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DOUGLAS COUNTY SENTINEL
VOLUME XVIII
DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1922.
NUMBER 14
U PSH AW ANN O U X CES
CONGRESS
In '.making my announcement to
stand for re-election I wish to express
my inexptesible gratitude for the
inspiring faith of my friends. When
I went to Congress three years ago
as the Representative of the Capital
District of Georgia. I determined to
make up in hard work what 1 lacked
in political and legislative experience.
Laboring under the handicap of a
large Republican majority, of course
everybody acquainted with law-mak
ing procedure knows that legislative
initative has been practically impos
sible, but I have tried to follow the
only course left open to a new min
ority memer — to vote intelligently
and conscientiously on questione com
ing before Congress, and to lay myself
out in departmental activities for my
constituents- For the cumulative
evidence from the many hundreds I
have tried to serve that my work has
been effective, I am happy and grate
ful. Frankly, while under the fresh
shadow of a great bereavement. I had
decided to lay down the onerous duties
ot this responsible position, but loyal
citizens from all parts of the district,
both men and women friends who
had taken a man utterly untried in
politics and given him my district,
my state and my country during
HOW HE’LL SPEND IT
Many Douglasville people have at
times imagineed what they would do
with a million dollars, or even a half
million, if they should suddenly come
into possession of so much weealth.
John Lindley^ cook for 39 years at
the Beckham hotel in Texas, is soon
to become owner of a half-million
dollars for a piece of land somebody
worked off on him during slavery
days, on which oil has been found.
This is what John is planning to do
with the money: First, there is a
second-hand Ford truck he has his
eye on for sometime He will buy it. |
FIRST BAPTIST
CHURCH
George W Light, Pastor
*H"!**!**!**!**2**!-I-H-H”!**!*d**!-d‘*l**I**I**!-'-*M"I
Our service last Sunday was pa
STRAWBERRIES PROF1TABLJ
,COTTON PROSPECTS
EXCEEDINGLY BAD'
DID WE GO TO TATE?,
* j In view of the uncertainty of cotton
on account of the ravage of the boll '
X | weevil,; we are printing below
T account of the strawberry moven
*7 in a small section of East Tenn.,
By Marion Kendrick
(Atlanta Constitution)
icularly helpful. The singing of th.
Misses Tucker was espieally uplift
ing. we hope to have them sing again
next Sunday morning- There will be
no night service on account of the
revival service at the Methodist Chur
eh.
Our B. Y. P. U’s will meet aas
'hen he is going to fix up his house- , usual and will plan for a study of
buy a new screen door, as the old one ' Momol under Mr- Bradshaw and the
is warped, put on some fresh paint trial of the robbers, John Rich and
and. otherwise fix up the premises. Mary Stingy.
Finally, John, in the bigness of his ; Sunday frnoming isubject: “The
heart, is going to take care of all
the kitchen help at the hotel that
need a friend. It isn’t often that a
sensible man gets hold of a half
million . '
WORKING HOURS
We don’t like the constant effort on
the part of labor movements to seek
five-day week s and six-hour days.
