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The Tupelo journal., 1914-09-25

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has been the placing of a privi-
lege tax on cotton to be raised
next year and subsequent years.
The amount of this tax that
should be inposed varies in the
minds Of the advocates of the
plan from 81 to $25 per bale. The
suggestion has also beens made
that the legislature should be
convened and a prohibition placed
on planting the crop, to be en-
forced by the military arm of the
state, if necessary. 1t is need
less to say that these extreme
measures will not be adopted.
The people will not stand tor it.
You will not find a legislature of
the southern states that will at
tempt to raise revenue by such
means as placing a privilege tax
on the peoples main crop. The
legislatures of the southern states
now elected would do no such
thing and any attempt to elect a
legislature that would impose a
tax of this character would meet
with utter failure.
The congress Ct the United
States would not impose a tax on
cotton for genera revenue pur-
poses that was not placed on ev-
cry commodity of similar i'm
pOrtance.
The situation is embarrassing,
but no general plan has yet been
suggested to relieve the embar-
rassment. The buy-a-bale move
ment has many advocates and
will no doubt take many bales of
cotton off of the market for an
indefinite period. The only diff
fculty in this movement is to
place the man willing to buy it
in touch with the man who needs
to sell his cotton for immediate
financial relief. When these two
get together a good purpose has
been served.
The plan that suggests itself
as most practical is for the cot
ton producer who is Independent
and does not need money for i'm
mediate use to hold his cotton off
the market until the situation is
easier and a wider range of mar
kets exists. This gives the pres
ent market to the man who has
distress cotton or cotton that he
is obligated to sell to pay matur-
ing debts.
A concerted action is an i'm
possibility. Time and again ef-
forts have been made to regulate
the sale of cotton with the view
of getting the best possible price
for it. On the cotton market no
man is his brothers keeper, but
every man for himself. The sit
uation resolves itself into this:
For another year reduce your
acreage and if you can, reduce it
very largely; produce everything
that man and beast need to sub
sist upon; live economical and
will not work out as bad
as conditions now indicate. 1t is
an individual proposition and ev-
cry man must solve the problem
for himself.
The Tupelo journal., 1914-09-25

to cut down the cotton acreage
in 1915 and raise all the needed
supplies at home.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-10

Now that the new currency bill has
become a law, all parties in congress
are ready to redeem their pledges to
the fermer! Therefore, congress at
once will consider the manifold prob
lens Of farm finance House and
senate win join in the enactment Of
one comprehensive bill to provide for
a system of national cooperative rural
banks-local, state, federal The fol-
lowing principles should be embodied,
writes the editor of Southern Farming.
National Cooperative Banks
/. Local or neighborhood savings
and loan associations, called. national
cooperative banks. Seven or more
farmers and home owners may start
such a bank with not less than $1,000
capital shares SIS, one vote to each
member. Such bank may receive de
posts make loans, and do general
banking and trust company bushes ;,
subject to federal supervision and cou-
troll. Ne speculative loans.
2. A State Cooperative Bank under
the proposed federal law, shall t9
formed when 80 or more local rural
banks have been organized in said
state Said locals shall invest a suit
able proportion ct their own funds in
said state banks capital, each local
having one vote therein
8. When state cooperative bank
has been organized in Y or more
states, they shall subscribe for shares
in the national cooperative bank Of
the United States. in which each of
said state hanks shall have only one
vote.
Bonds Secured on Farms or Homes
T. First mortgages on farm occu-
pied and worked by their owners or
upon homes occupied by their owners,
may be accepted as security for long
time loans by any national co-opera-
tive bank Prescribe rules that shall
insure absolute safety of such loans,
including their reduction by small
annual payments upon principal, and
upkeep Of property meanwhile
;. Bonds based upon the security
of such mortgages may be issued by
local, state or national cooperative
banks, suitably guaranteed by the
same and subject to restrictions to in
sure inviolate the interest and princi-
pal Of such. bonds, which shall be a
legal investment for banks and trust
funds.
6. Shares and bonds Of said banks
shall be free from all taxation local
state, federal or Inheritance. Bonds
nal bear interest not more than / pei
cent. greater than state or government
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-10

