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Devoted to the Best Interests of Cedar town and Polk County.
Volume 36.
Cedartown, Georgia, Thursday, August 31st, 1922.
Number 32.
COUNTY FAIR WILL BE HELD OCT. 5-7
Excellent Committees Appointed for the Va
rious Departments.
The date for the County Fair in
Cedartown has been fixed for Thurs
day, Friday und Saturday, Oct. 6th,
6th and 7th.
This means, of course, that there is
only a little over a month ahead of us
in which to get ready for it, and that
means that somebody is going to have
to do some tall hustling.
Fortunately, the Fair affairs arc in
the hands of real hustlers, and we
can be certain that everything will
be in readiness promptly on time and
in as good shape as possible without
the prime essentials for a Fair—ade
quate buildings and grounds. Let us
hope that before it is Cedartown’s
turn to have the Fair again,this han
dicap may be removed. We trust
1924 will have this in store for us—
but to get back to 1922:
President C. H. Graves and Secre
tary Wm. Janes, of the Fair Associa
tion, and our County Agents— Mr. W
H. Garner and Miss Zclia Phillips—
held an Important conference Sat
urday, and selected the following
committees:—
Finance Committee.
Cedartown—A. E. Young.
Rockmart—Dr. McBryde.
Aragon—A. H. McBryde.
Brownings—C. J. Fannin.
Antioch—G. T. V. Stephenson.
Fish—J. J. Morgan.
Lake—C. S. Gossett.
Youngs—Mrs. J. H. Hawkins.
Esom Hill—Fred Brewster.
Blooming Grove—W. J. Casey.
Hamptons—B. F. Weaver.
Buncombe—J. I. Harris.
Agricultural Committee.
Chairtnan-e-W. H. Garner.
SOUTH AMERICA
Calling for Made-in-Ce-
d&rtown Hosiery.
From far-off Bucnoa Ayres in Ar
gentina and Montevideo in Uraguay,
orders are coming to Cedartown for
Barnes knit hose. And then it is a
long jump from these South Ameri
can points to Canada, where orders
are being received from Winnipeg.
Orders arc coming In, too, from near
ly every State in the Union, and
many of theso are now duplicates,
showing that the goods arc giving
perfect satisfaction.
The Barnes Knitting Co. is one of
the busiest enterprises in Cedartown
these days, and President J. H.
Barnes says that if he could get good
houses at reasonable rent for skilled
employees he could very largely in
crease the production of the plant.
Mr. Barnes is one of the South’s
veteran hosiery men, and has always
taken an honest pride in the quality
of his goods, and it is most gratifying
that this fact is winning widespread
recognition for his new industry here.
Millinery.
You are cordially in
vited to come and see
the new Fall Hats for
Ladies, Misses and
Children.
Mrs. J. O. Ray.
Over J. W. Lee Co. Out
side Stairs.
FOUND—-A pTscd urttere' you cin
get .Watch Glasses put in for 26
cents. See Hunt Jewelry Co.
AT THE PALACE
Cedartown—J. B. Teat.
17th—C. W. Price.
Lake—B. F. Harris.
Aragon—John L. Moore.
Rockmart—J. S. Duvidson.
Brownings—C. J. Fannin.
Antioch—W. K. Russell.
Fish—C. R. Huff.
Youngs—E. E. Willinghm.
Blooming Grove—H. C. Vincent.
Esom Hill—J. T. Gamer.
Live Stock end Poultry.
Poultry—A. H. McBryde, Miss
lone Moore, Chairmen.
Live Stock—B. F. Weaver, Chair
man.
Committees on Poultry and Live
Stock will be appointed from each
district in the county.
Women’s Work.
Cedartown—Mrs. Harry Trumbo.
Rockmart—Mrs. Cora Everett.
Aragon—Mrs. Sinclair.
Brownings—Mrs. P. C. Brown.
Antioch—Miss Lillian Russell.
Fish—Mrs. Jones Whitehead.
Lake—Mrs. J. M. Prcwett.
Youngs—Mrs. A. Y. Henderson.
Esom Hill—Mrs. Will Maret.
Blooming Grove—Mrs. H. C. Vin
cent.
Hamptons—Mrs. Jas. Edge.
Buncombe—Mrs. Gus Brumbelow.
And now, folks, this is POLK’S
Fair. It is not merely the Fair of
the patriotic ladies and gentlemen
who compose these committees.
It belongs to each and every one of
us. All of us will get the benefit
of it, and all should tako an interest
and pride in it.
All ready! Go!
Big^Field Day.
Under the chairmanship bf Mr.
Clarence Chapman, an enjoyable
Field Day program was presented
yesterdny afternoon.
Our business men played ball and
"pulled stunts’’ as if they were
“sweet sixteen,” and the Tallapoosa
team came over and crossed bats with
our Cotton Export boys in a good
game.
