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TWICE-A-WEEK
VOLUME 53.
PAVED HIGHWAY
DECATUR ROAD
STARM APRIL
Link by link, mile by mile, Geor
gia extends her system of paved
highways—veins of gold for this
state.
A paved hgihway from Atlanta to
Lawrenceville, via Decatur, on the
way to Athens, is now assured. The
project has been approved by the
state highway commission and work
will start in April.
Every mile of paved highway built
and kept up is a fresh avenue to
swell the commerce of Georgia cities
to tie tighter the knots that bind
community to community,, and as the
paved ways extend from state to
state to bind more firmly the bonds
of the union of states.
Tourists flock along the improved
roads, scattering a largess of gold as
they go, leaving a contryside en
riched with alien wealth. Every tour
ist spends as he goes and each com
munity gets its share of the bene
fits of fresh money.
But the real vein of golf! In im
proved highways is that the road is
a channel of local commercial inter
course. It furnishes low-cost haul
ing medium for the farmer and the
gardener, the dairyman, the poultry
man. It links the merchants of the
smaller cities with thee enter of sup
plies in the larger ones. It widens the
circle of social life. It opens the way
for better education, making schools
more accessible in all sorts of weath
er.
The Atlanta-Lawrenceville road in
particular opens easy access to the
playgrounds of north Georgia. It is
a new tentacle of commerce begin
ning at Atlanta and extending east
ward until it comes to the boundary
of the state, it is hoped. Lawrence
ville is not quite half way between
Atlanta and Athens, but by the time
work on the assured link begins in
April the project carrying it on
from Lawrenceville to Athens should
be before the highway commission
for approval.
Much of the credit for the suc
cessful conclusion of the Atlanta-
Lawrenceville project is due to the
. untiring work of Judge N. L. Hut
chins, of Lawrenceville, who worked
untiringly and to good purpose in the
interests of better roads, more com
merce, increased industrial, activity
for the cities at each end of the
route. “May his tribe increase.”—
Atlanta Constitution.
OUR SUPREME COURT JUDGES.
The average citizen, and even the
public generally do not realize the
unjustness in the small salaries paid
toour judges of the Supreme court
of the state. These offices are the
highest in the state and carry with
them greater responsibilities than all
other courts of the state. It is a court
of last resort, insofar as the state is
concerned and the ablest lawyers
should occupy these positions. Men
of unusual ability, integrity and
character should be selected as Su
preme court justices and the salaries
should be in keeping with the ability
and earning capacity of such judges.
In New York, Judge Cohalan, a
member of the Supreme court of
state has resigned, giving as his reas
on for such resignation that it was
impossible for him to live off of the
salary and support his family. The
pay in that state for Supreme court
judges is $17,500. In this'state the
pay is $7,500. Juge Cohalan in sub
mitting his resignation to the gov
ernor states that he is doing so for
the reason that the salary is inade
quate and that it was fixed a half
century ago. He further states that
to bring up a family, it is impossible
to exist on $17,500. It is quite true
that the amount pad our Supreme
court judges is unfair and unjust. If
we are to get the best lawyers for
our Supreme court it should be ex
pected that the state realize and ap
preciate that these men cannot live
off of the salary which is now being
paid, $7,500 a year. Many good law
yers who accepted these positions
have been forced to resign-and re
turn to the practice of law. There
will be others to follow. There is not
UTTING DOWN on the advertis
ing appropriation when busi
ness is dull is like cutting down on
the cow feed when the milk runs
short.
The News-Herald
Thi^yeek
iiiidtn
By Arthur Brisbane
These figures show how the coun
try is growing;
Income through transportation
and distribution amounted in 1890
to 12 billions; 1900 to 18 billions;
' 1910, to 32 billions; 1920, to 60 bil
lions.
Sixty billions, the cost of distrib
uting goods and passengers hefre in
one year, would solve Europe’s
financial problem.
What will the bill amount to fifty
years hence?
