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VOL. XVII
DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA Friday. June id. 1921
No. t
IS BANKRUPTCY PREFERABLE
TO A CHANGE OF POLICY?.
Any good > business man will tell
you that‘when your expenses are 26
to SO per cent, per annum more than
your income, it means either change
of policy or bankruptcy, whichever
you prefer.
At the present rate of expenditure,
Douglas county wil face a deficit of
approximately 910,000 by January 1,
1922, in addition to a bonded debt of
$160,000.
The one hundred thousand dollars
deficit is principally on the road
fund, and on this deficit we will have
to pay 7 per cent annual interest,
under the Act of 1020, which will be
17,000.00. If this interest is not
paid in money, and is paid in county
warrants and carried by the older
and paid in turn by the county treas
urer, the interest will be compound
ed and add another burden to the
taxpayers.
The ad valorem tax of four mills
und th ecommutation tax constitute
the road fund of Douglas county,
and will approximate $15,000.00 for
1921. Under the present system of
management it will cost to maintain
the chaingang force and road crew,
for the year 1921, approximately
$30,000.00.
Fifteen thousand dollarcs is a very
small sum to be expended in trying
to keep 408 miles of public roads in
passable conditioin.
To think about grading them with
out mpney is nonsense. To keep on
going into debt and destroying the
county’s credit is utter foolishness,
and contrary to good business judg
ment.
One good, conservative business
man who pays taxes and has the in
terest of the people at heart clothed
with the proper authority, can nc-
complish more than a thousand men !
who are.'catering to please every
body's. 't he people will have to make j
some change in the road manage
ment, treble the road tax, issue more .
bonds or repudiate the county’s debt, j
A county without' a system of road ;
working and financing is like a ship ■
without a rudder, it drifts with the ;
tide.
tf some relief d a ’ not canto to the '
taxpayers between now and next
spring, our homes will have to be
sold for taxes.
I hope that the incoming legisla
ture wii sweep out of office very
little parasite—from the mountains
to the seaboard, and give the coun
try people a chance to live and send
their children to school.
W. I. DORRIS.
NEWSPAPERS PRINTED IN
AIR IS NOW PREDICTED
LONDON.—In the near future, a
daily newspaper ,to be called the
Aerial Mail, will be edited, printed
and published from an airplane in
flight. ,
The latest British and foreign
news, political, financial and gene
ral, will be received, both at the mo
ment of departure and by wirless en
route.
A special plant will be used, and
the paper wil be dropped by means
of parachutes, which will drop the
editions over towns above which the
airplane is flying.
Airplanes will leave Paris and Lon
don daily. Machines leaving Lon
don will print the Aerial Mail in
French, while those leavoing Paris
will print the paper in English.
SAFE BLOWN OPEN
' AT LITHIA SPRINGS
The safe of the Southeastern Ex
press company was blown open at
Lithia Springs by yeggmen last Fri
day night. The safe was burglar
proof, and the work was evidently
done by skilled men. The thieves
entered through a window, but got
nothing for their trouble. The com
pany has no clue ns to the guilty
parties.
BARRON-DURHAM
A beautiful event of Tuesday
night was the marriage of Miss Ida
Barron to Mr. James A. Durhin, ftie
marriage having been solemnized in
Atlanta at the home of the bride’s
sister, Mrs. B. C. Couch.
The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. T. Barron, of Douglns-
villc, and lias a host of'friends who
wish her happiness, while the groom
comes ' from a prominent family .of
])ni!a«, Ceovgia, and has been con
nected for some years’with the gov
ernment in tile office force of tile
Candler warehouse.
Mr .and Mrs. Durham are at home
to their friends at 12 Windsor street,
Atlanta.
Doctor Canon of Harvard and
Alda Announce Results of Ex*
periments During War.
DIFFERENT FROM SHELL DAZE
. : 4
Cenditien Usually Develops Soma
Mourn After Sorlouo Wound or
Aacidant—Dead Tlaauaa So-
somo Toxlf and Poieoneue.
