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11. E-
MeAultffe. Editor
Si'fisi'nptiin
1 rice $1-5 ■ per
Annum.
Flease Be Patient
None of our readers are more
throughly aware of the fact that
right now we are furnishing our
readers with a poor substitute for
a newspaper, wholly due to the
fact we have not as yet received
a new typesetting machine to take
the place of the one damaged by
fire which occurred in our com
posing room about a month ago.
Rut a short time will elapse be
fore we will have installed iit our
plant one of the most modern
typesetting machines man.l tctiir-
cd after which time we will give
to our readers a bigger a bet
ter newspaper than we have ever
before gotten out. However, we
Are at present handicapped to the
extent of being forced to get set
in out of town plants the small
amount of type going into the
>aper.
■*<*!
We trust our readers will bear
•with us the burden tli.it has been
placed upon us tempi rari’v. We
are confident that the arrangement
we have planned will be worth to
our readers and ourselves a little
patient waiting and before the
end of this year ue hope to be
back with the appearance of fresh
ly bloomed flowers in the spring
There is not a reader of The
News who is as anxious to re
ceive the paper in well printed
and well gotten up form as we at»'
to get out such a paper. A lire in
a newspaper plant is a good de
finition of trouble and annoyance
and all this we have had during the
last three or four weeks.
Rut. be it said, we are far
from giving, up and we are going
to continue our efforts to get back
iti form until we go far beyond
the marks we have so far reach
ed we are going to make it at
least one better before we stop tc
NEGROES MOVE NORTH
Census Bureau Report Places
Number at 780,794..
ar
A Crocking Booster
In the (-..r. ia Cracker, a col
lege pn'i'i atior gotten out by
the stud< ! b d\ of the Univer-
cd
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of Gi
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ecently appear
j given to the
ci; / of Macon,
k red to in th •
j. was written
t man promin-
i ir organisations
iv reasons as to
Id not be looked
upon ;s a creditable city. The
vvri". r eviV.it 1 bad no hesitancy
in re - rr: g to any failures that
ci ! be (' urged up to the citizens
ot .\i.no or to the city as a mutt-
h ip.,it and not for once did he
embrace reference to anything
•hat would appear creditable to
an individual or organization in
the city in which he lived.
V\ e have heard quite a good
deal of knocking b msters hehre
< t 'ate- but we are inclined to the
opinion that the Macon gentleman
is entitled to the blue ribbon, in
i‘-s much as he saw lit to spread
propaganda throughout the
i M corners i t the state in which
h‘s borne town is located. Accord
ing to our opinion a knocking
boiMer is a much greater liability
than an asset to a civic or com
mercial organization and we
could not give credit to anvone
who is a party to give undue pub
lic criticism to the home town.
I nfortunately, Milledgeville lias
been the shhject of criticisms
made by so-called boosters during
• He last two or three years and it
m -ht well be said that such critics
have done a great deal more to
teat down than they have served
as builders. Notliimg i> more dis
gusting than to see an overhearing
specimen of humanity come into
an .organization and endeavor to
make himself a shining light by
*tUi?-pt> to ridicule and discredit
''WJinimity. jjrt/j n» make claim
the filing that is done is
that ever.. •• fvcrytlyng which
wrong and that
d,".- not exist is ‘ £ above re-
The Macon to criti-
in doubt as to whether Rotti-
elli is “the name of a cheese or
violin.”
\s a lawyer, doctor or preacher
your reputation will likely rest as
nuch upon your “all roundness,"
•our wide acquaintance with the
nside of great books and the gen
re! impression that you are not a
narrow minded specialist, as it will
tpon your technical finish.
Culture means intellectual back
ground.
It means accumulated force be
hind the stroke.
It means that you are not only
apable yourself, but that you
now how to absorb and use the
•ap.ibilitv of wiser persons.
It gives your perspective.
It increases your personality.
It strengthens your influence.
