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CEDAR
STANDARD
Devoted to the Best Interests of ^edartown an
Volume 36.
Cedartown, Georgia, Thursday^ February 9th, 1922.
Number 3.
WASHINGTON CONFERENCE ENDED GENEVA PLAYERS COTTON MUST BE SURPLUS CROP
Several Treaties Made That Should Help to In*
sure Peace.
The conference called by Prcsi- all civilized nations for the forward
dent Harding in Washington between ' steps taken by the Conference,
the United States, Great Britain, j The United States representatives
France, Japan and Italy for the limi- clearly showed throughout the. Con-
tation of anhuments and between the ferenoe that it was called for no sel-
first four for cdhsidcration of mat-: flsh reason on our part, and they wil-
ters in the Pacific, is at an end after lin Kty sacrificed American advan-
beitjg in session since Nov. 11th. tages in the Pacific in the interest of
It started out with a victory for general peace.
Secretary of State Hughes, who se- The outstanding agreements made
cured an agreement “in principle” on by the Conference arc as follows:
the matter of limitation of navies, Five-power naval limitation treaty,
but who afterwards had to yield to junking many battleships, esablish-
Japan the keeping of her greqt battle ing a naval holiday, and setting a
aT*ip, the Mutsu. Like President flat allotment of tonnage of warships
Wilson in Paris, who secured a for the five great naval powers after
promise for the return of Shantung the holiday.
to China by Japan, he secured an- Five-power poison pas and sub-
other promise to the same effect, and marine* treaties outlawing gas as a
also had to agree to compromises. war weapon, and submarines as com-
just^as Mr. Wilson was forced to do. I merce attackers.
It i hai*d for bumptious Americans to ! Four-power Pacific treaty aimed at
learn that they can't have everything j eliminating strife in the Pacific,
their own way in dealing with other! Two so-called nine-power Chinese
nations, and that the only way to get! treaties,
anything is on a “give and tak
At School Auditorium I n Order to Fight the Boll Weevil, Say All Who
Tonight.
At 8 o'clock this evening at the
High School Auditorium will bo seen
what is probably the best entertain
ment of the season here.
The Genova Players, who come
Have Studied or Fought the Pest.
No agreement could be reached on
the use of the airplane in event of
another war. T^iis is probably just as
well,for wfllle you can make a couple
of prize-fighters battle according to
established rules, those same men if
fighting one another for their lives
would pny mighty little attention to
rules,and-the decisions against poison
gas and the use of submarines to
destroy commerce will count for lit
tle if some other nation starts using
them.
While there were some disappoint
ments, the general work of the Con
ference was excellent, and should
have far-reaching results. While not
the “disarmament conference” that
Senator Borah proposed and for
1 which the Senate voted, and while the
Pacific League falls far short of the
League of Nations to Enforce Peace
throughout! the world, President
Harding and Mr. Hughes are entitled
to the thanks and commendation of
PALACE THEATER
PROGRAM WEEK BEGINNING
. MONDAY, FEB. 13. ’
Agnes ‘Ayers
AND
Theodore Roberts
j - —IN—
“Forbidden Fruit”
A1 St. John Comedy,
Straight from the Farm
TUESDAY, FEB. 14.
Bebe Daniels
—IN—
“Nancy from Nowhere’
Last Episode
Invisible Ray,
FOX NEWS.
i " WEDNESDAY, FEB. 15.
Cosmopolitan Production
The Passionate Pilgrim
Christy Comedy,
“Short and Snappy”
THURSDAY, FEB. 16.
Metro Special Production
“Conquering Power”
Torchy Comedy
’ “Crowning Torchy”
FRIDAY, FEB. 17.
Gloria Swanson
—IN—
■ “The Great Moment”
Christy Comedy,
“Scrappily Married”
' | SATURDAY, FEB. 18.
Earle Williams
>... ■ —IN—
“Lucky Carson”
Episode 5,
‘(TWinners of the West”
/Doors open daily at 2 p. m. Com-
tinuous- Performance. v
Good fanning has always demand
ed that every farmer raise his own
food and feed stuffs and have cotton
as his surplus or money crop. The
farmer who followed this policy has
always boon independent, while the
all-cotton farmer has led a hand-
to-mouth existence.
Force of habit, handed down from
father to son, has prevented a great
majority of the farmers of the South
from either seeing or believing this.
As Mr. Roland Turner, the Agricul-
Cotton? By all mean, raise some
cotton. Everybody else is going to,
why not you?
The problem is how to raiso it in
spite of the boll weevil —and that is
the most vitally important thing that
any farmer and business man can
now study.
