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NOVEMBER •, 19X2.
THE STANDARD, CEDARTOWN, GA.
(THE CEDMUOWISTMDARO
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OFFICIAL OKOAN OF CUtAKTOWN AND
FOLK COUNTY.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
Ah Yw.. .. .. ..$1.80
Sis Month*.. .. .. .. ,7g
Throo Month* .40
E. B. RUSSELL, Editor.
THURSDAY, NOV. 9, 1922.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR AU>8RMAN^uTw«d.
I am a candidate for Alderman from the
lat Ward, subject to the white primary,and
will appreciate your votes. A. E. YOUNG
FOR ALDERMAN—3d Ward.
I take this method of announcing myself
• candidate for Alderman from the 8d Ward
aubject to the White primary, and respect-
fall/ ask your support. J. A. MORTON.
With no kinsmen to vote for if elected,
with no one soliciting me to run, and with
axes to grind, I hereby announce myself
• candidate for Alderman from the 8d Ward,
subject to the white primary. Thanking
yea In advance for your support, I am.
Very truly yours,
J. J. CRUM BLEY.
FOR ALDERMAN—4th Ward.
I take this means of announcing my ean>
4Jdacy for Alderman from the 4th Ward,sub*
J«t to the White Primary, and will appre*
state your support. J. H. STEWART.
I hereby announce my oauuiuaey *«' »>-
daman from the 4th Ward, eul '
Whit# Primary, and respectful);
support.
Vard, subject to the
espectfully ask your
X G. WITCHER.
0MZ z ROT
Again we see "the terrible Turk"
Doing hia damably dirty work,
Slaughtering Chriatlans day by day
With not a voice to nay him nay.
’Mongat all the nations of the earth
Right now there is an awful dearth
Of men of real upstanding size—
Of men with breadth between the
eyes.
And in the meanwhllo the Angora
goat ,
la giving the Turk good cause to
gloat.
Some papers are so short on nowa—
At least, according to our viows—
They use scare-heads three Inches tall
On stuff not worth a head at all.
Of course, they help to All up space,
Bnt heads should always At the case.
“All things como to those who
wait”—
Some things do, at any rate,
And that’s why we gladly pipe:
Possum and tatcrs now are ripe.
And now they say that bobbed-off
tresses
Must go the way of sawed-off dresses,
But this won’t bothor girls, you bet,—
They’ll buy the wholo top-dressing
not.
From grand opry down to fox trot,
8lngiqg, Addling and whnt not,
Your talkingsheen its record has—
But “Our Record" is plain Jazz.
And Ft. Valley made a peach of a
Aght for Peach county.
After a year’s existence the Athens
News has gone into the hands of a
receiver. Ono paper too many there
—that’s the story.
Tho Angora government is trying
to butt tho Sultan clear off from tho
Turkish throne. He has been slip
ping for a long time, anyhow.
Saturday iB Armistice Day. In re
joicing that the Armistice brought
peace, let us think of the sacriAces
made by the brave men Who rendered
peace possible.
Out of ovor a hundred cases dock
eted at the November term of Federal
Court for this district, Polk county
furnishes only one. This is indeed a
gratifying record.
Improve Conditions.
“The cry for cheap food can*be too
loud. The nation that must have
cheap food for its cities at the price
of degrading the life of the country
dweller is, like imperial Rome, near
ing its fall.”
We clip this statement from the
Youth's Companion, whose editorials
are ambng the best that come to our
exchange table, and we do so because
it is along a line that iB receiving far
too little attention.
There is a grca\ deal of both talk
and action as to improving conditions
for the laboring men in the citicB, and
this is good, as far as it goes.
But the crying need—in the South,
at least,—is to improve living condi
tions on the farms. This is particular
ly true in any all-cotton territory,and
tho change Ib quickly noticed when
ever you get into a section that has
been progressive enough to adopt
diversified farming.
It is true, of course, that when a
city worker gets out of a job he is
glad to get back to the farm—and
doesn’t usually have much to bring
back with him,—but in tho meantime
ho has enjoyed advantages and con
veniences which have been out of tho
roach of his home folks. Better
schools, rural free delivery, the tele
phone, tho home plant for lighting,
and the automobile have largely rem
edied these conditions for many
farmers, but they are hopelessly out.
of reach of many thousands of them.
