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THE ROCKDALE RECORD
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
J. M. TOWNS Editor
W. E. ATKINSON Publisher
Interest In aviation cannot falter.
There Is always some new kind of a
record to be broken.
The Office Crab thinks that as soon
ns they get through improving the
game he will learn bridge.
A fruit grower Is urging every one
to eat two apples a day. There must
he two physicians In his town.
Very few men wake up to find them
selves famous. They generally dream
they're famous, then wake up.
The thermometer, like the stock
ticker, cannot be expected to go on
forever recording balmy altitudes.
Asa measure of mankind’s prog
ress, It was less than one generation ,
from the ukulele to the saxophone.
To get the most for his money It j
Is said that a Scotchman licks the !
grapefruit juice off his eye glasses.
Ladles' footwear this spring Is to
be “sandnlized," anew word which
looks as If it would be an easy one to
misprint.
Forty Years Ago Today: Irate let
ters to the press about there not be
ing enough straw on the floors of the
horse cars.
“Women's dresses," says a fashion
note, “will be fuller." How can they
be when they are already tilled to
overflowing?
A French window Is that long, rec- j
tangular effect, through which the j
mysterious slayer escapes in the de- j
tectlve novel.
Every new airplane test brings a
new and remarkable story. The sky
ship has tne true fascination of in
linite variety.
Little Willy’s theory Is that there
is less static in the radio on a cold
morning because it all goes into the
bathroom comb.
Travel, however, seldom broadens
to the point that the traveler is will
ing to forego the pleasure of talking
about it afterward.
Transportation Help: About the
Host way to get a taxi on a rainy
day is to arrive from out of town at
one of the depots.
Tiie trouble with being a comedian
305 days in a year is that pretty soon
people begin to say, “I can remember
when lie was funny."
An Ohio writer says the Swiss
cheese needn’t necessarily come from
Switzerland. Still, we can’t counter
feit the clear Alpine air in the holes.
A husband In Washington lias re
ceived a letter from Ids wife dated 20
years ago. Tiie tentative theory is
that she may have given it to him to
mail.
Who remembers the old-fashioned
household hint to tlie effect that if
newspapers were rumpled until soft
they were fine to clean lamp chim
neys?
In studying economic perspectives,
it often becomes desirable to pause
for n close-up on the compensation
for faithful workers in government
service.
Sir Walter Raleigh was a very like
aide gentleman, according to history,
but introduced tobacco to England and
must have borrowed a light pretty fre
quently.
Genealogists think tiie London tldef
who stole n batch of flu germs from
a doctor’s car may he distantly re
lated to tiie one who enrried off a rod
hot stove.
One of the oldest phenomena in
natural science is the right-angled
draft that can come in through a
pantry window and slap you across
the neck in the living room.
When the great efficiency expert
doesn’t know what to call the disparity
between his theory and the results as
demonstrated, lie says it is an allow
ance for tiie Human Factor.
There is something amiss in tiie an
nouncement that an exclusive New
York hotel is serving old-fashioned
hash on its menu. Either the hotel
is not exclusive or it isn’t old-fash
ioned hash.
As long as they make coal stoves
to look like phonographs we should
think that a cruiser could be got up
to look like a dove.
If the saxophone starts the refrain
one full heat behind the piano and
never catches up, the radio announcer
calls It futuristic rhythm.
v When Mussolini gets through with
ids plans for a magnificent Italy tiie
world may ns well prepare. to start
with anew Julius Caesar, and study
Roman history nil over again.
Who can remember in the early days
of the motion' picture when “Hearts
and Flowers" or “Pony Boy” did for a
theme song for everything?
Shorter Working Hours Have Raised the Stand
ard of American Workers
By ETHELBERT STEWART, Federal Labor Official.
MOftE industrial workers in the United States are enjoying an
increased amount of leisure than in any industrial country
in the world. The dismal prognostications made some years
ago when first shorter work weeks were introduced have not
been justified.
The labor unions have agitated for shorter hours for many years
and have succeeded in bringing about that reform. Now the five-day
week is coming into general use. Forty or fifty years ago it was the
universal opinion of employers that the longer the hours the better it
was for the man. Vacations were practically unknown in industry.
