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Sbe ClevelanD Courier,
Official Organ of White County Ga
Published Weekly at Cleveland Ga.
Jas. P. 1\ Davidson, Davidson, Editor,
Kntered at the Post ittice at Cleveland
Ga., as second class mail m-itier.
Subscription, * 1.50 per year
in advance
No science is more beautiful nor
more closely studied than astrono¬
my. It has the glory of being the
oldest of all the sciences. It was
by watching the spangled heavens
that man first got his conception of
an orderly universe, and from that
the idea of other things governed
by law. During the present time,
when meteorological happenings
are taking place that startle and
dumbfound the ordinary intellect,
when these men search the heavens
and predict the conditions one
year in advance. The Rev. John
B. Noyes, editor of the Rev. Irl R.
Hicks Almanac, predicted that
within forty-eight hours from the
24th of January, 1921, that an
earthquake would be felt some¬
where in the United States, and a
report from Pennsylvania staling
that the pictures iiad been shaken
from the walls of dwellings on the
Pennsylvania lines from Wasiiing
ton to New York, verifying this
statement in the almanac.
Any civilian, whether former,
soldier or not, can now wear army
clothing if they remove the insignia
and change the style of the article
or by dyeing the cloth. Marine
and sailors’ clothing come under
the same provision.
President-elect Harding consid¬
ers his inauguration in a strictly
business way and not a lot of social
functions, as has heretofore been
the custom. Isn’t it time for
sound thinking and a spirit to be
devoted strictly to business?
Cleveland citizens should begin
to make preparations to get their
coal next winter. There is no use
to wait until fall to get it, for you
may be faced with the same condi¬
tions you had to undergo last fall.
According to statistics there were
1,474 more victims in 1919 from
automobile accidents than from
railroad accidents. Total number
of deaths by automobiles was 7,969
and by railroads for the same year
6 . 495 - •
The wool producers of the “Tar
Heel” State have found a new way
«o dispose uf their wool since there
is no market for it, by manufactur¬
ing it snto blankets, and it is esti¬
mated that they net between 50 to
55 cents per pound, and in some
cases more.
White county is not an extensive
producer of cotton, but that is no
season why she should not fall in
line with the cou ities which are I
reducing their cotton acreage. The
farmers have lost niouey on cotton
production, and it would utterly be
lolly for them to again plant a
;arge acreage. We conscientiously
krelieve that the price of cotton will
yo up after the reorganization of
#-f business, in many industrial
r enters business has already begun
*0 open up,
Now is a good time for farmers
f o start to make fanning more sys
fcmatic by co-operative buying and
C iversified crops. If you only will
ou will never find yourself in such
a condition as you are facing to
d ly. For instance, take a little
lime and examine the diversified
farmer's condition at present and
Compare them with your own, and
We are sure you will find the man
who planted a diversity of crops is
fa, a much better condition.
We do not advocate that you
io not plant any cotton at all this
jroar, for we do not believe this to
b : wise policy, but you should at
l ast cut your acreage to 50 per
frmt of what you had in last year.
Some bankers have adopted plans
not to grant loans to those who do
Dot intend to reduce their acreage
50 per cent, and all huve rigidly
curtailed credit for cotton acreage.
j’lie far-seeing English cotton
manufacturers realize that a de¬
crease in acreage is certain, and
they look forward to very much
hi 8 lier P ric ‘ es in the future as the
inevitable outcome. The South is
justified from every business stand
point in cutting down its acreage
50 per cent and increasing to as
large as possible its acreage in food
stuffs and feed stuffs.
In times past when the fanners
have threatened to reduce their
acreage it turned out that some
farmers expecting that other peo¬
ple would decrease, they incseased
theirs. This method of unorganiz
ation and lack of co-operation will
find you calling for help again.
The South is not any more mor¬
ally bound to raise cotton without
making a decent living than the
textile manufacturers of the east
are bound to manufacture it with¬
out making a profit, and if they
are to be ruled by a trust, in duty
to their families they should reduce
their cotton acreage 50 per cent if
the textile mills are morrally bouud
to stop operating or buying. What
the difference? The only differ
ence is you are just a farmer. When
they talk about any moral responsi¬
bility of the South to raise cotton,
they know as little about morals in
a case, where it means not a decent
living, as the Germans did about
honor.
