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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-02-24

The young hogs are already grazing
in the oat and wheat fields about
Americas, and before these grains
are ready for harvest before
their yield is actually affected, the
hogs win be turned into pea fields.
and later they will go into pastures
Of velvet beans and peanuts. Maybe
they are fed a little corn all along,
but generally this grain is kept for
a finishing ration.
Corn pats hard, firm flesh on
hog, and a corn fed" hog brings a
shade better price than the others.
One farmer here, DR.. j. G. Berry.
has gone into hog raising on an en-
tirely new plan. His is the most d.
vesfied farm Ia Georgia, perhaps,
with some crop to be harvested each
month, but hogs furnish the princi-
pal revenue there, where cotton has
been altogether abandoned. The
system Of selling hogs here is wholly
cooperative. A farmer can sell a
single hog, dozen or hundred,
and get the same price as the man
who has a carload to offer.
Confidence in Agent
Marshall looks after all this. He
is the ''go-between7 between the
farmers and the buyers representing
The big packing houses. Everybody
here trusts Marshall implicitly, and
everybody has faith in him. IL he
tells farmer Go "sell at this sale, p"
the farmer comes to the pens with a
lot Of hogs. He knows that the time
to feed his hogs profitably is past,
and he puts them on the market.
When Marshall tells buyers:
"We're going to have a fine lot Of
hogs at our next sale" there's a lot
Of buyers on hand, and the bidding
is lively. They all know they can
depend On Marshall. He knows what
is best for the farmer; he tells the
producers when to sell to get the
biggest profit out Of their hogs, and
he tells the packers what the farmers
have to offer.
The system works fine.
Sumter's hogs now afford one of
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~ fs 80 ~ r Wy II 50 o3sNs ''sst s
Eafly and late Marsslall has worked
among farmers who wanted 10 cry
cattle and hogs as a money crop, but
wer a little afraid. Always he has
held to the maxim that purebred eat
tie and hogs are the only ones that
can be raised profitably. he hates the
sight of anything mongrel AS q re-
suit, there are few, except purebred
and grade hogs in this county.
One seller who brought in SO head
to the recent sale, has only purebreG
Durocs ON his whole place, and ne
sells these animals regularly as "meat
hogs" 1t pays, it is said, because
they put on flesh more rapidly and at
less cost than others. Sumter farm
ers raise hogs now as a money crop.
OF course, there are the exclusive
fancy breeders, like c. c.. Hawkins,
who sell their herd increase each
year to others for foundation herds
after taking numerous prizes at the
different fairs.
But this article isn't written to tell
,about breeders in the Hawkins class
The purpose is tell of the benefits
already derived by the small farmer
who raises something besides cotton
for cash.
Weekly Sales.
There is, no selling season" for
Sumter county hog raisers. Hardly a
week passes with mo sale" registered
in Americas, Every day Marshall
has telegraphic market quotations on
his desk. Frequently, he has inquiries
from other sections for hogs for
breeding purposes. Always he seems
to have Just what the buyers are look
ing FOR.
Within the past three months he
sold three carloads of hogs to north
Georgia buyers for breeding purposes
and twoscars Of Feeders" Feeders
are young pigs sold by the breeders to
others to ''feed out into grown hogs
/ This indicates Sumter county farm
ers are producing more hogs than
they have feedstuffs for It's a
Ihealthy condition. Breeding condi-
/ tons here are more ideal that they
kaer in the colder sections of North
] Georgia, and if the industry is to in
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. one buyer recently IN Americus.
crease substantially throughout the
state South Georgia, must furnish
some of the hogs TO eat up North
Georgia's abundant corn crop.
THE boil weeVil may eat up our
cotton crop" Marshall says, ''bnt
Wen produce more than enough hogs
to eat all Of our corn"
The most profitable way e. market
corn, according to Marshall, is in
pork, and this grain Is heiGg more
and more adopted as ration for
hogs here. But the peanut hog and
Che velvet bean hog" are fixtures in
Sumter county and South Georgia.
'Hogging off fields" is a practice
that has come to stay in this section.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-02-24

the county's biggest money crops.
Next to cotton, it is already the coun-
tvs most valuable asset, and many
here profess to see the day ahead
when the annual hog crop win exceed
in value even the harvest of cotton
bales in Sumter county
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-06
Letters to the Editor
Praises Philadelphia Troileys

