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P~ ULIATION Foreign Adv. Representative
¥ 10CRACY, NOT THE SOUTH |
M NOW in progress in,congress to reduce the repres
tthern states in cony ‘ess because of the allezed
gnegroes from the ballot, is a slimy effort by the I\'"])'H‘lr
knife the Democratic party. It is not an attempt by
a :Sl:(:tlnn, to injure the South as a section. It is not
1t 18 factional, pure and simple. The people of the
lerstand this. It would be a terrible thing if, thru
g, the feeling of national fellowship between “Yan
lerner, union of heart and soul, welded in the flames
d more than a half century of peace should be
of tremendous importance that this political effort
erstood for what it is. Some Southern newspapers,
ind-minded editorial writers, are insancly fostering
s movement is sectional, : |
ase of the question is a mere blind. The Society |
it of Colored People is not acting now so ]“Ui‘]l‘
jon as it is a tool of the Republican ring mas
, extremely unfortunate that the leaders in this |
s permitted themselves to e so used and to have |
le consequence of a more bitter racial attitude in!
don’t blame them. Wiser men than these negro
een seduced and humbugged in an unworthy cause |
oliticians, not only of Republican affiliation but by Dem- |
oliticians in our own state. |
Whether the principle, or policy, of a restricted saffrage is for |
he best interests of the Republic is not the point in question. Re
stricted suffrage is almost universally practiced in the United !
States, Only a few progressive Western states make even a prv-!
tense at really universal suffrage. The New England states, nota- |
bly Massachusetts, carry the idea of restricted suffrage to an ex-|
treme ofdoubtful good. The whole thing is an outgrowth of Ham-|
tonian Republicanism-—the theory of government of all by a few !
I{;o‘am deemed peculiarly fit to bear the responsibility. That i«l(';n}
gradually losing ground as the masses become eradually more
Bt to assume responsibilities of truly sovercign citizenship,
“o Mlt just happens that in the South it is the negro who feels the
flargest force of this political policy of excluding the uniit from
i\‘oicc in government. In other sections it 1s felt by large classes of
‘the Caucasian race. That principle, however, is not under fire at
the present time.
The Republican ring masters have seen in the overwhelming
defeat of Wilsonism an opportunity to completely crush their rivals
of Democratic faith who linked themselves with the Wilsonlan pol
icies and went down to defeat with those policies. The agitation
for reduction of representation in Congress, and corresponding re
_duction of votes in the electoral college which names the President,
L!s a blow aimed at the stronghold and tbe backbone of the Demo-
Seratic party. The fact that this strogghold is the South is a coin
“Gidence and not a cause. :
: The Leader-Enterprise does not believe that the Republican
| effort will be successful. Most of the men who constitute the big
' Republican majorities in House and Senate are big men, intelligent
men: They are good Republicans but they are better Americans
t}an they are Republicans. Especially do we believe this to be true
of President-clect Harding. We do not believe that these men,
loyal Republicans thqugh they are, will willfully and with malice
aforethought, cripplv‘!m entire section for the sake of crippling a
gival'political party.
+ It would be an awful yQing for the United States as a whole
should they do so. The Work of big men for decades past to foster
golidarity among American farmers and among American working
.men would be nullified. It might take a century more to bring the
Southern and Western farmer and the Southern and Eastern work
ing man back to the same condition of understanding sympathy and
- willingness to cooperate that they now enjoy.
THE FARMER KNIFED AGAIN
~ To the casual observer it appears that congress has played the
“hypocrite and literally knifed the farmer in arranging the legisla
tion looking toward the revival of the war finance board. The orig
inal bill as introduced included specific instructions that liberal
credits ‘should be extended to agriculture. On the very thin pre
text that a specification of that kind was “class legislation,” it was
~ stricken from the bill. It is now up to President Wilson to sign or
reject. In its present emasculated, perverted, and entirely uncalled
for form, it had better be vetoed. It can benefit the farmer only
indirect]ly, as result of having benefitted the special interests, the
natural beneficiaries of governmental bounty, immensely more,
Class legislation! It isto laugh. In the face not only of threats
to cut production but the actual necessity of cutting production, the
solons threw up their hands in holy horror at the mention of “class
legislation” in favor of the farmers. What would they? Let the
law of supply and demand operate in the exact manner it would
Joperaté it we had no government? For the bughear of an empty
phrase would they make the man who tills the soil come to the real
-Ization that this nation might as well have no government, suffer
absolute anarchy, for all the good the government does him?
