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Remember,ISheQualityStoreReplying to Criticisms ofPresident Harvie Jordan,Government Statistician Says “It is No Use.”iglierty county on the id had been the faithful chairman of the commit-lber of years, political pot has already 3 simmer, and if the ex-dttee at its meeting on rs an early primary, the 11 be hustling in earnest d of February.Washington, Jan. 31.—Having taken notice of the criticisms upon his office by President Harvie Jordan, of the Southern Cotton Growers’ Association, and others, Director North, of the Census Bureau, today declared that he hoped Congress would relieve him of all further work in connection with cotton statistics.“It Is the most disagreeable and annoying work I have ever known,” said Mr. North today. “Those reports are gotten up for the benefit of the Southern people, but they seem to he devoting all their energies toward discrediting them.”A telegram from a planter in Louisiana, received today, charged Director North with doing a great injustice to Southern planters by keeping back the weight of bales and enabling a certain cotton speculator “and his diabolical crew” to rob the South.In answer to the allegations made by President Jordan yesterday,* Director North said:These cotton ginning reports were established by law for the benefit of the cotton growers, and I had believed they were effective to that end, but the representatives of the growers, like Mr. Jordan and Mr. J. A. Taylor, president of the Cotton Ginners’ Association, seem determined to do everything in their power to discredit the reports and thus destroy their value, and under these circumstances I do not. believe it worth while for Congress to continue to apporprlate $250,-000 a year for the collection of reports in the interest of the cotton growers when these men are dissatisfied with the results. No effort to show that the reports are inaccurate, misleading or manipulated has been successful. The methods of the office have been exhibited to-representatives of the growers and its records scrutinized by them, and they have not found It possible to put a finger upon a single error either in method or result. There has never been a leak from the census office since the system was established. ^“Mr. Jordan now attacks the director because he refuses to deviate from the regular methods of promulgating these statistics at the demands of private parties. Any such deviation made upon the personal responsibilitythese estimates have ever been ijsed. They are only approximate and therefore possess no statistical value. For the director to make them public on his own volition at the den and of the cotton growers would be .as improper at this time at it would be to make-them public at the demand of the cotton speculators if the demand happened to come from that quarter.“With regard to the publication of the census bale weights, to which Mr.~ Jordan also alludes, I can only say that actual weights of more than 3,000,000 bales of cotton grown in 1905 have been secured by the census office. and that tddltional returns covering 2.000,00013 more weights are daily reaching the office. The computations necessary to secure correct average weights from these returns are enormous in amount and delicate in character. With our utmost energy we shall not be able to complete these computations before the last of Feb-urarv, and yet I am daily in receipt ol telegrams from the South stating that by keeping back the weight of bales I am enabling speculators to rob the South.”Director North concluded with the remark that all these circumstances have caused me to pray that Congress might relieve me of this work ”MACON SPORTSMEN TO PROTECT BIRD DOGS.Club Formed to Apprehend and Prosecute Dog Stealers.Macon, Ga., Feb. 1. —So prevalent has become the stealing of valuable bird dogs in Macon that the sportsmen of the city have organized themselves into a club with the view of detecting and prosecuting the rogues.The club begins with a-membership of fifty, each of whom pays an initiation fee of $5. The money thus accruing is to be used in offering rewards of $50 each for the arrest, with sufficient evidence to convict, of each dog thief. Within the last few months hundreds of pointers and setters of high pedigree have been stolen, and it is suspected that there is an organized band of thieves at work.Tomatoes and Okra, Corn and Tomatoes, 2-lb. cans, 3 for 25c.Phone 70.W. E. FIELDS.ICIATI0ND FOR GAMBLING.ROOMS TO RENT—Three upstairs furnished rooms, two of them connecting rooms, hot and cold bath, for rent; gentlemen preferred. Apply to Mrs. Ida M. Hicks, Flint street. l-3tNew Partnership‘.. ... ,, B1,u Announcement is hereby made thatof the director would necessarily sub- • *, . . ... . _«’ Eel R. Jones and Clayton Jones haveject his methods to suspicion and *., . *, +».„ -..Min formed a partnership for the practicewould very probably impair the public '• 1 Kconfidence in the integrity o£ his work.,ot law and t0 efaga tn the Jeal es;I have therefore declined to accede to jtate bu8iriess’ wlth offlces at 7' 8 andof Columbus, Says No srgia Is Big Enough to Law.3a.. Feb. 1.—In the Su-lere yesterday afternoon assessed the Columbus Racing Association $350 eeptng a gambling house ient fair in this city and association that if ar-on this charge he wouldthese requests unless directed by Congress to do so.“The estimates of cotton remaining to be gipned, whose publication Mr. Jordan demands, are obtained by the census office at its mid-January canvass, for the purpose pf enabling it to determine what counties need not be canvassed when the final canvass takes' place In March. Whenever the estimates show that there is no more cotton to be ginned In a county or that the amount is insignificant, no final canvass, is necessary. Possession of this information enables the census office to save from $8,000 to $12,000 in the cost of the final canvass and that is the only purpose for which9 Davis-Exchange Bank Building, the style of the firm being Ed. R. Clayton Jones. Their services are respectfully tendered the public.Finest “Triumph” Watermelon Seed.tFor sale, about 100 pounds of the famous “Triumph” watermelon seed, saved from melons weighing not less than 100 pounds each, grown by the late J. D. Wooten, of Dougherty county. Melons were raised in 1904, and seed are perfectly good for the coming season. 50 cents per pound. Address MRS. J. D. WOOTEN,114t Sylvester, Ga.
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Albany, Georgia, US
Thu, Feb 01, 1906
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