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THE BANNKR-HBRALP. ATHENS, GEORGIA
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MONDAY. SEPTEMRFn ,
THE BANNER-HERALD
ATHENS, GA.
Uncle Sam’s Jig-Saw Puzzle
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Athens, Ga. .—.—
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Thoughts For The Day
To him that esteemeth any thing to be
dean, To him it is unclean.—Rom. 14:14.
To the pure all things are pure.—Shelley.
THE UNIVERSITY’S PROSPECTS
The University of Georgia opens its one hundred
and twenty-third session Wednesday. The indica
tions point to a record-breaking attendance and to
the most successful year in the history of that great
instiution. . , .
The people of the state in recent years have been
waking up to just What this institution means to the
youth of Georgia. There was a time when there
was much prejudice and much misapprehension of
the true state of affairs at thq University. TJat day
has passed and the people of the state see the insti
tution in its true light and, realize the great work
that it is doing for the yoUng men in every way.
While every Georgian feels a pride in the number of
young men attending the University, their chief
pride is in the fact that the University does not rely
upon numbers for its greatness. Every year witness
es an advance in the quality of instruction and the
young men attending here are given each year bet-
ter chances to learn the great things of life. Great
er and greater stress is laid each year upon the train
ing that makes real, strong, vigorous, active, cul
tured men. The young men year by year are being
trained into more and more useful citizenship.
The people of the state know now that their great
educational institution is keeping abreast of every
important movement, the first to see the real needs
of the state, and always ready to do every thing pos
sible to meet the requirements of the situation and
improve the state in every way.
The University stands for the very highest ideals
in education and at the same- time is thoroughly
practical. The great questions of the day are seen
clearly by those who are directing its affajrs and the
young men in attendance upon its classes are given
a training that fits them to grapple with those ques
tions and solve them. /
Says Tobacco Is Not Profitable
Crop For North Georgia
Can’t Produce Bright To
bacco Here, Says Ag.
College Specialist. Soil
Not Suited to It.
ATHENS AND HER HOME INDUSTRIES
The Banner-Herald is in receipt of a letter from a ,
good citizen and prominent business man in which ^
he says:
“In a conversation the other day with quite a
prominent citizen at Athens, he rather expressed his
discouragement over the future of the town and com
mented on the fact lhat we had so few industries in
Athens outside of the cotton mills. I asked him the
question whether he was patronizing those indus
tries existing in Athens, and called his attention to
one concern, which would be a very valuable asset
to Athens, provided it was properly patronized, and
that is the Co. This company is doing
quite a large business, but not doing anything like
the business it ought to do, and in response to my
question, if he used their product, he replied he did
not, but expected to from this time on exclusively 1 .
How many people in Athens who are not using this
product I do not know, but certainly home products
* ' people, especially
should be patronized by our own people,
when the article is as good as that made elsewhere.
If this company had the proper sjpport I believe
they would be employing hundreds of men, most of
them making good wages, rath dr than the few
men which they are employing at present”
And this brings up a question that every citizen of
Athens shbuld put to himself. Is It not my duty to
J iatronize home industries—at least to give them the
irst chance to sell me when I am In the market for
auch products? We believe that every citizen will
readily answer this question • Jn the. affirmative.
Then what makes it so hard to put it iqto practice?
In trying to answer this last question we believe
the trouble lies partly with the average citizen’s In
difference and partly with the selling end of the local
industry. In other words, granting that the local
product has both the value of outside products and
that also its price is in line, yet. as a rule its selling
effort will be concentrated In outside territory.
Athens must be sold just as any other market is sold.
Maybe this ought not to be the case, but it holds
true in business. For many years -Athens has sold
groceries right at Augusta’,* doors. Athens also
does the same thing in Atlanta’s territory. In oth
er words, the selling organization of Athens whole
sale grocers is so good they invade competitive ter
ritory.
Athens' has a number of home industries that
Should receive a larger local support and patronage.
_ .... -- glad to at
The Banner-Herald would be glad to do everything
in its power to bring this about. It should be a mat
ter of individual pride,and community patriqtism to
support these industries and to help in their growth
and development. As the days go by, -we are con-
_ by, -v
fident, that more and tnore small 'industries are
coming to Athens, but in all seriousness we suggest
to them in arranging their selling plpns that Athens
should be included as well as outside territory. Ath-
1 town/
ens is worth selling just as much as any-other i
The fall weather hafe arrived and with it business
has opened lively with the merchants. '
Support the Chamber of Commerce and back up
its undertakings for the good of thecitv.
