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ADVERTISE GEORGIA
ENTERPRISE
SOME COUNTIES HAVE
PLETED QUOTAS, OTHERS
GANIZING. ATLANTA
JOIN FORCES WITH FULTON.
Atlanta, Ga. October—Early
ports from many - counties to
headquarters of the Advertise
gia Enterprise indicate that they
going right ahead in raising
quotas of the fund for drawing
farmers from other states to buy
develop the idle lands all over
gia. Several counties report
have raised their quotas and
money is in the bank. Others
local organizations at work, not
to raise the money, but to
accurate and interesting data
their county for use in the
to be issued by the enterprise.
In addition to the advertising
be used in national periodicals
fatm papers, the enterprise will
lish a handsome booklet, devoting
certain space to each county in
gia, setting forth just what
county has to offer in tne way
farm lands or other
This is to be used in following
inquiries, through a period of
least three years.
Already the results of the
tising movement are being felt,
though no advertising has
placed. The news that Georgia
something to offer new settlers
going out over the country and
quiries regarding farm lands
sale are coming to Governor
These are being turned over to
Advertise Georgia Enterprise to
followed up.
Atlanta has taken active hold
the project, the Rotary club,
• club, Advertising club and
club having joined forces to
the county’s $40,000 quota,
the city expects small direct
Atlanta realizes, however that an
creased rural population makes
creased production, a greater
of state taxes, and a general
to the cities as well as to the
where the lands are sold and
ed.
October is tt Advertise
Month” by official proclamation
Governor Dorsey, who has called
on all loyal Georgians to
the enterprise.
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SCARED TO DEATH!
Nearly everyone is saying, “WAIT, Stuff is going to get cheaper.” Well you just wait
and you will see that it will be a long while before HARDWARE will be very much cheap
er. NOTE THESE FACTS.
HARROWS- Factory behind, cannot get material and have more orders than they
can
I AUTOMOBILE TIRES- Prices guaranteed until April 1921.
STOVES and RANGES- More orders than the factories can fill.
STEEL GOODS- More buyers than Goods.
I How can LABOR it happen, is short when? and high wages are being paid, I
FUEL, scarce and High, been,
TRANSPORTATION, higher than it has ever
RAW MATERIAL, Contracted for ahead at advanced price.
You can WAIT but we are going to fish right on whether the water is clear or not.
ii There’s some fellow up the stream muddying the water always.”
WE’LL BOOST IF WE BUST AND IF WE BUST WE’LL BUST BOOSTING.
Georgia Agricultural Works
Hardware Furniture
FORT VALLEY, GEORGIA
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THE LEADER TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA. OCTOBER 7, 1920.
] FARMERS OF NATION TO
MEET IN
NINETEEN FARM ORGANIZA¬
TIONS WIRE APPROVAL OF
MEETING TO COMBAT LOW
PRICES OF PRODUCTS.
Atlanta, October 4 (Special)
Commissioner of Agriculture J.
Brown has just issued the follow
ing statement with regard to
serious situation existing in the eot
ton market:
TO THE FARMERS AND BUSI
NESS MEN OF GEORGIA:
You have been informed through
the state press of the important cot
ton meeting held in Atlanta last
Thursday. This meeting was attend
ed by many of the most influential
men of the state, representing every
section and including a number of
members of Congress, among them
U. S. Senator Hoke Smith. Other
con g ressmen wired their approval of
the meeting and its action.
At this meeting a committee of
nine was named to consider the ad
visability of calling a national con¬
vention of farm organizations in
Washington on October 12 and 13.
'up to date nineteen farm organiza
nons, covering every section of the
United States, have wired their ap
proval and co-operation, and the
meeting will be held.
Practically every line of agricul¬
ture has been seriously affected by
the policy of Secretary Houston in
his effort to deflate prices; and to¬
day the prices offered for many ag¬
ricultural products, including cotton,
wool and others, ig far below the
cost of production. A pound of your
- cotton which is bringing only 23
cents today, is still making nine yards
of gingham which is selling on the
market at $4.50. It is evident that
deflation is being pushed at the
wrong end. As to cotton there has
been no inflation at any time, and
we propose in this Washington meet¬
ing to correct this unwarranted sit¬
uation.
I earnestly appeal to all cotton
producers and merchants not to sell
another bale of cotton until after
this meeting in Washington on Oc¬
tober 12 and 13, unless, in the mean¬
time, cotton should reach the price
of 40 cents a pound.
J. J. BROWN.
Commissioner of Agriculture, Geor
£ia.
! An Appeal to Boys: "Be True to
Your After-self. »»
-
Your first duty in life is
your after-self. So live that your
, after-self—that man you ought to
j be— may in his time be possible and
I actual.
1 Far away in the years he is wait
ing his turn. His body, his brain,
soul, are in your boyish hands. He
help himself,
What will you leave for him?
Will it be a brain unspoiled by
of dissipation, a mind trained
think and act, a nervous system true
as a dial in its response to the truth
about you? Will you, boy, let him
come as a man among men, in his
time? Or will you throw away
his inheritance before he has
j had the chance to touch it?
Will you turn over to him
a brain distorted, a mind diseased?
A will untrained to action? A spinal
cord grown through and through with
the devil glass of that vile harvest
we call wild oats?
Will you let him come, taking your
place, gaining through your expe
riences, hallowed through your joys,
building on them his own?
