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Vol 20. No 31
s. S. CONVENTION
IS GREAT SUCCESS
next convention to be held
at center church— geo. s.
ROUNTREE, OF VIDALIA, IS
ELECTED PRESIDENT.
The Toombs County Sunday
School convention held at» Aimwsll
Presbyterian church last Friday, July
27th. was of much interest to the
Sunday School work of the county,
especially for the officers and teach
ers. In addition to this there were
some very interesting speeches made.
Among the speakers were Mr. D. L.
Stanfield, of Reidsville and Mrs. G.
W. Poe, of Vidalia.
The convention is said to be one
among the best ever held in Toombs
county.
At noon there was a delicious din
ner spread, which was enjoyed by all.
The People of Aimwell are to be con
gratulated for the many good eats
that were spread under the pines.
The next convention will be held
at Center Methodist . church. The
following officers were elected to
serve for the ensuing year:
President, Geo. S. Rountree, Vi
dalia.
Vice President, D. C. Pattilio, Vi
dalia.
Secretary, I. J. Yandle, Lyons.
Children Division Supt., Miss
Bessie Ethridge, Lyons.
Young Peoples’ Supt., Mrs. B. G.
Kitchens, Lyons.
Adult Supt., R. A. Bargeron,
Lyons.
District Presidents:
No. 1 Moody McDonald, Vidalia.
No. 2. J. S. Pittman, Vidalia.
No. 3. Mrs. Earl Grace, Lyons.
No. 4. Lester Powell, Lyons.
ERNEST WIMBERLY WRITES
LETTER TO TOOMBS’ PEOPLE
July 24, 1923.
To The People of Toombs County:
Several questions of importance
have already come before the House,
and of course I supported one side.
I want the people of my county, how
ere, to know just how and why I stand
on various questions. I despise and
detest crooked politicians who prim
ise his people one thing, and votes
for another. I am working for the
benefit of the people of the State,
particularity of my county; there
fore, you are entitled to know just
how and why I take certain stands.
To begin with, I voted in favor of
the repeal of the Tax Equalization
Law. It is unfair, unjust, and in
equitable ;it taxes the farmer who
has the visible property, and who is
less able to pay taxes, and permits
the *money-gathering corporations
and individuals to go untaxed. An
other reason why I voted’ for the re
peal, was to expedite constructive
tax legislation. As long as the bill
is pending, no tax reforms will take
place, because all of the time will ibe
taken up with the Repeal Bill. We
must have a different tax law, a fair
and just tax that will reach the in
visibles the possessions of the rich,
and not a tax that acts the “high
wayman’s stunt” by taxing the poor
out of house and home.
I wish to state further that I have
introduced a bill providing for the
abolition of the twelve A. and M.
Schools, district school. Why? For
the simple reason that it is unfair to
require our county or any county to
pay taxes to support a high school in
another county. The 12th District
A. and M. School receives approxi
mately $20,000 from the State, div
ide this sum by the number of coun
ties in our district, and you will find
what our coifhty is paying to keep
up the A. and M. School at Cochran.
How many students do we send from
our county to Cochran? I don’t
know of any. But look what we are
Paying, over $2,200 for its upkeep.
Isn’t that unfair, and our children
arp not receiving any benefits there
fnom. But I shall not stop at abol
ishing the schools, if lam fortunate
en ough to accomplish the above; but
I propose to take these $300,000, ap
propriated to-these schools yearly by
the state, match the Smith-Hughes,
The Lyons Progress
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WINNERS OF CORN AND PIG
CLUBS TO LEAVE FOR ATHENS
Two boys and one girl will go to
Athens next Sunday morning for the
Boys and Girls Short Course given
to winners in club contests in each
county. These three are winners
of the corn and Pig Club Contest
held at the F.air last fall.
Katherine Phillips won the Pig
club contest and so will get the
scholarship offered by the First
National Bank of Vidalia. She is*
fortunate in having won this oppor
tunity.
W. L. Higgs tied for first in the
Corn club contest with Joe Polk. W. j
L. Higgs will get the scholarship of
ferd by the First National Bank of
Lyons. Joe Polk gets a scholarship
that was given by the State College
of Agriculture tothe agents report
ing two new scholarships during the
spring of last year.
