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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 l®®®©®®©©©®®©©©®®®©®®©©©©^ 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. ©vs©* 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 IS©©© ©©®©©©©©©©®©®©©©©i 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. FOR CONSTIPATION. A Medicine that Does Not Cost Anything Uni ss it Gives Sat isfactory 'esults. 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We partiularly recommend Rexall Or derlies for children and for delicate or aged persons, because they do not con tain anything injurious. Unlike other preparations, they do not create a hab it, but instead they overcome the habits acquired through the use of laxatives, cathartics, and harsh physic, and re move the causes of constipation or ir regular bowel action that are not of surgical variety. We want you to try Rexall Orderlies at our risk. We know of nothing that will do you so much good. They are prepared in tablet furmof two sizes: 36 tablets 25 cents, and 12 tablets 10 cents. Remember you can obtain Itexall Remedies in Newnan only at our store -The Itexall Store. Holt & Cates Co. 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.”