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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. cKOOOO'VX«OOOOOOOOOoOOOOCX«)OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCOOa | 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. | g Perry Ga- | OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOOQQOOOOQOOOOOOOO oooooooooooo —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.