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4 .11 1 ,c>r! ever. Friday bv
J. E Kirby.
frier 7f>e. a Year.
. ,A. JAJL 27. 1922
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SCHOOL NOTICE.
The Compulsory School Law
nays that all children between
:he ap?.-s of 8 and 11 shall atteor
ciiui'l 120 -ia s each yeai. This
~: w is being openly violated iii
this county by more than one per
ton.
It is my duty as attendance of
ficcr ot L.tis county to see that
the children are put in school
and k p there.;
n those who are not sending
do not wish to be indicted they
must get their children in school
at once, for I shall be compelled
to present their names to the
next giand jury.
A, B. Toilison.
Bupt. and Attendance Officer.
LONGSTREET.
Mr. A S Elrod and daughter
Miss Inez, spent a few ilays of
last week with relatives at \Ya
e-ha.
The little infant of Mr. and
Mrs. Stancil was found dead in
bed early Sunday morning.
Mr. King, of Texas, is visiting
Mr. and Mrs. T V Armstrong.
Mr. Marshall Phillips and little
Kathryn Holbrook are reported
on the sick list
Mr. Marvin Cobb, wife and
daughter were visiting Mr. ano
Mrs. Pierce Cobb Sunday.
Mr. Lee Stow, wife and litti*
daughter are spending a fev
nays with Mr. and Mrs. Job.
l’a gett,
Mr. R G Holbrook visited Mr.
t,:ul Mrs. J L Holbreok Sunday,
The children of Mr. and Mrs
Street Hawkins gave Mrs. Haw
k.tis a surprise birth day dinner
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Henderson
spent Sunday night with Mr. and
Mrs. S A Holbrook.
Air. Judge Timms,wife and lit
tle sou, spent Snnday night with
Mr. and Mrs. J E Holbrook.
L. H.
COURT POSTPONED.
At Chambers, Jan. 21. 1922.
p or good and sufficient reasons
to me appearing, it fis ordered
ihat the February, 1922. term of
the Superior Court of Forsyth
( ouuty be postponed until the
Fuurih Monday in March, 1922,
I that it be convened at 10
'cl ck, A. M, on said last named
v, fi.r the trial of any and all
business, civil and criminal,pend
ir,g or that may be brought in
s-.,; ! court, All jurors drawn f r
the taid February term, parties
and witnesses, will be in attend
i.oce < n said Court when it con
veins in March as herein speci
al, except that in criminal cases
on indie.ments under bond, par
t'es and witnesses need not a'-
loii 1 until Wednesday of said
Cou; t. Let this order be pub
lished in the local papers and let
everybody interested take due
notice.
D. W. BLAIR,
Judge.
’ FROaT PROOF CABBAGE
PLANTS.
On our Georgia and Carolina
coast farms we have millions
ready for immediate shipment
E ulv Jersey, Charleston Wake
field, Flat Dutch, Prepaid mail
210, 60c; 400. sl-00; 1.000. *200;
Express 2000, $3.00; 0000, *6 25
Buncombe Cokards, Big Boston
Lettuce same price.
PARKER FARMS,
Atlanta, Ga,
The ChilJ's Eyes.
1 cr<? dtstaiice g iili.g treated ns *
p :uit —la mJvisml mr children snow
ing a iindenej to short btgnt. and tin
tx i'.dlent long sight ol the sailor an.
in. .1 welter In ltie open country l
gtten a proof ot the eificlcucy o
a> .eng-distance gazing
n'lf sufficient and did not depend upon,
oi' 'ire very much, what the great
world was doing. The result Is that
the agricultural group Is almost as
much at a disadvantage In dealing with
other economic groups as the Jay farm
er of the funny pages In the hands of
sleek urban confidence men, who sell
him acreage In Central I’urk or the
Chicago city hall. The leaders of the
farmers thoroughly understand this,
and they are Intelligently striving to
Integrate their Industry so that It will
he on an equal footing with other busi
nesses.
