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VOLUME XXXIII.
FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 22, 1922.
WUMBER 23.
SHIRLEY AND WARD
\ ^
At Fayette County Farm
ers’ Mass Meeting at
Fayetteville, On
Thursday, Dec.
the 14th.
Representative farmers from all parts
of Fayette county were assembled at
the Palace Theater in Fayetteville on
Thursday morning at 10 o’clock. Mer
chants and bankers were there, and
many ladies were also present.
The editor of The News acted as
chairman of the meetings and with a
few fitting words setting ’forth the pur
pose of the meeting, introduced the
county agent, Professor C. y. Sliiiley,
who, for the past five years, has been
agent of Jefferson county.
Mr. Shirley addressed the people, pre
senting the great need of organization,
■co-operation and application, to over
come the boll weevil, commenting upon
the successful, use of calcium arsenate
in the raising of cotton.
Mr. Shiriey introduced Prof. F. C.
Ward, cotton specialist of the state
school of agriculture at Athens, whose
address presented ways and means of
successful cotton farming by the use
0? calcium arsenate properly applied,
prescribing 2 to 7 pounds to the acre
for cotton just beginning to square,
using a horn first to insure getting the
arsenate on the plant when small. Later
using a blower when the plant is
larger to insure getting the arsenate
over the whole plant; and using from
5 to 7 pounds to the acre.
Mr. Ward explained the Florida sys
tem, in picking off all squares formed
and lower blooms while the weevil is
In the tender top buds, then to apply
poison properly and thus get rid of
the weevil almost entirely.
Medium early varieties were recom
mended b,y Mr. Ward as best to use, thei
Piedmont Cleveland, as one of the best
tested varieties. /
Mr. Shirley announced .the securing of
nearby acreage for a test plot where
demonstration would be made for the
benefit of those who desired to see how
to properly apply poison.
The agents’ county program was read'
and adopted and community meetings
^announced with ddtesmranged to cover
the whole county in the near future.
Fully 90 per cent of the farmers and
laSbd owners present assured the agent
of their decision to use arsenate, this
season if possible to secure it and upon
a canvass of those present, about two
car loads were subscribed for, if prices
can be made at a reasonable figure.
Mr. Charles Redwine addressed the
farmers in particular relative to their
ability to underwrite themselves, as th©
banks will be engaged largely in assist
ing their own customers. Mr. Redwine
further stated that “Aid to the farmer
will be determined by the personal ef
fort being put forth by the individual
himself.”
Mr. A. O. Blalock, folowing Mr. Red
wine, stated: “Banks have no desire to
refuse anybody, but cannot propost to
help everybody; farmer must locate
himself and find out his own ability
and possibilities and use his own en
ergy to develop his very best and then,
if need is necessary, no earnest needy
applicant need suffer; honest, fair work
wi(l win.”
County banks will help after the first
work has been done by the farmer him
self. Land owners of communities, by
securing payments, can secure arsenate
for all needs. Organization is needed,
owners can secure money on paper and
let tenants have needed arsenate to in
sure better investments to owners. The
Fayette banks will endorse owners’
notes and secure money for arsenate for
everybody.
Mr. Blalock further requested that
the county agent act immediately upon
securing from the farmers the approx
imate amount of arsenate to be needed
and to secure prices Jrom the state
beard and others selling.
FAYETTE COUNTY FARMERS
ADOPT SUGGESTED OUTLINE
FOR PROGRAM OF WORK
By C. V. Shirley, County Agent.
LIVE STOCK:
Project:
1. Farm dairying.
(Develop all phases of this.)
a. Dairy association.
b. Testing cream.
c. Feeding.
d. Dairy equipment.
e. Permanent pastures.
f. Marketing.
2. Beel cattle.
(Develop phases such as pastures
and marketing.)
3. Hogs.
(Develop all phases.)
a. Feeding demonstrations.
b. Grazing demonstrations.
c. Pasture demonstrations.
d. Treatment for diseases and
parasites.
e. Marketing.
(Other phases can be added.)
f. Adopt one breed in the com
munity.
4. Poultry.
(Develop all phases.)
a. Housing.
b. Production.
c. Feeding.
d. Treatment for diseases and
parasites.
e. Marketing.
f. Adopt one or two breeds in
the community.
(Other phases can be added.
