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DOUGLAS
VOL. If
DOUGLAS COUNTY NEWS,- DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1926
NUMBER 1
UPSHAW SPEAKS
TO LARGE CROWD
Congressman William D. Up
sha tv $pbke to a large crowd at
the courthouse Saturday after
noon. The house was well filled,
notwithstanding the downpour of
rain.
Mr. Horace Russell, councilman
' of Atlanta, made the opening, in
which he showed up Mr. Sims'as
not being an economic mayor nor
a friend to the working man.
He was followed by Rev. Luke
Rader, pastor of Central Baptist
church, Atlanta. He said anyone
who intimated taht Mr. Upshaw
would say one thing, and do an
other, told a lie.
The congressman made a con
vincing speech, making denial of
the various charges of his opon-
ents and stated that they were
absolutely false-
*2 The meeting was considered a
i Success by those who heard the
Ispeakers-
Western Douglas
Several from this part attended
i the revival services at Ephesus last
j week, conducted by Rev. Spinks.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Barber and
3 family have returned from Dallas,
|| where theyhave been visiting their
ft son. p . fl. , ; f"
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Davis and
j Mr. and Mis. Roy Davidson, of
j Birmingham, Ala,, visited their
j parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Da-
■ videos, last week.
I Mrs. Clarence Hatchings and
§ Mrs. Edwai d . Earn visited in
8 Whitesburg Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. George McLarty
were Atlanta visitors last Friday.
^The gammer sefrooMs nowlflring
taught at Bellview by Mrs. Steye
Waldroup.
Mr. and Mrs. Hershe! Kemp
spent the week-end in Winston.
Mrs. Sam Bell spent last Satur
day in Carrollton.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Barker, of
Dallas, are visiting in this section.
Mr. Homer Davidson and -fami
ly, of Birmingham, Ala., are
spending this week with his pa-
. rents.
VILLA RIDA
VILLA SICA, Aug. 4—(Spend
to The News) Villa Rica voted
on Bonds today for the purpose
of installing a Water Works 'Sys
tem andcarried if by. a over-whel
ming -majority of 188 to 37/
The vote shows the public spirit
of the pepple of Villa Rica for the
(progress of the town.
- With the Power line now being
inalalled by.the Georgia Railway
and- Power Company Villa Rica
can offer any advantages of any
town the same size in Ge’orpia.
<sxsxs>®®®®®®
Man 77 Years Old
Hikes 16,000 Miles
. Vancouver, B. C-—W. A. Chap-
man, seventy-seven, arrlved here
recently after, completing a hike
of 16,000 miles, which he began
July 10/1923, forfl $5,000 prize.
Pe finished. his task with two
years to spare. Chapman left
Milwaukee May 27, 1921, on the
last lap of his jaunt-, hnd then
Continued through \ Florida,
North Carolina and West /Vir
ginia. There he turned portli,
passing through Indiana and
Ohio and entered Canada lit
Fort Francis. He lives in
Millington, Conn. %
Interest Growing
In Highway Bridge
Near Tallpoosa
Tallapoosa, Ga. August 3. —
Special,—Announcement made in
Atlanta this week that thp plans
were drawn and that the contract
for the new Bankhead highway
bridge over the Tallapoosa river
at Bentley’s Mill, just east of
Tallapoosa, would be let within 15
days, has . created wide interest
in west Georgia and east Alabama
counties,
J. W‘ Hall, who move recently
from Woodlawn to Tallapoosa
and purchased the Bently proper
ty on the river, has just delivered
to the state highway department
a free deed to a right-of-way
through his property.
KEATON’S
KOMMENTORIES
Hail to the advent of the Doug
las County News! Long mgy it
live, to represent the people, and
the industries of this section, in all
battles of progress, righteousness
and truth/
Times have been extremely hard
for several years past, yet our
little “Burg’* has bravely carried
on. and soon will be equipped
with all the advantages of electri
cal power, which, no doubt, will
bring other industries to our city,
as well as utilized to great adva
tage by those already here.
The pOsibiliti^s are vast and for
reaching.
Let me say right here that
following the panic of 1920 too
many of us lost ah confidence in
the country, its products, and
values.for we know the country
is the- fbund^hTii''
economic and industrial sfgtem
and if it fails nothing will Tong
stand up-
There are Georgia men spend
ing time and money trying to
induce foreign labor to come here
and farm, which is very foolish.
