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on of an afternoon news
; everybody would like to
ited is the. person who
is to know you untlil he
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sms to know you uptil he
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—
Shannon, the venerable
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foelr knees
on them when
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deacon robbed
Is eisters of s purse contaln
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will be no new American
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► take foe place of the late
ribbons, says an annoume
•m me. It is a religious
teal matter, of course,
is always taken to main
, Italian preponderance in
— U college.
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may a woman talk?
ueation a Pennsylvania
v ktormine, for she has
ed as a “common scold, *»
i like old colonial days, as
them. But let us see just
Jury will say. Will it be
women, we wonder?
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Albany Herald: "Econo
rtant at all times, but it
f important for munic
mnty and State govem
taxes are high and mon
ng plentiful. From
tank Comers, there
or the stoppage of
eveland said that
public trust, but it
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sacred trust than pub
rely too much of which
been sup
last word in a
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in a bad
I some relief is
will foil. Gold is
f foat ta fixed in
i)f foe standard
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Do^fcri m li Trade will put forth
beat enerB in an effort to have
breal g attendance here on
day. 4 the ball season on
#th. The bgdy will ad
the op« n game and do
possibly can to
interest in H, ^ leball and secure
attendance only alt the
day game b at all games
will be played re daring the
The commercial or mization has
been active in 1 efforts con*
baseball to the| past and is
a progressive >p now that
be appreciated f not only by
baseball associate i, but by ev
citizen Interested i the welfare
organized Griffin and.Spaldij baseball /i • county, (rood thing since
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for any community and helps, di
rectly or indirectly, every citizen and
every business in the city.
The trade body has been a great
factor in the upbuilding of Griffin
and Spalding county and is still one
of the city’s greatest assets. It has
accomplished great things for this
city and section since its organiza¬
tion a few years ago and is still do¬
ing splendid work here that will help
in making. Griffin a greater city and
Spalding a better county in which to
live, but no step tha/t it has taken
recently is any more progressive or
worthy than its determination to
stand by the local baseball associa¬
tion and help create Interest in the
great national sport.
All citizens should unite with the
Board of Trade in boosting baseball
and opening day on May 9th should
be made a memorable occasion in the
city's history. There is little doubt
that the merchants will close their
places of business and that all Grif¬
fin will be at Southside park to wit¬
ness Die initial game of the season
and pull for the home town. Base¬
ball is a big advertisement for any
city. It brings people here and af¬
fords wholesome sport, and we
should all unite in making it a great
success.
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MAIN STREET
Sinclair Lewis, author of “Main
Street,” does certainly hit the little
towns of this country pretty hard in
his book. The folks ip New York who
are supposed to hand out the liter¬
ary standards for the rest of the
country think he’s just awfully real¬
istic. They ought to know, for the
majority of them who amount to
much of anything came from small
towns.
It all depends on what you see on
Main Street^Mr. Lewis saw a lot of
dullness, tedious inhabitants, vacant
minds, and smugness, the horrible
slime of smugness covering every¬
thing.
Now maybe if you’re old-fiwhiooed
and remember "Tom Sawyer” and
old Ed. Howe’s book, “The Story of
a Country Town,” you have got a
slightly different impression. Per¬
haps you have thought some Ameri¬
can small towns and small cities were
pretty good, anyway. What you see
depends on what you’re looking for.
“A savories* " pie, gulping taste
leas food and silling afterward, coat¬
less and thoughtless, in rocking
chairs, prickly with insane decora¬
tions, listening to mechanical music,
saying mechanical things about foe
excellence of automobiles, and view¬
ing themselves as the greatest race
in the world.” That’s what Mr.
Lewis says of the folk of Main Street.
He’s partly right, too. If you want
to hear foe troth about your-self, go
to a critic, not a friend. But Mr.
Lewis’ indictment, unhappily, lsn)t
wide enough. It should be extended
to the whole 'human race. We are
dull. We are stupid. We are far too
self-satisfied. Let’s stir our sluggish
minds s little and thereby work a
blessing from foe curses put upon
us.
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THE PAPER FIRST
“The man who subscribes and pays
for a newspaper—and everybody
who pretends to be anybody does so
these days—-spends more money each
year on that newspaper than he
does on any other printed item. He
spends more for a paper than a mag
azine because it’s worth -more to
him. If it cost him ten times as
much he would still buy it, and
the A V
price i beyond bis
ho me
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any
wonder that th that pa
per are such a in place in
which to advertise? Is it any wonder
that newspaper advertising brings
big returns in good season or bad . f*
—Carrollton Free Press.
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The Farmer and the Rest of Us.
(Waycross Journal.)
