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DOUGLAS COUNTY SENTINELS
VOLUME XV.
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High prices for farm'
DUCTS MEANS PROSPERITY
FOR ALL CLASSES
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DOUGLASVILLE, DOUGLAS COUNTY, GEORGIA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1919.
NUMBER 31,
It might be well for those who ur
complaining so much of the high cost
of living to ask. themselves if they ar
are not now in better condition thai
when farm products were selling a
half tahe price an^J farm laborer
were receiving 75 cents and $1 a day
The wages of the laborer in the citj
have increased more than the price o
farm products, the profits of the man
ufacturers and merchants have beei
actually and relatively than those o
the farmers, and their net profits, not
withstanding the high cost of living
are larger than when the farmers o
the country were selling their product'
The city merchant, professiona
at starvation prices,
man or laborer, who, wants a returi
to low prices of farm products of ter
years ago not only has a short mem
oi*y but he is also blind to the mos
simple facts which affect and contro
his prosperity. v The country can neve*
be prosptrous as a whole while one
third the population w'ho produce
the food supplies and largely the
wealth of the country are not prosper
ous or not receiving fair wages, com
pared with the rest of the population
for their labor.— The Progressiv
Farmer.
ONLY FOUR-YEAR SCHOOLS
ON tHE ACCREDITED US!
After careful consideration of al
the facts, the committee on accreditee
schools has authorized that only foui
year schools be listed hereafter. These
are the on ly schools that can fully pre
pare for college. With the state ai<
granted under the Barrett-Rogers ac
every county can hpve a standard foui
year school. The two and three yeai
scohols in each county can affiliate
with the central four year scool. Ii
this way every chi|d will have oppor
tunity to graduate from a four yea;
School. With good local four yea*
schools, pupils should not try to entei
college before graduation, as a ruR
they do better at home.
GET READY TO USE LABOR-SAV
ING MACHINERY
As an illustration of a labor- sav
ing machine used in grain farming,
recently saw one man and four larg
horses carryiny the sheaves of whea
from the shocks to the threasher am
keeping the threasher pretty constant
ly supplied. To do the same worl
with wagons would require at leas
four wagons, eight horses and si-
men. One man and four horses witl
this macine—a “shelf loader”— picket
up the sheaves as they stood in th<
shocks and dumpeed them in a heaj
of about 300 sheaves at the machine
This shows the extent to which thi
development of labor-saving machines
has been carried for the aid of th<
grain farmer, and explaines why th«
American grain farmer produces much
more per man than the farmers of
Europe, although he produces only
about one-half as much per acre.
The South must give more attention
to putting its fields in shape for the
so arrange its cropping that less hand
use of larger implements and must
labor will be required. In fact, the ad
vantages of smooth, large fields in
lining labor-saving implements and
-machinery have not been fully anpre-
ciated in the South. No one fails to
recognize the better appearance of a
country where the fields are large and
free of all obstructions, but few seem
to give this condition its full econo
mic value in the cultivation of land
crops.—The Progressive Farmer
COMMEMORATIVE SERVICES
Atlanta—Commemorative of the
Georgia men who gave their lives in
the world war, a great state-wide me
morial service was held Tuesday night
in the auditorium-armory under the
auspices of the Georgia Memorial
Commission headed by Judge Andrew
J. .Cobb, of Athens, and Mrs. Samuel
a M. Inman, of Atlanta. Governor
Thomas W. Bickett, of North C aro ’
^lina, delivered the principal address,
vhile Governor Hugh M. Dorsey ac
fcepted on behalf of the state, a huge
flag bearing a gold star with the fig
ures 1,715, denotirfg the number of
■eorgians who made the supreme sac-
fice in the war.' The families of all
Le Georgia men received special in-
Itations to the memorial service, as
|‘ll as promirient men and women
pm all setions of the state.
WE FACE REVOLUTION
‘‘The time has arrived for the eople
of America to wake up to a realization
of what is taking place. It is social
revolution downward—nothing else.
The radical agitation which is men
acing the foundations of our industrial
life is not based upon specific griev
ances, but is aimed at the overthrow
of American institutions and ideals
just as surely as if a Bolshevist army
American people are confronted*with
was marching on Washington. The
all the destructive forces of minority
class rule which have made a waste of
Russia. The bloody method of the
Bolshevist revolution is the sole reason
for the long blindiVig of our citizens’
ey/es to what is going on.
