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Council of Defense
Recommends Local
and State Memorials
Governor Dorsey will appoint a com- '
mission to arrange for suitable state*,
memorial for the men from Georgia !
who have made the supreme sacrifice
in this war. He will appoint the com
mission at his discretion, and to them j
will be left the decision as to the form
and location of the monument. The!
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RUCKER COTTON
k
If farmers are in the cotton raising business to
make money they cannot afford to miss the on
portunity to cultivate Rucker’s Select No. 1.
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The Points To Consider
FIRST PROLIFIC QUALITIES: Rucker’s Select No. 1 makes the greatest amount of seed cotton to the
acre. We do not beheve anybody will dispute this.
D'ti* —HIGH-LINTING QUALITIES: Rucker’s Select No. 1 runs from 45 to 50 per cent lint. In 1918
Bnhe Williams, at Alpharetta, nfade twenty 525-pound bales on fifteen acres, and he says that the average per cent
lint was more than forty-nine.
THIRD-EARLY MATURING QUALITIES: Rucker’s Select No. 1 is a cross between the Cook and the
King, and is really as early, if not earlier, than the King. It has a habit of beating them all to the sin
FOURTH-HEALTH OF THE PLANT: In 1918 there w. not a kick from any source o® the perfect
health of the Rucker Select No. 1 Cotton. It grew to perfection for everybody.
FIFTH -THE STAPLE: Ihis is a matter that is Deing much discussed in some circles. The Rucker Cotton
is ready for the discussion. It has a very uniform staple about seven-eights of an inch long. Mr. John Brown, one
ot the best business men and farmers in North Georgia, who owns the old Carr farm, two miles northeast of Ma
rietta, desired to plant his 1919 cotton crop to the Rucker variety, but, in order to be sure of the staple, he bought a
bale of the Rucker cotton and took it to Whittier Mills and had it manufactured. The superintendent of the mills
assured him that it is a good staple, coming within one-twentieth of the high standard. Mr. Brown has already
spoken to the Rucker Cottonseed Company for planting s’ed, and will plant nearly all of his entire farm to the
Rucker variety.
Price of the Seed
In small lots, less than eleven bushels, by freight or express, $4.00 per bushel.
In lots of eleven bushels or more, by freight or express, $3.75 per bushel.
Farmers who drive to our warehouse in Alpharetta, or to the John Rucker place, three miles west of Alpha
retta, and vetch tneir sacks can get tnese seed for $3.50 per bushel.
Thoseed we are offering were perfectly matured in idea! weather conditions, were kept separate at the gin
and, which is very important, have been thoroughly culled, so that they are full of vigor, pure and clean.
h you are going to grow Rucker Cotton, come and get your seed where you know what you are netting, and
doz\ t put it oif till ther supply is exhausted.
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Rucker Cottonseed Company
Alpharetta, Georgia.
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THE TRIBUNE-NEWS, CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1919
members of the commission will be
drawn from every district of the state,
so that the voice of the State will have
opportunity for expression through the
commission.
At a meeting of the Georgia Council
of Defense, which was held in Ma
con, Ga., February 6th, 1919, the Gov
ernor presided, and, according to ad
vices from the Council of National De
fense In Washington, sent to all State
Councils of Defense, the subject of ap
propriate welcomes to home-coming
soldiers, and appropriate memorials
A SHOWER if you pre
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like glass.
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A GOOD “brush off.”
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A SINCERE “I thank
you.”
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A HEARTY “call a
gain.”
to those who have died, were among the
matters discussed at the council meet
ing.
At the beginning of the meeting it
was explained that the Georgia Coun
cil of Defense organized for the per
formance of duties during the war,
and, according to the bill passed by the
Georgia legislature, expires with the
forthcoming meeting of the legislature,
but is an organization at present which
concerns itself with the work which
is still a part of war work. Among these
duties being the consideration of the
finding of employment for returning
soldiers, andaccording appropriate wel
comes to soldiers returning, and, fin
ally. the directions of movements mak
ing for the appropriate monuments for
the soldiers of this war.
The Work of Other Councils
in order to inform the members of
the committee present about the work
being done in this direction by other
councils of defense, the Governor read
from a compiled report of activities
in other states, which showed that un
der the State Councils of Defense
movements to build state monuments
had been started and that in other
states monuments are to he built, some
raising the funds ‘through soliciting
subscriptions, others through state
legislative funds.
