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THE ROCKDALE RECORD
Official Organ of Rockdale County
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
J. M. TOWNS Editor
W. E. ATKINSON Publisher
French doctor nsserts that nil crlro*
Inals are sick. They ure when they're
convicted.
After all, most business consists In
buying potatoes by weight and selling
potato chips by measure.
Whole milk Is now being delivered
In paper containers, but vanishing
cream still comes In bottles.
The Mayflower should be desired by
souvenir seekers. It Is a craft associ
ated with many historic significances.
Overheard on n train —"You say
you’re an old settler. What kind of a
town Is It?” ‘‘Well, I went there In
3020."
Another of the old-time minstrel
shows went busted n week ago. You
can get Just as much static over the
radio.
A national vaccination day having
been proclaimed throughout China, tho
fighting, If any, will continue with one
hand.
We understand that In Utopia a pas
serby always finds a nickel In the re
turned-coln slot of the pay-stutlon tel
ephone.
That new Cascade tunnel may be,
as dispatches say, the longest bore In
America, but there are other long-dis
tance bores.
Quite a few references have ap
peared lately to the name of that
Welsh hamlet with 50 letters, one to
each inhabitant.
Falling in his efforts to extract tho
dandelions from Ills premises, an in
quirer asks tiie information editor if
there is not a way to kill the nerve.
Paderewski is returning to America
for another concert tour and, while
the dispatches did not so state, we
take it that this is another farewell
trip.
Nations are jealous of polar ex
plorations, on the theory that there
may be actual lands found somewhere,
if the snow shovels can dig deep
enough.
A survey Just made shows that the
working girls of the South toil longer
hours than their sisters in other parts
of the country. But wait until they
get married!
Another thing that isn’t so good to
rend about, after a hearty lunch, is
the full-detailed description in an avi
ation article of what is known as the
‘barrel roll.”
We Just unconsciously assume that
in the languages where all the nouns
are divided tip Into the masculine or
feminine gender the Einstein theory
would be the latter.
King Boris of Bulgaria, it is said,
can take an automobile apart and put
it together again. This will make
your mind easier, If you are thinking
of touring through Bulgaria this sum
mer.
About the most annoying triviality
of everyday life is when there are
eight dignitaries of one kind or an
other in the group picture, reading
from left to right, and only seven
names under it.
A skeleton adorned with gold,
thought to date back to 2G50 B. C.,
lias been found at Ur, where one of
the pleasant delusions of the time was
that they could take their wealth with
them when they died.
It is noted that a stolen license tag
is valued in law according to the cost
In making —n few cent’s worth —and
not by its sale price. How would
that work if the theft were of, say,
twenty paper dollars?
Asiatics in Hawaii are slowly and
somewhat painfully acquiring com
mand of the English language. A Jap
anese taxi driver presented his bill,
reading: “Five comes; five goes, at
50 cents r. went —$5.00.”
A Missouri housewife claims to re
ceive radio selections on her vacuum
.cleaner. This raises the question of
arranging a program for vacuum
cleaners Including “White Wings,"
“Push Them Clouds Away,” etc.
Explorations continue to reveal an
cient glories which made a royal tomb
of littie more importance than a safe
ty deposit vault.
\
Airplanes are making a bid for pas
senger service, but they attempt no
reduction In rates tlint will relieve
the patient commuter.
Tlie office crab lias looked into the,
sec yarn which is creating a contro
versy in literary circles ajid says lie
imagines you could get all the nautical
terms from a parrot.
A famous eye doctor finds that
movies are more enjoyable if the spec
tators shut one eye. But why only
one, in certain cases?
Our idle wonder for the day is as
to how much prices would have to
mount to make it worth while raising
calves just for the liver.
Laymen Not Doing Their Full Duty in the Work
of the Church
By LEON C. PALMER, Secretary Brotherhood of St. Andrew.
