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VOLUME XV
DOUGLASVILLE, DOUGLAS COUNTY, GEORGIA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1919.
NUMBER 24
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WHAT THE AMERICAN COTTON
ASSOCIATION PLANS TO DO
WINSTON NEWS ITEMS
Atlanta. September 10.—(Special.)—
With its offices now well established
here, in the state seuate chamber,
itate capitol, the Georgia Division of
the American Cotton Association is
ready to pitch into an active and vig
orous campaign, immediately follow
ing the big New Orleans meeting, un-
Her the leadership of Major D. F. Me-
Clatchey, secretary of the senate and
tormer secretary of the Georgia food
administration.
“Just what is the American Cotton
Association?” is a question that is
now heard all over the South, usually
accompanied by the statement, “1
know in a general way, but am anx
ious to know all about it.”
The man who reads the newspapers
couldn’t help knowing about the Amer
ican Cotton Association; and pretty
soon he will he so well posted that
he will be informing others about it
Producers Must Organizq.
Preceded by the Cotton States Ad
visory Marketing Board which did
splendid work in upholding the price
of cotton, The American Cotton As
sociation is the outgrowth of a se
ries of meetings and conferences by
prominent farmers and business men
of the South, who have given willingly
and unselfishly of their time and mon
ey to make it possible for the producer
to organize to protect himself—to meet
organization with organization
Cotton buyers, cotton shippers, cot
ton manufacturers and distributors of
cotton goods, ail are organized, and
through organization they have at-
, tained business success.
Likewise to organization the pro
ducers of the South must look for
lief from industrial slavery, for bet
ter living conditions, for an educa
tion for their children instead of work
In the field—all and more to come
through that medium which will in
sure them a fair profit on their raw
material above the cost of produc
tion, to which they are fairly and just
ly entitled.
Has Done Good Work Already.
The American Cotton Association,'
as stated by President J. Skottowe
Wannamaker, himself a prominent cot
ton planter or St. Mathew's, 3. C., has
already, through vurious agencies,
saved to the producer of cotton some
thing like $500,000,000. But this is
just a beginning.
It is proposed to insure aa -even
greater saving through this organi
zation of the producers, the bankers
and the business and professional men
directly interested in the success of
the producer.
The American Cotton Association,
organized in every state, and with a
central office, proposes to bring com
mercial freedom to all the South, and
to so change rural conditions that the
farm will both attract aud hold the*
white man.-*''
It will have representatives in ev
ery cotton consuming country, to keep
the producer accurately posted con
cerning supply and demand. It will
furnish advance information of the
world’s cotton needs, so that plant
ing may be made to uccord with them.
Through its publicity department
and, as soon as possible, a weekly
newspaper free from politics, it will
keep both producer aud consumer
fully informed about co’tton, its pro
duction, distribution, manufacture and
wilt post them thoroughly us to fair
prices both tfcr raw materials aud fin
ished products. It w,ill omit uo in
formation necessary to the proper
pricing of cotton and the extent to
which it should be planted.
It is the purpose of the association
to bring about as soon as possible
the establishment of a Domestic Fi
nancing Corporation to take care of
distress cotton, s& that it will not
be thrown upon the market in l&rge
lots, thereby causing price depression,
sion.
Will Have Government Aid.
Tin* farmers are busy picking
cotton in this section.
'Miss Susie Kerlin. of Knoxville.
Ky., spent the week-end vWth
Miss Jessie Enterkin.
Mr. J. W. Pounds, who is now
located at Waco, spent Sunday
with home folks here.
Miss Hamah Richardson visited
Miss Nora Thompson Sunday af
ternoon.
Miss Oausey. of Austell, visited
her sister, Mrs. W. Q. Enterkin,
Saturday and CSunday.
Floyd Gaboon, we are glad to
say, is still improving from his re
cent injuries on the railroad.
'Mr. and 'Mrs. B. L. Griggs mo
tored to Atlanta Tuesday after
noon.
Mrs. A. P. McGuire visited Mrs.
E. Henderson Sunday.
Messrs. A. L. ItornhuMcle, l*. E.
Pounds and B. L. Griggs attended
the Odd Fellows Division,Meeting
at LnOrango last Friday.
There will he an all-day service
at Ephesus clnitch next Sunday,
the 28th. Let everybody come out.
