The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-05-18

Will you please allow me to in
fringe upon your kindness again by
asking you to publish the following
statement of facts, in your paper? |
am prompted to do this because the
Atlanta Georgian is continuing to do
great injustice, and also practicing
an imposition upon all my friends
who read that paper.
I commenced to write articles on
poultry for this paper in the early
part of February, 1910. I had come
up to Atlanta from Macon to recover
my health, having suffered from an
attack of nervous prOstratlOn, from
which 1 have never entirely recover
ed. I wrote a few articles of 400 to
800 words at one dollar each. They
asked me to write others, and also
to extend the work TO full column.
This I did for some time, with no in
crease in pay. After protest, I was
given an increase of So a week, MAX
ing So. They said they could not
pay me more, because the paper was
being run at a loss to the Georgian
Company, and that as soon as I
made good, that | would be given SIS
a week. In my desire to help them
I continued at these wages. Mr..
Seely told me that he had never made
a dollar out of the paper, and that he
was carrying on the paper for the
good of the State and of Atlanta, and
urged me to help him in this work
by signing a contract for SO a week.
I believed him, and signed this con-
tract, and continued the work until
my health utterly failed. The pOul
try business opened up, the poultry
ads increased because of my work,
from about one column to four pages
sometimes, and about a full page al
most every day. After [ had done all
this work, and built up the poultry
department at this beggarly salary,
7 wanted to quit because I did not
have strength to DO the work. Mr..
Seely told me that he had a contract
with me in writing, and that he
would make me keep it up or enforce
it by law. I hung on until l was re-
duced to such a nervous condition
that I could not go a step further.
I was forced to resign on April I.
notice that this paper is still using
my pen names of Uncle Dudley, and
is publishing every day, Uncle Dud-
ley will answer letters Of inquiry
about poultry, and then at the top of
the column, "POultry Talks by Uncle
Dudley" in this manner doing me a
great injustice, and practicing a de-
ceptiOn on those who have been read
ing after Uncle Dudley. I have not
written a line for this paper since I
quit, and will never allow anything I
write to be published in it if I can
prevent it.
Again this paper has made two
attempts to stop my mail. In the
first attempt I won. Now I am in
formed that they claim to own the
name of Uncle Dudley, that it is
theirs and not mine. This pen name
is mine, and has been my property
for about 25 years. My mail is now
tied up at the Atlanta postoffice,
awaiting the decision of the Post
master at Washington. l am an old
man. I carry the scars of wounds re-
ceived on the field of battle. I do
not own any property. This name of
Uncle Dudley is the only asset [ pos
sess. BY it, I am earning few dol
lars each month, writing for the poul-
try and agricultural papers, and now
after having served the Atlanta Geor
gian faithfully for over IL months,
built up their poultry department
many times over for the pitiful salary
of SO per week, they are trying to rob
me of my one means Of support. [