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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1923
The McDuffie Progress
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ft. S. NORRIS, Editor and Propr.
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the McDuffie progress, Thomson, ga.
BIBLE THOUGHTS.
My son, if thou art become surety
for thy neighbor, if thou hast strick
en thy hands for a stranger, thou
art snared with the words of thy
mouth; thou art taken with the
words of thy mouth. Do this now,
my son, and deliver thyself, seeing
thou art come into the hand of thy
neighbor: Go humble thyself, and
importune thy neighbor. Give not
sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to
thine eyelids. Deliver thyself as a
roe from the hand of the hunter,
and as a bird from the hand of the
fowler.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; con
sider her ways, and be wise:* which
baying no chief, overseer, or ruler,
provideth her meat in the summer,
and gathereth her food in the harv
est. How long wilt thou sleep, 0
sluggard? When wilt thou arise out
of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, u
little slumber, a little folding of the
hands to sleep: so shall thy poverty
come as a robber, and thy want as
an armed man.
A worthies* person, a man of in
iquity; he walketh with a froward
mouth; he winketh with his eyes, he
speaketh with his feet, he maketh
signs with his fingers; frowardnesa
is in his heart, he deviseth evil con
tinually; he soweth discord. There
fore shall his calamity come sudden
ly; on a sudden shall he be broken,
and that without remedy.
Proverbs 6:1-16.
ENJOYING SUFFERING.
Why do people enjoy witnessing
punishment of other people and ani
mals? Those who enjoy such sights
surely would not like to be punished
in like manner.
During the recent increased num
ber of prize fights the fact that peo
ple enjoy seeing others suffer has
been borne out and emphasized by
the very large attendance of those
clamoring to witness them.
There are probably'different view a
points. An American attending a
bull fight in Spain arose to his feet
and applauded violently when the
bull gored the matador through the
stomach and tossed him several feet
in the air. His sympathies were
with the bull, which had been pierce!
a dozen or more times with lances
thrust into him by the attendants
The Spandiards were wroth on ac
count of the American applauding
put of season, but it goes to show
bow people’s sympathies vary.
. To torture an animal in an ordinary
way would be acepted as exceedingly
low brow stuff, but for the sake of
giving pleasure to people who must
be amused, why, it is a different
thing.
But, it appears that our American
people would rather sec a human be
ing tortured than an animal. Pos
sibly that is because they have a
grudge against some one and in a
way it adds salve to their own
wounds. There are over one hundred
million people in the United States,
and it would not be fair to class them
all as above. Far from it. But the
mere fact that any appreciable part
of us enjoy it is a little beyond un
derstanding.
OUR CORRESPONDENTS.
The Progress appreciates very
much the interest its correspondents
take in their work. Every commun
ity has ope or more people who have
an interest in that community and
want to see mention made about it
in their county paper. These people
are usually the life of their commun
ity and are the ones that will be
heard from in the future.
The Progress is only to glad to
publish those items of interest that
affect each section of the county, and
the editor is taking this opportunity
to thank its fine corps of correspond
ents, assuring them again that we
appreciate their efforts and want
them to boost their respective sec
tions in a manner that will make
people sit up and take notice. We
lire with you.
Writers Not Conversationalists.
Addison, whose classic elegance has
Jong been considered the model style,
was shy and absent when with people.
In conversation, Dante was taciturn
and satirical. Gray and Alfieri seldom
talked or smiled. Rousseau was re
markably trite In‘conversation, without
a word of fancy or eloquence In his
Speech. Milton was unsocial and sar
castic when much pressed by strnngera
Evil That Can Be Avoided.
You can't hinder bad thoughts any
more than you can the birds that fly In
the air, but you needn’t let them light
and make a nest In your hair.'—Mrs.
A. D. T. Whitney.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
Washington, D. C., Oct. 17.
Truth Stranger Than Lies,
The Wise Virgins of today con
cern themselves with lighted candles
for birthday cakes and holiday dec
orations, apd on all other ocasions
our up-to-date Misses use modern
machinery to keep bold, bad men in
their proper places. Imagine Vir
ginia Ruffles going to sleep with
greasy, smokey candles polluting the
night air. How archaic in these days
when she n»uy reach forth her dainty
right Lund to the push button and
flood a hundred or more candle power
of electricity into her boudoir. Or
in a tight case Virginia Ruffles would
noiselessly raise the receiver off the
telephone hook, whisper “Main four
thousand’’ into the mouthpiece and
tell the captain at the precinct that
there was a burglar down stairs, and
before the night prowler got ready
to douse his electric spot-light and
fade away, the house would be sur
rounded by a detachment of police
rushed to the place in gasoline auto
mobiles that run fast because of elec
trical ignition. And to make capture
certain our heroine, Virginia Ruffles,
would be found pushing the electric
buttons that would ring through
the house so that at the very moment
the electric headlights showed up on
the police cars there would be an
electrical illumination of the whole
house that| would have looked to
Diogenes or the Wise Girls of ancient
days as though the golden sun had
galloped the zodiac in his glistening
coach to help the cops save trouble
for Virginia, to whom the uses of
electricity are as familiar as clothos-
wringers and rolling pins were to
her grandmother.
