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* The Hartwell Sun
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1924
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■* BIBLE THOUGHT I
For This Week— |
S Bible Thoughts memorised, will prove a g
priceless heritage in after years.
He that will love life, and see good
days, let him refrain his tongue from
evil, and his lips that they speak no
guile.—l Peter 3:10.
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One touch of scandal makes the
whole world chin.
The flivver that won’t run is a
standing joke.
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The rising generation doesn’t like
to get up very early.
The two sides to any question are
your side and the wrong side.
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This will be a great country when
k the application of good advice equals
* the supply. ,
The shortest day in the year, ac
cording to Joe Jones, is the one be
fore a note falls due.
Eating in the kitchen might not be
so stylish,— but’s its mighty com
fortable.
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Old Joe Jones says the favorite fur
of some women seems to be “bare
) skin.” Now, Joe.
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The fellow that drinks for spite
isn’t spiting anybody but himself, —
and making a fool of himself on top
of it.
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From the way the daily papers
read the next war won’t be between
the religious bodies or between na
tions, but between the law-abiding
people and the liquor crowd. They’re
killing many people every day.
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_ It seems that more hangings are
* needed in Georgia. A few nights
since two young men—officers of the
law—were slhin near Norcross by
rum runners and an aged night watch
man in Atlanta was brutally mur
dered—his eyes even jabbed out. —
Madisonian.
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A local drayman recently thought
he was about to uncover a wholesale
baby kidnaping scheme. On turning
L a box over, voices were heard on the
F inside saying, “Mamma, mamma.”
Summoning the town marshal, the
box was opened and found to con
tain a consignment of talking dolls.
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A Lavonia man, convalescing in a
city hospital, wrote to the Lavonia
Times, describing his experiences. In
speaking of his cheerful surround
ings, he said: “There are six fine
windows in my room.” The linotype
operator left the “n” out of windows
and the man’s wife made a flying
trip to the city to see how her hus
l band was getting along.
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In some counties of Georgia far
mers! are organizing pure seed asso
ciations. That’s a sure way to in
crease the yield of all kinds of crops.
Through neglect most of the seeds
that are planted have becoftie mixed,
and their value greatly lessened.
There is nothing more important or
profitable on a farm than good seed.
In this connection it is w’ell to re
member that now is the time to select
seed corn.—Dawson News.
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Strange things happen sometimes
r 1 in various places. Even Lavonia
5 not immune. News reached The
Sun this week that a member of The
Lavonia Times force was awarded
’he prize in a beauty contest held re
cer.tly at Hastyville following a box
supper at the school house. Knowing
k Editor Rush Burton as we do and
’ having seen that face of his hundreds
'f times we began to figure how it
possible. Then we thought of
■ Callie Loehr; goodness knows that
uld be the essence of impossibility.
I hen those other fellows who help
get out The Times; none of them
c uld get in a hundred miles of quali-
L- ng. And then, after questioning a
number of leading Lavonia people,
we were told that the prize was
arded Miss Bernice Milder, the
<mept and charming young lady
' r erator. This is perhaps the first
’ in the history of the world that
X dy in a newspaper office was
awarded a beauty prize.
“FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH"
The country seems to have insati
able appetite for two things, especi
ally, these days— holidays and con
ventions. Every year, there is added
to the already long list of holidays,
which come to be celebrated each
year by cessation of work and fitting
exercises. Which is alright and proper
for those who have the time and the
desire, but extremely hard on one
who is trying to get in six days of
work each week, and who is trying
to cover a large territory in a cer
tain allotted time. I have hit every
thing this year from “Home-coming”
to “Klan Days” and from “Texas
Day” to “Circus Day” all of which
stopped business completely and
closed banks and shops. I wonder
where it will all stop! Surely, there’s
nothing else worth celebrating, left.
And along with the holidays comes
thfe conventions, which are in a sense
just as bad. Every profession and
every trade in the world now, has
an annual convention somewhere and
the delegates gather from all sections
in some selected place, throw re
straint to the winds, do a lots of talk
ing and “mixing” and—accomplish
nothing. I have yet to see any con
vention which was worth all its
trouble or which accomplished any
thing worth-while. They are just a
reasonable excuse for a pleasure trip
to some distant place, a few days of
hectic vacation, lots of playing
around and little actual work done.
Those in attendance fool themselves
into believing they are getting some
thing out of it all. As a matter of
fact, they’re not. Most of us go back
to our homes after these occasions,
expand on the good times we had, and
try to remember something worth
while that we got out of the trip and
fail. Then there the loss of time and
money staring us in the face. Let’s
be fair with ourselves; the only com
mendable feature of most conven
tions is the renewal of associations
and the making of acquaintances.
