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The Local Paper a Meat Useful
Agency on the Paras —The
Pres*. Pulpit and Scheel a
Trinity of Influence That
Must Be Utilized in
Building Agri
culture.
By Peter Radford
Lecturer Nations! Fanners' Union.
A broad campaign of publicity
on' the subject of rural life is
needed in this state today to
bring the problems of the farm
ers to the forefront. The city
problems are blazoned upon the
front pages of the metiopolitan
dailies and echoed in the country
press, but the troubles of the
farmers are seldom told, except
by those who seek to profit by
the story, and the glitter of the
package ofttimes obscures the
substance. A searching investi
gation into the needs of the farm
ers will reveal many inherent de
fects in our economic system that
can be easily remedied when
properly understood and illumi
nated by the power of the press.
The rural press, the pulpit and
the school are a trinity of pow
erful influences that the farmer
must utilize to their fullest ca-
pacity before he can occupy a
commanding position in public
affairs. These gigantic agencies
are organized in every rural com
munity and only await the pat
ronage and co-operation of the
farmers to fully develop their
energy and usefulness. TTiey are
local forces working for the best
interests of their communities.
1 heir work is to build and their
object is to serve. They prosper
only through the development
and prosperity of the community.
Every farmer in this state
should subscribe for the local
paper, as vwell as farm periodicals
and such other publications as
he may find profitable, but be
should by all means subscribe
for his local paper, and no home
be without it. The local
Ipaper is part of the community
iife and the editor understands
Jthc farmer’s problems.
A Noble Task.
In too many instances the
Country papers mimic the citv
press by giving prominence to
scandals, accidents and politic*'*
Agitation. ihe new rural civili
sation has placed upon the rural
Press renewed responsibilities,
and enlarged possibilities for use
ulncss. It cannot perform its
mission to agriculture by record
ing the frailties, the mishaps and
inordinate ambitions of human
ity, or by filling its columns with
pie echoes of the struggles of
pusy streets, or by enchanting
stories o! city hie which lure our
children from the farm.
It has a higher and nobler
lask. The rural press is the gov
rning power of public sentiment
md must hold steadfast to prin
•iple and keep the ship of state
ti the roadstead of progress. The
ural press can best serve the
nterests of the farmers by ap
plying its energies to the solution
bf problems affecting th e local
r.omn unity. It must stem the
inighty life current that is mov
'ng from the farm to the cities,
sweeping before it a thousand
poys and girls per day. It has
to deal with the fundamental
problems of civilization at their
fountain head. Its mission is
SO direct growth, teach efficiency
jxnd mold the intellectual life of
he country, placing before the
public the daily problems of the
'armers and giving first attention
|:o the legislative, co-operative,
educational and social needs of
fee agricultural classes wrthin its
respective community.
The Power of Advertising
and *
The influence of advertising is
rlearly visible in the homes and
labits of the farmers, and the
advertising columns of the press
jire making their imprint upon
toe lives of our people.
The farmer is entitled to all
the advantages and deserves all
toe luxuries of life. We need
more art, science and useful fa
cilities on the farms, and the ad
vertiser can render a service by
teaching the advantages of mod
ern equipment throughout the
Columns of the rural press.
* WANTED —One of the large mag
i in,e publishing houses desires to
'oy an active man or woman in
'ommunity to handle a special
which has proven unusually
tole. Good opening for right
Address with two references,
ler, Box 155, Times Sq. Sta.,
ork City.
and Sores, Otter Remedies Wos’t Sirs
eas?s, no matter of how long standing,
by the wonderful, old reliable Dr.
\ntisentic Keai ; nc Oil. It relieves
ai. iW w-ae Ur~~ 50c, SI.OO.
POLL OF
Clf IZATION IT
| BT FARMER
WANTS NO "DEADHEADS”
! ON LIST OF EMPLOYES.
A Call Upon the Law Makers to
Prevent Useless Tax on
Agriculture.
By Peter Radford
L*otuif;r National Fannors' Union.
There is no payroll in civiliza
! tion that does not re*t upon the
j back of the farmer. He must
pay the bills—all of them.
When a farmer buys a plow
I he pays the man who mined the
j metal, the woodman who felled
the tree, the manufacturer who
I assembled the raw material and
. shaped it into an article of use
fulness, the railroad that trans
! Parted it and the dealer who sold
| him the goods. He pays the
wages of labor and capital em
j pkiyed in the transaction as well
as pays for the tools, machinery,
buildings, etc., used in the con
struction of the commodity and
the same applies to all articles
of use and diet of himself and
those engaged in the subsidiary
lines of industry.
