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DOINGS OVER GEORGIA
The State at Large
A weekly letter of news
and comment exclusively
to members of Georgia
Newspaper Alliance.
By JOHN W. HAMMOND
Staff Writer, Georgia Newspaper
Alliance
Just a pargraph about this column.
One editor friend expressed the opin
ion that it was partisan. Not one
line will ever be writen in the column
of an intentional partisan nature
When the news reflects something
commendatory or informative of
some particular person, it is written
in that vein only. The reader is
entitled to interesting information
and it will be given. There is no
purpose at any time to boost a friend
or decry an enemy.
Another expression of opinion has
been that the column will be all
right “if it doesn’t drift into propa
ganda.” Here’s the answer: The
writer doesn’t handle propaganda
for anybody. If any matter believed
to be of interest or information to
the general reading public can be
found it is offered for print as in
formation. Such matter is written
free, and if it comes in the category
of “tainted publicity” there isn’t
money enough to buy one line in
this column or in the news column
of any Georgia Newspaper Alliance
newspaper, for that matter. When
ever comment may be made on any
news item included in the column,
such comment is sincere and has no
purpose of forming your conclusions
for you. That’s your business and
your individual right, exclusively.
Form your own conclusions.
* * *
HIGHWAY CONTROVERSY—
Settlement, for the time being at
least, of the highway controversy by
a verdict of the trial jury in Supe
rior Court at Buchanan, which held
Chairman J. J. Mangham is legally
entitled to his seat, will probably
find its way into the Supreme Court
on appeal. If so there is reason to
doubt the question involved—wheth
er or not Captain Barnett has any
legal title to that seat—will ever
be finally adjudicated by the higher
tribunal. The appeal probably would
not reach the Supreme Court before
October. Cases of that nature are
seldom if ever decided within 90
days, and the Barnett term expires,
under terms of the Act creating the
Highway Board, the last of Decem
ber. There is, therefore, the higri
chance by the time the higher court
could pass upon an appeal the con.
troversy would become a moot ques
tion.
In the meantime, there had not,
at this writing, been any further
development in respect to the $lO,-
000,000 federal road fund being)
released to the present Georgia au-|
thorities. That matter, though, is '
most likely going to untangle itself
about the time this is printed. The
money belongs to the state of Geor
gia, not to the federal government,
and while there is a matter of prin
ciple involved—whether this state
should be treated as all the other
states are treated—at the same time
distribution of that fund is very
much desired by the 75 per cent of
counties in which it must be spent.
There is still good ground to be
lieve it will be forthcoming very
shortly now.
• * •
PUBLIC HEALTH IN GEORGIA—
Not only has the death rate in
Georgia decreased but the births have
increased as well, this state recently
having won the distinction of be
ing the only state in the union
showing any gain in its annual birth
rate. Echols county, by the way,
had the honor in 1932 of having
both the lowest death rate, 4 per
1,000 population, and the highest
birth rate, 10.9 per 1,000 popu’ation.
These and other significant facts
were revealed in an interview with
Robert F. Maddox following his elec
tion as chairman of the newly or-;
ganized Georgia State Board ofi
Health, and in reports by Dr. T. F. 1
Abercrombie, state commissioner of
health. j
In 1932 there were 1,037 fewer
deaths in Georgia than in 1931. 1
Mr. Maddox pointed to the large
decrease in deaths from typhoid fe- i
ver as remarkable and predicted
still further decrease as the result of
the use of vaccines. Typhoid fever
deaths showed a decrease in 1932 .
of 30 per cent from 1931. j
The election of Mr. Maddox as ■
chairman of the State Board of ;
Health when the new board was or
ganized last week placed him in this :
position for the second time in a
long career of public service. He
Cotton Administration
Urged on President
Roosevelt
(By Georgia Newspaper Alliance)
Atlanta, Ga.—Southern senators
and representatives in Congress,
disappointed with the failure of cot
ton to maintain a price level in
keeping with the aims of the na
tional recovery program, will meet
with President Roosevelt during the
week to urge upon him the necessity
1 for reorganization of the agricul
tural adjustment bureau.
One of the most emphatic requests
will be that the President designate
i some outstanding figure in the
South to act as administrator. They
state that this man should be either
a leader in the cotton textile indus
ry or some well known business man
enjoying the full confidence of the
cotton belt and a man able to cope
with the many problems which the
South’s chief agricultural problem
now faces.
Many have expressed the opinion
that Cully Cobb, of Atlanta, cotton
representative in the agricultural ad
justment administration, is not
clothed with sufficient authority to
be of the maximum assistance to
the industry.
was chairman of the old board at
the time it was abolished and had
been for years. He and R. C. Ellis,
well known business and profession
al leader of Americus, are the only
laymen on the board, all other mem
bers being dentists, doctors or drug
gists.
Mr. Maddox, who is past president
of the American Bankers Associa
tion, two weeks ago was elected
chairman of the board of the First
National Bank. He is chairman of
the NRA drive in Atlanta and has
long been a leader in public welfare
endeavors.
