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• VCfc. II Subscription $1.50 Dr.fCooper Advises Against Home Work Speaking to members of hie South Carolina Teachers' association, in con vention in Columbia, S. C,. Dr. Wil liam John Cooper, United States Com missioner of Education, declared that the end to "home assignment” is to r “Wml be desired. ‘‘The job of class room teaching is the teacher's” he said. “That is a * highly professional work and the real teacher must not expect the parent gto do the teaching.” Now, we could not hold down Dr. Hooper's job, but we do know enough, from [experience, if nothing else, to ate that he is right about it. Children in the primary and elementary de partments, that is through grade six. ;hould get their lessons at school. The vork if the trained teacher and of he trained mother are on parallel lines >ut not identical. The two ways of presentation are more than confusing o a qliild. In systems where classes ire wall, there are hours enough In :lie stfiool day to accomplish all that s necessary to "make the grade.” In ;.vstets that carry “Junior high,” the \-6-3-3 plan, home assignments might >e profitable in Junior High or grades p 'Js and 9. We I know that the duties of the eacher are manifold; but we know ilso til at the school is for the bene it of [the child. How many mothers ( vill siy, “Amen!” to the gospel of Dr. a? - Baptist News 6 SI All the children of the Baptist Sun ; ay school are invited to the Easter ‘ gg hunt next Saturday afternoon, S arch 80. Please meet at the church three o’clock and you will be car ed to where the eggs are to be inted. The Stone Mountain Sunday school sociational convention will be held ext Sunday at Klondike, Philadel lUr Church. The convention begins eleven-thirty, eastern time and will ntinpe throughout the day. Presi aggput Wages has arranged a good pro _am that will be of help to all who ■' I/, pastor Drake urges all of the (hnyels Sunday school who can go be I sure and go. An attendance |iiner will be given to the school liav ig the largest number present, w Account of the repair work that still going on at the Baptist church I 1 will lie unable to hold our services PI Sunday. The Presbyterian ■building has been offered again 4‘ which we are very grateful. The jjethodist people have invited us to ®eir Sundav school in order to have nr hundred in attendance and then Somised to come with us to our open ■g the following Sunday. We are ■ad to accept the Methodist invita -sfcn to attend their Sunday school and S'* have them with us the following inday. After Sunday school we will Kto the Presbyterian church for our caching service. Our evening serv -5? will also be held at the Presby jrian church. American Legion Post .lolds Annual Election m ifhe American Legion Post No. 77 of Rpefedale county held their annual feting Friday night at the City Hall, feting officers as follows: W. A. musou. commander; Leroy Brisindine, ■e Commander, W. U. Bowen, adju jSjiwCliff Miller, finance officer; Ir lijfi Ci ovan, sergeant at arms; J. M. jjgflklum, chaplain, and Coley Bird. B dorian. A drive is on for an increased mem iship with plans for an increased Klvice This is a splendid organiza n and worthy of our every sympa- I fv ami hearty cooperation and Rock -1 *£le County is proud of these ex-serv ’•f men. The newly elected officers institute a splendid bunch of men. B*l of [whom stand well in the county id their respective fields of labor. Jtaptists-Methodists b ‘ Join Forces Again ,v/l ' - - I. oThe0 The Baptist laymen will again visit ith the Methodist laymen of Judge Bwin’s'8 win’s' Sunday school next Sunday. ie entire membership of both oi'gani m tions' and all visitors within this ■dinmnnity are urged to he present 8™ ion this gala occasion. Four hun •ed present in this joint Sunday liool is the aim of Superintendents Baughn and Still. Special Easter rogram will greet this congregation. mhe morning and evening preaching of the Baptist church will be at the Presbyterian church. 2l)c Uocktmlc Uccorii Baseball in and Around Conyers Mr. Carl Fincher, manager Conyers baseball club last year, is in receipt of the following letter from Mr. (’. S. Hardwick, manager of the Livingston baseball club. “Having discussed the matter per sonally with you along with two other managers and received your most fav orable comment, 1 am addressing all of you by letter regarding our propos ed “League” for the various clubs throughout this section for the coming season. The arrangement of games on an independent schedule always means more or less difficulty and results in games of uncertain strength and in terest. It is our opinion that local interest is always keener where a spirit of rivalry exists between even ly matched teams and thus am I con vinced that we could have an interest ing season of baseball without un necessary financial risk and worry by arranging a closed schedule between the various clubs throughout this sec tion.” Messrs. Carl Fincher and Randall Stephenson, who managed the Wood men team last season are interested again this season and are ready to discuss baseball with all who desire to form a club and play ball. Sears and Scoville Combination Limousine