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CEDARTOWN STANDARD Devoted to the Best Interests of Cedar town and Polk County. ^ -= Volume 36. Cedartown, Georgia, Thursday, July 20th, 1922- Number 26. Advertisement. FACTS THAT PUBLIC SHOULD KNOW Why the Shopcraft Employes Would Not Ac cept a Decision Which Was Unjust and Were Forced to Quit Work Increases in passenger rates, . been reduced 34 Per Cent? freight rates, Pullman rates and Pull-1 lft '#Did you ever rend a decision man surcharge rates were granted to , that the salary of the Labor Board the railroads by the Interstate Com- has been reduced 34 Per Cent? They merce Commission, and these in-! only receive $10,000.00 each per creases were put on the traveling I year, $32.00 per day, or $6.00 per public. | hour, and the railway employe helps On July 1st, 1921, the United ( pay this bonrd that cut the wages of States Railroad Labor Board decision | one class of employes to 28 cents per No. 147 reduced the railroad cm-i hour. ployes’ wages 12 Per Cent. Did the I Page 26, U. S. R. R. Labor Board public get any pert of this reduction? ( Decision (dissenting opinion) reads: No! No! | The rates of pay established under On August 16, 1921, the United this decision are not based upon the States Railroad Labor Board in de- . human needs of the hundreds cision 222, reduced the shopcraft | thousands of families involved. They employes a further reduction of 10 are insufficient to provide these fami- Per Cent. Did the traveling public j lies with the absolute essentials. The receive any part of this reduction? j earnings of this large group of rail No! No! road workers will not provide the On-. July 1st, 1922, the United 'father of a family with as much food States Labor Bonrd in decision 1036 as is allowed convicts in the Cook again reduced the shopcraft employes County, Illinois, jail, a further reduction of 12 Per Cent. \ Can you blame the shoperafts for refusing to accept decisions that are so unfair and unjust? The shopcraft employes have accepted declson after decision which were unjust. Did tho railroads do this? No! No! Eighty- two railroads accepted only decisions that suited them, and you do not read of these railroads as outlaws in the daily press. Help the railroad workers main tain a living wage. Railroad men drew on an average of $1,600.00 last year. Harding’s department set a mini mum of $2,300.00. Jewel’s department set a minimum of $2,600.00. FEDERATED SHOP CRAFTS C. OF GA. HARRISHOT SHOT Poured into New York Critic of the South. Senator Calder, of New York, can didate for re-election, appealed Thursday to the negro vote by direct ing attention to certain lynchings which have occurred in Georgia. Senator W. J Harris, of Georgia, A total reduction of 34 Per Cent, in their wages within one year. A»k yourself the following ques tions! 1. Have the passenger rates been reduced 34 Per Cent? 2. Have the freight rates been re duced 34 Per Cent? 3. Have the high salaries of rail road officials been reduced 34 Per Cent? 4. Has the price of rent been re duced 34 Per Cent? 5. Have the taxes been reduced 34 Per Cent? 6. Has the street carfare been re duced 34 Per Cent? 7. Has flour been reduced 34 Per Cent? 8. Has your gas been reduced 34 Per Cent? 9. Has your electric light bill Advertisement. Attention, Traveling Public. To protect movements of trains handling U. S. Mail and to provide power for moving perishable food stuffs, the Seaboard Air Line Rail way finds it necessary to temporarily discontinue its trains 7 and 8, operat ing between Atlanta and Birming ham, effective with the last train leav ing both terminals midnight July 12th. Adequate arrangements having been made to protect local service by putting necessary stops in schedules of its fast trains 6, 6, 11 and 12. FRED GEISSLER, Asst. General Passenger Agent, Atlanta, Ga. ROME AND HOME Kiwanians Meet at Log Cabin Today. Cedartown Kiwanians had such a good time iast year when the Rome and Cedartown Clubs met together at Cave Spring, that they have been looking forward with pleasant anti cipation to this year’s joint meeting, following Senator Calder, read from 'T hL ' n the Cod “ rtown organization has. the New York Herald of conditions existing in New York, contrasted a- gainst which conditions in Georgia Georgia pule into insignificance “In New York City on yesterday,’’ said Senator Harris, with the Herald before him, “a minister of tho Jewish faith was foully done to death. Here I find that a child eleven years of age was ravished and killed, and here a boy of five was destroyed by those who desired to be free of tho little burden that he imposed. “We deplore the fact that lynch ings some times occur in Georgia. Governor Hardwick is endenvoring to stamp out lynchings. All Governors the arrangements in charge. And today’s the day! The two Clubs will meet at 4.30 p. m. at the Log Cabin Tea Room, five miles north of town, on the Cedar- town-Rome Highway, and after a lively singing contest will enjoy a fine chicken barbecue. Cedartown won the silver cup at the songfest in Cave Spring last year, and with Mr. Wm. Parker, Jr., as loader of our melody-makers there will be “something doing” this yenr. And everyone has to sing —whether they can sing or not. A good number of our Kiwanians hnve bought tickets for themselves (The postal luwa : ter that la paid for vertlsement." Dinplay aueh marking.) Jlre all reading nint- h« marked aa “ad- ■Ivertiaing, of courae, Bible Thoughts for This Week Sunday. THE LOVE THAT SAVES:—For God bo loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever belleveth In him should not perish, but have everlasting Ufe.