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Thursday; april u, 1921
THE WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER.
1 HE SAPIRO COTTON PLAN
ITS RELATION TO BUSINESS
I (Sixth Article.)
There is no more vague cxprcx-
in American idiom than the
bis art'^la bU8incS , 8 -" 11 is U3cd l»
JS no other !P erely uccausc ‘here
J. othar Phrase available to cov
fir SO well Whet it i——j. , ■
BY VICTOR VICTOR.
1. The farmer can quit—and “big
business" and the rest of the world
can freeze and starve.
2. The farmer can rank himself
with the sworn enemies oi our en-
** r ® present economic system and
send that system toppling, with
big business" at the bottom of the
rubbish heap.
3. The farmer can enter “big
business himself, on his own terms
and with full co-operation—a newly
prosperous member of the existing
irtoney *” „ * n , thc “heme of American life, sharing
1 mining m „;”tiii manufacturing, his prosperity with others, and
BBtw g f 1 ?? 8 - C e l and » hat not in building for the good of'all, “big
J Broun which - !hort /. ‘hat whole business" included, in the great
to n«T ‘‘nrlnni 8 sometimes referred American fellowship.
“hen swung tnMth P ‘S' ’ and which - . bu5in f 8s " will seize the
irests. w^** t t!L b .L c ™ J mon In-IttW riternaUye. “Big bu.lr.esi" is
so well what it is intended here
It signifies alt the
great centralized “powers that be"
^rta C tiSn a l C ^. Industrial, an d trans-
„ 8 J ° a Yi? r d of thla country. It
npnses the great so-called "com-
(actual or suspected) of all
-wic big interests" •- »*—
ercsts U'i.u. i V 111- —wu aivernauve. Dig DUSIr.0S3
imes siniwV ds * bern .‘ lc and some- j conservative, but not suicidal.
nes sinister power in all schemes First “big business” is going to ““■* b ® used to the' limit But to
onle 8188 °‘ thc nation and its I wait'to find out—certain elements makc the farmer travel them
* Now thorp or . , doubtless making disparaging faces
- inovmimi crc a fo great plans and from time to time—who her or not
the nast t wi7h" Ch ha YS.. ,ucccedcd i" ‘ho farmer is going to insist on
and mtri,” Very '“le assistance | something really effective, or is go-
“hie h„ vl K°npu8 opposition from ing to allow himself to be led off en
vane.. to no 88 ' . rhe 5 ‘oady ad a will-o’-the-wisp chase after some
k . organized labor substitute which
will ptiil hold him
but there is a limit beyond which it
cannot go without complete revolu
tion of our governmental theories,
and there is an additional limit be-
yond which it will not go in thc case
of the southern farmer, and the
southern cotton farmer particularly.
The South is only one section of the
nation; and cotton, to say nothing
of many other of its most important
croj» like tobacco or peanuts, is dis
tinctly a sectional product. There is
no need of or argument-just think
the,situation over, not in the light of
what you think tne southern farmer
deserves, but in thc light of what
you actually believe he can get in nation a a cotton consumers; the
Washington. other and most important concerns
Self-help is the great remedy for
the farmer, and for the southern
farmer especially. And correct co
operative marketing is thc mosl
needed and instantly available form
of that self-help.
Intensified farming, cheaper pro-
duction, diversification of crops, art-
all great roads to progress which
ness methods in the selling of farm
products, is both the most speedily
farmer, without believing that. But
aa her farmers choose between cor
rect and incorrect co-operative mar-
keting for all product#, but most
particularly for cotton, so shall the
E^uth find herself face to face with
economic slavery and ruin or eco
nomic freedom and prosperity.
There are two easily traversed but
important channels of thought upon
the effects of-the Sapiro plan of co-
operative marketing for cotton .into
which*- the foregoing ’ heading is
meant to direct the reader.
