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THE ROCKDALE RECORD PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY J. M. TOWNS Editor W. E. ATKINSON Publisher In Utopia there are no murders but hundreds of faseiuuting detective novels. Perhaps if the songs improve the whispering tenor would have to whis per them. We still prefer to remember the Salvation Army for its work in other people’s wars. A writer on the current fashions re fers to the pew small muff us “pint size." Well, that's an Idea. It seems odd that although it's not finite tlie thing to tip one’s soup bowl, it’s quite all rigiit to tip the waiter. We might reduce our national debt by requiring every applicant for a federal Job to pay u registration fee. Bolivia and Paraguay shopped around and found that a protocol was the cheapest and best war measure. Since the song came out about “You’re the Cream in My Coffee.” the Office Misogynist lias been taking his black. Nearer tliau most of the howlers is the London schoolboy's definition of "garrulity” ns follows: Acting like a monkey. Of course there were no revolving doors in Charley Boss’ day, or natur ally 'the posses would have looked there first. If cornstalk paper becomes the usual thing, we expect the lowan will Just have to build another silo for liis library. There used to be a time when nl most any boy in town had an aunt in the country who would send him spruce gum. Two men have just retired from the auto racing game, one of whom was wise enough to make the decision while alive. When the young men from the farms go to the cities they might help the parking situation by fetching their farms with them. The possibility of the girls on Mars having six legs raises an interesting question: Are there rumble seats on Mars to climb into? Tobacco is affording an enormous element of public revenue. The ciga rette, once despised, is asserting itself as an economic nsfcet. ! / * An air mail service has now been inaugurated to the Central American countries, in case of ever having to send the marines the order to come buck. Radio experts have brought up in connection with jazz an interesting art question as to whether something is popular merely because it is prev alent. They asked the office skeptic wheth er he considered that he was related in any way to the Pithecanthropohl ape, and he said it was possible, as an in-law. The cow tree of Guatemala gives milk which is remarkably like ordi nary cow’s milk. Not only that, you don’t have to sneak up on it at 5 a. m. to milk it. An eminent scientist announces that man does his best work nt sixty, and we’ll bet he’s the same one that an nounced about ten years ago that lie does it at fifty. To more or less extent history re peats itself. The girl who can’t find things in her big handbag had a grand mother who had difficulty in locating the pocket in her petticoat. Things to worry about: Those di nosaur eggs from China are ninety tive million years old instead of ten million as scientists first advised us. But what’s a few million years be tween scientists? Artists have secured results that may imply the influence of a “fourth dimension." Some of the products are as difficult to reduce to ordinary terras of ratiocination us Einstein’s theory itself. A local ultramodern girl who does eccentric tilings as fast as she can think them up is now crocheting a doily for a pin cushion. Automobile speeding is not a sport ing test of skill. It risks human life on the possibility of imperfection in a nerveless machine. “A Russian artist is to go to Africa to paint beautiful Bedouin girls who never bathe.” The best practice will call for a good sandpapering before applying the paint. There are the usual 10 training camps for him to go to this spring, Imt one photograph of Landis looks very much like another. The New England hunter who car ries a klaxon horn around In the woods as a safety measure may be shot at yet as a flock of geese. Danger in Impetuous Demand for Reform in Administration of Justice By CHIEF JUSTICE I)E YOUNG, Illinois Supreme Court TJIE public is being awakened to that vigilance which is the cost of good government. Still, there is a need for caution that we do not overstep ourselves. There are modern philosophers who are impatient to wipe out the restraints in law that have proved their value through the ages. On the streets and in the press almost daily there is someone who would remove the presumption of innoceneo from a criminal trial. Someone else wants to remove the requirement that guilt must lie proved beyond a reasonable doubt. These are rules that must he retained or the administration of justice will retrograde cen turies. However, I would bo the last one to say that our courts are efficient, that, they have kept abreast of the times. Take the law, for example, that makes a jury in a criminal