Getters were also read from a num
ber of prominent Georgians relative
io the appropriateness of a worthy
state monument, for the boys of the
entire state who have fought in this
war. Admirable suggesions were made
as to the form of the monument. The
Governor asked for opinions and sug
gestions, explaining at the same time
that he was open to suggestions as
Governor and head of the State
Council of Defense, but the Council of
Defsnse, as an organization, was not
authorized to build monuments or to
solicit funds for the same.
Open Discussion
After open discussion a resolution
was passed recommending that the
Governor create a commission or asso
ciation for the purpose of building a
state monument, this commission to
have the authority to decide upon the
kind of memorial to be the most desir
able, the ways and means of raising the
fund for it, and, finally, its establish
ment.
The Governor eloquently referred to
the importance of the state monument,
! the worthiness of the cause, and, fin
j ally, the fact that under a state manu
rnent every boy who went forth to fight
’ for his country, would have his me
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I morial established through the one
state monument, whether or not his
county or his community established
its own monument.in which he would
be inCtuded.
interesting discussion followed up
on the form the memorial should take.
There were those who saw the oppor
tunity to have its artistic value, thus
beginning the establishment of Geor
gia’s monuments to her civilization.
There were others who saw the value
of extending the monument farther and
encouraging the beauty of highways
leading from all sections of the state to
the place where the state' monument
should be, each section and county of
the state feeling its pride and part in
the monument. There were those who
were deeply impressed by th sugges-
tion that the state accept a part of
the Stone Mountain, on one part of
which the drama of Confederacy is
planned to be carved, there being the
possibility of making of the mountain
not only the monument to the men
who have died in two years, but a mon
ument to American valor of all days—
those passed and those to come.
American Valor
Still impressed with the
beauty of such a monument; there
were those who believed a state monu
ment might take the form of benefit
ing the living, while still memorializ
ing the dead, and suggestions were
made of educational memorials of a
chapel on the campus of the Univer
sity of Georgia; of a monument at the
State Capitol, or some building of
beauty and usefulness.
All the suggestions which were made,
tit the meetings and those which came
in tlie form of letters to tlie Governor,
were put on record with the council of
defense, and will be turned over by
that organization to the monument
commission when it is created by the
Governor.
The Local Memorials
While the Georgia Council of De
fense recommended the establishment
of a state memorial for all the boys
who have gone from Georgia,and who
have made the supreme sacrifice, no
less important did the council consider
the matter of the local or county and
city memorials which are already be
ing established in Georgia for boys of
the separate localities and communi
ties.
An inspiring example of this was the
report made by Mrs. Alexander Lawton
of Savannah, who reported that the
memorial for the boys of Chatham
county und Savannah will be estab
lished in Savannah in the form of a
city hospital, which Mrs. Lawton des
cribed as the most human k.nd of
monument—one through which human
ity can at all times he benefited. Mrs.
Lawton explained that there was a
general co-operation in the matter of
building of the monument in Savannah.
The two hospitals of that city, one .for
the white, the other for the negroes,
will be combined. The county will pay
its pro rata for every patient taken in
the hospital, thus aiding in the main
tenance, and there is ahead of the
promotres of the Savannah memorial
$250,000, and they believe that the hos
pital, when combpleted, will represent
the very best and up-to-date, both in
the matter of building and equipment.
Mrs. Lawton spoke impressively of the
appropriatness o fa hospital as a me
morial. and she believed that if many
local communities followed this form
of memorial it" would prove not only
a worthy memorial, but one which
would prove not only a worthy me
morial, hut one which would be in
valuable in the better public health
conditions of many communities.
Governor Dorsey highly commended
the report of Mrs. Lawton, and spoke of
the advisability of one community hav
ing one monument rather than the
forces of the community being- broken
into several monuments, which, though
all were worthy in purpose, all could
not represent the same spirit or co
operation nor the same value as a mon
ument. either in beauty or usefulness.
Welcome Boys on Their Return
The Georg‘a Council of Defense fur
ther recommended that the 4th of
July be especially observed in every
community of the State as a time for
welcoming the boys who have given
their services in war and most of whom
will probably have returned by that
time. It was decided as a more posi
tive way to assure evejy boy having his
welcome if one day especially named
or that purpose, with a ceremony set
apart as a special welcoming feature.
Local councils of defense were to make
this one of their duties to see that this
home-coming were observed' on the
Fourth of July.
This decision or recommendation
from the Council of Defense it was ex
plained did not interfere with pre
vious arrangements made by commun
ities for home-coming ceremonies pre
vious to that time. In the easp of the
City of Savannah it was explained by
Mrs. Alexander Lawton that arange
ments had been made t ohuve a home
coming ceremony in that city on the
22nd of February, as many Savannah
men will have returned from overseas,
and service elsewhere, before that time. 1
i Hon. David G. Bailey announced that
home-coming ceremonies would be ob
served by the Council of Defense for
returning soldiers,a nd that a suitable
memorial would be erected in that
county. Governor Dorsey here took oc
casion to compliment Mr. Bailey upon
the active work which has been done
during the war by the Spalding County
Council of Defense, of which he is
chairman.
