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The Montgomery Monitor
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Thursday, September 28, 1922.
THE JEFF DAVIS HIGHWAY.
Sponsored by citizens of Fitzgerald, under the
leadership of Kditur lsadore fielders, a movement
has ben inaugurated for a great highway extending
from Richmond, Va., to Vicksburg, .Miss., to be
called the “Jeff Davis Memorial Highway.” The
proposition has been enthusiastically received and
from the support it is receiving from the public,
there seems little doubt but that the highway will
soon be a reality. This highway is to be a coun
terpart of the great Lincoln Highway through the
northern states, and touching as it does many spots
closely connected with thc*history of the Confed
eracy, there is every reason why it should he adopt
ed by the people of tire six southern states through
which the highway passes.
Starting at Vicksburg, the highway passes on
through Montgomery, the first capital of the Con
federacy. From Fitzgerald to Mcßae there is
considerable construction work to be done, but at
Mcßae the state highway to Savannan will be
adopted. Leaving Richmond, the highway comes
down through the Carolinas to Augusta, and from
there through the towns of Waynesboro, Swains
boro to Vidalia, connecting with the route from
Vicksburg to Savannah. Much of the route from
Vidalia to Augusta is part of the state highway
system, the road from Vidalia to Swainsboro being
the only section not in the state highway system.
During November it is planned to hold a meet
ing at Vidalia, and the counties west as far as Fitz
gerald and north as far as Augusta wilj be sked to
send delegations, and plans will be made to secure
the adoption of the highway by the state highway
department.
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GOOD TIMBER.
Billie Sutlive, of the Savannah Press, president
of the Georgia Press Association, was one of the
Chatham nominees for the legislature in the pri
mary last Wednesday. Bet you a dime that Bill
Sutlive makes a number one legislator.—Swains--
boro Forest-Blade.
Pro. Boatright is conservative and safe. . We
agree heartily with the Forest-Blade and would
like to add what modesty prevented Bro Boatright
from saying, that editors nearly always make good
legislators, and the number of newspaper men in
the house and senate shows that the people of tlie
state realize that there is no better timber from
which to pick their representatives and senators I
than the members of the fourth estate.
'Phe newspaper folk are always progressive,
fighting for better schools, for good roads, for pro
gress along all lines, their work developing a keen
sympathy for the great mass of people who hear
the burden of taxation and receive so little for it.
Rarely is one found who .seeks to use his term ns
a stepping stone to other political office, and their
service in the Georgia Legislature is marked by
constructive work for the best interest of the state,
v 'Phe Georgia Legislature is to be congratulated
upon Bill Biffem's nomination. Oratorically, he
will be an ndditon to the ranksi of the silver
tongued; pulehritudittouslv, an ornament. We pre
dict. too that he will be a hard worker, full of pep
and Savannah punch, observing not union hours,
answering roll call regularly, voting right persist
cntly, signing his pay check promptly, a credit to
his home county, an honor to the newspaper craft,
and, \vc hope, piloting the state port safely home to.
Savannah.
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THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR
TREMENDOUS TRANSPORTATION
The country is getting ready to move ahead —
i., already moving, in fast. It could hardly pause
for even such a serious thing as a railroad strike,
following a fuel strike —it was impatient to be off.
The stock market felt so good that it was a bull
market, broadly speaking, even while the strikes
lasted.
Out of Washington, Harden Colfax sends an
interesting and heartening report to the Atlanta
Journal, under recent date. We quote a few par
agraphs from this optimistic dispatch:
“All records of business activity in the United
States, including our war-time prosperity at its
height, bid fair to be excelled within the next six
weeks, in the light of facts presented by the Amer
: jean Railway Association as to the volume of the
• country’s business at the present time and its rapid
' expansion within the past fortnight.
“The movement of freight over the country’s
: carriers is swiftly drawing to a new high figure.
• Settlements of the coal and rail strikes has given
1 this movement the most powerful impetus it has
1 received since the beginning of the business depres
sion nearly two years ago.
“Everything the railroads haul has been dump
-1 ed into cars and hauled away—except for here and
there a commodity of seasonable demand—within
the past two weeks in greater volume that at any
1 time within a year. During the week ending on
September 2. latest period for which figures are
available, more than 931,000 carloads of freight roll
ed over the rails. That figure registered a new
high mark for 1922. Tt was 91.5 per cent of the
biggest week’s work American railroads ever per
formed. . .
“The onlv limit, apparently, to the magnitude
of the industrial revival which has come so suddenly
to the country is the ability of the railroads to fur
nish equipment to take care of it.”
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MAKING THE COMMUNITY MORE
BEAUTIFUL.
