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THE ROCKDALE RECORD
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
J. Nl. TOWNS Editor
W. E. ATKINSON Publisher
Due to Infirmities incident to Its
advanced nge, a local card table Is
now a tripod.
School Item: A helpful parent on
the Hast Side got 03 last month in
Ills eon’s algebra.
It will be bad for one or another
of the prominent radio announcers
when the meek Inherit the earth.
“Ultraviolet rays are said to be
thrown off by the onion.” Possibly
—not ultraviolet aromas, however.
Weather experts say the climate is
changing. A long, cold summer is
threatened ns a future prediction.
The world will never grow better
until we can get rid of some of our
prejudices without acquiring new ones.
Too many movie stars seem to think
that when they land on page one of
the newspapers they are on location.
Our yachting expert lias examined
a recently captured specimen of sail
fish and doesn't think much of its
keel.
When you carry out a basket of
ashes in Utopia there isn’t a high
wind, and in fact there aren't any
ashes.
Personally we never heard a good
guess by anyone wiio went on to re
mark, “My guess is as good as any
body’s.”
The Ignorance of the Chinese in
money matters is demonstrated In the
report that they have kidnaped a mis
sionary.
“Now a scientist thinks there is no
such thing as an atom.” There must
be. WJiat is it that comes out of
atomizers?
“An Englishman named Pilgrim lias
crossed the ocean to America 75
times.” Won’t somebody point him
out a rock?
Speaking of spinach, there is one
herb that is better canned than in its
natural state. Canned, it tastes less
like spinach.
It is good that Doctor Einstein
didn’t come out with his theory dur
ing a war. Someone would suspect
It was signals. ’
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When there are nine in the family,
what would lie the best lliing to do
with a two-ounce sample package of
breakfast food?
In 1950: “Say,” said the veteran
aviator, “I can remember old-fash
ioned winters when it was 70 below
at this altitude.”
They say that it is an exceptional
man who can “stand” prosperity. But
he is even more exceptional who can
“stand” popularity.
We are apprised of terrible suffer
ing in Russia, with many starving to
deatii. Sovietism seems to raise ev
* erytiling but food.
If the girls on Mars have six legs,
many a Martian father must go into
bankruptcy trying to keep his daugh
ters in silk stockings.
First and last, a good deal of time
is wasted talking and writing about
efficiency; and still more is wasted
trying to become eflieieiit.
The woman who proudly announces
that her divorce decree has restored
her freedom, sometimes forgets that it
lias done fully as much for her hus
band.
Campaign literature must at this
season partially subside and give
place to those who print seed cata
logues and pictures of the coming
fashions.
The most startling evening gowns,
says Paris, have only a pair of sus
penders above the waist. But what is
there startling about a pair of sus
penders?
What good does it do to take all the
courses in the saxophone, Easy
French, etc., to make yourself a so
cial favorite, and then laugh in the
wrong place?
In Utopia, where everything is
called by Its right name, the party
treasurer is quite commonly known
as chairman of the deficit.
Y\ illy has become quite a skeptic
on the subject: lie wants to know
why tiie codiisli hasn’t rosy- cheeks,
with all that cod-liver ndl in him.
Would it not make for variety in
The program if some of the radio en
tertainers who repeat the same selec
tions over and over were to play one
backward occasionally?
Long ago, the movie drummer could
get a very swell sound effect In the
rolling surf scene by rubbing a hair
brush over the head of the drum.
Another thing Job never contended
with, if we estimate his time and
wardrobe correctly, was a disappear
ing drawstring in the pajama trousers.
Great Need of Today Ts Return to the Idea of
“Human Partnership”
By DR. RALPH SOCKMAN (Episcopal), New York.
THERE is too much patronage in American life today, and too
little partnership. As our citizenry has been increasingly trans
ferred from the soil to the city, we have changed the tempo of
our thinking from the slower processes of the seasons to the
quick exchanges and ticker tapes of the market place. Ihe race of com
petitive life is so swift that we do not try to keep pace with one another.
