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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1915)
EVILS OF THE TENANT SYSTEM Prosperous Small Farmers k Who Use Brains the Solution. J Y. Joyner, president of the Southern Conference for Educa tion and: Industry, in session in session at [Chattanooga, in Khis address before that body, de plored the evils of the farm ten ant system in the South. “In large areas of the South,” said Mr. Joyner, “one-half of the white farmers are tenants and the average is 3d per cent for the white farming population. This means that in the entire South one-third to one-half of the far mers move every year. “In most of the rural commu nities, therefore, there is a very large shifting, shiftless, landless population. Only one who owns the land, lives on it and cultivates it, ever loves and improves the soil and gets the most out of it. The shifting, shiftless, landless man, caught in the ceaseless drudgery for scant subsistence, sinks into a hopeless state of dull indifference, and often times de spair, from which it is almost im possible to arouse him. He feels but a passing interest in anything and takes an abiding interest in nothing.” Os course as long as some men own land and some do not, there will be tenant farmers and this is likely always to be the case. But the problems outlined by Mr. Joyner are undoubtedly real and press for solution. Just what that solution is to be is not readi ly to be seen. That the matter, however, is not entirely hopeless can be as certained by a contemplation of what was accomplished by a young Mississippi farmer. This young fellow's achievements as given by the Manufacturers Rec ord are as follows: ‘‘Left college to go to farming. The first thing, got married. Bought S4OO worth of land on credit, fifteen miles from any town. Paid for the land in two years. Now’ free from debt. Cultivates eighteen acres of land. Last year made S2OO worth of peanuts, slls of corn and S9O of hay, gathered 200 bushels of sweet potatoes, killed 900 pounds of meat, all fattened on peanuts and potatoes, and paid all his liv ing expenses with garden vegeta bles, cfiickens and eggs.” The Record thinks that the ap plication to the land 'of the brain power and the heart power of the young man was the secret of success in this ease. And herein might be found a solution of the evils deplored by Mr. Joyner. It would be practically impossible to abolish the tenant system, but if the brain power and the heart power of young farmers can be properly aroused, then great prob lems and hard conditions vanish as mist before the sun. —Atlanta Journal. In Fourteen Languages. The National Anti-Saloon Lea gue has just finished the publi cation of Temperance Leaflets in fourteen different languages, namely: Polish, Bohemeian, Lithuanian, Finnish, Croation, Italian, Swedish, Hungarian, French, Rumanian, Russian, Spanish, Norwegian and Greek. The liquor politician has found out that the League is doing some publication in English also. These leaflets are being used in large quantities by managers of interests where these people are engaged. The Anti-Saloon League, 814-15 Empire Life Building, Atlanta, will order for any person wanting them. —The Commonwealth. Youth, 17 Invents a ' Submarine Device. New York, May I.—Cecil Ell iott, a 17-year-oici pupil of the Peekskill, N. Y., Military Aca demy, has perfected plans for a special releasing device to be used in operating mines from a submarine. The device is for use on submarines operating in harbors where the submerged boat can approach its prey and then release a mine agains its hull. The mines are contained in special water-tight boxes. Peanuts His Money Crop. After living in the city for five i years I decided that farm life was the life for me. and so in the j fall of 1911 I came back to the 1 farm. As I hire all of my work ; done except what Ido myself, I do not plant very much cotton, but instead plant peanuts for a monep crop. Some of my land ! when planted to cotton only i makes about one-half bale to the acre. On this same land I grow from fifty to sixty-five bushels of salable peanuts, and use no more fertilizer than Ido for cotton. Peanuts require but very little hoeing and are no trouble to cul tivate. 1 plant Valenica peanuts for market, as they are no trouble to sell and bring the highest mar ket price. After picking peanuts i from the vines with a machine, I grade and prepare them to sell to the retail merchant. I sold my last year’s crop of peanuts from , five and a half to seven cents per pound f. o. b. my station. After picking peanuts from the vines, which is about the second week in November, I turn my hogs in the field to eat the peanuts left in the ground. Pork made in this way costs but j very little, as the peanuts left in the ground would be lost if it were not for the hogs. I pen my hogs about three weeks before killing them and feed them corn to make the meat firm. Peanut hay, with a small quan tity of corn, makes an excellent food for horses during the win ter season while they are doing but little work. This year lam planning to plant more corn and peanuts and make all the pork 1 can. I will plant a few acres in cotton, but peanuts will be my money crop. Every farmer should plant one or more acres to pea nuts for hogs, if not for market. It saves the corn and makes bet ter and cheaper meat, -L. VV. Edwards in Southern liuralist, The Lawyer’s Fable. A barrister who was possessed of an abnormally loud voice was making an eloquent address to a jury. His case was fairly strong and his trumpet tones made the rafters ring. The jury o k( d thoughtful and much impressed. The opposing barrister had a face like a hatchet and a thin, low voice. He began: ‘‘As I listened to the .thunderoous appeals of my learned friend I recalled a fable. A lion and an ass entered into a compact to slay the beasts of the field and share the spoil. The ass was to go into the thicket and bray and frighten the ani mals out, while the lion was to lie in wait and kill the fugitives, Well, the ass sought the darkest part of the jungle and, lifting up his awful voice, brayed and bray ed and brayed. The ass was in toxicated with his own uproar and thought he’d return to see what the lion thought of it. He found the lion pale in the face and trembling. ‘What do you think of that for braying?’ said the ass. ‘Don’t you think I scared them?’ ‘Scared them?’repeated the lion in an agitated tone. ‘Why, you’d have scared me if I didn’t know you were a jackass!’ ” “Your Best Friend” Must Go Back to the Farm. Atlanta, May 1. —‘‘Man’s best friend,” the dog, is going to come in for some hard knocks be fore the approaching session of the legislature. Several Georgia cities in recent years have had a good deal of trouble from time to time with mad dogs, and recent ly a numbers of editors, including the head of one of Atlanta’s dailies, have expressed the view that since conditions have chang- 1 ed in the past 50 years the dog! has no place in the city at all, and should not be allowed inside the city limits on any pretext. It is admitted that a dog is use ful on the farm or on a sheep range, and in the hunting field, but that the pleasure of having one for a pet around the house does not compensate for the lives j and suffering an occasional mad : dog costs. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, MAY. 6, 1915. Asks Comptroller to Furnish Him a Mule. Comptroller General William A. Wright receives many odd re qnests in the mail, but the strang est which has come tofhirn in | many a day was that which he j received Thursday from W. A. J. Lowery, a farmer of Milan, I Ga., who wrote! asking that the comptroller general please sup ply him with a sound, young mule, well broken for farm work. Os course Mr. Lowery intended ! to pay for the mule. Comptroller General Wright, who spends his time considering state tax returns, corporation tax assessments and seSlng to it that | the insurance companies toe the ! mark of the law hasn’t found ! time to engage in the live stock ; business and therefore was un i able to supply a mule to his correspondent. —Atlanta Journal. Hog Raising in State Urged by Congressman. Congressman William Schley Howard made a talk to the But | chers’ association last evening, j During the course of his remarks he discussed the bankruptcy act arid business conditions in the south: “There can be no possible con tradiction of the fact that the south has suffered to a larger de gree than any other section of our country on account of the great European war,” he said. ‘‘While we have all been com mon sufferers, 1 feel certain that the producers, the consumers and the distributors have been brought nearer together and to a better understanding of each other by the conditions now ex isting. “A great business organiza tion representing in all of its phases the retail trade of a city like Atlanta can do as much as any body of men in the great Empire State of the south in pointing out the way for Georgia to become one of the great food producing states of the union. “We have less than one-quar ter of a beef for each citizen of our state within the confines of the state, and as we all know, there is no possible excuse for such a condition. The piney woods of south Georgia is the finest hog section in the south, yet we spend millions of dollars annually for western meat. “I believe firmly that if the farmers of this state knew that a well prepared product would meet with the favor of the retail trade, and that they would pur chase home-grown commodities in preference to those imported from other states, it would act as the greatest stimulus to our agricultural development,” —At lanta Constitution. The Widow’s Might. A beautiful young widow sat in her deck chair in the stern, ! and near her sat a very hand some man. The widow’§ daugh ter, a cute little girl of 4 or 5 years, crossed oyer to the man and said: “What’s your name?” “Herkimer Wilkinson,” was the reply. “Is you married?” “No; I’m a bachelor.” The child turned to the mother and said: “What else did you tell me to ask him, mamma?” TIRED OF LIFE Constant Backache and Rheumatism Foley Kidney Fills fixed up Texas brake man so he's good as aver. 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No Bank There. | There was an eastern man with us in the stage as we were mak ing a route in Kansas, and at noon, says the Pittsburg Dis patch, as we stopped at a new town for dinner, he said to the landlord of the board shanty 1 tavern: ‘This seems to be a bright sort of a town.” «£$ ‘‘Yes. she’s gaining right j along.” ‘‘ls there a bank in this town? Regular bank?” ‘Yes.’ .‘‘Regular bank, with a presi dent, cashier and so on where they receive deposits, give drafts I on Chicago, and so forth?” ‘‘No, there isn’t any such bank here now.” ‘‘Then there was one?” “Yes, but it closed up. The •President and cashier are here, though.” ‘‘Then perhaps I could have a little talk with them before din ner?” “Hardly. They are lying under ground out here in my back lot.” “What! dead?” “As door nails!” “Sickness or accident?” "Well, sorter betwixt. The bank tried to fail and pay 50 cents on the dollar, and the boys turned out and hung ’em to that telegraph pole there, and divided the cash, so that we got sl.lO apiece on our deposits. If you want to start a bank, however, I’ll-” I “Oh, no! no! I had no idea of it. I’m going on to Emporia to go into business. Shaft of Wagon Driven Through His Neck. Way cross, Ga., April 20. I Charlie Summerall, aired seven teen. had a wagon shaft driven through his neck when the mo torcycle on which he was riding I collided with a wagon driven by !| Ben Brews. The shaft had to be I sawed off before it could be taken out of his neck. At first | it feared he could not survive the I accident, but after the shaft was removed he rallied and within an hour was taken to his home in the city. William Broach, riding ! with Summeral, lost two teeth I and was otherwise bruised up. When pedestrians rushed up to reader assistance, they found the, Summeral boy suspended in the air with two feet of the shatt protruding from the back of hisl| neck. How he escaped instant | death is mistilying to those who saw' his position immediately af ter the collision. A North Carolina Poplar. Mr. Burt Barlow has slaughter ed the largest tree . in Lincoln county, a large poplar, which came from the farm of Mrs. Sal lie Wise. This large poplar has shaded many who have gone be fore. It was located near the Pleasant Horne schooihouse spring. Many are familiar with the surroundings and the spot where the huge tree stood. Wag ons have been hauling the cuts from this tree to town for ship ment for several days. The tree was 7 feet 0 inches in diameter widest point, arid 6 feet 4 inches at the narrowest; 21 cuts 21 in- j ches long have been hauled in. The total of lumber will be about I 5,500 feet. Much might be written about this great tree. To j give an idea of its size, a platform had to be provided for the work- j men to stand on while sawing the cuts. To see a tree equal to this one means a trip to the Cali- j fornia exposi tion. —Lincoln Coun ty News. Would Give it Up. A large, husky negro and a small Frenchman were sawing aj large piece of timber for the Bos ton subway with a heavy cross cut saw, each in turn pulling it 1 back and forth. A pugilistic Irishman stopped to watch the operation. After a few moments he strolled up to the negro and dealt him a bio” , saying: “Give the saw to the little fel- j low if he w.ants it.” I n EPOS ITS INSURED | Against Loss | 0© © Q | « ©.©© 0. No Matter from What Source it May Come | j 0,0.60 1 We are constantly adding new ; accounts, and our business is increasing j at a very satisfactory rate. 1 Possibly you also might be glad to | : join us. j THE PEOPLES BANK SOPEIiTON, GA. 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