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AY. OCTOBER 5, 1928.
the McDuffie progress, Thomson, ga.
Year In Advance.
NORRIS, Editor and Propr.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
Washington, D. C., Oct. 4.
Fixing It For Farmers.
News from the White House is to
the effect that President Coolidge is
"seeking a remedy” for what is de
There are certain folks who seem
to think the proper way to live is to
be grouchy. Everyone has known in
their ltfetime a person who seemed to
delight in being grouchy; always try
ing to make it unpleasant for those
with whom they came in contact.
We’ve often wondered whether they
thought it their duty to be grouchy,
or whether they liked it. Some ap
pear to like it; as though they get a
great deal of satisfaction out of in
juring some one’s feelings.
Everybody has heard the old joke
about the grouch cutting off his dog’3
tail because he would persist in wag
ging it when folks came along. It
might have just been a joke, but it
fills the purpose in showing up this
class of folks. We are not going to
try artd regulate the grouches; it
is not our business; we haven’t
been appointed to th^t task. We are
just going to intimate that it is al
most as easy to smile and try to
make the world cheerful as it is to
play the grouch. Out of the latter
you get only a bit of satisfaction if
any and it is all to a selfish purpose;
while to be cheerful is like shedding
light and happiness to all with whom
one comes in contact.
What a wonderful thing it would
be if everybody would try to be
cheerful—at least appear cheerful.
Why, the task of life would come
easier; everybody would feel like
papers aa a "grave farm crisis.” It
is common talk in Washington polit
ical circles that leaders in the ad
ministration would favor a special
session of Congress to arrange the
difficulties of farm life if they only
knew what to do. Among remedies
v/hich have been proposed are a re
duction of freight rates % on grain
from the producing centers to the
principal market at Chicago, and a
revival of the United States Grain
Corporation to handle this season’s
wheat crop. The latter proposal,
like mostly everything else that ha3
been suggested, would require ac
tion by Congress. The Administra
tion, and the "old guard” that con
trols the machinery of Congress, is
looking rather unkindly upon the so-
called “progressives” and “radicals,”
who are found in the farm bloc and
the independent groups of the Senate
and House. These groups have pro
posed numerous solutions to the
country, and they claim that their
methods will work successfully. If
possible they intend to put their
ideas on the statutes. But as usual
they do not agree with the “organi-
zatioh,” to which they reply that
they have the power, and will become
the "organization” at the coming
session of Congress.
Everybody claims that they want
to “fix it up for the farmers,” and
there is no doubt that good intentions
are plentiful. But memories do nor,
need to be more than two or three
then in Congress and he took up the
problem of the forests at a time when
the filood problem on the Ohio and
Tennessee and other eastern rivers
had become acute. Congress took
the position that the only constitu
tional ground for buying forests is
to protect the navigability of
streams. So it Was decided to buy
timbered land, and harvest it under
the methods to insure a perpetual
forest growth. The United States
Forest Service has aggressively pur
sued a policy of preserving these mil
lions of acres of forest lands that
have,been brought into its possession.
While private indivi Inals have not
gone far towards replacing the tree.;
that they destroy the United States
Government has been quietly extend
ing its forest domain over the moun
tain ranges which flank many of th_
larger valleys or stand guard at their
head. One of these is the White
Mountain national forest, and anoth
er is the- Allegheny national forest
in western Pennsylvania. Purchases
of timber in strategic positions cover
the waters of the Merrimac, Potomac,
Monogahela, the Tennessee, the Roa
noke, Catawba, Savannah and thu.
Arkansas rivers. The beautiful
Picgah regions of western North
Carolina and the slopes of Mount
Mitchell, highest peaks *of the east
ern states, are now in national forest.
The Forest Service popularizes itu
useful endeavors by making every
national forest a public playground,
to v/hich tourists journey from ev
ery part of the country.
Senator La Follette’s Power.