It keeps you front settling down
o become a mere cog in the wheel
Wed piece of machin
ery to do certain task, and makes
you a Human Being, alive- vibrant
radiating.
makes vou Somebody, not
st Anybody.
a mother lias realized too
t' rt she has no hold upon her
•re" because of her lack of
•ledge. They have grown up
t g-iftet away from lnr.
^ : ■■ v a man has risen in the bus-
^ world only to be humiliated
• esc he neglected to acquire
hat education which alone would
qualify him to mingle on terms of
duality with well informed peo
ple.
In fact, no man or woman, who
as neglected an education, does
rot bitterly regret it sooner or lat-
r.
And no living person was ever
orry that be had secured an edu-
ration.
T here never was an age in the"
'.istory of the world when it was
o true that ‘.Knowledge is power.’
And Knowledge is open to Ev
erybody.
Its gates are unlocked, its door
s unlatched, its road is a- free as
lie king's highway.
The only thing that prevents any
person from acquiring useful
knowledge are Inincss, self-indul
gence. weakness and procrastina
tion.
Even if you did net get a chance
11 go to school, or it you failed to
improve your opportunity when
young, you can still set out upon
t le roval road to Education if vou
have the will.
An even in the case of those who
ace college graduates, the best
iart of their education is gotten
rom their studies iu the ten vears
aftr leaving school.
There is no single thing -o essen
tial to Success, ill whatever calling
Education.
fecunter Movement Balk to Southern
States Also Is Shown—17,223
Negroes Born in North Mi
grate to the South.
Washington.—Tin- total number of
legroes reported as horn in southern
ties and livingdn the North and West
mil increased from 440,534 in 1010 to
10.704 In 1020, the census bureau
nnouneed in a special report on negro
ilgration bused on returns of the Iasi
nsus. The southern boundaries of
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
iana, Illinois. Missouri and Kansas
ere taken as the dividing line between
N'ortli and South for the purposes
!»f the report.
Of the 10,381.309 negroes enumerated
[\ the last census, there were 38,575
whom no state of birth was re
ted. The 780,704 southern-born
hroes shown to have migrated to the
■rth or West constituted 8.1 per cent
the total of 9,000,043 negroes born
he southern section. The pejeent-
,1 of tills migration for the lire-
ing decade was not shown.
ali’.st this migration from the
uth to the North and West, of the
al of 741,791 reported In the last
isus as born in states of the lutter
ion, 47,223, or 0.4 per cent, were liv-
In the South. Thus the proportion
mnthern-born negroes who migrated
[the North or West, according to
report, was only about one-fourth
er tlmn the proportion of ttiose
i In tlie latter region who migrated
the South.
‘While it is impossible to calculate
actly tlie extent of negro migration
the South during the decade
tiled with 1920," the census report
said, “the available data indicates that
somewhat
survivors
therefoie defeated. i oimaivin , 1 | of tlie net negro migration from tlie
■’ 1 if ue have tiled ana are tiyingi „ ,, , ,, x . „, ... „ , . „
Of course there iis tKvivc that’? , - „ . T ~ .. . South to tlie North and V\est prior
( t course then ns alwajs that to d() in Georgia. If anything, j r ,mmr y t, 1020, left the South sub-
thu stile of the question, that a j_| ie p ] an proposed for Georgia is sequentiy to April 15, 1910."
.metnor will \e elected who will more dangerous to the I “Although migration to the North
,oi-i-tiOeaEVILl_E, QA.
, CONSULT WEATHER BUREAU
If Moving to Another State You Can
Get Just the Information You
Want From tho Government.
Washington.—“What is the health,
lest pluce in tlie United StutesV"
"Ij^there any pluce in Florida where
u person cun live the year round
wltliout getting luulnrla'f"
Questions like those come utmost,
dally to tlie weather bureau of the.
United States Department of Agricul
ture. The lutter Is evidently from a
correspondent who Is discouraged hyi
New Jersey mosquitoes and wants to
try something else. Inquiries of this 1
type, including questions on the tem
perature, climate, rainfall, and similar
factors of weather which affect living
conditions, business, or work in some
distant locality*, are taken care of hy
the climatological division of tin*
weather bureau.
