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NEWS WANT
ADS PAY.
VOL. XXXVL, NO. 35.
NO FARMER CAN
PROSPER UNLESS HE
GROWS HIS OWN FOOD
Says H. M. Stanley, Commis
sioner of Commerce and Labor
DAYS OF ALL COTTON
CROP ARE OVER
Says Proper Care Should Be
Taken to Select Good
Breed of Hogs and
Cattle.
(By H. M. Stanley, commissioner of
commerce and labor).
A diversification of farming opera
tions and sound marketing facilities
are essential to success.
The days of the all-cotton crop are
over if they ever really prevailed.
Except once in a while no farmer
could ever make money planting cot
ton when he had to buy his corn and
meat from the west. On the other
hand, the farmer who raised all his
meat and corn and h : « other supplies
was not hurt as be ' others if
there was a poor cottu. or a
cheap price. ’“’L-
The big drain upon any farm"
ation is the supplies needed to run tn
farm, and when the cron crib and
smokehouse are both in the west,
farming is a precarious occupation at
best.
Upon every well regulated farm
there should be ample meat in the
raising, there should be a few beef
cattle and of course at least two good
milk cows, and a yard full of chickens,
turkeys, guineas and other fowls. Go
where you will and where you find a
farmer with a good pasture in which
can be found sleek cattle and fat hogs,
and a colt or two, you will find a
farmer who owes nothing at the bank,
or so little that the note can be easily
met in the fall.
On the other hand, view the broad
acres of cotton and the small fields of
corn and no cattle and no hogs, and
you will find a farmer badly in debt
and growing worse all of the time. It
simply can’t be done. “The cow, the
hog and the hen” as a slogan is of lit
tle value unless the subject becomes
a reality.
First of all the farmer must have
an attractive home. That does not
mean necessarily a very fine house.
Even if it is nothing but a cabin it
should be neatly painted, the yard
should be shaded, and flowers should
be growing here and there.
There should be a good vegetable
garden in which the house wife can
take proper pride.
Proper care should be taken to se
lect a good breed of hogs and a good
breed of cattle. A scrub cow costs as
much to feed as a Jersey. Likewise, a
razorback hog will eat just as much as
any standard breed and furnish not
one-fourth of the meat. Hog culture
was at one time a risky business on
account of the cholera. One need fear
little from cholera these days, as cho
lera serum promptly and efficiently
corrects this evil.
The destruction of cattle tick has
likewise made beef cattle and milk
cows immune from the serious illness
that formerly befell them.
Georgia has done well and made
wonderful progress in the last ten
years. Greater improvements can be
made. We have done well, but we
must do better. Every individual farm
must be self sustaining. When that
goal is reached a much better day will
dawn for Georgia.
The diversification of crops means
that farmers must raise enough food
stuff to supply the farm. Corn, hogs,
oats, potatoes, cane, all garden truck
needed, and various other items which
can be successfully utilized as food
for stock and man. There is on reason
why any farmer in Georgia should buy
food supplies, and unless he puts him
self in a position to feed himself, his
hands and his stock, he will find at
the end of the year that farming has
not been a success.
Practically everything grown any
where can be successfully raised in
Georgia, and in Georgia there can be
cultivated very many profitable things
that the farmers of the other sections
are unable to produce. In the farmers
of the west can make money growing
grain on land which costs from S2OO
to SSOO per acre, in all conscience the
Georgia farmer, who can grow any
thing, and whose land is very much
less valuable in price but just as pro
ductive in soil, ought to be the most
independent person on the face of the
earth.
Agriculture is the back bone of the
country. It is literally true that “the
farmer feeds us all,” but it is not al
ways the Georgia farmer who is do
ing this.
Georgia is still not self-sustaining..
We are still bringing in all kinds of
food products, and farming never,
will be profitable until the balance of
the ledger is in favor of the Georgia
farmer.
I know that theorizing accomplishes
nothing, but if all of us keep contin
ually at it the time may come when
Georgia will supply all her butter,
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COTTON LOAN READY
Steps are Taken to Organize
Corporations.
