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HERE'S HOW WE DO IT
(From Banks County Journal)
Here in this new found land that
we took forcibly from the Ameri
cana ttfter pumping them full of lead
livea the greatest of showmen that
ever assembled under one tent. We
aet up heroes, worship them a few
days then cuss ’em for evermore.
How) about taxes, then pension
everybody who asks for one. Send
a man to the chuingang for stealing
a loaf of bread for his starving chil
dren and to congress for stealing a
railroad; where salaried men pay in
come tax and millionaires pay none.
Enact laws against the sale of liq
uor, then sell more liquor than be
fore. Spend millions of dollars
teaching the farmers how to produce
more stuff, then spend more millions
having him plow it up. Where we
have three hundred and two differ
ent kinds of religion and not much
of any. Where we have five million
laws and violate them all. Pay hun
dreds of thousands a year to some
people for playing and fifty cents a
day to other for work. Where men
are grabbed by other men and held
in dungeons until relatives pay the
price. Hun light automobiles at 60
miles an hour and heavy trains at 30.
Kill about 50,000 a year with auto-
mobiles and think nothing of it. Ab
solutely controlled by lawyers and
money, and three-fourths of the peo
ple ignorant of the fact. Where
everybody has a remedy for every
thing and doctors pull out your
teeth for bellyache. Build roads for
convenience of the public and then
turn them over to big bus lines.,
Where railroads get more for haul
ing the farmers produce than he re
ceives for raising it. We are very
careful to breed good bulls and hogs
but don’t care a dern what becomes
of the human race. Ship milk in
powders and eat bread baked a hun
dred miles from home. Lock up hun
dreds of thieves and elect hundreds
to office. Mortgage homes for auto
mobiles and sell eggs for gasoline.
Where all business is transacted on
paper and a man is jailed for keep
ing his own gold. Where wheat is
taxed after it leaves the farmer’s
barn so the middleman can shine and
the customer grumble. Too much to
eat and half the country hungry.
OUR MORTGAGED FARMS
(From Dawson News)
The puzzling question of farm
mortgages in this country is not go
ing to be solved in a week or a"
month. The burden of farm debt is
largely an inheritance of the war
days. .Government records show this:
In 11)10 the farm mortgage debt in
this country was only $3,200,000.
Today it is estimated at $8,500,000,-
000. And the greater part of this in
crease occurred, according to govern
ment reports, during the years of the
world war, when crops were selling
at top prices and farmers were eager
to buy lands at highly inflated
values.
Records also show that 60 per cent
of the farms in the United States are
free from mortgages. The greater
part of the remaining 40. per cent of
the farms carrying mortgages are to
be found in the 12 north central
farming states, givifig largely to the
raising of wheat and corn, or in the
southern states, where cotton is
grown almost entirely.
As to the mortgages themselves,
23 per cent of them are held by in
surance companies, 21 per cent by
Commercial banks and mortgage
companies, 19 per cent by federal
and joint stock land banks, and the
remaining 39 per cent largely by in
dividuals, many of them retired
farmers who sold their acres to
younger men.
It may be easily seen that there
are agencies other than the farmers
themselves which must be consider
ed in any disposition of farm mort
gages. In fact the entire affair is
a complicated financial proposition
with no one yet advancing a solu
tion.
State Highway Board Lets Three
Contracts
Atlanta. The State Highway
hoard today announced the award of
three minor contracts, the first to be
let since the board recently took of
fice. They are:
Paving a stretch of roadway
through the city of Eastman on the
Atlanta Brunswick highway. The
state will stand the full expense ar,d
the one mile of paving will cost ap
proximately SIO,OOO.
\ bridge in Coweta county on the
iNTewnan CarroU'on highway. Cost
approximately ?7,000.
The approach to the Hightower
bridge between Gainesville and Daw
sonville ir. north Georgia. Amount
not available. .
'fame of the contractors were not
announced.
WOMEN S PICTURES ATTRACT
Avery modest and almost obscure
exhibit in the hall of social science
at the Century of Progress in Chicago
is attracting an unusual share of at
tention from visitors.
It is the panel of photographs of
the twelve great American women
leaders of the century, chosen by
vote of some 128,000 women ballot
ers last winter in a contest conduct
ed by the National Council of Women
and the Ladies' Home Journal. It
is exhibited by the council in the
Hall of Social Science at the World’s
Fair.
