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Vol. 13—No. 2.
CAMPAIGN FOR
NEW MEMBERS IN
COTTON BODY
Intensive Effort Now
Being Made To Enlist
As Many Growers Of
Cotton as Possible Un
der The Banner of Co
s Association.
Under the direction of Messrs. T B.
Conner, of Mt. Vernon; C. J. Knight,
of Nashville, Ga., and H. A. Kemp, of
Athens, field men from the Georgia Co
s Cotton Growers’ Association,
assisted by Messrs. H. H. Milam, dis
trict director Mr. J. Hugh Gilreath.
one of the three directors from the
state at large; Mr. C. H. Cojc. county
agent; Prof J. W. Jackson, county
■lool superintendent, and others, an
''intensive campaign is now on in Bar
tow county to enroll every cotton row
er, who is not already a member, un
der the banner of that association.
Accompanied by Mr. Gilreath, the
field men visited Adairsville, Kingston
and Taylorsville last week, and secured
endorsements from banks in each of
these towns, as well as an endorsement
from Mr, J. W. Vaughan, president of
the Bank of Cartcrsville.
With such endorsements as these,
the field men feel confident they will
have very little trouble in enrolling a.
majority of cotton growers in this
county not now members in the asso
ciation.
Asa matter of fact, Bartow county
already has one of the largest member.
Bhips of any county unit in thf state,
and the field men say they have yet to
hear from a single farmer who signed
up in the drive two years ago, one word
of complaint or dissatisfaction over
service given him by the association.
On the other hand, they say that
quite a large number of the members
who have signed up have signified a
willingness to accompany them in the
present campaign, and do what they
can to induce their neighbors to become
members.
R. T. Aaron,
Good Citizen,
Passes Away
Friends in Cartersville of Mr. R. T.
Aaron, 68 years old, a leading citizen
of the Folsom district were pained to
learn of his death, which occurred re
cently. He is survived by his wife,
four sons, Messrs. Bright. Gus, Dallas
and Edward Aaron, and two daughters,
Mrs. Mattie Hyde and Mrs. Dosha
Woody. Before her marriage, Mrs.
Aaron was Miss Emily Herndon, a sis
ter of the late Mrs. J. A. Heath, of
Cartersville.
Mr. Aaron was a native of Forsyth
county, and grew to manhood in Pick
ens county, whither his parents moved
when he was quite a young man. He
was a very successful farmer, owning
one of the best farms in the Folsom
district. A member of the Baptist
church, he was a strong supporter of
his denomination, and lived an up
right, Christian life. llis family is
receiving the deepest sympathy of their
many friends.
Rev. Mr. Edwards preached the fu
neral sermon, AY. P. Whitworth being
in charge of the arrangements.
Methodists Are
Rebuilding Church
At Emerson
The new Methodist church at Emer
son. to replace the old one which burn
ed down recently, is now under con
struction, according to information re
ceived this week by The Tribune-News.
Mr. W. W. Wright is the contractor
In charge of erecting the new building,
which is to be of first-class brick. The
old building was of wood.
Rev. J. M. Crowe, pastor of the
church, dug the first dirt on Monday
morning of last week, the first brick
being laid last Friday morning.
EXAMINATIONS FOK TEACHERS
TO BE HELD HERE AUGUST 3,4
Letter From State Su
perintendent Gives
Full Information Con
cerning Examiations.
Supt. J. W. Jackson has received the
following letter from State Superin
tendent N. H. Ballard, which will be
read with interest by the school teach
ers of Bartow county:
To the Superintendent:
Shortly before the S'ate Teachers’
Examination, August 3 and 4, questions
will be sent by express to each county
superintendent, and to those special
systems where arrangements are made
with this department. If the questions
are not received by July 81, communi.
THE BARTOW TRIBUNE
(TRIBUNE, VOL. 13, No. 28.)
(NEWS. VOL. 38, No. 17.)
CAN YOU FIND YOURSELF IN THIS CROWD OF BARTOW FOLKS?
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—Photo by Morris.
The above reproduction of a Fourth of July scene in Cartersville will be noted with much interest by the people of Bartow county. This crowd was
photographed on Main street, near the business center, on the Fourth, by Mr. J. A. Morris, local photographer. In the picture can be seen the business
house of the Bank of Cartersville, J. W. Vaughan & Company, Standard Cash Stores, Knight Mercantile Company, B. L. Vaughan Clothing Company, the
Planters’ Supply Company, G. M. Jackson & Sons, Gilreath-Champion Drug Company, the First National Bank, and on the right-hand side of the picture
can be seen part of Scheuer Bros.’ store. Several of the light posts, making up part of the “white way,” can also be seen in the picture.