DuPre to Hang.
Gov. Hardwick has declined fo in
terfere with the execution of the
sentence of Frank DuPre, the bold
young bandit who murdered one man
and almost fatally wounded another
in an attempt to rob an Atlanta
store, nnd he is scheduled to hang
tomorrow.
His uttorney has applied, however,
for a 30-dny reprieve.
To the Bride.
The following lines complimentary
to the bride were read by Mrs. G. A.
Thompson nt the Young-Murphy wed
ding Thursday:—
Here’s to our beautiful Emaline,
Who stands in bridul array
With eyes sparkling through
That enchanting dew
That gathers with love’s new day.
May she ever stand in queenly
strength
Where trust and duty blend.
May this dawn of love
Its length unfurl
Into a day that knows no end.
May she ever wear that happy smile.
The reflection of a heart pure as gold.
May it brighten her way
Through love’s long day
With a splendor that will never grow
cold.
May her bark glide as gently as the
silver moon
That sails througs a starry realm.
May it skim through the mistB
Like a will-o-thh wisp
With Dan Cupid’s hand at the helm.
Here’s to the groom who stands by
her side
In the midst of this merry throng.
Though she has beauty of face
With youth’s charming grace,
He is glad that she’s no longer
Young.
At the Log Cabin.
You are cordially invited to visit
the new Log Cabin Tea Room on the
Cedartown-Rome Road, where you
will find sandwiches, cold drinks,etc.,
at all hours.
Special chicken dinners, $1, served
any evening except Sunday from 5 to
8 o’clock. Mail orders the afternoon
before.
MISS MYRTICE CONE.
Buy your Hand Bag or
Trunk for your vacation
trip from us. The price
and the quality are
guaranteed. Stubbs &
Hogg, 415 IMain St.
BROWN RAPPING
BLALOCK
For Inefficiency and
Unworthy Methods.
Commissioner of Agriculture J. J.
Brown, in an open letter sent Satur
day to his opponent, Hon. A. O.
Blalock, took him to task for declin
ing to enter a joint discussion of is
sues involved in the campaign, and
served notice that he would mako“in-
teresting revelations concerning Mr.
Blalock’s past record” before the pri
mary Sept. 13th. He charged thnt
Mr. Blalock’s administraeion as Col
lector of Internal Revenue for Geor
gia was inefficient; denies his op
ponent’s charge that the Agricultural
Deportment is wnsting money, and
sharply criticised the campaign
methods Mr. Blalock is employing in
the efforts to get votes.
A statement issued by Mr. Brown's
campaign committee declared that
“the heavy volume of mail we are re
ceiving shows clearly the voters
of the stnte understand nnd disap
prove the unworthy methods that
have been resorted to by opposition
in an effort to discredit Commission
er Brown’s administration.”
Mr. Brown's Latter.
Hon. A. O. Blalock, 408-10 Kimball
House, Atlanta.
“My Dear Sir: Your favor of
Aug. 17, declining to meet me in
joint debate, received.
I cannot agree wth you that a fair
and* impartial presentation of the
truths in this campaign, as shown by
the records, would have, as you say,
but little effect on the voters. I am
of the opinion that an overwhelming
majority of the Georgia voters are
honest, and will cast their ballots on
the side of right, truth and justice,
once they arc shown the undeniable
facts ns to the issues in any cumpaign.
I feel it is for this lust reason that
you did not want to meet me, for I
know from the statements you are
j making that your information is not
j welt founded. And, again, I am of
tho opinion that you fenr your own
record, which is one of much ineffic
iency, during the eight years you
served in the capacity of Internal
Revenue Collector.
I am of the further opinion that
yqu do not waht the people to know
the truth, ns to the issue between you
and me in this campaign. One reuson
why I have reached this conclusion is
that in paragraph 7 of your letter
you state that five members of my
family are on my pay roll, when in
fact I only have one son who works
hulf time in the State Bureau of
Markets, nnd receives $40 per month
for his services. I have no nephews
on my pay roll. There iB only one
porter on niy pay roll for the De
partment of Agriculture. It is true
that the laboratory and some of the
other sub-departments that occupy
from two to five rooms have their por
ters, who are absolutely necessary.
I have never requested, directly or
indirectly, any employe in the De
partment of Agriculture or any of its
branches to contribute one penny to
my campaign fund.
Those connected with the Depart
ment of Agriculture holding posi
tions prescribed by law and receiving
salaries fixed by law, being as much a
part of the department in their res
pective positions as I am as Commis
sioner, I have not hesitated to ask
their assistance in the enactment of
good laws for the protection and up
building of the farmers’ interests of
our state,and I challenge you here and
now to say that you will not favor
laws beneficial to the farmers of our
state, and that you will not allow
those connected with the department
to do so.
