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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1916
Page
9
Local paper notes political climate with Hammond era remarks on Woodrow Wilson Roosevelt Hughes and prohibition debates. Critiques executive leadership in Georgia and Fulton County camps budget cuts. Mentions Nat Harris pardons and Tennessee Copper fumes impact on mountain counties.
A call urges immediate approval and public backing for a girls dormitory at the Fourth District A and M School. With state half funding secured, citizens are asked to contribute to the building fund, enabling equal training opportunities for Carroll County girls, and to mail subscriptions to Treasurer Chas. A. Lyle.
In large counties the author believes Hardman would win by exhausting the liquor crowd if prohibition is not included. He adds it to the call, aiming to gain votes, relying on Hardman’s historic leadership in prohibition despite its unpopularity. Prohibitionists in Georgia know his resolve.
Strayed from a barn on Wednesday morning a light colored cow. Notify W. L. Folds. Bullerick Patterns at Bradley's.
The Moultrie Observer lists questions for all candidates in Georgia seeking comment on living issues. It asks how candidates would act in Slaton's place on Leo Frank clemency, views on cow dipping for tick eradication, attitude toward the Catholic church, stance on Watson, liquor preferences, capital relocation to Macon, free school books, compulsory education, state publishing, and other topics. The list invites direct answers to these points.
An analysis of farm size showing that a unit's ideal scale depends on farming type, capital, and managerial ability. Small plots incur high per acre costs for equipment, while very large farms strain talent and increase travel and supervision time. Data from Southern conditions are lacking, hindering precise guidance.
A religious exhortation invites youth and church members to live for Jesus, imitate the Golden Rule, and practice unselfish service in moral and business life. It emphasizes Christian love, humility, and helping others as paths to heavenly reward, with a parable-like closing on gradual ascent to heaven.
The Progres sive Farmer notes that mixed farming benefits from 150 to 200 acres of improved land, with a practical range up to 460 or 500 acres. It compares American and European yields, stating larger farms plus labor-saving machinery boost per-man output. Personal farming needs 200 to 300 acres. intensive farming can yield more per acre, though extensive farming increases returns per man up to a limit.
A Georgia editorial argues that public health is a state priority and urges legislators to fund the 1914 vital statistics law, fix its flaws, and add morbidity data collection to improve health records and efficiency for public health workers.
The piece argues for collecting morbidity data alongside mortality to better gauge disease impact. It cites rabies control via dog muzzling and quarantine in England and Australia, notes many dogs and people bitten in Georgia, and urges state action and funding to curb water pollution as population grows.
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