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Wednesduy Morning, N’ov. 9, 192!.
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MILLEDGEVILLE. n*.
THE MILLEDGEVILLE NEWS
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WELL, HERE GOE8 AGAIN
Not just once, but many times during the last year or
two The News has endeavored to stress the importance
of the business men of Mlledgevllle and the farmers of
Daldwln county in getting together to formulate plans to
overcome the situation we are up against as the result of
the destruction of our cotton crops by the boll weevil and
the ubnormal condition resulting from the world war.
However, we are still being approached from time to
time by different business men and farmers with the sug-,
gestiou that we keep hammelrng on the subject of the
people getting together and working to one end in ordei
to prevent our community from appearing as a target al.
shot to pieces. As for ourselves we are willing to keep
on keeping on, if there eeems to be tlie slightest hope for
us arriving at a definite plan that will eventually put us
on a sound basis.
Recently we had a good citizen come to us and express
the opinion that something Just MUST be done if we nr*
to survive the very circumstances we are up against at
this particular time. Says this citizen: "I am willing to
join in any cooperative movement that sounds logical, and
there are a number *>. ways we can go about getting front
under the depression we are now experiencing.” This ex
pression undoubtedly evidences the proper spirit.
People us a rule are bo disposed Us to demand a certain
a mo lit of hardship before tney become willing to show
willngnojs to want to do for themselves und let the othe
fellow live. Since the cessation of military activities n
Europe and this country nothing has happened io ou,
sui prise. For at least three or four years the people stag
gered under the weight of radicalism. Now they are com
ing to the conclusion Cat all things worthwhile have <u-
tached lo them a price that must bo paid for in ■full b foiv
obtained. For a long time we lived doubly easy- now \v
are compelled to live doubly hard. The price must be
paid. Now, what are- we going to do?
Perhaps it would be the wise id a for every farmer i.
Baldwin county to Kettle upon the piau uf planting a ce.
tain acreage in peanuts, since some who have had e,.
perleuce in growing this crop say tt is a profitable one.
At any rate, we o.g t to knotf by this time that we ai 5
going to find it uecestury- for us to have ai leusLoue mail,
money crop, let it be peanuts,, naas, sugar caiie or any
other thing worth while.
As a matter of fact, there might be a dozen things tliu.
could be raised in Bautwia county and thin section at a
handsome profit. However, it is a certainty that a giva
deal of difficulty will be experienced in making a sals
for anything we might grow unless we got together to t -s
extent of growing enough of some one thing to attract
buyers. Reason should tell us that no firm will set up
for us a market unless we have enough of a thing to son
to warrant taking up a buyer's time.
Frankly, we believe that the farmers of Baldwin coun
ty wot-Id find it profitable to turn their attention to the
growing of poultry. We mention this one thing because
we believe that such a thing Is possible, provided every
farmer would agree to raise a certain breed of poultry,
advertise and sell them Jointly. Wo do not doubt there
being something else thnt would prove more profitable
tbun the raising of poultry. The main question is: are
wo going to get together on some specific basis?
We do not feel capable of taking upon ourselves the
sole responsibility of suggesting some complete system
for the farmers of this section to go by. Nevertheless, we
do nol for one moment hesitate to say that unless there
comes ubout a settlement as to what the farmers shall
work for. it is possible that we will be in a worse predica
ment a year from now than we are in today.
Of course, it lg somewhat natural to presume that out
of Baldwin cot nty's population there will be found a cer
tain number who would not agree to uny one thing that
might be suggested. What we must look to is the purpose
of getting the broad-minded to come together and arrive
al some definite conclusion in the matter of growing a
certain crop.
It would be a great tiling to have a meeting of tlie fann
ers of Baldwin county take plnee in Mllpdgevllle Just us
soon as possible in order to go about reaching a conclu
sion us to what shall lie done another year. We might
well go out of the county and invite all in the territory
adjacent to Milledgeville, embracing at least a portion of
the counties of Washington, Wilkinson, Hancock, Jones
and Putnam, and let all agree upon n certain plan to he
followed duriug the year of 1922. The plan would be
easily devised and if carried out would mean the early sal
vation of the growers taking a part.
•Merchants of Milledgeville are acting wisely by
ling together on a plan to widen their trade territory.
ge
It is just about time to commence tlie suggestion, shop
early before the Christmas rush.
Tlie time ts near at hand when the farmers of tliu sec
tion will he confronted with the question of putting an
other crop into the ground, while the question c.f what
they will plant is largely before them now.
Almost before we know it. polities will bo rumbling over
Georgia and according to the pres nt outlook wo hav i In
store lively times along this like far next year.
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JUNIOR HAS RUN AMUCK FOR FAIR THIS TIMt
From the Columbus Enquirer-Sun:
Just as we were being told by Jim Holloman and Chat lit
Barrett, In last Tuesday's Atlanta Constitution, what a
wonderful record Georgia's junior senator was making in
the United States senate—particularly for "conservatism”
—God save us!—along name Washington dispatches, tlie
vey next day, and give us a sample, right-off-the-bolt, of
Junior's conservatism that nearly Moored us; as it, prob
ably, did you if you were not silting tight at the time.
