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FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1924.
the McDuffie progress, Thomson, ga.
JThe McDuffie Progress r
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FAVORABLE CONDITIONS.
The Progress has asked numbers
of farmers how the boll weevil is
progressing in their cotton, and many
of them say they have not found any
go far, while others say Wiey are at
work in their cotton but not as bad
OS they were last year.
However, some of them are fear-
M that there will be too much rain
and that the weevil will get ahead of
them if it rains too much or too long.
It will be remembered that the sea
son last year was about the same as
at this time. The wet weather came
while the cotton was young, and be
came hot and dry when the cotton
got older and had matured bolls.
Some farmers are using poison
while others are not; some use the
molasses mixture, others prefer to
put it on in the dust form.
As a whole, condition of cotton at
this time seems to be as favorable as
at this time last year, according to
those talked with.
THE NOMINATION.
It was a had move when the Dem
ocrats selected New York as the
place to hold the convention. From
roe start it was apparent that the
money bags were against Mr. Mc-
Adoo. The kings of finance did not
want him and were determined that
he would not be nominated. It is a
serious blow to the success of the
party, not that Mr. Davis is not a fine that civilization "whieh sometimes we
man and no doubt fully capable of think is old, is really adolescent,
fnanaging the White House, but the They emphasized the necessity that
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WASHINGTON OPINION
By J. E. Jones.
Washington, D. C., July 10.
THE LITTLE RED SCHOOL
HOUSE.
The sixty-second annual meeting of
the National Education Association,
held in Washington, was one of the
most valuable conventions of the
year. This Association is represen
tative of a million school teachers in
the United States, and to their great
credit it may be said that they are
looking beyond the confines of the
so-called “little red school houses,’'
which are out of date in this modern
age, because they are not only too
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1910-1920. The increase is due to
the fact that immigration increased,
and that the death rate was as low
as has .ever been reported.
The expectation of life at birth in
the United States now equals 53.98
years of white males, and 56.33 for
white females. The Census Bureau
show's that this expectation of life
has increased 3.75 years for white
males, and 2.71 years for white
females. With booze on the tobog
gan slide the increase in population
of the United States may be greater
in coming years, and likewise folks
may live longer. The old “grogs"
small, but because they are also un- are perking up, and they are be
sanitary and oftentimes in charge of ginning to think that life is worth
immature teachers. Modern trans
portation provides the way by which
the moderate means of a small com
munity may olitain the larger facili
ties of surrounding communities, or
adjacent cities, and connect with “the
best the market affords” in the way
of educational facilities.
At the opening of their sessions
teachers assumed that “peace is the
greatest single issue of the age/’
With the vision of broad minded, in
telligent and constructive citizens,
the teachers indicated that they stood
squarely behind five salient planks
for the advancement of the peace of
the world. These five points were as
follows:
1. The codification of international
law.
2. The World Court.
3. Continuation of conferences be
tween the nations.
4. Further reduction of armament.
5. Open diplomacy.
Teachers expressed the thought
fact that the party was dominated
by selfish influences will carry many
votes to the Republicans or some in
dependent candidate.
SORROW AT WHITE HOUSE.
The last three successive families
occupying the White House in the
National Capital have been visited
with sorrow. . Mr. Wilson’s family
probably were the most severely
atricken. His first wife died while 1
be was president, and his own seri
ous affliction came upon him while
actively engaged in the duties of
president.
Then came the death of President
Harding in the full flush of his career
as president, and last the death of
the young son of President Coolidge,
which occurred Monday.
Old
Fords Meet New
Brother.
"Watch for the Ten Millionth
Ford” has become a slogan along the
Lincoln Highway.
The sturdy liti ,r ‘ car, crossing the
continent from New York to San
Francisco is performing in true Ford
style, maintaining a schedule which
will find it crossing Illinois and Iowa
on the third week’s lap of its cross
country run.
It has become something of a sen
sation along the great national road
way and is being welcomed with en
thusiastic demonstrations everywhere.
Accounts of the tour so far, dur
ing which the car traveled from New
York down through New Jersey, and
westward across the mountains in
Pennsylvania and out over Ohio and
Indiana, show that city, county and
State officials are joining with resi
dents of their communities in wel
coming the ten millionth addition to
the great Ford family. Particularly
demonstrative were the receptions in
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. At the
latter city the parade drew up at the
city hall where Mayor McGee and
other city officials extended a hearty
welcome.
