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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. *♦ 'l* £ Around the Farm $ ♦> 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. 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