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LEE COUNTY JOURNAL M OFFICIAL ORGAN LEE COUNTY AND CITY OF LEESBURG ———————————————— PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY J. P. HORNE EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Entered at the Postoffice at Leesburg, Ga., as second class matter. i —————— Advertising Rates Furnished on Request. Subseription $1.60 A YEAR E_——____—____——._____—.—_-——-—L?-——-_ FRIDAY NOVEMBER 9, 1923. The people who sit on the front porches and tell their help what to do, are not as a rule very successful in the farming game. . _—.————-——o.—._——_—_———-—-——- THE BIG HEART The Savior of mankind, in one of his noblest utterances, spoke of the shepherd who had a hundred sheep, one of which had gone astray. “Doth he not leave the ninety and nine”? he asked, “and goeth into the moun tains and seeketh that which hath gone astray?” Yet we pursue our own cares and pleasures, regarldess of the 100th sheep down in some back alley or side street that is going astray in the complexities and temptations of modern life. A community ought to be like 2 family, in which the troubles and difficulties that individual members meet should cause concern and anxi ety to all the members of this fra ternal group. The family that is up against hard times should find gener ous hands of help extended to it. If that were always the case in a city, you would find hard feelings disappearing, and the community would work together as a unit in its industries and its social efforts. There is the belief of course that people’s troubles are largely the re sult of their own fault. In a great many cases that is so. Indolence, vice, follies, cause more than half the troubles of life . But there is a residue of misfor tune that is due to causes that the community could help. Lack of practical facilities for education that should train backward children to self support, is one cause why many go on the wrong track. More gen erous support for playgrounds and clubs where high ideals of action are taught, would help a lot more to keep straight. Our cities and towns will not con tain happy and united populations, until those who are successful and fortunate feel a deeper concern about those who have had difficul ties, and seek to provide those pre ventive agencies that shall keep young people from entering some wrong or unfortunate course of ac tion. THE RESULTS OF OUR FIGHTING “We had to go in, but we did not get what we were fighting for”, was the remark relative to our part in the World war made by Senator Couzens of Michigan, who has just returned from Europe. Many peo ple will feel that this is the truth. President Wilson thought that this country entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, but that point of view was a little more idealistic than the facts. Our people went in because they felt that the actions of the German gov ernment were a menace to the whole world, and that that power must be put down. As far as that went, the ends of the war were achieved. But our people also believed, that if this menace were crushed, then the insanity of war would be so obvious that all people and races would be content hereafter to lay aside these violent ways of settling disputes. That expectation has been woefully disappointed. It is a strange state of things, when all the people of the world long for peace, that they can’t get it, but persist in following courses that increase antagonisms and threaten future wars. Here is a condition to which the American people can not be indif ferent. It hurts us on the economic side, it arouses our utmost com passion, it threatens to involve us in future wars. Opinions differ as to what our people should do about it. But all will agree on this, that our government should strive to be the mediator between the hatreds of Europe. ‘“Blessed are the peace makers” was the word of the Savior of mankind. The American people have laid down the weapons of war having secured from them only par—‘ tial rewards for their vast sacrifice. Now let us use the methods of peacei with as much energy and earnest ness as we put into our fighing. Considering the wisdom with which the village hang-out loafers tell what the government ought to do, it is strange that congress does | not resign and let them do it. ' 00l Pussireyiionssanen WHAT MAKES A COMMUNITY The word “‘community” has come into general use of late, and it las an inner meaning that may be hid den to some. Community comes from a word meaning common. It is a place where people realize that they have common interests, and that they must work together for common ends. The old time country town hardly did that. It was not, really speaking, a community. Every man went about his own business, It did not occur to them to pool their interests and join forces, and get things done. So they just drifted along and got nowhere. The modern town begins to progress on that date when it wakes up from just being a town, and becomes a community. S