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News Briefs
Ralph H. Smith, U. S. Minister to
Denmark, died last week.
The regular biennial session of
the Georgia Legislature met Wed
nesday.
Gen. Juan Vicente Gomez has
been elected by congress as presi
dent of Venezuela.
The National Convention of the
United Commercial Travelers met
in Columbus, 0., this week.
Damage estimated at half a mil
lion dollars in the state of Minne
sota was caused by a series of tor
nadoes last week.
The Lanier Hotel, in Macon, one
of the best known in Georgia, was
damaged to the extent of SIOO,OOO
by fire last week.
Sidney W. Paschall, of London,
was elected president of Rotary In
ternational at the 22nd annual con
vention at Vienna, Austria.
Bobby Jones, of Atlanta, world
famous gold champion, has become
associated with A. G. Spaulding Co.,
large sporting goods house.
A severe heat wave occurred over
the northern and middle western
states during the past week. More
than 50 deaths were recorded.
President Hoover has suggested a
postponement of war debt payments
by European nations for one year to
relieve the financial depression.
Bill Fox, of Atlanta, was elected
president of the Georgia Grand
Council Order of DeMolay and the
1032 meeting will be held at Elber
ton.
At the International Bathingj
Beauty Show at Galveston last
week, Miss Netta Duchateau, of
Belgium, won the title of Miss I
Universe.
The Georgia Grand Council of the ■
Order of De Molay, a boys’ organi-,
zation sponsored by Masonic bodies, ■
met in Macon in annual convention
this week.
With the announcement of the
debt postponement plan by Presi
dent Hoover, cotton went up 67
points and held it. The stock mar
ket also shows steady gains.
The International Circulation As- j
sociation, a newspaper organization,
held its annual meeting in Ashe
ville, N. C., last week. The 1932
meeting will be held in Toronto.
The Great Georgia Council of the
Imperial Order of Red Men held
their 52nd Great Sun session in At
lanta the past week. The 1932
meeting will be held in Augusta.
Henry D. Pollard has been elect
ed president and general manager of
the Central of Georgia Railway, and
E. R. Richardson has been elected
president of the Ocean Steamship
Company (the Savannah Line).
A new world’s record egg-laying
test has been made at Athens in the
Georgia National Egg Laying Con
test. A pen of White Leghorns,
owned by P. D. Chapman, of Green
ville, S. C., laid 2040 eggs in eight
months.
Elevated to Presidency
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S. CLAY WILLIAMS
SCLAY WILLIAMS of Winston-
• Salem, N. C, who has been
elected President of R. J- Reynolds
Tobacco Company, manufacturers
of Camel cigarettes and Prince Al
bert smoking tobacco. He succeeds
Bowman Gray, who was made Chair
man of the Board.
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Internationa! Sunday School Lesson
for June 28
JESUS, THE WORLD’S
SAVIOUR
Rev. Samuel D. Price, D. D.
With this study we concluded a
six months’ course on the Life of
Christ during which the texts have
been taken from Luke. Read at
least from Luke 14 to the end of
the book, and make a survey of the
entire gospel- if possible. You have
been journeying with Jesus and the
disciples from Galilee to Jerusalem
byway of Perea. Parables were
used frequently to drive home the
truth to indifferent or to eager
Let’s KEEP Electric Rates Low!
*
A small group, now directing most of
its fire from Atlanta, is campaigning vig
orously to induce Georgia cities to go into
the electric light and power business. They
are spreading the usual stories designed to
lead the public into thinking that rates
would be much lower under city owner
ship.
Rates of the Georgia Power Company
are already among the lowest in the na
tion — 29.1% below the national average!
And the national average includes the rates charged by municipal
plants.
What will happen to these low rates if cities go into the elec'
trie business —if electric light and power begin to get under po'
litical control?
* » ♦ ♦
In a recent study made of electric rates charged both by mu
nicipal and privately-owned plants, it was shown that if all the
customers of private systems had paid the average rates charged
by the city-owned systems, the nation’s bill for electric service by
private companies would have been higher than it actually
was!
If customers of city-owned plants had paid the average rate
paid to private companies, they would have saved over $33,000,-
000.
In spite of that, agitators would try to make you believe that
municipal ownership and low rates go hand in hand.
Right here in Georgia is their answer. In the past several years,
this Company has taken over the electric service of a number of
communities which formerly had municipal operation. In every
single instance, rates have been materially reduced. And the quality
of service has been improved, too.
♦ » * •
Let’s take a look at the very cities promoters of city ownership
hold up as models.
Jacksonville, Florida, they say, has one of the most successfully
operated plants in all America.
JACKSONVILLE’S AVERAGE RATE PER KILOWATT
HOUR OF ELECTRIC ENERGY SOLD IS 105% HIGHER
THAN THAT OF THE GEORGIA POWER COMPANY.
Jacksonville’s average rate is 45.5% ABOVE the national
average this Company’s average rate is 29.1% BELOW it.
