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’'"-TT- 7 // / /fr\ iA*’*' li*.ZZ I Yf)L. XXXII FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA, JUNE 10, 1921. NUMBER 47. R. A. KELLEY President of the Georgia Farm Bureau Federa tion Calls for an In vestigation of the State College of Agriculture. Following the publication o£ an arti cle from J. J. Brown, commissioner of i&riculture to the effect that he would seek to have a legislative investigation made of the state college of agricul ture, R. A. Kelley, president of the Georgia Farm Bureau Federation has addressed a letter to J. J. Brown, ask ing that he co-operate with the farm bureau in having an investigation of the department of agriculture made also. Mr. Kelley set forth that the people $ Georgia have a right to know how iheir money is spent. He pointed out that more than a half million dollars is expended annually by the depart ment of agriculture and its various sub-departments. Discussing his communication, Mr. Kelley said that he felt confident that the state college of agriculture would welcome an investigation into its af fairs, but that he believed the depart ment of agriculture would try to side step any such an attempt. “It is only fair that the department explain to the tax payers of this state \vhy it is necessary for an annual sum of $50,000 to be voted for the mainte nance of a market bureau, and why it is necessary to pay oil inspectors throughout the state more than $200,- 000,” said Mr. Kelley. “All the work that the bureau of markets has ever done, so far as the average farmer can find out, is to issue a market bulletin. This bulle tin carries enough advertising to pay 4">r itself, while last year a. petition was circulated in practically every militia district in the state asking that additional subscriptions be made to take care of this work.” That the statement given out by ,T. J. Brown and circulated broadcast . throughout the state was “nieie camouflage and a pitiful attempt 'to cover up his own inefficiencies in of fice, rather than an attempt to answer .some pointed questions propounded by the Farm Bureau,” was the statement made by R. A. Kelley, president of the Georgia Farm Bureau Federation, replying to the article. “The Georgia Farm Bureau does not want to now, nor will it ever seek to dismember the department of agricul ture of Geogia,” said Mr. Kelley. “All that it wants to do now, is to abolish certain wasteful departments, in order that the taxi-payers of the state may be relieved of several useless bur dens. “Specifically, the federation wishes to have the 163 oil inspectors in Geor gia reduced to a minimum of six or eight. Oil inspectors in (Georgia at present collect more than $200,000 an nually from inspecting oil, while eight men could do the work just as' effi ciently, at a great deal less expense. The same amount of oil would be in spected, and the same amount of fees paid into the state, but none of it would go to pay political jobs, but most of it would go into the state treasury. “Financial conditions in Georgia very critical now, and the Farm Bureau is in favor of certain economical moves, rather than the issuing of a moratorium, as Commis sioner Brown advocated a few months ago.” ' Discussing the bureau of markets, Mr. Kelley said that in the article, Mr. Brown made no attempt to defend it. ^‘This bureau,” said Mr. Kelley “has never warranted its.own existence. It is only a place for a soft job for J. B. Jackson, Brown’s chief henchman, and an annual waste of more than $50,000 a year of the people’s money. MASS MEETING CONTRACT LET Of Fayette County Farmers at the Court House—Hear A. A. Elmore. Mr. A. A. Elmore, director of organ ization for the Georgia Cotton Grow ers Co-operative Association, spoke in terestingly to a good number of Fay ette County farmers at the Court House, Tuesday morning. Mr. Elmore first said that the weevil was a great hazard to the farmer than was the boll weevil, and the only way to overcome the ravages of the bale-weevil was in organization against him. Mr. Elmore spoke of the need of a movement to intelligently merchandize cotton and presented the Sapiro Mar ( keting Plan as a means to do this, ! first—-by organizing the farmers into an association to underwrite the mar kets demand, second—to make a sur vey of the field, third—to sell as the market demands, only shipping as the market can absorb. After explaining the many virtues of the Sauiro Plan, and its ability to keep the farmer out of the clutches of the gambling vultures of the New York Cotton Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade, an enthusiastic re sponse was given by che audience in the vote to adopt the plan, after which an organization was gone into and the following county officers were elected: W. T. Busbin, president, Bob Minter, vice-president, John Burch, secretary- treasurer. Chairmen of districts: Dr. J. A. Lester, 496, W. T. Busbin, 495; W. D. Farr, 549; W. L. Stinclicomb, 624; W. E. M. Harp, 538; Will |Malone, 1223; W. L. Graves, 709; A. C. Tarpley, 1248; J. J. Babb, 1262. Each of these chairmen elected will appoint four assistants who with themselves will constitute a committee of five for their district. ATLANTA SAPIRO MEETING Atlanta.