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)xford District W. M. S.
Holds District Meet
OXFORD. Ga., May 10.—Opening 1
i ere Thursday, the Woman’s Mlsslon
rv .society of the Oxford district,
■outlnues in session to adjourn this
pvening. Mrs. J. O. Brand, Monticello,
[in.. Is presiding. Dr. Comer M. Wood
ward. of Emory University, Dr. Elam
P Dempsey, presiding elder of the
oxford district, were heard in ad
dresses as were officials of the North
Georgia Conference W. M. S. Repre
sentatives are present from more than
twenty of the churches of the district
ami the oxford church, with its Pas
tor, Rev. A. B. Elizer, arc entertain
ing tiie conference most delightfully.
Dr. Woodward, who has been lent
to the state of Georgia by Emory Uni
versity, for state-wide welfare work,
discussed interesting jphases of his
special activity. A strong note social
service pervaded his entire address,
which was received with expressions
of appreciation on every hand. The
newly elected dean of Emory College,
Jr., Professor Hugh Woodward, is a
brother of Dr. Woodward.
In his address Dr. Dempsey assert
ed that the Christian is a steward,
not only of the mystery of the Gos
pel, but of the Holy Spirit himself. He
is to tie a good steward in the use
of the Holy Spirit. In this steward
ship. he gives heed to the guidance of
the Holy Spirit. He makes full use of
die aid of the Holy Spirit in prayer
and employs the power of the Holy
Spirit in all of his labors for God.
He cannot be a good trustee of the
gift of the Spirit unless he consciously
and constantly lives in the sense of
his privilege. God has put Himself at
the Christian’s disposal and requires
the Christian to be faithful in tills
trusteeship of the Divine one himself.
The present of the Holy Spirit in the
Christian’s life is what makes it vital.
He is God in us, living out his life in
the terms of our every-day humanity.
The realization of this truth marks
the difference between perfunctory
and formal religion and living Christi
anity. Here is the secret of life, power
and achievement.”
The U. D. C. Did an
Ugly Thing Thursday
The U. D. C. in New Orleans last
week declined to adopt a resolution
of Mrs. Jefferson Davis Weir, ex
pressing regret that Louisiana school
children made a trip to another state
and there did recite “IJncoln at Get
tysburg,” but they did frown upon
such participations in Lincoln birth
day celebrations.
According to the press, Mrs. W. B.
Kernan, of New Orleans, asserted that
“we all know that Lincoln was not a
gentleman” as portrayed by partisan
historians and why permit Southern
children to go around paying homage
to his memory. Mrs. F. P. Jones, state
presdient then said “any true South
ern mother would have said “No”
when asked if her child might give a
recitation at a Lincoln memorial cele
bration.”
We trust Conyers and Georgia
daughters of the Confederacy do not
harbor such feelings in their breast
gainst about the only Yankee friend
the South bad in the North during
those terrible days of loss and des
truction, for had Lincoln lived, the
Southland would have been saved its
greatest suffering. The whole thing
was unfortunate, including his un
timely death. Our fathers were brave
and fearless hoys and they suffered
much and so did our mothers who
kept the home fires burning in spite
of devastation and we love their mem
ory for it all, but we gained a victory,
even in defeat, and today we are reap
ing bountifully. You daughters keep
the home fires burning, but not in this
way. :•
Baptists Will Install
Beacons Sunday Night
Pastor I)rnke announces an instal
lation service at the (Baptist church
s <“t for next Sunday night, at which
time four newly elected deacons, Mer
w W. Hull, John R. Lee, ,T. Harvey
Patrick and" Ben F. Reagan, are to be
ordained.
these four men are outstanding
Baptist leaders of Rockdale county
nn d this congregation is to be con
gratulated upon their acceptance of
*he call to a more definite service.
‘th a pewly painted church house in-
and out and such splendid new
deacons to carry on the work, it seems
that things are shaping up nicely for
the protracted meeting booked for
Jane with Rev. J. Frank Fleming, a
doarly beloved former pastor, doing
the preaching.
@!)e ftockftftle Uccotk
Georgia Power Cos.
on S. E. Leadership
ASHE\ ILLE, N. C. —Forecasting a
return by the South to the position
of national leadership it occupied
prior to 1850 in wealth and industrial
production as well as in other fields,
Preston S. Arkwright, of Atlanta,
president of the National Eleetri •
Light Association and (prcjlddifit of
tiie Georgia Power company, deliver
ed the principal address at tiie con
vention of the Southeastern Division
of (lie Association here May Oth.
