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Friday, September u, 1923.
THE McDUFPIE PROGRESS, THOMSON, GA.
The McDuffie Progress < * au|? * 1ter ’ ^ u P reme J ufl tice John Ford
1 ! threatened to seek the prosecution of
the persons responsible for its circu-
I lation. When he learned that this
$1.50 Per Year In Advance.
THE INSECT'S FOE.
William T. Hornaday, writing in
The People’s Home Journal, has the
following to say about the quail as a
foe to insects:
“The following is a record of the
food consumed by one quail in three
hours: 84 grasshoppers; 110 chinch
bugs, 12 squash bugs, 12 army
worms, 668 mosquitoes; and in the
game day 47 cottonboll weevils, 1,350
flies and 1,286 rose slugs.
“Quail eat seeds of beggur-ticks,
burdock, crabgruss, pigweed, smart-
weed, black mustard and plantain.
In addition to the insects named
above they eat the cottonboll worm,
cucumber beetle, bean-loaf beetle,
wire-worm, corn-hill bug, snout bee
tle plant lice, codling moth, canker-
worm, Hessian fly, stable. fly, and a
Jong list of other species. Mr. F. M.
Howard, of Beeville, Texas, wrote the
U. S. Bureau of Entomology that the
Bob Whites shot in his vicinity had
their crops filled with boll-weevils.
And yet today in Texas the sports
men are killing quuil as joyously as
ever, and the farmers stand for it.
When I was in Beaumont, Texas, last
March, a newspaper of that center of
game slaughter loudly deplored the
menace of the boll-weevil to the cot
ton crop.
“In a leisurely two months’ trip
taken in March and April, lf»23,
across the continent and back, and in
'joy riding’ for hundreds of miles in
Earming sections, I saw no wild mam
mals except six cottontail rabbits in
JL S. NORRIS, Editor and Propr. .. , . , , , . ,
_T _ , particular ^vork had already been un-
Entered at the Postoffice at Thom- der fire, and that a city magistrate
•on as Second-class Mail Matter. j ba( j exonerated the publishers, he ex-
Obituaries, In Memorium, Cards of claimed:
Thanks, Etc., are charged for at rate “What can ail our magistrates?
Of 8 cents per line, with a minimum This book ia terr j b i e . it is loath-
of 25 cents. . ... ...
some. A circulating library recom
mended this thing to my daughter,
She turned it over to her mother,
v/ho was horrified, and she put it into
my hands. It is a disgrace to the
community :* • e cannot protect our
selves n;;;i „ such literature. I had
no idea that anything of this kind
was tolerated.
“This matter of bad books is an
evil which has been forced on us by
greedy book publishers, book sellers
and circulating libraries. Nearly all
of them seem to be featuring the
most vicious works they can sii d. In
the course of a walk of but a few
blocks, I found three small bookstores
each advertising the vilest of these
vicious productions, offering them to
boys and girls to read at twenty-five
cents a volume. This commercialism
of moral poison has taken place so
brazenly that thousands of fathers
and’mothers are up in arms about it.”
When You Think of
GROCERIES,
Think of
we suw were deud I could pack all
their bodies in two trunks. The ab
sence of wild birds and mammals was
shocking.
“People of America, go on with the
making of sanctuaries! If they do
not save some remnants of our quail
then nothing will do it.”
While we have our game laws in
Georgia to protect the birds, and
more especially the quuil, many per
sons disregard the letter of the law
and kill them promiscuously. It
would J)e a fine thing if the killing
of quuil .be prohibited >u this s'ate
for a period of say five years. It
might in a measure solve the boll
weevil problem in Georgia.
LICENSING WRONG.
Great Britian proposes to create
additional revenue by taxing betting
in all its forms. Whatever the .'out
come, the principle is wrong and in
the endwill cost more than the ap
parent returnes. Taxation in essence
is equivalent to license, and to license
vice is to legalize it. Governmental
legalization of vice is demoralizing
to the masses. But worst of all,
politically speaking, it gives power to
the forces of evil.
An example is found in the politi
cal power of the liquor interests in
the United States, a power based
solely on an immense public revenue
Kansas; and if all the wild birds thut,Exacted in the form of a tax upon the
VICIOUS LITERATURE.
