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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
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trouble. Rheumatism ho bad he could
scarcely get up when he Bat down.
Rack ached all the time.
No wonder Mr. T\ A. Wooloy, brake
man on the road from Dallas to Jack
son, Texas, “wan tired of living.”
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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
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