“The southeast lias led the nation
in percentage of increase in produc
tion and use of electric power during
tiie past five years,” Mr. Arkwright
said. “Not only is this an evidence of
the rapid strides our section is mak
ing, lint it is proof that our workers
are obtaining facilities for Increased
production. When you increase pro
ductiveness per worker, you increase
the earning power of the worker, in
crease wealth, you raise standards of
living, and you bring better schools,
better churches, better roads, and a
more widespread advance along all
cultural lines.
“The United States leads the world
because our workers outproduce those
of any other nation. By modern ma
chinery, electric power and mass pro
duction methods, we have multiplied
the productive capacity of each of our
workers 35 times on tiie average.
“The greater the use of power, the
greater tiie productiveness per man.
and also the greater wealth produced,
and the greater income to the individ
ual workers. This is true not only of
horsepower that comes over tiie elec
tric wires but of horsepower that
walks on four legs.”
“The South is putting electricity to
work to multiply five strength and
the productiveness of its workers, and
multiplying productiveness per work
er always multiplies wealth, raises
standards of living, brings cultural
advantages of many kinds, and stimu
lates advancement along all lines.”
Judge E. D. Thomas
to Visit Conyers
Judge E. D. Thomas, of the Super
ior Court, Fulton county, will be in
Conyers afternoon and night of Fri
day, May 31st, as principal speaker
at a banquet upon tiie occasion of a
Masonic revival and tiie organization
of Past Masters into an Auxiliary of
Masonic governor. All Past Masters in
Rockdale county are especially urged
to lie present and to become members
of this board of district governors,
judge Thomas was elected district
Grand Master of the fifth congression
al district last year and fortunately
for the district, he happens to be one
and the South today. His record as
one of tiie five Judges of Fulton su
peroir court, is outstanding and re
flects credit upon the Southland in
a manner that places us in the hearts
of the home builders of the nation as
JIUD&E E. D. THOMAS
Fulton Superior Court
Atlanta, Ga.
ibeing acceptable neighbors and friends
with whom it is a privilege to live.
Judge Thomas is a brother among men
and a friend to the helpless widows
and orphans and his office is used
to administer justice and not the cold
steel of technicalities. If he were no
all of this and even more, you would
not find him in our country towns
and communities mixing and nunglmg
with the rank and file of humanity
His greatest joy is getting out among
th , whom ho .v
greatest service and Conyers feels
justlv proud of him for it and greatly
honored in having him come down and
counsel with then, in the interes of,
a greater Masonic service in Rockda e
county.
CONYERS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1929
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF ROCKDALE COUNTY
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Photo by U. O Jordan (Junior 1929 Senior Banquet C. H. S.)
Junior Class of Thirty-four Boys and Girls
Entertain Senior Class of Twenty Boys and Girls
Senior Class Boys
Hamilton McDonald
Lewis Kent
Steedman Tuck
Ralph O'Neal
Howard Walker
Luther Cowan
Senior Class Girls
Mary Alice Rice . Jewell Morris
Lula Mann Rebecca Patrick
Mary Agness Tucker Anna Lee Wallis
Willie Sue Stanton Fannie Mae White
Sara Hewlett Ora Guinn
Mary Potts Rosebud Wilson
Mary Branham Leftwich Olive Mitcham
Junior Class Girls
Mary Gladys Almand Mildred Bowen
Ellen Conley Fran cs Farmer
Mary Evelyn Cowan Helen Almand
Vida Drake Louise McElvany
Clara Lee Chandler - Jeffic Moon
Mary E. Reagan Florence Bell
Reliie Wilkinson Joe Butler
Lucile Bowen Lera Mac Weldon
Junior Class Boys
Keating Pharr
Joseph Towns
Walter Huff
Norman Walker
Howard Wheeler
Lewis Mann
J. T. Willingham
Horace .Milligan
J. It. Scarbrough
C. T. Bolmnnan
Hubert Plunkett
George Roebuck
Billy Farmer
Frank Stewart
Oscar L. Nelson
Fay Camp
Epliriam Bailey
Hubert Bobannan
Senior class play will lie given Friday evening, May 17th, “The Kingdom
■of Hearts Content,” 8:30 o’clock, at school auditorium.
Commencement sermon will lie delivered by Bishop Candler at auditorium
next Sunday jnorning. May 19th. Graduating exercises will take place Friday
evening. May 24th, with Supervisor S. R. Ramsey of tiie Fulton grammar
schools as speaker. These two classes are to be congratulated upon their splen
did enrollment and most excellent leadership in worthy accomplishments.