AGRONOMY:
5. Cotton.
(Develop all, phases.)
a. Poisoning to control weevil.
b. Fertilizer tests.
c. Seed selection.
d. Stalk destruction.
e. Marketing.
(Other phases can be added.)
6. Corn.
e. Seed selection.
b. Treating to destroy weevil.
c. Marketing. -
(Other phases can be added.)
7. Oats.
Develop all phases.)
8. Wheat.
(Develop all phases.)
9. Peanuts.
(Develop all phases, including the
marketing.)
10. Clovers, Alfalfa and Corn Crop.
HORTICULTURE.
11. Commercial and Home Orchards.
(Develop all phases, including the
marketing.)
12. Watermelons.
(Develop all phases, including the
marketing.)
13. Pimento Peppers.
(Develop all phases, including the
marketing.)
14. Sweet Potatoes.
(Develop all phases, including the
marketing.)
15. Miscellaneous, Horticultural
Crops.
(Develop all phases, including the
marketing.
FARM ENGINEERING.
16. Terracing.
17. Potato House construction.
18. Weevil tight cribs.
FARM SANITATION.
19. Treating farm animals, disinfect
ing, whitewashing.
MISCELLANEOUS.
20. Publicity.
21. Fairs.
22. Ralies, Barbecue, Inspection
Tours.
JUNIOR WORK.
23. Boys’ Clubs.
a. Eveiy pig club boy a corn
club boy.
b. Every com club boy a pig
club boy.
c. Eveiy corn and pig club boy
a calf club boy.
(The pig cl,ub boy needs the corn
for his pig; the corn club boy needs
the pig to eat his com; and we must
have a calf to eat the fodder and
hay, so there will be no waste. And
we need an acre in cotton for cotton
seed meal for calf.)
d. Seed the cotton acre in rye at the
last cultivation for the sake of the land,
pig and calf, and the acre of corn in
velevt beans for the sake of the same,
and the grain acre in hay for same
reason.
LOMI UNI FOR
URGER PROFITS
North Georgia Farmers Suffer
From Introduction Of Infer
ior Cotton Varieties
NO CHRISTIANITY IN
ATLANTA CHURCHES
SAYS DR. RIDLEY
Movement To Restore Regions Reputa
tion For Cotton Fiber Of Superior
Length and Strength Is
Now On
By C. A. WHITTLE
For a long time North Georgia cot
ton meant a staple of an Inch and bet-
Asserts They Are All Too
Stiff, Modern and
Selfish.
Preaching a highly interesting ser
mon, with the visit of Christ to the
Pharisee’s home and the anointing of
His feet by the woman sinner for a
theme, Dr. Caleb A. Ridley, of Central
Baptist church, last night took the
modern church ,to task for what he
declared was a characteristic and prac-
ter, silky and strong,— a cotton with a tically universal absence of spiritual
world-wide reputation. Buyers were! Christianity.
eager to get it—so eager that they were “if th e millions of sinners in this
willing to pay a premium for it. | country,” he said, “expect to be saved
But a change has come about. Buy
ers are finding it difficult to get old-
time North Georgia cotton. They must
, they had just as well make up their
minds that they will come to Christ
uninvited, so far as the modern church
have lint of good length, but they are ■ is concerned.
GOVERNOR COM
MUTES SENTENCE
Of Zenos Cofield to Life’
Imprisonment.
Monday, December 18th, at 12:44 p.
m., Governor Hardwick signed papers
commuting the sentence of Zenos Cof-
field, convicted of killing his nephew,
in the Superior Court room at Fay
etteville, to life imprisonment.
The question of the sanity of Cof-
field has been brought to the Gover
nor’s attention and' an examining
board has been appointed to examine
him, and upon the report Of this board,
the governor immediately commuted
his sentence.
Coffield was to have been executed
on the 29th of December, but will now
be sent to one of the county camps in
stead.
Mt. Moriah Lodge
No. 130 F.&A. M.
Elects, Officers
The annual election and installation
of officers of Mt. Moriah Lodge No.
130 F. & A. M. took place Friday ev
ening, December 15th. The following
were chosen:
Dr. E. C. Seawright, W. W.
Rev. G. P. Gary, S. W.
