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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 17, 1925 • SOME SUN • SCINTILLATIONS • L.L.M. yniM nnuumrnujmjfl mijia ? j BIBLE THOUGHT ’ For This Week ■■■ ‘ I Bible Thooirhte memorized, will prove a price lew heritage in after year*. ,. 1 u ' BinnninitnXttnTt*Ttrrilr^^^C^iTrn nrrnrrTrnrrtrn n ri~n PURE RELIGION and undefiled before God and the Prather is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep him self unspotted from the world.— James 1:27. o Wild oats never need irrigating. .. o “The prematurely grey often dye young.” says old Joe. o Many a modern woman wears more coats on her face than on her body. Q It is not often that misfortune overtakes a man while he’s out hustl ing. o A petrified man has been found out in Oklahoma. Well, there are several of them in Georgia. o Poverty used to drive a man to drink; now he drives to poverty in an automobile. o Just think what a time Solomon had trying to remember the birthdays of all his wives. c The wicked can get comfort from the knowledge that then* no prowl ing reformers in hades, —perhaps. o Announcement that there are 25,- 000 poets in this country has sent stock up in factories making bas kets. o Money used to make the mare go. Now, it’s the flivver; and when the money gives out, credit is relied on until it gives out. o The fellow who used to have plen ty of friends around when ht> fur nished the liquor now has neither the friends around, the liquor, nor mon ey to get it with. o Atlanta’s Marvelous Growth. The latest directory of the City of Atlanta gives this metropolis a pop ulation of over 250,000. Atlanta is a great city, and as a Georgian we’re proud of her. o Instead of trying to get another /cotton rqill the Elberton folks are .talking of clubbing in and paying taxes for the one they already have and getting it to running again. Their cotton mill has not been in operation for some time. A splendid move. o You don’t, hear the local W. C. T. U. organization debating and I resoluting as to the best means to 1 curb the traffic in the grand and glorious old buttermilk. No, sir. They ain’t saying one word about a ' fellow getting all tanked up on this noble fluid. o Meetings in the long ago of the Georgia Press Association were noth ing less than a prolonged drunk for a large per cent of its membership. Now, the fellows take nothing strong er than that grand and most tempt ing drink, buttermilk, —and they have a much better time, after all". o A Short Sermon For You. The sacrament of the Lord’s Sup per, with its emblems of the broken body and shed blood of Christ, takes on a very personal meaning to us when we stop to think that day by day our own bodies are being broken and the strength of our lives shed. The question that should stir most deeply in our minds is, Are we giv ing our bodies and our strength in cheerful services to a great cause as Christ gave his? If we spend our strength! grudgingly and in pursuit of selfish and petty aims, our bodies are broken for naught, our sacrifices are in vain, and the highest purposes of our being are defeated. To give greatly and cheerfully aS Christ gave crowns a broken body with triumph and glory and honor.—Frances M. Morton. o JOSEPH JONES kbr/xl SAYS— -1 tC77 "There’s nothing more i C'-w distant than a near ■ rich relative.” a Et Y ■ Maybe So, Joe, Maybe So. 0 E. QUESTIONS and Bible Answers | 1) enmaraee children to look np Is the Bible Answers, it will prove ntatfc to them in after years. What cometh when we draw water out of the wells of salvation? See Isaiah 12:2, 3. “FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH” By E.8.8..Jr. The death of Judge Andrew J. Cobb brought infinite sadness to my heart. In my college days at “Ga.” I came to- know him and love him, for I was a frequent visitor at his home through the friendship of his son. Through those visits I saw this distinguished Georgian at close range in his home. I knew Judge Cobb through my fraternity. Al though he had been out of college for many years, he always kept in , close touch with the chapter at “Georgia” and was a constant vis itor at its meetings. The boys loved him and respected him. And in the outside world, I knew Judge Cobb for his reputation of sterling worth and honorable living. He was always gentle and kind; stern, yet forbearing; quiet, yet forceful. ! He was to me all that distinguishes j the true Southern Gentleman with all of its chivalry, aristocracy, and its ethics of honor. Peace be to his ashes. Sometimes I think the finest of God’s gifts to man-kind is that gen tle touch of refinement that makes itself so apparent in people around us. The gift of soft voices, easy manners, gentleness, modesty, lack of display, friendliness without “gushiness,” aloofness without snob bishness. Those things bespeak the