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Telephone for Your Room I n these days of crowded hotels trav eling men find the long distance tele phone valuable in arranging foraccom- mo.dations in advance. This insures rest and comfort and no wait tor rooms to be vacated. A STATION TO STATION call costs little an u there is always some one in the hotel office. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY Reads Like Atlanta THIS EDITORIAL IS TAKEN FROM THE JANUARY 26TH ISSUE OF ENGINEERING AND CONTRACTING, A MAGAZINE PUB LISHED IN CHICAGO. "A charge persisted in without knowledge of facts is nothing short of slander. We may safely broaden this gen eralization to read : Persistent statements not based on in vestigation of facts are tantamount to deliberate falsifica tion. "We concede that the average man is as yet very care less in his assertions, and that he sees nothing reprehensible hi bring wrong. But when being wrong in an assertion works injury to someone, the asserter is morally but little above a common liar. "During the past few years when public utility owners and managers have hern hepjjing the public for relief from excessively low rates for services rendered, there have been numberless printed assertions by public officials to the effect that existing rates were high enough to yield a fair return upon actual investments. F.von where appraisals by rcputahle engineers and audits by accountants have belied such assertious. rarely have the asserters had the honesty to iqvestigatr the facts. Instead, their unusual practice has been to ignore all evidence and persist in their improvable statements. ‘‘To such a pass has this form of immorality brought •things that several state legislatures are to be asked to rescind laws relating to state regulation of public utility rates. When mayors and other public officials persist in telling the public that street railways can profitably carry passengers at 5 and f> cents, is it any wonder that many people have come to regard state utility commissions as being the tools of utility companies? “In one state the governor lias ousted all the utility com missioners, because they incurred the ill will of certain people on account of rate increases granted to public utili ties. In another state one of the most fearless and capable utility commissioners has resigned, apparent!' disgusted with the charges made not merely hv some mayors but by some newspapers that the commission lias done nothing but raise Utility rates unnecessarily. Ii the engineering societies in such states were a few years in advance o.' their present development, probably the r uhlic would receive au thoritative expressions of engineering opinion that would contra ,.c: and p rhajfs siicnce the 'alsc statements of«tenia- gogic mayors? The time is certainly overripe for protests from associations of professional and business men against the baseless assertions and the selfish acts of polite ians whr ' .arc |iamicring to the worst side of human nature. The public would like to ride on street cars for a nickel. They •would like better to ride for nothing. Hence the public is not only willing to be convinced, but is half convinced be fore .-,.ny one lias spoken that the ‘predatory railway kings' arc robbing them. The silence of men who know better— engineers, business men and editors—is taken as evidence that the statements of the pandering politicians arc true. "It will not do to excuse ourselves from the duty of speaking and acting now. We have ‘passed the buck’ times without number, until a few more passings will find us all riding in the street cars as slowly and expensively operated as tlic elevators ui the typical city ball. America is face to face with municipal ownership of street.car systems, of gas and electric plants. Steadily anil witii unrelenting pressure, the economic life of public utility companies is being * squeezed out. Slate commissions and courts are trying to • 1>c just, but an ignorant public is constantly threatening them and doing all that it can to block their efforts. The ignorance of the public is mainly ascribablo to the silence of the men who arc most competent to speak not only with .authority but with freedom from selfish motives—the pro fessional engineers. “Whether there is to be municipal ownership of all utili ties or not, professional engineers will he employed. Many engineers think that their chances of securing adequate compensation are bettor under public-than-under private administration. At all events there is so little to choose in that respect, that engineers as a body cannot be charged with selfish motives in advocating fair rates for public