The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-02-25

Raise cotton on q basis of S1O cents
per pound.
z. l am too young.
s. More CREDIT and brotherly
love.
Prof. John Rumble.
i. Grenada is one of the most de-
sirably located cities in the State
We need to advertise. To that end
a live business league or board of
trade Is absolutely essential.
2. Economy in private affairs and
avoidance of extreme retrenchment
In public affairs. A spirit of optimism
and sane management generally.
3. Community meetings or rallies
free from politics. Quit knocking
on the county. Quit knocking on the
town. Be a booster! ~
s. If there were less of contrast
between assessed values and real val
ues possibly taxes would be lower
Is it wise TO kill the goose, etc.
Or. Wm. r. Ferguson.
/. More people and living. By
low taxes, houses for sale or rent,
cheap, manufacturers work for q hv-
ing instead Of borrowing it.
2. Business on the mend, labor
must be cut, greater efficiency in
production Of agriculture and live
stock. sacrifice, service and good will.
8. BY constant agitation, monthly
meetings Of all classes for sueges-
ticns and discussions.
4. Hard-surface as much as posi-
bic, grade in the spring and use drag
in summer and winter. Employ peo-
pie that live nearest the work to fill
holes and open drainage. Willing 20
trust expenditures of the money to
the board Of supervisors.
S. Lower taxes and assessments,
curtail public expenses.
6. Do not look for much change
in the cotton market for twelve
months. Market when money is
needed.
2. Don't think / have ever seen
such general depression of business.
8. Admit immigration, make the
large farms into small ones, cut oat
tisse AMI work by the sun. Stop free
high education, that we may have
fewer vacant farms. Reimbursement,
state and county appr0pria-
tions. Cut in salaries from president
down. Remember that debt is al
thing.
K. c. Trusty.
/. One Of the things Grenada
needs and needs badly is a Chamber
of Commerce, run during the present
period of depression at q small ex-
pense. Our business people need to
get together often to discuss various
problems arising from day to day.
Grenada's further needs are the sur
rounding country's needs and that
s lowering of the tax levy and an
increase in rural population.
2. Speaking of business: from a
of volume, 1920 was prsc-
.ically rs good as 1919. Speaking
rom standpoint Of profits we
would like to say that for several |
months there has been "no such |
Manufacturers claim that |
all of the decline is doe
20 extreme low price on raw material |
and that but very small part OF it |
IS contributed by labor. If this be |
rue, and We have no reason to doubt |
t, we cannot expect pre-war prices
IN manufactured articles when full
y go per cent of the cost il labor
Ill along the line. Then you cannot
expect labor at pre-war prices when
10 many Of the absolute necessities
# life which go to make up the great
r part of the daily living cost have
lot come down with the manufacture
ID articles.
8. A better spirit of cooperation
an be brought about among the
citizens of the county if the business
people of Grenada as a body would
our the county and adjoining terri
ory thoroughly in a get-tOgether
for several days during two
seasons in the year at times most
to the farmer. Other
owns have done this with wonderful
esults, why can't we?
a. Working the roads by contract
Gems to US, without question, the
'est way. We think, however, al
'reat Improvement could be made by
laving road commissioner in every
'eat whose duty it would be to pass
N all road work. It this commits
ioner did not o. k. the account then
here should be nothing DOING. The
money from the $500, 100000 bond is-
ue must be spent judiciously if we, in
ur progress are not to be set 20
ears back. We think here that the
ontract system will be much the
est way. n. L
6. Every thinking man realizes
hat the acreage planted to cotton
his year should be limited. A small
rop must be made if we expect to
e able to give it away. In growing
his little we should stop ''tradingt
own" and start Grading up." Cot
on seed should be bred up and puri-
led If we are to expect the best
narket prices prevailing at selling