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LEE COUNTY JOURNAL}
OFFICIAL ORGAN LEE COUNTY
AND CITY OF LEESBURG
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PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
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J. P. HORNE EDITOR AND
PUBLISHER
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FRIDAY OCTOBER 26, 1923
Before complaining of slowness of
trade, the country merchant should
try the effect of a little advertising.
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None of the statesmen have com
plained that the public ever thought
any less of him because he came
from a small country town.
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COMMUNITY SINGING
If you want to put life into the
activities of Leesburg this winter,
have the people take hold of com
munity singing at their meetings.
Get a leader who has some personal
enthusiasm and love for music, have
him beat time, and then set them to
work on some of the old favorites
and modern songs. y
Soon you will have some of the
staid and disgruntled old folks roar
ing away and having -a grand old
time. Therq is something in a room
ful of singing people that drives
away the glooms and makes people
realize that life is happy after all if
they can but see it.
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LIFE WITH PLANTS
: AND ANIMALS
People who have never tried life
on a farm have no idea of the satis
faction that comes to a normal mind
ed man or woman from living with
growing things. There is a wonder
ful sense of companionship in farm
animals. The man who treats them
kindly finds they are warm friends,
and there is something almost human
in the response that they give to the
considerate master.
Even the flowers and vegetables
in the garden seem almost to have
personality. They make a grateful
response to the effort put forth to
rescue them from weeds and to give
them water in the dry times, and
seem to say “thank you"” by redoubl
ing their efforts to grow and flour
ish. There "are many rewards of
happiness in this contact with na
ture, which is more satisfying than
artificial pleasures.
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LOSING MONEY
One of the most pathetic phases
of modern life is the way a lot of
people will strain and strive to save
money and then lose it in fgolish in
vestments. They have denied them
selves the comforts of life in many
cases, working long hours and car
rying burdens of anxiety. As the
result of all this effort and privation,
they finally approach old age with a
little reserve which they hope will
see them through until the curtain
falls. Then they invest this hard
earned money unwisely, and soon
find that their little capital has gone
up in some hazardous speculation.
Many people need this warning,
even when they are dealing with
folks who are entirely honest and
square.
There are a lot of very excellent
people who conceive the idea that
they could succeed in business if
they could but collect a little capital
and open up a store or shop. Such
folks frequently persuade their rela
tives and friends to put a good share
of their small savings into such enter
prises.
But the path of business is strewn
with many wrecks. A person needs
to know his trade thoroughtly, to be
industrious, courteous, enterprising,
and have good judgment. A man
may do his best, and fail through
iack of some one of the necessary
qualities.
A losing business eats up money
fast. Hard earned savings accumu
lated over a period of years, will oft
en disappea? in a few months in an
unsuccessful enterprise. Elderly
people of small means ought not to
take the commercial risks that may
be perfectly legitimate for those of
a more youthful age, or those who
can afford to lose something. Peo
ple of small means should ask ad
vice of the wisest business men they
know before investing money. It is
said to be harder to keep money aft
er yom get it than it is to earn it,
THE TARDY MARK |
The old fashioned tacher used to
take the new pupil to her desk, open
up that ominous book of fate called
the school register, and show the
awestruck kid the various murks
against the several pupils. Absence
or tardiness made it necessary to
place a black mark against a pupil’s
name. The youngster was made to
feel that a black mark was a sort of
disgrace,
School suthorities emphasize
punctuality nowadays, as one of the
factors making for. business success.
But the black marks will continue
to gather on the attendance record,
unless pupils and their parents be
come impressed with the idea that
tardiness is a serious matter.
The fact that a pupil is seen hur
rying along breathless way behind
the rest of the young folks, does
not prove that he will be any more
prompt the next day. The habit of
tardiness may have gotten into his
system. If so, it will be a handicap
to success, until it is overcome,
A pupil may not think it amounts
to anything if he is 10 minutes late.
But this irregularity affscts the mor
ale of a school. It has something
the same effect that poor marching
has on a company of soldiers. If
ceven a single member of a company
fails to move in unison with th®
rest, the rhythm of the whole mo
tion is weakened. It is the same in
a school.
