About The Cedartown standard. (Cedartown, Ga.) 1889-1946 | View Entire Issue (March 2, 1922)
<#AG1 TWO I THE CEOAHTOWH STANDARD Bunn & Trawick, Attorneys - at - Law, < Peak Block, CEDARTOWN, OA. All business placed in our hands •H ba given prompt and viligrnt at- Mation. MUNDY & WATKINS Attorneys at Law. Careful and prompt attention is ■s«t jour business gets when placed "*0*flee in Mundy Bldg, over Vance * Bunt's store, Cedartown, Oa. eTsTault, -Attorney at Law. Wvempt and careful attention given aO business,both Civil and Criminal. Offlc in Richardson Building. Phone 19. CEDARTOWN, GA. W. K. FIELDER, Attorney at Law. Practise in All thm Court*. Office in Chamberlain Building. CEDARTOWN, GA. ■. M. BALL. Rm Phone 226 P. O. CHAUDRON Phohe884. HALL & CHAUDRON 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. ■a*. Phene 200. Office Phone 298. F. L. ROUNTREE, DENTIST, Offer* hie eervices to the public. Phone 62. Office Smith Bldg. W. T. EDWARDS, f DENTIST, Office over Bank of Cadartown. •flea Phone 54. Rei. Phone 49. CEDARTOWN. GA. Dr*.J.W. & Carl Pickett Dentists. ecu** and Laboratory up-sUir» In the Peek Building. Relieve Headache and Neuralgia With CURRY’S HEADACHE POWDERS 5 ,V”\ 1 ASK YOUR . !’i ■ 1 (J C DRUGGIST WEAK, NERVOUS, ALL RUN-DOWN Published Every Thanday OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CEDARTOWN AND FOLK COUNTY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. On* Year - --*1.60 Sia Months. „. .75 Three Months... .. .. .40 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. Fridaii and Saturday Only Q \ pounds ROGERS 37 (V7/» 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 ERS 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."
