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AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION
BY DR. ANDREW M. SOULE
What About Alfalfa?
It would seem as though enough
had been said and written about al
falfa to insure its production on ev
ery acre of land in Georgia suscep
tible of growing it successfully. As
a matter of fact, if you ride across
tue> country for a long distance, you
will just see here and there a little
el alfalfa. Wherever it oc
curs it seems to give an air of beau
ty, prosperity and permanency that
nothing else does. It is one of the
most attractive of nature’s crops,
and it returns to the landowner
larger yields and profits than al
most an.thing he can plant. Why
not nave an area of alfalfa on every
one of oar Georgia farms? This is
a burning question and ought to be
one of the greatest Issues before the
people of the state. A five to ten
acre tract of alfalfa on every Geor
gia farm capable of growing it
would transform the nature and
character of our agriculture, would
add materially to the prosperity’ of
our state and prevent the shipment
out of Georgia annually of millions
of dollars for hay and grain/ It
would place our live stock interests
on a much firmer basis and insure
their expansion to a degree commen
surate with our needs. It would
make us a great and successful poul
try raising state. It would replace
the losses which the invasion of the
boll weevil causes to our cotton
farmers. It would prove a friend
and liberator in she broadest sense
of that term.
Os course alfalfa cannot be grown
successfully on every farm in the
-■■ate, but experience and investiga
-.-A now show that it can be raised
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with profit on practically all the red
lands of Georgia and especially those
which have a clay subsoil. It does
not seem to do so well on the lighter
and smaller types of soil, but it rrtay
be that we shall yet discover types
suited to the needs of such areas.
At present, very little money has
been made available to study the
problems associated with the suc
cessful extension of the areas devot
ed to alfalfa in Georgia. Those who
are familiar with the situation know
that there is much still to be discov
ered that is of vital importance to
the welfare of our people. The state
could make no better investment
than to encourage the work which
has been instituted along this line
by the Georgia State College of Ag
riculture.
Up to the present time it would ap
pear that there are a number of va
rieties of alfalfa now not cultivated
in the state that are better adapted
to our climate and soils than those
on which we have been relying in
the past. Our general , experience
leads us to conclude that some va
rieties developed in South America
offer special promises for cultiva
tion on an extensive scale in this
state. Only a beginning has been
made in testing out thp adaptability
of the various strains cultivated in
the west, and there are .plenty of
new sorts of alfalfa which, so far
as we now know, have never been
grown even in an experimental way
in the state of Georgia. Aside and
beyond this situation, however, let
us review the present status of al
falfa production in Georgia and see
how those interested in its cultiva
tion should proceed- in order to es
tablish it successfully. Mendon has
already been made of the type of
soil to which it is best adapted. The
first thing, therefore, is to choose a
proper site. This should be a well
drained area. Uplands have proven
more successful in our experience
than bottom lands. Alfalfa will not
stand prolonged overflow. The crop
does best on a well-drained, rather
porous soil. There are undoubtedly
many areas on which an effort has
been made to establish it and where
a record of failure has been written.
All these lands needed was tile
drainage, and some of them only
required better surface drainage
or deeper preparation prior to plant
ing. Lots of our soils have been cul
tivated so shallowly for years past
that a hard-pan has formed a few
inches below the surface which even
the unusually vigorous tap-root of
alfalfa cannot penetrate. Let us not
charge the plant with failure to do
its part until we are sure that we
have provided it with a fair situa
tion under which to grow and de
velop.
Having chosen a site,
the next thing to do Is to break the
land to a good depth. This may be
done at any season of the year that
will avoid the puddling of the sub
soil. In preparing land for alfalfa,
it is best to subsoil the ground. It
is next desirable to increase the
humus supply to an appreciable de
gree. A legume should, therefore, b.e
planted on the land. Os course any
crop may be used for this purpose,
but cowpeas, by reason of their pe
culiar characteristics, are best suited
for this purpose. The land should
be limed before the peas are planted.
A minimum of two tons of crushed,
raw lime rock should be used for this
purpose. Scatter the lime broadcast
over the soil after It has been broken
and work it well into the surface
with a harrow. Fertilize the cow
peas with acid phosphate applied at
the rate of 300 pounds per acre.
