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LEE COUNTY JOURNAL
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OFFICIAL QRGAN LEE COUNTY
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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 16, 1923.
President Coolidge has not so far
complained that nobody has been
willing to give him advice about
farm problems.
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THE FOUNDER OF CIVILIZATION
Daniel Webster once remarked
that the farmers are the founders of
civilization. He pointed out how in
primitive history there always came
a time when the tribes of natives
began to stop getting a living from
hunting and fishing, and began to
establish themselves in one place and
till the soil. When that time came,
civilization begins, and all the other
arts of modern life follow.
So it remains true that the other
industrial arts can not be prosperous
unless farming is well kept up. It
is to the farms that the country looks
for young people having ingenuity
and mechanical skill. They are a
country’s industrial ability is drawn.
THE RURAL CREDIT MOVEMENT
It seems singular, considering how
tremendously alert the American
people are in so many ways, that
they have been so slow to put farm
ing on a correct basis.
Take the rural credit movement,
for instance. The so called Raf
feisen system was begun in Germany
in 1854, and it supplied loans o
farmers in that country for an aver
age of 6 1-2 per cent. In 19i0
there were 1800 such credit unions
in Germany, 8000 in Austria, and ?,-
000 in Italy.
The rural credits movement be
came active in this country about
1910, and in 1916 the federal farm
loan act was passed. The difficul
tied of the farmers in this country
are largely due to the tardiness
shown by the American people in
taking up an idea that became popu
lar in Europe many years ago.
DEMOCRATIC ASPIRATIONS
It is a fine thing to see ambitious
young men and women who start
out in life with abounding energy
and untiring zest. There is so much
indolence and shirking, that the
folks who have the old spirit that
tamed the wilderness and created
our wonderful country have a touch
of the heroic today. .
If you ask these young folks what
their aims in life are, they reply
that they want to become successful
in their occupation, to earn good
pay, to save money, to have a family
and provide a good home for them,
and enjoy reasonable comfort. So
far, so good.
But it often happens, when a
young man has worked with un
divided attention along those lines
for a period of years, that his
thought has become so concentrated
on his own advancement that he has
no interest in other matters. If
a lot of the folks in his home town
are having a hard time, suffering
from bad economic conditions, he
may care little or nothing, and feel
no impulse to do anything to help.
If such a fellow achieves success,
he will frequently surround himself
with extravangant luxury, associate
only with people who can help him
in a business way or spend money
as freely as he does. By and by
he is likely to find the material
pleasures of life becoming tiresome.
He needs more democratic compan
ionships.
Sush people should resolve that
whatever success they achieve, they
will always cherish democratic ideals,
and that they will never cut them
selves off from the masses of the
people. For every friend they make
who is wealthy and successful, they
should try to keep several others who
are just plain ordinary every day
toiling folks.
Not merely is this the road to hap
piness, but unless the people who
achieve wealth and success maintain
these democratic ideals, the antag
onisms between classes will grow like
festering wounds.
The modern girl should not merely
know how to handle phonograph
needles, but the darning neelile too.
peeneesn{meilibcoseiin
THE MODERN IDEAL
OF ATHLETICS
It has been the fault of the ath
letic sport of former days, that it
tended to select picked teams who
contended for the mastery, while the
great mass of people or students just
looked on,
The best athletic development
calls for getting everybody interest
ed in healthful sports. The best re
sults are not attained in a school,
until every able bodied student is
playing some healthy and develop
ing game,
Every community ought to have
facilities so that all active people
can play athletic games, and chall
find it easy to join some team or
group, Such games as bowling, for
instance, are tremendously useful,
since they induce a lot of men to
take ecxercise instead of watching
others do things.
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THE CHLID IN A
HOSTILE WORLD
Considering all the perials, moral
and physical, that children have.to
meet, it is a marvel that so many
survive,
The New York Evining Post puls
it this way: “Into what a hostile
world does the little city child in
trude with his happy smile, his de
sire to play, to run, to shout, and
streteh his museles vibrant with liTe!
His position is very much like that
of an ant in some great power plant
with whirling wheels and roaring
boilers. The ant does not endanger
any of the wheels, therefore it may
run about, but if it isn’t careful it
will be crushed”.
Thus many cities and twons turn
théir children out into the streets
without adequate play spaces, and
then are shocked when some of them
are killed and injured. It turns them
loose to the moral perials of tecwn
life, and is shocked when some be
come criminals and others loafers.