Cambridge, Maw—Discoveries made
by Dr. Walter B. Cannon of th© Har*
vard Medical school and othar Ameri
can, British and French medical offi
cers toward the close of the World
war have brought forth now evidence
regurdiug the cause und nature of the
strange phase known as "shock," a
condition that lad to Innumerable
deaths In war time aud frequently has
a similar result after accidents In time
of peace.
"Shock, or wound-shock, as it la
often called, has long baffled the medi
cal professiau," Doctor Cannon said
to a press representative, on beiug
asked to describe the results of hi9 Im
portant work.
Occurs After Any Aocident.
"This condition, which, by the way,
should not be confused with shell
shock, an entirely different phenome*
non, usually develops some hours
after a .serious wound or accident. It
frequently followed grave shell
wounds in the war, aud often conies
on aftor a person has been seriously
hurt in an uccideiU In times of peace,
after, for example, he has had a limb
crushed t« a railroad accident,
"There have been numerous theories
of Hie nature of .shock. Some doctors
held that shock
collapse, others
clogging of blot
wounds, some t
resulted fro
that it* cat
SKEPTICISM OUT OF PLACE
No Announctment of Sclantlfle Dis
covery May Today Bo Looked
Upon ao Fantastic.
That the butterfly contains within It*
self what Huxley would have called
the promise and potency of the core
ot tuberculosis and perhaps of other
mallcnant plagues might seem fantas
tic proposition were It not for our
meipory of Its antecedent, remarks the
North American Review. It Is now
about 55 years since Pasteur perceived
in the fermentation of beer and wine
the principle which emboldened him
tit declare that we shoud one. day learn
to eliminate all communlchble diseases
from the world. Blot, Dumas and
other veterans of science were Incredu-
low. But crying “Trsvallllerl tour-
Joan trsvallllerr the young master of
them all proceeded to cure flrat the
“elcknesa" of beer and wine, then the
"yilkworm disease,’’ then a formidable
poultry pestilence, then one of the
deadliest plagues of cattle.
Having thus worked his way up In
the seals of life, he addressed him
self by tbe same methods to tha salva-
llon of man from wbat bad been re
garded as the most hopeless and hor
rible of diseases, rabies, and thus
opened the way of Lister, of Koch, of
Finlay and Carrell, und to all the un
speakably belief)cent wonders of the
silence of bncterlal therapeutics. If
thus Pasteur found lu an atom of yeast
He cure for rubles, typhoid, cholera,
nialarlu, yellow fever, diplitherlu and
bubonic plague, there Is no occasion
for skepticism when his disciple, Mctal-
uikow, suggests that in the larva of
a’ butterfly muy be found the cure
£<jr other pestilences.
TOBACCO USERS NOT IMMUNE
»f .the nerves
others mat tin
i how tiffeded
•hie
>1 liny (he
nal gland
to do the
ik
i unity
sho
CHAUTAUQUA WEEK
Beginning next Tuesday and con
tinuing through the week the Rad-
cliffe Chautauqua will be in our lit
tle city to furnish recreation and en
tertainment. Something new every
performance.
In the afternoons, tile lectures and
concerts will deal with "Community
Building," and in the evening with
"American Ideals." Large crowds
are expected to uttend the various
lectures of the three days’ program.
ROOK PARTY
Miss Bessie Fay Griffith was host
ess to two tables of rook last 'Thurs
day evening. The home was beauti
fully decorated in sweet peas. At a
late hour, Miss Griffith, assisted by
Miss Hutcheson, served a salad
course wifcth iced tea.
entertains club
Mrs. R. C.Burton dclightfuly ent
ertained the Matrons’ club last Fri
day evening in a very delightful man
ner. The decorations were of sweet
peas, cosmos and nasturtiums, artis
tically arranged. After the business
meeting, ro kwas enjoyed for some
time. Mrs. Burton was assisted by
Mrs. Lonnie Roberts in serving a de
licious ice course.
