About The Cedartown standard. (Cedartown, Ga.) 1889-1946 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1922)
THE STANDARD, CEDARTOWN, GA. PAGE NINE* FEBRUARY 23, 1922. TARIFF REDUCES FARM MARKETS With Factories Closed Consumers Cannot Purchase. . CUBA WAS A BIG BUYER Cannot Export Produce Unless Other Countries Can Sell Us. By H. E. MILES, Chairman of the Fair Tariff League. In a small town In an agricultural section of the United States,- not far from the Canadian border, there Is a glove factory. This concern bus been for years selling a large part of Its product annually In Canada. Con gress In the Emergency Tariff Act placed on goods Imported from Canada a tariff so high that It made It unprofit able for the Canadians longer to sell their goods In the American market. The small town glove factory, among many others, lost Its Canadian mar ket und had to shut down. It Is an economic law that a nation buys where It sells. It must do this In order to have money ’ to pay Its bills In the country where the bills are contracted. Canada being unnhle to sell her goods In this country was forced to Bell her surplus elsewhere. Naturally, then, she supplied her needs In other markets. But this particular glove factory Is Important because of Its effect on the prosperity of the nearby farmers. The plight of this factory Is an ex ample of how the prosperity of every interest In this country Is dependent upon the prosperity of practically ev ery other Interest. This glove factory Is the mainstay of the town. Prac tically all the wage earners work there. When their means of livelihood was cut off their ability to purchase was gone. The smaller farmers who had a ready market at their very doors for their butter and eggs and other farm products found It necessary to seek other and less satisfactory markets out of town. But wheri they got out Into the world market they found that something was happening. Everything they tried to sell was sold at n greatly reduced price, but every thing that they attempted to buy they found was reduced only slightly In price or not reduced at all. The Farmer Whlpeawed Many complicated factors enter Into e situation of this kind, hut one of the most Important factors Is the tariff. I have shown In a previous article that In nt least two commodities, those of sugar and wool, the tnrlfT protection accorded by the Increased rates on these two commodities does not reach the farmer, but stops with and en riches the manufacturer. There Is n chemical plant In the state of New Jersey which makes a fer tilizer product for the Cuban market. Cuba’s sugar Industry has been prac tically ruined by n 00 per cent Increase In the tariff on raw sugar. Cuba Is unable to buy the product of thl.i chem ical factory. One thousand men are cut of work. The families of those one thousand men would use at least a thousand dozen of eggs n week and not less than a thousand pounds of butter and certainly not less than three thousand pounds of meat, all products of the American farmer. But In the case of Cuba there Is even a inoro direct loss of market to the fanner. A glance nt the trade reports shows that Cuba Is one of the American farmer’s most Important customers. In 11)20 Cuba purchased of us more than 60 per cent of nil our exports of hogs, lard compounds, canned sausage, rice, potatoes, beans and onions. She rank- ad second among the nations In the purchase of our cattle, horses, mules, pickled pork, sausage other than can ned, poultry, cheese, sweetened con densed milk, cocoa and prepared choco- Jnte and com. She ranked third In the purchase of hams and shoulders, mis cellaneous canned meat products, buy and flour. Cuba bought from u< during 1019 and 1020 over $8r>.000.000 worth «f truck gardening and farm products, over $0,600,000 worth of live stock, *rver $16,000,000 worth of dairy prod ucts. over $00,000,000 worth of meat products, over $03,000,000 worth of cotton cloth and over $30,000,000 worth jot manufactures of cotton. Farmer Needs Cuban Market It Is pretty evident, then, that the American farmer needs his Cuban mar ket. It Is further quite clear that If this enormous quantity of surplus agri cultural goods were dumped <*n the home market his prices would slump still more. Now, where does Cuba get the money with which to purchase our goods? The answer Is “sugar.” Cuba produces 4,000,000 tons of sugar annually. This enormous crop is the mainstay of Cu ban prosperity. If It falls her, she must go bankrupt. About one-half of her output of sugar she sells In the United States. If an Increased tarlfT makes It 1m- possible for Cuba to sell her susar In this country her power to buy goods here Is going to be cut off. We sold Cuba $515,000,000 worth of goods In 1020, and a large part of these sales were manufactured prod- ucts. As In the case of the little town that was dependent upon the glove factory for its existence and could