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Volume XXXVII. Number 28.
Walker Asks New State Tax Law s and Bonds for Education
LIMITED INCOME
A N I) CLASSIFIED
SYSTEM IS URGED
Bond Issue of $10,000,000 to $15,000,
000 for Campaign of Education
Expansion
Atlanta, July 8.—A classification
tax, an income tax limited in the con¬
stitution to 5 per cent, and a bond
issue of from $10,000,000 to $15,000,
000 for buildings and equipment for
a campaign of education expansion
were urged by Governor Clifford
Walker Tuesday when he delivered
his message to the House and Senate
of General Assembly in joint ses¬
sion.
The Governor declared that the
present system of taxation in Geor¬
gia has absolutely broken down. The
state is faced with the need of ad¬
ditional money, and with a demand
for a more equitable distribution of
the burden of taxation.
» There would be little difficulty in
passing a classification tax, he de¬
dared, since it is an obvious need.
But he said there was opposition to
an income tax, and challenged its
opponents to suggest a better means
to raise funds badly needed by the
state. “I pledge you my aid in se¬
curing adoption of any conservative
substitute plan which any opponent
of the income tax will suggest, if the
Comptroller General and the State
Auditor will certify that in their
opinion the substitute plan will ac
tually bring into the state treasury
$3,000,000 annually of new taxes up
on the invisible and intangible prop
erty,” the Governor declared.
SING SUNDAY
There will be community singing
at the Franklin Theatre Sunday af¬
ternoon at 2:30 o’clock. The public is
invited.
No Houston Superior
Court for Next Week
The July term of Houston County
superior court, scheduled to convene
next Monday, will be adjourned to a
later date, and possibly to the regu
lar term, which will convene on the
first Monday in October, according to
Judge H. A. Mathews. This post
pontment is occasioned, said Judge
Mathews, by the fact that the move¬
ment of peaches will be heaviest
about that time.
THE LADY WITH A PIPE
London-—Miss Adelle Baker, who is
painting “The Crucifixion for a
Stepney church, smokes a pipe while
Ahe works.
LOADING OF MIXED CARLOADS OF CRATES
AND BUSHEL BASKETS
By F. C. 1L1FF, Enginner Freight Container Bureau
It jnay sometimes happen that in
order to move a car of peaches that
the shipper fnids it necessary to load
part of the load crates and part
bushel baskets.
It is not recommended that this
practice be followed out, but in cases
of emergency the load should be
stowed as follows:
Load crates in the car first at the
end or ends of car according to the
number of crates to be loaded. Then
brace the crates against shifting by
means of a gate or by means of 2 by
4’s placed across car at the center of
each layer of crates and block back
of a short piece of 2 by 4 Then load
baskets in the same manner as is or
dinarily followed ,that is, start along
one side of car with one row, com
pleting it three high; then stow
ond rov? and so on until four rows
are completed, three high. Then
with the last two rows and
them out together.
Keep the baskets sitting
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Read by thousands of people in progressive PEACH, Houston, Macon a nd Crawford Counties, where Nature smiles her brightest.
FORT VALLEY, PEACH COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY it, 1925.
Highlights on
Governor's
Message o
Highlights on the message
of Governor Clifford Walker
delivered Tuesday to the Leg¬
islature in joint session are:
1. A classification tax to pro¬
vide that wild lands and pas
tures should bear a lower rate
of taxation than improved
lands and properties.
2. An income tax limited in
the Constitution to 5 per cent
to reach intangibles.
3. A bond issue of from $10,
000,000 to $15,000,000 for build¬
ing an equipment, as a founda¬
tion for a 50-50 equalization
fund, for consolidated schools
in the remote sections of the
counties, and for buildings and
equipments for higher educa¬
tional institutions which will
place them on a par in physical
plant and facilities to train boys
and girls with those of Geor¬
gia’s sister states.
Bobby Jones Here
Bobby Jones, celebarted young
golfer of Atlanta, who holds the na
tional amateur championship, passed
through Fort Valley Saturday with
Stuart P. Murray. They were guests
for awhile of their old friend, E. T.
Murray, cashier of the Bank of Fort
Valley. Mr. Jones finds time enough
from golf to be a champion, too, in
the real estate game in Florida,
where he and his father have branches
of their Atlanta office.
The Mississippi River
In Lake Itasca I was born
Before the dawn of human life;
I saw the first Edenic morn
Ere Adam talked with Eve his wife.
If years make age, then I am old,
Old as the stars and glowing sun;
For centuries unknown, untold,
I’ve kept God’s word, Run, river,
i run.”
’Tis not my place to stop and look,
Or ask the distance to the sea;
God bade me, “Run, dear little brook,
You bear a blessing, child, from me. "
And when the Savior shall appear
To crown His children ’neath the sun,
1 All things renew in the New Year,
I know He’ll bless His little one.
