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DOUG! AS COUNTY SENTINELS
VOLUME XV.
DOUGLASVILLE, DOUGLAS COUNTY, GEORGIA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1919.
BARIS Til IS
Atlanta, Ga.—As far as the city of
Atlanta is conecrner the Barnes time
law might as well be off the statute
tv'oks, for its provisions hav: been
lisregarded oik- the city is using rail
road tine, which is an hour slower,'
sircte Sunday, October 26th,than the
davlig-ht saving time whi-n the Karnen
aw seeks \-j lr.ake the uniform time of
the state of Georgia. At a public
titferer. e heid at thr caU .'f Mayor
Jame.; L. Key, U was decide to adept
the railroad time, and ignore the
Barnes law. The railroads, of course,
being under federal control, operate
according to federal laws, and the
daylight saving having become im
perative, and railroad watches and
clocks went back one hour at 2 o’clock
Sunday morning.
A NEW FARM PROBLEM
The rapid increase in the number of
cattle and hogs in the South is bring
ing to our farmers a new problem that
must be met if our live stock industry
ifi to be put on a permanently profit
able basis. Full attention has been
paid to the fattening crops, such as
corn, velvet beans, peas, peanuts,
chufas, etc., but these are more finish
ing than growing crops so far as live
stock is concerned.
We will never be fully successful
in livestock production under normal
prices until we become more of a sec
tion of grass and pasture lands than
we are now. There must be a con
tinuous supply of green feed, prefer
ably gTass and clovers for a maximum
profit and its ability to have winter
grazing for cattle and hogs is the
factor that will make the South the
leading live stock producing section.
An old Scotchman once aptly ex
pressed it when he said in substance
that “we need to grow more grass to
feed more cattle to make more manure
to grow more grass to feed more cat
tle, eftc.” Grass and live stock anYb will be pracjfcitjally no peanqt ’meal pro
plenty of manure to put back on the
land are an endless chain that brings
a constantly increasing farm fertility
and farm prosperity.
Cattle and hogs cannot be profit
ably grown without an abundant and
constant supply of feed and largely
green feed at that The winter and
spring grazing on wheat, rye, oats and
barley is good as far as it goes, but
permanent pastures are necessary to
Cotton Worth
40 Cents, Says
Commissioner
(By M. C. Allgood, Montgomery, Ala.)
The following information was
Gained at the World’s Cotton Con
ference, New Orleans, La.:
English spinners will make ar
rangements td buy three million bales
of American cotton. Indications now
are less than a ten million bale crop.
English and American spinners have
very litle cotton on hand. They are
making immense fortunes on account
of high prices received for their goods.
They could now pay the farmers sixty
cents for cotton, based on selling price
of cloth. Spinners are excited over
the shortage of our production. They
have millions tied up in equipment and
hundreds of thousands of laborers de
pendent on them for work and must
have cotton. The American farmers
have a limited supply of cotton and
can get forty cents by holding same.
It takes twelve month's to grow* cot
ton. It should be marketed through
a period of twelve months and not
forced on the market in three months.
This year’ crop was produced on war
time price basis. And With four suc
cessive short crops the world will face
a cotton famine next june.
Cotton Seed
Thousands of tons of cotton in Tex
as, on account of incessant rains, have
sprouted and ruined in the fields. In
previous years cotton seed oil mills
cruhsed thoucands of tons of peanuts.
To day peanuts are selling for $160.00
per ton for shelling purposes and mills
cannot buy them for crushing. There
fore cotton seed oil will have n<{ cqm-
petition with peanut oil. Heretofore
thousands of heads of hogs have been
fattened on cheap peanuts. Peanuts
will all be harvested and thud* the sup
ply of fats from this source will be
curtailed. And cotton seed oil will
certainly be in great derftarAT
duced and thus cotton seed meal will
have little competition as stock feed.
It is one of the best protein feeds on
the market and* will sell for much
higher prices.
Therefore, based on these facts, l
beg farmers to tenaciously hold on to
their cotton and seed until the aEove
prices are obtained.
Copies of this telegram were mailed
to every weekly newspaper, in the cot
bring profits in live stock.—Southern J ton producing stats and to the Com-
Ruralist. | missioners of Agriculture.
FAIRBURN BANK BOOKS
ARE BEING AUDITED
Further developments in the sen
sational Fairburn bank ease involving
William B. Green, vice-president of
the bank, Mrs. Catherine Bradstreet,
her husband, Clarence Bradstreet, and
their negro chauffeur, Robert Ellison,
are waiting on the completion of the
audit of the bank’s books. The
records were partly destroyed by the
fire which Green clairits was set by
two masked robbers who held him up
at midnight and stole $32,000 worth
of Liberty Bonds. Green is out on
a $15,000 bond, while Mrs. Bradstreet,
on whom it is claimed that Green
lavished .presents of automobiles, jew ;
elry and clothes, has furnished $5,000
bond, but her husband is still in Fulton
County jail. The chauffeur is in jail
in Fairburn: The audit of the books
will be finished this week and the pre
liminary hearing of the four defend
ants will be held as soon as the audi
tors make their report to the state
bank examiner.