Conference Held Recently Was
Attended by More than 75
Farmers, Businessmen-
COLUMBIA, S. C., Oct. 22—The
federal intermediate credit banks are
prepared tQ advance $200,000,000 if
necessary, to meet the present cotton
price situation, Eugene Meyer, chair
man of President Coolidge’s cotton
committee, said upon his arrival here
Friday on a tour of the cotton belt.
In a statement issued before he
went into a conference with cotton
men and bankers of South Carolina,
Mr. Meyer warned the south not to
become panicky over the reported
prospects of a large government cot
ton report Monday. Regardless of
what the report may show, he declar
ed, “the storage and financial resour
ces of the country are ample to take
care of the surplus and market it at
fair prices, provided the people do not
get excited and panicky.”
“It is time for the south to stop
; ving away its cotton,” his statement
. “There is no justification in the
fatvS of the present situation to war
rant the fear which seems to have
seized farmers and merchants in the I
south about the figures that the gov
ernment will publish on Monday. No
one knows what this figure will be,
but even if, as is being currently pred
icted to private agencies, it were to;
show an increase of several hundred ■
thousand bales, the storage and fi-|
nancial resources of the country are'
ample to take care of the surplus, pro-1
vided the people do not get excited
and panicky.
“This statement, however, is pred
icted upon adequate machinery being
set up by southern business interests
to make available the funds of the
federal intermediate credit banks, and
it is also, of course, contingent upon'
definite steps being taken to divert a'
part of the acreage which was plant-1
ed in cotton during the past year to |
other crops.
“The federal intermediate credit
banks are able and willing to advance
through soundly organized finance
corporations under capable manage
ment all or any part of $200,000,000
on cotton, properly graded and ware
housed. This amount and these fa A
ities, in addition to the agencies nor- 1
mally used for marketing the crop,
are more than adequate to meet ev
ery requirement of the situation.”
Immediate steps to organize a cor
poration of about one million dollars
capital for the purpose of financing
the proposed movement to retire from
the market for a period of not less
than 20 months, or until the market
is stabilized, not less than 300,000
bales of South Carolina cotton will be
taken in conformity with resolutions
adopted at a statewide conference on
the cotton situation held the the Jef
ferson hotel here Friday morning.
It was agreed at the conference
that “in order to meet fully the pres
ent situation in the cotton trade in
South Carolina, it is necessary to
take off the market as rapidly as pos
sible for a period of not less than 20
months, or until the market is stab- i
ilized, not less than 300,000 bales of
the present crop yield.” The confer
ence was attended by approximately
75 farmers, bankers and other busi
ness men from throughout the state,
with Eugene Meyer, chairman of
President Coolidge’s cotton committee,
and A. C. Williams, federal farm loan
commissioner.
Notice of First Meeting of Creditors
In the District Court of the United
States of the Northern District
Os Georgia.
In the matter of B. F. Edwards,
bankrupt. In bankruptcy No. 3056.
To the creditors of B. F. Edwards of
Lyerly in the county of Chattooga and
district aforesaid, a bankrupt.
Notice is hereby given that on the
27th day of October 1926, the said B.
F. Edwards was duly adjudicated
bankrupt; and that the first meeting
of his creditors will be held at the
referee’s office in the city of Rome,
Ga., on the 6th day of November,
1926, at 10 o’clock, a.m., at which
time the said creditors may attend,
prove their claims, appoint a trustee,
examine the bankrupt, and transact
such other business as may properly
come before said meeting.
W. S. ROWELL
Referee in Bankruptcy.
ROME, Ga., October 27, 1926.
her own wheat, her own syrup, her
own supply of oats, her own hay, her
own beef cattle, her own hogs, eggs,
chickens, and turkeys, and when that
days comes it will be the farmer and
not the banker and the merchant who
will be the monied men of any com
munity.
Until that day comes the farmer
will not be as prosperous as he should
be. Agriculture is a great profession—
one of the noblest of them all. It
should likewise be just as remunera
tive as any other vocation.
