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NEWNAN HERALD & ADVERTISER
VOL. X L V.
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1909.
NO. 5
Bel ore you buy your Bagging and Ties we want
to make you some prices, as we had the foresight to
buy before the advance. We also have the best duck
cotton Pick Sacks at 2Sc. each.
We have just received a car-load of Shorts, Bran
and Bran and Shorts mixed, on which we can make
you some very close prices. We also carry the best
feed Cotton Seed Meal for your cow. We have, too,
a quantity of the best Georgia Rye.
“Merry Widow” Tobacco is the finest on earth
for the price. Just received
it at once ; so, while it lasts, we will continue to sell
at 10c. plug, or a 10-lb. box for $3.2).
Don’t forget that we sell the famous “Stronger
Than the Law” Shoes—the only water-proof shoe on
the market. Every pair guaranteed, and we are still
selling them at the old price.
You can get the genuine Jeans Pants from us—
the kind your mother used to make—(“Gold Medal”
label.)
Come to see us and let us figure with you on
anything you may need.
T. t». Farmer Sons Co.
19 Court Square : : G and 8 W. Washington
Telephone H
CURTAILMENT CY COTTON MiLLS;
BOTH SIDES OF THE PICTURE SHOWN,
“American Spinners Played for
,000 lbs., and must sell ter illt0 their act,,a - - - , . . . . .
though they are struggling to impress I nipulated prices until they are nearly
upon Ameriean spinners the folly of ^ our cerds a pound, or twenty dollars a
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PLOWS
Never before has any buyer in Newnan tackled
a car-load of Turning Plows; therefore, the farmer
has had to pay 15 per cent, more heretofore for his
plows. So we figured that if we bought the BEST
STEEL-BEAM TURNERS made, and sold them
for less than other dealers, we could handle a solid
car-load. When you buy a Chattanooga Chilled
Plow you may know you are getting the best.
Every plow is guaranteed to be made from best
material. Another reason for buying plows from
us is that you can get any part of any plow at any
time you call.
We have in stock CHILLED PLOWS, HILL
SIDE PLOWS, CONTRACTOR PLOWS, MIDDLE-
BREAKER PLOWS, SUBSOIL PLOWS, and
repairs of all kinds for any Chattanooga Plow, We
call special attention to Nos. 23, 63 and 71.
No. 23 is a l'ght 2-horse Turner, weighing 95
lbs; capacity, SxlO; high, straight standard, to avoid
choking, and a large, shapely mold-board that is a
good turner.
No. 63 weighs 100 lbs; capacity, SxiO; Chilled
Cutter share; sloping landslide, and long convex
mold-board, either chilled metal or steel. The
front is so low and the plow so “rakish” that nothing &
sticks to it but the FARMER. ^
No. 71 is a small 1-horse r I urner, weighing 57 S
lbs; Cutter share fastened with two bolts; small
mold-board; steel beam only. tZ
When you need a Turning Plow, either one, S
two, three, four or six horse, remember you can S
buy from us 15 per cent, lower than at other S
places. ^
» H. C. ARNALL MDSE. CO.
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Spinners
Suckers.’
Discussing the cotton situation, Rich
ard H. Edmonds, editor of The Manu
facturers’ Record, who is in the South
making a study of crop prospects and
cotton’consumption, said:
"The American spinners are being
played by foreign spinners for suckers,
and they are being played with an en
ergy that ought to satisfy the most en
thusiastic fisherman. In other words,
foreign spinners are endeavoring in
evi y way possible to convince the
scanners in this country and all other
People identified with the cotton trade
that the price of the raw cotton is too
high, and that the way to bring about
a reduction is to shut down the mills
until cotton declines to a point satisfac
tory to the buyer.
"The American spinners are taking
this talk of
ously, and vvh
extent, as compared with previous
years, keeping out of the market, for
eign spinners are buying every bale of
cotton they can get their hands on. The
question oE price does not seem to en-
ealculations, al-
“Powerloss to Do Other Than Cur
tail.’
Amorican Wool and Cotton Reporter.
It is practicaly settled that there
will be a period of curtailment in cot
ton goods production, beginning in
January, 1910, and running through to
August in the same year, as there
seems no likelihood of the consuming
public responding with enough vigor to
hn advanced price fur cotton goods to
permit of their profitable mnufacture
on 13>J cents, or higher, basis cotton.