Furthermore, the tour has become
A continual procession, for Ford deal
ers along the way are joining in es
corting the car from town to town,
and parades are varied and unique 1 and such treatment as was inflicted
in make-up. | upon them in the days when their
A feature is the appearance of old predecessors “boarded ’round,” and
the “teaching mind” should avoid
extremes, keep level, adhere to the
golden mean, and hold always to a
safe and secure policy of honor and
justice.
Upon such broad principles of
citizenship, and displaying a rare in
sight into the affairs and needs of
the world, quite different from the
days when school ma’rms ruled in
the little red school house, these
teachers demonstrated that they were
fully alive to the needs of the civilized
world. In their numbers were in
cluded men and women from far
away China, Japan, Scotland, the
British Isles, Germany, Norway,
Sweden, Belgium, Greece and Mex
ico. They showed that they had a
grasp upon education and its rela
tions to world affairs that was far
better and more accurate than that
possessed by the political groups
that have been yelling their heads
off and making the radio hideous
during recent days and weeks.
THE INTELLIGENT VOTER. (
Strange conditions exist .in this
free country of ours, bedecked with
school houses, and exuding patriotic
fervor. This statement is proved by
the report to the National Education
al Association showing that more
than 4,300,000 illiterates are entitled
to_vote in the United States for
President and Members of Congress.
The report shows that there are ap
proximately five million men and
women in the country who cannot
read, or cannot write. Strange as it
may seem in the Tight of the present-
day educational methods, it is never
theless a fact that there are men and
women living today who attended
schools in their early life in which
writing was not taught in the early
grades, and in many places children
were instructed to read through their
first, second and third readers with
out having a pen or pencil in their
hand.
The teachei’s have organized most
effectively, and it is very clear to
any one who understands them that
they are taking the necessary steps
to put their profession upon the high
est piano of efficiency. The school
teachers of today, and tomorrow, are
to be protected against low wages,
Ford cars. In one Pennsylvania
town Ford model “T” No. 1004, an
old “Tourabout,” joined in the par
ade and another town turned out
Model “T” No. 1054, both demon
strating Ford efficiency and endur
ance by running right along with
their ten millionth brother.
Night stops are featured with mo
tion pictures showing the assembly
on June 4th of the ten millionth Ford
car in the great Highland Park plant
of the Ford Motor Company at De
troit. Motion pictures are also being
taken along the route so that a com
plete movie history of the tour will
have been made by the time the car
reaches the West Coast.
The Baptismal Pool
The place where persons are bap
tized by Immersion Is generally called
the baptismal pool. The font Is the
name given to the place of baptism
In an Episcopal church, even where It
is large enough to Immerse the candi
date for baptism—which. Is allowed
but not required. In that church.
"Catsup” From the East
Catsup Is a word derived from the
tame of an East Indian pickle. The
term was first applied to the boiled
tpiced Juice from suited mushrooms,
but is now freely used for various
fauces which consist of the pulp—
boiled, strained and seasoned—of to
mu toes, green walnuts. etc
Poison Ivy Plentiful
Widely distributed throughout the
United States a species of poison Ivy
If found which climbs up the tall
tranks of trees and In uud out among
the bushes along the road, luxuriating
in fence corners and even thriving In
wastes of sand where little other vege
tation can exist,
taught “the young idea how to shoot,”
in the “deestrict” school.
GAINING ON LIFE.
The United States is now bound-
THE DIGEST.
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ROADU-
THE OIL INDICTMENTS.
The wheels of justice have started
to grind with Albert B. Fall, E. L.
Doheny and his son, and H. F. Sin
clair ticketed for the grist. Unon
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living, even with the booze lert out;
arid they will generally agree that
“life, like a dome of many-colored
glass, stains the white radiance of
Eternity.”
Figures show that human beings
can absolutely gauge and measure
everything from skim milk to the
average length of life, and the per
centage of deaths among human be
ings is only an arithmetical problem
for them. On the latter score the
life insurance companies figure aver
ages twice a year, and the first ques
tion their agents ask :3 “your near
est birthday.” If you are fifty years
of age the agents will insure you on
the expectation of life for 24.08 ad
ditional years, and they will figure
out the premium to the penny.
