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CEDARTOWN STANDARD
Devoted to the Best Interests of Cedartown and Polk County
Volume 36.
Cedartown, Georgia, Thursday, August 3d, 1922.
Number 28.
SENATOR HARRIS TIMELY SPEECH
On Live National Topics Delivered before
Legislature.
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As a member of the Immigration
Committee I have supported efforts
to stop all immigration for five years.
The American Legion endorsed that
policy, and after my resolution to
that effect was defeated I proposed
the amendment to the present law to
extend the 3 per cent quota restric
tion law until June 30, 1924, pend
ing the enactment of permanent re
strictive measures. The House pass
ed the hill extending the law only un
til 1923, when Congress would not be
in session and the steamship com
panies would have brought over mil
lions before another law could be en
acted, but my amendment prevented
this.
The Committee on Territories
handles all legislation affecting our
insular possessions, and in order that
I might have information at the
source, nt my own expense I visited
Hawaii and the Philippines. I went
from there to China and Japan,
where the South exports so much
cottdn" and cotton goods.
Soon after I entered the Sennte I
learned that the Meat Packer Trust
was discriminating against the pea-
nut-fed hog in Georgia and the
South. The Senate adopted my res
olution to investigate the alleged dis
crimination, and the Department of
Agriculture is continuing an inves
tigation to determine all phases of
the relation of the peanut-fed hog to
the so-called hard hog. When this
investigation first began they were
paying from 3 to 7 cents less for
peanut-fed hogs than those fed on
corn in the North and West,but now
the difference is much less. I shall
continue until there is no discrim
ination, and I hope my work has sav
ed the hog-rais(*rs much.
Amendments to the appropriation
bills for the Department of Agricul
ture, which I offered and supported,
have made it possible to fight the
peach pests by establishing an exper
iment station at Fort Valley; estab
lishing peach, watermelon and can
teloupe marketing stations at Thom-
asville and Macon; establishing a
tobacco experiment station at Tifton;
starting pecan experimental work in
the Albany section, and establishing
a boll weevil experiment station at
Eatonton. As a member of the sub
committee framing this legislation I
have supported items to fight the boll
weevil; develop the cultivation of
peanuts, sweet potatoes and other
crops. The Department is now ex
perimenting on Georgia cane syrup
to stop the fermentation which in
jures the sale and prevents a higher
price. At my solicitation the Sec
retary of Agriculture sent experts to
Georgia from the Market Bureau to
-co-operate with the Market Bureau
of the Georgia Agricultural Depart
ment and the State College of Ag
riculture.
The Esch-Cummins bill, practical
ly guaranteeing the railroads an an
nual earning of 6 per cent, was pass
ed by a Republican Congress. I vo
ted against the bill. Under the law
the Interstate Commerce Commission
raised freight rates at a time when
agriculture and nearly all industries
^ere at a standstill and prices so low
that the increased rates made ship
ments prohibitive, which paralyzed
all industry. I was the first Senator
to pr*tdst against the high rates, and
I have constantly urged lower freight
and pnssenger rates to help business
as well as railroads. When the rail
roads made a 10 per cent reduction
in rates on certain agricultural
duets*aonie time ago, they did not TrL
elude watermelons which,as you know
is a large industry in our State. I
took the matter up immediately with
the Commission, and they agreed to
include watermelons in the reduction.
The railroad rates are still too high.
Business and the roads will suffer un
til the rates are low enough to allow
the farmer, lumberman and manufac
turer a fair profit, which will encour
age him to make more shipments,
thereby benefiting the producer as
well as the railroads.
Since the close of the Civil War
the South has been discriminated a-
gainst in many ways by the Federal
Government. Take the matter of
freight rates from the Middle West
to the Southeastern ports, including
Savannah and Brunswick. The rates
were much higher for the same dis
tance than the rates to New York and
the Eastern ports for years. I join
ed with other Southern Senators, and
we had this great injustice remedied,
but the Eastern ports are now at
work trying to bring back the old
situation.
The South is discriminated against
in the matter of open freight rates on
cotton and other products. For
three years ,, 4^have co-operated with
other Southern Senators in an effort
to stop this injustice. Ocean freight
rates from New York and Eastern
ports to South America and through
the Panama Canal t<5 China and Ja
pan are the same as the rates from
Savannah and Brunswick, which arc
000 miles nearer. But when we ship
cotton, naval stores and other pro
ducts to Liverpool and other Euro
pean ports, they charge us more than
from New York. This discrimina
tion is inexcusable and should be
stopped.
When the Muscle Shoals proposi
tion was before the Senate last year,
I offered an amendment providing
that nitrates made at the plant dur
ing peace times should be sold to the
farmers at cost, and that they should
be given the preference in purchas
ing. In our State alone we have
used in one year more than $50,000,-
000 of fertilizers. If this plant should
bo developed as proposed, it would
save the fnrmers of Georgia more
than $12,000,000 a year on the cost
of fertilizers in my judgment, which
is equal to the total annual expense
of our State government, including
Confederate pensions and common
schools.