One concerns the effect upon thc
consumers;
quires both education, itfiich is ..
gradual process taking great time,
and the ability to change both pres
ent farming methods and the pres
ent equipment on southern farms,
which requires both time at the dis
posal of thc farmer and a modicum
of wealth. Co-operative marketing,
which means only, in the last analy-
sis, the institution of correct busi- consumer, but you can put it down
that IT CANT BE DONE. The law
the influence likely to be exerted
upon tho national, as distinguished
from sectional; strength and pros
perity. 1
In regard to the first, it is most
important to remember that the Sa
piro plan is intended to give to thc
grower thc great wealth that is now
wasted or unfairly distributed in
the present progress of cotton from
the field to the shirt on your back
and no t to increase the cost of that
shirt. That, in regard to tlie pecu
liar case of cotton, no less compact
organization than that now under
discussion could accomplish this,
should have been established by the
first three articles of this series.
Not only is it not, intended to in
crease the price of cotton to the
of supply and demand takes care of
that very thoroughly. An increased
consumer’s - price in cotton, means
foreign competition, reduced de
mand, and increased production—
and, therefore, a return to normal
or less.
It might be different if thc
piro, organization were at liberty
dictate production as well as sale.
But it isn’t. There are anti-trust
laws, if not a few economic factors
besides, in this land which forbid it.
The Sapiro organization, by even
“feeding” of the market over a term
of years, can keep prices nearer
normal average between years of
over-production and under-produc
tion than they are kept today, but it
cannot raise that average.
The average does not have to be
raised. Here Is the summary of av-
bas°hrni.!^ U ?L advance itself | to the plow and yet a.low the oper
Sroimh? i U , that advance itself has ation of that beautiful “save-him-
StnHo n ,,« h0U 4 ( u a more embattled at- and knock-him-in-the-head and save
intnr«ct o p0n the part °* capitalistic I him-again” game previously sped
Jiyiovurih i .... . I fled. once the farmer makei : —- ^
IKmicrht v CSS * bl * business” is a1 bis insistence clearly known, “big attainable remedy and the greatest.
miff , rc ® to have on your side, | business” will fall in with thc farmer I f. n the South, where it has been prac-
d,”. *° u "'ant to start an economic I and help him along. I tically non-existent heretofore, it
.nange of any sort, and a bitter I It is up to the fa-rntr now to mak: I can bring about complete revolution
> 10 °Pl >osc ' And these few notes I that insistence known, and in no un |°f bis own condition in life for the
down „ to R b° w "by there is I certain terms. Such meetings ns I southern farmer in less than a dec-
.c?n rcason for thinking that “big that scheduled for April 11 and 12 ade -
uinoss, as a class will be inclin- I in Atlanta, with what ought to fol-1 . Now, all those who cry, “We want
10 assist, rather than oppose, such | low it, are the best way.; tne farmer I diversification—give us co-operative
yarmer s movement as that repre-1 can go about it. I marketing of other crops besides cot
ented by the Sapiro plan for cot-1 Forming co-operative nurkeUng [ ton and give it to us quickly!” are
on, 11 sufficiently insisted upon by I associations in which othcia besides I sounding a clarion call which should
ne iarmer. I the actual producers are allowed to I be beard and heeded by southern
10 begin with, let’s examine the I become members, 01 which nre small I farmers and business men from
position of the farmer in our eco I or scattered or loosely tied together I Cape Hatteras to the Rio Grande,
pomic structure. Is he labor, or island unable to extr any real influ-1 But if they fail to comprehend, at
c T J apita1, lence on prices, is the ideal way of I the same time, that a more profit-
inc answer is that he can be class-1 initiating the farmer into this de-|ablc market system for cotton is the
ea a s neither, because he happens to I lightful game, in which you make I supreme need of the hour in the
jo be both, he is in a class abso-1 the crying baby smile by showing I South, they are falling into a dan
jimeiy by himself. He both works I him the beautiful moon and when I gerous error. . -------
pnd owns. He works his land and he I he is quiet and well-behaved again I You cannot accomplish correct | crn K® experience with successful co
owns his land; he makes his pro-1 take away his cake. land profitable diversification of|®P er ative marketing on the Pacific
nuct and he owns it after it is made. I But thc American farmer is indi-|farm production in the South in a I
In short, he is not only pure pro-1 eating that he won’t submit to any I day. Cotton is still, and must be, I JJ{CREASED consumption,
lucer, but. he is complete producer. I such treatment—he’ll quit first—or I for some time to come, the greatest I JJj^JgASED production,
flo is a whole industry, both the ! do things even more disastrous, if [resource of tho South. Misery and| ifiSSEA pr °fl k to f* 1 ® R r ? wcr *
:apital and thc labor thereof, by | that can bo possible, to “big busi* [ niin through a number of successive | DECREASED cost to the ultimate
Pm 11 [ness.” , | bad'years in cotton, while they |consumer.