not buy Its supplies from the surrounding farmers when the factory shut down, so in gen eral, If American manufacturers are seriously Injured by losing such an Im portant market as Cuba, it is going to curtail the wages paid to labor and in turn will curtail the farmers’ domestic market. CHILD AND ALIEN LABOR IN BEETS American Farm Worker Not Pro tected by Sugar Tariff. LOW WAGES ARE BEING PAID “Yankees Not Wanted,” Say Field Managers in Colorado and Michigan. By H. E. MILES, Chairman of the Fair Tariff League. The American farmer and the v American worker are always the chief objects of solicitude, put forward by the high tarlfT politicians, when an up ward revision of the tariff is In order. That has always been true and Is now true In Congress In connection with ef forts to enact the high rates In the Fordney so-called Permanent Tariff Bill. The farmer ns well ns the worker, however, 1ms come to realize that any benefit he may derive from an exorbi tant tariff, levied In the name of pro tection on nn article which he pro duces, Is more than offset by the tribute which he must pay on arti cles which he consumes but does not raise. Sugar Is n good example of bow this works out with reference to the farm er. The American hoot sugar Industry prospered under n protective tariff ol one cent n pound on Cubnn raw sugar. The Emergency Tariff Act Increased this 00 per cent. One of the arguments advanced for this tremendous Increase was that the beet sugar Industry need ed this protection In order to protect the American farm laborer engaged In raising sugar beets. Unfortunately for this argument there Is very little American farm labor In the beet sugar Industry ns the rec ords of the Department of Labor aud the Department of Agriculture show. Sugar beets are raised and harvested almost entirely by the cheapest grade obtainable of foreign labor, contracted for by the sugar manufacturers aud turned over to the beet growers. Field bosses In the beet sugar sec tions have Indeed frequently told In vestigators that American lnbor Is not wunted because “a Yankee can’t stand the hard work.” Child Labor In Majority Not only Is the larger part of the beet sugar lubor this low priced for eign lnbor which ike are warned against but even a larger part are the children of these foreign families. In Colorado alone, one of the most Important beet sugar states, the Na tional Child Labor Committee found 5,000 children between the ages of six and fifteen years, practically all of alien parents, regularly engaged In the cultivation of sugar beets. From the time the beets are In the ground until they are delivered at the factory the hardest kind of manual la bor Is required. And much of this Is done by small children. These children spend long, hard hours on their bands and knees weeding and thinning the beets. Then when the beets are full grown they spend more long, hard hours lifting the heavy roots to their knees and with a wide sweep <rf a dan gerously sharp knife cut off the tops. The Federal Children’s Bureau made an Intensive study of the Colorado sit uation. Of 1.077 included In this study seven-tenths were the children of con tract laborers. Over one-fourth of them were under ton years old, a small percentage under eight. Less than one-fifth were ns much as fourteen years old. Considerably over a half ranged from nine to thirteen. From 60 to 8. r » per cent, according to the process in which the child was engag ed, worked nine hours or more a duy. Fri-tn one-seventh to one-third, again varying with the process, worked eleven hours or more a day. The average working dny for all processes wus usually between nine and ten hours. Evil Effect on Children Postural deformities and malposi tions were found in 70 per cent of the children examined by the Bureau’s physicians. Another serious effect la the Interference with their educa tion. Among 030 children from nine to sixteen years of uge for whom school records were obtained over 40 per cent were from one to seven years below the normal grade for their age. The general study of the National Child Labor Committee In Colorado and Michigan Indicates that these con ditions hold generally throughout the beet raising sections. A farmer who owns or lenses land contracts with the sugar company to furnish a certain number of acres on which beets are to he grown. The company agrees to fur nish the hand lab* r. The company then contracts with a laborer, usually a Russian, Jap or Mexican, to do the work on a definite number of acres. The number of acres a laborer con tracts to care for Is based largely on the number of children he has. The labor employed In the Colorado beet fields Is practically all foreign la bor. Mexican, Japanese and Russian. The Mexicans and Japanese, however, do not work their children ns much as do the Russians. The Russian chil dren often begin work as early as four or five years of age. In Michigan conditions are very sim ilar. excepting that the nationalities nf the workers are more diversified, and there are fewer Russians and Mex- , leans and no Japanese. They arc made up largely of Hungarians, Slavs from the small provinces, Polish and Germans. In Michigan, as In Colora do, the beet people are exploiting the foreign laborer and his children. All of which pretty thoroughly punc tures any pretense that a high tariff on sugar will in any way protect Amer ican farm labor. The same goods for LESS MONEY, MORE GOODS for the Same Money. You Gan Get It for Less at LEE’S J. W. LEE COMPANY, Cedartown, Ga. WHY PAY MORE WHEN YOU CAN GET IT FOR LESS ? 