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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 10, 1909)
Henry County Weekly. R. L. JOHNSON. Editor. Entered at the pestoffice at McDon ough aa second class mall matter. Advertising Rates: SI.OO per Inch per month. Reduction on standing oontracts by special agreement. The wqges of sin, declares the Chi cago News, are promptly paid by wo men but men try to repudiate the debt. It is a good deal easier to get a reputation for being a good fellow, thinks the Dallas Netvs, than to keep it up. When a man admires a woman, ex plains the Philadelphia Record, she always In turn admires him for his good taste. A man and woman that have less Bense than a rat about eating are natural-born fools, out of the line of nature’s religion, blessings and suc cession ,and the sooner they and theirs go to the limbo of fools, the better, shouts the New York Press. Whether "whisky” is whisky or not, ii a grocer or butcher or fishmonger ever does dirt to fool you cut him dead and tell all your friends. Id the line of evolution all who do not meet the common, sense and common senses, requirements for survival much perish in spite of all laws and paternalism. It Is gratifying, for the Chicago Tri bune, to note that the officials of the American Automobile association have gone on record as opposed to any further races or 260 or 300 miles until tho conditions permitted in the past are radically changed. The kill ing of five people at Indianapolis was decisive. The dangers which have been discovered are to be minimized if not entirely removed. No driver will be permitted to engage in a long contest without careful physical ex amination, nor will one be allowed to drive a car the whole distance in the case of races of several hundred miles. Furthermore, when drivers are changed, time will be taken for thor ough inspection of the condition of the racing machines, to be made by experts. Under the most favorable circumstances automobile racing con tests are certain to be attended by great danger. The rate of speed is ex cessive. The excitement of contest makes one forgetful of restraints. The chance of a break in the machinery or of a momentary loss of control is ever present. Death keeps near by, ready to grasp any one of many op portunities to manifest his presence. There have been too many killings in these races as they have been con ducted. The slaughter at Indiauapolis should remain the limit in the records of motor racing. A lieutenant, writing in a London newspaper and treating of the status of officers, says that the explanation of the shortage of officers and the falling off of applications for admis sion to Sandhurst is found in the fact that the army as a profession "does not pay,” bluntly speaking. It is, to quote a British authority, “a preposterous profession,” if the pay is compared with the Investment. The writer asks in what other profession would he, a well educated man of 32, after an expenditure of SIO,OOO capi tal and 12 years service or experi ence, be expected to be contented with a "salary” of $2 a day? Answer i s not easy, and apparently none is at tempted beyond the vague assurance of a minister that the government hopes at some time to give the whole subject of officers’ pay consideration. The reference by this British subal tern to the expenditure of capital is enlightening as to the difference ex isting between the method of officer ing the army in his country and in ours, remarks the Boston Transcript. Not only do we pay officers a wage calculated with some reference to the expenses which the service entails, but we pay young men to go through the four years’ course at West Point In Gjieat Britain the exactly opposite policy is followed. The cadet at Sand hurst pays for the instruction he re ceives. GAMBLING IN COTTON Government to Investigate New York Cotton Exchange. REVEALS CROOKED DEALINGS That Farmers and Spinners Are Both Defrauded Is Proven By Facts Presented By Government Washington, D. C.—Gambling on a stupendous scale; gambling which plays fast and loose with weaitn which it does not produce; exploita tion of friend and foe to make gamb lers’ profits; reckless manipulation of a great crop for personal gains; eva sion of speculative risks while taking speculative profits, are some of the unsavory practices shown to exi3t on the New York cotton exchange in a report just issued by Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner of corporations of the department of commerce and labor. While the commissioner does not undertake to denounce in detail these practices he shows them up in glaring light in parts four and live of tue gov ernment report on cotton exchanges. That the New York cotton excnauge is more dangerous than a bucket shop, because patronized by the non speculative public engaged in grow ing and spinning cotton —men who would not be caught dead in a bucket shop; and because of its widely de moralizing effect upon the cotton in dustry, its depression of prices to cheat the producers, and its uneco nomic plan of “fixed differences’’ which defraud merchants and lhanu facturers who wish to “hedge” in or der to avoid speculative chances, is shown in an absolutely convincing way in the latest disclosures. That the New York exchange is playing both ends for the benefit of the middlemen, defrauding the farm ers and cheating the purchaser, is proven beyond question by the facts and figures presented in Commission er's Smith’s report. This report has been in course of preparation for the past two years. The investigation into the exchanges of the country was originally under taken under a resolution introduced by Representative L. F. Livingston of Georgia and Albert Burleson of Tex as. Three parts of the report have already been published. Parts four and five are now in the hands of the public printer, and a summary haß been given out for publication. In view of the startling disclosure.