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THE HOME JOURNAL
Price, $1.50 A Year, In Advance
Published Every Thursday Morning.
Official Organ of Houston Comity,
JOHN H. & JOHN L. HODGES.
Bi-jury, Thumusday, Nov. 23.
BEATING THE BOLL WEEVIL
this paper represented for foreign
ADVERTISING BY THE
GENERAL OFFICES
NEW YORK AND CHICAGO
BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIE3
A new <• 11 ai>Ier in Georgia his
tory has been published and it is
good.
WriAT is worth doing at all is
worth doing to the best of your
ability.
South Georgia farmers are lear
ning that much money nan be earn
ed with chickens and eggs.
Georgia people know their stale
and their puoplo better than they
did prior to November 7th.
Newspaper oo’tirovorsey is sel
dom pleasant to either party and
never profitable.
The Lloyd George party in
Great Britain was dofealed in the
general election last Saturday,
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There is plenty of room for
friendly eo operation on every farm
and in every town in Georgia.
The Sul ton of Turkey fled
from that eounriy last Friday and
the government has been changed.
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FOREIGN nowspapor reports in
dicate that Japan is now the most
foreoful nation in Europe or Asia.
. If you don’t know how to make
anything farming, perhaps you can
get the necessary information
from some of your neighbors.
—
THERE are indications that the
progressive republicans will place
a third party in tJle next presi
dential campaign.
Georgia people hope with faith
that Senator George-will prove
himself to bo a.,high grade states
man. .
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Otuukens’'aint eggs in car-load
lots are shipped from each of sev
eral comities*in Georgia. The pro
duction, cannot be loo. much in-,
creased.
The Georgia farmer who does
not sell something each .week
grown on his own farm fails to do
his full dut5 r to himself and his
community.
The Congress that began last
Monday started out to make- trou
ble for the republican party. The
president;-, is 'leading' the party
toward demooratie.victory.
There are two ways in which the
boll weevil has been met and de
feated. (Due is to apply scientific
methods to the suppression of the
weevil itself, the oilier is to turn
to diversified agriculture and not
depend too much upon cotton as
a money crop.
In both of these methods Georgia
has been reasonably successful,
and promises-to he even more so
in the future.
South Carolina has not been as
fortunate as some of the other
states, and the Columbia Stale
says:
There is undue pessimism among
many farmers of South Carolina
who liavo just experienced the
first effects of boll weevil attack.
They did not make timely pro
vision against the coming of the
||st, and perhaps do not realize
that losses caused by (ho weevil
can be overcome and have been
overcome to large extent in other
colton-growing stales where the
shock of the first weevil attack
was experienced years ago. In
those states where inlelligence
and energy, have been exorcised
the farmers have “come Back” and
come back strong.
That intelligence has been dis
played along different lines—one,
and the most general, is a change
in methods and more energetic
work for counteracting tlie weevils
ravages; and the other is diversifi
cation—growing other things and
raising more farm supplies; and
cattle, pigs and poultry for mar
ket. The latter plan has been per
haps, more si#ually illustrated in
Coffee; county, Alabama, where
other lines were found so profit
able that cotton-growing was
abandoned. Tho people of that
county recently unveiled a monu
ment to the boll weevil in the town
of Enterprise. They are making
more on their peanut crop than
they did out of cotton in prosperous
years.
The boll weevil had completely
overrun Mississippi by 1913. The
cotton ginned in Mississippi up to
November 1, 1917, was 500.000
bales; in South .Carolina at the
same dale 784,000 bales. On No
vember!, 1921, Mississippi had
ginned 642,000 bales and South
Carolina 623,00. On November 1.
1922, Mississippi bad-ginned 839,-
000 bales and South Carolina 413,-
000. Mississippi-has met the issue
and recovered.
'■ Alabama, on November 1, 1917
showed 305,000 bales ginned—two
and a half times less than in South
Carolina on the same date. In 1921
the-Alabama gins had recorded
513.000 ginned on November 1. or
110.000 less than in South Carolina
.On .November 1, 19.22, . there..; had
been ginned in Alabama 700,000
bales, or nearly 300,000 more bales
than in South Carolina.
- Alabama is coming back aud
coming back strong.
Tnere is no miracle about it.
They have recovered from the
first shock, quit expecting miracles
to save them from the weevil, and
have gono to work with, ihteUi-
; gentenorgy to help themselves.
Macon News.
It is reported from Washington
that tho health . of Ex-President
Wilson is' becoming better steadily
and democracy is already better*
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There is : no ; corfeot • place in
Georgia for a business boycot, The
buyer or seller who begins one will
not help himself, his town, his
community or the state.
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Large numbers of pigs and
shouts are sold eaeh month in the
year by farmers- .living north of.
the North Georgia line. This tyus"
iness has proven ’ profitable alike
to the buyers and the sellers.