BOY SCOUT MEETING
Do you want Boy Scouts in Doug-
lasville? Do you know what Scout
ing stands for? Do you know what
it means to a community to have a
boy scout organization?
On June 17th, at 7:30, at the Meth
odist church, thefc will ‘two or three
(Boy Scout leaders who will tell us
why Douglasville should have a boy
scout troop, what it will stand for,
and what good it will do the com
munity.
I would like to have every man t
woman am,!* boy in Douglasville be
present at this meeting. I feel that
it will be worth your while to attend.
Father and Mother, if £ou have a
boy or boys between the agees of 12
and 18, let me urge you to be pres
ent, help us to put scouting on the
'map in Douglasville, and let us do
something for the boys. Tomor
row may be too late.
Let us all pull together for the
Boy Scout Troop. For further in
formation call in to see me. It will
he a pleasure for me to talk it over
with you, the boys want it, and if
we can get the support of the moth
ers and fathers, they wil have it.
J. M. HARDING.
DOUGLASVILLE DEFEATED
The Douglasville base ball team,
under the management of Mr. Frank
Winn, was defeated by the Lithia
Springs team Wednesday afternoon
by the score of 8 to 4. Batteries for j
Douglasville were Chilton and Giles, j
and for Lithia Springs, Smith and ,
"i 1
oil. One by one we threw out ilia
theories advanced in •former years.
Ectablish FUal Cau-*. -
Wo at length dually; to.-Mcd and es
tablished tin.- fact that the Condition
results from tie* tearing or crushing
of muscles or oilier tissues h.v missiles
iiH.v«.g wiili lerrilic velocity. The dam
aged or dead tissue soon becomes
toxic, or in other words acts like a
sort of poison. Tills toxin causes an
increased permeability of the smallest
blood-vessels, the capillaries, and thus
there Is lost through their walls quan
tiles of the lluid portion of the blood
which, should be in circulation. Tim
result; is somewhat similar to that of
great loss of blood from the body.”
American, British and French medi
cal and surgical olllcers co-operated
in the investigations, some of which
were made a/; Belhunc in 1017, Home in
London, and others at Dijon in .1018 in
Only Gorma of Cholera and Meningitis
‘ Succumb to Smoke or Juice
of Micotinw.
j Professor Puntoni of the University
of Home has performed a series of ex-
porl ments by way ol determining
whether tobacco, smoked or chewed,
vtauid act us a disinfectant against dis
ms. For the purpose he used
cigars, Macedonian cigar-
id "very strong* chewing to-
Ile placed a piece of paper
with a salve which contained
as of cholera, influenza, diph-
Lyphoid and meningitis in a
glitys jar and then tilled the jar with
hin0)1.e or covered the paper with to-
0kl:-v
York Kvei
a! at the depressing <
Wi'osf.
i lie has art*
elusion that
cholera and meningitis, tobacco is pow
erless in the presence of germs. As to
typhoid and diphtheria, he exposed the
bacilli to the strongest of smoke from
Tuscany cigars for one hour, and
they were as robust at the end of the
experiment as at the beginning.
As to tuberculosis, Professor I’un-
toni says that the most inveterate
smoker or chewer can hope for no pro
tection from his indulgence. The ele
ments of tobacco that, disinfect in l.lio
cast* of cholera and meningitis are
tar, nicotine and formaldehyde.
tlon
laboratory of the Amu
force under Doc
•eel ion.
•Toward the end of tl
xpedi
eluded
learned
ing Mic
helpful
ler
rrfi, to
and,
Causey.
R. A. M. NOTICE
Douglasville Chapter No. 14 will
meet Friday night for work in P. M.
and M. E. degrees. All companies
uurged to attend.
J. C. McCARLEY, Sec.
PRETTY LAWN PARTY
Mrs. Ernest Smith entertained a
number of young" people at a lawn
party Tuesday evening in honor of
her visitor, Miss Florence Smith, of
Atlant. The lawn was decorated in
Japanese lanterns. Games were en
joyed. An ice course was served.
