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TO Pl&u HUGE SUM
OF PAPER MONEY
LIFE OF THE DOLLAR BILL 13
A SHORT ONE.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 11
The treasury has made plans for
printing more paper money in the
next fiscal year than ever has been
turned out by the American govern
ment in any other twelve months
in history.
Orders have been prepared for the
purpose of 200,000,000 sheets of dis
tinctive silk fibre paper, from each
sheet of which eight pieces of cur
rency are made, and, beginning on
July 1, the great Bureau of Engrav
ing and Printing will be run at
maximum capacity to meet the na
tion’s paper money requirements.
Announcement of the treasury’s
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program discloses that never in any
one year before had the orders for
money paper exceeded 150,000,000
sheets.
Coincident with announcement of
the printing program, Assistant Sec
retary Dewey, whose job it is to see
that there is plenty of money availa
ble in the country, made known that
the treasury would take its first
step July 1 toward building up a
reserve of currency. By this meth
od, it is hoped, the life of the paper
money may be prolonged. An oppor
tunity will be had for “curing” the
money before it goes into active ser
vice, and this process is expected
to keep it from fraying, cracking
and otherwise going to pieces so
easily.
The life of the dollar bill now is
only about eight months, whereas
treasury experts figure it should be
about a year.
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING MAY. 14, 1925
METHODIST REVIVAL
TO BEGIN SUNDAY
JUDGE ROSCOE LUKE WILL DO
THE PREACHING.
A two weeks revival meeting will i
begin at the Methodist church Sun-1
day.
Judge Roscoe Luke, evangelist,
will arrive Sunday to do the preach
ing, and will occupy the pulpit at
3:30 in the afternoon and 8:00 at
night daily for the duration of the
meeting.
The pastor, Rev. W. M. Blitch,
has been doing some>active work in
preparation for the meeting. Begin
ning last night, and continuing
through Friday night, services have
been held at 3:30 in the evening and t
at 8:00 at night, in which prayer is |
being offered for the success of the ■
meeting, and plans laid for the sing- !
ing during the coming two weeks. |
The pastor hopes to have his forces,
thoroughly organized by the time I
the evangelist arrives.
Judge Luke, since his conversion
to Christianity some years ago, has
been devoting much time to preach
ing the gospel, and has filled many'
engagements throughout the State.
,He recently assisted in a two weeks
revival meeting at the Albany Meth
odist church, and wherever he has
been heard nothing but the highest
of praise has been given.
The song service will be a feature
of the meeting, a trained singer hav
ing been secured to take charge of
this feature. He will arrive Sunday]
and take charge of the singing.
Services at the Baptist church
have been called off during the se
ries of meetings at the Methodist]
church, and it is expected that all
denominations will join heartily in
with their Methodist friends in mak
ing the meeting a successful one.
The pastor is earnestly desirous
that all our people will take part in
the revival to the end that much
good may come out of this two
weeks devoted to the saving of souls
for God’s Kingdom.
The News bespeaks the heartiest
co-operation of all denominations in
the services. Blakely needs a re
ligious awakening. The harvest is
indeed ripe.
AUTO TAG SALE TO
SET NEW RECORD
SALES VERY NEARLY EQUAL TO
THOSE OF ALL LAST YEAR.
ATLANTA, Ga. —Automobile li
cense sales are already approaching
the mark set for the entire year
1924, it was disclosed at the office
of Secretary of State S. G. McLen
don Friday. The sales up to the
present time are approximately 190,-
000, while they were not much
over that figure last year.
Up to May 1, the total sales of
passenger car tags was 103,369.
while truck tag sales were 22,386 an l
dealers’ tags were 616, making a
total of 186,371. Motorcycle tags had
reached 1,451, while chauffeur badges
had been issued to 2,286 persons.
