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THE NORTH GEORGIAN,
Punished everv Friday bv
,1. E. Kirby.,
price 75c. h Year.
CUMMING, GA. FEB. 24, 1922
KmutcU June 10, 1902, ns ccom
eln„. ...nilrr nl the post office lit Cum
Act of Congress of Marcl
3, I Mil).
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PLEASANT VIEW.
The singing at Mr. Mell Lit
tie’s Sunday night was enjoyed
Li / all present.
The visitors at Mr. W W Goss’
Monday night till bed time were
Mr. E L Bagwell and family,
Mrs. M J Wade and son and lit
tie Edith Stripland.
There has been a lot of sick
ness in this part, but all are bet
ter,
Mr. 11 A Stripland and family,
of route 2 spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Stripland.
The singing at Mr. J E Bar
nett’s Sunday night was justfim
Several good singers from lit.
2 were here Sunday alternoor,
and sure did sing a few good
songs. Then they left for Haw
Creek. We hope they found more
singers over there than they die
In. re.
Are we as thankful for the
beautiful sunshine as we ought
to be?
If touare carrying a load o!
sin, why don’t you unload?
Mrs. Ollie Holbrooks spent Sun
day with her mother, Mrs. W b
Bagwell.
News is scarce this week, so 1
will close.
Bob White.
COTTON CAMPAIGN MAKE?
NEW START.
If this job is going to be done
—and it is ffoing to be done —it
is the farmer himself wbo has
got to do, declares J. E. Con
\.ycll, a prominent Hart county
farmer who is now in charge of
the Georgia cotton pooling cam
paign.
We cannot depend upon the
banker or the merchant or the
politician, or anybody else, tc do
it for us. This is a dirt farmer’s
project, and that is who the job
belongs to.
We are putting in some expe
rienced men who can show us
how the work was done in other
states, and they will help us
enormously, but they themselves
can’t put this program over the
t >p.
l-'ar reaching developments in
the alfairs ot the Georgia Cotton
Mowers’ Cooperative Associa
tion took place recently,and have
been announced by J. E.Conwell.
New forces are at work in the
campaign in Georgia. With all
the forces of the organization re
tained, the American Cotton
M owers’ Exchange has added to
the Georgia headquarters staff,
F. K. Shanks, as director of field
men. and Robin Hood as director
of publicity. These two men
were in charge of the cotton pool
ing campaign in Arkansas.
The new arrangement makes
it possible for Mr. A. A. Elmore,
director of organization, to get
closer to the farmers by working
in the field, Mr. Elmore is one
of the best versed men in Geor
gia on the subject of co-opera
tive marketing. Calls for his
assistance in various parts of the
state have been so many that an
extended program of speaking
engagements has been arranged
for him from now until the end
ot the campaign.
HIOST PROOF CABBAGE
PLANTS.
On our Georgia and Carolina
coast farms we have millions
ready for immediate shipment.
Early Jersey. Charleston Walt -
held. Flat Dutch, Prtpaid mail
200, 60c; 400. ifl.00: 1,000, *200;
Express 2000, !f3.00; 5000, *0 25
Buncombe Collards, Big Boston
Lettuce same price.
PARKER FARMS.
Atlanta, Ga,
SUGAR TARIFF NO
AID TO FARMERS
Consumers Taxed for Benefit ol
Factories, Not Beet Growers.
WOOL BENEFITS QUESTIONED
Fair Tariff League Head Says Beet*
Are Not Important American
Crop.
By H. E. MILES,
Chairman of the Fair Tariff League.
Sugar In the beet, the product of
the farm. Is given a protection of 0%
ad valorem In the Fordney Tariff Hill
now before Congress.
Refined sugar, the product of the
beet sugar factory, Is protected with
a specific rate equivalent to from 80%
to 100% ad valorem on the basis of
present prices.