One among many reasons, but
perhaps the most important, why
Whi e county is not developing
more of her abundant resources is
because of a lack of co-operation
among ourselves (her citizens). The
outside world knows little or noth¬
ing of our undeveloped resources,
and never will so long as we keep
them from knowing it by onr in¬
difference to our own welfare and
the welfare of others.
No man makes a failure in life
without in some measure inflicting
a failure upon some of his fellow
men. Upon the other hand, no
tnan makes a success in life without
in a measure bringing prosperity to
some one else. Hence It is that
when we perforin an act that
creates additional employment or
increased production we have been
beneficial not alone to those direct¬
ly concerned, but to the population
of the entire community.
Whatever we may say or do to¬
ward the improvement of condi¬
tions surrounding any class of men
—even though that be a different
class to that which we belong—
means our improvement, because
when even one individual in a
community becomes more prosper¬
ous, his prosperity diffuses into the
life and actions of his fellows,
thereby producing a greater pros¬
perity to all.
Then if we would have White
county’s fields and forests made
more useful to mankind, we should
solicit the best ideas to be had. We
want tiie best minds of the nation
to pass judgment upon our possi¬
bilities, and ' here is but one way
* or them to know, and that is to tell
them. If we have faith in what
we have, we cun easily afford to
tell them, for it will pay to do it.
There is now in progress a move¬
ment to advertise Georgia, which
will have its opening March 15th.
White county should join in this
movement and be one of the sister
counties of the State, that we may
derive at least an equal share of the
treasures to come from such a wide
and detailed statement of the possi
bilities of Georgia spread broadcast
throughout the length and breadth
of the country,
To put White county on a par
with other counties we will be
asked to put up a certain amount
of money to defray a very small
part of the expense of giving this
information to those who may take
advantage of it.
If we don’t put up, the sooner
we shut up and crawl back in our
hole the better, for we dislike to
advertise any of our traits of pro¬
crastination.
Knockers are only in demand in
asylums ; boosters are welcome ev
erywbere. That is vvhy White
county citizens are so frequently
extended the hand of welcome
wherever they go.
THE CLEVELAND COURIER, CLEVELAND, GEORGIA.
We are in receipt of a letter from
Hon. F. H. Abbott, secretary
the Georgia association, asking
what would be a suitable date
a good speaker to come to Cleve¬
land to explain the plan of the ad¬
vertise Georgia campaign. We are
leaving this up to the people to de¬
cide on the date, but suggest that
you make it ts soon as possible.
There has been considerable talk
and comment in newspapers over
Judge Landis accepting a baseball
job and serving as federal judge,
and from all this Congressman
Welty, of Ohio, asks Congress to
impeach him. Isn’t it possible for
a man 10 serve as judge of a federal
court and hold a position of chief
arbiter of disputes arising from
baseball witnout any detriment to
either his public or private work?
We feel sure he would resign one
or the other if he felt that he could
not do concurrent justice to them
both. Just another one of those
investigations; that’s all.
Hon. Champ Clark, former
speaker of the house, has been se¬
riously ill with a complication of
diseases, dying Wednesday.
Mr. F. G. Mauney, cashier of
Clermont State Bank, spent Friday
night of last week with the mayor
of our town. Mr. Mauney is the
happiest man in Georgia, judging
from that smile he showed us, over
the arrival of a boy at his home,
whom he says is vice-president of
the bank.
Russell Brothers are busy this
we^k remodeling their store, paint¬
ing and adding new fixtures and
also making preparations to put in
soda fount.
IIow can you keep a good town
down? You just can’t do it. Some
people may say Cleveland isn't
growing, but we say it is. Within
the last week there has been added
to out new progressive business
house, Hefner & McGee, a barher
shop.
According to census reports,
there were 6,701 suicides last year,
and we suppose all had good ex¬
cuses, as they usually do.
There has Hew into our county
that old dreaded “flu” which
caused our jailer Deputy Power to
be “knocked out” for a day or so.
The Farmers & Merchants Bank
of Cleveland, Ga., held their an¬
nual stockholders’ meeting Febru¬
ary 24th. Tile stockholders were
well pleased with the success of
the bank during the past year.