—Atlanta bankers and busi ness men are evidently not very much interested in the proposed California or Sapiro plan for tying up Georgia cotton farmers, judging by the num ber who attended a meeting in the chamber of commerce here to hear A. A. Elmore, the high priced organ izer who has been imported from Spokane, Washington, to “put over the deal” for the association. The meeting was well advertised, but only about thirty peopple were in attendance. One banker was noted in the crowd, most of which was made up of members of the headquarters . jit the organization, headed by Charles v3. Barrett, J. J. Brown, and others. KELLEY AFTER BARRETT Atlanta.—Characteristic of his usual methods, Charles S. Barrett, president of the farmers’ union, who is now en gaged in using the Cotton Growers Co operative Association to further his own political machinations, is issuing rash statements, and then “running away from the music" when his hand is called. The other day, a reporter for the Atlanta Constitution wrote an article, Quoting Mr. Barrett as saying “he would bet a $1,000 that the Georgia Farm Bureau Federation did not have 1,000 bona fide members.’’ The next morning, R. A. Kelley wrote out his check for $1,000' and offered to cover Mr. Barrett’s wager, letting any unprejudiced person be the judge. However, it developed that Mr. Bar rett had left for (Washington on an afternoon train, nearly fourteen hours before the article in question was to be published. When Mr. Barrett comes back, if he does, he will have a chance to make good his offer to bet a thousand, but the chances are 100 to 1 he will have some loophole to “craw-fisli” out of it in his usual style. Products of South Wanted in Mexico Chattanooga, Tenn., June 9.—Fully sixty staple commodities produced in the South are wanted in Mexico in quantities while many other articles manufactured in the South could be marketed in Mexico at a profit, says E. D. Stratton, South American Agent for the Southern Railway System and the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, who has just returned to his office in Chatta nooga from a trip through the South ern Republic during which he spent several days in each of the larger cities and gathered a large fund of in formation as to conditions prevailing generally throughout the country. “European competition in Mexico is growing stronger daily," says Mr. Stratton, “and shrewd business men predict that the United States will lose a large percentage of the Mexican trade unless its business men make a more determined effort to hold their present advantage. During the past two years the United States has held 96 per cent of the total trade of Mexico. Many articles manufactured in the South are in demand in Mexico and my office will be glad to supply de tailed information to any manufac turers or exporters who are interest ed.” f i To Local Firm for New School Building. The bidding on the new school house plans aroused a good deal of interest among the contracting firms of At lanta, Griffin and Fayetteville,—bids varying to more than the’cost of building the complete structure were in order, there seemed to be no limit, but a local finn secured the contract and will begin work at once and it is to be hoped that the building will be complete and ready for occupancy by the middle of October. Bids were as follows: W. P. Francis, $46,234; Goode and Co, $45,985; T. C. Wesley, $43,S00; Shelverton Construction Co., $40,498; Pittman Construction Co., $39,552; R. M. Walker, $38,032; Mashburn and Little, $371101; G.’ H. Bray, $36,874; H. P. Redwine, $31,490; Woolsey, Mar tin & Woolsey, $22,550. Heating bids as follows: S. S. Shepherd, $4,275; Inglehart & Co., $4,089; Moncrief Furnace Co., $4,063; Landers Plumbing and Heating Co., $3,770; Loftis Plumbing Co., $3,- 613.47; Fred 'Cantrell, $3,380; Caster Plumbing Co., $3,269.55; Jennings and Gresham, $3,250; Smith and Guest, $3,- 197.35; Belcher Pluming and Heating Co., $3,184.65; Griffin Electric: and Plumbing Co., $2,829.50; L. F. Waldrip Co., $2,684.50. Together with the architects com mission and arrangements for seating the new building, the amount found from the sale of bonds has been com pletely used, the bonds brought $27,- 000, and interest. The interest amount ing to $450, making a total of $27,450. The building committee and the board of education have done all that they could, and deserve great credit for having brought things to pass and so successfully worked inside of their limitation, but we are still without an auditorium and right now is the time to build it, while the school building is being put up it can be built for less money than at any other time and we sincerely hope that the building com mittee will find ways and means to foster this project before the main building is too far advanced, this is a good time for some one to become a benefactor to a good cause. Boston Holds Another Tea Party At the last regular meeting of the City Council, Boston withdrew from the Municipal League of Georgia, that organization of a small handful of men that are trying to saddle on the people of our state the greatest curse ever thrust on them. In such legisla tion the tax payers have to foot the bill. It cost the city $25.00 per year to belong to this municipal league and we believe the city fathers acted wisely when they refused to send in their membership fee for the year 1921. If the city council of Boston has any funds to throw away we would much prefer that they give such funds to their present mayor to defray cigar bills, ice cream sodas, banana splits and such. The cigars he would smoke himself and the ice cream sodas, banana splits, nut sundaes, etc., he could use to try and keep the lady voters in a good humor until the next election.