Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-20
The Country Home
BY Mis-. w. I'll. E'ELTON
TEE sLUMP IN COTTON

TEE SLUMP IN COTTON
The situation is puzzling. Cotton
has slumped below 10 cents in our
market. Some of the farmers are
storing their cotton: Others are
%clling, because they think the slump
has not reached it's lower level. To
those who are out of debt, except
the very heavy taxes, the slump has
not made they very unhappy. Those
who are in debt, or have bought
high-priced land on a credit, the
problem is more serious.
Lots of people have bought goods
at high prices on the instalment
plan. They must pay up or lose
what has been paid out.
Cartersville is on the Dixie high
way The tourist travel is immense.
Conservative people tell me that
there are from seventy five to a hun
dred cars loaded with tourists from
the northwest, who are making their
way to Florida to spend the winter,
AM who pass through our town.
Foodstuffs are no higher in Flor
ida than in Minnesota and Kansas.
carrying anything they need for
comfort in camp life, and they travel
as slow or as fast as they choose
Many of them expect to get jobs in
Florida in handling winter vegeta-
bles, packing oranges, working with
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to eat than butcher meat. When I
find one of these cars at a standstilI
I try to get up a chat with them,
and they seem glad to know that
strangers will give them a CHEEKY
word and welcome to Georgia l
always learn considerably from ev-
erytody that can give RE informa-
tin. I am the gamer.
One day last week there was a tour
ist car halted in front Of our nice
postoffice 1 had gone there to start
one of my latest books to far-off
North Carolina, and I had chat with
the nice, trim little lady sitting in
was hunting something in town-food
1 guessed, and she told me they had
come from Detroit, Mich.
They had been on the road several
weeks, and were on their way to ST.
Petersburg, Fla. 1 inquired as to the
still using Detroit air." and had no
trouble with tires. The car was we'll
groomed, 1 could see.
She had bedding in the rear, and
also an oil stove for cooking, which
can be doubled up, somehow, and car
ried in small package. On this stove
she could boil tea and coffee and
broil a steak or chop and bread could
be bought, fresh, on the main routes
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it had floor. They slept in houses
in bad weather, of which there had
been very little this fall. Her hus-
band expected to find employment in
Florida. The mild climate down
there and the high price of coal in
Michigan had induced them to make
the journey They will utilize the
car, if housing is difficult in Flori-
da. The husband came up, and We
also had a little chat on matters in
general. The campaign was on here.
and politics red hot. He said it was
the same way all along the road. The
country was tired of war, and want
ed peace. and did not want the Will
son League of Nations.
They were middle-aged people, had
no children, and had spent a winter
in the south a year ago. 1t was
real lark for the couple, and they are
so thrifty, snug and tidy, thai I al
most envied them the winter scenes
in Florida. So there is a perfect
flood of winter tourists packing into
the state of Florida. South Georgia
will get some of the overflow. 1 am
hoping that I can take little trip
in the same direction in January or
February. I am so very busy, with
81 much writing, that L may miss my
chance. as L did in the winter of 1919
and 1920