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TWICE-A-WEEK VOLUME S 3. HOLD FIFTH GOOD ROADS ESSAYCONTEST Washington, D. C.—Four years at college with alle xpenses paid is the inducement held out to high school students of the United States for the best essay on the subject “The Relation of Improved mHighways to Home Life,” according to a state menttoday by the Highway Educa tion Board. Announcement of this proposal is being made to all state, city and county school officials as promptly as possible. The offer is in the form of a contest, in which all students of high school grades are eligible to compete. The four year at college consitute a scholarship given annual ly by H. S. Firestone, Akron, Ohio, for the best essay on a subject pertaining to elementary highway economics. The contest is the fifth conducted in as many successive years under the auspices of the high way organization. In the conduct of the contest the board will have the active assistance 1 of extension divisions of the leading universities in each state, or of the state departments of education, as wel as the amost unanimous endorse ment and support of city and county school authorities. The rules o£ the contest are simple. Any student of high school grade is eligible to enter. Essays to be written must not exceed seven hundred \tfords in length, and the closing date on which essays must be presented to school principals is April 21, 1924. Aside from the usual statements that essays must be written on one side of the paper only, must be the original work of the writers, and that the decisiory of the judges is final, there are no other conditions. A statement reviewing the past history of the contests^eaid: “For the fifth consecutive year high school students of the nation are being offered the opportunity to win what is perhaps the largest single educational award offered in the United States. The awards is known as the H. S. Firestone Four Year’s University Scholarship, which will be given to the high school stud ent writing the best essay on ‘The Relation of Improved Highways to Iftime Life. Essays must not exceed seven hundred words in length and must be written in accordance with the simple rules of the contest. “Altogether is is estimated that more than eight hundred thousand puples have submitted essays in the four previous contests, probably the most sustained educational competi tion, according to the records of the board, in che United States. “Four students are now in college as the result of their participation* The first successful pupil was Miss Katharine F. Butterfield, Weiser, Idaho. She will be graduated this year from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. The second to win this national honor was Miss Garland Johnson, Bridgeport, West Virginia, now attending the Universi ty of West Virginia at Morgantown. A young man was the winner of the third contest, Karl G. Pearson, of Kansas, and the District of Columbia, being the successful contestant. His essay was written on the subject ‘How Good Roads Developing My Community. He is a student at George Washington University, Washington,'D. C. “The last winner was Miss Dorothy Louise Roberts, Harlan, Kentucky, located in the heart of the Kentucky mountains. Miss Roberts, the daughter of a Methodist preac her, wrote the best essay of approxi mately one hundere and fifty thou sand subittted in the 1923 competi tion on the subject ‘The Infuence of Highway Transport upon the Religi ous Life of My Community.” She is attending school at Marietta Col lege, Marietta, Ohio, where her father has been transferred as pastor of a church. “Thus sixteen thousand dollars al ready have been appropiated by the donor for the education of young people who have been successful in these competitions. The scholarship this year is precisley as offered in the past, which is intended to de fray all expenses successful student at any college or university in the United States he elects to ttend. “The character of the judges who review the essays is the highest type possible to obtain. Last year, for instance, the national judges were the Secretary of War, John W. Weeks; Dr. Albert Shaw, editor of the Review of Reviews, New York City; and Bishop William F. Ander son, Methodist Episcopal Church, Cincinnati, Ohri. The board offers assurances that judges of the same The News-Herald NON-TAXABLE ! BONDS AGAIN BROWN'S SUBJECT I am going to discuss further the menace of non-taxable bonds which refers to municipal or city bonds. Did you know that all the bonds on municipalities and cities are non taxable? Well, they are. Do you know that there are