The home illustrates the fact that parents do too much for their chil
dren and too little with them. The present generation of youth is more
heavily patronized than ever were its predecessors. Somewhere between a
bolshevism of adolescents and a paternalism of parents there ought to be
a partnership in which the experiences of the elders arc blended with ex
periments of the youngers.
In philanthropy the old friendly personal helpfulness of our simpler
earlier communities is being replaced by organized impersonal charity.
In religion we have now largely a mere professional propaganda financed
by silent spectators. We hire ministers to preach our sermons, evangelists
to recruit our church members and musicians to voice our religious mo
tives, while the laity simply sit back and provide the funds. Such patron
age can never he an adequate substitute for the partnership methods of
the early church.
Between Sincere Religionists and True Scientists
There Is No Conflict
By GEORGE R. THROOP, Washington University.
There is a great deal of talk and discussion at the present time on
the conflict of education as represented primarily by pure science, and re
ligion as understood in the minds of many, but this is a most unfortu
nate and unnecessary condition.
To most of the true scientists and sincere religionists of the present
day there is no real conflict. All the facts of nature and life and the
universe are too unfathomable for us to attribute them to any merely
blindly operating force. How this entire world of ours and all the uni
verse could function without some power and guide greater than human
comprehension and understanding is beyond the real scientists to fathom.
What we need most is charity and tolerance on all sides. Religious
education is to address itself not only to the correction of our present
ills, but it renders special service as a groat prophylactic agent in hu
man society. We have been working oil the theory that somewhere
back in the early history of the races, the train of civilization ran off
the track, and that the business of religion has been to send out a wreck
ing crew, to extricate bruised humanity from the .wreckage. The church
lias served as a kind of spiritual hospital for wounded men.
But the big job of the church through religious education is to
teach men how to run the train so that there will be no wreck. Re
ligion is not only a cure, but it is also a preventive.
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Training of Younger Generation of Immigrants
Important for Civilization
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By DR. ROMAN DYBOSKI, Chicago Social Worker.
Training children of European immigrants in the culture of their
parents’ countries seems to me to be the best method of preventing a rift
between America and Europe.
There is no use denying that a rift has opened up between America
and Europe since the war. We are in danger of losing the unity of West
ern civilization and if the world breaks into two units a third party may
arise, probably Asia headed by Russia.
The civilization of America and Europe is what we believe to be the
best in the world, and the link between America and Europe seems to be
the second generation immigrants. There must be people on both sides
of the Atlantic who understand each other if there is to be unity of peace
and unity of culture. It is the younger generation of immigrants who
have the best strain of European culture. This helps them to understand
Europe.
They should he encouraged to study the culture of America and some
of them go back to their own countries to educate their people and help
secure this unity.
Inventions and Discoveries Have Not Minimized
Reality and Presence of God
By REV. W. HAROLD WEIGLE, Jr., New York.
In spite of what the pessimists of today maintain, it is possible to
live a usual life in an unusual way. It is astonishing how hungry the hu
man heart is today for things spiritual, and this applies to the person liv
ing in the slums and hack streets as well as to those living on Park ave
nue.
While there are many disturbing factors in our national life yet this
is not an irreligious nge. The prolific birth of new cults is an evidence
that people are very conscious of their need for God.
The great inventions and discoveries in this generation do not in
the least minimize the reality and presence of God. We must study down
to the spiritual depths in which God alone can bo found. And this is not
a closed secret. God can he found hv any heart which diligently seeks
Him. But we must seek and accept.
The church today is endangered by the loss of initial enthusiasm for
a great cause and the loss of the keenness of discipleship among people
who once enjoyed an ardent and profound religious life.
Men of Wealth Realizing That Riches Constitute
Public Responsibility
By DR. ISRAEL GOLDSTEIN, New York.
Wealth is one of the severest tests of character. Mental cares in con
nection with the possession of wealth frequently cause physical ill-health
and nervous breakdown, while the abundance of physical comfort and
luxury tends to produce an even more serious malady, ‘’spiritual anemia.’’
