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VOLUME XXXIII.
FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA, AUGUST 25, 1922.
NUMBER 6.
BLALOCK REPLY
DECLINES BID
FOR DEBATE
He Tells J. J. Brown It
Would Change Few
Votes—Makes New Set
of Charges.
OFFICIAL PROGRAM
Meeting Georgia Swine
Growers’ (Association,
Carrollton, Ga., August
30-31.
A. O. Blalock, candidate for coni'
missioner of agriculture, lias written
a letter to J. J. Brown, incumbent ,de-
• dining the invitation of the latter to
meet him in joint debate at various
points in the several congressional dis
tricts. He explains his refusal partly
on the ground that debates “change
few votes and emphasize factional po
litical bitterness and strife.” He then
mentions .some policies he attributes
to Commissioner Brown and comments
thereon. The letter follows:
“Honorable J. J. Brown,
“Atlanta, Ga,
“My Dear Sir:
“Your invitation to meet you in joint
debate at points to be designated in
the several congressional districts-, is
respectfully declined.
“My observation for many years has
been that joint debates between can
didates for political offices change
few, if any, votes, and serve almost
without exception to emphasize fac
tional political bitterness and strife
“In order that there may be no mis
understanding, however, as to precise
ly what I have said in my various ad
dresses, I have set forth, and reiterate
“(1). That an economical, business
like administration of the department
of agriculture, on your part, would
have saved the taxpayers of Georgia at
least two hundred thousand dollars
($200,000) per annum, with much more
efficient service.
“(2). That when the legislature
passed a resolution, requiring you to
submit a list of employees, giving
their names, salaries, and expense ac
counts, you employed an auditor to
make the list, at an expense to the
state of three hundred and fifty dol
lars ($350), when one of your book
keepers should have furnished this in
formation.
“(3). That you employed a state
senator who was chairman, of the
agricultural committee of the senate,
at a salary of three thousand dollars
($3,000) per annum and expenses.
“(4). That the chairman of the ag
ricultural committee of the house of
representatives has 'two brothers-in-
law on your payroll, as well as him
self; ,
“(5). That you appointed an assist
ant clerk of the house of representa
tives at a salary of three thousand ($3-,
000) dollars per annum, and expenses;
“(6). That during the month of
July, 1922, you paid your fertilizer in
spector in salaries and expenses the
amount of three thousand, three hun
dred and nine dollars and twelve cents
($3,309.12), when there was practical
ly no fertilizer to inspect;
“(7). That five members of your
family are on your payroll, beginning
with yourself, at a salary of five
thousand dollars ($5,000) per annum
and expenses; one son “be inspec
tor,” at one thousand, eight hundred
dollars ($1,800), and expenses; an
other son, a student at Tech High
school, at a salary of four hundred and
eighty dollars ($480) per annum; still
another son at a salary of one hun
dred and thirty-five dollars ($135) per
month; also a nephew, who is record
ed as drawing a salary of two thous
and, four hundred dollars ($2,400) per
annum;
Six Porters.
“(8). That you have six negro por
ters on your payroll, drawing as high
as eight-five dollars ($85) per month
salary, when the other departments
in the state capitol pay their negro
porters only fifty dollars ($50) per
month.
“(9). That a number of your oil in
spectors, after a conference in Atlanta,
sent out a notice calling upon all em
ployes of your department to send a
check of five (5) per cent of their
salaries fore one year as a campaign
fund;
“(10.) That you sent out a letter to
your inspectors to ‘see’ their repre
sentatives and senators before they
left home for the capitol, as it meant
something to them personally;
"(11). That of five hundred and
eighty (58.0) employees, approximately
sevently (70) of them are from At
lanta;
“(12). That your advice to the farm
ers of the state of Georgia in 1920
Jto hold their cotton for above forty
(40) cents has cost the farmers of
Georgia many millions of dollars.
“1 note in your letter your state
ment that you ‘emphatically and bit
terly’ deny these charges. I am not
to blame either for your emphasis or
your bitterness. The charges I have
made in my speeches are true, if the
statement furnished the legislature by
you, under a resolution of the house of
I representatives,, is correct and to be
relied upon.
“Respectfully,
“A. O. BLALOCK.”
Wednesday, August 30,
H. B. Ralls, Jr., President, Presiding.
9:00 A. M. Parade.
Club boys and girls; Boy
Scouts; Farm Bureau.
Led by Carrollton Band,
ending at City Hall.
9:30
Opening -Session—
Welcome Addresses:
A. K. Snead, Mayor, City
of Carrollton.