To the Editor Of the EpcHino Public Ledger:
Sir-"On what meat does this oui
Caesar feed that he hath grown SC
great?'
Something like this was what old
Bill Shakespeare said. | want 10 thank
you for your editorial of last night re-
garding the transit situation. When
Mayor Moore has something better to
show us than Philadelrhians have now.
he can tall,. but until then silence would
be- his best showing. :.
have not seen nor ridden on all
the trolley systems Of these United
States. Eat | have socu and ridden on
most Of them In cities of any imnor-
tance east Of thc Mississippi and north
Of the Ohio. | paid ten cents per ride
in Pittsburgh on rotten. smelling ol!
cars that were probably purchased
twenty years age. pthcr cities are not
much better. No matter where l Q"
I am a straphangCr at certain times
during tho day. | have been in Co,
lumbns. O.. when the strikes there tied
up lines for days and It was not bodily
safe for one to Try 70 ride on such cars
as did run.
So 7 am glad | live IN Philadelphia
when il comes To tie trolley system.
find it 50 much better than any other
system in the territory that | cover
that I gladly boast OF 1t wherever | go.
People who do not like present con-
ditions had better be sure th"y know
how TO get something better before they
try to tear down what has already been
built up. see in the papers lots OF
destructive ideas concerning the present
system. but not one that VIII show
our city how 10 get anything better:
FRANK WILSON SHR1o'k Is,
Philadelphia. March .. 1922.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-06
For and against Bonus
Bonus and Love Of Flaq

To the Editor Of the Eren!pg Public Ledger:
Sir--The bold effrontery and insistent
demand of large number of our un-
blushing heroes for Il bonus is mani.
ieStation of new spirit in the men
who have been our defenders and surely
must be a child of tonscription. That
nation cannot remain great whose de-
tenders come girded only with itching
palms: whose souls do not leap eagerly
and eXultingly responsive to that high
call to duty in defense ofNtheir homes :;
whose young manhood turns a deaf ear
TO his cOuntry's 'call in her hour OF
extremity and whose loftiest conceptions
of duty are sordidly measured in lucre.
A bonus bears the nauseating stigma of
commcrcializing priceless trait that
a patriot holds more precious than life.
The love that he bears for the grand
old flag can by no manner of reasoning
be measured in terms rf money.
This Nation, in the effulgent glory Of
her gigantic youth. is not without some
measure of dignity. and the wearers
of her martial regalia should be in
vested with II lofty pride in her daunt-
less spirit and her matchless strength.
She has kept the faith with her SOL
dicrs and cared for them as no armies
have ever been cared for. This un-
dignited scramble for more money finds
no echo of sympathy in me or mine
who went with the gallant Twenty
eighth Division.
WILLIAM r. REA.
Chester, Pa. March 3. 1922.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-06
The Question Of Housing

To the Editor Of the Evening Public Ledger:
SRI should like to reply. through
your columns. TO the letter Of. s. j..
Nelson. who wants TO know why. i'll
the face of general downward trend
of commodity prices. rents should main
tain their present high level.
The answer is largely one Of supply
and demand. 1t is wrong to assume
that there is great number of va
cant properties throughout the city
which would fall in rental range. \
survey by the Philadelphia Housing
Association disclosed that out of 90,
S32 properties there were but eighty
three available for rent az 500 per
month or under. and in q fit sanitary
and structural condition for occupancy.
This would mean that. in the entire
city. there are fewer than 800 houses
of this class available.
| doubt whether new construction can
be launched for investment properties to
meet the requirements of what Mr..
Nelson calls the poor man. because
of the present price of labor and ma
terials. Philadelphia is in serious need
Of approximately 10000 new houses,
the majority OF which should be Of u
,vpe within reach of the low salared
and wage earning groups. Such con-
struction will attract present renters
to become home owners, ana tlls, IN
turn. will relieve congested rental
situation.
Where to draw the line between just
and unjust rental return IS TN open
question. The line is naturally above
the 1914 level now, because everything
entering into the upkeep of property is
higher. and taxes are very much heavier
than they were formerly. Figure
showing just what percentage OF value
would make a fair return and on what
basis the value is judged must still be
determined.
The doubling-up suggestion Of Mr..
Nelson should not be encouraged, as
this feature has already become go wide
spread az TO menace seriously the fu-
ture health happiness and social we'll
being of our city.
If Mr.. Nelson can act Tally cite spe-
cifcally cases where rents have been
increased since the first Of this year,
/ he would be doing u great service to
communicate this information to the
| Philadelphia Housing Association at
100 South Fifteenth street.
II. !. BARINGER.
PHILADELPHIA, March 3. 1922
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-06
"rhe Green Shores Of Erin"