As an example of Integration, take
the steel Industry, In which the model
Is the United States Steel Corporation,
with Its Iron mines, Its coal mines, Its
lake and rail transportation, its ocean
vessels, Its by-product coke ovens, Its
blast furnaces, Its open hearth and
Bessemer furnaces. Its rolling mills, Its
tube mills and other manufacturing
processes that are carried to the high
est degree of finished production com
patible with the large trade It has
built up. All this Is generally conced
ed to be to the advantage of the con
sumer. Nor does the steel corporation
Inconsiderately dump Its products on
the market. On the contrary. It so
acts that It Is frequently a stabilizing
Influence, as Is often the case with oth
er large organizations. It Is master of
Its distribution as well as of its pro
duction. If prices are not satisfactory
the products are held buck or produc
tion Is reduced or suspended. It Is not
compelled to send a year’s work to the
market at one time and take whatever
It can get under such circumstances.
It has one selling policy nnd Its own
export department. Neither are the
grades and qualities of steel determin
ed at the caprice of the buyer, nor does
the latter hold the scales. In this sin
gle Integration of the steel corporation
Is represented about 40 per cent of the
steel production of America. The rest
is mostly In the hands of a few large
cothpanies. In ordinary times the
steel corporation, by example, stabilizes
all steel prices. If tills Is permissible
(It Is even desirable, because stable
and fair prices are essential to solid
and continued prosperity) why would
It be wrong for the farmers to utilize
central agencies that would have simi
lar effects on agricultural products?
Something like that Is whut they are
aiming at.
Some farmers favored by regional
compactness and contiguity, such as the
citrus-frult-ralsers of California, al
ready have found a way legally to
merge and sell their products Inte
grally and In accordance with seasonal
and local demand, thus Improving
their position and rendering the con
sumer a reliable service of ensured
quality, certain supply, and reasonable
nnd relatively steady prices. They
have not found it necessary to resort
to any special privilege, or to claim
any exemption under the anti trust
legislation of the state or nation. With
out removing local control, they have
built up a very efficient marketing
agency. The grain, cotton, and to
bacco farmers, and the producers of
hides and wool, because of their num
bers and the vastness of their regions,
and for other reasons, have found
Integration a more difficult task;
though there are now some thousands
of farmer's co-operative elevators,
warehouses, creameries, and other en
terprises of one sort and another, with
a turn-over of a billion dollers a year.
They are giving the farmers business
experience and training, and, so fur
as they go, they meet the need of
honest weighing and fair grading; but
they do not meet the requirements of
rationally adjusted marketing In any
large and fundamental way.
The next step, w-hich will be a pat
tern for other groups, Is now being
prepared by the graln-ralsers through
the establishment of sales media which
shall handle grain separately or col
lectively, as the Individual farmer may
elect. It Is this step—the plan of the
Committee of Seventeen —which has
created so much opposition and Is
thought by some to he In conflict with
the anti-trust luws. Though there Is
now before congress a measure de
signed to clear up doubt on this point,
the grain-producers are not relying on
any Immunity from anti-trust legisla
tion. They desire, and they are en
titled, to co-ordinate their efforts Just
as effectively as the large business In
terests of the country have done. In
connection with the selling organiza
tions the United States Grain Growers
Incorporated is drafting a scheme of
financing Instrumentalities nnd auxili
ary agencies which are Indispensable
to the successful utilization of modern
business methods.
It is essential that the farmers
should proceed gradually with these
plans, and aim to avoid the error of
scrapping the existing marketing ma
chinery, which has been so laboriously
built up by long experience, before
they have a tried and proved substi
tute or supplementary mechanism.
They must he careful not to become
enmeshed In their own reforms and
lose the perspective of their place In
the natloflal system. They must guard
against fanatical devotion to new doc
trines, and should seek articulation
with the general economic system
rather than Its reckless destruction as
It relates to them.