1 In every direction growth here is
amazing.
When this nation was young
building w’as done by individual car
penters and only one man in the
United States earned as much as $1
a day ail the year round.
L. J. Horowitz, wholesale carpen
ter, head of a big building concern,
announces building contracts amount
ing to sixty millions in one year.
The three biggest jobs averaged nine
mililon dollars apiece. The seven big
gest average seven million dollars a
piece. Qne organization does sixty
millions of building in a year. One
branch of national activity, trans
portation, does sixty billions of busi
ness in a year. This is a growing
' country.
Follow the proceedings of the
American Association for Advance
ment of Science at Cincinnati. The
meeting teaches these things.
We are what our glands make us.
If they break down, we break down.
Our characteristics are trans
mitted through the chromosomes.
They can be seen and counted un
der the microscope. Glands secrete
hormones, and on these we depend
for growth, intelligence, our pow
ers.
The thyroid gland if swallowed
digested cures idiocy, in many cases.
The thymus gland just over the
heart is absolutely necessary to the
well being of children. It fades
away, as they grow older. Female
pigeons lacking thymus cannot pro
vide egg shell or for their
eggs. Feed them dried thymus and
the eggs are all right.
Transplanting reproductive organs
in human beings stimulates activity
only for awhile. Such transplanta
tion in the flesh where heat is ex
cessive, causes eventual sterility.
Red corpuscles that give energy
to our blood come chiefly from the
marrow in the bones, and more fre
ly in spring than at other times.
Certain animals are first male,
then female.
Sometimes in shellfish and birds
the sex actually changes completely.
Science is worth watching.
Theodore G. Northrup celebrated
on Christmas day his ninety-fifth
birthday and hopes to live to 170.
He was given up to die at forty,
made up his mind to live, and has
had no illness for a long time.
He won’t live'to 170, but he is en
joying life at ninetyfive like the fa
mous Luig-i Cornarofi a ‘ hopeless”
invalid in the forties, mounting his
horse without assistance past nine
ty, andw rting to the Pope: “I had to
a judge sitting in our Supreme court
today who could not earn and realize
several times the amount of the sal
ary paid by the state in the practice
of law. Unless there is some action
taken on the part of thel egislature
and increased pay provided for these
judges, it may bo expected that oth
ers will resign and return to active
practice.
Let us consider the importance of
fixing salaries sufficient to attract
men who are fitted 1 for the offices
ar. men who will devote tVdr lives to
iha work ancl to the aV important
service and duty to the state. —
Athens Banner-Herald.
LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1923.
CALHOUN HIGH
WAY IS ASSURED
TO BUILD BRIDGE
Elberton, Ga.—The Calhoun high
way, opening tip a new and rich
travel territory for Athens and north
east Georgia is to become a reality.
This was determined when the Cal
houn Highway Association met in El
berton Thursday and plans were set
in motion to secure a bridge across
the Savannah river between the El
bert metropolis and Abbeville, S. S.
The real obstacle in the way of
the highway at present is the bridge
across the Savannah river. This
bridge is proposed at some point on
the river between Elbert and Abbe
ville counties of Georgia and South
Carolina and it is estimated that the
structure, including approaches, wall
cost approximately $250,000. The
consensus of opinion of those in at
tendance Thursday was that the
bridge would be assured if the two
counties would put up 12!£ per cent
of the cost each, the two states a
like amount and then prevail upon
the national government to match
that amount with 50 per cent.
It is believed tat the five interest
ed governments above named will
agree to bear pro rata shave of
the cost if the other counties through
which the highway is to pass .will
agree to improve and maintain it.
Ths highway means untold bene
fits to points along the S. A. L. in
Georgia.
COL. SAM G. BROWN TO
ORGANIZE EMORY CLUB
Mr. Sam Brown, of Lawrenceville,
has been elected chairman of a com
mittee to organize the Emory club
of Gwinnett county, according to an
announcement by the alumni council
of Emory University. Plans have
been made to organize Emory clubs
in all of the larger cities of Georgia
on the, night of January 25th. At
that time, an organization of the
Emory men living in Atlanta will be
perfected at a dinner at the Capital
City club.
