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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1023.
THE
McDuffie
•a*
PROGRESS, THOMSON, GA.
McDuffie Progress
$1.50 Per Year In Advance.
H. S, NORRIS, Editor and Propr. Washington, D. C. , Sept. 27, 1923. ' opinion of the agents concerning the
Entered at the Postoffice at Thom- Seventy-five) radio broadcasting j value of radio to the farmers 714
| stations daily handle the reports of voiced approval all the way from en
thusiasm to simple assent, and 221
hold out that it is “no good.” Since
about one-third of the agents replied
hat they had not personally listened
as Second-class Mail Matter.
Obituaries, In Memorium, Cards of the United States Department of
Thanks, Etc., are charged for at rate Agriculture and they cover every
2fi CentS per Une ’ With a minimum part of the country. The Bureau of
° *’ ( < nl ' ’' Markets sent out its first radio re
ports on December 20, 1920, at which
BIBLE I HOUGHTS. time they used a low-power broad-
He that separateth himself seek- j cas ting set at the Bureau of Stand-
rageth ■ ar( j s in Washington. This covered a
radius of 75 Tri.'ct that extended into
•th his own desire, and
against all sound wisdom.
A fool hath no delight in under
standing, but only that his heart may
reveal itself.
When the wicked comcth, there
Cometh also contempt, and with igno
miny comcth reproach.
The words of a man’s mouth are
its deep waters; the wellspring
Wisdom is as a flowing brook.
To accept the person of the wick
ed is not good, nor to turn aside the
righteous in judgement.
A fool’s lips enter into contention,
and his mouth calleth for stripes.
A fool's mopth is his destruction,
and his lips are the snare of his soul.
The words of a whisperer are as
dainty morsels, and they go down in
to the innermost parts of the belly.—
Proverbs 18:1-8.
MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS.
These are just the words, four in
number, and refer directly to the
grumbling, t growling, fault-finding
mischief makers. People who never
mind their own business are like the
Btreet whiffet dogs, that are always
barking, biting, nipping and nabbing
Bomebody. Can we presume the
great Creator made you especially to
Buperintend His universe and to be
eternally prying, meddling and seek
ing to control and direct everybody’s
affairs ?
It is enough to make one indig
nant to see what pains some pepole
go to to ferret out the plans of oth
ers, and to start a bit of gossip.
They leave their gardens to grow
full of weeds, while they are trying
to hold up before everybody the few
they pull from their neighbors. Oh,
how they toil to rob them of their
reputations, their peace, their pros
perity and pleasure! They do every
thing but mind their own business,
and bring more misery into families,
societies and churches than anytning
else. They turn the pleasant, peace
ful stream of good will into a loath
some pool; they intrude on ground
where angels would fear to tread.
Now, minding one’s own business
Ib the best remedy for itching ears
that are never satisfied with hear
ing, and the busy tongue that hur
ries to speak cruel words.
Minding your own business will
turn your attention to self and you
Will forget to watch so closely the
- shortcomings of others; will make
peaceful homos, happy neighbors and
quiet consciences; and you will be
able to realize and more fully com
prehend the truth spbken in holy
writ, “Blessed are the Peacemakers.”
HOME IS THE BEST.
Make home the loafing place and
playground of your children and ten
chances to one the feet that have
tracked your floors with mud wiil
pot leave their footprints along the
paths of vice and crime, and the
Bweet faces of your "boys that have
been such a joy to you in their child
hood will not adorn the rogue’s gal
lery; the little hand that has so often
been pressed to your lips will not
push the hips across the gambler’s
table; the chubby .arms of your
daughters, that so often have entwin
ed your neck, will not be employed to
embrace a street rowdy, and the lips
not pressed to those befouled with
obscene language nor the wine that
leads to shame.
HERE’S TO HER.
Virginia a i! Maryland. In the spring
and summer of 1921, through the co
operation of the Postoflice Depart
ment, an attempt was made to broad
cast to farmers in the vicinity of
Air Mail stations along the route
from New York to San Francisco.
The University of Minnesota and the
St. Louid University and one or two
private broadcasting stations got in
to the game at the time, and before
the close of the year the idea of
broadcasting market conditions and
other reports to the farmers had be
come established.
That was Jess than two years ago
and it is decidedly interesting to find
out how the little idea has grown,
and grown, until broadcasting to
farmers has become a regular fea
ture of the work of the United
States Department of Agriculture.