Both employers and the wives and children of workers in many cases
dreaded Sundays because so many of the men got drunk. When the
unions came along with their demands for shorter hours these argu
ments were advanced and were renewed when, more recently, the five
day week was proposed.
These arguments do not hold good any longer. The type of man
working in the industries has progressed with the progress of industry.
He has been compelled to keep up with the times or drop out of the
procession entirely. Some workers still drink on their days off, but that
is the fault of the man and not the system. If they drink habitually,
they will find their jobs gone and, to that extent, the situation is self
corrective.
Modern Youth May Be Depended Upon to
Measure Up to Test Put on It
By CONGRESSWOMAN RUTH BRYAN OWEN.
They talk about building more ships for defense against outward
enemies! There are two ships we need within the nation itself —Citizen-
ship and Statesmanship. A real republic is not governed by a small
group, but by the service of each individual pulling together for the
national good.
It has taken woman seventy years to find her place in the commun
ity. She is now gradually finding her place in government, and the fu
ture promises to see woman as a figure in international affairs. Uncle
Sam needs a wife to help him with the national housekeeping.
On the young people of today depends the future of the republic.
It is part of my campaign to give them an opportunity to play up to.
Youth has always measured up to the test put to it. Look at youth’s
rally in wartime!
We still have the pioneer spirit in youth, and that spirit is as im
portant today as it was when physical sacrifice was asked of the pioneer.
We have our Lindberghs and our Amelia Earharts, who are more‘repre
sentative of American youth than the types criticized in the newspapers.
The same spirit is exhibited among young people with regard to
citizenship. I am working chiefly among high school boj 7 s and girls, and
the response proves that even they want their opportunity to be of
service. , > | : *■'
World Today Has Many Men of Faith Com
parable to the Biblical Heroes
By REV. C. E. JEFFERSON (New York), Congregationalist.
Doctors, scientists and peacemakers are men of faith comparable
to the Biblical heroes. Men of faith are not confined to the Bible or
past history. We have groups in the world today who are heroes in the
world of faith. Of these are the men who are working day and night
to find a cure for cancer. Another are the engineers who are charting
the log to perfect commerce in the air. Others are those working for
a united church. Then there are the peacemakers, working for the
abolition of w T ar.
Many people do not know what faith really is. Faith is building
on the invisible in order to accomplish the impossible. It is a thing of
action, not a state of feeling. Most people connect faith with some the
ological belief about the Bible. Noah had faith, but there was no Bible
in the ark. Enoch walked with God, but there was no book in his hand.
So it is possible for men today to walk with God without a book to
rely on.
It is true that faith is invisible; but scientists are working every
day on foundations they don’t see and never will see. No one has ever
seen an atom, an electron, or wireless wave, yet we know they exist.
America’s Need Is More of the Spirit of Christ
and of Washington
By DOCTOR SHELTON, President National Bible Institute.
America today needs a greatly increased number of men and wom
en who possess the disposition that was in Washington and that was pre
eminent in Christ—humanity, purity, clear-headedness. When Washing
ton was derided and attacked he was patient and forebearing. When
he wrote to the governors of all the states in 1783, he referred to his re
tirement as commander-in-chief of the American army, and said that
he made it his earnest prayer that God would . . . most graciously
be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy and to demeau
ourselves with that charity, humanity and pacific temper of mind which
were the characteristics of the divine author of our blessed religion,
without a humble imitation of whose example in these things we can
never hope to be a happy nation.
American Farmer Is Handling Only One-Half
of His Own Business
By P. L. BETTS, Expert on Farm Economics.
The farmer hasn’t kept up with improving business methods. He
has let someone else take over the selling end of the business of farm
ing, where most of the money is made, lie is permitting the other fel
low to take profits the farmer himself should have.
Big businesses are merging, because by consolidating they can do
things in a bigger way and produce greater dividends. What is the
farmer doing? He is trying as an individual to compete with scientific
business.
The farmers need to take over the other half of their business, the
selling end, which they have let get away from them.
We farmers have made millionaires of those who own the other
half of our business.
the ROCKDALE RECORD. Conyers. Qa.. Wed.. April 3. 1929
TOTS AGAIN PLAY
IN WHITE HOUSE
Hoover Grandchildren to
Visit There Often.
