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BEING A FIREBUG NATION
News reports of the recent million
dollar sawmill fire at Hoquiam,
Washington, say “Covered by insur
ance. Everybody breathes easy, fort
there is no actual loss. ... ’
But a million dollars’ worth of
property has been destroyed; a mil¬
lion dollars’ worth of labor and ma¬
terial is lost that had been available
for making men more comfortable,
in wages, profits, freights, in struc¬
tures that the lumber would build.
Every stick of timber, every day’s
wage, every item of comfort that a
million dollars can buy, is first paid
for in insurance rates.
Whether you have never had a fire
of your own, or whether you have
been a regular firebug in setting
forest fires or carelessly burning
your own property in city or town
or country, the loss of every scrap
burned must be paid by someone.
Unless restored by insurance/every
item of property destroyed by fire is
' gone forever, and the nation is that
much poorer.
Estimating a human life by the
wages it would earn, life comes ter¬
ribly high. Any one of the 15,000
lives destroyed annually by fire may
be worth tens of hundreds of thou¬
sands of dollars. So with property
estimated by its usefulness, even
though its physical value is covered
by insurance.
Insurance only spreads and equal¬
izes fire or death losses, so that the
few do not go bankrupt while the
many go unscathed.
Most of the $500,000,000 annual
fire losses of the United States are
preventable.
They need never occur.
If normal business and home life
could have the proportion of that
sum that is paid out for preventable
fires every year the United States
would soon hardly know itself ia, its
new era of decorum and prosperity.
Being a flreburg nation is hardly
decent.
The majority of fires are prevent
able.
It’s time for our country to save
property that is utterly, foolishly
wasted, that is so wrongfully said to
be “covered by insurance.
THE DAY WILL COME
The San Francisco Chronicle says
that the most dangerous disease at¬
tacking Americaat present is the
law-making mania of 48 state legis¬
latures and the national Congress.
No man living today knows for a
certainty that he is not breaking
daily some tasks. law when he goes about his j j
The day will come when we will
elect men to the legislature and to
Congress not to make new laws, but
to clean out the rubbish that has
accumulated in the statutes.
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The old-fashioned farmer who uaed
to exhibit his calves at the county
fair now has a daughter who does
the same thing.
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EXTENDING USE OP SILVER
Professor Irving Fisher, Yale Uni-,
versity international economist, says
that gold is no longer a stable stand
ard of value, and that its purchasing
power should be stabilized to pre¬
vent evils of inflation or deflation by
larger use of silver all over the
world. i
The treasury has embarked upon a
campaign to restore the silver dollar
to general circulation.
An initial step was taken when
one of the coins was placed in the
pay envelope of each of 6,000 Treas¬
ury employes. Similar action will be
suggested to other government de¬
partments.
Paper has been supplanting silver
dollars, but upkeep of paper money
costs the government around 3 per
cent of its total face value, while
maintenance of silver dollars costs
practically nothing.
| A Laugh Or Two |
A camera addict went big game
hunting in Africa. One of his com¬
panions was chased by a lion, and
fled for camp with the lion at his
heels.
As the poor fellow fled he heard
a shout, and looked hopefully to¬
wards the thicket whence the sound
came, for he thought salvation was
at hand.
But it was the camera addict in¬
stead. The addict came bounding
with his camera raised.
M Hold on, there,” he yelled sav
K el >’- "Slower! You’re too far
I can’t get you both in.”
It was an appeal case in a Colo¬
court, and on one side was a
testy lawyer and on the other a nunw
ber of inexperienced attorneys. The
arguments on both sides had been
heard.
Suddenly one of the inexperienced
lawyers got up and addressed the
court once more. The testy lawyer
stood it for a moment, but losing
patiehce, he also rose and addressed
the court in this wise:
a Your honor, I would suggest, with
all respect to the court, that my
learned friend opposite is entirely
out of order in addressing the court
and, if I may be permitted to- say so r
the court has no right to be listening
to him.
