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THE COCHRAN JOURNAL
Entered as second-class matter August Ist, 1912, at the po-t office
at Cochran, Georgia.
T. L. EAILEY, Editor and Manager.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY by THE COCHRAN PUBLISHING CO.
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If, perchance a copy of this paper should fall into the hands of
any one who is in search of a location —a place where you can
live out your alloted number of years without the fear of pestilence
or famine we say, like one of old “Gome thou with us and we will
do you good.
Don't be a chump. Give your trade to the merchants who keep
store the year around. Buy of a man who who stands at your side
at the tax collector's counter. Buy of the man who is yonr neigh
bor, your acquaintance, your friend. Buy of the man who is
a factor in the town you live in, who helps to make a market for
the things you have to sell. Buy of the home merchant that ad
vertises in the newspaper.
Newspaper advertising tends to lower the cost of living, accord
ing to concensus of opimon voiced by speakers at the luncheon giv
en by the Hawkeye Fellowship Club in Chicago. If it were not for
advertising the public would be bankrupt as the result of soaring
prices, it was asserted. The relation of newspaper advertising of
the high cost of living was summarized by the speakers as follows;
It decreases living expenses. It increases the volume of sales.
Increased sales to the consumer lower prices. Advertisements tell
people where to buy cheapest. Bargains would go begging were it
not for advertising. Advertisements are cheaper than high salari
ed drummers!
Boys’ Corn Club Letter
To All Roys In ('orn (’lub
-1 1 ope this letter finds you get
ing along very nicely with your acre
of corn. It is expected tint you
prepared a good seed lied and plant
(d good seed and that you have got
ten a good stand and nie now pur
suing the very best shallow and in
tensive cultivation. You must re
member that in farming, s well a~
in other kinds of badness, the man
who keeps everlastingly at it and
uses his brains as well as his muscles
is the one who succeeds.
There are three things for you to
keep in mind:
1 To pursue g aid agricultural
methods.
2 To pro luce good corn.
M To use good business judgement.
Ry agricultural methods we mean
plowing, cultivation application of
manure, and fertilizers, rotation of
crop, etc. Ry producing good cor
I mean seed selection, building up
a variety that produces well in your
soil and climate. Ry good business
judgement I mem that we shoul 1
not pursue an expensive method or
produce good corn at a loss. Keep
a careful account of all your work
so you ian tell at the end of the
season whether you have been a
jMior farmer or a good farmer.
I hope you have forgotten all a
hout the prizes you are hoping to
win and are centering your minds
on making a good agricultural dem
onstration, one that any farmer
might be proud of. If you do that
the prize will come without your
needing to pay a great deal of atten
tion to it. lint if you pursue the
plan of raising your corn simply for
a prize, and depend upon a prize to
pay for your trouble, then you are
pursuing the wrong course and I am
afraid you are not destined to win
success.
The prize is the reward for good
work and doesn’t pay you for rais
ing the corn. We are trying to
get fewer large case prizes and more
prizes that help and educate you to
do better work on the farm. We
hope to see many acres of corn rais
ed by boys on which they produced
good corn very cheaply and thus
show themselves and the rest of the
world what good farming can he
done by a U\v. If you boys do this
you can be proud of what you have
done, whether you win the piize or
not.
I am sending with this a little
poem written by a Corn Club boy,
Marion Jackson Hall of Ocilla Ga.
The best results will come to those
who are mos* faithful in their work .
Imre's wishing you a large measure
of success.
Very truly Yours,
Read lord Knapp).
Yes, | 'ni in the Corn Club.
I was in it last year too.
II I don’t make a peek of corn
My reports shall he all true.
it 1 don t make the largest yield,
1 II make just all i can,
Somebody else will get the prize
Rut 1 won t hla me my lain I.
1 can not lose, 1 ilo not fear,
i will not he- ashamed.
I 'll have my corn if not a prize
So I am ilot to blame.
1 'm going In the Corn Club,
I in going to do my best.
If other hoys will do like me,
\\ ell make some corn.
Marion Jackson Hall.
