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CEDARTOWN STANDARD
Devoted to the Best Interests of Cedartown And Polk County.
Volume 36.
Cedartown, Georgia, Thursday, September 7th, 1922.
Number 33
SCHOOL TO START M
MONDAY
W HERE
NEXT YEAR
WHITE PRIMARY
WEDNESDAY
The biennial white primary will be
held next Wednesday, and we publish
herewith the official ballot.
No one will be voted for in the pri
mary for Pension Commissioner, the
death of Judge Lindsey occurring too
close to the date of the primary, and
this vacancy will be filled at the gen
eral election.
(Erase the names of those for whom
you do not vote.)
For Governor
(Vote lor One)
H. BEDINGER BAYLOR
THOMAS W. HARDWICK
CLIFFORD WALKER
For Secretary of State
S. G. McLENDON
For Attorney General
GEORGE M. NAPIER
For State Treasurer
W. J. SPEER.
For Comptroller General
WILLIAM A. WRIGHT
For Commissioner of Agriculture
tVote for One)
A. 0. BLALOCK
J. J. BROWN
0. M. HOUSER
For State School Superintendent
(Vote for One)
N. H. BALLARD
M. L. DUGGAN
NICHOLAS M. SOWDER
For Commissioner of Commerce and
Labor
H. M. STANLEY
For Prison Commissioner
(Vote for One)
W. C. BRYANT
R. E. DAVISON
For Railroad Commissioner
(To succeed C. M. Candler)
(Vote for One)
M. L. JOHNSON
WALTER R. McDonald
J. E. PAI.MOUR
For Railroad Commissioner
(To succeed Jnmes A. Perry)
(Vote fur One)
W. TROX BANKSTON
O. B. BUSH
JAMES A. PERRY
For Chief Justice Supreme Court
(Vote for One)
WILLIAM H. FISH
RICHARD B. RUSSELL
For Associate Justice Supreme Court
(To succeed Marcus W. Beck)
MARCUS W. BECK
For Associate Justice Supreme Court
(To succeed James K. Hines)
JAMES K. HINES
For Judge Court of Appeals
(To succeed Roscoe Luke)
ROSCOE LUKE
For Judge Court of Appeals
(To succeed R. C. Bell for unexpired
term, to January 1st, 1923)
R. C. BELL
For Judge Court of Appeals
(To succeed R. C. Bell for full term
beginning January 1st, 1923)
(Vote for One)
R. C. BELL
HARPER HAMILTON
For Representative in Congress
GORDON LEE
For Judge Superior Court
(Vote for One)
A. L. BARTLETT
F. A. IRWIN
For Solicitor General
(Vote for One)
E. S. GRIFFITH
J. H. McLARTY
S. W. RAGSDALE
For State Senator
W. W. MUNDY
For Representative
(Vote for One)
T. I. PARTEE
CHAS. W. PEEK
For Judge City Court
JOHN L. TISON
For Solicitor City Court
J. A. WRIGHT
Members of Polk County Executive
Committee
Cedartown District:
(Vote for Four)
E. S. AULT
H. A. EDWARDS
. J. E. HOUSEAL
A. E. YOUNG
Rockmart District:
(Vote for Two)
S. D. LEE
W.FERGUSON .
Aragon District:
(Vote for One)
O. H. RANDALL
Buncombe District:
(Vote for One)
.T. I. HARRIS
Fish District:
(Vote for One)
J. M. BALDWIN
Lake District:
(Vote for One)
ARTHUR FAIRES
Hampton’s District:
(Vote for One)
Esom Hill District:
(Vote for One)
J. E. PENNINGTON
Blooming Grove District:
(Vote for One)
J. W. CASEY
Youngs District:
(Vote for One)
E. D. HIGHTOWER
Antioch District:
(Vote for One)
W. H. WRIGHT
Brownings District:
(Vote for One)
A. H. KING
Use Polk county products.
A FARMER TALKS
About the Blalock Cot
ton Deal.
The farmers of Georgia are very
much interested in learning the truth
as to how Banker-Lawyer A. 0. Bla
lock treated a farmer In his own
county who had entrusted his cotton
to him.