These three will leave Vidalia at
7.05 in the morning of Sunday, Aug
ust sth and will be met in Macon and
accompained to Athens.
CHURCH NOTICE
Regular services will be held at
•the Baptist church next Sunday.
Preaching at 11 a, m. and 8:30 p. m.
by the pastor.
It is desired to have the presence
of all our members and friends.
A hearty welcome awaits all who
attend.
A. D. WOODLE, Pastor.
CARD OF THANKS
....We want to thank our friends for
tjieir kindness shown during the sick
ness and death of our Father, J. W.
Anderson.
Jarette and Clifford Anderson.
Federal Fund; and then we would be,
able to place in every High School of j
the State an Agriculture course, j
headed by a Vocational Agricultural j
Teacher, supported by the State and .
National Governments. Then every
farmer’s child will have the oppor
tunity of this instruction, instead of
just a few: What a great help it
Would be to us? The A. and M. 1
Schools are benefiting the people in
its own community. This plan would .
benefit all of the people thru out the
State.
I know 7 that all of you are vcith fne
on the above matters. lam doing
what I think is for your interest. Iff
I am offending you in any way, don’t
hesitate to notify me, and I shall
give your cause due consideration.
If I can favor you likewise let me
know.
Trusting that you arew ith me on
the above matters, and again express
ing my to be of assist
ance to you, I remain,
Your sincere friend and servant,
j ERNEST WIMBERLY.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TOOMBS COUNTY
LYONS. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, AUG. 2 1923
Fields Whitening
Under Summer Sun
MAY ROT IN BOLLS FOR LACK
OF PICKERS—MIGRATION OF
LABOR CAUSING MUCH CON
CERN.
(By Harden Colfax)
WASHINGTON, D. C.— Thous
ands upon thousands of acres of cot
j ton in the South now whitening in
the summer sun, probably will rot in
the boll this year because of lack of
hands to gather the crop, according
to word reaching the Department of
Agriculture from Teaxs this week,
coincident with the opening of the
cotton picking season there.
The South is pictured in these re
ports as being in the throes of the
worst labor shortage in its history.
In a few communities, it is reported
common labor has virtually moved
away, migrating north of the Mason
and Dixon line. In either sections
from one-quarter to one-half of the
negroes are said to have gone north
to mills and factories of industrial
states, lured by wages the like of
which no cotton picker ever saw be
fore. In all sections, the shortage
is pictured as being of distressing
proportions.
Four hundred thousand negroes
have moved north since the begin
ning of the year, according to esti
mates sent the department and the
movement appears to be increasing
at the present time. One estimate
states that from 2,000 to 3,000 neg
roes are leaving the South daily.
These figures probably are high, but
there appears little doubt that the
migration approximates fifty thous
r and a month.
They go mostly into the manufact
-1 uring plants of the Middle Atlantic
I states at wages double and treble
| those they have received in the past
lon Southern cotton farms. In one
case, it is reported, a single big plant
in Philadelphia has imported 8,000 j
negroes from Southern states at
Wages ranging from $lB to S4O a
week. In another case, one com- 1
ipany in Pitsburg is said to have em-
I ployed about two thousand Southern
| negroes since April 1. One big es
l tablishmen in Chicago is said to have (
sent four agents recently into South
ern states to get workmen.
A factor of secondary importance,
although one to be reckoned with,
the department is advised, is the
growth of the Ku Klux Klan. The
departure of negro laborers is report
ed to have been on the greatest scale
in communities where the klan is
active. A minor factor is the negros
experience in the World War which
afforded thousands the first oppor
tunity of their lives to leave the
neighborhood where they were born.
i As a result of the shortage of la
bor, cotton growers are offering high
er wages than ever before to the re
mainding workers and are employ
ing women on a scale unequalled in
dhe past. Even at the high wages
the necessary labor supply is report
ed to be unavailable.
