Times-courier. (Ellijay, Ga.) 1916-current, October 26, 1923, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextVOL. 8 BUSINESSSMi9 AID Firms Asked to Buy Stamps Where Stuff is Mailed. !S BASIS CF OFFICE RATING — , ■urn r iostoffice persuade busim department Is trying ss , nen throughout t0 pu, cha.se their stamps patch i ! B their h* 1116 mails. ° fllCe >X " hi eh they dm- to Third Assistant “ .n®L enera ! Glover it chuse'JaTan „ t” th makes are“pj,r- a lot ° *»“>»» from which the letti herthHn ° ne mailed, to the government. even if all the momy'does ' ® w "It is the one obstacle in the -■mnplete wav n, success of the j,- esent lueth od of rating postmasters ,f . second and third Uu . <j.. s , their salaries,” class, and <= 0 r fix.ng said method is lixed by law and can, ', changed or modified dsL, ot l)( ment. Not by tne only are the salaries „f postmasters determined by the ainou of revenue produceu , but the allowance by their e-ffices for clerk hire ; ,s "ell as other expenses is based receipts and not up ui work on the quantity « performed. Operates as Check. “Ilie system operates as a check the tlculur other office hand, is on the decline a^on ing ‘lie for automatically discos need additional clerks and carriers when increased business two “UCW increased revenue. “This flexibility renders the system of great value in preventing an excess of employees and in maintaining the service machinery at a standard of efficiency commensurate with require- V ments for haud.ing the mails. i? deemed deemed far far better better rhan than any „n,. previous scheme for rating postmasters and fix its operation no plan considered supe¬ rior hgs been suggested. “There are, however, a considerable number of firms, principally large cor¬ porations, maintaining branch offices In various cities, who make a practice of purchasing stamps in large quanti¬ ties at the headquarters office and dol¬ ing them out to their local branches on requisition. “When a large quantity of this mail is dumped into the local postoffice, es. pecially one of the smaller offices, the result is a demoralization of greater or less extent, depending upon the quan¬ tity of mail. “It Is inequitable to the postmaster, whose salary might have been in creased had the stamps been purchased at his office, and it is unfair to the clerks and other employees who mist handle the additional mail without its being credited toward increased allow¬ ance for clerk hire. Unfair to Rsgulars. “But above till, it is unfair to tin regular patrons of the office, wlios: mail, of necessity, must be deliyed by an influx of entirely unexpected mat ter, unless the postmaster or the clerks actuated by wholly human emotions, hold up the offending forei/n mail un¬ til the other mail hits beer dispatched. “Usually a firm is williig to co-oper¬ ate rather than incur the H will of pos¬ tal clerks, especially wli .11 the ini*nu tance of maintaining tie system of rating postmasters aid determining clerk hire allowance s explained to them. “Some firms, hovev-r, have been re luctant to make the <iange. They ad¬ vance the argument <hat it is prefer able to purchase st nips at the main office so that they hay lie perforated with the firm’s init tls to render them less marketable by dishonest em¬ ployees. "The department answers tiiis argu¬ ment by pointingout that other firms have solved the jfohlem by instructing their agents or iealers, when making their regular remittances to the home office, to l-cndc a certain proportion of the amount 1 postage stamps. The stamps then -‘e perforated and re¬ turned to the ranch office for use on the company’s raaii.” Wife Drank C art of Faregorl; a Day. Accused by ,er husband of frinking a quart of p egoric a day, Mrs. Re¬ becca Seiffenan. of Kgg Har.or. N. -T.. was sent .0 jail for PM day?. The woman speirall her husband’s money