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DEVOTED TO THE MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT'
tOKEE, THE BEST COUN TY IN NORTH GEORGIA.
VOLUME XLVII
CANTON. CEORGI
DAY, JANUARY 27, 1922.
Nm BECURES
I HIS FOLLOWED
LkW i-PBISIONS
ILACKSHEM DIDDLED
WITH DULLETS
Blackshear. Ga. January 20.- An
armed band of men, be lieved by of
ficials to be members of a whisky
The law passed by the 1021 onlered IMftcksheav eor l y this
morning and shot up the business
section of the city, first attacking
lature covering the payment of pen
sions to confedrate veterans was fol
lowed strictly by Attorney- General
George M. Napier when he ruled
that pensioners of the “new” class
will not be paid out of the money
appropriated and that the pensions
of the “old" class will be reduced,
he announced Friday.
“In making this ruling' 1 simply
followed the law which was passed
by the legislature at its last session.
The law is plain and there was noth
ing else to be done In the case,"
Attorney-General Napier said.
The question of paying “old" and
“new" pensioners was debated to
some lenght in the legislature before
the law was passed. An appropria
tion of $1,250,000 for the year 1922
and 1923 was made. Later it was
found thut more money would be
needed to clear up past due pensions
and $800,000 was apropriated.
the following law ns the bnsis or his
opinion:
Attorney-General Napier quoted
Section 14 paragraph (d) of the
uct of 1921 (see Georgia Iaiws,
1921. page 18), provides ns follows:
“For the payment of pensions
which shall become due for each of
the years 1922 and 1923, $1,150,
000. The same to be paid to that
class of pensones sowing a pension
prior to the acts of 1919, and the
the amount to he paid to be the
same as paid prior to all nets of
1919."
Some Ai
Fi
its of the
’ Problems
By BERI
M. BARUCH
(Reprinted frM)||j|t.lantic Monthly)
the Marion hotel, owned and oper
ated by Mrs. John W. Roberson,
widow of the late Sheriff Roberson,
who recently was killed while raid
ing a still, and the present home of
her son Sheriff Olin Roberson. No
one has been reported injured.
No less than fifteen shots were
fired into the hotel. Guests having
front rooms at the hotel regarded
their escape from injury as remurk-
able. Bullets flew thick and fast
Pictures and other objects on the
walls of the rooms were shot down.
The bandits then proceeded fur
ther into the business section, firing
fusillade after fusillade in every
direction. The plate-glass window of
the postofficc was shattered by bul
lets, while the buildings of the Black
sheur Drug company, S. E. Cohen,
Strickland Brother company and
Dr. G. Hendry were riddled.
The gang evidently waited out
side of the city limits until the local
power house cut off its lighting sys
tem for the night. With the town
in darkness, the band swept through
streets in an automobile, firing at
random. There was little shouting
above the roar of their harking wea
pons.
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Death of Mrs. E. D. Fowlci
BALL GROUND NEWS
Mr. A. W. McClure, Sr. and Mrs.
A. W. McClure of Canton was the
week end guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Faulkner.
Mesdames Jackson and Smith of
Atlanta spent last week with Mr.
and Mrs. John Garrett.
Mr. and Mrs. Southwell und fam
ily left Saturday for Gainesville,
where they will reside.
Miss Addie Mae Faulkner leaves
Monday for G. N. I. C.
Misses Vera Groover and Dessie
Anderson, Mosers Robert Clegg and
Bridge atte nded the Methodist Sun
day School Convention at Canton
Mrs. Fred Boling spent several
days in Jasper last week on account
of the illnes of her father.
Severn! from here are expecting
to attend the Baptist Sunday
School Convention in Canton Sun
day.
Mr. McWhorter spent two days in
Etowah, Tenn. last week.
Mrs. A. W. Roberts visited Mrs.
Roll Coggins of Atlanta last week.
Mr. Henry Gibbs of Ashville, N.
C. is spending a few days with his
mother.
Messers Sim and Paul Logan of
Atlanta spent the week end with
their Sister, Mrs. Herehel Allen.
Mrs. Cammille Lemon has ac
cepted a position with the Insu
rance Company in Atlanta.
Mr. and Mrs. Veal and family of
Conyers are the guest of Mr. and
Mrs. John Cagle.
Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Price delight
fully entertained the Rook Club last
week. Miss Maude Wheeler and Mr.
