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I^STmention;
I Mr William Barfield and Mr.]
m jjjrris Rape spent Sunday in]
Statesboro.
S Mr Avery Lee left Monday for
■ .AUovvn. Pa. where he...will
■ Mld our months while training}
fellkat the Wellston Air
■ Depot-
I vfr? LB. Moody Sr. of Kath
■ jee n is' visiting Mr. and Mrs.
Cecil Moody.
■ MrP \v E. Marshall Jr. spent
■ Thursday and Friday in Ameri
■ Jus with her mother.
I Mr and Mrs. JD. Stembridge
II n f Centerville visited Mrs. J. M.
H Holloman several days this
H week.
| Mr JL. Beavers spent sev-
H eral days with relatives in Bir-
II ra ing, Ala. recently.
I Miss Marianne Nunn came
II home from Wesleyan College and
II Inent the weekend. She had as
| Jor guest, Miss Martha Gragg,of
|| Bain bridge, another Wesleyan
II student.
| Mr and Mrs. W. V. Bass have
■ an apartment in the home of
■I Mrs. H. T. Gilbert.
I Mr. Arthur Cobb, Atlanta,
l| spent the week with his par
| Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Roberts
|| had as their guests Sunday: Mr.
II and Mrs. W.H. Winters,Bradley;
II Mrs. Jesse Moore, Haddock; and
|| Mrs G. A. Bloodworth and chil
li dren, Joanne, Ruby, Carolyn,and
|| Albert Jr., of Spartanburg, S. C.
| 1 Mrs. G. C. Nunn is a delegate
|| from the W. S. C. S. of the
|| South Ga. Methodist Conference
|| at a meeting being held in Nash-]
|| vilie, Tenn. this week.
I ! Mr. J. M. Tolleson Jr., a stu-|
|l dent at Davidson College, David-,
|| son, N. C., spent the weekend at j
II home.
I i Miss Jane Riley visited Mr.and
II Mrs. J. J. Sparrow in Hawkins
- 11 vilie Saturday.
I Mrs. Fred Thomson entertain-i
[| od her Bridge club last Thursday (
|| at her home. |
I ; Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Pritchett,
|| had as their guests Sunday Mrm
[| Sidney Williams and Mr. Francis]
|| Sheppard, Cochran Field.
I Mrs, J. Z. Smith, Sasser, spent
|| the weekend with her daughter,
II Mrs. Warren Hodge, and Mr.
l| Hodge.
| Mr. Robert Greene and Mr.
[ | Marvin Greene came home from
11Mercer University for the week-]
|| end.
Mrs. L. H, Gilbert was hostess j
|to her Bridge club Saturday.
| Mrs. W. M. Haywood ofj
|| Thomasville visited her mother,
| Mrs. Kate Hodge, during the
|weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. L, C. Walker
|spent the weekend in Warthenj
1 1 with his parents.
I Mrs. H. P. Houser Jr. went to'
| Atlanta Saturday fora visit of
' Bseveral days with friends.
Miss Edwina Osier vi s i t e d
| friends at G. S. T. C., States-
Hboro, during the weekend.
I Miss Elizabeth Short, Fort
| Valley, spent the weekend with
| Miss Helen Gray.
I Mr. and Mrs. Robert Morgan
■of Macon spent Tuesday with her
|mother, Mrs. N. W. H. Gilbert.
| Mr, and Mrs. J. P. Etheridge
|bad as their guests Wednesday
■ last week: Mrs. Cooper Ether
|idge and little son, Charles Coop
■tr, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Mrs. B.
||A Scharff, Macon; and Miss
■Hortense Williams, Marion, Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Dyal have
apartment with Mrs. H. T. |
■Gilbert. j
■ Mr. J. P. Etheridge returned [
■Wednesday from Jackson, Miss,
■where he attended a Cotton:
■Council. Mrs. Etheridge visited
■Mrs. W. J. Little in Macon Mon-
Way.
■ Mr. Benny Griffis of Macon
■was the guest speaker at the
■monthly meeting of the Baptist
■bunday School Teachers and]
■ workers’ Council held Tuesday
■mght at the church.
