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NEWS WANT
ADS PAY.
VOL. XXXVI., NO. 36.
STERCHI HAS PLAN
FOR USING COTTON OF
GLUTTED MARKET
According to W. M. Hicks, Man
ager, Atlanta Division.
MATTRESSES WILL LAST
MORE THAN A LIFETIME
He Says Out of the 110,000,000
People in the United States,
There Should Be 80,000,-
000 in Use.
ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. I.—A most
effective means of combating the
present cotton crisis and providing a
ready market for much of the sur
plus cotton produced this year would
be the wholesale manufacture and
purchase of felted cotton staple mat
tresses instead of mattresses stuffed
with linters and scrappings from the
seed after the cotton has been ginned,
according to W. M. Hicks, manager
of the Atlanta division of the Sterchi
Furniture & Carpet company, Satur
day.
And mattresses stuffed with the in
ferior quality are in a great majority
of American homes of all classes of
persons, he said.
In announcing his plans to place on
the market Monday mattresses made
of felted cotton staple of the finest
quality, a type which the manufac
turers and others dealing in the mat
tress line say will last more than a
lifetime, Mr. Hicks produced figures
to show what effective advantage
would accrue to the cotton situation
if the manufacturers, merchants and
purchasers the nation over would
adopt the policy.
“There are 110,000,000 inhabitants
in the United States," he said, “and,
conservatively speaking, there should
be at least 80,000,000 mattresses in
use. Say one-eighth of that number,
or 8,000,000, could be shown the sup
erior benefits of a cotton staple mat
tress and be impressed with the idea
that the present cotton situation af
forded perhaps the opportunity of a
lifetime to purchase a cotton staple
mattress. The present cotton surplus
is estimated at around 4,000,00 bales.
Ten mattresses of 50 pounds each
could be made from one bale. On that
basis a million bales of the cotton
surplus could be wiped out. z
“It is a plan that would require con
certed action. It should contain a na
tion-wide appeal to the manufact
urers ,to the merchants and to the
purchasers.
“The manufacturers and the mer
chants should be willing to sacrifice
part of their profits as a matter of |
patriotism. The purchasers should
know that they themselves primarily |
would be the benefactors although at
the same time do their part toward i
aiding the cotton crisis.”
The type of mattress Mr. Hicks
plans to offer the public in his stores:
is to be made entirely of cotton lay- (
ers which will stand 4 1-2 feet high.
Mr. Hicks will give a valuable prize
to the salesman on each of his floors
selling the largest number of these
mattresses during the next 60 days.
t
SOLD SACK FLOUR EVERY 4
MINUTES DURING YEAR 1925 ■
The well-known mercantile concern
Brittain Brothers company, with
stores at Lindale, Shannon and Sum
merville, has been selling the Cleve
land Milling company’s products,
“Gilt Edge,” “Peerless” and “Super
lative” flour so long that some of the
oldest inhabitants of Lindale cannot
recall when they have ever bought a
sack of any other kind of flour from
this store.
In speaking of the flour sales with
an official of the concern a r ew days
ago, we were amazed to learn that
during the year, 1925, that store s ild
a 24-pound sack of this flou; - every 1
minutes of a ten-hour day. They will
no doubt go considerably ahead of
this record in 1926.—Lindale corres
pondent, Rome News-Tribune.
Successful business man: One who
works himself to death so he won’t
be poor in his old age.
Everybody knows exactly how to
raise children except the people who
are raising them.
AUTO LICENSE REVENUE
INCREASES $380,611.43 IN
TEN-MON TH PERIOD
The revenue accruing to the state
of Georgia from the sale of automo
bile license tags was $380,611.43
greater up to November 1, 1926, than
for the corresponding period of 1926,
it was revealed at the office of the
secretary of state Monday. The total
receipts up to November 1 of this
year were $3,326,351.06, compared to
$2,980,484.27 up to the same date in
1925.
