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gan Douglas
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DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA
JULY 1, 1921
NUMBER 12
THE FARMER AT WORK.
DEMANDING
%
None of the discouragements suffer-1 “The world owes me a liv
ed by the farmer, nor the sum total of; remark that is often heard,
them, have been sufficient to cause I The world does owe every man
him to “lay down in the traces.” j living, but every man owes the world.
While a lot of us are grumbling something also. No man has the right! I
about conditions and a good many of; to demand a living of the world.I)
us are doing* nothing the farmer is in j meaning society, without giving some-! j
the fields plowing and planting. He j thing in exchange, etiher money or ia- j
is working as hard as ever. He has j bor. Every man should have the j
work to do, and is doing it. This ob-j chance to make a living. No maUt
serration can be confirmed any day by | what ihe conditions any individual ha
v°R0GSAM, JULY 4, 1921
a trip into the country. Riding i
comfortable railway trains or travel*:
f jing the highways in motor cars one
sees on every hand the farmers in the
fields, hard at work. It is hard work,
too. and much of it is disagreeable. In
much of the work of the farm there
is not much poetry—not nearly
much as some of the city writers make
out. The farmer has to contend with
coid and heat, wind and dust, long
hours of labor, and other conditions
that extract the poetry from his ex
istence. Considering his present dis
couragements he is to be commended
for the courage with which he con
tinues to labor, and for the hopeful
ness with which he prepares for an
other harvest. He is not allowing any
grievances that he may have to dis
suade him from working. He is not
undertaking to curtail production,
either by idlenes or otherwise. He is
trying to do the best he can. His ex
ample is one that some of the rest of
us might wisely emulate. If every
one would resolve to quit fussing and
go to work, seeking to make the best
of existing conditions* and doing the
best possible under present circum
stances many of the problems that are
vexing us would disappear and every
one would be better off. It is time for
the whiners to quit whining; and it is
time for every idler to take the best
job available and apply himself to it
with diligence. It is time for people
to quit pitying themselves. The farm
ers have ceased to do that, if they
ever were disposed to do it, and are
finding happiness and contentment in
their labor. The world will only be
restored to normal by industry, and
we can all profit by the example of
industry that the farmer is giving us.
Ke is showing .himself a good loser.
Shall the rest of us be poorer sports
men than he.—Dawson News.
the right to sustenance and shelter
and may demand them of society; but
society has an equal right to demand
pay lor them. Otherwise, lie who de
mands a living of the world and gets
it without pay is a parasite, a foreign,
dangerous creature in any social plan.
Charity is commendable because there
are unfortunates. Innocents some
times suffer through no fault of their
own, and for these a benevolent so
ciety wil provide; but the man who
can work and has the chance to labor
never should ask anything of the world
except the opportunity to pay in full
for the living that the world owes him.
—Dawson News.
Tug of War for girls.
.First prize $1.00
Potato Race, girls First prize 50c; second, 25c.
Tug of War for boys First
Potato Race for boys First prize 50c; second 25c
DID YOU?
tat:- 5 ’ a vacation
The last yea has been one of great
er strain on business men and the
heads of homes than any year we
have had in perhaps a decade.
Consequently for the most pare
nerves are worn tofrazzles and the
reserve amounts of enerby are worn
down to nearly nothing—and there
is a hot summer ahead and just be
hind it comes what is to be a very
busy fall.
For several years many of our
business men and folks generally
have been so busy that they have not
taken time for rest, and now this
summer finds them so busy that they
feel that the stability of their busi
ness demands that they stick by the
office or shop.
But there are calls of the physical
being wwhich must be answered. The
body must be kept in position to fight
off disease or to withstand any seige
of sickness w hich may attack the body
from any cause.
However, a social vacation is not
going to help the body to any partic
ular extent. It is the vacation which
takes one to the quiet resort or the
mountain retreat—where one forgets
the ties with the outside world and
givs onslf ovr wholely to restful rec-
recreation that is the sort of vacation
that the tired housewife or exhausted
business man should take.
Take that vacation this summer-
Did you give him a lift?
