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Americus, February 4, 1918
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The national pastime is being talked,
which makes it an all year sport.
You needn’t think that was a Zep
pelin last night—which hit you on the
head.
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They refer to some of the German
forces as being "bottled up.’’ Speak
gently
Gasoline keeps going up but it seems
to be nobody’s business but the fellow
who has to pay for it.
Johnnie Spencer, on the Macon Tel
egraph, is now stealing Bud Fisher’s
thunder by his publication of "Mutt
and Jeff” stories.
Some students still insist that the
"Elegy in a Country Churchyard” was
written by another author rather than •
Gray. Such is fame.
There’s a chance for you to catch
one of those guys with a sport shirt
for a year husband. But, hide
him when you get him.
Just because an editor writes about
tore sometimes, that doesn’t make him
in love. It might be from association
with people who are in love.
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A congressman is suing for divorce
new. Any woman that will disturb her
irusband while he is saving the country
should be made to pay him alimony.
There’s a young lady in this town
who is wonderous wise—she even
knows what w.e mean when we speak
very vaguely. But, she’s like ’em all.
Having been variously accused, the
paragrapher takes this occasion— and
v e might say opportunity to define
“Love’s Dearest Moment.” If we knew
the author, we would pay him tribute.
But here’s what he said:
Love’s dearest moment is not whet
the hands
Are clasped in marriage and the world
looks on,
Nor yet when all this importunate
world has gone,
And flaming passion like the Archangel
stands
Between two souls and welds with fire
the bands
Gs impotent human law, nor when
alone
Upon the morrow, they and love are
one,
Triune and chrismed pure, as God’s
ccmmands;
I
It is not in the many morrow's track
Vtile love by loving grows more rich
■ and wise,
Till age counts up love’s wondrous,
wondrous sum.
Love’s dearest moment is far back, far
back—
Vhen first they looked within each
other’s eyes
And in the silence knew that love was
come.
THE GARY PLAN.
"When a plan is proposed by which
present school buildings may accomm >
date tw o sets of pupils, it is no wonder
that wide interest is aroused,” de
clares Supt. J. H. Van Sickle, of
Springfield, Mass., in describing the
spread of the Gary plan of school or
ganization in a report just issued by
the United States Bureau of Education
of the Department of the Interior.
"Any plan that will lessen the ex-j
pense of housing school children,
makes a strong appeal to boards of es- ‘
timate; school boards, and the press.
School boards are not willing, how
ever, to be hurried into adopting, for
exclusive use in a situation quite dif
ferent from that in which it originated,
a plan so radically different from the
customary one without carefully test
ing its applicability.”
Arguments for and against the Gary
plan are presented by Supreintendent
Van Sickle. He says:
"The Gary plan is advocated largely,
but not exclusively, on the ground of
lower cost. There are those, however,
pilose approval is based upon the claim
that by means of a longer school day
it affords to the children wider oppor
tunities for work, study, and play; that
it distributes the burden cf teaching
more evenly over the entire teaching
staff; and that it affords prevocational
training to all children in all of the
grades instead of confining such wor|c
to a small group of children in the
seventh and eighth grades.
“The Gary system has commended
itself to students of education for var
ious reasons. It promises:
1. An enriched school life for every
pupil.
2. A coordination of all existing
child-welfare agencies and a fuller
utilization of all facilities in present
public and private recreational and ed
ucational institutions.
3. A solution of the part-time
proble.
4. A double school plan by which
school seat serves two children.
5. A wider use of the school plant.
6. An increase in the school day i
through co-ordinqtion of work, study,
i and play activities.
7. A program that would invest tho
child’s nonacademic time to greater
1 profit and pleasure.
• 8. A socialized education in harm
ony with progressive thought of tho
day.
“On the other hand, those who op
pose the immediate and wholesale
adoption of the duplicate plan for the
elimination of part-time express
doubt as to certain novel features of
school administration ‘ which it em
bodies, such as departmental teach
ing for all children from the first year
through the eighth, instruction of
groups of children by pupils instead
of teachers, the grouping together of
younger and older pupils for additor
ium period for classroom instruction, I
the omission formal of physical
training, supervised play with only
four teachers for 12 classes, the de
ferring of scholastic work for first
year children until late in the after
noon. They urge that sufficient time
has not elasped to test the worth of
,the schemes.
“A further criticism is that outside
instruction in the home or in the'
church is permitted, but that no
means is provided for seeing that
such instruction is the equivalent of
regular schooling.
"To this criticism the reply is madt
that it would be very unfortunate if
the school undertook to insure that ’
such instruction should be the equiv
alent of regular schooling for in
that case the school would be super- ■
vising religious instruction which the
law expressly prohibits. The program
simply prfovides that the child can
be excused during the day to take
private lessons at home or atteiu.
religious instruction, if the parent so
desires. These periods are never tak
en from the academic work and there
fore do not detract from the regular
work of th? school. As in the case of
play and auditorum, it is simply time
which, in the traditional school, the
child would spend upon the street.
