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The Lee Co. Journal
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF 1 ¢ COUNTY
AND CITY OF LEESBURG ‘
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Published Every Friday
. P. HORNE, Editor and Publisher
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Entered at the Postoflice at
Leesbrug, Ga,, as second
L clags matter,
Advertising Rates Furnished on
Request.
Subreription $1.50 A YEAR.
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FRIDAY, MAYI2, 1922,
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GEORGIA—FIELD OF OPPORTU
NITY.
Georgia is your opportunity. It is
to the ambitious man of today what
the Golden West was to the pioneer
of 1848, It is more.
No uncertanty faces the agricultu
ral industrial or business prospector
in Georgia. He will take out gold in
proportion to his energy, labor, cap
ital, or all three.
Georgia is the heart of the New
South. It is a highly developed State
yet more than half of its fertile acres
are lying idle. That is because of it:
great size. Georgia is the largest
State east of the Mississippi river. It
contains 59,475 square miles, with an
acreage of nearly 38,000,000, Of this
vacreage considerably less than 20,000
000 acres are being cultivated. (Yet
Georgia, according to last year's sta
tistics, has attained fourth place ag
riculturally speaking. Only Illinois,
lowa and Texas lead in the total an
naal value of farm products.
Georgia is FIRST in peaches. She is
second only to Texas, the largest
State in the Union, in the productflm
of cotton, and is third in meat-produc
tion. ts importance in live stock and
poultry raising is increasing daily.
Georgia is indeed a field of oppor
tunity. As righ as 4,000 a year has
been made from an itensively culti
vated Georgia acre. Profits of $3OO
to $5OO an acre are rather common.
While Georgia is largely an agri
cultural State, her manufacturing and
mining opportunities are wonderful.
There are more than 5,000 manu
facturing establishments of various
and many classifications in Georgia.
Nearly every important industry is
represented in the list. Millions of
dollars worth of raw material remain
in the ground for future development
‘They are at the door of the manu
facturer who comes here and locates.
Both, agriculture and industry are
served by a network of 8,00 miles of
railroads which traverse every part
of the State. Three important ports
Savannah, Brunswick and St. Mary's
are upon 170 miles of Atlantic cost
line. Georgia has all the benefits of
the Panama Canal. The markets of
the world are open before us.
Georgia’s population is now well
over the 3,000,000 mark. Walled off
from the rest of the world she could
support a population three or four
times as great, or more.
Let us not overlook another very
desirable thing to consider about
Georgia as a home for the new-com
er her wonderful climate. The aver
age annual temperature in North
Georgia is 52 degrees; in Central
Georgia the annual average is 63 de
grees; in South Georgia the annual
average is 68 degrees. We have a
growing season in northern Georgia
of 210 days and 260 days in the
southern part of the State.
What Georgian is not proud of his
homeland. and why should we not,
each of us, do our bit in the further
development of the natural resources
which a far-seeing God placed at
our command.
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Cow Taken Up.
One black and white spotted cow,
blind in right eye, looks to be 6 or
7 years old came to my place in
November. Owner canget same by
paying damages and for this adv.
GUY 8. PRYOR,
Route No. 1 Leesburg, Ga.
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GET ON Our Sub
scription List Now,
we want you and you
know you can afford
to Pay the Amount of
$lO5OO ‘
THE GEORGIA FIDDLERS. }
And now comes Macon with be
magnanimity of spirit and will on
the 25-27th entertain the fiddlers
of Georgia ina towrney of musice
such as never heard %o emanate from
the festal how and strings before.
Already they have an agent out
seouring every section of the state.
from the mountain recesses of the
north unto the very fields of Florida,
unto the foot water of the Atlantie
that none of the old boys may be
slighted and that they may have
due time to brush up on the old
tunes that the South loves -#o well
and to which many of s and our
‘parents tripped the light fantastic
ina rythm that has never Leen
iflnrpasr\ed by the jazzes'that hold
“()lll“l in this day.
. Nor are the old fiddlers to stage
the full play, but the younger gener
ation, girlsand boys, to whom prizes
are offered will attune their strings
tand in more formal and classical
!nnh: send the nppling melodv that
Lonly eomes from a violin, into the
!hmu‘tfl of the hearers toat will well
| repay them for an attendance.
<I Auy who would like to enter the
'contest should file their application
'with the proper committee
WHY SHOULD
A NEWSPAPER
PAY CITY
LICENSE.
This question will Le put before
the Council at their next regular
mecting on the First Tuesday mght
in June, and we will expect the
Councilman who suggested that a tax
be placed on the paper to explain.