The Progressive Farmer suggests the following
ways of making the community more beautiful:
' Make the South a land of painted farm houses.
Make the home grounds beautiful.
Better care of fields and forests.
Make the church buildings and school buildings
the most beautiful buildings in the community.
“Not onlv should these buildings be the best
in the matter of architecture, materials, care and
painting, hut they should have the most beautiful
grounds. Too often nowadays we find cases of
large amounts of money being spent for the erec
tion of beautiful high school buildings hut not a
thing has been done to improve and beautify the
grounds. This is like buying a beautiful picture
and nailing it up on the wall without a frame. The
school and church buildings belong to all the people
of the community.. And the love of the people
should he lavished on them. If boys ard girls thru
the formative years of their young lives go on
week-days to school buildings beautiful in architec
tural design, made beautiful within by reproduc
tions of masterpieces of painting, and beautiful on
the outside by a year-round succession of blooming
shrubs and evergreens, they will want the same sort
of beauty for themselves when they later come to
build and make homes. And in the case of the
churches, beautiful architecture and beautiful sur
roundings will influence both old and young in the
community.”
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'Hie death of Senator Thomas F,. Watson til
Washington Tuesday removes a dominant figure
from Georgia political life. A magnetic leader, he
drew to his standard thousands of devoted follow
ers who never wavered in their allegiance to him
and faith in him. For more than a quarter century
he had exerted a powerful influence upon the politi
| cal life of the state.
Thursday, September 28, 1922.
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WATEiSMELOH GROWERS
HAVE MEET AT ADEL
REPORT OF OFFICERS SHOWS
DISASTROUS SEASON FOR THE
MELON GROWERS ASSOCIA
TION ON FIRM BASIS.
Add, Ga., Sept. 25. —The member
ship meeting held in this city Friday,
Sept. 15th, by the Souhwest Georgia
Watermelon Growers Association was
a pronounced testimonial of the Soutn
Georgia farmer’s determination to win
the victory with co-operation. The
members of this organization charac
terized their meeting with many talks
of sound praise of the accomplish
ments of the past season, even though
the odds were against their efforts to
produce melons that would bear up
the reputation gained by their "So
wegas” during the previous season in
the consuming markets.
The annual report of the secretary
showed that there were 1,839 cars
shipped from a total of 20,452 acres
planted by the members of the asso
ciation. The report further revealed
that 976 of the cars shipped were mel
ons averaging 24 pounds and under,
whiclv was in itself a splendid expla
nation of why returns were not as
pleasing as in previous seasons. The
average net return to the growers for
32 pound average melons was $243.90
per car, which gives a fair idea of what
might have been received had the
melons this season been of normal size.
However, the average net return to
growers of $78.36 for all cars was
accepted by all as being much better
than could be expected when viewing
the difficulties of growing, transpor
tation and selling the melons this sea
son. The weather hindered the grow
it g, the strike seriously affected the
the transportation, and the cool weath
er and uncertain deliveries by the rail
roads in the consuming markets cer
tainly did not make the selling of
melons a pleasure.
Many new measures were recom
mended which make the organization
more attractive and effective than
ever. Experiences of the past two
seasons made necessary certain
changes which will mean closer co
operation and at the same time allow
strict economy. It was decided that
there will be no field inspection next
season, except at pruning time, when
District Managers will make one visit
to the grower. The minimum mem
bership fee for new members was re
duced from sls to 10. A fertilizer
commission was appointed to investi
gate the plan of buying fertilizer co
operatively, for those who desired,
and a movement was started to ena
ble the association to grow its own
seed at a specially provided station.
Such measures as these are resultant
of the constructive spirit of the mem
bers and their profound faith in their
organization. ,
Throughout the meeting were voiced !
deep appreciation of the small grow
ler and and his co-operation in the
i association. It was declared unani
mously that the farmer with a limit
ed acreage was and has proven to be
a valuable worker in the organiza
tion. and that he is not only welcome,
hut is earnestly desired. The reduc
tion of the minimum membership fee
was directed as a benefit to the grow
ers with small acreage.
While it was generally confessed by
all present that their production this
season was not profitable, they heart
, ilv commended the association for the
results chained under the conditions
of what has p-oven to be the most
disastrous season in the history of
South Geo-gia's watermelon growing.
The meeting adjourned with the gen
eral satisfaction that the organization
had proven i*« stability by weathering
the rocks and was on a safe and sta
ble basis for constant and continued
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£ No. 5, daily, leaves Augusta 7:35 a. m., arrives Vidalia 12:20 * ’
* p. m., arrives Valdosta 5:35, arrives Madison 12:45. jj
£ No. 4, daily, leaves Madison 6:30 a. m., arrives Valdosta 9:00 •»
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