To the Editor Of the EVenin0 Public LEDGER:
Sir-It IL forty years, since I heard the
song 1.-The Green Shores OF Erin sung by
Charles Duvsl, who was then noted irish
singer. He wrote the song, the words or
"''" FRED 7. MCINTYRE.
Philadeiphla, February 10. 1922.
THE GREEN SHORES OF ERIN
Tho green shores of Erin I've left far he
hind me.
Across the broad ocean for fortune ]
stray.
try to forget her but mem ries REMIND
or the dear ones from whom I'm now
parted away.
Oh, darling. 7 love thee too dearly to sever
And leave without signing thy fond. trust
ing heart:
Like the tendrils Of ivy my love for thee
ClinFs Hreencr and fresher wherever thou
art,
The towers Of my country those diaAs OF
When beautiful sunset sheds forth ns
bright glow.
Throw shadows whose oarkhess en'e'ops
the pages
or IN, histories now lost Of long ages ago,
Oh. could they but speak and one moment
The rlories now lost OF our beautiful
Isle.
How proud would the sons OF poor Inn's-
fail feel
And pray that her fortune again on her
smile.
And often when wandering on a bright sum
mer morning.
Where Shannon's broad river rolls down
to the sea.
rho brilliant sunbeam without moment Of
warning
BY clouda overcast disappearing I see.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-06
THE PEOPLES FORUM

, Az any rate, 1t contains the idea that she
quoted. And reap a destiny:
The law Of the harvest 10 to reap moVe
than you SOW. Sow a thousht. and you
reap word Sow q word. and you reap
an act Sow an act. and YOU reap Q
habit Sow habit. snd YOU reap Q char.
destiny"
While am answering this query perhaps
&c. L. D. or some reader of the People .
Forum can help me locate a psem by Edwin
Markham containing ths line And 10! the
Christ sought was there" Another line
runs: And now where'er a sorrow stands.
It's mine to clasp his aching hands,
do not believe this poem 10 to be found 10
his published poems IN book form. II 10,
believe. from magazine publication.
hav asked for this before, but no one seems
to know Of the poem. I would Great,y sp.
preciate any information leading to the To-
cation OF the verses.
THEODORE ]. GREEN.
Delanco, n. j.. February a., 1922,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-06
SianaI to Catch Bandits

To thr Editor Of the Ererin0 Public Ledger:
Sir--lt should be easily possible, and
at very little expense. to invent a
burglar signal which could be installed
in all stores and business places, at a
point known only to the proprietor or
clerks. which could BE- touched either
with the hand or foot and which would
easily give the signal Of a hold-up
taking place in the store. This would at
tract policemen and others in the neigh
borhood and prevent these hold-up men
getting away with their loot.
These signals should be so constructed
that they are visible to those on the
out side and where bandits could see
them. and 1t would be a means Of pre-
venting many Of them undertaking the
Job feeling they would surely be
caught. They should be loud enough
that they could be heard at least q
block away. Such device, if generally
installed, would stop banditry OF this
character at once. G. w. i.
Philadelphia. February 81, 1922.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-06
Criticizes Soldier Critic

To tie Editor Of the EUenin0 Public Ledger:
SRI see where John Henry Smith
saws that the life of soldierss to stand
on the street corners and smoke ciga.
rettes and smile at the young women.
will say there may be some who do
this. but he should not place all sol.
diers in that class. They are not all
too lazy TO work, if they can get it. ]
am working seven days week, and
served three years in the regular army
two wears Of it on the Mexican border
and have an excellent discharge: and
I think this is more than John Henry
smith can show. IL he can come up
to that / am willing to take my hat off
to him. If there is any bonus coming
along am going to take 1t. q. II. B.
Camden. y. j.. March =, 1922.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-06
Locate Fair in Park

