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NEWNAN HERALD & ADVERTISER 50th YEAR NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1914. NO. 8 In Our New Quarters our our and We are now established in our new quarters on the corner of Jefferson and Madison streets, and extend a cordial invitation to friends to drop in and see us. We are beginning now to replenish stocks in preparation for the fall trade, shall be “ready with the goods” to supply ev erything in our line that may be needed. We advise our friends to keep cool and not ger demoralized on account of the war in Eu rope. Ours is a great Government, and will provide means to take care of the South’s cotton crop. Be of good cheer. Everything will turn out right in the end. To The Farmers We have in stock just two hundred bush els of purple straw wheat. This wheat is se lect seed, and we would like to get this wheat started in Coweta county. We also have Hasting’s 100-bushel seed oats, Appier feed oats and Georgia rust-proof oats. A few bushels of Georgia rye and barley. If we are going to change our way of farm ing, now is the time to start. You can’t wait until next April to make up your mind that you are not going to plant the world in cot ton. If you are going to plant oats, rye, bar ley and wheat it is time to make a start. H. G. ISE A 8 W 10 E T THOUGHT. There’* never n rose in nil the world Hut makes some tfvoen spray sweeter; There's never n wind in nil the sky Hut nmkes some Dlrd-wlntr Hooter. There's never a stnr but brin«s to heaven Some silver radiance tender. And never n rosy cloud but helps To crown the sunset splendor. No robin but mny thrill some heart HisdawnliKht kindness voicing; God wives us all some small, sweet way To set the world rejoicing. There’s only one law and only one God For all things under the sun The sen and the sand, and the wind-blown soul. Ami God and the law are one. And whatever the law and the God bo named, By being like you and me They speak supreme in that cosmic voice Which men call Harmony. — [Albert Bigelow I’aino. MARKETING FARM PRODUCTS. 'PHONE 58. 'PHONE 342 Experts Prepare Information For State Chamber of Commerce. Atlanta Special to Albany Horald. Since the attention of Georgians has been drawn so forcibly by the exigen cies produced by the European war to the wisdom of the “Buy at Home” and Make Georgia Self-Sustaining” slo gans that will be heard in every county in the State on Georgia Products Day, Wednesday, Nov. 18—the day that will mark an epoch in the history of Geor gia—requests have been pouring into the headquarters of the Georgia Cham ber of Commerce for definite informa tion as to the proper methods of pre paring and marketing farm products, and particularly grain and hay. To supply this information, the State chamber secured the services of a com mittee of experts, the report of which follows: “In considering the question of re ducing the cotton acreage the farmer has complained that he has nothing to raise on the area formerly devoted to the staple crop. When corn, wheat, oats and hay are suggested he claims with some justification that when he raises any more of these products than he can use himself, or dispose of in his immediate neighborhood, there is no possibility of selling his surplus at any thing like true valuation. He feels that before giving up something that he knows he can sell, some means should be provided by which the substitute crop could be profitably marketed. “While this feeling is to a certain extent justified, it is but fair to the grain dealers of Georgia to say that the present state of alFairs is largely the fault of the producer, in that he does not put his corn, oats, wheat, hay, etc., in the same salable shape as it cun be bought in other sections. “His corn is generally offered for sale in the ear, or if shelled it is not properly cleaned and is frequently full of cob ends and rotten corn and is im properly sacked. His oats and wheat suffer from the same lack of proper packages. His hay is often poorly cured and poorly packed and is usually u gen eral mixture of crabgrasB, peavines, clover, Bermuda, weeds and anything tt at happens to grow up in the fields. “In short, if the farmer would give the same attention to the raising of his food crops and offer them for sale in the same marketable shape as he does his cotton, he would have lesB trouble in disposing of them at the market price. The requirements for making these products bring their true value are stated here briefly. They are not unreasonable, and in reality would cause very little extra trouble to the farmer. “Corn should be selected before be ing shelled; that is, the damaged or rot ten ears should ail be thrown out, us they detract from the market value. In sacking the corn use a strong, sound bag that will hold two bushels or 112 pounds of corn and put exactly that amount in every bag, as this avoids the necessity of re-weighing the bag every time it changes hands. Also, in case both yellow and white corn are raised, keep the white and yellow separate af ter shelling