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TWICE-A-WEEK
VOLUME 52.
THIS_WEEK
The Lamp Went Out
The Year 5684.
Fliers and Divers Only.
Good by Harem.
By Arthur Brisbane.
The little moon, traveling along
25 miles a minute, got between the
earth and the sun the otoher day and
for 169 seconds the sun’s light we!?t
out, entirely at certain places, to a
limited degree elsewhere.
The moon was something like a
child walking between you and your
reading lamp. The eclipse wa-, pho
tographed by scientists on the earth,
and from flying machines, but only
savages were agitated. We don’t be
lieve, as they once did, that a drag
on is eating up the sun. And we
don’t think that angry gods are
warning us to behave ourselve.;.
In the old days they took eclipses
so seriously that two armies, about
to fight, turned tail / i d went home
in a bury when the sun began to
disappear. T s was a poor ruler that
didn’t have some l: ; nd of eclipse
when he died.
The Reverend increase Mather,
who wrote his interesting essay on
“Remarkable Providences” in the
early Puritan days, found it easy
eough to explain an eclipse in Mas
sachusetts. He said it expressed the
grief of Nature at the death of Pres
ident Chauncey, of.fgsryard. Quite
a compliment for Harvard.
We know that an eclipse means
nothing at all except that the moon
gets in front of our sun lamp and
shuts out the light for a minute.
We have progressed in that way.
But we don’t yet know enough to
stop murdering each other, as they
did in the days of superstition and
darkness.
Tuesday was ftosh Hashanah, the
Jewish New Year, number 5681.
Christians call it the year i 923.
Other religions and nationalities
have other years and jother dates,
a majority believeing that the world
is about 6,000 years old, and ought
to end soon.
If old Earth told her real age,
we should learn that many things
happened here a thousand million
years ago. When it started, we
don’t know.
Flying machines dropping bombs
that cost a few dolars have again
demonstrated for the benefit of the
American people that battleships are
obsolete. The old battleship Vir
ginia used as a target was sunk in
thirty minutes by a flier 10,000 feet
up. Hcfw many forty million dollar
battlehsips will this country build to
supply amusing targets some day for
foreign fliers?
orFty million dollars spent wisely
on flying ships, with a few more
millions on submarines, would make
fighting fleets unnecessary and at
tack by any nation foolish.
A while ago, anybody asking the
Government to fix the price of oil
would have been called an anarchist
by the moderates, and murderous
Bolshevik by real Tories. Now, in
Texas, the oil men themselves ask
the State Government to fix a price.
When prices get sick, any doctor is
welcome.
Kemal Pasha comes back to the
front page by preventing restoration
of the harem in Turkey. It was
once as difficult to imagine a Turk
without many wives as of a Chinese
without a pigtail. The pigtail is
gone, and the harem wives are going.
Wise Kemal says that one Turkish
wife, of the new woman type, is as
much as any one Turk can or ought
to own.
Wheat was lower last week. The
earthquake leaves thousands in need
of food, but that doesn’t help the
price of wheat. Nations always find
money to buy wheat for war, no
matter how high the price. They
do not spend so easily merely to
relieve human suffering.
The News-Herald
Hiring •
CANVASS FOR
SCHOOL FUNDS
STARTSFRIDAY
For additional equipment, needed
at once, in furnishing the new Law
renceville school building, oven S6OO
is needed; $l5O of this amount has
been pledged.
The Parent-Teachers Association
has undertaken to raise this money
and it is a most laudable undertak
ing. The city, nor the school, has
the money in hand, hence it was
deemed best to secure same by pub
lic subscription.
A poster, by one of the school
children, placed in the window of the
First National Bank shows the items
needed: Window shades, chairs and
desks for the teachers, library equip
ment. These necessities must be
placed in the building at once to se
cure the best Results from the teach
ers and pupils and our beautiful
building will not be complete until
they are secured.