SUD MERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1926.
VOTE FOR TAX EXEMPTION
TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 2ND
It Is Freely Predicted That the Exemption Will
Easily Carry 7 for Both the County and City.
Ordinary J. Edgar King, and Mayor Pless have each called
an election to be held by the county and by the city of Summer
ville on the same day, Tuesday. November 2, for the purpose of
determining whether or not the county and the city shall exempt
from taxation for the period of five years such property as is
provided in Article 7, Section 2, Paragrph 2-A, of the Constitu
tion of the State of Georgia. «
The election for the county was called upon the recommenda
tion of the grand jury of the superior court made at the Septem
ber term, and the city by consent and recommendation of the
city council.
It is freely predicted that the Exemptions will easily carry
for both the county and city. This is very important if we expect
to bring new industries to the county. Inducements must be
ready. Many cities and counties in the state have already passed
on this question and are advertising their advantages as induce
ments- Our time is here—so let’s get together and vote for the
best interests of our town and county.
This question is one of the most important that has confront
ed us in some time. Nothing is lost by exempting new industries
for a period of five years. After this time, the new industry will
be subject to taxation the same as another.
Textile, paper, pulp, clay and other industries in the North
and East are facing crucial times. They are steadily moving
most of their plants South and are establishing new ones in the
South. Chattooga county offers an ideal location for all or any
of these industries, and The News believes some of them can be
secured by intelligent work with the prospects and the tax
exemption that will put Summerville and Chattooga county on
an equal basis with other communities. Let’s carry the election
without opposition. The little revenue that might be lost from
exempting the industries from taxation will be more than made
back in the additional money turned loose in pay rolls and for
other purposes, and will contribute materially to the general
prosperity.
We are informed that the result of the tax exemption election
in this county next Tuesday may be the deciding factor as to
whether or not one of the county’s large textile concerns builds
a big addition to its plant.
VOTE FOE TAX EXEMPTION NEXT TUESDAY
MRS. T. S. BROWN DIED
SATURDAY MORNNIG
Funeral Services Held at M. E.
Chur.h Sunday Afternoon.
death of Mrs. T. S. Brown,
which occurred in the early hours
Saturday morning at her home on;
Union street, brings a wave of sad
ness over our community.
Her death followed a lingering ill
ness and was not unexpected. The fu
neral services were held from the M.
E. church Sunday afternoon at 2:30
o’clock, conducted by the pastor, Rev. i
G. P. Gary. Interment followed in [
the Summerville cemetery, Nuckolls!
& Kemp, undertakers, of LaFayette,
being in charge of the services.
Before her marriage she was Miss
Pearl Poole, of near Cedar Bluff,
Ala., and early in life joined the Bap
tist church. For several years she [
has been allied with the M. E. church 1
and has been a faithful member.
Besides her husband she is survived
by three children, Miss Louise, Albert
and John, to whom we extend our sin-'
cere sympathy.
LYERLY NEWS
Funeral services for Thomas J. Ri-j
ley, aged 76, who died Sunday at the;
home of his son at Trion, were con-i
ducted Monday afternoon from the
Lyerly Baptist church by Rev. W. Cj
Cordle, of Trion. Burial was in the!
Lyerly cemetery beside his wife who'
preceded him in death six months ago.
Surviving Mr. Riley are nine children
Mrs. W. M. Sentell, of Birmingham,;
Ala.; Mrs. George Marshall and Mil-!
lard Riley, of Trion; Mrs. Tom Par-'
I ham and Mrs. Beavers, of Lafayette;!
[Albert and Jesse Riley, of Texas;
Hugh Riley, of Henegar, Ala., and
Tom Riley, of Summerville, and a
number of grandchildren. One brother
Georgia Riley, of Chattanooga, also
survives.
Mrs. Bessie Kinnebrew was called
to Rome last Thursday on account of;
the illness of her daughter, Mrs. C.|
W. Allee.
Capt. and Mrs. J. N. Talliaferro
spent Friday in Rome.
