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Everybody Doing Double
Duty
Children playing in the streets.
Parents criminally negligent in
permitting their children to make a
playground of public streets.
t Cars driven through stop signs.
Cars driven from side roads to
main thoroughfares, without driver
first ascertaining if there are ap
proaching cars from either direction.
Drivers of cars who cut in.
Drivers of cars who side-swipe.
Drivers who habitually make left
turns without regard to traffic com
ing or following.
Drivers who pass cars on hills or
turns, where the vision is obscured.
Drunken drivers.
Insane drivers.
Drivers with poor vision.
Drivers with poor judgment.
Smart alec drivers.
Drivers with deficient mentality.
Habitually careless drivers.
Sleepy drivers.
Dahmphool drivers.
And so one could ramble on,
column after column, in listing the
accident-causing possibilities of driv
ing a motor car in the present day.
During 1931 two leading manu
facturers of low-priced cars will
turn out on the streets and high
ways two million new cars. This
number added to the total of all
othsr motor cars manufactured,
represents a stupendous output.
Added to the present number roll
ing, the traffic problem becomes just
that much more intricate.
Many who have visited the Black
Hills of South Dakota have no doubt
smiled at the wise-crack sign found
frequently posted at sharp turns,
viz: “Go Slow —You May Meet a
Fool.”
However, no more truthful warn
ing was ever printed.
There will always be accidents, of
course. It is human for judgment
to be in error at times, but the pro
blem is to reduce these accidents to
the minimum, instead of permitting
them to increase from year to year.
As The Leader sees it, the one
solution is—“ Everybody Doing Dou
ble Duty.”
That double duty will consist of
every driver carefully guarding his
own driving conduct, so that he will
not cause an accident to his own car,
or be responsible for grief coming
to any other driver or car on the
highway.
That will be one phase of the
“double duty!” The other consists
of so regulating the conduct of your
own car, that if the other driver
fails in any one of the rules of the
road—that there will be no resultant
crash.
Crushed bodies, broken bones,
paralyzed forms, huddled heaps of
quivering flesh, glazing eyes, are
the price of speed and the breaking
of the rules of the road.
Motoring is one of the greatest
gifts of the age, but its pay-roll is
appalling in the number of annual
killings and mannings; in the loss of
protecting care of fathers and moth
ers, and in the lives and laughter of
innocent children taken from loving
parents.
Why not a society of motor car
drivers who are willing to do “Dou
ble Duty!”
—Pipestone Leader.
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EDITOR SHACKELFORD VISITS
THE LEGISLATURE
(From tlglethorpe Echo)
It has been some fifteen or twen
ty years since we took a look-in on
the Legislature in action. '‘With all
due deference to the body we vowed
then we would not again voluntarily
witness the jamboree as it appeared
to us to be.
But with a more or less conviction
that the present body is an improve
ment on at least some of those that
have gone before we went to Atlanta
Friday last for the specific purpose
of seeing what is to be seen in the
legislative halls.
To us it did look like there was
some improvement over the session
we witnessed when Uncle Joe Hill
Hall held the floor almost continu
ously and nobody paid any attention
to his girations.
But it did seem that some of the
precedents of former days were still
retained. Quite a few members,
especially in the lower house, seem
ed to be paying any attention to the
proceedings. About half of them
were sauntering over the hall talk
ing to those of the half who
were not hidden behind, newspapers
they were reading. We were made
to feel sorry for those mallets, the
president of the senate having three
of them at hand, and the pads pro
vided for them to pound upon, as the
presiding officers kept them almost
constantly in action attempting to
obtain arid keep order. The gyra
tions both the speaker of the house
and president of the senate made in
these efforts could but amuse us.
At one time a member was making
a red hot speech to apparently un
listening ears of but two or three
other members who made frequent
attempts to confound the speaker
with evidently humorous shafts. The
speech maker’s time evidently ex
pired and how the presiding officer
did wield that mallet in trying to
bring him to order with no effect.
In the senate chamber there was
some more dignity and the senators
seemed to be paying more attention
to the proceedings, but even that
body did not strike us with being
duly impressed with the seriousness
of the duties entrusted to them or to
be in any hurry to dispense with
those duties.