* made, and the widespread baneful ef feet of exchange practices upon the cotton industry of the country, Pres ident Taft has directed a careful in vestigation by the department of jus tice into the case with the view to criminal prosecutions under the Sher man anti-trust law. If that law is not sufficient to cover the offense, the president will ask congress for addi tional legislation under which the ex change gambling can be reached and stopped, and guilty parties punished MODEL OF PRIMITIVE MAN. Professor Lull of Yale Bases It on Remains and Relics. New Haven, Conn. The model representing the full size restoration of the primitive man partly idealized, but based mainly on the remains and relics of the primitive man found in various parts of the world, chiefly in Europe, has been made by R. S. Lull, professor of vertebrae paleontology in Yale University. The restoration is of the gorilla type, about 5 feet 6 inches high, a stooping frame, bowed at the thigh's with large feet and hands and long arms, great muscular development, the lower part of the head and face somewhat refined, but the upper head of a low development and the whole an intermediate link between man and ape. The restoration is said to be the first of paleontology in Yale University. FIGHTINGTHTwoBD "HEBREW.” Jewish Societies Object to Designa tion in Immigrant Reports. Washington, D. C.— Appealing to the immigration commission for an elimination of the designation of “He brew” in the immigrant reports, Si mon Wolf, representing various Jew ish societies, and Julius W. Mack, of Chicago, appearing for the Immi grants’ Protection League, addressed the commission in favor of their con tention. They both claimed that the desig nation “Hebrew” was religious in its nature and had no place in the re ports of immigrants coming here. They desired Jews to be known as Germans, Russians or other nation alities, according to the country from which they came. “DRY” GOVERNORS TO MEET. Call is Issued by Gov. W. R. Stubbs * of Kansas . Topeka, Kans. Governor W. R. Stubbs has sent letters to governors of prohibition and local option states initiating a movement for stricter en forcement of the federal revenue laws applying to liquor. Governor Stubbs’ plan is for the governors to unite in a protest to congress against conditions which he alleged in a formal letter to the pres ident exist in Kansas —failure of fed eral collectors to post revenue lax licenses in conspicuous places and failure to prosecute “bootleggers who pay their licenses when appre bended. GOOD TEAR FOR FARMER. 1909 Most Prosperous of All Years in Agriculture. Washington, D. C. —Secretary Wll** son, of the department of agricul ture, in his annual report Just issued, says the farmer prospered more in 1909 than in any previous year. “Most prosperous of all years is the place to which 1909 is entitled in agriculture,” is the way the secre tary puts it. The value of farm pro ducts was $8,760,000,000, a gain of $869,000,000 over the preceding year. Of great popular interest are the results of a unique investigation con ducted by the department, which shows that in fifty cities tne total retail cost charged to consumers for beef above the wholesale cost paid by the retailers averaged 38 per cent. The lower the grade of beef, the greater the percentage of gross profit. In the upward movement ot beef prices, the farmer, the report says, nas not shared equally with the packer, retailer and wholesaler; but as to hogs, the case is different, the larme-r receiving his fair snare of the higher prices or pork in the increased price of his unfed hogs. Secretary Wilson notes a great for ward movement in enforcing the food and drug acts, the willingness of man ufacturers to comply with the laws and to co-operate with tne depart ment making the work largely edu cational. Secretary Wilson says in part: ’Eleven years of agriculture, be ginning with a production of $4,417,- 000 and ending with $7,760,000. A sum of $70,000,000,000 for the period It has paid off mortgages, it has es tablished banks, it has made better homes, it has helped to make the farmer a citizen of the world, and It has provided him with means for im proving hiss oil and making it more productive. “The most striking fact in the world’s agriculture is the value of the corn crop for 1909, which is about $1,720,000,000. It nearly equals the value of the clothing and personal adornments of 76,000,000 people, ac cording to the census of 1900. The gold and silver coin and bullion of the United States are not of greater value. It haß grown up from the soil and out of the air in one hundred and twenty days—sl6,ooo,ooo a day for one crop, nearly enough for two dreadnaughta daily for peace or war. This crop exceeded in value the aver age of the crops of the five preceding years