The Federal Farm Loan Banks,
created under the Wilson administra
tion, loan money to farmers nt a
cheaper rate of interest and for a
longer term than the private loun
companies. The privato companies
were anxious to stop these banks,and
they went into Court to test their le
gality. It was enrried to the United
States Supreme Court, and for more
than a year while the case was pend
ing the Farm Loan Banks could not
sell their bonds to get money to loan.
This worked a great hnrdship on those f
who had lost so much in the two years '
following the war. When the Su-1
preme Court upheld the hnnks, many
believed and still feel that the Farm
Loan Board was not mnking loans as i
fast as they should have done. I
conferred with them time and again ,
and urged against delay, as our neo- \
pie were suffering. I took the mat- ,
tor up with the agricultural bloc und
we passed resolutions urging haste. I
was appointed chairman of a commit
tee to confer with the Board. The
other members of the committee were
Senator Fletcher of Florida, the au
thor of the Act creating these banks,
and Senator Kenyon, chairman of the
agricultural bloc. Georgia has receiv
ed more money from these banks
than any State in the Southeast, the
total to date being $11,999,835.
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‘RIP VAN WINKLE’ IS COMING HERE STRIKE SITUATION IN A DEADLOCK
Kiwanis Club to Presen
a Good
There is nothing as popular in the
^ray of an entertainment in Cedar-
town as a home talent production.
There is a good reason for this, of
course, in the fact that they are al
ways good, and people know before
hand that, they are going to be worth
seeing, while a chance has to be taken
on traveling troupes.
One of the best of the many fine
ones staged here will be “Rip Van
Winkle,” the famous story of Wash
ington" Irving which was dramatized
and in which the great Jefferson
starred for so many years. The Jef
fersonian version will be presented
here Fridny evening, the 11th inst.,
at the Lyceum Theater, with an ex
cellent local cast.
Mr. J. F. Wakefield, a capable and
experienced theatrical director and
producer, will be in charge of the en
tertainment. He comes highly rec
ommended by a number of Southern
cities.
Why It Is Given.
There is a particularly good reason
why this entertainment is being giv
en, aside from the fact that Mr.
Wakefield has come at a time when
everyone feels the need of “some
thing different,” and that reason is
this:
The Kiwanis Clubs of Georgia are
engaged in the laudable work of fin
ishing and furnishing the “Georgia
Bay” in the memorial building at
Valley Forge. When Hon. Chas.
Adamson, of Cedartown, visited the
place, he found that all of the thir
teen original Colonies had complet
ed their work of representation ex
cept Georgia. The now Empire State
of the South was only a struggling
colony in Revolutionary days, but
played an important part in the war
that brought American freedom, and
all Georgians must feel that our
Stato is in a false position until we
t Popular Attraction for
Cause.
see that she is properly represented
( with her sister States in this me-
j mortal.
■ Mr. Adamson, a patriotic adopted
son of Georgia, with his accustomed
liberality at once gave $500 for an
appropriate tablet there and came
home with a determination to see
Gobrgia was properly represented by
tho completion of her Bay. He raised
some money by contributions from
Georgia manufacturers, and then
took the matter up with the State
Kiwanis organization. It was prompt
ly adopted, and each Kiwanis Club
was given its quota to raise. .The
Cedartown Club has nearly $400 as
its share, and a good proportion of
this amount will be raised by “Rip
Van Winkle.”
So, you see, you nre not merely in
vited to attend n renlly enjoyable
performance, but to also help in a
matter that should appeal to the
State pride of each and every one of
Chief Justice Fish
The Play.
“Here’s to your good health, and
may you live long and prosper 1”
It was worth good money to hear
Jefferson say this in his inmitable
manner, and it is going to be worth
your while to hear “Rip” say it next
week Friday evening.
“Rip Van Winkle” is a play that
all have either heard or read about,
and tho production here with tho
electrical effects of tho storm and
the rising sun on the awakening of
old “Rip” after his twenty years of
sleep, is something no one should
miss seeing.
Mr. Wakefield will play the part of j
“Rip,” and the rest of the cast will i
bo well selected, and will be announc
ed in full next week.
The play will bo presented in four
acts and six scenes, and you can 1
count on two hours of genuine en-!
joyment.
Rnv it in Cedartown.
Over Big Question of Seniority for the Striking
Rail Shop Men.
All questions connected with the
strike of railway shopmen could now
be easily settled but for the question
of seniority.
They could and should have been
amicably settled by some common
sense diplomacy on both sides before
the strike, and then there would
have been no bothersome question of
seniority.
But both capital and labor have
men in high power who have no con
sideration for anybody but them
selves, and as a result both sides are
losing heavily every day and an in
nocent public is mnde to suffer heav-
ily.
The strike of the rail shop men is
in its fifth week, and most of the
railroads of the country are filling
the places of the strikers as rapidly
as possible.
