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Vol 20. No 42
SINGERS MEET
LAST SUNDAY
IN ALL DAY SESSION AT MT.
ZIO N—NEXT CONVENTION TO
GO TO OHOOPEE THE SECOND
SUNDAY IN JANUARY.
The Toombs County Singing Con
vention met last Sunday in all day
session at Mt. Zion church. Good
iinging was enjoyed all day by the
large crowd that attended, also din
ner was served on the ground in the
afternoon.
Many prominent singers from dif
ferent counties was present at the
convention. Among those being
present were: W. L. Coleman of
Graymont, Marvin Bazemore of Met
ter, Homer Saturday of Collins, E.
Z. Coleman of Cobbtown, E, M.
Sweat of Swainsboro.
The next meeting place of the
convention will be Ohoopee, . when
the singers will meet there on the
second Sunday in January for an
all day session.
WORLD’S TIMBER RESOURCES
BEING STEADILY EXHAUSTED
The United States can not depend
upon the forests of other countries
to augment its own timber supply,
according to the data presented in
“Forest Resources of the World”, a
new book written by forest econo
mists of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture. This com
prehensive study of world timber
conditions shows that the world’s re
quirements of sawtimber will double
within the next fifty years if the
rate of increase during the past few
years is maintained. Moreover, as
the rate of timber growth is equal
to only two-thirds of the amount of
wood consumed, the total supply is
continually shrinkage.
“The most pressing forest prob
lem from a world standpoint is the
necessity of providing adequate fut
ure supplies of soft-wood timber,”
states the book. “This can be done
by using all of the forest land for
the continous production of timber
crops. At present only 10 to 15
per cent of the world’s timberland
is so handled, the rest being regarded
as amine valuable only for the tim
ber now standing on it.”
'"Vs ne-' bock which is not pub
lished by the Government, confirms
the earlier statements of the De
partment of Agricutlure, that this
country can not depend upon imports
of the great, all-purpose softwoods
when its own supply is gone.
Colonial Theatre
PROGRAM:
Monday and Tuesday
“Poor Mens Wives.” with an
all star cast. Added attract
ion “Fox News.” f
Wednesday— Frank Mayo
in “The First Degree.” Also
funny comedy “A Spooky Ro
mance.”
Thursday—Another all star
picture “The Hero.”
Friday—Ethel Clayton in
“ Can a Woman Love Twice”
Should a woman remarry?
Can a broken heart be mend
ed?
Is second love as strong as
first love?
Can memory ever blot out
first love?
Seethe answer at The Colonia.
Also comedy “Six A. M.”
Saturday William S. Hart I
in “Terrible Tulliver”. A I
Tweedy comedy “Just A Min- g
ute.” |
Colonial Theatre |
The Lyons Progress
| THE FROST IS QN THE PUMPKIN
NEGRO FARMERS STUDY
PERMANENT PASTURES
One hundred and fifty farmers
coming from Chatham, Bibb, Henry
Lamar, like, Spalding, Troup, Meri
wether, Clarke, Washington, Rock
dale, Walton and Newton counties
recently motored to Covington, Geor
gia, to study the Mr. Evans Luns
ford’s Pasture Farm.
Seven Negro farmers, four dem
onstrators and two home demonstra
tion agents, accompained the farm
ers to Covington with the idea in
mind of selling to the most progres
sive Negro farmer in Georgia, the
plan of making permanent pastures.
Mr. Evans Lunsford personally
conducted the visitors over his 100
acres of fine pasture land. When
Mr. Lunsford explained how he had
started and maintained his perman
ent pasture, fed and marketed some
of the finest Herefords in the south,
the Negro farmers stood in silence,
drinking in the information they had
come so far to get, but after group
rftcr bad walked the 1”0
acres in pasture and observed close
ly the herd of herefords as pretty
as those seen in pictures, the farmers
began to realize the importance of
pastures.
After a barbecue furnished by the
canning and farmers’ clubs of New
ton, Rockdale and Walton counties,
Mr. Paul Tabor, Pasture Expert of
the State College of Agricutlure,
gave the farmers information on
how to return home and do what they
had sden on Mr. Lunsford’s farm. A
representative from each of the 13
counties spoke, telling of the infor
mation gained and their determina
tion to return home and start a per
manent pasture.
At a time when Negro farmers
are leaving the State in large num
bers, it is very significant that ag
ricultural pursuits of a permanent
nature are being started among the
Negro farmers of Georgia. With
permanent pastures in Georgia, live
stock production will be a success
and hundreds of Negro farmers who
have migrated because of economic
necessities, will return to Georgia,
the greatest agricultural state in the
Union.
There are 33 Negro farm and home
demonstration agents in Georgia
working under the direction of Mr.
J. Phil Campbell, Director, Exten
sion Work of Georgia, Georgia State
College of Agriculture, Athens, Geor
gia. Last year, these 33 agents
working in 40 counties, carried the
message of improved methods on the
farm and in the home, "so 161,321
farmers, farm women, boys and
girls.
FOR SALE —Good 6 room Housi
and 10 lots near Church and School.