In the first place, this is too short a,lhe Methodist Church
Phylosophy qf Suffering-’’
BIBLE STUDY CLASS MEETS
Bible Stud^v class> Circle No. 5
met last Wednesday afternoon with
Miss Edith Dake. A number of
guests were present and after a 4 very
interesting discussion of the lesson
1he meeting was turned into a Prayer
Service for the Revival Services at
At the dose
much accomplished. No- of which
body gels anything done without' served
sandwiches and tea were
below an
movement
the ! Georgia’s cotton prospects are the
section from which the editor came worst in the United States and the
and is perfectly famillior with the 11)22 yield—with the possible excep-
prosperous condition brought about tion °f ,ast year—will be below that
by growing strawberries, > °* an y one of the past 20 years. The
A large portion of the lands from federal bureau of agriculture eeonum- jjie b a t but this is what v/e would see;
which the berry growers are making I °f Atlanta, made this announce—
independent livings, where formerly 1 u-ent Monday night
| I’ll say we did about a hundred
i stiyng*. lb w^s a line trip*, (good
! roads, beautiful scenery, mountains^
streams and quarries; pefich and
apple orchards and good eats twe
took 'em with us) and who said base*/
hall? No, there was no game. Tate
1 latticed a while and our boys looked,,
on. Oceasionaly our hoys would go to
almost barren, not prolucing
sufficient general crops for even a
xflnfortable living, now, they are
prousperoua, owning splendid homes
and living easily. We beleive there
is no better section anywhere to pro
duce paying crops of strawberries
than the grey lands of Douglas Ccoun-
ty, apd as the fall of the year is the
proper time for planting we suggest
that farmers begin talking and get
sufficent numbers interest? ! to try
out the plan another year Below is
what Rhea County, Tennesse did this
ye:iwith a few older sections on a
smaller scale:
'the strawberry nnvMvcn: for th
Continuous rains luring June, wh
prevented proper cultivation, and boll
weevil damage have brought about
this condition. Many farmers became
discouraged in their efforts to produce
a profitable cotton yield, ; t was de
clared, and their action in turning
to other crops was a decisive factor
in causing the state to show a 1) per
cent decrease in acreage.
Georgia and South Carolina are
the only states in the cotton belt to
record a reduction in acreage this
year, all others returning to normal
ligures. A total of 4,129,000 acres is
planted in the fleecy staple in Geor-
Crop conditions in South C
these anx?ou 3 times is to continue | working hard and long at it. We The next meeting will be held with
at my present post of sectional and
national opportunity.
Another consideration that makes
me wish to return to Congress is the
fact that if the country should fittin
gly rebuke the glaring and growing
inefficiency of Republican leadership
a leadership that has literally fallen
to .pieces in its failure to function
.vyttth remedial legislation and if I
^should lu». returned to the 68th. Con-
'gre^s.ytte Fifth District of Georgia
Will/tetve^the Chairmanship of the
Comin^e on Pensions. This will
tie thirst time that this position
■ has comedo Georgia as a recognition
of seniority and service, and I natu
rally covet this honor for my state
and my"district-
Tha course- of la'w-en forccvnent
also brings a new challenge to perso
nal;'itid legislative Migilance with
Cabinet officers, \judge s and boot
leggers making Comnlpn cause in
clashing at our federal constitution
ond our national law, our people need
to be reminded that- for the most
part, the lusty champions of “beer
and wine’’ in Congres 3 and out are
the same men who fought to retain
the legalized liquor-shop, when pray
ing patriots were workfing to outlaw
the devilish thing and that the re-
entrance of the American or German
I rewer into our state and national
politics would bring a icommercial
robbery and a moral debauchery and
corruption, which good men and worm*
will, not desire and brave men and
women will not allow. Of course.
Congress cannot pass a law which
the Constitution forbids. Those
who have known me during the moy
than twentv-five years of my public
life know that I would not lower my
standard one inch on this great moral
mie**tion for everv “wet ’ vote on
earth- In submitting my candidacy
tor Congress subject to the Demo
cratic nomination on September 13th.
I can only paraphrase the declaration
of the pioneer patriarch, “relying on
Cod and the cooperation of my con
stituents, “I offer the best that is
in me to the people of my district,
my state and my country.
William D. Upshaw.
have always felt, and we believe most
people around here will agree
with us, that working five days a
week and loafing two days is a
wrong proportion- It engenders too
much laxity, and we sec how a man
working under such a program goes
back to work* half for-forgetting a-
bout the kind of job he had, and hav
ing to bring himself down to work
again like he does after a vacation.
We beleive it takes at least six days
a week for a rmi
r*. at.on of 1922 * Tennessi
Hons on the C. N, O & T I* Rv. was
the largest on m*o\! Figures 00111-
pl'ed by Division Freight Agent Yv (
Stephens, of Omiltanooga. show 11 •, 4
t cre were shipped from !!ii* tirri-
Boyd Chandler at the home of tory 455,973 cra t os i n earload lots, of
Mrs. Fred Duncan, next Thursday w hich 449,$12 crates were forwarded
afternoon. ; by freight over the Southern Railway
System and 6,601 crates were handled
sta- liua are very similar to those in this
Weevil Damage
“The destruction wrought by the
boll weevil last year was disastrous’
: aid Z. U Pettot, the bureau’s statist!
