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Whose Are The Roads ?
It is hardly fair ti> divide into two
factions designated as farmers and
joy-riders those who are working
in the cause of good roads. For the
latter class would seem to include
only those selfish persons who use
automobiles on the country roads to
cater to their own love of reckless
speed. As a matter of fact there
ought not to be any quarrel between
the two schools of good road lovers,
however they are designated. Both
are anxious for the building of more
roads and for the improvement of
those in existance. r l hey may dif
fer in regard to the direction cer
tain roads should follow, but funda
mentally their desires are not far
apart.
The farmer has t thank the auto
mobili. t for aiding in '.'.rousing the
present great interest in the cause
of good roads. The automobile own
er has profited no more than, if as
much as, the farmer from road im
provement. Such at least has been
the experience of Georgia farmers.
And then it is no longer proper to
speak of farmers behig a different
class from automobilist, f< r the far
mers in surprisingly large numbers,
are automobile owners. A good
automobile road is a good farm
wagon road. The road that gives
pleasure to the automobile tourist
aids the country doctor in his buggy
or his automobile to make a greater
number of visits among the sick in
his community and make it possible
for him to answer speedly in all sorts
of weather- a hurry call to a sick bed.
It enables the farmer’s children to
go to school in rainy weather.
Then the question arises, should
long disemce highways he given
chief consideration by road builders
or should t heir effor ts be confined to
connecting up the different commu
nity of farmers in each county !
There is no reason to lean too strong
ly in either direction. Community
roads can in most instances he easily
connected up to form long-distance
highways. And so there is ri ally no
very important reason why there
should fie a heated debate of the
question of for whom the roads
should be built.
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Tax Collector s Notice.
Last Round.
I will be at the following places
on dates named for the purpose of
Collecting State and County Taxes
for the year 1913.
Pridgen Thursday, Decmber 4th
from 12 noon to 2 p. m.
I Broxton Friday, December the sth
from 8 a. m. to 2 p. m.
WILLACOOCHEE Saturday Dec. fith
from 8 a. m. to 4 p. m.
Mora Monday December the Bth
from 9 a. m. to 12 noon.
Charlie Daniels’ Monday Dec. 8,
from 2 to 3 p. m.
Kirkland Tuesday December 9th
from 8 to 9 a. m.
i Pearson Tuesday December 9th
from 10 a. rn. to 3 p. m.
McDonald Wednesday Dece. 10th
from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m.
' Tanner & Gillis Thursday Dec. 11
from 9 a. m. to 11 a. m.
Wilsonville Thursday Dece. 11,
from 1 to 3 .p. m.
j C-arrant Friday December 12th
from 8 a. m. to 3 p. m.
| Nicholes Saturday December 13-
from 9 a. in. to 3. p. m,
| Ambrose Monday December 15th
from 11 a. m. to 4p. m.
I Douglas Tuesday, 16, Wednesday,
17, Thursday is, Friday 19, and
Saturday 20.
Books will close December 20th
Daniel Moore. T. C,
Yet the National Good Roads As
sociation did make that question the
subject of debate at its recent con
vention at St. Louis, in connection
with a plan to ask the government
for aid in road building. It ought
to be easy to satisfy both of the so
called factions. The roads should be
the servants of everybody, the far
mer in his cotton wagon or in his
motor truck or his passenger auto
mobile, the country doctor in his
buggy or automobile, the city mar.
who has to make trips into the coun
try to visit cliants or business ac
quaintances, the tourist, in fact eve
rybody who has occasion to use them.
The city man helps to pay for the
country roads. Taxation for county
roads does not stop at‘the corporate
limits of the county seat. The roads
are everybody’s. They should be
built so as to bring the greatest good
to the greatest number of persons,
but there is grounds for protest
when it is proposed to build a road
that would be used practically by
only one class and that a limited one.
THE COFFEE COUNTY PROGRESS, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA
New York Lectures
The Farmer.
An amazing bourbonish attack on
the proposed system of farm credits,
or extended bank accommodations
for the agricultural interests of the
country, which Congress will con
sider next winter, appears in the
New York Financial Chronicle, the
organ of respectability and conser
vation in the sphere of banking and
finance,says the Springfield Republi
can. The farmers of the country do
not need easier borrowing facilities,
one reads. Do not the value of farm
property in the United States in
creases $20,000,000,000 in the decade
1900-1910? Has not the farmer re
ceived from his crops nearly $2,000,-
000,000 more a year by reason of the
advance in prices in ten years?
This highly esteemed organ of Wall
street finance asks “why in this state
of things, should the farmer be in
need of ‘extended bank accommoda
tions.’ and why should we encourage
him to think that he is an ill-treated,
ill-favored individual, and that the
banking resources of the entire con
tinent should be place 1 at his dis
posal to do with as he may please?”
