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thf. southern serves the south Railroad service that profits all of us On the Southern Railway System last year we hauled seven million tons of farm products. We carried back to the farms a great volume of things that i the farmer gets in exchange for his :■ products. This is a big part of the day’s work of our 8,000 miles of lints, stretching across the South from the Potomac to the Mississippi. Farm prosperity means prosperity for US. To give the best service, at rates which will enable our shippers to sell their products in the markets at a good profit, and which will enable us to make a fair profit, too, is a fundamental policy of the SouthemRailway System. Did you ever stop to think how much better service the Southern has given you in recent years since it was reliev¬ ed from financial starvation? That is part of your share in our prosperity. S3 -fiOU7V; u TH SOUTHERN R A I i. WAY S Y S T E M REPEAL INHERITANCE TAX Atlanta, June 8. < ollt go boys in Atlanta, speechmaking in connection ■with their studies, are taking sub¬ jects of state and national interest. One student at Oglethorpe The Macon News’ $12,000 Prize Campaign 8 AUTOMOBILES, 20% CASH COMMISSIONS j j OPEN TO BOTH MEN AND WOMEN—IT DOESN’T COST A CENT YOU CAN SHARE THE MACON NEW 7 S takes pleasure in announcing this magnificent offei of more than $12,000 in automobiles and cash commissions to be given in return for spare time effort during the next few weeks. The prize list includes a $3,575 Cadillac Coach, $1,665 Master Six Buick Coach, $1,025 Overland Standard Six Sedan. $880 Chevrolet Coach, and Four $625 Chevrolet Touring Cars. The 20% Cash Commissions are paid on both NEW and OLD subscription money turned in, to those not winning one of the eight automobiles. The commissions alone makes it possible for any energetic man or woman to profit immensely big, just | for spare time effort between now and August 22, 1925. How You Can ONE OF THE EIGHT Share irnnnTffr-^- i 4 Tt doesn’t cost n cent to \ '■ I enter this amazingly generous campaign—to compete for a in share in the $12,000 prize and M . m ■ commission distribution. Votes \ I will determine the winners, dldntes nnd votes will paid he issued in advance to can- f||| to The ning subscriptions cent accumulate. Macon vote cash on totals News. commissions they will The Prize secure he 20 win- easy per are for Ji ■ $ ft paid to the active contestants , who don't win one of the n motor cars, and this commis¬ First Grand Prize $3,575 Cadillac Coach sion Is paid on both NEW nnd OLD subscription money fill I turned in. Clip out and Return This Coupon For Complete in nnd send to the Campaign Manager Macon, Georgia, of The Macon the INFOR¬ News. Details. You Can Share MATION COUPON appearing below, complete information nnd subscription blanks will bo sent you, without cost, so CAMPAIGN MANAGER 1 that you may take advantage } of an early start. 1 THE $12,000 PRIZE The Macon News, Macon, Georgia. > LIST Sir: Please tell without obligation to me, how me, i Cadillac Coach ....$3,575.00 I can win FREE one of the Macon News’ Eight Prize Buick Master Six Automobiles, or be paid 20% Cash Commissions on all Coach 1,665.00 Overland Six Sedan 1.025.00 subscriptions I secure. Chevrolet Coach .. 880.00 Chevrolet Touring.. 625.00 Chevrolet Touring.. 625.00 (Signed) Chevrolet Touring.. 625.00 Chevrolet Touring.. 625.00 Address $9,645.00 Estimated Cash Town or City Commissions .... 2.500.00 GRAND TOTAL $12,145.00 THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA., THURSDAY .JUNE 13, 1025. ty—Frank C. Gilreath, Jr.,- chose a subject which is now being agitated w jtfi considerable interest in Georgia and other southern states, though he took the state end of it, Shall Gcor gia Abolish Its Inheritance Tax? He argued for the repeal of the tax, saving in part: “Georgia’s sister state, Florida, is now on a boom and one of the strong 1 arguments now used by Floridians j j in attracting people and capital to that state is that Florida has neither an income tax nor an inheritance tax. 1 Georgia has no income tax, ar.c; should not have, hut it does have an I inheritance tax, that is a tax that takt 3 a good big slice from every es¬ tate upon the death of its owner. The heirs must give up a considerable sum before they come into their in ! heritance. | the “It perpetual has been theme said that of popular ‘taxes are com | plaint’, and when one stops to think ' about it—the various and sundry | taxes that are imposed—it would seem that there should be more econ omy in the conduct of state affairs and less burden of taxes. | "The inheritance tax puts a pre | mium on the accumulation of wealth. ! It is the same as saying, ‘Your chil j dren or heirs shall not be the sole beneficiaries; the State must have its ■ share on top of the taxes you have I paid on the same property all your life and which your children or other | heirs will continue to pay. You must | i submit to a grab between the pe¬ riod intervening between your death ! and turning over your property to those left behind.’ “The law seems wrong in princi- j pie. Taxes are demanded and are taken on property which has borne its share of taxation and will con¬ tinue to hear it. Frankly, it seems a species of legalized robbery. Death and taxes, often called sure things, are here close partners and surviving relatives are overpowered before 1 1 they to speak, get home with ! can, so j the goods. “So far as the dead is concerned, it is not a burden. He has laid down his burden of taxes for the last time. He sleeps the eternal sleep in which there is no thought of taxes and giv¬ ing in taxes. It is palpably a tax on the living—a double tax, because the heir or heirs must pay to get the in¬ heritance and pay on it ever after¬ wards. j "Georgia, on the whole, has a good system of taxation. Property holders pay ad valorem taxes, that is taxes according to the value of the prop¬ erty. Lawmakers so far have refused :Vr. MOUTH CAROLINA i '' m L j m SOl’TH CAROLINA lu GEbUGlA. 'A 1AMA > £0 ft t J> A g f To Spend Millions This Year To Extend The Service ., HE telephone construction erty and those who subscribe . Hi programme outlined for for the service. there In no other in¬ this year is the largest ever dustry are as many There own¬ undertaken by this company. ers as in the Bell System. It calls for new and additional are approximately 750, plant costing more than $11,- 000 security owners and more 810,000. women than men stockholders. This new money must be se¬ To safeguard the holdings of cured from people who are will¬ the investors on one hand, and ing to invest their money in the to extend and operate the prop¬ telephone business in this sec¬ erty so efficiently and econom¬ tion, and who have confidence ically as to fully meet the needs in our ability to engineer, con¬ of the public, on the other hand, struct, manage and operate the is the serious responsibility of entire investment so efficient¬ the telephone management. ly that it will earn a return for The enormous sums of new them. money constantly required have The large, additional invest¬ greatly increased the invest¬ ment is hut a reflection of the ment per telephone, making it demand for service in this and necessary to earn greater reve other Southern States. The new nue per telephone, in order to plant is necessary to meet the meet the growing cost of pro¬ service needs of present and ducing service and leave a rea¬ prospective subscribers, whose sonable balance for profit. business and social activities re¬ Our efforts to keep pace with quire adequate, efficient, com¬ the growth and progress of this prehensive service. State and to measure up fully After all, the telephone sys¬ to our serious responsibility are by tem is merely the joint trustee aided in no small measure for those who own the prop- your friendly encouragement. I c. G. HECK, Georgia Manager f .4* «« Bell System SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE w AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY One Policy t One System, Universal Service to pass an income tax law, recogniz ing that Uncle Sam has gone quite far enough in taking a liberal share Hall’s Catarrh Medicine will do what we claim for it — rid your system of Catarrh ot Deaf net’ caused by Catarrh. Sold by druggist* for over 40 rears R J. CHENEY &. CO., Toledo, Ohic r We i ^\g^e-G : tLDr^/ @ >%> flmCo e © o W OULD BE GLAD TO HANDLE YOUR Peadhie Watermelon In Car Lots Only PROVIDING: You wire us and let us say when and how many. J RICHMOND , VA. $ j of what people earn. It should now abolish inheritance taxes, both state ' and national, thus insuring future to NORMAN INSTITUTE A Grammar School. High School on SOUTHERN ACCREDITED list. Two years College, Business Collette. All Specials, Supervised Study. No Loafing. Girls Chap¬ eroned. All Conveniences. $28.00 p. r month or $84.00 per term. SUMMER SCHOOL JULY 27th. Fall term September 7th.—Write for catalog. L. H. BROWNING, President, Norman Park, Georgia. generations that what is left to them comes without seizure under sem blance of law."