Warren Waldrup
Kills Large Rattler
Mrs. S. R. Atwood, a well-known
young farmer residing in the Stiles
boro district, was in Cartersville one
day this week, displaying to many in
terested onlookers a large rattlesnake,
measuring nearly live feet in length,
and which had fifteen rattles.
The snake was killed by Mr. Warren
Waldrup, a farmer living near Stiles
boro, who had turned it over to Mr.
Atwood, so the the people of Carters
ville might see it.
LEGIONNAIRES
ENJOYED THEIR
BANQUET FRID AY
Addresses By McWhor
ter, Conyers, Stock
bridge, and Troutman
Featured Program—
Bob Knight Toastmas
ter.
Members of the Carl Boyd post of
the American Legion and invited fri
ends to the number of seventy five
heard an interesting preseniat'on of
the high ideals for which their organ
ization stands, at a delightful banquet,
at the Park Hotel, last Friday even
ing.
Mr Robert W. Knight. local com
mander, was toastmaster, and in a
very happy manner directed the inter
esting program arranged for the even
ing. Music was furnished by an or
chestra composed of Messrs. Vivian
McGowan, James Gilreath, and Willi
am Walton.
The management of the hotel, Mr.
and Mrs. O. C. Omer, had arranged a
most delicious menu, and it was thor
oughly enjoyed. The dining room was
appropriately decorated in the Nation
al colors, the guests wearing novelty
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cate with the State Department of Ed
ucation r ithout fail on that day by
telephr or telegraph. Please note the
condition of the package and see if
the seals have been broken. Withm
the package you will find envelopes
containing the questions.
Teachers applying for General Ele
mentary license will not, take the ex
amination for Primary license as here
tofore. In other words, those taking
the General Elementary examination
will finish in one day this year, and
this will be on Friday, the same day
on which the Primary examination is
given.
On Friday, therefore, questions will
be given as follows:
Primary license.
General Elementary license.
Primary and Genera] Klemeniary
(Continued on Last Page)
THE CARTERSVILLE NEWS
Editor And Ethics
An Address Delivered by Mrs. Corra Harris, of Rydal, Bartow Coun
ty, Before the Meeting of the State Press Association, at Lavo
nia, Last Monday Evening
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gen
tlemen :
I am here, not because I can
make a speech, or say anything
worthy of your attention, but
because I crave the honor your
invitation confers upon me.
I can give you no advice
about how to edit a newspaper.
I belong to that vast company
of people who think they could
do it, but who never could. We
are all born censors and proof
readers of life, but very few of
us have the qualifications
which go into the making of an
editor.
Still, I know something about
editors. For the last twenty
five years I have had more
dealings with them than any
other class of people. In all my
experience I have never known
one to break his word or betray
a confidence. That is some
thing good to know about you,
isn’t it? And in my line of
work it has been my business to
observe your various manifes
tations, like an old pop-eyed
camera concealed somewhere
that has taken a thousand neg
atives of you in secret.
This is my first exhibition of
them—crude, of course, since I
am not skilled in the motion
picture business. But I think I
could write a very good scena
rio of the inside of an editor’s
mind. The swiftness with which he
can turn his corners in judgment, the
comedies and rages through which he
passes in dealing with that class of
people who regard every newspaper as
a sort of perpetual rummage sale of
Ideas; which is a place where second
hand things are sold dirt cheap. Asa
preacher knows the moral and spiritual
weaknesses of men, and as a physician
knows their ailments, so do editors
know the mental and personal vani
ties of men and women.
I could make a lively picture of a
certain old editor of international dis
tinction as I saw him once, dealing
with spring poets. Poetry, as you
know, is harvested In April as peas
are harvested In September. This old
gentleman was a mild, scholarly man,
with a long gray beard and peaceful
eyes. His habit was to stuff all the
poetry submitted to his magazine into
a certain drawer of his desk until it
was full. Then he would snatch the
drawer out. go through It like Paddim
ski playing a furious, crashing tune
designed to indicate frenzied destruc
tion. His nose drawn up, with scars
beneath steel rimmed spectacles, his
eyes spitting fire, his beard working
like a whisk broom as he muttered Im
precations and signed the printed slips
that were to accompany these verses
on their return to their respective au
thors.
I could make an interesting and
swiftly moving picture of another ed
itor, when he learned that a certain
Cartersville, Georgia, July 19, 1923.
famous authoress was outside, waiting
to come in and read her story to him.
"She will have to tie me to this chair
before she does that!’’ he exclaimed
with a terrible look.
AVhen the lady actually came in,
however, his expression was as mild as
a May breeze blowing over a flower
garden. Never have 1 seen, except in
other editors, such perfect and se
raphic control of human features! But
I need not add to you. who have passed
through so many similar ordeals, that
she did not read the thing to him. On
the contrary, he actually persuaded her
to submit it to another editor!