Judge Gilbert’s Suggestion
1 lie Council of Defense recommended
that independent of either a state me
morial or those local, that the next leg
islature be petitioned to appropriate
sufficient funds to have engrabed up
on a bronze tablet to hang in the
state capitol of Georgia, the names of
the Georgia boys who have made the
supreme sacrifice in -this war. The
council recommended*' this following a
suggestion by Judge Price Gilbert, who
saw in the proposed bronze tablet to
hang in the statehouse, not only a pa
triotic memorial, but a" historic record,
througli which every boy who went
from the state recorded, whether his
state or his country established any
worthy mmiuinent.
The Council of Defense further rec
ommended the adoption of a resolution
introduced by State School Commis
sioner Brittain looking to the reduc
tion of illiteracy in Georgia, the facts
of which have been exploited since the
war period.
Mr. Brittain's Resolution
Mr. Brittain's resolution was:
"Whereas, the United States cen
sus of 1910 and the results of the
draft law show that our state is
weakened mentally, morally, phy
sically and financially by the large
number of adult illiterates, who
were unfortunately deprived of ed
ucational opportunities early in
life; and
“Whereas, the safety, welfare
and prosperity of the common
wealth rneder it imperative that
each person should at least know
how to read and write and under
stand the elementary studies and
obligations of citizenship; and
the credit and good
name of the State are affected by .
this internal condition which men
aces us more at this time thtn ene
mies from wilthout.
“Be it resolved by the State
Council of Defense, That the Gov
ernor be, and he is hereby request
ed to appoint an illiteracy com
mission of ten, of which the Gov
ernor shall he a member, ex-of
ficio, to devise ways and means for
training those of our number who
are. handicapped by this disability,
and that saiii commission is here
by authorized and directed to use
in beginning this work, SIO,OOO, cr
so much as may be advisable, of
the amount set aside for the work
of the State Couticil of Defense
to teach these men and women in
the different counties of Georgia
who have passed beyond the help
of public schools. This training
shall be given in each locality,
through day or evening classes, for
three months, or longer a.s may be
necessary, with the purpose of se
curing further legislation from the
next geenral assembly to the end
that every adult person in this
state may at least know how to
read and write before the next cen
sus of 1020."
Returning Soldiers
Official announcement was made
that the matter of looking after re
turning soldiers had been left to a com
mittee of the Council of Defense head
ed by the Hon. H. M. Stanley, com
missioner of labor, who reported fav
orably on the progress being made.
11. M. Stellar, of Washington, D. C„
reported on the. work of directing re
turning soldiers to the development of
the world lands in those sections in
spected for the purpose. The move
ment, Mr. Ellar explained, was under
the department of labor, and definite
plans were in progress in Georgia.
A telegram was read from Alex. IC.
Sessoms, who is head of the movement
in Georgia, the telegram to Judge Price
Gilbert, as follows:
“Bartow, Fla., February 5, 1919. —
j Chairman Georgia Council of Defense,
Hotel Dempsey, Macon, Ga.’: Find it
impossible to reach Macon in time for
meeting tomorrow. Please announce to
l council that we have three adjoining
tracts of land, with total acreage of
forty-five thousand, that-will be offer
ed Governor Dorsey for purpose of
providing farms for soldiers and sail
ors. The owners of these lands have
placed a low price on hem arid are
willing to accept payment over a period
of forty years, with Interest of not less
than 4 per cent. These offers will be
mailed to Governor Dorsey. I recom
mend that Governor Dorsey continue
the soldier land settlement problem
and recommend legislation that will
help solve this problem. ALEX K.
SESSOMS.” < ...
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Before the adjournment of the meet
ing Governor Dorsey expressed his ap
preciation of the work done by the
Council of Defense in Georgia, espec
ially mentioning the work of Judge
Price Gilbert, the chairman of the cen
tral committee; the secretary, Hon. s.
J. Slate, and to the two women mem
bers of the board—Mrs. Samuel M. In
man, of Atlanta, and Mrs. Alexander
Lawton, of Savannah.
SPRING TRADE GETTING GOOD,
MERCHANTS ASSERT
Spring business is getting under way
in Cartersville sooner this season than
it has m a number of years, local re
tail liter hunt* say. The indications
points to one of tho I'csi .seasons in a
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