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Mr. John Bobo of A Manta was
,» Mingling. witH" (riewln - h^ro <Mon-
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f Miss y/argrett Pittman and sis
ter of Tallapoosa Were in Doug-
lasviT/e Saturday.
r S*r. Erair.ett Beal and Roy Hil-
i j;' f ton of Carrollton were in Douglas-
iJfiji villa Sunday.
C. E. Pearce of Tallapoosa
HHpr was in town Monday, also Dr.
vjr Head was here from Tallapoosa.
. At the Baptist church last Sun
day Mr. J. E. Phillips was elected
superintendent of the Sunday
School. Mr. Phillips has served
as superintendant for 26 years,
with the exception of the last two
years.
*<Mr. Phillips urges that all Bap
tists be present at Sanday School
next-Suhday. "
’ Mr. Jps. W.'Swafford visited his
mother at Bill Arp Sunday. ,
• T Tij
. We are requested to announce
that Rev. J. F. Layton will preach
at Bcaulah next Sunday at- 11:00.
Dr. Ham and Dr.’ Purser, of At-
lanta were in Douglasville Wed
nesday night and spoke to the
people at the Baptist church in the
interest of the 75 million campaign.
Mr. J. W. James has been ap
pointed district manager for the
Georgia Dehydration Co., and has
a man out with him this week
demonstrating the work of this
machine, which dries fruits and
vegetables, in such a way that
when they are put into a pail of
water they assume their original
flavor.
PALACE PRESSING CLUB
Cleaning Pressing, Alterations and
Repairing of any kind
I have again taken charge of the Palace Pres
sing Club and will appreciate your patronage.
vVork called for and delivered.
All work guaranteed.
G. H. EUBANKS
Mr.*-Mi E.- Forsyth-of ’Union
Sprints, Ala.’formerly*c# Paulding
county, was in Dougtasvllh'Tues 1
day. Mr' Forsyth is'fepressntinfc
a motion picture film concern itt Vapidly. Imperfect as it is, the
la.iand haMrranged 40;,.put public school system i»one of the
Km Cn/lwt a? -If iiAM An n n taut ^ '
h ‘'The Sport of'Kings" here on
Friday, April 7. Watch for',his
advertisement next Week.
JUDGE McLARTY
FAVORS SALARY FOR
SOLICITOR GENERAL
To The People Of Douglas County:
1 take thic method of saying
that 1 am iD favor of a salary for
the Solicitor General.
Very Respectfully,
J. H.McLarty.
The Road To
Achievement
Tne steam engiae, the electric
dynamo, the wireless telegraph
and telephone, Ihe X-Ray and all
other miraculous inventions were
once just Thoughts. Now they
are Thoughts made manifest.
Were Washington and Madison
and Jefferson and Franklin and
. , , , . .othergreat men of that day to
down, ami discovered grav.ta-j rise from th eir craves, they would
be filled with wonder and
Millions of boys and girls have
watched kettles boil, but when
James Watt, an Original Thinker
saw how the steam agitated the
lid of the kettle, he thought on
this subject and the steam engine
was born.
Thousands of ioen have lain un
der apple trees and have been hit
by falling apples. Some. of them
probably "cussed’’; otheres aid. Ac
cidents will happen—and turned
over to resume their sleep, But
when and apple fell on Isaac New
ton, an Original thinker he wonde
red why it did not go up instead
*ion.
. Original. thinkers are scarcer
than gold dollars. The public
school system is. multiplying them
greatest institution that ever was
on earth.
It is Httte matters about the ex
act date on which the battle of
Pharsalia was fought, or the cor
rect pronunciation of “either" and
"neither”. The big question is:
Are the children being trained to
Think?
There is a reason why for every
thing—why clouds hang in the
sky. There are reason why the
German Autocracy failed and the
Government of the United States
succeeds.
Stored up facts do not amount
to much. The electric car is a fact
but the big question^ what makes
it move? The wireless telephone
is a fact but why and how does it
send the human voice across the
earth in the twinkling of an eye?
Teach t he children to reason
things out and you put them on
the highway that leads to Achieve
ment.
’ ' ' "
to the stars. * ; ' 1 f
A good farmpr plows) deep his
ground in the first place. He
thoroughly prepares the seed bed
puts in fertilizer; and then plants
the seed. And they gcqjy. Sup
pose that be should driy.e spike
holes in the hard ground and
drop seed in the holes, would he
raise much of a crop. It would be
a goop thing'if our teachers would
study the methods of scientific
farming and apply those principles
in their schools. Their ideais.not
merely to teach the the children to
say and do what others have said
and done, but to train their minds
for Original Thinking. Just as in
proportion as the reasoning pow
ers ot the American children are
developed, will this great, gene
rous, restless America lead on.
Fishing Line Becomes
“Live Wire”
Writing in Hemy Ford’s Weekly, ‘‘The Dearborn Independent"
In the Issue of January 2Sth, 1922, Mr. Lewis Harper. Discusses
Newspaper Attacks
On Public Utilities
Under the Caption, “Your Daily Paper: The News
It Serves You,” Mr. Harper Writes:
‘'The best illustration of the demagogic
method of building newspaper properties
is afforded by the war on the public utility
corporations which has been raging for 30
years or more. The writer achieved very
marked circulation gains in die editorial
management of two afternoon papers, due
principally to an aggressive attitude to
ward the traction companies in those cities
' This attitpde was honestly assumed
and the corporations had Invited attack
by their practices, but in retrospect, it ap
pears that their sins and the circulation
gains achieved by attacking them were
out of all proportion to the just balance
of news auditorial treatment. In other
words, the evils attacked were insignifi
cant compared to those which were ignor
ed. Scores of newspapers in the United
States'have been made by lighting the
utility corporations.