1 eachers, students and many other
women ask questions about the ex
hibit, declares Mrs. Frances P.
Parks, second vice president of the
National Council, in charge of the
display. They want to know what
each woman accomplished and how
the order of the photographs was de
termined.
The famous characters are shown
in chronological order, the first in
the panel being Mary Lyon, who
established Mount Holyoke Female
Seminary in 1837. Then comes
Harriet Beecher Stowe of “Uncle
Tom’s Cabin” fame. Hard by is
Susan B. Anthony, whose activities
in favor of the franchise for women
and freedom for slaves began about
1857. Julia Ward Howe of “Battle
Hymn of the Republic” fame comes
next in order, and near her is Clara
Barton, the Red Cross pioneer. Mary
Baker Eddy, the Christian Scientist,
comes in just about here, represent
ing the period of 1875.
The five remaining photographs
are of contemporary women. Miss
Jane Addams’ picture appears with
an early date, 1889, chosen because
that was the year in which she and
Miss Ellen Gates Starr established
the pioneering social settlement,
Hull House. Miss Helen Keller,
photographed with her college di
ploma, is placed by the date of her
graduation from Radcliffe College,
1904.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt’s pic
ture is marked 1921, the year in
which she organized the Conference
on the Cause and Cure of War. The
last two women are represented with
photographs dated 1932. For it was
last year that Miss Mary E. Woolley,
president cf Mount Holyoke College,
attended the disarmament confer
ence at Geneva as the first woman to
represent the United States at such
a conference; and that Amelia Ear
hart Putnam made her solo flight a
cross the Atlantic.
The interest in this rather modest
exhibtion made up of women who
achieved along the lines in which
they labored has excited marked in
terest ampng those who have the big
exposition in charge. It shows that
we are still deeply interested in the
affairs and achivements of those who
do things no matter what their sex.
—Savannah Press.
NEAR RIOT IN JOB SCRAMBLE
Chicago, Aug. 7.—A big “Help
Wanted” advertisement in a Sunday
newspaper asking for 1,500 girls to
wrap candy brought 15,000 appli
cants and nearly a riot today.i
Women’s dresses were torn in the
scramble for advantageous positions
in line, several were badly bruised
and a policeman was pushed through
a glass door and cut on the arm.
The additional help was required
by a candy company, its officials ex
plained, because under the national
industrial recovery act the company
decided to operate on four six-hour
shifts. The advertisement called for
1,500 experienced candy makers or
wrappers, women only—but half the
crowd of applicants turned out to be
men. They began to arrive at dawn,
and by the time the employment
office opened the line extended for
several blocks and police reserves
were called to attempt to keep order.
DO YOU KNOW ME?
I am a product of the Machine
Age.
I represent the restlessness of this
generation, the urge for the supreme
thrill.
¥ am more deadly on the streets
and highways than war. Death stalks
on the battlefield; I am the scourage
in times of peace.
I defy all laws. lam above pub
lic opinion. I respect no right, know
no code, bow to no authority.
I bruise and maim and muiltilate
and kill childhood in its innocence,
youth in its vigor, old age in its in
firmity. Life is not safe when I am
abroad.
I am more to be dreaded than
pestilence. I am more to be feared
than leprosy.
I am the ally of the kidnaper, the
racketeer, the gangster.
I lam the super-outlaw.
I lam the SPEED FIEND.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
A FABLE WITH A BIG MORAL
A village character, not very bad,
not especially good, got a job run
ning the engine of a sawmill. Great
ly impressed with the importance of
his positipn, he resolved that every
body else should appreciate it, too.
So, the first morning, he got up a
full head of steam, jerked the whis
tle wide open, and made the wel
kin ring for miles around. As the
horrible din leaped from the whis
tle, bounced over the rocks, and rev
erberated against the hills, he stuck
his thumbs in the armholes of his
vest and exclaimed: ‘I am certainly
the Big Noise in this part of the
country and people are beginning to
find it out!’
Just then the foreman, with a big
day’s work ahead and everybody set,
discovered that there was not enough
steam left to start the machinery.
Before kicking the Temporary Big
Noise out, the foreman expressed his
opinion of him in language known
only to sawmill foremen and there
fore not appropriate for this highly
moral Journal.
