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THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
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Brunswick, Ga.
| CLARENCE H. LEAVV
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ALL DEPARTMENTS PHONE .85.
Capt. Arnold points out that the
property between the A., B. & A.
docks and Plantation creek would of
fer the state an ideal location for her
docks.
Senator Thomas E. Watson very in
dignantly denies that he is a mem
ber of the Ku Klux Klan. Now then
is the klan or the Senator an object of
congratulation?
, Secretary Chas. E. Arnold, of the
Brunswick Pilots Association, has an
interesting contribution in The N6ws
this morning anent the state docks to
be built at one of the Georgia ports.
.We note that President Harding is
coming to Atlanta in October. We
ar6 pleased to have the President in
Georgia and while here he ought to
journey on down to Brunswick and
ptot his lumps on a real seaport.
Every News reader should read the
advertisements In The (News this
morning. They will carry Interesting
messages to the people and messages
that may moan much for them. Turn
to tho advertising sections of the pa
per aftd read them.
The War Finance corporation has
approved advances to the extent of
$6,150,<H)0 to assist in the# matter of
financing exports of cotton and tobac
co from the South. That ought to go
a long distance towards relieving the
farmer of the present flnuncial pres
sure.
-The removal of court records from
at least two courts in Atlnta is a
great deal more serious than would
appear on Its face. These records
arc sacred ones and hack of their se
curity lies the security of the peo
ple. The Fulton county*grand Jury
should rigidly Investigate this mat
ter.
The nomination of General Leonard
Wood to he governor-general of the
Philippines has gone to the Senate.
That’s one fine turn the President has
done the American people. A man
with the grouch that General Wood
lias been carrying umund for years
ought to he sent as far away as possi
ble.
Our hearty host wlhHph to Supt.
Chan,. K. Drvdon, of the Brunswick
schools. lie ha* been the first citiMm
of Brunswick to voluntarily send In
a stock subscription tp the City # In
tcrurban railway. That’q the right
spirit ami If others will but emulate
the example of Superintendent Dry
den the end will be specdly reached.
It has been discovered that more
than seven hundred men and women
have been confined In the state luna
tic asylum ut Mllledgcvllle. whose
condition does not Justify their being
thu # cenllned. This seems to be a
pretty serious state of affairs and
ought to be investigated, llaa the
Ntale asylum been used for a private
dumping ground?
—— Si, ,
It Is the very earnest wish ot the
committee In charge of the Ctty.if !u
temrban to the stock sub
scription list fiv**mM*t Friday. The
goal Is almost l]U*Jdght and with the
active aid of tie* people of the city it
will be reached by the desired time.
If you have not subscribed do not
be bashful about It. ftount It to the
committee by mall!
Mayor Key. of Atlanta # h*s very
Properly vetoed the resolution of the
Quanta city council providing for a
StnlPiy tily New Ynkli ytWrtd and
other nowmvi f*' to investigate th**
ritual nriiujpt**. cty. of the Kuights
of Coin tubus. The Atlanta city c.hs n*
ell w*ni ! d come nearer erving the
peopi and doing its duty. It It woubl
attend to it* own affair*
THE EVERLASTING HORN!
While we are frantically taking
steps to preserve human life in, many
directions, it would seem that we
might deliberately take steps in an
other direction to preserve
lives and nerves.
It is very easy to become stam
peded over an apparently alarming
condition which we are not fa
miliar, but it takes long, hard argu*.
ment to Induce men to change
ditions that are familiar, even if they J
are dangerous. The conditions under
which automobiles and autobicycles
are operated in Brunswick, at the
present time, are dangerous to those
who are compelled to use Jhe streets.
One of the great menaces afforded
by the unscientific management of au
tomobiles upon the streets, besides
the reckless driving and the high rate
of speed, is the constant use of horns
at times where there is no occasion
for their use. This constant use
serves to dull the ear and to render
the threatened person inattentive and
careless.
The subject of the regulation of
warning signals has been considered
by various legislative bodies in Eng
land, America and the Continent.
