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TWICE-A-WEEK VOLUME 53. 12.000 POUNDS SODATOL READY FOR FARMERS The Extension Department of the State College of Agriculture has about 12,000 pounds of Sodatol on hand at Canon, Ga., Franklin coun ty, for distribution to the farmers of the state for Agricultural purposes. It costs $8.30 per hundred pounds, which is abou one-fourth of what 40 per cent dynamite is retailing for in many places and is more effective. It is in 50 pound boxes and can be sold in that small lots. Number six caps for detonating this Sodatol will be furnished free at the rate of one cap for each pound of material ordered. Freight charg es from Big Point, Virginia, will have to be paid, but this will not ex ceed 25c per hundred caps. Sodatol is an explosive that was left over after the war that is being distributed to farmers for blowing stumps, rocks and for other agricul tural purposes. It is put up in car tridges similar to dynamite, and is used in about the same way. It is hardly as dangerous as ■ dynamite; but should be handled in the tame way. Any farmer that has stumps should blow them out with this cheap ex plosive. If you want this material send me your order at once with a check payable to T. W. Read, Treas., at the rate of $8.30 per hundred or $4.15 for fifty pounds. The freight from Canon will be paid when deliv ered at your station. Orders should be placed at once as this supply will soon be exhausted, and the other will have to come from a distance. This is ready to ship immediately. Yours very truly, A. G. ROBISON, County Agent. “BILL” LOVETT, GANGSTER AND WAR HERO, BURIED WITH MILITARY HONORS New York.—“Bill”’ Lovett, noto rious gangster, protagonist of nu-ny bitter feuds in the underwork! of New York, met his death at the hands of some slum enemy in a din gy room not far from Brooklyn’s waterfront Wednesday. William A. Lovett, machine gun ner in the A. E. F., possessor of the distinguished service cross, and of scars left by German bullets on the battlefield of the Argonne, was bu ried with full military honors in the Cypress Hills military cemetery yesterday. From the cottage in Ridgefield Park, N. J., where Lovett and his bride of a few months lived, the body of Private First Class Lov ett was taken from a flag deeped, flower filled room to its final rest ing place in Brooklyn by the local unit of the Veterans of Foreign wars. Gangster Bill was forgotten as Private Bill was interred, beside comrades with whom he had fought and bled in France. FOUR STORY BUILDING PLANNED FOR GRIFFIN Griffin, Ga.—Announcement was made Saturday that plans are being drawn for a four-story office build ing in the heart of Griffin, on the site now being used as the Odd Fel lows’ home. The plans call for a modern and up-to-date building in every particu lar. including elevator service. Work is scheduled to start about the mid dle of December and it should be finished by next May, according to B. D. Joiner, realtor, who will have charge of renting the offices. The undertaking, it is estimated, will cost between $50,000 and $60,- 000. Command of Legion His Reward ■«.... : iM&&2' ' John R. Quinn or San Francisco la National Commander of the American Legion. his reward for takfag the World Waryeterans to the (JoMon Vjate for thrlr WSJ iwiftatlon Last year at New Orleans be prevailed apow them to to Weal this year. With him are fcte jrtfs j&4 mottos. The News-Herald Life Saving Work Of Red Cross Corps Wars on Drownings The insignia of the American Red Cross Life Saving Corps on the bath ing apparel of men, women and youths is seen everywhere at favorite bathing places along the coasts, riv ers, lakes and ponds. In its unrelent ing campaign to reduce loss of life by drowning the Red Cross is making constant headway. The dpmands for instruction from organizations in all parts of the country were so numer ous the past year that It was neces sary to more than double the staff of Red Cross instructors. This work of training for water life-saving showed an enrollment of over 30,000 voluu teerß enlisted for duty on patrol, for rescue and resuscitation, all compe tent to Instruct others In the standard water-safety methods. Ths Red Cross by request of the War Department gives water first aid training at the United States Military and Naval academies and in the military training camps for reserve officers and civil lans. The four cash prizes awarded by the Red Cross last year for heroic rescues were conferred upon two girls, a boy and a man, indicating that the youths of the country stand well at the top in conserving life along our water courses. Red Cross Field Of Action Covers All the World Represented by 93.068 members, the American Red Cross penetrates to nearly every part of the world. The insular and foreign roll call statistics for the past year are a most conclu sive manifestation of the Red Cross spirit carried into the most remote lands. In Europe there are 4,088 members, in Turkey, and active in the Constantinople Chapter, 3,545. Chi na has an enrollment of 2,252; Africa. 