—John 3: 16. Monday. RUI.ES FOR RIGHT LIVING:— He hath shewed thee, O man, what Is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?—Micah 6: 8. Tueaday. THE GLAD AWAKENING:—As for me, I will behold thy face In righteousness; I shall be satis fied, when I awake, with thy like ness.—Psalm 17: 15. Wednesday. GREAT THINGS:—Fear the Lord, and serve him In truth: for con sider how great things he hath done for you.—1 Samuel 12: 24. Thursday. TRUST HIM ALWAYS:—Com mit thy way unto the Lord; trust also In Him.—Psalm 87: 5. Friday. THE HIGH CALLING:—Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father which Is In heaven Is per fect—Matthew 5: 48. Saturday. GOD IS LOVE:—Behold, let us love one another, for love Is of God; and every one that loveth Is | born of God, and knoweth God.— • 1 John 4: 7. Buy it in Cedartown! A BIG “DON'T.” Don’t throw watermelon rinds, ba nana peels, decayed fruits and veg etables on the sidewalks or in the streets and ulleys of Cedartown. Put them in covered containers for the city wagons to haul off, or —bet ter still—enrich your garden by cov ering them up. Thrown out, as is the habit of thoughtless or ignorant people, they make a breeding place for the ty phoid fly and endanger the health of the whole community. Seaboard Changes. Following the temporary discontin uance of the “Owls,” the Seaboard Air Line on Tuesday made another temporary change in schedule. The evening westbound train, No. 5, now leaves Atlanta at 4.30 p. m., passes Cedartown at 6.42, and reach es Birmingham at 11 p. m. The fol lowing is the schedule in Polk: Rockmart, 6.13 p. m. Fish, 6.28 p. m. Cedartown, 6.42 p. m. Akes, 6.54 p. m. Esom Hill, 7.03 p. m. Perfumed Pottery. Sounds odd, doesn’t it? And mys terious! Well, it is both— one of those rare novelties requiring genius and craftsmanship to produce. Perfumed pottery is just what the name implies. It is made from clay saturated by secret process with de lightful perfume that withstands fir ing in the kiln, and when finished has the properties of a sachet. The delicate odor of a single piece of Perfumed Pottery is quite discern- abie in a fair-sized room. We have just received a shipment. Prices from 50 cents to $1 each. W. W. TURNER, Jeweler. Sentence Upheld. Frank DuPre, “Peachtree bandit,” was denied a new trial in a decision handed down Thursday by the Geor gia Supreme Court, which upheld the lower court's sentence of death for the youth. Dupre, who was convicted of having killed Irby U. Walker, a private detective guarding a jewelry store in Atlanta which was robbed last December, and of having shot and seriously wounded City Comp troller West, will hang unless sen tence is commuted by the Governor. who preceded him have been anima-1 ,,nd ' udi, ' a ' and “ r °y ul Kood tlm0 ia tod by tho same aspiration. It is a n 8 01 (> or * em ‘ 'problem which gradually wo are solv ing; but when crime on a compara tive basis is considered, New York City in one week presents a record more shocking than the entire State of Georgia presents in a yoar. “The South should be left alone to settle its negro question. It is doing the very best it can, and interference from outside will not help. The good people of the south and Geor gia deplore lynchings, just as good people of other states deplore them. “Many negroes have gone north and received treatment different from what they have expected. Some of them have returned and said they suffered more in the north than in the south and have been glad to come back home, where they are well treat ed. Negroes who came north expect ing preferential treatment, and em ployment have been disappointed. The manager of a Pittsburg plant re cently told me that when discharges became necessary, he first threw out the southern negroes and kept alien workmen who could not even speak our language. “The Senator from New York would appeal for support to the ne gro vote of his State by directing his flings at Georgia. Why should he not appeul to the Hebrew, the Italian, the Greek vote by proceeding against a condition which suffers these people to be killed in New York almost daily with apparent impunity?” Senator Shields, of Tennessee, ad ded to the statement of Senator Har ris, referring to the massacre of some days ago at Herrin, Ill. He made the point that when negroes are lynched in the South, it is because of some horrible