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A PROCLAMATION
Submitting a proposed amendment
to the Constitution of Georgia to be
voted on at the General Election to
be held on Tuesday, November 8,
1938, amending article 7, section 7,
paragraph 1, of the Constitution of
the State of Georgia, authorizing the
City of Gainesville to incur a bond
ed indebtedness in addition to that
heretofore authorized by the Consti
tution and laws of Georgia for the
purpose of refunding and retiring its
existing bonded indebtedness due and
unpaid up to and including January 1,
1940; to provide that the funds rais
ed from such additional bonded in
debtedness shall be used exclusively
for the retirement of said bonded in
debtedness that is or may become due
and unpaid as of January 1, 1940;
to provide for the submission of the
amendment for ratification by the
people; and for other purposes.
By His Excellency,
E. D. BIVERS, Governor,
State of Georgia, Executive Dept.,
September 1, 1938.
WHEREAS, The General Assembly
at the 1937-38 extraordinary session
proposed an amendment to the Con
stitution of this State as set forth in
a resolution approved January 10th
1938, relating to the bonded debt of
Gainesville, to-wit:
A RESOLUTION
No. 9.
A Resolution to propose to the
qualified voters of Georgia an amend
ment to article 7, section 7, para
graph 1, of the Constitution of
Georgia, so as to authorize the City
of Gainesville to incur a bonded in
debtedness in addition to that here
tofore authorized by the Constitution
and laws of Georgia for the pur
pose of refunding and retiring its
existing bonded indebtedness due
and unpaid up to and including Jan
uary 1, 1940; to provide that the
funds raised from such additional
bonded indebtedness shall be used
exclusively for the retirement of
said bonded indebtedness that is or
may become due and unpaid as of
January 1, 1940; to provide for the
submission of the amendment for
ratification by the people; and for
other purposes.
Section 1.
Be it enacted by the General As
sembly of the State of Georgia, and
it is hereby enacted by authority of
the same, that article 7, section 7,
paragraph 1, of the Constitution of
Georgia, which has heretofore been
amended, shall be further amended
by adding at the end thereof a new
paragraph in the following words,
to-wit:
“And except that the City of
Gainesville may issue refunding serial
bonds not in excess of the aggre
gate sum of one hundred thousand
($100,000.00) dollars, for the pur
pose of refunding and retiring any
bonded indebtedness of said city out
standing, past due and unpaid up
to and including January 1, 1940,
and providing for the assessment and
collection of an annual tax sufficient
in amount' to pay the principal and
interest of said bonds as they fall
due; the proceeds of all such
refunding bonds so issued
by the City of Gainesville to
be used exclusively for the pur
pose of paying and retiring said
bonded indebtedness that is or may
become due and unpaid as of Janu
ary 1, 1940. Said refunding bonds
shall be issued when authorized by
a vote of the Commissioners of
Gainesville, and shall be validated as
provided by law.”
Section 2.
Be it further enacted by the au
thority aforesaid, that when said
amendment shall be agreed to by two
thirds vote of the members of each
House with the “ayes” and “nays”
thereon, and published in one or
more newspapers in each Congres
sional District in this State for two
months previous to the time for hold
ing the next general election, at
which proposed amendments to the
Constitution of this State may be
voted on, and shall at said general
election be submitted to the people
for ratification. All persons vot
ing at said election in favor of adopt
ing the said proposed amendment to
the Constitution shall have written
or printed on their ballots the words,
“For ratification of amendment of
article 7, section 7, paragraph 1, of
the Constitution, authorizing the
City of Gainesville to issue refund
ing bonds,” and all persons opposed
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to the adopting of said amendment
shall have written or printed on their
ballots, “Against ratification of
amendment of article 7, section 7,
paragraph 1, of the Constitution, au
thorizing the City of Gainesville to
issue refunding bonds.” And if a ma
jority of the electors qualified to vote
for members of the General As
sembly, voting thereon, shall be con
solidated as now required by law in
election for members of the General
Assembly, the said amendments shall
become a part of article 7, para
graph 1, of the Constitution of the
State, and the Governor shall make
a proclamation therefor as provided
by law.
Section 3.
All laws and parts of laws in con
flict herewith are hereby repealed.
ROY V. HARRIS,
Speaker of the House.
JNO. B. SPIVEY,
President of the Senate.
JOE BOONE,
Clerk of the House.
JOHN W. HAMMOND.
Secretary of the Senate.
Approved:
E. D. RIVERS, Governor.
This 10th day of January, 1938.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, E. D.
