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EARLY COUNTY, GA.,
Garden Spot of
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXVI J NO. 41
COUNCIL SUBMITS
SCHOOL TAX HIKE
TO THE VOTERS
ELECTION IS CALLED FOR JULY ,
19 TO PASS ON INCREASE
OF FIVE MILLS.
i
The city council held their regular :
monthly meeting Tuesday night.
Present: C. R. Barksdale, mayor,:
J. O. Bridges, H. B. Ainsworth and
J. D. Smith, councilman. Absent:
R. C. Singletary, councilman.
The body passed resolutions in
structing the city marshal to push
the collection of delinquent taxes
and business licenses and make
levies for taxes and docket cases
against those who have not paid
their licenses by June 30th.
The following resolution was of
fered and unanimously adopted:
“That whereas a petition has been
on this day filed with the Mayor
and Council of the City of Blakely,
in compliance with the law as con
tained in Section 1438 (i) of the
Civil Code of Georgia, in which peti
tion it is requested that the Mayor
and Council of the City of Blakely
call an election for the purpose of
submitting to the qualified voters of
said city the question of levying a
tax, in addition to the tax now au
thorized for that purpose, of five
mills on the dollar upon all taxable
property in the city of Blakely for
the support and maintenance of the
public schools of said city;
“And whereas it appears that said
petition has been signed by more than
one-fourth of the qualified voters of
the city of Blakely, and that the call
ing of such election is m order;
* “Therefore it is resolved as follows:
“Section 1. That an election be,
and the same is hereby called, to be
held in and for said city of Blakely
upon the 19th day of July, 1927, at
which sajd election all of the legally
qualified voters of said city may
participate; the question to be sub
mitted at said election to be: ‘Wheth
er or not the City of Blakely shall
impose and collect an ad valorem tax
of five mills upon the dollar upon
all property which is subject to tax
ation by said city for the support
and maintenance of the public schcfcois
of said city, said tax of five mills
to be in addition to and supplemental
of the tax which is now being im
posed by said city for the support of
public schools; so that, in the event
said proposal be ratified at said
election, the tax to be hereafter col
lected by said city for the support
of its public schools shall not exceed
ten mills upon the dollar of taxable
property, instead of a maximum of
five mills, as now exists under the
present law.
“Section 2. That the city clerk of
said city shall immediately open the
voters registration books of said
city, and all persons who have the
qualifications of a voter in said city,
as fixed by law, but are not now
registered, shall have the right to
register and vote in said election.
“Said registration book shall be
closed by said clerk ten days prior
to the date herein fixed for the hold
ing of said election, and no person
permitted afterwards to register for
voting in said election.
“C. E. Boyett, C. M. Deal and J.
E. Chancy are hereby appointed reg
istrars, who shall, immediately after
the closing of said voters’ registra
tion book, make a list of voters
LADIES’ SILK UNDERWEAR
Ladies’ Glove Silk Vests $1.50
Ladies’ Glove Silk Teddies 2.00
Ladies’ Rayon Silk Bloomers.... 1.50
Ladies’ Rayon Teddies 1.25
Ladies’ Nainsook Teddies.. 1.00
Ladies’ Rayon Silk Step-Ins 1.00
Ladies’ Rayon Silk Slips 1.25
Arrowhead full-fashioned Hose 1.50
Silk to the Top Brilliant Hose 2.25
T. K. WEAVER & COMPANY
BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Conntg JXcws
COUNTY BOARD J
OF EDUCATION
MET TUESDAY
CONSOLIDATION OF SEVERAL
SCHOOLS DECIDED UPON
AFTER MUCH DISCUSSION.
The Early County Board of Edu
i cation had a lively session Tuesday,
; quite a number of people from the
rural districts appearing before the
‘body for and against consolidation of
i schools in their territory.
I After gving all a patient hearing,
the Board consolidated Lucile, Cen
terville and Byron schools into one
district, and making another district
of the Pleasant Grove, Union, Sardis
and Langston schools.
This action of the Board com
pletes the consolidation of all the
white schools in Early county and
insures these two new districts bet
ter school facilities under better
teachers.