There's nothing else to be gained.
But it would be a hard, cruel world
for the hotels if these various gather
ings were tabooed.
This week, at the request of my
company I have jumped here to
Dallas to make the American Dental
Association. Along with its hundreds
of delegates from all over America,
there is also in session three National
Dental Fraterities. That’s my rea
son for being here. I have come here
with the ambitious desire to obtain
two of these fraternities’ jewelry con
tracts, and to renew another. Here’s
hoping,’ anway, it’s a colorful gather
ing. Dallas is entertaining these
visitors in her usual whole-hearted
way. There is something doing every
minute. There is cordiality and ap
preciated hospitality on all sides, and
I think most of the delegates are
having the time of their life. One of
the’striking features of the conven
tion has been the adoption of the
nationally know “10-gallon” wide,
Texas hat, as the official headgear
for all the delegates here. Everyone
has thrown aside his regular top
piece and are parading the streets
with these big white hats on. Even the
women delegates have followed suit.
Anyway, if I “accomplish” nothing
from these days of confusion and
scurrying around here, I have had one
pleasant experience that has helped.
Coming up on the Santa Fe from
Oklahoma, I ran into my old friend
“Doc” Leard, who is living now at
Drumright, Okla., but formerly lived
in Hartwell. He is here in attend
ance at the Dental Association and
also the Xi Psi Phi Fraternity. It’s
a small old world after all! Here,
SHOULD BE STOPPED
Commenting on the recent state
ment of Judge Sibley and The Sun’s
attitude towards the liquor traffic, —
the distiller, the bootlegger and the
buyer, The Commerce News, one of
Georgia’s leading newspapers, says:
“It’s a fearful thing to become a
victim of strong drink. There are
those who can take a drink and stop
at that, but there are others who can
not. Many splendid citizens, other
wise, who take their dram do not stop
to think of their example. Every
person who takes his dram, is a
partner with the blind tiger in the
violation of law. .-Judge Sibley is
eminently correct. If there were no
buyers there would be no sellers.
That one thing keeps the stills in
action. It is the buyer as much as
the seller who is responsible for all
the evils of strong drink. The minis
ters, the editors, the W. C. T. U.
and all others who are contending for
total abstinence have no ill will for
the drinker. On the other hand, they
are trying to save him; trying to pull
him out of the fire; trying to save
others from the effects of the dram
drinker's bad example.
“There is no reason for discourage
ment. The fight is being won slowly,
it may be but surely. Day by day m
every way, there is less intoxicating
liquors being used. Day by day, it s
becoming more and more discredit
able and reprehensible to even take a
drink. Sentiment is rapidly develop
ing against the use of alcoholics in
any form or quantity. The evil s-Jl
exists but it is the exception—not
the rule. If we can raise a genera
tion of boys who are rightly taught,
the next half a century will write a
wonderful story.
QUESTIONS
| and Bible Answers |!
if ti eneoorage«MMwntote* ■» al
S' Bible An»wer». l t«al!pro.e 2:
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What weapon did Jesus use to de
feat Satan in the Temptation? See.,
Matt. 4:4,7,10. ’ j
THE HARTWELL SUN, HARTWELL, GA., NOVEMBER 21, 1924
By E.8.8.Jr.
we’ve been together these last few ’
days, talked of old times in Hartwell, i
lived the old days over again and re
marked on the difference of the
present days. “Doc” has happily
married in Drumright but as someone
has aptly said, “that’ no reason for
going totally blind all of a sudden."
So, last night, wandering aimlessly
around Dallas, through its busy sec
tion, the streets were crowded and
lively, and about every other girl we
passed was a beauty for Dallas is
plumb full of beautiful women. Any
how, out of the silence of our “gaz
ing,” “Doc” says, “Boy, we ought to
have Dot along!” Which expressed
my sentiments, too.
It’s not always a tranquil and mon
otonous life, the road life. Now and
then something out of the ordinary
bobs up and destroys the sameness
of it from day to day; there is a
break, very often in the routine gone
through; there is a variation con
tinually that makes one always in
the expectant frame of mind. One
of the finest things I have gathered
in my years of traveling has been
the many Jriends that I have made
all over the country. Many of these
have been made through the con- 1
ventional method of introduction and
through the regular channels, but
there too, has been added to this list
a great number of fine friends whom
I have just run into, accidentally.