"Formerly, many newspaper men re
garded such a course as positive proof of
the honesty ol a newspaper or its publisher
The public utilities were rich and were
supposed to be powerful. They were in
fact never powerful, they only seemed to
be, because they had the support of some*
professional politicians—the first to desert
them when th«-y found the pickings were
better oil the other side of the plum tree.
"The investors ill these corporations
were usually absentee* and generally
Americans of the 'first settler st'v l<s.
The utility corporations were «n t heavy
advertisers, as they were natural monopo
lies. Their owners could extent no such
racial or group pressure on ‘lie newspaap-
ers as is-broujjht to bear when other kinds
of business are subjected to attack—on
the rare occasions when other big local
interests am put oil the editorial grill.
tin has not learned
a group in dealing
v com ers
r speed-
"The native Arne
to oifc'um'ze.anii ml
wilt) the press, Manv of 1!
.1 i g such a ea n h t
ily acquire it over here, •] he public utili
ties were rich, but when their legally fix
ed rates encountered ihe depreciated cur
rency of the war period they became poor
over night. In this misfortune, of course
they differed no whif from plain individuals
--SOME NEIVSPAPERS ARE STiLL SEEK
ING CIRCULATION BY ASSAILING AND
EVEN NAGGING THE PUBLIC UTILI
TIES. POLITICIANS ARlii STILL
HOUNDING THEM, AND ALTHOUGH
THEY MAY BE BANKRUPT THRICE
OVER AND IN THE HANDS OF HA
RASSED RECEIVERS, THEY STILL
PAY RICH DIVIDENDS TO THEIR EN
EMIES IN THE FORM OP NEWSPAPER
CIRCULATION AND POLITICAL JOBS;
"HOWEVER, HOSTILITY TO PUB
LIC UTILITIES IS BECOMING SHOP
WORN. THE MoRE SOPHISTICATED
ARE BECOMING SKE1';... AL ABOUT
I UBLIC-UT1LIT . I AITINf AS AT ROOF
uF PUBLIC SPIRIT 'OR INTEGRITY.
'Ihe pe -p.e have begun to r. V:i that news
papers which have valiantly • -sailed the
. • uti.ities have been cn. .;u)' not to
attack any retail bit-throughout the
era U high prices. Profiteering in more
i iu"ly forms has < *'■., td the s-rutiny
and criticism which tvs* heaped upon
public utilities. 'II. to »* p er reading
imtLc has also bee on:-.- a ••■•.re lhat it is
«-a*ser and less Expensive to my the onus
:i high pricesan-i othei :i>, 1r*d the pub-
lice believe it is suffering, .a the distant
corporation management r Wall Street
than on folks nearer '
amaze
ment, They believed in educating
the masses as (much they belived
in liberty, belived in that policy as
the only method for maintaining
liberty, and they were right. They
could hardly see that the "general
diffusion of knowledge" would
produce miracle after miracle,
would produce theareoplane and
vacant tube, one of the newest
and greatest of all invention,
which 1 believe is destined to
throw a whisper from the earth
MACON, GA.—While fishing in
the Ocmulgee river this afteroon
Sarah Arnold, a negro woman,
threw heF fishing line across two
6,800 volt power wires, causing a
short circuit, the current running
down the water soaked line and
passing through her body, killing
her instantly. It also burned the
two wires in two and put the plants
of the Cherokeq Briek company
and the small brick companies out
of .commission for several hours
atrf, MiR Hi by Pastor, 9um
WloblagtM.—Pretty Ml*. Anna M.
Lowndes, Mwot^n year* old, to aulny
R«t'. B,' WfkWI for otandlny hor on
her bead. Mo mek« $10,000 ilauagts.
Mo wild that the uilnlater hefd her
Btleoner*fw S® wlnetee, during which
ttsoe he etoed hf l * °o her head, "eaue-
tag hfr,great'pthn and mental aa-
fifth." y.
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Accepted With Pleator*
Being raised In a saaaN teem whose
there were a# tag days* naturally I
htd lever bed W explained to me.
While staying with an aunt. In s
somewhat larger town the tiimtiul tug
tiny whs observed. I >y«h whopping
flint iln.v and two young women linked
me If I wanted n lug.
I readily replied, “Yes.” nnd walked
away with the tag without contribu-
lug any money.
1 noticed (lie girls
v, si* when 1 nr-
i naked my smut why they
those tugs nwny. Inmg
plained what ! had
DON'T GO
Telephone and save (he differ
ence.
Are you getting tlm 'benefit of
our reduced toll rate* .-'
All rates based on siation-to-
station charge. Fedc si tax extra.
Evening rates (8.30 IT M. to 12
Midnight) one fouri 1 l**ss than
day rates. Night rat - 12 Mid
night to 4.30 A. M.) half less
than-day rates. Mi:..'ni:;:n c harge
25 cents.
We will he glad t j ■ *: our
different classes of ‘ rviie.
Gainesboro T. c: d.one &
Telegr aph Co.
Published by the Georgia Committee « Public Utility Information
BUY A NEW FORD ON
EASY TERMS
Touring car no starter Pay $162.60 cash and $27.10
per month.
Touring car with starter Pay $186.33 cash and
$31.05 per month.
"Pay one half cash, one fourth in four months ar.d
one fourth in eight months.
You don’t pay your grocer for all the groceries
yoUfcWill need this year at one time, do you? Why
not pay for your Ford along each month as you use it
Come in and lets us talk it over or drop us a card
and we will call. x
J. R. DUNCAN
FORD CARS.
FORDSON TRACTORS
CI3.