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EARLY COUNTYNEWS
OFFICIAL GAZETTE.
Published Every Thursday
OFFICE IN NEWS BUILDING
Blakely, Georgia.
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Blakely, Ga., April 3rd, 1»24.
Wonder who waked p Mr. Holle
man! He mire “flung a fit" when It
wan done.
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Attorney General Daugherty has
resigned ‘‘under tire,” President Cool
idge asking for liis resignation. Mr.
Daugherty Is the second member of
the Republican cabinet forced out of
office by public opinion,—and there
may be others yet.
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Many automobile travelers coming
this way tell us that Early county
has some of the best dirt roads In
the country, and that the highway
from Cuthbort on to Bainbridge, es
pecially that section which is In Ear
ly county, is a remarkable piece of
roadwork. The Rond Superintendent
of this county. Mr. D. B. Thompson,
deserves much credit for the present
condition of our highways and is a
valuable man to the county.
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The News has been reading with
interest the heavy editorials Uncle
Henry Mclntosh and Big Bill Ander
son of the Albany Herald and the
Macon Telegraph respectively have
been writing concerning the method
of selecting' delegates to the Demo
cratic convention to be held on April
23rd in Atlanta. The trouble about
these brethren, however, is they have
!>eoii “asleep on their beats" for
some six or eight years. The guber
natorial winners have been naming
delegates for lo these many years
and that scheme is just as undemo
cratic as the present game, and has
been largely responsible for the
steam roller in Georgia conventions.
Besides, the time tor kicking was
when the rules were formulated.
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BILL BOARD BLOTCHES.
Under tho above alliterative head
line tho Atlanta Constitution in a
recent issue calls attention to the fact
that the Women’s Civic League or
New r Orleans has followed the ac
tion of the civics department of tho
New Orleans Federation of Clubs
ip. going on record as strongly con
demning billboard advertising in the
residential sections of that city.
Tho league oven went further than
to condemn, and petitioned council
to have the boards removed in the
“interest of the safety, morality
health and decency of that commun
ity."
All over the country there is a
movement against billboard advertis
ing, as it is today being conducted.
The fact is available space on ev
ery street in a big city is taken up
almost entirely with these big board
signs, and they are not only a har
bor for trash, garbage and rubbish,
thus menacing the health of tho
people, but they are too frequently
made a community nuisance.
Tho supreme court of Louisiana
recently held that billboards wore a
nuisance.
TIME HAS COME FOR FARMERS
TO STAND BY THEIR
ECONOMIC RIGHTS.
(Progressive Farmer.)
The fight of the producers of farm
crops for a larger share of what
the consumers pay Is on in earnest.
The middleman is a necessity, but
there have been too many of them
and their methods have been inef
ficient. They have consequently had
to take too large a toil for the ser
vices rendered. A smaller number
could have rendered the same ser
vice, even a better service, and
would have had to take less total
toll for their support.
The best thought of the world
today is seeking a method of getting
the products of the farms to the
consumers at less cost. The efforts
thus far begun seek a more direct
road from the producer to the con
sumer; the lessening of the number
of middlemen and their profits and
more efficient marketing, thereby re
ducing costs and Increasing return
to the producer, while lessening the
costs to the consumers.
In the South the most attention has
been given to the better marketing
of cotton because it is our most im
portant sales crop. The progress
made in organizing a better method
of selling the producer’s cotton has
been rapid and it has now developed
to such dimensions that it is attract
ing the attention of cotton brokers
and speculators, or the vast numbers
of cotton middlemen.
Naturally, but unwisely, these mid
dlemen have become alarmed at the
dangers of losing some of their past
privileges and profits, and have be
gun a concerted, unfair campaign to
block and destroy the farmers co-op
erative marketing of cotton. They
overlook the fact that economic laws
are forcing a better marketing of
cotton and foolishly think they can
scotch the wheels of progress for
their own selfish gain. Fair business
competition is the only method they
can effectively use to check the
growth and success of the co-opera
tive marketing of cotton. If the
present co-operative methods of mar
keting cotton are economically sound
they will succeed in spite of the ef
forts of speculators and middlemen.
It they are not sound they will fail
without the unfair fight which is be
ing waged against them.
No combination of selfish interests,
no amount of falsehood and misrep
resentation or manipulation of the
markets, can kill the cooperative
marketing of cotton if the principles
are sound and are followed with or
dinary business judgment. In fact,
the sort of fight the cotton middle
men aro now waging against the
co-operatives can and will serve no
other puri>oae than to stimulate far
mers to greater efforts, to unite
them In purpose and effort and to
arouse in them all the fight of which
honest, free men are capable. If
there ever was a time when farmers
should join in a solid body to fight
for their economic rights, it is uow.
If there ever was a campaign against
their interests put on aud conducted
by unfair methods it is the cam
paign of abuse and misrepresentation
now being put on by the cotton
middlemen to smash the farmers
co-operative marketing of cotton.
The policy of the co-operative mar
keting associations has been to at
tack no one, to engage in nothing ex
cept clean, high-class business com
petition and to recognize the right
of the middleman to fair pay for a
service rendered. But this does not
suit the cotton speculators and brok
ers. The success of the co-operative
shows plainly that the cotton mid- '
dieman has been taking a toll too
large for the service rendered and
the middlemen already see the
handwriting on tho wall. But unfair
tactics and misrepresentation never
permanently won any fight for spe
cial privileges.
