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•AGE TWO THE STANDARD. CEDARTOWN. GA. MARCH 9. 1*22. I THE GEOmOWH STANDARD Friday AND Saturday Only n lbs.Domino^ ■■ SUGAR 9 bC Published Every Thursday SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Veer.. .. .. ..$1.80 Sis Months.. ._ _i .. .78 Three Months .. .40 E. B. RUSSELL. Editor. THURSDAY, MARCH B, 1922. lbs. ROGERS Roasted COFFEE 99c ROGERS Quality' BREAD, Loaf 5c FANCY LEMONS Dozen 27c Full Cream CHEESE, pound 27c QUAKER OATS package 10c Eagle Brand Con densed MILL, can 22c SI, H. Trewicb. C. C. Buna, Jr. Bunn & Trawick, Attorneys - at - Law, Pnnk Block, CEDARTOWN, GA. AU business placed in our hands ■411 be given prompt and viligrnt at tention. MUND Y & WATKINS Attorneys at Law. Careful und prompt attention is •Rat your business gets when placed artth me. Office in Mundy Bldg, over Vance 8k Bunt’s store, Cedartown, Ga. E. S. AULT, Attorney at Law. pt and careful attention given all business,both Civil and Criminal. Offlc In Richardson Building. Phone 19. CEDARTOWN, GA. W. K. FIELDER, Attorney at Law. Practice in All tha Court*. Office in Chamberlain Building. CEDARTOWN, GA , HALL. Phone 226 P. O. CHAUDRON l*hone884. HALL & CHAUDRON Physicians & Surgeons. Oitice in Peek Block. Office Phono 37. C. V. WOOD, Physician and Surgeon, OFFICE PHONE 119 RESIDENCE PHONE 121 dMBce: VanDcvander House, West Av. ANNOUNCEMENTS. FOR SOLICITOR GENERAL-, To the White Voters of Polk County: I hereby announce myself n candidate for tho olllco .of Solicitor General of the Tallu- Poona Circuit Bubject to the White Primary when held for the nomination of the same. I unk you to investigate my ntandina an a lawyer and heir to call your attention to my continued re-election without opponitlon to the office of Ordinary of Douglas county, which office I now hold an an evidence of the juilgcmcne of my home people to my flt- »n for office. f will appreciate the nupport, vote and in- lencc of every one whether I am able to e you In pernon or not. If elected I promlne to uno my bent cf- fortn to nee that the lawn are duly and faithfully enforced and that junticc is done. J. II. McLARTY. 0 U RJ A Z Z R E C°R D Some sny we’ve fallen in a trap Lotting the Jap have his way in Yap, And while we’re not raising any fuss, We’ll sny it don’t look good to us. March didn’t come like a roaring lion, But growled just like his youthful scion. Here's hoping he won’t vamoose kcr- blam, But go out gentle nH a Inmb. If a friend comes into view With a cheery ‘‘How are you?” Don’t sny “Tol’nblc” or ‘‘So-so,” But come right out and let him know You’re feeling ‘bully’’ or “first rate,” "Fine as a fiddle,” “up to date”— Buck up and foci yourself n man, And give that “tol’ble’’ Btuff the can. You can Hing thnt “so-so” song bo long ’Twill mnko your liver go all wrong, You loso all heart, your lights go out, And it’s time for you to turn about. Sny you’re all right, nnd first you know You’ll find yourself a-fccling so. Floyd county will hold a special e- lection Mny 2d to fill the vnenney caused by the death of Tax Receiver Weldon Hawkins. Some girlies paint themselves bo fierce, It's really no surpriso Thnt men who love tho beautiful Should quickly drop their eyes. It isn't a mntter of reducing rengc this year to get n better price. Tho reduction is necossnry in order to make any cotton at all under boll weevil conditions. Dr. Hubert Work last Saturday became Postmaster General in Pres ident Ilnrding’s Cabinet, succeeding Will Hays, who resigned to accept a $150,000 job ns a movie mngnntc. By a vote of 07 to 22 the Senate last week ratified the treaty with Jn- pnn ns to the little Pacific island of Ynp. Believing thnt Japan was given too great an advantage over us there, Senators Harris nnd Watson voted against ratification. We'd heave a brick At Oswald Snow, Whose mitt feels like A wad of dough. —Macon Telegraph. But here’s a smile For Lily Land, The lovely lass Who’ll squeeze our hand BEALS L. WHITELY, Physician and Surgeon. Phor.e 216. CEDARTOWN. GA ~~J. W. GOOD, Physician and Surgeon Office: VanDevander House, West Av. Km. Phone 200. Oflice Phone 20b. F. L. ROUNTREE. DENTIST Offers his services to the public Phone <»!? Office .Smith Ride W. T. EDWARD," DENT1S1 Office over Rank of Cedartown 1 Office Phone r»4 R.