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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. OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR RI.E< KLEY COI'NTY HE INSCRIPTION PRICE 81.09 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. 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 The semi-annual display of high class seasonable s". dings and novel ties by The Superior ' r adoring Co., Cincinnati will be given al our establishment on Mon. and Tues. July 21-22 Orders booked Jor immediate or future delivery. Measures taken by an expert. Woolens Will be shown in full length drapes. H. F. Bullard On Close-0 A Counter! I .....lies’ 7.b0 \\ aims ISC " SI bn " _ Tbo l.bb “ . DSo ,7b tlowiis 4Sc “ 1.00 " (19c .lib Skirts ISc 1.00 1 ■ 09c .2b Drawers 1 Sc .bo 3t)e Mis-o- ,7b lirm o- 4Sc .bo " :;!)<• < ItiMivn'- .25 lHe .bo ih , mi's M9c boo to 7be -. SI 2b 1.50 o.i)0 “ “ 1.95 Brices iviiuced on Boys Si men’s hats LOW PAY-DOWN PRICES ON EVERYTHING J. M. WYNNE Prunes, Peaches, Apples VVe keep on ice at all times Dried Prunes, Apples and Peaches. LINTON WYNNE, Our TYColto: Cleanliness, Eairness and Promptness PHONE ONE-FIVE-0 TRY THE COCHRAN JOURNAL FOR FIRST CLASS JOB PRINTING