The adequate warning signal, so ex
perience says, must have a harsh,
abrupt note that gives the impres
sion of imminent danger. A warning
signal Is not a play toy. It has a
seriCus mission, and we believe it
unwise to use as a warning signal
any device which lacks the harsh
ness, the abrupt note that is imme
diately recognized as a warning of
danger.
Emergencies sometir/es arise, espe
cially in cities, through no fault of the
driver of the motor car, which to
avoid injury, call for immediate ac-‘
tlon, not only by the motorist but by
the person or person In danger. The
unnecessary use is illustrated by the
fable of the boy who cried “wolf!
wolf!” when there was no wolf near,
and when he yelled for help, no one
responded, and the w.l! devoured
him,
In several of the world's leading
cities it is now defined unlawful for
any motorist to make or cause to be
made any loud or unnecessary noise
with bell, horn or any other signal
device with which his car is equip
ped, or to use the same except as a
warning of danger.
It is not so much the character of
the warning signal as its unnecessary<
use that is objectionable. That the
use of an adequate warning signal
upon motor cars is a necessity is al
most universally recognized and in
deed, required by law in every city
of importance. That this signal
should be capable of producing (a
sufficient volume of sound to be equal
ly necessary, and that the bulb horn
is both undependable and so feeble
In sound that the rattle of surround
ing traffic frequently makes It Impos
sible to be heard, is a matter of com
int n knowledge.
The continuous use of any sort of
warning signal Is uncalled for and
highly objectionable and should be
prohibited by law’. It Is. however,
Just as reasonable to prohlhlt the use
of a given signal, admittedly inade
quate for the purpose for which it Is
used, merely because Its Improper
and unnecessary use may amount to
a nuisance, as It would he to sever
a man’s vocal chords In order to pre
vent him from being guilty of disor
derly conduct or a breach of peace
by shouting or singing in public pla
ces.
The solution of both problems Is
not to deprive the use upon a motor
car of an adequate warning signal,
hut to regulate the usy of each by
law. or rather enforce the extstiug
law cn the subject.
FORTUNES FROM PiANUTS.
The Coffee county farmer who
made a net profit of six thousand, one
hundred and ninety-five dollars last
year on one hundred and fifty acres of
peanuts presents a striking example
of the opportunities in food crops as
opposed to the all-cotton The
Dml used for tftls purpose was of
only average quality, and the methods
employed were such as are available
to the average planter. There was
nothing magical in the achievement.
It wa simply the natural reward of,
industry and Intelligence.
As stated In a recent bulletin by
Die state department of agriculture,
this farmer spent three dollars an
acre for seed, one dollar an acros lor
pro par ft tou. and fifty cent* an acre
for planting. Including the cost of
cultivation. Harvesting, laud reutal
and other ch*rgv* v .t|u\ total ccH-*ll
peeducittg. the veep anas f twettty-um
add a half dollar*, and eighty cents u
acre; Ho that the uet profit amounted
to tarty-one dollar* and thirty cents
an acre After the vines bad been
t Ivn up. the field served for addi
(legal profit as ferage foe three bun
dred hogs; the hay yielded still fur
ther income.
The agricultural authorities calcu
late that the fairest profit which
could have been expected from this
tract of one hundred and fifty acres
planted in cotton would have been
about four thousand dollars; and cot
ton, besides requiring more labor in
cultivation and involving greater
risks, would have left the sail consid
erably poorer. The peanut crop, on
the other hand was produced easily
cheaply and was a source of soil
The increasing use 01
q>eaiuts for the manufacture of oils
•and other food products makes the
market for this crop even more cer-,
tain and profitable, ‘ > - .
What the farmer in Coffee can do,
can be duplicated ni Glynn!
OUR DIVORCE LAWS NEED RE
FORMING. 1
It is hoped that the law-making
body of the state will soon give some
serious consideration to a general re
vision of the present divorce laws of
the state. > '
ThV tremendous increase of divorce
within the last two or three decades
has been a matter of serious concern
to every thoughtful man and woman
—in fact, to every one who cares for
the stability of our family and social
life and for the perpetuity of our
much-prized' governmental institu
tions.
