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-■'-■-■•V- FRIDAY, APRIL 11 thje McDuffie progress, yhomson, ga JPhe McDuffie Progress fi .50 Per Year In Advance. 0. S. NORRIS, Editor and Propr. ill gton Letter. i;y J. E. Jones. Entered at the Postoffice at Thom- m aa Second-class Mail Matter. Obituaries, In Memorium, Cards of Thanks, Etc., are charged for at rate §i 8 cents per line, with a minimum it 25 cents. A GOOD TEST. The way to test a person’s sincerity it to bring the subject home to them jMraonally. A striking incident in the play, "The Birth of a Nation,” shown at the Palace Theatre this week was when old Stoneman, the hard-boiled flouth-hater, was brought fact to face with with the rotten policy he advo cated. Lynch, his negro henchman, was advised by Stoneman to marry a white wife, but when Stoneman learned that Lynch had selected his (Stoneman’s) own daughter for a wife it was a different matter entire ly and a loud protest ensued. It was a fine illustration of the fellow who wants to put something jwpv on his fcllowman that he would hot accept himself. Many fine examples were born out Of the tragical struggle between the South and North that will live for a long time, and we should cherish them and be guided by them as priceless jewels bought by the blood of our fore-parents. DOMESTIC DOPE. The total public debt is given by the Census at $32,786,715,000. 88,700,000 people live in cities of over 30,000 inhabitants. Consolidation of Shipping Board trade routes and the fixing of oper ators’ fees based on tonnage is being planned. Owners of more than a million and a half animals and fowls used for breeding purposes are cooperating with State extension workers and the United States Department of Agri culture in the “better-sirek drive” throughout the United States. Cotton prices during the last of March were very hectic, responding readily to various influences such as domestic and foreign political news, more favorable weather conditions for the new crop, rumored further mill curtailment coupled with a slow dry goods trade. The all-rail movement of coal into Eastern New York and New England continues to decline steadily. 3,094 cars of bituminous coal and 3,067 cars of anthracite were forwarded through the rail gateways over the Hudson in the week ended March 22, a decrease of 34 cars in the quan tity of bituminous coal forwarded, and a decrease of 263 cars of an thracite. Consumption of iron ore totaled 4.783.000 tons in February, as against 4.688.00 in January. The Nation’s cut of southern pine lumber totaled 447,954,000 board feet in February, against 452,214,000 in January Ind 400,113,000 a year ago. The production of face brick by 32 plants totaled 19,284,000 in February, as against 17,360,000 in January and 18.012.000 a year ago. The Department of Agriculture forecasts a reduction of about 14 per cent in the acreage of Spring wheat, an increase of perhaps 3 per cent in corn and of 50 per cent in (lax. FOREIGN FACTS. Commerce reports show that re tail trade increased in February. Latin American cables show un changed business conditions in Feb ruary. In precious metals the United States exported $101,000,000 and im ported $397,000,000 in 1923. We re ceived n net balance of $296,000,000 in gold and silver. Prospects are good for increased sales of agricultural implements in Brazil. Sales of farm machinery have fall en off in Chili. Disturbances have lergely disap peared in northern Mexico. The in dustrial situation continues serious and the labor problem is unimproved. Germany is taking 40 per cent of the hides and England 65 per cent of the beef from the Argentine. Increases are shown in rubber shipments to Argentina, England, Japan, Cuba, Brazil and the Philip pines. Japan buys lots of rubber footwear. India is a good market for peanut shelling machines. ACCEPTS POSITION WITH GOVERNMENT. Mr. Grover C. Edmondson has ac cepted a position with the United States government m the Prohibition Enforcement department .according to news from Washington. Mr. Ed mondson, it is well known, was form erly connected with The Columbia Sentinel published here. Let The Progress Do Your Job Printing. Washington, D. C., April 10. Wjap And Kchina. That' a radio headline, brought in on 1923 meters, or to say it in Eng lish, We’ve got Japan and Chinu trading talks with us over radio that encircled the world in 1923. You may believe it or not, but experts in the Government who are trying to solve meat's for radio control, are positive that radio is going to make the whole world speak English, and with a universal language, they agree ihe world will find universal peace. This new Secretary of War, Judge Wilbur, blew into Washington from California a few days ago and began making speeches for a great big navy on the very same day thut the Senate Fiance Committee thought it had found a way to give the public a twenty-five per cent tax reduction for the present year. Judge Wilbur may have thought he was making a hit, but he wasn’t. He may have known (hut he didn’t mention it), that the radio message traffic between the Pacific coast and Japan shows a con stant and substantial increase, while the Federal Telegraph Company of Delaware is building stations in China and the Orient, and the company al ready has made greatprogresa in broadcasting on California’s glorious shores. With new means of commu nication goes trade extension, and new trade relations foster common interests, and make for friendship. A good many