THE laymen of the church today constitute our greatest undevel
oped resources. They are not working as they should. It takes
111 Episcopalians a whole year to bring one person into the
church if latest statistics are correct. Ninety per cent of the
church work is done as a rule by 10 per cent of the members. Our real
problem is employing the unemployed, getting idle Christians and nom
inal members to accept personal responsibility for definite Christian
service.
Thousands of Christians today have a merely negative religion, a
futile piety. They are good, but good for nothing. They are nonenti
ties so far as definite service to the church is concerned. We join in
singing the great martial hymns, “Onward, Christian Soldiers,” “Ye
Soldiers of the Cross,” etc., but too often it is not a church army going
forth to battle but like a hospital with a large number of patients and
a few overworked nurses. Many rectors are kept so busy nursing the
sick Christians that they have no time left for going out into the high
ways and hedges to constrain others to come in.
Our churchmen are inclined to say, “Let George do it,” George be
ing the rector. We have looked upon our clergy as men whom we have
employed and pay to do our religious work for us, just as we employ
a stenographer or file clerk, a policeman or janitor.
The church is not growing as it should. This applies to practically
all Christian bodies. Latest statistics show that nearly one-third of the
parishes and congregations of the four largest Protestant bodies reported
not a eingle conversion during the last year. Lay Evangelism is today
the greatest need of the church as a solution for this situation.
Country Must Be Aroused to Cope With the
Menace of Organized Crime
By JUDGE GILBERT, Georgia Supreme Court.
Organized crime is the biggest business irl America, and costs the
country annually $16,000,000,000 —more than enough to pay back the
money America lent European nations during the World war. There
may be cited the most familiar instances of crime in high places—na
tional oil scandals, impeachment of governors and the conviction of
governors l'or criminal practices, and embezzlement, graft and fraud
among the municipal authorities in several of the country’s largest cities.
Democracy itself is on fire and remains to prove that it can live as
a means of government. This condition is the Augean stables of mod
ern American life, to be purified only by public opinion enlightened by
facts.
There is lack of respect for authority in the home and in courts,
and tho automobile, a necessity in modern life, is the most powerful aid
to lawlessness, since it affords the criminal a quick getaway. There
should be a system whereby drivers may be identified and properly con
trolled.
Some of the efforts necessary to check crime include study of all
workable methods of prevention by removal of cause and opportunity ;
apprehension of criminals, especially through establishment of a bu
reau of criminal identification; practical application of doctrine of
spe<y]y trials; co-operation with agencies for reclamation and reform of
ex-convicts; aid through laymen, in the church and out, by giving the
general public realization of the terrible menace now existing.
Stressing Need of External Things Draws Sou)
Near to Danger Line
By DR. HALVORD E. LUCCOCK, Yale Divinity School.
The chief trouble with America today is not so much commercial
ism and materialism, despite the remarks of foreign lecturers and writers,
but externalism —the habit of thinking too much of the outside world and
not enough of the spirit. It is this current American feeling of reverence
for external bigness that is our biggest fault.
The first lesson of Jesus in the curriculum of life is to keep from
being smothered in a multitude of external things. Do not let the spirit
be crowded out by over-emphasis on the life about us.
Life, it seems, has become a parade down a vast street of brilliantly
lighted show-windows filled with thousands of articles, each crying out
their necessity to our happiness, and ready to spring at us. How can wt
even approximate what used to be called the simple life when apparently
there is such an increase in the number of things we must have to get
along? How can we maintain an inner light in this constant parade?
We are not only urged to buy, but our pride and vanity is appealed
to and our envy is aroused in the modern advertisements which urge us
to get ahead of our fellows, to own something better than our neighbors.
Pride and envy and all things that are in deadly opposition to the spirit
of Jesus seem to be the basis of it all. There is a danger to our souls in
putting too much stress on the clutter of outside things. Fortify your
self against an inner emptiness with an outer fullness. Have something
inside yourself to show to God.