As to the extravagance of my ad
ministration, not one dollar can be
spent by the Commissioner of Agri
culture except in compliance with
the law, and then before the money
can be spent the Governor of the
State must, sign a warrant which must
be approved by the Comptroller Gen
eral before the Commissioner can
spend it. And as to your saving
$200,000 in the administration of the
affairs of the Department of Agricul
ture, that statement is absolutely rid
iculous and unworthy of attention
of any man who is posted as to the
real work of the Department of Ag
riculture in all of its sub-branches.
Of course, you borrowed that sugges
tion from the Chicago experts, who
were discredited and repudiated by
the South Carolina General Assembly
just before they came to Georgin.and
who were Inter repudiated by Gen
eral Assembly of Georgia in that that
honorable body refused to pay any at
tention whatever to their tirade n-
gainst the Department of Agriculture.
Before any change could bo made in
the expenditure of the monies ap
propriated to the department, it
would hnve to be done by an act of
the General Assembly.
I think you, Mr. Blalock, should be
the last man to assail the efficiency of
any stnte officinl when your record
as Internal Revenue Collector shows
that of all inefficiency your adminis
tration was the limit. Before this
campaign is over I will acquant the
general public \<ith the inefficient
manner in which you handled that of
fice nnd the embarrassment you
brought upon mnny honest people
who had paid their income tax, and
held chucks with your indorsement on
them, while you persisted in writing
arbitrary letters demanding they pay
their tax—long, long after they had
been paid.
As to my advice given the farm
ers during the three long yenrs of
battle to snvc the cotton-producing
states from the onslaught of bear
speculators and gnmblcrs, costing the
farmers millions of dollars, I only
have to say that never did I advise the
farmers to hold their cotton against
their debts without thoroughly secur
ing their creditors with their bonded
warehouse receipts; nor was there ev
er at any time a price fixed during
that whole fight that I signed as
f iairman of the Cotton States
dvisory Marketing Board, or of the
Cotton Growers Association, that tho
price of cotton did not go far above
the price wo fixed. Of course, I am
not in any way responsible for the
people not selling their cotton at the
price fixed by these organisations.
We began this fight when cotton
was 18 cents a pound in 1917, and
the first price fixed was 30 cents, nnd
the holding movement was put on
foot that caused the market to rench
this price in less than ninety days.
,The,n, when we found thnt the man
ufactured products hnd advanced
more rapidly than the price of raw
cotton, and that the cotton consum
ing world could pay 36 cents for the
cotton then on hand, wo fixed a price
of 36 cents.
Another holding movement was or
ganized,and in less than sixty days
from that time a price of 30 cents
was reached; and the last price that
was ever fixed was the prico of 40
cents nt Montgomery in 1920, based
on the Government's estimated cost
of 38 cents per pound. Forty cents
would have given the farmer only $10
per bale profit. And you know, nnd
1 know, und every other posted man
knows, thnt cotton went as high ns 43
cents per pound; and if you will show
where 1, nt any time, udvised the hol
ding of cotton for a price higher than
40 cents, I will withdraw from the
race and support you.
No, Mr. Blalock, you are trying to
appeal to the prejudices of the peo
ple who were caught in a deflation of
values uncqualed in the history of
this nation, in order that you may get
votes in your rnce for Commissioner
of Agriculture. And in this connec
tion permit me to say that had every
banker and manipulator done as you
did in the selling of Mr. J. A. Ad
ams’ cotton placed in your hnnds as
collateral for a loan to pay his hon
est debts, while he held the cotton off
the market, with the hundreds of
thousands of others who were trying
to get a just price, cotton would no
doubt have gone to 6 cents, as it did
in 1914.
I charge that you are not a real
farmer, but a shrewd, good lawyer
(and that’s honorable,) a banker, and
a manipulator, and furthermore a
farmer who “farms the farmer;” and
I can but feel that if the farmers of
Georgia were to trust you with the
Department of Agriculture, you
would handle it as you did Mr. Ad
ams’ cotton—in the interest of bear
gamblers and speculators.
I have never reflected on your char-
actor relative to the Adams transac
tion. The point that I have made and
now make is that your bank is a pub
lic institution, operating under the
banking laws of Georgia, nnd that
the Federal bonded warehouse issuing
bonded warehouse receipts is also a
public institution, and a t.ansaction
in which bonded warehouse cotton re
ceipts were used for the purpose of
securing a loan, in order that cotton
might be orderly marketed—or, in
other words, a loan made to hold the
cotton off the market until the cost of
LABOR DAY GAME
Nert Monday is Labor Day— on
which you are supposed to do no la
bor.
Therefore nnd accordingly,you will
want to attend a ball game, nnd you
will hnve a good chance to do so that
afternoon.
