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money to loan
On Farm Lands
and City Property
Joseph Law
Attorney-at-Law
Waynesboro Georgia
FIELD CROPS BALANCED
WITH STOCK RAISING IN
BESTING BOLL WEEVIL
Farmers ol Houston County, Alaba
ma So Diversify Agricultural Ac
f rities That Cotton Is Purely a
M rnlus Crop— Over-Winter Weeyll
tin'll Be Health MS itli —Adult Pests
Which Vppear Early in Season Pick
P d Off by Hand. _ialks With Dirt
Farmers.
, Rv James A. Holloman, Staff Cor
respondent Atlanta Constitution,
and published in The True Citizen
T)v courtesy of The Constitution*)
XL
Dothan, Ala* February 3.—There
arf few more prosperous counties in
southeast Alabama than Houston, and
while ten or ewelve thousand bales of
cotton are raised here every year
profitably, in spite of the boll weevil
♦he healthy financial condition of the
farmers is due, first to balancing;
field cropping with stock growing,
and second, to so diversifying agricul
tural activities that cotton is made
purely a surplus crop.
By this having cut old-time cotton
acreage to one-fourth, or one-half, at
most in sporadic instances, then farm
ers are enabled to intensify In cotton
cultivation, thus running, under oth
er normal conditions, a successful
race with the boll weevil.
There are “on years” and "off
vears” in cotton growing even under
intense cultural methods, and it must
not be assumed that the boll weevil
is the only enemy a cotton planter
has to contend with.
I have endeavored to make clear
throughout this series that direct con
trol of the boll weevil, even by cal
cium arsenate will not of itself make
cotton.
On the other hand, intense culti
vation will not of itself, independent
of direct control, successfully make
cotton in the event of a wet, humid
July and August. A wet summer will
create anywhere in the belt, a weevil
infestation that can be controlled in
part by intense cultivation, but not
to a point of a genuinely successful
yield. That is why I have discussed
cotton farming from the basic stand
point always of normal conditions.
We cannot assume that condition,s in
any locality .will be other tjpan nor
mal; and yet frequently they are.
Tfifneev 1 say every well organized
farmer will be prepared to meet by
direct control the weevfil problem,,
when weather conditions necessarily
make indirect control less efficient.
I don’t thing there can be any argu
ment ch the soundness of such a con
dition.
Winter Fight on Weevli Found io Be
Essential.
In this section where the weevil
has been mastered only by radically
reducing the cotton acreage; by in
tensely cultivating the smaller ac
reage thus planted and by putting
the major acreage of each farm into
pastures, grains, hay, peanuts, and so
on. those farmers who are getting the
largest yields from their cotton fields
begin to fight the weevil for a nen
suing year immediately after the cot
ton is picked—just as early as prac
ticable in the fall.
They begin by turning the old stalks
under. This furnishes potash to the
soil—something that the light lands
of the peanut growing sections es
pecially need. It is estimated that the
potash given to the soil in this sec
tion every year by this operation is
worth not less than $5 an acre, figur
ed commercially and in cold dollars.
There are some sections, many in
Georgia, where turning the stalks
under in fall is perhaps impracticable
There are some farmers who cannot
possibly do so. But in the light lands
It is far better to thus get the benefit
of the potash than to buy it, and, of
course, to do so the stalks must be
urned under in the fall. There is no
question about the importance of this
m re dncing weevil hiberation on the
specific farm.
A factor in contending with the
" is big open fields. It recogniz
es the over-wintered weevil as a cbn
u.ling factor in successfully grow
ng cotton in spite of him. It is in
!\ lls !e S ar d, too,, in which the progress
,e ' niton grower of this section has
,! ed. He rotates his crops, keeps
*' and drained, and if he expects
t jeat tlie weevil he plants his cot
u on fields segregated from the
f ° oas - ol d stumps, dead trees, hedges
»h ,3; ,. etc - this plan he finds
tmii ln v. Ula infest -ation small and con
oiiah'o, as compared to the infesta
-8 n. 4 , !Ii tbe same vicinity—where
f H’>if:u taS have been omitted by the
Again the farmer who beats the
eliiiiinqT 'L m theSe Partß, begins t 0
hefir ! ■ 11111 frora the fields when
buds t 0 a PP ea r in the plant
r h ,‘ r orl *y after the chopping.
