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NEW HIGHWAY
BILL INTRODUCED
IN LEGISLATURE
UNDERSTOOD TO HAVE THE
APPROVAL OF PRESENT
ADMINISTRATION.
The principal development of Tues
day in the Georgia Legislature was
the introduction in both the house
and the senate of the administra
tion’s highway department reorgani
zation bill. In the house it was
offered by Representative Charles
Howard of Chattahoochee. In the
senate it was offered by Senator Joe
Ben Jackson.
The bill provides for a complete re
organization and reconstruction of
the state highway department, effec
tive January 1, 1928, “upon which
date said reorganized department
shall succeed without interruption to
the duties and powers of its prede
cessor,” and provides that “the state
highway board as heretofore and now
existing, is hereby abolished, effective
January 1, 1928.”
The method of composition and ad
ministration is provided for as fol
lows:
“The state highway department
shall be managed and controlled by
a state highway commission, which
shall consist of three members, to be
known, designated and appointed re
spectively as the state highway com
missioner, the assistant state high
way commissioner and the chief
highway engineer.
“The state highway commissioner
and the assistant state highway com
missioner shall be appointed by the
governor and shall be men of high,
character and ability, trained and
experienced in engineering and in
highway construction and mainten
ance.
“The chief highway engineer shall
be appointed by the state highway
commissioner, by and with the ap
proval of the governor of the state.
He shall be a competent civil engin
eer, qualified by technical training
and experience in practical highway
construction and maintenance, and of
high character.
The commissioner and the assist
ant commissioner shall be subject to
removal from office by the governor
for incompetency, neglect of duty,
malfeasance in office, or on convic
tion of any offense involving moral
turpitude, any such removal to be
reported to the next session there
after of the general assembly. The
chief highway engineer shall be sub
ject to removal from office by the
state highway commissioner by and
with the consent of the governor for
incompetence, neglect of duty, mal
feasance in office or on conviction of
any offense involving moral turpi
tude."
The highway commissioner shall
prescribe the qualifications for em
ployment of persons as engineers, as
sistant engineers, analytical chem
ists, inspectors of other positions’ in
t»he department requiring expert
knowledge, and applicants for such
positions shall be required to pass an
examination to be fixed “provided
that this requirement shall only ap
ply to applications for positions af
ter January 1, 1928,” but neither
the chief engineer nor the division
highway engineers shall be required
to take such an examination.
The chief bridge engineer is to be
appointed by the state highway com-
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DISCOVERY OF USE
PROMISES BOOM
FOR ARTICHOKE
FEDERAL SCIENTISTS VISUAL
IZE A NEW FARM INDUSTRY
IN JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Visualiz
ing a new farm industry, federal
scientists see broad fields of helian
thus tuberosus, from the Dakotas
to Texas, from the headlands of
Maine to California.
The prospective crop is Jerusalem
artichoke, rich in levulose, the
sweetest of sugars. . / .
“Farmers are ready,” says the
United States bureau of standards,
“to launch intensive artichoke culti
vation. Refineries are eager for
commercial process and formula.
Within the next three years govern
ment laboratories likely will have
lowered manufacturing costs to a
competitive basis, giving world mar
kets a superfine sugar and the
American farmer a new basic crop
in agriculture.”
Dr. George K. Burgess, chief of
the bureau of standards, considers
the juice of artichoke tubers an ac
complishment of extreme economic
importance.
“For thirty years,” he says, “the
United States has sought* favorable
disposition of surplus corn and
wheat. By crystallizing dextrose,
the bureau of standards created the
American corn sugar industry. Now,
it proposes to reduce wheat acreage
by turning the Jerusalem artichoke
from a common weed into a cash
crop.
“The introduction of levulose into
ordinary commerce would solve one
of the problems of the supplementary
food sources, inevitably to be sought
as the needs of the steadily-increas
ing national population approach the
capacity of our agricultural resour
ces to supply sustenance. Habits of
the artichoke are different from those
of sugar cane and sugar beets, mak
ing it possible to utilize those sec
tions of the country not adapted to
sucrose-producing plants.
“Factories in continental United
States which manufacture sucrose
are limited in their period of opera
tion to the short season between ma
turing of beets or cane and the
quickly following winter. They are
thus idle during the major portion
of the year, making it desirable that
a supplementary industry based up
on the levulose producing plants,
increase the serviceability of these
factories.
