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The Hartwell Sun
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“ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1925
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HE THAT TRUSTETH IN HIS
OWN HEART IS A FOOL.—Prov.
28:26.
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A porch light may be very dim,
and yet have an enormous “scandal
power.”
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The world may owe you a living,
but you’ll have a tough time collect
ing it all at once.
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The fellow who doesn’t believe in
signs had better not try driving an
automobile.
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Ye«, Sir!
We hear that the eclipse was a
success over at Hartwell. Just plum
purty.—Lavonia Times.
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One of our exchanges is wondering
who’n world old Joe Jones is. Well,
old Joseph is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Jones. Now you know it all.
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“A man,” quoths Joseph Jones,
“may be a millionaire as the bank
teller counts, but a perfect bank
rupt as the good Lord counts.”
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The old-fashioned man who used
to go home and smashed the furni
ture now goes home and helps to
polish it by sitting on it and listening
to the radio.
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Speaking of the grand and glori
ous, luscious buttermilk, the preach
ers never get up on Sunday morn
ing and express their sentiments re
garding the fellow who gets too full
of it.
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And the Car Upkeep, too
With the fiddler and the devil to
pay there is little mystery why the ,
cost of living is stubborn about com- 1
ing down.—Little Rock (Ark.) I
Democrat.
Do Without.
A Hartwell druggist declares and
avers that he will not charge drinks.
That being the case what’s n feller 1 ,
going to do when he gets both dry
and broke in Hartwell?—Lavonia
Times.
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Some time ago a Montana preach- ]
er, in order to advertise his sermon |
on evolution, tied a monkey to the '
pulpit. We don’t believe in circus
methods to get folks to attend ser- ;
vices at the Lord's house. If they
won’t come of their own free will
and accord just to hear the preacher ;
preach, let ’em stay at home.
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Looks like the Georgia Railway &
Power Company will win out in its .
fight against the jitneys in Marietta
and Atlanta. We hope so. It’s well
to give the devil his dues. The time
is coming and may be, now is, when
the people in the congested cities
must decide between the street cars
and the jitneys.—Commerce News.
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All on One Side.
“Rufus, aren’t you felling well?"
“Nossuh, Ah suah ain’t.”
“Have you consulted your doctor?”
“Nossuh, an’ Ah ain’t gwine to.”
"What’s the trouble? Aren’t you
■willing to trust him?”
“Oh, yassuh, but de trouble is dat
he ain’t altogether willin’ to trust
me.”
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MOTHER S GOOD COOKERY
Eating will not be the first aim of
any rational man or woman, yet hu
man comfort and health depend on
having good appetizing food.
People who are not well fed do not
have energy or ambition. The well
fed person." other things being equal
stands a better chance of success in
life.
The majority of city folks eat one
or more meals daily at lunch rooms
and restaurants, and have to con
sume a lot of sloppy stuff. In the
country towns, the good appetizing
cookery, “like what mother used to
make,” is something quite different.
It produces that wholesome appear
ance that most rural people have.
The country is the place for good
healthful food that will make people
able to do things and enjoy life.
“FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH”
A few weeks ago, I wrote of the
great army of foolish and unreason
able bills that each year found a
place as laws on the various states’
books. That is true. At the same
time, thankfully and in all fairness,
it is a relief to look around us and
see the great number of useful and
splendid bills passed by each year’s
Legislature. Out of the chaos and
confusion and seemingly lack of ac
complishment of anything worthy, a
final summary of a state’s legislature
session reveals some splendid laws
passed. And many of these show
vision and fore-sight. Laws that
concern our very living, and our wel
fare, and that in time become a part
of us and lift us to a higher civiliza
tion than ever before attained. And
truly it is vision that prompts the
; authors of these bills. A vision that
■ can look into the future and count
the years ahead, with always that
constant desire of helpfulness and
general usefulness to the nation in
general. Someone once said, “with
out vision, a people shall perish.”
It is true. Nothing stands still. It
! is either a step backward or a step
forward.