Nothing but a pestilence or a war
could possibly upset the accuracy of
their estimates. They have even
these pretty well discounted. The
agents will not tell you so, but their
companies have reason to hope to
get the best of you upon basic stan
dardized, established and accepted
chances lor living and dying, due to
the fact that the campaign to reduce
infant mortality, and the progress
in fighting thej worst diseases of
adults, including cancer and tubcrcu-!
losis, as wed as the improved sanitary ]
conditions and standards of living, I
leaves every reason for these an-!
thorities to believe that it will not
be long before ten years will be ad
ded to the expectation of human life.
KILLING TIME.
Mail from New York to San Fran
cisco between dawn and dusk is now
an accomplished achievement in the
postal service. The National politi
cal conventions have been radioed
throughout the country, and this
means of communication has been so
generally employed that extra issues
of newspapers have been almost en
tirely dispensed with. During the
Cleveland convention many pictures
were sent by wireless and appeared
in the metropolitan newspapers.
Thus we have within a few weeks
the absolute accomplishment of two
of the moat revolutionary changes
in the methods of our life known jn
the histoiy of the world. Yet thole
new devices for killing time haven’t
excited very much unusual interest
or comment. Radio receiving Gets
are about as common as elothes-
wringers. Radio and airplane ser
vice have gradually grown into our
lives, with the result that every one
agrees that “of course nothing else
could happen.” Why shouldn’t we
have mail routes across ihe country
making the trip in a single day?
Why shouldn’t the words of Chairman
AValsh at New York, or of Chairman
Mondell at Cleveland, have been
heard instantly? When these men
got a little hoarse a few million peo
ple knew about it in all parts of the
country. The whole thing is a little
hard on the nerves, but otherwise
it is “just what we expected.”
FARM BUSINESS LOOKING UP.
Government reports upon the farm
situation show improvement. Sec
retary of Agriculture Wallace says
that the exchange value of farm pro
ducts for the things that farmers
buy now stands at the highest point:
in nearly four years. This means
that the farmers’ dollar has a larger
purchasing power, which is to be at
tributed to the continued slow decline
in manufactured and food commodi
ties while the farmers’ goods have
held their own. Corn and wheat
growers are feeling better than us
ual, while the meat and dairy situa
tion has picked up. In another Fed-
ing ahead with on average gain in oral statement it appears that wheat
population of 1,778,750 a year, as on 7,852 farms cost on the average
compared with an average increase of $1.24 a bushel in 1923, while the
of 1,418,100 during the decade of average sales value was but 99 cents.
Farmers Should Stand
Together.
Atlanta, Ga., July 10.—“No fair-
minded man will dispute that the
present unfortunate plight of the
American fanner is largely the re
sult of discriminating legislation,”
said C. W. McClure, Atlanta merch
ant and capitalist, in a statement
made to the correspondent of this
news service. “So long as the judi
ciary, legislative and administrative
branches of our government are com
posed of only 3 per. cent farmers,
what relief can' be expected. Here
again the farmer’s salvation is in
his own hands.”
Mr. McClure, who is a recognized
political leader of many years stand
ing, takes the position that farmers
should stand together in political
movements and strengthen the farm
bloc in Congress by electing more
farmers and business and profession
al men who have the ability and
sympathy to aid agriculture with
remedial legislation; and fewer pro
fessional politicians and lawyers.
“Too many lawyers in Congress
are responsible for innumerable un
necessary laws which are violated
because they are unwise and more
frequently because they are not un
derstood,” Mr. McClure said. “The
fact is, very few lawyers themselves
real^i know what the law is.
“The least governed people, in my
opinion, are the best governed. We
should have fewer laws, and the laws
that are passed should be so plainly
written that the common man can
understand the meaning.
“We have arrived at the cross
roads where the political sign boards
mean little. There should be diversi
fied farming, diversified thinking and
independent voting by farmers, work
men and business men.”
Mr. McClure told this newspaper
correspondent tha t he has always
been proud of the fact that he was
born in a log cabin, far back in the
woodlands; that he was reared among
simple-thinking, God-fearing country
people, and he was as proud today
that after thirty-eight years in the
city, he had not outgrown the lessons
of his country breeding.
Establishing Credit
If you never break a promise, If you
slwnys pay tile money you owe exact
ly on the day it is due, nobody will
know hut that you are worth a billion.
And you will be just as good a risk
is n man worth a billion, for all that
ae could do would be to pay promptly
in the due date.—Hamilton Fish.
