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The Lee Co. Journ al}
OFFICIAL ORGANOF | E COUNTY
AND CITY OF LEESBURG
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Ihere ave many people who can
tell just what to do to abraighten
out the world economic sitnution
who can’t start up their own flivver
when ghe gets stalled.
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Things won’t go right in this
country until the nmmumber of hoes
equals the number of bageball bats,
Principle sign of fertile goilg in
gome people’s gardens is the num
ber of weeds that are growing.
VILLAGE QUARRELS
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It used frequently to happen in
country towng, that people would
quarrel with each other and remain
enemies a long time. People have
been known to remain at gword:
points for years, when the whole
trouble arose because one man failed
to keep his hens from roaming over
his neighbox’s property, or similar
insignificant causecs. When people
have the quarrelsome spint, any
difference of opinion may lead to
harsh, words, and a permanent
breach is created.
Such needless Jifferences are less
common today, because country
interests have grown bigger and
folks have more to think of, hence
do not brood so much over fancied
slights. These quariels are a curse
to rural lite. To accomplish re
sults in country towns people must
all be friendly and harmonious.
MISTAKES OF MARRIAGE
1f most people will Tosk over thei
personal acquaintances, they will
find some startling contrasts Letween
the experiences of different people
and can sec how some mistakes
early in life led to a great deal ol
misery and unhappiness, Vouy
common among such mistakes is the
error of & wrong choice in marriage,
One girl will marry a substantial
and loyal man. They will create o
happy home, make warm friends
bring up their children with modern
advantages, and probably escape for
many years the more gerious trous
bles of life.
Another girl with equally grood
chances will make a wrong choice
and tie herseli to some unworthy
man. After the burden of support
of ehildren has been taken on, this
husband may get sick of carrying
the load, or tire of his wife and
home surroundlngs. There will be
gome kind of a split. Many ol
these cases are pitiful, where the
care of a little group of children has
been thrown upon sonie woman w 1o
fecls herself entirely incapable of
self support. Not merely is she un
happy. but all Ler relatives and
friends must share her distress,
The future of the children is pre=
judiced, and a long current of un
fortunate mischances may follow
from one impulsive error.
The many cases of this kind sug
gests to young women how exceed
jingly careful they should be to as
gure themselves that their prospec
tive husbands are men who have
proved loyal in the relations of life
which they have hitherto occupied.
1f they have proved tricky and
unreliable, there is little chance
that their married life will be any
better.
Also it wou'd seem as if every
girl oaght in common prudence to
train hereslf toearn her own living,
g 0 in case of unforeseen disaster she
may have a resowse to fall back
upon.
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SOME HARD FACTS
ABOUT SOFT FADNEY
‘ By Jot:;g;;WOOD
When a farmer takes his product
to market and sellg it for, say, a dol
lar a bushel, he ig dependent upon the
honesty of two measures—the dollar
and the bushel.
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The other day a crossroads store
keeper got sent to jail for manipu
lating a trick bushel basket with a
false bottom that would slide up and
down in a way that was grand, gloomy
and mysterious. When using it to
measure stuff he bought from a farm
er, he'd secretly shove the bottom
down until it held at least a bushel
and a quarter, but he would only
eredit him with a bushel. The buying
power of the farmer's product was
thereby depreciated by about twenty
per cent.
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Finally the farmers thereabouts got
wise to the fact that the only way
they could get what was coming to
them wag to enforce a reliable stand
ard of measurement. So they put a
good stift jail penalty on using a
fake measure, laid for that store
keeper with the trick basket and sent
him to prison.
Politicians in Xurope have been
manipulating the other measure—the
money measure-—in much the same
way. Some of them in America want
to tamper likewise with the dollar.
Here is about the way it would work
out. Suppose, when the farmer
brought his product to market, the
basket measure was honest enough
and hLe got a dollar bill for each
bushel. He'd take his dollars home
and save them. Perhaps he planned
to huy some land next his own for a
thousand dollars, and figured that in
a year or so he could make it.
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But meanwhile the politicians start
to manipulate the base of the cur
rency. They would change it from the
gold standard to a fiat money plan
—from a gold guarantee to the meve
say-so of the government that a picce
of paper was worth a dollar. The
farmer wouldn't be watching the
money-politicians. He would be too
busy raising things. At the end of
the year he has his thousand dollars.
He takes them to the landowner and
gays, “I'll buy your land now-—here's
a thousand dollars.”
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But the landowner would say, “That
is paper money—my land is worth
one thousand dollars gold—the gov
ernment has printed so much paper
money folks haven't much coniidence
in it. But I am willing to take a
chance if you will give me a dollar
and a quarter in paper money for
each gold dollar's value of my land—
in other words, I'll give you my land
for $1,250 dollars paper.”
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Soft money would be only another
way for the money-politicians to hand
the farmer the same dirty deal as the
basket manipulator. In the first case
the farmer unknowingly gave a bushel
and a quarter of his product, and in
the second case he would have to give
a dollar and a quarter of his money,
for a dollar’s value in return.