| And it is not only the farmer who will be hurt by this un
gieased operation of the law of supply and demand. \We who live
in the towns and, to a more bitter degree, those who live in the
cities, will feel the pinch. \With a proper lubrication of the machin
.ery of supply and demand-—making it possible to market the supply
of farm produce twelve months in the year and thus keep it consist
ently on a par with demand, the world can consume the most
“abundant of bumper crops that American soil can produce. \When
Herbert Hoover asks for millions of dollars to give scant rations
and scant clothing to a portion.of the starving and freezing people
of central and eastern [furope, must be evident to anyone that
supply of food and clothing is far below the existing demand. If a
_large portion of those millions of people are actually dying of want
’!\{{Aust be evident to anyone that the rest of those millions are not
fgetting all they could use.
* The domestic situation is not so spectacularly tragic but on a
“quieter scale is similar. The people of America can consume much
- more food and clothing than they are consuming. There is no rea
son to fear an actual overproduction of the necessities of life. There
“1s an imminent danger of underproduction during the next year
- simply because our governing powers do not seem to realize that
“prosperity insurance” is a function of government. The farmer
now has money to cultivate only a fraction of normal acreage; he
can culutivate no more.
Economists and practical business men decry the movement to
cut production. The movement that is now underway to cut cotton
production will meet spirited opposition unless its program explic
itly means substitution of food crops on the acres which it would
close to cotton. It is going to be necessary to cut production of
food and cotton, however, to the distress of every man, woman and
child who lives, unless Congress awakens to the fact that protec
tion of the farmers is necessary to the welfare of all, even if the
hair-snlitters and auibblers do call it “class legislation.”
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THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS MONDAY, JANUARY 3rd, 1920
A Thought for the Evening
A VERSE AND A VIGNETTE
By Dan G. Bickers
’ THE LIGHTS AND THE “LIGHT”!
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Bereavement blinded me, and Doubt
Then led me into darkness deeper yet;
| The lights of all the world went out,
; Nor was one solace left me: ilio forget! '
* But Love so gently took my hand,
’ And Faith in whispers guided through the night;
So that I now can understand___
; For me the Light of all the world is bright!
i THE UNBEATEN PATH
; There was a Man who took the Unbeaten Path__
Because Wisdom and Right had vouched for its leading him to
tthe Light.
} And soon Custom had led many more over the way till it was
| a Plain Highway.
A Sermon to Live By
By Rev* Elam Franklin Dempsey, D. D.
AN IDYL OF JERICHO, THE FRAGRANT. ‘
Scripture: Mark 10:46-52, |
The morning rose fair over Jericho, “The Fragrant.” Palm
trees in feathery beauty lifted their heads against the rosy hues of
dawn, while the dewy air was fragrant with the perfume from Her
od’s balsam gradens. Across this splendor and sweetness moves' in
striking contrast, the sordid figure of Blind Bartimaeus in his beg
ger's garb, He is wending his way to his usual place by the high
way-side. Here he purposes to beg all day of the more fortunate
passerby.
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A strange thing had come to his ears the evening before. He
had heard of the Prophet from Nazareth that He had gone to be the
with a “man which was a sinner,” Zacchaeus, the despised chief of
the Pubilcans. Many had murmeured against The Prophet, because
it had been thought that he would surely stop with one of the chief
Pharisees of the place, or at least with one of the priests, many of
whom lived here. However, He had called this renegade publican
from his place of vantage in a sycamore tree and had actually invited
Himsell to be guest in the sinner’s home.
Meditatingson these things, may we not suppose this obscure
Blind Bartimaecus, had begun to entertain a hope which yet seemed
to him, as he contemplated it, almost a vain one? lad any good
thing ever happened to him, nature’s unfortunate? Faint, very
faint-like the pearly tints of the dawn through which he was mov
ing—glowed the hope in his heart that, perchance, The Wonder
Worker would come his way. And, if so, heal his blinded eyes, as
[Te was reported to have healed even the lepers.