Thousands of tenants have the
poorest sort of a shelter for their
families—too poor, in fact, to prop
erly house a horse or a cow, to say
nothing of a human being. It is un
fortunately true, too, that a consider
able percentage hf these are so shift-
loss that they do not care for or really
deserve anything better. They york
only enough to get a little food and
tobacco and as little clothing as they
can “got by” with;they know nothing
and want to know nothing about
cleanliness ( and they need mission
aries a groat deal more than the hea
then in foreign lands. Wo have noth
ing to say about this typo except that
no land-owner can afford to keep
them on his place, unless he can spend
some time and effort in trying to wake
them up to tho desirability of improv
ing their own condition.
What wo want to say is this: If
tho farmer is to continue to raise
largo crops, he must receive n fair
price for them. If tho people are to
stay on tho farm, they must bo given
a chance to improve the conditions of
country life.
The averngo cotton fnrmcr would
bo better off if ho had not turned
n furrow since the close of tho World
War. Thoso who had tho wisdom to
raise their own food supplies aro far
hotter off than their neighbors, of
course. They always have been and
always will bo.
Tho prosperity of tho world Is bas
ed on the prosperity of the farmer,
and tho city workor will And his own
wages stop if tho cry for cheap food
forces the fnrmcr out of business. Wc
aro all involved In a great endless
chain, and tho world must not forget
that the farmer constitutes its most
vital link.
Don’t loavo articles of value in your
ear at night. Sneak thieves are doing
•ome "lifting,” and it is going to
take a long term in the chaingang to
break some of them of the bad habit.
In the meantime, don’t put tempta
tion in their way.
Hardwick is now launching an at
tack on the county unit system, which
was ono of the late Senator Watson’s
most cherished measures. It is not at
all likely, however, that tho Georgia
Legislature will turn the state govern
ment over to the big cities by doing
what Hardwick says.
Parents, keep your boys at home
nights if you want to keep them out
of trouble. There is so much night
devilment going on that they are
likely to fall under suspicion, if not
actually inpliented, and you had bet
ter save trouble for them and money
for yourself by seeing that they are
at home in due time.
Anti-lynching sentiment is growing
in Georgia, as is evidenced from the
fact that there have been twenty-
two indictments and four convictions
so far this year. When tho members
of a mob understand that they are
going to be held accountable to the
law and tried as murderers, lynchings
will “go out of style.”
Buy it in Cedartown.
Mrs. Gordon Lee.
No man in Georgia has more warm
personal friends than Hon. Gordon
Lee, tho Seventh district’s honored
Representative in Congress, and each
and every one of them sympathize
most sincerely with him in the sad
and sudden loss that has come to him.
Mr. Leo joined a party of distin
guished Georgians last week in a hun
ting trip noar Savannah, and hia wife
went to her girlhood home in Newnan
to visit relatives during his absence.
Wednesday evening while at the sup
per table she was suddenly stricken
with paralysis, and passed away in
about an hour.
The deceased was a daughter of
the late Mr. W. B. Berry, of Newnan,
a man of larve welth and high stand
ing. As “Miss Olive” she was loved
by all in her homo town for her sweet
disposition and Ane character, and
when she became tho wife of Mr. Lee
she proved herself a helpmeet in
deed, in close sympathy with all his
aspirations, a student of public af
fairs and wise in counsel. Her abil
ity was recognized in Washington by
her election as president of the or
ganization of the wives of Congress
men.
Mrs. Lee had a number of friends
in Cedartown, and was a visitor here
with her distinguished husband at the
time of the Congressional convention.
A noble woman —generous, mod
est, reAned, and unspoiled by wealth
nnd position—has gone to her reward,
and her loss is widely and deeply
mourned.
What are you doing to boost Cedar
town and Polk county? You can, at
least, join the new Building & Loan
Association.
ROGERS
WHERE SATISFACTION IS A CERTAINTY.
THURSDAY, FRIDAY and SATURDAY
PURE LARD, pound 13c
48kssp «i f
JL v/ PLAIN OR SELF-RISING El/ JL • V.