Having electrically saved Virginia
Ruffles from the villian who tried to
steal the family jewels our Washing
ton newspaper men who write up
such whimsical events, were not at
all startled the other night when a
man skilled in taming chained light
ning held in his hand before their
gaze a piece of what looked like an
ordinary camera film, which he told
them was the photograph of a hu
man voice. He explained that it is
n^w possible to photograph objects
and voices, or other noises, on the
same film. With his machines he
demonstrated that talking moving-
pictures have arrived. The voice and
the picture are in perfect relation to
one another because they are pro
duced together on the same mystic
sensitized substance. Why not ex
pect that in time the correspondence
now handled by stenography and
typewriting will be replaced by ex
changing films of the human voice,
or that scratchy phonograph records
and endless cranking of music boxes
will give way to these smoothe-run-
ning photographs! Among the thou
sand other possible Implications is
the use of these films for broadcast
ing choice radio programs.
On another occasion these same
newspaper men of the Capital saw a
photograph made, ai.d they then
watched the whirl of lenses before
powerful electric rays, and they fol
lowed the demonstration to the uince
where the second machine was at
work, and there they saw pictures
completed by radio. The inventor
told them that they would live to see
a page of a newspaper set up in
Washington and the photograph
transmitted by wireless to San Fran
cisco, where plates for printing would
be made from the photographic pro
duction, and ready for the California
presses an hour after the Washing
ton release was put on the wireless.
And strangely enough they all be
lieved, thus px’oving conclusively that
truth is stranger than lies.
The Growth Of Electrical Science.
Humanity swears oftener about elec
tric street cars than it marvels at
this transportation wonder that ar
rived first at Richmond in 1880.
And the faults of the telephone are
never half told, though Alexander
Graham Bell startled the world with
the invention at the Centennial in
Philadelphia less than fifty years ago.
How disgusted we become with the
mechanism of electric lights when
a fuse blows out, and blame Edison
for not having known better when ho
exhibited his incandescent lamp at
Menlo Park in December, 1879. Then
there is radio, newer than all its kins
men, so full of startic disturbances
at times that it becomes “positively
tiresome”—but we are not yet intol-
lerant on this score, because it is a
science still in the yomper-stage.
Human patience remains steady for
short spells. Electric dynamos were
first exhibited in 1876, and strangely
enough they have grown in size and
productivity so rapidly that this kind
of machinery has always kept in the
good graces of the public. Electrical
science has certainly “gone syne”
since the time when the contempori s
of Ben Franklin poked fun at him by
telling that at a picnic Franklin “kiP-
ed a turkey by the electric spark, and
roasted it by an electric jack before
a fire kindled by the electric bottle. 1 '
A Dunce I Was.
The master achievements in elec
trical development are being per
formed by living human beings still
in “the morn and liquid dew of
youth,” as the Washington newspaper
writer who accepted the suggesti m
of Gerard Swope, President of the
General Electric, to visit Schenectady
will testify. “About fifteen years
ago I was surprised to notice that
some of the firemen and policemen
were younger than I was,” said the
Washington writer, “but I felt like
the old man of the Catskills, who
spent years in slumbering, when 1
saw scientiests and discoverers of the
marvels of electricity in the General
Electric laboratories who were usual
ly men between thirty and forty
years old. There at Schenectady
was the great, unfolded book of elec
trical knowledge. I was fortunate in
meeting the man who ‘knows’ exactly
what electricity is—and he told me,
and I understood. But like a dunce I
forgot. Luckily I had read some
where that Charles P. Steinmetz had
said that ‘invention is ahead of com
merce.’ He explained that ‘it is al
ways easier to devise some useful
thing than it is to convince human
beings that it is of any use.’ He had
written that ‘invention is moving
along rapidly toward the complete
domination of electricity.’” At Sche
nectady where he catches and cages
lightening, and does other impossible
things I found that there was no
question but what he was right.
I found there an army of inventors
and scientiests, perhaps five hundred
in all, working painstakingly and sys
tematically in the great laboratories.
Electricity has performed many re
markable feats, but the commercial
wisdom that has provided a labora
tory like this is the crowning hope
in electrical development, because in
this place human brains are at work
solving new mysteries that will con
tinue to send civilization forward by
leaps and bounds. Human elements
are moving steadily forward, pev-
le miracles that we call
electricity. No science since the
dawn of the Universe was ever so
rich in the possession of brains as
the electrical industry. No wonder
it produces so many kicks and thrill i
under the stimulus of such team
work.”