by 36 per cent. “Cotton is now the Becond crop in value, and this year’s cotton crop 1b easily the most valuable one of the farmer that has been produced. With cotton line selling at 13.7 cents on the farm November 7 and with cot ton seed selling for about $25 per ton, the lint and seed of this crop are worth about $850,'>00,000 to the farmer. No cotton crop since 1873 has been Bold by farmers for as high a price per pound as this one.” TRANSPORT DIXIE SAILS. There Are 700 Marines on Board the Cruiser. Philadelphia, P. The transport Dixie, with the 70 marines and all the equipment transferred from the stranded transport Prairie, passed out to sea on her way to Central Amer ica. Admiral Kimball and the ma rines who are bound for Colon, and may possibly be sent to Nicaragua, are three days behind the schedule set by the navy department. UTENtWsYuitT General. The department of state is advised by the British ambassdor that in con sequence of representations made to the governor of Jamaica as to the prevalence of rabies among dogs in the United States an order has been issued prohibiting the importation of dogs into Jamaica from the United States and the Republic of Panama, including the canal zone. Partly as a result of now economlo conditions and partly as a result of those causes which brought about the curtailment movement among the cotton mills in the south, a silent but widespread and general revolu tion is setting in among southern manufacturers that may have the ef fect of the determination of manufac turers to make finer goods in both yarns and in cottons. This will be of value, because it will reduce the out put of coarse yarns. On the other hand, the better grade of goods and the finer yarns will bring to the pro ducer quicker buyers and better prices. Washington. Under a recent ruling of the com missioner of internal revenue, drug gists who put up alcoholic medicinal compounds must pay a special tax as rectifiers if the compounds are not sufficiently medicated so as to be un suitable for use as a beverage. Louis Greenberg, a diminutive New York newsboy, came to Wash ington to see the president. The boy was plainly disappointed when told that the president, who was at a cab inet meeting, was too busy to see him, and declared he would remain here until he does see the president. "You see,” he said, “I have already met such prominent gentlemen as Mr. Jeffries and Mr. Gotch. I also want to meet Mr. Taft.” A proposal that the government shall enter suit against the state of Colorado to recover the value of thir ty-five thousand acres of mineral land, which, it is alleged, passed into state control through misrepresenta tion, is under consideration by the department of justice. Do You Get Up With a Lame Back? Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable. Almost everyone knows of Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and H .. _ bladder remedy, be- 1 1 cause of its remark g 11 a^ie restoring £ L* properties. Swamp - b R OOI fulfills almost „ y ,r>7 every wish in over- I f fjH coming rheumatism, , )§=\, | ||l[ pain in the back, kid- f < .'ff = ', u[jji neys, liver, bladder 1, 3 r and every part of the f]_ urinary passage. It • corrects inability to hold water and scalding pain in passing it, or bad effects f ollowing use of liquor, wine or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant necessity of being compelled to go often through the day, and to get up many times during the night. Swamp-Root is not recommended for everything but if you have kidney, liver or bladder trouble, it will be found just the remedy you need. It has been thor oughly tested in private practice, and has proved so successful that a special ar rangement has been made by which all readers of this paper, who have not al ready tried it, may have a sample bottle sent free by mail, also a book telling more about Swamp-Root, and how to findoutif vouhavekid neyor bladder trouble. When writingmention reading this generous SUUSSSESa offer in this paper and send your address to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Homs c l owamp-Root* Binghamton, N. Y. The regular fifty-cent and one-dollar size bottles are sold by all druggists. Don’t make any mistake but remember the name, Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, and the ad dress, Binghamton, N. Y., on every bottle. Engines AND BOILERS Rw, L*n an* Shlasla Mills, lajaatara. atM an* RtUtn, Wood law*, Spltiur*. •Salt*. Fallaya, f*Uln*. OaaoUna lngtaaa. LOMBARD, fmd4b ImMn m 4 Nils Wife mi tuppdy lb* AUAUSTA. SA. Kennedy’s Laxative Cough Syrup Relieves Colds by working them out of the system through a copious and healthy action of the bowels. Relieves coughs by cleansing the mucous membranes of the throat, chest and bronchial tubes. “As pleasant to the taste as Maple Sugar” Children Like It* For BACKACHE—WEAK KIDNEYS Try DeWltt's Kidney and Bladder Pills —Sure and Safe Weak Kidneys Backache, Lumbago and Rheumatism immediately relieved by Pineules Delays are dangerous. There is no more common complaint than Kidney complaint. Nature always gives due wam ing and failure to /■vvheed same may \ iml result in Diabetes, \ f Lumbago, Bright’s A-qi Jy Disease, or some other "Jr serious affection of the BT / Kidneys. A trial will Jk convince you they are unequaled. Pine -1 ules are quickly ab- BnV. \ sorbed and readily / but naturally elimin- I m I ate poisons due to dis- I i/ organed condition oi 141 I Kidneys and Bladder. They purify the blood and are a tonic to the entire system. Do not suffer from Backache, Lumbago, Rheumatism or Kidney and Bladder trouble when you can get Pineules. Two Bizes. tl.oo and 50 cents. The dojlar siz« eon tains 2i times aa much as the 50 cent size. Pineule Medicine Company Chicago, U.S. A. Z. D. Ward, Stocfcbridge. Horten Drug Co. GEORGIANS PROSPERING Bulging Vaults of State Banks Show Prosperity. $100,000,000 ON DEPOSIT Bank Statements Show a Gain of Ona Hundred Per Cent in Cash Wealth. Result of 15 Cent Cotton. Atlanta, Ga.