utility corporation services and fair treatment of public util ity commissions. "Apropos of the unsound attitude of most municipal offi cials relative to public utility rates, we quote from a recent address before the League of California Municipalities by \V. E. Creed, president of the Pacific Gas and Electric Co.: " ‘On the habit of jumping at conclusions without knowl edge of the facts. I cite the official procedure when an application for increased rates is filed. ‘“The city council meets. It forthwith passes a resolu-- tion and instructs the city attorney to oppose the applica tion. The city attorney issues Ins public pronouncement, duly accotn|ianied, hv photographs, saving: “1 will tight to the last ditch." as he raises his eyes to heaven and prays to God to give him strength that justice may triumph and right prevail. “ ‘Never in all my experience, and I have been in the public utility business a good many years as a lawyer and as an executive, never in all my experience have l ever heard of. read, or seen a resolution by a city council direct ing a city attorney to investigate the facts and to reason from those facts to a sound conclusion in the public inter est. Apparently some public officials'arc not concerned about the facts, but are stalwart nevertheless in their con clusions. “ *A rate inquiry ought not to be an adversary proceed ing. but should be a mutual and co-operative investigation of the facts, proceeding upon the theory that either too high or too low a rate is an injury both to the utility and to the public’." SIGNS OF SPRING. Exchange. . * , Just what U it that heralds the ap proach of spring in the nrtnd of a youngster? Is’it the same instinct that tells the bird when to migrate, or is it just the intuition of the immstaro intellect f During the past week we have seen more fights among the boys on their way to and from school than we have _ ra all winter. \Vhnt is it that stirs I the young innle to belligerency about the same time the buds begin to show upon the trees? Ever stop to think about it? Wntrh them the next time you see them pouring out of the school-house door. As soon ns they have passed beyond the watchful eye of the teacher they are at it. An old school janitor onre said, ("Boys 1 n’t wren the ages of six and ten are more like rubs than they are like human beings." Anri our old friend was right. es|>eeially at the first signs of the return of spring. Here they come pcllmel! through the school-house |>ortals. Scarcely nre they out before they are at eneli other. It starts in fun. ami ends in bloody noses and semtehed fares. Jimmy Jones, the dirty little ragamuffin from the edge of town, jumps on the bnck of Percy Smythe, the handsome la-1 who live* in the big house near the center of town and wears pretty white- collars that mother pins so carefully each morning. Jimmy can’t help it. It is tbe call of the wild that comes with the first breath of spring ami makes him see red and want to rub Percy’s clean face an-1 immaculate collar iu the dirt. Down they go in a heap and a ring of dancing young snrnges forms about them. Generally Percy begins to blubber and Jimmy gets off of him and lets him go. walking away in disgust. But it sometimes happens, as it did the other morning, that Percy, in spite of the clean face and the imnmculate col lar, is a bit of n pug himself and sails in and gives Jimmy the whaling he de serves. We were about to stop the mix- up when it started, for we recognised in tin- Perry of this incident the small son of a very good friend, ami realized how much his refined aild loving mother would lie grieved to have.her boy coming home with eyes red, lib face stained with tears and his pretty collar all torn. Jim my was a dirty, freckle-faced little bully that a few days ago we pulled off of a much smaller boy nud lectured severely. This time Jimmy got the surprise of his life. He slipped up behind Percy, and, giving a lunge, landed on his bark, carrying them both to the sidewalk. We saw the sneaking attack and ^hastened to lay hands on the little coward’s col lar, but before we could reach them Percy hail managed to wriggle out from under his tormentor, and they got to their feet, glaring at each other like real pugilists. Percy didn’t cry. Not on vour life. He may be mamma’s pet in the home, but he’s dad’s little man when some sneaking bully gets him from behind. Before we could reach them Percy had mnde a few passes with his little clenched fists, and then he landed a sturdy punch right on the end of Jim my's nose. We know Jimmy saw stars as the bright, healthy, red blood gushed forth. We don't like to sec boys fight, but we couldn’t drag our weary feet forwerd