Rivers, Governor of said State, do
issue this my proclamation hereby
declaring that the proposed foregoing
amendment to the Constitution is
submitted, for ratification or rejec
tion, to the voters of the State
qualified to vote for members of the
General Assembly at the General
Election to be held on Tuesday, No
vember 8, 1938.
E. D. RIVERS, Governor.
By the Governor:
JOHN B. WILSON,
Secretary of State.
A PROCLAMATION
Submitting a proposed amendment
to the Constitution of Georgia to be
voted on at the General Election to
be held on Tuesday, November 8,
1938, amending article 7, section 6,
paragraph 2, of the Constitution of
the State of Georgia, authorizing any
county to levy a tax for the purpose
of providing forest-fire protection
and for the further conservation of
natural resources; and for other
purposes.
By His Excellency,
E. D. RIVERS, Governor,
State of Georgia, Executive Dept.,
September 1, 1938.
WHEREAS, The General Assembly
Assembly at the 1937-38 extraordi
nary session proposed an amendment
to the Constitution of this State as
set forth in a resolution approved
February 5, 1938, relating to fire
protection and conservation tax by
counties, to-wit:
A RESOLUTION
No. 23.
A Resolution proposing to, the
qualified voters of the State of Geor
gia, for ratification or rejection, an
amendment to article 7, section 6,
paragraph 2, of the Constitution of
Georgia, giving the right to any coun
ty to levy a tax for the purpose of
providing forest-fire protection and
for the further conservation of nat
ural resources; and for other pur
poses. Be it resolved by the Gen
eral Assembly:
Section 1.
That article 7, section 6, paragraph
2, of the Constitution of Georgia,
which provides the purposes for
which counties may levy taxes, be
and the same is hereby amended by
adding at the end of said section of
said paragraph, as amended by the
General Assembly of 1937 and rati
fied by the people of Georgia on
June 8, 1937, and after said amend
ing clause, “And to pay county agri
cultural and home demonstration
agents,” the following words, “And
to provide for fire protection of
I forest lands, and for the further con
; nervation of natural resources,” so
i that article 7, section 6, paragraph
2, of the Constitution of Georgia
will read as follows: “Paragraph 2.
Taxing power of counties limited,
i The General Assembly shall not have
I power to delegate to any county the
right to levy a tax for any purpose,
except for educational purposes; to
I build and repair the public buildings
land bridges; to maintain and support
: prisoners; to pay sheriffs and coro-
I ners, and for litigation; quarantine,
' roads, and expenses of court; to sup
j port paupers and pay debts hereto
; fore existing; to pay the county po-
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lice, and to provide for necessary
sanitation; and for the collection and
preservation of records of births,
deaths, diseases, and health; to pay
county agricultural and home demon
stration agents; and to provide for
fire protection of forest lands, and
! for the further conservation of nat
■ ural resources.”
Section 2.
The foregoing amendment shall be
published in one or more newspapers
in each Congressional District of this
State for two months preceding the
next general election, and at such
election shall be submitted to the
qualified voters of the State, quali
fied to vote for the members of the
General Assembly, for ratification or
rejection. The voters voting in
favor of the ratification of the
amendment shall have written or
printed upon their ballots, “For rati
fication of the amendment to article
7, section 6, paragraph 2, of the
Constitution of Georgia, providing
that counties may levy a tax to pro
vide for fire protection of forest
lands, and for the further conserva
tion of natural resources.” If a
majority of the qualified voters vot
ing at said election shall vote in
favor of the ratification of the
amendment, the Governor shall make
proclamation thereof, and the fore
going amendment shall become a
part of the Constitution of the
State of Georgia.
ROY V. HARRIS,
Speaker of the House.
JNO. B. SPIVEY,
President of the Senate.
JOE BOONE.
Clerk of the House.
JOHN W. HAMMOND,
Secretary of the Senate.
Approved:
E. D. RIVERS, Governor.
This February sth 1938.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, E. D.
Rivers, Governor of said State, do
issue this my proclamation hereby
declaring that the proposed forego
ing amendment to the Constitution
is submitted, for ratification or re
jection, to the voters of the State
qualified to vote for members of the
General Assembly at the General
Election to be held on Tuesday, No
vember Bth 1938.
E. D. RIVERS, Governor.
By the Governor:
JOHN B. WILSON,
Secretary of State.
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE
GEORGIA—EarIy County:
The undersigned, as administrator
of the Estate of Mrs. Pennie Easom,
by authority of an order of the
Court of Ordinary of said county,
will sell at public outcry, on the
First Tuesday in November, 1938, at
the court house door in said county,
between the legal hours of sale, the
following described land:
The North half of lot of land No.
125 (one hundred and twenty five)
in the 26th district of Early County,
I Georgia.