case judge of the law as well as the fact. This presumes that twelve men know more about the technicalities of our Constitution, our common law, our statutes and our Supreme court opinions than does the presiding magistrate who has devoted his life to the study. The law, enacted in 1845, should be abolished. Our faults lie as much in the organization of our courts as in the laws. There is much room for legislative improvement. But the legis lature doesn’t always move with celerity. There is nothing dramatici about reforming court procedure, nothing there to attract a legislator anxious to please his constituents. The judiciary has little political power. It has no patronage, it lias no funds to distribute. But the pub lic is aroused by the weaknesses of our criminal prosecutions, and the public will get the needed reforms. ’ ody’s Fault but His Own if Man Fails in This Modern Life By BISHOP B. F. P. IVINS. If a man misses his mark in life, you can be sure it is his own fault. This in spite of the so-called behavioristic psychology, of which we have been hearing so much of late, telling us that we are absolutely fixed hv what our inheritance and environment have made us and that if we knew perfectly what a man’s environment and inheritance were we could plot his mental reaction and how he would respond to any given stimulus. This kind of a theory is nonsense. The psychologists are beginning to acknowledge it as nonsense. Men do not act that way. Man is respon sible if he fails to come up to the mark. Man is a free agent; in theo logical terminology, he has a free will. Sin is nothing more than missing the mark. There are certain overt acts which men generally agree to be sins, such as murder, stealing, ly ing. Then we seem to catalogue sins by degrees and some we condone, such as divorce, cheating in business, the diplomatic lie, gossip, tale bear ing and scandal. You cannot classify sin in that way. Our Lord never once, as far as we have a record, condemned an overt act of omis sion, but lie condemns the sins which we today are inclined to ignore, those of commission. Self-examination and cleansing of moral wrongs is the great need of all Christians. $ k ' Youth Handicapped by Multiplicity of Rules Laid Down by Elders By DR. BRUNO ROSELLI, Vassar College. Since Eve woman has gone on liking being pretty and being told so. Men fool themselves when they tell women they are working hard to make sums of money for them. They do not realize that it isn’t so much their making of millions that women want, as to have them spend an evening at home telling their wives how nice they look. Youth is seriously handicapped by a multiplicity of rules and laws that the older generation has seen fit to weave. Instead of making things easier for youth by helping develop the fundamentals that go for respon sibility, we have created more laws, and then given the impression that they may be broken as one isn’t found out. All around we see the worst kind of super-hypocritical structures of society. I have no patience with a youth demanding freedom without respon sibility, but I have the utmost sympathy with that quality of youth which demands freedom from unfair shackles imposed by the older generation, in order thnt its own sense of responsibility may have an opportunity to develop. More Extensive Training of Country Teachers Only Fair to Rural Child By ETTA 0. CHRISTENSEN, Minnesota Educator. If the rural child is to have a square deal, the schools must do much better. One year is too short a time to make the necessary preparation for teaching in a rural school. When we compare the qualifications of rural teaching today with those of 10 years ago, we feel that great improvement has been made, and yet we must do better if the rural child is to have the square deal to which he is entitled. The problem is before us of standards to be met by entrants to the rural curricula, courses to be pursued during the training period and re quirements to be met in practice teaching. Two years should be the minimum for this hardest of all teaching jobs. The practice teaching should occur in the second year and should be of two kinds: Teaching in the grades and teaching in our typical rural schools. Gospel, to Be Attractive, Must Put Forward Demand for Devotion By REV. C. LESLIE GLENN (Episcopal), Chicago. A Christian gospel, similar to thnt which drew men to the service of the nation during the World war, is one of the great needs. The present generation is “spiritually wistful.” Too often the mild demands of orthodoxy have led young people to find atheism almost more of an advantage than faith. A tame gospel will always fail. Life cannot be bought cheap. The gospel for the age must have in it a demand for the same devo tion that was called out by the World war. The war was the one thing that lifted men out