infps, a ,V Said time and again, serious
Jun P n ? , is liabl * t 0 develop in
weevit ! wben tbe first crop of
maturit/ Bpringß for tbe seas on reach
tack thl fr aDd - emerge ready to. at
ture ti, fmm ? g squares, or to punc
howeve. S, W 1 bclls ' Th « a«»lU
ter t. 4; , llve trough the win
first turn 0 a PP ear when the cotton
first S s t 0 buil ; therefore, the
by the t, aS succe ssfully practiced
the > h | 8 bere * S P^ him
an d to rn Jl l d as much as practicable,
keep him Fa ? Kl plowing ' so as to
Push the !n^ ned under as w ell as to-
Lure win ton abead as fast as na
ui carry it.
winter !Li s obvi °ue that the «ver
with -and wim ~m ust be reckoned
Va sion of 4 « V lllß keeping the in
in the season 6 T 6l ' 19 by adults early
bicable thp down as much as prac
destroy th _ ex ste P. of course, is to
i R prac Sf ng lnVaderS aS
Dri gressivvr ° ! i f >n 1 nd that the more
farmers, each season,
Volume 40.
OVERSTREETS PLAN
TO AID THE FARMER
Introduces Bill to Extend Dediscount
I rivileges. To Farm Loan Bonds.
Declares Measure Would Speedily
Improve Condition. 3
Washington, D. C., March 13.—Con
gressman J. W. Overstreet today in
troduced the following bill to extend
rediscount privileges to farm loan
bonds.
Any bank of tke federal reserve
system may buy or sell farm loan
bonds, any member of banks of said
system may accept time drafts against
a deposit of such bonds as securitiy;
acceptances of a member bank thus
made or the direct obligation of such
band, maturing within ninety days
when accompanied by farm loan bonds
as collateral , feminity not fees $n
face value than the amount of such
direct obligation, shall be eligible for
discount by any federal reserve bank”
In commenting upon the bill Mr
Overstreet said:
“ Ihave discussed the merits of this
bill with a number of bankers and
financiers, and they can nsee nothing
unsound or impractical in the propo
sition. You see that would create im
mediately a demand for the bonds by
the banks and by investors generally
and open an unlimited field. People
could put their money in these bonds
and it could draw interest ; banks
could put their secondary reserve
and have that draw interest, because
they know they could take this paper
secured by these bonds and obtain eir
culating notes from the federal re
serve band when needed. And if you
help the farmer by lending him what
money he needs you help everybody
else and conditions would he speedily
improved.”
picks the wilted squares from the
ground—and burn they! They have
found It pays.
Successful Dirt Farmers Relate
Their Methods
Perhaps the largestt cotton plan
ters in this county are Spann Broth
ers—formerly South Carolinians, and
subsequently turpentine operators in
Florida. These men, both of whom
have been practical dirt farmers for
a score cr more of years, are hard
workers, personally overseing every
acre of their vast farming interests
They know how to manage labor, and
on the operated by tenants the
latter are given leases only on the
condition that they shall follow to the
letter the cultural methods that are
to be given them. Farming is made
just, as much of a business, wdith sys
tematic methods, as is the hardware
business of these men in the city of
Dothan—or as is their banking in
tercuts. '
Spann Brothers had approximately
450 acres in cotton in 1921 —a small
acreage as compared to their gross
aereagt under the cultivation ?f var
ious held crops.
They reduced the old-time acreage
to approximately ten acre to a plow
They, assigned the labor on a basis
of intense cultivation. They rode the
cotton fields just as they did their
“crops of boxes” when turpentining
in the yellow pine forests of Florida.
They saw that every detail of their
program for winning the race with
the weevil was carried out. They
won!