evil on the laws and on society, though
it may effect desirable reforms here
and there in institutions, is bound to
leave the individual weakened in this
powers of resistance against tempta-
tons which can never be eliminated
from human life, The whole effect Of
calling sympathy justice and putting it
in the place of judgment is to relax the
fiber of character and nourish the
passions at the expense of reason and
the will. And undoubtedly the con
yiction is every day gaining ground
among cool Observers of our life that
the manners and morals of the people
are beginning to suffer from this re-
Taxation in many insidious ways
apart from acts which come. into the
coznizance Of the courts. The sensu-
atty of the prevailing music and dane
ing, the plays that stir the country as
organs of moral regeneration, the ex-
aggeration Of sex in the clothing seen
IN the street are but symptoms more
r less ominous to our mind as we do
or do not connecl them with the regnaut
.heory of ethics. And in the end this
rorm Of social sympathy may itself
quite conceiyably bring back the bru-
tality and cruelty from which it seems
to have delivered up,'-Presbyterian.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-10
A MIDDLE OF MORALS

The author of The New Morality
il the new Unpopular Review, will no.
endear himself to the favorites OF the
hour. He criucizes even the elect.
Certainly" he says, "a teacher who,
like Miss Jane Adams, virtually at
tributes the lawless and criminal acts
Of our city hoodlums to the wholesome
desire for adventure which the laws
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-10
The Country and the City

According to prominent daily
Newspaper, three fayorite topics of
rural journalism are quoted wish
pleasure by urban exchange editors
cd Poetry, whose distinguishing
feature as compared with magazine
poetry is that rural verse usually
means something and doesn't scan,
whereas magazine poetry usually scans
and infrequently means anything; ~
accounts of wedding ceremonies which
begin like Swinburnc and conclude
with the statement that the bridegroom
wore the conventional black; 81
minor social paragraphs, which usual
ly run as follows: "A merr yrarty as
sembled at the house of Mr. and Mrs
James Thompson Friday night Among
the guests were Walt Thompson and
wife, of Hayden Corners; Henry
Thomson, MY. and Mrs william
Thompson, and Glen Thompson. Glen
was accompanied by Miss Susan Drake,
of Watkins, whom, we hear, will not
be Miss Drake before many weeks
We are very much disposed to come
to the defense of country newspapers
They represent in cur American life q
force which keeps the urban papers
moving. We would incidentally say
that the incorrect use of whom in
next to the last line OF that quoted item
is not oftener found in the country
newspaper than in the city newspaper.
Then, too, are not the matrimonial
prospects of Miss Drake" as interest
ing to the public as are those of
Miss Billet-Hamer-J Jones'" who is rep
resented as on the eve of marrying
Count Squashkin"?
We are glad that the daily paper
which we have quoted puts over
against the banalities of the country
paper the following list of headlines
taken from typical city daily: Hen
Paid Carfare,' German Jury Acquits
Man of Sneezing in Public Peers
Daughter Loops the Loop, Boys Rest
at 10 A. NJ" Chew Your Food if You
Want to Go to Heaevn."
The city editor well says: The coun-
try editor need not worry. He is far
from being ridiculed when the metro
politan newspapers take notice of the
fact that at Hayden Corners parents
frequently visit their married children
and are visited in turn; or that moth
ers at Kiowa give vent to tears wheq
the splendid strains of Loghengrin
usher in the beautiful bride in white
tulle and orange blossoms and tn.
bridegroom in conventional black L
is only our urban habit of laughing a
what we envy. Nashville Christian
Advocate.
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-10
Established 1879.
Memorial Resolutions, Resolutions

