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THE LEE COUNTY JOGURNAL
VUOLME TWENTY-FIVE
PLANS FOR JUNIOR
REPUBLIC OF THE SOUTH
The Juvenile Protective Associa
tion, with members throughout the
South, is rapidly completing plans
for building and equipping the
Junior Republic of the South, a
gelf-governing village for wayward
boys and girls, it is announced by
Rev. Crawford Jackson, general sec
retary of the association, with head
quarters in the Atlanta National
Bank buiding in Atlanta.
During the remaining of the sum
mer, an intensive effort will be made
to collect funds with which to com
plete the purchase of a tract of land’
of 103 acres in Campbell county,
sixteen miles from Atlanta, on whigh
it is planned to erect school build
ings and shops and general farm
equipment. Approximately $lOO,-
000 is needed, Mr. Jackson said.
- Indorsement of the movement
has been given by leading citizens
in many southern states, association
officials state. Mr. Jackson, in a
tour of the South, said he found
sentiment highly in favor of such an
institution which will be the first of
its kind in Dixie. -
" Leading editors of the State have
strongly endorsed the movement for
the Republic. Miss Emily Wood
ward, editor of the Vienna (Ga.)
News, and one of the vice presidents
of the Georgia Press Association,
says:
“Tre movement, fostered by the
Juvenile Protective Association, to
build and equip a “Junior Republic
of the South” is one to be endorsed
by every right-thinking citizen.
“The plan provides for a self
governing village for wayward boys
and girls and includes a plant
coverning 103 acres furnished with
the modern conveniences and fix
tures of a model town.
“Should this project be a success
and the juvenile inmates, now held
at the detention homes, where they
know only fear, brutality, subjex
tior, band attempts toward escape,
and revenge, be segregated in order
to train that ‘something’ in them,
which makes them want to break
the bonds of routine, convention,
and law, in a place where shame
shall be punishment, and where res
pect is the reward for duty, health,
and politeness, then there will be a
lessening of crime and a tendency
toward support of peace and jus
tice. And the root of the trouble of
jobless youth shall have been ex
tracted.
“Would the young fellow not take
%in saying that he was trained
“‘at -the ‘Junior Republic of the
/§ou_th’, as he unfolded his record
'before a prospective employer?”’
TEACHERS ELECTED
FOR HIGH SCHOOL
At a recent meeting of the Board
of BEducation the following teachers
were elected to teach in the Lees
burg High School during the coming
term
High School Teachers.
Prof. G. F. Petitt, Superinten
dent, Austell, Ga.; Miss Myrtle.
Richie, Rabin Gap. One High School
Teacher yet to be appointed.
Grammar School.
Miss Mary Carter, Ellaville, Ga.,
Seventh Grade and Domestic
Science; Miss Ferrill, Dixie, Ga.;
Mrs. M. M. Martin, Miss Linda For
rester and Miss Mary L. Forrester,
all of Leesburg.
The school will open about Sep
tember 17th, and the coming year
promises to be one of the best in the
History of the school. Let’s co
operate with the teachers and have
a school this year that we -will all
be proud- of. |
" YOUR MOTHER
If you have a gray haired mother
In an old home, far away,
Sit down and write that letter
You've put off from day to day.
Don’t wait until her weary feet
Have touched heaven’s pearly
'gate
But sit down and write that letter
Before it is too late.
¥ 5oa8& B 5 i:
666 cures Malaria, Chills and
Fever, Dengue or Bilious Fever,
It destroys the germs.
LOCAL OFFICERS BRING
IN ANOTHER ONE
Deputy Sheriff Hines, D. M.Mel
vin and G. D. Richards brought in
another outfit Tuesday afternoon.
The still was found on the place of
Mr. W. C. Scott, although he deny- |
ing the knowledge of the still on the
place.
The officers did not go with the
intention of raiding Mr. Scott, but
went to his house to try to learn
the whereabouts of a negro, who
had overpowered deputy sheriff W.
W. McDonald the day before, and
had taken the officer’s pistol and
made his escape, While at Mr.
Seott’s house they became suspici
ous of an odor in the yard about
the house and made an investiga
tion and found it to be in a two
horse wagon that was standing in
the yard, there they found that
beer had been spilled in the wagon
sometime lately. The officers follow
ed. the track and feund that it went
into the swamp to the still, where
ey had used the wagon that morn
ing to move the beer and still to
another place. The still was not in
operation but had everything there
to start as the beer was found to be
ready. .
After retuning to the house Mr.
3cott was questioned, he said that
the boys had used the wagon that
morning, the young boy was sum
moned and admitted that he had
moved the still that morning, but
.ad been employed by a negro to
do so, which the negro denied of
aaving seen the boy in over a week.