Ben Perry won the highest score.
Those present were: Misses Cora
and Inez Hubbard Maude Wheeler,
Bernice Roberts, Mesdame Perry
and Turner. Messers Hugh Boling,
Robert Clegg, Bridget, Herman
Hardin, Grady Gilmer. Paul Jackson
and Ben Perry.
Mr6. E. D. Fowler died Saturday
January the 14th after a brief ill
ness, of a sleeping disease; ahe wen*
to sleep Thursday and never re
vived except a few minutes before
she passed away.
Surviving are a husband and six
children, before her marriage she
was Miss Sarah Nancy Compton
She was a member of Riverdale
Baptist church for several years
Interment was in Chaicedonia cem-
etnry Sunday with Rev. W. H
Moody in charge and a short talk
bv Rev. C. A. Waters.
Now Flint (lie fanners arc stlf
thinking, and uniting as never b«
to eradicate these Inequalities,
are subjected fo stern economic
Lures, and are met with the accusnttol
that they are demanding, and are the
recipients of, special privileges. Lot
us see what privileges flic govern mcfjjj
bos conferred on tlio fanners. MiifcB
has been made of Section fl of tin
Clayton Antl-Tv • An-', which |>mt*
ported to permit them to combine with
Immunity, under certain condition 1 -/*
Admitting that, nominally, this ex
emption was In flie nature of a special
privilege,—though 1 think it was so lr
appearance rather than in fact,—we,
find Mint die corn-1* have nullified *♦
by judicial interpretation. Why should
not the farmers Lie permitted U> ac
complish by co-operative methods wlmt
other businesses are already doing by
co-operation in tlie form of incorpora
tion? If It ho proper for men to 1 form,,
by fusion nf existing corporations ot
otherwise, a corporation that controls
the entire production of a commodity,
or a lnrge part of it, why is it not
proper for a group of farmers to unite
for the marketing of their common
products, either In one or in severnl
selling agencies? Why should it he
right for n hundred thousand corporate
shareholders t<> direct 25 or 30 or 40
per cent o* an industry, aod wrong for
thousand . co-operative
griculture and"!Tie production arid dls
Hontlon of farm products are not «»•-
orded the same opportunities that are
provided for other businesses; espe
cially as the enjoyment by the farmei
such opportunities would appear to
even more contributory to the gen
HILLS HOLDS
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NUMBER 4
Major and Mrs. H. J. Mills, with
their eight children, held a family
reunion on Christmas day and pre
sented to each member of the fam
ily a check which is their annual
custom.
v-t&fli AMENDMENT
ADOPTION OBSERVED
N. C. T. U. MEETINGS
al good than In the case of other
ustrlea. The spirit of American
nocracy is unalterably opposed,
Ike to enacted special' privilege and
the special privilege of unequal op-
unity that arlaea automatically
tho failure to correct glaring
nomic inequalities. I am opposed
the Injection of government Into
ijiiess, hut I do believe that it is an
tlul function of democratic gov-
iment to equalize opportunity an
It Is within its power to do so,
her by the repeal of archaic
es or the enactment of modern
If the anti-trust Jaws keep the
rs from endeavoring scientifically
tegrute their Industry while other
[■tries find n way to meet modern
ions without violating such stat-
itteft then it would aecrn reasonable
to fid a wav for the farmers to meet
thus lunder tho same condition*. 'Hie
law. Would operate equally In fact. He
pairing the economic structure on one
side no Injustice to the other side,
wblth Is In good repair.
: ♦:« have traveled a long way from
i-dd conception of government as
mt-jik.6,. defensive nnd policing agency;
Major Mills is a native of Missouri
and settled in Pickins county, Geor
gia He married Miss Lincy Collins
of Cherokee county, Georgia. Their
cdglit children were horned in the
same house, which still stands on
the old homestead near Ludville,
Ga., Pickens county.
a hundred
farmers to control n no !a r S or pr«^corrective, ov e^tauV
lion of the wheat crop, or cotton, « iDg jpftSatio-, which apparently Is of I
TOON1GH
The candy pulling at Mr. Wilson,
Saturday night was enjoyed bv a
arge crowd.
Misses Vancile and Alden Benson,
Leela and Wylene Flanagin spent
Saturday night with Miss Wilie Mae
and Leo Wilson.
