The Henry
County Weekly
By J. A. FOUCHE.
Entered at the postoffice at McDon
ough, Ga,, as second class mail matter.
Advertising Rates 15c per inch, posl
sltion 6c additional —special contracts.
Official Organ of Henry County.
McDonough, Ga., Feb. 14,1919.
They beat us, by hec.
To a finish, be gosh.
We are through, amen.
Here’s to the Georgia pig clubs.
Fall in love with your wbrk and
succeed.
Home supplies are the salva
tion of the south.
Education which unfits a man
for honest labor is unsound.
Give a hungry man something
to eat before handing him advice.
Edison says it is easier to im
prove machinery than to improve
men. _
Georgia pig clubs raised half a
million dollars’ worth of hogs in
1918, it is stated.
The farmers can easily avoid
the high prices by raising their
own foodstuffs, but the city man
has to come across with more
money or grow thin.
Plant plenty of food and feed
crops this spring, and quit worry
ing about the price of cotton. The
farmer is still in the saddle and if
he wishes he can remain there.
“This is intoxicating weather,”
says the Greensboro Herald-Jour
nal. Fellow over here says he
wishes you would send him a
good size shipment of it. He
says he needs something of that
character. —Columbus Enquirer-
Sun.
The old time man that used to
pray by the almanac has caught
the Drogressive spirit and prays
by his paper.—Greensboro Her
ald-Journal. And still there are
some men who think the county
paper is only good enough to
swear at. —Marietta Journal.
There is much talk nowadays
about the old time mother. They
have long since passed awav.
Those old time mothers could
cook any kind of dish that came
along, sew on buttons, weave
cloth, cut garments out, and also
make them. She did not allow
her daughters to ride out at night
with young men and very seldom
in the daytime. Neither did she
allow them out in company with
low-neck and short-sleeve dresses.
Her daughters did’nt use burglar
slang or attend immodest shows.
It seems that the modern boys
and girls are drifting to the hot
country and that there is no old
fashioned mother to put on the
brakes. —John E. Finch in Greens
boro Herald-Journal.
War Revenue Bill
Taxes Everything
The conference report on the
six billion dollar war revenue bill
was presented to the house las!
Thursday by Chairman Kitchen,
of the ways and means committee.
The bill taxes almost every
thing. In addition to raising
about six billion dollars fn taxes,
it gives every soid'er, sailor, ma
rine and nurse in the American
forces a bonus of sixty dollars
upon the occasion of their dis
charges.
The normal income tax for 1918
starts at six per cent for incomes
up to four thousand and goes on
up in proportion until twelve per
cent is reached.
After 1918 the normal tax is
four per cent on incomes up to
four thousand and eight per cent
on those over four thousand.
The bill will be pushed in both
the house and senate for early
consideration.
It is said that ten thousand
Americans are reported missing in
the casualty lists, three months
after the close of the war. These
men are unaccounted for in any
way by the army authorities.
The Cotton Prophets.
If boosting can do any good
cotton should have been selling at
35 or 40 cents several weeks ago.
Senator Hoke Smith, Commission
er of Agriculture Brown, Dan J.
Sully (New York cotton gambler),
and divers other notables in va
rious parts of the country who
claim to know what they are talk
ing about, have assured the farm
ers time and again that all they
have to do to force the price up
to the figure named is to swing
on to their holdings a few weeks
longer. Day after day for the
past two months the farmer has
been fed up on this sort of advice,
until he has reached a point where
he is beginning to do some think
ing for himself. He realizes that
mere talk is not getting him any
where, and is losing faith in the
promises of the cotton prophets.
He has a growing suspicion that
there is something dead up the
creek. He hasn’t been able to
locate it, but he knows it is there.
Meanwhile the mills are holding
off from the market, a number
have closed down on account of a
lack of orders, and still others be
cause of the demands of striking
operatives for shorter hours and
increased wages.
Taken altogether the situation
is serious —so serious, indeed, as
to be depressing—and not even
the rosy predictions of the proph
ets afford much comfort to the
farmer with cotton on hand and
with only a wobbly market upon
which to build his hopes for bet
tered conditions. In this situa
tion it is a brash man who would
undertake to advise the farmer
what is best to do in the circum
stances, and the problem is one
which The Herald is inclined to
pass along to Dan Sully, Commis
sioner Brown and Senator Smith.
If we were to advise either to hold
or to sell, and the market should
suddenly take a turn in the oppo
site direction, our farmer friends
would talk about us say we
didn’t have any sense, and make
other unfeeling remarks.
We do know one thing; the
farmer wants 35 cents for his cot
ton, and everybody is hoping that
he will get his price. A million
dollars tied up in cotton waiting
on the eccentric antics of a mer
curial market, as is the case in
Newnan, is a pretty big load to
carry, both for the farmer and for
the business community.—New
nan Herald.
HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McPONOUGH, GEORGIA
Crop Diversification.
Never before in the history of
the south has the attention of our
farmers been more clearly direct
ed to the danger of the one crop
system. It is the opinion of near
ly eyery close student of market
ing conditions that it would be
better for southern farmers to
permit 30 per cent of their land to
remain idle during 1919 rather
than to plant the usual crop in
cotton. Every farmer in the
south should take this as a per
sonal matter to himself and fully
realize if he does not reduce his
cotton acreage, he is deliberately
placing himself in the path of dis
aster. The time is past when a
farmer can console himself with
the reflection : “My neighbors
are going to cut their acreage and
1 will increase mine and reap the
harvest of high prices.” The
proposition each individual farmer
should consider at this date is :
Shall I prepare for disaster and
by preparation anticipate and de
feat it? The only possible prep
aration is the reduction of acreage
in cotton, and the increase in the
acreage of foodstuffs. You are
fighting as bloodless and un
scrupulous business as has ever
attempted to control and throttle
the industry of a country. You
can whip them, and can whip
them only by decreasing cotton
acreage and increasing food acre
age. —State Bureau of Markets.
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