The Inquirer is usually supplied with
printed dutn giving u great many facts
about the section he is interested In,
as well us a letter answering ids spe
cific questions.
The weather bureau has ihfl printed
sectional descriptions of tills character
which it sends persons asking about
conditions in definite places in enrol.
Hemal United Ktates. Similar data are
ulso available for Porto Rico and lln-
wail. Information about Alaska is la
preparation.
IS LAWYER AT 18
popular desires iinto effect, annd' p rec isely what their fellow con-[ approximately 400,000, or s
the will of the people themselves j sp i ra t 0 rs in the Municipal Lea- more than half of the 733,5711
; even
take wrongful advantage of the; f , interests, the small
privilege to appoint, and build up * , - , .
political machine. ' I tmvn man 8 interests, than the
__ | California plan. They limited
ME or the OTHER FELLOW.* i their proposal in California to
! an issue of five hundred mil-
\\ hat will I get? W'liat shall 1 ! lions of dollars in bonds to fi-
fi\e.' Which question looms up nance the plan. The Georgia
lie bigger for this Christmas? It'- scheme has no limit,
tot to lie denied that there's a I In California they proposed
'hole lot of fun and excitement that a board of five politicians
n reaching down into the *H 1 Should take over the power
locking on Christmas morning and p i an ts and run them, paying for
uilling out your presents one by anv j osses w j t h the State’s tax
me. Rut even at that it cannot be mcMy That is t h e same iden-
ompared with the personal satis
faction in watching the expression
f some unfortunate boy or girl
■gbt up when an unexpected Christ
ms package is opened before hi.s
r her astonished eyes. Take it
tpon yourself to make some fellow,
vho lias not the same opportuniti
es as yourself, happy this year. Get
our Sunday school class interest-
d in providing for a family. Make
i genuine sacrifice, and see if you
won't find that Christmas, 1922,
was the happiest of your life. Ex.
ferred to Via*
• . hi- borne tow n
jor pernut-
oi'R elect:o\ system.
From the Macon Telegraph
The address of Attorney 1 lar
i'. Strozier before thq lunior
Chamber of Commerce last week
11 which he made some f rank
criticism of our election svstem,
was well in order- although the
proposal to wake the office of
judge appointive instead of elec
tive has the appearance of being
[a thrust at simon-pure democra-
XOTES OF IX TER EST TO
■FORMERS
Spraying Fruit Trees
The time is here to begin a
‘clean-up in your orchard by prilli
ng and spraying the trees. Con-
'entrated lime-sulpher is the lead-
tig winter spraying material. This
naterial can be bought from a bro
ker in Cornelia- Ga., by the barrel.
Not many farmers • w*!! need
tical proposal made to Georgians
jy tne Municip. l League. But
the Georgia plan involves also
the throttling of the Constitu
tional safeguard against exces
sive indebtedness for which the
tax-payer’s property is secur
ity. Once this sacred bsjrrier
is hacked away, once these con
spirators are in charge of the
vast properties bought with
bond money, there will net be
one single safeguard for the-
farmer or any other tax-payer. -
By the terms of the proposed
law, this board of politicians
would be responsible to no one—
not even the courts. They would
be above the Public Service
Comtnission—above tlie Legis
lature! Their authority would
come dircctjy from the Consti
and West lias not taken place among
tlie far southern negroes to the same
extent, relatively to their total num
bers, as among the negroes In tlie
northern part of the South, there was,
nevertheless, n pronounced Increase in
such migration from tlie l-'ur South dur
ing the past decade.”
As examples of tills gain, tlie report
cited increases in the migration of
negroes from southern states to Penh,
sylvania from 1910 to 1020 as follows:
Georgia, 1,578 to 10,190; South T'nro-
linn, 2,115 to 11,024; Florida, 393 to 5.-
870. Tlie migration from Alabama to
Ohio increased from 781 to 17.588;
from Mississippi to Illinois, 4,012 to
19,485; Texas to Missouri, 1,907 to 4,-
344.