real Gentleman and the real Lady. Those things are so readily noticed (or not noticed) in the strangers that we see from day to day. I was riding in Texas the other day on my way to Colorado. Seated in the Pullman with me was a little “Tri-Delt” from Dallas, a girl whom I had known three years there. We were chance companions, on the same train that day, and as we talked, and as the other passengers talked or read, at the farther end of the car there was a woman in the midst of a conversation with some-one. She had one of those harsh, high-pitched voices. Her voice could be heard all over the car. And every-one stopped and listened (they had to stop) and we heard topics of all kind but mostly a tirade against the South in gen eral. My companion, a warm-heart ed little Southerner, was indignant and turned to me. “Hear that old ‘Yankee?’ I just feel like going up there and telling her something.” Which, of course, was about the way we all felt. And my little com panion, telling how all the “North ern” folks riled her and how quick ly they could be spotted simply because they were loud and had such untutored voices. All of which is true, for the most part. Only, in a spirit of all fairness, all North ern folks aren’t that way. The nice, refined ones, although their voices are rasping, talk low and smoothly, for no matter what port one hales from, the refining touch of educa tion, tempers one’s voice. The heritage of the South is the soft, mellow voice. Dallas is a balm for sore eyes at this time of the year. The streets are alive with sparkling humanity. Up and down, across and over beau tifully' gowned girls walk, or ride luxuriantly by in magnificent cars. And along swing the men, clothes nicely cut and neatly fitting. One can truthfully say this about Texis and Oklahoma—, people out-dress the old South, easily. As a matter of fact, styles in both men’s and women's clothes are four or five months ahead of Atlanta, and the South. Verily, Dallas is impressive these /lays. In the main section of town, five new office buildings are going up. It is said the city itself is increasing in population twenty thousand a year. Dallas is in the midst of a build •>ur boom. In the residence section, beautiful homes are going up like magic. Two new apartment hotels catering to the wealthier class with a new $700,000.00 Methodist church lead in this part of town. In the down-town section five new office buildings. The Republic Bank build ing costing $1,500,000.00. The new Baker Hotel of 18 stories and 700 rooms, costing $5,500,000.00. But the finest of all is the new Santa Fe That Luscious Buttermilk. That Hartwell Sun crowd is al ways telling about the fine treats they are receiving. In recent is sues they have told of The Sun fore? being treated to chicken din ners by the cftfea of the city, the fine cakes they received from the bakery, etc. Last week they were J the recipients of a large donation |of potato ehips from the bakery, i were invited over to the bottling works to drink their fill of their I choice beverage and on another day ' they were given all the grand old buttermilk they could drink. If I there is anything Louie Morris likes it’s buttermilk. He says that if a man wanted a drink o foutlaw li quor, if he would just drink all the buttermilk he could hold the boot leggers would have to go out of business in a few days.—Royston Record. ■ ■ ■ -.j o Nothing, Ernest, Except Two. What is so rare as a beautiful April day in good old Georgia northern, southern, middle, or any where within its broad and smiling : confines?—Walton Tribune. | ■"•a :— _—o Aw, Charlie! Many a woman has shattered her i ideal by marrying him.—Butler Her ald. —o Can Get Along Without Them. The sob squads are always the i same ones, who are bewailing the prevalence of crime. No sooner is i a criminal convicted than thev get busy trying to set aside the verd’ct of the courts. Notice them in the Hughes case, in the Jones I Bloodworth ease and soon the' - "ill appear in the Chapman case -o doubt.—Madisonian. THE HARTWELL SUN, HARTWELL, GA., APRIL 17, 1925 building of 18 stories, costing nearly 6 million dollars. In this building will be general offices, show-rooms, stock-rooms, warehouses, an assem bly room for use of business groups, or private classes or lectures. But most remarkable of all, in the base ment where the mammoth ware houses are, a great shipping center is situated. Underground trains run in and out on their tracks here, taking their cargo of freight to the outside world. A new style of freight engine without noise or smoke is to be used. Working on the same plan as electrical storage battery, these engines store their steam in their tanks from the out side, and do their work silently and quietly from this reserve. Railroads are working under a ter rible handicap these days. In spite of