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THE ROCKDALE RECORD
Official Organ of Rockdale County
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
J. M. TOWNS Editor
W. E. ATKINSON Publisher
Brighter Mno louder” Is fashion’*
warning about men's ties and shirts.
And funnier?
“Cities Hooked by Earthquake,” In
forms a headline o\er the news. Hut
aot to sleep.
Generally speaking, nothing else
seems as homemade as a homemade
raudevllle show.
A statesman is a politician who has
ieen elected so many times he doesn't
save any opposition.
Great grandmother’s silk stockings
may have had the length, but they
didn't have the visibility.
Asa measure of mankind’s progress
St was less than one generation from
the ukulele to the saxophone.
Now that Einstein has some spare
lime he might evolve an eusy method
for applying typewriter ribbons.
Chinn was the first nation to have
a national vaccination day, but that
didn’t make other nations sore.
Motion picture stars are so well j
paid that they can easily afford their
frequent and expensive divorces.
Another good memory test is to sit ■
down and recall the things you were I
worried about this time Inst year.
Reports from Europe say that j
Trotzky Is in a bad way physically, j
Nothing much left hut the ‘‘trot.’’
It will he a long while, however, be
fore interpreting Einstein will sup
plant bridge as an indoor diversion.
A “seer” says 1929 will be a fortu
nate year for females, thus making
the tenth year of that kind since 1919.
There are 134 airports in the Unit
ed States and any number of other
places where an aviator can drop in.
Aviation has encouraged physical
risk to an extent that renders the old
motto, “Safety First,’’ entirely obso
lete.
A beauty expert grades the blonds
ns Anglo, Celtic, Nordic and Titian.
With no mention of the Pharmaceu
tical.
We notice that another fellow who
gets around a lot is the gentleman who
cleans the glass in a busy revolving
door.
If it is true that “Uncle Tom’s
Cabin” has been given 300,000 times
we don’t wonder tiie bloodhound lias
wrinkles.
Scientists have declared that the
onion is n source of violet rays. We
wonder what is the color of a garlic
emanation.
Those who know they should reduce
will at least feel thankful they are not
as skinny ns the girls in the style ad
vertisements?
“An Italian national in New York
has been asked to stop resembling
Mussolini.” Well, a smile will go a
long, long way.
The height of nervousness: An in
mate of a southern jail has written
the press complaining of whistling by
another tenant
Formerly it was necessary to go to
the Far West in search of adventure.
Now it is necessnry to go only as far
as the nearest filling station.
Did you ever notice that all the
jokes about Scotchmen are good na
tured ones? Perhaps that Is because
the Scotch take them good naturedl.v.
A Scottish piper plays outside the
king’s window each morning at eight
o’clock. To some this will be inter
preted ns additional testimony to the
remarkable constitution af the mon
arch.
“The bureau of standards placed
100 envelopes in a barrel which was
subjected to a terrific shake-up for
several hours. Despite the fact that
many envelopes were worn to a fraz
zle, not a stamp came off.” Possibly
they were stamped envelopes.
The nature note which claims there
are only two birds per acre in this
country ought to have a census of the
sparrows in our back yard.
Next to sitting down on a mamma
doll in the dark, about the worst thing
is putting a bare foot down rather
heavily on a ginger ale cap.
Innumerable people are mentioned
as intimate friends of the prince of
Wales; which fact proves that the
prince is not only an affable person
age, but also a good politician.
A Detroit parent of the old-fash
ioned Inflexible type thinks they ought
to put the taste back iuto castor oil
to build up the national morale
A news correspondent gloomily re
ports that there seems no way to cure
the political mania in Syria. That
country must be much like ours.
'Stoppage of Spiritual and Intellectual Growth
Tragedy of Many Marriages
. —.
By RABBI A. 11. SILVER, Cleveland.
MARRIAGE which is built upon joyous love will withstand every
asfault of misfortune, poverty, trials, tragic mistakes, severe
problems of adjustment and the ravages of time. One of the
great tragedies of married life is that so many men and women
stop growing after marriage and frequently one drags the other down
spiritually and intellectually.
Great love is never without compensation. But componsation is not
the motive of great love. Those who love greatly will simply not know
what you are talking about when you speak to them of rewards. They
love because for them it is the most necessary, the most spontaneous and
altogether the most desirable thing to do. Compensations follow.
The first compensation is joy. True love is triumphantly joyous. This
is true even after making full allowance for the inescapable sorrows which
come into the lives of all lovers. In fact it is the enslaving destiny of men
with its full quota of pain and frustration and tragedy which lends the
edge to their precious loves and to their holy hours of happiness. The
love of a friend, the love of knowledge, the love of beauty, or the love of
God is an inexhaustible source of joy.