The revenue from this source this
year already has passed the receipts
for the entire vear 1925 by more than
$300,000. The total tag sales up to
December 31 last year were $3,010,-
000.
Tag sales for the month of Octo
ber were considerably less than had
been expected, the slump being attri
buted to the drop in the price of cot
ton. The total sales for the month
were $34,744.64, compared to sales of
$47,359.43 in October, 1925.
There are still two months for the
sale of 1926 tags, which are good un
til March 1, 1927. New tags for next
year are not sold until January 1, al
though applications are recevied aft
er December 15.
Smiuiuntnlk Mews
CIVIL LEGION TO
HOLD CONVENTION
At Phildelphia, Pa., November
15th and 16th.
Will Be Legion’s First Conven
tion and All Surviving War
Governors Will Attend.
The Civil Legion will hold its first
I convention November 15th and 16th,
at Philadelphia, and nearly all of the
surviving war governors will attend.
The Civil Legion is to those who
served their country without a uni
form, exactly what the American Le
; gion is to the former soldier and sail
j or.
i Members of the national and all
. state councils of defense, have given
I unqualified endorsement to the organ
| ization, which is now seeking from the
. congress of the United States a na
| tior "barter.
, j. few words in connection
with < C\ ''ill:
I Two ,V/ 's rushed to the national
i colors in world war crisis. Both
. service uncomplaingly. One
was made up he youth of Ameri
. ca. Theye were uniformed army.
• To preserve the . 'ries of a com-
• radeship that can ver be blotted
out they have formed the American
Legion.
The members of the war congress,
the war governors, the members of
the national and state councils of de
fense, officials of the selective service
system, the members of the American
Protective league, the Four Minute
men, members of reserve militia, and
other groups engaged in essential and
authorized war activities made up the
non-uniformed brigades. They “car
ried on.” They made the army in the
field possible. They were called upon
to exhibit untiring patience indefat
igable energy and moral courage of
t;he highest order.
The great civil army of the world
war is being organized into the Civil
Legion. They enlist in common cause
with the American Legion to make
for world peace, to preserve the mem
ories of those who served without the
uniform, to support constitutional
government and put down mob mad
ness and anarchy. It is the opinion of
a great many of the surviving war
governors that under the banner of
the Civil Legion should be recruited
every citizen who served the country,
in an authorized capacity, during the
war.
These two armies—the American
Legion and the Civfl Legion—should
wield a powerful influence for gonU 'n
our country. One duty before thcr J.s
to aid in the development of a natiqn
|al consciousness. Our outstanding
need is to weld our people, minds and
i hearts into a family with allegiance
to but one country and one flag.
! rev. j. w. McWhorter
HEADS WINDER BANK
I WINDER, Ga., Nov. 2.—The Geor
gia State Bank of Winder, which was
one of the banks in the Manley sys
tem and closed its doors when the
parent bank was closed during July,
| has had its assets cut loose-from the
I parent bank and has been reorganiz
| ed. It was opened for business as the
People’s Bank Saturday.
During the period of liquidation
and reorganizing, the bank was in the
hands of J. W. McWhorter, J. T. Per
ry and C. O. Maddox, who constitut
ed the liquidating committee appoint
ed by the court to wind up the affairs
, of the old bank. As the old bank was
organized only about a year ago, its
finances were in good shape and it
was a very easy matter to get them
cleared up. The Peoples Bank will be
i independent of any other bank, has
. new capital and starts off in excellent
; conditions. All of the new stock has
I been paid in, is owned by local people.
The officers are: J. W. McWhorter,
president; C. W. Parker, vice-presi-
• dent; C. O. Maddox, cashier; the di
. rectors are C. M Ferguson, C. O. Mad
dox, C. W. Parker, B. M. Edgar, J.
W. McWhorter, R. L. Rogers and C.
,-R. Herrin.
