The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-10
EVERYBODY BEGIN ANEW
ON JANUARY l, 1921

pSSGuoC VI NV tanning
to thing. 1st, we forgot God. We
neglected to go to church; we neg
lected our Bibles; we neglected pray
er; we violated the Sabbath day. We
should begin the New Year anew.
The farmer should be more rareful
how he buys. He should take better
care of his farm. They are all in
need of rest. Sow more of his land
to grain, forage and grass. Espec-
tally is this time for the farmer to
rent his land. He can not afford to
risk much at present prices on cotton.
If you have your farm paid for let
your farm lie out rather than pay
for high priced guano and rent to a
man who has to loaf two days in the
week and you furnish him rations z
days in the week. Let him go to
work or go hungry,
Each farmer raise his hog meat,
Raise a calf for beef in the Fall and
raise them from your farm, not de-
pend on bought feed. No use to
make any special effort to raise meats
For market at present prices paid to
farmers by butchers. For instance,
the butcher is only paying about A
cents per pound on foot for beef cat
tie. He pays $4,000 for 900 pound
COW; she nets 800 pounds meat. You
buy beef, don't you average 25c' a
pound at the butchers. Who makes
the money, the butcher or the far
mer? Can farmer raise beef cattle
at that price? No, he cannot. VIII
he? No. Would you? No. Every
farmer should raise his supplies at
home and such things for market as
he can get a reasonable price for.
Every merchant should be more
careful who he sells to and what he
sells man on another mans credit.
Our doctors should be careful and
more considerate in their charges. 1t
l am worth $4,000 and another
worth 81 900 an operation on me for
appendicitis isn't worth any more to
them than on the other man. Then
why charge one man more doing the
same thing than you charge another?
er?
Our blacksmiths, | am afraid, need
to consder-that dentist needs to re-
member-that farmer needs to re-
member, when he buys an article,
promised to pay for it next week, and
waits until next year, isn't doing
right.
That road commissioner should try
to look after our roads better. If a
citizen of Cobb county is interested
enough to report bad piece of read
or bad bridge to a commissioner, he
ought to look after it or resign his
place and let man there who will.
We have reliable men in every dis
trict whom they could get to fix bad
holes in the roads in two days from
the time they are reported. Our peo-
pie are interested in roads. Much
complaint would be avoided if we
had these men over our county. Our
road superintendent should look after
bridges more carefully. How often
is he required to examine bridges in
the county? l reported a good
bridge to him and a commissioner
three months ago; one that consider
dangerous to cross with car or load.
1t has not been looked after. Is it
right?
Our tax equalizer should be more
considerate and careful There is
lots of complaint over the county of
your work this year. / know of two
farms, 5 acres difference in size +;
one on the front, one on the back; i'm
provements the same. The one on
the back taxed considerably higher
Why? Our people object to not hav-
ing little say-so over their own pro-
perty.
Our farmers can't pay the tax be-
ing put on them and live. | doubt if
the average farm in our county this
year will be able to pay it's lax and
fertilizer bill. The farmer had as
we'll turn his farm over to the collec-
tor as to try to go on and cultivate
it under present conditions. If our
tax equalizers didn't have any com
plant to their faces, there is COM
plant just the same. | think our
tax equalizers should be more care
full and instead of the 10 days given
man in June to make any COM
plant, give him more time and a
different time June is no time for
farmer to lose day from his crops.
In general, we should all be more