Joy is one of the two real tests of love. Do you find joy in the per
son or thing or cause which you think you love? If the element of joy is
not there, it is not love. It may be respect or admiration or toleration.
It is not love.
If the love of young people, or married people, or of friends, does
not develop them, does not evoke the best and noblest in them, it is not
love. Iron sharpeneth iron, so a man his friend. The man who would make
his friend a reflex of himself is no friend. The husband who would make
of his wife an annex of himself, a convenient foil for his personality, is
no lover, lie is just a husband.
Herding of Erring Youths With Adult Criminals
Grave Menace to Society
By W. BRUCE COBB, Brooklyn Charity Bureau.
A youth can be turned into a criminal with but 48 hours of as
sociation in a jail with adults hardened in crime. We haven’t fully
realized the shocking proportion of young criminals. I do not believe
that the moral forces of the community are sufficiently potent to cope
with the situation. Proper segregation of youthful miscreants is the
solution. This will involve the establishment of a corps of intelligent,
sympathetic probation officers who can advise or admonish wayward
children.
Separate places of detention should be provided, so that adolescents
will be kept from unwholesome criminal contacts. The children’s courts
should be so reorganized that the entire staff will be able to study and
treat each case intelligently.
Boys can to a great extent supply the deficiency where the church,
home and school are lacking. To be effective they must create a constant
interest for the youth.
American children born of alien parents often learn the language
and customs of this country more quickly than their fathers and moth
ers, and thus gain a hold over them—a liberty which is sometimes abused.
Controlled Experimentation Great Need in Move
for Better Teaching Methods
By FLOYD W. REEVES, University of Kentucky.
Greater use of controlled experimentation has been made by colleges
of education in universities than by any other type of institution. It is
surprising that teachers, colleges and normal schools, institutions having
as their major function the improvement of teaching in elementary and
high schools, should have done so little in the way of discovering methods
whereby the instruction of their own students might be improved.
The limited extent to which controlled experimentation has been
carried on leads to the suggestion that investigation of this type needs to
be encouraged. Colleges, universities and teacher-training institutions
would do well to test out in an objective manner the results obtained from
the use of different teaching methods in order that the better methods
may be discovered and utilized.
Christian college at Columbia, Mo., may be mentioned as one of the
junior colleges which have developed an elaborate program for the im
provement of instruction. This includes the supervision of classroom
teaching forums for the discussion of instructional problems and con
trolled experimentation in the field of teaching method.
Wrong Use Made of Time of Leisure Constitutes
Menace to America
By EUGENE T. LIES. Play and Recreation Expert.
Leisure, and not the “modern pace,” is America’s greatest menace.
No generation has had more leisure than the present, but this leisure may
be a boomerang which will strike at the heart of civilization, unless it
is properly guided and directed.
For generations the masses have struggled for more leisure. Now not
the few but the many have it. Parents, educators, religious and civic
leaders and sociologists fortunately are showing concern and are pointing
out that what we have before us is a problem of right and wrong use
of hours, days and weeks of marginal time during which people either
can degrade and destroy themselves, or can elevate themselves, add to
their worth and stature and at the same time give of themselves in ser
vice to their fellow man.
Worker Must Link Self With Dreamer for Prog
. ress of Permanent Value
By REV. DR. RANDOLPH RAY, New York.
The dreamer of dreams and the worker with his hands are in
separably joined together in the pattern of our lives. The world can make
no progress without visions and ideals, hut we cannot ignore the hands
of man beneath the wings. In every art, all the professions and in busi
ness visions are useless if we cannot translate, materialize and utilize
them.
But be reminded that your vision must come first. The dreamer leads
and the worker follows. Faith and work necessarily go together whether
in religion or in practical life. If you do not find the “hand underneath
the wings,” then you have failed and will not succeed, whatever your
capacity for vision.
THE ROCKDALE RECORD.
Conyers, Ga., Med., May 29. 1921 L
More High-Grade
Alfalfa Wanted
Desirable Type of Legume
Forage Is Always in De
mand by Dairymen.
I Prepared by the United State* Department
of Agriculture.)
Higt-grade alfalfa hay could be
profitably produced and marketed in
much greater quantities than at pres
ent. according to the United States
Department of Agriculture. Dealers
in all big alfalfa-hay-dlstributlng mar
kets annually receive thousands of or
ders from dairymen for high-grade al
falfa hay which they caDnot fill be
cause an Insufficient quantity of such
hay is produced. Many dairymen who
do not now utilize much alfalfa hay
would become buyers if supplies of
high-grade hay were available at all
times, says the department
Study Market Demands.
Farmers who grow alfalfa for n
cash crop are urged to study market
demands and then make their produc
tion and loading practices conform to
the market requirements. Methods of
producing, baling, and loading high
grade alfalfa hay for market are dis
cussed in Farmers' Bulletin 1.>39-I,
entitled “High-Grade Alfalfa Hay,”
just issued by the department.
