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The Hartwell Sun —Established 1876 — ■ LEON MORRIS&LOUIE L. MORRIS Editors Publishers Proprietors Entered in the Post Office at Hartwell, Ga., as Second Class Mail Matter. Member Georgia Press Association Eighth District Press Association National Editorial Association PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Subscription Rates—in Advance One Year $2.00 Six Months 1.00 Three Months .50 Foreign Advertising Representatives in New York City: American Press Association, 225 West 39th Street. FRIDAY. APRIL 10, 1925 • SOME SUN ” SCINTILLATIONS * L.L.M. - bible thought J For This Weekh ♦ I {Bible Thought* memorized, wilt prwe «a priceless heritage in after yearu. 1 HAVE FOUGHT A GOOD EIGHT, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness.—2 Timothy 4:7. o Make your own way—he who waits for dead men’s shoes is pretty [ apt to get cold feet. o “Before a marriage a man gives his neart to a girl, after marriage she takes the heart right out of him," says o'd Joe. o It has become a fad among young men to go without garters, and no doubt they imagine they have origi nated something. But their great- , erratic-dads beat them to it. o. Many an old hen is looking for ward to a trip across the street to the neighbor’s spring garden. Chick- 1 ens and church choirs cause many < war-. ! o Another thing about the great old You can take a drink several times during the day and then -rand up and talk to a friend i when he drops in without having to I turn your face the other way. You j don’t have to chew gum or smoke to ' try to hide the odor of the luscious i old churned cow fluid. It won’t make J you smell like a sour, rotten apple. ; , o A Child There is nothing in all the world I so hr.portant as children, nothing so | intere-ting. If ever you wish to go I in for some form of philanthropy, if ever you wish to be of real use in the world, do something for chil- 1 •dren. If ever you yearn to be wise, i stud; children. If the great army 1 •of philanthropists ever exterminate 1 sin and pestilence, ever work out I race salvation, it will be because a 1 little child has led.—-David Tstarr ■ -Jordan. o "Anonymoui." Those who contribute to worthy ! ■causes- usually see fit to advertise i I their generosity, but occasionally ) ‘ there is a giver who forgets to ' “round a trumpet” in order to have > “’glory of men.” New Yorkers are ■ now engaged in raising some fifteen millions of dollars for the completion 1 of the Cathedral of St. John, the Di wine. Among the printed list of con tributors is found, “Anonymous. $150,000.00 and again, “Anonvinous, $100.000.” o How To Change Thing! "A child with the habit of obedi ence in the family passes naturally into a law-abiding citizen. Th- citi- •. xen t aving the habit of obeying the law-- finds no difficulty in keeping any law. The habit of morality re-' moves most effectually the tempta-, tion of vice. The English have the habit of obeying their criminal laws and crime is not common in England ; and Canada. The present day Ameri-' cun from his infancy habitually breaks all the law that he meets with, i He hr.s the habit of lawlessness and ■ calls t liberty. By a powerful es-! fort, beginning in the home and | Mchool, this one evil can be reversed. It must be.”—Judge Carnule Sibley. o We don’t know what happened, nor where, but it was evident that old Joe Jones had run up against something the other day. Coming in to ...- sanctum he sat down beside us and says, says he, with a scowl <>n his face: “Look here, Ligon, you know a fellow may have a string of ancestry as long as from here to the sun, and their blood may be as royal blue as the skies themselves, but, did I you know that ain’t helping one bit when it comes to their settling up what they owe.” Old Joe was hot, and we know he had run up against ' :: hard one somewhere. “Joe,” says we, "you are wrong many times, but, it appears to us that you are just .about 100 per cent right this time.” o OLD JOSEPH JONES says— . jX/JJ’ “Noah was six hun ** ' dred years old before . ■ he knew enough to gr’-’/ B'' 9 b u >!d an ark. Don't i° se y° ur E ri p!" o fZXZ— QUESTIONS ! |j Aa and Bible Answers I E. II Parents will eneourare children to look up «Hi S aminx-rc,onse the Bible Anawers, »t wili(Mwe taj g| a pncvMM benta<« to tnem id after year* Iqj W- y should we not be afraid? See ' -Isa. 41:10. I Don’t Worry—Smile The world knows but little of fail ures, and cares less. The world only watches the successes. Stop worry ing over things that can’t be helped and go out and do things that can be done. Few people care a continental for your failure. Few. if any, will help. You may sit and magnify your mis takes, mourn and go mad over your blunders, but men will only smile that cynical smile and say of you, “he's no good.” Self-pity, sympathy-soliciting, > h ing and wailing will only let you down lower. Brace