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Our Yearly Loss From Insect Pests.
It will probably startle the average American
citizen to learn that every year insect pests damage
our live stock and the agricultural products of our
soil to an amount exceeding the entire expenditures
of the national government, including the pension
roll and the maintenance of the army and navy.
In no other country in the world do insects impose
so heavy a tax on the products of the farm as in
the United States. A scientific agricultural writer
(C. L. Marlatt, assistant entomologist in the
national Bureau of Entomology) estimated a few
years ago that a total of more than $700,000,000
annual loss due to insect pests in the United States
is below rather than above the actual damage.
Despite the careful aDd thorough work done to
eradicate these pests great damage is still inflicted
by them. Before the cotton worm was studied and
the method of controlling it by the use of arsenic
sprays had become common knowledge this plague
had levied a tax of $30,000,000 in bad years on the
cotton crop. This estimate and those that follow
are based on the official figures of the Department
of Agriculture for the calendar year 1904— the
latest statistics available. Much saving has been
effected since then by the methods of the Bureau
of Entomology and the state entomologists, but
the aggregate loss is still enormous. A knowledge
of the habits and the methods of controlling or
avoiding the Hessian fly, including improved cul
tural methods, has resulted in the saving of wheat
values to the farmer aggregating from $100,000,000
to $200,000,000 annually. The apple crop of the
country is worth from $6,000,000 to $8,000,000
more since the as yet incomplete control of the
coddling moth has been generally understood. The
root worm was almost baffled by the principle of
rotation of corn with oats, thus saving the corn
crop to the extent of many millions annually. The
annual losses occasioned to forests and forest
products by insect pests have been estimated at
not less than $100,000,000, of which $70,000,000 is
damage sustained by the growing timber. The
tobacco crop suffers from iusects to the extent of
more than $5,000,000. The white scale would
have completely destroyed the orange and lemon
orchards of California but for the introduction of
one of its natural enemies from Australia, while the
control of the Mexican boll weevil has already
saved the farmers of Texas an enormous sum, and
has really made the continuance of cotton-growing
possible.
Besides these direct losses enormous damage is
done by insects to cattle and in the transmission of
disease to man. The loss in the value of horse,
sheep and cattle products directly chargeable to
insects (the ox warble, the buffalo gnat and the
various biting flies and ticks) would aggregate,
government statististicians figure, not less than
$175,000,000 annually. To this must be added the
cost of protection from insect damage to stores,
products and from the noxious mosquitoe, fly
and other diseasesbearing insects. Undoubtedly
mosquitoes as carriers of malaria and yellow fever,
and flies as transmitters of typhoid, occasion the
loss of another $50,000,000 or $60,000,000 in the
form of lessened economic productivity.—From
“How Science Fights the Insect Enemies of Our
Crops,” by Louis E. Van Norman, in the American
Review of Reviews for June.
An Excellent Plea For Good Roads.
One of the best arguements we have had brought
to our attention concerning good roads is the
speech made by Hon. John H. Bankhead, of Ala*
bama, before the United States Senate last month.
Among other things he said:
“Good roads are avenues of progress, the best
proof of intelligence; they aid the social and re
ligious advancement of the people; they increase
the value of products; they save time, labor, and
money; they are the initial sources of commerce,
which swell in great streams and flow everywhere
distributing the products of our fields, forests, and
factories. The highways are the common property
of the country, their benefits are shared by all,
and they are needed by all; they benefit all, and
all should contribute to them.’’
And after a strong argument before the Senate
Mr. Bankhead concluded as follows.
“The result of road improvement, wherever tried
has been largely to increase the value of farm If nd
for the homeseeker prefers to locate where im
proved roads provide their many advantages.
Indeed, I have been assured that lands have even
doubled and quadrupled in value along and adja
cent to improved dirt roads.
“We hear a great deal said about the destruction
of our timber supply. Mr. President, I do not
hesitate to say that, in my opinion, there is suffi
cient timber, composed of small tracks, belonging
to farmers and other landowners, in this country
today, and which is now considered worthless,
because of its distance from the railroad that could
be placed on the market were the roads sufficiently
THE CARTERSVILLE NEWS, THURSDAY, JUNE 4. 1908
improved, that would supply the timber demand
in the United States for seventy-five years, the
value of which alone would improve the dirt roads
of this country.
