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ATHENS, GA.
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! CHARLES E. MARTIN
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""Andrew C. Erwin, liowdre Phi®
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y. II. J. Howe,
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Address pH Unwlnesa Communications j
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MEAT AND BREAD
■M There if no question-now bit that the Athens
Curb Market is playing an important role in the
economic life of northeast GArgia. Four hundred
and fifty-cjght farmers in this section have applied
and been granted permission Jto sell their products
at the. Curb Market. This number represents nearly
every community in Clarke aid the counties ad
• joining"Clarke. Thousands of
duce has been sold and (he
fer things (he farmer cannot
Has the Curb Market succ
consumers and producers th
Not a Curb Market day is h
of thirty-five producers is on
sumer. On Saturday’s as nuny as one hundred and
twenty five sellers have bedfi counted. Sales run
ning anywhere from $5 to $135 have been recorded
on the Curb Market in a finale day.
One woman bas reported jhe keeps her family in
staple groceries from sale offc surplus from her'gar
den. Another says she has paid money on hack
debts in addition to aiding th| family “Keep body and
soul” together—all from sail? on the Curb Market.
One man reports sales amounting to more than $.100
since the market opened M;» 5 despite an enforced
ahsense of two weeks when le was plowing.
These facts tell theii; own itory. We have it from
the farmers themselves that the Curb Market has
; dollars worth of pro-
honey i;)ent in Athens
laise or make,
pded? We will let the
nseives answer that.
Id but that an average
land to sell to the con-
been a blessing. Buyers hal
so, hut stronger than is the
e been pleased and say
Verbal testimony of pro
ducer and consumer is their return trips to the >Iar-
tliat the Market has
solving the problem Qf
ket. This is silent evidenci
been and is helping some il
making the. farm profitable,
However, the Curb Marki has not entirely solved
the problem. It has hut poi ted the way. , It is now
left for us to "carry on” in t le program of which the
Curb Market has been a pa t. We must raise more
produce in Northeast Georg a and we must have
facilities at hand to markel that produce.
The meeting of producers called for next Saturday
at the Chamber of Common b should result in laying
the plans for future nctivit; . A canvas of the pro
ducers will undoubtedly be started to ascertain just
what they are planning to i iise for sale on the Curb
Market and shipment. An , when this canvas is
completed wo should have ti : machinery for handling
any surplus that is ruised.
We cannot wait until nex .season to make these
plana. They must be made |NOW. Let not a single
Northeast Georgian delegat d to uttend yds meeting
fnil to respond. It is VITA ,.
It may pave the way for uture prosperity. Right
now it is MEAT AND BRE D. I '
YOUR SLAVE *
Housework of American /women now is lightened
by about 21 million piece of electrical apparatus,
not counting lights. The 1 it of these electric labor-
saving devices in the home vili interest mn: ,
3,850,000 Vacuum clear ers.
3,500,000 Electric funs.
2,915,000 Electric clothe washers.
1,260,000 Heaters and r diators.
1,000,000 Toasters.
500,000 Coffee perculati rs.
437,000 Sowing machine .
116,000 Ironing machine: I
106,000 Dish washers.
These are tne. devices hat lead. Others,
course. The Wonder- is tha there aren’t more in use.
There will be, in lime.
In' 1880 the population ( t the United States wus
less thnn half whut it is now In those days, less than
a million dollars was invest J in the electric light and
power Industryi
Today the investment is i round five billion dollars,
or about 5000 times us muc .
In our whole country ar 22,500,000 homes, and
8,500,000 of them arc wirei for electrical service. In
addition, the power lines ar ready to extendi the ser
vice to-5,000,000 more hon >s as soon as they want
the power.
The electric light and p wer industry is growing
so rapidly .that it requires a lillion dollars of new cap
ital each year.
Electricty?WiIl be the ma i fuel nnd power of the
future. Wo have barely ci ered the Electrical Age.
One of its greatest developm nts will be the conversion
of coal into ( electric power i the mines, the power to
be sent outjover the countrj by high tension wires or
by radio. Among other thii pt, this will save tremen
dous rums of money nnd ti le, by eliminating long
hauls of coal from mjne to < msunier.
Chained lightning is gro\ ing up into your heat
slave,.
Let there be a conventioi bureau organized and
have some.one in authority vho is authorized to un
derwrite any convention, be t small or largtv-nnd ar
range a program which wil he in keeping'with the
occasion and with the Atheijb spirit.
Monroe and Winder, two] sister cities, have up a
heated discussion that was pfecipitnted by a folder is
sued and sign hoards put us along the highway be
tween Atlanta and Athens Itating that it is nearer
between these two places via Monroe than Winder.
Winder disapprove* this claim and it may he that a
committee from the two cities will join a party in
logging the routes to establi* the claims.
Oglethorpe county is not Satisfied with the main
tenance work that the-State! Highway department
has done on the roads of the county it has taken over.
Lack of proper maintenance hvork is causing more
criticism from individuals of the Highway depart
ment thnn anything else andlunless the department
gives more attention.to that.part of its work it won’t
get very far with the general traveling public.