Ordinarily in this section, when a
farmer warehouses his cotton he docs
so on grades, and does not expect or
care to sec his individual cotton 11-
gain, but the affidavit of Mr. J. R.
Adams put his transaction with Mr.
Blalock on a different basis. Mr.
Adams, by the way, is certified to by
the Clerk, Ordinary and Sheriff of
Fayette county as a mun of high
character and reputation for truth
fulness, and that he filed suit Au:;.
29th, 1921, against A. O. Blalock for
misappropriation of 100 bales of cot
ton, the suit for which is still pend
ing.
When Blalock attacked Commis
sioner of Agriculture J. J. Brown for
advising farmers who were in a po
sition to hold tholr cotton for 40
cents—(it went, by the way, to 43
cents,) Mr. Adams could not forbear
telling the people of Georgia how Bla
lock hod tried to force down the price
of cotton by such treatment as had
been accorded him, and made an af
fidavit as to the facts In the case.
Mr. Blalock had to say something
and so tried to lay the matter of his
exposure to Mr. Brown, although the
court records of Fayette county show
a date far in advance of the present
campaign. He also attempted nn ex
planation of his part of tho deal, but
Mr. Adams calls him to taw in the
following emphatic letter:—•
Mr. Adams’ Letter.
Ed. Constitution: I note in a re
cent Issue of your paper a card from
A. O. Blalock attempting to justify
himself in having misappropriated
100 bales of cotton I had plueed with
him as security.
As to the affidavit that Blalock re
fers to, I wish to say that it was made
of my own free will, unsolicited by J.
J. Brown, and is true in every par
ticular, and I am reudy to make tho
SHme affidavit before any court offic
ial In Fayette county.
Blalock says I was not a regular
customer at his bank. This is untrue.
I have been a customer of his honk
for the past five years. Blalock says
I was obliged to have the money to
prevent the foreclosure of a lien on
my farm. This is untrue. I needed
money, but I was in no way facing •>
foreclosure. Blalock says that I 11-
greed that he could sell my cotton at
any time he saw fit. Blalock knows
this is untrue. Nothing was further
from my mind. I could have sold mv
cotton myself if I had wanted it sold,
but with thousands of other farmers
I borrowed this money to keep this
cotton off the market. Blalock is a
banker, and was careful to see that I
signed a note and delivered him bon
ded warehouse receipts as security
for the loan. Why did he take no
writing from me giving him the right
to sell my cotton, if such was the in
tent of the transaction? Blalock
knows that this was a straight loan
and that he did wrong to sell my cot
ton.
Blalock says that he sold my cot
ton for 28 cents per pound, and only
offered to give me 11 3-4 cents per
pound when I demanded my cotton.
Blalock says that not one dollar of
profit was made by his bank on my
cotton. Will he then tell the public
who got the difference between 28
cents he got for my cotton arid the
II 3-4 cents he offered me in settle
ment for my cotton?
Blalock says twelve jurors will pass
on this case. That may be true, if
my attorneys are ever successful ir.
getting a trial. In every attempt to
have this case tried Mr. Blalock has
tendered a sick certificate for his son
as a witness to prevent the twelve
jurors he mentioned from acting on
this matter.
I paid Blalock every cent I owed
him in May, 1921. Yet Blalock re
ceived for my cotton in November,
1920, $12,028.24, which money right
fully is mine, and which I have been
out of the use of now nearly two
years, and unable to get a trial.
I had no desire to make myself an
issue in this campaign, but being a
farmer and knowing the hardships
they have undergone, I felt it a duty
to my fellow farmers to protect them
from a man who was seeking to get
Our city public schools will open
Monday for the fall term.
The only new building ready for
use Is the addition to the East Ccdnr-
town school, and that growing sec
tion of the city will now hnve ample
school facilities.
In West End the Mission School
building will again be used pending
the completion of the handsome and
commodious new building there.
The Junior High building 01: Col
lege street has been delayed by dif
ficulty in getting material, but will
be finished in a few weeks and will
be n credit to the city.
In tile meantime the schools will
open Monday with a full comple
ment of teachers—all of them men
and women of exporience and proved
ability. Superintendent J. E. Purks,
himself one of the best educators In
the state, feels especially fortunate in
the state, feels especially fortunate In
his selections of a teaching force for
the coming year.