But. first, let's hear from Jim and Charlie, for they are
right up there in Washington with Junior; the one re
establishing another temporary entente cordiale between
Georgia's conservative senator and the Atlanta Constitu
tion, nnd the other representing the Farmers’ Union in the
lobbies of Washington—and both, therefore, strictly ' ou
the Job when it comes to keeping on the right side of Ju
nior. Well, anyway, here’s what they sal Jr
Says Jim: ''Thut Tom Watson is conservative, safe and
a senator whose knowledge of law and the science of gov
ernment qualifies hint to speak for a great state and a
great people, is the belief of his life-friend, and 1 am glad
to publish in full here the dictated statement regarding
Senutor Watson handed me by Charlie Barrett—I know
he has spoken from his heart and knows what he Is talk
ing about."
Says Charlie: “Unquestionably he has the real interests
of the farmers, tho workers and the business men, who
are acting on the square, at heart. It was thought by
some when Senator Watson came to Washington he
would prove too radical for his colleagues. But he has
made friends with substantial men on both sides of the
house and has demonstrated his ability to do team work.
He can lead and follow.”
Of course, you don't havo to believe the above If you
don’t waDt to; and, of course, you won't after reading
what happened in tho otherwise august Senate the very
,ame day. For, almost before the ink was dry on Jim and
Charlie’s pretty little pieces, Junior again ran amuck—
and ran amuck good and fair this time—and threw a shock,
not only in the sedate Senate, but into the entire country.
Which, ,of course, Is just what Junior likes, most of all—
to do—and that's precisely why he does It. That, and a
streak of meanness in him which just has to work itself
out occasionally.
So, up in the air he goes again—Just as Jim and Charlie
ere telling us how ‘‘conservative” and well-poised he
lad become; and how he had won the admiration and re-
pect of lris fellow senators, and all that sort of balder-
lash.
Yes, forthwith, Junior rises right up on his hind-legs in
a senate just as tlie Amorioan Legion (which ho so
irdenily despises and has so bitterly traduced) was meet
ng in Kansas City; the psychological moment, as he no
doubt saw it, to raise a ruccus—and hurls tlie*charge at
the American army; and at tiie country, that many Amer
ican soldiers had been hanged in France without courts-
martial or other form of trial; In fnct, he even went so
far as to exhibit a photograph of what he declared was a
gallows in France "on which twenty-one American sol
diers were executed before breakfast one morning with
out the semblancp of a trial, while scores of others were
then waiting in nearby jails to be hanged,”
No wonder such a monstrous charge raised n storm in
the senate; an even greater storm, perhaps, than Geor
gia's “stormy petrel” had bargaiped for—because nothing
was further from his thoughts than to have tlie senate, or
anybody, investigate the truthfulness of these grotesque
charges. But that's precisely what the senate did; order
ed by unanimous vote an immediate investigation by a
special committee from the senate.
WhereuponT’of"course, Junior begins to back-and-flll;
expresses dissatisfaction with the committee, and inti
mates that he can't get a fair hearing before it for his
witnesses, etc., etc. And, now, he Is beginning to say that
he thinks he will refuse to prove his charges, but will
continue to discuss them openly on the floor of the sen
ate. See him trying to ‘‘crawfish’' in the following:
“I do not intend! to have this case bottled i p and
chloroformed in some committee. 1 have seen too
many cases die an unnatural death as a result of com!
mtttee procedure.
"My charges were made rn open senate, and the
accuracy of them was challenged in the open senate
by Senator Wadsworth. 1 feel that the proper place
for me to answer Senator Wadswort'h charges against
me is in {.he open senutc.”
Now isn’t that just like Junior—somebody has made
charges against him; he is the party being attacked.
Therefore, he will refuse to be “ichloroformed," he will
‘•fight in the open" and so on and so forth. What n fa-
miliur ring it all has back here at home.
In other words, he it? telling the senate, what we down
here in Georgia have known all along, that he is for "open
ruccusses openly arrived at"; he does not particularly rel
ish a, more or less, private row. Unless the limelight is
turned ou him while he Is at it, he doesn’t enjoy it at all.
And, even then, you must, always, let him "be the aggrieved
party; somebody must be made to attack him—like Sen
ator Wadsworth; for instance—before he can appear at
his best.
Now, however, that he Is called upon tp tell the senate
about them—to ‘‘put up. or shut up"—he Is going to try
to slip through the fence; see if he doesn't. He wants,
now, to becloud the whole issue by a war of words in tho
senate—the while spot-lights play upon his sorrel-top.
If. by any chance, the senate is proceeding upon the
theory that Junior, himself, really wants to get at the
bottom of his charges, then the senate is mistaken; what
he wants, and the only thing he wants, is to be allowed to
make such charges wherever and whenever the notion
strikes him—which is whenever he thinks he can stir up
the animals some more by doing It.
To hold nn investigation and get at the truth of the
charges would lie merely to take away Junior's ammuni
tion—and. of course, ho doesn’t want that.
But even if the somite forces hint to a show-down, and
the special committee finds, hs it will, that there isn't a
word of truth in the charges, that won’t necessarily silence
Our Tom; for he will, forthwith, toll us that his charges
were "chloroformed" and that, after all. the thing .was
Just as he said, or worse.
Bemuse we'd have the senate know—just as Jim Hollo-
mon and Charlie Barrett have said—that Georgia's Junior
senator is a ‘‘conservative" sort of fellow; und when he
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