e B ONE SIDED PEOPLE There are many folks whose opin ion on any given set of circum stances can be predicted in advance with perfect accuracy. If they arc Republicans, everything the Repub icans do is all right. Everything the Democrates do is all wrong. Similarly if they are Democrats, their opinions are equally fixed in wdvance. Certain people in any industrial sontroversy always take the capital istic point of view. They denounce all organizations of wage earners as 1 challengre to the diseipline of socie ty, and declare that the country is zoing to its ruin as the gesult of the “More- pay and less work” spirit. On tte other hand are the extreme radicals, who look at everything from a view of class warefare. They find that the capitalists are always wrong, they are robbers and para iites on society, also that the wage carners are always right, and strivc merely for economie justice, which is 11l they ask. People with these fixed notions could not possibly get a new idea into their heads. They will go to cheir graves with these immovable opinions. Life is bigger and broader than these narrow opinions. The world is gradually advancing, and there are good folks and bad folks in all ‘lasses. The possession of money loes not necessarily make a man a rascal, and lack of it does not neces sarily make him lazy and indolent. Human society is full of oscilla tions. At one time the greatest peril may come from one political party and one element of people. When that party or that element xets too much power, it in turn be romes arrogant and over reaching. The man who wants to be a gooc citizen must be an original thinker ind a constant reader of the news, so that he can know what is going on and be able to weigh men and avents impartially, A TOWN'’S SIDEWALKS A great deal is said nowaday: ibout good roads, but not so much ‘s heard sbout good sidewalks. It nay be said that the majority of peo le own automobiles now, and that hey are more interested in having Jhe money put into highways. But the number of people who do not own cars is still very great. Aiso the wutomobile owners are walking a rood deal, and they ought to for the benefit of their health. There is nothing that makes a town look more finished, more up 0 date, more comfortable, than ¢ system of well hardened walks cover ing its entire residence district. A town that leaves its residence listriets unprovided with seme form of paved walks, may be extremely beautiful. There are some of the handsoemest towns in this country, where all the money has been put into beautiful homes, but where for soime reason or other, the people do not seem to care much for walks Perhaps they walk but little and ave accustomed to go everywhere by automobile. If they do not care for walks, all right. But to the ordinary run of people such a community seems lacking in a vital part of its equipment. A good system of walks adds tre mendously to the comfort of people 'who must go back and forth to their work and the town center on their own feet. They can walk more easi ly, cover more distance, they are encouraged to depend on their own powers of locomotion of automobiles. This promotes their health and vigor. It helps a town to grow to run walks well into the outlying dis tricts. People will buy up inexpen sive lots and erect houses on them, if they are close to a hard walk that makes the access to the town center easy. Building sidewalks isl a policy that pays abundantly. . THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL, LEESBURG, GEORGIA. GEORGIA WIEKLY TALL REVIEW INDUST AL BEVIRY i - l Prosperity i 3 not maintained by | Ligislation or high taxation, but by industrial expansion, protection ofl investments and encouragement of individual enterprise, | . Fort Valley—Paving. program ‘making good Leadway. Atlanta—=State Technical Sclicol to construct new 3-story $250,000 gymnasium, Peanut crop $n Georgia this year exceeds value of $7,000,000, ‘anue of harvests for 1023 range around two hundred and forty million dol lars, some twenty-nine millions bet ter than the year preceding and six ty-two millions above 1921. Savannah-——American oOil Com pany receives contract to supply ounty with lubricating oils, Atlanta—~-New Druid Hills Pres byterian. church to be constructed m FPence de Leon ave, ‘Savannah-— Construction of bridge across St. Marys river con wecting this state and Florida plan ned. f Brunswick—Carolina steamshiy 'ines to bring European cervice tc shis port. Quitman—Model rural schoo! :ompleted. ’ Macon— New Virgil Powers ichool completed at cost of §60,000. Columbus—Building of $160,000 wnnex to First Baptist church well mder swvay. Atlanta—Contract let for con truction of central unit of new rirls’ school to cost approximately 5128,514. Macon—Contract awarded fos lew pump to be installed at River side pumping station. Cordele—Routes to be considered for Brunswick-Columbus kighway. Atlanta-—William A. Bass Junior vigh school under construction, | Savannah—Work on Atlantic Joastal highway well under way. Columbus—Contract let for con struction of new three-story hospital it Fort Benning to cost $275,000. 