>> Phone 4 Cc.DARTOWN, GA Drs.J.W. & Carl Pickett Dentists. Anti l.aburator> . i* 'taire In the Peck Building Judge Humphries, of Atlanta, in his charge to the grand jury in his court Monday, touched on one of the sore places in our present national life when he condemned the exhibi tion of “sex and banditry” motion pictures, which have undoubtedly played a large part in producing the alarming wave of crime that has been sweeping the country. Every fanner in Polk should read the article on making profitable crops in this part : culnr county. It is written by a nip. i who has made expert study of farming conditi in every county of the stare. And ho is right abv.it it - —the only way to farm profitably is to git a satisfac tory yield per acre, which ia aiso why you have to figure so carefully on tho boll weevil now. A few days ago wo received a mn:-’: r , p v of th? C:r t-sville News iu •• Inch .a nice “bouquet” was han- d ! The yt.nnciard mm in connection vi-’ ! i v : nt to tint town. We took off cuv . pecs and r'di!* ”! pur eyes, > e knew wq hadn’t been out of v a cn’s age. And the* we • J - i - i v.-rs an ii ."u in the in> 1 ■ o ■ ‘•T'V-fy.r.M Wiv'- Ago” 1 A' iA. :• oed is run- Something That Pay** The continued growth of any com munity depends on the amount of money that can be kept in circulation there, particularly for labor. People who go afvay from home to do their trading pursue a very short sighted policy, especially if they arc in business themselves. The dollar spent at home keeps moving about, and finally comes back to them in the course of trade—if they advertise to get it,—while the money sent away never comes back. Even if you can buy for a little less elsewhere at times, it still pays you to Rpend your money at home, but The Standard’s advertisers do not let anyone beat them on quality and price. It pays good dividends to patron- ■ home merchants, and it ,is an es pecially good investment to help home industry by buying the things that are made at homo. In this way you give employment to labor here, and take one of the most effective ways in the world of building up the town. Here in Cedartown we have quite a list of manuaeturing indur.trios that deserve your pntronage. You can buy broad, ice, beach cloth, hose, brick, tile, lumber, cement blocks, and stoves —all made in Cedartown. You can have your foundry repair work done here. You can buy soft drinks bottled here. When you die, you enn hnvfe a mnde-in-Ccdnrtown monument over your resting ^lace, nnd while you live you can have your printing done at Tho Standard office. (Tho Census Department lists print ing offices among manufactories, so the last is a standard suggestion.) Patronize your home merchants, and buy everything you can that is made in Cednrtown. It will be like casting bread upon the waters, only it will not take quite so mnny dnys for your money to come back to you. He Couldn’t Laugh. We can’t help but wonder what President Harding will say and do when the famous Gridiron Club touches him up” at one of its fun- making dinners. Presidents Roose velt, Taft and Wilson cnoyed a joke on themselves and their administra tions, and could laugh as heartily as anybody else, but President Harding loses his sense of humor when it come to that kind of joking, nnd it is just about as funny ns a crutch to him. The President snubbed Will Rog ers, a noted comedian, a few dnys a- go because be got off some jokes that touched a sore .spot or two. Rogers had been one of his enthusiastic sup porters, but Mr. Harding has now changed thnt —just ns he is making Democrats out of thousands of peo ple all over the cohntry. One of the “pnpnrdonnblc sins’* that Rogers committed in his joke- making was in saying this: “Presi dent Harding made quite a speech. In fact it sounded to me like one of the best speeches Hughes over wrote.’ The comedian rubbed this in by saying thnt President Harding’s nl- linnce with Great Britain, Japan and France in the Pacific is different from the League of Nations in that it begins with “A” instead of “L.” In speaking of the recent fire in the Treasury building, Rogers “got in bad” with the President by “twit ting on fncts” ns follows: “The fire started on the roof, and burned down nnd down until it got to the place where the money ought to he and there it stopped,” he said. “The Harding administration hna boat the fire to it. A fire in the Treasury is nothing to get excited a bout during a Republican administra tion.” President Harding evidently regar ded this as “lese majeste,” and made the mistake of getting peeved about it. He might better follow the ex ample of his illustrious predecessors nnd get n good laugh out of it.— oven if he had to poke himself in the ribs to do it. • The time to study to the most pur pose about the boll weevil is before you plant a seed of cotton. And you had better plan to feed yourself rather than the weevil. Hon. M. L. Johnson, the able Rep resentative of Bartow county in the State Legislature, spent Monday h^re looking gfter his interests as a can didate to succeed Hon. Murphy Candler, who will not stand for election as a member of the State Railrofld Commission. Mr. Johnson s adm'rably fitted for the positon to v hich lie aspires, haying made i pecial study of the public utilitie: ■'" bl-rns during lvs service in the Leg- lature. And he is as honest as ho is capable, and that is a qualifica ■‘cn that the people want to look af- lev very carefully in connection with iliis highly important office. Polk county people -will do well to bea-j . cod neighbor in mind for this NORMAN’S SALE CONTINUES. A goodly number of our customers and friends have asked that we con tinue our sale for another week on ac count of the bad weather we had last week and their inability to attend, so for this reason we have decided to con tinue it through Saturday, March 11 th, If you have not attended this sale, you can’t imagine the bargains we are offering. Call and be convinced. It is for Cash, of course. G. M. NORMAN Phone 406 j Use Polk county products. ARE THE CROP YIELDS OF POLK PROFITABLE? By David D. Long, Soil Special-- ist, Soil Improvement Com mittee, Atlanta. In this time of stress, when all fnr- j mers arc trying to work out of n de- possion, it is essential that farming as a business should be looked upon from a business basis. It is necessary to diversify, for di versification nlwnys has been a pay-! ins proposition even before the boll weevil came, and especially so in re-1 Jation to tho production of home sup- j plies. Diversification, however, is not the j whole solution unless the yields of j tho crops are profitable. It cannot be expected that a farm operator can just diversify and expert to work out of this serious situation. It requires more than that. It requires that the yields shall be sufficiently high to pay costs of production nnd leave a prof- J-ow yields are very often the cause of complaint that prices do not pay costs of production. Cost surveys, as conducted by the United States Department of Agri culture, show that with increased yields the costs of production per bushel or pound of a product de creases and that the profits per acre increase. It is necessary, therefore, to look well to your yields to determ ine whether or not they are profi table. Assuming thnt costs of production for 1922 are about the same as for 1914, we can obtain from the Farm Management Survey of Polk county by the United States Department of Agriculture, cost records which are valuable in detemining whether yields are profitable. Cotton. A yield under 200 bushels of lint cotton cost 11.6 cents a pound; from 200 to 300 lbs. lint, 9.1 cents a pound; from 309 to 400 lbs. lint, 7.8 cents a pound; and for 400 pounds nnd ovpr, 7.5 cents a lb. The average cost per acre was $34.51. The boll weevil will, of course, in crease the cost even if the cotton is protected. The census returns of 1920 show that the average yield of Polk county was 235 pounds of lint. Corn. . The same Government investiga tion shows that the cost, of producing corn was as follows: Yield Cost 9.3 bus. per aero.: 1.26 per bu. 13.4 bus. per acre .85 per bu. s 17.8 bus. per acre .73 per hu. 24.2 bus. per acre .66 per bu. Av. 14.3 bus. per acre .89 per bu. Quoting from the nbove publica tion, “The data presented also indi cate that under conditions