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THE NEWS-GAZETTE
B. H. HARDY, Editor
Subscription, $1.50 Year
BARNESVILLE. GEORGIA
JUNE 29, 1922.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The present situation and pros
pects for farmers and business men
generally are not at all encouraging
through this section, but nobody can
afford to stop and quit or become too
much discouraged. You can not af
ford to stop, even if you feel like it.
It begins to look as if Georgia was
not going to have an off-year in pol
itics this year after all. There is go
ing to be an active campaign for
governor between at least two candi
dates and there are several other
races that are going to be more or
less warm and interesting, one of
which is the race for commissioner
of agriculture between Commissioner
J. J .Brown and lion. A. 0. Blalock.
Anybody who tries to array the
country people against the town peo
ple in order to advance his personal
or other interest is a very “unde
sirable citizen,’’ a real menace to the
best interests of his country. The
interests of the country people and
the town people are mutual and the
friendliest relations should always
exist between them.
The Georgia legislature assembled
in Atlanta yesterday for its regular
fifty day session. There are a num
ber of problems that it will consider
but what will be the outcome can
not be foretold. Governor Hard
wick’s income tax as originally pre
sented and advocated has met with
such strenuous opposition that it is
not now expected to be very seriously
considered. It is generally under
stood that the tax equalization law
will be again put on the rack and
probably repealed, although Governor
Hardwick has intimated, according to
some of his supporters, that he will
veto the repeal unless some additional
tax legislation is enacted to take its
place. The legislative session will be
eagerly watched by the people of the
entire state.
If the citizens of Georgia had what
they invested in worthless and fraud
ulent enterprises during the prosper
ous times of the past few years many
of them would have little reason to
complain of the present depressed
conditions. In the effort to make
money fast and pasily hundreds of
thousands of dollars were invested in
stock companies of one sort and an
other, nearly every one of which
merely caught “suckers.” There are
any number of business investments
which may always be made that are
absolutely safe and that will pay and
a “deaf ear should be turned” to all
“get rich quick schemes.”
In the opinion of many people it
is doubtful if ever a successful crop
of cotton can be made in middle
Georgia under boll weevil conditions.
Therefore, the question of diversiti
cation and co-operative marketing is
vital to every farmer and citizen of
the section. Recent experiences have
demonstrated that at least reasonable
success may be attained with other
products beside cotton and still fur
ther attention should be given to the
change which is made necessary in
our operations. We are still poor
under the past cotton program, so
why continue to follow it?
The legislative committee appoint
ed at the last session not only made
an adverse report on Governor Hard
wick’s income tax plan but went fur
ther and emphatically endorsed the
plan advocated by Governor Dorsey
when he was governor calling for a
modified classification tax. The tax
problem is a complex and difficult one
and it will take the combined wisdom
of the patriotic leaders of the state
to work out any plan that will prove
at all satisfactory and efficient
Congressman J. W. Wise of Fay
etteville has announced that he is a
candidate for re-election in the pri
mary which will be held September
13th. For a time it was reported
that he would probably not stand for
the honor again, but if he had any
such intention he changed his mind.
He is strong with the people t>f the
Sixth district and has been since he
became solicitor general of the Flint
circuit a number of years ago. Dr.
E. P. Frazer of Bibb county is the
only other definitely announced can
didate, although several other strong
and good men have been mentioned
as probable candidates. The time
for entry for the nomination expires
July Ist.
Another big national strike of rail
way employes looms before the coup
try according to reports from Chica
go, involving 400,000 shopmen, and
if these strike other employes would
probably be involved before it had
gone far. There ought to be some
governmental machinery for con
trolling strikes when the public is so
vitally interested and is called on to
suffer the consequences growing out
of them.
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Unquestionably there has been a
gradual improvement in the financial
conditions of the country but where
the crops fail the improvement can
not be felt to any appreciable ex
tent. That is the trouble with La
mar county and middle Georgia. Un
less we can make good crops we can
not prosper it matters not how much
general financial conditions improve.
Crop conditions were perhaps never
more discouraging through this sec
tion than for this year. Half the
year is gone and it appears that lit
tle has been accomplished. We can
still hope, however, .that the future
will bring us better things than we
can now reasonably expect.
ASPIRIN
Say “Bayer" and Insist!
Unless you see the name “Bayer”
on package or on tablets you are not
getting the genuine Bayer product
prescribed by physicians over twenty
two years and proved safe by mil
lions for
Colds Headache
Toothache Lumbago
Earache Rheumatism
Neuralgia Pain, Pain
Accept only “Bayer” package
which contains proper directions.
