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THE CLEVELAND COURIER
v T OL. XXII, No 48.1
One of the Largest Crowds Ever
Seen in Cleveland Attended the
Glorious Fourth Celebration
GOOD SPEAKERS DEALT WITH THE
SUBJECT SPLENDIDLY
We hardly know where to star:
In trying to give you a vivid imag¬
ination of a day that Cleveland, we
feel confident, will have a very dif¬
ficult task in placing on her history
that will equal the one where tiiat
enormous throne of jolly, good na
tured and well behaved people par¬
ticipated at the Cleveland baseball
park July 4th. This day will al¬
ways be remembered by Cleveland
and White county as the biggest
celebration ever held within our
borders. We are proud that the
citizens of the county did come and
join in celebrating that event in
American history that should be a
guiding star and a beacon light to
every man, woman and child who
is protected by the strong and
s urdy wings of the American
eagle. Our forefathers declared on
that day 145 years ago that they
believed in and wanted freedom,
and it is the duty of true Ameri¬
cans to see that th.it spirit and
those principles never die, and we
believe that the crowd who attend¬
ed the celebration at Cleveland on
the Fourth will see that those prin¬
ciples and ideals are kept perpetu¬
ally insofar as they are concerned,
and that is something that should
make any county be proud of. We
never have seen any crowd more
peaceful; the behavior was excep¬
tional.
*
Hon. A. H. Henderson, Jr., rep¬
resentative of White county, was
master of ceremonies; and did his
part well. He dealt briefly in com¬
memorating on the real meaning of
the celebration.
Col. C. II. Edwards made a short
address, pleading earnestly with
the people to drop all factionalism
and unite in one body in promoting
the progress, advancement and the
cause of humanity and the Ameri¬
can government, and told them
that the hope of the nation lies in
the American home, using all of
his force in making this point dis¬
tinctly understood.
You know it is hard to hold any
audience when they get a whiff of
some palatable food, and this one
was no exception, for the writer
knows; he was there too. So the
master of ceremonies gave orders in
disciplinary style for that splendid
audience to about face and forward
march and not to bait until they
found something that he .trusted
would give nourishment to their
empty reservoirs. But, speakipg
purely from a personal standpoint,
there was plenty of nourishment if
it had only lasted long enough, my
goodness alive ! Well, they would
sure enough had to summons some
extra medical aid if it had lasted
much longer, for the doctors would
have been overworked.
You realiza what a difficult
proposition it is to try to feed such
a crowd when you don’t know just
how many are coming. Well, that
is exacily what the poor little town
was up against, so now if you fail¬
ed to get your part you should
have told us how many to expect.
The barbeciier was a man of expe¬
rience, and we don’t say it boast¬
fully, but we believe it was the best
we ever ate, and we have had the
pleasure and .privilege of partaking
of that sumptuous dish in several
Middle and South Georgia towns,
where they claim and boast of
knowing how. If you don’t boost
your own town it is pretty hard to
get any one else to do it for you.
But friends, getting back to ear¬
nestness, that is the fact; it sure
was fine.
At 1 130 Cal, B. P. Gaillard, the
Devoted to the Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Interests of White County
best orator in North Georgia and
possibly in the State, didn’t go his
limit on the barbecue to be able to
tell the people something with all
of his eloquence, and you may rest
assured he did. We wish we had
space to quote his address in full,
for it was all rich food, but as
space is limited %ve can only give a
few extracts, which are worthy of
your consideration and thought.
The Colonel is a man who is
held in the highest esteem by our
citizens and who possesses such a
courteous and kind disposition that
he is loved by everybody. He is a
keen, sound, sober and deep think¬
er and never fails to give an audi¬
ence some ricli food for thought,
so you know that this crowd was
very attentive while he was speak¬
ing. He sounded the keynote of
American liberties and freedom in
this address. He recalled his hear¬
ers why the boys of 1776 desired to
see freedom and liberty proclaimed
in the newly settled land, and that
the proudest thing a man can boast
of is that he is a true American
and he dealt eloquently on that for
a few minutes. He said that this
government constructed society on
a new basis. He spoke fercefully
that each individual who claims the
American government as his gov
inent should give it his allegiance
and support and should not hesi¬
tate to denounce ady propaganda
that tends to be hurtful, and that if
you didn’J like this form of gov¬
ernment to go to Russia. He em¬
phasized clearly that it deserves
your best sacrifice and support and
you should not fall short in giving
that support. lie said that Presi¬
dent Harding is not the president
of the Republican party, but
whole American people. He
that when we criticised the
it is usual that we take our own
measure and not that of the high
officials. He askedjt very pointed
question, but one that any true
American can answer, which wns:
Is there a' man here who is not
proud of the American govern¬
ment? He told what our govern¬
ment had done for the Philippines,
Cuba and Porto Rica in civilizing,
Christianizing and uplifting them,
and that we have never sought con¬
quest directly of indirectly, and
our policy is never to bind with
chains, but to break them, and, he
said, as you become better informed
on the World War you will find
that we were in a very dangerous
and critical position and that our
support and aid did save civiliza¬
tion, and that Georgia lias stood,
and will continue to stand regard¬
less of what might have been ut¬
tered, to uphold every principle
and ideal that the Declaration of
Independence carries. lie, like a
majority of Georgians,with all their
power, resented the low-down,dirty
and nasty pamptilet which Gov.