“Internationalism, syndicalism, com
munism, socialism, are the antitheses
of Americanism. Americanism means
the beSt in the ideals of the peoples of
all the world, the best of human ideals
—manhood. Manhood means am
bition, self-denial, thrift. These can
spring only from the protection of per
sonal liberty and the right of property
—the right of individual possession of
property as guaranteed by the Con
stitution. He who does not believe
this cannot be an American.
“The true American spirit has been
splendidly illustrated in recent times
by the pronigt action of Mayor Ole
Hanson in dealing with the I. W. W.
element in Seattle, and equally so by
Governor Coolidge in punishing the
deserters among the police force in
Boston.”
DOUGLASVILLE DARK
Citizns of Douglasville were con
siderably inconvenienced all Sunday
night and a portion of Monday night
on account of a break down at the
light plant
LET THE FARMER SERVE NOTICE
THAT HE WILL FIGHT FOR
FAIR PRICES
The government and the the town
and city people seem to think that
the only cure for the high cost of liv
ing is cheap farm products. Practi
cally all efforts to ldwer the cost of
living are directed against the farmer
and farm products. The government,
organizations, clubs and associations
are making a united, determined ef
fort to force tHe price of farm pro
ducts Gown to the lowest possible level.
The merest suggestion that the cost
of living might be reduced by fixing
the price of shoes, cotton and woolen
goods is ridiculed by town and city-
people. We are finable to explain just
why town and city- people consider it
impractical to reduce the cost of manu
factured products, unless such action
might involve a lengthening of the
hours of labor and a reduction in
wages.
c6al Strike off—men obey county club boys make fine
LAW , SHEWING
The coal miners’ strike has been
called off and the 50,000 striking
miners acceded to the wish of the gov
ernment and federal Judge Anderson
has characterized thir action as “Good
Faith Effort.”
Secretary Wilson has called a con
ference of the strikers and operators
to meet in Washington, in which the
government will take part and uiu
effort will be made oo reach an agree
ment that will satisfy all parties.
Hhe public welcomes this news and
the workmen have reinstated them
selves in the confidence of the people
profitable prices for manufactured
goods and farm products. We are
strongly opposed to sweat shops and
labor. We are not advocating a re
duction in wages or a general reduct-
The exhibits of the Corn Club and
Pig Club boys last Saturday was well
worth going miles to see. There
were eighteen Corn Club exhibits.
The largest yield per acre was made
by Mason Hendrix, 104 bushels and
3 pecks, bing the second largest i
the state.
The corn was graded orr points,
aggregating 20 for perfect. The
grading was as follosw: Uniformity
5 points, trueness to type 5 points,
rows' 4 points, grains 3 points, huts
and tips 3 points. The standing of
PROF. W. C. COLLINS LIKES MSB-
RISEY CONCERT
determined effort to reduce tile cost
of living wholly at the expense of
those who till the soil.
The farmer is patient and slo\i» to
wrath. Hehas for ages accepted what
ever town and city people have thrown
him. but he is no longer satisfied with
the division of the products of society,
lie will not hastily bring- starvation
and nakedness on a large part of the
world by taking his wife and children
out of the field or by refusing to work
and are now in much better position
Thdfl ^Gresham...
....18
to secure what they Want than if they
Wilbur Farr
... .17.25
had subjected the country to suffering
John Griggs
....17
ami great inconvenience.
Tom Bufijiett
.... 13.75
MRS. STELLA ABBOTT GETS NEW
George McCoy....
.... 16
TRIAL
Chester Ergle
....16
—
Glen Lambert
.... 15.5
Mrs. Stella Abbott,' convicted of
Roy Green
... rl5.5
killing her husband, Johnny Abbott.
Raymond Morris..
.... 15.25
because of another woman, and sen-
Walter Dickenson..
....14.5
J tenced to serve ten years in the state
Mason Hendrix...
. ... 14.5
penitentiary, will get a new trial. The
Ottis Pilgrim
... .14
court of appeals has just granted her
Frank Hunter
... .14
petition, reversing the lower court on
Thos. Meadows....
.... 13.25
i the ground that a letter reflecting on
Curtis Pilgrim....
....13.5
1 the character of Mrs. Abbott, which
Marion Eidson
! was excluded from the evidence, was
Weldon Miller...