Blade of Broadsword
The broadsword has a long cutting
edge and usually an obtuse or bluut
point. A sword with which the attack
is delivered witty the point is called a
small sword. Such a sword has no
cutting edge.
learning of the indictments by the
Grand Jury of the District of Co
lumbia, an attorney representing
Mr. Doehny commented that he wel
comed the change of venue from the
tribunal of political gossip to the
courts of justice. No doubt the gen
eral public will share with this clever
observation, and welcome Mr. Fall
and his friends into court in order
that they may clear themselves, if
they can, of the charges which they
face—and which are more than per
sonal inasmuch as they reflect a kind
of national disgrace. Charles W.
Morse and his sons and associates
were brought before the District
Courts charged with graft and fraud
against the GovernmSnt, but they
were discharged after a fair and im
partial trial. If the oil men fare as
well the public will undoubtedly be
satisfied that the conditions that have
created a public scandal are “politi
cal,” as the defendants have claimed.
These defendants will be tried in the
lower court, and should they be con
victed there Will be appeals and de
lays, with all kinds of wire-pulling
and attempts to defeat the Govern
ment. But everyone who has watch
ed the progress of the Senatorial oil
investigation will perhaps feel a
gratification that the matter has gone
to the Courts where verdicts repre
senting only true justice uninfluenced
by political considerations will satisfy
the public.
THE MIGHTY TIN CAN.
The value of canned food stuffs
passing through the ports of contin
ental United States increased from
about twenty-five million dollars be
fore the war to over one hundred
million dollars last year.
THE COST OF SCRAPPING SHIPS.
The Navy Department has paid,
or settled, claims aggregating more
than S40,000,000 growing out of the
scrapping of American battleships
and battle cruisers under the limita
tion treaty. The total amount re
quired to make the settlements, after
adjustments, was $29,500,000.
THE WORLD’S WOOL CLIP.
Estimates secured by the United
States Government show the number
of sheep in the world to have been
approximately 568,617,000 before the
war, while the present number is
499,380,000. The world wool clip has
therefore been slightly diminished.
UNION WAGES.
The United States Bureau of La
bor Statistics reports the average
for all trades taken collectively, as
having been higher for the census
year 1923, than in any preceding
year. The increase was nine per
cent over the fiscal year 1922; 84 per
cent higher than in 1917; 111 per cent
higher than in 1913, and i35 per
cent higher than in 1907.
TO EXTEND BEET INDUSTRY.
Thirty-four employes of the Bureau
of Plant Industry. Department of
Agriculture have been assigned to
the study of sugar plant production.
Twenty-one men are in the field ser
vice. Primary interest and activity
relate to sugar beets, and also to
sugar cane. Private sugar beet in
terests throughout the country are
cooperating. The result will un-
doubedly be the extension and en
largement/ of sugar beet production
in various parts of the country.
CAR LOADINGS.
Grain and grain product loadings
By H. IRUINQ K 1 N QJg
MARE-BROWED MEN
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ARE-BROWED men are de
scribed as those whose t,\ eorm. s
meet above the nose. In many sec
tions of this country and Canada it is
considered unlucky to meet such a
niun when starting on a Journey, going
hunting, or about to engage in any
new enterprise. The superstition is
patently a form of the superstition of
the evil eye which, having come down
to us through unnumbered centuries,
is as potent now in some countries as
it ever was. In Italy and in the Le
vant, for Instance, the belief in the
evil eye is taken as n matter of course
and few there be in those lands who
would question It. The superstition
as a whole lias already been dealt with
In this series. That the .mare-browed
man superstition is a phase of it is
evidenced by the fact thnt in some
sections of Canada and this country
such a man Is supposed to be able to
“east spells.” The uniting of the
eyebrows gives a peculiar look to the
eyes and oflftimes a sinister one—it
emphasizes the power of the glance,
as It were, and thus naturally calls to
mind the “evil-eye.” The superstition
regarding 111 luck attached to cross
eyed persons and marc-browed per
sons are the two most common forms,
In which the evil eye superstition man
ifests Itself in this country; except in
cases where immigrants have brought
with them across the Atlantic the su
perstition in its original form.
((c) bv McClurwNewspaper Syndicate.)
BEST WAY TO PLANT
TREES ON ROADSIDE
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The Junior Republic Of
The South.
