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THE MILLEDGEVILLC NEWS
THE MSLLE00E¥1LLE HEWS
ISSUED EVERY V/ EDNEiDAY MCRMNG
Published By J. C. & H. E. McAULIFFE, Owners
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Psychology of the Rise in Cotton Prices
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The pulse of the business world throughout the So. till
has already begun to quick, n. The stab s compri.dng the i
cotton belt t ic cnio.ging f. m Ui.-'.i lonj period ^ bio -it:KJ
ticn in t.. ,lough of li . p tr!. Tho valiant ho-C.i vv.to j A
huv ■ had the fo.Utud - and courage to wich-haij th.ir
ton :'ro.:i th ■ lark d and not barter it for a mess of pot
are to be rewarded for their long travail in the val
Will!, tiii • good fortuti. may u .t bo distributed to ev
n of our people alii; •, this fact stands out paramount th
H. E. McAULIFFE, Editor and Mgr.
Discensing ot Charity
It matt rs not whi t is likely to happen or what c!r ;ice
might take place, there is every reason to believe l’’!' 1
right Imre in Iialdwin county there will be at least a lev.
people who will need financial assistance before tile end
of the coining winter.
We are optomistie to the extent of feeling confident that
there is in siglit shine relief from the depression that al!
of ns have been experiencing during the lust twelve or
filteen months. However, to the person who has run com. I
pletely out of all means of support, such a favored change
cannot be calcuiati 1 upon to render to such persou im
mediate necessary assistance
Here of late a few people in this vicinity have resorted
to the practice ol calling upon strangers for aid. Th
Plea is being made by some that they are without funds and
food and raiment for the support uud comfort of women
and children. Such a slate of s.ffairsfwe caihfot afford to
pass up unnoticed.
Regardless of what cin( ms.tone s the. majority of us
are thrown up again t, there can lie no excuse to offer
should we let hunger exist anywhere in our midst. Most
of us are In position to offer all kinds of assistance to tin
needy There is an abundance here sufficient to supply
mu- population and the matter of giving advice lo those
who fail t" possess ability to cope with a trying situat ou
II the bulk of the I sir cotton crop is still being held in tl
|j South, and when sold at prevailing prices, end the still j
j I more favorable priced which seem without poradventure t I
| be coming in the near fub re, will have a beneficent effect
on every man, woman and child in this Southland.
We have 1/ on through the jaws of hell itself, and hr
suffered "the sUngs and arrows of outrageous fortune
we have seen the doors of the poor house gaping in i
la. es, and standing ready to close behind us. We h:
s. .m the spinners of two hemispheres, in the greatest com,!
bine tiio world ever knew, prepetrate the crime of the
ages with their insiduous propaganda dealing with the cn.
->! mous carry-over of surplus and unspun cotton. Wo
hast be a fighting with our backs to the wall, but we have
kept our cotton. We have fought with the same grim
determination which inspir d the immortal Job io exclaim,
when mere flesh cot. id suffer no more chastisement,
“the ugh he slay me yet will I trust him," We had mad
up ouv minds to go down with the ship.
We now know that the enormous carry-over of unspua
cotton was a myth; we now know that the spinners of m
world have used since Hie last cotton fiscal year over 111,-
iiou.Ucu bales oi American cot.cn; v,e now know that me
wholesale dry goods merchrnts of all the nations have no
surplus cotton goods cn their shelves; we now know thai
Hi*- cotton spinners have been making the American far
mer i ai ry and finance the 1920 cotton crop, and that they
Admitting that tlirro Ere many who failed to take ad-,
vantage of past opportunities does not warrant us in tak
ing the stand that we should not exercise oOrseives to the
•fullest extent in ondeavoring to offer such relii f measures
a • might ju tl\ lie demanded of us. All of us are pruned to
mistakes occasionally and for this very reason we shoal'd
beei me ac tive in'showing the oilier fellow the error of his
ways.
