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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-03
WALLACE INVITES
FARMERS To FARLEY

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-Acting
at the direction of President Har-
ding, Secretary Wallace was extend
ing invitations today to farmers or
CARNATIONS and representatives OF
industries associated directly sor in
directly with agriculture to attend a
national conference here, probably
within a month, to Suggest practical
ways of improvement" for "the Sc
we're agricultural depression which
exists throughout the land"
The presidents request that such
a conference be called iwas an
nounced yesterday in letter to the
secretary in which he declared that
while mo one will pretend that the
present conditions could have been
avoided, none of us is willing to
agree that there ought not to be
some correct and constructive step
taken to remedy the severe hard
ships under which so important a
portion of our productive citizenship
is struggling
He suggested that the conference,
for which no date has yet been set
nor a complete invitation list made
up, might divide it's work into two
sections, one for consideration of
"our present day difficulties" and
the other to work out general poll
cies for the future.
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NEW RENT CONTRACT FORM
WOULD AID INVESTIGATION

and fourth contract" They cannot
be present at the division. They
dislike to divide so many small
crops, and many Of the crops like
millet forage, etc, the tenant
does not think are worth dividing
The result under such a contract is
that the landlord usually insists
upon most of the acreage being
planted in cotton.
Those who have studied the pro
posed standard contract point out
the following advantages:
1. 1t .compels diverslfication.
2. The amount Of rent is certain
and fixed.
3. The specifics, or crops, under
this contract will be paid to the
landlord. He must sell them, anC
therefore a market will be establish
ed in every town in the south for
corn, wheat, oats. peas, potatoes
syrup and hay There is no market
now for these crops because no city
can rely with any certainty that any
considerable quantity of such crops
will be produced and sold. There
is a market for cotton, because there
is always cotton for sale.
Il IL
crops for his landlords rent, he will
always have these crops for his own
use and often he will have a surplus
for sale.
More Money for Cotton
5. Such a contract would auto
matically reduce the cotton acreage
about so per cent, anh yet the cot.
ton produced would bring the south
more money than the bumper all
cotton crop.
If the south had operated under
this contract for the past fifty years
she would today be the richest sec
ton of the United States. Such q
contract would have added billions
to her wealth.
If such a contract were adopted
now and followed until it became a
universal custom, the south would be
saved from threatened disaster, and
finally become prosperous.
A great many customs spring UP
out of ignorance and prejudice, an6
do incalculable harm. This thou
sand pounds to the horse" is one
of them.
Why not break such custom and
start one based on intelligence and
foresight?
Representative bodies of landlords
and tenants should meet and adopt
such standard contract as is here
proposed, and put it into universal
practice.
The various farm organizations
should at once adopt such standard
rent contract
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iation properly supported, can
easily turn tide of young farm
raised men to Georgia acres, men
trained to dairying, live stock, and
diversified crops, and who will be-
independent of cotton.
We have simply got to fill up
these otherwise idle acres or else
Georgia will slip and slip fast, and
permanent disaster come to city,
town and country alike. The quick.
ness with which the tide can be
turned our way is absolutely de-
pendent on the support given the
only agency that is using every pos
sible effort to turn the tide this
way. Our present situation should
not be looked on as disaster, but
rather a summons for every man
and woman in Georgia to face per-
fectly obvious facts and more
promptly turn the present discour-
aging situation into a real sound
agricultural and business develop
ment that will make Georgia in
reality the Empire State" not only
of the south, but Of the nation.
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Bids for Refitting Giant
Liner Leviathan Are
Opened in New York

NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-Eight bids
for reconditioning the giant steam
ship Leviathan. idle at her pier in
Hoboken for two years, were opened
today before Chairman Lasker, of
the United States shipping board.
The bids were as follows:
The New York Harbor Dry Dock
company, $10.304,000.
Standard Ship Building company.
s1O,192,675.
Morse Dry Dock company, $S,497,
900.
\ Todd Ship Yards. $7,957,90o.
Newport News Dry Dock and Ship
Building company. $5,595,O00.
Warwick Machine Works, New
port News, Va, $10,350,000.
James Shewan & Sons. $9,374, 900.
Newport News Ship Building and
Supply company. S5,99S,000.
The bid of the Newport News Ship
Building and Supply company was
not for the entire work, it was ex-
planned A number of bids were re.
ceived for partial reconditioning.
The shipping board will take all
Of the bids under Amusement and
no announcement as to the award
is expected for some time.
The specifications cali for the
work to be finished in March, 1928. .
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Chicago Girls Plan
To Invade Carolina
Womanless' VILLAGE