outstanding in the United States billions of these bonds bought up by the rich and who do not pay one dollar tax on them to help defray the expenses of our government Is this good law ? Is this just law? No. Where is this leading us? It is causing the small municipalities and cities of all sizes to issue these bonds and mortgage all property in the municipality or city to the very limit as fixed by law. It is causing ex travagance by these municipalities and cities, creating all kinds of debt that will take two or three genera- tions to pay. When you go to a city and see beautiful, large school buildings, made of the very best material, walk ; on pavement, streets and sidewalks paved for miles, find the very best waterworks system that money can buy, and all public building's costing thousands upon thousands of dollars, and then come back home to the farm, go over a road has not been worked in a year with gullies in it, and sometimes have to stay at home for weeks during extremely bad weather, not being able to get off the place, visit your school houses in the country, see holes in the floor that you can throw a dog through, the wind blowing through the cracks, giving the school chil dren enough cold to kill half of them, no decent desks, no comfort able seats, and a poor country teach er paid just enough money to keep life in him, do you think there is something wrong with our govern ment somewhere ? Is not your child entitled to the same advantages the children get in towns or cities? This is the troifble with our country to day. Wealth is seeking investment to avoid taxes. Cities and towns are issuing bonds by the billions which are non-taxable and when it comes down to its last analysis the poor people in the country are paying the bills. All manufacturing enterprises are in the cities, labor is high, house rent is high and government ex penses great, and when the goods are manufactured they are sold to the people as a whole who have to pay all these bills. For example: A railroad engineer gets anywhere from $250.00 to $350.00 per month. He lives in a city. His house rent is about $75.00 per month, his water and lights come high, street car fare amounts to a great deal in a mom til’s timej lights, fuel and groceries are high on account of high rents, and who pays these bills? The people have to pay it in high freight rates and passen ger fare. I have been told that a farmer shipped a load of water melons from south Georgia to New York and when he got his returns from the sale of his <car of melons, he had to go down in his pocket and pay out money for freight. The whole car load did not bring enough to pay the freight, much less pay him for his time and expense in pro duction. The shme thing applies to tools and machinery made for the farm. Mechanics in cities get anywhere from SIOO.OO to $250.00 per month. Who pays him ? The farmers. Where a plow ought to be worth 25 cents, it costs SI.OO, and so on for most everything else. If we will put a stop to cities and municipalities issuing non-taxable bonds, money will not be So avail able for them and they will stop so much extravagance. The rich will have to invest his money in securi ties are taxable and be forced to help pay his part of the govern mental expenses. Mr. Green, chairman of the Ways and Means committee, has just made the statement in congress that the rich are defying the government. They are not paying their part of the taxes and are not going to until made. Let’s make them. SAM G. tROWN, Lawrenceville, Ga. WANTED— A one-horse cropper. Write or see JOHN J. SHANAHAN Lawrenceville, Route 3. MJs repute and high standing will be chosen to make the selection of the best essay this year. “Any information desired on the contest will be very gladly supplied. Inquiries should be a.ddresscd to Highway Education Board, Willard Building, Washington, D. C.” LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1924. Planters Adopt * “Farm Program Many Planters at Get-to gether Meeting Held At Kiwanis Club Last Friday Night. PROGRAM ADOPTED AFTER DISCUSSION Every Section of County Represented and Heard From. Accepting the invitation extended by the Lawrenceville Kiwanis Club thirty-five farmers and agricultural leaders, living in various parts of Gwinnett county, attended the meet ing at the local cub room ond Fri day night, February ‘29th, annd after discussion adopted the farm program as set forth by the Gwinnett county agricultural advisory board in con nection with the State College of Agriculture and the United States department of agriculture. The meeting was lively and spirit ed, being in charge of J. H. McGee and