Use along with the acid phosphate
100 pounds of kainit or some other
carrier of potash that will supply
the same proportionate amount of
potash. When the cowpeas are ready
to cut for hay turn them under to
the greatest depth practicable. Cow
peas are usually in condition to cut
for hay when the lower end of the
pods and the peas down near the
ground begin to turn yellow. Just
as soon as the cowpeas are turned
under, the land should be rolled. This
is to firm and compact it. It should
then be harrowed. By this means,
the moisture from the lower soil will
be brought promptly to the surface
of the ground. This will cause the
cowpeas to decay more quickly than
would otherwise occur. If a harrow
were not used, the moisture brought
to the surface would escape into the
air, thus causing the land to dry
out. When this happens, the cow
peas will fire-fang in the soil, and
the nitrogen they contain would
largely be lost into the air, the phy
sical condition of-the land would not
be improved as a result of turning
them under and the benefits which
it was expected to secure from the
whole operation would be largely
nullified. After cowpeas have been
turned under and the land rolled and
harrowed as indicated, put on two
to three tons more of crushed lime
rock. Rather finely ground rock
should be given preference so that
it will exert the largest measure of
benefit in the soil in the shortest
period of time. This lime should be
harrowed into the surface areas
and not be plowed under. The rea-
son for this is self evident upon a
little reflection because lime sinks
rapidly into the soil even under the
most unfavorable conditions. Thus
it may soon get beyond the reach of
the roots of growing plants. The
land should now be worked once a
week from the time the cowpeas have
been plowed under until the date for
seeding alfalfa is reached. This crop
may be planted at any time from
September 15 until November 1.
Much depends on the location and
the season. Opr results have been
invariably best when early planting
was practiced. Our idea would be
to seed, therefore, as near to Octo
ber as possible. This gives the young
alfalfa plants a considerable time in
which to establish themselves before
hard freezes occur. Practically
every stand we have ever lost has
been killed by frost. In our dry au
tumns it is often hard to get the
crop out of the ground at the right
time. -Germination frequently takes
place rather late in the autumn. The
plants are young and tender, and se
vere frosts frequently destroy the
greater part of them, thereby neces
sitating the reseeding of the crop
another year. Alfalfa should be
sown on a rather dark, quiet day.
It is not desirable to plant before
a violent rainfall as this generally
washes and gullies the field and pre
vents the attainment of a uniform
stand. It is best to seed in the eve
ning because inoculation is neces
sary with this crop. One may of
course use either cultures or the
soil from a field where it has been
grown successfully in the past. We
are satisfied that the cultures should
be given preference. They are cheap
er, relatively speaking, than the use
of soil would prove to be. and, if
the directions sent with them are
carefully followed, good results are
almost certain to follow. Where
the artificial cultures are used them
is no danger of conveying to the land
fungous diseases which may prove
injurious either to the alfalfa or to
the other crops cultivated thereon
at a later date. For this reason we
prefer and recommend the use of the
cultures which are now manufac
tured by a large number of reputa
ble concerns and can be purchased
without difficulty at a fair price.
Sow about twelve to twenty
pounds of recleaned seed. That ob
tained from the western part of the
United States has proven to be more
satisfactory, in our tests. It is
cleaner and freer from -weeds and
trash than the imported seed, and
on that account, it is less likely to
cause infestation with undesirable
crop or plant dieases, many of which
have come to us from foreign coun
tries. Seed the alfalfa in such man
ner as will insure the uniform dis
tribution of the seed over the
ground. A barrow seeder is a good
type to use sos this purpose. Brush
the seed into the ground with a
weeder. It is not any use to plant
alfalfa unless there is sufficient
moisture to insure its rapid and
uniform germination. After a stand
is obtained, keep animals off the land
during the winter. After a stand is
obtained, keep animals off the Ignd
during the winter. You cannot af
ford to graze a new stand of alfalfa.
