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The Henry
County Weekly
Official Organ of Henry County.
B. S. ELLIOTT, Editor
Entered at the poetoffiee at McDonough,
Ga., as second-class mail matter.
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THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION
McDonough, Ga. July 29, 1921
Only the foul knows it all.
There is no law to prohibit the
fight to prohibit prohibition.
Eating to live by no means in
sures that you will live to eat.
All the world is a playground,
with most of us hard at work.
•
People who seek notoriety are
often disappointed when they get
it. *
Men doyery little bragging these
days. It is more aristocratic to
blow.
Public office is a public trust,
but our selections are not always
trustworthy,
Many a man blesses the day he
married his wife. She furnishes
the meal ticket.
Every hat that is worn covers a
certain quality of brains, but it
isn’t always the fault of the hat.
Before entering into a discus
sion of disarmament Mr. Harding
should be suitably armed for the
fray.
The man who has more money
than he knows how to spend has
no trouble in finding a willing
teacher.
No doubt the trade gougers are
intensely amused at Secretary
Hoover. He has threatened them
with prosecution.
The fact that you do not under
stand your neighbor at all does
not worry him in the least. You
have his sympathy.
When you think a task is too
great to be performed, just con
sider it too insignificant to worry
about and go ahead.
This is said to be the hottest
summer in fifty years. That ought
to prepare some people for a hot
ter place yet to come.
Senator Spencer of Missouri is
quite justified in owning and op
eratic a Lizzie. It gets his uame
in the funny columns*.
One hundred thousand people
are to join in singing at Chicago’s
pageant of progress. Fortunately
we are some miles removed.
When at a loss as to what to
say about your neighbor, say
something good. You may come
nearer the truth than you imagine.
Some children that refuse to
obey their parents are considered
cute, until they reach the age
when the parents do the obeying.
0
Mr. Rockefeller has so many
millions or billions that he is able
to dominate about everything and
everybody he comes in contact
with. But all of his wealth was
as naught to that skunk that calm
ly took up his residence on the
John D. Golf course and put the
players to ignominious flight.
Sound Sense,
Following is an extract from a
sound businessspeech recently de
livered by Senator Harris before
the U S. Senate:
Last week on the New York
Cotton Exchange one man sold
60,000 bales of cotton and depress
ed the price of cotton. He did
not have one pound of cotton to
sell but he sold-or, rather, gambl
ed-on the New York Cotton Ex
change $3,000,000 worth.
The New York Exchange, in
stead of being used for legitmate
purposes to show the real demand
and price of cotton, is used by the
cotton speculators and gamblers
simply to gamble on cotton raised
by the sweat of the farmer’s brow
Unless we can regulate the cotton
exchange and prevent this gambl
ing, I favor this abolishment.
They are now a curse to our farm
ers who raise cotton as well as to
the business interests and labor
ing people who are dependent
upon the farmers receiving a fair
price for their cotton.
Mr. President, some days ago I
introduced a bill directing the Sec
retary of the Treasury to loan the
Federal farm loan banks $200,000,
000 so as to accommodate the far
mers whose applications for loans
are already equal to this amount,
and I wish Congress would grant
them this relief. The resolution I
have just had read, which was ad
opted unanimously by both the
Georgia Senate and House of Rep
resentatives, show that the bill I in
troduced to loan money to the
Federal farm banks would be
most helpful to our people who
are in such financial distress.
Mr. President, last fall I urged
the Interstate Commerce Com
mission to reduce the railroad
rates and fares, which were so
high as to discourage and prohibit
production and business in our
country. I was the first Member
of either House of Congress to
publicly urge this reduction of
rates, and I shall continue my
efforts in this direction.
I voted against the Esch-Cum
mins bill, and feard at the time
it would have exactly the effect
on business that those of us who
opposed it feared. I have urged
and will continue to urge a reduc
tion of rates from my section on
wattermelons and peaches and
other fruits; the rates are too high.
The commission has reduced rates
on fruits from California, and I
hope they mav do the same for
my section.
If Congress will only pass the
bill I and others have introduced
to reduce the Federal reserve dis
count rate to 5 per cent, extend
the time on agricultural loans
from 6 until 12 months, loan the
farm loan banks money to accom
mobate the farmers, stop gamb
ling on the New York Cotton Ex
change, lower the railroad rates
on freight and passenger fares,
utilize the money of the War Fin
ance Corporation to export cotton
and other products; if all this
could be done, the South would
soon be prosperous again, and
this would help every other sec
tion of our country recover from
its depressed financial condition.
Mr. Harding may be able to in
duce the world to disarm in so far
as war is concerned, but he will
never be able to disarm certain
dominating housewives as long as
their favorite weapon is able to
wafe.
Dictator Lenin finds that ruling
the illiterate bolsheviki of Russia
is a comparatively easy matter,
but that feeding them entails more
brains than he has been able to
inject into his “government.”
They are starving and appealing
to America for food.
HENRY COLfNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGH GEORGIA.
BUYER OF LIQUOR
GUILTY AS SELLER
(Continued from first page.) t
violate in any respect this National
Prohibition Enforcement Act, let
me use this simple illustration.
Mr. Clark comes to me and says,
“Can you use a quart of whiskey?”
I say, “I can; I should be very
glad to have it.” And he says,
“Where shall I deliver it?” And I
tell him at my residence. Now,
he has committed an offense, that
is the selling offense. If he has
transported it out to my house, he
has committed another, the of
fense of transportating.
