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FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1924.
THE McDUPPIE PROGRESS, THOMSON, GA.
Washington Letter.
By J. E. Jones.
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OUR CLUB BOYS AND GIRLS.
It is with pardonable pride that
The Progress mentions the splendid
work of our club boys and girls. Of
late they have been getting in some
telling work with their demonstra
tions. We mention especially the
great impression made on the Bank
ers Convention during their meeting
in Augusta last April, for it was Mc
Duffie county boys and girls that put
on the demonstration that opened the
eyes ot_lho bankers.
Mr. G. C. Daniel had a number of
his club boys there to show the bank
ers what they were doing in their
various activities, and Mrs. Farmer
put on a demonstration with her club
girls.
The results of these demonstra
tions, the great potentialities of the
work as realized by the bankers on
this occasion, is going to prove of
untold value in the future, and we
are glad that our boys and girls had
MO important a part in it. -
As has been mentioned elsewhere
in this paper, the bankers donated
a thousand dollars to the furtherance
of boys and girls club work, and from
what we understand, this appropria
tion will be increased from year to
year until it reaches an almost fabu
lous amount.
So it will be seen that the efforts
Of the promoters of these clubs has
not been in vain. Though the work
was slow and discouraging in the be
ginning, it has gott<jn to the stage
where the boys and girls see the
great advantages to be gained, and
we hope to see every boy and girl
in McDuffie county lined up in the
work.
A WARNING TO PARENTS.
What is given, out as disgraceful
incidents occurring, at the meeting of
the Eighth Distinct School Meet in
Washington two weeks ago, should
give parents cause for a little more
caution about their boys and girls.
Bare mention of the fact that there
was drinking and carousing among
the visitors is sufficient to cause par
ents to give serious thought to con
duct jot their children. Who is
responsible for the trouble is not
mentioned in news items, but it was
so serious as to cause the officials of
the Eighth District School Meet to
order a discontinuence of tha annual
events.
People from every quarter are
seriously debating the question as to
whether boys and girls are better or
worse “than they used to be.” In
cidents of this kind naturally make
Us think they are. But we are loath
to condemn the you. g people as a
whole for the actions of a few. We
must not throw up our hands and say
it is useless, they have gone to the
dogs. Rather, older people and par
ents should wake up to he situation
if it is bad and do all that is possi
ble to remedy matters.
This thing lies at the door of par
ents more than anywhere else. Chil
dren that are reared right are not
going far wrong; all will stumble
some tim5s7 but if they are headed
in the right direction, they will come
out all right in the end. Those who
ard ready to condemn the young
folks, let them consider themselves
As to what they have done in helping
to propagate such conditions.
TOO MUCH TEACHING.
We find one great fault with Bible
teachers of today, and that is, tack
ling obscure questions in the Bible
that were not intended for men to
answer. We are confident that it
was intended that man should exer
cise a whole lot of faith if he is to
be a true Christain, and necessarily
there are a lut of things that he will
not know in this life.
The trouble about trying to explain
some things is that it causes confu
sion. One teacho< believes one thing,
another gives a different version, and
ultimately the weak man in faith
comes to look upon the teachings of
the Bible ns wholly beydnd his com
prehension.
It is encouraging, though, to hear
some of the teachers express them
selves intelligently on suqj) questions.
There nre many things that we see
with our eyes that have never yet
been explained by learned scientists,
bo why should we balk at the intri
cate problems set forth in the Bible?
The farmer plants his crops in the
ground, he knows enough to do that,
and to put a sufficient amount of
fertilizer under them to make them
grow; but he can’t explain why it
germinates and brings forth a green
shoot like the grain he planted. He
exercises faith in planting, without
which he would never plant, and
hopes to reap in due season.
So why not exercise faith in your
religion and let the little questions
that you cannot understand take care
of themselves. That’s the way to be
happy and enjoy the land and liberty
that God has so graciously given you.
Exchangeable Benefits
Mrs. Blake—“If 1 engage you, Lena,
I want to tell you beforehand tluiT you
must stay at home when I wish to
go out.” Lena—“1 shall do that,
Missus Blake, if you will promise me
the same.”
Must Ce a t'cach
Oxby—“Xurr> I’ve bin married sev
eral years now and I've go; u foint
healthy boy. Tbe neighbors say lie s
the very picture of me.” Hobin—“Ah
Well, wot’s the harm so long as tin
Child Is •
Cheap, But.
Divorce costs 20 cents In Russia
bnt we would hardly say that the
cheapness of It recommends It.
