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E. B. RUSSELL, Editor.
THURSDAY, MARCH 16. 1022.
No. 10
Flint River
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•SF. E Trawiefc. C C Ban. Jr.
Bunn & Trawick,
Attorneys - at - Law,
fMk Block, CEDABTOWN, GA.
AS basis*** ploooS in our handa
■Ml bo flroo prompt and vUlgrnt at-
HUNDY & WATKINS
Attorneys at Law.
Osrsful and prompt ottontlon
•Bat poor buiinau goto whoa placed
la Moadp Bldg, orer Vance
ft (tore, Codartowa, Ga.
E. S. AULT,
Attorney at Law.
ppt and careful attention given
I hoalneee.both Civil and Criminal.
Offlc la Richardson Building.
Phono 19.
CEDABTOWN, GA.
W. K. FIELDER,
Attorney at Law.
PveeHaa la All tha Coart*.
NBeo la Chamborlaln Building.
CEDABTOWN, GA.
Bea Phene lit
CHAUDRON
Phon.llt
HALL & CHAUDRON
Physicians & Surgeons
Office in Peek Block.
Office Phone B7.
C. V. WOOD,
Physician and Surgeon,
OFFICE PHONE 119
RESIDENCE PHONE 121.
: VanDevander House, West Av
BEALS L. WHITELY
Physician and Surgeon
Phona 216.
I CEDABTOWN, GA.
J. W. GOOD,
Physician and Surgeon
Office: VanDevander Houso, West Av.
Bee. Phene 200. Office Phone 298,
F. L. ROUNTREE,
DENTIST,
Offers his services to the public.
Phone 62. Office Smith Bldg.
,W. T. EDWARDS,
DENTIST,
9tOe* over Bank of Cedartown.
Phone 54. Kes. Phone 49.
CEDARTOWN, GA.
9rs.J.W. & Carl Pickett
Dentists.
and laboratory up-atairs
the Peak Building.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR SOLICITOR GENERAL.
To th. Whit. VoUr. of Polk County:
I hereby announce myself a candidate for
the office of Solicitor General of the Talla
poosa Circuit Bubject to the White Primary
when held for the nomination of tho same.
1 ask you to investigate my standing as
lawyer and beg to call your attention to n
continued re-election without opposition to
the office of Ordinary of Douglas county,
which office I now hold as an evidence of
the judgemene of my home people to my flt-
ss for office.
I will appreciate the support, vote and In
fluence of ovory one whether I am able to
e you in person or not. .
If elected I promise to use my best er-
forts to see that the laws are du y and
faithfully enforced and that J* ^ on *'
J. H. McLiAKlX.
ofjpFcT
Tho Gov’nor’s traveling ’round the
state
At a quite promiscuous rate,
And they say it’a ’mongst the facta
He’a looking for more things to tax.
Since Mr. Volatead’a bone-dry law
Swiped this nation on the Jaw,
We’ve noticed now for quite a time
Thero's been a swapping ’round in
crime.
It’* made a new set of law-breakers;
Has It really lessened the “partak
ers?"
Trouble is, when people break
Any law our Solons make,
It gives to crime a mighty boost—
Sets chickens that come home to
roost.
You’ve noticed that the hens you
keep
Have gohe to laying—since eggs are
cheap.
Wo centa a day—you hear us, men!
Ie little wage for e'en a hen.
A patch on the pants is the Harding
mark,
And his lodge word now is, “Keep it
dark,”
While the “sign” the country round
about
Is to wear your pockets inside out.
And here’s a sort-
Er funny song:
Ma’a skirt is short
And baby's long.
This is Victory Week for the Cot
ton Co-operative Marketing Associa
tion in Georgia. Tho organizers re
port tho work progressing very satis
factorily in Polk.
PUnt a kind of cotton that gives a
good staple. You can't get as good a
price for the short staples. It is
“cotton,” of course, but it isn’t worth
as much to any manufacturer as the
longor varieties.
It is a physical impossibility for
anyone to take care of more than five
or six acres of cotton to the plow un
der boil weevil conditions, unless you
have an extra large and willing force
of workers. If you try to do too
much, tha weevil will get it all.
The United States ought to be rep
resented, of course, at the internat
ional conference in Genoa, but our
government has acted wisely in de
clining. It would be necessary to
send the President, the State De
partment and the entire United
States Senate to formulate a treaty
that could be ratified, and the time of
the conference would be too limited
to enable some of the long-winded
“statesmen” to have their “say.”
Advances for Georgia from the
War Finance Corporation up to the
present time aggregate nearly $7,-
000,000, according to information
given Monday to Senator William J.
Harris by Director McClean, of the
Corporation. Senator Harris says
the law under which advances are be
ing made by tho War Finance Cor
poration expires on June 80th, and
that he is supporting a bill to extend
the operations beyond that date.