Emory now has over 6,000 living
graduates and over 10,G0<1 former
students living in every state of the
union and many foreign countries.
The organization of the local clubs is
part of the general alumni work
which was launched last spring for
the purpose of uniting all of the for
mer students of old Emory College
and of the medical school which have
since become a part of the Emory
system, into an organization which
would permit the exchange of fel
lowship, and, at the same time, per
mit the alumni to have a part in the
direction of the affairs of Emory
University.
Every local club with a member
ship of twenty-five or over is en
titled to representation on the
alumni council, the governing body
of the alumni association.
W . L. NIX,
Attorney at Law,
Office in New Tanner Building
LAWRENCEVILLE, GA.
live ninety years to know that the
world is beautiful.”
Old age is worth while, because,
while the brain lasts, it is the best
part v of life.
Bootleg whisky sent 49 men and
women to hospitals in New York on
Christmas day. Two women and. one
man died in one hospital. How long
will it take Americans to learn that
bootleg whisky is poison, always, and
deadly quite often.
The Association for the Advance
ment of Science calls the automo
bile the greatest single contributing
factor to the nation’s ethical and
material progress. It enables a man
to live three lives in one, increases
the farmer’s production, saving his i
time, increases human happiness ev-|
erywhere.
Bankers that worry about auto
mobile financing, take notice. An in
vestment in a better race is n ,-cund
investment.
Everywhere there is progress, Ja
pan probably will give “manhood
suffrage,” a vote for every man, re
gardless of wealth, but, of course,
not votes for Japanese women yet.
The French Parliament discusses
seriously votes for French women.
In France the shopkeeper’s wife is
usually the business woman, and al
ways she is the adviser and practi
i cally the head of the family. Amer
icans that think they have a monop
oly of “real family life” enjoy deep
ignorance. There are nowhere on
earth closer family ties, or more ad
mirable family life, than in France.
MARRIAGES.
Mr. Bual Chadwick and Miss Allie
Benson were joined in holy matri
mony on Christmas day, Rev. A. D.
Holbrook being the officiating
minister.
Mr. W. T Ivie, of Habersham
county, and Mrs. Nannie Robertson,
of Grayson, plighted their troth on
Saturday, January sth, in the pres
ence of Rev. O' N. Wade.
Another Saturday marriage was that
of Mr. Josh Croy and Miss Mabelle
Maddox, who were pronounced hus
band and wife by Rev. G. H. Thorn
hill, of Buford.
Mr. Jack Sagon and Miss Ara
Tuggle assumed the marriage vows
on Sunday, January 6th, in the pres
ence of Rev. J. T. Jones, of Pucketts
district.
Another couple who got mar.-ied
last Sunday were Mr. George W.
Reese and Miss Mattie Lou Adams,
they plighting their troth before L.
M. Whitlock, Esq., of Hog Mountain
district.
Mrs. Mobley, of Atlanta, is the
guest of her daughter, Mrs. W. L.
Nix.
Little Mary Ruth Franklin is suf
fering from a severely spranied an
kle.
Mr. F. Q. Sammon and family
spent Sundayin Carl, the guests of
Mrs. Sammon’s mother, Mrs. Hut
chins.
There will be a meeting of the
Woman’s club, Wednesday after
noon at 3:30 o’clock at the commun
ity club house. A full attendance is
desired.
Mr. and Mrs. Hubert McGee and
baby, of Snellville, and Mr. Thelma
McGee, of Atlanta, were the Sunday
guests of their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. T. McGee,
t
A committee from the Baptist
church has been appointed to take a
religious census of the town, thereby
hoping to increase the attendance of
both church and punday school.
Local Salesmen wanted for Law
renceville and vicinity to sell DOU
BLEWEAR SHOES direct from fac
tory to wearer. Our new measuring
apparatus insures perfect fitting.