Senator Moses, of New Hampshire,
is a thoroughly conservative Repub
lican. He and Senator La Follotte
stand at the very opposites of the
OCTOBER 5 & 6
Today, Friday and Saturday
A Special Salesman Representing the
Superior Tailoring Co,
Cincinnatti, Ohio,
Will be at our store with the latest samples in the
large pieces
FOR A NEW SUIT.
We will be glad to show you.
No Fit; No Pay.
years long to recall that Congress
i has made a poor job in the past of I political situation in the Republican
everybody else was prosperous and enactinjr law3 to pull the farmers I party . Senator Moses is also a sort
happy and of course it would Become out of debt by the bootstraps. It I of “political Moses” in the Republi-
contagious and people couldn t help has been proved over and over again 1 can sena torial organization. In a
but feel more like doing things. | that the econoomic i awa and trade recent interview he called upon Sena-
Suppose Thomson started a “Cheer ad j U8tme nts do not turn somersaults
Club,” or something like that, and to conform to altruistic and imprac-
everybody lay off the old grouch t icable “bills” introduced in Congress.
mask? Thomson would 3oon become
famous, and suppose the habit should
spread over the country?
BANKS AND INSURANCE.
This is no boom article for banks
or insurance, but published because
financial and property losses weaken
the community.
In nearly every issue of a daily
paper will appear accounts of the
burning up of homes while owners
were in another part of the state.
Often everything in the house was
A total loss, including a goodly sum
of money and other valuables. And
•the story ends with the words, “they
had no insurance.”
This is a human interest article to
warn such as do not have their home,
its contents, and all that is insurable,
properly protected.
It is sound common sense to use
every possible precaution to safe
guard one’s property, real and per
sonal.
So heavy proves the loss to almost
any family that they are for the
time destitute; neighbors care for
them and relatives in another state
are telegraphed to for funds.
Many hardships can be avoided.
when one takes every precaution to
protect, through insurance, his home, I conversation
his personal property, his health and meanwhile he listens. The most aa-
Farmers and Freight.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
is author of the suggestion that
transportation rates should be cut on
farm products, and he believes that
freight rates can be trimmed to such
an extent as to relieve a good deal
of the hardship under which the agri
cultural interests are suffering. The
proposial that the Interstate Com
merce Commission should move in
the direction of bringing about re
duced rates for farm products has
aroused the opposition of Secretary
of Commerce Hoover, who objects to
reduction in rates unless it applies
generally to all classes of freight.
It is well to remember that Secretary
Wallace represents the farmers, who
have a special claim to Government
help, and that Secretary Hoover’s job
is to look out for business men and
business interests. If there is to be
any trough to feed at Hoover wants
his crowd admitted on equal condi
tions with Wallace’s group.
President Sees Them All.
President Coolidge “lets in” all
manners and kinds of political lead
ers, and he gets along with them all
because he does not impose his own
views upon them. He lets them tall;,
and he throws just enough into the
to keep them going—
tor Hiram Johnson of California, to
withdraw as a possible candidate for
the Presidency in ordc$ to help beat
Senator La Follotte, to whom the re
actionaries at this early stage in the
game, are conceding 102 delegates
in the next Republican national con
vention.
Senator La Follette is the acknowl
edged leader of the “radical-progres
sive group” within the Republican
party, and they claim they have votes
enough in both the Senate and the
House to “dictate” the organization
of each body in the Sixty-eighth Cofi-
gress. It looks as though th<jfre
ward off losses through accident.
IS YOUR’S ONE OF THEM?
"Is your father rich?” someone
asked a five-year old girl, and the
wee lassie replied confidently, “Why,
of course He’s got me!”
And 3he was right, too, for the
father of a sweet, loving, helpful
little daughter is richer than some
millionaires, whose money can not
buy them the love of a single heart.
How about your father? Does
he feel that he is a rich man because
of the little daughter at home ?
There are households where it is
hard “to make both ends meet,” but
where there is plenty of that better
Wealth of love and goodness and
loyalty. .
Is yours one of them?
