About The McDuffie progress. (Thomson, Ga.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1909)
MCDUFFIE PROGES£ POBUBHBD KVKBY FhIDAY Subscription One Dollar Per Year. IRA C. FARMER, EdRor. I. E. Farmkr, ) n ... . L. M. Farmkr < Publishers. JKiered at the Postoffiee in Thom •on as second class matter. IV* Official Oroan op MoDofpi) County. AdvertlNftnicatK from rcsponHlbln partlm Will bit published until ordered out when the time in cot specified on the cop* and payment asseteri accordingly. Communteotlonii: for Individual bet.efl, or of a pemoaal character, charged for ai advartlaamratH. OMtuarlaa, the 11 rat hundred words fret charge. Each extra word, one cent per word, conli with copy. THOMSON, GA., DEC. 17 lPOf. BEAK HOPE UNAWARES. In last Sunday’s issue of the Atlanta Journal which went into more than sixty thousand South ern homos, discussing oditorially the present cottou situation, the following words wore used: “If is doubtful if cotton will ev*r b« much lower.” Of course, tho Jotirnnl did not intend this for “hoar dope,” bu* such it is, ns will appear more Tal ly a little later, when hand rods of “paid” articles will appear in tbs Southern papers explaining how it will be absolutely impossible for cotton to sell for less than thirteen or fourteen cents during the fall of 1910. These articles will appear from time to time when the land is being prepared in the spring and during the plant iug season. The object of such n campaign is obvious: Get a big eertage plant ed in cotton. That’s the first step in a bear campaign. Moreover, tho conclusion the Journal reaches ifc not correct. A man may safely bet a dollar against a doughnut that tho out* ton crop of 1910, will sell MUCH ower than that of 1909. Whew cotton was solliug at from four to five cents a pound, no one export ed to ever see it sell for ten oents again. Then later, when it was soiling at from fifteen to aevon- toon cents, the opinion was uni versal in the Bouth that it would 0«ver again go sc low as ten cents We all know what the result was in each instance. Now, the Unth of the matter is, that the prevent price of cotton is wot dne to good times, expansion of trade, or anything else but the interposition of Providsnco, If n normal crop had b<*en made in T«xae, Ixruisiann, Oklahoma and Arkansas, the bears would have routed the bulla on tho New York asttan exchange and took the crop at less than ten cents. And un- Jess ths same Providenco inter venes again, they will do it in the full of 1910, Dot the Southern newspapers quit this fool talk about high price cotton lor years to corns, and put the public on notice (which they can do truthfully) that eight to nine cents cotton may be expected at any time. WHAT THREE ACRES OF LANB CAN BO. Elsewhere in the Progress will be found a communication from Mr. E. B. Lazenby in which, at the request of the Progress, he gives the cost ef growing 146 bush els of corn on three acres of land this year. Tho fact, that so large an amount of corn can bo grown on three acres of 'and, will be newo to some, and the fact that the total cost of production, in cluding fertilizers, cultivation and gathering, did not exceed $50.77, will be news to many. Mr. Lazenby is a young farmer and employs tho modern method of growing corn, which sooner or later must take the place of the Old. It will take time to learn it and put it into goneral u*e. but when it is adopted, it will mean the moving of Southern cribs and smokehouses from the fields ot the West, and permanent prosper ity for this section. a non Fan chrrtm There were two small children—a boy of seven years and a girl of ive—brought into tb* Georgia railroad train at Augusta, on a cold •aw day in December, 1909, The woman who brought them was lerhups, twenty-five. She possessed brown hair, large lustrous brown fyes, and a complexion in which no hue of the rose appeared. Th< joy was a manly little fellow with clear brown eyes, brown hair and (ood features, while the little girl possessed flaxen hair and eyes of iieaven’s own blue. All were silent, all were solemn, and all showed ,he marks of pinching p:verty. o o o o First, the woman bought twenty cents worth of fruit, wnispered something to the children and gave it to them. Then she bought n <la«B pistol filled with candy and gave them