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About The Bartow tribune. The Cartersville news. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1917-1924 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1920)
THE TRIBUNE-NEWS Published weekly at Cartersvllle, Geor gia by the TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY < Incorporated) MILTON L. FLEETWOOD President and Editor. Subscription Rates: One Year __s3.oo Six Months 1-50 Three Months *75 Advertising rates reasonable and cheerfaHy furnished on application. Proper notice of deaths will always be published without charge, but for mal obituary noticos, sent in later, will be charged for at regular advertising rates. We reserve the right of editing all items published. Entered as second-class matter, Feb ruary 17, 1217 at the post office at Car tersville, Georgia, under the Act of Marcn 3, 1879. Just watch Cox win. o Seems everybody is satisfied ; with the Tabernacle meetings. { o Keep the Fair dates in mind: j October 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16. o Jack Patterson’s column adds spice to the Atlanta Jour nal's editorial space. o Auto dealers are selling lots of cars, despite handicaps that are numerous. o With Hugh, Tom and Hoke in a three-cornered race, things can’t be tame. o The boll weevil has proven a blessing to many communities. May that be the case here. o If a “j’int ’spute” is arranged there won’t be standing room around the place where it is held. o What would you give to know how Bartow county would go in the race for gover nor and senator? o Cartersville is losing money, and lots of it, because her hotel facilities are not what we de serve to have. o Hardwick is scheduled to speak in Cartersville the latter part of August. o Jim Nevin and James A. Hol loman are making use of some wild political forecasts—but this is election year. o The first question some folks will ask when they get to heaven—if they ever do—will be: “What is my taxes?” o A bonded warehouse will prove the salvation of the cot ton farmers. Think about it, and see if , we are not right. o There are several pleasant surprises in store for all who attend the Commercial Associa tion banquet Friday evening. o If you read the advertise ments in The Tribune-News, ‘ you will save money, time and worry. Try it out this week. o The Savannah Press para grapher suggests that “long green whitewashes many black records.” Bill Biffen is at least a philosopher. —o There may be things we would aspire to beyond our j means, but we do not envy the j city fellows and wish we were j one of them. ———o The newspapers are facing the greatest crisis of their his tory, and the question of secur ing news-print at any price is paramount just now. o Don’t forget when that vis itor comes, to phone either 234 or 304, and tell us about it. We are always glad to print all the names we possibly can. o A number of alleys and streets need a thorough clean ing up. Let’s co-operate with Dr. Bryan in his efforts to make this town and county healthy. o The Cartersville streets are not the worst in Georgia, but they lack several miles of paved sidewalks of being the equal found in many towns of this size. o You have a mighty good chance to win some fine prizes at the Fair this year. Look over your premium list and decide on the display you expect to enter. o If you really love politics and take delight in indulging in dis cussions of this nature, now is your chance, if you ever had one. The pot is boiling fast and furious. —. o That knitting mill will some day pay all who invest in its stock very handsome dividends. If you are looking for an in vestment of the gilt-edge vari ety, put a few hundred here, and then watch it grow like the proverbial green bay trqe.-' Disappointments. (From the Waton Tribune.) The following is taken from Mrs. Edith O. Susong’s delecta ble Greenville (Tenn.) Demo crat : “Did you ever send out a large number of bills with high hopes, estimating the amount stated on them, and what a nice bank account they would bring you? Did you ever spend about S2O for stamps to send them out, not regretting it in the least, thinking all the time of the fat checks you were going to receive 7 “Did you ever watch the mails with heart growing less and less confident each day, until at the end of the month you found by careful figuring that the bunch of bills have netted you in return just ex actly the S2O you spent for stamps? “If there is any feeling that is the exact antithesis of ‘the grand and glorious,’ it is this.” Yes, good lady, we have had the same experience many times and know how to sympa thize with you. Even though the white paper now con sumed in the Tribune costs us more than we are receiving for subscription, our appeals for payment still fall on a good many deaf ears, the one in ar rears doubtless going on the as sumption that we are talking about the other fellow’. Second Fiddling the Home Paper. 