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MOST IMPRACTICRLE
(FROM THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION)
Editor Constitution: Good roads
are an economic necessity, but the
desire for an improvement, however
much needed, should not he accom¬
panied by such furor and clamor and
ill-directed enthusiasm as to cause
the public to lose sight of the utter
impracticability of the highway dis
trict fad, or to lose sight of the fact
that all such proposals are but sub
terfuges for avoiding that wise pro¬
vision of our constitution limiting
county debts, and would commit the
people to a policy of rushing head
long into debt, a policy no wiser for
the state than for the individual.
The coastal highway district is held
up as a model. Let us consider its
practicability.
One of the powers of the district
commissioners is to issue bonds in
the sum of $900,000, but this power,
as is every power given the commis
Sioners, is a conditional power, the
act providing that the commissioners
may not exercise any powers until
the statd highway commission has
certified thRt the proposed paved
road of 136 miles can be constructed
for three and one-half million dol¬
lars, and that three-fourths of the
cost will be paid out of federal and
state funds.
Does any one in Georgia believe
that any state highway commission
will ever certify that $2,625,000 of
state and federal .funds will be used
on 136 miles out of the 5,450
<d miles of federal aid highways in
Georgia? The state’s entire allotment
of federal funds for this year is only
$1,983,022.99. If the state authorities , . .
should so far forget all the rest of
Georgia the federal road authorities
would never countenance such dis
crimination in favor of a very small
part of the mileage they have ap¬
proved for federal aid.
Notwithstanding the plain provis
ions of the coastal highway
act prohibiting the district commis
sioners from exercising any of the
powers therein conferred until the is¬
suance of the impossible certificate
outlined, the commissioners have is¬
sued the bonds, the whole $900,000 of
them, and they are now being offer¬
ed to investors throughout the coun¬
try.
Another impracticable feature is
that the district commissioners, while
asking advice of the state highway
commission, are to expend the money,
control the district road, condemn
land, build the road, etc., yet the fed¬
eral highway act of 1921 specifically
provides that no aid will be extend¬
ed except for roads built and main¬
tained by the state highway depart¬
ment, and yet again, this federal aid
is a condition precedent to the issu¬
ance of any bonds by the district
commissioners, anothers impossibility.
But for the tragedy of this im¬
mense debt heaped upon six coun¬
ties of Georgia, the matter could be
viewed with less concern, as being
merely one of those fanciful things
that are dreamed of but never ac¬
complished.
Those states without constitutional
limitation on the debts municipalities
and counties may incur are today suf¬
fering from heavy taxation to meet
ill-advised debts, often incurred
through support of a popular fad of
the hour.
Under Georgia’s constitution, no
county, except the six counties com¬
posing the coastal highway district,
may incur debts in excess of 7 per
tent 6f the taxable property in the
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1925.
county. By means of the coastal high
way plan, this limit is doubled in
those six counties.
If the building of paved roads is
worth saddling postcriy with huge
debts, let us meet the issue openly
and squarely and amend the
tution increasing the debt limit or
removing it entirely, but don’t let’s
nibble away those safeguards of our
constitution that evidence the con
servatism of our state.
According to the bureau of public
roads, in 1921, the latest year for
which the federal survey has been
completed, there was spent on rural
roads in Georgia the sum of $15,-
816,594, while for the same year there
was expended on rural roads in Flor
ida $9,588,133.
Instead of trying to outdo others
in the amounts spent, it might be
wiser to emulate others in getting a
dollar’s worth of road for every dol
lar expended,
W. H. HARRIS.
i Fort Valley, Ga., June 5, 1925.
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Purify your entire system by tak
ing a thorough course of Calotabs,
— once or t w ice a week for several
weeks _ and see how Nature re
wards you with health.
Calotabs are the greatest of all
system purifiers. Get a family
package, containing full direc¬
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io c ts. At any drug store. (Adv.)
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ASFALTSLATE
The Shingle That Never Curls ft
•T'HE * reason why so many people are demanding the Carey
Asfaltslate Shingle for their homes is because it gives them
so much more for their money. It is the logical result of half
a century of good roof making.
Carey Asfaltslate Shingles come in three attractive colors, Blue
black, Red and Green. Ask us for samples and further details.
FORT VALLEY LUMBER COMPANY
Fort Valley, i .1 Georgia
Cement l n ,{ uiitr y /.,
lluildinf! Barometer
About 135 Plants in Operation, Capi
tal $450,000,000 with Output
Valued at $270,000,000
E. T. Murray, president of the Ki
wanis club and cashier of the Bank
of Fort Valley, refers the following
interesting article from the Wall
Street Journal to The Leader-Tri
bune:
Shipments of Portland cement give
an accurate index to the progress of
construction. The business world as
a whole has become so accustomed
to regard steel as the outstanding
barometer, that movement of
as an accurate register of building ac
tivity in general has, until recently,
, been overlooked. iii
Observations have shown that when
building is heavy cement shipments
are large, and when it is light they
are small. Probably the a vo rage
time elapsing between the shipment
of the cement from the mil! and its
actual use on the job does not exceed
j two weeks.
