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. One on God’s side is a majority.—Wendell Phillips.
AND STILL GEORGIA AND THE WORLD WAG ON.
The eyes and ears of the world have been turned toward Chi
cago for the last week; the Democrats—and that includes all the
South —have been wondering whom they would have to beat this
fall, and the rest of the world has been wondering what Grand Old
Position the Grand Old Party would take in humanitarian world
affairs. It has been a history-making week. And yet, Georgia and the
world wag on, just the same.
Somehow, when things look serious, if we look about us a bit
and take stock of ourselves we will find matters not half so bad as
they have appeared. Developments of the week at Chicago caused the
hopes of Democracy to rise mightily; victory in November is far less
doubtful than it was to many a few days ago. And developments at
home have caused prospects for a prosperous crop season to mount
greatly. Sunshine weather has permitted the orchardist to gather and
market his peach crop at minimum loss and at high prices, and has
allowed the cotton farmer to catch up very materially with the boll
weevil and get in a position to give that intruder a run for his money
this year.
This is a great state we live in, anyway—no matter how things
seem to go at times. "Let's advertise Georgia to Georgians," urges
J. Kelley Simmons, of Mcßae, president of the Georgia Press Associ
ation. And why not? There is plenty enough to advertise.
Chief among Georgia’s claim to fame as an agricultural state,
he points out, is her melons and fruits. Georgia and peaches are so
inseparably linked that they should be classified together in the dic
tionary. If Georgia's fame rested on nothing but her peaches, her
.jolace in international esteem would be secure.
And while her peach orchards are enough to make her famous,
her apples, melons, berries and other fruits, are equally as well known.
It is estimated there are anywhere from 12,000,000 to 15,000,000
peach trees in the state and this year’s crop will amount to between
8,000 and 10,000 cars. At SI,OOO a car this year’s peach crop alone
will amount to around $10,000,000. The Georgia peach is known
the world over.
Although the peach is principally a South Georgia product, they
are very successfully grown in the northern part of the state, and
some of the finest peaches grown are found north of Atlanta.
The Georgia apple is another fruit that is attracting attention to
the state as a fruit-growing state. Georgia apples have taken prizes
in competition with the product of New York, Oregon, Missouri,
and other famed apple-growing sections. Georgia apples have taken
five international prizes.
There are around 3,000,000 apple trees in Georgia, producing
near 5,000,000 bushels a year. Although the apple is a North Geor
gia product chiefly, it may be grown in any part of the State. In the
last census only four counties—Calhoun, Clay, Echols and Miller—
faded to report an apple crop.
Watermelons and cantaloupes of a number of varieties are
profitably grown in nearly every county in the State. Middle and
South Georgia afford a soil especially adapted to the growing of these
melons for the market and they are being used as a substitute for cot
■fon in a great many sections.
Pears, persimmons, oranges, plums, prunes, cherries and quinces
are successfully grown, although at present on a smaller scale than the
fruits already mentioned.
The strawberry is generally adaptable throughout the state.
Fifty bushels per acre is about an average yield. At present prices
this means more than SSOO an acre. What is true of the strawberry
is also in a measure, true of the raspberry, the cultivated blackberry—
the kind that grows wild in the fields should not be forgotten. It is
one of the most delicious of fruits. It makes the very best pies, jellies,
jams, etc.
The fig is another fruit that is both easily grown and profitable.
There is no more delicious fruit when eaten raw with milk and sugar
and as preserving fruit it cannot be beaten. This fruit will grow in
almost any section of the state. A couple of trees are all that any
family needs for home use. A great many city dwellers have them
growing in their back yards.
Georgia is unexcelled as a fruit and melon-growing state. These
:rops are worth millions of dollars annually. Whv worry about the
U. O. P.?
VACATIONS
What, in fact, is a vacation? The dictionary sets it up pretty
well: A stated interval in a round of duties or employment, as for
rest and recreation. Then the object of a vacation is rest and recre
ation. This is the accepted vacation season. The idea is to get the
most out of it.
To do that, probably a complete change in the usual routine of
life and occupation will do the most good. As a rule, city people rec
reate in the country, along the lake shores or in the mountains. Coun
try folks hurry to the city. C hange of scene and environment is what
both crowds are looking for. And correctly.
By sticking around the same old haunts in vacation time, one
is apt to return to his job, whether in a bank, on a farm, or behind
a counter, mind sick and limb weary. And his time off will have done
him little good.
