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DOUGLAS COITNTY SENTINEL. FRIDAY, JANUARRY 28,1921.
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SENTINEL
RALPH MKICKS
Publisher
R. N. KIRBY
Managing Editor
Watered in the Post Office at
Douglasville, Oa. as mail matter
«f the second class.
$1.50 THE YEAS
Wasps Are Wise and Vain;
Know All About Aviation;
Keen on Air Resistance
Who would he a wasp? The bees get
*11 the credit 1 But our affection for
bees la lnrgely fuphoard love, due to
the honey they provide us with, and
the wasp has virtues which few people
trouble to recognize.
Wasps are wise, declares a writer In
London Answers. It Is doubtful
whether any action In a beehive Is
more sagacious'' than the action of a
wasp when he has killed a bluebottle,
end Is faced with the problem of car
rying him home. He carefully cuts off
legs and wings, leaving the body or
Its victim quite compact,
"> Why does he do this? To r ave ve| :.i
when Hying home with the homy?
■t all. The wnsp knows oil about n>
tlon, and he gets rid o' ;] , ,. ■ ......
wings of the bluebottle (o is
rcBlstnnce!
**» -Wasps arc strong as .. . i •,
They can carry a wee. ■ , ■ ,
Wuebottles. They nri! al ,i n : '
ly than one Imagines, rae.'.y
without good can so. lint tJ, .1 '
Tain, for yellow and hkuk a , \) r
favorite colors. Ami, when oil is .
und done, they are a nuisance 1
(Students of Flight of
• Birds Give Guli Title
of “Master of trie Air’
Labor Is Said to Have Ad'-pt-cl .ac-
tics to Gain Endo in Various
Parts of Country.
(’nlcuttn.—Indian labor for the Inst
two months has heen adopting sabot
age tactics to gain its ends in vari
ous parts of the country.
A notable example is one in Madras,
where the provincial government has
Just issued a communique in refer
ence to the railway disaster last
month, where 14 people were killed
and 21 injured. The disaster, In the
opinion of the government, Is the sev
enth out of eight cases of sabotage,
committed between August 14 and Oc
tober 21.
The strike of stevedores In this city
has held up In port. 111 ocean-going
steamers, Instead of the normal 50
usually here. The accumulation of
cargoes amounts to thousands of tons,
and the glut Is accentuated by the Im
porters’ financial dlfllcultles, due to
fall in the exchange.
Dog Saves Life of Baby
Hanging From Bridge
A student of the flight of birds i
inclined to give the title of ’’master of
the air” to the gull, which often fol-
laws a ship at sea and lives on the
lecraps thrown from the galley. Nr,
(other bird, ho says, performs such
peemlngly Impossible feats of flight or,
books so completely at home In the air. j
teometiinoH, by the perfect adjustment
Uf their bodies, the gulls will poise on
outstretched wings and appear to defy
khe laws of gravitation by renin Inlay
(perfectly motionless; or, again, they
(may lie seen moving without a single 1
(visible effort, straight against a gale 1
jof wind. Their flight is altogether!
(different from that of the Caspian torn, !
(which Is as graceful as it is unusual. 1
“Unlike that of any other birds, wlieth-;
‘,cr of sea or land,” says some one who
Jins watched the terns, “it reminds one
A little of the high, apparently uncer
tain flight of a large-winged butterfly;
gpd it is in perfect harmony with the
|dea of a being where life is spent
iamld wind and mist and fluctuating
wave.”
La Salle. Colo.—Teddy is only
a common dog, boasting noil her
beauty nor blue blood, and the
possessor of only three good legs,
hut he saved (he life of his con
stant’companion, a two-year-old
hoy. The dog’s persistent hark
ing attracted the mother’s at
tention, and she went to Inves
tigate.
About 100 yards from the
house runs the Milton canal. The
baby had undertaken to cross a
little foot-bridge and lost ills bal
ance. But In falling, Ills dress
had caught on the bridge In such
manner that it held and strang
led him. First aid methods
were applied, and In a few hours
he was able to rejoin his fuitii-
ful friend.
PHILADELPHIA HAS BIG YEAR
Foreign Trade In 1920 Beats All of
Port’s Former Records, Say
Commissioners.
First Woman School Official.
Probably the first woman in America
to hold an elective school ofliee was
pCmma Willard, the famous educator,
Who in the early part of her career
Fas elected superintendent of schools
jn the town of Kensington, Conn.
