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JUNS FOR M LIBOR SURVEY
IN SPALDING COUNTY WILL SOON
BE COMPLETED: TEACHERS TO AID
.Work Will Be Done On March 28, 29 and 30 and Will Be
Directed by County Food Administrator Strickland,
County School Superintendant Bolton and Home
Economics Agent Mrs. Myrtice Sibley—Survey Is
Nation Wide.
Spalding’s share in the complete
survey of present labor conditions on
the farms of Georgia has been map
ped out and already the teachers of
v the county schools have promised
full cooperation to make the survey
a success.
The work which will be done on
March 28, 29 and 30, will be direct
ed by County Food Administrator
R. F. Strickland, Superintendent of
County Schools W. H. Bolton and
7 Mrs. Myrtice Sibley, home economics
agent.
The actual work is to be executed
by the older pupils of the county
schools, who will procure data from
the farmhouses surrounding each
school. Mr. Bolton announces that
a meeting of the survey directors
will be held in a few days to map uot
the minor details of the survey.
The statistics gathered will be
vitally important at this time when
the conservation of productive agri
cultural labor is a matter vital to
making Georgia self-sustaining by
producing its own food and feed and
doing her share in raising the cloth
ring crop for the world.
Survey is Nation Wide.
J. E. Bodenhamer, farm help spe
•cialist for Georgia from the office of
farm management United States de
partment of agriculture, has mailed
• out the survey blanks to each coun
ty, sending them to the school super
intendent, who will in turn mail out
a sufficient number of schedules to
each teacher in each county for use
in each school district.
These surveys are being made in
all states, to obtain an estimate of
labor needed during the coming sea
' son and a statement of crop acreage,
live stock, seed and other farm ne
cessities and supplies wanted or for
sale. The survey is conducted un
der the joint auspices of the public
school system of the State, the State
department of labor, the extension di
vision of the state college of agri
culture, the state department of
agriculture and the United States
department of agriculture.
In summarizing conditions in
Georgia the county school districts
will gather the figures of the sum
mary in those districts and transmit
them, will sen dthem to State Agent
Bodenhamer, in Atlanta, Ga. The
farm help specialist will then tabu
late the figures for all the counties
■ of the State and will send his sum
mary to Washington. This will be
the process in each State. In the
work of making the county summary
the school superintendent will have
to assist him as will the county food
‘ administrator and such others as may
be selected. When all of the reports
from all the school districts in all the
counties of all the States of the un
ion are gathered—the government
will have in hand the real conditiosn
as to farm labor and farm needs.
Questions to Be Asked
The information asked for in the
schedules is to be strictly confiden
tial. It embraces:
The name, size of farm, address of
owner, distance from post office,
county, district, militia and School,
number of persons in the family over
fourteen years of age available far
vork on the farm.
Under the head “Hired Labor”
+hese facts are to be obtained: Num
ber hired for entire year; last year.
* already hired for 1918; yet to be
hire! this summer, and number hired
fcr short periods, last year, already
(l.is year and yet to be hired.
“Under the head of “Livestock”
the number on hand now. the number
er hand a year ago, the number the
firmer wishes to buy and the number
he -rishes to sell, of the following
e'. - <•« of animals: Dairy cows,
BILLIONS MORE IN
WAR BONDS LIKELY
SECRETARY M’ADOO WILL ASK
PASSAGE OF NEW WAR BOND
BILL BEFORE THIRD LIBERTY
LOAN CAMPAIGN BEGINS.
Washington, March 19.—Congress
is about to authorize billions more in
war bonds. Secretary of the Treas
ury McAdoo will urge the passage
of a new bond bill before the third
liberty loan campaign begins on
April 6. The third loan may be five
billion dollars, congress leaders inti
mated today.