APRON SHOWER
MAD DOG KILLED
City Marshall E. L. Hopkins, to
gether with several other citizens,
killed a mad dog near the hosiery
mills early yesterday morning.
On Thursday morning, .Tune 2, the
Matrons’ club entertained at an ap
ron shower in the Douglasville Bank.
In the afternoon and evening, they
| entertained at a benefit rook party
in the school auditorium.
! Delicious refreshments, consisting
of punch and sandwiches, were serv
ed. The proceeds a mom ted to $35,
after all expenses were pc.id, this to
be contributed towards buying a pi
ano for the school.
POOR, BUT EDUCATE GIRLS
Professional Men Lead in oendinr
Daughters to Collsge Gays
Statistics.
Holyoke, Mass.—’Professional men
despite their proverbial niggnrdl>
salaries, predominate ‘in sending thei.
daughters to college.
Figures made public l"day from u
emjus conducted by Mourn Ib.lyoiu
college show that although slightI;.
more than 3 per tvnr of the outm
male population of tin* Country art
professional men, yet 338.10 per cen
of the students registered their
fathers as professional men.
The farmers are least Interested, tl it
census showed. Tbit*; -six per >’<*;.'! of
the men are in agriculture, hut only >
per cent of the girls come from the
farms.
Silk Chcmicca for Ducky Belles.
1 Lurid purple silk chemises, size 52,
i are becoming popular with the dusky
J belles along the African Congo, ac-
; cording to an announcement by u Chi*
i cago mail order house,
j The firm's foreign department an
nounced the notification of safe or*
! rival from Chief Augogo in the Bel*
! gian Congo of a recent order for such
undergorinoiits l'or 12 of the chief's
j favorite wives. Because of the color
an»Z size, it was necessary to have
; them made to order.
"The results are quite satisfactory,
[ however,” the chief wrote.
1 With the chemise order came funds
• for "shoes with watches in their toes."
j rubber boots with copper toes, pink
I silk stockings and several hundred
I pounds of beads and brightly-colored
! cotton goods.
TRIBUTE OF LOVE
It is with a feeling of deep sorrow
that we record the death of one we
love; but when we have the assur
ance that the loved one has only been
transplanted to a better world, has
only exchanged a life of earthly trial
for one of eternal bliss and everlast
ing joy, we find a consolation which
the world can neither give nor take
away.
When all that love and skill can
devise has been done; when all has
proved unavailing; when Death has
claimed Ids victim and we have laid
the form of the loved one in the
tomb, Duty calls and we must re
turn to the responsibilities of life.
As we begin to realize our loss, the
heart would fain commemorate the
loving services and noble deeds of a
consecrated life. Not only would we
enshrine them in our hearts, but we
would transcribe them to the print
ed page, that others especially the
younger, may see the beauty of a
Christian life and be led to emulaate
all that is good and ennobling in a
long and useful life. Such a tribute
we feel is due to the memory of our
dear sister. •
“And I heard a voice from Heaven
saying unto me, ‘Write Blessed are
the dead which die in the Lord from
henceforth; yea, saith the spirit, that
they may rest from their labors; and
their works do follow them.’ *’
Mrs. Louisa Riley Bomar, wife of
A. R. Bomar, died at the home, Cha
pel Hill, near Douglasville, Georgia,
on March 27, 1921. Funeral services
were conducted by Rev. A. J. Mor
gan, who had known the deceased
since his boyhood, - .and by Rev. Mc-
Gatthey, pastor of her church. In
terment was; in Chapel Hill cemetery.
.She is survived by her t husband; v
three daughters, Mis. A. 1). Olds,
Mis.
W. D.
ia, and
RESOLUTIONS PASSED BT
FIFTH DISTRICT CLUB.
