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CEDARTOWN STANDARD
Devoted to the Best Int erests of Cedartown and Polk County.
Volume 36.
Cedartown, Georgia, Thursday, October 26th, 1922.
Number 40.
WE WINPRIZES
Polk Made Good Show
ing at Fair.
Polk’s Wheat Club was the only one
to make an exhibit at the Southeas
tern Fair in Atlanta last week, and
some bright Polk county boy is going
to get a valuable scholarship as a re
sult of his enterprise.
Our Sheep Club made a good rec
ord, capturing the following:—
Lambs.
Ernest Huff, 1st prize, champion
lamb, $100.
Thos. Huff, 2d.
Eva Griffin, 3d and 4th.
Albert Montgomery, 5th and 10th.
Mack Montgomery, 6th.
Louise Crawford, 7th.
Hooper Montgomery, 9th.
Holloway Garner, 8th and 12th.
Willie Gamer, 11th.
Ewas.
Henry Alexander, 1st prize.
Eva Griffin, 2d and Sd.
Fred Garner, 4th.
Johnnie Davis, 5th and 6th.
County Agent W. H. Gamer spent
last week at the Fair, where he was
placed in charge of the Georgia
Sheep Club.
Education Week.
The educators and people of Geor
gia are asked to observe American
Education Week, Dec. 2d to 9th in
clusive, co-operating with the United
States Bureau of Education, the A-
merican Legion and the National Ed
ucational Association.
The object of this week is to focus
the attention of the entire nation up
on education and to make national
sentiment for the improvement of our
schoqls and the furtherance of our ed
ucational aims.
The program for the week will be
as follows:—
Sunday, God and Country Day.
Monday, American Citizenship
Day.
Tuesday, Patriot’s Day.
Wednesday, School and Teachers
Day.
Thursday, Illiteracy Day.
Friday, Equality of Opportunity
and Education for American Boys
and Girls Day.
Saturday, Physical Education Day.
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OFF TO SCHOOL
•\1I7E HAVEN’T any “little girl"—
* " With eyes alight with glee,
And lmlr In many a dancing curl,
Her happy heart carefree,
She started oft to school today
And mama's heart Is sore;
“Our baby's gone," I heard her say;
“Our little girl no more."
“We lost our little girl today.
With eager, hurrying feet
She sped with laughter light and gay
Along the busy slreet.
And watching her a mother's eyes
Grew moist with unshed tears
As backward now her mcm’ry flies
Through quickly vanished years.
We lost our little girl today.
With lightly tripping feet
She hurries on her schoolward way
Fur down the city street.
But though the years speed swiftly by
Into eternity,
She’ll be, however, fast they fly,
"My little girl" to me.
(Copyright by Will M. Maupln.)
AN INDUCEMENT
She: Really, If you persist In
making love to me everytlme you
call I shall have to ask you to dis
continue your visits.
He: Darling, be my wife and I’ll
promise never to speak another word
of love to you as long as I live.
Sweaters— We have
one to fit you. Come and
get it.
Scarbrough & Hamrick
INK PADS and INK—You can now
find them at the Standard office.
The Truth About It.
The Standard last week published a
statement from Senator Wm. J. Har
ris in which ho quoted the exact lan
guage of the lato Senator Thos. E.
Watson in expressing his antagonism
to Governor Hardwick., The latter
had the effrontery to try to discredit
the statement, although all of Sen
ator Watson's friends well knew that
Senator Harris was quoting his col
league correctly. And none knew it
better than Hardwick, too.
In order that no one may have any
possibility of a doubt about it, how
ever, we publish herewith the letter
which Senator Watson wrote about
Hardwick only a few hours before he
died—his last letter on any subject,
and which appeared in the Columbia
Sentinel last week:—
Senator Wetion'a Letter.
September 23, 1922.
Mr. James M. Elders, Claxton, Ga.
My dear Mr. Elders: My experi
ence in politics has led me to have a
wide charity for those who differ
from me in opinion, either before the
election or afterwards.
For many years I held you in high
respect, otherwise I would hold that
your letter precluded a reply.
The actual facts are these:
When Hardwick was in the Senate,
he was in favor of having the Catho
lics arrest me and take me out of the
state, and have me tried where ho
knew I would be convicted, and, per
haps, assassinated.
He said that ho did not caro if my
body were drawn and quartered, and
the four quarters placed in four dif
ferent states.
He also referred to me in The At
lanta Constitution as "that hound
from McDuffie.”
In a speech which he made at
Thomson, he threatened to go to my
door and denounce me in the hearing
of my wife.
I think you will agree that I show
ed unusual magnanimity in forgetting
all this, and allying myself with his
forces in lighting the Wilson league
of nations.
The Honornble James H. Boykin, of
Lincolnton, Ga., was the go-between
in that mediation, and ho came to my
house again and again, begging me to
forgive and forget, because of the
great principle involved.
Mr. Hardwick had made his own
appointments to speak, and I had
made mine.
According to the newspapers, he
was not getting any crowds, whereas
no house could hold mine.
At Quitman,where he was to speak,
he did not do so, because there was
no one there to hoar him.