This latter class has been made on
trains, on long jumps, in hotels and
along the unexpected spots of a
traveler’s range. Many of these
friends have survived the proof of
the many years acquaintance and
many, too, have proven the best of ,
“finds.” Another thing that I have
developed in my life on the road, has
been insight into human nature and
the quickness of my judgment of
people. I believe I can size up a
man, quicker and surer than a few
years ago, and 1 know that my im
pressions which are quickly formed
from the first have proven in most
cases to be correct. The third asset
that I have gathered from my travels
is what I value most of all. It is my
confident belief in people in general,
and my honest and sincere conviction
that no matter where one goes or
whom one meets, the majority of
folks encountered are straight and
are doing their best to live honorable
and useful lives. I believe lam more
broad-minded and have more sym
pathy for my fellow-man as I grow
older. At any rate, I Jcnow I have more
confidence in life and mankind than
in former years.
But as I said its “not always a
tranquil and monotonous life”—,
I this road life. The other morning ;
' about 2 a. m., as I- peacefully slept
I in my berth on a train speeding west
i ward, suddenly my Pullman was
aroused out of its calmness. There
wasr a scurrying of feet in the aisle.
There were voices raised in loud ex
citement, and then I heard someone
holler to the porter, “I’ve been rob
bed!” Immediately, the car was in
an up-roar. Everyone dressed and
searched their clothes and the results
showed, five passengers that had bees
robbed doing the night. Luckily,
having only a small amount of cash
with me, I had been unmolested. The
conductor was notified and he im
mediately had his suspicions of a lone
passenger who had gotten off an hour
or so before at a back station. He
wired back, had the man held, he was
searched and all the stolen stuff
found on him. That was pretty
quick and efficient work. And the
moral is: that although most of the
world is honest and straight, there
are plenty of crooks left.
A LITTLE FUN— ~
All Sort* of Trouble
The doctor gazed at his patient’s
eye.
“You say you’ve trouble with it,”
he said. “But there’s something more.
On looking at it I see signs of liver
trouble, of anaemia, and, I fear, of
a chronic nervous affection.”
“Look at the other eye,” said the
patient, “this is my glass eye, you
see.”
Knowledge Paineth
Billy in tears when he came
home from school. “Teacher whipped
me because I was the only one who
could answer a question she asked I
the class,” he sobbed.
His mother was indignant.
“Why, I’ll see about that! What
was the question, Billy?!’
“She wanted to know who put the
glue in her ink bottle!”
Sublime To Ridiculous
“Have you ever laughed until you
cried?”
“Yes, I did so this naming.”
“How?”
“Father stepped on a tack. I
laughed. He saw me. I cried.”
Correct!
A hen can set and earn a living,
but men can’t.—Exchange.
Cotton Export*
Teacher (in geography class):
“Willie, name a certain year and tell
how much cotton was exported from
the United States in that year.”
Willie: “ 1492—N0ne.”
Light Wai Needed
The stingy farmer was scoring the
hired man for carrying a lighted
lantern to call on his best girl.
“The idea,” he exclaimed. “When .
I was courtin’ I never carried no
lantern, I went in the dark.”
“Yes,” said the hired man sadly, i
“and look what you got.”—Fixchange. I
Cauee Ar.d Effect
Gibb: “That umbrella of your ;
lodks as though it had seen better |
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Gabb: “Well, it certainly has had
its ups and downs.”
Hear And Their
By DANA
THIS MORNING.
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AS 1 neared Ft. Worth.
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ON A fast train.
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FROM OKLAHOMA City.
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I HURRIEDLY dressed.
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AND RUSHED forward.
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TO THE smoking room.
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WHICH WAS crowded.
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AS IS always the case.
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EARLY IN the morning.
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AND AS I shaved.
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AND TRIED my luck.
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WITH A dull razor.
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AND FINALLY completed.
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THE FINISHING touches.
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THE TRAIN suddenly lurched.
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AND I swung with it.
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AGAINST A guy.
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WHO WAS also shaving.
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AND THEN we both looked.
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AND SHOUTED for joy.
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FOR IT was none other.
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THAN DR. Peyton Leard.
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WHO USE to live at home.
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AND WHOM you know.
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AND SO I’m glad.
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THE WORLD’S so small.
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THAT NO matter where.
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YOU MAY go.
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YOU’LL MEET folks.
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FROM THE old home town.
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I THANK YOU.
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* WORK THAT LASTS •
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* If we work upon marble, it *
* will perish; if we work upon *
* brass, time will efface it; if we *
* rear temples, they will crumble *
i * into dust; but if we work upon *
* immortal souls, if we imbue them *
* with principles with the fear of *
* God and love of fellow men, we *
* engrave on those tablets some- *
* thing which brightens all eterni- *
* ty.—Daniel Webster.
