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About The Cartersville news. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1904-1917 | View Entire Issue (March 22, 1917)
She CartcrsvUle Hews Published Evorv Thursday By The Cartersville Printing Cos. A FREEMAN, President. U H t HERMAN’ Editur. RATES of SUBSCRIPTION: One Vesr $1 00; iltts Months. 50 Cents; Three Months, On^. Fjitered at the Post Office at Cartersville. Os , as mail matter of the aecond class Prohibition is all right, but it is disgusting to set* it attempted to be used os a political health lift. - An appeal of the season; “Neighbor, will you kindly loan me your rakef ’ lee cream is trying to edge itseli up into sure enough evidence. NOW FOR A FOOD CROP. Farmers think they get more advice than any other class and perhaps they do, and perhaps thete is much of it that is not worth the least attention, but it doesn’t take the wisest man to see right at this time that the raising of a big food crop in this country could in uo wise lie a mistake. When po tatoes and onions sell at five cents apiece or there abouts and other like things are high in proportion it is certain that he that has potatoes and onions and such things has something that there is money in. - _ _ .lust now, there is all soits of agitation on the line of planting and making little home gardens and the use of all available space, such as little coiners about the back yards, tor the growing of something to go on the table. All this shows that there is an abiding con vietion that foodstuffs are scarce and high and li able to remain so if something is not done to ie lieve the situation. The farmer may say, '‘well, cotton has l>een and still is my money crop and I can’t afford not Cos took out for the putting in ol an acieage snth j oient to tide me over in my financial needs,” but stop and ieffect, brother that there aie othei moo ey crops liesidcs cotton just now, and while cotton way be an uncertain quantity in the shake-up ol affairs there is no uncertainty about food crops, lor the world has got to be led, and there is a big part of the world that is pulling up indifferently in the productiou of supplies. The farmer is wise who plans for and pitches a good sized food crop. The Maooo News, discussing the question of a food crop, says: “Just how close the world is to starvation at the present moment is a question that it were idle and futile to ask. The world is always a considerable distance from actual famine taking the world as a whole, because the warm seasons in the temperate zones keep coming around to renew the food supply. Yet it is a tact that there is relatively less food available than hither to in many years. “At the moment fresh reports ot lood short age in Germany and scarcity in Great Britian are receiving our government’s estimate of farm re serves is published and this discloses the smallest wheat supply on March 1, in the United States, sihee 1897. The March i supply ot American wheat in 1916 was 244,448,000 bushels, iu 1915 it was about 153,000,000 bushels, but this year it was only 101,366.000 bushels. Twenty years ago, the March supply of wheat in the United Btates was 88,000,000 bushels, on account of a world Bhortage in 1896, but wheat acreage in the United states was then lees than it is in these days and the average crop was much smaller. Even our corn reserves are now comparatively low, the 327, 000,000 bushels being the smallest reported ou on March 1 in fifteen years. “These facts are not in themselves alarming. They do point, however, to the need oi bumper wheat aud corn crops in America this year. Next winter the tforld’B necessities may be acute.” GEORGIA’S PROHIBITION. The people will staud for a drastic prohibition law in Georgia but it is possible to make one too strong to be acceptable # The Harris bill would prohibit manufacture and sale of intoxicants. Repeal the shipping law. Repeal the omnibus ‘clause of the prohibition law which allows individuals to serve intoxicants tn their homes. Make it illegal for any person to have any quantity on hand. Provide for a prohibition commissioner, nam ing Commissioner of Commerce anti labor as ex officio commissioner. Allows 10 per ceut of lines aud forfeitures to pay expensas of officer and allows a maximum sal* ary of %1,200 a year fiotn lines obtained from pro aeeutlons. , Becomes effective upon passage with the signs ture of the Go7eroor. The legislature will also consider the pension deficit, and will lie asked to appropriate money to cover the deficiency of about #43,000. You can’t raise pies from the sod but you eau raise things to make pies of. You can t for and raise cuneucy hut you can raise things to get it . with. Monarchy got a jolt in the dethroning of the Oz ir. We have the wireless telephone, but