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THE RGCKDALE RECGRD
Official Organ of Rockdale County
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
J. M. TOWNS Editor
W. E. ATKINSON Publisher
Waiting Hues ut the straw hat
cleaner’s.
Uneasy lies the head that tries to
outguess the stock market
When a real poet means "while," he
says “while”; tho near-poet prefers
‘‘whilst"
Taking n vacation too early leaves
n person nothing to look forward to
but work.
In other days the women were all
hooks and eyes. Now the men are
looks and eyes.
Many a little makes a mickle; and
the grossest overweight comes from
tiny fork and spoon loads.
Probably those yeggs who stole a
safe from an Atlanta sandwich shop
mistook It for a sandwich.
“Wizard of finance” Is a term much
less used than formerly. Neverthe
less, there are still wizards.
Coroners should always retire early
on Friday night In preparation for the
strenuous two days to follow.
Since short skirts are here to stay
girl babies are not allowed to learn
to walk as early In life as formerly.
Children are now beginning to com
plain that home might be happier If
parents would stay home at nights.
In Sweden they are making auto
bodies out of leather. Fine business!
A second-hand car can readily be half
soled.
Domestic tranquility is very largely
a matter of continuing to call her
“Baby," after she lias put on 30
pounds.
Another marvel of arithmetic Is the
way the dear thing ages only three
years, if any, between the decennial
censuses.
It is said that the Scotch are hold
ing up the issuance of that smaller
paper currency, for they want their
money longer.
Odd Story—The telephone rang dur
ing the poker party, and no one of
those present remarked, "If It’s for
me, I’m not here.”
Is there no way of getting a con
tinuous piano player and Ids piano up
on a flag pole, so as to break both
silly records at a time?
Naturally It would he a lovely con
dition if everybody spoke only good
of everybody else, but what long
gaps it would leave in the conversa
tion.
A German glider expert expects to
glide all the way across the English
channel in a single glide this sum
mer. Or maybe hopes is the better
word.
The new SIO,OOO bills are promised
in a few days. Now is the time to
study the marks of the genuine ones,
to avoid taking in a counterfeit by
mistake.
The Chicago bandit who attempted
a theater holdup and was routed by
the woman cashier’s “get out,” prob
ably became confused and thought he
was home.
Astronomers now tell us that the
planet Jupiter came within 289,760,000
miles of smnshing right into the moon.
Just missed it, you might sny, by a
comet’s hair.
Back home there was always a lout
in the hardware store who would daub
up the under side of a wrench handle
with shellac and ask a small boy to
“jest heft it."
The urge to get into the air Is
strong with certain youths, but with
out proper instruction in flying and
a good plane, the earth is the best
place for them.
There is another brief interlude in
the career of the young boy when he
must be taken firmly in hand regard
ing the following matter: Parking the
gum on the dinner plate.
If we should buy that London vase
for which $145,000 was refused the
other day it would be just our luck to
have it broken the first time it was
washed with the rest of the dishes.
Another piece of advice which is
doubtless received with mixed emo
tions is where the dear girl has asked
the medical publicist what to do about
noticeably thin legs and his counsel
is as follows, viz: Take up toe danc
ing.
A square mile is estimated as nec
essary for an air field. Earth and
sky unite in questions to be consid
ered by realtor and aviator.
A drug store in New York, still In
operation, was founded in 1805. There
were not any postage stamps then, but
we suppose people asked for them.
One of the things that a million
Americans think they do, and don’t,
Is to visit a dentist regularly every
six months, as solemnly advised,
whether they need to or not.
BUSINESS AND RELIGION RIVALS
j By REV. DR. R. W. SOCKMAN, New York (Methodist).
THE three institutions which were improved by Christianity so
mankind could profit from them, property, business and the
home, are the same ones whioh in modern times have lessened
the church’s influence. The solution is not for the church to seek
to take the eyes of men from these three practical institutions and turn
them toward heaven, but to demonstrate that the triumvirate can be
enjoyed much more if religion is added to them.
Before the time of Jesus Christ property, business and the home
were such hard, exacting institutions, taking so much from the indi
vidual, that little part remained for him to give to religion. Then came
Christianity and humanized these institutions. Christianity made men
trust one another, and the institution of credit and banking which sup
ports our modem economic world was evolved. Asa result business has
become a fascinating game. It has become a rival of religion not because
it places on a man so much drudgery he has no time for the church, but
because of its pleasant lure.