' •IVWMIMI
Berton Braley’s
Daily Poems
THE DOUBT
By Bcrtnn Brainy
Time wa» when I wax ready
For any eld adventure; I.
When I was brnsh and heady,
Oblivious of censure.
But now, I figure chances
Down to the smallest fraction,
I weigh the circumstances
Before 1 get in actiuq^
Time was I chased illusion
And thought advice was need
less,
And plunged into confusion
With eager youth and heed
less;
But n»« before I journey
In fantasy’s dominion,
I talk with my attorney
And ask for hia opinion.
I once was moat Imprudent,
As young men, I suppose, are:
But now Iuu student
Of what the “cons" and “proa
And from a lot of thumping
I’ve gained some erudition,
I’m not so quick at jumping
At each new proposition.
I’ve learned to curb my hurry
And thus avoid a blunder.
And yet—and yet 1 worry
And cogitate,, and wonder;
I wish some kind adviser •
My load of doubt wrMd shud
der—
Say, am I getting Wiser,
Or merely getting Older?
JAPANESE RELIEF FUND
NEAR EIGHT MILLION
AND STILL GROWING
WASHINGTON.—The Japanese
relief fund 1 of the American Red
Cross approached $8,OOS.OOO today,
with subscriptions already reiiorti
ed totalling 87,454,600. Overnight
reports from division headquarters
gave the totals as follows;
Washington, 84.358,000; New
land. 8492.300; Southern,'8187.000;
Central fl.077.-f00; Southwestern.
8426^00: Pact tic, $718,000; Insular
and foreign $201,500.
The Cheapest
Way to Buy
Good Bread
Think of it! Atleast
33 good biscuits—
Tegular size—for five
cents. It is real econ
omy to use Merry
Widow Self-Rising
Flour, because it
contains the neces
sary amount of pure
ingredients and you
have only to add
’cold water or milk,
and shortening—
then bake.
Prosperity is abroad in 1 he land and conditoins
in this section are showing a wonderful improvement
over the past few years.
fords
mmim
Self-Rising Flour
DID IT EVER OCCUR TO YOU?
A Llttla of Everything And Not Much of Anything.
By HUGH ROWE.
Football fane are looking for*
ward to a feast this fall. With
•o much wonderful material
back frem last ysar and eo
many promising candidates and
with such an excellent staff of
conches, Georgia Is bounO to rank
first among the southern colleges
Coach Woodruff Is busy round
ing "out hla team for the first
game to be held here on September
29 with Mercer. The play* • * are In
fine form nnd the most determined
bunch of boys Georgia has pro
duced In years.
The average child h** vary
little piety, although we do not
think It irreverence. We ones
knew 'a little girl who was
playing In the yard and f thundei
storm came up. Her mother called
Cotton 11 3-8 cents.
Weather: Fair.
Thomas M. Aaron, age fifty-one,
blew his head orf with shotgun.
Mr. Ben Epps had-his arm brok-
on while attempting to crank ar
automobile— probably o Ford.
Governor Hoke Smith yesterdh;
administered the oath of'office to
T. J. Shackelford to be judge of
the City Court of Athens.
Miss Gussie Dunham died at
local hospital.
FAIL Til MOLLIFY
playing and her mother heard her
say, “God, God, stop tlyat racket
up there.
Her mother took her In
the house nnd explained all the
wonderful workings of nature an*
asked her If she understood. She
said: “uh huh.” A feuTtlays later
It was thundering again. The child
ruled to.her mother nnd said:
••Mother, God’s rolling dem barrel*
and things around again."
Cliff Hatcher, representative
of Burke county, has been
spending several days In Ath
ens. Hia record jn tho loglala-
ture will stand out prominent, if
for no other service than that of
passing a measure creating nn of'
flee for ex-service men of the
8panlsh-American war arid the th«
world wide wnr. He la a splendid
gentleman and one of tljj gblesl
members of the house. ,
“Bill" Wray of Wrayswood,
has recovered from a
operation at a local hoaplNl,
and has returned to hia home.
