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THE ROCKDALE RECORD
Official Organ of Rockdalf County
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
J. M. TOWNS Editor
W. E. ATKINSON Publisher
“Ultraviolet rays are said to be
thrown off'by the onion." Possibly
—not ultraviolet nromns, however.
Weather experts any the climate Is
changing. A long, cold summer Is
threatened as 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 who went on to re
mark, "My guess Is as good as any
body’s.”
The ignorance ojt 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 ns an atom." There must
be. What is it that comes out of
atomizers?
“An Englishman named Pilgrim Ims
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.
When there are nine In the family,
what would be the best thing to do
with a two-ounce sample package of
breakfast -
In 1050: “Spy,” 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
lie is even more exceptional who cau
“stand” popularity. **
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We are apprised of terrible suffer
ing In Russia, with ninny starving to
death. Sovietism seems to raise ev
erything but food.
If the girls on Mars have six legs,
many n 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 efficient.
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 nnd give
place to those who print seed cata
logues nnd 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 n so
cial favorite, and then laugh in the
wrong place?
In Utopia, where everything Is
cnlled by Its right name, the party
treasurer Is quite commonly known
as chairman of the deficit
Willy has become quite a skeptic
on the subject: He wnqts to know
why the codfish hasn’t rosy cheeks,
with all that cod-liver oil in him.
Would it not- make for variety in
Hie 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 tlie bead of the drum.
Another tiling Job never contended
with, if we estimate his time and
wardrobe correctly, was a disappear
ing druwstring in the pajama trousers.
“What,” asks a curiosity-seeker In
a household column, “is the way to
prepare the vegetable, broccoli?’’ Also,
what is the way to pronounce it,
after it is prepared thus?
When the sun peters out, billions of
years hence, an astronomer says an
other will probably bob up to attract
the earth. But would that be loyal'
Too Many and Too Drastic Laws Must Inevitably
Defeat Their Own Ends
By REV. CALEB R. STETSON (Episcopal), New York.
SF ALL the laws wc have on the statute books of this country were en
forced, I question whether anyone of us would be at liberty for very
long at a time. It is one thing to make laws with the child-like faith
we seem to have that laws once made will enforce themselves. It
is quite another matter to secure the observance of law by the mass of the
the people.
We are undergoing a process of disillusionment at present. I think
that all too often well-intentioned people have considered what was for
the good of other people in their endeavor to make this land of ours
“God’s country.” They have not thought quite enough about whether
they are willing to obey the laws they advocated. In my opinion the first
thing we should think about when we talk about law enforcement is
“Am I willing to suffer the penalties I am urging should be imposed on
others?” When laws become too many or too drastic they defeat their
own ends. Public confidence and public support is lost, and nullification
and disregard inevitably follows.
Tin's has already been an experience in this country. Many laws
have been forgotten—lost sight of because no one observed them and no
power was willing to, or able to enforce them. It is high time that we
should make a serious attempt to think this tremendous problem through
in our country. We need to give up our illusions and to face frankly
actual conditions. •* j
We have reason to be encouraged that the present government of
our country is to make a serious study of the whole question. The remedy
ing of conditions will take much longer than the study, and it is a move
in the right direction. It all brings us back to the thought of the need
in all things to he thoroughgoing, not to be content with going part way
on the road to right, but to be ready and willing to go the second mile.
Proper Courses of Study Would Enable Adults
to Absorb New Ideas
By DR. EARL BARNES, Brooklyn.
Men and women over forty should be compelled to go to school. Chil
dren learn anyway, but the ability to acquire knowledge with adults de
creases one per cent each year after the age of twenty-five. The ability
to apply knowledge increases, on the other hand. For this reason I rec
ommend compulsory education.
The hunger for knowledge should be fed with new ideas based on
concrete realities. Get anew thought every day or your central nervous
systems will become stale.
The acquiring of knowledge may be likened to a file which must be
enlarged to embrace new ideas. The bjggest problem today is the fitting
of other people’s ideas into our own files.
Lot’s wife deserves as much credit for looking back at the fire as
the Itoman philosopher Pliny for dying under the ashes of Vesuvius. It
was a hunger for knowledge in both cases. Book knowledge is “canned”
and predigested and is rejected by the curious-minded in favor of orig
inal observation.
Under-Privileged Boy Needs Special Attention
if He Is to Be Saved
By JOHN HAYS HAMMOND, Noted Engineer.
During half of a boy’s adolescent years he has the opportunity to
“go bad,” hut it requires five years to develop him into a criminal. In
the category of “under-priviliged boys” are the boys who are deprived of
proper parental supervision. It constitutes about two-thirds of the en
tire boy population of this country, and particularly those boys whose
parents are aliens, with no adequate conception of the political and so
cial institutions of our nation.