GREENVILLE. S. c., Jan. O.
Donalds, which has gained nation
wide reputation as being a town
without single manageable wom-
an, due to an epidemic Of weddings
last summer, is to be invaded by Chi
cago women, who will give the
matrimonial prospects the "once
ever"
The Greenville postmaster receiv-
ed letter from Chicagoan
who styled herself as young, pref
ty and a good cook, with money"
saying that she and others were
planning motor trip south and that
they wanted the postmaster to inves-
tigate the situation at Donalds and
give confidential report on the boys
who, for lack Of more excitement,
almost crowded the stove out of the
village drug store at nights.
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CALLS TENANT FARMING
~ STATES WORSE EVIL
Continued from Page Il

ton, the depleted soil fertility re-
stored.
How many of these town-living,
farm -land-owning folks, softened by
years Of town living and relative
ease will have the backbone and
courage to go back to the land and
do the perfectly obvious and neces-
sary thing, remains to be seen.
hazard the opinion that the number
Will be relatively small.
The second alternative is for them
to stay in town with no income from
the farmland and elIe out preca-
rious existence as best they may
while the once fertile farmlands re-
vert to old field pines and broom
sedge. Undoubtedly millions OF per-
fectly good acres will thus be let go
back to nature.
Third Alternative
The third alternative is to bring
in, through perfectly legitimate and
truthful advertising and promotion,
several hundred thousand energetic,
young farm-raised folks from the
states to the north of us and settle
them on our unused lands, same be-
ing sold to them on the most favor
able terms.
There are in all probability a mil
lion or more of these farm-ralSed
young men and women who cannot
get a land-owning foothold where
they are due to high cost of land
and the large amount Of capital nee
essary to make a start. These folks
are real farmers, not simply crop
pers. Cotton means nothing to
them. Their knowledge and inter-
est is in the dairy and beef cattle,
hogs, poultry and the hay and grain
crops necessary to feed live stock
ON. These are the folks that build
I'D land instead of robbing or mining
it. They are not ashamed to work
with their own hands. They are a
class Of people that Georgia has
needed in the past and needs now
worse than ever under the new con-
ditions that confront US.
1 am and always have been fatty
opposed to bringing to Georgia the
generality of foreign immigrants.
They do not fit into the general
scheme of American life in the
south. We do need, however, more
people of the type populat1ng the
| farms in the states further north,
the younger generation that is look
! ing anxiously for better opportunl-
| ties than their present locality at
fords. 1t is the same class Of folks
that so largely settled Iowa, Kan
sas, Nebraska and other, western
states in the '70's and 'S0's and made
them the leaders in agricultural
wealth that those states now are.
I was intensely interested q
month ago in talking with a dairy
man from New York state who was
here during the farm bureau con
vention. This man was one OF the
farm bureau party that the Georgia
association took on two days trip.
He is coming back here to get To-
cation for his son, who wants to
start in the dairy business under
more favorable conditions than are
present in New York state.
This dairyman lives in a small
farming community near Albany,
N. Y. He stated that, in addition
to his own son, he knew Of at least
fifteen young farm-raised men who
were looking for just such oppor.
tunities as he saw on his two days
trip, and that they CO. Id be brought
to Georgia easily if our resources
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and opportunities were properly pre-
scented to them.
Vast Waste lands

Vast Waste Lands
The important thing for US to
realize is that there are thousands
of Just such farm communities, each
with their ten, fifteen or more am
bilious farm-raised young men who
cannot get a foothold with 5000 to
S40O per acre land, and who would
welcome a chance to start indepen-
dent farm life under favorable con-
ditions and opportunities such as
| Georgia abounds in. They know
| little or nothing about Georgia now.
1t is only a vague geographical unit
of which their notions are hazy and
incorrect. They will never know
about Georgia unless they are told
| by us. They will never come to
Georgia unless we invite them
! Fundamentally.
Georgia, even without the weevil,
had only one-third of it's tillable
| area under cultivation. Our pres
ent weevil infestation means be-
! yopd any question the abandonment
| of two or three million acres now
under tenant cultivation unless the
| tenants are replaced by actual farm
| ers from other states. Under such
circumstances can Georgians, either
from city or "'ntry, afford to stand
aloof and Indifferent to every legiti-
mate effort possible to bring new
and desirable farm people into Geor-
gia.
The Georgia association has been
doing it's best, with a minimum of
| both moral and financial support
from those in Georgia most vitality
interested, to get attention turned
this way. In accord with the small
amount available the results have
been surprisingly good. Our expe'
rience shows that, the Georgia as.
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GRAIN