Memorial Resolutions, Resolutions
of Respect, Obituary Notices, etc.
other than those which the paper may
deem proper to publish as news mat
ter, will be charged for at the rate OF
) cents per line.
All advertising copy requiring two
columns of space or less should be IN
the business office not later than noon
of day prior to date of issue in order
70 insure it's prompt insertion. All
COPY for space of more than two col
umns should be submitted not later
than 6 o'clock of the day, two days
prior to date of issue.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-10

The distinguished and significant
feature with reference to the apoint-
ment is that the lawyers of Mr.. Wade'S
district, whether for him or for some
badly else, were practically unit i'll
paying tribute to his ability, fness and
high character. 1t is an indosement o.
this nature, non-partisan as BELTS the
judicial office, that best testifies to the
capacity of any man to hold Office as a
ludge.-Atlanta Constitution.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-10
MARKETS
JAN Bond { Co.,s COTTON Letter.

New York, Feb. 9.--Infuenced by
continued large receipts, Liverpool was
lower today and the local market re-
fected the depression. Shorts covered
freely on the decline and most of the
buying was presumably for trade ac-
count, but there was no aggressive
support whatever. Spot news was un-
changed, leaving the impression that
cotton is easier to buy. There are
some indications that liquidation Is
about complete and a revival in spot
demand or a falling eff in the move
ment would cause a good rally.
JAY BOND & co.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-10

Seab Wright is speaking and plead
ing against the locker clubs in Geo.
gia in a most convincing manner, but
it occurs to us that in 1907 the amend
ment to the general tax act provided
for locker clubs to be conducted in
this state at a fixed tax, and it waa
known as the Wright locker club tax
Il we remember correctly, the Hon
Seab Wright had considerable to dc
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-10

I bonds. Shares may receive not to ex-
coed 6 per cent dividends, other earn
ings to go to surplus until it reaches
80 per. cent of capital Then divide
extra profits pro rata as a dividend
equally upon deposits and loans
Two Separate Departments.
7. The (a) current deposits AMI
current credits of said local banks to
be department separate from its (bJ
longtime mortgage department. Thus
AVOID pledging CURRENT credits as
security for PERMANENT credits, and
thus also insure quick accets for
meeting quick liabilities.
8. This federal system may supple
ment but not interfere with similar
cooperative peoples banks under the
laws Of the respective states, Said
local, state and national cooperative
banks may be depositaries of federal
and postal funds.
These principles have met general
approval from all whose scientific
studies and practical experience give
weight to their views, including some,
if not all, Of the members of the
American commission which has in
yestigated European cooperation
Ideas, of course, vary as to details
Various bills based in part or in
whole upon these principles have been
introduced in congress. These are
now all in the hands of the house com
mittee on banking and currency. 1t
has referred them to a sub-commit-
tee consisting of the following: Hon.
Robert J. Buckley of Ohio, chairman,
Hon VIM. G. Brown of West Virginia
Hon. Claude Weaver of Oklahoma
Hon. Claudius T. Stone of Illinois
Hon. Harry H. Seldomridge of Color
ado, Hon. j. William Ragsdale Of
South Carolina, Hon. Eyeris A Haye
of California, Hon. Frank P. Woods OF
Iowa.
This subcommittee on farm finance
or rural credits has been at work
actively since December 1. It has Civ
en- hearings to representatives of the
department of agriculture, of the
league of local building and loan as
sociations and other interests. also to
members Of congress who have lnrro-
duced bills. It is giving extensive
hearings to the American commission
In order that the committee may gel
right next to the farmers, the house
may authorize it to hold hearings dur.
ing January at points in differen
parts of the country, possibly Mime
apolis, Omaha, Kansas City, Louis
iyille, Atlanta, in the middle states AM
New England.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-10

Savannah, like a number of other
cities, is enyious Of Griffin because tho
famous inventor is to visit this city
Mr. Edison is coming to Griffin for the
purpose of learning more about the
most progressive little city in this
state. Griffin News.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-10

