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The Summerville News
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Summerville, Ga., July 1, 1909
The senate lias done just what was
expected of it with regard to the tar
iff duty on hides—re-enacted the
Dingley tax. There was no reason
to expect the senate, to do otherwise
because there is no reason to expect
tlie senate to do anything that would
be of value to the great mass of hu
manity. Tin- senate has not in re
cent years given the slightest, indica
tion of being a body responsive to
th,- will of the public*. Free hides
would have been a boon to 999 out
of ,-very 1,000 inhabitants of the
United tSates. Il would have meant
cheaper harness for the farmer,
cheaper shoes for everybody. It
would have benefitted and stimulat
ed the manufacturers of harness, of
shoes, and of other leather products,
who, as it Is, are at the mercy of
the beef trust. Hut as against the
Interests of the trust the interests
of tlie multitude were as naught, and
Hie Dinglcy tax on hides is to stand.
For some time there lias been
talk about the manufacture of pa
per from the fiber of cotton stalks.
Now the thing is to bo put into ef
fect, and In Georgia. The first plant
for th<! manufacture of cotton stalk
paper Is to be set up at Cordele.
The contract for It has already been
awarded by the Southern Cotton
Pulp and Paper Company, and It is
hoped to have the plans ready for
operation by the middle of the coal
ing October. The mill will turn out
various kinds of paper. Should this
venture prove a success —and there
is every reason for thinking it will
be highly sticessful—there would
quickly follow other mills of like
character In various parts of the
cotton belt. It is not too much to
expect that 111 the course of a few
years the cotton stalks, hitherto a
waste product, will be a very valua
ble part of the crop, bringing add!
tlonal millions of dollars into the
pockets of the farmers.
(In the subject of (ho high cost
of food products, the Houston Post
says: "The high cost of food in
the United States is not due to
scarcity, but to other conditions that
might yield easily to sound econo
my and sane government. With rare
exceptions, an abundance Is produc
ed of all articles of necsesity which
grow in this country at all. bat there
is no incentive to greater production
because it so frequently happens
that the producers do not obtain
their share of the rewards. Our sys
tems of political and industrial econ
only are artificial. Government
transportation. transmutation and
distribution toll what the producer
makes to such a degree that his
profits are nominal. We are living
in the middleman's age and the mid
dieman has perfected the finest ma
chlnery for the exploitation of both
producer and consumer that the
world ever knew. The result is that
tens of thousands of producers are
not encouraged to extend their op
erations, because they have witness
ed that combinations are controlling
factors of the situation, in many In
stances. no matter whether produc
tion be abundant or scarce."
t
Richard H. Edmonds, editor of
the Manufacturers' Record, says that
since 1880 the value of farm products
in this section has increased from
$600,000,000 to 12.225.000.000. or an
increase of 237 per cent. In regard
to mill products he says the capital
invested in southern manufacture has
increased since 1880 from $257,000,-
000 to $2,100,000,000. and the value
of the output has increased
from $457,000,000 to $2,600,000,-
000. He predicts that within the
next fifty years the wealth of the
south will reach eighty billions.
It is said that paint is now is
Ing made from cotton seed. Thirty
years ago they were dumping seed
in the rivers as worthless. Now
tney make the best olive oil. but
ter. lard, chewing gum and paint of
them. Was there ever such an oth
er plant as cotton an aarth?—tai
dost* Tuns*
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Editor Summerville News:
Senate and House of Representa
tives met at 12 o,clock, • June 23rd,
in their separate halls. Senate was
called to order by Chas. Northern,
Secretary; prayer by Rev. Mr. Wad
kins. Order was issued by Chas.
Northern, secretary, for election of
President of Senate. Senator John
M. Slaton, of Atlanta, was elected
without opposition, Pre sldent
of senate, then President Sla
ton, issued orders for each separate
election of officers, of senate, till all
the minor officers were filled. Then
came the calling of names of sena
tors for choice of seats in Senate.
Four senators were first given choice
of seats in senate, Capt. John Y.
Wood, Judge Longley, W. T. Day,
and myself. We four took front
seats, my name being one of the
first given choice, and I gladly took
a front seat. When all the sena
tors were seated, resolutions was
passed to notify the House of Rep
resentatives or rather the represen
tatives of the House, that the sen
ate was ready for work.
The House of Representatives
organized without delay. Mr. Hold
er of Jackson county, is speaker of
house. I can’t keep up with the
work in House and only know of the
work of House by the resolutions
they send into the senate. No bills
have yet bad time to pass either
house for consideration. A number
of bills have had first reading in the
senate —mostly amendments to ex
isting laws.