to stop Percy from giving that little bully, Jimmy, the punishment he deserved. Percy did it so effectively that we just wanted to gather him up in our arms, and if we were the father of that 9-ycar-old boy we would be so proud of him that we reckon lie would be spoiled. Yes. they are little-cubs all right, and the spring gets into tlieir blood. If. you don't believe it, just wateli them, the next time you get caught in thnt freshet of young life that pours out of the school-house door. WORSE AND WORSE. Columbus Enquirer-Sun. “Green Stockings" sounded badly enough. Then “Up In Maliel's Room’’ came along, nud now we told that n new piny entitled - ‘Getting Gertie’s Garter’’ is to lx- put on the stage, so that the question arises iu the minds of the more observant and those who would "resist the tendency of from “bail to worse’’— “Whither are we drifting?" Just what this play is we do not know, nor do we pretend to say—but its name ought to be enough, to kill it. There isn’t any reason in the world why it should lx> necessary to give a play such a name. Ansi the only excuse that pre sents itself to us is that it will get the money. Probably the author of “Get ting Gertie's Garter" hud this iu mind when he east atxmt for n title for his play. The Charleston News anil Courier says: ‘The philosophers anil the psyeholo gists nn,I the moralists amt* the ministers and the newspapers afford no satisfac tory explanation of the condition of af fairs which renders n play-title like ‘Getting Gertrude’s Garter' not only permissible but exceedingly profitable. Any number of explanations are pro vided from these various sources, it is true, hut the explanations nre as wide apart as the poles. The most popular of them holds that the present moral slump, the most notable feature of which is a sharp decline in sex morality, is a direct result of the war. ” We do not know whether the war is responsible for this moral decline or not, but that tlie condition exists—that is to hay, such theatrical productions are be coming more and more popular—is a fact that will not admit of dispute. We do not menu by this to say that those who love decency and cleanness in side the theatre, as well as outside of it. are endorsing such plays, but that there is an increasing patronage of them from some sourv4 there isn’t the sll|htest doubt. This is evidenced by the fact that today they “go big" whereas only a few years ago they would not have been aide to live long enough to pay the expense of rehearsals. And this patronage i s not routine-! t:> one class of |ample, for. as much as anyone may regret. to say it. the fact remains that often in audiences where' such plays are presented one is surprised to see people whom he least expects would be there. \Ve know of no more plausible expiana tion than that familiar quotation from Alexander Uo[k-— “Vice i s a monster of so frightful mien As to ix* hated needs but to tx* seen; V et seen too oft. familiar with her face We first endure, then pitv. then cm brace.'' LEM. We print below an extract from an editorial which appeared in a recent is : sue of “Wallace's Farmer,’’ a farm pa per publiched at Des Moines, Iowa, by Henry C. Wallace, who has been name-1 by ('resident Harding to be Secretary of Agriculture— “The railroad executives are making earnest efforts to reduce their operating charges. They have been trying to get rid of the 250,000 surplus men the Gov ernment took on when the Government was running the roads. •' They are trying to readjust the basis of pay so that it will be more nearly in corres|Hindc-nce with the value of the work done. “They say they have made some prog ress. hut they have run up against a real obstacle in the great increase in wages granted -luring Government opera tion. “It is sai-l that the average wage of the railroad workman today is $1,300 a year, it was but $800 1-e.lore the war. When everything was high workmen were entitled to higher wages, hut the rail road workmen must get back to normal, along witii other people. “In 1917 the yearly payroll of the railroads was $1,700,000,000. At the present time the payroll is $:!,700,000,- 000. We cannot stand this, when prices of farm products have dropped so se verely. “The farmers and other shipping in terests of the nation should go before the Railroad Labor Board and present their side of the case. They nre really the people who pay the wages. “If the railroads must pay higher wages, they get the money from the peo ple who pay the freight. “If these high wages are sustained, we cannot hope for much reduction in freight rates; and freight rates must be reduced. ‘ ‘ Farmers want the railroad workmen to have fair treatment