~ -, g1-to, ~ tLe Ereniuo puhliC IrdUfr.
| ~ w. :,,.. .a.a = ,ar,,hy orti.
.,;n nuse Jusv s"p p,.prI~ ISpcEr.
n II, .hiS ,;u nv, u;,s oanasal he Coun =.
~ ark nS ,ioh n'r |e AZ Cpa C,anev makes Tho
W III M""rr ..,rho hoid;r. nf tho fair ut
S,u'I'itH, -. 49, pari, nod osirovcd
~, ~, '%u,s h.Hi, nt "naco So effnc,nallv that
;"a. or'",m,ns orr.J N,roJJ IN INTO bnildinp
Io,s -
.''s' -.
would Ike to know wh're ne soI ms ~,
information. ! was porn ana n'eu ~.
st. Louis al! my life until III. seven
years after the FAR was heId there. unn
| spent three months there iasl W'htel
tl"2l and there mas never pesI o''s
foot OF that beautiful Forest fark uSed
for building sites fnrthermore Ihe
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-06

| not be likely to undertake the same sort
OF infringement again. And why was
not the saloon closed entirely If 1t was
found the illegitimate business was be.
ing done there? 1t is not this saloon
alone. but there have been dozens of
other incidents of a similar character
that have occurred in this city since
the Eighteenth Amendment has gone
into effect.
1t is quite evident that politics Is
playing a part in the efforts to rid the
city of illegitimate liquor selling. If a
poor bootlegger is caught following his
vocation he is railroaded off 10 Jail,
and for long term, while some of the
big fellows are left of with easy sen
tences and small fines, and are al
lowed to continue and are soon able
to pile up a profit of hundred times
the amount of the fine. So long as this
condition exists we cannot expect but
SEQ defiance Of the law in many ways.
Once people are taught that they
need not be afraid to violate the law.
crime will be openly pursued. and it
seems to me that this kind of politics
is leading up to all sorts OF holdups.
SAMUEL Il. BROOKS.
Philadelphia. February IS. 1922.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-06
Uncommon Sense /: BY JOHN BLAKE
The Price of Popularity ~ '",

TT IS pleasant to have your friend.
i number legion, but it is seldom
profitable.
1t is delightful to be hailed every
where as a desirable companion, but II
usually proves that you spend SO mucl,
time being a desirable companion that
you neglect your work.
The men OF wide popularity have
little In life 70 enjoy but the popularity
And that does not last very long.
IF YOU really want to get on in the
1 world. you will be kept so busy that
you will have time to make only q few
intimate friends.
These few intimate friends are worth
an army of acquaintances who like you
merely because you are willing to spend
your time entertaining them.
II you spend eight hours a day at
your job. and three or four more hours
In occupations calculated to make you
more competent at your job. your OPP
portunities for acquiring popularity will
be extremely limited. .
1t is a good plan to leave the enter
tainment of the multitude to actors and
other people who are paid for that pur.
pose. They do it better than amateurs.
1t is their business to capitalize popu.
larity. The more they get the better
of they are.
These people are comparatively few.
Unless you are one of them it will be
of more profit to YOU to be popular with
your boss. or your patients. or your
clients. or your customers. than with
"hosts Of friends"
The liking Of the hosts of friends for
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-06
Should Soldiers Receive Bonus?

To the Editor Of the Euenino Public Ledger.
Sir-How many stay at home patri.
OTIS received bonus? Every shipyard
worker. railroad worker. steel mill
worker. coal miner. and in fact every
worker during the war received addi.
tional compensation. besides a fat SAL
ary. The Government employees in
Wa shington and elsewhere received a
bonus of $40 per month, and are re-
ceiving it today.
The boys were drafted from good pay =
ing positions and received the great
salary of $50 per month. They bought
bonds of every issue and helped to win
the war with their thirty per as well as
to go over and lick the Huns. l feel that
this great country Of ours should give
the wounded the best of care and full
compensation but don't forget the boys
who went through the mill without a
scratch They. too, should be shown n
little appreciation of their services by
the stay at home patriots and grafters.
Don't forget the boys in fighting
units. who did not get chance TO go
across They were ready 10 go and were
looking for the day to come that they
might reach the front and help their
buddies. am not in favor of giving
one penny to the men who pulled wires
and received desk job in Washing
ton.
Look at Canada. That country gave
her boys compensation from 5000 to
$500. yet she was in the war from 1914
TO 1915. They are not burdened with
riches. but ] have never heard one word
against the soldiers bonus from those
people
would like to know how much
money "R. w. L." made during the
war and how many bonds he bought
We were patriots and fought with all
our power for the L. s. A. and I dom t
believe the standard Of our patriotism
will be lowered If we receive the bonus.
+. II. MCCARTHY.
Twenty ninth Division.
Philadelphia, March >, 1902,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-06
"Modern. Medicine"