“President, in closing, I wish to touch up on a
question which I consider of vital importance. It
is a question not so much of dollars and cents, not
of constitutionality, but one which affects our
morality, our character as individuals and as a na
tion, and the stability of our free institutions.
Year after year the human tide flows from the
country to the city; and the day may come when
the words of the poet may apply to this republic:
“111 farres the land, to hatening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
“Do not let us have great mobs of the unom
ployed, combining the scum of Europe with the
misled boys from our American farms, so long as
there are millions of acres of land waiting to be
tilled, and homes waiting to be built. Good roads
will make farm life attractive; they will bring the
isolated dweller closer to his neighbor, and I feel
confident they will check the movement of our ru
ral population to the great cities.”
Tax Dodging Millionaires and Cor
porations.
The city of Augusta is not the only city whose
treasury has been given a lift by the payment,
after long litigation, of taxes long past due, and
payment of which had been evaded at the proper
time. The city of Chicago a short time ago re
ceived a check for one million dollars from the
executors of the Marshall Field estate.
The payment was made in accordance with an
agreement entered into by the trustees of the
estate with by which suits aggregate $1,700,000
were compromised. The suits were filed after the
inventory of the estate in the probate court had re
vealed that a large amount of securities were in
cluded in the lists upon which no taxes had been
paid for several years.
Marshall Field was the merchant prince of
Chicago. He left an estate valued at nearly
$100,000,000. He had been a very successful man
and was regarded as a man of the strictest in
tegrity. But when he died it was found that he
had defrauded the city out of about $1,700,000
which was justly due it for taxes.
This seems to be a failing which is quite common
among big corporations and millionaires. They
evade the payment of taxes wherever they can,
and they are often successful. Sometimes they
are found out and sometimes the officers of the
people manage to make them pay. This was done
with the railroad which had failed te pay Augusta
the taxes due the city, and after long litigation it
was compelled by the courts to pay a part of this
claim. And this was done in the case of the
Marshall Field estate. After his death, when he
could uo longer hide his property, it was found
that he had very much more than that on which
he had been paying taxes. It was figured out that
he owed the city $1,7000,000 for taxes he had failed
to pay. After resisting payment in the courts
until they found they would eventually have to
pay it, the executors compromised the suit by the
payment to the city of $1,000,000.
This was too easy. When a multimillionaire or
a great corporation fraudulently evades the pay
ment of taxes, and such fraud can later be proven,
not only should the full amount be collected, but
enough in addition to cover interest charges, the
amount of the attorneys’ fees and other costs of
collection. This would only be just.
The poor man, the widow, the merchant, farmer
and small business man all are compelled to pay
taxes, to the last penny due. They cannot avoid
pavment, if they would. Their possessions are
known, the assessment is made on them, and if the
taxes are not promptly paid in full the sheriff is
there to see that the state or city pet their dues.
Aud this is right. Taxes is the cost of govern
ment, and as every citizen gets his share of the
benefits the government confers, so he should pay
his proportionate share of the cost.
But the millionaire and the great corporations
should be made to do the same. The more a man
has the greater is the benefit he derives from the
government, in the protection it affords him in the
of his property, if in nothing else, and
the greater is his ability to pay. There is less
excuse for a millionaire or great corporation evacU
ing their just tax payments than there is for the
small citizen, who often must make heavy sacrifices
to square his tax account. And the little* citizen
being made to pay the full amount, the millionaire
aud the corporation should be made to do the
same; and no statute of limitation should be
allowed to stand in the way of future collection, if
ever the discovery is made that payment of taxes
has been fraudulently evaded. —Augusta Herald.