The Standard would again urge
parents to have their children in
school promptly at the opening hour
Monday, and to have them nttend
regularly and punctually. Regularity
and punctuality nro essentials to suc
cess in life, and should he taught as
thoroughly as anything in books. Wc
nrc old-fashioned enough to believe
that tho training of hoys and girls for
good citizenship is a legitimate and
should bo an important part of the
work of every school; and if the
schools of the nations were run on
this plan wc would not sec tho alarm
ing fact that nearly all the worst
crimes of the day are committed by
the young.
But this isn’t a sermonette nor nn
editorial—It is just n news Item to
announce the opening of school and
to urge everybody to bo ready for It,
Prof. Purks announces n faculty
meeting at 9 a. m. Snturday at the
I High School building, nt which all
teachers are expected to be present.
Teachers and pupils have had a
long rest, and all are now ready for
work gain. With the co-operation of
parents, It will be a good year for the
schools, and all the advance indica
tions are in favor of nn exceptionally
prosperous year for them.
Haralson Begins Work.
Haralson has begun work under
her bond issue for good rouds, and a
road machine has been sent to each
of the thirteen districts of that coun
ty.
Two caterpillar tractors, n scarifier
and heavy grades were put to work
last week on State Route No. 1 to
connect with tho highway from Ce
dartown to the Haralson county line,
and a firnt-elass road will be built
through Felton, Buchanan and Bre
men from the Polk to the Carroll
county line.
This north and south highway
through Polk and Huralson is an im
portant link in the great highway
from Chattanooga to Appulachicolii,
Fla., which means so much to the
western half of the Stute.
’Rah for Both Teams!
It is always a pleasure to The
Standard to speak of good things,and
we wish at this time to tell of a par
ticularly nice thing done by some
young men of Cedartown and Talla
poosa last week.
As our readers know, the Kiwanis
Club had a Field Day on Wednesday
for the benefit of tho fund to com
plete Georgia’s bay in the national
memorial building at Valley Forge.
One of the enjoyable features of the
program was the ball game between
our Cotton Export and the Talla
poosa teams, and we wish to call at-
tenton to the fact that both teams
kindly donated their services.
We would have expected this, of
course, from the fine bunch of young
fellows who compose our home team,
and whose home pride and interest
would naturally lead them to do this;
but we want to especially compli
ment and thank the manly young
gentlemen who came over from our
sister town on such an arrand. That
sort of .thing is worth while, and Ce
dartown appreciates it.
control of the farmers’ department of
agriculture. Respectfully,
J. R. ADAMS.
Fayetteville, Ga.
The Georgia Swine-Breeders As
sociation will meet in Cedartown next
year, the exact date to be announced
later, but probably just about u year
from this time.
This organization met last week in
Carrollton, and hog-raisers were
there from all parts of the State. In
cidentally, they went away full of
praise for Carrollton; and—-also in
cidentally.—here is something for
Cedartown to be thinking nnd plan
ning about the next twelve months.
Carrollton gave her visitors free en
tertainment in her homes, and on the
first day the farmers of Carroll coun
ty spread a big basket dinner nnd on
the second n barbecue was served.
Cedartown and Polk county, of
course, must do equally ns well.
Secretary R. O. McCord, of our
Chamber of Commerce, is nn enthus
iast on tho wise plan of hailding up
tho surrounding country us the surest
way of helping n city, nnd it was his
idea to secure this convention as a
means of encouraging hog-raising in
Polk.
Amog those who went over from
Polk to help secure the convention,
besides Mr. McCord, were Mnyor
Homer Watkins, President C. H.
Graves of the County Fulr Associa
tion, County Agent W. H. Garner,
Messrs. S. H. Lewis, W. E. Powell, A.
H. McBryde, S. O. Jones, R. D.
Dansby nnd J. C. Ezzcll.
Their going was a good thing for
Polk county, for there is no renson
why I*olk should not be made the
loading pork county in Georgia—in
fact, there is every reason why it
should he.
Farmers and business men alike
should get enthusiastic over the fact
that the Georgia Swine Breeders As
sociation will meet here in 1923. It
means more and better hogs for
Polk—and that means more money.