ami fair wages. Iiecause they can then buy the things the farmer has to sell. “But the farmer cannot stand for making railroad workmen a preferred class and paying them wages altogether out of line with the wages the farmer gets. For the prices the farmer gets for his crops are in effect his wages. The farmer wants to do the right thing by everybody, but there is a limit to all things. ’' o- MONEY IS NOT EVERYTHING. An energetic, ambitious and success ful man, who is not at all ignorant of the value of money, was lately offered a job which carried twice the salary he is now receiving. Without even taking it under consid eration he refused it. “Money," he said, “is worth having, but it is riot everything by a long shot. “I am working for one thing, which is happiness. I have my own definition of happiness, which is doing what I like to do and getting well paid for it. I like money to spend. I like to save it. I enjoy ■ the things it will buy for me. I enjoy the feeling of security that comes from having enough of it stored nway to tide me over a sick spell or provide for my old age. 'But all the money in tbe world wouldn’t do me any good if . it took nway my happiness. And if I couldn’t run my job in my own way, if I had to give up the independence I have -gained by ten or fifteen years of hard work, money would mean nothing whatever to me. “The rewards I uni getting now for these years of work is both in salary and in satisfaction. The satisfaction arises, from seeing the business that I have built up expand as I wanted it to expand—to know that this expansion is the work of ray hands. ‘It is not my business, it belongs to a corporation. They get far more out of it in money than I do. But I doubt if they get half the satisfaction. ( ‘As far as I am concerned I am paid well enough. I might accept this new job, have a few more thousands laid away at the end of the year, but I would have no peace of mind, for I know that l would not be allowed to do tilings iu my own way. ’ ’ violate law the penalty falls heaviest up on those who love us. Pull for Newnan. OBITUARY. Mrs. Jimmie Page Shell, daughter of the lute Dr. and Mrs. Page, was bom Sept 28, 1854; was married to Mr. J. B. Shell, sr., Dee. 19. 1878; died Nor. . 1920. Mrs. Shell was a worthy companion of her husband. The confiding love which she felt as a bride seemed to mellow and deepen with the passing years. I knew her before she married, having visited in her father's home, and had been associated with her married life for 35 years. She was blessed with n cheerful disposition; indeed, hers was n real home, where cheer and happiness reigned. She spent a busy, though not a strenuous life. She was a faithful member of the Methodist church. Rear* ed by Christian parents, she joined the church in early life. Relatives and friends speak of her as a good woman, a true wife and splendid mother. Her sister said she was never known to com* plain at parental restraint: disobedience she never knew. Through an illness lasting several weeks she suffered greatly. All that lov ing hands could do for her relief was j done, as well gs by skilled physicians. One in speaking of her said, ‘‘She was a good neighbor, alwcfVs ready to lend a helping hand to those in need. ’ ’ Many of her friends and associates will long remember the delightful hospitality she dispensed in her home. Her loved ones now have no one to go to with their troubles, as they did to mother and grandmother. No one knows how much they will miss *her. She did not give way to troubles and trials, as most of us do. Though missed in the home, church ami community, she is not forgotten, nor is her influence gone. She was a woman of well-balanced temperament, bearing her trials and disappointments with beautiful resignation. She lived and died within a mile of the place where she was born, reared and married. A voice in that home is now stilled; there is a vacant seat that can never bo filled; the counsel of a loving mother has ceased. While she was especially devoted to her family, she was an un failing friend ami neighbor. The funeral service was conducted in her church by Dr. Rembert G. Smith, Rev. E. A. Ware and Rev. H. S. Reese, Mrs. E. L. Merrill presiding at the or gan. Don’t think I ever saw meye peo ple in the church than were assembled that day. She was laid to rest in Tran quil cemetery, within sight of her home, and the lovely flowers banking the beau tiful casket were mostly home-raised by relatives and friends. May our Heavenly Father, who “tem pers the wind to the shorn lamb/’ bind up the broken-hearted. We tender our deepest sympathy to her bereaved hus band, children and other relatives. Turin, Ga. A , A. V. C. THom Who Ar, Gon». Those who are gone you h*,» Those who departed loving you to,, you still; and you love them tlw,,. They are not really gone—those dm hearts and true—they are only loa , Into the next room; and you will prM . ently get up and follow them, , D( j yonder door will be closed upon and yon will be no more seen.