Gov. Hoke Smith sent to senate
and house his written reasons for
suspension of 8. G. McLendon from
tlie railroad commission. It first
came up in the senate and left to a
vote whether the senate would con
sider the causes of suspension of
McLendon or whether It should be
left to a committee of five members
from the senate and seven members
from the house. A majority of the
senate voted for xiommitte, though
a number of us voted for the testi
mony to be heard by the entire sen
ate in open house, which I yet be
lieve . 1 don’t doubt Gov. Smith’s
correctness in dismissing McLendon,
but I wanted to hear in person the
evidence myself before I vote. The
house first passed resolution mak
ing the whole house the committee,
but today they reconsidered the res
olution and concurred with the sen
ate resolution to leave it with a
joint committee of both senate and
house. The committees have not
yet been named. Many persons tell
me that the governor did right in
suspension of McLendon, which I
don’t doubt, but this is a different
case to law making and 1 want to
hear testimony like a juryman before
I vote.
Gov. Brown was inaugurated at
12 o’clock Saturday. A large num
ber of people were here. The pres
ident of senate appointed Senators
Calloway, Morris and myself, three
senators, committee of senate, to
meet the house committee of five
members in governor’s office as
committee of inauguration, and es
cort the governors, both the retiring
governor and the incoming govern
or, up to the house of representatives
which we did. where Gov. Brown de
livered his inaugural address and
took the oath of office and received
from Governor Smith the great seal
of State. We returned to Govern
or's office, where Gov. Brown
spent an hour or two shaking hands
with his friends and we as committee
retired with thanks.
R. Y. RUDICIL.
COMPULSORY EDUCATION
A p-titlon will be presented to the
legislature to pass a bill for com
pulsory school attendance.
The provisions of the bill are that
every child between the age of 8
and 14 shall attend school at least
16 weeks each year, save in the fol
lowing cases:
1. When the child is physically
or mentally unfit
2. Where the child lives more than
two miles away from the nearest
s< nool.
3 Where for valid reasons which
must be specified, the child is fur
nished a written excuse signed by
the County School Commissioner
and at least one member of the
County Board of Education.
That any parent who violates
this law shall be judged guilty of a
misdemeanor and shall be punisha
ble by fine or imprisonment, one or
both.
A ton of pea vine hay has a fer
tilizing value of $lO. It also has a
feeding value of at least $lO per ton
—compared with wheat bran at its
ordinary price in the south it is
worth nearer $20 —and three-fourths
' of the manorial value can be return
ed to the soil after it is fed. This
: means that, at a low estimate, a
i ton of wall cured peavine hay is
i worth $17.50 to the farmer who has
stock to feed.
THE IUMMERVILLB NEW?, THV&B&AV, JULY 1. W 9,
ENGLISHMAN ON NEGROES
Mr. William Archer, dramatic critic
of the London Times, has an article
in McClure’s magazine for July on
the negro problem. He traveled in
the south last year and found no dif
ficulty in sharing the point of view
of the best people of this section. At
the outset he declares frankly that
the present indefinite relations of the
races cannot endure and he rejects
unhesitatingly every solution of the
problem except the one he himself
advocates. Before going further it
may be explained that he attributed
the misunderstanding of the southern
position on the part of most writers
to the confusion of the south, a white
man's land by nature, with semitrop
ical or tropical lands, like Jamaica,
where the white man either had no
chance or has deliberately abandoned
what chance he had to be the numer
ical majority.
Mr. Archer thinks that the
future welfare of both races demands
prudent steps towards the segrega
tion of the negroes as soon as pos
sible.
He does not mean deportation to
another continent, because all the
other continents are already parcled
out and the United States ought not
to undertake the policing of distant
regions. In short, he thinks that the
future great statesman of America
who will have the gratitude of his
country second only to Washington
and Lincoln, will take steps to setj
tie the negroes on lands in the Uni
ted States where the removal of
only a small number of whites, com
paratively speaking, would be re
quired, or in Mexico, with the con
stmt of Course of the Mexican gov
eminent. He has his eyes particu
larly on Lower California. But fail
ing that, he cites Mr. John Temple
Graves’ declaration that there are
700,000,000 acres of arable lands in
the west still unappropriated, part
of which could be set apart for the
negroes. The experiment would be
costly in money and would, of course,
require constitutional changes. Hiu
idea is that the negroes would greed
ily flock to the state opened to them
and the difficulty would be to stay
the outflow until arrangements could
be made for supplying their places
with white laborers. He would offer
lands only to the young, leav
ing the middle aged and the aged
undisturbed for the rest of their
lives and setting some distant period
say 25 years, at the end of which
removal could be made by force if
necessary by order of state govern
ors, whose people demandde this
step.—Chattanooga News.
Good Roads and Education
Among other good works that
good roads in Georgia are destined
to accomplish is the great work of
stimulating and advancing educa
tion by making the schools acces
sible to the boys and girls of the
remote spots in Georgia.
Good highways leading to good
schools means a world of develop
ment and opens the door of hope
and opportunity to its utmost lim
its.