wise men of the world believed that the United States and Japan were headed towards war un til the Washington Arms Conference brought the nations face to face, and enabled the leaders of public thought to talk over their differences in a frank and friendly manner. The ex tension of radio to Japan and China is but part of the great movement to keep pace with the demand for this new agency in civilization through out the whole world. The Orient will like us better when they learn more of the great soul of America through radio. Savors Of Repudiation. The controversy between the heads of the United States Government and the Northern Pacific Railway with reference to the claim of the latter under its original land grant, revives a thrilling old story of how the Gov ernment matched millions of acres of inaccessible wild land as the prize to be achieved by the Empire Build ers who in turn invested their real millions in the construction of our transcontinental railroads. Import ant features in the controversy indi cate that the Northern Pacific did not receive all of their lands because much of the undiscovered West re mained unsurveyed. When the Gov ernment decided to establish National Forests, it “annexed” the lands ap parently belonging to the Northern Pacific under its grant. In the shuffle of events the railroad appears to have lost something like three mil lion acres, against which possibly a half million acres remain as an offset because of so-called “erroneous fix ation of the land-grant limit lines.” President Charles Donnelly of the Northern Pacific, has issued a book let which brings the whole subject out of the fog of Washington politics, and besides analyzing the legal phases of the question he has treated the whole matter from “ the equit able and moral considerations.” Iiis presentation of the case is accompani ed by the letters of Cabinet officers and the President, and the volume is a sort of textbook of the entire dis pute. Mr. Donnelly makes a strong presentation in his claim that the position of the Government savors of repudiation. Weighed in the com- monsense scales of the “long and short of it,” the Government appears to be leaning on the belief that the cheap lands promised in the days when Abraham Lincoln signed the legislation that made possible the building of the Northern Pacific, have become too valuable to part with. And so Uncle Sam appears to be try ing to keep the valuable acres that he willingly pledged to the great railroad that penetrated the “promis ed land” a half century ago. On the other hand the Northern Pacific does not seem to be looking for anything more than the carrying out of the original bargain, which is a princi ple underlying honest business that the Government should adhere to. Promises And Performances. There is a popular belief that poli ticians are foregetful of their promises, and that political platforms are a good deal like railroad plat forms in that they are used princi pally to “get in, on.”* Over fifty member nations of the League of Nations accuse the United States with practicing bad faith. Ten mil lion Filipinos produce proofs that we have repeatedly promised them inde pendent government and have made no forward step towards fulfilling the pledges. Alaskans tell us we have looted their country and depopulated it. In our strictly domestic rela- i tions large groups of our peupxu, i eluding the farmers, find a good d. of fault that promises have no 4 : turn ed into performances. So, i..ere you i are! Investigations of oil and Daugu .-ty have lost their pep, and Congr” : r getting back to wenk. Anv getting DacK to wm*. Any upr Study Science 0 f Roadg judiced non-partisan obser r who 1 has lived through the ordea in the National Capital, will tell ycu that— as bad as it was, this pe.ior 1 n- in vestigation has been a good thing A few “highbv'ders” have been driv en out of publ .fe, and others have been degraded in the eyes of big business. There has been a general tightening up of methods for the conduct of public affairs. A number of distinguished men who we*e sup- in Elementary Schools The automobile industry is showing more than ordinury inierest lu a bul letin Just Issued by the bureau of edu cation, Department of the Interior, en title! “Main Struts of the Nation,” and intended ns a study of projects on highway transport for elementary schools. Prepared by Florence C. F'ox, spe cialist In education systems for the United States government, it will pur posed to be either patriots or states- ! ticuiarl f a DI ,< *al to the children be cause their lives are very close to the men have been “found out,” and giv- , .. . | highway question; good roads playing en their places among the parttsanly- I atl increasingly important part in poisoned, or classified among weak lings running on false political, or parental, reputations. So, so, again. Meanwhile most of the trusted of ficials of the Government have prov ed themselves worthy of their trusts. Again the legislative hopper is re ceiving its grist, and with a national election due this Fall, the country may reasonably look forward to the enactment of considerable legislation during the next few months, Our Colored Citizens. The District of Columbia is sand wiched in betwwen Maryland and every child's experience. The bulletin shows the remarkably Interesting und practical lessons which iiuve been worked out for elementary grades. In arithmetic, for example, a question such us tin's is asked: “If the