The directors of the bank were in¬
structed to declare a dividend at
a later date. The following offi¬
cers and direc'ors were re-elected:
H. A. Jarrard, President; C. II.
Edwards and J. B. R. Barrett,
vice-presidents; W. L. Norton,
cashier; C. J. Meaders, J. M. Ad¬
ams, J. M. Glover, C. A. Skelton.
Mr. R. T. Kenimer returned
Sunday from a visit to his son-in
law, Judge Kimsey, at Cornelia.
Judge Kimsey has been very ill
with pneumonia, but is now much
improved, and the many friends of
the judge in Cleveland hope he may
soon recover his former strength
and health.
Mrs. J. W. Henderson was taken
dangerously ill with hemmorhages
if the lungs Monday night. She is
now better and it is hoped she will
continue to improve.
Mr. Henry Henderson, who it
was thought a few weeks ago could
scarcely recover, is now able to be
up and walking about the house a
little.
Low rates have been granted for
the State Sunday School Conven¬
tion, which will be held in Macon,
on April 19, 20, 21, recording to
information received from the
State Sunday School Association
headquarters in Atlanta.
Remember. Saturday is
the day to have your
photographs made. High
grade work and satisfac¬
tion guaranteed at
CLEVELAND STUDIO
OLD CHICKAMAGUA NEWS
Hardman Williams, of Nacoo
chee Valley, made a business trip
up this way one day last week.
Mrs. Grace Gurley has gone to
Grady hospital for treatment. We
hope she will soon recover.
We have a few cases of smallpox
around here, but those who have it
are quarantined to stop the dis¬
ease.
Ask Garnett Allen how he en¬
joyed h tnself Sunday night.
RIVERSIDE NEW’S
Mrs. Mintie Barrett, who has
been on a two weeks' stay with
relatives, has returned to her home
in Gainesville.
Lonzo Smith, from South Geor¬
gia, is up for a few days’ stay with
friends and relatives.
Rev. Fuller preached a good ser¬
mon at White Creek Saturday and
Sunday.
W. C. White gave the men and
boys a wood chopping last week,
which was a fine success.
Your correspondent met up with
Uncle Newt Autry who is one of
our best beloved citizens. He is
always full of cheer and good news
to tell us.
W'e were a little surprised to
read in the columns of The Courier
that so many names had been
taken off the subscription liat.
Well, here the facts: Times are
hard, we know, but on the other
hand -
a man cannot run a newspa¬
per without the help of the sub¬
scribers paying up once in a while.
So we as good citizens and neigh¬
bors should put our shoulders to
the wheel and help our good editor
who bus been so kind to us ns to
send his paper to us so long and
never send us a dun. The Scrip¬
ture says that he who does not work
shall not ea*.; so he who does not
pay for his paper shall not read it.
VALLEY GOSSIF.
On Monday of last week we had
quite a snow storm. During the
time tlie snow was falling a very
sad scene was enacted at Nacoo
cliee cemetery. The little daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Watson,
nearly two years old, was buried.
Only a few weeks since Mr. Mar¬
shal Allen, the great grandfather
of the little girl, died suddenly.
Ehose two facts bring to us very
vividly the fact that :
“There is a reaper whose name is
• death
And with his sickle keen
He gathers the bearded grain at a
breath,
And the flowers that grow be¬
tween.”
A few more such beautiful days
and much reeded work can be done
by the farmers. They are geiting
badly behind,
Mr. and Mrs. J. Lamb Johnson
of Gainesville, spent tlie week-end
visiting relatives in the valley.
Mr. Jesse Westmoreland has
done some good work on the roads
by repairing the bad places.
Peach trees will soon be in
bloom. The first will probably be
killed.
OAKES CHAPEL NEWS
The school at Oakes Chapel
closed last Thursday.
Ilarve Hefner and family spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Edgar
Stovall.
Mr. and Mrs. John Burke and
daughter wee visiting the sick last
Sunday, J- B. Freeman.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. McCollum
spent Sunday with tee Sprinkles
and family.
E. F. Smith and wife were vis¬
iting relatives in Cornelia Monday.
Several people from this part at¬
tended the entertainment at Amest
Creek Saturday night.