If you can get every pupil in a
school to be there on time, it creates
an appearance of discipline and ef
ficiency that must affect fvorably
the work of the whole day. The
parents of Leesburg should all try
to get their own youngsters to school
on time, as one contribution they
can make to the success of education.
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CHURCH WORK
While much remains to be done to
organize the rural forces, the coun
try is fortunate in that church work
as a whole is well started. The ma-
Jjority of country towns have good
churches, though scattered villages
that ought to have this privilege are
often deprived of it.
- But though the machinery of re
ligious activity is fairly well organ
ized in the rural community, yet
‘there is often a great lack of effort,
and the church life frequently runs
along in a lifeless kind of way. It
would be a wonderful boon to any
country town, if during the coming
winter the people would take hold of
the church life with renewed zeal
and try to make it count for more.
If every preaching service could
be attended by all the folks whe
could easily be present, there would
ilw a new enthusiasm and inspira
tion in the services. If people were
more willing to take hold and teach
iin the Sunday school, the efliciency
of this agency could be increased and
the young people would go out with
higher ideals. If the mid-week ser
vices could be better attended, and
‘if people were willing to enter freely
‘into discussion of the themes of re
ligion and social service, a new pow
er in the community would be felt.
Modern country churches are tak
ing up many new forms of activity.
If there is a lack of any kind of or
igunizcd work, the church is in @
splendid position to take it up and
push it and give it the driving power
of its own prestige. .
~ If the people of &‘cvsburg would
take hold of their church work this
fall and winter with the determina
ition to make their religious societies
a more active force for good causes
!th:m ever ‘before, it would have a
iwnndorfull_v inspiring effect on our
‘vommunity life.
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WANTED :—Men. or women to take
orders for genuine guaranteed
hosiery for men, women, and chil
dren. Eliminates darning. Salary
$75 a week full time, $l5O an hour
spare time. Cottons, heathers, silks.
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~ relieve the ache and tension of
overstrained muscles with Sloan’s.
Pat it on gently. You don’t have
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passes away. Get a bottle from
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Why Turn to Right?
The first “keep to the right” lnw'
enacted in the United States Is be
lieved to have been passed by the
‘Maryland legislature early in 1800
THE LEE, COUNTY JOURNAL, LEESBURG, GEORGIA.
U, S, SPENDS HUGE
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Cost of Governing Has Doubled
in Last 10 Years.
$lOO |
i Government 18 now costing approxl
‘mately $lOO a year for each man, womn:
an and child In the United States,
| Compilations belng made by the
United States census bureau at Wash-
Ington ag to federal, state, municipal
~and county taxes have progressed suffi
clently to warrant the broad statement
[\hat the avernge per capita cost of
government of all kinds in this coun
try Is about $lOO annually.
If this cost were spread evenly over
the 110,000,000 inhabitants of the Unit
ed States, there would be many fan
illes whose entire earnings would be
taken for government alone, leaving
nothing for food, clothing, housing and
the other necessities of life. Many
families of five in this country do not
have a total income of $5OO a year,
which would be its cost for government
on a straightout per caplta basis.
Enormous Loc,al Increases.
Figures now in the hands of the
census bureau oflicials show enormous
increases in local taxation, state and
municipal, during the last decade, The
latest figures are for the year 1922,
but those serve to show that in the last
ten-year period state taxes have more
than doubled, while the municipal taxes
of many cities have trebled. Complete
figures are available for seven states
and about fifty of the largest cities.
Most of the cities run around $6O
per year, but a lower per capita cost
of county government to persons liv
ing in the country tends to cut down
‘the average throughout the nation.
