TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 15, 1925
DIXIE COTTON
FARMER IS HIT
RY LABOR COST
But Even Increase in Pay of
Pickers Fails to Bring Them
—Growers Need Help
ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 14.—Cot-)
ton picking in Dixie is not what it
used to be. ,
Times was when the f cotton far
mer basked in the autumn sun
while cheap labor picked his cotton,)
but now he is pestered not only by
a scarcity of help, but the price hei
must pay for labor is something un
heard of in the cotton field. It us-;
ed to be ten years ago—the |
pickers were at the farm house door ,
bright and early begging for work.
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The price was thirty to fifty cents
a hundred—and no perquisites.
In South Georgia the price now
ranges from 89 cents to $1.25 a
hundred and the pickers are car
ried to the fields in automobiles
and trucks.
In Alabama, and further west, as
high as $1.50 is paid and pickers are
being fed and housed. .Many are
the cars parked alongside cotton
fields, in fence corners and in farm
roads. There are aristocratic sixes
and eights out there. The cotton
(farmer chauffeurs for his help and
is glad of the oportunity.
Whenever cotton is grown, the
call is for help and more help.
Agents say the labor has gone to
the public works, meaning highway
construction, building of houess,
railroad, factory and minutes. It
is explained that when times are
'good, the labor quits the farmer.
jWhen the dull season comes in the
of population the unskilled
labor drifts back to the farm.
Gathering of the cotton crop
has become such a serious question
that many cotton growers are mak
ing strong appeals for help.
Cotton picking is recognized as, a
tedious task. A good picker can
gather 200 pounds in ten hours;
that is a fair average, according to
farmers. And even price
paid on that scale it does not reach
the price paid by the public works.
GEORGIANS PRAYERS
FOR RAIN ANSWERED
ATLANTA, Sept. 14.—Hope was
revived today in the southland as
the Southern folk saw the answer
to their prayers for relief from the
unprecedented drought. Rains were
general throughout the affected
area yesterday, and additional rain
fall is predicted for today along with
a recession of humidity.
NORMAN OPENS WITH
LARGE ATTENDANCE
NORMAN PARK, Ga., Sept. 14.
—Norman Institute has opened with
every room in the dorn.itories fill
ed and seceral rooming in town. It
is the practice of the school to place
old well known students in town
and give all dormitory space to the
new students. Prof. Scott, of the
local public schools, Rev. W. T.
Hapstead, pastor of the Norman
Park Baptist church, Mr. Emory
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Register, of Alapaha, and others
made interesting addresses. Prof.
L. H. Browning had everything so
arranged that the school ran on
regular schedule the first day. Ex
cellent work is being done the first
week.
NEGRO SCHOOLS WILL
OPEN SEPTEMBER 28
The five Rosenwald school, Gate
wood, Nunn, Plains, Seay, Shipp will
open Monday, Sept. 21 and all other
negro schools will open on Monday,
Sept. 28.
All teachers, who have been elect
ed to teach in these schools should
report to the county superintendent
at once and show kind of license
held.
It is believed that reports of
snakes swallowing their young grow
out of instances where snakes swal
low other snakes. The belief is that
a mother snake swallows her young
to protect them, and that they crawl
out again when the danger has dis
appeared.
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
AUTOMOBILISTS
URGED OBSERVE
R. R. STOP LAW
President of Central of Georgia
Says Railroads Are Con
stantly Becoming Safer
Automobilists are urged by Presi
dent L. A. Downs of the Central of
Georgia Railway to observe the new
Georgia law requiring them to come
to a complete stop at dangerous
grade crossings, as well as other
regulations to promote safety.
In an interesting statement, Mr.
Downs points out that last year 2,-
149 people were killed at grade
crossings, in spite of every precau
tion taken by the railways. '
President Downs says that the
railways are constantly becoming
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safer for those who work on them
and those who ride on their trains.
In proof of this, he submits state
ments that, while passenger traffic
and the number of railway employes
have both trebled in the past thirty
six years, passenger fatalities have
been decreased fifty-three per cent
and employe fatalities twenty-six
per cent. On the contrary, grade
crossing fatalities which are beyond
the control of the railroads but are
within the control of the public,
have increased four hundred and
thirty-five per cent.
Employes of th e Central of Gedr
| gia have pledged themselves to set
an example to the public by observ
ing Stop Laws, and the head of the
Central appeals to the people gen
erally to co-operate. The Georgia
la wrequires motorists to stop at
crossings designated as dangerous,
and to reduce speed to six miles per
hour at all other crossings. Ten
nessee and North Carolina have
Stop Laws, and a movement is on
foot to enact similar legislation in
Alabama.
Mr. Downs points out that motor
ists observe regulations for “Boule
vard Stops,” “One-Way Streets,” no
, parking areas, etc., which are in-
I tended to expedite traffic. He
pleads for observance of Stop Laws
for grade crossings, which are more
important because they are intended
Lto preserve human life.
| Tin plates, and other articles
classed as tin, often are made of
steel or iron, which has been chemi
cally cleaned and dipped in tin.
Small fish and tadpoles often are
caught up out of shallow water by
eddies of air and carried a distance
of several miles before they are
dropped.
One session of Congress requires
from 200 to 400 gavels.
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PAGE SEVEN
RECEIVES THREE CENTS
FOR RESCUING GIRL
PRESSBURG, Czechoslovakia,
Sept. 15.—Three cents was the fin
ancial measure of the joy experienc
ed by a young man when a gypsy
saved his sweetheart from drowning
in the Danube. The young lovers
had a quarrel, which ended with the
young woman jqmping into the
river. Her betrothed, becoming
frantic, called wildly for help. The
gypsy, taking in the situation, jump
ed into the water and brought the
girl ashore.
Her lover expressed his joy at the
prompt rescue and then handed the
hero one Szech crown, equivalent to
three cents.
George Washington really wai
not born on Feb. 22 but on Feb. 11.
By the elimination of 11 days when
the old style calendar was perfected,
the date was set up to Feb. 22.