If we care for our children, we must
not stint them opportunities for de
velopment.
DEMOCRACY ON TRIAL
The difficulties of conducting dem
ocratic governments and the perials
they are facing in these days, con
stituted the theme of a speach made
by Former Premier Lloyd George of
England during his visit to this coun
try. X
It has been hoped that democeratic
governments are the institution by
which the people everywhere will be
given prosperity and happiness. But
as Mr. Lloyd George pointed out,
four great countries, Russia, Italy,
Spain, and Germany, have for the
moment given up such governments
Does this mean that the great move
ment for democracy which has seem
ed about to bring about a new cra
of popular welfare, is proving a
failure?
In Italy, for instance, the people
seem completely disillusionized. They
cheerfully accept a dictator who
promises them more successtul and
helpful government than any demo
cracy can give,
In this country some of our radi
cals are so disgusted with political
methods and politicians, that they
are calling for some new system of
government. But they overlook the
truth that if there are faults in
democracy, it is because the people
lack the sense and experience to
elect wise representatives, and that
any system dependent on popular
wisdom will accomplish the same or
worse results.
The democratic governinents have
been overthrown across the water
because those countries are exhaust
ed by war. When dictators came
along and made glowing promises
and usually impossible promises, the
democracy will gain the upper hapd
to oppose their pretensions. In s[lo
people were too tired and depressed
again. The American people will
cling resolutely to it, because they
know it has given them good govern
ment. But to get thoroughly bene
ficial results, they must pay closer
attention o their duties as citizens.
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Ravages by Rats.
It has been estimated that the eco
nomic loss from rats In the United
States is 200,000,000 a year. In other
estimates before the war, the annual
damage in the United Kingdom was
$70,000 000. As a carrfer of bubonic
plague and other diseases. the rat is
charged with the loss of more human
ilves than all the wars In bistory.
True Greatness. -
He only is great who has the habits
of greatness; who, after perdorming
what none in ten thousand could ac
complish, passes on like Samson, and
“tells neither father uor mother of it,”
—Lavater.
THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL, LEESBURG, GEORGIA.
COOLIDGE ASKS NATION TO OBSERVE
“GOLDEN RULE SUNDAY” ON DEC. 2
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" satiosal Golden Mule Discer Sundsy, on the second o
of December, 1923, I feel sure that this mugges .m
tion will meet with very widespread spprowml ead
will bring more closely to mind the charitadls
roquiremsnts of those who are prospercus to those
who are in adversity, It suggests ot ouly & \
practical method for holp, but the highest
expressica of sympathy, by sharing for a tize the
privaticos of others,
Cordially yours,
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The plans for the observance of Golden Rule Sunday call upon the people of
America to serve a menu in their homes similar to that served in the orphan
ages in the near east, the difference in cost of the orphanage menu and the
ordinary meal to be contributed to orphanage work overseas. The observ
ance is very appropriately fixed for the Sunday following Thanksgiving.
Having on Thursday partaken from well-laden tables as a token of rejoiciug
in the prosperity of America, it is fitting that on the following Sunday people
give gpecial consideration to the needs and disiress of those who are less
highly favored.
Whole Country Asked to Adopt
Orphanage Menu for Just
One Sunday Dinner.
RELIEF HAS SAVED MILLION
People of All Nations Will Figurative
ly Gather Around Same Table as
Practical Sign of Sympathy With
Near East Sufferers.
How many comfortably fed, clothed
and housed Americans will sit down
to a Sunday dinner of rice, corn grits
and soup—typical orphan fare—on
December 2, as a practical test of the
golden rule?
The questicn is asked today by
Charles V. Vickrey, general secretary
of Near East Relief, who is in charge
of the plans for the general observ
ance throughout the United States of
“Golden Rule Sunday.” In an inter
view, Mr. Vickrey said:
“If American people will renounce
for one meal the food they are accus
tomed to eat, and contribute the dif
terence in cost to the support of starv
ing children in the near east, the situ
ation in Greece, Armenia and Pales
tine will become infinitely more real
to them. ’
“I have recently returned from sev
eral months in those countries. Ameri- |
ca is a name to conjure with there.
