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CO-OPERATION
la The Watch-Word Here—
more co-operative marketing agencies
operate in Grady county than in any
other county in Georgia
“The man who wandereth out of the way of advertising shall remain in the congregation of the dead.”
VOLUME XXIII.
CANE ASSOCIATION IN A DEAL
FOR 16,000 BARRELS OF ’26 SYRUP
V<\LL BE DELIVERED PACKERS
fNDER TERMS OF RECENT
AGREEMENT.
Announcement was made Wednes
day of a deal whereby the Cane Grow
ers Co-operativee Association disposes
of approximately 10,000 barrels of
new crop syrup to several of the big
packers in Cairo and elsewhere.
The major portion of the 1926 de
liveries to the association are involved
in the transfer and the deal is regard
ed as the largest in the history of the
industry. Approximately 13,000 bn
rels were sold at one time a few years
ago.
The price, while not announced, is
understood to be very satisfactcory
and considerably above the basis of the
present price of cotton, which natural
ly has an effect on the price of syhup.
Syrup-making is now general over
this' section, and deliveries to the as
sociation, are just beginning.
WALKER DISCUSSES
iJLS 1007 TDRAfTA lUMlW pDAO U1UI
CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE SAYS
TOBACCO IS MUCH SAFER
THAN COTTON.
Dr. W. A. Walker, whom the agri
cultural committee of the Chamber of
Commerce has appointed as special
director of tobacco culture in Grady
county for next year, this week con
tributed the following article on the
crop outlook for the next year:
Editor, The Messenger:
I read with much interest and pleas
ure the article written by some of
Grady county’s leading farmers in the
last issue of The Messenger.
I notice that there is one thing they
did not stress—hog raising. Every
farmer should have in addition
what meat he needs to supply his farm
at least eight or ten hogs to the plow
for sale on the hoof.
And it is unwise and foolish to try
to raise hogs unless we are willing to
have them double treated for cholera.
I notice that on account of the low
price of cotton,-,and other adverse ag
ricultural conditions, there are more
people now who have been farming,
especially the tenant class, who are
seeking employment for next year for
wages.
This will necessarily curtail the pro
duction of all farm products, and make
the price better next season, I was
especially favorably impressed with
the suggestion made by the writers of
last week’s article, referred to above,
that the acreage in cane be material
ly reduced next season.
If the farmers will reduce the cane
acreage and all come into the assoc.
ation and resolve next spring to lay
aside a dollar for each barrel of syrup
marketed by the association as a sur
plus or operating fund, in tw-o or three
years it will be possible to begin can
uing syrup on a large scale. And the
association can build up a trade for
its syrup which will put it on a much
Wore independent basis. It’s impos
sible to do this without a surplus of
fifty or seventy-five thousand dollars
to operate on.
We cane growers have this matter
absolutely in our hands if we will only
stick together and do like every other
enterprise which has ever succeeded —
have a surplus fund to operate on.
I was more impressed by the refer
ence to tobacco culture in our farmers
article than any thing else, In my
opinion tobacco is our surest crop.
know our friends were correct when
they stated that a farmer could raise
a nound of tobacco for less expense
than a pound of lint cotton. Hence,
if there is a pi’ofit in cotton at fifteen
cents per pound, there would be
greater profit in tobacco at the same
price.
If we had had the rains this
season—(and we usually do)— in June
that we had the last of July and Aug.
we would not have averaged a bale of
cotton to eight acres in Grady county.
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World Temperance Sunday, which
comes on next Sunday, October 31st,
this year, will be appropriately ob
served in Cairo by a special union ser
vice sponsored by the local Woman’s J
Christian Temperance Union.
The service will be held, at the local
Baptist Church on Sunday evening,
beginning at 7 o’clock.
Rev. D. P, Lee, pastor of the Bap
tist Church, will conduct the devotion
al, after which Rev. Leland Moore,
pastor of the Methodist Church, will
make an address on “Christian Citi
zenship.”
The people of Cairo and Grady
county are cordially invited to parti
cipate in the observance.
1,000 People, or More,
Attend Health Talks
The free health lectures and mov
ing pictures of the U. S. Public Health
.Service were presented to a thousand
or more people in Grady county this
- j week, indicating widespread intrest
in the movement to raise the public
he ““l TZ,
*
jthe Public Halth Service, who came
to this county under the auspices ef
the Tri-County Health Unit, the first
pi'esentation was made in Whigham
Monda.v night. The illustrated lec
ture was given in a church, and not
in the City Hall, ’ as had been announc
ed. , A . , large number were present. ,
On ^ Tuesday _ , morning, . ’ „ Major . Stoy
delivered , , , the , , lecture, . without , , the ,,
picture . , illustrations, to , the ,,
moving
students of the Spence Consolidated
School and a number of the school pa
trons assmebled there. On Tuesday
evening the illustrated lecture
presented at Calvary. and - j
Thn on Wednesday afternoon j
evening two performances were given ,
at the Victory Theatre here, the man- J
agement of the theatre having kindly
offered it for the purpose. Approxi
the matinee and night presentations
mately five hundred people attended
and the lectures of Major Stoy were
made much more impressive by the
pictures shown.