crime committed, whereas the sole offense of the victims of the Herrin filers consisted in the fact that they were attempting to earn their bread by honest toil. He ex pressed surprise that Senator Calder, who professed such regard for the unfortunate victims of mobs in the South, was apparently callous to more horrible conditions in the North, and made no outcry against the fact that that no serious attempt had been made to bring the brutal killers of Herrin to the bar of jutice. C.0F C. TO MEET MONDAY EVENING TO ADOPT I- T • by-laws AND select Uovemment is Trying Hard to Settle STRIKES YET ON Both Coal and Rail Strikes, but Meet ing Much Diffi culty. The Federal Rail Board was give* no power by Congress to enforce it* decisions, the purpose being to hare public sentiment rather than direct power back of it. the big railroads hnve not hesitated to disobey the Rail Board’s mandate* whenever it suited them, and the SHIP POTATOES The Polk County Potato Club ship ped a car of Irish potatoes to Atlanta yesterday, receiving $1.68 a bushel for them. The potatoes, of course, had to be strictly graded and properly prepar ed for shipment, but the growers have the rest of the crop for their own use, and are finding it profitable this yenr. County Agent W. H. Garner is en titled to much credit for his work in opening up this branch of farming in Polk. Would wind It Up. A number of Cedartown people are interested financially in the decision of the Supreme Court of Georgia handed down Friday affirming a de cision of Judge Bell of the Futlon County Superior Court ordering a re ceivership for the Masons' Annuity Insurance Company and practically winding up its business. The effect of the decision is to end the operation of the company as an insurance con cern, and its assets would be divided among the policy-holders or benefic iaries. A rehearing is to be asked by the attorneys for the company this week. Mundy Bill Passes. FOR INVESTIGATION AND BUD GET COMMISSION. The State Senate on Tuesday pass ed the House bill of Hon. W.W. Mun- <Jy, of Polk, providing for an investi gating and budget commission for the various departments of the State, j All departments and institutions (rf the State will he required to sub mit their estimates sixty days in ad vance of the meeting of the Legisla ture, which will . then have an intel ligent basis on which to act. Mr. Mundy’s bill will suve the State thousands of dollnrs, nnd he has ren dered most valuable service in pre senting nnd pressing it for adoption. Word of Appreciation l > Rural Retreat, near Cedartown, July 15th, 1922. Denr Mr. Russell: I find on the first page of this week’s Standurd, a short article in which you state in the most complimentary manner that the Chupter of the Children of the Confederacy of Cedartown had been given my full nume, and I now write to thank the dear Daughters of the Confederacy for what they have done and you for what you said. What an honor they have conferred upon me! How can I find words suf ficiently explicit to express my feel ings of gratitude and appreciation fdr the—as I think—altogether unde served distinction. It is stimulating to the highest degree, to realize that I am the proud possessor of the con fidence, respect and esteem of that noble hand of queenly women known as the Cedartown Daughters of the Confederacy. It is to me so much better than to “weep, to wonder, die and bo forgot.” The Daughters of the Cedartown Chapter of the Confederacy have done noble deeds that will give fresh glory and renown to the valor and patriotism of the Polk County Con federate Soldiers; and will add a lus ter to their own names that will spar kle with increasing brilliancy until time shall be no more. Here in my sunset hour of life with trembling fingers and stopped- up ears, I bid them, Hail and fare well! JOSEPH A. BLANCE. Clean Bill of Health. Hardwick & Co., failing to rule Commissioner of Agriculture J. J. Brown, are trying desperately hard to ruin him, but the people of Geor gia realize that the fight is purely political, and it will accordingly re act on its authors. The two agricultural committees of the House last week, after careful in vestigation, gave Mr. Brown’s admin istration a clean bill of health. This does not mean, of course, that the fight on. him will cease, for the peo ple’s ears will be assailed with all sorts of charges against him during the campaign this summer. The findings of the agricultural commit tees, however, should help them to understand that there is nothing but office-seeking politics back of the charges. On account of the Kiwanis barbe cue this evening the meeting of the Polk county Medical Society has been postponed, and will be held at 7.30 p. m. next Thursday at the Wayside Inn. SECRETARY. The Directors of the Chamber of Commerce met Monday evening, and approved the Constitution nnd By- of the special committee ap pointed to draft them. A full meet ing of the membership has now been called for 8 p. m. Monday at the City Hall for