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na, Ga., na second class mail matter,
according to' the of Congress,
Marsh 3rd, 1876.
THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1016.
Only three months
fair.
Now that the new county fight is
over, let’s get together and make the
-1916 county fair a big success.
Among the first to contribute
funds for the Dooly county fair was
the Unadilla Reporter. Coming at
the time it did and from the official
organ of the Simmons County move
ment, it is to be appreciated. It
shows the right spirit. We do not
.want to lose such people our county
'n<$ds them. While we admire their
fighting spirit, we trust that if they
'fail to secure their object at this ses
sion they may be reconciled to still
be a part of opr prosperous county
if Dooly.
A strong effort is being made to
. A 5!
repeal the tax equalisation law at
Sta
dlls session of the legislature. This
law has only been in effect two years
id the first year the digests of the
fate showed a gain of about $86,-
300,000. In consequence of the
rain, the highest rate the Constitu-
Jon of the State allows which is 6
nills, yhis reduced to 4 1-2 mills. The
•noons a saving to the tax payers of
Georgia approximately one-half mil-
ion dollars. Of course this is a tav
ng only to those who really give in
“heir property at something like fair
'aluation. Possibly it does hit tome
roperty owners for more than they
ormerly paid, but did they veturn
heir property at a fair valuation
irevious to the enactment of this
law?
It seems instead of repealing this
'aw the hotter enforcement of it
would be more popular with those
who want to be fair.
governing the state splendidly with
62 subdivisions, or counties, there
is something wrong in the- way Geor
gia is governed—162 counties in the
state, and every year calling for
ore!
If New York and California can
get along with one-third the number
of counties that Georgia has, is it
not time to begin consolidation of
counties instead of creating new ones
There is already a well-organized
movement for better highways, and
with the improved modes of , travel,
distances that formerly required a
day to traverse now require only an
hour or two.
The people of most any commu
nity in the state will tax themselves
build a new courthouse and pay
salaries to a now set of county of
ficers, then point with pride-to the
splendid edifice and boast' of the
brains, of Colonel So-and-So, while
there is not a decent school house nor
competent teacher in the county.
.Why not combine the cbuntles, di
viding the 150 counties by 3, leaving
60 county courthouses with their of
ficers- to administer the affairs Of
the people: eliminate the officers of
the 100 thus combined and use thalr
salaries to pay teachers and convert
the courthouses into school houses,
thereby improving the school sys
tems!
When a new county is created the
argument, therefore, is urirlly that
the couuhnjse is too for from a sec
tion of the existing county: or that
a^rfver divides the county nr.d the
pcn|b on the opposite side of the
courthouse are put to inconvenience
because no bridge spans thn stream
all exce’mnt reasons f.>r creating
fat jobs for politicians and enhanc
ing the value of the property of a
w ciUteri of the community flat
they nwer tell the people that the
amount required to erect the court
house not'd build permanent bridges
across the streams, solve the prob
lem and eliminate the perpetual cost
of officers’ salaries for the new
counties.
—James T. Williams in Atlanta
Constitution, of July 18th.
THE COTTON CROP.
As the year closes there ia an in-
•-eased demand for cotton abroad,
and yet the foreign demand hat
■een from two to three millions less
turn usual. The indications
herefore, for good prices. The mar-
eta of the world, as they are re-
tricted today, will call for more cot
on than was raised last year. If
l-eaqo comes before the end of the
ear, there will be an enlarged Eu-
opean demand, which will take all
he cotton at fair prices that Ameri-
a can produce on ita present
creage. The estimate of the crop
iow ia for a little over fourteen mil-
'ions.
Last year when prices were down,
he acreage was greatly restricted
end the yield of cotton was grsatly
urtailed. With this reduction in
he cotton crop came an increase in
'ho price. Cotton that had been a
'rug on the market was in active de
mand when the cotton planting sea-
on opened. The farmer responded
o this demand with a larger acreage
.ind a larger crop is to be expected,
In 1914, when the panic struck
•Jis cotton market, there was a clam-
-r on all sides for legislative action
o compel the farmers to curtail
■heir acreage. Some wanted it cur-
ailed a quarter; some one-third,
dome wanted it curtailed one-half.
I here are always a lot of quack doc-
lots in business and politics who
bant to control the property of other
veople by their oym ideas as to-what
s best to do.