“Moreover, the cane-growing re
gions of the south would benefit from
a crop rotation in which the root
crops of the artichoke would alter
nate with sugar cane.”
missioner, subject to approval by the
governor, and he shall employ and
discharge his assistants.
All division engineers shall be em
ployed by the chief engineer, and
each of these shall receive a salary
of $3,000 a year. Each division en ;
gineer has the power to employ and
dismiss in his own division.
The state highway commissioner
and the chief engineer are to re
ceive salaries of $7,500 a year, and
the assistant commissioner $6,000 a
year.
An added feature in this proposed
measure is that the highway com
mission shall have the authority to
make and promulgate traffic regula-
F.ARLY COUNTY NEWS. BLAKELY, GEORGIA
SOME HAPPENINGS IN BLAKELY
A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO
Clippings from the Early County News of
July 10th, 1902.
The death of Mr. John A. Rish is
recorded.
The Knights of Pythias will meet
next Friday night.
Plans for a new court house are
being discussed by the County Com
missioners.
I
The buildings of the Blakely Oil
and Fertilizer Company are fast
taking shape.
Messrs. T. P. Price, J. E. Martin
and J. P. Anthony returned Tuesday
from a trip to Tybee.
Quite a large party of Blakely
people went down to St. Andrew’s
Bay’ on’a camping trip last w r eek.
There will be a singing convention
at New Hope Saturday and Sunday.
Dinner will be served on the ground.
DRIVE UNDER WAY FOR
POSTAL RATE SLASH
Likely to Be Issue in Approaching
Session of Congress.
A drive for reduced postal rates is
under way with such backing that it
promises to create an outstanding
issue in the approaching session of
congress.
Announcement has been made by
the United States Chamber of Com
merce that its president, Lewis E.
Pierson, of New York, has sent let
ters to more than 1,500 member or
ganizations urging them to give their
support to “a systematic effort to
bring about a complete overhauling
of postoffice department bookkeep
ing and revision of postal rates.”
The chamber asserts that with a
business-like accounting system, the
postoffice department, instead of
show'ing an operating deficit of more
than $37,000,000, would show a sur
plus. The apparent deficit, through
no fault of the department, it is
explained, is due to the fact that the
governrrmnt charges against the de
partment all the free and less than
cost services, which are part of a
government policy.
At the same time Representative
Kelley, of Pennsylvania, an active
member of the house postoffice com
mittee, announced that he would in
troduce a bill for comprehensive re
vision of the postal rates.
“Without a doubt the Seventieth
congress will be compelled to deal
with a postage rate revision,” says
Mr. Kelley.
“The postal service is a service in
stitution, not a money-making enter
prise. The true policy is to deter
mine the needs of the American
people and organize the service so
that they may have it.”
TO ATTEMPT FLIGHT
GEORGIA TO BRAZIL
A non-stop flight from Brunswick,
Ga., to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was
underwritten recently by’ a group of
Brunswick business men. Paul H.
Redfern, aviator, who signed a con
tract, plans to hop off within the
next few days.
Redfern said he would use a |
Stinson monoplane fitted with a
Wright whirlwind motor capable of
the same power as the motors'used
in the great trans-Atlantic and San
Francisco to Honolulu flights. He :
will fly the craft from Detroit to
Brunswick, where he said it was be
-1 ing built.
Rioting and street fighting oc
i curred in Vienna last Friday. Many’
were killed and wounded. It is re
ported that a “Red” dictatorship was
proclaimed.
A heart wave in the Eastern
; States the past week took a heavy
I death toll.
Belated reports from South Anh
wei Province, China, tell of over
1000 people killed by floods.
tions on all public highways con
structed or maintained by the state,
including the regulation of all types
of vehicles operated over such high
ways and the weight of the same.
In each branch of the assembly
the bill has been referred to the com
mittee on public highways, and the
understanding is that immediate
I consideration will be %iven the
measure.
On Monday last Mr. Laddie Waller
,and Miss Bedia Roberts were joined
iin the holy bonds of matrimony by
Rev. Mr. Ward, of Henry county, Ala.
Our farmers are complaining great-
Uy on account of lack of rain, which
has ruined many corn crops and
greatly injured the cotton crops in
ithis county.
The News quotes the Brooklyn
Times in an editorial, in which the
(New York paper is bitter against
I the Hon. James M. Griggs. It seems
that Mr. Griggs is at least stirring
’em up.
