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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 10,1923,
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GENERAL OFFICES
NEW YORK AND CHICAGO
URANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIFAL CITICS
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THE COUNTRY MINISTER.
Formerly many people went to
church because there was no other
place to go on Sunday, but a minis
ter bas to have a live message to at
tract folks in these times of many
distractions. Those clergymen secemn
to win the most interest who take
hold actively in the daily life of
their communities,
Many ministers, realizing how dif
ficult it is for busy country people
to find time for public work, are
giving splendid service in such ways
as organizing Boy and Girl Scouts,
helping with improvement and busi
ness organizations, planning for so
cial and athletic life, ete. The clergy
man who assists in such activities
will attract interest in the message
which he has to deliver from his
pulpit.
MR. MARDING AND COUNTRY
LIFE
President Harding may not have
done all that the rural interests
hoped would be done to meet the
difficulties that the country people
have had to deal with. But it will
be admitted by all that he realized
the difficulties that the agricultural
population had to face, and that.he
made a sincere effort to relieve
them.
During the life of the Congress
that adjourned last March, a great
body of new laws designed to im
prove agricultural conditions passed.
These laws may not touch some of
the most serious: evils from which
-‘tf_xe farmers suffer. But at least
they demonstrate that the national
government realizes that the welfare
of the farmers is essential to nation
al prosperity, and that means must
be found to put agriculture on a
better basis.
.~ Warren Harding was the kind of
man that the country people like,
gtgin, simple, practtca), gensible,
without pretnensions or fuss and
feathers. The;:wjl} long revere his
memory as a t‘,‘?eéfxiqfid and leader.
~ HASTY MARRIAGES
" Not all divorces are the result of
sudden and hasty marriages, but a
lot of them follow from that cause.
A fellow and a girl will meet each
other at some dance or-other occa:
sion. They at once become infat
uated with each other, and the de
sire for immediate marriage comes
over them. They haven't the sense
to wait a little, see what kind of
character their new flame develops,
make some inquiry as to the person
they are selecting for a life-long
partner,
With precipitate haste they agree
to love and cherish each other until
death shall them part. In many
cases these words arc said lightly
and thoughtlessly, with the feeling
that it is merely an experiment, and
they can separate and try it again if
they do not like it. Although prac
tically strangers to each other they
enter on what is intended to be a
permanent relation.
After the first rush of sexual feel
ing has gone, and after the shams
and illusions have vanished, jthen
they wake up with a start of disil
lusion., They discover that one or
both of them have serious faults
what make wedded happiness impos
sible. The closeness of the relation
makes them jar bitterly, harsh words
pass, and soon they hate instead of
love each other, and the divorce
court is the result.
If people only had a little more
sense they would enter into the mar
riage relation with some caution,
and realize what a calamity an un
fortunate marriage is. The man who
makes the mistake may be saddled
for life with the support of a wo
man whom he detests, while many
women have found that the experi
ence left. a -lifelong bitter taste.
Young people will promote their
own welfare and happiness by mak
ing their choices in calm delibera
tion, and as the result only of a
?onsiderabe period of acquaintance.]
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cause the vroads. bad, but this
mey not prevent thegm from teking
automobile .ridel.
l \Pi:c d:f_\;.'lig‘ht %vefl i the cities
might try to'avodd hot weather b
having their thermometers, marked
10, degreeslower. & . 0
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There are some people who will
chisr~ enthusiastically at any pub-{
lic mq'ng for the advance of their
figime community, but if it is sug-.
gested that they should put up a
fittle money to’' help this or that
Loiie town enterprise, they are
found wanting, There are others
who are extremely free with their
valuable advice about home condi
vions, but if it is suggested that they
agsist financially in improvement en
terprices or take stock in local un<
dertakings, they also are missing.
Many people who feel they cannot
afford to put money into any local
business, may yet have some funds
which they could lean as a mortgage
on sceme house or,farm, or other
property. Or they can build a little
aome for themselves and thus in
creasce the housing accomodations of
the town.
People who put up apartment
hou-es for. two or three families
should succeed in getting a low rent
for themselves, and they do their
part in making their home town
grow.
1t seems strange that some people
will £2nd money away to invest in
anknown and doubtful enterprises
in distant states, when better in
sesunents in some local business or
near by farms or homes, could be
aad that would be more secure. In
many places a promising local busi
aess will be prevented from expan
sion because it can’t get capital,
while a lot of money in being sent
way into speculative enterprises.
I'cople who invest their money
‘n o home, in banks, real estate, or
local concerns, are in a position to‘
watch it and know whether it is
well handled or not. The number
of pcople who lose money through
near by investments is small com
pared with those who drop it
‘t.hruugh sending it away to strangers
and distant locations.