Wire in the White House.
In the White House there are about
175 miles of electric wire, providing for
1,000 incandescent lights, together with
i call bell system and a private tele
phone system for the use of the execu
tive household.
Migration of Water Fowl.
The migration of several species of
vater fowl is from west to east instead
fct north to south.
Infant S«nt to Dentist
Kennebec, 8. D.—The daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Coyours of this
place has gained a unique distinction.
The bnby is only three weeks old hut
*he was horn with one tooth. Nor Is
that all. Within a week after her
•tfrth it was found necessary to ex
tract the tooth. So Miss Coyours may
boast of not only having been-horn with
a tooth but of having had dental at
tention before she was a week old.
Philadelphia.—All foreign trade rec
ords hero were surpassed In 1020, ac
cording to commissioners of the port.
Combined values of imports and ex
ports totaled $742,224,007, an Increase
over the previous record year of 1010
of $05,000,301.
A gain of $120,303,050 was shown
In the value of imports over the
previous year. Kxports fell off $60,-
343,205.
A feature of fho export trade was
the large quantity of coal shipped to
foreign countries during 1020, when
2,400,807 tons of bituminous and 120,-
740 tons of anthracite coal was
shipped, compared with 1.007,300 tons
of bituminous and 45,180 tons of an
thracite In 1010.
Button Causes Girl’s Death.
Danville, Ill.—.lane Holmes, thir
teen years old, Is dead, following the
accidental entrance of a cloak button
into her throat. She placed the but
ton In her mouth and it slipped Into
her throat. Surgeons pushed It Into
her stomach, and it was ejected by
vomiting. There was an injury to the
throat passages, which developed
blood poisoning, and death resulted.
Bought Cap He Had Thrown Away.
Perth Amboy, N. J.—A cap pur
chased by Howard Tapper, an over
seas veteran of the World war. In a
renovated army goods store here,
proved to be one he had discarded In
France after the armistice. It con
tained his name written on the under
■Ida of the band.
R. E. HAMILTON, M. D.
Hes. Phone 78. Office Phone 73
Diseases of Heart and Lungs a
Specialty.
Office in Hutcheson Building.
F. M. STEWART
Dentist
Office over Selman’s Drug Store,
Douglasville, Ga.
Will Take “Bug” Census In School.
Cleveland.—A “hug” census will be
token by the students of a Cleveland
blgh school. Members of the biology
class will scrape the walls of the build
ing and collect all the bacteria under
the microscope and study the species
that they are learning.
OLD SHIPS.
There Is a memory stays upon old ships,
A weiRhtless cargo In the musty hold—
Of bright lagoons and prow-caresalns
lips,
Of stormy midnights—and a tale untold.
They have remembered islands in the
dawn,
And windy capes that tried their slen
der spars.
And tortuous channels where their keels
have gone,
And calm blue heights of stillness and
the stars.
Ah, never think that ships forget a shore.
Or bitter seas, or winds tjmt made them
wise;
Tltere is a dream upon them, sver more—
And there be some who say that sunk
ships rise
To seek familiar harbors in the night.
Blowing in mists, their spectral sails
like light.
^-Davld Morton, In Los Angeles Times.
ASTOR MERRITT
Attorney-at-Law
Office in the Hutcheson Building,
Douglasville, Ga.
H. H. Poole C. V. Vansant
I)RS. POOLE & VANSANT
Surgery and Chronic Diseases of
Women and Children a Specialty.
Phones Nos. 24, J)2 and 137.
Office over Selman’s Drug Store.
DR. I). HOUSEWORTH
Special attention to Surgery and
Diseases of Women and Children.
Phones: Office, 106; Res., 118.
Office in Hutcheson Bldg.
DR. R. A. RAINER
Dentist
Telephone 175.
Office in Hutcheson Building.
J. R. HUTCHESON
Atlorney-at-Law
Office in Hutcheson Building.
THE LOVING-CUP.
T HE two-hnndlcd form of cup, now,
used mostly as a prize or a testi
monial, had its origin in a more sus
picious and violent day than ours. The
cup, as served, had a cover and a nap
kin. One man, drinking with another,
would hold the cup by one handle and
the napkin; the other removed the
cover and held the other handle. Both
hands of both men being thus occu
pied, they might drink without fear
of bodily assault with a dagger or
other weapon 1
(Advertisement,.)