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STUDENT UOLLEEE MH
Secretary Baker, in France, March
19.—“ My visit to France has brought
me to an agreeable uplift spirit,’’
Secretary of War Baker declared to
day, addressing teh student officers
of the staff college. Secretary Baker
warmly lauded the college’s work
which is located in an ancient city
and impressed the seriousness of
America's greatest war.
.MELVILLE COMEDIANS HERE
AGAIN ALL NEXT WEEK
That sterling attraction, the Mel
ville Comedians will be with us for
a week’s engagement commencing
Monday, March 25.
This is the company that was here
just a year ago. They are returning
this year with everything new. All
new plays, among the numbers is
the late New York success, “Where
the River Shannon Flows” and the
“Sheppard of the Hills.”
They have all new scenery and it
is said that the costumes worn by
the ladies of the company are some
of Worth’s best creations. And we
all remember Happy Jack Vinson
with the baritone voice.
The company is carrying a 14-
piece band and a 10-piece orchestra.
It is hoped that the tent will be fill
ed to capacity on Monday night, as
it is a credit to have such a meri
torious attraction as this in Grif
fin.
mules, sheep and hogs with the class
es, subdivided of each kind—as boars,
brood sows, pigs, etc.
Under the head of “Pasture” the
number of acres of. the following
kinds of land will be asked: Tilla
ble, woodland, other pasture and to
tal pasture acreage.
Under the head of “Crops” the de
tailed facts are to be asked as to
names of all crops cotton, corn, etc.,
as to acres planted, acres harvested
and bushels, tons, etc., harvested of
1917 crops; and the 1918 crops plant
ed or to be planted.
Under “Fruit” data will be asked
as to number ahd age of apple, pear,
prunes and plums, cheries, grapes,
berries —and pecans; with spraying
data and yield raised and sold.
Under the head “Seed” will be ask
ed facte as to kind, variety, amount
the farmer wishes to buy and the
amount he has for sale.
This survey will be made on the
dates and in the manner indicated
above. It will place the exact la
bor and crop situation in the hands
of the government, so that such steps
may be considered to relieve condi
tions that are unfavorable' to the
making of the most out of the land
GRIFFIN, GA, FRIDAY, MARCH 22. 1918.
ZETELLA NEWS.
Mias Carrie Gennett is at home
from Atlanta this week with the
mumps. Hope she will soon recover
and be able to continue her work.
Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Maynard and
two children and Pauline Coppedge,
of Decatur, spent the week end here
with their father, W. N. Coppedge.
Harman and Melissa Shepherd are
sick with measles at this writing.
Layne Colline spent Sunday at
Hampton with relatives.
Richard Rivers spent Saturday and
Sunday in Atlanta with his brother,
J. D. Rivers.
Mrs. Richards and Mrs. W. M.
Byne have returned home after a few
days’ visit to relatives in Yatesville.
Mrs. W. J. Jones and little daugh
ter Reba, spent a few days recently
with relatives in Griffin.
Leon Davis fell from his bicycle
Sunday afternoon and dislocated his
shoulder.
We are glad to state that Miss Mae
Huckaby, who has recently under
gone an operation for appendicitis,
is gradually improving.
Among those who attended quar
terly meeting Saturday at Sunnyside
from here were Mr. and Mrs. J. D.
Touchstone, Dr. and Mrs. W. M.
Byne; W. S. Coppedge, Mrs. R. G.
Rivers, Misses Elizabeth Standard
and Lucia Drewry.
Paul Reynolds, of Atlanta, spent
the week end here with his wiie,
who is visiting her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. L. H. Drewry.
Miss Rosa Coppedge is spending
this week with her sister, Mrs. W.
F. Williams in Drewryville.
Mrs. S. M. Gill, Earl arid Thelma,
of Meansville and Captain Ernest
Gill and wife, of Macon, visited R. S.
Gill and family Monday.
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SUDDENLY ATLANTA
Hon. Philip Cook, Who Succeeded
Father in Office, Passes Away
Unexpectedly—Age 60 Years.