WHEREAS: The present ^xecu*** 6
tive mansion of the State 4 of (Utirgif
located in the City of Atlanta, at
the corner of Peachtree and Calf
streets and extending through ttk
Spring street, has become unsuitable
for residents’ use by reason of tike
growth of business interests in that
direction, and
WHEREAS. This property now be*#
ing situated in the heart of Atlanta#
has greatly increased in value, and
will continue so to increase, and
WHEREAS: By retaining owner
ship of this Bplendid piece of central
property our state will be assured
for all time to come, of a constant
and ever increasing revenue, there#
fore I•
BE IT RESOLVED, That the
Women’s Clubs of the Fifth district
of the State of Georgia, in annual
convention assembled, do hereby urge
upon the General Assemlby of Geor
gia the advisability of retaining per-
petual possession for Georgia of tho
aforesaid property, and suggest that
at such time as it may be deemed
advisable to cease its use as the home
that the proper authorities place up-
of the chief executive of the qtat^ r
on the ground a lease of such dura#
tion as may seem advisable; this
lease to be renewed or remade on
the increasingly advantagecus terms
which time and the growth of bus^>
ness development will assuredly ven
der possible. * ,
Resolved, also, that a copy of these
resolutions he sent to the General
Assembly of the State* in both its
branches, to Governor Hugh M. Dor
sey, to Hon. Thomas W. Hardwick,
Governor-elect of Georgia, to Mrs. J.
L. Hays, President Georgia Feddra#
Lion of Women’s Clubs, and to the
'•tber eleven district presidents, io
the presidents of other Sta j organ-
andehildrt
sses j loi:
Louis Ti
A. Olds,
Olds, Al-
N William
s: Mrs.
of the state
Bomar Travis'; th
V. A. Ellison, Paris, Texas; Mrs. J.
M. Mu s' n, College Park, Georgia,
and ‘Mrs. W. C. Burnett, Winston,
Georgia. Many relatives and friends
meurn herujeath.
til's' Hved'a rise ful Iff.,.. “ Before’
Her marriage she was a literary teach
er 'of noted ability. Many of her
former pupils, now in mature life,
will remember their teacher, Miss
Lou Riley. In ‘early life, she pro
fessed faith in Christ as her person
al Saviour, united with the Baptist
church at Prays JVlill and was bap
tized by Rev. Denton. Later, she
moved her membership to New Hope
church at Chapel Hill, where she re-
pmined a member until her death.
She was a faithful, devoted Christ
ian and an active church member.
She loved the church with fill its in
terests and was ever willing to do
all in her power to advance the cause
of Christ. She was a faithful, earn-
n the Su
resolution was passed
Wet Convention, Geor-
Wwmen’s Clubs in con-
ay 12th. Acording to
cor y is herewith mailed
Pin!»
Mrs. T. T.
sklent Fifth .
Stephens
District
Woman’s
Mrs. R. R. Striplin, Sec.
st wc
Bible
iday School, and
teacher of the
is a close stud-
ell grounded in
Next to the professional im*u. the
•rndesincn are n.osi interested In
educating their ihrugutiTs. Ten per
cent of the mole population ore in
trades, yer 21 per cent have trades
man fathers,
Diamond Ring With Doughnuts.
Cohriellsville, Pa. A bog of dough
nuts valued ot was sold to mi
unidentified woman for in cents the
other day in a bakery here.. Mrs.
Berwick, clerk in the bakery says hei
.diamond ring, valued at H>, went
into the doughnuts. She ha- asked
(lie police to In- lie the woman who
purchased the bog. She believes tin.
."big caught in one of the doughnut-
and was pulled from her finger. Sin-
discovered her loss soon afterward,
but was unable to trace the custom**!
in tbe street, crowds.
Twenty Years in Forestry.
The Yale forest school has just
celebrated its second decennial ro
union and the twentieth anniversary
of Its founding, says tlie American
Forestry Magazine. Over one hun
dred alumni and students, or approx
imately 20 per cent of those who have
received professional Instruction at the
school attended the reunion. Ot the
twelve leading forest schools ten are
under the direction of Yale men. aud
eleven have Yale graduates in their
faculties. In addition, forestry is
taught as a subject at four other in
stitutions by Yale graduates. Iu all.
