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I THE CEOAHTOWH STANDARD
Bunn & Trawick,
Attorneys - at - Law,
< Peak Block, CEDARTOWN, OA.
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Mation.
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Attorneys at Law.
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-Attorney at Law.
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aO business,both Civil and Criminal.
Offlc in Richardson Building.
Phone 19.
CEDARTOWN, GA.
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Attorney at Law.
Practise in All thm Court*.
Office in Chamberlain Building.
CEDARTOWN, GA.
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Rm Phone 226
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Physicians & Surgeons.
Ofllca in Peek Block.
Office Phone 37.
C. V. WOOD,
Physician and Surgeon,
OFFICE PHONE 119
RESIDENCE PHONE 121.
•fleet VanDevander House, West Av.
8EALS L. WHITELY,
Physician and Surgeon.
Phene 219.
CEDARTOWN, GA.
J. W. GOOD,
Physician and Surgeon
Oflce: VanDevander House, West Av.
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DENTIST,
Offer* hie eervices to the public.
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E. B. RUSSELL, Editor.
THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1922.
O u m z R E C°R D
Senators will shift their goals
And pay a visit to Mussel Shoals.
They want to sec the Wilson Dam,
The very biggest dam what am.
They come because they arc implored
To make that dam o’er to a Ford.
Old age will not so quickly get us
If we cat cabbage and lots of lettuce.
Their vitamincs will never fail us—
They’re good for lots of things that
ail us.
Each weevil that we early kill
Means thousands less to do us ill,
And if you will not o»rly light,
Before you start just quit outright.
The French Bluebeard has “lost his'
head,”
And ho, like nil his wives, is dead;
But if he’d been in Georgia State,
He’d have lived far longer, at any
rate.
It surely makes one lively hump
To keep right up with Bimbo ,Gump.
We wonder which will finally win—
The Widow or Andy and his Min;
But won’t Unc be a goosey-gander
If he ever marries Widow Zander I
It don’t take them several years to
cxccuto a convicted murderer in
France. A modern Bluebeard,whose
wives had a habit of disappearing,was
recently found guilty of murder, and
was beheaded last week.
nniTAlJDAIIACEM^OWI^
MARCH 24, 1922.
Every newspaper in Georgia should
play a harp with at least two stringB
those days —one a “hymn of hate"
agnlnst the boll weevil and the oth
er against the too prevalent spirit of
lawlessness. Neither of these evils
can be wiped out, but both can be
quite effectually curbed.
When a man says that the Almigh
ty sends tho boll weevil, and there
fore he is not going to fight it, we are
not going to argue with him about
liis theology, hut we will say that by
his .same line of reasoning he would
stay out in a storm if one caught him
out-of-doors, and would refuse to
send for a doctor if he had sickness
in his family. Good is going to come
to- the South through the boll weevil
scourge, but it will not come through
feeding him.
Hon. Fcrmor Barrett, a distin
guished citizen of Augusta,spoke hero
Monday at the noon recess of court
on tho questions of taxation that are
so perplexing to all thinking people
nowadays. He opposed tho levying
of new taxes, and urged the people
not to tnko off tho bridlfe of the con
stitutional limitation on the tax rate.
Mr. Barrett is n member of the Geor
gia Committee on Public Utility In
formation, and rapped tho Munici
pal League for proposing a program
In connection with tho state’s water
powers that would increase taxation.
There is absolutely no sense in
Polk county farmers and business
men going through the disastrous ex
periences of other sections when the
weevil has struck them with full
fore. Everybody knows that in all
probability he is going to be with us
in overwhelming numbers this seas-’
on. There is no need of being panic
stricken, but the necessity is vitally
urgent that farmers and business
men use their heads about tho prob
lems now before us. Absolute ruin
awaits the man who thinks he can
ignore the weevil this year, and un
less a farmer is going to fairly live in
his cotton field this year he had bet
ter put his land into something else
or let it rest.
