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The Lee Co. Journ al} OFFICIAL ORGANOF | E COUNTY AND CITY OF LEESBURG s - e 4 Published Every Friday J. P. H0RNE,............Edit0r EDWIN F. GODWIN __Publisher Entered at the PostoTice at | Leesbrug, G, as sccond : clasa matter. i Advertising Rates Furnizhed on ; Request, | Subseription 81.50 A YEAR. \ —-—"'—M FRIDAY, JUNE, 15, 1923, ITHIS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN l ADVERTISING BY THE N e A N T T a 0 GENERAL OFFICES HEW YORK AND CHICAGO | {PAMCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIFAL CITIES e —————————————————— 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. ——— A 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 RE 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. I \{l4:s Every \, SLE] WRIGLEYS % and give your ' stomach a lift. Provides “the bit of @ sweet” lin beneficial ) form. % Helps to cleanse D 8 imm:;em and 'kzev 566 quickly relieves Constipa tiza, Piliousness, Headackes, Colds and Lagrippe. 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. s B 8 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. w & & 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. * O ® 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.” * & @ 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.” * x ® 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. * ¥ 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 : “ o % e 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. ~ ' ; 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 ™ ) YOU ARE NEVER \ 7 v s ¢ 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. @ o CqiCllcC ma 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. wmmw;nm AN D QT J. K. FORRESTER, ~ ° 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 A Pl s