Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-21
The Country Home
What About Cotton
BY MRS. w. I'll. FELTON,

First. The boil weevil has intimi-
dated the cotton farmer.
The cotton farmer is up against
the risk Of putting out lot of Ia
DOR and money with the chances
against even a moderate yield OF
lint.
Second. We have been erroneous
~ fed up on the idea that the gov
eminent must take care Of the cot
ton farmer, as the railroads have
been nurseI and petted.
Third. We lack the pep, and the
push of former years. We do not
know where we are at.
could add fourthly, filthy and
a lot more of these jnflexible num-
bers, but the three I mention are
enough for text for a long SER
mon.
If it was not that the southern
cotton farmer must depen' on cot
ton to raise the enormous taxation
heaped upon real estate, 10 take
my staff in hand and travel through
out Georgia crying: "Quit one year
or cotton and bring the spectators
and the tax tyrants to their senses
Cotton is one of the few. things
the world clamors for, because one
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tribble itself almost without limit.
The time kas been when flax and
wool were IN great demand. but cot
ton swallowed up the other textiles
and the world with two continents
are obliged to have cotton to clothe
the human family.
I am Of the opinion that cotton
spectators have long been planning
to gather in all the cotton bales,
and then raise the price and make
millions.
If so, cotton farmer do you also
plant some cotton and be ready for
the killing. Don't lie down On your
job.
And continue to reduce taxation.
Do Your Best-Leave the Rest to
God
The papers are being filled with
advice to everybody-and a good
deal is addressed to parents.
We all need good, wholesome adj
vice-and parents are generally glad
to receive counsel, because they are
naturally anxious about their Off
spring, but there are so many angles
to this advice problem, and people
are being confronted with new con-
ditions every day--that it gets con,
fusing at times.
We all know that parents have
been children themselves, before
they were grown up and assumed
the duties Of parents. They in
herited ideas mad actions. It rarely
happens that the couple were well
acquainted before they were mar
ried. Of course they should be, but
the world moves fast and distance
does not cut as much figure as it USED
to do, before railroads and automo
biles became common, Girls visit in
distant places much oftener-boys
so about. to find better paying
profits, and with due respect to ad
visers and counsellors, these parents
are none too well informed as tc
the intimate companions of their
own children anywhere.
1t used to be that boys and girls
were inclined to remain with the
people they are raised with. Now.
adays the young men leave the old
home nest and when they meet girls
in the newer section they generally
mate there. Girls find themselves
very popular when they visit ir
new places. The "best foot is put
foremost" and the old folks at home
know next to nothing of their in
laws until they rub up against them
as family connections.
therefore, 1t is comparatively q
short time that they are intimately
acquainted even with the Character
or their own children.
In the olden, ante-bellum time
when it was the custom to try t.
link landed estates together anG
settle the sons and daughters with
their own homes and slaves mo-
lar away, there was inclination anr
tendency to watch out when a youne
1eiloW went acquiring, as IL
Wnether there was property in sigh
on Doth sides, and parents general,
knew the best and the worst n
their in-laws before the matrimonial
knot was tied.
Sometimes it worked peaceablv
sometimes it didn't, but divorce.
We're scarce in the land, and a gras,
widow or widower got what i
known as the cold shoulder in so
ciety' when they came to marryins
again. '''s
In advising parents nowadays
this divorce problem butts in. NO
once and occasionally. but FREQUENT
~ ana omlnously. The marriag,
VOW IS not tight bond and deserted
ready to let them 60 and then he's
over again. -
II I was called to the witres
stand to say what I really heJieved
has brought about the flood of 6o
mestic unhappiness and the I'm
rest which is manifest every
where, I would be obliged to sa,
that quick matches and quicker III
Vorces have much to do with re
suits. "A
Again, children in this dav an,
time do not obey their narents
unless the chosen word leads tina
way. They are taught at nnhI li
expense and the parents could No
ailer the program if they Nigh
wish to do so. Parents know b.,
little about the books the childre,
study. They are expected only =
get them there in due time and ths
endS their control and authorit
untii the young and hungry kid
get. home again. Intent on frolic
and moving picture shows.
The restless children grow I'm int
restless young men and women
Dress and show absorbs their minds
ana gong somewhere else rathe
+ than home is an obsession.
A mother who tries to shut he
brood up behind closed doors or
naroedwire fence will have a har
Time or 1t; II she cannot contrc
And then she gets the blame an
plenty of it! why didn't She ro on
them better?" is the cry. How co|,I
she, with the world, the flesh en
the bad one leagued against bar
What is she to do? Who is eoin
to help her? Maybe her bushan
i takes sides with the young one,
and then she has done i'll to raise
racket. 1t is a serious responsibiIit
to bring children into the world an
train them for hanniness ard e.