CHICAGO, Dec. 3l.-People who
crowded the galleries to see the ex-
citement attendant to the closing out
of Wagner & Co.'s trades were dis
appointed. There was less wheat
open than expected, and this was
quickly cleaned up with hardly a
ripple in the market, buyers being
ready for the grain. December was
run up to $1.13 IL by excited shorts,
but offerings came out and the price
fell back to below the previous close.
After the opening, most of the bust
ness was local and while prices were
easier, the change was slight. Elk
port business at the seaboard was
heavy after the close yesterday.
There was little indication Of any
business today. Milling demand was
quiet. Receipts continue light, ow-
ing to the holidays. Windstorms are
complained of in the west, and wheat
is being blown out, according to
these reports December closed Sc
lower, at SLOT IL; May, $1.14 1-S@
lis; July, $1.03 7-S@1.04.
Corn was easier, but it was evil
dent that the Wagner trades were
mostly closed out yesterday so far
as the effect it had on the market.
Locals sold on the depression in
wheat, while commission houses were
moderate buyers. Domestic demand
was light for cash corn, owing to
the fact that PEORIA. Cleveland, To-
ledo and Buffalo were underselling
Chicago. Country offerings to ar
rive were light. Shipping sales were
$4,000 bushels, including $4,000 BUSH
els to exporters. Market closed IL
to 3-4c off; December. 46 3-Sc; May,
So 1908 3-S@53 1-2c; July, 81 7-Sc.
Oats were easier. Wagner liqui-
dation caused a break at the start,
but strong houses bought on the
break. Cash demand was again
good, and heavy sales for eastern
shipment were reported. Shipping
sales were 246,000 bushels. Market
closed IA to 1-2c lower; December,
so 1902 5-Sc; May, SO 1908 5-Sc;
July, 80 3-8c.
Provisions were generally easier.
January lard strength was due to
covering of short line for Wagner.
Pork closed 15c lower. Lard un-
changed to 2 1-2c off, and ribs sc
higher to 2 12c lower.
CHICAGO QUOTATIONS
The following were the ruling prices IN
tie exchange today:
Open. High. Low. Close. close.
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Live Stock Business

CHICAGO, Dec. 31.-Business in live stock
in Chicago for 1921 aggregated SAB 906, coo,
4 reduction of 1882. OS1. 326 from 1870, ana
the lowest since 1915. Chicago received 49,
731, 800 head of live stock during the year.
or 500, 1872 head more than in 1920, estimat-
ing the last two days receipts. Chicago
packers slaughtered 1903, 500 head Of live
stock in 1921, an increase Of 449, 900 head
over 1920. Shipments Of live stock from
Chicago totaled 1896, 900 head for 1921, an
increase of 551 ,2S4 head over 1920.
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET
NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-Flour: Dull and
Pork. Dull; mess, s24Oo@25oo
Lard: quiet; middle west spot. $935Q
Sugar: Raw, dull; centrifugal 96-test,
No. 4 santos, 12H G124.
Tallow, steady, specials; G; city, 5, ,,o
1.25; clover, 1.1O@1.4O.
Dressed Poultry: Weak; turkeys, 30@54c;
chickens, 17@42c; fowls, 15Q31c; ducks,
Live Poultry: Firm; geese. 23@26c; ducks,
32@35c; fowls. 23@30c; turkeys, 40@50c;
ROSTERS, 1Sc; chickens, 2S@SOc; broilers,
34M36c.
specials, 16@2314c; SKINS, commo3~to spe-
Gals, agile.
4O1ac; do!, special market, 41@411@c; state
dairy tubs; imitation creamery, firsts, ESQ
40c.
Eggs: Steady; nearby white fancy, zoe;
fresh firsts. 45@52c; Pacific coast extras.
50@67c.
coTToNsEED OIL MARKET
NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-Cottonseed oil
was lower under selling Of July by refiners
and scattered liquidation, induced by slow
export trade and disappointing action of
grains and lard Closing bids We're l to
s points net lower. Sales 9700 barrels.
Tenders, 300. Prime crude 705 sales.
Prime summer yellow spot $40; January,
1923; March, S67; May SOL, all bid.
NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-Cottonseed oil
closed: Prime summer yellow, $50 bid;
prime crude, 7.O5 sales January, S.23; Feb
ruary, $40; March, S.67; April, S.74; May,
SOL; June, 900; July, 9.15; August, 9.25.
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1r!A@yMar1@ttRpo
LIVE STOCK MARKET