Dorsey had spread, not only over
this state, but the nation at large.
He tald his audience that the peo¬
ple of Georgia were law-abiding
citizens and it was an unspeakable
shame that an executive would
stoop so low. Georgia, he said, is
not the only State that needs clean
ing up.
He told his hearers that he was
indeed glad to hear that White
county was going to vote a boad is¬
sue on July 2Q, for the construction
of roads and did trust that fhey
would vote for the issue. He said
where you find enlightenment you
will find good roads and that ev¬
erybody knew the value of good
roads and advancement was sure to
be where good roads were. He
said surely we didn’t desire to be
isolated here with all the counties
in the Ninth district .constructing
permanent roads and us not do any¬
thing. He said now was the time
and pleaded with them to accept it.
He said in a few years the rich
people would be flying and the
CLEVELAND, GEORGIA, JULY 8, 1921.
IS YOUR PASTURE
GOOD ENOUGH?
Does your pasture furnish enough
grazing for your stock from e;i irly
spring until late fall ot does it fail
for a time in the spring and the
fall? Can it be improved without
too much trouble and expense?
What grasses and clovors are
To answer these questions intel¬
ligently it will be well to review
the problem of permanent
for Georgia. The natural pasture
lands of this section are low, moist
lands. The reason for this is lo
land is more certain during the
spring and fall than high land.
Low land should therefore be the
basis of a pasture. The seepy
places between hills and the bot¬
toms along creeks and branches
the places suited for pastures
these places have not been
in the pasture they should be
in where it is possible to do so.
Another thing about pastures i
that poor lands make poor pasture,.
Quite often the poorest lands on
the place are wired in and turne
into pastures, but the amount 0
grazing from these places is alway
very small. When a good yield i
expected from a pasture the land;
suould be good land.
The best grasses and clovers
found in Georgia pastures are les
pedeza or wild summer clover and*
bermuda grass for the lulls; andj
Dallis grass, red top and white cloj
ver for the bottom lands. Lespel
deza comes in naturally after
eral years, but much more quickly
by seeding about ten pounds pe
acre during the spring. Dallis
grass comes from seed sown jn tl>
spring on hard land, and red top
and white clover from seed sown
in the fall.
Lespedeza is valuable in mid¬
summer. At this time of the year
it is growing well. During most
the spring it is too small for graz¬
ing, and during the fall it matures
early. While it lasts it is one of
the most valuable pasture crops we
have.
Bermuda grass is well knowu
and valued for its grazing, its abil¬
ity to stand drought and its long
life as a grazing plan'.
Dali s grass is new to many peo¬
ple. It is a bunchy, big-leaved
grass, earlier in the spring and lat¬
er in thfe fall than bermuda and
growing only on low land or rich
upland. On the low land it will
do better than bermuda when once
stasted. The seeds seein to like
hard land, but are slow in develop.
poor people would be using the
roads.
He was cheered several tunes
during his address.
Mr. G. W. Darden, of the State
Highway Department, made a
btief talk and told the people that
White county was the only county
in the Ninth district that wasn’t
receiving State aid for road con¬
struction. lie said that Mr. W.R.
Neal, State highway engineer, said
White county would receive as
much aid as any county in the
State if bonds are voted.
Now, our sporting friends would
think we are treating them rather
badly if we failed to give their
games some recognition, and we
regret that space prohibits us from
giving each man a write-up. White
Creek and Meldean played in the
morning five innings, which result¬
ed after a hard struggle in favor of
Meldean, the score being 13 to 6.