“Under the law, if I keep it
there, I commit still another sub
stantive offense, that of having it
in possession. But the arrange
ment, although not written out
in words but to be interred from
what Clark and I say and do, from
all the facts, as well as our decla
rations, would sustain an indict
ment charging both of us with a
conspiracy to violate the National
Enforcement Act, as well as the
other substantive offenses of which
I have spoken, and the overt act
might be nothing more than proof,
of a subsequent declaration or
some act done by Mr. Clark after
we had this discussion, no matter
what it was, whether he went
some place where he thought he
could get it and failed to get it
and didn’t proceed any further
than that with his effort to get it,
the object of the conspiracy being
wholly frustrated and coming to
naught, the offense of conspiracv
under this statue would become
complete on the proof of the overt
act.
“The statute is, whenever two
or more persons conspire to com
mit an offense against the United
States, and an overt act is done by
any one of them in furtherance or
in execution of the conspiracy,
the crime shall be complete, and
it is settled law that the overt act
thus performed might not be an
unlawful act in itself, it may be an
innocent act and done in further
ance of the combination, or under
standing, or agreement to do the
unlawful thing.
Combination Necessary.
“Now, that is a simple form of
conspiracy. Nowjet me state the
complex form of what I believe to
be sustainable conspiracv under
this act. I shall conceive, for the
purpose of illustration only, and
in order to distinguish it and to
make more plain the rules of the
law and their applicability to this
evidence, and assume that Ben
Rudner was operating a retail and
wholesale liquor establishment in
Canton between January 1, 1920,
and April 1, 1921; that the busi
ness that he was there carrying
on, the purposes for which he
carried it on, might have been
many—may have been a restu
rant in connection with it; there
may have been a hotel in connec
tion with it; there may have been
a hardware store or millinery in
connection with it —but another
branch or object of that business
was the sale whenever he could
get it, or the delivery to somebody
whenever he could get it, of in
toxicating liquors. To be sure he
%annot conspire himself.
"It will be necessary for him to
take into the combination with
him another, and then the con
spiracy would be completely form
ed; and he might add to it from
time to time between the dates
specified in the indictment, as
many people as he could get to
come in. If someone comes in
and says, ‘I will help you in your
business by buying from you and
carrying away some part of that
stock of cases of whiskey,’ he will
be joining the conspiracy. And
thus it might extend itself gener-
GENUINE
“Bull"
DURHAM
tobacco makes 50
good cigarettes for
10c
ally and infinitely, with a contin
uous conspiracy during that peri
od of time, and the persons who
come into it and remained in it,
are guilty while they remain in it.
They are guilty if they come in at
anv time while it is in progress,
knowing, of dmrse, the object of
the conspiracy. For as I have
said before it is not necessary for
them to know all of the persons
operating in the agreement arid in
the combination. Now, let tfs as
sume, in order to keep his busi
ness going and to dispose of it as
large a rate as he could, the person
who was supplying him, or from
whom he was getting whfskey
from time to time, for the further
ance of the object of that conspi
racy, did not furnish enough and
he got some more somewhere
else, there would be the addition
of the other person to this con
spiracy that was generally and
continuously in progress.”
We learn from the secretary of
the treasury that cleaner money
is to be put into circulation. That
is pleasing. When we get it it
will be still more pleasing. But
until we do, just keep right on
sending in the dirty old stuff and
we’ll be eternally pleased.
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Greenwood.
A new coat of paint has been
added inside of our little store,,
which added greatly to its appear
ance.
Mr. and Mrs, Tom Wells and two
daughters, of near Luella, were
visiting friends here Saturday.
Mr. T. J. Elliott and family spent
the week-end with relatives near
Salem.
Mr. Chester Laney was the guest
of Mr T. Laney last week.
Mrs..T. B. Hincy is havingdental
work done in McDonough each
week,
Methinks our Bounty paper is
growing better each week, with so
many good correspondents, it is
more interesting. Observer is a
good one, and he’d make an ex
traordinary associate editpr.
Mr. John Copeland and daughters
Misses Sallie and Fannie, visited
Mrs. Martha Rape Sunday after
noon. - •
Mrs. Charlie Cridelle and daugh
ter, Miss Jewell, attended Sunday
school here Sunday.
Mr. T. B. Hincy accompanied his
father and sister to Atlanta .Sun
day. the latter returning to H eir
home in Alabama. Rev. Hinrv is
very feeble and his friends Ice
wish for him speedy recovery of
health.
Mr. arfd Mrs. Allen Rape y ere
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Pendley Sunday.
There wili be preaching here
next Sunday afternoon. It was
called in last Sunday on account of
Elder Cates being away attending
meeting elsewhere.
Mr. Allen Rape and family and
Mr. Dingier motored to Griffin
Saturday.
Mr. Selles Farris visited Mr. Jack
Brown Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Pendley an
nounce the birth of a son, July 25.
There’s so much truth in this
little poem, I’m going to pass it on.
Is home a palace or a cot.
In city street or country spot , v
With stairways, wide or narrow hah •
With pillows high or low hung walls.
I cannot tell, why should I care
What matters it. if love is there?
Is home among the crowded gay,
Or ours along some lonely way,
Where winds blow cold and ice is king,
Or where the balmy breezes sing?
Where clouds are black or skies fair,
What matters it, if love if there?
Your home stands grandly on a hill,
Mine snuggles by the hidden rill.
The streaming lights afar you see,
A tiny lamp shines out for me.
Your home! My home! Just anywhere!
What matters it, if love is there?
JOCELYN.