The question is asked by those not
acquainted with the situation, "Why
curtailment?” and the answer is sim
ple: Speculation and gambling in raw
cotton, by men who hardly know cotton
from wool, who do not actually handle
a bale in buying and selling hundreds
of thousands of bales, but men who are
postmasters in the art of speculation
the foreign spinners serf- :lncl leadel ' s * in finance, so that they
hile they are, to a large command unlimited funds to advance
the price of cotton to where it is pro
hibitive from a manufacturing stand
point, but immensely profitable to buy
and sell on paper.
The speculator, taking advantage of
a smaller crop than last year, has ma-
buying at present prices
"No one familiar with the shrewd
ness and the knowledge of business
conditions throughout the world of for
eign spinners should be surprised at
the game which they are playing. It
has been played steadily for more than liundred thousand mill workers are to
bale, higher than normal for successful
manufacturing at the present range of
prices for finished goods, and in making
this advance the gamblers have taken
millions of dollars in profits, and
brought on a condition where several
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hall' a century, but there is cause for
surprise that American spinners should
so readily fall into the trap.
"As a matter of fact, the present
price of cotton is not unduly high. It
is not, in fact, even at present figures,
yielding to the farmer the profit which
should be won out of this, nature’s
greatest monopoly. Considering the in
creased cost of production and the in
creased cost of living, it is doubtful
whether 13-cent cotton is giving better
net results to the producer than 8 or
9-cent cotton would have done seven or
eight years ago. To assume that the
world will not consume this entire
crop, even if it sold at 15 cents a
pound, is absurd to anv man who is
thoroughly familiar with the world’s
business conditions and who recognizes
that, until an article reaches a practi
cally prohibitory price, consumption is
not materially lessened by what, under
other conditions, might have been re
garded as a high price.
“ The advance in the price of iron has
been fib to 95 per ceil", in the last few
mom ha, without in the slightest re
stricting the consumption of pig iron.
In fact, we are now producing pig
run at the at-of 30.000,0110 tons a
ear « ■ • I s- ling if on a basis of about
‘>15 a too at Birmingham, where,
'ast year, w- found it very difficult to
narket 15 000.000 tons of pig iron at
•10 per cent, lower price.
" i’he iron market is only indicative
of the general revival which is taking
olace throughout the country, and
which from this country will spread to
all other lands. The whole world is go
ing forward at a marvelous rate of ex
pansion in industry and commerce. The
past is hardly a light by which we can
judge the future. The development in
this country, wonderful as it is, is
scarcely, when all conditions are consid
ered, much more wonderful than the
development that is taking place in
Mexico, in South America, in Canada,
and in many portions of the Orient.
The enormous production of gold, which
is now averaging over 8400,000,000 a
year, is one of the contributing causes
to this world expansion and to the in
creasing cost of living.
All mankind is living on a higher
plane. Wages in the Orient and in
Europe as well as in this country, have
been steadily advancing for some
years, with occasional brief periods of
reaction, such as that following the
panic of 1907. But, broadlv speaking,
there is a steady, world-wide forward
movement.
'It finds expression in an infinite va
riety of ways. It is stimulating the
building of railroads, the improvement
of waterways, the construction of ca
nals, the irrigation of dry land, the re
clamation of wet land, and, in general,
everything that makes for the
broadest advancement of mankind arid I
for the fullest utilization of the vast
resources which nature has given us
for development. All of these things
are contributing to the better employ
ment of people, the greater demand for
labor, and to an increased consumption
of foodstuffs, as well as of manufac
tured products. The iron producers,
the growers of wheat and corn and oth
er agricultural products, and manufac
turers of nearly all lines, are sh iring in
this increased activity and increased
profit to a greater extent than the cot
ton growers of the South. If there had
be forced into reduced working hours
that they can ill afford, as, during the
period from January to August, they
are likely to lose 25 to 30 days, equal
to about $40 per operative, or a total
loss of close to eight million dollars in
this country. While mill operatives are
taking this loss, which means restric
tions on necessities, and practically an
entire loss of luxuries, the millionaire
gamblers are adding these millions to
their other millions, and our "govern
ment of the people, for the people, by
the people,” is not disturbed in the
least.
