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JCOTTON PLANtTNG
LAWS NOT NEEDED!
'V;Ti V., M. & W. ROAD p
NOT TO BE JUNKED
Statement By President Of S. E. Fair
Fair Association Touching Anti- |
Cotton Legislation
Abandoning Plan Of Campaign, Tino.'s
Troops Work To Save Selves
From Utter Rout
Atlanta,—The idea that legislation Constantinople.—After three days of
* ilnst planting of cotton is the solu- fghting the Turks have forced tho
Greks to retire across the Sakaria riv
er in Asia Minor. The Greeks lost
many prisoners, much material and
cannon and transport wagons.
The entire plan of campaign formu
lated by the Greeks has beep tepipo-
jtion of the problems of Georgia farm
ers is assailed In a statement issued
The statement of Mr. Hastings fol
lows the recent action taken by the
Georgia Agricultural society, in rarily held up.
[Macon, indorsing anti-cotton lbgisla- * The Greeks are said really to have
ition. been defeated by the Salt desert, the
• "I do not believe it is necessary, lack of water and many men stricken
even if it were practicable to legis- f wltl
late agaipst c
ble to legis- with malaria.
on planting and the! Paris.—The right wing of the Greek
boll weevil, anti put the state of Geor-, army which was attacking the Turks
gia to the expense of policing the along the Sakaria river in Asia Minor
state to enforce such drastic legisla*, has met with disaster and been com-
tion, although I am in full sympathy ■ pletely severed from the main body of
with the end sought, which is the,
relief of the farmer & from burdon-
some conditions," said Mr. Hastings. •
"The boll weevil can be eliminated
as a serious factor in ^Georgia by 1
much less drastic means and at a I
profit to the sta'e rather than an
enormouB expense. Proper diversi
fication of crops combined with the I
real answer. If cotton were the only
[crop that could be grown here and
the country were dependent on it,
jsome such drastic action - might be
'necessary, but figures compiled by
the United StateB Crop Reporting
service do not show this to be the
JoaBe.
"Of the fourteen crops reported as
being grown in a commercial way in
Georgia, cotton ranks twelfth In point
per acreage income. Here are the
figures representing dollar value per
here of land in cultivation. Tobacco
the Greek troops, according to a dis
patch from the Correspondent of L'ln-
formation at Constantinople.
The dispatch adds that the entire
Greek army is thus placed in a most
difficult strategical position. The
Turks are attacking and seem to have
plenty of ammunition.
GERMAN COMMUNISTS
AND MONARCHISTS IN
SANGUINARY CLASH
I taSMH
Safety Police Were Called Out, And
Were Obliged To Fire Ar*d
Three Reds Were Killed
Potsdam, Germany.—Three persons
were shot and killed here Sunday Au
gust 28, In a dash between Commun
ists ahd Monarchists.
Thirty thousand Communists jour
neyed here from Berlin to hold a meet-
15222, Irish potatoes $153.92. sorghum lng to protest against the assassination
$97.76, sweet potatoes $90.21, rice 0 f Mathias Brzberger and during their
$69.40, peanuts $41.82, soy beans demonstration they clashed with the
$86.86, hay $27.02, wheat $24, oats Monarchists.
$22.68, rye $21, cotton $20.66, cowpeas
$1963, com $15.76.
"In the face of these figures, legisla
tion prohibiting cotton planting would
'seem useless even if feasible.
"What we need in Georgia is a new
ipoint of view, in so far os our agri
culture is concerned. We need mor9
The safety police were called out,
and they were obliged' to fire. The
bullets killed two "relds." A sniper
shot another "red” dead.
After the outbreak the Communists
succeeded In parading, afterwards en
training in good order for Berlin. >
The trouble started when soldiers
(of our uncultivated acres opened to * th RelchflWe hr tore up a number
'farmers who are not wholly depend- i d fl precipitating a fist fight,
ent of cotton; we need more of our ™ * hlch f he safety police intervened,
-present farm lands planted to crops rof ,T v
(that yield more income than cotton f,ring on the redB<
and are less hazardous, and my per- 1
sonal conviction is that this can be ,
This According To pfaps.. Mapped Oyt
Before Judge BdWHy[ D,.;'
Evans * r
Macon.—The Valdosta, Moultrie and
Western railway, which is of special
value to watermelon and cotton
growers along, its route, will not ho
junked, according ,.to the plans that
were mapped out recently before
Judge Beverly D. EVans, in chambers
here. C. L. Jones, present owner of
the road, has agreed to sell the line
to a corporation being organized by
W. J. Vereen, of Moultrie, if the pur
chasing price can he raised. Men on
the right-of-way are anxious to form
the company and take over the road.