His nstute campaign manager then
adopted the strategem of switching
Hardwick’s dates over to mine, and
he came to my meeting at Statesboro
without invitation from me.
I could not refuse to let him speak
on the same plutform, nor did I re
fuse him the courtesy of allowing him
to make the first speech.
From that time on, they were my
meetings that he addressed, not his
own, and I had the generosity to al
low him to speak first at every meet
ing.
When he and Mr. Walker had
their dogfall, and they had to run the
race over, I was so exhausted that my
physician, Dr. Thomas Wright of Au
gusta, protested against my leaving
home again.
He said that I was threatened with
bronchial hemorrhage, and that such
a hemorrhage would be fatal, but Mr.
Hardwick came to my house, and
begged and pleaded so hard for me
to come out on the final run-over,that
I wcffl with him, and stayed with
him until I collapsed at Waycross.
During the campaign I understood
him to be running on the same plat
form as myself, else he should not
have spoken with me.
He knew that I understood him to
be in favor of free school-books for
the poor children in the elementary
grades of our public schools.
He knew that I was bitterly oppos
ed to the tax amendment law, which
discriminates against some in favor
of others.
He knew that I favored a tax on the
wealth which is hidden in our state,
namely, promissory notes, mortgages,
trust deeds, shares of stock, and
bonds in corporations.
Wc talked all these matters over,
and he seemed to be in perfect a-
greement with me.
Had he told me, or a single one of
my crowds, that he was opposed to me
on these matters, he could never have
beaten Walker in the last campaign.
After his election, he appointed my
bitterest enemies to every office of
power and influence in the state.
He did not appoint a single friend
of mine to any office of power or in
fluence.
What I Raid against him in the Jan
uary number of my paper this year, I
meant, and it was forced upon me by
tho manner in which he had played
me false.
It was the second time he had fool
ed me, nnd I thought twice was en
ough.
Woodrow Wilson has nothing to do
with the Walker campaign this year.
The lengue of nations has nothing
to do with it.
You will find that those state issues
for which I worked for so many years,
will come to the front, nnd they will
become laws in due time.
I have nothing to say about Mr.
Hnrdwick’s alleged vices, but I have
had my Rny about the manner is which
he sacrificed our state railroad to the
Louisville & Nashville, and gave away
nearly half a million dollars to Hoke
Smith’s law firm, and the other law
yers associated in that sham case.
If he had the right to discount the
notes, there was no need for a law
case on the part of the state.
The law caRB should have been
brought by whoever discounted the
notes.
If he had put a tax on invisible
property, he would not have to sell
five years of tho rental of our best
property.
There was no need to offer our
magnificent gubernatorial mansion
for sale.
It was good enough for Alexander
H. Stephens and the other men who
preceded Mr. Hardwick, and a few
thousand dollars would have put it in
good shape, because it was built at a
time when materials were good and
workmanship was honest.
The historical furniture in that
mansion, around which hung mem
ories dear to all Georgians, was sac
rificed as so much junk, and scatter
ed throughout the city of Atlanta.
If nothing else could have been
done with it, it could have been stored
in some of our public buildings, or in
a museum room, like the furniture in
the rooms of tho homes of George
Washington, or Andrew Jackson, or
Thomas Jefferson.
The very Inst thing you should have
mentioned ns a reproach to me was
tho Catholic question, because Hard
wick, before he ever met me on the
stump, hnd said that he would call out
the troops to inspect the convent in
Savannah.
It never has been inspected, nor
was that in Augusta inspected.
On tho other hnnd, his friend, Alex
Lawrence, and his Catholic friends
in Augusta, got him to forget what he
hnd promised on that subject, just as
other subjects.
As time rolls by, you will see that
tho people of Georgia got rid of a
reckless, unbusiness-like Governor
when they got rid of T. W. Hardwick.
Very respectfully yours,
THOMAS E. WATSON.
Forget-Me-Not Day.
Mayor Homer Watkins has been
appointed as chairman for Cedar
town in tho Forget-Me-Not Campaign
in Georgia on Nov. 4th. This cam
paign will be conducted for the bene
fit of nearly 20,000 disabled veterans
of the World War now in Georgia, by
the state organization of Disabled A-
merican Veterans of the World War.
The intensive campaign will oc
cupy one day, Nov. 4th, and residents
of every city in the state will be ask
ed to give as large donations as they
possibly can to tthe women selling
forget-me-nots in the interest of the
campaign.
The money raised by the campaign
will be used to supplement the work
of the government in caring for the
disabled men, in helping men get
training, and to help those who are
now in distress.
Our Boys Winners.
It was a hard-fought game that our
foot-ball lovers had the pleasure of
seeing here Friday, and in spite of the
fact that Carrollton High had far the
heaviest team our High School hoys
won 9 to 0, clearly outplaying the vis
itors.
Our boys go to Collinsville, Ala.,
for a game tomorrow, and can be de
pended upon to make a good showing
for Cedartown.
GRAHAM FLOUR made from best
select wheat at Vance’s Mill.
Why Not “Squash County?”