Elections will be held for trustees
in the new districts as directed by the
Board, and the matter of local
school tax will probably be placed
before the voters of the districts as
soon as practical.
It is to be hoped that the patrons
of these several schools will iron out
their dierences and x go forward.
SOME TOMATOES.
Uncle Sol Beckham is almost as
good a gardener as he is a plumber.
He brought to the News office Mon
day a single cluster of eleven fine
large tomatoes on a single limb,
some of them several inches in
diameter and ripe enough to eat.
It was a pretty sight and show
the possibilities of this climate de
spite the lack of seasonable rains this
spring.
who are qualified to vote at said
election, and no person’s name shall
appear upon such voters’ list, or be
permitted to vote at said election, who
does not possess all of the qualifica
tions of a voter as fixed by the laws
of Georgia and the charter of the
city of Blakely.
“Those voting in said election who
vote in favor of said tax for said
schools shall have written or print
ed on their ballots, Tor local taxa
tion for public schools;’ and those
opposed shall have written or print
ed on their ballots, ‘against local
taxation for public schools.’
“Said election shall be held be
tween the hours of nine o’clock a.
m. and three o’clock p. m., Central
Standard time.
“Section 3. Notice of said election
shall be published once each week
in the Early County News for at
least two weeks prior to the holding
of said election.”
Those voting in favor of the above
and foregoing resolution: C. R.
Barksdale, J. O. Bridges, J. D. Smith,
H. B. Ainsworth. Those opposed:
none.
Said resolution was declared by
the Mayor to have been carried.
C. R. BARKSDALE, Mayor.
Attest *
C. C. LANE, City Clerk.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts—“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, 1927.
Several of the Georgia papers of
recent date have carried an interest
ing article from the pen of ex-Gov
ernor Chase S. Osborne of Michigan
and Georgia concerning Georgia’s
need of a geological survey, which
makes mighty interesting reading to
those interested in the mineral wealth
of Georgia. It is copied below:
The word COMPLEX is so over
worked that I hesitate to use it. The
state of Georgia suffers from one
thing and it is not INFERIORITY;
it is MODESTY.
A good deal of the volume of the
brilliant light of Georgia is under a
bushel. This is no doubt due to con
genital classicism. Those who have
builded the EMPIRE STATE into a
real EMPIRE have been too gentle
and too retiring in this age of pub
licity. Even the great press of Geor
gia does not feel at home on the
mountain top shouting the riches of
the state. They really prefer, in
their hospitality, to proclaim for
others. All this is beautiful, but it
can be carried too far.
How many people in the State of
Georgia know that the state geologist
of their state is the best equipped
and the most profound and in every
way the ablest state geologist in all
the United States? Dr. S. W. Mc-
Callie is a graduate of the University
of Tennessee in his profession. Not
content with that, he is a post grad
uate of that university of the world,
Johns Hopkins. At Johns Hopkins
he contacted the profound Geike,
the leading geologist of the world in
his time. Dr. McCallie is not alone
a book geologist, but also is a field
man of rare experience and sound
est sense. He has that instinct of
sense that keeps him right and he
has fortified it with ample training.
His work in and for Georgia has
been known for years over the world
better than at home.
Indicating only partially the high
est standing of Dr. McCallie the
Association of American Geologists
at their annual meeting at the Cos
mos Club, Washington, April 25,
1927, memorialized him as the one
outstanding state geologist of Amer
ica. His wide and useful work was
cited and praised in unmeasured
terms. In doing so the association
did its intelligence and sense of ap
preciation and justice great credit.
I greatly wish Georgia to realize all
this of Dr. McCallie which his ter
rific modesty has kept hidden all too
long.
Now all of this accords with the
ethical and that which is modest.
But in order that Georgia shall come
to its own in the big way that be
longs to »t, Dr. McCallie’s work and
his hopes and his plans must be in
troduced to Georgia. At present his
department has a meagre recognition
in a financial way. It is true that
Georgia has been careful financially
and with the result that it has a
low indebtedness and an invitingly
small tax rate. The time has come
when the state ought to invest
more in Dr. McCallie and his able
department. There should be inaug
urated at the earliest practicable
moment a thorough economical geo
logical survey of the state. Georgia
is rich in so many things that to
enumerate them is to shock the un
derstanding. And yet most of these
things are so little known as to con
stitute a surprise when alluded to.