He’s a brother of man,
And bearing about all
The burden he can.
Did you give him a smile?
He was downcast and blue,
And the smile would helped him
To battle it through,
Did you give him your hand?
He was slipping down hill,
And the world, so I find
Was using him ill.
Did you give him a word?
Did you show him the road?
Or did you just let him
Go on with his load?
Do you know what it means
To be losing the fight
When a lift just in time
Might set everything right?
Do you know' what it means—
Just a clasp of a hand,
When a man’s borne about
All if man uught to aton'd ?
Did you ask what it was—
Why the quivering lip?
Why the half-suppressed sob,
And the scalding tears drip?
Were you brother of his
When the time came of need ?
Did you offer to help him,
Or didn’t you heed?
3 Leg Race boys First
prize 50c; second 25c
meec-
Worlc
R. A. M. NOTICE
Chapter meets in regular
Ing Tuesday night, July 5th.-
in Royal Arch Degree. Companions
please attend.
W. M. Harding, H. P.
J. C. McCarley, Secty,
Where $300,000 Goes
The penal Institutions of our State
will run a very high rate of infection
in the venereal diseases. The State
Board of Health has the opinion that
at least one-fifth of the prisoners have
syphilis. The very fact that they have
this disease may account for their in
fraction of the law, and it surely does
account for their inability to perform a
a day’s work.
Putting the Academy for the Blind
with its blind from birth, the Insane
;e «.u i Asylum and the penal institutions to-
lf nothing more than a couole ot „,. hap . .. . .. .
y getber, venereal diseases in these in*
Sack Race, boys . First prize 50c; second 25c
Catching the greasy pig, the one that catches it keeps it.
Climbing the greasy pole and get the money.
Foot race, 60 yd dash First prize $1.00. second 50c
100 yd dash open to all First prize Jil.00; second 60c.
200 yd Relay race * First prize $1:00; second 60c
50 yd Shoe race ' First prize $1.00; second 50c
INTERESTING STORIES IN
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
! ' MISSIONARY MRIOTING.
The Woman’s Missionary Society
of the Douglasville Methodist church
ni<;t at the. home of 'Mrs. Hawley
Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'cock width
twelve members present. The busi
ness program rendered was
Education,led by Mrs. Frank Bur
superintenlent of Sociul Service. Oth
ers taking part on the program wet
Mrs. Hawey, Mrs. Clark, Mrs. Jaeir-
son, Mrs. Hamilton and Mr- Glenn
Dorris. The president being absent
Mrs. Glenn Dorris presided over the
business program. The new secretary
Mrs. Longino, gave an interesting re
part. The new busines passsed on
was that the circes be re-organized
so that a circle meeting could be held
before the next regular meeting of
the Society. Every lady of the Meth
odist church is invited to attend the
circle meeting next Tueslay after
noon.
Since there was no o(her business
Mrs. Dorris dismissed with prayer af
ter which the hostess assisted by
Mrs. Hamilton served sandwiches and
NEEDED—HARD WORK AND
THINKING
tea.
-Press Committee.
The following news story clipped Mrs. J. B. Dorris has received a
from a New York paper will be read message from the government author-
with interest by the many friends of ities stating that the remains of her
Mr. William C. Duncan, son of Mr J son, Frank, ivho was killed at Belleau
and Mrs. J. . Duncan, who is a mem- j Woods in June, 1918, will lie disin-
ber of the faculty of the Irv ; ng terred and returned here for burial at
SehooL in New York and who i,: 1,1- an early date,
recting a summer school for boys at
Long Island:
“The Duncan Summer School for
boys and young men, after five years
of successful progress of prestige
and reputation, has just leased a
part of the beautiful “Ronaire Es-
Practically all places of business
will be closed in Douglasville next
Monlay, July 4th.
