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THE ROCKDALE RECORD
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
J. M. TOWNS Editor
W. E. ATKINSON Publisher
Still, throe kings of Afghanistan
don’t count ns much ns, say, one
Italian (luce.
The merger of the radio nnd phono
graph corporations was made on a
sound basis.
In Utopia, no doubt, nil of the po
liceman will he wealthy before they
Join the department.
Her majesty, Queen Mary, continues
to he old-fashioned. Iler physician
says she has catarrh.
A "preliminary survey” is possibly
preliminary because It Is preliminary
to forgetting the subjects.
Maybe "Abie’s Irish Rose” could he
made a series, with tlie second in
stallment, ‘‘Abie in Court.”
All we ll concede about spinach Is
that It gives us a certain sense of
virtue while we’re eating it.
It is reported some recluses in New
York are going to the theater this
winter to escape the crowds.
Having given two kings the bucket,
Afghanistan has now surrendered its
throne to a former water boy.
One of the tilings about the modern
girl that puzzles us is why she thinks
she has to appear cold to look hot.
Men’s fancy vests seem to have dis
appeared. Perhaps they couldn’t en
dure the din of present-day shirts and
neckties.
Sighted, Friday: The old-fashioned
fellow who kept one good cigar in ids
vest pocket in nn individual celluloid
container.
Fairy Story: “Well, well!” said the
man who had just put anew two-color
ribbon into his typewriter. "Rigid the
first time!”
It’s a good thing old Atlas was not
a cynic, considering that at any time
lie could have dumped Ills cargo olt
into the void.
The information editor’s prize query
for a recent week was one concerning
hats, ns follows: “How can I reno
vate a beaver?”
One of tlie mrtst irritating things
nn experienced wife can think up is
that question, “Where liave you been?”
when she knows.
Some of the weekly comic maga
zines are becoming so thin a careless
mail subscriber is apt to throw them
away witli the wrapper.
England is rejoicing over the fact
that it is the only nation that can
listen to lip-synclironized animated
cartoon movies, nnd so are we.
Always a poignant spectacle is the
Impulsive gentleman in middle life
who lias offered to go out and build
a snow man for the small nephew.
Pictures by wireless have been sent
out to a ship at sea. This would
seem to be only a fair reprisal for
the souvenir cards sent back by tour
ists.
That old question, “Is mnrrlage n
failure?” hns lost sentimental signifi
cance. Tlie answer now depends on
the amount of money that can be col
lected.
Overheard in a Dining ltoom:
“What’s the idea of the large 14-
pound roast?” “Oli, l found some
darling recipes for using up left
overs !"
An excavator of buried cities in
Asia explains that lie carries along
files of humorous weeklies to keep
his expedition amused. Isn’t that
carrying a joke pretty far?
The question which arises, ns soon
ns the nttic lias been reclaimed nnd
made livable ns per directions in the
numerous helpful magazine articles,
Is where to put the stuff that was in
the attic.
A woman member of parliament
lost her opportunity to speak in a re
cent debate because she violated ctts
tom by not wearing a hat. British
lawmakers are supposed to talk
through their hats.
A battleship is regarded as related
to the police officer whose presence
has a good moral effect, even when he
is not arresting anybody.
The Office Cynic says that still he
doesn’t know whether it is less im
portant to have been a king of Afghan
istan than it is to be one.
King Zogu of Albania is suffering
from stomach trouble. He ought to
take some of his own medicine, for
Ids name looks like a dyspepsia cure
trade mark.
Our idle wonder for tlie current
week is what the astute archeologist.
5,000 years hence. Is going to make
out of a consolidated time table.
“Girls on the planet Mars are
thought to have six legs,” reports the
Toledo Blade. In justice, the Martian
chorus girl should get triple pay.
Failure of Humanity to Find Real Happiness,
Indictment of Christianity
By REV. DR. HENRY DARLINGTON (New York), Episcopal.
IF TIIOMAS A. EDISON’S birthday statement that he did not know
any one who was really happy is a correct quotation, and if Mr.
Edison is only partially right, what a judgment on 2,000 years of
Christianity I One of the great things that Jesus sought to give us
was happiness, joy and peace. And yet how few of us are realizing that
Cod meant us to get the most out of life.
