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TALKS “TURKEY” ABOUT
THE COAL SITUATION
George Otis Smith, director of the
United States Geolegical Survey,
whose data on the coal industry has
been the guide for government of
ficials handling the situation, declares
that there is “‘going to be a tremen
dous shortage in coal,”” and that he
believes “many househelders will
burn coke this winter.”
Director Smith says further: “The
situation is acute, and one can see
it along the Atlantic seaboard from
Boston to Washington. The tracks
are practically empty of coal cars.
The coal reserves are down probably
to 30,000,000 tons, or enough to last
from seven to ten weeks more.
“What coal producers and coal con
sumers alike need is reform of the
coal business rather than compromise
between parties to the controversy,”
says Director Smth. “In this reform
it is absolutely essential that the
mine workers should cooperate with
the mine operator. Too long have
the mine owners treated the coal
business as private privilege, and too
long have the labor leaders, with no
less monopolistic attitude, obstructed
every move for underground efficien
¢y and economy.
“The people’s coal costs too much
because of the mistaken idea that
mine owner and mine worker can
continue to fight over contracts and
rules. Cheaper coal and larger earn
ings will come when engineering is
emphasized more and bargining less.”
SMILIN' THROUGH—The biggest
picture ever made with Norma Tal
madge at the Strand Theatre, Friday
and Saturday, July 7 and 8. Admis
sion 20 and 30 cents.
CHECKING IMMIGRATION
Whatever may be thought of the
immigration restriction law as a mat
ter of public policy or private hard
ship, it must be acknowledged that
it has been effective. The number
of immigrants whe would have come
to the United States during the year
ending July 1 amounts to about 1,-
000,000. The new law can be credited
with the exclusion of 700,000 aliens
during the last year as the number
actually admitted has been about
300,000.
Under this law, the number of im
migrants admitted during one year
from any country is limited to 3 per
cent of the total number previously
admitted from that country, as ascer.
tained by the census. The quotas of
22 countries have been exhausted, ac
cording to the records of the Depart
ment of labor. As the end of the
year approached the mumber of al
iens held up at Ellis Island increased
in number, on account of the exhaus
tion of the quota of one
country after another. Every
foreigner who is barred by minor of
ficials at a port of entry has the
right of appeal to the Secretary of
Labor, who is required by law to
make a decision in each case. No
other official decision, not even the
commissioner general of immigra
tion, can make a final decision. The
cases, numbering thousands every
month, caused a jam at Ellis Island,
where thousands of persons were
packed in close quarters while the
Secreary of Labor and his assistant
spent days and nights passing upon
the appeals for admission.
On July 1 the gates will be open
again to immigrants from all coun.
tries, and under the 3 per cent law a
fresh quota will be available. For
six months or more immigrants from
many countries have been barred. The
tremendous rush that will follow the
renewal of admissions and the dis
comfort and crowding at immigrant
stations may be imagnied. An unpre
cedented rush for entry into the
United States is expected, an it will
continue until the filling of quotas
will shut the bars down to one coun
try after another.
MALE AND FEMALE FARMERS
IN UNITED STATES _
Of the 6,448,366 farmers in the
United States 6,186,813 are male and
261,553 (4.1 per cent) are female, ac
cording to one of the Wold Almanac
census summaries.
Of the owner-farmers 3,737,326
are males, 187,769 females; of the
managers 67,762 are male, 763 fe
male; of the tenant farmers 2,-
381,725 are male and 73,021 female.
Of the total farm acreage males
Operate 929,878,145 acres; females |
25,789,400 acres.
Of the 2,454,746 tenant farmers
(1920) 1,117,730 tilled on shares;
561,005 (in the South) were “crop.
pers”; 127,834 were on share-cash
basis; 480,027 were cash tenants and
104,987 (in the South) were stand
ing renters. Tenant farmers in
1910 numbered 2,354,676.
Native white farmers were 76.3
per cent. of all farmers in 1920 as
against 75 per cent. in 1910; foreign
born white farmers were 9 per cent.,
as against 10.5 per cent. in 1910;
colored farmers 14.7 per cent., as
against 14.5 per cent.
In New York State in 1920 for
eign-born white farmers were 13.3
per cent. of all farmers, as against
12.5 per cent in 1910.
SMILIN’ THROUGH—The biggest
picture ever made with Norma Tal.
madge at the Strand Theatre, Friday
and Saturday, July 7 and 8. Admis
sion 20 and 30 cents.
S i ol
WATERMELON SUPPLY
WILL BE LARGE
Commercial production of 60,102
cars of watermelons in the early pro
ducing states of Georgia, Florida,
South Carolina, Texas, Alabama, and
the southern district of California,
and Mississippit, is forecasted by the
United States Department of Agri.
culture. This compares with 51,481
cars last year, Acreage this year is
168,100 acres, compared with 117.-
700 acres in 1921.
LEARNING LANGUAGES AT
, HOME WITHOUT TEACHERS
’ An interesting statement has been
issued by the Berlitz School of Lan
'guages, which has hundreds of schools
'in all parts of the World. While this
'educational institution clings to its
!text that the best way to learn to
'speak and to be understood in a for
’eign language or to understand it
'when it is spoken by foreigners, is to
take a course of lessons through per
sonal instruction from experienced
native teachers, who use and make
vou speak their language only, with
out a word of English,yet it is held
to be entirely feasible and practical
'to learn a foreign language by corre
spondence courses.