—\y. ^ Thackeray. Renew your health by purifying your system with Literature Immortal. Books ere the metempsychosis, the symbol and presage of Immortality. The dead are scattered, and none shall find them; but behold they are here. —H. W. Beecher. Quick and delightful re lief for biliousness, colds, constipation, headaches, and stomach, liver and blood troubles. The genuine are. sold only in 35c packages. Avoid imitations. KELLY-DUPLEX Grinding Mill Gnadi$&^ epta (odd*, clover ksy. T^pe* via* by, ■beaf 0Att, r com. sad ei maise In the head, either separately or ciad JTILLS RATS and mice—that’s RAT-SNAP, the old reliable rodent destroyer. Comes in cakes—no mining with other food. Your money back if it fails. 35c. ilxe (1 cake) enough for Pantry, Kitchen or Cellar. OSc. aize (3 caken) for Chicken House, coops, or small buildings. $1.35 aize (5 cakes) enough for all farm and out-buildings, storage build ings. or factory buildings. ' Spld and Guaranteed by LEE-KING DRUG COM PAW. COWETA DRUG & BOOK COMPANY. BELT BRAKES. Mr. J. B. Brooks ami son. J. A., spent Snmlnv afternoon with the former’s brother. Mr. W. E. Brooks, near Haral son. Prof. W. M. Speer spent the week-end with liomefolks at Grantville. He was accompanied by John Hamilton Brooks. Mrs. Alton Wood and children went angling for the finny tribe last. Satur day. A Sunday-school has been organised here, with Mr. H. N. Helms as superin tendent. We would be pleased to have all interested in Suuday-school work to meet with us at 3.30 p. m. every Snudav. Prof. W. M. Speer will give his pu pils an Easter egg hunt next Friday af ternoon. Miss Loney Massengale, from near Haralson, spent the week-end with Miss Bessie Brooks. Mrs. Alina Bilkenton, of Haralson, spent the week-end with Mrs. J. A. Brooks. Miss Uuoile Williams, of Griffin, spent Saturday ami Sunday with her mother, Mrs. V. V. Sales. Mrs. B. M. Hayues is visitiug relatives uear McCollum. Messrs. Carl Morgan and V. V Y. Sales made a business trip to Griffin last Tri day. March 22d. Out of the Rut. The fiddlers three had Just respond ed to old King Cole’s hurry call. “Too many strings In the band, boys,” said his majesty, “and you’ve got exactly one week from now to show me some real jazxbo stuff as torn off by a muted cornet, a saxophone and a set o’ drums with all the trimmings. And If you don’t make good, gadzooks and odsbodikins, you’d do well to settle your worldly affairs. Get me?”—Buf falo Express. A Record Holder. A small boy. born in a Turkish harem, is said to have 4S stepmothers living. Our office boy. however, is still undefeated in the matter of recent ly defunct grandmothers. — London Punch. Ice and Ice Service It is our desire and intention to give the peo ple of Newnan the best ice service possible, and to that end we will put on four delivery ■wagons and a truck under our own management. Increases in power rates allowed power companies have more than offset the decreased labor costs in ice manufacture, so that the cost has not decreased, but we offer customers using COUPON BOOKS, paid for in advance, ice at reduced prices, as shown below. These books will be sold in denominations of §>2.50, $5.00 and $10.00—payable strictly in advance. Short-weight will not be tolerated willingly, nor will discourteous treatment, and we request co-operation of the public in the prevention of these evils. Ice will be sold at the following prices:— PRICES FOR ICE. Delivered from wagon. Platform price. Cash. Coupons. Cash or Coupons. 10 lbs. $ .10 10 lbs. S .10 15 lbs. 15 lbs. .15 20 lbs. .15 25 lbs. 25 lbs. .20 30 lbs. .20 40 lbs. 36 lbs. .25 40 lbs. .25 50 lbs. 43 lbs. .30 50 lbs. .30 60 lbs. 50 lbs. .35 58 Tbs. .35 70 lbs. 57 lbs. .40 67 lbs. .40 80 lbs. 64 lbs. .45 75 lbs. .45 90 lbs. 71 lbs. .50 83 lbs. .50 100 lbs. 79 lbs. .5o 92 lbs. .55 110 lbs. 86 lbs. .60 100 lbs. .60 120 lbs. 93 lbs. .65 108 lbs. .65 130 lbs. 100 lbs. .70 117 lbs. .70 140 lbs. 107 lbs. .75 125 lbs. .75 150 lbs. 114 lbs. .80 133 lbs. .80 160 lbs. 122 lbs. .85 142 lbs. .85 170 lbs. 130 lbs. .90 150 lbs. .90 180 lbs. 137 lbs. .95 158 lbs. .95 190 lbs. 144 lbs. 1.00 167 lbs. 1.00 200 lbs. 150 lbs. 1.05 175 lbs! 1.50 300 lbs. Cut this out and keep in some convenient place These prices are a reduction from 85c per 100 lbs., which was our price in July, 1920. Coweta Ice and Fuel Co. PHONE 403 NEWNAN, GA.