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PAGE SIX
TIMES-RECORDER
PUBLISHED 1879
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A THOUGHT j
The simple believeth every word;
but the prudent man looketh well
to his going;—Prov. 14:15.
It is a curious paradox that pre
cisely in proportion to our own
intellectual weakness, will be our
credulity as to the mysterious pow
ers assumed by others. Colton.
Calamity Howlers
There's a difference between
CAUTION and COWARDICE.
There’s a difference in playing
the game safely and losing one s
head.
We might as well face the prob
lems of the day with a smile and a
determination to pull through, as to
stand on the street corner and
howl ‘hard times.”
For weeks we have had entirely
too much frown and too little smile
about this great county of Sumter.
To listen to some folk talk, one
would think the devil was around
the corner on a one-way street.
Things are never as bad as they
seem, nor as some seem to think.
A few days ago the publisher of
one of the larger daily papers of
the state said this to us:
“Il am just back from the East
si*id Central West. You know,
those fellows up there say Geor
gia 'is broke. They told me more
about our hard times than I
knew.
“They said every county in
the state was bankrupt except
Fulton; that Atlanta was the only
city s<r» the state that was not
standing with its back to the
wall, holding off the sheriff
with a pair of six shooters.
“And we folks are to blame.
An Atlanta man goes East, with
smiles over his face and a good
word for every one. He tells
them that around Atlanta busi
ness is good.
“Every other fellow in the
state who goes up there, radi
ates blues like an engine with a
busted valve”
A ass thought is the most power
ful factor' of modern civilization.
Cause a city to THINK it is broken
and you’d just as well ring! for the
undertaker.
On the other hand, the commun
ity that faces adversity with a
smile and may be down and will
never admit it is out, comes back
in a hurry and suffers little ;.s
compared with others. It is the
result of MASS THOUGHT .
A few days ago an Albany mer
chant said to us that his October
business was 40 per cent better
than the same month a year ago.
We \Pere incredulous and asked for
an explanation.
“I saw what was coining—-no
cotton and bad prospects, so I
just went to work s I never
worked before. It is my opinion
as well as that of others, that
conditions are only 25 per cent,
while the man is 75 per cent.
I guess that is right, for my
ledgers show me ahead of the
game, this time last year.”
Here’s another story that has
been going the rounds of the edi
torial columns, which presents an
other phase of the question:
“A prominent real estate man
from Vienna said the other day
that recently a Northern capit
alist went to South Georgia for
the purpose of investing upward
of $200,000 in farm lands. But
on the trains, at hotels on { the
way, and at the stop-over sta
tions, the people were talking
boll weevil, farming difficulties
and hard times. Even at the
town that was his destination,
he found the same disspirited,
demoralizing conversation.
“The gentleman from the
North purchased a through ticket
back home, boarded his train and
did not even stop off at Atlanta.
He said that he wanted! to get
out of a state where the people
had lost their nerve. A people,
he stated, that have lost hold of
their backbone are in a bad way,
and he couldn’t see how prosper
ity could thrive in their midst.
“What this Northern man said
should be worth as much to the
people of Georgia, the farmers
hnd the business men, as the
$200,000 he intended to invest
We’ve used our mouths about
enough—in the wrong way; the
psychology of it is bad for us.
Now for our hands and brains -i
chance. Georgia is in better fix
todav than ever before.”
A half dozen determined men,
coming to the front, and assum
ing the lead, could turn this coun
ty into an Eldarodo.
There are certain fundamental
causes for the present condition of
Americus and Sumter county, the
principal one being ALL COTTON.
There’s away out and it is not
hard to see find, but street corner
calamity howlers will see it
norSare 1 they mentany capable of
assuming the lead.
The Real Fight
Trees shed their leaves in au
tumn to adapt themselves to win
ter drought rather than to winter
cold. Trees could easily grow a
protective covering' or overcoat for
their leaves. But water freezes in
cold wekther, and not enough be
ing available for leaves, the trees
shed the leaves.
A similar shedding takes place
in tropical regions having alternate
wet and dry seasons.
Also, the scarcity and small size
of trees in the Far North are due
to moisture shortage rather than
low temperature.
These facts are from a lecture
by Prof. George E. Nichols bo
tanist at Yale.