Washington, D. C., May 22.
Your City.
There is in existence in the Na
tional Capital what is known as the
Committee of One'Hundred on the
Federal City. This committee is
concentrating its efforts at present to
secure the passage by Congress of
the National Capital Park Commis
sion bill, which provides for the de
velopment of forests and park re
serves and extension of Washington
beyond the District line. Washing
ton has already made great progress
in the extension of its parks, despite
the fact that there is no official
branch of the Federal Government
authorized to study or develop a sys
tematic park plan. In consequence of
thi3 lack of authority splendid wood
land and rocky areas of beautiful
natural scenery of inestimable value
to the park system have been utter
ly destroyed.
Congress has been very jealous of
attempts upon the part of the resi
dents of Washington to take over
the political management of the city,
to be administered under a munici
pal form of government. Independ
ent of the question as to whether the
District of Columbia will ever be
given direct representation in Con
gress, or the vote given to the resi
dents of the District, there seems to
be no doubt but what the future of
Washington will be determined in its
position in political affairs as a Fed
eral city. The sentimental signifi
cance of this is to be construed as
aimed to make everyone who comes
from Maine, Florida, Lake Superior,
the Gulf States, or from the regions
beyond the Rockies, regard Wash
ington as much as though they actu
ally lived within its boundaries. A
famous Englishman, Lord Bryce,
once wrote that every American com
ing to Washington should find a city
that they could “admire as being
something finer and more beautiful
than he had ever dreamed of before;
something which makes him more
proud to be an American.”
If Washington was to be develop
ed into a more beautiful city simply
for the gratification of its own resi
dents, then the attempt might be
construed as being . local affair. But
Washington as the seat of the Na
tional Government is a matter of a
different hue, inasmuch as it con
tains the Capitol, the White House,
the Government departments, the
Washington Monument, the Lincoln
Memorial, besides having the great
Mount Vernon shrine, and the Na
tional Cemetery nearby. Thus is
Washington already in fact as well
as in name, the Federal City. In
general recognition of this fact con
ventions in large numbers are being
held in Washington. No excursion
to +he East, is a success unless Wash
ington is in the schedule route. The
hi .cis and shops of the city have be
come quite dependent upon the vast
throngs of travelers who visit their
own National Capital.
These facts have all been whipped
into shape in presenting the claims
of the Committee of One Hundred
that seeks to further develop and im
prove Washington. Great parks al
ready exist, tyht most of these are in
the older parts of the city, whereas
the new sections are more apt to be
filled with apartment houses, resi
dences, and business establishments—
with additional new parks left out.
All of these, we are told, can be pro
vided for in the future at the expense
of a penny a year in taxes from each
person in the United States.
The District of Columbia, as is well
known, was planned by Major L’En-
fant, with the approval of President
—<re Washington. Some twenty
years ago Senator James McMillan,
iviicn gan, took the initiative in
attempting to perpetuate Washington
ns a beautiful Federal City. There
v»as created what was known as the
Commission of Fine Arts, and its
duty was to guide the correct course
in the future planning and laying out
of the city. When the war came on
irreparable injury was done to the
constructive conceptions of L’Enfant,
McMillan, and the Commission. But
through the aid of local citizens as
sociations, the torch of civic beauty
has been kept lighted. The present
phase of the work is best represented
in the efforts of the Washington Com
mittee of One Hundred which is in
direct charge of the efforts of the
American Civic Association to make
the physical developments in the Dis
trict of Columbia an object of major
interest and supply, so far as it can,
a means of communication between
the resident and non-resident citizens
in all matters of civic improvement.
The plan seems particularly feasible
because of the fact that Washington
is a residential city quite free from
the over-shadowing influences of
large industrial institutions. Wash
ingtonians are anxious that people
in every part of the country should
share in -the sentiment that the Fed
eral City is their city. If this idea
is generally accepted then Washing
ton will live through the ages as a
Federal City.
The Condition Of State.
“Unemployment” in the United
States is talked about only as a mem
ory of two years ago last Winter
when nearly live million workmen
were out of jobs. The public debt is
gradually being whittled down. Tax
reauction is succeeding in breaking
through the Congressional processes,
and the benefits of the new legisla
tion are assured. Foreign business
shows a fair record. Farm land
prices have deflated, and the same
process of squeezing the fictitious
values out of city property is taking
place throughout the United States.