All that the law should do is to
’:eep the markets frte from mnnlpu-
atton, to protect the unorganised
producers from the combination of
irganized buyers. The markets reg
ulate the price and the price will reg
ulate production, whether it la in the
us of wheat or meat, batter or cot-
mn. This reduced demand brings
about a reduction in the price. That
n turn increases the demand. We
.'o not need laws regulating these
hlngt, if we let the natural laws
•ommercc and industry have free
-morse.—Home and Farm.
THE PROPER FOOD .AND ,
HOW TO FEED HOGS
NEW
1AYS CALL A HALT ON
COUNTY MADNESS.
Editor Constitution: I desire
ommend the editorial in The Const),
ution of Sunday, July 16, under the
sption, “New County Madness. 1
With California having an area
early three times that of Georgia,
•• population nearly equal to Grar-
,-ia’s and having only 62 counties,
nd New York having an area Just
’.000 square miles less than that
Georgia and a population about four
Jaea greater than Georgia’s and
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PROF. STROZ1ER OFFERS
ASSISTANCE.
HIS BOY COLLECTS 40,778 TIN
! CANS IN LOWNDES COUNTY
Vienna, Ga., July 17, 1910. : ?or “" Cont * nl * J Co " 1,l „ AH Hlv ®
Been Raised At Home.
Editor News:
I noticed an article recently in
your columns from Mr. E. G. Greene,
County Superintendent of Educa
tion, in regard to adult illiteracy.
As your readers may know, the
movement to reduce adult illiteracy
had its origin in the mountain coun
ties of Kentucky. Within a fev;
years this movement has been suc
cessful in that state that 40,000 men
and women have been taught to reed
and write. This movement has
spread to other states, Among the
number our cwn state. Some coun
ties in Georgia are already making
satisfactory progress in the jWork.
Our own county should join the
novement If the teachers through
out the county will earnestly co-op
erate with our present superintend
ent and his successors, there should
not be a man or woman in the coun-
t.. within two or three years unable
to read and write.
One purpose of this communica
tion is to commend the movement
apd to offer so much of my spare
time as possible to men and women
individually or collectively who
have been denied the opportunities
of education, and who yet desire to
learn to read and write.
No books are needed at first ex
cept a little booklet prepared by
State Superintendent M. L. Brittain.
can be purchased of the Byrd
Printing Co., of Atlanta, at four
ci nts a copy.
R. J. STROZIER,
Supt Vienna Public Schools.
put •
COTTON MILL STOCKS
ARE STEADILY RISING
Sixty Per Cent Advance in Some
Issues in FeW Months.
The following from the Yaxoo
City Herald of July 10 is another
dipping about the shipping of hogs
that will interest, especially the
termers.
Mr. W. R. Ritch, spoken of in the
article is farm demonstrator and is
paid a salary by the county to teach
farmers export diversification and
stock raising and to attend to the
marketing and “tbs best paying in
vestment that county ever made,”
says one who knows.
The agricultural school is a every
county institution in Mississippi,
each receiving $1,500 a year from
the state and county taxes do the
rest
The boll weevil crossed the Miss
issippi river got just below Nstchex
and hit Natches first and hardest,
but the packing houta there has been
her redemption..
“One of the beet lessons it to be
taught in Yatoo City August 19th to
the breeders of hogs, that could pos
sibly bo conceived. There will be a
car filled with hogs which have been
fed ti the government station rec
ommends with the use of the self-
feeder. No hog will be put in this
car that does not come up to the re
quired standard, that is n grade hog
from some standard breed, but other
hoga will be received and shipped
separately. This precaution is nec
essary to show the fanners the dif
ference in a hog that hat been fed
scientifically and just a hog which is
left to grow as he can.
Those who have carried out the in
struction! with their hogs in feeding
and getting ready for market, are as
follows: The Agricultural High
School will have twenty-five, which
have been fed on corn and tankage
in the self-feeder and grazed
white clover at night with access to
plenty of water all the time. The
Agricultural High School hogs are
giade Durocs. Mr. Geo. Martin will
have ten grade- Berkshirea which
been fed with self-feeder on corn
and pasturage. Mr. J. N. Coker will
have three which have been on corn
corn and takage and roasting ear*.
Mias Selsh Perry will have three
which have been fed on corn, cotton
seed meal and pastured on rape. MrT
Marx Schaefer two which have been
fed on corn and skimmed milk.
“There will be many other good
demonstration*. These hogs were
all weighed when put on feed and
each pound of food has been weighed
and a record kept daily to show ex
actly which fetd. is the least expen
sive and will make the hog take on
flesh the fastest.”-—Yazoo City Her
ald.
