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VOL. XXXII
FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA, JUNE 3, 1921.
NUMBER 46,
THE FARMER
At the Forks of the Road.
Which Way Will
He Go?
Today the Georgia farmer stands at
the forks of the road and he does not
know which way to turn. One road
leads to all cotton, poor lands, bond
age of the < credit system, want and
despair. The other road leads to
mixed farming in which livestock
occupies an important place. This
lno&ns lands constantly increasing in
soil fertility, freedom from debt, food
in plenty for man and beast, independ
ence, hope and courage to go forward.
Choose today which road you will
take.
BEAT THE
BOLL WEEVIL
fhe Winder (Ga.) News say it has
“found one farmer in that section who
has learned how to get ahead of the
boll weevil pest and to make money
in spite of it.’’
' This fortunate farmer is J. B. Whit
worth, and his plan of compaign
against the boll weevil is a sweeping
one—on a’ strictly food crop basis.
The Lawrenceville News-Herald
was first to call attention to his farm
ing operations, quoted as follows in
the Winder paper—
“He is in good circumstances, farm
paid for, a nice, comfortable home, to
live in, good barn and out-buildings,
crib of corn, plenty offodder, an
abundance of hay, particularly alfalfa,
hams, sidp meat and shoulders hang
ing in the smokehouse, wheat both
ground and unground; in fact all of
the necessary things to be found on
the farm. Yes, even money in the
bank, and doesn’t owe a human being
a dollar in the world. And, strange
to^elate, he has not planted nor allow
ed anyone else to plant a cotton seed
on his farm in twelve years.’’
This doesn’t mean, of course, that
cotton should be excluded from any
general farm plan, but is intended to
show that a splendid farm prosperity
can be attained by well-directed di
versification.
It was something of an experimen
tal thing with .the farmer in question,
or, a twelve-year scale; but it demon
stfated, to his entire satisfaction, that
there is ready money in crops out
side of cotton.
That was what he set out to do in
the most thorough and convincing
way; and the comment of his home
paper on his successful experiment is
“We Georgians have been thinking
all along that to attempt to farm in
this state without planting most of
our lands in cotton was to invite bank
ruptcy and starvation. Possibly we
have been mistaken. A little thought
along this line might help the farm
ers in theis operations in the future.”
The way to beat the boll weevil is
the diversified way—to give cotton “a
fair show,” but to raise all the sup
plies that feed home the year around,
and that bring rqady money from
home and outside markets.
Greater food crops will be raised in
Georgia this year. That is the out
look throughout the state; and it’s a
brighter outlook for a greater home
pi?f>sperity. \
MASS MEETING
Of Fayette County
Farmers, June 7, at the
Court House — El
more to Speak.
SECULAR AND
RELIGIOUS PRESS
COMMENDED.
Nashville, Tenn. (Special).—Dr. J.
S. Chadwick, publicity secretary of
the religious press division of the
Christian education movement, in a
recent statement gives credit to the
daily and weekly press of the country
as important factors in the success of
this latest movement of Southern
Methodism. Dr. Chadwick says;
“When the Christian Education
movement reaches June 5 its goal of
$33,000,000 for Southern Methodist
schools, and when we take into ac
count the forces that carried through
this biggest single educational enter
prise the South has seen until now,
it will be written that the press, both
secular and religious, had a large
share in the success of the Movement,
the editors, the newspaper people
generally, have stood by us in this
figtt for a better South and a better
nation.”
Laws That Must Be Obeyed.
Conditions are largely what people
make them. If they observe national
and economical law there Is greater
prospect of peace and plenty than
when they Ignorantly or deliberately
yl^ite them. When these laws are
violated no man-made laws will change
results.
There will be a mass meeting of
Payette County Cotton farmers in the
courthouse in Fayetteville, on June 7th
at 11:00 o’clock, to hear Mr. A. A.
Elmore, Director of Organization for
the Georgia Cotton Growers Co-opera
tive association.
Mr. Elmore, who has come all the
way from Spokane, Washington, to
help the association pull the cotton
farmer out of the hole, will explain in
detail the California plan for co-opera
tive marketing for cotton, on which
the association’s contract is based, and
will answer all questions concerning
it.
A group of prominent Fayette coun
ty farmers heard Mr. Elmore discuss
the plan at the State Capitol in At
lanta on May 28th, and are very much
enthused with its possibilities.
W. D. Farr, of Tyrone, was appoin
ted chairman of a Fayette county com
mittee to call the big meeting to be
held here on Tuesday, and a large
crowd is expected.
Not only farmers but bankers and
business men of Fayetteville are asked
to attend, and the ladies, too, will be
especially welcomed.
ONE OF FAY
ETTE'S CITIZENS
APPOINTED
Private Secretary to Gov
ernor Thomas W.
Hardwick.
UNIVERSITY OF
GEORGIA ALUMNI
AT ATHENS ON
JUNE THE 14TH
University of Georgia Alumni from
Fayette county will attend the Alumni
Day exercises at Athens June 14, the
date which Chancellor Barrow has set
for the greatest reunion of university
men that the old campus^ias seen.