136; India. 224, and Australia, 29 Even Vladivostok, in frigid Siberia, has a live chapter with 100 members. The Philippine Islands can mobilize 58,747 under the Red Cross banner and Hawaii 7,863. The total funds raised through foreign and insular membership enrollment and sent to national headquarters la Washington mounted to f60.21C.54, while an addi tional $33,350 waa forwarded for the endowment fund «f the American Red Cross. The high seas roll call in 1922 was an inspiring success. Tha Navy signed on 4,331 for the Red Crest and the merchant shipa 4,141. Of the to tal membership outside the United States 83,990 are registered with chap ters in foreign lands, the insular po» sessions and dependencies. Mr. and Mrs. Henry He watt and baby, of Atlanta, are the guests of relatives and friends in our city. There will be a workers council of the organized classes of the Baptist Sunday school at the church, next Tuesday, the 13th, with some good speakers and dinner served in the church basement. I Chamberlain Medicine Co., of Des Moines, lowa, have just issued a new and very attractive booklet entitled “Quality Helps for Holme Makers” which they will take pleasure in mailing free of charge to anyone sending their name and address. WANTED— By Clyde T. Hannah and R. B. Tuck, of Loganville. Ga., five hundred bushels of field peas at $1.60 per bushel, delivered at the residence of R. B. Tuck in Loganville, Ga. n22p FOR SALE. Purpie Straw seed Wheat $1.50 per bushel; good seed oats 9bc per bushel. Stored at J. R. McKelvey’s Mill and at W. M. Leatherwocd’s home. nlfuM McKelvey & Leatherwood. SINGING. Announcement is made that on next Sunday afternoon, November 18th, an old Sacred Harp Singing will be held at McKendree. All sing ers anu others are invited. F. C. DAVIS. LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1923. CHILDREN’S BOOK WEEK, NOVEMBER 12 THROUGH 17TH Americans are said to be lazy readers. They follow the conven tional track of the “best sellers” and real literature finds only a very limited public. In order to arouse a deeper interest in children’s books the Woman’s club purposes to cele brate “Children’s Book Week” No vember 11-17. The department of applied education, Mrs. C. O. Stubbs, chairman, will have this in charge, and a full program of the week’s ac tivities will appear in this week’s papers. The following editorial from the November issue of the “Good House keeping” is so very worth while, we are going to give it to you in full: Solomon Was a Wise Man. This Talk is About Children’s Book Week. “Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it,” said a wise man of long ago. Many of the published under his name ESve not borne the test of time— at least, they sound strange to us to day, judged by customs and stand ards that have been evolved in the centuries that have passed since there was a king in Israel. But most of them could well be held be fore our eye as the busy days come and go and we look into the years that are ahead, wondering what they have in store for us and for our chil dren. By the light of their wisdom, proved through many centuries, we could see farther, and seeing, choose our way with greater surety. For it is possible to know whither we go and why we go and the way we go. The path begins here, in a cradle; it ends there, in a grave: the lamp that is lighted for us at the beginning will burn to the end. But it must be lighted for us, else we shall waste vears in groping, and perhaps never fint it. Given into our hands as children, it never leaves us # entirely in the dark; it may grow dim, it will never go out. Solomon was right: the child rightly trained does not de part from his training. But how shall the child be trained? Not by “Thou shalt not” or “Thou shalt,” but by your own conduct at a time when you are the hero of the child’s world—a place from which a parent slips more easily than does a playfellow, but from which he can never be dislodged if he plays the game. And how easily he can play it! There is the experience of the race to guide him, to help him out of any tight places, finally to stand in hh stead as guide. But do not look for or expect success unless you lead; it may come, but it is no: '.ikrly to. What you want yorr child to do jou must do first or show him that some one else, whom vou :• '-nibs, has done it. Now is the way made easy for you: the shelves >f ail che libraries of the world cons,) m with you to inspire him, to delight nim. to make a man of him. Of course, if the way is unfamiliar to you, you can not make the most of it, but to stumble on your way is better than not to go at all. It Comes in November—Week 11-17. And so we are going to enlarge the scope of our appeal for children’s book week to urge parents to do more reading themselves, that they may not only suggest good books for their children, but widen their own horizons. The actual compass of any life is small; in most of our towns and cities it is alarmingly