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VOL. XXXII.
FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA, MARCH 10, 1922.
NUMBER 34.
A. 0. BLALOCK ANNOUNCES
TO OPPOSE BROWN
Contest for State Commisssioner of Agriculture
Promises Bitterest Fight of Political Year.
A. 0. Blalock, of Fayette county,
former collector of internal revenue
for Georgia, former member of the
State Senate anti House, and well
known business man, announced him-
as a candidate for commissioner
of agriculture against Commissioner J.
J. Brown, incumbent.
Mr. Blalock’s announcement is short,
but leaves no doubt whatever that he
is in the contest to the finish. He
states that her'will follow his prelim
inary announcement later with a more
formal statement setting forth his
platform.
The statement given out Saturday
reads:
*To the People of Georgia.’’
“Several weeks ago my name [was
mentioned in a suggestive way by
some of the leading newspapers of
the States as a possible candidate for
the office of commissioner of agricul
ture in the approaching primaries for
statehouse officers. Although this sug
gestion of my {name in this connection
was neither inspired nor authorized'by
me, the publicity given the rumor
brought letters and personal solicita
tions from so many parts of ;the State
that I could not avoid giving some
thought to the matter. Within recent
weeks these solicitations have been so
insistent and have come from so many
quarters that I have finally concluded
to enter the race. My formal announce
ment will be given to the public in
the course of a few weeks.”
Spectacular Contest.
That the race between Commission
er Brown and Mr. Blalock will be spec-
r ular in the extreme may be taken
assumed. Mr. Blalock is one'of the
best known farmers and business men
in the State, is widely acquainted
and has a legislative record that is full
of constructive endeavor and effort
in behalf of agricultural interests.
Mr. Brown is serving his second
term as commissioner of agriculture
and has a large and aggressive fol
lowing throughout the State.
the Department of- Agriculture has
#3en under fire, within and without
the Legislature, for many months. It
has its stanch friends and supporters
and its very vigorous and outspoken
critics. The attitude of the depart
ment with reference to the price of
cotton and the handling of the crop
last year brought down upon its head
an avalanche of adverse criticism and
that with its long standing feud with
the State College of Agriculture and
its alleged political activities, has
served to set up a situation throughout
the State that is complex and acute.
That Commissioner Brown will be
a candidate for re-election is assured.
He realizes that his department has
been “under fire,” but he declares that
he is fully prepared to meet criticism
and will do so.
That the critics of the Department
of Agriculture (will rally to; the sup
port of Mr. Blalock seems more than
likely, and there is no doubt what
ever that the effort to bring Mr. Bla
lock into the race, which has been
4pcc.essful, is widespread and backed
by a rather imposing array of aggres
sive and outspoken Georgians, who
believe that the time has come for a
“thorough-going shake-up” in the de
partment.
Political observers predict that the
race between Mr. Blalock and Mr.
Brown will be far and away the big
political contest of the year.
* Blalock’s Record.
W A. 0. Blalock was born in Fairburn,
Campbell county, Georgia, and has
spent practically all of his life in Fay
etteville, Fayette county, where he has
large and extentive farming interests,
as well as similar interests in Clayton
and Coweta counties. He served.both
in the House and Senate of the Geor
gia General Assembly a number of
times and was never defeated for eith
er position. He was appointed collec
tor of internal revenue for Georgia by
President Woodrow Wilson eight years
ago and served most acceptably to the
conclusion of the Democratic regime.
Besides his farming interests, which
are his first concern, he has other
biudness connections, being president
of^the Bank of Fayetteville, a most
successful institution.
Don’t Neglect Eyes.
The majority of people do not care
for their eyes as they should. The
eye is too delicate an organ to be
subjected to haphazard treatment. A
sudden change from a very bright
light to darkness should be avoided
and, if the eyes are at all weak, the
prevailing color in the room in which
sucbjiri one spends much time, should
be in some tint that Is soothing and
restful to the eyes.—Detroit News.
RECORDS SHOW
ACTIVITY OF THE
66TH CONGRESS
Huge Number of Bills
Offered (Result in Small
Number of Laws That
Were Enacted.
Washington, March 9.—Analysis of
tha proceedings of the Sixty-sixth Con
gress discloses the fact that during its
session 16,239 public bills were intro
duced in the house and more than 5,000
in the senate. In addition, 481 joint
resolutions were introduced. As as re
sult, 470 new laws became part of tile
national statutes, not including 124
private hills which were enacted. ,
The facts answer the criticism some
times aimed at the press by Congress
that it fails adequately to report the
activities of the national legislaure
and certainly provide food for thought
for those critics of Congress who say
it is not sufficiently active.
