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ALL THE NEWS GF EVERYWHERE—READ THE DAILY ARGUS. ... Kl ni—NO. 138. JHATTANOOGANS ■HAVE MEETING | BjtOISTS and others INTER ESTED IN RINGGOLD PICNIC f [get together in chatta- j Bnooga to boost movement ■ % motorists have been IHKIR,! upon io attend a mass meeting K Htiiat city on next Tuesday night for I Ba purpose of making final arrange- I Kent- lor ,lie I{ill trgol'l good roads on the 30th. I I The following call for the meeting I Has been given publicity in Chatta- : I I Every autoist and good roads en- I Hmsiast in the city is requested to I B 6 P r( ' sent at a meeting* at he Chat- Hnooga Automobile chib to be held I H Manufacturers’ building on next I Hmrsday evening. May 25. I ■ This meeting of the club is called I Hr the purpose of getting as many | as possible interested in the | Hingvold. Ga.. trip, and to arrange the I ■Every autoi-t and good roads advo- should attend this proposed pic- for many good points on road < will be discussed by selected I I /■l': addition to the antoists that will K- * r< "" ( hattanooga. a large delega te K 1 ” <lf autoist-. from North Georgia I be on hand to take part in the I BMr. Horace .1. Smith, who first sug- the picnic, lias seen a number R prominent Chattanooga business • Bpii within the past few days and they I B'* assun ‘d hi"’ that they are coming that a good delegation will be on I ground. I iMr. Frank T. Reynolds, who is I ■eking after the Georgia delegation. I to Chattanooga today and while | H f ‘ I- e he will confer with the officials | f 3 the Chattanooga Automobile club. I ■The speakers from Dalton and the H'akers from Catoosa county and g Bliattatiooga. will all be eloquent road and the day is going to be big one. ■ALTER 1. KENNER I RAISING BIG CROP I BM alter T. Kenner, one of the best i in this section, is in the city I H® a . v ;,l ’d he states that in his opin- I ■ 3 nian can make as good crops in ■ JBthis immediate part of the state, I Rh proper management, as can be 1 in South Georgia. ■ K< , i :i i years ago Mr. Kenner made ■ ex !” riment in South Georgia and ■ gy a> a v,, ry successful one too. but K "lerred North Georgia as a home ■ BL ,l: " vp d back here with his family. I B‘ cultivating the old Tibbs and has put in about 500 acres rn and expects to plant another ■ B r ’ Kenner says that lie is using’ ■ B tiy r 's Prt^’zer ’ as the most i H' planters in the South do, E it pays handsomely. ■ IHe also says that the fertilizers are ■Bk a e^er grade than ever be ll Bore and t} la f Commissioner Hudson’s ■ Ftorts in this direction have been ■ a great deal to the farmers. I ■ Mr. Kenner has erected a large I■' f " Vare ene ’ n £ on i° w I B* 4 an d intends to go extensively in flß" ca ttie raising. | Pays Paving Assessment. Another street paving assessment today. It was that of Mr. fl’ B. Haynes, well known in Dalton. latlg Arjjua. CARTERSVILLE TAKES GAME FROM LOCALS The Dalton High School boys lost to the Cartersville High School on the latter’s grounds yesterday afternoon, the score being 14 to 3 against the locals. The Dalton team showed up in better form than they did last week and got two runs in the first inning. The Carters-villians however have been working some themselves and put up a peppery game. The lo cals were at some disadvantage ow ing to strange grounds. It is quite possible that a game with the Darlington School will be schedul ed on Dalton grounds for one day this week. Announcement of this game will be made later. W. N. HARDWICK SELLS MAMMOTHJAS ENGINE One of the largest gasoline engines ever shipped to this section of the country will be brought to Dalton within a short time by Mr. W. M. Hardwick, agent in this territory for the Olds engine. It will be a 40-horse power affair and will drive a 600-light Crocker- Wheeler generator. The engine has been sold to the A. J. Showalter Company for its new plant. There will be no belts any where in the plant, but each piece of machinery will be individually driven with a motor. “Life is a game of give and take,” quoted the Wise Guy. “Yes. with more givers than tak ers,” added the Simple Mug.—Phil adelphia Record. Good Ears for Music. The two sailors had just returned from a long voyage and it was good to get back on English soil once more, says Tit Bits. They w*re a little in clined to be sentimental about it. Above the rumble of the traffic they heard a very harsh, unmusical voice. After listening for a few moments one of them turned to his companion and said: “Eh, Jack, it’s been a long time since we heard that song.” “What song?” asked the other. “The one that fellow’s singing in the street —'The Light of Other Days.’ ” “That fellow ain’t singing 'The Light of Other Days.’ at all,” replied the other. “I’ve been listening to him. He’s piping ‘The Banks of Al len Water.’ ” “Here Tommy,” sailed out the first man to a small boy, “run along and find out what that man’s singing.” “He ain’t singing at all,” protest ed Tommy, “he’s hawking herrings.” Gentle Reminder. It was midnight, says Tit Bits. The burglar had entered the house as quietly as possible, but his shoes were not padded, and they made some noise. He had just reached the door of the bedroom, when he heard someone mov ing in the bed as if about to get up and he paused. The sound of a wo man’s voice floated to his ears. “If you don’t take your boots off when you come into this house,” it said, “there is going to be trouble and a whole lot of it. Here’s it’s been raining for three hours and you dare to tramp over my carpets with your muddy boots on! Go downstairs and take them off this minute!” He went downstairs without a word but he did not take off his boots. In stead he went straierht out ino he night again, and he “pal” who was waiting for him saw a tear glisten in his eye. “I can’t rob that house,” he said, “it reminds me of home.” DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1911. GRADUATES TO HEAR SERMON PUPILS OF TENTH GRADE WILL ATTEND CHURCH IN A BODY AND HEAR BACCALAUREATE SERMON BY REV. FOOTE. Pupils of the Tenth grade, graduat ing class of the High School, will as semble tomorrow (Sunday) morning at 10:45 o'clock at the City Park school building and march from there to the Methodist church to hear the baccalaureate sermon, which will be delivered by Rev. W. R. Foote. In case of inclement weather, the graduates will proceed to the church individually in time for the eleven o ’clock services. All pupils above the primary de partment are invited and urged to* at tend. A special musical program, under direction of Miss Mabel Lester, will be rendered. ORDINARY BOGLE WRITES ABOUT USE OF CONVICTS Editor of The Argus: I trust your fair-minded readers will not regard as impertinent the pre sentation to them from time to time of my views on public questions, which I believe are of vital importance to the taxpayers; those who differ with me have precisely the Same right to their views, and the free expression of them that I have. I have attacked no one; I am not seeking a newspaper contro versy, and am simply trying to lay before the people the result of investi gation, carefully and honestly made, on a subject of great importance to the financial welfare of our taxpayers. Those who attack me with padded figures and insinuate that I am, or have been trying to mislead the peo ple are reminded that common courte sy and decency would require that they furnish a bill of particulars when making so grave a charge. The gist of my last article was that the working of convicts on our public roads involved so great a change of policy and of our tax rate that the question ought to be submitted to the people before making the plunge. I also stated that to equip and work them in large enough numbers to be at all profitable, would require an in crease in our tax rate to $1.20, and more, rather than less, and gave as a reason that Bartow county, with a considerably larger tax digest than ours, and equipment presumably paid for, had a tax rate of $1.20 and Cobb county, $1.40, both in the Seventh congressional district, and no abnor mal conditions prevtailing in either county, so far as I knew. To take an isolated county, here and there, laboring under peculiar and ab normal conditions would not be a fair guide, and could be distorted into proving almost anything, by those who are not fair-minded, to boost a pet argument. Suppose, for instance, that someone wanted to prove that taxes were in creased by not using convicts and would point in support of their con tention to Gordon county not using convicts. The tax rate in that county for the year 1910, for state and coun ty, was $1.55. Would that prove their contention? Only a slight investiga tion would show that 40 cents of that was for a new jail. Then suppose that someone had a pet hobby that to use convicts would really reduce the tax rate, he could point to Muscogee county, using con victs, and show that the tax rate there is only 80 cents, state and county or 30 cents on each SIOO of property for county taxes. Would that prove or tend to prove any such theory? EXAMINATION FOR