Below we are prniting the com
mittees that will canvass the differ
ent streets of the city asking for
subscriptions. It is hoped that ev
ery citizen, man and woman, solicit
ed, will give liberally and loyally of
their means in aiding to secure this
equipment.
In order tfyat all the committees
may work at once and cover the
whole town, the committees for the
different streets will please meet at
the school building Friday afternoon
at 2:30 o’clock and the canvassing
will begin at once.
The appointments are as follows:
Stone Mountain road and Culver
street, beginning at Dr. Kelley’s—
Mrs. Chas. McConnell and Mrs. Glad
stone Craig.
South Perry to Jones Drug Co. —
Mrs. Tom Ambrose, Mrs. Eula Ham
ilton.
W. Crogran from filling station
west—Mrs. W. L. Nix, Mrs. Walter
Brown.
East Crogan street from hotel,
lljjsiness block on south side to city
limits*—Mrs. Dan Byrd, Mrs. M. C.
Austin', Mrs. Nicholson.
Perry street from Drug store north
to railroad, including business block,
—Mrs. C. R. Ware, Mrs. G. G. Rob
inson.
Pike street —Mrs. Sam Brown,
Mrs. J. C. Flanigan, Mrs. E. T. Set
tle.?
Courthouse and corner offices—C.
R. Ware, H. G. Robinson.
Oak street —Mrs. Clo’wer, Mrs. H.
G Robinson
Clayton street to depot and Sassa
fras—Mrs. 0. R. Juhan, Mrs. W. O.
Cooper.
Clayton street north from railroad
and McDaniel street —Mrs Camp,
Mrs. Sikes.
Jackson street —Mrs. Hagood, Mrs.
W. T. McGee.
Grayson road—Mrs. J. H. McGee,
Mrs. Elmer Pate.
Special committee—Mrs. Riley
Powell, Mrs. Ross Craig, Mrs. L. R.
Martin, Miss Minnie .Peeples, Mrs.
N. L. Hutchins.
NORCROSS NEWS.
September 21.—Mrs. W. D. An
derson, of Cedartown, Ga., is visit
ing a sister here, Mrs. S. T. McEl
roy.
LIVELY-MEDLOCK—Mrs. I.uella
Lively, of Norcross, announces the
engagement of her daughter, Annye
Elizabeth, to Mr. Alfred Carroll
Mefflock, of Winter Garden, Fla.,
the marriage to be solemnized in
October.—Sunday’s Atlanta Journal.
The families of both bride and
groom are among the older and more
prominent Gwinnett county citizens
the bride-to-be’s grandfather, C.
Pink Lively, though eighty-odd years
old, is still in business here while
her father, the late Henry M. Lively,
was a candidate for the state Senate
before his demise. The groom is
the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Fax
A. Medlock, whose paternal ances
tor contributed in the making of the
Empire State’s capital city. Best
wishes tendered.
Mr. and Mrs. L. Jts. nayles, of Car
rollton, Ga., were recent guests of
Rev. and Mrs. J. W. O. McKibben at
the parsonage here.
Judge I. L Oakes, Senator Nix,
W L. Nix, Wesley Clower, from the
county site, were over Friday.
Mr. Robert L. Robinson has re
turned home after an extended visit
to Washington City and points in the
middle west. Mr. Robinson says that
crops are fine, and that he heard no
complaint of business conditions, ex
cept in the mining districts where
strikes are on. He states that he is
convinced that Georgia and Gwinnett
county have the prettiest girls on
earth.
LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1923.
SHOOK OF BOY
TO BE PROBED
Atlanta, Ga. —Charging that his
18 year old son, William Ogle. Jr.,
was shot down without provocation
by Policemen C. E. Floyd and G. W.
Richardson about 3 o’clock Friday
morning, William Ogle, chief engi
neer at the Ansiey hotel, Friday
night issued a statement in which
he declared his determination to
have the entire affair thoroughly
probed.
