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ROCKDALE RECORD
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Official Organ of Rockdale County
and the City of Conyers
ft. F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher
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NEW WAR MACHINE
; IS FAST TRAVELER
| a “greyhound" army tank that
! charges over sand dunes and plowed
i fields at 40 miles an hour and streaks
down highways at a mile a minute is
j the latest addition to the lighting
'strength of the United States. The
! speedy war machine, which c/irrles
i three men, pusses the ordinary tank
as though the latter were standing
still nnd gets under way before the
| more unwieldy machines of tlie past
' Itegin to move, says Popular Science
| Monthly,
j The spectacular now tank showed
; what it can do recently in tests con
ducted before army otlicers it Camp
■Meade, Md. Over rough ground, its
caterpillar treads carried It at 42.. r ifi
j miles an hour. When the trends were
, removed, the armored tighter, running
on wheels, was clocked over a trial
i course ut GO miles an hour. The
i machine, which was designet, by .1
Walter Christie, nil armament expert
Is about two thirds the size of 1 in*
nvernge army tank. It Is intended
Its Inventor point out, for quick
smashing surprise attacks upon enem>
ilines rather than for heavy combat
work.
SMALL BOY’S GUESS
LOGICAL, AT LEAST
I
Every night, nt the Sequoia Nn
tlonnl park they have a campfire which
.Includes nn impromptu entertainment,
and frequently a brief talk on the
giant trees or some phase of wild life,
given by some attache of the park.
One night recently, the topic wag
reptiles nnd In tlie course of describ
ing the various snakes that arc to be
found in California the speaker re
marked :
"The particular snake to which J
refer, is said to st rike with mat lie
mntical precision."
“I know what Unit is!" piped up a
small boy. "You're talking about an
adder." —Los Angeles Times.
SELECTED “SHOTS”
:
Climate Itsn't e/irythlng; but it Is
more tlmn half.
For us few friends as a cal has. it
lives pretty well.
There’s no like tho present for
putting off tilings.
The man who blames (lie woman is
one kind of JiMlytish.
A mad who Isn't horn shiftless can’i
acquire Unit weakness.
One half of (lie world knows how
ko work' (lid qther half.
1 InvesfthenN that pay enorinouitj'
are usually matters of luck.
1 The wofnnn with lias tact Invari
ably knows what not to do.
If moral aphorisms rolled expoiif
ence, they aril guides to live by.
1 A jealous mdn Is always In lov!|
but It’s more sklf-lovd limit nnythm|
.else.
; Strangers in a city are never In [t
■hurry, aiid they see more titan tins
(body else.
It Is those who don’t know bow hS
do anything who clamor for the mos
vacations.
If yof .disapprove of dancing, Icartt
to dnnc& nnd she If It doesn't chain#
jjour views.
*’ We shall be judged, not by what
we have been, but wlint.u’e Itav#
beedT—Sewell..
Profess affection, and changing your
tnihd is always resented as if you had
no iuMr'rtght.
I* Even the dptimist who sees
fbut sunshine Is shy about lending his
iumbrella to a friend.
' In condemning the vanity of woiff
en, ~hien complain of tlie tire the*
[themselves have kindbd.—Llngree. 0
High-Priced Clay
I Evieh clay ‘seems to be high priced
in these days. Kaolin, from which
j pottery, t>orcelaiii, wnjl
(paper, oilclojh and other products are
jmadh, whs produced to the ex Lent *
1496,000 tons last year, nnd the valu%i
.at approximately $8 a ton, was Hr,
*088,003. Afore than 4,0Q0,(XK) ton? of
[ a 'l types, of clay were produced, aim
(the total Value was si<ooo,ooo. ®
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Labor Problem
Visitor—Why do you take the*
magazines? There’s nothing in them
but serial stories.
Hhus^wlffe—^Well, the servants git
interested in them and stay on just to
how the storifes end.—-Montreal
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