In the First century the home was a disagreeable, tyrannical insti
tution. Women were slaves. Christ lifted women up and started the
movement which has resulted in the fact that now they are our spiritual
comrades. The modern home, with all its defects, has far more poten
tiality for 1 culture and religion than the home in any other age. But
because our homes are such pleasant, engrossing places they detract from
our willingness to attend church. This generation is tolerant of every
thing because it favors nothing, opposes nothing, believes in nothing.
The luxuries, conveniences and advantages given by modern busi
ness, wealth and the home have deprived the native-born American of
vigor and initiative.
CO-OPERATION WILL HELP FARMER
By ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.
Co-operative organizations can win ground for agriculture which
can he cbnsolidated and held. Legislation alone cannot answer the
farmers’ problems. After all that may be done by sympathetic legis
lation there will always he much that must be done by the farmers
themselves.
In business, in civic affairs and in religion, co-operation has achieved
respectability as in nearly every field of human endeavor, yet when the
question is raised to its application to agriculture it is a subject of criti
cism.
Why co-operation, when applied to agriculture, should be frowned
upon, why staid and conservative business men who have co-operated
and are co-operating in many business, religious and civic enterprises
should hold up their hands in horror, and allow a righteous dread to
drown their souls, when farmers begin to work together, is past my limit
of understanding.
The object of corporate production and selling of industrial com
modities is the same as the aim of co-operative marketing of agricultural
commodities —profit for the producers.
The object of co-operatively promoting a civic ideal, or seeking jus
tice for a class, is not distinguishable from seeking a fair price for agri
cultural products and promoting justice to the farmers of America as a
class.
PRESS BULWARK OF DEMOCRACY
By BRUCE BLIVEN, Editor The New Republic.
Good citizenship depends on a good press, and true democracy can
not exist in the absence of an efficient press. Two recent developments in
the press I regard as dangerous—the rise of the tabloid and of the chain
newspapers in which a tremendous amount of power is centered in one
man.
If the experiment of political democracy, which is still on trial, does
succeed, the press will have played a tremendous part. The press is and
must be the eyes of the citizens in viewing the activities of the govern
ment. The United States has the most honest press in the world, and the
only other in the world at all comparable is that of Great Britain.
The American press is not subsidized. If by subsidization is meant
that it yields to sinister influences and is bought off, I say emphatically
“no.” The American government would never dream of such subordina
tion, nor would the opposition dream of such a thing. "We have partisan
editors in political beliefs, but that is because they have their own firm
political convictions, and we can thank God for that.
Press conditions in Europe are deplorable in that many newspapers
are subsidized there. It is taken for granted in many places that news
papers exist for some sinister purpose —either to be subsidized by the
government or by individuals.
SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS OVERDONE
By DR. WILLIAM KILPATRICK, Teachers’ College, Brooklyn.
Religion, the Bible and custom are losing their grip on the new gen
eration as accepted authorities of conduct. Voting, bobbed hair and short
skirts are a few of the symbols of the new freedom. Former standards of
conduct were based on the Bible or the church or custom.
Our youth are honest and alert. The demand is upon us to help them
see the why of what is due, and, when they see, to help them to learn to
do it.
Education must be thought of as life. The school is the place where
life is to be found at its best. But-the present school is too often quite
content to sacrifice the present in a doubtful hope of helping the future.
Too often, therefore, it manages to get neither.
The school does not intelligently educate. - It over-emphasizes exam-*
inations. In this respect the regents system is a great evil. The wrong
emphasis has so beclouded thinking that most parents, most teachers and
most colleges fail to see what hig-h-sehool education really should be. And
in this the college preparatory school is generally worse. So long as the
emphasis is on preparing for examination, by just so much is education
forgot, the kind of education that really counts.
“HE ROCKDALE RECORD, Conyers, Ga., Wed., July .1, 1929.
Tattooing Swine
Useful Practice
Marking Makes It Easy to
Identify Animals After
Being Slaughtered.
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
Tattooing hogs is a practical means
of marking them so they can be identi
fied after slaughter, according to tho
United States Department of Agricul
ture, and the practice is useful In
numerous ways. It is particularly
valuable In identifying the ownership
of hogs in mixed shipments and in
tracing any disease to the farm or
other place of origin.
Miscellaneous Circular 57-M. the
Tattoo Method of Marking Hogs and
Its Use, recently issued in a revised
form by the United States Department
of Agriculture, describes the tattooing
instrument, tells how to use it. and dis
cusses its numerous possible applica
tions. The tattoo method of marking
hogs is simple, inexpensive, and easily
used. A tattoo marie properly, applied
is ns permanent as tlie skin itself.
Particularly Useful.