TEACHERS PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS TO STAND EXAMS AT CITY PARK SCHOOL FOR TWO DAYS, JUNE 2 AND 3. An examination for prospective teachers will be he’d in the City Park school Friday and Saturday, June 2-3, between the hours of 9 a. m. and 4 p. m. The subject embrace reading, spell ing, orthoepy, sentence building, dia critical marks, arithmetic, English grammar, U. S. history. Geography. Arrangements will be made for the simultaneous examination of white and colored applicants, the superin tendent conducting the one and Prin cipal Green conducting the other. Again a slight investigation would show that Muscogee has a tax digest of more than twenty-two millions, sev en hundred thousand dollars and that a tax rate of 30 cent's produces a rev enue of over $68,000.00, while Whit field ’s digest of a little over four mil lions and one-half, with our tax rate of 50 cents, will only produce a reve nue of something over $22,000.00, and besides, think of it, that Mucogee has 41 square miles of territory less than Whitfield: considerable less milege of roads, and more than three times the revenue, even at her lower rate, so that, I repeat, sporadic cases of coun ties, abnormally situated, are entirely worthless as a general guide, as to the effect that using convicts has on the tax rate. I think a much safer guide would be the average tax rate of counties of about the same class, all ove rthe state, that are using convicts, and the following figures, carefully compiled from official sources, are re spectfully submitted, and if there be any hypercritical critics who doubt their accuracy or think them mislead ing, they are invited to come and ver ify them. “Come to the book.” The average state and county tax rate of all the 146 counties in Geor gia, for 1910, was $1,30 7-10 on each SIOO worth of property; the average rate in all of the counties using con victs, is $1,361-3; The average rate in counties not using convicts is $1.12; the average rate in counties, using convicts, with tax digests of over ten million dollars, is $1.14 and a small fraction; the average tax rate of coun ties with tax digests of over five mil lion dollars, and less than ten million, using convicts, is $1.21; the average tax rate of counties, using convicts, with tax digests of less than five mil lion dollars (Whitfield is in this class), is $1.41 9-10. The average cost in the state of keeping one convict, according to the report of the legislative committee, for 365 days, is $333.33 1-3. Take off Sundays, legal holidays, days they might be sick and all days too wet or too cold to work outdoors on the roads and 4 what does a day’s work of a con vict on the roads cost? I don’t know. Any reason in all this why I should suggest that if we go into the business properly our tax rate would go to $1.20 and more, rather than less? I have heard, or have seen it stated somewhere, that we are spending now $9,029.92 each year on our roads, which is the gross amount obtained by multiplying the total of the property on digest by the road tax rate of two mills; misleading? Probably not in tentionally so, but parties using such figures ought at least to inform them- REAL SURE ENOUGH RAIN FALLS TODAY Cooling, delicious, delightful, wel come, grateful, dust-settling rain ar rived in Dalton today. It was running about 672 hours late and the gasping population of this township smiled with satisfaction and chortled with joy when the first drops pattered down and struck them in the face. The tree leaves drank in the mois ture, the grass blades nodded thanks and the young growing corn pricked up its ears. (No offense.) It was not raining rain today, it was raining good nature and garden truck. ■■ ' - i - - M SEN. EMMETT SHAW SPENDS DAY HERE Senator Emmett R. Shaw, of Clay county, is in the city today and talk ed interestingly of state polities, in which he is interested, being a very live and wide-awake senator. Senator Shaw is a prominent Geor gia cigar manufacturer and while here he conferred with Dalton distri butors relative his famous “Rounder Cigars,” which will be placed on the market. * selves sufficiently beforehand to know that from the gross total given above the road funds proportionate share of the following items must be deduct ed before the net or real amount is reached: Ist, Errors on digest; 2nd, Insolvent list, or those from whom nothing is collected; 3rd, tax receiver’s commis sions; 4th, tax collector’s commis sions; sth, County treasurer’s com missions. This would reduce the amount con