The Stadard last week published
a resume of what Mr. Hollomon, of
the Atlanta Constitution, found n-
mong the successful cotton-raisers of
Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
(a) One dealing with customs du
ties—granting China an effective five
per cent tariff with subsequent alter
ations upward.
(b) One reaffirming in unequivocal
language old principles of respect for
China’s “open door” and China’s in
tegrity.
Settlement of the Shantung ques
tion between China and Japan, pro
viding f or return of Kiao-Chow and
the Shantung railway to China.
Settlement of the Yap controversy
between the United States and Japan
— a controversy which was leading i will be enforced. Take notice,
the two powers manifestly warward. 1 Whenever complaint is made, cases
Settlement of the division of cab- will be promptly made.
THE GENEVA PLAYERS.
for the benefit of the school play
ground fund, are very highly recom
mended; and if you like fine music,
good acting and sparkling fun, don’t
miss the entertainment tonight..
Chicken Notice.
Thu city ordinance requires Hint
tunl Agent of the Southern Railway, This was no “town dope,’’ but came
said in his talk here Monday,the first j from men who had been through the
real thinking that lots of men ever' weevil scourge for niiaiiy meat's and
did was when they foiind they could- j who had learned how to “bent him to
n’t get credit for supplies to raise it.”
cotton in the spring of 1021. j We urged our farmers to go to the
And now the boll weevil is making. Court .House last Monday, and listen
more of them put on their thinking to some agricultural experts talk on
caps than ever before. , the subject. Comparatively few
It is a hard matter to change the , went, but it is to he hoped that their
thinking and habits of a lifetime for leaven will spread throughout the
practically an entire people, yet that county.
is what the boll Weevil is doing wher- Mr. L. II. Marlett, of the State Ag
ever he goes —and he is now in ev-! vicultural College, spoke of the im
cry part of the cotton belt, with the 1 portance of milk cows and poultry on
probability that his work in the nor
thern portion will be far heavier this
year than last.
It isn’t so much a matter of good
farming now, as it is to avoid abso
lute ruin.
Polk county can avoid the disas-
every farm. Mr. Turner, of the Sou-
then Railway,—an old Polk county
hoy, by the way. who has studecl ag
ricultural problems to good purpose,
—-and District Agent E. R. Strahan
*both spoke on the best methods to be
used in combatting the boll weevil
trouH experiences of other counties, I So many farmers will not use cal
if she will, for wo can raise nil our
own food and feed stuffs advantage-
[
INK PADS and INK—You can now
fimgfeem at the Standard office.
les in the Pacific.
Agreement of Japan to withdraw ]
from Siberia.
Withdrawal by Japan of the oh-]
noxious Group V of the twenty-one
demands for relinquishment of the I
idea of “exclusive” control in South I
Manchuria an dinner Mongolia. i
Return of Wei-Hei-Wei to China ,
by Great Britain.
Texas Farmers Profit.
“The success of co-operative cot
ton marketing in Texas proves be
yond a doubt the practicability of co
operative marketing in Georgia,”
-ays F. R. Shanks, a farmer and
former County Agent of Bee county,
Tex., who is in Georgia to assist in !
the cotton pooling movement.
Mr. Shanks has been brought
here with a team of about twenty i
other Texas, Oklahoma and Arkan- |
sa< farmers, having been called upon
to assist our farmers in their effort I
to establish the co-operative market-
ing movement.
Testimony in regard to the success
of the Texas and Oklahoma associa
tions as given by these men is most
surprising. A number of them have
actual cotton receipts from their as
sociations showing grades, staples,
price, and their net gains as the re
sult of being members of these co
operatives.
The organized cotton growers in
Texas, according to Mr. Shanks,have
been obtaining from 1 to 3 cents a
pound more than the unorganized
growers during the past year. In ad
dition to this, he says that the mem
bers have been receiving full value
for grade and saple, while non-mem
bers have not. More than this, the
members have escaped all losses
from country damage, and their cot
ton has been warehoused more cheap
ly than under the speculative buyer
plan. ' *
“So much confidence does the Fed
eral Government have in the Texas
Association that a loan of $15,000,-
000 was granted them by the War
Finance Corporation at the, low rate
of 6 per cent interest,” Mr. Shanks
says.
Found Dead in Bed.
Mr. J. Brock Chandler, aged 60,
was* fo#nd dead Saturday morning at
his home in Blooming Grove district,
where he lived alone. His horse left
home and went to the house of a
neighbor, who took it home and made
the discovery of his death. He was
last seen the Tuesay before,and from
the condition of the body it is prob
able he died that night.
Coroner B. H. Leonard empanelled
a jury, who found that he came to his
death from natural causes.
