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DOUGLAS COUNTY SENTINEL, DOUGLASVILLE GEORGIA. FRIDAY, .JANUARY 30, 1920.
THE SENTINEL
Published Every Friday By HALL & KIRBY
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF DOUGLASV1LLE
AND DOUGLAS COUNTY
Subscription Rates
One Year, $1.00, Six Months, .75, Three Months, .40
Entered in the Postoffice at Douglasville, Ga., as eecond claes matter.
Prices Are Not high.
YOU ARE NOT PAYING ANY MORE THAN YOU
HAVE BEEN ACCUSTOMED TO PAY
If you have never closed your ears to the noise anent ‘‘high
prices, profiteers,” and done a hit of real thinking, do so now.
You may learn something from yourself.
The facts are, you are paying from three to five times
more for what you buy than you used to. It is also true that
you arc getting from three to five times more for what you
sell—he it factory or farm product, merchandise or your labor.
Sometimes you may have had reason to think you were
overcharged for some articles because you found a nickel's de
ference in price in different stores, bet you want to remember
that prices used to vary on some articles a fraction of a cent.or
so, which was as much in proportion as three to f ; ve times that
sum now. \
This article is not to take in all parts of the country and all
lines of industry, but refers only to tlvs immediate section
Hut you have changed. You r> > longer stand back on
buying anything you take a fancy to if you can afford it. And
while, in reality, everything is just about as : t always was, the
fact that everything is counted in b : g figures has deluded us
into thinking that the world is reeling along in a state of
hysteria.
Conditions are normal; we aren’t .
Cobb, The Slob.
■ Except for curosity to see his wrist watch and maybe his
valet, it is doubtful if many would waste time going to hear
Irvin Cobb lecture at the Atlanta auditorium, Thursday evening.
Though a Southerner by birth, he has shown traits which
signify his willingness to pander his talents to the flattery of
Fops, rather than earn the approval of a nation.
No doubt, he will have something to say about bolshevism
and unrest. And no doubt, there would be less caust for unrest
jf there were more people of Cobb’s type holding down a job.
A PARADOX
By Pauline Antoinette Cross
O, Love, beautiful love,
The chime of thy bells
Tho’ soft and sweet,
Swoons and dies on the hearts you break.
The swirl and sweep,
Of thy passionate breath,
Hath circled the spheres
Of Life and Death.
Where e’er thy blistering hoofs it -
Have fell, "
Are d»e Sweets of Heaven,
And the pangs of Hell;
4;.
ADVISING THE NEW OFFICIALS j ness over the. land, don’t foYget the
. (By Bill Blue) | poor little shrimp of a voter who is
| Wjandering along some 0ark street,
Gentlemen of the new council and | entirely free from lights, and full of
Other city officials, we extend to you . holes, carrying a pound of navy beans,
the glad hand of partnership, and
gleet you with great gobs of sympa
thy and an undying mixture of feeling
that mere words fail to express—and
Actions cannot prove, for fear of the
a skinned knee and a long face, sadly
wonuenng wnat you nave done won
his $4.00 street tax.
As 1 said before; ponder it well, and
I you will dream sweet dreams of
WESTERN DOUGLAS
I W. 1. DORRIS GIVES SOME IDEAS
I ON GOOD ROADS IN DOUGLAS
Compulsory School Law helps in -
some ways. Our schools are attended
The most of the roads over which I
better than ever before. The Cools- have attempted to travel for the last
Spring School District No. 15, is full month are bad, but the worst ones
to the brim under the able manage- that I have come in contact with are
ment of Miss West of Fairbum, Ga., those north of the Southern railroad,
Miss Ruby Daniel and Mrs. Lizzie Mat in Douglas and Paulding counties.