This we are failing to do, 1 believe, because of four joy-killers that
loom all too large in the average person’s mind, the product of over
emphasis on material values. First among these joy-killers we may
place the Puritanical ideas and distorted sense of sin that too frequently
make people feel that to enjoy themselves would in itself be wrong. They
think that anything that is pleasing must he had.
Worry is the second of life’s great joy-killers—worry over things
not worth considering. Jesus preached against worry. In one of the
modern translations we find Him saying, “Don’t let these fear-thoughts
get the better of you.”
Our third joy-killer is the ceaseless urge of this age which seems
to he prodding us on and on. Here in America we seem to think that
unless a man is working his finger nails off, there is something wrong
with him. We seem unable to relax, to sit content on a beach and lister:
to the music of the waves.
Jealousy, bringing us all sorts of unnecessary temptations, is the
fourth joy-killer.
Typical American and Christian Governed by
Ideals Not Appetites
By REV. DR. JOHN McDOWELL, Presbyterian.
Character is the only foundation upon which we can build a repub
lic. Conscience, not science, is the only adequate basis for a democracy.
To speak of our American ideals with no reference to American relig
ious faith is a thin and shallow interpretation of the nation’s soul. A
nation can exist without religion, but it cannot live without it.
The present situation in America creates and deepens three com
pelling convictions.
First—There is no hope for Americans apart from the Kingdom of
God. No new political system, no new educational system, no new indus
trial system, no new social system apart from the Kingdom of God can
ever save America.
Second—There is no hope for the Kingdom of God apart from
the Christian church. Other institutions will help the church, and for
their help we are profoundly grateful, hut not one of them will take full
and primary responsibility for bringing the'Tvingdom of God —the king
dom of righteousness, peace and joy—into the life of America. The
school will not take it, the college will not take it, the legislature will
not take it, congress will not take it, the court will not take it, the pub
lic press will not take it. If the Kingdom of God is to come into
American life, the Christian church must take primary and full respon
sibility for bringing it in.
Third—There is no hope for the Christian church apart from an
efficient, consecrated leadership and membership which possesses the fol
lowing qualities: vision, knowledge, conviction, co-operation, sacrifice
and character.
Fault of Modern Education That It Gives No
Clue to Significance of Life
By REV. S. M. SHOEMAKER, New York.
Our education today gives us so much knowledge and so little wis
dom, so much sophistication and so little maturity, that when we have
run the gamut of exciting sensations and exhausted the possibilities of
such life as we know, our souls are like rags wrung out, like squeezed
lemons.
It is a most baffling and uncertain time. The old anchors and
moorings are gone. The assurances which science and the new liberty
held out to us have not materialized. The animal existence which gives
free rein to the instincts does not invariably lead to liberty, but often
to worse enslavement than before. The intellectual life of investigat
ing and learning, is high and fine, but it gives no clue to the signifi
cance of life.
It was Jesus’ personality throughout the centuries that has com
pelled men to follow Him, and although Ilis presence is no more visible
on the earth His appeal to youth has grown even greater. The mark He
has left upon history has been only a white mark. Many crimes have been
committed in the name of His religion, but they were faulty humar.
mistakes in application. Jesus himself has only exercised a beneficent
nnd ennobling influence upon men and the world. Such a one, stand
ing in front of the moral and spiritual vanguard of humanity, has a
right to call each of us, and expect us to take up like men, and not run
and evade like cowards.
Better Than Monetary Assistance Is Aiding
Needy to Help Themselves
By REV. C. EVERETT WAGNER, New York.
Those who need help should be taught to help themselves rather
than receive momentary assistance by flinging out gifts of money. When
sympathy runs wild by performing deeds for those persons who have
aroused it, the incipient is harmed more than he is aided. In this way
parents are frequently the worst enemies of their children. Individu
als hand out money for relief instead of finding a permanent job for
the unemployed.
Thousands of people will reach down in their pockets in the dis
tress of thousands that are out of work, but they will net invoke the
principle of trying to aid people to assist themselves by agitating for
the establishment of state and federal employment bureaus. When they
know an aged couple in want they satisfy their own emotions and sleep
ing consciences by giving temporary assistance instead of helping to
create a social order which acknowledges a collective responsibility by
passing old age pensions in the various state legislatures.
The last individual which the church can aid is the one who comes
to it expecting the institution to do everything for him. That frame
of mind is helpless irt a constructive method. The first individual which
the church should aid is one who really wants a chance to have that
opportunity to do so.
THE ROCKDALE RECORD, Conyers, Ga., Wed., March 27. 1929.