In reference to the proposed “bo
nus” for soldiers we’ve been watch
ing for somebody to make the real
ly sensible suggestion that it be given
only where needed —just as all pen
sions should be paid. It would be im
possible to “pay’’ the men enough
who served their country in any war,
and to thus undertake the impossible
tends to cheapen patriotism. Uncle
Sam is taking good care of the boys
who were wounded or sick in the
World War, and is looking well after
their health. If any of them are in
want, throughh misfortune and not
through fault of their own, this great
country wants to see them cared for,
as a matter of course.
We Need It.
“Let the people praise thee, O
God; let all the people praise thee.
“Then shall the earth yield her
increase; and God,even our own God,
shall bless us.”
It was many centuries ago that the
Paalmist sang these inspired and in
spiring words, which are as true to
day as then.
When the children of Israel lived
according to these words, they were
prospered in their work. When they
departed from them, calamity over
took them.
The some is true today, and the
reason is plain. The man who !b
“right with God” leads a safe and
sane life,and as one of our good cit
izens—a former farmer— said the
other day, “There is no telling how
much a farmer can raise on a piece
of ground if he is in partnership with
the Almighty.”
The Manufacturers Record, a
strictly business publication, months
ago declared that what the world
needs is a genuine revival of religion.
It had reference mainly to the neces
sity for getting back to tho old prin
ciples of business honesty and the
more goneral practice of the Golden
Rule.
But these are material things, and
we wish to call attention to some
thing vastly more important in an
ticipation of the simultaneous revival
meetings beginning here Sunday.
Grand Jury presentments are usually
“dry reading,” but there is one sec
tion of those published in this week's
Standard that does not come under
that category and which we want to
urge upon the attention of all our
readers. It is the part which refers
to the connection between the break'
ing down of the old-time home and
the present wave of crime and unrest
that is sweeping the country. When
Hon. L. S. Ledbetter read these Pre
sentments to the court last Friday,
Judge F. A. Irwin did well in emphas
izing this section. It is certainly time
that parents and publicists should do
some earnest thinking and take some
wise action along these lines.
And what better help could they
have than God’s word studied and
applied in the spirit of the Bavior?
The world needs a revival of reli
gion. Polk county needs it. And ev
ery man, woman and child in Cedar
town needs it.
NOTICE TO -- ROAD CONTRAC
TORS.
Sealed proposals will be received
by the Stato Highway Department of
Georgia at the office of First Road
Division in Rome, Ga., at 2.00 p. m.,
April 1st, 1022, for the furnishing
of all labor, material, (except ce
ment) equipment and other neces
sities, for the construction of Sec
tion “A” of Federal Aid Project No.
218. This project consists of one
mile of chert-Burfaced roadway and
bridge over Euharlee creek, and is a
portion of the Ccdartown-Rockmart
Highway.
The work will consist of grading
and construction of a chert surface
roadway and drainage structures.
The state will funish cement f.o.b.
nearest R. R. station and price bid
for concrete items should be less ce
ment so furnished.
All barrow and chert pits will be
furnished without cost to the con
tractor.
11573 Cu. Yds. Common Excava
tion.
674 Cu. Yds. Solid Rock Excava
tion.
5718 Cu. Yds. Borrow Excavation.
2504 Cu. Yds. Chert Surfacing.
2504 Unit Yds. Overhaul on chert.
34 Lin. Ft. 18 in. Culvert pipe
(concrete.)
106 Lin. Ft. 24 in. Culvert pipe
(concrete.)
8.6 Cu. Yds. Class B Headwalls.
Bridge over Euharlee Creek.
100 Cu. Yds. Dry Excavation.
100 Cu. Yds. Wet Excavation.
306.5 Cu. Yds. Class A Concrete.
36139 Pounds Reinforcing Steel.
The said work shall begin by April
15, 1922,and shall be completed on or
before October 16, 1922.
Plana and specifications are on file
at tho office of the Division Engineer
at Rome { Ga., at the office of the
State Highway Engineer, Atlanta,
and at the office of Mayor of Rgck-
mart. Plans and specifications may
be purchased for 37.50. No refund
will be made for plans returned by
purchasers.
Said work will be paid for as work
progresses, to-wit: 36 per cent of
the amount due at each calendar
month will be paid between the 10th
and 15th of the succeeding month,
and the remainder will be paid with
in 30 days of final completion and
acceptance.
Proposals must be submitted
forms which will be furnished by the
undersigned; and proposals must be
accompanied by check or bidder’s
bond for 5 per cent of the amount of
bid.
Surety bond, as required by the
law, will be required of the success
ful bidder. Right is reserved to re
ject any or all bids and to waive
all formalities.
This the 9th day of March, 1922.
By A. A. SIMONTON,
Division Engineer State Highway
Department.
The House
With the Goods
The public is wanting merchandise
at attractive prices. We can supply
right kind of goods at the
Come to see us and look
you with the
right prices,
them over.
Ladies’ One-Strap Satin Slippers.
One-Strap Qrey Suede.
One-Strap Patent Slippers.
Three-Strap Kid Slippers.
Brown and Black Ties with
Ladies’
Ladies’
Ladies’
Ladies’
fiat heels.