The crop should be fertilized when
it is planted with 500 to 1,000
pounds of a formula containing
3 1-2 to -1 per cent nitrogen, 9 to
10 per cent phosphoric acid and 4 to
5 per cent potash. We would prefer
to put the fertilizer on a few days
before the alfalfa is seeded. It
should be well mixed with the sur
face soil by means of a harrow.
Alfalfa may be cut for hay the
following spring, and, under nor
mal conditions, five cuttings a year
may be anticipated. We have se
cured as high as six tons of cured
hay from an acre, and we have had
alfalfa produce an average of five
tons of cured hay per acre for eight
vears and upward in succession.
With hay worth S6O per ton, what
crop can a farmer grow that is likely
to prove more profitable than an
area of alfalfa? It would be ab
surd and foolish, of course, to ad
vocate the general cultivation of
this crop to the exclusion of other
crops; but there is room and urgent
need on every Georgia farm for a
patch of from five to ten acres of
the most profitable and permanent
hay cron we can undertake to grow
in this state.
Sunflowers as Chicken Feed
C. F. H., Americus, Ga., writes:
Last fall we planted fourteen
acres with Augusta vetch and
oats with the idea of turning the
same under in the spring. The
vetch did not do well. We would
like some information in regard
to the preparation of the seed
bed and the care of the crop.
Would like information in regard
to growing sunflower seed for
chickens. _
Our experience with the so-called
Augusta, or Oregon vetch and the
hairy vetch has been about as fol
lows:
We have not had much difficulty
in securing a good stand of either
one. The Oregon vetch grows off
much sooner in the fall and early
winter than the hairy vetch. It is
not nearly so hardy as the latter.
In our experience it has not out
yielded the hairy vetch in the
amount of grain of hay produced.
We have never known the hairy
vetch to fail to yield at least a
partial crop. As a rule it makes a
good «crop. The Oregon vetch has
been killed out by a freeez on sev
eral occasions when it promised to
make an exceptionally fine yield. On
that account we have abandoned its
cultivation here altogether. It
should, hqyvever, do well in the
southern part of this state and par
ticularly on the sandy lands in many,
sections of the coastal plains area.
The Oregon vetch may need to be
inoculated on some soils and under
certain conditions. This is especial
ly desirable on land where vetch has
hot been previously grown. We can
not say in our own experience that
inoculation has proven of any spe
cial advantage, but this crop has
been grown more or less on our land
for some years and probably the es
sential bacteria are more or less
established in the soil already. On
new lands, therefore, we would
rather favor trying out inoculation
on a moderate scale until convinced
by experience that it was unneces
sary. Vetch, of course, will prob
ably give better results if lime has
been applied to the area on which
they are planted. Vetch could be
grown to advantage after peanuts
for the reason that land 1 devoted to
this crop will, as a rule, be limed.
Os course, few if an;# of the legumes
do well on acid soil. The acidity
seems to prevent the development of
the desirable bacteria which do their
best work on either slightly alkaline
or neutral soils.
We have never grown sunflowers
on an extensive scale, but if they
are cultivated for chicken feed, we
would plant them in rows as soon as
the ground is warm enough to in
i sure rapid germination. We would
I make the rows five to six feet wide,
' depending on the richness of the
■ land. They should be planted about
i three feet apart in the drill. The
: sunflower is a rapid grower and a
gross feeder and unless planted on
i very rich soil, they respond to the
| use of a complete t'artilier. A 9-3-3
! used at the rate of four hundred
. pounds and upward per acre should
I answer very well for this crop.
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AUNT JULIA'S
LETTER BOX
“Help for the Helpless—Kindness to All
Dumb Things'
RULES
No unsigned letters printed.
No letter written on both sides of paper printed.
AIT letters not to exceed 150 to 200 words.
Dear Children: Our society for the Prevention to Dumb Things
is so new that we haven’t had much chance to express ourselves about
it, but I do wish you would all write now and then of the dumb
things around you and of what kindness you have been able to show
them. Lovingly, AUNT JULIA.
Dear Auntie and Cousins: How are you
all this nice spring morning? I am com
ing in favor of the American orphan and I
truly believe we could not find a better
place for it. for 1 think it will, with our
help, be well educated at the Berry school.