up. Brush up. Thing up. And you are bound to get up. Paint your face with a smile. Advertise that you are a success, then think and work for it. o BUYING SIGHT UNSEEN Some weeks ago, a couple of map peddlers worked this city for a map of South Carolina—a chart, they called it. Their story was that they were taking orders, and the map was not completed, therefore they could not show what they proposed to de liver. In the course of time the maps some old map these people had secur were delivered, and they prove to be ed, with some of the state highways placed incorrectly on it. The map al ■o shows postoffices which were ab olished nearly forty years ago, and which many people now living in those neighborhoods never heard of. The whole thing is a swindle and these people who sold them should be prosecuted, if they could be found. The moral is, never buy anything from a stranger sight unseen.—An derson (S. C.) Daily Mail. o ■ GREENVILLE NEWS COMMENTS ON THE BRIDGE MATTER The Sun has felt all along that the seeming ill feeling and spirit of re taliation as suggested by the action of some South Carolina citizens re garding the toll question at the Sa vannah river bridges only repre sented the sentiment of a few people in our excellent neighboring county of Anderson and friendly neighbor ing State of South Carolina. This fact has been borne out by statements verbal and in print during the past week. Anderson and An-I derson county as a whole is inhabi-1 fated by a fine people. Hartwell and Hart county has the kindliest of feeling for Anderson, Anderson county and the Palmetto State. In fact, a large part of our citi zenship “migrated” many years ago from across the Savannah, and we are so closely related that a spirit of animosity seems out of place, to say the least. The Greenville (S. C.) News, a little further north of Anderson, has the following to say regarding the bridge controversy: “The Anderson Independent does not think very highly of what it calls an ‘indirect legislative thrust' aimed to reduce the tolls on the Alford bridges over the Savannah river be low the charges recently ordered by the war department after a hearing on the subject. The legislative ‘thrust’ is a movement to authorize the highway department to change the route of the highway if desired in order to carry it over a free bridge built or to be built out of public funds. “The Independent probably puts its finger on the best solution of the problem when it says that the ‘Hart well owner of these bridges has in dicated that he is willing to sell his bridges and the quicker they are made free bridges the better satisfied the public generally will feel.' “There is, of course, no necessity for getting up any sort of feeling over the bridge matter. Efforts of the highway authorities in this ate and Georgia should be directed, we believe, not so much toward forcing a reduction of tolls on these bridges as toward making the bridges public property and hence toll free. It seems hardly appropriate for the state to engage in a competitive con test to force the private owner of a public utility to reduce his charges to a rate that the supposedly com petent authorities have held would be lower than reasonable. The thing ■ to do is to secure public possession lof the bridges. There should be ample legal means to bring about ! this end without injustice to anyone. I If the owmer is willing to sell, and his price is a reasonable one, the thing to do is to buy the bridges; if it is held unreasonable, there should be a legal process similar to con demnation proceedings that will fix a reasonable price by regular pro cesses of law. “In bringing about a solution of this matter, we should not permit any spirit of disregard of private capital or vested rights. It is worth remembering that these bridges were built by private investment at a time when the public communities inter ested were probably neither able, nor inclined, nor impelled by necessity to make such an improvement. It was | a public service. Now that the time i has come when the greatly expanded ' traffic of the country make it clear that all roans and bridges should be toll free, the effort should be to take over from private capitalists the structures and rights in which they had invested their money, and on terms that are entirely fair not only to the public but to the owners of the bridges also. There is away in law to work out these terms after a very complete and impartial consid eration of all the factors, and that means should be employed.” ■■ —O—- 1 ■- "■ It's a funny world in which people are proud of ancestors and hate to take care of the old folks.—Nash ville Tennesseean. Speak not to the great man more than he requires, for one knews not what may be displeasing to him. Speak when he invites thee and thy word will be pleasing.