Well, if you please, it has here- | Do you know what ho is doing in | might accomplish a new system of | 1” other words, the industry is ex
ofore been the policy of 44 44 biu | the Dakotas and Wisconsin, and | agriculture in thc South at the end, | panded, both the producer’s and the
illiinosc” in int.ti. .JJM .. •. I _..u t _« a. j_i ’ i 1 _IJ u.. il. I i<nninimar'a afnnilar/i qJ living is
accomplished
. , w „ . i of WASTE
ut the organization of other com-1 belled “Non-Partisan Lcaguo.” Some | lightenment that can come only | and SPECULATION. Thfc producer
te production units—mines, fac-Jof thc ingredients consist of forms | through a little leisure and a little {Bp* 8 a fair profit and no more for
J® 8 * ctc ** in the closest union per-1 of socialism plus a little more—I modost but steady prosperity the | aj 8be Re ^ 8 ^ bfl t
issible under thc laws of the land j farmer control of the government, j best road along which to travel grad-1
irate and absolutely dependent unit | complete government financing of|ually away from our present utter | rft e contribution of such a pro-
-and sometimes closer! Therefore, | all farm interests, farmer alliance, if 1 dependence upon cotton? I cess to the national strength and
hy should big business fail to pur-1 necessary, with thc radical clement | Must we lose our comparative I prwperity cannot: be overestimated,
uc the same policy toward the far [in labor against capital ,and other | monopoly of one of tho world’s great | r “® w ® a »th of the farm is the
ier? | things equally ominouMo “big busi-1 necessities, and the power (thus far| w ®alth of the nafon. It is the re-
Let us examine into this a little I ness.” *.. ■ | wasted) which goes with it—must 1 8 ? u ^ c . e indultrie 8 , the food and
urthCr. Under the Sapiro plan, is| Some time ago, the most distinct-1 wo fall the world in the production | °J R* pedpld. It is the ba
I®, farmer organizing as a class | ly capitalistic big popular magazines | of that necessity to which we ore so I °* prospertty in peace, it ii
nich intends or is able to hold up | in America published a wonderful | peculiarly suit^—In order to be-1 the bedrock of endurance in war, it
ivery other class of people; or is [article bewailing the growing deser-1 come producers of other things a»|‘ 8 only means .of complete self-
ie organizing into a number of sep-|tion of American farms, and wind-1 well? Or shall wo retain our mas-1 8 “PP ort and economic indepedence.
rate business units, as the producer | ing up with Goldsmith's eternally | tery of the golden fleecy staple, |“ the wealth of our farms is great
if a given commodity, with a sep- | famous couplet of truth: [while we go peacefully and intelli-1 e . no H®-5* ^”0 world which must be
or each commodity? The vitally im-1 “A bold peasantry, their country's J gently about tne business of produc- and ^ ed » kneels at our feet.
pride, [ing other things as well, and thus] 1 * « is not great enough, we kneel
When once destroyed, can never | destroying its mastery over us? | a *J;? e of the world.
be supplied.” | Surely, the latter course is the | The South Is art integral part of
Right now, “big business” is real-1 best for ourselves, our country, and. | this nation. Its farm-wealth should;
izlng that, with equal truth a nowjin fact, all the clothed peoples of | by- the extent of its God-given re
twist can be given to that couplet | the earth, and that course can be | sources, be the greatest on this
like this: | taken only by the immediate Insti-1 earth. Tlib* is not poetry, but fact
“A bold peasantry, their country’s | tution of correct co-operatlvc mar-1 —ask the United States department
pride, | keting for cotton. I agriculture or anyone who is ac-
When once aroused, will never | l n two years' time, by that melh |quainted with the comparative soft
be defied!” |od, wo can eliminate a;l the hideous | and climate values of the southeast-
In other words, it is straight up to [waste in the present absurd methods lem United States and those of any
“big business” to choose one of | 0 f distribution for cotton and de-1 other equal area on the globe. Yet
x. atroy piost of thc harrowing fluctu-1 the South is regarded in some places
ation of cotton prices, without which I as a comparative drain on the na-
CHARGES NEW CULT BLACKS WIVES’ EYES
ortant answer is that it is tho lat
ter, and and not tho former, tha!