Handy boxes of twelve tablets cost
few cents. Druggists also sell bot
tles of 24 and 100. Aspirin is the
trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of
Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid.
Petition for Discharge
United States District Court, Western
Division, Southern District
of Georgia.
In the matter of Brooks W. Shafer
of Barnesville, Lamar county, Geor
gia, Bankrupt, in bankruptcy.
To the Creditors of the above-named
Bankrupt:
You are hereby notified that the
above named bankrupt has applied
for a discharge from all debts prova
ble against him in bankruptcy.
The said application will be heard
by the United States District Judge
of said division and district at the
United States Court room in the city
of Macon, Georgia, on the 28th day
of July, 1922, at 10 o’clock in the
forenoon.
All creditors of said bankrupt are
notified to appear at the time and
place stated and show cause if any
they can why the prayer of said peti
tioner should not be granted.
Dated at Macon, Ga., this 27th day
of June, A. D., 1922.
L. M. ERWIN, Clerk.
By Irene Elkins, Deputy Clerk.
HalPs Catarrh Medicine
Those who are in a "run down” condi
tion will notice that Catarrh bothera
them much more than when they are in
good health. Thla (act provea that while
Catarrh la a local disease, it is greatly
Influenced by constitutional conditions.
HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE con
sists of an Ointment which Quickly
Relieves by local application, and the
Internal Medicine, a Tonic, which assists
in Improving the General Health.
Sold by druggiata (or over 40 Years.
F. J. Cheney & Cos., Toledo, Ohio.
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Notice to Debtors and
Creditors
Notice is hereby given that all who
may have claims against the estate of
R. H. Garland are requested to file
them at once and those who are due
the estate are requested to make im
mediate settlement of same.
This, June 26, 1922.
H. J. GARLAND, Administrator,
7-20 Estate of R. H. Garland.
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The Home of the Soul.
In olden times, it was believed that
the seat of the soul was the stomach,
most likely for the reason that a man
is never so completely used up as
when his stomach is out of order.
For the cure of ordinary stomach
troubles, there is nothing quite so
prompt and satisfactory as Chamber
lain’s Tablets. They strengthen the
stomach and enable it to perform its
functions naturally. Give them a
trial. They only cost a quarter.
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PIANO SACRIFICE
Due to inability to” keep up pay
ments. we have had a high grade
piano, in the best of condition, turned
back to us. This instrument we can
sell for a rare bargain, giving terms
to responsible parties. For full par
ticulars, address,
LUDDEN & BATES,
It Atlanta, Ga.
HEIRS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
Artist* of Today Are But Carrying Or
the Work of the Old Maater
Craftsmen.
The art of the Middle ages Is reallj
the art of youth. It has no finality
because that which It expresses car
never be finished. It lives with un
measured potentialities still liefore It
Until the Renaissance, and men’s sub
sequent concentration upon commerct
and science. It seldom rested in the
West, but grew from one stage to an
other—as in our still living arts —ol
painting, and music, poetry, and th
drama —we still move and change anc
grow.
The Middle ages were the age ol
youth. I do not mean merely of youne
nutions, but of men who were build
lug up the future and had unlimited
development before them. It was om
youth, and we are growing from It
In so far ns our art lives—the art ol
our intelligentsia—it is growing from
that stern. In so far as It is dead, li
is In those forms of art which have
Ignored their own parentage, such as
architecture, ornament, the crafts
and much sculpture, and have tried tc
form themselves from ancient modelf
in the pedantry of the schools. The>
are cut off from the stem and thej
languish. But painting, like music ant
poetry, has gone on without a breal
and is ulive today. . . . Let us take
heart. We are the heirs of those ole
craftsmen. —Percy Dearmer.
ALL DOGS NOT COLOR BLIND
Belief That Has Long Been Held l<
Now Declared to Be Entirely
Wrong Impression.
An eminent authority once assertec
that all dogs were color blind. Ht
quoted, in support of his statement
the case of two pug dogs who wert
unable to distinguish the different
in color of the plates from which they
were fed.
The color sense may be entirely
lacking In pug dogs, which are not re
nowned for their sagacity; but to* as
sume that every other dog is coloi
blind is a deduction far from the
truth.
Not only can dogs be trained to ree
ognize color, but they possess the nat
ural color sense in a very high degree
They can differentiate between vari
ous subtle shades and tones, and their
likes and dislikes are strongly devel
oped.
