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The Forsyth County News
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Tax Commissioner
Notice
VICKERY DISTRICT NO. 880
Monday April 24th.
Albert Thompson—9 o’clock a. m.
I. G. Thompson—lo:oo o’clock a. m.
Grady Puckett—ll:oo o’clock a. m.
J. A. Wills Store—NOON
Julius Hendrix—l:oo o’ clock p. m.
O. P. Bennett Store—2:oo o'clock p. m.
T. D. Green—3:oo o’clock p. m.
John McGinnis—4:oo o’clock p. m.
John Collins Store—s:oo o’clock p. m.
Homer Holbrook—6:00 o’clock p .m.
BELLS DISTRICT NO. 1276
Tuesday April 25th.
Dobson Store—9:oo o’clock a. m.
R. L. Martin—lo:oo o’clock a. m.
S. E. Bagley—11:00 o’clock a. m.
Edd McGinnis—NOON
Perry McFarland—l:oo o’clock p m.
Court Ground—2:oo o’clock p. m.
Rev. L. H. Burgess—3:oo o’clock p. m.
Jasper Stone—4:oo o’clock p. m.
Joe Boling—5:00 o’clock p. m.
BIG CREEK DISTRICT NO. 795
Wednesday April 26th.
Jtley—B:oo o’clock a. m.
Court Ground—9:oo o’clock a. m.
Geo. W. Bagwell—10:00 o’clock a. m.
Fred H. Vaughan—ll:oo o’clock a. m.
Brookwood—NOON
P. W. Green—l:oo o’clock p. m.
W. H. Powell—2 o’clock p. m.
Sheltonville—3:oo o’clock p m.
Homer Gilstrap—4:oo o’clock p. m.
Mrs. R. tf. Buice—s:oo o’clock p. m.
Darden Store—6:oo o’clock p. m.
BIG CREEK DISTRICT NO. 795
Thursday April 27th.
Vester Buice—9:oo o’clock a. m.
Joe Buice—10:00 o’clock a. m.
Toy Settle—ll:oo o’clock a. m.
J. M. Terry—NOON
Bob Bagley—1:00 o’clock p. m.
CUMMING DISTRICT NO. 879
Joe Barnes—2:oo o’clock p. m.
John Pruitt—3:oo o'clock p. m.
Haw Creek Store—4:oo o’clock p. m.
Glenn Guthrie Store—s:oo o'clock p. m
S. C. SMALLWOOD
Forsyth County Tax Commissioner.
FROM M. J. YEOMANS
Hon. R. P. Ot-well
Forsyth County News
Cumming, Georgia.
My dear Mr. Otwell:
The Legislature has adjourned and
I am now having the first opportunity
since the primary to express my ap
preciation of your kindness.
During the campaign I had no man
ager, no publicity agent, but went di
rect to the press and the people. The
result was satisfactory.
I find my work as Attorney General
very strenuous but pleasant. I have
very able assistants and the interests
of the State will be protected to the
utmost of our ability.
In 1931 the various departments,
boards, and bureaus of the State, un
der the old plan, paid $144,735.38 for
attorneys’ fees. In 1932, under the pre
sent plan, the law department for the
same service cost $47,861.29, a saving
of $96,874.09, with no decrease in effi
ciency.
I assure you of my great appreciat
ion of your kindness and shall strive
to merit it by giving to the people ef
ficient and economical service.
When in Atlanta please call to see
roe and when I can serve you, com
mand me.
With regards and best wishes, I re
main.
Yours sincerely
(Signed) M. J. Yeomans.
"Could you live without your hus
rnand?”
“Oh. easily,—but not without his pay
check.’'
Georgia Forestry Work
On Relief Program
State Parks and Forest and Timber
Protective Organizations to be Centers
of Activity on State Program of Work
Six Thousand Men to be Employed in
Georgia.
Atlanta, April 19—According to
State Forester Lufburrow, six thou
j sand men will be allotted to Georgia
I for employment in forestry work on
the federal relief program. The first
1 organized work, he states, will appar
ently begin on the national forests,
two of which, the Cherokee and Nan
tahala, have areas in North Georgia.
As for work outside the national for
ests in Georgia, the state forester says
it will be carried on under the direct
ion of the state forest service. The
men to be used will be requistioned
from camps where the enlisted civil
ians will be conditioned by the army.
The state projects will include the use
of men on state parks, state forests
and timber protective organizations.
The state parks are Indian Springs,
Vogel Park at Neel Gap in Union
county, and Stephens Memorial Park
at Crawfordville. The only state forest
is at Augusta. Forty-four timber pro
tective organizations are scattered
throughout the state, embracing near
ly two million acres, with the greatest
number in southeast Georgia.
A conference of district foresters
has been called in the state forester’s
office Monday, April 17, to workout
projects on the timber protective or
ganizations.
