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THE RHCKDALE RECORD
Official Organ of Rockdale County
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
J. M. TOWNS Editor
W. E. ATKINSON Publisher
At times we think that rhubarb’s
mistake whs In ever Retting out of
ttie pharmaceutical class.
Two thousand street mendicants of
Iterlin pave a hull. The uffalr must
have beggared description.
An article In a contemporary tells
us how to keep young, but what’s
the use with all this race suicide.
A Mexican bandit exemplifies hn
man aspiration in hla hope of being
promoted to the title of “revolution
ist”
If the morning song suddenly ends
In the bathroom It means there were
no more sharp razor blades In the
package.
A New York opera has nn alarm
clock in one of Its scenes. This wlli
make the audience turn over for an
other nap.
The sound In the talkie melodrama
Is all right, ns soon as you learn to
distinguish between the heroine’s sigh
and the sawmill.
It seems to be Judicial opinion that.
■ all other things being equal, one par
enf has ns much right over a child ns
the other parent.
Tlie population of the United States
fs growing at the rate of 1,400.000 n
year. In the human race we don’t
ask for a recount.
The New York Times says the silk
hat needs'no defender, because it
stands up for itself. But not when it
Is properly sat upon.
An officer complains tlint tlie aver
age age of army mules is a little over
10 years, a properly sedate age in the
case of a mule, however.
And now comes along another dress
expert who maintains the spilfily cos
turned man should have 24 pairs ol
shoes. Huh! Who walks that much
these days?
A skeleton of a man supposed tc
have been buried since 205 U l. C.
has been exhumed on the site of Ur.
That’s n long time to wait to break
into publicity.
A scientist declares that tlie world
is cooling off at tlie rate of about two
degrees in 10,000.000 years. It is true
then, is it, that the old-fashioned win
ters were colder?
A stuffed crocodile, a case of whale
tins, a pump handle and a hag of ant
eggs were disposed of at a London
auction. This practically cleaned out
the medicine cabinet.
The National Association of Broad
casters hns about decided that com
mercial programs should close at six
p. m. We hear no protest from tlie
great American family.
While it is vexatious to put tooth
paste on the shaving brush by mistake,
it is downright reprehensible to re
verse the mistake by putting shaving
cream on tlie toothbrush.
Every large city is demanding nn
airport. A comparatively small mat
ter like anew town hall or anew
park no longer represents tlie highest
aspiration of civic pride.
Several kinds of cod-liver oil are on
tlie market, so treated ns to make the
taste less unpleasant. It might be nn
interesting experiment to allow the
children to make tlie blindfold test.
The citizen with n small bundle of
good bonds or reliable stock certifi
cates in safety deposit is in a position
to understand the difference between
genuine values and market fluctua
tions.
English movie censorship has
banned scenes depleting “the practice
of the third degree in the United
States.” Why would it not be sim
pler merely to forbid English police to
attend movies containing such scenes?
Baltimore’s new airport will require
so much acreage that for n time it
will interest the realtors almost as
much as the aviators.
lAn authority says a girl must dress
s<i as to conceal the defects of tier
fifure. J?ut avho ever saw a girl who
wjnsn’t altogether perfect!
Some of our leading conductors of
jazz, says a writer In a weekly, have
a tendency to rotundity. Then we ex
pect it would he permissible to call it
“the music of tlie spheres.”
After the great orator lias dwelt and
expanded on some widely conceded
■fact for a matter of 50 minutes, ho
! says it goes without saying.
A patent lias been awarded on a
inew type of trolling-spoon. But it?
{real merit will not be determined un
'til it is seen how the fish take to it.
( In Siam the king and queen dis
tributed $300,000 worth of silk stock
lings among its women to encourage
the wearing of short skirts. In this
country the order is reversed.
Physicians Called Upon to Reckon With Public
Need and Public Opinion
By DR. LOUIS E. SCHMIDT, Noted Chicago Surgeon.
ADVERTISING for institutions which offer medical service to
the public at reasonable cost is here to stay despite the great
weight of medical opposition massed against such publicity.
The physician of the future must reckon with the public need
and public opinion. The old code of ethics which stood against all
forms of publicity can no longer stand against the demands of preven
tive medicine and public health. It is my candid belief that we are at
the brink or even at the parting of ways between the private practice
of the individual physician and the organized practice as it is advocated
today.
The one great problem before the medical profession today is that
involved in the delivery of adequate scientific medical service to all the
people, rich and poor, at a cost which can be reasonably met by them in
their respective stations in life.
