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With the high price of sugar, we'll
have to go hack to the good old days 1
of “long sweet nin.”
1
Poor old September Morn! How
we sympathize with the dear girl
these cool, crisp mornings.
"The Mohammedan may not be
very good with the gun ,but they
can pray while their Christian broth
ers kill each other. Every little
helps."—Macon Telegraph.
If the Government .just must levy
a war tax, why not place a head-tax
on those pests who constantly talk
war and hard times? It anybody
should pay a tax, they should.
Sure we've got to have the pessi
mists, just as we’ve got to have the
grouches, the dusty weather and the
mumps, hut it does no good to any
body to wail and whine and mo]H>.
Face the situation squarely, with a
smile. And see if things don't
brighten.
The Advertiser extends its sincer
est sympathy to Mr. B. 11. Hardy,
Editor of the Barnesville News-Ga
zette, m the death of his beloved
wife, who died at Highlands, N.
last week. Earthly sympathy is 1
jH>or consolation indeed in a time of |
such deep sorrow, but it is ail that '
poor humans can offer, and this Mr. 1
Hardy l as in full measure from all (
who know him. and who knew this;
FARMERS!
We are prepared to advance to you
$200,000 02
on Cotton stored in any Warehouse.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF FORSYTH, GEORGIA
J. M. PONDER, Presdient R. E, PONDER, Cashier
The Thomasville Enterprise wise
ly remarks that, although Woodrow
Wilson wrote an admirable history
of the United States, he is now mak
ing more admirable history than he
wrote.
Possibly the “capacious baths’’
which the Fine Arts Commission
want for Washington, D. C., as a
partof their plans for making our
capital a model city are immunity
baths.
Already there’s a rift in the clouds
The sun is beginning to shine through
and the gloom, which was unneces
sarily dark, is givin gway to the sun
light of hope. Forget the war;
things are all coming right.
And yet there were people who
idiided Wilson and Bryan because of
their watchful waiting policy in Mex
ico. The horrible conditons exsting
in Europe now give some faint idea
of what night have been our lot, had
we had a less courageous and less
far-sighted President.
A USELESS PANIC.
Senator John Sharp Williams,
himself a planter, tells the gospel
truth about cotton in our opinion,
when he says, "Our peopF have been
stricken with a perfectly useless
panic.” He goes on to say: “1 have
a notion that the British cotton fac
tories will not only be working, but
that they will be working double
time, thereby enabling the English to
capture many of the markets which
the Germans and AAustrians and
perhaps the French have hitherto
had." A letter we have just receiv
ed from a friend in London gives
support to Senator Williams' theory.
Let our people once recognize that
we are ten times worse seared than
hurt so far as cotton consumption is
concerned, and that present prices
are artificial, and then feed the mar
ket slowly till it steadies itself and
we’ll be all right. And the hanks
have only to advance money enough
to support a holding movement in
order to insure this result. But
first of a!! the farmers must meet
in every county and make plans for
warehousing, financing and eooper
. tive marketi; g.—Progressive Far-
KEEP UP THE CIRCULATION.
Pay your debts. Always good ad
vice, it is even better now. We do
not mean that the farmers should
sacrifice their crop, but we do mean
that all those people who have mon
ey with which to pay their obliga
tions should do so. The merchants
are standing by the people of the
South, but every man owes it to him
self and to his section to pay every
obligation that he can and as soon
as he can. The ready money should
not be kept out of the channels of
trade. The merchants, the business
men, the bankers cannot advance
money on cotton, cannot hold the
certificates above a certain amount,
unless money is kept in circulation.
If you don’t pay your debts, the man
you owe can’t pay the man he owes.
So, it behooves every person who
can to pay what he can on his debts.
In so doing he helps every person
along the line.
Advertise now. The people, ow
ing to the stringency of the times,
are looking for bargains —and for
। the merchants who will take cotton
lon accounts. Show 'em what you've
lgot and what you're offering. No
body needs to advertise when they’ve
got all the business they can handle.
Now's the time.
THINGS ARE COMING
RIGHT AT LAST.
Conditions are improving. The fi
nancial situation is beeomng bright
er. The banks are loaning money
to the farmers. The merchants are.
with a commendable spirit of co-op
eration. coming to the assistance of
the cotton planters and are allowing
even as much as 10 cents for cot
ton when applied on accounts.
The Government is doing all in its
power to tide the country over the
present situation. The price of
cotton has advanced: sugar and
other foodstuffs are already lower.
The President has asked that a
; day be set aside for prayers for
peace. A world wide peace propa
' seemingly bearing fruit.
The farmers are holding their cot
‘ ton. A spirit of friendly eo-opera
tion is everywhere in evidence.
The “Buy a Bale of Cotton" move
, iner t is not only becoming S
wi ; y-s j, growing 1, . . ■
All people of all sections are real
izing the South’s condition and are
( rallying to her support. The indi
। cations are that in a few days, this
movement will stretch to all sec
tions of the country.
Only a little cotton is being dump
, ed on the market; most of it is be
, ing held.
Already talk of peace is being
heard and the prospects are consid
erably brighter and more assuring.
Just a little determination on the
part of our people and a period of
“watchful wailing” and the crisis
will be passed.
’Tis our opinion that the worst of
the situation is over and that from
now on the skies will be brighter.
And here’s a fervent prayer to
that end!
THE MAN WHO VOLUNTAR-
ILY SELLS COTTON AT PRES- j
ENT PRICES IS A TRAITOR.
This then is the situation: not ov
er 10 or 15 per cent of the world’s
spindles are likely to stop; even this
decrease in consumption in Europe
will be partially made good by the
increased consumption of the Ameri
can mills; and as soon as the war is
over “these countries which have not
been able to get cotton will be clam
oring for it.”
And yet, there are foolish Ameri
can farmers in every State simply
giving away their cotton at ridicu
lous prices before the Cotton Ex
changes open, and before the finan
cial world has time to catch its
breath and find out whether it is
really hurt or only scared.
Perhaps some of these farmers
are compelled to sell, and we may
excuse them. but for the others
there is just one thing to say. That
thing i> that every man who sells a
bale of cotton at present fictitious
prices, unless compelled to do so by
necessity, is not only playing the
fools so far as his own interests are
concerned, but is a traitor to his fel
low farmers.
If he himself only were getting |
hurt, we might let him alone, but he I
is depressing prices for everybody j
else in the South. Four or five I
thousand farmers scattered over the
j South by accepting the ridiculous
■ : -e- recently offered, or else by
1-. :iag “ giving away ther cotton J
to somebody when there was no mar
ket at all, —these few irresponsible
cotton growerds have come mighty
near establishing an eight-cent level
for prices that it will take energetic
acton from Virginia to Texas to
overcome.
It is our belief that if the cotton
exchanges could have remained open,,
prices would have gradually adjust
ed themselves to lower levels, but.
that the abused New York cotton
gamblers would never have brought
prices so low as farmers have done
by the South-wide “bear” movement
they have themselves instituted. —
Progressive Farmer.
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Its Safe for
Children”
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