and sacking so that if you sell 100 bushels of white corn, you will know that you are delivering 50 sacks of white corn and not 30 sacks of white corn and 20 sacks of yellow, or vice versa, as the case may be. The bags should not be tied at the top, but sewed together with strong twine. “Oats should be threshed and cleaned, and sacked in Btrong, sound bags that will hold five bushels, or 160 pounds, and exactly that amount put in each bag, the bags sewed at the open end with strong twine. “Extended discussion of the proper care of wheat cannot here be undertak en in a paper of this character. In a general way, however, emphasis should be laid upon the necessity for sound, dry storage after threshing. If suffi cient floor space is obtainable, the pre ferable plan is to spread the wheat lightly immediately after threshing and keep it in bulk until ready for market. If Btored in sackB, let storage be as light and airy as possible and the bags so stacked as to give free access to air “Our season is generally favorable for the harvesting of wheat, in that it is dry as a rule; being earlier than the West, the farmer of this section usually finds the market comparatively bare of grain, and affording, therefore, an at tractive basis for trade. “The principal difliculty hitherto ex perienced in handling Georgia wheat has neon the carelessness of the ship per as to his package. Reasonable cau tion would, of course, suggest that sacks should first of all be sound and of sutficient strength to withstand the strain of handling, Usually the quan tity of wheat to be shipped is not sulll- ciently large to be loaded in bulk, but where shipped in hulk care should of course be exercised to see that the car in which it is shipped is clean und sound of floor and roof, und that grain doors of strong, tough timber are securely placed, “Care should be exercised to see that different grades of wheat are not mixed in one car. It oftentimes occurs that perfectly sound grain is mixed with smut-damaged and weather-stained grain, thus dep-eciating the value of the good, without appreciably improv ing the poor. Where shipment is in sacks, usually the best container is a 42-inch 7 1-2 or 8 ounce burlap sack. Just now the cotton sacks are very much in favor, and properly so. Ordi narily the burlap is cheaper. If cotton bags are used practically the same size is preferred. This size bag contains about 2 bushels of wheat. “Where wheat is shipped in sacks, bags should be well sewed and not tied, as is the practice in Georgia. If the burlap bag is used the regular burlap sewing twine should be employed; cor respondingly, if the cotton hag is used heavy cotton twine would be best. In shipments of less than car-loads, each sack should be tagged with the name of shipper, consignee and point of des tination. “Proper care should also be given to the weighing of wheat. It does not, however, need to be shipped in hags of uniform weight unless that is stipula ted at the outset as one of the condi tions of the trade. At most all railroad stations, depot scales can he employed for the purpose and at least give an approximate basis for the assessment of freight charges. “Hay as at present raised in Georgia is a very bad thing to sell, because it is rare that any one kind of grass seed is sown, but the meadows usually grow up in an indiscriminate mixture which, while good feed on the farm, will not command a good price on the market. “In purchasing hay, if a man wants choice, green alfalfa, he will not accept a mixture of alfalfa, swamp grass and bermuda as a substitute. If he wants timothy, clover, peavine, or any < ther one variety of hay, he will not be satis fied with a mixture of the three. “Therefore, the first thing to be done in raising hay is to decide on the varie ty to be raised and then strive, as near as possible, to keep that field free from other grasses. The subject as to which variety is best to be raised is too lengthy to discuss here, other than to Buggest that alfalfa, which only has to be planted once and which produces four or five crops a year, is in growing demand everywhere and worthy of thor ough investigation .by the progressive farmer. “After getting the huy-meadow in Bhape to produce some particular kind of forage the next thing to consider is proper curing and baling. Many a good crop has suffered materially in market value owing to the careless and improp er manner in which it is taken care of after cutting. The brightness and sweetness must be preserved to make it bring a top price, Then after curing it must be properly baled. The most suitable size is a bale weighing about one hundred pounds and bound by three wires. The smaller two-wire bales do not stand transportation as well, and the loss from burst bales is so great that it causes hay bo baled not to bring as good price as the three-wire hale, even though of equal quality. "These suggestions, if followed out, will make Georgia-raised corn, oats, wheat and hay able to compete with Western-raised grain and forage of the same quality. The best