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“I would as soon think of doing bus-
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iness without clerks as without ad
vertising. To discontinue advertising
is like taking down your sign. If you
want to do business you must let the
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Mr. Wanamaker’s record made him
America’s most successful merchant.
Would it not be wise to follow his
policy?
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you.
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THE HARTWELL SUN, HARTWELL, GA., JANUARY 16, 1925
From Sun Readers 1
COOD ROADS
When you think that you have
done a good job on a road just drive
over it during a heavy rain and if the
water is from two to four inches deep
and running along like a little creek
over the entire road bed, you will
then realize that something is badly
wrong with your road judgment.
Thousands of dollars have been
literally wasted in doing from year
to year by the same old pattern this
kind of work that some folks call
road building. One prominent citi
zen said “we need to vote bonds.”
Until we learn how to use what we
have more efficiently than we have
been using it for the last thirteen
years we certainly do not need to
increase the burden of taxation.
Progress is based upon efficiency and
upon taxation or bonds.
The road builder was instructed
to use a twelve inch pipe in draining
the road at a certain place and s.nce
the heavy rains set in it was dis
covered that this pipe was carrying
only about half of the water and the
remainder of the water was running
over the road bed and washing it
away. “Why are you using such a
small pipe to drain this large water
shed”? “The boss told us to use
economy.” This is the kind of
economy that does not economize and
this little twelve inch pipe was the
costliest piece of stuff that could
have been used. There is one little
stretch of road in this section that
was correctly surveyed and the
water-shed was correctly estimated
and nothing guessed at. The drain
age pipes were used that were large
enough to carry the water from a
large water-shed. A lot of work has
been done by the county crew in the
last twenty years upon this particu
lar road and yet every time we had
a heavy rain this road was washed
away and left in the mud. If half
the work that has been done on this
road had been done right the county
could have saved half the expense of
continuing to do a thing half-handed
and we would have been saved the
annoyance of driving through mud
and water. Efficiency and a good
road level will solve the road problem
much faster than increased taxation.
In building this little stretch of road
it was disovered that the county crew
had been trying to force the water
uphill for one hundred yards with an
elevation of thirteen inches to save
the expense of putting in a drain
■ pipe and what they saved by leaving
off this pipe has cost the public
twenty times the value of it in driv
ing through a bad mud hole for at
least two hundred yards. It is not
always economy to economize.
It has been conservatively esti
mated that Hart county is paying
seventy thousand dollars annually
for roads. Forty thousand of this is
contributed through various channels
to the State Highway Department
for state roads and thirty thousand
’through various channels is paid in
tor county roads.
Hart county is a part of Georgia
and her highways are a part of the
Georgia highways and her people a
part of the good old Georgia people
and if we have the right to count
our part of taxes then Hart county
is justly entitled to have more money
spent upon our roads than was spent
in 1924.
It has been conservatively estimat
ed that a business like contractor
could do all the work that was done
on all the roads in Hart county in
1924 for thirty thousand dollars and
‘make good money. No good business
man would estimate that we got any
more than the thirty thousand and
no thinking man that keeps half-way
posted on public affairs would esti
mate that we paid out much less than
seventy thousand dollars through
various sources and agencies for
roads.
Hurry on.
This particular word “hurry on”
has left more half-handed work done
in Hart county and cost more money
in five years than we can pay back
in ten. The county warden was build
ing a certain piece of road that
would require about ten days to
finish in good shape and he got word
from headquarters to get avfay in
five days. We hurry on to get over
the county and hurry on to get back
over it again and in spite of all our
hurrying we are wasting more money
by hurrying on than we would by
spending just a little more time in
completing a road while we are at it.
All the responsibility for the de
plorable condition that we are work
ing under does not fall upon all of
us. It does not fall upon the com
missioners any more than upon the
people.
“As a man thinketh so is he.” We
need more thinking and better think
ing and better thinking by all the
thinkers. We need more roads and
better roads for the money that we
are already paying out.
. A good road was built in 1924
right in front of a farmer’s home
and well drained and this farmer
spent about two days in building a
rock dam on the lower side of this
road to keep the water out of his
field. The water had to either run
up hill in two directions to get out
of the road or run into the farmer’s
field or stand still and make a mud
i hole, it stood still and made one of
I the worst mud holes in McCurry's
I district. You can’t build roads with
bonds, but with efficiency and co
operation.
High and Low Lands
The maximum difference between
i the high land and the low in the Unit
| ed States proper Is 14,477 feet. Ac
j cording to the official figures. Mount
I Whitney, the highest point, is 14,501
feet above sea level, while Death val-
I iey, the lowest point, Is 275 feet below
1 sea level. These two points, which
| are both in California, are less than
. 90 miles apart The difference be
tween them seems small, however,
when compared with the difference be
tween the highest and lowest point In
Asia. Mount Everest rises 29,002 feet
above sea level, whereas the shores
of the Dead sea are 12.290 feet below
it —a difference of 41,292 feet
Baptist Church
The Baptist W. M. S., with the co
operation of the pastor, is planning
a “Get-Together” banquet for the |
men of the church. This will be in ]
the interest of the church building ;
fund. The attendance at the week of <
prayer last week was excellent. The ]
average being a fraction over thirty. ’
The next meeting of the Society will ;
be January 20. !