OTHER CHAP’S RIGHT
TO GIRL OBSERVED
Fist Fights in Gotham Clubs
Enforce Code.
New York.—Broadway lias a strict
etiquette at times, one unwritten rule
of which is:
Let the other fellow’s girl alone.
Like most rules it is often disre
garded, usually by those who have yet
to learn it. They soon are educated,
however. The offended party sees to
that.
Stories are not uncommon of fist
fights in night clubs over attentions
paid some girl. The object of attrac
tion may not have minded, but her
escort did. One incident happened
where the rebuking party was a club
man known widely for his athletic
ability. A convivial stranger at the
next table made an intimate if in
nocuous remark to the sportsman’s
friend which brought a single, belliger
ent question.
“Do you want to walk out, or be
carried out?” lie was asked. He chose
to walk.
Violation Has Advantages.
There is one man-about-Broadway,
however, who regrets a recent appli
cation of the hands-off rule, sup
posedly in his favor. He was invited
to an after-theater party only to find
himself paired with a girl w'lio was
pretty but exceedingly dull. He was
very affable, therefore, when another
man came up and engaged the dumb
beauty in conversation. As soon as
he could, he disappeared, hoping he
was rid of her.
When he returned some time later,
however, the other man was missing.
“What happened to that nice chap
who was here awhile ago?” he asked.
“Oh, I took care of that egg,” said
the well-meaning host. “He was try
ing to take Mary away from you, so
I told him to get out and stay out.”
“That’s too bad,” murmured the
guest weakly. “He seemed tc be a
fine fellow. I liked him.”
Bau Company Bobs Up.
But now and then the rule is un
enforced, as it was not long ago when
a suave stranger started a restau
rant flirtation that almost proved dis
astrous for the girl. A smile led to
an exchange of telephone numbers
and soon the couple were going places
together. She became quite fond of
him until her romance was suddenly
shattered by a newspaper story that
her “broker” friend had been arrested
as a racketeer.
After recovering from the shock,
she kept herself in seclusion until
the story was forgotten. Now she is
back in the old haunts, hut she is un
approachable by any one but her best
friends.
Spanish Yielding to
English in Philippines
Manila. —The Spanish language is
giving ground to English, despite the
efforts ot older Filipinos to keep Span
ish alive.
The latest indication of this was
contained *in a communication from
Governor General Stimson to the sec
retary of justice in which the execu
tive advised the secretary that nom
inees for tlie judiciary must have at
least a working knowledge of the Eng
lish language.
The order was in line with the ad
ministration’s policy of encouraging
the adoption of English as the sole of
ficial language of the country as soon
as possible. This policy, in turn, was
prompted by the fact that most of the
younger Filipinos speak English, but
have a slight knowledge, or none at
all, of Spanish.
At present, both Spanish and Eng
lish are the official languages of the
Philippines.
Finds Cells of Trees
Live 3,000 Years
Flagstaff, Ariz.—A discovery that
upsets a fundamental theory about
living tilings, that all life cycles re
quire enlargement, has been made by
Dr. D. T. MacDougal! of the desert
laboratory here of the Carnegie insti
tution.
Studying long-lived cells of certain
trees, Doctor MacDougall found a type
called balloon cells, incased in the
tree in such a manner that they can
not increase in any apparent manner
of cell life, yet living for 400 seasons.
He said these cells mature in about 20
days, that if a tree is injured they
seem to possess recuperative powers
and that the dry weight of the young
cells is greater than that of the old.
Some cells in the big trees of Cali
fornia live 3,000 years. The trees
never die of age. Ultimately the
winds blow them over.
Policeman’s Nickel
Solves Traffic Jam
Los Angeles, Calif.—ln this drama
of the streets he was just motorcycle
officer No. 517, but he had an idea*.
A nickel was involved. It had
stopped a street car, delaying office
men and laborers on their way to
work and tied up traffic.
“Gimme a good nickel,” demanded
the conductor, “or get off.”
“That’s a good nickel,” snorted the
commuter. “Try and put me off.”
At this point No. 517 boarded the
car. Both turned to him, protesting
loudly ns passengers yelled and auto
horns shrieked.
“Gimme that nickel,” said No. 517.
He took It, handed the commuter
another, swung off the car, passengers
applauded and traffic moved on.