Atlanta, Ga., July 10.—The juvenile
court system which has been put in
to operation in many parts of the
South through the influence and ac
tivity of the Juvenile Protective As
sociation of Atlanta has gone a long
ways toward the protection of Juve
nile criminals hi the opinion of Rev.
Ciawford Jackson, general secretary
of the association, now rounding out
more than a quarter of a century of
work in behalf of child welfare.
As pointed out by Secretary Jack-
son, which is being commented upon
by editors, philanthropists and others,
it is a mistake to deal too harshly
with the young criminal or the boy
who has violated the law while of a
tender age.
The Junior Republic of the South,
an institution for wayward boys and
girls which the Juvenile association
is now seeking to establish, will af
ford an unusual opportunity for this
class to secure an education and be
given training in industrial, agricul
tural and commercial pursuits to fit
them better citizenship.
Funds for the institution, which
will be established on a site of 103
acres, 14 miles from Atlanta, will
be raised throughout the South, in
which the juvenile association has
been actively engaged for many years
in rescuing youthful criminals. The
total cost of the institution is esti
mated at $100,000, of which Atlanta’s
quota has been fixed at $25,000.
Mayor Sims has been asked to ap
point a special committee which will
raise the amount. The Republic will
were higher throughout the country be patterned after the George Junior
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in June than in the same month last
year. The same results were obtain
ed in increased live stock loadings.
THE PATENT OFFICE.
One and one-half million patents
have been issued by the United States
Republic of New York State,
nationally known institution, which
has accomplished great results in
rescusing boys and girls frolri a life
of crime.
Secretary Jackson announced today
that he was in correspondence with
Government since the present patent city officials of Greenville, S. C., look-
office was organized in 1836. Before j ing to the establishment of a juvenile
court system in that city.
Little Sweetwater And
Big Briar Creek.
the last date about 9,967 patents
were issued under Presidential au
thority.
MEXICO HAS FINANCIALITIS.
The Government of Mexico failed
to meet interest payments on its „ r _ ^ ^
$500,000,000 debt for the first six Mrs ; L - °- Dressel and children re
months of 1924. New York bankers tur, ? ed to her home in , Augusta after
were holding the bag, but they have t vlslt to relatives and friends in Mc-
- - - -- - - - - Duffie county.
Mr. and Mrs. Omar Guy spent Sat
urday and Sunday with Mrs. Guy’s
parents at Winfield.
Mrs. Geo. S. Story has returned
not declared Mexico in default.
PANAMA CANAL.
Vessels passing through the Pana
ma Canal for the fiscal year just
ended numbered 5,230, and the tolls from a pleasant visit to relatives in
ifO/i oon c\ao ,
were $24,290,963.
Snowdrop Nutritious
The “chaste harbinger of spring,”
the English snowdrop, appears to owe
its introduction into England to the ; V't ™
Renpflietlne monks ,hn i * h ® 4th of Jul y> S lven b V Mr - M - A
Culpepper
Savannah,
Mrs. Watson Usry and children
spent Wednesday with her mother.
Mr. and Mrs. John B. Montgom
ery and daughters, Mamie and Baro,
attended the barbecue at Dearing on
Benedictine monks, who discovered
that the roots of the snowdrop pos
sessed properties nutritious enough to
merit their cultivation near their mon
astery.
Keen Competition
A man with a few simple facts tt
state hasn’t much chance to get the
floor when a man who is a fisherman
by Instinct, a lawyer by profess'on
Mr. Robert Fowler and family,
Misses Bessie and Edna Verdery, of
Augusta, and Lena Allen, of Fort
Valley, spent the 4th of July with
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hall.
Misses Mamie Montgomery and
Ouida Belle Whitaker left Sunday
for a few days visit in Macon and
Wadley.
Miss Bayo Montgomery spent Fri-
nnd » golfer by cultivation Is already j da Y ^ nd ® atu ? da y with Misses
contributing to the
Kansas City Star.
conversation.—
Believed Earth Round
Sir John Mandevllle, author of one
of the earliest English books of travel,
which was published In the Fourteenth
century, was one of the few men be
fore Columbus’ discovery who believed 'turn,
the earth to be round.
Pauline and Annie Kelley.
We are having some very heavy
rains on Brier Greek, which retards
farm work and lets the grass have
full sway.
