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PAGE POUR THE BANNER, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 18, 1921 THE ATHENS BANNER Published every morning except Monday by',The Banner Publishing Company, 141 Lumpkin Street. H. J. ROWE, President and Editor. A Good Jiffoming to You By O. 0. BICKERS SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dally and Sunday, one month....! .80 Dally and Sunday, three months. 1.50 Dally and Sunday, six months... 3.00 Dally and Sunday, one year..... 8.00 Subscribers are requested to notify promptly toe business office of late delivery, failure to^ deliver with ab solute ,'egularity on the part of the carriers. Members of The Associated Press. Tho Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches to It or not otherwise credited In this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republlcatlon of special dispatches are also reserved. THE BultlDBR. J. Senator Harris Has Made Good. It Is with a degree of pleasure that Georgians watch the record being made by Senator William J. Harris. He Is not the blundering kind, who is forever kindling the flames for notoriety and publicity, but he has gone along in a quiet way and has nncceeded In making friends and gain ing the respect and admiration of not only his democratic colleagues, but that of the republican members of the senate. A few days since, in the senate, the republicans continued their efforts to delay legislation rfhd feeling that the time had come when n halt should be put to the maneuverlngs of the rrpublicans. Senator Harris announc ed that unless the Immigration bill was put nil Its passage appropriation bills yet to be enacted would be dis cussed for such length that their passage would be jeopardised. In other words, ho threatened a filibus ter and the republicans knew that lie meant just what ltd said, lfe also put them on notice that the nation expected of them to net and to attend to business. Senator Harris Is recognized ns nno of the leaders on the democratic side of the house and when he enters de bate on the floor he Is accorded tha closest attention. His long experi ence In legislative matters stands him well in hand fort splendid service to his constituents In this state. His services have been directed for the Interest of tho state, os well as that of the south nnd of the democratic party. Georgia has a representative In him who is devoting his best efforts and energies to every cause for the good of tho country und his record Is such as to cause much gratification. on tho part of Ills friends in this state. Kven under a republican adminis tration, Senator Harris will bo recog nized and -bis counsel will bo sought by the leaders of the republican party on mnttom pertaining to tho best In terests of the nation. General Wood Recognized. With no spirit of criticism for Pres ident Wilson. The Banner has never jfelt that Major General Leonard Wood was given a square deal during tho war. He Is beyond doubt one of the greatest generals tho country has known nrd his ability and fighting qualities are not surpassed. While he held an Important post during the war and rendered superb service to this country, still that was not his desire. He longed to be on the firing llns ho longed to be whore tho fight ing was thickest and where nerve, hruvery nnd resourcefulness counted for something. But, It was so or dered that he remain In this coun try—and he did so; ho gave the best that was In him to the service of his country and the results stand today as a monument to his ability and knowledge of conducting war. It la understood that President-elect Harding will offer to him the poll of governor of the Philippine Islands. Tile president-elect will make no mis* - take In appointing General Wood. The post is one of responsibility: one of much Importance nml one In which General Wood will liavo the oppor tunity of showing what Is in him. The Islands should be under the gov ernorship of some American who knows the needs of the people In that country and knows how to organize .nnd control them satisfactorily. No man In this country Is better qualified than General Wood to govern and direct the affairs of this little group. It will bo shown that after he has been governor conditions on the islands will be changed and the best Interest served in every possible man' ner. The Banner extends to General Wood Us sincere appreciation of hint, not as a republican or a democrat, but as one big and great American and one who believes in fair play and a square deal. He was a man of vision; else how could he see Upon, a barren, vqcant space , The aptesf site, the Ideal place, 1'prearlng In Its finish; fine. Its chaste proportions and design. Tile building fair Erected there— Perfect, complete, the edifice to he! II. He was a man of knowledge: else how could lie know Where choicest, straight-grained tim bers grew, Where stone to taka the patterns true Was hid, where artisans of skill With energy to work nnd will To do were nil 'Walling his call— To realize his visions as they grow! —d. a. n. THE BUILDING. The reason for the fact that the Temple reared Itself so smoothly was that— "There was not heard the sound of tho hammer"— Wielded by the "knocker." —D. O B. ANSWERS TO YESTERDAY’S KWIZ. 1. —Parquetry Is. wooden moalae. as floors or furniture. 