I have a book of the Berry school and I
think it is a good place for a child. Annie
Kieff and Luther Huff, I congratulate you
two on having written such nice- letters,
although there are others who have writ
ten good letters, but I don’t remember their
names. Oh, cousins, don’t you wish the
roses would hurry up and bloom? They are
my favorite flowers. I notice lots of you
cousins are great lovers of books. I, too,
like to read anything interesting that I can
get my hands on, and music, oh my! There
is nothing I like any better. I am not go
ing to take up the whole letter box telling
you how ugly I am: Just a blond, aged
sixteen. I’ll not send anything for the
child now, but will later, when you de
cide what to do. Your loving niece.
LULA FARMER.
Blue Ridge, Ga., Route 1, Box 13.
Dear Aunt Julia: Will you admit another
soldier boy in your happy band of boys and
girls? Will describe myself, as I have’nt
long to stay: Brown hair, brown eyes, fail
complexion, weigh 1-10 pounds; will leave
my age for yotj to guess, it is between eight
een and twenty-one. Will answer all cards
and letters received. Best wishes to all,
PRIVATE SAM CHANCE.
Supply Co.. Q. M. C„ Camp Bragg, Fay
etteville, N. C.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
admit a South Carolina boy into your merry
circle? I will promise not to stay long. As
it is a rule to describe yourself,' here goes.
Don’t you all run. I have light brown hair,
blue eyes, fair complexion, aged fourteen
years. Who has my birthday, June 17? 1
live in the city. I like the life fine. 1
go to school. What do you cousins do for
pastime? I go to the movies. 1 hope Mr.
W. B. will be out when this reaches you.
As this is my first attempt, I will ring
off. I remain,
Your new cousin and nephew,
PAUL R. COLLIER.
P. S.—Please print this. I would like to
correspond with some of you cousins.
Columbia. S. C., 2301 Main street.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
please admit another North Carolina boy
into your happy band? I enjoy reading the
Letter Box fine. What are all of you doing
this bad weather? I have not been to school
in about a month. I caught the "flu” and
I have not started baek. I am in the
eighth grade. My teacher’s name is Mr.
Kenneth Logan. What do you cousins do
for pastime. I enjoy reading good books
and I like to go fishing in the summer.
I will not describe myself this time. If
I see this in print, I will describe myself
next time. I am eighteen years old, so if
any of you want to write me, I will answer
all letters received. I would like to corre
spond with cousins in other states.
Your new cousin,
WORTH ELLIOTT.
Bostic, N. C., Route 3.
P. S.—-You will find 10 cents inclosed
for the baby.
Dear Aunt Julia: I have just finished read
ing the letters. I for one think we should
do something for an American orphan, as
well as the little French lassie. I guess
you cousins have most forgotten me by now.
Cousin--, I guess you will be glad when
school is out, as it is getting so warm. 1
have just one more week. The. high school
is giving a play for the benefit of the
school. The name of it is "Deacon Dubbs.”
It sure is funny. 1 quite agree with vou, Mr.
Huff. My mothey reads every letter I get.
If I am not at home when it is received
she knows she is welcome to open it and
read it. She enjoys the letters from the
cousins nearly -as much as I do. Auntie,
I am sending my mite for the French or
phan. Any who cares to correspond let the
letters fly to a cousin.
BERTHA WOODS.
Bowling Green, Fla.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
please let a north Georgia girl into your
charming circle? As most cousins describe
themselves, I will do likewise. Please don’t
get frightened because lam so horrid
looking. So here, goes: Brown eyes, au
burn hair, fair complexion, five feet four
inches tall. My age is between twelve and
sixteen. I am through, cousins, you may
come from behind the door. Aunt Julia, I
think Faith Cottage would be a grand place
for the little kiddie. I have visited the
Berry school and think it is a fine place.
I live about twenty miles from this school.
I go to school at Summerville High school.
I am in the eighth grade and hope to pass
the final exams and be' promoted to the
ninth. I have two sisters and one brother,
all yodnger than I. I live on a farm,
about one mile from town. I like farm
life fine. Luther Huff, come again, your
letters are very interesting. I think I
hear Aunt Julia saying don’t stay so long.
