Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-01
The Country Home
RY MRS. w. lei. FELTON,
rrm IT'S GET DOWN TO COMMON
SENSE WAYS

SENSE w "a
We have been living too mucn IN
dreamland these later years. we
have tried to nourish ourselves on
decisions. Some people supposed
high wages would never come down
but they have come down. eAcept
as to railroads and rev other sIeae
organizations, but they are gong TO
come down on railroads after aWh1le
We had had springing-up ideas TOT
q few wears past. We are now eX-
periencing settling-down ways IN
the days now present. High cost
of living did not stop craze TOT
extravagant spending. If the people
who received two hundred dollars
a. month to fire railroad engine,
or serve as brakeman-they could ali
have bought a nice, good enough
home for themselves or any OF their
neighbors ,-
era1 ruie, They paid more for a
pair of shoes than they once paid
for an entire suit of clothes. They
raid for SO to SIS neckties and
laughed about how they used to pay
fifty cents or quarter. ou -,
ways be with you"-and they will
work will always be performed,
There are certain things we always
have been obliged to have, and al,
ways will be obliged to have, ana
that is work-systemat1c Wor Is,-
and the great majority OF the Woflo
population are workers.
In Georgia one season OF 4O-cent
cotton has nearly bankrupted the
state. The most of folks got, to
buying land and mules on similar
basis
yet anybody of experience and
common sense could understand that
accent cotton was freak-and very
uncon1mon-and of course not long
to stay with us. People in my part
of the country bought plain farming
land as high as 5000 to $3.50 per
acre on a credit.
fenced war times, knows that such
greatness follows war. Now they
are wondering whether their credit
is good enough to give them ten
years to pay for what they generally
could buy from $25 to $50 per acre;
hundred dollars to hold the trade"
If their creditors can hold them
and force a settlement, the most OF
them will be homeless. If they, can
afford to lose what they paid down
and then go to law, they may. beat
It has thrown a lot of them up
in the air, and they may fall on
their own side of the fence, or 1t
may land them in the clutches of
the other fellow. IL surely IS d
gamble, no matter now it Is set
tied.
All that saved the south after the
Civil war, was the general smash.
The most of land owners succeeded
in saving their lands, but in some
sections If was confiscated. There
were "stay laws enacted that gave
debtors a chance to pay. Gold was
So IL for one of greenbacks; and
greenbacks were made a legal ten
der in Georgia. That means if yous
owed a hundred dollars on note,
the creditor could not make you
pay it in go1d-as a good many tried
to do-if you could beg or borrow
a hundred dollars in greenbacks. and
then go and offer it to the holder
of the note, in the presence of a
witness. These stay laws were all
that saved administrators from per-
sonal bankruptcy. Also, the people
wore homemade clothes and shoes.
They bought very little on credit
Money was very scarce, but every
body went to work. 1t was common
sense that saved the poor old south
in the crash.
Common sense will save US now,
if we have any to use.