U P and down through old Georgia apreada the full grown determina
tion that there shall be no more new counties of the notorious brand
and handiwork of the Big Lobby. November 7 is to witness ybur
emphatic refusal to concede another fee to the chuckling, gurgling, wheez
ing influence that has battened on indifference and distinterest at the poll*
in other years. We are through. “Peach County/' latest project of ite
cunning, will not come to fruition.
FOR THERE WOULD BE NO END.
Once started upon the fruits of Georgia's soil, the list would exhaust our
resources of total available area.
As one Georgia editor hee pointedly re
marked. we have Jones County, but the Smith*
end Browne are entitled to recognition that
they have not yet reoelved. And by no mean*
have ell the historic names of Georgia been
meed.
Once we began, we could play :
favorites.
Try lit
of Squeak T*
and reverberant ’neath the capltol'a
Than "Peach County" perhaps.
Bat net before.
Right there we might run up against oom-
R Mentions of a delicate nature, moreover. For
(aeon County, original home of the commer
cial peach, might feel too much would be im-
f illed by selecting some limited area, and calling
k "Peaoh County." Jonas, where luscious
peaches grow for market far away, might enter
a polite but firm demurrer. Something also
might be heard from the direction of DooTy and
Crawford, and Schley and Sumter and Taylor.
All these grew peaches—they and nearly four
dozen other established counties. From Hab
ersham on the north to BiCoks on the south
we should be hearing protest more or less
pointed. The objection would be, no doubt,
to any one locality or community arrogating
First of all, room would have to be found
somewhere for "Watermelon County." Every
wool-hat In Caorgia has hie melon patch,
whereas peaches are grown by the fortunate
few.
Thereupon we should feel duty bound to set
aside at least a couple of square miles for
"Cotton County." And then for "Corn Coun
ty." By no means could ws afford to over
look the "County of Sorghum."
And our pecan industry I* Important. Why
oot "Pecan County?" Or batter still, "Nut
County?"
And "Squash County T One thrills te ec
stasise ef euphony at the thought. 'Tie a
that resounds.
^^THEREFORE, all things considered, you Karo resolved to atop matters where they
November 7 will find you actually voting on a "new county" constitutional amswh
ment for perhaps the firat time in your Ufa.
Aa4 you will be voting AGAINST.
You will ha influenced by ona of two controlling reasons:
(1) Either you are raeolvod to atop the work of tho Big Lobby which makes lUf
fat living from now county projocta (now that the liquor interacts are dud)*
(2) Or you give prior recognition to ‘The County of Squeak."
Squash “Paach County*
Citizens of Macon and Houston Counties
TO GET WRITE UP
Mr. D. A. Pritchard, the hustling
General Safety Agent of the Central
Railway, is also the editor of the Cen
tral's publication, “Tho Right Way.”
He spent yesterday here getting ma
terial for a write-up of Cedartown
which will appear soon in that paper,
and which our people will greatly ap
preciate.
The Central is doing a great work
in building up the agricultural and
manufacturing industries of the ter
ritory it traverses, and Cedartown is
one of the important points on its
line.
Mundy Honored.
Hon. W. W. Mundy was honored
at the state Kiwanls convention in
Savannah last week by election as
Lieutenant Governor for the North
ern District of Georgia.
This recognition of our distinguish
ed fellow citizen is appreciated by his
home folks.
City Tax Notice.
The city tax books are now open,
and will be closed Nov. 25th.
J- C, WALKER City Clerk.
CIRCUS TODAY
The Sparks Circus, one of the
cleanest and best showB on the road,
is hero today.
The big tent will be pitched on the
corner of South Main and Canal
streets, and the parade will leave the
show ground at 10.30 a. m.
The doors open for menagerie and
concert at 1 p. m. and the afternoon
program begins at 2 o’clock; at night
doors open at 7 with entertainment at
8 o’clock.
The Sparks Circus is always popu
lar here, and today will see the usual
big crowd.
Fiddlers’ Convention.
Here’s fun ahead, and lots of itl
Mr. B. A. Hendon is staging anoth
er Old Fiddlers’ Convention, and it
will be held at tho Opera House on
Friday and Saturday evenings, Nov.
10th and 11th.
The fiddlers ore coming from near
and far, and you want to bear the
dates in mind.
Cedartown Supply Co.
pays the highest prices
for cotton seed.
NO POLL TAX
From Women Who Do
Not Register.
The Legislature that recently ad-
journed passed a good law in refer
ence to the act giving the vote tv
women.
The original law required vomex
to pay poll tax just the same as roes,
but this has now been changed.
Hereafter only those women wfcv
register are required to pay poll tuL.
And those who have registered caai
make affidavit and have their names
removed from registration list, an*
thus avoid payment of poll tax nov
due.
Of course, every intelligent and pa.
triotic woman should pay her poll tax
and vote, just as tho men do.
Justice W. R. Day, of tho United
States Supremo Court, has tendered
his resignation to President Harding,
to take effect Nov. 14th. He resigns
to give his time to the position of um
pire for the German-American Claims
Commission, to which he was recently
appointed.