The cotton field of the South
measures more than 33,000,000 acres
Placed all in one, it would cover ev
ery foot of land in Pennsylavnia and
New Jersey and overflow to the ex
tent of a few thousand acres in New
York. It is estimated that about
four million workers are engaged in
gathering the crop each year. A
shortage of 400,000 workers means
a deficit of 10 per cent, in the crop
gathering force.
Opening in Texas this week, the
cotton-picking season soon will be in
full swing throughout the entire
South. The department’s estimate
of the yield is 11,500,000 bales.j but
that estimate makes no allowance for
cotton remaining unpicked at the end
of the season. According to advices
received here, it is possible that the
labor shortage will result in failure
to gather from 250,000 to 500,000
bales—possible more.
Department officials believe that
the result, of this situation will j en
hance the price of cotton, at present
lower than the level maintained for
months past. Certainly it will in
crease the price of production and if
the market price does not swing up
ward in response, the grower’s profit
this year will be considerably smaller :
than they were in 1922.
Thus far the government . has
found no method for helping the sit
uation. There appears to be little
that can be done. Various commun
ities have acted on their own author
ity, in some instances passing laws
against solicitation on the part of
outsiders of the lacal labor supply;
in other stances driving the agents
out of town, and in still others, put
, ting the agents in jail. But none of
these measures, it is reported here,
has resulted in materially checking
the departure of the picturesque cot
ton picker to a colder and more lu
crative climate.
The Southern cotton grower, see
ing his farm hands leaving, is wish
ing hard for one thing to happen,
that one thing is an old-fashioned
period of ice and snow in the North
next winter. The colder the winter,
the. better he will like it. For one
coldw inter, just one, he figures, will
'send his 400,000 truants scampering
back down South, permanently and
completely cured of all desire to)
leave the cotton fields of their youth.
FAIR COTTON CHOP
IN MBS CO.
INVESTIGATION OF PROSPECTS
INDICATE FAIRLY GOOD YIELD
—BOLLS ARE OPENING FAST
—GOOD PRICES EXPECTED.
An investigation of prospects of a
cotton crop in Toombs county seems
to indicate a fairly good yield. While
the boll weevil and weather condi
tions have taken some toll, the pros
pects are that there wil Ibe a fair
crop. The plants seem well fruited,
calcium arsenate is being used by
some farmers and every effort is be
ing made to keep down additional
damage.
On most of the farms of the coun
ty bolls are opening fast and it is
expected that within two weeks cot
ton will be coming in rapidly.
With a fair return from what
watermelons, tobacco, potatoes and
other crops that were raised this
year, and a reasonable cotton crop in |
sight, if prices obtained for cotton I
are anywhere in line with present :
indications, it should go a long way j
towards helping Toombs county re- j
gain its financial feet.
FARMERS LEADING IN GEOR
GIANS SENT INSANE ASYLUM
Is farm life conducive to insanity?
Startling figures confined in the
seventy-ninth annual report of the
board of trustees of the Georgia
state sanitarium for insane at Mill
edgeville, show that nearly 50 per
cent of the patients admitted during
i 1922 came fromfarms. The report
has just been submitted to Georgia
general assembly.
1 Out of the 857 patients admitted
5 to the institution during 1922, ac
‘ cording to the report, the classified
occupation of 415 was listed under
i the heading “agricultural pursuits,”
> 134 were farmers, 154 farm laborers,
77 farmers’ wives, 21 farmers’ daugh
ters, 15 farmers’ sons, 5 farmers'
• widows, and 9 farm laborers daugh
ters. One hundred and sixty-eight
• of the demented agriculturalists were
1 negroes.
Lea All Occupations
No other occupation was represent
ed by such a starting quota. The
ranks of laborers contributed 58,
laundresses 27, housekeepers 26, and
cooks 20. Included in the general
total were three ministers, four min
i
isters’ wives, two school teachers,
one soda water dispenser, one bank
clerk, one mule trader and one ice
dealer. More than 100 other occu
pations were represented by one or
more inmates.
The present population of the sani
tarium, the report sets forth, is 3,972
These were cared for during the past
year at an average cost of $238.04
per patient, as compared with an av
erage of $240.82 the previous year.
The report also show more than a
10 per cent decrease in the number
of patients admitted, 857 being ad
mitted ig 1922 as compared to 989 in
1921.