... .12.5
placed in the hands of the jury through
Theo. Gresham woi
first
prize on
mistake. The letter was read in court
wheat and Leroy Couch second.
but not in the hearing of the jury,
Joe Adcock won
first
prze on
and after some argument by counsel
brood sow and Thos.
Meadows first
was excluded from evidence. Later
prize on porker.
it became mixed up in some other pa-
The reason there
was
o larger
Superintendent Perkins and his as- " ,ore than ei)?ht hours P er da 5’ for five
sistants worked faithfully shut were
compelled to go to Atlanta for re
pairs, which they were unable to get
before late Monday, and consequently
the delay. If it is true that only those
who prefer darkness tp light are
guilty of evil deeds, there must be few
evil doers in DouglaHviile, for every
one was clamoring for lights.
ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION
It must have occured to most every
body that when the President and his
Cabinet decided to fight the coal
strike, and when the Senate and the
house of Representatives by their
unanimous votes declared their un
qualified support to the Administra
tion in the course it had taken, that
under such circumstances the Govern
ment cannot be all wrong. It is an
inevitable deduction that the men in
this Government, selected as they are
from every walk of life, and from
every part of the country, are good
men, as a whole, and are truly repre
sentative of the people of this great
country.
These are self-evident truths, and
upon the principals involved the life
of the American government depends.
For perhaps the first time in the
history of the United States popular
government as it is regarded by a
free people, has been challenged by a
class of workingmen; and the acts of
the coal miners constitute a flat de
fiance to the government that has
shielded and protected them.
There is no longer any question
about the rights of labor unions to
exist and enforce the demands of their
members, and public opinion and the
government has been standing back of
them. But acting on the same princi
ple that has brought about “trust-
busting,” the restraint of unfair com
petition, the dissolution of combina
tions, and the regulation of other
methods of conducting business that
are damaging to the public as a whole;
the government first sought to pre
vent a strike that would bring disas
ter to the whole country; and when
gentle measures failed the drastic
processes of maintaining the sovere
ignty of the United States were en
forced. It was the policy Roosevelt
defined when the said: “Speak softly
and carry a big stick.”
AGED FARMER MAKES RECORD
Mr. Wilsbn Vansant, of Chapel Hill,
who is 72 years old, has broken the
cotton record in Douglas county. Mr.
Vansant has grown several bales of
cotton this season from his own labor,
besides a good crop of corn, and other
crops and sold one bale to N. B. & J.
T. Duncan, weighing 605 pounds, at
41 cents, which brought him $257.07.
The seed brought * $48.90, making a
total of $299.97 for the one bale.
y
days per week, but he refuses to longer
occupy the place of under dog in the
competitive struggle for existence.
He serves notice now that in the end
he will play the leading part in de
cking the economic positions of'the
different classes ofs ociety.—The Pro
gressive Farmer. -
LITHIA SPRINGS ITEMS'
Dr. S. A. Garrett and Mrs. Garrett,
of Macon, also Miss Emma Gardner,
of Atlanta, were week-end guests of
Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Winn.
Mr. and Mrs. H. H| Richardson and
little Martha Adamson were guests
of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Adamson at
College Park, on last Friday.
Mrs. J. P. Pharr spent several days
of the past week with relatives in At
lanta.
Mrs. George Croft and little daugh
ter, Miriam, of Atlanta, were recent
guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Watson.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Copeland are
visiting friends at Tolbotton.
Mrs. Nesbit Harper entertained the
sewing club dn last Thursday after
noon. The next meeting will be with
Mrs. Robt. H. Patterson.
Miss Mary Noble spent the week-end
in Atlanta with her sister.
Mrs. J. "A. Smith had as a guest
recently, her sister,Mrs. Baggett, of
Douglasville.
Miss Julia Harbin, of Red Oak, is
spending the week with her aunt,
Mrs. Henry Richardson.
MILLER-NORTON
/
Last Sunday morning at Sweet
water church, Rev. S. T. Gilland
united in marriage, Miss Hazel Mil
ler and Mr. Paul Norton.
The ceremony was witnessed by a
number of friends. Afterwards the
bride and groom returned home, fol
lowed by invited friends, and a wed
ding dinner was served .at home.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. T. Miller, and the groom is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Norton,
both of Sweetwater community.
Their many friends wish them a
long and happy life.
LOCAL BAPTIST GO OVER TOP
The First Baptist church of Dpug-
lasville, has gone over the top in the
75 Million campaign and did it in one
day.