(pu~fj)
‘Ill
antral
cotta
district was
In 1022, tin 1
M A K ES CALCIUM A R S EN AT E
STICK ON COTTON
Dr- G. TT. Turner has fo^
that will prevent Calcium A
from washing off cotton. He dl
strated to us yesterday that
soak it in water and it stay
to handle any job invites farmers to call at his
well, and how a man can put in a and see the demonstration and frill
day in six hours we never could under , explain costs etc.
stand. Eight hour* work forms aj
proper division of the day, but even
eight hours flit by very quickly to
the person who is actually and vitally
concerned about his work. So we
beleeive that all workers should work
full* time to get the most out of it
for themselves and for the ones for
whom they are working.
Nobody works for himself. He is
working for other folks. And unless
a person is Snterefcted and doing
service over a good many hours a
day for at least six days a week, he
can hardly expect to render enough
service to the other people for them
to pay him very well. Personally,
we think the movement for a five-day
week and a six-hour day is all bunk,
and we can’t se any merit in it either
for the workers or the world in gene
ral-
FACTS WORTH KNOWING
WRIGLEY’S ANSWER
William Wrigley, Jr., the chewing
gum magnate wa 8 talking to a little
party of men in a smoking car the
other day, and telling how much chicle
Is used each year for chewing gum.
“But Mr. Wrigley.” said one of his
hearers, “youVe / spent millions of
dollars and created a splendid demand
now; eerybody talks about and chews
Spearmint; your demand is steady and
growing; isn’t it a waste to Spend
so many thousands of dollars adver
tising a product -that is already so
well known?”
And Mr. Wrigley, wading • moment,
answered. “My friend, if I were to
stop advertising, it wrold be just
like taking the engine off of this train
It would slow down- and after a little
while it would stop. Advertising is
the locomotive of business and if you
don’t keep it up business comes to a
stop.
1. Nine girls out of every ten
marry—one girl out of every hundred
marries wealthy-
2. Ninety per cent of all the money
brought into the home is spent by
women.
3. Twenty-five to fifty per cent
are under nourished largely due to
of our school children, rich and poor,
inadequate or improper foods.
4. There are more women in Geor
gia , engaged in the occupation of
home making than in all other occu
pations combined-
5. The State of Georgia furnishes
less than one cent per woman a year
for home making training of women
and girls.
OLD SOLDIERS GET PENSIONS
The veterans have been paid pensi
ons this week bv Judge McLarty^iwd
when we see theiQ; rryiqy very..fwV£
it makes us glad that Georgia is
doing something for these grand old
men, and at the same time shudder
to think what will hnopen to them
if some of our legislative fanatics
earrv their point in repealing the Tax
Equalization law without making
adequate provisions for them.
i by, the Southeastern Express* ' ThU
I was an increase of 195,120 crates bv
| freight and express over the move
ment from the same territory in 1921.
For the movement from stations on t
the CNO&TP, 903 carloads were for
warded by special freight trains and
226 in regular freight trains, making a
a total of 1139 cars forwarded by
freight. Dayton led all the CNO&TP
stations with 357 carloads by freight,
Spring City was second with 268 car
loads, Sale Creek was third with 141
carloads, and! Evansville was fourth
with 132 carloads. Other stations
forwarding carloads movements were:
Chattanooga 7, ' 'Rathburn
75, Bagwell 1, Graysville 27’ Pen
nine 48, Rock wood, 1
and Lancing 8.
In addition to the above. 69 cars of
strawberri.. es were billd from Cldve-
if
plait' cl. The
tin
Three strike* and—
In a few instances when one of our
hoys would locate one of Baker's
twisters and it looked as though we
might' stai/4 / something' 'it always
! resulted in—
ions, put them in corn, or allowed them
to lie idle.