It is considered almost an assured
fact that the company can be formed
and the price asked by Mr. Jones
secured.
The V., M. and W. property was
Sold several weeks ago to Mr. Jones
for its Junk value, and he started
dismantling it a short time ago. In
selling the property to Mr. Jones,
Judge Evans gave him the privilege
of operating it or junking it. On tho
order it was specified that the junking
must be completed in thirty days.
As the thirty days’ period will be
ended in a few days, Judge Evans
extended the period thirty more days
to give the proposed corporation time
to organize and raise the money need
ed. While the company is being form
ed the junking will he held up. The
road was being torn up at the rate of
X mile a day. Mr. Jones had already
junked 7 miles of 14 when approached
;by the citizens of Valdosta and Moul
trie. The contract drawn up by Mr.
Jones and proposed company was
•satisfactory to all parties.
; The new organization will operate
jit as a going concern. "That the
[road will he saved from the junk heap
Is almost an assure! thing." Judge
Evans said. "Only one man had to
be seen, and Mr. Vereen went to At
lanta to see him." The consideration
for the deal was not given. E. J.
Wilcox of Valdosta, represented Mr.
[Jones, and Mr. Vereen represented
[the proposed purchasers. The con
ference lasted for approximately five
hours.
[brought about through the program 1
of the Georgia association, which is
•promoting a campaign of statewide
development. i
.Negroes Approve Tax Rate Increase
Atlanta.—Enthusiastic approval of
.the proposed tax rate increase was
[shown at a meeting of negro teach-
jers in the Atlanta schools held'recent
ly at the Ashby street high school.
[That colored voters are working hard
jin support of the Increase was the
[encouraging information learned from
[speakers who are in close touch with
(them. The state of congestion in the
-negro schools Is far worse than In
.the white schools and a liberal share
[of the bond money la to he used to
build new schools fo rthe colored chil
dren. School authorities have stated
[that if the tax increase Is defeated
It will not only mean closing of the
.school this fall, but the bonds will be
endangered.
Whitehead Killed In Hamilton Affair
Hamilton.—W. T. Whitehead was
shot dead recently, officers charge,'
by C. W. Chancellor. It is understood
that Chancellor claims that Whitehead
approached him on his porch at the
time of the shooting and threatened ;
to kill Chancellor.
Council Of League To Discuss Silesia
Geneva.—The council of the League
of Nations will meet soon. It will
take up. as its first work the Silesian
question referred to it by the inter
allied supreme council. Viscount Ishii,
president of the council of the league,
recently told the Associated Press
.that he personally would present the
case as the time was too short after
the declination of Count Quinones de-
Leon, the Spanish representative to
serve, to choose another person to
present the report. v
Pinchot Belittles Henry Ford’s Offer
! Washington.—Henry Ford’s Muscle
Shoals nitrate plant offer, so far as
it concerns the farmer, is "seven
parts waterpower to one part ferti-
liber,!’ says Gifford Pinchot, president
of the National Conservation associa
tion. As for the rest of the people
in the country, Ford’s proposal would
give him, Pinchot adds, "a public
property of enormous value for a con
sideration wholly Inadequate and on
terms utterly unfair to the public."
Monroe Cop Badly Wounds Youth
Athens.—When-he failed to stop his
car on order of Policeman Johnson In
Monroe recently, Neill Hawkes, 21,.
Three. Are Killed As Airplane Falls
Philadelphia.—Conrad W. Foss, pro
fesBional aviator, and two passengers
he had taken up in his airplane were,
killed recently when the machine fell
on the northeastern outskirts of the
city.
Florida Farmer Killed By Neighbor;
Quitman.—News has reached Quit-
man of the killing of "Buck" Eden
field, a well-known citizen of Perry,
Fla., by Jack Cruese, a neighboring
fanner. The shooting grew out of an
old difficulty about a farm matter.
;It is reported that Edenfield, who was
about seventy years old, was working
n$ar his home when he looked up to
see Cruese pointing a shotgun at him.