A fox terrier has been known to fol
low at a distance a perfect stranger,
solely because she was wearing a
dress similar in color to that worn by
his mistress. Only upon approaching
the woman did he find his mistake.
Advised "Flying Ships" for Mails.
More than 100 years ago when the
United States mails were being trans
ported by carriers on horseback, the
editor of the Freeman’s Journal, now
the Norristown (I’n.) Herald, sug
gested the use of “flying ships."
In the issue of the Freeman’s Jour
nal of March 1, 1822, the editor wrote:
"We would advise the postmaster
general to avail himself of the novel
and the very ingenious flying machine,
invented by James Bennett of Phila
delphia, by which we conceive, the
mails would he transported with more
celerity and their arrival at the places
of destination he much more certain
than is the case at present.”
Postoftice records show that in 1833
a “wonderful feat” was performed in
carrying the mail and news dispatches,
by relays of horses every' five miles,
between Washington and New York, in
15 hours.
“Bird of Passage."
The earliest use of the term “bird
of passage” is found in eighteenth
hook of the Natural History of Pliny
the Elder (23-27 A. I>.), where he says:
“The bird of passage known to us
ns the cuckoo,” and the term lias since
been applied to birds which migrate
with a season from a colder to a
warmer, or from a warmer to a colder
climate, divided into summer birds of
passage and winter iiirds of passage.
Such birds always breed in the coun
try to which they resort in summer,
that is. In the colder of their homes.
The term is said to have been first
applied to sailors by Bacon who de
clared that the uncertainty, instability
and fluctuating state of human life
was most aptly represented by those
sailing the ocean.
Vast Sum Spent for Food.
The people of the United States
spend more than $49.000,000 a day for
food, or nearly $1,500,000,000 a month.
Nearly one-third of the money goes for
bread, potatoes, fruits, sugar and oth
er food of a vegetable nature. More
than two-thirds is spent for meat, fish,
eggs, cheese and lard. The average
householder hands over to the butcher
more than one-fifth of lfis income. The
people of this country consume in a
year two and a half billion eggs and
near ten and a half billion gallons of
milk. But a large part of the milk
goes to make 1,600,000,000 pounds ol
and 260.000.000 gallons of ice crenm
butter, 400,000.000 pounds of cheese
—Philadelphia Ledger.
Rosewood Merely a Name.
Rosewood, so much used in making
fine furniture, is not the wood of any
rose tree, but is that of several species
of tree and so called because it has a
perfume of roses and a generally rosy
color. One kind conies from Surinam
and is very fragrant; another from
Brazil is the Dalbergia nigra F. AIL
according to Samuel J. Record of Yale
There is also a rosewood from Hon
duras which is considered the best In
the world for xylophone bars.
DRAGONS OF EAST AND WEST
Legends Regarding Tham Vary Wide
ly, the Oriental Mind Regarding
Them With Reverence.
Perhaps we never atop to realise
how strange It Is that among the saints
there Is room for one to win hls place
by the reputed actual saving of a lady
from a dragon. And yet this is the
story of Saint George of England, and
considered In no allegorical light by
the medieval church. The wealth
hoarding and slaughter-bringing drag
ons early trailed across the legends
of Europe, bringing with them desola
tion and forming pretexts for love af
fairs between lorn damsels and he
roes.
The eastern mind sympathized with
the dragon and made it the emblem
of rule. I know of only one instance
where anyone attempted to destroy a
dragon, for they were usually regarded
as sacred and of Incomparable power.
The West, however, true to its tem
perament, preferred to tell of dragon*
conquered and slain by the wit of man.
The dragon Is almost the symbol of
nature In the East, and the different
ways of meeting it seem to form an
allegory of the oriental mystic rever
ence of nature and the European scien
tific conquest of it. —Elizabeth J. Coats
worth, In the North American Review.
ANTS MUCH LIKE FIREFLIES
Species in Brazil, Travelers Assert,
Throw Off a Small but Quite
Distinct Light
At least two Brazilian travelers
have described an extraordinary phe
nomenon connected with the nests of
white ants, or termites, Dr. da Fon
seca, who saw the exhibition on the
headwaters of the ltlo Verde, gives the
appearance as that of tiny stars, af
fording the nest the look of a min
iature tower brilliantly illuminated.
When the nest was struck with a stick
the lights went out, only to re-appear
little by little.