This footwear has just been put in stock, and is
winning popular favor. We also have a very strong
line of Misses* and Children’s Strap Slippers in the
brown, gun metals and patents.
Our prices are lower than others, when quality
is taken into consideration. See us before you buy.
G. M. NORMAN
403 fflain St.
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CEDARTOWN STANDARD
Gen. Harris to Retire.
The many relatives and friends
here in his old home town of Gen. P.
C. HarriB, the distinguished Adjutant
General of the United States Army,
will be much interested In the fol
lowing news which comes from
Washington:—
Maj. Gen. Peter C. Harris, the Ad
jutant General of the army since
Sept. 1, 1918, will leave shortly af
ter April 1st on a leave of absence
to extend until Aug. 31, 1922, the
date on which his four-year detail as
the Adjutant General expires, when
he will go on the retired list as a Ma
jor General upon his application. The
health of Mrs. Harris requires a
change of climate, and they will go
to southern Europe for some months.
Gen. Harris assumed the duties of
Adjutant General when the Ameri
can participation in the world war
was at its height, and in view of his
constant attention to the duties of
the office, requiring work both night
and day, he decided to request a
leave for the remainder of his term.
In reviewing the work of the Ad
jutant General's office it is said that
with a clerical force of only twice
that authorized for the fiscal year
1917 the office is handling nearly
five times as many letters and mem
oranda requiring investigation and
correspondence as were handled in
the office before the world war. TLe
records of the world war today, less
than four years after the signing of
the armistice, are far more nearly
complete than were those of the
civil war thirty years after its close,
and are equally as accessible as were
the records of the civil war after they
had been carded and assembled in in
dividual jackets at a cost of many
millions of dollars.
The satisactory condition today of
the records of the world war and the
work incident thereto is due to the
adoption of a new system of record
making and record-keeping. In Ap
ril, 1917, the system of keeping the
military records —other than corres
pondence —of officers and soldiers
by the army and in the Adjutant
General’s office was substantially the
same as in the civil war. The new
system, which was developed and
put into operation during the war,
under the personal direction of Gen.
Harris, has enabled the office to keep
its work current notwithstanding the
unprecedented number of calls for
information from the records receiv
ed from the Veteans' Bureau,
Auditor of the War Department,
Army finance officers, the Federal
Board for Vocational Education, the
American Red Cross and from many
other sources official and private.
In his annual report to the Secre
tary of War, Gen. Harris said:
“It is no exaggeration to Btate that
the changes in the record-keeping
system, made upon recommendation
from this office, after the declaration
of war, have saved the government
millions of dollars, through making it
possible to furnish information
promptly to the Veterans’ Bureau
and other relief agencies previously
referred to, and have spared our dis
abled soldiers and the dependent rel
atives of those who sacrificed their
lives in their country’s cause, untold
suffering, misery and want.’’
Pictorial Patterns
FROM 20 TO 30 CENTS.
Dress 9889
Sizes 34 to 50
35 cents
Mendel’s Department
Store
A wheel breaking on an A. B. & B.
passenger coach Sunday morning
threw the car into Camp creek, thir
teen miles south of Atlanta, and
the seven passengers were killed.
WIRELESS ENABLES REPORT
ERS TO TALK TO SHIP.
A half dozen newspaper men in
New York recently demonstrated
that dodging the curious reporter by
the simple expedient of sailing away
on the briny deep has ceased to be
quite so simple.
They wished to talk to persons a-
board the United StateB Shipping
Board liner "America,” but did not
care to wait for tho vessel to span
the 370 miles of ocean that separat
ed her from New York. So they hur
ried to a telephone exchange, tossed
coins into as many slots, took down
six receivers, said "Give me the A-
merica” and waited. In due time
some one said: “Here’s your party,”
and the interview was on.
The reporters learned that the
"America” expected to dock at 8 p.
m. the next day, that the weather
had been “heavy with strong seas
which delayed us,” and that there
were 663 passengers abroad, Includ
ing 200 Americans who had been
soldiering for the King of Spain in
the war in Morocco, “broke and out
of smokes.”
“Just like talking to Harlem or the
Bronx,” the reporters agreed when
the interview was concluded.
In talking to the ship, their voices
were transmitted by wires to the
Deal Beach transmitting station,and
thence by wireless. The incoming
messages were wirelessed from the
vessel to the receiving station at El-
beron and transmitted to the New
i ork exchange by wire.
The demonstration was a test of
new long distance telephone equip
ment installed on the America with
the consent of the Shipping Board.
At its conclusion it was predicted
that wireless 'phones soon would be
in general use on ocean lines.
This conversation, reported from
o 1 ?"LT < ? rk ’ was heard b y M r- C. R.
Sheffield, who had been “listening
in on messages from the ship to
shore stations a couple of days be
fore, while the vessel was much far-
ther out.
1 Service Commission
warns the public against the paying
of money in the hope of securing em
ployment at Muscle Shoals. A large
n “™ ber of people have been defraud
ed by concerns advertising for labor
t ere, the getting of a job being con
ditioned on the payment of $1 reg
istration fee. There is no demand
whatever for labor there.