In the field of co-operative market
ing. where a number of farmers ship
thi.ir hogs in one lot, the tattoo mark
is particularly useful because of its
conclusive evidence of the hog's origin.
Such information is highly desirable
as a basis for payment when diseased
conditions appear at the time of
slaughter.
From the standpoint of live stock
health officials such identification of
diseased hogs is useful also. Hogs
found to be tuberculous can be traced
to their source, and other animals
on the farm may be tested, leading
to the eradication of the disease. The
manner in which the tattooing of hogs
led to the discovery of tuberculosis
in a poultry flock is of practical in
terest. In the course of investigational
work a shipment of tattooed hogs
to a central marketing point proved to
be infected with tuberculosis. An in
spector visited the farm and applied
the combination test to the remainder
of the hogs on the farm, with the
result that practically 100 per cent
reacted to the avian test. The inspec
tor also found the chicken flock to
oe badly infected.
Tracing of Disease.
On the inspector’s recommendation,
the owner sold his entire flock of
chickens, restocking with day-old
chicks the following spring. Later, 32
hogs from this farm Were shipped to
market and again identified by the
tattoo mark. A report on 27 of these
animals showed that not one had been
found infected; the remainder were
not slaughtered under federal inspec
tion and a report on them could not
be obtained. It was reasonably ap
parent tlmt the tracing of the disease,
slaughter of infected flock, cleaning,
disinfection, and a restocking with
healthy chicks had removed the source
of infection.
The tattoo should also be of aid in
studying results of feeding tests, in
identifying carcasses in contests of
various kinds, such as the familiar
ton-litter competitions, and in similar
activities where facts concerning the
size and quality of carcasses are de
sired. In fact, any experimental work
involving studies of dressed carcasses
offers a wide field for the use of tattoo
marks.
A copy of the circular may be ob
tained by writing to the United States
Department of Agriculture, Washing
ton, D. C.
Epicurean Porkers Are
Favored at Beltsville
The hog’s reputation as a gourmand
Is so general that he is rarely credited
with any refinement of appetite. Even
farmers were surprised a few years
ago to find that these “greedy ani
mals” would select the proper feeds
for a balanced ration if served the
cafeteria way.
Some hogs, however, it now ap
pears, are capable of even finer gas
tronomic discrimination, according to
J. H. Zeller, swine specialist of the
United States Department of Agri
culture.
Two shoats at the department’s ex
periment farm at Beltsville, Md., he
says, have apparently found the inside
of the corn kernel a great delicacy.
Unlike most of their kind, they do not
eat the whole kernel, but like squir
rels spend hours at a time cracking
the grain, deftly extracting the meaty
inside, and ejecting the kernel shells
in neat piles about the lot.
Kernel cracking, however, is not a
common accomplishment of the pork
er, Mr. Zeller says, and he doubts the
possibility of teaching the trick to the
common herd even if it were found a
desirable trait to develop.
Killing Horse-Radish a
Very Difficult Matter
The cutting out of horse-radish
after it has become established is a
very difficult matter. The same gen
eral procedure will need to be fol
lowed as in the case of any other
weed that has a large storage root. If
the infested patches are kept bare so
that the plant cannot develop leaves
for the manufacturing of plant food,
starvation will result. The procedure
may be most effective after the land
has been ployed quite thoroughly. If
the areas are not very extensive they
may possibly be clen ad out by chem
ical treatment However, we have
very little information concerning the
specific action of these materials on
horse-radish. —H. O. Werner, Univer
sity of Nebraska.
Find Cabbage Market
Likes Small Heads
Average of Three Pounds in
Size Brings Best Price.
New York state markets often pay
two to three dollars a ton premium
for cabbage that is solid and weighs
about three pounds to a head since
that Is the size most convenient to
the housewife, says F. O. Underwood
of the State College of Agriculture at
Ithaca, N. Y. To meet this demand,
tlie intermediate type of Danish Bali
head is the best variety to grow.
To obtain medium-sized heads, the
pi nuts must he close together, says
Mr. Underwood, who points out that
heavy yields are possible even with
heads of this size. Plants may be set
18 by 3G inches apart in the field, re
quiring about 10,000 plants to an acre,
and on good land they may be set
14 or 15 inches apart in the row.
Close planting requires better land,
more plant food, and plenty of mois
ture. A supply of moisture may be
favored by applying manure to the
land a year before the cabbage Is
grown, by using cover crops, and by
fall plowing.
