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About The Bartow tribune. The Cartersville news. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1917-1924 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 2, 1920)
THE TRIBUNE-NEWS Published weekly nt Cartersville, Geor gia by the TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY (Incorporated) MILTON L. FLEETWOOD President and Editor. Subscription Rates: One Year - --$3.00 Mix Months - 1.00 Three Months .76 Advertising rates reasonable and cheerfaHy lurnished on application. Proper notice of deaths will always t published without charge, but for mal obituary notices, seat in later, will j tie charged for at regular advertising j rai*-s. We reserve the right of editing 1 all itt-ras published. j int. red as second-class matter. Feb rt : 17, 1017 at the post office at Car <•! villi . Georgia, under the Act of M icn 3 1879. u- t . a buy ii cheaper at a cl i'i go wrong it you go Oil! Santa is beginning to think seriously about his gifts this year. — ♦ Nobody pays you anything: for frowning, but smiies bring , home the bacon every time. — + There should not be an emp- j ty stocking at Christmas time in all this section this year. You can vote again Saturday, and there are enough candi dates in the justice court bailiff race to make it interesting, to say the least. + Mrs. Corra Harris is win ning new laurels in the literary world, and her friends here at home rejoice in this world-wide recognition of her remarkable abilities as a writer of real, hu man-interest fiction. + The scores of boyhood friends of the late Herbert Walker were grieved over his untimely death, believing that the people of Georgia would one day signally honor this na tive-born son of old Bartow. —♦- Cartersville is getting on the map as a Masonic center, hav ing a blue lodge organization, a chapter, a council, a comraan dery. and the latest addition, a Shrine club, a dispensation for which was granted only Recent ly. All these organizations stand for the best in citizenship, and the community is made a better place to live in as a re sult of their teachings, precepts and examples. * Funny thing, this old world and the people in it. An editor can write columns of eulogistic stuff about anyone, and nothing is said about it. Let a court scrape come along, mention of it is made as a matter of news, and duty to his readers, and everything aforementioned is forgotten, becomes a blank space on memory’s page. This much should be said, no editor prints all he hears about folks —and never will—and when mention is made, there is abso lutely nothing personal consid ered in the premises. Just an Instance of Efficiency. Some weeks ago there ap peared in Cartersville a number of cases of diphtheria, and one little life was claimed by this •dread malady. For a time it seemed the course of wisdom j to close the city schools, and it j was given serious considera-; tion. Another course presented it j self, when Dr. Bryan, the coun-! ty’s efficient health officer, took charge of the situation, exam ined every child that could pos sibly be affected, and those fotinsi with the least trace of ihe germ were kept at home for a few days. There were not many, of course, but with their removal all danger of a spread of the disease in the schools passed. r i he, health officer is empow ered v h authority to handle just sv.-h cases. He responded tu tne call, and conditions rap idly improved. The schools were kept open; nd telling how many precious lives were saved. Does a health officer pay? Shall We or Shall * We Not? Shall we have a home dem onstration agent? Should the county support a work which j stands for better homes, health | ier children, better communi ties and hence a better civiliza tion ? Possibly you have read the following editorial from the Atlanta Journal on “A Harvest of Happiness,” tout it bears a second reading. “Among all the news of rec lord crops, prize porkers, cham pion sows and swollen building operations crowding the col umns of the daily press, there occurs a report of substantial gains in another and most ' orthy field of endeavor, a held where ihe harvest is made up ruddy cheekg, clear eyes, j v.gorous and happy “From the sixty camps where (twenty thousand children of t u’emerit dis 11riels were sent for summer va i cations, word is brought'back (that the youngsters made an j aggregate gain in weight of (60,000 pounds. T,'he camps, | conducted by the United Neigh borhood Houses, opefted the middle of June. Records, were kept on each child from his ar rival until the close of his two weeks’ outing. These show an average gain of three pounds to each child. “There is cause for rejoicing equal, to say the least, to the satisfaction derived from the million-dollar tobacco crop or a bountiful supply of pigs. Sixty thousand pounds gained ; twen-1 ty thousand pale cheeks swap- ■ ped for twenty thousand coats ! of sunburn; three extra pounds ! of flesh for every little boy and girl, and with it a renewed health and happiness, and a beautiful memory to keep them 1 fit and happy in environments so often mean and squalid, and perilous. It is a satisfying return on the investment of those financ ing the United Neighborhood Houses—a harvest reaped not alone by the children, but by the city and country in which they dwell.” How about it? Would it be worth the cost to have our chil dren more nearly normal in looks, weight, height, health and happiness? We