75c WINDOW SHADES 39c 10c Embroidery Insertion 5c 8c Sheeting 5c 12 l-2c Sheeting 8c 15c Sea Island 81-2C Men’s Heavy Blue Che viot WORK SHIRTS Men’s 75c All Leather WORK CLOVES 35c Men’s Heavy Cray WORK SOCKS 7c Men’s $1.25 Khaki Pants 88c 1 lot 15c PIE PANS 35c Enameled Wash Pan 15c Big lot FineVal and Round Thread Laces 2 yds fnr 5c 65c Batiste for Summer Underwear, all colors 23c Williams lOc Shav. Soap 55c HALF YOUR LIVING WITHOUT MONEY COST Cash Crop Production Costs Can Bs Cut In Half By Food And Grain Making And Saving At Horn* Atlanta, Ga.—(Special.)—“No one (s wise enough to know or foroROO the outcome of tho world wide financial and political inlx-up that has followed the world wur and tho inflated price, joy riding spree that we havo all en gaged in,” said H. G. Hastings, Pres ident of the Georgia Association, Geor gia’s organization for state-wide de- 5c ESOM HILL NEWS. Miss Luurn Belle Brewster was here Saturday from Cedartown. Miss Maggie Williams waB home from Cedartown to spend the week end. Dr. J. E. Pennington returned Friday from a few days stay at Adairsville. Misses Mitchell Barry and Maur- ine Marct spent the week-end with Mrs. G. W. Porter at Grady. Misses Katye Hardin and Clarice McElwec were in Cednrtown Friday. Mr. Sherman Wester, of Lime Branch, was here Sunday. Messrs. Bice McMahan and Joe FULLWOOD NEWS. Mrs. Etta Connoll and Bon have re turned to thoir home in Alabama af ter a visit to their brother, Mr. L. E. Grogan and family. Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Gamer, of Little Creek, spent the woek-end hero The young people enjoyed a party given Saturday night by Miss Rosa Prewett. Mrs. H. T. Tritt is home frpm Ce dartown, where sho has been ill. Misses Dora and Lizzie Mac Pal mer, of Esom, were the week-end guests of Miss Lou Lorrens. Mr. Wilburn Grogan spent the week-end nt Antioch. 4c Banish Catarrh, Bad Breath. It’s the simplest thing in the world to use Hyomoi and end catarrh. Breathe the medication through the little inhaler in every outlt and you will got relief at once. Money back if it fails. Burbank Drug Co. Common Sense About Eczema i and Eruptions! velopment. “The wise farmer in the South will forget tho 30 to 40 cent cotton price that lod him to disaster In 1920 and figure on a selling price of around IB cents under conditions of normal yield and acreage which wo are very liable to have in 1922. This necessi tates roduced cost of cotton muklng or olao being wiped out. “The cost of cotton or other cash crop making In the South or any where else Is largely food cost, food for the farmer and his family, food In tho shape of grain and forage for his working llvo stock. With low prices for cotton or other cash crop the farmer cannot afford to pay any out sider profit or expense ou tho food he, his family and working live stock consume. This means to quit living off of supply merchants’ shelves and to live off the products of home acres. “The situation requires chickens, hogs, milk cows and acres of corn, oats, wheat, forago and miscellane ous crops from which to feed them. Last but not least, In importance, Is the home vegetable gardon which is the quickest and cheapest source of food In the world. “Most folks here in the South don’t taken the home garden seriously and thereby make a great mistake. There are too many of the ‘lick and a prom ise’ sort of gardens and mighty few of the real sure enough kind. % "We have been told repeatedly by those who plan and prepare for a real garden, plant H, tend It and keep It replanted through the season, that It furnishes half the family living at no monoy cost except tho small amount spent for the seeds needed. “The garden Is, or rather should bo, the oarllost planted. It brings food the quickest. It starts cutting store bills for food the first week anything is ready to uso. A little later, half or more needed for the tablo comes out of the garden. "If rightly tended and replanted it supplies food all summer and fall, tho surplus above dally needs goes Into cans or Is dried for winter use. Yes, the right kind of garden is a life- saver, and we all need a life-saver of this kind in 1922.” CAVE SPRING NEWS. j Mr. Ltink Sanders died Friday at 1 his home near the Polk county line, I