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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. HODGEJjl
Thursday,Sept. 13.
-THIS paper represented for foreign
ADVERTISING BY THE
GENERAL OFFICE3
NEW YORK AND CHICAGO
branches in all the principal cities
THE LOGICAL CANDIDATE.
If the leaders of the republican
tarty are hunting for tho logical
candidate for president to be nom
inated next year, they will take
Coolidge, without much hesitation
Bis election is onother question,
hedged about with much doubt.
Of course he will be elected if all
the citizens ivlio voted for Harding
on last election vote for him .But the
radicals in both the republican and
democratic parties constitute, a
group that cannot be located with
any degree of certanity. The
radical followers of La Follette,
Borah and all the westerners of
that ilk. Senator Underwood of
Alabama is decidedly the logioal
man for the democrats to nomi-
sate for president*
In the opinion of this writer he
Is the best man for the place yet
mentioned. But the faot that he’s
ranked as a southern man with
eon them ideas is held up before
the politicians as a positive hand!
cap Next comes McAdoo of New
York and now of California, is a
formidable candidate. He takes
from Underwood a fair.measure of
southern votes, which added the
eastern and western votes that
will surely go to him, makes the
ehoiee of Underwood doubtful.
Henry Ford of Michigan is not
a logical candidate, but illogical
candidates have been nominated
and elected. Ford says ho is not
bow a candidate. Former Presi*
dent Harding was not a candidate
sox months prior to his nomination
Though not a logical candidate,
lie i-j docidedly a political menace
from a party stand point. He will
not make a formal announcement
hut others may “put in” the an
nouncement. Ford is logically a
political autocrat, and should he
become President would practical*
Hy become a one man power. 1
Just here como the dangers of
the formation of a third party.
Every boy and girl who is a
member of the pute bread sheep
elub of Big Horn, Wyo., sleeps
under a blanket made of wool
made from his own sheep, accord
ing to reports t« the United States
Department of Agriculture.
Nearly 1,000,000 hogs were
slaughtered during July of this
year in establishments operating
under Federal meat inspection,
breaking all previous records for
bog slaughter during the month.
The exact number slaughtered and
Inspected, according to the records
of the bureau of Animal Industry.
United States Department of Ag
riculture, was 3,983,435. This
number breaks tho best previous
July record, which occurred last
year by 879,113 hogs.
Any hope that the United
Slates may depend upou import.'
of lumber when this countrys owi
forests are exhausted must b<
abandoned, says the Forest Ser
vice, United States Department
off Agriculture. Attention is calk
ea&fcothe fact that this country it
using up its f orest four times a.*
mpidly as they are being replaced.
Forest fires alone burn over 7,000.
000 acres of forest, laud every yea 1
destroying not only mature tree-
lot—what is worse—the youn;
growth as well.
Howdy Folks,
Tho originator of
¥ this one gets a
medal:
“Seven years
ago a farmer boy
hung his vest on
the fence in the
barnyard. A calf chew
ed up the vest, in the
pocket of which was a
gold watch. Not long
ago the animal, an old
milch cow, was butch
ered for beef and the
^ watch was found to be
lodged III such a position between
the cow’s lung that the cow's
breathing had kept the watch
wound up. and the watch had lost
but four minutes in seven years.’,
All of the dead ones aren’t under
the sod.
This Is Hard To See Through
He—-“You Jive in the house next
door, don’t you!”
She—“Yes.”
He—“I haven’t Been much of
you.”
She— No, I live on tho other
side of the house.
A German mark is more valu
able than a eanoled postage stamp
for the reason that there is more
paper in the mark,
Only bad eggs are to be found
in love nests.
Then The Trouble Began
* * Where are your feathers, Mrs.
Brown.”
"Feathers, child! What do you
mean!”
"Why, mother said, ’Here
comes that hen;
“I’m glad that noy house i* elean.”
Bill says a picnio is an occasion
when a person takes out a few
bites to eat and brings back a lot
of bites to scratch.
However, we shall not concede
that Ford is a financial genius
until we read that he is making
money out of his newspaper.
The reason, remarks Bill, that
four or five girls riding in a motor
oar with a young man all pile into
the front Boat is that the front seat
rides easier.” Anyhow, that’s
what the girls say.
Women’s hats, it is said, are to
be larger. And, says Bill the
milliner’s bill, no doubt, will be
an affair of extra sighs.
Some churches take tip so many
collections, says Bill, that, it is
beginning to look as if the King
dom of Heaven is a pay-as-you
enter proposition. ,
Even the highbrow must feel
mortal when he catches himself
perversely humming a popular
song he detests.
Ten-year-old girl has written a
song hit. We supposed they were
all written by children younger
than that.
Ode To A Non-Advertiser
(Apologies to the author of the
original)
Breathes there a man with soul
so dead,
Who never to himself has said,
“My trade of late is getting bad,
I'll try a new display, by-gad.”
