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Page Two The News-Herald Lawrenceville, Georgia Published Monday and Thursday ~51.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. D. M. BYRD, Editor V. L. HAGOOD New. Editor and General Manager J. L. COMFORT, Supt. 3f ficial Organ Gwinnett County, City of LawrenceriHa, U. S. Court, Northern District of Georgia. Entered at the Post Office at Law renceville, Georgia, as Second Class Mail Matter, under the act of Con gress of March 3rd, 18 THE APPOINTMENT OF A COUN TY POLICEMAN. Under the law, a board of county commissioners has the right to ap point a county policeman, when the situation is such that the sheriff, his deputies and the bailiffs in the several militia districts are unable to arrest violators of the penal sta tutes. * No such condition exists in Gwin nett county, but the county commis sioners have seen fit to name such a policeman, And the beneficiary of this particular authority is one J. L. Barnard, of Norcross, who is now under sentence to a long term in the federaT penitentiary, which was imposed by the Judge of the ( .rcuit Court of the United States, follow ing his conviction for conspiring with certain other persons, who were engaged in the illicit sales of liquor, to defraud the United States. As to his guilt there was absolute ly no doubt, and could not have been, as he made a written confes sion of it, and afterwards sought to repudiate the same, but made a sig nal failure. This case was appealed to the United States Circuit Court of Ap peals, by the defendant, not upon i the ground of his innocence, but •seleiy upon a legal technicality, wihioh attacks the verdict of the jury •as void, because, under the law, one person alone .cannot be convicted of conspiracy, it requiring at least the wonviction of as many as two. Me was a sworn deputy sheriff when he entered into an agreement with a notorious bootlegger to let him and a cargo of liquor pass un molested for a money consideration, which was paid to him and promptly accepted. .Didn't he violate his oath of of fice when he did that? Wasn’t he al so ,gswty of accepting a bribe, an • other penitentiary of-fehse? Was it right, or just to the honest and law abiding people of this coun •ty tvr its board of commissioners to condone all this bad conduct, and to elevate him to a position of trust, •and especially in one where he can legally buckle his gun on, and hold .up respectable motorists for the pur pose of making searches, and even to puncture tires with a bullet to bring cars to a halt when he sees -fit? •There are plenty of brave, honest anfl courageous men in this county who would willingly accept that po sition at a decent salary, but the commissioners preferred to let Bar nard have it for half the profits he cen make out of it, regardless of his lawless character. He is to be made a sort of free lance, furnishing his own equipment and depend on his own swearing, for the benefit of himself and co-partners. There is a great deal* of public indignation over this transaction, and much surprise has been express ed at the egregious blunder made by •the commissioners when they allow ed this man to so pull the wool over their eyes. We think this mistake was honest ly made, and with good intentions, and that due and proper considera tion of the situation will ultimate ly result in a rectification of the blunder. MORE ABOUT MOTOR COMMON CARRIERS The late President Harding, in a message to congress, on December R, 1922, said: “With full recogni tion of motor-car transportation we must turn it to the most practical use. It can not supersede the rail way lines, no matter how generous ly we afford it highways out of the public treasury. If freight traf fic by motor were charged with its proper and proportionate share of highway construction, we should find much of it wasteful, and more j costly than like service by rail. , Yet we have paralleled the rail- 1 ways, a most natural line of con struction, and thereby taken away from the agency of expected ser vice much of its profitable traffic, for which the taxpayers have been providing the highways, whose cost of maintenance is not yet realized.” The crisis inis been reached in the matter of competition of motor ve hicles with the railroads because the first development of the high ways was really nothing more or less than the linking - up of local sections between communities al ready establishes, which meant the paralleling of. the- railways to a very large extent. Motor trans^ portation, both freight and passen ger, has followed highway develop ment and this, coupled with other conditions, such as the