Lame muscles?
Try this
simple
treatment
) You can keep your muscles from
stiffening up, and you c. >n take
, out soreness and ache with Sloan’n
Liniment. Every night stroke it on
gently—you don’t have to rub it
} in. Tense muscles relax—aching
stops. Get a bottle from your
1 druggist today—3 S cents.
Sloan’s Liniment—Mb pain!
tute political observers declare that
President Coolidge is ‘endeavoring to
“line up” and harmonize Republicans
in Congress. While such an under
taking may appear impossible, yet
all must agree that the Coolidge tem
perament and the Coolidge patience
will perform the miracle if it is pos
sible.
Teddy and Cal.
President Coolidge has exhibited
considerable impatience and spirit
for a man of 140 pounds, because
some of his visitors have taken “sil
ence for consent,” and gone out from
the White House to tell the World
how the President stood on some of
the big questions. Mr. Coolidge de
nied that he had committed himself
on the consolidation of the railroads
of the modification of the transpor
tation act. He has said it mildly,
but doubtless he has been feeling the
same way about some things as did
President Roosevelt when he invent
ed the Ananias Club. It would not
be surprising if the old organization
was resurrected under the present
Administration.
Forest Lands and The Government.
A popular belief that the forests of
the United States are being reduced
to the point of extinction is not borne
out by facts. Fully 150,000,000 acres
of land have been set aside from the
public domain west of the Mississippi
River for growing timber and pro
tecting stream flow. In the eastern
portion of the United States about
two and a quarter million of acres of
forest land have been purchased un
der a program adopted by Congress
would be a bitter fight for control, of
the organization in the coming Con
gress.
It may ' be assumed that the
strength credited to Senator La Fol
lette and his Republican groups was
made upon the basis of conditions
while Mr. Harding was president. It
remains to be seen whether the new
methods of the new President Cool
idge will change the situation.
VACATIONS.
The other day we were talking .to
a man who had just returned from a
three weeks’ vacation, spent at a pop
ular seashore resort.
“My first vacation in six years,”
he remarked, in the course of the
conversation.
“I should think you would have
needed it,” we ejaculated.
“Oh, pshaw, I didn’t need it," he
laughed, “only I wanted ta see the
place.’*
Now, we know this man. We
know the long, solid hours he puts
in every day. And yet we know he
was right when he said that, after
six years of continuous labor, he
didn’t need a vacation—just took it
because he wanted to see the “board
walk.”
He’s a man whose health is as
sturdy today as it was ten years ago,
whose eye is as clear, whose hand is
as steady, whose brain is as active.
He’s a man who has worked hard,
played hard and slept hard, and who
will die hard. He has drawn a chalk
line around his habits, where in his
opinion, temperance ends, and he has
never passed the mark, not even to
be a “good fellow," with himself or
others. To speak in the vernacular,
he is “fit.”
Nature never adjusted her machin
ery so poorly that work would kill
a man or even require him to take a
vacation. Only man gets to monkey
ing with the machinery end then
blames work for all the ills he’s been
heir to, where, in reality, he never
left the parts the way he found them.
One night at a dance, one at the
theatre, one at the card party, one at
the concert, one at the lodge, with a
lunch “after the work,” one heavy
meal each week, no wonder a man
needs a vacation, but don’t talk like
that to the man, because he’ll get sore
at you. He knows it’s work,' grind
ing work. It’s work that makes him
J. M. HAYES
THOMSON, GA.
with it’s heavy cigars and late meal,
that makes him disinclined to go to
work; it’s work that makes him irri
table—not that delightful dance that
kept him up until 2 o’clock the nighi
before; it’s work that overcrowds his
brain—not a desire to make up a
few hours sleep lost between 11 p.m.
and 2 a. m.
A vacation should be as unneces
sary to a scheme of healthful exist-
ance as a bottle of codliver oil or a
bunch of capsules- and it is. But
that doesn’t mean that a vacation is
a bad thing, to be packed away with
other black sheep. Work is confin
ing. It ties us down. It is narrow
ing. A vacation gives us a chance
to look about and to feed our brains
in “green fields and pastures new.”