To say the least of it, wo should make it a point to sec
thin no suffering exists in this community. Women and
children are mtltled to our consideration and they should
be provid'd with sufficient food and clothing necessary for
their comforts. Unless we turn an ear to this sort of
cause we are likely to have come upon us disease and suf
fering. along with a bleeding conscience.
The chance, are the organization of a board of charities
for Mllledgeville and Iialdwin county would go a long
wavs towards enabling us to handle this question in the
proper manner. •
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acquaintances taut type oi liiinuu being who spends
all of bis d:iy ; anil a good portion of lus nights knock
ing the town in which it W decreed that he shall, for
a time, at least, tarn his daily bread.
There is no city or town without a share of these
chronic kickers, be it New York or New Boston Four
1 orners. They tell of tho towns in which they once
lived, with gneat boulevards, pined as smooth as the
top of th; Historic nuir; of ho.els so large that the
management .'.tug s automobile races on the roof; or
chinches so high that the -crosses must be removed
•;-a that the moon may go by; of sti.et ears which ate
never late; of shows which rival the Broadway at
tractions; of everything which the town in which the
chronic kicker happetls to be lacks.
The peculiar part about it is that these habitual
complatni rs were here last year; they are here today;
they will lie here a year from today. There are no
laws which would stop them from leaving the town
they knock with such evident zest. Nor can it he the
spirit of self sacrifice which prompts them to honor
a place by allowing it to number them among the num
ber of inhabitants, since it is generally admitted the
town wo,, id 1 , better off without them.
During the wav wo were told, and very property,
that it it country is worth living in, it is worth light
ing for. With apologies for the plagariMn. it is our
opinion that if a town is worth living in, it is worth
boosting and trying to make better. We are told
tIirr• every knock is a boost, but until the chronic
knockers find this nxiaem ingraine i in their hearts,
and apply it to their own lives, instead of letting il
merely full from their lips when taken to task for
running down tile place that gives them a living, we
are not ready to accept it.
If Augusta has but a single one ot these habitual
knockers she has one too many. if there is one.
and if he is really interested in the welfare of the city,
and really wants to make it a better place in which to
live, he can do it in either of two ways—by putting
li sho'.T: t to tin wheel an 1 boosting, or by mo'dif.
to anotln r city.
There are very few knockers in the whole of Baldwin
county, we are glad to say. Whenever we find a knock
er we might as well, to begin with, brand him as a man
who g-ts more out of tlie community for what he puts in
to it than anyone else.
The Chronicle is right v. lien it says that just one
knocker is just one too many for any community. What
we need is more real backers, men who are willing to go
out and do things for themselves and the comimntty and
lay aside tho Idea of complaining of w hat someone should
do and doesn't do.
have pursued a hand to mouth policy, buying cotton only
as they needed it in order not to stimulate the price. Tim.
thought they were going to jar him loose in the long hard
pull and make him sell it for a song; we now know that
Sir Geo. McCarren, said to be the most noted cotton au
thority in the world, laid the foundation for this cotton
hoax, when he said that fer the South to reduce its cotton
crop hu Id hi a crime against civilization. England is
jealous of her cotton spinning supremacy; she demands
i in ap cotton, despite all her protests to the contrary, for
site must buy it, transport and spin it and resell in shape
of manufactured article in the markets of the world. Some
of her customers, such as Russia, China, India and other
Asiatic nations, are not wealthy, and in order to buy large,
ly must buy cheaply.
But now the morale of the, spinner has broken down.
We arc now witn< using u wild scramble lor com n oy uio ;c
Who must have it In order to continue to operate their
business. The farmer himself reduced his cotton acreage
by iso per (tut, and curtailed the me of fertilizers py 40
percent; then a Providence, Who doeth all things well, saw
tit by a comomatiou o’t' pests and adverse seasons, to fur
ther reduce production so that tho contemplatf d yield is
estimated to he only about seven million bales.' Tho
house ot cards could not stand and the foundations naked
and gave way under the strain, and we know now that
cotton reigns supreme and will come into His own again.