Every branch office ol’ the Depart
ment in the United States now has a
radio man. The Department has no
broadcasting stations of its own, as
none are necessary. It has received
more applications for the use of its
reports than it can grant, because
the purpose is to “cover” the coun
try and to avoid saturating the radio
news in any locality by duplicating
the reports. The high-powered send
ing stations of the Navy at Arling
ton, Virginia; treat Lakes, Illinois;
New Orleans and San Francisco; and
the four principal Air Mail stations
between Washington and Omaha,
are relied upon to do a lot of the
“heavy work” in reaching the farm
ers. However, as showing how the
work is being shared by public in
stitutions it is most interesting to
find that daily broadcasting is being
done by the Iowa State College, the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, the
University of Texas, the public
schools of Boise, Idaho, Chicago
Board of Trade, Missouri State
Marketing Bureau, University of
Nebraska, Los Angeles Union Stock
yards, University of Wisconsin, Oma
ha Grain Exchange, St. Louis Uni
versity, New Mexico College of Ag
riculture, Nebraska Wesleyan Uni
versity, Wisconsin Department of
Markets, and the Wichita Board of
Trade. Besides the above there are
innumerable newspapers and private
and commercial agencies that handle
the daily reports.
Keeping up with the wireless has
progressed so rapidly at the United
States Department of Agriculture
that those in charge of the work in
Washington have not been able to
make any complete surveys of the
utility of the new service, largely
because the growth of radio in farm
districts has been going by such
leaps and bounds that the returns
from any district are almost obsolete
by the time they can be tabulated.
Nevertheless the Department has a
close tab on what kind of news the
country wants, because farmers are
getting accustomed to write about
their wants, their reactions, and their
dissatisfactions, to the big institution
that heads their business relation
with the Government. The writer
had the opportunity of collecting the
results from 565 letters received
from “listeneers in,” at random in
the Agricultural Department. Of
these 230 showed greatest interest
in market reports, 161 in live stock
reports, 177 in grain, 79 in weather,
32 in poultry products, 15 each in
dairy and fruit and vegetables, and
a lesser number in hay, cotton and
feeds.
in to receive the mystic messages of
radio the attitude of the 221 Doubt
ing Thomasas seems to be accounted
for.
What radio can do—and is doing,
to improve the happiness and ad
vance the prosperity of farm dwellers
is altogether another story. The
Agricultural Department takes it for
granted that there is at least noth
ing harmful that can come out o
radio, and therefore it is constantly
expanding its service in the hopes
that every farm in the United States
will be reached in time. And as r.he
wave widens and the number of radio
users grows the Department proposes
o increase its efficiency and if neces
sary add additional features to it.;
service, because the functions of this
branch of Uncle Sam’s institution is
almost wholly “Service.”
MISAPPREHENSIONS
—BY—
Mrs. Malaprop of Main
Street.
The Ku Klux Klan.
Independent of what the Ku Klux
Klan may be as an organization it i3
universally regarded as dynamite in
all well-regulated newspaper office;.
But by harkening back to Huxley’s
Lay Sermons wherein it is recorded
that “a world of facts lies outside
and beyond the world of words,” we
obtain a background that takes us
“outside” the Oklahoma struggle in
to the safety-zone wherein President
U. S. Grant (like Governor Jack
Walton) “took up arms against a
sea of trouble,” by opposing the
Klan that operated in the South end
ed it. In a special message to Con
gress on March 31, 1871, President
Grant asked for legislation empower
ing him to deal with a condition of
affairs which he described as “ren
dering life and property insecure,
and the carrying of mails and the
collection of the revenue dangerous.”
Congress passed the “force bill”
within a month. The Preidont was
empowered to use “the militia of the
land and naval forces of the United
States . . . for the suppression of
such insurrection, domestic violence,
or combinations” as existed. A short
time thereafter President Grant is
sued a proclamation calling upon
members of the associations in nine
1 counties in South Carolina to disperse
and surrender their arms and dis
guise within five days. Two hundred
persons were arrested and the Klan
was completely overthrown in the
country.