Tic is doing.
Get this straight, and, if you hove
n economic turn of mind, thinlc-
png it over will bring nflood of un
iderstanding and revelation:
f * Thc Sapiro organization is a COM
WODITY unit, and not a CLASS
unit. The same farmer may produce
fourteen different crops, and market
(them all co-operattvcly under the
Sapiro plan; but to do it, he will.
_have to join fourteen different and I three situationa.
(absolutely independent organize-1 (Seventh Article.) . ... , -■----- . .. . - _
tions. Here is not the farmer stand I The preceding six articles of this I the average price for raw cotton I tion. That is shamefully untrue, of
ling forth and crying: "Because ] I series have fallen short of their pur I in our, times would render cotton I course, but it gains color with care-
am a farmer, I want this and I want I peso if they have not carried convic-1 growing a profitable business. I less thinkers from the fact that the
;hat!” Here is the farmer saying I tion upon these three points: | We cannot increase that average I South is now so loudly clamouring
imply: "I produce this or that I First, that thc Sapiro plan, applied I p r j cc f or any length of time without I for “government aid," and exhibits
particular product to sell. I am go I to cotton, better than any other I ( 05 i n g our cotton supremacy. Eng-1 as she does in every crisis, the mis-
ing to join what I makc of that com-1 scheme suggested, short of unre- i an d will see to that and is seeing tolerable failure of her people to util
modity to what a number of mv I stricted government aid to thc cot I it now by strenuously devoting her-1 ize one-tenth of tho regions unexam
fellows make, to form a great unit I ton farmer and government fixiqg I sc j, to the encouragement of cotton I pled possibilities,
thereof which can be sold at less ex I of cotton prices in the interests of I production in her colonies. The I Let the South step forth and help
ponse and fairer profit to me than 11 the cotton grower, will tend to sta-1 point is that we can makc that aver I herself and she will help the nation,
can obtain by trying to market mylbilize thc cotton market, lesson thc I age price a paying price to southern | She can do it, and do it now, by
share by myself.” I present economic waste in cotton I producers if we eliminate the waste I means of correct co-operative mar
, To big business, snd to the whole | distribution, and insure the growei an j the unfair disadvantage of | keting.
•public, in fact, there is all the dif. I a fair and reasonable profit on the I grower-position in the present mark-
Iference in the world between the I making of his product. I c t. This, eo-operative marketing on I HUNTINGTON.
(two attitudes. And that .it may bo | Second, that., outside of the im- the principles of thc Sapiro plan will I HUNTINGTON, April 13.—Mrs.
' ■ * ‘ " ' ‘ "I ’ *“ ' J. A. S. Perry is at home and is do
— ... . ... , , i -.. , I inK fine after a to-wceka stay at
1 marketing units should ho kept as in-[business fabric, the Sapiro plan in Then, as thc gradusl processes of j Amerieus Hospital,
fdependot as possible of the control | its details ia not only distinctly com-1 cheapening production cost are| j| r - - Ki nar j an ,i
of existing general farm organiza-1 patiblc with existing American busi-1 brought into play, we will be able I c hiidren and Miss Beulah Harris
tions. These should encourage, but I ness methods and our existing eco- to cut the average price of cotton I Jpcnt Sunday wjth Mr an(1 Mrs j
not dominate, the formation of such j nomte structure, but will bring di- still further and yet leave the grow-1 ^ Kinarti
units, and rhould let them alone rect benefits to the southern mor- cr „f profit, while our foreign com- [ ' M q j, Co|c of Jacksonville
when formed. chant, the southern banker, and thc potitors, lacking our God-given gifts | ia yisitinir her rarents Mr and Mrs
So. it is into "big business” units I entire southern business field. [ 0 f incomparable cotton-soil and cot-1 w ^ Haves r ’ ’
■ * ■** * ’* ' j 4 - 11 * » —*— ' alimfiin nitP lfinO> PtBPrlPIIM. I was * . '..s'
J > /en.J 0 71rketi P n C J i e n ff!. , | Mis » Lottie Ethridge, of Colum-
Mr-found marketing cni I L|> ( en<m» n„.i ...uu
unitK | entire Routhem business field.