and his remains were laid to rest Sunday at the Sanders cemetery. He | was 09 years of age, and is survived by two children, Fletcher and Ella, and two brothers—J. P. of Cedar town, and Torn of Rome, i Mr. J. A. Sewell, of Decatur, spent ; the week-end here. Cave Spring, Rehobeth, Bolleview, Van's Valley and Melton school dis tricts are consolidated and one rural high school building will be construc ted at Cave Spring. This action was definitely taken Monday by the Coun ty Board of Education. Two large trucks to be. used in carrying children to and from the school will be opera ted. It is probable that work will be started at once on the new building, i Miss Frances Hill is home from a vis 54 in Rome. Prior, Jr., of Route 1, were here last Sunday. Mr. Roy Hackney, of Atlanta,spent the week-end with home folks. Messrs. Albert Cox and Paul Diam ond, of Akcs, were here Fridny. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bridges, of Akes, were here Sunday. Miss Annie Belle Wheeler spent Sunday at Borden Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Berry and children, of your city, were guests Sunday of Mrs. J. W. Wood. Miss Eunice Hackney, of Akes, was here Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Edmond Dyer, of Palestine, Ala., were here Monday. Messrs. Dewey Gray and Edgar McMahan, of Route 1, were here Sunday. Mrs. W. O. Buttrnm and daughter, Gertrude, were in your city Satur day. Mrs. N. L. Post, of Atlanta, spent the week-end here. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Buttram were in your city Saturday. Remember Sunday is singing day here. Everybody be sure to come. SUTTON’S MILL NEWS. Messrs. Jervis Woods and Dalton Teat spent the week-end with rela tives in Rome. Mr. and Mrs. Linton Brock,of your city, spent Sunday with their par ents, Mr. and Mrs. I. S. Brock. Mr. Joe Hopper, of near Mt. Home, was in this vicinity Sunday. Mr. I. S. Brock, and daughter and son, Miss Iva and Blance, Mrs. Tom Brock and son, Roy, were in Haral son last Sunday. , Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Green are happy over the arrival of a fine boy the 18 th. Mr. W. J. Kirkpatrick and family spent Sunday with relatives near Grady. Mr. Oscar Peugh spent the week end with home folks near Fish. Mr. Adajr Kirkpatrick was in Cave Spring Sunday. Mr. J. B. Teat and daughter, Miss Myrtice, were in your city Saturday. What Do You Use? What typewriter do you use? We save in stock the famous Milo Rib- oos for the following:— Underwood. Remington, Vis. Royal. Smith Premier. Oliver, 7 and 9. Fisher, Vis. L. G. Smith. We also have a good stock of Car- ion papers. THE STANDARD CARD OF THANKS. We wish to express our thanks to all who were so kind and sympathetic during the illness and at the death of our wife and mother. —J. A. Cooper and Children. | Miss Stella Moore spent the week end at New Harmony. Mr. G. A. Dingier nnd family, of Tallapoosa, were called here by the illness ami denth of Mrs. M. E. Ding ier. Mr. and Mrs. John Horton are the proud parents of a little daughter. Mrs. M. E. Dingier, aged 84 years, passed away Wednesday nt the home of her son, Mr. F. A. Dingier. She leaves to mourn her death two sons, F. A. and H. T. Dingier, a number of grandchildren and great grandchil dren. Messrs. Carl Tritt and Ed Moody spent Sunday nt Youngs. Misses Dolly Dingier nnd Mary J,ou Gary spent Saturday in Cedarton. Rev. Womack, of Wimberly Hill, will preach here Saturday night nnd at 11 a. m. Sunday morning. Don’t forget Sunday school at 10 a. m. A little son was born Saturday night to Mr. und Mrs. A. F. Ellis. ETNA NEWS. Mr. T. J. Lochridge and family, of Jackson Chapel, were the guests last Sunday of his brother, Mr. O. A. Lochridge. Mr. Opin Meeks, of near your city, spent Saturday night here. Miss L. Mullinax and Mr. Will Price, of Tccumseh, attended Sunday school here Sunday. Miss Tennie Little and Mrs. R. South, of your city, are spending a few days here. Rev. Leamon Smith delivered an interesting sermon to a large crowd here Sunday night. Miss Mollie Sargent, of Little Ce dar, spent the week-end with her sister, Mrs. O. A. Lochridge. Mr. Jim Dempsey, of near Esom Hill, was here Sunday. Misses Tennie and Fannie Little attended preaching at Arrington Chape! Sunday. Everybody remember Sunday school here every Sunday at 2.30 p. m. LINDSEY CHAPEL NEWS. Rev. J. II. Howell filled his regular appointments here Saturday • and Sunday. Mr. J. L. Clemmons has been very ill, but is improving now. Mr. John Darby and family were visiting relatives near Aragon Sun day. •> Addie Fiances, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ledbetter, is ill. There will be a pound supper at Mr. Arthur Rainwater’s Thursday night, if tile weather will permit. All invited to come, and be sure to bring your pounds. Remember our Sunday school and prayer services every Sunday. 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