Amonst all the array of interest
ing laws passed by the various states
these last few years, Louisiana, per
haps, with her new marriage law, has
taken the most advanced step. It
is an appalllingly frank law and
certainly radical but is truly a start 1
in the right direction. With only
the sincere desire of helping humani
ty in general and the ambition to
better a coming generation, the state
decrees that no marriage shall be
consuinated nor shall be legal until
both the contracting parties—, man
and woman—, have undergone a
physical examination by a reputable
physician and pronounced physically
fit. In this way the state hopes to
substantially lessen crime, degener
acy, and physical ills. It hopes in
place of inherited weakness, to build
in the state a new generation of
strong-minded and able-bodied men
and women. This law was passed
only after conclusive research had
proved beyond doubt, that the
majority of our troubles and mis
fortunes are inherited. That crime
and the tendencies and characteristics '
of mankind in general are inherited,
just as health itself. That the
stamina of clean morals and virile
living are things that are passer! on
from one generation to another, with
environment playing only a temporary
part in the whole scheme. And so
therein lies the basis of this new
Louisiana law. Something to think
about whether one scoffs at it or
believes in it. The writer’s personal
view is, that there is sound reasoning
in the basic theory, but that environ-
WAKING UP SCHOOL PUPILS I
A good school is not created by
fine equipment alone. A group of
children in a little country school
may do better work, if they are
earnest to learn, than a bunch of
drowsy kids in the finest building in
the world who are indifferent about
their work.
Success in waking up school chil
dren is a gift possessed by some
teachers. But to a certain extent it
depends on the home attitude.
If parents never show interest in
school work, children may get the
idea that their lessons are of no ac
count. But if parents talk with
them about their lessons, if they vis
it the school occasionally, the pupils
will feel that going to school is a
real job, and they must attend to it.
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HOW TO FIGURE YOUR
1925 INCOME TAX
The exemptions under the revenue I
act of 1924 are SI,OOO for single per
sons and $2,500 for married persons |
living together, and heads of families.
In addition a S4OO credit is allowed !
for each person dependent upon and
receiving his chief support from the
taxpayer, if such person is under 18
years of age or incapable of self-sup
port because mentally or physically
defective.
The normal tax rate under the rev
enue act of 1924 is 2 per cent on the
J first $4,000 of net income in excess
of the personal exemptions, credit
, for dependents, etc., 4 per cent on
| the next $4,000, and 6 per cent on
' the balance. Under the preceding
act the normal tax rate was 4 per
cent on the first $4,000 of net in
come above the exemptions and
credits, and 8 per cent on th§ re
maining net income.
The revenue act of 1924 contains
a special provision for reduced taxes
which did not appear in previous
laws. All net income up to $5,000
is considered “earned income.” On
this amount the taxpayer is entitled
to a credit of 25 per cent of the
amount of the tax.
For example, a taxpayer, single
and without dependents, may have
■ received in 1924 a salary of $2,000
' and from a real estate transaction a
profit of $3,000. His total net income
i was $5,000. Without the benefit of
the 25 per cent reduction his tax
would be SBO. His actual tax is S6O.
From his net income of $5,000 he is
allowed a personal exemption of
j $1,000; the tax of 2 per cent on the
I first $4,000 is SBO, one-fourth of
which, or S2O, may be deducted.
For the pupose of computing this
‘ credit, in no case is the earned net
1 income considered to be in excess of
I SIO,OOO. A taxpayer may have re
ceived for the year 1924 a net in
i' come from salary of $20,000, but the
25 per cent credit can be applied to
only one-half of this amount.
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Which is the Ninth Command
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THE HARTWELL SUN, HARTWELL, GA., FEBRUARY 6,1925
By E.8.8.Jr.
ment is not given the importance
that it deserves. For, to my mind, of
all the factors, that make or break
a man is just that—, environment.
None of us forget our boyhood days,
our early training, our mother and
father’s gentle reasoning. Those
things live forever. And as we grow
older, those memories come doubly
strong, yielding a powerful influence
and gradually moulding us into the
men and women that environment
would have us.
And looking at this law from an
other angle—, doesn’t love have any
part to play in marriage, anymore?