Cannot house for price asked
for. Information see or write S. A. |
LYNN, Lyons, Ga. Oclß. i
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TOOMBS COUNTY
LYONS. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. OCT. 18 1923
fORD BE SUPREME
AT SAVANNAH FAIR
AGENTS OFFER SIOO IN GOLD
FOR “LIZZIES” OF ALL DES
CRIPTION WILL HAVE AUS
PICIOUS OPENING.
Fat Fords and lean Ford, young
Ford and old Fords, rich Fords and
poor Fords, tall Fords and short
Fords —and fordless Fords —in fact
“tin lizzies” of all descriptions wiTI
wear the diadem of popular appro
val atthe Tri-State Exposition
grounds on the opening day of the
fourth season, Ford Day, October
27. This will be a day when every
man, woman, and child who attends
the fair in a “John Henry” will au
tomatically enter a contest which
will create the wildest excitement and
amusement for the greater part of
It will be an auspicious
l occasion for the formal opening of
the fair at Savannah this year.
There is something unusually at
tractive about Ford Day at the Sav
annah fair that will result in sever
al hundred “tin perfections” rolling
into the gates from all distances and
under all conditions. The magnec
tic force that will serve to increase
the attendance at the fair on the
opening dax lies in the announce
ment made \ few days ago by the
local Ford dealers, J.' C. Lewis Motor
Company, and Chalker and Fussell.
They have offered SIOO in gold to
be distributed as prizes to people
who visit Savannah, October 27, in
a Ford.
Ford Day at Savannah will be the j
greatest gathering of “Boby Lin- j
coins” ever seen in this section of
the country. To provide ample ac
comodations for the mechanical
visitors, the fair management has
designated fifteen acres as parking
space. There will be no charge for
parking Mr. Ford on this day of hum
ble obeisance to the most economical j
means of transporation humanity (
has known since the days of the
Renaissance. Further than that,
the Exposition directors have agreed
that every Ford and its driver shall
be admitted to the grounds free.
No circus or outdoor attraction
that has been engaged for the fair
season will provide any more amuse
ment that the judging contest of the
Fords for awarding prizes. Every
detail that can be imagined to make
the occasion an enjoyable one will
be outstanding on the Fords. The
i decisions will be made by represen
tatives of the donors. The follow
ing is the range of wards, and the
stipulations for winning them: (All
money in gold meces)
j Ford longest distance j
i to fair, first $10; second $5.
REPRESENTATIVE WIMBERLY
SPEAKS TO BROTHERHOOD
Professor Ernest Wimberly, mem
ber of the state legislature, and of
the faculty of the Fulton County
High school, wasthe speaker at the
■ meeting of the Brotherhood of the
! Lutheran Church of the Redeemer
Monday night at 7 o’clock. His sub
ject was: “Gems of American Liter
ature.” Super was served by a com
mittee of women at 6:3C o’clock.—
’ Atlanta Journal.
: DEATH CLAIMS LITTLE DOT
PHILLIPS OF COVENEA, GA.
Little Dot Phillips, four years old,
' daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Phil
j lips, of Covena, Ga., died of diabetes
'; at the home her grandfather, Mr. A.
| S. Mosley, Sunday afternoon.
Funeral services were held Mon
| day afternon at Boiling Spring
j church, where the remains were
buried.
I can sell you your winter wood at
a reasonable price. See me before
you buy.
QUITMAN WILKES.
Best decorated Ford, first $10;
Second, $5.
Largest family attending in Ford,
$5.
Newest bride and groom in Ford,
; $5.
Oldest man attending in Ford, $5.
Oldest woman attending in Ford,
i $5.
Oldest couple attending in Ford,
•$5.
Ford with brighest colored boy,
$5.
j Noisiest Ford, $5.
Heaviest man in a Ford, $5.
Heaviest woman in a Ford, $5.
Tallest man in a Ford, $5.
Tallest woman in a Ford, $5.
Most dilapidated Ford, $5.
Oldest Ford on grounds, $5.
Most accessories on a Ford, $5.
The prizes mentioned have been
| contributed by Messrs Lewis, and
J Chalker and Russell, local Ford
agents, to stimulate attendance at
the Exposition. Both firm will
have large booths on the grounds,
and they request all Ford owners to
include them in their visit.
designating the opening day
“Ford Day” as well as “Navy Day”,
the fair management has complied a
program that will be ttractive to ev
ery person in Savanah’s zone wheth
er or not he owns a Ford. This
will be the day that the fearless
Blue and White squad of the Savan
nah High School clashes with the
University High School on the grid
iron. Also the presence of two;
destroyers of the scouting fleet will j
increase the activity as there will
j be a parade, and a naval demonstra- (
tion. 1
SIT. MARKED THE CLOSE OF MOST
SUCCESSFUL FAIR TOR TOOMBS CO.
Thisjyeek
111 l lilt
By Arthur Brubaa* .
MEN NEED FEAR.
HO WLONG CAN YOU THINK?
DIVORCE AN CANCER.
HOW RICH ARE WE?
Rev. Percy Stickney Grant mourns
as follows:
“If 85 per cent of young men en
ter college believing in Christianity
and nearly all of them have lost their
faith on leaving college, we are
teaching Christianity in the wrong
way.”