The rich man who is wise, acts upon the principle that wealth is -i
public responsibility, and that therefore they who have it are obliged to
use it in such a manner as te set an example in the art of living. America
may point with pride and satisfaction to its two richest men. Mr. Ford
and Mr. Rockefeller, as examples of sane and useful living. Even with
greater pride may we point to the sons of these men, whose careers pro
sent a gratifying contrast with the proverbial “sons of the rich.”
THE ROCKDALE RECORD, Conyers, Ga., Wed., May 15, 1929.
Skill Required
for Fattening
Breeder Must Now Give
More Attention to Feed
ing Light Animals.
(Prepared by the United Stales Department
of Agriculture.)
Because of tlie higher price of beef,
smaller families, and a smaller pro
portion of tiie population doing heavy
manual labor in recent years as com
pared with former years, tiie consum
er is demanding ligliterweiglit cuts of
beef. Cattle breeders and feeders
have been gradually adjusting their
operations to meet this change.
Instead of feeding the heavier type
of beeves commonly marketed 40
years ago at four or five years of age,
they are now feeding calves and year
lings und marketing them when they
weigh from 700 to 1,200 pounds.
Grow Rather Than Fatten.
On account of tiie tendency of
calves to grow rather than to fatten,
more skill is required to fatten them
within a reasonable time than is nec
essary in the case of older cattle.
Tiie several phases of tiie fattening
of calves for market are discussed in
Farmers’ Bulletin No. 1.41 C-F, “Fat
tening Beef Calves,” just issued by
tiie United States Department of Ag
riculture.
In comparing tiie fattening of calves
and older cattle tiie bulletin lists sev
eral advantages in favor of calves:
The quantity of feed required to
make a pound of gain increases as
tiie animal grows older. Calves make
from 33 to 55 per cent more gain
than mature cattle on the same quan
tity of feed.
Fat, open heifers, weighing from 700
to 800 pounds, sell nearly as well as
steers. Heavier heifers are discrimi
nated against because they have more
internal fat and are not so well cov
ered as steers, and because, being old
er, the possibility of their being preg
nant is greater.
Calves can be carried longer than
mature steers when unexpected cir
cumstances arise, such as bad mar
kets, a strike, or an embargo, as they
will retain their “bloom” longer after
they are ready to market.
Why Not to Fatten.
On the other hand, it is not always
advisable to fatten calves, says the
bulletin, for tiie following reasons:
Fattening calves require more at
tention and skill on the part of the
man feeding them than is the case
with older cattle
Calves of slow-maturing type will
not fatten rapidly enougli to make de
sirable carcasses as yearlings. Such
calves should generally be carried
about two years as Stockers before
they are fattened.
The total feed required to produce
a fat three-year-old steer may be made
up of a much larger proportion of
roughages than that required to pro
duce a fat yearling. Mature cattle
can eat coarser roughages and broken
ear corn much better than young
cattle.
Mature cattle may be fattened in a
much shorter time than calves, as
they have only to fatten, while calves
grow as well as fatten.
A copy of the bulletin may be ob
tained by writing to the United States
Department of Agriculture, Washing
ton, D. C.
Difference in Alfalfa
Seed Due to Qualities
One cannot study the behavior of
alfalfa in different fields without com
ing to tiie conclusion that there is a
great difference in the ability of vari
ous lots of seed to maintain a stand
and to resist killing out. Examples
can be found of wide differences where
two lots ot seed were sown in tiie
same field. One lot may show much
killing out and disease while the other
holds its stand in fine shape. That the
difference is in heredity due to the in
herent qualities carried in tiie seed
can be the only conclusion.
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It pays to treat seed grain for smut.
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If you have idle land on your farm
it will pay you in the long run to start
some trees on it.
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Good forestry practice is as much
a part of good farming, as is good
cropping practice.
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I.eafy, smail-steinmed hay, cut be
fore it is too mature and properly
cured without being rained on is best.