Many members of the national legis
lature are alive to waste of time anti
effort involved in the mere presenta
tion of so many bills, few of' which
can ever receive consideration or be
made into law. The physical limita
tion of hours in a day and days in a
session should, they contend, be con
sidered and some means found to make
it possible to decrease the large num
ber of bills presented. Large as the
number of bills presented. Large as
the number above quoted is, it is less
than that of some previous years,
which, as the country is growing, is
iu itself an indication that the vast
majority of bills offered are unneces
sary and an obstruction to vital legis
lation.
Black Walnut Valuable.
“Of all the forest trees found in the
original forests of America,” says
American Forestry, “the black walnut
probably suffered most at the hands
of the early settlers. This is due to
the well-known fact that it stood upon
the best land in the fertile valleys
and bordering foothills. These areas
were selected by the pioneer farmers
for their clearings and farms. A large
number of the choicest black walnut
trees were felled and burned simply
to get rid of them. Many more were
split into fence rails or put to other
similar ordinary uses before the real
merits of the wood became known.
“Now the wood of black Walnut
brings a high price. It is no longer
destroyed and wasted, but every avail
able piece is collected and manufac
tured into some useful article. It is
not used any more for rough lumber,
as it was in the early days, but all
of It goes to factories, where it is con
verted into finished articles.”
Young Sparrow's First Flight.
I was walking around my stables
and stopped to watch a pair of spar
rows enticing their offspring from a
nest in a hole in the wall. One of
the young ones, more venturesome
than the others, fluttered off toward a
cock feeding in the yard with some
hens. The cock at once ran up and
seized it in his beak; the hens, think
ing this was something good to eat,
ran after him. The hunt, however,
was of short duration, for as soon as
they got out into the open ground, a
scavenger kite came with a rush,
snatched the victim from the astonish
ed cock and made off. The cock and
hens then fled squawking for shelter.
—The Field.
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE VOTERS OF
THE FAYETTEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT
ANSWER TO THE NEWS’EXPOSURE OFT H E ATTEMPT
CALL AN ELECTION FOR THE PURPOSE OF REPEAL
ING THE LOCAL SCHOOL TAX.
TO
Do You Want Your Child to Receive the Benefit* of a
credited High School?
Standard Ac-
IF YOU DO—SAY IT WITH Y.OUR VOTE.
Sporting Instinct.
You wouldn’t heckle a lady candi
date?”
“Certainly not,” said the gallant ma
jor, “but I like a bit of fun as well
as anybody. If a lady candidate were
making a speech and I saw a woman
voter in the audience about to boil
over, I’d probably be the last man
there to call a policeman.”—Binning*'
ham Age-Herald.
Enforced Cheer.
“Fine acting those merry villagers
are doing.”
“It doesn’t require much art to play
the role of a merry vlllnger.”
“They haven’t had a cent of salary
in three weeks."—Birmingham Age-
Hurnld
Saved After Long Immersion.
People have been resuscitated after
being under water as long as 40 min
utes.
Fayetteville, Ga., March 7, 1922.
Mr. Editor:
In your issue of March 3rd discussing the proposed election for voting on the question of repealing the
local school tax of the Fayetteville School District you state that it seems almost a necessity that the local
board of education should speak in this matter, that the voters of the district may have full information of
all school affairs, financial and otherwise.
The board is glad to have an opportunity of giving the voters of the district full information on the sub
ject. As stated by you, “there seems to be considerable misunderstanding on the part of the public,” and
judging frofli the discussion I have had with those that signed this petition I am satisfied that there is no
question as to the result of this election, provided the voters understand the situation fully.
It appears to me that the whole trouble arises from the 5 mills county-wide levy that was made by the
county board of education for the first time in September, 1921, This levy was made under authority of a
constitutional amendment proposed by the legislature and overwhelmingly ratified by the voters of Georgia.
Up to this time your local board had been making a levy of 5 mills, which took care of the Fayetteville
school, because this is a center of population and the tax values were and are, naturally greater than those
of the rural sections, but since the constitutional amendment above referred to was made effective, and the
money collected by the levy made thereunder must be equally distributed among all the schools of the coun
ty, we cannot maintain a nine month s gbaded and accredited high school without local support.