The report submitted to the new
board by Dr. Abercrombie drew the
praise of the new chairman. Among
other things gratifying decrease ini
malaria cases is shown. This is at
tributed to a large extent to the
fact that in two years (1931 and
’32) over 1,000 miles of drainage
ditches were dug and 760 ponds
covering 13,737 acres were drained.
The fact that dentists and pharma
cists, in addition to medical doctors,
are now members of the board,
brought from Mr. Maddox the pre
diction that the board “will render
increasingly valuable services to the
people of Georgia in promoting bet
ter health conditions and thereby
greatly improve the happiness of
our people and the economic wel
fare of our state.”
Members of the new board, in ad
dition to Mr. Maddox and Mr. Ellis,
are as follows: L. C. Allen, Hosch
ton; C. K. Sharp, Arlington; M. M.
McCord, Rome; T. C. Marshall, At
lanta; Claude Rountree, Thomas
iville; M. H. Yarn, Atlanta; R. F.
Sullivan, Savannah; M. M. Head,
Zebulon; W. A. Mulherin, Augusta;
H. W. Clements, Adel; C. T. Thomp
son, Millen, and A. R. Rozar, Macon.
* * *
WATCH FOR “SCREW WORM”—
Dr. J. M. Sutton, the state veteri
narian, is sending out a warning to
live stock producers to be guarded
in efforts to check a spread of what
is known as “screw worm,” which
he says has been causing some
heavy losses. He advises immediate
disposal, either by burning or burial,
of all carcasses without delay. When
any animal is found with an abrasion
or cut the wound should be imme
diately be treated with some form
of fly repellent.
♦ » *
RELIEF FOR ELECTRICITY
USERS—
Beginning with September 1, do
mestic and commercial users of elec
tric current started to get a part of
the relief they have been looking
for. Under an act of Congress the
three per cent electricity tax which
has heretofore been passed on to the
consumer in his bill is now, by pro
vision of law, to be paid by the elec
tric companies.
In this state, it is estimated, that
will take $275,000 of the cost from
off the shoulders of the consumers.
The new Public Service Commission
has issued a rule nisi to all electric
generating companies to show cause
the first part of November why
other charges should not be reduced,
and there is going to be a very gen
eral interest in watching what the
utilities’ answer to this rule will be.
When it is heard a prime feature of
the matter is going to be how far
and how the state commission is
going into that problem of fixing
valuations on all these companies.
Since the so-called “service charge”
was done away with by the old com
mission, the matter of utility valua
tions has become the chief bone of
contention.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
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each year the winner lives after the
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These big gifts of money are to
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which goes into more than 5,000,000
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The contest, as it will be outlined
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No subscriptions will be required in
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The Georgia Public Service Com
mission has ordered a probe into
the power rates of Georgia. Hearing
is set for November 7th.
TAX LEVY FOR 1933.
GEORGIA—EarIy County:
By C. L. Cook, J. P. Hudspeth, C.
E. Martin, C. A. Tiner and T. G.
Harvey, Jr., Board of County Com
missioners of said county, sitting
for county purposes:
Ordered that TEN (10) MILLS on
the dollar of the taxable property of
said county, as shown by the digest
for the year 1933, be, and the same
is hereby levied, and is to be col
lected by the Tax Commissioner of
said county for the following pur
poses, to-wit:
1. Three (3) mills on the dollar
to pay the legal indebtedness due,
past due or to become due during
the year 1933.
2. Two (2) mills on the dollar for
public buildings and bridges, repairs
thereto, and other public improve
ments.
3. One mill on the dollar to pay
sheriffs and jailors such fees as may
be due according to law.
4. One-half (.50) mill on the dol
lar to pay the per diem compensation'
of jurors.
5. One-fourth (.25) mill on the)
dollar to pay bailiffs, non-resident i
witnesses in criminal cases, fuel, >
servant’s hire, stationery and all [
court expenses.
6. One-fourth (.25) of a mill on
the dollar to pay the salary of the |
judge of the City Court of Blakely.
7. One-half (.50) mill on the dol
lar to pay for the support of the
poor.
8. Two and one-half (2.50) mills
on the dollar to meet the expense of
the county in maintaining, repairing
and opening up the public roads of
the county.
In addition to the above and
foregoing tax, upon the recommen
dation of the Board of Education
of said county, there is levied upon
all of the taxable property in said
count” except that located within
the corporate limits of the city of
Blakely, a tax of five (5) mills on
the dollar for the purpose of main
taining the public schools of said
county.
There is also levied on all of the
property in each of the following
named school districts of said coun
ty, for the •'uroose of supplementing
the funds received from the state
public school fund allotted to the
public schools of said named dis
tricts, and for the payment of the
bonded indebtedness of said named
school districts, the levy in each
instance being made upon the rec
ommendation of the school trustees
of the respective districts, the num
ber of mills on the dollar stated op
posite the names of the respective
school districts hereinafter specified,
to-wit:
Name of No. Mills No. Mills
School on Dollar on Dollar for
District for Mainte- Bonded In-
tenance debtedness
Jakin 4 5
Colomokee 2 6
Liberty Hill 3 5
Rowena 3 7
New Hope 3 7
Rock Hill 3 7
Springfield 2.50 8.50
Damascus 4 6
Union 2 8
Arlington 4 5
Cedar Springs 4
The above and foregoing done in
a session held for county purposes, I
this sth day of September, 1933.