35,COO “VAGS” IN NEW YORK
Very Few Former Service Men Are
Among Migratory Army of the
Homeless.
Miss Zonola I.ongstreth, who, nr
eighteen years of age, graduated
from the Arkansas law school
at Little Itock. Sin- is the youngest
lawyer in the stnte, at least tlie
youngest qualified to practice, yet slu
ts unable to gain admittance to tlie bar
because of iter young years. She is
endeavoring to have tlie stnte legisla
ture passji law permitting her to prao.
ticp, and Ttus a hobby for criminal law.
She is the daughter -if United States
Commissioner I.ongstreth of I.ittle
Rock, formerly a major in the regular
army.
BOSSY CHEWS UP HER MONEY
.„ | tution, as slashed and changed
-hole tare!, but several tStai by . ,he pl ? n '“ d th £ "“wh'li
In use J barrel. 1 will orta and j» «"“> ‘ hc , ms ' , ' es!
iistribute small quantities, provid-1 an oppoi tuiutj .
d I have sufficient requests for a I This tlie plan being urged oil
vhole barrel. 1 Georgia law-makers, Until now
Pecan Trees ] the senators and repl'esenta’-
I have just recently n civcd! tives, with commendable consis-
urices for pecan planting stock tence, have rejected it. But it
will come up tig,a in next sum
mer. The Georgia f?rhfi f is
tlie backbone of the State aild
he is the State’s political boss.
His word to his legislator
should echo his California
brother’s stern refusal to sur
New York.—There are, according tc
a conservative esilmnte, 35,000 home
less men in this city today. Since
1014 tlie average age of these nten
bus dropped from forty-seven to thirty-
two, and many of them are inert
youths. Roy I’. Gates, member of tlie
national committee on vagrancy,
stamped as incorrect a report pub
lished in a Sun Francisco newspaper
under a New York dale line, that New
York’s homeless are drifting to the
pacific coast because they have been
ordered by tlie police to find jobs or
get out of town.
Tf there lias been an influx of home- i . , . „ , ,i, |iri ,
, , i „„ ,i„ „ . „ „i* Jaws were working freely and t'> in
less men and panhandlers to tlie eit J __ , sirs.
ies of tlie west coast it is a sign only
of a condition which is general, sny^j
Mr, Gates,
Few ex-service men are among tlie,*
migratory army of the homeless. I
Mr. Gates snlil that the lowest type
of iie«Upite man Is the one who hogs
ifiijs on the street, ftt-‘j that the prfld-1
tice of giving him money is a bail one, j
since it encourages hint. The belief
plan is to direct him to some reputa
bie charituble agency which can in-ip
him.
Bank Robbed 1 Often.
fchipfthevvtum, Iml.—The Formers'
State hank here tvns robbed of $15,000
in currency and Liberty bonds early
the other day. The safe hail heen
Vt-cty letie
runt one of the leading nut tree
urserymen. I shall be glad to give
on these prices and help you or
der.
Pirie Acid—Dynamite Substitute
A war supply of [tiric acid is be
ing distributed to farmers at a
aiinr cheap rate while the supply j w j f j is nrop . I opened with the aid of m, acetyli-n
asts. I his material is mudi ; rtI ‘ nt ' 01 'J'op lor< . } ,_ omcinls said the loss was cm
heaper than dynamite, and can he 1 . tliese \isionury, selfish. ore( j | )v insurance. Ix«cnl nuthoritlep
i believe three men who fame here late
| in the day in an automobile committed
iriler blanks for this material, NOTICE TO HOLDERS OF I ,( j '"' rv - " W1 '" »•"">» " IP
.../in o iirtvo i-Tuunc hank hail been robbed in 20 years non
WAR SAVING STAM1 S, t]ll , thll . (t tllllP tllis veill , sbipsi„-u.,n. t
is located ten miles west of Lagrange
. | War-Saving Stamps of the
Virginian Dies from
i sod for any of the purposes for: conspirators.