They had better be trying to de
vise and work-out some plan to
prevent those already here; and
oh the job, going bankrupt from
Selling cheaper than they can pro
duce. f ‘
In this resepet the Douglas ville
Banking Co. is to be commended
.for the way they have financed
and backed up agriculture and
kept the faith during -all those
lean years.' |gjg« ,
- And Politics'llC warming up,
if the- mighty pen of Tints. iV
Watson was* not forever stilled by
death an illuminating page would
be written on the present Mexican
situation. What a great pity that
the brilliant jurist Waiter F. Geor
ge let the old war. and League of
Nations crowd persuade him he
could support the World Court
without paying the penalty, since
Watson is dead.
Hurrah for Dick Russell! Seiah.
John H. Keaton.
To the People |£ Douglas
County:
For fifty years I have served
among you and always stood for
Douglas County’s financial and
moral uplift. In asking yorir
support I want to tell you what I
stand for as well as call your at
tention to my record in serving the
people of this county while in the
Legislature. I am against all forms
of bonds or other indebtedness
that will increase the taxes of the
people. I am in favor of amending
the banking, laws of Georgia to
more fully protect depositors and
give more severe punishment to
those who are destroying the
banks, I am opposed to the Leg
islature passing any resolution
asking the United States GoDgress
to adopt or favor the League of
Nations or the World Court. I
am in favor of investigation of all
the departments looking to a more
economical and less expensive ad
ministration of the State’s busi
ness.
As to my record of what 1 have
done for the people of this Comity
and State: I was the author of thgg
bill creating the'first pardon Board
of Georgia; I was the author of the
bill creating the State Tubercular:
Sanitarium at Alto, Georgia, for
the treatment ot consumptives
where those unfortunates who are
unable to pay expensive doctor^;
bills can be cared for free of charge J
I was author of the State Board of-
Health Bill. Before this bill was
passed all those bitten by mad
dogs were forced to be treated at
the Pasteur Institute in Atlanta at
the rate of $200 per patient. This
bill ofpt® frpe treatment for all
.persons bitten by mad dogs. .
The State § Board of Health
treated during- the past year 2500
persons who were bittern by rabid
animals,' Had they been com
pelled to pay $200 at the Pasteur
Iustituie as they had to do before
passing, of this bill it would have
cost the people of Georgia $500, -
000. The State Board, of Health
also provides free typhoid vaciue,
anti-toxin for diptheria and other
diseases of like character to any
one who is not able to buy it.
1 aiped in passing the bill that
give the women of^Gebrgia the
vote. ‘ This bill was to harmonize
the Georgia law with the National
law. I always favored the women
voting, especially on educational
and moral issues;
I was one of the authors of the
uniform Book Bill,, which saves
thousands of dollars to the people
in buying school books. I was ap
pointed director of the Bankhead
Highway and located’ it“ through
Ijfeygjas County by my own efforts.
in entering this race I did so
at solicitations from every district
in the! county, and if elected my
best efforts will be to take care of
the State and County’s interests,
and whatever is coming to Douglas
County 1 will see that it gets it as
I have done heretofore.
Thanking you for past favors I
ask your continued support that I
may serve the people, if possible,
better than heretofore.
I am yours for service,
(Adv) T. iSi>- WHIJMiE Y
FLOO D-WREG KE D/SO N
INTERESTING PLACE
Happiest and Busiest City
of Mexico.
i More Rain and CoM Than
i Sun in w §unny” Italy
Borne, Italy—Southern and central
Italy’s proverbial suhniness have be
come somewhat of a jest as a result
of the constant drizzle, and biting chid
rain which have been falling for 'sev
eral weeks. Borne itself is beginning
to present an astonishing spectacle
with, its streets filled with pedestrians
wearing overcoats and carrying um
brellas.
• The oldest inhabitants of southern
Italy say that tlje summer has beeu
unprecedented within ; their memory.
Thousands of vacation seekers have
been flocking back from the beach
and mountain resorts. * The South has
teen particularly, affected. Naples,
where the heat is usually intense at
this season, was swept by a cold rain-
atom. ** , ■ ' . '*,"
Washington.—Nearly a thousand
people Were reported drowned' whetf
a dam broke and a wall of water de
scended upoii .Leon, fifth city of
•Mexico.