We haye been unable yet, to find
the man who did this and we expeet
to find out. What is a newspaper
““A PUBLIC INSTI'TUTION” we
are only working for the Public and
the up-building of the ‘‘City of
Leesburg’’ and ‘'Lee County.”” We
do more free advertising for the
County than ary other citizen—we
boost our Merchantsand try to keep
money at home and even spend every
cent possible oarselves in our home
town. las a Newspaper ever paid
a City License in Leesburg before?
No—then why should we be forced
to pay a tax now=—we do not mind
paying the Small amount of §lO.OO
as a license if the town needs the
money=—no that’s not it at all—we
would have paid twenty just as easy
and thought no more about it, bnt
only the looks of it—the idea of any
man wanting to tax a newspaper—
don't think for one minute that we
want this tax taken off for we do
not—we only want to know who was
responzible for it being put on.
SCIENTIFIC NOTES
The first Dutch church in America
was bullt in 1666 In Breuckelen, now
Brooklyn,
01l Is auvomatically sp;uyed on a
grindstone as it revolves, by a new at.
tachment,
French interests are planning an air
plane service between Constantinople
and Paris.
Alpeady the largest port in Franee,
the capacity of Marseilles for shipping
will be doubled.
A human figure, readily moved about
a floor, has been invented to aid In
teaching dancing.
Copper {8 the leading mineral prod
uct of South Australia, followed by
salt and fron ore.
More than 1,500 boys were sentenced
to be birched by the juvenile courts in
England last year.
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A split second watch has been in~“
vented that can be used to time two
movements at once.
One type of gasollne engine has a re
volving radiator which cools itself in
stead of using a fan.
British lve-stock statistics indicate
that there {s one cow for each thirteen
residents of England.
An alcohol! heating stove of consid
erable power has been invented that
i{s the size of a watch.
Four radio telegraph stations sve in
operstion in Venezuela and two more
are being constructed.
IHE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL, LEESBURG, GEORGIA
CHOKEE NEWS.
Thoss attending the pwrent
Teacher's meeting ot the Chekee
gchool hovse Friday aftesnoon were:
Mr. and Mrs. M. \V. Bryan, Mrs.
8, B Camp aud daughter, Miss
Nora, Messrs, 8. M. Jones, Sr.,
Jim Hooks, G. D, Richards, \V H.
Scott, Edker Dyes,
A laige erowd from here altended
eourt in Leesburg last week
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Mis. S. M. M. Jones, Sr, Mre.
Fort Jores hnd children, spent
Wednesday with Mr. and Mys, G,
C. Deriso,
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Miss Nora Campand Mra, Edker
Dyes and baby, were husiness eal ers
10 Leslie Wednesday morning.
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Mre, Hubert Vienum and little
danghter, Allene, spent Wednesday
with her mother, Mrs S, B, Camp,
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Mr. D. C. Jonesis on the sick
list this week.
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Mr. M. \WV. Brvan and mother,
Mrs, W E. Bryanand Miss Lucile
Bryan were shopping in Americus
Wednesday afternoon,
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Mre. and Mrz. Joseph Moses spent
Wednesday night with Miss Mattie
Matthews.
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Mr. and Mre. L. A. Varnum spent
Sunday with My, and Mrs. Enimett
Scott. ‘
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Mrs. S. B. Camp had as her guest
Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Vau
num and little daughter, Gladys
Alene and Mr. Ernest Scott,
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Mr. Wade Camp spent Saturday
and Sunday very pleasantly with
Mr. J. T. Laramore.
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Mr. Henry Bray spent Sunday
with parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jessic
Bray.
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Mrs. J. H. Young and son, Eim
mie Lee, Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Wren, Mrs. Jane Holeman spent
Sunday at Pelham, the guest «f Mr.
and Mrs M. R. Holeman, |
Mr. Green Bryan and sister, M ias?
Lucile Bryan, were shopping in f. 23-
lie Saturday afternoon
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Mrs. Walter Scott and sister,
Miss Mary Eva Scott visited Mrs
Scotts mother, Mrs. | izzie Laramere
of Leesburg, Sutnrday.
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Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Jones, Sr.,
spent Sunday with their daughter,
Mrs. G. C. Derise.
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Mr. and Mrs. Fort Jones spent
Sunday with their parents, Mr. aud
Mrs. John tass, of near Leslie, ‘
NOTICE.
Al parties are hereby notified
that there is a City Ordinance pro
hibiting Cattle, Horses and Hogs
from running out on the strects of
the City of Leesburg. It isthe duty
of the Marshal to put them up and
collect such amounts as the Ordi
nance specifies and which I will be
forced to do from this date on.
This 10th day of February, 1922
J A. Forrester,
City Marshal.
For fifty years known to
the trade as the best for
service.
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$48.00 to $385.00
Send for BAKER BOOK
LET describing the entire
line.
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Baker Gun Company
314 Broadway, New York
YOUR RECORD?
IS IT WRITTEN THERE? SMILE
AT DEATH.
