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The Lee Co. Journal OFFICIAL ORGAN OF 1 E COUNIY AND CITY OF LEESBURG ’ . Published Every Friday | J.P. H0RNE.,...........Edit0r EDWIN F. GODWIN ._Publisher Enterad at the Postoffice at Leeshrug, (ia,, ay second class matter. Advertising Rates Furnished on Request, Subreription $1.50 A YEAR, ' w_‘m FRIDAY, JUNE, B§, 1923 t THIS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN ADVERTISING BY THE T L T b T s e DA R e e P Y T s T GENERAL OFFICES NEW YORK AND CHICAGO *RAMCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIFAL CITICS 'Nother thing this country needs is fewer party clothes and more over :t”.‘Z. e oWy . Formerly the sons used to wear the cast off clothing of their fathers, but 12w the men of the cities wear the cact off finery of their dudish sons. LEARNING THE BIRDS One of the greatest satisfactions of rural existence is to make friends with the birds. Their cheerful and melodious songs represent a higher form of melody than any tones man has invented. No concert voealist can produce a note as liquid or en trancing as that of maay of our fine Teathered singers. It adds a groat Jdeal to the pleas ures of country life to learn who all these birds are, and find out some thing about their habits. Then every bird call heard will seem like the voice of an old friend, and you will listen for them day by day as to a member of your family. One's work may be hard and conditions of ten discouraging. DBut the cheerful melodies of the birds which continue through fair weather and foul are a constant uplift to a tired man or wo man, and suggest thoughts of good cheer and hope. Some of our young boys have been killing some of the sweetest song birds recently with air rifles and pa rents should warn their children, besides this is a violation of the state ‘ law, | | o — SHORTAGE OF FARM HELP } Complaints are heard in many lo calities as to shortage of farm help. Some farmers may agree with those manufacturers who think the immi gration law is too striet, and that more aliens should be admitted to this country. The farmers however are not as a rule enthusiastic about alien help that cannot understand English, It is not merely annoying, but extremely interrupting to work, when you ask a man to go up to the barn to get 2 monkey wrench to mend a machino‘ with, and he comes back in hali an hour after a long search, with a rake or a hoe. The real trouble is not the lack of that kind of laborers. It is that many of our boys who understand the needs of farm life and can per form its tasks with the minimum of friction, are hustling to cities to get high wages paid just now by facto ries, which may or may not be perma nent. | The boys would not quit the coun- | try towns in any such numbers, were it not that farm conditions have not as yet recovered the prosperity that has come back to the manufacturing industries. While the factory work ers are getting high wages for a short working day, the farmers are still having to sell their product for a fig ure fairly well down toward the pre war costs. But the prices of every thing they have to buy remain 60 to 75 per cent above the pre-war figur |- Many country boys, secing this sit uation, have beome discouraged and have gone to the cities. The Leo‘ County Journal believes the major ity of them are making a mistake in‘ the long run. But their action is not surprising when you consider difficul ties immediately in sight. The way to remedy the shortage of farm labori is to assist farm industry by every legitimate means, and make it seem“ attractive to our own boys, who' should be the farm workers of to- MOITOW. ‘ I After Every Meal ' i - - B et f B Top off each meal | with a bit of | sweet in the form | of WRIGLEY’S. { It satisfiies the sweet tooth and alds digestion. i Pleasure and | / benefit combined. | %-';m d@l : ven oxioA) B\ | f‘fi\f}é’ ‘FOR S | »690‘/,/' il (8% D 7 'y & GAHILDREN S 666 quickly relieves CO!‘.;EE;:{.-: t¢n, Biliousness, Headaches, Colds| :nd Lagrippe. : WANTED ‘ Mea or women to take m'd:ers; ‘or genuine guaranteed hosiery ‘or men, women and children. | iliminate darning. Salary 375 a week full time, $1.50 and hour | spare time, Beautifnl Spring! lin~., | INTERNATIONAL STOCKING | MILLS, * [ orristown, Pa, 7-27 ———————— . ————————————— i { Notic | ofice | | Pusi sic R g usiness Liceases now uue aid | 4 | payable to Clerk and Treasurer at ¢nce. { TR BASS, C&T. | | gl I 65G cures Malaria, Chills and Fever, Dengue or Bilicus Fever,, It destroys the germs. l | o | A c¢ypress tree with a trunk 50 feet ! in diameter exists at Santa Madia Del-Tule, Mexico. i | China has 225 people to each square mile of territory, Japan has 376 and Australia less than two. Coca, a shrub growing in Peru, (:on-, tains stimulant enslaving its users to | a greater extent than opium. l The Aland islands are located in the Gulf of Bothnia and have been award ed to linland by the League of Na tions. Canada