Prof. I. S. Ingram, Carroll
County.
Response:
W. H. Peacock, Cochran,
Ga.
10:00
Address:
Governor Thos. W. Hard
wick.
11:00
Address: .
Dr. A. M. Soule, Presi
dent State College, Ath
ens: “The Proper Farm
Program.”
12:00 Noon Basket dinner.
2:00 P. M. Vice President J. S.
Jones, Adel, Ga., Presid
ing.
Address:
Dr. Peter F. Bahnsen,
State Veterinarian: “Hog
Diseases.”
Fayetteville’s New High School Building.
FORDSON SHOW
TO BE STAGED
IN ATLANTA ON
AUGUST 29TH
ANNOUNCEMENTS
MR. A. O. BLALOCK
Industrial Exhibit Will;
Demonstrate the Many
Uses to Which the Trac
tor May Be Put.
Announces Himself as a
Candidate for Commis
sioner of Agriculture
Against J. J. Brown, In
cumbent.
MONEY SPENT
FOR EDUCATION
INCREASES PER
CAPITA INCOME
3:00
Address:
W. C. Lasseter, Editor of
Progressive Farmer:
“Value, of Farmers’ Or
ganizations.”
4:00
Free Trip over Carroll
county fbr registered
guests. .
7:30 P. M. Vice President J. E. Hall
Soperton, Ga., presiding,
Address:
C. A. Cobb, Editor South
em Ruralist: “The Co
operative Marketing of
Farm Products.”
Addressi:
Paul Tabor, Pasturage
Specialist: “Forage Crops
for Hogs.”
Thursday, August 31st.
9:00 A. M.
Business Meeting of the
Georgia Swine Growers 1
Association.
10:00
Poultry Sale: Poultry
furnished by local pro
ducers.
11:00
Address:
Prof. M. P. Jarnagin, An
imal .Husbandry, Athens;
Swine .Herd Manage
ment.”
12:00
Barbecue for registered
guests. Admission by
card.
1:00 P. M. Address:
W. H. White, Jr., White
Provision Co., Atlanta:
“The Meat Hog Situation
in Georgia.”
2:00
Sale:
Auction sale pure
hogs.
bred
3:00
Adjournment.
Hon. A. O. Blalock.
Endorsed by Fayette
County Executive
Committee.
At the regular meeting of the Fay-
mittee, Monday morning, July 31, reso
lutions were adopted endorsing Hon. A.
O. Blalock for Commissioner of Agri
culture of Georgia, subject to the Dem
ocratic primary to he held September
13th.
Mr. Blalock ..is now campaighing
through the different counties of the
state, and we commend him to all
Georgians as a most efficient business
man, banker and mercantile man in
his home town, a most progressive and
industrious farmer, former collector of
revenue under the Wilson administra
tion, former member of the House of
Representatives, throe times State Sen
ator.
FAYETTE COUNTY DEMOCRATIC
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
T. R. Gay, Sec.
A lack of education is pretty much
the cause of 'all our troubles. There
is a close relationship — blood kinship
in fact—between ignorance on the one
hand and poverty and crime on the
other. They accompany each other;
in fact, walk the earth hand in hand.
Poverty is due in most cases to in
ability to think accurately along! finan
cial lines, just as crime is the result of
illogical reasoning on moral problems.
Education enables a man to think
straight. Its purpose is not so much
to fill the mind with /facts! and figures
to be remembered and used in after
life, as it is to train the mind fo take
a given set of facts or conditions, rea
son accurately from them as a basis,
and arrive at a logical conclusion.
Some people belittle the advantages of
education because ,the young farmer,
the young lawyer or the young doctor
just out of school has not learned all
that is known about his profession. It
would be relatively impossible for col
leges to do this, but they do teach the
fundamental principles on which the
practice of thei profession is based, and
furthermore they furnish the student
with the trained mind that is essential
if he is to continue the study of his
profession, effectively after he leaves
college.
Our progress in co-operative market
ing, more profitable production, and all
of those things considered vital to the
farmers’ prosperity is being held back
and hindered because so large a por
tion of our people are not sufficiently
well educated to see the importance of
these things and to play their part ef
fectively in putting them into success
ful operation. Take the state of Ten
nessee, for instance, and Tennessee is
no worse in this respect than a number
of other Southern states. The average
person in that state attends school for
only four years. This fact indicates
that in addition to the illiterate, there
are thousands of people in the state
who barely escape illiteracy. They can
read and write, but with such a meager
education, accurate thinking is out of
the question. What a terrible handicap
for ;a state to carry, and what a tre
mendous burden is placed upon the men
and women who assume the responsi
bility of leading these people to pros
perity. •
There is evidence, that the people
that spend the most money on educa
tion are most prosperous. The states
that have /he largest per capita expen
diture for education, other things be
ing anywhere near equal, have the
largest per capita income. The money
that has been invested in education
has paid an excellent dividend, and the
figures in tse following table which
wa&jcompiled by the United States Bu
reau of Education prove it:
Missouri - - - -
-132.00
6.70
uation in any course is sixteen units.
