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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. if