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112 MEN, 1 WOMAN AWAITING
EXECUTION
One hundred and twelve men and
nne woman await the penalty of
tleath in the prison* und jail* of
twenty-three state*, a survey shows.
More than half of those condemn
ed are undei sentence to die on the
If allow*. Excepting one, the others
—including one woman—face the
•electric chair. The one exception is
a youth in Utah who has chosen to
meet death before a firing squad.
California leads the list of twenty
three states with a total of eighteen
scheduled executions.
Alabama is next with fourteen,
more than the average because it
involves the eight negro youths in
the fumed Scottsboro case who
have been sentenced to die on charg
es of criminally attacking two white
tfirl*.
Illinois and Oklahoma each has
ten men in death cells, of those in
Illinois seven were convicted of mur
ders in Chicago.
The number awaiting death in the
other twenty-two states follows:
Missouri, I; Texas, 5; Louisiana,
F>; Pennsylvania, 7; Florida, 4; In
diana, 4; Colorado, 1; Utah, 1; Ida
ho, 1; New Mexico, 6; Virginia, 3;
Georgia, 4; Ohio, five men and one
woman; Ma -uehusotts, 3; Vermont,
1; District of Columbia, 5; lowa, 1.
MRS. MACK LORD INJURED BY
INFURIATED BULL
(From Commerce News)
Mrs. Mack Lord, wife of Mr. Mack
Lord, who resides just beyond Min
ish’s store, was badly injured when
gored by a bull early Tuesday morn
ing.
Mr. and Mrs.' Lord were awaken
ed about two o’clock, and realized
that the bull was loose, and thinking
that he would probably do much
damage to the corn and cotton, a
tose and went to drive him back into
the lot. Mr. Lord held open the
g-ate, and Mrs. Lord started to drive
the bull into' the lot, when he turned
upon her, knocked her down, and
ran one horn into her abdomen. Mr.
Lord got a large stick, and began
beating the bull, but since this was
ineffective, he seized the bull by the
horns and steered him to a large
tree; then letting him go, he ran to
ward the house. But the bull was
too quick for him; catching him as
he was nearing the steps, he picked
him up and tossed him into the
house, 1 - Mr. Lord is not injured other
than a severe shaking up. Mrs.
Lord’s wound is not considered
serious, hut it is a bad laceration,
and quite painful
CITY COURT JURORS
Jurors drawn to serve at the Au
-gust Term, 1931, City Court of Jef
ferson, which convenes on Monday,
August 1 7:
Elmer O. Minish.
William 1). Duckett.
H. H. Fleming.
J. T. Oliver.
Jno. W. Massey.
J. 11. (Jesse) Cronic.
R. J. Kelly.
L. F. Morrison.
Sam G. Swindle.
T. G. Johnson.
E. J. Dunnigan.
.lulious L. Bailey.
R. E. Stewart.
E. L. Hunt.
R. L. Carter.
Otis Tanner.
Cliff Ward.
Hoyt Murphy.
Gordon E. Shumake.
R. J. H. Benton.
R. N. Massey.
F. 11. Adams.
S. G. Benton.
H. W. White.
Geo. K. Elder.
Hugh L. Blackstock.
POEM
The camel at the close of day
Kneels down upon the sandy plain
To have his harden lifted off
Ami rest to gain.
My soul, thou too shouldst to thy
knees
When daylight draweth to a close.
And let thy Master lift the load
And grant repose.
Else how could’st thou tomorrow
meet,
With all tommorw’s work to do,
If thou thy burden all the night
Dost carry through?
The camel kneels at break of day
To have his guide replace his load;
Then rises up anew to take
The desert road.
So kneel thou then at morning’s
dawn
That God may give thee daily
care,
Assured that He no load too great
Will make thee bear.
—Selected.
50-Called Middle Ages
Imaginary, Says Writer
The Middle age* never existed. The
Journalistic John Addington S.vnmnds
and others to the contrary, modern his
torians of scientific temper know tlint
the content which the phrase common
ly holds for the popular mind Is a
myth, a phase and a provocative tool
of that Impinging superstition of the
modern world—the superstition of Hu
manism.
When Flavlo Blondo surveyed the
world from 410 to 1410 and, conveni
ently, laid It out In a series of “dec
odes," h was doing no more than to
flutter the sejf-centerlng Illusions of
those of hi* contemporaries who were
zealously devoted to the newly fash
ionable lltterae hutnanlores.