Castelnau, In the middle of the last
century, beheld a similar spectacle
near the city of Goyaz. He says that
the lights were produced by an im
mense number of small phosphores
cent larvae, which withdrew into the
galleries of the mound when an at
tempt was made to capture them.
Branner of Stanford university re
marks that this exhibition is prob
ably confined to some particular spe
cies, or to some special occasions or
conditions of termite life, since he has
lived and traveled for years In Brazil
without seeing it.
Troublesome Phase.
A troublesome part In the life of
some children is the “negative” stage,
where they want to contradict every
body about everything—trying to con
duct long, tiresome dialogues in oppo
sition. This looks as if the child had
not enough interests of his own. His
powers are unemployed and are being
“turned in” on himself and on you.
The best remedy is to give a good deal
of active, intelligent, constructive
thought of a nonroutine character to
the situation and “make a change” of
some kind. Sometimes to possess as
his own or her own a corner in the
attic or the barn —or a tiny room, or
a little playhouse, where your girl or
boy can find opportunities for “self-ex
pression,” to use a modern word, will
he the wisest plan. We need “elbow
room,” 'whether we are three or thirty
three years of age.—From “The Little
Blue Books.”
Collects Specimens of Air.
The instrument used by a French
scientist for collecting specimens of
air at high altitudes with the aid of
sounding balloons consists of a very
perfect vacuum tube with a finely
drawn out end. Either the rise of
the mercury in the barometer, corre
sponding with a previously deter
mined altitude, or the clockwork of
the meteorograph, forms an electric
contact, causing a little hammer to
fall and break the end of the tube.
Air then rushes in. whereupon another
electric contact, brought about by the
same means, causes the current of a
small accumulator to heat the plat
inum wire wound around the capillary
tube to a red heat. This fuses the
glass and again closes the end of
the vacuum tube, thus entrapping the
air.
“Acoustic Vases” In Churches.
When the wreckage of ancient
churches in France, destroyed by Ger
man shells in the World war, was
cleared away a number of earthen
vessels were found in the walls. It
was supposed at first that these had
been hidden or accidentally lost there
but subsequent investigation showed
that they had been deliberately set
in place by the monkish architects to
improve the resonant qualities of the
walls. This practice is mentioned in
ancient records, but never before have
the exact nature of the “acoustic
vases" and the method of using them
been revealed. Modern architects
might well borrow the idea and use it
in a practical way in the construction
of churches.
Hadn’t Afr-rcted Him.
A newspaper rejeirter had been re
galed with a most sensational story
from a rural subscriber and was trying
to seek verification.
"Is the fellow who grave you the ac
count of this story regarded as a truth
ful man?” he asked.
"Waal,” replied the next-door neigh,
bor and best friend of the man in
M ues:ion, “I ain't sayin’ he ain’t alto
gether truthful, but I kin say that
what happened t' Ananias an' Sapphirj
ain’t never affected him none.”
Two Customers
—both good
One is the man who
looks at a suit closely,
examines the cloth and
the innermost parts of
the tailoring. He knows
a lot about the style and
color that is most be
coming to him.
The other is the man
who hurries in and says
he wants a suit. He
looks at a few. Take’s
the one that’s nearest
his idea of price, and
the tranaction is over.
We enjoy serving both
of them. Both of them
we satisfy. Griffon
Clothes have satisfyin g
attributes. And each
customer, for his own
reasons, comes back,
again and again.
L. A. COLLIER
“All the New Ones All the Time”
Barnesville, Ga.
TIRES
At a PRICE
34x4 FABRICK $17.50
33x4 “ 16.75
32x4 “ 16.25
30x3 1-4 “ 9.50
30x3 “ 8.50
34x4 CORDS $24.00
33x4 “ 23.50
32x4 “ 22.75
30x3 1-2 “ 13.75
J. W. CARRIKER
12 Zebulon St.
Barnesville/Ga.
SEASHORE EXCURSION
JULY Ist, 1922
FARES FROM MACON
Brunswick $ 5.50 Jacksonville $ 6.00
Tampa 11.00 St. Petersburg 11.60
—Tickets will be good on night trains leaving Ma
con July Ist.
—Final Limit: Tickets to Brunswick and Jack
sonville will be limited returning until night
trains July 4th; Tampa and St. Petersburg night
trains July 6th.
Make Pullman Reservations Early
—For detailed information and Pullman reserva
tions communicate with
C. B. RHODES, Division Passenger Agent,
131 Terminal Bldg., Macon, Ga.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM
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