Daniel. They are giving their patrons | The roads of which I am speaking in
some excelent service. Prof. Will • particular are those that traverse
Thomas and Miss Willie Frank Barrow that section of the counties lying be-
are doing some fine work at Winston. | tween the Southern railroad and
L. S. Lambert with the efficient help Sweetwater creek. I have known these
of Miss Mattie McLarty, is looking j roads for 45 years and have been
after the interest of the men and traveling over them all my life, and
women of tomorrow, at the 20th ! know of my own personal experience
District No. 1; while Miss Fayne Boyd,' that they are more susceptible to rain
of Douglasville, is laboring at 20th. and freezes than they were 25 years
District No. 2. ’Tis wonderful to see he j ago, by reason of the fact that they
interest shown by tho child when he have been widened, plowed up and
is in school regular. I am glad to re- 1 graded, destroying the original sur-
port that every child between the age face foundation and substituting there,
of 8 and 14 is enrolled in 20h Dis- for a soft, clamy clay foundation
trict No. 1, and nearly all wetween the that, when once disturbed, never again
age of 0 and 18. Mr. Tditor, you will | solidifies and when wet easily gives
please answer the question as to the away under ordinary traffic,
compulsory law age limit. Some j It is true that all the clay is not of
understand it to mean that when a j a soft, clawy character, but the most
child passes the age of fourteen it of it is, and it is my opinion that it is
matters not if he has only completed a waste of time and money to use it
the 2nd grade, he is no longer subject as a foundation for surfaced roads,
to the law. Others that he is subject It is not the top surface t’-.at makes
to the laws and its penalties until he a roadbed strong; it is tV foundation,
has reached the age of eightoio. or Wherever top soil has been pul on
completed the seventh grade. Please these soft, c T -v roads it soon broke
publish the answer for the benefit of through and if anythi”" benefited
vour readers. Hurrah for good ; the roads very little. If the county
schools! was able, ard in niv opinion it is
Honestly, we think our good friends, money thrown away to do otherwise,
Hon. J. T. Duncan and W. R. on all soft clay roads the foundation
Willoughy ought to get out,and travel , should tie laid of rock and gravel and
over the county as Truant Officers at covered with a heavy coat of gray
a salary of one to three dollars a day. ■ soil.
and you hot they would be the first 1 you can spend millions on an edifice
ones next summer to give him a living and without a foundation sufficient
salary. to support it, it will soon collapse.
Mr. S. P. McKoy of this sideof the! I am not tiying to run the county
Burton Bros.
PHONE NO. 6
Call Number Six for
Sanitary Fresh Meats
Full Line Beechnut
Products
Cotton Seed Meal
and Hulls
and Feed Stuffs
of all Kinds
higher court. Our heart is swelled i duty well done. But before you have
to the bursting point with gratitude I said your prayers and seek repose on
•ad our love goes out to you in all its I your downy pillar, let us read a chap-
simplicity like a yearling calf to its | ter in the good book, where it says,”
(Bother at weaning time. Our feelings I Do unto others as you would have i of En K ,isb education, or h
county is in the race for Tav Collector.
Penn, as hr is known, has all the
qualification for the placo and is due
consideration by the voters of the
county.
Rev. J S. Edwards, of Buchanan,
filled his regular service at Er.hesus
Saturday but was rained out Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. .A. Green of F.ovd
Acadamy, spent Monday night with
L. S. Lambert and family.
R. .T. Price attended court at Buch
anan last week.
Mr. ,7. R. Morris and son. Raymond,
spent last ‘^Jednesdny in Atlanta.
Mr. .7. A. Sudduth visritetf Douglas-
ville last week.
Messrs. Walter Jordan and .7. W.
Hunter spent Friday in Atlanta.
Mr. I. H. Willoughby made a busi
ness trip to Atlanta last week.
Mrs. Ann Maddox, who has been
confined to her bed for several months
is reported no better.
Little Francis, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. T. Carnes, who has been
seriously ill of pneumonia, we are glad
to report improving.
Newton McLar v who ’s studying
law in Atlanta, spent the week-end
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs G. N.
McLarty.
Newborn Moore spent Friday night
with relatives,near Concord.
Comment
Only children between he ages of
eight and fourteen years are affected
by the compulsory school attendance
And which, in part, is as follows:
COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTEND
ANCE
Duty of Parent and Guardian Enroll
ment and Attendance of Child Ex
cuse of Absences.
“Sec. 171. Every parent, guardian,
or other persons having charge and
control of a child between the ages of
eight and fourteen years, who is not \
exempted or excused as hereinafter |
provided, shall cause said child to be
enrolled in and to attend continous-
ly for six months of each year a pub
lic school of the district or of city or
town in which the child resides;which
period of attendance shall commence
at the beginning of the first term of
said school in the year. Such attend
ance at a public school shall not be re.
quired where the child attends for the
same period, some other school giving
instruction in the ordinary branches
completed
rood business or to dictate to anyone j
how to do. but am trying to speak in
the interest of the tax payers of the
county, who are entitled to value re
ceived for every dollar they spend on
roads. The road from Sweetwater to
Douglasville is the worst I think,
that I ever saw it and the most of the
trouble can be laid to a lack of proper
drainage. W. 1. DORRIS.