And the Jacksonville plant pays NO taxes to city, state or fed'
eral government.
The Georgia'Power Company, in 1930, paid a total of $1,743,-
809.00 in taxes on its electrical department alone!
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They point to Seattle, Washington—another example of city
ownership.
A recent newspaper article published in Atlanta said in part:
“ last year the average rate for all current sold by the
Seattle plant was 1.784 c per kilowatt hour.”
The Seattle plant, also, pays NO taxes —to city, state or fed'
eral government.
This Company does not object to paying its just share of taxes
but allowance must be made for taxes, of course, in any true
comparison between this Company’s tax-paying service and Seattle's
non-tax-paying service.
If taxes were deducted from this Company’s operating expenses
A CITIZEN WHEREVER WE SERVE
EARLY COUNTY NEWS. BLAKELY, GEORGIA
listeners. Then we came to Jeri
cho with Him, after fording the
Jordan near that ancient city.
The steep climb was then made
from Jericho to Bethany, where the
Teacher paused during the observ
ance of the Jewish Sabbath. After
sundown of the Sabbath a banquet
was provided at the home of a man
who had been cured of his leprosy.
When he thought no one would ob
serve her act of testimony, Mary—
the sister of Lazarus—came with
her precious ointment and anointed
Jesus. The odour disclosed her
deed and Judas began to criticise,
but the Master defended her.
Early on the first day of the
week Jesus, and others who had
come up for the Passover, went in
procession to the Holy City. Inci
dents are thick along the way. On
Thursday the Passover was cele
brated and the Lord’s Supper insti
tute. From the upper room the
little company went to the Garden
of Gethsemane, where Judas’s kiss
led to the arrest. Trials followed
to the number of six, after which
He was taken to Calvary for the
terrible crucifixion. When he said
“It is finished” atonement had been
made for the sins of mankind. The
grave could not hold even His body
and on Sunday the resurrection took
place.
PROTRACTED MEETING.
Protracted services begin at Prov
idence Baptist church on Sunday
night, June 28th, at 7:30 o’clock,
the Rev. W. T. Bodenhamer in
charge. The public is cordially in
vited.
Many people don’t stop to investigate
the facts of something they are not familiar
with. They hear or read a statement by
somebody else. They think he must have
studied it and so they pick it up and adopt
it as the truth. Take a few United States
senators and their abuse of the electric
power industry. Many of their statements
: are deliberately untrue. But they repeat
them over and over again, and other people
think that a United States senator wouldn’t
! make a statement if it wasn’t true and they
believe the untrue things he says.
President.
Company, comparing favorably with any in the nation, apply
uniformly to more than 400 communities spread over an area of
45,000 square miles, reaching from the mountains to the sea!
Rates of this Company have been steadily reduced for years,
as the use of electricity and the number of customers served have
increased.
In making electricity it is the big volume and the diversity of
uses that brings the cost of production down. And after all, rates
are absolutely dependent on the cost of making the current and
delivering it to our customers. That’s true in Seattle, Jacksonville,
your community or anywhere else, under city or private ownership.
Georgians, in small towns as well as the big cities, are enjoying
low electric rates because the Georgia Power Company IS a big
system practically statewide in its service. Just as “mass produc
tion made automobiles cheap, so has it made electricity cheap.
Pooling of the electric business of 400 Georgia communities in one
system, with a large number of customers and greater diversification
in use of the service, is what has made possible very low rates in
the cities and the same “big city” rates in the small towns, too
♦ * * *
So, every customer and every community served by this Com'
pany is interested in seeing that this advantage is not taken away.
Municipal ownership in one or more cities is no longer strictly a
local matter. It affects the rates in every community on the system.
Only with a big system can big jobs be done and big jobs
need to be done in Georgia to bring our state its fair measure of
wealth and prosperity.
Take, for example, the pioneering job of extending electricity
to the farms. In 1930, the increase in electrified farms in Georgia
was far above the national average increase. What could happen to
this activity if the Company’s statewide system were split up and
city ownership became the rule?
♦ * * ♦
Consider this matter seriously. Think how the movement for
city ownership —if successful would affect your electric service
and your electric rates. What would it mean to Georgia especially
to the small towns and the farms of Georgia?
Ask the promoters of city ownership to give you ALL the
facts—not just the pretty'sounding parts.
Georgia
POWER COMPANY
Savannah Beach
(TYBEE ISLAND, GEORGIA)
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PAVILIONS, BATH HOUSES,
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REDUCED ROUND TRIP FARES
As% Agent or Representative
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY.
the average rate for the entire system of
the Georgia Power Company in 1930
would have been 1.73 c per kilowatt hour,
a figure substantially LESS than Seattle’s
rate.
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Rates for both Jacksonville and Seattle
apply to single large cities, with the con
sequent advantage of customers concen
trated in a small area, eliminating long and
costly transmission while rates of this