—Precepts of > Ptan-Hoteo, TSCO P C. I THE HARTWELL SUN, HARTWELL. GA., APRIL 10, 1925 “FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH” By E.8.8..Jr. I am very grateful for the many well wishes for my success next year in Atlanta. My old friends have stood by me loyally and each and every one has expressed the desire that I can carry on with all the suc cess in the world. It is my desire to do that. It is my ambition to live up to all my expectations. If I do not, it will be because of reasons im possible to overcome. I was especially happy and proud over one letter received this week from a little girl in the high school and it was impress to me be cause it breathed the voice of belief and loyalty. After all, what is greater in this world than faith and loyalty. A belief that one will do his best and work and i strive for all the glory that is pos sible. If we did not have this belief and faith of our friends, life indeed, would hold little promise. Down in the big state of Texas, again, perhaps for my last time, it is hard to comprehend its great op portunities. I have written many times of its wonderful assets. It is a state urriike any other in Ameri ca. Because of its great territory, THE ROAD TO RUIN In Macon "a model young man” who was head bookkeeper for a bank disappeared, and an audit of his i books showed a shortage of SB,OOO. He lived at the Y. M. C. A., took an active interest in church work, and held the esteem and complete confidence of his employers. He drove away in a new automobile that he had purchased. This particular case reached the public through the newspapers, be cause the bank promptly made the facts known. There are scores of just such cases, however, occurring every 1 week, in Georgia and in other states of the Union, that do not reach the public for the reason that the em ployers, for business purposes or to save further embarrassment to in nocent members of the families, do j not let the facts become public. It is stated by competent survey- I ors of crimes of this nature that at Ino period in the history of this I country has there been such a rec ord of speculations as since the be ginning of post-war reconstruction and business readjustments. Though business and industrial conditions have become almost nor mal the situation as to money crimes not only has not improved but obvi ously is getting worse. There is but one explanation— living beyond the income. The “joy ride” began just after the war, when money flowed plenti fully, and the reaction from the strain and stress of that period cul minated in an unheard-of human recklessness and abandon, has been continued, and is being continued. It is a period of pazz, of wild ex travagances in personal expenses— and extravagancies that are too often met by thievery. There are men in Atlanta today, and in every city, who are driving automobiles and indulging in other luxuries that cost them more than their salary for a year. Expensed pile up; debts pile up. Sometimes in a fit of despondency a pistol shot stops the worry. More often they begin to steal from their employers. It is not confined to men, young or old. Many women who cannot afford it are wearing silk hosiery. They spurn the cheaper cotton goods. Many are dressing beyond their means. They must have cost ly raiment and indulge in luxuries that a moderate salary cannot pos sibly meet. The public seldom hears of these cases, but there is scarcely a busi ness concern of any magnitude that i does not encounter such cases every week in its own affairs. There must be a slowing down— a restraining force somehow and somewhere. Thousands of young people who are stealing today in one way or another, perhaps of a petty nature, most of them, are not instinctively • crooks. At heart they are honest, i But the jazz life they fall into de ■ mands money. They take the chances rather than slow down to the old-time conservatism of the ; fathers. They prefer to steal rather than to sacrifice and economize. But there is no way to make it i pay—no way to “put it over.” ; Sooner or later the employee who takes that which does not belong to him—however small or however great—will be caught in his dishon > esty. Then comes disgrace and I usually ruin. The “joy ride” for j that individual comes to an end, and his or her future becomes j blighted. The “joy ride” doesn't pay. It invariably ends in disaster.—Atlanta Constitution. | 0— Musn’t Get Mad, Folks. Last Friday a friend and patron of ours, whose name had been off of our subscription list for a few weeks, I called and handed us his renewal, saying: “Here, I did think I would never take the Nugget again because I didn't think you treated me right i when you stopped my paper, bat I cannot get along without it.” We told him that we stopped all persons —rich or poor, when their subscrip tion- expired. You see we pay cash for every thing we buy. It takes money to run a newspaper. We can not mail our papers out without pay | ing the postage promptly. We have to depend upon the help of friends alone to keep us going. Enemies do not help us. We have spent long years at the business. Set type many hours at night while our patrons were asleep, taking their rest, in order to give them an interesting paper to read every Friday morning. So let all patrons- take the second thought before they become offended at a rule we had to adopt to make the newspaper business a success.