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As he mused, in the morning walk to his begging place, it seems
that this faint hope led on toward a well-defined faith. Surely, if
He can heal disease, He is the expected Messiah, whom all Jews
called “The Son of David?” Such a question, from subsequent de
velopments, there is no doubt, ran through the beggar’s mind. In
the meantime, he had reached his position by the highway-side, and
started upon his ignoble day’s task.
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Upon_his meditations, his faint hopes, and his dawning faith—
smiting his sensitive ear of the blind—there breaks in the noise of
a multitude coming out from the city along this road that leads
away to Jerusalem eighteen miles distant. Intensely curious, he
fearns that it is The Prophet of whom he has been thinking that is
passing by. At once, hesitation is over and faith is full grown with
in him. With sudden movement he rises from his place and begins
to clamor aloud, “Thou Son of David have mercy on me.” Offic
ious members of the multitude protest that he must ‘not interupt
the serene and majestic figure who marches at the head of the pro
cession. But in his carnestness, this beggar is as one possessed.
Pushing to one side their interruptions, he again utters his piteous
plea. The multitude is amazed. The Master stands still. As al
ways, the voice of need has touched His compassion and aroused
His interest. Sudden change, the multitude makes way, and offer
encouragement to him whom, a moment before, they had restrained.
With him, faith passes into assurance. He flings aside forever his
ccoat, the official mark of his mendicancy. Drawing near, he hears
‘thc gracious words: “Thy faith hath made thee whole.” Upon his
vision bursts the glory of that morning world, in the beautiful win
ter home of Herod. Leaping with joy, he follows the Master to
Jerusalem. And is it an exaggeration to believe that Blind Bar
timaues, no longer blind, no longer a beggar, was scen among that
~multitude which welcomed the Master a few days later to Jerusa
!lvm, erying, “Hosannah!” thus honoring Him as the long expected
| Messiah?
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POST WAR FARM PROGRAM FCR 1921
As suggested by the Georgia State College of Agriculture and A. B. & A. Ry., and Bankers
With the price of farm products reaching back beyond the cost of production a most serious question con
fronts the farmer in deciding what crops to grow in 1921. The condition* which now obtains is perhaps the nl?st
precarious in the history of the state. In this condition the farmer must of necessity adopt a more constructive:
cropping plan. This is the time really and actually to put the state on a self sustaining basis in the crops produced.
Tt is recognized that a grcat many farmers perhaps are on such bases, but many are not and besides the nonpro
ducing consumers are many. . \
Then let the first thought concerning a cropping plan for 1921 be a determination on the part of the farme.rs
backed by the bankers, suppiy merchaunts, and others, to really produce the crops in Georgia consumed in Georgia.
The sccond thought should be to produce these at the least cost so as to be prepared for low markets should they ob
tain, "
The following table shows the average yields and acreage per farm for the main crops of Georgia for the year
1920, and the increase needed for 1921, if the state’s requirements are met.
There are 310,737 farms in Georgia, there are 2,894,000 people in Georgia, there are 4,973,000 domestic animals
in Ceorgia.
Crop Acreage per| Yield per farm Estimated Yield per Farm needed to
Farm 1920] in 1920: meet State’s requirement.
Corn 1515 ~ 2249 Bushels 322.6 Bushels
Velvet Beans 1.0 1.0 Tons 25 Tons
Wheat i 8.1 Bushels 24.1 Bushels
Oats 1.7 34.7 Bushels 55.4 Bushels
Hay 1.8 ‘ 2.0 Tons 29 Tons
Swtet Potatoes Y 50.0 Bushels 65.0 Bushels
Peanuts .05 16.2 Bushels 482 Bushels
Irish Potatoes .07 5.2 Bushels 12.8 Bushels
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Therefore to feed the 2,894.000 people and the 4,973,000 farm animals in Georgia, to say nothing of an increase,
will indicate at least the direction for a farm program in meeting home needs and shows something as to the crops
needed to be grown. Certainly, since the states requirements are as indicated, a market can be found to the extent
mentioned. It is true, however, that one section of the state will need to be in close touch with the other section in
trade relations so that, say, sweet potatoes will not sell in one section to the retail trade at two dollars a bushel, and
in another section at sixty-five cents per bushel or syrup in one section at forty cents per gallon and in another at a
dollar and a quarter per gallon. The marketing medium must be improved and the medium of exchange operatid,
without so many turns in the current from the producer to the consumer. This will furnish ample material f(’r e
Farm Burcau members to work on. The time to begin to market the products is when the plans are .bging made
for producing them. .