County Agent Robinson and talks and experiences of several well known leaders of the county, who have made good in their attempts to farm under any and all conditions, were herd, 4 After thd welcome extended by President Sammon Messrs. McGee and Robinson took charge and the action started. Don Wilson, Duluth banker and farmer, told of his experiences of cotton raising and gave figures (printed in our issue of February 21st,) on eight two-acre plots on which seven methods of boll weevil control. This cotton was worked by a negro tenant with three small boys who strictly following directions laid down by Mr. Wilson. Mr. Wilson said the test showed that the govern ment plot gave the highest yield of lint but that the check plot, on which no poison was used, was only 122 pounds behind. It must be re membered however that thi plot had the advantage of being protected by fourteen acres of cotton upon which seven methods of control was u»ed. Mr. Wilson called upon his hearers to give more attention to scientific farming and ask them to remember that the good farer was the balanced farmer. Frank Booth, Lithonia, Route One, of Rockbridge ditrict, - told his ex perience in raising cotton personally and by tenants, Mr. Booth using five sacks of 12-4-4 fertilizer last year on four acres, of which one-half acre was in orchid, and by liberal ap plication of arsenate, at a total cost of $97.00 made 1050 pounds of lint. He showed a celar profit of over $300.00 on the four acres and stated that one of his tenants had a still better average. Mr. Booth is a great believer in pojson and ‘aid lhat one tenant “broke his back pitklrg up s.iuares rod then ha 1 his crop eat up.” He also spoke of securing the better class of tenants and making better one by the landlord being more liberal and especially in hous ing conditions. This prominent plant er said that in this seciton it was his opinion that more mo6ny could be made per acre on cotton than any other crop if scientific framing was carried out. C, C.Wall, of Lawrenceville rout One, ten acres of whoes farm was used as a model by the American Cotton Association lat year, stated that his crop showed a clear profit of $90.70 per acre. Mr. Wall said “prepare well, fertilize well, cultivatt well and use poison.” His yield on seventeen acres, of which ten was as a model and seven using the same method, he made ten bales. His neighbors did not use poison and they made no cotton; he stated that when a fanner did not poison he was simply losing his own crop and raising weevils for his neighbor, and also expressed - the opinion that if every farmer would use modern methods of control the weevil could be conquored within two years. Rollie Hill, of Dacula, was called upon and said that modern farming would whip the weevil. County Agent A. G. Robinson stated that with the delivery Sat urday over 90,000 pounds of poison had reached the farms of Gwinnett county for use on this years crop. W. H. Cooper spoke of diversifield crops in North Carolina and express ed the hope that Georgia would soon adopt diversification. Mr. Cooper, who owns c farm near Buford, is United Press representative with headquarters in Atlanta and North Carolina. Peanuts being the next crop for discussion J. P. Hayes, prominent farmer of Pucketts, said that his crop the past year brought him hay he needed and which paid for the crop and left a profit of five and one-half cents for the peanuts. He planted six acres and used 100 pounds of fertilizer to the acre. Sam Craig, Jr., of route four, spoke of the ready market for sour cream and stated that the year round gross per cow should be SI.OO per ’day. With proper pasture and by raising feed he said the profit would run from thirty to eighty Cents per cow each day. Harrison 'Summerour, of Duluth, talked of his experience with alpha fa. Mr. Summerour said that where the land was adapted to its raising it .was a good paying money crop. Beans and hay next had the floor and many were the farmers joining in its discussion. Paul Sims, of Su wanee, talked of velvet beans. Others speaking were Henry Craig, Of route four, Sidney C. Williams, of route three; and J. E. Kilgore, of Auburn, J. J. Phillips, of near Nor cross, who has made an outstanding success in raising beans and hay gave his experiences from the selec tion Of the seed to the marketing and his address was eillighthing and instructive. Tom L. Harris, well known as a farmer and at present county commissioner, tated that the county had bought heavily of Gwin nett county grown hay and it was even better than any hay they had found elsewhere. J. H. McGee discussed dairying and told