The Brandon news., 1922-08-10


chestnuts out of the fire.
We can afford to remit as
much, dollar for dollar, as any
other government, all conditions
being equal.
More than this Europe can not
in Justice ask.
A year or two ago hundreds of
thousands of our people were buy
ing German marks. expecting to
get rich quickly by buying at what
was then considered the low ebb
and selling out again when the
rise came.
But the rise didn't materialiZe.
Instead, the price of marks is
now only a fraction of what 1T
was then.
And they have either pocketed
their losses or are still holding
the bag.
1t is not our purpose to tell peo-
pie what to do with their money.
That is their buSineSS-certalnly
not ours.
But as a loyal American citizen
we feel justified in suggesting
shat there is no better investment
than good sound American stocks
or bonds. Six per cent in pocket
is far better than hundred per
cent in imagination or anticlpa-
ton.
Your money invested in Ameri-
can securities keeps American peoo-
pie employed and American busl-
ness 0n the no grade
When thrown to the birds it is
wasted. Even they can not eat 1t.
Think twice before investing
once and YOU will be able to re-
tire much earlier in life.
Congress is still talking about
the soldier bonus. Talk is cheap
except to the tax payers.
Every time there is a possibility
of a bill being enacted into law
somebody throws a monkey wrench
into the machinery.
Soon, we fear, the bill for
wrenches will be greater than the
total cost of a bonus.
Anyway, congress is long on
talk and short on bonus.
More trouble for the owners of
agonized throats.
England announces that she will
cooperate with American au-
thorities in suppressing the ship
ping of liquor into this country
from British territory.
That helps the doctors, and the
undertakers, and the coffin max
ers, and the grave diggers, and
the whole army of people who get
thei-- fingers into the pie of the
poor devil who commits suicide
by drinking American made poison
disguised as hootsch.
What's the trouble for one gives
another a boost.
Since the passage OF the Federal
Aid Act by the United States
Congress in July, 1916, Rankin
County has received the benefit of
Federal aid in the construction of
two projects, both of which have
Deen completed, and are daily
carrying large part of the traffic
cf the county.
Construction of Project No. 5
ocated between Pelahatchle and
the Scott County line, was com
oleted November 21, 1921. This
DAD is five and seventy-eight
aundredths miles long, and is
graded twenty and twenty-five feet
wide, with a surfacing of twelve
and sixteen feet of gravel shipped
from Saratoga, Miss. All drainage
structures are of concrete and un--
trsated timber. The total Federal
aid received by the county on this
project amounted to $21 315.7O.
Project No. 18, located between
Star and the Simpson County line,
distance of three and seventy
seven hundredths, miles was COM
pleted June &c, 1921. The road
was graded twenty feet wide, and
constructed with a surfacing OF
local gravel ten feet wide. All
drainage structures are of timber.
The aid given the county by the
Federal Government amounted to
$40, 0,38991, or about fifty per cent
AS soon as these Federal Aid
Roads are completed and approved
by the Government. they are taken
over bv the State Highway De-
oartment for maintenance, and the
new Patrol system which is beinr
out into use. assures the good con-
dition of the roads during the en-
tire year.
One man says: "Times are not
good, but they will be better some
day, and in the meantime | will
Just do the best | can and be
thankful that | can do that much
when the world is topsy-turvy."
Another man saws. "Timps are