If any of you cousins want to correspond
with a Georgia girl, let your letters fly to
your cousin,
ELENDER MORTON.
Summerville, Ga., Route 5.
P. S.—Will send my bit next time.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Please ad
mit a little Georgia girl into your band of
Mike, the Belgium Stowaway and
Orphan, Too Much for U. S. A.
Michael Gilhonley, christened the
“champion stowaway” by immigra
tion officials here, is again in trouble
and may be sent back to Belgium.
Representatives of Mrs. Marion C.
Curry, w r ho adopted him and fur
nished a bond to support him after
his fifth unsuccessful attempt to en
ter the country, telephoned To Ellis
Island recently to inquire how she
could be relieved of her ward and
have him sent back to Europe.
Gilhooley, the fourteen-year-old
orphaned son of an Irish father and
a Belgian mother, found himself
without a home during the third year
of the wmr. He wandered aimlessly
over northern France and Belgium,
seeking shelter and nourishment in
camps of the various allied armies.
Finally he fell in with American
military units and became devotedly
attached to the American Doughboy.
After the armistice was signed and
the American soldiers started home
ward, Gilhooley became lonesome. He
made his way to a base port and se
creted himself aboard a transport
Seven Indians Want to Be Governor
Os Reservation; Salary SSO a Year
EASTPORT, Maine. —Elected ev
ery four years, and receiving the
small salary of SSO a year, there are
already seven candidates out for the
Office of governor of Maine’s farth
est east reservation of the Passama
quoddies, who have occupied the nar
row peninsula on the border river,
St. Croix, five miles from Eastport,
for the past 155 years. Governor
William Neptune’s term will expire
next October, but he does not have
to worry about the high cost of liv
ing and keeping up his small home
in the village on the state’s salary of
SSO, as he is an expert basketma’ker,
hunter and trapper. He owns a
third interest in a herring fishery
on the shores of the reservation
where fish are caught for eastern
Maine sardine factories. Cod, pol
lock and other fish are gathered in
Murderer Recaptured
After Fifteen Years
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 24.
After eluding the police for fifteen
years, during which time he roamed
half the world, Robert L. Dix, negro,
42 years old, convicted slayer of Bert
cousins. I live on a farm and like it fine.
It is raining here this morning. I wish
some of you cousins were here with me; I
am so lonesome. Cousins, I have a dear
sister at Alto State sanitarium. Alto, Ga.
She has tuberculosis, but she is recovering
real fast. We are looking for her home in
June or July. I will describe myself and
go: Dark hair, blue eyes, fair complexion,
and am ten years old, in the fourth grade
at school; my teacher is Mitra Pauline
Theus. I love her dearly. You all write
to a lonely little Georgia girl. With love.
FLORIS PETERS.
Naylor, Ga.
IN THE SPRING
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: I’m going
to tell you about the spring season in
southwestern Alabama, if you will listen.
No poet could give as pretty a description
as the natural beauty of things here. I’m
not good on describing things, as you will
see, but please don’t get restless if you
can help it. The gardens ifre beautiful
here, with young beans, cabbage, collards,
peas, onions and other things, but the
'strawberry patch is the prettiest. The
green leaves of the strawberry bush give
a pleasing eblor to the eye, but the little
white flowers set off with the red and
green berries are just as beautiful as I’ve
ever seen anything. There is nothing so
tempting, in my estimation, as the fruit
bearing strawberry patch. The fruit or
chards are green with young leaves, but the
blossoms have mostly sheded. Here and
there you see a peach blossom, while the
apples have not sheded their blooms that
much. The birds are singing and darting
to and fro through the apple branches.
Sometimes they venture to sit in the vines
that entwines our front porch. This vine
is a wisteria and is a perfect, lovely, shade
“tree” through the summer. The sun-kiss
ed roses in our front yard are nodding at
me as if to say, "Don’t forget me.” Some
have said that the rose was queen of flow
ers and I think it is a truth. We live on
a far mand I have lots of fun. There are
five other girls in the family and we go
swimming, fishing and horseback riding.