The unbiased physician is bound to admit that organized medical
institutions are necessary. It is so evident that there must be both
economy and efficiency in these organizations. I wish to refer especially
to the Rochester or Mayo clinic which is definitely a “pay clinic.”
The largest percentage of our population, that class with moderate
means, is unable to cope with the problem of obtaining the same high
grade of medical service that the rich are able to pay for and the poor
are furnished free. The physicians must meet this need or the laymen
will take the problem out of their hands.
We all agree that publicity or advertising, whether paid or free, is
improper when undertaken by individual doctors or by medical organi
zations for private profit. On the other hand, we must also maintain
that publicity or advertising is proper and desirable when it is designed
for public service, not for profit, with the aim of informing people why
good medical care is necessary for certain diseases and where and hot*
it may be obtained.
Inequalities of Civilization Must Be Overcome
by Adequate Reforms
By REV. DR. HOWARD CHANDLER ROBBINS, New York.
Many centuries have elapsed since Hosea pronounced that “Ephraim
was a cake not turned,” hut Ilosea’s metaphor is just as applicable as
ever. Take as an illustration the distribution of wealth. The general
level of comfort is certainly higher than in Hosea’s day, but it'is ex
tremes of which we are speaking, and, when it comes to extremes, con
trasts of fortune are sharper than ever. It isn’t right that dire want
and inordinate luxury should tabernacle side by side.
Or take the distribution of work. At the extremes society is made
up in part of the overworked and the underfed and in part of the un
derworked and the overfed. At one end of the scale there are women
in factories when they ought to he in their homes. At the other end
there are vapid, errandless women lolling back in motor cars where their
only errand is to give their lap dogs an airing.
A society so doughy and underdone on one side and so burned on
the other is a society in which the leaven of unrest is bound to be an agi
tating ferment. It can only be cured by reform of the abuses against
which it directs itself in protest.
Historians Working Harm by Sending National
Heroes to the Junk Heap
By HARRY D MOORE, Patriotic Society Official.
Teachers and compilers of school histories who belittle and criticize
our greatest men do great harm. They should build up and not destroy
our ideals. Too many of our new school history writers seem to be
pacifists. They appear to believe that if they omit all incidents of de
voted courage, bravery and heroism, they will bring about permanent
world peace.
We all want peace, but we need our heroes to help weld our people
into one national, spiritual entity. Young folks are naturally hero wor
shipers and unconsciously pattern their lives after favorite heroes.
A teachable, fair, unbiased, well-rounded and complete high school
history is yet to be published. I would recommend that state societies
of the Sons of the American Revolution follow tlie lead of the Washing
ton organization, which introduced a bill in the state legislature pro
viding no history textbooks should be used “which speak slightingly of
the founders of the Republic, or which belittle or undervalue their work.”
The bill was passed by the Washington state senate but was reported
unfavorably in the house.
Adherence to Principles of Bible Necessary for
Preservation of Ideals
By PRESIDENT HOOVER
Preservation of national ideals and representative institutions rests
in adhering to the principles found in the Bible. There is no other book
so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom. Whether
it be of the law, business, morals or that vision which leads the imagina
tion in the creation of constructive enterprises for the happiness of man
kind, he who seeks for guidance in any of these things may look inside
its covers and find illumination. The study of this book in j-our Bible
classes is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experi
ence.
Asa nation we are indebted to the book of books for our national
ideas and representative institutions. Their preservation 'rests in ad
hering to its principles.
Advertising Has Earned Right to Be Recognized
as a Profession
By PRESIDENT YOUNGGREN, International Advertising Association.
Advertising is becoming a science. Definite laws have been estab
lished and certain results may be expected from the application of giv
en methods or the use of certain materials. In other words, a market
can be analyzed and the known laws of advertising applied in the push
ing of the sale of a commodity. The results are suve.
In another way advertising may be called a profession, because it is
highly technical, calling for thorough knowledge as well as a native tal
ent. It ranks with medicine or law or teaching because it is essential
to human welfare that the material advantages available be made known
and because of the high standards set in the advertising field. _
THE ROCKDALE RECORD, Conyers, Ga., Wed., June 26, 1929.
Hasten Tomatoes
by Fertilizing
Plants Need Long Season and
Right Aids to Hurry
Their Growth.