Said M. S. Spann, the senior of
the firm, to me—
“We begin in the early fall to turn
ing under the stalks. That feeds pot
ash and helps reduce weevli hiberna
tion in the field.s It pays from a ferti
lizing standpoint.
“As quickly as practicable after
Christmas we begin breaking the cot
ton land, selecting only the best soils
available, usually lands recently plant
ed to velvet beans, always selecing
those lands that are free from hiber
nating enviornments. We cut it
thoroughly and harrow it so that the
land is practically pulverized. We
prepare the seed beds with every care
and fertilize well, but not extrava
gantly. We usually compose suffi
ciently to broadcast 200 acres at least
We use nitrate in the drill, also feed
nitrate of soda and phosphoric acid
as the plant grows and cultivation
progresses. The amount depends up
on the soil conditions. We mix our
own fertilizers.
“We get .the seed in as early as is
safe—early bearing varieties, usual
ly selecting the prolifis big boll varie
ties. We make every effort to get
a stand at the first planting. We chop
hoe-width leaving one and two plants
to the bill. We then begin a system
of intense cultivation wet or dry and
continue it until the cotton is ready
to begin picking. In the meantime
we pick the adult weevil from the
buds, and later,, when the infestation
gets heavy, we pick the infected and
fallen"squares and burn them. We
cultivate light, of course, in the last
few weeks when the staple is forming
but if anything we make the opera
tions faster.
“We make a bale an acre easily on
a great deal of our land; and aver
aged last year around 300 to 350
pounds of lint throughout our entire
cotton lands, tenanted and all.
“Of course, some tenants will not
be as aggressive as others, work with
them as as best one may ,and it is
this class that brings the general av
erage cn large operations down.
Where the program I have outlined,
however, was industriously followed
in 1921 we made from three-quarters
to a full bale an acre right along.”
Summary of the Rules for Success.
It is unnecessary to quote any eth
er dirt farmers in this county, though
I talked with several who grow cot
ton just as successfully as do the
Spann Brothers, but on a smaller.,
scale
Small acreage; intense cultivation;
liberal fertilization; control, of the
winter weevil by clean farms and
fields segregated fro mwoodland and
from stumps and dead trees; rotation
drainage—a fast race from the break
ing of the land to the picking of the
staple, plus a weel planned campaign
for direct weevil control in the event
of a wet summer, these are the met
ods and the only methods that male
cotton growing under boll weevil con
ditions profitable.
©lje ©rue CilnetL
AUGUSTA ENUUBSES AN
ELEVATOR AT ROUSING
MEETING m TUESDAY
Corporation of Richmond Agriculture
Men to Be Formed.— Organization
to-operative—FTour, Corn, Feed
Mill and Sweet Spud House to Be
Built.
Augusta, Ga,, March 14.—Unani
mous endorsement was made by the
farm bureau of the plan submitted
by W. M. Nixon, for the building of a
grain elevator, flour, corn and feed
mill and sweet potato house at Au
gusta. A corporation is to be orga
nized and capitalized between $150,-
and $200,000
According to the plans discussed at
the meeting, each farmer in the coun
ty will be urged to take some stock
in the corporation, and the board of
directors will be composed of a stock
holder from each militia district in
the county.
The company will store grain and
potatoes for the farmers of Richmond
and other counties, or buy their pro
duce outright, or if desired, will ad
vance 80 per cent of the market
value of the produce at the time it is
delivered at the plant. This will fur
nish a ready money market for the
farmers and will afford those who do
not care to sell their produce at once
a safe place to store it, whi *li means
T ha«: det notation wiil i,>? greatly re
duced, and will at the same time place
it where it. can be graded and sold at
once )f the owr/;c so cos res. a: the
best price the market affords at that
time.
It is understood that a number of
very wealthy men in Augusta are
backing the project, but are anxious
to make the organization a co opera
tive affair to the extent of getting
every farmer in the county to take
stock, if no more than one share, in
the corporation.