V
To take a tolerant nnd sympathetic
view of the farmers' strivings for bet
ter things is not to give a blanket
endorsement to any sped lie plan, and
still less to applaud the vagaries of
some of their lenders and groups.
Neither should we, on the other hand,
allow the froth of bitter agitation,
false economics, nnd mistaken radical
Ism to conceal the facts of the farm
ers’ disadvantages, and the practlcubll
lty of eliminating them by well-con
sldered measures. It may ho that the
farmers will nut show tin business
sagacity and develop the wise leader
ship to carry through sound plans; hut
•hat possibility does not Justify the
THE NORTH GEORGIAN. GEMMING. GEORGIA.
obstruction of their upward efforts.
We, us city people, see In high and
speculatively manipulated prices,
spoilage, waste, scarcity, the results
of defective distribution‘of farm prod
ucts. Should It not occur to us that
we have a common Interest with the
farmer In his attempts to attain a de
gree of efficiency In distribution cor
responding to his efficiency in produc
tion? Do not the recent fluctuations
In the May wheat option, apparently
unrelated to normal Interaction of
supply and demand, offer a timely
proof of the need of some such stabil
izing agency as the grain growers have
In contemplation?
It Is contended that, If their pro
posed organizations be perfected and
operated, the farmers will have in
their hands an instrument that will he
capable of dangerous abuse. We are
told that It will ha possible to pervert
It to arbitrary and oppressive prlce
flxlng from Its legitimate use of order
ing and stabilizing the flow of farm
products to the mnrket, to the mutual
benefit of producer and consumer. I
have no apprehensions on this point.
In the first place, a loose organiza
tion, such as any union of farmers
must he at best, cannot he so arbi
trarily and promptly controlled as a
great corporation. The one is a lum
bering democracy and the other an agile
autocracy. In the second place, with
all possible power of organization, the
farmers cannot succeed to any great
extent, or for any considerable length
of time, In fixing prices. The great
law of supply and demand works in
various and surprising ways, to the
undoing of the best laid plans that
attempt to foil it. In the third place,
their power will avail the farmers
nothing if it be abused. In our time
and country power is of value to its
possessor only so long as It Is not
abused. It is fair to say that I have
seen no signs In responsible quarters
of a disposition to dictate prices.
There seems, on the contrary, to be a
commonly beneficial purpose to realize
a stability that wtll giv' an orderly
and abundant flow of farm products
to the consumer and ensure reasonable
and dependable returns to the pro
ducer.
In view of the supreme importance
to the national well-being of a pros
perous and contented agricultural pop
ulation, we should be prepared to go
a long way in assisting the farmers to
get an equitable share of the wealth
they produce, through the inaugura
tion of reforms that will procure a
continuous and Increasing stream of
farm products. They are far from get
ting a fair share now. Considering
his capital and 'he long hours of labor
put In by the average farmer and his
family, he Is remunerated less than
any other occupational class, with the
possible excepti n of teachers, reli
gious and lay. Though we know that
the present general distress of the
farmers is exceptional and is linked
with the Inevitable economic readjust
ment following the war, it must he
remembered that, although represent
ing one-third of the industrial product
and half the total population of the
nation, the rural communities ordi
narily enjoy but a fifth to a quarter of
ttie not annual national gain. Notwith
standing the taste of prosperity that
the farmers had during the war, there
is today a lower standard of living
among the cotton farmers of the South
than in any other pursuit In the country.
In conclusion, it seems to me that the
fanners are chiefly striving for a gen
erally beneficial Integration of their
business, of the same kind and charac
ter that other business enjoys. If it
should be found on examination that
the attainment of this end requires
nn thods different from those which
other activities have followed for the
same purpose should we not sympa
thetically consider the plea for the
rigiit to co-operate, if only from our
own enlightened self Interest, in ob
taining an abundant and steady flow of
farm products?