While we are opposed to the Dyer
anti-lynching bill recently passed by
| the House of Representatives, we are
also strongly opposed to lynching be
cause of the general disregard for
law that it inevitably engenders. It
would be well worth the while of our
Georgia Solons to study the laws of
Alabama, where lynching has been
reduced to a minimum. There the
Sheriff of any county in which a
lynching occurs must immediately an
swer to tho Governor. Unless he can
prove to the satisfaction of the Gov
ernor that no human power could
have protected his prisoner, he is im
mediately haled before the Supreme
Court and impeached for a criminal
neglect in duty. If this works so
well in Alabama, it might have the
same effect in Georgia.
Camp Benning has been changed
and end a cold before it gets deep- to Fort Benning, by order of the War
seated. Sold by Burbank Drug Co. Department.
Laly Safhrvd Umtfl Ska
Tried CardaL—8ayi “Raa*
Waa $ai |a Uieg.”—Got Ala**
Pae, Becaaa Ntnul
aid Heatty.
•artncfleld Ho.—“My back was as
weak 1 could hardly stand up, and I
weuld have hearlag-down paint and
waa not well at any time,” sera Mrs.
It T. Williams, wife of a well-known
tamer on Route 4, this place. “I
Mpt getting headache* and having to
to bed," continue* Mrs. William*
deecrtblng the trouble! from which
ahe obtained relief through the use of
OarduL “My husband, having heard
*i Cardul, proposed getting It for me.
“I saw after taking somo Cardul
,.. that I waa Improving. The result
waa surprising. I felt like a different
person.
“Later I suffered from weakness
and weak back, and felt all run-down.
I did not rest well at night, I was so
nervous and cross. My huBband said
ha would get me some Cardul, which
hs did. It strengthened me . . . My
doctor eatd I got along fine. I was In
good healthy condition. I cannot
aay too much for It”
Thousands of women have suffered
oa Mrs. Williams describes, until they
found relief from tho use of Cardul.
Bines It has helped bo many, you
should not hesitate to try Cardul It
troubled with womanly ailments.
For sale everywhere. £183
Keep This Ready.
^Vt the first symptoms of a cough
r cold, breathe Hyomei. The best
people always have it in the house
Fight or Quit?
Forewarned is forearmed.
If you were reliably-informed that
a burglar was about to break into
your home, you would either remove
your valuables to a safe place or get
ready to fight him.
Our farmers and business men
really need no, one to tell them that
the boll weevil is going to be with-us
in far greater numbers this year
than ever beore. If they need any
thing on this line beyond what they
ought to know without telling, how
ever, it will pay them to take the
pointer from Prof. Coad- that there
will probably be at least five times
as many of the pests this year as
heretofore. And don’t forget that
Prof. Coad is the expert in charge of
the U. S. Government station for
studying tho weevil at Delta, La.,
and that he probably knows more
about tho weevil than anyone else in
the world.
Don’t forget, too, that ail the ag
ricultural authorities agree that the
weevil will reach his full infestation
in North Georgia this year, and all
we have had before is simply a warn
ing to us as to what we may expect.
As in the case of the burglar a-
larm, we can place, ourselves in com
plete safety by planting no cotton
at all, or we can get ready to fight
with the definite knowledge that the
struggle will be long and hard. Many
a man who decides to fight is going to
get tired and quit beore the summer
is over, and his “weevil pasture" will
be a menace to every farmer around
him, but the fnct remains that he
could win by persistent and intelli
gent effort.
The Standard is giving to its read
ers these days suggestions that are
worth thousands of dollars to the
farmers of Polk. They are not ours,
brother, for we don't pretend to have
any personal knowledge of the sub
ject and would not presume to ad
vise experienced farmers on fanning
topics; but we are passing on to our
readers the advice of tjto best agri
cultural authorities in the world,and
we do not think a newspaper In the
South would be worth its salt if it
did not try to arouse Its readers to
the danger yiat menaces us all. The
truth is that the most experienced
farmer is almost ns much at sea as a
“town farmer" under the changed
conditions brought about by the boll
weevil, and some of them are prob
ably more so because they have to
overcome the ideas and habits of a
lifetime.
Boll weevil warnings nro not pleas
ant rending, but Standard readers
arc going to get everything worth
while that we can give them on the
subject.
