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FLAG ON STATE CAPITOL
SETS AN UNCANNY RECORD;
OFFICIALS ARE ALARMED
There is something uncanny in
the recent record of the state flag
on the Capitol Building, it was
pointed out by officials there Tues
day.
On three occasions during the
past si> months, when the flag had
been at half mast for twenty-nine
days and was scheduled to go hack
to the top of the pole the following
day, a state official has died.
The flag, which had been at half
mast out of respect to the late
Justice James K. Hines, of the Geor
gia Supreme Court, would have been
raised last Saturday, had not Judge
<). H. B. Bloodworth, of the Georgia
Court of Appeals, died Friday.
State officials were beginning to
view the situation with alarm, and
wondering if there would be a re
currence of the coincidence twenty
seven days hence.
NATION UNFAIR TO FARMERS,
EDITOR SAYS
If the farmer had received his
fair share of the nation’s income in
the last 10 years, the United States
today would have a great reserve
buying power in the rural communi
ties that tvould be ample to tide the
country through the present depres
sion, delegates to the American
Home Economics Association annual
convention were told Thursday by
C. A. Cobb, editor of The Southern
Huralist.
“We must come to anew national
viewpoint putting the farmer in his
deserved place as the most import
ant individual in our national pros
perity,” the Atlanta editor told the
visitors. “The farmer must be giv
en sympathetic consideration in
planning taxation, tariffs and other
measures. Otherwise industry and
capitalism are likely to crush agri
culture, with disastrous results to
the whole nation.”
STATE PRISON FARM
POPULATION GROWS
TO 916 ON JUNE 27
The population of the state prison
farm at Milledgeville, has increased
from 848 inmates on January 1, to
916, June 27, E. L. Rainey, chair
man of the State Prison Commis
sion, who has just returned from
the farm, said Tuesday.
The largest increase, Judge Rain
ey said, was in the number of wo
men. There were 343 women in
mates June 27, as against 298 of
January 1, an increase of 45.
Judge Rainey said that housing
conditions both at the men’s and
women’s camps were so inadequate
that it had been necessary to in
stall double and triple tiers of beds.
THE WORLD IS TRAVELING AT
HIGH SPEED
A recent issue of the Atlantic
gave some very interesting
facts showing the marvelous devel
opment of speed in the last few
years. The fastest record that man
has ever attained .traveling on foot
is 14 *4 miles per hour, which is held
by Numi. On horseback man has
attained a speed of approximately
40 miles, per hour. A railroad train
has been known to make 120 miles
per hour. Recently Major Seagrave
in his super-auto established at Day
tona Reach, Florid* the speed of
231 miles per hour. In a test flight
of the Isle of Wight Lieutenant
Stainforth in his seaplane accomp
lished the incredible speed of 415
miles per hour. It is suggested by
leading authorities that the next
twenty years will bring unheard of
developments in increased speed. It
is estimated by one eminent scien
tist that in twenty years men will
be traveling in aeroplanes at the
speed of one thousand miles per
hour.
THE BIBLE
This Book contains the mind of
God; the slate of man; the way of
salvation; its doctrines are holy; its
precepts are binding; its records are
true. Read it to be wise; believe it
to be safe; and practice it to be
holy. It contains light to direct
you; food to support you, and com
fort to cheer you. It is the travel
er’s map, the pilgrim’s staff, the
pilot’s compass, the soldier’s sword,
the Christian’s charter. Christ is its
grand object, our gdod its design,
and the redemption of man its end.
It should fill the memory, rule the
heart, and guide the feet.—Selected.
FOR SALE
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death in drums for the 801 l Weevil.
Farmers Warehouse, Jefferson,
Ga.
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KOCH SOLVED
GREAT PROBLEM
raffi. ~ y ji
Rouricr Koch, the Gfrman
Doctor Who Discovered thb
Tubfkcib Bacii.ius
ROBERT KOCH, a German country
doctor, startled the world fifty
years ago with absolute proof that
tuberculosis Is caused by tiny germs
fo small that thousands can ride on a
speck of dust. And after some of
the most celebrated scientists of the
world had sought unsuccessfully to
lind tha germ of tuberculosis —and
many had denied the disease could bo
spread by a germ—he devised methods
whrreby It could be cultivated and
studied through a microscope.
It v.a; known at that time that
many varieties of inlinitestimal liv
ing organisms had their abode in the
body of man. But that some of them
caused disease, while others helped
man to live, was largely a matter of
conjecture. For the first time, he
showed the whole scientific world how
to separate one of these tiny mites
from others not of the same family,
and how to grow them In incubators.
He proved that certain rod-like crea
tures only ono eight-thousandth of an
Inch long caused tuberculosis.
When ho had this germ in solitary
confinement and gave It food it repro
duced millions more—all exactly the
same kind. And—incontestable evi
dence — when these were injected into
the bodies of healthy animals, tuber
culosis always resulted.
Without Koch’s discovery, an
nounced March 24, 1882, mankind
would be without a sure footing in
Its battle against the unseen enemy.
Koch made it possible to test sputum
to learn if a person had tuberculosis;
he proved that each case must come
from another case, that tuberculosis
doesn’t just happen.
Today. 50 years after Koch’s dis
covery, tuberculosis associations from
coast to coast are engaged in a cam
paign to find the unknown case which
has infected the known case; to teach
rim sick th' simple rules of hygiene
which prevent infection in others, as
well as to help the patients tnem
s lives get well.
THE SIGNAL LIGHTS
“Honor thy father and thy moth
er.”
“It was well you stopped when the
red lights flashed,”
She said as w r e drove along.
“For an officer stood at the corner
there
In charge of the traffic throng.”
