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THE HOME JOURNAL
Price $1,50 A Year. In Advance
Published Every Thursday Morning
Official Organ of Houston County
JOHN H. & JOHN L. HODGES
Thursday, July 19.
vHIS PAPER REPRESENTED TOR FOREIGN
ADVERTISING BY THE
aENGHAL OFFICES
■NEW YORK AND CHICAGO
'BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES
Georgia’s eorn crop will be the
smallest iu fourteen yoars accord
ing to estimates given out by tbe
co-operative crop reporting ser
vice.
According to nows dipatches
complete* accord has been attained
on all the questions ns issue in the
Near Bast and a mooting called to
confirn and approve the agreement.
1 A date for signing of the compac t
also has been arranged.
The periodical cicada, or seven
teen-year locust, as it is popularly
called, appears in some part of the
country every year. These various
groups are recognized as different
broods by entomologists, and each
has a number, accord in g to its
appearanoo. Brood XIV is appear
ing jnst now in the East-Central
States and also in scattering num
bers in parts of Maryland, and a
single individual was taken at
Maywood, Va.. nooording to re
ports received by the United
States Department of Agriculture.
Brood XXIT, \vhich belongs to the
thirteen-year race, is appearing in
n full emergence in the four south
western counties of Mississippi!
EFFECT OF NEGRO MIGRATION ON
THE SOUTH
Nogro labor has been cheap la
bor; and because it has been con
gested in the cotton-growing South
it has made cotton a cheap labor
crop. Tho negro has lived in a
shanty, has gone half-clad, poorly
fed, and made cotton on this ba
sis, and tho white man making
cotton had to compete with this
sorb of obeap labor.
It 1ms been a competition ns
ruinous ns that which the white
Californians faced when incoming
Chinese and Japanese with their
low living standards began to
threaten California with pauper
labor aud pauperism. The reason
England has not been able to
grow cotton in her colonies is
simply because Southern negroes
•and Southern whites, by going
poorly housed, poorly clad and
poorly fed, have made cotton vir
tually on a sfavb wage basis, and
therefore cheaper than England
could gro\^ it in Africa.
Moreover, a large part of our
Southern negroes making cotton
have not really been farmers, but
*imply persons eking out of ex-
i8tance by getting rations from a
store while they helped pile up
an overproduction of cheap, cotton
l>y growing “cotton and nothing
else but cotton to pay for their
supplies. No wonder farming
hasn’t paid. Agriculture has been
prostituted to make profits for a
mercantile elass.
If morenegroes of this “cropper’
type go north, it will lessen the
production of cotton and boost
cotton prices while at the same
time making room for more real
farmers in the South. The new
farmers will grow the hay, meat,
flard, canned goods, milk, poultry,
«heesi\ etc., of which wo now im
port so much; trill take better care
of the soil; and will take much
Interest in rural social and com
munity life, rural education, and'
sgonera' rural progress.
And such a result, as we have
said before, will help not only the
white farmers of the South, taut
thrifty and enterprising negroes
alao.—TJke Progressive Farmer.
WHAT DOES YOUR COMMUNITY
SCORE-SO, 80, OR 100?
In the Progressive Farrrnr
recently we emphasized ten im
portant ways of enriching life in
your community. How many of
these leu progressive lines is your
neighborhood following? Suppose
you credit your neighborhood
with ten points for eaeh of these
ten questions that you cau answer
affirmatively and then see how it
score. See whether you are living
in a community ihat is 50 per
cent progressive, 70 per cent, or
100 poreent. In most school ex
aminations, we beliove, -70 per
cent is regarded as necessary to
“pass,” 80 is good, and OOexcelent
See whether your community
“passes” if judged by this ten-
question Bcore card, or makes a
still better grade.
It will be interesting to discuss
this matter with your family and
neighbors and boo whether you
agree on your answers to these ten
questions and the consequent
’*4iore‘^ip rating you give your
neighborhood.
1. Have you an industrious,
thrifty rural people, interested in
better farming, better Bchools and
better roads?