Columbus, July 17.4-The increas-
on of
Ingly healthy conditiofi of cotton
manufacturing interests in Colum
bus is shown by the steady rite in
cotton mill stocks.
A few months ago the stock of
perhaps the largest textile corpora
tion in Columbus was quoted at not
quite $60 a share. Today $82 is
asked for this stock and the last
reported tale was at $80.
The stock of one of the cotton
manufacturing companies here is
>ow quoted et $226 a share.
One of the,cotton mills here whose
capita) stock was originally $1'00,-
000, had a $100,000 bond issue. - In
time this was paid off, in clean cash.
Subsequently the company declared
dividend of 100 per qent, express
ed in the form of new stock issue.
One company is building a mill
which, it ia reported), will cost, in
cluding equipment, about $400,000.
This company’s stock has been in
round numbers $160,000, and its
capital ia to increased to $800,000
The present talk in financial circlet
is that the company probably will not
issue bonds, but will pay for the new
mill out of the new stock iesue and
surplus fund.
Another company that is building
a mill has not yet iesued bonds with
fit nais 4 Vl i a J— 1
Valdosta, Ga., July.—Valdosta
has just completed a campaign to
eliminate -the empty tin can. Prizes
offered by the merchants caused to
be collected and delivered at the
court house 40,000 idle cans. A boy
named John Chambers collected
over 7,000 and won first prize of
$10. The neXt boy gathered 6,305,
the next 4,390, and so on. It was
a successful undertaking that had a
money side in that the good cans
have a market Value in these days
of war and high-priced metals. But
the objects that caused the crusade
is also'of interest.
President Powell, of the South
Georgia Normal, had been appealed
by the students of the summer
school to provide some relief from
the incessant attack of .dry-weather
mosquitoes, day and night. Ho gave
liberally of his time and money to
inemy to rout. One morn-
lady displayed an other-
rmed arm that bore the
early 190 bites.'
That was the last straw.
The . business man were told the
Id be forced to close un
less ^something was done and that
_,iiy. | Prb|* Powell suggested
the boy scouta be appealed to in
gathering the empty cans about
that offered such splendid
reeding places. Another man sug
gested prizes, as rewards of industry
and the campaign was on. How suc
cessfully it worked out and provided
relief has just been stated.
The sight of forty thousand—40,-
78, to be exact—tin cans stacked
cn the well-kept lawn about the
courthouse was an imposing sight.
sets one to thinking. Is it a mon
ument to Georgia’s one-crop system,
a land so abundantly blessed by
sunshine and rain that everything
that was formerly packed in the cans
could have been produced in Lown
des county? Does it in a large sense
explain where the census of lSKEgot
the figures that show Georgia to im
port $127,000,000 worth of feed and
food product! a year, in solid car lots
end $186,000,000 total, including
broken lots and all.
jcho
which to pay for this improvement
and it is reported that there it
strong likelihood that the company
will not issue bonds, but will pay for
its new mill out of its surplus, pos
sibly supplemented with borrowed
money.
The cotton mills have' their ups
and downs; their good seasons and
their bad seasons, and the average
earnings are not near as good at the
present earnings, as this happens to
be a period of unusually good rado
be a period of unusual prosperity
with them. It is reported that one
of the largest companies here earned
17 per cen\ last year.
Th Columbus mills find their prod-
nets in much demand. Those that
make colored goods, have a good
market with satisfactory prices.
Those that manufacture yam can
sell all that they can make, and
more too.
The dyestuff problem has, of course
been a serious situation, but dyes
have been obtained tome way, some
how, although often the shipments
have been very small. The local
supply of black and bine dyes, as
carried by local cotton mills, is re
ported to bo larger than it has been
in some time.
AMERICUS FAIR WAS
PERFECTED THIS WEEK
Americus, Ga., July. Tuesday
night at the Chamber of Commerce
was held a meeting of the stockhold
er! of the Third District Fair Asso
ciation, the aession being for the pur
pose of perfecting the permanent
organization of the association and
to get everything in readiness so that
the actual work of preparing the
fair grounds may be commenced
once.
times, and, if elected by the good
people of this district, I promise to
faithfully discharge the duties of
this great office with fidelity to your
every interest
Respectfully,
' T. G. HUDSON.
