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THE NEWS & FARMER!
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Louisville, Ga., under the Act of Congress, March 8, 1879
Published Every Thursday In the Year By J. W. White
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THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1919
Perhaps Italy thinks that the peace conference needs
4 4 Fhane-gating.”
The V drive is now on and must be carried to a
finish before the expiration of the time limit.
Postmaster General Burleson is getting more knocks
than any cabinet officer, and most of them are based
on complaints that justify the attacks.
The Commerco Observer states that the Georgia edi
tors will “either go to the mountains, the seashore, or some
other particular point in the state.’’ That particular point
is the one that interests us all.
Atlanta has had her annual spasm of grand opera which
has put multitudes of dollars into the pockets of the stars
of the occasion, and it is hoped that those who attended
feel fully repaid for their investment, but it is doubtful.
Governor Dorsey is “thinking about” entering the
race for United States Senator next year. With his for
mer supporter, Hon. Thos. E. Watson ,“agin” him he will
not have the walk-over that he did in his first raee tor
Governor.
New buildings are going up, improvements are be
ing made on old ones and there seems to bo disposition
on the part of our people to keep up with the march of
development, notwithstanding the high prices of materials
of all kinds.
The Italians are pouting because they will not be al
lowed as big a piece of the pie as they expected to get at
the peace table. It remains to be seen whether the other
nations arc willing to cut it according to the wishes of
Italy’s statesmen.
The luxury tax on soft drinks and ice cream will bring
the government a large sum of money, although the tax is
only one cent. The collection of this tax will give some
idea of how much money the people of the United States
spend on such luxuries.
Savannah has celebrated the one hundroth anniversary
of the sailing of the first American steamship from that
port to Europe, which was the fore-runner of the great :
commerce that has since sailed the seas. The world has
made strenuous strides since that day, which was one of
the most important events of history.
Our people are not asked to give to the government
in Victory Loan bonds, but are requested to
make an investment which will pay a fine dividend foi
several years to come. The government needs the money
but it will eventually come back to us through the 1 chan
nels of trade.
More patrioaism and consideration for other nations
should actuate the moves on tin* political chess board in
Paris. A greedy grab for everything in sight, regardless
of the rights of other nations, will not prove satisfac- !
tory. Uoneessions will have to be made in order to ac
complish the desired results.
If our people are really glad of the victory which has
been achieved in the fight against German domination,
which would have practically meant slavery for the Allies,
they now have tlie opportunity of expressing their joy by
making investments in the Victory Loan bonds that are
on sale at the banks. Sec your banker and make arrange ,
ments to do your share in the work of raising the necessary!
amount that the government needs f.*r paying the debts in- \
eurred in the great war.
All over tie* South Memorial day was fittingly observed
by the people who honor our soldiers for the sacrifices that |
they made in lighting for southern rights more than half
a century ago. The ranks of the veterans have been con
siderably depleted by the march of time and within a few
more years the last survivor must follow his comrades to j
the scenes of another world. The custom of honoring the
heroes ol that struggle was originated in Georgia and has!
spread to every town and village in the south. It is a beau
tiful custom, and has been followed by the people of the
north, who likewise honor the memory of their soldiers a
few weeks later.
CHANGE OF SENTIMENTS
Wlini Hc*v. Sum .lout's was asked if there were any
differences in the instincts of the white and colored men
he replied that they were about the same, lint qualified
his reply by saying there was a considerable difference
in the ‘ ‘ out-stinks. ’ ’ The Savannah News of last Satur
day published the following editorial in reference to the
strike in an Ohio ship building company's yards, which
shows that there is a prejudice against the colored man
in the north which does not exist in the south, and that
prejudice against him as a worker exists in a marked
degree in the states that were the hot beds of abolition
before the war between the states:
While we are peopling into the century-old piast
and checking up the changes seen in the present and
while we anticipate the just-as-great. changes the next
century, it is interesting to note that a little more than
a hundred years ago Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
was born. And a little more than sixty five years ago
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly” ap
peared as a serial story in one of the piopular Northern
magazines, Quite a number of Savannahians, young and
older, have rend “ Uncle Tom” —and some have seen it
presented on the stage.