Are we to legislate all romance out
of our lives? Are we to become such
a race of practical beings that devo
tion and congenuality are to become
trival things and only the minor de
tails of a marriage. All of which
is good food for thought. And some
how the thought lingers that the
world has been going on now for
hundreds of years and “going on”
very nicely, and with love the basis,
rather than more practical things and
more scientific views, people have
been happy and the race become
stronger as years have gone by.
Something to think about.
The strangest of all of the world’s
ways, is civilization’s abosolute dis
regard of the financial status of a
man who marries. To my mind,
poverty is the cause of more unsuc
cessful marriages than any other
reason. A man who marries, enters
into a contract, doesn’t he? Imagine
such a thing in the business world.
To enter into a contract, the parties
concerned must show tangible assets
and the contractor must have a cer
tain financial rating before he is
eligible to enter into a contract. And
yet all one has to do, to enter in a
contract of marriage, is to have the
paltry sum of a license fee and no
other questions asked. Some day,
when the world grows older and
wiser, these things will be changed.
A man will have to have, at least, a
certain amount of cash or at any rate
an assurance that he is able to
provide. And the day is not far off,
when every man will be required to
show an insurance policy as an evi
dence to his fitness and worthiness.
Life insurance is the greatest blessing
and boon that the world has ever
known.
And here I’ve gone and talked of
things that I know nothing of—,
marriage, for instance. What could
any bachelor know of such things!
Words, words, nothing else. Sorter
like some old maid, with her theoecti
cal ideas on raising children! Pardon,
monsieur et madame, S’il vous plais!
The Sun Honor Roll
B. W. Evans, Hartwell 2.
Mrs. Jane McDougal, Hamilton,
Ala.
W. E. Avery, Harton, Ala.
P. L. Oglesby, Dewy Rose.
F. C. Gaines, Dewy Rose.
K. S. Price, Canon.
N. O. Isbell, Bowersville.
D. F. Isbell, Hartwell 5.
C. V. Burton, Vanna.
D. C. Powell, Hartwell 3.
J. W. T. Reynolds, Hartwell 3.
A. S. Temples, Hartwell 4.
E. N. Crump, Hartwell 5.
11. D. Carnes, Royston.
J. R. Ridgeway, Bowersville.
Otis W. Williams, City.
Mrs. Jeff Dean Smithville Ga.
Miss Josephine McMullan, Decatur,
Miss.
C. W. Ham, Lindale, Texas.
C. E. Neese, Charleston, S. C.
H. M. Pearman, Carrollton, Ga.
J. B. Reid, Easley, S. C.
Mrs. J. A. Netzel, Tuckahoe, N. Y.
J. W. Heaton, Avalon, Ga.
Geo. T. Cason, Coco Solo, Canal
Zone.
Robt T. Wright, Hartwell.
J. W. Hinton, Canon.
Charlie Cordell, Hartwell 4.
Mrs. 11. P. Dickerson. Hartwell 1.
11. J. Atkinson. Hartwell 2.
D. B. Evans, Hartwell 2.
T. J. Hilley, Royston 2.
Col. Worley Adams, Royston.
G. H. Crump, Hartwell 1.
R. A. Neal, Hartwell 5.
J. B. Gaines, Dewy Rose.
Annie Mae Jones. Hartwell 5.
P. A. Murray, Hartwell 4.
J. M. White, City.
H. M. Goodwin, Hartwell 2.
W. Z. Vickery, Bowersville.
F. G. Winn, Bowersville.
J. T. Risner, Hartwell 2.
J. W. Brock. Hartwell 4.
W. C. Banister, City.
i C. C. Hembree, Hartwell 2.
Mrs. S. F. Hembree, Hartwell 5.
J. V. Jordan, Hartwell 5.
Dr. D. J. Barten. Anderson, S. C.
H. L. Kenmore. City.
A. N. Alford, City.
A. B. C. Harper, City.
J. H. Howell, City.
J. M. A. Moon, Bowman.
John White, Townville, S. C.
Bessie Hill, City.
Mrs. Reba Baker, Lavonia.
J. M. Powell, Hartwell 1.
Amos Koke, Hartwell 4.