for the drug lie as sorted. Smear Neidbor’s Wife With Ffint, Accused f smearing their ieigh l;or’£ wife ’ith green paint. G,orge Fortna and his son. Daniel, of Vest Fairview. r.. were arrested and med 510 onc-h. Tim neighbor woin n’s clothes wer ruined, she said. Mi ~ honsastehsinyemi “ ST a *» «® Nearly $400,030 Spent in United States — Greek Refugee Work Completed. For its preparedness to render re lief through effective and generous aid ^sufferers from disaster the American Red Cross is universally re Eard ® d as the one organization from "' ,ieh res P°ose to appeal for help is ' 1K <late In ,llG last year, accord ' ltl t tne annual report of Cross, its the Red disaster relief operations L carried 0,!t in HO localities in lted Statos - This “5 s.d T*?* r T,r ? v -s ? p ^om ssssr the thrf. A -- --- ier ; ‘s --- an R ! d ’ Cross — Us cha ters * loldr!! an/d Pr ’ P n the emer ttcncy fol fnl-r in Turkey g , tlle and de * eat the of burning the Greek of the forces o i Smyrna, which oS city ojf the re ‘ ief ciCildren n a rt m !a ' men women and c/hildien. Red R c Cross National Head *■»<&: SZZSJS me me,. «dical, , i hospital ‘ssrzjnss^ and pU _V lib’s In sanitary sup tons. the feeding of the there Wla listed upwards of L children ?>nder three years o f disasters fj the United States ■*n. ''rin^p ns ,,killed, t he past 991 y- ar reported 240 per ‘ljured, 12.C91 rea j S20 ’ 710 ’ 000 - 1 whelm ters 01 '-^*! L ^o ^.^'* ,‘, tude caused as by t0 disa8 ° vi r ‘ ' - r tfr,'- Ur ° f tbe ties in wffLh , v , ,nr fundr,n,on co:n muni tai to the charter?- 18 Red Cross. In' addilf °. n t0 n!Pkins An ! erican nrnpriations from if s ap I s wort?, -’m'ng trained perso^ dL ? and reUef as -he Red Cross in tralize s and makes irmro aster cen «ef „- T ! the the coun. GOur ‘-‘ A Dh ‘h brL iW b " L ‘ d by Sin «‘ v toran'iU •; Cross hn« , ml S' V ■: sao.nno.ooo '^ 01 dlsa8 te> relief That . !t may continue to accept the sponsiunities which tnvo ' ,~ cies place upon the natfo^ Cress appei! made for a wide renewal of )n menihpr^hin 1 i unns the annual ro,’ call which JUS Armistice ' day No’vemb°r W ~ r n ’ and ,, noo ° »- “ ■ n.,». Red Crossu-jrst Aid Standards \dopted In Great Int ustr i es First ad in an emergf„ y assures the injured compet‘ t atten the Cross. -batters In populous of t he centers American^ 314 ters conduct first aid clfsses c.^ la and year swarded 9,500 cerFficates to stu dents. Eight big telephone companies have eilisted their workers in first classes, and fire large rities are making the course compulsory in their training schools and through colleges rnd high schools large groups of students receive in structioi. The Red Cross also gives this course through iioy Scouts, Girl Scouts, 7. M. C. A. ard similar organi zations, and its standard method.- have beet adopted ly railroads, elec trie and gas companies, mines and ir the metal industries. The aim of thi; Red Cross service is to cut down rad: cally the average of 60.000 accidenta deaths per y^ar in the United States. mer '*4% - Rave a pscksl ia yc/r ” pocket fci cver*ready refreshmcil. Aids dijc3j’;n. m Asiays LirsL m Sooiiie;; ihs thrcsL For the Qsc!ity, Ssaiesi FLv.-r Pacings, and Mi r»X Pi " 1 “We Push For Prosperity—Give Us a Pull’ • ELLIJAY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCT. 26 1923 rmimbm * “ m For 50 Years He Had Lived on Mountan Top, and There He Passed Away. Nikolas Grintlstaff was found dead at his hermit home on top of Iron M,,l:nta{n - where he had lived for ths past 50 r ears - Gtinelstaff was one of the most u,li T ue characters known to the people ,;f county, Tennessee, H< ‘ "as born in Little Doe vallev seventy-one years ago, of good pa rent - “S®- In early life lie 1Uak e his fortune, and did meet wit, very good success in the accumulation of money. But misfortune overtook Win, and“ becoming dTs^u^ged «' h* ■ « •» -*■ z; ■-> his return to his native hills Grinelstaff is said to have become in fatuated with a brunette but d ; san pointed in love, ’ he la ter’ el decided neciaea 7 the ..... S,,det v of those . wi 'b whom ’ he hart bet>n raised and took up h; abode in the forest. He went to 2 «.