railroad fare from New York to San Francisco is $138.18, how much more, or less, will it cost to motor through the Lincoln highway titan to go by train?" The solution involves prob lems In the cost of gasoline, the wear and teur of the machine, and the day’s living expense en route, as compured with the cost of travel. in the geogruphy department inter esting lessons are p csented which af- Virginia, in which States there arc. . ford imaginary journeys over the statutes aggregating the white and | country's great highways. Important the colored races. The progress of cities are located on the way, and the colored people in Washington is therefore an interesting prase in the current history of human civilization. During and after the war when da • labor commanded unusual pay tic colored people of the National Capi tal showed not only commendable in- ' in civics are exceptionally interestin brief essays written about the national points of interest in passing. The bul letin gives in great detail how such lesson* may be prepared. Pro. vt.is in simple science are brought out by a study of road build ing, drainage and grading. Lessons dustry, but as a rule a good deal ul| d these include problems on linunc- more thrift than their white brother Ill « J ll,m ' t0 oblain * ri B»‘t of way; In consequence there developed con siderable prosperity among the Ne groes; and contrary to the expecta- how bond Issues are cared for, etc. An import am lesson deals with the safety question. Every parent is in terested in tills, and the work lo tions of many pessimists it did not | volved cannot fail to be of help uud spoil them The city has a large practical use to the young student in number of substantial business the face of the crowded streets and houses that are owned and conducted j highways, by colored men. They have their , own moving picture houses and thea- J Wisconsin Will Renumber their own schools, their own A „ ^ T . k Highways hospitals and colleges. Howard Uni- ° ^ .* , , , „ nrin . , . , Immediately Hollowing a conlereuce versity had neurly 2,300 students last . , , . . of the special legislative committee, year, and extensive improvements uppollitecl t() selecl o; lU0 additional are under way in order that colored („ the stute trunk highways, dl- people may be trained for medicine, vision engineers and the state high- surgery and denistry. The property way division commission to determine value of the University is more than finally what roads are to be added, two million dollars, und the Govern ment makes liberal appropriations to help sustain it. Hampton, Virginia, also has a highway experts will begin work on the enormous tusk of renumbering all of Wisconsin’s trunk highway system. Almost every trunk highway In the stute will Iiuve to be renumbered to famous school that has done wonders conform with the additions made by in helping the colored people to at- the special legislative committee, tain better citizenship. It is Hamp- Under the new system there will he ton Institute, a place where liberal fe ' vr ‘ r short highways and more long REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK At Thomson, in the State of Georgia, at the Close of Business on March 31st, 1924. RESOURCES. Loans and Discounts Overdrafts, unsecured U. S. Government Securities owned: Deposited to sec re circulation (U. S. Bonds, par value) 26,500.00 All other United States Government securities 69,100.00 Total Other bonds, stocks, securities, etc. __ Banking House, $4,700.00; Furniture and Fixtures, $1,800.00 Real estate owned other than banking house Lawful reserve with Federal Reserve Bank Cash in vault and amount due from national banks Amount due from State banks, bankers and trust companies in the United States, other than above Checks on other banks in the same city or town as reporting bank Total 40,027.39 Miscellaneous cash items Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer and due from U. S. Treasurer Total LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in Surplus fund Undivided profits, $19,389.80; less current ex penses, interest and taxes paid, $4,055.11 Circulating notes outstanding Cashier’s checks outstanding Total 1,021.88 Demand deposits (other than bank deposits) subject to Reserve (deposits payable within 30 days): Individual deposits subject to check Certificates of deposit Total 160,239.09 Certificates of deposit (other than for money borrowed) Total of time deposits subject to Reserve 123,763.40 Bills Payable (including all obligations represent ing money borrowed other than rediscounts) $275,883.88 338.48 95,600.00 5,263.02 6,500.00 27,070.28 14,748.78 34,446.06 4,537.22 1,044.11 102.23 1,325.00 $466,859.06 $ 90,000.00 30,000.00 15,334.69 26,500.00 1,021.88 149,091.80 11,147.29 123,763.40' 20,000.00 Total $466,859.06 STATE OF GEORGIA, COUNTY OF McDUFFIE,—ss. I, G. White Jordan, Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. G. WHITE JORDAN, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 8th day of April, 1924. J. H. MORGAN, Notary Public. Correct—Attest: B. F. Johnson, R. L. Hadaway, R. A. Kunnes, Dir ectors. STATEMENT OF CONDITIONS OF THE BANK OF THOMSON Located at Thomson, McDuffie County, at Close of Business Mar. 31, 1924 As Called for by the Superintendent of Banks. highways, with several numbers over education is dispensed, and every- , , , „ . , . , , , ., lapping each other on the main truv- thing possible is done to advance the , , .. , ,. ‘ , , , . . eled through