GIANT REDWOODS
TO BE PRESERVED
New Shoots Will Replace Stock
Taken in Logging,
Portland, Ore.—Next year, it is es
timated, the area stocked with young
trees each year in the West Coast red
wood belt will equal the urea logged
over annually.
Timber men say that tills means
there will be perpetual commercial
forests in this country. The picture
is at once esthetic and practical. It
answers the sentiment for preservation
of the "great woods” aiid at the same
time protects the lumber supply. Al
ready ene of the largest lumber com
panies in the Pacific Northwest is cut
ting timber from land that was re
stocked 40 years ago.
In the redwood region, from southern
Oregon to lower central California,
private companies are setting out an
nually more than three million trees.
For each mature redwood cut ten baby
trees are planted. In from 40 to 60
years they will be ready for harvest.
Long-range culture has been ex
tended to other forest trees. Fir,
spruce and cedar forests are being re
placed in a far-sighted policy that
looks to the time when virgin growth
will be exhausted. Vast areas denuded
by logging operations have been made
to yield new crops of sturdy trees.
Many of the large companies, whose
timber holdings cover small-sized em
pires, have undertaken systematic re
forestation of cut-over areas. They
say that long before their original
stand of timber is exhausted anew
forest will be ready. One paper com
pany, to perpetuate its supply of pulp
wood, has established a nursery, from
which 1,500,000 young trees will be
transplanted this year.
New Digestant Found
in Sap of the Papaya
Miami, Fla. —Dr. J. Peterson, well
known Miami horticulturist, who has
been experimenting with tropical
plants for the last 15 years, con
temporary with other scientists of
tropical research, has just disclosed
a vast store of knowledge on the
papaya as a remedy for stomach
troubles.
Through experimentation it has
been found that papain, the white
milky sap of the papaya, has the
same effect upon the stomach as does
pepsin, but with greater efficiency and
quicker results. Tests have revealed
that a drop of dry papain will dis
solve a square inch piece of steak in
two minutes.
The discovery of papaya was synon
ymous with the discovery of Central
America, its native soil, hundreds of
years ago. Coast pirates used it for
food, but upon the annihilation of the
pirates the papaya was forgotten.
Forty years ago it was rediscovered
and during the last few years has
made great strides in the health food
markets. Today its demand is so
great in local sections that little of it
has been shipped North. It can be
prepared in so many ways that each
preparation will have a distinct taste
like cherry, peach, apple, plum or
rhubarb pie. Likewise it is made in
to jellies, candy, salads, fruit cock
tails, and preserves.
Ice Man Finds Rival
in Carbonic “Dry Ice”
New York.—The ice man, who has
been dealing with the hard cold fact
of competition from mechanical
sources, has anew rival—“dry ice.”
Whereas the electrical manufactur
ing business gave the ice man his
first battle for a place in the re
frigerator, the new source of trouble
comes from the carbonic gas field,
one pound of that gas being com
pressed and reduced to great density
to produce a pound of “dry ice” hav
ing a temperature of around 114 de
grees below zero.
Efforts are now being made to re
duce “dry ice” production costs and
to develop containers requiring small
er quantities of (lie refrigerant.
Stenographer Studies
Relativity of Planets
Kansas City, Mo. —Studying astrol
ogy with a view to making it compre
hensible to the layman is the hobby
of a Kansas City stenographer, Miss
Virgie Vail.
She has devised diagrams based on
numbers used in the ancient Aztec cal
endar stone, arranging signs of the
zodiac in circular and spiral forma
tions.
After ten years’ study Miss Vail as
serts she can apply her code to illus
trate some phases of relativity.
London Police Find
Army Captain Woman
London. —One of the most
unusual cases of its kind that
the London police have ever
encountered has come to light
through the arrest of a sup
posed army captain who proved
to be a woman. She is “Capt.
Leslie Baker,” who not only
posed as a man but was one
time leader of the national
Fascist! in London and ran a
west-end restaurant. She act
ed as “male” restaurant recep
tion clerk in a west-end hotel
when arrested for contempt ot
court in connection with bank
ruptcy proceedings. Then her
sex was discovered.
“PIGEON OF VERDUN’j
WILL GET MONUIViENI:
French Raise Shaft to Birc *
Famous in War.
Taris.—The world’s most tamo®l
pigeon is to have a monument i> I
l 3 aris.
Known simply as “The Pigeon <,
Verdun,” this bird was absent from tfc
roll call recently at the congress j
the National Federation of Colombo I
piffle societies of France, at which 18! I
distinguished carrier pigeons were et I
hibited in annual reunion.