of their own selfish concerns and gave purpose to life. In spite of its horrors, it provided a reason for existence. For most men, nothing like it has come along since. Many are in a state of mild desperation, tamed and conformed, looking back on the great days when there was a world to be fought for. THE ROCKDALE RECORD, Conyers, Ga., Wed., April 24, 1929. TOIM GROWING CHICKS REQUIRE PROTEIN Larger Amounts Given First and Gradually Decreased. "Increase In muscle and nerve tis sue and the total weight of growing chicks, is largely due to the protein content of the feed ration,” said Prof. G. F. Ileuser, nt the Cornell university at Ithaca, N. Y. Chicks grow rapidly in the begin ning. During the first month they have the fastest growth, and after the second month the rate of growth be gins to decrease until the time of maturity. Since protein is needed for growth larger amounts should be fed at first, and less as the chicks grow older.” According to Professor Ileuser, the experiments at Cornell show that cer tain amounts of protein are best for chicks at different ages and that feed ing more than these amounts will not give greater growth, but that feeding less than these amounts is apt to result in decreased growth. These experiments show that the best amount of protein in the feed for chicks from one to six weeks old is 20 per cent; for chicks of from 6 to 12 weeks, 17 per cent; and for those from 12 to 20 weeks old, 14.5 per cent. Large amounts of protein feed will not hasten maturity, but enougii should be fed so that the best pos sible growth can be attained at the time of maturity and this will mean larger eggs and better production. Cannibalism Is Serious Habit Among Hen Flock What is known among poultry rais ers of experience as cannibalism among hens is in many cases a real ly serious proposition. If a hen with nothing else to occupy her gets to pecking at one of her mates and per chance plucks a feather and that feather perchance is anew one and a little blood should appear, another and more vigorous peck is made; this time a real wound is made and more blood is brought forth. From this time on this old hussy becomes a veritable cannibal. Others of the flock are more than likely to join her in this cannibalism and it takes but a short while for them to actually get their victim down and tear her ‘o pieces. Poultry experts of the Ohio Experiment Station have found that trimming off the point of the under beak just about down to the quick will at once stop the mischievous work of an individual so treated. Sometimes it is but necessary to trim one or two individuals that happen to be leaders in the trouble. Crooked Breast Bones in Turkeys Avoidable There are two things responsible for crooked breast bone in turkeys. The first would be faulty breeding, that is, because there is a lack of the min eral matter of the right sort, because of faulty metabolism of the same. An other reason is faulty roosting places or letting them roost too early, that is, a round roost is more likely to cause a crooked breast bone than a flat one and too small a roost, that is, a roost that is too small in diameter is more likely to cause crooked breast bones than a flat roost. The toms naturally are heavier than the pullets and a round roost or a roost that is too narrow would account for the fact that the toms had crooked breast bones while the pullets had none. Theories to Determine Sex of Little Chicks Many rules and theories have been proposed for determining the sex of the chicks at hatching or even from the egg. To date, most methods have proved unreliable. In the Barred Plymouth Rock breed, the size of the white spot on the head may be used to separate with some degree of accu racy the two sexes. The chicks with the large head spots are usually males. The crossing of certain breeds will re sult in chicks, the sex of which may he separated relatively accurately on the basis of color. Brooding Chicks The most important consideration in brooding chicks is to keep them al ways on fresh soil to prevent the con traction of disease and parasites which come from soil recently used by other fowls. In order to prevent soil con tamination the brooder house needs to be of a type which can he moved easily. To make the brooder house safe from rats and other vermin, it must have a tight floor, and in order to be readily movable this floor must be made of boards. Care of Young Turkeys The young turkeys, when first hatched, require good attention. First, look for lice and be sure to get rid of every one or they will get the young turkeys. Use any good insect powder, dusting it on them, then put them in a paper sack and shake them up. Sec ond, be sure to keep them dry and warm—not too closely confined. Place the mother in a coop with a little pen in front so the little turkeys can not run away, for, at first they are very shy. Runaway Building Nearly Wrecks Train Red Wing, Minn.