Mr. Lufburrow states that applicat
ions for enlistment in forestry work
should be made to Mr. Herman De-
Laperriere, Reconstruction Finance
Corporation headquarters, 232 State
Capitol, Atlanta, as soon as Mr. De-
Laperriere announces through the
press that he is ready. Applications
should not be made to the state for
ester.
Attention is directed by Mr. Lufbur
row to the fact that the present age
limit is 18 to 25 years. The applicants
must have dependents. They will be
required to send at least $25 of the
S3O per month received to their de
pendents. Clothing, food, shelter and
medical service will he free, so -that
the need of spending money in camp
will be small.
Mr. Lufburrow has been in Wash
ington and heard an explanation of the
purposes and plans of the project, and
says that the fdea. of President Roose
velt is principally to put idle young
men to work under an environment
that will be wholesome morally and
physically, and secondarily, to pro
mote the interests of forestry.
$45000 FROM CAR
SALES-MANGHAM
ATLANTA, April 20th (SPB)
The sale of state owned automobil
es now being condicted by state pur
chasing agent J. J. Mangham will net
the Department of Education more
than $45,000 for the commolf schools
fund.
A sum in excess of $27,000 has al
ready been credited to the school fund
and more will be deposited as pay
ments come in each month.
"Here’s an invitation to my golden
wedding.”
“Your golden wedding?”
“Yes! I’m going to marry the only
son of a millionaire.”
I
Send us your Job Work
TENANT FARMERS
ARE ADVANCING
In a recent study of self-help stu
dents at a Southern university it de
veloped that the tenant farm homes
of the state had furnished 220 of these
aspiring young men, while all the fact
ory workers' homes in the state had
sent only two.
This is a striking illustration of the
spirit of hope and enterprise which
characterizes the South’s white tenant
farmers. They are on the way to bet
ter things. Thousands of them will
take advantage of the present oppor
tunity to buy lands cheap with long
term payments and so will achieve
home-ownership in another generation
As we have frequently pointed out, it
was from the so-called "poor whites”
of the South that Abraham Lincoln
sprang, and many another great lead
er will come cut of their ranks now
that they are at last getting the ad
vantages of education and equality of
opportunity.
Let no boy think that because he
comes from a tenant farm tie cannot
win as great success as other boys.
Progressive Farmer.
SUNDAY SCHOOL
CONVENTION
Forsyth County Sunday School con
vention will be held at Union Hill
Baptist Church Forsyth County on the
sth Sunday in April.
9:30 Usual Sunday school exercise.
11:00 Speaking—Speakers to be an
nounced later.
12:00 Dinner.
1:00 Devotional exercise led by Rev.
D. M. Nalle/
1:15 Report ot the several Sunday
Schools.
1:30 Song
1:45 Program by young people’s class
Haw Creek.
2:15 Program by Intermediate class
Brookwood.
2:45 Program by Children’s class
Cumming.
i 3:15 Program by Junior class Sharon.
3:45 Speaker—To be selected later.
4:30 Business session and dismission.
The (Committee was not appointed
in time to see the different Sunday
Schools put on program. So they had
to do the best they could. It is hoped
that all schools called on for a pro
gram will respond. At least two good
Sunday School men will address the
convention, but we are sorry that we
are unalile to announce their names
now.
C. L. PARIS, Secretary.
Committee—J. •W. Shirley, Mrs. Ollie
Strickland, Edith Shirley.
Baptist W. M. U.
The Baptist W. M. U. of Cumming
Baptist Church met with Mrs. H. S.
Brooks on Monday p. m.
Song—l’ll go where you want me to go
Minftes of last meeting were read
and adopted.
Called for report of committees.
Building Fund Committee reported
that they are still collecting but have
not yet reached the goal. Although
the building of the Pastorium has be
gun and funds are still coming in.
The ladies regret that Miss Humane
is leaving in a few days and Mrs.
Edwin Otwell was appointed to lead
the Jr. B. Y. P. U. in her place.
Collection on Building Fund $5.50.
Collection for Missions 70 cents.
Miss Olive Humane was in charge
of the following program—Subject
Miracles.
Bible Reading—By Mrs. M. W. Webb.
St. John 2-1-11.
Prayer—By Mrs. J. L. Phillips.
The Bible is the Book of Miracles—
by Miss Humane.
The Miracles of other lands—by Mrs.
H. S. Brooks.
A scrap of paper—by Mrs. Alice Otwell
How a leader won—by Mrs. J. Y. Den
ton.
A Dream that came true—by Mrs. J. L
Phillips.
Song—A Duet—Thy Brother Calls for
Thee by Mrs. M. W. Webb and Mrs.
Roy P. Otwell.