No land-owner can afford to back
a tenant who will not agree to fight
the weevil by at least picking up and
burning the fallen squares, and using
the methods of cultivation recom
mended by the Government. The
early use of calcium arsenate will les
sen the work of picking up squares.
No tenant can afford to farm for a
land-owner who insists on his plant
ing more than five ncrcs to the plow,
for that is all that anyone can take
enre of under boll weevil conditions
—and he is going to be kept busy
cnrly and late, and with no laying-by
;imc, to do that.
It is a hard program that the cot
ton-grower has before him, but it is
far better for him to know it now
than to find it out later.
And it is by overcoming difficul
ties that we "get anywhere." It was
a wheat failure that made one of our
Northern states a big dairy farm,and
we should remember that Georgia
can grow practically everything rais
ed in the Temperate Zone.
By raising everything wo need to
eat—as we should have been doing
all the time, of course,— with some
over for sale, and cutting cotton ac
reage to not over five acres to the
plow so that it can receive the con
stant cultivation and care prescribed
by our State and Federal Agricultur
al Departments, the boll weevil will
finally be regarded as a blessing in
disguise. But if you think old-time
methods are going to get you any
where except on the road to the pau
per farm, you had better save your
time and money and let your land
rest.
The farmers of Polk are fighters
rather than quitters, but it is a new
and hard enemy they have to fight
and it is going to take all their en
ergy, skill and endurance to win. But
we believe they can and will.
You talk of funny notions
As people always will;
But here is one to ponder:
“What made Chicago, Ill.”
—Cedartown Standard.
I truly cannot tetl you,
Good friend, as man to man
But though I cannot answer ,
I know Topeka, Kan.
•—Chicago Journal of Commerce.
But Boston old ns Noah,
Consigns her to embark
Upon a six years tour
In a Texarkana, Ark.
A. W. Lamar, Jr., Springfield, Ill.
ROGERS
WHERE SATISFACTION IS A CERTAINTY.
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u\ or LA ROSA FLOUR U11
Q pounds Golden Q1a
0 Glow Coffee W / W
No. 5 Flint River
Syrup
C pounds Fancy 1 Op
J Cabbage 1 Oil
1 H pounds Fancy ORa
1 U Potatoes wJU
0 pounds Best ^ ea(i ^/|Q
C pounds bulk 1
J Grits 1
I4c
Purity Bulk Wieners OHa
per pound fcUll
Pure All Pork Sau- 1
sage,pound 1
19c
Purity Sliced Break- OOpi
fast Bacon OUu
Full Cream Cheese OQp
per pound fcwlg
WE BUY COUNTRY PRODUCE.
ROG
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405 Main Street.
L. T. SWINNEY, Manager
Haralson to Have Bond
Issue.
Haralson county will hold an elec
tion March 31st for the purpose of
issuing bonds for building her part
of tho great Federal Highway from
Chattanooga to Appalachicola, Fla.,
and for completing her part of the
Bankhead Highway and improving
other roads. This will give Haral
son just what every county ought to
have—a good north-south and east-
west highway.
In Polk the link in the north-south
highway has been built from tho
Floyd line to Cedartown, and work is
beginning on the part from Cedar
town to the Haralson line. It is to
be hoped that Carroll county will ar
range to connect as soon as Haralson
completes her portion.
We congratulate Haralson on join
ing in this progressive movement.
One of the best things Polk ever did
was to issue road bonds,and Haralson
citizens will doubtless feel the same
way about it.
Hon. “Pat” Griffin of Bainbridge,
one of South Georgia's livest news
paper men, was a welcome visitor in
our office Monday, coming to Cedar
town as a representative of the Geor
gia Committee on Public Utility In
formation. He says the farmers a-
round Bainbridge have “outgrown"
the boll weevil, planting only three
acres to the mule and working those
three acres “to beat the band.’’ Down
in that section they have learned to
pick up squares by spearing them in
stead of breaking their backs by
going down after them —a right
good hint for Polk county farmers.