Food prices have been decreasing
slowly—but surely, for several
months. Clothing has also register
ed reductions. The railroads are able
to care for their business, and freight
congestion is infrequent. Wages in
employment have come down some
what, but there has not been material
reduction in many industries. Bond
hold up very well, while the stock
market is suffering from depression.
Such are some of the high spot
shown' by the records collected by
the differ nt branches of the Wash-I than 25 or 30 yea all combine to
ington Government. Everything give commercial reforestration an
seems to indicate that the country exceptionally favorable status,
is recovering from many o' the un- j “It is probable that southern pine
usual conditions that existed after .stumpage has increased more rapidly
in value during the last 20 years
than any other softwood timber in
the United States; and second growth
of these species near the center lum
ber markets already commands val
ues which justify the growing of
wood crops. On the other hand, but
few of the southern states have taken
organized action to protect their for
ests or regrowing areas from fire or
otherwise to promote reforestration.
Notwithstanding these handicaps,
testimony was presented to the com
mittee showing that a considerable
number of forest owners, are either
engaged in growing timber or are
studying the possibilities of utilizing
*helr cut-over holdings for this pur
pose.”
the war, and that a normal state of
industrial health is prevailing in the
country at large. Of course the
present situation does not carry with
it the thrills of boom days; neither
are there the pangs of extreme de
pression that existed when millions
wondered “what to do next,” or where
to turn for a job, or assistance. But
there is something for everybody to
do, and the country reports forward
progress to its central Government.
“Dry Jokes."
President Coolidge knows how to
refuse to smile about as well as any
one in the country. He withholds
his “appreciation” of all “dry jokes,”
and his expression has been so severe
that some of the actors who have
performed before audiences in which
the President has been included, have
gone away with the impression that
their “dry jokes” were offensive to
the Chief Executive. Following the
lead of the President there has been
a noticeable tendency in Washington
amusement places to put the ban on
the kind of “humor” intended to re
flect upon the constitutional amend
ment covering prohibition.
Peace Meetings.
The recent convention of the Wom
en’s Internationa! League for Peace
and Freedom held in Washington,
drew a good deal of criticism against
“pacifists.” The League asaembled
under the presidency of Miss Jane
Adadms, of Chicago. No one feels
that anything very harmful is apt
to take place in a meeting in charge
of this remarkable woman, who
stands so high in the esteem of the
American people. As a matter of
fact the Congressional Record is filled
with peace speeches, and it is an un
usual convention that does not put a
principal speaker on the platform
who advocates peace. Even the
Army and Navy talk peace. But
Congress keeps the Worlds Court idea
still high in the air, and the evidences
are abundant that the American gov
ernment has not made any great for
ward advance with reference to the
prevention of future war.
Senate Committees Re-
On Refores
tration.
port
Reference is given to Report No.
28 of the U. S. Senate Select Com
mittee on Reforestration of which
Senator D. U. Fletcher, of Florida,
and Senator Pat Harrison, of Mis
sissippi, are members.
This Committee has held hearings
and have taken testimony in all sec
tions of the United States, including
Asheville, N. C„ Jacksonville, Fla.
and New Orleans, La.
In its final report to the Senate,
Railroad Fares and Liv
ing Costs.
Atlanta, Ga., May 22.—Railroad
transportation costs are credited
with an importance in the cost of
living entirely unwarranted by the
facts, in the opinion of freight agents
in Atlanta who discussed the sub
ject today at the request of the cor
respondent of this news service.
Of the 10 cents paid for a loaf of
bread in the larger cities of the
country, accorindg to tbe federal de
partment of agriculture, to which
the freight agents called attention,
the railroads receive a third of a
cent for transporting the wheat to
the mills, and a sixth of a cent for
bringing the flour to the baker.
“If the railroads carried the wheat
and flour for nothing, the saving on
the price of a ten-cent loaf of bread
would be only half a cent, promising
no reduction to the customer,” said
one Atlanta agent.
It was pointed out that if dealers’
purchases are made from reasonable
sources of supply one never pays as
much as a cent a pound in freight
charges on sugar, coffee, oatmeal,
potatoes, eggs, fresh meat, butter, or
some twenty-five other important ar
ticles of food.
Railroads, it was asserted, receive
r •■■it- «dx cents for carrying a suit
of clothes 300 miles, and about five
cents for transporting a pair of shoes
a similar distance. .
Freight rates on American rail
roads are the lowest in the world,
agents here declare. The average
rate on a ton of freight carried one
mile in the United States is approxi
mately one cent. For an equivalent
service English railroads receive
three times as much, and French and
German roads about four times as
much.