Washington.—The Hoover adminis
tration will bring children into the
White House family circle again for
the first time since the Roosevelt ad
ministration.
The two little children who know
the new President as "grandpa," rath
er than as Chief Executive of the
United States, will not live at the
White House, but they will be about
often on visits and on every vacation.
The Hoovers observe vacations in an
old-fashioned way by family gather
ings.
The two children are "I’eggy," aged
three, and Herbert Hoover, 111, one
jnd-half years old, daughter and son
of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Son Lives in Los Angeles.
Herbert Hoover, Jr., the President’s
elder son, and bis family will live in
Los Angeles. His wife recently went
West to select a home for them there.
The younger son, Allan, who is twen
ty-one, will graduate from Stanford
university this June, and is expected
to go into business on the West coast,
probably in San Francisco. He is
considering such a proposition, but
lias not accepted a position definitely
as yet.
The whole family was reunited here
for the inauguration.
Herbert, Jr., who is twenty-five, will
leave here in a few days to take up
anew position with the Western Air
ways express. He is an expert in ra
dio and his work will be in connec
tion with development of telephone
communication between the line’s air
planes and ground stations in the pro
jected extension of its route to Kan
sas City. The line now operates be
tween Los Angeles, San Francisco,
and Salt Lake City.
Distance never lias meant anything
to Herbert Hoover or his family. They
take a trip from the West to the East
coast as a matter of fact, they have
made it so often. Therefore they are
making plans to spend their vacations
at the White House.
The new President is a busy man,
hard at work almost constantly, but
lie will lay even the most important
task aside with a happy smile when
Peggy pushes open the door to his
executive office and rushes in eagerly
for a romp, her little brother toddling
along behind her on tiny legs still a
hit wabbly.
Adore Grandpa.
The two children adore their grand
father, but not more than he does
them. They are expected to be favor
ites among White House employees.
In the hearts of some of the old at
taches they will fill a place in tiie af
fections once held by Quentin Roose
velt, whose famous escapades as a
youngster in taking his pony up on
the White House elevator and riding
it on the shiny east room floor and
shooting out the lights about the
driveway with his air rifle still bring
fond smiles of memory.
The romance of Herbert Hoover,
Jr., and his wife, was a repetition of
that of liis fattier and mother. They
were classmates at Stanford univer
sity, graduated together, and married
within a week after commencement,
now over four years ago. Mrs. Her
bert Hoover. Jr., a California girl, is
beautiful and has a very charming
personality.
Both of the new President’s sons
possess the timidity of their father
upon first acquaintance. Both are de
lightful to know. Allan made many
friends on the good will tour to South
America on which he accompanied his
father and mother.
Gang Loots Berlin Bank
After Digging for Weeks
Berlin.—Several hundred thousand
dollars in banknotes, securities and
other valuables were obtained by a
gang of safe blowers who tunneled
their way into the deposit vault of
the West End branch of the Disconto
Gesellschaft.
This institution is one of the five
largest banks in Germany. The rob
bery showed the results of many
weeks of painstaking labor. Investi
gation disclosed that the gang had
entered the vault by squirming singly
through a tunnel connecting with an
airshaft.
The task of burrowing through the
ground is thought to have required
several weeks. Before departing with
their loot the robbers destroyed tiie
steel lock from the inside. Expert
locksmiths worked 15 hours to open
the door of the vault.
Belgrade Girls Warned
to Quit Shaving Brows
Belgrade, Yugo-Slavia.—The head
master of one of the girls’ high
schools here recently paraded all the
pup’is from fifteen to twenty years of
age, and told them that if they did
not wear tiie plain frocks regulations
prescribed, stop using rouge and lip
stick, and stop shaving their eye
brows, they would be expelled, “even
if they were daughters of n cabinet
minister.”
Many people regard tils step as op
portune. Belgrade la a town that
strives very hard to be five minutes
nhend of (’arts, and eyebrow shaving
took hold of the high school girls
like fire to tinder. Serbian girls
often have a marvelously thick and
luscious eyebrow, and th ;re was a
trace of regret for the “good old
times” In tiie headmaster’s dictum
that he “considered a girl’s eyebrows
her greatest ornament.”
FAMED GARDEN IN
SOUTH CAROLINA
Beauty Spot Laid Out in 1741
Still Exists.