DR. A. F. DANIEL WILL
MOVE TO SUMMERVILLE,
>
1 Dr. A. F. Daniel, of Rome, was in
Summerville yesterday, and while here
arranged for his dental offices over the
Cleghorn store. Dr. Daniel statedl
while here that he expects to have as
up-to-date office as there is in north
’ Georgia. It is to be furnished with the
| most modern equipment and methods
sj of practice. X-ray examinations and
-1 extraction of teeth with gas.
1 Dr. Daniel was raised on a farm,
i and while but a boy he had an ambi
, tion to get an education, however, his
J father objected, but he dissented from
1 his father’s idea, and worked his way
s through college, taking the M. A. de-
> gree. He followed teaching for 15
i years, his last three years in Shorter
He moved to Rome 18 years
> ago, for the purpose of educating his
s children, most of them girls. This
i year completes the education of his
>! children and he says he desires to I
- move into a nice, quite town and
; spend the remainder of his years.
Summerville is always glad to have
1 i new comers, and we extend in her be-
- half, a hearty welcome to Dr. Daniel.
i
f, Supt. L. C. Turner and J. A. Pullen
overseer of the cotton mills, are in
e i Greenville, S. C., this week to attend
. the Southern Textile exposition being
t held in that city.
Nothing hurts your luck like think
ing it is poor.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1926.
TAX EXEMPTION CARRIES BY
OVERWHELMING MAJORITY
VOTE WAS 669 IN FAVOR OF TAX EXEMPTION AGAINST
40 IN OPPOSITION TO THE MEASURE.
By an overwhelming majori
ty, the voter of Summertille
and Chattooga county decided
in Tuesday’s election to allow
new industries which come in
to the county to be exempt from
taxation for a period of five
years. The final figures in the
county show that the vote was
669 in favor of tax exemption
against 40 in opposition to the
BEAVERS ELECTED
COUNTY TREASURER
Received a Majority of 85
Votes Over Nearest Opponent
In the special election held Tues
day for county treasurer to fill the
unexpired term of G. W. Sewell, de
ceased, J. A. Beavers was elected
by a majority of 85 votes over his
nearest opponent. Mr. Beavers re
ceived 388 votes, A. J. Eilenburg 303
and Altus Patterson 285.
The vote for treasurer by districts
was as follows:
td MU
ro p
< * 2
Districts £? 9“ §
« 5 S
Alpine _ . 61 8 ' 26
Coldwater 34 2 31
Dirtseller 4 11 2
Dirttown 22 0 61
Haywood 6 11
Lyerly 21 21 6
Seminole 8 4 0
Subligna • 21 11 3 ■
Summerville _ 143 183 113
Teloga 17 18 41
Trion 51 44 1211
TOTALS 388 303 285 ■
J. R. BALLENGER DIES
AT ARMUCHEE HOME
Dr. James B. Ballenger, a well
known physician and citizen of Floyd
county, died at his home at Armu
chee, near Crystal Springs, Sunday,
4:45 p.m., after a long illness.
He was 71 at his death. Dr. Ballen
ger was reared in Chattooga, his mo
ther was a sister of the late James
and George Ponder. He graduated
from Southern Medical college, Atlan
ta, Ga., 1885 and took post graduate
work in New York, 1890. He married
Miss Lynda Hansey, of Walker coun
ty, Feb. 15, 1892, who preceded him
in death about 13 years. Impressive
funeral service, conducted by Rev. J.
E. Hudson, were conducted at Ar
muchee Baptist church, Tuesday
at 10:30 a.m. Honorary pallbearers
were, Drs. W. J. Bryant and F. W.
Hall, of Summerville; Dr. Hill Ham
mond, of Lafayette; Dr. McKinney,
of Cave Springs; Dr. Clements, of
Subligna; Drs. Harbin, Wicker, Shaw,
McCord, Elmore and Watts, of Rome.
Active, J. - M. Lindsey, J. F. West, M.