Vote for bonds Sat
urday, July 19th, and
go fishing next day.
No we mean Monday,
Slaton 1 o Address
Veterans Of Georgia
Atlanta, Ga., July 17. —Govern-
or John M. Slaton left Atlanta,
Wednesday for Rrunswiek, which,
in answer to a pressing invitation,
he delivered an address to the
Cnited Confederate Veterans of
Georgia, assembled there for their
annual reunion.
When Governor Slaton was at
St. Simon's Island last week, re
viewing the soldier hoys of this gen
eration in the Fifth regiment of the
national guard, some of the old
veterans came to him and said:
Governor, these are a line set of
hoys, and most of them will he here
for many years. Rut we old sold
iers haven't long to stay. Mine of
us are crossing over the river eveiv
year. Some of us are standing be
fore you now possibly for the last
time, Governor, won't you come
down here next week and address
us?
There were tears in Governor
Slaton’s eyes when he responded:
“Yes, that 1 will.’’
Eater the formal invitation was
extended through a delegation
headed by I)r. William Berrien
Bui roughs, who is adjutant of Camp
Jefferson, l’. C. Y.
Governor Slaton delivered the
address this morning and will re
turn to Atlanta tonight'
THE COCHRAN JOURNAL, COCHRAN, GEORGIA.
An Interesting Letter
From Hon. I. J. Lee
Editor Cochran Journal:
l)<-ar Sir: —I have been repeated
ly requested to give my view both
on Road and Revenue Commission
and the pending request to issue
binds to the amount of Sixty-five
Thousand to raise funds to erect a
Court House and Jail and to pur
chase proper equipment for road
building 1 shall therefore make an
effort to comply with their request
if you see proper and tit to grant
space in your Journal.
In regard to a court of County
Commission, many already know I
am unalterably opposed to clothe
either a one or three commissi m
court with (lower to direct the li
nanciai and road working affairs of
Bleckley County, li is known that
1 am a strong advocate of a court
composed of one cotnmissioiiei
fmm each Militia District, chosen
by the voters of their respective
districts at a di-rict primary and
elected at a general election oi at a
called election named in the bill
creating this court of county com
mi.-sioiicrs.
This court w mid have thcii
monthly meeting and as many call
ed meetings as they deemed neces
sary in e inducting the affairs of
our county.
The compensation of tnese mein
hers would he fixed at two dollars
per day each day lost in attending
these meet mgs.
It should be incumbent on each
district commissioner to assume the
duties of road superintendent, take
charge of the gang and direct their
manner of working during the time
allotted his district and be held re
sponsible in a bond of SoOO.OO in
suring a faithful discharge ef Id
duties while under his control.
His compensation us superintei
deni should be at the rate ol spill.
(K) a month for the time allotted hi
distriet.
This hill would require applicants
I for clerkship of this cniirt to
in sealed bids for Ihe positk ni and
other I hiligs being equal till' lowe-t
bidder would ie awarded the posi
tion. Each I fist i ict should be al
lotted time according to the mileage
they contained, and additional time
should he allowed Goehran district
on account of heavy travel central
ing in from every direction.
I claim that a hill fashioned after
this manner will destroy every genu
of jealousy that is now in its em
bryo. That a distrie: commission
er on account of his nearness to the
gang, can be there almost from sun
rise until sun set, looking after his
district interests. 1 claim that a
local interest i j more appealing to a
citizen of his district than it is to
the whole county. Of course I
don’t write this with any desire tor
the powers that he to incorporate.
I'liey could hardly afford to conde
scend to copy ideas from one they
claimed if elected would not Ik
seated. 1 see that not-wilh stand
ing his and his political friend.-.'
great popularity he failed to seat.
1 did not expect to get a seat on
the strength 6f my popularity with
the members of that body, altho 1
am personally acquainted with his
excellency, served in the house with
him and counted him as one of my
friends. 1 expected, if elected, to
be seated on account of a precedent
set by the former body.
Bonds.