2. Have you a strog local organ!:
zation of farmers—in a coorpora-
tivo marketing organization or
otherwise—and have you a good
organization of farm women?
3. Do you have an annual com
munity fair?
4. Have you a reading poople?
Do the farm homes have good
books and papers, the Bchool a
library service most states are
now offering?
5. Do you have a public com
mencement to mark tho close of
year’s work by your school boys
and school girls— the chief treasure
of your community?
6. Do your people love beauty?
Aare your homes and public build
ings being made beautiful as fast
as should bo expected by paint on
the outside, worthy pictures on
the inside, and flowers aud shrubs
and trees for the grounds?
7. Is there a proper appreciation
of musie by tho community
and by individual homes iu the
community?
6. Does your community give
enough thought to recreation-
baseball, basket ball, annual pic
nics, family reunions, agricultural
excursions, and rural sports such
as fishing. hunting,'etc?'
9. Have your people acquired
“the grace of giving’’ for com
munity purposes—to help their
school, tliojr churches and com
munity life and progress? Does
anybody “remember the communi
ty in his will” when he makes one?
10. Are you doing anything to
encourage a study and knowledge
of local history?—The Progressivo
Farmer.
POLLYANNA
COLYUM
THREE COMMON ERRORS.
We had a discussion about the
three most common mistakes in
English of fairly well educated
persons. We could not agree.
What would you suggest?
One common mistake is that, of
using “carry” as a synonym for
‘load,” “take” or “accompany,
when theie is no thought, of bear
ing the actual physical burden, as
“carry” indicates. One takes a
friend to town, loads a cow to
water, but to carry a friend or
cow is a physical impossibility.
“ Like’’ as a synonym for “as”
is frequently used. For instance,
one sometimes heat’s, “it. looks like
it Imd been mended,” instead of
“it looks as though it had been
mended”
When it comes to choosing the
third error the ohoice might be
between using the objective pro
noun instead of the nominative
after the verb “to be.” “Tt was
him” or “Its me,” instead of “it*
was he,” or “It’s 1” or tho fol-j
lowing:
The verb “was” with a plural,
subject as“was they going?"—The i
Progressive Farmer.
Bill says there J
are about 500 ;
languages in the j
world and moeny J
speaks about 500 <
of them. 11
A frown i s a j
malady-it is con- j
tangious. A smile is a j
tonic-it is also con- J
tangious. Let’s boost J
the tonic and climi- .
nate the epidemic! J
You don't know]
, whether it is was the <
oat or earrings, says Bill when you \
see a man’s face, all scratched up •
nowadays.
A MOTORING ROMANCE
The young man at the wheel re
moved his hand from its rim aud
gently, oh, so gently, slipped it
around tbe soft curves of that
which nestled beside him. Careful
ly, hesitatingly, he pulled it toward
him with a sort of a lifting, slid
ing motion. As if fearful of its
fragility he brought it against his
shoulder, then carefully rested it
upon his breast fer a moment. His
eyes were half-closed and his chest
heaved as he felt that his purpose
was to be achieved. The gentle
roundness before him rose slowly,
as his grasp tightened, and then
settled into its allotted place.
A philosopher says man is at
his best when his nose is on the
grindstone, so perhaps we haven’t
done so badly by posterity, after
all.
Don’t abuse your, self-respect,
especially if it is toa small to de
fend itself, is tho advise of Bill.
Bill says peoplp disrespect laws
for ihe same reason that a kid
dosen’t care much for any par
ticular toy if he has too darned
many. ,
Bill says there is nothing hard
er than trying to look interested
when a bore talks to you .
Think of what it must mean to
live in a laundry. There every day
is wash day.
THE.FALLOF NIGHT
He slipped on his pajamas and
fell into bed.
The weaker the cause the moi'e
dead statesmen are quoted in
support of it.
Under the blessings of civiliza
tion and learning, man has become
reconciled to almost everything
except man.