According to Governor Walton the
Klan has become an “invisible gov
ernment” in Oklahoma, and as such
it is claimed that it is replacing con
stituted civil authority. The Klan of
today is far different in purposes
from that which existed after the
Civil War, but its methods are simi
lar in many respects. Quite likely
Governor Jack Walton has been
“reading up” on Grant’s experience,
and has concluded that a modern gov
ernor ought to be able to match the
achievements of an old-time presi
dent. Anyhow he has succeeded in
making Oklahoma more spectacular
than ever—and that’s “going some.”
When the bread is perfectly baked,
the coffee strong and hot, the steak
juicy and fragrant, the hash well
built and appetizing and the batter-
cakes light and smoking as the melt
ing butter is absorbed, the Spirit of
the Lord descends upon that house
hold like a dove and the caverns of
the lucky man’s soul echo with “Glory
Hallelujah!” It beats bridge, it lays
golf in the shade, it makes the job in
the shop look like thirty cents.
The girl who can cook is a divinity.
She is the delight of a man’s soul
and glory in the sight of God.
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION
TO BE HELD.
The U. S. Civil Service Commission
announces an open competitive exam
ination for the position of clerk-
carrier in the postoffice at Thomson,
Ga., on October 20th, 1923.
Applications for this examination
may be obtained from the secretary,
local Civil Service Board, at the
Thomson, Ga., postoffice, with any
necessary information desired.
Reports From County Agents.
The “County Agent” is the pulse
of the Department of Agriculture,,
and he keeps the organization at the
National Capital in constant touch
with throbbing agricultural life. One
of these County Agents in a rich
county in New York State reports
to the Department that he has made
a careful estimate and finds that
there are 2,500 radio receiving sets
in farm houses in his county. An
other agent in a rich county in Kan
sas has sent in an estimate to the
effect that there are 1,200 sets in
farmhouses in his county. There
are high-spots in the reports, but a
tabulation of reports from 779 county
Agents located promiscuously in ev
ery part of the United States shows
that in an equal number of counties
35,182 receiving sets are accounted
for on farms.
An incident of the reports from
county agents throws an interesting
light on the perversity of human na
Watchdogging The Treasury.
A well-authenticated news item ap
pearing in the Washington newspa
pers this week says that Seretary of
the Treasury Mellon is preparing to
defeat, if possible the passage of a
soldiers bonus bill at the coming ses
sion of Congress. Mr. Mellon is re
ported as making plans to educate
the country to the menace of increas
ed taxation. Ho will specialize in
this undertaking by making a anti-
bonus fight. Despite the prediction
that Congress is lined up for the
bonus it is remembered that Mellon
won out last winter. All signs point
towards failure.
A cold storage chicken. The forty
year old flapper.
It’s a wise father knows his own
child and a wise woman knows hex-
own friends.
William Cobbett, who died in 1835,
wrote: “Though great talents are
wonted to be employed in the hives
of men they are rarely acquired in
those days.” And it is just>G3 true
to day. The biographers of nearly
all great men lead us back to the
farm home where they were born.
Unless something is done to stop the
driving of people away from the
farms, it seems to moan that we will
no longer produce great men.
“To travel hopefully is a better
thing than to arrive,” Robert Louis
Stevenson. It is also a means to
the end for Stevenson arrived at the
pinnacle of greatness in literature.
Johnstown, Pa., is having its own
negro exodus. Because of some trou
ble, the mayor ordered all negroes
who had not lived there for seven
years to depart. 2,000 accepted hi3
invitation.
Dempsey received $475,000.00 for
three minutes and 57 seconds. The
president of the United States is
paid 850,000.00 for 365 days. It’s
better to be strong than president.
The Lord said of Ahab: “Because
he humbleth himself before me, I will
not bring the evil in his days; but in
his son’s days will I bring evil upon
his house.” Good thing for fathers
to read this over every morning.
Might make a difference in the crops
they sow if they realize their chil
dren may reap the harvest. Rather
costly indemnity •£ yrur children
must pay the price.
IN SEPTEMBER.
The public school graduates in
June felt themselves able to manage
the world. Those who have tried
to earn a living are finding that the
world does not show them the same
sympathy now that it did on com
mencement night. Their September
view is far less roseate than was
their June vision. By June of next
year they will understand that, while
“beyond the Alps lies Italy,” beyond
the schoolroom lies the world, and
the world is a good deal bigger than
Italy and the Alps and the school
room combined. The graduates vho
“finished their education” in June
may now buckle down to the work
of beginning their real education. It
may sound strange to them to talk
of “beginning” a thing that they have
“finished,” but this is precisely what
confronts them.