And I smiled and said to my daugh
ter fair,
As we waited on the spot,
“I always stop when the red light
shows,
Be an officer there or not.”
Then she sat in thought as we drove
along
And suddenly this she said:
“There ought to*be lights for us all
through life,
The amber and green and red.
What a help ’twould be if a red
light flashed ,
When danger and shame were
near,
And w r e all might wait till the green
light came
To show that the road was clear.”
“My dear,” said I, “we have tried
to light
Life’s road for your feet to fare,
And we pray you’ll stop when the
red glows,
Though none of us may be there,
We have tried to teach you the
signs of wrong
And the way to life serene,
So stop when your conscience post
shows red,
And go when it flashes green.”
—From The Public Ledger.
Dime* For “Shine*” Build Up
Fortune
White Plains, N. Y.—The dimes
that people spend, on shoe shines in
Grand Central Station in New York
have built up a $176,500 fortune
for Pietro A. lerardi.
Coming to this country forty
years ago, he became a bootblack,
rising to command the shoe shine
concession at Grand Central. His
wealth became known Monday when
his wife obtained an order adjudg
ing him incapable of managing his
affdirs.
HOMESPUN
: SENSE :
ETHICS OF BANKING
•
By MELVIN A. TRAYLOR
President
First National Bank, Chicago
Melvin A. Traylor
The function of
a bank Is, after all,
a quasi-public one,
and the banker who
has no regard for
the ultimate pros
perity of his cus
tomers and his
community will be
very quickly con
demned by the
common sense of
the latter, and will
ultimately destroy not merely his own
reputation but also bring about tlta
downfall of his community.
In other words, the prosperity of a
bank is founded upon the prosperity of
the community and country In which it
is situated.
* • *
Banker in Strategic Position
The banker has always held a stra
tegic ppsition in the business woi.d,
and obviously the first requisite neces
sary is that the banker shall be hone t.
I do not rnqan with “honest” merely
that ho should be honest to the extent
that he would not embezzle funds or
swindle his customers and clients. The
honesty to which 1 refer must be cf a
much higher and greater type.
He must be willing to forego mo
mentary advantages because in tire
long run the specific action may bring
harm to his customers or possibly to
business generally.
Sentiment in Business
Seutiment in business? Ye3, there is
nothing else. What is it that prompts
agitation for reforms in every avenue
of life? Why is it we are Interested in
better agriculture, better roads, better
schools, better community life? It is
sentiment; it is affection; it is pride;
it is sense of duty.
It is faith, confidence, hope, the
intangible that forms the very wool
and warp of modern business, and no
where in so large a degree is this true
as in banking, and in no sphere ol
banking to so great an extent as in the
country bank.
Truly the work of the country bank
er touches the life of the community
at every point, from the wedding
chancel to the cemetery, and at nc
point does it touch so lightly as at that
of cold-blooded business consideration.
It is sentiment from the opening hour
until the closing hour, and many hours
when no banking can be done.
RECREATION’S TOLLS
(From Atlanta Constitution)
America has never learned to
take ‘its relaxation and recreation in
a calm manner—tho manner in
which the greatest pleasure and
benefit would result' —but goes at
its play in the same headlong way
in which it hustles about its busi
ness duties.
In no other country, when its
people turn to their favorite pur
suits to gain relief from thoughts
of office, shop, and factory, does
the toll in deaths and injuries ap
proximate the devastating record vin
the United States.
For the most part, we work too
hard and, instead of making our
leisure hours times of genuine re
laxation, we play even harder.
Thus the week-end automobile
trip with the family is generally a
speed test "instead of the nerve-rest
ing ramble it should be. Our out
door games are usually twice as long
as thdy should be and we are not
content unless our dives are higher
and our swims carry us “farther
out” than is good for us.
Naturally we must pay the pen
alty—not only in suffering and sor
row from accidents of all kind, but
in the loss of the physical improve
ment that sane and relaxing mo
ments of recreation would bring us.
If we would heed the example of
more phlegmatic peoples, who gain
just as much pleasure and physical
benefit from their “days off” by
refraining from dangerous and over
taxing activities, our brains would
be keener and our bodies more vig
orous—and the list of tragedies
after each week-end much smaller.
One of our colored preachers has
made a rule for his church that
works well. If a member fails to
keep his dues paid up he is denied
the privilege of having anything to
say in - the management of the
church. He keeps a black list for
all his non-paying members. One
of his deacons advocated a chalk
line through the middle of the
church and all non-paying mem
bers "be forced to sit back of the
line. The preacher thought this
most too radical, but what does a
man who does not pay his debts
want to sit in the front row for at
a church?—Banks County Journal.
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ADVERTISING, BUYING, SEEN AS TRADE
BOONS
o ,
New York. —P. A. O’Connell, president of the Na
tional Retail Dry Goods Association and-head of E. T.
Slattery Company, of Boston, today told delegates to the
convention of the merchandise managers’ and sales pro
motion divisions of the association that more advertising
and more careful buying would help to improve rderchan
dising conditions.
He predicted the downward trend in retail prices
would soon reach an intermediate stabilizing point be
cause, he said, the merchants cannot continue to sell goods
below the cost of production. This “breathing space,”
he added, will stimulate confidence in the buying public
and cause a temporary rush to buy goods. i
MOSE GORDON LUMBER CO.
ADDS MORE STOCK
We have purchased the stock
of building material formerly
owned by the Commerce Brick
and Lumber Cos. This stock is
being moved to our warehouse,
which is located at our planer
mill on the Commerce-Mays
ville Road. We will carry the
same line and grade of ma
terial that has been carried
heretofore, and will appreciate
your patronage. Phone 9003
for your requirements, and de
livery will be made.
MOSE GORDON LUMBER CO.
INSURANCE
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General Insurance. S. C.
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