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HIGHWAY DEATHS
ALARM PRESIDENT
Washington.—President Roosevelt,
in a letter read at the opening of
the American Automobile associ
ations annual convention today said
he was “deeply concerned” over the
life and property toll of highway ac
cidents.
“Those who use the highway must
realise the responsibility they as
sume when they take the wheel, the
president wrote to Thomas P. Hen
ry, Detroit, president of the asso
ciation.
“I am deeply concerned over the
staggering toll of deaths, injuries
and heavy property damage caused
by highway accidents,” the letter
read, “we cannot longer afford to
temporize with this problem. Those
who use the highways must realize
the responsibility they assn me when
they take the wheel.”
Henry in an address criticized di
verting of highway funds for other
purposes and assailed the fee system
under which minor town and coun
try officials receive a share of lines
they levy on motorists.
SIMPLE RULES FOR GOING
BROKE
Advice is the cheapest thing on
the market. There are always ad
vice-givers who are experts in their
line, but they never grow rich for
the reason that they prefer to give
than to charge for those things that
they believe to be helpful to man
kind.
Someone has compiled the fol
lowing ways for a farmer to go
broke without having to go to any
trouble about the matter." It is, no
duobt, a safe reeeipe, if followed
consistently:
“Crow only one crop.
“Keep no live stock.
“Regard chickens and a garden as
nuisances. v
“Don’t plan your farm operations.
It’s hard work thinking. Trust to
luck.
“Hold fast to the idea that the
methods of farming employed by
your grandfather are good enough
for you.
“Be independent. Don’t join with
your neighbors in any form of co
operation.
“Mortgage your farm for every
dollar it will-stand to btfty things you
would have iash to buy if you fol
lowed a good system of farming.”
“Get rich” schemes aTid ho\# to
keep one's health ate told in verse
and prose, all free* and without cost.
It is mighty good to be told just
what to do when in trouble by some
one who is not capable to take care
of themselves, hut that is the kind
usually to dish out the free advice,
and become disappointed, if it is not
accepted. However, we believe that
if the farmers will follow the advice
contained in the foregoing, everyone
of them will oon he broke and be
come subjects of charity on their
communities. —Alliens Banner-Her
ald.
A WEDDING WRITE-UP
Most newspaper men shrink from
the task of writing up a wedding and
prefer to pass that responsibility to
the female society editor. Yet there
are exceptions. Occasionally an
editor is found who can paint word
pictures of a nuptial event that any
lady reporter might envy.
We discovered one like that who
appears to be hiding his great tal
ents in an obscure Kansas town,
while he ought to be holding down a
big city job. Here is a sample of
bis literary ability which proves our
point:
“It was a wonderful wedding. The
girl was as sweet as any girl who
ver lived, but modern. As she
walked up the aisle on her father’s
arm, her lips lightly tilted at the
corners with a happy smile, she was
a picture of modest beauty. Her
filmy wedding gown gossamined veil
floated around her fair blond head
like a halo. She was as nearly an
angel as girls get to be in this world.
At the altar, as she passed from her
father, the man she always loved, to
the other man to whom she would
devote the rest of her life, her dain
ty slipper touched a potted lilly
resting on the floor and turned it
over. Smiling again, she turned to
the dear old pastor waiting at the
chancel rail and said: “That was a
hell of a place to put a lilly.”
—Americus Times Recorder.
Caller: “Won’t you walk as far as
the street car with me, Tommy."
Tommy (age five): “I can’t.”
Caller: “Why not?”
Tommy: “’Cause we're gonna have
dinner as soon as you go.”
NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL
CAPITOL
(By E. B. Betts)
Hon. Thomas W. Hardwick, of
Sandorsville, Washington County,
Georgia, who is practicing law here
now, who served 12 years in the
house and 4H years in the sen
ate, and one term as governor of
Georgia in 1021 and 1922, is special
counsel to the Congressional Com
mittee now probing the Un-Ameri
can activities of the Nazis. His sal
ary is $555 per month, according to
the report of the committee on ac
counts in the Capitol, of which Hon.
Linsy C. Warren, of the First Dis
trict of North Carolina, is chair
man.