of one of his cows which produced 850 pounds of butter per year; the aßverage cow produces 160 pounds. F. Q. Sammon spoke of the throughbred cow. Both these gentle men were urgent in seeing higher producing, pure bred cows on every farm. Fritz Brogdon; pf Buford, told of his success witft pure bred chickens and said that with more home grown feed even better money could be made. Sheep was the next discussion and Henry Craig and Sidney Williams urged every farmer to get' sheep. Their low upkeep cost were a high argument in their favor. Speaking of sweet potatoes, C. R. Ware, who owns one of the eight large curinghouses in the ci uny, said they were a successful money crop. He also called attention to the fact that over 300 bushels were made on one acre at the pauper farm lat year. Thus the meeting went on and on a frank from the heart confession of the success and failure of dif ferent methods employed by seme of our best farmers and no one in at tendance, even if no farmer himself, could have failed to have been bene fitted by the dicusion. Much prasies is due County Agent Robinon for his faithful work among our farmers from the boys and girls to the oldest planter. This gentle man is always working and ever ready to serve. At the conculsion of the addresses, on motion of Prof. L. P. Green, of Snellville, a rasing vote of apprecia tion and thanks was given the mem bers of the Kiawms club by the visitors present. The meeting, which was opened by an invocation by Rev. Franklin, and closed with a word of prayer by Rev. Smith, was featured through out by the lively songs of Kiwanis. “Old McDonough Had A Farm” be ing a decided hit. The song by Miss Kate Rogers wa enjoyed and well received while the luncheon, served by the ladies of the Methodist Missionery Society, could not have beeen beat. Col. I. L. Oakes in the dawin won the prize donated by Kiwanian Jessie A. Richardson;.it was a beautiful mahogany baby ehir. The Kiwanis spirit is rapidjy pread ing and its good is already outstand ing. The meeting on Friday night was said b* many to be as good as the best ever held by the club. It is hoped that its benefit will he felt. The club is also enjoying a splendid growth, several new members have been taken in during the past few weeks; Wesley Clower was a new member admitted Friday night. At the next meeting the program “Law and Order,” with Lawyers I. L. Oakes, N. L. Hutchins and J. 1. Solicitor P. Cooley have beenthsa Kelley in charge, will be carried out. Judge Lewis Russell and Solicitor P. Cooley have been invited tq speak. It was stated by President Sammon that “Law and Order” should in clude the local situation of boot I legers and bad whisky so it is ex pected that the meeting will attract unusual attention. The following were t among the prominent farmers present at the meeting on the 29: Sam Craig, Jr.j Heard Summerour, J. H. Summerour, T. O. Moon, S. C. Williams, Fritz Brogdon, W. H. Cooper, C. R. Moore, < Paul Sims, T. H. Edwards, Prof. L. P. Green, V. F. Booth, J T. Kiigore, R. L. Wylie, R. A. Wilbanks, J P. Hayes, J. J. Phillips, J. B. Adams, D. W. Wilson, James Craig, C. C. Wall, A. T. Green, C. U. Born, T. J. Sammon, A. M. Wilson, H. R. Craig, D. M. Funderberg, W. T. Hinton, Rawlie Hill, Prof. H. F. Herring. Following members of local Kiw anis answered to the roll call: M. C. Austin, J. J. Baggett, G. W. Clow er, James Comfort, T. L. Harris, Victor L. Hagood, W. G. Holto, N. G. Holt, N. L. Hutchins, D. C. Kelley, John 1. Kelley, E. L. Kewon, T. C. Montgomery, C. M. Morecock, J. H. McGee, A. D. Meriwether, J. W. Nicholson, I. L. Oakes, H. H. Pharr, J. A. Richardson, A. G. Robinson, H. G. Robinson, G. G. Robinson, E B. Rockmore, F. Q. Sammon, H. R. Saul W. S, Sims, J. P. Simpson, H. P. Stiff, T. W. Webb, C. R. Ware, R, H. Young. The program outlined above and adopted at this meeting follows: Gwinnett County Farm Program For 1924 The Gwinnett County Agricultur al Advisory Council has worked out and adopted the following suggestive farm program that if adopted will give a greater cash income per farm, build up the soil fertlity, and give a better supply of products for home consumption. Two Mu!» Farm as a Unit Live Stock: 4 to 10 Milk Cows, (high pro ducers) 1 to 3 Pure Bred brood sows. 100 to 250 Pure bred hens. •25 to SO Grade Ews with one pure bred Ram on adapted farms. Maintenance Crops: 18 acres corn with cow peas or soy beans. 6 Acres oats followed by Otto- Tan or Laredo beans for hay. 2 to 4 acres aflalfa on adapted soils. 