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THURSDAY, JANUARY l«, l»ts. It is of vital importance that the quality and quantity of the cotton of our section should be kept at the highest standard. A county with a reputation for growing fine cotton always has plenty of buyers-competit.on brings top pric-s After thoroughly investigating SALSBURY Cotton and the high standing of the firm that produces it, we believe its introduction would be a great benefit to our community and have undertaken its distribution in this For Full Particulars See or Write W. L. BROWN Lawrenceville, Ga. Society MRS. LILLIE EXUM Miss Roxie Ethridge returned to her home in Trion, Ga. Little Miss Jean Young has been quite ill for several days. Little Martha Edmonds, who has been quite ill, is improving. Mr. Hosea Camp is the guest of his mother, Mrs. Lillie Camp. Mrs. G. S. Perry was taken to Wesley Memorial hospital Tuesday for an operation. Mr. Dan Harris has returned from Orlando, Fla., where he spent Christ mas with Mr. A. E. Ewing’s family. Mrs. E. T. Settle, who has been quite ill at her home on Pike street, is recuperating, we are glad to say. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Sammon and •children, after a week’s visit to rel atives here, returned Tuesday to their home in Thomson. Misses Anna and Mattie Lou Has lett left Friday for Danville, Va., and Bullochville, Ga., respectively, where they are teaching. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Nix had as their week end guests Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Mobley, Messrs. Coleman and Gilbert Mobley, of Atlanta. Master Hilary Stiff entertained a number of his little friends at a “make-believe” at his home on Crogan street Friday afternoon. Mrs. Howard Garner and little daughter, Mary Evelyn, left this week for Dallas, Tex., where they will be guests of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Burney. Judge and Mrs. G. G. Robinson had as their guests on the fifth Sun day Mr. and Mrs. Pascal Boyce, Nor cross; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cox, Far . rr.ington, and Mr. Haupaugh. The Lawrenceville friends of Mrs. D. P. McCleskey, of Atlanta, will regret to learn that she was oper ated on for appendicitis Tuesday morning at Davis-Fischer sanitarium. Mrs. McCleskey was formerly Miss Mildred Brown, of Lawrenceville. PATTERSON-HAYNES. Mr. William H. Patterson, of Law renceville, and Miss Frances Haynes were quietly married Sunday after noon at the home of the bride in Winder, the Presbyterian minister officiating. v The bride is one of Winder’s fair est young daughters, while the groom is a well known and highly respected young man who was reared in Lawrenceville, being the only son of W. H. (“Cheek”) Patterson, de ceased. Billie and his bride motored to Lawrenceville and were given an infair at the residence of his mother, Mrs. Sallie Patterson, where they are making their home. Loans and Discounts $158,040.62 Banking House . 3,275.00 Furniture and Fixtures - 3,616.29 Stocks and Bonds 1,650.00 Overdrafts 232.52 Cash on Hand and in Banks . 41,530.58 $208,345.01 WE INVITE YOUR BUSINESS OFFICERS: DIRECTORS: C. R. WARE, President C. R. WARE, J. IT. McGee, Ist Vice President F. Q. SAMMON, H. H. PHARR, 2nd Vice President H. H. PHARR, R. H. Youn r ’ashier J. H. McGEE, R. THOMP. ON, Ass’t. Cashier L. R. MARTIN, GEO. W. WILLIAMS, J. S. YOUNG, J. W. GARNER, D. C. KELLEY, The following were Wednesday visitors to Atlanta, Maj. W. E. Sim mons, G. S. Perry, L. M. Brand, Misses Louise and Mamie Brand, Mr. Troy Thomason. Mr. W. G. Shamburg. of Char lotte, N. C., an advertising man, was a visitor to Lawrenceville Sunday and Monday. He is an ex-service man and served with the Fourth Division in the 11th Machine Gun Battalion on the battlefields of France. FOR RENT—Four room house with electric lights on West Pike street, joining my residence. See dlTc T. L. VEAL, Lawrenceville, Ga. DEATH OF AN INFANT. Lola Rebecca Smith, the six months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Smith, died Monday and the corpse was buried at Friendship the next day. The fond parents have the sympathy of many friends. CLOSE THE DOOR. A great deal of caustic comment is printed regarding the proposed re strictions of immigration, registra tion of aliens and the attempt to se cure quality rather than quantity of incomers from the old world. Their arguments, boiled down, usually read “America should hold out a welcome to all; the country is big enough for all; we are all sons and daughters of immigrants; immigrants made this country; we need immigrants for labor; to restrict or register is czaristic, not American.” It is true we are all “sons and daughters” of immigrants; it is true that the immigrants we have had have done much to develop this country. But a§ times change, so must methods. When we needed pioneers, farmers, laborers, tillers of the soil, we received the best Europe had to offer. Not often does such an opportunity come; a