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C. E. BENNS,
Editor mod Pnbliaher.
DFFICAL ORGAN OF TAYLOR CO.
The election is over 'and no. sores
left to; heal..
About all some people have to
make them happy-is a supeiority
complex. *
The Butler Herald
If we want to have a prosperous
county—and we all do—we must
think of and act for it as a unit.
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Regardless of the numerous would-
be candidates, the people of Georgia
are going to re-elect Governor Clif
ford Walker for another term.
Good roads is the. county’s best
asset. Without good roads Taylor,
county cannot compete with other
counties. Why not have them?
The sun is still shining in old
Taylor, aftd peach trees almost in
full bloom with the best prospect for
a full crop of peaches in many
years. So keep smiling.
Johnnie Spencer lacked one inch
of fiilling his column Monday morn
ing, the Telegraph, therefore, was
just that much short of being 100
per cent perfect for that issue.
Today’s . best paragraph: Slightly
revising the old typewriter slogan:
Now is the time for Fall good men
to come to the raid of the country.
-—Tampa Tribune.
It is reported that the new bonus
bill, if it becomes a law, will cost the
country over $2,000,000,000. The ex-
service men saved the country ten
times that amount by the rush with
which they finished the war.
There is some co-operation among
wild creatures. The stork and the
wolf i^ually work the same neigh
borhood.—Macon News.
But the objectionable part is the
wolf is working overtime in some
neighborhoods.
PURIFYING EJECTIONS
All men have their virtues, sc
have most if not all 'organizations
We note with interest that in one of
the North Georgia counties the Kti
Klux stood, four-square for- a, clean
election, and published this fact to
the people of that section by post
ing the following notice in many
conspicious places the day preceding
the local election:
“We are determined that the ar
proaching Primary election to be
held_at the. various precincts in
Jackson county on March 19, 1924
shall, be free from vote-selling air'
vote-buying, and that no disorder
shall occur at the polls.
“The good women have, been giver
the franchise and our efforts will be
to see that the various polling
places shall/ be free from anything
that would in the least reflect upon
or embarrass women /voters. To this,
end we will have representatives at
every polling place in Jackson coun
ty on Mareh 19th to take note of
any disorder or any irregularities.
In this we mean no reflection upon
any candidate or the managers, be
cause they will be inside and will do
their dut£, but the fellow we are
after is the one who offers to traffic
in'votes by either buying or selling
same, or who attempt the use of
whiskey.
“If any violations of these things
come to the notice of our men who
will be on the ground for the pur
pose of observing the offenders will
be given the extreme penalty. /
“We stand strictly for law en
forcement and good morals v and we
propose to throw our influence to
ward the purification of the ballot
and clean elections.
“ ‘Leg Pullers’ Take Notice.’”
Since women have been given the
privilege of the ballot box, it is due
them that every protection be shown
them by every good male citizen,
and the action of ’the Ku Klux in
the above ’^stance is commendable.
We see by the papers that a com
pany has been formed at Montezu
ma to manufacture by-products from
peaches and other fruits and vege
tables; Whoo-pee, hurry it along,
fellows, its been a long time since
syrup-making.
When it comes to real sports
you can’t beat the bunch of Taylor
r county candidates who failed to win
in the recent election. Not one has
been heard to murmur or seem the
least bit “sore.” In fact ( they have
•shaken hands with their opponents
-and congratulated them upon their
dean and successful campaign.
An exchange warns its corre
spondents as follows: “Let people s
love affairs alone. Most people in
love are like ostriches, and when
other people pull their heads out of
the sand, they are hurt in their ten
der feelings, and sometimes a little
bit angry. It is against the policy of
this paper to refer to a courtship
before the engagement is announc
ed." ' • ■ 1
They have dragged one after an-
othdr into the teapot dome scandal
until one wonders if there is an
honest to goodness clean upright
politician at Washington. If perad-
venture, there should be found ten
good men in Washington’s political
circles, is that enough to save Sod
om from utter destruction. We know
two dependable fellows they will not
pull into that scandal and they are:
Tom Bell and Bill Harris—Com
merce News. -
Right you are, Uncle John, and
two more you might add are, Sena
tor George and Chas. R. Crisp.
Penn Brothers, who have -done
more to advance the interest of ev
ery good cause in Jasper county
through the columns of their most
excellent publication, the Monticello
News, than perhaps anyother half
dozen individuals,, made . this
statement last week, which is
in good keeping with their
fine way of doing things: “If this
newspaper can render, assistance in
any movement which will spell the
advancement of anything either in
Monticello or the county, call oo
The bill of Senator W. J. Harris'
changing the law on cotton census
figures so as to require more fre ‘
quent reports and calling for an
nouncements on the same day as the
Department of Agriculture reports
are issued, went to President Cool-
idge Monday for consideration. He
. is expected to approve the measure
in the next few days.
A—
The new Womanhood will either
sink or save Civilization, according
to the belief of Bishop W. N. Ains
worth, expressed in his sermon at
Mulberry Street Methodist Church,
Macon, Sunday morning. ’ He said
■' that civilization is in a crisis and
he predicted that the change would
.come quickly. In fifty years, he said,
the world will see a mighty change.