a wire -1 s politician would bean innovation. He who hesitates is often left. Don’t hesitate about pitching that provision crop. A WONDERFUL (DECADE. The Philadelphia Record thinks this is a won • I'M fit 1 decade. In reviewing the situation and re < -ut developments, it says: When the great historian of the future plans Ids monumental work upon man and his doings '.net the creation ol the world one seems justifiel ill believing that he will devote no iiUle of his ini p.n taut space to that particular decade, from 1911 to 1920, in which we are now so fortunate as to live. When has mankind seen its like? Not even the period of the French Revolution Contained such dramatic episodes and such changes of vast and world-wide importance. Russia’s astonishing transformation, by which the last of the great antociaeies is converted into a constitutional monarchy, is but the last so far ot I deidoseopic series of amazing shifting scenes a-d n erturns. Thwfirst mouth of the year 1911 wit <sed the overthrow of rhe Diaz regime in Mexico and Italy’s war npon Turkey and conquest of Tri poli. In the year following the Turk was beaten to his knees by the Balkan nations and his long agony of misgovern merit in Europe almost ended. This was quickly followed by the second Balkan war in 1913 and in 1914 Germany let loose all the furies by backing Austria in her own onslaught on Seivia. This most terrible ot all wars still rages, with every promise of lasting at least another year. While Europe has been thus convulsed China has awakened at last from her long sleep, expelled the ruling Manehusand proclaimed a republic. Persia has also witnessed a dynastic revolution and has almost ceased to exist as a distinct nation. Among other efianges of government Portugal passed from a monarchy to a republic. There have been great doings politically and politically and peacefully, in the United States, and more seem destined to same. And there are still four years of-this wonderful decade in which hades may yet break loose in unsuspected quarters. Russia’s example may prove contagious to some of her neighbors. A wonderful period, regarding whose doings the historians will be ’busily writing for centuries to come. ' America has two living ex-presideuts and anynumber of would he’s. , Carranza was elected president of Mexico the other day by the biggest kind ot a vote. Some* thing calculated to cheer the effect of the old man’s feelings. HE NEEDS OUR SUPPORT. There b no man in high or low position that doesn’t appreciate the sanction and encouragement of the people. Many amm has gone along doing his best untlaggingly and no one to say to him, “Go ahead, old fellow, you are on the right line,” or “Bravo! lam with you” or such like eneonr aging expressions, and he has become disedhraged and allowed his energies and interest to lag and his cause which he has had at heart has suffered anil waned, when if he had been properly support ed he would have shown the full extent of the mettle that was in him. Even the dumb animal wants to be encouraged. You may, take your best dog hunting and If you don’t by the usual method of shouts and motions which they understand as meant to push them on they lag indifferently behind, are loth to go out for the game. The ox or the horse when used as a draught animal wants encouraging motions and signs to make them do their best. Mankind is the highest type of crea. tion but iu this respect be is not unlike the ani mal. Give thy brother an encouraging hand if his cause is worthy and you not only strengthen him in his purpose and effort, but it you are conseieu tous you will win your own appreciation by hay ing done a worthy act. It is strange to us that there should be found men who will criticise Presiden Wilson and take him to task for thiugs that he can’t help and when you dig them tor a reason they will give yon some fax away yague excuse for their positions. He may be accused of haggling with other nations. He may be accused of being responsible for high prices. He may be accused of favoring a hurtful low tarifflaw. But when you go to sift these things out you will find all his positions have a wise, a rational basis and are the very things that progressive men have been asking for and have not yet before found a man with the force and eou rage to bring them about. \V r e firmly believe that in the crises through which this country has had to pass in the last four yeais that there is not another man living who could have carried us through as safely as has President Wilson. Ho is truly a great man and sees things even with a far seeiug vision. He has shown the people t&at they can trust him aud they should not only continue to trust him but stand by him, encourage him and hold up his hands He deserves this much from the people of hia own beloved country. Petition For Amendment of Charter. Georgia, Bartow County: To The SrPEtuoß Court of Sail Corntv The petition of The American Tex- Tilf Company ifispectfully shows? . FIRST, That your petitioner The American : Textile company, is a corporation i incorporated hy the Superior Court of ,aul county, Jan. 23th, 1910, for a termrd twenty years, nix! has an agent and of ii e and a place of business in said| -oun ty- SECOND, TTat uuder it-* charier your petitioner i has the right and authority to issue pre -1 ferred stock to the amount of one niill- I ion five hundred thousand dollars (sb o‘Hi.ooo,oo) at one hundred dollars (SIOO.