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WEDNESDAY, MAY 8. 1929
Mothers Idolized
by the Famous
Paget of History Full of
Glowing Tributes to
“Mother" Made by
Great Women
and Men.
Men and women tmve laid I lie host
nnd supreme efforts and fruits of
tlielr careers ns tributes ut the feel
of their mothers.
The Itomnn orator declared, “The
empire Is at the fireside." Mohammed
said, “Paradise is at tlie feet of moth
ers." A Scotch saying lias It that an
ounce of mother Is worth more limn
■ pound of clergy. Henjamin Frank
lin's love nnd devotion to Ills mother
ls a axlnmntlc. He not only thought of
her, but gave concrete expression to
those thoughts, when he sent her a
“moidore,” a gold piece worth $0 "to
ward chaise hire, that you may ride
warm to meetings during the win
ter."
Whistlsr'a Great Picture.
That erratic genius, who quarreled
with Ids patrons, sometimes repudi
ated his birthplace, antagonized crit
ics and friends alike, James Mc-
Neill Whistler, painted a beautiful
and tender picture called the “Por
trait of the Painter’s Mother." Among
all of his brilliant and delicate works,
this picture Is probably the best
know 7 i.i.
This man In his devotion to Ids
mother forgot to he u cynic, nnd be
came a loving son. One critic states
that, In this picture, a harmony In
gray nnd black, the artist undoubted
ly touched tlie highest point of ex
cellence. This portrait of Ids mother
us an old Indy In the calm and se
rene dignity of nge lias brought tears
of sweet remembrance to the eyes of
many a man und woman, lie has de
pleted her ns an old woman, In n black
gown, with a white cap, sitting at
case, with quiet hands, waiting and
thinking.
Asa white candle
In a holy place, |
So Is the heauty
Of an aged face.
England’s best-known short story
writer, n witty reconteur, whose prose
Mother
II I could mm U It on the tandi ol time
Or write It on the iky ol every clime,
Thle would I write, and write In bold
est hand
That all the world might see and un
dovstand.
That lar and wide, there could not be
another
So line, so sweet, so wonderlul as
MOTHER.
Ib brilliant, sometimes satirical ami
scintillating, dedicated one of the
earlier of his volumes of short stories
“To the Wittiest Woman In India” —
his mother. This hook contained n
tale which Cyril Falls, one of Mr.
Kipling's critics, calls “one of the
best short stories ever written”;
which Is fulsome praise enough 1
i
CITATION
Dismission from Aiiluiiiistration
GEORGIA, ltockdule County.
WHER 10AS, A. F. Walker, Adminis
trator of J. W. Kirkpatrick, repre
sents to the Court in his iietltlon, duly
filed and entered on record, that he
has fully administered said estate:
This is, therefore, to cite alii per
sons concerned, kindred and creditors,
to show cause, if any they can, why
said Administrator should not he dis
charged from his administration, and
receive Letters of Dismission on the
first Monday in June, 1(129.
THUS. 11. MAUSTON. Ordinary.
CITATION —Year’s Support.
GEORGIA, Rockdale County.
To all Whom it May Concern: No
tice is hereby given, that the apprais
ers apiHilnted to set apart and as
sign a year's supiwtrt to Mrs. E. .1.
Granade, the widow of Emory .1.
Granade, deceased, have filed their
award, ami unless good and suffi
cient cause is shown, the same will
he made the judgment of the court at
the June Term. 1929, of the Court of
Ordinary.
This April 2!1, 1929.
THUS. H. MAUSTON, Ordinary.
CITATION—YEAR’S SUPPORT
GEORGIA, Rockdale County.
To All Whom it May Concern: No
tice is hereby given, that lite apprais
ers appointed to set apart and assign
a year’s support to Mrs. ,1. I*. Tilley,
the widow of J. P. Tilley, deceased,
have filed their award, and unless
good and sufficient cause is shown,
the same will he made the judgment
of the court at the June Term. 1929.
of the Court of Ordinary.
This May 1. 1929.
THOS. H. MAUSTON.
Ordinary Rockdale County.
Thought For the Day
WHAT would you think of a boy who would strike hi* mother? You
hate to think of anything 10 unpleasant, don’t you? Word* can
not express your opinion of one who would intentionally injure his
mother.