The Hottest and the Coldest Building.
Tungsten is a rare element of the
chromium group required for fila
ments of electric lamps. It melts at
over 5,000 degrees fahrenheit. That’s
fifty times hotter than Washington
in August, and its about the same
as sun-heat. But it is easy to stand
the sun since it is more than 93,000,-
000 mile3 away. At the General
Electric works in Schenectady there
are furnaces in which this fifty-times
hotter than Washington is pulled off
daily.
Then you go down a flight of
stairs and you come upon a liquid
air plant. The man in charge draws
out a glass of it and you nearly
freeze your fingers when you touch
it.’ He takes an ordinary rubber tube
and puts it, into the liquid air. It
is immediately frozen so hard that
it craks up into brittle pices when
struck with a hammer. He runs out
some mercury into the liqudi air and
it freezes into a solid mass. This
liquid air is 320 degrees “below
zero.” With it vacuums are created
in such understandable things as
electric light bulbs. One finds the
experiments with this sort of ourora
borealis stuff no less interesting than
that had at the mouth of the furn
aces which are reminders of a sad
hereafter. This building is the cold
est and hottest place on the Ameri
can continent. For all that, it fur
nishes only a minor sidelight on the
great science of manufacturing elec
trical things.
WHEN TO QUIT ADVERTISING.
When the grasshopper ceases to hop
And the cows quit bawling,
When the fishes no longer flop,
And the baby stops squalling,
When the dunner no longer duns,
And the hoot owl quits hooting,
When the rivers cease to run
And the burglar stops his looting,
When the vine no longer twines
And the skylark stops larking,
When the sun no longer shines
And the young men quit sparking,
Whne the heavens begin to drop
And the old maids stop advising,
Then—It is time to shut up shop
And quit yuor advertising.
—Exchange.
For the Liver.
We usually try out all the remedies
friends suggest to us. but occasionally
It Is necessary to balk. One editorial
friend tells us how to cure a sluggish
liver, which we know we have. Sayji
he: “Take one spade, one hoe and one
rake, twice a day. and dig a cure out
of the garden."—Honey Grove Signal.
Stiff sore neck
That ache'and tension in the neck
muscles—you can be rid of it I
Apply Sloan’s. You don’t have to
rub it in. Just pat it on gently.
The tense, strained muscles relax.
The pain stops. Get a bottle from
your druggist today and have it
on hand. 35 cents. It will not stain.
A PRICELESS SERVICE FREELY
GIVEN TO GEORGIA.
On the first of June, 1921, over
31,000 Georgia Methodists made
pledges amounting to over $1,500,-
000 for their schools located in this
state and giving Christian education
to Georgia boys and girls. This is
a part of a voluntary service to our
commonwealth which this denomina
tion renders.
Of the Methodist schools, Emory
University alone gives in free tuition
annually an amount that would re
quire $1,363,051.33, invested at six
per cent to produce. It is the free
service of Christian love for which
every Georgia citizen should be
grateful.
Drs. Elam F. Dempsey and J. A.
Harmon, who are in charge of the
Christian Education movement for
the North and East Georgia Con
ferences, named October 9-14 “clean
up week” to collect all past due
pledges to this fund. Bishops W. B
Murrah and W. N. Ainsworth join
them in fervent pleas to Georgia
Methodists and success seems assur
ed.
This paper rejoices at the success
already achieved and wishes for this
effort complete victory.
Godless education sat the world
afire. To save the world, save the
child, and to save the child, give him
Christian education. These church
men are wise, for unless we Chris-
tinaize our education our education
will paganize us.
STATEMENT
Of the Ownership, Management, Etc.,
required by the Act of Congress of
August 24, 1912.
Of The McDufiie Progress, published
weekly at Thomson, Ga., for Octo- ]
her 1, 1923.
State of Georgia, County of McDuf
fie:
Before me, a notary public in and
for the state and county aforesaid,
personally appeared H. S. Norris,
who having been duly sworn accord
ing to law, deposes and says that he
is the owner and publisher of the
McDufiie Progress, and that the fol
lowing is, to the best of his knowl
edge and belief, a true statement of
the ownership, management, etc., of
the aforesaid publication for the date
shown in the above caption, required
by the act of August 24, 1912, em
bodied in section 443, Postal Laws
and Regulations, to-wit:
That the names and addresses of
the publisher, editor, managing ed
itor, "and business manager are: H. !
S. Norris, Thomson, Ga.
That the owner is H S. Norris,
Thomson, Ga.
That the mortgagee is, The First ’
National Bank, Thomson, Ga.
H. S. NORRIS. !
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 16th day of October, 1923.
J. H. MORGAN, N. P.
(My commission expires Sept: 4,
1924.)
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An ordinary human heart weighs
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