“Blotting out of the center of Leon
is a serious catastrophe to Mexico/-’
says a bulletin of the ‘ National
Geographic society from its, head
quarters in Washington, D 1 , O. “Com
paratively it is a greater disaster
than- the Johnstown or Bay ton floods,
because Leon is .one of the most im
portant .manufacturing centers - : of j
Mexico. '
■ “Leon's extensive : tanneries, 1 cotton |
and. woolen mills, and other smmufac- j
turies were close to ' the mountain
- stream which runs: through the town, j
Gomez,, the river is called, mid when
its. waters broke. loose it sent a flood
through;the heart, of what lias been j
catted ‘the' happiest and' busiest oily
of Mexico.’ Into; the: wash of the
flood the workmen’s houses of adobe |
’ earth dissolved like lumps of sugar in (
hot -.tea. .
Sow and Reap at the Same Time.
‘■Citizens of this industrial city can
not he held to .account for not guard-
ihg against such a menace. After;
Leon had been .swept, in 1888/ by a
si milari*flood which drowned 200 ,peo-'
pie, retaining walls and dikes (more,
than , a mile, in length, were, built -to,,
protect the city. But apparently these
walls could not cope with the rush of
water.
“Leon) full name Leon de 1®
Aldamas, is On the main lino of ilm
railroad from Mexico City to El Paso,
in the westernmost corner of Texas,
and has a population of 58,000. ftps’
250 miles northwest of Mexico City,
and therefore lies in the famous Mexi
can highlands where altitude has/de
nied the rights of latitude. A region
that ought to be steamiagly tropical,
or a hot desert has been* elevated to
a temperate-zone climate. It is not
uncommon to see barley being sown
in oiie field while it is being reaped in
the next.
“Leon lies in such a fertile valley
that agriculture holds its own 'easily
against the competing demands of
mining and manufacturing. Irriga
tion, however, is at oncq necessary
and picturesque. The fertile valley
round about is dotted with small res
ervoirs mirroring.the clear blue skies.
*f “Citizens of Leon are proud of its
Industry. ‘We*are nbt rich.’ they tell
( travelers, ‘but jve are workers.’ They
are proi i of La Hormtga (The Anti
m, •frlfctMJUWrY - Aik -Ju«U-iHfc.- |
sumaWJ in Mexico. They grow en
thusiastic over the cotton and woolen
and-sihfc.HijI^usiM.inpdern New Eng
land machinery. Yet large smoke-
stacked factorie i are not to be seen,
for two reasons. First, that electric
power is the: free gift of mountain
streams and second, much Of the man
ufacturing is done in the home. The
bridles and saddles for which Mexico
Is famous are made largely at Leon.
Their beauty lies in the tooling, tlie
embroidery and the intricate silver
ornaments. Tills is a task for the
craftsman, and like the craftsman of
(the MiclcUe ages, he (works, in Leon,
at his home, ' p,
“Names of. the ; garments made■ in
Leon are new u> Uib average Ameri-
■ can... Different fashions reign so .there
IS the serape, The irobozo,. the manta,
and tlie poncho. The robozo is tile
j peon. woman's equivalent;- of. the ex
pensive mantilla of the. upper classes,
The mauta ii ;v the whife , cotton/ gar
ment' worn by Iaborers everywhere.
The.-poncho and serape are woolen
shawls which - serve /as overcoat,
blanket or raincoat as the . need’ arises.
Circuit of Romance.
“A belle of Leon Is '.very particular
that her father shallilive somewhere
on Leon’s street, car line. ( It isn’t
that Bite is concerned that her father
have! easy transportation., back and
fortfl. to work It isn’t that she wor
ries about, bringing, the family sup
plies Horne from market. Street cars
in, Leon are vehicles of romance. De-
/sp’ite the Hollywood pro vies! the senor
* dOcs (not ...come' on a prancing mustang
to his sfenouta in this corner of Mex
ico. .He (comes by Street car. .
“Wooing is called. ‘playing the bear’
in Mexico. Once a (young blood of
most Mexican towns has fixed his
fancy On a (girl he stands, long hours
before her'house. ‘ Sometimes he fol
lows. her as she promenades, but at
‘a respectful distance. If his atten
tions are encouraged he receives an
invitatibn to call with ,(the family'pres
ent‘during the session. 'But in Leon
the belles and beaux begin differently.
The street car line In the city makes
a loop. The beaux, therefore, find it
expedient to board a street car and
ride past the houses of tfieir beloved.
Not once but, again and again and
round and round. And as the
car rolls along, each watches his
especial house for a signal. For the
girls, of course, the ^custom intro
duces a delightful element of expect
ancy. One never knows just When
the street ear will found the'corner.