Among the causes for low-grade al
falfa listed and discussed in the bul
letin are thin stands containing weeds
and grasses, foreign material such as
decayed Takings from previous cut
tings, weather damage, over-ripeness
at time of cutting, overdrying, baling
and stacking undercured hay, baling
during weather conditions which cause
loss of leaves and causes stemmy-ap
pearing bales.
Characteristics of high-grade alfalfa
hay, on the other hand, are purity,
a high percentage of leaves, clinging
foliage, green color, and pliable stems.
Leafy alfalfa hay having one or more
of these desirable characters is the
type of legume forage that is always
in demand with the dairy-cattle feed
ers because of its well-recognized ef
fect on milk flow.
The foundation of the business of
producing alfalfa hay for market is
a good, pure, stand. Seed of varieties
known to have local adaptation, free
from foul weeds, and sown in suffi
cient quantity to produce a thick
stand is of greatest importance.
Classifying Atfalfa.
In the official United States hay
standards, alfalfa hay is classified ac
cording to its purity. The class named
“Alfalfa” cannot contain over 5 per
cent of grasses nor over 10 per cent
of othee legumes. If the grass con
tent is over 5 per cent but not over
20 per cent the class is designated as
“Alfalfa Light Grass Mixed.” The
grading factors in the United States
standards are leafiness, color, and
foreign material, anyone of which may
lower the grade of a lot of hay.
The most important item of all in
loading is to load cars with hay of
uniform class and grade. Uniform
loads unvariably sell for better prices
than nonuniform loads, and sometimes
the difference in price is substantial.
Nonuniform loads often sell on the
basis of the lowest grade found in the
car lot.
A copy of the bulletin may be ob
tained by writing to the United States
Department of Agriculture, Washing
ton, D. C.
Poisoned Bait Controls
Cutworm Appearing Early
Poisoned bait has been used with
success in the control of cutworms on
corn land. The formula for the poi
son mash is as follows: Wheat bran,
50 pounds; paris green or crude ar
senic, two pounds; black-strap mo
lasses, two quarts; water, one gallon,
or more as needed. The mash should
be mixed thoroughly together in a
dry state and then the molasses
should be added and stirred in. This
poison mash should be broadcast over
the field, taking care to sprinkle it
sparingly around the hills. The poi
son for the cutworms should be put
out as soon as the corn begins to ap
pear above the ground so that the
worms may be killed as quickly as
possible.
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Commercial dusts for treating seed
corn are still on trial.
• • •
Grapes should receive the same
thorough cultivation that is given oth
er cultivated crops.
• • •
Silage Is ordinarily considered
worth from four to five dollars per
ton, depending on the amount of
corn in it.
• * •
Sudan grass is very often pastured
throughout the entire summer with
very good results. It is a prolific pro
ducer of green feed.
* * *
Sweet clover improves the soil so
much that it runs itself out of a home
by making the ground more suitable
to other plants which can then crowd
it off the ground.
• • *
On farms where alfalfa and grain
crops are grown, it is seldom that suf
ficient manure is produced to meet the
demands of both. When the amount of
manure is limited, it is usually more
profitable to use it on the grain crops
and to apply superphosphate to the
alfalfa.
Spread of Bindweed
Can Be Controlled
Most of New Patches of Pest
Are Started From Seed.
Control of bindweed by prevention
of its spread is the next best tiling to
complete eradication for checking the
ravages of this weed pest.
“Since the killing of bindweed with
sodium chlorate as n spray should be
practiced only under the supervision
of the county agent or some leader who
has received special training in han
dling the chemical, it is advisable to
handle bindweed patches by prevent
ing spread," suggests E. H. Teagarden,
bindweed specialist, extension service,
Kansas State Agricultural college. "It
is possible that more new patches of
bindweed start from than from
all other sources. For this reason, ev
ery effort should be expended to pre
vent the bindweed plants from produc
ing seed.”
Plowing of bindweed patches at the
time the first blooms appear is recom
mended by The specialist. Subsequent
surface cultivations may be made at
any time after growth is resumed.
When the plants start to bloom, plow
again and prevent the plants from
producing seed.
Teagarden cautions farmers having
trouble with bindweed against the long
life of the seed. It may live in the
soil eight or ten years or even more
before growth starts. For this reason
any seed prevented from forming will
lessen the eradication problem to a
great extent.
Guard Plants and Trees
Against Japanese Bugs
By C. H. Zimmer, Supervisor Japanese
Beetle Control, New York State.
The Department of Agriculture finds
that plants and trees can be sprayed
with an arsenical poison and be suc
cessfully protected against the attacks
of the Japanese beetle. From the
standpoint of the production of fruit
or protection of shade trees, this in
sect does not offer a menace which
cannot be prevented or controlled. To
prevent injury by Japanese beetles or
other leaf eaters, the foliage should
be sprayed with a mixture of 3 pounds
of powdered arsenate of lead and 2
pounds of flour to 50 gallons of water.
