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nBACCO MARKETS
OPENING DATE TO
DEPEND ON CROPS
of premature AUC
fears tions in GEORGIA HELD
GROUNDLESS.
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is little ground for the alarm
There certain sections of the
feeing felt in reports
fceorgia tobacco belt over the
Georgia markets will be
hat the before the leaf
ipened this year • big
is ready, since the com
rop send “circuit riders”
ToThe • each year first-hand
Georgia belt to get
m prefixing tion as to the condition of the
m rm the date for the be
:rop the auctions, it is pointed
'inning ef
ut. weeks ago when it ap
Back a lew
eared that Georgia’s tobacco would
earlier this year than usual there
‘ the markets might
vere re ports that
about July 20 if there were no
pen the outlook. Since that
hange in
however, weather conditions
time, nfavorable and demontra
, a ve been u
say that Georgia’s tobacco crop
ors 20 days later than it
dll be about
last year, when the markets
-a
pened early in August.
The date of the initial 1928 auc
tions will be fixed by representatives
{ the tobacco association of the
Jnite d States at a meeting to be
eld m Old Point Comfort, Va., on
une 2nd. At that meeting the eir
uit r id ers will submit their reports.
The big buying concerns, both for
jgn and domestic, have shown a
riendly attitude towards the Georgia
obacco growers ever since the crop
jecame an important one in this sec
ion, warehousemen say, and is not
Conceivable that they earlier will than start they the
sales this year any
lave in the past unless the condition
If the crop warrants such action.
[ [neeting Unusual interet attaches to the the
of the representatives of
[obacco association of the because United
States this year, not only
that body sets the date for the open
ing of the markets in all the belts,
but because of the reports that some
)f the markets, where the offerings
were unexpectedly small last year,
will not be given buyers this year.
Requests for the establishments of
pew markets will be passed on also,
ftmong such will be one from Madi
)on, Fla. Tobacco growing in that
lection has attained important pro
portions during the past year or two,
ind it is believed that if any new
narkets are opened Madison will be
Deluded.
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CHILD HEALTH DAY
WILL BE OBSERVED
IN GEORGIA MAY 1
SLOGAN WILL BE, “MAKE EV
ERY DAY CHILD HEALTH
DAY.”
Governor L. G. Hardman and fifty
Georgia mayors are expected to issue
proclamations calling attention to
May Day—May 1— as national “Child
Health Day,” and urging the people
of Georgia to observe the occasion ap
propriately at some time during the
last week in April or the first week
in May, it has been announced by of
ficials of the State Board of Health.
Dr. Joe P. Bowdoin, director of the
board’s division of maternity and in
fancy hygiene, is directing the observ
aance } n Georgia in so far as it
touches the health board, which is
sponsoring the state’s part in the af
fair. Mrs. C. A. Ver Nooy, Athens,
is chairman of the Georgia executive
committee arranging for state-wide
observance.
Nationally, the movement is being
sponsored by the American Child
Health Association, officials said, the
organization having mailed to a num
ber of ministers in Georgia printed
material on the subject to be used in
connection with sermons.
“Make Every Day Child Health
Day,” is the slogan to be used
throughout the country, Doctor Bow
doin said, adding that governors of
at least thirty-five states are expect
ed to assist in nation-wide observance
of May Day by issuing official pro
clamations. The annual observance
of “Child Health” day is five or six
years old, Doctor Bowdoin- said.
A resolution now pending in the
national House of Representatives
and already passed by the Senate, he
declared, would officially designate
May 1 each year as national “Child
Health Day.”
The creed of the observance as out
lined by Herbert Hoover in his
“Child’s Bill of Rights,” was given
as follows:
“The ideal to which we shall strive
is that there shall be no child in
America:
“That has not been born under
proper conditions.
“That does not live in hygenic sur
roundings.
“That ever suffers from under
nourishment.
“That does not have prompt and
efficient medical attention and in
spection.
“That does not receive primary
instruction in the elements of hygiene
Any other kind of business would
have quickly curtailed its service to
meet new conditions, but railroad
management cannot economize by
discontinuing service, even when that
service is not used. It must secure
permission from the state regulatory
agencies concerned, and permission
has been hard to get.
The railroads realize that if their
service is less satisfactory to the pub
lic than the motor bus or the automo
bile the roads will inevitably have to
drop out of the picture, so far as local
traffic is concerned.
The roads have the right, however,
to demand that competition be put
upon a fair basis and that commercial
motor busses shall be taxed and regu
lated in the same way as railroads.
The roads also have the right to
demand that they be allowed to con
duct their business on a businesslike
basis. Where they cannot compete
for traffic they should be allowed to
discontinue the unprofitable trains
they are now required to operate at
a loss that runs into startling totals.
