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UNION RECORDER. MILLEDGEVILLE. CA., MAY 16. 1926
IMPORTANT EVENTS
Monday April 13, 1929.
yj v |, ut thi.~ old ...onth of May has
. ri-ad herself” us the little boy Baid
1 . tl having important cvenis
'■ 'l l:\ over each other trying to hap-
’ Ea»-h one has fairly stcp-
J'; u , llin the heels of the one going
—and they are still passing.
’ Th r , was the Red Letter Day—
,, gaJ.iwin county kiddies came
•o the Sing—to spend the day,
.iiink lemonade, cat ice cream and
. , v the movie. (By the way—did
f you know that several of the
•u men's organizations fuYnished
• v ainonade and ice cream?—Well
iM did—“we women” didn’t have
■ thir.g to do with it—and they came
u;. tn the Court House and served it
;n0 FINE!)—And to see how Supt.
Pi\in> and Dr. Beeson beamed—was
v to behold.—You should have
intr. at the Sing—JUST to see that.
Then came Music Week—and
didn't we HAVE a week? Of course
_thi music faculty was nearly dead
when i: was over—but who minds a
httle thing like that when they feel
•j. a t jt wa.. a success and that all
|hioi| folks enjoyed it?
\ U tomorrow—Tuesday—comes
i « f. W. Field Day—and I think
thousand girls have been practic-
:„r it—I know it will be a great
. UCT ,..<—and an out-standing event.
Then—will come something to cap
:: climax—on Saturday, my grand-
wiil be here. Didn’t you know
1 ;i .l „ grandson? WHERE HAVE
•mi keen all these years? So—if
vou meet me on the street and you
heir me say under my breath—
What was it—what was it?’’—with
.mile a yard wide and warrented
NOT TO FADE—you may know I
trying to remember what it was
I was going to get for him that
rorning.
Y< - Sir. important things ure surc-
•'appening.
The zinnia bed at Green
about recovered from “the pip"—
but Verbina has the rash. My, my,
poor thing—she is all broken out,
and I am trying an old time remedy
they used to give children in the
.pring to clear the blood—so they
said—sulphur stirred up in molasses,
only—I’m not using the molasses. Of
course I am trying to be very cheer
ful about it—any ir.oher knows she
can’t afford to sit down and cry when
the children have chickenpox and
whoopii^rcoujtfh—she hto stir
around and be busy. Goodness
knows—I hope Petunia won’t catch
either the pip or the rash. She is
just the Iswedtest thing—always
smells sweetest just about dusk—
Oh, by the way—did I tell you my
grandson was coming Saturday? He
And speaking of important events
I am now driving my car MY OWN’
SELF.* Yes Sir. Of course—1 go all
the v»ay around to avoid all the
“stop” signs I can—for goodness
knows it takes me long enough to
get started—why should l have to
STOP at every cross road? When I
want to park—I come to town VERY
early, before any of you folks get;
there to take up all the spaces. Of
cour.-e, I can’t be bothered by hav
ing just ONE space to park in—not
YET. One afternoon when I came in
to town I drove all around hunting
for two places—I just kept going and
going turned until I was dizzy—and
finally turned and came up on the
side of the Court House where there
wasn’t anybody at all—and I had
the nicest time, and plenty of room.
1 didn’t violate but two of the ordin
ances on that drive—but as none of
the officers were around for me to
report to—I take this opportunity to
tell them. Of course they can’t ac
res me—for I haven’t raid which two
they were, and I understand you
can’t arrest a fellow for one
thing and try him for another.
So far—I am safe. Anyway—I live
next door to the Recorder—and lie
i keeps chickens and two dogs. Before
I leave the subject—just a word of
warning—if you see me coming, get
out of the way—I urn slow—but I
P. S. If I don’t stop to pick you
up—don’t get mad—I haven’t time
right now and those twenty-four
things I have to do to stop and start
again take up lots of time. So don’t
get mad!
p. S. No. 2. Oh, I forgot to tell you—
my grandson will he here Saturday!
CENTRAL PRESIDENT CITES
R. R. CROSSING DANGERS
Citing the fact that 2.5G8 men,
women and children were killed in
grade crossing accidents in the Unit
ed States last year, while an addi
tional 5,000 trespassers were killed
on railroad property. President A. E.
Clift of the Central of Georgia calls
attention to the danger of venturin'*
upon ratlroad tracks before making
:ure no train is near. Mr. Clift also
mentions the fact that grade cross
ing accidents represent less than 10
per cent of the total fatalities from
accidents involving automobiles, as
in addition 25,000 persons are kill
ed yearly in other automobile acei
dent, on streets and roads.