Trees have a phenomenal ability
to adapt themselves to their en
vironment. A beech tree growing
in a clearing has plenty of light but
less water than it would have in
moist woods. So it increases its
water-absorbing roots and grows
thicker "skin” on its leaves to de
crease the amount of water lost
by transpiration.
Now take a beech tree growing
in dense forest. It has plenty of
water, but not enough sunlight. To
overcome this < difficulty, it
stretches higher, trying to rear it
self above the other tree-tops. Also
it makes its leaves larger, which in
creases the leaf surface exposed to
the sun’s light.
A million books could be written,
without any repetition, about the
ability of plant life to adapt itself
to its environment. So with man.
It is within our power to adap*. our
selves to all changing conditions
and new problems. The wise are
never discouraged. Knowing a so
lution exists, they seek and usually
find it.
OPINIONS OF
OTHER EDITORS
A BETTER CITY, YES
Since voting school bonds yes
terday Waycross is a better city
kn which to live; our property
is worth more; it affords a more
inviting place for the, investment
of outside capital. Waycross
Journal-Herald.
A FEEBLE WAIL
No, little lassies, we are un
able to advise you, we wish we
could; but when the old married
hens are all chopping off their
hair and trying to take your
place generally, we are unable to
offer a remedy. It really does
look like you are up against i
good and strong. Why not try
going without stockings for a
while? But we’ll bet a dollar
they’ll do it, too, if you start it.
'—Swainsboro Forest Blade.
SAYS IT'FRANKLY
The editor of the Savannah
Press is quite confident that he
is for Bill McAdoo for not only
the democratic nomination, but
the presidency. And so are we.
He is the man to put the demo
cratic party im the white house
—honestly, fellows, that’s the
man. It’s a waste of time to
think of trying to carry Oscar
Underwood anywhere, but to
the convention to help nominate
McAdoo. Now, isn’t that your
better judgment about it.—say it
frankly.—Cordele Dispatch.
AN ISSUE
If former President Woodrow
Wilson’s armistice day address
by radio to the people of Amer
ica does not make the League of
Nations an issue again in next
presidential election, it may be
counted as a fact that the war
president has lost all influence
in his country and the League
itself is of no interest to the
people of the United States. Al
though he spoke bitterly in ex
pressing his disappointment, he
voiced a sentiment which should
be held by all of the men who
fought so gravely to win the wav
that was said to have been a war
to end wars. Rome News-
Tribune.
SOUND PRINCIPLES.
Senator Capper, of Kansas,
leader of the farm bloc in the
upper house of congress, in a
speech just made to his home
folks, dwelt upon the increasing
prospects for adequate home
markets for American agricul
tural products, provided these
products are properly’ balanced.
Among other things he said: "I
can see no reason why our future
American life can not be built
with both a highly prosperous ag
ricultural and industrial life.
Certainly that is the ideal."
These are sound views. The
hope of the adequacy of home
markets depends absolutely upon
the readjustment of commodity
production, made upon a survey
o fnormal home market demand.
Take Georgia. We import from
other states more foodstuff than
we grow. There are stored in the
refrigerated warehouses of the
Atlantic Coal and Ice Corpora
tion in Atlanta today several
thousand eases of eggs. Without
making inquiry it is safe to say
not one egg was produced in
Georgia. It is not generally
known but more than 50 per cent
of the merchantable flowers,
such as roses, carnations, chry
santhemums, sold by the Atlanta
florists are imported into Geor
gia from other states. Thousands
of dollars’ worth of California
grown flowers are sold in Atlan
ta every years.—Atlanta Consti
tution.
THE AMERICUS 'HMFS-RECORDEX ’
DAILY POEM
THE PRINCE
“I wait for Prince Charming,’’ she said,
"Prince Charming, blithe, slender and young,
With curly gold hair on his head a
And gayJionoyed words on his tongue.
Oh, he will be handsome and tall /
" And he will be valiant and strong, /
A Prince with the world at his call,
A figure of story and song!
I tMIPf
‘‘l wait for Prince Charming,’’ she said, , ' ~
“To set mII my heart-strings athrum,
And ere many seasons hav e fled,
I know, oh I know he will come! i
He’ll woo me with glorious art, f ~
With tenderness, passion and fire,
No other shall capture my heart f
Or bring me the love I desire!” -
. I
He’s fat and he’s placid and short,' •
His wooing was clumsy and tame.