Ogle, who with four others, was
discovered in an automobile at a gas
oline station on (jeorgia vaenue, was
shot down when he attempted to
make his escape on foot, after aban
doning his companions in the car, it
is claimed.
T. H. Turk, of 437 Crew street,
one of the quartet arrested by the
police, volunteered Friday rfter
noon to give blood from his own
veins to aid his wounded companion.
According to the father of the
wounded boy, his son and three com
panions had stopped to put gome wa
ter in the radiator of their car when
the policemen first approached them
at East Fair street and Oakland av
enue. Fearing arrest because they
had some liquor with them, they
started the car off and fled, the of
ficers in pursuit. Believing them to
be members of the gang of gasoline
filling station robbers who have op
erated so extensively about Atlanta,
the officers drew their guns and be
gan firing at Ogle, who fell when a
bullet entered his hip.
BIRTHDAY DINNER.
A large crowd enjoyed the sur
prise dinner given Mr. W. N. Frank
lin of this place in honor of his sev
enty-ninth birthday on September
9th. ✓
There were present 7 children and
29 grandchildren. Those of his child
ren present were H. A. Franklin and
family, of Duluth, Ga.; J. A. Frank
lin and family, F. N. Franklin and
family, T. A. Franklin and family, E.
V. Franklin and family, C. H. Fiank
lin and family, all of this place.
Others present were Mr. and Mrs.
J. T. Miller, of Marietta, Ga.; Mr.
and Mrs. J. A. Shumate and child
ren, of Atlanta, Ga,; Miss Savannah
Rowden, Mrs. Susan Corley, D. L.
Corley and family, Mrs. Ophelia
Jones, Destel Dean and family. Mrs.
Martley Shaw, Willard Latham and
family, Jonas Wages and family,
Mrs. Frankie Cruse, Miss Ida Cruse,
and Mrs. V. N. Franklin and daugh
ter, Mrs. Rintha Jones and family.
The Yellow River Primitive Bap
tist Association is holding its annual
session at Camp Creek church this
week, which will embrace Friday,
Saturday and Sunday. This is an
event that is always looked forward
to by those who reside in this por
tion of the county, and those who pre
viously resided there make this the
time of their annual home coming.
Greater crowds than ever are expect
ed this year, and much preparation
has been made to take care of them.
Aside from the sumptuous basket
dinner, which is always served, there
will be a big free barbecue.
Camp Creek church is- one of the
oldest churches in the county, the
on?- hundredth anniversary having
been celebrated in May of this year.
Rev. J. T. Jordan joined this church
on his return from the confederate
army in 1866, and served as pastor
continuously for forty-four yea.v.
CUBA.
September 19.—Several from here
attended all day singing at Oakland
Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Harrison, of
Norcross, spent Sunday afternoon
with Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Brownlee.
M rs. Homer Long and children
spent one afternoon last week with
Mrs. W. R. Doby.
Mrs. W. R. Doby and Mrs. Lawson
Bennett spent Saturday afternoon
with Mrs-. Byrd Brownlee.
Mr. Travers Conner is very ill.
Mr. Lawson Bennett visited his
father, Mr. Tom Bennett near Mt.
Zion Sunday.
Mrs. B. W. Mercier spent one af
ternoon last week with Mrs. J. C.
Tuck.
Miss Nora Brownlee visited Miss
Etta Bennett Friday afternoon
Mrs. Hugh Tuck and children
spent prat of last week with Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Tuck.
Mr. W. R. Doby and Mr. J. H.
Brown visited Mr. Byrd Brownlee
Sunday morning
Misses Nora Brownlee, Ruby and
Willie Mae Doby spent Saturdav af
ternoon with Mrs. H. T. Hansard.
