of the best
engineering minds of the country.
The announcement offers more than
$6,500 in cash prizes and medals to
elementary school pupils and ele
mentary school teachers who submit
the best essays and the best- lessons
in the 1924 national essay and
national lesson contests. Officials of
the Board are not optimistic enough
to believe, it is said, that any final
solution will come from the essays
by children, but it is believed that a
nation-wide consideration of the
traffic problem will have a beneficial
effect in reducing the number of ac
cidents and fatalities on streets and
highways.
The basic principle of the contest
is to train children in careful con
duct on streets and highways and to
impress upon them a sense of person
al responsibility. This contest is the
fourth consecutive competition con
ducted under the auspices of the
Board, approximately one million,
two hundred thousand pupils, an
average of at least 400,000 annually,
having participated in the three pre
ceding contests.
All pupils of the fifth, sixth,
seventh and eighth grades are eligible
to complete, whether attending pub
lic, private or parochial schools. Four
hundred and eighty-eight checks and
as many medals will be given for the
begl state essays, while three national
prizes will be awarded for the three
assays chosen as the best of all those
to be written throughout the nation.
The first national prize is a gold
watch and a trip to Washington, with
all expenses paid. The second and
third state prizes are gold watches
of relative values.
All state and national prizes in the
pupils contest are given by the Na
tional Automobile Chamber of Com
merce, which has incorporated in its
safety program a plank calling for
safety education in the schools. In
addition to the prizes and medals for
pupils, this organization offers to the
teacher writing the best practical
safety lesson a check for SSOO and
a trip to Washington. As second
and third prizes checks for S3OO and
S2OO will be given to the successful
teachers.
Pupils are requested to write es
says on the subject “My Conduct
on Streets and Highways,” while
teachers are invited to prepare prac
tical lessons for use in the class
room. Essays are not to exceed 500
words in length, while lessons by
teachers may vary between 1.000 and
3,000 words, according to the incli
nation of the teacher.
Each state is entitled to one first
prize, a gold medal and a check for
fifteen dollars, and to one second
prize, a silver medal and a check for
ten dollars. The number of third
prizes, bronze medals and checks for
five dollars, varies in proportion to
the elementary school enrollment.
The Board announces that the co
operation of educators, the women’s
clubs, chambers of commerce, civic
organizations, automobile clubs and
others, that has marked these con
tests in the past, is pledged for this
year. Many communities, it is re
ported, add strictly local prizes to
the state and national awards offered.
Posters and folders containing de
tailed information concerning the
contests are being sent to all schools
throughout the country, as well as
to Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, the
Philippines, and the Canal Zone. In
dividual requests will be promptly
answered if addressed to the Highway
Education Board, Willard Building,
Washington, D. C.
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Mrs. Oscar Agnew
Mrs. Loula Duncan Agnew, wife
of Mr. Oscar L. Agnew, died in
Canon, Ga., Tuesday, October 21,
1924, and was buried Friday, 24th,
following appropriate funeral ser
vices conducted by Dr. T. M. Elliott,
pastor of the Royston Methodist
church.
Interment was in the Canon ceme
tery.
Mrs. Agnew had been in ill health
for several months. Some time ago
she came to Canon from their home
in Akron, Ohio, to visit her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Duncan, thinking
the change might benefit her. She
gradually grew worse, however, and
although everything possible was
done, the end came speedily.
The deceased was born and reared
in Canon, and was forty years of
age.
Besides her husband she is sur
vived by one daughter, Frances; her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Duncan;
four sisters, Mrs. L. 11. Ridgway, Mrs.
Fred S. White, Miss Dewey and Miss
Hallie Claude Duncan; and two
brothers, Mr. W. A. Duncan, of
Bremen, and Mr. H. C. Duncan, of
Royston.
She was a member of the Metho- :
dist church.
Many friends in Hartwell, Hart
and adjoining counties sympathize
with the bereaved family.
Gold is being mined in a marshy
field at Caio, Wales, on a site said
to have been worked neary seventeen
hundred years ago by the Romans.
of school age is in school and kept
in school until he has acquired at
least the rudiments of an education.
If tfiis is done the problem of illiter
acy will he entirely solved within
this generation.
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in pumping and carrying water
and consider that all of this
could be saved by the use of a
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You would be free to devote
your time to more important
■» work. Ask us for details re
[i garding the Delco-Light water
i I system that you should have.
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C. P. LEE,
i P. O. Box 145 Phone 227
City Barber Shop
SANITARY SHOP—
EFFICIENT WORKMEN—
PROMPT SERVICE-
LADIES’ HAIR BOBBED AND
TRIMMED—
CHILDREN GIVEN SPECIAL
ATTENTION—
City Barber Shop
FRANK D. POWELL, Propr.
j Next To A. N. Alford’s Store
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Gasoline—
Oils-
Greases—
Vulcanizing—
Shoe Repairing—
A. H. HARPER
Old Postoffice Building
HARTWELL, - - GEORGIA
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H. L. Kenmore R. F. Harris
KENMORE’S
Barber Shop
Prompt Service Sanitary Shop
SpeciaL Attention Ladies’ and
children’s Work.
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Jokes are like nuts—the drier they
are the better they crack.
A man doesn’t always do his duty
when he does something he wants
|to do.