Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1921-02-24
Dixon Springs News

Our tobacco growers are very much
discouraged at the prices tobacco is
bringing. Much distrust of the buy
ers is being manifested toward those
visiting loose leaf houses at Huntsville
and Carthage on account of the bid
ding. Farmers say that tobacco of the
same grade does not bring uniform
prices. For instance, a basket of
tobacco will bring 26 cents a pound
and another right by it of the same
kind and grade will sell at cents a
pound, and if the farmer rejects the
8 cents bid then the buyer will retail
late by refusing to take the basket at
&c cents. The farmers think the
buyers are taking advantage of them
and there is not so much in all the
talk about good tobacco bringing good
prices. 1t used to be said that cigar
etts were made in part from stumps
of cigars taken from cuspidors in hotels
and other public places, but since the
anti-cigarette law has been repealed.
they are said to contain good tobacco,
then it looks as tho the demand for
cigarette tobacco would be stronger.
The war and the soldiers popuIarized
the use of cigarettes and President
elect Warren G. Harding and Con-
gressman-elect lynne F. Clouse be-
ing cigarette smokers, with the ex-
amples of these great men before the
youth of the country the repeal of the
anticigarette law in this state was
easily secured. The Governor of the
state of Arkansas refused tc follow
Tennessee in this matter. In Ten
nessee, today, a weakly, 21-year old
girl can legally buy cigarettes, but q
robust boy of 20 summers can not get
&laVN
tiles used TO teach that cigarettes
were harmful, some magazine in
England has said they Were not hurt
full. A Prosecuting attorney for the
state has recently said that cigarettes
have such a deleterious effect on
human memory that a cigarette
smoker could not recollect from whom
he had secured cigarettes the day be-
fore.
This is the day for hatchets and
cherry pies and celebrations in honor
of George Washington's 189th birth
day. As boy George Washington was
great as an athlete as he was for truth
and mental attachments. He gave up
his ambition to be seaman cheerfully
because his mother asked him to. A
young horse killed himself in an at
tempt to throw George. He showed
throwing a silver dollar across the
Rappahannock fredericksburg, a feat
that no one else has performed until
this day. He carved his name higher
than any one else at the Natural
bridge, with the exception of one who
accepted a banter, and carved higher
than George, but he had to be hauled
up the bridge by rope to save
him from falling to his death.
Washington's physical strength was
so great that it is said he pulled a
new horseshoe in two. Some show
man. Feb. is the month which contains
the birthdays of three aft America s
geatest men namely, Abraham Lin
ciln on the 18th, jefferson Davis on
the 18th and Washington on the 22nd.
Washington and Lincoln occupy ex-
allied places in the worlds history.
Jefferson Davis, a really great man,
has been misunderstood and wronged
by historians, Roosevelt in one of his
books made a false statement about
him, and when his attention was cal
led to it, instead of apologizing his
reply was 81 do not desire to have any
communication with jeff Davis" 1t
does not take scholar to see that
Davis was much superior in the vir-
tues that make the real man than
Roosevelt. Aside from the three great
birthdays for February, we have
grounding day on the End, and ST.
Valentine day. Some of our local
people were born in February, those
we remember are, DIR. S. C. Bridge
water, G. F. Bransford, Robt. Bras
well of Rome, Master Ramona Kemp
of Carthage, and the junior member
of the publishers of the Carthage
Courier, Jere Gardenhire, celebrates
the same day as the anniversary of his
birth as was made famous by the birth
of the great jefferson Davis. Febru-
airy, though the shortest month, is
noted for birthdays of notables, both
living and dead.
Cardinal RichIin,n for-ndoI L.