The county board of education with the funds above mentioned and with those received from the state ’
are for the first time maintaining a six months school system over the entire county. Fayetteville is re
ceiving the salaries of her teachers for six months out of this fund, and that is all this school is receiving
from the public fund, and if there! are those of our citizens Who feel that our school can be run on a nine
months basis without local support, the board would be glad to co-operate with them in repealing the tax, pro
vided they would show us how to do it. This proposition has been made and so far no one has shown us
how it can be done.
It costs approximately $990.00 per month in teachers salaries to operate the school. In addition to this,
insurance on the building musi^ be paid for, which will amount to $255.0 0 per annum on $25,000.00, a jani
tor must be hired to care for the bu ilding at an approximate expense of $240.00 per annum, coal must be
bought as the city council in its last meeting refused to render aid along this line, as it had been doing for a,
number of years, at an approximate expense of $300.00 per annutn. with minor incidentals tnat space will
not permit mentioning here which will total around $3,60.00 'per anum cost for operating the school which
must be borne by the district.
Of course the little 2 mill levy which is all that can be voted out by the voters of this district does not
amount to more than $1,100.00 and we could run our school and keep up our accredited relations with South
ern Colleges and Universities, if this was all the income we had. Two years ago under the Rodgers Act which
provided that $47,000.00 from the rental of the Western & Atlantic Railroad should be appropriated among
47 high schools of the state that wou Id increase their standard of efficiency to a certain point to be approved
by the State Board of Education, Fa yetteviJIe was awarded $1,000.00. The county board entered into a con
tract with us two or ithjjee years ago to take care of all the high school pupils of the county that desired to
come to this school free of tuition and to appropriate therefor the sum of $500.00. We have collected in
* entrance fees $1,042.50 since Septem her first, last, and if any one cares to aggregate the above figures it will
he seen that the income and expens e of operation will come very near balancing.
Those who have discussed the matter with me, do not seem to wish to shorten the term of the school
nor impair its efficiency but seem to think that expenses should be redu ced, and the only item capable of re
duction suggested is, in reducing te achers salaries. This was-done at the beginning of this year, and accord
ing to the average as given hv the National Bureau of Education the high school teachers salary in Georgia
is $1,350.00, ahd for grade teachers is $936.00 in schools keeping up their accredited relations. The salaries
paid our teachers are more than $200.00 jxer annum less than this average, and in the past we have lost a
number of our best teachers because the salaries were not in keeping with those of other schools. I do not be
lieve that we should reduce the effi ciency of our school to further cut salaries. In fact, we would gain
nothing by doing this as the state aid which we are receiving is given us on the condition that we maintain
an accredited 1 high school, and that we employ only teachers in the high school that are graduates of stand
ard colleges and universities, and with the further provision that we maintain a school for, 36 weeks or
180 days. So when we undertake to save the little 2 mill levy we lose the $1,000.00 state aid and the
$500.00 high school aid paid from publip funds through the county board as these funds will not be given to
any school that fails to comply with these requirements, nor fails to give local support.
The above statement of facts are given to the public in order that they may understand exactly what
the issues in the election are. Frankly speaking as above stated I do not see how the school can be operated
on a nine months basis nor maintai ned as a standard high school without the local tax. The minds of the
members of the board of education are open to conviction, and if any wh o are advocating the repeal of this
tax can show how it can be done they will receive the fullest co-operation in helping to do it. If, on the
other hand, they cannot show the pu blic how the schools can be maintain ed and run for nine months without
the local aid, in fairness they ought to either admit that they are wrong and co-operate with those who feel
that the present standard should be mtaintained or else frankly admit that they do not want a regularly stand
ardized accredited school. %,
So far as the board is concerned we have no apology to make for the school. A mere comparison of
what it was five years ago ought to convince any fair-minded man. We have been inspected by the State
High School Inspector and the State Superintendent of Schools a number of times and they both have pro
nounced our growth and progress r emarkable, and today, considering the handicap under which we have been
laboring, we are willing to compare our school with any in the state in towns of like size.
We hope that when you go to cast your vote on this proposition .that, you will give the matter the consid
eration that it deserves and vote ac cordingly. If you are satisfied with a school no better than is offered by
the smallest rural community in the county and if you desire that your magnificient new building which is
now nearing completion and upon which you must pay interest and prin cipal on the bonded indebtedness
stand idle for six months in the year and go without insurance against fire, and that the same have no
janitors care, why then, we believe you would be justified in voting to repeal a little tax that only costs
the tax payers of this district $2.00 on each $1,000.00 worth of property returned for taxation.