V.hat i s taught in these outside class
es and how it is taught is not and
should not be the concern of the
school.”
Interese in the Gary plan is by no
means confined to the larger cities,
THE AMERICUS DAILY TiMtS-RECORDER
.Superintendent Van Sickle finds.
“Even in communities where the
part-time problem is either less acute
>or else nonexistent, and where the
■ i expenditures for schools have not be
come so burdensome as in New York,
■there will be uecidea Interest in the
Gary duplicate plan. This gigantic
experiment in education, now in full
operation in one of the smaller cities
and in partial operation in the largest
American municipality is unques
, tionably of vast importance, yet the
i changes required in installing the
! system in existing schools are so rad
‘ ical and so expensive that school au
’ thorlties will be disposed to await the
result of an adequate trial in New
York City before departing from the
present policy, which reserves a seat
for every child.”
HE IS MAKING GOOD.
Indications are that President Wil
son is doing a great deal of what he
went out into the Middle West and
across the Mississippi river to do.
That is, he is removing at least some
of the anti-preparedness prejudice of
the people there and is lining many of
them up for preparedness. This muca
is plain from the descriptions in a
number of newspapers of the effect
of his speeches. Several New York
newspapers have been endeavoring to
tell their readers, with the help of
correspondents, just what measure of
success the President is having, and
taken as a whole their conclusions are
that he is getting some of the results
he is seeking.
Not a gr.eat deal can be made of
the fact that he has been greeted by
big crowds at all of his stops, for he
has traveled so little and is so impor
tant a figure in the eyes of all the
world that it would be most surpris
ing of people did not crowd to see him.
But trained observers believe they
have seen in thes? throngs evidence
of a growing determination to support
his desire for better preparedness to
deefnd die country, of an increasing
feeling of Americanism, of a better ap
predation of what patriotism means.
He is appealing to something that
k in every American, whether active
or latent; it is that love of country
that has inspired the armies of the
United States on all their battlefields
and its navy in aull of the great fights
in which our flag was engaged on the'
seas. He is not preaching politics or
partisanship, but Americanism. He is
not appealing to Americans as a Dem
ocrat, but as President. And he is
making out so good a case for prepar
edness that failure to arouse enthus
iasm for getting ready to defend
Americanism would be nothing short
of surprising, however hard the soil
on which he is sowing the seed of pre
paredness.—Savannah Morning News.
Mr. John Green Herring, of Tifton,
iis an acquisition to the staff of the
Albany Herald. We congratulate both '
the new city editor and the newspaper.
Judge Cox prepared for the worse
during the trial of Jim Keith, who
was responsible for the death off
Slieric Moreland. Solid preparation
and plenty of action is the first re
quisites.
HE »EBm Tin I
Don't you wish it was spring and
swimming time?—Thomasville Times.
A dairy expert says milk is a great
i preventive of war. But only when the
(trouble is in its infancy.—Savannah
Press.
According to a contemporary it is
no longer a question of "Whither are
we drifting?’’ but “Where are we at-”
And this sums up the situation about
right.—Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
It looks like nearly all the lawyers
I in Atlanta are going to run for solic
’ itor. The balance of them will prob
• ally become candidates for governor,
i - Rome Tribune-Herald.
.: With the prohibition sentiment now
I, no overwhelming in Georgia, it is
> 1 nt thing short of impertinence for a
j drinking man to offer for public office,
) ard the more completely he is snowed
J under by an avalanche of condemns-
SEED SELECTION IS VITAL
IN FIGHTING BOLL WEEVIL
Georgia Board of Entomology Points Out Im
portant Principles to Be Followed.
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 1916.—1 n view
of the presence of the Mexican cot
ton boll weevil in some forty Geor
gia counties, widespread interest is
already manifested in the question
of seed varieties for planting purposes
this spring, particularly in the infest
ed section. Numerous inquiries upon
this line are reaching the office of the
State Board of Entomology daily.
The department has been conduct
ing constant and careful tests, says
State Entomologist E. Lee Worsham,
and while it cannot yet specify the
most adaptable seed for each partic-
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The first line on the map shows the progress the boll weevil had made in Georgia up to the middle of Decem
ber, 1915. All the area to the west of this line is infested. The second line, 20 miles east of the first, marks the
safety zone, and is made for purposes of quarantine, as welfas basis to conduct the fight against the rapid spread
of the insect.
ular locality, it is able to speak as
to those variety which it has tested,
and to state in what particular sec
tion they will thrive best.
Already there are 13,400 square
miles of cotton growing area in Geor
gia Infested by the weevil. This is
approximately one-fourth of the cotton
growing area of the state. It is im
possible for any one to predict at this
time what the weevil is going to do,
or how far it is going to spread this
year. The difficulty grows out of the
lateness of the last cotton season and
the unusual abundance of weevils in
most of the infested area.
