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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!"