—A railway wreck was narrowly averted here when an engineer brought his train to n stop just a few feet short of a “runaway build ing," which blocked the tracks. The building, it may be ex plained, got away from work men who were moving it from one location to another. The Chicago Great Western railway engineer saw tlie ob struction in time to halt his train. Workmen hacked away one corner of the building and the train continued its journey. FALLS UNDER TRAIN, SLEEPS SOUNDLY ON Doesn’t Waken When Dragged Out Unhurt. New York. —Peter Backe, Bronx, I. R. TANARUS„ repairman, sat on a bench in the Hunter’s Point station of the sub way in Long Island City recently and yawned. He had been working all night and he was sleepy. He stood up to keep awake to catch a train. But his lids closed and he fell asleep on his feet. The rumble of the approaching train failed to rouse him. He swayed. At that moment the train thundered in and Backe fell in front of it. Three cars rumbled past be fore the brakes applied by Motorman Charles McGuirk stopped the train. A few minutes later the emergency crew reached the station with a clanging of bells. A member of the squad crawled under the train and found Backe wedged snugly in tiie depression of the rails. Tlie policeman cocked his ears in credulously as he heard a stentorian snore. He seized Backe by the legs and dragged him out into the light. The snoring continued. On the way to St. John’s hospital the repairman slept, and even when he was lifted to a cot. • "Unconscious?” the policeman asked Doctor Pisera. “No; just a natural nap. He isn’t even hurt,” said the ambulance sur geon, and a particularly stentorian snore verified the diagnosis. Husband Slayer Walks Out of Detroit Prison Detroit, Mich. —Mrs. Maude Cushing Storick, serving a life sentence for the murder of her husband, Claude Cushing, escaped recently from the Detroit House of Correction. The murderess, who for the last three months has been the private cook for the family of Edward Denniston, su perintendent of the Detroit institu tion, walked to liberty after discard ing her prison garb for clothing be lieved to have been smuggled to her by an accomplice. The escape was noticed shortly after nine o’clock when Mrs. Minnie Walters, matron in charge of women trusties in the Denniston residence, found Mrs. Storick’s cell empty. Po lice and prison guards were dis patched at once to watch all railway and bus terminals. A reward of SIOO was offered for her capture. Mrs. Storick is termed “a dangerous and exceptionally clever woman.” Cheese Rolling Rolls Two Thieves to Jail San Francisco. —Two San Francisco policemen had never seen a profes sional etieese roller in action before, and as a result they captured two would-be thieves. Corporal John Reed noticed a large cheese rolling slowly down one of San Francisco’s 33 hills and behind it a furtive appearing character guiding its progress with a stick. Corporal Reed took charge of the cheese’s progress and guided it —as well as its previous master—to the city jail. The would-be thief con fessed, but would not tell where he got the cheese. Just as the thief was about to be locked up in rolled another cheese, and behind it came another policeman and another would-be thief. Tiie story just had to come out then. There was a big shipment of cheeses at pier 19 and some of the boys just couldn’t resist the tempta tion of rolling them awray. Helpless Man Sends Dog With Note to Neighbor Cornell, Wis. —Charles Minick, a road patrolman, lay helpless in his bachelor home near here suffering from a violent attack of rheumatism. Minick called his airedale dog to . the bedside, tied a message to the dog’s collar and repeated the name of a neighbor several times. The message was delivered by the animal and Minick was taken to town and given medical care. For Being Helpful New York. —Disarming a holdup man is one thing, but trying to turn over the captured firearm to New York police is something else. Oliver Deardorff, taxi driver, did just that and was arrested for illegal posses sion of firearms. Gets Huge Wildcat Antigo, Wis.—Bounty was claimed recently by Woodie Gibbs on a wild cat that weighed 55 pounds and measured almost six feet from front paws to the tip of the tail. “WORTH WEIGHT IH GOLD” Verdict of Woman Who Tried Pinkham’s Compound Tully, N. Y.—“lt hurt mo to wail; or eit down without help and I f e ] t *™* siclc and 'voelj JJy j The medicines that will do for me what the Vege table Compound and Sanative Wash have done are certainly worth their weight in gold. I think I have given \ them a fair trial and I expect to take two more bottles of the Vegetable Compound.” —Mbs. Chabi.es Mob- GAN, R. F. D. 1, Tully, N. Y. 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