The total value of the nation’s
annual agricultural products is
around S]2,OCX3,OOO,rX)O, and it is
safe to estimate that 95 cents on
every dollar goes to meet the
expenses of subsidiary industries.
I he farmer does not work more
than thirty minutes per day for
himself; the remaining thirteen
hours of the day's toil he devotes
to meeting the payroll of the
hired hands of agriculture, such
as the manufacturer, railroad,
commercial and other servants.
The Farmer’s Payroll and How
He Meets It.
The annual payroll of agri
culture approximates $12,000,000,-
' 00. A portion of the amount is
shifted to foreign countries in ex
ports, but the total payroll of in
dustries working for the farmer
divides substantially as follows:
Railroads, $1,252,000,000; manu
facturers, $4,365,000,000; mining,
$655,000,000; banks, $200,000,000;
mercantile, $3,500,000,000, and a
heavy miscellaneous payroll con
stitutes the remainder.
It takes the corn crop, the
most valuable in agriculture,
which sold last year for $1,692,-
000,000, to pay off the employes
of the railroads; the money de
rived from our annual sales of
livestock of approximately $2,-
000,000,000, the yearly cotton
crop, valued at $920,000,000; the
wheat crop, which is worth $610,-
000,000, and the oat crop, that
is worth $440,000,000, are re
quired to meet the annual pay
roll of the manufacturers. The
money derived from the remain
ing staple crops is used in meet
ing the payroll of the bankers,
merchants, etc. After these ob
ligations are paid, the farmer has
only a few bunches of vegetables,
some fruit and poultry which he
can sell* and call the proceeds
his own.
When the farmer pays off his
help he has very little left arvl
to meet these tremendous pay
rolls he has been forced to mort
gage homes, work women in the
field and increase the hours of
his labor.
We will devote this article to
a discussion of unnecessary ex
penses and whether required by
law or permitted by the man
agements of the concerns, is
wholly immaterial. We want all
waste labor and extravagance, of
whatever character, cut out. We
will mention the full crew bill as
illustrating the character of unnec
essary expenses to which we refer.
Union Opposes “Full Crew” Bill.
The Texas Farmers’ Union
registered its opposition to this
character of legislation at the
last annual meeting held in Fort
Worth, Texas, August 4, 1914,
by resolution, as follows:
"The matter of prime impor
tance to the farmers of this state
is an adequate and efficient mar
keting system; and we recognize
that such a system is impossible
without adequate railroad facili
ties, embracing the greatest
1 amount of service at the least
possible c£>st. We further recog
nise that the farmers and pro
ducers in the end pay approxi
mately 95 per cent of tne expense
of operating the railroads, and it
is, therefore, to the interest of
the producers that the expenses
of tne common carriers be as
small as is possible, consistent
with good sc and safety.
We, therefore, c*fl upon our tew
mikers, courts and juries te bear
the foregoing facts in mind when
dealing with the common car
riers of this state, and we do
especially reaffirm the declara
tions of the last annual conven
tion of our State Union, opposmu
the passage of the so-called "full
crew" bill before the thirty-third
legislature of Texas."
The farmers of Missouri in the
last election, by an overwhelming
majority, swept this taw off the
statute book >f that state, and
it should come off of all statute
books where it appears and no
legislature of this nation should
pass such a law or similar legis
lation which requires unnecessary
expenditures.
This applies to all regulatory
measures which increase the ex
! penses of industry without giving
| corresponding benefits to the pub
lic. I here is ofttimes a body of
| men assembled at legislatures—
and they have a right to be there
who, in their zeal for rendering
: their fellow-associates a service,
I sometimes favor an increase in the
■ cx penses of industry without due
regard for the men who bow their
| backs to the summer’s sun to
• meet the payroll, but these com
mittees, while making a record
for themselves, rub the skin off
the shoulders of the "farmer by
urging the legislature to lay an
other burden upon his heavy load
and under the lash of “be it en
acted goad him on to pull and
surge at the traces of civilization,
no matter how he may sweat,
foam and gall at the task. When
legislatures “cut a melon” for
labor they hand the farmer a
lemon.
The farmers of the United
States are not financially able to
cariy dead heads” on their pay
rolls. Our own hired hands are
not paid unless we have some
thing for them to do and we are
not willing to carry the hired
help of dependent industries un
less there is work for them. We
must, therefore, insist upon the
most rigid economy.
