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CEDARTOWN STANDARD
Devoted to the Best Interests of Cedar town an d Polk County.
Volume 36.-
Cedartown, Georgia, Thursday, February 2d, 1922.
Number 2.
RAISE COTTON IN SPITE OF WEEVIL
Take a Lesson from the
of Texas
Polk county belongs in the cotton,
belt, and we are always going to
raise more or less cotton. The a- 1
mount from now on, however, is not \
going to depend so much on the nc- j
reage as on the “head work” we put.
into it. j
For instance, a good old Polk
county farmer last season put three !
acres in Cotton, and got two bales. He j
three sons, one of whom put in
twelve, another fourteen, and the
third forty-one acres, and each of
them got only two bales. The old
man put in only ns much cotton as he
could care for under boll weevil con
ditions, and won. His sons thought
they could ignore the weevil,nnd lost.
The weevil has now invaded the
entire cotton belt, and must be figur- 1
od with in every calculation as to
cotton. The dry weather in August
and September enabled Polk county '
to make practically us much cotton
in 1921 as in 1920, but if we had had
as much rain here as they did in
Middle and South Georgia, we wouid
have fared as badly as those sections. I
We have heard a few—a very f ■ :
fanners say that “the Almighty sent
the boll weevil” and if He wanted
the weevil to have their crops they
would have to go. There would be
just as much reason, of course, in
saying that God sent typhoid fever
into a home and that therefore a doc
tor should not be called in. We arc
not going to discuss theology here,
but we cannot refruin from saying
that some people have entirely too
low an opinion of the Almighty.
Whatever the reason for the boll
weevil's coming, it is certainly going
to make a better farmer out of tlfe
man who fights and wins, and the
man who is going to give up the fight
before it begins had better try his
hand at something else besides farm
ing, for black ruin is staring him
squarely in the face.
It is the unfortunate part of the
history of the boll weevil invasion
that a great majority of the farmers
and their backers will not believe
that the pest is going to get them un
til they find themselves ruined by it,
and it is to help prevent such a cat
astrophe in Polk that The Standard
has been doing everything possible
the past three years to arouse our
people to the danger.of the situation.
Two years ago the weevil did much
damage in Polk; last year the loss
resulting from his depredations was
very heavy; what he will do for us
this year no one knows, but from the
history of the pest we can safely
judge that his work will be worse
this year than before. Much depends,
of course, upon weather conditions.
As our readers well know, we have
been passing on to our farmers the
recommendations of the best agricul
tural authorities, urging that they
cut acreage to a minimum, raising
their own food and feed supplies;
fertilize well,! plant early varieties,
and cultivate often and up to picking
time. We have advocated picking up
affl burning fallen squares, because
we felt that the use of calcium ar
senate was in its experimental stage,
but common sense teaches that the
more weevils you can kill at the be
ginning of a season the less you will
have to destroy your crop. Where
the weevil has been at work for sev
eral years, however, farmers have
found that dusting with calcium ar
senate is a cheaper and more effec
tive method of holding the weevil in
check than picking up the squares.
You should either pick up squares or
use the poison, but the latter is found
to be easier and cheaper.
The Standard recently published a
statement from the State Board of
Entomology (the branch of the State
Agricultural Department which
makes a special study of insect
pests, ) saying that at its two experi
ment stations in South Georgia a
bale to the acre was made by the use
of calcium arsenate when the neigh
boring plantations which did not use
it suffered heavy loss. In this article
it was stated that the Legislature
had made an appropriation by which
'every farmer can secure the poison
and the “guns’’ to apply it AT
CO'ST by application to this Board,
and we would suggest that every
oik county farmer drop a card to
he State Board of Entomology in
Atlanta asking for detailed informa
tion.
An especially helpful and illumi
nating series of letters is, now ap
pearing in the Atlanta Constitution
on the cotton question. Texas has
Successful Experience
Farmers.
had the weevil for twenty years;she
went through the “ruination” era,
and is now making more cotton than
ever. The Constitution, for the
benefit of its Georgia readers, is try
ing to find out just how they have
managed to do it. Mr. J. J. Hollo
man, one of the best staff writers of
that great paper, has been sent to
Texas to study the situation, and his
letters are going to do more than
anything else to help our farmers on
the road to success. Texas, of course,
has had farmers who made the wee
vil a present of their crops — but
they “got converted” or are not far
ming now.
The feature of the Hollomon let
ter's that will surprise many in Geor
gia is the emphasis that the .success
ful Texas cotton grower puts on the
usp of calcium arsenate. The rec
ommendations may be briefly sum
marized as follows:
Reduced acreage—plant only what
you can well ware for under boll wee
vil conditions.