Ex-Premier Clemenceau of
France is in the United States on
a mission of political friendship.
He was given a great ovation in
in New York City last Saturday.
He is tho personal guest of the fa
mous American artist, Charles
Dana Gibson The specific pur -
pose of Clemenceau in making this
visit was to impress npon Araari'
qans that France eaunot disarm
until Eurape is made'safe.
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8 Perry GLa- 5
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I hereby announce my seif as a
candidate for the office of Ordi
nary for the county of Houston to
fill the unexpired term of the Hon
1. T. Woodard deceased. If elect
ed I will put forth every effort to
fill the office with satisfaction to
the public and will appreciate tho
support and inlluence of my many
friends. The election will be held
on December 6th, 1922.
Respectfully,
C. H. HARDISON.
NEIGHBORS WERE
ASTONISHED AT
CHANGE IN HER
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/MICHIGAN LEADING POLITICS.
Senator Newberry of Michigan,,
having resigned that position, ■> is
leading-republican politicians at a
tangent;from his election to the
O. S. Senate in The last presiden
tial eleotion.
Henry Ford was the opponent of
Newberry and it was declared and
generally believed that Ford was
defeated by outrageously lavish
use of money.
'Ifi Tlie last election of U. S-' Sen-
ato/slhe most partisan political
friends of Newberry were defeated
aud the Senator who bought his
seat resigned.
Following this there will be a
new line of debarkation in nation
al polities with statesmanship in
the leading role.
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The purpose of President
Harding to secure the enactment
of the ship subsidy bill dnring the
special session of Congress has
split republican party lines and
other radical measures will n»t
hurt the democrats in any consid
erable degree. ,
“I. had lost nearly all faith in
medicines, but 1 am thankful a
thousand: times over that lever
believed in Tanlac strong enough
to try it,’jj recently said Mrs.
Martha Baker,, 508 East Sixth
St., Gastonia, N. C.
‘,‘My daughter thinks I might
not be here now if 1 had not umkI
Tanlac, and no doubt; she is right,
for I was failing pvetty fast. The
highest; kind cf food hurt me and
manv Limes I could notretain any
thing 1 would eat. T was also fear
fully nervous, couldeu’t sleep, and
got up mornings completely worn
out.
“After I got Tanlac T improved
so rapidly that .my neighbors were
astonished and wanted to know
what I was doing for myself. I
am just like a new person notv and
I know at least a dozen people who
have taken Tanlac and got well on
account of what it did for me.”
Tanlae is sold by all good drug
gists. -Advertisement-
CHARGE CHEAP FLOURS
MENACE SOUTH’S HEALTH
Land of Famous Breadsiuffs Consuming Chemically
Dosed Starch, Alleges Pure Food Investigator
The South consumes from 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 barrels
of self-rising flour annually, says Alfred W. McCann,
nationally known pure food expert and investigator for
the New York Globe and Commercial Advertiser, and
most of this, he says, is “woefully deficient in protein, con
taining a pellagra-producing surfeit of starch and a vitamin-
destroying excess of chemicals used for leavening purposes.”
Mr. IVlcCann believes this condition is undermining the
health of our Southern people, and in the following article
he sets forth part of his conclusions.
By ALFRED W. McCANN
Pure Food Expert and Investigator
New York Globe anti Commercial Advertiser
Shell Shock Colne; Treated By cfforr,
Atlantic City, N. BL—The use ol I
paint in helping shell shocked soldiers I
to resafh their health was . the subject!
ot a paper prepare^ by S. T, Bailingor j
o£ New. York for the annual convention'!
rtf tho National Paint,; Oil and Varnish 1
association here. . According to. the pa-1
per, a young soldier, a mental wreck, j
regained his health rapidly in a r’oom
finished in prlinro.se yellow; Dark col
ors produced melancholia, red had a
temporary stimulating effect, blue caus- j
od-apparent calm, green hapoino-s's and
vitality and yellqw amiability. ■ .. .1
Bellamy Storer, Noted Diplomat, Deno,
Cincinnati, Ohio.—Bellamy Storer, at-1
torney and former diplomat, of-Cincin-j
nati. died in - Paris France, recently/
according to- a cablegram received, in
Cincinnati. The cablegrant was receiv
ed by Philip . Hinkle • of the Central.
Trust compahy of this city, who wa-y
in charge of the Storer estate in th.is|
city. The circumstances of the -death ;
of Mr. Storer were not stated in the^
cablegram, but it is known that, t he j
former, ambassador had bebn * in if |
health for. u;a,ny,months, and little hppt ‘
IS&3 feit for, his recovery. . . .