White & Cos., Morticians, have add ed to their already well equipped plant, a Sears & Scoville Combination Limousine, giving them first aid am bulance service equal to the best to be had anywhere. This ambulance is equipped with Bomgardner air cush ion cots, electric fan, hot and cold water and first aid emergency kit. A regular palace car of grace, dignity and comfort. Conyers is to be con gratulated upon having within its do mains the miost efficient and best equipped funeral directors to be found in the entire south. Mr. White traded in his small Hearse in the deal for this elaborate equipment. Conyers is bound to grow and expand under such progressive leadership as is being manifested on the part of its various citizens and the Rockdale Record is here to tell the world all about it. In the language of Mr. Henderson, over at Shereveport, “Come on world and stay with us —Dog gone you.” American Theatre Changing Management Mr. Gailey Summers, the popular and successful manager of the Ameri can theatre for the past several months, will show his last picture Fri day and Saturday of this week at the American theatre and invites his many satisfied patrons to be with him. He is showing Billy Dove and the Love Mart,' a splendid picture as has been his practice through these past several months. Mr. Summers has enjoyed the picture show business and regrets very much to leave it and the splen did patronage built up by him, but his connection with the Gailey Dry Goods Cos. makes it imperative that he give up all outside interests and responsibilities and devote his entire time to the dry goods business. He is grateful for the splendid patronage and helpful suggestions given during these months and invites his friends to call on him at Gailey’s store, where he is in position to render an even greater service. Dr. Peter J. Brown Had a Busy Day Mr. and Mrs. Tom Lawhorn, Mr. and Mrs. George Cavender and Mr. and Mrs. Clio Moon are the proud parents of baby girls and Mr. and Mrs. Har vey Christian of a baby -boy and Dr. Brown was one more tired doctor. He waited upon all of these births within a period of less than six hours, having traveled to four different sections of the county during the six hour period to wait upon them. And yet. we of ten wonder at Dr. Brown’s speed as he motors through town and round about the county. Well, it takes speed to place him where he is wanted, w hen he is wanted. He seemed to have made connections fairly well upon this occasion. There will be preaching at Bethel Church in Sheffield next Sunday by Rev. Gordon Kelly, of Decatur. A cor dial invitation is extended the Chris tians and friends throughout this sec tion to be present. CONYERS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1929 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF ROCKDALE COUNTY The Western Newspaper Union Praises The Rockdale Record Messrs. Towns and Atkinson, Rockdale Record, ' Conyers, Georgia. Gentlemen: It has been my good fortune to look over your issue of Wednesday, March 13t’n, and my compliments are hereby extended to you on that issue of the Record. It may be of interest to you gentlemen to. know that it is one of the best printed and at present one of the best patronized newspapers coming to our file room. Thought maybe you might be glad to know this, and I trust that youi* business will continue to grow, as I am sure it will if you persist in giving pages—volume—the biggest thing in the newspaper game today, applying to Conyers in the same proporation as it does to Atlanta or New York. Very truly, WESTERN NEWSPAPER UNION, E. L. Williamson Conyers Public Schools C. H. S. Gymnasium In reading the Rockdale Record from time to time we see that many different people have many different things to say, so I will be another one, but I will not be saying anything new. The question of a Gym. has been dis cussed and “cussed” for some time with very litle being done. There is no use of my trying to state the im portance or the reason why we need a gym., for we all know that its neces sary for us to have one for many rea sons. So my purpose now is to show how we may have one without any financial burden on any one person or organization. It would be foolish for me or any one else to try to solicit money enough through private donations and public subscriptions to build a gym. for the high school. It is also impossible for the board of education to build one since they haven’t the money and can't get it. Therefore, some other plan will have to be hit upon whereby Con yers high school will have a suitable Gym. and have the same standing as other schools of the district. An up-to-date high school Gym. can be built for approximately SISOO. This includes all equipment. Now how are we going to raise the money? Here is the plan that three other towns of about the same size of Conyers had. Several men of the town loaned the school enough money to build the gym. and in three years their money was paid back with interest with the gate receipts of single games and two tourn aments. Now if we have in Conyers ten men who want a gym bad enough to lend the school $l5O each, which will be enough to build a good gym, we could pay them back in