CHUMS.
STAND OF COMPERS
Congressman W. D. Upshaw,
who has always been regarded ns
mtfriend of the labor element, has
given out a statement commend,
ing Uie conservative position ta-
keu by President Samuel (tompel’s,
oftthe American Federation of La
bor, in standing by President Wil-
soii and the lenders of the railroad
'brotherhoods and steel operatives
on the labor situation.
“With so many millions of men
recently taken out of the ranks of
production, it is increasingly clear
that evxerybody must unite to iii-
erease production if we would
greatly decrease the present in
tolerable cost of living,” says Con
gressman Upshaw. “I find law
makers refreshingly anxious to do
their duty to employer and em
ploye. but verily we must not do
anything that will cut off the linvh
of production on which rests the
hope of lower prices as well as all
industrial peace.”
WANT JOBS, BUT DON’T
WANT WORK
BACK TO THE FARM
By Bill Blue
From Dalton Citizen . , ...
A correspondent of The Citizen, ^ 0 ’ mv dear i-iner trieud,
observing a very common evil that i iu ’ , ‘ y° 11 coming on by tins
is doing much harm in way of ere-! ' ” ow ls t *"' agriculture
as 2S£ - Ytass I i*«i AS, Ui... r.« s •
port
Reser
and the influential aid oL’ practically
every financier in the South. | We have all heard the blowhard
It will encourage the building of j and tlie braggart tell what great
advantageously owned and properly i things are just aroifnd' the corner,
regulated warehouses iu every cotton ( ^]j 0 j le |, as CO me into po-
state, and the establishment ot a SHSsioll 0 f t | u . nl is t0 g0 aIld meet
PROBLEU .'..“nuWcniiiATURE WHICH
WAR RISK BUREAU HAS TO TACKLE
Washington.—Ecce homo! Behold
the man!
“Get me this man’s name so that I
can*''report definitely ou the status of
his Insurance;”
That, together with a slip bearing
the memo, “.Tames Hal!, '(8,721,505)
McCall, South Carolina. Beneficiaries:
Mrs. Ella Stalks (wife), Mrs. Fannie
Stalks (mother),” was handed to a file
searcher in the bureau of war risk In
surance.
The man’s name was given as Hall,
while those of his wife and his mother
were glveu ns Stalks. Patently,
something was wrong somewhere. Just
what was wrong, however, was not so
evident; To find out what and where
the error wus, was the Job.
Finding the error somebody else
made Is always the Job of the war
risk Index file searchers, and It’s a
tough job if they fail t ,to get at the
bottom of It.
Going into the Index files section
where are listed the names of nearly
five million men who were inducted
into military service, the youug wom
an made a complete Inventory of all
of the South', an*ry one of whom is [ the world!
warehouse certificate that will pass
as current as a government bond or
a gold note.
These are but a few of the big
plans of the American Cotton Asso
ciation as outlined by President Wan*
namaker and other prominent leaders
in the movement. They will be fur
ther set out from time to time, and
the association will bring, as it has
already done in many cases, promi
nent men of all parts of the South
to its assistance and support.
Every cotton producer, every bank
er, eier-y rtsorebatU. J*very business
and professional man, is sought and
desired as a member; atid, through
the small dues collected, it is propos
ed to meet the expenses of the pro
ducers’ own organization which, when
it specks, is going to be hoard around
COTTON GROWERS OF DOUGLAS
WILL MEET HERE IN
Farmers and Business Men of
Douglas County to Assemble
October 4th
MRS CHEATS AM ENTER
TAINS
Mrs. J. E. Cheatham entertained
tbe-young people of the town Mon-
ORGANIZE CARP
There will be a' public meeting ^ ot her guests
„ * •, , e Misses* Verner and Faye Keaton,
of farmers arid business men of of AhbeviIle) s c / A very pIea8 _
Douglas county, held under the .ant: evening was spent, during
auspices of the American Cbttou which time a delicious ice course
1 Association, in the court house at | "’ as served,
j Douglasville, on Saturday after
noon, October 4th, at 2 o'clock.
The object of the meeting the
farmers and- business men men of
the county in the great work o£
the American Cotton Association,
whose chief aims are.: 1
1. To protect the interest of the
cotton producer and to improve
his condition.