Center is coming over for another
game with our Cotton Export team,
and you will seo n good game. The
visitors hnve beaten us 2 out of 3
this season, nnd we are going to try
to tie the score Mondny.
Our Cotton Export boys are play
ing fine ball. They mopped up Wed
nesday 24 to 3 against Stilcsboro,
and then on Saturday they took the
game away from Rome 8 to 2. Cnm-
aratn nnd Knowles were on the
mounds both games.
Don't fail to sec the Labor Day
game. It will be a pcncherlnn.
same, plus a reasonable profit could
be hnd,—was the movement officially
inst'tuted by the Departments of Ag-
riulture of all the Southern States.
Therefore, the selling of cotton put
up as collateral to bear tho market by
n number of speculators and manu
facturers brought the price be
low the cost of production, and was
an act favorable to the bear gamblers
and speculators, and against the cot
ton producers, and you hnd no mor
al right to sell cotton entrusted to
your hands as collateral, unless the
price of cotton hns gone to n point
where the amount of cotton ware
house receipts on deposit would not
have liquidated the note. In Mr.
Adams’ case you admit that there was
a margin of protection in his cotton
of over $6,000 the day you sold the
cotton. Just such conduct, not only
by you, but others in the cotton belt,
was one of the perplexing obstacle*
that those of us who were making the
fight of our lives for tho farmers had
to contend with.
Just be a man, Mr. Blalock, and
say that you did sell this cotton anil'
that you sold it with an idea that it
would be much choaper when Adams
called for his cotton, and that you
would make tho difference between
what you got for it and what the
price would be when you made settle
ment with Mr. Adams, and that you
didn’t care a whit as to what became
of Adams, or tho influence your ac
tion might have on the market and its
effect on the fanners of the South.
I would much prefer to meet you
face to fnce, rather than to be com
pelled to do so through the press, but
that is your fault and not mine.
J. J. BROWN.
SCHOOL STARTS
Monday, Sept. 11th —
Faculty Meets the 9th.
Parents, your children have had
their long piny spell, and are now
ready to go bnc(t to school. That’*
the way most of them feel about It—
but how about you?
Have you done your part toward
getting them ready?
School opens Mondny, Sept. 11th,
so you have only u few more dnys ia
which, to finish your preparations.
And jt will pay you to have your
boys nnd girls promptly on hand nt
the opening of school, and to have
them go thnt wny every day. One of
the most important lessons in life ia
that of punctuality—as Important na
any lesson to bu learned from books.
If you have any idea in the back
of your head that you are doing any
body but yourself and your children
a favor by having them attend punct
ually nnd regularly,get It out of your
system nt once. You can hinder
I others, of course, but it is your own
children who will prove the worst
sufferers.
We are going to have the best
schools in Cedartown the coming
year that we have ever had, provided
parents co-operate with teachers ia
making them so.
Prof. J. E. Purks announces a
meeting of the Faculty to bo held at
9 a. m. Saturday, Sept 9th, at tha
High School building, at which time
all tho teachers are expected to ba
present.
New Machine Gomes.
The new electric cancellation ma
chine for the Cedartown postofflee
came last week, and is of thfe type
used only In the larger offices. II
was necured for Cedartown by tha
good work of Senator W. J. Harris
for his home town.
Bank Holiday Notice.
Monday, Sept. 4th, being Labor
Day—a legal holiday, the undersign
ed banks will not open for business
on that day.
THE COMMERCIAL BANK.
LIBERTY NATIONAL BANK.
CEDARTOWN CIRCUIT.
The Rev. J. A. Howell haB with
drawn from the Miistry and member
ship of the MethodiBt Episcopal
Church, South. Rev. Robt. L. Lock#
has been appointed pastor in charg#
of the Cedurtown Circuit.
W. T. IRVINE,
Presiding Elder, Rome District
PALACE THEATRE
TODAY, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31.
Moving Pictures of Cedartown and Her
People, January 1914.
Primary School.
High School 1918.
Representative Business Men.
Mayor and Marshal of the Day.
Red Cross Speaking, Court House Lawn
Group of Honest Red Cross porkers.
Red Cross Officers.
You will see your many friends and see your
self as others see you. '. - .,
Also, good Feature Picture andL-Comedy j
Eugene O’Brien r.
—IN—
“Charming of the Northwe*t.”
2-Reel Comedy,
Ham, in “DANGER.”
Admission, 15 and 25c; War Tax Included-
Sunday at 1st Baptist Church.
Sunday at Presbyterian Church. j
High School
Recess at Mission School-
Recess at the Colored School.
Cedartown Cotton Co., Mill No. 1, Mill No. 2. :
Standard Cotton Mills.
Matinee at the Palace.
Fire Department May, 1918.
Mayor and City Officials
New Postoffice.
Fire Department Answering Call.
Red Cross Parade.
Boy Scouts.
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