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JOHN 8. PATE, CATS PAWS, AND WATER POWER
Under the name of Hon. John 8. Pate, after which they have strung
all the honors the people here have conferred on a citizen with a long and
useful career among us, the power company lawyers who are fighting to
pun'nt the people of Crisp county from developing and enjoying the riches
of their own God-given blessings, have fired another of their guns at the
tax-payers to defeat the power plant bonds which the people are going to
vote on November 2nd. Although they have used his name ag chairman
of the committee, Mr. Pate did not write this circular., It was written long
i.&(lnd used in other fightg against the people, may be, as far away as
,California, The power trust uses this as a cut.and-dried argument on all
occasions. They have simply inserted new names here to fit the Crisp
county project, It is thelr stock argument, They use it everywhere to de
feat the people when they start out on their own resources,
- We do not know how Mr, Pate feels about it, but he ought to feel cheap
about allowing himself to be made the cats paw of the power company
whose every ounce of energy is going into an effort to keep the people from
enjoying one of their own greatest riches in the development and use of
their own water power. Left to his own better judgment he never would
have done that, we are quite sure of it. We want to remind him now thaty
the majority of the people of Crisp county want to vote these bonds and
put within their own hands both the earnings ‘of nature’s storehouse in the
great volume of electric power they will have to sell with only the music
of the river attending in the form of other costs than the money it takes
o build, Other costs are so small that the power in all the future use ol
it will be almost a gift from Flint river—ours to sell and enjoy, ours to ugz
in building and developing, ours to make a public benefaction at our nwn
will without let or hindrance. Mr. Pate must certainly not feel at home after
having been used in this manner by the power company to fight the well
being, prosperity, and future wezlth of his own people who have in many
ways honored him in the past.
The power company lawyers-——who, by the way, make up the other
personnel of the “committee apposed to bonds,” warn us that this is a radi
(cal departure from a custom which has been followed for half a century in
Georgia. We admit that it is a departure. We are seeking industrial
giowth, and if anything of that kind has been done here since first man
kind came to possess and enjoy this land of opportunity we do not know
of it. Fifty years ago—Mr, Pate was a young scldier in that conflict, hut
may be he has forgotten—the carpet bagger and the negro were imposed on
us and they bonded Georgia in debauchery and drunken exploitation of the
public treasury till when the white man came back into his own, fearing
& return of the Yankee oppressor, it was written into the constitution that
a public debt of over seven percent could not be made for anything. That,
was the reason. Today all over progressive sections of Georgia that limit
mtion has been set aside and public debt has been made wherever the peo
ple have found in their good judgment that progress could be made.
The last regular session of the Generaj Assembly of Georgia in a two,.
thirds vote of both houses, granted to the people of Crisp county the right
to waive the measure which was established against the negro legislator
and the carpet bagger who were bankrupting the state. That measure is
being published daily for the benefit of the tax-payers, that they may vee
what it is, If it were pernicious or dangerous in the least, they would not
have given it to us. If it had been that in the least, at Jeast half the large
property owners and representative progressive citizens of the county would
not have gone to the legislature and expended their money and time in an
effort to get this very legislation provided. It is the law they wanted. They
drew it here at home in cool moments of deliberation and asked for it. They
are large tax pavers. Why did they do it if it is so dangerous as the law
yors of the power company say it is? Friend, it isn't dangerous for anybody
hut the power company which is throttling industrial growth in this county,
It is ‘our competition which will shut them off from their unjust charges.
j ' And ko power company is a group of (he sons of the carpet-bagger
¥ankeds Who marched through Georgia in the sixties, It is a group of the
power trust Yankees who own the industrial east. It is the same eastern
‘ankec crowd that twenty years ago lobbied a meacure through the Georgia
fi[’lulgturd which made it possibic for them to lay their hands on all the,
power sites in Georgia and prevent just suc. development for industrial
&ywm as that now planned in Crisp. They overlooked one site—they didn’t
“t'nk the people of this section would tackle it and build. The site Crisp
fi.tl selected was pointed out as long ago as 1826 in a Georgia water powe
survey, . They know it is a gold mine for those who develop it. They don’t
want us to do it. They are spending all their energies to do it—and they
have hidden themselves behind the name of a local citizen in an attempt
That same groun of up-east Yankees own all the mills. They control
the prices of cotton goods, Cotton is selling under ten cents today. Go
into one of your stores and try to buy a yard of yellow homespun or pajama
checks if you will. You'll find your cotton coming back to you at seven to
ten dollars a pound in the finished product. The up-east Yankee fixes the
prices. He owns the mills. He owng the water power here—and he fixes
the price of it in the same manner. le isn't going to let plain Georgiansg
lay the foundations in developed water power for bringing the mills to the
cotton fields here, He is going to hold to his hundred percent dividends
in the mills on the cotton which we are producing at a loss.