Or will you fling his hope away,
decreeing wanton-like that the man
you might have been shall never be?
This is your problem in life; the
problem of more importance to you
than any or all others. How will you
meet it, as a man or as a fool?
When you answer {his, we shall
know what use the world can make
of you. David Starr Jordan.
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What Are Vitamines?
What are these peculiar substances
which we are urged to have in our
diet, but which we do not under
stand? They are called vitamines.
The best answer to this question is
to give a little of their history.
Several years ago we believed that
if we gave the correct amounts of
proteins, starches, sugars, fats, and
mineral salts we would be well
nourished. Scientists fed a sufficient
amount of these substances, pure,
to animals and people and they
found that four things happened:
first growth stopped in the young;
second, building up did not keep pace
with wasting away of bodily tissues
in the adult; third, certain diseases
developed, and fourth, old age came
early.
When these same foods were given,
but eggs, butter and a few other
substances were added, both animals
and people grew and thrived, if free
from actual disease. Continuing these
experiments they did such things as
this: They selected 40 children
four to ton years of age in an or*
I phan asylum where the children had
| enough of bread, meat and vegetables
They gave each of these a quart of
] fresh regular milk a day in addition to the |
food. At the end of five
I months the differences, mental and |
physical, were so phenomenal as to '
be almost unbelievable. Their ap
chest, height and other
measurements, their ability to pick,
j up weights, run without fatigue and j
j do mental tasks was remarkable. !
I Then they took groups of our
Southern people of low vitality, peo
[ pie who live chiefly on tuber vege
tables, meat and molasses. They add
Jed and milk, in six eggs rnonts and leafy their vegetables, had,
i eyes
| brightened, their vitality increased:
and old age diseases such as harden
ing of the arteries, certain forms of
kidney trouble and pellagra had dis¬
appeared when not too far advanced.
The same was true with groups of
cotton mill and fisher folk who lived
'mostly on tea or coffee and white
bread, fish and salt meat.
(a) The people who live too large
j ly on meat, potatoes and bread fur¬
nish very high mortality from tuber¬
culosis. The addition of milk, eggs
and leafy vegetables contributes to
their vitality and resistance.
(b) Those who live too largely on
cornmeal, sweet potatoes and meat
have a high incidence of pellagra,
( c ) In communities where no fresh
milk is used, pellagra is high; where
most is used, it is lowest. The same
can be said of the other protective
foods, milk, eggs, and the leafy vege
tables.
(d) Certain foods are called pro¬
tective foods because they contain
those little understood substances
called vitamines which correct the
faults of the ordinary diet. The
Progressive Farmer.
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NO RAISE1N H.C.L DUETS NEW RATES
COST OF ARTICLES FOR THE CON
SUMER HARDLY
AFFECTED
eit rnEluHl ri rur n liUST nsT cu«l SMALL I ITCM 11 EM
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Interesting Comparison Given By
way on Effect of New Rates
ngton, ), Just w tat t n
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ncreased frelght mtes wil1 mean
to the average consumer in the way
of contributing to the cost of neees
sary articles of clothing and standard
food products Is shown in some inter¬
esting illustrations made in a state¬
ment issued by the Southern Railway
System.
The old rate on shoes from Boston to
Atlanta was $1.64 [ter 100 pounds, mak¬
ing the transportation charge of a pair
of shoes, which, with its share of the
packing weighs three pounds approxi¬
mately five cents. The new rate is
$2.18 1-2 per 100 pounds, making the
transportation charge of the same
pair of shoes approximately 6 2-3
cents. Everyone knows that the pair
of shoes which formerly sold for $7.00
is now selling around $15.00.
Shirts were shipped from New York
to New Orleans by freight for $1.54
per 100 pounds, making the transpor¬
tation charge on a five ounce shirt
about a half cent. The new rate is
$2.05 1-2 tier hundred pounds, making
the charge on the same five ounce
THREE
shirt about two-thirds of one cent. The
old $1.50 shirt is selling for $3.00 and
up.
Clothing manufactured In Chicago
could be shipped to Jacksonville for
$1.83 per hundred pounds or less tnan
11 cents for a suit which with its
share of the packing weighs six
pounds. The new rate is $3.38 1-2 per
hundred pounds or about 14 cents on
the six pounds ready-made which for¬
merly was offered for $30.00 but now
cannot be taken home for less than
$60.00,
Coming to articles of food, the rate
on fresh beef from Chicago to Bir¬
mingham was 82 cents per hundred
pounds, less than one cent per pound.
The new rate is $}.06 1-2 per hundred
pounds or slightly more than a cent
per pound. Beef that formerly sold
for twenty cents per pound has been
bringing 35 cents.
Sugar was shipped from New Or¬
leans to Greensboro, N. C., for 55
cents per 100 pounds or just about
half a cent per pound. The new rate
is 69 cents per hundred pounds, still
less than three-fourths of a cent per
pound. Amt sugar which formerly
sold for five cents per pound has been
selling above thirty cents per pound.
These illustrations which are of
artlcles and commodities, taken at
random, may be considered as fairly
representative of the addition to the
transportation cost of articles used in
the South which will result from the
increase in rates. Similar illustra
tions could be made on almost every
article used in the household, except
coal, which being shipped and sold by
the ton, will show a relatively higher
transportal ion cost in proportion to
its value.