One of the paragraphers in a
South Georgia dally fatiouaiy alludes
to the fact that congress has been
asked to find out “what is the mat¬
ter with agriculture?” and then to
set in motion agencies to remedy the
discovered evils” by asking, “What
does a congressman know about
farming?” It is intimated that the
same thing is the matter with farm¬
ing just now as is the matter—if
anything— with all other lines of
activity in this country in the time
of reconstruction and readjustment.
The point: Should congress know
anything about farming? Congress¬
men are—a majority of them—not
farmers; but they have at hand the
expert aid of men who do know
farming; and they are citizens and
averagely intelligent business and
professional men.
If congressmen do not know about
farming they should find out.
And here, to this very Blackshear
Times answers as if it had noticed
the paragraph mentioned:
The farm bureau federations
are asking Big Business to study
problems of farming. When we
can make the whole nation study
its farming then the farmer will
have . come into his own. Add
your might to the mights of the
other one and a half million far¬
mers and we will win.
The Times suggests that there are
others who ought to be actively in¬
terested in the farmer and farming
—Big Business, the banks and the
railroads, the insurance companies
and the merchants, the manufactur¬
ers and everybody else.
The farmer is the man who makes
the living for all the others. He cre¬
ated the fundamental wealth. The
other lives of business would fade,
like the mists in the morning if the
farmer quit business. What hurts
the farmer hurts every class. The
fanner’s interests are bound up with
all other lines of business that are
at all necessary. The farmer, for
example, has a good deal to do with
the railroads—in spite of the per¬
haps too general impression that the
coal mines, the mills, the factories,
the merchants, wholesale and retail,
supply most of the freight for the
carriers. The Blackshear Times, evi¬
dently having studied about this
proposition, intimates as much:
The farmer not only pays near¬
ly half the cost of all transporta¬
tion as a consumer, but as a pro¬
ducer he furnishes a tremendous
tonnage. Because of both facts he
wants service, and if he cannot get
it, at the increased rates, he is in¬
clined to ask why? These are the
kind of questions the Farm Bu¬
reaus are asking Big Business.
It is time the people studied the
farmer and his fanning business. It
is time congress began to look into
what is the matter with farming. It
is time for big business to study farm
problems; it is time for the preachers
and the lawyers and the teachers, the
banks and the merchants—here in
Georgia, in South Georgia, in Ware
county and Waycross, began to sym¬
pathetically study the farmers’ prob¬
lems—with intelligence and co-ope¬
ration in view. These other classes
have given the fanner cords of ad¬
vice—but it is time to get down and
find out the truth of the situation
now!
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CHILDREN’S CLINI&8. .
There are fourteen towns In Geor¬
gia that are progressive enough and
sufficiently interested in the real
wealth of their communities (their
children), te establish clinics for foa
corrections of such defects as are
found by the doctor in his examina
tlon of the children, The clinics
are mostly Dental and Throat ami
Nose. It Is a subset of pleasant con
lecture to think of the many children
who will hr h elped to lead more effi¬
cient and happier lives because ot
i’leso clinics. Expert care for the
child is always the first consideration
in nrrangiu for any health work and
no child should be subjected to the
hazardous experiment) of untrained
people who have merely their enthu¬
siasm to offer as an excuse.
clinics always follow upon the exami
t!
glad to form
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LESSON FOR MAY 1
BIBLI TEACHINGS ABOUT KDU
CATION.
LESSON TEXT—Dsut. «:«-•; Prov. Sta¬
ll; Luke f.a.
GOLDEN TEXT—Wisdom Is tbs princi¬
pal thing; therefore get wisdom.—Prov.
4*
REFERENCE MATERIAL—Prov. 1M;
4:1-11; CoL 2:1; Jas. 1:1; n Pst 1*
PRIMARY TOPIC—The Boy Jesus With
the Teachers.
JUNIOR TOPIC—Plsaslng God In School.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC
—The Value of an Education.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
—Making Education Christian.
I. The Excellency ef Wisdom (Prov.
8:13-18).
Let no man confuse this "wisdom"
with the go-called wisdom resulting
from an education In the arts, sciences
and philosophy taught in the modern
colleges and universities. The way to
have this in its true sense Is to get
It from the Bible, God’s revealed Word
(Pag. 119:08-100). Wisdom personi¬
fied means Christ (Prov. 8). All real
wisdom leads to Christ, who Is made
unto us wisdom, righteousness, and
sanctification (I Cor. 1:80). Wisdom
Is desirable because:
1. Of Its Inherent qualities (w. 18-
15). (1) “Better than the merchan¬
dise of sliver and the gain of gold"
(v. 14). Men set great valne upon
these, but they are corruptible and
shall soon pass away. (2) "More
precious than rubles" (v. 15). Though
among the most valuable among the
precious stones, the ruby Is of sec¬
ondary value when compared with the
wisdom of God. (3) Of immeasurable
value (v. 15). The best things that
the human heart can desire are not
worthy to compare In value unto wis¬
dom.