Hence the picture of a vast expunse
of time, UN mortal reckoning goes, ex
tending from the wall of the Roman
empire In the Went In 470 to the fall
of Constantinople In 14r:i, a dark and
desolate v uste peopled by the scholas
tic ghosts of thought, the intellect
numbed end shivering. . . . Read
a popularizer like Symonds, and you
will get this latter picture: A world
that has been blindfolded for centuries
suddenly tearing the bandages from
Its eyes and awakening to the fact
that life Is life and filled with a spring
like joy.
It is a charmingly naive conception
—charming, but naive. Unfortunately,
the *vorklng out of human destinies
in a corporate society Is not quite so
simple an affair ns nil that. —From
“Rabelais: Man of the Renaissance,"
by Samuel Putnam.
Abundant Proofs That
Sound Waves Can Kill
Living creatures can tie struck dead
by sound waves too highly pitched for
the human ear to hear them, writes
T. C. Bridges. These high frequency
waves—called super-sonlcs—have been
tried on animals and produced Instant
death. The sound appears to shatter
the blood corpuscles, and death Is as
sure and sudden as If the creatures
had been struck by lightning. Sound
can do many things which seem mys
terious and almost miraculous. For
Instance, tire can be extinguished by
sound. Some little time ago Mr.
Charles Kellogg of California gave 4
demonstration of the power of sound
over flame, and by drawing a violin
bow across a piece of aluminum ex
tinguished a burning gas Jet at 50
feet. Sound vibrations can not only
break a wine blass but can damage a
building. It is suspected that the
deep, vibrating notes of organs can
cause vibrations which may actually
weaken the structure of a church or
cathedral.
Power From Niagara
The first application of Niagara
power was to a sawmill built by a
Frenchman in 1725 on tlie New York
bank near the rapids. At present Ni
agara power Is used in Syracuse, 105
miles from its source, and also In
Windsor, tint., 240 miles away. By
treaty the amount of water that may
ho diverted from Niagara for power
purposes lias been limited to 30,000
cubic feet per second on the Cana
dian side and 20,000 cubic feet per
second on the United States side. The
power Is used nearby in electro-chem
ical Industries, in the manufacture of
aluminum, ferro-sllicon, carborundum,
artificial graphite, liquid chlorine, cal
cium carbide, cyanainide and other
products.
"Personality”
The term "personality” was used by
Wyclif in 13S0 to designate the qual
ity peculiar to a human be’ng or per
son, and yet It was not until recently
that the wore began to enjoy nny pop
ularity. Neither Shakespeare, wield
ing as he did an extraordinarily com
prehensive vocabulary, nor Milton,
with his stupendous command of the
English language, even to Its most
recondite recesses, ever employed the
word that ha* had such a long his
tory and. more recently, has come to
acquire an Interesting past In assum
ing the abbreviated and piquant form
“it.” —A. A. Itoback in the Century.
Magic of Trees
There Is magic in the word “Trees.”
It means so much to the lover of na
ture. Trees stand for all that is best
in life —beauty, loyalty, steadfastness
of purpose, and to sura It up, they are
symbolic of life Itself.
They live to give. They give us
fruit, they bring the birds with their
cheerful songs, they give us beauti
ful surroundings, they shelter the
livestock from the hot sun, they re
tard the evaporation of moisture from
the land, they lessen the velocity o*
the wind and furnish us restful pleas
ure whenever we nre near them.—
United States Daily.
Serious Operation
A little neighbor girl was telling
that a friend of tier mother’s was to
undergo un operation next day. Asked
whether tlie friend’s tonsils were to be
removed, she said:
“Ob. no! it’s lots worser than that
—mother told what It was,, but It’s
such a big name; but anyway I think
it means her liver and tier gizzard I*'
Pet Mad Dog
Margery was describing her pet dog
;o her futher’s friend.
“Is your dog a bull dog?” In
ipjired the Interested man.
"No, he is a mad dog and ba -kt at
everybody that comes to our house,"
replied the four-year-old miss.
GETTING BUSINESS
GLOOM BEHIND US
By ROME C. STEPHENSON
President American /Jankers Association
•T’HERE la such a thing as over-stay*
1 Ing a depression just as there Is
of over-staying a boom. Over-confl*
dence makes tho
great majority
miss the turn in
a boom, and un
der-confldenco
makes them miss
it in a depression.
A leading New
York banker was
asked recently
when he could
tell that a turn
for the better had
come. “About
three months
after it has hap-
R. C. STEPHENSON
pened,’’ he candidly replied.
There is more significance in that
remark than appears on the surface.'
As more and more manufacturers and
business men realize that the turn hai
already come and that they are over
staying the time to adopt constructive
policies, they begin cautiously to press
their selling campaigns, to speed up
their production, to enlarge their work
ing forces and increase their com
mitments inr supplies. It is the gather
ing weight of their influences that final
ly raises the pressure of confidence
to the dynamic power of recovery.