Mr. and Mrs. Claud Wilson spent
Saturday night with her parents
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Wilson.
Mrs. Lizzie Johnson and family
spent Saturday night with her
daughter Mts. Mattie Grasham.
Mises Ducii and Mary A lie House
spent Sunday with Miss Leela and
Wyiene Flanagin.
Mr. Jim Turner of Canton Route
4 spent Sunday night with Mrs. and
Mr. Joe Blak.lodge.
day night with Miss Lucile Evr
GEORGIA,—Cherokee County.
Whereas, E. F. ft T. F. Hawkins,
Administrators of W. T. Hawkins,
represents to the Court in their pe-
cord, that they have fully adminis
tered W. T. Hawkins estate. This
is therefore to cite all persons con
cerned kindred and creditors, to
show cause, if any they can, why
said Administrators should not be
discharged from their administration
and receive iotteiu m oiMiiabMii
the first Monday In February, 1922.
JACOB MASSEY, Ordinary.
any other product?
The Department of Agriculture Is
often spoken of a* a special concession
to the farmers, but In Its commercial
results, It Is of ns much benefit to the
buyers aw? consumers of agricultural
products as to the producers, or even
more. I do not suppose that anyone
opposes the benefits that the farmers
derive from the educational nnd res.
search work of the department, or the
help thni it gives them in working out
Improved cuitilral methods and prac
tices, In developing better yielding va
rieties through breeding and selection,
fn introducing now varieties from re
mote parts of the world and adapting
them to our climate and economic con
dltion, and In devising practical mens
urea for the elimination or control of
dangerous and destrucCve animnl and
plant diseases, insect pests, and the
like. All these things manifestly tend
to stimulate and enlarge production,
and their general beneficial effects ur*
obvious.
It is complained ilint, whereas tin
law restricts Federal Reserve banks
to three months’ time for commercial
paper, the farmer is allowed six
months on Ills notes. This Is not a
special privilege, hut merely such n
recognition of business conditions a?
makes It possible l'or country banks
to d" business with country people
The crop farmer ban only one turn
over a year, white the merchant und
manufacturer iau.- many. Incidental
ly, 1 note thut the Federal Reservi
Board lins just authorized the Fed
era I Reserve banks to discount export
paper for a period of six months, to
conform to the nature of the busi
ness.
The Farm Loan hanks are polnled
to ns an Instance of special govern
ment favor for farmers. Are they not
rather the outcome of laudable effort-
t.o equalize rural and urban condi
tions? And about all the government
does there is to help set up an ad
mlnistratlve organization and lend *
little credit at the start. Eventually
the farmers will provide all the capl
tal and carry all the liabilities them
selves. It Is true that Farm Loan
bonds are tax exempt ; but so are
bonds of municipal light and traction
plants, and new housing Is to he ex
empt from taxation, In New York, for
The eight, children's names and
'oentions are as follows: W. D. Mills
attorney-at-law, 8 Delta place, In-
man park, Atlanta Ga.; Dr. Joseph
T. Mills, resides nnd practices his
nrofession ut McIntyre Wilkenson
county, Georgia. Mrs. Bessie Mills
Carter resides at Grady hospital,
where she is employed us one of the
hospital superintendents. Mrs. Maud
Mills Gurney resides in Capitol
View, her husband having died with
the flu during the epidemic of 1918.
Mrs. Florence Mills Walkoning re
sides at Elizabeth Terrace apart
ments on Edgewood Avenue, Her
husband is a physician with offices In
the Hurt Building. Mrs. Alyce Mills
Morris resides on Allene avenue.
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a special nature, Is often of the most
general beneficial consequences. Eveu
the First Congress passed a tariff act
that was avowedly for the protection
of manufacturers; but a protective
tariff always has been defended ae a
mean* of promoting the general good
through n particular approach; and
the statute books are filled with acts
for the benefit of shipping, commerce,
and labor,
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Miss Wyoiene Flanagin spent Mon- On the ether hand, the farmer reads
of plans for municipal housing proj
acts that run into the billions, of hun
dreds of millions annually spent on
the merchant marine; ho reads that
the railways are being favored with
Increased rates nnd virtual guaranties
of earnings by the government, with
the result to bint of an 'no-eased toll
oil that he sells and nil that hr
tion, duly filed and entered on je- ° ays He hears of many manifesto
tlons of governmental concern for par
tlcular Industries and Interests. Res
cnlng the railways from Insolvency is
undoubtedly for the benefit of the
country as a whole, but what can be
of more general benefit than encour
agement of ample production ol’ the
principal necessaries of life and their
even flow from contented producers {»'
satisfied consumers?