Minnesota - - - -
-137.40
10.00
By “unit” is meant a regular study
Montana - - - -
-140.70
9.80
pursued for thirty-six weeks with a
Kansas - - - -
-140.90
9.60
minimum of five 40-minute periods per
New Hampshire -
-138.30
7.30
week. Laboratory periods shall be
'Idaho
-145.00
12.00
at least eighty minutes in length and
Wyoming - - - -
-145,60
15.00
shall be taken in conjunction with each
North Dakota - -
-150.50
15.30
science and Domestic Science subject
Oregon - - - - -
-154.60
9.30
at least on period per week. Domes-
Colorado - - - -
-185.00
10.30
tic Science is required of all girls for
Ohio/
-192.00
8,8P
the first two years, unless sufficient
Iowa - - - -
-202.00
12.20
reason can be advanced why it should
Washington - - -
-209.00
12.20
be omitted.
Pennsylvania - - -
-224.20
7.90
Spelling may be required of all pu-
New Jersey - - -
-228.90
9.50
pils in the high school as often as the
Illinois
-233.20
7.70
Principal may deem advisable. A pupil
California - - - -
-235.00
10.00
may be excused from further study of
Connecticut - - - -
-240.00
8.00
spelling by passing certain tests given
Nevada - - - - -
-243.50
10.30
under the supervision of the Principal.
Massachusetts —
-249.00
8.30
Selection of the course of study shall
South Dakota - - -
-253.40
10.90
be made with the advice of the Prin-
Nebraska - - - -
-256.00
11.10
cipa!. No pupil shall he allowed to
New York - - - -
-298.80
7.80
take more than the required number of
Some Qf these states jj/ive made bet
ter use of (expenditures for education
than others, and for this reason the
states that have ©pent the largest
amount of money ,doi not always show
the largest ,-per capita income. How
ever, it is noticeable that no state with
a low (expenditure for education has a
large Iper capita income. Furthermore,
in the first twenty of these states,
the approximate average annual per
capita income is $57.21, and the ap
proximate average per capita expendi
ture for education is $5.19; while in the
last twenty, the approximate average)
per capita income is $208.28 and the
approximate average per capita expen
diture for education is $10.13.
I We believe that these figures/indi
cate that it is possible for our Southern
states to greatly increase the earning
capacity of their citizens by substan
tially increasing their expenditures for
education. ,
»I» *j»
Rules and Program of
Study, Fayette Coun
ty High School.
Per Capita
Per Capita
Annual Expenditure
States—
Income for Education
North Carolina
- -$40.50
$ 2.50
Arkansas - -
- - 4fi’.00
$00
Mississippi - -
- - 42.00
2.30
South Carolina
- - - 49.20
2.90
Alabama - - -
- - 56.00
2.58
Georgia - -
- - 57.30
2.60
Tennessee - -
- - 66.60
3.20
Florida - - - -
- - 73.50
4.80
Kentucky - -
- - 77.00
3.60
Virginia - - -
- - 82.10
3.60
Louisiana - - -
- - 88.50
3.30
Oklahoma - - -
- - 90.50
6.90
Texas ---,.-
- - 94.60
5.00
Vermont - - -
- -106.70
7.20
Maine - - - -
- -118.00
5.70
Indiana - - -
- -120.60
9.40
Michigan - - - .
- -128.00
8.70
The work of these High Schools,
through the Senior High School at Fay
etteville is accredited with the Univer
sity of .Georgia and is given a rating
with all the other accredited high
schools of the state. A total of twenty-
eight units is offered by the High
School at Fayetteville, the same being
distribtued through the four years.
The Junior High Schools will offer in
the first two years of the High School
a proportionate amount of work, cor
responding in every detail to the work
given in other accredited schools of
the same grade. Thus, a pupil com
pleting any grade of any high school
in the county, will be passed /to the
next grade in any other schools with
no more formality than that of offering
a certificate from his last school. Only
the work of schools that have come up
to all the requirements of the Senior
high school will be considered of such
quality as to admit without examina
tion.
