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fllie McDuffie Progress
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g. NORRIS, Editor and Propr.
Entered at the Postoffice at Thom-
B as Second-class Mail Matter.
Washington Letter.
By J. E. Jones.
Washington, D. C., June 5.
Congress Is “Running Itself.”
The bonus act, the tax measure,
_ and the Japanese exclusion provision
Obituaries, In Memorium, Cards of of the immigration law, seems to have
tanks, Etc., are charged for at rate settled all questions about Congress
$ cents per line, with a minimum "running itself.” Every once in a
at 25 cents.
THE AGRICULTURAL BULLETIN.
The Agricultural Department of
tfie Georgia Railroad, under the man
agement of Mr. E. S. Center, Jr., is
issuing a publication called the Agri
cultural Bulletin, the first issue of
which has reached this office.
The purposes of the publication
are to make known those things of
while, during the past twenty years.
Congress has broken away from the
guiding influence of the President to
do things in its own way. But at no
time has the Executive been so com
pletely defied as in recent occur
rences.
Political students regard it as pecu
liar that while Congress has evidently
been priding itself on "doing the
popular thing,” that this branch of
the Government has all the time been
Interest to farmers and business men lofli it8 own larit with the
people. On the other hand the Re-
£ T fts P ubIican members who have defied
5®.* , thfwailrnnrl It is wpll President Coolidge, are counting most
0«Sn tW tS rPor^a Railroad Zs on the Iatter ’ 8 Popularity with the
P u ,!' th0 . party .through th«
and it is these that the road wishes elections. "Consistency certainly
the people to become more familiar c*™? 4 ^ c,aim to be,n S a J ewel ,n
with. What a great prospect there tais lnsta nce.
is for farmers and others along the . fattening The Soil,
lines of the road if they know just _ A generation or more ago the
what the officials are trying to do fi zark mountains were famous for
for them. They want them to know tbe razor-backed hogs. The Arkan-
it and The Bulletin will be the 3as Traveler spun yarns and fidd ed
medium through which enlightenment tan ? s about them. Smithfield, Vir-
wiil come gima, is still noted because it markets
J hams secured from hogs that forage
for a living in peanut fields and
t.u e among the acorns. In the middle
west they used to work the oxen down
THE WATSON ELEMENT.
Much has been said about
"Watson element.” There was „ . . . , , ... , .
time when the “Watson element” was ak,n and hones in the Winter log-
very much in evidence, but now this ^ operations, and then sell the
element is dead as a working factor, uoor animals for beef in the Spring.
It died when the lamented Senator Thcst: Practices have changed and
was laid away in his grave in the ev ? r y, stock-raiser now fattens his
Thomson cemetegy. Of course his au’uials for market, and the proof is
following remember him and are abu fi n . daat that no ofchcr method 13
ready to shed tears over his memory, profitable. ...
but they have found none other to t But , while American stock-raisers
take his place. have learned their lesson, as much
There have been many who have cannot be said of the practices in
tried to wear the Watson mantle since American agriculture. In a recent
the Senator laid it aside. Some have 8ene8 experiments in the sugar
tried to usurp his style of writing, baet fields of Michigan, where nitrate
others have tried to coax attention of °* * S0( ' a was used in fertilization, the
his following, but all to no avail, ground was prepared to the some-,
When Mr. Watson died he cnrried his '” bat lavl3b extent of drilling in with
personality with him and there is ,be , 8eaf l n g.. as b| g b as f 10 to $14
no chance of anyone stealing it. We worth of fertilizer, principally nitrate,
feel that anyone appealing to the to the acre. I he increased yield of
public for support through the “Wat- su £ ar beets was two to four times as
eon element” is casting undue reflec- ™ ucb as the cost of the fertilizer,
tion on the memory of our late " bas ; r, ght the bat, there was an
Senator. , added pront running into hundreds of
| percent gained from “fattening the
PRESIDENT SIGNS TAX BILL. soi T 1 ;” .