The deceased was a good citizen,
and was well known for his study of
i minerals.
hickcns must be kept shut up, and it! ously, and if we don’t have to spend
’ money for them we will have more,
to spend for clothing, for fixing up
homes, and for the comforts as well
as the mere necessaries of life.
W. T. YORK, Chief of Police.
cium arsenate, says Mr. Strahan,
that the necessity for picking up and
burning the infested squares cannot
be stressed too much. It is possible
by this method at the beginning of
the season to hold the weevil down
to a minimum, and to make cotton by
ASWURST-ARIZ.
SEN. HEFLIN-ALA.
SEN.HARRELD.-OKLA.
X
SEN. HARRIS - '2A.
“Just what is this Agricultural congressmen dependent on rural I The Blot? will vote with either the
Bloc down at Washington?” is the votes, had it pointed out to them that j Republicans or Democrats so long as
these days, j by banding together on measures I it gets what it wants.
agricultural! aimed to help agriculture they could
question often ask|d
Folks depending upon
pursuits realize that they are at last sw ‘ n <? the > mlu , ncc ' of /
; It was firmly established and a-
fretting more helpful legislation greed that the action of the Bloc was
through Congress than ever before j to transcend all party lines. Therein
and they rightly sense that the Bloc ! has proved its strength because to
has been the means to the end. i date every Bloc member has stood
The Bloc came into existence early solidly behind all agricultural meas-
last year when a number of Republi- ures and put them through regardless
can and Democratic senators and 1 of party whips.
All members of the Senate Bloc, as
shown here, are from the Western
and Southern states. Most of the
Western senators are Republican and
those from the South Democrats.
Among the number is found Hon.
W. J. Harris, of Cedartown, who is
one of the most active and useful
members of the Senate in always
looking after the farmers' interests.
EX-SERVICE MEN
Ex-Service Men can find blanks for
the re-instatement of their war insur
ance or for converting it into ordin
ary life insurance, at the office of
Maj. Homer Watkins, who gives his
services to these comrades without
charge. All our soldier boys who
have let their war insurance lapse for
any reason, should call on him at
once; and this is a good opportunity
to change their war insurance into
old line” policies.
intensive cultivation. The squares
should be picked up, he says, even if
the arsenate is to be used, and that
can then be applied in the more heav
ily infested spots. A 1-horse machine
for applying the poison will cover
forty acres, and a hand machine five
acres. The 2-horse machine is too
bunglesome for this section. The av
erage planting should be 8 inches in
rows 3 1-2 feet apart; on good land
a little wider, and more narrow on
poor land.
These experts and the Texas far
mers quoted by Mr. Hollomon agree
on the essentials as published in this
paper last week. Here they are:
Reduced acreage—plant only what
you can well care 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.
Pick Up and Burn Infested Squares,
especially at the beginning of the
season. Every weevil killed and ev
ery egg destroyed mean many thous
ands less of the pests to eat up your
crop later in the season.
Dusting with calcium arsenate
whenever the infestation is over 10
per cent. This should ho done four
or five times, according to the weath
er conditions.
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 aqd feed supplies.
Rotation of Crops—build up your
land with peas, velvet and soy beans.
Drop a postal card TODAY to the
State Board of Entomology in At
lanta for the information that you
need ns to calcium arsenate.
PIGS FOR SALE
1 will have a car-load of Pigs and
Shoats to arrive here Satufday or
Monday, .jifoul grae of pigs; sev
eral registered 1 Gilts in the lgt. Price
will range from $5 up. W.iil be on
sale back of Mr. Reese Curtis’ stable.
E. W. LEMON.
Baptist Workers.
There will be a District Workers*
Conference at the Baptist church in
Rockmart next Wednesday evening,
and an all day session in Cedartown
at the First Baptist church Thursday.
Every church in the Polk County As
sociation is urged to have one or
more representatives present. Lun
cheon will be served by the ladies
here Thursday. •
Bad Family Row.
A cduple of lively skirmishes grew
out of a family row last week in the
far corner of Polk, next to the Bar
tow and Paulding lines.
Frank Williams went at night to
the home of his wife’s kinsman,James
Ferguson, and knocked at the door.
When Ferguson saw who it was, he
slammed the door shut and fastened
it, got his gun and slipped around the
house and shot Williams, seriously
wounding him. Williams’ companions
shot and slightly wounded Ferguson.
The next day six Ferguson boys re
turned the visit at the Williams
home, and a pitched battle ensued.
No one was killed, but a Williams
girl was shot in the leg. There are
four each of the two families in the
county jail here as a result oi the
row.
Notice.
Car-drivers must not try to pass
one another on Main street where a
side street opens thereon, and cases
for reckless driving will be made a-
gainst anyone guilty of breaking this
rule. W. T. YORK, Chief of Police.
Buy it in Cedartown!