WINSTON NEWS
oe Griggs, of Douglasville, spent
week with B L. Griggs,
fr. Ray Plunkett, of Atlanta, vis-
i home folks Sunday.
l large crowd attended the Dedi-
on Service at Ephesus Sunday.
Irs. B. L. Griggs visited her pa
ts in Atlanta Monday.
Ir. Newton McLarty, of Atlanta,
at last Sunday at home.
Ir. W. K. Burnett, V. B. Hembree
W. M. Enterkin are Macon visitors
i week attending the Masonic
t nd Lodge and the Georgia State
r.
Ir. C. B. Weiss, who has been at
•k at Carroll for the past month,
iow located at McFall, Ala. j
Ir. J. W. Pounds is at home again
»r an absence of about two months.
B. Y. P. U. v^ill be organized at
lesus one afternoon this week, and
s hoped that all the young people
well as the older ones will take a
d in the work and make it a suc-
Vinston is getting to be one of the
b cotton markets in this section of
state, and with plans already com
bed for the erection of a bank real
n, we expect to progress some after
idleness of several years:
CHUMS.
RINGLAND BROS. AND
1 BARNUM & BAILEY
Mammoth Shows Are Now Combined
And Announce Exhititiona
At Early Date
The world’s biggest amusement in
stitution, Ringling Brothers and Bar-
num & Bailey Shows Combined, is to
exhibit afternoon and night a Atlanta
Monday Nov. 10.
The consolidation of the “World’s
Greatest Shows” and the "Greatest
Show on Earth*’ in one circus of colos
sal size, constitutes the afnusement
surprise of the country. Nothing to
aproach this gigantic, new circus has
ever before touched America. It has
been formed by merging the pick and
the cream of all that was biggest and
best in the two famous shows. It
would be folly to attempt to enumerate
its many wonders. Some idea of the
enormous scale upon which features
are presented may be .had when it is
stated that a quarter of a million
pounds of elephants take part in a
single act. In other words—six times
as many of the big-eared giants than
have ever before been seen in one
main-tent exhibition. All else to be
seen in proportion. The arenic stare
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HELP BUILD IT HIGHER-JOIN!
RED CROSS, FIGHTING! TO BUILD UP
STRONGER AND HEALTHIER COUNTRY,
CALLS ON All AMERICANS TO HELP
THIRD ROLL CALL LAUNCHED FOR TWO MILLION MEMBERS TO
OARRY ON WAR AGAIN3T SICKNESS AND SUFPERINQ — RED
CROSS WILL DEVOTE MONEY TO HELFHNO 'SOLDIERS,’SAV
ING LIVES OF BABIES AND OTHER “HOMEWORK.*
After months of preparation by 4,000
Red Groaa Chapters, with their 17,000
branches and 30,000 auxiliaries,
over the oountry, the Third Red Cross
Roll, Call for 30,000,000 members, now
la getting under way with a tremen
dous sweep In every part of the nation.
Prom "Red Cross Sunday," November
3, through “Armistice Day- November
11, the great drive will continue.
Not only Red Cross chapters and
Red Cross workers are moboltxed to
tnsnra the success of the Roll Call In
the Southern Division, which includes
the state of North and South darolTna,
Tennwaaew, Georgia and Florida, but;
the organised women of these states
havs pledged their aid, and tha re-
turriM gaoMUiu. represented by the
American Legion have pledged their
adPRort as well to' a man through
their national oftloers. Ministers
throughout this division and through
out the United States have taken up
the causa.
Tha need of the Roll Call and for
. those who will answer "Hero!” can bo
sot forth tersely. The Red Cross
BghU for Americas humanity — It
, lights against ignorance, sickness, suf
fering and misery In every form. For
the Red Cross, the war la not over.
And did you think the war was over?
Then ask yourself a few questions. Ask
yourself what is to be done about—
The 250,006 disabled fighting men?
The 300,000 American boys who were
"unfit for service”?
The one American baby out of seven
that dies In Its first year?
Tha 300,000 people who die annually
of toberouloelsr
The 500,000 who- would die in
another lnBneoza epidemic like the
last?
The 300,000 children under 5 who die
annually of preventable disease?
The thousands of children forced out
of school by physical defects?