J. Philip Cook, secretary of the
State of Georgia, died suddenly at
his home in Atlanta shortly after
midnight last night, at the age of 60
years. Mr. Cook was at his office
as usual i nthe capitol building Mon
day. He was elected secretary of
State in 1898. His father, Gen. Phil
ip Cook, had held the place for sev
eral years prior to that time.
Mr. Cook is survived by lour sons,
Philip, Jr., Charles, Arthur and Law
rance, all of Atlanta, and two daugh
ters, Miss Minnie Cook of Atlanta,
and Mrs. Lee Clark, of Lindale, Ga.
He is also survived by one sister,
Mrs. William Lawson Peel, of Atlan
ta. Mr. Cook's wife died several
months ago and it wa s said he had
never fully recovered from the shock
of her death.
JUGK NOUN 10 M
HEBE NEXT Slfflffl
Will Deliver Patriotic Address at
Monument at 2:30 O'Clock Un
der Auspices of Local Council.
Hon. J. Q. Nolan, of Atlanta, wiTT
deliver a patriotic address at the
Confederate monument- in Griffin
next Saturday afternoon at 2:30
o’clock under the auspices of the
Spalding county committee of the
National Council of Defense, of which
David J. Bailey is chairman.
Mr. Nolan is one of the most elo
quent and forceful speakers in the
State, and his address will be high
ly interesting and instructive. He
deivered the Memorial Day address
here several years ago and is well
and favorably known in Griffin.
At the present time Mr. Nolan is
connected with the United States
treasury department and i s engaged
in delivering speeches throughout
Georgia in the interest of the war
savings and liberty loan campaigns.
He is well posted on the war and will
bring a message worth hearing. The
people of this entire community are
cordially invited to attend the speak
ing Saturday afternoon.
We received Wednesday, March 21.
car of Studebaker wagons. B. B.
Brown Co.
JUDGE DENBY B. STHINGE
HIM STATE SEGRETm
Atlanta. March 21.—Governor
Hugh M. Dorsey ha s appointed Judge
Henry B. Strange, a prominent at
torney of Statesboro, Bulloch coun
ty, as secretary of State to fill the
unexpired term of the late Philip
Cook, who died suddenly last Tues
day. It is understood Judge Strange
will run in the regular election in
1918 and that he will be opposed by
Hon. Crawford Wheatley, of Amer
icus.
VAUGHN HAPPENINGS.
Vaughn, Ga., March 21. —W. v M.
Parker, our popular and efficient
railroad agent will leave in a few
days to visit his brother, Capt. Geo.
Parker, who is stationed at Alexan
dria, La. with Uncle Sam’s forces.
Before returning he will visit Texar
cana, Dallar, Fort Worth and other
points in the west. Mr, Epps, of
Waverly Hall will relieve him.
Master J. B. Freeman spent Friday
Atlanta.
Mr. and Mrs. John Acree, of At
lanta, were the week end guest s of
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Maynadr.
Miss Andry Wells, of Brooks, was
the recent guest of Miss Ora Con
nally.
Mrsv Charlie Mitcham spent the
past week end with her daughter,
Mrs. W. A. Williams, of Barnesville.
Miss Mollie Patton, of Griffin,
spent Friday with Mrs. W. C. Pat
ton.
J. R. Jenkins of Lakeland, Florida,
is among his friends here this week.
Mr, and Mrs. Sam Cox are visiting
relatives in Atlanta.
Mrs. Jim Connally visited her
daughter. Mrs. S. E. Reeves in Grif
fin last week.
Mrs. Mattie Norton returned to
The Rank Wednesday after a month’s
■ visit to her son, A. O. Norton.
C. H. Mitcham and Marvin Parker
spent Monday in Fayette.
A. O. Norton spent Wednesday at
The Rock.
SUNNY SIDE SCINTILATIONS
Sunny Side, Ga., March 21.—The La
dies’ club met with Mrs. G. T. ay last
Thursday afternoon. The house was
fragrant with beautiful spring flow
ers, the dining room especially,
where a delightful salad course was
served by Mrs. Gay.