*EirS: — •»*»■* Occasionally he would visit the set¬ tlement for supplh : which the peo¬ ple would gladly furnish him. Mis only belonging? consisted of a d -md an ox. He u.--o;i tim j-i cleared. tbe cultivation of some ground lie ! a': When found at tiiis lierm't home he was lying propped un on hi bunk, supposed to have bean de.t ' three or four days, bis faithful dog keeping- watch over him. I- riends fr* on Jolinson and Chester counties gathered at his humble home next day and gave him a docent burial "n the summit of the grand old A monument will be erected to the memory of one of earth’s characters. BUOYANCY CF SALT LAKE Bathers Do Not Deown From but Strangle.While Afloat. A soverim,cm oLrii.i wife, ^ ! sinK a lnf,s ‘t convincing proof of the if, th<> sa,t ' 1 ldp!1 "' ! <ter.s of tic.. «r ^ over the lake an< ,lv nR ifs surface into low, whtte the foa ai °ns file shore S™ 'h lay like flat banks of new “ Sn °"' If lake H ,ln, I passed across a of fresh water of equal that wind unquestionably extent would have that nMon of ifs *«'• navigation in small boat 0 ”° en if nof bi Shl.v I-ake. waters of the Great Jnst although driven into rid-es ' ststance remarked, to the showed a eurions’ tC ^ wind, and ve s rmmg to only a slight elevation timth7"yZ^7?r along with moved ,,r ,rt,wr « the immense Washington sta'r. Tet^there T low. momentum stored , ' , C • heavy, slow-movin" w '‘fturing into the water it'-, p., the observer found that it Tbt’ slb, e to stand was lesslyhcer against thca, weight swept him resist I The‘iff- containitOits inert? buoyancy of the water tion. per cent of salt in sol,,' I a’ltcr. Ill the helplessness „f the sometimes .ns not submerged breakers, but w in the Atlanti, n ““ il cork - Tt ’Jfted and ( a „.. , . C( b-cn impossible t<l probahlv h incoming aftere 1V( > wave through an *> ( ‘<'d by bathers nb'.’u,-miter prac coast. In the ~ Great Sa, e At’anti - «re not drowned through - P peo . strangled while still afloat.-,.. vyith ter water fatal may enter the air',’ etfeet, hut the reaches' b,, Unties to float until it shore or is picked up. ~ - - — — -- - ^ ------- “Our cwntry could secure no commendation, no greater place in tory, than to '-ave it correctly that the Red Cross is truly —President Coolidge. Every day is a better one to man and woman stimulated by Red Cross spirit. Join now for piness. Free Land fer Ali Mexican Citizens. Any Mexican citizen more than eighteen years old who holds n ■ rea! estate may have a tract of govern¬ ment land if he goes to the trouble of staking out his claim and notlfyin-. the government of its location, at ord ing to a presidential decree., Thi size o' each claim is limited accordi i to ’ts value. Baby Strangles in Slats of Cr . VVTien his head caught betv eer two slats on the side of his cr m ; Chase, five months old, ot l & ste N- Y„ stranfled to death. RED CROSS MET TEST IN JAPAN FUNO DRIVE Spirit of Service Demonstrated in Readiness for Nation¬ wide Activity. When President Coolidge by procla raaltion designated the American Ret! Crass as the medium through which tributions for relief of the Japan earthquake sufferers should flow. President’s des.re came as an or to the Red Cross. Immediately entire machinery of the organiza 1 was put in motion and within 2J houifs the fund campaign was moving with! vigor in every part of the couu try. Tlllis emergency test demonstrated the liieacetinie readiness of the Red ir Cros^ to cope of with stupendous tasks montEb bjjehalf humanity. W thin a it had collected upwards of |10,2a«i0,000 in con'rih-tionr land *d ten embargoes of supplies at Japanese portsp, and was keeping pace with rt lief riDequirements—all without a sin gle doMibir of the fund being spent for administration. Pres'Aident Coolidge in expressing his tli£j ^nks to the people, said: “When reache?