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EDUCATION SPEAKS
I AM EDUCATION. I bear the
i torch that enlightens the world, fires
the imagination of man, feeds the
flame of genius. I give wings to
dreams and might to hand and brain.
F’rom out the deep shadows of the
past I come, wearing the scars of
struggle and the stripes of toil, but
bearing in triumph the wisdom of
all ages. Man, because of me, holds
dominion over earth, air and sea; it
l is for him I leash the lightning, plumb
the deep and shackle the ether.
I am the parent of progress, crea
tor of culture, molder of destiny.
Philosophy, science and art are the
works of my hand. I banish ignor
ance, discourage vice, disarm anarchy.
Thus have I become freedom’s cita
del, the arm of democracy, the hope
of youth, the pride of adolescence,
the joy of age. Fortunate the nations
and happy the homes that welcome
me.
The school is my workshop; here
I stir ambitions, stimulate ideals,
forge the keys that open the door to
opportunity. I am the source of in
spiration ; the aid of aspiration. I
AM IRRESISTIBLE POWER. .
MILLION AND~A QUARTER
MARRIAGES PERFORMED
DURING THE PAST YEAR
Washington, D. C.- According to
returns received by the Department
of Commerce, there were in the
i United States for 1923 a total of
1,223,825 marriages performed, and
divorces granted. For the
year 1922 a total of 1,129,045 mar
riages were performed and 148,845
divorces were reported.
The increase in marriage reported
for 1923, with one county lacking,
over the number reported for 1922,
is 94,78#, or 8.4 per cent, Nebraska
is the only state in the union where
there was a marked decrease in 1923
and this is due, it is to some
extent to an amendment in the marri
age laws of that state in 1923 re
quiring the posting of the applica
tion for marriage licenses for a period
of ten days before the license is is
sued. In Georgia, a similar law is
now in effect requiring the filing of
such a notice five days before the
license is granted.
The divorces reported for 1923,
with three counties not reporting, j
show an increase of 16,324, or 11
| per cent over the number of 1922.
The large increase shown in the State
of Washington is said to be
a change in the divorce law of Ifrzl
I which caused a considerable decrease
in the number of final decrees en
tered in 1922, the first year in which
the new Jaw was in effect.
Thi. I* Why
The rain, it raineth on the just
And also on the unjust fella.
But chiefly on the just, because
The unjust steal- the just’s un
brella.
PROGRESSIVE FARMER SAYS YOU
CAN’T OUTGUESS THE MARKET
(The Progressive Farmer
A few members of the co-operative
cotton marketing association are com
plaining that they could have sold
their cotton for more money. This
will always be the case. The man
who assumes that he would have sold
his cotton at the top of the market
will always be able to figure out how
he would have done better outside the
i marketing association. But he seems
, to forget that he has only one chance
I out of about twenty-five to sell at
the top price. Only 4 per cent sell
at the top prices. This is because
the man has not yet been born who
knows when to sell cotton.
If the member of the co-operative
who thinks he knows when to sell
cotton and would have sold at the
top price really knew how to do that
he would not long continue in the
hard business of producing cotton. He
would make his millions in a year or
two and have no need for farming,
or the co-operative marketing asso
ciation, and could “live happily ever
after.”
The basic or fundamental prin
ciple of co-operative marketing of
cotton is orderly marketing, which
means selling cotton all the time or
every month in the year, because
cotton is used every month in the
year. The co-operatives will not,
should not, and can not sell their
cotton all at one time or at the top
price. They will not and can not
sell at the top price. They should not
attempt to sell all their cotton at one
time at any price, for the chances
are they would not get the top price
if they did attempt to sell it, and
many times would sell for less than
they now get by selling all the time
and' getting the average price. By
selling orderly and refusing to dump
their cotton and forcing prices down,
they get a better average price than
under the old dumping system.
The co-operatives will never get
the top price for all their cotton.
They will get better than average
prices by the old methods of selling,
but no one who has the slightest
knowledge of the principles of co
operative commodity marketing of
cotton will expect these associations
to ever get the top price. On the
other hand, they will never get the
lowest price! They will simply get
a better average price for their mem
bers than is obtained by farmers who
market in the old way.
It is, therefore, rank nonsense for
any member of a co-operative mar
keting association to complain that
he lost $lO, or sls, or any other]
amount per bale, by marketing his'
cotton through the co-operative. He I
can with the same lack of reason
I claim that he has lost money every
I year he failed to get. the top price
' when he was not a member of a co- |
I operative.