‘Fertilize tomatoes to hasten their
maturity,” advises F. O. Underwood,
of the vegetable gardening depart
ment of the state college of agricul
ture at Ithuca, N. Y. “The tomato,”
he points out, “requires a long sea
son to mature a full crop, so that
anything a grower can do to ripen
them is apt to mean a bigger total
yield.”
Professor Underwood says that
many points have to be considered in
fertilizing the crop, such as type of
farming and soil, previous crop
grown and fertilizer used, money re
turns, and the cost of the fertilizing
materials.
Plant Food Needed.
Tomatoes need some of all the plant
foods for their best development. Ni
trogen is needed early in the season
to help develop a good vine to carry
the fruit; though too much nitrogen
may produce too rank a leaf growth
at the expense of fruit. Some potash
is nlso needed, but phosphorus is
particularly needed to get large yields
and ripen the fruit before frosts in
the fall.
“If a grower,” says Professor Un
derwood, “is applying manure liber
ally, say at the rate of twelve or
twenty tons an acre, he is probably
supplying enough nitrogen and potash,
but additional phosphorus will prob
ably pay. Phosphorus increases the
fruit and seed parts of plants, and
acid phosphate is the best source. Ap
plied at the rate of from five hun
dred to a thousand pounds to the
acre, it should give good yields.
“On sandy soils, or on other soils
where little or no manure is used,
complete fertilizers usually pay. The
4-12-4 or 5-10-5 are botH good; the for
mer on the heavier types, while the 5-
10-5 makes a good mixture for soils less
well stocked with nitrogen and potash.
Though the 2-8-10 is often used, a
4-12-4 seems better for the crop. The
2 per cent of ammonia in the former
mixture is probably derived from
some organic chemical which will be
slowly available to the tomatoes.
Tomatoes need nitrogen early in the
season, and not when the fruit is
forming.
Fertilizer Pays.
“Exact amounts will depend upon
individual soils and cash returns, but
the tomato crop will usually pay for
additional fertilizer up to I,GOO
pounds to the acre, although good
crops are grown with less.
In addition to proper fertilizers,
however, the plants must he well
grown, and must be set at the proper
time. Soil and weather conditions
also play their part.”
Supply Farrowing Pens
With Needful Fenders
Every farrowing pen should be sup
plied with fenders to protect the lit
tle pigs during and after farrowing.
Tiiese consist of 2 by 8 inch planks
fastened as shelves about eight inches
from the floor, along both sides of
the corner in which the sow makes
her bed. This largely prevents the
sow from'Squeezing the pigs against
the wall or lying on them while they
are small. If the farrowing pen has
a concrete floor, a board overlay in
the nest corner makes the sow's bed
warmer, drier and cleaner.
Recommend Apple Spray
When Pink Buds Appear
Summer spray for apples, usually
known as the cluster bud or pink
spray, Is most effective when applied
as soon as the pink buds appear in
rtie blossom clusters, says L. C. Wil
liams, extension horticulturist, Kan
sas State Agricultural college. The
cluster bud spray consists of one
and one-half gallons of liquid lime
sulphur and one and one-half pounds
of arsenate of lead to each fifty gal
lons of spray. Dry lime-sulphur may
be used instead of liquid material
t Agricultural Hints $
Poisoned bran will stop the army
worm army.
• * •
Get in a planting of peas at two
weeks’ intervals.
• * •
Let’s give the pasture a hair cut —
get those hitter weeds before they get
into the milk.
• * *
African millet is regarded as one of
our most drouth-resistant crops. It is
a good forage and hay crop.
* * *
Grading of farm products is a vital
factor In the profits of the farmer and
iromises to become even more so.
* * *
Grasses and weeds growing along
roadsides and fence rows offer a per
fect winter haven for many insect
pests.
* * *
Maintain the fertility of your garden
and truck crop soils by the use of
green manures, barnyard manures and
proper crop rotation.
• * •
Co-operative marketing has been get
ting on a sounder basis in recent
years, nad farmers will probably find
it an important way of safeguarding
their interests in the future.
Per Capita Potato
Yield Right Guide
Price Trend Upward When
Production Is Low.
Per capita production of potatoes
in the country, ns a whole, is s good
a guide as any, when the grower is
trying to decide whether he should
store his crop in hope of higher
prices that prevail at harvesting
time, or sell them for the market
price when they are dug, according
to C. R. Arnold of the rural economics
department of the Ohio State univer
sity at Columbus.