Maxican Battalion Reported in Re®
'Mexicali, Lower California,—Official 1
silence continues concerning the helafc
ed advances received here of tli<j
mutiny of the men of the Twenty-ninth
battalion and their desertion to the rev-
olutionary forces of Gen. Juan Carrasco
Gov. Inocente Lugo of the northern
district of Lower California, made nc
pronouncement concerning tho mutiny
nor his recent conference at Hermo-
sillo, Sonora, with Gen. P. Elias Calles
of President Obregon’s cabinet. Accord
ing to the delayed reports, the alleged
mutiny occurred simultaneously.
Texan Indicted On Murder Charge
Naples, Texas.—Indictments which
charge viplatkm of the prohibition law
and murder have been returned
against George Prewett, first cousin
of Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas
author of the eighteenth amendment
authorities admitted. The liquor in
dictment was the outgrowth of a raid
on a still alleged to- have been open i
ated by Prewett on the Sheppard'plan
tation near here, according to Sherifl
J. B. Ponder. The murder indictment
charges Prewett with complicity is th<
gmiaffjLJk
Mo3t people think they .are familiar
with wheat. “Wheat is wheat,’’.they
will .tell you. “That settles that, and
no more is to be said.’’ But much
more is to be said. The U. S. govern
ment standards divide wheat into six
classes-and approximately sixty grades.
About the only wheat in America,
today which is not bleached with-
chlorine gas, nitrous add, or some other
chemical is the hard durum used by the..
better sort of macaroni manufacturers.'
A few comhaercial bread bakers, by.
specifying that they will reject-deliv
eries of bleached flour and refuse to pay
for it, manage .to get the uribleadied.
. Protein High in Right Grades .
There is an extraordinary difference
between hard spring wheat and soft
winter wheat. The right land of wheat
contains between 12 and 14 per cent
protein.. Much of the poorer grades
Contain "as lov/'as 4 per cent protein. •’
War excitement doesn’t discriminate
between a superior and inferior wheat.
•The people eat The entire crop—some
750,000,000 bushels—just as it is served
up to them. No que.stiq.ns asked. The
more buncombe distributed .among
them through their children via the
text-books oh biology ‘’taught in the
' schools, the more ignorant, indifferent,
and indolent- they seem to become. .
Disquieting Facsts
! No wohder that the National Cereal
Products’ Laboratories at Washington,
D. C., under thedirection of Dr. Benja
min R. JacQbp„Jqr many, years con
nected with „the (J. S. Bureau of
Chemistry, have sounded a warning
‘ against the alarming increase iff the use
of self-rising-flour, of which)-'in the
South alone,-from 8,0.00,000 toT0,000,-
000 barrels are used annually. .
Of thirty-seven different .brands pur
chased in the open market for analysis
examination has resulted in the literally
appalling discovery that m.ore than
three-fourths of the whole lot consists
of low grades, even the lowest grade and
most; inferior sub-grades of chemically,
treated starch. The protein content
drops as low as 6 per cent and the resi
due of excess' added sodium runs
amazingly high.
The analysis reveals that into these
inferior, demineralized, and practically.
sheer starch compounds, calcium acid
phosphate and- sodium bicarbonate are
shovelled witho.ut regard , to the rela
tionship between-the amount of acid-
reacting leavening and. the amount of
alkaline neutralizer employed.
. Field investigation shows that when
these'self-rising-flours remain on the
shelves of the grocers until- -the chem
icals. in. them have deteriorated they
are shipped back to their rnanufac-
turens so that an extra .dose of phos
phate and soda can be added."
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- * ’ Why No Action? .
To sum up one of the wheat sins, that
the wheat gamblers in the wheat pit are
no. more interested in tbday .than they
: haye ever. been:, we find-that there is no
public control as a public health meas
ure from the viewpoint of human
nutrition of these artificial breadstuff's
woefully deficient in protein, containing
a pellagra-producing Surfeit of starch .
and a vitamin-destroying excess of
chemicals .used for. leavening purposes.
, What are the, government’s warnings
for?. Obviously not to be acted upon.
Still more obviously not to - be put into
the text-books bn biology. Certainly-
not to be taught to the - children in the .
schools. Still more certainly not to,be
used as guides by the mothers of the
race in selecting foods that v/ill give to
their growing offspring the maximum
of adequate nutritidfl. " What, then; are
they for?- To be filed away and' for
gotten? Why all the education and the
millions appropriated for- more?
If the manufacturers'.of-self-rising
flours desire to thank us for this public
exposure of the truth they may do so by
forgetting for a while their love of profit
at the expense of tlie human family,
label themselves as parasites, volunta
rily form a. leper colony and move in.
STRAND THEATRE
Friday and Saturday, Nov. 24th and 25th
DUSTIN FARNUM
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