•Miss Mary Hewlett, senior class teacher, and Mr. Opher Cooper, junior
class teacher, evidently are servants worthy of their ’hire in handling so
many pupils unto these advanced stages of man and womanhood.
Superintendent Gilbert has maintained a smooth oeganization during tlies.-
months and to them we wish a happy vacation and return this fall.
Women Gained Another Victory Over Us Men
It has been generally agreed among
us men for some two thousand years
that women should shut up when in
the presence of men, hut tlie South
ern Baptist convention in session at
Memphis last week, released them
from any further obligations to keep
the peace. No sooner had our women
been lilierated than a bunch of them
took one intensive step onto tlie plat
form and the convention was turned
into a hen party or love feast quicker
than their disgusted husbands and
pastors could vacate the hall. Now,
we don’t know the difference between
a fundamentalist and a modernist, but
we are sided with the fundamentalist
localise they are the fellows who re
fused to lie spoken to by - women and
left the hall. Next thing you know
our wives will feel at liberty to talk
hack to their husbands, even in Con
yers. Can you imagine the great Apos
tle Paul sitting out in tlie audience
while a woman modernly dressed was
addressing. A two weeks meeting just
closed in this neighborhood, during
which a woman preached twice daily
while her husband acted as pianist.
It used to lie that five to eight chil
dren was considered as only a fairly
good blessing upon a home, hut now
just one .'liild is considered an abun
dant blessing in a great majority of
our modern homes and even then a
nurse is required to feed it. No won
der our young people carry flasks,
they were raised on a bottle. We had
a hen once that crowed like a rooster
and of course the rooster didn't think
any more of her for it. Now, we like
the women, in fact, most'everybody in
town has whispered that around for a
long time, hut its the clinging vine
type and riot the political type. She is
the heart of the home, in fact she is
the home itself and when her heart is
centered in politics, dull life and pub
lic life in general, tin* hearts, is remov
ed and there is no home. Tlie little
mother who loves home well enough
to stay there and raise her own chil
dren is what the world is in need of
today as never before in all history.
Ford Motor Company
Gets Down to Business
Witli production of the. Ford Motor
company in full swing, the big Rouge
plant at Dearborn, the largest manu
facturing establishment i>> the world,
has become the scene of the greatest
activity in its history.
Reports covering a month’s opera
tions show the receipt of 9,009 car
loads of material and the shipment of
8,797 carloads of products from the
plant.
Incoming shipments consist largely
of coal, iron ore, the latter being un
loaded from lake vessels at the Ford
docks on the Rouge river, limestone,
and sand, with numerous consign
ments of materials used in smaller
quantities, while the Rouge plant
sends out for sale not only automo
biles and automobile pnrts, but also
coke, cement, scrap and various other
by-products saved through manufac
turing efficiency.
Within Hie Rouge factory enclosure
are 92 miles of railway, on which an
average of 3,000 cars are handled dai
ly, including those used for intra-fac
tory movements. Approximately 350
freight cars carry products from this
factory each day. The hulk of these
shipments is comitosed of automobile
parts consigned to 32 other assembly
plants in the United States and to for
eign plants. Model A Ford automobiles
assembled at tiie Rouge plant are de
livered to dealers under their own
power, as the plant assembles automo
biles only for the Detroit area.
For the Rouge and Highland Park
plants combined, 11,234 carloads of
material were received in the month
and 11,199 carloads of products went
out from these factories.
The volume of spring orders and
Hie addition of new body types to the
line of Model A Ford ears has caused
a general stimulation to production
throughout, the organization, and the
output of passenger cars and commer
cial vehicles is now averaging approxi
mately 8.100 a day. There lias lieen a
consistent forward movement in both
production and sales ever since the
Model A car was developed.
The 801 l Weevil
Is Already Here
Mr. Clifford Patrick, one of the very
few farmers whom we think measure
up to specifi at ions from hillside to
hillside, discovered a boll weevil on a
sack of guano down on the farm this
week. Clifford says he seemed to be
very much concerned about the poor
stand of cotton and it must, lie ad
mitted that lie was by him going to
the trouble of inspecting (lie analysis
of fertilizer being used. It may be
that our late planting will i>erisli him
to death or incline him to pass on
to oilier climates somewhat like our
ancient tumble tiugs did, never again
to put- foot on Rockdale soil. Here’s
to you Mr. Weevil. But after all, he
is the easiest post to handle we have
or ever have had —in fact he is tire
only one we know how to feed effec
tively. We certainly would hate to
swap him off for the Mediterranean
fly. About, tiie only thing we know of
today that does not suffer from one
pest or naotlier is nut grass. Seems
to us that our state legislature would
pass some kind of an anti-nut grass
law. Of course, it would sound nutty,
but even at that it wouldn’t take up
any more space in that new volunan
of laws than anything else.
