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The Future Citizen “A PAPER WITH A PURPOSE/' Printed by The Reformatory Boys Doing the Best They Can. Published Promptly as Often as Possible QUESTION BOX Answers to last week’s questions. An (i) What Ambassador of the U. S. coined the famous neutrality echo of the State’s effort to give doctrine: “I have no prejudice ex every boy a chance in life. Published Every Saturday Afternoon GEORGIA STATE REFORMATORY JOSEPH E. LOVVORN Superintendent. Entered at the Milledgeville, Georgia Post Office as Mail Matter of the Second Class. SUBSCRIPTION: $1.00 IN ADVANCE cept in favor of my own country (i) John Adams, first Ambassa dor to England under George Wash ingtons adminstraticn in 1879- served also as Vice-President for eight years with Washington and succeeded him as President for one term, Adams represented the U. S. in settling peace with England, and was mada first Ambassador al though he was elected Vice-Presi dent. When he appeared before CHAS. A. STALLINGS, Foreman. King George III. his majesty ex- FRANK A. WIND Apprentice pressed pleasure in receiving an< JOHN D. INGRAM Apprentice ) Ambassador irom America who BARI’IELD Apprentice was not prejudiced in favor of HINTON E. EDWARD DIXON Office Boy Saturday, January 30, 1915 ANTICIPATION January a movin Rapidly along— February's ready And March is coming strong! April, May and June time Soon will wake the flowers— Then July and August Bring the lazy hours— Oysters in September, Then October gold— Turkey m November— The story s almost told, “Start your Christmas shopping Tis the same old cry— And “Wish you Happy New Year.' As in the days gone by. —Selected QUESTIONS FOR NEXT WEEK. (1) What is the “Tweed Ring” mentioned in political campaigns? (2) What is the longest time any one man has served as president and vice president and whose ad ministration was it. (3) What was the issue over which the civil war wa6 fought? The war is over, but it is import ant to know what was the main is sue iu order to understand just what 1 Sawyer France, the greatest enemy of En gland. John Adams promptly 7 re plied : “I have no prejudice except in favor of my own native land” It was a tactful piece of diplomacy and though spoken on t he spur of fhe moment, it established a prece dent that is considered good neu trality doctrine to this day. Elbert Hubbard, has voiced a different kind ol neutrality doctrine in expressing his very cord'll cc n tempt for the German Kaiser's pug nacity: Says Fra Elbert us : “lam neutral. 1 am, I don’t care who licks the Kaiser.” (2) What was Mark Twain’s real name, and how did'he get the name of Mark Twain? (2) Samuel L. Clemens; he was first a printer, and afterward a pi lot on a Mississippi river steamboat One of the commonest sounds heard on his trips was the shallow-water call of the man sounding the depth.- of the water—“Mark twain,” meaning mark two fathoms. This call was dinned into the ears of young Clemens and when he began to write he adopted it for pseudonym and made it famous in two conti nents. He was humorist, philoso pher and artist combined. His writing are widely read. “'Join and “Huckleberry Finn” [Around The Exchange Table, Among the appreciated education al journals received on our exchange tablea popular favorite is “Normal Instructor and Primary Plana” is sued from Dansville, N.Y. by F.A. Owen Publishing Co. This high class periodical is filled with good reading matter and abounds in help ful and inspirational articles. We thoroughly appreciate the kindness of this great publishing house in sending this $1.25 school journal in exchange for The Future Citizen, and that without solicitation on our part, except to mail them our paper.. Normal Instructor has a national cir culation especially east of the Missis sippi, but we doubt if it sends out a copy that is more closely and repeat edly read or more genuinely appre ciated than the one that, comes here. (3) A farmer offered to sell Mr. Hale some white peas at cents a quart. But Air. Hale preferred to buy by the bushel rate which was $3. Did he gain or lose by the bushel rate, and how much? (3) Mr. Male gained by accept ing the bushel rate. A bushel con tains 2150.4 cubic inches; a quart contains 57.75 cubic inches. Theo retically there is such a thing as a “dry quart”, but it is never used for practical purposes, and exists only in the books and the imagina tion, Nobody ever saw a quart measure in actual use, except the liquid quart of 57.75 cubic inches, and the theory of 8 dry quart mak ing a peck has confused the public mind and led to the fallacy that two gallons make a peck, or eight gallons make a bushel.^ This is not true. Our complicated tables of weights and measures were con ceived by designing tradesmen to confuse the public mind. Some day we will have the metric system adopted with only one table for each kind of measurement, and all. based on the decimal scale; then peopie can calculate their purchases and sales without a college educa tion, as under* that plan any buy who knows the tens column of the multiplication table can make any kind of calculation. 11 you divide 2150.4 by 57-75 you will see that it takes 37^ quarts to make a bushel, and at 8^ cents each they would cost about 3.10, so the actual gain by the bushel rate is ten cents on a bushel. questions were settled by the war. \ are the favorite* among the bovs. The door ot Opportunity is labelled “Push", but some .war-sighted folks mis-read it “Fair*.