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/7v,v\ 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, Auq. 30. ■•HIS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN ADVERTISING BY THE fSpfi GENERAL OFFICES NEW YORK AND CHICAGO BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES FARM DEVELOPMENT POLLYANNA INSPECTION OF PUNTS AND PLANT PRODUCTS The attention of all persons sending plants by mail, is called to the fact that Georgia now has Federal Inspecting Points (points at which plants sent by mail are inspected by tbo Georgia State Board of Entomology) at Macon and Atlanta, Ga. The following plants and plant products ara subject to Terminal Inspection; All trees, plants, shrubs, vines, cuttings, scions, grafts, buds, leavos, roots, and all seeds of for est, fruit or ornamental trees or shrubs; all sweet potato draws and slips and tomato plants and slips; all greenhous 0 herbaceous and bed ding plants and parts thereof; all blossoms or flowers of orange, le mon and other citrus plants; all herbarium or dried specimens of plants or parts thereof, and other plants and plant products in the raw or unmanufactured state, ex cept vegetable and flower seed with the exception of the three proyitions noted below. (1) Said plants and plant pro ducts are not subject to Terminal Inspection if shipped under cer tificate of the Federal Horticul tural Board of the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture. (2) Nor, are these same plants and plant products subject to Ter minal Inspection if thoy originate SnGoorgia and are sent to places in Georgia, provided the paokages aro plainly marked to show the na ture of the contents and are ac companied by a certificate of the Georgia State Board of Entomolo gy- (8) The following plants and plant produets are not subject to Terminal Inspection if the con tainers are plainly marked to show the nature- of the contents and if both the office at which the plant products are mailed and the office to which they are addressed are located in Georgia: Out flow ers other than thoso of citrus plants; field orop seeds; garden and vegetable plants, other than aweeb potato draws and slips, and tomato plants and slips; grains, grass soeds; vegetable 8 for table use and peach pits. The Federal law makes the fail ure 1 o so murk su^h packages an offense punishable by a flue of not more than $100.00. If plants and plant products are subject to this* Terminal Tnspec' tlon, it will be necessary for the sender of the package to supply ths extra postage to the point of inspection in addition to the reg- wlar postage to point of destina tion. If said plants and plant products are condemned by thej The Macon Chamber of Com merce has vigorously begun a “Middle Georgia development campaign” for the purpose of bet{ tering farm and market conditions in that territory within a radius of sixty miles of the Central City. It has organized thoroughly lor the campaign so that its results results may be of a permanent and practical nature. The first step in the undertak ing was a complete survey of the territory so that afoimationmight be established with a thorough knowledge of tho ground beneath it. That survey has been completed and the first and most important fact developed is that the territory in question does not produce food crops sufficient to meet the re quirements of tho resident popu lation—and that, too, in a zone that is particularly adapted lo year-around food aud feed crops, or to a succession of such crops made possible by peculier climatic and soil oonditions. That fact is deplorable, bub it is no particulUr reflection upon this Middle Georgia section. It is probably true that no zone of equal area in Georgia, in the north or in the coastal plains, actually produces food aud feed, sufficient to feed the resident population of that zone. Certainly thoasawholl does not do so. It ss getting nearer and nearer to the “living at home” basis, however, each year, and this year—despite earlier reports lo tho ooutrary—will perhaps make mote progress in this direction than in any preceding year. The bare fact is, tho state of Georgia at large spends $75,000, 000 a year for food apd foed products which can and should bo grown at home. With foreign markets inactive to American farm production, and the domestic markets unable to consume the gross, the easiest solution of such a dilemma is to sell to One's self— to raiso for home consumption and for tho home markets certainly those commodities that have here tofore been bought and paid for from the proceeds of other pro duction. It is the eenuomicaliy and safe and wise thing to do, and in doing this, with the commodity markets developing through the co-operative campaigns, there can bo no doubt about growing suffi cient surplus money crops to make the farm operations on the whole satisfactory. It is a basic fact that the farmer who grows a single commodity and who bends all energies to that one end is no better off, if it takes the proceeds from that ono com modity to pay the cash costs of operation supiies and food and feed, than tho farmer who con tents himself with growing only what is consumpd on the farm, without selling ono dollar’s worth 01 the production. Both processes are fundamentally wrong. The one is misguided activity the other unwarraiitod iuactivity. A balanced production—surplus money crops, ineluding cotton under intensive cultivation! culti vation, and sufficient poultry pro ducts and cream and meat and meal and grain aud hay to feed all members