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THE LEE COUNTY (JDURNAL}
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 31,1923,
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THE WHEAT CROP
The most serious trouble with
American farming is that the wheat
growers are raising more of their
staple than can be sold. The wheat
production of Europe is recovering,
but the purchasing power of Europe
does not gain much. FEurope can
not for some years buy a normal
supply of American wheat. The
country is now producing a surplus
which must be sold abroad or not
at all. It seems essential for a
portion of the wheat raisers to pro
duce something else.
Many people hold that the situa
tion can only be remedied by gov
ernment action fixing a price for
wheat. Such price fixing would en
courage an enlargement of the
wheat acreage, and lead to increase
instead of decrease of the crop. The
best way will be for a proportion of
the wheat growers, those whose land
is best adapted to other kinds of
farming, to grow some other staple.
THOROUGH PREPARATION
Many young people, about now,
are questioning whether or not to
quit school for good and go to work,
or to take some further preparation
for their desired occupation. It is
well for them to reflect on the great
ly superior reward that the world
gives to compentence and good
training.
For instance, a friend from an
other state was telling recently of
his daughter who has entered the
nursing profession. Learning of
management of a hospital, and learn
ed that they could give her a two
year training course. But while
such a study would be very practical
and helpful, it did not go deep
enough to suit this father. He
wanted his daughter to understand
more of the principles of medical
science, the nature and causes and
treatment of disease. So he had her
take a thorough five year course
adapted to that end in a college
having a department of nursing.
When she finished that course she
began work in a city hospital. With
in a few weeks the head of the
hospital was taken sick and had to
resign, and this young college train
ed nurse was chosen above all the
others to take her place. If she had
not had this special training it would
probably have taken years to se
cure such advancement.
While an instance of this kind
may be regarded as extreme, still
it is constartly happening in all
callings that well trained young
people will make rapid progress,
while others drag along for years
doing the same thing over and over
again, and perhaps losing their in
itiative as the result of deadening
routine.
The well trained beginner takes
hold of new work with a confidence
and sureness that brings ample re
ward for all the effort of prepara
tion. - Difficulties that seem ' insur
mountable to people of imperfect
training, seem byt slight matfers
of every day detail to those who
have mastered them.
THE PRESIDENT AND
THE WORLD COURT
President Harding's utterances
on his western trip reveal what bit
ter opposition he has had to en
counter from his own party to his
mild and limited suggestion thalt
this country join the court of in
ternational justice.
In addition to reservations which
he felt at the start to be necessary,
he now suggests that this court, to
win the adherence of the United
States, should have the last vestige
of relation to the League of Nations
cut o. He would not even let the
assembly of the league, with the
addition of representatives of the
United States for this purpose only,
fill vacancies in the court that may
occur in future years,
. If the United States insists on
this point, the result is likely to be
that we shall stay outside of the
court. One of the great difficulties
in the way of forming such wM
has &{u been to find & way of
f‘ol'fl uch a cenrt,“gas a‘llslyl
been to find a way suiting sll na
tions for electing the judges. Elec
‘ti(»n by the assembly of the League’
of Nations, proved the method
that would solve this problem, If
this country simply sends delegates
to take part in m&{.electionl on the
lrure‘ oceasions when they occur,
our country gets its full rights in
the court, and does not undertake
any obligations under the League of
Nations,
‘slbut the opposition to internation
al” ev--operation on the part of a
large part of the Republicans is so
go bitter and unreasonable, that even
|t.his mild and harmless proposal en
counters intense opposition, and is
likely to keep our country out of
the world court for the present.
It seems doubtful if the nations
will overhaul the plan which they
agreed upon after great difficulties,
just to quiet irrational notions of
Revublicans obsessed by dislike and
ferr of the League of Nations. Not
|much is likely to be done to pro
mote world peace while the Repub
licans retain power.
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DRIVING AROCUND CURVES
J.aws and rules for automobile
salety usually require operators to
drive slowly around curves and to
sound a horn where you can not see
ahcad. Yet many drivers persist in
driving rapidly around twisting roads
where they are unable to look ahead,
and they rarcly scund their horns,
Such drivers have an easy going
feeling that they could stop in sea
son if they saw a car approaching.
They might be able to do so if one
was coming around a curve very
slowly. But if another car was com
ing at anything the same rate as their
own, it would be almost impossible to
avoid a smash,
As a mattter of fact many acci
idents occur as the result of such
fast driving around twisting roads.
Special care in needed in such local
ities.
