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The Douglas Enterprise
DOUGLAS, GEORGIA
Established 1888
Published Every Friday Hy
The Enterprise Publishing Company
W. K. Frier, Editor
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OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR COFFEE COUNTY
Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at
Douglas, Ga., under Act of Congress of Mch. 8, 1879
Member:—Georgia Press Association and Eleventh
District Press Association. : : :
The tornado last Tuesday has brought the
death toll up to 21. Several were also killed in
Mississippi. Why not live in Georgia?
The state race in Coffee county opens up
this week. Dr. D. H. Meeks, the present rep
resentative, announces for reelection. His op
ponent will be Dr. Geo. M. Ricketson, of Brox
ton.
It looks like congress will adjourn June 7.
The presidential race is on and the law makers
thought best to turn the bunch out so that they
could be free for campaign speeches during the
next few months.
The time for the two big conventions is
drawing near. The republicans will hold their
convention in Cleveland, Ohio, on June 10, while
the democrats will hold their convention in New
York City on June 24.
Henry Ford has purchased 8,000 acres of
land in Henry county, Florida, and expects to
plant rubber trees there. If the rubber trees
should fail, maybe Henry can supply the de
ficiency with rubber-necks, especially during a
few months of the year.
Reports from over the State indicate that
a good sized stir has been caused by the demand
which State Superintendent of Schools made
upon Mr. Walter Hill for his resignation as sup
ervisor of negro schools. In the opinion of
most of the real educators of the state, Mr. Hill
is a very efficient man.
The commencement exercises of this week
close the first year’s work of the Douglas High
School. Success is already assured, and Super
intendent Henry is to be congratulated on the
magnificent year’s work. He had a hard time
in making the start, hut next year promises to
be much easier for all concerned.
ADVERTISING FOR COFFEE COUNTY.
The barbecue given on last Wednesday
near Ambrose proved to be an eye opener to a
great many people, especially those from a dis
tance. Even visitors from Fitzgerald express
ed themselves as being greatly surprised at the
tobacco fields in Coffee county. One party from
that section told the writer that he did not
know tobacco would grow in this section, such
as he saw on the lands of the Atlanta Trust
Company.
The tobacco crops of that section are good,
but you may find similar fields all over the coun
ty. We are glad that this company who is d-e
veloping their lands in this county had the bar
becue and brought together the men that were
there. Many were there from the Carolinas,
where tobacco has been grown for years, but
these men were highly pleased with what they
saw in Georgia, Coffee county. This occasion
is going to do the county good. We got a lot
of advertising out of it, and will get more. We
are grateful to the Atlanta bank for their effort
in bringing together the people who were there.
One thing is certain, we had the fields to show
them. We produced the goods.
FINANCING FARM MORTGAGES.
January 1, 1920. census bureau showed $7,-
857.700,000 farm mortgage debt.
The census enumerators only returned $4,-
003,707.192, having secured returns on only
about half the mortgaged debt.
Based on these facts, farm mortgage debts
Jan. 1. 1924, were estimated at $10,500,000,000.
The loans carried on farm mortgage debts
are distributed as follows: carried by farm
mortgage bankers, $2,450.000.000; farm loan
companies, $1,600,000,000; life insurance com
panies, $1,672,900,000; fraternal insurance com
panies, $2,884,864,313; federal land hanks, $799-
596,834; joint stock land banks, $392,638,853.
This is a remarkable showing of small per
centage of farm mortgage debt mostly held by
farm loan hankers and insurance companies
with aggregate farm values as security of $70,-
000,000,000.
American agriculture is operated on about
15 per cent of borrowed capital and 85 per cent
of capital owned by the farmers themselves.
This is a remarkable contrast to all other
lines of business, industries and corporations
run on an average with 50 per cent or more of
borrowed capital.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE. DOLGLAS, GEORGIA, MAY 30, 1924.
MUST LICK THE BOLL WEEVIL.
The cotton grower is going after the boll
weevil this year as never before. He is being
sasisted by all classes of men and enterprises,
and there will be a united effort to lick the boll
weevil in South Georgia. The papers through
out the state are giving out information to the
public daily, and almost every weekly news
paper is reproducing information furnished
them by the state, all of it to assist the grower
in going about and getting the weevil.
