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THE ROCKDALE RECORD
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
J. M. TOWNS Editor
W. E. ATKINSON Publisher
Who run remember when n blood
hound occasionally ran down some
thing?
If nil the statisticians wee placed
end to end they would reach another
foolish conclusion.
The prince of Wales had a session
with a restive horse and kept his
seat. That’s news.
The downward slump of the mercury
will never wipe out the shorts In fem
inine winter attire.
The now popular song, "1 Can’t
Give You Anything Hut Hove” sounds
as if there ought to he a rejoinder.
A Toledo paper mentions “xylotri
hydroxyglutfnrlc acid." We heard it
was xylotriiiydroxyglutaric acid, with
one "t."
It is generally understood that in
Utopia fill hands are in hearty agree
ment as to the site for any new post
office.
Almost any time now we may ex
pect to see the restaurants letulinto
by putting in a line of drugs and
toilet, articles.
Another difference between gam
bling and speculation Is that the one
who gambles doesn’t have to mortgage
ids house.
There was an old fellow hack home
who finally found a cure for his rheu
matism, and had to go out and buy a
regular barometer.
“Dyspnea,” which is the scientific
word for shortness of breath, sounds
as if it. might have been named by
someone with it.
A girl nowadays doesn't differen
tiate between educated and unedu
cated men when choosing a husband.
The education follows.
Safeblowers, so we read, got away
with S2,(KM) and twelve hams. Our ad
vice to the police is to watch for a
big egg robbery, and the game will be
up.
Another thing we always wonder
about, a little, is who used those
(piaint maps of the New world dated
1500 or 1 hereabouts, and how he got
along.
A Cleveland writer, answering an
Inquirer, says “tryst” Is pronounced
to rhyme with “kissed.” In fact, it is
practically never rhymed with any
thing else.
Science should confer witli psycho
analysis to determine just how much
of a so-called "flu” epidemic is due
to an eternal human tendency toward
hypochondria.
Mars still fails to respond to our
messages. PefDaps the English lan
guage isn’t being taught in the Mar
tian public schools.
Anew manner of finance Is in evi
dence, which assumes that a cash
seeker does not need to sign a check
or even an I. O. U. if lie has equipped
himself with a gun.
It is estimated the world’s popula
tion will double in sixty years, which
is good news or had in accordance
with what we think about human na
ture as a whole.
“Flu” is an epidemic. And yet sci
ence has not demonstrated that it is
any more easily met with cautious, in
telligent treatment than an ordinary,
old-fashioned “bad cold.”
An East side girl, on stepping out
the other evening, remarked to her
sister: “You can leave those dishes
until 1 get home, and the towel is
on the back of the pantry door.”
Revival in England of the project
of a tunnel to the French coast draws
attention anew to the possibility in
the future of going to France on the
English channel, over it or under it.
“Alligator pears that are not up to
standard contain an oil which can
he utilized in the making of hard
soap.” Or in a pinch they could use
alligator pears which are up to stand
ard, if any.
A man arrested in St. Louis is
charged with stealing eight phono
graphs. Probably looking for one that
sang baritone, or something.
A western humorist has been
warned that if he doesn’t discontinue
Scotch jokes his correspondent will
stop borrowing the paper.
The mere tradition that it is a free
country hardly explains the kind of
author who has himself photographed
with a hat on and a topcoat turned
up around the neck.
Whatever became of the old-fash
ioned genial stranger who, if you
slipped kerplunk on the ice, would
observe, “X marks the spot”?
Along with the actor who spends
his afternoon off at the matinee is
the detective who reads detective nov
els in his leisure, for a laugh.
Neglectful Parents Are Held Responsible for
Prevalence of Crime
By REV. HENRY McKENZIE, St. Louis.
THE public-spirited citizens ought to rise in righteous indigna
tion, and create a public opinion that would lash and punish the
neglectful parents. This menace of adolescent crime is a curse,
a plague, a disease. We organize commissions, committees, we
continue with our sermons, lectures and addresses, hut the constant
stream fluctuates very little, if any. We inspect boilers, elevators, fire
escapes, and the like, but how insignificant are these things compared
to the home. Destroy the home and you destroy all principles, systems,
philosophies and civilization itself, but we do not inspect the home nor
the child’s welfare, Wljen I say that crime last year cost our govern
ment $10,000,000,000, or more than three times our national budget, I
am getting at the economic waste, but we are not concerned with the
physical aspect, save as it mentally, socially and spiritually influences.