IS THE COUNTRY GROWING
WORSE?
T HE sure-footed,
long-wearing,
All-Weather Tread
of a Goodyear Cord
is the best tire insur
ance you can have.
The high, thick,
sharp-edged blocks
of that famous tread
dig wedge-like
through mud or
snow to sliplessfcot-
ing, carrying on
steadily or coming
to a sure, safe stop.
An Goodyear Service Station
Dealers wo noli and recom
mend the new Goody cor
Cords with the beveled All-
Weather Tread and back
them up with standard
Goodyear Service
A. IT. CURTIS & SON.
T HUM SO X M EHC A N T1 LB
MOTOR CO.
GOODYEAR
vs;
We have a good stock
of one-gallon and 5 and
10 gallon syrup cans.
ture. In response to the individual ThOHlSOn Hardware Co.
BOLL WEEVIL CONVENTION
NEW ORLEANS, LA.,
October 25th-26th, 1923.
One and one-half fares for the
round trip.
The boll weevil menace is a suti-
ject of great importance to farmers
and commercial interests alike and
this meeting will be held under the
auspices of the Louisiana Bankers
Association.
A very large attendance is expect
ed.
For further information as to rates
and Pullman reservations, apply to
local ticket agent, or
J. P. Billups, G. P. A.,
Atlanta and West Point Railroad Co.,
The Western Railway of Alabama,
Georgia Railroad.
Every now and then someone pops
up with the assertion that the coun
try is going to the dogs, claiming
that people are getting worse and
worse every day. To support their
contention they cite instances of dev
ilment here and there, such as has
been prevalent for a long time.
But the claim that the country is
getting worse, or that the people are
more devilish than they were, say
twenty-five years ago, cannot be
substantiated. Preachers and speak
ers put out the wail that everything
is wrong, not recalling the turbulent
days when old John Barleycorn had
full sway in the land. We forget
those “good old days” when people
were afraid to walk the streets after
dark on account of drunken rowdies.
You will not find one debauch now
where there were ten in those days.
Of course there are a good many
“soaks” around some of the cities,
but even there it is not as bad as it
used to be, and not half as bad as
if they had all the liquor they want
ed.
We would like to hear our preach
ers and speakers give the other side
of the story. We believe a right good
speech could be gotten up on the
other side of the question. We are
right tired of hearing the same old
calamity speech year in and year
out, when we be ieve there is suffi
cient ground for seme little bit of
commendation.
In a spiritual sense we believe that
people are better than they used to
4e. for the ,- understand the scriptures
better and loalize that pood old hrd
sense is better for the Christian than
wearing a pious, sour face.
KATiOl^l. LiUU: WAY'S
v»:ci-.vr-
£■ NATIONAL HIGHWAYS.
“I believe in good roads, but I
think it’s a county matter. Neither
the State nor the National Govern
ment ought to have anything to do
with roads.”
That statement was made in all
seriousness by an otherwise well-in
formed and able editor of a small
town paper.
In reply he was asked to answer
the following questions:
If the county, and not the State,
were the sole taxing power, what
would become of State schools, State
capitals, State developed waterways,
State boards of health, State depart
ments of agriculture and State
courts ?
If the county, and not the State,
were the sole administrative unit,
what would become of State militia,
State police, State hospitalization,
State charity, State insane asy’ums
and prisons and State government?
If there is a function for the State
to* perform, why should the State not
concern itself with the welfare of its
citizens in the transportation which
is so vital to all its other interests?
What would become of traffic, with
out State legislation? What would
become of railroads, without State
regulation ?
Where the State has no control and
the counties build the only roads,
there is no system! The only states
in the Union which have an adequate,
logical and serviceable system of
highways are those which build,
maintain and control the main trunk
line roads by means of a State road
commission or board.
What is true of the State and the
county, is true of the Nation and the
State.
Until there is a National Highway
Commission, charged with the cre
ation of a national highway system,
the mileage of which will be built and
maintained by the National Govern
ment, there will never be, in this
country which needs it so badly, a
real interstate system of roads. /
The badly informed editor? Oh,
he hasn’t been able to answer the
questions yet
DISSOLUTION NOTICE.