Three courses have been provided,
the “Classical,” leading to registration
for the A. B. degree in the standard
colleges, the “Scientific,” leading to
the B. S. degree in the same colleges
and the Georgia School of Technology,
and the “General” course, intended for
those whose schooling will probably
end with their high school work or
who wish to take Normal or Industrial
work, omitMng the higher mathemat
ics and languages.
Each pupil must pursue one of the
three courses of study as prescribed
and will not he allowed to change the
course selected unless recommended by
the Principal and approved by the pu
pil’s parents, provided that any pupil
who takes all five academic studies in
the first year may he allowed to sel
ect his course at'the beginning of the
second year.
The minimum requirement for grad-
studies -without the consent of the
principal.
Work done outside of class is’usual
ly very unsatisfactory. Such work will
not be accepted in the place of school
work until a thorough and satisfactory
examination shall have been passed.
Pupils entering school later than the
opening day shall be held accountable
for the work done before their en
trance. Certificates of Promotion are
not valid after the first twenty days of
school.
“Conditions,” unless made up by sat
isfactory work during the first twenty
days must be removed thereafter by an
examination of the Conditioned sub
ject.
The passing grade in all subjects
shall be “C,’’ which is about equiva
lent to 70 per cent under the old sys
tem of grading.
The Principal may require a pupil
to take special work in any subject,
provided he is of the opinion that the
pupil's elementary work in the course
is so deficient as to require it. No
credit shall he given for these subjects
No pupil who Is found to be deficient
in the fundamentals of arithmetic and
English Language may enter High
School without taking such extra work,
The following names have been add
ed to the list of registrants for the
coming tenn of school:
Walter Wise, Spencer Jones, John
Bearden. Emily Kitchens, Frank Jones
Raymond Banks, Margaret Wise, Eliza
beth Stewart, Ralph Dorsett, Louie
Doreett, Nannie Ruth Bearden, Pellie
Banks, Sara McKeown, C. B. Thornton,
Arch Bearden, Julia Chambers, Robert
Chambers, Ada. Banks, Dannie Me
McKeown.
It is hoped that those who intend
to enter at the opening will register
now. Those who do not get their
tickets and make the necessary ar
rangements or will in all .probability
be inconvenienced at the last moftient,
at least, to the extent that the first
day or two will be spent in getting
classified. This time need not be lost
by those who register before the open
ing. No certificate of Perfect Attend
ance can he granted to those who lose/
time at the start.
Announcement has just been made
by Redwine Brothers, local managers !
of the Ford Motor- Company, that the j
Fordson Industrial Tractor Show will j
be held in Atlanta from August 29 to"'
31, inclusive.
The show is to be staged on the
large lot at Ponce de Leon and Penn
sylvania avenues. On this lot will he
erected huge tents to house many of |
the exhibits. A large open air amphi- (
theater will also be laid out in which j
industrial equipment too large to be :
shown under the tents will be exhibit- !
ed and demonstrated.
Reports received from other cities
throughout the country where the Ford
son Industrial Tractor Show has been
held there is a great deal of public in
terest in the .multiplicity of uses to
which the Fordson Tractor — Henry
Ford’s latest invention—is applied In
industrial work. The practical demon
strations made have demonstrated the
fallacy of the popular idea that the
tractor is for use on the farm only.
Parade Opens Show
Elaborate plans are being made for
a large field and very interesting pa
rade to be held on the opening day
and something of unusual public inter
est will occur each day during the
exposition.
Among the exhibits of great public
interest will be seen a vacuum cotton
picking machine operated with power
from the Fordson Tractor. This ma
chine is so constructed that instead of
tearing the cotton from the boll as
some mechanical devices have done in
the past, the cotton is sucked from the
boll and at the same time much, of the
seed extracted/ "With' tKiSTnachine one
man can do the work of several men.
Another exhibit of great interest is
known as the “line drive.” In. this
exhibit the Fordson Tractor is driven
like a horse with a pair of liens. These
lines control it by the manner in which
they are pulled, sending the tractor
forward at varying speeds or turning
it from right to left at will. In prac
tical use it is possible with this de
vice for one man to do the work of
two.
Used in Logging.
An unique step forward in the loco
motive field -will be exhibited at this
exposition.
BLALOCK SUP
PORTERS OR
GANIZING IN j
MANY COUNTIES
Campaign Being Organ
ized in Fayette
County.