He’s only a commonplace sort
Devoid of renown or acclaim; .
And yet when she gazes at him,
He sets all her pulses astir,
For, thanks to Love’s magical whim.
He’s truly Prince Charming to herb
-:- OLD DAYS IN/AMERICUS “
TWENTY years ago today
(From the Times-Recorder. Nov.
21, 1903.)
The cotton market appeared to
be hung on a centre yesterday,
neither advancing or declining.
Good cotton sold for 10 3-4 cegits
easily.
Miss Marie Jossey is spending a
few days in Americus the pretty
guest of friends here.
Two carloads of the finest Ken
tucky mules and horses ever
brought to Americus are' now at
Turpin's stables. They were se
lected in the bluegrass region by
Mr. George Turpin, and are beau
ties. Prices range or $125 to S2OO,
and better stock cannot be had in
the South. z
When the meat-saving season
ends Mr. N. A. Ray will be! among
those here who will have a full
smokehouse. He has a bunch of
eighty-five fattening hogs ready
for the slaughter and now getting
the finishing touch from a peanut
field.
A very delightful occasion was
that b>f last evening when Miss
Laura Hooper received a large as
semblage of young friends at her
home on College street. Miss Hoop
er is one of Americus’ most charm
ing and deservedly popular young
girls’ and in dispensing the honors
of this happy occasion she added
laurels to those already accorded
her as a genial and gracious, little
hostess. Progressive Conversation
was the program of the evening.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
.(From-the Times-Recorder. Nov
21, 1893.) x
Saturday Mr. ""Henry H. Single
tary, one of the most successful
planters in this section, bought of
Mr. Robert M. Stewart his fine
plantation of 600 acres eight miles
from Americus, paying $7,000 cash
therefor. The farm is well im
proved and one of the best in
Sumter county. Mr. Singletary
now owns more thrin 3,000 acres of
fine land in a body, all of which he
has bought and paid for within the
past few. years.
An "unloaded’ gun in the bands
of a young man came near caus
ing a fatal accident yesterday
THE REFEREE
HOHENZOLLERN I
The Hohenzollerns and their ’
crew wouldn’t be making the world j
lose sleep now if the Allies had in •*
sisted on their surrender and im
prisonment or execution. The Al
lies had that chance, when the war
ended.
Why did they let the German i
ring-leaders slip through their fin- >
gers? Were they afraid of estab- !
lishing a precedent?
♦ » *
GATS
A couple of boy bandits shoot a
policeman in an eastern city. A wise
judge comments: “There should be
a law making the person who sells I
a gun to a minor, through the mails, •
responsible for any damage done. !
All these boy robbers got their guns
through the mails.”
Why limit the sale only as re
gards minors? Youth then would do i
its pistol ordering through older!
crooks. The real soluticin is to!
stop the sale of revolvers alto
gether. It would be effective if
the penalty for possessing a pistol
were stiff enough—say, 20 years J
with no mush-hearted parole board ■
to interfere.
• * *
JAILED
Seven thousand college gradu- |
ates are behind the bars in various
institutions in America. This is ■
learned by an investigator for Johns :
Hopkins University.
Before we allow ourselves to be-!
come amazed, we want a report on !
the many times greater numbers I
of college graduates who are not >
behind the bars. It’s like the case |
of the college man who, winding,
up digging ditch, attracts more at-:
tention than 10,000 who don’t. Too,
many general opinions are based on ■
minority evidence.
DANGERS
Thirty-nine people in a year slip
on soap in the bathtub and are in
jured enough to collect insurance
damages. This is tht- record for
just ode company, the Aetna,
which also pays damages to 505 in
jured in a year by tripping over
rugs and 369 who fell downstairs
Sixteen golfers collected damages
for being hit by golf balls and
morning. A young son, of Col. S.
H. Hawkins was handling a shot
gun in the dining room at his horn?
and about him stood several of his
little brothers and sisters. The,gun
went off, as all unloaded guns de,
the load of shot shattering a hand
some mirror in a thousand pieces.
The muzzle was aimed directly at
one of the little girls when the
piece was discharged, but she
“ducked” her head in Uie nick of
time and the load passed harmless
ly over.