After all, the ones most to blame are
the country’s workers, mill operatives
who are directly interested, and opera
tives in other lines of manufacture who
are indirectly interested. This vast
army of workers have the power to
regulate this reprehensible gambling in
food products and raw material, such
as cotton, as they send lawmakers to
Washington, and can call them to ac
count if they are lax in their duties.
But lack of harmony prevents concert
ed action, and the cotton mill opera
tives will Buffer on account of lost
time, while the gamblers pile up mil
lions in profils by manipulating prices
on cotton without buying a bale of real
cotton during their speculative cam
paign.
I he manufacturers are powerless to
do other than curtail production, as the
mills cannot be operated at a loss, and
the probable plan of curtailment will
be to close one day each week after the
period is decided upon. This plan is
better for all concerned than to accu
mulate goods, and later sell them at a
loss, and then be forced into longer
idleness.
been no material shortage in the yield
of cotton compared with last year there
should have been, merely to keep pace
with the advance in other things, a
rise of 25 to 30 per cent, in the price of
cotton over the average for the preced
ing crop.
"The world’s improved business con
ditions would have justified this. When
we remember that whatever may be
the natural final outcome, it is an un
questionable fact that the crop will be
very much less than last year while the
consumption will certainly be as large,
it would seem that present prices have
not yet reached a point of fairness to
the grower. It is incumbent upon ev
ery business interest in the South to
recognize the situation and to unite to
help the farmer in securing a price in
keeping with the present increasing
prosperity in every other industry. In
stead of seeking to depress the price of
cotton, the South should unite t> seek
to advance the price. At urn-p-, aver*
man who is paying anv serious atten
tion to the talk of foreign sp mars is
simoly helping them to laugn ip one
sleeve, while with the other nan 1 they
are reaching behind his hack a i I gath-
tering in every possible hal • or cotton.
"Later on. when the foreign spinners
have secured the best of th s crop and
the American spinners undertake to
supply their own needs, they will wake
up to the game that has been played
upon them.”
Tour cough annoys you. Keep on
hacking and tearing the delicate mem
branes of your throat if you want to be
arjnoyed. But if you want relief, want
be cured, take Chamberlain’s Cough
medy. Sold by all dealers.
The Two-paper Idea Analyzed and
Dissected.
The Dublin Courier-Dispatch, in dis
cussing the recent consolidation of two
newspapers at Sandersville, says:
The consolidation of these two pa
pers will tneah a great deal for San
dersville and Washington county. A
better paper will be published than
either was before, and the cost to the
subscriber will be just half.
The merchants will be given exactly
the same service that was secured
from both papers, and there will be
but one advertising bill to pay.
It will thus be seen that those who
Pay the bills are the ones vastly bene
fited by newspaper consolidation -
which, by the way, is going on all over
Georgia.
Newspaper men have learned by sad
experience that two papers cannot be
made to pay in a one-paper town.
There never was a business engaged
in with less thought for the future
than in the newspaper field. Men are
learning better now. They are putting
their money into an enterprise which
promises a loss from the start.
Before men engage in banking, man
ufacturing or other lines of business,
they count the cost. This has not been
true of newspapers. Because some one
advances the false idea that there
ought to be two papers in a town, some
man comes along and makes the ven
ture and generally fails.
Politics has been responsible for
many papers being established. Be
cause of spite against the existing pa
per, which he was unable to use, or for
the reason that ho thinks a paper will
aid him in some of his political
schemes, some man establishes one.
Sometimes the real owner does not let
his name become known, but farms out
the plant to some poor fellow, reserv
ing the right to use the railroad trans
portation and to direct the policy of
the paper. Such papers are fast going
out of business. The public soon
"catches on” and withholds the sup
port that is necessary for their success.
It used to bo that merchants were
not careful-in planning advertisements
and the selection of the papers in which
to put them. They have become wiser
now, however, and soon learn how to
discriminate. They know that a page
in a paper with two thousand subscri
bers is worth twice as much as in a pa
per with one thousand.
’They have also learned that it takes
a paper a number of years to get es
tablished, and that subscription lists
arc “padded” by the new papers—that
is, in order to get up u circulation
many free copies are sent out. A
"padded” list is worth just half the
cost of a legitimate list. Advertisers
have long since found this out. A le
gitimate list of 1,000 is worth twice as
much to an advertiser as a “padded”
list of 1.000, because of the stability of
one and the lack of stability of the
other.