THE DEATH OF A PRESIDENT
The death of President Harding
must set the country to thinking
whether the bunden that they place
on a president i 8 not almost more
than a man can bear. Mr. Wilson
was broken in health by the cares
and responsibilities that came on
him with crushing weight, and now
his successor crumbles under the
same strain,
It may be said that Mr. Harding’s
death was due primarily to the at
tack of indigestion that he suffered
on liis return from Alaska. Yet the
chances are that such an attack
would never have proved serious
had his physique not been weakened
by the intense and unremitting
strain to which the holder of this
high office .is subjected.
It sometimes seems as if the prob
léms from which the world is suf
fering are almost insoluble, for
many years at least, so great has
been the loss and derangement
created by the great war. Yet we
expect our publie men to meet ali
these difficulties, restore. mnormal
business and social welfare to a
country that is torn by factional
controversy and selfish grasping,
and when a president fails to solve
the insoluble, we tear him to pieces
and vend him with criticism and
sarcasm, The life of a prisident
must be one of incessant strain due
to unjust criticism and ridicule. A
man would need to be almost super
human not to suffer wear and tear
from this experience, and thereby
Jbecome somewhat prediposed to
weaken under the attack of disease.
It will always be safd for Warren
Harding that he tookthe difliculties
of his office with as much serenity
and good nature as any man could
possibly show. His quite, resolute
effort to bring back his country and
the world to a better day has aec
comphished much in one of the most
trying periods of world history, and
his memory will be the subject of
affectionate regard from every
American heart. Also the country
will congratulate itself that his sue
cessor is likewise a man of serene
temper and democratic sympathies,
who will do his best for American
pr«)gress."
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~ Those who are in a “run down' condi
tion will" notice. that Catarrh bothers
£ood Boalip. "'Thid fadh prouse’that while
good e act proves” while
Catarsh 9 a local” dgo{sé. ‘it s greatly
influenced by constitutional conditions. |
HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE con
‘sists of an Ointment :which = Quickly
Relieves by local application, and the
Internal Medicine, a Tonic, which assists
in improving the General Health.
Sold by druggists for over 40 Years.
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IHE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL, LEESBURG, GEORGIA
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“INTERNATIONAL
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Otto H. Kahn Refutes Idea That
Foreigr Finance Activities Dull
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BANKING REFLECTS BUSINESS
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“International Farmer” and Other
Business Men Who Sell to Foreign
Markets Create Demand for Inter
national Financial Service.
The idea that bankers engaged In
financing foreign trade and in han
dling foreign bond flotatlons are a par
ticular cult of “International bankers”
actuated by motives differing from
those of other bankers was refuted
recently by Otto H. Kahn of New
York, in an address before the Roch
eater Chamber of Commerce. |
“There 18 no eguch thing as an ‘lo
ternational Banker’ {n America, as the
meaning of the term s general'y
understood,” Mr. Kahn said. *“He exists
in the imagination of people all too
pumerous, but be does not exist in the
flesh. You might just as well speak
of the ‘lnternational Farmer’ because
the farmer sells a certain percentage
of his crops to Europe, or of the ‘ln. !
ternational Manufacturer.
“The banker maintalns, and can
maintain, international contact, and
conduct international business, ornly to
the extent that American industry,
commerce and agriculture are Inter
natioral. 'True, thz banker must take
within his purview continuously the
conditions of affairs and the current
of things throughout the world, but
g 0 must the exporter and importer,
and so must the farmer take into ac
count the prices and tendencies of the
world market in Liverpool.
Banking Mostly Home Business
“The American banker's market fs
the home market. His success {8 con
ditioned upon the capacity and will
ingness of the American Investor !l
absorb the securities wnich he offers.
His very existence depends upon the
confidence and co-operation of the
public and of his fellow-bankers—and
any banker whose activities would
justly create the impression that he
was actuated by cosmopolitan rather
than by American interests would
very soon lose that confidence and
tollowing.
“The business which he does for his
own account in, with, or for Europs,
fs inconsiderable as compared to the
business he does in America. His prin.
cipal functions in relation to Europe
are to provide the requisite banking
facilities for export and import and
for travelers. That part of his func
tions which consists in financing loans
of forelgn governments or lndustries{
has hitherto been, with sporadic ex
coptions, of relatively inconsiderable
proportions as compared to the vast
ness of the volume of his trausact:onsl
in financing American industry, com:
merce and enterprise.
Necessity for Forelgn Credits
“In saying this, I do not mean te
imply that there is anything that call
for apology in the floating of foreigr
loans in America and in the loaning
0! American funds to Europe, provid.
ed such loans are considered sound at
to security and are made for legitl
mate, constructive purposes. Indeced
such loans ought to, and I believe will
be made in Increasing measure, when
conditions in Europe will have become
such as to warrant it.