found, with corn at an average price of 75 cents per'bushel, it is necessary to secure a yield above 10 bushels per acre of corn planted in rows wilh peanuts or about 18 bushels of corn planted ’solid,’ if a profit Is to be shown when figured by cost dctcim- ination methods. Tho average yield of com for Poik county in 1919 was 13.8 bushels, ac cording to the census of 1920. A com parison with the above figures reveals at a glance whether this nverage yield is profitable. | Oats. Again quoting from this survey, “Oats must yield about 16 bushels t-. show a profit at an average price of approximately 60 cents; but when the yield slightly exceeds 25 bushels, the cost is reduced to 36 cents per bushel. The latter yields a good mar gin of profit.” ’ The average yields of oats for Polk county as reported by the census of 1920 is 12 bushels per acre. From the above statement is this yield profit able? Peanuts. I The average cost of producing peanuts as determined by this survey was $36.61 per acre. The average yield was 37 bushels per acre with a net cost of 99 cents per bushel. The average yield of Polk county for 1919 as reported by the census was 21.7 bushels. Assuming that the | average co-t of $36.61 to be the nv erage cost under Poik county condi tions, the cost of production per bu- I shel would be $1.68. I By increasing the yield, the cost | per bushel is automatically decreas- j ed as in other crops. Sweet Potatoes. | The average yield of sweet pota- ! toes for Polk county in 1919 as i shown by the census report of 1920 1 was 100 bushels per acre. Of all 1 crops this yield appears to be most | nrofitahle. Tho analysis of cest of i production shows that the cost of ! production per bushel rapidly de- I creases as the yield increased. The I profits also increased with increased ! yields. Under 1914 conditions, an average yield of 70 bushels per acre cost per bushel to produce 36 cent- and gave a prefit of SI ’..18 per acre. With a yield of 100 bushels per acre. the cost was reduced to 28 cents per bushel and’ the profit increased to $27.27 per acre. But when the av erage yield was 162 bushels, the cost per bushel was 22 cents nnd the prof it per acre increased to $65.01. From the above figures i r . appears urgent that the acreage yield of all crops be increased to profitable point. The farmer well knows what it lakes to make higher yields per acre. He knows the value of good seed, build ing up the soil with organic natter, the intelligent use of ferti! ers, cul tivation, etc., nnd now is n Rood lime to practice these measures to put the farm on a profitable yield basis. Some reader has in his mind ‘he question of markets. All marketing associations well managed will cer tainly help in the ma’tor of distribu tion and prices. However, no mark eting association will be able to turn high costs per bushel or pound on ac count of low acreage yields into a profit. Marketing is i o substitute for low acreage yields and high costs, nor is it a substitute for good seed good fertilizers or good fanning. But nbove nil, consider carefully If your average yields are profitab’e! If not, plan to make them profitable. If they are, plant to Keep them profit able or to increa e the profits per acre Fight the boll weevil Advertisers in The Standard th nk enough of your business to give you invitations, which it will pay you to accept. You remember what the Republi cans had to say about “the full din ner pail” during the Cleveland ad ministration. Well, how about Ihe first year of the Harding regime? Hon. A. O. Blalock, a prominent banker of Fayetteville, announces hU candidacy for Commissioner of Agri culture against lion. J. J. Brown, the present able Commissioner. Mr Blalock h.-s just closed eight years in office ns Collector of Internal P.o V - enue, where he made an excellent record. Better not cut tho sire of the army and navy too deep, gentlemen of the United States Congress There is a lot of difference between the Four- Power Alliance in the Paciti , by which it i; p r sibl e v .-o may got i r to instead of avoiding wav, 'and the League of N-fiono-ta •• tobra-ng rdi civi’w.-.i „ ’■ , m whicji we would qnly hevo i , <J6 our part in policing the v.-ovhl