W$ congratulate them for this
enterprising spirit and oOier churches
in Douglas county should profit by
the example.
Since the many war drives people
have learned how to raise money for
benevolent purposes and the people
of the section have been unusually
blessed this year and should, and no
doubt will, express their thankfulness
in liberal donations to worthy causes.
-—A
pars mid went to the jury. For this
reason the verdict is setaside and At-
exhibit of pigs the hoys wer afraid of
getting them hurt and there are sev
lanta is soon to have a repetition of t oral belonging to the club boys that
the trial which set the state agog some
‘months ago.
NORTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE
The fifty-third aifnual meeting of
the North Georgia conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church, south,
opened Wednesday for a six-day ses
sion, concluding on next Monday af-
will weigh more than 500 pounds.
SENATE TO ACT ON MEASURES
NEXT YEAR
The idea holds in many sections
that the large number of important
measures passed by the House of Rep
resentatives, and which have failed of
action in the Senate because of the
ternoon. The sessions are to be held l 0 ng-draWn-out discussion of the Peace
m tye Wesley Memorial church, Allan- Treaty and League of NKtionB> wil ,
tn, with Bishop Warren A. Candler j die „ natura , dl . alh when thc extl . a
presiding. For the first time in its
history, the conference will have wo-
mfin lay delegates who will have equal
voice with the men. This was de
cided upon last year after one of the
most strenuous discussions in the his-
session expires and that much of the
\vork of the House will have been for
naught. This is a wrong Impression,
as all bills passed by the House but
unacted upon in the Senate live until
the Senate dan act, or they will re-
ory of he conference. Several hun-, main upon the Calendar until the Con-
dred ministers and lay delegates are
expected to attend.
gress expires March 4, 1921. With the
Peace Treaty out of the way in the
Senate, when the regular session be
gins December 1, the Senate Commit
tees will have a large grist of bills to
THE SHIP OF STATE SAILS
SMOOTH WATERS
Official Washington breathes easier' PT>nd upon. The House will imme-
these days. There is a reson. For diately have to busy itself with the
some weeks men in public and politi-■ regular appropriation bills for the
cal life have been low in spirits. They i next fiscal year, a job that will re-
didn’t like the looks of things gener- j quire its attention for the earlier
ally over the country, but they have j months of 1920. Consideration of
said little, although they have felt that ( these bills will bring up questions of
they did not know what might happen j taxation and open a wide field of pol-
next. But the reaction in feeling itical discussion and fence building
came with the results of the election for the Presidntial and Congressional
in Massachusetts, when such a decided campaigns of nex year.
blow was given radicalism, and every-1
body has cheered up wonderfully. The | 7-CENT COINS WANTED
country isn’t going to the dogs at all;
the mass of the people, as indicated
, , , The Treasury Department is be-
by thc election returns in a State wjth requfists coming from al ,
where an issue was made between gectj(m8 ^ R be minted of 7 .
radicalism and Rood horse-sense A- cent denomination . Many banks and
mericanism, are still sound and not
trust companis are among the petition-
ROing to stand-any foolishness. The ^ as we „ as gtreet cRl . companies>
officials of all political faiths and rail ,. 6ads and movinR picture theatres,
creeds are happy and once again the The c|aim , s made that a 7 . cent coin
smiles are seen that “are not coming woul(J pTove , Kreat relie fto the ul _
! timate consumer, who is constantly
1 annoyed by the mass of pennies col-
PUBLIC MEETING AT COURT lected in a day’s shopping as a result
HOUSE of the new war tax and consequent
A public meeting is hereby called' odd-change prices. It is believed that
to be held at the Court House Tues-! a 7-eent coin would practically elimi-
day night, Nov. 18th at 8 o'clock, for na te the present nuisance and that it
the purpose of organizing a Douglas ' would prove handy in many ways.
County American Legion Post. Many C'gnrs sell for 7 cents and 12
This organization s composed ex- j cents, many cme? have 7-cent carfare,
clusively of men who served in any, motion pictur-s often Itve a 17-cent
department of the recent world war | charge, and there are a host of other
and every soldier boy in the county is ! a -.’kies priced right to use a 7-cent
urged , to be present. I coin. The Treasury Department rath-
The public is invited to attend. e r leans toward the idea, as it has to
L. S. JAMES repeatedly authorize the mintirg of
J. L. DORRIS enormous numbers of pennies.
This organization is being perfected
throughout the country and is assist
ing the government in suppressing
Bolshevism and other anti-govern
ment propaganda and every returned
soldier should join.