We suppose that from now on the
railroads will carry a special hog
lookout conductor, since the judge
has decided that they are responsible
for the lives of any hog that may
crawl under train when it stops at 3
station Elberton Star.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-10

Tiger skins are the latest fad in Pa
is. New York has one it would be
willing to dispose of cheaply, but IN
fortunately it is still on the Tammany
tiger
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-10

In talking matters over with the
crown prince. the kaiser will no doubt
remember that he himself was once
considered a rather impetuous young
man.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-10

The banks of Tattnall county are
helping the farmers buy Percheron
horses we are advised, We have q
sneaking idea, toe, that they are help
ing the town boys buy autos.-Sayan-
nah Press.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-10

The government urging people to eat
dried fruit will cause sour grin
among the job hunters when they
think of the many dried office pluma
packed away in Washington. -Colum-
bus Ledger. ...e
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-10

These 702 pennies given to children
by John D. Rockefeller may come to
have great value among coin collectors
as rare curiosities.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-10

Bring on your governmental prob
lens. While he waits further news
from Mexico City, the president is run
ming little short Of work.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-10

Miss Margaret Woodrow Wilson's
plea for the use of the school house as
social centers shows she has inher-
tied fair share of her fathers
brains
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-10

When you see a woman wearing a
clinging gown it's a sign that she is
willing to admit that she a good fig
IRE
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-10

1t may become necessary to IN
scramble all those cities that are seek
ing the new government regional re-
serve banks.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-10

Some Georgia counties seem to be
worried because the crop of candidates
is not very promising. Pretty socn
they will worry over production.
Macon Telegraph.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-10

A woman knows her new hat isn't
becoming to her because her dearest
enemy tells her it is.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-10

Japan didn't dare talk so big unth
Cap'H. Hobson became so thoroughly
absorbed in the Alabama campaign. NJ.
indeed
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-10

President Wilson seems determined
to leave the progressive party with
nothing to do but endorse his wise
acts.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-10

Mr.. Envoy Lind has managed to pre-
serve remarkable amount of Mexi-
can silence without being called q
sphinx.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-10

If congress will be good and attend
strictly to business, it can have holi-
day to enjoy the fourth of July.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-10

Goethals for governor of the canal
zone and Gorgas for surgeon general
is a good ticket for Panama.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-10

Even the people who visit MIR. Lind
catch the habit of holding quaker meet
ings.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-10
Americas, Ga, February 10, 1914
By Mail in U. S. and Mexico

Tact and tracts are the right anil
left bowers OF this suaye administra-
ton.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-10
EDITORIAL COIN MENI fs 81 SIZE fzfzs
RECENT EXPRESSIONS ON CURRENT TOPICS FROM THE
FOREMOST GEORGIA NEWSPAPERS

with the locker club proposition
Athens Banner
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-10

"The Sweetness of lou price
seldom equals the bitterness OF
poor qudiitg."
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-03-21
Continued on Page 81
CONTINUED on Page 81
OCEAN STEAM LINES
UNABLE TO AGREE

Berlin, March 20.-The conference
of the transatlantic shipping COM
panies broke up today without reach
ing any settlement.
The representatives of the British
and continental steamship companies
decided to adjourn until May I, when
they will meet again in Cologne.
The conference here did not evolve
even tangible basis for further nego.
tiations The delegates from the yari-
GUS companies departed in an uncom-
municative mood. One of them, as he
left. said the delegates had negotiated
until they were tired, without making
any appreciable progress and that they
were going home to make fresh sur.
vey OF the situation before resuming
their discussions. The troubles, he de-
clared, were almost exclusively con-
nected with the steerage passenger
trade. Other delegations declared
that the problems to be settled were
so complicated that the transatlantic
shipping pool could only be renewed
after protracted discussions.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-03-21
WEALTHY MEN ARE
SENTENCED TO JAIL