While U may be conceded that
special governtnental aid may be nec
essary In the general Interest, we musf
■It agree tbai-It-la difficult. to seefiyby
Row, what la the farmer asking?
Without trying to catalogue the re
medial measures thut have heen sug
gested In his behalf, the principal pro
posals that bear directly on the Im
provement of liis distributing and mar
keting relations may be summarized as
follows:—
First: storage warehouses for cot
ton, wool, and tobacco, end elevators
for grain, of sufficient capacity to meet
the maximum demand on tlmui at the
peak of the marketing period. The
former thinks that cither private cap!
fal must furnish these facilities, or the
state must erect and own the eleva
lors and warehouses.
•Second: weighing and grading of
agricultural products, and certification
thereof, to bo done by impartial and
disinterested public Inspectors (this Is
already accomplished to some extern
by the federal licensing of weighers
and graders), to eliminate underpay
ing, overcharging, and unfair grading,
and to facilitate the utilization of the
slored products ns the busts of credit.
Third: a certain!- of credit sufficient
to enable the marketing of products
in an orderly manner.
Fourth: the Department of Agrlcul
lure should collect, tabulate, summa
rlze, and regularly and frequently pub
lisb and distribute to the farmers, full
i,formation from all the markets of
the world, so that they shall be as well
Informed of their selling position ns
iniyers now are of their buying post
lion.
Fifth; freedom to integrate the bus!
ness of agriculture by means of con
-olldated selling agencies, co-ord!nnt
ng and co-operating In such way as to
put the farmer on on equal footing
with the large buyers of bis products,
and with commercial relations In other
industries.
When a business requires specialized
talent, It has to buy It. -So will the
farmers; and perhaps the best way for
them to get It would he to utilize some
of the present machinery of the larg
est established agencies dealing In
farm products. Of course, If he wishes,
ihe farmer may go further and engage
in flour-milling and other manufactures
of food products. In my opinion,
however, he would be wise to atop
short of that. Public interest may he
opposed to nil great integrations; but.
In justice, ahould they be forbidden tc
the farmer and permitted to others?
The corporate form of association can
not now be wlndly adapted to his ob
jects and conditions, The looser co
operative form seems more generally
suitable. Therefore, he wishes to be
free, If he finds it desirable and feas
ible, to resort to co-operation with his
fellows and neighbors, without run
ning afoul of the law. To urge that
the farmers should hsfejths saw*? lib-
Her husband is in, the insurance and
real estate husWestr, wfch offices Jn
the Austell building. Mrs. Lilly
Mills Woodall resides on Tenth St
and her husband superintends ono
of the chain of Rogers stores.
Grady Stephens Mills is a printer
and helps manage and publish the
DeKalb New Eru, Decatur, Gu.
where he also resides.
The above clipping from the issue
of the Atlanta Constitution of Jan
uary 8th will be of interest to the
many readers of the Advance ns Mr.
Mills and his family were residents
of Canton some twenty years ago
more. Major Mills, as he wus
famillinriy known to his many
friends was Editor of the Cheroke^
Advance for several yenrs while
(his i'umily has many relatives nnd
riends throughont this county ho
will read with pleasure the ubove
account of the coming together, on
the occasion of a re-union of this
large and splendid family. May they
ull live to ejoy mn.v more such oc-
Columlius, Ga. January 22— Thc-
dry law enactment was celebrated
here with two simultaneous mas-
meetings, one at St. Luke's church
down in the city and the other it
the Rose Hill Methodist church.
Mrs. J. A. Thomas, of the Therseu
Griffin W. C. T. U., presided at tin
former, and Mrs. Frank B. Boyce,
president of the Rose Hill W. C. T
U., presided over the latter. Addresi-
es of several phases of national
probition and on law enforcement
in which home brewers nnd boot
loggers were said to he on n par.
were made by Prof. T. C. Kendrick,
principal of the Columbus Hign
school. Chief of County Police
Mitch Huiing. Rev. I. S. McElroy.
of the First Prccsbyterinn church
Rev. J. A. Thomas, Rev. L. A. Hen
derson, Frank J. Dudley and Mrs.