There were 283 deaths during the
1 year. This was 138 less than in 1921
and the smallest number of deaths
since 1904.
147 Counties Represented
The 857 patients during 1922 were
sent to the Milledgeville institution .
from 147 Georgia counties. Chatham
county led with 78, 48 of these being
negroes. Fulton county was second
with 62, only 16 of whom were neg
roes. Berrien county’s quota was
29, 13 of them negroes, and DeKalb
county’s quota 20, with only four
negroes. Twenty-four counties sent
one each.
The total number of new inmates
admitted during the year by sex
showed 428 men, 160 of whom were
negroes, and 429 women, 157 of them
negroes.
According to the report, the health
record of the patients for the year
was excellent; typhoid, tuberculosis
and pellagra cases were relatively
small and showed a substantial re
duction from the previous year.
The annual report was signed by
;John T. Brantley, president of the
! board of trustees.
Subscription SI.OO
35 KILLED SUNDAY
AT R.
13 KILLED BY 1 TRAIN IN 2
STATES GEORGIA GIRL IS
KILLED IN ACCIDENT AT
WADESBORO N. C. CROSSING.
CHICAGO, July 30.—Thirty-five
persons were killed and ten injured
yesterday in nine railroad crossing
accidents in various parts of the
country.
One Pennsylvania train struck two
automobiles with a few hours, four
being killed in the first crash and
nine in the second. The first acci
dent occured at Highland, 111., where
an automobile apparently became
stalled on the tracks as the speeding
passenger tarin appeared. A few
hours later, the same .tarin struck
another crossing at Liggett, Ind.,
eight miles from Terre Haute, Ind.,
At Iron Mount, Mo., a Missouri Pa
| cifis express train struck an automo
bile and killed four persons.
Five persons were killed when a
Long Island passenger train struck
an automobile at Rockville Center,
I Long Island.
A report from Alameda, Cal., said
three persons were killed and three
injured when a car in which they
were riding, was truck by a Southern
Pacific passenger train.
At Wadesboro, N. C., a Seaboard
train struck an automobile, killing
two and injuring one probably fatal
ly-
Two persons were killed and two
seriously injured at Robana, N. J. f
when their automobile was struck by
a Reading passenger train, and Rut
land, Vermont, reported that one
persons was killed and one injured in
an accident at a railroad crossing
there.
At Augusta, Kan., two persons
were killed and one injured when an
automobile in which they were rid
ing was struck by a Santa Fb Motor
train. '
In Chicago three persons were
killed and one injured when a Pan
handle train struck the automobile in
which the were crossing the tracks.
GEORGIA GIRL IS KILLED IN
AUTO-TRAIN COLLISION
WADESBORO, N. C. July 30.—-
Ben Downer, of Lilesville and Miss
Dororthy Webb, said to be of Pavo,
<Ja., are dead, and Miss Sarah Wall,
of Lilesville, is in a hospital at Wades
boro suffering from injuries received
when the car in which the three were
riding was struck by a Seaboard Air
Line train at ac rossing between this
city Lilesville thffc afternoon.
Downer was instantly killed, his
body being carried a considerable
distance down the track. Miss Webb
died early last night in a hospital.
Miss Wall will recover. The car
was torn to pieces. Miss Wall has
been unable to make a coherent state
ment since the accident.
It is believed that Downer at
tempted to cross the track without
observing the stop law, and that he
endeavored to stop when he saw the
train approaching, with the result
that his car stalled on the track.
AUTOMOBILE COLLISION
SATURDAY AFTERNOON
What came very near being a ser
ious accident Saturday afternoon,
was the collision of two automobiles
out on a residence street. Fortun
ately either of the occupants of the
two cars were seriously hurt.
Jospeh Stewart and Rufus Harde
who were coming in town in Ford
in some manner did not see the ap
proaching car driven by John Currie,
and was too close together to avoid
the collision.
Joseph Stewart and Rufus Harde
were trown through the windsheild
of their car, and were badly cut about
the face. Theo ther car being a
Dodge automobile, and it being much
larger that the Ford, saved the other
driver from being hurt in any way.
also is included in the measure
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