| UNION STOCK YARDS, CHICAGO, Dec.
| 31-At the close Of the year the live stock
| trade is at low price levels compared with
| a year ago. but sellers look for better
, future for the producer during the year to
come. Western cattle fell off so per cent
, in 1921 compared with the previous year
| and still there is plenty of feed at western
points. The supply of range cattle is ex-
, live stock market will be open next Mon
/ day.
; Receipts of live stock at the local yards
| today were estimated at 1000 cattle, 5000
/ hogs, 5000 sheep and lambs and 200 calves.
| Cattle trade was of little account today.
Some small lots sold at unchanged levels,
but the trade was hardly more than NOM
| inal one. The general market for steers
| closed 25650c higher than week ago,
after values were up more than S1.O0 at
/ the best time this week. Cows and heifers
were about 25c higher while Gamers sold
| at $3.50 at the close. The general market
! for calves gained $1.O0@1.25, during the
week.
! Hogs-Light hogs were 25c higher at the
start, but many sales showed gain of
! 35c later in the season. Prime light lots
made $500, against $775 yesterday. while III!
i few rough packing hogs went below 1919:
The trade was active and sellers did not
have many .unsold hogs at the close. AT
| the close of last week top hogs sold at
| $3.50 or dime below today's high mark.
Sheep-Few lambs sale today.
Values were quoted steady. Nearly all the
runs was direct to big killers and sellers
had little on hand. Fat lambs were 800
| soc higher than a week ago. while aged
muttons showed gain of soc for the period.
| Best lambs were placed at $11.75, while top
! ewes were quoted at $5.50@5.65.
EAST ST. LOUIS. Dec. 31.-Cattle: Re
ceipts, 200; compared week ago, steers,
steady; heifers, higher: cows and Gamers,
1Oc. to 15c higher; bulk. SOC, higher; light
| veal calves, $500 higher; stockers and feed
Hogs: Receipts. 1900; closing uneven
i7o-pOund average ,$7;75gs;oo; practical
butcher, top $7.25; bulk, 100 to 240-pound
! average, $6.s5@7. so; heavies,, oS7.50@7. 70;
packer sows, steady. $5.d5@6.Oo; pigs, 15c
| clearance, good.
sheep: Receipts, 500: receipts all direct
| Ond through; market compared with week
ago generally 25c higher.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, Dec. 31.-Cattle: Re
ceipts. 100; steady; heavy steers So. 50@a 20;
beef steers, $4.50@5.25; heifers, S4:OO@6,o0;
COWS, $2.OO@ 500; feeders. $4.5o@5.5o; stock
Hogs: Receipts, 900; strong; 165 pounds
down, $500, 165 pounds up, $3.50; throw
cLaor. I1aoointc 50. etaadV. 1omf,s 50 90
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One Murder a Week
In Memphis Last Year

MEMPHIS. Tenn, Jan. 2.-One
murder every six days is the aver
age for Memphis during 1921, ac-
cording to official figures made pub
lie today.
There were seventy-five homicides
during the year. OF this number, 1t
is estimated, about 10 per cent are
still unsolved. Arrests totaled 1864,
with drunks far in the lead despite
nrnhihitiOn.
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$50. 900 900; in August, $9O,OOO,OOO
and in October, best month Of the
year, $1O5,OOO,OOO. Meantime, more
men were employed. Between April
and October, inclusive, more than
10000 of the discharged railroad
workers were reinstated. The year
goes out with the roads pay rolls
showing almost as many names as
when it came in.
With the Railroads
Notwithstanding the pickup in
earnings, the railroads have not
earned-for the year as a whole
much more than half the per cent
which the interstate commerce COM
mission expected the new high rates
would give them. For while the
showing in October was almost what
had been hoped, recessions followed
in November and December followed
ings did not come up to expectations
in those months.
AL told, the railroads enjoyed in
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Trio Derailed a Train
For the Novelty of It