2. —Marquetry Is Inlaid work of wood often Interspersed with stones, Ivory or other materials. 3. —William Moultrie was an Amer ican Revolutionary general famous for his heroic defense of the fort In Charleston harbor afterward named for him. >i 4. —Gum hrahlc Is a gum obtained from various species of ucacla, Is used in the arte and medicine. 5. —Thomas Jefferson was the first United States secretary of state, un der President Washington. 8. —Shooks are sets of staves and headings for casks, or sets of hoards cut ready for nailing together into boxes. 7.—Zoroaster was one of the great „ .... teachers of tho East, who founded the Ills long expert- Religion of the Irano-Perslans. !' 8.—Texas borders upon New Mex ico, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louis iana. 9. —The Sierra Madre mountains form the principal mountain chain In Mexico. .. it I 10.—In loco parentis (Latin) means In the place of a parent. NEW QUE8TION8. 1. —What Is tho significance of the lame El Dorado? 2. —What Is pitch? 3. —What Is a ragout? 1.—What does tho expression [‘Crossing the Rubicon" moan? 5. —-What does the term “dehydrat 'd" mean in preserving fruits or veg able*? 6. —What Is sorghum? 7.i—Who was Friedrich Wilhelm istische? 8. —What are the two chief pred icts of Cuba? 9. —Where Is ths Island of Ceylon? 10. -r-Whnt Is marrow? Millionaire clubmen acted as stok ers on n iSwedlsh liner hound for New York when the regular crew of firemen struck for higher wages. 'A Roman battle standard and a Ro man general's folding camp chair, an tiquities dug up In Essex a century ago, two of Great Britain’s most an cient military trophies, were recently sold at a London auction room for two hundred pounds. HERE’S PROOF An Athens .Citizen Tslls of His perlencs. The chief of the nvwale branch general staff, whose business during the war was to study soldier psychol ogy. states that the slogan, "Let's go," is the slogan that won the war. OEOROIA—Clarke County. Notice W hereby given all persons who owe the estate of the late Cart- ton Johnson, deceased, to make prompt settlement, and nil persons who hold In their possession any per sonal property of the said Carlton Johnson, deceased, are requested to deliver the same over to the execu trix of said estate, and all persons bolding claims against the estate of the told Carlton Johnson, deceased, •re requested r u> make out proof of claims and mall the same to the ex ecutrix. ' This February 19tb. 1921. , MRS. SARAH E. MONTGOMERY. Executrix, Carlton Johnson Estate. ' , Ga. You have a right to doubt state ments of people living far away but can you doubt Athenn endorsement? Read it: John Henry Becker. 49 Lumpkin St., Athena, says: "We have used Doan's Kidney-Pills In the home on different occasions when there has been any signs at kidney disorder and they have never failed to bring: fine results. I had my first experience with this medicine some years ago when 1 suffered from severe pains across my back end kidneys. 1 got a box of Doan’s Kidney Pills and be gan taking them and they fixed me np In lino shape. I have used Doan's occasionally since and they have never failed to bring the desired re sults. I am pleased to give this en dorsement." Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't sim ply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doon'a Kidney Pills—the same that -Mr. Becker hod. Foster-.Mllburn Co., Mfrs„ Buffalo, N. Y—Adv. THE CHEERFUL CHERUB Ply diyj rinvy bri«s£ jome little cwres i But 5l*tp, thie kind •tTvcar, > Will com* each ni^kt' Vrid rub thenrx out Just like % bio era.ser RTC*""/ zancM monoy, Letters from the People Outlook For Cotton; Editor Athens Banner: 1 have had so many Inquiries about rotton, and the next, crop, and the high price of fertilizers, that I hare decided to Issue the following state ment: The present outlook for the cotton farmer Is indeed gloomy. Cotton is selling for less, than one- half of the cost of production. For the past five months there has been no real cotton market; only a speculative market. • In an effort to reduce wages to yi minimum the cotton mills have, by an iron-clad agreement, been closed all the fall, or else running on half time. Wages have now been forced down and the mills are starting up again, but they are buying cotton only 'from hand to mouth/* They buy what they need each week, and then they stop buying. The cotton farmer, to meet this kind of buying, must hold his cotton and tell as the mills will buy. To dump all of his cotton on the mills at onco is like trying to force more corn on a foundered horse. Such a policy vould reduce the price of cotton be low ten cents per pound. The bear speculators now claim that there Is more cotton on bond than the mills ran spin, and that next July will find us with a surplus on hand of over ten million hales—almost enough to run the mills another year. This may or may not be true. At any rate, the farmer has no way of disproving it until our government can have the cotton on hand counted. This will not be done soon. In the meantime the argument of a ten-mlllion-bale surplus and "carry over" is sending down the price of cotton. Every time a friend oC cot ton says that the price is too low, that it Is selling for