The young boy who seems to be
ibout fifteen or sixteen years old
ind his father, Mr. Scott and the
aegro was brought in, while Mr.
Scott and his son made bond and
‘returning home, but the negro was
admitted to the jail where he will
await trial until the next term of
zourt.
LEE COUNTY MEN CONVICTED
i IN ALBANY CITY COURT
? R. A. Knox was convicted in the
Albany City Court, for the violation
‘of the prohibition law, and was
i siven a fine or a sentence of twelve
" months. M. H. Jackson, who was
’qrrested at the same time pleaded
yuilty and rceeiving the same sen
sence. J. B. Ratcliff, who was in the
~ar with Jackson and Knox at the
:ime of their arrest was tried and
acquitted.
303 SETS OF TWINS
BORN IN GEORGIA
All But Seven Counties In State Re
port Plural Births. Interesting |
Nine sets of triplets and 903 sets
of twins were born in Georgia in
1922, as shown by the birth records
of the state bureau of vital statis
ties. The last report of the census
bureau shows a rate for the birth
registration area -of 11.7 for 1920,
whille. Georgia’s rate for 1922 was
13.1 per 1,000 births. The leading
states, according to this census re
port, were South Carolina with 14.8
North Carolina with 14.4, Virginia
14.1, Minneapolis 13, Utah 12, with
the other states showing a decline
rate to as low as 8.8 in Vermont.
Georgia’s rate for 1922 was 13.1
and if the two years be compared,
Georgia has the fourth highest plu
ral rate in the United States.
Of the twins 533 sets were white
an d 369 negroes. Three sets of
triplets were white and six negro.
The plural -birth rate among the
whites was 11.3 and negroes 14.7
1,000 births.
Of the twins 930 were byos and
874 girls, showing 1,064 boys to
1,000 girls, while the total birth re
cord shows 1,058 boys to 1,000 girls,
Of the triplets, 17 were girls and 10
boys.
The nine sets of triplets were re
ported from Baldwin, Campbell,
Coweta, Fannin, Fulton, Houston,
Laurens, Lowndes and Mitchell
counties.
Twins were reported from all
the 160 counties in the statte ex
cept seven: Bacon, Chattahoochee,
Lee Long, Lumpkin, Quitman and
{ White.
Leesl.urg. Lee County Ga., Friday AUGUST 17, 1923}
NEW BUILDING
The new school buildng in Red
Bone district is about ¢ mpleted and
will probably be red * for the
opening of the fall term, The build
ing is a four room building with
auditorium and suverintendents of
fice, and is being constructed of
brick. This will give Lece county
three consolidated schools and all
modern brick buildings. Last year
a number of the counties over the
state only had five and six months
schools but Lee county had a full
nine months term and is going to
try to have a full term this year.
FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION ]‘
B. Y. P. U. CONVENES AUG. 22.
The third annual Convention of
the B. Y. P. Us. of the Friendship
Association will meet at Oglethorpe,
Ga. on Wednesday, August 22nd,
next, for an all day session.
The young people at Oglethorpe
have prepared to entertain all those
who will come with “dinner on the
grounds, and it is especially desired
that every single church within the
Association will have some repre
sentative from among their young
people present at this convention
whether they have a B. Y. P. U. or
not.
Although this = Association is
young yet it is doing fine work and
if you fail to come you will certain
ly miss a blessing.
The program in full follows:
Wednesday Morning, August 22,
1923, = .
9-30 Opening Devotional—led by
Rev E. T. Moore. ;
9-40 Welcome Address by Miss
Janie Tooke, Prest. Sr., Union Ogle
thorpe. -
~ 9-45 Response by Miss Carrie
Adams, of Preston, Ga.
~ 9-50 Our Aims for the New Year
—by W. B. Johnson.
. Vice President Association
10-10 Why we should tide—by
Harry Motcalfe—So. West Reg.
Prest.
10-40 Reports from Unions.
Reports from Officers, Appoint
ment of Nominating of other com
mittees.
11-20 New Key Not Service—by
Channing R. Hayes, State Field
‘Worker. ;
12-00 Barbecue Dinner Served on
the Ground by Oglethorpe Union.
- 1-30 Reports from Committees
and Election of Officers. |
1-45 New Plan of Enlistment
‘Work—by Rev. J. E. O’Quinn
218 Strengthening B. Y. P. U.
‘Work within * the .Association—by
Channing P. Hayes, State Field
‘Worker.
2-45 . Demonstration—by Ogle
thorpe Sr., Union.
2'3Qi Adjourn.