For example, the Michigan sugar
factory receives u prohibitive protec
tion ngnlnst th Importation of the
product of the Canadian sugar factory,
hut the Michigan sugar beet farmer
receives practically no protection
against the Canadian sugar beet.
In view of this farmers are asking
If the 00% Increase In the tariff on
Cuban rnw sugar contained In' the
Fordney Tariff Hill Js an effort to pro
tect the farmer or an effort to pay a
further bonus to nn nlready sufficient
ly protected beet sugar Industry.
All farmers use sugar. They usually
buy it In 100 pound sacks. Every time
a farmer buys a sack of sugar he pays
$2.00 as the result of the tariff on
sugar. Half of tills goes to the Gov
ernment and half of It to the. beet
sugar manufacturer.
This Is true because we consume In
this country twice ns much sugar as
we make, but the price of sugar to the
farmer is the' Cuban price plus the
tariff. But the farmer pays this price
lh both the domestic sugar and the
foreign sugar. Therefore the farmer
pays half of this tax to the Govern
ment and half to the manufacturer of
beet sugar In this country.
Sugar Beets a Minor Product
The farmer might feel that he was
getting some benefit out of this If the
raising of sugar beets was actually an
Important American agricultural pur
suit. This, however, Is not the case.
The crop acreage of sugar beets for
1920 was 092,455. The crop acreage
for peanuts was 1.250,000, almost dou
ble the acreage devoted to the cultiva
tion of sugar beets.
The following table indicates the
Importance of the acreage devoted to
sugar beets as compared with certain
other crops:
Sugar beets 092,455
Buckwheat 739,000
Clover seed 843,000
Sweet potatoes... 1,042,000
Rice 1,091,800
Kve 1,103,000
Peanuts 1;250,000
Flaxseed 1,572,000
Tobacco 1,910,800
Irish potatoes.... 8,952,000
Barley 7,198,000
Cotton* 33,506,000
Oats 41,835,000
Hay 56,552,000
Wheat 72,308,000
Corn 100,072,000
Even those farmers who raise sugar
beets might properly ask in what way
their interests ar'e being protected by
an Increase in the duty on Cuban
sugar. It Is currently rumored that
the contract price paid the farmer for
sugar beets during the coming season
will be from $5.00 to $5.50 a ton.
The average pre-war price with the
tariff at lc was $5.57, approximately
the price that will he paid farmers
during tile coining season with the
tariff Increased 60%.
Very few farmers grow wool, hut all
farmers wear clothes. American grow n
wool, the product of the American
farm, Is one of the* chief rallying cries
of the high tariff exponent.
Fallacy of Wool “Protection”
Farmers are clad in mid-winter
mostly In cotton and shoddy, and yet
the woolen manufacturer today Is
given 45 cents a pound protection on
the entire weight of the farmers’
clothing on the basis that It is all wool.
He passes this additional cost on to
the farmer, but gives the wool grower
about one-third of tills 45 cents In In
creased price of wool.
A foreign piece of men's suiting
weighing eighteen ounces to the yard
Is 40% cotton, 30% wool and 30%
wool shoddy, costing on the present
rate of exchange $1.09 a yard. A com
parable domestic fabric costs $1.75.
Under the Fordney Tariff the duty
would be 24% of this $1.75, or 42C;
the weight duty at 30c a pound, 33%c,
and the landing charge 9'4c, making
ttlio foreign fabric cost here $1.95.
Under the present Emergency Tariff,
with its 45c a pound weight duty, the
fabric would cost $2.08 as against the
American price of $1.75.
The wool grower would get 15c pro
tection per pound Instead of the 45c
weight duty, the manufacturer keep
ing 30c of the weight duty, hut charg
ing the farmer who buys clothing the
full 45c.
The American farmer should be In
terested to find out wliy It Is that his
common agricultural implements man
ufactured in tlie United States can be
bought for less by the European farm
er than he lias to pay for them,
thunks to the protective tariff. For
Instance, he should inquire why he
has to pay $8.91 a dozen for a shovel
manufactured In this country while
the Identical shovel exported can be
bought in Europe for $7.50.