The seed in the Heart of a Child—by
Mrs. C. B. Otwell.
The Word Producing Miracles—by
Mrs. Roy P. Otwell.
The Word Tarries—by Mrs. Joe Sum
merour.
Prayer—by Mrs. H. S. Brooks.
MEMORIAL SINGING
Remember the Annual Singing at
Friendship the fifth Sunday in April.
A more extended notice will appear
next week.
A. E. BRAMBLETT.
CUMMING, GA., APRIL, 20th, 1933.
Five Forest Reserve
Camps For Unem
ployed To,Open
In Georgia
Atlanta, Ga., (GPS)— Anouncement
; that Georgia will be given at least
I five unemployment relief reforfctat-
I ion camps, instead of two as at firsh
indicated, emphases the benefit which
Georgia because of its extensive moun
i tain section, will receive from this
relief act.
| The camps already decided upon
j will be located in Rabun, Towns White
I Lumpkin and Fannin counties, and all
work done will be in the government
forest reserves in those counties.
From the work of the unemployed
who will be assigned to these five
camps these forests, covering a large
territory in north Georgia, will be re
stored to their natural condition.
The hundreds of thousands of young
trees that will be planted by the oc
cupants of these camps, it is stated,
will be well on their way to maturity
in a few years, and the whole state
will benefit from the restoration, at
points vital to the life of the streams
of the forests which once covered the
domain of Georgia.
EQUALIZATION OF
TAXES AS A FARM
RELIEF MEASURE
It is commonly recognized by the
leaders in the program for farm relief
and by acknowledged experts in gov
ernment finance and questions of tax
ation, that one of the greatest griev
ances of the farmer is that of the bur
den of unfair taxation.
Farming is the most depressed of
all the industries in this country to
day, and farming is taxed more heav
ily in relation to the income produc
j ing power, than any other industry. In
; fact, agriculture lias been in a state
j of ACUTE depression since 1920; but
L he manufacturing and distributing in
iaiistries have prospered in many in
stances, beyond anything ever known
in the past.
The Constitution of the United
States provides, “that all taxes shall
be uniform upon the same class of
property subject to taxation.”
I insist that these provisions are not
correctly interpreted, or else the pre
sent national and state laws, which
allow billions of dollars worth of in
tangible property to dodge any forrti
of taxation, are poorly enforced.
The 1924 Year Book of the United
States Department of Agriculture
states, “that the taxes paid on intangi
ble property amount, as a rule, to little
more than a voluntary contribution on
the part of the owner, since he could
avoid payment, if be chose to do so.”
The 1921 Year Book also states,
“that the intangible property in the
United States is estimated at $300,-
398,000,000 which is assessed at $32,-
344,000,000. Real estate is valued at
$176,414,00,000 and is assessed at $92,-
000,0000,000.”
From these figures you see that the
farmers hre paying taxes on 55 per
cent of the value of their real estate
holding, whereas the holders of in
tangible wealth are paying taxes on
only 10 per cent of the value of their
property.
The rural sections of our country
are paying 15 to 30 per cent more tax
es according to property value than
is being paid by owners of city pro
perty in the same section.
During the last decade millions of
our farmers have left their farms, and
thousands of banking institutions in
rural districts have failed. Tnese un
fortunate conditions are due to a num
ber of causes, hut one of the greatest
contributing factors outside of inabi
lity to reach intangible property is
that arising from the general property
tax system, which, on account of its
glaring defects, has been denounced
oy all taxation experts.
The seriousness of the situation
which has been growing worse for the
past twelve years, and will continue
to grow worse if proper remedies are
not applied to correct the injustice, is
pointed out in which government sta
tistics show that in January 1920, agri
cultural classes owned 34 per cent of
the nation’s wealth, while In January
1930 they owned pnly 15 per cent of
the nation’s wealth.
In 1920, 62 per cent of the farmers
owned their homes. Today less than
one half of the farmers own their
homes, and 40 per cent of those are
under mortgages.
These figures indicate that a large
number of farms are being sold under
A JUSTIFIABLE DEBT.
Sometime ago we heard a man say: “I saved most
of my money by putting myself in debt. I bought
a home and some stock in the company for which
I work. It was hard to meet these regular obliga
sions but it made me save more than 1 would have
ever done otherwise, and now I have it.”
Why not take that same attitude towards a sav
ings account, which can mean independence, prep
aration for future opportunities and enjoyments, if
not neceesities.
Put yourself in debt to your Savings Account.
Make the demand upon yourself to meet that obli
gation regularly and have the moral courage to
stick to your obligation. The result will be piece
of mind based on consciousness of the fact that
you are financially prepared to meet opportunity
or emerger.cy.
Bank of Cumming,
B. P. Roper, President
loan foreclosures. These farms are not
being bought 'oy other farmers, but by
banks and other farm loan agencies.