“DALTOW CITIZEN” FLAYS
MUNICIPAL LEAGUE
Facts of Vital Interest to
Everybody in Georgia
Selfish Interests Exposed
in Timely Editorial
The fight, never-ending it seems,
being waged by certain Atlanta poli
ticians and lobbyist against the Geor
gia Railway and Power Company, is
growing somewhat of a boomerang.
There ure a few people in Atlanta
who live for no other purpose it
would seem, than to obstruct and con
demn every move the power company
makes.
They want it to deliver service
without any increase in rates for
light, power, and gas, regardless of
costs. They fought every advance
the company has a*ked for when ev
ery reasonable and sensible man
knows that pre-war prices mean bank
ruptcy for public service corpora
tions.
We are coming now to the kernel
of the nut. There are numbers of
people in the state who are begin
ning to feel that certain selfish in
terests in Atlanta want rates far be
low cost. They want the Georgia
Railway and Power Company to give
them these cheap rates and then make
it up by levying very much higher
rates outside the city of Atlanta,
which is exactly what is not going
to be done, because the Atlanta fight
Is being watched.
In order to ascertain whether or
not the rates asked for by the power
company in Atlanta are too high, an
audit of the company’s books was
BUggested. The power company
quickly agreed to it, and offered to
S ay one-half the expense of the au-
it. Did Atlanta agree to it? No,
Bhe did not. She refused to help pay
for the audit, and is still doing it.
All of which goes to show there is
■omewhere in this affair a lot of
hvpocrisy, demagogy and insincerity.
If the rates the Georgia Railway and
Power Company are asking for are
too high for the service, why does not
the city of Atlanta prove to the con
trary by an agreement to help pay
for an audit for the purpose of ascer
taining the true facts?
All of the buncombe put forth by
the so-called “Municipal League”’ of
the state is a iight ngninst the Geor
gia Railway and Power Company.
“The state should act,” say the bulle
tins. Certainly it should, but when
ever it does, it will not act just as
Marion Jackson, Jim Key and John
Eagan want it to act. And if it did
there is not a municipality in the
state of Georgia able to vote enough
bonds to build an electrical plant with
facilities enough to render the service
now supplied by the power company.
We are now speaking of those cities
using wholly the service supplied by
the Georgia Railway and Power Com
pany.
Dalton has had her experience with
a municipal power and light plant,
and at a time when there was very
little of the current used for anything
except lighting.
And Dalton and her industries pre
fer to deal with a power company
sufficiently capable of delivering the
goods.
Atlanta should quit nagging the
Georgia Railway and Power Company
for at least awhile, and give it an
opportunity to finish up some of the
power developments it started before
the war.
They are sorely needed in the state
as a means of improving service.
It is service the people want from
the power company, and if it develops
that it is charging too much for it,
It will then be time to show it up,
and let the Railroad Commission,
which has supervision of its rates,
say what is right and proper.—The
Dalton Citizen*
Confidence in
the Future
This institution believes in the people of Douglas county. Just a few
reasons of many are as follows:
Douglas county people are honest. They know how to work and they
are willing to work.
Douglas county citizensip is practically all white.
Douglas county farms are practically all small farms, owned byj! the
people who live on them.
Douglas county citizens are not cowards. They have the stuff in
them to make them overcome a hard blow.
The Douglasville Banking Company is here to serve the Douglas
county people, and its officers and directors are heart and soul with
the people.
Our crops were short and the prices low; Douglas county is hit hard,
but not so hard as some other sections.
The Douglasville Banking Company -has done and is doing everything
for its customers that any bank can do to assist, them.
The Douglasville Banking Company offers the people of Douglas
county as safe a hank as there is the world in which to deposit their
money.
The period of liquidation is not quite over yet, but the worst is past,
and just as soon as sound banking permits, this institution will begin
to loan again.
The reason that most hanks aie not loaning at present is that the
people have not been able to pay as they would have under more
normal conditions. This situation will adjust itself as people liqui
date their loans and deposits increase.
We have every confidence in the future,and see brighter times ahead.
Let us all pull together, co-operate with each other, cease the calam
ity howl, and we will be surprised to see how quickly “normalcy”
will reign again.
Come in to see us.
Douglasville Banking Company
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Jan. 28
“STRING BEANS”
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Jan. 29
“THE MAN WHO DARED”
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Feb. 1,
pictures. Also news reel and comedy.
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“PUTTING IT OVER”
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Sat.
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