2. To promote economic regu
lation of cotton production to the
|end> that supply shall be so ad
justed to demand that thq. prio-*
ducer shall at no time be required
to sell his product gt less than a
fair and reasonable profit! * ,
3. To improve and enlarge
present existing warehousing, .fa
cilities to the end that the pro
ducer may carry his crop, or such
part as he may desire, at the mini
mum of expense and physical dam
age and- at the maxiraufn of securi
ty and financial ability.
4. To collect and dispense ac
curate information, aa.to. tjie state
of trade, crop conditions and mat
ter* of general interest, to-the cot-
con grower. - •
Every fanner, merchant, banker
land business man. interested in
the cotton producer receiving a
reasonable profit on his cotton
crop over and above the Cost of
produetiop is invited to be present.
/Prominent speakers who have
made a careful study of present
day conditions and the cotton situ-
' at ion, will be-present and address
the meetings- *, i
them as they fly into one’s arms.
But like the coveted pot of gold at
the rainbow’s end those good
things are very elusive, in fact so
much so that the fellow who is al-
you got to do is pull up your belt
of ambition a notch or two, hang
your troubles to the tail end of the
league of nations kite and sail off
into oblivion, where we cease to
weep briney tears and the whaug-
djiodle no longer mourueth for her
voug.
I believe that farming, or agri
culture (as von like) was invented
ways telling about them never gets j Ahum or Lain and since that
any for himself.
Always and fori
iver there is a
time a lot of folks have discovered
that it i- a very good way to make
seven-to-ten-dollar-a-day job in the ! !l i ' lnl1 ' living. Pumpkins, crab
next town or the next state. There I tfrass ami onions all owe their suc-
is scarcely any work to do. All l '<’ss to, farming. So does blade
one has to do is to rSimiin awake ! 0, hici'. I’umipkm pie used to he
long enough to pocket his ea‘’'^tia-ratlc tio^s iuc,ot tile lin
ings” on pay day. There is no *
As per last week's call, signed
by thirty sons and grandsons of
Confederate veterans a large
at 12:30 and aftgr listening to ex
cellent addresses by.JTudge Irwin
and Hon, Jown W. Bale, of Rome,
a .Camp .wax .organized, .and
named “John B : Dunoan Camp”
crowd assembled at' the.court hou s ®
in honor’of one of Douglas coun
ty’s distinguished ‘fieroes of''the
‘60’s. The folio win#,officers were
elected:
Z. T. Dake, Camiriandapt •
W. J. Camp, 1st Lieut. Commander
J. L, Oileq, 2nd. Lieut t Qomraunder
Atstor Merritt, Adjutant
Dr. R...E, Hamilton, Surgoon ;
N. B. Duncan, Quartermaster
Rev. 8. T. Qilland, Chaplin
D. S. Strickland. Color SifgeAnt
John T. ReesC, Historian
A meeting is hereby called for
Friday night, Sept 26th at 8
o’clock at the court house, to per
fect plans, adopt a constitution,
and get ready for the coming re
union. All sons and grandsons of
veterans, 16 years old- tand older,
are eligible to .membership, Come
Friday-night.and join.. ...
i T-, DAKE, Commandant.
work to do, but the pay is fine,
and a lot of other bunk of this
kind is pulled, around' the dope
stands and cigar counters day in
and day out. And the worst of it
is that a lot of fellows believe it,
u rid the effect is not is not good in
these days of reconstruction and
allocation.
Here if. the wuy our correspon
dent sizes up the situation.
Listen, people, the seven to-
teu-dollar-a-aday talk hy pro
fessional loafers is causing
unrest among our boys tliftu
anything else. Stand aronnd
the drug store or tlie street
corner and. hear the crowd
talk. Boys and men- who will
uot work much. themselves
talk about what they can
make away off somewhere,
and at tlie same time they are
talking their old duds are on
a credit. Still they brag:
“We won’t, work for two or
three dollars a day. When
we were working we could
easily make ten.” All the
time they are talking their
poor old dads are keeping
up, while needing their help
every day They are always
hunting a job, and a job is all
they are after, for if they
wanted to work they coufd.
Remember, boys, “A poll
ing stone gathers no moss.”
The boy who sticks to one job
comics out ahead. Seems to
me if I had a tenldollar-a-day
job 1 would stay with it.