dull. What the towns and cities lack can be found in books. If parents find it there, they make it easier for their children to hunt for it in the same place. There is a book for ev ery mood, if one cares for books; one car journey the world around by merely going to the library or the bool- store. The significance of this is lost upon too many parents; other wise there would be no need for children’s book week. We believe in the week, just as we believe in bread and butter. Books are as es sential to the real life of the child— or the parent—as meat and drink. We go further: we believe children’s bool week is as vital to the nation as the health week, inaugurated by the children’s bureau, which called our attention to a Serious lack of physical care and resulted in wise national laws. Mental health is as important as bodily health; both are the result of thought and care on the part of those responsible for the child’s welfare. Much public inter est in the physical well-being of children was aroused by the wide spread publication of statistics showing an alarming death-rate and an appalling number of under nourished children. We have seen no statistics regarding the mental death-rate among children, but the percentage of mental under-nourish ment is alarmingly high. The most recent statistics available show that 4,931,905 of our people ten years age Saw Street Car j Charlotte Thompson, American girl, horn feud rained in the great Inland stretches of Alaska, saw hei first street car when her boat ilooked Los Angeles the othet day — «i*o her drat “sheik." At hom« her street car U a fast dog tram auc •Iml—which Site herself drives. Mr. Barney Pierce, of Atlanta, spent Sunday here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Emory Pierce. Mr. and Mrs. Hubert McGee and small daughteV. of Snellville, were the dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. McGee Sunday. . Mrs. W. H. Powell and sons, Houston and Tom, Mrs. Bobbie Da vis, Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hut'.hins motored to Atlanta Saturday. Mr. Dock Holt, who is v : th the highwa • department in north Geor gia, spent Sunday here with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Holt. The lecture and demonstration in cooking at the club room Saturday afternoon was thoroughly enjoyed. At the conclusion a delicious lun- Mr. Lyman Green, of At'anta, who is working for the National Pa per Company there, spent the week end here with his father, Mr P. D. Green. Mrs. L. R. Martin and daughters, Leila and Mary, Mrs. W. J. Blake of Calhoun Falls, S. C..'Miss Georgia Byrd and Mrs. J. L. Exum motored to Atlanta Saturday. LEAGUE Or WOMEN VOTERS NEWS OF INTEREST By WINNIE VAN WINKLE in the Atlanta Journal. Lawrenceville, Ga.—Extending a hearty welcome to Miss Marguerite Woolley, regional secretary for the National League of Women Voters, and Mrs. Sanford Gay, president of the Atlanta league, who made a trip to Lawrenceville, on Thursday, No vember Ist, for the purpose of or ganizing a league. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Simmons en tertained delightfully in honor of Miss Woolley and Mrs. Gay, upon their arrival. In the afternoon, about 3 o’clock Mrs. Gay spoke before the Parent- Teacher association, in the Law renceville school house. This associ ation includes the mothers of the grammar school and high school boys and girls, as the school includes grammar and high school grades. There were about 30 prominent Law renceville women present. At 8:30 that evening a night meeting was held in the school house, at which both men and women were present. Miss Woolley spoke on ‘The Aims and Legislativve Work of the League.” Mrs. Gay gave a talk of the ideals of the league. This meeting was well attended, and there were a number of representa tive men of the town who were very much interested in the plans of the league, and were heartily in favor of them. The Lawrenceville women are planning a meeting for organization of the Lawrenceville League of Women Voters, to be held the week of November 12th. Among the women who have evinced great interest in the organi zation of a league are Mrs. L. R. Martin, Miss Minnie Peeples. Mrs. D. M. Byrd, Mrs. Riley Powell, Mrs. N. L. Hutchins, Mrs. T. L. Ambrose, Mrs. Sam Brown, Mrs. Charles Mc- Connell, Mrs. J. M. Austin, Mrs. George Bagwell, Mrs. Lillie Fxum, Miss Ida Mitchell and Miss Pearl Mitchell. FOR RENT. Good one or two-horse crop, good land and pasture, to man who can flemish himself. See H. H. Bramb lett, Lawrenceville, Rute 2. nlsc and over are illiterate, that of the men and women of voting age 4,333,- 111 are illiterate, and that there are 1,242,572 illiterates among our na tive whites. We believe that that is a menace more grave thah any epi demic, affording, as it does, a fertile ground for the propagation of isms antagonistic to our national ideas and ideals. v * . n -Mm* -y*. 