The belief that the majority of the
country’s cement output finds its way
into concrete pavements and side¬
walks is erroneous. Estimates pub
lisbed by the U. S. Geological Sur
vey indicate only 24 per cent of the
production of cement last year 149,
! 000,000 barrels—is used in paving
; and highways, and about 7 per cent
i in sidewalks and private driveways,
while another 25 per cent is used in
public and commercial buildings, and
{ near j y 21 per cent goes for miseel
laneous farm purposes. The remain
ing portion is employed, in small in
dividual percentages, for dwellings;
concrete pipe for sewer, irrigation,
etc., by railways in bridges and dams,
and for miscellaneous purposes. In
I all, concrete of which portland ce
ment is the vital ingredient, has hun
dreds of recognized uses.
' Annual Output $270,000,000
This great diversity of uses and
thp ghort period in trans it and stor
age J make the industry an unusually
a t , uraU , indicator of construction
wo) . k Jt has about 135 p i ants ; n op
erfttion in the United states , with a
capitalization of approximately $450,
000,000; which has nearly 50,000 per¬
sons on its payroll and an annual out¬
put valued at $270,000,000, is at least
as truly basic in construction as iron
or steel.
The manufacture of cement is prof¬
itable only in the vicinity of good
markets, because the weight of the
product prohibits long hauls. Hence
a cement production may of the
United States shows a grouping of
plants in those sections of the coun¬
try where heavy population or
vantageous shipping facilities insure
a ready usage of the output. Pennsyl
vania alone contains 22 cement
plants, New York 9, Ohio 7 and
Michigan 15. The Mississippi Valley
states are well represented in ce
| ment mills, except where lack of ma
ferial prohibits, and there are like
wise a good number on the Pacific
coast, particularly in California,
which has ten. The “desert area’’ of
production is in the Mountain states,
where over much of the region
small markets due to scanty popula
tion do not warrant the heavy in
vestment required in establishing a
plant. Colorado, Utah and Montana
STATEMENT OF CONDITION OF
CITIZENS HANK OF FORT VALLEY
Located at Fort Valley, Ga., showini? con¬
dition at close of business June 30th, 1925.
RESOURCES
Time Loans and Discounts $801,812.67
Demand United States Loans Securities ? l[ooo.co Hi !n'
State of Georgia Bonds
Other Stocks and Bonds s. 2 '»o oo
Banking House 4i.ooo.oo
Furtnture and Fixtures 11
Other Real Estate Owned : C3H.D5
Cash in Vault and Amounts De¬
posited with Approved Reserve
Agents 337 , 313.45
Advances on Cotton 11 ) 0.47
Checks for Clearing House lO.r.nj.DS
Other Checks and Cash Items .1,135.56
TOTAL *1,236,362.14
I.1ABIL1TIES
Capital Stock Paid in $ 100,*700.00
j Surplus 50,196.72
Undivided Profits 30.356.41
Due t0 n» n ks 2SS.59
Deposits Subject to ch >ck 572,550.64
Ti ">" of Depo * it 86.866.07
I Savings Deposits S7.0ij.t f
Trust Funds on Deposit 500.00
j cashur’s Checks 5.965.S9
Certified Checks 4.224.20
Bills Payable 275,000.00
Notes and Bills Rediscounted 26,361.P9
TOTAL $ 1 , 2 * 1 , 862 .-M
.STATE OF GEORGIA, Peach county
Before me came IL H. Fincher, Cashier of
Citizens Bank of Fort Valley, who being du
ly sworn says that the above foregoing
statement is a true condition of said Bank,
as shown by the books of file in said Bar-':.
B. H. FINCHER.
pworn to and subscribed before me, l b'.i
8th day of July, 1925.
C. T. MATHEWS,
Notary Public, State at Lartre, Fort Valley.
Ga. My commi don expires Dec. 15, 1926.
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supply most of this territory with
cement.
Demand and Capacity
Although recent years have been
’ extraordinarily active in the building
field, government figures demon¬
j strate that the cement mills now in
the United States have a practical
manu facturing capacity considerably
beyond the requirements of the coun
try for some time to come. This was
j clearly brought out by the Geologi¬ recent
quarterly report of the U. S.
cal Survey, which showed unusually
large storage stocks of cement on
hand at the end of March, 1925; and
indicated that the total demand for
the year would not reach within 20
per cent of the practical operating
■ capacity of the industry, which is es
timated at 180,000,000 barrels for
1925.
