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THE MILLEDucVilLE HEWS
ISSUED EVERY v.c_ JRNING
Published By J. C. & H. E. McAULIFFE. Owners
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Mllledge/ille, Uoorgia, I’ostct'Hc's
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LET'S PROFIT BY Ouii EXPERIENCE
The year cf 1921 1ms so far been a strenuous one v.itb
the business men and fanners of Buldtvin county,
ft is high time (Mat we begin to profit by O r expert.
cTiee. Unavoidably we have bun forced to go up against
(some problems that never before have we had to eontanu
with and those of us who have been studious of til
is'irfi^tions ft'at have arisen from time to time are un
cloubtediy in position at this time to correct to some con.
siderable ext. ut the errors we have made.
\Ve have come to realize that it is quite necessary fot
us to go about malting all plans necessary for us to live
at homo so far as the question of food i3 concerned.
When we say live at lionrc, we do not confine this ide.-
to the farmers. It is up to tf e people living in the city
tn cooperate by spending what cash tfciey can in purchas
ing food stuff from the farmers of this community, while
it is up to tlie farmer to purchase everything 'he needs,
as far as possible, from the local merchants, thi s helping
those who help u i, one and the other.
To say the least of It, the progress we have made is
>1< t inadequate to mjske us as prosperous as we should
be. liven now there is too much division of opinion.
The average man, v o are afraid, is not proned to turn
an open ear in absorbing good wf olesome advice from
tim e wbo have devoted thielr time in making a study as
to how to get arouud the obstacles that have been thrown
In our path on account of tlie general depression natural
ly following the world war and the invasion of this terri.
torv of the destructive boll weevil. We have been hit
doubly hard and only sound judgement will deliver u
from poverty and hardship.
We arc going to find It necessary to provide markets
for other commoditla? than cotton. This Is necessary
on account of the fact we cannot any longer grow cotton
•c|: an extensive sfcale and such being litre case we are
obliged to look to the growing of other products as money
crop At present we grow nothing other than cotton for
which we have an established market and it Is as plain
as tlie nose on our face that nothing but cooperation will
ever nnt Into this community buyers of agricultural pro
ducts.
i We much recognize leadership or suffer hardship as
a resul* cf our failure to do so. We cannot afford to
divide Dll’- opinions merely because we have the privilige
of so doing. Almost any one of i is are liable to make
mistakes in threshing out tlie problems that are before
us at this time, while it might be ucceptcd as a foregone
com lusion t'Mat all of us will err if we do not pull to
gether.
1 For the first time we are .coming to realize how it has
ao happened that in years gone by we have looked to
cotton alone as our money crop. Wie have tendered en.
courag- meut to the growing of nothing else to the extent
of encouraging a market for anything else grown on the
farm and as a consequence we fttavi? never attracted buy-
e#:, of other products to the extent of establishing a re
gular market. We must now or later do this latter thing
'ifi/tillir to bettor oar conditions and the longer we put
off cooperating in this undertaking the longer we will
suffer from cf r failure to do so
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ANNUAL FREAK LAW OUTBREAKS
koine freakifflv endeavor to pass curious laws, but up to
ly all t!ii freak laws and lawmakers of the nation, but the
outcropping appears in num e rous places throughout the
country almost annually, nowadays. Kansas first came
into die limelight with Sockless Jerry Simpson and a few
women politicians, notably Mary Ellen Lease, but these
figures e ave so long ago passed into history until they
are hardly remembered by the folks of today.
However, the fact that it is against the law to sell cig
arettes in Kansas is brought to mind by the fact that
up in Washington City tlie other day somebody endeavor
ed to get a hill through Congress prohibiting smoking by
women in public places in tlie nistriet of Columbia, but
when the vote in tlie committee was held the women
voted, instead of the members of the (committee and the
result was twenty to our for allowing the women to do
as they please, certainly so far ns smoking is concerned
and it might be remarked, incidentally, anyway, that wo-
iiven, as a rule, generally do as they please anyhow.
The state of Georgia, itself, occasionally comes in for
some freakish endeavor to pass curious laws, but upto
date we have been fortunate enough to escape any with
a serious intent and the others usually don't amount to
very much.