The intermediate type of Danish
Ballhead is best, for It produces heads
that are round, that are slightly flat
tened on top, and that taper slightly
at the base. Also the heads are solid,
the leaves are well closed over, and
the foliage is vigorous. The length
of stem is, in itself, of little impor
tance, but the tail-stem types do not
yield so heavily and the leaves do not
close over so well on top. The flatter
types are larger, are not so solid, do
not keep so well, and are sometimes
said to be too much like domestic
cabbage.
Making Bees Move on Is
Not Accomplished Soon
Bees often take up their abode where
there are not wanted, as in a cavity in
a wall. A good way to get them out is
to put a bee “escape” over the en
trance to the cavity, so the bees can
get out but not in.
A cone of wire cloth about 8 inches
high with a hole at the apex just large
enough for one bee to pass through
will serve as an escape. A regular hive
should be placed beside the entrance
for the return of the escaped bees. The
queen remains in the old cavity and
goes on laying eggs, but as the colony
is quickly reduced in size the quantity
of brood decreases. The younger bees
leave the cavity and join the bees in
the hive. Anew queen should be given
to the bees in the hive as soon as pos
sible.
After about four weeks, remove the
bee escape and make as large a hole
as possible at the entrance of the cav
ity. The bees will go in for the honey
and carry it to the hive. For this meth
od to work successfully, it is necessary
that the bees have only one exit from
the cavity.
Cutting Canada Thistle
in August Most Favored
Dates suggested for the best date
to cut Canada thistle vary. A. Han
sen, botanist at Purdue experimental
station, has inquired into the matter
with no definite results so far.
This date seems to vary somewhat,
according to the almanac one happens
to consult, but seems to center some
where around August 14. That the al
manac signs do not always work is
indicated by the experience of one
irate farmer who tried the method
arid concluded that he evidently cut
while the sign was on the twins, since
he now has two thistles where he had
but one before.
Why so many farmers have suc
ceeded in practically destroying Can
ada thistle by a single cutting is a
mystery. It may be related to the
fact that when thistles mature the
stems become hollow and cutting at
that stage followed by rain may fill
the hollows and cause rotting. This
rather unusual condition has been ob
served a number of times.
| Agricultural Notes |
Alfalfa is a superior feed for live
stock.
• * *
Good seed of standard varieties is
always in demand. It pays to pro
duce it.
* * *
It is commonly recommended there
should be one acre of alfalfa for ev
ery dairy cow.
* * *
Half of the failures in getting wind
break trees to grow and thrive can be
laid directly to faulty preparation of
the soil.
* * *
High-producing cows need grain
even when on good pasture. Early
pasture grass is high in protein, so
grain mixtures should not contain
more than 15 per cent protein for
best results.
* * *
To assure milk of pleasing flavor
the dairyman should not give his cows
any feed likely to taint milk until just
after milking. He should then fol
low this practice with aeration of the
milk against flavors or odors.
* • *
In ordinary seasons sweet clover
will furnish about 50 per cent more
grazing than bluegrass on soils suit
able for its use and in many instances
twice the grazing has been produced.
Even greater advantage is observed
in dry seasons.
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j HE WROTE IN 189;
When Dr. Caldwell Blurted to Dra
medicine, back in 1875, the
laxative were not as great as t
People lived normal lives, ate
wholesome food, and got plenty of
air. But even that earlv there
drastic physics and purges for the
of constipation which Dr. Caldwel
not believe were good for human be
1 lie prescription for constipation
he used early in his practice, and n
he put in drug stores in 1892 unde:
name of Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup p e
is a liquid vegetable remedy,' inte
for women, children and elderlv pe
and they need just such a mild
bowel stimulant.
This prescription has proven its
and is now the largest selling li
laxative. It has won the confident
people who needed it to get relief
headaches, biliousness, flatulence,
gestion, loss of appetite and sleep,
breath, dyspepsia, colds, fevers. At
druggist, or write “Syrup Pep
Dept. 88, Monticello, Illinois, for
trial bottle.
Juvenile Sherlocking
Visitor —and where is your mo
today, Freddy?
Boy—l think she’s gone to
grandma. She put on her lot
skirt.
We expect frivolity in youth; a
is to be felt only when it is not
grown at thirty.
Use Tanglefoot Spray for flies
and you will kill all other
household insects too. There’s
nothing more effective—noth*
ing safer or more dependable,
Tanglefoot is free from objec
tionable features. This super
quality is worth demanding.
Prices have been greatly re
duced. Pay less and get the best.
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Paper and tly Ribbons an
ftWiUbm the most sanitary and
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TAMSLEFOC
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When Winter Comes
She—Most men never think pert
ly of saving until they’re marrie
He—Perhaps they only realize l
how badly they need to.
Without intimacy, you never 1
much trouble.
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