With these facts in mind it I* time
that the American farmer let himself
he heard in protest against a protec
tive tariff which most emphatically
does not give him a square deal.
THE NORTH GEOUGtAN*. ('LMMING. GEORGIA.
Daddy 5 Evening
tiijal
MARV GRAHAM. BOMNER.
aoernam r itwn m.,.*m, union ■
THE ARM CHAIR.
“I can’t help thinking,” said tha
Arm Chair, “that people are very lazy.
I could write a verse about It and my
verse would be like this:
“Folks are very lazy, the old arm chair
thinks so,
They're always resting, always sitting.
and never want to go.
They say how tiled they're feeling and
they lean against me too,
1 should really think tljey'd sometimes
have something else to do.”
“But they do a great deal •Ise,”
said the Desk Chair. “When tlicv sit
upon me they are always working.
They’re writing letters or paying bills
or doing lessons or something or oth
er. When they sit back In you they
aren't supposed to be working. They
are supposed to be resting.”
“It seems to tne they do a great
deal of it,” said the Arm Chair.
“I think people are lazy too,” said
the Couch. “I really agree with the
Arm Chair. “People are always lolling
about. They are always resting.”
"I agree with the Desk Chair,” said
the Straight Back Chair by the table.
“People come in turn and sit upon nte
and they are always working here at
the table In some way or other.”
“Of course," said the Table, “they’re
always working. They have their
sewing, their inending, their lessons,
their work to do. Sometimes they
read, of course, and while Beading
Isn’t work, it isn’t laziness.
“It’s something very pleasant th do,
very pleasant indeed! But they’re
not lazy.”
“I don’t think they’re lazy, either,”
said the Table Lamp. “I am lighted
every • evening and people gather
about me and they are all doing dif
ferent things and they’re not lazy tit
all.”
“I don’t think they’re lazy,” said
the Pen Holder.
“Neither do I,” said the Pencil. “I
don't think so at all.”
“I think they’re lazy,” said a Sofa
Cushion.
“So do I,” said another Sofa Cush
ion. “I most certainly think they
are!”
"I agree with the Arm Chair,” said
a Footstool, "I think people are lazy.”
"You are all talking very absurdly,”
said a little Brownie who came into
the room.
“Some of you think the people are
lazy and some of you don’t. But none
of you seem to realize that when the
“And So Are You.”
people are resting they aze resting
after work which they have d*ne, and
that they must rest too.
“It doesn’t mean that people are
lazy because they like you, Arm
Chair.
“It doesn’t mean that they are lazy
because they like you, Couch.
“It doesn’t mean that thgy are lazy
because they like either of you two
Sofa Cushions.
“It doesn't mean that they are lazy
because of any of you. They like to
hnve you help them rest, that is all.
“So you mustn’t start talking In
this way, for it’s not rigid at all.
“The Fire-Place doesn't think peo
ple are lazy because on the cool days
they gather about the Fire-Place.
“That shows that the Fire-Place has
good sense.
“The Fire likes to burn brightly for
the people and allows the Fire Fairies
to come and play in it anil have their
games and their frolics and their good
times and the people cun watch the
fairies playin*
“The people don’t ktrow just what
the fairies are doing, and whether the
Blue Flame Fairies are giving the hall
for the Red Flame Fairies or whether
It Is the other way around, hut they
know that they’re having a good time
and that the Fire and /the Fire-I’laj e
is glad to give them a good tune
and have them enjoy themselves.
“You’re getting to he a regular old
gossip, Couch. And so are you two
Sofa Cushions. And so are you, Arm
Chair. You are trying to make out
that people are lazy Just because you
want to talk and because you’ve never
done anything at all in your furniture
lives ami are spending your time idly
talking about people.