An interesting program is being
planned for the day by the Supers
tate" near Patchogue, L. I., whereCotton Mills,
with modern quarters under the .. , W ' e wo a gamc8 during
guidance of William C. Duncan, A.' Jf d8y ' °" e .' lt 9:30 a , an<l the
M., and a strong resident faculty, 1 '. p ' 'j etween tne
this high grade school will continue rl ^ *f' M MiUs '°'
to provide sound instruction fo , ' a featu «-cs of the day s program
young men who wish to do summer 0 “ ™™ U8 , race f pa * ,c T ted «
study with the view to strengthen- ! J ,ot ’ boys an< T,le ful1 ! >r0 '
ing their preparation for college. 1 ^'"”' aPPears elsewhere in this is ‘
Mr. Duncan, director of the school, I
was educated at the University o£ 1 , " e ' V Brand stand is being ereet-
Georgia and Columbia University.! ?” ° n tha ° ca Pie ll aml " lar K e crowd
He has been associated with the lr-| * lXpeC e< 0 picsellt '
ving School at Tarrytown-on-Hud- j ... ... ~ ~ T
son for the past seven years, and is ... ? '. V, Ba , KSett , anl City
regarded as one of the best of the I ' L - H °pkins raided the
younger educators in this vicinity
and an authority on this class of
school work.
“The school property consisting of
nine acres of ground, with a three-
story building overlooking the Great
South Bay, is located in Suffolk Coun
ty according to government statis
tics, the second most healthful in the
United States. The new building has
been selected with a view of afford
ing the maximum Comfort of the stu
dents. An Australian bathing pool,
500 feet at sea, is available, and tne
smooth waters of the bay afford ex
cellent opportunities for yatchlng.
Students may also have golf, tennis,
swimming and fishing. Mr.. Dunca.a
I cast bound passenger train, known
■ as Ihe accommodation, which passed
the city of Dougasville about 7 a.m.,
Tuesday morning and capture! thir
ty-two gallons of wwhiskey. For
sometime the main street near the
depot flowed freely with the booze.
VICTORY MEDAL OFFICE
CLOSES HEADQUARTERS
Due to reduction ill the nuumber o£
dersk necessitated by reduced appro
priations, Victory Medal distribution
has been ordered discontinued. No
more applications can be handled at
the Victory Medal office, 204 Jouurn-
a! Building, Atlanta. Notice will bo
given of the place to which applica
tions should be sent in future, orders
have not been received regarding
them.
The Georgia assembly is again id
session and ns usual and ever they 1
some important
them
have before
problems.
Possibly tin: question of state
finances > s the most important at thin
time, for recently the state lias been
lepeatedly embarrassed because of
money shortage ami did not have tec
money in hand to pay its honest debts.
Some say tiiat tire remedy is a bud
get system and others say that the
dilliculty can be avoided by combin
ing the committees on appropriations
and those which determine the reve
nues of the state.
But neither of these wilt be suffi
cient in themselves, for the state is al-
leady committed to certain regular
expenditures which cannot be made
promptly unless the state lias a larger
income.
Really it would seem that the only
solution is either a great bond issue
the devisement of some plan where
by Hie income of the state may be
greatly increased.
It seems that possibly we could
have greater revenues from taxation,
without working any particular hard-,
hip on the farmers of the state or
any other group that might be unable
o stand greater taxation. Certainly
t -is that we are not getting the tax
■eturriiTfiqni our state wealth in pro
portion to that' which other state.,
like wealth are receiving. .-
Our people are BfilTgoing to object
to a fair amount of taxation if the tan
i.- equitably levied and if the revenues
of the state are wisely spent and ia
benefit for us all.
However, our representatives are
supposed to he men of vision and with
| abilities whicli will enable them to
VV. McLarty, assisted by Mrs. D. W. think ami legislate through these pro!)-'
Peace*, Mrs. Strickland, Mrs. Frank i lenus—the matter is in their hands and
Burton, Mrs. Marat and Mrs. Harding, i t!lc >’ "’>H be watched closely to see if
The proceeds of tiie evening’s enter-' they are really serving the state and
tamment amounted to .$55.20, which ' t,s People—or themselves.
will lie applied on the pavilion fund.
Georgia would like to see a hard
working, producing assembly.—Cobb
County Times.