Z. T. DAKE, Mayor.
AN AD ON A WALL
The merchant felt all puffed out.
“Did you see my great advertise
ment on the sidewall of the railroad
station” he asked of his friend.
"No,” said the friend. "Have them
send the wall aronud to me and I will
look it over.” (
AUTO ACCIDENT S
Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Reid and family
of five children, while returning from
Atlanta Sunday, in their Dodge C6upe,
were run into by a Ford Sedan. ^>r.
and Mrs. Reid and all the children
Sustained injuries, but fortunately,
none of them were seriously hurt, but
their car was badly damaged.
The driver of the Sedan received
some bad cuts from broken wind
shield but none of the other occupants
were hurt.
Athens, Ga., Nov. 8, 1919.
Mr. Joe C. McCarley,
Douglasville, Ga.,
Dear Sir:-
I ,see that Miss Marie Morrisey itf
to give a concert in Douglasville. I
was present at her concert in Athens
on November 4th. And I wish to say
all those who do not go to hear her
will miss a real treat—that is, if they
love music. It will give those who go
an opportunity to hear music by mu
sicians, as she is ably assisted by her
pianist. Pd like to hear her again
now.
I hope you have a good audience for
her, and I am sure all who*go will not
regret it.
Give my regards to al! the homo
folks and keep Douglasville growing
while business is good.
Very truly yours,
W. O. COLLINS,
Instructor in Soil Chemistry.
GEORGIA CATTLE FARM
Former* Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson, who served through three
presidential administrations, was
counted a visionary when he predicted
some ten years ago that in time the
Southern States would become the
great beef and meat producing sec
tion of the United States. The Wire-
grass Farmer, which is published at
Ashburn, of which Hon. Joe Lawrence
is editor, calls attention in a recent
issue, to the 1 fact that Turner county,
which until a few years ago was a
lumber and naval stores county, and
Imported most of its meats, is today
bulging forward as orife of the leading
cattle counties of the state. The paper
says the Red Pebble farm, in that
county, is loading Hereford cattle (o?
the state of 'Ohio. The cattle bring
$400, according to the Wiregrasa
Farmer, and a recent shipment of fifty
head netted the Red Pebble Farm $20,-
000.
FLAMES CAUSE DEATH OF FIVE
Atlanta—Flames which completly
gutted the Wilson hotel at the corner
of Walton and Peachtree streets Fri
day morning cost five lives. The dead
are. ^Captain P. B. Lawrence, day
clerJJ at the hotel; Sergeant Schley
Flaick, of the military polioe; 43.-F.
Fitzpatrick, a sailor; J, C. Mauldin,
and James Thompson. The latter died
at a hospital from burns, while Maul
din jumped from a third-story window
and sustained a fractured skull. The
other three victims were burned to
death or suffocated in the burning
building. The coroner’s jury which
investigated the tragedy failed to as
sign any cause for the fire.
IS INTOXICATION EVIDENCE OE
BONE DRY VIOLATION? ,
Atlanta—The supreme court will
decide whether or not the fact that A
man is intoxicated authorized a jury
to return a conviction for violation of
the bone-dry law. A case involving
this moot point has been certified to
the supreme court from the court of
appeals. J. A. Granham, Jr., was con
victed in Appling county of violating
the prohibition law, the state showing
that he was intoxicated and the as
sumption by the jury being that hfe
had been in possession of liquor. Th§
defendant contends in his appeal tt>
the higher courts that the evidence of
intoxication is not sufficient to autho
rize a conviction for violation of th<»
bone-dry law. The outcome is being
watched with consuming interest.
TAXES TO BE HIGHER
State tax assessments for 1920 will
have to be raised approximately $250,-
000,000 or nearly one-fourth of thi
values on the tax digest at the present
time, in order.meet the appropria
tions voted l$$$fhe 1919 legislature,
according to Tax Commissioner H» J.
Fullbright. The commissioner de
clares that the appropriations for 1920
exceed those of 1919 by more than $1,-
000,000. Tax assessments, in the va
rious counties vary widely, he saya,
some counties returning their proper
ty at about 5 per cent, while others
return it at about 60 per cent. Such
a condition of affairs ^cannot be per
mitted to continue, says Mr. Full-
bright, who adds that the increased
assessment will be pro-rated among
the several counties of the state.