If a few thousand dollars were ap
propriated annually—say fifty thou
sand to begin with—Dr. McCallie has
the talent to direct such a survey as
would convince capital that Georgia
is one of the best fields in the world
for mining exploration and produc
tion of minerals of very many kinds.
Mining has come to be safer in the
hands of geologists and mining en
igineers than agriculture or almost
[any other activity. The mining in
dustry of Michigan, Montana, Ari
zona, Alabama, and other states is
on a basis of safety and good returns
■that makes it constantly expand. It
[ creates a home market with a small- ■
[er cost for transportation. It con
stitutes with manufacturing a balance
THE NEED OF A SURVEY IN GEORGIA
By Former Governor Chase S. Osborn,
of Michigan.
in an economic manner that can be
achieved in no other way. Now that
Georgia is learning to diversify in
agriculture and that manufacturing
is growing apace the one thing es
pecially needed to round out the pro
gress of wholesome advance to put
the mining industry of the state upon
the basis justified by its richness in
valuable minerals. Instead of im
porting road materials the state can
supply its own. The iron ores of Polk,
Bartow and Floyd counties may
again be manufactured or shipped.
Georgia is rich in limestones and
marls. Famous for its marble,
equal to the best of Italy or Greece
or that of other states, this industry
can be amplified.
A careful working out of the geo
logical formations might be expected
to restore highly profitable gold min
ing to the state. Gold was mined
and money made from it in Georgia
before gold was discovered in Cali
fornia. A mint was established at
Dahlonega in 1838.
Georgia furnishes a great part of
the baryta used in America. It
easily ought to produce more. The
coal measure of the state should be
studied; delimited by careful survey
and the facts made widely known.
Search is constantly made for man
ganese for use in the United States
and much is imported. Georgia has
manganese.
The clays of Georgia are the finest
in the world. A complete economic
geological survey of that state could
cause it to rank first in ceramics.
Bauxite of the richest exists in the
state and is not confined to the
areas where it is now known and
produced.
There are petroleum and natural
gas possibilities in Georgia that
ought to be given first attention by
the state. The deepest hole in the
state is not much over three thou
sand feet. With such an appropria
tion as would be reasonable for an
economic geological survey Dr. Mc-
Callie could, among other things,
sink a test hole twice or more as
deep and it would be warranted.
Fullers earth is a product of Geor
gia. There are pyrites and slates
and sands and gravels and lime
stones in Georgia. All these things
possess first class value and should
be mapped thoroughly.
I have been a successful explorer
for minerals. If I were a young
man I would be willing to give all
my time to the things that are in
Georgia, confident of rich returns.
Stories of riches in Africa and Asia
and in South America and in Mexico
thrill the mind and spur the adven
turous. Right here in Georgia all
the things that would lure men and
money exist and under the best
government in the world. Condi
tions as to labor supply supply and
order and taxes are ideal, which,
coupled with a high morality, a fine
intelligence, a rich human kindness
and a fear of Almighty God, make
Georgia as attractive a zone of effort
as the universe affords.
But the state does need an econom
ic geological survey at once. I ad
vise it whilst Dr. McCallie is yet
young enough to conduct it. Men
of his type have been rare always.
Georgia ought to make good use of
him and what he can do for the
state.
CHASE E. OSBORN.
Sault St. Marie, Mich.
COMMISSIONERS MEET.
The Board of Commissioners of
Roads and Revenues of Early county
held their regular monthly session
Tuesday. Present: Grady Holman,
chairman, C. E. Martin, Willie Wiley
and T. G. Harvey, Jr. Absent: C. D.
Tyler. There was no business of any
public interest transacted, save the
adoption of a resolution requesting
the Public Service Commission to
continue the railway station at Hil
ton, the Central of Georgia railway
having filed a request to be allowed |
to discontinue said station. Three:
pieces of unredeemed land sold for ■
taxes was resold to the former own
ers—Ambrose Daniels, J. H. Gross
and C. P. Gleaton.