The accidents that kill 100,000 and
disable 500,000 yearly?
The one adult, in seven known to
be In need of medical attention?
The T.OOO people who drown every
yea. in American waters?
These are the things that made the
Third Roll Call absolutely necessary,
tor with the 20,000,000 "dollar mem
bership" and the 116,000,000 secured
besides, the Red Cross not only will
discharge Us war obligations and “see
the last soldier clean through" his
after-the-war problems, but will send
food to starving humanity abroad,
watch over the 136,000 sick and
wonnded soldiers still In the hospitals
Of America, spread knowledge of pub
lic health with the determination to
put in every home In America one
person capable of caring for the sick;
extend instruction In first aid to reach
every aohool and factory in the land;
organlie and conduct lifesaving corps
to combat an annual loss of 7,000 lives
by drowning; be able to furnish relief
to any community stricken by dri
aster; teach patriotism and gerrloe to
the youth of the nation through the
Junior Red Cross; protect the Inter
ests of discharged soldiers by Its home
service department and enlarge this
department so that It will help civil
ians as well; build up*an organisation
of trained nurses and volunteers that
will make epldemlos almost Impos
sible; provide oare for babies and
moxhera and thus save fbr usefulness
thousands of Httle lives now sacrificed
through Ignorance.
Many of these things the Red Cross
Is doing already. The Third Roll Call
a success, means that It will do them
better than ever, that the Red Cross
will fight sickness, disease, and suffer
ing throughout our country and make
ft a happier, cleaner land to live in.
Membership costs only one dollar to
every person, but 30,000,000 members
means 20,000,000 dollars, and with 20,-
000,000 dollars trie Red Cross will do
more for America than It ever did
before.
Atlanta, On — Chapters of the Amer
ican Red Cross In the southern division
that make good records In the Third
Red Cross Call, November 2-11, will
not go unhonored. It was announced
today at southern division headquar
ters of the Red Cross-that a pennant
Is offered to the chapter In each state
that secures the largest number of
members during the Roll Call In pro
portion to the population of the county
in which the chapter Is located. An
other and larger pennant will be given
to the chapter that secures the most
members in proportion to Its popula
tion competing against all chapters In
the division, which includes, the states
of North and South Carolina, Georgia,
Tennessee and Florida. There are 639
chaptera in the entire dlvlaion, and to
win the division pennant will be quite
a J6b as well as quite an honor, as
many of the chapters already have be
gun an active campaign for members.
The pennants, which In themselves
will be a fitting ornament to the wall
of any chapter house, will be awarded
as soon as final result^ are tabulated
at the close of the campaign.
$1.01 SPENT FOR
EVERY $I1SHEN
RED CROS8 HAD REMARKABLI
RECORD OF ECONOMY IN
WAR.
Monay In Thirft .Botl Call To
Go Mainly, for America and
Amor lean s.
Atlanta, Qa.—Thera are two Cacti
about the Third Rod Cross Roll Call
which oanip&ign taadorg ia the aoath
are amphaaioing—one the fleet that the
Red Cross hae proved its ability mmI
trust worthiness to handle ftanda in a
business-like way, and the other, the
foot that the money received In Die
Third Roil Call will be expended el-
most wholly in America far the benefit
of the American people.
When anybody oaks whether money
given to the Red Croat wiU be frit
tered or squandered, oampaign speak
er* turn to its war record m»» point to
the remarkable fact that for every dol
lar given by the American people, $1M
went to the actual purpene far which
the money wee Intended. In other
words, each dolly eargsd two cento
interest. One' oent of that two cento
provided for expenses of administra
tion, and the dollar Itself and a oent
besides went to actual relief work.
If the Red Cross could do in
the war, when no organisations and no
nations were any too oareftil or econo
mic in the way they spent money, Red
Cross workers declare, it is oertainiy
to be believed that the Red Oroee will
do as well, at thd least, in pence tlmee,
and that money given in the Third
Roll Call will go, not for expenses, but
right where it is most needed and
PENNANTS FOR CHAPTERS right where the man or woman who
THATGET MOSTMFMRFPK saT ® H wantBd u *° out when hu
IWLfSI MfcMBtRS joined the Red Cros. and paid his
dollar.
As for the exact purpose Aw which
the money will be spent, they quote
Dr. Livingston Farrand, national chair-
of the Red Cross, who said re-
really ‘ "The American people are not
asked for huge sums to pour into
Europe for the relief of atriekeu peo
ples of other countries. Only a com
paratively small sum will be set aside
for that purpose, and it only to adk
minister supplies already so trusted to
the Red Cross by the Americas gov
ernment, not to buy any more supplies.