.Inch dynamite is used, f ha\e'
they
can be had upon request. ^
Exchange.
11018 issue are due Jan. 1, 192111
' ltd may be presented at any | ?
Fall from Window time for exchange for Treasury '
Newport News, Ya.. Dec.. - Savings Certificates or for cash
\\
Roberson . P‘*-' men _L
If your certificates |
lodge Clarence
if tia- Warwick county circuit - ai ' u registered, they must he 1
nurt- died at g o’clock this mom- 1 Pi'osented at the office of regis-
ng "at Charlottesville of injuries J tratiori. If not registered, they
--iist.iiineii at midnight when he | be cashed at any postoffice
earned too tar out a window at snd banks oi - by the Treasurer
he KapjKi Sigma Fraternity J of the United States. We urge
douse at the University of Vir-|all holders to present their
siuia and fell thirty feet to the stamps for payment at the ear-
itone pavement below. 1 le
it Charlottesville to attend
Virginia- North Carolina
.ill came
was liest possible date, so that they
the may he sent to you on Jan. i.
foot-11921. For each stomp vou hoi j I
'you will he paid ij>5.00.‘ ‘ I
His Luck Is Out When
Tadpoles Hatch in Milk
Nairobi, Africa. — A imtl-,
charged in tin* resident magi- •
trnte's court here with milk
ailulteratioa stri-mioiisly denied
the allegation.
In tlie temporary absence of
experts lie might have been n
quitted, but Ills lllrk was de.nl
out. for during the course of
trial n family of tadpoles lia'.- iu i
out In the milk.
He v«as scut to jail for :
month without the option.
Ohio Woman Leaves $1,000 in Bills in
Her Buggy and Cow Does
the Rest.
Martins Ferry, O.—Tlie long green
looked like good pasture land tu
Lossy, so she helped herself to n •
(XH) cud.
Mrs. James V-’enthetson was llic ' ; "-
tint of her cow’s appetite for high
finance. Site left the $1,999 on llic
seat ot her buggy while sin- wi nt imu
the barn to get tlie horse.
When Mrs. Weatherson entae out.
the wallet was gone, hut the *
reely and
was n lump in her throat. Mis-
Weatherson promptly forced open 9"'
animal's mouth, reached down »«'
drew out a pulpy mass that was olive
$1 ,(KK) in hills.
HEN SINGS ABDUCTOR TO JAIL
Novel Test Before Jury Results in
Prison Sentence for Ne
braska Man.
of o
Omaha, Neh.' - ‘Jl ,p hapi 1 .' >01 '“ -j nt
pet hen sent t'luirleS J r 'j„j\vitli
Rune. Nell. Grady wad tmm- n
stealing chickens from A 11 '!' • .1
son. Among the poultry C I|P > = V!1 “
have been st«>le:i was a linw
which Mr. Lf.rettsna Insisted he
trained. Tim Jury went 1“ -
chickens at the jail.
said tin- hen would fly ta any 1
arm, if called, and sing a song. •' > ‘
tried it, with tlie result that "a
scuicHct* followed.
Child Falls in Oil
Well and Is Drowned
Tex.—“Daddy
.__Pad-
,-nlz-
■Rleetra.
il.v. help me!" were the att"
ing cries which came froj" (
ten-inch c-pening of an “i ''
In-re. Rescuer 1 , worked n;
tically, but the itarroivac’'
the hole, which tfas 1 st ’
deep, handicapped their e '
It was a race with death v -
lasted five hour*, but tlea 11
Rising water In the
drowned tlie child l , ef" l ‘‘ ]l(|)
pltng hooks were fusteued ^
the clothing urn) the •'" • | |I( |
drawn front the well. ""
was Lee Gandy, four. “ ^
ped into tin- opening of t 1