Legislative House-Cleaning
Needed.
While the war is on and there
is a lull in business, we want all
legislative bodies to take an in
ventory of the statute books and
wipe off all extravagant and use
less laws. A good house-cleaning
is ‘needed and economies can be
instituted here and there that will
patch the clothes of indigent chil
dren, rest tired mothers and lift
mortgages from despondent
homes. Unnecessary workmen
taken off useless expenses
chopped down all along the line
will add to the prosperity of the
farmer and encourage him in his
mighty effort to feed and clothe
the world.
If any of these industries have
surplus employes we can use
them on the farm. We have no
regular schedule of wages, but
we pay good farm hands on an
average of $1.50 per day of thir
teen hours when they Doard
themse?ves; work usually runs
about nine months of toe year
and the three months dead time,
they can do the chores ’for their
board. If they prefer to farm on
their own account, there are more
than 14,000,000,000 acres of idle
land on the earth’s surface await
ing the magic touch of the plow.
The compensation is easily ob
tainable' from Federal Agricul
tural Department statistics. The
total average annual sales of a
farm in the continental United
States amount to $516.00; the
cost of operation is $340.00 j leav
ing the farmer $176 per annum
to live on and educate his family.
There is no occasion for the
legislatures making a position for
surplus employes of industry. Let
them come “back to the soil” and
share with us the prosperity of
the farm.
IT’S GREAT FOR BALKY
BOWELS AND STOMACHS
Wo want all people who have
chronic stomach (trouble or consti
pation, no matter of how long stand
ing. to try one dose of Mayr’s Won
derful Remedy—one dose will con
vince you. This is the medicine so
many of our local people have been
taking with surprising results. The
most thorough system cleanser ever
sold. Mayr’s Wonderful Remedy is
sold by leading druggists every
where with the positive understand
ing that your money will be refund
ed without question or quibble if
ONE bottle fails to give you abso
lute satisfaction.
Invigorating to the Pale and Sickly
The Old Standard general strengUjtning tonic,
GROVE’S TASTELESS chill TOMUA drives out
Malaria.enriches the blood, and buildfe up the sys
tem. A true tonic. For adults and children. 50c
The Quinine That Does Not Affect The Hsad
Because of Its tonic and laxative effect, LAXA
TIVE BROMO QUININE is better than ordinary
Quinine and does not cause nervousness per
ringing in head. Remember the full name and
look for the signature of E. V. GROVE. 25c.
NO WAR TALK
An Honest Deal and Low
Prices is what we talk about .
“THE HEW STORE"
Burton Building Formerly 10c Cos.
Best For Kidneys—Says Doctor.
Dr. J. T. It. Neal, Greenville, So.
Oar.,"says that in Ins 30 years of ex
perience he has found no prepara
lion for the kidneys equal to Foley
Kidney Pills. In 50c and SI.OO sizes,
test you can buy for backache,
rheumatism, kidney and bladder ail
ments. Benj. C. Gilreath Drug Cos.
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
Take Grove’s
The Old Standard Grove’s Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic propertiesof QUININE
and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives
out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents.
Legal Advertisements
SHERIFF’S SALES.
GEORGIA —Bartow County.
Will be sold before the Court
louse door in the City of Carters
• iHf>, Bartow County, Georgia, with
n the legal hours of sale, on the
first, Tuesday in February. 1915, to
the highest bidder for cash, the fol
lowing property, to-wit:
The undivided one-haif interest n
and to a parcel of land lying and ba
ng in the sth district and 3d section
f Bartow county, Georgia, begin
ning at the south-east corner of
Levi Pruitt’s land on let No. 230,
running west on the lot line of 230 to
rock pile on corner of T.. S. Mun
ford’s land, thence due north to
Pettit's Creek, thence up the creek
to property line of Lp\i Pruitt’s
land, thence south to beginning
point, containing nineteen acres; als •
twenty-four and one-half (24 Vi !
acres in north-west corner of lot
No. 238, lying west of L. & N. R. R ,
bounded north by land of Ed. Hen
derson, east by L. & N. R. R., and
south by lands of John and Will
Henderson, formerly owned by
Maria Henderson, purchased from
M. D. Bishop, and west by land of
Albert McLendon, reserving all min
nerals of said tract of land 1 ; also fif
teen (15) acres of land, more or less,
of lot No. 239 and lying on south side
of said lot bounded east by L. & N.