C. L. COOK,
C. A. TINER,
T. G. HARVEY, JR..
J. P. HUDSPETH,
C. E. MARTIN.
Board of County Commissioners ;
of Early County.
Brevities in The News
Odds and Ends Found
Here and There
Atlanta, Ga.—John R. Brice, grand
old man of Gainesville, Confederate
veteran and for three score years
a member of the Gainesville city
council, celebrated his 92nd birth
day last Friday. . . . Governor Tal
madge states the cotton sale ban be
ing attempted in North and South
Carolina wouldn’t have worked in
Georgia because Georgia’s crop isn’t
large enough to give the buyers
much worry. . . . Bishop Warren A.
Candler of the Methodist Episcopal
church will automatically be retired
at the general conference of the
church at Jackson, Miss., in October.
. . . During August, 40 people met
death in Georgia in automobile acci
dents. . . . Twenty-two alleged par
ticipants were arrested in a raid on
an Atlanta pool room where a spin
ning roulette wheel was said to be
the center of attraction. . . . Farm
ers of Pickens and Dawson counties
are complaining that deer are so
plentiful in that section that they
are destroying the crops. . . . Col
quitt farmers, with their tobacco
crop out of the way, are rushing
their cotton harvest. . . Liberty Bap
tist church, Gainesville, will cele
brate its 100 th anniversary next
Sunday. . . . The thud of the pigskin
is heard on the athletic fields of
Georgia’s colleges this week. . . Up
on advice of the chief of police,
R. L. Asbell, Atlanta merchant, got
a watchdog to guard his store. Now
he is buying a burglar alarm. Burg
lars entered his store, carried off
practically all of his stock —and the
bulldog. . . . Because only 4,000 of
Atlanta’s 35,000 dogs have been in-;
oculated this year, and as cases of ■
rabies have increased 25 per cent
over the state, Atlanta club ■women
are urging all dog owners to have
their pets inoculated. . . . Atlanta
policeman Charlie Hajors has asked
city council to buy him a new shirt
to replace the one an unruly Negro
slashed off his back when he at
tempted to arrest him.
Carol Lombard and Randolph
Scott in “SUPERNATURAL,” is the
attraction at the Blakely Theatre
Thursday and Friday.
WSB, radio broadcasting station of;
the Atlanta Journal, Atlanta, Ga.,
will become a 50,000-watt station
next Saturday. The National Broad
casting Co. will give a nation
wide christening program.
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A severe tropical hurricane bat
i tered Havana and northern Cuba
Friday, causing many deaths and
an immense amount of property
j damage.
The trial jury at Buchanan, Ga.,
awarded a verdict saying that Gov
ernor Talmadge was in his legal
rights in ousting the old highway 1
commissioners. The case will be
appealed.
The national convention of the
young Democrats of America was
held in Kansas City last week.
The governors of North and
South Carolina have declared to-j
bacco marketing holidays.
The 34th encampment of Veterans
of Foreign Wars was held in Mil
waukee the past week.
NOTICE— The public is hereby
warned against hunting or trespass
ing in any manner on the Wade
lands which I have rented. T. H.
DAVENPORT. 7-2 t
ROOMS FOR RENT— See MISS
SALLIE STRICKLAND.
CITATION
GEORGIA—EarIy County:
To all whom it may concern:
J. W. Goings, as administrator of
the estate of S. T. Goings, deceased,
having applied to me by petition for
leave to sell the real estate of said
deceased, this is to notify the cred
itors and kindred that said applica
tion will be passed upon at the Oc
tober term, 1933, of the court of
Ordinary of said county, and that
unless cause is shown to the con
trary said leave will be granted.
This September 4th, 1933.
D. C. MORGAN, Ordinary.
Use This Laxative
made from plants
Thedford’s Black-Dbauoht is
made from plants that grow in the
ground, like the garden vegetables
you eat at every meal. NATURE]
has put Into these plants an active
medicine that stimulates the bowels
to act Just as Nature put the ma
terials that sustain your body into
the vegetable foods you eat.
In Black-Draught you have a natu
ral laxative, free from synthetic
drugs Its use does not make you
have to depend on cathartic chemical
drugs to get the bowels to act dally.
Now you can get Black-Draught In
the form of a SYRUP, for Childrzn.
C. A. LESTER
about INSURANCE
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BLAKELY CHAPTER 44 R. A. M.
Blakely Chapter 44
Royal Arch Masons
meets on the second
Bn d fourth Monday
tLy i&g nights of each month
at 8 o’clock. Visiting
HL companions invited.
s C. A. GRUBBS,
High
J. G. STANDIFER,
Secretary.