| From a study of the table given as to some of the existing conditions in the state of Georgia the followin
recommended as a farm program for the year 1921. Plant at least one acre in orchard, one acre in garden, keep not
less than fifty to one-hundred hens, preferably some pure breed and keep a few bees to supply your table,
| - CASH CROPS FOR TWO HORSE FARM
Plant a total of twenty acres divided as follows: ten acres in cotton, four acres in tobacco, two acres in sweet
potatoes, two acres in peanuts. one acre in sugar cane, one acre in water melons,
FEED AND FERTILITY
Plant twenty acres in corn and velvet beans with peanuts between the rows, fifteen acres in oats, five acres in
wheat, one acre in rice, two to five acres in permanent pasture, composed of bermuda grass, lespedeza, carpet and.
Dallas grass. Plant and sow as much as possible of the oats and wheat stubble in coOw peas.
LIVE STOCK
FFence six acres into three separate inclosers, plant in oats, rape and rye for Winter and Spring grazing follow
with cat tail millet, sorghum, sweet potatoes, soy beans, cow peas, peanuts and corn as the seasons indicate. Pure
clean water and sanitary conditions should be well looked to in the growing of hogs. Keep from two to four good
brood sows and at least two good milk cows, and a few sheep.
‘ SUCCESS OF THE FARM DEPENDS ON RIGHT METHODS
TOBACCO :—Farmers who have made money in South Georgia in growing tobacco have observed the following
rules: Sowing their tobacco beds in December and January and making them large enough to insure plenty of
healthy plants to set the desired acreage from the first andsecond drawings. It is essential to provide deep drainage
around the tobacco beds to eliminate excessive moisture following heavy rains. transplant early in April in well pre
pared soil in rows four feet apart, plants sct from eighteen to twenty four inches in a drill, using from eight hundred
to one thousand pounds of fertilizer, especially prepared for growing tobacco, fertilizer should he put in the ground
at least one week before setting plants, cultivate often, keep worms off by hand picking and spraying, top plants as
they budden out leaving about fourtcen leaves to the plant, keep off all suckers which is absolutely necessary in the
successful growing of tobacco. do not harvest until ripe which may be determined by the color of the lca\'r'cs, fill
your barn in one day and start fire immediately, keep temperature to about ninety-five to one-hundred degrees until
tobacco is about lemon color then advance temperature two and one half degrees in an hour until one-hundred and
thirty degrees is reached and maintain this temperature until leaf is dry, then advance three to four degrees an
hour until one-hundred sixty or one-hundred and seventy degrees is reached and maintain this temperature until all
stems are thoroughly dry. The above instructions will almost invariably insure a good yield and a splendid grade
of tobacco.
MARKETING -
In order to maintain a profitable market for all farm products it is absolutely necessary that they be market-~
ed in a systematic and business like method by putting them on the market throughout the year as the market needs
them most. This can easily be done through the co-operative spirit and understanding between the producer, buyer,
and consumer
Community gatherings are essential for the discussion of growing and marketing all crops and live stock.
these meetings experts should be invited to discusss improved economical methods in order that the producti
may be kept at a minimuum cost. /
The program herein outlined after receiving due consideration is recommended by the undersigned. For
ther information call on either of the Banks with names hereto attached:
Chamber of Commerce, 1. J. Dorminey, C. T. Owens,
E.xchanvge. National Bank, J. H. Mayes, : M. W. Garbutt,
First National Bank, D. W. Paulk, J. E. Turner
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