Monday president Coolidge signed B ; , IS sa,d that in some parts of
the tax reduction bill, though reluct- Michigan, and indeed in some parts
untly. It cuts federal taxes to the of ™ost States, commercial fertilizers
lowest level since 1917. a,, c little known. If one might be-
The people have gotten tired of beve aB t ba t I s aa 'd about fertilizer
the tax burden. Something had to production to be made possible at
be done. Business had gotten to the > Muscle Shoals, the problem might he
point where it would rather curtail thought to be well on the way to-
operations than pay the heavy taxes, wards solution. But Muscle Shoals is
which would eventually prove ruin- on ‘ v expected to cheapen the cost of
ous . fertilizers, and there is no absence of
If it were possible, the placing of quality of it even now. The Chilean
taxes on those follows who want the interests that arranged the Michigan
country to prepare f ir war would experiments gave a practical detnon-
prove a great ro'icf to the tax-bur- stratum of what can be done to re-
dened people. War and preparation 1 cover the soil. If Europe did not
for war is what costs so much, and l,se fertilizers on all its lands the
there is an element clamoring for, whole population would starve to
preparation for the nex* war. When death. The United States evidently
Congress learns to ignore this non- has not digested the constant illustra-
sense the country will be better off. Lion and warning made by the Be
sted have improved in the past fo. .y
years. The American Institute o f
Steel Construction, made up of men
who make steel and supply skeleton
to modern buildings, knew that the
1885 standard was obsolete. They
now claim that structural steel has
a basic unit stress of 13,000 pounds
ner square inch. Thus, the steel men
lop off of their own sales a tremen
dous amount of weight. The entire
cost of a modern steel building in
cludes from 15 to 20 per cenr of the
steel frame.
This is an age of “standardization.”
The Government is enthusiastic abou 1
it. We even have a great institution
at Washington known as the Bureau
of Standards. It represents a pat*
of the vast network of endeavor in
our civilization looking for standards
—standards that run all the way
from short hair for both sexes to—
well, to 18,000 pounds per square inch
for steel in the new standard speci
fications for structural steel.
When we get further particulars
from the cement men, the stone quar
ries, and the lumber mills, even
novices who write newspaper copy
may understand these forward strides
in the industries.
Russian Manoeuvers.
Russia has had some luck in its
hectic attempts to secure loans and
foreign trade. M6dern Russia at its
worst will no doubt compare with the
Russia that was ruled according to
the best methods known to the Czars.
Despite the shifty policy of the Unit
ed States in fulfilling its international
obligations, as evidenced by the delay
with references to such measures as
the World Court, our own Nation
gives plenty of examples that it re
tains its ideals, and its grudges, too.
For while we need foreign commerce,
our own Government refuses to com
mercialize its honor in making trade
treaties, and in entering into regula
tions that will secure the commerce
of our old enemies in the World War.
We have been particularly stiff with
Russia, and the bristles in the Ameri
can State Department “bristle” furi
ously whenever Soviet Russia is men
tioned. However, our old allies have
not been so particular, for while this
country is raising relief for German
babies and the like, our old European
friends are getting the new trade
with Russia and elsewhere.
MONTHLY MEETING OF
BOTTLERS.
The monthly meeting of the em-
nloyers of the Augusta Chero-Cola
Bottling Co. was held Monday even
ing. The entire force of the Thomson
Chero-Cola Bottling Co. was present
as guests. A special guest on this
occasion was Dr. Edwin Scott, super-
'ntendont of manufacturing of the
yrup for Chero-Cola bottlers, one
of the foremost chemists in the Unit
ed States, and a most interesting
•md entertaning talker.
After a delicious supper prepared
by Mrs. Scott, interesting talks were
made by Dr. Scott, Mr. W. W. Down
ing, of the Thomson plant; J. C. May,
C. F. Whatley and J. W. Sharpton.
Mr. J. F. Scoggins presided as toast
master.
Those present were, Dr. Edwin
Scott, W. W. Downing, J. C. May, C.
F. Whatley, J. W. Sharpton, J. F.
Scoggins, J. H. Lazenby, J. M.Tussey,
D. S. Ludwig, M. K. Monk, J. W.
Kelley, J. E. Jones, J. W. Jones, Sr.,
Malley Timmerman, Paul Allen.
These meetings are thoroughly en
joyed by every one of the employes
and officers, and have proven bene-
ficlial, as is evidenced by the increas
ing business which the salesmen are
getting. The next meeting will be
held in Thomson July 1st.
Preparation for war makes war.
partment of Agriculture concerning
the necessity of keeping our farm
lnnds from sliding back into the
“razor-back” period.
Splitting lip Railroad Profits.
The recent decision of the Supreme
WHO’S BIRTHDAY.
Many people were heal’d Tuesday
to ask why the banks were closed.