Mrs. Ccrrie Burke visited Mrs.
F. W. Shelnut and family Sunday.
Several from this part visited
Metcalf dam Sunday afternoon.
Blue Ridge Dots.
Mr. F. A. Jarrard, of Maysville,
and other members of the family
around Cleveland, were visiting
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L.
Jarrard, last Sunday.
Mr. L. A. Winkler has recently
bought and built and moved to bis
new home, good mountain home
for Ales, on the Hiram Turner old
place.
The little son of Mr. and Mrs.
Julius Lile departed this life Feb¬
ruary 23, and was buried at Helen
the 24th.
Mr. and Mr:. James Winkler
paid Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fisher
a visit down on 'lesnatee last Sun¬
day.
The farmers are making head¬
way preparing their land for a
crop.
Mr. and Mrs. Gus Jarrard, of
Cleveland, paid her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Louis Allison, last Sun¬
day.
SIIOAL CREEK NEWS
Preaching was postponed at Shoal
Creek Sunday on account of the
death of the pastor’s brother-in
law, Jack Stringer of Lumpkin.
Shoal Creek school has closed on
account of smallpox.
The singing at the home of Mr.
J. B. Simmonds was well attended
Sunday night.
Misses Edna and Cleo Morris
spent Saturday night with Miss
Fannie Mae Gillstrap.
Mrs. Edna Walker, after a few
days visit to her sister,has returned
to her home in South Carolina.
Mrs. Delia Hawkins is slowly
improving.
Mr. F. W. Tate, of Dahlonega,
was seen in tiiis part one day last
week.
I believe the first test of u truly
great man is his humility.—Ruskin
It is far better to light the candle
than to cqrse the darkness.
Condemn High Priced
Stock Foods
Prominent Hog Raiser Says
Prices Charged Are Unwar¬
ranted-Makes His Own
Hog Food, With
I’etter Results
“That he is oil through paying
fancy prices for stock foods and
hog remedies and that he is rais'ng
some of the best bogs ever placed
on the market” was the statement
made recently by E. A. Beckstead
♦veil known bog raiser and author¬
ity on five stock.
Mr. Beckstead’s hogs are the
envy of his neighbors, and have
“topped the market” for several
years in Iowa. He states that for
years lie bought high priced hog
foods and hog remedies, but he is
all through paying extravagant
prices for what he can make him¬
self. He states that what the hogs
need are minerals, and tells the se¬
cret of his wonderful success by
explaining that he takes about five
pounds of ordinary mineraline
(which is pure minerals and costs
only a couple of dollars) and mixes
same with enough bran or filler to!
make a hundred pounds. All hogs. I
and especially brood sows, require ;
minerals, as they keep them free
from worms and in the pink of
condition, and are essential to the
hog’s growth and a well balanced
ration. This inexpensive mixture
placed in a sheltered box where the
hogs can get it as they need it, will
produce far better results than any S
high priced so called stock foods.
Send two dollars to The Miner- ■
aline Chemical Co., 163S North j
Wells St., Chicago, 111 ., and they ;
will forward you by prepaid parce.
cost enough mineraline to make a
full hundred pounds. (Adv.) 1
8 11
$30.00weeklj- up; homework; experience
unneeeesary; everything furnished;
genii telf-addrcssed stamped envelope for
free particulars. Bon-Ton Candymakera
Co., Desk B, Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa.
MALE HELP WANTED
Get busy ; keep busy. Is your job un¬
safe? Is it permanent? Yuu want a
life-long business. You can get into
such a business, selling more than 137
Wa! kins products direct to farmers if you
own auto or team or can get one, if you
can give bond or personal securities. We
back you with big selling helps; 52 years
in business; 2O.MOO.0OO users of our prod¬
ucts. Write for information where you
can get territory. J. R. WATKINS CO.,
i)eDt. Ill, Winona, Minn.
ONTARIO THROnLED BY
GRASPING POUTIGIANS
Facts of Vital Interest to
Everybody in Georgia
Attempt to Build Similar
Despotic Political Ma¬
chine With Georgia
Money
The bulletins of the Municipal
League of Georgia devote much space
to telling the people of Georgia about
how cheaply water powers have been
developed in Ontario and about the
low rates charged for electric service
in Ontario, and how the farmers use
electric current to plow, wash clothes,
milk the cow and churn.