For ten years after the war thin
pigeon held the place of lionotj
Speeches were made to him. ToastsS
were drunk to lffm. He was awarded*
the Croix de Guerre; all of whicJ
probably meant less to him than M
handful of birdseed.
He was the last messenger bearJ
from Fort Vaux during the siege iJ
Verdun. The hundreds, if not tlios I
sands of American travelers who tiavi I
explored the battered and blasted un 1
derground passages of tiffs moriumeii I
of human tenacity, ferocity and futilil
ty, will remember the scene.
A Prolonged Nightmare.
During the months of ceaselesH
pounding' by high explosive shells, tIJ
upper works of the old fort north o 9
Verdun had been beaten to powder!
Beneath, in the narrow passages ml
gloomy caverns, the garrison had lell
a fugitive existence that was a prtf|
longed nightmare.
Meager provisions were occasional}!
ly sneaked into the fort at night; M
more often than not the food eonvojfl
were blown up. Commandant K.iynal
and his men hung on desperate*
while the enemy w-asted thousands M
good German heads of families in tbfl
struggle to gain a few more yards m
battered rock, and another footholjl
near Vtrdun.
Then one day, to the other agonie I
of life in this poisonous stone mol J
hill, was added that of suffocatioi i
The enemy had battered his way ini I
passages at the bottom of the hill an |
was pumping gas up into the gallerie j
occupied by the garrison. StumbliD 1
in the dark over their choking con I
rades, those who reached their mask I
in time hastily blocked the tunni,
through w r hich the gas was rising j
Commandant Raynal scribbled a me|
sage and clipped it to the leg of hi
last carrier pigeon. Al! other cob
munication had long ago been cut.
“We are still lidding; hut we a?|
withstanding an attack of gas. It i,
urgent that we receive reinforcementil
This is my last pigeon.” ,
Gains Immortality.
The little gray birds knew nothin
of w-hat it was ail about. But tk
tenacious homing instinct which
ages has directed the flight of hi
kind took him through the smoke, t!
fire, and the deafening uproar of tl
shelling to the citadel and gained hi
an immortality in the minds of Frenc
men which he undoubtedly never ui
derstood.
City Councillor Florent-Mater a|
nounced at the “pigeon fanciers’” dil
ner that since the death of the “PigeiJ
of Verdun,” a few months ago, Pari
has voted him a monument.
The Federation of Pigeon Fancies
Clubs is a curious organization
strangely out of date in a mechanist 3
civilization. It persists probably onij
through the fact that in the operatie
of the universal military service lai
a number of youths are always di
tailed to the carrier pigeon service. '
There they learn to love their feat!
ered charges, and when they go bacl
into civilian life they stick to earrifl
pigeon raising as a hobby.
Viau, Lachapelle Bridges
in Quebec Bar Toll
Montreal. —No tolls will be collects
on the new Viau and Lachapejl
bridges, is is learned at Quebec Tn
intention of the provincial governmei
is to makt a grant to the city
Montreal to help pay the cost of col
struction, and the condition will *'
that the bridges shall be free.
The question of collecting tolls i
the new bridges has been raised
Montreal, it is known, and had ace
tain measure of support in the aide
manic body. This, however, was wi
the thought that the city alone won
have to bear the cost of building tl
bridges. The decision of the goverj
ment has helped to clear up the situ
tion, and there will be no impedimei
to the flow of traffic from the isiat
of Montreal to the north country.
The traffic which pours over the tro
bridges is very heavy, motorists traj
eling as far north as Mont Lauril
along the fine highway which tl
provincial government has built, al
which is but one of a network 1
main roads caring for the couutl
through the mountains and westwal
to Maniwaki, Hull and back I
Montreal.
Women Eager to Ride
Down 600-Foot Shafl
Monson. Maine.—Women, says Fra®
Cowan, night watchman at the g |(, l
slate quarries here, are more ea?S
than men to go down to the bottom 1
the GOO-foot shafts.
Three shafts descend 575, 675 o||
700 feet, respectively. They are su®
deeper in the earth than the distan®
most skyscrapers reach skyward.
down at the ultimate depths tunn®
extend in many directions. All a l|
electrically lighted.
The women get their greatest tim j
perhaps, by descending on the s3 "j|
platform that is used by the oiiu e