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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. 3&Uitd)Ctt£o feTH.A.MQtWieHS tj/ 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 Go To Look Into German Finances rit rtftr * . , .. ' f?' 7^R c ''»W*-\' >•«.$-* . - -&jL>£HUk39 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.