It Is well to remember that neither
hog nor cattle raisers have to de
pend any longer on local markets,and
that the wise thing to do is to organ
ize for enr load shipments to packing
houses where every purt of a hog is
utilized except his squeal. In this
way, the live stock industry can be
made profitable; and with the boll
weevil menace now ever before us,
every progresive farmer should give
the matter his most earnest consid
eration.
Wouldn’t it he n good plan for our
farmers to go into hog-raising quite
extensively, and then have u big sale
in connection with this convetion?
Worth thinking about, isn’t it?
SEASON WILL END
Here with Piedmont
Game Today.
Cedartown won from Tallapoosa
last week Wednesday, and then lost
to Tallapoosa when we visited that
place Saturday, thus nicely evening
up the score.
Center, Ala., was a Jonah for our
boys in the Labor Day game, and
cleaned us up 10 to 0.
The Cotton Export team is a good
one, just the same, and deserves a
better support than it has received.
The boys have played through the
season without compensation, no fi
nancial effort having been made by
the public, and have given us some
good amusement during the summer
Incidentally, too, they have developed
some very promising players.
The base ball season here closes
this afternoon, as far as now known,
Piedmont coming over for a game.
Our boys will go to Piedmont tomor
row.
Don’t fail, ye fans (to see the final
game this afternoon.
Griffith Will Win.
Ed Griffith will win the race for
Solicitor General next Wednesday,
and he ought to do so.
His many years of successful ex
perience at the bar, his widely recog
nized ability as a lawyer and a speak
er, his personal popularity every
where throughout the circuit, —all
point him out as the man who should
and will win. And the whole state of
Georgia will have no better Solicitor
General than Ed Griffith. Let us all
help to swell his majority Wednes
day. CITIZEN.
ANTHRACITE
STRIKE ENDS
An agreement to end the protrac
ted anthracite coal strike in the im
mediate future was reached by the
operators nnd miners Saturday.
The men will return to work on
the basis of the old wage agreement
to extend until Aug. 31st, 1923, thus
obviating the likelihood of another
strike in that industry next spring.
The South is not likely to get any
anthracite coal this fall, hut the re
opening of these mines in Pennsyl
vania should relieve the tension as to
bituminious coal.
The mines have lost a summer’s
work through the strike, but the oper
ators will recoup their summer losses
at the expense of the public.
Gen- Harris Retires.
Thursday marked the retirement
from the United States Army of Gen.
Peter C. Harris, who for a number of
yonrs has served as Adjutant General
with tho runk of Major General. Dur
ing the period of participation of this
country in the World Wnr he ucted
in that capacity, the Importance of
which was not exceeded by any post
in either the military or naval
branches of tho service, and the na
tion owes him on everlasting debt of
gratitude. While still in the prime
of usefulness, he has reuehed the age
lit which retirement is fixed, though
his rcmurkuble talents would bo at
the service of the country if an em
ergency should arise.
As an old Cedartown boy, our peo
ple take an especial pride in his suc
cessful career. Ho is a member of
Cedartown's most distinguished fam
ily, being n brother of United States
Senator W. J. Harris, Prof. J. C.
Harris, head of the Georgia School
for the Deaf at Cave Spring, Dr.
Soule Harris, a leading physician of
Birmingham, and Maj. Hunter Har
ris, now in charge of the army re
cruiting offices in Atlanta. One of
the most modest and unassuming men
ever seen in public life, his strength
of character and military genius have
placed him at the furc-front, nnd he
hus responded efficiently to every call
of duty.
The Atlanta Constitution thus
goes into detail as to his record: “For
his services in the Adjutant General’s
department during the World War ho
was awarded the Distinguished Serv
ice Medal by the government of the
United States, the Legion of Honor
ribbon (Commander) by France, and
the Order of the Crown (commander)
by Italy.
“Senator Morris Shepard, of Tex
as, read into the Congressional Rec
ord a few days ago a memorandum of
service of General Harris issued by
the War Department officially, and it
was a remarkable tribute to the zeal,
energy and judgment, In war and in
peace, of u man who has served faith
fully and conspicuously in one of the
most difficult positions attached to
the great machinery of that depart
ment.