” ■ • Wonder if the Bishop couldn’t
speed it up and permit all of us^ to
enjoy the change.
According to the Tampa Times,
Dr. Frank Crane wants to know
what he shall do after he gets to
heaven. What we sail do after we
■get there isn’t what is worrying us.
. —Butler Herald. What have you
-'“went and done” now Charlie?—
iMimticello News. < '
•'"Not so -much the sins of commis-
- -sion, as those of omission, we fear,
• Fitz.
The HeraldTs pleased to acknowl
edge receipt of a copy of the fi^st.
issue of The Georgia Peach, pub r
lished at Macon by the Georgia
Peach Growers Exchange and in the
interest of the Peaeh Growers of
Georgia.- It is indeed a most attrac
tive publication and contains many
exceptionally fine articles relative to
the peach industry in Georgia. The
Exchange deserves great credit for
the efforts put forth in this publica
tion as well as • many other matters,
of interest to peach growers of the
State. We wish the Exchange abund
ant success in its every undertak-
From reading “Uncle Shack’s” edi
torial in the Oglethorpe Echo it
would seem that politics, or rather
campaign methods in Oglethorpe
county, are somewhat rotten, which
if true, is certainly regrettable. So
far as this section is concerned
there has been* a decided improve
ment in the past few years. In our
recent election we are of the opin
ion that all candidates conducted
their campaigns on clean, fair meth
ods, free of anything that would re
flect upon the character of any man
or woman connected with the elec
tion These conditions will, follow
throughout, the state with our good
women being allowed to participate
in the elections. We cannot afford
and must not allow anything short of
honest, fair and clean elections, for
the sake of,our wives and daughters
if .nothing more. The recent cam
paign in Taylor county was grati
fying to all, and we have everj
reason to believe that we will con
tinue this way. Unclean- elections,
are a thing of the past in this coun
ty, “Unde Shack,” and we wish you
[ good luck in bringing about it
I sary . changes in you county.
NOT THE FAULT OF THE
RAILROADS
The bureau of railway economics
has presented. some figures on
"reight rates on- farm products
which 'deserve a wide circulation ana
careful reaiding.
Farmers are in a plight little
hort of desperate. The buying pow
er of their crops is so low that they
nave hard work to maxe expenses,
i. strong effort is being made by
certain business and political inter
ests to' turn the ' farmer’s natural
vrath against the railroads, to
make him think that the increase in
freight rates is what is wrecking
>is prosperity. The bureau's figures
junctures that’fake most tnorough-
•y. . 1
oaies of- live stock and the freight
-ates paid on the same were studied
at four markets: Chicago, East St.
houis, Kansas City and South Oma
ha. These studies were made for
three days at intervals of three
weeks, Oct. 15, Nov. 5 and Nov. 26,
1923. The stock was received from
27 states, and induded 13,161 cat
tle, 18,585 hogs and 24,682. Then
taking each class of stock separate
ly, the cost to the purchaser, de
livered at the yards, was divided in
to three items—price paid to the
farmer, freight paid to the railroad
and miscellaneous distribution costs.
The following is the result:
With cattle, freight was 6.9% of
the total bill, miscellaneous 3.1%,
price to the .farmer 90%.
With hogs, freight came to 5.1%
miscellaneous costs to 3.3%, price
paid to farmer 91.6%.
With sheep, freight covered 7.4%
miscellaneous costs 4.1% price paid
to farmer 88.5%.
Or, taking all stock together, of
every dollar paid out by the buyer,
the railroads got 6.5 cents for
freight, other costs absorbed 3.3
cents, and the farmer got 90.2 cents
The farmer didn’t get enough. He
wouldn’t have had enough if no
charge had been made for freight
and other costs. But the fault does
not lie chiefly or even in large meas
ures with the railroads. The figures
given make it clear that freight
rates do not constitute the hole in
the farmer’s pocket.
The farmer is in trouble because
the Fordney-McCumber tariff boosts
the price of everything he buys, and
because the depressed condition of
the foreign market lowers the price
of nearly everything he sells. He is
caugt going and coming. That is
what breaks country banks and
multiplies abandoned farms, not the
freight schedules.
OPPOSES DANIEL ■ I
-’"-y PLAN FOR STATE
Cairo, Ga., March 10.—Judge W.
V. Custer, of the Albany circuit, in
his charge to the grand jury of
Grady County ’ superior court here
today voiced opposition to the plan
of Royal Daniel, Quitman editor, to
simplify the present state of gov
ernment by providing for a business
manager, the creation of a commis
sion on law revision, curtailment of
the General Assembly to one or
ganized body, limitation of member
ship of the Assembly to one mem-
oer from each county, and biennial
sessions. Editor Daniel’s plan put
forward in a speech before the mid
winter session of the Georgia Press
Association here last month has
caused comment in all parts of the
State!
Judge Custer, after reading a story
from the daily press concerning the
plan, quoted Daniel Webster as fol
lows: ‘.‘Nothing is more deceptive or
more dangerous than the pretence of
a desire to simplify govemment.The
simplest governments are despotisms
The next simplest limited anarchies
But all Republicans, all governments
of law 'must impose numerous limi
tations and qualifications of authori
ty and give many positive and qual
ified rights.”
