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WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING
WEEK THROUGHOUT COUN
TRY AND ABROAD
EVENTS OFJMPORTANCE
Gathered From All Parte Of The
Globe And Told In Short
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Foreign—
British ship owners have decided to
put squarely up to the American gov
ernment the question of whether it Is
prepared to break up hla majesty’s
Beal on cargoes of English ships. The
liquor will be carried under seal and
into the port of New York.
The French are preparing to confis
cate and to requisititon a force of Ger
mans to operate all the Ruhr valley
industries, the ontputs of which may
be turned to the account of repara
tions, it Is stated in Dusßeldorf.
After a three and a half days of
eruption, the volcanic tumult of Mt.
Aetna continue its frightful display-
The lava is advancing steadily. The
small townships of Cerro and Catena
have been totally destroyed. The
railroad station at Castiglione is bur
ied under lava. Giarre’s 20,000 people
have fled, leaving only troops remov
ing the dead and bed-ridden.
An attack on England, hints of a
Rußso-French rapprochement and a
plea for “more metal in our national
character,” marked an address by Leon
Trotzky, Soviet war minister, before
the all-Russian congress of metal
workers.
A Belgian corporal and a private
was wounded at Marl, near Reck
linghausen, when they endeavored to
search two Germans at a control post.
The Germans, upon being challenged,
drew revolvers and began shooting.
They were arrested by other meinbefs
of the post and the authorities have
announced that actions will be taken
against the town and district where
the shooting occurred.
Eight cruisers will be added to the
ten \essels of that class now in pro
cess of delivery for the navy, if Hie
budget bureau and congress, in turn,
accept the recommendations of a
building program to be presented by
the navy department at the next see
sion In addition the program, as
mnounced by Secretary Denby calls
for three cruiser submarines and four
river gunboats, the latter to be used
to replace the old vessels now assign
ed to the Chinese river patrol.
The assured future of the cotton
growing section of the United States,
it seems clear, the department of ag
riculture announced is in standard
izing upland cotton production to a
very few superior varieties, and in
improving the quality of cotton, in
evenness of staple, strength and oth
er desirable spinning qualities, so as
to completely free American cotton
growers from competition of the in
ferior cottons of India, China and oth
er cotton growing sections of the
world.
A general conference next October
will be arranged by the department
of commerce to discuss the adoption
and use of the standard sizes and
weights of hollow building tile recom
mending to the department by a spec
ial committee.
King Victor Emmanuel has left for
Naples, proceeding by warship to Can
tan ia to lead the battle to save Si
cilian cities from the avalanche of
lava streams. Two more cities have
been wiped out in the Inferno of
flame and destruction bursting from
Mt. Etna. Six mouths are now vom
iting out incandescent lava upon the
doomed valleys.
W ashing ton—
Customs officials in New York
were ordered by the treasury depart
ment to break the seals and seize all
beverage liquor on the steamship Bal
tic, which arrived in that port re
cently.
One of the clemency cases in which
the president denied a pardon was
that of Israel Goldberg of Savannah,
Ga., and ew York, convicted of vio
lating the war-time prohibition law.
Both are now in the Atlanta peniten
tiary.
Conversations regarding joint ac
tion in China are proceeding between
the United States and other powers,
notably Great Britain. A far east
conference is likely to result.
Successful development of a new
pow r der for use in small arms and ar
tillery, which possesses all the driv
ing power of the type now in use
and at the same time is smokeless,
flashless and impervious to moisture,
is announced by the war department.
Both the moisture proof quality and
the fact that the new’ powder can be
exploded without a flash are regarded
by department experts as of great
importance
Upward revision of wages for en
gine room forces of 15 to 18 per
cent was proposed to the shipping
board by a committee representing
the Marine Engineers’ Beneficial as
sociation.
Theg overnment took under advise
ment a plan for requiring steamship
companies to maintain at their own
expense proper immigrant stations
in this country.
An official report from the Ameri
can commissioners sent to Mexico
City to discuss questions involved in
the recognition of Mexico set at rest
reports of the last few days that a
deadlock had occurred in the nego
tiations. The report indicated that
the conference was proceeding in a
generally favorable atmosphere.
American-made motor cars rule the
highways of the world. Reports to
the department of commerce revealed
American automobiles are being fa
vored over all other imported cars in
a majority of foreign nations. For
the current fiscal year more than 85,-
000 American machines were export
ed.
Fifty-nine persons have perished
as a result of the heat wave sweeping
a great part of the United States.
These casualties occurred in Mis
souri, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, New
York, Massachusetts and Pennsylva
nia
Commutation granted by the presi
dent included: George Buesching
and Albert C. Currico, convicted at
Memphis, Tenn., of conspiracy to
forge the name of a payee to a gov
ernment voucher. J. A. Morris, con
victed at Atlanta, of violating of a
railroad strike injunction; sentence
of six months’ imprisonment, com
muted to expire at once, in view of
possible mistaken identity.
Domestic—
Floods that swept the Loup and Ce
dard river valleys caused more than a
million dollars’ damage to crops, live
stock farms, homes and railroads in
Nebraska, it is estimated at Colum
bus, that state.