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Tiie larger potatoes especially for
cattle should always he sliced to pre
vent choking on the part of the ani
mals.
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Don’t forget that tiie early thin
ning of vegetables to a stand means
increased production and earlier
maturity.
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As feed crop on the farm, barley
Is commonly considered at least 90
per cent ns good as corn, pound for
pound, as a feed for live stock.
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Beets serve the same purpose ns do
pasture crops like oats, wheat and Su
dan for hogs. They are not nearly
so valuable as alfalfa or sweet clover.
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One of the most valuable Items of
farm equipment, from tiie standpoint
of tiie cash return on the investment,
is a good fanning mill or recleaner.
Unthrifty Seed Is
Never Recommended
Money and Labor Is Wasted
Without Proper Start.
Poor seed will not produce a good
crop of potatoes r.o matter how much
labor and money are expended on
fertilizer, spraying and cultivation, ac
cording to K. H. Fernow of the New
York State College of Agriculture.
Good seed must be relatively free
from virus diseases, true to variety
and in good condition.
An inspection of seed shows wheth
er it is badly sprouted, shriveled, or
affected with black heart or freez
ing injury but only by examination of
tiie growing plants can freedom from
virus diseases be determined. To ob
tain heal thy seed maintain a seed
plot in which control methods against
virus diseases are used, or else pur
chase seed from someone who uses
control methods.
Some growers buy enough good seed
eacli year to plant an increase plot
from which they obtain seed for their
main planting tiie following year. Such
a practice is satisfactory only if the
good seed purchased is planted at a
distance from potatoes which have a
relatively large amount of degenera
tion diseases and if conditions are not
too favorable for the spread of virus
diseases within the plot.
At present there is no way to know
absolutely whether seed is free from
virus diseases but the use of certified
seed usually results in healthier stock.
The fields from which such seed
comes have been inspected by the
state college and have been found to
contain only a small amount of virus
diseases.
Vegetative Propagation
Used for New Varieties
New commercial varieties of fruits
may he obtained by the vegetative
propagation of what is known as bud
sports. As applied to fruit trees this
term refers to branches which for no
apparent reason bear fruit different
in size, shape or color, or are differ
ent in some other respect from the
rest of the tiee.
Such bud sports are fairly common
and when propagated by top grafting
remain true to type according to hor
ticultural experts at tiie Michigan
experimental station. Over 100 of
these variations have been under ob
servations for several years oy mem
bers of tiie horticultural staff of that
station and are being put to tests to
see whether they will transmit their
characteristics when propagated vege
tatively.
Although sufficient time has not
elapsed to prove that all of tiie sports
under test will “breed” true to type,
some at least are known to have this
characteristic. . -
Most of the bud sports which ap
pear on the fruit trees are inferior
to the parent tree, but some few are
superior and it is to these that we
may look as a source of new com
mercial varieties.
Wheat Makes Best Feed
for Growing Turkeys
Wheat makes one of the best feeds
for growing turkeys after the first six
weeks’ feeding of clabber cheese, and
dry bread or rice soaked in sweei
milk. Onion tops should be cut up
into the cheese and soaked bread
feed to give the much-needed green
stuff. A good sprinkling of black pep
per should be given on these feeds
As they get older, switch over to the
grain diet very gradually so there will
be no stomach derangement. Middlings
with about-one-fourth the amount of
corn meal added, then moistened with
skim milk, make a good morning feed
right along, with wheat or other grain
for the evening meal.
Pigs Follow Steers
Pigs should be put in the feed lot
with steers being fattened for market,
for they will gather all grain dropped
by tiie steers and clean up the grain
scattered around the feed hunk, 'l'he
pork produced from this feed, other
wise wasted, will add materially to tiie
profits from steers. Pigs weighing
from 1(H) to 150 pounds are tiie best
size. Smaller pigs are not so well able
to look after themselves running
among the steers. As soon as the
pigs are fat enough for market they
should be sold and replaced by thin
pigs.