Our land owners have found that they can develop the power and run
Ahe mills. They bave done so in the Carolinas. They are seeking to du
£0 here—and the up-east Yankee has said that he will be damned if we
shall do it. Now, that is the challenge. Shall we knuckle and truckle?
Shall we lay down and walk out, whipped into submission? That wasn't
what our fathers did for them in the war—-and as for us, we mean to stay
on the battle lines and fight, We are in an industrial war with these same
Yankees and they control all the water powers in Georgia that are devel
oped. Here is one that doesn't belong to them. It is ours—a great unde
veloped mine of gold, if we but use our own credit and go after it.
Over the state people are enthusiastic over our wise move for Fiint
river power. Georgians arve willing to help us. The power company agents
are frieghtened. They think we are going to win—and we are. But we
will have to stand together here in Crisp—man to man. The fight is a large
one. Yankee money is being thrown into the effort to whip us into sub.
miczion. It isn't any secret about the advantages which have been given us
in the measure which legalizes our nower development, Gecrgia legislators
wanted to lift the rvestrictions which were placed on us by the lobbying
‘power trust, It isn't true that we have been under the present provisions
for issueing bonds for fifty years. Only in recent years have we been forc
ed to a two-thirds vote to carry an election, and that provision went into ‘
our constitution at the hands of the power trust Yankees who put in the
pfiovlslon to keep us from building and developing on our credit.
i The people of this section are endowed with plain horse-sense in abun
dance. They are intelligent. They are energetic, but none of us have
gmoney enough to go out and build in the large for the good of all. 'The
jbonds are the only sensible thing. Our county has good credit, Its public
‘officers are careful, conservative, and in every way capable of handling any
thing we undertake without waste and unwise investment. All that has
been taken into account before we made one move—and the insinuation that
there will be waste is a reflection on the good sense, the honor, and the
good judgment of these officials and those who trust them—have trusted
them every day they have given such splendid service to making Crisp
‘i-couAnty business affairs what they are today. Every man on our board of
ecounty commissioners wants the bonds for the power plant, They are will-
Em to continue their good efforts—they have faith in what can be done with l
‘the developed power. And we are not afraid to trust them, We must trust
somebody among our good citizens if we get any public improvement in
‘any measure in keeping with that growth which we should be enjoying.
| Over Mr. Pate's name the power attorneys gay that we are now taxed
to death—that added obligations for the power plant will absolutely destroy
us and drive away future investors. With a power supply at ono-t\\'vll’th{
'what the power company is now charging us—and with a sane promlm\d‘
learning of half a million a year on that rate for the public which own:
the power plant, we can wipe out all our taxes, pay public operating ex
penses out of these profits, have no taxes at all, and sell power at the same
time to investors here at one-fourth and less than what it now costs. s
it now wise to provide that power when it assures us such returns? \\-'e{
cught by all means to do this, since it give Luto our hands a vast workhm‘
dvantags over the power company ¢ ! their efforts to carry investors
where, They do not want investess in o« vis county, They are bring
-Iho power here the. lave to spare and they get ns higa #s twelve
. Investors will not--canuot pay-—twelve cewts for it. We have
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a splendid local industry today p:ny~]
’ing them more than a hundred 4101-1
lars a month more than the same
power would cost in Albany, Colum-fi
bus or other good Georgia towns.