While the number of employes re¬
quired in the manufacture of cement,
which is carried on largely by me
chanical methods, is not great com¬
pared with those in industries which
still use man power extensively, the
capital required to set up even a
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CENTRAL OF GEORGIA DISCUSSES REQUIRE¬
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MENTS FOR BETTER TRANSPORTATION
j In fulfilling its obligation to render satisfactory service a railroad finds it necessary to con¬ but
tinually enlarge and improve its facilities and equipment. Railroad equipment not only wears out
becomes obsolete. Better facilities and improved rolling stock require huge expenditures annually.
Some of these result in the reduction of operating costs and are justified by increased efficiency and
J economy. Other expenditures result in improvement of the service and are justified by greater com¬
fort, convenience and safety to the traveling public.
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; In either event, if the expanding needs of business are to be met and if the demands of the
lic are to be fulfilled, the railroads must be permitted to earn such returns as will attract investors.
New capital must continually be secured, and eapi tal cannot be coerced—capital can only be attracted
to railroad stocks and bonds by assurances as to the safety of the investment and of reasonable divi¬
dends.
Illustrating these truths by the experience of the Central of Georgia it would be possible for this
railroad to continue the use of its present passenger train cars for a number of years to come, but
the public, even on branch lines, desires and expec ts steel coaches, electric lighted, vestibuled and
steam heated instead of wooden coaches, lighted by oil or gas, and heated by stoves. It is, therefore,
the policy of the Central of Georgia to add annually, as rapidly as its financial conditions justifies,
the most modern passenger equipment.
The public expects and demands continual im provement to passenger stations. Where depots are
of wooden construction or of small size there is in sistence that they be replaced by structures of
modern design and that train sheds afford protec tion from the weather.
While there is no pressure upon railway ma nagement for undue speed, the public has come to
expect, as a matter of course, fast trains that will operate on time for the handling of both passen¬
gers and freight. This takes for granted numerous factors that entail large outlays such as good road¬
bed. heavy steel rail, large locomotives, steel and c oncrete bridges and trestles, built to sustain in¬
creased weights and speeds of engines and cars, saf ety devices such as block signals, and finally a
personnel that shall be characterized both by effi ciency and courtesy. The tools, machinery and fa¬
cilities essential to satisfactory service cost money and the human element, if of the high type ex¬
pected, must be well paid.
The Central of Georgia does not consider the traveling public unreasonable in anticipating a high
standard of service. We take both pride and pleas are in measuring up to the anticipation of our pa¬
trons and we hope to continue to do so even in the face of a steadily decreasing passenger traffic due
to improved highways and automobile competition.
It has been our experience that the public, w ith higher standards of living, desires adequate
and dependable transportation rather than cheaper transportation.
If the railways are to continue to supply transportation of the type that the public expects and
demands, they in turn must receive such rates and must be accorded such treatment by the various
regulatory agencies interpreting public policy as to secure the flow of new capital upon which their
future depends.
Constructive criticism and suggestions are invited.
L. A. DOWNS,
Savannah, Georgia, July 7, 1925. President, Central of Georgia Railway Company.
modest cement plant is heavy. Esti
mates show that $3 must be invested
a barrel of yearly output, which of
course implies heavy depreciation
charges. Capital turnover is at the
rat * of about once in two years. And
while the ingredients costly, of the cement materi- are j
not exceptionally j
a ] s re q U j re{ j j n manufacturing and
shipping require a considerable ex-)
pense. As the industry is dependent
upon many other lines of business j
for successful operation, a tie-up in
any one of several industries may af- j
feet it adversely. |
Large User of Fuel
For instance, last year cement
manufacturers consumed 11,000,000
tons of coal, chiefly for firing their
huge rotary kilns, which are operat¬
ed continuously for months at a time.
Besides this coal, 5,000,000 barrels of
f ue j 0 ;i were burned, and also 5,000,
000,000 cubic feet of gas, in plants
using these fuels instead of coal.
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for cement were os or
to replace whic i a s ri
cloth over 3i,000 mi cs o
30 inches wide was n< u. ec. a
sacks to the number o-, .
were used, along wit ^ -
of grease, and 1 1 ,0 ,
of quarry explosives. For >
ing sacks 56,000 miles of wire were
and 775,000 tons of gypsum
ground up with the cement
to regulate the rate of harden
ing of the cement.
It is doubtful whether any Ameri¬
can industry is so highly competitive
as this one. The specifications for
portland cement have been fixed by
the government and engineering so¬
cieties, and accepted by all manu
facturers.
London.— The largest carnation,
ever produced is on exhibition here,
It is five inches in diameter._