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PAGE TWO 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. / * v ' iflr ; I 'T'HERE are certain times when I A nearly every woman should accept 1 - *%? the aid and comfort of Bayer Aspirin. Not just for the unexpected headache ft these tablets relieve so readily. Not just f° r col^s thcy c,lec k s0 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 I all uses. Remember this! Look for ||> N / \ Bayer on the box and follow ; I j proven directions found inside. | Aspirin U tlio trade mark *f Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetlcactdeettr f Sal 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. -J5 . \ 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.