The Chicago criminal court recently
accepted the sufficiency of divine pun
ishment and released a woman, ac
cused of murder. Laura Johnson, 26
was brought before George Kersten
on a charge of stabbing William A.
Branch to death, when, she alleged,
he tried to attack her. Since arrest
she has become blind.
Kept from the companionship of
young people of her own age by in
curable deafness, Miss Stella Kidron
attempted suicide last December by
Drinking poison. She recovered. Later
the girl hung herself in her bedroom
and was found dead by her parents.
Happened in Chicago.
Led by Carlile Boton-Smith of Mem
phis, Tenn., eleven members of the
senior class at Amherst college and
one candidate for the degree of mas
ter of arts, refused to accept their
degrees at the 102 commencement ex
ercises. This action is the aftermath
of the resignation of President Alex
ander Meiklejohn at the request of
the trustees.
Erwin R. Bergdoli was arraigned
before Federal Judge Arba S. Van
Valkenburgh on a charge of conspir
acy to escape the draft laws and re
leased on 510,000 bond.
Pretty 19-year-old Lillian Balcon of
Detroit asked a man in Milwaukee for
a cigarette, and w'as arrested and
incarcerated for flirting.
The Pennsylvania railroad system
has begun a series of improvements
to cost more than $125,000,000, accord
ing to an announcement made by the
road here recently.
Definite steps to close the doors of
many stock brokerage houses, against
w’hich complaint has been received,
will be taken in the New York su
preme court it is announced by Dep
uty Attorney General John J. Dwyer.
Following the failre of Zimmerman
& Forshay, there was a sharp drop
on the New York exchange of more
than 80 of the most popular securities
on the list, with losses of 2 to 5 points.
The break was attributed to selling
by frightened investors, who did not
know what to make of the failure com
ing on the heels of an official an
nouncement by the exchange there was
a likelihood of failures.
President Harding while he was in
St. Louis placed before the country a
renewed plea for American adherence
to the permanent court of internation
al justice’ as the one and only existing
agency of peace’ to which we can
safely subscribe without violating the
basic principles of our national be
ing.”
Ignatz Fuchs, who, in the presence
of his 16-year-old daughter, killed his
wife, during a drunken quarrel, was
saved from the death penalty by the
plea of the self-same daughter. The
judge sentenced him to life impris
onment.
The dead body of Gladys Tanner, a
young Paducah girl, was found in an
automobile deserted in a woods near
Paducah, Ky. Two young men have
been arrested as suspects.
HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOI’GH, GEORGIA.
ROABy
Vast System of National
or Interstate Highways
There was a day, not very far back,
when vision in road building was
about as broad as a man’s farm or a
community’s interest. Pork barrel
methods and political pull, not yet a
memory, were a big part of the ac
cepted order. Then it became possible
to see to the county limits and still
later it gradually was revealed that
roads leading from one county to
another might be a convenience to a
reasonable number of travelers. Thus
emerged the idea of state systems.
It has remained for recent months,
however, to ba’ng into potential exist
ence a vast system of national or in
terstate roads that in a few years may
reasonably be expected to lie, like
long ribbons of white, across every
section of the country and link up the
states, the cities and counties even
more closely than they were joined in
the construction of railway lines. The
Idea isn’t a dream, but a thing of na
tional statute, provided for in the fed
eral highway act of last November and
now rapidly assuming form through
co-operation of the state highway
departments with the United States
bureau of public roads.
The system will comprise more than
175,000 miles, 7 per cent of the entire
public road mileage of the United
States. Of this amount three-sevenths
will be composed of interstate roads,
the remainder to make up connecting
state systems. There is state and fed
eral money enough in hand or in sight
to start the actual work, and nearly
all the states now have submitted to
the national bureau plans for the sec
tions of road that will go into the in
terstate system. And the bureau Is
seeing to it that the sections meet at
the state lines. No federal aid will he
allowed on any highway which does
not ftt into the general scheme of a
national or state system.
This is vision In road building,
bounded only by the limits of the coun
try itself. It will mean results In the
shape of roaus that link up and lead
somew’here and bring service to all
rather than a favored few. —Kansas
City Times.
Colored Pins Indicate
Danger Spots in Roads
A rather original way of ascertaining
the condition of roads and the places
where repairs are necessary has been
worked out by a road commissioner for
state roads of Maryland. It is based
upon the accidents occurring on the
highways of the state. Upon receipt
of each accident report, a numbered
colored pin is put in the proper loca
tion on a map of the road system of
the state. Fatal accidents are marked
with a red pin and other accidents are
marked with yellow pins, the number
ing on the pin referring to a card in
dex system, enabling one to find the
character of each accident.
By keeping this record, it has been
found that bad stretches of road can
be easily located because of the num
ber of accidents occurring thereon. In
many cases it was found that the road
on that stretch was too narrow, or had
a bad approach to a bridge, and in
many instances these stretches had
never been listed as being in need of
repair or change. The method outlined
has proved successful and has located
many dangerous spots.—E. B. House,
Department of Civil and Irrigation En
gineering, Colorado Agricultural Col
lege.
