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THE VIP ALIA ADVANCE
N. C. NAPIER, Editor ««hI PuUUher.
“ WEDNESDAY. JUNE 22, 1921.
“WHEN THERE IS NO VISION, THE PEOPLE
PERISH.”
When the citizens of the town have no vision
for their town, stagnation and slow growth inevi
tably follow. Vision, it has been said, marks the
difference between an optimist and a pessimist.
Vidalia has many citizens with vision, men
and women who picture the town with beautiful
church buildings, with a high school building, with
our streets nicely graded, with concrete sidewalks
throughout our business and residential sections,
with the Seaboard freight depot moved from its
present location, our business section paved and
well lighted, with the railroad tracks a'ong Rail
road Avenue cut down in number, and this great
wide avenue made beautiful with grass and flow
ers, hedge-rows and trees.
The thing is to picture our town as we want
it to be and as it ought to be, and then everybody
go to work to make the vision come true.
We believe the most important thing for the
town's future, after sewerage, is the removal of the
freight depot. We trust he Seaboard officials
will realize that they could make no better invest
ment toward for all time securing the good will of
the people .of this section than moving their frieght
depot to a better location.
The citizens of Vidalia ask nothing unreason
able : it will cost so little to move the present plat
form and building to another location that to delay
some definite action or de’ay giving us some clef-,
inite assurance of action is short-sighted business
policy.
Vidalia and the Seaboard Railway have mutual
problems, and the friendship of each is worth much
to the other. We hope these problems can he work
ed out in a spirit of cordial friendship and mutual
goodwill.
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TYING THE FARMER UP IN POLITICS.
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What with the diverse recommendations of
Commissioner J . J . Brown of the state department
of agriculture, Mr. Chas. S. Barrett, president of
the Farmers Union, the Cotton Growers Co-opera
tive Association, the State Agricultural College,
the Georgia Farm Bureau Federation, newspaper
editors, et al, the Georgia farmer who is seeking
advice about the cotton problem is confronted with
“confusion worse confounded.”—Jackson Prog
ress-Argus .
“The poor farmer is certainly catching it on
al! sides,” remarks the Dawson News in comment
ing upon the above. “With rival oganizations, in
stitutions and politicians bombarding him with
propaganda, each promising to lead him to greater
prosperity if he will align himself with and sup
port their particular “movements,” the farmer is
having a devil of a time. Be iVSaid to his credit,
however, he has learned something himself, and
these things do not impress him as they once did.
He knows that his success depends on his own in
dustry and good management, and he is going
along in an even tenor, minding his own business
and producing mure than ever before, while these
bureaus and things quarrel among themselves as to
which shall be his guardian angel. One of the
biggest l fights at the approaching session of the
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rival saviors of the farmer.”
FOUND AT LAST
Lawyers all over the land will he interested in
the following story sent our from Chicago:
Chicago, June 15. —After a 700 years world
wide search John Doe has been found. He appear
ed in Judge Joseph David’s court to-day on trial on
a charge of operating a confidence game.
“John Doe,” the clerk called.
Up rose a tall, stout fellow. Judge David
looked at him curiously.
“So, you’re John Doe?” he asked.
“Yes, you honor.”
“Wei 1 . John Doe,” said the Judge “this is a mat
ter of congratulations. We’ve been searching for
vou 700 years. You can he proud of yourself, John
Doe. You have ancestry.”
Now that John Doe has been found, we will
expect to learn that his co-conspiration in litigation
Richard Roe. has also turned up. These two famous
legal characters are about as old as Methuseah and
will live forever in legal lore.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
Population of Georgia 2,895,832.
Total deaths from tuberculosis in 1920 2,543.
Tota 1 deaths among whites from tuberculosis
for 1920 949.
Total deaths among negroes from tuberculosis
for 1920 1,594.
Number of beds at State Tuberculosis Sanita
rium for whites 95.
Number of beds at State Tuberculosis Sanita
rium for negroes none.