may think because our children are not in crowded tenement houses that they do not need the attention as given to these. We have only to look at the children as we pass them, feel their little flabby muscles, notice the expression on the face, see the drooped shoulder, notice the habits, in other words, just take notice of chil dren as well as animals. Sta tistics show that there is more malnutrition in the country than in the town. Do you say such work is not worth the cost? Do the forty seven of the one hundred chil dren born who die before they reach eighteen years, and those who are greatly handicapped for life otherwise, need no at tention? Why not spend some time and money to give our children a better start? Briefly, this is the work of a home demonstration agent: Home demonstration agents have inspired many a country I girl to want a college education j and then helped her to realize her ambition. They have | helped hr to realize her ambi j tion. They have helped moth ! ers lighten their work by intro ducing labor-saving devices into the homes. In season and out of season, they have made sentiment for better schools and better school teachers, i They have carried the gospel of | better health into every pro- gressive community of the South, hat gospel has saved many a life and heartache. They have helped to market poultry, butter, eggs, and the things that grow l in the orchard iand garden. .And now pro [taking up in a more determined .manner than ever the matter lof reducing the death rate i among babies. Thousands of bebies die each year in the state of Georgia. There’s no greater work before us today than the saving of these inno cent, helpless little souls. It is mighty hard to believe that the progressive citizens of Bartow will let a work like this be sacrificed for the sake of a little money. If there is such a thing, it must be founded upon a lack of knowledge of the work of this person. There was never a time here in the South, when the sort of help the home demonstration agent can give was s 0 badly needed as now. There are grave problems ahead to be dealt with—problems which will determine which road the South will travel during the next generation. Every county needs the unselfish leadership of the county farm agent and) the home demonstration agent, j Their one and sole purpose is> to serve. Their service is first j to the farmers and their wivesi and children. Here’s a tip: Get a home; demonstration agent and let! her do these things for ourj county. The time has come when we must decide whether we have an agent for next year. If you are interested in th welfare of the children and the homes, get busy. See the members of the Board of Education and the County Board of Roads and Revenue. Time to be UP and DOING. Prohibition and Prosperity. You don’t find any weeping over prohibition among candy manufacturers and retailers, according to a business journal representative who has been looking into the subject. In many of our cities retail firms that have had only one or two stores are seeking locations for additional establishments and enlarging present facilities. They are astonished by the in creased demand for their wares since the country went dry. In all American cities and towns it is a common-place remark that many previously shabby corners have been immensely improved by the replacement of saloons with men’s furnish ing stores, groceries, restau rants and candy shops. The owners of the properties gener ally have no complaint, because they are getting larger rents than ever. The proprietors of the stores seem prosperous. They say a higher grade of goods is demanded than when the saloon took such heavy toll of their customers’ pocketbooks Out in St. Louis the great breweries have been converted into a variety of new manufac turing plants employing more persons than ever and at higher w'ages. New industrie, too, have been attracted to that for mer center of the beer business. St. Louis and.perhaps more sa loons in proportion to popula tion than any other American city. Its chamber of commerce says profitable work has been found by virtually all of the for mer employes and the old prop erties have been leased for new enterpriss at advanced figures. Writing in the Philadelphia Ledger, Richard Spillane con trasts the awful wail of the Cal ifornia grape growers over the prospect of prohibition with their present abounding pros perity. They were sure their industry was marked for de struction. They used to sell their grapes to the wineries for from S2O to S3O a ton. Lately they have been getting $l5O a ton. “After delivery in the Eastern markets the dealers have made as much as SI,OOO a car profit.” It will be said ' that the boom is due to the making of grape juice at home, j That is permitted by law. And ' such illegal beverage making i as exists does not alter the fact jthat the saloon has been wiped j out. with all Us special evils. On ] the score both of law and order : and of general prosperity pro hibition has proved its worth, j The objections to it must have j some other basis.