— j Dahlonega Nugget. I it stands unequalled in the United ' States. But, aside from that, it is ' unique from many stand points. I Texas, with its Rio Grande valley ' section is only in its beginning, i There are opportunities here that • no other state has. And with it all, there are several unique features about this great southwestern state. It seldom rains here. It is now April first down here and all the old settlers tell me that the last rain they saw was about ten months ago. Can you imagine such a length of time between rains? As a matter of fact, it rains down here so seldom that one wonders just why the whole country doesn’t dry up. Texas is as dry, this year, as the Sahara Desert. It is always a welcome relief to get an Atlanta paper down here. For Texas papers, as a rule are very poor. I have followed the Dallas papers constantly and I have never yet found anything to praise in them. They are exceedingly dull for the most part. This is my “light week.” Next week, will see more to write about. A WEST VIRGINIA EDITOR’S VIEW OF THINGS IN PASSING A party composed of Editor and Mrs. S. S. Buzzerd, of Berkeley Springs, W. Va., and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hedding, of Tyrone, Pa., re cently came through Hartwell en route to Florida. Editor Buzzerd, in writing back to his paper, The Morgan Messenger, at Berkeley Springs, had the follow ng to say, in part, of this trip through this immediate section: Saturday “Crossed Savannah river into Geor gia and arrived in Hartwell at 5 o’clock. Rooms at New Hartwell Hotel very large and comfortable: reasonable charges. Hartwell is a town of less than four thousand population; its principal industry is cotton and other farming, and one cotton mill. A number of wholesale houses are also located here. Have nice wide streets of sand-gravel, and many sidewalks of same material and some paved, which are good. “The roads traversed today are state roads and are designated as “top soil” roads, which in dry weather are smooth but in wet weather such as now prevails through the south, they are fierce, yet passable. Some tourists have slid into the ditch and mule power was called to aid. Sunday “Remained here today. Hartwell Hotel filled with tourists last night, some of whom pressed on this morn ing and others arrived to take their places. “A nicer hotel could not be found. It was built by Hartwell’s enterpris ing citizens and they deserve com mendation for such display of faith in their town and community, and the tourists trade make it a paying proposition.” Editor Buzzerd’s reference to the editors The Sun, and other things noted about Hartwell are also inter esting and greatly- appreciated. The party returned through Hart wig about three weeks ago en route home after their two months’ stay in Florida. —o (with OUR EXCHANGES) $1,250,000 00 In Four Monthi. There is food for thought in the following news item from the Moul trie Observer: “More than $1,250,- 000 was paid out for hogs in Moul trie in the period from November 1 and February 23, according to fig ures given out by the buyers on the ■ stockyards here. The receipts during i the time mentioned were in excess ! of 70,000 head. Os this number close to 20,000 were wagon hogs—that is, hogs brought in wagons or trucks from a radius of 20 to 25 miles from Moultrie.”—LaGrange Graphic. Everything Looks Good. Farmers tell us that more work has been done up to this date than for several years past, and this is bound to count in the production of crops.—Walton Tribune. What To Write. The Madisonian greatly appreciates its county news gatherers. Much happens in every community accounts of which belong in the county paper —new settlers, improvements of every kind, births, deaths, marriages, church news, school news, sickness, accidents, visitors, etc. Discussion of county enterprises and county pro blems'should always be short, snappy and to the point. We cannot handle long-winded articles or discussions. A matter of serious concern to the Madisonian every week is just what it must leave out. Much has to be left out every week.—Madisonian. Splendid Organization. Co-operate with the parent-teacher j association in the great work planned I for this year. You will enjoy the efforts which you put forth in such worthy endeaveor.—Montecello News. Now is the time of the year to j “paint up and clean up." Hedges and shrubbery planted about the home will brighten the place up consider ably.—Cobb County Times. Money In Bank, Though. White county produced 687 bales of cotton to March 20th as against 243 the same day last year.—Cleve land Courier. o A traffic expert says whole cities 1 must be rebuilt to accommodate mo torists. Whole pedestrians have of > ten had to be rebuilt for that same reason.—Asheville Citizen. o There is much talk of the go-getter but is he of any more importance than the come-backer—Toledo Blade, i A LITTLE FUN— One Rea»on For Cleanlineza Teacher of Hygiene: Why must we always be careful keep our homes clean and neat? Little Girl: “Because company may ' walk in at any moment.” The Cheerful Giver “Mother, have you got a nickel for a poor old man?” “Where’s the poor man, my son. •‘Down at the corner selling ice cream cones.” —Life. Danger! Railroad Cro»»ing! Stop and let the train go by, It hardly takes a minute; Your car starts out again intact, And better still —you’re in it! —Quoted by Governor Silzer. Time For Alarm The cat settled herself luxuriously in front of the kitchen range and be gan to purr. Little Dolly, who was strange to the ways of cats, regarder her „with horror. “Oh, gran’ma, gran’ma!” she cried. “Come here quick. The cat’s begun to boil.” Nothing On Him The successful business man was trying to impress the clerk. “Why, young man, I even started out in life as a barefoot boy.” “Well, I wasn’t born with shoes on myself," answered the clerk. That’s Different A Negro was trying to saddle a fractious mule. “Does that mule ever kick you, Sam?” asked a bystander. “No, suh,” said Sam, “but he sometimes kicks whar I jes’ been.” —The Progressive Grocer. Matrimonial Olympics The old gentleman was a trifle be wildered at the elaborate wedding. “Are you the groom?” he asked a melancholy-looking young man. “No, sir,” the young man replied. “I was eliminated in the preliminary can. tryouts.”—Anthony (Kan.) Republi —o — Speaking of tyfoney I am 25 cents. I am not on speaking terms with the butcher. I am too small to buy a quart of cream. I am not large enough to buy a box of candy. I cannot be exchanged for a gallon of gasoline. I am hardly fit for a tip. But— BELEIEVE ME, When I go to church on Sunday, I am considered. Some Money! o Wife—“l saw the loveliest lace spreads today, only two dollars and a half, and I wanted them awfully, but I knew you wish to economize and so I didn’t get them.” Husband—“ That’s too bad, my dear; you could have got them. Any thing which adds to your happiness and brings gladness to your eyes, anything w'hich lightens your do mestic cares and gilds the lowering clouds, anything which borders with sweet flowers the thorny nature, making life more worth loving, home, a paradise, you are welcome, doubly welcome, my angel, if it doesn’t cost more than two dollars and a half.” —New York Weekly. ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■■ ■ SiiniwiSM bJI ■ Think : is Safi- : llwJ IT ISN'T : I Under the carpet, in the teapot, behind the clock—none 11 of those places are safe hiding spots for money, as is at- g tested by news items that one sees frequently in the daily | papers. gj ■ Robbers and sneak thieves ppear to know just where ■ to look for the family hoard that is hidden about the house R instead of being deposited in a bank, where it would be safe. «■ Besides, banks pay interest on time deposits. Put your * money at work for you in our bank where it will be safe. * 11 I Y i T-/ /■ “THE OLD RELIABLE’’ J OFFICERS: * D. C. ALFORD, President - R. C. THORNTON, V.-President g M. M. NORMAN, V.-President - FRED S. WHITE, Cashier ■ 1 DIRECTORS: ■ D. C. ALFORD - S. W. THORNTON - R. E. MATHESON | I. J. PHILLIPS -M. M. NORMAN - DR. W. I. HAILEY * L. L. McMULLAN | ■ ■ Hear And Their By DANA THE OTHER day\ * I READ in “The Sun.” ♦ ♦ ♦ WHERE AN old friend. ♦ ♦ ♦ OF HIGH school days. HAD BEEN AND WHEN I read it. ♦ ♦ ♦ MY MIND just naturally. ♦ ♦ ♦ TURNED BACK to other days. ♦ ♦ ♦ WHEN WE were in school. * * ♦ TOGETHER. * » * AND I thought of. * ♦ ♦ THE OLD gang. ♦ ♦ ♦ AND THOSE happy days. ♦ ♦ ♦ WHEN SARAH and Belle. ♦ ♦ ♦ AND LOUIE and I. * * * AND EMMETT and Bub. * ♦ ♦ USE TO each day. ♦ ♦ ♦ ATTEND HIGH school. • * * AND ALL this time. ♦ ♦ * THERE WAS another lad. * ♦ ♦ WHO EACH day came, too. • * ♦ * AND WHOM we all liked. • • * FOR HIS seriousness. * * ♦ AND HIS earnestness. ♦ » ♦ AND NOW today. ♦ ♦ » HE HAS been honored. ♦ » « PERHAPS, ABOVE all. * * * IN BEING elected. • * * THE DEAN of the law school. » * ♦ IN OHIO State University. ♦ ♦ ♦ AND SO along with the others. * • * I JUST want to add. ♦ * * MY TRIBUTE and praise. ♦ » ♦ FOR WAYMON McLesky. ♦ ♦ ♦ AND LET him know. ♦ ♦ » THAT ONE of his old friends. * * * OF BOYHOOD days. ♦ » » IS PULLING for him. » * » I THANK YOU. o A woman doesn’t settle down to matrimony until she gets the habit of thinking she smells something burning.—Vancouver. Sun. o Yet husbands who lose their memo ries and wander off don’t forget where the other woman lives.—Mem phis New's-Scimitar.