Miss Mary Lewis spent the week
end in Carrollton, where she was de
lightfully entertained.
The second quarterly meeting was
held at the Methodist church last
Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. J. S. Elder and daughter, Mil
dred, spent the week end with rela
tives here.
G. P. Elder. H. G. Wesley and
Hartwall Elder spent Saturday in
Atlanta.
Jack Patterson was at home last
Sunday.
Mr. Tom King, of Atlanta, spent
last Friday with relatives here.
Mrs. Franklin Sibley, county dem
onstration agent, will be at the High
school here Friday afternoon. All
the patrons are invited to attend.
W. J. Elder and Mis s Mattie Elder
of Birdie were visiting friends and
relatives here Sunday.
SLIGHTLiWoffON
IS PRODUCED IN 1917
Washington, March 29.—Nineteen I
seventeen American cotton crop de-I
termmed reports of cotton ginned in I
the United States amounted to 11,
236.J93 bales exclusive of linters, as
against 11,363915 bales in 1916, ac-]
cording to census bureau figures.
Cotton ginned in Georgia for the I
y<-a: - was 1,8825'4 yales: Tennessee.!
2:’7.: ,! 7; Florida. 48.1 bales of an!
av ■ g s ■ weight >f 590 p unds.
NOTICE.
B : z your wheat :o High Falls
R Mills r.n t / >od white!
floor. No fvr mixed ' • :.. W. W. i
W;. . Milin:'.
M < L. Smith. --f ZU ..‘ m was in
the ity Thur? lay.
W received W- • . Ma- h 21.
1 of Sv.rie-aker w.-.zons, B. B.
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FEDERAL FOOD ADMINISTRATOR
TELLSWHYWEMIISTSENDWHEAT
TO THE SOLDIERS IN EUROPE
Dr. Alonzo Taylor Declares Food Situation in Great
Britain is As Serious As it Has Been Since the War,
In an Interesting Statement He Explains Conditions
And Shows Why Americans Should Send Wheat
To War Zone,
Atlanta, March 20.—N0 question
is more frequently asked the Fed
eral Food Administrator for Geor
gia, and all the otner States in fact
than why we send wheat to Europe
and stint our own people. The first
answer is that we send wheat to fur
nish a foundation for the mixed ce
real bread that the allies have eaten
for three years and a half and not to
supply them with a straight wheat
bread. We are now eating Victory
bread, a bread that calls for only 20
per cent wheat substitute, while Eu
rope since the outbreak of the war
has eaten a war bread which contains
25 to 50 per cent substitute. They
are asking us for wheat enough to
make this war bread.
Wheat flour is the only known
foundation for a bakery loaf. Corn
meal and buckwheat can be used in
making cornbread and batter cakes
but these breads cannot be looked on
as bakery products as they will not
stand 24 hour s handling between the
oven and the table. American wo
men who do their own baking can
make good use of cornmeal, rice and
oatmeal, but wherever women work
in factories or long hours in the
fields, whether in America or Europe,
bakery bread must be within their
reach.
Dr. Alonzo Taylor, representative
from the United States Food Ad
ministration to the recent allied con
ference in Paris, and an expert on
the food needs of the world, answers
the question in this way:
“We receive many letters at Wash
ington as to why we want to send so
much wheat to Europe when we are
told that corn, oatmeal, rice and bar
ley and rye are just as good. They
ask, ‘Why don’t we keep the wheat
and send them the corn and rye and
barley and rice?’ I wil answer that:
We want to send wheat to Europe
because you can make bread of wheat
and you cannot make bread out of
rice and oats and corn. And nobody
bakes domestic bread in Europe. Y’ou
can go to any town in France and
you will find that there are no indi
vidual bakers there. There will be
employed probably two or three men
in one place, who will have one large
hearth, who will be able to bake 2,-
000 loaves of bread together, with a
minimum amount of coal.
“The bread is delivered to the
home; and this is one-half of the diet
of that home. It was in peace time
and it i s now. In peace times there
was considerable sugar, and dairy
products were plentiful. Now these
things are scarce and the bread
largely takes the place of these foods.
So the bread becomes of added im
portance from every point of view.
Now just visualize this peasant home.
Remember that the peasantry in
France live in villages, not on farms,
and they subsist on the small local
store and bakeshop.
“Please remember that the coal in
France today is sll9 and $135 per
ton, and they have a good coal sup
ply this year.
“Just visualize an American wo
man saying: ‘lf the corn, rye, oat
meal and barley are just as good, I
will a ■■•ept the wheat and send the
wheat su'.'.'Htutes to Europe.’ Re
member that bread is made from
wheat. How much .work is it for her
to prepare ri or oatmeal or make
corn bread? How much ■..* a burden
d <>s it impose upon the overtime of
the American woman today, either
with or without servant-? Very lit
tle. But it is a burden to a French
woman, who is work’ng sixteen
hears a day ai taking .re • : a
maimed ■ jl-il-r. <?;• a tuber -./.ar per
son, * ■ ■■■! ' ‘.telv p.- hour or
an how a 1 a half or. her a day at
boiling r: • or making cornbread.
Shall we put this btmie: up r her?
This is the cm >?te situation.”
In a statement made March C,
THE SUN, Established 187 X
FARMERS SHOULD
MM DEFERRED
' CLASSIFICATION
Washington, March 20.— American
farmers are urged to file affidavits,
of deferred classification for their
farm hands in a statement issued by
the United States Employment Bu
reau today.
Farmers are warned if they fail t»
follow the advise of the bureau they
should not complain if their farm
hand s are taken in the new draft.
StGBTTm BJKER VISITS
FRONT LINE THK
German Shells Burst Within Forty-
Yards of His Automobile—Gails
on Capt. Archie Roosevelt.
With the American Army Ln
France, March 20—Secretary of War
Baker addressed members of ths
Rainbow division who have been on
the firing line today, promising to
convey their message to the folks
back home. “To your relatives, scat
tered throughout the States, I send
a message, saying well-fed and nt>
lack of supplies, or attention which
safeguards your health,” he said.
“Your communities and the nation
will be proud of your good conduct,
clean living, clean hard fighting and
the principles for which you fight,”
concluded the secretary.
With the American Army in
France, March 20.—Secretary of War
Newton D. Baker is at the front line
trenches under shell fire today scarr
ing No Man’ s Land from a listening
post. “Now I am at the frontier of
freedom,he exclaimed.. Reaching
from the trenches a one hundred and
five calibre German shell burst with
in forty yards of the secretary’s au
tomobile. Secretary Baker saw many
from Ohio whom he knew. He called
on Captain Archie Roosevelt at the
hospital and praised the young offi
cer for his gallantry. He talked,
with the wounded officer. While Ba
ker was in the trenches allied air
planes wheeled over his head, de
spite the heavy fire of the Boehe anti
air craft guns.
HUNSISS TROOPS ON
HER FRONT FRANCE
; In Position to Launch Surprise Of
fensive Within Twenty-Four Hours
According to Information Today.
W.-.h the French Armies Afield,
M ■ If.—Germany has massed her
•ront : Fiance :■:> such a position
ar. 1- ■ .-tie 'that she would be
ci'nv 11 i a -Trpr:se offensive
agai- • the allies’ armies withri
;wenty<mir h■. - if le-ired. Detaii
■: 1 i- v-maticn is row in possession
of th ■ French to sh • t is fact.
Lord Reading. Brit. Ambassador to
the United States, expressed his ap
pre -iat ar.fi t< 1 ' -v greatly be
lie-: :'-■? a”.: - j- to America for
the s.mp’i.-- received over there, par
ticularly in the matter of food.