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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL
VOLUME TWENTY-FIVE
There have been two_great forms
of slavery in the South. One was
the chattel slavery which existed
prior to 1865 and applied only to
Negroes. The other has been the
crop mortgage ‘“‘time prices” slavery
which has existed since 1865 and
which has held mniillions of farmers
both white and black in its shameful
bondage. I know all about it. I
grew up.under it. It fastened .it
self on the old homestead where I ‘
was reared until it brought the
menace of foreclosure. But my fath
er then resolutelly made up his mind
to be done with that system, and
even though ecotton was only 5 or
6 cents a pound, we lived hard,i
adopted the motto, “Pay as you go, !
and if you can’ pay, don’t go gnd!
somehow or other we -managed. to'
savev up a little payment on the |
mortgage every year—and the old |
farmstead is still in the hands. ofl
the family. ; '
I mention all this both to showl
you that I know what “time prices”
slavery means and-that I am not
speaking without cxperience when
I say I believe you. can.work -your
self out from under it and into real
freedom. - . .. o o
You had better sacrifice clothes if
necessary in order to get on a cash
basis. It doesn’t matter much what’
sort -of clothes<-a man or woman,
wears so they are clean. The whole
ffamily had better wear old clotkes,
.cheap clothes, or patched clothes for
one year rather than stay in the
grip of the credit system through all
‘the future years. Certainly, too,
.one can resolve that he will have a
‘ twelve-months-in-the-year garden,
some good hens ,and two good cows,
and then with plenty of milk, butter,
eream, aggs, chickens and fresh veg
etables, there shoulld be small need
Jor buying “time prices rations”
from any store—The Progressive
~Farmer. ! ;
'SUPREME COURT HOLDS ;
COMMISSION NOT LEGAL
: ON COUNTY SCHOOL TAX
A’ dounty tax recciver is not en
titled to commissions on a county
“wide tax levy for school purposes,
. the Georgia Supreme Court ruled
Saturday in the case of J. E. Drake
tax reeceiver of Decature county,
against the schcol bhoard of that
county. The Decatur Superior
Court crdered the commissions paid,
.and was reversed by the higher
-scourt. ¢
“Provision is made for the pay
ment of the tax collector, who com
putes the taxes and actually collects
~ them,..but such elections add nothing
t 6 the work of the tax receiver,” the
“'Supreme Court holds. b
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i Are you spending all of your money? If you are,)
the other fellow is Depositing it. l
l Statistics show by actual observation that six out of
s every seven persons in the United States are dependentl
7on relatives or charity for support at the age of sixty-five. 4
'Wil] you be one of the six dependent ones, or will you be
the seventh who is independent and comfortable in oldl
lage? g i R |
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1 It is your right and privilege to live comfortabie,s
ibut in this great land of opportunity, any one who hasl
any degree of thrift and industry can live comfortable
‘and.still have something left to lay up for old age and al
b rainy day. ;
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‘ The best way is to lay aside something regularly andl
systematically by depositing it in a good safe, sound
‘ba_nk,_ like ours, where it will accumulate. !
i LET US HELP YOU. ‘
\ BANK OF LEESBURG, = |
ic, A. Nesbit, President O.'W."Statham, Vice-Pi'esidcnti
“ o T. C. Tharp, Cashier. : '
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NEGRQ FARMERS
STUDY PERMA
- NENT PASTURES
Come From Many Parts of
Georgia *
One hundred and fifty - farmers
coming from Chatham, Bibb, Henry,
Lamar, Pike, Spaldin, Troup, Meri
wether, Clarke, Washington, Rock
dale, Walton and Newton counties
recently motored to Covington, Ga.,
to study the Mr. Evans Lunsford’si
Pasture Farm. . ‘
Seven Negro farmers—four dem
onstrators and two home demonstra
tion agents, accompanied the far
mers to Covington with the idea -in
mind of selling to the most progres
sive Negro farmer in Georgia, the
!plap of making permanent pastures.