SHREVEPORT, La. Jan. @
Three negroes arrested today ad-
mitted, according to the police, that
they had tempered with a switch
and derailed passenger train No. rs,
of the Texas and Pacific, near here
last night Just to see a train
wrecked -
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MEN AND WOMEN

TURN your spare time into dollars Big
profits selling WHITE * LAUNDRY
TABLETS, 10 cents package. Our big pre-
MUM plan gets the business for you. Mrs.
Rose High, of Missouri, sold 10000 pack
ages; Mrs Anna Watts, of Michigan, $500
and thousands Of others are selling them;
Why don't you? We start you free. Send
for free sample and agents offer. L. A.
KNIGHT CO., 103 Market ST., st. Louis, Mo.
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Moderate Trading in
Cotton Goods Market

NEW York;, Dec. 31.-Moderate trad
ing was reported into local dry goods mar
kets today, mostly in odl constructions and
widths, generally in small lots. On wide
goods prices of S7sc to DC were quoted for
3S1h inch G4x6O, but the lower price could
not be done for spots in any general way.
Sheetings were sold steadily in small lots
and prices were firm. Voiles for printing
and converting were in good demand. The
dry goods markets are going out OF the
year much more hopefully than expected.
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$4,000 reward

$4,000 will be paid for any case of letter,
or itching piles that r. V. Turner's Quick
Relief Salve fails to give instant relief
Turner's Quick Relief Salve is one Of
the most powerful, penetrating, germ-kill-
ing, pain-relieving and healing salves knows
to science. -
One application will cure chicken Of sore
head.
Large box by mail for 60c.
AGENTS WANTED-Write for special
terms. r. v. TURNER, SOL JeffersoM
street, Montgomery, Ala.
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It has been suggested that me
contract should provide that in the
event that not as much as 500
pounds of cotton was produced on
account of boil weevil or any other
calamity, then the other specifics
should be doubled
If a calculation be made it will
appear that these food and feed spe-
cities named, year in and year out,
will sell for practically the same
as 500 pounds of cotton.
Advantages
This proposed new standard con-
tract is not different in principle
from the old rental contract Of one
third and one-fourth. but has many
advantages over 1t.
Landlords do not like the third
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Old Wives for Young
= Is the WAY This Goes

NEW YORK, Dec. 3t.-"He threw
me down to marry woman seventy
years old" said Miss Helen Young,
twenty-four, cloak model, as she
filed a 100000 suit against Franklin
Fischer for breach Of promi$N.
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New Stock Issue

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Dec. 31.-The Pull
man company, of Chicago, today filed ap-
sion for permission to issue S15, 900 600 cap
ital stock
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NEWS BUREAU ON STOCKS

NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-Higher prices for
stocks early in the year are generally
predicted The advance in the call money
rate is attributed chiefly to the heavy call
ing of l0ars. Easier money conditions are
expected next week. Considerable has been
said relative to the position of the short
interest. Importance as market factor is
also attached to the cessation today of SELL
ing for income tax return. Average price
fifteen rails, $3.50, against 63.51 last year.
Average fifteen industrials, G4S5, against
5C.51. Paris advices state that allied finan-
ciers at the conference there are considering
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DRY GOODS MARKrT

NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-Cotton goods
and cotton yarns closed the year firm
and with broad inquiry. Advances were
named some Of the gray sheetings. Bur
laps closed firm. Wool goods openings are
beginning for fall. Silks were quiet.
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PHILADELPHIA CIearinQS

PHILADELPHIA, De c3.1.-Bank clear
Ings in Philadelphia showed a decrease of
81 GAS, 7S4 900 in 1921 compared with 1920.
The clearings for the year ending today
sHere $50. 445. Oh, 900.
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SUGAR MARKET

NEW YORK. Dec. 31.-The local raw
sugar market today was more less of a
holiday affair. with no business reported
Although the undertone was firm and prices
were sold at 1 1916 cents for old crop
Cubas, cost and freight. equal to 3.42 for
centrifugal. The committee reduced its
quotation for Cubas to the basis of PIC.
cost and freight, equal to 3.73 for centri-
fugal, but reported no transactions Mt tina t
level. The committee goes out of existence
today.
Refined was quiet and unchanged, at 4.SO
60 400 dor fine graduated.
The cures market was closed.
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METAL. MARKET

ket was quiet between the holidays, but
prices were generally maintained with cleo
trolytic quoted at 1875 to "A for prompt
shipment and at II cents for forward deliy-
Iron was unchnnped.