PRODUCE MARKET
Considerable Activity Shown In Sale
Of Various Items.
The local produce market is very
active, as large quantities of produce
of all kinds are being sold and ship
ped.
Several tons of pecans of the new
crop have already gone forward to
the markets and numerous shipments
of other kinds of produce are being
made.
Below are the prices being paid here
Thursday afternoon for the various
items:
Pecans, pound 12c to 35c
...................
Hens, pound 23c
Fryers, pound ..................... 27 c
Cotton, middling basis, lb. 10%c
Syrup, A-l, new barrels, gal 50c
Hogs, No. 1, on hoof, lb. 10 %e
Cui’ed side meat, pound
Eggs, dozen
DIES TUESDAY
Mr. James T. Gainey, Beloved Citizen.
Is Claimed By Death.
j Mr. James T. Gainey, 79 years cl
county’s beloved citi- I
! age, one of the
passed away early Tuesday af
zens, period of
ternoon, following a long
feebleness. Senility, with a cancer
contributing, was the cause of h’-’
death. j
Mr. Gainey was the father of • ;
Gainey, Esq., of Cairo, who is coun .y
j attorney and clerk of the oar
.County Commissioners. S Jj* "c
brought grief to a arge nu h
j [relatives and friends throughout th . ; .
i section. .
Funeral and intermen
Gainey cemetei \. sou n o t
; 1 o’clock Wednesday afternoon
three at the
Funeral and interment were
i Gainey cemetery, south of Cairo,
Wednes ,
three o’clock ay a |
j I iTlceney has been spending friends
days with relatives and
in Alabama.
CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY, GA. FRIDAY OCTOBER 29, 1926.
AGRICULTURAL ILLS
TOPIC OF COX’S TALK
»
CONGRESSMAN INDULGES IN AN
OPEN, FRANK REVIEW OF
CONDITIONS. *
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Congressman E. E. Cox, of this
trict, who resides at Camilla, made
a very enlightening talk on national
affairs, particularly the agricultural
ills, to a large group ot Graciy
tians assembled at the opening
Superior Court here Monday morning.
His discussion was open, frank and
informal and was one of the plainest
that has ever been made here.
Picturing agriculture from a nation
al standpoint as being in a sad plight,
because of overproduction and a
turbed foreign situation, he
the confident belief that Congress, at
the session which opens in December,
will enact some effective remedial leg
islation whereby the farmers will be
enabled to bridge over the present
crisis.
The problems of agriculture are
the most discussed of all today, he as
serted, and the thought of the nation’s
soundest students is being directed to
ward a solution of them.
He bitterly assaffed certain ac lrn^
strongly favor the industrial classes
rather than the farmers, but he
pressed hope that a changed
toward the agricultural classes wou’d
, be forced . , . the future. , ,
m near
-T He declared j . j xi the government , at , pres
controlled , „ , quite 7. . largely , , by An- .
ent ^
drew , W. T , Mellon, .... seccretary , of , trees- .
ury, himself an' industrial magnate,
and he gave as his reason for oppos
in g the so-called farm relief bills be
fore the last session the fact that, In
reality they favored the industrialists,
“virtually putting the farmers in their
hands.
He discussed international affairs .
in considerable detail, pointing out
how the disturbances in foreign mar
kets for American cotton and other
products have contributed largely to
the present price deflation. He told of
plans to improve the situation and ex
pressed the belief that substantial
improvment would be brought about
in the next few months.
Asserting that overproduction is a
most difficult problem to deal with,
he said the solution lies largely in the
adoption of a marketing system
whereby bumper crops will not he
forced on the market at one time. Dis
tinct improvements in credit facilities
are lokked for, he said.
SUPERIOR COURT HERE LIKELY TO RECESS
SATURDAY; TWO MURDER TRIALS TODAY
Grady Is Best County In South Georgia, Judge
Custer Says In His Charge To Grand
At Opening Monday.
It appeared late Thursday that
the fall term of Superior Court
here, which opened last Monday,
will continue until Saturday, at
which time a recesss will probab
ly be ordered. ,
The Grand Jury completed its
deliberations Thursday afternoon
and it was discharged, but cases
have been set in the trial court
for today and Saturday. •
Among the cases set for trial
Friday are two murder cases, one
against John Parker, colored, and
the other against “Ball-the-Jack
Aiken, colored youth.