R. E. L. Fife, J. W.
L. G. Perry, Sec.
E. V. Jones, Treas.
O. L. Dickson, S. D.
R. T. Fife, J. D.
D. S. Blalock, S. S.
J. R. Byrd, J. S.
W. W. Allen, Chaplain.
J. H. Stephens, Tyler.
Finance Committee:—C. D.
wine, T. R. Gay, W. R. Jackson.
not able to find much of it in North
Georgia. Consequently the buyers are
going, to Arkansas to get staple that
North Georgia can grow, has grown and
ought to be growing.
“Give us the length,” say tho millers,
“and we will pay more for the North
Georgia cotton than for cotton of sim
ilar length grown anywhere else.”
Will North Georgia farmers take up
their offer?
When North Georgia farmers under
“The church is so everlastingly stiff
and modern and selfish, that it has no
time for bringing sinners to the Sav
ior. It says, ‘Let the Salvation Army
attend to the sinners.’ And I tell you
that, notwithstanding the fact that I
am for the Salvation Army, the Y. M.-
C. A. and others of this kind of organ
ization helping so nobly to bring peo
ple to a better life, there is no place
for them in the economy of God’s
grace. They were raised up. simply
COMMUNITY AGRI
CULTURAL CLUB
Organized at Brooks Sat
urday, December
the 15th.
Red-
stand what must be done, it is believed; t0 ^ ^ ie wor j c that the church is re-
they will be eager to join in a united; f us j ng t 0 a 0
effort to restore to North Georgia the j someone were to get religion in
reputation which it has been losing. | one 0 j> ^ Atlanta churches,” said the
Why have North Georgia cottons been p as t ori <<jt wou id get everybody so ex
losing their length of staple? It is be-; c jj e( j including the preacher, that they
cause many different and inferior, wotfld not knQW how ; t0 proceedi You
strains of cotton have been brought in- j m think that’s a joke, but it’s God’s
to the territory. These strains have
mixed with the old line varieties to
produce a mongrel cotton that can no
longer yield the superior staple.
Realizing the economic loss that this
part of the south is suffering as a con
sequence of this misfortune, a campaign
has been inaugurated to help the farm
er get seed of varieties that will bring
North Georgia back unto its own. In
this campaign cotton buyers, hankers,
the agricultural college with its county
agents, cotton mill men and leading
farmers are joining.
To get right down to practical things,
the Atlanta Commercial exchange in At
lanta has undertaken without expense
for its service, to carry on a campaign
to interest bankers and business men in
each town to assist the farmer to pur
chase seed by extending loans or
credit.
In order that the movement toward
better types of cotton may not go amiss,
the cotton buyers, after consulting agri
cultural authorities, cotton mill men and
farmers, have listed four leading va
rieties of cotton: Cleveland (any good
strain), College No. 1, Acala and Row-
den. All these varieties have ranked
at the top for quantity of yield, desir
able length of lint and adaptation to
boll weevil conditions in North Georgia.
In furtherance of its plans, the ex
change has undertaken to meet the
demand for seed of these varieties.
They have enlisted the aid of the banks
and the Cotton Storage Finance Cor
poration, of Atlanta. The banks arc to
finance the purchase of seed for their
respective regions. The Cotton Storage
Finance Corporation offers free storage
space for accommodating the distribu
tion of seed from the Atlanta headquar
ters.
An important part of the campaign
is to get all the fanners of a com
munity to use ouly one variety of cot
ton. If this is done, the seed will re
main pure and the exchange will be in
position to market these pure seed to
advantage next year and subsequent
yeai'3, if the farmers so desire.
Fanners who wish to get seed of the
varieties mentioned may take the mat
ter up with their county agent, or local
banker and arrange for a co-operative
order of seed which the Atlanta Com
mercial exchange offers to fill without
cost for the service rendered.
What assurance has the fanner that
he will get a better price for his cotton
if he grows the better staple?
The best assurance is the record of
the prices received each day on the
markets. Take the government’s report
of cotton sales in Georgia November 1.
On the Atlanta market strict middling
of 1 to 1 1/16 inch brought 26 cents,
strict middling 1 inch brought 25 3/8
cents, 7/8 to 1 inch 24 cents, 3/4 inch
22 3/4 cents.
IVlien cotton of the shorter grade
goes on the market in North Georgia
it comes in contact with Chinese and
India cotton, cotton that is raised by
cooly labor, the lowest paid labor in
the world.