Announcement by A. O. Blalock,
prominent farmer, business man and
banker, of Fayetteville, and collector
of internal revenue for the state un
der the Wilson administration, that he
will be a candidate for the office of
commissioner of agriculture, in the
coming state primary, has been re
ceived with much interest in Fayette
county, and a campaign is now being or
ganized in his behalf.
Mr. Blalock is well known through
out the state, and if the pulse beats
in the heart of his home town and
county mean anything, the congratula
tory letters that are pouring in from
all parts of the state over his an
nouncement speak a volume of the
sentiments of the people of Georgia.
Campaigns are being organized in
many counties in his behalf and the
outlook seems very encouraging to Mr.
Blalock and his many friends.
WISE ANNOUNCES
FOR CONGRESS
From the Sixth District
To Succeed Himself,
Subject to the Demo
cratic Primary.
To the Voters of the Sixth Congres
sional District:
I hereby announce my candidacy for
the Democratic nomination for the
69th Congress, subject to the rules of
the Democratic Executive committee
of said district governing the primary
election.
I appreciate the support given me
In this exhibit the Ford- j heretofore, and if again honored by
son Tractor has been converted into : T° u 35 your representative, I will en-
Consolidated Schools in
Every State.
Today there are over 12,000 consol
idated or rural union schools in opera
tion in the United States. Practically
every state in the Union has organized
at least one and Pennsylvania, Iowa,
Indiana, Ohio and a (dozen or so others
have from 100 upwards to over 1,000
of these schools.
Not only are the pupils given a bet
ter education, but these schools are
serving as the social centers of their
communities. They are not locked up
to stand idle during the school vaca
tion period, but are used day and night
throughout the entire year. Thus they
become an investment which contin-
a locomotive for nse in logging and
mining operations and on construction
jobs and in large manufacturing plants.
A special track is to be constructed
to show this locomotive in actual op
eration. The exposition given here will
be the eighteenth of a series of 38
such expositions being given in the
large trade centers throughout the
United States.
It is reported that the exhibits to
be shown at this exposition are valued
at over one million dollars. They will
come from half the states in the Un
ion and represent the products of over
fifty manufacturers of industrial equip
ment.
deavor to serve your interest in legis
lative, as well as other matters.
Thanking you in advance for your
interest in my behalf, I am,
Very respectfully, J. W. WISE.
Fayetteville, Ga., June 29, 1922.
just imagTn&I
Among the wives of the English coal
miners there exists the curious cus*
tom of putting small bits of coal
among the clean sheets on their beds.
They believe that if they neglect to
do this their husbands will meet with
an accident before the sheets are
changed.
ually pays returns in the educational,
social, and business development of
each community.
Better Teaching, Better
Equipment. •
Better teaching is secured in the
consolidated schools because the teach
ers are able to concentrate and special
ize on single grades. The teacher’s
effectiveness is also increased by
means of teaching equipment which
the one-room school never was able to
purchase.
The results of this evident improve
ment! n teaching and teaching methods
is shown in the greater interest taken
in the work of the school by the pupils,
increased school spirit and commun
ity pride, and a better chance for each
girls and boy to succeed in later years.
The community which is still satis-
fie dwith the old fashioned one-room
country school is handicapping its fu
ture happiness and prosperity and is
withholding from its boys and girls—
its futureg enerations—the right to a
souud education as preparation for a
successful life.
To the Voters of the
Sixth Congressional
District:
I am a candidate to represent this
district in the 68th Congress. I earn
estly solicit the votes and active sup
port of my friends throughout this dis
trict, and, if elected, I assure you that
I w r ill be active in the suppotr of the
interest of the people.
Respectfully,
J. J. FLYNT.
Announcements.
TO THE VOTERS OF FAYETTE
COUNTY:
I hereby announce my candidacy
for the state senate from the 26th sena
torial district, subject to the rules of
the Democratic executive committee
of said county and district governing
the primary election to be held Sep
tember 13th.
I earnestly solicit the votes and ac
tive support of my friends in the coun
ty, and, if elected, I assure you that
I will do all in my power to advance
the interest of our people.
Thanking you for your interest in
my behalf, I am,
Very respectfully,
W. B. HOLLINGSWORTH
Principle and Impulse.
Impulsiveness would be a greater
blessing if only we would use our im
pulses instead of letting them use us.
Let good impulses have their rightful
play, but let principle stand squarely
behind them.
Music's Great Value.
Music is moral law. It gives a soul
to the universe, wings to the mind,
flight to the imagination, a charm to
sadness, gaiety and life to everything.
—Exchange.