Mr. and Mrs. Thad McKoy and
daughter, Miss Sara, of Douglasville,
spent the week-end with Mrs. McKoys
parents, Dr. and Mrs. B. F. Shamblin.
Rev. and Mrs. W. A. Overton, of
Jackson, Miss., and Mrs. M. C. Gil
bert, of Birmingham Ala., spent Wed
nesday with Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Rose.
W. M. Jones and son Porter, spent
a few days this week in Atlanta.
R. C. Ellenberg of Tifton, is visit
ing his father, M. E. Ellenberg.
Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Mosteller spent
Sunday at Berryton.
A. D. Snoots arrived last Thursday
from Painesville, 0., to join his fami
ly here, where they will again make
their home.
Mrs. John Doster, of Atlanta, spent
the week-end with her mother, Mrs.
Jennie Porter.
Misses Kathryn Powell and Inez
Doster, of Chattanooga spent the
; week-end here with home folks.
The Missionary society of the
' Methodist church met at the home of
Mrs. J. S. Cleghorn Monday afternoon.
Mrs. A. E. Doster, Jr., and Mrs.
ITEmmett Raulston, of Chattanooga,
[spent Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. A.
! E. Doster.
‘ Mr. and Mrs. King Bell and chil-
PROGRAM FOR FIFTH
SUNDAY MEETING
To be Held at the Trion Bap
tist Church, October 31.
9:45 a.m. Sunday school.
Geo. D. Espy, E. T. Megginson,
Mrs. G. L. Bagwell and other visi
tors teaching.
11:00 a.m. Christ Exalted in Sal
vation.—Rev. J. G. Hunt.
1:30 p.m. Christ exalted in Pre
servation. (keeping safe) —Rev. D. B.
Mallett.
2:15 p.m. Christ Exalted in His
Church.- Bev. J. E. Hudson.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
Chattooga County Association.
Program, Royal Theater
Thursday qnd Friday, Oct. 28 and
29, Buster Keaton, in “BATTLING
BUTLER,” with Sally O’Neil. Buster
wins the laugh championship of the
world in this greatest of all screen
comedies. A love story. A prize tight
story. A knock-out—and how. You
can’t stop laughing. Dan Cupid never
played a funnier prank on Buster than
when he put boxing gloves on and
made him fight to win a bride. Also a
Clyde Cook comedy.
Saturday, Oct. 30th, Art Acord in
[“THE SCRAPPIN’ KID,” a western
drama full of action and thrills. Also
Mack Sennett comedy.
Tuesday, Nov. 2, “WAR PAINT,”
with Col. Tim McCoy, Pauline Stark
and Karl Dane. A new type of west
ern. Feats of daring, amazing horse
manship stirring fights, plots and
counter-plots, hairbreaths escapes,
charming love-story—they’re all here.
Also comedy.
In the District Court of |he United
States for the Northern District
Os Georgia.
In re H. S. Palmour, bankrupt. In
bankruptcy No. 2717.
A petition for discharge having
been filed in conformity with lajv by
above-named bankrupt, and the court
having ordered that the hearing upon
said petition be had on Nov. 15, 1926,
at ten o’clock a. m., at the United
States district court room, in the city
of Rome, Georgia, notice is hereby
gven to all creditors and othep per
sons in interest to appear at said
time and place and show couse, if any
they have, why the prayer of the
bankrupt for discharge should not be
granted.
O. C. FULLER, Clerk,
J. C. PRINTUP, D. C.
idren, of Cave Spring, were guests of
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Busbin Sunday.
[ Mrs. Earl Roberts spent Saturday
i in Chattanooga.
i Mrs. Fannie Trotter has returned
! from a week’s visit in Atlanta.
K. P. Chambers, of Lafayette
, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. A. M.
White.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Pollock and Mr.
and Mrs. E. E. Martin spent Monday
in Chattanooga.
Miss Geneva Stephens has accept-
ROUNSAVILLE IS
DENIED NEW TRIAI
By the Georgia Supreme Court
Friday-
Must Die In Electric Chair for
Murder of His Step-
Child.