A vacation should be a luxury,
never a necessity; and when it is a
necessity you can look beyond the
item of work for something to
charge it to.
There are thousands of the hardest
workers in the land today, who,
though they haven’t taken a vaca
tion in years, could meet the average
man right now and put his shoulders
to the mat in the first three minutes.
And the secret of their power is not
a secret after* all, but just a truth.
Temperance in all things breeds
health.
our own government is the best way
to beat the Reds.—The Manufac
turer.
ALL HAD A MIND TO WORK
TOGETHER.
RED MILLION AND A HALF.
in 1911 and sponsored by the present get up at 7 o’clock the morning afte
Secretary of War. Mr. Weeks was a little bridge party—not the party.
The committee on citizenship of
the American Bar Association esti
mates that there are in our country
1,500,000 Reds.
One and a half million radicals, all
the way from red-mouthed anarchists
to parlor Bolshevists and socialistic
college professors.
These figures are based on detailed
returns from the Secret Service de
partment and include the I. W. W.
and all constitution overthrower?.'
It is estimated tnat $3,000,000 was
spent last year on ladical propagan
da, and that 5,000,000 read racna!
newspapers and magazines.
There can be no doubt that the
world war stimulated the develop
ment of lawlesness, and the millions
who disregard the Volstead act and
Eighteenth amendment swell the
armies of discontent.
The radical movement in our coun
try will have to be checked by the
common sense and patriotism of the
masses of ’the people and by enact
ment of less freak laws and better
enforcement of all laws.
Prof. John R. Commons of Wis
consin University says the wage
earners “manifest a dogged deter
mination not to accept any cut in
wages,” but that they are less rev
olutionary than a few years ago.
The teaching of the Constitution
of the United States should be re
quired by law in every school in the
land. A thorough understanding of
Six school houses per day are be
ing repainted in Turner county in
connection with the property improve
ment campaign fostered by the State
College of Agriculture cooperating
with national paint men. Every
school house in the county will be
painted during the five-day drive.
We’re not envious of Turner coun
ty, we’re proud that she belongs to
the state we live in, but why is Tur
ner county getting all painted up in
stead of McDuffie? McDuffie school
houses are just as much in need of
paint as Turner school houses, and
McDuffie people love the sight of a
newly painted building just as well
as Turner people do.
The reaston is that just four coun
ties in the United States were picked
out for the demonstration. Turner
county was selected as the most pro
gressive county in Georgia.
But why is Turner county more
progressive than McDuffie? How
did she get ahead of us?
We notice that the County Board
of Trade held a meeting to help
promote the paint-up drive; that resi
dents of the twenty-six school dis
tricts in the county are doing their
own paint jobs under the supervision
of an expert painter; that the farm
demonstration agent of the county is
aiding in the campaign, and that he
presided at a meeting when repre
sentatives of twenty-five of the twen
ty-six school districts met and
agreed to paint every school building
in the county in five days. While the
men are at work on the outside of
the buildings women and girls are
being instructed in interior decora
tion by experts who are journeying
long distances for the purpose.
Paint manufacturers furnished the
paint and the Atlanta paint trade
furnished the brushes.
Notice the number of forces co
operating and see the work and ex
pense for individuals diminish.
As we see it, the reason Turner
county’s school houses instead of
McDuffie’s are being painted is, Tur
ner county has wide-awake organiza
tions and leaders and a citizenry that
follows the leadership. What they
are doing there could just as easily
be done here if we all had a mind to
work together.
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 sub
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.
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.
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.
One, one and half and
two - horse Syracuse
plows for less than mar
ket price, as long as
they last, at
Thomson Hardware Co.
Our Smiley Stalk Cut
ters cost less and do bet
ter work than the old
kind. See us.
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.
Phon& 8205. Milledge-
ville Road.