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PAGE TWO 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.