Good Roads Are Called
Great Aid to Churches
“Where roads are best churches are
strongest and civilization bears its
choicest fruit; where roads are poorest
churches are weakest and Ignorance,
poverty and crime abound.
This is the outstanding thought in an
article written by Dr. S. M. Johnson,
former pastor of the Austin Presby
terian church at Chicago and now di
rector of the Lee Highway association.
Doctor Johnston, in his article, points
out that the modern highway will do
as much for a rural community as a
railroad, school or church, serving as
a means to bring the people together
and promoting the consolidated school,
the union church and the civic center.
These, he shows, result in more regular
attendance at church and school and
better-paid preachers and teachers for
the rural communities.
Smoothness of Highways
Needed for Easy Riding
While the smoothness of a road is
desirable for easy riding, there are
other reasons, such as the saving of
wear and tear on the machines from
the vertical movements caused by
roughness and the fact that it takes
less power to run over a smooth road
than it does to go over a rough road.
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’ Lesson’
(By REV. P. B. FITZWATER, D. D.,
Teacher of English Bible In the Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago.)
Copyright, 1921, Western Newspaper Union.
LESSON FOR JULY 1
JOHN, THE BAPTIST
(May be used with temperance appli
cations.)
LESSON TEXT—Luke 3:3-8; 7:24-28.
GOLDEN TEXT—"He shall be great
In the sight of the Lord, and shall
drink neither wine nor strong drink.”
—Luke 1:15.
REFERENCE MATERIAL Matt.
3:1-17; 11:2-15; Mai. 3:1-6.
PRIMARY TOPIC—The Baby. John
JUNIOR TOPIC—The Man Who Pre
pared the Way for Jesus.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP
IC—The Herald of the Christ.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
—Character and Work of John, the
Baptist.
John was a great man. In an
nouncing his birth the angel said,
“He shall be great In the sight of the
Lord.” He was not only great In the
Lord’s sight, but was great when
measured by the standards of men. In
the teaching of this lesson a survey
should be made of John’s life and
work.
I. Birth and Ministry Foretold
(Matt. 3:3; cf. Isa. 40:3).
He was thought about and his work
planned long before he was born. He
came jts God’s messenger. His life was
a plan of God. He was said to be a
man sent from God (John 1:6). There
is a sense in which every life Is
planned—everyone is sent from God.
Everyone should remember that God
has something to do with his life.
11. His Character.
1. Humble (Luke 3:4). He did not
seek human praise and commendation.
His supreme concern was to proclaim
the Christ. He did not make himself
prominent—was only a voice calling
upon people to prepare for the Mes
siah. His person and habits were a
protest against the luxury and hypo
critical formality of his time.
2. Courageous (Luke 3:7). He faced
a great multitude and struck hard at
their sins. He did not trim his mes
sage to suit the crowd. He even de
nounced the religious leaders of his
time and demanded of them fruits
worthy of repentance.
111. His Preaching (Luke 3:3-8).
1. Demanded Repentance (vv. 3-6).
Suddenly emerging from his seclusion,
he came into the region of the Jordan
as a messenger of God, calling upon
the people to repent in preparation for
the coming of the Messiah.
2. Demanded Proofs of Penitence
(vv. 7,8). He Insisted that their false
religions be abandoned —their sinful
hearts renovated —showed them that
the vile passions of their souls must
be uprooted. A change of mind, that
is. the turning of the soul from sin to
God, was necessary. This is a prepa
ration which must be made before one
can see and experience the salvation
of God.
IV. Jesus’ Testimony to John (Luke
7:24-28>. Because John did not see
the interval between the “sufferings
of Christ” and the “glory that should
follow” he was perplexed. Therefore
he sent a deputation to Jesus for light.
The prophets did not see, or at least
did not make clear, the interval be
tween the crucifixion of Christ and His
second coming. The two events were
so presented as to appear to he in close
succession. John in his preaching has
stressed the mighty judgments which
should take place at the appearance of
the Messiah. The turn things were
taking (he himself being Imprisoned
with the gloomy prospect of death),
was In great contrast to the coming of
the Messiah in fiery judgment—“the
ax is laid unto the root of the trees”
and “the chaff is burned up with un
quenchable fire” (Matt. 3:10, 12). The
trend of events puzzled him. It w’as
not lack of faith, but confusion of
mind that prompted his inquiry.
Christ’s testimony defended him
against any such an accusation. Christ
vindicated him against a vacillating
mind because of the storms of persecu
tion. He was not like a reed shaken
by the wind (v. 24). He had lived a
life of self-denial, therefore he did not
deny his faith in Christ because of the
dungeon (v. 25). Jesus declared that
no greater prophet had arisen. That
which perplexed John was the delay in
Judgment—the day of God’s patience
while gathering out the Church. This
was a truth not disclosed to the
prophets —that which Paul made
known —because a special revelation
had been granted (Eph. 3:3).
V. The Martyrdom of John (Mark
6:14-29).
While John was in prison Herod had
frequent interviews with him. John
boldly told him that it was unlawful
for him to have his brother’s wife. He
did not mince matters even with the
king. This so enraged the licentious
Herodias that she caused his death. He
sealed his testimony with his blood.
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