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THE BANNER-HERALD
ATHENS. GA.
The Cup Changes Hands
Published Every Evening During the Week Except Saturday and
Sunday and on Sunday Morning by The Athens Publishing Compai;>,
Athens, Ca.
EARL B. BRASWELL Publisher and General Manager
H. J. ROWE Editor
CHARLES E. MARTIN , Managing Editor
Entered at the Athens Postoffice as Second Class Mail Matter under
the Act of Congress March 8, 1879.
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Thoughts For The Day
For the wind passeth over it, and it U gone;
and the olace thereof shall know it no mere.—
P*. 103:16.
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded
with doubt and controversy; the inscription mould
ers from the tablet; the statue falls from the pedes
tal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but
heads of sand, and their epitaphs but characters
written in the dust.—Washington Irving.
AS OTHERS SEE US
The recent floggings in this state have attracted
nation-wide attention and many of the newspapers
have been lavish in their criticisms of the conduct of
the fioggers in Macon.
The fact that there have been a number of flogging
cases in certain sections of the state should not stamp
Georgia as a lawless an uncivilized state. Recently
Straps were abolished in-the convict camps of the
state and the whiping of convicts is now prohibited.
That action on the part of the governor was an ad
vanced step towards humane treatment for the unfor
tunate ones who have violated the law and brought
upon themselves incarceration in the prisons und
• convict camps of the state. Georgia cait boast of as
high and moral citizenship as any state in the union,
and the outbreaks which have occurred at Macon
and Mitledgeville should not be held as an indict
ment of the citizenship of the whole state.
'he Columbia, (S. C.) State in speaking of the
conditions in Georgia and Texas, in part says:
Whether the men who have been flogged
are or are not bad men we do not know—not;
does any one else. This we do know,, as does
every one else—if the flogging of men by mobs
shall not be stopped in Georgia and Texas, it is
only a question of time when the flogging of
good men will begin.
A state that' is not governed by law will, soon
or late, cease to be a state. When mobs have
flogged enough to satisfy their desire for that
sort of indulgence, no other than themselves
and those who do not especially mind being
Hugged will bo left as dwellers within its terri-
tory.
There is some grounds for criticism, but in a great
state of nearly three million population there is
bound to be some few representing a lawless element -
However, the officers of the law are using their best
efforts to run down and bring to justice such crimi
nals and their efforts are backed up by the great
mass of law abiding and moral citizens of all com- *
munities.
Georgia is nq worse than other states but the few
unfortunate occurrences recently have caused exag-
crated reports to be spread over the country and
pla^c-l this state in the limelight for unfavorable
comment.
BUILDERS
BEKTONiB^iy^'
BUILDERS
By Berton Briley.
Oh, Cheops was a Pharaoh who
built a pyramid
(Or rather, stole the credit for
what hla workmen did,
The carpenters and masons, and
other men of skill,
Who built the pyramids so well
that they are standing still.)
A NEW MONEY CROP DEVELOPED
Tobacco raising in Georgia has-proved a profitable
industry, especially in South Georgia. The Coffee
County Progress has the following to sa^ of tobacco
in that county;
The season as it now appears, will end with
sales approximating one million seven hundred
thousand pounds of tobacco sold on the floors of
the local sales warehouses. The prices furnish
ed by warehouse-statistics have averaged for the
entire season within a few. fractions of 27 cents
per pound—a most remarkable average for any
crop of tobacco grown in any year fn any local
ity in any tobacco belt in America. This aver
age is remarkable in a variety of ways; and
counting the most unfortunate seasonable, condi
tions that have existed, according to statements
by oldest residents—the heaviest rains during
the crucial growing period of the crop—in a
generationyet the best average grades of to
bacco have been placed on the market here that,
has ever been on our market.
If tobacco can be grown successfully in that sec
tion of the state it can be grown successfully in North
Georgia. Hart county has demonstrated that to
bacco can be grpwn profitably. Of course it would
not be wise to eleminate cotton—both can be made
ready money crops and increase the income from
farm lands. It is only another crop which can be
grown and it is in keeping with the system of diversi
fying crops as inaugurated by the state college of
agriculture.
In days gone bv„ the farmer produced a cotton
crop and some corn, oats and feedstuff for his cat
tle and stock and that was about the extent of the
farming industry. When "layihg-by time” came
the farmer felt that he was through work until time
to harvest his crop and when the crop was gathered,
it was vacation time with him .until February or
March when the new crop was commenced and the
same routine .of farming was renewed. Those days
have passed and now agricultural pursuits have
grown to be a business. To farm profitably, the
farmer must produce something every month in the
year. It is an all-year-round business and the farm
er who makes farming a business, is the one who
succeeds.
However, growing crops and diversifying is not
the only income from the farm. The cow, hog and
hen program must be kept up and cotton and to-
bicco grown as a ready money crop.
Nebuchadnezzar had a queen—a
queen in Babylon,
And she grew weary of the plains
her vision rested og.