I of his own, orRanized like modern | If we add to these two points one | ton-climate,
I “bie business.” understandable bv | which will be demonstrated in the | an d our m y . UUJ1 *,„ cnv
f “big business,’’ and to be dealt with concluding article on “The Sapiro I ciency, will be powerless to destroy I £ 0 |jJ g £ erc
on even terms by “big business”-- Plan and the Nation”--namely. that us. | Mrs. Claude Johnson hadasgucsts
and not into class associations—that I the general cotton-buying public, in- This matter is co-operative mar-1 Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Bradley,
; your Sapiro plan farmer ia going. cl i l || ll "‘ r ,' “ L k ° tlnK 8>10u d bc atlcndcd *° rlght Miaaes Lucile Kinard, Louise Brad
Now. you may leap to the conclu-1 will not suffer from the new market now . I| cy an j Geraldine Rvais
aion that because the farmer's going arrangement, the conclusion that the The South ia in great danger, and | p ran vij n Kinard Bnc'nt
into “big buaincaa'a himself will end I Sapiro plan for cotton will be » I yet she stands at the threshold I with Charlie K. Check!!
his exploitation bv many interests great and beneficent power work- unexampled prosperity if she will I fl. If, Harris and Green Perry, Jr.,
hig and little, thc big interests of the I ing toward the general prosperity but cross it. The momentary P?J- were guests of W. L. Hayes/ Jr.,
country, as a class, would oppose htsland development of thc South can-1 chology of her too proudly lnd ‘ v,d " I Sunday
entry into their midst. If you are I not be avoided. ualistic former is at this time auchl c Ethrld and children,
thinking along those lines, consider in -view of all that has been said that this threshold can be cr »“ ad < a I Edna and Edward, visited at thc
two things: I ‘lie thing should bc so obvious as to a twelve-month if public °P‘ nl ? n ihome of Mrs Cionton Sundnv after.
(1) It is only a small percentage I need no elaboration here for any in-1 throws Its whole shoulder to the | noon
of the big business interests of th- tblligent person, and no time will be w hocl immediately, whereas, at a I and M w w Williams and
country which thrive by the cxploi- consumed in stating ‘ru‘hs whic latC r date the process ‘ aka a Mrs. J. W. Thompson, of Cataulo,
Ida tion of the farmer. It must not should by this time have assumed generation and then come too late. I on # vWt to t (, oir daU g h ter and
“forgotten that moneyed interests the acceptance of platitudes Bu Moreover, as regards cotton, there niccei M(gs Ann)c FIorrio Wi || iaml
hich now conservatively finance the importance of these truths will la t h, s practical, point about the op- Mrs. J. J. Kinard, Sam Cheek
peculators, but do not speculate I be better understood upon a rcaii L or tunity of the moment, which may Verna, Bertha and Kenneth Kinard
.hemselvcs could get same amount | zation of certain others. never repeat itself: due to tho > na ‘ I visited friends in Bronwood Satur-
of profitable investment field of a I One of these is that correct co- bilitv of our banks to finance the day
much safer sort bv financing the operative marketing of farm pro-1 ma king of a new crop and thc hold- M lss Lilia Echois spent thc week-
firmer himself. Financing a new ducts is the most available and vital in(r 0 f the old one at the same time.l end ^th Miss Jewell Jordan at Shi
South alone, rejuvenated by profit-1 aid to agricultural prosperity te muc h of the money that other col- , oh
able instead of unprofitable agricul (which the South can give attention lateral than that of the cron mort-l Mo || ie p orrett visited home-
iture could give half the cspital in Another is that, at the present mo- L s g e an d still more of it will u>’ t I b J folks at Plains during the week-end.