that.. Then, when the :ondactor cried, “all aboard,” she took the last thirty-five cents from her purse, gave it to the boy, imprinted a kiss upon the eheek of each • luld and hurriedly lett tho ^ur. , o o o o Few words were spoken, yet every passenger in the car knew something cf the story. The bare feet cracked from cold, the thin, threadbare clothing, the flour sack on the scat thut contained their sarthly possessions, the forlorn look of the children ns they nestled dose together, told plainer than words that two waifs were adrift or, the vast ocean of life. o o o o A* the train moved out of the city of Augusta a wail was heard. Then again and again. There could be no mistake, for such wails could como onty from the helpless and hopeless. Two stately dames sitting to their right were discussing Violet Asquith and the poet Watson. They looked around from whence the wails came, «aw the children with tear-stained eyes clasped in each other’s embrace, and —continued to discuss Violet and the poet. o o o o But the tall lady with the good kind face was there. She wore neither costly raiment or jewels, but she had a heurt cf gold. Ten derly she pushed back the hair from the flushed faces, wiped the tears from their eyes, and in a few moments the little heads that for months lmd known no rest on tho breast of mother, nestled clos® to har in sleep. o o o o It was the same old story. Tho father, a locomotive fireman, had been ground to death under his engine. Too mother struggled a* best she could, first here, thou there, then to the cotton mills, and thsn a victim of tho “Great White Plgauo*” The aunt who brought thsm to tho train hud done hor best, but she, too, was going the road the mother went. o o o o 7o th® homo for orphans they wore going, and from every sec— tien of Georgia these tiny tots have sought shelter under the protect ing arms of those homos. At Decatur, Ilnpevillo, or Macon, they havo found a resting place, and upon the public they must rely for tt cir maintenance and support. As the Christmas holidays approach let us all think of them just a little. Compare their condition and position with that ol the lnvppy children you suo around you, end do a little something to make tho sky brighter and the road easier to travel. MILLS BASING PRICES ON EIGHTEEN CENTS COTTON. Mr. T. B. Lntnkiu. president of the Lumkin Co., u wholesale dry goods house of Atlanta, was in Thomson recently. A few days previous he had returned from New York whence ho went to contract for tho oott.ou goods for his firm for the fall of 1910. Bear in mind these contracts have to be made in advance, und tho goods will be made from the cotton of the present crop. When Mr. Lumkin went tw New York he felt a real sympathy for the great cotton manufacturers, lint he does not novr. He had heard so much of how they wore suffering from tho effects of high priced cotton he feared that their ruin was imminent, and expected to buy goods based on fifteen cents raw cotton. But ho didn’t. You can imagine lus surprise, after hearing the wail thut lias been going up, TO FIND THAT PRICES ARE BASED G.V EIGHTEEN CENTS COTTON. In other words, it is the same old story. Manchester nnd Fall River have lor years bought the Southern cotton crop when it wns forced on the market in the full, at eight or nine ceuts. When ti e crop was out of the hands of tho Southern peop'e, the price aould advance and their contracts be based on the advanced price. Please don t worry about Macara ard his crowd, and the Arkwright Club. They wont go into receivers hands just yet. Not as long as they can buy cotton at fifteen cents, and base their, contracts on cottou at eighteen cents. A Rare Cp- portunity la here offered to the SIGKM SUFFERING of our Community. Read Reflect & Act Carefully Thoroughly Accordingly VISITING G. H. NIXON G. 'V. WRIGHT Nixon $ Wright COTTON FACTORS. 855 REYNOLDS STEET, AUG USTA, GEORGIA. Personal and Undivided Attention Given to the Weighing and Selling of Cotton. Liberal Cash Advances Made on Consignments. ’ - - The First National Bank i of Thomson Georgia. Yonr money i. SAFER in tho Bunk Urn, any,-here I nving hills by CHECK is tlu* SIMPLEST; SAFEST 4\P MOST CONVENIENT method ; and your check become a receipt tor the debt it- pays. 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