It is not to resurrect the mythical colored man nor
to re-jiortrav the scenes of the “quarters” but to point
a change which has taken place in the time since the
East and North devoured the story (if Unde Tom’s
Cabin. In the period in which the story was set it may
be remembered that Ohio was a favorite resort for the
runaway slave and there are some heart-rending pas
sages, if the tale is accurately recalled of the flight of
hounded, hunted black folks, crossing the river on ice
floes to escape inhuman master-fiends and blood-hounds—
bound for the cities of refuge, the welcoming heaven of
haven, in beautiful, liberty-loving, equality-offering Ohio.
That was a little more than three-score years ago. Yester
day the press dispatches had an item that read this way:
Toledo, 0., Ajiril 23.—Twenty five hundred men
employed in the Toledo Shipbuilding Company’s yards
struck today, charging that the company had increased
the number of its negro workers from fifteen to forty.
But in these days of revolution and evolution, of vast
strides toward the ideal and the typically altruistic and
fraternal conditions of society, sixty-five years is a long
time. And probably Ohio human nature has undergone some
changes in the progress of the years.
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Bevcral of the counties of the state have voted to
bonds for the improvements of the schools and highway:
thus distributing the expense over a period of years whicl
will not be very keenly felt by the tax payers who are t
receive the benefits that will accrue. It is the best plai
known for the improvemtnts of public utilities, and wi
hope to see our county keep step in the march of progres:
and enterprise.
Onr people have not become aeeustomed to the change!
in tho time. Those who have hertofore depended upoi
the sun are sticking to it, while somo others have nevei
moved their clocks forward two hours ahead of what
they had been aeeustomed to use in the regulation ol
their affairs, while the fast time has been adopted and
is being considered as the only time by those who con
sider themselves progressive and up-to-date.
Judge Elbert 11. Gary, the head of the great steel in
dustry, predicts that there will be a great impetus given to
business of ail kinds throughout the United States, and this
spirit of optimism seems justified by the general oenditions.
With high prices prevailing and plenty of money in cireu
olation to meet the bills there is going to be an era of ac
tivity that lias never before been equalled in the history of
our governement.
APPEARED LIKE A SUNDAY DAILY
From the Commerce News:
Georgia’s weekly newspapers .are carrying more display
advertising matter than ever before. Last week many of
our exchanges reached us appearing like a Sunday daily.
Among them were the Sandersville Progress with 20 pages;
the Carroll Free-Press with 20 pages, and the Walton News
and the Walton Tribune with 20 pages each. Sixteen
page papers were common. It was Easter and dealers were
getting in their principal spring message.
JUSTICE, LIKE CHARITY, SHOULD
BEGIN AT HOME
Wars tend to unsettle conditions and to change the stan
dards of value as well as the prices of goods. The late
war has put a far higher value on manual labor as distinct
from other forms of service to the community than it ever
enjoyed before. In some cases the increase in the rewards
of labor was beyond all reason. Yet the workers are de
termined, apparently, to maintain the standard which the
necessities of the various Governments enabled them to se
cure. Their efforts to do so will undoubtedly cause much
friction, and must eventually bring about conflict, because
it is, in effect, an attempt of a small minority of the peo
ple to impose a heavy tax on all others for their benefit.
The Kansas City Star says: For months we have been
hearing about the world. What about America? In all
this time of turmoil what attention is being given to this
<ountry and to its problems?
This is said in no selfish sense. America has world re
sponsibilities. Sho has just demonstrated by enormous
sacrifices that she is no shirk. But her first duty is at home.
Much loose talk is going around about advantages of inter
nationalism. Somebody ought to be preaching nationalism.