has not provided a bonus fq)x' her soldiers, but has lent over $50,- 000,000 to the soldiers for agriculture | purposes. Had Wrong Pair Shrinking. » She evidently was a new clerk in the department storve, and wias doing her best to please, Tha customer asked to see wool hose. Two pairs in a slze she wishel were shown her. ’ One palr was a tritle larger than the other, The customer remarked that she liked the smaller palr better, but that she was afraid they were not quire large enough, Bhe wished they were } the same slze as the others, The clerk promptly replied: *“Oh, that is all right, madam, These, the smaller ones, were made to shrink, and the others were not. They were made to stay the size they are.” Complains Air Has Been Stalen. The alr is free, however much the rest of our environment may be in the possession of other folk, is a con soling thought that may now be de nied to us. At any rate, an American gitizen has become so depressed in his mind that he has entered court and, declared that even the atmosphere and all of its contents and component parts have passed into-the hands of conspirators who vivlate the Sherman act by hogging up all of the 25,000 ether-wave - lengths available to his broadeasting station.—The Nation's Business, New Menace to the Automobile, In the Fresno court & man is being sued for damages as a resuit of rail ure to hang a tail light on a biack bheifer. It seems this heifer had de veloped a penchang for wandering about country lanes and roads after curfew time and a stranger in an auto mobile bumped into her. We are lef{ in ignorance as to the fate of the heifer, but the autcwobile was dam aged to the amount of $220.52. The owner of the autemlobile thinks the owner of the heifer should pay.~-Sar Francisco Chronicle, IHE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL, LEESBURG, GEORGIA 13 ' d ; : N i umber Wante i anin the ket for Pine Timber will pay for delivered at my mill 10, 12 and Y 4 dollars per thousand. This is a good chance to make money on your timber if you are p!'v;‘p:n'ul to haul it. » 0 D R. F. POPE, Leeshirg, : Geoigia o) \ i R, AR 4 EAGLE“MIKADO”PenuI No. 174 L D For Sale et your Dealer Made ia five grades ASK FOR THE YELLOW PENCIL WITH THE RED BAND EACLE MIKADO EAGLE PENCIL COMPANY, NEW YORK STIBSCRIBE ne ; BODL WHLLION IR SPERT ¢ MESS NE DAY B MESS DOV 1N ONE D fieinhardt Schmidt From Ger many Has Glorious Time, Due o Fast Siumping Mark. %ioet every hoy and girl in America pt some time aas sat down out be hind the barn or in the tradesmen’s entrinee to the apartment house or gomewhere and said: “Wish I had a million dollars—l'd go to the show and buy candy and—" Weli, everyone knows how It goes. And over in Germany boys and girls aren’t much different down deep in their hearts than they are in Amer ica, perhaps. With this exception— Reinhardt Schmidt, aged fourteen, of Ilamburg, Germany, captain’'s mess boy on the German steamer Ilans Hensoth, has had his wish come true. When he was back In Germany he did his wishing—only, of course, he wished for marks instead of dollars. Then he came to San Francisco, gnd out stepped a falry or something and all of a sudden young Reinhardt found himself in the midst of riches, A newspaper reporter found Rein hardt interesting, He told his editor, And as a result, a girl reporter was assigned to give Reinhardt one mem orable day. The lad was running arvound the decks of the big freighter which had peen his home for months, when the mate stopped him and told him that for the day bhe was to have shore teave and be the guest of the fair lady, who awaited at the gang plank. Bewildered but anxious for just one taste of real fun, he eagerly ac cepted, And the day started. Rein hardt was to do as he pleased. And the lady weuld foot the bill, It started with candy at the ferry building. Then a ride through the city in a Jluxurious sedan—the likes of which Reinhardt had never seen. Then to a store for a pair of geod, American shoes to replace the wooden ones he wore. Then lunch at- the city's most fashionable hotel—the first fruit he had tasted for eight months was served him in a fruit cocktail; ox-tail soup, chicken pie, gpple pie with ice cream, and quanti ties of milk. “I drink no alcohol,” he announced in German. “But milk, at home it is so expersive,” lle reveled in bottles of it. Then a trip to the top of the tall est bullding in the city, and, next, out to the beach to the roller-coast er, the merry-goround and all the other wonders. Reinhardt was gaining his poise and he hardly could wait for each sue cessive thrill, “Powder River—letter buck,” he shouted in his funny English as he mounted a pony on the merry-go-round and waved his cap, cowboy fashion. No satisfactory explanation could be secured as to where he picked up the phrase, but it was good evi: dence that somewhere back in the days of the war he had met some one who knew something of the Ninety first division which erushed