HOW A TOWN GROWS
Recently a Philadelphia bank,
in endeavoring to stimulate local
enterprises by causing the public
to have a more appreciative view
point and a more substantial real
ization of the material support
which should' be given them, print
ed 1 the. following about the doub
ling of Detroit’s population:
“Whether or not you agree with
all he stand for, it is true that one
man doubled the population of a
city of 300,000. Henry- Ford did
that for Detroit. The town is the
center of the auto industry of the
world. It makes the most ears
and employs the most men. What
a terrific industrial ad Ford has
Ibeen for Detroit, since 'he has
doubled, the population foe all the
banks, newspapers, merchants, ho
tels, and, trades people in.the .city.
tion. It adorned the table* of the
top '•rtPtclierx for over a hundred
years. But the receipt died with
our,old black, mammies and pos-
tively refuses to he brought back.
8ome very poor imitations have
managed to spread their doubtful
odors over the modern kitchen,
but they just simply enu’t. get that
old-time yuin-a-yum go-yonder fla
vor that the old black maniy used
to put into them.
1 used to farm myself. I like to
farm during rainy weather, or
when snow is on the ground. All
I ever raised with success was
stone bruises, and sometimes a
Mellon on the sly. This would
raise dad’s dander, then he would
proceed to raise my shirt-tail and
a few blisters. Then, of course, I
would raise a yell, so you see we
were kept pretty busy raising first
one tiling and another. I used to
advise dad that if he wanted to
get rich farming for him to raise
oats and deal in boss laughs. You
see, when oats arrive at the age of
maturity they are wortli about so
much: a bushel more or less, ac-
ording to the price they bring',
and they, make a dandy leit to
tickle a liOss with. When he swal
lows the oats they aniuae his stom
ach and that makes the boss laugh.
Now, all you got to do to raise oats
is to plow up a big field Of land,
manure it well and spread a lot of
oats all over.it (one in a place);
then worry the ground again with
a harrow or a tree top; then sta
tion your' family around the field
night and day to keep the mice,
Chickens aud rabbits out of them,
and pray a double-header for rain
if the weather is "dry. Then in
the summer you can cut them with
a pair of shears or a reaper, have
them thraShed out and sharpened
at both ends.with a knife; sack;
’em up, put them in a barn and:
spend wet days and Sundays trap
ping for rats and mice. Another
goodf way to get money out of oats
is to feed 3 or 4 bushels to a domi-
necker rooster, cut his head off
and sell him for 20 cents a pound,
oats and all. *.
SPECIAL MEETING SUNDAY
AT BAPIST CHURCH
On next Sunday there will be an
all-day service at the Baptist
church in the-interest of the Sev
enty- five Million campaign.
Dr. Foster and Col. Ghiines will
be here and a large audience is
desired to -hear these men discuss
this great moment of the church.
Gilt Sleuth* Searching Card Index
Files.
the thousands of men saruamed Hall.
Among them all there was not one who
came from McCall. South Curollnu, nor
yet oue who had a wife or mother
whose name even remotely resembled
the “Stalks" given aa the aame of the
two beneficiaries.
Call* for Nimble Wit.;
This, clearly, was a case forjHke use
of t hat specially nimble wit and tine
deductive faculty which lias character
ised much of the tyork of the search
ers of the Index files, and given them
a process of procedure which might
lie used to add a leaf to the /book of
the" Burnses, the Plnkertqps aud the
Flynns.
“Well," remarked the girl charged
with producing the needed. Informa
tion, “this man inay be 'Stalk,' since
that Is the name .given for bis wife
and mother."
But search through the “Stalks”
brought nothing to Identify the case/
• ■“Still,” she persisted, and they al
ways do persist, these girls. “His
name must be some kind of a ‘Stalk/
hut what kind? Corn stalks, ( bean
-stalks, and cabbage atalka ire tha
only kind of stalks I know anything
shout so I’ll just look them np.”
And sure enough. It turned out that
his name wns “some kind of a Stalk."
Cabbage stalks, in fact, and his Index
card waa duly changed to read:
“James Cabbages talks, (3.721,505)
McCall. South Carolina; beneficiaries,
Mrs. Ella Cuhhagestalks (wife), Mrs.
Fnnuie Cuhhagestalks (mother).'