Tlie fact that th;p Georgia legislature (ms meandered
through the session this year without enacting any con
siderable number of laws v.-ill not incur the displeasure
of the people, for we have reached tlie point where we
do not need so many more lawn, hut rather the obsorv.
vance and enforcement of those we have already placed
upon the statute books of tiie state
I-or till* life ot us we cannot see how these Atlanta
people muster up the nerve to whim and whine about
luxing admissions to Grand opera in. face of payments
of tens of thousands of dollars paid out annually to a
bunch of foreigners for coming down front tlie north and
Butting on two or three attractions annually. Sarcasti.
cally speaking, such a measure certainly would be burden
some to Biie people.
Says ihe Covington New*: It is .estimated that 1000,000
seals will be killed on the coast of Alaska and islands
this season. In tlie event of such luck wo would pre
dict that the whole of North America will become quite
well sealed
TH? HO
From The Macon Tel err i
The announced intent )
Moultrie to continuously < i
proper supply of live gtt.-i.
prove it impossible to do
with gratification by all who have the inter;
ct heart. The fact that th? capacity of
Company plant is upwards of 103,000 hogs a
this institution an invaluable a set to Sout
a developer of tlie stock-raising activities so
oil in the Southeast..
Georgia must not hesitate any longer to
self from cotton slavery. Our people hav.- f .
the false trail long enough to find that.ther
of gold at the end of the rainbow.
iLast year, the farmers of Georgia sold over 2,000,0'.
hog,-, we understand, and one rj'.thorlty even stntos tl.
over *50,000,000 was realized as a result. Of these •.
OOO.COO hogs, Swift & Company's plant at Moultrie h
ceivcd 40,000, White Provision Company 20,000, and A
mour& Company 47,000, a total of only 117,000 cut of "
000,000. Where did the rest go to, and why did the
Moultrie plant Ipick the 60,000 necessary to total the 100.
'000 desired? The question Is asked out of a hcart.fol
anxiety that the Swift & Company packing house be nbl--
to run to its full capacity all the time, so that the Swif
plant will prosper and the fanners themselves prosper a?
a result.
The fact is that there Is competition in tho hog-buying
market. Cuba has begun to punf’hso South Georg ia
hogs to an extent that she has not before, and sometlmbs
Cuba pays a higher price than the packers. We an
Informed that 50 carloads have been shipped to Cuba from
the Moultrie stock yards during thje last year, and tlWt
Lowndes county, almost adjoining the county In which
the Moultrie plant in located, shipped practically all of
her hogs to 'Cuba this season. However, it must be
taken into consideration ttat the Cubans often buy with
out regard to grades, paying as much for lower grades as
for higher, only demanding that the hegs be smooth and"
"at, whereas the packers generally make a difference of
one cent in grades.
At present, the packers' are paying around 9 3.4 cents
for No. 1 grade of hogs delivered at Moultrie. This means
price of about 8 3-4 cents In other sections of the State
for bho commission buyer-,. Tlie farmer, himself, re
ceives in the neighborhood ot 8 3-4 cents minus the profit
to the commission firm. This places the present price
0 the farmfrs Dor Mo. 1 grade at from 7 to 8 cents, the
exact amount being difficult to say.
Cuban buyers, we understand, are this wevk paying 8
ents f. o. b. shipping point for No. 4 grade and on, with,
out the cent a grade difference. If this be the case,
hen the farmers have found it profitable to sell their
Lest grades to the packers and their lower grades to Cuba
But there are other bidders in the market. A firm
in Baltimore, for instance, buys larecly | n Georgia. In
ma i',1 C f ml T' tili0r ! ‘ S ^ EUCh Hn RCt,Ve St8ge and de
mand for Georgia hogs is increasing so rapidly ttot we
sbouid turn to hog raising as rapidly as possible
Never before, however, has South Georgia shipped so
» >■' hogs during tli/e. Summer as it has this Summer
-t the good work go on-and multiply many fold. Let
urnTTd 80 mUCh ’ * n faCt> t " ftt no loager will our hair
tun. shade grayer whenever the cotton market takes a
,, . THE PRISON commission
1 to n the Valdosta Times.