boll weevil, has already resulted in the com plete dismantlement of several Short Line railroads within the confines of our own state. On the other hand, the cost of our road building program is mounting in leaps and bounds and there is a growing complaint from taxpayers because of this n«ver ending ex pense. In communities where there is a great deal of trucking, the road expense is‘way out of proportion to places where the roads are used principally for passenger cars. Mill an enlightened public continue to stand for the road fund being drained for the provisions and maintenance of highways upon which to subsidize the motor car rier, thus enabling him to compete with the rail carrier? Is there any consistency in the present arrange ment which lays heavy taxes on the road bed and other property on the rail carrier, which is operated un der a multiplicity of both state and federal regulations, for the provis ion and maintenance of highways for benefit of his motor carrier competitor, which is operated under no regulation? In truth, the rail carrier, along with the property owners generally, is actually being Inquired to contribute towards sub sidizing. his competing motor car rier. If the Georgia Public Service Commission is not now empowered to regulate the motor common car rier, it should be empowered to do so at the coming session of the gen eral assembly-. It is to the public interest, as well as to the interest of the respective carriers, that the economic limitations of each type of CATrter be recognized, that the rail roads he permited to discontinue un profitable service to which the motor is better suited, and that the motor abandon its efforts to handle gener al traffic over excessive distances. However, because of the public in terest which affects the operation of railroads, they have performed and must continue to perform some ser vice which is unprofitable, chiefly in territory where the performance of highway transportation would also be unprofitable. If the railroads are to be derived of a substantial share of their more remunerative traffic through unfair and uneco nomical methods, the traffic re gaining to the railroads must take on an added burden in the form of higher rates or impaired service. In ail cases where the railroad can handle traffic with greater or equal efficiency, all factors being consid ered, the public interest requires that it be allowed to do so. Further more, the point has been reached where the motor common carrier should be required to assume his proportionate share of the expense of the improved highway program. A PLEA. For some time the need of a Bus iness Men’s Evangelistic Club for Lawrenceville has been felt.. This long felt need is now being sup plied. Some weeks ago the Evan gelistic Clubs of Atlanta and Gainesville visited our town and were instrumental in inspiring the organization of such a club. Since that time we have had several well attended interesting meetings of the club. The organization has been perfected with all the neces sary officers and committees. With preliminaries out of the way the club begins work. The purpose of the organization is to unite the Christian forces of the town in an intense effort to lead the lost to Christ and to build up the spiritual life of the town. Ev ery one.must admit that the under taking is a worthy one and deserves the support of all Christians. The club recognizes that one of Lawrqnceville’s religious problems is church attendance. No one can maintain a deep spiritual life and neglect the church. Further, it can not be reasonably expected that the lost will be influenced for Christ and the higher life so long as church people maintain an attitude of in difference. In addition to this, it is difficult for the church to solicit the unsaved so long as its membership is uninterested. Before we can hope for a town-wide revival which will reach our unsayed men we must have church revivals in which in difference will be replaced by inter est and men will be willing to for get personal interests and feelings and with a solid front frequent the house of God for prayer and ser vice. Our Evangelistic Club feels that there is no greater undertaking than that of soliciting church at tendance. We feel that if you were the only one affected by your atti things aside on the Sabbath day and seek a blessing for your soul. Since indifference on the part of church people seriously hampers church and kingdom progress, we, in the humblest manner, send out this plea from the Evangelistic Club urging that you will cease neglect ing your church and will join with those who have been faithful in both Sunday school and church attend ance* r ' * ■ All Roads Lead to Cleveland and G« Q« P» Convention f /j j, | Contfenl'OH j / 1 ' Cleveland, O.