!. Mr. Evans Lunsford personally
c¢nducted the visitors over his 100
acres of fine pasture land. When
M. Lunsford explained how he%had
started and maintained his perma
nent pasture, fed and marketed some
of the finest Herefords in the South
the Negro farmers stood in silence
drinking in the informdtion fthey
had come so far to get, but after]
group after group had walked over
ske 100 acres in pasture and observ
ed closely the herd of herefords as
oretty as those secen in pictures, the
farmers began to realize the im
portance of pastures. :
" After a barbecue furnished by
the canning and farmers’ clubs of
Newton Rockdale and Walton coun
ties, Mr. Paul Tabor, Pasture Ex
pert of the State College of Agri
=ulture, gave the farmers 'info:‘ma-v
zion on how to return home and do
what they had seen on Mr. Luns
ford’s farm. A representative from
sach of the 13 counties spoke, tel
‘ing of the information gained and
their determination to return home’
and start a permanent pasture. '
At a time when Negro farmers
iwre leaving the State in large num
bers, it is very significant that agri
:ultural pursuits of a permanent na
sure are being started among ‘the'
Negro farmers of f{Georgia. With
.permanent pastures in Georgia,
ivestock production will be a success
and. hundreds of Negro farmers who
have migrated hecause of economic
necessities, will return to Georgia,
the greatest agricultlural state in
the Union. '
There are 83 Negro farm and
Irome demonstration agents in Geor
gia working under the direction of i
Mr. J. Phil Campbell, Director, Ex- |
tension Work of Georgia, Georgia
State College of Agriculture, Athens,
Georgia Last year, these 33 agents
working in 40 counties, carried thel
message of improved methods on the |
farm and in the home to 161,321 |
farmers, farm women, boys- and |
girls. ; f
l.eeshurg, Lee Countv 'Ga , Friday OCTOBER 19, 1923
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MEMBERS CANNOT
BREAK CONTRACT
ALBANY, Ga., Oct. 15.~Evidence
that members of the Georgia Peanut
Growers Co-operative Association
who break their contracts by selling
outside of the Association will pay
for their failure to keep faith with
their fellow members of the Associa
|tion was furnished last week when
announcement was made by the
headquarters office of the Peanut As
sociation at Albany that suits had
been filed against several members
'in different counties for alleged con
tract breaking.
’ These suits, which were filed by
Pottle & Hofinayer, an Albanyslaw
firm, aided by local counsel in each
county, ask that the alleged default
ers be compelled by the courts to
pay the Association “liquidated dam
ages” at the rate of two cents a
pound or $40.00 a ton for every pea-.
nut they sold outside of the Associa
tion, and that such members be re
strained from further disregard of
their contract.
I Contracts, which every one of the
nearly 6,000 members of the Peanut
’Association signed obligated each
‘members to deliver to the Associa~‘
tion for sale “all of the peanuts pro
duced or acquired by or for him
during the yars 1923, 1924, 1925,
1926 and 1927.” This contract has
been construed to cover the crops
of tenants and share croppers on the
place of a landlord who signed a
contract for similar delivery.
‘lt was a matter of protection to
the loyal members of the Peanut As
sociation that these suits were filed,
according to Colonel Robert E. L.
Spence, President and General Man
ager of the Association, who declar
ed that they would be followed by
others if further cases of contract
breaking are discovered by him and
other agents of the growers’ organi
zation. “There is nothing pers>nal
in the matter whatever,” he added;
“it is simply a business move in be
half of those who have loyally kept
their contracts by delivering 2!l of
the peanuts they have for the mar
ket to their Association——and [ am
happy to. say that these loyal ones
are overwhelmingly in the majority,
the contract slackers being notably
few. But if we allowed these few
to get away with it, others would |
be tempted by the high pvices nowy
prevailing, largely because of the
Association, to break thcir «on
tracts.”
The suits will be impartial, Colonel
Spence declared, the big defaulter
be.ing sued as well as the little one,
if not actualiy sooner, “I feel sorry,”
he said, “for the little fellow, who
through stress of obligations yielded
to temptation, but if we let him get
away with breaking his contract
lightly, others would do the same.
It is true that all of the money is
not forthcoming at once for Associa
tion members, but they are receiving
first payments at the rate of $75.00
a ton, and there is not a man that
one of them owes who would not
wait for the rest of his money if
they make part payiment on the debt
and show him their participation re
ceipt calling for the rest of their
money later,”
Colonel Spence called attention to
the high prices that have fuled since
the opening of the peanut market
in September and declared that the
Association has been the largest
single factor in bringing this to pass.
Several of the members have writ
ten in to say that, in their opinion,
peanuts are at a greatly higher level
of prices than would have been the
case with no Association. Some of
members pointed to press dispatches
indicating a price for peanuts in
Southeast Alabama, where there is
no Association, much lower than
that prevailing in Georgia where
ithere is a strong Association. “It was
to continue this favorable situation
in Georgia that the suits were filed
against contract breakers”, Colonel
Spence said,” and for the same rea
’son that others will follow if other
members disregard the notice and
Iwarning they now have.”
‘ FARM LANDS WANTED
iWanted, to purchase for a friend in
Atlanta, a farm, improved or unim
proved, in Southwest Georgia. Write
what you have, giving complete de
iscription, price and terms.
l Box 228, Leesburg, Ga.
|H. L.LONG,SR
'Judge of City Court of Lees
burg to Fill Unexpired Term
of Judge Ware G. Martin
Who Has Resigned.