No matter how excellent our
schools are the attendance is un
necessarily limited, if roads are dif
ficult and impassable, and on the
other hand, as good roads open up
our country districts and make them
free of access, education makes its
on« ard march and schools multiply
and grow larger in consequence. The
paramount importance of good roads
as an auxiliary to education is be
ing appreciated throughout the state,
and certainly in the various vistas
of progress and promise which the
good road movement opens, there
are none more bright and inspir
ing than this one. It means a new
life to the little children now isola
ted and cut off from educational ad
vantages by the remoteness of theii
country homes, and the difficulties
in reaching the schools, and it means
a new life, and a fuller lite also to
the state of Georgia, when these lit
tle folk mature to manhood and wom
an hood equipped with useful knowl
edge and trained and sharpened in
tellects. for the responsibilities of
citizenship. The value of good roads
as an ally of progress, and hand
maiden to mercantile and industrial
; supremacy, is getting world-wide rec-
I ognition. As an important and neces
i Siiry step toward, spreading of cult
ure and enlightenment, good roads
' are of even greater and more real
.lasting value. Let the enthusiasm
and zeal grow greater and deeper,
j The best is yet to come. —Augusta
Chronicle.
Everyone would be benefitted by
'taking Foleys Orino Laxative for
' stomach and liver trouble and habit
' ual constipation. It sweetens the
stomach and breath, gently stimu
lates the liver and regulates the bow
els and is much superior to pills and
ordinary laxatives. Why not try
Foley s Orino Laxative today. Sold
. by all di uniats.
SOUTH SUMMERVILLE,
H. A. Mathis moved Saturday to
his new 5-room residence on the
corm r of Union and Walnut streets.
He expects to complete the last de
tails of the work on the building this
week.
Mr. and Mrs. D. ,M. Parham were
visiting their son, Thomas, in Hay
wood Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. J. M. Williams has about re
covered from a recent spell of sick
ness.
John Cochran and wife of Dry Val
ley made a brief visit to relatives
nere Sunday afternoon.
The store building near the rail
road trestle, known as the Cash
property, was bought by Mr. John
League instead of Mr. John Blair,
as was stated in last week's issue
of the News. Mr. League will take
possession sometime soon and will
install an up-to-date line of groceries
and a small lot of dry goods. He
will be assisted in his mercantile du
ties by his nephew, Will Pullen, of
'lrion.
Mrs. R. W. Clark returned Sun
day from a several days’ visit to
relatives in and near Holland.
Misses Emma and Viola Bailey
spent Monday shopping in Rome.
Mrs. Barksdale of Lafayette is an
esteemed guest of her niece, Mrs. R.
D. Jones.
Mrs. M. A. McLeod has been in
disposed for several days. We wish
her a swift recovery.
W. J. Farrow of Rome was visit
ing relatives here the first of the
week.
Mrs. Smith and children of Chat
naoga are here on an extended visit
to the former’s brother, Mr. Robt.
McLeod.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Mahan of near
Raccoon spent Saturday night and
Sunday here with relatives.
Little Willie Denton is convalescing
Mr. West, who has been quite ill
of fever at the home of his sister,
Mrs. Alice Denton, is rapidly recov
ering.
Andrew Sentell a prominent young
gent of Broomtown, Ala., was here
Sunday.
Jesse Tucker was the guest o
J. H. Sewell and family Sunday.
Mr. W. H. Price and family left
Tuesday for Rome, where they will
reside in the future.
Constructive and Destructive Indus
tries.
Because it is purely destructive and
not constructive the liquor traffic, or
what is popularly called the bever
age business, has no rightful place
among the industries of the nation.
Whatever tends to build up a people
in mental, physical and moral strengt
to develop resources, to lengthen life,
to brighten and sweeten existence
such things when organized into great
industries have their reason and
their warrant. The transportation,
hearting and lightning facilities, the
manufacture of foods and clothing
and implements, the making of books
and dissemination of knowledge, the
learned professions and their multi
form variations are constructive, up
lifting and enriching life.
In sharp contrast to these is the
liquor traffic; it blights, it kills, it
minimizes mental, physical and moral
strength, it destroys natural re
sources, it shortens life, clouds and
embitters existence. It. is rank in
dividuality as opposed to the prin
ciple of universal good and the
brotherhood of man, for its only mo
tive is the accumulation of individu
al fortunes.
It is closely allied to every other
vice and leans upon them at the
same time that it holds them up. The
vagrant, the gambler, the white slave,
the prostitute, the base politi
cian, all use it as a tool and it uses
them. Each hopes to use the other
to their advantage without involving
themselves in danger, but so radical
ly destructive is the nature of evil
vice is constantly "wounded in the
house of its friends.” As it is now
being set upon by the righteous in
dignation of the whole civilized world
the liquor traffic is promising and
professing to divorce itself from its
companions in iniquity, but the quar
rel is only pretense and just for ap
pearances’ sake. Their natures are
too radically congenial to remain
long apart. —Sparta Ishmaelite.
