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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1912)
Thye .Korßgorriery .Monitor.l PIIRUSMBD BVEFVTIHUSIXV. OFFICIAL OROAN MONTIKIMF.BV^COtJNT*. Entered*! (tlia PostoffiM in Mt. Vernon. Oa. «w HwoixM’laHK Mail Matter. H„, 01 Mhor.nd Owner. $• * Year, in Advance I , ,1 KlvorUK. menU niuitt fuvarUbly b« paid advance, at the h-Knl rate, and a* the law omi ,„„el bo in ban.l not lab,r than W.-.lm-H.lay morning of the firm week of i..H ( irt l .„i Mount Vernon. Ga.. Thursday Morning, Sept. 19, 1912. The proposition to divide Geor gia into two states is hut another silly agitation to give opportunity for the explosion of a lot of gas in the legislature, and take up I time that might be spent in leg islating upon matters of real and vital importance. When the Atlanta Journal runs! out of soap, there is only one theme that pops into the head of its editorial writer and that is the eternal abuse of Governor Brown. The people of Georgia have long since arrived at the conclusion that it is a clear case of Little Fido worrying the moon. The muddle over the election of the State Commissioner of Ag riculture would lead a simple minded citizen to inquire if some one cannot be found in the great state of Georgia with brains enough to draft a bill in language that cannot be construed in a dozen different ways to suit the whims of politicians. Cotton is one of our principal products, and yet cotton seed and cotton seed meal form one of the chief imports, as far as the far mer is concerned. There should be a cotton seed oil mill in every county producing as much as eighteen or twenty thousand bales of staple. Montgomefy county having produced last year 27,4-17 bales, would be entitled to a cotton seed oil mill under the above proposition. Ix't it come sixm. Let Montgomery county be re presented at the Twelfth District fair to lie held in Dublin October Bto 12 inclusive. It will be an inspiration to our farmers to at tend, and if possible carry some thing. Call at this office and get a premium list, or write the sec retary, R. M. Martin, at Dublin. The time is near at hand. Uiurens county is one of the most pro gressive in the state, but she is willing that the vast benefits of district fair be divided among tb<> counties furnishing exhibits, and Dublin is too broad a city to claim all the success of the ven ture. Join her in the worthy ef fort to bring out the best in the district. While it has been a great year for politics and elections, let the good people remember that there yet remains two more elections for the year the regular state election October 2 and the na tional election November 5. In the state election it is very neces sary to poll a full vote for the state nominees as well as the county nominees of Ixith the first and second primaries held in this county; while in the rational j election of course everybody ! wants to cast a ballot for Wilson and Marshal, lx't all true Dem-' oeruts fill out the year’s program by turning out on the dates men tioned and finishing up the work. Do not be afraid to drop in a j dollar for the success of Demo cracy. Every indication points to the election of Mr. Wilson as president. He is not asking money, and will not accept any for personal use; but the expen ses of the campaign make it in cumbent upon every loyal Demo crat to help out the cause by adding a mite. Eight years ago. even though it was questionable, and resulted in a world-wide dis turbance, the Standard Oil Co. gave to Ex-President Roosevelt’s campaign fund practically as much as Democracy has thus far contributed toward the success of the Democratic ticket. Send your dollar to The Monitor office, get a receipt for same, and have it sent in to headquarters at once. • TTTTTTTmTvmmmvw • Gleanings From 5 ► Wisdom’s Field. 2 t < •AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Valdosta Times:—Reports from different parts of Georgia indi cate that vote buying in this state has reached a shameful stage. Public sentiment ought to become so strong against such a practice that no man would undertake it, Graymont Hustler:—Graymont is a place where few temptations will meet you or the many evils of life environ you. A place where a man can live a Christian if he wants to. Monroe Advertiser: —The Col lege girls have returned and For syth is taking on new life; indeed everybody seems to be “sitting up and biking notice” again. Whether it is the arrival of Fall and cooler days or the return of the Bessie Tift girls, we won’t undertake to say. Lyons Progress: Cotton pick ers are being paid GO cents per hundred right at the start this year and we cant help but think it is a mistake. At the price cot ton is selling and taking into con sideration the short crop, 50 cents is a plenty to pay for pickers. In the first place all small farmers should cut their cotton crop down to just what they can pick them selves. Tifton Gazette: Committee rooms in the State Capitol are being turned into office rooms for the accommodation of the offices created in recent years. Georgia