Dr. R. E. Cato, one of the best
known physicians in *his part of
the state, has removed to this city
from Preston, having formed a
partnership with Dr. J. I. Darby.
Dr. Cato will ocupy the haadsome
residence on Rees Park, recently
purchased by himself and Col. j.
B. Hudson from Mr. B. H. Jossey.
Dane Rumor has it that one of
Americus’ oldest and most prom
inent citizens will shortly wed a
charming widow of Marshallville.
The marriage is an open secret and
the Colonel is already being con
gratulated by his many friends.
TEN YEARS TODAY 1 *
(From the Times-Recorder. Nov !
21. 191'3.)
Mr. Irving Poole,of Americus, a
well known and popular young on
ductor of the Seaboard, was strick
en by sudden and severe illness at
Montgomery yesterday, the attack
rendering him unconscious for sev
eral hours. His condition was re
ported as very serioes.
T. O. Marshall has been appoint-i
ed receiver for the Young Men’s!
Christian association and has been !
placed in charge of the association
building by Judge Z. A. Littlejohn.
A debt of $18,500 wms responsible
for the forcible closing of the build
ing. i
Miss Susie Lunsford of Smith
ville, is the guest of Miss Jimmie
Jossey at her home on Lamar
street.
Mrs. W. K - Bell anti Miss Elea
nor Tillman left yesterday morn
ing for New York city where thev
will spend several days with friends
Mrs. Henry Stokes will leave >o
day for a visit to relatives in'
Lmon Springs, Ala., where she will
spend a week.
nine others for falling into bunkers.
Five dancers had valid claims from
colliding with other dancers.
To be really safe, take to'an air-
TOM SIMS SAYS -:-
St. Louis burglar posing- as a
plumber was caught, perhaps be
cause Ije forgot to forget his tools.
Lightning- is so contrary. In- Can
ada, it went to the trouble of strik
ing twice in the same place.
Cowboys wrestled wild cows at
a New York rodeo. We wrestled a
wild steak i*r New York once.
Falling in love or making a pile
of money doesn't leave very much
time for doing anything else.
We would hate to be a detective.
They go down to the office every
morning and get puzzled.
Chicago couple eloped in an air
plane. That’s the way these days.
They fly high at first.
Nebraska scientists claims they
have found another lost race. You
can "get plenty at race track.
California professor claims col
lege girls are, cave women) but' he
may be judging by their clothes.
\\ hat could be worse than teach
ing in a girls’ school where they
answer questions with “Because?”
New York woman voted twice in
one election. And they said women
couldn’t learn politics.
It has been a long time sine,
Mexican bandits killed an Ameri
can, except by selling booze.
Some seems to think peace in
Europe will take French ler,ve.
There may be nothing wrong wi'h
the coal situation, but you won’t
need a fan to keep cool.
NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL WEEK
Today’s Article Written by Col. George R. Ellis, Lawyer.
®/w. <4l _ n,.
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES;
The Great Charter of Individual Rights
The setting apart of Education
Week is due to the fact that good
;md patriotic men and women who
are thinking, and who have the
welfare of our country at heart,
know that knowledge promotes ef
ficiency and is a basis for pros
perity and happiness, while ignor
ance handicaps efficiency and mav'
lead to slovenness, crime and mis
ery.
At this time when open andi in
sidious attacks are being made up
on the Constitution of the United
States and our form of government
it is important for ur people to ac
quaint themselves with tthe
provisions and guarantees of
the Constitution, so they may un
derstand how our nation has grown
to be so great and prosperous and
the most enlightened civilization l
of the world. It is well to contrast
our government under the Consti
tution of the United States with
the laws of former civilizations that
flourished for awhile and per
ished.