new country, a new freedom, land for the asking. Of course the yeomanry of Europe seized the chance and the land, came, went west, grew up with the country, helped make America, America. <at today good land cannot be had for the asking. The pioneer days are over. American civilization has grown complicated. It takes more than willing hands and a stout heart to succeed here now. There must be a measure of education as well. Meanwhile, Europe is an im possible place for the diseased, the ignorant, the uneducated, the vi cious, to live. The best equipped want to get out—out anywhere—but especially “out to America.” We still need, want, and welcome, good men and women, who can and do become good Americans. But the time has passed when we can get them only by opening wide the door. The door must be shut, to keep cut those who hurt, not help, the nation, r?'d only put a little ajar for that thinning stream of the best kind of men and women, who are able t» take advantage of the modern op portunities of modern America, as their forebears were able to take ad vantage of the oppori; lities of American pioneer days. STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF T : FIRST NATIONAL BANK Of Lawrenceville, Ga. At the Close of Business, December 31st, 1923. GRAIN OF CORN IN EAR OF YOUTH BRINGS DEATH Berlin, Ga.—A grain of corn that accidentally found it’s way into the ear of Eugene Norman, son of John Norman, while playing n a barn cost the life of the young boy, who was seven years old. Several physicians attempted to remove the grain of corn from the child’s ear, but all attempts were and blood poisoning setin which caused his death Satur day. UNION* GROVE. Auburn, Ga., R. 1, Jan 7 —MI : Rena Morrison, of Atlanta, is visit ing friends here. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Ethridge are the proud parents of a fine baby girl which arrived Saturday, January 5. Miss Sabra Farr and Neta Mae Ethridge of Harmony Grove attend ed Sunday school here last Sunday. Miss Evis all is attending school at Dacula. Mrs. Ernest Kilgore, of Hog Mountain, was the guest of Mr. Sim Wall last Sunday. WEBBVILLE. Lawrenceville, Ga., R. 3.—Jan uary 7, 1924.—Mr. Joseph Roberts and Mr. Tom Glass were in our burg Sunday afternoon. Mrs. L. D. Barrett and children spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs. T. S. Brown and children. Misses Jonie and Martha Dutton visited Miss Ruby Barrett Monday. Mr. Belvie Brown spent Friday night with his cousin, Mr. Henry McDomes, of near Rocky Branch. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Long spent Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. Lu ther Dallas, of Lawrenceville. The party given by Miss Mary Brown Friday night was enjoyed by all present. Mr. Homer Long and family are moving near Norcross. Business Outlook Bright. Legitimate business, economically operated, was able to make a rea sonable profit in almost all lines of trade during the year 1923, and the prospects for 1P24, business now be ing found on a sound basis, offer every indication of prosperity in the opinion of Atlanta bankers and busi ness men, particularly officials of the Federal Reserve baiik of Atlanta who have well sounded conditions in the sixth federal district comprising the states of Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana. One fact is especially noted in the matter of building and construction activity. All reports received here show that it has been carried on at a very high rate all during the pas. year and there is as yet no evidence of the slowing down which is usual at this time of year. The output of manufacturing in dustries continues, on the whole, re ports 'state, to compare favorably with last year, and employment con ditions, particularly in, the sixth federal district, are reported satis factory. ! • 1 •* Capital Stock $50,000.00 Surplus and U. P. 10,613.09 Rediscounts Cashier’s Checks 852.17 DEPOSITS 116,855.59 $208,345.01 TOR MRWS-MRKA LB. wWU, C—rgU THE SOLDIER’S BONUS. There is a wide discussion of the bohus and Mr. Theodore H.. Price, in his magazine, Commerce and Fi nance, sums up the arguments pro and con in a very e'ear way. Those who oppose the grantin',' of a bonus to the soldiers hold that the duty of military service is an obli gation of citizenship or residence and is one of the considerations given for the protecton by the government. No government could exist long if it did noth ave the right to call upon its citizens to repel its enemies; hence, the opponents of the bonus say that the nation is under no legal or moral obligation to pay whom they have thus called upon. A sovereign State has the right to conscript its citizens. They point out that the men in the army and navy were exceptionally well fed; that they were comfortably housed most of the time and that they were given medical attention and education free. Those who serv ed during the late war had their lives insured at the lowest cost ever known and the injured have been and will