Charleston, S. C.—A landscape gar
den of such world-wide fame that each
spring it is visited by hundreds of pil
grims first came into being at Middle
ton Place. Amid the culture and re
finement of the Carolina province in
1741.
One of the first landscape gardens
in America, it was laid out by an Eng
lish gardener on the bluffs that over
look the swiftly flowing Ashley river,
surrounded by a vast forest Here,
Henry Middleton made Iris home und
erected Great House which was des
tined to play a large part in the af
fairs of the colony.
Ten years were needed to complete
the work of mapping the garden, but
so successful was it that Middleton
Place soon became famous even in
the Old world.
With smooth lawns and countless
exotic plants, a sunken garden and
many lakes, it is beautiful at all times,
but when spring comes humming
through the air and flowers burst in
to bloom, it is indescribably lovely.
In the crystal waters of Azalea pool
are mirrored, like shooting, dancing
flames, bright-colored blossoms of
overhanging azalea bushes that bend
and sway with every passing breeze.
From the river, one views a succes
sion of terraces, radiating warmth
and joyous life from the brilliant flow
ers that crown the slopes. On the
highest terrace once stood Great
House, a massive, three-story brick
building in Tudor style, which boast
ed a secret passage.
The noted French botanist, Andre
Michaux, here introduced many Ori
ental plants, among which were the
first four Camellia Japonicas ever
planted in America. Today, after a
lapse of almost 200 years, three of
the original plants may still be noted
among the myriads which beautify the
place. The only tunnel of camellias
in existence is here, and also a mag
nificent live oak which, it is estimat
ed, has viewed the happenings of 700
years or more.
Great House was adorned with
priceless works of art, many of which
were mutilated by the British. Al
most a century later, the mansion was
destroyed by fire in Sherman’s march
to the sea, one wing alone remaining.
This has been restored and here the
owner makes his home.
Henry Middleton, second president
of the Continental congress; Arthur
Middleton, signer of the Declaration
of Independence, and others, whose
names are linked with the history of
their country, rest within the mauso
leum near the river.
Chinese Tree in Gotham
Gardens Poisons Keeper
New York.—A more curious than
careful gardener in the New Y 7 ork
zoological gardens recently fell vic
tim to a severe case of poisoning
from e ting of the fruit of the Chinese
ginkgo tree.
Failure to remove the fleshy cover
ing that surrounds the edible kernel
of the plumlike fruit of the ginkgo
was responsible for the gardener’s
mishap. It is a favorite food of the
Chinese, who carefully remove the
outer coat, which gives warning of
its toxic power by a strong, rancid
odor.
Rows of the decorative ginkgos, or
maidenhair trees, line the drive west
of the museum. They were brought
here to help popularize them. a. they
are remarkably free from disease or
insects, and withstand city life. In
summer they bear . wedgeshaped
leaves.
Three Students Enjoy
College on S3O Month
Pullman, Wash. — You can get an ed
ucation on $lO a month and still not
miss a tiling—if you know how.
Three students of Washington State
college do just that. Carl Efiingson.
varsity three sport athlete; Ralph Carl
ton, frosh basketball star, and Ken
neth Kadow are the three musketeers
who bag a cheap education together.
They get free room, light and heat
for caring for a furnace. Food and
incidentals total S3O. Carlton and El
lingson earn by working in the college
gymnasium, while Kadow’s job as
stage electrician in the college audi
torium nets the other third of the
expenses.
Retribution
Hollywood, Calif.—Leonard Stevens,
author of the song .entitled “I Faw
Down and Go Boom,” is recovering
after being run over by a hit and run
motorist.
Building Since War
Cost $52,000,000,000
New York.—A total of $52,000,
000,000 lias been Invested in
new buildings sines tiie war by
tiie American people, according
to a survey just made. Expendi
tures during 1020, It is estimat
ed. will add $7,500,000,000 to
this total.
How tills expenditure affects
lines of activity allied with the
construction industry was indi
cated by a large increase in the
production sf common and face
brick in 1927 as compared with
the year 1919.
BRITISH EXCHANGE
HAS LONG HISTORY
Brokers Are Mentioned as
Far Back as 1483.