^ the ne< )ws of the tragedy in Japan first 1IS - the American Red Crors country}^- pursua^ Y?tt to a proclamat'on, asked the for ¥5,000.000 to meet the great elj 'mergenev. The answ-er to this appeal fwas prompt and generous; in less tha' in two weeks a sum far In ex cess of ,, I the original goal was given.” Tbe i ' t’i -'vork of *he Red Red Cross Cross for for Japan is U expected to influence a very large eh- |rollment of new recruits dr ing the : Roll Call, which starts Arm!:? Day- i-O? ; EMed f paving Cross Work Corps Of War/S on D ownings The insignL. S,-^ytf \ A,vine ia vin!r of ( ' 1£> American on the bat Re-i :• Cross ---- Life . ... ps ing apparel of r.v :i. women youths is seemT et~f ') evi al - yvv: * \ he ere coasts at favor:i riV bathing plac ! :s ,n its unre,ent ’ ' ers, lakes an FI * ,4l o"« oMire'hy ‘ .... . < 1 rv downing drowning fh the ' Red Cross is making constant way. The demands for instruction *' 4rom erganizatiens in all parts of tho country were so nutm-r ous the pnl * 1 ■J’-i >'• ar '-hat it was neces . f than 'ouble the staff of sary to ni0 ‘ ‘ *^Winstriict.ors. ■ T'e R e( ] f. ro s j This work of training enroll,^ f 0 £- |tes rf, lVater life-saving showed an 8er pnt of over 30,000 volun teers on! /* d Acffitod for duty on patrol, for rescue art hat ir (1 rt ‘ su8< ’ ,ation - a11 com l )e ten t to iruif.p ir ,F ’-ract others it) the standard water sat jety methods. The Red Cross by reqtt and ^ e 'est of the War Department gives war United f______^States Military and Naval academie__/s and in the military training camps fc Vr reserve officers and civil by ians. Ti'l} Sflp VJ ’ei 1 four Cross caKh last prizes year for awarded heroic the R, rVrU’ rescues vv. re conferred U P°“ two K^ls. a boy am a man. indicating that the youths of A t!l e country stand well at ,, f . conserving life along our the top 1 -jurses. water co‘ --—-- Redber of ga s vi Cross Field Co J Tibi Action Covers All the World .ne with© ____ Represented Re<l by Cross 93.66S penetrates members, th- to jLsiden, ard iJ part of the world. Th every grt, fo l the v> v and past torei 8 n ro " cal! most statis{ic conclu : ?1dS fjpjl' „„inie year are a . < l 1 manifestation of the Red Cross ,j ’ ] ‘ j it carried into the most remote . ' L? ”ut a " ids. In Europe there are 4,08? thc a m Jmbers. in Turkey, and active it na ' Constantinople Chapter, 3,545. Chi " !d -F ’ has enrollment of 2,252; Africa ! an v ur rtok. iu T, 4md s a live cba P ter W!tb 100 members. he ‘”7]p Philippine Islands can mobilize iJ" e a if 5nin" 747 « nder 7,S63 tbe Red The Cross total banner funds closing Hawa?" w -mr "vised through foreign ind insular n D il peneJ ‘ and-ational embersbip headquarters enroiinient in and Washington sent to k‘)- ssai §60,216.54, while adfli vf’i 10unted t0 an iters f ona l S33.350 was forwarded for the \^ Tv tpsjEndowment ih-oss. fund high of the roil American cal! in 1922 Red ibers The seas L„ ■jjp, rene jvas an inspiring success. The Navy nt rev ijigned on 4,331 for the Red Cross and ar.:e fron^he merchant ships 4,141. Of the to tal membership outside the United latates 83.990 are registered with chap ]t6rs in foreign lands, the insular pos¬ sessions and dependencies. < ? Jjk j “I want to; therefore I can!” is the 1 spirit that spur3 the Red Cross work : 5 3 T i er In well-doing. I S“f - - PLANETS GUIDE HUMAN DESTINY Nervous Disturbance Due to Sun Spots, Says Scientist. DISTURBING WAVES ARE FELT “It is enough for a man on earth to raise bis hand to increase the intensity of the force of gravity on the planet Sinus; the casting of stone into the water