At last accounts the Big Noise was
just a Faint Whisper.
Moral: You can’t saw wood if you
use all your steam blowing your
whistle.—W. T. Card, in “The Pe-
Ce-Co Magazine.”
YOUR CAPITAL
Do you know the capital of your
State,
The state of your mind, and why?
Do you always think of yourself a
lone,
Is it spelled with a capital I?
Do you always say just me and mine?
Or think of some others, too:
If you want to be wise, you’ll change
your mind.
And make your capital U.
—Author Unknown.
SEVERAL GOOD FARMS FOR
SALE
I represent as Attorney the owners
of several farms in Barrow, Jackson,
Gwinnett and Madison counties,
which can be bought during the next
sixty days at a reasonable price, and
on attractive terms. I will be glad
to pay the usual commission to any
licensed Real Estate Agent. Cor
respondence with either individual
purchasers, or with Agents, is soli
cited. —Chas. D. McKinney, Attor
ey-at-Law, 1109 The 22 Marrietta
St. Bldg., Atlanta, Ga.
Delta Brand Arsenate
$5.00 Per Hundred
FARMERS WAREHOUSE
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that an
election will be held in and for said
city to elect a Mayor for said city to
fill out the unexpired term of S.
Kinningham, resigned. Said election
to be held on Monday, August 28th,
1933. This August 28th, 1933.
Guy Strickland, Clerk.
FARMS WANTED
Want 50,000 Georgia Farms to
sell to people up North. White com
plete description of what you have,
with terms. Address, M.
L. Chambers, 15 Peachtree Arcade,
Atlanta, Ga.
Don’t Prolong
The Agony!
Next time you suffer from Gas
on Stomach, Headache, Sour
Stomach, a Cold, Muscular,
Rheumatic, Sciatic or Periodic
Pains; That Tired Feeling, That
“Morning After” Feeling. Get a
glass of water and drop in one
or two tablets of
Alka-Seltzer
The New Pain-Relieving, Alka
lizing, Effervescent Tablet
Watch it bubble up, then drink
it. You will be amazed at the
almost instant relief.
It is called Alka-Seltzer because
it makes a sparkling alkaline
drink, and as it contains an
analgesic (Acetyl-Salicylate) it
first, relieves the pain of every
day ailments and then by re
storing the alkaline balance cor
rects the cause when due to
excess acid.
After trying many brands of
medicines—so-called relief for
fas, and all of them a failure,
gave up hopes. By chance I
tried Alka-Seltzer—l am more
than satisfied. Geo. Bennett,
New York, N. Y.
Get a glass at your drug store
soda fountain. Take home a3O
cent or 60 cent package.
BARGAIN ROUND TRIP FARES
ONE CENT PER MILE
For Each Mile Traveled
AUGUST 4, 5
Final Return Limit August 12
Also on September 1,2, 3, with return limit September
9, and October 6 and 7 with return limit October 14, and
on November 28 and 29 with return limit December 7.
Round Trip Fares From Gainesville
Washington, D. C. $11.70
Birmingham 4.40
Jacksonville 7.86
Richmond 9.80
Proportionate Fares to Other Points
New York $19.85
Atlantic City $18.70
Buy Railway and Pullman tickets in advance
Reduced Fare Tickets Must Be Purchased Before
Boarding Trains
E. E. Barry, Asst. Gen’l Passenger Agent, Atlanta
SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM
YOUR HOME TOWN PAPER
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Does your home town paper render any service to
you? Should you patronize it on the merits of its exis
tence? Think it over. Your home town paper cannot
exist without your support. The next time a nice looking
traveling salesman calls on you with a modern display of
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printing, remember that the paper that you read weekly
for your HOME TOWN news needs this business —must
have it, and that nine times out of ten, they can save you
money, and give much better service. Wild catters come
and go, but the old home town paper goes on and on —
until you refuse to give them your support, and then they
go to the wall —another business busted in your com
muitlty, another asset to your public welfare rendered
helpless.—Commerce News.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 2 < ,
— 1 ■ 1*33.
Cincinnati $10.70
Memphis 9.50
Raleigh 4 __ 7.65
Atlanta 1.10
Philadelphia $16.60
Baltimore $13.15