NOW stop a minute. Probably some time in your life you have had
a bloody nose or a skinned knee. And probably some time in
your life someone has made an unkind remark that hurt you dread
fully. Which really hurt the worst? The nose or the knee was better
in a few hours or a few days, but your injured feelings bothered you
for a long time after that unkind remark.
THE meaning of all this is clear: You have only contempt for a hoy
who would strike his mother, but do you realize that an unkind
word to her may hurl her feelings more than a blow? Boys—and girls,
loo—are so much more careless with their tongues than with their
fists. Don’t you be one to let your tongue inflict pain.
A,
'J'HAT’S a good thing to think about on Mother’s day.
The story Is one of tlie most amus
ing and laughter raising of the lov
able old Mulvaney tales.
Found Types In Mother.
It Is said that the popular Scotch
author, Sir James M. Barrie, whose
charm is so appealing to young nnd
old —someone flippantly and smartly
calls It “that <1 —and charm” —intro-
duces Into tils writings characters
derived from his mother up to the
middle of the nineties, when she died.
Prof. Itohert E. Itogers of Technology
says that “Doctor Freud's hypothesis
of the mother complex in Its purest
form seems almost invented to tit
Burrie."
The man’s genius is thought by
many to have found its most charac
teristic expression in his Thrums
stories. These tales were the stories
his mother used to tell him. “She
told me everything,” says the author,
“and so my memories of our little
red town were colored by tier mem
ories.” Sir James’ early writings
were over the signature of Gavin
Ogilvy, nnd, In 1894, he published
“Margaret Ogilvy," based on Ids
mother’s life, and Ids own tender re
lations and love for her.
Mary Ann Evans, that English
woman with the "masculine” mental
ity, who Is known to posterity ns
George Eliot, lost tier own mother at
the nge of sixteen. She never Imd
children of her own. Yet the nm-
To Mother
Mother It the dearest word In any
mortal tongue;
Over all the earth so wide we hear her
praises sung.
Through the greening valleys, now that
spring has come again,
Haar the crooning lullaby that crowns
the tongs of men;
Ease your heart, dear mother mine, and
throw your cares away.
Rest your busy hands and smile, for
this, dear, is your day I
ternal Instinct In her led her to write
many things which speak directly to
the heart of n mother. “A mother
dreads no memories,” writes this
woman, who had educated herself in
the languages, metaphysics and Spen
cerian philosophy: “those shadows
have all melted away in the dawn of
baby’s smile." Which is exactly the
mental state which Margaret Sangster
reports finding in the mother of a
numerous Hook in n home of the
direst poverty. “‘She is my sixth
baby,’ said tße sweet-faced German
woman. ‘Hasn’t God been good to
us?’ ”
Alice Cary’s Tribute.
In “An Order for a Picture,” Alice
Cary lias left us a beautiful tribute
to mother:
A lady the loveliest ever the sun
Looked down upon you must paint for
me;
Oh, tf 1 could only make you see
The clear blue eyes, the tender smile.
The sovereign sweetness, the gentle
grace.
The woman's soul and the angel's face
That nre beaming oil mo all the while,
1 need not speak these foolish words;
Yet one word tells you all I would
say—
She Is my mother; you will agree
That all the rest may be thrown away.
The better tße mothers physically
nnd mentally, the better the race, Is
Oak Grove News
The fanners are all busy working
in I lie field.
Miss Idol Up Norton is Attending this
week in Atlanta with her sister, Mrs.
B. o. Tucker.
Miss Foy Lou and Kate Hicks vis
ited Miss Roberta Carroll Sunday af
ternoon.
Miss Pinkie and Dollie Norton, Mr.
Aaron nnd Etta Jim McWilliams. Mr.
Allison Bowen spent Sunday with
Miss Ruby and Mr. Leroy Parker.
Mrs. L. F. Norton visited Mrs. J. O.
McWilliams Saturday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. S. It. Mitcham and
family visited Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Hud
son Sunday.
Mr. Allison Bowen. Mr. Joe Under
wood called on Miss Pinkie and Dollie
Norton Sunday night.
Miss Etta Jim McWilliams and Miss
Pinkie Norton visited Miss Roberta
Carroll Monday afternoon.
Miss Pinkie Norton sieiit Wednes
day night with Miss Roberta Carroll.
Mrs. Ada Chupp and two children
visited Mr. and Mrs. J. O. McWil
liams last week.
Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Ivey had as
THE ROCKDALE REliwu. iuiVYERS, GEORGIA
a truism, worn, but worthy of repeti
tion. Higher education for women!
llow can education for tlie mothers of
a race ever be too high! Some wise
and good man has said recently:
“Educate a man, and you educate an
individual; educate a woman, and
you educate an entire family.” Isa
belle Beecher Hooker recognizes it
strongly when she writes: “To my
“A Mother’s Love”
"The love of m mother is never ex
hausted, it never changes, It never tires.
A father may turn his back on his child,
brothers and sisters may become invet
erate enemies . . . and she can never
be brought to think him all unworthy.”
—Washington Irving.
conception, one generation of edu
cated mothers would do more for tlie
regeneration of tlie race than all oth
er human agencies combined; and it
Is an instruction of tlie head tliey
need, and not of tlie heart. Tlie doc
trine of responsibility has been
ground into Christian mothers above
vviiat tliey are able to bear.”
“Maternal Efficiency."
The Medical Research council of
Great Britain reports, after a long
and exhaustive investigation among
some 12,000 young children, tßat it is
“maternal efficiency” that influences
tlie health and growth of children in
any and all walks of life. An efficient
mother, in the squalid conditions of
the slums, in the poverty of the min
ing districts, can outwit circumstances
“so that her children get a physical
start equal to that of better circum
stanced families.” The committee
states that “even among animals
there nre good mothers and bad
mothers.” The first rear a large pro
portion of their young, nnd tlie sec
ond neglect or are indifferent to their
offsprings.
A worker of experience is able to
classify mothers in this respect into
good, bad and indifferent. "When the
children are repeatedly found to be
dirty or verminous, badly clothed nnd
left in bed until all hours of tlie day,
when the house Is constantly dirty
and uncared for, tlie mother without
doubt is inefficient. It Is in this sense
that tlie term ’efficient mothers’ Is
used her. Bad parents, irrespective
of tlieir income, tend to select bad
houses, ns tlie money is often spent
on other things.”
Sons of Great Women.
Great men often have weak chil
dren ; great women seldom. It is an
interesting fact that students of he
redity are agreed that girls often re
semble tlieir fathers in mentality, dis
position nnd constitution, while boys
“tnke after" their mothers. But tlie
most Interesting of all Is the state
ment that tlie sons of intelligent moth
ers will be intelligent; wliile it does
not follow that intelligent fathers
will have intelligent sons. It is said
that the poeis Burns, Ben Johnson,
Goethe, Walter Scott, Byron and
Lamartine were nil horn of women
remarkable for vivacity and brillian
cy of language.
O wondrous power! how little under
stood!
Entrusted to the mother’s mind alone,
To fashion ;;enlus, form the soul for
good.
—Ann Low, !n !he Boston Globe.
tlieir guests Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Irie
Ivey and family. Mrs. Emory Gran
ode and son, Lewis.
Mr. and Mrs. Linn Granade had
their children at home Sunday.
Miss Etta Jim McWilliams, Miss
Pinkie Norton visited Mrs. Lois Mann
Sa t urdny afteruoon.
Mf. L. F. Norton lias been on tlie
sick list for the lust week, lint glad to
say lie is improving some now.
Miss Pinkie Norton spent Thursday
in Lithonia.
CIRCLE NO. 3 MEETS
Circle No. 3 of the W. M. S. met at
tlie home of Mrs. Carl Sims on Mon
day. May (5, at 4 :(X) o’clock.
The meeting was called to order By
tlie leader. Mrs. Sims.
“Rock of Ages’’ was sung as open
ing song. Roll call and minutes of pre
vious meeting were read and approv
ed. Tlie following program was given:
Broken Homes, Mrs. Dan Patrick.
Discussion, Wliat Makes or Breaks,
Mrs. Carl Sims.
Seven minute sermon, Mrs. Jordan.
Bible study followed. The meeting
adjourned after the Lord's Prayer in
Concert.
Mothers’ Virtues
Put on Record
Most Beautiful Descrip
tion of Wife and Moth
erhood Ever Penned
Found in Book
*1 of Proverbs. j*
By Right Rev. James E. Freeman,
Bishop of Washington.
In her torigae Is the law of kindness.
—Proverbs 31;26.