President Taft seems to have ex
' perienced a remarkable change in his
views on the income tax in the short
! space of less than a year. In accept-
I ing the Republican nomination for
i the presidency, Mr. Taft said: "In
; my judgment an amendment to the
I constitution for an Income tax is not
! necessary. I believe that an income
I tax * * 4 can and should be. devis
• ed. which under the decisions of the
' supreme court will conform to the
constitution.” Yet President Taft is
now persuaded that a constitutional
amendment is necessary before an
income tax that will stand the test
of the supreme court can be enacted
No explanation of this striking
, change of attitude has been offered.
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ATLANTA. GEORGIA sci ''"’“Si
The Boy That Wins in tlie City.
Brawn is not of much account in
those activities of the city which the
country boy strikes out for when lie
takes the great leap. Nevertheless il
has generally been assumed that the
physical stamina of the boy reared i:
the open, with hard work for a heri
tage, makes bis venture cityward a
success. A discussion on this point
has been started through a recent re
mark to the boys of the New York city
college by its president, John Huston
Finley, who is himself a product of
country life. Mr. Finley holds that
tlie country boy does have the ad
vantage over the city lad in the strug
gle for the top. and that not because
of his purely physical equipment.
It is push, imagination and oouragc
that open tlie door of success to tlie
country boy in tlie city. He lias these
qualities in greater degree than the
city boy because bis soul lias never
fl it cramped and confined in the coun
try and his ignorance and illusion
really help him during apprenticeship
The city boy starts In with misgivings,
according to Professor Finley. The
top is beyond him. But the country
boy aims for the top. lie has always
bossed something, if only the sheep or
hens. His cutting loose from home is
a cast for tirtune. Nothing is too high
for him to aspire to, whereas, as a
rule, the city boy’s road is laid out for
him.
Good to Remember.
A church somewhere, no matter
where, prints on the back of little slips
—programs denoting the order of serv
ice—these words:
I will not worry.
I will not be afraid.
I will not give way to anger.
I will not yield to envy, jealousy or
hatred.
I will be kind to every man, woman
and child with whom I come in con
tact.
I will be cheerful and hopeful.
I will trust in God and bravely face
the future.
Read them again; they are worth
while. You might cut them out and
paste them in your bat, indeed. If you
will resolve to live by them—even for
one week—you will be a great deal
better for It. If you will get these
words Into your mind—good and strong
—you will find that living up to them
supplies you with all the religion, all
the philosophy, you need. You cannot
go wrong if you follow these precepts.
—Washington Herald.
BLACKBERRIES WANTED
..The..
INTER-VALLE CANNING CO.
Will Pay 12 cents Gallon for
Blackberries
All berries must be delivered at
Canning factory not later than
4 o.clock on same day picked.
Berries wanted only on Tues=
days, Thursdays and Saturdays.
INTER=VALLE CANNING CO.
Menlo. - - Ga.
Settled the Surgeon.
The surgeon of a military station
during the civil war was noted for
his flowery language, which never
failed even under the most trying
circumstances, lie was not popular,
and the officers treated him at times
with scant courtesy. On one occa
sion the colonel appropriated the
surgeon’s tent for a mess table
without the formality of stating his
intentions. The surgeon sent a
complaint to the general in com
mand, in which he said, “I have not
so much as a fly to interpose be
tween my head and the star decked
heavens above me.” This document
went through the usual routine and
was at last returned to the surgeon,
with the following indorsement:
“Colonel B. will cause a fly to inter
pose between the head of the coi>-
plainant and the star decked heav
ens above him as soon as possible.”
Beyond His Aid.
A woman who had a telephone in her
apartment called up the telephone com
pany and asked that the service be dis
continued. The man who took her mes
sage tried to be exceedingly polite.
"We are sorry to lose you,” he said.
“Are you dissatisfied with anything?”
“I am,” said the woman emphatic
ally.
“I am very sorry,” said the man.
“Perhaps we can help you. What Is It
you do not like?”
“Single blessedness,” said the wom
an. “I am going to be married tomor
row.”
“Ah,” said the polite clerk, “you are
past our aid. Goodby.”—New York Sun.
A FACT
BOUT THE “BLUES”
What is known as the “Blues”
i ■ seldom occasioned by actual exist
i r external conditions, but in the
i eat majority of cases by a dis
ordered LIVER.
THIS IS A FACT
which may be demonstra
ted by trying a course of
Tutt’sPills
1 hey controland regulate the LIVER.
They bring hope and bouyancy to the
wind. They b-ing health and elastic
ity to the body.
TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE.