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The News-Herald
Lawresccvillc, Georgia
Published Monday and Tfaureday
%1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE.
Lnwrenceville Publishing Co., Props.
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D. M BYRD, Editor
V. L HAGOOD, Manager
J. L. COMFORT. Supt.
Official Organ U. S. Court, Northorn
District of Goorgin.
Entered at the Post Office at Law
rencevilie, Georgia, as Second Class
Mail Matter, under the act es Con
gress of March 3rd, 1879.
FISH AND GAME IN GEORGIA
Approximately 94,000 Mack bass
were placed in Georgia streams dur
ing the last year under the supervi
sion of the State Department. There
were 64,000 rainbow trout and
approximately 49,000 brim plant
ed, along pith these totals for
other varieties: Brook trout, 10,-
000; cat fish, 3,150; erappie, 475.
. The report estimates that there
are more than 100,000 acres of oy
ster beds and marshes in Georgia,
which, under the law, are public
property and “therefore public prey.’
Legislation to protect this indust
ry is advocated in the report.
Chatham county was the largest
purchaser of hunting and firhing
liten'idrf,’ 1 according to the report, fol
lOdrirtft 'by Fulton and Bibb. Otis
St'tftißfe? OhafhartC county waden. sold
liiiitei to the amount of $3,764,
of which he 'received $1,17425 in
fees.
GRADE CROSSINGS.
The dreadful toll of grade cross
ing accidents last Sunday ha 3 sug
gested that these death traps be
eliminated if possible.
Unfortunately, as the New York
Times says, all grade crossings can
not be abolished. But these cross
ings all over the country should be
guarded by gates and watchmen.
Automobilists ought all to “Stop,
Look, and Listen" before crossing a
Tailroad tract. In North Carolina
the new law makes this compulsory.
In one accident last Sunday the
same train which at one crossing
killed- four persons soon after it
resumed its journey, ran into
another automobile and then killed
nine. Railroad trains must of neces
sity have the right of way on their
own Stacks.
Nevertheless, evidently there rests
on railway compaines a heavy res
ponsibility while they allow the pen
alty of carelessness to be death so
often as t has come to be. In the
last three months of 1922 517 per
sons were killed at grade crossings
in this country and 1,710 more or
less seriously injured. That is too
many. la Europe, and especia'ly in
England, gTade crossings are rare,
t-nd they are not permitted in many
such places as those where wc still
tolerate them.
A correspondent of the Times says
that “on rainy or foggy nights boats
navigating the river are compelled
to sound warnings continuously.
Why can’t the railroad officials com
pel their engineers to do the same,
beginning a mile from the crossing
and continuing until the crossing is
passed?”
** A PRETTY MESS.
There is a pretty mess in the Geor
gia Railroad Commission, now called
the Public Service Commission.
Mr. J. A- Perry, who is a member
of the commission, is an advocate of
the bill reducing the membership
from five to three. It will be re
membered in the good old days of
1878, when the Railroad Commission
was first created, it consisted of
three members. This was found to
be sufficient when the commission
was a body authorized to fix rates
and regulate the rilroads of Georgia.
Finally this body was placed in
charge of the electric lines and pub
lic seryicA corporations also and th?
membership was increased from
three to five.
Mr. Perry in his evidence before
the Railroad Committee testified
that most of the members "loafed”
upon the job; asserted that they did
not live in Atlanta, and that therr
duties wepe really performed by a
subordinate.
Now, what do you think of this?
Of course, the other members of the
committeedid not agree with Mr.
Perry. They denied that they '‘loaf
ed” upon the job, or that they were
superfluous officials. They said that
Mr. Perry was really embittered be
cause he had not been elected chair
man of the commission when Murph
ey Candler retired. That position is
occupied by Hon. L. M. Trammell,
who is a son of the elder Trammell,
himself a member of the commisson. ;
Besdes Chairman Trammell and Mr. ,
Perry, the commission is made up
of Jim Price of Oconee, John T. j
Boifeuillet, of Macon and Mr. Me-.
Donald, the blind man from Augusta.
The efforts to reduce the Railroad
Commission In membership will not
preval. The committee recommend
ed against it ar.d it is hard to get a
measure through at this late day,
even with a favorable report. But
■n adverse* report should be a little
ehort of a percale if it ever Passed.
.—Savannah Press.