Fads in Medicine and Billboard Advertising Call
for Condemnation
By DR. RIDGE, President Missouri State Medical Society.
Physicians must present a united front against fads and the pres
entation in the press of stories of incomplete and unverified medical
discoveries.
Medical students should spend two summers during their school
work assisting rural practitioners. Nominal wages would be paid the
students. School credit, the equivalent of that given an interne for a
year’s work in a hospital, would be granted.
The lay press is anxious to print anything of a sensational nature.
Charlatans will twist anything to their own ends. There are the cash
register uplift movements, that try to gain indorsement of medical so
cieties. Often it is given and a heavy expense of salaried organizers is
foisted on the public.
In spite of the many millions spent by the Society for the Con
trol of Tuberculosis in posting billboards all over the country, warning
against the disease, in making examinations, and in giving talks, the
last report showed no decrease in the death rate, but rather an increase.
If all this money had been put into a fund for treatment and care
of tubercular patients, many would have been saved and the death rate
would have been lowered.
There should be a co-operative widows’ fund among organized med
ical men. The average doctor’s widow does not know where to get the
money to pay his funeral expenses
THE ROCKDALE RECORD, Conyers, Ga., Wed., June 19, 1929.
Give Corn Water
for High Yields
Need of Fertile Soil and Use
of Legumes in Rotation
Are Factors.
No one ever saw a good yield of
corn on poor land nor (hiring a dry
season, unless the crop was Irri
gated. lairge amounts of water are
essential to heavy corn production per
acre.
‘‘Much Interest has been created
throngh North Carolina by onr state
mer-r that the average n.te yield of
corn should bent least 50 bushels,"
says G. M. Gorren, cereal agronomist
nt the North Carolina State college.
“We have had n number of letters ask
ing how to obtain such an average
yield. In answering these, attention
has been called to the need of a fer
tile soil, the use of legumes In rota
tion, liberal fertilization and other
necessary factors.
Need for Moisture.
“It is also essential that we keep In
mind the need for moisture in the soil.
Some Investigator lias found that 1100
pounds of water is needed by the corn
plant for every pound of dry matter
produced. This Includes the water
evaporated through the soil as well
as that transplanted through the
leaves.”
Therefore, it is Important, says Mr.
Garren, that the corn grower con
serve the moisture in the soil. This
Is the only kind that benefits the
growing plant. The grower may in
crease the storage capacity of the
soil by increasing its humus content,
and lie may conserve the moisture by
keeping a mulch constantly on (lie
surface. Tiiis mulch must be restored
whenever destroyed, and certainly
after every rain. Three inches is a
fair depth for cultivation, and tiny im
plement that will produce the effect
of a drag harrow may be used for the
cultivations. For best results, level
cultivation should be given except in
a very wet season. Then drainage be
comes a problem.
Conserve Moisture.
Those wiio wish to grow 50 bushels
of corn per acre must give close at
tention to tiie conservation of soil
moisture. In many cases, this will
call for a change of practice and the
securing of more suitable implements
for cultivation.
Select Turkey Breeders
for Next Season’s Crop
Before picking tiie Thanksgiving
birds select the breeders for next year.
Choose those birds which show good
growth and development. The shanks
should be heavy and fat and the legs
well-set under the birds. A knock
kneed condition reveals lack of vigor.
Crooked keel bones are objectionable.
They may be caused by poor -feeding
or they may be the result of breeding.
If possible, do not keep birds with
crooked keel bones for breeding pur
poses. In tiie colored varieties, tur
key growers prefer birds with good
color, hut health and vigor are more
important than color.
Application of Orchard
Sprays to Save Fruit
Nearly everyone has read and ap
preciated the truthfulness of this
terse sentence —“Save the Surface
and Save all.” This statement may
he applied with equal effect and force,
to the application of orchard sprays.
Like the paint on buildings and fences,
sprays, when applied to the surface
of the fruit and foliage at intervals
of from twelve to fourteen days up
until five or six weeks of harvest
time, will save the surface from in
jury by insects and disease and may
prove to be the best insurance against
failure.