The 4th of July has passed with
its pleasures aftd sorrows. Who can
tell what will come ere another
passes? Many of our loved ones
may be far away, some never to re-
Tprmiq for ourls New Seale lnvented
AtUlIilo OIHJco lUi gllio, Electrically-operated scales have
1)GVS WOIHeil 3,11(1 men. keen invented that prevent more than
^ ’ y I a desired amount of dry groceries be-
J. IVI. Mayes. ling poured from bins into receptacles.
(By JENS JENSEN, Lincoln Highway
Architect.)
Roadside planting should be a part
of the general character of the land
scape, so that the roads themselves do
not appear as a definite line apart from
the rest of the landscape, but a means
to an end that Is In sympathy with Its
surroundings.
The highways are the points from
which' the traveler sees and enjoys thei
surrounding country. It Is, therefore,
of Importance that the roadside plant
ing does not shut out adjacent lands.
Out on the plains, the open country
and the freedom of it Is a real charm
and inspiration.
Even roadsides lined with rows of
trees In the avenue fashion would be
a mistake. This not only would change
the broad expanse of prairie country
but would tend to checkerboard the
prairie landscape. The same Idea may
hold good In mountainous countries
where the valley is the object of
beauty.
Scattered trees planted promiscu
ously along the highway, as one sees
them in the forest, are more In keep
ing with our landscape and with the
American mind thnn stately avenues of
monarchies. It Is rather lanes that we
wnnt, or pikes, as they are called In
the South, where trees seem to enjoy
the roadside and each other’s com
pany. There Is nothing stiff or set
about It. A lane or a pike Is tolerant
even to the shy but sweet violet that
may be permitted to scatter Its per
fume along the highway.
I have seen pikes In Kentucky that
come as near to what I consider a
beautiful American highway ns any
thing I know of. They nre serviceable,
beautiful nnd cool oh hot summer days.
Native plants of all sorts find a happy
home along these roadsides and give
their benuty and their wonderful mes
sage to the passerby, and in them nest
our birds that thrill us with their
songs.
We want this expression of freedom
along the open road. We want shad
ows and we want sunlight. We want
the comfort of shady lanes, nnd we
want the beautiful outlooks over the
surrounding country.
I hnve passed over prairie roads
with nothing hut wavy plains in green
and brown before me, and way off In
the horizon the purple riches on the
crest of a prairie wave. Those nre in
spiring things, and they stimulate a
love for our native land.
All roadside planting should he de
termined and based on the country and
the native vegetation through which
the road winds Its way. In this way
the roadside planting will become a
part of the genera! landscape, and en
hance the beauty of Its surroundings
as far as this Is possible for a highway
to do. For instance, swamp or lowland
landscapes are of a widely different
character than prairie or hilly country,
and the vegetation fitting for these
different types of landscapes are
equally different.
Every plant has Its proper place In
the out-of-doors. To find this place is
worth while, because here it reveals
Its greatest beauty and gives us joy
In the fullest measure. Trees adapted
to their environs may grow to great
age and nobility, and in this way high
way planting will become a most im
portant tusk In the making of our
rural landscapes.
Roadside planting, the development
of state reservations nnd rural parks
are equal in Importance to city plan
ning, and are far greater In scope and
vision than the latter. A period of
great cultural advancement is always
measured by the vision and the out
look for the future. Roadside planting
belongs to such u period.
Immense Road-Building
Program for California
Highway work in California sched
uled for 1924 is expected to reach
$15,000,000. In addition there will be
approximately $7,500,0Qp for mainte
nance work from the two cents per gal
lon gasoline tax, which is 50 per cent
more than the sum available during
the last year.
Figures compiled by The Automobile
Club of Southern California Indicate
that the state must provide highways
to accommodate one-tenth of the auto
mobiles in the United States owned by
residents, and an additional quarter of
a million motor vehicles annaUly
brought into the state by visiting *4tir-
tsts from all parts of the country.
New highway construction In
era California during 1923 totaled
$3,404,596, which was in addition to
the uncompleted contract of 1922 and
the street paving done by municipali
ties. In addition to this work $425,767
was spent In building bridges on
county and state roads.
Tourists in Connecticut ‘
Exactly 371,266 automohllists paid
fees to cross the three trunk line toll
bridges In Connecticut during last July,
August, and September, In comparison
with 339.917 during the same period
of 1922. the state highway depart
ment announced In making public
a statement of receipts from toll
bridges for the last summer. Those
three months hnve always been pro
ductive of greater revenue to the
state than any others, due to the large
amount of summer motoring.