Charles S. Davis.
Miss M. Thersea Griffin, sditor of
The Georgia W. C. T. U. Bulletin,
announced a Sabbath observance
edition for Fehunry, with special
article® by Dr. H. L. Bowleby, ol
New York, general secretary of the
Lord’s Day alliance; Rev. Waltei
Anthony, of Athens; Mrs. Emma L.
Sarrett Central City, Neb,, national
Vf. 'E. T. O. gapeHwtontWift the
Sabbath observance department, and
by Mrs. Edin P. Nowell, Jr., of Mon
roe. superintendent of this depnrt
ment for this state, with indorse
ments of a Sabbath observance cam
paign by Mrs. Leila A. Dillard, of
Emory university, Georgia W. C. f.
IJ. president, nnd Mr*. Mary Hnrri-
Amor, LL. D., field secretary.
cassions.
MRS. H. C. PUCKET DEAD
Mrs. Howell C. Pucket of Queen
City Texas died at the home of her
daughter Mrs. Andy Elrod in
Shrievcsport Louisiana Wednesday
the eighteenth, after a brief illness
or only a few hours. She is survived
sevcrnl children of Texas and
Robert Lee Pucket of South On.
Before her marriage shu was Miss 1
Nancy Sims of Cherokee County, of
which she was a resident for a num
tier of years. She was a Christian
woman; for n number of yenrs be
ing a member of the Baptist faith.
Her remains were laid to rest in
Queen City Texus. She has a num
ber of relatives in this county.
(“rfV' to consolidate and eo-nrciTnnfe
their peculiar economic functions,
which other Industries In tlietr fields
enjoy, Is v.at, however, fo concede that
any business Integration should have
legislative sanction to exercise monop
ollstic power. The American people
nre ns firmly opposed to Industrial as
io political autocracy, whether at
tempted by rural or by urban Industry.
For lack of milted effort the farmers
ns n whole are still marketing iboii
crops by antiquated methods, or by no
methods at all, but they are surrounded
by a business world that has been
modernised to the last minute and Is
tirelessly striving for efficiency. This
efficiency Is due In large measure to
big business, to united business, to In
tegrated business. The farmer* now
seek the benefits of such largeness, un
Ion und integration.
The American farmer Is a modern af
the moderns In the use of labor saving
machinery, and he has made vast
strides in recent year* in scientific
tillage and efficient farm management,
but as a business In contact with other
businesses aglrcultur* Is a "one horse
ahay” In competition with high power
automobiles. The American farmer Is
the greatest and moat intractable of
Individualists. While Industrial pro-
duetton and all phases of the huge com
mercial mechanism and Its myriad ac
cessories have articulated and co-ordi
nated themselves all the way from nat
ural raw materials to retail sales, the
business of agriculture has gone on in
much the one man fashion of the back-
wood* of the first part of the nine
toentb century, wheD the farmer wsa
self sufficient ami did not depend upon,
or care very much, whut tho great
world was doing. The result is that
the agricultural group is almost as
much at a disadvantage In dealing with
other economic groups as the Jay farm
er of the funny paces In the hands of
sleek urban confidence men, who sell
him acreage In Central Park or the
Chicago city hall. This leader# of the
farmers thoroughly understand this,
and they are intelligently striving to
Integrate their Industry so that It will
be on an equal footing with other busi
nesses.
As an example of Integration, taks
the steel Industry, tn which the model
Is the United Stales Steel Corporation,
with Us Iron mines, its coal mines, its
lake and rail transportation, Its ocean
vessels, Its by-product coke ovens, Its
blast furnaces, It* open hearth and
Bessemer furnaces, Its rolling mills, Its
tube mills and other manufacturing
processes that are carried to the high
est degree of finished production com
patlble with the large trade It has
built up All this Is generally conced
ed to be to the advantage of the con
sumer, Nor does the *teel corporation
inconsiderately dump Its products on
the market. On the contrary, It so
set* that li ts frequently a stabilizing
influence, as is often flu- case with >< li
ar large organizations;. Ii is muster of
Its distribution us well os *ff it- pro
duction. If prices are not satisfactory
the product* are bqW baflt or produc
tion is reduced or suspended. It is not
compelled to send a year's work to the
market. jU one Mine and lake whatever
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