high freight rates and passenger fares, the yearly earnings of many systems have been cut down and in most cases, most companies are los ing money. Not only is this true of railroads, but of street-car systems, too. The main reason of this, is, of course, the automobile. Cars of all descriptions, bus lines traveling all parts of the country, “Jitneys,”—, all these types of travel have made serious inroad upon the steam meth od of travel. To me, it seems al most tragic, this state of affairs, Not only that but it seems unjust, cruel, and an ungrateful treatment of hu man endeavor. For, we must re member the railroads built this coun try. They developed vast regions which had never seen the light of day. They have spent millions of dollars in wages and developments and their taxes have run into tre mendous figures. Are the American people being grateful? It doesn’t look like it. In the street-car com panies of the various cities, the same up-hill fight is being fought. Auto mobiles and “jitneys” have wrought havoc. There is no question in my mind over the great injustice of this situation. Take Atlanta, for in stance —, is it right that these “jit neys” shall come in and usurp pas senger service and revenues which rightfully belong to the street-cars? It is not. The street car companies have been a big factor in developing city life, have spent thousands of dollars for developments, and each year pay back the county and state a fortune in taxes. What do the automobile lines do? Nothing. They have no property, they pay no taxes back —, they are parasites. The above “train” of thought oc curred to me this morning, upon reading of the present difficulties of that great system of railroads, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul. Here is one of the largest companies in America going broke! A com pany that developed the North-West as no other factor cKd. A great railroad that was aggressive enough to push into the wilds of previously undeveloped America and bring civ ilization to them. They were the first, also, to electrify their rail road. It is a serious state of affairs, surely. Thankfully, it is gratifying to know that our own “Southern Railroad” is one of the few sys tems making money today. Along with the “Union Pacific,” its stock is one of the strongest “buys” in the New York stock market obtain able. Spring is here! Tra La, Tra La! Spring with its alluring weather for outdoors and cavorting around. Ap parently in Texas, the while state has gone golf-crazy. In these last few weeks I have never seen so many golf clubs and golf players in all my life. In Dallas, all the courses were full to the over-flowing. It must be the same everywhere. But golf is not all. Those new, spiffy models of automobiles are very in triguing. Watching the passing par ade is a great sport, itself. Appar ently, “in the spring a young man’s fancy” whether he is a shiek, jelly bean, drugstore cowboy or a colle gian who has never seen a college turns not “to thoughts of love,” but to a smooth running automobile and to a chic companion, and often the thoughts of the chic companion turn to him. A Suggestion. Old newspapers are always inter esting. Kept in order of issue, they make a history book. They record markets and the events of a commu nity. The home paper is a good neigh bor. Gives service at low cost. Hands bouquets to you when you die. even though your subscription is past due. Why not make a rule of filing your home paper. Keep it in your fam ily. From sire to son let the rule run. It will be a handy reference. Value will increase with age. After while your heirs will fight for it. Also keep a diary. It is a private history of your own home, family, money matters, weather, sales, reun ions, trips, meetings attended, etc. A diary is a mighty handy refer ence. Takes but little time. Special diary books are sold. They are ar . ranged to make the work easy. Ap point one of the children each week ■ or month to make the record. When did you plant corn, potatoes, etc., last year? Why did you sow I wheat, oats or barley? When did you harvest? Good business people, whether farmer, merchant, banker or housewife, should keep a diary. o Soon Well Fly. Young Wrigley, the chewing gum king, will unite with Henry Ford and his son, Edsel, in airplane build ing. With this trio behind a fly ing machine proposition the success of the enterprise is assured.—Car tersville Tribune. ' o Need Them Right Now. Oh! Some of these days, and it won’t be long, Georgia is going to have a system of permanent high tys.