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LEE COUNTY JOURNAL} OFFICIAL ORGAN LEE COUNTY AND CITY OF LEESBURG e —————————————— PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY B e —— J. P. HORNE EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Entered at the Postoffice at Leesburg, Ga., as second class matter, e i e— Advertising Rates Furnished on Request. ‘ Subscription $1.50 A YEAR M“‘ FRIDAY OCTOBER 26, 1923 Before complaining of slowness of trade, the country merchant should try the effect of a little advertising. FR——| None of the statesmen have com plained that the public ever thought any less of him because he came from a small country town. e i i Aaaiisteserimecians 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. e O e 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. D 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. B 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. — 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. International Stocking Mills, | Norristown, Pa. 3 | ‘ SR TLA N 1 S ST S SN AL e \ | | e ——— e ] < \\ ‘ B\ o d “ ; g & v <R ‘\‘) V}:’.’: N 1 . BaCk- I\ /7/ ‘%\ 1 2 AN\, ache [ o N\'Y e : 1 1\ ' ' ~ After a hard day— ~ relieve the ache and tension of overstrained muscles with Sloan’s. Pat it on gently. You don’t have to rudb it in. Strain relaxes, pain passes away. Get a bottle from your druggist today—C_3 conts. Tt will not stcin, Sloan’s Liniment &:lis po.r 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 ) 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 COSt‘" ; o ‘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. . Junior Red Cross . 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. I, J. 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Allays thirst. 3 J Soothes the throat. & For Quality, Flavor and =} the Sealed Package, 5 e PRI [ oy 13 \\ = /J%/ THE ; \yg/é/ruwon WO l T IIIIHII“U\’ D Ao \ | m ' l%li | 3 .]s u':s"nfinl".'riu" N‘ g LY d;”'u;fl!.!!!fnp':;w il lmimml;‘{l[} Il T ‘ « Illlt;z“:i ““ \ - TR , | g |'iil ,1!,;%'111:"', I —— .l“‘ P k] QLTI g ; 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 e R e 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. . : ____——__———‘——-w 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 America. N , T. C. THARP, Leesburg, - Georgia. | W ! TR - NATIO l?égg tCi’cnkacC!qlchc.o E)?:L L a€ ¢ GO, I . ’artnelgbe th CE T e . ppl;)tallla%i; qne . e oC U e s?fe§3?iifié§ are il % ,:$ o | E ! NTR F .! . § AL et es, tl‘ial ll.lcc}\le A 0 ages;lleep. imit O\fhib. l FG g nggt ex : TI'IE : EOR bk cenfg 23“1._' Rl GIA e % Itl°| GHT RALL s, WAY WAY ] | 1 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. @ = A dvertising? I?J:".;:.'z’m W || EaESE=s || B The Family '} Newspaper The grown-ups quarrel EE 3 Fu&nfi:‘ h% proper medlum.