We are told that our General As
sembly is no exception in the inat
tention it appears to one in the gal
ery is paid to business before the
bodies; that it is as bad or worse in
Legislatures of other states and even
in the proceedings of Congress. May
be we, like most visitors, are not up
on just how such things should be,
but we can but think that the states
and the country would fare better
in legislative ways if their legisla
tors would show more concern and
give closer attention to matters that
are entrusted to them for consider
ation and determination. Maybe it
has become a custom for them not
to do that and obeyance of custom
has lots to do with the administra
tion of our public affairs.
With all the outcry against lob
byists we found them in plenty in
and around the capitol. Two or
three of them must have taken us
for one of their number and were
Iby no means hesitant about intro
ducing themselves and bringing up
the legislation in which they were
concerned and solicit our efforts in
is behilf. We humored the -a!;?
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ABOUT THAT
Here is a little item in the news
that catches our eye. It appears in
a list of “encouraging signs” on the
business horizon: “The cigarette
manufacturers report a steady in
crease of cigarette sales in retail
stores throughout the country.”
Of course! And why?
Simply because the cigarette man
ufacturers have been doing per
sistent and widespread advertising
during these quiet times. They
have kept reaching out not only for
their share of the business that’s
available, but have advertised to
create new business.
The results are not at all surpris
ing. They show what advertising
can accomplish, even in dull times.
Cigarette sales will continue to
increase. Such is the power of pub
licity.—Albany Herald.
“T. B.” BEING DELETED
The United States has now the
lowest death rate from pulmonary
tuberculosis, commonly called “con
sumption,” that it has had since
figures were first gathered to keep
track of the prevalency and the de
cline of the “great w'hite plague.”
Tuberculosis, for’ obvious reasons,
since it is infectious in a way, cen
ters largely in the cities. The rural
regions are freer, too, because of
the more outdoor life prevalent. In
forty-nine American cities the rate
in 1910 was 175 deaths from tuber
culosis to each hundred thousand
people; in 1920 that average had
been reduced to 108.5, and last year
to 6(5.5.
This demonstrates that tubercu
losis can be controlled; and where
ihere is greater danger or more
cases there is the greater opportuni
ty to locate the cases and educate
the people and so help eradicate the
disease which was not long ago
dreaded as incurable. It has been
found that most cases can be cured
by simple proper methods if taken in
time. In Savannah the Kiwanis
Sunshine Unit has had more than
125 children take treatment and
more than half that number were
cured.
The South still holds the spots
with more deaths reported from this
cause. And the greater number of
cases and deaths are among the col
ored people. They have been hard
to reach in time'and their living
conditions in many areas are not
favorable to stamping out the dis
ease. But health departments of
cities and states are patiently, per
sistently working to educate the
negro as well as the white and to
reach and help all cases possible.
The death rate is far lower now in
the South, where the negro is includ
ed in the statistics, than it was ten
years ago.
“T. B.” can be deleted; it ought
to be entii’ely eliminated. —Savannah
Press.
with some of them and were made
aware of several things we were sur
prised would be permitted by the
law makers.
If you have never witnessed a sit
ting of the General Assembly you
ought to make some sacrifice of time
to do so. It’s a great show and one
that will prove a revelation to most
people who have r.ot seen it.
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Last Week’s Locals.
Revival services are being held at
the Baptist church here this week,
Rev. E. E. Steele conducting.
The series of meetings will begin
at the Methodist church first Sunday
night, conducted by Rev. Huckaby.
Miss Myrte Wilks of Crawford is
spending several days here, the guest
of Mrs. Thornton and Mrs. Eddie
Bradbury.
Mrs. Reid Alexander and children
of Oconee Heights visited her par
ents Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hale and chil
dren, Janet and Virginia, and Mr.
Thomas Hale of Atlanta, spent last
week in Birmingham, the guest of
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Bagwell and
children, and visited Mrs. Ernest
Bailey of Mississippi.
Mr. and Mrs. Millard Bailey of
Philadelphia spent the week-end with
Misses Catherine and Olivia Hale and
Mrs. K. J. Fields.
Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Bradberry and
Misses Nelle Thornton and Myrt
Wilks spent Monday with Mrs. Janie
Harris.
Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Hale of At
lanta spent the week-end here visit
ing relatives.