• * • •
The 7.*)rd congee s passed into his
tory on June 18th. The most of the
Democrats and Republicans have left
Capitol Hill to face the voters in
their districts in the November
election.
• * * •
Major Joseph Starnes, of the new
Fifth District of Alabama, who de
feated Hon. Miles C. Allgood in the
second Democratic primary on Jun*
12, was a prominent visitor at the
National Capitol last week. He will
take his seat in the 74th Congress on
January 3rd, 1935.
*, * * *
Major R. O. Wilmarth died here
June 18th. He was assistant super
intendent of the Public Schools in
the District of Columbia. He was
47 years of age. He was buried on
June 21, in the Arlington National
Cemetery.
Hon. Hollis N. Randolph, of At
lanta, Ga., the Gate City of the
South, was a prominent visitor at
National Capitol June 22 and 23.
* * * *
The 73rd Congress of the United
States adjourned June 18th. The
House was presided over by Speaker
Henry T. Rainey of Carrilton, 111.;
and the Senate by Vice-President
John Nance Garner, of Uvalde, Tex.
The next, or the 74th Congress, will
meet January 3rd, 1935, under the
Lame Duck Amendment to the Fed
eral Constitution by Senator George
W. Norris, a Progressive Republican
of Nebraska.
* ♦ *
Hon. Frank R. McNinch, of North
Carolina, was recently appointed
Chairman of the Power Commission
here by President Franklin D. Roose
velt. Mr. McNinch did not support
Hon. Alfred E. Smith for President
in 1928. Lis term of office is for
five years. Ho was first appointed
by former President Herbert C.
Hoover in 1929. President Roose
velt has made a wise appointment
* * * *
Senator Hiram Johnson, of Cali
fornia, has filed for re-election to
the United States Senate on four
tickets for the six year term, begin
ning January 3, 1935. He has serv
ed three terms in the Senate. Sen
ator Johnson is a Progressive Repub
lican. He supported Hon. F. D.
Roosevelt for president, and Hon.
John N. Garner for’ vice-president
in 1932.
Vacationists Need To Safe
guard Ears
With the approach of the summer
vacation period, when the ear is
especially prone to injury and infec
tion, an appropriate vacation warn
ing is given in the June Hygeia by
Dr. Henry Dintenfass who writes on
“Safeguard Your Ears!”
Among the “don’ts” that he sug
gests are:
1. Don’t neglect an earache; see
a good physician.
2. Don’t introduce hairpins or
other things into the ear. Infection
of the ear or injury to the drum
head may result.
3. Don’t use oils, chamomile tea
and other vegetable substances.
They help to increase infection by
facilitating the growth of bacteria.
4. Don’t blow the nose forcibly
when you have a head cold. Instead,
na*al secretions backward, to
be expectorated from the mouth.
Blowing the nose forces the infec
tion up the eustachian tube and may
possibly infect the middle ear.
5. Don’t swim when you have a
head cold.
6. Don’t depend on a bathing cap
to prevent infection of the middle
ear; the infection can enter the
middle ear through the nose and
eustaelyan tube.
7. Don’t fear that an incision of
the drum-head will cause deafness.
8. Don’t swim when you have a
| running ear. The probability of
serious consequences is exceedingly
great.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
OLD ALMANAC SHOWS HOWELL
COBB IN CABINET, ROBERT
TOOMBS IN SENATE
(By W\ H. Ussery, in Athens
Banner-Herald)
Commerce, Ga.—-Besides owning a
Banner-Herald from November of
1860 and an almanac from 1837, W.
H. Garrison also has in his posses
sion an almanac from 1858.
The president and his cabinet
(“Till March 4, 1861”) consisted of
James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania,
whose salary was $25,000, arid secre
taries of state, treasury, interior,
nuvy, and postmaster and at
torney-generals. The Secretary of
the Treasury was a person whose
name is well known in this section:
“Howell Cobb of Ga.” The Supreme
court contained one Georgian, Janies
M. Wayne of Savannah, and ‘ Mr.
Justice Wayne” presided over the
6th circuit court, which n < red
North Carolina, South Carolina, and
Georgia.
The governor of Georgia wa- H.