Cousins, describe your homes instead of
yourselves if you can do better me at de
scribing things. When we first began to
take The Journal I read every letter, but
now I just read Aunt Julia’s and the long
est cousins’ letters if I’ve got work to be
doing, if I haven’t, though. I read them
all. Aunt, I hope you can have space for
this, but you said that you just reached in
the letter box and printed the one who’s
fate it was to be drawn out, so I’ll just
remember the motto: “If at first you do
not succeed, try, try again.” Your niece
and cousin,
PEARL BROWN.
Millry, Ala., Route 2, Box 34.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
please admit two south Georgia chums into
your happy band of boys and girls? We
are going to Clement’s school, six miles
south of Cordele, and are in the sixth and
seventh grades. There are only two more
weeks of school, then comes time for va
cation. I, Dorothy, am fair, light blue
eyes, light brown hair, weigh 125 pounds
and five feet six inches tall. I, Ettie Mae,
have brown hair, blue eyes, fair complexion,
weigh 107 pounds and am five feet five
inches tall; ages between thirteen and
eighteen years. What do you cousins do
for pastime? We tat, crochet and read
good books. Would be pleased to receive
cards and letters from some of you good
looking cousins near our ages. For fear
Mr. Wastebasket is near, we will close by
asking a riddle: Three-cornered square,
black as a bear. Two new cousins,
DOROTHY MAE CAVES,
Cordele, Ga., Route C.
ETTIE MAE BIRGE.
Cordele, Ga., Route A,
Dear Aunt Julia and. Cousins: Here comes
two Georgia chums. We live in south Geor
gia on a farm. We enjoy farm life fine.
How do you cousins spend your vacation?
We spend ours going in swimming and vis
iting. We also do some fancy work. 1,
Mona, am fourteen years old, 5 feet and
4 inches high and weigh »7 pounds. I,
Thelma, am thirteen years old, am 5 feet
and 3 inches high and weigh 93 pounds. We
are in the seventh grade. We go to school
at King’s chapel. We would like to corre
spond with any of you cousins near our age.
With love to Aunt Julia and cousins; also
the French baby.
MONA STRICKLAND AND
THELMA WILLIAMS.
Bay City, Ga., R. F. D. 1.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
please admit two little gray-eyed girls into
your l happy band of boys and girls? As all
the others describe themselves, we will do
likewise. I, Ethel Lee, have gray eyes, fair
complexion, light hair and am nine years of
age. I. Clara, have gray eyes, fair com
plexion and brown curly hair and am twelve
years of age. What do you cousins Jo for
pastime? We crochet, play, read books nnd
go to school . Our teacher’s names are Miss
Mary Cotter.and Miss Gladys Hnllender. We
wisli to write more but short letters seem to
be the rule.
Your loving cousins.
ETHEL T.EE EMBERSON,
CHORA BANDY.
Ringgold, Ga.
only to be discovered and turned
over to immigration authorities on
his arrival here. He was sent back,
broken-hearted but not discouraged.
He tried again, but met with little
success and soon became a human
shuttlecock on the high seas.
Gilhooley’s various rebuffs at the
hands of immigration authorities won
him wide notoriety and considerable
sympathy. Mrs. Curry was among
those who were attracted by the
boy’s story and she finally induced
Ellis Island officials to release him
in her care.
She first took him to live with her
in the Hotel Vanderbilt and later
sent him to an exclusive private
school. Reports received at Ellis
Island showed that the boy had made
excellent progress in his studies, but
apparently his deportment outside
was not so good.
Mrs. Curry was informed that the
government cannot now deport the
boy, but that if she wants to get rid
of him she must pay his traveling
expenses to Europe. She did not in
dicate what action she would take.
frequently, so that the Indians have
plenty of fish and raise some vege
tables from the seeds sent out every
spring from the capital at Augusta.
At all religious and’ patriotic
events at the village he appears with
his staff in native costume of beads
and fringed buckskin, long hair and
eagle feathers, moccasins of pret
ty design and painted face. The
costume is valued at S3JO. Dur
ing the World War, just as the
armistice was signed, his 22-year-old
son, Private Moses Neptune, was
killed while with the 26th division.