For full particulars write the DOU
BLEWEAR SHOE COMPANY. 315
East Lake Street, Minneapolis, Minn.
JlOs
The Woman’s club meeting has
been postponed from the third to the
fourth Wednesday, January 23. This
is McDowell week and the program is
in charge of Mrs. Weyman Gower,
chairman Division of Music.
The furnishings of the club have
be4n installed in the new club house
on the hill and everything will be in
readiness for the January meeting.
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P.P.LX.D.
BIBLE READING
If there is any one thing, from a
human standpoint, the men of this
country need more than any other, it
is the habit of aaily Bible reading.
Get a King James version of the
Bible, or. if you prefer, an Ameri
can Revised edition, and read one or
two chapters every day. You will
witness a marvelous change in your
own condition, in your ability to
control yourself, and in your influ
enee and power over your friends
your employees and your business
A large amount of the present rest
lessness of to-day, gientaily, physi
cally and socially, can la* attributed
! o the lack of Bible knowledge,
Bilile reading and Bible study.
The Bible is supernatural. Do
not read it in a careless, superficial
manner, but read it carefully,
thoughtfully, prayerfully. Read the
Books of the Pentateuch and the
(our Gospels together. Read Daniel
and Revelation: then read the Epis
tles. Read the Book of Joipi every
month. Read the little Rn<f of
Colossians every day.
Read the Epistles. They are the
guides and Safeties for the present,
everyday Christian. Forget the
trash of the papers; forget the fun
nies and foolishness of the daily
press.
The most up-to-date book in the
world is the Bilile. Read it, study
it, meditate upon its teachings and
you will become a stronger man,
physically, mentally, spiritually,
morally, socially, and every other
way.
Get a copy of the Now Testament,
carry it in your pocket, make it
your habit to give a copy of the
New Testament to some one every
week. Ik' a real propagator of the
Bible, It is the world's greatest
tilessing. and it satisftef man’s great
est need at the present moment.
Read your Bilile, read it dally,i
read it prayerfully.
GEORGIA LAGGING
IN CARE OF VETS,
FIGURESJSEVEAL
Atlanta, G&.—Confederate veter
ans on the state pension rolls are dy
ing at the rate of 150 per year, or
ten per cent of the present enroll
ment of 15,000| it was stated Friday
by Major C. E. McGregor, state pen
sion commissioner. The death rate
is even higher at the Confederate
Soldiers’ Home in this city, where
32 out of about 125 veterans died
last year. There are now 108 veter
ans at the home.
Contrary to general opinion, Geor
gia does less for her Confederate
veterans than most other southern
states, Maor McGregor declared. He
pointed out that Arkansas appro
priates $107,000 annually for the
soldiers’ home in that state, while
Georgia appropriates $40,000 and al
lows $5,000 more to the veterans for
spending money.
“In the past it has been the cus
tom of the legislature to appropriate
funds for this department for a pe
riod of two years,” said Commis
sioner McGregor, “but after all oth
er depait'ments had gotten their
shares from the treasury, there was
seldom much left for the old sol
diers.”
Under the cigar and cigarette tax
law recently passed and now in liti
gation, the pension department will
receive annually about $3,000,000.
it was estimated. This revenue, with
the exception of $250,000 which
goes to the state sanitarium, will be
long entirely to the pension depart
ment, it was said.
“The present delay in the collec
tion of this tax will deprive the vet
erans of moeny that was to be dis
tributed in February,” declared the
commissioner. He said that he feared
it would be July before pensions
could be paid under the present con
ditions.
MR. CHAS. H. PITTARD
DIES AT DULUTH HOME
Duluth, Ga.—Mr. Charles Hamil
ton Pittard died at his home here
early Friday after an illness of
nearly a year, being in his 68th
year. His condition grew worse sev
eral weeks ago. His body was laid to
rest in Sunny Hill cemetery here.