G. A. McCurley, Anderson, S. C.
T. J. Martin, Bowersville.
W. R. Parker. Hartwell 2.
F. C. Gaines, Dewy Rose, Ga.
B. T. Locke, Hartwell 3.
T. R. Hall, Canon.
C. E. Harris, Hartwell 1.
R. C. Temples, Canon.
C. F. Hunt, Hartwell 3.
J. N. Mays, Hartwell 1.
Clifford Cleveland, Hartwell 5.
J. C. Bagwell, Canon.
W. D. Reynolds. Asheville, N. C.
E. L. Adams. Hartwell 3.
Mrs. Daisy Shaw, Sanford. Fla.
W. M. Buffington, Lavonia 2.
J. D. Rucker, Hartwell.
W. O. Mewborn. Bowman 3.
G. S. Sanders, Hartwell.
J. C. Sanders, Bowersville 1.
Charlie Shiflet, Hartwell 2.
W. A. Skelton, Hartwell 3.
Isham P. Vickery, Hartwell.
E. T. Jordan, Hartwell 5.
A LITTLE FUN—
All Layer*.
FOR SALE Eighty purebred
English Leghorn hens and two roost
ers. All laying.—Classified Ad.
Waited Too Late To Begin.
Diner—“l can’t eat this egg you
brought me.”
Waiter —“Isn’t it cooked long
enough, sir?”
Di ner —“Yes, but not soon
enough.”
A Strenuous Ta»k.
“Sixty cents seems very high for
eggs. Haven’t you any cheaper
ones?”
“No, ma’am, I’m sorry I haven’t.
You see it’s very expensive produc
ing them. One egg is a whole day’s
work for a hen.”
Fresh Egg*.
Motorist—“l’d like a dozen eggs,
please.”
Farmer—“l haven’t a dozen; I
got only ten.”
Motorist—“ Well, are they fresh?”
Farmer—“ They’re so fresh the hen
didn’t have time to finish the dozen.”
White Sheep.
“That youngest son of yours
doesn’t seem to do you credit, Uncle
Mose,” remarked the parson to one
of his colored parishoners.
“No, sah, pahson,” said Mose sor
rowfully; “he is de wurstest chile Ah
evah had. He’s mighty bad. Fact,
he’s de white sheep ob de whole
family.”
In And Out.
A father took his son of four
years to the incubator in the cellar
to see the eggs hatch.
Said dad, impressively: “Isn’t it
queer how the little chicks get out
of the shell?”
“Huh,” replied the youngster,
“what gets me is how they get in
there.”—The Progressive Grover.
Her Chance.
Joan (romantically): “I think the
poets are right, George. It’s only in
the great open spaces that we find
ourselves.”
George: “Well, we’re 20 miles
from anywhere, the sun’s going down
and I’ve lost the may, so now’s your
chance.”—London Opinion.
Not Tthat Kind of A Cow.
A farmer boy had spent a sutry
half-hour, hauling and driving a new
calf toward the barn. A steer dash
ed by, headed for the pasture, and
the calf followed.
“Go to thunder, you darn fool!”
muttered the boy. “You’ll know the
difference when supper time comes.”
Unlucky Number.
The Cadger—“l ain’t never ’ad a
chance. No matter where I go or
wot I works at, my unlucky number
bobs up and does me in. some-’ow.”
The Householder—“ What do you
mean? What’s your unlucky num
ber?”
The Cadger—“Thirteen, lady.
Twelve jurymen an’ a judge.”
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Hear And Their
By DANA
ONCE UPON a time.
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I WENT to college.
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AND WHILE there.
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MET LOTS of boys.
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AND MADE some friends.
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AND LATER I finished.
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AND WENT to work.
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WITH GRIP and sample-case.
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AND YEARS have passed.
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SINCE 1914.
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AND I’M still traveling.
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AND FROM year to year.
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MEETING CONTINUALLY.
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THE OLD “Ga.” pals.
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WHO MOSTLY have prospered.
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'N MARRIED ’n everything.
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ONLY THERE are a few.
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FROM TIME to time.
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WHO PUT up sad tales.
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OF NOTES past due.
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OR JOBS just lost.
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OR DEBTS to meet.
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AND “BIG-HEARTED” me.
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I’VE LOANED them dough.
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WHICH THEY never repay.
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NOR EVER expect to.
