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VOLUME LXIII } NO. 31
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Balkcom’s Drug Store
The Store
(The Economical Drug Store)
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SPELLS
KRINKLY
The Special and Distinctive Patented Bottle for
ORANGE CRUSH
Orange Crush tastes better in the KRINKLY
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TWO WEEK’S MORE-
We offer Summer Goods at Wholesale
prices. Get them while they last. Then
our buyer will leave for St. Louis, Balti
more and New York, where he will
assemble the greatest line of Merchan
dise ever shown in Blakely.
Watch for the announcement
of these arrivals--
C. L. TABB & COMPANY
BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Early County News.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead/’
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING JULY M 1924
U.S. CAN HOLD OVER
300,000000 PEOPLE
LARGE AREA CAPABLE OF HOLD
ING THREE TIMES PRESENT
POPULATION.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Available
land resources in the United States
are probably capable ot' sustaining a
population of 300,000,000 with no
greater relative dependence on out
side sources of food and raw mate
rial than exists today, say experts
in the United States Department of
Agriculture who have been working
on problems of land utilization. But
a population of that size would
have to go on a very different stand
ard of living than the present popu
lation enjoys, and it would also have
to maintain its productivity of farm
and forest land at a considerably
higher level.
This conclusion has been reached
on the basis of a careful study of
standards of living in western Eu
ropean countries, particularly Ger
many and Great Britain. All the
facts taken for the study are based
on pre-war conditions. It is not
suggested, of course, that the United
States should prepare to drop down
to European standards of living.
Those standards are used simply as
a measure of what is possible in
the support of population on a given
land area. Taken along with Euro
pean standards of efficiency in land
utilization, they indicate the direction
in which the United States will have
to travel if it is to support a con
stantly growing population without
excessive dependence on foreign food
resources.
Very considerable changes in
consumption habits would be neces
sary to make our land resources
suffice for 300,000,000 people. This
is practically true of forest products.
There would have to b.e a big re
duction in the consumption of ani
mal products. At: the .same time a
large increase in the productivity of
the land would have to be brought
about. It is estimated by the de
partment’s economists in fact, that
it would be necessary to increase
the average yield of crop land by
nearly 50 per cent and to double
the return from pasture and forest
land. The experience of certain
DOES ADVERTISING IN I
THE NEWS PAY?
In a recent issue of the News
the Tarver Furniture Company, of
Blakely, carried a large page display
advertisement announcing the formal
opening of their business with a
completely new line of Furniture af
ter the remodeling of their store fol
lowing the recent fire wntcti so bad
ly damaged this store.
As a direct result of this advertis
ing campaign, which the Tarver
Furniture Company is still pursuing
in the columns of the News, Mr.
Tarver informs the News that he
made one furniture sale of $675.00 to
a party in the neighboring city of
Fort Gaines. This one particular
sale is cited, for it is one of the
largest ever made by this furniture
store, which carries one of the most
complete and elaborate lines of fur
niture and houseftirnishings to be
found in Southwest Georgia.
Many other instances of a simi
lar nature of the effectiveness of
advertising in the News could be
cited for the benefit of the “Doubt
ing Thomases.”
Printer’s ink still remains the most
powerful selling force in the world.
TOBACCO CROP WILL
BRING GOOD RETURNS
South Georgia tobacco growers will
market at least 25,000,000 pounds of
bright leaf tobacco during the sell
ing season, which opens this year on
August 6th. in the opinion of demon
strators. It is claimed that the
tobacco now being cured is of as fine
quality as was ever produced in the
state, and will"' on its merits com
mand high prices. It is believed
the crop will sell for an average
price in excess of 20 cents a pound.
This will mean that tobacco will
bring around seven million dollars
to Georgia, enriching scores of grow
ers and stimulating business in all
lines.
One of the situations favorable to
the the South Georgia tobacco grow
ers is the fact that the crops in
the Carolinas are admittedly short.
To begin with, there was a sharp
reduction in acreage and in recent
weeks rain, hail and wind storms
have seriously damaged the tobacco
in the Carolinas, further reducing
the possible yield. This, demonstra
tors assert, makes it almost certain
that prices will be fully as high as
they were last season.
European countries shows this to be
possible.
Besides the land now in farms,
there are in the United States about
600,000,000 acres more land physic
ally capable of being used for crops,
although much of it is of low pro
ductivity and would require exten
sive reclamation. Some of this land,
however, would have to be kept for
pasture, so that a. right relationship
would be maintained between crop
and pasture land. In addition, there
would remain about 470,000,000 acres
of semi-arid land capable of use
only for pasture, and about 270 mil
lion acres of humid land too rough
for crops and probably best adapted
for forests, with perhaps incidental
grazing.
GET OUR PRICES
BEFORE BUYING
WE WILL SAVE YOU
MONEY
T. K. WEAVER & CO.
South Main St. Blakely, Ga.
$1.50 A YEAR
COST OF CRIME IS
TEN BILLION YEARLY
THIS SUM IS EQUAL TO 16 PER
CENT. OF U. S. NATIONAL
INCOME.
Criminals and crime cost the peo
ple of the United States at least $lO.-
000,000,000 a year. This sum is equal
to about 16 per cent of the total na
tional income. Since experts say
that one of every 100 persons is a
criminal, every criminal costs society
an average of s.o,oooannually. It is
estimated that. 1,000,000 men and
women are waging war against so
ciety, with about one-quarter that
number in jails or prisons all the
time.
Experts learn that, the detection,
prosecution, punishment and preven
tion of crime cost taxpayers from
three billion to four billion dollars a
year. This sum includes the expense
of maintaining police systems, courts,
jails, prisoners, penitentiaries and
other institutions for the care of
defectives and delinquents.
The toll which criminals take from
society *in one form or another is
estimated at, another $2,500,000,000.
The most productive form is dishon
est enterprise—sale of fraudulent
stocks and bonds, bucket shop oper
ations, land swindles and other
I confidence games.
Burglary losses each year total
$525,000,000; embezzlements, $125,-
000,000; forgeries and worthless
checks, $200,000,000; bad debts,
$150,000,000; dishonest business fail
ures, $400,000,000, and political graft,
including land thefts and exploita
tion of public resources, $200,000,000.
There are other things, too, which
figure in the crtjne cost.
PASSENGER REVENUE
SHOWS BIG INCREASE
Although class one railroads car
ried fewer passengers in the four
months ended with April than in
the corresponding period or 1922,
passenger revenue aggregated $247.-
456,817 in that period, as compared
with $246,447,465 in the 1923 period,
or approximately $1,000,000 in excess
of the 1923 revenue.
Figures just made available by
the interstate commerce commission
from official reports of carriers show
that in April .this year 77,826,000 pas
sengers were handled.
In April last year 81,742,000 pas
sengers were carried and the pas
sengers revenue aggregated $87,851,-
906, while in April this year 77,826,-
000 passengers were carried and the
revenue aggregated $85,211,368.
In the four months ended with
April, the total number of revenue
passengers carried was 319,757,000,
while the total for the same period
of 1923 was 324,920,000.
The greater revenue in the first
four months of 1924 from passenger
traffic as compared with the same
period of 1923, although fewer pas
sengers were carried in the 1924
than in the 1923 period, is accounted
for by the fact that the average
number of miles per passenger per
road was greater in 1924 than in
1923, the average for the country as
a whole having been 35.24 miles, as
compared with 34.42 miles in 1923,
longer journeys being taken by pas
sengers in 1924 than in 1923.