Intensive cultivation—proper prep
aration of soil and seed beds, more
fertilization (studying carefully the
needs of your land,) cleaner and
more careful working, putting the
work on one acre that used to be put
on two.
.Dusting with calcium arsenate
whenever the infestation is over 10
per cent. This should be done four
or five times, according to the weath
er conditions. Mr. Ilollomon tells of
one Texas farmer who got a good
top crop by keeping on with the dust
ing after the first crop was gathered.
Have no “laying by time.” Keep
up cultivation until picking time.
Keep the farm clean, so that the
weevil won’t have such convenient
“winter resorts.”
Make cotton a surplus crop-*- a
money crop purely, raising your own
food and feed supplies.
Rotation of Crops—build up your
land with yeas, velvet and soy beans.
There you have the successful
Texas program. Any Polk county
farmer who adopts it and carries it
out faithfully will succeed.
The weevil has come to stay. Don’t
think that a kind providence is going
to take him away. You can make a
winning fight on him, but you can’t
do it by old methods. lie is “some
thing new,” and a farmer who tries
to raise cotton by old methods under
boll weevil conditions is simply in
viting disaster.
Drop a postal card TODAY to the
State Board of Entomology in At
lanta for the information that you
need.
HELP THIS WORK
“Our ex-Service Men should get
actively behind the movement to es
tablish the Woodrow Wilson Foun
dation,” says Maj. Homer Watkins,
Commander of the American Legion
—and as Mayor of Cedartown he
says that all should take pleasure in
helping.
"The boys who served 'over there’
should in particular rally to this
cause,” says the Major, “for Wood-
row Wilson stood squarely behind us
then, and we ought now to honor his
name and help to perpetuate his
memory, to which history will finally
accord the highest of places.”
Hon. L. S. Ledbetter is chairman
for Polk in this movement. Every
one who can should subscribe freely
and promptly.
In accordance with promise made
in last week’s Standard, I give here
with a list of those who have thus
far contributed to the Woodrow Wil
son Foundation Fund:—
E. B. Russell $5.00
L. S. Ledbetter 5.00
Dr. P. O. Chaudron 5.00
Dr. H. M. Hall 5.00
W. W. Mundy 5.00
R. P. Gann 2.00
J. A. Wilson 1.00
W. K. Fielder 1.00
A. D. Hegg 1.00
Mrs. A. D. Hogg 1.00
Herbert Hogg 1.00
Mrs. Fannie Turner 1.00
Mrs. C. H. Graves 1.00
J. E. Purks j ,. 1.00
There are doubtless many others
who wish to contribute, and I will
be glad to receive any amounts they
may give.
L. S. LEDBETTER, Chmn.
Clean up and paint up!
GENEVA PLAYERS
Here Next Thursday
Evening.
The Geneva Players will be third
attraction of our Lyceum Course,and
this will be one of the best enter
tainments of the entire series. The
Players will be here next Thursday
evening.
Remember that the High School
Auditorium is the place,) and that
the course is for the benefit of our
School Playground fund. Read
here what is said about
THE GENEVA PLAYERS.
Distinctly unique and delightful Is
the plan of the Geneva Players’ pro
gram, which Is presented by four ac
complished young women. Part I, the
musical prelude, Is a program classic
in which music of a given period IS
presented In costume with faithful ad
herence to all the historic details. For
example, a colonial sketch features n
stately minuet and a series of the best-
beloved colonial songs with violin ob
ligatos. The entire prelude Is char
acterized by tuneful melodies and a
distinguished grace of presentation.
Part II of the program, which In
cludes at least two one-act plays, Is a
I THE GENEVA PLAYERS.
i delightfully spirited diversion. One
i highly amusing dramatic sketch Is a
j character comedy with all Its oppor-
I 1 unity for bubbling humor In sltun-
| tlon, lines nnd Interpretation. The
Geneva Players are clever come
diennes. But they are equally con
vincing In the more serious plays of
power and deep feeling. There they
display the fire nnd dramatic warmth
of discriminating nnd highly success
ful artists. They are players of ex
ceptional histrionic nnd muslcul abil
ity—a company that wins Instant
popularity In any community.
NEW ORGANIZERS
The Cotton Co-operative Market
ing Association has made a change
in organizqrs in this section. Mr. E.
P. Watson, who has been the Dis
trict Agent, now has charge of Floyd
and Chattooga, and is succeeded by
Mr. E. P. Whidson.
Mr. R. W. Cochran is the organizer
for Polk and Haralson.
Both Messrs. Whidson and Coch
ran are hustling Texans, who helped
to make the movement a success in
the Lone Star State and in Arkansas.