! _Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, known
as “the wateh dog of the treasury”
!and the “statistical wizard of con
gress,” because he has specialized on
money problems of the United States,
‘both in the appropriations of billions
‘ot‘ dollars annually and the collection
i of revenue to make the payments pos
siblé, says that the people of this coun
try have several weapons in their
hands which may be used in beating
‘down the ever-mounting costs of gov
ernment. Here are the major points
of the program he outlined:
| Puts Budget System First. -
I—United support of the American
people for the ‘p_udget system, 'even
though it means'the loss of an appro
priation for some particular thing the
community is interested in. The bud
get has accomplished great economies
in the few years it has been in use by
‘tlm United States government, but it
will stand or fail according to the
support it receives from the people.
2—Adoption of a constitutional
amendment to prohibit further issu
ance of all tax-exempt securities. Sen
iator Smoot holds that the present
system not only allows the wealthy
‘ to escape their fair share of the finan
’ cial burden of government by putting
their money into tax-exempt securi
ties, but the favorable market afford
ed such securities is a constant in
centive to state and federal govern
ments to spend.
3—Any new proposal for joint fed
eral-state aid should be rejected out
of hand, no matter how meritorious
it may seem, according to Senator
Smoot. The plan whereby the federal
government matches dollar for dollar
‘npproprlutlons made by the various
states for good roads and similar im
‘ provements is already costing the
United States tens of mdllions of dol
lars annually, but its worst evil, as
- Smoot sees it, lies in the fact it often
encourages states to make expendi
tures they cannot afford on the false
premise that it costs them only half
price, 1
4—When new propositions for ex
penditures are advanced, Smoot
would have the fact emphasized to
the taxpayer that in the last analysis
it is he who pays the bill. To put
the idea in the words of the Utah
senator, “Let the taxpayer ask him
self not just whether it is a worthy
object, but whether it is worth the
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‘Effect on Living Cost.
While the tax burden is not distrib
uted upon a per capita basis, the fact
that $lOO a year goes to government
for every person in the United States
means that it enters into the cost of
living in some form or another for
the rich and poor alike. The present
high cost of living is attributable in
no small degree to the high cost of
government,
The analysis of costs of government
have been completed for Wisconsin,
Rhode Island, New Jersey, Minnesota,
Michigan, Kentucky and Illinois, and
the statisticians are at work on others.
Here are the per capita costs of
state government: |
Wisconsin, $12.92 in 1922, $6.41 in
1915; Rhode Island, $11.84 in 1922,
$6.12 in 1914; New Jersey, $16.91 in ‘
1922, $6.58 in 1915; Minnesota, $17.06 |
in 1922, as against $7.54 in 1915;
Michigan, $24.07 in 1022, $5.66 in 1914; l
Kentucky, $7.74 In 1922, $3.60 in 1914
Ilinofs, $7.83 in 1922, $3.16 in 1915. I
The cost of government in the cities
shows even greater increases tlmn’
those of the general state govern
ments.
New/ork, Providence, Jersey City
and San Francisco all run well over
$lOO per capita as the cost of govern
ment without even the cost o6f state
goyernment belng figured in.
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Junior Red Cross
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Spreads Good Will
‘Throughout World
Nearly 5,000,000 pupils in the schools
of America are following the standard
of unselfish service as members of the
American Junior Red Cross, the an
nual report of the American Red Cross
discloses, This vallant host is rep
resented in 125,072 school roomg of
24,289 schools throughout the United
States. With a service program that
is local, national and international in
scope, the American Junior Red Cross
is working unfalteringly for health
and happiness and in the promotion
of activities among boys and girls
wherever there is opportunity for use
fulness,
Increased activity on the part of
the schools enrolled and deeper recog
nition by school authorities of the ed
ucational values of Junior Red Cross
have been significant features of the
last year. Carrying on educational
and relief work in France, Poland,
Austria, Hungary, Jugoslavia, Albania,
Bulgaria and Rumania, the American
Juniors have influenced the forming
of Junior departments in the Red
Cross organizations of these coun
tries. American boys and girls wear
ing the “I Serve” button of the Jun
jors are proving apt messengers of
the spirit of good will and mutual un
derstanding through correspondence
with pupils in schools scattered
throughout the world. At the close
of the school year in June 2,00°
schools were engaged in. correspond
ence with a like number of schools
in Europe; 284 schools in our insular
possessions and Alaska territory car
ried on an exchange of letters with
schools in the United States and South
Africa. In fact, nearly 2,700 schools
with probably 100,000 pupils were busy
in this fine act of cheerful communi
cation, while 8,347 articles passed
through National Headquarters of the
Red Cross in exchanges between: the
interested pupils here and overseas.