Misses Audrey Shirley and Doris
Wright of Apple Valley and Com
merce are visiting here this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hale and
family of Atlanta passed through
here last week, en route to Moun
tain City, where they have a cottage
for two months.
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Last Week’s Locals.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Deavors at
tended the singing convention at
Nicholson Saturday and Sunday. (
Miss Hazel Williamson has re
turned home, after a pleasure trip
to the mountains.
Miss Hilda Hardy of Athens spent
the week-end with home folks here.
Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Gaily of
Athens spent Sunday with their
mother, Mrs. Emma Hardy.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Pinson of Pen
dergrass spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Pinson.
Misses Lovie and Georgia Segars
and Mrs. Eula Toney and children
were guests of Mrs. Fred Jackson
Saturday afternoon.
Mr. Hoke Hardy and Miss Annie
Spencer motored to Athens Satur
day night.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Archer and
family spent Wednesday afternoon
with their mother, Mrs. C. El. Archer,
of Dry Pond.
Mrs. Ben Epps and children of
Athens were guests of Mrs. Fred
Hardy, Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Omer Mashmunt of
Ohio were guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Segars, Friday.
Little Junior Huff of Atlanta is
spending a while with his aunt, Mrs.
Jewell Williamson.
Passenger (asking for third time)
—Have we reached No. 234 Pros
pect street yet?
Conductor—Yes, ma’am. Here
you are. (Stops car.)
Passenger—Oh, I didn’t want to
get out. I wanted to show my little
doggie where he was born.
J. FOSTER ECKLES
AGENT
FIRE AND TORNADO INSURANCE
JEFFERSON, GEORGIA.
FROZEN fish from the far
North, new potatoes delicately
creamed with parsley, a green
vegetable with the tang of lemon,
salad “cool as a cucumber” and
served atune to the tinkling of
iced tea. Does this appeal to
your summer palate?
No, it isn’t a fanciful menu
from a “ritzy” hotel cuisine. It
is a practical home dinner which
you can serve at the very low
cost of 33 1/3 cents per person.
Let the menu and tested recipes
explain:
Frozen Salmon and Celery 3t£
Parsley Creamed Potatoes... .22(f
Spinach with Lemon Wedges. . 15<?
French Bread and Butter 18tf
Romaine with Cucumber
Dressing 25^
Chocolate Sundae 82<f
Iced Tea i
A Modern Problem
IT was Jonathan Swift who com
mended so highly the man who
“could make two blades of corn
grow where only one grew be
fore,” saying that he “would de
serve better of mankind, and do
more essential service to his
country, than the whole race of
politicians put together.”
If that writer were commenting
on corn in modern times, he would
have to change his saying. There
fs plenty of corn for everyone
now, and the problem has become
one of selection —how to supply
everyone with the best xorn, the
kind of corn they like.
A Modern Solution
This problem has been staved in
the modern manner by means of
science and machinery. First,
manufacturers made all the corn
anyone wants available at any
Frozen Salmon and Celery:
Soften one tablespoon gelatin In
four tablespoons cold water, dis
solve over boiling water and add
two tablespoons vinegar, one-half
teaspoon salt, one-fourth teaspoon
paprika, one cup diced celery
and one cup diced green pepper.
Carefully fork in the contents of
one tall can of salmon, pack in
the refrigerator tray or in a fish
mold, and let chill for two hours.
Do not freeze too long, or the
celery will freeze solid.
Chocolate Sundae : Combine
three-fourths can of chocolate
syrup, two tablespoons corn syrup
and one-third cup of evaporated
‘milk. Boil for three minutes.
Cool and pour over one and one
half pints of vanilla ice cream.*
time by means of canning it in
the familiar cream style, and now
they are making equally widely
available the new whole-kernel
canned corn, which you can’t dis
tinguish in taste or appearance
from fresh corn on the cob.
Here is a recipe for the use of
these big meaty kernels that is
delicious:
Corn and Walnut Loaf: Drain
one No. 2 can of whole grain
corn and run through food chop
per. Add one-half cup chopped
walnuts (vacuum packed walnuts
are always available in cans),
two beaten eggs, one-half cup milk
and one-half cup crumbs. Season
with salt and pepper. Pour into
a buttered baking dish and bake
for forty-five minutes in a mod
erate—37s°—oven. Serve with to
mato sauce. Serves four or five.*