Anderson, R. F. Selman, I. Echols,
and W. M. Hardin. He leaves three
children, Dr. W. D. Ballenger, of La
fayette; Mrs. P. M. Holtzendorf, of
Oklahoma; Miss Janie, of Armuchee.
He was a good citizen, physician and
Christian gentleman.
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sterdam, New York.
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We are showing this big production be
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ROYAL THEATRE
Thursday and Friday, November 4-5.
Admission, Adults 35c; Children, 20c.
measure..
In the city election there were 88
votes polled in favor of tax exemp
tion and only 4 against.
In deciding to exempt new indus
tries from taxation for a period of
five years Chattooga county has tak
en another forward step, and one that
will be of tremendous benefit to her.
This places us in position to offer in
ducements to textile, paper, pulp,
clay and other industries to locatb in
this county. Let’s go after some of
them.
LIGHT VOTE POLLED
I IN TUESDAY’S ELECTION
Only Nine Hundred and Eigh
ty-eight Votes Polled in County
A light vote was polled in the elec
‘ tion, 988 being the highest vote poll-
■ ed by any of the candidates. The vote
for the state house officers, judges
1 and solicitors ranged from 988 to $62.
i For judge of the superior court of the
Rome circuit, James Maddox received
972 votes. The vote for congress in
the county was, Tarver, 718; Coffee,
159. F'or state senator, T. J. Ander
son received 980 votes, and for rep
resentative B. H. Edmondson receiv
ed 985 votes.
All the constitutional amendments
carried in this county.
A man is expected to love his
jneighhbors as himself, but he has the
of selecting the neighbor
;, hood.
J American Education Week
I Under the joint auspices of the
American Legion and the National
.! Education association, every state in
the union will celebrate the week,
! November 7-13 as American Educa-
■ tion week. The state department of
Georgia is therefore asking superin-
I tendents and teachers of this state to
! secure the cooperation of the repre
sentatives of the American Legion
land local units of the Georgia Educa
. | tion association in carrying out a pro
| gram in their respective communities
. | that will bring about more intensive
interest in the work of the public
schools.
A special topic has been assigned
for each day of the week. Sunday,
' November 7, “For God and country
day.” Laws without the support of in
dividual are powerless.
Ministers of all denominations are
urged to preach a sermon on educa
tion, either morning or evening.
Monday. Constitutional rights and
patriotism day. Liberty is not the
right of one, but of all.
Tuesday. Rural school day. Pro
gressive civilization depends upon
progressive education.
Wednesday. Equal opportunity day.
Make democracy safe for the world
thru universal education.
Thursday. Armistice day. Peace
with honor and security.
Friday. Know your school day.
Courses of study and methods of in
struction are the business of teach-
I ers; but the ideals, aims and particu
larly the needs of education are the
■ business of every citizen.
Saturday. Community day. Civic
unity make an efficient community.
The span of life is increasing and
so is the upkeep.
J A man can he a fraud without being
arrested for it.
The reason some men leave home is
because they can’t pay the rent.
THE COTTON SITUATION
IN GEORGIAN. A. COBB
Editor, The Southern Ruralist,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Says Southeast Needs Better
Balanced Plan of Agricul
tural Production.
Any intelligent survey of agricul
tural conditions in the southeast indi
cates very clearly the need of a bet
ter balanced plan of agricultural pro
duction, as well as the fullest meas
ure of cooperation on the part of all
forces that can have any influence
whatever.
Admitting that we have grown
more cotton than can be sold at an
attractive price and that the abun
daunce of other crops: peaches and
watermelons notably, brought on a
lot of trouble and disappointment; it
is, neverless, mighty hard to starve
a section of death fortified as the
south is at the present time.