1 _ b PAUL VOSE DIES SUDDENLY OF PNEUMONIA The numerous friends of Paul Vose in Lawrenceville were shocked and grieved to learn of his death, which occurred at Atlanta, at 9 o’clock yesterday morning. Mr. Vose’s father, Capt. J. G. Vose, of this city, moved from South Carolina to Lawrenceville many years ago, when Paul was in his teens, and the earlier days of his manhood were spent here. He went from here to Atlanta soon after reaching his majority, and engaged in the real estate business, in which he was quite succcc.isful, and continued in it until his decease. In 1911 he married Miss Annette Walker, a daughter of Hon. Sanders Walker, of Monroe, and a sister of Governor Clifford Walker, anc! made Atlanta his home after that. No child was born of this union, so his widow is left alone in the world, but the hearts of the legion of friends go out to her in deepest sor row and sympathy in this hour of her deep bereavement. The deceased was a Lieutenant, Colonel of the Governor’s staff, and along with the other members of it, accompanied .him to Savannah, where the party went as the guests of the city at an exposition held there, less than two weeks ago. Soon after returning to his home at Atlanta he contracted a bad cold, which finally developed into pneu# monia which resulted in his death. The deceased was always a moral young man, and never indulged in any form of dissipation, having con nected himself with the Presbyterian church when in his teens, of which re remained a valuable and consist ent member to the end. He had a lovable disposition and all who knew him admired his splen did qualities as a man, and we ;lo not suppose he ha dan enemy in the world, and no better epitaph tan be written of any man. The deceased was the only son of Capt. J. G. ere, of this city, who was a gallant Confederate soldier, and has always been a chivalrous and polished gentleman of the old school, admired and beloved by all who know him. This dispensation of Providence was a severe blow to the kindly and popular old gentleman, who has the sincere and heartfelt sympathy of this whole community in this hour of deep sadness and gloom. The only living relatives of the deceased are his father and sister, Mrs. M. C. Austin, and children of this city. Funeral services for the deceased were held at noon today at the Presbyterian church at Atlanta, of which he was a member while the interment was by the side of I is de ceased mother at New Cemetery to day. LOST—LAUNDRY BAG LIBERAL REWARD LOST—On Lawrenceville-Decatur road, Thursday, November Ist, brown canvas laundry bag contain ing clothes. Reward will be given for return to this office or to Mr. S. C. Dobbs, 8 Oakdale Road, Atlanta, Ga. nl2c CROSS ROADS. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Brownlee and Mrs. Eliza Mitchell spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt (galloway at Grayson. Mr. Lawson Bennett spent Satur day near Luxomni. Rev. B. W. Mercier spent Satur day and Sunday at Centerville. Mrs. W. R. Doby and Misses Ruby and Willie Mae Doby spent Satur day afternoon with Mrs. J. B. Brown lee. Miss Nora Brownlee spent Satur day afternoon with Misses Essie, An nie, Ida Davies at Lawrenceville. Mrs. H. L. Hansard and children spent Saturday afternoon with Mrs. B. W. Mercier. Mrs. Eliza Mitchell visited her daughter, Mrs. Byrd Brownlee, Sat urday night and Sunday. Miss Nora Brownlee spent Sunday afternoon with Miss Susie Mercier. Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Bennett spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Tom Bennett at Mt. Zion. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mason and children, of • Centerville, spent a while Sunday afternoon with Rev. and Mrs. B. W. Mercier. Mr. Jeff Mitchell visited his sis ter, Mrs. J. B. Brownlee here Sun day. Mrs. Ida Johnson and chlidren, of Duluth, spent Saturday night and Sunday here the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Doby. Junior Red Cross Spreads Good Will Throughout World Nearly 5,000,000 pupils in the schools of America are following the standard of unselfish service as members of the American Junior Red Cross, the an nual report of the American Red Cross discloses. This valiant, host is rep resented in 125,072 sehoui rooms of 21,289 schools throughout the United States. With a service program that is local, national and international in scope, the American Junior Red Cross Is working unfalteringly for health and happiness and in the promotion of activities among boys and girls wherever there is opportunity for use fulness. Increased activity on the part of the schools enrolled and deeper recog nition by school authorities of the ed ucational values of Junior Red Cross have been significant features of the last year. Carrying on educational and relief work In FYance, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Jugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria and Rumania, the American Juniors have influenced the forming j of Junior departments in the Red Cross organizations of these coun tries. American boys and girls wear ing the "I Serve” button of the Jun- ; iors are