In t' e afternoon Cleveland and
Habersham waged a terrific battle
and the score stood 16 to 5 in favor
of Cleveland. After that game
Nacoochee and Meldean played the
best hit game of the day, and wlieq
these players decided to stop the
score stood 14 to 13 in favor of Na¬
coochee.
where there is already a good stand
of other grasses. Four or five
pounds per acre will give a good
start of this grass, and it will grad¬
ually spread over the ..lands suited
? t0 il -
Red top or herds grass likes wet
lands. It comes from very fine
teed that are not expensive. Two
flve P ounds P er acre sown in tbe
arl y fal1 wl11 S lve 11 S°ed start
lis grass. It should be sown on
amp or wet lands only. It gives
ery early spring grazing.
White clover is an early pasture
hint that will grow on most damp
nds after they are well inoculated
a pound or more of seed will get
t started, and wlie.e well adapted
it will spread over the land.
These five are the plants that do
in the permanent pasture of
The average farm. There are others
bur clover, vetch and orchard
ass ’ tliat can be used ’ but the y do
a SmalI J ,atch tban _’ n tbe
aln pasture. Now is the time to
egin thinking about improving
pastures or building new ones.
Call on me for other information
along this line.
Yours very truly,
R. B. Miller, County Agent
I can’t see at this time why any
man should objet to bonds being
voted to build a State highway
through White county if he will
study it closely. One reason why W 11 ^
we should vote bonds is the scarcity
of money and hard times. Accord
ing to what Mr. Morgan says,
about Sj to go per cent of the mon .
ey spent will be left in the county.
The information I have is that
that Union county has a contract
with the Highway Commission to
put a road through that county for
MONEY
What Is It Worth ?
To the man who hides it away somewhere in the
house, its worth is the same at the end of the
year as it was at the beginning-, plus a lot of
worry over knowing that it is perfectly safe.
To the man who puts it in the White County
\
Bank, it is worth what it was when you put it in
plus a good rate of interest earned. Now, isn’t
that some comfort and satisfaction for you to
know that you are helping with all your might,
both money and energy 2 in making your town and
county prosperous, for yourself and neighbors.
What is your money worth to you?
Put It In Our Bank
WHITE COUNTY BANK
'% Deposits Insured
£<
m
[PRICE $1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
$33,000, and understand the com¬
mission £is willing to -ign a con¬
tract to put one through White
for $50,000, and according to esti¬
mates the government puts up a
l'ttle over $11 to every $1 put up
by the county, and we understand
they have offered to do as good a
part by White county.
We are the only county in the
Ninth Congressional district not
building roads. Are all these
eighteen corin'ies wrong und only
White county right ?
We are losing about $10,000 auto
tax each year by not voting bonds.
This monay is being spent by other
counties to build roads where they
have bonds.
My opinion is that it would be
good for us to vote bonds if we did
not get a road because it would
give employment to a great many
people, with or without teams who
would otherwise be idle.
A man told me the other day
that if White ’county would pay
him 6 \c]o interest on the prodosed
bonds each yaar for thirty years he
would pay off the bonds without
any other cost to the county.
One of the highway committee¬
men said the other day when the
roads are completed the bond
money will be paid back to the
counties that helped to build them,
and we understand that is the law.
My opinion is that the man who
will derive the greatest benefit
from ail issue of bonds is the aver
age laboring man who is subject to
road duty.
If I can leave my children each
50 cents in debt and by so doing I
would benefit them $5.00 each, I
would do so. Wouldn’t you? That
is what road bonds mean to you.
A. M. DEAN.
the EAGLE NOW REPUB
LIC AN
According to published statement
in the Atlanta Journal of yesterday
evening, of which Dr. I. M. Mer
linjones is correspondent, hence
considered as authoritative, the
Gainesville Eagle has been re-or- .
ganized and henceforth its efforts
and energies will be devoted to the
Republican party. The Eagle is
one of the oldest papers in the
State and up to the last few weeks
has always been a Democratic pa¬
per. The new officers of the re¬
organized Eagle Oompany are as
follows: PresiJent, W. A. Car¬
lisle; Vice-President, A. S. Rich¬
ardson ; Secretary, E. A. Barn¬
hart : Treasurer, J. L- Harrison ;
Editor, I. M. Merlinjones—Games
villfe News.
PINK NEWS
Bennie Lewis died last Friday
and was buried at Mossy Creek
Saturday. The bereaved family
have the sympathy of the entire
community.
Mr. Archie Nix attended foot
washing at Tesnatee Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. M. M, Chastain
and children, of New Holland, vis¬
ited relatives here last week.
Farmers iff this section are busy
laying by corn.
AGENTS WANTED
Watkins Summer Drinks, Watkins Co
coanut Oil Shampoo and a big line of
over 1117 other Quality Products are big
sellers. We want a lady or gentleman
agent in Cleveland and other vacant
cities. * Write today for free sample and
particulars.
J. K. Watkins Co., (id Memphis, Tenn.