Has the demand for depraved and
vicious literature caused the flock of
foreign stuff to be scattered upon
the shores of America that is caus
ing general comment? Is it a fact
that our people demand such litera
ture, or do the writers imagine they
do and put it over under the guise
of something decent?
We do not know, put it does seem
that anything that is more or less
jazzy tukes better than anything
else. A song that doesn’t mean any
thing but has a jazzy tune and rolls
well will make a hit every time.
Anyway, it would be well for every
body to check up on this item, and
sec if their ideals are getting off
track. Here is some information
about literature taken from the
Dearborn Independent along that
line:
New York City has been startled
by a flood of obnoxious literature—
a deliberate attempt to introduce
the morbid mentality of decondent
races and depraved ^periods of history.
Nothing quite so mischievous was
ever adventured before, and from the
source centers in the metropolis, this
moral poison is being shipped out to
permeate the country. Four books
in particular, all of them of foreign
origin, 'got out by suposedly reput
able firms, indorsed by reviewers,
were published craftily in such a
manner that they would be introduc
ed unthinkingly into decent homes.
These volumes were—and are today
«—displayed in windows of bookshops
and rented out by circulating libra
ries.
An organization founded and sup
ported by the leading families in the
city, the New York Society for the
Suppression of Vice, attempted the
prosecution of the publishers and
dealers, and the opposition which met
its efforts has proved the dangerous
and insidious nature of this move
ment—its motives and the origin
from which it has sprung. Two city
magistrates, before whom the cases
were taken actually indorsed the
books. Subsequent action by higher
authorities, however, has resulted in
one indictment, and the promised eli
mination of another work, a literal
translation from the period of Nero,
styled “the worst book in the world.’’
Incensed because a circulating li
brary had placed a copy of one of
these books in the hands of his
vending of intoxicants. The saloon
was an evolution of specific : ixation.
Before regulation of the liquor busi
ness became a source of revenue
there were practically no saloon:.
Liquor as a commodity was to be had
in groceries and in hotel or tarven
“taps,” but the saloon waft born of
taxation. Putting betting on a li
censed basis, as Great Britain pro
poses, or putting even darker vices
in the same legalized position as
some less enlightened governments
do, is simply loading the body politic
with a moral stigma which sooner, or
later national shame and expense will
cause it to destroy.—Dearborn Inde
pendent.
Washington, D. C., Sept. 8.
Visitors to Washington are always
impressed by the number of, flags,
which not only wave from the flag-
staffs on all public buildings, but
which also appear on large numbers
of private buildings. Washington
might well be called the “Flag City.”
There was something strangely op
pressive in having all these flags at
half-staff during a period of thirty
days in conformity to the custom of
“official mourning” for the late Presi
dent Warren G. Harding. By an ox
traordinary coincidence the news of
the great, disaster in Japan telling
of the terrible loss of lives, in which
many Americans were included
reached Washington at the very time
when the flags were being re-placed
at full-staff.
There are some things that people
feeldecply but do not discuss, but the
keen interest shown regarding the
exact time when the period of mourn
ing would terminate gave mute tes
timony to the general desire that
the flag should not continue as a re
minder of a sad event in American
history. During the period of mourn
ing for Warren G. Harding all of
the leading officials, including Presi
dent Coolidge, wore black bands on
their coat sleeves. However, none
of the public buildings carried any
signs of mourning, and black crepe
was not used extensively even on the
day of the Tuneral. After that day
most of it disappeared entirely.
At the, time of the death of Presi
dent McKinley everything that could
add to the sombernes* of the sad
event was displayed. It was not he-
| cause William McKinley was move he—
i loved than Warren Harding, but be
cause mourning customs were more
| generally observed then than now.
People are drawing more and more
| away from the belief that they should
i display sorrows, and the form of
I “official mourning” is due to be re
vised.
Studious' Senators.
News items have been telling all
summer of Senators sailing “to study
| European conditions.” Finally most
I of them seem to round up at Geneva,
jand a popular paragrapher in Wash
ington observes that having voted for
| the League of Nations the Senators
I now “want to find out what the heck
t it is.” It may be that, there is more
OSCAR MILLS, President
y i
JOHNSON’S,
fPhone 193.