THE POWER OF ADVERTISING
At • recent meetin of the Financi
al Advertisers Association, in Atlan
tic City, Francis H. Sisson, Vice
President of the Guaranty Trust
Co., New York told members present
of the value of advertising and its
power to sell goods. Not only merch
andise, but that advertising was a
good investment for sale of service
and “that there is no code of ethics
that pervents professional ocople
from advertising their services as
merchants advertise their merchan
dise.” Mr. Sisson further raid:
The force of organized publicity
during the trying days of the war
brought about our people, and a de
votion to principle and idels which
it would have been impossible to
Create without its use. It served the
purpose of welding a somewhat
heterogenous and loosely organized
people into a thunderbolt of power
which turned the scales of civiliza
tion. From that experence we have
emerged with a new realization of
the power of the printed word in the
sale of ideas, and with the increas
ing belief that the issue of peace
may be brought home to our people
as convincingly as the issues of war
through the intelligent use of this
great force.
Even the churces through out the
country have recognized the power
of advertising and in may cities
of advertising are used in
announcing religious services both
during week days and on Sundays.
Advertising has ceased to be an
expenditure on the books of nation
al advertisers, and it is considered
as an investment. It has proved to
be an earning power for the most
successful businesses in the country
and for every dollar invested in news
paper advertising several dollars is
returned in divident3 to the stock
holders. In this day and tme the
most prosperous business is the one
which advertises liberally and con
sistently. The spasmodic advertisers
do not, realize the real worth of ad
vertising, but a judiciously planned
advertising campaign brings results
for the article advertised.
To succeed in business it requires
and hte firm, corporation or manu
facturer who undertakes to force his
a reasonable amount of dvertising,
products on the market without ad
vertising might as well close up shop
and turn his stock to his creditors.
STATE AGRICULTURAL
COLLEGE
The people of Georgia are beginn
ing to awaken to the importance of
the value of the state college of agri
culture to the farmers and all agri
cultural interests n this state. The
visit of nearly three hundred repre
sentative farmers from Elbert coun
ty here this week is an indication of
the populartiy this intitution is gain
ing throughout the state. It is one
of he state’s greatest assets and dur
ing the past few years more has been
accompished in increased corn, grain,
cotton and alfalfa production than
in a half century heretifore.
Corn and canning clubs hav£ been
inaugurated in Georgia nd the boys
ad girls taught the importance of
the industry and instructed how to
make self supporting citizens. Many
of these boys and girls earn more
from their production in corn ar.d
canning clubs than their fathers earn
ed from their farm in years gone by.
Besides cattle and hog raising has
grown to be another chief industry
in Georgia, traceable to the efforts
of the representatives of the State
College of Agriculture A few years
ago it was an unknown thing for the
boys of this state to rais hogs. Now
some of the finest hog.: to be found
in any section of the country can be
found in Georgia farms raised by
the boys of the family. Many of
them are prize winners and a credit
to the state. Then comes the can
ning club organized and operated for
the girls on the farms. Beside, the
production for home consumption,
large amounts of canned vegetables
and fruits are sold in the market at
profitable prices. '
These and many more develop
ments of farm products could be re
cited and the resources of the state
shown to be wonderfully increased
since the organization of the State
i College of Agriculture, but it is a
satisfaction to know that this in
stitution is not only reaching out in
every county in the state and im
proving conditions, but that the
people in these counties are realizing
the value of their college and that
they are coming to the fountain
head of agricultural pursuits and
getting the information desired for
further improvement in agricultural
lines.—Athens Banner Herald.
AIN’T WORTH A DERN
AND NEVER WILL BE
In one of our southern mountain
counties there used to be a clerk of
the court who administered oaths in
his own peculiar fashion—translat
ing the stilted languave of the stat
ute book into vigorous, everyday,
homespun English of his own. On
one occasion he was officially swear
ing a man as to the latter’s insol
vency—the “debtor’s oath.”
“Do you swear,” the clerk asked,
“that you ain’t worth a duxn and
New Kid at the Swimming Hole
The Bert Equipped Brain, to Be Efficient, Mart Be
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Respecting Your Opinions
Evidently the heads of our great railroad systems are com
ing to sense the fact that the opinion of the people in rural
America is worthy of consideration. The new vice-president of *
the Long Island Railway Company announced the other day &
that the company proposed to talk to the people through the ~
columns of the home town newspapers in paid advertising. He
said he regarded the home town weekly newspaper as the most
valuable of all advertising media because the readers have con
fidence in the sincerity of purpose of their home town editors.
There is nothing so beneficial for corporations as signed ;
advertising that explains to the people their seeming short
comings and recites their accomplishments. The people know
the officials dare not advertise anything but the truth because
they will be checked up. Consequently an honest story often «
turns bitterness of feeling into a desire for cooperation.
Naturally, the railroads are anxious not to fall again into
government hands. They want to retain their business identity
and make money, which is a laudable and legitimate desire The
railroads owe a debt to the public but by the same token the peo
ple owe to the railroads an obligation, namely to understand
before they criticize. Nothing is more destructive than condem
nation without knowledge of the facts. We hold no brief for the i
public corporation. Each must stand on its merits and be £
judged by its acts, but let us be just.