- oo per share, drawing cumulative div idends at the rate of eight percent per annum, payable semb-anually, on the Hirst day of August and the first day of February of each year, out of its sur plus profits for each year, in prefer ence to all Common Stockholders; and has heretofore issued such preferred stock t<> the amount of two hundred and fitly thousand dollars, (*250,000 (O) w Inch, except the dividends, is nosv out standing. THIRD, That hy virtue of its said charter, your petitioner has the right and option to redeem said preferred stock, or any part thereof, at any dividend bearing time, or any other time as inuy be agreed upon between your petitioner and the holders of said preferred stock to le redeemed at the face value thereot and the unpaid dividends, the,same to trf- solected by your petit.oner’s Boprd of Directors, in its discretion- FOURTH, ' That your petitioner lias decided to redeem all of said preferred atoc-k, and desires to amend its said charter so us to issue preferred stock drawing cumus iative dividends at the rate ot six per cent, per annum payable semi-annual ly, on the first day of August and the first day of February of each year, in preference to all Common Stockholders, upon the redemption of said preferred stock now drawing cumulative divi dends at the rate ol eight percent per annum. FIFTH, That this application for amend nent of its said charter has been authorized by proper corporate action a;; appears from the certified abstract from its min utes, which is of file along with this pe tion and which is as follows: RESOLUTION. A too, q , Fob. l. r ub, 1917. "WHEREAS, The American Textile Company has now outstanding $250,000.- 00 of 3 per cent cumulative preferred stock; and, "WHEREAS, it i? now thought that money can easily be had at a less rate tbau 3 per cent: • BE IT RESOLVED, by the stock holders of The American Textile Compa ny, in annual meeting this day assem bled, that the Board of Directors of said Company be, and hereby is, instructed, by the authority vested in it by the Company’s corporate charter, to, under the terms of tiie said charter, retire the entire $250,000.00 ofß percent cumulative preferred stock now outstanding and issue in lieu thereof $250,000.00 of 0 per cent cumulative preferred stock, re-., deem able at the Company’s option at 105 and accumulated dividend, upon sixty days’proper notice prior to any divi dend pay ing date, just as soon as the necessary amendment to the chattel can be procured giving the corpifration au thority to issue 0 per cent cumulative preferred stock. "BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the said Board of Direetois ol (lie said The American Textile Company he, and hereby is, authorised to, thru its President and Secretary, take the nec essary legal steps to promptly secure the necessary amendment referred to above, it being necessary to procure this saiii amendment for the reason that the charter of the said The American Tex tile Company as t now stands provides only for the issuance o! 8 per cent cumu lative preierred stock. "AND, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the said Board of Directors of the said The American Textile Company he, and hereby is authorized to ufter the issuance of the said $250,000.00 of (5 per cent cumulative preferred stock used to retire the present issue of $250,000.00 ot 8 per cent, preferred stock, issue, at such time or times as may seem to it to be proper additional 0 percent cumulative preferred stock, redeemable at the Com pany option at 105 and accumulated dividend, upon sixty'days’ proper notice prior to any dividend [laying date, to a total amount not exceeding $500,000.00.” Ca., February 15th, 1917. I, J. A. Miller, Secretary of The Am erican Textile Company. Ateo, (3a., do hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of a certaiu res olution passed at the annual meet ing of the stockholders of the said The American Textile Company held at its principal office at Ateo, Bartow County, Georgia, February 15. 