There were twenty-four Passama
quoddies in the Canadian and Amer
ican armies and navy and six lost
their lives.
Governor Neptune ownes a small
but neat home in the village, has a
modern piano and enjoys some com
forts with his family.
Pesnell, a street car motorman of
this city, has been captured in Cleve
land, Ohio, according to advices
reaching the chief oi police here to
day.
Dix, who was known as James H.
George in the Ohio city, has been
positively identified, said Police Com
missioner Taylor, and will be brought
back to Birmingham to die on the
gallows.
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Woman’s Party to
Meet After Act
Is Finally Ratified
WASHINGTON, July 25.—The Na
tional Woman’s party will hold a
convention to decide its own future
immediately after the thirty-sixth
state ratifies the federal suffrage
amendment, Miss Alice Paul, chair
man of the party, announces today.
At this convention it will be de
termined whether the party will be
disbanded or be continued with a
new set of aims and policies affect
ing the welfare of women and chil
dren.
Miss Paul made her announcement
just after returned from Ohio, where
she saw both Governor Cox and Sen
ator Harding to urge the two presi
dential candidates to hasten ratifica
tion of suffrage in Tennessee.
“We have received assurances that
Tennessee will be the 36th state
to ratify, and it is now only a short
time until all the women of America
will be enfranchised,” Miss Paul
said. “This will mpan that the Na
tional Woman’s party will have to
change its program.
“Should the party continue as an
organization new work would have
to be taken up. The program would
be to revise legislation so that laws
discriminating against women woul 1
be removed, aniend the civil service
laws, so women would be eligible for
all positions and look after the wel
fare of the schools.’’
The suffragists are still keeping
in touch with both Senator Harding
and Governor Cox, Miss Paul said,
and will do so until Tennessee rati
fies. After that no attempt will be
made to have North Carolina, whose
legislature meets early in August,
to ratify so that the suffrage cause
will be protected if its opponents se
cure an Injunction on the strength
of Tennesee laws.
"Governor Cox has at present
three men in Tennessee working for
suffrage,” said Miss Paul. "Jessie
Little, running for governor of the
state on the Republican ticket, is
working out our cause, and Governor
Roberts is doing all in his power to
assist us.”
Nearly $1,200,000 of
U. S. Road Funds Has
Been Claimed by State
Under the federal aid system of
highway improvement Georgia has
claimed neatly $1,200,000 of govern
men road funds, and of this amount
$1,054,702 has been made available
since the present highway depart
ment took charge, according to an
announcement by the state highway
board Saturday.
A total of $193,876 in federal
vouchers has been called for in the
month of July, and this amount will
be apportioned among the counties ac
cording to the amount of road build
ing they have done during the month.
The counties for which federal aid
money has been asked are as fol
lows;
Brooks $10,844.25
Bullock 6.478.42
Chatham 30.739.33
Cook 2.001.64
Cherokee 16,133.23
Charlton 2.305.64
Pong las 5,958.28
Dougherty 8,927.04
Emanuel 9.008.36
Floyd 8.026.51
llab'ersliam 2,560,74
Haralson 2,329.30
Harris 1.142.28
Lowndes 17 465.21
Lumpkin 4,376.55
McDuffie 2,165.68
Morgan 4,553.55
Paulding 1.797.16
Pulaski 7,576.83
Rabun •. 2,257.34
Spalding 9,134.81
Thomas 7,669.65
Walker 1,084.95
Wnlton ; 7,804.78
Washington 4,093.47
Wilkes 1,003.08
Worth .’ 16.067.72
Fire Chief Admits
Tipping Off Raid Victims
COLUMBUS, Ga., July 24.—Chief
A. J. Land, of the Columbus fire
department, has made public
acknowledgment tonight of wrong
doing in connection with the charges
made by the Are committee of the
city council relative to “tipping off”
certain parties here in advance of
raids on suspected liquor places. He
accepted a severe reprimand at the
hands of the committee, and the I
case may be a closed incident, un- I
less the city council refuses to ac
cept the committee’s report when it
meets Wednesday night week.
In accepting the reprimand, Chief
Land pledged the committee on his
honor that there will never be a
recurrence of such conduct during
his term of office, and should there
ever arise sufficient reason for com
plaint of misconduct again, his res
ignation as city official would be
forthcoming.