JUDGE HAMMOND TO RETIRE
Augusta, Ga., March 11.—Judge
Henry ? C. Hammond, known through
out the South for his humor and
ability as an orator, will not be a
candidate to succeed himself as judge
of the superior court of Augusta cir
cuit, embracing Richmond, Burke,
McDuffie arid Columbia counties.
Solicitor General A. L. Franklin
will offer for the t?ench, and it Is un
derstood he will not be opposed.
Detroit-Augusta Play in Waynesboro 29th;
Cobb, Barnes, Heilman, Ball in the Line-up .
Arrangements were completed this
week by the committee appointed by
the American Legion at its last meet
ing to confer with Ty C'obb regard
ing a game of base ball in Waynes
boro. The Detroit team will play the
Augusta team a game in Waynesboro
on Wednesday March, 29th. Cobb,
Sammy Barnes and other notables of
this great American team will be seen
in action on the Waynesboro diamond
The game is under the auspices of the
American Legion and full details
will be given next week.
“For the Land’s Sake 55 Use
R.g. U. S Pat. OH.
AMERICAN
COE-MORTIMER
BOWKER
FERTILIZERS
Built up to a standard—not down to a price
dry and drillable
J. H. MACKENZIE
Waynesboro, Ga.
Courteous Service
* •
The American Agricultural Chemical Ccl* Atlanta, Ga.
Waynesboro, Ga., March 18. 1922
ROTARIANS TO
MEETING MARCH 23D.
More Than 600 Expected at Conven
tion In Savannah. Social Features
Stressed.
Savannah, Ga., March 14.—1 t is as
sured that more than six hundred Ro
tarians from the various cities and
town in the three states comprising
the eighth district—Georgia, Alaba
ma and Florida, will be in attendance
upon the convention to be held in Sa
vannah next w r eek, March 3 and 24,
Business sessions, to be sure, will be
held, but the demonstration of the
spirit of Rotary in conferences and
social features will be uppermost.
Two “model Rotary luncheons’’ will
be held each day—each at a different
place. Friday night the district gov
ernor’s luncheon at the De Soto will
be the chief event of the convention,
John Turner, of Tampa, is district
governor.
The most notable guest of the con
ference will be A S. (Bert) Adams
of Atlanta, past president of the In
ternational Association of Rotary
Clubs, who will be accompanied by
Billy Coppock, of Council Bluffs,
lowa, second vice president of the in
ternaticnal association. Other past
district governors and international
officers to be present are: R. D.
Quisenberry, Montgomery; Judge Mai
colm Jones, Macon; John H. Gay,
Jacksonville; Truman McGill, Selma,
Dick Smith, Atlanta and others.
A feature of Friday will he an ad
dress by Dr. Charles F. Barker on A
Father’s Duty to His Son. Dr. Bar
ker was personal physician of Presi
dent Taft during his incumbency in
office. While here he will make two
other addresses to Savannah audi
ences.
COUNTIES GOING OYER TOP
IN MARKETING CAMPAIGN
Reports from the Georgia Cam
paign for Co-operative Marketing
of Cotton to date, Thursday morn
ing shows Hart, Banks, Wheeler
Clay, Dodge, over the top, with
Laurens, Lee, Barrow, Wilkes and
Clarke running neck and neck.
The State is sweeping to victory
and we trust before the week is
out that Burke, too, will have her
quota. We h~ve loyal men at work
and we will not fail. Let every
body do his best. The campaign
closes April lat, don’t let’s lalt
Burke be April fooled.
I am here to help. Call me at
office of The True Citizen.
J. O. MANER
The attendance should be a record
crowd for the expenses of getting Ty
Cobb’s and Sammy Barnes’ outfit to
Waynesboro will be very great as is
shown by the fact that the game
and other expenses will mount high.
Tell your neighbor about the game
and come to Waynesboro on March
29th.
As a special inducement to bring a
crowd to Waynesboro for this occas
ion special inducements will be offered
by the merchants atid business men
of Waynesboro and all places of busi
ness will close in time for the game.