TO THE VOTERS OF THE THIRD
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
FOR CONGRESS
To the Voters of the Third Congres
sional District of Georgia:
I hereby announce my candidacy
for election as your Representative,
from the Third Congressional Dis
trict of Georgia, to the Sixty-fifth
Congress, subject to the primary to
be held September 12, 1916, and re
spectfully solicit your support to
this position. If nominated and
tlected, I pledge myself and the best
energies I am capable of exerting to
yonr every interest, and especially to
procure for you:
1. The co-operation of the Na
tional government with several
states in the enforcement of their
prohibition laws to the extent of de
nying application for license to man
ufacture or sell intoxicating liquors
in such states, and the procurement
of such necessary changes as will
prohibit the shipment of intoxicat
ing liquors in prohibited territory;
and will earnestly advocate every le
gal measure that will procure for the
whole people National Prohibition.
2. I will support such rural cred
it legislation a* will actually give to
the farmers of our country the re
lief-that haa been ao often promis
ed, by making available to them,
with good security on land or rat
ten, long loans of money at low
rates of interest, such loans to* bt
made directly by the government.
3.. I shall favor a sufficiently
equipped army and navy to com
mand peace at home and respect
abroad, and the manufacture of our
navy and army equipment by the
government
4. The restriction of immigra
tion at lekst to the extent of re
cruiting immigrants to register, giv
ing all information necessary as to
their previous lives and the signing
of a pledge that within three months
after entering our country they will
become citizens in a legal way.
6. A complete separation of all
affairs of church and state.
6. The extension of the Rural
Free Delivery system and the im-
piovement of the Parcel Post sys
tem, to the end that the rural dis
tricts throughout the country may
be benefited thereby.
I purpose to conduct my cam
paign on a high plane. I do not de
sire to be elected on the demerits of
others, bat on my merits alone.
My Campaign headquarters
be at Americus, Georgia, where
secretary or I win be glad to wel
come fend advise with friends fet fell
I hereby respectfully announce my
candidacy for re-election ts your Rep
resentative in tiie Sixty-Fifth (66th)
Congress, subject to the primary to
he held on September 12th.
During the short time I have been
your Ciyigressman, I have sincere
ly endeavored to serve yon faithfully,
and if my efforts and record meet
with yonr approval, I will feel great
ly honored and profoundly grateful
if you win give me your support in
the coming election. Congress has
been in almost continuous session
since yon elected me, and duty re
quired me to stay here, which pre
vented roe from visiting you as often
as I wished. The Ways and 'Means
Committee ie now daily Working on
a Revenue measure; being on that
committee, I must remain here until
the new tax law is passed. As soon
as Congress adjourns, or before then,
if public business will permit me to
leave, I expect ts canvass the District,
meet the people personally, and talk
to them face to face, both individual
ly and on the stump.
If re-elected, 1 promise to discharge
the duties of the great office with fi
delity, and to the beat of my ability.
From the depths of my heart I
thank yon for yonr past kindness to
me.
Cordially yours,
CHARLES R. CRISP.
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TO THE WHITE VOTERS OF
DOOLY COUNTY.
I hereby announce myself n can
didate for Representative from
Dooly County in the next General
Assembly of Georgia, subject to the
Democratic Primary. Your influence
and support will be highly appreciat
ed. .i-*!* r ' ■ e
W. H. LASSETER.
NOTICE? TEACHERS' EXAMINA
TION.
The next general examination for
applicants to teach in the public
schools of the state will be held at
the Academy in Vienna, Friday and
Saturday, August 4 and 6, 1916, be
ginning at 7 o’clock a. an
Those wishing to make • license
most attend both days as only a part
of the questions will be submitted
each day.
There will be questions on the
reading course for those who wish
to renew a first grade license.
E. G. GREENE,
\ Supt Schools, Dooly County.
7-10-4t
CO A L
From Mines to Consumer
Bonita Jellico Coal
Delivered In VIENNA, OA.
Juns Shlpment....$4.05 per ton
July Shipment....$4.15 per ton
Ansast Shipment $4.30 per .ton
Hamilton Fuel Supply Co.
Knoxville, Tean.
Have you heard the seductive
song of tljp Vacation Bug ?
It is telling you of flannel shifts,
of yachting caps, of summer sweat
ers, of belts, of filmy underwear, of
wash ties and a summer walldng
stick.
It has pointed out the seashore or
the mountains where your winter
work brain will recuperate.
See us before you go.
J. P. Heard & Sons’ Co.
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