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September; 1922
THE ATLANTIAN
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To Members of the Sewing
Circle.
Attention, ladies: The Republican
Congress has voted a duty of from
74 1-2 per cent to 115 per cent on
all woolen fabrics for dress goods.
This tariff on woolen cloth valued at
80 cents a pound before its importa
tion into this country will increase
its cost to $1.60 a pound on its ar
rival on the American shore. In the
case of a piece of dress goods valued
(before importation) at 81 cents a
pound the Republican tariff will raise
the cost to $1.71 a pound.
Such dress goods are now paying,
under the Democratic Underwood law,
a duty of only 35 per cent advalorem.
That is to say the dress goods valued
at 80 cents a pound now cost, with
the duty added, $1.08 a pound and 81-
cent goods a trifle more.
You are indebted to Senator David
I. Walsh (Dem., Mass.), for these
facts.
P. S. You will be comforted by the
knowledge that the very expensive
dress goods, for example those costing
$2 a pound, will have to bear a duty
of only 74 1-2 per cent under the Re
publican law. You may need the dress
goods, but the Woolen Trust needs the
money.
COMMITTEE.
He: It’s difficult to find enough
white horses to go around these days.
Red-Haired Girl: How about the
white taxi cabs?
J. H. Ewing, Jr., Enters Race
For City Treasurer.
J. H. Ewing, Jr., one of the most
popular young bankers of Atlanta,
has entered the race for city treasurer,
subject to the rules and regulations
of the forthcoming city white primary.
Mr. Ewing is assistant cashier of
the Fulton National Bank, a position
to which he rose by his own efforts
through hard work and painstaking
attention to duty, beginning as mes
senger and working his way up
through one promotion after another.
He is a son of J. H. Ewing, the well-
known real estate man and former al
derman. He was born and reared in
JUDGE R. C. BELL
OF THE STATE COURT OF APPEALS
(Home Address, Cairo, Ga.)
Candidate to succeed himself, for short term and
full term.
Fortmer Superior Court Judge, Al
bany Circuit. The only candidate
with experience as a Superior Court
Judge. Resigned to accept ap
pointment on Court of Appeals
July 25lh to fill vacancy caused by
death of Judge Ben H. Hill. Un-‘
opposed for short term ending
January 1st. Should be given the
full term, because of his qualifica
tions for the office.
As the Court of Appeals’ term
does not begin until October, the
September primary will accur be
fore he shall have had an oppor
tunity to demonstrate his fitness
for the office by work done in it.
Will you vote him out before you
try him out? We cannot believe
you will.
Reared on a farm in Webster County, Ga., has fought through
the hardships; now in the prime of life, willing to work, accus
tomed to nothing else; a good lawyer, a capable Judge. Unani
mously endorsed by the Bar and Banks of Albany Judicial Cir
cuit, those who know him best, and by representative people of
every section of the state. Worthy of your support and con
fidence.
Every pair carries Boot and
Shoe Workers’ Stamp No. 25
We Guarantee Every Pair
POLLOCK & BERG
79-81 Peachtree SL
LAMAR RAY
Atlanta and is thoroughly imbued with
the “Atlanta Spirit.”- He has a host
of friends throughout the city who are
supporting him enthusiastically and
who predict his election.—Adv.
Newberry Wins Title As
“Pride of the Profit
eers.”
Senator Newberry (Rep., Mich.),
whose election to the Senate cost
something like $200,000, is proving
that he is worth vastly more than
that to the profiteers who are push
ing and pulling for the passage of the
Fordney-McCumber tariff bill. Sev
eral Republican Senators, either
through fear or , fairness, have voted
against some of the rates of the bill,
but Mr. Newberry has never deserted
the big interests.
Just as an example of Senator New
berry’s usefulness to special privilege
may be cited his record on forty-nine
ballots. He voted for thp high rates
of the bill forty-seven out of the for
ty-nine times—and never once for a
reduction. On two ballots he was
grouped with those Senators “not vot
ing.”
In every instance of these forty-nine
the opponents of the exorbitant duties
imposed by the bill were seeking to
have them lowered. Even some
“stand-patters" registered themselves
once in a while against the iniquities
of the measure—but Mr. Newberry
not once in these tests between the
friends of the peopl and the support
ers of the “Big Cinch.”
Senator Newberry is worthily the
pride of the profiteers.
LET “PAT DO IT”
510 Courtland St.
I J ollar Wheat and the Emer
gency Tariff.
It has not been many years ago
since Warren G. Harding expressed
the opinion that farmers could obtain
prosperity by raising dollar wheat. It
is the irony of fate that on August
15, in the second year of President
Harding’s administration, wheat sold
as low as a dollar a bushel, and touch
ed the low price of 99 1-2 cents. Three
years ago farmers were receiving
$3.35 and $3.50 a bushel for wheat.
The Emergency Tariff bill put a
duty on wheat for the purpose of re
storing the slump in prices, but wheat
declined, and although the tariff on
wheat is still enforced it dropped to $1
a bushel on August 15, which raises
again the all-important question of
how much longer the Republican party
will try to fool the farmers by putting
high tariff duties on agricultural
products which this country exports?
ART FOR ART’S SAKE.
Footpad (sorrowfully): Bill, 1
don’t know whatever I’m gonna do
wit you; you don’t seem t’ take a
proper interest in your work. Here
you've went an’ overlooked that lovely
gold fillin’!