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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.