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Buns COUNTV PROGRESS
Published Every Friday.
J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub.
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Entered an necond-cla*B matter, Novem
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Boost the Pig Club.
Now for a Greater Cunty Fair
in 1915.
Great is agricultural Butts
county.
County fairs are great eye
openers.
Pay up and watch the other
fellow smile.
Get ready right now for the
county fair next year.
The daddy of the buy-a-bale
movement wont own it.
The Butts county corn club
boys are the heroes of the hour.
The cotton exchange having
opened, now let it remain open.
Atlanta has a dry streak dur
ing the W. C. T. U. convention.
Swat that grouch. If you think
your lot is hard remember the
Belgians.
Keep that dollar at work in the
community. It will do double
duty right now.
Boost the Live Stock Associa
tion and raise more cattle and
hogs and poultry.
Just what the European nations
have to be thankful for has not
been made public.
The Bull Moose party carried
twenty-eight counties in the re
cent state election.
The year 1915 is going to be
the greatest hog and hominy year
Georgia has ever known.
“On to the Atlanta Corn Show"
is the slogan of the prize winning
Butts county corn club boys.
Now that it has become an es
tablished institution why not
make every day a Georgia Pro
ducts Day?
America is at peace with the
world, but a lot of devilment is
being done over here with the
war as an excuse.
Spend your money with home
folks. The dollar that leaves the
community passes out of circula
tion so far as you are concerned.
Butts county farmers are sow
ing a large acreage in wheat and
a roller mill is needed. It will
prove of tremendous benefit to
the whole county.
SELL A BALE.
The following article, writteto by .Bishop Warren A. Candler,
to the Atlanta Constitution, is reproduced for the benefit of the
readers of The Progress:
Editor Constitution: We have had the movement of “buy-a
a-baleof-cotton?” Is it not now time to have a movement of ‘ sell
a-bale-of-cotton?”
The man who is now suffering most is the country merchant
that is to say, the merchant who has furnished supplies to farmers
and cannot collect what is due him because so many farmers re
fuse to sell enough cotton to pay their accounts.
He is between the upper and nether millstones, his creditors
pressing him from above and the men who owe him pinching
him below.
A farmer has the right to speculate on the future price of cot
ton and hold for a higher price if in doing so he deprives no man of
what is due him; but has he the right to sneculate on another man’s
money without his consent?
Ought npt every man who has unpaid debts, and who is hold
ing cotton, to sell enough to lift the pressure off the man whom he
owes, in part at least?
It may be doubted if cotton would have brought 10 cents, if
there had been no war; and if the war were to close now the Euro
pean demand for cotton could not be what it would have been if
war had not come. Multiplied thousands of men have been slain
in battle, and for the dead no more cotton is needed. Millions of
money has been wasted in gunpowder and balls. The nations en
gaged in this dreadful conflict are being impoverished every day
they fight. At the close of the war they will have less than ever
to sell to us, and less money with which to buy our products from us.
What Can We Expedt?
Under all the conditions of the case, can we reasonably expect
the price of cotton to go much higher? If not, does not the farmer
who needlessly holds his cotton stand to lose by so doing? Insur
ance charges, warehouse charges, and more or less waste must
arise from the attempt to hold the staple indefinitely.
It thus appears that the cotton grower who holds his cotton
and refuses to pay the merchant from whom he has bought sup
plies on credit is injuring his neighbor without helping himself.
Is this wise or right?
Surely, it is time to start a movement “to-sell-a-bale-of-cotton. ”
WARREN A. CANDLER.
WHERETHE MEALTICKET
GROWS
For the “Back to the Farm”
slogan the “Stay on the Farm”
slogan is substituted by J. 0. An
drews. of Atlanta, formerly of
Butts countv. He writes to The
Butts County Progress a letter
full of common sense, pleading
with young men to resist the lure
of the cities, to remain on the
acres and “look to your present
surroundings for wealth and hap
piness, which will surely come if
you will go after it in the right
way.”
Not since the civil war has Mr.
Andrews’ keynote needed so bad
ly to be sounded and resounded.
Even in normal times there is the
tendency of the young man and
woman to come to town, obsess
ed with the idea that a living is
easy, fortune just ahead, social
pleasures abounding and an es
cape trom hard toil. The tenden
cy is accentuated, when, as at
present, we are in the midst of a
process of readjustment and ev
eryone is forced to temporary
economies.
Some months ago The Consti
tution published frorp a country
bov, living in Atlanta, a letter
that was a classic. He related
that he had been led by the same
old historic lures. The country
had seemed monotonous. Drud
gery had seemed constant. Iso
lation is painful. He longed for
the constant elbow touch of his
fellows. He longed for “movies”
and brightly-lighted streets and
all the paraphernalia of city life.
He moved to town, high in the
belief that fortune was just
around the block.
His disillusionment was painful
and almost immediate. People
in town had their own affairs,
and were not in the least con
cerned about him. His isolation
was worse than in the country,
for there can be no isolation
worse than that of the crowd.
Monotony was constant, for all
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he had to do was describe a tread
mill from his room to his shop.
He made a little more money, but
it cost him all that to live. * What
he had mistaken for glitter was
bogus. The church sociables he
had thought tame, the neighbor
hood gatherings he had avoided
he would now have welcomed.
That is a typical picture. The
other side of it is that there was
never a time when it paid a man
better to live in the country.
Even with cotton at 7 cents, the
chance to produce foodstuffs of
fers a fine living and more. You
can work your head off in the
city, work intelligently, and still
be “separated from your job”
for no fault of your own. You
can’t be separated from your
meal ticket in the country, for
the simple reason that it is there
the meal ticket grows.
Other attractions beckon. Good
roads, rural phones, and the ru
ral free delivery make life eas
ier. safer, abolish monotony, kill
isolation, place the country more
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Baled Hay, Peas, Hogs, Cows, etc.,
at market prices. If you haven’t the
cash bring us your produce and we
will credit your account. We
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this opportunity to settle what they
owe us.
This offer is good until further
notice.
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than ever on a par with the city.
It was a wise man that remark
ed recently in the Constitution
that if the countryman worked
all the year, and as intelligently
as the city man, he would be in
dependently rich. Stay on the
farm!—Atlanta Constitution.
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