One never knows whether the ‘bear’
will be on that ear. For the wooers
of Leon it has thigs additional advan
tage/ they get to see ail the girls en
the circuit.”
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First Bale Georgia
Cotton Brings $1 Lb.
Savannah, G».j Augnst 3—The
fri$t bale of Georgia-raised cotton
of this season was sold at auction
at the Savannah Cotton; exchange
today for $1 a pound! The ex
porters of Savannah made up a
pool to buy it. It was raised in
Bulloch county by J. R. and B. G;
Bowen and was received by the
Savannah Cotton Factorage com
pany. It will be shipped to New
York for resale.
ROCK CARVINGS
WORK OF INDIANS
Scientist Disputes Story of Vik
ing Exploration.
Washington.—The ancient rook
carvings, along the Columbia river,
which are translated by Prof. Oluf
Opsjon of Spokane as runic inscrip
tions made by Vikings in the Eleventh
century, tell a big story* but It Is aa
Indian story and not a record of Vik
ing exploration in western America.
Mils statement was made by Herbert
W. (Krieger, curator of ethnology of
the National museum, who has Just re
turned from three months’ stay in the
(region of the rock pictures,
Mr, Krieger spent some time study
ing the petroglyphs, Which are numer
ous along the Columbia river, and has
« number pf photographs, including
some frmn Vantage Ferry, where Pro
fessor Ojjsjcm claims to have found
runic inscriptions.
“The pictures pecked in the hard
basalt are extremely crude,” said Mr.
Krieger, “and anyone can read into
them anything he likes in order to
make a plausible story. To say that
' faff are Viking remains Is*to read
into them something that is not In
the pictures themselves.”
Crude as they are, some of the ob
jects scratched out on the rocks are
tsplcMly Indian, Mr. Krieger points
out. In the carvings can be seen such
. objects as bows and arrows and a rep-
Tesentfitlon clearly meant for a feather
head-dress.
Considering the numerous rock pic
tures along'the river ap a whole col-
-lection r -he finds evidence that they
tell the story of tribal migrations^ in
search fe4,food_and.,the na&.at the -Co-',
lumbla river as a path of migration.
They are mostly hunting and fishing
scenes, he. believes.! Mountain goats
and cUrved horned mountain sheep
are frequently portrayed. But why
these artists left such records to be
preserved In the hard stone and what
it (was they wanted to communicate
can only be guessed at, In the opinion
of this ethnologist. They had ho sys-
-tem of fixed, symbols with one or two
exceptions, so there Is no hope of find
ing a key to the mystery. !?-.
Shove Man’s Heart From
Right to Left; He Lives
•( Columbus, : Ohio/#! Breathing nor
mally, his . heart - action- steady! ' al
though a little weak, and sleeping tlie
sleep of the weary, Harry O. O.amer,
forty-five, was., “resting .'as wejl ns
could he expected.” in the new McKin
ley hospital here aCter-one.of rite most
!peculiar' operations ini record in. Ohio
' hospitals(.;,!-(.- >:.,(’(.(.:(, (.:(/'■,.-((:(-// : (/!%( ; /7|('
■! GiameCs heart, forced' far over to*
the right side by- an accumulation) of
.pus m the left lung;, was shoved from
the; right to tlie' normal side .by'. the,
operation, during: which he-was ■ con
scious throughout, i
• ■ Minus thq sixth rib of .his left side
and • suffering - only the natural sore
ness left by (the incision,-Gramer Is on
.the road to recovery, hospital attend
ants said.
1 Cramer, a swifchinnn for life Big
Four: railroad, and-Who -weighs over
2i)Ct;pou|i,ds, .suffered intense pains in
his right pleura tefi days ago and con
sulted Itr. F> S. Lawrence, house phy
sician at the new McKinley hospital.
A stethoscopie -(examination revealed
his heart was beating oh the wrong
side. An X-ray picture showed the
twisted heart, the left lung congested
and Highly inflated.
The insertion of a hollow needle to
drain the’ lung was unsuccessful and
the operation became necessary. Cra
mer, was so weakened that a local an
esthetic only could be used.
Physicians were unable to find the
cause of the lung congestion.
WACO BANK HEAD
DECLARED GUILTY
Buchanan, Ga., July 39.—Spec
ial, W. W. Heaton, former presi
dent of the Citizens bank at Waco,
Ga., which failed last November,
was found guilty of bank wreck
ing by'a HaTalsbn county jury td-
day. Mercy of the court was reco
mmended by the juyy and Judge
F. A. Irwin imposed a fine of
a thousand dollars or! Mr. Heaton.