Little H. T. Hansard spent Satur
day afternoon with his grandmoth
er, Mrs. Byrd Brownlee.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Leather-wood
spent one day last week with Mr.
and Mrs. Tom Bennett
GEORGIA COOP
ENJOINS MEMBER
Atlanta, Ga.—J. D. Beckum, of
Blythe, Ga., a prominent farmer of
Burke county, is the first member
to be enjoined on a charge of failure
to deliver his 1923 cotton crop acy
cording to his contract with the
Georgia Cotton Growers’ Cooperat
ive association, according to an
nouncement made at association
headquarters here Friday.
The restraining order was signed
by Judge A. L. Franklin, judge of
the superior court at Waynesboro,
and date of hearing the petition of
the association to make the injunc
tion permanent was set foig'October
4 at Waynesboro.
Petition of the association alleges
that Beckum, in violation of his con
tract, has already sold a part of his
cotton outside of the association and
refuses to deliver the remainder of
his 1923 crop, in accordance with the
terms of his membership contract
which he signed in June of this year.
The order of Judge Franklin sets
out that “until the farther order of
the court the defendant, J. D. Beck
um, is hereby restrained and enjoin
ed from selling or otherwise encum
bering or disposing of any of his
cotton grown by him in the year
1923.”
It was further announced by the
association that vigorous prosecution
would be started against all con
tract violators by enjoining members
who fail to comply with their con
tracts and by filing suits for dam
ages against all members who pre
viously have sold cotton outside of
the association.
In commenting on the action of
the association, President J. E. Con
well states “the cotton cooperative
is a business organization and all
members have entered into a solemn
and binding contract, which is the
basis of our operations.
“Our board of directors has no oth
er option except to see that all con
tracts are lived up to and a close
investigation is being made of all re
ported violations and action will be
taken againsfci sH willful violators,
whiSk is being insisted upon by the
thousands of loyal members in all
sections of the state.”
LITTLE GIRL DIES FROM BURNS.
After suffering intense agonies
from burns received two weeks ago,
Rosie England, the five year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Eng
land, who reside near the camp
ground, died early Friday morning.
She had gone into the house, where
she was alone, and wanted some
article on the mantlepiece, and in her
effort to get it, overturned a kettle
of boiling water, which scalded her
on the back and arms to such extent
that little hope was held out for her
recovery from the beginning.
The funeral and interment will be
held at Alcova church Saturday
morning, September 22, at 11 o’clock,
Rev. C. P. Ewing to have charge of
the services.
SENIOR CLASS L. H. S.
ELECTS ITS OFFICERS
The senior class of Lawrenceville
Pugh School recently held a business
meeting, at which the following of
ficer: were elected:
Herman Tanner, president; Doro
th;, Thompson, vice president; Mar
garet, Brown, secretary-treasurer.
The class consists of fourteen
girls and boys, and the prospects for
a highly successful year are very
bright. ,
“You look hollow chested and
thin,” said the pressure pump to the
inner tube. “What is the matter?”
“Income tax,” wearily replied the
inner tube.
PROPOSED WAYS
TO INSURE PEACE
Washington, September 20. —Secre-
taiy of State Charles E. Hushes,
speaking before the Canadian Bar
Association, found that only in get
ting back to an old idea of complete
respect for law, could a las ing peace
be obtained. Mr. Hughes stated that
“to abandon the struggle toward
peace was to admit the failure of civ
ilization. The sentiment of the people
of every nation must be behind any
concerted effort for world peace. All
the measures ever thought of for
the establishment of peace depended
for their success on the will to peace
of the people behind them.
“The only way, therefore, and the
way that leaders of men must follow
to lead humanity to peace, is the cul
tivation afresh of that sen-e, i.lrrcst
lost during the great war, of re-pect
for law for its own' sake, regardless
of the force behind *C ui.en :!•<. senti
ment of tile people of the world fa
vors obedience, to ]aw, then inter
national laws may rule the world in
peace. Without that sentiment no
‘artificial means would he effective."