Editor Royal Daniel, of the Quitman Free-
Press carries a news story in his last issue, a
long this line. We thought it worthy of repro
duction here:
“Business men, bankers, newspapers and
other interests in south Georgia have banded
together to “lick the boll weecil in south Geor
gia this year.” South Georgia has had four
lean years of returns from cotton, and it is gen
erally agreed that another approach as near to
failure as last year’s crop was probably would
cause widespread suffering. *
“In 1920 south Georgia made its last big
cotton crop and it sold for less than the cost of
production, the price slumping from 40 cents to
less than 10 cents. In 1921 and 1922 the price
was good, but the yield was small, while 1923
saw almost a complete failure of production un
der widespread weevil conditions and the worst
weather during the growing season in many
years.
“Simple instructions for calcium arsenate
prepared under the direction of Dr. R. J. H. De-
Loach, agricultural expert of the Armour Fer
tilizer Works, are being widely distributed by
the Albany chamber of commerce and business
interests throughout this section. Dr. DeLoach
for two years has had charge of the Armour
experiment farm at Arlington and proved under
the most adverse weather conditions that the
boll weevil can be controlled by calcium arse
nate, if properly applied.
“For more than a month, the Albany Her
ald has been running a red-type campaign a
gainst the boll weevil, and other newspapers in
the section are giving liberally of their space
to emphasize the importance of early efforts at
boll weevil control. Albany business houses
are publishing daily advertisements that call
attention to the wisdom of using poison, while
those in smaller places are also using space in
their local papers to do the same thing.
“According to those who have been in most
of the counties of this section recently, the
propaganda is bearing fruit, and more poison is
being used than ever before, and 'more intelli
gently. In many farm houses of this section,
it is said the DeLoach instructions can be found
prominently posted. Weather conditions thus
far have been almost ideal, and with the volume
of work done just now against the boll weevil,
it is believed that south Georgia is in line to
enjoy more cotton prosperity than it has known
since 1920. While the section has made mark
ed progress toward crop diversification, it is
still dependent to a pronounced degree on cotton
as a leadng money crop.”
ONE WAY TO HELP THE FARMER.
Soil fertility lies at the very basis of human
life. As soil grows poor the human race dies
out. America is consuming and wasting its
soil fertility at a rapid rate.
We have come to the point where our land
must be fed if it would feed us. The question
asks itself: Can soil be kept indefinitely fertile?
The answer is found in land that has been crop
ped for 2,000 years and more, and is yet very
fertile. But such land is not to be found except
in stable civilations.
Within the memory of men now living,
commercial fertilizers in America were hardly
renown. America now consumes over 6,000,-
000 tons of these every year. Of this, 80 per
cent is from raw materials found in our own
country, but the 20 per cent we buy from
abroad costs us more than $35,000,000 every
year.
This money goes mostly to Germany for
potash and to Chile for nitrates. Potassium
nitrogen and phosphorus are the three elements
most needed for soil sustenance, and these are
what we seek in commercial fertilizers. Raw
phosphorous we have in abundance. Indeed,
the world comes to us for it, because our de
posits are now open, are very rich and easily
worked.
One way to help the farmer besides lending
him money and marketing his products, is to
ensure him cheap fertilizers as a national
policy.
The Georgia cucumber market opened this
week with Douglas playing the important role.
Over twelve car loads of cucumbers left this
market this week for the Canadian markets.
The golf course for Douglas is now a sure
thing. Actual work on the grounds will begin
in the next few days. Enough money is in
sight to make the first payment on the land.
Vacation days are at hand which brings
much gladness in the land.
This Week]
By Arthur Brisbane
Florida —Great Empire to Be.
Two Political Questions.
Deep Plowing Pays.
Dress Up, Girls, Dress Up.
The stock of the Atlantic Coast
Line in Florida reaches a “new
high.” Big profits are made, and
the stockholders exult. If Florida
interests you, or railroad profits,
find out what S. Davies Warfield,
president of the Seaboard Air
Line, is doing with his new rail
road in Florida. When he finishes
he short cut from the West Coast
of Florida across to Palm Beach
and other points, establishing di
rect connection between New York
and Southeast Florida, over his
own rails, there will be an active
flight for business and profits.
There will be plenty of business
for both roads, however. No
imagination can foresee what the
prosperity of Florida is to be.
That State, which, as the Jack
sonville Journal tells you, Jeffer
son could once have bought for
five cents an acre, and ultimately
did buy for fifteen cents an acre,
is apt one day to be in several
different ways the greatest State
in the Union.
Two questions that interest poli
ticians are these:
Can the Democrats be persuaded
to give up the rule that compels a
man to get two-thirds of all the
delegates before he can be nomi
nated ?
And will the Democrats put in
their national platform a plank
denouncing the Ku Klux Klan, and
hus outlawing many Southern
States on whom the Democrats
must depend to win?