—W. C. CARTER.
Miss Geraldine Trippe is spending
a while with relatives in Atlanta.
, and flat and keep the cover hoops
’ in contact at all times. Baskets
ed with the cover hoop of one
ket resting in contact with hoop
basket will result in a loose load
' destination due to the fact that
cover hoop is stiff and rigid
the basket hoop is flexible. On
(other hand, when both cover
are in contact, the load cannot
or give, and will arrive at
tion without shifting or damage,
! It is good policy, in order to
' the ring facing of pack to
serve
ten the cover down between
handles by means of hooks or
fastening devices that come
ed to baskets.
; Another good method is to load
crates three high and then load
baskets on top of the crates one
layer. If there are not enough
kets to make a complete layer
a 2 by 4 across them at the
j hoop and block in front with a
length of 2 by 4 nailed to side of car.
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Here Is a clew on State street, Santa Barbara, Cal., taken just after the disastrous earthquake and transmitted
by the wires of the American Telegraph and Telephone company.
Mrs. A. A. Edgar e> Is
Called Into Beyond
The news of the death of Mrs. A.
i A. Edgar, nee Connie Harvey, who j
passed away Tuesday at Asheville.
N. C., was learned with deep regret .
! in Fort Valley, where she has a num¬
ber of friends and relatives. j '
Mrs. Edgar was reared in Fort
Valley and -was a graduate of the
Fort Valley high school, later gradu¬
ating at the State Normal.
She was married in July, 1924, to
A. A. Edgar, and has since made her
home in Asheville, N. C. ! j
j The body was bought to Fort Val
I ley Wednesday evening to the home
of Mrs. conducted C. G. Gray. at the Funeral Baptist services church j
were
this morning at 10:30 clock, Rev. ,
o
D. A. Howard officiating. Interment
at Oak Lawn Cemetery.
The pall bearers, who were class
mates of Connie were Sam Mathews,
Louis Brown, Harris McArthur, San
ders Harris, Myles Green, and Willis
Campbell.
LOCALS WIN
GOOD GAME
That was an unusually good game
of baseball which John Vance and
others arranged here for last Thurs¬
day afternoon, when Fort Valley de¬
feated the West End Ramblers of
Atlanta by a score of 7 to 3. Some
I of the Atlanta team was late arriv
ing but when the game finally got
to going it amply repaid those who
had waited patiently. Stapleton, of
Macon, who pitched for Fort Valley,
did the remarkable stunt of giving up
only four hits while, at the bat thret
times, he got a three-base hit, sacri¬
ficed the second time and at last
lambasted the ball for a home run ’
Fort Valley“s own Edgar (Fats)
Mathews, son of Miller Mathews whs
is all-prep catcher for the G. M. A
team, gave a splendid exhibition in
Thursday’s game for the old home
j town.
LIONS KILL FIRE VICTIMS
Cairo More than thirty villagers
made homeless’ by fire at Rahmania
j were killed by lions.
QUIT TINKERING
WITH TAX
IS ARNOLD’S PLEA
Atlanta, July 8.—Taking issue with
Governor Walker’s plan for revising
the tax system of Georgia, Reuben
R. Arnold, prominent Atlanta law
yer, in an address on taxation deliv¬
ered Wednesday at the weekly lunch¬
eon forum in the Chamber of
merce building, advocated the repeal
of the state inheritance tax law,
adoption of a constitutional amend
ment prohibiting the imposition of
an income tax in Georgia, and urged
that no classification tax be
at this time,
“Georgia is in good shape and will
steadily improve if we quit tinkering
w j^j, our ^ ax i aW s,” Mr. Arnold as
ser f e ,j j speaking before an audience
that included a number of legislators.
Governor Walker, in his address
the Georgia legislature Tuesday, ad
voeated the substitution of
cation and income tax laws for the
present ad valorem system under
equalization plan. He urged also
a bond issue of $10,000,000 to
000,000 be issued to provide for
educational system of the state.
Condemns Income „ Tax.
“The most disastrous tax of all
an income tax,” declared Mr. Arnold.
“It is a tax not only on property and
the income therefrom, but it is a tax
on energy, on thrift, on talent, on
frugality, on productiveness. It is the
greatest blow to industry which can
be given any country.
“ A man owns a building and gets
an income of ? 10 - 000 a year from lt
The federal government taxes
—e. The State comes along and
taxes tbe building an a so e ln -
come. If the building is located m
city, the owner has to pay taxes
the city. The county taxes it and,
it is located in a school district,
* s t axe d again.
