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THE ROCKDALE RECORD
Official Organ of Rockdale County
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
W. E. Atkinson Editor and Publisher
Fogs Interfere with aviation. The
weather forecast again comes into im
portant significance.
“Talkies” are now ready for use in
the home. Where are one’s quiet eve
nings to come from?
If orchids grew in the lawn and dan
delions grew under glass, which would
the brides be wenring?
A Nebraska woman dislocated her
arm in playing bridge. She must
have made a grand slam.
Einstein is the answer to the ques
tion: Who is the living man most
admired and least understood?
A popular hero is liable to he
Judged, eventually, by the kind of
“ghost writer” company he keeps.
Another sound old word, which
seems so have withdrawn more or
less fPm general circulation, Is
“spry.”
“An American millionaire” already
means bu* little more than “a gold
headed c**ne” meant to our grandfa
thers.
Possibly nothing else can be as out
of-date as Hst year’s slicker in a col
lege town, "with the early 1928 wise
cracks.
Now that every tall building in New 1
York has a bungalow on the top, the
next move * a breakfast nook in the
fire escape.
A society in New York is on the
lookout for light fiction for sailors in
our merchniM marine, and of course
there would always be the steamship
travel folder?.
Why do professors take the trouble
to remind us that the younger gener
ation is smarter than its sires?
Haven’t we jlready had it at first
hand?
“That bon picks up everything he
can lay a Vmd on,” sighed a dis
traught pa-tent just the other night.
“What I'm afraid of is he will turn
out to b>~ a popular song writer.”
“An aetor accused of leaving bad
checks in his wake is being sought by
officers In five states.” Well, any ac
tor woKd be unhappy without a fol
lowing
“Bofugna, Italy, had its twenty-third
earthquake, the other day.” Is it pos
sible ilie popular sausage was on ac
cidental result of one of these catas
trophies?
A cafe owner' in Chicago tried to
protect himself against bandit gunfire
with pie plates, but was shot. One of
those live-ply sandwiches would have
been the thing.
“Of the Siamese Twins now in the
amusement field, none are Siamese,”
says a theatrical weekly. What has
always worried a few of us is as fol
lows: Are they twins?
The old-fashioned mother who used
to make soap in a black kettle out in
the yard now has daughters and
granddaughters who haven’t that
many clothes to wash.
There is no rose without its thorn,
and the trouble is that by the time
the celery gets to the point where it
can be eaten noiselessly, it is really
not worth while.
The bridge expert who deduces from
a one-diamond bid that the bidder
holds five hearts always reminds us
a little of an archeologist who is able
to reconstruct a 50-foot dinosaur in its
entirety from a fossil tooth.
A Massachusetts town is naming
streets in anew section after the
grent composers. We wish to be
around the first time the officer on
the beat writes up an accident re
port on Tsclinikowsky avenue.
Some of the European hotel keepers
agree that conferences have brought
peuce and prosperity so far as they
are concerned.
Overheard on the bus: “What kind
of a story-teller is he?” “Oh—-I don’*
know, really. He always reminded
me of a filibuster.”
Anew sort of watch winds itself
and if someone will perfect a device
to put out the milk bottles automati
cally, there should be no further trou
ble about going to bed.
The first thing on the office cynic’s
program is to read something on the
joy of work. This gets him into the
right mood for the day.
A girl can wear a fraternity pin
newly acquired from a young man in
such a conspicuous way that it’s the
first thing rival girls see.
Then there is the type of next-door
neighbor who borrows your lawn
mower and mows exactly up to the
lot line and not a fraction of a mill
meter over.
The newest in plumbing is the on
ehid-colored kitchen sink in which tc
stack the dishes when hurrying oil
to the seven o’clock show.
HARM IN MULTIPLICITY OF LAWS
By REV. 11. A. NORTIIACKER, Elmhurst, h. I. (Presbyterian).
OTJK national passion'for lawmaking has compelled ns to be walk
ing encyclopedias in a curiosity shop in order to acquire a
working knowledge of the multiplicity of laws that are available
for the few. Lav/s are either a blessing or a curse to the indi
vidual and to the nation.. It is impossible to govern morality and duty
with street traffic signalg, using some laws to say go and others to say
stop. Such an effort throws everything on the main thoroughfare of con
duct into confusion.