formal adoption. It was decided by the Directors to invite applicants for the position of Secretary to meet with the Chamber at this time, in order that both par ties may give each other “the once over.” Every member should be on hand • Shopcraft and" allied "unlonaTccoII promptly at this meeting for it in K ly feel justified in ignoring the. would be hard to over-estimate its now impoitume. | The big coal strike is now several I he success of the organization weekg old> and the Government did and its value to Cedartown and Polk I not nttempt to interfcre in it unttl county will depend very largely on the wboleaale murdcr of miners b the caliber of the Secretary. strikers at Herrin, III., forced atten- A„d everyone interested in Cedar- tion . President Harding is seeking to town and Polk county should join the him , the differem . ua bctwe e n opera- chamber of Commerce, for the type tnra nnd mincra aettlcd b orbitra _ of Secretary we get depends consid- ti „ n . The former hnve given a relu*. ernbly on what we are able to pny.As | tant consenti but tho , nttcr thu , ftr the sole revenue of the organization j luve re f U8e j depends on dues and donations, it j Tht , rail atrikc on jts third w . will he seen that a large membership and (it may be that tho wjah ,, ^ is very important. ' ther to tho thought) there is reason If you haven’t already signed up to hope thnt it win soon bo over. for membership, you should do so | Pl . eaident GrablCi of tho MaInteB . this week. Every possible member of Way union( whlch haa bee> should be secured by next Monday, I on thc ver( , e of atHkin(r> aaya . <tta so the organization will know exactly path to „„ ,, arly adjuatmont ia opeB » what to depend upon. ] a0 far aa tha 400>0 oo members of hk The sole object of this Chamber or(rani/ , ation aro concerned, of Commerce is to boost Cedartown j Thuro haa b(Jen diaorder in nd Polk county in every possible parta 0 f thc country, and Governor way. It is neither political nor sec- Hardwick called out the state troopa larian, but aims to locate os many to bnndle the Waycroaa Nation, now industries and get as many more The fltr lkers themselves volunteered good farmers in Polk as possible their services, however, to maintain Be a Booster and join tho Cham- ordcr there. her of Commorco— And do It NOW! Buy it in Cedartown. Harris in Georgia. Washington, D C., July 15.—Sen ator Harris left Saturday for Geor- j gin to attend the Amorican Legion convention at *Waycross, July 17,and ' the meeting of the Georgia Press As sociation at Quitman July 18, at which places he hns been invited to make speeches. He will be in Geor gia about ten days, and during his absence will be paired in the Senate with Senator Calder, of New York. Senator Harris hns accepted invi tations for visits to Valdosta July 19; Thomasville, July 20, and Bainbridgc July 21. Speaking engagements have been accepted for Cairo July 20; Donnldsonville, July 21; Dawson, July 22, nnd Fort Gaines, July 22. Senator Harris has accepted an in vitation to address the Georgia Gen eral Assembly, probably Tuesday, July 25, and July 26 he will speak to the summer school students of the State Normal School and the Univer sity at Athens. At the Central Shops here no I timatum has been given the men, tha I road hoping they will soon be back at (work again. MASONS MEET $5,000,000 Loan. The War Finance Corporation has approved a government loan of $5,- 000,000 to the Georgia Cotton Grow ers’ Co-operative Association. In County Convention at Rockmart. It was a great day that the Masons of Polk enjoyed yesterday at Rock mart. All the lodges in the county were well represented. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: W. M.—D. W. Burkhalter. S. W.—G. W. Johnson. J. W.—O. A. Sloan. Sec’y-Treas.—W. W. Tison. A free will offering of $18 was made to the Christmas fund for tha Masonic Orphans Home. Thc dinner, which is always one of the important features of a Masonit convention, was “one of the best ever.” The Rockmart lodge furnish ed a Brunswick stew that could not be excelled, and the good wives of the members brought a basket dinner thnt made old Polk more proud tha* ever of her fine cooks. The next session will be held at Aragon on the third Wednesday in July, 1922. SEVENTH DISTRICT A. & M. SCHOOL Reasons for Attending This School: 1. Large, commodious buildings on 240- acre farm. 2. Electric lights; good water from 300 foot bored well. 3. Hot and cold water; sanitary sewerage system. 4. There were 300 students last year; 41 graduates; 28 received first grade teacher’s li cense. 5. Course of study includes English, Hi»» tory, Geometry, Algebra, Literature, Physics, Chemistry, Agriculture, Domestic Science, Do mestic Art, Teacher Training, Piano, Voice. We give 16 units’ credit. 6. The moral and spiritual side is not neg lected. A Christian faculty lives with the stu dents. 7. Tuition is free. Boai d, lights and fuel, $12 a month. Send for catalog. Address, H. R. HUNT, Principal, Powder Springs, Ga.