Mr. Pittard is survived by his
wife, who before her marriage was
Miss Johnson, sister of A. A. John
son, of Norcross, one of the oldest
merchants in Gwinnett county; also
by five sons, Mack W., B. J., E. 0.,
C. D., and John H., and by seven
daughters, Mrs. H. N. Taylor, Miss
Lena, Miss Mary, Miss Emma, Miss
Ruth, Miss Dapsie and Miss Evelyn,
all of Duluth. In addition, he leaves
fourteen grandchildren all of this
place. Mr. Pittard moved to Duluth
from Lilburn, this county, forty
years ago and was engaged in farm
ing until compelled so retire on ac
count of ill health. He and his wife
were among the organizers of the
Duluth Baptist church.
\
SCHOOL BONDS VOTED
IN FLOWERY BRANCH
Flowery Branch, Ga.—At an elec
tion held here Thursday bonds to
erect a $22,500 school building in
Flowery Branch district % were ap
proved by an overwhelming major
ity.
The Australian ballot system be
ing used for the first time in Hal!
county.
■msfkarai New and SecODd
h.- ->"<•
H. P. Stiff Wtotor Cc. Cash or credit
BETHSEDA.
I.awrenceville, Ga., R. 4, Jan. 9.-
Mrs. Bennett,of Loganville, is spend
ing a while with her daughter, Mrs.
J. F. Hogan.
M-r.and Mrs. E. E. Jdogan spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J 11.
Gower.
Misses Grace and Gwendolyn
Blackstock spent a while in Atlanta
dtiring the holidays. '
Misses Aliene and Parrylee Hogan
visited in Loganville during the hol
idays.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hogan and Ed
win Wynn, of Mt. Holly, N. C., spent
the holidays with friends and rela
tives here. .
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Bowen spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs Ernest
Hogan.
Mr. Obie Arnold, of Atlanta, spent
the holidays with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. G. Arnold.
Miss Lucille Brown, of Atlanta, is
spending a while with her father,
Mr. G. M. Brown and sister, Mrs. A.
L. Sellers.
Mr. Larry Arnold has returned to
Atlanta after spending a few days
with his mother, Mrs. J. L. Arnold.
Uncle Sam’s ‘Fightingest’ Marine
Starts Mopping Up Philadelphia
By JOHN THOMAS WILSON
Philadelphia. “Law and Order” were ushered in here last Monday
morning. This city of “Brotherly Love,” long a city of shame and terror,
of crime densandblind tigers, of gambling joints and bawdy houses, of
police and political grafters, of bootleggers, dope peddlers, pickpockets and
professional assassins, is now in the first stages of a moral glean-up, the
likes of which has never been attempted by a city as large as third citv of
the United States.
The method by which this clean
up is to be made is different, be
cause Philadelphia’s new mayor saw
fit to call upon President Coolidge
for the loan of one of Uncle Sam’s
best fighting men to take charge of
the city’s police and fire department,
and the request was granted.
Brig.-Gen. Smedley Darlington
Butler of the United States Marine
Corps, the most picturesque and gal
lant figure in recent years of the
Marines and twice winner of the
Congressional Medal of Honor, is
the man.
Gen. Butler has been granted a
year’s leave by President Coolidge,
during whieh time he is to bci Direc
tor of Public Safety of Philadelphia
under Mayor Kendrick. He was
sworn in Monday, January 7.
He accepted the task on one con
dition only, that he not be inter
fered with in any way, or by any
one. Gen. Ilutler has warned that at
the first sign of interference he will
pack up and go back to the Marines.
Cal Him “Hell-Devil” Butler
“Hell Devill” Butler, as he is
known, has tackled some pretty big
jobs. His record indicates that this
city is going to be restored to de
cency. He is the man who pacified
Haiti. He was in charge of the A. E.
F. debarkation camp at Brest, France
and it was under his directipns that
it was cleaned up.
“First, last and all the time I am
a soldier and I expect to be for the
rest of my life,” says Gen. Butler.