Edenfield pulled his pistol and fired,
it is said, inflicting a slight flesh
wound, nnd Cruese fired both barrels,
Inflicting a mortal wound. It is also
repor'ed that Cruese returned to his
home nearby, got more shells and
fired again into the body of his pros
trate enemy. These reports secured
by long distance phone, were based
on the dying statement of Edenfield,
it is said.
Architects Laying Out Bacon Estate
Macon.—The J. L. Hoffman com
pany, landscape architects of Atlanta,
have been engaged to lay out the es
tate of the late Senator A. O. Bacon
extending from Jackson Springs, down
the Ocmulgee river to North High
lands and back to the old Masonic
home road. Mr. Hoffman himself will
superintend the laying out of the
roads, side stroets arid walks. v
Cotton Estimate Is 7,905,700 Bales
««« „<• 1. _ „ . I New York.—From the usual month-
of a tviana ' a Q ow ’a* WW into cotton crop conditions
of Athens, was shot and probably fat
ally wounded by the officer.
Pistol Wounds Fatal To Doctor
Franklin.—Dr. Enoch J. Taylor, a
prominent physician of this city, al
leged to have been shot by Tony Per
sons, his wife’s father, at the home of
Miss Rhetta Persons in this county,
recently, died at a hospital at La-
Grange.
undertaken by this journal, it will be
seen that August, 1921, has been a
month of extremely -severe deteriora
tion. Since the date of our last re
port, July 31, per centage condition has
sustained a reduction of no less than
12.7 per cent to 56.1 per cent. This fig
ure represents the opinions of nearly
eighteen hundred special correspond
ents of the Journal of Commerce, un
der an average date of August 24, and
compares with a per cent condition of
67.8 per cent last month, 72.6 per cent
a year ago and a ten year average of
69;9. It is, in fact, the lowest even for
the month of August for any year sin re
1901.
[Madman Thought To Have Set Blaze
Macon.—Reports received here re
cently by the owners of the Wigwam
hotel at Indian Springs, destroyed by
fire recently, intimated that a maniac
started the blaze in a smaller hotel
and that the flames spread to the 1 ... “ ~
’Wigwam. State Fire Marshall Sharp New Orleans.-Cane syrup has gone
is at Indian Springs investigating the back to P r e- war Prices. A fifty per
Maze. • cent reduction, effective immediate-
' 1 . . ly, has been announced by Penick and
Dynamite Wreoks A., B. A A. Freight Ford (limited), said to be the largest
Talhotton.—A westbound Atlanta,
T. G. House Is Killed By Machinery
• Newnan.—T. G. House, an engineer
ita the shops of the R. D. Cole Manu
facturing plant was killed recently
[when struck over the heart by &
Stick caught in some machinery. It
is stated that he was using the sthsk
to adjust a belt on a pulley while the
machinery was running. He, was 55
years old and leaves a family.
Find Eleven Stills Near Savannah
Savannah.—A miniature moonshine
village was discovered recently by
federal prohibition officers just above
high-water mark on the Ogeechee
•river, several miles from Savannah,
when ^ eleven big whiskey stills,
grouped in a radius of a mile, most
of them lined along the water’s edge
were located. They were on a small
canal Just across the Bryan county
line. E. C. Pierce arid four .other
officers found them on a tip given
them several days ago.
cane syrup factory in the world. Pure
cane syrup under the reduced prices
should retail at one dollar a gallon, leswess on the part of many drivers
Detectives Probe Short Coal Weights
; Atlanta.—Following receipt of nu
merous complaints from consumers of
coal. Chief of Detectives A. Lamar
Poole recently detailed two detectives
[to thoroughly canvass the city in an
[effort to put anf end to the short
[weights of coal which has recently
become manifest In the sale of coal.
Chief Poole intimated that he believed
the short weight to he due to care-
Birmingham and Atlantic railroad
freight train was wrecked recently,
near here, by a package of dynamite, a . . . ,
placed on the rails. The engine was and consumers are ur S ed t0 Pay no ot coal wagons, as there are said to
[damaged. No one was reported injur- more - The retail price during the be more than 200 coal wagons operat
ed. Trainmen, according to reports war 1111,1 8ince has been a dollar seven- ing about the city and numerous coin
here, charged the wTeck wag the worfc. t >’‘ tlve a sallon. It U hoped to stlmu- "plaints have been lodged against the /
fit strike sympathiMnu j late trade by this big reduction in drivers. : j
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