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Bins COUNTV PROGRESS
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J. DOYLE JONEB, Editor and Pub.
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Butts County Progress.
10-16-tf
Get ready for that big Butts
Countv Fair on November 18.
An honest man is the noblest
work of God. Pay up and smile.
Pin your faith to hog and hom
iny next year and you’ll win in
a walk, Mr. Farmer.
Butts county must not fail to
have a good Corn Club exhibit at
the State Fair at Macon.
Thank God every day of your
life that you do not live in war
riven Europe. Look for the sil
ver lining. Brace up. Smile.
With Col. James B. Nevin as
editor of the Atlanta Georgian
that paper should take on more
of a southern tone. Mr. Nevin
is one of the most popular and
capable newspaper men in the
state.
The bankers of Dothan, Ala.,
have adopted a wise course. They
are helping the farmers hold their
cotton, but they are requiring
them to pledge themselves to cut
down their crop fifty per cent
next year.—Macon Telegraph.
In Butts county the farm land
lords are going to accept part of
their rental next year in grain.
A system of that sort ought to be
adopted all over the sltate. It
would be better for the landlord,
better for the tenant and better
for the land. Macon Telegraph.
The Augusta Chronicle is
advising its readers not to
forget that there are other
years than 1914 “Protect
your credit now, even at a
loss,” it says.—Macon Tele
graph.
The person, whatever his call
ing, who is not now faithful to
his obligations is making a most
grievous mistake. If “don’t sell”
this man or that man becomes
general in the South, “don’t sell
the South” will follow. We are
a borrowing nation and a borrow
ing people. In America the man
and the section who are not care
ful of their integrity, makes a
blunder and does himself irrep
arable injury. —Augusta Chroni
cle.
BUTTS COUNTY FARMERS PLAN TO “HELP
THEMSELVES.”
Under the above caption The Savannah Morning News has the
following interesting editorial, which will be read with attention
by the people of Butts county.
Butts county farmers’ plan to “help themselves next year
includes the acceptance by farm landlords of rent paid, at least in
large part, in grain crops. The Morning News believes that if that
plan is adopted in every county in Georgia, if the landlords will
agree to give the renter the opportunity of paying one-half his rent
in grain crops, diversified farming will be given anew impetus and
there will be less occasion for any farmer to “plunge” on cotton.
The Butts county farmers, meeting with business men and
others at Jackson the other day, adopted a resolution to the effect
that “to every one-horse farm” they would plant two acres in
wheat, five in oats, eight in corn, one-half acre in sweet potatoes,
one-half in sorghum or ribbon cane and “follow stubble with peas
or other foodstuffs, and plant the remaining land in cotton if so
desired.” For each plow they agreed to raise one hog.
The only regret as to this plan is that it was not adopted a year
or more ago. It is a good one. If it is followed it will enable
many farmers to live at home who heretofore have grown practi
cally nothing but cotton. It will increase the grain, hay and meat
crops of the state. It will help to do away with the too long stand
ing one-crop idea. It will prepare the farmers for the coming of
the boll weevil. It will prevent them from facing heavy loss
through the failure of the one crop many of them have been plant
ing exclusively.
There is nothing in the plan that binds thefarmer not to plant
cotton. Nobody with common sense advises them to quit planting
cotton for all time. But certainly it seems the part of common
sense to raise on each farm enough feed and food crops to run it for
a year in the event that cotton should not command a profitable
price. If that is done the farmer will have no difficulty in follow
ing advice to “hold cotton’’ for a year if he wishes. But when he
raises nothing but cotton how is he going to hold it? He must eat,
his family must eat, and he must feed his stock.
Butts county farmers have the right idea. The present rent
ing system is a big factor in deciding whether there shall be crop
diversification on all Georgia farms, whether every Georgia farmer
shall be ready after a few years to face the possibility of having
so much of his cotton eaten by the boll weevil that he cannot mar
ket the remainder of it at a price high enough, even if it should
climb to anew high record, to pay him for making it.
SWINDLERS ALLOWED TO FLEECE PEOPLE.
From time immemorial it has been a custom in this part of
Georgia—and possibly it is true in other sections of the state for
patent medicine fakirs, sharp razor experts and various kinds of
“money getters’’ to ply their nefarious trade during the session of
county superior courts. Just go over to court in Jefferson, Homer,
Carnesville and Danielsville, and you’ll see a big crowd of men
gathered around a slick scamp from away off who is selling “some
thing for nothing.” He establishes his stand near the court house
and generally he has a big audience unless a murder case or a scan
dal case is being tried in the “temple of justice.”
It has always been rather a mystery to us why the county au
thorities permitted these bunco artists to fleece the people in broad
day light right in sight of the place where justice is supposed to
be dispensed; where law is supposed to be enforced and where
wrong-doers are supposed to be punished. But every man who has
attended court will testify to the truth that the fakirs conduct their
skin games unmolested.
A county that permits these thieves to fleece her people should
bow its head in shame. Inside the court house an ignorant negro
is being tried for infraction of the law—possibly a case of no con
sequence-outside the “temple of justice” a velvet finish crook is
illegitimately taking the money of citizens of the county. He rakes
in several hundred dollars during the term of court and goes away
happy over the thought that he is smart enough to put one over
those who are weak from the neck up; the ignorant negro gets
twelve months in the gang!
Georgia has wisely enacted a “Blue; Sky Law” which protects
the people from sharks who would sell them worthless stocks. It
saves the state thousands of dollars a year. If the county author
ities are powerless to prohibit the sharks from fleecing during court
week, a law should be enacted to rid the state of these out-laws.
If it devolves upon municipal authorities to handle the cases, the
court house towns should see to it that court visitors are not made
victims of the cleverest swindlers that ever extracted hard-earned
silver from easy ones.
Time has been when a silk finish crook could come to Commerce
on big days and sell gold-bricks to “boneheads.” This day is past,
however. The municipal authorities keep the fakirs out of the city.
Thousands of dollars have been carried away from this section by
professional swindlers; but now. those who are ready to fall for the
attractive bait are protected from themselves.
In the name of justice, in response to duty, for the protection
of the public, let the county authorities or the municipal officers in
the court house towns put a stop to the practice of the swindlers
who operate during court week. It is incumbent upon the acthori
ties to do so; public sentiment ought to demand a cessation of the!
evil!—Commerce Observer.
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