admonition is for the farmer not to expect to get as much for his goods as it would cost him to buy them. He pays the manufac turer a profit on the clothing made out of the cotton he produces and thinks nothing of it. So he must expect the distributors of the other part of his crop to make a legitimate profit for handling. If he would hut consider the high freight rate the Western shipper has to pay to deliver his grain and hay in Georgia, he would realize that he is actually getting a great deal more for his crops than the Westerner, even when sold in competition with Western raised products, as the rate to Atlanta, for instance, from the Ohio river—the nearest point from which this grain and hay can come—is 24c. per 100 lbs., which figures 7 2 3c. per bushel on oats; 13 1 4c. per bushel on corn; 14 I-2e. per bushel on wheat; and $4 80 per ton on hay. The freight rate on alfalfa from Colorado, where the best hay grows, is from $10 to $11 per ton, so it is easy to see that in the very crops which he feels that he cannot raise, there is a great advantage in favor of the Geor gia farmer.” An Unspeakable Meanness. Texan Chrintlftn Advocnto. In a certain community n grown girl was betrayed into n mistake that re sulted in her downfall. She was not lost to all sense of shame; she still re tained a desire to recover herself and be somebody. But there was no hope for her where the facts in her case were well-known. So she quietly got together her belongings and slipped away to a distant city, found employ ment in a department store at a good salary and set herself to the task of trying to live right and make an honest living. She was safe as long as her past life was unknown to her employer and to those with whom she was neces sarily associated in business. For a time she did well and hope came hack to her life. But one day a young man incidentally walked into the store who had known her buck in her home community, and when he saw her he spoke to the floor walker and asked him how long sho hud been there. He was asked why, and then ho related something of her story. The next morning when she reported for work she was given her time, with the statement that she was no longer needed in that store. Heartbroken she departed, and whatever became of her we do not know. But it is easy to im agine the tragedy that followed. There is no language to express our horror of the treatment received by that girl by the visitor who dropped into that store. Had she been a young man, instead of an unfortunate girl, her past conduct would not have counted for much. She would have been retained. But sho was a girl, and that settled it. Because she made one mistake she was given no opportunity to correct it. She was doomed. Sho went out into the blackness of a hope less night. Who was responsible? Well, in part, she was responsible. But the young man who revealed her life se cret will have to answer for it in the day of judgment; und the firm dis missing her because of her mistake, regardless of her exemplary conduct while in their service, will bear a goodly portion of the responsibility. Moral: Girls need to be very careful how they live. That thing called char acter is of a delicate texture, and when once soiled the tarnish cannot be re moved. Another moral: When a poor girl has made a mistake anil is making an honest endeavor to amend it and henceforth live right, woe be unto him who blights her reviving hopes and sends her further down the road to ruin. We make mistakes, men anil women, but where there iH an honest effort towards self-recovery, give the woman an equal chance with the man. Down with the double standard of morality! Panama’s Dreadnaught Gun. Although the boom of the great gun designed to protect the Pacific en trance to the Panama canal will not reverberate quite around tho globe, it will be. the loudest single “boom” in the world. This titantic piece of 16- inch ordnance which haH been shipped to the Sandy Hook proving grounds is 50 feet long, weight 142 tons and fires a projectile about 6 feet long and weighing a ton. Tho discharge of this piece of coast artillery requires 665 pounds of ponder, giving its projectile a maximum range from 22 to 23 miles. Theoretically, the projectile haH pf wer to pierce two feet of the best armor plate at ita muzzle velocity, and at 11 miles will pierce an 11-inch armor plate, or any Hide armor alloat. When the Hhell leaves the gun it is revolving at the rate of 4,000 revolu tions a minute and develops a pressure of 32,000 pounds to tho square inch. The pressure on the rear of the gun and forward on the projectile amounts to 7,600,000 pounds. The carriage for this gun in under construction at the Westertown arsenal, and it iB expected that all will be finished and the gun ready for shipment to Panama by next spring. Despondency Due to Indigestion. It is not at all surprising that persons who have indigestion become discour aged and despondent. Here are a few words of hope and cheer for them by Mrs. Blanche Bowers, Indiana, Pa. “For years my digestion was so poor that