The case is an unusual one and
the revelations followed by a con
fession on the part of the chief
caused a mild sensation in the city
hall tonight. Land has been chief of
the department some seven years.
TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1920.
The Country Home
BY MRS. W. H. FELTON
The» Beautiful Lines Written by
Oliver Wendell Holmes
More than sixteen years ago I
clipped this poetry for my scrap
book. It Is a gospel of comfort for
those who are weary and heavy la
den with earthborn cares, the sort
that go hand In hand with bitter
tears and that must be borne. It
is a gospel of patience for those who
are walking in the darkness of such
earthly gloom.
It is a balm of healing, with sooth
ing calm when trenfbling faith has
been turned to fear, when the suf
ferer is crying: ‘‘Lord, to whom shall
we go? Thou only hast the words
of eternal life.”
Unless the Lord is forever near,
and the heavy weight of burdensome
woe, which is wearing down both
mind and body, how could any of us
stand erect in an evil and gainsay
ing world, unless the Lord is ever
near?
"O Love Divine, that stooped to
share
Our sharpest pang, our bitterest
tear;
On thee we cast each earthborn
care;
We smile at pain when thou art
near;
No pain We shun, no darkness dread,
Our hearts still whispering, thou
art near.
“When drooping pleasure turns to
grief,
And trembling faith is turned to
fear;
The murmuring wind, the quivering
leaf '
Shall softly tell us, thou are near.
On thee we flin* our burdening wm.
O Love Divine, forever
Content to suffer while we know,
Living or dying, ever near.”
Brave Little Belgium
Continuous reports of revived in
dustries and the energy of the Bel
gian people are obliged to create
cheerful hopefulness in these after
war days.
Belgium Is said to be the most
densely settled nation in Europe, and
it is true that the products of Bel
gium agricultural products are
among the most valuable in the
world. Before the war the greatest
flax fields in the world were in Rus
sia.
At present Ittle Belgum has a flax
boom that is remarkable. The price
that linens have reached will show
how profitable the flax Industry can
be made.
All flax must be cultivated where,
the're is stagnant water or a slow-'
flowing river. The linen mills In Bel
gium were a total wreck in some
devastated districts, but some have
been revived. Belgium has retalried
more laborers than France. France
lost 60 per cent of all her men be
tween nineteen and thirty-two, ac
cording to military statistics. Little
Belgium has risen up and is facing
the battle bravely.
The Belgians hurried back to the
land when the armistice arrived.
They were allowed to claim the old
home and the soil. They knew that
it meant hard work and close econo
my. But they are digging away, de
termined to win.
How the Czarina and. Her Daughters
Died
The latest story (said to be relia
ble) is that the hapless czarina and
her four grown daughters were actu
ally pushed into a blazing log heap
and kept there by bayonets until their
bodies perished in the blazing bon
fire.
It is awful to hear about. It was
more horrible .to witness. Fifteen
years ago and less these people were
the richest of earth. Their posses
sions were fabulous in extent, in
jewels and everything money could
buy. They were perhaps the most en
vied family in the continent of Eu
rope.
The czarina was a granddaughter
of Queen Victoria, an own cousin
of the Emperor William and King
George, of the British
Does not this surpass all the fic
tion in our libraries? Was there ever
a greater reversal in human for
tunes ?
Automobile Stages Held
Up in California in
Old Western Style
PRESNO, Calif., July 24.—A mask
ed bandit robbed four automobiles
stages et nroute to Yosemite na
tional park today and obtained $350
in money, according to a special dis
patch to the Fresno Republican, from
Merlced, Calif.
The bandit, who wore a M(hite
handkerchief for a mask, stood on
a bank overlooking the road and at
the point of a rifle compelled one of
the stage passengers to alight and
pass a hat among the other passen
gers. Each was ordered to empty his
pockets. The robber declined
watches and jewelry. Touring cars
'following the stages were not
molested.
The scene of the hold up was in
the mountains a short distance out
side the park boundaries and about
36 miles from Yosemite postoffice.
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