In examining the agricultural situa
tlon with a view to its improvement,
we shall lie most helpful if we main
tain a detached and judicial viewpoint,
remembering that existing wrongs may
be chiefly an accident of unsymmetri
cal economic growth instead of a crea
tion of malevolent design and conspira
cy. We Americans are prone, as Pro
fessor David Friday well says ill his
admirable book, ‘‘Profits, Wages and
Prices,” to seek a “criminal Intent be
hind every difficult and undesirable eco
nomic situation.” I can positively as
sert from my contact with men of
large affairs, including bankers, that,
hs a whole, they are endeavoring to
fulfill as they see them the litigations
that go with their power. Preoccupied
with the grave problems and heavy
tasks of their own immediate affairs,
they have not turned their ilmughtful
personal attention or their construc
tive abilities to the deficiencies of agri
cultural business organization. Agri
culture, it may be said, suffers from
their preoccupation unil noghvt rather
than from any purposeful exploitation
by them. They ought now to begin to
respond to tile farmers' d.iilcultles,
which they must rea'lize are their own.
On the other hand, my contacts wilh
the farmers have filled me with respect
for them —for their sanity, their pa
tietiee, their balance. Within the 1i :
year, 'and particularly at a meeting
called by the Kansas State Hoard of
Agriculture and at another called by
the Committee of Seventeen, 1 have
met many of the leaders of the new
farm movement, and I testify In all
sincerity that they are endeavoring to
deal with their problems, not ns pro
motors of a narrow class interest, not
as exploiters of the hapless c nsumer,
not as merciless monopolists, hut as
lio'i t me t bent n the Improvement
of the common weal.
\\ o can and must me such ire
and such a cause half way. Their
business is our business- the nation’.--
business.
Tires & Tubes.
We have again reduced our prices on tires and tubes In l "\. , ‘ running
n thing in cur line at a big discount, We are not going out of bu ness or runmng
a close out sale, but just keeping up the prices to fit the conditions in *hich weaie
i ow undergoing. ,
We ask you to see us before you buy any tires, tubes, accessor a., p. rM o
any kind, on any car, We can save you money and giu )0U 1 “
Respectfully,
Curnraing Garage.
Phone 86—59
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SUWANEE ROUTE 2
Well, after being absent for
sometime, I’ll try again.
Sunt 1 , v was a very pretty day. •
Sunday school was very well
ttended at Sharon,
e nder/.tand that Mr. Cleo
3uice’& child has pneumonia.
Hope the little fellow will soon
. ecover.
Also we learn Mr. H W King’s
aby is very low.
Well, a? we don’t know much
visiting will again mention the
■vveet word of God, I guess the
readers wonder why I ha"e so
ueh to sav about the Bible. It
because I love jt above all
looks written, and feeling as I
do my responsibility to tell it to
the world, with the charge on me
is one ( f his servants, to study
k show yourself approved unto
Id, a workman that needeth
-t. be ashamed. Having been
o ore ! with the pastoral care of
hurclns it causes my heart to
urn within me as I study its
>!den pages with a prayerf 1
eart to find the hidden secrets
>f God’s revelation, seeing its
jre 't teachings and how men
md women ignore the great
-nth, and yet know that they
■u. t all live throogh eternity, it
p: .ne to w ut to v. arn the
and think on their ways for
:v, id■,-rful day of judgment
coming to all. So if ) our ed
r will sw and me some more pa
■•■ r I v id try t be more roguia
Flow Boy.
AY k BLAIR,
Attornejsat Lav,
MARIETTA. GEORGIA*
.VI) T. W ELCHFL
Attorney at Law,
U MING,' : GEORGIA
Office over F. & M. Bank.
r*. powi.fr JNo t dorse*
FOWLER* DORSEY,
Practie of Criminal Law,
GUM.MI.’At, CIA,
1)!’ M. I M. KELLY
dentist.