»6
n cans ROGERS SUGAR Q/
D C0RN ol
)c
12 4f
-L■■ PLAIN OR SELF-RISING 1\
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LARGE OCTAGON SOAP /
• Cake 1
)C
Best Creamery Butter A £
Pound
)c
Fresh Prunes -j £
Pound U
)c
1 A ^ S< Choice Irish
Potatoes
k
24
lbs Rogers Flour
PLAIN OR SELF-RISING
93c
25
lbs. Domino Cane
Sugar
$1.80
lbs. Golden Glow
Coffee
$1.07
Rogers Quality Bread
Loaf
5c
Fresh Bucket Candy
Pound
19c
Fancy Oranges
Dozen 30c
40c
3
lbs. Red
Onions
10c
2 lbs. Fruit Cake $1.50
FRESH CAKES! 1 Ib. Asst. Layer Cake 35c
1 lb. Old Fashion Pound Cake 35c
Fresh Whole Hams, pound 29c
ROGERS
WHERE SATISFACTION IS A CERTAINTY
405 Main St. CEDARTOWN, GA.
■fW* POLITICIAN SNHO AIM WI<1
VIEWS SO LOUDLY - USUALLY
MA4 View? THAT NEED THE
AIR. —
The next man who gets our vote for
the Legislature will have to pledge
himself to oppose the enacting of a
single, solitary new law until some of
the existing “dam-phool” laws are re
pealed.—Marietta Journal.
Hon. W. W. Mundy’s bill providing
for biennial insted of annual sessions
of the Legislature would be one of
the most effective wpys of heading off
such a needless multiplicity of laws.
Use Polk county products.
The boll weevil will never let cot
ton production “get back to normal”
in the sense that old methods of plant
ing can be resumed, but it is going to
be possible for the farmer to make
his work more proAtable. Small ac
reage, heavy fertilization, constant
cultivation and the use of calcium ar
senate, will give a good yield per acre.
It means hard work and increased
cost of production, but the probability
is that the weevil will also keep up the
price as well as the expense.
We wish it were possible to do a-
way with the crimes which call for
capital punishment, but wc can’t help
but believe that as long as they are
committed “the punishment should
At the crime.” Take the brutal rapist,
for instance,—what would ho care for
a term in the chaingang? One of
these Aends—a white man up in
Michigan who had served a term for
assault on a woman—brutally ravish
ed an eleven-year-old girl last week.
Fear for their own lives is the only
tiling that keeps many men from
murder and rape, and we are not in
favor of doing away with the death
penaity until some method of brain
surgery is found that will transform
criminals into law-awiding citizens.
Georgia Clays.
That the Georgia clay deposits are
sufficient to supply the needs of the
nation for generations to come, and
that there are glowing opportunities
in the development of these mineral
resources, is the statement of Dr. R.
T. Stull, Chief Ceramist, United
States Bureau of Mines, who is per
haps the leading ceramic expert of
America. Dr. Stull is quoted to this
effect in a statement by .President
Winburn, of the Central of Georgia
Railway, published elsewhere in this
paper.
The Central of Georgia Railway has
' been engaged for the past eighteen
j months in a series of comprehensive
! tests of Georgia clays, in co-operation
; with the United States government.
I The object of the railway was to as
certain facts upon which a program of
development might be based. The
tests were conducted at the Ceramic
Station of the United States Bureau
of Mines and in numerous manufac
turing plants and potteries. The work
is still in progress, but enough has
been done to establish the fact that
Georgia kaolins can compete in the
industries with the English china
clays, now so largely imported.
The availability of the bauxitie
clays in this section for the manufac-
ure of Are brick of high quality, haa
also been demonstrated. Large de
posits of these bauxitic clays have re
cently been discovered. It is anti
cipated that as the result of this In
vestigation production will be largely
increased.
The present value of Georgia’a
mineral products is in excess of $13,-
000,000 per annum, approximately
35 per cent of which is in brick and
clay products.
President Winburn says that the
Central of Georgia Railway is engag
ed in this work in keeping with its
| policy of being “a good citizen and a
1 helpful neighbor,” believing that it
I has an obligation to aid in the de-
I velopment of the country it traverses,
j Pamphlets describing the govero-
; ment tests, may be obtained by ap
plication to J. M. Mallory, General
. Industrial Agent, Central of Georgia
I Railway, Savannah, Ga.
j Polk is in the “clay belt,” and we
! would suggest that there is probably
; a proAtable Aeld for investigation fod
some of our people.
INN PADS and INK—You can now
And them at the Standard office.