Judge H. L. Long, Sr., has been
appointed judge of the City Court of
Leesburg by Governor Walker to fill
the unexpired term of Judge Ware
'G. Martin who resigned several days
ago to take effect the first of Jan
uary. This is good news to the many
friends of Judge Long.
- This will also cause a vacancy in
the office of Ordinary as Judge Long
will be forced to resign to take his
other place. Mr. B. E. Powell will
probably make the race for Ordinary
is stated and will announce for
the place in a short time according
to information from his friends.
Moultrie Observer Advances
Suggestion; Others Join
ATLANTA, Oct. 13.—Georgia
highway officials are intersted in the
discussion now being carried on by
sevaral South Georgia daily newspa
pers relative to a proposal of the
Moultrie Observer that pecan trees
be planted along state roads.
“Pecan trees do not need to be
culticated after they have reached
a certain age,” the Observer says.
“They get their support from low
down in the earth—too deep to cul
tivate. Look about you anywhere
and you will see trees doing well in
places where they are not cultivated.
Only young trees need to be cul
tivated.”
The Observer takes the position.
that if its suggestion is carried out,
the beauty of Georgia highways will
ibe greatly increased in a practical
and beneficial way.
“If the nut trees along the high
‘ways woulld produce as steadily and
as profitably as they do under culti
vation and care on the farms in this
section of Georgia, it might be well
to have them along the highways,”
says the Cordele Dispatch. “It
would at least help towards meeting
the requirements in this class of food
ffor many pale-faced little fellows in
the country who never get the right
kind of nourishment.”
The Valdosta Times could not re
sist a tempation and gave out this
good-natured comment:
“Now comes Editor Allen, of the
‘Moultrie Observer an d suggests
that nut trees be planted along the
state highways, as though there were
not enough nuts on the highways
already.”
DEATH OF MRS.
SARA ANN JACKSON.
Mrs. Sara Ann Jackson for a num
her of years a resident of Leeshurg,
lied at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Claude Brown, in Columbus
yesterday according to a message
received here by relatives. -
Mrs. Jackson was a member of
one of the most prominent families
in this seetion,and greatly beloved
by a wide circle of friends. She
was at the time of her death 83-
years of age and spent practically
all of her life in Lee County with
the exception of the past few years
making her home with her daughter,
Mrs. Brown, in Columbus. She was
a good Christian woman and a de
voted member of the Baptist church.
The deceased is survived by three
daughters, Mrs. M. B. Heath and
Mrs. Dora Ragan, of Leesburg, Mrs.
C. P. Brown, of Columbus; two sons,
Messrs. H. A. and J. B. Jackson, of
Atlanta, and one sister, Mrs. L. A.
Odom,
The interment will take place in
Oakview cemetery in Albany tomor
row afternoon.
A Hard Answer,
“My husband considered a very long
time before he proposed to me, He
was very careful” “Ah, it's always
those careful people who get taken jn,”
INDUST'AL REVIEW
This is fire prevention week (Oc
tober 8-13, inclusive), the period set
aside to Teach the public ways to
combat the enormous loss caused an
nually by fire. All industries, schools
and homes should co-operate, not
only this week but all the year
round, to lower the national fire
waste.
Atlanta—Contracts to be let for
laying water mains on number of
local streets, to cost $17.550.
Cordele—Site being cleared for
rebuilding of Crisp County I.umber
Company’s big milling plant.
Atlanta—Contract let for erection
of Albert Steiner Memorial hospital
at this point,
~ Burroguhs—Atlantic Coast Line
Railway installing block singal sys
tem between here and Yemasee.
Atlanta—Kingan & Company to
build new $250,000 packing plant in
thig city.
Macon—Work begun on new
bridge over Okmulgee river by Cen
tral Raßilway. .
Savannah—lmprovement of Gun
nott strees pumping station planned.
Atlanta—Construction of new
Harris school under way.
Paulan—Modern $20,000 scchool
building under way.
Jackson—Local hatchery of Jack
son Ice Corporation in operation.
Lincolnton—Twin City Power
Company plans construction of dam
across Savannah river,
‘Macon-—Fifth street bridge and
Spring street bridge to be reprired.
Tobacco yield for this state 9,000,-
000 Ibs. this season.
Macon—Local plumbing and heat
ing Company, Over $lOO,OOO worth
of contracts being carried out.
Rome—Co-opertive Creamery
Company in this district begins man
ufacture of cheese.
Stateshoro—Plans complelted for
Sunday school annex to local Metho
dist shurch.
LaGrange—lnstallation of boule
vard lighting system through busi
ness district propesed.