If such there be go mark him
well,
For him no bank aceount shall
swell;
No angel watch the golden stair
To welcome home a millionaire
The man who never as^s for
trade
By local ad or goods displayed
Cares moro for rest than wordly
gain,
And patronage but gives him pain.
Tread lightly, friends, Jet no
rude sound
Disturb his solitude profound;
Her# let him livo in calm repose.
fJnsought except by those he owes
There is many a diving Venn?
vhose mother is at home diving
town a washboard into a diff, rent
rind of water.
Reliability—
At Your Price
What you want out of
a battery is continuous
day-in and day-out serv
ice. You can get that
kind of sendee only from
a well-built battery.
We have Willard Bat
teries at a wide range of
prices—and every single
one of them the kind
you can count on.
PERRY AUTO CO
SALES AND SERVICE
Perry, Ga.
Willard
Subscri be for the HOME JOURNAL and kee
informed on the afairs of
your county.
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY REVIEWS
TRANSPORTATION SITUATION
. During the pre-war period railroad facilities were not improved from year to year because (he credit
of tho carriers was bad, due to the refusal of the Interstate Commerce Commission to permit rate in-
eroases. When the Governmont took over the property in the spring of 19l8 the machine was nob
sufficient to handle conveniently or economically the extrodinary volume of business that the country
was then doing.
During Federal control, which lasted until March 1, 1920, but little effort was made to remeidy this
situation. There was no extension of railroad mileago, only inadequate purchase of equipment, no irn*
provement of shop facilities or terminals; while wage increases were out of of all proportion to rate in-
oreases. .
At the end of Federal control the carriers were less able to operate successfully than at the begian*
ing, but during the past three years marked progress has been made.
At the present time American railways are rendering to American busiues more efficient service than
at any time in the history of the country.
The railways are accomplishing this achievement at oosts to the traveling and shipping public, low*
er than prevail anywhere else in the world.
In order to fit themselves to render efficient service, the railways are expending during 1923 for
equipment., additions and improvements, the enormous sum of one and one-half billitns f f dollars
($1,600,000,000 00.Railway management is justified in these immense expenditurs by faith in the Ameri
can public, by belief in the spirit of the squaie deal, that will accord the railways the same treatment
given to other industries.
The public should be willing to give railway management an opportunity to function without further
restrictive regulation or hampering legislation. Fair-minded people generally seem Milling to penult a
trial of the present Transportation Act for a reasonable length of time, under normal conditions. Those
who hold this view can assist in stabilizing business by communicating to their Senators and Repre
sentatives in Congress,, their sentiments.
The need of American business is not so much for cheaper transportation, as for more aPequate and
efficient transportation. The public can better afford to pay the current rates than to suffer Llie inevitable
losses that fellow a period of car shortage—and car shortages will oertainly come at regular intervals
unless the railways are permitted to earn sufficient money to provide adequate equipment and facilities
that will prevent these conditions.
Freight rates are not out of line with commodity prices. In Jaruary of 1923, freight rates were 50
per cent higher than in 1913, while the average wholesale price of all commodities was 57 per cent higher
than in 1913.
Rates are not too high for the service rendered. The greatly increased costs of material, supplies,
taxes, coal, and especially labor—which the railways must pay-necessitate the present level of rates.
Tho railways are in no condition to withstand reduction# in their revenues at present. In 1920 there was
a deficit of net railway income In 1921 the rate of return was 1.23 per cent; in 1922 it was 4.45 per
cent, a striking contrast with the rate of return of other industries, particularly in view of the fact that
during the war period when other industries were strong up comfortable surpluses, railway return was
limited to the average made for the three years prior to July 1, 1917,
Despite widespread belief to the contrary, there is no “guarnatee” of railway earnings in the Trans
portation Act. The so-called “guarantee” is really a limitation to 5 3-4 per cent upon the Interstate
Commerce Commission’s valuation of property devoted to transportation. There is no provision for the
making up of deficits; on the other hand, a railroad that loses money oue year has no opportunity to
recoup its Josses from the operations of a prosperous year, but must, under the Transportation Act, turn
over to the government, half of its earnings above 5 3-4 per cent.
Tho railways are reducing freight rates as rapidly as prudent judgment permits. In 1922 freight were
reduced 13 per cent, while commodity prices were increasing. The railways were the* only large American
industry that reduced to the consumer the cost of its product. • ■
The future development of transportation hinges upon one thing—the ability of the railways to
secure sufficient capital to keep pace with the business demands of the country.Capital cannot be coerced
—it can only be attracted. To attract it, investors must be assured of a reasonable rate of return, fair
treatment, and freedom from confiscation.
The poople of the United States have the choice between two alternatives—to give railway manage
ment a chance to render service under the competitive conditions surrounding private ownership; or, to
turn the roads over to government ownership, with political and partisan conditions as factors in manag
ing the country’s greatest industry.
W. A, WIN BURN,
Savannah, Ga., September 11,1923*
President, Central of Georgia Railway Company