The judge, who at the time was
writing, said: << Mr. Smith, it is a
great piece of Impertinence on your
part to assume that the court is
listening to him. ”
Tom was a man who indulged free¬
ly in the luxury of inertia.
(< Tom,” he was- &:kc;!, “which do
you think are the lo-i .t undesirable,
sins of omission or ains of commis¬
sion!”...... ........
«• Sins of omission, • i he replied.
.. They don’t take so much work. >>
GEORGIA WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL
REVIEW
Stillmore—Movement launched for
establishment of tobacco market
here.
Amerieus—4,132 bales of cotton re¬
ceived at local warehouses during
Moultrie—Commercial egg hatch¬
with capacity of 12,000 eggs,
for fall season.
Bainbridge—Storm and sanitary
systems being installed at cost
$60,000.
Valdosta—Construction of two con¬
bridges on Valdosta-Quitman
to begin soon.
Brunswick—Jekyl View hotel sold,
purchasers to improve property and
new building.
Irwinton—Rapid progress being
made in preparations for building
new courthouse.
Albany—Georgia ‘ Peanut Growers’
distributes between $175,
00 and $200,000 to peanut growers
of state; another delivery season
coon to open.
Atlanta—Plans being made for
building $150,000 addition to Grady
hospital.
Greensboro—All crops in Greene
county particularly good this year;
cotton production to total 6,000 to
8,000 bales, as compared with 1,600
year,
Swainsboro—Ginning to date this
has broken all former records,
two big gins here running day and
ight.
Valdosta—Swift & Co. to sell un
own label all butter made by
Creamery.
Hawkfnsvijle—Cotton being brought
local gins from adjoining counties;
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS AN D SUN
about 600 bales marketed here this
season,
Lafayette Consolidated Textile
Co rpoTation, with mills here, in At¬
lanta and at Pelham, to- be com¬
pletely reorganized.
Macon — Chamber of Commerce
committee to promote tobacco grow¬
ing in Macon territory.
Augusta—Twelve miles of perma¬
nent paving laid on city streets this
year.
Hahira—At close of fourth week
of operating, local market had sold
practically 3,000,000 pounds of to¬
bacco; two warehouses crowded every
day during season.
Macon—Total of 131 building per¬
mits issued during August, aggregate
value $78,033.
Valdosta—Valdes hotel nearing
completion, furnishings installed,
Columbus Central of Georgia
spending $8,000,000 on improvements
between this city and Birmingham,
Ala., which will make line the best
railroad in United States.
Macon—Georgia Cotton Oil com¬
pany, new concern, to maintain of¬
fices here.
Atlanta—Southern railway to con¬
struct engine and coach cleaning ter¬
minal near intersection of North
avenue and Marietta street, esti¬
mated cost $1,500,000.
Quitman—People’s National Bank
constructing addition to building.
Macon—Central of Georgia rail¬
road to build $1,000,000 ice plant
here for accommodation of peach
growers.
LaGrange—Road from this point
to Franklin being graded and filled
to Heard TT , county . . line. .Vi/ •MAh'-1 ■
Valdosta—Up to September 2, to¬
bacco sales in city since opening of,
market totaled 2,101,251 pounds, for
which Georgia and Florida tobaC co
growers received $513,773. /
West Point—Atlanta & West /Point
railroad installing reinforced concrete
poles to replace all wooden telegraph
poles on line; concrete poles being
unloaded in local yards. /
Fitzggrald Hatchery/ of 10,000
eggs capacity opens foi/ season.
Forsyth—State highway depart¬
ment calls for bids On construction
of 314 miles pavipg on Atlanta
Macon road, part/ included within
this city.
Valdosta—Bank clearings in this
city for week ending August 25 show¬
ed increase of/ $300,000 over corre
sponding week / of last
year.
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Many who sing to kill time have a
mighty good weapon.