Despite these facts, it was pointed
out here, demands for still lower
rates continue.
Crippling of railroad service, rail
road men here say, would cost the
page 5, the Committee says:
“Gradually, however, as the cut of | people far more than they could hope
southern timber declines, the terri- to save as a result of rate reduc-
tory which it formerly supplied is tions.
being invaded by western woods; and ! “The present campaign for lower
it is probable that, within from 15 to freight rates warrants careful exam-
20 years the southern pineries will : ination,” according to business men
cease to be an important factor in as well ns railroad men here,
the national trade. “Do lower freight rates
the national trade
"Many of the earlier cuttings in
the South Atlantic States left small
timber and seed-bearing trees on the
land. A substantial quantity of sec
ond-growth timber has been produced
on these old cuttings and through the
natural reforestration of fields aban
doned at the time of and following
the Civil War. Twenty-nine million
acres of southern pine land contain
merchantable second growth, and
stumpage of this character now furn
ishes at least one-third of the present
cut of lumber.
“The later logging operations in
the southern pine belt, however, have
been much more destructive. Slash
ings have almost inviarnbly caught
fire sooner or later, and large sections
of woodland are burned every year
as a fixed custom of the people with
a view of improving grazing condi
tions. Because of these factors the
southern pine belt contains in excess
of 30,000,000 acres of denuded laud,
or nearly 40 per cent of all the land
of this character in the United States.
“One of the most destructive indus
tries of the southern pine region is
the production of turpentine and
rosin, known as naval stores, an in
dustry which has furnished three-
fourths of the world’s supply of these
products. The extraction of naval
stores has preceded the cutting of
stumpage in most of the virgin stands
of long-leat pine and slash pine
The depletion of the virgin timber
has caused a reduction in the output
of naval stores of nearly one-third
the amount produced during the
period when timber supplies were
plentiful. In late years the shortage
of virgin timber has led naval stores
operators to tap young stands of
second growth in the South Atlantic
and Gulf States, often by methods so
destructive as to kill a large propor
tion of this small timber in from one
to three years. The perpetuation of
the naval stores industry of the Unit
ed States, whose annual products ex
ceed $40,000,000 in value, very large
ly depends upon the restoration of
the forests of pitch pine in the South
and the use of turpentining methods
which permit the extraction of these
valuable products without undue in
jury to the tree.
“A vast area in the southern pine
belt can undoubtedly he utilized more
profitably for the production of tim
ber than for any other purpose.
While cultivation is extending in the
bottom lands "of this region, agricul
tural settlement on much of the pine
land is practically at a standstill.
Owing to the long growing season
and heavy precipitation, the rate at
which wood can be produced is great
er than in any other section of the
United States with the exception of
the more favorable portion? of the
Pacific Coast. The proximity of the
region to the larger consuming mar
kets of the country, the opportunity
to obtain returns from che extraction
of naval stores early in the life of
the second growth stands, and profit-
ght rates promise
anything more than an enforced re
duction in the wages paid railroad
employes, a crippling of service to
shippers and a slowing up in rail
road expenditures for maintenance
and development?” was asked by one
railroader.
Australian Ballot Sys
tem Favored.
Atlanta, Ga., May 22.—With poli
tics in the atmosphere and the pros
pect of bringing the old ballot box in
use again tiiis year, the Australian
ballot is finding unusual favor in
many parts of the state, according to
reports received here.
Under an act of the Legislature
it is possible for any county in Geor
gia to adopt the “Australian ballot”
system in white primaries. A num
ber of counties acted favorably on
this election method this spring and
the reports indicate that the voters
were highly pleased with the plan.
Political leaders here assert that
the secret ballot is the one thing
needed to perfect Georgia’s white
primary system. It was pointed out
that every qualified voter has a right
to cast his ballot without interference
from any one in any way, and the
Australian ballot gives him perfect
protection in that right. Rich or
poor, educated or illiterate, his ballot
is his own, to be cast as he pleases—
however wisely or unwisely.
“The white primary is the political
salvation of the South,” said E. B.
Russell, editor of the Cedartown,
(Ga.) Standard, who is urging its
adoption in his home county of Polk.
“The white primary was adopted to
secure decency as far as possible in
our political life, and 1 am fully con
vinced that it will be wisely strength
ened by the addition of the Australian
ballot.”
PREFERENTIAL RAIL RATES.