More than one hundred and twen
ty-five County Sunday School Con
ventions will be held this summer,
during the rnoqths of June, July and
August, under the auspices c£ the
Georgia Sunday School Association,
according to an announcement made
by R. D. Webb, General Superintend
ent. At each of these conventions,
two specialists ill Sunday School
work will be present to assist on the
program, and in personal confer-, AMIc Lambert .
ences to present modern methods in ju„ «.r .. n i
Sunday School work that will n.alj,, 1 ' ", ^ and
for bigger and better Sunday “ r * a " d ,mmon3 of
Schools lasville visited in our community;
. ’ , ! Sunday.
In order to put through the prog-,
ram adopted by the Executive Com-
BILLVILLE i
Showers last week are making our
cropd look better but Mr. tioTTWedi-'
il is bore and on the job.
Mrs. Bessie Noles of Athens id
spending sometime with her mother,
Mrs. J. A. Sudduth.
Miss Thelma Plunket of Winston
spent a part of last week with Miss
head of us.—Cobb County Times.
EASTERN STAR NOTICE
mg.
CIVIC CLUB TO BUILD COM
MUNITY CLUB HOUSE SOON;
The Civic Cub has underway plans
for the erection of a Community
Club House with a Library room j
dedicated as a memorial to the
of Douglas County who served a sol-1
fliers during the World War.
that the registration list is filling
rapidly, and that the enrollments are
from students from schools in the
West and South as well as the East.
The school opens June. 25 and closes
August 20.”
week-ends fishing in the mountains 1stitutlon* are costing the taxpay
—and-come back to your place of | of our state over *340.000 per year. | has planned the courses in the belief
v/ork prepared to make the most of yet we hear of various method* of tax- short-term studv
the oportunities which await the i raising schemes being discussed to la-i * .... .. ' y
fighters in the months and years a- revenue. We hoar of reduc, , by a »" aaat >’f on ■>,
tion of operations for many and varied j on •' \ wo Already he state:
laudable causes, aud what is beiug
done^to reduce this particular enor
mous expenditure? What methods or
iaw enforcement do you know of, how
many landlords un i taxicab operators
The Doufrlasville Eastern Star have had their property confiscated be-
Chapter will g:o to Atanta next Wed- cause it (s or has beeu improperly
nesday to compete with the Lebanon used? Why not cut off the expense
Chapter for the loving cup. AH mem- liie taxpayer before it begins?
hers are urged to attend this meet-' Th<w ® who are Infected should lie
treated at least until they are non-fn-
-feeiious, but why not remove the cause
[ of the infection? Why not invoke the
j good laws on our statute book-, es-
| pec-ialy the Acts of 1917-18?
The grand juries, the solicitors gon
ial and the judges should have the
id and assistance of all good citizens
! and clean up the state. We need our
Club House with a Library room i * nw<,ntori:f?( l to P- 1 '’*'• *unt Infection. V/e
dedicated as a memorial to th- l,.n- I Bae ? a, “ i ’| 6 treat those in-
v n' , l * t , ’.i leclod ihe continuation of tho fico
a “Hwax ' test tor diagnosis.
A series of revival services will
begin at tile Methodist church next
Sunday, July 3. There will be daily
services at 10:30 a. m., and 7:45 p. m.
Rev. Felton Williams, pastor of
the Grantville Methodist church, will
assist the pastor with the preach
ing. Prof. B. B. Beall will have
charge of the music.
All tile Christian people of Doug
lasville are cordially invited to co-
be made ] operate in this effort to build up the
spiritual life of our town. Everyone
is urged to attend these services.
Lot’s meet God’s conditions and have
a real spiritual awakening during
these coming weeks.
—The Pastor.
mittoe of the Association, which is
'composed of fifty-seven men—pas-j
tors, business men and other prof- j
essional men, it was necessary to i
supplement the force of employed i
workers by securing the services of
Prof. W. S. Nicholson, of Augusta,
for the months of July and August,
and Prof and Mrs. Floyd Field, of
Atlanta, for the month of August.
Other workers who will help in these
conventions incluude Miss Rosa
May King, of Atlanta, and J. G.