London.—The growing public de
mand that the London Stock Exchange
be opened on Saturday In conformity
with the New York Stock Exchange,
a questko which has been hotly
fought out in the house of commons,
lias brought the institution into the
limelight.
The discussion Illustrates (lie great
changes which the stock exchange has
undergone ns the result of rlie war.
Saturday closing is a postwar prac
tice, but it is one of the few viewed
with disfavor by advocates of better
business. The majority have been vast
improvements on the methods provi
ously permitted.
There now are more facilities and
greater protection for the investor
than formerly, and there is a higher
efficiency of service. Before the war
it was possible for anyone to intro
duce shares on the stock exchange.
Rule on New Issues.
The committee for general purposes,
composed of thirty members elected
annually, has now so tightened the
rules that no issue may be introduced
without its permission. This is given j
only following the publication of re
sponsible statements giving informa- i
tion about the firms controlling the par- ]
ticular issue. The committee’s pro
cedure has greatly increased the re
spect in which the stock exchange is
now held as a public institution with
grave responsibilities toward the coin- :
munity. It is this committee that will
finally rescind Saturday closing if it
becomes evident that public opinion
demands it.
The stock exchange lias its roots as ;
deep down in history as tlie reign of
Edward HI, 1483-1485, when brokers
and brokerage are referred to by eon- ]
temporary writers, hut, practically
speaking, an exchange of stocks as a
business enterprise began only toward
the end of the Seventeenth century.
London stock brokers first conduct
ed their business in and around the
royal exchange, then in the coffee
houses of Change alley and in the
rotunda of the Bank of England. In
the year 1773 they formed themselves
into an association called the Stock
Exchange, Ltd., with headquarters at
the corner of Sweeting alley and
Threadneedle street
Built in 1801.
The present stock exchange at
Capel court, Bartholomew lane, came
into existence in 1801, when a capital
of SIOO,OOO was raised and the new
building was commenced. The struc
ture was entirely rebuilt some years
later and considerable extensions
have since been made.
Stock brokerage and jobbing did
not always command the respect that
is now accorded them. Manipulation
of the market brought down the cen
sure of parliament in 165)7, which de
clared in an act that brokers and
stock jobbers were habitually combin
ing unlawfully to raise or lower the
value of securities for their own pri
vate advantage. Dealers in stocks
were in those days looked down upon
as odious, and maDy were executed
for fraud.
Membership in the London stock |
exchange is on a very different basis
from that in the New York Stock Ex
change. A member is elected for
twelve months only and must be re
elected annually if he wishes to re
tain Iris membership. The year ends
March 25. The candidate must he
recommended by three members, who
become surety for Irim during the first
four years from the date of his ad
mission in the sum of $2,500 each. ;
Every member must purchase at
least one siiare in the stock exchange J
(limited), but may not own more than
200 shares. The company is undet
the control of nine trustees and man j
agers, appointed by Hie shareholders;
Boy Reverses Theory
and Betters Potatoes
Burlington, Vt.—Because he did an
unusual tiling Maurice A. Holbrouk,
sixteen-year-old 4-H club boy, pro
tected hia potatoes from blight last
year while those of his neighbors suf- j
fered.
In the midst of n light steady rain. 1
which promotes blight, lie went into a
the field and dusted the plants with :
bordeaux.
“People told me it would wash I
right off, but did it?” tlie young ex-i
perimenter remarks. "The next week!
showed the results. Potatoes were!
dying right and left, but mine were!
not touched. Now, when I sell a |
bushel of potatoes I can say, ‘Mister,!
these spuds won't rot I’"
Finds He’s Been Hiding
From $350,000 Bequest j
Oakland, Cal.—After staying in se-®
elusion for five weeks, E. H. Kuhliß
Oakland house painter, discovered he*
had been hiding from a $350,000 for-|j
tune left by his mother, who died tufa
Oklahoma.
Kubl said he had been a witness
a federal court trial and that “sotne-M
body” had threatened “to get him-" m
Five weeks ago, he explained, h* 'i
was informed that a “mysterious ‘
man” was looking for him and i® 1
mediately thought this “somebody 1
and the “mysterious man” were tMjS
same persons and went into hiding®
The mystery man, he found, was a® I
attorney seeking to inform him J
his inheritance.