"Oh, give me hills to gate upon,"
she whispered to the king;
Nebuchsdnessar answered her,
"111 do that little thing.”
, .. , tune
The.sultana and the emperors,] It hurts.
since History began, • if man could know and feel tho
Have given little credit to the [ prldo Ids neighbors entertain for
a a C ? m .L nun w° r kmgmah, j those that follow honest paths in
And yet their tombs and palaces,) sunshine and In rain—If ho could
■ I : ., .'I uuuniiiaau tassu ill mill Ik lit! LUUIU
temples and their j view t he world’s respect and’ con-
their
WllM WJj* . _ .. ! fidenco I ween he’d never stoop
Were built by common working-; to c i a j m its scorn, its calumny and
j spleen.
Misfortune comes on unan
men in grimy overalls.
that
Upon tremendous arches
clambered to the sky
He laid out hanging gardens to
glad bis consort’s eye.
(Nebuchadnezzar built them—or
thus the stories read,
But it was cunning workingmen
who really did the deed.) i
We aim to get no credit that IsVt
rightly ours,
We hand it to the architects who
Y>lan the lofty towers,
We slip it to the engineers who
use their hands and brain
Designing bridges, ship* and tools
that stand each stress and
strain. <«*.
But granite doesn’t carve itself,
and st$el won't jump in
place,
place, t
And tool, don’t simply operate by
some supernal grace, .
No, that’s where We collaborate,
and we desire to claim
An honest share of glory for .the
doing of the samel
DID IT EVER OCCUR TO YOU?
A Little of Everything And Not Much of Anything.
By HUGH ROWE.
Johnny Spencer, the verse*
tile feature writer on the Ma-
con Telegraph, carried an
item in hie column a few days
since which will be of Rarest to
the people of Athens. It tclla of
an Incident which occurred with
tho late lamented. Dr. Troy Beatty,
j which was typical of tho man who
possessed a store of humor and
fun In his makeup. It says:
Well, “They” are Two of Every
thing They Call Us.
They are calling Johnny Spencer
Colonel. All of which reminds us
of tho time a friend of the late
'Rev. Troy Beatty of Athens want*
ed to have a little fun with him
and addressed him a letter like
this—
COL. TROY BEATTY
But the man who got ahead of
"Father Beatty” when it came to
quiet fun had to get up early and
{stay up after everyody else bad'
I gone to bed. He wrote his friend
i and addressed him like this—
? JIM SMITH, COL.
And when there was a kick
said he had simply nut his friend’s
title after his nnme instead of in
front of It—Savannah Press.
will have tho active direction of
this bank which occupies a broad
field la commercial circles la this
and other states.
ounced to high and low degree,
sometimes engulfed, enmeshed,
man sinks while struggling to bn
free; sometimes fate's fickle hand
removes his ono last, solo sup
port, and failure spreads its som
ber shades where fortune held tho
fort. ' ,
But he that does his level best
in good times and in bad. who does
not metamorphose self from gen
tleman to cad—yea. he that strives
to do the right and does It with
out fear will reap reward from
God and man and have friends
everywhere.
ATHENS TWeEve YEARS AGO
Sunday, September 3, 1911.
Mrs. Theresa Julian, o£ Nash
ville, Tenn., took charge of the set
tlement work in West Athens.
Dr. Charles,' H. Herty arrived
from England where he had tour
ed that country in an automobile.
Misses Annie Linton and Nellie
Sprout returned from an extended
trip .to European countries*
Dr. J. W. Lynch, new pastor of
the First Baptist church, preache/1
his first ser/non for that congre
gation.
Dr. J. O. A. Grogan, of Atlanta,
preached at tho First Methodlts
church, morning and evening.
For the year ending September 1,
the cotton receipts for the city of
Athens aggregated, 105.156 bales.
Of this total of 105,158 bales there
were 23,078 bales which ca mo Into
the city from surrounding sections
by wagon.
Tho city court judgeship caso oc
cupied several columns of pros
and cons from Judge Henry West
j and Hon. T. J. Shackleford as to
Ernest Camp, editor of tha
Walton Tribune, is not only
one of the brightest and ablest
writers of the state press,
but he is endowed with ft gift for j who would be judge after Septem
verse and proso writing ,?hlch is j her 12. Mr. Shackleford stated to
far above the average. Along with j an Atlanta newspaper man: "I do
Frank Stanton, Dan Bickers and, not anticipate any trouble. I don’t
other well known journalists, Ed-j think Judge West will rate*. any
Itor Camp ranks as one of the! (ague about the expiration of hit
best. In last week's issue of the [term. I do not see how he can. It
Tribune the following from his pen in not up to me to institute pro-
will bo read with interest: ceedings. My commission entities
Playing the Game ■ mo to the office until the higher
For when the ono Great Scorer courts declare to the contrary.” To
The announcement of the
Jteision of Mr. Charles H.