On the Central no effort has yet
been made to fill the places left by
the men when they walked out four
weeks ago last Saturday, the author
ities hoping that the strike would be
settled and the men take their old
places without loss of seniority. The
road and its men have always gotten
along well together, and the places
have been hhld open for the latter’s
return. President Winburn gave no
tice last week, however, that he had
waited as long ns was reasonable and
possible, and notified the men that if
they did not go back to work Monday
their places would be filled. The men
asked a delay until today, in tho hope
that the trouble might be adjusted,
and ho gladly granted their request.
President Harding last week mnde
the Government’s position perfectly
clear that it hnd no intention of forc
ing the men to work, but that every
man had a right to work if he wished
were held Tuesday, at which proposi
tions were made for settlement. The
deadlock arises from the fact that
the roads consider it their duty to
stand by the men who have stood by
them tho past month, while the strik
ers insist on going back to their old
old places ns if nothing had happened
It is to be hoped that some adjust
ment can soon be mnde by which the
men can go back to work .
The Coal Strike.
Conferences have been called for
the operators and miners in the coal
strike, and the general feeling is
hopeful that it will soon be settled.
In Chicago.
We recently called attention to the
difference in the high class of labor
in this section as compared with that
in some of the big cities. For in
stance, tho street car men in Chicago
quit Tuesday and left that great
city to walk. Arthur Brisbane, who
is an ultra organized labor sympa
thizer, condemns them severely and
says they have struck simply to show
their power.
In the meantime, a suffering pub
lic lives in hope that enough wisdom
may soon bo found to settle suck
troubles by the use of common sensa
on both sides.
Notice to Farmers.
The fall allotment for the Cedar
town National Farm Loan Associa
tion has been received. In so far aa
possible applications already mada
will be taken care of in the order of
their filing, and now ones within tha
allotment on the same principle of
priority.
Applications' should be filed at tba
earliest possible moment, and must
. , * . .. | be in to receive attention not later
t« do K„ «nd that the Government j thlm A 20th>
would nrotect him to tho utmost in i HOMER WATKINS
Sec. and Treaa.
would protect him to the utmost in
that right.
At the call of President Harding,
meetings of rail owners and workers
Use Polk county products.
Palace Theater
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ONE DAY ONLY.
MONDAY, AUGUST 7.
Schedule, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 9.30. Admission, 15 and 30c,
TAX INCLUDED.
Gordon Lee Here. Makes Announcement
Chief Justice William H. Fish, of
the Supreme Court of Georgia hn.s
made his announcement for re-elcc-
Fish
Hon. Gordon Lee, the Seventh’s
honored Congressmen, was here for
a few hours yesterday. The House
has adjourned for a few weeks, and ; tion to thnt hi K h office. Jud
he is taking advantage of the oppor- Ra y H:
tunity to make a hurried visit to | To the People of Georgia:
home folks. • j I «m a candidate to succeed my-
Polk county people generally are ! Relf aK Chief Justice of the Supreme
glad indeed that Mr. Lee has no op- Court of Georgia, subject to tho
position for re-election this year. Democratic primary of Sept. 13th.
The longer he stays in Washington j My dutieH nre RUt . h that I will not
the better he can serve our people, i be a ble to make an active campaign
and they hope he will continue to f or re-election. My entire time is
serve them for many years. / j taken up by the requirements of my
- . | position, and therefore I have little
Enjoyable Reunion* j time to look after my own interests.
.* | j w jjj ^ rea tiy appreciate your influ-
The beautiful and hospitable home ence and support, and assure you if
of Mr. C. N. Waits, of Buncombe j re-elected I will endeavor to give you
district, was the scene of a delightful t he same faithful service that I have
gathering yesterday. Mr. Waits is a j rendered in the past. Being in per-
“past master” in tte fine art of con- f ec t health, with my long experience
cocting a Brunswick stew, and he out- j fcel that j can (lo more efficient
did hmself on this occasion. And he 1 wor j { than ever before,
lives in one of the best neighborhoods j j wi n regard another endorsement
in the county, and his neighbors and from yqu as a crowning honor of a
their wives were there with big has- . jjf e 8 p C nt practically in your service,
kets of good things—enough for a ] Respectfully,
crowd twice as large as tho two hun- ; y WILLIAM H. FISH,
dred who were there. i •»
Rubber Tires.
I A Sudden Death.
v, ‘rrr:
Best Goodyear Wing Rubber Tires . Mr. Colley pledger, . an excellent!
put on your buggy for $11. Work young farmer of •Blooming Grove dis- j
guaranteed. A. L. WEAVER, Rfd 3, • trict, died ’suddenly Tuesday morfc- i -
at Sutton’s Mill. j ng. When he awoke he complained of
♦ ;— t— I not feeling well, and after breakfast;
^The Prettiest Girl in Dixie” will when he took the cow to pasture, he j
be presented by local talent under stayed so long that his wife became j
the auspices of the Woman’s Mission- uneasy and went to look for him, j
ary Societies of the First Methodist finding his dead body in a little gully. •
church Tuesday evening, the 15th The bereaved-family have much sym- (
inst. pa thy in their loss. i
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THE GREATEST PICTURE OF ALL
“Let’s Go Smiling Through 1922.