■
Very likely hard facts of science
are taught in away that crowds out
bejief in miracles. It must be rem
embered, however, that boys in their
teens do not exactly believe anything
They only take for granted what has
been told them.
It takes long mental medicine to
plant religious belief in a young
mind beyond all possibility of up
rooting. A man. known all over the
country, said at the recent Lloyd
George luncheon in New York:
“Only frhe Catholic Church stands
between property and red radical
vconfiscation. The Protestant church
lost its power when it stopped teach
ing that there is an actual blazing
hell. Men need to be frightened.”
The gentlemen is a good Protes
tant and goes through ali the usual
motions, but he is discouraged. If
it’s true that fear of hell fire alone
1 will keep men honest, that’s sad.
But is it so? The American Fed
erations of Labor, which is non-sec
tarian, comes out strongly and offi
cially against Communism, confisca
tion of property and other extreme
radicalism. High wages enable men
to acquire property. And when a
man owns something, he at once ob
jects to any plan for dividing evenly.
Capital will learn, perhaps, that its
safety lies in making the little man
a little property owner. A house
paid for and a savings bank account
will inspire more conversation than
any fear of hell.
“Harvard will teach freshmen to
think.” F'erhaps it can be done.
But it recals the old saying about
leading a horse to water.
“I write, not that you may read,
but that you may think.” Montes
quieu put that in his ‘‘Spirit of
Laws” long ago. Socrates showed
where true thinking when
he said he supposed he was called 1
the wisest of the Greeks because he
knew that he knew nothing.
Thinking cannot be taught, ex
actly. But it can be stimulated.
When the apple fell, that started im
portant thought in Newton. When
Columbus made the egg stand up,
that probably made the spectators
think {rp a few seconds.
But how can you teach or provoke
PROLONGED concentrated think
ing? Select your subject, “matter
unlimited in infinite space,” or “time
without beginning or end,” or “the
logical probability of personal im
mortality. The average mind will
find it hard to stick to one thought
for three minutes.
For seven marriage in the United
States there is one divorce. For
seven people of middle age one is
sure to die of cancer.
Some call the divorce cancer
worse than any other malignant tu
: mor.
If we understood cancer and di
vorce we might find them not so far
! appH.
I Both' come from ignorance, both 4
Subscription SI.OO
EXHIBITS BETTER THAN EX
PECTED FAIR PRIZES ARE
PAID THIS WEEK MADE
SOME MONEY.
The Toombs County Fair, Satur
day night, closed a most successful
week. The attendance was fine all
the way through.
The directors express themselves
as being very much pleased with the
outcome of the fair this year.
Fair Prizes are Paid
The fair, prizes were all paid the
first part of this week, and checks
were mailed out to the premium win
ners.
The Fair as a Matter of Record
Due to the efforts of many from
all parts of Toombs County, the fair
was an unusual success. The ex
hibits were good, the display of all
exhibits was very attractive. All the
way through it has been a most suc
cessful, encouraging fair. Every
•exhibit was given absolutely impart
ial treatment and all exhibitors left
with a determination to do better
next year.
The boys did well in the corn, pig
and barrows clubs this year.
Prize Winners to be Carried Next
Week.
Every effort was made by the
Progress this week to carry the prize
winners, but on account of the list
being turned in to us late, and it
being unusual long, we were unable
to carry it in this issue. We hope
to be able to carry the list in full
next week.
GINNING NOTICE
After this week the gins will run
only on Thursday and Friday.
W. C. MASON
DAN ODOM
FOR SALE—IO3% acres of land?
in best farming section of Toombs
County. Terms can be arranged to
suit buyers. See.
T. L. NEW,
ts. Lyons, Georgia.
I am now in shape to do all kind
of Transfer hauling. See me
QUITMAN WILKES.
could be prevented.
The voter of Oklahoma seem to
have decided against Governor Wal
ton, in favor of the Ku Klux by an
overwhelming majority. Governor
Walton secure an injunction to
prevent an election that would im
peach and put him out.
It it be true that the Ku Klux
completely control a great State,
that interests all other states. It
may be that Oklahoma voted not so
much in favor ofthe Ku Klux as
against Governor Walton’s use of
militia to prevent voting.
Statistics put the wealth of the
United States, everything included,
at three hundred thousand million
dollars.
Taxation assessment on New York
City’s real estate is increased, this
year, more than one thousand mil
lions. The total assessed value of
New York is eleven billion and a
quarter, tl would be impossible to
guess the total wealth of the United
States, with several cities that will
| soon be bigger than New York is
| now, —Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle,
! Detroit, among others.
When old Germany finishes build
i ing the big Zeppelin ordered by this
country, the great Zeppelin plant
mast be dismantled and destroyed.
Such are the orders of France. A
plant that thfe world needs for its
progress is to be made a junk pile
because it might make machines for
war. It’s natural for France to
maintain her distatorship in Europe
and protect herself against num
bers, while she can. But could not
France herself run that factory, or
sell the plant to be transported to
this country? All nations share UI9SA
, burden of such wilful waste.