The home is a miniature state. The father is the president, the
mother the vice president. As goes the home, so goes the city, the state,
the nation.
The average conversation in the home reminds one of the “barber
shop talk” of a few years ago. The idea is a “movie” star, the hero is a
prize fighter, the church is the radio, the school is the theater or amuse
ment center, the attitude toward the child, if it is 100 per cent Amer
ican, we think, is to pet, coddle, indulge and spoil beyond all reason or ex
cuse.
Jf you would stop the crime w T ave, begin in your own home or death
and destruction will follow. How can we expect an ideal home after a
quick love affair, a hurryup experimental marriage built on license which
quickly ends in separation and divorce? There are 100,000 divorces
granted annually in the United States, or one in seven marriages. We
have thirty times more divorces than Great Britain on the percentage
basis. Go over the family records of the children brought into the Juven
ile court and you will discover that over 80 per cent of these little ones
come from homes where there is separation or divorce.
Declares That Infant Mortality Rate Is Shame
of the United States
By PROP’. THEODORE B. SHANK, Educator.
Minor ills of children may lead to physical breakdown or death, and
minor insults, offered and unwittingly oft-repeated by parents or teach
ers, may lead later to mental breakdown.
Do you recall medicine as it was thirty years ago in the hey-day of
saddle-bags, calomel and quinine? Then we counted it a summer lost if
there were no epidemic of typhoid. It was the day when every parent
expected every child to have measles, mumps, whooping cough and diph
theria, just in the natural order of things. And generally they were not
a bit selfish about it. If one child had a contagious disease, as a rule
the whole community enjoyed it together.
Now we know that it is not necessary to have these simpler dis
eases. Even if a child contracts one, the chances are great that he wilt
recover. But they still play a grisly part in the health of those children
in later life.
The first of the three great causes of death is heart disease, with
125,000 deaths annually in those sections of the country where there is
registration. Nearly all of those between the ages of forty-five and fifty,
not caused by excesses, are tlie results of a heritage from youthful days
—diphtheria, pneumonia and flu. There is the danger of acute attacks of
cold in the child.
Second is pneumonia, with 115,000 annual deaths registered, and
the third is tuberculosis. This is gradually on the decrease, and, like
the other two, can best be cut down by scrupulous protection of children.
It is a young people’s disease, with the dangerous age from fourteen to
twenty-one. A Viennese physician examined 100,000 children of fourteen
and found traces of it in 80,000. The only hope is to begin with the diet
and health habits of the child.
Will Work in Congress for the Rights of Women
as American Citizens
By REPRESENTATIVE PEARL OLDFIELD, Arkansas.
Broad-minded people of today think in terms of citizen, not sex.
Am I going to work for women’s rights in congress? As citizens, yes;
as women, no. I shall advance no strange or essentially feminine ideas,
as I entertain none. I believe that a government which is properly ad
ministered for our men—our, sons, our fathers and our husbands—is
equally safe and sound for our women.
War? I am, of course, opposed to war and believe that we should
exert every possible means toward honorably averting it. But Ido not
believe that we should abandon the primary principle of preparedness.
1 am heartily in favor of any legislation which would assure peace, hut
I do not wish to sacrifice the nation’s safety for sentimentality, and
think that under present conditions we need adequate naval and military
defense.
A woman’s first duty and greatest service to her country is to make
a home. If it is a question of choosing between g political career and
that of a wife and mother, a woman’s duty and also her greatest joy,
should he to choose the latter. But when the two do not conflict, I think
women can be as valuable as men in the service of their government or
in other business or professional fields.
Colleges Should Find Way to Take Care of All
Students Who Would Enter
By PROFESSOR BOYNTON, Ithaca, New York.
Asa result of the great increase in wealth since the World war the
country is now in better condition than ever to make investments in ed
ucation. Since the war the millionaire estates have increased by more
than GOO per cent. Only last year there was an increase of 1,500 mil
lionaires in this country. Americans scrap more automobiles every year
than the rest of the world owns, and the value of those automobiles is
greater than the cost of secondary and elementary education.
Asa result of the propaganda in favor of education in recent years
the colleges now find themselves swamped with applicants, and the cry
goes up to bar them out, raise the entrance requirements yet higher,
weed them out through the selective process.
