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THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA„ THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1925.
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64 What do you do with all those apples?” inquired the tourist. ®®
66 We eat all we can, •• replied the pretty milkmaid, “and all we
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Credit keeps the machinery of commerce, industry, agriculture— all business, ©@
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!©J mac •liine out of the hole and gives all of us the chance to move forward
Without Credit many of us never would have got a start—never ©©
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could hope to get a start again. We should guard this vital asset Credit!
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When Credit becomes strained, when we strip the gear, we get into the hole of '@1©
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debt. Debt makes us blue. In Debt, the machinery of our business stands (©)©
i' idle, rusts, depreciates in value, We should not permit this. ¥e should get
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We wouldn’t permit a good automobile to stay in a mudhole and rot and rust. ®®
We would get down to earth and PUSH. We would want not only to rescue
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our machine; we would want to get Ol RSELVES out.
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© Our business, our home, is far more im portant than an automobile. Keep our
business sound and our home safe, and we can get another automobile any
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Now each and every one of us agrees that Credit must be preserved—that
© we must try to avoid Old Debt and, if we fall unavoidably into it, work with
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Sometimes we cannot do this all at once. Fine if we can —that brings us hap¬
piness!—but if we can't, certainly m any of us CAN get one wheel out at a
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►34 ® W r e are on our way back to the liighwa y of mutual happiness and prosperity
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when each of us resolves to pay all our debts if we can —hut if we can t, to PAY
ALL WE CAN.
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A rieasam l.rip
Through Georgia ^
(From The Stewart-Webster Journal)*
Lumpkin’s local editor enjoyed a
week-end trip through one of Geor¬
gia’s most interesting sections, es¬
pecially interesting at this season be¬
cause of the ripening fruit and the
attendant industrial activities now in
operation.
A section of the Washington-Miamr
highway from Americus to Milledge
ville, Ga., was the best road section
traversed, this carrying us through
Georgia’s new Peach county where
miles of trees with their ripening
fruit are being packed and shipped
by numerous plants interspersing the
commercial orchards along the way.
Perhaps one of the most interest¬
ing of these was the United Packing
Company near Marshallville where
a great number of people were too
busy to glance at the visitors, but
whose managers found time to pre¬
sent us with a nice lot of ripe fruit.
At Fort Valley we visited the
great refrigerating plant of The At¬
lantic Ice and Coal Corporation, the
largest plant of its kind in the South.
It was erected at a cost of $850,000;
168 tons of ice is produced per day
and night shift every 12 hours..
Near 400 persons share its payroll.
The present months is the plants
first period of operation here where
s been a great boon to the peach
shippers, 300 cars are iced per day.
C. L. Dixon is the efficient man
ager of this commercial giant,
Here we found Mr. Brooks Pear
son, of Lumpkin industriously giving
his time to the responsible duties of
office clerk, from which he found
leisure to show us about the great
plant and gave us much of the fore
going information.
^ Meditations of a stay-at-home af
ter a visit to the old Georgia city of
Milledgeville leads one strongly to.
conclude that the slogan “See Geor¬
gia First” is a wise one. Milledgeville
s, homes and cars for thousands
eorgia inhabitants who would
make the rest of the State very un
comfortable should those State in
• stitutions fail in their mission for
i one day. The State Farm penitentia
ry for men with its branch institu
tion for criminal women. The asylum
for the insane. Boys Training School
or reformatory, these three alone
make the hill city one of inestimable
I interest and importance.
Dangerous Tendency
Notwithstanding the promise to
limit the proposed state income tax,
! we might reasonably fear that “dan
I gerous tendency” in the future upon
| which the Savannah Press comments
with reference to the gasoline tax,
Hows:
It will be noticed that there is an
effort in the Legislature to divert a
port ’ on gasoline tax to the
1 cause of education.
“This is not to be confined to the
University, mind you, but to the
cause of education generally. The ap¬
peal is made for the schools as well
as for the higher training, and is in
accordance with the movement to add
to the educational fund in Georgia
and in answer to the belief that
Georgia is falling behind the other
states.
“Those who have read the meas¬
ures before the Legislature and who
construe this as an effort to give to
the University of Georgia, have read
things very cursorily and superficial
ly. " 4
“All the same there is great op¬
position to the diversion of the gaso¬
line tax especially, as the Atlanta
Constitution says, when Georgia so
sorely needs to complete her highway
system and is dependent upon the
gasoline tax either for a yau-as-you
go fund or for a sinking fund.
“One way to meet the educational
demand is by revising the tax sys¬
tem. Then there are special sales
taxes. .4
“When the automobile owner pays
a tax on every gallon of gasoline he
j consumes he invests in the roads
over which he travels. In the other
taxes imposed he invests in schools^
and other services. Let’s get that
plainly fixed in our minds. ■'1
“The increase of the gasoline tax
would be a bad example. When in
i future the state wants money for
an y reason, it will add an increment
! to the gas tax and write a higher
notch at the filling stations. The di
j version of this tax has already been
accomplished in Georgia and there is
I not ^‘ ng more dangerous than to set
I a bad precedent. It will be remember
| roa<i ed that the hypothecated rental notes and of the state
were the gas
°*‘ ne *** was fallen back upon to.
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: make up this deficit,
“These progressive demands should
not be met by the gasoline tax, even
, under normal conditions.”