Court opened at 10:30 o’clock
day m oi’ning, with Judge W. V.
^ Soliciter B C . Gardner and
0 ther court officials at their
posts. Prayer was offered by Rev.
Oates.
Immediately after the
in which J. H. Collins, of Cairo,
elected foreman of the Grand
and J. Bentley as bailiff, Judge
asked Congressman E. E. Cox
talk, and this consumed the
of the morning.
The civil calendar was taken up
the trial court Monday afternoon
a number of cases have been
that time. None of them,
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OKRA, PEPPER CROP j
HERE N0W ASSURED
GRADY COUNTY IS FAVORED IN
. STRONG COMPETITION WITH
j
OTHERS.
of Commerce, by Mr. R. V. Criru, ‘
representative of the Campbell Soup
Company, in Waycross last Monday '
night, that contracts will be offered
Grady county farmers for both okra
and P e PP er crops for 192 1 .
After a careful and detailed review
T Gie situation, a decision was reach
i <(i to se *" tbe 1927 okra crop at about
dd acres, since this production will he
abol| t all that can he properly cared
to1 a PivKling' plant here. This will
| be was more produced than three here this times year as much and the as
j yield should be approximately 3,000
J barrels, in brine.
1 The price will remain the same, it
ii . understood, though the producers
11 be asked to furnish a P lace foV
the P lcklin S P lant - Crine was
j advised last week by a subordinate
official of the Atlantic Coast Line that
; the reduction in the okra freight rate
had' been granted, but he was later
advised that it would be
j for it to be granted. In view of this,
i it will be necessary for him to absorb
j c ' considerable amount in freight
I charges, and this is why he is asking
the producers to furnish a site for the
pickling plant. Moreover, the people
j ° f geygral other counties have made
j ^panfotaS,^nd
warehouseg were offered for use
, -
c \ ‘ ‘
i ! Mr. Crine, appreciating .
this , section.
, the advantages , offered „ , , here, . has de- ,
culed to make ? this ... ,. his headquarters, , , .
1
nowever, , and , , he has , rejected . , . the other ,
^
q , about 100 acres in pepper will I
1^ contracted for next according
^ a ment of Mr.-Crine and
i Secretary Hughes Since this will be
i first ar wjth pepper> it is pIan .
^ ^ keep ^ acreage down> g0 that
£ . product G f high quality can be pro
duced c I
^ farmers are apparen tly very
much interested ‘ in the prod uction of
thege trops> judging from the inquir .
madp of Secretary Hughes and
c Agent England> and those who
^ ^ produce them are asked to
either of thfi two above-named
an . dea of what acreage thpy
would like to have.
To Award Prizes For Best
Okra Production.
Secretary J. M. Hughes, of the
Chamber of Commerce, this week is
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ever, are of unusual importance.
Some delay was experienced Tues
day afternoon when it became neces
sary for Judge Custer to have a hear
ing on a move by defense attorneys
in the case against R. McCarthy, in
dicted in Dougherty county recently
on fifty-one counts charging embez
zlement from the Georgia Peanut
Growers Co-operative Association.
The defendant’s lawyers asked for a
court order to force the association of
ficers to permit them to inspect the
association’s books and accounts, but
after a lengthy hearing here, the re
quest was refused. Solicitor Gardner:
was assisted in opposing the move by
the firm of Pottle & Hofmayer, of Al
]j any; representing the association.
Bennet & Peacocki of Albany, repra
sented defendant,
Judge Custer, in hearing the pleas
of jurors for excuses from service
Monday urged all citizens to make ar
rangements to serve when they are
drawn for jury service. “There is no
service of greater dignity or that calls
into play greater qualities of citizen
> ship than serving on juries,” he said,
| In addressing the Grand Jury, he
made an impressive plea for a greater
appreciation of the advantages offer
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GENERAL ELECTION
SET NEXT TUESDAY
Voting Places In AH Precincts in Grady County
Will Be Open; Proposed Amendments
Claim Interest.
.... Virtually everything is in readiness
1,1 Grady county for the biennial state
general election next Tuesday.
Ordinary John R. Singletary will
have the ballots and necessary
tion papers in the hands of the Jus
tices of the Peace of each precinct by |
the last of the week and instructions |
have been given as to the holding of
the election.
The polls will open in all of the out
lying precincts at 8 a. m. and close at
3 p. m., while in the Cairo precinct the
polls will open at 7 a. m. and close at
6 p. m.
It is understood that only one tick
et, the Democratic, will be offeree;.
This ticket contains all of the nomi
nees in the recent primaries and nine
proposed amendments to the consti
tution.
Most of the nine proposals to amend
the constitution are not of state-wide
concern, though interest centers in
the consideration of them, particular
that with reference to vital statis
tics.