“Of late years, all the states
been abandoning income taxes as
as possible. They seem to have
ognized that it is a federal
and that states ought not to
it. In the last four years, but
state has adopted the income
i while twelve have ejected it and
thirteen of the forty-eight
.
still impose it. r»
(Sixteen Pages)
Open Air Services
Take Patriotic Vein
At Baptist Church
An inspirational and unusual ob
servance of the Fourth of July sea
son was that last Sunday night when
the Baptist congregation gathered 1
on the spacious church lawn, which
I was softly lighted, and in music and
word and prayer with a solemn grat
itude paid tribute to the heroes of
the past and noted the blessings that
( have come as a great heritage to the
people of today,
j The service was arranged and con¬
ducted by the pastor, the Reverend
David Albert Howard. On the impro-
1 vised altar the choir sat and render
e d special music of a Christian and
patriotic nature. Mr. Tomanek play
«d the violin and Horace Rundell
i furnished the piano music. There
were a number of orchestral instru
ments and a male quartette sang
l the Old Ground.”
\“Tenting on Camp
The remarks of Mr. Howard were
especially appropriate and uplifting
( he set forth the glories of the
Stars and Stripes and noted the
blessings of the day. In conclusion
he urged his hearers to solemnly re
gard the warfare they must wage
against unrighteousness as their pa _
triotic an<1 Christian obligation. His
sermon centered around the text,
or righteousness exalteth a
^j orlj but s j n j s a reproach to any peo
pie.
Among those out of town attending
the funeral of Mrs. A. A. Edgar were
Mr ’ and Mrs ’ R ’ J ' Edgar - B ’ D ’ Ed '
gar and Miss M <> ntrelle May of Bir
mingham, Ala., Mr. Van Harvey, Mrs.
J. D. Anchors, R. G. Hooks, Mr. and
Mrs. Lauren Smith, Miss Sophia
Jones, Mr. J. B. Farrant, of Atlanta.
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PEACH SHIPMENT
1972 CARS HERE
THRU WEDNESDAY
1,972 carlots of peaches had moved
from the Fort Valley territory dur¬
ing the season, up to Wednesday
night, according to C. H. Sammons,
local freight agent.
472 cars had been shipped during
the previous week up to Wednesday
night, as compared with 529 cars dur¬
ing the previous week.
Shipments on the first three days
of this week were 74 Monday, 108
Tuesday and 99 Wednesday.
The Elberta crop is moving in fine
condition and the market is reported
firm, especially on large stock.
170 cars had been placed Wednes¬
day night and were being placed
Thursday morning for loading in the
Fort Valley Section.
The total Georgia peach movement
for the season through Tuesday was.
6,352 cars, or over 3,000 more than
had been shipped through the same
date in 1924, when 3,153 cars had
been moved. The mov ■ sent this sea¬
son, when the crop lias been very
early, exceeds the m ments in 1923
and 1922 by about ..,500 cars.
COPPEDGES BUY
IN BARNESVILLE
E. T. Coppedge and Son have
bought the Hotel Barnesville, at
Barnesville, Ga., it is announced here
by Emory H. Coppedge, manager of
the Hotel Winona. The Barnesville
hotel will be improved largely.
SANDERSVILLE WOMAN IS
DELIGHTED WITH CITY
Mrs. C. B. Chapman of Sanders
ville, Ga., accompanied by her grand
daughter, Miss Mary Jeanne Chap¬
man, has been spending several days
with her daughter, Mrs. H. N. Mc
Michael on Church street. Mrs. Chap¬
man was formerly of Union Springs,
Ala., and is a member of one of the
oldest and most intellectual families
of the fertile Prairie section of our
sister state. She is very favorably
impressed with Fort Valley and has
made several trips to the peach or¬
chards and packing plants, which are
interesting sights to all visitors. She
is particularly impressed with the
cordiality and neighborly kindness of
the people of our growing city and
predicts a brilliant future for the
capital of Peach county, as her citi¬
zens show a disposition at all times
to advance the material interests and
prosperity of the greatest peach cen¬
ter in the world.
The Thomas Library seems to be
a very busy place now-a-days. Miss
Riley, librarian, announces that 1067
books were lonaed during the month
of june. Also 50 new Juvenile books
have just been received from the
Georgia Library Association.
Mrs. Mattie L. Skellie and Mr. Al
bert Skellie will occupy the Dr. Hafer
home on Persons street. They are
former residents of Fort Valley and
are receiving a cordial welcome upon
their return from near Montezuma.
WANTS TWENTY-EIGHTH WIFE
Cairo—Khamis Mohammed et Ara
bi, a customs guard, has divorced his
27th wife and is now looking for the
28th. He has more than fifty chil¬
dren.
PROHIBITIONISTS AHOY!
Wilden, Eng.—William Carter aged
104 smokes an ounce of tobacco week¬
ly and drinks a pint of beer daily.