We Appreciate Your
SERVICE IS OLR
Patronage
NAME
PRISON COMMISSION REFUSES
IRWIN PARDON
Atlanta, January 25.—Pardon for
Rush Irwin, who killed G. J. Moody
in Atlanta last summer, was declined
Ity the prison commission Friday.
1 pwin was convicted of manslaughter
and sentenced to serve 12 months.
Formerly Edwards Grocery Company
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McKoy
&
Winn
BANK SERVICE
•re stopper-full, but we cun dimly
realize the great responsibility and
grafting temptations that you have
taken upon yourselves. Ponder it
wall, my friends, for we are consoled
with the thought that there is no one
to blame but yourselves. Providing
yotl don’t travel too fast, we are go
ing to stick to you through thick, thin,
and all other kinds of places. But for
the Lord’s sake, your sake and our
them do unto you.” And while you ; tbe Rev *nth grade of school work as
sit back in your eushioned rocker, I Prescribed by the State Board of Edu-
under your 70-watt electric on a flat! cation ' or wbp re. for good reasons, the
rate of $1.00 per, reading what the i sufficiency of which shall be determ-
man of Gallilee said unto us, try and j incd b >' the board cf education of the
spare enough of your elastic memory ! < ’ m,nt >' or of the city or town in which
to think just awhile of the little the cbi,d resides, the said board ex
shrimp of a voter and worker, after | c " st “s temporarily the child from such
he has finally managed to get home attendance, such boards authorized to
with his beans and part of his hide,
take into consideration the seasons for
Bonds
Fire Insurance
Tornado
Insurance
;
Automobile
Insurance
The greatest word in the
banking business is SER
VICE. Banking is more
than a mere money making
business. The banker is as
much a public servant as
the mayor of a city, or the
governor of a state, and he
owes a duty to the public
exactly as any regularly
elected official.
We shall be glad to ren
der our patrons every possi
ble service and to assist
them to the full limit of leg
itimate banking.
t.
MOY & WINN
Douglasville Banking Co.
John T. Duncan, President, A. W.Mc Larty, Vice-President
G. T. McLarty, Cashier.
sake, don’t get stuck in a political mud ! hung to a high speed meter that dops
hole and think you are the only frog not know when stopping time comes,
in the puddle. For then is the time ( to look at Jiggs in the funny paper,
you will fall, and great will be the And at the end of the montn that
and sat down under a 25-watt electric a 8Ticultural labor and the fcv ; jjj
such labor, in excercising their discre- 'jjj
tion as to th? time for which children 1 *»*
in farming districts shall be excused, ,-h
Provided, that no guardian shall be ®
compelled to send such child or chil-
dren to school of any other than the W
funds belonging to the ward or wards. | (L
Temporarily absence of any child en-, ■
rolled as a pupil may be excused by jjj
the principal or teacher in charge of
the schol. because of bad weaher, sick-
, • , , , . . , . i , u , ness, deiith in the cliilda family or
gradually draw the curtain of dark-:you. 1 other .reasonable causes’!
Palace Pressing
Club
■plattermeut thereof. Stick to your
jobs like fleas to a sick kiten. Keep
yourselves free from red ape and red
eye, and people will rise up and call
you most everything but a gentleman.
And when you have finished your of
ficial duties and the shades of night
meter has run up above $4.00, with
interest and war tax.
Yes, I kind ’o think that is in the
good book—"Do unto others as you
would have them do unto you.” Look
it up councilmen, and read it. If it
doesn’t do you any good it won’t hurt i
! have again bought the
Pressing Club and am back
at the same old place un
der the same old name do
ing the highest class clean
ing, Pressing, alterations,
and repairing of all kinds.
G.
TELEPHONE 32
H. EUBANKS
REAL ESTATE
If you want to buy or sell farm
lan dsor city property see
D. S. STRICKLAND & CO.
Office Hutcheson Building
Phone 138 -and 139
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