A recent trade report showed that
while longer staples of cotton were sell
ing at 25 1/2 to 26 1/2 cents, Chinese
cotton was selling at 18 1/2 to 22 1/2
cents and India cotton a)/17 1/2 cents.
Such records are the surest evidence
that growing the longer staple pays.
| truth.”
i Dr. Ridley stated that the campaign
that has been in progress for five
weeks toward raising the balance of
the indebtedness on the Central Bap
tist church has succeeded in raising
about $1,000 a month, taking care also
of the church incidentals, and that
the big debt, which was originally
something more thtan $30,000, has
been! reduced to about $4,500, and
this amount is owing to a total of four
creditors.
Higher Cost of Living
A Sign of Prosperity
—For Profiteers
At a time when business of any
kind may be rated as an “extra haz^
ardous” undertaking—as revealed by
(the unprecedented number of com
mercial failures in the country—the
cost of living shows a steady upward
progress month after month. The Re
publican doctrine that high prices are
at. onle a promoter and a proof of pros
perity seems to be confounded by re
cent statistics.
The monthly index number of aver
age commercial prices, compiled by
Dun’s Review as of December 1, 1922,
shows an increase of 1 5-8 per cent
over that for November—at 'the rate
of 19 1-2 per cent a year. Compared
with the index number for July 1, 1921
—four months after President Hard
ing’s inauguration—the index number
for December, 1922, showed an in
crease of 16 per cent.
Nearly all commodities underwent
increases in price. The largest in
crease was in foodstuffs, which show
ed an advance of 3 1-4 per cent, com
pered with November. There was a
rise, of 2 1-4 per cent in textile mate
rials and clothing, which are exces
sively protected by the profiteers’ tar
iff act.
SAVE THE TREES.
Smallpox, a most loathsome disease,
is no respecter of persons. The only one
who is protected against it is the indi
vidual who has been successfully vac
cinated.
Why indiscriminately burn the
woods in an effort to control the boll
weevil. Burn where the weevil is,
ditch banks, fence rows, roadsides, ter
races and strips next to the woods, but
protect your trees as you would your
barn. You might just as well rub a
beef steak on the outside of your sto
mach to satisfy hunger as to bum your
woods in an effort to rid your fields
of the weevil. Clean up all under
growth, stumps and scrub thickets in
your woods, but SAVE YOUR TREES | ^ver i honestly try to do.
FROM FIRE.
County Agent C. V. Shirley, News
Editor and County School Superintend
ent addressed a meeting of farmers at
the Brooks Saturday afternoon, upon
“Co-operative Extension Work, Agricul
ture and Home Economics.” A com
munity agriculture club was organized
with the following list of officers and
chairmen of different committees elect
ed:
Chairman—John D. Mask.
Vice Chairman—N. D. Huckaby.
Secretary—Paul Jones.
Farm Dairying—E. E. Drewery, chair
man.
Beef Cattle—Dave J. Price, chair
man.
Hogs—Dave J. Price, chairman.
Poultry—J. B. Wood, chairman.
Cotton—John D. Mask, chairman.
Com—B. B. Hardy, chaimian.
Grain, Miscl.—J. H. Jones, chair
man.
Peanut—E. C. Evans, chairman.
Horticulture.
Fruit Trees—Dr. J. L. Gable, chair
man.
Sweet Potatoes—R. P. Steinheimer,
chairman.
Terraces—William Malone, chairman.
Potato Houses
Weevil Tight Cribs—B. B. Hardy,
chairman.
Community Fair—E. R. Coggins,
chairman. »
Monthly meetings adopted and the
next meeting will be Saturday before
the third Sunday in January'.
Paul Jones will prepare one acre to
demonstrate cotton.
William Malone will have five acres
for cotton demonstration and one acre
in alfalfa or clover for pasture mix
ture
God’s Property.
The Christian Herald writes:
“If it is really true that the wealth
of this earth belongs to God, and that
we are stewards of that wealth, it is
a fair question if, after reading these
facts, which an advertising agency says
are facts, about the United States, we,
as a people are giving the best account
of our use of God’s property. The
agency says that the United States
has—
Six per cent of the population of the
world.
Seven per cent of the area of the
world.