The Georgia supreme court last
Friday handed down a decision deny- ■
ing John Rounsaville a new trial.
Rounsaville was convicted about a
year ago of killing his step-child and
sentenced to die in the electric chair.
The case was appealed to the sup
reme court when a new trial was re
fused by the trial judge. The decision
of the supreme court Friday ends the
fight of the negro to excape paying
the death penalty.
Rounsaville is accused of killing his
step-child, an infant of but a few
months. The child had been buried and
the reports of possible violence began
to circulate afterwards. The baby was
disinterred and the child’s neck was
found to have been broken and other
injuries were discovered. Rounsaville
was then arrested and he later con
fessed to killing the child.
Judge Mattox will return to Sum
merville and resentence Rounsaville
as soon as the remittitur from the su
preme court confirming the decision
is received.
SUNDAY AT THE
METHODIST CHURCH
9:45 a.m. Sunday school, C. L.
Hale, superintendent.
3:30 p.m. Fourth Quarterly con
ference for the Summerville and Men
lo charge. Rev. S. A. Harris, presiding
7:30 p.m. Sermon by Rev. S. A.
Harris.
Members of the church are request
ed to be present;the public cordially
invited.
MENLO NEWS
By S. D. W.
Rev. G. P. Gary, of Sumemrville,
conducted chapel at the Menlo High
school Monday morning at 10:30.
Miss Lurene Wyatt spent the week
end In Trion.
The many friends of Mrs. Mag Al
oxand»'Y'wiil be grieved to hear of
her seR .is acident which happened
to her last Monday. While she was at
Mrs. S. R. Wyatt’s, she fell out of the
door and dislocated her right shoul
der, but she is improving nicely.
Lee Joiner, Misses Leola Joiner
and Lois Baker, of Chattanooga,
spent the week-end with Mr. and Misi
T. P. Baker.
Mrs. G. W. Welch and family spent
the week-end in Rome, guests in the]
home of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Brad
field.
Miss Lillian Laster spent the week
end in Rome.
Miss Mary Sue Joiner, of Chatta
nooga former student of Central High
school, has enrolled in the junior class
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Baker and
family spent Friday in Lafayette.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Wyatt and lit
tle daughter, June, are spending sev
eral days in Birmingham, Ala., guests
of Rev. L. D. i’atterson.
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Majors and fam
ily were the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Echols Sunday.
Mrs. Hattie King is spending this
week in Center, Ala.
Mrs. Hugh McGukin is spending
several days with friends here.
The second series of the spelling
matches among the five high schools
of the county was held last Thursday
at the Summerville High school au
ditorium. Menlo was represented by
Miss Leida Jean Cleckler, of the sen
ior class, Miss Helen Agnew, W. M.
Ransom of the junior and Miss Kath
ryn Ballard of the sophomore class.
The standing now is, Menlo in first
place, with a lead of two over Trion.
The nevt spelling match will be
held at Menlo high auditorium Wed
nesday evening. Show your loyalty to
old M. 11. S. by being present and
ready to boost old M. H. S.
“A Carnival.”
A Hallowe’en carnival, sponsored by
the P.-T. A will be held at the Welch
building next Saturday afternoon and
night, October 30, beginning at 2:30
and lasting through the afternoon and
then beginnig again at 7:30.
Save your money till then and
spend it for the good of the school.
Everybody come and bring someone
with you.
P.-T. A. Meeting
The P.-T. A. meeting held its reg
ular meeting at the school house last
Monday and oiscussed the matter of
fixing up the library, labrotory and
also drinking water.
SUNDAY AT THE MENLO
METHODIST CHURCH
10 a.m. Sunday school, Georgia W.
Agnew, superintendent.
11:10 a.m. Preaching by Rev. Hen
ry L. Byrd, former pastor.
6:15 p.m. Epworth league.
You are very cordially invited to
worship with us.
ed a position in Gadsden, Ala.
Miss Pearl Burney is visiting rela
tives in Waynesboro.