■ Mrs.W.V. Tuggle accompanied
■ A ‘ er Parents and brother, Mr. and
■Mrs. S. J. Powell and Mr. Joe
°weli, of Leesburg, to Atlanta
spent several days last week. J
■ •J. A. Beddingfield and 1
W au^. r 'ter, Joye, returned Tues
K‘ ay from a ten days’ visit with
| L anc l Mrs, L. R. Bryson in
■ efferson, Ga. j
| BOOK CLUB MEETS I
j ;
Mrs. J. M. Gooden and Mrs. S.
)A. Nunn entertained the Wed
nesday Afternoon Book club last
week at the home of Mrs. J. M.
Gooden.
| Mrs. C. B. Andrew Sr., presi
dent, conducted the business ses
sion. She appointed Mrs. J. L.
Beavers, Mrs. S.L. Norwood Jr.,
Mrs. A. P. Whipple, Mrs. J. B.
Calhoun, and Miss Martha Coop
er as a committe to serve with
Miss Louise Rainey, Houston
county chairman of the Victory
Book Drive which is being spon
sored by the club.
The program consisted of a re
view of Kenneth Roberts’]
“Oliver Wisnell’’ by Mrs. T. D.
Mason Sr.; a paper on“ Williams-!
burg” by Mrs. G. E. Jordan;and
[current events by Miss Rainey.
A salad course was served by
the hostesses.
BIRTHDAY PARTY
Mr. John Heller was given a
surprise birthday party Tuesday,
Jan. 20, by his wife.
After Bridge was played, de
lightful refreshments were serv
ed with the birthday cake.
Guests included Mr. and Mrs,
Drew Harris, Mr. and Mrs Fran
cis Nunn, Mr, and Mrs. Guy
Watson, Mr. and Mrs. E.F, Bell- 1
flowers, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hel
ler,and Miss Margaret Sammons.
Mr. and Mrs, Miller Edwards
and sons, Gordon and Dick, of
Macon spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. M. G. Edwards.
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Evans
had as their guests during the
weekend her sister, Miss Doro
'thy Franklin, of Vienna.
! Miss Catherine Hickson has
[been appointed on the Sports
i Council at Georgia State Wo
i man’s College, Valdosta. She is
the only freshman to receive this
honor.
Mr. Eugene Lashley Sr. has
gone to Middletown, Pa. where
he is receiving training for em
ployment on government work.
I] Mr. and Mrs. Joe Andrews and
children, Gene and John Cater,
[spent last Sunday in Macon with
! their daughter and sister, Miss
Evelyn Andrews.
Mrs. J. Blue Calhoun was
hostess to the Presbyterian Aux-|
iliary Monday afternoon. Mrs.]
Calhoun,president, presided over
the business session. The for
eign mission study book was pre
sented by Mrs. Virgil Bass. Re
! freshments were served by the
] hostess.
Mrs. T. W. Hentz is visiting
j her sister in Montgomery, Ala.
I Mrs. R, L. Cater. Mrs. Roll
Pate, Miss Katharine Cater, and|
Mrs. Eliza C, Massee spent last
Thursday in Atlanta.
Mrs. Blue Calhoun, Mrs. Lewis
Tabor and Mrs. A. B. Ramage
attended the Presbyterian Board
j meeting at the First Presbyte
j rian church in Macon Wednesday.
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1908. J
War Expenses
Cut for Britain
Millions of Pounds Saved for
Many Taxpayers by
Special Board.
LONDON.—Meting in quiet con
ferences in an oak-paneled room in
the shadow of London’s “Big Ben,”
a committee headed by Sir John
Wardlaw-Milne, economist, has
saved British taxpayers millions of
pounds by cutting unnecessary ex
penditures in government depart
ments since the start of the war.
Sir John and his committee of 31
| men and women members of parlia-.
, ment went into action three months
I after war broke out. Now, with the
job far from finished, they have
completed surveys of the complex
financial backgrounds of the army,
navy, air, supply, home defense,
trade, agricultural and transport
services. They have jurisdiction
over everything to do with the war,
and the spending of the British gov
ernment’s money to win it.
Each Member a ‘Sleuth.’
Each member of the “team,”
which is known as the select com
mittee on national expenditure, is
a modern Sherlock Holmes. Each
does his own investigating and field
work. Since the committee was
formed, more than 1,000 witnesses
have been interviewed at more than
' 500 hearings. Each of these hear
| ings has resulted in some new sav
ing to the government.
“We have no outside ‘experts’ to
help us,” Sir John said in a recent
interview. “If we have a suspicion
of waste we visit the spot ourselves
and interview witnesses personally.
The government has given us the
power to demand and examine any
documents or papers we may need
i for our investigation, and we use
this power.”
Members of the committee have
traveled thousands of miles to ob
tain evidence of possible savings.
They have studied dock yards, air
ports, factories, film studios, muni
tion works, fire-fighting units, and a
variety of government offices.
Ship Costs Cut Sharply.
It was about a year ago that Sir
John put his finger on the pulse of
Britain’s sea might and realized
that, although the expenses of ship
building were rising sharply, the in
creased output did not seem to be
in ratio to the expenditure. Accord
ingly, committee members visited
shipyards in major British cities
and soon found the cause for mount
ing expenses.
It developed that workmen were
striving to increase the production
of their own yards by working over
i time. They received increased over
j time pay, but the excessive work
was causing a number of workers
to become sick and thus, although
there was a rise in the cost of labor,
the efficiency of the labor was slack
ening. The recommendations of the
investigators rectified the situation.
The past year has been a fruitful
one for Sir John and his co-workers.
They have been able to recommend
substantial savings to the ministry
of information in relation to the pro
i duction of motion pictures concern
| ing the war, and they have solved
financial problems encountered in
housing members of the balloon
barrage command at field locations.
Ultra-Violet Rays Bare
Theft of Dimes in Mint
PHILADELPHIA. Edwin H.
Dressel, superintendent of the
United States mint here, credited
science with the arrest of a 35-year
old mint employee on charges of
stealing 22 dimes.
The dimes, which Mr. Dressel
said were found in the pockets of
George J. Kraft, were subjected to
ultra-violet rays. One by one, they
became fluorescent.
“All right,” Mr. Dressel quoted
Kraft as saying, “I stole them.”
The dimes, slightly defective - ;, had
been dipped in a solution invisible
to the naked eye as a means of
labeling them.
Kraft was held in $l,OOO bail by
United States Commissioner Nor
man Griffin.
Joe Is the Only Name
Prisoner Can Remember
MONTICELLO, N. Y.—One of the
! prisoners at the county jail travels
1 light—even so far as his name is
concerned.
He is called Joe, nothing more.
Sheriff Harry Borden determined
that the 74-ycar-old prisoner was
not an amnesia victim, but persis
tent questioning could elicit no fam
ily name.
Finally the officer got a Russian
interpreter and here’s the story
i that came out:
I It has been so long since anyone
I called him anything but Joe, ex-
I plained the prisoner, that he had
I just forgotten the rest of his name.
Defense Is Luring Away
Trade School Teachers
BOSTON.—Highly paid jobs in de
; fense industry have proven a lure
i to trade school teachers, according
; to Edward M. McDonough, head
master of Boston Trade school. Mc-
Donough said qualified men scorn
the $7-a-day compensation offered
by the school with the result he
! has been unable to obtain five in
| structors for courses in machine
! shop practice, automobile mechan-
I ics, radio and sheet metal work.
NEW SHIPMENT OF j
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coats, and other wearing apparel assembled in our store
for women who have good taste and discrimination in
their selection of clothes. Come in today and choose yours.
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We have a full stock of Plows, Harrows,
Planters, Guano Distributors, Stalk Cut
ters, Weeders, Plow Gear, Plow Parts,
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Tractors, Manure Spreaders, Fertilizer and
Lime Sowers, Combines, Binders, and
Threshing Machines.
Several nice Mules; Feed, Seed & Fertilizer.
Don’t wait until you are ready to start farming to got
your equipment, but get it now while it is available,
From 1 Horse Plows to 50 Horse Power Tractors.
When you think of Farm Equipment, think of-
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Phone 31 Perry, Ga.
Repair Parts
For Machinery of International
Harvester Company In Stock.
Farmers are urged to buy these parts now while
a full stock is on hand.
No new machinery will be available this
spring, due to the war. So check over
your machinery and let us supply your
needs in Farts.
Andrew Hardware Co.
PHONE 500 PERRY, GA.
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Wrote ‘Sun Song* While
Mice Crawled Over Face
The famous “Sun Song,” or Song
About Creatures, was written by St-
Francis of Assisi, in Italian. It <s
still a widely popular hymn in all
churches, most familiar perhaps tn
a translation which begins
tures of our God and up
your voice and with us suljpf t AC«s
luia!”
Under great difficulties St. Fran
cis wrote this remarkable poem »»
the unusually hot summer of 1225 k.
when he was ill and so suffering
from loss of sight that he was un
able to have his eyes exposed to anr
light. During this illness the good
man lay helpless, and according to
one biographer: “He was plagued
by a swarm of field mice which
probably had their home in the
straw walls of the hut and which
eventually ran over his face so that
he had no peace day or night: and
yet it was precisely in this wretched
sickness that he composed this woo
derful masterpiece.”
There is some dispute as to (he
authorship of many of the hymns
that are ascribed to St. Francis,
but none concerning this Song of
the Sun. It is a charming expres
sion of St. Francis’ childlike delight
in God’s good works.
‘Hunch* Bets Okeh, Says
Expert on Betting Odds
Scientific betting is sounder than,
common sense methods of wager
ing, but there are gambling situa
tions in which the laws of probabii
ity cannot be applied, and times
when even playing a “hunch” is dic
tated.
This conclusion was presented in v
a discussion of the science of prob
ability, now an indispensible to« 4 m
modern business as well as in sci
entific research, by Dr. Milton lik
Singer, research associate in philos
ophy at the University of Chicago
and authority on mathematical
methodology.
Dr. Singer classified methods of
betting into the scientific, common
i sense and superstitious. The scoe»-
| tific method is superior to the two
• others, he said, because it provides
an exact method of calculating cwfds
and chances.
“However,” he declared, “it caim
not completely supplant the use al
common sense and superstition am
making bets. There are many bests
in which the laws of probability
do not involve repeatable phenom
ena, or because statistics about the
relevant factors have not been galJ»-
; ered.”
Sign Language
Something over a century ago, 12-
year-old Alice Cogswell encountered
a young man in the garden of tor
| father’s home in Hartford, Cotua.
The young man, Thomas GallaudeJ,
had just completed his theological!
studies. He was waiting for an in
terview with the girl’s father, whom
he hoped might aid him to deter
mine his field as a missionary. Alk-e
I had been deaf since she was two
years old and, at that tjpnc, doaii
mutes were classified among Hue
feeble-minded and insane.
Idly, Gallaudet attracted her at
tention with a few simple gestures.
To pass the time, he casually point
ed to his headgear and with a stick
wrote on the ground H-A-T. A gleam
i of understanding passed over the
child’s face. She grabbed the stick,
j copied the word, took the hat and
! placed it upon her own head. Point
ing to another object, she handed
back the crude “pencil.” Ounnut
j nication had been established.
Thomas Gallaudet’s life thereafter
was dedicated to his work for the
education of the deaf.
Cosmetic Hygiene
New York university offers a well
rounded course in cosmetic hygiene
to both men and women. Tn«
course, introduced five years ago by
Florence E, Wall, outstanding
woman chemist and cosmetotogct,
teaches students how to know their
own needs and how to choose their
cosmetics wisely and use them to
the best advantage.
The No. 1 cosmetic necessity is
water softener. That’s any one of
those fragrant needle-fine crystal
salts or powders that you heave by
the handful into your basin and your
tub. They’re important, but not be
cause they waft a cloud of perfume,
but because they make the minerals
in water receptive to soap. Thus, yuai
get more action from your soap,
little or no curd in the water, and
a better job of cleansing. The
water-softening habit is one in
which this class of students is en
couraged for all washing purposes
—hair and hands, as well as bath
and “basin laundering”—especially
in hard-water districts.
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Knowledge Trebled
, “Knowledge of heart disease has
trebled since the First World war
and has advanced as much in that
period as in the prior 200 to 300
years,” said Dr. Paul Dudley White
of Boston, Mass., president of the
National Heart association and Har
vard lecturer, recently.
“What used frequently to be
termed indigestion is now frequent
ly called heart disease, and wtut
used to be termed a disease of the
arteries is also now frequently diag
nosed as heart disease.
“We still can’t give medicine and
have heart trouble go away, but we
are learning tremendously more
about hygienic measures, such as
proper diet and bodily and mental
. care, as an offset to the malady.’’
