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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1938.
AN IDEAL CITIZEN
(From Covington News)
There is a gentleman in this town known to us all, who
is just about our ideal of a citizen.
He is making his money here, he is raising and educat
ing his family here, and he expects to live and die here.
When he has any money to spend he first looks care
fully over the advertisements in this paper. If he finds
what he wants he goes there and gives that merchant the
first opportunity.
In everything he buys he gives the home merchant the
preference.
He occasionally buys articles from abroad, but they are
cases wherein he cannot find that which he seeks in his
own community.
He believes in his home town and because he does be
lieve in it and intends to continue to live in it he grasps
every possible means of advancing its interests by keep
ing his money in circulation at home.
He, to our mind, is the ideal citizen.
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INSURANCE AGENT
JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
PAVING IS COMPLETED ON ROAD
FROM ATHENS TO MONROE
The all-paved route from Athens
to Atlanta, via Monroe and Stone
Mountain, has been completed it was
announced Saturday by the state
highway department.
Paving of the last six miles of the
road in Oconee county which started
more than a month ago, has been
completed and the road will be op
ened for traffic Saturday, December
10.
The last stretch of the road to be
paved began near Carithers Mill.
Athens now has two all-paved
roads to Atlanta, the other by way
of Winder and Lawrenceville.
TWENTY-TWO STUDENTS KILL
ED IN SCHOOL BUS CRASH
Salt Lake City.—A freight train
speeding a mile a minute in a snow
storm crashed into a school bus at
a little used crossing Tuesday, killing
at least 22 students and the bus
driver.
Hysterical parents identified the
bodies at an improvised morgue in
Salt Lake General Hospital.
Seventeen of the more than 40
students on the bus, en route to
Jordan District High School near
Midvale, a Salt Lake City suburb,
were injured, six critically.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
Insects Have Own Tools
to Bore Holes in Wood
Insect egg-laying requires many
tools, of which some are surprising
ly like man-made tools. The Sirex
saw-fly, for example, says a writer
in Pearson’s London Weekly, uses a
gadget very like a gimlet, with
which it bores holes in wood to
house its eggs. Another type of saw
fly has at its tail two tiny saws
fitted with sheaths. These cut slits
in stems or leaf veins in which the
eggs are placed.
The ichneumon fly works hard for
an hour to drill a hole more than
an inch deep in tough wood.
And the ichneumon fly is well
aware, in a way mysterious to us,
that it will strike a grub in the
wood on which to lay its egg. Its
young will then have living food to
eat when they are hatched.
Also there is a locust which lays
its eggs in th§ earth by boring the
soil with a tool like the cobbler’s
awl, and working on the same prin
ciple.
The hypodermic syringe of the
surgeons injects fluid under the skin;
so does the sting of an insect. Ac
tually, when we knock the bee off
our skin, his sting, and part of his
body, are left behind. Consequent
ly, the bee soon dies. And that is
why it was thought bees could sting
once only.
But, given time, the bee can re
move his sting and fly off to do more
damage with it. The remark
able apparatus he uses to inject
poison has barbs which attach it se
curely to our flesh.
The wasp, as it happens, stings
a caterpillar, not to kill it, but to
paralyze it—as by our anesthetics.
Pioneers in Smoking
The Encyclopedia Brittanica says
that the introduction of the tobacco
pipe to Europe is generally ascribed
to Ralph Lane, first governor of
Virginia; in 1586 he brought an In
dian pipe to Sir Walter Raleigh and
taught that courtier how to use it.
Another authority, “The Social His
tory of Smoking,” says that the
honor of having first smoked a pipe
of tobacco in England is divided
among several claimants, Captain
William Middleton, Captain Price
and Captain Koet having smoked
together in London. The same au
thor states that pipes were smoked
in England before 1584, the plant
having been introduced into Europe
about 1560 and been under cultiva
tion in England by 1570. Raleigh
first brought the practice of smok
ing into common use and it is prob
able that he was initiated in the art
by Thomas Hariot, whom he had
sent out to Virginia for the specific
purpose of inquiring into and re
porting on the natural productions,
including of course tobacco.
Something For Rita
By GLADYS T. DUHAINE
McClure Newspaper Syndicate,
WNU Service.
“'T'HANK you, thank you kindly,
sir,” murmured little Ma Bix
by, her flushed cheeks as pink as
the check fluttering in her nervous
grasp.
Barney Littlefield, purchasing
agent plenipotentiary of the I. I. &
N. railway, was not prepared for
such mar ifestations of delight. The
amount of the check was less than
one-third of his estimate for the
property—he was sure to receive
commendations from his superiors
for his acuteness —yet, there was
more chagrin than satisfaction vis
ible in his hard blue eyes. It had
been in just such a clean little,
mean little kitchen that 20 years
before he took leave of just such a
wrinkled, trembling, timid little
woman. Her final admonition, weep
ing and prayerful, "Bea good boy,
Barney,” came to him across the
years faintly, rebukingly.