proving apt messengers of j the spirit of good will and mutual un derstandtng through correspondence with pupils in schools scattered | throughout the world. At the close | of the school year in June 2,00 f I schools were engaged in correspond- I ence with a like number of schools ! in Europe: 284 schools in our insular ! possessions and Alaska territory car- | ried on an exchange of letters with j schools In the United States and South Africa. In fact, nearly 2,700 schools with probably 100,000 pupils were busy In this fine act of cheerful communi cation, while 8,347 articles pawsed through National Headquarters of the Red Cross In exchanges between the Interested pupils here snd overseas. An Incident of the year’s advance was ths beginning of sctlvlty which will eventually Install Junior Red Cross \a \be Indian schools of tbs United State!. From, every section of the country reports ot the tour ot the unit ot crip pled children with their chorus which cams from the Bakule sch°°l ’ft Prague, Czechoslovakia, to ahow grati tude to the American Juniors tor their assistance declare that nothing since the World War has done so much to awaken the Red Cross spirit In the communities visited by the unit The work of the American Juniors in foreign fields is emphasized in the advancement of playgrounds, scholar ships in farm, trade and other schools, community and school garden work, and donations of cash and equipment to children’s organizations. In these projects $112,660.17 was spent during the last year in ten European coun tries, in China and In the Virgin Is lands. The Bride’s Alibi Hubby: “Your sponge cake is fine, dear, but ” Mrs. Newlywed (crying): “It was the druggist’s fault. He didn’t give me the right kind of sponges.” Adam the Guy Radio Fan: “Tell me, Fanette, who was the first great wireless en gineer?” Fanette: “Marconi, of course.” Radio Fan: “It was Adam. He made a loud speaker out of his spare parts.” Dan: “Can a cowhide lr a shoe store?” Phlrp Cleik—“No—but calfskin.” Minnesotan to Court of St. James I Se^f tor Fr#nk 8 KeMon* <* Mlun.-sota by to I- r . George Harvey as Aruericm>- v AmlMi>j>.«Jo* 0,6 P r °f r ‘‘ f * i l*ea to Republican Tanks. They srL-1”? dßck ePPetotment and Is leading to foreign entangle ment*. Above ha most recent picture of Mr Kdhgg and wife. J TWICE-A-WEEK SMALLEST CROP SINCE 1878 SAYS GEORGIA CO-OP Special Sotton Report. The smallest crop since 1878—is thb way the Georgia Cooperative Crop Reporting Service characterizes the present Georgia cotton crop. Th decline since last month is due primarily to damage to grown bolls by the weevil in the upper part of the territory, but it is also caused in part by the realization of failure in some areas and the measure of the extent of the crop actually abandon ed. For several years the Department has been preparing for the issuance of a report of the prospects on Oc tober 25th. when sufficient data was secured. This is necessary in order to bridge the gap which formerly oc curred between the September re port and the final estimate in De cember. Last year the condition fig ure returned on the October 25th in quiry, mentioned above, was 38. and in 1921 it was 32. This year it is 31. In addition to the condition figure, many other factors concerning crop production were secured and utilized in making the production estimate. While correspondents in the areas most severely injured were entirely conversant with the local situation, the state as a whole has not yet como to the realization of what the cotton siuation is, and perhaps will not do so until the final check on the crop is made. From second place in cot ton production, we have fallen to about the eighth. The essential facts of the situation are presented in the maps accompanying. Z. R. PETTETT, Agricultural Statistician. *f , i MAN TWICE CONDEMNED TO BE HANGED REMAINS AS 5 OTHERS ESCAPE Gainesville, Ga.—Five prisoners brbke from Hall county jail Sunday night about 11 o’clock by sawing the lock off the steel cage in which they were confined. They were. Coyle Pressley, 24 years old, awaiting trial charged with having stolen goods; Fred Smith, 24, await ! inp trial charged with carrying pis j tol; W. C. Forrester, 35, charged ; with passing bad check; Robert Hix, j 25, serving a sentence for • selling I liquor; Grover McMurry, colored, I charged with stealing cigars. After sawing off the lock they let themselves down from a second story window. Arthur Whitworth, twice con-* demned to be hanged for killing hi* wife nt New Holland two years ago, and another trial set for this week, was ip the same cell with those who escaped, but made no effort to get awtty* i _____ TH* FIRST CLASS FARM TO RENT. I have a splendid two or three horse farm to rent, situated on Yel low River, two miles from Lawrence ville, where J. W. Moulder now re sides to a tenant who can furnish his own stock. There is no better farm in the county that can be rent ed, there being good red upland, and fine botton land for corn. nl2c W. E. SIMMONS. NUMBER 4.