10 Acres perminent pasture, with special grazing emps. 3 Acres grazing crops for hogs. Good Home Garden with surplus to be sold by cooperative community marketing truck. Good Home Orchard with special increase in figs and grapes surplus to be sold* by cooperative community marketing truck. Cash Crops: Bto 10 Acres cotton. Use of im proved bool weevil control methods. One varitey to a community. Sour Cream, (shipped to creamly.) Eggs and Poultry sold on co operative community truck. 2 to 4 Acres Peanuts, Sweet Pota tooes or Irish Potatoes, for local market. Soil Improvement: the yield per acre. This increased The profit realized in the produc tion of any crop is in propotion to the yield per acre.- This increased yield can • best be accompliced by building up the soil by keeping the hill sMes well terraced with broad base terraces, the use of erimson clover rye, clover,, and vetch as winter clover crops, and cow peas or soy beans in every acre of corn and following small grain. Gwinnett Goal To Reach In Five Year*. The Cow, Sow and Hen On Every Farm. Cotton Production of one bale per acre on every acre planted. Total pro duction for county 25,040 bales on small acreage with greater profit. Peanuts Thirty cars peanuts sold annually as a supplementary cash crop to cotton. Poultry Increase in the sale of Poultry products 200 per cent. Cooperative Hatchery. Dairying Increase in the sale of dairy pro ducts 200 per cent Bull Associa tion. Maintenance Crop Production of Corn, Oats, Wheat, Hay and other feed crops surfieient for all classes of live 1 stock kept on the farm. Marketing Fifteen co-operative marketing trucks that will sell $65000.00 worth of farm produce on the Atlanta Market. .Curcing Sweet Potato houses that 1 GWINNET SU PERIOR COURT BEING HELD The March term of Gwinnett court of the Pie<fmont Circuit convened this (Monday) morning Judge Lewis Russell, of Winder, presiding. Solicitor P. Cooley, of Jefferson, along with several out of town at torney and members of the local jj)ar are in attendance. After the convening of the grand jury and the charge of the judge the unfinished divorce cases will be call ed for trial And the two weeks grind will get under way. Monday, March 10th, starts the weekk of criminal cases and there are several jail cases also to be dis- Court week is always a busy week posed of. in Lawrenceville and this term also finds most of the thirty-two citizens who are asking to be elected to county offices on hand together with a large number of friends, visitors and spectators. JOE McGEE TO RUN Friends of Joe McGee, farmer preacher of rout five, state that he will run for coroner in the coming primary, Mr. MfGee lives near the camp ground and has many friends over the county. Coroner Peter Smith, it is under stood, will make the race tho he has not made any public announcement so far. Mr. Smith has made a good coroner and doubtless would again receive a large vote if he runs. Deputy Sheriff Gets Life Term For Killing Chattanooga, Tenn.—Dock Beard, deputy sheriff of Walker county, GeoYgia, was sentenced to life im prisonment by Judge Moses Wright, at Lafayette, Friday afternoon for killing W. A. Dolan, of Rossville. The jury, after holding the case for 24 hours, found a verdict of murder in the first degree with recommenda tion of mercy. The killing occurred on the streets of Rossville January 5, and was said to have grown out of political differ ences. According to the evidence, Beard had approached Nolan and was abusing him when the latter moved away, Beard followed and shooting him. The case created a great deal of interest in north Georgia and the courthouse was crowed for the trial. Stone Mountain Holds 5 Billions In Granite Atlanta, Ga.—ls the whole of Stone Mountain were cut up and sold at the prevailing price of gran ite, the proceeds would amount to more than five billion dollars, ac cording to S. V. Mc-Callie state geologist. Mr. McCallie pointed out that the amount of granite in the exposed mass of the mountain, before cutting was begun, was estimated at 7 534- 750,950 cubic feet. The present price of granite of good quality is around 70 cents a cubic foot in the rough state, according to dealer’s figures. Thus it was shown that the total value of granite of Stone Mountain is approximately $5,280,- 625,66’. The rock in Stone Mountain is described as even-textured, medium granied, botite-bearing muscovite granite. From chemical an' 1 physi cal tests, it is excellently adanted to all kinds of structural and street work, it was stated. ’ will enable the sale of 75,000 bushel of sweet potatoes. t •Perminent Pastures A good perminent pasture on every farm. Methods With the aid of the Community leader and Advisory Council Pro ject leaders will be selected ir. each community