The Spurious Congress,
The Sixtieth Congress will pass into history as
the Spurious Congress. It has done nothing
worthy of a great representative body. In its
appropriations, it has been more extravagant than
any of its predecessors, and will leave the govern
ment $60,000,000 in arrears on the first day of
July next, and $16,000,000 in arrears on July 1,
1909, so that money will have to be borrowed
even for running expenses. It has refused to
modify the tariff even on wood pulp and print
paper. It has enacted currency legislation of the
worst possibly type, legislation not in favor of the
interests of the people at large, but of Wall street.
—Macon Mews.
Petition for Incorporation of “Atco
Stores Company.”
STATE OF GEORGIA—County of Bar
tow. 8 S.
To the Superior Court of said County:
The petition of E. L. McClain, \V. M.
MeCarterty, L. Hannon and H. I. Gray
respectfully shows:
First. That they desire for themselves,
their associates, successors and assigns
to be constituted a body corporate under
the name and style of “ATCO STORKS
COMPANY,” for the term of twenty
3-ears, with the privilege of renewal at
the expiration of said time.
Second. Petitioners desire for said
corporation the right to buy, sell, hold,
encumber and otherwise dispose of all
real and personal property which may
be necessary or advantageous to the
purposes of said corporation; to sue and
be sued; to have and use a common seal;
to make by-laws for its government,
elect directors for the management of its
atfairs, and confer on them the right to
elect otticers and appoint employees, to
gether with all other rights, powers and
firivileges incident, usual or necessary to
ike corporations under the laws of said
state.
Third. The object of said corporation
is and will be pecuniary gain to its stock
holders.
Fourth. The particular business to be
carried on by said corporation is as fol
lows, to-wit: To conduct a store or
stores for the purchase and sale, at retail
and wholesale, of dry goods, groceries,
crockery, glassware, queensware, har
ness, trappings, articles made from
leather, notions, millinery, shoes, boots,
toys, confectionery, wall paper, decora
tions, furniture, hardware, carpets, grain,
meats, liour, meal, cereals, canned fruits
and vegetables, and all other articles or
merchandise necessary or convenient for
consumption or use, or that may be ad
vantageously bought or sold in a general
store.
Fifth. The capital stock of said cor
poration shall be Ten Thousand
($10,000.00) Dollars, divided into shares
of One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars each;
at least ten per cent of which is to be
paid in before commencing business.
Bat petitioners desire that said corpora
tion shall have the right to increase said
capital stock to any amount not exceed
ing Fifteen Thousand ($15,000.00) Dollars,
whenever the holders of a majority of the
stock may so determine.
Sixth. The principal place of business
of said corporation shall he in the village
of Atco. county and state aforesaid, but
petitioners desire that said corporation
shall have the right to establish branch
offices or agencies at any other places,
either within or without the state of
Georgia, as the holders of a majority of
the stock may* determine upon.
Wherefore, petitioners pray that after
this petition has been filed and published
in accordance with the law, an order he
passed by this court declaring them a
i>ody corporate, under the name and
style aforesaid, and granting to said cor
f>oration all the rights, powers and privi
eges set out and prayed for in this ap
plication, or which may be incident
thereto, or usual, or promotive of the
purdoses of their incorporation as afore
said.
And petitioners will ever pray, etc.
J. M. NEEL,
Petitioner’s Attorney.
GEOR(H A—Bartow county:
I, J. R. Anderson, Deputy clerk of the
superior court, in and for said county do
hereby certify* that the above and fore
going is a true and correct copy of the
original petition this day filed in this
office of the clerk of said court by the
above named petitioners for the grant of
a charter by said court, for the incorpor
ation of said petitioners under the name
of “Atco Stores Company.”
This June 3, 1908.
J. R. ANDERSON, Deputy clerk.
Men Wanted
World. Service afloat, ashore, and in our
island possessions. Age 19 to 35 year:.
Salary $13.60 to 847.00 pf-r month; 8237.00 clothing
allowance. Board, lodging? and medical attendance
free. Excellent opportunity for promotion. For
full information apply in person or by letter to
U. S. MARINE CORPS RECRUITING OFFICE,
Cor. Peachtree and Auburn Ave., Atlanta,Ga. Pot Office
Building. Rome, Ga. Cannon Building, Dalton, Ga.