—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. THE TRIB t NE-NEWS, CARTERSVII.LE, GA„ DECEMBER 2, 120 Georgia’s Rural Weeklies. No state in the United States can show a greater number of influential newspapers than the weekly newspapers of Georgia, i whose editors seem to be en gaged in a perennial contest to produce 100 per cent perfect | publications. While the people of Georgia are consistent read ers, refusing to limit their at tention to any class of period icals, many would rather be de j nied access to any other liter ary visitor than the rural week ly published back home. It is the weekly newspaper that makes the direct appeal to the hearts of the busy men of the city, man yof whom were J reared down on the farm. No other newspaper comes in such (direct personal touch with its (subscribers, sympathizes with jih'em so keenly in seasons of | sorrow, and rejoices with them . ’hen they are glad. As an ad j vertising medium, the rural I weekly is the direct connecting | medium between merchant and, (customer and one that no wise (business man can afford to ig nore. In the years agone the editor of a weekly newspaper was usually the proprietor of a few fonts of type, an inadequate cylinder press, a few dilapidat ed imposing stones and a rick ety job press. But today modern plants have been installed in most ev ery office and the weekly edi tor is a citizen to be reckoned with in the prosecution of every worth-while enterprise. The j rural weekly is no longer a job shop side line, but is recognized as a community asset and it should receive the liberal sup port of all citizens.—The At lanta Journal. ! The Worker’s Creed. Something to Paste Over Your Desk or Your Work Bench. By MARQUIS CARR. I believe: In the gospel of the full day and full pay for the | preservation of Lift?, Liberty, 'and the pursuit oi Happiness. ,That the job that feeds me is ! entitled to the best of my ! strength and brain. That no ' job is so lowly that it does not ' carry its privileges of advanee j ment and its obligations 'of eo ! operation. Though I make but fa single part, the finished prod juct is still my responsibility, j since the neglect of one can spoil the labor of many. That obedience need not be servility, but an intelligent rec ognition of the necessity or or der and the value of trained di rection. The loyalty to my organiza tion isn’t a noble quality for which 1 deserve praise, but I mere common sense in support ing what is supporting me. That right and wrong are of the individual and never of the class. That just as there are employers who are unjust, so are there employes who shirk, and that all judgments must go to averages and give and take on the fifty-fifty basis. I believe in wise spending and sane saving; in clean living. In the rest that restores and the recreation that recreates the energy due my work; and, whether I work with head or with hands, in grasping every opportunity for further educa tion. Finally, I believe that the Lord helps those .who help themselves. And for the coun: try and the job that provide the means of self-help I give my daily thanks. The following paragraph from an exchange must be ap propriate for the folks who live out in Missouri. Is it possible that it applies here in the Em pire State of the South —in the good old “U. S. A.?” “When a boy decides that it is more hon orable to loaf the streets with a cigarette in his mouth than to go to school or do honest work he is in a deplorable condition. The country of tomorrow will need real men to do the many things that our country will demand of its future citizens. An education will be the boy's great need in the future. The boy who hasn't got it will be greatly handicapped.” Ol f John B. Thrift , Sr. \ (one p oyr) ~| ’ ~ ir: 1 U^rtS Wr Wy mM y , (Copyright) Worthy Servants of An Appreciative People. In its last issue, The Tribune- News carried a news story tell ing of the completion of the sewer work in Cartersville, and of how it had been done by the city officials under most un usual circumstances. Since the publication of this news story the city officials have been complimented on all sides upon their good work for the municipality. Every one of these officials made sacrifices in behalf of the people who have entrusted in their care the government of their town. They gave, unre servedly, of their time and rare good talents, and the results speak for themselves. That every dollar spent brought as near one hundred cents % worth of value as possi ble, is evidenced by the fact that all the work contemplated was done, and yet— There is a surplus of several thousand dollars left in the city coffers from the $90,000 bond issue! This fact alone' is one of the most remarkable, in connection with the operation V>f a munici ■ i government, e V recorded, and will stand as a i *dit to the wise management of *he funds entrusted to these stlvants by an appreciative people To Mayor P. C. Fie mister, Aldermen Lewis and Jackson, and City Manager Colk, will go the thanks for thisfaccom plishment. \ They have wrought wll and wisely, and The Tribunu-News believes it speaks the Reeling of all our people when wd utter the sentiments expressed here in. They have PROVEN them selves worthy of our confidence in more ways than one—go, to the city’s wise leaders, here’s our thanks, and a sincere Reel ing of “Well done, thou good and faithful servants.” Fundamental Facts of Today. While freely admitting that there must be thorough Read justment, accompanied jby a good deal of deflation, before American business gets square j ly back upon a peace basijs, and ithat in the course of this? pro cess certain ills and losses are unavoidable, Mr. Charles H. Sabin, of New York, one, of the nation’s foremost men of af fairs, asserts full confidence in the future and condemns as “little