There are a few mighty important
facts that we should always keep in
mind if we are to properly measure
the true conditions among our peo
ple. The farm mortgage indebtedness
here in the south is on an average far
below that of any other comparable
section, drawing lightly upon agricul
tural income. Land values have been
held to sane levels. General indebted
ness has not increased ami with plen
ty of food and feed our farmers, even
with a disappointed cotton price, will
not have to go into debt as they would
have been forced to do were our debts
as great as they are in other sections
and were we less well provisioned.
Os course, there will be a readjust
ment of acreage and farm programs
generally. While we often do some
mighty foolish things such as plant
ing too many acres to cotton, such
foolish conduct is rarely followed by
repetition of the same thing. We are
realizing even that an abundance of
food and feed crops does not make up
the enormous deficit in meat, milk,
butter, lard and poultry products. We
are realizing also that the very mar
kets that are so extremely indifferent
about cotton right now are fine mar
kets for the products of the dairy
herd, the hog lot, and the poultry yard
Seeing all of this and realizing afresh
the folly of depending too largely up
on any single crop and of shipping all
of these commodities in from distant
states, suggests a lot that can be done
to avoid the troubles we have been
1 ,experiencing in the past few weeks.
> .deed, we have it in bur power to
make cotton a realy profitable crop if
we will just wield that power.
There will be a Tevival of interest
in hogs and dairy cows and poultry.
Along with this increased interest in
live stock the whole program of farm
ing will undergo the sort of ehang"
that is necessary to attain permanence
and prosperity in the industry. Pas
ture building, for instance, will occu
py much time in the future. Fences
will be put where there were never
fences before, and barns and all man
ner of housing equipment will claim
thought and attention. As the natural
result of the right sort of combina
tion our soils will be kept busy from
Christmas to Christmas, and the
building process will go on winter
and summer restoring to depleted ac
res some of the fertility that has been
taken out in these scores of years of
all-cotton farming. With our soils
saved and re-capitalized, and our glo
rious climatic conditions transformed
into a paying asset, as will be the
case when we change to the right
plan, we as an agricultural people
should attain a degree of progress un
equalled anywhere else even in Den
mark where there are no people
on the farm it is this time about equal
literacy, where the income of the man
on the farm is at this ime about equal
to that of the man in industry here,
where the highest wages in all his
tory are now being paid.
Fortunately, there is no pioneering
necessary. The practicability of all
that our folks should do has been pro
fitably demonstrated all over the
world. The best farmers, the most
prosperous farmers, and there are
many who are prospering in spite of
the low price of cotton, are all doing
what is here suggested. The most
prosperous communities in the cotton
belt today—take that around Stark
ville, Miss., for instance, and old cot
ton community which has been trans
formed into veritable beehive of ag-
I' rieultural activity and prosperity
are those that are following the type
of balanced farming that must even
tually be adopted everywhere.
And the markets are here for the
products of such a system. They are
here now for the millions of dollars
worth of those products that we have
failed to produce even in this year of
abundance. Industry is growing thru
out the south by leaps and bounds,
building markets for farm products as
it grows; unfortunately, products of
other section, as the situation stands
now. Morever, as we have pointed out
11 before, in two of our neighbors, Cuba
land Porta Rica, there are markets
I for countless millions of dollars worth
I! of everything else than cotton and
I tobacco. These are at*our very doors
I to serve us if we only put ourselves
I in position to be served.
II When we combine cotton growing
I with the production of these “othei
Il crops” we shall automatically pre
| vent such tragedies as we are not wit
I nessing. That is the only sensible waj
Ito cohtrol acreage, the only way t<
I capitalize these matchless natural ad
■ 'vantages that surround us on ever'
l| hand and that are ready to contribut
I so freely to the up-building of ou
• section.
NEWS WANT
ADS PAY.
FORM COMPANY
I FOR FINANCING
COTTON EXCESS
Bankers of Five States Plan for
$2,750,000 Capital.
COMMITTEE NAMED
TO OBTAIN PLEDGES
Cotton Growers to Be Loaned
9 Cents a Po u n d on All
Products Stored—Sals
bury President.