Of course they knew it was some-,
body’s birthday, hut not many knew . Court in the Kansas City, Mexico and
who’s. I Orient case, commonly called the
We all forget very easily; some “Orient,” made clear the right of the
have never known. It is really Interstate Commerce Commission to
astonishing how many there are who increase tho> divisions of rates to he
could not tell you offhand who and paid by more prosperous roads to
what Jeff Davis was. Most of us equalize the losses of a poor little
are willing to let bygones be bygones; brother railroad like the Orient,
we live for today and do not try to Although there was an adverse de
better our condition by shunning the cision against the Orient, the Su-
evils of the past, but continually do pveme Court distinctly passed favor-
qyer and over again things about ably upon the Commission’s assertion
which we should know better. of power over the division of rates.
Jefferson Davis and other great The adverse decision was affirmed
men suffered for the principles which upon comparatively minor questions
they considered right. It is not what of procedure.
they won for which they are honored, The big fish in the railroad aquar-
but a x'ighteous love and undying ium have always insisted that there
faith in that principle for which the was no power to prevent them from
*ons of the South fought and died, j eating up the railroad minnows. This
I theory has always been set forth
THE DEVIL’S WORKSHOP. (when there has been any talk about
Two young students in Chicago the consolidation of American rail-
wanted adventure, and thought up roads. “Why should we split-up our
the idea of kidnapping a friend, kill- profits with struggling railroads that
ing him and demand ransom of the nre our competitors,” the big rail-
boy’s father. They carried out their roads have protested. Of course the
plan as to killing the boy, but failed railroads have always objected to
to get ransom. Instead, the police every phase of Federal regulation,
got the two young students, and now but in the end they have been obliged
somebody has got to pay and pay to bend their necks to the yoke, and
dearly. It may be they will have they have been good sports enough
to pay with their own lives. to say, in each instance, that the fit
Too much money; nothing to do; was good,
ambition finding outlet in the wrong The Supreme Court decision and
way. The old story of the idle man the acts of the Interstate Commerce
and the devil’s: workshop. People, Commission are merely new chapters
give your children something to do, in the big story that has been chang-
whether it is necessary for them to ing the entire process of railroad
work or not. I management, and the relations be-
| tween the public and the carriers.
MASK OUTLAWED IN LOUISANA. The transformation has been so
The Louisana House of Represents- gradual that one has hardly realized
tives Monday passed a hill to abolish without becoming retrospective, that
aecrecy and the mask in that State, the system of public relations has
A similar measure has been introduc- undergone almost a complete revolu-
ed in the Senate. j tion during the past fifteen or twenty
There may be some good reasons years,
sometimes for secret orders to use Steel Under Stress,
the mask, but it lends license to the Novices, like newspaper men, have
bad element, and it has been demon- never ceased to wonder how archi-
strated that much harm can be done tects and builders have known just
in that way. Let good men and true how much weight could be piled on,
stand out in the open and uphold their or hung to, steel girders and trusses,
colors. I The Congressional Library in Wash-
ington is one of the heaviest buildings
THE CHICKEN SALE. j for its size in the world; and yet it
Wednesday the fourth chicken sale is built in a location where there was
was held in Thomson. Over 3000 | quicksand and other deficiencies of
pounds of chickens were sold, and Nature mitigating against a safe and
while the price was not as high as j sound foundation. But that insecur-
expected, the sale was largely pat- ! ity was overcome by deep excavations
ronized. People came for quite a down to hardpan. The structure sits
distance around and Thomson re- with perfect poise and security at its
ceived quite a bit of advertising in vantage point in the National Capital,
the outlying communities. I When Bessemer steel was first
I marketed in about 1885, it was calcu-
c n i • s* j lated that the unit stress of 10,000
sugar used in L-anay pounds to the square inch was about
Th ree hundred and fifty thousand right, and cities everywhere through-
tous of sugar are used each year in [out the country adopted this in their
the ranking of curdy in the Uniteti | building codes. But these “codes”
States. never took into account the fact that
COMPLETE EX H AIJSTION OF
YELLOW PINE IN 25 YEARS
\ EXPECTED.
But one fifth of the original stand
of Georgia’s forests remains today
and we arc making fast inroads on
that. We are cutting down our tim
ber and giving little thought to the
future, other than if we can’t get our
lumber from Georgia we can get it
elsewhere. We are cutting what we
have left four times as fast as it is
growing back.
We know though that we are pay
ing several times more today for
lumber and wood products than a few
years ago and that the cost of build
ing is keeping many a poor fellow
from building a home, the sweetest
desire of his ambition.