SPEAKING OF PROHIBITION
A writer in one of the big papers
very truthfully says:
Opinions concerning the -success
or failure of national prohibition dif
fer greatly, and an examination
would perhaps reveal that most oi
the opinions expressed are’governed
a good deal by how the individual
happened to feel about he matter
before prohibition was established
by law. To some of our citizens pro
hibition appears as a" gfST. success,
while in the eyes of others it is a
dismal failure. To an .impartial ob
server prohibition would appear to
be still more or less,'of an experi
ment. The fact that prohibition,
radical idea though it is, is not a
greater success, is. due not so much
to the law itself, as t<T the way it
is being enforced. While' those of
more liberal views-no douot resent
prohibition as an infringement
their individual rights, yet most of
the people who were given to mode
rate indulgence-'would have been
more sympathetic toward the amend
ment if its enforcement had been con
ducted more fairly. While I would
perhaps not agree with nim, yet I
have no quarrel with the man who
wishes to see the law amended, pro
vided he observes it while it remains
on the statute books. But in enforc
ing this law, there would be no class
distinction and the fact tnat such is.
being' , shown is responsible, in a
large measure, for the contempt in
which prohibition is held by many
people. Certainly, in democratic
America there should be no place
for a condition which will cause the
arrest of a laborer ,for being intoxi
cated, and allow a'leading citizen to
go on a “toot” whenever he wishes,
nor to remove the glass of beer
from the poor man’s table*and al
low the bottle of champagne in the
home of the rich.”
PRAISE FOR SEN. HARRIS
BY COTTON MEN OF STATE
' Atlanta, March 10.—Cotton men
here and in many other sections of
the state have commended Georgia’s
senior senator, W. J. Harris, for
legislation he has introduced in the
U. S. Senate in ehalf of the cotton
bloc. v -i —
John Marshall, associate editor of
the Cotton News, official organ of
the American Cotton Association,
has written Senator Harris that the
activities of himself and associates
is deeply appreciated by the farm
ing interest of the entire South. At
tention is called to the vaoluable
services rendered by Senator Harris
in the columns of the cotton asso
ciation publication.
When a. man tries to make fool
of himself, he usually works over
time-
No lawyer has ever found an ade
quate rebuttal for a woman's “be
cause.”
can get the most
food value out of wheat /
•by eating bakings that
are made from good
plain flour. A depend
able baking powder must
be employed or you do
not get the full nutritious
value of the wheat—nor
will your bakings be as pal
atable and easily digested.
The same results cannot be
had if you use Self Rising
Flours, which are improperly
packed in porous sacks or
bags, thus allowing absorp
tion of moisture from the air.
Food authorities and physi
cians agree that bakings that
do not raiseproperlyarebadfor
health. Such foods are hard to
digest and in time cause stom
ach trouble.
Mothers who are interested in
the proper growth and health of
their children (and all mothers
are) should never use anything
but a good brand of plain flour •
and a time-tested leavener such
as Calumet—the economy Baking
Powder.
Calumet has more than the ordi
nary leavening strength. It raises
every baking to its height of nutri
tious value. It is pure and depend
able—do not look for a substitute—
there is none.
Use Calumet and be positive of whole
some nutritious and economical foods.
PACKED IN TIN
-KEEPS STRENGTH IN
A TEXAS WONDER
For kidney and bladder troubles,
mattem and irregularities of fhekia-
nejrs and Madder. If net sold by
year druggist.bjp mail $1.25. Small
bottle often cures. Send fer'sworn
fi3£S8S§e ittvl E. W. Hell, 2926
S&, St EeMs, Mo. Sold by
Iruggists.
Haven’t You Heard of the
New Way to Grow
Better Crops?
Cured Fertilizer—The Result of Years of
Research
For a lifetime Mr. Royster and his large organization of farm
experts have searched, tested and toiled to improve fertilizer
and thus increase the earnings of farmers.
A Startling Development
One of the most startling discoveries has been the curing of
fertilizer. Mr. Royster and his helpers found that after aging
in bins for four to six months, fertilizer grew better crops! The
various chemical elements combine with one another and the
close association of these elements brings about a chemical
action which makes every food element in the fertilizer avail
able to the plant, just exactly as it is Heeded—from seed time to
harvest. . i
Double Milled
After this aging, Royster’s Fertilizer is re-milled (to prevent
' lumping) and then bagged. All this additional work and care
certifies the quality of Royster's Fertilizers—and assures you
of proper feeding for plants.
Be Sure to get Royster’s
The name “Royster’s” appears on every bag of Royster’s
Fertilizer. Look for it. Ask for Royster’s Fertilizer by name—
and stop guessing about brands.
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-best Tee ever
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fore”
'*/ can franjfy say I
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results, by test, with
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crop this year, and 1
give Roysters Fertilizer
the credit.”
"I will not bay anything
else as long as I can get
Royster’s.”
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R. A. SCANDRETT, Agent
Butler, - Georgia