—ln approximately 500 state banks doing business in Geor gia today, there is deposited to the credit of Georgians nearly $100,000,- 000, an Increase in deposit accounts of more than 100 per cent in twelve months. A splendid illustration of the dif ference between 9 and 15-cent cot ton; This marvelous increase in actual cash wealth in the state is indicated in the official bank statements show ing the condition of the Georgia banks at the close of business on November 16, the majority of which have been received in the office of State Treas urer and State Bank Examiner J. Pope Brown. The last official statement of 1908 bore the date of November 27 some ten days later than that of the state ment called for this year, but tne dates are close enough to admit of interesting comparison. The total deposits in state banks November 27, 1908, were $46,970,- 609.68. The accurate figures for 1909 wil not be available for several weeks yet, as all of the statements have not yet been received, and the compila tion of them is a tremendous work after they are all in hand. But from the figures furnished the bank examiner it has been found that the total deposits subject to check in 128 state banks, about one-fourth of the entire number, aggregate $25,717, 053. These 128 banks were selected at random, and each of them is in a different Georgia county; so it will be seen that the state's prosperity is widespread and general. Upon the basis of these figures, which do not include deposits in the shape of time certificates, amounting to a considerable sum, it is apparent that the total deposits in Georgias state banks will reachHhe figure stat ed —nearly $100,000,0#. In adidtion to the foregoing Geor gia has about 110 national banks. In 1908, November 27, the total deposits in these national banks approximated S3O 000,000. There is every indication that their deposits have increased in like proportion, and that the total cash deposits in Georgia today, or upon November 16, to be more accu rate, aggregated the magnificent sum of $160,000,000. In other words, Georgians have just about twice as much available cash today as they had twelve months ago, all of which is a remarkable tribute to the agricultural productivity of the state. This growth is not confined to any one section. The bank Whose depos its do not show a heatlhy increase take it wherever you will in the state, is a rarity. Naturally, however, the greatest percentage of increase is found in some sections of South Georgia, where crops met with no un favorable conditions, and there was a full yield of cotton ready for the mar ket at highest cash price. GEORGIA LEADS. This State Holds the Palm for Illicit Distilling. Washington, D. C.—The annual re port of the commissioner of internal revenue discloses almost startling facts bearing on the prohibition law, which is supposed to be in effect in Georgia. This report furnishes the very interesting information that the federal government through the bu reau of internal revenue, issued re tail liquor license for the fiscal year ending June 30 of the present year to 1,091 dealers. But this is not all. la prohibition Georgia the report dis closes the fact that 18 wholesale li quor dealers’ licenses were issued dur ing the past year. A resort to the records of the com missioner of internal revenue shows that there has been comparatively lit tle diminution in the issuance of fed eral license for the dispensation of booze since the operation of state wide prohibition. In 1907, which was prior to the enactment of the state prohibition law, the number of retail liquor dealers licensed by the federal government numbered 1,427, and the wholesalers were 105. In that year the retailers of malt liquor authoi ized to do business in the state were only 207. Prohibition laws seem to make this class of wet goods dispen sers thrive. Last year the retail malt liquor dealers authorized to do busi ness in the state had reached the grand total of 1,521. From a group of 207 to more than 1,500 within a period of two years iB surely going some. But the 18 wholesale liquor dealers and the 1,091 retailers, who made a mockery of prohibition in Georgia latt year, do not tell the whole story. The report of the commissioner of infer nal revenue discloses the fact that two grain distilleries were registered in the state last year, and, in addi tion, one more was operated. Georgia holds the palm for illicit distilling, while North Carolina runs a close second. In Georgia last year 394 illicit distilleries were seized and 623 destroyed. In North Carolina were seized and 374 destroyed. Ala bama is third in the race, with 173 seized and 231 destroyed. There were 24 registered distilleries reported foci seizure in North Carolina.