A newspaper can secure two or three
hundred subscribers within a short
time, and then a few new names
come in at intervals. Before a paper
is admitted into the mails as second-
class matter the Government requires
a bona fide list. In the meantime pos
tage is charged nt the rate of one cent
per paper.
Sample copies can he sent through
the mails at the second-class rale only
within fiftv per cent, of the paid list.
All of this shows how hard it is for a
new paper to get established. And the
further fact that a real business man
is rarely connected with it.
It is not otten, when there is but one
paper in a town, that there is any real
cause given by that paper for the es
tablishment or another.
The real newspaper man is not a
fool, and he knows that while he
should have opinions and the courage
to express them, that there is an obli
gation to the general prblic resting
upon him. arid he must not become an
offensive partisan or personal in his
views.
Politics is the bane of the newspaper
fraternity. The paper that becomes
the organ of any man or faction will
soon find chat it has engaged in a
mighty un profitable undertaking, and
that disaster will come if there is not
a change.
However much we are obliged to
save and economize, let us have wis
dom to spend money and time enough
to keep our persons neat and clean. It
is as easv to buy and make a becoming
gown as an unbecoming one. Let us
take ti n i to consider. Dress is not a
little thing. It helps to make us come
ly in the eves of those we love. It at
tracts them to us. It catches in many
ways. A tidy, comely appearing wo
man is air inspiration to husband and
children. II r presence is cheerful and
delightful. The family is proud of her
arid seek to emulate her neatness and
grace.
Fall colds arequickly cured by Foley's
Honey and Tar, the great throat and
lung remedy. The genuine contains no
harmful drugs. Sold by all druggists.
Cheerfulness.
Look for the bright side of life; not
merely because this will yield the most
pleasure, but because it will produce
the best life. True cheerfulness is a
moral achievement; and to cultivate
the capacity for seeing and rejoicing in
the good, the beautiful, and the true,
is a duty. We readily grant that it is
a duty to give, to pray and to work ;
but quite as much it is our duty to be
bright, to look up, to have the cheery
mood and speak the cheering word.
Cheerfulness in the home is the sun
shine that fosters all the virtues. It
makes work light, softens care, heals
the wounds got from the collisions and
abrasions of outside experience, and
keeps courage alive. However depress-
ng the influences that surround him in
the daily struggle for broad, if he can
retreat at evening to a cheerful home,
he will recover moral vigor while he
recovers his physical strength by rest.
The child, taxed and fretted by the
tasks and vexations of school life,
finds in a cheerful home an atmosphere
that soothes and heals all its weariness
and irritation. The mother, who lives
most constantly in the home, and bears
its heaviest burdens, is fortified against
the forces that sap the energy by the
cheerfulness of those about her. Upon
every one in the home, then, rests the
weighty obligation to be cheerful, to
conquer temptations to moroseness and
gloominess and to keep a sunny tem
per. Many people save their best man-,
ners for “company.” The irascible
father goes out into society to smile
and spenk gentle words ; but the hy
pocrisy is sure to collapse; the mask is
transparent. The spirit that is cheer
ful in the home will bo cheerful every
where, for cheerfulness is not a pass
ing mood, but a habit and a grace.
Life discloses its seamy side to the
close look, nnd in the intimacies of
home life faults of nature are sure to
show themselves. Here, then, in the
home, as 1 have already said, is the
primary and chief school of the virtues,
and character developed into sweetness
and strength here will stand the wear
and tear of life in the outer world.
Keep the home cheerful. Look on
the bright side of its inmatcB and its
experiences. Have open eyes for the
virtues and charms of father and moth
er and brother and sister. But awuy
“blues” and bad tempers, and all un-
ItindnesH with firm resolution, and the
home, though it be wanting in many
things that money could buy, will be
rich in that which is beyond all price.
It will be the abiding-place of tender
affections and beautiful courtesies and
wholesome mirth and joy that contains
no drop of bitterness.
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Mr. Newlywed was helping his wife
into one of her new Paris gowns
"Darling, do you think we shall know
each other in heaven?” asked Mrs.
Newlywed.
"Not if the angels’ dresses button up
the back,” replied Mr. Newlywed,
stifling his profanity.
No wonder a man hates to have it
get out when he is "all in.”