Get Rid of Hypocrisy
The British Ambassador, reporting to his government on
the effect of prohibition in the United States, is careful to con
fine himself to a recital of facts, steering clear of all opinions.
He states that the accounts in savings banks have greatly in
creased, that prohibition is a success outside of the Atlantic
seaboard and other points of easy entry for the rum runner.
He declares, however, it would be improper to assume as a fact
that the increase in saving is due entirely to the absence of
liquor, because, he says, there are many other elements that
enter into the returned prosperity of America since the close
of the war. All in all the report is conservative to a degree.
Possibly the Ambassador is treading on ticklish ground.
We fear, too, that the press reports have manhandled the
Ambassador’s language in setting forth his statements that the
enforcement of the Volstead law is generally a success. Whether
one be in favor of prohibition or against it no one can follow
the news of the day without realizing that the law is honored
more in the breach than in the observance in dozens of states, —
yes, even in the national capitol.
It is this situation of hypocritical temperance approval
rhouted from the housetops for public consumption while the
bottle is used for private consumption that is causing more
irritation in the country than the law itself. The poor man
who likes his beer has a proper protest if what he considers to
lc a luxury is kept from him, while the rich man is free for all
tv»rts of indulgence. Disregard for law is eating at the verj
•. Hals of democratic government. That, more than prohibition,
is the cause, of our nr>re«t
never will be?” , !
“I can swear about the first part
but I don’t know much about the
last,” parried the applicant.
"Well, if you know you ain’t
worth a durn now, everybody else
knows you never will be. Kiss the
Book!”
This story has been told as hu
mor—and it is ndeed good enough
humor. But to us the story also sug
gests a pathetic background of
tragedy. In nearly every rural
community there is some man who
so far “has never been wortr a
durn” and consequently (like the
court clerk in the story) he takes
it for granted that he never will be.
He farms in a slipshod way, is a
slave to "time prices,” and , never
gets ahead. He stays in a rut
largely becauses he is not trying to
get out. He lacks faith in himself.
"Everybody else knows,” as the
court clerk said, “that he will never
be worth anything.”
The tragedy of such a life ought
to appeal to all of us—and especial
ly to the man himself. Just because
a man has gotten to be thirty five
forty, fifty, or even sixty years
old without amounting to anything—
there is no reason why can’t yet
do something if he will only take
hold of himself and resolve to make
the most f the years that are left
to him.
In many such cases, the wife, by
showing confidence in her husband—
encouraging him and inspiring him
1 by her faith—can get him to “ turn
1 over a new leaf.” In other cases
the man's boys and girls by enlist
ing in club work and getting their
father to go along with them along
new lines of progress—they may
THE NEWS-HERALD, Uvruurtl*.
be able to turn the trick. In some
other cases a kinsman or neighbor
may diplomatically itad the man
in the rut into adopting this or
that new policy until after awhile
he becomes a mn out of the rut,
ready for many a new adventure in
progressiveness.
“That there should one man die
ignorant who had capacity for know
ledge,” said Carlyle, “that I call a
tragedy, even though it should hap
pen more than twenty times a min
ute —as indeed by some computa
tions it does.” In like fashion, we
should ay that for any man to die
in the ruts of poor shiftless out of
date farming, “not worth a durn,”
when he had capacity to make a
man of himself—that we ca'l a
tragedy. Maybe the man has fallen
because nobody has shown any faith
or confidence in him. Everybody
has let him feel that he “ain’t worth
a durn and never will be,” and be
i has simply given th a world what it
expected and as.ced of him.
Is there not with'A the acquaint
ance of each o.’.e of us some man
of this whom we might cncour
-1 age, irrp’re, awaken, arouse, and so
| make over before it is too late?
What finer satisfaction could we
have than the knowledge of having
* enabled some human being to trans
form a lifelong failure into an un-
I expected triumpth and worth white
ness at last? Should not such a res
-1 cue indeed enttle one to some oart
in the promise of the Ancient Pro
phet:
"And they that be wise shall shine
as the brightness of the firmanent;
and they that turn many to right
eousness, as thestars forever and
ever.”
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KILLING PROGRESS
We have been listening to the
slogan, “Build your home. America
must build five million new homes.”
After listening to that slogan the
people began a great program of
construction, and it would have con
tinued had not materials been
raised to almost prohibitive prices;
and labor demanded a wage increase
and a decrease of working time. It
Is now absolutely certain that the
building boom will cease unless
these two great factions against
prosperity and progress can be
made to see the light.