Very little can be done to solve the tuberculo
sis problem in Georgia until a larger State Tuber
culosis Sanitarium is provided, which will take
care of both whites and blacks.
The State Tuberculosis Sanitarium will ask
the'State Legislature this year for $500,000. for the
construction of such institution this year. The wel
fare of Georgia citizens demands more aggressive
and more adequate warfare against tuberculosis.
A larger institution will be a start in the right di
rection.
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The Fourth Estate ors the 12th district loses an
?ble member in the retirement of F. W. Shepper
of Dublin from newspaper work, Mr. Shepper hav
ing accepted the position as secretary of the Oit
man Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Shepper has
for a number 6f years been associate editor of the
Dublin Courier-Herald and his work on that papei
has attracted state-wide attention.
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This week sees the Georgia legislature meet
ing for its annual session and the inauguration of
Governor-elect Hardwick. The session of the leg
islature is going to he a busy one and we trust will
he fruitful of constructive legislation. We have
never been an especial admirer of Hardwick, but
we believe he is going to make the state a goo'’
governor. We would guess that it is his ambition to
get back to the senate chamber in Washington, ano
his changes of realizing that ambition again wil
depend largely upon the record he makes as gover
nor. Georgia has in some manner; got in a had
way financially; we are too slow in paying our
common school teachers and pensioners; we must
get on a better basis and the state needs more
money to meet the ever increasing demands of our
state institutions. New system of taxation will
have to be devised and new sources of revenue
must be found.
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THE VIDALIA ADVANCE, VIDALIA, GEORGIA.
COTTON GROWERS A&E
RAPIDLY ORGANIZING
The Organisation Campaign of the
Georgia Cotton Growers Co-operative
Association has to date been carried
into no less than twenty-one counties
of the State, it was announced at
headquarters of the association Sat
urday. in each of these counties
formal or informal committnes are
already actively at work upon the de
velopment of the campaign. In El
bert, Hart, Scriven, Morgan, Laurens,
Toombs, Bulloch and Burke counties
complete county committees, with rep
resentation from every milita district
in the county and made up practicailly
exclusively of farmers who have al
ready signed contract, are at work
in the fields.
Informal committees now exist in
Banks. Wilkes, McDuffie, Oglethorpe.
Green, Clacton, Fayette, Cobb, Madi
son, Warren, Dodge and Jackson coun
ties, and will be developed into com
plete permanent working organiza
tions this week. (
Farmers’ support for the movement
has been practically unanimous
wherever its leaders have gone- The
only difficulty confronting the organi
zation committee is that of getting to
the farmer fast enough.
It is beileved that the campaign
will be given a great impetus next
week when an elaborate questionaire,
now on the press, which explains the
contract and plan in detail from be-
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JUNE STH TO SEPTEMBER 4TH, 1921.
FARE AND SCHEDULE FROM VIDALIA:
LEAVE 6:55 A. M. ; FARE TO TYBEE $2.56; TO SAVANNAH *2.00.
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Model 22-46, was $2585, now $2135.
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Model 22-48, was $2985, now $2325.
Model 22-49, was 2065, now $1735.
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LYONS NEWS NOTES.
(From The ProgTess.)
Mr. R. R. Tucker, of Sparta, 'super
intendant of the Lyons potato curing
plant, was in town Saturday. Mr.
Tucker was well pleased with the
way the potatoes were handled here.
He says they were cured better than
any he had seen cured in South
Georgia. He carried a crate as a
sample to show the folks there.
Mr. T. A- Peterson, of Ailey, has
been named on the inaugural com
mittee to plan for the inauguration of
Governor-el.ect Hardwick, which will
take place in Atlanta on June 25. Mr.
Peterson is the representative on the
committee for the 12th district.
That crops in the counties of
Toombs and Montgomery are better
than in any other section of South
Georgia is the opinion of Mr. A. K.
McGill, who last week returned from
a business trip which carried him to
a large number of the counties of
this section,
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