Most of these civilizations were
autocracies where the king or em
peror reigned under a claim or Di
"!le rjf’ht, and this led to tyranny
Autocratic governments often be
came powerful, but always perish
ed because individuals intelligence
and individual rights were neglect
ed. A pure democracy such as
existed in Greece for a time during
its greatest splendor was too un
stable to protect individual life, lib
erty or property, and its mono
cracy lead to anarchy and its own
destruction.
ovi n ? eni *’? rs °f the convention"
at. Philadelphia who formulated the
American Constitution were stu
dents of history and were acquaint
ed with all of these facts. Thev
also knew that one great Greek
Fhilisopher had said that govern
ment should be neither an auto
cracy, which leads to tyranny, nor
pure democracy, which, leads to
anarchy, but that it should be a
golden mean between the two.
composed of an oligarchy. They
were also acquainted with the Eng
lish Bill of Rights wrestetd from
tueir rulers by the Anrfo-Sax’on
People. However .these wise men
of the constitutional convention set
mile stone in the history
o. the human race and createtd a
lepreseptative democracy, or a re
public, where the people elect rep
resentatives to make the laws
choose executives to execute the
laws and a judiciary to construe
the laws. This Constitution is the
greatest charter of human rights
ever conceived, expressed and
w the governm ent of
We often hear the three
irancnes of our government, the
legislative, the executive and jud
iciary, mentioned as the great bul
warks of our government and the
expressed charter of our liberties,
” ut tho ’-udividual rights embodied
Hi the first amendments of the
Constitution are the great bulwark
ot American freedom, without
which the legislative, executive and
judiciary branches of our govern
ment would be unable to preserve
the inalienable rights of the indi
vidual.'
The Constitution with its three
branches of government and this
Bill of Rights stands solidly four
square against autocracy, mono
cracy, radical legislators and un
just executives, and even against a
corrupt judiciary, for the Consti
tution provides ample means of de
priving all of these of their of
fices when occasions may efiise.
The American people are proud
of their civilization, boast of their
national power, and have just pride
in the fact that they are now the
leaders of the civilized wol’ld,. but
seems to think this greatness, l and
all of the beneficiencies which our
government bestows upon them has
News from London. Wife really
hit her husband with a rolling pin.
It’s a nice old English custom.
Chicago man burned his home by
throwing a lamp at his wife. How
quaint and old fashioned!
General Pershing visited Sedan
in France and it would have been
better to visit France in a sedan.
News from Paris. French offer
America wine for wheat. We often
mak booze out of rye and corn.
Seienists are digging-up strange
thick skulls in California. Is it an
other movie scandal?
The sun never sets on American
Legion Posts or on scandals in the
War Department.
European hotel men are visiting
America. Now’s our chance.
Do you use sheets at your house?
They are dangerous. In Boston, bur
glars tied a man with one.
Two sisters met in New York.
First time in 16 years. Bet one said
“Where’s my earrings?"
Distant earthquakes reported in
Washington. Real ones instead of
coming session of Congress.
We can all be thankful qvery.
Thanksgiving that shirts don’t get
dirty as quickly in winter.
You never have to sjt around and
bog a phonograph to play.
Profiteers were charging- so hard
when the armistice was signed they
haven't been abln to stop yet.
come to them by some kind of ac
cident, which they do not under
stand, and they seem to fail to ap
preciate the wise Providence that
guided the deliberations of the
Constitutional Convention which
gave to the world this wonderful
charter of individual rights for
the government of the American
people.
They also seem to be indifferent
to the fact that there has been a
most threatening advance in radi
calism in this country within the
last few years. It is said that there
are 1,500,000 radicals in this coun
try who are clamoring for a change
in the nature of our government
from its present form to one of
varying degrees of a communistic
state, and that there are’ 400’ news
papers in this country represent
ing these views, and that they are
read by 5,000,000 of our people.
It is also stated that over $3,000,-
000, was spent during the last year
by Soviet Russia and other radi
cals the spread of red propa
ganda in America. If the people
can be awakened to a full appre
ciation of our form of government
and the dangerous attacks now be
ing made upon it, they will be
come diligent in preserving the
Constitution as a great heritage
and charter of individual rights
handed down to us from our fore
fathers. Dur good citizens should
contribute to this end.
By nature man is a social crea
ture, and his natural state is in an
enlightened civilization, but his de
velopment and the eniightment of
his civilization is in proportion to
the development of the individual.
30, our people should ponder well
the status of the individual in the
civilizations of the past that flour
ished and then perished, and in
most of the civilizations of today
where the individual exists for the
good of the government, and con
trast that status with the rights of
the individual under the American
Constitution, where the govern
ment exists for the good of the
people who create it.
This diference of the status of
the individual in the United States
from that of other civilizations ki
other countries, whereby the
American citi&n is given equality
?A °PP Oi ’ is guaranteed
life, liberty and pursuit of happi
ness, furnishes the key ajrate to the
happiness and prosperity of the
American people, the greatness of
out nation and the enlErtment of
our civilization.