on^-half the cost of production, the hear speculator and enemy of the cotton grower replies: "The world has more cotton on hand than it can spin in a year and does not need any more cotton.” The only way we enn effectively answer this argument Is not to pro duce the rotton. Why should we make more cotton If the world lias enough? Under such conditions the more wo make the Jess we would get for it. The less we make the more money we would recolve. The census for the past ten years shows that the short cotton crops have always sold for more In the ag gregate than big crops. Then let us make a short crop. Let us plant for a short crop. The boll weevil has cut the crop some; let us. as intelligent men, cut it mo;e. I.et us save the boll weevil the trouble and ourselves the expense. How can this be done? A very simple matter. Let us cut down the cotton acreage one-half or more; let us cut down the use of fertilizers one- half or more. If we produce only six million hales at> cotton, we will get more money for it than we would get from a pro duction of twelve million bales. Think about it! Then it would only cost us one-half as much time and money to produce six million bales. The balance of the time we could employ in making food stuffs. But there is another big result that we would gd from planting for a six- million-bale crop. The cotton now on hand would almost immediately dou ble in price. Let the world be convinced that we will make only six million bales this year, and there will be n wild scramble for cotton; buyers will be come active and cotton will more than double In price. But tho world must bo convinced at once, in order to help the cotton farmer, ns lie cannot hold his cotton Indefinitely. «How are we going to do it? The way is simple. The amount of fertilizers sold each year is an early nnd suro index to the number of acres planted in .cotton. The cotton speculators and mill At The Colonial In the abstract, strong stories do | not make strong plays, but with i “Freckles,” which will be the attrac tion at the Colonial Theater next Monday night. February 21st, there Is | * an exception; it has made a stronger | J play than it was a story, and it is L Just as gripping to the theater goer j i as it was to the novel reader. It Is a play for all classes. Freckles, with his ready wit. his sweet songs and his battles with “Black Jack.” and the rest of the “timber thieves.” gives to the play a variety of incidents strong dramatic ally and strangely interesting. This Is not a moving picture. MISS OSIE SCHOFF. CELEBRATED SINGER. Miss Osie Schoff, the American mezzo, is one of the best known sing ers of the day. For five years she sang leading mezzo roles with the San Carlo Opera company and today her voice is just ns fresh as ever. This will be her third season with the New York English Opera com pany. ■Miss Schoff is one of the best known of our American singers, and she is a, welcome guest in all parts of the country, won an exceilent s coming to this city means that a treat is in store for our English opera lovers. During her career with the San Carlo Opera company, Miss Osf? Schoff became a popular favorite. She comes from a fine and distinguished American family, and is always wel come in the social set. Miss SchofT is a natural-born singer and musician. She is also interested in landscape gaining nnd outrof- door life. With the New York Eng lish Opera association she will be heard in ail the leading mezzo roles, MME. WALLACE, Contralto with the New York English °^era association, coming to the Colo In concert she has j nlal Theater for an engagement on ! February 22d. “Faust” will be pre sented in English. Seaboard Air Line Ry. Northbound Loaves Southbound Loaves 1 ft:85am.Atlanta-Monroe rocal.6:33pm 3:16pm Memphls-BIrmlnghom 2:24pm 2:16pm Atlanta 2:24pm 3:16pm.. Norfolk-RIchmond. ,2:24pm 6:00pm Atlanta-Abbevlllelocal 8:00am „ 11:47pm Dlrmingbam-Atlanta 6:17am This attraction will ho soon :it (he 11:47pm Washington-New York 6:17anj Colonial Tuesday evening. 11:47pm Norfolk-Wllmlngton 6:17am owners are looking to this. They his rotton. although he Is offered but will not believe that the rotton one-half tho cost of production. They acreage has been actually cut until say he should patriotically take his they see that the sale of fertilizer loss. has been cut. I.ct us apply the same rule to the H. on March 1st ami .April 1st. only fertilizer men. Will they sell for- ilizers for half the cost of produo- one-half of the number of tons of fer tilizer ore sold, compared to lost year, then the world will he convinced that the cotton crop has been reduced one- half. Last year over a million tons of fer tlllzer were used In Georgia. This year we should use less than half a million. ^ Fertilizer* Too High. The farmers should stubbornlv re fuse to buy any fertilizers at all at the present prices. The price Is out rageously high, and It will not pay to use it a( these prices. The price was "fixed” by the fer tilizer trust about September 25th. The price was fixed at about ten dollars per ton over last season's price. At that time It was not thought that cotton, would reach such low levels. Since "deflation” set In the price of raw material used In making fertili zers has declined. The fertilizer manufacturers have been