Very respectfully, C. D. REDWINE, Chairman Board of Trustees.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
MEET, BUT MAKE NO'REPORT
PROGRAM
Second Annual Contest,
Fayette County
Schools.
Fayetteville, Georgia,
April 7, 1922.
10:00 a. m.—At Fayetteville Public
School.
Literary Contests—Arithmetic, Com
position, spelling, Penmanship.
11:00 a. m.—At Courthouse.
Address: Honorable M. L. Brittain,
State Superintendent of Schools.
12:00 noon—Dinner on grounds.
Court yard.
11:00 p. m.—Parade by schools.
From the school Grounds.
2:00 p. m.—Athletic contests:—100-
yd dash, boys, 50-yd dash, girls, 220-yd
dash, boys, bar chin, boys, standing
broad jump, boys, ninning broad jump,
boys, potato race, boys, potato race,
girls, 880-yd relay, boys.
Delivery of prizes.
8:00 p. m.—-Oratorical Contest—
Boys’ Declamation; Girls’ Recitation.
Announcement of winners. Delivery
of Banners. Attendance Banner. Ath
letic Banner. Literary Banner.
The County Commissioners met
Tuesday to transact their regular
monthly business but failed to fur
nish The News with a report for pub
lication. Would it not be well for
those who petitioned The News for
this detailed report to write direct to
the county commissioners, ore the or
dinary, requesting them to furnish for
publication such information as may
he desired.
THE RIGHT THING
AT
THE RIGHT TIME
By MARY MARSHALL DUFFEE
The Boll Weevil
Stays Out.
Plants fertilized with Nitrate of Soda 1
as soon as they are planted grow fast j
and strong and produce tough squares |
early.
The boll weevil stays out of these}
squares—for the simple reason that!
he cannot get in.
That’s the Way to raise a good strong j
healthy weevil-proof .crop that willj
get to market and send home the j
money.
Fertilize when you plant with Ni- j
trate of Soda. It is richest in nitrogen.;
When your brand of fertilizer does 1
not carry more than 2 or 3 per cent i
of nitrogen use in addition 200 lbs.
of Nitrate of Soda per acre.
Send postal for Bulletin No. 12, Dr.
William S. Myers, Director, Chilean;
Nitrate Committee, 25 Madison Ave., j
New York.
REMEMBER
LET’S PAY THE
EDITOR WEEK
“Let’s Pay the Editor Week.” Such
a proposition duly featured and ad
vertised throughout the country would
no doubt bring profitable results to
the publishers. The Retail merchants
have a pay-up week and where well
advertised it has been the means of
securing thousands of dollars in ac
counts. The editor should, as a mat
ter of fact, have his subscription list
on a paid in advance basis, but con
ditions of the past two years have
made many publishers falter in well
doing with the result that many sub
scription lists are now in bad shape
and will be worse next fall.
The home town paper has a hold up
on the community in which it is pub
lished that cannot be filled by any out
side publication, and, while a few sub
scriptions may be lost by holding to
the pay in advance basis, the losses
would be nothing compared to that of
allowing the subscriber to pay at his
convenience. Pay the editor week is
not a bad idea.
A Miss and a Mile.
“I came very near being the owner
of a twin-six car today,” said Gelatine
Travers on his arrival home. "How
near?” Inquired Mrs. Travers without
enthusiasm. “Will, my number was
actually in the lint from which the win
ning number was drawn, and that’s
nearer than usual," replied her hus
band.—Kansas Ci\v Star.
Derivation of “London.”
The derivation of the name “Lon
don” is obscure. Some authorities
believe it to be a combination of the
old British words “lyn,” 'tuear.ing
“lake” and “din" meaning “town," pos
sibly because until recent times the
southern side of the river Thames
was practically swamp.
INTERCHURCH PLAN
“BORN IN HELL”
DECLARES PASTOR.
Following a statement of Dr. Cort
land Myers, formerly pastor of the
Tremont Temple, Boston, Massaehu*
setts, in which he refereed to the inter
church movement fostered by the
Northern Baptist convention as a plan
“born in hell,” Dr. M. Ashby Jones,
pastor of the Ponce de Leon Baptist
Church, arose vand left the meeting
Monday afternoon of the Evangelical
Ministers Association which was being
held at the Y, M. C. A.
Dr. Jones was the only minister pres
ent to depart.
Perhaps had Dr. Myers stated that
many other Federated Councils and As-
! sociations of Charity, were equally as
Satanic and that the whole
business was incubated in the same
place that Dr. Jones might have come
hack in again.