.“That memorandum of Hcvcral
pages concludes with the following
striking paragraphs:
“The records of the World War
today, three years after the signing
of the armistice, are for more nearly
complete than those of the Civil War
thirty years after its close, and are
equally as accessible as were the rec
ords of the Civil War after they had
been carded and assembled in indi
vidual jackets at a cost of many mil
lions of dollars.
“During the Spanish-American
War, Gen. Harris was nominated by
the President for brevet Captain for
gallantry in battle at Santiago dc
Cuha, July 1, 1898.
“In addition to duty with troops
and in the Adjutant General's de
partment, Gen. Harris has served on
the General Staff and represented
the War Department at the Buffalo
Exposition.
“He was born at Kingston, Ga.,
graduating from the United States
Military academy in 1888, from the
Infantry and Cavalry school in 1895,
and from the Army War College in
1908.”
Buy your Hand Bag or
Trunk for your vacation
trip from us. The price
and the quality are
guaranteed. Stubbs &
Hogg, 415 Main St.
INJUNCTION i
AGAINST STRIKE
President Harding declared in hia
recent address to Congress:
“I am resolved to use all the power
of the government to maintain trans
portation und sustain the right of
men to work,”
The President has made earnest
nppeals to both the railroads and the
striking shopmen to settle their dif
ferences, but both sides have held
out on the vexed question of senior
ity.
As neither side would yield, the
President has taken measures to try
to protect the public by placing the
government buck of the operation of
the roads—with the help of the
strikers if they will return to work
nnd without them if they will not.
As in 1894, when Grover Cleve
land was President an injunction waa
granted by the Federal Court in
Chicngo that broke the famous Debs
strike, so President Harding has se
cured, through Attorney General
Daugherty, a temporary injunction
in the rail strike. It Is, however, the
most sweeping nnd drastic injunction
in history.
The H'nrdlng-Daugherty injunction
forbids all officers and members of
the federated shop crafts or their
sympathizers from committing the
following acts:
Picketing.
Issuing any instructions or state
ments of any knd, verbal or other
wise, to induce or cause any railroad
employe to quit his job, or refrain
from taking a job on the railroad.
Using funds of the union to aid in
the commission of any act restrained
in the injunction.
Interfering with or obstructing the
railroads.
Hindering Inspection, repair or
equipment of locomotives and cars.
Conspiring to hinder railroads in
carrying passengers, property or
mails.
Interfering with employes going to
or coming from work by “displays of
force, jeers, threats, intimidations,
acts of violence, epithets, taunts or
entreaties."
Trespassing on railroad property
or near railroad property.
Doing an injury or bodily harm to
an employe.
President Goippers, of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, Is most se
vere in his denunciation of this at
tempt at “government by injunc
tion,” and intimates that a general
strike of organized labor will be call
ed.
President Winburn, of the Centrat
Railway, has issued a final appeal to
the shopmen on that system to return!
to work before the rest of their places
arc filled.
Here in Cednrtown tho shop men
are among our best citizens, and no
act of violence has been committed
or contemplated. The men have
carried out the usual strike rule of
picketing, to which the road has given
the customary answer of placing
guards, but there has been no friction
whatever—and will be none. Tho
road would have been glad to have
the men back, and the men liked the
road and its management, and the
strike was something that was thrust
on both sides here.
In some of the larger cities, how
ever,—especially in Chicago, where
the anarchistic element has been
strong in labor circles f)r years, —-
many acts of disgraceful violence
have been committed against men
who accepted the jobs laid down by
the shop men. Whether rightly or
wrongly, these acts are naturally
charged to the strikers in those cities,
and as a result the drastic injunction
has been granted. The hearing for a
permanent injunction is set for Sept.
11th.
In 1894 the first gesture of Debe
was to disobey the injunction, but
when Federal grand juries got busy
after the violators the attempt was
abandoned.
The Washington authorities are
careful to explain that the injunction
is not intended to prohibit any lawful"
assemblage or freedom of speech,but
is made wide enough to cover any il
legal interference with the operation
of trains.
There will be a big chicken supper
at Antioch at 8 o’clock tomorrow ev
ening, only 25 cents a plate. The
proceeds go for the benefit of the
church, and all are cordially invited.