We miss our guess very much if the
sort of fight the cotton middlemen
are putting on does not arouse the
farmers of the South to a point
where they will unite in one solid
body to fight and fight hard and ef
fectively for the right to market
their own cotton. Only a lack of
knowledge of all the facts prevents
90 per cent of the farmers of the
South putting their cotton In the
hunds of their co-operative market
ing associations. Such action w-ould
prevent manipulation of the markets
by speculators and stabilize the
market under the law of supply and
demand to the benefit of the pro
ducers, spinners and consumers.
The wonder is that at least the
EARLY COUNTY NEWS
! producers and spinners do not see j
i this and realize that no power on j
1 earth can destroy the co-operatives,
'because they are fundamentally sound
in economics.
The time has come for every far
mer to show on which side he stands.
If under present conditions he will
not join the fight for his economic
rights he does not deserve economic
freedom.
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Blakely may not be the most
prosperous little city in the country,
but it’s a mighty good town, and if
it’s worth living in it’s worth boost
ing. Ever think of that, Mr. Chronic
Knocker?
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A Wise Woman.
From tho Jackson Herald.
A lady received the following reply
from a neighbor in answer to a ques
tion as to why she allowed her chil
dren and her husband to litter up ev
ery room in the house: “The marks
of little muddy feet upon the floor
can be more easily removed than the
stains where the little feet go into
the highways of sin. The prints of
the little fingers upon the window
panes can not shut out the sunshine
half so much as the shadow that
darkens the mother’s heart over the
one who will be but a name in the
coming years. And if my John finds
greatest refuge from care and worry
and his greatest happiness within its
four walls he can put his boots in the
rocking chair and hang his hat on
the floor any day in the week, and
if I can stand it and he enjoys it I
don’t see that it is anybody’s busi
ness."
CITY TREASURER’S
REPORT
FOR QUARTER ENDING MARCH
31, 1924.
RECEIPTS:
Balance 1923 $ 5,072.22
General taxes 3,212.21
School taxes 1,605.61
j Business licenses 1,650.00
Street tax 12.00
Costs 62.00
Interests 7.60
Miscellaneous 3.00
Fines 225.00
j Pound fees 1.25
'Paving 2,587.08
Sanitary sewer connections 2.00
Water collections 1,660.68
Light, power and mdse 5,047.03
Ice sales 720.95
Cold storage 845.9 U
Cemetery 35.75
Temporary loan 4,000.00
From bond coupons 71.16
TOTAL 326.821.44
DISBURSEMENTS:
Mayor and council 3 125.00
Clerk salary 300.00
Legal expense 50.00
General expense 127.20
Police 577.02
Fire 237.74
Insurance 3.65
Sanitary department 87.00
Feed 66.07
Streets 696.10
W. and L. plant bills 6,864.09
Pay roll, W. and L. plant.. 2,030.00
Fuel 3,101.61
Ice delivery 464.35
Schools 3,267.98
Cemetery 150.00
Cold storage 168.00
Paid bonds 2,000.00
Interest on bonds 2,889.04
Interest on wrrants 200.98
Bal. on hand 8,436.71
TOTAL 326,821.44
W. W. FLEMING,
Clerk and Treasurer.
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Early County Truckers
i ..COLUMN..
Beans, Corn and Melons
Are Planted.
Tomatoes must be considered uow.
Some beds are looking fine. Some
have poor stands. Those who have
poor stands should get more seed
and plant again at once. Don’t give
up. Better late than not at all.
Take your stable manure (about
one load for one acre of tomatoes)
and pile it up in the garden and pour
water on it in order that the heating
qualities may be removed by time
you are ready to set your plants In
! the field.
JOHN UNDERWOOD,
Director.
Buick Character
Makes Buick Value
Buick value is something more than appears
on the surface. It is more than the excellence
and beauty of Buick design-more than the
greater riding comfort, power and safety that
Buick provides. Buick’s value comes from
the sum total of all those Buick qualities and
traditions which together make up Buick
character. A Buick owner fully appreciates
Buick character. He knows the dependable,
satisfying and trouble-free transportation
which Buick gives, however long or however
far a Buick owner may elect to drive his car.
I-.U-IJ-HF
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WRIGHT BUICK CO.
Eufaula, Ala,, and Blakely, Ga,
Always on tiie Job
We handle Ful-o-Pep Chicken
Scrath.
Ful-o-Pep Laying Mash*
Ful-o-Pep Chick Starter.
We have a variety of Vegetables
at all times, such as String Beans,
Wax Beans, Beets, Spinach, Let
tuce, Celery, Cabbage, Rutaba
ga, New Irish Potatoes*
H. C. FRYER
Sanitary Market and Grocery.
BLAKELY. GA.
ROAD NOTICE!
GEORGIA —Early County:
Reviewers appointed to mark out
a proposed new road in the 1435th
district to begin at a point about
two hundred yards south of the gin
property of Rowena Gin Co., at Row
ena, on the Arlington and Damascus
public road running west to a point
on the old Arlington and Damascus
road between the Lofton place and
the John Daniel place, a distance of
3300 yards, having marked out same
and reported that said road would be
of great public utility: Ordered that
after four weeks publication of this
notice said road be cut out and es
tablished as a public road. Done by
the Board of Commissioners of Roads
and Revenues, this April 2, 1924.
t. b. McDowell, chm.
R. W. ALEXANDER, Clerk.
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