They will have their headquarters in
Cedartown,and say they find the out
look very satisfactory here.
Army Assignments.
MAJ. WATKINS TO COMMAND
INFANTRY IN RESERVES.
Maj. Homer Watkins and Dr. P. O.
Chaudron, who served with distinc
tion in France, have retained the
rank of Lieutenant Colonel which
they had won at the close of the war,
and have been enrolled as members
of the U. S. Army Reserve. In times
of peace, the Reserves are called up
on for only two weeks service a year
in training camp.
Maj. Watkins has been made
commander of the 326th Infantry,
with headquarters in Marietta, and
Dr. Chaudron is in the medical corps
of the 82d Division, whose headquar
ters are in Columgia, S. C.
Hon. E. S. Griffith of Buchanan,
following the announcement of Hon.
J. R. Hutcheson that he would not
stand for re-election as Solicitor
General, announces that he will be in
the race for that office. He is one of
the best known and most popular
lawyers in the circuit, and is well
qualified for the position. He has a
host of friends in Polk who welcome
his announcement.
Use Polk county products.
EMERGENCY
HOSPITAL
To be Built at Once by
Dr. Whitely.
Dr. S. L. Whitely, one of Cedar-
town’s leading physiciuns, has let
the contract to S. L. Clay & Son for
building the first unit of the new
hospital which he has been planning
for some time. It will be a brick
building, located on the square near
the City Hall bounded by Main, Gor
don and Sycamore streets and East
venue.
The first unit will have eight rooms,
and will be a one-story structure, the
plans being such that two more units
can be added and the building en
larged to two stories.
The hospital will be equipped at
the outset for emergency work, and
will bo open to all the physicians of
Cedartown nnd vicinity.
Such a hospital is badly needed
here, and Dr. Whitely is to be heart
ily commended for his enterprise.
RURAL JCREDITS
Hon. Gordon Lee, the Seventh’s
distinguished Representative in Con
gress, is the chairman of the joint
committee from the Senate and
House on rural credits. This com
mittee held an important meeting in
Atlanta last week to discuss the ag
ricultural needs of the South and to
formulate legislation to benefit the
farmers of all' sections.
Mr. Lee proposes that the Federal
Farm Loan Bunk be provided with
$300,000,000 to he loaned direct to
farmers at a low rate of interest for
the operation of their business.
Himself a sueeessul farmer, Mr.
Leo knows the needs of the farmer
better today than probably any other
member of Congress.
FARMING EXPERTS HERE MONDAY
Will Speak Here at 10.30 A. M. and Rockmart
at 2 P. M.
Farmers nnd business men alike
are urged by County Demonstrator
W. H. Garner to come to the Court
House in Cedartown next Mondny at
10.30 a. m., or to Rockmart at 2 p.
to hear agricultural experts tell
how to raise cotton successfully un
der boll weevil conditions. .
The speakers will be Agricultural
Agent Roland Turner, of the South
ern Railway; Mr. Mills, of the At
lanta Market Bureau; nnd District
Farm Agent E. R. Strahan.
If there is any subject of vital in-
City License.
City License books open Feb. 1st
nnd close Feb. 10th. Take due no
tice. J. C. WALKER, City Clerk.
Buy it in Cedartown!
terest to both our farmers and busi
ness men, it is that, of cotton-raising
in the face of the boll woovil. They
can’t learn too much about it, and
the opportunity to be given them
Monday is too good to be missed.
If everybody would do it, there is
no plan more efficacious than picking
up and burning infested squares, but
comparatively few will do this. Come
out Monday and learn the details of a
cheaper and easier plan. The .men
who will speak to you are competent
to give you the very best advice.
Good Musicale Tomorrow Evening.
The Woodmen’s Circle will give a pleasing concert tomorrow even
ing at the Lyceum Theater, which will be well worth attending. The fol
lowing is the program;
Opening Chorus—Vera Hunt and 10 Girls.
Rending—Josephine Terhuno.
Specialty—Vera Hunt and Pat Simpson.
“The Woodchoppers”—Chas. Beasley and Charles Simpson.
Chorus “Mu"—Vera Hunt, Pat Simpson, Frances Wright, Thomas
Thompson, Mury Barton, Paul Smev og, Margaret Cnntvell, Edgar Cam-
broil.
Comedian—Mr. Litcsy.
Mule Quintet—Walter Good, E mmett Whitfield, Dr. Pickett, G. G.
Adams, Wm. Dunwoody.
Buck Dance—Paul Scott.
“Old-Fashion Garden”— Florine Bobo, Mary Pierce, Edna Griffin,
\duluide Cornelius, Lizzie Mae Hurris, Ella Roberts, Pauline Bartlett.