It might be answered that if the far
mers : s growing prosperous and rich
on his rapidly expanding business,
no better reason could be thought
of for improving his banking facili
ties. It is the experience of an in
dustrial and commercial civilization
that the demand for banking accom
modations increase with the increase
of wealth and the exchange of com
modities.
But this New York oracle is hard
ly consistent. It allows that the far
mer may need to borrow, but that
is because he is such a shiftless crea
ture. “What he ought to do is to
get out of debt and stay out. He is
no doubt paying higher rates of in
terest than ordinary borrowers, but
for much the same reason that per
sons patronizing pawn-shops pay
high rates.” Such remarks about
the farmers of the country who pro
duce from the soil each year some
$9,000,000,000 in marketable com
modities without which Manhattan
Island would, relapse into a howling
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wilderness and the stock exchange
would have about as much life as a
Pharaoh’s tomb in the Egyptian des
ert-such remarks reveal a lovely
spirit.
But what are the facts about farm
credits in important sections of the
country? North Dakota is in the
heart of the wheat growing belt.
Even Wall street and the New York
Financial Chronicle rejoice because
the wheat crop this year proved to
be the largest in our history. “Far
mers in the Northwest,” says the
Wall Street Journal in a recent issue,
“have to borrow money, or obtain
credit to carry on agricultural op
erations at interest reaching, in some
cases, 20 per cent.” Perhaps the
New York Financial Journal thinks
20 per cent about right.
A professor of the University of
North Dakota investigated the sub
ject. He sent inquiries into forty
five counties and got answers from
125 country banks. The average
rate of interest charged by them was
10.75 per cent., but thirty-five banks
reported a rate of 12 per cent. When
the North Dakota farmer buys ag
ricultural implements and machinery
on a year’s note taken by the dealer,
he pays interest of 10.26 per cent, on
the note according to averages. He
gets credit on his prospective crop,
precisely as the Eastern manufactur
er gets credit at the bank on his
prospective turnover of raw material
into finished goods in order to pay
promptly the cost of manufacture.
It is as much business in one case as
in the other. But local conditions
and the lack of liquid capital in the
sparsely populated agricultural re
gion force the farmer borrower to
pay rates so high as to cripple him.
The system of farm credits so well
.worked out in Europe and indorsed
by President Taft as well as ty
President Wilson, should prove a
great benefit to the agricultural
producers of the continent.
Farming methods in the United
States can he improved. The pioneer
conditions of development in a new
country are always wasteful; and
America has not yet outgrown them
particularly in the West. There
will be tremendous improvements
in agricultural processes during the
next half century. But whai non
sense there is in the New York Fi
nancial Chronicle’s concluding state
ment that there will be advance “if
the farmer is not prevailed upon to
abandon habits of luxury and ex
travagance.” Coming from New
York city, where single hotels waste
food enough in a day to feed many
country towns for a month, where
the feminine luxury of Fifth avenue
would make Cleopatra seem like an
old-fashioned woman of Newbury
port or Salem, and where the mas
culine luxury of the clubs would fill
Louis XIV with horror this censure
of the “luxury” and “extravagance”
of the average farmer of the United
States fills one with unspeakable ad
miration for its absurd humor and
its unconscious arrogance.
Have your clothing cleaned and
.pressed at the City Press ing Club
We will dye for you.
ROYAL DENMARK
I his perfect horse will be in Douglas Nov. 1 5 to Dec.
sth ; 1913, at j. S. Lott. He is full 16 hands high and weighs
1280 lbs, standard bred, perfectly built; the best conditioned
horse and the “biggest” stile horse you ever saw. Mr, G. W.
Moye and expert breeder, has charge of this high school horse.
Drop in shake hands with this great horse and hear him give
the “horse laugh.” 1 erms: $lO cash, $1 5 when colt drops.
J. W. Stucky, I allahassee, Fla.
To The Public
I have taken charge of the old
Rail Road Cafe, which will hereafter
be known as the Royal Cafe and
placed Mrs. S. A. Edenfield in charge
as manager, every one who knows
Mrs. EdenfielcTs cooking will be
pleased to know that there is oue
place in Douglas, where they can get
something good to eat, Nuf Sed.
A,‘ K. Spencer y
Notice to Creditors
Georgia, Coffee County
To the Creditors of B. H. Maynard |
late of said County:
All parties holding demands
against the estate of B. H. Maynard
late of said county, . Georgia, are
hereby called upon to present their
demands to the undersigned in legal i
form in accordance with section 3907 *
of the code of 1910. This November
3rd.1913.
. _ . , Mj?s. B. H. Maynard
Admx, of tne Estate of B. H Mav
nard. • J
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