The best way for a grocer to help the standards of the
grocery business is for him to elevate the standards of his
own business. The best way for the average American
to uplift humanity is to uplift America. We try to make
our nation represent the things we believe in. To the ex
tent it falls shoit is its influence for good lessened in the
world . Our ideals float around in the air, unless they are
embodied in the Nation. The only virtue that really exists,
exists in virtuous men and in virtuous nations.
The most effective way for America to spread justice and
righteousness in the world is for America herself to be
just and righteous with sufficient force in the background
to make its qualities respected. China might give the
world a lovely spectacle of righteousness, but to no avail
so long as there was force behind it.
America is now facing tremendous domestic problems.
The draft revealed that a high percentage of young men in
j their prime were too defective physically for army service,
and that surprisingly large percentage could not read. We
know there are large sections of the country where the
homos of the people need reconstruction almost as sorely as
the devastated regions of France. Our railroads are going
bankrupt. There is a pressing out of work problem. On
| every hand men are insisting on a larger share of the gains
of civilization for themselves and their families.
But the far away thing is so touch more alluring than
I the prosaic duty near home. It is easier to express kindly
| sentiments toward tin* Armenians than to do justice to the
Negroes. It is more beautiful to promise peace to the world
I than to establish order and justice in Mexico.
Nevertheless, unless we have here in America a great
j nation built on justice and fair dealing between its poo
ph\ capable ot defending itself, not soft and easy going as
I America was in the years before it entered the war, but
j standing ! ■ lore the world as ready for another battle of tin*
Argonne should the need arise unless we have such a nation,
"nr protestations will be sounding brass and a tinkling cym
bal.
We must first serve America, if we are to serve the
world. We must le the champions of a robust nationalism
jil we are to be ready to answer when humanity calls again.
THE GERMAN FOURTEEN POINTS
i In* ( it.*mi,‘in people have t*\*ic 1 1* n11 v been trained from
Ik" cladle up 1u think ernokedly, to si*i* every fart and
’'very proposition ill the light that pleases them first, and
not in any other light. The German profiosn •,f ;fie ,i,e\
ami the preachers are primarily responsible for this condi
tion of mind, lint it pervades the whole life of the nation.
| 1° this day, the people of Germany, speaking generallv,
I’lanu* other nations for tin* war. They justify all the atro
cious acts of their own rulers and think their enemies have
acted very ni'kcdlv. Now, they are hiding Mr. Wilson’s
“fourteen points" which they interpret in a very false
way.
President Wilson" f j oints to Germany’s mind
are fourteen ways of dodging moral and financial responsi
bility for her heinous crimes against world civilization.
Germany announces, then reiterates, that she will resist
the demands of the allied peace delegates unless these de
mands tire patterned along the famous principles enunciated
by the American executive. But Germany interprets these
fourteen points as she wishes. Germany forgets that these
very principles are being interpreted in Paris ia such fash
ion as to bind her hand and foot. There will he no unjust
treatment of the German in Paris. But steps will be taken
there to convince the Teuton, whether he be Prussian, Sax
on or Bavarian, that war has been exceedingly unprofitable
investment for Germany; that it cannot be repeated; fur
thermore, that it must not. Germany is to be made to feel
the sting of past wrongdoing. In wielding the gad Presi
dent Wilson, Premier Eloyd George and Premier Piemen
ceau feel that there should be no lessening of power be
hind the blows. If the German has interpreted the fourteen
points as milksop or honey then the German is mistaken.
German delegates will enter the final deliberations in Ver
sailles possibly with the idea of arguing the whole situation.
They will leave with signatures attached to any treaty
imposed by the Allies, and these signatures will he deman
ded immediately.