needs a new and larger State House building and it should be built at Macon. Laurens Co. Herald; —A new animal has stepped into the po litical zoo. The donkey, the ele phant, the hull moose and now comes the camel. He is a prohi bitionist, of course. Under his leadership we imagine the ship of state will have “dry” sailing. Cuthbort Leader:- Please don’t hand the Leader clippings just to “help fill up. ” We don’t need them, but have an opening for scuppernongs, sugar cane, pea nuts, sweet potatoes ‘possums and persimmons. We have found these very helpful in assisting us to fill up. Hawkinsville Dispatch-News: —Now they are talking about dividing Georgia into two states, one to be known as South Geor gia and the other as North Geor gia. Well, in case such a thing should happen, aren’t you glad that you live in South Georgia, or as Editor Mclntosh puts it, ! “down here in God’s country?” Savannah Press: —A book on plum culture and plum picking has just been issued by the de partment of agriculture. Probab ly it is not for circulation among the friends of the administration. Adel News: The time has about passed when a poor man can run for a state office in Geor gia. The candidates usually spend more than the office to which they aspire pays. Americus Times-Recorder: When you boost the Board of Trade you are Ixxisting Americus. And when you are boosting Americus you are boosting your own interests. It is an endless chain. Dublin Courier- Dispatch:— Madero says that Mexico is able to take care of her own revolu tion, and dot's not need interfer ence from the United Suites. The past history of Madero’s regime i does not supjxirt his statement. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR-THURSDAY, SEPT. 19, 1912. i Warn Against Wildcat Orchard Schemes. I Washington, D. C. Sept. 12. The department of agriculture, in a report seqn to be issued, will sound a note of warning to all interested against orchard invest ment schemes that hold promises of profits far in excess of wh; t the department experts regard as warranted. Many inquries | have reached the department regarding orange, apple and oth ier enterprises where the orchard ! izing is to he done by proxy and in some cases the claims of profits are alluring in the extreme. It is possible that some of these claims will he called to the attention of the postoffice department because of the circulation of the alluring literature through the mails. Not all the schemes are frown- , ed upon by the department as] will be pointed out in the report. This document, based upon in quiry into a number of the plans, I in at least one of which promi-; nent government officials person ally are interested, will give clear suggestions and hints to city folks who are considering mak ing investments in the so-called “orchardizing by proxy.” It will indicate the conditions under which successful fruit culture may he expected and the reasons given by the government experts why certain system of orchard izing must fail. These investment plans have flooded the country and have aroused wide interest. A Call for More Potatoes. Mr. Eugehe 11. Grubb has a 2,000 acre farm at Carbondale, Col., on which his principal crop is potatoes. lie was sent abroad by Secretary of Agriculture Wil son to study foreign methods and has improved on them. “The situation we are facing is of tremendous seriousness, ” he said in a recent interview, “for unless the American farmers can be persuaded to adopt scientific intensive farming in the place of the present haphazard meth the day is not far distant when the masses will simply have to go without potatoes. Not only will the available supply of the product diminish, but prices will soar far beyond the normal mar ket. And we have no other great food supply to draw upon. “We should easily double or treble our potato production without any increase in acreage. In Germany the average produc tion is about 200 bushels to the acre: in the United States only BG. With intensive scientific methods of culture on my Car bondale farm 1 never produce less than 880 bushels per acre, and without the use of commercial fertilizers. This goes to show what American soil will do when given a chance. “At first 1 found it hard to believe that American farm prac tice was fifty years behind that of Eurape, but the more 1 saw the more this disagreeable truth was forced home to me. Luther Burbank says that half of all hu man effort is wasted by not knowing how, and this remark applies with crushing truth to j American farming. ” King Cotton Supplants Beautiful Queen Elberta. Americus, Ga.. Sept. 14. The I destruction of the great Bagley I peach orchard near Americus, 'I containing a quarter million i bearing peach trees and reputed ;to be the largest in existence, was completed today, the tret's piled in heaps for burning. This ■| magnificent orchard was planted |by 11. Clay Bagley of Atlanta and was regarded one of the show spots of Southwestern I Georgia. It contained several choice varieties of peaches, while i . hundreds of carloads of fruit have been