through the Argonne forest with that battle cry. R LRS I Love comes just ex while, T Wy wiesi g Ambition needs to look out for brok. en rungs. N 7 N c CENTRAL OF GEORGIA GIVES FACTS v ABOUT RAILWAY VALUATION Radical politicians, whose purpose is to establish Government ownership of railways, have receii'y launched an attack upon the valustion of American railways, as fixed for rate-making purposes by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Patrons of the Ceniral of Georgia Railway have a right to know the facts, conccrning the valuation upon which rates are based, and to have the figures as to the capitalization of this ra'lway, so they may judge for themselves as to whether this Company Is expecting to earn returns upon over-capitalization, or as it commonly termed “watered stock.” : Here are the facts concerning the Central of Georgia Railway and the lines leased and opera ted by it. The aggregate par value of the securities cutstanding as at December 31, 1922, was $75,778,826. Cn that date we owned 298 locometives, 9,056 freight train cars and 312 passen ger train cars. Ihis equipment alone cost as follows: Locomotives, $ 5,770,431.02 Freight cars, 8,796,884.99 Passenger cars 2,758,309.60 Total $17,325,625.61 At present prices this equipment would cost more than $30,000,000. But substracting only the smaller figure, representing actual cost, from the capitalization outstanding leaves only $38,453,200.39 as representing the value of our roadway with its right-of-way, ballast, ties and rails, bridges, signals, telephone and telegraph lincs, other railway property, even including buildines, land, roundhouses, shops, freight and passenger stations and the like. The value of o 1 terminal properties at Savannah and other important cities runs into large figures. For exam ple, our terminal in Savannah, comprises 288 acres with one mile of waterfront for the handling of dowestic and foieign traffic. , The Central of Georgia operaies and leases 1,964.55 miles of railroad, but counting addi tonal main line trackage, passing tracks and yard tracks, we have 2,623.25 miles of track. If the $58,453,200.39 referred to above, covered the value of tracks alone (excluding all other property ueed in the service of the public) it would represent only $22,281.89 for each mile of track. It casis arproximately $25,000.00 per mile to build hard-surfaced highways with only light grading and bridge construction necessary, and without including the cost of acquiring the land on which the road is constructed. Will any reasonably minded person deny that the Central of Georgia track with its right-of-way, station buildings, ballast, ties and rails, heavy bridges, signals, tele rhone and telegraph lines, and other appurtenanccs, is worth more pe: mele than it costs to build a iile of hard road and without 12cluding the cost of acquiring the land? The Interstate Commeice Commission, after years of thorough investigation, has fixed the remtolive valuation of 01l American railways at $18,900,000,600. Those attacking the justice of this valuation are trying to maks it appear that it is based upon present-day replacement costs; that it is excssive and that it imposes a burden upon those who pay freight and passenger rates. This is erroncous and misleading. Valuation figures are based upon cost determined as 2t June 30, 1914, and ignore entirely the increase of costs during the war period. Itis a matter of common knowledge that pre-war costs have practically doubled. ~Additions since the valuation at 1914 figures, have been taken by the Commission at actual cost, minus depreciation. The present outstanding capitalization of all raiiways is about $2.000,000,000 less than the present tentative valuation. In 1922 out of every dollar spent by the carriers, 86 cents wnt to pay the actual costs of the service rendered to the public. The act of valuation can have no conceivable effect upon these costs. Only about 14 cents remained out of which to pay interest on indebtedness, rentals of leased lines, dividends and the cost of enlargements and improvements. ; The railroads ask only that the Interstate Commerce Commission treat them in accordance with the provisions of the constitution as interpreted by ihe "courts. To disregard these constitutional provisions, as demanded by radical agitators, would involve such confiscation of private property and investments made in good faith, as has never occurred in American history. Constructive criticism and suggestions are invited. L - W. A. WINBURN, President, Central of Georgia Railway Company. Savannzh, Ga., June 7, 1923. 70U ARE NEVER -3 » Secure From Fire--- But you are secured from going ‘‘hroke’’ . after the fire if your property is properly insured, Others consider it hetter to pay a little for surance than to love a lot hy fire. How ahout you? | represent the most reliable Companies of America, * : " T. C. 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