The unwritten law’s of the heart are the narrow and guiding spirit
in life, and codified laws do not secure law-abiding citizens. Some actions
can he regulated by law, but no amount of law will make a person hon
est inside himself, change his spirit or inspire affection. Good is taught
and caught, hut never forced. Families are hound together with the ti
of love, not with a whip.
Rules choke to death in the tangle of regulation. This paralyzing
repression of man’s life is building a lifeless structure. It is a great
mistake to measure deeds by the precision of certain laws and miss the
spirit. Truth is greater than creed, and motive is deeper than method.
REAL AIM OF PUBLIC EDUCATION
By U. S. SENATOR BINGHAM, Connecticut.
If a republic neglects the careful training of its citizens for the
duties of citizenship, then it disregards the duty of self-preservation.
The aim of public education should bo the development of a sturdy,
self-reliant citizenry and the aim of good public schools should not be
the acquisition of knowledge, hut the development of character.
Concerning the “one-room” sehoolhouse and its possible lack of
modern facilities, the professional pedagogue looks upon this type of ed
ucational facility with its single overworked teacher and shakes his head
because of the lack of apparatus and the lack of opportunity for a nor
mal school graduate to put into practice the latest methods of her pro
fession.
Asa matter of fact, the one-room sehoolhouse, with its single de
voted teacher comes nearer to being a satisfactory successor to the home
school than any device of modern education and fortunate indeed is the
child today who learns to read at his mother’s knee and whose parents
choose to take the time to fashion the character of the little children
under their care.
QUACKS IN WAKE OF SCIENCE
By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN, American Medical Association.
Quacks are among the first to utilize the discoveries of science. As
rapidly as new discoveries appear in any field of science the quacks
adapt those discoveries to the exploitation of the public. From the
time when miracle men healed human disease by incantation and charm,
until today, when the exploiter of radium, of ultra-violet rays, and of
scientific knowledge concerning diet, works his new hocus-pocus upon
the public. Human beings have indicated that knowledge advances but
credulity remains a fundamental feature of human nature.
Of all the nations of the world, the United States is most afflicted
by peculiar healers. A temporarily successful cult or fraud gives birth to
innumerable offshoots. The files of the American Medical association con
tain more than 125,000 cards, each representing some form of quackery.
The story of dentistry and dental quackery is as old as medical
quackery. In the Middle ages dental charlatans traveled from city to
city, pulling teeth without the slightest conception of the relation of
the teeth to the human body.
NEED FOR BEAUTIFYING NATION
By RAY LYMAN WILBUR, Secretary of the Interior.
There must he greater care toward beautification of America. We
can afford to spend some time and effort in making things look better.
Why not stop living so much in the midst of bewildering signs, tawdry
buildings, weeds, waste paper and old cans? Trees are in the nurseries
ready to plant, flower seeds are cheap, exercise with a hoe is just as
healthful as golf, and your neighbor can enjoy your garden if your
hedge is not too high.
In many places there is great charm, hut the buildings and other
things near the highways block the vision. It is like having a cinder in
your eye. America is so beautiful, hut man has done so many things to
it that it often looks its best after a fresh fall of six inches of snow. We
have been in too big a hurry to cut things down and cut them up, to
build without much thought and to make money with a rush. We now
have settled up the whole country from shore to shore and can now
quietly go about the task of making the most of what we have left and of
building for the future. .
FIGHT CRIME WITH EDUCATION
By DR. C. F. REISNER, Broadway Temple, New York.
What can be done to save the youth of the land from a life ofi
crime? The trouble is with the youth. Crime-ridden as cities are, an
analysis shows a great proportion of crime is committed by boys and
young men. And young men have not been educated properly in their
homes and schools or they would not drift so readily into criminal
careers.
Policemen should he friendly with growing boys. They should culti
vate their acquaintance and let them know they are their friends as long
as the boys are on the side of good citizenship. Things have come to the
point where the boy grows up with the feeling the officer is his natural
enemy. He should feel the officer is his friend, and the officer is to
blame for the fact he does no>
THE ROCKDALE RECORD, Conyers. Ga.. Wed.. July 17. 1929.
