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GRADY COUNTY PROGRESS-PAGE
GRADY COUNTY PROGRESS
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S. R. Blanton, Editor and Mimagor.
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Made Known on Application.
Entered at Cairo, Ga., Postoffice
as Second Class Mail Matter.
Save Us From a “Loafing
Land Lord System
There are 3,000,000 tenant
farmers in the United States and
the number growing larger all
the time.
This means that more than
onc-third of all the farmers in
this country are tenant farmers,
In Georgia 68 per cent of all
the farm are cultivated by ten
ant farmers.
Between 1900 and 1910 farm
ownershis in Georgia decreased
in 126 counties.
This means that those wh6 till
the soil are not owners thereof,
and that we are surely drifting,
toward an idle land lord system
a system fatal to rural civiliza
tion and national prosperity.
The tenant farmer, though he
may be a better man than the
owner of the land, he has no per
manent home. lie is unable
lease or rent in oi^e place for
more than a year or two. He
cannot take that interest in the
community, its schools, its
churches and its civic betterment
that he would feel were he own
er instead of renter, and all
these interests—absolutely nec
essary to the growth and well-
being of every community—lan
guish, decline and either die out
right or cease to be an active
force.
A condition like this is perilous
not only to farm life and to rural
civilization, but to every other
interest, for the farm is the
* ‘best home of the family, the
source of national strength, the
foundation of civilized society
In years gone by it was possi
ble for a poor man to buy land on
credit and pay for it. But now,
with farm lands selling at $25 to
850 per acre and the rate of in
terest from 8 to 12 per cent, no
such thing is even debatable.
These conditions are not now
dangerous conditions, but they
are dangerous symptoms, and it
behooves all thinking people of
every calling, trade and profes
sion, to work together for the
removal of these symptoms from
our agricultural system.
Germany has provided a reme
dy in her rural credits with long
loans and low rate of interest,
England, with the same rfemedy,'
has .redeemed unhappy, oppress
ed and poverty-stricken Ireland.
But, in those countries, it was
the f eople themselves who took
the Initiative.
As long as slaves appear con
tented and satisfied their masters
will not trouble to offer them
greater liberties.
And as long as the people ap-
pear indifferent to conditions
l e.’nicious and dangerous, no
one will sympathize or offer as-
sistace.
German farmers secured re
lief thought the power of their
30,000 farmers’ societ'es; their
English and Irish brethren ope
rated though a similar force.
In the I’urmers Educative and
C>operative Union the Ameri
can farmer has the power of
numbers and intelligence, and
the dawn ot a more excellent
day is surely coming.
The weather man is doing ]
best just now. Evidently he
going to stand for re-election.
We believe that if the Demo
cratic party is given long enough
they will clean up and clean out
u. lot of graft and corruption from
our political system.
A Rotten Political Systom.
Isn’t it about time to begin a
business-like study of our rotten
political system?
Let us take a look at things of
present and of recent date.
Two federal judges have been
impeached within the last two
years. Judged by the evidence
taken at the trial, neither was
fit to be trusted as a public offi
cial, and both were a disgrace to
their country.
Anoter federal judge is soon to
be put on trial.' If only half of
the charges against him are true
he should be in the penitentiary.
A national stink caused by the
trial and impeachment of a U. S.
senator has barely passed beyond
smelling distance.
The present lobby investiga
tion at Washington. reveals an
organized gang of crooks in the
operating through members of
congress, exposing a rottenness
calculated to astonish a nation.
The governor of New York, a
state known as the Empire State
of the Union, is now being im
peached for plain stealing.
Another prominent citizen of
the same state, a politician of
national reputation, is charged
with stealing $50,000.
Press dispatches published in
Sunday’s papers announce that
the department of justice is so
manipulating the legal proceed
ings that a railroad corporation
is about to appropriate to its own
greedy maw a portion of the pub
lic domain worth hundreds of
milliors of dollars.
This cannot be termed even a
bird’s-eye view of corruption
high places, but enough to put
any man to wondering what will
be the final outcome of a politi
cal system where such things
are permitted to exist.
Mr. Bryan says he is going to
lecture in spite of h—1 and high
water. • Don’t blame him. Any
man who can make 87,000 in
seven work days lecturing can
do as he pleases any time and
anywhere.
The ice man to the rear and
the coal man to the front.
Type’ Writer Ribbons.
The Pr gress cffice carries a
complete assoitment of type
writer ribbons for all standard
machines also carbon parper in
all colors
Give us your erders for' ihese
things, please.
The Three Keys.
By HERBERT KAUFMAN
Copy right: HerbortKaufnmn: 1018.
Every brain can’t be brilliant. Neither studiousness
nor steadiness will imbue a matter-of-fact mind with
imagination or originality.
A diamond in the rough doesn’t sparkle and glow; it
must be cut and polished before it will display its unique
splendor under light; but the same processes of prepara
tion will not induce equal fire in an inferior gem.
Mental agility is seldom acquired; it’s a birthright—
a natal endownment. Men are born with the sense of
humor, the “gift of gab” and the strain of subtlety. In^
ventors are not products of rules and schools, but their
founders.
Don’t yearn for that which you cannot earn nor learn.
The world’s work, fortunately, is so great—there are
many divisions of labor, so many types of responsibility,
so many'sorts of tasks, that there is always a position of
dignity for every man who earnestly seeks to establish his
fitness.
The opportunities for success are as multiform as the
variations in human nature.
Civilizationj.vorks with an enormous tool kit.
Progress requires thousands of different minds for
her myriads of undertakings.
The social machinery is an involved piece of mechan
ism with untold parts—all sorts of cogs and wheels and
belts and pulleys and shafts and cams. If we were all
alike it would be impossible to transact the multitudinous
affairs of this teeming, scheming universe.
We have need of careful, deliberate, calcuting per
sonalities, as well as schemers and dreamers.
We require the matter-of-fact, placid plodder far
oftener than the captain of adventures.
Conservation balances speculation. The apt-fingered
must execute the plans of the sw,if t-thinking.
But no matter who or what you are, where you work
or how you strive, failure in some form is inevitable, un
less you possess certain essential qualifications. Ability is
futile without stability.
As old Cyrus Simmons used to say:
“My son, there are three keys to success. Lose them
you’ll find the world’s doors locked in your face. , v
“You can’t go far and you won’t last long without
discretion, fidelity and steadfastness. I’ve watched men
rise and fall for sixty years, and I never saw a traitor
prosper—a bobbler stick- r nor a half measure man endure,
Keep faith, keep your mouth shut. Keep at it—and
you’ll always be sure of your bed and board.
“Everybody has to sell something to exist—time, la
bor, ideas, money, good§, or chattels, When you put a
price on,your word or divulge confidential matters, or
quit a job, half-done—you’re a marked and marked-down
proposition.
“Talent is like an unbroken colt—useless until it stays
in the traces.
“I’d. rather drive a safe, willing draught horese
than trust to a tricky thoroughbred.”
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CLAY’S GINNERY
I am better prepared than ever before to gin your cot
ton. I have the Munger System. using the drum which
prepares the cotton for the gin, insuring a better sample
than the others. All the machinery has been thoroughly
overhauled. Can serve you to advantage. y
Saturdays
meal.
Are our grind days and we guarantee
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H. I. CLAY, Calvary, Ga.
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Every piece of machinery
good condition and we are able
to promise you service and a
good sample as well as a g<
turnout.
Located just below the Variety Works or Le
Highest prices paid for cotton seed.