That is the wrong attitude for the colleges to take. They have cre
ated the congested situation in which they now profess to find themselves,
and it is up to them to find ways to take cars of all students and to keep
them until the students have shown conclusively that they cannot profit
by a college education.
THE ROCKDALE RECORD, Conyers, Oa., Wed., March 13. 1020
GUIDE VIOLATES
WOODLAND CODE,
MURDERS FRIEND
Slayer’s Alleged Confession
Indicates Crime Was
Committed for Money.
Speculator, N. Y—The new county
courthouse here will be the scene of
the trial of Ernest Duane, thirty-five,
charged with violating the woodland
code and murdering Ula Davis, sixty,
the man who trained him as a guide.
Hamilton county, which is New
York state’s only county with a dis
trict attorney and county judge who
are not lawyers, expects one of the
most sensational trials in years.
Assistant District Attorney B. W.
Kearney of Fulton county will have
charge of the prosecution. Supreme
Court Justice Christopher J. Heffer
nan of Amsterdam will preside.
Guide for Tunney.
Davis, the murdered man, was per
sonal guide for Gene Tunney when
the champion trained here last sum
mer for his battle with Tom Heeney.
Davis’ friends say he knew every tree
in the neighboring forests.
Davis’ body was found in his Whit
aker lake cabin on the night of No-
Murdered Ula Davis.
vember 25 with a bullet wound
through liis body. His friends
searched several days for the slayer.
Duane was arrested by state troop
ers who said they found a wallet,
containing S2OO, sewed in one of his
pockets. Each bill and the wallet had
a bullet hole, it was said. The bul
let which killed Davis, police say, en
tered the guide’s hip and penetrated
the pocket where he carried his
wallet.
A Good Fellow.
After being questioned for hours,
Duane is said by Kearney to have
confessed.
“I needed the money,” Duane is
quoted as saying. “I knew Davis had
some for working as guide last sum
mer. I don’t know why I killed him.
He was such a good fellow.”
An extraordinary session of the
grand jury has been called and the
case will be given to that term.
Duane spends his time in the little
county jail reading cowboy novels
and professing nonchalance over what
justice he will receive on the charge
of breaking the woodland code. His
young wife visits him almost daily.
Find Peculiar Graft
in Santiago Cemetery
Santiago.—Meeting of three families
at one grave, each with flowers for a
different dead relative, started a
scandal here which resulted in the im
prisonment of three cemetery em
ployees.
In the poorer parts of Santiago’s
great general cemetery burial space
is often rented for periods of from
two to five years instead of being
bought outright. The graves are
niches in concrete or brick cell blocks,
which are built on top of the ground
and hold perhaps a hundred caskets
each.
When the fees are not paid bodies
are removed to the “fosa comun,” a
potter’s field which contains thou
sands of forgotten skeletons in great
trenches. The court was told that
certain unscrupulous employees of the
graveyard had emptied niches which
were supposedly insured against dis
turbance by payment of the usual fee.
Other bodies had been interred there,
records falsified and epitaphs changed,
so that money for the same plot might
be obtained from several sources.
Most of the frauds, it was said, had
been committed several years ago,
and only discovered through com
plaints of persons who could not find
their dead.
Most Contemptible Man
in World Is Discovered
South Bend, ind. —The most con
temptible man in the world has ap
peared in this city and exercised his
meanness on Henry Emmons, a blind
man who sells newspapers. This
meanest man approached Emmons and
gave him a piece of blank paper the
size of a dollar bill. Emmons gave
him a newspaper and 07 cents in
change.
Later the trick was again worked.
When Emmons’ accounts for the day
were cast up, the slips of blank paper
* were found.
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I 'T'HERE are certain times when
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Not just for the unexpected headache
ft these tablets relieve so readily. Not
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quickly. Bayer Aspirin brings ease on
- the days too many women still submit
to pain that is not natural , not necessary.
\ relief is perfectly harmless, as in
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No Place for Middle
Aged Man in Business?
Sociologists are debating ways and
means for caring for the middle-aged
as well as the aged, and newspapers
in the large cities are printing many
complaints to the effect that men past
fifty are denied employment solely be
cause of their age. The problem of
the unemployed man of fifty is becom
ing serious.
Along with this condition it is in
teresting to note f hat the board of
managers of the New York Associa
tion for Improving the Condition of
the Poor reports that between 15 and
20 per cent of ail persons more than
sixty-five years of age receive some
support from others. It is also stated
that in ISSO 2.8 per cent of the pop
ulation was more than sixty-four years
of age while in 1920, clue to the gen
erally lengthened span of life, figures
were 4.6, an increase of 64 per cent
in seventy years.