2. It ministers to our earthly wel¬
fare (vv. 16-18). (1) “Length of days
is in her right hand" (v. 16). Godli¬
ness tends to long life. (2) “In her
left hand riches nnd honor" (v. 16).
“Riches and honor” may not always
be according to the world’s standard.
(3) “Her ways are ways of pleasant¬
ness” (v. 17). The notion that the life
of tfib Christian Is hard and that
pleasure does uot enter Into his experi¬
ence Is all wrong. The way of the
transgressor is hard (Prov. 13:15).
Godliness Is profitable unto nil things,
having the promise of the life that now
ts and of that which Is to come (1
Tim. 4:8). (4) “All her paths are
peace" (v. 17). There Is no peace to
the wicked. “The wicked are like the
troubled sea when It cannot rest, whose
waters cast up mire and dirt (Isa.
67:20, 21). (5) “She Is a tree of life
to them that lay hold upon her" (v.
18). Those who eat of the tree of
life, Christ, have eternal life (Gen.
8:22; ch. John 6:68. (6) “Happy is
^everyone that retalneth her” (v. lift.
The only true happiness that can be
bad Is in laying hold qn' wisdom In
God’s Wdrd.
II. Israel's Responsibility With Ref¬
erence to the Statutes of the Lord
(Deut. 6:4-9).
1. Central truths to be taught (vv.
4, 6). (1) Unity of God. “The Lord
our God Is one Lord," This was a
testimony against the polytheism of
that day. He is God alone, therefore
to worship another Is sin. (2) Man’s
supreme obligation (v. 5). God should
be loved with nil the heart, soul, and
might, because He is God alone.
2, How these truths are to be kept
alive (vv. 6-9). The place for God’s
Word IS In the heart. In order that It
may be In the heart (1) “teach dili¬
gently to thy children" (v. 7). The
most Important part of a child’s edu¬
cation Is that given In the Word of
God. (2) Talk of them in the home
(v. 7). How blessed is that home
where God’s Word Is the topic of con¬
versation. (8) Talk of them when
walking with our children and friends
(v. 7). (4) Talk of them when re¬
tiring for the night (v, 7). The last
thing upon which the mind should rest
before going to sleep should be God
and His truth. (5) Talk of them
when rising in the morning (v. T).
How fitting that God should speak to
us the first thing when we awake. (6)
Bind them upon thine hand (v. 8).
This was literally done by the Jews
(7) Write them upon foe posts of the
bouse and on the gates (v. 8).
III. Tha Growth of Jesus (Luke
2:52).
1. Bodily stature. Being really hu¬
man, His bodily size and strength in¬
creased,
2. Increased in wisdom. His mental
equipment enlarged as any normal hu¬
man being. His fountain of knowledge
Increased as He came In contact with
men and the world.
A In favor with God and man. His
Innate perfection and beauty more and
more expressed Itself as His human
nature expanded.
The Detractor's Work.
The detractor may. and often does,
pull down others, but by so doing he
never, as he seems to suppose, ele¬
vates himself to their position-—the
most be can do Is maliciously tear
from them the blessings which he can¬
not enjoy hlmselfc—Selected.
Ktemlty.
Eternity stands always fronting
God; a stem colossal image, with
„ "eyes,
blind and grand dim llpa, that
murmnr evermore, “Ood—God—God!"
—E. B. Browning.
- The young women ot our state
should be protected against infection
of venereal disease. We need a mar¬
riage taw; foe coming legislature
should give It to us.
’ "Health is foil to all
ease. The prosperity of
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Saturday. J. k to 11 p. m.
PROGRAM WEEK MAY 2ND--7TH
A Paramount Picture.
U The Inside of the Cup 99
Winston ‘ Churchill’s powerful romance of plain worth
May and gilted hypocrisy. A story that startled the churches
and toppled over the gods of “high society.”
2nd —-Als o—" '
. . “FRESH FROM THE FARM. >7
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GLADYS WALTON
—In
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May The story of a department store .4 girl who captured a
woman thief and won her heart’s desire.
4th —Also—
“MONKEY STUFF”
RUTH ROWLAND
Iff —In—
J* U Ruth of the Rockies 99
NO. 12.
—Also—
May ELMO LINCOLN in
“THE FLAMING DISK” No. 15.
7th —And—,
BEN TURPIN in
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“THE UDERTAKER’S HOPE”
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15 of the FINEST SPRING HATS
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