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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1921
Page
7
The report notes abandoned fishds being interplanted into cotton corn and peanuts to cut acreage further. Plants show stunted growth due to cold and low fertilizer use. Stands range from bad to poor with only a few good areas. Replanting cotton has struggled with uneven growth and slow progress across hundreds of fields.
Georgia's cotton crop shows declines from ten to six weeks, with boll weevil damage and excessive rains after May 10 causing poor cultivation. Despite warm dry spells later, many counties report low fertilization rates and uneven conditions. county figures range broadly with Elbert and Echols among higher readiness and Mus.
A long string of county names and scores is listed in order, detailing multiple Georgia counties with accompanying numbers that appear to represent scores or tallies. The list includes Franklin Payette Gordon Gwinnett Greene Street Glasscock Grady Hall Habersham Hart Haralson Harris Heard Henry Hancock Houston Irwin Jackson Jasper Jones Johnson Jefferson Jenkins Jeff Davis Lumpkin Lincoln Lamar Laurens Lee Lanier Lowndes Liberty Long Murray Milton Madison Macon Marion Meriwether Muscogee Monroe Montgomery Morgan McDuffie Miller Newton Oconee Oglethorpe Pading Polk Pickens Pike Pulaski Putnam Pierce Quitman Rockdale Randolph Stephens Schley Spalding Screven Seminole Stewart Sumter Talbot Taylor Troup Taliaferro Treutlin Twiegs Terrell Thomas Telfair Tift Turner Tattnall Toombs Upson Walker Whitheld Walton White Wilkes Washington Wheeler Wilkincon Warren Webster Wilcox Worth Ware Wayne
Continued from First Page. Senator King objects to an appropriation in the deficiency bill until his requested information is received. He claims large sums were used in operation rather than turned into the treasury. Senator Warren replies that government involvement in shipping is cheaply priced and warns of heavy losses, noting the $111,000,000 appropriation in the bill. The board later sent Senate details on requested appropriations.
A proposed revenue plan would fund a video linking fund to pay off the national debt in thirty years. Speaker Kaller asserts the program would save producers about 1.78 billion annually and cut inflated Irving costs for the public by three to five times. He backs removing all business taxes including excess profit and corporate income taxes if the revenue bills are adopted in full. otherwise he would withdraw those repeal amendments.
The Tulsa riot fallout includes identified dead like Dr. A C Jackson and Ernest Austin among others, with Walter Dages of the Pierre Oil Company noted. Red Cross offers transport for destitute, power and communications crews repair lines, and police and troops secure the devastated district as downtown is patrolled. Citizens debate consolidation and boundary issues affecting water costs and public services.
The map uses nine districts to show May 25 cotton condition versus 100 normal, 1916 to 1926 production averages, each district's share of state output, 1921 fertilizer per acre when used, and fertilizer value per acre. The central district shows 69.9 percent of normal amid normally high yield, while southwestern and south central districts at 58.4 and 63.1 saw shift to peanuts and hogs, and the southeast long-staple district suffered near total boll weevil damage.
Debate over annexation and consolidation pits Kirkwood against Atlanta with opposition citing debt and mismanagement. A circular warns residents to attend a Thursday meeting and protest. Eight Kirkwood council members oppose the plan. seven and ex-members join the anti side. Atlanta refrains from taking a side and invites Kirkwood to request formal annexation talks.
Hartford Alabama woke to a morning fire that swept through the Hartford Motor Companys accessory department city market and J H Smiths grocery with damage estimated at fifty thousand dollars. Firemen believe the blaze started in the Hartford Motor Company building.
Samuel C. Dobbs former president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce addressed a large audience at the first forum luncheon in the Chamber of Commerce building. He urged young men to prepare for life’s battles by acquiring wisdom and applying it, praising the Junior Chamber of Commerce principles and policies. Dobbs, recently back from Europe, contrasted conditions in France Germany Italy and England with his study of current events.
Juanita Barrett six, of 82 Woodson Street, was struck by a car Thursday at 4 15 pm on Hill Street and Georgia Avenue. T Allen of 759 Glenn Street drove the auto. Witnesses said the child stepped into the path of the car. She was taken to Grady Hospital with head and hip bruises, then returned home.
Principal Harold A. Summer and the Central High School faculty hosted a parting entertainment for the Central Night School graduating class at the Commercial High School court. Four gallons of ice cream were served as students received praise and hearty handshakes. Hazel Georgia Gleason won a 2B fountain pen from John J. Moore & Sons for leading the girl students, and Clifford L. Near Jr. received a gold pencil from the same concern for lending the priors.
The centennial celebration at the University of Virginia featured French ambassador Jules Jusserand praising American higher learning and international exchange. Governor Davis and Dr Edwin B Alderman welcomed guests as responses were given by Harvard president A Lawrence Lowell William and Mary president Julian Chandler and Missouri president Albert Ross Hill. A plaque honoring eighty alumni who died in World War I was unveiled on the south front of the rotunda.
The Atlanta Junior Chamber of Commerce traffic congestion committee discussed launching a concentrated campaign for better and more efficient traffic throughout the city. Proposals include road improvements directing traffic away from crowded districts and stricter laws to expedite traffic at key intersections. They approved naming a “Safety First Week” with dates to be announced later.
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