“This job is only another responsi
bility that comes into asoldier’s life;
that’s how I regard it. There prob
ably won’t be any anxiety manifest
ed anywhere tp keep me here after
my year’s leave of absence is up—
or I may not be here a year—but
while I am here, I‘m going to en
force the state laws and city ordi
nances, as they were never enforced
before. I know that the police force
has been tainted—but I also know
that somewhere in these United
States 1 can get hold of 4,200 hon
est men. I can find them right
in Philadelphia; the point is, that is
the kind of policemen we intend to
have.”
Most Brilliant U. S. Soldier
General Butler’s qualities are thus
described in a statement issued b>
the Navy Department.
“Soldier, engineer, camp-buildei
holder of two CoCngressional Medals
of Honor, the record of
Smedley D. Butler, fighting man ex
traordinary of the Marine > orp.,
stamps him as one of the most bril
liant soldiers of the United States.
“Descendant of an ancient Quak
er family which settled in Pennsyl
vania in the time of. William Penn,
General Butler enlisted in the Ma
rine Corps before reaching the age
of seventeen, and won a commis
sion when he was still two months
hsort of his seventeenth birthday.
“The record of his life since that
time reads like the pnge3 of a story
of adventure. Before his nineteenth
birthday he was commended by the
allied high command for his gallan
try under fire on the historic march
for the relief of Peking in the Boxer
campaign, and promoted by brevet
from lieutenant to captain for brav
ery.
( Has Served in 14 Campaigns
“From ChCina he went to the Phi
lippines, where he took part in the
campaign which ended in the pacifi
cation of those islands. Since that
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Just before setting sail to study the finances of Germany, Stuart M.
Crocker. Owen D. Young, and Chairman Cbas. G. Dawes, shown above,!
visited Washington for a conference with President Coolidge and See-,
let ary Hughes.
TWICE-A-WEEK
To Clean Up Town
Gen Smedley Butler. U. S. Marine
Jorps, has been granted a year fur
lough by I’rcs. Coolidge upon the re
quest of -Mayor Kendrick of Phila
delphia, to act as Director of Pub
lic Safety and clean the town of vice
and graft.
time he has served in Cuba, Nica
rauga, Panama, Honduras, Mexico,
Haiti, San Domingo, France, and
ashore and afloat in every quarter
of the globe, accumulating a record
of having served in fourteen cam
paigns and expeditions in twenty
four years of service.
“During his service General But
ler has won commendations and dec
orations such as rarely fall to the
■ot of a soldier. For personal bravery
in action against the enemy lie re
ceived the coveted brevet promotion
and two Congressional Medals of
Honor, the highest decoration within
the gift of the nation. Before, the
World War only three soldiers be
sides General Butler had received
more than one of htese medals. In
addition he received the Distinguish
d Service for his services in
i.he World War, and other decora
tions from the Allied Powers,”
OAK GROVE.
Loyanville, Ga., ft., Jan. J.— Miss
Grace Hutchins has returned home
after spending two weeks with her
sitter in Atlanta.
Miss Gphie Hutchins spent Tues
lay in Lawrenceville.
Misses Oma Hutchins find Delnhia
James spent Tuesday with Miss Mon
tine Figgins.
Miss Azzie Hutchins, of Norcross;
,pcnt the week end at home.
Mr. Goldie Figgins spent Tuesday
night with his brother near Oak
Grove.
Miss Blondine James spent a while
Saturday afternoon with Miss Grace
Hutchins. - ■
The party given by Mr. Rickoles
was enjoyed by a large crowd.
Mr. Grover James is well after an
attack of measles.
Mr. Alien James,of Buford, F
spending some days with his nothe
Mighty Clean Fell**
Mistress —“How does it happen,,
Mary, that you never saw finger
bowls before? Didn’t they use them
the last place you worked?”
Mary—“No, mum; they always
washed their hands b«»fore they ccme
to the table.”
NUMBER 22.