short of criminal” any one who, through ignorance or design, w r ould paint present conditions so dark ds to ob scure the vital underlying facts. Just what are those facts? asks the Atlanta Journal. Some of the more salient of them Mr. Sabin sets ferth from his van tage point of observation as president- of the Guaranty Trust Company. “This coun try.” says, “will harvest this yeay one of the largest crops in history; its transportation con gestion has been relieved and it’s railroad system is for the first time in a decade on a sound financial and operating basis; our banking system has with stood the greatest credit strain in its history and is on a sound and workable basis;'the accu mulated surplus of five years of splendid prosperity is stored in many ways for our continued use; the markets of the world demand our products and a great mercantile marine is pre pared t 0 transport them; this country has not been over-built or over-extended in any of its underlying activities, and faces no program of readjustment along these lines such as usual ly precipitates panic conditions. We are in the soundest finan cial, industrial and political condition of any important na tion in the world.” To no region of America are these wise and cheering words more applicable than to the South. Here, as elsewhere, the transition from w-ar-time to peace-time standards gives rise to inconveniences if not to hardships. But beneath all the eddies and whirls of the hour is an untroubled and inexhaust ible flow of prosperity. That clear and careful thinking are specially needful at this time, r.oe will deny. But it is the very antipode of clear thinking to conceive of present condi tions as fundamentally unsound and discouraging. Never were the vast natural resources of Georgia and her neighbor states more inviting to enter prise and industry than today; never was the thought of dis ciminating investors so intent upon them; never w r as the spirit of the ran kand file of their people better attuned to prog ress and sturdy endeavor. Only a craven can fail to believe in such a country; only a laggard can fail to go forward with its high-hearted hosts. You Tell ’Em, Appendix, You’re on the Right Side. A child is born in the neigh borhood; the editor gives the loud-lunged youngster and the “happy parents” a send-off and gets SOO. It is christened and the minister gets $5 and the editor gets SOO. The editor pushes and tells a dozen lies about “the beautiful and ac complished bride. The minis | ter gets $lO and a piece of cake ’ and the editor gets SOO. In the course of time she dies; the doctor gets from sls to $100; the minister perhaps gets an other $5, the undertaker gets from $75 to $l5O, the editor publishes a notice of the death, an obituary tw r o columns long and a card of thanks, and gets SO.OO. No wonder so many country editors get rich. Have you paid your subscription?— Country Weekly. - A kind word drives back a tear. Say all the ’kind words! you can to the living—the dead.j can’t appreciate flowers or k. w. + rrain schedules are being, changed so rapidly it’s more j than w r e can do to keep up with them in this territory. BRAINS BELOW PAR. ( From the Macon News.) Advices from London say that twen ty-five clergymen starved to death in England last year. The Rev. Billy Sunday has retired in atfulgence, after a few years of pic turesque pulpitry. The chances are that many of the twenty-five starvelings were more •'highly” educated than, and fully as in tellectual as Mr. Sunday. •The chances are that each strived to do his ministerial duty in fully as great a degree as Mr. Sunday did. Why does the world reward one man with rags and another with riches? Why is one starved and one surfeit ed ? [ Is not the. difference entirely in the gngle of the appeal? The world is meotional. And sensa tional. If you can feed its emotions, it will reward you. If you appeal to its men tality, you may starve and welcome. We pay Charlie Chaplin a million a year to excite our risible emotions. The teacher to whom we entrust our chil dren’s training set a million from us in !lust about a thousand years Very few of them live to collect the full amount. Sir Oliver Lodge, exploiting the su pernatural sensation of the hour, re ceives $1,500 for a few remarks, but Sir Oliver Lodge lecturing to us as the em inent scientist he is would receive SSO, perhaps. John McCormick can pack any audi torium in the country to titillate our ears, but if he tried to teach us some thing, the hall would be full of empti ness. V. pay Bud Fisher ntore than all the members of all the academies. Bernard Shaw does indeed appeal to our mentality, hut he does it with a laugh, and he uses the medium of the heater. He makes "a show” of himself. Socrates, Solon and Salomon could not be elected to the legislature. ad yet we.wonder politicians are not statesmen. We refuse to think. We want to h” “shown.” Thrill us fill us with so* sore of emotion, but do not ask ns to exercise our brains, or our spirituality. If you do, well, there are the twenty five dead clergymen. MICKIE SAYS / ueJT vjouassik \oea. actAVJSAU' \JOUK6-\W> MO** op a. vjaeocxwa 'tst mmvemed P 'sue&s Aaoi vaaceuJ ' fcETOu A VP ©OMB OP MOO \ wo*. Founv&uma ccs*A ee \_ccr& \uu \ w—V- —* COME IN ♦ and pay that overdue ♦ subscription account. ♦ ♦ Don’t wat until the ♦ paoer stops Where the Rub Comes ! It is frequently easier to count th< cost than it is to pay it. —Boston Tiau | script.