No finer tribute to feminine graces
Is contained in the Bible than that re
corded in the thirty-first chapter of
the Book of Proverbs. It is n glowing
tribute to wifehood and motherhood,
"The heart of her husband doth safely
trust in Ber; she will do him good and
not evil all the days of Ber life." Of
Ber unfailing devotion to ber house
hold the writer says: “Her candle
goetli not out by night; she stretcheth
out her hand to the poor; yea, she
reacheth forth Ber hands to the
, needy.” “She looketh well to the ways
of tier household nnd eateth not the
bread of iuieness.” Little wonder is
it that her children "arise up and call
,Jier blessed; her husband also, and he
praiseth Ber.” It is a lofty concep
tion of the mother of the household,
iNothing that is liere written concern
sing her is more significant than the
passage, “In her tongue is tlie law of
kindness.” There can be little higher
in the way of the fulfillment of the
graces und virtues of motherhood than
this.
The Understanding Heart.
The law of kindness implies a gentle
and understanding heart. It will not
be hindered or distracted through mis
understandings nor will it yield to the
petty annoyances that day by day
cause friction and unhappiness. Tlie
law of kindness will not reckon with
these. It recognizes with understand
ing sympathy temperamental inequali
ties and those elements that render
members of a household dissimilar in
thought and practice. Tlie law of
kindness resists and overcomes tlie un
considered and thoughtless utterance
and readily forgives the unwitting act
of disobedience. The mother of the
household, like Mary of old, penetrates
beneath tlie surface of tilings, weighs
with fine discrimination the differ
ences in those who constitute the
household and exercises a judgment
that finds its inspiration in the law of
kindness. It is safe to say that this
supreme gift of mother love is one of
the mightiest factors in tlie shaping
of character, and that It contributes
more to an orderly and peaceful home
life than all else. It is the source of
contentment and the inspiration to
higher thinking and living. Subtract
this from our home life and we impov
erish it.
True Kindness.
We are not thinking, concerning this
great virtue, of that kind of cheap
sentimentality that discloses itself in
undiscriminating kindness. Kindness
without tlie loving word of counsel is
futile. Kindness that reckons not with
an ordered and orderly household
whose discipline contributes to the
strengthening and enrichment of char
acter inevitably produces impairment
of domestic felicity.
Mother’s Sunday compels us to think
more definitely of those fundamental
things that constitute the strength and
sanctity of home life. It is demon
strable that the homes of a nation
have the power of making or unmak
ing it. They either exalt its standards
or debase them. They either con
tribute to the wliolesonieness of our
social life or they gravely Impair it.
Indeed the home standards affect for
good or ill every phase of our cor
porate life. No home liveth to itself.
We are living in an age in which the
duties and privileges of women have
been infinitely broadened. They are
equal sharers with the men of the na
tion in its large concerns and oppor
tunities. They have to do with the
making of policies and the shaping of
national ideals. All this should make
for greater refinement and whosesome
ness in all that concerns our well
being.
Mother's Responsibilities.
If these new privileges and oppor
tunities detract in any wise from the
high claims and responsibilities that
peculiarly heloug to mother life and
mother influence, they must ultimately
work disaster. No social occupations,
no indulgence in those things that con
cern the state and the nation, may be
substituted for those holier responsi
bilities that have to do with home and
family life. The greatest trust that
God has committed to His children is
that which is given to the mother of
the household. She, more than nil
others, determines the moral worth
and strength of our domestic and so
cial life. To her hands is given the
incomparable privilege of shaping the
characters of her children. The moral
and spiritual ideals of the nation, as a
whole, are largely determined by its
mothers.
The Savior’s Mother.
Little ns we know of that simple
home in which the child Jesus was
reared, sufficient is told us to Indicate
His mother’s influence ns well as her
understanding sympathy. She, above
all others, discerned the high and holy
purpose of His ministry. With pro
phetic instinct she saw from nis earli
est days what no other eye could dis
cern.
Poets and painters have exhausted
their genius in portraying this sacred
relationship. The modern mother may
find in this lowly home at Nazareth
an ideal of transcendent loveliness.
Side-Dressing Corn
A study of crop statistics for the
five-yen r period, 1924-1928, shows that
Georgia farmers plant annually np
proxirailtely four million acres of corn
and its equivalent In other grains,
from which they harvest 14 bushels
per acre or a total of fifty-six mil
lion bushels. This production lacks
dose to thirty million bushels or 7.5
bushels iter acre supplying the farm
needs of tlie state. To buy this corn
from outside tlie state requires an
expenditure of $32,835,000.00 annually.