three years with interest. You may say how can you do it. Well, Chamblee, Ga., a town of three hundred people sponsored the Fifth district basketball tournament this year. The tournament lasted four days and nights and the gym was fill ed every game with visiting fans and high school supporters. The total gate receipts for the tournament was ap proximately SI,OOO with no expenses except the lights and the expense of the referee. Not so bad is it? Now the fifth district officials are wanting us to sponsor t his tournament next year and unless we have a gym we will have to continue to go to some other place and get beat the first night. So will not someone let us have the money and get this gym by We Buy and Sell Country Produce, Chickens, & EgjJs We have a shipment of fresh Red Fin Crokers, they are fine, lb. . 15c Red Snapper and Mackeral, lb 30c Fresh String Beans, Turnip Greens Tomatoes, Spring Onions, Etc. Our prices of last week are still the same for this week. Helll’s Banner Coffee and Merry Widow Flour BELL'S CASH GROCERY “THE HOME OF CHEAP PIU ECS” Phone 25 Conyers, Ga. We Deliver Bllfe % tr . i ED. 1.. COWAN 3 ■ pt.. Ga. Power Cos. at Conyers, a Progressive Leaber the next basketball season so that we can give the boys equal advantages on (lie basketball floor and give our school equal standing with other high schools that are not as large as Conyers. Now Conyers, let me plead with you to start something for the school gym. I promise to do everything I can and will supervise and see that it is carried out in the best way possible without getting a dime for my work. Beautiful Springtime is with us again. Smiling each girl and each lad. Song birds are singing in Woodland and glenn. Making the vallies so glad. brings about many changes and it has surely brought about some changes at the high school. Track practice has taken the place of basket ball, and base ball is coming in as good measure. Every day af ter school one can see Dr. Smith Ink ing the track aspirants out one by one and drilling them in the fundamentals of the various track events, and if we look long enough we can see the im provement in each one as the days go by. We are expecting to bring hack the cup from th edistrict meet this year. The tenth grade will present the well known play, “Safety First” at the school auditorium Friday night, April 5. This play has been presented at LINES J. L. D. ■Whether we want to be or not we are judged largely by the first im pression that we make. Wlmf the writer saw a few days ago suggested this subject. Passing along the high way we saw the keeper of a business place sitting in the front door whit tling. It seemed that he had been at that job for some time as the shavings were thick around his chair. Here was a man who had begun a business but had turned aside and was giving an impression very different from what he had hoped for at the begin ning. lie was engaged in business but used bis time in whittling. Whittling we know is the occupation of the idle. This man is an example of many who are engaged in a thing for which they are not fitted or in which they are not satisfied. We ought to be careful to present a nice looking, well ar ranged front and let this be an index to what is behind. This applies to personal appearance as well as places of business. No one likes too many suggestions as to how they ought to do their work, or as to what they ought to do, but to who ever is the proper one, or ones we make this suggestion. There is a growing need of a certain thing in Conyers; namely what is known in larger cities as a Chamber of Com merce. The fact that Conyers is near Atlanta is an inducement to manufac turers to locate here. We all believe this and would be glad to have such things in our town but who is going to encourage new concerns to come here? It is not the duty of individuals there fore, we need some organized body to do this work. Someone says such a body would soon become inactive, be that as it may we do not expect any thing to stay on ‘be mountain top all the time. A civic body with the right kind of men would now and then bring new interprises to our town and we are not a one hundred per cent town without some such of an organization as is suggested. Sarcasm is a thing we could well do without. It is deceitful, mislead ing, and hurtful and more than all undesirable. It should never be used in connection with sacred things. In fact we should be very careful about mixing the heavenly with the earthly. Another thing when we describe sac red things in worldly terms we show lack of appreciation for the price paid to elevate the sacred things above the worldly. Surely no one with a sin cere heart would ever say one word to cheapen that which has done so much for them. The columns of our news papers should be kept clear of sar casm. There are many seasons of the year that bring us happiness, but without Easter all happiness would be confin ed to the present. There is hope in Easter and with Easter there comes as surance of future happiness. Miss Millie Bowen bad for her guest over the week-end Miss Louise Ellis, <d' Atlanta. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Robins are sport ing anew Whippet Six, anew model car that lias grace and dignity in its every line and movement. some of the leading high schools of the state and has been very highly and enthusiastically received every where it lias been put on. The characters are all of the tenth grade and are be ing eoaehed by Miss Sprayberry, Who is English teacher in the high school. If you don't want to laugh and have a good time, don’t plan to coipe to this play, because you will be compelled to laugh if you stay in the auditorium during the presentation of the play. However, there are some parts that are real dramatic, and some very good points are illustrated to the audience. So playing safety first and coming to see the play instead of getting some one to tell you about it after it is all over. Look for our advertisement in lids paper next. week. This coming Friday night the high school will dedicate the new curtain that they have so long been trying to get, by giving a stunt night. Every organization in town will present some sort of a stunt, including the grammar* grades of the school. There will be no admission charges and every body is urged to come and enjoy the fun together. I would have you think that it is a curtain alone that we are going to dedicate, but a beautiful woodland scenery stage setting which is to cover these ragged walls that now adorn the stage. We will be look ing for you Saturday night. OPHER COOPER, Coach. Popular at Home and Abroad Wednesday Holidays Beginning April Ist A movement is on foot to advance the Wednesday half holidays to begin the first week in April this year in stead of the first Wednesday in May ns in previous years. There is noth ing against this, liut on the other hand many things in its favor. It is dur ing the month of April that we need the time off for garden work and other home duties —things that must be done if at all, during the month of April. And, too, the early bird catches the worm and the early fisherman gets the hop on such birds. Come on ye merchants, bankers and business men of Conyers and let’s do things in season. Masonic Lodge Getting Ready for Revival Members of Philologia Lodge li7B F. & A. M., have under way an improved program whereby the craft may pur sue their labors to greater advantage. The program committee have already mapped out an interesting program for their next regular meeting which falls on Monday, April Bth, and most cor dially urge the entire membership and all visiting brethren to be present up on that occasion. Entered apprentice degree work will be put on. Worshiie ful Master H. W. Irwin has increased bis degree team to include a quartet of singers, made up of J. F. Davis. J. M. Towns, J. L. Drake and H. C. Cowan which he figures will greatly add to the effectiveness of the work. Further announcement will be mede next week relative to the special pro gram hereby announced. Epworth League Anniversary Day March 31, 7:45 p. m. Youth and tile Church I Song—No. 207. II Song —No. 202. 111 Prayer —Rev. Jordan. IV Scripture reading —Louise Pat rick. 1 The Unchristian Youth —Ora Guinn. 2 The Indifferent Youth —Joe But ler. Cornet Solo —Mutt Tribble. 3 The Timid Youth —Louise Hale. 4 The Social Youth —Mary Alice Wilson. Solo —Lois Sharp. 5 The Christian Youth —Mr. Glad stone Dickerson. Address, “Youth and the Church — Louise Patrick. The evening hour at the Methodist church will be given over entirely to the Epworth League Anniversary Day and a most cordial invitation is ex tended to the young people of this community to join In the celebration. MEMORIAL W. A. COSTLEY Resolutions of Salem Baptist church in memory of deceased brother W. A. Costley. Born August 10th, 180(5, with death overtaking him at home January 17th, 1929. He Is survived by his wid ow and ten children, five boys and five girls, three brothers and one sis ter. He joined the iSalem Baptist church, August 28th, 1886 by experi ence and was ordained as one of its active deacons May Bth, 1916, serving faithfully as such throughout the in tervening years. In his death, Salem lost one of her faithful servants and supporters. In his home and com munity, he was kind and affectionate, true and honest and always ready and willing to respond to every move 'n the interest of his Lord and Master. His pew was never vacant when health permitted and we mourne by reason of his departure. It was always a pleasure to visit in Ids home, where kindness, gentility and consideration prevailed. But, God has called him “up yonder” in Glory and we must carry on where he left off and meet him on the great judgment day. We would say to the family, that a pre cious one from you has gone, a voice is still and a vacancy that can never be filled is in your hearts and home by reason of one so lovely in character and life having departed, but he would that you and each of you should strive to do even greater things than he did. Salem Baptist church extends sympa thy to the bereaved family in their great loss, in which we share jointly as a church and as a community of people —directing that these resolutions lie given a page in our church archives as a Memorial and a copy be furnish ed the widow and family. MRS. J. D. DENNARD J. M. MITCHAM, Committee. NUMBER 10