MILLS ARE WILLING TO
BUY GUTTON FROM THE
FARMERS AT FAIR PROFIT
Big Cotton Manufacturers Hold No
Prejudice Against Co-operation.
The farmer will have no difficulty
in selling his cotton to the spinner
and exporter after he is thoroughly
organized for co-operative marketing
according to Cason J. Callaway, presi
dent of the Cotton Manufacturers As
sociation of Georgia.
“As a cotton maufacturer,” he de
clared, “I have no hesitancy in stating
that I believe all cotton manufac
turers would welcome the advent of
a non-political, strictly business orga
nization of cotton growers lor the
purposes ihe Georgia cotton pool has
in view.
“Co-operative marketing, I believe,
will eliminate one of the great trials
of the cotton manufacturers, which is
the wide fluctuation in the price of
cotton increasing the hazards of book
ing contracts for goods.”
At a recent meeting of the execu
tive committee of tlie,Cotton Manufac
turers Association, the following reso
lutions was passed: “That this com
mittee favors in principle a general
plan of co-operating among the farm
ers of Georgia for the marketing of
cotton which tends to establish a
sK early Jtnd continuous matket for
cotton at a price which covers the
cost of production plus a fair profit
to the planter, and, at the same time,
tends to create stability in the mar
ket value of cotton.”
HOLLOMON ARTICLES ""
ON WEEVIL ISSUED
BY CAROLINA PAPER
Anderson, S. C., March 15.—The
first “boll weevil extra” in this state
if not in the south, made, its appear
ance here yesterday, when The An
derson Tribune issued the series' of
articles written by James A. Hollo
mon, staff correspondent of The At
lata Constitution, in pamphlet form.
Wholesale distribution ’of several
thousand copies has begun, and Wil
ton E. Hall, editor .announces that
every farmer in this county of 80,-
000 population will receive a copy.
The Hollomon articles, published in
full in The Tribune, were indorsed
by S. M. Byars, county farm agent,
and leading farmers of Anderson coun
ty at the banner county fair of the
southeast.
The probable line up of the Detroit
team will be as follows:
Blue. Ist base.
Cutshaw, 2d. base.
C’obb, cf.
Beach If.
Heilman and Morhadt, rf.
Jones, 3d. base.
Ringney, ss.
Bassler, c.
Johnson and Olson, p.
Barnes and Haynes utility outfield
ers.
Number 52
WAYNESBORO ROTARY CLUB
TO ATTEND DISTRICT MEET
Majority of Local Members Will Be
Present in Savannah March kS-24 —
Contributes t. Jewish Relief—liv
teresting Talk on School Situation
—Jno. McElmurray Degelate fee Los
Angeles.
Tuesday afternoon the Rotary Club
meeting was enlivened by posters
+ rom Savannah inviting the Club to ze
present at the Eighth (Dixie) District
Conference to be held there March
23-24. Every member wished to go
but some were prevented and it is ex
pected that twelve of the eighteen
members will attend. $lO was con
tributed to the Jewish relief fund by
the club. The selection of a delegate
to the International convention at
Los Angeles in June was taken up
and John McElmurray unanimously
chosen.
The present crisis facing the
schools of Burke county was interest
ingly presented to the Club by its
President, Bill Fulcher. A resolution
was also adopted which follows:
Wliereas, the Rotary Club of Way
nesboro has had brought it its atten
tion the discussion of a probable
shortening of the school of Burke
county for the year 1922-23 to a sev
en or seven and a half month’o term
on account of inadequate funds.
Be it, therefore resolved, that we as
a Club go on record discouraging the
County Board of Education from any
such step. We do not believe that
the financial conditions of Burke coun
ty demand any such drastic action.