be generously cared for. The mdh who went abroad have had their record enriched and their vi sion broadened. They add that if a c 'atuity is now allowed other gra tuities will be dejnanded. The Civil War pension is one of the scandals of history. Their own feeling is that most of the boys who followed the flag and came back safe would re sent the idea that the United States owed them anything. Those /who favor the bonus say that the men who were conscripted were compelled to quit their work and enter the service of the govern ment at $1 a day. Some of their con temporaries stayed at home and were able to earn as much as $lO or sls a day in non-hazardous work. Upon this statement, it is argued that the conscripted soldiers are en titled to an “adjustment of their compensation” that will give them as much as they would have earned if they had been allowed to select their own employment. Probably a majority of the American people feel that this nation should err upon the side of generosity in dealing with the boys who risked their lives in de fense of ther country. Mr. Pries un derstands and honors the respect in which our moral obligations are held by the proponents of the bonus. So he presents both sides of the ques tion upon which there is such a wide difference of opinion among men who are equally sincere and patriot ic.—Savannah Press. Easy, Son, Easy An lowa youth who became much interested in bixing while in service, took his father to a boxing show the other nght, thes on willingly paying the admission. “Now,” said the son when they were well seated, “you’re gonna see more action so rs 2 than you ever saw in your life.” “I don’t know, son,” said the fa ther. “$2 was all L paid for my mar riage license.” SEND US YOUR JOB WOK* Etiauetle Bltaiat CfcW&cnfSl IM_ to do At Reeders dm ring personal replies on points of iitiquette or heart affairs ■nay write Miss A. Leda, care of this uewspapt . enclosing a self addressed and stamped envelope. Dear A. Leda : Will you kindly tell me the kind of a note that should be written in ease of a dinnei - and theatre party having to be postponed? Is it bet ter form to send a messenger with the note or post it? A Reader. When conditions arise which pre vent the giving of a dinner a note should immediately be despatched either by messenger or special de livery, either canceling or postpou ing the affair. The note may be written in the third person, some thing to this effect: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Williams re gret exceedingly that due to fire in their home they must postpone their dinner arranged for Wednesday, De cember the tenth, to Monday, Decem ber twenty-third, on which date they hope to have the pleasure of Mr and Mrs. James Collier’s company at half after seven o’clock. Another reader asks the kind of a note that should be sent in the case of a stop-gap at a dinner party This means stopping a gap which has been caused by a guest’s sud den Inability to keep a dinner en gagement. ft is quite permissible to call upon a friend to fill a vacancy occurring at a dinner party at the last mo ment. However, in* such a case the situation should be frankly explained nnd not a formal card sent out at the last minute. For example: Dear Mb. Beown : Will you lie most obliging and help me out on Wednesday, January the twelfth? The grippe has seized one of my guests at the lust minute so that I am cast upon* the good nature of my friends. We will dine at seven o’clock, and I shall look forward to the pleasure of your company, and thank you many times for the favor you confer by coming. Most sincerely yours, Auce B. Dean. helpfulHEALTHhints Antiseptic. —Salt and water (’/a teaspoon to glass water) is ex cellent as a throat gargle. It will help an already sore throat, as well as prevent one which has not yet developed. SALE UNNDER POWER. GEORGIA, Gwinnett County. Whereas, on the 16th day of June, 1920, B. W. C. Graham, executed ar.d delivered to The Georgia Loan & Trust Company his deed, under Section “3306 of the 1910” Code of Georgia, to the lands hereinafter described, for the purpose of secur ing a debt referred to in said deed, which deed is recorded in the Clerk’s office of Gwinnett Superior Court in book 25 of deeds, page 122. AND HEREAS, in said deed, said grantor gave to said grantee and as signs the power to sell said lands in case of default in the prompt pay ment at maturity, of interest or prin cipal of said debt. NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the power so vested in the under signed, which is more accurately shown by reference to said deed said The Georgia Loan & Trust Company will sell at public outcry to the high est bidder, for cash, on February 12th, 1924, during the legal hours of sale before Gwinnett County Court House door at Lawrenceville, Geor gia, the lands described in the afore said deed, to-wit: All that tract or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the sev enth (7th) land District of Gwin nett