of tho family and the stock, from harvesting season to harvesting season—is the answer. The Macon Chamber/ of Com merce is going after the situation with a determination to conquer it, and to make rural life in the great and resourceful middle section 6f Georgia not only pro/- COLYUM- “Government is a very simple thing,” said Presi dent Harding once and then pitched in and killed him self trying to get it to function. i OOOO'HXXSOOCXDOOOOOOOOOOOOOCXXXJOOCWOCXXXJOOOCOOOOOOOO ADVERTISEMENT OF W. B. SIMS New shipment or Art Squares and small Rugs. Some very beautiful eesigns. New line of grass rugs “Art Supreme” best quality ever handled. at this It is possible, thinks Bill that those who o set the lawn sprinklers § too close to the,side- § Wood finished iron beds, very popular walk, overestimate the jf . time, Good line of Mattresses that will please merits bath. of the shower will be returned to the sender at the expense of said sender, other wise they will be turned over to the Georgia State Board for pro per destruction. State Board of Entomology, they per A ous ’ b “ b more socially inviting. Aroused community ppmt and closer co operation between ihe town and the rural people are com- binded doing a great deal toward improving and heartening rural life. It is such efforts as are being so commendably made by the Macon chamber that are adding f to a marked degree in these ob- A gross profit of $379,000 wasi jectives.—From the Atlanta Con- Made by the Leviathan on her stitution. jaaiden trip, according to figures issued at Washington. Receipts en the outward voyage from New York toJEurope were $4U,000 and those on the return trip $368,000. The actual operatidg expenditures -<®ofc including capital coat and .-ether overhead, for the round trip ^totaled $400,000. PIANO FOR SALE • A high grade piano near Perry to sell at less than half original price. We will sell this piano for just what is .due on this account- For further information write the Williams-Guttenborger alusic Co , Mason, Ga. A young town man with a pretty but notorously flirtatious linauce wrote to a supposed rival. “I’ve been told that yon have been seen kissing my girl. Como to ray office at 11 on Friday. I want, to have this matter out,” The Rival answered, “I’vereceived a copy of your circular letter and will be present at the meeting.” A Perry man was heard „to calculate the other evening thp reason why swimming pools are so clear is caused by the face rouge had settled to the bottom over night. President Coolidge is said to be poor but proud. Too poor to buy an automobile and too proud to ride in a flivvvor. Oddfellow: An Alabamian op posed to Oscar Underwood for president. Roger Babson says hard work is the greatest need of Americans. Not with the mercury hovering around 100 degrees, Mr. Babson, says Bill. Every dog has his day. Mr. Ford calls history bunkr.ow, but history will have the last word. As we understaud the anthricite miners, the laborer is worthy of his higher. The chigger 1 Agger Is bigger This year. Now, honestly, inquires Bill, which would you rather have for President II chi y Ford or tho itch? Blit not the least among file Coolidge assets is the calm view he takes on life. He comes of calm Puritan stuck and from a section of tho country where they are. cultivated calm Why. in Bos ton the other day a man fell asleep in a dentist's chair. Happiness isn’t scarce, asserts Bill, it just isn’t being used much. IT’S VERAH SIMPLE Lives of profiteers remind us, If we’ve only got theerust. Each of us may leave behind us Heaps of tainted golden dust, If the thermometer were a phonograph, it would sound terri bly monotonous these days. The price of coal is still soaring— So is the Operator’s Bank account. A Minneapolis man claims to have a straw hat 50yearsold.Wesympa- thize with him—our’s looks it too. Won’t it be great when we can operate the lawn-mower by radio? Ability creates responsibility. .We’re not just positive which is correct, further or farther, but there is one thing certain, they both mean the same thing to a tired man with six or eight miles to go on foot. Fortunately, limitation of arma ment, came just, in time to give tho nations sufficient spare money to build air fleets. Two is matrimony but three is alimony. 8 everyone. | You are invited to look over these goods. 1 W. B. SIM S, | GROCERIES, FURNITURE, UNDERTAKING. | Night Phone No. 22. Day Phone No. 8, | Pebrt Ga- ooooooooooooooooooocoooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooco “Canning Season.” We have a full line of Fruit Jars, Cans, Rubbers, Jelly Glasses, Alluminum and Enamel Preserving Kettles at lowest prices. Our stock of Hardware, Crockery, EnamelMare, Glass-' ware, Tubs, Buckets, etc., is complete. We also carry a full line Groceries and Feed Stuff. Our prices aae'the lowest. We have the biggest trade in town—there is a reason. J. W. BLOODWORTH “THE FARMERS FRIEND.” PERRY, - GEORGIA. Perry Public High School Opens September 10th, 1923 for Fall Term Session. We have a full corps of Competent Teach ers Grammer School and High School. All scholars are requested to begin on the first day. Incidental fees payable in advance are $2.25 tor Grammer School and $4.00 for High School. J. W. BLOODWORTH, Chairman of Board of Education, H. P. HOUSlER, Secretary, Board of Education. J. M. GOODEN, Supt of School. NOW IS THE TIME 1 yard wide sheeting. 10c yard at H. P. Houser’s. per FOR SAL E — One seven room house. Well adapted for two families. Apply at this office. TO PAY YOUR SUBSCRIPTION.