1 (From the Ft. Gaines Georgian ) ! The Southwest Georgian dis likes to play “second fiddle” on wedding announcements about people residing in the vicinity j lof Fort Gaines. Asa rule the editor of this paper keeps post ed regarding the marriage probabilities in this community, but we always refrain from publishing items about such delicate matters until author ized by proper persons to do so. Neither do we make a practice j of interrogating the families of rumored prospective brides, because the introduction of such subjects by persons out side of the home circle could precipitate embarrassing situa tions. It is not unreasonable for us to expect to receive cop ies of announcements of mar riages and engagements of some people before they are sent to distant big-town dailies, , Keep in mind that we usually know about such things in this j locality long before the Atlanta and Macon papers are told, and j that there is nothing to hinder ! us (except regard for involved parties’ desires) from publish ing almost any rumor that comes to our ears. It should also be remembered that the “little old home paper” is not expected to wait for the big city dailies to print a write-up of the wedding—a week or two after j it happens—and then bring up ! the rear with a “clipped” re port. People do not, we know, intentionally act snobbishly by snubbing their home newspa per in this matter of announce ment, but the average country editor hotly resents being ig nored even inadvertently. NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE. + + (By Roger W. Babson.) If the late war taught us anything, it is this— that nothing is impossible. An incident comes to mind that oc curred during the first Battle of the Somme. The British defense consisted of a single line of eight-inch howitzers, hub to hub. They were short of men— the Germans knew It and cut loose a terrific drive. Orders went down that single line of British guns: “Four shots a minute until relieved." That meant fast drill and four 90-pound projectiles every minute —a drill that wears out a trained crew in less than an hour. The German drive came on wave after wave all day and into the night. Morning found that same thin line of howitzers working like great plnngers. The order had read “Four a minute un til relieved,” and no relief had come; there was none. The third night came on and the cry of “Carry on" still went up and down that row of guns. The next morning the Germans with drew, beaten. British gun crews held a continuous tire of four a minute for seventy-two hours —anew record for the most grinding work that men have done. Compare this with the average exer tion of the average day. We grunt and swat at climbing a hill, and say we are tired, when we have not used one-tenth of our energy. , Nothing is impossible when the mind —the commander of your body—throws off those first whisperings of fatigue and cries "Carry on.” 0 Why don’t the barber shops issue numbers during the con gestisn on Saturdays? It will save newcomers a lot of annoy ance trying to guess when their turn comes, and the old-time citizens will also know exactly “where they are at.” — Killing Your Town. You don’t have to get out and openly knock Cartersville to injure it. There are dozens of ways you can discourage im provements and help to hold back the wheels of progress be sides open hostility. For in stance, if a public improvement : is suggested and your opinion is asked, just hint that you’d | rather not have anything to say. Or if you are asked to head a committee or serve on one that is pushing some move ment for the public good, just refuse to serve, and make ex cuses. Or if a meeting is called to discuss something in which the entire town is interested, just remain away, or use as an excuse that you was afraid i might rain. Any of these are sure ways of black-eyeing your home town, and will tend to discour age those w’ho are really trying to go ahead. It is not so much what you do to help the town along as it is what you refuse to do. Talking in a pessimistic manner of proposed improve ; ments before you have really given them serious thought is a i certain way to throw a wet blanket over the proposition. I And, whether you have any in fluence in the community or not the fact that you appear disin terested is apt to have an ill ef fect upon the man who doesn’t know you as well as those w’ho have lived neighbor to you for years. Get up and say something w’hen an improvement is about to be made or when a public movement is launched. If you have a better way, say so. If you can improve on the propo sition, say so. But say some thing, do something, don’t help to kill your town by holding back as though you were anx ious for the movement to fall through so you can repeat those words of the born knocker—“l told you so.” Georgia Counties Going | After U. S. Funds. The State Highway Depart ment announces that during the month of July they have re quested reimbursement from i the federal government for work done in the counties list ed below in the sum of $193,- 876.16. These drafts have been approved by the United States district engineer, and represent the number forwarded for two thirds of the month of July and checks should be received by the state or counties within the next sixty days. j This brings the total amount of money requested of the fed eral government to the sum of $1,191,720.01, of which sl,- 054,702 has been handled since the present highway board took charge. Following is the list: Brooks $10,844.25 Bullock 6,478.42 Chatham ___ 30,739.33 Cook 22.001.64 Cherokee 16,133.23 Charlton 2,305.64 Douglas 5,958.28 Dougherty 8,927.28 Emanuel 9,008.36 Floyd 8,026.51 Habersham 2,560.74 Harris 1,560.28 