The firm of Colvin & Reynolds hi
been dissolved by mutual consent, (
C. Colvin withdrawing from sa
firm. J. A. Reynolds will condu
the business in the future.
O. C. COLVIN.
J. A. REYNOLD
PUBLIC SCHOOL NOTICE.
The fall term of McDuffie county
public schools will begin Monday,
October 1st. Trustees will please
secure teachers and open promptly.
M. W. DUNN,
Supt. of Schools.
Sept. 17th, 1923. 2t
Don’t buy a heater
until you see our stock;
we can please you.
Thomson Hardware Co,
Important Change.
I have purchased the Butler Gar
age and Spring Company’s business.
I will continue to do business at the
old stand. We are prepared to do
all kinds of automobile repairing on
short notice. Sell springs and parts.
We guarantee our work. Prompt
and polite service.
L. V. CHAVOUS
617 Ellis St. Augusta, Ga.
DEARING NEWS
Mr. Raymond Huff, of Atlanta,
visiting relatives in Dearing.
Miss Katherine Parker has re
turned to Atlanta after a delightful
visit here.
Mrs. B. F. Fuller is visiting rela
tives in Atlanta.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Mathews
have returned to their home in Au
gusta after a delightful visit in Dear
ing.
Mrs. D. A. Harrison was a visitor
in Augusta Friday.
Mrs. Alex Stephens and Mrs. Billie
Sorrell were in Augusfa Friday.
M/6. W. A. Camp and children
have returned to their home in Bar
nett after a delightful visit in Dear
ing.
Mrs. Emma Mathews returned to
her home in Augusta Friday.
Mrs. J. R. Printup was a visitor in
Thomson last week.
Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Harrison and
Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Harrison motor
ed to Augusta Thursday.
Miss Mamie Montgomery, of
Thomson, was in Dearing last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Willis Howard mo
tored to Augusta Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Culpepper
and Marcus, Jr., were in Thomson
Saturday.
Mrs. W. A. Anderson, of near Har
lem, is visiting in Dearing this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Aldridge and
Mrs. J. R. Printup motored to War-
renton Sunday.
,Mr. Wesley Wilson, of Harlem,
was in Dearing Wednesday P. M.
Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Harrison were
in Thomson Saturday.
Mr. J. S. Jones, Jimmie, Jr., and
Miss Lillie Jones have been attend
ing court in Appling this week.
Mrs. Willie Neal is visiting rela
tives in Montgomery, Ala.
Misses Mary and Edna Washing
ton returned to their home in Au
gusta Saturday after a delightful
visit to Miss Louise Ganus.
POWER PLANT SOURCE OF
PROLIFIC ADVERTISING
Atlanta, Ga., ' Sept. 27.—Water
power development in the north Geor
gia mountains by the Georgia Rail
way & Power Company are proving
a prolific source of advertising for
the Empire State, it was indicated
by statistics, just made public of the
number of visitors to the Tallulah
Falls power plant of that company.
Fifteen states stretching from Cal
ifornia to Virginia, as well as the
Philippines, furnished 1,032 visitors
who registered at the Tallulah plant
during the month of August and
made the descent on the company’s
incline railway to inspect the opera
tions of the station at the bottom of
the gorge.
The states represented in the list
included California, Texas, Oklaho
ma, Illinois, Ohio, West Virginia,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee,
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South
Carolina, and North Carolina.
Georgians themselves made up the
largest percentage of the visitors,
coming from every nook and cranny
of the state, the records showed.
REDUCED RATES TO ATLANTA
ACCOUNT SOUTHEASTERN
FAIR.
Tickets on sale October 5th to
12th, final limit October 15th, 1923.
One and one-half fares for the
round trip.
J. P. BILLUPS, G. P. A.,
Atlanta and West Point Railroad Co.,
Western Railway \of Alabama,
Georgia Railroad.
One, one and half and
two - horse Syracuse
plows for less than mar
ket price, as long as
they last, at
Thomson Hardware Co.
STOP! STOP!
Gasoline and Oil, good
Gulf Goods
—at—
H. T. GREEN’S
General Merchandise,
Gas, Oil and Auto
Accessories
Augusta, Ga.
Phone 8205. Milledge-
ville Road.
The Progress does ail KindB of Job
orinting. and prices are way below
l •>t.hers