Popular at Home and Abroad
Visiting With The
Presbyterians Sunday
Visiting the various churches Sun
day after Sunday is an interesting di
version and an ideal way to worship.
Visiting the Presbyterian church Sun
day night, we found Pastor L. P. Bur
new and Interesting as well as faith
ful liltle flock studying together the
“call” to service. Tills congregation
does not number a great many, hut
their fifteen leaders are there backing
tin* preacher up and encouraging oth
ers to do likewise. Tiie W. M. S. lias
Mrs. Carl C. Walker for president and
the circles have Mesdames E. O. Left
wich and Ida Beattie, as chairman of
circle 1 and 2 respectively. For young
lieople’s work they have Miss Jennie
Joe McCollum and her leadership is
progressive and interesting. They have
a most interesting little Sunday school
under Superintendent J. M. McCollum
and cabinet consisting of Messrs. T.
L. Wilkerson and .T. S. Askew and
Mesdames W. S. Almand, H. <Cow
an, IV. H. Tucker, Ida Beattie, E. O.
Leftwich, C. C. Walker, Mary Hays
and Vera Harper, all capable and
earnest workers, with Misses Verda
Harper and Mary Branham Leftwich
as joint pianists. It was noticeable
Sunday night that theiV are more
women Presbyterians than men and
that ratio showed up in the choir,
with eight ladies and one man. Good
opening up there for a few more men.
Presbyterians have always been noted
for their cordial greetings to visit
ors and if there are no visitors, they
will even extend a glad hand to each
other. However, they are drifting
away from that habit and up there
now you would almost think you were
in a Baptist or Methodist church in
tills respect. In a few more weeks now
Pastor Burney will sever ids pastorial
connection and their new pastor will
lie in tliis field.
Cost of Schools
“Can the states afford to educate
Hlieir children?” The divi
sion of the National Education Assoc
iation asks and answers tills question
with anew set of statistics showing
tlie relation between exiienditures for
public schools in the various common
wealths and the amounts paid for
various luxuries.
The District of Columbia, for ex
ample, spent $9,658,614 for schools and
$68,148,072 for automobiles in 1926.
The corresponding figures for Mary
land were $26,577,101 and $168,578-
,295. There was about the same rela
tionship in Virginia with $28,284,86(5
for schools and $169,7,'5,‘5,88, r for auto
mobiles.
The National Capital in the same
year spent $16,279,458 for tobacco,
$14,067,144 for soft drinks, ice cream
chewing gum and candy, $8,222,276 on
theatre and movie tickets, $6,292,196
on jewelry, perfumes and cosmetics,
s2,79So<!i on sporting goods and toys.
The total ex|>endlture for lliese pur-
Iloses was $48,670,908 —more than five
times as much as the'total ex pend i
ture for schools.
Maryland did a little better, with
exiienditures of $86,910,068 for auto
mobiles and luxuries, compared with
the $26,577,101 for schools. The fig
ures la Virginia were $74,878,320
against the $28,384,866 school expen
diture.
“Our yearly income,” says the re
port of the research division, “now
approached ninety billion dollars.
That this Income is ninety billions,
rather than fifty or sixty billions, is
very largely due to human factors,
special capabilities possessed by the
Nation’s citizenry, which are the re-'
suit of such good agencies as good
schools. These qualities have not been
developed hi a day nor a decade.
“Our annual Investment In schools
is now about two and a quarter bil
lion dollars. Due to the special apti
tudes which the schools have assisted
in creating, our income has l>een in
creased by ten, twenty or more billions
a year. If the schools have had even
a small share in discovering and de
veloping these special aptitudes, the
investment made in them has been
an exceedingly profitable one.
“This conception of the place of
schools in our economic system sug
gests that we look upon expenditures
for education as payments to a de
preciation or insurance fund which it
is tlie sherrest folly to neglect. The
special human aptitudes which have
been principally responsible for re
cent economic advance in tlie 'United
States are of a perishable rather than
permanent quality. This all-impor
tant asset may he completely lost in
one generation.”
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