the country extraordinarily rich re ment, correct co-operative . market- borrowed at all but will he hauled Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Perry and
urns ... . I '"g «< ,a ‘ h * m ,°* t „ 1 ” l g^T! ,orth fr0 .? b « rd -f^* d , a h nd I Green Perry, Jr., entertained several
/o\ Tho wbnle fabric of Amen-j nhare of this inattcr to th® South. 10^ hoardings, with th® result l 8 *t I ^ Sunday school classes of
an business, big a"d little, is rigjn The third is that the the oercenUge of 1 Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Fri
ow Staggering on the verge of ruin must demand of its farmers that the backbone of our cpntemnjated I day c v en |ng. The rooms were pret-
— - new nssociotions strength, will probably tj , y dccorat(
MRS. FLORENCE BRATSBERB
April 13.—Farmers Mrs. Bratsberg said she had nev
er heard thc name of thc cult but
that its membership included many
farmers.
Thc cult adherents, sho said, beat
their wives and spent long periods
away from home.
Mrs. Bratsberg charges that when
her husband worked himself Into
religious frenzv he “mercilessly
bent, choked, and bruised” her.
They were married In July, 1018.
According to Mrs. Bratsberg, her
husband left her on his “period of
abstinenco” less than a yeah after
the marriage.
In the husband’s nbacneu his
friends deny tho charges.
CHICAGO,
in an isolated district of the Dakota
prarics have a cult whose rites are
as startling as thc most bizarre of
mystic culta in thc cities, says Mr-.
Florence Bratsberg in a bill of di
vorce filed here.
According to her allegations,
some of thc tents of tho order to
which her husband belongs are:
Wives must bo beaten at regular
intervals.
Thc eyes of wives must bc puffed
and blackened by blows so that they
will not be attractive to other men.
Husbands must leave their wives
for long periods so that thoir love
will not die of monotony.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS’ PROCEEDINGS
AMERICUS. Ga., April 4,1921
Tho Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues met in regular
session. Present: N. A, Ray, Chairman; R. S. Oliver, J. E. Poole, C. C.
Hawkins and S. E. Statham.
Minutes of regular meeting, March 7, and call meeting, March ll^rcad
and confirmed.
Apdrcw Banks and Annia Borryhill were placed on pauper roll at
82.00 ■ each per month.
Motion waa made and carried .to reduce the fees for feeding the pris
oners in jail to 60c a day por head, effective at once.
Bills Approved and Ordered Paid For tho Month of March, 1921.
Paving Fund
Seaboard Air Line Ry Co.... 632.90
Central of Ga. Ry Cp. ..-9 688.37
Central of Ga. Ry. Co ........ 488.33
The R. O. Campbell Coal Go 103.39
J. B. Anslcy 46.72
Seaboard Air Line Ry Co 199.69
Amerieus /Water Works.... 76
Ladd Limo & Stono Co 2,001.96
Pay Roll 636.00
Total ....$4,560,10
Bills Approved and Ordered Paid For the Month of March, 1021.
General Fund
The Scilg Co $ 103.80
Juio Felton
J. C. Mcbana
Howells’ Pharmacy ............
National Supply Co
F. Jones
Amerieus Lighting Co
Marshall A Bruce
Geo. O. Marshall
Dr. F. L. Cato
S. H. Edge
City and County Hospital ..
Ladies’ Aid Society
Carnegie Library
Fred Campbell
The Timeo-Recorder
Southern Printers
363.66
14.98
12.20
10.00
30.00
66.87
48.09
75.00
60.00
40.00
60.00
25.00
25.00
5.00
23.10
70.76
Dr. B. F. Bond 150.00
. A. Decsc ...
W. W. McNeill .
Southern Printers
Atlantic Ice & Coal Corp ....
Southern Cotton Oil Co
Sumter Welding Co
Gyles-Andrews Co.
G. A. & W. G. Turpin
Wllliams-Nilos Co
Moreland-Jones Co
Plains Mercantile Co
Bragg’s Market
Howell’s Pharmacy
Hooks Motor Co
Sheffield Hdw. Co.