—Politics rule Cleveland today with tibe G. 0. P. Elephant In the atar rote. With the Republican National Committee on the scene; delegate*-and convention onlookers arriving hourly. It U • ti&o tiiwu will bo ItiitiiMg'l w bun tikaa Caut’aotiou coil MXt TuMdlV, WHAT A JOB FOR BURTON! The position of Theodore E. Bur ton in the throes of preparing the Cleveland keynote recalls the pecu liar plight of the hired man in a yarn entitled “No news, or The Dog Died,” told by the old-time tramp comedian, Nat M ills. Mr. Wills related that a farmer, obliged to visit the city for several weeks, had left the establishment in charge of a hired man. On his re- turn he was met at the depot bv the hand, of whom he was asked, “What’s the news, John?” “No news,” replied John. “Except,” he added reluctantly, “the dog died.” “How did the dog die?” asked the farmpr. “Well, sir, the dog died when the barn burned down.” M'hereupon the farmer wormed from John that the barn had caught fire from the house, which John ad mitted, had also burned down. And that the fire in the house wasn’t dis covered until too late because the farmer’s .wife was not at home. And that the lady wag not at home be cause she had run away with a traveling man. Thus, John, in his assertion that there was no news, seemed to have rather understated the case. A number of odd accidents have undertaken Mr. Burton’s party since 1920, and their nature is such that Mr. Burton, if he essays the role of frank reporter and is brave enough to mention one of them, must per- American Heads Commission Which ■p Removes Probable Cause fcr. War; lllife Davis, Chairman, Credits League JL 4&. :j*&V • - * At the left is Norman H. Davis, former Under-secretary of State, who recently made his report as chairman of the League of Nations Commission which settled the long standing dispute as to whether or net Polish commerce should have free access to the sea through Memel, Lithuanian port at the mouth of the Biver Niemen. At the right is Count Sktrmunt, pre mier of Poland. It was Poland’s seizure of Vtlna which so incensed Lithuania that the latter country refused to permit Niemen traffic for years, maintaining a virtual state Of war. The dispute was turned over to the League of Nations after the council of ambassadors, represent ing the principal allies, had failed repeatedly to effect a settlement. As a result, Lithuania now has a Clear title to Memel. but the 160,- 000 hart autonomous government and the port Is a free gone for world commerce. Mr. Davis Is a warm advocate of entrance bj lit* Urtistf States tntc THE NEWS-HERALD, UwrexevEW, C*or»U force'go on and relate them all, for none of these untoward happenings can be properly explained , without referring to others. Hence, Mr. Bur ton may do one of two things; tell all, or simply refuse to admit in the beginning that the dog had died. In this connection, bearing in mind Mr. Burton’s natural bent and the exigencies of the occasion, it is fairly safe to assert little mention will be made of the dog in Cleve land. WELL! WELL! WELL! “Woman’s at best a contradiction still." Familiar words, from Alexander Pope, written a long time ago. And sometimes it looks as if Alexander was right. Another reason for think ing so has just cropped up. Out of Chicago a few weeks ago came the announcement from one of the transcontinental railroad lines that it was about to install Pullmans “for women only.” The cars were installed. It was assumed by railroad officials that women would flock to these cars. Other men, naturally, believed the same. “The women will like to be by themselves.” That was the theory. That shows how much railroad officials and other men know about women. Pullmans for women only were all right, barring the highly important fact that the women re fused to ride in ’em. The cars were the League of Nations. "I am not and have not been”, he said, "and it should not be necessary to say that Mr. Wilson was not —in favor of making any commitments ever to use force in ; an unknown contingency. I think j if the United States were in the i League there would not be any necessity to use force, but if oc casion should ever arise tt should, of course, be left entirely to Con-; gress to determine whether or not we should use it. But one of the most remarkable developments of the last two or three years is the realization, to which I have re- ■ ferred, that the force of public opinion Is much more effective than any other force. That Is the power the United States would bring