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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL, VOLUME TWENTY-FIVE Reply to Letter to . Senator Wm. J, Harris Thefollowing letter from Ilon. W, J. Harris in reply to a letter to him last week will be of nterest to all our reaslers a 3 every person in Lee county is interested in the control of malaria. Hon. J. P. Horne, _ Leeshurg, Ga.: My dear Mr. Horne: - Ithank you for your letter of the 19th inst., regarding the condition of your county, which is caused by malaria. I am glad to take this matter up‘ with the Public Health Service and I wi'l write you further when lam advised. Let me know when I can serve you, and with best wishes, I am Very sincerely yours \WWm. J. HARRIS. Every person iif lee county is interested in the above and we nrel going to make every effmit to get Government aid to do drainage work in this county. If ycu con ‘trol malaiia you have got to first reicove the cause then you can con: I trol it—without drainage we will never be able to do anytning, we _are sure something will be done. -PECANS WANTED—To buy your seed ling and paper shell pecans, new crop only, cash market price paid| for them. Submit samples as soon as gathered, stating approx imate amount you will have. : MILLS-McCORMACK CANDY COMPANY: ’ ALBANY, GEORGIA * Wil sell you your Merchandise Cheap for Cash. We will exchange anything we have, for anything you have that has a market value, or we will pay you the CASH. ~ Come to see us, we might be of some help to you. Everybody is BROKE and everybody knows it. LET’S GO TO WORK. e etttk Jl Ml CA iy gr leeshurg, - - Georgia R. H. FORRESTER, Agent NEW YORK LIFE INSURANGE GO, ASSETS $952,632,139.00 Protect Your Family WITH A GOOD INSURANCE " POLICY. 'Strap Abolished In State Penitentiary Order to that Effect issued By Hardwick. Snggests No Substitute. ATLANTA, Ga.—Saturday Gov ernor Hardwick issued an executive order proscribing the use of the strap in Georgia convict camps. In | explanation of his action the gover nor said. ' *“ I am convinced that the inflice ‘tion of corporal punishment of this character is forbidden by the con stitution of our state, even as a part of prison or chaingang discipline. Sinee I am so convinced, and since lam under oath to support, pro teet and defend the eonstitution of Georgia in all of its provisions I can ’[n(!t even consider any of the prae tical questions involved in this ma.t-l ter ? ‘ Governor Hardwick says he does ot know to what extent it will be difficult to-cor.duct the penitentiary gystem without the use of the strap, but he believes the difficulties in the way are exaggerated, and adds: ““At any rate, I have no concern with that guestion, I have to sup port the constitution of Georgia as I find it.”” “ There have come many letters to the governor from county commis sioners, convict wardens, ete., urging him not to abolish the” lash. They contend that a certain type of felony conviets, both black and white, ‘serving for crimes of violence caunot be managed without the strap, or at least the privilege of applying the lash as a last_ - resort.f Leeshburg, Lee County Ga., Friday MARCH 2, 1923 ! . . . Business 1s Again Back to Normal ‘‘Buasiness is lack to normal"l say the mail order houses in literature received in Atlanta. l People are again sending away from the home town for mer chandise, the lure of the attrac tively illustrated catalogue beirg too great to withstand. A few months ago when the times were tight and money scarce, many of the same people who are now sending to Chicago and New York mail order houses for goods were buying at home, on credit. Then the home mer chant was made use of; as usual, he helped out in a pinch. ; No one buys from a mail order house on time. One sends the money with the order, and- he gets the goods. only when the order is accompanied with the correct amount. When ore lacks-a few dollars of having enough to pay the home merchant for a bill of goods he expects him to wait on him for the balance and he does it. When one lacks a dollar or two of sending enough to pay for the mail order purchase he re ceives notice of -the. deficiency, and he does not get the goods nntil the balance has Leen paid, either in remittance to the house orina C. 0. D. payment when the package comes. In many small towns, and in some larger ones, the home mer chant is regarded by many mere ly as a convenience, The fact that he meets mail order prices on many articles and that pur chases made at home