Under the dome of the Capitol, pro
tected by walls of solid masonry and
guarded by a steel door, are the rec
ords of more than 170,000 citizens of
Georgila, In this vault, side by side,
with the birth records, are death rec
ords of more than 90,000 individuals,
who died since the Bureau of Vital
Statistics was organized in 1919, and
many are the tragedies to be found
in these records, while a few comedies
are also recorded there,
Many records are not compiete, The
record of the little family, on the way
to an adjoining state, whom fate leads
to a hotel, which was destroyed %y
fire cannot be completed for none
were left to furnish the necessary in
formation, The death record of the
recluse of a noble family, known only
as John in the community, caused muci
trouble or no one knew his parentage
or birthplace and his relatives were
put to much expense in completing the
record.
Little was known of Bukumba Ka
lamba Wakanauga, but the record of
Tiney Bugg was complete. She was
near one hundred years of age and
had resided in Georgia all her life.
Many peculiar names appear on
the records. Combinations which oc
cur by accident when looked at care
fully, although the record is one of a
death, causes a smile, There was one
whose name was Polly Pod, another
Ivory Hooks, another Rosie Posie.
With very common names the colors
or fruits were mixed. There were
Pink Brown, Green Yates, Green
Berry, Henseta Blue, Little Bit White
and Loved Cherry. Other combina
tions appear on the records as Cry
stal Music, Early Guest, Noble Shav
er, Morning Mayes and among the sur
names are to be found Eyestone, Bean
row, Colddough, Pickles, Eeasterbug
Hogtimihon and Handalong.
The ultimate aim and final purpose
of all public health work is the limita
tion of preventable diseases. Com
plete death records are necessary to
the checking of such work, for with
out such records properly tabulated,
it is impossible to tell whether the
number of such deaths are on the de
cline or the increase and likewise
whether the appropriation for such
work has been judiciously expended
or not.
In the enforcement of the Compul
sory School Attendance Act and the
Child’s Labor Law, the officials will
find the birth records an unerring
basis for its administration. It is be
lieved that by such records the
scholastic census may be purged of
thousands of nameg of those who are
not within the scholastic age to the
detriment of those children who are
justly entitled to participate in the
division of the school funds. The
legitimacy, the age and the parentage
of each child so recorded is establish
ed and many questions as to its right
may, in the future, be settled by
simple reference to the birth record.
The Federal Government, in the issw
ance of passports, is now demanding
the establishment of citizenship,
which can be most easily done by a
certified tirth certificate and in the
gottlement of the Veterans’ claimsg
for additional comapensation a birth
record is required in such cases.
The solution of many social prob
lems now confronting the State may
be found in these records. The lim
itation of the family to one or two
children among the better class with
an average of six children among the
uuneducated negro race means that
tht State must double her educational
fund or that the voter will, in the next
generation, be more easily controlled
by unscrupulous politicians. With
the emigration of the negro to the
northern states, the foreign born ele
ment becomes a problem and a close
and accurate record of such must b
kept in order to protect the native
born citizen. Rather than relax the
records of such immigrants as to
name, age, birthplace or parentage,
it would be better to take the finger
prints of each child born of foreign
parentage in Georgia so that the race
of anarchists and bolshevists might be
identified regardless of such changes
they might make.
In the past the importance of keep
ing the birth record of a child has
been compared hy unthinking people
with the keeping of the pedigree of
!standard bred hogs and dogs, the com
parison is not fair, especially when
‘applied to a human being, for none
are to be compared in any way with
hogs and dogs. With the modern
legislation to protect, develop and edu
cate the child at the expense of the
tax payer, the tax payer has the right
to demand a complete record of all
children, so that he may not be im
posed on by unscrupulous parents.
The State has the right to a complete
record of all citizens since it places
certain age qualifications as to the
enforcement of its laws, And certain
ly the child is entitled to a complete
and perpetual record of its birth for
in the absence of its parents manyj
essential facts as to its existence can |
not be established in any other way
than by an authenticated birth record.
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Diphtheria is greatly on the increase.
The death rate among children under
five is higher than from tuberculosis
at all ages. The Schick Test deter
mines a child’s susceptibility to diph
theria, ]
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Important, Under Present Conditions.
We Lelieve our DUPLEX BASIC PHOSPHATE, manufactured. by
the Tennessee Coal Tron & Railioad Company, Birmingham, Ala,, will
take tha place of Nitrate of Seda (at one-fourth the cost) not only on
grain crops but all other erops as well. It sweetensthe land and lasts for
two or three years.
We chip in 100 pounds cotton sacks.
I.et us quote you; its worth while to investigate.
Write us for price & Booklets: -
Truitt Coal & Iton Company.
STATE AGENTS, ATI.ANTA, GA.
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