Thirty per cent of the manufacturers
of the world.
Thirty-five per cent of the wealth of
the world.
Forty per cent of the coal of the
world.
Forty per cent of the iron of the
world.
Fifty per cent of the gold of the
world.
Sixfy-six per cent of the petroleum
of the world.
Sixty-six per cent of the cotton of
the world.
Seventy-five per cent of the corn of
the world.
Eighty per cent of the automobiles of
the world.
We spent last year for—
Tobacco—$700,000,000.
Perfumes and toilet articles—$750,-
000,000.
Movies—$775,000,000.
Candies and Ice Cream—$1,000,000,-
000.
Griffin Women
Plan to Build
Handsome Club
The Booster’s Creed.
1. I believe in God, in my country
and myself.
2. I believe in the love of good wom
en and the friendship of true men.
3. I believe there is more good than
evil in the world, although the evil
makes the more noise.
4. I believe I am as good as any
man on earth, so long as I act on the
square.
5. I believe my future—to make or
mar—is in niv own hands.
6. I believe I can accomplish what-
Rook shower.
Library of Fayetteville Woman’s
Club.—The annual book shower of the
Fayetteville Woman’s Club will be
held on New' Year’s day (Monday. Jan.
1st) at the home of Mrs. L. A. Ingram,
2:30 p. m. Miss Clyde Matthew's, Mrs.
John Adams and Mrs. Carl Graves
will entertain with Mrs. Ingram.
Every one interested in library, and
Especially every one who have enjoyed
the use of the books, is urged to be
present, to bring a book or money for
same.
The common towel is a menace
health.
to
7. I believe that hard work, thrift
and common sense will put any man on
top.
7. I believe the knocker, the cynic
and the calamity liow'ler are pests that
should b.? suppressed.
9. I believe in eternal justice—that
fair dealing always pays and produces
the only happiness and success worth
while.
10. I believe that all the good things
of life, love, honor, friends and money
belong to the man who goes after them
and never quits until he .gets them.—
Selected.
We need protection against our
neighbor who is not sanitary, w'ho
does not keep his premises clean, and
who will not take proper care of his
infectious and contagious diseases.
Griffin, Ga.—At a a meeting of the
Womans’ Club Mrs. R. P. Shepard re
signed as president of that organiza
tion. Mrs. Shapard was vice president
at the time of the death of Mrs. R.
H. Drake, and has acted as president
since that time.
Business w'as suspended until after |
the holidaysl when a new president will
be elected and the many duties of the
organization will be carried on.
Among the first things to he consid- j
ered after the holidays will be thsi!
building of a club house. The United
Daughters of the Confederacy, the Wo
man’s Club and the Daughters of the
American Revolution will get together
and erect a club house some time in
the early spring.
The location has not been decided
at present, but several lots are being
■considered. No definite arrangements
have been made for raising the funds,
but the tentative plans are to issue
small bonds for that purpose.
SCHOOL NEWS.
This week has been spent by the
pupils of Fayetteville school in taking
mid-term examinations. The examina
tions began Tuesday and continued
through Friday morning. All students
making an average of ninety each
month during the term were exempted
from examinations. .
On account of the rainy weather we
have had several one-session days. On
these days we are dismissed at fifteen
minutes past one.
Christmas is here! No more school
until the eighth of January! t How glad
we are that the'holidays are here! We
hope that old Santa will not forget any
one. Merry Christmas and a Happy
New’Year to all, is the wish of the
students of Fayetteville High School.
The teachers are expected to spend
Christmas at their homes.
In accordance with our usual cus
tom, we have .given a number of Christ
mas boxes to the needy families in
the community. Each grade was as
signed a family to whom a box of gifts
was given.
Daddy’s
?dEvei\ii\g
fairy Tale
^y/AARY GRAHAM BONNER
■ . .... COnilOWT It VUTtlN Hlrnm UNION
EDDY ESKIMO DOG
“I’ve been asked to tell my story,”
said Eddy Eskimo Dog. “And I will
do the best I can.”
Some one has asked for it, I believe,
and some one else Is going to put. if In
to words that people can understand.
“I don’t know that I have much of
a story to tell, but I have had grand
fathers and grandmothers who could
have told stories that were wonder
ful and hair-raising and all other ex
citing tilings that stories often can be.