2.80
1.00
6.86
9.50
2.00
11.00
30.20
10.00
66.38
1.70
6.00
63.76
16.66
40.75
Glover Grocery Co. ■ 176.35
J. H. Poole & Sons .
60.00
John D. Williams 404.50
B. Ansley
H. D. Watts
Paupers
Lucius Harvey
Chss. L. Ansley
Amerieus Water Works ....
W. T. McMath
W. I,. Short
Phillips
Planters Seed Store
Amerieus Cured ruction Co
Amerieus Battery Co
Latson Welding Works ....
Ryiander Shoe Co
Loving Oil Co.
142.00
77.60
96.00
188.97
76
51.68
23.56
3.50
5.25
8.45
10.80
5.00
40.00
23.00
2!8,8!i
8.00
J. H. Poole A Sons 314.05
A. B. Connors
C. C. Hawkins ..
Chas Hogg
21.00
11.70
J 7.50
E. W. Hutchins 100.2'
Dr. P. W. Hudson
Amerieus Grocery Co
Shipp Grocery Co
Fulton Metal Bed Mfg. Cp.
The Texas Co
John W. Shiver
Pay-Roll
Yancey Brothers
Oliver-McDonald Co
Gate-wood Mitor Co.
Gulf Refining Co
Turner Electric Co
G. E. Buchanan
Amerieus Water Works
22.50
3.21
330.0.7
70.00
480.85
0.00
.... 1.090.02
370.87
130.90
.... 114.75
... 319.87
15.06
13.65
40.68
Total
After approving bill.4 for March, the Board adjourned.
H. D. WATTS, Secretary
..$6,748.46
it because the American former i« they avail themselves of this new
the same position- «nd “big bu*i-|“On*n sesame to prosperity RIGHT
i the same position. — - ...,
is” knows it, and has said so quite NOW.
elyn with^ weeping _»n, d
Government aid to farmers, more
,» means un I end more of whfeh is being obtained,
were pret
tily decorated in rat roses. Inter-
be greater than ever t«if® 1 *- . . eating garnet were played and sev-
Attempted co-operative "“thetlng erB j proms enjoyed. The classes
efforts of some sort we wilt nave— I and jj, e ot]ier voted this one
no man can rend the etgna of tnei 0 j g, ( mort delightful occasions of
is a splendid and important thing; timei, or the present temper of the! thc eeason .
Bluebeard Landru
On Hunger Strike |
PARIS, April’ 12.—Bluebeard I
Landru is hunger-striking because
he doesn’t want to leave his cell in
Santc Prison.
Landru entered ttic jail two years
ago, charged with killing a sundry
lot of wives. He give the jailers
much (rouble.
He insisted on being awakened
certain hours and on sleeping
when regulations said the cells
should bc vacated foi airing.
A few weeks ago Landru direov-
ered that a document waa missing
from the papers in liis case A to.
trial was ordered and thc case trans-
ferrea to Veraaillei. Then tho fun
started.
Landru threw himself upon his
bod and cried.
“Why do they toko me from here
where I have been so happy!” be
wailed.
Authorities fear his hunger-strike-
may make him too weak to appear I:
court for trial.
Among the Guycurus and
peoples of Brazil, the mpn
men hare separate languai
MOUNTAINEERS
INDICTED IN RING
Murder ConsDiracy Is
Charged By Florence,
Ala., Frand Jury
FLORENCE, Ala., April 13,-
Fourtccn men were indicted on ten
counts in thc report today of thc
federal grand jury which inquired
Into the alleged conspiracy of tho
mountaineer ring” Whose members
arc charged with the death of Don
officcr n *° n ’ ‘ >r<ddb ^ on enforcement
Four of those indicted are now
serving sentences of from twenty-
years to life imprisonment.
Samoan mothers press down thc
noses and foreheads of their chil
dren to keep these feature* flat.