The first live editor I ever saw was
Mr. Clark Howell, of the Atlanta Con
stitution. And my belief is, that very
few people ever saw a dead one. I do
not know if you have ever thought of
this, but editors almost never die dur
ing the irk and adversity period of their
servitude. They usually retire or re
sign before the common fate of all men
can overtake them.
My notion is that there is something
immortally stimulating in the tribula
tions through which they pass which
defies death, and that if any mortal
man ever lives forever, he will be an
editor who stuck to his job in spite of
delinquent subscribers and every other
hardship.
Mr. Howel] is too familiar a figure
in our editorial world for me to offer a
sketch of him here. It is enough to
say that he was a brave man and gave
me my first and last assignment as a
newspaper woman. He sent me to re
port that day’s session of the Georgia
legislature. That was more than thirty
years ago, and I still think that the
copy I turned in was the most dramatic
piece of writing 1 ever did.
The shrewdest, not the ablest editor
I have ever known, is so unknown that
if 1 should call his name probably not
a dozen people in this audience would
recognize it. He looks like the kind of
a drug clerk we can imagine Keats was
—a sort of cross between a moth and
a man, large head, bulging forehead,
protruding china blue eyes, a child s
guileless mouth, a woman s chin, the
neck of a thin maiden lady, a boy’s
shoulders, feeble looking bands and the
legs of a skeleton. He sits in a little
box stall not an inch higher than his
hear which a’so serves him as a waste
basket. He is surrounded by so much
litter and discarded copy that you in
stinctively look for the rat-tail of him
when you enter that place. This is an
exact picture of him, even to the
frame. Now do you recognize him?
Of course not, but he is a vast man in
his effectiveness. He knows every
weakness of this nation and profits by
them.
The ablest, most exacting and easiest
editor in the country has a countenance
that resembles the rougher landscapes
of Scotland on a cold, clear day, when
a high wind is blowing. He knows ev
every virtue in this nation, all the
strength of it, and profits exceedingly
by adjusting his editorial policies ay
cordingly.
When a woman becomes an editor,
you know it at once, although you
may never suspect tt if she is merely
a reporter, or writer. She becomes
quiet. She loses that delightful little
■active verb, expression. She puts her
lid on and becomes strictly sensible,
under all circumstances, which is not
natural in a woman, and almost super
natural in a man. Asa rule, she is
migratory. She rarely edits the same
paper or magazine long, although al
most any one of them could hold the
woman’s page a lifetime. They do not
lose out, they resign. I knew one of
these little lady bee editors a few years
ago. She established a paper In a vil
lage too small to support a populous
ant-hill.
She did everything, from writing all
the copy to setting all the type and
teaching the governor on her literary
engine to go as fast as she could.
. During the war she was the food
commissioner of her town_ and the of
ficial Chauncey Depew.
She introduced all the speakers who
came to speak on war activities, led
all the drives for funds, and finally led
all the young people in the town into
.the fields to help with the harvest. She
was the ink pot and Pied Piper of ev
ery good work in her community. She
saw too much to do, and did it. She
plunged head over heels in debt and
feared not. Nobody could get that pa
per away from her, because nobody
would buy it.
Finally, in a fit of hysterics, she ab
sconded and left that town to die a
natural death. My sympathies were all
with her. If she had been adequately
paid for her services she would have
owned it to the sidewalks on both sides
of Main street, which was the only
street in it. But editors are rarely paid
in full for their services. They are
only paid back now and then for some
deeds done in ink. Somebody's goat
they got, say, in the scrimmage of a
political campaign.
I would not go so far as to say that
you are the leaders, or even the expo
nents of public opinion. As near as 1
can make out we have no leaders now.
We are asnwering affirmatively that
scripture, "Can the blind lead the
blind?” But you are the interpreters
of the secret thoughts and opinions of
mankind. The dumb speak through
you.
It is a sort of "scoop" when you pub
lish an editorial which says what the
silent man feels and knows, but never
can say.
You are_ in fact, the ablest psycholo
gists in the world.
yj
You have not only a speaking knowl
edge of the individual- mind, but you
have a clairvoyant sense of the mind
of your times. You are the prophets
of every lie and every truth we pro
duce in the scrimmage of living Your
success depends upon being able to
tell the way the cat will jump, whethei
it is a political campaign or a si-cinl
rural us. It .s neat gift with no -hsr
*>•* cf fire attf ched to it, but very few
people have it.
You have more wisdom than the pro
verbial serpent when it comes to
scotching the wheel of our influential
citizen without losing his patronage or
his subscription. And tvhen it comes
to quenching the spirit of a public
spirited woman who is anxious to do
good adversely, you can practice the
harmlessness of a dove and stil] save
the world from her activities. I do not
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J. A. Heath Has
Fine Cotton Patch
On a vacant lot near the city scales,
Mr. J. A. Heath has one of the "show"
pieces of cotton In this section. It was
planted about the first of May, and
today it bids fair to make at least a
bale of cotton to the acre.