It will be merely toward defraaylng the
comparatively light expellees of finish,
ing a Job already almost completed
By far the greater percentage of tha
money secured In this compelgn from
the American people will be returned
directly to tile American people in the
form of better health and Hvlna
conditions." .
Aa a concrete expression of the ap
proval of the government of Red Croea
methods, more than ten million dollars
worth of medical and food supplies
have been recently turned over to the
Red Cross by the government to ha
distributed. **
JACKSON TO FIGHT DEMPSEY supreme. He is Harris Jackson, a
I husky Atlanta steel worker, who has
There is at least one man in the • accepted the challenge of Jack, Demp-
state of Georgia whose confidence in j sey, champion heavy-weight pugilist,
his ability to take care of himself is ; to face him three rounds. If Jackson
stand the test, he will pull down a
tidy purse of $1,000—he feels sure of
it, but his friends are arranging for
ambulance .service at the ring.
The public psirited citizens of the
hustling little city of Winston, got
busy a few days ago and organized a
bank, the stock being quickly taken
by the business men an<i farmers of
the section and plans perfected by
which they will be in operation in a
few weeks.
The bank will be known as thef
Winston Branch of the Douglasville
Bankiifg Co., and the following
prominent citizens have been selected
as directors: W. M. Enterkin, R. M.
Tohnston, T. A. Thompson, E. Hen
derson, and Dr. W. K. Burnett.
We congratulate the good people
of Winston in this enterprise and pre
dict that if this spirit is kept up there
will be othher good thmgs in store for
them.
McLARTY-ATCHISON
The following announcement, which
appeared in last Sunday’s American,
will be of interest toDouglas coun-
tians, as Mr. McLarty is well known
here:
Mr. and Mrs. Benjimin Pierce Atchi
son, of Crawfordville, announce the
marriage of their daughter, AnnieG.,
to Ben H. McLarty, of Soperton, Ga.,
formerly of Villa Rica, which was
solemnized at the home of the bride’s
parents, on Wednesday, October 22,
the Rev. R. E. L. Harris officiating.
Only members of the immediate fami
ly were present. Mr. and Mrs. Mc
Larty left immediately for Atlanta,
after which they will be at home to
their friends in Soperton. ’
BALL ROCK
Mr. Tom McCord and wife spent
Sunday with Mr. Frank Couch and
family. . ~
Mr. Mfirk Gilland and wife, and
daughter, Miss Lillie, spent Sunday
with their daughter, Mrs. Jeff Harden.
, - Mr. Bep_ McW)iprter wife spent.
Sunday at Frank Couch’s.
Mrs. Ola Boyd and daughter, Miss
Minnie, spent Sunday at Jeff Har
den’s.
Mr. Jeff Henley and'family visited
their piother, Mrs. Will Kilgore, Sun
day.
Mr. and Mr^p Linton Harden went
to Villa Rica Saturday, returning Sun
day afternoon
Mr. Eddie Bivins and wife visited
relatives near Villa Rica Sunday.
The singing given by Mrs. Essie
Campbell was attended by a very
large, crowd, and good singing, too.
Miss Ruth Renfroe visited Miss
Ruth Harper Thursday afternoon.
Mr. Olen Couch and family spent
Thursday night with C. C. Harper.
Mrs. Lilia Harper visited Mrs.
Idella James Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. Minnie Renfroe spent Sunday
evening with Mrs. Lizzie Kilgore. f
Uncle Miles Carnes, of near'Bremen,
spent Monday night with C. C. Har
per and family and spent Tuesday
with Mr. Eddie Bivins and family.
Mr. Bob Harper and son were in
our burg'last week digging a well, >
preparing to build a new house oil
his farm, which he recently bought
near the Ball Rock.
Mr. Jeff Harden is building a new
house on his place near Mr. Bull
James’.
Mrs. Vola Harper visited her sister
in Villa Rica the past week.
Mr. Ernest Sudduth and wife visited
their mother, Mrs. C. C. Harper, the
past week.
Miss Jewel Willis visited her cousin,
Miss Lissie McGoulrk, Sunday.
Miss Blanche Bobo took dinner with
Miss Climmie James Sunday.
POLLY ANNER.
AN AVENUE FOR SERVICE
The present high cost of living is
more of a national calamity than a
blessing. At the same time it points
the direction for much service to the
people.
It' has been reported that a con
gressional commitee discovered that
the wool going into a suit of clothes
retailing for $50 only sells‘for $4.50*
Who gets the other $46.50?
These figures are not enough. HoW
much personal labor is involved in
manufacturing the suit? The element
of labor is the costly part of produc
tion these days. Only after we know
what part of the $46.50 goes to labor
can we tell if there has been too high
profit or too much intermediate
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