“You’re not supposed t do any
thing hard, but do not give way to
the had habit of talking about people
simply because you have nothing to
do. If you do th: . the Browtdes will
have to pome and change you Into
Kitchen Stoves and Raflialors so you
will have to do some real work."
“I’m sorry." said the Arm Chair, “I
really wasn't nicest all, for I started
the whole talk.”
Tires & Tubes.
.. = and tithes In fact we are selling eve-
We have again reduced our prices on tnes ana ’ . business or running
rything in our line at a big discount. We are not going oat rf
a close out sale, but just keeping up the prices to
now undergoing. . , > v of
We ask ydu to see us before you buy any tires, tubes,
any kind, on any car, We can save you money an give
i Respectfully,
Cumming Garage.
Phone 86-59
Notice.
To the Patrons of Cumming High
School:
In order to operate the school
we found it necessary to charge
an entrance fee of $2.50 per pu
pil each terra.
The entrance fee for the fall
term was paid with the exeption
of a few. About half of the en
trance fee ror the present term
is not paid. We will soon pub
lish a list of those who have paid
We hope the patrons will have
enough pride arid interest in their
school'to pay this fee at once.
There are a number of pledges
made in 1920 to make this a real
high school with eleven grades.
Some of these pledges were paid
in full, some in part and some
have never been paid.
We are in debt for desks, lab
oratory and other equipment and
other equipment and need these
pledges tb be paid. Will you not
do your duty towards your
school? *
Yours repectfully,
Trustees of Cumming
High School.
Atlanta Welding Cos.,
74 Ivy St., Atlanta, Ga.
H. J. Moatgomery, Prop’r.
Prepared to weld anything that
can be welded. Use both elec
tric and autogenous. Prices very
reasonable and satifaction guar
teed.
To the School Trustees of Forsyth
Oounty.
Numerous complaints are com
ing to the attention of the Super
intenderft and Board that sever
al of the teachers !are not doing
their duty.
The regulations specify that
teachers shall teach 6 hours per
day exclusive of play time,which
is to be 112 hours. Several of
the teachers are not keeping
good order in their schools. The
Board ' requests ihe Trustees of
the various Schools to report at
once any failure on the part of
teachers.
By order of the Board. This
February 7th, 1922.
A. B. Tolison,
Supt
CLAY A BLAlll,
Attorneys at La a - ,
MARIETTA. GEORGIAS
OVlll T WHELCIIKL.
'Attorney at Law,
CUMMING, : GEORGIA.
Office over F. & M. Bank.
p. FOWI.HR .IN"- T HORSEY
I'ONYLKK a IHfItSEY,
Practice of Criminal Law,
CAMMING, GA.
DU.iM. K. M K.HLLY
DENT IST,
Olive up-t;ir* over Farmers anil Mt
chauts Bank ,
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. some re
finers blend, mix and compound their oils. ihe bar
keeper didn’t mix water with his liquor to make it bet
ter, neither does the refiner mix his oil to make it.better;
both were mixed because there was more profit to the
dealer, and because the buyer could be fooled-
Treat your car right. Use nothing but a straight
run, high grade oil, Such is
•fc !r 1 1 ;
Kwakuroyl,
Sold by
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Cumming Garage, Cumming, Ga.
pecial
Bargains.
I
25c Dress Ginghams. 20c yard
25c Fleeced Drilling 15c ya and
Best Apron Ginghams 15c yard
20c Mathers Tick 15c yard
$1 35 Girls Union Suits, size 10 to 14. 75c
Outing 12 l-2c yard
3A Sheeting 12 l-2c yard
25c Curtain Scram 15c yard ,
20c Black and Tan Socks 10c pair
35c Stock Powders 25c
Lard 12 l-2c lb
Atlanta Market for barter. Eggs 30c: Butter 20c Ih
Corn 75c bushel: Peas $1.25 bushel
Price cut on all winter Shoes.
241 b sack of Flour SI.OO.
S. G. Cross.
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