San Francisco. Cal, March 20.-At-
torneys for the three Western Fuel
company officials who were refused a
new trial last night and sentenced to
varying prison terms for conspiracy
to defraud this government out of i'm
port duties on coal, hegan preparations
today to carry the cases to the United
States court of appeals.
James B. Smith, vice president and
general manager, was sentenced to
eighteen months in San Quentin pris-
on and to pay $4,000 fine. Frederick
c. Mills, superintendent. was SEN
fenced to eighteen months in San
Quentin. Edward H. Mayer, a checker
was given year in the Alameda
county jail The men were permitted
liberty over night on their old bonds.
A hearing to fix new bonds, pending
the appeal, was held today.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-03-21
PAID FOR LOBBY
WORK IN CONGRESS
CHICAGO CHARITY WORKER AD.
MiTs CONNECTION WITH VAR.
IoUs PRISON CONTRACTORS.

Washington, d. c., March 20.-Ed,
ward Boyle of Chicago testified to the
senate lobby committee today that
while no specific fund had been raised
among prison labor contractors for
the defeat of the Hughes bill to regu-
late shipments of prison products. he
had appeared before congressional
committees as the legal representative
of contractors opposed to the measure
and had been paid under an agreement
by which various contractors contrib.
uted. He said he had no retainer.
Boyle testified he had been paid to
oppose ,anti-contract labor Legislation
by officials OF the Paramount Knitting
Co. having shops t., Illinois and Wis
consin. He had no knowledge of the
arrangement by which other firms con.
tributed to his pay. He had been ap.
pearing before congressional commit
tees in opposition to such legislation
since 1903, he said. Duncan McEwen
an official Of the Paramount company,
had arranged for his appearance in op.
position to the Hughes bill.
The lobby committee is investigat.
ing the charge that $4,000 fund was
raised to defeat the measure.
Boyle was treasurer for three sue.
cessive years of the National Confer.
ence of Charities and Corrections.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-03-21
IN FIGHT
AT BIG FUNERAL
Extraordinary Precautions
of Police Fail to Stop
Factions Mixing
MURDERED EDITOR
is LAID TO REST
Great Interest Shown in a
Probe Into Scandal By
Chamber Deputies

Paris, March 20.-Three widely var
led points of interest occupied the at
tention of the French public today in
connection with the assassination Of
CASTOR Calmette by Madame Caillaux.
The funeral of the victim of Mad
anne Caillaux's revolver and it's accom-
panying demonstrations was the chief
attraction owing to the possibility of
disorders and the extraordinary mea-
sures against disturbances in the
streets of Paris. sThe police precau-
tions failed to prevent collision be-
tween the rival factions and one royal
ist was shot.
The dislocation of the government
by the resignation of ministers was
next, but subsided in interest after the
announcement of the complete reor-
ganization of the cabinet
The last and most promising phase
in respect to the likelihood of sensa-
tional developments was the eXamina-
ton of Joseph Caillaux and Ernest
Monis. former ministers. as to their
connection with the hushinG up OF the
scandal about Henri Rochette, who is
alleged to have defrauded the French
public very extensively. This phase
was regarded in political circles as
likely to occupy the public mind for
some time. - .5
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-03-21
WISCONSIN DIARIES
IN HANDS OF TRUST

Madison, Wis., March 2O.-Because
an investigation made by the agricul-
ture college and the state board of
public affairs discloses that practically
eighty per cent of the butter and
cheese products of Wisconsin are con-
trolled by the trust which arbitrarily
fixes prices, the board, it became
known today passed a resolution re-
questing the governor to appoint
commission Of Wisconsin farmers to
attend the second national conference
on marketing and farm credits, to be
held in Chicago April 1917. The reso-
luton was considered as a rap against
the Elgin board of trade and the Wis
consin delegates will go to Chicago
with resolutions asking for specific
amendments to the Sherman antitrust
law. changes in which are now pending
before congress.