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Idahome Flour, 24 lbs
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Sensation S. R. Flour
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We also handle Ome
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Dr. Hess’s Panacea
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Dr. Hess’s Stock Ton
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Jell-0 and Jell-0 Ice
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Canned Fruits:
Peaches, Apricots,
Pears, Cherries,
Apples, Pineapple, all
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Royal Scarlet Coffee,
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Fancy Peaberry Cof
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, Next Monday and l hc “, strik( ; n 8ections of Jiipun - The
; highest officials of the United States
lUesday, Arbuckle Cot-Navy have been pointing out the
j? rtf |i I triumphs of radio in the present in-
ICC, ID. !stance as proof positive that their
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Special must feel proud.
Writ of Injunction.
President Gompers of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor,has named
ia committee to investigate the “uses
and abuses of Federal injunctions,”
Give US a trial on and the denounciation of the writ of
q-q injunction by Mr. Gompers and other
J | labor leaders has started a counter
are worth twice as much I movement in the National Capital in
defence of the legal method employ
ed by Attorney General Daugherty
in the last railroad strike. The
Washington Post has been regarded
as the principal “Administration
organ” since the Republicans went
into power, and it appears positive
that “the uses of the injunction are
plain. It is a weapon,” we are told
by the Post, “available to those
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19 2 3
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Johnny J. Jones Exposition Shows and the Lakewood
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Onedayof Championship Auto Races,Oneday
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NATIONAL HOG AND CATTLE SHOW
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together the finest and largest assembly of Pure Sred
Live stock ever seen in a Southern state.
AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL DISPLAY
Evidencing the wonderful progress now being made on
the Farms and in the Factories of Dixie Land. An
Exposition of Boys’ and Girls’ Club Work.
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R. M. STRIPLIN, Secretary
accepting the World Court as our
way of participating in world affairs.
Radio and Japan.
The cables “break,” and in the past
the world has waited for news until
j they could be mended. But such has
| not been the case in the present great
[catastrophe with Japan, and radio
| has promptly conveyed all the news
] that could be furnished to it from
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truth than humor in that little phrase i threatened with immediate injury of
since it is becoming more certain as [legal rights.”
the time approaches for Congress to | Perhaps even so positive a gentle-
reassemble that something of a defi- man as Mr. Gompers is known to be
nite nature is going to happen con- would not dispute this part of the
cerning the official relations of the!Post statement. It has not ben an
United. States with the rest of the!uncommon thing, however, for .local
world. Those Senators who have al- ■ prosecuting attorneys to “prosecute
ready returned from Europe agree, j their prejudices,” and the present
with one or two exceptions, that the j agitation regarding the writ of in-
United States has not completed the junction is no doubt due to the re
work that the young soldiers of this; ! peated charges made against the ad-
country undertook to carry out. And | ministration of Mr. Daugherty in the
therefore it is not strange that, the I Department of Justice. Higher au-
Senators should be found congregat- thorities than Mr. Gompers are inter-
ing at Geneva, where some of them; preting the law of the land, and most
are searching “for the stone that was of them agree that there are good
rejected.” ! and sufficient reasons for writ of in-
Meanwhile there is growing evi- i junction. But it is not likely that
deuce that the proposal of the late j jurists will object to Mr. Gompers
President Harding to have the United telling about the “abuses”he finds to
States join the World Court is be
coming less and less a party issue
among our leading statesmen and
thinkers. And if a prophet might
venture a guess at this time it would
likely indicate' that the Senators are
getting ready to effect a “compro
mise.” and that the half-way ground
between the advocates of the League upon fundamental lav. 1 ? that are ac-
of Nations and the “keep-outers,” | tually intended to protect people
who do not even want to be on speak- j “threatened with immediate injury
ing terms with Europe, would lead to | of legal rights.”
exist, even if he hits the head of the
Government’s legal department.
Only the officers who “prosecute their
prejudices” are apt to. deny the prop
riety of such investigations, provid
ed they are made for the purposes of
righting wrong methods of prose
cutors and
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MODEL D TRACTOR.
As Following List:
Model I) Tractor, complete $544.50
Moline M U T Plow with Rims, 28inut 65.60
Moline Tandem Disc Harrow 120.00
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Light Two-Horse Wagon, 2x3-8 tire, 22-in x 10-ft. box, 40-44 wheels,
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