He belongs to one of the oldest am
moat prominent families of Athena
His father and grand father live#
In Athens and he nnd hla brother
Tom, were born here In’ the ole
Wrny home on Wray street, thi
street having been named for th«
grand father of the Wray boys.
(By Associated, Prato.)
BIRMINGHAM — Attempts to
nullify Indictments charging five
Savannah men with violating the
federal liquor laws met nlth fall*
ure hero Saturday,,when Judge W.
I. Grubbs overruled a motion fot
a new demurrer i na bll of parti
culars filed by A. A. Lawrence and
J. J. Bohamm of Savannah.
The defendants are W. E Wat
son, W. M. Haar, Frederick H
Hanr, Carl Harr and Max L. Wil
son. They are alleged to havi
been principals in a liquor opera
tion and unearthed by federo!
agents of Savnnnh last month. In
dictments against them were re-
turned by a federal grand Jury In
Savannah. ./
The Savannah Morning Nawa
says that as a whole the record*
show a decrease in marriage*
add an increase in divorce* in
Georgia, but that ih the city of* Sa
vannah, the number of mnrrlager
show an Increase over the numbel
or divorces. That Is a wonderin'
record for Savannah^ but before
we are willing *..» award them thf
trophy we would not be satisfied
until we have beard from Atlantr
—th* Nevada of Georglg,
mrnBmm
Mr. 8. Bernstein, president
of the Broad Street Office of
the American State Bank, met
wjth a pussling proposition
wfcep spened his post cfflci
box Saturday evening and found
In the box two letters addressed tc
him, one from Fred J. Orr nnd the
other one from the Bailey Too'
Co. Much to his surprise on read
ing them he noticed that they both
bore the post mark and wrltter
date* of October 1914. The Balls?
T^ol CO, has not been In business
In several years. How these let
ters could have been misplaced foi
such a length of time and then be
come resurrected Is baffling thf
a no utt
post'office officials
little.
ATHEN8 TWELVE YEARS AGO
8unday, September 17, 1011
William Guest an Insuranct
agent was aertously cut by Andrew
Fitzpatrick.
Rev. H. C. Compton, the drum*
mer greacfc*r. burned to Athen’
and made bond for hie appearancr
to clly court.
Shreysr, of New York, renre-
Talbotton Dentist
Is Sentenced to 15
Years For Murder
Athens, Ga., Sept. 16, 1923
To The Banner-Herald:
I notice a statement on the edi
torial page of your paper of Sept
ember 13th, which W'e at the Ag
ricultural College do not agree
with In it* entirety. The slate is:
“As Ibe beginning for a n#w cYor
in this seotiqnj every farmer should
plant a few acres in tobacdon
nexP year.”
There has been a great deal of
interest in tobacco In ndrth. Geor
gia for the past year due largely
the stories that have reached
♦bis section from South Georgia.
The farmers in south Georgia
have been producing bright tobac-
commercial scale since
1917^ The number of pounds pro
duced. and the average prices re
ceived are ns follows:
Year Lbs Tobacco
350,000
$.000,000
10,327.530
9.677,623
5,039,000
3,525.000
9,000,000 approx. 25.00
It will be noticed that the pro
duction Increased to 1919. Since
lowfr. Already ll,.. w
eo Krower.-rt-Kentucks,
cussing the rtilmbiin,',
out next ytwjdleroi, ,. nt J
have not; •jig(all
crop.
1917
.1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
Av. Prict
23.1
34.5
17.73
23.19
10.00
24.00
(lint time ♦here.ri&s been a rapid would produce a fair quality
decrease until this year. The price
received In 1921 was very unsatis
factory. The average price for the
entire crop was 10c per pound. On
some of the markets, the average
price received for the entire sea-
only 5c.
Th sandy soil In South Georgia
much hotter suited to the pro
duction of high quality bright to
bacco than the soils In north
Georgia. While tobacco will grow
luxuriantly. In North Georgia, most
of It is a dark type which does not
have a strong demand, and there
fore the price* usually received
are so small that‘the crop Is often
unsatisfactory as a cash crop. II
Is the bright cigarette tobacco that
brings good prices. Dark tobacco,
a large part of which Is exported
usually brings a much lower price
The type of tobacco is determined
largely by the kind of soil it it
pr<>\Vn on.