We accept these conditions as fol
lowing the war and are hoping for
better times, which may never come
if the law of supply and demand rules
forever more.
We must produce timber in Geor
gia. We must raise the supply to
meet our demands if there is to be
any relief from present costs or if
we are to hold it where it is.
As individuals we know but little
of oureforest conditions so we must
take tm; information and advice of
those who have made a study of it
and of those whose business or duty
it is to find out.
The U. S. Forest Service and some
of our own Georgia citizens have
made extended investigations and af
ter long research and study, tell us
that we are fast nearing the point of
danger and that within the next 20
to 25 years the matter of Yellow Pine
will find us at the point of practical
exhaustion, provided that we do not
begin now to reforest our cut over
and idle lands. They say that the
Georgia climate and soil will produce
timber as quick as any other section
in the United States and that the
South can produce sufficient to supply
the balance of the country if it will
but get to work. They also inform
us that it is necessary for each state
to set up some form of state manage
ment, or leadership you might say,
so that the matter of growing timber
may be directed along the best and
quickest line as it is too big and var
ied a proposition to run along belter
skelter, unguided, except by master
and experienced hands.
At this time the Georgia Forestry
Association is at work on the matter
and it behooves us as citizens to sup
port them morally if not financially
in its efforts to bring the matter to
a proper and thorough discussion by
the members of the coming Legisla
ture.
In its report to the U. S. Senate,
the Special Committee on Forestry
after making complete investigations,
said in its report No. 28 to the G8th
Congress:
“The exhaustion of the Virgin for
ests in the United States has already
progressed so far as to seriously en
hance the cost of lumber and to cur
tail its use. This condition must be
expected to become more acute for
many years—after all has been said,
however, the fundamental need of
the situation is to increase the vol
ume of timber growth in the United
States as rapidly as that can he ac
complished, all other remedies and
expedients combined will fall far
short of supplying our national re
quirements.”
The lumber and turpentine re
sources of Georgia are fading away.
We have it in our power to perpetuate
them—shall we do it, or shall we do
nothing ana face^the consequences?—
From the Georgia Forestry Associa
tion, Atlanta, Ga.
Here’s Real Drug Store
One ding store In Now York hns
never carried anything hut drugs, yet
ims remained in the same location t'oi
more than fifty years.
IS DEMOCRACY SLIPPING?
Those men who have made a care
ful study of the true principles of
the Democratic Party and have con
scientiously and intelligently attempt
ed to apply them, have built up
groups of enemies In their own party.
In spite of the fact that the South
gave four precious years of her life
to fighting these principles, and laid
many a mother’s son in the grave
before his prime, the man today who
stands for States rights is not in
good standing with quite a number
of folks in the South and in the
party.
There is a veritable mania for cen
tralization of power, and efforts at
decentralization are met with stern
opposition. Vast governmental pow
ers are being centered at Washing
ton, just as vast financial powers are
already centered at New York. Use
less offices are being built up, and
expenditures that could be foregone
are becoming the governmental
habit and custom. There are already
some fifty thousand Federal officers
residing in Washington now, and
over a half million elsewhere in the
country.
Is Democracy slipping? Will the
party disappear, except for its
name, which is becoming somewhat
of a misnomer?
Will the craving and demand for
direct action instead of the slower
and safer processes bring into our
American life something more akin
to monarchy or bolshevism?
It does seem there should he a
party conference “for the good of
the order.”—Macon Telegraph.
RETURNS TO THOMSON FOR
THE SUMMER.
Fannie Lou Showers, one of the
most widely known educators of the
South among the colored people, has
returned to her home in Thomson to
spend the summer months after
teaching in one of the leading colored
institutions at Macon. She is recog
nized by her race throughout the
country as a leader in educational
circles, and was for a number of
years principle of the People’s Indus
trial Institute of Thomson, through
which she gained prominent recogni
tion from loading institutions of the
country.
Nov/ is a good time to
have that hydrant put
in. Also, electrical re
pair work done. Reu
ben F. Ivey, Phone 158.
GARDENSPOTNEWS
(By Polly and Pet.)
On last Wednesday night at the
home of Mr. and Mds. J. E. Ansley
Miss Annie Street entertained a few
of her friends with an ice cream sup
per. Among those who attended the
cream supper were Misses Maude
McGahee, Ruby Huff and Lovie Mc-
Gahee, of Thomson, Maude Greene
of Iron Hill, Messrs. Cook Wilson, of
Boneville, Dewey Ansley and Claude
Scoggins, of Thomson, Albert Rey
nolds, of Iron Hill. A nice time was
reported.