Pavo—3o,6oB lbs. of hogs sold in
one day.
Fairfield—Finnish colony plan
ninng 75 acres in cabbage, ma
chinery being purchased by colony
for the manufacture of crates.
Sparta—Peanut crop in this coun
ty to yield good harvest.
Manchester—Construction of new
Central Baptist church under way
here.
Americus—7s hogs with an aver
age weight of 200 lbs. each bring
owners $1,200.
Atlanta—Tobacco Growers’ Asso
ciation to acctively attack 10 per
cent tax on state tobacco declaring
it class elgislation and dangerous in
practice. ¢
Dalt((n——Americgn Thread Com
pany to erect cotton mill involving
initial expenditure of $2,000,000.
Atlanta—Bell Telephone system
spends $1,200,000 on additions and
improvements during first half of
1923, an additional $1,000,000 to be
expended during last half.
It is time the citizen realized that
enacting laws is what is heaping up
the increasing burdens of taxation.
When the legislature enacts several
hundred new laws it creates offices,
increases bublic payrolls and multi
plies taxes . There is almost no legis
lation to limit expenditures or pro
duce new revenues without a direct
tax, but nearly all laws cause ex-
Beauty In the Sky. |
To sce the stars well, one must
make his camp In .the desert. There
ps he lies rolled for the night in his
blankets, surrounded only by distance
and desolation, he looks up Into
greater beauties than all the museums,
galleries, and conservatories of civill
zation can offer. But these things can
be sgeen In part from any farm, dnd &
little even from the street cerner.—
Frank A. Waugh, in “The Landscape
Besutiful.”
Pointer for the Baby.
The nurse was in the room with the
pew baby. She heard Bobby scfily
enter and saw him stand by the crib
watching with considerable interest the
new baby using his lungs. The bab;
was a strong little fellow and he cried
louder and louder. “Keep it up,” ad
vised Bobby gleefully, “that’s the way
I get things.” ; . ARy
City Court convened here Mon
day morning at 9 o’clock with Judge
Ware G. Martin presiding with Col.
E. L. Forrester looking after the
States interest. This will be a big
court as Judge Martin is preparing
to clear the docket as this is his
last court to hold, having resigned
the place to take effect on January 1.
PRESIDENT
ATLANTA, Ga.—Hon. Oscar
Underwood, U, S. Senator from Ala
bama, will be the president of the
lUnited States if a goodly portion of
the citizenry of Georgia, which now
favori his candidacy, can help him
to the White House.
Sentiment for Mr . Underwood,
which has been strong in many parts
of Georgia since his name was first
propesed for the chieftaincy of the
nation, has been growing stronger
and stronger during the last few
months, if one may judge from the
newspaper reports. Now, according
to political leaders, the distinguished
Alabamaian has found favor in near
ly every section of the state.
“If Underwood is nominated—
and his chances are fine—he will
be elected”, said a well known poli
tician in one of the hotel lobbies
here. “That’s the opinion, not of
Georgians alone, but of leading
democrats in maeny sections of the
country. It is genoticealbe fact that
leading newspapers all over the
country have endorsed him.”
SstAE‘l{xSLg I\{V%gEARN’D ‘
FLEES, IS CHARGE
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Coffee County Man is Held
for Crime Committed
Néarly Year Ago
Dougles, Ga., Oct. 17.—The in
dictment of L. S. Rogers on a charge
of murder in connection with the
killing of his brother John Alton
Rogers near West Green in this
county nearly a year ago, has just
brought to light one of the revolting
crimes in the history of this section.
It is alleged that Rogers after shoot
ing his 'brother to death, wrapping
his nude body in an old quilt and
burying it in a field, later fled to
widow. The woman and Rogers are
Avon Park, Fla., with his brother’s
to be brought here for trial. Sheriff
Tanner was expected to reach the
city this afternoon with his prison
ers. '
The accused man, police say, shot
the brother in the head with a pistol
killing him instantly, and then wrap
ped part of a quilt around the un
clothed corpse, which he buried in
the field. The act is said to have
been committed Nov. 18, 1922. The
alleged slayer is then said to have
reported that John Alton Rogers had
deserted his family, and left for an
unknown destination. ;
ESTRAY NOTICE
Took up on my place, one red
heifer owner can get her by paying
for this advertisement and paying
damage and cost. If not will be sold.
MRS. ARTIE DUNCAN.
o 10-19-1923,
STREET TAX NOTICE
Sege——
~ Street tax for the year 1923 is
now due and must be paid to the
City Marshal at once. The street
tax for this year is $5.00. Please
see me and settle same at once.
D. G. MERCER, City Marshal.
Ravens Mate for Life. e
- Ravens pair for life, and use
same nest year affer year, . -
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