It goes without saying that the lead
ing school centers in the county must
always have a nine month’s term and
a shortening of the term in the coun
ty schools would mean that many
children w r ould be deprived of equal
educational advantages. It is the
sense of this body that Burke county
is in a 'peculiar sense better fitted to
carry a nine months school term than
the great majority of counties that
now have such. The education of
the children of this county is the one
big business of this county. It is
bigger than any agricultural interest
any industrial interest. The salva
tion of the future of the county de
pends on it. Let us set our faces to
ward the future and not toward the
past. If it means a sacrifice to keep
our schools open nine months let us
make that sacrifice. Look at Atlanta
four and a half million dollars on
schools in the next five years for a
building program; look at Savannah
and Augusta and Macon—they are
building for the future. Burke coun
ty has always had a commanding posi
tion in the educational movement in
Georgia. Are we willing to sacrifice
this? It behooves every citizen of the
county to protest against the shorten
ing of the school term
(Signed)
THE WAYNESBORO ROTARY CLUB
BERRIEN TRIAL
COME UP TUESDAY
Is is Understood Sixteen Bills Have
Been Drawn Against Broker.
Atlanta, March 16.—While the case
has not been put on the calendar for
the criminal division of Fulton su
perior court it is unedrstood that the
hearing on the case of R. N. Berrien
Jr., charged with apropriating about
$45,000' in state school warrants to
his own use will be up for trial Tues
day before Judge John D. Humphries
It also is understood sixteen bills
against Berrien have been drawn in
the office of the solicitor general and
will be presented to the, grand Jury
tomorrow.
This action comes as the result of
an investigation into the legality of
the indictment now standing against
Berrien in which he is charged with
having appropriated state funds, in
tended for the use of sixteen county
school boards.
S. STEINBERG CCS STORE
BURNED IN AUGUSTA
Blaze Started on Second Floor—Loss
Estimated About $20,000 —Mr. Stein
berg in New York at Time of Fire.
Fire starting on the top floor in the
wholesale department of the S. Stein
berg and Company wholesale and re
tail dry goods merchants located at
1124 Broad Street at 1.25 this morn-,
ing did estimated damage to the
amount of $20,000 to the building the
fire loss and water damage.
The blaze started on the second
floor in the wholesale department
and was rapidly spreading when the
fire department arrived. On arriving
at the scene the blaze was coming
out of the front and rear windows of
the establishment. Chief fireman
Frank G. Reynolds immediately rang
in general alarm calling all of the
fire apparatus to the scene. What at
one time seemed to be a very dan
gerous fire was soon quenched by the i
excellent work of the fire department I
When the firemen entered the build
ing dense clouds of smoke confronted
them and for a while it seemed as
though the entire building was doom
ed. The department centered its ef
forts from both the front and rear
of the structure and in less than half
an hour had the flames under con
trol.
Mr. Steinberg the proprietor of the
department store is in New York at
the present time and the exact figure
of tii* loss i* undetermined.
The cause of the fire is undetermin
ed.—Augusta Chronicle, March 15.
GEORGE M. BRINSON TO DIRECT
AFFAIRS OF MIDLAND
SHORT LINE
Savannah, Ga., March 15.—George
M. Brinson was today appointed re
ceiver of the Midland railway, a
short line out of Savannah. He built
the road and has been its president
since its construction. The line is
89 miles long. The State superin
tendent of banks was largely instru
mental in having the receiver named
because of claims of the Oglethorpe
Savings Bank and Trust Company,
now in his hands.
GODIN SPECTACLECOt
SrN- X
Eyes Thoroughly Examined
Spectacles, Eyeglasses and artificial
eyes, correctly fitted. -For twenty four
years the leading sight specialists ol
iugusta. Ga.
BUSINESS CONDITIONS IN
GEORGIA SHOW IMPROVE
MENT SAYS REPORTS
Georgia Railway and Power Company**
Report Shows Improvement Along
All Lines—Retail Trade Shows
Slight Loss.
Atlanta, Ga., March 15, 1922.—The
Georgia Railway and Power Company
authorizes tte following on business
conditions in Georgia:
Indications of improvement in con
ditions in Georgia are found 'n the
increased building activity, in improv
ed financial conditions, m betterment
in the agricultural situation, and :a
a decrease in unemployment.
The number of bedding permits ist
sued in Atlanta in February was 379
the cost of construction $1,947,429.