It is a delicate question and may
he solved by some vague general
isation concerning all secret so
cieties.
in Baltimore, a farmer named
Meyerly is said to be plowing up
a good wheat field, with a sub
soil plow, having been told there
is gold in his land. He won’t find
gold, but if he plows deeply
enough, and plows his wheat un
der, he will improve his soil, and
increase his farm’s value.
In the second part of Faust,
Goethe tells of the farmer plowing
deep because under the Emperor’s
law he was allowed to keep all
buried treasure, “turned over by
the plow.” That was probably an
ingenious scheme to make the
farmer plow deeper, make his soil
richer, and thus be able to pay
heavier taxes.
The State of Kentucky killed
three men by electricity, two
white, one colored, one white man
seventy years old. Forty-six
minutes after they began walking
to the death chair, one after the
other, all were dead. Only one
spoke, as he was strapped into
J,he chair. It was Frank Thomas,
white man, who said, as the light
was shut out from his eyes for
ever by the electrocution mask,
“Good night, I’m going home.”
Wouldn’t it be interesting to
know where, how, in what home
those three men will awake—if
at all. Will the black man still
be black, when he comes to and
dimly remembers how he died?
Will the gray-haired murderer
still be seventy years old, or begin
again as a new baby? Interest
ing questions.
College young ladies, of the
Young Women’s Christian Asso
ciation, tell working girls to dress
“plainly and demurely” for their
souls’ sake and to impress possi
ble husbands with their good
qualities. Sensible Helen Gwynne,
retiring president of the Y. W.
C. A., who is a factory worker,
and has presided over an assem
bly of 30,000 factory girls, tells
these girls to dress as conspicu
ously as they can, “even flashily.”
The rich girl, says Miss Gwynne,
can afford to dress plainly. That
sets her off in her luxurious sur
roundings. But the working girl,
in her plain home, must dress as
well as she can, by way of con
trast with her surroundings, if she
wants to marry. Sensible Miss
Gwynne.
An automobile smash-up with
Jesse James hurt reveals the fact
that the son of the great highway
man now works as a patrol to pre
vent highwa- len holding up auto
mobiles.
Everywhere you see verified
Fourier's saying “Contrast in char
acter between tether and son.”
POSTOFFICE WILL CLOSE
ON MEMORIAL DAY, 30TH.
The Douglas postoffice will observe
national memorial day, May 30th.
Neither the rural or city carriers wili
be on duty on this date and the post
office will be open only one hour, 9 to
10 a .m. No money orders will be
issued on this date. The public will
govern their business accordingly.
BUSSEY S LETTER r „„
The Farmers of Coffee County.
It is about time to beg’.r. cur ..gh.
on the boll weevil. We should begin
poisoning the buds of tse cotton be
fore it starts to put on forms, and
keep poison on the cotton. Tou can
use one gallon syrup, one gallon wat
er and one pound calcium arsena.*. to
poison the buds, or put a little dust
in the bud. The main thing is to keep
it there. After two or three applica
tions of this kind in the bud. or when
the cotton begins to put on branches,
begin dusting and dust at least once
a week. If it rains, dust more often,
in other words, keep the poison on the
cotton.
The tomatoes of the county are
pretty badly infested with a fruit
worm that eats into the fruit. This
worm can be controlled by spraying
with 2 lbs lead arsenate, 2 lbs lime,
and 50 gallons of water. If you do
not need the 50 gallons of solution,
make it up by using 1-2, 1-4, etr., of
the above amounts. In spraying for
this woim, which is the tomato fruit
worm and cotton boll worm, it is
necessary that the fruit be covered
with the spray, as the fruit is the
place where it feeds.
On May 15, there was a poultry
car run on the G. & F. Railway that
paid 40c per pound for friers. About
the middle of June there will be an
other one run and, although it most
likely will not pay as much as this
one did, it will pay more than you
can get anywhere else for your chick
ens. Count on having some chickens
for this car. Watch the Douglas
papers for the date and we will notify
the club boys and girls when it will
be and what the price wall be a day
or so before the car runs.
Yours very truly,
A. S. BUSSEY, County Agent.
Douglas, Ga., May 28, 1924.
—USE YOUR COUNTY AGENTS—
MRS. SARAH-PARKER-WILLIAMS
33RD. BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION.
The public is invited and the rela
tives are requested to attend Mrs.
Sarah-Pakrer-William’s 83rd birth
day celebration, June the sth, at the
home of Lymon Adams, six miles
south of Douglas. The family history
will be discussed from 11 a. m. to 1
p. m., after tvhich dinner will be serv
ed. The afternoon will be taken up
with all mixing, mingling and getting
better acquainted with each other.