The officers of the Association,
are;
Frank E. Matthews, Americus,
Ga., President; W. B. Johnson,
Pleeasant Grove, Vice President;
J. W. Strange, Ellaville, Ga., Vice
President; E. W. Dupree, Shiloh,
Secretary and Treasury; Mrs. T. F.
' Gatewood, Sr., Americus, Ga.,
Junior Leader.
LEE COUNTY OFFICER LOSES
. HIS PISTOL AND PRISONER
W. W. McDonald, a deputy
sheriff of Lee county, is minus his,
pistol and a negro prisoner as the
result of an unusual experience he
underwent Monday afternoon.
Deputy McDonald, in company with
two other Lee county officers, P. C.
Coxwell and B. E. Powell, was
searching in the woods for stolen%
goods taken from the store of W. M.
Laramore, located eight miles from
Leesburg, which was burglarized
several days ago. In their search,
the officers became separated, and
Deputy McDonald suddenly came
upon a moonshine still, operating in
full blast. A negro who was the
only person at the still was quietly
reading the Progressive Farmer
when the officer stepped up and
placed him under arrest. While he
was destroying the still, the officer
was suddenly seized from behind by
the negro, and in the scuffle that
ensued the officer’s pistol dropped
to the ground. Both officer and
negro made quick dives for the fal
len pistol, but the negro beat the
officer to it and made his escape.
iy
ALBANY, Ga., Aug. 13.—Coun
tics whose peanut growers or any
part. or them are members of the
Georgia peanut Growers Co-opera
tive Association are busy just now
holding county-wide mass meetings
to perfect county organizations.
Representatives of the association
meet the growers at the county
courthouse or some other convenient
meeting place and explain the plan
of organization to them.
These meectings are being held
largely in the forenoon, and the aft
ernoon of the meeting day and the
\day following is time usually em
”ployed by the association represen
tatives to round up any remaining
‘growcrs in that county who mayi
have failed to sign the association
contract in the original drive last
spring. In this way, it is estimated,
’fully 80 per cent of the peanut
acreage will be signed to co-opera
tive contracts.
The Peanut Association has
abandoned its original plan of send
ing representatives into every com
munity that wishes to establish a
local, or branch of the county
organigation. Reasons for this
change were that it would require
a young army of workers, an almost
interminable stretch of time and an
expense that would be prohibitive.
Officers of the association are at
tempting to exercise the greatest
economy in the conduct of the af
fairs of the new co-op, and they did
not feel that the expense of setting
up locals would be justified.
There are fifty-eight counties in
the state that have members of the
Peanut Association. If the average
per cent was only six locals, and
there is one county that has com
munities and members for fourteen,
it would require one man’s entire
time for fifty-eight consecutive
weeks, for*it requires a day to set
up a local, allowing for time lost in
travelling from county to county.
if the work were completed in no
iess time than that, the locals would
not all be organized until next year’s
srop is gathered. To complete them
by gathering time for this year’s
crop would require the services of
2ight or ten high-priced men.
It is believed that the county
organizations will serve all the pur
poses of locals, and at much lessi
expense to the growers, who reallyi
‘lfoot bills after all. |
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.~ TAKE YOUR HOME PAPER
| i L e
. “Most of it is newspaper talk.”
How many times have you heard
that remark made about some piece
of scandal or other‘juicy” item you
have read in one of the big city
‘daily papers. |
~ There is plenty of justification for
the remark. It is quite true.
Practically everything of the kind
that gets into at least some of the
big newspapers is doctored and col
ored to make it more appealing to
the animal side of human nature.
But for this the editors are not
alone open to eritisicm. |
It is what the public demands.
And that reminds us that size
and circulation are not the only
points of difference between the
home-town paper and the big city
daily. :
The home-town editor must con
fine himself to facts. If he distorts
ais news matter he is soon classed
by the public as a plain prevaricator,
and that ends his usefulness in that
town.
If the big city daily confines it
self to faets, without doctoring or
coloring of any kind, it is regarded
by the great majority of its readers
as too slow for this rapidly moving
age.
It is a. failure, because it is not
what its readers want.
Time was when we took many of
these lurid newspaper stories with
a grain of salt, but now we use it
by the barrel.
We don’t know what to believe.—
Joe Williams in St. Marys (W. Va.)
Leader.
666 quickly relieves Constipa
tion, Biliousness, Headaches, Colds
and Lagrippe.