Before we run out of “weeks,” why
not have an “honest week’s-work
week” ?
A man may be a millionaire as the
bank teller counts, but a bankrupt as
the Good Lord counts.
A porch light may be very dim
yet have an enormous scandal power.
SHE CALMLY KILLS BURGLAR
Oxford, Eng., Sept. 21.—Finding
Charles Hopkinson burglarizing her
home, Mrs. Margaret Payne shot 1
him to death and then calmly j
telephoned the police.
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region along., the Amazon ver in Brazil and it was said that he was caught while he was practicing his scales.
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American Expert
Praises Work of
League / of
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Geneva, Sept. 22.—(By the Asso¬
ciated /Press.) — Following an ex¬
tensive / visit to the Ruhr, Berlin
and Vienna, Harold G. Moulton, an
American expert on economics and
prector of the Institute of Econom
ics at Washington, came on to Ge
neva and spent some time investi
gating the economic and financial
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pared to restage the historic battle of Antietam of Civil war days on the original battle ground. Some of the devil
dogs are shown here shining -their shoes before the daily inspection.
PLUNGES HEADLONG
TO DEATH IN BOILER
OF MOLTEN ASPHALT
Wauchula, Fla., Sept. 20.—R. J.
Nipper, operator of an asphalt dis¬
tributing machine, was burned to
death here Friday when the asphalt
boiler caught fire.
He attempted to leap to safety,
but fell headlong into the burning
material. He died in a hospital in a
short "time. He leaves a widow and
one child.
HARTSELLE, ALA., FLOOD
BRINGS HEAVY DAMAGE
TO BUSINESS SECTION
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Hartselle, Ala., Sept. 20.—Flood
waters overran Hartsell today after
a night of torrential rains, causing,
thousands of dollars damage in the
business section.
Main street was a running river,
with water a foot deep rushing
through the town. Leading stores
were flooded and merchants forced
to suspend business while they work¬
ed to salvage their stocks.
THIRTEEN YEAR OLD BOY
ENTERS CINCINNATI COLLEGE
Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 21.—Ben¬
jamin Frederick Dryden, 13, of
Youngsville, La., was admitted to
the University of Cincinnati today.
He matriculated in the liberal arts
college and is the youngest student
ever to enroll in the history of the
institution. He weighs 66 unds.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1924.
j mechanism of the League of Na
“The Austrian and Hungarian re
tions.
Mr. Moulton expressed the opinion
later that the ..world owes a pro¬
found debt of gratitude to the leu
jgue for the excellent work it hcs ac¬
complished in connection with the
economic reconstruction of Europe.
He said that the numerous statis¬
tical and economic analyses made by
the economic section of the secre¬
tariat have been of invaluable aid
alike to independent students and
to governments charged with the
responsibiilty of effecting a solution
of post war economic problems,
construction plans,” Mr. Moulton
ROYAL ARCH MASONS TO MEET
Savannah, Ga., Sept. 22.—The
thirteenth district convention of
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Royal Arch Masons will be held in
Savannah at the temple of the or¬
der on Wednesday of next week.
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want. T-io-a-4
SLATON MOTOR COMPANY
€. W. SLATON, Prop.
109 East Solomon Street
Phone 680
When better automobiles are built, Buick will build
dared, originated by the league
and administered under league aus
pices, represent the first construct¬
ive efforts to rehabilitate disordered
European finances. Without the pi¬
oneer work of the league, the Daves
report on German reparations would
have been possible. Indeed the
Dawes plan is closely modeled after
the Austrian and Hungarian ex
periments. If the League of Na¬
tions had accomplished nothing else,
its work in Austria and Hungary
would have justified its existence
many times over. ti
An elephant's trunk contain 40,
muscles.
Father and Children
For he who has acquired the habit
of lying or deceiving his father will
do the same with less remorse to oth¬
ers. I believe that it is better to
bind your children to you by a feeling
of respect, and by gentleness, than by
fear.—Terrance. „