FLOYD OFFICIALS
INDICTED GRAFT
Rome, Ga.—W. P. Bradfield and
Cliff Autrey, members of the Floyd
county board of commissioners, were
indicted by the grand jury which
completed its work Thursday, the in
dictments being revealed today.
Commissioner Bradfield is charged
specifically with having taken sll
worth of gasoline belonging to the
county, for his own personal use,
with having accepted sls worth of
potatoes from the poor farm for his
own use. with having presented bills
for S6B and $39 for the use of his
automobile when he ws not on coun
ty business, and with havnig con
tracted with a certain J. D. Smith to
paint three roofs at the county poor
farm for $216.67 for the purpose of
collecting from hte county this sum
which'Smith is alleged to have owed
him.
Commissioner Autrey it is charged,
used gasoline belonging to the coun
ty worth $23, took from the county
farm supplies worth $23, and charg
ed the county up with $92 for the
use of his car when not on county
business.
In its summing up of the offenses
charged to the two commissioners,
the grand jury says the acts of the
two regarding the use of their caps
were “a device, schmee, and subter
fuge to ride over the roads of the
said county, charging exhorbitant
prices for the use of same and $5
per day for his services.”
The two Snellville school factions
were here in full force Wednesday to
thiesh out their differences before the
county board of education, but a ten
tative compromise was agreed upon
when all of the trustees offered to
tender their resignations with the ex
ception of one, who will consider the
matter for a week. In case all of the
trustees step down and out none of
them will offer for re-election, so the
board will order another election and
let them start out with a clean slate.
The Tanner Hardware Company
will open their new hardware store
in Winder November Ist, Mr.
Percy Tanner, of this city, hav
ing charge of the business. The new
company will occupy the buildinff
now being occupied by Gregory-
Woodruff, wholesale grocers. Mr.
Tanner has been engaged in the
hardware business for a number of
years, having been connected with his
father, Mr. W. T. Tanner, in this city.
He is a young man of fine business
qualifications, and we predict great
success for him in his new field.
At a call communication of Law
renceville lodge No. 131, F. and A.
M., held Tuesday night, the Master’s
degree was conferred on Robert
Simonton, Dr. G. S. Kelley presiding.
There was a good attendance of the
membership, and several visitors from
sister lodges being present from
Grayson, Dacula and Winder. The
Winder delegation was composed of
W J. Russell, J. R. Miller, Eugene
Edwards, Luke Smith, R. J. Roberts
an 1 J. B. Parham.
True—So True
Mama sits at home perusing
Book lore a la high brow;
Clarice seventeen is using
Papa’s night key now.
THE MODERN NEWSPAPER.
In an address before the second
arnual institute held at Rutgers Col
lege under the auspices of the New
Jersy Press Association. Melville E.
Stone, counsel sos the Associated
Press, emphasized that the mission
of the modern newspaper is to give
the news and reflect the opinion of
ie.s district or nation. “The modern
its district or nation. “The modern
tive of the age. People no longer
read Dickens, Thackeray or Victor
Hugo, but short stories, and the
shorter the better. In this country
the newspapers, in order to be suc
cessful, speak the opinion of the com
munity, while in Europe they voice
the opinion of ait individual or a po
litical faction.”
If is significant that in this coun
try the title “old-fashioned party
organ” is given to the newspaper
that keeps service to some party,
faction or private interest upper
most. This recalls that the journals
of America of an earlier period were
devoted largely to propaganda for
political or private purposes
than to the dissemination of the
news.
Now the modem reader want?
first of all his or her newspaper that
it give the news. In a campaign it
is expected to give the news of all
sides without bias, reserving the ex
pression of its opinion to the edi
torial column. Modern editorial ex
pression avoids personalities. It
seeks to analyze the news to help the
reader form his or her own opinion
rather than to try to impose the
judgment of the writer.
‘UNLOADED’GUN
IN HANDS OF BOY
KILLS SISTER
• .
Suwanee was the scene of a
tragedy Thursday afternoon when
Oscar Davis shot and killed his sis
ter, Sallie Grace Davis.