Jackson of Macon. These workers
are well qualified by experience and
study to help the Sunday Schools
'in this particular way. The employ
ed workers who will attend these
conventions include R. D. Webb,
General Superintendent, Miss Daisy
Magee, Children's Division Superin
tendent, Miss Myra Batchelder, Sup
erintendent of Atlanta Division and
Miss Cora Holland.
Specific results in the holding of
County Sunday School Conventions
are seen in attendance campaigns,
organization of Sunday Schools
where needed, efficiency points put
in Sunday Schools and workers en
couraged and given practical helo in
meeting their problems in the relig
ious education of their pupils.
The Douglas County Sunday Sch
ool Convention
and Mrs. Clark Timmons andi
father and mother are visiting* rela
tives near Temple.
Come on correspondents and let’s
help make this one of the best coun
ty papers in this part of the state.
ATTENDED CONFERENCE
Messrs. J. T. Duncan, N. B. Dun
can, F. M. Stewart, J. R. Duncan and
Rev. W. H. Clark attended the South
Atlanta District Conference at East
Point last week.
Mr. J. T. Duncan was elected del
egate to the annual ronference whioll
convenes in Augusta in November.
Mr. Floyd Walden, son of Mr. aud
Mrs. T. M. Walden of this city, vva*
licensed to preach.
CLASS MEETING .
The T. E. L. Class of the Baptist
Sunday School met Tuesday after
noon with Mrs. Wash Prickett, with
fifteen members present. Mrs. Van-
sant presided in the absence of the
President. .
An interesting business program
was carried out. Among the features
of the program was a reading on
“•Religioes Duuty of Having Fun”,
by Mrs. J. R. McKo.v.
After the business meeting a so*
Mr. J. G. Oliver of Louisiana, hoi!
weevil expert, will be in Dougfas-
viile next Wednesday, July (», instead
of July 5 as was announced in T he J 0< l in the evenin
Sentinel last wee-;. I scnt * n ff he.-i.de* the bridal party, dis-
•All farmers ,m,i anyone else in-' lln ffun i heil guests, uch as President
The “Wedding of the Twins,” which
was staged at the school auditorium
Tuesday evening under the auspices of j .
the Civic Club, was a most enjoyable
occasion.
More than fifty children participate
program, repre
11 be held on Aug-jcial hour was spent during which the
ust 4th. I he church where this con- hostesses served block
vention will meet will be announced ! cake
:i*oam and
1 ** | officer of the hospital, set apart u
Atlanta, (la.—World war veterans j large plot of ground in front of
rnment medical treat- 1 Red Cross house for a playground,
meat at United States Public Health f Hospital employees erected a i»n
Hospital Number 2(5, Greenville, S. [_house, two croquet tv
C. have been presented by the Red , tents and twelve colic
Cross with splendid recreational fac- j which were included
1 and Mr?
- . i and Mrs. Harding, Gi
. ■rerte.l in coital ami the boll weev-1 Haniwick ami other
il are urged to attend the meeting to of this city,
bn held at the courthouse Wednes-I Under the direction of Mrs. T. R.
-'ay. Valuable information will be' ' vlfitl ‘T- Ml ' - Alroaml ami Mrs.
given to e - r; vile threatened with 1 , R ' M '' Kov - tllr auditorium was
the boli weevil. '-beautifully decorated for the occasion.
I The program wsm directed by Mrs. A.
ilities that will help them to get well 1 ground equipment
all the quicker. i “We have been tr
notable citizens. 1 tha »>*» the m -
the Red Cross here announced the sunshine, says state
donation to the hospital by the Red j ho,pita! authorit :.-s„
Cross Canteen Reserves at Charlotte i ground will make the
.V of between $000 and §700 vvor- \ ready it i- the ci-nt.M
th of equipment. : f,,r our patients; they
Colonel Dedman the commanding | cry facility for rest u
n*ts, umbrella
1 hammocks,
in the play
ing to entice
i air anil the
iient from tho
‘and the play-
possible. Al-
of attraction
have in it ev-
od rcc rent ion.