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Lewis O. Chasey, secretary to Gov
ernor Leslie, tells this story:
A visitor at a home heard an un
usual commotion in an upstairs room.
“Say, sonny,” he said to the youth
with him, “what is that terrible noise
upstairs? - It sounds like the house was
falling down.”
“Oh, that is just ma dragging pa’s
pants around,” replied the lad.
“Why, dragging a pair of pants
around wouldn’t make that much noise
would it?”
“Yeah, ’cause pa’s in ’em,” the lad
replied.
Civilization Hits Menagerie
In a few generations the elephant,
the tiger, the lion and the rhinoceros
will be extinct and found only in mu
seum exhibits. Such is the prediction
made by Alexander Barns, a British ex
plorer, who recently visited Amer
ica. Civilization will crowd these ani
mals out of the jungles just as the
bfson was exterminated from the
plains of the United States. “Science,'’
says Barns, “is harnessing the world
and controlled life is part of the
process.”—Pathfinder Magazine.
Irish Girls Want Combs^
City merchants of Ireland are mys
tified over the demand from the coun
try for long combs. Until recently,
the dealers declare, they could not
give the articles away, but now or
ders are coming from colleens in all
parts of the country. Furthermore,
they want the kind their mothers used
when long hair was in style. As no
explanation is given the conjecture is
that the bob is passing in the country.
Rather Severe
Helen Travers Dallas, secretary of
Les Garconnes, a Duluth club of bach
elor girls, said in a toast: “Man,” at
the club’s ninth annual banquet:
“And now we come to man as hus
band. Man as husband may be divid
ed into two classes —he whose meals
disagree with him, and he who dis
agrees with his meals.”
Just the Pedestrian
Constable —Here, who are you?
Man Under Auto —Me? Oh, I’m
only the pedestrian.
But few men are disappointed in
love until after they face the parson.
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His Powers a Mystery
to Master of Figures
William Strong, the man who could
compute figures with the speed and
accuracy of an adding machine —and
never knew liow he did it —is dead.
He would stand beside a railroad
track as a long freight rolled by, ob
serving the car numbers, and when
the caboose flashed past lie would an
nounce the total as correctly as the
tabulator with paper and pad who
stood beside him.
Merchants employed him at inven
tory rime in place of using adding ma
chines. He would tell engineers how
many brick would be needed for a
wall, compute cube, root; give exact
ages the instant a birth date was
given him. Always to the question,
“How do you do it?” he would an
swer. “I do not know.” Strong, who
was fifty, died recently on a railroad
viaduct in Bartonville, England, where
he was in the habit of going daily to
perform the feat of totaling box car
numbers, “just to keep in practice,”
he said.
Memorial to Peace
The Portal of Peace is a massive
concrete structure in the form of a
gateway. It is located at Blaine,
Wash., and was dedicated September
5, 1921, in honor of the peace between
the United States and Canada, which
had lasted for more than 100 years
without a break. The memorial,
which cost $40,000, stands 100 yards
from the international boundary
where the forty-ninth parallel meets
Boundary bay.
Servant Problem’* Beginning
Bishop E. D. Mouzon told a story
in an address in Nashville.
“A little girl,” he began, “came home
from her first visit to Sunday school
in a very happy mood.
“ ‘Oh, mamma,’ she said, ‘it was so
lovely. A lady told us about a gen
tleman named Adam and a lady
named Eve who lived in a lovely gar
den, and oh, they were so happy there
till the servant came.’ ”
Politics is the greatest man’s game
in the world.
Men never get too old to acquire
experience.
Success without honesty is failure.
Alligators’ Growth
Alligators grow very slowly and it Is
estimated that at fifteen years of agn
they are only two feet long;therefore*
a twelve-footer may be reasonably sup
posed to be seventy-five years of age.
The rate of growth varies with ani
mals in their wild state and those kept
in captivity, and it is also governed
by the amount as well as the type of
food given.
Good manners must be made a hab
it; otherwise you’ll slip When you lose
your temper.
Poverty wants much; but avarice,
everything.—-Syrus. _
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