“ttoufth Georgia on the other hand
: omed to the weevil
d has learned to fight him. The
result that more cotton has been
,- 1 am <m! in thill se 'ion th An in live <>r
ix years. The net increase there is
about 15* per cent. North Georgia,
with the exception of a few mountain
counties, shows some decrease. Here
the planting was limited by vain and
soil conditions,” he asserted.
Corn Below Ave*n.w
This season's corn crop is far ,be-
BIBLE THOUGHTS
■For This Week
Bible Thoughts memorisod, will provo i
Sunday
GOD WILL GUIDE THEE:—Be
ye not as the horse, or as the mule,
which have no understanding: whose
mouth must be held in with hit and
bridle. I will instruct thee and teach
thee in the way which thou shalt
go.—Psalm 32: 9, 8.
Monday
THINK OF THE HARVEST:—
Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall
he also reap.—Galatians 6: 7-
Harrimun 86 j In tv tW average, according. to the.rfc-
I port. A forecast of 55.878.000 tousn-
| els is made for the 1922 yield. The
i crop is very late in the upper half
land, Tenn., if from Athens Tcnri. ! the state, but in the southern sec
and three were received froih the Oof tion, where favorable wiat n ™a
(7a. at Chattanooga, while 43 carsovi- i early planting possible, tie con l ion
ginated on the Alabama Great South- j *s better. Much comp am * lowevtt
ern R. R., principaly at Russell, Miss, is heard from the southwestern po -
Melwyn, Miss., Kerns Ala. Spark- tion.
man Ala. Cuba, Ala. making a grand ; “I* 1 the central 1 Ik ri -P°-
total of 1255 crloads of strawberries j read, “the crop i> exliome \ P"” 1 ,l
fields will not mature a crop.
Tuesday
THE WAY TO FREEDOM:— Ye
shall know the truth, and the truth
shall make you free.—John 8: 32.
A BILLION DOLLAR GARDEN
We \coirrrt) \wheat andl cotton as
principal crops, and yet, in 1921,
they both together were barely equal
in value to the vegetables grown on
farms in the United States. If we
add the truck grown on city and town
lots to the “garden sass” grown on
farms we find a total just about
equal to that of the national corn
crop- Not all of these vegetables
a s great prop oration of them as that
of com produced found their way to
a direct cash market. So far as
that is concerned, the poultry pro
ducts for the last census year, 1919
were more than a billion dollar.* in
value, and the dairy products nearly
billion and a half. Residents of
this section and community will find
these figures interesting, because they
show how extremely important the
AifiMfcant for Order*
importance of being orderly |* garden and thepoultry yard are to all
tat the trouble that generally »I this nation, ai wall as to the rest
Isom mtaplacwl eoaMtam. ^ ^ world _ ^
Wednesday
THE WAY TO PEACEAcquaint
now thyself with hom, and be at peace
thereby good shall come unto thee-
—Job 22: 21.
Thursday
THE ONLY SAFE TRUST:—Some
trust in Chariots, and some in horses:
but we will remember the name of
the Lord our Gid—Psa. 20: 7.
handled over the CNO&TP by freight
billed to Cincinnati and other point-
north of the Ohio River, a small per- bti
centage going to Lexington, Ky. and
Louisville. Ky.
These figures do not include le
ihan-enrlond shipments, either
freight or express.
many
A great dc
CENTRAL B. Y. P. U.
il of the corn m
bowers have fa!
improvement, is
Some of tiie corn is no
to feed in South Geor-
by interesting development
j '3. the planting of sweet corn as a
j truck crop. This lias not been entirely
successful, hut is worthy continued
experiment.
ENJOY CAMi
Yes we got licked, skunked, gooso-
i rain. ! egged^ whitewashed, tailored, shut
mate- out and if there are any mote adject
ing place, I ivch to describe this condition, we
lard enough : got that too. and we have been cx-
One of tile ! fleeting a shipement of marble frqpi
f the season i Tate to make our team a Tomb Stone-
pot a monument.
We have wondered what became of
the cow bell some of our fans carried
along. The score? Lest we forget
it was (i to 0. ..