Of course the writer of these bulle¬
tins had to go a long distance from
home to find the conditions suitable
for a back-ground for his proposed
raid on the treasury of Georgia. On¬
tario is a great distance from Geor¬
Therefore, gia and few Georgians visit Ontario.
misstatements and half
truths could be uttered with more
safety.
Evidently there is nothing in the
results of ventures by cities in the
United Sta'cs in .Municipal Owner¬
ship of Public Utilities that appeals
to him. lie did for it while refer to
Seattle’s plunge into the street rail¬
way business, but when Seattle was
forced to<raise fares on its municipally
owned street car lines and beg the
street car company to return the
bonds paid the Street Car Company
and take back the system, he was com¬
pelled to return to Ontario and its
municipalities, now burdened with ap¬
palling debt be ausc of iheir endorse¬
ment of a venture in the Socialistic
doctrine of public ownership of pri¬
vate business.
The Truth About Ontario
Ontario is a long, long way from
could Georgia, and the of people complaints in Georgia of
not know tho
commercial bodies about the poor ser¬
vice r-mdered. nor of the political ma¬
chine, throttling the energies of the
province, nor of the $70,003,000.00 of
expenditures province for which eventually the public be taxed of
the must
in addition to raying ever increasing
deficiencies in operating the plants
and selling their products rt lee* than
cost, nor of the manipulations of rec¬
ords ne'er, ary to the keep thee deficien¬
cies hidden fr f 'ri people.
Therefore, let ns talk about On¬
tario. One cf the greatest walor
powers in the civilized world, Niaga¬
ra Falls, is at Ontario’s door. At
Niagara Falls more power can be de¬
veloped at less outlay than at any
other spot in North America. The
flow tf water ov t Niagara Falls
con'ir.rr I v-iiii <!.a f! w of the streams
of Georgia, makes tbs stream flow in
Georgia appear - Uicflaus. Tho
money necessary to F ii'.-l n dam which
in Geor.-.ia impounds '.he flow of one
small s rearn, would at Niagara Fulls
produce and four times dams, as much absolutely horse
power, strr.ve
necessary in Georgia to hold water
for dry seasons, are "nne essary at
Niagara Falls. In Georgia all the
real commercial water powers are in
the bill country, near the head waters
of the rivers, whe-e the volume of
wa‘..r i.i cf comparatively Georgia during small. The
stree ts dry peri¬
od; become small and the develop¬
ment ' f a lar r e and reliable quan'ity
skill of power and large requires exoenditures great engineering
of money.
Many daw ; must be built, some for
generating stations and some to store
large bodies cf water, fur use during
the dry season. If Georgia had a
Niagara Falls within one hundred
miles of Atlanta, the cost of develop¬
ing electric power would be greatly
decreased.
Destructive Policy
The Hydro-Electric Commission of
Ontario is the pattern after which
the Municipal League of Georgia is
drawn. The Ontario Commission has
been in existance about fourteen
years, and v.p to 1920 bad developed
less than 69,000 horse power, but in
the meantime, it had sandbagged thu
private companies which had develop¬
ed water powers in that territory and
forced them to accept whatever price
the Commission felt disposed to offer
for their properties, and had taken
over many of the privately owned
properties. Its policy has been de¬
structive, not constructive.
Of course, the Province of Ontario
and its municipalities put up the
money for these so-called purchases
and a proposed system of radial rail¬
ways, and have issued bonds to Taiso
money to the extent of something
over $70,000,000.00, and because of
this enormous debt the credit of the
Province of Ontario is impaired. The
Hydro-Electric Commission of On¬
tario is entangled in nolitics and its
Service has become so inadequate, in¬
efficient and unsatisfactory that com¬
plaints by commercial bodies are fre¬
quent. The political influence of the
Hydro-Electric Commission ia so for¬
midable that any effort to regulate it
%3 abortive.
This is exactly what Messrs. Key,
Eagan and Jackson want to bring
about in Georgia. They urish to
build a political machine~ which will
control Georgia and pave the way
for Socialism, and they want the pub¬
lic to furnish thsn the mans* with
*kieh to it,