V. Johnson of Baldwin, and n rep
resentatives from this section wore
included among the legislative lead
ers. Robert Toombs was one of the
senators in Washington however, his
term expiring in 1859, and llewell
Cobb represented the (sth district in
Congress. That district compn-ed
Clarke, Forsyth, Habersham, Hart,
Lumpkin, Rabun, Walton, Franklin,
Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson, Madison,
Towns and Union counties.
This district was better represent
ed in the judiciary department, with
Joseph H. Lumpkin of Athens as
judge. Superior court judge for the
Western circuit was Nathan L.
Hutchins, and S. P. Thurmond was
solicitor-general.
The Clarke county court house
back then was in Watkinsville and
L. J. Lumpkin was sheriff. The
Western circuit back ih those days
consisted of Cl&rke, Franklin, Gwin
net, Habersham, Hall, Jackson, Ra
bun, and Walton counties. Today,
it covers only two of these: Clarke
and Walton, Oconee then being a
part of Clarke.
Judging from this almanac South
Carolina seems- to have been in bet
ter shape than Georgia. At any
rate, their governor got $3,500 com
pared to Governor Johnson’s $3,000,
but Alabama’s Governor John A.
Winston was getting only $2,500.
Alabama’s justices in the "supreme
court, however, were getting $3,000,
and Georgia’s got only $2,600.
Andrew Johnson of Geenville,
Tennesse, was governor o£ that state,
getting a salary of $3,000. That was
in 1858—or rather until October,
1857. Barely ten years later,
that Andrew Johnson was to be
the center of nation-wide inter
est as he underwent impeachment
proceedings as President of the
United States.
The weather predictions are par
ticularly interesting in this old book.
For instance, on December 24, 25,
2f>, 27, and 28, the folks were warn
ed to be prepared for “Now a terr
ible storm of Fire Poppers among
the little folks,” and November 29
was going to be “Blustering.” In a
little box at the top of each month’s
page, there is a geometrical, or ari
thmetical problem. Problem nine
reads: “If two wheels, whose dia
metes are 5 and 3 feet, be placed up
on an axle 6 feet long, and made to
roll, what will be the ditrmeter of
the largest circle.”
A PART OF THE CHILD
There was a child went forth one
day to learn of God.
To the place called the House of
God he went, for a certain hour
one day in seven.
And that hour became a part of him
for all the years stretching a
head.
The budding flowers on the table be
came a part of the child,
The pictures on the walls and the
sunlight that cast soft shadows
on the floor;
The tones of sweet music and of
glad singing and the quiet hush
of prayer—
All these became a part of the child.
The teacher’s smile became a part of
the child;
The look of understanding in her
eyes and the >y e l come °*
voice;
The love of tier for God and for
little children —
All these became a part of the child.
There was a child went forth one
And he was no longer a child. He
had become a man.
But he went forth not alone. For
the presence of the Lord was
with him.
And the things he had looked upon
were a part of him throughout
all the years.
—-Graded Elementary Magazine.
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HOOP SNAKE KILLS TREE,
SAYS W. L. WARD
Seeing a hoop snake rolling at
him, missing and sticking its tail in
to a tree and seeing the tree wither
within a short time, is an experience
had by W. L. Ward, of route 3,
Flowery Branch.
According to Mr. Ward, who call
ed by The News office to see the
queer snake that has been on dis
play here for the past ten days wait
ing for someone to identify it, the
experience is none too pleasant.
Mr. Ward states that he and Will
Wiley, many years ago, were work
ing near the edge of a field when Mr.
Wiley shouted a warning. Mr. Ward
turned in time to see the snake with
its tail in its mouth rolling straight
at them. He jumped to one side
just as the snake let go with its
mouth and shot through the air like
an arrow, tail first. The snake buried
its tail in the tree and was trying to
wiggle free when Ward and Wiley
killed it. A little later they noticed
the tree began to wither and died,
Mr. Ward states.
“That is the only hoop snake I
have ever seen,” states Mr. Ward,
“although I have heard people talk
ing about them. Neither have I seen
a jointed snake. From your de
scription of the snake I believe it
to be a hoop snake,” he concluded.
Many who have seen the snake called
it a hoop snake, while others believe
it to be a coral snake, one of the
three poisonous snakes of this sec
tion.—Gainesville News.
There is nothing more soothing
for either a burn or a scald than the
white of an egg.
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