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It was very gratifying to see as
many at church as we had last Sun
day in spite of the bad weather. It
is fine to see a church people work
at their religion as earnestly as they
do their own business. We sincerely
hope that this spirit will continue to
grow among us. This is indeed a :
very healthy sign.
The thing which is bringing the
most joy to the pastor and to all of
those charged with church responsi
bility, however, is the fact that our
Baptist people are responding so very
nicely to the appeals for an awaken
ed interest in a new building for our
church. It seems that everyone is
anxious for something to be done as
early as possible to meet this urgent
need. There has not been sounded a
single discordant note in this matter
since we began to talk it. We are
hoping to have the strength to plan
so wisely and prayerfully that our
entire constituency will continue to
boost, and that we may not have a
single uncertain sound during the
time of the building.
It is going to take a great deal of
praying, work and a little sacrificing
to build in a worthy way. But our
needs demand it. When the older
members among us realize that they
are building for their children and
grandchildrep, as well as to meet
their own present needs, for them
to give liberally should become a
matter of joy and Christian pride;
for it will be of infinitely more bene
fit to our children for us to guard
the interest which our children will
take in the church in the future than
to take precautions as to their finan
cial future. But, since the younger
of our members shall be giving to a
project which will serve them for
years to come and their children as
well, their sacrificial giving rather
becomes the height of self-indul
gence.
We are well able to build worthily.
Just take stock of the things which
our Baptist people have done in fin
ancial affairs in the last five years
of business depression. The gifts to
the Lord’s work and the business pro
jects which have been launched suc
cessfully in these bad times are proof
positive that we should build worthi
ly and pay for it with comparative
ease now that general adjustments in
business have been made and all fi
nancial experts are giving promise of
permanent business progress in our
country in the future.
We are amply able. The good
Lord will help us. Let’s arise and
build for the Lord’s sake and ours!
W. A. DUNCAN, Pastor.
—THE—
“GORILLA”
A Real Play
New Auditorium
8:00 P. M.
TUESDAY NIGHT, JAN, 23
Mystery! - - Thrills!
Laughs’ - - Romance!
Strictly Professional
Cast of New York
Players.
STAR THEATRE
THURSDAY-FRIDAY
“Way Down East”
Featuring Lillian Gish supported
by such stars as Lowell Sherman,
Mary Hay, Mrs. Morgan Belmont.
Creighton Hale, Kate Bruce, Edgar
Nelson, Josephine Bernard, George
Neville, Mrs. David Landau, Porter
Strong, Patricia Fruen, Florence
Short, Emily Fitzroy and Myrtle
Sutch.
Hours 2:30 and 7 P. M.
SATURDAY
Tom Mix in “Soft Boiled;” “Fast
Express” No. 12. 2:30 and 7 P. M.
MONDAY
“Sinners in Heaven,” featuring
Bebe Daniels and Richard Dix. This
is another big picture.
TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY
“Drifting,” featuring Priscilla
Dean. This is Wm. A. Brady’s fam
ous stage success. Other stars in
clude Matt Moore, Wallace Beery,
Rose Dione, Edna Tichenor, Anna
Mae Wong, etc. Don’t miss this big
attraction for next week.
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On Growing Old
When we become old, we want to
get off the streets. We always sym
pathize with the old men who have
nothing to do, who are not wanted
anywhere and who have no place to
go. When we become old and useless,
we want a place of our own to go to
a place that is absolutely our own and
which we can manage as we please.
We hope it will be a little place where
we can potter around with fruits and
flowers and vegetables and chickens,
and keep busy. We don’t want to
give people the opportunity to show
neglect nor idle time in which to see
visions of the grim monster. Old men
who loiter about the streets, it seems
to us, make a mistake. —Arkansaw
Thomas Cat.
It’s up to the spinster to learn
how to strike a match.
Jealousy bears a lot of fruit that
is preserved in family jars.
The tramp avoids many of the
walks of life by catching freight
trains.
When a man frankly admits that
he was in the wrong it is equivalent
to his saying, “I am wiser today than
I was yesterday.”
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
State of Georgia—Hart County.
All persons indebted to the estate
of James A. Powell, deceased are
hereby notified to make settlement
immediately; and all persons holding
demands against said estate, are re
quested to file the same in legal
form at once, with the undersigned:
A. S. SKELTON, Atty.
January 12th, 1925.
24-6t*** R. M. POWELL,
Administrator Jas. A. Powell.