CREATING FEELING OF
RETENTMENT AGAINST
REPUALICAN PARTY
ATLANTA, Ga.,, August 16.—
Washington correspondents and
presumbly Democratic propagand
ists, occording to G. O. P. leaders;
have endeavored to create a feeling
of resentment against the Republi
can party organization in Georgia
by the suggestion that there is con
sternation over the possibility of the
appointment of a negro woman to
the national committee, in view of
the feelings of Henry Lincoln John
son, negro national committeeman,
whom party leaders here recognize
as effectually shelved. The essence
of the sting, it is pointed out, is
contained in the further suggestion
that no white woman would serve in
that capacity in view of this possi
bility. |
It seems that the Republican
party in Georgia, local politicians as
sert, is being managed without any
sort of assistance from Link or his
crowd. They have been completely
shelved and put away for future re-‘
ference, if there being any need of
that, it is declared. The chairman
for Georgia, patronage distributor
and general director is J.. L. Philips,
and the vice chairman is Louis H.
Crawford, the headquarters of the
party in Georgia being in the Cand
ler building in Atlanta. It is, of
course, impossible, leaders here say,
that either Mr. Philips or Mr. Craw
ford would consider the appointment
of any person that Link suggested
should he name a negro woman or
a negro man for that position. The
appointment when it is made, it
is stated, will undoubtedly come
through Mr. Philips’ hands.
The Republicans are trying to
build a white part in Georgia, with
apparently a good foundation in
that direction at the present time,
it is pointed out here, and they know
that the colar line does not admit
of constant and intimate political
associations with the “colored broth
er”, no matter where it is, provided
it ig in the South. There may be
some development in the North,
Georgia party leaders say, but it
will not occur in Georgia, unless
Philips has lost his cunning, which
so far seems to be quite in order.
Link is a dead one as far as
power is concerned in this state
leaders claim, although he has a
nominal position, which will be
taken from him as soon as circum
stances permit. g
SAFETY FIRST! |
Safety first was adopted as a slogan by one of the largest rail
road companies in the country several years ago and was prompt
ly taken up by almost every large corporation in the United
States. For a long time you could see “safety first” dispiayed
in every direction you might look. Especially was this true in
large citiess.
While the novelty of the phrase has worn off to some extent,
the slogan is just as applicable today as it ever was, and is
adaptable to every walk of life. You should safeguard your in
terests at all times. Especially does this apply to your money
and valuables, '
We have safety deposit boxes in our burglar proof vault at a
very small annual rental. Why take chances by leaving your
jewelry and valuable papers around the house to be destroyed
by fire if it should get burned down?
Why take chances, and sometimes endanger your life, by
carrying money around on your person, or hiding it in some
secluded spot? Deposit it in our bank where it will be safe, and
pay your bills by check. A cancelled check is the best receipt in
the world, often times avoids disputes and precludes the pos
sibility of having to pay a bill twice. We take care ¢f your
money, pay it out at your will and do your bookkeeping, give
the very best service and-attention to the minutest detail,
whether your account be large or small. .
BANK OF LEESBURG,
G.A.NESBIT, PRESIDENT O.W.STATHAM,{VICE-PRESIDENT
T. C. THARP, CASHIER,
VERY FEW R. R. .SHORT LINES
WILL STAND THE STRAIN
Cheering signs of the times in
Georgia, as business men point out,
come with the news that of twenty
short-lines railways operating in the
state, twelve reported profits for
July last whereas in 1921 only three
were doing better than barely to
make ends meet, while many were
threatened with fatal starvation.
The officials making the an
nouncements hasten to add that
most of the roads are still in the
convalescent class and that “if radi
cal changes are made in the direc
tion of an arbitrary reduction of
rates through Congressional action,
or if railroad investment is partly
confiscated through an unreasonably
low valuation being put upon it,
very few of the short lines will be
able to stand the strain; it may only
cripple the big fellows, but it will
finish most of the little ones.”
How-be-it, business men say, the
heartening facet remains that more
than half the number of Georgia’'s
short-line railways, which two sum
mers ago were in “the sere and yel
low leaf,” are now, though not
flourishing like a green bay tree,
certainly. sprucing up and speeding
on. This indicates, it is stated,
proper surroundings and efficient
management,
HIGH AVERAGE PRICE
FOR WATERMELONS SECURED
BY GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION
MOULTRIE, Ga., August 14.—
Final figures just issued show that
the Southwest Georgia Melon Grow
ers Association sold the melons of
its membership during the past sea
son for an average of $205.06 a car,
’which is said to be the highest aver
age price that number of cars, in
cluding all grades, ever brought. Six
hundred and fifteen ecars were
shipped. Of this number 129 cars
were of 20-pounds melons. This size
sold for $135.93 a car. Seven cars
of 32-pound melons brought $443.-
71, Fifty-one cars of 30-pound
melons sold for $339.88.
Members of the asscciation here
state that they are well pleased with
the returns, which they claim were
far better than those the independ
ent growers got. The crop, how
ever, was short, and very few melon
men made any money.
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