The children were in the house by
themselves while their mother was
at the spring washing.
She heard the report of the gun
ar d ran to the house to find the little
girl locked in one of the rooms with
the boy on the outside. The frantic
mother broke through a window and
grabbed the lifeless form of Grace
and bore the body to the front
veianda and laid it down.
Dr. W. F. Jinks, who lives next
door, came in about that time and
carried the corpse back to the room
where the tragedy took place.
Oscar was playing with hij sister,
and she had locked herself in one of
the rooms. There were two single
barrel shot guns in the house, one
loaded and the other empty. As the
girl looked through the key hole
Oscar pulled the trigger of what he
supposed to be the empty gun, but it
exploded, and the load of shot dilled
a hole about a half inch round and
entered the little girl’s left eye, kill
ing hee instantly.
The father of the children is dead
and their mother has married again,
she at present being the wife of Mr.
J. 0. Attaway.
The remains of the little girl were
interred at Suwanee Friday.
Coroner Holds Inquest.
Coroner Peter Smith was informed
of the tragedy and he held an in
quest over the body soon after the
killing. The jury found that the
shooting was accidental, their verdict
being as follows:
Suwanee, Ga., September 20.—We
the jury empaneled to hold an in
quest over the remains of Sallie
Giace Davis, nine years of age, find
that she came to her death from an
accidental gun shot by her brother.
Oscar Davis, eleven years of age.
H. E. WRIGHT, Foreman.
CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS
INTEREST EDUCATORS
i
*• * . - 1 • •*
Washington, September 20. — Tr
date there have been completed 18,
913 miles of Federal aid highway*
and more than nineteen thousand
I
miles in addition are under construc
tion.
The mileage is of importance tc
educators, because of the increasing
movement of progressive slates to
wards the establishment of consoli
dated schools in rural districts. Such
schools gather together half a dozen
or more teachers, and Ic-d-es of
school children, to form a large and
v/el' equipped school, taking the
place of those which are smaller and
less well served.
Consolidated schools must gather
uo children from their country
homes, delivering them to and taking
them from sshool, by road transpor
tation. It has been found that the
consolidated school is seldom a sec
cess except where good roads serve
the communities affect td. Where there
are good roads everywncre, t : c schrol
busses run inexpensively and quickly,
and provide the children within a ra
dius of ten or even fifteen miles with
school facilities equal to that en
joyed by pupils in cities. Where
roads are poor, the maximum dis
tance over which a child can come to
school is two and a half miles.
The federal program of better
roads is meeting with much approva'
among educators who see in more
good roads a better standard of
scholarship among the children of
rural districts.
SEND US YOUR JOB WORK
REV. JOHN SIMPSON DIED
AT HOG MOUNTAIN THURSDAY
Rev. John W. Simpson, a well
km.wn and highly esteemed Baptist
minister and farmer of Hog Moun
tain district, died at his home Sep
tember 19th, after an illne-s of sev
eral weeks.
Mr. Simpson was born in this
county seventy years ago, and lived'
all of his life here, having lived in
the same section continuously, where
his neighbors held him in high re
gard for the upright life he lived.
He is survived by his wife, who was
Miss Emma Davis before marriage,
and by four daughters, Mrs. Donie
Davis, of Alabama; Mrs. Love Pharr
of Barrow county; Mrs. John King,
of Alabama, and Miss Lillie Simp
son, of this county, and by three sons,
Mr. Hilman Simpson, of this county;
Messrs. John and William Simpson,
of Atlanta.
The funeral and interment were at
Union Grove church September 20th,
the services being in charge of Rev.
R. L. Lawson. Rev. S. P. Higgins.
Rg\. D. W. Cook and Dr. G. S. Kel
>;• r.'.gde short talks at the graveside.