Owing to the congested condition of their homes, under-privileged
boys must find recreation in their hours of leisure upon the streets of the
community in which they live. The hours of leisure, which are nearly
one-half of the hours of early adolescence, are the dangerous periods in
the boy’s life. .
The hoy in the street is detached, the gang gets him and he is ex
posed to the evil influence of gang leaders, usually older and of the
pronounced criminal type, who divert his youthful energy and love of
adventure to pranks that soon lead to misdemeanors.
Problem of Better Amusement for Youth Becom
ing of Increasing Importance
By PROF. FREDERICK P. WOELLNER, University of California.
There is need of a higher type of amusement and entertainment
for American youth than is now provided for it. The increasing amount
of leisure being afforded the race by reason of the advantage of a me
chanical age, makes the problems of amusement of increasing import
ance. The class of recreation now commonly indulged in is fraught with
real moral and social danger.
We are running up the wrong alley in the matter of our recreations
for young people, and as a result we are creating a class of mental bank
rupts. Last year $20,000,000,000 was spent in this country for amuse
ments, about twice the amount spent for education. That means for
movies, theaters, golf, cards, trashy magazines and the like.
But I don't believe that most of us work so hard that we need that
quantity of amusement every year, and we are squandering the great
wealth of our country on futility. Our false type of recreation stimulates
anti-social reactions, and with the increasing amount of leisure of a
mechanical age this becomes increasingly important.
Artistic Impetus Given by the Small Town
Rather Than the Large City
By REPRESENTATIVE RUTH HANNA McCORMICK.
The real artistic impetus of the American people conies not from
New York, Philadelphia or Chicago but from Main street, and the small
towns have developed more writers, opera singers, sculptors and painters
than all the great cities combined.
The great cities have their art galleries and their museums, but
only because some benefactor provides them. In the smaller towns there
is a much more genuine and more general artistic development. The day
is over when the concert company or road show from the big cities, no
matter how low-brow its program, could invade and capture the small
town. People resent poor caliber programs and immediately ask: “What
is New York trying to put over on us?”
THE ROC KDALE RECORD, Conyers, Ga„ Wed., May 22, 1929.
Jersey Sets Butterfat Record
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O.cgon Jjrsey Produces One Thousand Pounds Butterfat.
For the first time in history an im
ported Jersey eosv has completed an
official test record of more than
l.tloo pounds of hutterfat. The new
record maker. Imported Xenia’s Ox
ford Lilac, 574105. is owned and
was tested liy Harry D. Iliff, of Sunny
Lea farm. Independence, Ore. She
has just finished a 305-day official test
with a production record of 1,022.37
pounds of butterfat and 17,600 pounds
of milk. This cow was bred on the Is
land of Jersey, the island near tlte
coast of France where the Jersey breed
originated. She was purchased ami
placed on test in 1023 by Mr, Iliff im
mediately after she made the 7,000-
tuile journey across the Atlantic and.
the United States. In that test she
produced S2l pounds of hutterfat, 13,-
122 pounds of milk in 365 days, with
calf.
Xenia’s Oxford Lilac is not only the
highest record imported cow, hut she
is also the twenty-second Jersey in
the United States to produce over 1,-
000 pounds of butterfat, or 1,170
pounds of butter in one year.
Her daughter, the Lion’s Lilac,
671002, also owned by Mr. Iliff, is
now on official test and is making such
a high production' record that it is
Garlic Flavor Is
Quickly Detected
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Best Way to Control Bad
Tastes in Milk From Cows
Is to Prevent Them.
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
Milk containing objectionable flavors
probably causes as serious losses to
the American dairy industry as the
production of milk that sours, accprd
ing to C. J. Babcock, of the United
States Department of Agriculture.
Dairymen, he says, are giving consid
erable attention to keeping their prod
ucts sweet, but are not paying as
much attention to the flavor and odor.
Yet a pleasing flavor will have a tend
ency to extend their market through
increased consumption.
Work Very Quickly.
Two weeds —garlic, or wild onion,
and bitterweed —are of considerable
economic importance in affecting milk
flavor in many dairy regions. Garlic,
or wild onion, has almost instantane
ous effect. Experiments carried on by
the bureau of dairy industry show
that garlic flavor can be detected in
milk drawn from a cow one minute
after she has consumed one-half pound
of garlic tops, and in milk drawn two
minutes after she has inhaled garlic
odor for ten minutes. It is necessary
to remove cows from garlic-infested
pastures from four to seven hours be
fore milking to prevent the garlic fla
vor in the milk. Bitterweed, found
particularly in the South, makes the
milk bitter, and, unlike most feeds, the
effect of eating bitterweed does not
pass away between milkings.