The alumni are coming back this
year ,to revive memories of old col
lege days, but they are also coming
back with strong resolve to provide
for some of the University’s great
needs. On Alumni Day final plans
will be made for carrying on the War
Memorial Campaign this fall which is
to give the University One Million
Dollars to provide ,more dormitory
space for the students, to build and
equip a new science building, to add
to the faculty, and to complete the
animal husbandry and the veterin
ary medicine buildings of the College
of Agriculture.
MENTAL
RECREATION
I do not mind a little slang.
If it is not too much, do .you?
But I cauld get a rope and hang
The geek who says “I’ll say she do.”
—Youngstown Telegram.
I do not mind a little slang,
Not a great deal, but just enough,
But I could slay without a pang,
The gook with this “You tell, ’em”
stuff.
—Macon Telegraph.
I do not mind -a little slang,
But it is hard like to endure
The glibbering ourang outang
> Whose every other word is “Sure.”
—Cedartown Standard.
I do not mind a little slang,
If it’s with pep and humor rife,
But I could take a club and bang
The ape who says “You betcha life.”
—Rockmart News.
I do not mind a little slang,
If4he gdjective is omitted;
But I could use my mitt and slam,
The “m6tt” whose emphasis is d—m.
—Fayetteville News.
DISTRICT MEET
ING A SUCCESS
The general meeting of the Third
District of the Flint River Association,
which was held at Woolsey, Saturday
and Sunday, was a grand success,
Many were in attendance and the pro
gram which contained many subjects
of great interest were magnificently
presented by competent speakers and
much good will follow the earnest ap
pearance for greater fidelity and
loyalty to Baptist work.
Too much cannot be said in way of
praise for the magnificent entertain
ment given by the people of Woolsey
to the visiting brethren, homes were
thrown open in abundance and the
dinners spread at the noon recesses
were rich in variety and abundant
even for a much larger number.
The people of Woolsey certainly
love their Church and look well after
the success of all gatherings held
there.
D. B. Blalock, of Fayetteville, will
be appointed private secretary to
Governor Thomas W. Hardwick, when
the latter assumes the office in June.
Mr. Hardwick has been on a busi
ness trip to Washington, and makes
this announcement upon his return.
Mr. Blalock, is one of the most prom
inent citizens of Fayette county, en
gaged in banking and mercantile bus
iness, also conducting large realty in
terests, and operating the Fayetteville
Oil mill together with financing other
local interests.
Mr. Blalock was a strong supporter
of Mr. Hardwick during his campaign,
being chairman of the County Hard
wick organization.
Mr. Blalock is the son of Honorable
A. O. Blalock, internal revenue col
lector, of Atlanta; a nephew of the
late S. T. Blalock, capitalist of At
lanta; and of Honorable A. C. and
George Blalock, bankers and mer
chants of Jonesboro.
Mr. Blalock’s fineness of character
is manifested in his deep interest in
the affairs of his church, where he is
best known in his earnest zeal for the
uplift of all humanity.
TOM WATSON AND
HIGHWAY BILLS
Atlanta, Ga., May 28 — Senator
Thomas E. Watson has assured the
State Highway Department of his un
qualified opposition to the Townsend
bill, which is one of two measures
now pending in congress dealing, with
the continuance of federal aid for
highway construction in the several
states, and which is in sharp contrast
to the Dowell bill, providing for the
continuation of federal aid under prac
tically the same system as now oh
tains. The Dowell measure has been
brought to the attention of county
commissioners, civic organizations and
goojjl roads advocates throughout the
state, with the idea of securing prac
tically all the features of the Mc
Arthur bill, which failed of passage
at the last session of congress because
of a technicality, the Dowell bill is
being urged by state highway com
missions all over the country in pre
ference to the Townsend bill, which
would virtually strip the states of con
trol in the matter of locating federal
aid roads and would centralize au
thority in a commission at Washing
ton, D. C.
Senator Watson, who is a member
of the committee on post offices and
post roads, has, in a letter to W. R.
Neel, state highway engineer, indica
ted his strenuoub opposition to the
Townsend bill as tending to destroy
state control of highway construction
and maintenance. The senator, who
has been at work for some time on
the federal highway aid legislation,
characterizes the Townsend bill as
one “which proposes to penalize the
states which do not consent to obey a
central committee appointed by the
presidents and dictating to the states
without reference to local conditions
in those states.”
The Dowell bill, which is receiving
the support of the National Associa
tion of Highway Officials, leaves the
location of ^federal aid roads to the
highway departments of the several
states, so that local conditions may be
considered and local problems solved
in the construction of highways to
serve all sections of the state.
This policy is diametrically opposed
to that outlined in the Townsend bill,
which would provide for the construc
tion of two or three trunk line high
ways in each state by the use of fed
eral aid, thus building expensive roads
which would serve only a fractional
part of the traveling public.
Both these measures are scheduled
to come up for consideration in con
gress within the next few days and
the State Highway department is
making every effort to secure the co
operation of citizens throughout the
state in getting the Georgia / delega
tion solidly behind the Dowell bill.