1917. J. A. MlcLEß,Sec’y. WHEREFORE, your petitioner prays FI RS I'. That its said ebarter be amended so as to authorize the issuing of said preferr ed stock, drawing cumulative dividends at the rate of six per cent, per annum, by striking from said charter the words "eight percent.” wherevei the same oc cur therein, and inserting in lieu there of the word "six percent.,” so that, the holder-* of the preferred stock that may hereafter be issued shall be entitled to cumulMAve dividends at the rate of six percent* annum, and that said ehai ter rema|*, tn all other respects, un changed, and of full force and etfeet, SECOND, That, after this petition has been filed *nd published as the law provides, an order be passed allowing and granting >f Medicine for Women For Forty Years Lydia E. Pinkham’i Vegetable Compound has Relieve the Sufferings of Women. It hardly seems possible that there is a woman in th' country who continues to suffer without giving Lydia | Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound a trial after all the ev dence that is continually being published, proving be' on contradiction that this grand old medicine has relieve more suffering among women than any other medicines the world. Mrs. Kieso Cured After Seven Month’s Illness. B Aurora, 111.—“ For seven long months I suffere from a female trouble, with severe pains inmybac and sides until I became so weak i could hard walk .from chair to chair, and got so nervous would jump at the slightest noise. I was entire] unlit to do my house w6rk, I was giving up hope > ever bring well, when my sister asked me to ti Lydia E. l*inkham’s Vegetable Compound. ] too six bottles and today 1 am a healthy wunum ablet do my own housework. 1 wish every sufferii woman would try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetal) 1 Compound, and find out for herself hove goo it is.”—Mbs. Karl A. Kieso, 590 North Ave., Aurora, 111. Could Hardly Get Off Her Bed. Cincinnati, Ohio. —“I want you to know the good Lydia K Pint ham’s Vegetable Compound has done for me. 1 was in such ba health from female troubles that I could hardly get off my M. had been doctoring for a long time and my mother said, ‘I wain, yo to try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.* So I did, and has certainly made me a well woman. lam able to do my house wot and am so happy as I never expected to go around the way 1 do again and I want others to know what Lydia E. Pinkham’s Yegetahl Compound has done for me.” —Mrs. Josie Cofner, 1668 Harrison An Fairmount, Cincinnati. Ohio. if you want special advice write to Lydia E. Plnkliam Medi cine Cos. (confidential) Lynn, Muss. Your letter will be opens read and answered by a woman and held iu strict confidence! From Weak and Lame To Well and Strong Try them. Foley Kidney Pills will ; do for other men and women—quick ly—what they have done for Mrs. Straynge. “Last year, I got almost down with my back," writes Mrs. H. T. Strayngo of Gainesville. Ga., R. No. 3. “1 suf fered from inflammation of the blad der, and whenever 1 stopped doctoring I grew worse. I tried Foley Kidney Pills, and after taking them awhile my bladder action became regular and the stinging sensation disappeared, i am now stronger in my back than I've been for several years, and since get ting well, I've stayed well and had no return of rhe trouble." .Start In now to use Foley Kidney Pills. You will feel an improvement from the very first doses, showing how quickly they act on kidneys and bladder. They stop irregular urinary action, ease pain in back and sides, limber up stiff joints and aching mus cles. They put the kidneys and blad der in sound, healmy condition. Try them. said amendment. And your petitioner will ever pray. Thf. American Textile Company, A. \V. Fite, Attorney for Petitioner. Georgia, Bartow County: Filed in office of the Clerk of Rartow Superior Court Feb. 20th, 1917. VY. e. \Va i. ri x, t 'lerk. Georgia, Bartow C uinty; l do certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of the petition for amendment ol the Charter of The American Textile Comjiany, as filed in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Bartow Conn tv Georgia on Feb. 20th, 1917. Witness my hand and seal ol said Court, this Feb, 26th, 1917. W, i \ Walton, Clerk of said Court HOWBEN’S MARKET SyriHY NOT always get the IStSJI best when it costs no more? Yon find at all times best Kansas City beef at our shop, also Miller & Hart hams, as Good as thef Best. Phone us for all kinds of fresh meats. % C. C. HOWREN Phone 364 Be. 10 East Main Street !iWe’MtAT,WE SELL'S THE VERYiBESTI- IT ALL MUST STANDARD 0 T£ STM inspected .Jr —■ .-W- vNF THE PURITY of all of the meats we sell beyond question. We subjt all our meat foods to the 1 verest, most critical tes Make a purchase and test t truth of this statement. L. F. SHAW & SONS ft ffiW. Main St. Carters* Money to Loan At Low •Cost PAUL F. AKI^