The danger is particularly marked
where these roads are narrow, as
they are in many rural and hilly sec
tions. On many of these roads there
is barely room for two cars to pass
under any conditions. It scems almost
crazy for drivers to tear along on
such narrow and curving roads, If
they met another car, they ought to
go quite slowly anyway, even if there
were no curves, to make sure that
they would pass without hitting.
The excuse given by many drivers
for such methods, is that other people
do the same thing, or drive even
faster. But they should reflect that
many accidents are happening all the
time, and as the result of just such
habits. These accidents cause a
reat deal of sorrow and trouble, they
lead to costly lawsuits. It is far bet
ter to adopt those prudent methods
that make driving relatively safe.
Those who can not listen to these
counsels deserve severe treatment
whenever detected in their reckless
ways.
THE HIGHER IDEALS
IN BUSINESS
To listen to the conversation of
many business men, one would
think that their sole object in life
was to make money.
It is a fine thing for a man to
show ambition and to concentrate
his heart on business success. Only
thus can one expect to achieve satis
factory results. But it is well to re
member the foundations on which
all business rests, and the relation
it has to the welfara of the com
munity.
Under the present economic or
der, there is in reality a kind of
it,ucit understanding between society
and the .individual producer, that he
is granted the right to go ahead
and have the products of his own
toil and make what money he can.
But in return for this free license,
he is expected to do his business ac
cording to the principles of strict
‘honesty. He is also expected to
handle his business so that it will
promote the welfare of the commu
nity and the well being of all who
are employed by him.
The people who disregard these
principles are in reality violating
their tacit bargain with the com
munity., They may by exceptional
smartness win a good deal of finan
cial success. But if the entire busi
ness community was like them, the
present social order would stand in
danger of a revolutionary distur
bance, and their entire prosperity
would be menaced. )
¥ is particularly essential that
business people consider the wel
fare of those who work for them.
They ought to make working condi
tions as hcalthful as possible and
pay a fair wage. If all business con
cerns would do that, if they would
consider human welfare as of the
first importance, and greater than
any results thiat money can buy,
much of the social unrest of the
present time would disappear.
IHE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL, L.LEESBURG, GEORG
THE GLARE OF THE WHITE
% HOUSE
~ The new preeident is known as a
reticent man, but he is skilful poli
jan enough to know that in his
prdgent position he must expect to
have the minutes doings of his life
carefully explored. The neighbor
hoods where he lived as a boy and
where he spent his young manhood
will be raked over with a fine tooth
comb for incidents of his early life.
Also every detail of his present
habits and that of his family will
be exploited. We shall know wiat
he likes for breakfast, dinner and
supper. We shall be told all about
Mrs. Coolidge’s gowns, and about
the exploits and escapades of his
sons.
Many people complain of the
great amount of space given in the
newspapers to small gossip of this
kind., They consider it an imper
tinent intrusion into the affairs of
the chief executive, that Le has cer
tain rights to privacy that should
not be interfered with.
Yet the American people love to
hear these little details about a big
public man’s daily life and his past
listory. It sdnehow comforts their
sense of democracy to feel that the
ruler of this vast country is after
all just a common man, who has
been through about the same ex
periences that every one else has
lkhad, and presumably understands all
the conditions that affect every
home.
All this small talk about a presi
dent is of course rather light and
triflling. Yet compared with many
things that people read, and ways in
which they spend their time, it is
extremely harmless. Eut if folks
are so much interested in the big
men of the nation, they would do
better to study their lives in a more
thorough way. The story of how
men like Coolidge and many that
have gone befcre him have rigen to
their high positions is full of in
spiration. Such life histories con
tain lessons that everyone could ap
ply with profit to his own life.
THE AGRICULTURAL FAIRS
One of the oldest forms of rural
activity is the agricultural fair, and
the antiquity of this institution and
its flourishing condition all over the
United States shows what an im
portant function these fairs fuifil.
They are one of the leading means
}by which farmers sell their products,
%_advertise their wares, and gain
‘credit for superior production.
i Every county in the United States
‘needs one or more agricultural fairs,
and the community should take hold
‘to support them, and gssist in secur
ing the right results from them.
In many localities such fairs are
financially successful, as the result
of having interesting entertainment
and drawing a big crowd. Yet they
may not be the educational force
they ought to be. They are an oc
casion if rightly handled, when mod
ern ideas of agriculture can L 2 com
municated to the farmers, and dem
onstrations and exhibits of such
methods should always be presented.