of the River Seine must inevit¬ ably raise the level of the ocean at, for example, San Francisco.” So declared JI. Daniel Berthelot at a recent session of the Academic dcs Science at Paris in the course of an exposition of the essential oneness of the universe, a concept that the sa. cs of antiquity made much of. Mod rn scientists, far better informed tl.au were the ancients, declared M. Berti.e lqt. are proving that this interde¬ pendence of all things is far greater than *-ver suspected by magicians and astrologers. They are proving, in fact, that the stars and meteors exercise a direct influence upon the nervous sy stems of creatures living on our planet, partic¬ ularly man. Effect on Mankind. The passage of sun spots across the sun coincides with magnetic and elec¬ tric disturbances registered by labora¬ tory apparatus. Further, there are reasons to believe that the analogy bet ween electric ami nervous phe¬ nomena is greater than has been sup posed. M. Kerthelot stated that nervous disturbances are transmitted ] n to space in waves similar to vvire less waves and at the speed of some¬ thing like half a million miles a sec¬ ond. He cited the statement of the Abbe Moureux, based upon long research, that periods of unusual solar, volcanic and seismic activities coincide with the great war periods of history. Mourevix suggested that periods of in IhujS sola, aciivjt., may permlpa have an effect on the mental condition of man, a theory already propounded as the result of experiments made by Doctors Sardou and Faure, who re¬ corded the conditions of their patients din ing the passage of sun spots. The | i mwlt — d of tb “ d ^ ^ " ;ls reiordt and the ‘ d tnov. by » L ! Valid, director of the Mont Blanc ob servatory. j Influence of Sun Spots, comparie j T. e conclusion drawn by | the health '-curve” of the patients vv h that of the sun spots was tl.at ae passage of tin spots across the ea " trill meridian generally coincide Util a recrudescence of morbid syui - l,lus and of grave relapses. Thus the learned and prueti -* men of the Academy of Science at °1 'bo Academy of Medicine turn t the an¬ cient book of astrology to r , ea( l- alld perhaps, finish the uncompded chap¬ ter on the influence of th, stars upon human destiny. BANK REDEEMS 845 BILL $5 Note Was Last - Series at CO necticut | ptitution. Assistant Gashie- Herman J. Maerk iein of tlie Conrt ( 'ticut Itiver Bilk¬ ing company, jnrtford, has receed for redemption? 1 V-i bill issued by the bank in 1845. « bears the signture of President VV. H. Imlay and ash ier Edwin Spencer. Mr. Imlay was head of ,ie bank from 1838 tr 1851 and Mr Spencer was eastiierfrom 1838 t‘ 1849. The bill was tl last of its series to be presented >r re denitJion. Tie Connecticut River bat and Chdnieal National t>ank of Ne York ^yy have the distinction of bog the 0. 11y banks which redeemed in.old all 1, f tlieir own bills presentedfor re¬ demption in the panic of 187/ rich, HEWILL HELP FIENDS - Indian, Said to Be H>ir to=ortune, Will Not Forret Ther. James White Yours, a Che.kee In¬ dian. reported to b< sought t heir to a large fortune in tklnhomalives oil a farm near Plat-burg. Mo accord¬ ing to Mrs. Man-f Fry. secetary of the Red Cross ir Plattsburg. Young was traced to 'ashville. where, twenty-we >' ( ‘ars ag a wan¬ dering group of Indians oandoned him, then a ’-ttle child. When inf-rmed that he probably „n - heir t- wealth. Young colored: ■ If it ] mine I will be gtd to get the rnon-J'- VYhen I becomeoich I am going « help tbe people .-ho have been jood to me. 43 Junior Red Cross Spreads Good Will Throughout World Nearly 5,000.000 pupils in the schools . of America are following the standard of unselfish service as members of th® American Junior Red Cross, the ah-’ nual report of the American Red Cross discloses. This valiant host is rep- , resented in 125,072 school rooms of ? 