The percentage of old persons is ex
pected to increase steadily for some
years. With employers refusing to
hire men and women past fifty what
will become of these persons? Is it
a kindness to increase the length of
life if old age must be spent in pov
erty? —Miami Herald.
One on Taft
Chief Justice Taft is not averse to
telling jokes on himself. During his
Presidential campaign he once faced
an unfriendly audience. He wanted
to send over some points with a punch,
and finally appealed to the presiding
officer, saying:
“I have been talking for a quarter
of an hour, but there is so much noise
that I can hardly hear myself talk.”
“That’s all right,” shouted someone
from the rear, “you’re not missing
anything.”
No farmer can plow a field by turn
ing it over in his mind.
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Help Kidneys After Grip
Don t Neglect Kidney and Bladder Irregularities.
T_TA.S grip or flu left you stiff, achy—all worn out? Feel
A J - , an £ drowsy—suffer nagging backache, headache
and dizzy spells? Are the kidney excretions too frequent,
scanty or burning? Too often this indicates sluggish kid'
neys and shouldn’t be neglected.
Thousands rely on Doan's Pills. Doan's, a stimulant
luretic, increase the activity of the kidneys and assist in
the elimination of waste impurities. Are endorsed every'
where. your neighbor!
Doan’s Pills
A Stimulant Diuretic to the Kidneys
At all dealers, 75c a box. Foster-Milbum Cos., Mfg. Chemists, Buffalo, N. Y.
WII.I. TRADE 4TO ACRES <IA. lands an
cash, for smaller improved Go. Form.
KIRBY BROTHERS. - APOPKA, FLA
Genuine "Nashua” 66x80 Indian Design
Blanket, $3.05 postpaid, css values).
Import Service, 435-CA, Gainesville, Florida.
AGENTS. FEET. OR PART TIME
Biggest money maker on market. Folding
Electric stove. N eyv. Unique. Sells at sight.
Everybody wants one. Make ten to
twenty dollars per day. Write I'OLItKX
ELECTRIC HEATER CO., DETROIT, MICH.
SEND NO MONEY!
Extra fine cabbage or Onion Plants sent C,
O. D mail or express collect. 500. (isc; 1,000,
$1.00; 5,000 $4.50. Twenty million ready.
Quality Plant Farms. Box 343. Tilton, Ga.
Pawned Railroad Watches good as new. 21
jeweled, Waltham, Elgin, Illinois, Hamilton,
20 year gold cases. Values SSO, your choice
s27.so.Montgomery Loan Cos., Montgomery, Ala.
Stone Mountain Watermelon Seed from se
lected melons; $1 lb. Frostproof cabbage and
Bermuda Onion Plants pstpd, 600, 75c. Col
lect 76c thousand. Horace Ballard, Pavo, Ga.
$5.00 A DAY MAILING FOR US, spare time
at home. No canvassing. S.amped envelope
for partirula-s. BUSINESS PROMOTERS,
906 W. CENTRAL, ALBUQUERQUE, N. M.
SOY AND VELVET BEANS, COW PEAS,
peanuts. Cotton seed. Write for price list.
MURPHY PALMER. Sandersville. Ga.
YOU HAVE ENLARGED
IF OR DISEASED TONSILS
avoid operation by the use of TONSOL. Guar
anteed to give satisfaction ortnoney refunded.
Testimonial and descriptive circular mailed
FREE without any obligation,
E. J. McCANN
Dept. 3 803 Claremont Are,
ELMIRA, NEW YORK
Four in Hand Ties, latest designs silks, $4.75
dozen assorted; excellent profit, sold singly.
Send money order. Postage prepaid, Insured,
J. Manheims, 869 W. 180th St., New York.
DAHLIAS 16 for $1.93, 8 for SI.OO. All col
ors, no two alike, postage paid. Special low
prices to secure new dahlia growers. E.
Adrian Smith, 1014 Miller St., Utica, N. T.
Indian Pedestrian
Asa whole, the American Indians
never had any form of transportation
except afoot, there never being horses
for all. Despite the great distances
they walked, they never had corns,
bunions, falling arches or other mod
ern foot troubles.
Many a married man who isn’t
exactly smart is shrewd.