To the Editor Of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir-Thcre is an amusing poem entitled
Modern Medicine" by Strickland w. Oil
lIlan, which I will appreciate IL you will
MORTON l.. HERSHEY.
West Chester. Pa. February 20. 1922.
MODERN MEDICINE
BY Strickland W. Gillian
went TO a modern doctor to learn what 1t
was was wrong.
I'd lately been of my fodder. and life was
no more a song.
He felt at my pulse. as they all do; ne sazsd
at my outstretched tongue:
He took of my coat and weskit and harked
at each whcezing lung.
He fed me a small glass penstalk with hs-
ureu upon the side.
And this was his final verdict when all OF
my marks he'd spied:
do yol eat fried eggs? Then quit IT.
You don't? Then hurry and eat 'em.
Along with some hay that was cut In May
There's no other foods to beat EN-.
Do you walk? Then step instanter.
For exercise will not do
For people with whom IT does not agree;
And this Is the rule for YOU
Just quit whatever you do do.
And begin whatever you don't:
For what you don't do may agree with yoo
As whatever you do do don't.
Yes, thus saith the modern doctor. Trad
tion be double durned.
What the oldstcrs knew was nothing com
pared TO the things we've learned.
There's nothing in this or that thing that's
certain in every case.
Any more than single bonnets becoming
TO every face.
It's all in the diagnosis that tells US the
patients fix
The modern who knows his business is' Up
70 q host OF tricks.
DO you eat roast pork" Then stop u.
You don't? Then get after 1t quickly;
For the long-eared ass gives tpe laush 10
grass
And delights in the weed that's prckiv
Do you sleep with the windows open!
Then battcn them good and tight
And awallow the same old fetid air
Through all cf the snoozesome night.
Just quit whatever you do do.
And whatever you do do don't;
For what you don't do may agree Win you
ANA whatever you do do don't.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-06
The Luncheon That
Proved a Success

MARY exclaimed Mrs. Gordon
to her new maid. in dismav, "what
in the world are We going to do I,
Mrs. Redfern has come for lunch
You might be sure she'd hit upon
the very day we had planned on just
q pick up lunch. We might man
age, but there isn't thing we can
have for dessert at this short no.
tice.''
II can manage, Mrs. Gordon. -
replied Mary, confidently. "Just
yom leave it to me.
Luncheon time arrived, and Mary
brought in delicious. smooth
mold of rich chocolate blanc
mango. She had saved the day,
"How in the world did you do
~" said Mrs. Gordon. Your des e
sert was delicious" 3"
"Why," replied her maid, 81
made il with Puddine."
"Puddinc?" questioned Mrs
Gordon. ''Do tell me about it. "
Its a dessert that always turns
out right, and isn't bit of trouble
TO make. All you have to do is tC
add milk. either fresh or condensed
+ ana sugar, ana DOH Tor three min
Y utes. and then when it is cool
Syou have rich, creamy mold OF
! DESSERT.
"Does it come in more than one
I. Gavor?' asked Mrs. Gordon.
"Oh, yes, indecd-chocOlate. rose
vanilla, orange, lemon and in sev
eral favors. And it only costs 15c
for q box which will serve 15 peo
K pie, or a 1Oc box Z people"
"Well," said Mrs. Gordon. "it
certainly IL delicious.
X IL use it for cake and pie fill.
ings, too, said Mary, ''and II
makes ice cream smooth and rich. ;
"Well.' - exclaimed Mrs. Gordon
smphstically, there Ia one thins
cure. In the future. we will nevel
ls.sl s'ddI'.!a 3 III sloe.,,. $ -Aa,.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-06
The Thirty.f7rst infantry

To the Editor Of the Evening Public Ledocr:
Sir--is the Thirty-frst Regiment OF In
fantry 10 be sent home from the Philip
pines soon? II. W. L.
Philadelphia. February 90, 1922.
The War Department says that the Thirty
first Infantry Regiment will not leave Ma
Mia soon. according to present arrange
ments. However. men in companies Of that
regiment whose terms Of enlistment are
nearing a close will be returned TO the
United states shortly.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-06
JENKINT0WN SUES P. R. 7.
Seeks to Recover $ss2 for Highway
Repairs

Jenkintown Town Council. acting for
the municipality, has instituted a suit
against the Philadelphia Rapid Transit
Company to recover $5S2,33.
Under terms Of the ordinance permit.
ting the company to operate cars in
Jehkintown. It is declared there is u
clause by which the operating company
agrees to maintain that portion of York
road within the borough limits.
The assertion is made the traction
company failed to keep the highway in
first -class condition: and that when
repairs were necessary they were made
under the supervision Of borough off I.
cials and paid for with borough funds.