METODISTS WILL
OBSERVETAY-UF
Week of April 10-17 To
Be Devoted To Cen
tenary Pledge Paying
Throughout thc entire Souih
Georgia Methodist conference, em
bracing 770 churches, the week of
April 10-17 will bo observed as Cen
tenary "pay-up” week, it is announc
ed by Rev. George W. Mathews, con
ference missionary, of Fort Valley.
Of thc $916,112 due (his month
oil tho $2,287,781 subscribed to tho
Centenary fund, $173,493 has been
K id to date, he stated, leaving a
lanco unpaid of $441,019. Forty-
one thousand Individual subscrip
tions were made, according to tho
Ccntentary treasurer’s report.
The purpose, of tho Centenary
Payment Week is to insure the col-
lection of the amounts subscribed to
the $53,000,000 Centenary fund of
tho M. E. Church South. Announce- ;
inents will be made in nil churches
hy tho pastors, and the church Con- ..
Icnai-y treasurers ond collecting
committees will he charged with tho
task.
Those church members who have
transferred their memberships since '
subscribing to thc fund are asked
to send their payments to the Cen
tenary treasurer in the church in
which their subscriptions were made.
It is anticipated that many of the
subscribers will pay up tho whole
amount of their subscriptions, which
were to have extended ovor a pe
riod of five years. All subscribers
arc urged to pay without fail the
amount already due on their sub
scriptions.
In connection with the announce
ment of thc “pay-up” plan, the Rev.
Mr. Mathews stated that thc build
ing and enlargement program In the
home field and in thc eight foreign
fields of Methodism will require this
year $5,500,000.
“There is a crisis in every mission
field.” he emphasized, “and in view
of this fact, every Centenary treas
urer, assisted by the collecting com
mittees, is requested to see or com
municate with every subscriber to
tho fund that the nmount required
may ho raised.”
THALEANTO
CL0SESAPRIL29
Basket Dinner To Fea
ture Exercises At Ru
ral Academy
OjMribuicd.) 7
Thalcon Academy closes on April
29th next for tho present term. At f
that timo thcro will be a basket din
ner and literary exercises to mark
tho event, as is usual with this schooL -
Tho present year closes ms the
greatest In its history. This school
won tho $500 prize from the state
on its excellence as a grammar school.
Tho four literary and one musis
teacher, composing the faculty, have
just cause for congratulation at ii
splendid Record for the year.
Thc people of that district voted
bonds two years ago and built an
up-to-dntc academic building of which
they aro Justly proud.
At this time n sharp contest is on
between thc different grades and
teachers that is proving interesting,
indeed . A prize of $25.00 has been
offered thc room which excels in con
cert recitations. Three pieces arc to
bc recited at tho last day by each of
tho classes with their teachers at their
head, and tho prize will he given
to that room that the judges may de
termine thc most excellent. The
selections to bo rend aro now being
practiced, and April 29th when re
cited will place that loom nnd teacher
triumthant that carries off’ the
banner of merit.
Stiff Fines Given
License Delinquents
Several negroes were in recorder’s
court Friday morning to answer
charges of operating businesses*^
without licenses. These were fined!
10 days or $10 by Recorder Fort,
who issued a warning that all who
do not secure licenses will bc given
similar fines. Many.of the negroes
who run pressing clubs, taxis, u small
shoe repair shops and like places
have not secured these licenses and
Mr. Pouncey is making cases against
these whenever he finds them.
At the city council meeting yes
terday he asked for instructions as
to the collections of these licenses
and waa told, on motion of Alderman
Burke, to make cases against all de
linquents.
Royal Cafe Reduces
All Food Prices 25 Pet
The Royal Cafe today announce*
that it hai reduced all its prices 25
percent. cGorgc Economous, man
ager, states that tho general lower.
*?? ot of foodituffs haa made
this possible. Ho also States that
the decrease In prices does not mean
decrease in either quality or quan-
’y of orders.
In other words Geoi
hii name—T
Charles P, Steinmctz, the electri
cal wizard, computes the power of
a lightning flash to equal that of a.
200-ton train going 50 miles
hour.
DR. E. E. PARSONS
Deattat.
Offlca Is Commercial City
BaDding.
! 8 to 1* ol 1
If Oils
•ds George Is living up
•ECONOMOUS.