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THE HOME JOURNAL Price $1.50 A Year. \ln Advance Published Every Thursday Morning Official Organ of Houston County JOHN H. & JOHN L. HODGES Thursday, Aug. 16. fMIS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN ADVERTISING BY THE GENERAL OFFICES NEW YORK AND CHICAGO BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES THE BEST FOR HOUSTON In mental, moral, intellectual and business qualification^ the citizens of. Houston oouaty are at least equal to the best in any area in Georgia. We claim that our people are qualified to make this county the best agricultural section of simi lar area in the union. That this may bo done, a con* siderable number of the best quail fied citizens of tne oounty must assemble at a selected time and place and consider the subject thoroughly from a cooperative stand-point. After earnost consideration of the purpose, the plan best to gain suooess must be chosen and car ried to completion with determin ed and united energy. These oo-oporatiug farmers mnst obtain the endorsement of the best bankers, merchants and busi- ness men ef the county. In this proposed combination there should be no individual purpose superior to chosen planTto make Houston tho most progressive and success ful county in the state. Such a plan has plaeod Turner county in the lead of agricultural and industrial progress. This writer is only one ol the thousands who know that what Turner county has done, Houston can do. The time to begin this much needed work is now. Somebody must begin. Tho first, meeting of the most progres sive citizens of the county should bb held early enough for the plan to bo pub at work early in October of this yoar. September, on tho first Tuesday is not too early. Mr. Fred Coolidgo, a merchant of Atlanta, Ga , is a second oousin of president Coolidge. -—■-«■■■ ■ Farmers in southere sections of Michigan aie feeding wheat t» their live stock. With wheat at 90 oents.they cannot afford to buy $1 corn for live, stock feed. Public owned hydroelectric en terprises in Ontario arc very suc cessful. It is stated that if not. interfered with during tho next five or six years the investment will be over $500,000,000. A total eclipse of the sun will be visable in Mexico and southern California on September Jlth and astronomers from all parts of the world are arranging te take photo graphs. FoRTY-nine carloads of water melons were shipped from Georgia last Saturday and it is believed shipments will be concluded this, week. As a whole the watermelon j orop in Georgia was not profitable ■ President Coolidge has not re placed any members of the official Cabinet of the administration of the lato president Harding. The president has also declared that he will not remove any of these officials until after the next Con gress begins next December. The new president is following exactly the promise voluntarily made last week. OUR NEW PRESIDENT A man born in Vermont and now a citizen of Massachusetts has by death of a president from the vice presidency been promoted to chief executive of tbe nation. The charge territorially is great and the speculations of the people is as great; that of the politicians is greater from a party stand point. f he following from the Macon Telegraph is reproduced by tho Home Journal with approval. “President Coolidge acted with a large measure o( wivdom in re taining the Cabinet. The fact that the Cabinet is in the midst of many important matters whose ex ecution were under the supervision ! of President Harding and who ini tiated tbe policy for each,suggests of itself that the Harding Cabinet should be allowed to stay on tbe job at least until these matters have been terminated or settled, especially sinco Mr. Coolidgo has announced that he would adhere to and complete the execution of the polices laid down by Mr. Harding. “President Coolidge requested that no Cabinet members even adopt the customary formal pro cedure of handing in their resig nations, The quiok decision and announcement in this connection are to be appreciated by the na tion; thoy denote the man in charge of the high office. By making the decision and announ cement quickly, the new President headed off Republican patronage seekers and a scramble for the Cabinet places. Pressure would hfcve been brought to bear from the Johnson wing of the party to oust Secretary of State Hughes or refuse his reippoint.mont, and oth er efforts of like character as re gards other Cabinet offioiale would have been made. However Mr. Ooolidge did not give the political camps time to organize such ef forts. The de^th of the Chief Ex ecutive was so sudden and unex pected, it caught them unprepar ed; and they are still reeling. It would not be profitable nor de sirous for them to make advances during the nation’s sorrow; and President Coolidge delivered a body blow to such political actions before they were able to show their heads. Senator Johnson will doubtless consider this an unfair advantage on the part of the new President; but it was the right eous thing to do. It saved the na tion much in the way of uncer tainty and unstability, confusion and demoralization. Although tho general has fallen, there has not been a break in the lines. “The statement of President Coolidge that he will carry out President Hasding’s policies means at least that there will be no abrupt and sudden change that result in a shook to any faction or group. For six months certainly, he will hold to the Harding path of thought and action as laid down by the late President in the last months and weeks in the office. After that, one may expect to see the personality and individuality of Coolidge asserted more and more, until the more vivid traces of Harding rogime have passed away. “Of courre, the Republican par ty is hide-bound more or less to a certain course and policy, and Ooolidge hardly lias the lime to get very far away from the reac tionary grooves, if he should de sire. But it will be keenly intrr- esting to watch his course during tho last year of the term of offleo. His greatest handicap is that he is serving out tho political end of the term; the Republican party leaders will ever be camped about him to politi tally ad vise and guide. It will seem to him like he is the head of an immense political ma chine rather than the President of a great nation.’’ POLLYANNA COLYUM- Judge Gary announces that a plan has been practically agreed upon to eliminate the 12-hour day. The plan fnvolves a reduction of from 24.80 for 12 hours to $4.00 j for eight hours, making a 25 per cent increase in the houily and base wages. The plan adds $45,- 000,000 to the pay roll and gives employment to 60,000 more men. Following is an advertisers idea of news story. Robert Steel, eight years old, Anyolo Avenue was fatally shot while paying with playing with a Swiss & Messen revolver yesterday afternoon at Ipswfyich and Sa j catchewan avenues, in 1 front of Scheldtmiere's Sanitary Apothecary.; Thebullet, entering the left sid e punctured a suit just purchased at Happelwhite’s Department Store' sale now in progress (see 1 inch 2 coulmn advertisement on back page of this paper.) / The boy was attempting to open a “Sanitary-sealed” package of “Jim Dandy” animal crackers with the barrel of tho revolver , when the exclusively designed trigger, just patented, fell. The cartridge was of the Powerless- Brank, recently introduced to the trade. When the youngester fell to the pavement a Never-Squirt fountain Pen, in one of his coat-pockets, i was badly crushed, but is still fit for fimther use, it being saved by a triple-ply composition rubber case; furnished to each purchased with out extra charge. The funeral will be held from Genteol parlors of the Grave Diggers’ Undertaking establish ment on Tenth Street, just oppo site the newly erected plant of Hermanstenis’ Soy Bean Genning Company. An Tmperisable Metallic. Casket’ made only in this city, , will be used. Flowers will be furnished by the Dandi-Lione Floral Company who catered to the funeral of Mrs. S. H. C. Buffington-Blubb, the notbd society leader, when she died later of aoute indigestion recently. The more a married man sounds like an Orator when he is down town the more he sounds like a Door Mat when ho is at home says Bill. THE FALL OF MAN A three act play with lots of speed: ACT 1 Maid one. • ACT II Maid won. ACT III Made one (Curtain). How often the bridegroom hands the minister only a 5-spot for; marrying him to a girl who looks' like a milliod dollars, I A friend in need sometimes' keeps a man broke, says Bill. Radical: any wildman who would disturb your present graft. The break had come at last. Ho knew that the tension of the past few hours would precipitate the crisis and that the inevitable part-. ing was near, but he dreaded just this moment. Why could not this embarrassment have been spared him until they were far from the rude stares of the passersby? On I this day of all,—and with her! Why had he trusted this weaken ing garter on Sunday when all tue stores were closed? It is foolish expense to make the same error twice, says Bill. An ounce of performance is worth a ton of complaint, snorts Bill. Following the line of least re sistance, says Bill, gets many a man’s arm around a waist line. The wrong road never brings you to the light place, thinks Bill. Once there was a poor man who attended strictly to his own busi ness and today he is rich and happy. T. B. or not T. B.—that is the question, remarked the doctor to Shakespeare. , Putting In A Call Fob An Undertaker “Well,” said the gunpowder mnrehant as he turned the sticks of dynatemite in the opposite di rection, “I guess I’ll reverse the charges. CKOOOO'XXJOOOOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOCXXXJO Spring Time Merchandise Ice Boxes Refrigerators 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 ALL AT W. B. SIMS, GROCERIES, FURNITURE, UNDERTAKING. Night Phone No. 22. ,< Day Phone No. 8, Perry Ga- oooooocxjooooooocoooooooooooooooocxxxa ooooooooooeo NOW IS THE TIME TO PAY YOUR SUBSCRIPTION No Boll Weevil! Big Crops—Cheap Land W OULD you like to live in Lamb County, Texas, where boll weevil is unknown i: and where one man can farm 100 acres of cotton? ,. s Would you like to own a farm in Lamb i County—just like land in this county, where 40 to 50 bales are being raised on 100 acres? Would you like to come to Lamb County and make some real money—and own this new land on easy terms—less than rent in most places—if so write us today. The Halsell Ranch Is Now Being Subdivided % Here is a new farming country with every advantage. Corn and wheat can he raised as well as cotton. A wonderful Dairying, Cattle and Hog country—Abundance of good water. -*! This Land Is On or Near the Santa Fe Railroad Write Today for Descriptive / Literature end Full Particulars ' The Halsell Farms Company Lamb County, Texas ■ ' , A new town is now being built on the property. The Santa Fe railroad station is already there. Schools and , Churches will be established. Address your letter to The Halsell Farms Company, Sudan, Texas. 'f” m • R' i NOTICE Plenty of Fresh Water Ground Meal at all times. MOSSY CREEK MILLING CO W. L. HENRY.