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion has vacated its order of March
11, placing the merchant marine act
of 1920 into operation. The Commis
sion acted on a resolution from the
Shipping Board withdrawing the
Board’s certificate of February 27,
that sufficient American ships are
available to carry the export trade of
the United States. Under section 28,
it is required that when these facili
ties are available, through rail and
water, freight rates be established on
goods carried in American ships. The
Shipping Board resolution stated that
"doubt has arisen whether shipping
facilities under the American flag
are adequate in all respects, to the
trade ranges specified.” By the Com
mission’s order, section 28, which was
to have become effective June 20, is
set aside until the Shipping Board
again certifies a sufficiency of Ameri
can vessels to the Interstate Com
merce Commission and until the Corn-
able yields of pulp wood in not more mission acts on such certification.
Misapprehension Of
MrSi Malaprop Of
Main Street.
A man writer in a current issue of
a leading magazine advises all girls
that a good husband is the best job
they can find and then tells them
how to catch the husband. Thomson |
bachelors had better beware. He not i
only says any woman can marry any '
rnan if she goes at it right, but he
tells her how to bait the hook.
* *
Now is the season when all moth
ers and fathers go into “partial |
shade” and the college boys and girls
take the full sunlight.
* *
A Georgia woman married a Span
iard, who was afterward naturalized.
Recently they wanted to make a visit
to Spain and found that while he was
an American citizen and secured his
passports without difficulty, under
the American law, she was a Span
iard, having married him while he
was a Spanish subject. She will have
to be “naturalized” before she can
secure a passport, though she was
born in Georgia and has lived there
all her life. Women could not possi
bly make any law more idiotic than
this purely man-made one. We pass
this on to those men who think the
world is coming to an end because
the women vote.
* *
Those ladies who attended Mr. Har
well’s kitchen party at the home of
Mrs. J. T. Neal, Jr., can cheerfully
recommend him to anyone looking
for a husband thoroughly house broke
and kitchen trained.
* *
Thomson received some favorable
advertising besides absorbing a lot:
of beneficial enthusiasm from the ;
Convention of Federated Club Worn-.
en. One reason for Atlanta’s pheno- J
menal growth is her habit of holding |
conventions. One convention brings
more free advertising than all the
cost entailed.
BRIDGE BUILT TO
WITHSTAND FLOODS
In certain parts of the West and
Middle West streams that are ordinar
ily very small become raging torrents
after a heavy rain.
Since it is neither practical to build
a high-water bridge, because of the
cost and the amount of filling that
Mercer University
Student Body.
Macon, Ga., May 22.—The profes
sions will claim 57.5 per cent of the
student body of Mercer University
upon their leaving college, according
to a survey of selected occupations
just taken, i.aw, medicine and the'
ministry will get 48.9 per cent of the
1.000 students here when they grad
uate, while the remainder of the pro
fessional quota expect to teach and
do newspaper work.
Those who are undecided as to ,
what shall be their life work make
up 28.9 per cent of the total. Many
of this latter number, based on past
indications, will teach upon leaving
college. Otherwise, the professions
will get few of those who yet have j
not chosen a vocation.
Every student graduating from
Mercer is required ro pass up a course
in education, journalism ami theology
before taking a degree. This fact
probably influences, in many of the
undecided cases, the making of a de
cision toward one of these fields. The
number of those who return several
years after graduating to take up
specialized study is growing each
year.
The complete survey of future vo
cations of the 1,000 students is as
follows: Undecided, 28.9 per cent;
ministry, 23.6 per cent; law, 15.3 per
cent; medicine, 10 per cent; special
commercial work, 6.2 per cent; teach
ing, 5.5 per cent; newspaper work,
3.1 per cent; engineering, 2.9 per
cent; accounting, 2.8 per cent, apd
in other lines, 3.2 per cent.
LETTER FROM SENATOR HARRIS
To the Editor of The Progress:— ;
Because of the vital interest of Geor
gia in the financial losses of our
farmers on account of the boll v c.evil
and all matters pertaining to agri- j
culture, I take the liberty f bringing (
to your attention some of the work j
in which I have been engag'd in the ;
Senate and as a member of the Son- j
ate Appropriations Committee.