This sum represents $8.20 for each
acre planted to this crop. The acreage
planted is sufficient to supply the
farm’s need for grain, But due to poor
preparation, improper and Insufficient
cultivation, low yielding varieties, too
little plant food —particularly Initro
gen, and general neglect, the average
farm falls short of actual require
ments By about eight bushels per acre.
If these figures seem too high it
should be remembered that they rep
resent only farm needs and that the
total needs for the state are much
higher. To satisfy the farm require
ments alone, the per acre yield must
lie increased by about eight bushels.
It has been proven experimentally,
demonstrationally and practically
that 150 pounds of nitrate of soda,
which costs about $3.75 will increase
the per acre yield of corn 8 to 12
bushels. Such a practice applied to
the total acreage would give a mini
imum of 32 million extra bushels,
quite sufficient to satisfy the actual
farm shortage.- By enlarging the acre
age to vetch and peas, and increasing
the amount of nitrate of soda used
as a side-dressing, per acre yields may
lie increased enough to meet the state’s
total requirement.
Adding the extra 8 to 12 bushels to
meet farm needs at a maximum cost
of $4.00 rier acre for nitrate is much
more economical and a more sane
practice than paying a minimum of
We may change our customs and our
ways of living, but we dare not lower
those high and holy standards that
give to the mother the sovereign place
to whicli by divine sanction she was
appointed. She must continue to be
the guardian of a nation’s character.
Entertaining Made
Easy With a
GENERAL' @ ELECTRIC
Refrigerator
T'HE day of hours and hours of wearisome
A preparation for expected guests is past. Guests
don’t want that—they much prefer to have you
feeling “peppy” and amusing, and that’s hard
after hours in the kitchen.
The sensible way is to let your General Electric
Refrigerator do the work for you. There are so
many things that are easy to prepare if you have
a G.E., salads, desserts, cold meat dishes, fruit
cocktails, ices and cold drinks. Thanks to the Gen
eral Electric Refrigerator.
With this “Years Ahead” refrigerator in your
home you are never bothered about entertaining,
whether the guests are expected or unexpected
arrivals. You shop less often, and let this auto
matic refrigerator keep your fresh food supplies
in perfect condition until needed.
There are interesting, unequalled mechanical and
structural superiorities about the General Elec
tric Refrigerator that you should know about, too
—so come into our nearest store for a demon- ?
stration.
ACT NOW!
$1 C\ DOWN Months to
and Pay Balance!
Georgia
P ° WER >l®/ COMPANY
- - A CITIZEN WHEREVER WE SERVE - ■ •
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Allen had hh
their dinner guests Saturday evening
the former’s sister, Mrs. Dock Smith
and brother, Mr. Marlon Allen, both
of Atlanta.
Mrs, W. L. Grunade and little sou
Leonard, were week-end visitors at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Cowan
and attended commencement exer
cises at Livingston high school.
SIO.OO for an equivalent amount of
corn from outside the state.
Chilean Nitrate of Soda should he
applied to corn as a side-dressing 45
days after planting, or when plants
are knee to thigh high, at the rate of
100 to 200 pounds per acre. When corn
follows cotton or other liberally ferti
lized crop It Is not necessary to apply
phosphate and potash. On land plant
ed continuously to corn, both mater
ials may be needed. If used, Both
should lie applied before or at plant
ing time.
T. H. BONNER, State Manager,
Chilean Nitrate of Soda Ed. Bureau,
Hurt Building, Atlanta, Ga.
Ever Notice
the Back of
YourNeck?X
\ r OU can’t tell how badly you need a hair
J cut just by looking in tlie mirror front
face! It'] the kack of your head that tells the
story. That's why we say: “If you saw the back
of your neck as often as the rest of the world
docs, you'd never forget that kaircut every ten
days."
And here's a tip:—the next time you get s
haircut in our super-service shop, ask for an
application of Pitch's La Foma hair-dressing
afterward. We know of nothing so excellent
for training the hair to lie smooth and nothing
else which increases its gloss so amazingly.
llow about doing it today?
Rockdale Barber Shop
R. V CORNWELL, Prop.