Feed for Chicks
Feeding tiie chicks begins when they
are from thirty-six to forty-two hours
old. Well-baked corn bread crumbled
with hard-boiled eggs and a little
coarse sand is fed very sparingly.
Over-feeding is a prolific source of
bowel trouble and should' be carefully
avoided. What they will pick up
clean in three or four minutes is
enough. Clean water, finely crushed
oyster shell, a dry mash of bran and
a little beef scrap should be kept con
stantly before them.
Plenty of Sunshine
The successful hog raiser has come
to appreciate sunshine more and more.
Modern hog house plans provide for
admission of plenty of sunlight to the
pens. Hogs require an abundance of
fresh, pure air, which should be fur
nished without subjecting them to in
jurious drafts. They suffer much in
a close, confining, poorly ventilated
place. Sunlight should sweep all parts
of the floor each day, to destroy dis
ease breeding organisms.
Child's Best Laxative j$
“California Fig Syrup”
Tongue Shows jf
Hurry, Mother! Even a fretful pe e ,
ish child loves the pleasant iste q
“California Fig Syrup” and i nevei
fails to open the bowels. A t< ,sp 00tt
ful today may prevent a sick child to
morrow.
Ask your druggist for genuii, “Call
fornia Fig Syrup” which has direc
tions for babies and children if a |
ages printed on bottle. Mother! Y ot
must say “California” or you may get
an imitation fig syrup.
For Poisoned Wounds as Rust]
Nail Wounds, Ivy Poisoning, etc
HANFORD’S BALSAM OF MYRRH
Money back for first bottle if not suited. All :
Suppose There Were No E^ds
Mabel—At the pictures the utliei
night we were shown that, in Morocct
men bid for their wives. Just think
of being put on five auction block unc
having men bid for you. It must Ik
terrible!
Mildred —It must lie; hut just sup
pose there were no bids!
Pick Him Up, Dad
Tillie—Hello, John!
Millie—ls liis name John? Your fa
tlier told me Ins name was Mat.
Tillie —Oil, no. Father just calk
him that because lie always trips over
him at our front gate.—Tit-Bits.
Why He Succeeded
Honored politically and professionally,
during his lifetime, Dr. R. V. Pierce,
jili.ijOj whose picture ap
pears here, made
& SS) a success few
VjAk have equal led. His
ftSHW pure herbal reme-
V Jm;* dies which have
stood the test for
many years are
gMWXASi&r still among the
/N “best sellers.” Dr.
Pierce's Golden
Medical Discov
ery is a stomach
alterative which
makes the blood richer. It clears the
skin, beautifies it; pimples and eruptions
vanish quickly. This Discovery, or
“G M D”, of Dr. Pierce’s puts you in
fine condition. All dealers have it in
liquid or tablets.
Send 10 cents for trial pkg. of tablets
to Dr. Pierce’s Clinic, Buffalo, N. Y„
and write for free medical advice.
‘“Refuse” Made Valuable
Rubber interests are investigating s
new source c< revenue, extraction o!
oil from rubber seeds, which long have
been treated as refuse on Malayat
rubber estates. Net profits of sll £
ton is estimated with market price!
approximately $22 a ton. Estate la
borers earn about three cents a day
collecting seeds in spare time.
The Leading Citizen
Blinks —I hear lie is quite prominent
in liis home town.
Jinks —Yes, lie’s as prominent as 8
darn on a flapper’s silk stocking.
MakesUfe
Sweeter
Too much to eat —too rich a diet
or too much smoking. Lots of thing:
cause sour stomach, but one thing car
correct it quickly. Phillips Milk o
Magnesia will alkaiinize the acid
Take a spoonful of this pleasari
preparation, and the system is soor
sweetened.
Phillips Is always ready to relio vf
distress from over-eating; to check al
acidity; or neutralize nicotine. Ko
member this for your own comfort
for tiie sake of those around you
Endorsed by physicians, but they al
ways say Phillips. Don’t buy sonic
bing else and expect the same re
ults!
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f Milk .
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