Nobody knows what transportation
developments the next few years will
bring. Railroad passenger service
must stand or fall upon its merits.
But it is certain that the roads can
not continue to operate empty local
passenger trains, unless they, are al
lowed an increase in their rates on
other traffic that will compensate
them for the losses that such trains
involve.
CITY TAX BOOKS
NOW OPEN.
The city tax books are now
open fc: all property owners to
make their returns for 1928.
I want to urge everyone to
make their returns, so that there
will not be so much confusion
later on with the equalization
work.
Please attend to this matter
without delay.
MISS HATTIE MAULDIN,
City Clerk.
Miss M'-iry B. Greene of Cincinnati,
has completed 33 years of service as
a steambor.t czptam.
THE CAIRO MESSENGER F RIDAY, APRIL 27, 1928.
and good health.
" 1 hat has not the compete birth
right of a sound mind in a sound
body.
“That has not the encouragement
to express in fullest measure the
spirit within which is the final en
dowment of every human being.
Declining Passenger
Traffic.
By PUB. RELATIONS COM.,
A. C. L. Railway.
In spite of the tremendous develop
ment and the large increase in popu
lation in the southeast in recent
years, the Atlantic Coast Line in
1927 hauled almost 200,000 fewer
passengers than it did in 1903.
That fact emphasizes one of the
very serious problems with which rail
management is faced today. Raiiroad
passenger traffic is showing steady
and alarming decreases for which no
remedy has thus far been discovered.
In 1927 the revenue passenger
miles of the railroads were 5.1 per
cent less than in 1926 and were 28
per cent below the record level of
1920. “In fact,” says the Bureau of
Railway Economics, “one must turn
back to the year ended June 30, 1916,
to find a smaller aggregate demand
for passenger service than that of
1927. All of the increase that occur
red between 1916 and the peak in
1920 has now been gradually eaten
away by the various forms of compe
tition.”
' The principal competitors of the
railroads are the privately owned
automobiles and the motor bus, which
on account of their convenience, are
being used for local traffic, with little
regard for cost of transportation.
That the local passenger travel is
a think of the past is shown by the
fact that where in 1903 the distance
traveled by the average passenger on
the Atlantic Coast Line was aboutj
42.1 miles, in 1927, it was about 123
miles.
But whereas in 1923 the Atlantic
Coast Line handled its passenger
business by operating trains about 5
million miles, in 1927 it operated its
passenger trains about 10% million
miles.
That is to say, because of changed
conditions of travel it had to operate
its passenger trains more than twice
miles in order to handle 200,- i
as many
000 fewer passengers.
The reason was that while its local
passenger business had largely dis
appeared, it was forced, at a heavy
loss, to operate about the same local
trains as in 1903. The increase in
train mileage was necessary to take
care of the increasing through
travel.
PROSPECTS GOOD '
FOR CATTLE MEN
MEXICAN COWS IMPORTED AS
DEMANDS FOR AMERICAN
BEEF MOUNTS.
Much better conditions for the hog I
grower and a continuance of prosper
ity for sheepmen are seen by live
stock experts in the actual and im -'
pending cattle shortage.
They declare that it will be im
possible to supply the American mar
ket, with its 120 million consumers,
I'vith beef during the next few years I
and as the American people must)
have meat, a much stronger market 1
for pork products is indicated. In
this connection it is pointed out that
hog prices have already been ad
vancing in recent weeks and now
heavy packers are selling for eight l
cents a pound on the Moultrie market.;
South Georgia cattlemen are also
said to be fully cognizant of the situa
tion and are conserving every pos
sible calf showing beef breeding in
order to increase their herds. While
the hog market has been low for sev
eral months, beef cattle have been
commanding the highest prices they
have ever sold for at the stock yards
here and the industry gives greater
promise of becoming a big business
than it has at any time since the meat
packing plant began operation here
14 years ago, livestock men assert.
Cattle Shortage.
The present cattle shortage is said
to be due largely to the fact that
ranch men in the southwest were forc
ed two years ago to dispose of their
young’cows because they were un
able to secure of $12 to $13 per
head. Under conditions that have de
veloped meanwhile the cattle are in
demand at $40 to $60 per head.
Information received by livestock
interests here shows that there are
thousands of square miles of good
grazing lands in the Southwest on
which nb cattle are feeding. A crop
of calves should be coming along to
supply the tremendous demand for
feeding cattle already is evidence and
certain to continue for many years,
experts insist.
To relieve the situation in a limited
way, common Mexican cattle are be
ing brought across the border by the
load, regardless of the tariff.
are the kind of animals that
not been seriously considered
the ranchmen a few years ago, but
it is said to be “any kind of a.
in a storm.”
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