County. Georgia, consisting of sixty-two and one-half (62%) acres, more or less, being a part of land lot No. one hundred one (101) and- is bounded as follows: North by lands of Clay; east by lands of Guthrie; south by lands of Bradford and Rickies; west by lands of Mitchell and Brown, said farm being situated about six miles north of Dacula. Georgia, in Gwinnett county, find is part of the same land deeded by C. W. Bradford to B. W. C. Graham on November 2nd, 1908, and is record ed in deed book 20, page 32, in the Clerk’s office, Superior Court, Gwin nett County, Georgia. Said land be ing the place whereon the said B. W. C. Graham now resides. The said deed above mentioned, was executed and delivered to se cure the payment of one certain promissorynote for the sum of sl,- 500, dated June 16th, 1920, and the principal debt, bearing interest at the rate of six and one-half (6%) per cent, per annum. Said principal debt is now past due by the terms thereof, and so de clared to be due for default in pay ment of interest due November Ist, 1922 and November Ist, 1923. The total amount of principal and inter est that will be due on said debt on the date of sale is $1,679.50. Fee simple titles will be made to the pur chaser at said sale and the proceeds of such sale will be applied first, to the payment of said debt with inter est and expenses of this proceeding, and the remainder, if any, will be paid over to said B. W. C. Graham, or his legal representatives. Dated this, Bth day of January, 1924. The Georgia Loan & Trust Co., By SAM G. BROWN, Its Attorney-ar law. SHERIFF’S SALE. GEORGIA, Gwinnett County. Will be sold before the courthouse door of said county at Lawrenceville, Ga., within the legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in February, 1924, to the highest bidder for cash the following described property, to wit: One Reo Automobile, one Rem ington typewriter, one Wales adding machine, one Edison rotary mimeo graph, one check writer, two office desks. Said property levied on and to be sold as the property of W. L. Brown to satisfy a mortgage execution is sued from the Superior Court of Gwinnett County, Georgia. Defen dant notified of this levy in terms of the law. E. S. GARNER, Sheriff. SHERIFF S SALE. GEORGIA, Gwinnett County. Will be sold before the courthouse door in said county, in the city of Lawrenceville, within the legal hours of sale, to the highest and best bid der for cash on the first Tuesday in February, 1924, the foliowing des cribed property, to-wit: One complete cotton ginning out fit, consisting of three seventy saw Winship gins, with Munger double box press, with all shafting, pulleys, belts and other equipment for the said gin outfit. Levied on and to be sold ns the property of L. L. Griffith and Brother, afirm composed of L. L. Griffith and Marvin Griffith, under a mortgage fi-fa in favor of Moon and Turner against L. L. Griffith and Brother issued from the Supe rior court of Oglethorpe county, Georgia, on the foreclosure of a pur chase money mortgage retaining title to said property. This property is now located at what is known as the Ed Strickland gin at Hog Mountain in said county, and being expensive to move will be sold before the court house door in said county, but will be delivered to ihe purchaser where it is now located as above and where it can be examined at any time be fore the sale. This January 10th, 1924. E. S. GARNER, Sheriff. CAN TOU LOOK INTO A WAYSIDE MTTD PTJDPT.IB I AJfD SEE A CLEAR SKTJ The World’s Most Protected People (he American people are the most perfectly protected people in the world. Figures made public in Washington show that in the matter of insurance this country per capita is so far ahead of all other countries that there is scarcely a second in the race, though Great Britain hobbles along next to the United States. 1 lie figures in themselves are startling. More important, however, is the lesson they convey—the story they tell. First, they bespeak' a strong sense of honor and a willing acceptance of responsibility on the part of the American husband and father. ( omplaint is often heard that despite the great earning power of the average American, it is impossible for him to save sufficient money to ensure the safety of his family in case of death or permanent disability. Perhaps there may be some basis for this assertion. But there is no basis for the assertion that the average man cannot protect his family, that he cannot, by reasonable saving, provide an estate for those he must leave behind without actually setting aside the lump sum which other wise would be necessary, and which would greatly lower the standard of his living. Insurance is now well out of the realm of the luxuries. It has passed from the stage of the gamble. It has developed into an integral part of American l : fe, so interwoven with our social fabric that today any man finds it possible to protect his family, and all wise men do so. Protection of the family, the certainty that the widow