“ ’Sail right,” he muttered and
turned on his Scotch brogue heel
and was gone.
Trembling and tearful with de
light, Ma Bixby fluttered into the
sitting room and took up a much
handled catalogue of ladies’ and
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Complete in This Issue
children’s wear. “I know you won’t
like it, Hiram, dear,” looking up
apologetically into the badly-focused
eyes of the alleged likeness in
crayon of her late husband, which,
draped with a tasseled silk “throw,”
stood on an easel in the corner,
“but I ain’t really spent no money
on clothes since my trousseau wore
out, and I always did just love pret
ty clothes—jes’ seems like I can’t
help it. Besides, if I don’t like
these things I can return them and
get my money back. It says so
right here in the book on every
page ’most.”
“After all,” she defended herself
to herself, “there’s nothing fool
ish or extravagant on the list un
less it might be the fuzzy white
sweater set for Elviry Thompson’s
littlest girl.”
Going to hang up the broom, pre
paratory to returning to the sitting
room and her list, she caught sight
of Ernestine Biggers on her way to
the interurban station and rapidly
changed her plan of shopping by
mail to the more thrilling one of
shopping in person.
The girl, responding to her fran
tic signals on the window, came up
the narrow flagged path and into the
kitchen. '“ln a big hurry, child?”
she asked eagerly, wistfully. “Go
ing to the city, ben’t you? Would
it be too much bother if I went
with you? Now ain’t that kind! I’ll
be ready in no time and I’ll ex
plain later, on the train, what I’m
going for and all.”
But once settled on the car, the
wan sadness of the girl’s face
touched her and attracted her at
tention from her own fine plans. A
few gentle questions and the girl,
haltingly, ashamedly, poured into
the sympathetic ear of her confi
dante all her heart’s pent-up dis
couragement and despair. Her
promise to marry young Luke En
dicott on the neighboring farm, his
need of her in view of his mother’s
fast-failing health, and the absolute
impossibility of making her school
salary do more than cover the bills
that piled up during her father’s ill
ness. Even the most modest out
fit was out of the question.
“But I don’t know what possesses
me to be whining like this to you,
Miss Bixby. I’m ashamed of my
self. I certainly am. What’s
clothes, after all. and a few towels
and bureau scarfs and things? I’ve
promised, and I know Luke under
stands how I am fixed. I never
should have bothered you with it.
We’re not far from the city now.
My errand won’t take long; the
school committee wanted me to see
the publishers about the new arith
metics. After that I’ll take you any
where you’d like to go.”
A dear good girl, Ma Bixby
thought as she sat alone, and just
the age that Rita would have been.
Going to marry with no outfit at
all. She recalled with the accus
tomed thrill of pride her trous
seau of 40 years past. Every girl,
she decided, is entitled to a trous
seau. It is her inalienable right.
But was it business of hers, Martha
Bixby’s, if a neighbor girl were de
prived by illness of a wedding out
fit? She had not answered the ques
tion to her entire satisfaction when
Ernestine returned.
“Well, I’ll make it business of
mine,” she silently declared. “An
old lady like me can do better
than buy clothes for herself.”
And make it her business she did
—so efficiently that passengers on
the last out-bound car must look
more than once to discover Ma Bix
by and Ernestine Biggers under the
mountain.
On her lap pretty things for a
bride the age of Rita; in her hand
the fuzzy white sweater suit for a
baby the age of Rita; in her heart
the yearning love of an ageless
Rita; Ma Bixby smiled across the
parcels into the shyly grateful eyes
of Ernestine Biggers.
Up To Date
We farm today in ways that are new:
The mules have been swapped for a
tractor or two,
Wagons are idle—we’ve better luck
Using the shiny-red practical truck.
The corn-crib’s gone; we proudly
show
The cornerless towers of our new
silo;
The old spring’s choked—but tall
and swank
Stands a thousand-gallon cylindrical
tank.
The high-topped organ’s been moved
to the attic
To make room for a thing full of
sputtering static.
The kerosene lamp, once cheerful
and bright,
Is an “antique”, wired for electric
light.
The broom by the hearth no more is
seen;
The floor is swept by a vacuum
machine,;
The maid no longer need make three
wishes,
The electric washer does all her dish
es.
Look in the corner—no ice-box is
there,
But anew contraption with frozen
air.
And, since no woodpile is buHt to
last,
The house is heated with natural
gas.
Where the garden flourished in
peace and quiet,
Flaunting “landscapes” blaze and
riot.
The pig pen—cutting this story
short—
Is turned to a modern tennis court.
We farm today in ways that are
new.
But still there is plenty for us to
do;
Life is one long, sweet recreation.
Since we started all this moderniz
ation.
—Boyd Armour, Moscow, Tenn.
TRUCKS ON HIGHWAYS ON
SUNDAY
(From Americus Tri-County News)
Half holidays and five-day weeks
have materially added to traffic con
gestion on the highways from noon
Saturday until after midnight Sun
day. A large part of the nation to
day—and the number will increase
—spend week-end holidays in their
automobiles.