Miss Ruby Hardaway, of near
Sweetwater, was the week-end guest
of Miss Beulah Reynolds.
Miss Sadie McGahee spent Satur
day and Sunday with Miss Ola Lee
Kelly.
Sweetwater, speaking about Iron
Hill getting ahead of Polly, I think
you and them both gets ashamed of
your news sometimes. Don’t you
think so Boneville.
Miss Ola Lee Kelly spent Friday
and Saturday . with Miss Loretta
Greene.
Mr. Melvin Fitzgerald visited Mr.
Albert Reynolds Saturday and Sun
day.
Say, Ruth, did you have a grand
time Saturday night?
Miss Allene and Ruth McGahee,
Willie Mae Green, Mr. Sam Kelly and
Jerry Reeves were visitors at Fort
Creek Sunday.
Misses Sadie McGahee, Ola Lee
Kelly, Mr. Bob McGahee spent the
day at Washington, Ga., Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Greene and
children spent Monday in Augusta.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Hessie
Tudor \^!« brightened by the birth of
a little daughter.
Miss Beulah Mae Harrison, of East
Thomson, is spending the Week-end
with Miss Beulah Reynolds.
Saturday and Sunday are the regu
lar preaching days at Iron Hill. Ev
erybody cordially invited to come.
Miss Mary Will Saggus is spend
ing a while with Miss Ola Lee Kelly.
Wake up, Iron Hill, we miss you
so much.
EAT AT-
Schneider’s Restaurant
Regular Dinner 50c
Plate Lunch 25c
Short Orders served from 5 A. M. to 10 P. M.
FARMS FOR SALE
50 ACRE FARM.
50 acres land, improved farm, located in Co
lumbia county, near the line of McDuffie; good
rolling land under fine state of cultivation*
about 10 acre pasture under two strands barbed
wire. Two good wells, curbed with 24 inch ter-
I* cl COtt^cl
This farm has one eight room dwelling, one
four room dwelling and one tenant house; large
barn 27x45 feet; store building, cotton house,
blacksmith shop.
At the junction of two roads, but most ot
it on the public road leading from Leah to Thom
son, and extends to the junction of that road
which runs from Augusta to Washington.
Daily mails passing on each road.
Now here is a nice proposition for the man
who wants to farm under present conditions.
The deal can be swung very easily,, and you will
be surprised at the price at which it can be
bought. See us about this place. Half cash,
balance as desired.
65 ACRE FARM.
Here’s another nice proposition—65 acres,
good level land under high state of cultivation,
within easy distance of Thomson; gray sand soil
with clay subsoil; 55 acres under hog wire and
balance barbed wire; five or six acres of timber.
There are three branches and a creek on this
place
Improvements are, a four room dwelling
painted, ceiled throughout, one tenant house,
barn and stable. Located two miles east of
Thomson on the north side of Whiteoak road.
See us about this place, you will be pleased.
180 ACRE FARM.
You should investigate this farm by all
means—180 acres located on east side of road
from Wrightsboro to Cross Roads,_ one mile
from National Highway to Washington, Ga.
Clay soil with gray surface and clay subsoil;
about 20 acres lying out; 60 acres under culti
vation; 75 acres under wire; 25 acres under hog
wire; 10 acres bottom land; plenty of timoer for
all purposes. ,
Improvements on this place are; Light
room dwelling, ceiled throughout, two tenant
houses; eight mule stalls; fine well of water.
If you want this farm we believe there is no
reason why you can’t get it if you have a little
money, and it is certainly a bargain See us at
once.
22 1-2 ACRE FARM.
This place of 22 1-2 acres is located just one
mile from Thomson on public road to Cobbham;
grav land with red clay subsoil, all good level
land; 16 acres under cultivation, with 6 acre
pasture; plenty of fire wood. .. ,
This place has five room dwelling, ceiled
throughout, and two good banns.
This is just the place for the man who
wants to do intensive farming. Let us show
you and you will be pleased with price and,terms.
As to or ice and terms, most everything we
have to offer can be arranged to suit your con
venience.
Call on or write
THE McDUFFIE CO. REAL ESTATE AGENCY
J. Q. West or H. S. Norris, Thomson, Ga.