The farmers-of smith Georgb
have had'difficulty some years In
producing a satisfactory crop of
bright tobacco. Many of them
some years have not only failed to
plake money,*but hnve lost money
notwithstanding ihe fact that the
conditions there for growing It art
much more favorable than they *rr
throughout the Athens section.
Tobacco must be planted on the
right kind of soli before It Is pos
sible to produce a type that lr
profitable to grow. There are a
few patches of soil in North
Georgia which will grow a fairly
satisfactory type of bright tobac- per acre, while it r^ai,
but ns a genera! propositoin two days of man labor
suggests Hay as
PROFITABLE CROP
I believe that we ar« ,
ting one of th* bi'Rt op.
We have In thp way 0 f <
In-not growing hay fo,
Most every turner hai i
sury equipment for prod)
nnd la familiar with er m
curing it. Aavt* a r<
ket ut-liome. While
turns from hay’ crop* ai
big as frqm some of th
crops, the oqst of prod
much less. Labor in m
n ml more. acreage f
per man. 'Wvie us<
pcndable crepe like
oats and vetch. It would
slble to make a profitable
hay most any year.
t With the exodus of
the farm labor situation
coming acute,
requires forty days of
there patches of soil are so widely
scattered that experience ha*
shown that to attempt to grow o-
bnccq generally In North Georgia
a money crop would not be pro
fitable. Some of the light gray
soils which have yellow subaollr
bright tobacco. Aa a rule, how
ever, red land or gray land with
red sub soli will not producy high
priced tobacco.
We fully npprec*atf needs'Of
additional crops to supplement t*
part of the qotton acreage, but
wc believe It would be a great
deni more practical for the farm
era to grow the crop* which thej
would have the greatest possibil
ity of obtaining a profit from.
The farmers of South Georgia
South Carolina, North Carolina
and Virginia are already making %
to produce hay. T<-bare
not be attempted
there is suitable soil uni*
amount of labor Is avalln
We appreciate the fact
paper is widely rend, and
readers, have profited
reading yoyr columns,
know that you do not I
ly publish anything 8
think would not be for
Interest of the people «
serve.- ~
These are the reason*
desire to calj your nttentl
Statement referred to
that you Will appreciate
tltude in the v matter.
With best Wishes. I
Very truly vo
K. C. WEST
Form Management Special
College of Agriculture.
TABOTON’-Dr. C. %M. Black
prominent dentist of Talbotton
charged with murder In connection
with tho fatal stabbing of Jessr
C. McGuirt. local merchant con
victed of voluntary manslaughter In
the superior court. Judge Murirr
sentenced him to 15 to 20 years.
BogartHighSchool
Overflowing With
Many Eager Pupils
BOGART, Ga.—The revival meet-
in, closed Sunday night and be
comes history. This meeting,
ducted at the MethoCiit church, hv
the pastor, Hnv..J.'l,. Jolley, ssllst-
ed by Rev. J. W. Austin of Carl,
On., was one of the most wonder
ful meetings Bogart ban ,. on for
yearn. Hev. Austin preaches with
great force. His earnestness In *iot
to be doubted wblcli of course, ac
counts for the success of the meet
ing.
The audience increased in num
ber each service until Sunday night
at tho last service the church was
filled to itn utlmost capacity, both
sitting and standing room, besides
a great number who could not even
gain admittance.
Bogart High School which be
gan September 3,'in now ocerflow-
Ing. Each ot tbe four clan rooms
Is packed with'eager pupils seek
ing education. Another teached If
seriously needed in this school.
The school has been, steadily I
growing since the fall of 1921 when I
tbe first senior cius was organ- j
ixed by tho superiuleudenL C. Mors-!
ban Copeland. The corps ot aAUst-
nht teachers this year hre espec-
droQ Crank Case
Service
At our service stations we will
gladly drain the old oil from your
crank case and re-fill with the prop
er grade of Polarine Mo,for Oil
charging you only for the fresh oil.
This is just one of the many
features of the super-service we
maintain for motorists at omiser?
vice stations.
You will find conveniently;
located service stations at
Washington and Thomas Streets
Hancock and Hull
Athens, Ga.
And nearly everywhere you go.
Better Stick To The Standard
Always buy at the station or
the dealer with the Crown sign.
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Standard Oil Com;