TWICE-A.WEEK
WEEVIL CONVEN
TION WILL BE
OCTOp 25-26
Atlanta, Ga., September 19.—The
National 801 l Weevil Menace Con
ver.tion, which was scheduled to l>s
helu in New Orleans October 16 and
17, has been postponed until October
25t,h and 26th, according to advices
received here by Governor M. a
Wellborn, of the Federal Reserve
Bank of Atlanta, which is taking an
active interest in the forthcoming
meeting.
The postponement, it is stated, was
made necessary owing to conflict
with a meeting of state governors
ar.o at the special request of U. a
Senator Jos. E. Ransdell and Govern
or Joh.i M. Parker, es Louisiana,
whose previous engagements prevent
ed their participation in the meet
ing on the original dates announced.
The New Orleans convention will
be under the auspices of the Louisi
ana Bankers Association amd bank
ers throughout the entire cotton belt
are cooperating in making the big
meeting a success. Gorvenor Well
born, of the Federal Reserve Bank
of Atlanta, embracing the states of
Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Tennes
see, Mississippi and Louisiana, which
comprise the sixth federal district,
has issued a statement, urging all
bankers who can possibly do so to
attend the convention.
Governor Clifford M. WaTker, of
Georgia, received an invitation re
cently from Governor Parker, of
Louisiana, and the Louisiana Bank
ers Association to attend the conven
tion. |The invitation presented by
Colonel G. T. McElderry, of Talla
dega, Ala., president of the Alabama
Farmers’ Uniin, and Col. R. D.
Bowen, a prominent planter and
business man of Paris, Texas. Col
onel McElderry and Col. Bowen also
ca’led on J. C. Conwell, president of
the Georgia Cotton Growers’ Co
operative Marketing Associatiom, to
enlist his interest. • >'
Large, industrial corporations and
financial concerns have already made
contributions to a campaign which is
now under way to combat the men
ace of the weevil in the soath and thv-
New Orleans gathering wifi seek to
devise further ways and means to as
sist in the fight. The meeting will
be attended by business men in all
lines of industry, including manufac
turers, bankers, railroad, steamboat
and steamship representatives, as
well as those engaged in agriculture.
What Part of Paper Is Read First?
What part of a daily ncwspaiWr is
most read and read first by lift
average reader? The question is
one that several Atlanta publishers
have been discussing and opinions
differ. The verdict of readers also
are divided on the question of the
meat popular pages.
From a casual survey, made leis
urely where people could be found
reading their papers, it appears that
Atlanta readers also vary in their
newspaper tastes.
For instance it has been found by
one inquiring Atlanta reader that the
young woman, single or married, in
variably turns to the society page of
the paper, with a view to seeing jusit
what has been done and what is
scheduled to be done in social circles.
Then she looks up the literary fea
tures and continued story, the Lints
on retaining beauty or the articles
dealing with married life and home
problems.
The married woman of more ma
ture years, it appears, glances first
a', the front page, and then she, too,
centers her interest in the society and
women’s section. Social news digest
ed, she then looks through the paper
for the local news stories: and winds
up with the editorial page, which she
reads only casually, picking out that
which appeals to her.
Front Page First Attention.
The business man with litt’e time
for reading gives the first page first
attention, then glances through the
paper for the home news items and
finally gets to the sport page. The
professional man and the business
man with more time than seme of
them have, gets through with the
news section first and then settles
buck to read the editorials and to
note what ideas the paper advances
in its “thought department.”
Put the part of the paper that is
really most carefully read and the
items most thoroughly considered by
the housewife and by the father of
the family is the advertising part.
“Mother” looks for the department
store ads and the prices given in the
grocery ads and “Daddy” goes
through the grocery ads and then
wades into the want ads to see hew
many opportunities for investment lie
can find, and practically a’! readers
look through the want ads to see what
has been lost or found, and where
good rooms are for rent c< a heme is
offered for sale at a bargain.
SEND US YOUR JOB WOBK.
NUMBER 94.