Haralson 2,329.30 Lowndes 17,465.21 Lumpkin 4,376.55 McDuffie 2,165.68 Morgan 4,553.55 Paulding 1,797.16 Pulaski 7,567.83 Rabun 2,257.34 ! Spalding 9,134.81 Thomas 7,669.65 Walker 1,084.95 Walton 7,804.78 Washington 4,093.47 Wilkes 1,003.08 i Worth 16,057.72 THE TRIBUNE-NEWS. CARTERSVILLE, QA AUGUST 5, 1920. The Germ Carrier Southern Farmer Need Fear No Competition. The Department of Agricul ture at Washington has issued ! a report on prospects for great ! er production of cotton in coun tries outside the United States, i which supports the view ad vanced some time ago that the Southern cotton farmer has nothing to fear from the com petition of cotton growers in other parts of the world. It is known that British cot ton spinners, with the encour agement and aid of the British government, are making a re newed effort to bring about a much larger production of cot ton in the colonies of the em pire. The growing demand of the world for cotton goods is prompting them to use large sums in scientifically develop • |ing cotton culture, but our de jpariment of agriculture, after a world survey, entertains no fear 'that the American cotton far mer will be menaced in the near j future by foreign competitors. For the last eighteen years, it J is declared, attempts have been •made to develop cotton culture jin various parts of the world, | yet the production outside the I Southern States of America has little more than held its own. During these eighteen years of effort, all the cotton grown in new territory has not equaled in one year the quantity grown in a single county in America. No other section of the world seems as well adapted to grow ing cotton successfully as is the territory comprising the South ern States in America, and try as they will to produce cotton, it is pretty certain that the Brit ish will be compelled to con tinue to come to America for the bulk of their raw material for cotton manufactures. . And it may as well be re marked that the British need not expect in the future to get the cotton of the Southern far mer at the ruinously low prices that prevailed in the old days. The cotton farmer has awaken ed, and he has anew standard of living and of doing business. Present abnormal prices will not continue, of cruse, but there will be no return to the old prices that were possible only because of the condition of vir tual serfdom in which cotton farmers and their families lived. Those have been abol ished forever. Our idea of a good citizen, and we are glad there are many in this community, is one always ready to give according to his means to community en terprises. He takes stock in them all, and doesn’t lose faith if an occasional venture proves bad. He is not afraid to buy real estate and to pay what it is worth. He talks up his town at home and abroad, thinks it is the neatest place on earth, be lieving it be destined to be the biggest city in its section, and wants to be buried there when he dies. And he’s worth a whole regiment of the luke warm kind.—Hartwell Sun. o Don’t judge anybody until you have seen them in all their moods, and even then remind yourself often of that injunc tion about the “beam in thine own eye.” o Look over the offerings of local merchants in this issue of The Tribune-News. There are some interesting announce ments and money-saving sug gestions made. o The Georgia legislature can act more like a lot of school boys than anything else we know of, except possibly the United States senate. And the people are paying the freight. “The Editor.” Editor Mortal, of the Buck eye Country Printer, has un earthed the following some where, and is only sorry he doesn’t know who wrote it so that he could give the clever chap credit. It is so good that this newspaper prints it for the benefit of our readers: “Consider the editor. He weareth purple and fine lin en. His abode is amongst the mansions of the rich. His wife hath her limousine and her first-born sporeth a rac ing car that can hit her up in 40 flat. Lo! All the pople break eth their necks to hand him money. A child is born un to the wife of a merchant in the bazar. The physician getteth 10 golden plunks. The editor writeth a stick and a half and telleth the multitude that the child tip peth the beam at 9 pounds. Yes, he lieth even as a centu rion. And the proud father giveth him a Crema. “Behold, the young one groweth up and graduateth. And the editor puetteth into his paper a swell notice. Yea, a peach of a notice. He tell eth of the wisdom of the young woman and of her ex ceeding comeliness. Like un to the roses of Sharon is she and her gown is played up to bat the band. And the dress maker gets two-score and four iron men. And the edi tor gets a note of thanks from the s. g. g. “The daughter goeth on a journey. And the editor throweth himself on the story of the farewell party. It runneth a column solid. And the fair one remember eth him from afar with a pic ture postal card that costeth six for a jitney. “Behold, she returneth, and the youth of the city fall down and worship. She pick eth one, and 10, she picketh a lemon. But the editor call eth him one of our most promising young men and getteth away with it. And they send unto him a bid to the wedding feast, and be- , hold the bids are fashioned by Montgomery Hawbuck, in a far city. “Flowers and long is the wedding notice which the ed itor prineth. The minister getteth 10 bons. The groom standeth the editor off for a 12-month subscription. “All flesh is grass and in time the wife is gathered un to the soil. The minister get teth his bit. The editor print eth a death notice, two col ums of obituary, three lodge notices, a cubit of poetry and a card of thanks. And he forgetteth to read proof on the head, and the darned thing cometh out ‘Gone to Her Last Roasting Place.’ “And all that are akin to the deceased jumpeth on the editor with exceeding great jumps. And they pulleth out their ads and canceleth their subscriptions and then swung the hammer unto the third and fourth generations. “Can’st thou beat it?” What about building some more cottages on the river, ad vertising them, and make this section a real gathering place for summer tourists 7 There are wonderful possibilities involved in this suggestion. o Now that the census figures have been announced, giving Cartersville a population of 4,350, we can get busy on ways and means to double this result ten years hence. “THE FAITH SHALL BE KEPT” By H. Ashby Jones, D. D., in the Atlanta Constitution. Playing the part of prophet is always a precarious business, and yet the temptation at times is too much for even the most cautious to resist. Whether this is the "spirit of proph ecy” that moves the preacher this morning, or merely the proverbial "wish that is father to the thought,” the future must reveal. Nevertheless, I make this prediction, that the confer ence at the white house on last Sun day morning between Woodrow Wil son and James M. Cox shall prove to have been the most significant and far-reaching event in the world’s his tory since the signing of the Versailles treaty. I am conscious of the fact that I have taken in a great deal of territory. Let me see if in a few words I can justify my temerity, AS SEEN ABROAD. It will be agreed, no doubt, by friends and enemies alike, that the govern ments of civilization entered the league of nations in the distinct and definite faith that America would also come in and bear her full share of responsibil ity in its epoch-making program. When the senate refused to ratify the prom ise of the prseident made in Paris, there took place in the hearts of the peoples of the world the most tragic revulsion of feeling ever recorded in history. America, who had been the savior of civilization in war, and who ; was to be the redeemer of the world from the horrors of future wars, at the very moment of the fruition of the people’s hopes, had turned her back upon them and left them in the dark ness of despair. And the cry has come up from well nigh every corner of the earth, ‘ Amer ica has broken faith.” Let us face the true that no longer is our beloved na tion looked upon as the savior of the world, but the name of America is hissed in hatred as the betrayer of the hopes of the peoples of the earth. PLAYING POLITICS WITH A PROMISE. And the record is perfectly clear also that in those early days of 1917 we ap pealed to the chivalric, crusading spirit of this nation to send our boys to France to fight for the redemption of a world from the hellish horros of war. And there can be no denying the fact that in every form in which a nation could commit itself, we promised those boys and the fathers and mothers of those boys, that victory would mean the formation of a league of nations for the prevention of future wars, and for the preservation of the freedom of the peoples the world 'round. And during all of those stressful days there was not a responsible voice raised in pro test against this solemn promise. Thus we stood in the eyes of the world, at the beginning of the present presidential campaign as a nation whose solemn promise was no better than a German scrap of paper. The Republican party met in convention in Chicago and unanimously approved the action of the senate majority in be traying the nation’s honor. Then the Democrats met in San Francisco and adopted that magnificent declaration of loyalty to the league, and sent its ring ing message of approval to President Wilson. So far so very good. They then nominated as their standard bearer Governor James M. Cox. Now a personality* is far more sig nificant and vital than a platform. •CAMP GROUND SANITATION The proper sanitation of camp grounds has been a problem since men first congregated for religious service. The earliest mention of such sanita tion is in the twenty-third chapter of Deuteronomy, twelfth and thirteenth verses, where Moses charged the Israel ites as follows: “Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad: “And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thoushalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee.” If this Mosaic law was followed to day there would be less typhoid fever and dysentery following in the wake of protracted meetings. A camp ground is generally selected near a stream of pure water and many people gather at the site, live in tents or hastily constructed cabins and the sanitary arrangements are of the sketchiest nature. After a week or ten days camp is broken, leaving the ground littered with debris and the erstwhile pure water polluted at its source, water which is perhaps the only drinking supply for a dozen families. It would seem that if cleanliness is