The leather traveling bag Will look j
clean and fresh if it is polished with
linseed oil.
Let potatoes lie in cold water for a
little while before paring if you wish
them to be white.
The housewife who saves sklmmings
from soup, trimmings and drippings
need buy little lard.
Wet a mildewed article and rub on
it a mixture of equal parts of soap and ;
chalk. Place in sun.
Cotton crepe table napkins are a i
convenience in the summer cottage, j
They reguire no ironing.
Clean white zephyr articles by rub
bing in flour and magnesia, changing
frequently. Shake and sun.
Bread for faneily shaped sandwiches
should be sliced across the long way.
This gives more surface to work upon.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
If you must throw, use stones;
words are dangerous.
Your deposit in the savings bank
is an object of interest.
His satauie majesty is always get
ting something fob nothing. ^
Some men wear good clothes be
cause they can’t afford not to.
Ever notice how particular a bald
man is about the care of his hair?
Some men hurry through life as if
leap year widows were after them.
There are some hypocrites iu the
church—but think of the vast number
outside of it!
Most women have faith In their hus
bands as long as they can buy things
on credit at the dry goods store —
Chicago Daily News.
IN A STRANGE TOWN.
“I am not a Virginian—but an Ameri
can.”—Patrick Henry.
I T IS always a bad idea to knock the
other man’s home town. Especially
poor policy is It when you are making
your living .there. Yet* there are al
ways young men—and women, too—
who seem to take peculiar satisfaction
In passing uncomplimentary comments
on the city or town of their adoption.
They don’t seem to remember that the
man or woman who is at home iu that
town is in a position of host and that
to make scathing remarks about the
town is almost as rude as to make
scathing remarks about the house of
the man whose guest you are. Especial
ly Is this so when the town Is smalL
The stranger in a town like New
York or Chicago really harms no one
but himself when he continues to pour
forth his disgruntlement over the city
of his temporary sojourn. No one
takes offense. At most they are bored
or amused. But when a stranger in
a small town assures the natives that
it is away behind the times, that the
buildings are atrocious, the streets the
worst paved in the country, the res
taurants and hotels the worst run, the
women the plainest and the movies
the oldest he ? is giving real offense,
besides, of course, making himself
very unpopular.
It really indicates nothing more than
a person's own narrowness to “knock”
another town in this way. If the man
from a large city goes to a small one
he should take it for granted that
things would be different. 1/ a North
erner goes South he should bear in
mind that Southern climates make
people more indolent and he should re
member that if he remains there long
enough lie, too, will possess something
of- that indolence. And if a South
erner goes North he should remember
that the natives of the northern cities
have really nothing to do with the raw
climate and that the very progressive
ness which has brought him North to
do business robs daily intercourse
of some of the charming courtesy
that makes Southern life so different
The real man of the world soon fop
gets any local prejudices he may have
or rather he is wise and well bred
enough to forget them. He realizes
that it is through no fault of the na
tives of the town where he sojourns
that hft has to remain among them and
that theoretically at least he is fre«
to leave the town if he does not like
it. Just at present there are ax good
many shifts in business aud industry.
The end of the war and demobilization
of the soldiers and the -closing ol
certain war industries and the be
ginning of other peace industries; have
made it inevitable that a good many
young nien should find themselves Ir
a new environment. City men find
themselves in the country or village
aud country and village men find
themselves for the first time in the big
cities; Easterners find themselves in
the West, Westerners find themselve?
East. Northerners awake to the fact
that great opportunities await in the
land of cotton and Southerners on dis
embarking In the northern ports dis
cover that there are opportunities foi
them there that they have not at
home. If you are one of these young
men,in a new environment show yout
good sense and good breeding by not
knocking the town of your sojourn
ing. '
(Copyright).
APES
Apes are all devoid of tails and cheek
pouches.
The gorilla is the only ape able to
walk erect without being taught to do
Explains Properties of Food.
The Amealean Museum of Natural
History, in N'ew York, has a collec
tion of wax models of dtffereiw kinds
of food, accompanied hv explanations
of their value in calories and other
dietary properties.
Hearing Lessens With Age.
Sensitiveness to high-pitched sounds
generally weakens with age. Many old
people cannot hear the shrill squeak
of a hat-
Difference in Diamonds.
A diamond known as a "brilliant"
has 58 facets. A rose diamond is
faceted only on the top and has u flat
base.
