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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 Another sound old word, which seems so have withdrawn more or less fPm general circulation, Is “spry.”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 Possibly nothing else can be as out of-date as Hst year’s slicker in a col lege town, "with the early 1928 wise cracks.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. Athatkii Kent \ : RADIO' NEW BATTERY SET! Screen-Grid Electro-Dynamic Greatest Improvement in Years! HEAR IT—SEE IT—READY NOW! STATE DISTRIBUTORS Atwatec Kent Radio Hopkins Equipment Cos., Atlanta, Ga. See any Atwater Kent Dealer for Demonstration in Your Own Home. Dealers —Investigate this Valuable Franchise Pa in ’Em 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. BLACK FLAG Wmj POWDER 1 KILLS BUGS Roaches, ants, bedbugs, fleas, flies, mosquitoes, moths, etc. Wj Black Flag kills quickly, surely! It's the deadliest insect-killer JwW/ made.(Packed in glass, it keeps its strength), flw ©i9,8.F.C0. / Black Flag also comes in liquid form 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. 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