On last Friday, Justice W. H. Alex
ander performed the ceremony which
made Mr. Mack Temples and Miss
| Maggie Harris man and wife. The
: young couple were sitting in a bug
gy in fr&nt of the residence of Mr.
Thos. Henderson, on Church street,
when they took the vows that made
them one.
A Therapeutic Nihilist.
“Have you given him anything or
done anything to relieve him?” ask-1
ed the young doctor, who had fared i
into the backwoods to see a patient
in the dead of a stormy night.
“Well, fto, doc—that is to say,
nothin’ to speak of,” said the wife
of the patient. “I had him soak his
feet in almost b’ilin’ water with a
lot of mustard in it, an’ I clapped a
red-hot plaster on his back, an’ an
other one on his chist, an’ I’ve put
a couple of blisters I had in the
house under his arms, an’ a bag
of cracked ice to the back of his
neck, an’ had him drink a pint o’
ginger tea with a dash o’ rum in it
just as hot as he could swaller it,
an’ I followed that with some yarb
bitters one o’ the neighbors sent over,
an’ I had him take five or six pills
out of a box I got one day of a man
that come along with medicine to
sell, and he’s had three or four
spoons o’ pain killer and one o’ these
sidelits powders, but I don’t feel
like as if I ort to give much o’ any
thing, or try to do much for him un
til you come an’ see what you think
ailed him. Then I reckoned we
could get at him , and really give
him somethin’ an’ do somethin’ fer
him.”—Forbes Magazine.
Renew Your Health
by Purification
Any physician will tell you that
“Perfect Purification of the System
is Nature’s Foundation of Perfect
Health.” Why not rid yourself of
chronic ailments that are undermin
ing your vitality? Purify your en
tire system by taking a thorough
course of Calotabs, —once or twice e.
week for several weeks—and see how
Nature rewards you with health.
Calotabs are the greatest of all
system purifiers. Get a family pack
age, containing full directions. Only
35 cts. At any drug store. (Adv.)
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CENTRAL°fGEORGIA
THE RIGHT WAY
to Savannah, thence mag
nificent steel steamships of
the Ocean Steamship Com
pany of Savannah or Mer
chants & Miners Transpor
tation Company, other way
by rail, or reverse.
Cost of Ticket According
to Tour Selected
These tours touch many
important cities in the U.
S. and Canada, sixty days
of pleasure, education and
sight seeing at minimum
• cost. Ticket includes meals
and berth on ship.
Consult any Central of
Georgia Agent or
F. J. ROBINSON
I General Passenger Agent
Savannah, Ga.
Tlie Blakely Psanol Company
wants to gin your cotton, and with a
practically new outfit, and with an
experienced gin man, can give you
service that you are looking for. We
are prepared to give you a clean-cut
sample and at all times render you
service that you are entitled to.
We Solicit Your Business on
the Above Basis.
ft Blakely Peanut Company
W. A. BASS, General Manager
Cooled by the Breezes from the Arctic Nu-Air System
SENECA
I BLAKELY, GEORGIA
T onight—Thursday.
FLORENCE VIDOR, GRETA NISSEN AND
CLIVE BROOK
—in—
“THE POPULAR SIN”
They met, they loved, they married, they separated,
and then—! But come and see it.
—and—
FELIX, THE CAT, CARTOON
Friday
DORIS KENYON AND WARNER BAXTER
—in—
“MISMATES”
The drama of the woman who thought love in a 9th
Avenue flat could overcome in her husband a lifetime
of pampering in a sth Avenue mansion—and the
thrilling events which followed when she felt love
slipping from her!
—and—
Bluebird Comedy
Saturday
LARRY SEMON
—in—
“STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN”
One of the funniest feature comedies ever produced.
If you don’t laugh at this, you’re hopeless!
—and—
“ House Without a Key”
CHAPTER NO. 8
Monday and Tuesday
WILLIAM HAINES
—in—
“SLIDE, KELLEY, SLIDE”
Positively the greatest baseball story ever filmed,
featuring William Haines, the star of “Brown of Har
vard.” You’ll applaud as if you were at a real base
ball game, for there are thrills galore! And a romance
interwoven therein that can’t be beat.
—and—
Educational Comedy
7:30 and 8:50 15c and 35c
Wednesday and Thursday
ADOLPHE_MENJOU
—in—
“THE ACE OF CADS”