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AND OUT West, too.
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IT’S ABOUT the same.
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WITH BEGGARS and bums.
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PASSING OTHERS by.
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AND “APPROACHING” me.
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AND SO I'm curious.
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JUST WHAT the reason is.
IS IT because I look “easy.”
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OR JUST merely simple?
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ANY WAY.
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I THANK YOU. ~
SOUND ADVICE
(Atlanta Journal)
In view of the growing tendency
toward paternalism, with first one
group and then another making in
sistent demands on congress for leg
j islation designed chiefly to benefit
a particular class it is refreshing to
, note that at least one prominent class
■ spokesman repels the suggestion that
■ the cure for existing evils of the
1 American Cotton Growers’ Exchange,
resents the idea of paternalistic leg
islation as a means of aiding the
farmers of the country. He rightly
believes that the solution of the far
mers problems is to be found in co
operative marketing.
“We have no desire for paternal
istic legislation,” says Mr. Williams,
speaking for the farmers. “We be
lieve in self-help. It is not to the best
interest of the public, the taxpayer,
to appropriate money from the treas
ury for farm relief.” Unlike many
advocates of the co-operative system,
Mr. Williams does not advance it as
an all “panacea, or a miracle worker.”
Its success he thinks, “requires the
same type of business management as
any corporation doing the same
volume of business requires.”
Mr. Williams’ views will impress
thoughtful persons generally as
sound and well-balanced. There is
a lot in what he terms “self-help.”
It is up to the farmers to help them
j selves rather than for the govern
ment to appropriate the money of all
j the people to help a particular class.
But the government can and should
exert every reasonable effort to en-
MBHaHHI
I BIG CROP I
Figure it out for yourself.
If three tons of 12-4-4 contains the same amount
of plant food as four tons of 9-3-3 and costs less,
why handie the extra ton?
Simple enough isn’t it?
The plant food in 12-4-4 costs less per unit than
in 9-3-3.
The above statement being true, then why not
make 1925 a banner year by using nothing but
High Analysis Fertilizer
and
Make every acre do its best.
When sou have learned the proper fertilization
for four soils, sou have learned the secret of
profitable farming.
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In July, 1921, Postmaster General Hays declared that ■
the people of the United States were holding over one bil- ■
lion dollars out of circulation, and the New York Tribune 1
commenting on the statement said: “There are many people (
who still hide their money in mattresses, or sew it into the a
lining of their clothes.” ■
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Money is made to circulate, and when the people hoard g
it up, “money gets tight” and hard times come.
If you have any portion of this billion dollars hidden J
away, bring it to our bank and deposit it. It will be safe. a
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OFFICERS:
D. C. ALFORD, President - R. C. THORNTON, V.-President j
M. M. NORMAN, V.-President - FRED S. WHITE, Cashier c
DIRECTORS:
D. V. ALFORD - S. W. THORNTON - R. E. MATHESON f
IJ. PHILLIPS - M. M. NORMAN - DR. W. I. HAILEY g
L. L. McMULLAN ■
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courage the co-operative movement.
And co-operation, as Mr. Williams
points out, is not a “miracle worker
or a panacea.” A co-operative as
sociation of farmers will no more
succeed, if improperly managed, than
an incorporated business. No busi
ness can succeed unless it is care
fully managed, and, as Mr. Williams
remarks, “co-operative marketing re
quires the same type of business
management as any corporation do
ing the same volume of business re
quires.”
Mr. Williams is particularly inter
ested in the co-operative cotton
movement, and it is highly gratifying
that in the management of this as
sociation the members are favored
with the counsel of a man so gifted
with hard common sense.
NUBERG HONOR ROLL
FOR JANUARY
Sixth grade—Thornton Brown,
Jim Dickerson, Lorene Lunsford.
Seventh grade—Annie L. Brown,
Lorene Banister, Cecil Teasley, Ida
Teasley, Joel Thornton, Martha
Warren.
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BETHESDA CHURCH
Concord church will present a
morality play /‘Single Life” at
Bethesda, Saturday night Feb. 7.,
7:30 o’clock.
You can’t afford to miss this.
Funds will be divided between the
churches.