Many men and women at the vacation period try to forget ab
solutely, for the time being, their usual form of existence. They step
out of themselves as it were They brush the mental cobwebs from
their minds.
Every farmer m that fix regrets that he has but one boy to plow
for his country.
Now that Wilhelm has turned tailor he won’t be a poor man very
long.
It might help some to put Congress on a piece-work basis
Doubtless Villa would rather fight than be president
A Mexican leader is of feud days.
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STOMACH ON A STRIKE
I suppose tuberculosis
Complicated by necrosis,
Doesn’t make the summer sky
seem extra blue.
I suppose an active cancer,
Doesn't make a mortal answer,
“Cheery-o!” to every stranger’s
“Howdydo?"’
I suppose a “locomotor”
Doesn’t make a modern voter
Start the morning with a long
and dusty hike.
So perhaps one shouldn t holler
And ejaculate his choler,
When his trusty stomach goes
upon a strike.
I suppose a martyr, boiling,
In an overdose of oiling,
May have thought the exercise
quite a bore.
And a saint in Rome’s arena
Nibbled by some old hyena
Did not always cry a vigorous
“Encore.”
I suppose that it might fret me
If some sansculotte should get me
And use my head to
decorate a pike.
All these things might be unpleasant,
But they don’t compare at present,
With the outrage of” a stomach
on a strike.
It rejects ali mediation,
It refuses arbitration,
And it scouts at pie, potatoes
or potage.
And no matter what I offer
Its a sinner and a scoffer
And its bent on nothing else
but sabotage.
0, it seems an ancient fable
That I used to sit at table
And could prey on any edible
I’d like.
Mihi miserere! darn it!
Gabriel blow your cussed cornet!
Since my trusty tummy’s gone
upon a strike.
(Copyright, 1920, N. E. A. )
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LETTERS FROM THE HEART
WASHINGTON, D. C.. June 12.
I know a little girl who files letters
for the government. They are let
ters about soldiers—dead soldiers,
sometimes wounded soldiers, lost sol
diers and soldiers who have lost their
pay checks, their insurance or their
> record.
i These letters are in the office of
‘ the A. G. 0. (adjutant general’s of
i fice) and they are from mothers
sometimes, and other dear ones. And
sometimes they are from buddies—
fellows w’ho saw Bob die and took
his last words.
They are often illiterate letters,
scratched on all kinds of miscellan
eous kinds of paper, in pencil or with
scratchy pens and blotchy ink. They
are touching letters, often full of ap
peal and heart yearning. They are
from hospitals, prisons, camp and
trenches.
And they all go into the yawning
steel files of the A. G. O. with jack
ets and titles and letters and num
bers, to show how they have been
classified, and where they are to be
found.
My little girl friend gets inter
ested in these letters. Although she
has to stand on her feet all day long
and file, file, file, she can’t help get
ting the human touch of the letters;
and she tries to see that the right i
letter gets into the righ*t jacket, and i
that the ones that belong together are i
put together.
Because if they once get into the i
wrong jacket, they are lost—hope
lessly lost. And some mother, sister,
or sweetheart might never get her
boy’s last message.
So my little friend works care
fully.
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three carloads of best granulated sugar. We are
going to retail this sugar to you at just a fraction
above cost, thus handing old man H. C. L. anoth
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livered to customer. Restrictions are, no custom
er is allowed to buy less than 20, nor more than
1 00 lbs. Remittance must accompany each or
der in form of certified check, cashier’s check,
or P. O. Money Order.
To avoid disappointment you should place
your order at once, for they will be recorded and
filled in order received.
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chine Motors and Heating Elements of all kinds. See our display.
But in the A. G. 0., where she
works, they have a plan to “stimu
late office efficiency.’’ They have in
stituted a system of ‘“records.” The
clerk is “marked” 1 on her “record”
and her record is determined—how?
Why, by the amount she does—by
the number of letters filed! So the
flip girl at the next case, who does
not care, slips a Smith into a Smyth
or a Jem into a Jim and the letter is
lost; but who knows? And her record
is better than my friends record. She
files more letters.
There are inspectors who go sleuth
ing down the aisles to see that each
filing clerk is going through the mo
tions of chucking a letter into a
jacket and is seeming to be busy.
And that is how it happend the
other day when it became necessary
to “cut the force” to meet the cut
by Congress in the A. G. O. appro
priation, the intelligent directors
of the filing department of the A.