Arnold reports that the bureau of
agricultural economics of the United
State Department of Agriculture has
been studying records for the past
27 years, and finds that when the
national production has exceeded 3.8
bushels per capita, the price has tend
ed downward during the ensuing sea
son. The trend has usually been up
ward when the production has been
less than 3.2 bushels per capita.
Only when the indicated crop was
not much more than three bushels per
capita was the grower usually jus
tified in holding his potatoes In
other years the chance of profit was
too uncertain to balance extra cost of
risk, storage and shrinkage.
Production in the late potato states,
according to the federal investigators,
is the most important factor in deter
mining the season’s price level.
Cleanest Culture Helps
Strawberry Leaf Spot
The Ohio station gives the follow
ing advice about handling leaf spot of
strawberries:
“Plant resistant varieties; the ma
jority of present-day commercial va
rieties are somewhat resistant.
“Set plantations where both air and
water drainage are good. When set
ting out plants remove and destroy
tlie diseased leaves; do not leave them
about the patch. Practice the cleanest
culture possible.
“Rotate strawberries with other
crops frequently. It is rarely profita
ble to fruit a strawberry planting more
than two years, due in part to the ac
cumulation of fungous pests. Many
plantations should be plowed under
after one crop has been secured.
“In renovating a plantation to be
fruited the second time, destroy all
diseased leaves. The fungi causing
the leaf spots over winter on affected
leaves. Mowing off the old leaves and
burning over the plantation is advisa
ble when a planting is badly infected,
“If these recommendations are fol
lowed closely spraying will not usually
be necessary’. However, one to three
applications per season of 4-4-50 Bor
deaux spray may be profitable in con
trolling unexpected attacks.”
Pigs at Weaning Time
Should Be Given Grain
Pigs at weaning time should be
getting all the grain they will eat,
The ration should include tankage or
skim milk. With a good pasture on
which to run, pigs should be getting
a good start for market weight. Pigs
which are doing well should make a
pound a day gain in weight. Self
feeders are a convenient means for
feeding corn and tankage, and the
use of self-feeders results in as good
and often better gains than the hand
feeding method. A self-feeder should
keep the feed dry, keep feed before
the pigs at all times, and prevent
waste.
Treating Potato Seed
Increases Usual Yield
Seed potatoes treated three or four
weeks ahead of planting will show
no delay in sprouting as is often the
case with seed treated to kill disease
organisms it may be carrying. Treat
ing seed that is coming out of dor
mancy may cause it to become some
what dormant again. Early treating
gives the seed time to come out of
dormancy and be ready to grow as
soon as planted. Treating seed pota
toes has increased the average yield
22 bushels per acre in the test plots
conducted for the past eight years in
Kansas.
Dusters Satisfactory in
Fields for Killing Bugs
Dusters are fairly satisfactory in po
tato fields, for killing bugs. However,
under most Nebraska conditions they
are not nearly as satsfactor.v as they
are in regions farther east. To be
used most advantageously the dust
should be put on when the plants* are
damp with dew and when there is
little wind. It is .not at all advisable
to try to use a duster on a windy day.
Consequently it is very desirable to
dust the plants in the early portion
of the day before the wind comes up.
—H. O. Werner, University of Ne
braska.
Grinding Feed Does Not
Increase Digestibility
For feeding dairy cattle, the grind
ing of a roughage will not increase
its digestibility nor its value as a feed.
Grinding coarse feeds may reduce
waste by eliminating the coarse parts
of the feed and may make the feed
more palatable. When feed is high in
price, grinding / may prove advan
tageous. Grinding coarse feed will not
make the feed into a concentrated
feed. Neither will grinding dry.
coarse roughage make the feed as
good as when rut in the silo.
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That man has the fewest wants whoß
is the least anxious for wealth.—l'uh.l
lius Syrus. j
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Nail Wounds, Ivy Poisoning, etc.l
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A scientific society in Sweden has I
set aside a fund for study of the in-1
fiuence of the gulf stream on weather I
conditions.
Hasty resolutions are of the nature I
of vows, and to be equally avoided.—l
William Penn.
It is the sin which we have not I
committed which seems the most mon-1
strous. —Boileau.
Women have the understanding ot
the heart which is better than that of
the head. —Rogers.
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Men must either boss or be bossed—
tlie latter are married.
When a man talks of himself lie
can seldom interest others.
Fools never stop to count tlie cost
until the bill collector calls.
Flattery makes people sick unless
they are able to swallow it.
Don’t get tlie habit of going
around with your bristles up.
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