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In Germany they have carried the
manipulation of the mark so far—
well, it seems hardly believable, but
if they did the same thing to the dol
lar, it would take over ten million in
paper money to buy that land. The
primary producer can raise his prices.
but not fast enough to equalize this
drop in the gold value of unsound
money. That is where the catch
comes in. %
A cypress tree with a trunk 50 feet
In diameter exists at Santa Madia
Del-Tule, Mexico,
China has 225 people to each square
mile of territory, Japan has 376 and
Australia less than twa
IHE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL, LEESBURG, GEORGIA
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THE HIGH COST
GF CHEAP MONEY
Widows and Orphans Among
Chief Losers From Unsound
Currency.
E.E. AGGER CITES EXPERIENCE
Specuiators Rather Than Inves
tors and Producers Win From
Currency Depreciation,
The loszes and costs borne by the
government and the people of the
United §States from unsgound moncy
experiments, from colonial times
down, doubtless total more than our
staggering World War appropria
tions, it is declarcd by E. E. Agger,
an authority on economics, in the
Journal of the Amierican Bankers’' As
gsociation, “Cheap money,” he says,
‘is very costly, since frenzied finance,
gpeculation and business disaster
liave invariably followed in the wake
of unsound currency. He cites his
torical experience showing that wid
ows and orphans were among the
chief{ sufferers.
“New generations of adults, like
children, have to learn over and over
again that, when playing with fire,
one runs the risk of being burned,”
Mr. Agger says. “Indulging curren
cy heresies constitutes such an adult
playing-with-fire. A glance over our
own historical experience would dem
ongtrate thig to the most ardent ‘easy
money’ advocate, but such advocates
are usually those to whom history is
‘bunk.’
Soft Money Advocates Seek Profit
“Unfortunately those who are will
ing to kindle the kind of conflagra
tion involved in ‘soft-money’ experi
mentation are not the only ones hurt.
Indeed, they inay extort an advan
tage for themselves. But the record
is all too clear concerning the mass
of people. Heavy losses, injustice,
disorganized production and numer
oug other evils are inevitable,
“Unsound money projects impose
heavy costs on the government itself.
The first effect of cheap money is to
raise prices. Mounting prices mean
that, to meet its needs, the govern
ment must appropriate always larger
sums. Again, dallying with unsound
moucy weakens the government’s
credit. Prospective bond buyers be
come hesitant when currency depre
ciation is threatened, because theie is
danger of agitation toward the pay
ment of government obligations in the
cheaper money rather than in specie.
Any such weakening of goverment
credit means lower prices received for
bonds, consequently greater burdens
on the Treasury. Assuming that, in
the end, sound principles triumph, the
indulgences of the unsound currency
days leave further costs to be met.
If paper money has been issued it
must be rodeemed. It a government
be unwilling to stoop to repudiation
it must raise much more in taxes to
pay for the paper money than it re
ceived at the time of issue.”
The total effect of paper issues in
increasing the cost of the Civil War is
estimated at about $600,000,000, Mr.
Agger says, continuing:
“Much more serious than the costs
of unseund currency to the goveru
ment are the heavy direct and indi
rect costs imposed upon the people.
Qur productive system is controlied
through prices, and the upset of prices,
caused by a depreciating currency, in
terferes with the proper harmonizing
of the different lines of production.
Price changes are not instantaneously
or uniformly effected throughout the
whole system. The result of an in
flationary movement is a stimulation
of speculation and over-investment in
some lines, with inadequate develop
ment in other lines. The period of
speculation seems a period of prosper
ity, but how false and unsound is such
prosperity is disclosed in the stress
and agony of the inevitable period of
liquidation which, Nemesis-like, foi
lows on the heels ¢f the boom.”
Wealth Unfairly Re-distributed
Mr. Agger then describes ‘“‘the dis
tressing e¢¥ects of an unsound money
on the distribution of wealth among
classes and individuals. Cheapening
money through inflationary expedi
ents is a gigantic fraud upon the ered
itor classes as against debtors. All
those dependent on fixed incomes, or
receiving specified sums in terms of
money, are penalized when the pur
chasing power of money is depressed.
In like manner the stockholder profits
at the expense of the bondholder—a
fact which implies a reward to the
more speculatively inclined at the ex
pense of the conservative. :
“Advancing prices cause discontent
and give rise to agitation and unrest
among those whose incomes cannot
promptly be adjusted to meet higher
living costs. Strikes are fomented
and production is curtailed. Every
body shares in these burdens. Lack
of stability in money also undermines
and weakens habits of thrift. A cor
rosion of the moral integrity of the
pecple is inevitable. Dishonesty is
stimulated and a desire 10 gain by
speculation rather than to earn a live
fihood by productive and useful labor
causes a marked deterioration im pep
alar habits and character.”