, For it is admitted everywhere that
with the familyq, the unit of society
broken and destroyed by divorce, we
are cut loose from our old moorings
and drift we know’ not,where.
Many laws and changes of laws
have been proposed to put a check
on divorce, but it seems to increase
of them all. As we have
frequently pointed out divorce consti
tutes a problem outside of and be
yond laws, for it is merely the symp
ton of. a social disease which mani
fests itself in the courts, and never
yet has disease been cured by treat
ing the symptons only.
The really alarming thing is not
that so many divorces are granted,
but the fact that so many people, be
cause of marital unhappiness, want
divorces. No law can make married
people happy who are not already.
But this condition should by no
I
means be an excuse for lax divorce
laws. Rather should it call for strict
ones—strict as is possible to enforce.
As far as It can, the law should check
divorce and not make it easy.
Notwithstanding many . good fea
tures, Georgia's system of divorce
laws is too lax in that it in effect al
lows divorces to be granted on ex
parte and uncorroborated testimony.
ft works out like this; . Husband
and wife agree that they must be di
vorced. One —we will sav the hus
band—flies suit, and the wife doesn’t
answer It. but let’s it go by default.
The husband then comes before the
jury and can make out any sort of
case he chooses, for there is no wit
ness to contradict him, and he Is not
required to have any one corroborate
him. Tho jury has to accept what he
savs and grant him a divorce and. as
a matter of fact, of course, permission
to remarry.
Then, several months after, the
wife comes into court asking for per
miasion to remarry. Shre then tells a
story of wrong treatment at the hands
of the husband that puts to shame
the story he told of wrong treatment
at her hands. But the story is tpld
to a different jury, and likewise with
out the necessity of corroborating ev
idence. The jury can. of course, do
nothing but believe she is an ill
treated woman and grant her peti
tion.
Thus the effect is that both parties
arc released from the mctrimqnial
hands of the husband that puts to
want to tell—a condition that serves
largely to nullify other divorce pro
visions that may be restrictive and
beneficial.
Then too. the parties in many cas
es are ready to remarry and do re
marry Immediately after their de
crees are granted. Such a condition
leads to easy perjury and to many of
the abuses which we have mentioned
It should he prevented. Remarrying
should be prohibited until after the
expiration of a certain time after the
divorce is granted.
These are some of the more glaring
, defects of Georgh's divorce law’s
There may be and doubtless are oth
I era. The next legislature should
take up the divorce laws and give
a thorough overhauling and re
vision and strengthening.
Chairman Constant Miller of th<
i Glynn county commissioners, made a
i very fine suggestion the other day
when he pointed out, to the Yount;
MeuV TtNib. th advantage of ’ a trli
of a hundred business men of Bruns*
wick to* Florid * points in the nea
future. Mr. Miller’s Idea Is to le
the Brunswick people see first bao>:
the great good roads work the pcoph
of V*krlda are doing
THE RH'iNSWICK NEWS
Bizarre Robe
For the Bclidoir
M •
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Here is the newest American de
signed robe for boudbir wear.' It is
;& bizarre affair made of rose-colored
.velvet combined with satin of the
same shade. It has been called by its
designer an oriental tea frock. The
harem skirt opening at the side is
•fashioned of the satin. The straight
blouso with its sleeves of amble, pro
portions is of the velvet with twelve
inch cuffs of'katln on the sleeves. A
tiny silver ball on each sleevg and on
the trousers at the ankles forms the
bnly bit of trimming in evidence. The
lovely fabric is used in such a way
as not to need adornment.
This would be costly if bought from
an exclusive dealer, but with a little
study and time it may be easily made
at heme and the home dressmaker
would really show great wisdom if
she confined her efforts to negligees,
lingerie and dainty undorthings in
stead of trying to fashion froeks,
suits and wraps to rival trained and
skilled tailors. Let woman make her
•wn accessories and she will have
more money with which to buy well
made outer garments for it is a rare
genius, indeed, who can keep the
dreaded ’’home-made look” from her
handiwork.