As to issuing bonds I must'say
after mature deliberation 1 am pur
suaded that it is infinitely better to
vote bonds that we can float at 5
per cent than it Is to force the in
dividual tax payer to pay an asses
sed tax of 870.(X) a thousand when
tnoy will have to borrow money at
10 per cent to pay it. If 1 had
money to loan at d per cent and
my neighbor held his at 10 per
cent, would you borrow 8100.00 of
him paying him when due 8110.00
or of me at 5 per cent paying me
$ 10.T00? It is useless to ask the
question, for we know iu advance
w hich proposition you would take
up with.
Well with that glaring light be
fore us how can we even think of
opposing l-onds on the 19th inst.
There are very few men in Bleckley
county that do not borrow more or
i less money <aeh succeeding year.
Do you know the average rate of
intere.-t paid for the use of these
moneys? That’s right, “10 pm
cent.” l>o you see any good rea
-on then in our voting down Ixmds
: that assures us money at live per
•ent? If I voted agai t nd
1 not as f.ir as the <■ ,u r :u
vote goes trying to force the tax
payers to pay 10 per cent interest
when they could get it on bond-' at
just half this rate? If our parent
county had H.-ue I bonds and bor
rowed mom y on them 10 year-ago
and saved the difi'e-rence between b
and s per cent which you know i-
M per cent, she would have today
a nice surplus in her treasury.
If you wish fm the powers that
be to asses.- your properly SDO or
870 on the thousand this year with
a five year series of 820 on the
thousand, do all you can to defeat
a bond i-sue on the 19th in.-t. and
you will have done it.
<to the other hand help its to
bring about a right to issue bonds
and we feel assured that our state
and county tax kiii he kept near
sl2.(K)a thousand while (laying off
tlieSb bonds.
I'owns and cities are considered
more progressive than the county.
Cat. you show me a town of 2000
inhabitants that has not i-stied
bonds? Its not only the small
towns that borimv on bonds, hut it
goes ad the way up the line ami
reaches the cities that boast of their
millions of inhabitants. Why do
they issue these bonds! Because
they need the money for improving
their city and to raise it by a.-m--
ment in one nr two years would
nirrke t lie tax too burdensome,
hence they resort to bond- in de
fence of the tax payets.
While at manual labor I can per
il.ip-Kit and digc~t 1 _>lb. of laeon a
da v , I nit fi uee me to eit a (" >und a
day and you make me physically
sick, so it i- with this luon.y we
are compelled to raise; give us MD
years to pay it and we can digest it,
md hardly know it, hut if you re
fuse us bonds ami force us by assess
ment to pay 800 or 870 on the
thousand (at one dose) you make
us financially sick, a hard sickness
to overcome too. You don't stop
there but you have set a precedent
for a continued high tax rate whi< h
ir.ig'i be .a -• n.ed f r mo,
years. l. ,1. be. .
Gary, Ga ~ July 1 Ith. 1 1 1 M.
Saturday, July 19th,
is bond election day.
Remember to vote,
NEWS FROM ROUTE THREE
Mr. Rufus Mullis dined with Ar
thur Darsey Sunday.
Quite a crowd attended preaching
at Bethany Sunday.
Mr. Arthur Dorsey called on Miss
Dolie Asbell Sunday night.
Mr Rufus Mullis attended Sun
day School at Union Hill Sunday.
The farmers of this section were
glad to see the rain that fell Satur
day.
Miss Dollie and Isoline A shell
attended preaching at Oak Grove
Sunday.
Mr. Chester Hamrick and Tobe
Stokes took dinner with Dewey As-
I ell Sunday.
Don’t forget that Sunday School
is going on at Union llill. Every
body invitid.
Miss Ella Ilarten of Atlanta is
visiting her parents, Mr. and Airs.
Jimmie Kartell.
Mr. Pryor Purser and family
spent Saturday night with his sister
Mrs. C. R. Hinson.
“Rosy Cheeks’’
Announcement
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class seasonable s". dings and novel
ties by
The Superior ' r adoring Co.,
Cincinnati
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Mon. and Tues. July 21-22
Orders booked Jor immediate
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Measures taken by an expert.
Woolens Will be shown in
full length drapes.
H. F. Bullard
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