“The only method of preventing bit
ter milk in sections where this weed
is abundant,” says Mr. Babcock, “is to
keep cows off infested pasture until
the weeds can be exterminated.” ,
Best Way to Control.
“The best way to control off flavors
In milk is to prevent them,” says Mr.
Babcock. “In the production of palat
able milk preventive measures are al
ways best. Therefore dairymen should
(1) feed milk-tainting feeds just after
milking, (2) keep cows and barns
clean, (3) properly ventilate cow sta
bles. and (4) aerate milk in order to
decrease the intensity of feed and
barn taints. Finally, prompt cooling
and storing of milk at a low tem
perature will retard the development
of flavors and odors from biological
action.”
Give Grain Supplement
to Animals on Pasture
Should grain be fed to dairy cows
on pasture? Since spring and sum
mer grass Is relatively low in nutri
ents, a cow producing 25 to 30 pounds
of milk per day must eat about 150
to 300 pounds of grass in order to
get enough' feed for her daily re
quirements. Since this is practically
impossible, a grain supplement must
be given. For cows producing 20 to
35 pounds of milk per day, a mixture
of the ordinary farm grains such as
oats, com, wheat bran, and barley
fed at the rate of l pound of grain
to 4 to 6 pounds of milk produced per
day will be sufficient. For cows pro
ducing more than 35 pounds of milk
per day, the ration should contain one
high protein concentrate such as cot
tou seed meal or linseed oil meal.
projbable that she, too, will produca
more than a 1,000 pounds of butter
fat in 365 days. In this event, Xenia’s
Oxford Lilac and her daughter will be
the only dam and daughter in the
Jersey breed to both exceed 1,000
pounds of butterfat on official test.
The Lion’s Lilac in a previous test of
305 days started when she was one
year and nine months of age, estab
lished anew world’s record for cows
of all breeds for that age class. With
her yield of 742 pounds of butterfat
and 10,752 pounds of milk, she won
the first Medal of Merit ever present
ed to a yearling cow liy the American
Jersey Cattle club.
Mr. Iliff owns two Jersey cows that
have produced more than 1,000 pounds
of butterfat in an official test. These
two cows and the new 1,000-pound
producer, Imp. Xenia’s Oxford Lilac,
by their records, give Mr. Iliff the hon
or of being the only breeder with
three Jersey cows in the 1,000-pound
class in his herd, Air. Iliff’s Jersey
herd rarely numbers more than a doz
en cows, but these cows are such high
producers that they hold both national
and state championships in several
age classes as well as many other
notable honors.
Frost-Proof Corn Is
Grown in Illinois
Tests Indicate New Variety
Will Yield Largely.
Frost-proof corn which will with
stand a temperature of 27 degrees, has
been successfully produced in McLean
county, Illinois, by Dr. James R. Hol
bert, expert in charge of the Funk ex
perimental farms.
In addition to being highly resistant
to cold weather, the new strain has
shown itself to be less susceptible to
the corn borer and flourishes during
drought when other strains die. Pre
liminary tests indicate that the new
kind of corn will yield an average of
18 bushels to the acre more than or
dinarily good corn. While the new
seed has not yet been produced in
sufficient quantities to be marketable,
Doctor Holbert told an interviewer
from the Farm and Fireside that he
is making every effort to perfect it.
He recommends that when sufficient
seed is available that a whole town
ship be planted so that there can be
no cross pollenization from inferior
fields.
The cold-resisting corn was grown
only after years of experiments in
which more than $250,000 was spent.
To hasten the experiments, Holbert
invented a refrigeration machine
which can be lowered over four hills
of corn at one time and the desired
temperature secured. Cold tests are
made both at the beginning of the
seed’s growth and at ripening time.
Doctor Holbert declared that corn
does not necessarily have to be frosted
to be stopped from ripening or killed.
Some corn crops, he added, were
found to be unable to resist a tem
perature of 42 degrees.
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A cow must have three quarts of
water for every quart of milk she
produces.
• • •
Farmers who have had the most ex
perience are frank to say they never
had too much silage.
* * *
Good breeding and good feeding go
hand in hand. Success depends upon
combination of the two.
* * *
Soft corn may often he due directly
to lack of fertility in the soil, accord
ing to crop specialists of lowa State
college.
* *
Too rapid drying of ordinary con
crete removes water that is needed in
the process of setting and weakens
the concrete.
* * *
Raising good crops is no longer the
only job of the farmer. These days
he must figure also on making some
money on what he has raised.
* * •
Andrew Ross of the Minnesota ex
periment station says Minsoy soy
beans are the best for grain and the
Chestnut variety the best for hav.
* • •
Dewberries are much like blackber
ries except that the canes trail on the
ground, and they form new plants by
rooting at the tips. After the first sea
son. some support should be provided
for the canes
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