next to godliness, godly people would pay some attention to leaving camp grounds in as fair condition as they found them. Sanitation may be defined as getting clean and keeping clean. The dirt with which the sanitarian is concerned is “dangerous dirt,” and “dangerous dirt” is the waste matter of the human body. Dirt is earth out of place. The proper place for human excrement is burial in the ground, as advised by Moses four thousand years ago. The improp er place for human waste matter is on the surface of the earth, where flies can carry infection to feed, and in run ning streams which might be used for drinking purposes. Typhoid fever germs which may come from a person before he realizes his [ illness take three weeks to incubate be Platforms may be ignored, hut presi dential nominees cannot. Our nation became a whispering gallery of insin uations, inuendoes and rumors that Cox was anti-Wilson. And we had to face the fact that after al the Demo cratic platform would have just the force and just the meaning of James Middleton Cox. What does the plat form mean? What does Cox mean? “AT ONE.” Last Sunday morning Governor Cox came out of the white house and de liverer this message to the people of America and to the people of the world: "We are agreed as to the meaning and sufficiency of the Democratic plat form and the duty of the party in the face of threatened bad faith to the worl(j >n the name of America. “Woodrow Wilson's thought is still of the war and the ledges we gave to those who sacrificed. One easily sees that, as the leader of the natien who asked for our sons and our resources upon a very distinct understanding and obligation, he is resolver that the faith shall be kept. To this his thought and life are deducated. “What he promised I shall, if elected, endeavor with all my strength to give.” And President Wilson issuer this statement: “I found what I indeed already knew and what Governor Cox has let the whole world know in his speeches, that he and I were absolutely at once with regard to the great issue of the league of nations and that he is ready to be the champion in every respect of the honor of the nation, and the secure peace of the world.” Now what is the significance of these two statements? It means that the people of this nation shall have an op portunity at the polls next November to redeem the honor of America. For the first time since the signing of the armistice of 1918 the people of the Unite States will be given a fair chance to say whether “the faith shall be kept” with the boys who dier and the boys who jeopardized their lives on the fields of France. Senator Harding, in his speech of ac ceptance on last Thursday, is loyal to the letter and the spirit of the Repub lican platform. Without even doing a decent obeisance to the “Lodge reser vations” —not even pausing to write a kindly epi-Taft in honor of the labors of our distinguished ex-president—he buries the Versailles treaty, reserva tions and all, be neath the involved sentences of his patriotism, and the “intangling alliances” of his American- English. He definitely declares that if elected he will at once make a sepa rate peace with Germany. Now indeed may we have a “solemn referendum.” The issue is clean and clear. Let us not allow petty politi cians, seeking a temporary partisan advantage, to cloud it with superficial questions or soil it with sordid motives. If James Middleton Cox is elected pres ident of the United States we shall enter the league o* nations without sacrificing one jot o*" tittle of our sov ereignty. And henceforth an American abroad need not hang his head in shame. Once again a man stands forth to in carnate the highest ideals of this re public. Governor Cox, I dare salute you as the next president of the United States, not because you are a Demo crat, but because you are an American who will “keep the faith.” fore developing anew case. Frequently therefore the camp has moved before the new typhoid breaks out and the patient wonders where he contracted the disease. No camp meet ing should be permitted by the health authorities until some arrangement for the safe disposal of human excreta has been provided. In most instances where the camp is but temporary, pit latrines are sufficient, but certainly in this day and time one should have more consid eration for the lives of others than to knowingly place those lives in jeopardy, which is what is being done where no provision is made for burying this "dangerous dirt " Germs are as deadly as buckshot. 0 Some of the reporters 101 l around the Kimball house lobby and then go to their desks and write just how Georgia is go ing to vote when election day rolls ’round. Looks like they will never learn that the silent vote is what determines elec tions, and this same silen vote never appears in th khl. o The Euharlee Farmers’ club, always doing things just right, will entertain at Hamp Stiles’ Redland farm on Friday of this week for the wives and women friends of its members. o The Tribune-News job de partment is prepared to handle anything in printing. Better let us figure with you before you send that job out of town. Prices right, too. The sending out of Carters ville postcards is one way of advertising your home commu nity that the boys and girls can do a great, big part. How about it, young folks?