can be seen before they are bought, are buy ing features that are forgotten when the big mail order catalo gue arriyes and cleverly present ed offerings on paper are scan ned. ; Even in Leesburg where Jlo-| cal stocks are large and the varie- ’ ty of the goods equal to any city, ! where pirices are the lowest con sistent with good business and where the latest stylesar2showr, simultaneously with large city showings, there are people who feel impelled to patronize mail order houses, or who think they must go elsewhere to buy what they wish. It is a mistaken fiiea. It is a costly experiment in every in stance. It is unfair to the Lees burg merchants. Leesburg stores have as large a variety, as fine selections, as late styles and low prices as any stores any where. No one ever gains by sending out of Oglethorpe for merchandise. They invariably pay more when transportation charges are figured, and they do not get any better goods or any later styles, 2 FOR RENT. 250 Acres fine Cultivable land, nice home, tenant hous es and pastures. One of the best farms fn Dougherty. - MRS. J. D: WOOTTEN, Sylvester, Ga. Spend Your Money 1. with your home merchants., I They help pay the taxes, l’ keep up the schools, build roads, and make this a com munity worth while. You will find the advertising of the best ones in this paper. l Editors Enjoy “Big Time” in Savannah It .was the pleasure of the Editor of the Journal to attend the mid -winter meeting of the Georgia Weekly Press Associa tion in Savannah from Friday of last week until Sunday. This was probably the largest attendance ever gathered at a mid-winter meeting, about 150 being present. The City of Savannah and her‘ people deserve much credit for the entertainments prepared and the hospitality shown the Editors The Editors arrived on Thurs-! day night and Friday morning and the first business meeting was held at the Municipal build ing beginning at ten o’clock and at which time several addresses were made by promirent speak ers from all sections of the state on different subjects. An ad dress by Mr. Grites, of the Chamber of Commerce at Millen, was very interesting and will be published in all the papers of the‘ state and it is well worth read ing, this meeting adjourned at 1:30 and the party was taken to Thunderbolt - where thay were served an old time Oyster roast prepared by the Savannah News and the Savan nah Press, two of Georgia’s Icad ing newspapers. This was quite a treat to the newspaper people of the state as some had never had the opportunity of eracking oyster before, which is a very nice job if you don’t know how. At this place we also visited the terrapin farm of Mr. Barbree which was an unusual sight. | The Editors were shown the terrapins and everything was explained to them from the time it was hatched until ready for the market. The diamond back terrapin is very valuable on the Northern markets and Mr. Bar bree ships all he raises. At night the Editors wereentertain ed at the different theatres of the city and special programs were arranged for their pleasure. On Saturday another business meeting was held at the Munpi~i pal building and adjourned at 1:30 and the Editors were carried for a boat ride through Savannah’s harbor —where the State Port will be located—and the Lions Club of Savannah served the visitors lJunch with all kinds of refreshments and also furnished an orchestra for this trip. The boat carried the Editors by the home of the ‘““Waving Girl.,” lan the daily papers of last week yon probakly saw a picture of this gitl. The reason she is called the ““Waving Girl’’ goes back to an old love story of 30 years ago when her sweetheart went to sea and never returned, sheis now about 60 years of age and has never left her home expecting him to return on every ship. She is known to all ships the world over and no ship passes the place but what signals her with thre- blows. It was stated that if a sail boat came in at 3 o'clock in tke morning not mak ing a noise she was always on the porch to wave a red lantern, in the day time she uses a white cloth or handkercheif of some deseription. ~ On Sunday morning the Edi tors were entertained at break fast at the Hotel Savannah by the Central of Georgia Railway Company. Messrs L. A. Downs, F. S. Robinson, Jack D. McCart lney, and Mr. Jecksonand several others connected with the Cen- Whats the Matter With Our Merchants? i Recently a salesman selling hosiery visited our little city and sold more than two hundred dol lars worth of