The sales of passenger car li
censes by months during the present
year were: January 14,816; Febru
ary 62,426; March 71,682, and April,
14,272. The May sales are expected
to exceed the April sales, because of
the recent court decision that coun
ties and municipalities must buy
state license tags for their cars.
LOW ROUND TRIP SUNDAY FARES
Round Trip tickets will be sold
each Sunday, at rate of one fare
plus 25 cents, between all stations
on Central of Georgia where one
way fare is not more than $6.00.
(Minimum Round Trip fare 75 cents.)
Tickets limited to date of sale.
Consult Ticket Agent.
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JUDGE ROSCOE LUKE, EVANGELIST
Who Will Preach Twice Daily ac Two Weeks Revival Meeting
Which Begins at the Methodist Church Next Sunday, May 17.
PRESIDENT DISCUSSES
R. R. IMPROVEMENTS
The extent and variety of the im
provements which must continually
be made in transportation facilities
to provide satisfactory service to
the public are outlined in an inter
esting manner in a statement from
L. A. Downs, President of the
Central of Georgia Railway Com
pany. Mr. Downs says that during
the past five years the Central of
Georgia has invested nearly thirteen
million dollars in road and equipment
and that the expenditures for this
purpose amounted to four and a
quarter million dollars in 1924.
Among the important improvements
to the transportation plant of the
Central of Georgia during the past
year he lists the relaying of 147
miles of track with heavier rail,
ballasting of 92 miles of track and
the renewal of ballast on 88 miles
of track.
The industrial prosperity of Cen
tral of Georgia territory is indicated
by the construction of 84 new in
dustrial tracks and in addition to
this the railroad installed 24 passing
tracks and built 8 miles of new
line.
During the past year the Central
renewed more than half million
crossties, replaced many pile and
timber trestles with permanent
concrete work, installed 14 miles of
telephone line, put in signal bells
at 9 highway grade crossings, :
strengthened 8 bridges, constructed,
three new steel and concrete bridges'
and started work on concrete via-.
duct and two steel bridges. It also
built a new coach and paint shop
at Savannah and a new store and
oil house at Columbus.
The year also witnessed the com
meircement of the largest single
project of its kind ever undertaken
by the Central of Georgia—the re
vision of line and grades, elin.inati >n
of grade crossings and curves on the
Birmingham-Columbus line. This
work will be completed in 1925.
Mr. Downs points out that these
increased facilities require capital
which must be in the main borrow
ed and says that the public realizes
$1.50 A YEAR
WILL HOLD WORLD
r RADIO CONFERENCE
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WASHINGTON, D. C. - This city
> is to be the scene of an international
congress on radio.
' Steps are now being taken by the
If S. State Department for the call
ing of such a conference.
Congress has appropriated $75,000
. to defray its expenses.
■ In all probability, the conference
i will be held in September, j
This conference is the outgrowth
of a number of previous meetings.
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The original telegraph convention
} was signed by the nations at St.
. Petersbug in 1875. This was revised
: at the Lisbon conference of 1908. It
’ was decided to hold the next con
, ference in Paris in 1915.
I The first radio conference was
i held in London in 1912.
At this meeting the delegates ac
cepted an invitation to hold the
next radio convention in the United
States.
>! Then came the war. As a result
; both the 1915 Paris meeting and
1 1917 Washington meeting were
i postponed.
At the Peace Conference at Paris
lin 1919 it was decided to held a
■ world conference to consider all
■ forms of electrical communication
; with a view to providing the entire
world with adequate facilities.
In order to work out the program
> for such a world meeting, a prelim
inary conference was held in Wash-
i ington in 1920.
Great Britain. France, Italy, Ja
pan and the United States were rep
resented at this meeting.
But no plans for a combined con
ference on telegraph and radio could
be agreed upon
Consequently the telegraph con
i ference is to be held in Paris this
i year, while the radio conference is
to be held in Washington.
I as never before the good results of a
policy that will permit the railroads
to establish sound credit so that
adequate transportation for the fu
ture may be provided.