shipped therefrom to Northern markets. The present | owner, who paid $136,000 for the orchard, does not care for poaches and will plant cotton in stead. i 1 YOUR TRADEI || Is always appreciated, whether § large or small. See me for (SPRING AND SUMMER BARGAINS I jg Honest Goods, Honest Weights and Honest Measures. M Courteous treatment for long years has marked my business. § What you need in IS | DRY GOODS, SHOES, HATS, 6RDCERIES | | AND FARM TOOLS | I ay ill be Sold at Live and Let-Live Prices. £§ WARRANTED NEW HOME SEWING MACHINES, M’CORMICK | MOWERS, REAPERS AND BINDERS, HARROWS § I AND CULTIVATORS ARE SPECIALTIES WITH ME. | wnrAfcQ^i (The Old-Line Merchant, With “the Goods”) cl: | Mt. Vernon, Ga. 1 ! A PROCLAMATION. Submitting a proposed amend- j ment to the Constitution of the . State of Georgia, to be voted on j at the general State election to he held on Wednesday, October 2, 1912, said amendment relating to the making of tax returns to the Comptroller-General. By His Excellency, Joseph M. Brown, Governor. State of Georgia, Executive Department. Atlanta, July 29, 1912. Whereas, the General Assembly at its session in 1911 proposed an amendment to the Constitution of this State as set fourth in an Act approved Aug ust 19, 1911, to-wit: An Act proposing to qmcnd the Constitution of Georgia by adding to second Section of the seventh Article of said Constitution a new Paragraph for requiring certain tax returns to be made to the Comptroller-General on or before the first day of March of each year, and for requiring the taxes arising on such returns to be paid on or before the Ist day of September, and to authorize the Gener al Assembly to pass such laws as may be necessary and proper for carrying out said provisions. Section 1 He it enacted by the General As sembly. That it shall be and is hereby proposed to amend the Constitution of Georgia, by adding to the second section of the seventh Article a new Paragraph to Ik* known as Paragraph six, as fol lows: “All persons or classes of persons who were, by laws of force January Ist, 1911, required to make returns for taxation to the Comptroller- General. ami all who may hereafter Ik* so required, shall* on or before the first (lay of March of each year, make such returns as of date of January Ist ; of that year, and shall pay the taxes arising on such returns in favor of the State on or before the first of September of the same year, anything heretofore contained in the Constitution or laws of Georgia to the contrary notwithstanding. The laws of force on said date governing such returns and payments, and the collection and enforcement thereof shall remain of force as applicable to the returns and payments herein required until the tame shall Ik* changed by law The General As sembly shall have power to make or alter all laws that may be necessary or proper for enforcing the provisions of this Paragraph Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That whenever the above proposed amendment to the Constitution shall be agreed to by two-thirds of the members elected to each of the two Houses of the General Xssembly. and the same has been entered upon their Journals, with the ayes and nays taken thereon, the Governor shall cause said amend ment to l*e published in at least two newspapers in each Congressional District in this State for the period of two months next proceeding the time of holding the next general election. Sec. J. He it further enacted. That the pro posed amendment shall Ik* submitted for ratifica tion or rejection to the electors of this State at the next general election to Ik* held after the publica tion as provided in the s«*cond Section of this Act in the several election districts of this State, at which election every person shall Ik* qualified to vote who i» entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly. All persons voting at such election in favor of adopting the proposed amend ment to the Constitution nhall have written or printed on their lallotn the wonts “For amend ment to the Constitution requiring tax returns to J the (Vwnptmller-General to be paid on »>r before I September Ist of each year.** and all persons op- I posed to the adoption of said amendment shall I have written or printed on their hallota the words j ‘Against amendment to the Constitution r«quir -1 mg tax returns to the Comtroller-General to 1*» ! paid on or before September Ist of each year.” Sec. 4. He it further mac ted. That all law sand * parts of laws in conflict with this Art Ik*, and the i same are. hereby repeated. N«»w . therefore. I. Joscfth M Hmwn. Governor |of said State, do this rny proclamation here : by declaring that the foregoing projHwied amend" rnent to th«* Constitution t« submitted for ratifica i tkm or rejection to tb«- voters of the State quali fied to vot* for member* of the General Assembly i at the general election to l» held on Wednesday, j October 2. 1012. By the f*'V" r. .i JoMKl'lt M ttROWN, Bull,Mr r«'»K. Secretary of State. M. 15. CALHOUN, Atty at .jiw, ,Mt. 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