■'far, Heath says he is cultivating in
tensively, and is going to fight the boll
weevil with all the means at his dis
posal, realizing that unless he does he
will not make any cotton.
COLTS WILL
PLAY MARIETTA
HERE FRIDAY
Strong Team From Et
owah to Be Here Sat
urday A Complete
Schedule For July An
nounced Tuesday’s
Game Rained Out —
Colts Won From Tate
Wednesday.
The strong team from Marietta will
cross bats with the Cartersville Colts
on the local diamond Friday afternoon
of this week. This game is to be the
deciding game of a series of five, the
Colts having won two games front Ma
rietta and lost two games to them this
season. For that reason it is believed
that this game will be of more than
usual interest, and it is expected a
large number of fans will be present
to witness the contest.
A team from Etowah, Tenn., will
come down Saturday to make a stand
against the Colts. This team comes to
Cartersville with a splendid reputa
tion, having lost but very few games
this season, and has defeated some of
the fastest teams in Tennessee.
The game which was scheduled to be
played With Douglasville here on Tues
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HOME COMING
AT TABERNACLE
Plans are now going forward for making
the annual Tabernacle meeting this year a
home-coming event. To that end, it is expected
a large number of former citizens will be in
Cartersville during the time of the meeting,
which begins Wednesday, August Bth, and runs
through the following Sunday week, August 20.
Dr. W. B. Riley, of Minneapolis, Minn., is
to do the preaching, while the music will be un
der the direction of Rev. B. Frank Pim, of Rock
mart.
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XL TODAY
$2.00 The Yew
’SHINE STILL
DESTROYED BY
SHERIFF’S FORCE
Raid Carried Out Early
Saturday - Morning by
Gaddis, Neal and Bish
op, Near Rowland
Springs.
Receiving a tip that moonshine op
erations were in full blast at a point
between Rowland Springs and Center,
Sheriff George W. Gaddis accompanied
by Deputy United States Marshal Hark
Bishop, went out to that section early
last Saturday morning, and before
their return had destroyed a complete
outfit.
The officers have been unable to
learn the ownership of the still, but
they have saved parts of it to use as
evidence in case of an arrest later.
The officers lay in wait for about an
hour. Suddenly they saw a man ap
proaching, carrying what appeared to
he a keg on his shoulder. He came
nearest to Mr. Bishop, and when that
officer ordered him to hold up his hands
the man threw the keg at the officer,
and before he could regain a firing po
sition had made a dash for liberty.
Mr. Bishop ordered h!m to halt, and
when he failed to do so, fired several
shots in the direction of the fleeing
man. Messrs. Gaddis and Neal, rush
ing up, also opened fire, but the sup
posed moonshiner made a complete
getaway in the mist of the early morn
ing.
The officers destroyed a quantity of
liquor, 500 gallons of beer, and the out
fit.
Sheriff Gaddis is determined to do
everything in his power to end the ac
tivities of moonshiners and bootleg
gers in this county, and Bays he and
his deputies are ready to do their part.
The evil-doers need expect no quarter
at his hands, he declares.
WILL REBUILD
DAMAGED PLANT
IMMEDIATELY
According to an announcement made
by Mr. A. G. Nelson, president of the
National Pigment & Chemical Com
pany of St. Louis, who waq called here
to investigate the damage done to their
local plant, which was struck by light
ning Sunday morning a week ago, the
plant will be rebuilt at once.
Mr. E. H. Murchison, who has charge
of his company’s Interests here, be
lieves work will be completed by Sep
tember 1, and when completed it is ex
pected the plant will be larger and
more modern In every way.
This company operates one of the
largest barytes mines, two miles south
of Cartersville, and employs a force of
forty t 0 fifty men the year round.
Naturally the fact they have decided
to rebuild will come as welcome news
to the entire community.
“Reds” Won Game J
Monday Afternoon
The team representing the “Reds”
defeated the "Blues’’ in the baseball
game staged here Monday afternoon
by the Carl Boyd Post of the Ameri
can Legion.
The score was 17 to 12. Bishop
caught for the winning team, and
Bradley, Dellinger, Jim Shaw and
Quillian Hamrick filled the pitcher's
box. *
Lloyd Dodd caught for the Blues,
while Lefty Waters, Rook Taft and
Paul Gilreath, Jr., were on the mound
at various times during the game. The
playing of Earl B. Scheuer, In the field
for the Blues was easily one of the
features of the game. He chased after
one of Bill Bradley’s homers t showing
an unusual amount of speed.
Quite a neat sum was realized at the
box office, the gate receipts going into
the Legion treasury.