routes, welfare of the colored race. Ijuite Wherever it is possible highway ex- recently Hampton colored citizens es- peris will plot routes direct from im- tablished a Colored Community Cen- portnnt centers. There will be no ter, and they paid for the buildings change, however, in the system or themselves. plan of marking the trunk highway The enterprising manner in which system. ,, , , ......... All highway maps are to he reprint- the colored public institutions are . , . .. „ . , . , ed and revised tollowing the new ul- mamtained, and the civic advance locatUm of IuaIu highways, but tills ment noted on the part of these peo- w m probably not come until late in pie, indicates that the race is mai ing the spring. It will make main routes remarkably satisfactory progress. easier to follow, for it will not lie nec- Golf Becomes A Poor Man’s Game, essary to switch off from one highway No one ever supposed a city could make a “rich man’s game” the de light of so many men in the ordinary walks of life, as has been accomplish ed in Washington, where public golf courses have been spreading over the parks in a remarkable manner. Sev eral years ago the Capital City open ed public tennis courts in the same way, and other places followed suit. There are evidences that a number of American cities will follow Wash ington’s good example. to the next on a long journey. Motor ists will he able to enter the state on one highway and follow that clear through the state or to their destina tion. “BIRTH OF A NATION” DRAWS BIG CROWDS. “The Birth of a Nation,” shown at the Palace Theatre Monday and Tues day of this week, drew the largest crowds of any previous entertain ment. Although the picture has been on the screen for several years, it seems to have lost none of its popu larity. While many had seen it pre viously, they were anxious to see it again, and both nights the Palace Theatre was crowded with people from far and near. BUYS THOMSON BAKERY. Mr. J. R. Jones has purchased from Mr. C. M. McGahee the Thomson Bakery, and will continue to operate same at the old stand on Railroad street. Mr. Jones has been connected with the bakery for some time and will endeavor to please his patrons. He asks the patronage of the people and the surrounding territory. Read his ad in another place in this issue Silk Gloves in all the wanted shades and lengths. Mrs. Estelle Martin. Large Mileage Is Added to Federal-Aid Highways (Prepared by the United States Department ot Agriculture.) Federal-aid roads totaling 8,820 miles were completed during the flscul year ending June 30, 4923, bringing the total of federal aid rouds com pleted to 26,586 miles. The mileage completed during the year is classified as follows: Miles Graded and drained 1,860.1 Sand-clay 749.S Gravel * 3,815.4 Waterbound macadam 335.6 Bituminous macadam 452.9 Bituminous concrete 76.8 Concrete 1,440.3 Brick 78.8 Bridges 1°- 8 Total 8.820.2 The projects under construction at the close of the yeur amounted to 14,772 miles and were estimated at 55 per cent complete. In addition to the 26,536 miles completed and the 14,772 miles under construction there were at the close of the year a num ber of projects approved but not yet placed under construction, the aggre gate length of which was 6,917 miles. Scheme of Texas Farmers for Building Good Roads A settlement of wide-awake farm ers near Lindsay, Tex., have a scheme for road building. On one farmer’s place is a gravel pit that furnishes good gravel in abundance. This farm er furnishes free the gravel for road building purposes, while the other farmers grade up the roadbeds and do the graveling. When the work Is completed it hasn’t cost anything ex cept a little time and labor, and there are no taxes to pay. RESOURCES. Time Loans and Discounts $189 Demand Loans 40 U. S. Bonds 167. Industrial Stocks and Bonds 14, Banking House 7 Furniture and Fixtures. _ 3 Other Real Estate owned 11 Due from Approved Reserve Agents in this State 81 Due from Approved Reserve Agents out of this State 16. Currency ! 11 Gold Silver, nickels, pennies 1 Due from other banks in this State Due from other banks in other States 1 Advances on Cotton Checks for Clearing House 2 Other cheks and cash items Overdrafts Advances on commodities other than cotton ,530 ,233 031, 680. ,842, ,886, ,348, (57.92 ,866, ,058. 468 ,044, 525.80 053 421 111 LIABILITIES. Capital Stock Paid in Surplus Fund Undivided Profits Individual Deposits Sub ject to check Time Certificate of De- Cashier’s Checks Bills Payable to Banks in this State Bills Payable to Banks in other States $ 50,000.00 . 50,000.00 21,445.51 198,562.62 230,664.37 954.06 none none ,316 229. 220.00 Total $551,626.56 Total $551,626.56 STATE OF GEORGIA, McDUFFIE COUNTY. Before me came E. C. Hawes, Cashier of The Bank of Thomson, who being duly sworn, says that the above foregoing statement is a true condition of said Bank, as shown by the books of file in said Bank. E. C. HAWES. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 9th day of April, 1924. A. L. McLEAN, Notary Public. FARM LANDS FOR SALE We have farm lands for sale in all parts of McDuffie county. Any size you want. See us be fore you buy. If you have farm lands you want to sell, list them with us. It costs you nothing if no sale is made. Commission only 5 per cent. We also handle city property on same terms. If you have a place for sale or rent we will do our best to help you. McDUFFIE COUNTY REAL ESTATE AGENCY J. Q. West & H. S. Norris Thomson, Ga. & i i