UNITED STATES CENSUS
BUREAU I 8 INVESTIGATING
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH
As we go to press the United States
Census Bureau have & number of men
at work at the office of the State Board
of Health, checking up the reports sent
in from this county and others of
births. This is being done to find out it
our State is reporiing a sufficiently
large number of births to be admitted
to the registration area of the Nation.
The Census Bureau makes an estimate
of births, which should occur in a
given State from the vast number that
are reported throughout the country.
This percentage must be attained be
fore we can be allowed to come in and
qualify, 'The Bureau of Vital Statis
ties, under Dr, Davis, has already reach
ed the goal required for deaths, and
now hopes that we may He admitted in
full,
Our people do not give enough at
tention to this matter. Every birth
ghould be immedlately reported by the
physician or midwife, and if not done
by them it should be done by the par
ents, If you will report this birth to
Dr. Davis, and ask for it, a Baby Book
will be sent you by the Bureau of Child
Hygiene. If the birth was reported by
thie physician, as the law directs, you
should ask Dr. Alice Moses for the
Baby Book.
There are two things that you should
be sure is done when the baby comes,
have the drops put into its eyes, and
the report of its birth sent in. This re
port is tabulated at the Capitol, in
dexed, the report bound in a book and
locked in a fire-proof safe for the pro
tection of your child.
MCRE HEALTH WORK NEEDED.
Cleorgia should rank high in the gal
axy of states. She cannot do so with
out a clean bill of health. A clean bill
of health rests on the prevention ot
disease, therefore our State should
spend freely of her money for making
the State a safe place in which to live
The public health is in the hands of
the State Board of Health; do not
shackle the hands of this department
by being stingy with funds; chains of
poverty will effectually cause starva
tion, stunted growth and shortening
of life.
Dr. Abercrombie, State Commission
er of Health, invites any citizen of our
State to closely investigate his depart
ment; especially would he be delight
ed to have our law-makers not only to
g 0 minutely into the work done by the
State Board of Health, but to go stijl
further and see the wonderful possi
bility for good if he only had the funds
to extend the good work.
Money spent in liberality to prevent
tiiness is well spent money. Health
can be bought; State appropriationy
should be liberal and abundant to dn
#| necessary health work.
A VICTORY FOR '
AMERICAN MOTORISTS 4
Tll:e Qrude R?bber Mmp::{fl‘wukon:ll
:ul:l‘i‘c :::aa::n:tofi:ng:. of th:lz::ub €% "
try today reflects the dete tion of .
the American Motorists l&;t?: Prices o
shall stay at a reasqna evel - and o
that America must produce fn own rubber.
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CUTS TIRE PRICES -
EFFECTIVE JUNE 11 g e
We announce a ten (10) per cent reduction
in tires and tubes, effective June (11) eleventh.
The lowered cost of crude rubber and the :&e—
-clal Firestone manufacturing and distribution
advantages make this possible.
Firestone factories are organized on a basis
of large volume and effective production. Costs
are down, but quality is at its peak, Stock
holder workmen are daily building many thou
sands of Gum-Dipped Cords—the best Firestone
ever produced and, we believe, the leader on
the market today.
Firestone Cords took the first four places
and elght of the ten money positions in the
Indianapolis swespstakes, May thirtieth, with
out a single tire failure.
: Get @ set of these Gum-Dipped Cords from one of the following dealere: e
Lee Sales Agency Leesburg, Ga.
Most Miles per Dollar ™
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YOU ARE NEVER
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Secare From Fire---
But you me secured from going “‘broke”
after the fire if your property is properly
insured,
Others consider it beter to pay o little for
isurance than to lose a lot by five. How
ahout you?
] represent the most reliable Cempanies of
America.
7T. C. THARP,
i.cesburg, - Georgia.
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I have a complete line of Patent Medicine of all
kinds now in stock and can supply your demands
for most anything, Castor Oil, Turpentine, Epson
Salts, 666 Chill and Faver Tonie, Giroves Tasteless
Chill Tonie, Vicks Salve, Vaseline, Quinine, Cap
cules. You ean buy this at a big saving by buying
from me.
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AN D QT
J. K. FORRESTER,
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Leesburg, s3mmts Georgia
Timber Wanted
[ amn in the market for Pine Timber will
pay for delivered at my mill 10, 12 and
14 dollars per thousand. This is a good
chance to make money on your timber
if you are prepared to haul it.
R. F. POPE,
Leeshurg, : Georgia
P ¢ Gum-Dipped Cords have set mew
m:w in mileage, traction, comfort and
y. o?a{ owners havs éxpregsed their ap
govfl ’3: extra value in &beetone Gum
préd Cords® by inoreasing thekr purchases
one hundred ninety-four per cent (104) in the
past six months,
Wa have replaced many expensive branches
with warehousds. We have today one hundred
and e:gx.t 808) distributing points which are
deltve tone Tires to the consumer at
the lowest cost in our history.
Follow mudootosonomscslurebwlngb
equip Pirgstogle Gum-Di; Cords—and
m vm most mies per doli?:d means to you
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