Pluyet—“The Burglar Alarm” —Four Ladies. i
Admission—25 and 10 Cents.
Curtain—8.15 p. m.
Good Negro Killed.
When a good man dies, white or
black, it is a distinct loss to a com
munity, nnd it is a matter of genuine
regret that John Taylor lost his life
by falling from a train on which he
was a brakeman Thursday evening at
Bremen. He had been working for
the Central Railway for eighteen
yenrs, and was honest, industrious
nnd in every way reliable.
Federal Prohibition Director F, D.
Dismuko bus bared a big whiskey
smuggling conspiracy, and ns a re
sult M. H. Karnes, former vice chair
man of the Republican organization
| in Georgiu, was put under arrest last
I week.
Irish Potatoes.
County Demonstrator W. H. Gar
ner has bought Irish seed pota
toes for Farm Bureau members, and
Mr. C. W. Smith will build a speeial
warehouse to take care of their sur
plus crop.
This will help in the diversification
of crops so necessary since the ad
vent of the boll weevil.
Modern Girl. i
A Clay Center physician sent tha
ofijeo girl out to do collecting, accord
ing to the Dispatch. She was hack to
less than an hour with a ring, a mat*
rlnge certificate, a man, and $1, all of
which, she had collected.—Kansas City
Star.
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY POINTS TO ITS RECORD OF
PASSENGER SERVICE.
The existence of a railway is justified by its ability to serve the public with transportation. The meas
ure of its service is the measure of its worth. The Central of Georgia invites the attention of the public to soma
of hose things which are indicative of its capacity for efficient passenger transportation service.
Much depends upon personnel. As an organization the Central of Georgia is composed of a body of
more than ten thousand faithful nnd efficient workers.Its officers have advanced through the ranks of the ser
vice, thus acquiring the practical experience for intelligent supervision. The efforts of the organizaton are con
centrated upon making the Central of Georgia the outstanding railway in the south. American railways have
long held and continue to hold the leadership of tho world in efficient transportation service and it is our ambi
tion to make our railroad as good as any in America.
Much depends upon equipment. Up-to-date and well maintained equipment is essentinl to passenger service
of the high type that the Central of Georgia Railway strives to give at all times. For years the Central of Geor
gia Railway has been a leader among the railroads of the south in adding to its equipment, keeping its equip
ment in first-class condition and developing its roadway '■•-Mltics.
All of the main trains, and many of the trains on branch lines have steel or vestibuled cars. Such cars
are expensive, hut they are a generally recognized factor for the safety and comfort of passengers.
The excellent of equipment is not confined to passenger coaches —but this railway also operates its own
sleeping cars. These are of the most modern construction, excelled by none, and are in charge of employes, who
through years in our employ, have been trained to cheerful service. ; i
The passenger on the Central of Georgia Railway is assured of a safe comfortable trip in a car of good
construction and modern convenience, over a smooth-riding track of heavy rails and ties, fully ballasted and
well-maintained, hauled by a locomotive of sufficient power and in such condition us to give every assurance of
schedule movement.
The regularity with which Central of Georgia passenger trains maintain their schedules indicates the high
order of our passenger service. During 1921 the Central of Georgia Railway operated upon its 1914 miles of
track 33,899 passenger trains of which 33,456, or 98.7 per cent were on time. This excels even the remarkable
record of 1920 when 95 per cent of the trains were on time.
The record by months for the two years follows:
Month
1920
1921
January
90.4
97.6
February
93.0
97.6
March
92.7
98.2
Apiil
92.8
98.8
May
96.7
98.6
June
97.1 "
99.0
July
95.6
98.8
August
95.5
99.4
September
97.0
99.4
October
97.4
99.4
November
96.2
99.1
December
95.9
98.4
AVERAGE
95.0
98.7
The only record showing the percentage of on time arrival at destination of passenger trains on all rail
ways wasmade by the United States Railroad Administration for the month of August, September, October and
November, 1919. The average of on time arrivals for all railways for those four months was 83.2 per cent. The
average for the Central of Georgia during these four months was 92.1 per cent. Comparison but emphasizes the
excellence of our record, considered either in connection with other roads or with our own past achievements.
The patrons of the Central of Georgia Railway find courteous and sympathetic attention in every depart
ment. Employes take great pride in our reputation for courtesy.
Service is now the only basis of competition .among the railroads. Since rates are standardized the Cen
tral of Georgia cannot offer rate bargains to command patronage, but it can offer —and it is constantly de
veloping -^the organization, equipment and facilities for unusual service.
Constructive criticism and suggestions arc invited.
W. A. WINBURN, • .
' • President, Central of Georgia Railway Company.