siderably and I think correct figures are best. It is a matter of common knowledge that our roads have been greatly im proved in practically all parts of the county during the last ten or twelve years, and many, very many, of the worst stretches of road, especially on our main thoroughfares or lines of travel, that were almost impassable in bad winter weather, years ago, have been permanently improved, un til now heavy loads can be hauled over them at any time. Many of the small er roads have also been improved, more or less. This is a matter of com mon knowledge, and it will hurt no one to be fair and truthful about it. We have never had funds to build pike roads a._d the first great duty de volving on our road men is to try to keep the roads all over the county repaired for present use. This from the very nature of the case cannot be made all permanent, but because a great deal of it is all to do over and over again is it wasted? If so, all that we eat and wear is wasted, be cause it is gone with present use. The expense of today’s rations will all be to be gone over with again tomor row. If we do not advance we are go ing to stagnate or go backwards. We ought to advance, to be progressive as fast as we are able and willing to foot the bills, and that our roads have been progressing in improvement for several years is admitted by those who know the facts and are willing to speak the truth. Whether our people want to ad vance faster and are willing to pay for the accelerattd speed is for them to say. All that I insist upon is that they be placed in possession of all of the facts which might guide them to a correct concdusion, and it is entirely (Continued on last page.) RJAD THE LOCAL NEWS THE SAME DAY IT HAPPENS IN THE DAILY ARGUS. 10 CENTS A WEEK BY CARRIES 10c PER WEEK BY CARRIER TEMPLARS TO HONOR DEAD ON FIRST SUNDAY KNIGHTS TEMPLARS WILL DECORATE THE GRAVES OF FORMER MEMBERS OF THE ORDER ADDRESS BY DR. HEADDEN. On Sunday, June 4, the Knights Templar, of Dalton, and perhaps also the members of the Blue Lodge, will meet at West Hill cemetery and deco rate the graves of those members who have gone before. Rev. Dr. R. B. Headden, of Rome, will deliver an address at the ceme tery and flowers will then be placed on the last resting places of the four Knights Templars who have been called by death. The four are: Mr. W. C. Huff; Mr. Jim Lewis, Mr. B. D. Leonard, and Mr. George Ferguson. On the same date the Knights Templar will send a floral offering to Chattanooga with the request that it be placed on the grave of the late Mr. Will Fischer, who was at one time a resident of this city and who was such an ardent friend of the Dalton order. Not long before his death'Mr. Fis cher made the Knight Templars of this city a present of a handsome sil ver service, which was destroyed in |he recent fire. ■ • The exercises will be held on Sun day afternoon June 4 at about 3:30 o ’clock. The Blue Lodge has its meeting on next Monday night and at that time the invitation of the Knights Tem plars to join them in the ceremonies will be extended. She —They say an apple a day will keep the doctor away. He—Why stop at that. An onion a day will keep everybody away. St. Mark’s (Episcopal) Church. Special Notice. As the High School commencement sermon is to be preached at the M. E. Church, South, there will be no ser vices on Sunday, May 21st. The next appointment will be on the first Sunday in June. G. L. L. Gordon, A. M. Rector. WEEK SHOWSlifi INDUSTRIAL GAIN Chattanooga, May 18—For the week ending yesterday the new industrial' organizations in fourteen Southern states, as reported by The Tradesman,, represent an aggregate capitalization of over five million dollars. When the fact is considered that the list is only partial, certain mercantile lines not being included, and enlargements are not taken into consideration, some idea can be formed as to the rapid de velopment all sections of the South are enjoying. The Blood-letting Branch. Not every pun is as good as the one 1 credited to a Dublin gentleman of long ago by the author of a recent book entitled, “In many lands,” says the Aberdeen Register. George IV on his visit to Dublin in 1821 met at a reception Sir Phillip Crampton, Ire land’s great surgeon. “In what branch of the sendee is that magnificent loooking man?” ask ed his majesty. The gentleman to whom the ques tion was put was too polite to hint hat he king was misaken in suppos ing that the distinguished surgeon was a naval or military officer. “Sire,” he replied, “he is a gener al in the Lancers.”