The farmers' building plans have
been ground to powder. He has
to give TO2 eggs in order to secure
a plasterer for one day of eight
hours’ labor. He has to give 23
chickens weighing three pounds
each to pay a painter for one day’s
work. He has ta give 17% bushels
of corn, or a year’s receipts from
one-half acre, to pay a bricklayer
for one day’s work. He has to fur
nish 42 pounds of butter, or the
output of 14 cows’ feed and milk
for 24 hours, Itr order to pay the
plumber 914.00 a day.
The farmer has to give a bog
webbing 175 pounds and represent
ing eight months’ feeding and care
in order to pay a carpenter for one
day’s work.
How can one eupect progress and
prosperity when the dealers in
building material* on the one side
and the labor ois tbe other side
exploit from the would-be builder
the last cent that he can beg and
borrow? It is an unjust, unequal
and infamous condition that exists
In this country at the present time.
We need hve million homes, and
there ought to- be in the cities of
this land millions of dollars worth
of office and other, kinds of build
ings erected, but they cannot be
bullded while ther° are those who
are taking the last pound of flesh
from the wrmld-he builder*.
PUREBREAD SIRES PAY
The difference in the cost of a
purebred sire, as compared with a
grade, may be as much as $75 or
SIOO, but this difference should carry
no weight whatever in determining
which one to buy, for the influence
of this animal will extend not only
through the first, but even to the
second, third and fourth generations.
Breeders of registered livestock who
have been consistently developing
their cattle through the period of
depression should now encourage
wider distribution of their pure
brea animales by offering them at a
pree that will look attractive to pro
ducers. For once a man is properly
started inthe grading up of his
cattle, he will be a confirmed avoc
ate of purebread cattle from year
to year. On the other hand, if the
price of purebred animals is placed
so hgh as to put them out of reach
of the average beginner, he may
drag along for many years without
making the initial investment.—C.
H. Alvord, in the Progressive Far
mer.
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END HOUSE PARTY,
Misses. Erma and Mae Garner en
tertained • Misses Codell Lanford, of
Stone Mountain, Eleanor Morris and
Jennie Lee Matthews, of Tucker,
Opal and Van Dora Hurst, of Law
renceville, at a week end house party
at their home, “The Hillcrest,” near
Lilbum.
Amxng the social events enjoyed
by them was a swimming party Sat
urday afternoon.
They were delightfully entertained
Saturday evening by the hostesses
at a lovely party. The house was
beautifully decorated with ferns and
cut flowers. After a series of inter
esting games refreshments were
served. Those present were Misses
Eleanor Morris, ‘Jennie Lee Mat
thews, Codell Lanfford, Opal and Van
Dora Hurst, Erma and Mac Gamer,
Messrs. Harvey Britt, J. C. Pounds,
Ben Burgess, Odell and Loyd Lan
ford, Henry Peevy and others. Mrs.
Henry Peevy assisted Mrs. Garner in
entertaining.
Sunday the young ladies attended
the ail day semi-annual communion
services at Camp Creek church.
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WANT ADVS7
WANTED —Several loads of dry
wheat straw for the LawTezrcevilfe
camp ground. See R. L. Haslett oar
G. W. Clower.
SALESMAN WANTED— -We want
two awake salesmen. Pre
fer one who has had some experience
in selling Fords and Fordsons. Get
in touch with us before August Ist.
J3oc CLEMENT AUTO CO.
WANTED—Wanted old fashioned
spinning wheel. Write, state
condition of of same and where it
can be seen. Address Box 157' or
The News-Herald, Lawrencevlle, Ga.
MAN WANTED
With conveyance to sell and col
lect. Good proposition for right
man. Apply to Singer Sewing Ma
chine Co., Decatur, Ga. ts
One seven room house with two
good out stables, good outbuildings
and garage. This house is on Pike
street in the city of Lawrenceville}
Ga. See Mr. Walter Sims about
this house. J3op
—FOR SALE—
GEORGIA LAND
506% acres, located in Pulaski
Co., Ga. 2 miles to school and town.
350 acres in cultivation, 125 in pas
ture. 50 pecan trees. Soil is dark
gray pebbly loam with clay subsoil.
All adaptable crops grown. Good
wells and stream. Improvements
consist of 8 room house, 5 ' room
house and 6 tenant houses, 3 barns,
store house, stockade, sheds, tool
house and other outbuildings. Tract
is fenced with wire. Price is SBS
peT acre with possession Oct. Ist.
Fresh water at buildings all the
time. All farm tools, implements,
new Case tractor, power hay press
included with place, also 10 mules
and horses, 15 head cattle, about 50
hogs. There is about SIO,OOO to
$15,000 worth of standing timber on
the place. Will make reasonable
terms. For further information
write or see,
795 T. B. RAGAN,
A9c Hawkinsville, Ga.
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