Weevil Will be Serious.
The chances are that the weevil
will be very serious this year in at
least 30 to 35 counties.
Under these circumstances, it is
highly important that every farmer in
a county where the boll weevil has
been found should proceed upon the
idea that it will be a very serious
problem in 1916, and arrange his farm
ing operations accordingly.
The most advisable plans to follow
include the reduction in cotton acre
age to from eight to twelve acres to
the plow; the land should be prepar
ed early and put in good condition
for planting; it should be fertilized
just as if the boll weevil were not
present, remembering that the use of
acid phosphate has a tendency to
make cotton fruit early.
Seed Selection First.
Most important of all, says the de
partment of entomology, is selection
of the very best seed that can be
found adapted to the particular sec
tion where it is to be planted. Fancy
varieties should be generally avoided,
and planters should, as nearly as pos
sible, use the seed grown close to
home. Once a good variety is found,
improve it by careful selection. The
Department of Entomology will gladly
assist you in this work.
One thing to be remembered is that
there is no such thing as a “boll wee
vil proof” cotton. Here are the main
points as to selection:
1— You MUST have a variety that
will fruit early. It should put on a
large number of bolls very quickly.
2lf your land is subject to wilt or
black root, you should by all means
get a variety resistant to this disease.
3 The variety chosen should be
prolific and yield a high percentage
of good lint. It should have few un
productive branches and should be-
tcry votes, the better for the cause of
temperance, good public service and
the moral uplift of our state.—Fort
Valley Leader-Tribune.
It is strange but true that the girl
who is built like a field sparrow, al
ong thin and narrow lines, can eat
more than two full grown men, while
the woman constructed on broad, sub
stantial principles, north and smith as
gin to put out fruit branches close
to the ground.
As To Specific Varieties.
4—The variety should not only fruit
early, but it should continue to put
on squares throughout the growing
season. It is some times as late as
August 15 before all squares are de
stroyed. The square is the favorite
food of the young weevil, and as long
as they are available they will not
destroy the bolls.
It has been found that such varie
ties as King’s, Simpkin’s, Triumph
and some others, often have a ten
dency to discontinue growth early in
the season; and for this reason will
not be as valuable in the infested
territory as varieties that fruit early
and continue their growth. Tests
made by the Georgia Department of
Entomology show that some of the
best varieties for South Georgia are
such types as Lewis 63, a variety prop
agated by this department. It is wilt
resistant, early fruiting, prolific and
fairly resistant to drought. The same
qualities, including a superior staple,
are found in Dix-Afifl, a hybrid be
tween the Dixie and Egyptian Mit
Afifi. This is worth several cents a
pound more than ordinary short cot
ton. Covington-Toole, which has been
selected so as to make it wilt resist
ant, is another good variety. The de
partment has found that such varieties
as Improved Cleveland Big 801 l
Cook’s Improved, Toole and Express,
will be well adapted to most sections
of North Georgia.
Early Planting.
Planting should take place just
early enough so as to miss the late
frosts and cold nights. Shallow,
but frequent cultivation is important
—once a week, if possible, until the
cotton is ready to pick.
Emerging early in the spring the
weevil will feed on tender cotton buds
until the squares develop. Black leaf
or bud indicates the weevil's presence;
watch for this and pick the weevils
off. Squares that are attacked turn
yellow and fall to the ground. Yellow
squares and those on the ground
should be picked and burned regular
ly until about July 10.
Finally, and as insuring agricultural
salvation against the weevil, the prac
tice of diversification is all-important.
Farmers should grow more food crops,
more live stock, and yet be careful not
to undertake any wholly new proposi
tion on a large scale, until sure of a
market. The important thing is to
make the farm self-sustaining.
Can Grow Cotton Profitably.
The statements and suggestions set
forth in this article are specially ap
plicable to conditions of February,
1916. By following these suggestions
and taking advantage of the other
man’s experience, you will be able to
grow cotton at a profit, but it is abso
lutely essential that there shall be a
reduction in acreage. It is out of the
question to undertake as much per
plow as you could under ordinary con
ditions. Nobody else has been able to
do this so far, and it has been proven
folly to attempt it. Write the depart
ment whenever you desire information.
well as east and west, nibbles along
on dill pickles and crackers and candy
—Macon News.
Wart Long for Burial.
Close by Canton, China, Is the hill
called Queen of Heaven mountain, on
the lower slopes of which is the
famous City of the Dead. There bodies
wait in their coffins sorretlmes sev
eral years before the priests are abl*
'<> determine an auspicious day t;r
interment.
L. G. COUNCIL, Pres’L I»c. 18S1 H. S. COUNCIL, Cashier.
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