G. O. notified my little friend that
her efficiency rating was “very low”
and that her job would terminate on
Saturday.
And she wondered if after all, she
ought to have filed for numbers no
matter if the letter did get into the
wrong jacket and the mother never
did get that last message from her
boy.
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NOTIC .
i This is to notify the public that
I will contintie my agency of the
Mutual Life Insurance Co., at 118
Windsor .venue, in the same man-!
ner as I have represented this grand
old company fir the past twenty
five years. Respectfully,
7-6 t FRED B. ARTHUR.
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THE BOOK OF ANN.
Daddy, However, Prove* to Be Mr
Fixit in the End.
Dear Daddy Lorimer helped to j
shorten that bitter day for me. He
came* over to my house in the morn-'
ing with a bit of important news:
“Say, girlie, want to get into the
decorating game?” he chuckled.
I shook my head soberly, emphati
cally. I never again wanted to think
of anything which suggested Claude
Ives.
Daddy paid no attention to my in
difference.
“I’ve got a wall-paper store to
give away to somebody,” he contin
ued. “Pretty paper, too, and can-)
diesticks —and some cushions —and;
things. Sure Jane. That’s straight.)
Now can’t you think of anybody:
who’ll make a good manager for the'
place?”
“I don’t get you, daddy!” I said.)
(Daddy likes to hear me talk slang.)
“I’ve bought that damn rascal’s:
shop, my dear. I went to him my
self—wanted him to know I meant)
business —and 1 suggested to Mr.)
Jacob Smart that the folks back in
Ashton, Arkansas, probably wanted
to see him. At any rate, I’d take
his shop—at his own figure—if he’d
get out of town and stay out. By
ginger, the bird took me up at whit
I call a decent valuation. He says
high waves have hit his business!
hard. He’s glad to stop. My law-)
yers are making out the papers to-:
day. Tomorrow I’ll need n new
head. Who’s it to be, Jane?”
“I know, daddy! The very one!'
Mrs. Best. Ann’s mother doesn’t
want to remain in the movies. She
does want to be independent. She
was an arts and crafts teicher be
fore her marriage. And this is just
the most fortunate thing for her.
And for all of us. Now she can take
care of Ann!” I stopped only be
cause I was out of breath
“Hooray, girlie! You've hit it
again! Can’t beat you. for ideas!
I’ll wire Mrs. Best this minute'” With
that, daddy stepped to the phone and
the invitation went off to Mrs. Best
at once.
“So here endeth the history of
Jacob Smart,” I said with a sigh of
relief. „ ~
“The Lord knows I hope so, said
daddy. “I didn’t like to manage it
this way. Seems as if I had done
the chap a big favor. But there
wasn’t any other way which would
work so fast. I guess you get me?”
“I guess I do, old dear!” Daddy
loves to be called that, but it was
probably not the reason he wiped
away a few tears before he left
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me. I fairly hated Ann for causing
him so much worry. He adores Jim’
Jr. Never before had he let any one’
perceive how he feared for his son’s
After daddy had gone, I realized
that most of the family had a share
in saving Ann from her own folly.
She had survived without wasting a
single brain cell, but daddy was the
worse for a lot of anxiety, and my
own affairs were at sixes and at sev
ens on account of her.
“Maybe I deserve it all,” thought
I “I ought to have known better
than to mix in. Daddy had to be
Mr. Fixit in the end. All I have to
show for my honest endeavor is a
horrid row with Bob. I ought to
have clung to that new theory about
sacrifice. It never does anybody any
good, according to the new cult.
When we follow our own inclinations
honestly, we proceed in the best way
for all concerned. By mixing in, I
am now in a far worse sta-e than
that which threatened Ann. And I
have a lot more to lose, I guess.”
Yet there was one copensation. [
was learning a good deal about my
husband’s mental process. At least
that it what I told myself.
Bob, finding a man friend in a
distressing situation, would have
marched up to him, would have ac
cepted his friend’s version gladly,
and would have extended a strong
helping hand.
But Bob, finding his wife in an
awkward predicament, closed all
doors of communication, withheld hiss
support, and camouflaged his inter
est.
Bob was treating me cruelly. The
hurt of this knowledge was becom
ing unendurable.
How it was all to end, who was
going to take the first step toward
a reconciliation, I hadn’t an idea.
(To Be Continued.)
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