For many years the skeptical have
’read alluring advertisements about
learning languages by correspond.-
ence, but most people have agreed
!with Pat’s observation that “I have
‘me doubts.’f This viewpoint must
iundergo a change of view of the
statement by the Berlitz people, who
have. been the world’s greatest au
thorities on languages for nearly half
a century. The statement issued by
the school at Washington says: “We
will supply text-books containing in
English 41l ‘necessary grammatical
and idiomatic explanations, and hav
ing the pronunciation indicated by
equivalent English sounds; we will
also give during twelve months, by
mail, explanations of all difficulties
the student may encounter during
4qtudies or when writing exercises
lin case the keys do not sufficie for
the purpose. The new department will
thus take the place of a teacher as
‘much as possible.” In addition to
the above positive statement is ad
ed that the new method of instruc
tion has finally been adopted by the
Berlitz schools after the question of
its feasibility has been tried out and
proved to be corrected.
| Getting Him Going
Father— (from upstairs)—*“Helen,
isn’t it time for the young man to
£o home?”
~ Young Man—“ Your father is a
crank.”
~ Father— (overhearing) — “Well,
when you don’t have a selft-starter a
crank comes in mighty handy.”—
Boston Transcript.
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Battery
Before
You Start
The best reason we
can give you for having
your battery looked to
before you start to tour
is that it’s just plain
common sense. A good
deal the same as taking
along a spare tire, or an
extra set of spark plugs,
or a couple of headlight
bulbs.
If it’s right we’ll say
so. If it isn’t we’ll do
what’s necessary to
bring it up to the mark.
Whether it's a Wil
lard or not it will be
given the benefit of
Willard Standards of
Battery Service.
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TION TO ELIZABETH CHURCH
t The Sunday School of the Eliza
beth Methodist church has made rap
id strides forwards. Last Sunday
the largest congregation that the
school has ever had was present. The
church was also crowded at both the
morning and evening services.
At the evening services five mem
bers of the Ku Klux Klan, in the
paraphernelia of the ordér, walked
down the aisle and gave the pastor
an envelope with $11.25 inclosed,
then they filed out as quietly as they
had come.
Next Sunday both services will be
in charge of Rev. W. B. Reeves, while
the regular pastor is conducting a re
vival at Tilman’s Chapel, near Smyr
na. The revival will start next Sat
urday and last for a week, the hours
of the services will be 10:30 in the
morning and 8:00 in the evening.
FEW ALIEN FARMERS IN THE
' SOUTH
Foreign-born farmers are must nu
merous in the North Central States,
although there are considerable num
bers in the Pacific States, and a rela
tively high proportion of the total
numbers of farmers in some of the
Kastern States are foreign-born
tfarmers in the South, except in
Texas.
~ The countries showing increases in
foreign-born farmers in the United
States between 1910 and 1920 were
Poland, with an increase of 10,124, or
140.1 per cent.; Hungary, with an
increase of 3,295, or 86.1 per cent.;
Italy, with 7,647, or 72 per cent.;
Russia, with 6,595, or 25.6 per cent.;
and Holland with 1,794, or 138 per
cent., says the World Alamanac in
one of its census summaries.
The largest relative decreases were
as follows: Ireland, 50.5 per cent.;
Wales, 39.7 per cent.; Germany, 36.6
per cent.; England, 33 per cent., and
Scotland, 25.6 per cent,
eM R e
Jogging His Memory
It was a thrilling story that Me-
Gregor had to tell.
- “I had abandoned all hope,” he
said. “As I sunk for the third time
my past life seemed to rise before me
in a series of grim, realastic pic
tures.”
A murmer of sympathy rolled
from the lips of listenin friends; but
just as McGregor was preparing to
resume, McTavish interrupted him
sharply and hopefully.
“And did you happen to notice,”
he asked, “a picture of me lending
you a fiver in the autumn of 1919?”
—The Continent.
SGROE L
One mystery in ancient history has
“een cleared up for us. The reason
things went wrong at Babel was be.
cause Lloyd George wasn’t there.—
Capper’s Weekly.
Serves the Farmer
You, the Farmer, are America’s oreatest
producer of wealth. But before you receive
your money for your crops many months
usually elapse. The crops must be SOwn,
must be fertilized, tilled, reaped and SOLD!
The bank is your friend because it helps
to cary you over the weeks and the months
between planting and profiting seasons. [t
permits you to purchase seed, fertilizer,
machinery, on credit. |
In times of stress it stands behind you
and helps you weather the storm.
Are YOU getting all the benefits which
the bank offers farmers?
Learn how we can help vou. Ask for
full information from our officials. They
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Marietta, Georgia
THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
‘co.onm\nva FARM MARKET
ING :
! In Minnesota, 78,314 farms ,of 43.9
per cent. of all farms in the State, re
ported co-operative marketing of
farm products in 1919. Both co-op
| erative elevators and co-operative
creameries are numerous in this
’state.
| Sales through farmers’ marketing
l’organizations in the United States in
1919 amounted to $721,983,639, or
lan average of $1,412 for each farm
‘reporting. The most important pro
| ducts marketed iin this way were
grain, milk, and cream, fruit and
truck crops, according to the World
Almanac’s census summary.
The number of farms in the Unit
ed States reporting co-operative pur
dhading .of farm supplies through
farmers’ organizations in 1919 was
329,449, or 5.1 per cent of all the
farms. In six States, co-operative
purchasing of farm supplies was re
ported by over 20,000 farms, as fol
lows: lowa, 32,530; Kansas, 32,321;
'Minnesota, 29,611 ; Nebraska, 27,335;
Wisconsin, 21,792, and Ohio, 21,250.
' Important items purchased coop
eratively were fertilizer, feed, binder
’twine, spraying materials, coal, crates
iboxes, ete.
I Life will never be comfortable for
the pédestrian until he invents some
kind of a disguise that will make him
'resemble a tack.—St. Joseph Press.
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THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1929