Friday
JOY FOR WEEPING:—His anger
endureth but a moment: in hiB favour
i s life: weeping may endure for a
night, but joy cometh in the morn
ing—Psalm 30: 6.
Saturday
TRUTH MAKES FREE:—Then
said Jesus, If ye continue in my word 1 ,
then are ye my deciples indeed; and
ye Bhall know the truth, and the truth
shall make you free,—John 8:31,32.
Don’t sell the hens because the
price of eggi la tow and prleea for the
hens high. Keep plenty of hens to
lay eggs for home use and to sell
next winter when itrlcea are up.
Quite a number of the young people
from Central Church B. Y. P. U. went
on a camping trip to Knowles creek
near Marietta.
All of the officers of the union were
present and each group was well
represented. Group one and three
having the most members present.
We were delightfully surprised
Thursday night when several friends
from Douglasville visited the camp
and spent the night-. Friday night
a group of friends from Atlanta
visited us, anl enjoyed a splendid
camp supper of fresh fish, chicken,
cake, etc. The only unpleasant things
were the mosquitors. which were very
plentiful. We were somewhat shock
ed when we found the boys had erect
ed a new barber shop in the middle of
the creek.
Altho, all seemed to have a good
time, they did not neglect their
reverence to God, and devotional
services each day.
Saturday morning, just before leav •
ing the camp all were called to order
and several interesting talkjs were
given. Rev. Floyd Walden spoke on
“Service Hirough Co-operation, 1 '
which was very much enjoyed by all.
After Binging a hymn all left for
home treed, but happy.
Mrs. G, A. Yeager and Mrs. G. A.
Hembree Chaperoned the party,
baring the moat members present.
TINKERING WITH TAXES.
The annual pastime o£ revising and
amending the tax U vs ot the state
ha s been entered upon e.r Atlanta, and
wiil be watoled for the next six we
with apprehension on the part of tax
payers. The special legislative com
mittee appointed at the last session
of that body to study from all points
of view the proposed income tax and
report, with recommendations, at the
present session has reported that an
'income tax 1 substitute for the ad
valorem tax, or in conjunction with
an ad valorem tax, would be ‘'inoppor
tune, inexpedient and unsatisfactory,
and would only result in added bur
dens to the people of the state." The
-committee is of the further opinion,
and so recommends, that “any changes
proposed at thi s time in the law on
the subject of taxation should be to
enact provisions for a reasonable
classification of property for purposes
of taxation it being the belief of the
committee that such a system would
result in the voluntary disclosure of
lasge tmounts of intangible property
not now on the books for taxation.’
So many times has “tax reform"
resulted in increasing taxes already
authorized and the levying of new
taxes that the public has become sus
picious of all movements to change the
tax laws. The idea has become firmly
fixed in the public mind that all tax
legislation is a means whereby the
tax ipenderg can “dig" deeper into
the pockets of the taxpayers.
J’AYS DEBT MADE TWENTY-FIVE
YEARS AGO
Mr- J. F. Long, Supt. of Lol*
Cotton Mill, handed us this week, a
letter he jUBt received from a man in
S. C- in which he enclose J a money
order for a debt he had owed Mr.
Long for twenty-five years. Said he
diden’t know whether Mr. Long re
membered him or not, he had lost
track of him and only recently learned
he was located in Douglasville.
In the letter, he stated that he had
had |a pretty hard time but was
anxious to pay the debt of long stand
ing-
Honest men are not all gone. " ’(
■'•m
180,000 MILES OF ROADS IN
FEDERAL-AID SYSTEM
planned
The Chief of the Bureau of Public
Roads of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture will probably
working days, and not go over any
mile twice, it would require nearly
two and one-half years to complete
never personally inspect all of t£a
system of Federal-aid roads provided
for by the Federal Highway Act
and for which intital appropriations
have been mode-
The system ia being designed td
serve the whole country and will ba
approximately 180,000 miles la
length. ShouTd he make an In
spection traveling at the rats of 30
. —Dawson News miles »n hour, 8 hoars a day on alt
.■giafceafaw.*