Eventually that industry would goi
elsewhere—have to do it to meeti
competition, We have another— anl
industry vital to the farmer—-whlchi
is forced to maintain a steam planti
because the power rate now —
present charges — are too high,
The power people own and con.
trol our public service commis.
sion. When we go there we have to
take a ruling in favor of the power
trust. That has been the case for
twenty long years. We have tried
it over and over again—and the same
attorneys now working here for the
power company have served to heat
us before that public service com
migsion when we sought a reasonable
rate for lighting and power, |
Mr. Pate’'s power company mm.j
mittee charges that our plant will
cost vastly more than we have esti-:
mated. We expect to spend less thnnl
three-quarters of a million dollars on§
first cost. As we expand and grow
in volume of business we may install
high tension wires—or our customers
will do it to get the power. They
talkk about ridiculous clearing of the
pondage lands—their cost. The plant
at. Albany was built, pond and all,
for less than six hundred thousandl
dollars, When that plaat vas ready
to go, they offered to consgruct :1,l
lire to Cordcle—forty-two miles——»l‘m"
less than twentr-four thousand dol“w
lars. The first owners of that plant;
offered this—not the power trust
owners who are operating it nnw.%
That's first-hand information on the
cost of power lines, less than fi\'e'
hundred dollars a mile—and that can{
be done today. Anything to the con
trary is just a power company line‘
of misrepresentation to keep ug out
of our own investment in power (le-i
velopment, i
We haven't planned for a stcami
power plant. The county will not
need one, But we have planned for
a double equipment in this river pow
er plant which will give us two lowl
water machines and two high waterl
machines—both tlood-stage and low
water stage, equipment that will de
liver 365 days and nights in the year
—and on till we have more than fif
ty million Kkilowat hours of electric
current vear in and year out for
steady use. And that plant thus[
equipped, according to engincers who
spend their time in constructing amll
operating such plants, with the linos'
it will take to carry the power to ou\"
neighbors, wil] come at a total cost,
to us of not more than seven hundred
and fitty thousand dollars. If it
doesn’t, we are not going to invest—
and we will not invest till we know.
The contractor who builds will be un-‘
der unshabable bond to deliver what
we buy-—and then the plant will be
insured against washouts and other
mishaps—just like the power com
pany gets them built without losses.
Please do not ‘worry about what the
federal government will require of
us, Uncle Sam has already sent en
gineers and helped us to determine
whether we have a safe pro,]ect.l
Thesoe have approved our site so tarl
that the government has issuad a
preliminary permit which authorizes
us to go ahead, llf we had failed
;t\s get that, we would not be out ask-‘
jug our voters to approve. If, af!er}
lthoy have already approved, we l'im}
one thing unsafe, we are not going
}to invest a dollar of the money—
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we are not going to sell a bond. We'
are going to take care of our publlc.“,
~ Again, we appeal to our voters to]
’staud firmly fixed upon th's nreat;
public improvement and see it
illnough. We have heen used long!
renough by the up-cast Yankees who|
are at this very moment exploiting
us industrially—using our cotton at
less than it cost to produce in the!
fields and declaring dividends in the
mills at over a hundred percent, and
then boasting about it. The Albany
plant which is used to serve us noy_.!
is overtaxed, We get low currenti
every day and every night—and pa.vi
high prices for it. They suppllment;
}wlth every machine they have in
their field and then cannot meet the
needs. Soon that power will be tak
en in the Albany field. Where will
we go fo rours? | i @lm
Again, the Albany plant was buflti
by local capitalists at less than sev
en hundred thousand dollars cost. The |
first sale of it put the price up to
fifteen hundred thousand dollars, or
double first cost. It lately went in
to the Stone and Webster power com
bination at a valuation of three mil
lion dollars and the people who sold
it to the power trust at that price had
to go into courts and fight for their
imoney for it. Now, we are paying
} for current from that plant on a val
‘ nation of three million dollars. We
) have to pay a high rate that will earn
dividends for our Yankee power own
lers on that sort of valuation for a
plant which cost originally a little
more than half a million dollars.
That's the kind of abundant power
: we have. Industry isn’t in the re
- motest miud of thoze pconle. They
i want lights—more lights — at high
cost. We can never build industrially
and they knew it, Their program def
initely decides that we shall not
build and compete with their power
supply and their eastern cotton mills,
All we need now is the vote of our
own people for our power develop
ment. The future is secure. Our
cwn people may decide'it in the
right way. We firmly believe they
will write progress on their own fu
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scitled it firmer in its place, and|
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tle and the post just touched it. At
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wire cloth covered, and all but one|
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T have had weak batterics become
noisy. A by-pass condenser is ad
vised for this but I have had good
results throwing away thdold bat
teries, ag one old battery can do
more harm to good batteries than it
is worth, and the radio engineer of
KSAC, Kangas Agricultural Colleg?
says it is dangerous to tubes also.
You'll never get a call to a better
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have a keen anpreciation of the
fact that the easy way is down hill.