“You see that girl wearing the bine
sweater over there/' said one young
woman. -" r
The girl of the bine sweater appear
ed so young aha might have just left
school. She was searching some in
dex cards, her fingers rapidly running
from one to another. With each flap
of-the card she bad taken a mental
note of the Inscription thereon, but to
the observer she wns making a speed
record In.touching every card In the
file drawer.
Suddenly—Bang! The drawer was
closed. She moved a t foot to the right,
began auother Merathfp In card move
ments, ^elegtad one. made a notation
S i a slip of paper she carried, placed
e card among,tin* others, closed the
draijer, and wglkeii toward the man
who is In charge of the file section.
This pantomime was quickly enacted,
nod as It turned out. It brought to
a close a remarkable case which, had
been under investigation for soma
days.
Tho “Dlvia Mystery.
The title of this strange oase might
be the “Divls mystory" with lflas Blue
Sweater aa the detective heroine.
A typewritten letter mt nMtnd hi
the bureau from an army camp, and
ended as follows:
“Respectfully,
“Private Divls Spruce,
Hastings, Pa.”
Miss Blue Sweater was assigned to
the letter with Instructions to secure
the man's policy number that certain
Information requested as to the stand
ing of Ms Insurance might be furnish
ed him.
The name of Divls Spruce could not
be found in the files. Then came thA
time for imagination and deduction.
No mstler how the nurae was split to
make some other plausible, name, tho
files could not produce results.
Finally the young woman decided
to address a letter to the man at Hast*
lugs, Pa., requesting him to furnish in
formation about himself. In due ttraa
the letter was returned to the bureau
as unclaimed.
Tills did not put an end to the
search hy any means. Imagination
and deduction again were brought into
the case, and n further study of the
original letter was made.
Divls Spruce,
Spruce Division.
Of course! The Spruce Division!
The Spruce division was a part of
the American army.
Miss Rlue Sweater secured a rostet
of the Spruce division from tlie war
department nml searched through the
nenrly 40,000 nnmes for a man who
lived at Hustings, Pa.
In this she was rewarded. The Hal
showed only one man from that town.
He was Herman Miller. With this In
formation the young woman had no
difficulty in finding tile card of Her
man Miller, (policy hmuber 1,877,155; j
serial number 8llfl.255) of Hastings,
Pa. This man Was furnished the In
formation he desired, and In thanking
the bureau he admitted he had forgot
ten to sign his name to the letter. :
Searcher* From All Section*. '
Girls from every part of the coun
try are employed as searchers, if a
complex caBB arise* Involving a man's
Identification, and his home is la
Maine, a girl from that state is assigned
to run down the mystery and she near-,
Iy always does. Should the state he
California, a girl hulling from tho
“Coast” soon has the correct data care
fully listed In the flleH. !
There are innumerable “wonderful”,
cases tinder investigation every da/, 1
but these girls are not unlike the he
roes from France who never exploit
the “wonderful” things .tlidy them
selves did In line of duty.
Handwriting experts are employed
to determine the Identity of many Sig
natures, since every conceivable form
of handwriting reaches the bureau.
Often the body of a letter will be pef-
Checking Nam** of Soldier SurviMNt
fectly legible, bat the signatory Mil
prove to he one of. those mm forgeable
jumbles of.peu strokes which arb the
delight aud pet hobby of the
and tho despair of every
reader.
Silent letters In names must el«oya|
be taken into consideration. The
of Hlynack Is a good example where
the silent letter Is the key letter tef
searching, but at tho same time It IZ
particularly dead in pronunciation.
This aanie I* pronounced Lyaack, ill
In the hurry of writing, often
are misspelled, when oa the
they appear very simple and OOTftot-
Foreign name* are often typed In
correctly because the soldier at too
time of maklug application for Inatr-
anc-e may have been unfamiliar With.
English and made a mistake In
peatlog the speillag to the army or
nuvy clerk. This la a great sourca el
worry to sgarcbeca. y
Name* Spelled Many Way*, a
Frequently one man’s name may h
spelled In four or fivo way*. If roll
lives, parents or someone Interested
In his welfare inquires about his Insur
ance, each will spell it in their Why.
Girl searchers must determine which
is the correct spelling and then ver
ify it from the man’s original signa
ture. i
A clever piece of deduction was that
to the case,of Andrew Good of North
Dakota. His namocftitftf Mt bo«Wlt