Bill says life is a continual
Track Meet, and tho feature event
the Human Race. 4
If you want to impress the boss,
say it with work.
NO BULLS IN THIS DEAL
Old Farmer Brown gave fifteeen
pigs
Fer a cow to Farmer Strange;
They didn’t live on Wall Streets.
But they made a Stook Exchange
Many a man lias gone broke
trying to make a big car out of a
little one, grumbles Bill.
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| Spring Time Merchandise 1
o Ice Boxes
g Refrigerators
ft Gause Wire
Wire Windows
Vudor Porch Shades
Flv Swatters
New Rugs
New Mattresses
New Iron Beds
New Bed Springs
New Spring Cots
New Cot Mats 3
8 ALL AT §
5 °
S W. B.SIMS, i
| GROCERIES, FURNITURE, UNDERTAKING. |
8 Night Phone No. 22. Day Phone No. 8. |
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—WANTED—Half dozen copies
of the Home Journal dated May
31st, 1923. Will he glad to
for same at this office.
The moon, too, has human char-
acteristics-it looks aud probably
feels tho smallest when it is on ils
last quarter.
Find your joy in what you do—
not in what you intend to do.
Thero is one nice thing about
being a nobody. Bill says you can
get away with it without consult
ing your attorney.
OUR OWN DEFINITIONS
Habitual Liar-Ofie who makes
a practice of telling falsehoods
when the truth would do as well
or even better. Example-The
weather man.
Between gas-filling stations and
bill-boards the vacant lot owners
seem to be prospering, says Bill
OPENING OF THE TWELFTH DISTRICT AG-
RICULURRAL AND MECHANICAL SCHOOL.
CHOCHRAN GEORGIA.
September 4th, 1923.
The sohool Is for boys and girls. We have nice dormitories sep*
erae, and good trained teachers to help the pupils in their work.
The school is conducted on the merit system and every effort is
made to develop good moral character.
The goal of an education is aoqnired facts related to actual life
needs.
This is a vocational school and seeka to develop a well rounded
character, the head, the hand, the heart.
An able faculty is in charge of the school and take an interest in
the pupils.
We have a Teacher Training Course for the seniors and those
who successfully complete the couree, will be granted a license by the
State School Superintendent, which will be recognition in any county
the state. The tuition is free and board is reasonable. '
Write the Principal for Catalogue and farther information.
F. M. GREEN, Principal, Cochran, Ga.
—FOR SAL E—Pair good
pay* Mules, cheap. Apply T D Gurr,
Perry Ga. ,
Reduced Round Trip Fares
for
Sommer Travel
TYBEE “Where Ocean Breezes Blow” arid other attrac
tive South Atlantic Seaside Resorts.
New York, Boston, Baltimore and Philadelphia and
resorts in the East via Savannah and steam
ship going and returning same route; or
going one route, returning another.
Lake and Mountain Resorts in the Carolinas, Virginia,
Tennessee and Kentucky.
Resorts in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Denver, Estes Park, Colorado Springs, Manitou, Mesa
Verde National Park, Pueblo and other re
sorts in Colorado.
Yellowstone National Park in Montana and Wyoming.
Glacier National Park in Montana. Grand
Canyon, Arizona.
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Diego, Santa
Barbara, California; Portland, Oregon;
Seattle, Spokane and Tacoma, Washington;
Vancouver and Victoria, B. C., Lake Louise
and Banff, Alta.
St. Johns, New Brunswick; Halifax, Nova Scotia; Toronto,
Ottawa and Muskoke Lake, Ont.; Montreal,
Murray Bay and Quebec, Que„ and other
resorts in Canada,
Resorts in New York, Massachusetts, Maine, New
Rhode^Island^ erm ° nt * ^ CW I erse V> and
Total fares, schedules, routes, service, sleeping and barlor car
accommodations and any other information or assistance
srit and [M supplied
Central of Georgia Railway
The Right Way
F. J. ROBINSON, General Passenger Agent, Savannah, Ga.