, MEM I’ll IS, Nov. I.—The Central
, Agricultural Finance corporation,
with a proposed capitalization of $2,-
I 750,000, was organized here today as
, a step in the plan to retire the sur
plus bales of this year’s cotton crop.
Bankers of parts of five states in
, the Memphis territory elected L. K.
Salsbury, Memphis, cotton grower
and banker, to head the company
! which is designated to provide a huge
, pool for lending to cotton growers in
an effort to store 600,000 bales for a
period of eighteen to twenty months.
Having named six vice-presidents, a
board of directors and an executive
committee, the conference authorized
! legal counsel to draw up necessary
papers and make application for a
charter.
A committee on subscription of
capital stock will proceed at once to
procure pledges from'bankers and fi
nancial institutions of the territory.
The conference, attended by approxi
mately 100 bankers ami planters of
west Tennessee, west Kentucky, north
Mississippi east Arkansas and south
ern Missouri, worked with determin
ed enthusiasm for several hours over
details of forming the relief corpor
ation.
Under the plan sponsored by Eu
gene Meyer, chairman of the federal
cotton commission, the stock of the
corporation will be used as a basis of
borrowing at ten to one from the in
termediate credit banks of the federal
farm loan board. Executions of the
, plan will make available $27,500,000
for the retirement pool.
Cotton owners who store their bales
will be loaned 9 cents a pound on
their products, giving warehouse re
ceipts for security.
COUNTY INSPECTION
OF SCHOOLS URGED
BY LAND NOV. 7-13
Governor Walker Has Issued a
Proclamation Urging Every
one to Observe the Week.
Inspection of schools in the various
counties by committees of citizens to
check up on recent improvements and
discover additional needs, has been
urged upon the people of Georgia by
Fort E. Land, state school superin
tendent, in connection with the obser
vance of American Education week,
November 7 to 13.
County school superintendents and
, boards of education were urged by
Superintendent Land to provide auto
mobiles where possible and escort
committees of citizens to the various
schools, especially the unsatisfactory
schools where inadequacies may be
pointed out, and to at least one con
solidated school, where improvements
may be viewed.
The current issue of Georgia State
Schools Items, sent to all the school
officials and teachers in the state, is
I almost entirely given over to plans
for the observance of American Edu
’ cation week. The issue contains a let
ter from Superintendent Land, a pro
clamation issued by Governor Walker,
• and tenative plans for the observance
of the week, day by day, with sugges-
' tions by national leaders. The sche
! dule follows:
Sunday For God ano country day.
' Monday—Constitutional rights and
patirotism day.
’ Tuesday Rural school day.
L Wednesday- Equal opportunity day
1 Thursday—Armistice day.
Friday Know your school day.
Saturday—Community day
The school authorities are asked to
appeal civic and patriotic dubs and
organizations to set aside their week-
3 ly luncheons or meetings for the dis
cussion of educational advancement,
and the schools are to hold special ex-
5 ercises throughout the week.
Governor Walker also has issued
" a proclamation recommending that
£l“all local officers, schools, individuals,
‘ clubs and organizations in Georgia
" observe the week by studying the lo-
! > cal, state and national problems in
4 education to the end that education
' may be advanced and that Georgia
4 1 may take rank where she ought to
* rank educationally among the states
a of the nation.
5 '
h
<1 SUNDAY AT THE
s
s MENLO METHODIST
10 a.m. Sunday school.
, r 11 a.m. Sermon.
6:15 p.m. Epworth league.
j.. 7 p.m. Song service and evening
worship.
y -
-° Workers’ council meets with Geo.
I- W. Agnew Friday, 7 p.m.
/ Civitan elub will meet today, Thurs
‘ day, at community house. All mem
ur bers urged to be present.
i B. W. FARRAR, Sec.
$1.50 A YEAR