—Cairo Messenger. Yes. I All things come to the other fel- : low if you will only sit down and wait. —Washington News-Reporter. o We have coined a new word: “Jamegger.” Hartwell has several of them around town and on the edges of town, and many over the county. They are Jamaica ginger bootleggers. Most every train brings them a supply. o Good Old Summer Time. Fashion says two pounds of cloth ing shall be about the limit for the women this summer. They’ll surely have to be some mighty light weight shoes and hats made to leave any thing to be worn elsewhere. —Ogle- thorpe Echo. o Gas Buggies. Nahum is placed among the “Min or Prophets” in the Bible, but he used a “Major” expression when he wrote: “Chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall seem like torches, they shall run like lightning.”— Winder News. —o - Good Times In Georgia. Normalcy, the station of peace, plenty and happiness, is not many leagues away and that distance may be annihilated easily if you put into force sufficient pep and determina tion to reach there this year.— Monticello News. 0 Don’t Ruin The Forests. Slowly but surely the sentiment in favor of preserving our rapidly di minishing forests is growing in Geor gia and some day we may be able to stop the shameless slaughter which has gone on for the past hundred years.—DeKalb New Era. o Our Population Increaseth. In the local columns of The Hart well Sun last week we noticed 13 announcements of births. That’s go ing some in one week. Those folks over there believe in raising babies as well as other things. No race suiside there. But 13 is an unlucky number, they say, and looks like Brother Morris could have found out one more birth to make it an even number.—Carnesville Herald. o Should Be More. Over 19 million dollars flowed in and out of Georgia’s treasury in 1924. There are 189 avenues lead ing to the state treasury and 101 leading from, the broadest of the latter is the school fund com. which rolled last year a total of $14,545,- 073.45; highways was second with a sum of $2,553,699.07. These two avenues deserve all the expansion that can be given them.—Vienna News. —o Busy Times In Georgia. The earth’s surface, in cultivat able fields, has literally been torn up and turned bottom side up in all this section during the past few weeks. The farmers are ready to plant corn and cotton as soon as the sun warms the earth. In fact quite a bit of corn and some cotton has already been planted and the farmers are just ready to get down to business. —Commerce News. o Think It Over. Money that we send to other towns helps to beautify and enrich those other towns, —our money, that we have worked for, representing hours that we have toiled. Why should we spend our years toiling for distant peoples? Let us remember from this day on that money spent in dis tant cities is labor given to those cities—labor that goes to beautify and make more luxurious those other cities—labor that ought to have been spent beautifying our own home and neighborhoods instead. Why should we send prosperity away to distant cities where we will not be able to enjoy it, when that prosperity can just as well be spent in our home lo cality where it will come back to us to make ourselves and our children and friends repeatedly happy? Let us keep our prosperity for our own homes. Think it over; help boost your own home by buying at home. o You Tell ’Em. The girl that ran away from Bes sie Tift College last fall to wed her Shiek, has now run to the divorce court and got her divorce because the said handsome Sheik could not get the bacon. He was not a go getter except for looks. He was long on hair but short on muscle and rations. Now the sister says that she was sorry that she left school. Maybe she will get some sense in her “coco” some day.— Bainbridge Post-Searchlight. o HOME FIRE EXTINGUISHER Dissolve 2 lbs. of ordinary Table Salt and 10 lbs. of Ammonium Chloride in 3 quarts of Water. Put in three one-quart thin glass bot tles, cork tightly. To extinguish a fire in home, factory or elsewhere, throw the bottles at the blaze, a gas will be created which will extinguish the fire. Keep at a distance until gas has disappeared. o Criticising Preachers. The minister of the gospel has a difficult people to serve. His critics are many, and the criticisms are va ried. A Texas paper comments as fol lows: “The preacher has a great time. If his hair is gray, he is old. If he is a young man, he hasn’t had experience. If he has ten children he has too many; if he has none, he isn’t a good example. If his wife sings in the choir she is presuming; if she doesn’t she isn’t interested in her husband’s work. If the preacher reads from notes, he is a bore; if he speaks extemporaneously, he isn’t deep enough. If lie stays at home in his study, he doesn’t mix enough with the people; if he is seen around the streets, he ought to be home get ting up a good sermon. If he calls on some poor family, he is playing to the grandstand: if he calls at the home of the wealthy, he is an aristo crat. Whatever he does, someone could have told him to do better.” Hear And Their By DANA A I