In planning for your farm work,
“don't forget to remember" that
Prof. Coad, the expert in charge of
the U. S. Experiment Station at Del
ta, La., and who probably knows
more about the boll weevil than any
one else,predicts that the best will be
fully five times as numerous this year
as ever heretofore. All experts who
have studied the subject agree that
North Georgia is going to “get her
full dose" this season. Our only sal
vation is to raise everything we need
to eat with some to spare for sale,and
cut cotton acreage to five acres or
less to the plow. And if you are not
going to fight the weevil this year in
strict accorlance with the Govern
ment's recommendation, you had bet
ter not waste your time and money
planting any cotton at all.
Harris Outlines Bonus
Position.
Replying to inquiries about his po
sition on the bonus bill, Senator W.
J. Harris says:—’I expect to support
some form of legislation providing
for adjusted compensation for
veterans of the world war, when
the measure comes before the Sen
ate. Right now, proposals are be
fore the House Ways and Means
Committee, and the legislation must
pass the House and be reported out
of the Senate Finance Committee be-
for it is taken up in the Senate. This
prevents any assurance as to what
the bill will finally contain as its pro
visions. •
“In raising the revenue to care for
the adjusted compensation I want to
see those who profited most out of
the war pay the taxes, and also util
ize the funds from the interest on
the debts owing us by foreign gov
ernments who borrowed from us dur
ing the war.
“The profiteers of the war are able
to pay the sums estimated es neces
sary to care for the adjusted com
pensation. I am opposed to a sales
tax. The sales tax is a scheme of
Republican lcadora to place all taxes
on the masses of the people; to tax
those who work to cam a living, and
exempt wealth which profits most
from the government’s protection.
Until the administration of President
Wilson all taxes were levied on the
people, and the wealth of the coun
try escaped any part of its share of
taxes to support the government.
“I shall oppose taxing gasoline,
bank checks and other forms of spec
ial taxes suggested, or increasing
postal rates. Such taxes are general
ly opposed, but were put forward by
the officials of the Treasury De
partment, who are against any kind
of adjusted compensation.
“In the past year Georgia has put
a tax on gasoline and other things,
and I am opposed to further burden
ing our people with such taxes. There
is no necessity now for the revenue
Cutting Expenses.
Declaring that tho Central of
Georgia Railway must practice every
possible economy so that it may livo
within its income, Prosident W. A.
Winbum sets forth some of the reas
ons why the road is asking permission
to discontinue certain unprofitable
passenger trains. He says that the
primary duty of a railway is to sup
ply safe and dependable transporta
tion, a responsibility that can best be
met by dispensing with non-essentials
so that the essentials for providing
such a service may be assured.
Although the income of many pas
senger trains is less now than it was
in 1916, expenses have greatly in
creased. Coal costs $3.46 per ton as
against $1.27 five years ago. Taxee
have greatly increased, and labor
costs arc much higher.
According to the statement, be
fore seeking the curtailment of
train service the railway has exhaus
ted every other means of effecting
economies. The number of employes
has been reduced; amounts paid out
for loss and damage to freight and
for personal injuries have been great
ly lessened; efficient operation has
permitted a saving of $360,999 in
the annual coal bill, and yet the road
last year failed by nearly a million
dollars to earn its operating expen
ses, fixed charges and taxes; leaving
no provision for interest on the cap
ital invested.
President Winburn expresses th*
belief that fair-minded people will
not expect a public service corpora
tion to continue wasteful practices
which they do not countenance in
private business, and anticipates the
approval of patrons in the Central’s
policy of economy.
Don’t think because we broke our
rule and published one anonymous
communication that we are going to
do it again. Sign your name if you
want anything published in The
Standard—not for publication, but in
order that we may know that no one
to come from these things when is being imposed upon, as is so often
there are other places to get the the case with anonymous lettes. We
received one last week on road mat-
funds needed.”
Hon. S. W. Ragsdale, a prominent
Dallas attorney, was here Monday,
and says he has under consideration
his entry into the race for Solicitor
General of this circuit in the coming
primary.
Buy it in Cedartown!
ters, which is being held for proper
signature.
Holding that the state convention
of Republicans called and held by
Washington office-holders was illegal
under the laws of Georgia, a number
of the “outs” are bringing injunction
suits to oust the “ins."