This can only mean that an increas
ingly large number of farms will lie
continually falling into the hands of
powerful moneyed interests.
Industrial centers, with a great ac
cumulation of wealth an dwit’n unlimi
ted varieties of taxable resources, can
well afford modern schools and the
best transportation facilities with a
low rate of assessment; but agricul
tural groups with a bankrupt and de
serted background can never hope to
enjoy advantages rightfully theirs, un
til some uniform system of taxation
is adopted wfiich will force the intan
gible and centralized wealth to reach
the state and national tax digest with
rates of assessments equal to that of
farm property .
I contend that the burdens of tax
ation borne by the farmers could be
reduced by converting all forms of ;
taxation, such as income tax, sales tax :
corporation and severance tax, inheri- I
tance and general property tax, into
a modern classified system of taxation
in raising funds to support the divi
sions of government which are now al
most wholly supported by the general
porperty tax.
In closing, I propose Ujat we must
put more of the tax burden on inheri
tance and income and insist on equali
ty of assessments. We should also in
sist that land taxation encourage im
provement rather than discouiage it.
For instance, a farmer beautifies his
home grounds, tacks a few new shing
les on his house, paints it and builds
anew smoke house or chicken house,
immediately his taxes are raised. And
last but not least, let us urge the
great urban centers, that have largely
drawn both their patronage and their
citizenship from the country, to help
bear some of the burden of supporting
rural schools and roads.
The above speech won second place
In this district F. F. A. Public speak
ing contest, which was held at Chamb
lee last Thursday. Edgar Rhodes, a
member of the Milton High Agiicul
tural Classes and president of our
Future Farmer Chapter delivered the
speech.
TAX COLLECTOR’S
NOTICE
By orders of the Comptroller Gener
al there will be no Tax Fi-Fa's sent
out for collection for several days. But
bear in mind your Tax receipt is draw
ing 7 per cent interest from the 20th,
of December, 1932, and I ask that you
pay your taxes as soon as you can as
I may be ordered to issue Fi-Fa’s any
day. I will be at the Court House only
on Saturday's of each week for the
purpose of making settlement with
you.
As ever your friend.
T. P. THOMAS
Assistant Tax Collector
GOOD INTENTIONS
“Mary, don't let me catch you kiss
ing the grocer’s boy again.
“Lord, ma'am, I don't mean to, but
t you bob around so.”
SI.OO PER YEAR
SUNDAY SCHOOL
CONVENTION
The Sunday School Convention of
the Hightower Association will meal
with Union Hill Church April SO, 1033
A. W. Pruitt, Chairman in charge.
Opens at 10:30 a, in. with a song
“It is Truly Wonderful” and prayer by
llev. P. W. Tribble.
10:45—Program by Union Hill Young
People.
11:30—Song by boys’ (piartett.
ll:4s v Talk by \V. Southard.
12:15—Dinner.
I:oo—Business.
I:3o—Program by Gumming Juniors.
2:oo—Address by Judge Hawkins.
2:30 Program by Sharon Intermed
iates.
3:00 Special Music.
3:3o—Recess.
3:45 Program by bongstreet Seniors
4:15 Program by Brookwood Pri
maries.
4:4s—Song, “God be with you till we
meet again." Benediction by Judge
Hawkins.
Program Committee—Mrs. Ollie
Strickland, Miss Edith Shirley.
George B. Hamilton
Is New Treasurer
ATLANTA, April 20th (SPB)—
George B. Hamilton, state treasurer
by appointment of Governor Talmadge
to succeed the late M. I>. Ledford,
"brings to his new post a sound know
ledge of figures necessary to success
ful execution of a treasurer’s duties.
Mr. Hamilton, who lost the treasur
er’s posit Ton in the 1932 primary by
only two county unit votes although
he polled 1,200 more popular votes
than Mr. Ledford. He has for years
been a member of the firm of Robi
son and Hunt, Atlanta auditors. He
is a certified public accountant.
Mr. Hamilton has announced his
policy of personally supervising the
work of the treasury department in
stead of allowing clerks to bear the
brunt of the burden.
By Supt. Collins
ATLANTA, April 20th (SPB)—
M. D. Collins, State Supt. of school#
was in Savannah this week attending
the meeting of the Georgia Education
al Association. In bis address before
the teachers Mr. Collins brought out
many interesting facts about Georgia
schools.
“Some school systems are twelve to
fifteen times as able to provide edu
cational advantages for their children
than other poorer counties,” Mr. Col
lins said. "This makes it clear that
when the poor communities of the
state levy as much local tax as the
law allows, they cannot hope to pro
vide anything like equal educational
advantages for their children unless
end until the state supplements their
local revenue upon a plan of equali
zation from state funds.”