“It {8 manifest that the promotior
of our export trade, including, o
course, the export of farm products
requires us, under the circumstances
as they now are and are likely tc
remain for some time, to aild the pur
chasing power of other nations by ex
tending to them financial factlities t¢
a reasonable extent.
“It {s the function of the banker te
be imstrumental in carrymg out sucl
transactions. In doing so, he s the
means of serving a useful nationa
purpose, just as he served a useful
indeed a highly important nationa
purpose, in being the means of attract
ing and bringing European capital tc
America fn former years when condi
tlons were reversed and such capita
was nothing less than vital to the de
velopment of this country and the
realization of its opportunities.”
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FOR SOUND MONEY
Senator Oddie of Nevada, chairman
of the United States Senate comm!s
slon to investigate the problems of
gold and silver mining, has allayed
the fear that Waestern Senators, in
thelr zeal to ald the cause of silver,
might launch an unsound money wave.
“l am for sound money,” Senator
Oddle says. “There is no thought of
bimetalism or departing from the gold
standard. We desire to help the great
mining industry, but not through the
creation of an unsound currency.”
The commission is to study and re.
port on the causes of the continuing
decrease in the production of gold
and silver; the causes of the de
pressed condition of the gold and si)-
ver mining industry in the United
States; the production, reduction, re.
fining, transportation, marketing, sale,
and uses of gold and silver in the
United States and elsewhere; angd the
effect of the decreased production of
gold and silver upon commerce, o
dustry, Sxchange and prices.
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CLEW TO LOST ISLAND RACE‘
Prof. MacMillen Brown Examines 100
SBtone Images in Eastyr Istand
Which May Tell the Story,
Sydney.—Prof. MacMillen 3rown, a
noted Polynesian authority, has re
turned from Easter island, which, ke
says, is the most inaccessible place in
the world. :
The huge cattle ranch there owned
by a Valparaiso firm is worked by 300
natives and two whites, and is visited
annually by a Chilean schooner, There
are no land birds or native animals,
and once small gray rats were used
as currency and ultimately served as
titbits for the aristocracy.
Professor Brown examined the 100
famous stone images in human form
standing on great stone platforms, be
low which are chambers where are
~laced the bleached bones of the dead.
Jome o the statues are of immense
size, finiy 70 feet in height and
crowned by huge stone hats
The professor believes that tens of
thousands of workmen erected the
monuments to the people of a bygone
Pacific empire inhabiting the ring of
archipelagoes whereof Easter island
{s the center. The native name means
navel or center of the earth. Profes
sor Brown's theory is that food was
taken to the workers in canoes from
peighboring islands by the masters
who came to bury the great men of
the race.
There Is unmistakable evidence of
the sudden abandonment of the work,
probably a cataclysm submerged the
tslands, cutting off the supplies of the
workers.
GERMAN OFFICER IN BOLIVIA
General Kundt Said to Have Re
nounced Hls Nationallty.
Gen. Hans Kundt, during the war
a commander of a Prussian regiment
of grenadier guards, has lald aside
his German nationality in order to ac
cept the appointment as minister of
war of Bollvia, according to advices
recelved by friends in Rerlln. He
organized the Bolivian army before
the war and returned to that country
fn 1919. The entente, however, ob
‘ jected to his connection with the army
a 8 a German national, and he became
naturalized, whercupon he wnas ap
pointed to the government post.
24,816,599 ACRES IN GRAPES
Italy Leads World With 42.82 Per
Cent of Vineyards. -
Approximately 24,816,509 acres of
the world’'s surface are covered with
vineyarde according to a grape-groav
erg’ trade journal issued in Berlin
Europe contalns 92.7 per cent of the
total acreage.
Ttaly has more vineyards than any
other country, its plats running to 42.82
per cent of all vineyards in the world.
Spain ranks second with 18.4 per cent,
then France with 15.5 per cent, while
Germany at the present time has only
T 2 per tcent. e 4
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No Beil Weevil!
Big Crops=—Cheap Land
WOULD you like to live in Lamb County,
Texas, where boll weevil is unknown
and where one man can farm 100 acres of cotton?
Would you like to own a farm in Lamb
County—ijust like land in this county, where
40 to 50 bales are being raised on 100 acres?
Would you like to come to Lamb County
and make some real money—and own this new
land on easy terms—less than rent in most
places—if so write us today.
The Halsell Ranch Is Now Being Subdivided
Here is a new farming country with every
advantage. Corn and wheat can be raised as
well as cotton. A wonderful Dairying, Cattle
and Hog country—Abundance of good water.
This Land Is On or Nearthe Santa Fe Railroad
Write Today for Descriptive .
Literature and Full Perticulars
The Halsell Farms Company
Lamb County, Texas
A new town is now being built on the property. The
Santa Fe railroad station is already there. Schools and
~ Churches will be established. Address your letter to
The Halsell Farms Company, Sudan, Texas.
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