hosiery to hche‘ good women of our town. Nowl whats the matter? Are our mer. chants entirely out of ‘‘Hose,"’ surely some of these ladies could have found hose in Leesburg, we will go further and say some of these ladies were merchants wives—do the good ladies of our town go to this mail order housein Chicago when they want to give a benefit dinner for our clubs and churches or do they go to the merchants of f Leesburg— we are going to ask the mer chants of Leeshurg? - tral of Georgia were present at this feust and were called upon to make short talks to the editors We live on the Central of Geor ‘gia lines and for this we feel ’proud of the Central of Georgia. ‘They are ever striving-to build up the territory along their lines and are aiding in agricultural de velopment, mining and manufac fu'ing in éevery way possible. After breakfast we were issued tickets to Tybee by the Central and from Tybee we came back to ['t. Screven where we had the pleasure of viewing the last of the troops from Germany. At the Fort we were served an army dinner by the soldier and were issued a kit—my mistake was I handed the coffee cup to the kit-. chen cook to put beans in—think of that—but anyway after dinner I was sorry I had never joined the army. Capt. Hearn was in command and he deserves much credit for the entertainment of the Editors while at the Fort. After dinner was served a real battle was staged for.the benefit of the visitors and they were shown the different uses of all fire arms and the accuracy of the fire of the machine gun. Well the beans are all right but we don’t want to capture any ma chine guns, : The Fditors returned o Savan nah about 5 o’clock and all de parted for thejr homes during the night—that is, all that were able—trusting that all mid-winter meetings hereafter would be held in Savannah. ; 14 - l .-. © Y Who Is Depositing Your Money _ Are you spending all of your money? If you are, the other fellow is Depositing it. Statistics show by actual observation that six out of _every‘seyen persons in the United States are dependent on relatives or charity for support at the age of sixty-five. Will you be one of the six dependent ones, or will ycu be the seyenth who is independent and comfortable in old age? : “ It is your right and privilege ‘to live comfortable, ~ but in this great land of opportunity, any one who has any degree of thrift and industry can live comforiable _and still have something left to lay up for old age and a rainy day. | ; ; * The best way is to lay aside something regularly and . systematically by depositing itin a good safe, scund bank, like ours, whzre it will accumulate. - ‘ LET US HELP YOU. E ; o ) i G.A NESBIT, PRESIDENT O.W.STATHAM; VicE-PRESIDENT T. C. THARP,[CASHIER, Smithville Sunday School News ’ Smithville Ga, Eel., 25.—The attendance of the Methodist Sunday [S(th(ml Sunday merning wag very poor, ‘ ~ Class N>, 4, Mrs, ¢, R. Malone teacher, was banner class, 80 per cent present. Those attended were Sara Clark, Eloise Godwin and Dorothy Hays. A new pupil was added to the Sunday School roll, Mr. Pafford joined class No. 5. Miss Alice Ans ley teachor. Our Bupt, M-, George Clark appointed Henry Childers to act as Supt. next Sunday, also Edward Clark as Sce. There were two visitors, Miss Bertha Miiler and Roma Phillps. - "~ Cor. Sec. Excoose This Sheat When the cat’s away, : The mice will play, That’s a dead-gone cineh; When Kitty’s at home Rodents fail to roam, ’ For fear of getting a pinch. Editor Horne has been in Sav annah eating and drinking with the fellows and fellowesses of the Fourth Estate, the pencil pushers, who always haye a good time and especially on this trip when Sayvannah took them into her arms and cuddled ‘them like they were a fluffy kitten with a pink ribbon round its neck. He is back now hut was away when the heavy editorial work was be ing done hence this article asking your indulgence for a paper, anent which we would say: When the editor’s away, This is on the level; You can count on play, Indulged by the Devil. Look out for a better paper next week. No man can make such a trip as did Horne without inspiration from his fellows. "‘ Ravages by Rats. It has been estimated that the eco nomic loss from rats in the United States is $200,000,000 a year. In ofher - estimates before the war, the annual damage in the United Kingdom was $70,000,000. As a carrier of bubonie plague and other diseases. the rat 1s charged with ‘the loss of more human lives than all the wars in history. Number 8