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LEE COUNTY JOURNAL —————————— e — e e OFFICIAL QRGAN 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 i it Advertising Rates Furnished on Request, Subscription $1.50 A YEAR W FRIDAY NOVEMBER 16, 1923. President Coolidge has not so far complained that nobody has been willing to give him advice about farm problems. L B 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. W i 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. e e 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 (e THE WHITE HOUSE n N WABHINOTON A”’;'fi‘,”""'/ i P r."’l o T R Vear Bast Relief, o 161 Fifth dvsnve, O R Nay York, N, Y. T R Gentlezen 1 = % | It 48 with & good desl of satisfuotien ';';»*;4 o that 1 commend your propossl to cLeerve an Istere L | > " 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, P e 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 } - SUPPORT COOLIDGE 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.” ~ - TTNe e — W FIRE! FIRE! | : Are you protected if your home should " be destroyed by fire tonight? 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