R. R., west by Levi Pruitt’s land,
south by land of John Henderson,
formerly owned by D. Bishop, and
north by land of Jos. Bradley, being
the land formerly owned by J. L.
Vaughan. Levied on and will be sold
Wc are now in better position than ever
to serve our patrons, and nothing pleases us
more than to have our friends come and
through our stock, which is complete in the
very latest styles of Shoes, Gents Shirts.
Ties, Hosiery, Etc.
My stock of Dry Goods and Notions are
jusT what you want and at prices that aston
ish all.
Call on me for anything in tie Dry
Goods and Gents’ Furnishing Line, also No
tions, Glassware, Chinaware, Tinware and
lots of other staple goods too numerous to
mention.
as the property of John Henderson
to satisfy four fil'as issued from the
Justice’s Court, 822nd district G. M.,
said county, all in favor of Car ter s
ville Feed Go. vs. John Henderson.
Property in possession of defend
ant in fifa and pointed out by plaint
iff's attorneys.
This the 6th day of January, 1915.
W. W. CALAWAY, Sheriff.
W. E. PUCKETT, Depy. Sheriff.
Notice to Execute Titles.
GEO RGlA—Bartow Cou n 'y.
Wilson Bright having made appli
cation to require titles to be execut
ed to him to certain land described
in a bond for title thereto attached,
purporting to be signed by J. O.
Ligon, late of said county, deceased,
the application alleging that said
land has been duly paid for.
All persons concerned are hereby
notified that said application will be
heard before the Court of Ordinary
of said county, on the Ist day of
February, 1915.
January 7, 1915.
G. \V. HENDRICKS, Ordinary*.
Notice to Execute Titles.
GEORGIA —Bartow Com. :
H. L. Seheibly having made appli
cation to require titles to be exe
cuted to H. L. Seheibly to certain
land described in a bond for titles
thereto attached purporting to be
signed by W. H. Griffin, late of said
county, deceased, the said applica
tion alleging that said land has been
duly paid for.
All persons concerned are hereby
notified that said application will be
heard before the Court of Ordinary
on the Ist day of February, 1915.
January 7, 1915.
G. W. HENDRICKS, Ordinary.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
GEORGIA, Bartow* County.
To Whom It May Concern:
AH persons having claims against
the estate of I. F. Wikle, late of
said county, deceased, are required
to file same with the’ undersigned,
properly made out in terms of the
law*. All persons indebted to said
estate are required to make immed
iate- payment. Claims addressed to
me at Talladega, Ala., or to me in
care of John H. Wikle, attorney,
Cartersville, Ga.
This Bth December, 1914.
ROBERT M. WIKLE,
Administrator Estate
I. F. WIKLE, deceased.
Current Schedule at
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
N. C. & ST. L.
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 3 5:30 a. in.
-Vo. 73 ...... 8:31 a. m. (Rome Ex.)
No. 93 ..10:22 a. m. (Memphis Lim.)
Xo - L 4:48 p. m.
No. 95 6:41 p. m. (Dixie Flyer)
N°t(>: Dixie Flyer stops at Carters
ville only to let off passengers from
West, or North of Nashville.
Nos. 93 and 95 c'arry dining cars.
NORTH BOUND.
No. 94 9:41 a. rn. (Dixie Flyer;
No. 2 10:17 a. rn.
No. 92 .. .6:26 p. in. (Memphis Limit
ed, arrives Memphis 8:35 a. m.)
N°- 72 7:02 p. in. (Rome Ex.)
No. 4 10:32 p. m.
L. & N.
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 31 ..10:41 a. m. (Local stops in
Georgia.)
No. 37 4:44 p. m. (Local
from Etowah.)
No. 33 8:25 p. m. (South At
lantic Limited.)
NORTH BOUND.
No. 32 8:31 a. m. (South At
lantic Limited.)
No. 38.10:25 a. m. (Local to Etowah.)
No. 34 6:09 p. m. (Local stops
.in Georgia.)
No'. 32 and 33 will stop at Car
tersville to take on and let Off pas
sengers from or for Knoxville and
points beyond, to and from points
on the through car line Macon and
beyond. Nos. 31 and 34 carry dining
cars.
E. W. BELL
Paper Hanging, Cleaning Carpets
and Matting Laid, White W'ashing
and Tinting. Over 250 Samples Wall
Paper. Give me a trial. 12 Church
Street.
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