Office iip-taii* over Farmers and Me
chantß Bank
AtL a. v elding Cos.,
74 Ivy St., Atlanta, Ga.
H. J. Montgomery, Prop’r.
Prepare to weld anything that
can be welded. Use bo h elec
tric and autogenous. Prices very
reasonable and satifaction guar
teed.
Substitutes for Moss.
Moss is not used in Japan for
Oiling m. or tipholstering fur
niturc : imboo t .avlugs are used
for such i urpoi .<. and il Is perhaps
as cheap u a sails material cold
be Kap: !:. imp rted from Java, is
also used; It la clean, durable and
sanitary.
Corn Liquor and
Automobile Oil.
Quite a difference you will say, but in one respect
there is a similarity. A bar-keeper used to buy a barrel
of corn liquor and make two barrels out of it. ; m ® re "
finers blend, mix and compound their oils. The bar
keeper didn’t mix water with his liquor to make it bet
ter, neither does the refiner mix his oil to make it bettei,
both were mixed because there was more profit to t.ie
dealer, and because the buyer coulJ be fooled-
Treat your car right. Use nothing out a stiaight
run, high grade oil. Such is
Kwaliuroyl,
Sold by
Cumming Garage, Curaimng, Ga.
■ ,
, a , n fjve "grades
For Sale at your Deaior
ASK FOR THE YELLOW PENCIL WITH THE RED BAND
EAGLE MIKADO
eagle PENCIL COMPANY, NEW YOLK
ieorgia, Forsyth County.
i’o all whom it may concern:
J. A. Milford, administrator
ipon the estate of C. A. Milford
ate of said county deceased,!
a ing filed his petition for dis
barge, this is to cite all persons 1
oncerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any
hey can, against the granting!
if this discharge at the regular
; erm of the Court of Ordinary
of said Cos. to be held on the
first Monday in February 1922.
Given under my hand and of
ficial signature, this 9th day of
ar.uary, 1922.
W. J. Tidwell, Ordinary.
NOTICE
To Creditors of Farmers and
Merchants Bank, Gumming, L-a
In accordance with the pro
visions of Sections 13 and 14 of
Article 7 of the Banking Act
poroved August 16, 1919,y0u
arc notified to present your
claims, properly attested, on or
before ninety days from mis
date. Also depositors are here
by notified to bring their pass
books to be balanced and com
pared with the books of the
Bank, filing same with Mi. M-
W Webb, Liquidating Agent.
This the 11th day of January
1922 ' T. R. BENNETT, Su
perintendent of Banks.
FORFEITURE OF RECOGNIZANCE
Georgi h County:
■ 'i 1921. ,
Sip ■■■■■:• Court for :'.aid County,
November ''h. 1921.
T. V.'. I \ .DVICK. Governor, and
His Sucoe rs in Office, Etc.
•SA
GLEN BAGWELL, Principal
,1. T. MAGI'. ELL, Securities
and J. T. Bagyrell,
ORE!: AN(.: .
of you are hi
renuiod to he and appear personally
oi h At to. uey at the next tcim of
the 1 -.erior Court, to he held in and
fr>- said Cos ity. on the 3rd Monday
in February next, to show cause, if
any ye i have, v hy judgement should
not be oride.'cd against you for (.he
amount of your Recognizance, for
feited as aforesaid., as in default
th- .■<■(.f the Ct.u: t wili proceed as to
justice shall appertain.
Wi. ■ the ii norable D. \V. B air.
Jud; of raid C< art, this 4th day of
November 1021.
a. S. BROOKS,
Clerk Superior Court.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
All pe -ons having claims or demands
against the estate of T. \V. Orr late ot
said county dec’ll are hereby notified to
present the same to the undersigned
properly proven at once; and all tier
sen- indebted to said estate are required
to make immediate settlement This
Oct. lpl], 19 1.
VV. F, ORR,
Aihv.’r upon e 1 to o r T.W.Orr d< cd'
One Preclri:- Possession.
The gods may rob na of everythin®
except the heart to endurs —Georg*
Met eil it h