Germans may he disgruntled. They may denounce the
terms as in violation of flu* fourteen points as they have
inter*m led them. They may set up whines designed to
win s.vii-j :i. I. y over the entire wce-id. There r. ay result from
the actual signing a counter revolution against present ex
isting governmental forms in Germany. But the German
will sign. Allied nations imposing the terms are thoroughly
well capable of caring for lesu’tant contingencies. In
1* ranee and in Paris definite, well-knitted plans for dealing
with almost any situation have been drafted. They will
lie put into operation should the Germans resist in the
conference or afterward. The Germans know this.
The peace to he signed will be a victory peace. Thi
stigma of evildoing will be placed upon the brow of al
Germans who instigated or carried tho war through it:
weary years. Right and justice again will raise thei
standards throughout tho world. Peace will come alonj
the lines of the fourteen points. But not according tc
German interpretation.
THE NEWS & FARMER, THURSDAY, MAY 1,1919
WONDERFUL RECORD
FOR THE PIG CLUBS
They Have Outstripped The
Other Agricultural Clubs
A brief summary of the pig club
work given below shows that material
progress has been nfade in this line
of club work. The membership has
increased; the methods of feeding and
caring for the pigs are based on
scientific principles; better blood Is
being used; progress is being made
along all ines. This club now sur
passes the corn club in the numbers
enrolled.
The following is some of the phases
and activities of the pig club work in
Georgia as carried on by the Exten
sion Division of the State College of
Agriculture in co-operation with the
United States Department of Agricul
ture:
Fourteen schools in one county
raised pigs on the waste from schol
ars’ lunch baskets and sold them for
$590.00 at an auction sale.
One town of 2,000 people produced
35,000 pounds of pork from pigs
raised in back yards. The white boys
of the same county raised $12,340.00
worth of meat hogs, and the negro
boys $2,134.86, a total of $14,474.86
worth of meat produced by pig club
boys.
An all-cotton county reports an in
crease of 6,000 hogs in 1918.
Fifty-seven pig club members In one
county raised 260 head of registered
Duroc-Jerseys. The amount invested
was $2,300.00 An auction sale dis
posed of 80 head of surplus. The sale
and remaining hogs represent $7,-
800.00
Twenty-two schools in one county
are raising twenty two pure-bred hogs
this spring on waste from the pupils’
dinner baskets.
With twenty-eight pig club hogs one
county won seventy-six ribbons, and
prizes amounting to $817.60, including
the State championship.
The State champion was the eleven
year-old son of a one-horse farmer
who bought his pig at an auction sale
for $37.60. She is worth S3OO today
Six pig club boys in one county will
start hog farms in 1919. Three of
these boys have their hogs and land.
All of them started with one small
pig-
Of the 2,105 hogs at the Southetst
ern Fair, 345 were owned and raised
•y pig club boys who won thirty-one
ribbons and $330 in prizes in the open
ing. Three of the ribbons were
„,inior Champions.
Of the 360 hogs at the State Fair,
8 7were owned and raised by pig club
boys who won 39 ribbons in the open
ring and $272 in prizes. One of the
ribbons was a Junior Champion.
Pig club boys won 70 ribbons and
$505 in prizes in the open ring at tw<
Georgia fairs. Four of the ribbons
were Junior Champions.
The total sum represented by the
hogs and pigs in the hands of the pig
club members during 1918 was almost
a half million dollars.
The increase in the initial cost of
pig clubs' pigs in 1918 was almost
60 per cent more than in 1917.
The increase in the final value of
bogs raised by pig club boys in 1918
over those of 1917 was over 66 per
cent.
The increase in the number of pure
bred hogs raised by pig club boys in
1918 over 1917 was over 306 per cent.
The increase in the number of pigs
exhibited at two fairs by pig club
boys in 1918 over 1917 was nearly 60
tier cent.
The increase in profits of hogs
raised in 1918 over 1917 was over 61
per cent.
At l lie second annual Negro Meat
Show, at Fort Valley, there were 896
pieces of hog meat exhibited, 284
dozen fresh eggs, and 43 1-2 pounds
of butter. A close inspection delected
fifty-seven shoulders slightly off in
odor and but two actually sour.—J. K.