“In the first place I am called the
Eskimo dog. I look a little bit like (
a wolf, I’m told. But I’m not a wolf,
nh no!
“Far, far, far up North there are
some people known as the Esquimaux.
“Oh, they live very, very far away
from where you, who are now read
ing my story, live.
“But my grandparents lived far, far,
far North. They even did more than
Survey Shows Federal
Taxes Are Higher
Than in Year 1919
Republican claims that federal tax-
ation has decreased under the Harding
administration are challenged by the
statements of the National Industrial
Conference Board, representing a large,
number of American manufacturers.
This organization contends that instead
of a reduction of taxes there has been
an increase compared with 1919. i
■In the United States federal taxes
alone totaled $4,925,000,000 in 1919 and
in 1921 rsached a total of $4,430,000,-
000, which appeared to be a decrease
of 11.2 per cent. The reports of the;
conference contends, however, that in-,
as much as the 1921 dollar had a pur-!
chasing* power of 26.9 per cent less
than the 1919 dollar, federal ttaxes in;
1921 were actually 15 per cent higher
than in 1919.
The National Industrial Conference!
was not concerned in this report with;
partisan politics, so it did not take the j
trouble to point out that a Democratic
■administration was in power in 1919. 1
The Harding administration came into j
control of the government in 1921.
50,897 Employees.
Southern railway system payrolls
for September carried the names of
50,S97 employees.
To pay these employees twice a
month it was necessary for the ac
counting department to write approx
imately 102,000 pay checks.
During the first nine months of 1922
the average monthly gross operating
revenue of the Southern railway sys
tem— the total receipts for handling
freight and passengers and all other
transportation services—was $13,086*,-
55S per month.
Out of every dollar thus received j
by the Southern railway system, j
(therew as paid out to employees in J
the form of wages and salaries 46.32
'cents.
EMPTY STOCKING
FUND TO BE
AIDED BY X M A S
CAROLERS
Christmas Carolers, sponsored by the
Fayetteville Woman’s Club, will sing on
Saturday evening, December 23.
This* is a beautiful custom, portray
ing the real Christmas spirit.
The carolers will visit the homes
and give opportunity for an offering
to our Community Empty Stocking
Fund. /
“I’m Not a Wolf."
that. They went as far North as,
ever people went.
“They went with a famous, person
kno\yn_as_ Admiral,.Pearjv...
“Would you like to know what they
went for? I will tell you!
“They went in search of the North
Pole. Now my grandparents thought
that they were going to find a pole at
some very northern place.
“They said when they reached that
pole they would turn around and come
back. They imagined that they would
have a little celebration after they
finally reached the pole.
“Their idea was that perhaps they
would all have a special supper up
there and that they would all look up
at the pole and they would bark while
the people would say:
“ ‘Most noble Pole, how glad we are
to see you. We almost thought we
would freeze before we saw you. In
fact a few toes and noses and such
odd things have been frozen.
“ ‘And even more than that.
“ ‘All sorts of troubles have been
gone through, with for your sake,
Great Wooden Pole.
“ ‘We have almost starved for you,
we have shivered for you, we have
longed for you, we have almost given
up hope for you. But now we have
found you.’
“That was what :ay grandparents
Imagined would be said.
“Then they thought that the pole
which they fancied would be very,
very enormous would not say anything
because it would be too wooden to
have any feelings.
“But they fancied there would some
how be a look of dignity about the
pole.
“And do you know that there
wasn’t any pole there all the time?
No! Not a pole!
“The people had been speaking of a
point very, very far north. And they
had called it the North Pole.
“And they had gone in search of
this point. Just for that they had
dragged people through the snow.
“Oh well, it was all a part of ad
venturing, only some of my family
were a little disappointed when they
found out there was no actual, real
pole.
“But I am a descendant of this fine
family of dogs—and a descendant
means one of a family who follows
after, such as a grandchild or even a
child, or even a great, great grand
child.
“Yes, I am proud of my family
name because It does mean something
In my case, at any rate, when you
consider that my dear grandparents
went on these wonderful adventures
about which great books have been
written and lectures given and risks
run.
‘‘But it was a shame ubout that pole
not being there! You see, I suppose
in all the years and years that had
gone before, no one had ever gone far
enough to put a pole where the North
Pole should have been!"