A few states have outlawed truck
movements during holiday hours.
Trucks must end their runs by Sat
urday noon and may not start again
until after 12 o'clock Sunday night.
The law is more of a safety measure
than a Sunday observance statute.
Trucks transporting express and
freight already are endangering
lives on the roads and destroying
hard-surfaced roads that cost mil
lions. Surely five and a half days is
enough for the mammoth freight car
riers to “hog the roads.” We
should be spared them on week-ends
when so large a part of the public is
pleasure 'bent. The next general as
sembly could follow the example of
other states and outlaw freight traf
fic from Saturday noon until after
Sunday midnight.
Exception for interstate traffic,
the railroads refrain from starting
freight trains on the Sabbath. This
is the rule, we are informed by Mr.
J. H. Randall of the Central of Geor
gia, and probably applids to other
roads in Georgia. If the l Tall* can
move their trans in six
ers bearing freight and express can
also. ' ‘
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H. T. MOBLEIY
Agency
LIFE INSURANCE
All approved forms written
to meet every need
Would appreciate an
interview
ATTACKED BY SOW
Dublin, Ga.—Attacked by a sow
as he was feeding his stock, Dock
Gay, 35-year-old Cedar Grove farm
er, was in a hospital here in a seri
ous condition.
The sow’s teeth Cut him about the
chest and legs.
Gay’s dog attacked the sow and
drove it away.
PAGE SEVEN
Hazards In The Home
It appears that the homo is a par
ticularly hazardous place for men.
Figures show that men are the chief
victims of fatal , accidents in the
home.
In the broad age group ranging
from 15 to 64 years, the fatalities
from accidents are about one and a
half times as frequent among males
as among females.
We find that deaths due to falls
are about one-third more frequent
among men. This may often result
from the excessive venturesomeness
of the male. Falls from roofs, lad
ders, porches and balconies are much
more frequent among, men. This
suggests that the accidents occur
while men are attempting to do
things which they are not trained to
perform.
Deaths due to falls on stairs are
three times as frequent among men.
Deaths from illuminating gas in
many instances are the results of de
fects in piping, in tubing, and in
gas burners.
The accidental extinguishing of a
gas flame by the boiling over of
fluids, or by the wind, accounts for
a smaller percentage of deaths due
to gas asphyxiation.
Carbon monoxide poisoning fre
quently occurs when automobile mo-*
tors are run in garages with the
doors and windows closed.
The only “home accident” in
which more women than men are
fatally injured is in the case of
burns.
These valuable revelations lead to
the conviction that a campaign of
“home safety for men” is more than
warranted. The rash venturesome
ness of the male needs to be curbed
by good sense. When the job around
the house involves risk to life and
limb, it is false economy not to hire
someone experienced in doing just
that kind of work.
It is also imperative that the man
in the family should bear in mind
the hazards associated with slippery
rugs, dark stairways and makeshift
ladders.
Perhaps the task should be assign
ed jointly to both sexes and indeed
to the entire family. The home is
the place where most of the crip
pling and serious accidents occur
affecting male and female adults,
and children.
MILLIONS OF CARS ON
HIGHWAYS OF GEORGIA
More than 3,000,000 passenger
cars, trucks and buses have been
registered by twelve automatic traf
fic recorders, called “electric eyes,”'
installed on seven paved highways
and five unpaved “farm-to-market’*'
roads seven months ago by the high
way planning division of the state,
highway board.
A recorder located at Red Oak,
near Atlanta on the highway to-
Newnan, leads with a total of 840,-
812 registered vehicles. The num
ber of passing vehicles has averaged
approximately three per minute for
24 hours each day.
Recordings on other paved high
ways were: Cartersville, 656,809;
Perry, 344,960; Midway, 295,556;
Statesboro, 275,268; Covington,
268,968, and Naylor, 116,732.
FINLAND READY TO PAY ON
DEBT
Washington.—Finland notified the
State Department Saturday that as
usual it would make its semi-annual
debt payment to the United States
on December 15.
Only Finland of the 13 European
nations whose debts to this govern
ment have been swollen by interest
to some $13,000,000,000 since the
World War, has met its obligations
without a default.
Finland’s December 15 install
ment totals $232,935. Eero Jarne
felt, the Finnish minister, notified
Acting Secretary of State Summer
Welles that the sum would be turned
over to the federal reserve bank in
New York City.
76 OHIOANS ARRIVE AT
FEDERAL PRISON
4*
Seventy-six prisoners, the larges#
number ever received from one dis
trict, arrived at the Atlanta Federal
Penitientiary Tuesday from southern
Ohio.
Joseph W. Sanford, warden, said
the group included one kidnaper..
United States Marshal R. Kenneth
Kerr, of the Southern Ohio District*
accompanied the train load to At
lanta.
The Atlanta Prison has a popu
lation of about 3,100.