REPRESENTATIVE
WANTS VIEWS OF
HIS CONSTITUENCY
MR. FREEMAN WANTS TO BE
OF SERVICE TO PEOPLE OF
HIS STATE AND COUNTY.
Representative Joseph Freeman,
chosen in last year’s election to rep
resent Early county in the legisla
ture, in an honest effort to serve
his constituency as best he can, is '
soliciting their views on various mat
ters of public interest, and has asked
the News to publish the following:
To the People of Early County:
As your Representative, I would be
glad to know of any proposed legisla
tion you may have in mind for en
actment. The General Assembly con
venes within the next few days, and
with your advice and co-operation, I
would be better prepared to com
prehensively serve your interests; and
which, in any event, I shall strive to
do to the best of my ability.
Among our greater problems, the
present system of taxation is most
outstanding. The greater part of
wealth—largely invisible—and other
unlisted resources go practically un
scathed, while the poorer classes are
burdened too heavily with the sup
port of government. General taxes
have increased 804 per cent, since
1890, and if not checked, dire re
sults must inevitably follow. The
unequitable toll upon the farm in
terests, which, unlike others, can not
be passed on to the ultimate con
sumer, is of serious moment, and
with your approval, I shall bring the
njatter before the Assembly with a
view to developing some means for
their relief. Economy in govern
ment is a crying need, and shall have
full attention, but our greater con
cern is that the taxes are not fairly
distributed.
The fertilizer business, too, needs
to be acted upon, since neither the
solubility or the source of the in
gredients used by the manufacturer
are guaranteed to the buyer. They
may use any material without stating
its derivative and with no regard as
to whether it is beneficial to the crops.
Alabama makes this information
mandatory on the fertilizer people.
And realizing the necessity of a like
law in Georgia, I shall formulate a
bill to that effect in the coming ses
sion of the Assembly.
As the servant of all the people,
it shall be my constant endeavor to
further the passage of all legislation
of a helpful nature, and I invite your
views upon any measures that I, or
any other member of the legislature
may introduce.
Agriculture has become debased
to the lowest scale of all time. Many
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GEORGIA ASS’N.
H. M. ATKINSON DISCUSSES
AGRICULTURAL SITUATION
OF THE STATE.
(By H. M. Atkinson.)
If I may be permitted I want to
discuss very earnestly with the
people of Georgia the agricultural
situation of the State. Some time
ago I made a survey of farm condi
tions. Accurate information was
obtained from men who were fully
aware of the facts. The discovery
was made, to my mind, that there
were but two organizations, chiefly,
at grips with the state-wide problem
of our farmers, the State College of
Agriculture and the Georgia Asso
ciation. The college is financed by
tax funds from the state treasury
and is doing wonderful work; the
Georgia Association is. a flexible or
ganization which appeals directly to
far-sighted Georgians for monetary
support and is able to meet special
situations practically as they arise,
being directly of and by the people
of Georgia. The work of both is
highly necessary and each is helping
the other. ,
We found that the Georgia Asso
ciation, of which I desire to speak
particularly here, had never been
adequately financed; yet it had a
record of very real accomplishment.
With a little money, it had succeed
ed in various places in the state in
helping to inaugurate practically
saner methods of agriculture, as
taught at the State College of Agri
culture, in advertising our state’s
possibilities and locating approxi
mately 1,000 new farmers of the
most desirable type, in making the
livestock industry possible by help
ing the passage of a tick eradication
measure—in doing numerous and
varied practical things which, in the
aggregate, are operating today to
the betterment of agricultural con
ditions.
For these reasons, I have accepted
the general chairmanship of a state
wide campaign to raise SIOO,OOO as
a fund (which I hope will become a
permanent annual budget) for the
continued and enlarged operation of
the Association.
It is a worthy and altogether
heartening experience to help in the
liberation of a people, no matter
what form that liberation may take.
It is especially inspiring to assist in
a movement which liberates all
classes from a type of economic
bondage which rests principally up
on an outworn tradition. An oppor
tunity so to serve their fellow Geor
gians is presented today to the more
far-sighted and well disposed people
of our state. This campaign gives
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