Miss Gertrude Tucker and Charlie
NEWS WANT
ADS PAY.
$1.50 A YEAR
NINE AMENDMENTS
TO DE VOTED ON IN
STATE NOVEMBER 2
Was Revealed at the State Ex
ecutive Department Thursday.
THREE ARE GENERAL;
OTHER SIX ARE LOCAL
| Amendment Providing for the
Collection of Birth, Death,
etc,, is Earnestly Sought
by Board of Ileal th.
Nine proposed amendments to the
constitution of the state of Georgia
will be voted on by the people of the
state on November 2, in the general
election, it was revealed at the state
executive department Thursday. That
department is now mailing official
ballots to the various counties, show
ing the proposed constituional amend
ments and the names of the democra
tic nominees for state offices.
Os the constitutional amendments
that will be voted on, three are gen
eral in their nature and application,
while the other six are local in ef
fect. One of the local issues affects
Fulton county only, authorizing tax
ation for educational purposes in
counties having cities of more than
200,000 population wholly or partly
within their boundaries.
Vital Statistics .7'
One of the amendments of state?
wide effect is that providing for the
colection and preservation of records
of birth, death, disease and health,
known as the vital statistics law. The
passage of this amendment is being
earnestly sought by the state board of
health and other health authorities.
Another general amendment would
increase the borrowing power of the
governor by $3,500,000 in order that
the executive may borrow the money
necessary to pay the teachers in the
common schools of the state, with
out compelling the annual discount
of school warrants to anticipate the
collection of taxes.
The third general amendment would
correct a defect in the state highway
act by empowering the highway board
to use the proceeds of special tax le
vies, such as the gasoline tax and
motor vehicle tag tax, for highway
construction and maintenance.
Local Amendments
The other amendments local in ef
fect would authorize Chatham county
to issue bonds to pave the road to
Tybee; Muscogee county to increase
i.'ie salary of superior court judges;
Crisp county to increase its bonded in
debtedness to develop hydro-electric
power; Mclntosh county to increase
; bonded indebtedness for education
al purposes; and Lownes county, Val
dosta, or both the county and city, to
increase their bonded indebtedness to
establish, maintain or endow an edu
cational institution of college rank.
While six of the nine proposed
amendments are local in effect, they
are to be voted on all over the state,
as they involve changes in the state
constitution. It is necessary that two
thirds of the voters approve the a
mendments to secure their passage.
To Send Car Provisions
To Hapeville Orphans Home
The churches composing the Chat
tooga association are getting up a car
of farm products and so on, to send
to the Baptist Orphans home, Hape
ville, Ga. The car will be at Trion,
November 16th; Summerville, Nov.
17th; and Lyerly Nov. 18th.
The executive committee has ap
pointed a committee of one to arrange
to have committees appointed in the
churches of each section of the asso
ciation. Chairman C. P Thompson, is
to look after Trion, New Antioch,
New Hope, North, and Spring Creek;
B. E. Neal, Summerville, South Sum
merville, Berryton and Four Mile; R.
H. Baker, Pleasant Grove, Unity,
Subligna and Bethlehem; W. J. Leath,
Menlo, Ohelsea, and Mt. Union.
It is expected that each church gets
busy and gladly assist in this good
work, which is contributing to a cause
that can but appeal to both saint and
sinners. He that giveth to the poor,
lendeth to the Lord. He, who minis
ters to the fatherless and motheless,
serveth the Lord. Out of the abun
dance of providential blessings of
crops of all kinds this year, lets hon
or the Lord by helping to feed the or
phans.
Let every church do its best.
NOTICE
TRION, Ga., Oct 25.—A1l members
of Marsh lodge, No. 86, I. O. 0. F.,
are urged to meet the the hall this
Friday evening at 7:15 o’clock.
Some very important business to
come before the lodge that demands
the presence of all members, and all
visiting brothers will be gladly wel
comed.
W. 11. FLOYD, N. G.
J. E. SAYLORS, Sec.
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j Caheely both of Berryton, were mar
j ried last Saturday by Squire J. M.
I Rose.