It is unnecessary to discuss our
dual form of government, under
which the several states are sov
engm and have jurisdiction of all
matters which were not delegated
to the United States under the
Constitution of the United States,
as we all understand this dual re
lationship and appreciate its value,
its check and balances.
A brief statement of the Bill of
Rights in the Constitution was
prepared by the American Bar As
sociation for Constitution Week in
September, and we give the same
as follows:
Our Bill of Rights provides for
religious freedom; freedom of
speech and of the press; the right
of the people peaceably to assem
ble; the right to bear arms for the
defense of the State; protection of
thepeople in war and in neacc
against undue imposition on the
part of military authorities; secur
ity against unreasonable search of
persons or houses or possessions
..'ithout a duly attested search war
rant; the requirement of an in
dictment before a grand jury be
fore one shall be held to answer for
a capital or otherwise infamous
crime; providing that no one in a
criminal case shall be compelled to
be witness against himself; that no
one deprived of life, liberty, or
property without due process of
law; forbidding' the appropriation
of private property for public use
without just compensation; provid
ing for speedy and public trial by
sei impartial jury in criminal cases;
excessive bail and fines, and cruel
and unusual punishment; reserving
in the people rights not enumerat
ed iri the Constitution; and reserv
ing to the States or to the people
powers not delegated to tlje United
States by the Constitution nor pro
hibited by it to the States.”
In conclusion I give you a
thoughtful and eloquent state
ment of Mr. Elihu Root, a great
jurists, diplomat and statesman, the
same being as follows:
“One effect of the Great War
has been to break up old habits,
old beliefs, old faiths, old content
ments and to cause a vast multi
tude of people to be impatient of
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WILLIAM GIBBS M’ADOO "
Democrat. Lawyer. Son-in-law
of Woodrow Wilson. Born near
Marietta, Ga., Oct. 31, 1863.
Was president of the Hudson &
Manhattan Railroad Co. which in
1904 completed the first tunnel
under Hudson river. Vice chair
man Democratic National com
mittee 112. Appointed secre
tary of treasury in President Wil
son’s cabinet March 6, 1913. In
augurated Federal Reserve Bank
ing system. Appointed first direc
tor general of railways in 1917.
Resigned from sabinet Dec. 16,
1918. Residence, Los Angeles.
every kind of restraint! and eager
for freedom to allow their impulses
of the moment. They forget how
much they have, how many bless
ings they owe to the fact! that they
live under the rule of law, in a
country of peace and order and se
curity and opportunity. They have
not learned the lesson of poor Rus
sia and China.
“They forget the teaching of re
ligion and the experience of man
kind which shows that man must be
governed by rules of conduct, not
by impulse; by established princi->
pies, not by the whim of the nicA
ment. or there can be no peace! nor
justice nor morality in civil so
ciety. They do not realize that it
is the Constitution of the United
States which has established those
rules of rights conduct, those lim
itations upon official power, those
guaranties of individual liberty,
which are essential to the preser
vation end growth of our country.”
COWETA FARMERS TO
FARM INTENSIVELY
NEWNAN. November 21. On
about one-half the acreage that pro
duced 2,941 bales of cotton in
1922. Coweta county is yielding
3,970 bales this year, according to
Judge James E. Brown, of Newnan
who is in Atlanta this week pre
siding for United States Commis
sibner W. C. Carter, who has gone
on a business trip to his Oklahoma
plantation.
The increase in the cotton which
is finding a ready and profitable
market combined to put a new spir
it into Coweta county farmers and
Newnan business men, according to
Judge Brown. He is editor and
publisher of the Newnan Herald
and through his editorial columns
he has strongly urged Cow'eta far
mers to plant peanuts.
“Until recently the farmers were
slow to plant peanuts,” he said,
“but Newnan now has a large pea
nut shelling plant and this season
the Coweta Cotton Oil company,
which operates the peanut shelter,
has paid out about $30,000 for pea
nuts.
"Peanuts are bringing around
$l4O per ton, or about the same as
a bale of cotton, and Coweta coun
ty alc.ne has rajsed 3,000 tons of
peanuts this year.”
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