$25.00 REWARD.
A standing reward of twenty-five dol
lars is ottered and will l>e paid cash, by
Bartow county for the arrest and delivery
to the sheriff at Cartersville, Ga., for
each and all escaped convicts. This offer
of reward stands good until January 1,
1909. A. G. WHITE, Chairman,
<i. H. G 1 BREATH, Clerk.
Louisville & Nashville Railway.
Arriving and Departing at Cartersville, Ga.
all train daily.
Ar. Lv.
Cincinnati A Louisville 5:31 pm 11:09 am
Etowah Accom’dation 7:00 j>m 9:40 am
Atlanta Accom’dation 11:09 am s:3lpm
Effective Sunday, Janaary 19, 190 k.
Libel for Divorce.
John L. Abernathy vs. Pearly F. Ab
ernathy.
Gkorcua—Bartow Connty:
Notice to the defendant in the al>ove
stated case, Pearly F. Abernathy*, a non
resident of said state:
You are hereby notified and required
personally or by attorney to be and ap
pear at the next superior court to lie
held in and for said county on the second
Monday in July 1908 then dud there to
answer the Plaintifi’s demand in an ac
tion of libel for divorce. In default
thereof the court will proceed as to jus
tice shall appertain.
Witness the Hon. A. W. Fite, Judge of
said court, this the sth day of May, 1908.
W. c. WALTON,
clerk.
Notice of Dissolution.
Cartersville, Ga., May Ist, 11*08.
To the Public:
The partnership heretofore existing
between the undersigned, under the firm
name of Neel A Peeples, having this day
expired by limitation, we hereby give
notice to our clients and friends, that all
pending cases and business inourhands,
date of dissolution, will receive our joint
attention until fully disposed of.
Each of us will receive new ousiness
for himself alone.
Our association together, in the practice
of law, has been mutually pleasant, and
our dissolution occurs as previously
agreed, in order that Mr. Neel, may, at
an earlv date, associate with himself, in
the nra’ctife of law, his son J. M. Neel, Jr.
J. M. NEEL.
O. T. PEEPLES.
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CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
No. 6. Security For Funds.
A close study of our published
statements will reveal informa
tion concerning this bank’s
assets and liabilities. Every
item is listed and it is shown
how all moneys are invested.
Our purpose is to make such
investments of funds that will
give safety. We have sufficient,
available cash on hand, always.
Also ample funds on call.
GEO. S. CROUCH,
President.
Plain Talks on Fertilizers
A Talk to Fruit-Growers
You use a fertilizer
of course, but do you
use enough ?
The yield per acre,
and the profit therefrom
increases in far greater
proportion than the cost
of additional fertilizer.
What is an increase in
cost of $2.00 to SIO.OO
per acre for fertilizer
when the returns therefrom
show an increase of $50.00 to
$250.00 per acre?
The big Magnolia Fruit
Farms at Durant, Miss., tested
the well-known Virginia-Car
olina Fertilizer
gacre were used
acre than when
500 lbs. per
acre were used(
This is modem intensive cul
ture, the method that is doub
ling and trebling the crops of
all kinds of fruit in
either good or in poor
and worn-out land all
over the country—and
in good soil, too.”'
CHANCE FOR THE GIRLS!
If you can operate a sewing machine you can i
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working from 8 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. making [
Neckwear. Machines run by electricity.
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“r.nnd nrs This mark ioi. now called a bull's eye, was
1 UHlt I rl s til)111 used by the ancient alchemists to represent
* gold. If you want the choicest vegetables
v i A y° should follow the Bull’s Eye [Q] wherever it appears in
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Any part of our statements
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to you personally. We invite a
close inspection of our methods
and management.
JOS. S. CALHOUN,
Cashier.
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according to the
amount of plant food
you give your trees or
plants —you can de
pend on it. The better
they are fed the greater
and more valuable will
be your crop. Fertil
ize sparingly and you
reap sparingly.
The fact that over a million
tons of Virginia-Carolma
Fertilizer were sold last year
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