43 men from this institution arc en
gaged iu training' professional for-
i esters in America.
Motion Pictures in Java.
The motion picture business in Ja
appears to be expanding rapidly, ;
cording to tbe American consul at 1'
tavla. American pictures are Incre;
ingly popular; the types best liked a
big features, comedy, news and Mu>
films. No film of Jess than live ret
makes a grout success. The pietur
which attract tlie native audiences a
those of the action and advcnlu
type, while the European and Aim
can audiences usually prefer w*
acted drama of the type most popu
in America.
Class. She
ont of the Bible,
the faith through knowledge of the
Scriptures. As president of the Wo
man’s Missionary society, she labor
ed for the upbuilding of this organ
ization. giving liberally of her time,
talent, and means. To the W. M. S.
i ifef last admonition was, “Don’t let
! it go down."
I From the beginning .of her sick-
j .-ess she seemed *to realize that she
would not recover, and expressed her
j seif as resigned to the will of the
I.,ord. ( And as the end drew near,
| she realized that the messneger ot
I death had come and thanked the phy_
! sician and nurse for their kind min-
! i.$trations, and asked the blessing of
| God for them.
| She took the hands of her hus
band and daughters, each of * whom
| were with her; gave to each one and
| ro her grand-children a loving, part-
j ing message, praying God’s blessing
I for them, and then fell asleep.
; On the bright "Easter Morning"
j when all nature was awakening to
i a newness of life, when the Christ-
; ian world was commemorating that
! glorious day when our Saviour burst
i the bonds of death and rose trium-
, phant from the grave, her spirit left
its tenement of clay and was wafted,
! we trust, to that world of eternal
j !>!i:-s, to he forever with her risen
i ami exalted Lord.
I Yes, again we hope to meet thee,
! When the day r.f life is fled,
Then in Heaven with joy to greet
INDEPENDENCE DAY
AT LAKEWOOD PARK
Officials of Lakewood Park, At
lanta’s popular amusement resort,
are making elaborate plans for their
annual Independence Day celebra-*
tion, July 2 to 4. As has been the
custom heretofore, the gala occasion
will extend over two days and every
feature of the big entertainment pro
gram scheduled for Monday, July 14,
will be pulled off on the preceding
Saturday also.
I This annual mid-summer program
has become one of Atlanta’s fixed
events, and each year sees an im-
| pfovenient in its feautre att ractions.,
j And Secretary R. M. .Striplin says
j that this year wil be no exception to
j that fact. The racing card is loom-
! ing up larger every day, and already
I there are quite a number of southern
i horses to fye seefl on the Lakewood
j oval being prepared for the July”
' events. Acording to a statement
I given out by Secretary Striplin, the
, July turf card will be second only to
the grand circuit races in merit and
I interest. •
' Practically all the favorite south-
| ern motor racers are preparing for
the gasoline classics, and, because
of the unusually attractive purses
hung up, the dare-devil performers
are expected to furnish speed with
spine-chilling thrills galore.
A monster fireworks program is
scheduled for both the night of July
2nd and the njght of July 4th. The
Newton Fireworks company, of Chi
cago, will stage the spectacle and!
j their special artists will personally
supervise these stupendous pyrotech**-
| nie displays. All the midway at*
j tractions, including the dancing pa-
; vilion with its popular jazz orches-
I tra, will be operating full blast all
I day on both the 2nd and the 4th.
Win
or J Winston, Ga
well U‘nr is shed.
L. BURNETT.
CHILD LABOR IN COUNTRY
"There is more child labor in rural
than in urban America, and some of
it is just as bad as in the cities,”'
says O. R. Lovejoy. "Hundreds of
thousands of these young farm rah-
orers under Hi, it. should be borne inf-A'
mind,, are wprikng for iJorscss*
er than their parents. The worst
feature is its interference with the
child’s school work. The city child
gets 100 days of schooling for every
(35 the country child receives. fYS'A#