This was*,a. hard fought case,
beginning Monday afternoon and
wag not ended until 10 o’clock
Thursday night, the jury return
ing its verdict at 1:30 this after
noon.
Several other cases are pending:
against Mr. Heaton, growing out
of the failure of the Waco and
Tallapoosa banks, but they will
not be tried in this session of the
superior court.—Constitution.
FIRST BAPTIST
CHURCH NEWS
Sunday School at 9=45, J. O.
Sayer Supt.
Preaching by pastor at 11:00
B. Y- P. U. at 6:30 Fred Morris
Pres.
Evemi^g Sermon at 8 o’clock.
The members of the First Bap
tist church are earnestly request
ed to be present at all these ser
vices. The public cordially in
vited.
Just received a new line of
pocket knives and razors, pome in
and look them over, -r Banks;
Bros.
FISH TALES BACKED 1
1 BY RARE SPiCIMENS
Saves Actress Who Leaps
Into River After Spat
Budapest.—For having leaped, fully
clothed, into the raging waters of the
swollen Danube and rescued the beau
tiful Hungarian actress, Paula Csaky,
Prince Domencio Bos^g, necretar^ ,
the Italian legation, is the hfero of ,
the hour.«While the prince and the;
actress were (having tea in a-cafe on !
Margaretten island, in the river, they
had; a quarrel and the temperamental
actress-.leaped into the river. The
prince-brought her ashore with great
Museum Party Collects
Deep-Sea Denizens.
4 . .' s ’ ———
! Charleston, S. C.—Fish tales, the
kind that are sometimes taken with
ja little salt,- are bring told here,
(backed by proof, however, In the form
jof a,collection of hundreds of species
(gathered by the schooner Blossom oa
(its recent scientific cruise. “
(j Tlie Blossom traveled 20,000 miles
[seeking specimens of pelagic littoral
and island life for the Cleveland mu-
: jseum. Of the more than 12,000 col
lected, 5,000 were forms of bird life
(and the. next'largest collection , com-'
(sisted of fish.
■■ “Headed by (Gapt. George F. Sim
mons, the expedition spent 31 months
(gathering iho siiecimens. Sharks, the
I deadly ban ac.uda, bonitos, tnnny fish,[
'Vellow-tail , jacks, .(flying! fish, needle
•(fish, skippers,, hall: beaks and grunts.)
(Were only a' few of the hunters’ prey.
' j. Among . the taleresting ‘ specimens
( brought back is. the PoriuguCse man
•of War^ known to sdqirce as a siphpn-
■'ophorfe; - The fish possesses tentacles
({speckled With- miejos^opic' bomb a
(which explode when they land on its
ivictim, and fire lnnjtue harpoons, in-
(jecting an acid pofsyn into the. .flesh.
Harpoon “Sea Devil.”
! . The “sea devil” or, “vampire of the |
flea,” closely resembling the . stihgaree ;
of these waters, was harpooned by .the I;
(Blossom. It has been known to pulll
the 'weight of a yessel > sifter (running| (
(afoul of. (the anchor (chain, /One blow:
(from-one of tlie wings, which extendi
fgl jinuCh as twelve feet from tip tql
tip can stave in a whaleboat.
! The Blossom encountered cat sharks,;
(jhrown, Wu.e. and deen.sea blue sharks,
[and obtained several excellent speci
mens of them,, including some newly. "
./born aboard ship; Man-eating sharks. -
(known as tigers or!great^(whitet sharks,/
(were rarely met,
I Several specimens of the deadly bar-
jractida were, secured. These are the
only fish the South American natives!
(dread. ' :'(( . (y 1
| With two fangs, measuring an inch,/
(jutting out from jaws of from eight to-, *
'ten inches long, the barracuda is.-
iequipped to feed upon any flesh itj
meets/ It is from two to four feet
long as a. rule and. attains a maximum
(weight of seventy-five pouuds.
Capture Qblden Dolphin. '(,
; Other fish caught Included the,gold)
[en dolphin, of changing hues, and the
oceanic bonito, reputed to be the- fast
est inhabitant or the Ocean. One flip
of its tail is said to be sufficient
(carry'Its torpedo-shaped-body a di»i
jtance ,of 160 feet or more. r ,
( Midocean fishing did not prove very:
(productive' and most of the specimens
[were caught near Islands in the South
[Atlantic. ' i