Giles. Georgia State College of Agri
culture
BOLL WEEVIL SURVEY
IS MADE IN SUMTER
Records Are Being Taken On
Over 500 Farms.
Tlie Georgia State College of Agri
culture, in co-operation with the U. S.
Department of Agriculture in Wash
ington, is making a study of 500 farms
in Sumter County to determine what
effect the boll weevil has had in farm
ing in south Georgia. Records were
taken in this county five years ago,
and so the present survey will give
excellent information upon which to
base conclusions as to the changes in
farming which the boll weevil has
brought.
From the records it will be deter
mined just what size farms are pay
ing the largest profits and what pro
portion the different crops or enter
prizes show in determining this profit.
It might be guessed that tlie pig-pea
nut-potato proposition has gone a long
way towards lessening the damage
done by Mr. Weevil.
During the last year the college lias
also taken a small number of records
in Pike, Mitchell and Walker coun
ties. The U. S. Department of Agri
culture has made a survey of Brooks
County as well as of Sumter. The
results of the work in these two coun
ties may be secured by writing to the
Department of Publications at Wash
ington. Editor. Georgia State College
of Agriculture.
How Cabinet Has Grown.
George Washington had only five
cabinet officers—a secretary of state,
a secretary of tho treasury, a secre
tary of war, a postmaster general and
an attorney general. A secretary of
the navy was added under John
Adams, a secretary of the interior un
der Taylor and a secretary of agrlcul
ture under Cleveland. The depart
ment of commerce and labor was ere
ated in 1903, under Roosevelt, and the
department of labor was made sepa
rate under Wilson in 3918.
Where to Borrow
Money
That’s the vital question of today with many of our farmers
throughout this section. We wish to state we are in position to
make loans ow good security to responsible parties at a nominal
rate of interest. We are members of the Federal Reserve Bank
and have ample resources to take care of our friends and custo
mers
WHERE TO DEPOSIT MONEY
This too is a vital question and one that should be given care
ful thought and consideration. This bank being a NATIONAL
BANK, and the only National Bank in Jefferson county, offers
to depositors the utmost security known in the banking world.
No depositor has ever lost a dollar in this institution. So why not
play safe and deposit your money with us?
TO ERECT A MODERN BANK BUILDING
We will, within a few months, be in our new bank" building
which will be one of the finest and most modern in this section
of Georgia. We will build a double fire-proof vault and will in
stall a complete set of safety deposit boxes for the use of our cus
tomers. We will also build a Ladies’ Rest Room and private of
fice for the use of the lady patrons of this institution and many
other new and novel features to be found in the metropolitan
banks.
Visit us in our temporary quarters where we are always glad
to have you call.
First National Bank
LOUISVILLE, GA.
Matters Not to Be Discussed.
Of this fact we may all rest as
sured : The quieter we keep about
ourselves, our affairs, pleasant or oth
erwise, the better it will be for us
Time is at a premium these days, and
If we hope to surmount our difficulties
no metier how trying they may be, we
must wisely learn to keep each and
every one ot those problems in tli<
background.
• Chain ’ ' Usco ’
Good Tire Year
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ie growing preponderance of
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Vegetable Diet.
A well-balanced diet does not neces
sitate much meat. The leuf vegetables,
like cabbage, spinach, celery, onions,
etc., are now in their prime, and should
be used as the basis of a number of
appetizing dishes. Supplemented as
they can be by a liberal allowance of
milk, cereals and a limited number of
eggs, the proper food values are fully
maintained.
Fruit That Produce* Oil.
A fruit containing a large percent
age of oil has been discovered In the
region of Torreon, Mex., and is known
6y the name of chichopoxtle. Experi
ments show that 25 per cent of its con
tents consists of oil of great value In
industrial pursuits requiring a lubri
cant of high quality. It is proposed
h> introduce the cultivation of this
fr<* upon a large scale.