There ought to be a general dis
position among the farm and coun
try people to show their products at
these fairs. Farmers in some places
get the idea that the premiums are
likely to go to the best known ex
hibitors, and that a young fellow
who is just starting in or a new
comer would not stand much chance
of getting recognition. But exhibit
ing at these fairs counts more than
people realize, and it gives an im
pression over a wide area that a man
is ambitious and is in the game and
getting ahead.
Great care should be shown in
selecting the amusements, entertain
ment features, and side shows which
are presented. Plenty of shows of
low moral tone are circulating about
the country and trying to get a
chance to open up at good country
fairs, But such exhibits are a curse
wherever they ‘go, and should be
rigorously excluded.
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best bring up our boys and girls,
Thousands of men and boys each year
are flocking to the city. Clerks in the
city are barely eking out an existence
and they cannot expect to receive
much more in the way of compensa
tien.
But back on the farms are men
working for a reasonable return, and
in addition they have their houses,
the wonderful sunshine above in
the daytinje, the wonderful fresh air
and all the things that the soil pro
duces. The boy who is raised on the
tarm will have an entirely different’
aspect of life and approach the vari
ous problems with which he has to
deal in later years in a different way
from the boy who is ralsed ia the
city.
In this period ot unrest we are cer
tainly vitally Interested in rearing
both on the farms and in the clties
boys and girls with the proper out
look for the future, imbued with the
belief that the activity in which the)
are engaged is, after all, something
that will provide them both with the
mecessary things of life and with hap
piness. For in pappiness there is con
tentment, and in contentment in
Anerica there is safety for our insti
tutions,
Every single banker should feel
that the problems his farmer custom
ers have to contend with are not only
the farmer’'s problems but his prob
lems as well. He should feel not only
that the farmer must be prospsrous
so that he can deposit more im his
bank, giving the banker more te loan
end thereby increasing his profits, but
that also there is something whick
cannot be measured in dollurs and
cents. It is the thought of rendering
such service to their tustomers——re
gardless of whether thyy are farmers,
or men working in the shops, or big
business men of the cities—that will
bring not only prosperity but con
tentment as well. The banker should
take as his motto: “Who serves best
profits most.”
THE ROMANCE OF WORDS
“BEDLAM"
üBEDLAM," the 'word by
which we now designate
a hubbub, an excited crowd or
an uproar, has been derived not
from “Babel,” as might be ex
pected, but from “Bethlehem,”
the name of an insane asylum in
London and formerly one of the
most abominable torture-houses
of the British capital.
“Bethlehem" {tself dates back
to 1247, when Simon Fitz-Mary,
a sheriff of London, founded a
priory dedicated to St. Mary of
Bethlehem. Everyone connected
with this institution was com
pelled to wear a black robe, with
a single star on the breast, in
memory of the star which guided
the Magl to the stable at Bethle
hem. Some three centuries later
a London taller named Stephen
Gennings offered to start a fund
to purehase the House of Bethle
hem and turn it into a hospital
for the insane, but it was not
until Henry VII made a gift of
the house to the city of London
that it became an insane asylum,
Owing to the fact that lunatics
were considered at that ttme to
be possessed by devils, Bethle
hem was made a place of chains,
manacles and stocks, while all
manner of hideous tortures were
devised to zout the evil spirits
which haunted the bodies of the
living. During the Sixteenth
century the place became so
filthy and loatheome that no one
would enter it and it fell into de
cay, to be renovated in 1875,
when a stone image of madness,
carved in the Hkeness of one of
Cromwell's doorkeepers, was
placed on the outer wall. In the
literature of the day we find that
the name of the asylum is short
ened, first to “Bethlem,” then to
“Bedlem” and fipally changed to
“Bedlam,® in which form it re
mains.
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No 8011 Weevil!
Big Crops=—Cheap Land
WOULD you like to live in Lamb County, -
Texas, where boll weevil is unknown
and where one man can fasm 100 acres of cotton? -
Would you like to own a farm in Lamb
County—just like land in this county, where
40 to 50 bales are being raised on 100 ‘cres?
Would you like to come to Lamb County
and make some real money—and own this new
land on eesy 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 ap
well as cotton. A wonderful Dairying, Cattle
and Hog country—Abundance of good water.
This Land I's On or Nearths Santa Fs Railread
Write Today for Descriptive
Literature and Full Particulare
The Halsell Farms Company
Lamb County, Texas
A new town is now being bullt on the property. The
Santa Fe reilroad station is already thess. Schools and
Churches will be establiched. Address your letter te
The Halsell Farms Company, Sudan, Texas
(JOB PRINTING
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