Bitter reproaches are heard against
nearly every other country, but nocne
against us. That is because people
realize that Americans havefgone to
them with a helping hand and a
square deal, rather than with the
maliled fist. ‘
“America could well have afforded
to have spent every penny of her re
lief funds as a long-sighted, cold-blood
ed business proposition. The good
will that has resulted from relief
work in the near east is of incalcul
able value. When these orphans we
are caring for today grow to man
hood, they will become the leaders of
their nations and their eyes will turn
toward America. !
“At least a million persons in the
near east would not be alive today had
it not been for American aid. Even
today, 100,000 persons are being cared
for day to day by the Near East Re-,
lief, mostly women and children who
would probably perish in a few days
or weeks if the work ceased. |
“Our workers are now concentrat
ing not only on the physical care of
our 50,000 orphans, but on their in
dustrial training as well. At the age
of 16, when an orphan leaves our
care, he is equipped to enter some’
useful trade or business. In Narazeth,
there are boys working in our carpen.!
ter shop a few feet from the spot!
where Christ toiled. In Macedonia,:
hundreds of Greek orphans are learn-;
ing farming in the atmosphere where;
Paul spent many years in establishlng,.
the first European churches. ;
“Five dollars a month provides food !
and physical necessities for an or-|
phan, and $lOO & year provides for his!
education as well. The observance
of Golden Rule Sunday by a mil-|
lion American families will provide!
enough funds for thousands of orphans 5
“When people break bread together,:
they become friends. On this Inter
national Golden Rule Sunday people’
of all nations figuratively will gather
around the same table, partaking of,
the same food representing the menu
which the unfortunate children of the,
near east hope, by the benevolence of!
the West, to eat 365 days in the year.|
But even this simple menu the or
phans cannot have unless the rest of
the world practices the Golden Rule.*
FOURTEEN NATIONS
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Europ2an Countries Join Ameri
can President in Backing
Golden Rule as Prac
tical Program,
Geneva, Switzerland.—Officials of re
lief organizations from fourteen Euro
pean countries have asked their gowv
ernments and pecples to join in a
great international movement to save
the destitute orphans and widowed
mothers in those countries of the Near
East that have suffered from recent
wars.
Dec. 2 has been set aside as “Golden
Rule Sunday.” On that day people
will be asked to observe the broad
principle of the Golden Rule by fore
going their usual noonday meal and
eating instead the frugal ration usually
‘partaken of by the parentless children
of Greece, Armenia and Palestine.
The world’s people wiil then be
asked to contribute the difference, in
the cost of the two meals to the prin
cipal relief organization in their coun:
try, to be administered for the needy
children. :
Notable people in’ Europe who will
co-operate to give the day an inter
national aspect are King George of
Greece, Prince Carl of Sweden, ex-
Premier Clemenceau of France, M.
Paul Hymans and Dr. Alice Masaryk. ‘
AMERICAN FOODS BEST
SAYS FAMOUS DOCTOR
Athens.—American standard food
stuffs are the best in the world, says
Dr. Mabel Elliott, famous woman phy
sician, who for the past two vears has
been medical director of American or
phanages in the Near East. From the
standpoint of purity and' high food
value, she asserts that no European
nation can cdompete with the United
States, and for this reason she insists
on American products in all orphan
ages and hospitals, in order to meet
adequately the needs of undernour
ished children.
Dr. Elliott’s annual report, sum
ming up the results of the care of
50,000 children in orphanages as well
as clinics for 50,000 additional chil
dren in refugee camps and homes,
says:
“Stable American foods are now
the backbone of all our menus for re
building children whe became weak
and anaemic during the refugee ex
odus from Asia Minor. Our menus
contain, not only bread made from
American flour, and corn grits in por
ridge and stews, but also the liberal
use of cormn syrup, American con
densed milk and American cocoa and
macaroni, thus making a balanced
ration to meet all the scientific re
quirements as to relative food values,
calories and vitamines.
The favorite orphanage pudding is
composed of corn grits with cocoa,
sweetened with corn syrup, and made
more nutritious and palatable by add
ing a sauce of American condensed
milk. Such a pudding has a high food
value and is very economical—no
other equivalent food value could be
obtained from other foods at twice the
cost. Moreover, it is so palatable
that children eat it eagerly several
times a week, and never seem to tire
of it. The American people, in pro
viding for these parentless children
such pure and wholesome foods from
their own tables, are certainly making
a practical application of the golden
rule.”
Dr. Elliott has recently returned to
America to arrange for the publica
tion of a book of her experiences un
deér the title of “Beginning Again at
Ararat.”
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