asked to meet again and "fix” a lower price, but their reply has been a refusal on the ground that they had ulready purchased their raw material. ' The department of agriculture and the federal trade hoard at Washing ton have both warned these fertiliser manufacturers that their prices were too high, and threatened them with tile law. Tile department of agriculture said: "That in view c2 existing market con ditions the prices of mixed fertilizers quoted by manufacturers for tho spring trade of 1921 are too high.” Tile reduction made is u mere bag atelle. Farmers must not, ennnot ac cept these prices. -Many people urge the farmer to sell This photo, Ju*t received from Parts, seems to Indicate that the madame and mndamoiselle will again arrange her coiffeur so as to keep her ears exposed. Whether Americans will or will not accept this tip is yet to be seen. The evening cape worn Is of white velvet, trimmed with er mine. tion? When cotton was 45 cents per round fertilizers were $45 per ton. The prlco Is based on cotton prices, i.iul the cotton is made to stand nil it possibly can. Now cotton is 15 cor,Is per pound, why should not guano be $15 per ton, if the fertilizer manufacturer follows tho argument end takes the same loss as the farmer? So many people think the farmer should sell for onohalf the tiisl cost of production, blit no one rise In expected to do so. Tho amount ot- fertilizers used last war in Georgia was more than half the value of all the cotton we made. The Income eolleetod from Georgia ".. last year by fertilizer manu- 1 ■•-. r’rcis was more than that received . I h e owners of these farms. Tho ' Tt'llre" men get more from these farms than they would it they had < wneil every farm In Georgia, and i.imfdy rented them out to the pres nit occupants. At the present price of fertilizers it would he cheaper for the men who own these farm, to give them to the fe’tdlger >'n->n"f letnrcrx and pay them enstem-ry - nt. The farmers would make more money, the fertil izer men less. If wo pay the present price for fer tilizers it Is only n question of time when the fertilizer bill will bring the farm to sale. The farmer tills year should take 1 !.o cotton seed to the oil mill, ex change on n fair basis for men!, then mix his own fertilizer, nnd save $20 pdr ton. THOS. J. SHACKED* ORD. Bankrupt Sale In pursuance of an order granted hy Hon. Howell Cobb, Referee In Dankniptcy, tho undersigned, as trii"- tee for Orr Drug Co., win sell nt 2 o'clock P, M., on February 22. 1921. In front of the Foster building In tile City of Madison, to the high est bidder for cash, tho entire stock of drugs and confectioneries and store fixtures belonging to tho said bankrupt estate. Inventory of Bald stock of goods may be seen by apply ing in tho undersigned. Sold sale will take place subject to confirmation by the Court. This February 17, 1921. J. A. Atkinson, TRUSTEE. Accounts of all Kinds Collected In opening Business In Athens we desire to announce that we will h&n die all claims, large or emnll. We ex pect to give prompt, personal and ex pert attention to every detail ot this line of work. We expect to engage solely In collecting with no side lines. We solicit business In Athens and sur rounding territory for a radius of fifty miles. We Intend to cover the Held with trained and efficient collectors. If you have claims of any kind that you wish collected, give us a trial and If we do not get results, do not patron ize ua again. Come In to see ,j now. Dig up all your claims that you desire given ap to-the minute attention and turn them p»er to ns. We will do the rest Re mittances made the day collections arc inade. The sun never sets on us with the other man's money in oar possession. Our motto: "We go and get It." ATHENS COLLECTION AGENCY 102 Shackelford Building COLONIAL THEATRE The Musical Event of the Season NEW YORK ENGLISH OPERA ASSOCIATION PRESENTING JOSEPH SHEEHAN America’s Popular Tenor' BIANCA RANDALL Noted Southern Lyric Soprano with an all-star Metropolitan cast ot artists, PRESENTING GOETHE’S IMMORTAL FAUST IN ENGLISH OPERA In Four Acts Sidney Dalton, Musical Director Mail Orders Now—Seat Sale Saturday Prices: 50c to $2.00 Colonial Theatre-Monday Night, February 21 A SMART SONG PLAY, WITH A SMART CAST FOR SMART PEOPLE Broadway Amusement Co. offers William F. Thompson and an excellent cast of singers and dancers. Katherine Cameron, Mae Kirby, Jos. Rith, Harry Dickeson, D. P. Dickinson, H irry Fassett and others. Popular Prices—50-75-4.00-1.50 | COLONIAL: Matinee and Night EXTRAORDINARY DRAMATIC EVENT GEORGE FORD PRESENTS FRITZ LE1BER Me PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE America’s Most Magnificent Actor, in Person, with His Brilliant Company, Direct from Sensa tional New York Success Matinee 3 P. M., ■' Merchant nt Venice" Evening 8:30 “MacM./ GREATEST SHAKESPEAREAN ORGANIZATION ON TOUR. Owing to minute detail and elaborate color with which..thli pro duction is staged, curtain will rise promptly at 8:30. Pricer,: $2, $1.50 $1, 75c and 50c Baseball New line of Baseball and Tennis Goods just received, and the weather is fine now for practice. Come in today and select the equipment you need. There’s none better than Spalding’s line. We take pleasure in showing them. The McGregor Co. ——• 1ft & j