RODE the other day. » * • FOR SEVERAL hours. WITH A friend in Texas. « * • WHO HAD the “grouch.” ♦ • ♦ AND AS we rode on. ♦ * • OVER A country road. ♦ ♦ * HE HAD little to say. ♦ * ♦ EXCEPT TO complain. ♦ • ♦ AND THE road was bumpy. ♦ ♦ * AND ON all sides. • ♦ ♦ POVERTY SEEMS to abound. ♦ ♦ ♦ WITH DULLNESS and despair. ♦ ♦ ♦ SO THAT later. « * * WHEN WE reached town. ♦ ♦ ♦ I REMEMBERED nothing much. ♦ ♦ ♦ BUT WASTED hours. » * ♦ OVER BUMPY roads. ♦ ♦ * AND THEN next day. * ♦ ♦ I RODE again. ♦ ♦ ♦ THIS TIME with another chap. ♦ ♦ * AND SO it happened. ♦ ♦ ♦ WE TRAVELED that same road. ... OF THE day before. » » « ONLY THIS time. ♦ * ♦ AS WE rode along. ♦ ♦ ♦ I SAW” new sites. ♦ ♦ ♦ THAT I hadn’t seen. * * * OF BRIGHT new homes. * * * AND PASTURES green. * * ♦ AND HIDDEN brooks. * * * WITH THE world all glad. * * * AND AS we rode on. * ♦ * I FORGOT the bumps. • * * AND ENJOYED myself. ♦ ♦ ♦ ALL because. ♦ ♦ ♦ MY COMPANION that day. ♦ » • WAS AN optimist. ... AND BELIEVED in the world. * * * AND THROUGH his reflection. ♦ * * MY VISION had changed. * * « I THANK YOU. o New members of the United States senate were sworn in and cussed out the very first day.—Shreveport Jour nal. ■ frT'W ■ I I ■ ■ The average person is timid about starting a bank ac- J count with a small sum of money. They carry their money * about with them, and having it with them they are con | tinually making inroads on it. 9 * But if an account is started there is an incentive to add | to it, and not having the ready cash in pocket, the inclina- B tion to buy articles without consideration is curbed. | As a result, in a short time the first SIOO is accum- 3 lated in the bank—and from that time on the pleasure of * adding to it is intensified. B ■ A » v l l k I iHvuESB a "TH£ OLD RELIABLE” OFFICERS: B D. C. ALFORD, President - R. C. THORNTON, V.-President a M. M. NORMAN, V.-President - FRED S. WHITE, Cashier ■ ■ D’RECTORS: ■ D. C. ALFdRD - s. W. THORNTON - R. E . MATHESON I. J. PHILLIPS - M. M. NORMAN - DR. W. I. HAILEY a L. L. McMULLAN il_B ■ b bbb bb ■ 8 b.b.*,b B ■..■.■.a ■ bb- ■ ■ ■ Kiwanis Club Have Invitation To Visit Charlotte Much interest was manifested at the Kiwanis meeting on last Friday in the announcement of construe- . tion by the East Georgia Power Go., P of a huge electric power transmis sion system through Hart county from Toccoa to Augusta. Plans were put in motion to con fer with the officials of this company and endeavor to have them locate their construction camp in Hartwell, and a vote of good will was also extended the company as they en tered this field with this big develop ment, which will cost over $1,000,- 000.00. Other developments are al so planned near Hartwell. May Go To Charlotte. The Kiwanians received a letter from the Chamber of Commerce of Charlotte, N. C., in which they ex pressed their appreciation of the spirit of co-operation manifested by the Hartwell Club in the recent ad vertising program as fostered by the North Carolina city. They invited the Hartwell Kiwanians to make a good-will tour to Charlotte, N. C., soon and be their guests at a ban- w quet to be given in honor of the Hartwell Club. A committee is at work on this plan. Delegate to St. Paul. Hon. J. H. Skelton, past president, was elected a delegate to the con vention of Kiwanis International in St. Paul soon; another past pres ident, Hon. R. E. Matheson, was named alternate. Thank Commissioners. The club by unanimous vote ex- w pressed their appreciation to the Board of Hart County Commission ers and also the Board of Aidermen of Hartwell for their action in pass ing resolutions endorsing an enabling act whereby Hart county, Hartwell and Bowersville could vote for tax exemption for new industries. Smoke Hart County Cigars. Kiwanians enjoyed a smoke at the Friday luncheon coming from Mr. B. G. McLane, of Bowersville, who pre sented them with some of his famous P “Town Talk” cigars. This is a Hart county product, and one that is very popular. Mr. McLane has recently added a machine which makes sev eral thousand cigars daily. His output is always sold ahead. Vice President W. E. McCurry presided in the absence of President J. A. W. Brown, introducing two visitors of the day: Mr. J. M. Craw ford, prominent citizen of Red Hill, Franklin county, Ga., and Mr. Sco vill Wannamaker, well - known P Orangeburg, (S. C.) citizen. Will Help Entertain. The club voted to help in every possible way toward the entertain ment of the annual session of Eighth District Federated Clubs here in May. The attendance prize was awarded to Kiwanian Frank T. Kidd, a box of six pairs of sox, presented through the firm of J. A. W. Brown by the Interwoven Stocking Co. Miss Lucile Carter, of Columbia, S. C., presided at the piano. o A few persons depend too much on themselves, but a lot more depend too much on others.—Newark Led ger.