I could only eat the lighest food. I tried everything that I heard of to get relief, but not until about a year ago, when I Baw Chamberlain’s Tablets ad vertised and got a bottle of them, did I find the right treatment. I soon began to improve, and since taking a few hot ties of them my digestion is fine.” For Hale by all dealers.. The Greatest of All Theatres. Texas Christian Advocnto. In a few short weeks the winter nights will be upon us, and our thoughts will turn again to tho theatre and to other forms of amusement. But there is one theatre which we should keep ever in our mind—which should have first place in our thoughts — first call upon our time and our en ergies—which is capable of affording us greater enjoyment than all others combined. It is tho Theatre of God! It is the church! Varied forms of amusement are right and should he encouraged. They ure necessnry to a proper development of mind and body. But tho Theatre of God is essential to the proper formation of character— to the creation of zeal in the service of right—to the inculcation of ideals of honor and justice in the hearts of all people. Other theatres come, and thrive, and pass away. But the Theatre of God lives forever. It can never die. Others afford us amusement for the hour, relaxation for the moment. But the acts of the Theatre of God never pnle. They live qh long as mem ory lasts, and in the end they lift us to the realms of perpetual joy. It is good that we enjoy life—that we seek recreation—that we find hon* orable means of driving dull care away. But it is even better that we include in our programme weekly visits to that theatre which is the essence of all goodness, of all greatness and of every bliss. In mapping out our course for the winter months let us set aside each Sunday for a visit to tho greatest of all theatres, the Theatre of God. And much wisdom, and peace, and contentment will be our earthly re ward. There is room for us nil, and no ticket is required at the door. Foley's Cathartic Tablets Are wholesome, thoroughly cleansing, and have a stimulating effect on the stomach, liver and bowels. Regulate you witn no griping and no unpleusant after effects. Stout people find they {ive immense relief and comfort. Anti- jilious. For sale by all dealers. Advertising Helps Business. No matter what the business condi tions may be to-day, tho wise business man will keep his business lamps trimmed and burning. Under any cir cumstances, there will be a certain volume of business, and it is the part of wisdom to ho ready for the flood tide of prosperity, suddenly halted, when it comes. Inactivity means stagnation. The dculer who wishes to retain patronage and have it and more when all the wheels begin to turn again cannot af ford to relax his efforts or lesson the amount of his advertising. It is a certain business fact that ad vertising is as impoitant now as it is when business is unusually active. It does not bring the immediate, direct results, but it acts with that cumula tive effort which wise advertisers know and which has made millionaires, and has been a potent factor in the success of business enterprises. These are not opinions. They are not theories. They ure demonstrated facts. At a cafe in this town one of the patrons was much annoyed by the vul gar manner in which his neighbor at the table ate. He tried not to take notice of the offending one, but after watch ing him pick a hone in an extremely primitive fuBhion he could not control his feelings any longer and, leaning over, said: "Pardon me, but don’t you think you’d be more comfortable if you took thut bone out on the mat?” does the last car town?” inquired run the “What time from here to Htranger. “Well, it’s like this, sir,” explained the suburbanite, “they used to run the last car at 1 o’clock, but they don't run any last car now. Invigorating to the Pale and Sickly The Old Standard tfcnernl streoKthenintf tonic, GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC, drites out Malaria.enriche* the blood,a ml builds ui> the »ys« tcm. A true toaic. For adult* aud children. 50c The curse of the farm in the past has been its poverty. Ignorance has been the principal cause of that—ignorance and selfishness. NEWNAN PhCCF Should Convince Evely Nawnan Reader. The frank statement of a neighbor, telling the merits of a remedy, Bids you pause and believe The same indorsement J By some stranger far away Commands no belief at all. Here’s a Newnan ease. A Newnan citizen testifies. Read and be convinced. H. W. Jennings, 78 Murray St., New nan, Ga., says: “For several year-' l was subject to attacks of kidney trouD's, coming on after I caught cold or ex erted myself. At such times the kid ney secretions were irregular in passage and I had Buch acute pains that it was hard for me to do any work that obliged me to stoop. Since I learned of Doan’s Kidney Pills, I have procured them at the Lee Drug Co. I have never failed to get relief through their use.” Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Jennings had. Foster - Milburn Go., Buffalo, N. Y.