16 principal Southern citics shows en per cent inerease in building :onstruction for past month, Macon-—Plans approved for con turction of new ecity auditorium. Savannah—Plant of Linde @Ai roducts Company completed and n operation, Pavo—New Leib packing plant t he erected at this peint. Atlanta—~New Samuel M. Inmar rrammar school under constructios n Virginia avenue. Ft. Gaines—Pcanut shipments iz Clay and ncighboring countics mov ngz rapidly to mavket. Atlanta—Watermelon growers o south organize Soweage Melo: arowers and sign 5-year marketin: sontract with members in northe Merida and scuth and middie Geos ria. . The United States goveramen lad a syrplus of $180,484,958 ii. irst quarter of fiseal year endin: September 30, the Treasury Depart nent financial statemment revealed Qreatly increased receipts, totaling 3973,024,995, and heavily curtaile xpendiutres, amounting to $791, 340,036, accounted for the surplu: aross public debt was reduced fron 322,349,707,365 to $22,125,614,247 a decrease of $224,092,918. l G :;’—r‘ \ AR 2~\ 7 ' ) N g A\ \ &R ai\" o :' B 5l <’ T ) D e NSRS P QLR A u” QENR e Rk 4 Of \x\‘ e »,“" r_,‘ -~ @ 2T T t = Rhemmnatism ¥t is unnceessary to suffer those stabbing pains. You can get relicf ovickly. Apply Sloan’s gently vithout rubbihg. Instantly you jo¢. a comforting glow. Tha pain cas-s off. Relief comes. Get a botiie from your druggist today— l 35 ceants. It will not stain. & iy e © ‘y7. . Sioan's Liniment—kills pain! S ———————————————— WANTED :—\en or women to take arders for genuine guaranteed wsiery for men, women, and chil dren. Eliminates darning. Salary 275 a week full time, $159 an hour spare time., Cottons, heathers, silks. Intcrnational Stocking Mills, | Norristown, Pa. N . oy T e Hall’s Catarri Medicine Those who are in & ‘‘run down’ coudi tion will notice that Catarrh bothers them much more than when they are in good health. This fact proves that wiiic Catarrh is & local disease, it is groatly influenced by constitutional conditicns. HALL'S CATARRII MEDICINE cen sists of san Ointment which Quickly Relieves by loecal application, and the Internal Medicine, a Tonic, which assists in improving the General Ifeaith. Sold by druggists for over 42 Years, I, J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio. COTTON CROP. LY LisE . "} Y ‘ | FORECAST SHOWS LARGE DECREASE ; rm————— f \ Total of 10,248,000 Baies Is l - Estimated in First Report - of Its Kind Evaz Igsved | in Novainbker. ‘ WASHINGTON~-A deercase “of 767,000 bales in the prospective cot ‘ton erep as compared with a month aro wag shown today in the Depart- | ment of Agriculiure’s forcast of 10,- 248,000 bales, based on conditions srevailing October 25, The report was the first of its kind ever issued ‘n November and had been awaited with interest by the cotton world in '\;iew of the seareity of cotton and !the diversity of opinion as to the | extra size of this year’s crop. ' A menth ago the forecast of the | Department of Agriculture indicated ') crop of 10,788,000 balcs and July | 25, conditions brought a forccaest ¢f ;11,5?6,090 bales. Lagt year’s crop | sotalled 9,761,817 bales and that of 11921 was 7,956,641 bales. The aver i‘a,’re prcduction in the five years, 11910, to 1914, was 14,259,231 bales 'md in the five years 1915 to 1919 it was, 11,481,084 bales. A month agé the condition of the -rop was the lowest for that date in 37 years with the exception of 1921, everal stales reporting the lowest ondition on record, due largely to he damaze done by the boll weevil, | World stocks of cotton at the close t £ the cotton year July 31 were very | ‘ow, tie Department of Commerce i eporting at 6,400,000 bales as com { yared with 9,536,000 bales on July 31, 1922. GCinning in the United States from this year’s crop totalled 3,400,679 bales to October 18, ac ording to Census DBureau reports. Ferecast for States. The condition of the crop on Oc tober 25 and the forccast on produc ion by states follow: North Carolina, 70 and 1,010,000. South Carolina, 53 and 749,000, Georgia, 31 and 619,000, Florida, 22 and® 12,000. : Alabama, 89 and 615,000, Mississippi, 36 and 620,090, I.ouisiana, 43 and 329,000, Texas, 57 and 4,309,000. Arkansas, 87 and 659,000. Tennessce, 35 and 230,000. Missouri, 49 and 151,000. OXklahome, 43 and 735,000. California, 86 and 49,000. Arizona, 88 and 83,000. Production of -all other states is 10,000 bales. About 86,000 bales in addition te Jalifornia are being grown in Lower California, Old Mexico. | Envy of Talent, As to clever people’s hating each ther, I think a titile extin talent does onietitges make people jeadous. they recomye irrvitanted by perpetual attempis wmd failures, and it huets their tems pers and dispositions, Unpretending nediocrity is geod, and geniui is glo cious; but a wenk Saver of genius in i essentinliy connuon p2rson is detest able. 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