This exceeded the record total of Jun
uary, 1921, and passed beyond. the
previpus February record of $972,000
in 1920. Similar increases are found
in other cities. In Savannah, (he
cost of constructing during January
was $134,375 as compared with
075 during January 1921.
Indications at tne present time point
to another short crop of cotton.b arm
operations will be on a basis of strict
economy. . Early purchases’ of ferti
lizer have been less than usual. The
increasing ravages of the boll weevil
have forced many farmers to adandon
the cotton crop or to reduce their
acreage. The crop diversification teu
dency will lead many farmers to plant
an increased acreage of food and feed
crops. Department of Agriculture re
ports predict an increased number of
boll weevils next year because of the
mild winter.
The Middle Georgia section, which
until a few years ago produced vir
tually nothing but cotton, is rapidly
developing in the production of live
stock. Laurens County, in this sec
tion, reported during February, live
stock sales of approximately $50,000
a week, an increase of about 400 per
cent over the same period of last year
There is a good market in Georgia
for high quality swine. At a sale
conducted at Americus, Georgia, on
February 22, thirty pure-bred Duroc
gilts were sold at prices ranging
from $52.50 to $l3O, the average price
being $73.12. Moet of the purchas
ers were Georgia farmers and live
stock men.
The corn crop in'Georgla Increased
4,000,000 bushels in 1921 over the pre
vious year ,and a further increased
acreage of corn is expected as part of
the crop diversification movement thi»
year.
Public works now being initiated
throughout Georgia are expected to
reduce unemployment. Seventy-sev
en highway construction projects with
State and Federal funds have been out
lined for this year. About $4,000,000
are available for such expenditures.
Actual work upon school, sewer,
and street improvements in Atlanta por
vided for under a $8,875,000 bond is
sue is to be started withi na short
time. $2,800,000 of these bonds have
already been sold largely to purchas
ers in this State.
Retail trade shows a slight falling
off from the holiday season buying
season. Wholesale trade in January
had fallen only 2 per cent, in money
value below the figures of January,
1921.
INTEREST CENTERS
IN WORLD SUNDAY
Methodists Seek Payment of Over
due Pledges on March 26.
Southern Methodists throughout the
connection are centering their inter
est on World Sunday, March 26, at
which time every member of that de
nomination who made a subscription
to the Centenary of Missions move
ment will be asked to make a payment
on his pledge.
The “World Sunday” movement
which is now sweeping this section
was inaugurated it is said to arouse
Methodists to meet their obligations
for overdue missionary money, and
according to the plans of leaders a
special effort will be made in this
direction on March 26, the official
“World Sunday” of Southern Metho
dism, when the theme of world miss
ions will be presented in every church
within the bounds of the Methodist
Epescopal Church South.
During the week following “World
Sunday,” a church-wide canvass will
be made to collect arrerages in Cen
tenary payments. It is said that there
is a shortage of $4,000,000 in collec
tions to be made up before the meot
ing of the General Conference in May
1922.
FARMERS ARE FAR
BEHIND WITH WORK
Unusually Heavy Rains Retard Them
From Two to Five Weeks— Streams
Overflow Farm Lands.
Atlanta, Mar. 19— Planting by farm
ers and truckers is from two to five
weeks behind in Georgia this year,
due to the unusually heavy rainfall
in many portions of the state, accord
ing to reports received here today by
the local weather, and state and fed
eral agricultural agents.
Heavier rains this week have con
verted many rivers in northern Geor
g!2. into torrents, which are sweeping
over their banks onto farm lands, es
pecially in the Chattahoochee, Oconee
Ocmulgee, Etowah, Flint and Octanau
la valleys, while in the southern parts
of the state, much high water is re
ported.
The rain fall in Atlanta has amount
ed to 18.12 inches since the first of
the year, according to the weather
bureau, while the first ten days of
March have seen almost six inches of
rain here. Flood warnings as a re
sult have been issued for Columbus
and West Point, Georgia, on the Chat
tahoochee, Fair and cooler weather,
however, was forecast today for this
section,