W*
In contrast to the high fatality
totals, from automobile accidents. Mr.
Clift quotes the 1928 safety record
of the railroads, when ou tof 800
million passengers transported only
1G were killed in train accidents.
grade crossing problem is
•me of the most important facing this
country today” says Mr. Clift, “yet
there is no other offering so easy a
solution. There were 137 grade
crossing accidents on the Central of
Georgia in 1928, in which 19 per
sons were killed and 81 injured.
Every one of these accidents could
have been prevented by the exercise
of the same caution which the aver
age pedestrian exercises before cross
ing a street, that is, looking to make
pure his way is clear before leaving
the sidewalk. Illustrating the care
lessness of automobile drivers, one
of every four grade crossing acci
dents on our ralirond last year was
clue to automobiles running into our
locomotives or cars, sometimes after
the train had come to a complete
stop.”
Discussing the proposal that all
grade crossings be abolished, Mr.
Clift declares that this could be ac-
co-upFshcd only at a cost of approxi
mately twenty billion dollars. He
also says that the cost of this would
have to he passed on to the public,
either in the form of increased rates
for the railroads or increased taxes,
as neither the railroads nor the muni
cipalities have any reserve fund that
could be used for this work. He al
so calls attention to the Supreme
Court’s decision that the responsi
bility rests upon he driver of a ve
hicle to make sure that no train is
approaching before he ventures upon
railroad tracks. The exercise of this
precaution would entirely eliminate
the grade crossing problem.
TAD IS DEAD.
THE DEBENTURE PLAN.
WANTED, ANOTHER EDISON.
A “WANT AD.”
the whole country.
Prize fight enthusiasts, with half
nn inch of forehead, or Charles Dana
G.bson, with a brow like the dono
i f SL Peter s will tell you “Tad was
“Tad” Doragnn is dead. Millions
knew him. He analyzed human na
ture in pictures, as well as Dickens
did in words.
Stricken by heart disease knowing
that he might die at any moment, he
continued working c’jeerftflly and
died in his sleep.
The Senate may put through the
“furm relief" debenture plan in spite
of the President's protest. That is
good news fop middleman. They
would Buy farm products, export
them and get a bonus on exported
products.
The farmer would get the bonus
IF he could ship wheat or cotton
direct to Liverpool. But he cannot
do that.
It is “hoped that giving a bonut
to exporting middlemen will “auto
matically" increuse prices paid the
former.
Silly hope. Paying the middlemi
twenty cents •» quart for mil!: do<
pot increase the four or five cents
quart paid the farmer.
co-operating with Thomas A. Edison,
seeking among hoys of today, “Edi
son’s successor.” boy, when he
is found, will find himself.
To develop Edison, one among
hundred- of millions, many ingredi
ents, .including poverty and necessity
were necessary.
The next Edison is somewhere, on
a farm, or in the city.
There is no way to identify him
He worked as u boy, in a mill,
support his mother and younger chil
dren. When his right hand
mutilated, in an accident, he drew
pictures with his left hand.
A Hearst editor asked him to come
from Snn Francisco to New York for
double the fulary he was paid. Tad
replied, “I haw my mother and six
kid brothers and sisters. I wouldn’t
leave them.”
Invited to bring them all East at
Mr. Hcarst’s expense, he came and
established a reputation throughout
Hov
e debenture bonus
would put money in circulation, even
if it did the farmer no direct good.
Also it would add to the rich man's
taxes and make that resourceful
gentleman say to himself, “I must
think up a way to solve that farm
problem."
Expensive labor compels produc
tion of new machinery. Expensive
farm cure-alls will make financial
intelligence interest itself in the
farmer.
It pays to get a good job and at
tend to it And it pays to advertise.
Twenty-two years ago, D. A. Craw
ford very young, answered a "want
ad.” and got a job as stenographer
with Mr. Carry, late president of the
Pullman Company.
Yesterday, the Pullman Company
directors, intelligently promoting one
of their own men, chose Mr. Craw
ford to succeed Mr. Carry, as presi
dent.
Don't stay in the wrong place. But
don’t he in a hurry to decide that
you arc right and the job is wrong.
DEAR MR. EDITOR
u certainly sold cifht good usod
for me last week you can tall
Friend* that we have a faw loft,
tell us what they want, if not ia
we will get it. Haven't time to
lellir
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Governors of \
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