will not want or the child be neglected means more to this country than mere saving to the state. It means added production. The man who looks the world in the face unafraid is stimulated to greater deeds of daring and accomplishment. Fear of the future has kept countless thousands of men in the ruts of mediocrity. With fear removed, with confidence established, the man can stretch his wings and grasp such opportunity as presents with reasonable safety. America’s appreciation of insurance is an evidence of Ameri can intelligence. Today only the dullard and the utterly thought less are unprotected. We nre nearing the season for the publication of the picture of Honest Labor with the dinner pail and paper hat. The Chinese promise little and perform much. Let us hope It Is not a fact that “never the twain shall meet.” My country, ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, pass a few more re strictive laws. It only costs us 894 a head for our legislative machinery every year, so get busy and tighten us up a little more. There is nothing calculated to upset our confidence in mankind as much us tlie conversational philosopher who presses us to lend him a five spot. The latest recommendation of the reformer after conference with the hygienic ntti Is that sweethearts should kiss one another good night only through a respirator. Me® dMot tmi htj Whii Hadley x "2 If Walter L. Hodges had been content to remain an obscure farm nand on an Indiana ranch nineteen years ago lie would not now he the; Hon. Walter L. Hodges, Los Angeles millionaire. In 1003, poverty stricken. uneducated, sickly, he was earning fifty cents a day on a little ranch he didn t own. His mother-in-law fell heir to a note for $3,000 given by a teaming company. She traded the note to Hodges. Making his way to Los Angeles he forced the company to give him sixteen mules and four nngons. But what was he to do with sixteen hungry mules? Biding one of them and leading the ether fifteen he found a gravel tied on a Los Angeles flier, where he could get. gravel free. On his nerve alone he hired three negro drivers and with them began hauling gravel into Los Angeles at $2.50 a load. At the end of two years he had not made a cent- To make money he must find a shorter haul. He found a bed of gravel four miles nearer Los Angeles. Demand for gravel at $2.50 a load was great, but at the end of a year he was $13,000 In debt. In a department store, where he had gone to buy overalls, he saw an escalator. Hurrying to a junk dealer he obtained an assortment of old machinery and rubber belting, and In a week had erected a long, heavy movable belt running from his crushing platform down into tlie ravine. One man could thus load more rock onto this licit and have It dumped at the crusher than fourteen could handle before. His business began to show a slight .profit. At night he studied in the Los Angeles Y. M. O. A., walking twelve miles each day to do so. But seven months later, he found himself $35,000 in debt. One Monday a note for SIO,OOO fell due. He went to the hank and asked to see the president. “I’m through,” said Hodges. “How much do you need?” asked the banker. He loaned him $15,000 more. Then (lie tide set his way. In 12 months ho paid the bank. Then fire wiped him out, causing a $70,000 loss. But from Insurance money lie built a better plant. Six months later a flood swept down and buried his new plant under sand. Ills loss was $30,000. lie built o new plant and sold the sand. In May, 1922, his profits were so great that he sold his interest to a Western corporation for $1,100,000 cash. Study Of Labor Conditions In Bituminous Coal Fields Shows Families Live Well , Mrs. Marion Richardson, Hunt ington, West Virginia, a promin ent member of the League of Bus 'ness and Professional Women, de clares that women should learn the truth about labor conditions in the soft coal fields Of the united States. Such knowledge, she say*, will clear up a great deal ot slanderous propaganda against the bituminous Industry. Mrs. Richardson knows whereof she speaks for she was in charge of preparing the court records of violations on the part of the United Mine aV/orkers of America •—of civil rights and criminal law, la many of tfca coal fields In her Mate. L ‘Tift ce called coal problem will ibe solved when the consumer ro cognizes the real issue," she poino out. “The question is whethei union leaders shall have the right \to enforce their demands dj : nation-wide strikes which curtail production and cause the price ol coal to soar to exorbitant peaks, Both union and non-union opera, tors agree that it is impossible foi the industry to render fair servios to the public so long as the min ers' organization is allowed ta continue Its monopolistic policy.** Contrary to the general belief. Mrs. Richardson says that miner* live In good houses, children have the beat schools, and good roads end other modern conven ience* are the rule and not th» exception in the coal field* —• Page Three IP