We Are Now Agent
t
for
The Savannah Press
The Florida limes Union
The Macon Evening News
H. TREADWAY’S
Let Us Serve You
in Your Drug Line
Accuracy and service are the two
real foundations in the drug bus
iness. We strive to make them
the aim of this store.
Soda water and cigar departments al
ways at your service, phone trial order
"Our mission on earth is to m ake others happy—for cash
WffNfi." ; j
Glynn Drug Cos.
PHONE 827
Save Money
Shaving with your safety ra
zor will be a pleasure if you will
send your dull safety razor
blades to the Velvet Edge Cut
lery Cos. Gillette and Durham
Duplex are specialties.
Leave blades with H. Tread
way, 1528 Newcastle Street.
SEEDS
Seeds Seeds
We have just received anew
line of vegetable Seeds including
Ruta Begas, Purple Top Turnips,
Onion Sets, etc. Try us for your
druges.
UNION DRUG & SEED CO.
Cor. Monk and Oglethorpe Sis.
Phone 143
Norwich Street
Pharmacy
2024 Norwich St. Phone 79
Miss Mattie
J. Gale
Has Reopened
Private School
at her resi
dence
No. 2208
Norwich Street
on September
19th, 1921
Phone 612
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HOME BANKS
Coincident with the beginning
of the new' school term we
received a large supply of very
attractive
HOME SAVINGS BANKS
Teach the youngsters to
S-A-V-E
ONE DOLLAR WILL START
“THE BANK Wl TH A HEART.”
MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM.
Be Extra Proud of Your Kitchen!
. When the new home is built, how proudly you will show
your new kitchen to friends! And how much prouder
you will be if this handsome new Round Oak Ironbilc
Range graces the kitchen. Arrange to have one installed
—select it now and have us hold it. You are fully pr
lected in the matter of price—see note below. By seeing ua
at once you will be the gainer in more ways than one
a&k for particulars.
ROUND OAK
IRONBILT RANGE
The Round Oak Folks have GUARANTEED to us
their present prices against any possible decline until next
- December 1. Should a price revision occur at any time
thb year you will receive the benefit of the full amount of
it from us. Buy or contract now. Come m and talk it over.
WRIGHT & G OWEN CO.
GROCERIES AND SHIP SUPPLIES
PHONE 336-337. BAY AND MANSFIELD STS.
Cook With Gas
The cleanest, handiest and cheapest fuel. Don’t be
-. rtm
a slave to your old kitchen stove.* Cooking with gas
is the modern way of living—it saves money, time,
worry and work. Come in and let’s talk it over.
Mutual Light & Water Cos.
PHONE 7
SPEEDOLINE
Brunswick, Ca.. July 30tb, IS>2l.
Mr. J. W. Duggan, # |* #
Geofafe, Clynn County. / ' ;; •' 1 *’ * *
To Whom H May Concern: I have m.ed Speedollno and made
Utqt itif h It In my Ford car, aUo car, and find that It In, a j&h “
.Lav* r and improve jthe nqatyug Of the engine; ppeedoilQk •sx-fis*
talnly deserve* credit for being all you claim for It, and jf sCVR,
thirty per cent of the gasoline bUI.
Yens very truly,
J. B HINSON. M- rcbant.
Georgia, Glynn County,
To W'bont it May Concern: i have used Speedoline and And that
I can get more miieague bj{ using Speedoline. On ten gallons
of gasoline I got fifty mile, more by using Speedoline. I can
recommend it to any of my friend* to cptnc up ta what it .is
dwtniwi. k If. W ELCH.
ONE QUART SAVES sl2 TO SIS IN GASOLINE BILLS
J. W. DUGGAN
1608 Reynolds St. SOLE AGENTS Phone 653
SUNDAY, SEPT. 25, 1921.