About The Cedartown standard. (Cedartown, Ga.) 1889-1946 | View Entire Issue (March 30, 1922)
n mint PACK SUTTON’S MILL NEWS. L1NDSE EMer T. F. Hatch ud wife were Mr. and Mn the guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. the week-end ; ffa Richardson, of sear New Har- Fish. ■ony. Miss Nell ] Mr. A. L. Wearer and family were town^pent the in your city Saturday. of Miss Susie Mr. and Mn. T. J. Hatch and little Hiss Alice sons, Jim, Clifford and Roy, spent was the guest Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Saturday nigh Woods near Lake. We are sor Misses Inez Stewart, Lucile Sutton Lindsey is ilL and Ira Brock were in your city Sat- Mrs. Colam urcay. was the guest Mr. Tom Witcher and family, of day last week. J Cedartown, attended services at The candy ] Friendship Sunday. win’s was a sn Mr. Rupert Woods, of CaTe Spring; Mr. John D was near here Sunday. i the guests of Messrs. Dalton Teat and Jerris : near your city Woods were in CaTe Spring Sunday. Messrs- Ew Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Swinney, of of near Fish, Cedartown, attended services at; pulling here 1 • Friendship Sunday. Miss Msy Swinney, of Rome, is shejuff visit ire her parents, Mr. and Mrs. : trai w i>:d - Jim Swinney. u s< ti« in Mr. J. B. Teat and daughter and sos. Miss Mjrtiee and Mr. Dalton, :*wit: were is your city Saturday. I ecAeftTV# t! llisses Thelma Connor and Emma fcx ri _ _ . . .. , , worititf a lx T. Gnnes, of your c:ry, attended sor- cc*rt rices Sur.iay at Friehdship. J 1 Remember next Saturday and Sun- «^ T . s*y day are regular preaching days at , Valley Grove. Come out and attend. iW' Your Daily Paper. The >u,” Mr. Harper Writes: “The best illastration of the demagogic method of building newspaper properties is afforded by the war on the public utility cor porations which has been raging 30 years or more. The writer achiered Terr marked cir culation gains in the editorial management of two afternoon papers, due principally to an aggressive attitude toward the traction com panies in those cities. ~ “This attitude was honestly assumed and the corporations had invited attack by their prac tices, but in retrospect, it appears that their sins and the circulation gains achieved by at- tacking them were ont of all proportion to the just balance of news and editorial treatment. In other words, the evils attacked arete insig nificant compared to those which were ignor ed. Scores of newspapers m the United States have been made by fighting the uvhty corporations. “Formerly, many newspaper men regarded such a course as positive proof of the honesty of a newspaper or its publisher. The public utilities were rich and were supposed to be powerful. They were in fact never powerful, ‘.hey only seemed to be, because they bad the support of some professional politicians—the first to desert them when they found die pick ings were better on the other side of the plum tree. "The investors in these corporations were usually absentees and generally Americans of the ‘first settler* stocks. The utility corpora tions were not heavy advertisers, as they were natural monopolies. Their owners could el ect no such racial or group pressure os the newspapers as is brought to bear when other kinds of business are subjected to attack — on the rare occasions when other big local in terests are put on the editorial grill. “The native American has not learned to organize and act as a group in dealing with die press. Many of the newcomers bring such a capacity with them or speedily acquire it over here. The public utilities were rich, but when their legally fixed rates encounter- ed the depreciated currency of the war period they became poor over-night. In this misfor tune, of course, they differed no whit from plain individuals. SOME NEWSPAPERS ARE STILL SEEKING CIRCULATION BY ASSAILING AND EVEN NAGGING Mr. Malbert Lee's last Thursday night. Mr. W. H. McKibben and mother, Mrs. E. M. McKibben, were at Lime Branch Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Pink Bishop visited relatives near Esem Hill last week. Mr. and Mrs. Malbert Lee, of Wray Mine, spent Saturday night with their father. Mr. J. H. Lee. Mr. W. H. McKibben was in Ce- dartowTi Saturday. • Mr. Wm. Lee is real sick. THE PUBLIC UTILITIES. POLITICIANS ARE STILL HOUNDING THEM, AND AL THOUGH THEY’ MAY' BE BANKRUPT THRICE OVER AND IN THE HANDS OF HARASSED RECEIVERS, THEY STILL PAY RICH DIVIDENDS TO THEIR ENE MIES IN THE FORM OF NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION AND POLITICAL JOBS. "HOWEVER, HOSTILITY- TO PUBLIC UTILITIES IS BECOMING SHOPWORN. THE MORE SOPHISTICATED ARE .BE COMING SKEPTICAL ABOUT PUBLIC- UTILITY' BAITING AS A PROOF OF PUB LIC SPIRIT OR INTEGRITY. The people have begun to notice that newspapers which have valiantly assailed Ore public utilities have been cartful not to attack any retail bus iness throughout the era of high prices. Prof iteering in more homely forms has escaped the scrutiny and criticism which was heaped upon public utilities. The newspaper reading public has also become aware that it is easier and less expensive to lay the onus of high prices and other Qls, that the public believes it is suffering, on the distant corporation managements or Wall Street than on folks nearer home.” ■tm m, tank BlTfN a TULA WICK. POOLETOWN NEWS. Our pastor, Rev. L. Paris, of Fish, HCtowag 4 filled his regular appointment here iris Snndar , j % lfltr We are glad to know our Sunday u» bis/t school teacher, Mrs. John Y'ancey, is better. ’ «*• •“** * Mrs. J. C. Aired and little daugh- ter. Helen, of your city, spent the ' week-er.d with her parents, Mr. and ts. jris Mrs. J. W. Aired. SS, i'St Mr. Olir. Shiflett, of Anniston,was ««***;? • u visiting hi* brother, Mr. Chxs. Shif- >w>t1 lett, Sunday. 1 “ralTuk Mr. C. B. Landers and family, of Friendship, spent Sunday with his —— — brother, Mr. E. 1- Landers. > APm Mr. and Mrs. N. G. and Mr. and c '35“‘,£ Mrs. G. W. Aired, of your'city, spent «««*»■•« Sunday with their parent*, Mr. and to w Mrs. J. W. Aired. ISSST Mr. Hayles and singing class from e. OaksGrove were here Sunday, and j w we had some good singing. j Mrs. T.m Tate, of Birmingham, vis- AW*U ited Mrs. C. J. Brown last week. | Gerrxw. Fi Mr. Bob Doody and family, of Ce- dartown, spent Sunday with Mr. and j ** Mrs, John Henson. ; Remember Sunday school every JJJJ I Sunday at 10 a. m. Everybody come k. Published by the Georgia Committee on Public Utility Information, of IMJ* M. pruLrjp<, with iasmst at tW rate cl I per wet per tuta from Jam. It, 1931. of record la Deed Boot It. page IIS, ia tW Clerk * oAm oi Mb< Irtxio Atlanta, Ga. April 24-29,1922. C Seaboard announces for this occasion fare and one-half for the round trip, open to the pub lic. Tickets on sale April 23d, 24th, 26th and 28th, limited May 2d. See nearest Seaboard Ticket Agent or FRED GEISgLER, Asst. Gen. Pas. Agent, S. A. L Atlanta, Ga. CRA9TTC»?>. C” ^ ; f-’THF-Rf's p-.JjrrroF 1 ~‘j aL > | <-<>•'- ««W *+ THE P * . • V-SriARY - '-WOT SOOriT 1 ►.* (*'■*! -vt>. Rrv.' nosy ) 1 ** \ j SORE POP 1 : \ VfRtfF. n ? r"mr I >