Tlie frozen credits we hear and read so much about win
be thawed out, and this liquid stream will soon trickle in
to our marls of trade, and the tributaries ffom every corner
of the South will swell this golden flood. The spirit of
opiumism i:; already made mainfest; men's smiles are
genual", not i c. ceil; the crisis, wliiili was sureto come this
fall, w ill ia al! lik. liliood he averted, and w hile all of us do
not own cotton, the psychology of rising cotton prices, will
loosi n up credits, ease up dt maud payments, and the banks
of the South will he enabled to satisfy tbeir Northern
creditors.
We hope that the S<i th has gotten irrevocably ovqr
its wild orgie of spending, which prevailed during and im
mediately after the war, and that when prosperity does
come back to our people they will know how to me it wise
ly and sandy, and not wn.stefullv.
!END
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A WHOLESALE GEORGIA
he Atlanta Journal.
Georgia lias nineteen thousand more r. rms now
decade ago is highly interesting in itself; but
chiefly significant is the fact tllat small fa rms ranging
front twenty to forty acres, make up the increase.
For the couutry at large the drift is just the reverse
There the aggregate gain of some eighty m v h thousand
is composed of farms embracing from twenty to one h'.tn-
I tired and front one hundred to five hundred and more
; tier s. while those of less than twenty acri have diminish.
.cd in number by upwards of forty thousand.
The national census reports that convey these interest-
I ing figures suggest no reason for tho marked difference
between the tendency in general and in Georgia. However
explained, the multiplication ot small fivuas m this Cora.
(monweulth is certainly to be welcomed, “Small farms," us
j the Savannah Morning News well observes, "make for
less tenancy and for more owner-farmers, ; | bstuntial
! families who stay by tile soil and are interested in per.
! manent improvement, not only ot their own farm: hut also
| of their communities.”
Further, the small farm in the South, as distinguished
fiom the gnat plantation, lends itsell nunc readily to
diversified crops and to tlie production ot foodstuffs
father than cotton, so that as a rule it will stand for
a thriftier and more scientific order of agriculture.
Consider, too, hew much more of independence, enter
prise, nelglihorliner: and interest! d citizenship Is rep
resented iu ten farms of fifty acres each than iu one
of five hundred.
This is not to say that tlfs larger farms are without
their advantages and, for some purposes, their marked
superiorities. They are sometimes marvels of enter.
pi .sc. adding Immensely to the State's wealth and pros
perity. l’ut the wealth that counts most is that which
ti J.imi-tu; the /i orsjierity (that abides i- that which
flows Horn multitudes of free minds and willing hands.
Georgia may well rejoice that this is the trend of her
*y,» utl.iral development and give cordial encourage
ment to the increase in farm ownerships.
For many years the Horne-Andrews Commission Company has been in icusines
Mllledgeville as cotton factors and in this business we have endeavored to serve
the farmers of Baldwin and adjacent counties in the most satisfactory manner pos
sible. Now that the boll weevil has thoroughly invaded this section we feel call
ed upon to take somewhat another course in order to continue our success in help
ing both ourselves and our farmer friends.
Here Is
To Do!
With the exception of live stock and dairy products' we are going to handle
everything that is grown on the farm. In other words, we are going to be in the
market, beginning about Sept. 1st, for every kind of food products that is
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grown from the ground. We make no limit to the territory of our customers.
All we want is the products laid down at our yvarehouse.
Of course, this is a new venture for us. At the same time we want it known that
wc 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 w r e are going to make it our business to supply that long cried
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for need-a market for anything that the farmer might raise.
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 Mllledgeville. Putting it briefly, we want to co
operate as closelv as possible with the farmer—that’s exactly our idea in asking
that vou come in to see us for one or more conferences.
Wc have always heard that the boll weevil will prove a blessing in disguise for
the farmers of the south. Certainly, the future already looks much brighter
to us.
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.
HORNE-ANDREWS
COMMISSION COMPANY
Mllledgeville, Ga.