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£ Around the Farm $
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Drag the farm roads —let’s save
some auto repairs.
* * •
Use best seed obtainable. Poor seed
is expensive at any price.
* * *
Put grease instead of oil on the farm
machines when you store them. It is
better because it stays put.
• * *
Whoever buys and plants cheap
seeds needs no sermon on gambling —
he is sure to learn by loss.
* * •
It’s easy to make money as a farm
er. You just work hard for 20 years
and then sell out to a golf club.
* * *
Try to take the small amount of
time necessary to plow the garden just
ns soon ns the ground will work well.
• * *
Of course alfalfa is not grown for
its fragrance and beauty, but these
qualities should not be entirely over
looked.
• * *
Half of tiie failures in getting wind
break trees to grow and thrive can
be laid directly to faulty preparation
of the soil.
* * •
Commercial fertilizers applied ac
cording to recommendations will usual
ly give paying increases in earliness.
■luality and yield.
* • •
In seasons of late corn or in case of
early frosts, ensiled corn may save
the entire crop, where, under other
conditions, the loss would be very
heavy.
No Time for Business
With the Smelt Biting
Cliarles Francis Adams, who re
signed as treasurer of Harvard uni
versity to become secretary of tiie
navy under Hoover, is as typical an
Adams as Samtiel, John Quincy and all
the rest, and Inherits from them a love
of the sea and fishing and sailing—
also their characteristic independence^
The story is told how, while he was
practicing law nnd was scheduled to
make a plea before the Supreme court
he could not be found and finally a
deputy sheriff was sent to procore his
presence. The officer traced the law
yer to Hingham, Mass., hired a boat
and rowed out to Hangman's Island
and found Mr. Adams.
The lawyer sent him back with a
line scrawled on tho back of an en
velope :
“Can’t comp now; the smelt are bit
ing, like thunder.” —Los Angeles Times.
Me and the Goat
A photographer had canvassed the
neighborhood, bringing with him a
goat and wagon, and had taken pic
tures of all the children who could
be persuaded to sit in tiie wagon. Lit
tle Jane, age three, had been snapped,
and was very enthusiastic about the
pictures that were to come.
Her father teased her, saying:
“When tiie pictures come, the goat
will be in the wagon and you will be
hitched to the wagon.”
The teasing was evidently taken
seriously, for later, as Jane would
show the pictures, she would say:
“This is me and this is tiie goat.”
Couldn’t Ask More
“Will these stockings run?” asked
the fair customer.
“Lady,” said tiie clerk at the hosiery
counter, “it would he easier to get a
car with an empty gas tank and a
dead battery to run than it would be
those stockings.”
Higher Education
While about 55 per cent of high
school graduates in the United States
are girls, 70 per cent of the college
graduates are men.
Husbands are not made to order —
but some wives seem to think they
are.
The high moral ground occupied by
the hypocrite is a bluff.
FI A —help old parents
liA U Ulll HiliO t 0 he com f or table
Devoted daughter
tells what she did
YOU find it in almost every family.
An elderly mother or father liv
ing with the young folks. The chil
dren doing all they can to make their
parents’ last years comfortable.
The Robinson home at 2330 Coral
Street, Philadelphia, proved no ex
ception when the reporter called
there. Mrs. Robinson had a special
health problem to solve.
“My mother, who is 80 years old,”
she explained, “had a partial stroke
of paraly sis.” It was vitally impor
tant to keep her system functioning
regularly and easily. They tried
various measures. But they all up
set her in her weakened condition.
Finally, Mrs. Robinson said, “after
reading the advertisement of Nujol,
we tried that. We find it gives satis
factory results. My mother can take
it easily —a tablespoonful at night —
because it’s tasteless.”
That’s the wonderful thing about
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one of my jokes.”
“Unjustly?”
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