A seriMts mistake will be made if the public jumps to
the conclusion that the State Prison Commission is com
InT; fc Ar.r"' g T terS ° r men Wh ° c °" do ™ brutality
In 0 the convicts /uf the State It will not do to
condemn the members of the Commission on the evidence
o n convict who Is. confessed*, .so hard to manage tha
Las o be sent from one county to another to get rid of him
That seems to be Idle trouble with the main witness against
he Commission. He complains of the way ho is tieated
i the tro,,b,e t,iat - oS
convict d,8t ‘ 0,ltetlt "LicO. he cause other
We all know that handling convicts is no easy task The
penal system ot ail ages have had more or less sc.'indul
l! convict guards “
whipping bosses are lik e ly to overstep reasonable
out tea * ri * ,0 USC tU ° la8h - crimr means to
"row 11 S ' h ° * efUSetobe corrected and wli*
?. ■ jnStl?£Ul ° 1 ' bet,er ' flom corrective u ,l
Uiods adopted. In almost every county in Georgia Z
matter °, handling convicts h as callS ed trouble and no end
►I fr Uclsm of iLo.se in authority. Criminals are no" suT
nic' 6 ' 1 ‘it b °, treill ° U like Su “ day 8th °°> children at apic-
1 , ,a ' 8 l mea * ,ires are necessary sometimes to pro
n1I T c Mb and U ‘ S USUn,,y the of criml!
7 ", h ° rtl1 the moBt «"*'>» tales of prison cruelties
Of G, PitTT ° f fiiinieSS and J,lStk ' e ,hC ntoniLcrs
of the 1 risen Commission it is well to hear boUa, sides be
fore forming a conclusion. The men who compose the
commission are among the best i„ Georgia. They ar P
both being subjected to the same criticism that has been
': I a d bl u 7 ° r tuat f~m
. 'T e V1 ' nc and Jof> Sid Turner on down to
Ihitterson and Rainey. There may be bad features in
our penal system and thery may he occaslona, instances
of excessne punishment inflicted upon som c of the incor-
riglble convicts, but we should withhold our verdict
against the commissioners until we hear both sides-until
t s a reb dtal of the evidence furnished by chafing
convicts, partisan politician, and yellow newspaper ra
porters. ' 1
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n - n - ae-Andrews Connmission Company has been in business in
. ..e_ . - j.ion [ ctors and in this business we have endeavored to serve
the fan trs or Baldwin and adjacent counties in the most satisfactory manner pos-
:ible. How that the boll weevil has thoroughly invaded this section we feel call
ed upon to take somewhat another course in order to continue our successAn help
ing both ourselves and our farmer friends.
Here Is What We Have Decided
To Do!
With the exception of live stock and dairy products’ we are going to handle
everything that is grown on the farm. In dther words, we are going to be in the
market, beginning about Sept. 1st, for every kind of food products that is
grown from the ground. We make no limit to the territory of our customers.
All we want is the products laid down at our warehouse.
Of course, this is a new venture for us. At the same time we want it known that
we are going to cover the broad land of the United States in search of the best
markets that can be found for anything that might be grown in this territory.
We believe that almost anything that can be grown anywhere can be grown in
this section and we ate going to make it our business to supply that long cried
for need-a market for anything that the farmer might raise.
Let UsTalk Matters Over With You
We have given much study to the question of solving the problem of combatting
the boll weevil. We made investigations as to the best crops to be grown as a
substitute for cotton and it would afford us a pleasure to talk these matters
over with vou when you are in Milledgeville. Putting it briefly, we want to co
operate as closely as possible with the farmef-that’s exactly our idea in asking
that you come in to see us for one or more conferences.
We have always heard that the boll weevil will prove a blessing in disguise for
the farmers of the south. Certainly, the future alreadv looks much brighter
to us. ’' * ->v
IN CONCLUSION. We want to thoroughly impress upon you the fact that we
are going to leave no stones unturned in our search for the best markets that
can be found in the whole country.
1
HORNE-ANDREWS
I COMMISSION COMPANY
1 Milledgeville, Ga.