The original law has been found
finite defective and this is the reason
r the hew one, which was passed at
the 1926 extra session of the Legisla
b^ln^ppropriation"fefito en
was not made available un
tU t919. It provided for the fees for
the collection of the data on births
and deaths to be paid from county
funds, but Houston county attacked
the validity of the act, and in a test
which was instituted, it was fi
nally declared unconstitutional by the
Supreme Court.
Herny- the ? ew law, passed almost
unanimously by the legislature this
year. The act, however, must be given
a majority in the election next Tues
day to become valid.
In 1922 Georgia was admitted to the
Death Registration Area by the U. S.
Census Bureau, but after the old law
was held to be unconstitutional, the
state was no longer recognized by the
Federal authorities. Certain cities in
the state retained recognition, how
ever. Re-admission to the Death Reg
istration Area for Georgia is depend
ent upon the action of the voters next
Tuesday.
Below is a brief sketch of the other
proposed amendments:
To provide additional compensation
to be paid the judge of the Superior
Court in Muscogee county. This is
similar to several amendments ratified
in the past, giving certain counties
local right to increase their pro rata
part of the pay of judges.
To authorize the county ot Crisp to
increase its bonded debt for hydro
electric power purposes, This is the
proposition to provide the way for
Crisp county to invest $1,250,000 in a
hydro-electric plant. The debt affects
the county only and has no bearing
on the state’s credit.
To authorize the state to construct
and maintain a system of public high
ways. At the present time the state
(Editorial.)
Some Good Reasons Why You Should
Vote Next Tuesday.
It is important that every qualified voter go to the polls and
vote next Tuesday, in the biennial genera! state election. It will
probably occur to many that nothing but the Democratic nominees
ai to be passed upon, and that since nothing but Democratic tickets
o
will be offered there is no real necessity for voting. However, this ia
an erroneous idea. Only a Democratic ticket will be offered, and the
Democratic nominees are to be voted on, but, in addition, there are
nine proposed amendments to the state constitution amendments that
demand your consideration.
To be frank about the matter*, no person who is qualified to
vote measures fully up to the standards of good citizenship if they
fail to vote at every opportunity, If there was not something im
portant to vote on, no elections would be held.
Next Tuesday, the voters will pass on a number of proposals
to amend the state constitution and these items are as important as
candidates for office.
Not all of them are of state-wide concern, but they must be
considered by the voters of the entire state.
Give these proposals due consideration and know what you’ra
voting on. Don’t vote against them unless you really know what
you’re doing, and don’t pass them up without considering them.
Bv all means, however, BE SURE TO VOTE!
GRADY COUNTY
Is Georgia’s Banner County,
hub of its sugar cane and coUard
industries, the home of diversified
NUMBER 42.
in point of fact has no costitutional
authority to spend state funds on or
to construct and maintain state high
wasy, and this amendment is to cor
that defect,
To authorize an increase in the bor
rowing power to authorize $3,500,000
as a fund for payment of salaries of
school teachers, etc. This is
the provision for a revolving fund for
the educational system of the state.
To authorize the County of Chat
ham to issue bonds to pave the high
way to Tybee. This, like the Crisp
county matter, is purely a county au
thorization, and has no bearing on the
state’s credit.
To authorize taxation for education
al purposes in counties having cities
of more than 200,000 population,
wholly or partly within their bound
aries. This is intended for the city
Atlanta. It will he general in effect,
of course, but is purely of local appli
cation, at least until some other city
in the state grows enough to have a
population above the figures named.
To authorize the county of McIntosh
to increase its bonded indebtedness
for educational purposes. This, too, is
local to the one county, and affects no
other since McIntosh county is speci
fied.
To authorize the County of Lowndes
or the city of Valdosta, or both, to in
crease their bonded indebtedness for
the purpose of aiding in establishing,
and maintaining or endowing an edu
cational institution of college rank.
This is designed to insure the comple
tion of the Woodrow Wilson College
plans.
School’s Second Month
Of Work Is Completed
By J. H. MORRISON, Supt.
The reports for the second month’s
work of the Cairo school will be given
out next Wednesday.
Again the superintendent and his
faculty ask that each parent look over
with great care the progress made by
his boy or girl. If it is not satisfac
tory, please investigate and determine
the causes for the unsatisfactory
work. If the cause can be corrected,
now is the time.
The superintendent and any of the
teachers will be glad to talk with
parents at any time about their child’s
work or welfare.
Dr. James. D. Deans to
Be Here Next Sunday.
Dr. James D. Deans, of Camilla, wiil
fill his regular fifth Sunday appoint
ment at the Cairo Presbyterian Church
next Sunday morning at 11 o’clock.
The public is cordially invited to
attend.
It was announced that Dr. Deans
will also be here for an evening ser
vice at the Presbyterian Church, but
it has been called in because of the
service at the Baptist Church.