Lymon Adams,
J. H. Williams.
Ready for Battle
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Tom Gibbons of St. Paul and
George Carpentier of France are
fit and ready for battle at Michigan
City, Ind., on Saturday, May 31.
If Gibbons disposes of Carpentier
in a hurry he may get another
chance at Dempsey.
RlCE.—Stir rice with a fork while
coo.cing instead of a spoon and the
trains will not be crushed. >
‘ RUMBLINGS” OF
BEIIJJI. MEEKS
Editor Enterprise:
With your permission will give Jn
account of some “Ramblings”.
Leaving Nicholls on the night of
the 13th arrived in Atlanta for break
fast on the morning of the 14th, go
ing there to attend a session of the
Southern Baptist Convention conven
ing Wednesday morning with more
than four thousand registered dele
gates which was increased to six
thousand and five hundred registered
messengers with many visitors.
Some things we saw might be of
interest to the readers of the Enter
prise. On visiting the Ga. Baptist
Orphans Home at Hapeville we found
the Supt. in his office who provided a
girl, whose name was Mary Satteree,
age 17, who piloted us through all the
buildings where 350 orphans are well
cared for, all of which was found neat
and very home like. We were taken
through the laundry where the child
ren were busy doing this work with
their own hands, the improved ma
chinery being used. After going
through all the buildings then to the
dairy farm whence comes the milk for
this big family I counted twenty-four
as fine milk cows as I have ever seen,
one of which the manager said yield
ed 12 1-2 gallons per day, the entire
herd numbering forty head. A male
was pointed out for which two thou
sand dollars had been offered. This
fine herd of cows the manager stated
produced about 80 gallons each day
which amount was not sufficient for
this great family of children might
have all the sweet and butter milk
needed. We found this to be a happy
and contented family. (Reader when
you have an opportunity don’t fail to
contribute.)
It was next a privilege much enjoy
ed out on the Decatur line to visit by
invitation what is known as the Scot
cish Rite Hospital, an institution for
the treatment of crippled or deformed
childr en, where some of the most won
derful operations known to modern
surgery is performed. Many born
with club feet are set straight. It is
said that flesh, skin and even bone is
grafted when needed. Many wonder
ful cures are wrought there. This is
an institution owned and operated by
the Masons. There was about sixty
children present with a corps of effici
ent and well trained nurses in attend
ance, the children being treated with
out cost—great institution.
When our sojourn in the capital city
was over, thence to Raine, sixty-five
miles northwest, where the Grand
Lodge Knights of Pythias was to hold
their annual session, where hospitality
knew no bounds, a car ride to the
Floyd county fair grounds where a
barbecue supper was enjoyed by the
convention, thence to Lindale, a subur
ban city, where we were entertained
by the Lindale Lodge most pleasantly.
Thence back to South Georgia, the
best place on earth that has been seen
by the writer. H. M. MEEKS.
Nicholls, Ga., 5-27-1924.
W .S. WIGGINS HOME WAS
BURNED SUNDAY NIGHT
A fire was discovered in the Wig
gins home on College avenue last
Monday morning about one o’clock
which resulted in the total destruc
tion of the building which belonged to
Mr. A. D. Blackshear.
The file department responded but
too late to do much good. The origin
of the fire is unknown. There was in
surance on the building, and Mr. Wig
gins was covered partially with in
surance on his furniture.
DR. L. O. EMBREY ACCEPTS
POSITION WITH DR. WILSON
Dr. L. O. Embrey comes to Douglas
this week to accept a position with
Dr. W. R. Wilson as Refractionist.
He is a graduate of the Northern Illi
nois College of Optometry and Oto
logy, and has practiced in Miami, Fla.,
and Birmingham, coming here from
the latter place. He and Mrs. Em
brey have secured apartments at the
home of Mrs. S. J. Stubbs on. Gaskin
avenue.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.
To the Voters of Coffee County:
I hereby announce myself a can
didate, in the approaching Democratic
Primary, for re-election as represen
tative of Coffee County.
Since I first took up my duties as
your representative, and when ques
tions have come before our body for
consideration, I have supported only
those measures which I have felt
would promote the progress and wel
fare of our people. I feel that the
experience I have had ought to enable
me to bring to my task a maturer judg
ment than I possessed when you first
conferred the honor upon me.
Should my fellow citizens express
their approval of my record, in the
election which is to follow, I trust
that their confidence will prove justi
fied in the service I shall render our
County and our State. Respectfully,
D. H. MEEKS.
Great advertising success is not
achieved in one big stroke but through
perseverance.