—Bostonian, Boston, Ga. Six Million Southern Baptists Alldredge Says There are more than six million Baptist in the South, according to statistics received Saturday from E. J. Aldridge, secretary survey statis tics and information. Other figures were. Associated with Southern Baptist Convention: District associations, 967; churches, 27,444; baptisms (1920) 173,595; members, 3,199,005; Sunday schools, 20.420; enrolled in Sunday schools, 1,966,610; church property valued at $97,732,990; contributions for home purposes, $20,483,421.30; con tributions for 75,000,000- campaign in cluding all missions, education and benevolences, $14,037,611.48; total con tributions, $34,881,032.’i 8. Unrelated bodies (7) white Baptists in South: Churches, 344; members, 198,236; Sunday schools, 980; Sunday school enrollment, 75,412; value of property, $2,837,520; total contribu tions, $212,410. Negro Baptists in bounds of South ern Baptist Convention Churches, 19,- 024; members, 2,765,259; Sunday schools* 19,037; Sunday school enroll ment, 1,228.545; value of church prop erty, $34,657,670. Grand total Baptist of South: Churches, 49,872; members, 6,162,500; Sunday schools, 40,437; Sunday school enrollment, 3,270.567; value of church property, $135,228,180. A HOME PAPER’S HELP In writing of the work of the coun try newspaper for its town and the territory where it circulates, The Brantley County (Ga.) News well says that the great obligation of a com munity to a newspaper “is frequently forgotten, because it is taken for granted that a newspaper will do its part for the community whether it meets with reciprocity or not.” Here is the summary given of the things a live newspaper does for its community, and still the half re mains untold— “There is hardly a ppublic enter prise that does not depend, to a more or less degree upon the newspaper. It gives those enterprises its support invariably, without promise of reward, and frequently without hope of re ward. a “It boosts the couAty; ( boosts the town, and boosts its public and private undertakings. “It is the friend of the church, the school, the lodge, the patriotic and the charitable organizations. It knows no church or creed in those whom it exploits. “A newspaper is a sort of ‘big broth er’ to them all, and it takes an inter est in the success of each.” Thai “tyig brother to them all” simile well expresses the scope of the newspaper's work—its increasing ef forts for the maintenance and ad vancement of every worthy interest and enterprise of its community—its willingness to serve, even “without hope of reward.” But it takes “reciprocity” to keep the home newspaper going up to the high mark of service to its town and section. And wherever its efforts in behalf of the community meet with the ap preciation of substantial encourage ment the community helps itself in greater measure than it helps the paper. Meeting the home-paper halfway is practically half the battle for the pros perity of a town and county. MONSTER PROGRAM ASTOUNDING CLUB RATES LAKEWOOD, JULY 2-4 jWE KNOW THAT THIS IS A DULL SEASON, BUT LET'S BRIGHTEN The officials of Lakewood Park, At lanta’s popular amusement resort are making elaborate plans for their an nual Independence Day celebration July second and fourth. As has been the custom heretofore the gala occa sion will Jextend over two days and | every feature of the big entertainment j program scheduled for Monday, July: 4tli, will be pulled off on the preceding i t r r I ip f Saturday also. j 1 U . This annual mid-summer program: lias become one of (Atlanta’s fixed i WHAT events and each year sees an im provement in its feature attractions,! and Secretary R. M. Striplin states j DO YOU SAY, FRIEND that this year will be no exception to! that fact. The racing card is looming 1 up larger every day, and already there are quite a number of southern horses to be seen on the Lakewood oval be ing prepped for the July events. Ac cording to a statement given out by Secretary Striplin the July turf card will be second only in merit JKid in terest to the Grand circuit races. Practically all of the favorite south ern motor racers are preparing for the gasoline classics and because of the unusually attractive purses hung up the dare-devil performers are ex pected to furnish speed fans with spine-chilling thrills galore. A .monster fireworks program is I scheduled for both the night of July! second and the night of July fourth. The Newton Fireworks Company of Chicago will stage the spectacle and ^ their special artists and designers will !* personally supervise these stupendous !NOW WHAT DO YOU pyrotechnic displays. All the midway; attractions, including the Dancing Pavillion with its popular jazz orches tra will be operating full blast all day on both the second and the fourth. Boy Kilted Falling From Airplane Dothan, Ala.—Roy Scott, 19, of Head land, Ala., was instantly killed when he fell 2,000 feet from the airplane of Max Fortners, local aviator, two and a half miles from Dothan. Tri-Weekly Journal and Fayetteville News $1.75 Tri-Weekly Journal Southern Ruralist Fayetteville News $2.00 PER YEAR. SAY? SEND YOUR MONEY TO THE NEWS OFFICE. Blalock Trading Co. WE PAY HIGHEST PRICES FOR CHICKENS AND EGGS Blalock Trading Co.