Phtnlzy to make Augusta his \
future home brought reeret to
the people of Athens In all walks
of life, nis departure Is a dis
tinct loss to tho community, not
jotto the commercial Interests,
j b n civic, chart*v and c*l irt"»o*ts
And now Former Senator Hoke Smith is being
boomed for the vice presidency. The cat is out of the
bag and Jim Kevin’s mystery has been solved.
which go to make up sool cit
izenship. However, the connection
in business with which he will be
Interested was quite an Inducdfecnt
and one which would be attractive
to any business man. He will oc
cupy the position of first vice
president of the Georgia Railroad
Bank, one of the oldest and most
substantial banking Institutions fn
the south. Its capital stoek, re
sources «M| undivided., profits rep
resent several million dollars. Jle
comes
To write against your name,
He writGs not that you won or
lost,
but how you played the game.
There’s lots of shining attributes
to mark the splendid man, but
seems to mo there’s one that
gleams far-flung along the van—
there’R ono that lifts its lofty bead
toward the vaulted sky end, nil
sufficient, seems to smile and les
ser things decry.
The best of traits Is honesty, a
willingness to pay, an all consum-
wish to meet your fellow :nan
half way: a blunt, determined aim
to clean life’s vari-checkered slate
of oil the debits It contnlns, re
gardless of one’s f3te.
I like the 'man who’s known as
which Judge West was quoted In
replying: "Sailing under flag of
physical force capture whatever
his fancy determines—his lntcresta
desire.” . .j»-
Columbus High Is
Preparing For Its
- 1923 Grid Season
. coLUMBUR, Ga.—Preparations
foi* the 1923 gridiron season al
ready have been started by the
Columbus High School Eleven
Coach Clyde Chestnutt’s first trum
pet’cal Iwas answered Friday night
when candidates for the team me
to discus plans (or the season. A
two weeks camp will be held a'
Wa;,m Springs and at the end ot
£ ssr
pay, who doesn’t squirm nnd«J»e
and £faoat. and who doesn’t \ run
away: I like the man whose word
Is held as sacred as his life, who
■won’t evade, or trim or shirk, no
matter what the strife. ■
I like the man who tries to pay,
regardless of the tides, who shut*
44s eyes to all save that where
honor bright abides, who stints
nnd strives and slaves to meet his
just and honest debts, then turns
MURDER TRIAL DELAYED
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y.—Tb«
murder trial of Walter S. Ward
set for next Tuesday has been
postponed until September It. Su
preme Court Justice Wagner said
that it wtfuHP; be impossible for
fciin to read air the papers in thv
caafe by Tuesday,
from Vanderbilt University, will
In charge of all athletics, and it is
safe to predict that G. M. 'A. “
present teams as well coached
the McGugin system' will produce.-
In the English department,
Captain B. M. Bland will be in
charge. Captain Blan, perhaps is
one of tho best known prep school
men in the south, .having served
for a number of years at the Ton
nessee (Military Institute before
coming to G. M. A.
••Captain & H. Huff, for some
time the disciplinary officer and
professor of mathematics at Ken
tucky Military Institute will k*so
harge of the mathematics depart
ment hero.
“Buildings on the campus have
been thoroughly renovated this
summer and everything is in per
fect readiness for the opening. The
physics and chemistry laboratories
|B. I. Jl, WILL OPEN
r'fhaTO'been restocked,' the class
Jxooma re-tinted’and; all tho dor-,
; ml tomes prephretT for the opening.
Anderson Plumbin.
Iffll/fl ATTENDING
1 ”G. M. A. Juts purchased a board-
[casting get to cugment the receiv
ing station *lnfctalled* when itdio
first became* so popular in the
country,” he said.
PLUMBING and HEa
Good Mechanic
" G ®od Material
Greatest Change in Fac
ulty At College Park In
stitution Will Be in Ath-
Bears Invade Farms
—
Near Waycross and
Kill Many Hogs
Read Banner-%
Want Ads.
letic Department.
(By Associated Press.) '
(COLLEGE PARK, Ga.—Georgia
Military Academy will begin Its
twenty-fourth session September
12, with an enrollment of 170 boys
representing seventeen states- add
four foreign countries, Colonel J.
C. Woodward, announced Saturday.
The annual summer session of the
institution at Highland Lake, N.
C„ has been completed.
There will be many additions to
the faculty this year,” said Colonel
Woodward. “Thp greatest change
will be In the line of athletics.
Phil Morrow', a four letter man
WAYCROSS, Ga.—-Reports have
been received Here from citizens
residing on tine Braganza side ot
the Okefenoked Swamp that bears
are invading nearby, farms and
killing a number of hogs. Farmers
in the territory, it was stated, are
faking up arms * to protect their
property.
The little heg bear, which form
erly has given much trouble to
those residing near the swramp,
has practically disappeared, ac
cording to the reports, and' the
large black bears, iweighing be
tween two and thiieo hundred
pounds, are making fble attacks ~6n
livestock. ^ _
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for all mankind is honest then—
It’s easy as can he—but ho that
counts In this world’s work isn’t
honorable by spurts, accepting for-
it comes he’s honest when
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