VICTORY MEDAL
OFFICE MOVED
The Victory Medal Office has moved
fro mthe City Hall, Atlanta, to Room
204, ( Journal Building, Atlanta, on
Forsyth street in the next block south
of the City Hall. The Victory Medal
Officer, Lientenant Colonel Wm. A.
Kent, A. G. D., says that he can now
handle any number of application that
are sent to him.
Wm. A. KENT.
Adjutant General, Victory Medal
Officer.
ALL’S WRONG
WITH THE WORLD
One would infer that Professor
Thompson, of the University of Chica
go, is somewhat distrustful of the
times. Says, he: “Conditions are
worse now than before the black
plague in 1349. We have economic
clikos, social unrest, high prices, pro
fiteering, depravation of morals, indus
trial indolence, phrenetic gayety,
luxury, debauchery, greed, avarice,
and decay of manners.”
The indictment may be true, but It
dqes not cover the case. If there is
more folly, more blindness, more
wroiig than for many an age, is there
not also more thoughtfulness, more
light, more good? Thousands profi
teer and hoard, but many thousands
more deal justly and give with open
hands. Brutal selfishness runs ram
pant, but sacrifice moves starry-eyed
and redemptive through the world.
Boors then are by legions, and fools
who sneer at the decencies of life;
but the spirit of chivalry abides be
neath millions of cottage roofs as beau
tifully as ever it shone in castles of
old, and the general taste of human
society prefers clean water to sewage.
What Shakespeare calls “the un
published virtues of the earth” as
suredly outnumber and out-influence
its vices—else doom would crack and
leave no audience for Professor
Thompson’s jeremiad. If today’s news
papers carried accounts of every
heart-lifting word, every heroic act
of self-denial, every gleam of human
poetry and faith which the last four
and twenty hours have brought to
pass, those papers would burst from
bigness and be so commonplace no
body would read them.
Far, far from Arcady or a Millenial
meadow are the tug and stress and
sweat of this dusty year 1921 A. D.
Much if not all of what the Chicago
Diogenes mutters from his tub is true,
and more. But because it is not the
whole truth, we can “take courage and
go forward.” Because the ranks of
them who stand for justice, for good
will, for reason, for right and for co
working in betterment of our common
lot, are not only more numerous but
GOVERNOR ALLEN
OF KANSAS
To Open the Advertising
Clubs’ Convention.
PENSIONS
Depend Upon the Action
of Legislature.
Atlanta, Ga., June 3.—The world ad
vertising convention here, June 12
to lfj, will open with an inspirational
service, at which Honorable Henry J.
Allen, Governor of Kansas, will make
the principal address.
Possibly no other man in public
affairs today, has done more to pro
mote a better feeling between capital
and labor than has Governor Allen,
and in his address at this opening
session, he will discuss chiefly the
responsibility of the State for the
maintenance of industrial justice.
All branches of the Convention pro
gram will deal primarily with the ne
cessity of stimulating business—of
getting business moving toward per
manent prosperity,—and Governor
Allen in his address will point out
that one of the most vital factors in
sound business prosperity is a har
monious relationship between employ
er and employee.
Following this keynote ( address,
there will be meetings from Monday
morning until Thursday afternoon,
treating upon all phases of present-day
business and marketing problems.
Watson Seeks to Make
Never* before since tbe state has
been paying pensions to the old Con
federate veterans has it been neces
sary to leave any of them unpaid until
the legislature, meeting the last of
June, could provide the money. That
is the condition which exists today.
Pension > Commissioner John W.
Lindsey made the statement Saturday
that not only these known as “the
new class’’have not been paid, but that
it will be impossible, as things now
stand, to pay the last half of the list
of “old line pensioners” until funds
are provided.
There are 71 counties to which no
pension? have been issued at all this
year, the amount due being a little
more than $551,000. One half of the
list of “old line” pensioners was paid
up several weeks ago, nearly a month
later than they have ever been paid,
and even that action brought the pro
test from several counties that to
make full payment to only a part of
the list was showing discrimination.
All of these facts are to be sub
mitted to the legislature in a special
report which Commissioner Lindsey
will prepare next week.
A HOUSE
Bonds Legal Tender BY THE SIDE OF
Washington, May 31.—Widespread
industrial and financial depression and
unrest exist because of “excessive
contraction of circulating currency,”
Senator Watson of Georgia declared
in the Senate Tuesday when he in
troduced a bill to permit federal bonds
to be used as legal tender.
also more militant ,and more effect
ually mustered than ever before in
mankind’^ vast adventure, we have
not an excuse to play shirking pessi
mists, but a trumpet urge to battle.
THE ROAD
‘‘I would live in a house by the side
of the road
Where the race of men go by.
The men who are good and the men
who are bad,
Just as good and as bad as I.
I would not sit in the scomer’s seat.
Nor hurl the cynic’s ban.
I would live in a house by the side of
the road
And be a friend to man.”
Blalock Trading Co.
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HIGHEST PRICES
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