An incident of the year’s advance was
the beginning of activity which will
eventually install Jupior Red Cross
in the Indian schools of the United
States.
From every section of the country
reports of the tour of the unit of crip
pled children with their chorus which
came from the Bakule school in
Prague, Czechoslovakia, to show grati
tude to the American Juniors for their
assistance declare that nothing since
the World War has done so much to
yaken the Red Cross spirit in the
communities visited by the unit.
The work of the American Juniors
in fozeign fields is emphasized in the
advancement of playgrounds, scholar
ships in farm, trade and other schools,
community and school garden work,
and donations of cash and equipment
to children’s organizations. In these
projects $112,660.17 was spent during
the last year in ten European coun
tries, in China and in the Virgin Is
lands.
“It is inconceivable that the Red
Cross could have come thus far only
to retreat; that it could have suc
ceeded up to the present time only to
fail.”—President Coolidge.
Liberal to Ex-Service Men ‘
Over $l,OOO was expended by each
of the 3,600 American Red Cross Chap
ters in the past year in behalf of dis
abled ex-service men. The actual teo
tal speat was-$3,930,000.
Red Oilcloth Effective.
Red, a very Lright red oilcloth,
makes an unusually effective table
covering for a dark corner. Usually
the place for such material is in the
kitchen, but occastonally one se3s It
in studies and sitting rooms and in
the dul! light the effect is really quite
lovely.
Hall’'s Catarrh Medicine
Those who are in a ‘“run down" condi
tion will notice that Caterrh bothers
them much more the#n when they are in
go~d health. This fact proves that while
Catarrh is a lecal disease, it is greatly
influenced by constitutional conditions.
HHALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE con
sists of an Ointinent which Quickly
Relieves by local application, and the
Internal Medicine, a Tonic, which assists
in improving the General Hex!th. .
Sold by druggists for over 40 Years.
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Increased Driving Comfort
Provided in Buick “Fours”
In adjusting the position of the driving seat, in
lowering the steefing column ‘and in bringing the
shift lever and emergency brake within the casiest
possible reach of the driver’s hand, Buick has pro
vided ac.lditional comfort and satisfaction in the new
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heavy traffic the abundant power of the famous
valve-in-head engine and the quickness with which
the car responds to every control enable it to glide in
and out of traffic with the utmost facility, while Buick
four-wheel brakes assure perfect braking and safety
under all conditions. . :
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CONSOLIDATED MOTOR COMPANY
. ALBANY, GEORGIA
Secure From Fire---
liiit;f‘}’Oll are secured from going ‘‘broke”’
after the fire if your property is properly
insured,
Others c;.(m,é'i;ger it better to pay a little. for
insugance than to lose a lot by fire. How
about you?
I represent the most reliavle Companies of
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T. C. THARP,
Leesburg, - Georgia.
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Gipales In History.
The original gipsies appearad in
Lurope at about the begiening of the
jixtsenth centary. [t g probable that
hey were of llindu origin and were
dther exiled because of their religious
\eliefs or ran away from the persecu
jon of Tamerlsne, or Timur, the great
lartar conqueror who lavaded India.
\s their origin was a mystery to Eu
ope when they appearet on its East
rn plains, some German savant de
reed that they were Egypiians. The
opular eorruption of the word
Egyptian” iz the name by which they
wre now known the world over.
That Small Boy.
Just gs the train was about to start,
2 very stout man struggled Into a car
riage and sank into a seat, breathing
heavily. A small bey who sat opposite
appeared to be fascinated. His ardent
. paze eventually began to annoy the fat
‘man, whe demanded angrily: “What
are you staring at me for?” “Please,
gir,” repiied the lad; “there’s nowdere
slse to look”"~¥York Post. @ =
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