' But he can claim with the best of
I reason that in a term of years he has
and will continue to get through the
co-operative a better average price
than those outside the association who
dump their cotton on the market in
I the fall or during three or four
months. Even last year those who
i sold their cotton early and those who
.‘.old it late got less than the average
and less than received by members
of the co-operatives.
The average man outside the as
sociation cannot sell his cotton for
the top price and those inside have
no reason to assume that they could
;or would have done so. The average
man who is not a member of a co
i operative must sell cotton when he is
told to do so by those he owes. He ,
■ is usually forced to sell cototn when
i it is going down and therefore seldom
] gets even the average price.
Why do the co-operative associa
! tions pay their members more than
the average price? Why do the mem
| bers of these associations get more
one year with another than those who
sell in the old way?
First, as shown by the Report of
the Federal Trade Commission, it
costs the co-operatives less to market
] cotton than it does the merchant or
i broker under the old system.
.Second, the member of the co
operative gets paid for the actual
grade of his cotton, while the man
who sells from the wagon in the old
way gets paid for at least one grade
lower than his cotton actually is.
Third, there is less country dam- |
age, warehouse charges are less, his
cotton is better insured, the co-
I operatives pay a lower rate of in
| terest than the individual merchant,
and the member of the co-operative
instead of the merchant is paid the
rebate in freight on cotton which is 1
compressed or stored in transit.
Fourth, the member of a co-opera
tive and not the merchant gets the
money which the samples and loose
cotton bring when sold. There are I
other reasons but these ought to be i
enough.
The Federal Trade Commission, J
after a thorough and impartial in-1
vestigation, declares that the co-1
operatives members more
than the large merchants pay the
country merchants or local buyers I
who buy the cotton from the farmers.
This being true, it goes without say- ‘
ing that the co-operatives must pay
their members more than the local
buyers pay non-members.
The member of a cotton co-opera
tive marketing association who claims
that he has lost money by marketing
his cotton through his association is
simply fooling himself or allowing the
enemies of co-operative marketing to
fool him. Tly only escape from thi
is for him to assume that he could
or would market his cotton for top
or near top prices, and in such case ,
he is still fooling himself, for no man |
knows when to market cotton.
The only safe and same plan is to
market it al all times, because cotton
is used at all times.
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The Main Point
“You have only two or three build
ing’ in th ; s new town of yours.”
“I know,” responded the enthusi
r s«ic realtor, “but look at the parkin'*
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GRAY-VICKERY
A marriage of social interest to
the many friends of the contracting
parties was that of Miss Eunice Gray
to Mr. Hailey Vickery at the Pasto
rium at Sardis last Sunday morning.
Miss Gray is the eldest daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Gray, of Oak
Bower community. Miss Gray won
for herself many friends while at
tending and graduating at the Hart
well High school. Miss Gray is one
among the leading spirits at the Oak
Bower church, she has led in Sunday
school and W. M. S. work in her
church for some time. Winning for
herself many friends and associates
for her fidelity to the service of her
Lord.
Mr. Vickery is the son of Mr. J-
N. Vickery, of Hartwell. He operates
Hailey’s Case and is a promising
young business man of Hartwell.
Their many friends wish for them,
great success and happiness as they
sail the seas of time together.
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Hartwell Railway
SCHEDULE r
Eastern Time :-l Nov. 1, 1924
No. 1 Lv. Hartwell 10:40 a. m.
No. 1 Ar. Bowersville 11:20 p. bi.
No. 3 Lv. Hartwell 2:45 p. m.
No. 3 Ar. Bowersville 3:25 p. in.
No. 2 Lv. Bowersville 11:50 a. m.
No. 2 Ar. Hartwell 12:30 p. m.
No. 4 Lv. Bowersville 8:40 a. m.
No. 4 Ar. Hartwell 9:15 p. m.
Trains connect at Bowersville with
Elberton Air Line which connects at
Toccoa with main line Southern
Railway System; and at Elberton
with Seaboard Railroad.
J. B. JONES, S rd.
44 IH 1 I t 1444 444-4 »»»>
A. H. Harper
Gasoline-
Oils—
Greases—
Vulcanizing—
Shoe Repairing—
A. H. HARPER
Old Pottoffice Building
HARTWELL, - - GEORGIA
4444 44 1 1 44 44 4♦1♦« 44 tI 4♦4 4 *
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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FOR SALE —
One 1924 Chevrolet Tour
ing Car. Just overhauled.
New Tires. A bargain.
CAREY C. CARTER
Hartwell, Ga.
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