The surest way to bring the nation
out of the business depression is to
raise the pressure of public confid nee
to the point of becoming such a
dynamic force. It har. invariably been
the push of that force which has
started recovery in the past, and it
is the gathering power of this force
which will start recovery from this
present depression.
It Is a favorable sign of the times
that there seems to be general agree
ment that the boitom of the depres
sion has been reached and all eye3
are peeled and looking ahead for the
first Indications that the turn for the
better is in sight. Who knows but
what the first thing wo know wo will
find ourselves looking backward in
stead of forward as we realize that
the turn has already come. It Is a
rough and rocky read that runs across,
the bottom of the valley of business
depression, and most of us are tcc
busy steering the old Ford from bump
to bump to be able to take in all the
scenery. So who knows but what
some important changes in the land
scape are already taking place.
M GMMAL CHANGE
National Commission Believes
Local Sentiment Should Gov
ern Evolution in Methods
of Conducting Banking.
IF substantial changes are to ba
brought about in branch banking in
the United States they should origi
nate within the states rather than
from Washington on inter-stato lines
as proposed in “trade area" branch
banking plans, a recent report of the
Economic Policy Commission of the
American Bankers Association de
clares. Such changes, it adds, “should
develop by evolutionary rather than
revolutionary stages.”
“The extension of branch banking
through state action would mean that
states not now permitting state banka
to have branches or else closely re
stricting them, would individually lib
eralize their laws as an expression ol
changing local desires and conditions,
and this doubtless would insure a de
liberate, evolutionary process,” the re
port says. “The other method, that is,
through Federal action, would mean a
sweeping change for the country as
a whole, for legislation granting
branch banking powers to national
banks in all states, regardless of local
sentiment, would, cf course, induce
equivalent branch banking enactments
in every state in the Union not now
permitting or really wanting state
hanks to have branches, in order to
keep them on a competitive equality.
Upholds Stats Privileges
“We find .some bankers who feel
that a proper stimulus to the develop
ment of branch banking would bo
given by the Federal Government tak
ing the initiative through granting
broader privileges within state lines
to national banks than they now en
joy. It is argued that state govern
ments could then follow suit as to
state banks and that in this way a
more progressive branch banking at
titude might be promoted by the na
tional banks taking the lead. While
wo do not deny that there may bo
some merit in this view as to some
specific localities, we stand firm never
theless on the principle that no such
grant of powers to national banks
should cross state lines, or exceed the
privileges that state legislatures could
and would grant to their state banks.
“Moreover we believe that if the
choice between these two possiblo
courses of extending branch banking
were put up to bankers they would
be generally opposed to any forcible
imposition of branch banking on the
states through the medium of the na
tional bank system. We believe it
would be preferable for any chango
to come about through the more grad
ual and democratic method of the
states granting their banks l'r.\r*h
banking powers state by state where,
if, and as local conditions and sent!
ment might be ready for a change."
NOTICE
Georgia, Jackson County. Pursu
ant to the authority vested in the
undersigned, under and by virtue of
the powers set out and contained in
a certain Deed to Secure Debt, made
by William C. Smith, on or about the
7th day of September, 1923, to the
undersigned, The Atlanta Joint Stock
Land Bank of Atlanta, and recorded
on the 14th day of September, 1923,
in Coed Book UU, at pages 339-340,
Jackson County Records, there will
be sold, before the court house door
of said Jackson County, on the third
Tuesday in September (September
15th, 1931), at public outcry, within
the legal hours of sale, all of the fol
lowing described property, to-wit:
All that tract or parcel of land
situated, lying and being in the Cun
ningham and Talmo Districts of
Jackson County, Georgia, about 3
miles north of the town of Pender
grass, and being the major portion
of the tract of land conveyed to W.
C. Smith by B. F. Braselton and A.
R. Braselton, administrators of the
estate of T. C. Harrijson, deceased,
on January 20, 1897, which said deed
is recorded in Deed Book AA, pag
-410, Deed Records of Jackson Su
perior Court, said tract containing
144 acres, more or less, and is more
particularly described as follows:
Beginning at the corner of the lands
of A. J. Gee and the lands of W. C.