Mix the arsenate of lead and flour
dry, then add water to make a paste,
dilute and strain into the spray tank.
In order to protect the foliage and
fruit from the attacks of the Japanese
beetle, it is necessary to have the
spray applied before the plants be
come infested. The exact time for do
ing this varies somewhat with the sea
son.
If the tender foliage of peach trees
is to be sprayed, the poisons should
be applied one-half the strength above
mentioned.
Use Only Pure Chemicals
in Treating Grain Seeds
Good grades of formaldehyde and
copper carbonate must be used in
treating seed or the smuts of grain
will not be cured. Careful treating is
necessary but it is also essential to
use good chemicals. Plant disease
specialists at university farm say that
formaldehyde should be 40 per cent
commercially pure. It should be a
clear colorless liquid. If it is cloudy
or contains a white flakey substance
or has been frozen It should not be
used for treating seed. It evaporates
rapidly and if left exposed to the air
becomes so weak that it is noneifee
tlve. Copper carbonate dust must con
tain a sufficient amount of copper in
a form that is sufficiently active to kill
smut spores, but not so strong that it
will kill the wheat sprouts. Reliable
firms manufacture a dust that will
serve this purpose. Copper carbonate
is mixed with a “base” that is fluffy
and loose to facilitate proper mixing.
Gritty, heavy copper carbonate dust
should not be used.
Requeen to Strengthen
Infirm Swarm of Bees
Experienced bee keepers have found
that it rarely pays to keep a queen
over two years old, some advocate re
queening every year. One thing is
certain, the queen is about all there is
to a swarm of bees. A prolific queen
means a large swarm by the time the
honey flow comes on; while a weak
queen means a moderate or a weak
swarm at just the time when the op
portunity is offered to make a sur
plus and if it cannot be taken ad
vantage of, there is little or no honey
for the season. Swarms must be
strong at the time of the main honey
flow and old or weak queens do not
make strong swarms. It costs but lit
tle to requeen but one must plan for
it and be ready.
Practical Method for
Setting Out Any Tree
When you set out an apple tree, or
any other kind of fruit tree, dig the
hole big enough so you can spread the
roots out on all sides; also deep
enough so that the roots will be a
few inches deeper than they were in
the nursery row. Another important
thing to remember is: Keep the roots
of any tree you expect to grow covered
so the sun can't shine on them at any
time while setting out Keep your
trees in a barrel pulled around on a
stone boat, with enough water in the
barrel to cover the roots, or if you
have only a few. keep them wrapped
in a damp blanket or old piece of bur
lap, and never, never carry them
around in the sun and wind with noth
ing over the roots.
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Saxophone Second to
Accordion in France
Tliis year, 1929, marks the anniver
sary of the accordion. It is doubtful
if even in its native Vienna, where the
humble accordion first was devised by
an instrument maker named Daniaitt
In 1829, the anniversary will attract as
much attention as has been given to
it in France. Never in all its 100
years has the accordion enjoyed such
prestige with the “elite,” the sophis
ticated, the wealthy, as it does today.
Jazz music is responsible. The sasa
phone was not melancholy enough.
The accordion was substituted. It is
the instrument of the street, of the
soloist, of the waltzes that are scorned
as the ashes of the past on Mont
martre, but still are flushed and gay
with the breath of life in the corner
bistro where neighbors gather after
nightfall; of the villages of the prov
inces, and of the seaports where "at
twilight the nostalgic spirits of sailors
beneath foreign skies become drunk
with its cajoling music and the sim
ple music which brings back to them
their faraway native land.”
Mistletoe’s Growth
Tiie life history of the mistletoe is
just like that of any flowering woody
plant. It bears flowers;-in due time
the berries follow, each with its in
closed seed; the berries are deposited
by birds or beaten down by rains upon
the brandies, where tiie seeds ger
minate. and if tiie seeding becomes
established upon the branch it grows
again to the age of producing flowers
and seeds, and so on from generation
to generation.
Will Know Later
“Your wife’s a blonde, isn’t she!'’
“I'm not sure. She’s down at the
beauty parlor now.”
Weak After
• Operation
“About five months ago,
following an operation for
appendicitis I did not gain
strength enough: to be up and
about. My mother and sister
advised me to take Lydia E*
Pinkham’s Vegetable Com'
pound. I have taken five
bottles and it has helped me to
get strong so I can do my own
housework now. I have recom
mended it to several friends
who have been weak and run
down.”—Mrs. Oscar Ottum,
Box 474, Thief River Falls, M inn.
Lydia E, Piiikliam’s
Vegetable (Mpooi
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HAROLD SOMERS.