2J.2S9 schools throughout the United States. With a service program that" is local, national and international in scope, the American Junior Red Cross.: is worDng unfalteringly for health-, and hxppiq,ess and in the promotion of activities among boys anti -ir’; wherever there is opportur;; ,y fm ; fulness. Increased activity i n ih» --rt wf 4 the schools enroliofl and deep: r : ~ nition by school authorit.c. of ’ . ucational values of Junior 11 Hr have been significant feature a last year. Carrying on cd ; .c :mai ' and relief work in France, a.; rd Austria, Hungary, Jugoslavia, Alb. ta .* Bulgaria and Rumania, tbe American Juniors have influenced the forming of Junior departments in the Red Cross organizations of these coun tries. American boys and girls wear¬ ing the “I Serve” button of the Jun¬ iors are proving apt messengers of the spirit of good will and mutual un¬ derstanding through correspondence with pupils in schools scattered throughout the world. At the dos( of the school year in June 2,00* schools were engaged in correspond ence with a like number of schoolr* in Europe; 2S4 schools in our insular possessions and Alaska ter-itorv csv ried on an exchange of b (ters with schools ifi the United Statrs and South Africa. In fact, nearly 1,700 schools with probably 100,000 pupils were buiy in this fine act of cheerful communi¬ cation, while 8,347 articles passed through National Headiuarters of the .Red Cross, in exchanges between the interested pupils bets and oversea*. \*-. Incident o' fTtr'-v- :r-« rti'-ar-r:. the beginning of jctlvfty which will eventually install Junior Red Cross in the Indian spools of the United States. From every section of the country reports of the-toui- of the unit of crip¬ pled children w *th their chorus which came from the Bakule school *r Prague, Ozicboslovakia, to sluw gratl lude to th? American Juniors for thedr assistant- declare that notling sine-"* the Word War has done sc much to awaken the Red Cross spi-it in the comnuoities visited by the init. The work of the Amerlctn Junior? in fo-ign fields is emphaszod in the advancement of playgronnlscbola shi»s in farm, trade and offer s-choo;.-. conmunity and school g-rden wo.-h a'd donations of cash ant equipment t> children’s organizatlom. In tho,-# projects $112,660.17 was ipent <1 .r.ng last yt-. r in ten Euopean cour in China and in tie Virgin I* “It is inconceivable tiat the R,-d could have come bus fa; l\ retreat: that it coud hav< i r up to the presinttime >n ta Coolidge. Liberal to Ex-Service Men Over $ 1,000 was experded by r/;jh of tbe 3.600 American Itee Cross Chp ters in the past year in ichalf of dv abled ox-scrvice men. Tbe actual (< tal spent was $3,930,000, AT 88, HIS 45TH CHILD Mexican Laborer's Latest Heir, S x □ays Old, Weighs Eigh Poui Itoniulu Del si, a Mexic-ai, who !iv at Stanton, near S;mfa Anna, Cal and works as a laborer oi a ran- is said to be eighty-eight years and the father of 45 ehidri-n . youngest of whom is only six ela. old. but declared perfect as to form and to weigh eight pounds. Dr. C.-D. Ball, state: is authority for the eleclaratien Dei. is the father of 45 children. Bill say* lie has known Tlelsi 30 years a. el that the latter now is living with bis ourrii or fifth wife. Records of the county recorder show that when Dels! was seventynine years old twins were 1 born to his vife. Cow Has 6 Calves in 16 Months. Six calves have been born within P months to a cow owned by John ML debran, near Russell, Kan. Recently four calves were born at the sa;n«s time. The calves died because of im¬ proper care, veterinarians said. Physician Saves Life of Dead Infant. An injection of adrenalin into the heart muscles of an infant, which had been “dead” for ten minutes tffker birth, was made by a physician of Rockford. 111., and the child, a girl "'is jjow doing well. I