Smith, being the tract herein de
scribed, said point of beginning be
ing the northwest corner of the tract
herein described, and running from
thejice north 72 degrees east 53.50
chains to a maple on the bank .of
Pond Fork River, thence following
the course of said river as follows:
South, 29 degrees west 4.50 chains,
thence south 50 degrees west 7
chains, thence south 89 degrees west
5 chains, thence south 47% degrees
west 10 chains, thence south 62 Ms
degrees east 15.50 chains to a syca
more on the west bank of said river,
thence south 29Ms degrees west 4.37
chains to a rock on the Mill road,
thence south 34% degrees east 3.72
chains, thence south 18% degrees
west 2.61 chains, thence south 67
degrees west 4 chains to a point on
the east bank of Pond Fork River,
thence following the course of said
river in a southerly and then a west-
direction to a maple on the
north bank of said river, thence
north 45 degrees west 1.20 chains,
thence north 79 % degrees west 5
chains, thence south 67% west 7
chains to a poplar, thence south 83 %
degrees west 16.20 chains, thence
couth 17 degrees west 6.92 chains to
a pine knot on road, thence follow
ing the road north 17% degrees
west 11.14 chains to a rock, thence
north 13% degrees east 9.11 .chains,
thence north 53 degrees east 8 chains
to a branch, thence following said
branch north 53 degrees west 3.83
chains, thence north 9% degrees
west 5.50 chains across the road to
the point of beginning. Being the
same tract of land as shown by plat
made by W. T. Appleby, surveyor,
and attached to abstract in the office
of The Atlanta Joint Stock Land
Bank of Atlanta, Georgia, said tract
of land being bound as follows: on
the north by lands of A. J. Gee and
other lands of W. C. Smith, on the
east by lands of W. A. Addington
and R. R- Hitchcock, Pond Fork
River being the dividing line in part,
on the south by lands of D. P. Mar
ler, on the southwest by lands of D.
P. Marler, road being the dividing
line, on the west by lands of A. J.
Gee.
The property above described be
ing that conveyed by and described
in the Deed to Secure Debt afore
said. Said sale will be made under
and pursuant to the provisions of
said deed, and said property will be
sold to the highest bidder, for cash,
default having been made in the pay
ment of an installment of principal
and interest which became due under
the provisions of said deed on the
first day of May, 1931, and the en
tre debt so secured having become
due bv reason of said default.
There will be due on date of sale
the sum of $2,383.05, which amount
includes unpaid principal and ac
crucd interest.
The undersigned will make deed to
purchaser at such sale as is provid
ed for in the Deed to Secure Debt
above described.
The Atlanta Joint Stock Land Bank
Of Atlanta.
By E. Rivers, President.
As Attorney-in-Fact for William
C. Smith.
SHE WASTED NOTHING
“Say, what’s wrong with these
scrambled eggs? They taste like
they’ve got ground glass in them!
“Don’t be silly. I guess I know
how to make scrambled eggs. You’re
tasting the shells!’’
THE
GREATEST
VALUE
EVER BUILT
INTO A
Ford Car
*490
(F. O. B. Detroit, plus freight and delivery.
Bumpers and spare tire extra at low cost.)
WHEN you buy a Ford car today, you buy what is
unquestionably the greatest value in the history
of the Ford Motor Company. Never before has so
much beautv, comfort, safety and performance been
offered at such a low price.
The low price of the Ford is something to think
about because it means an immediate saving of many
dollars - always an important consideration. But far
more significant than price alone is what you get for
that price. When high quality is combined with low
price, you may justly take pride in having found a
most satisfactory purchase.
See the Ford ride in it - learn something about
the value that is built into every part. Ihe more you
know about it, the more certain you will be that it is
the car for you. It is literally true that when you get
the facts you will get a Ford.”
J. FOSTER ECKLES
AGENT
FIRE AND TORNADO INSURANCE
JEFFERSON, GEORGIA.
Simplifying Picnics
PICNICS that are picnics to
prepare as well as to enjoy—
are in sight this summer with
the advent of prepared canned
sandwich spreads which will not
only prove a contribution to pic
nic provender, but will give their
planners more hours in which to
enjoy them, since the labor of
preparation is reduced to a
minimum.
Variety of Spreads
There should be a variety of
sandwiches at all picnics in or
der to appeal to the tastes of
everyone, and these sandwich
spreads were planned with that
provision in mind. They include
a ham. a tongue, a liver and a
mixed meat spread which cover
a wide range of tastes. The liver
spread, for instance, suggests
patd de foie gras in its succulence,
and every one of them is delicious
and delicately prepared.
The making of sandwiches with
these spreads is simplicity itself.
Just slice your bread, open the
cans, and smear them on, thick
for the youngsters, and with a
little more restraint for the
older members of the party. They
can be varied, if you like, with
a little mayonnaise and chopped
sweet pickle, but you will firm
t*it they are most acceptable just
as they come from the can.
The cans in which these new
spreads are put up contain three
and a half ounces each, so tha .
with a little practice you can fore
cast just how many you will nee< •
And think of the time sayea
which you can put in enjoyin„
yourself now that picnics have
been simplified.*