to Geneva. "I do not for a moment believe that this country should try to run the world or to Interfere in the internal affairs of the nations of i Europe or elsewhere, but I do be lieve that ouV stake In the world peace and progress Is so great, to s«y nothing of our moral duty, UiA’ w* esjr not afford to be absent withdrawn from service. Would you believe it, gentlemen, the women complained that travel ing with women, and women only, was monotonous? They preferred to have men around, “in case some thing happened.” They sort of felt safer. WHO OWNS THE WATER? One of the most expensive and bitterly 7 contested series of water lawsuits in Utah finally grew out of a case involving a stream of water that failed; even distant hydroelec tric companies, the Salt Lake City corporation, the state of Utah, and the United States government tak ing a so-called friendly hand be cause of the dangerous precedent that might be established in a de cision. The controversy, not yet settled, revolves to at large extent around precipitation records of the weather bureau of the United States department of agriculture. A mining company developed a goodly stream of water in its un* derground workings, and simultane ously a mountain stream near by, used for irrigation, failed appreci ably. The miners sought to retain ownership to the water and to es tablish the fact that dry weather had caused the irrigation stream to dwindle. Was the tunnel flow de veloped at the expense of the nat ural stream discharge or are • these phenomena masked by a fluctuating nrecioitation? when other nations are sitting: around a table dealing w'ith any questions relative to peace and prosperity, which are of such vital importance to us. We can not af ford not to throw all the weight of our moral influence toward secur ing the aims for which we enter ed and fought the war, and those aims can best be secured by co operating in the maintenance of rules of conduct among nations, whereby disputes may be settled by the orderly processes of negotia tions, conciliation and courts of justice. “There is every evidence that tlia vast majority of the American people are strongly in favor of out lawing war. It does not seem to be fully recognized as yet, how ever. that the covenant of th* League, which has now become a law for fifty-four nations of thfl world, does outlaw war for at i least nine months over a given controversy, until the League has i had an opportunity to bring about a conciliation. The League not prevent all wars, but It tj lt.l» l-V a St WfcatfW OPEN DAY AND NIGHT For business. We carry all grade* of Fertilizers, including Nitrate of So da, Sulphate of Ammonia, and 16% Acid. Also 801 l Weevil Poison, which is Hill's Mixture and Calcium Arsen ate, wholesale or retail. Will accept your order for quick shipment to any point in the county or state. Use re liable wee' '1 poison as you have no time for projecting. Write, phone or y The \ / Buick Motor \ / Company is now \ / well on its way to \ / the manufacture of it s \ / two millionth motor \ car a record 1 unapproached by> l \ any other manufac-/ MigP \ turer of fine iffffl i\ automobiles /grA Jgi EL jgg/J§ jffwm Sj SS'ISS 111 pk oou j Wheel-Brakes \ | are Standard A' i Equipment on Ml an buick, .Ail \ Models / J. J. BAGGETT ' . ? LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT, BUICK WILL BUILD THEM Sale Starts June 7th and Ends on June 14th. We have a large shipment of rugs which we bought at New York during the auction a few days ago at about half-price; all new and firsts. Most all tile 9x12 squares are seamless Axminsters. Will give you the prices of a few: Ardsley Axminster (seamless) was $56.50, now during sale - $29.95 Liberty Axminster, was $42.50, during sale $26.95 All other sizes and grades in proportion. Come during the sale for it is your chance to buy what you need at the lowest price in years We also are going to give you a reduction of 10 to 20 per cent on everything in our furniture stock during this sale. We have Living Room and Bed Room Fur niture, Kitchen and Dining Room Suits, Kitchen Cabinets, Safes and Tables, and lots of odd pieces, such as Iron Bed Springs, Matti esses, Com forts, Pillows, Chairs, Rockers, Swings, Porch Suits, or most anything you will want in furniture. It will pay you to buy what you want now for this is the greatest bargain sale of furniture ever put on in Lawrenceville. Remember the dates, June 7th to 14th. There will be no goods charged during this sale. It’s for the cash we make this great reduction. JESSE A. RICHARDSON Everybody Welcome Lawrenceville, Ga. 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