to carry out the program for that community, and at each meeting a report will be made by each project leader and the progress made will be written on the Com munity Program Annalysis Sheet kept there. Filed meeting will be held at these demostrations at which time methods used will be explained and progress noted. When necessary demostrations will be given. Articles in each issue of tho county papers stateing methods us ed and results obtained by various project eaders. Club Work The Agricultural Advisory Coun cil, Kivanis Club, Hankers, Busi ness Men and County Agent tantly pushing. TWICE-A-WEEK SAYS BALLOON CORDS NOW PRACTICAL \Y hat is a practical program for making the advantages of Ballon Cords at once available to the great bulk of car owners, is seen in the announcement of the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company that t is manu facturing two types of ballon tires. One type, the full extent of bal looning, is designed for use on cara that have been adapted to the type either at the factory or by reducing the wheels to 20 or 21 inches. The other is for use on cars aa fhey stand to supplant standard cord tires. There is no need to change the wheels, or make any other re adjustments of a car. This will, undoubtedly be interest ing news to the ten million car own ers who are now asking themselves collectively pnd individually, “Where does the balloon cord tire figure in my car? It s a specal equipment for a few, or can I use it, and what does it offer over standard cords.?” Amweri Vitial Question* The two types of Goodrich Balloon Cord Tires are a practical answere to these questions. In other words, the practicability of the balloon ir? is now chiefly a matter of adaptation to- thp auto mobile, or probably more proper, the adaptation of the tire to the motor car. The one great drawback that con cerns most car owners is that, in many cases where full balloon cords are used, a complete change of equip ment to 20 or 21 inch wheels is necessary, and sometimes the mechanism of the car must be shang ed. The expense doing this is prohibi tive to many. It is only fair to say that the result does not always ob tain the full benefit of balloon cords. Car owners have now every right and reason to look upon the balloon cord as a basic fact i the automobile world. It fairly teems with pos sibilities for tlte lay-motorist as weli as the automotive engineer. The easy-riding sjnbothnes.-* and' efficiency, the comfort, safety and ultimate economy it promises bid fair to bring about great changes in motor cars. They add materially to the pleasure of motoring. It may be too early to accept such over-enthusiastic terms as “revolutionary,” and “the greatest improvement in the history of the automobile, but ith as been, and continues to be the most novel, the most interestingoeting features in; automobiles shows. Balloon Tires are not as yet' numerous enough to be a common sight, so that there is every reason to tell just what a balloon cord is. Reduced to the simplest terms, it is an oversize cord tire with fewer plies in it than in standard cords. It is a larger tire in diameter, and a more flexible tire. Matter of Air Preanere But the important difference be tween balloon and standard cords is the difference in inflation. The balloon cord is ridden at much lower air pressure. In fact, its best de scriptive name is a low-air pressure tire. Where the air pressure of stand ard cords is maintained at from 60 to 65 pounds, and sometimes higher, balloon cords are inflated anywhere between 18 to 30 pounds, sometimes 40. The advantages of balloon cords are postive. They add a new com fort and pleasure to motoring. It is plain to see why this is so. The car rides literally on more air. There is a greater cushion of air between the car and the bumpy road. The supor-flexibility of the tire yields to a rough roadway and obstacles. The many advantages of this are at once apparent to the experienced drievr. As the use ofthe extreme develop ment ofthe balloon tire in many in stances entails great expense, it is obvious that the comfort and effi ciency of ballooned tires would be denied many motorists were it not for the additional type now avail able. As they can be applied directly, witlpout change to a car to supplant ardinary cords, any owner may use them. They are quick, practical way for the owner of a car to get the sensible luxury of balloon tires, without pay ing too great a premium for it * The application of balloon tires is largely a problem of clearances and this is what determines whether or not a car can have full balloon tires. SEND US YOUR JOB WORK NUMBER 31.