Besides the usual appropriations |
for agricultural matters for the fiscal
year beginning July 1st next. I have j
secured $90,000 in the Committee be- j
yond the amounts provided in the |
House bills for boll weevil work. Of i
this amount $50,000 is for experi
ments in developing cheaper proces- j
ses for the manufacture of calcium
arsenate and other poisons to kill
the boll weevil. $15,000 is for in
vestigations to determine the various
sources of arsenic in the United
States as the vital ingredient for the
manufacture of calcium arsenate, so
as to provide a greater supply of
white arsenic and reduce the price of
calcium arsenate. $25,000 is for the
experiments by the Chemical War
fare Service in poison gases to kill
the boll weevil. Last year I secured
$50,000 for this work. Also, I secur
ed the passage by the Senate of a
resolution directing the U. S. Geolo
gical Survey to investigate arsenic
ore deposits so as to get cheaper cal
cium arsenate.
In addition I have secured adoption
by the Committee of amendments
over the House amounts providing
S5,000 for tobacco investigations by
the Georgia Costal Plain Experiment
Station, at Tifton; $10,000 for study
of storing pecans and cane sirup in
bonded Federal warehouses under my
amendment broadening the warehouse
law; $5,500 for study of more effec
tive and profitable utilization of the
rapidly increasing production of
peaches in Georgia through packing
and canning. I have supported every
other measure that would help our
farmers.
Respectfully Yours,
WM. J. HARRIS.
Concrete Bridges Becoming Popular.
would be necessary in u flat, level
country, the low-water bridge has
come to be quite popular.
It is built of concrete and high
enough to allow the flood waters of un
ordinary rain to pass under it. But
more water sends the stream above it
and drift and trash are thus floated
above it. This removes one of the
great dangers to bridges across swift
rising streams. The drift lodges
ngainst the piers and forms a dam.
The weight'of the water behind It de
velops more pressure than the bridge
can stand and it is destroyed.
Improved Highways Soon
Repay Original Cost
A good road is such a paying in
vestment that it is the poorest kind
of business judgment to do without
it, according to the bureau of public
roads of the United States Department
of Agriculture. The bureau produces
figures based upon a survey of traffic
in Connecticut to prove its contention.
An actual count of the traffic on the
Boston post road showed that the
average weight of vehicles and com
modities passing over the road in nine
hours each day was 1,140 tons. Add
ing one-third as a conservative esti
mate for tlie full day Increases'the
weight to 1,520 gross tons daily.
Experiments made at the Iowa ex
periment stution show that with gaso
line at 24 cents a gallon the cost of
moving this tonnage over a dirt road
would have been $20.44 a mile, assum
ing the Impossible) that such truflic
could he carried over a dirt road.
The cost of fuel for moving the same
tonnage over a paved road would be
$11.70, a difference of $14.7-1 a day.
On the basis of 800 days a year, the
actual saving in fuel alone for moving
this tonnage would be $-1,422. If the
paved highway costs $40,Q00 a mile,
the average interest at 5 per cent
would be $1,000 a year, which, de
ducted from'the saving on fuel, would
leave a balance which would retire
the cost of the road In less than twelve
years.
This calculation does not take into
account other savings in the cost of
operating commercial vehicles or value
of the heavy movement of passenger
veil teles.
In less developed rural sections the
value of the gasoline saved is reduced
in proportion to the lighter travel,
but the cost of the roads is corre
spondingly reduced, and there is no
doubt that an analysis and compari
son of the highway costs and the ve
hicle operating cost in any particular
case will demonstrate the economy of
improvement wherever the traffic Is
sufficient to call for any improvement
at all.
Improvement Started on
Two Important Highways
State Highway Director L. A. Bou-
lay announces that work on the unim
proved portion of the Ohio river road,
between Hamilton and Belmont coun
ties, a distance of over 300 miles, is
getting under way and that the entire
route will be open for traffic by the
end of 1924.
Local material will be used, gravel
being dredged from the Ohio river
and crushed stone being obtained from
quarries opened up nlong the route.
Work on the Atlantic & Pacific di
vision, which extends from Cincinnati
to Ironton, is to be inaugurated in a
few weeks at Point Pleasant, the birth
place of General Grant in Clermont
county, lie said.
Maintain Purity of Blood
Among the Hovas, the reigning race
of Madagascar, tbe two higher castes
are constrained by social law to main
tain a certain purity of blood, the
taking of a wife from outside the
clan being prohibited.
Better Roads Encourage
Farmers to Buy New Cars
Good roads and more of them is a
temptation that farmers cannot resist,
and these great concrete ribbons are
being built at the rate of approximate
ly 20,000 miles per year, with no in
dications of the work diminishing.
Reports from dealers throughout the
country are to the effect that farm
ers have already begun placing orders
for passenger cars and trucks for
spring deliveries in greater volume.