The said sale will be for cash.
This October 6th, 1938 .
H. L. EASOM, Administrator.
A. H. GRAY, Attorney.
SIX-MAN FOOTBALL
ASSOCIATION SCHEDULE
I
The following is the season’s of
ficial schedule for the “Six-Man Foot-
I ball Association”:
Oct. 14: Edison at Colquitt; Fort
Gaines at Cuthbert; Blakely open.
Oct. 21: Blakely at Edison; Col-
I quitt at Fort Gaines; Cuthbert open.
Oct. 28: Fort Gaines at Blakely;
I Colquitt at Cuthbert; Edison open.
Nov. 4: Fort Gaines at Edison;
Blakely at Cuthbert; Colquitt open.
Nov. 11: Edison at Cuthbert; Col
quitt at Blakely; Fort Gaines open.
Nov. 19: Colquitt at Edison; Cuth
bert at Fort Gaines; Blakely open.
Nov. 23: Edison at Blakely; Fort
Gaines at Colquitt; Cuthbert open.
Dec. 2: Blakely at Fort Gaines;
Colquitt at Cuthbert; Edison open.
All of the games are on Friday,
with the exception of those on No
vember 19th, which are on Wednes
day before Thanksgiving Day.
Last Week’s Southern
College Football Scores
Georgia 38, Furman 7.
Davidson 33, Erskine 0.
Oglethorpe 19, Wofford 6.
Centre 48, Transylvania 0.
Birmingham-Southern 7, Mercer 0
Texas Christian 28, Temple 6,
Stetson 28, S. Ga. Teachers 0.
Rollins 54, S. Ga. State 0.
Citadel 12, Presbyterian 0.
Marquette 7, Sou. Methodist 0.
La. State 3, Rice 0.
Alabama 14, N. C. State 0.
Tenessee 7. Auburn 0.
Tulane 17. N. Carolina 14.
Catawba 27, Newberry 14.
Va. Poly. 27, William & Mary 0.
V. M. I. 7, Clemson 7.
Miss. State 48, La. Tech 0.
Mississippi 14, Miss. Teachers 0.
Notre Dame 14, Ga. Tech 6.
Wake Forest 20, S. Carolina 19.
Centenary 6, Southwestern 0.
W. Ky. State 6, Howard 0.
Duke 7, Colgate 0.
Randobjh-Macon 27, Delaware 0.
Syracuse 53, Maryland 0.
Navy 33, Virginia 0.
Washington & Lee 6, W. Va. 6.
Baylor 9, Arkansas 6.
Oklahoma 13, Texas 0.
Santa Clara 7, Texas A. & M. 0.
Florida 10. Sewanee 6.
Vanderbilt 14, Kentucky 7.
High School Games
Albany Hi 40, Americus Hi 0.
Fitzgerald Hi 26, Douglas Hi 0.
Cairo Hi 34, Madison (Fla.) Hi 6.
Nashville Hi 6. Camilla Hi 0.
Moultrie Hi 14, Tifton Hi 7.
Thomasville Hi 19, Sylvester Hi 0.
Waycross Hi 45, Baxley Hi 0.
Valdosta Hi 49, Thomaston Hi 0.
Six-Man Association Scores
Blakely Hi 12, Colquitt Hi 0.
Edison Hi 38, Cuthbert Hi 12.
FARM BRIEFS
By WHITNEY THARIN,
Extension Editor
This is Fire Prevention Week,
and the inspection of every home for
fire hazards is the goal of fire pre
vention authorities. Farm homes are
no expemption, says Secretary of
j Agriculture Wallace, in urging farm
i folk to check their homes against the
, known causes of fire. He points out
i that of the known causes, these eight
are responsible for almost 85 per cent
of all farm fire losses: Defective
chimneys and flues; sparks on com
bustible roofs; lightning; spontaneous
combustion; careless use of matches,
smoking; careless use of gasoline and
kernosene; defective and improperly
installed stoves and furnaces; faulty
wiring and misuse of electric appli
ances.
* * *
Extension Agronomist E. D. Alex
ander tells us that two new sugar
cane varieties that combine disease
resistance with many qualities for
syrup making— C. P. 29-116 and Co.
290—may largely replace other dis
ease-tolerant varities now grown in
Georgia. Produced by plant breeders
of the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture, the two new varieties are es
pecially adapted to syrup-producing
areas, although they are grown in
sugar-producing areas as well. Tests
have been conducted at Cairo, Ga.,
among other places.
♦ * *
The Agricultural Adjustment Ad
ministration announced today accept
ance of an offer made by the Lane
Cotton Mills Company of New Or
leans, La., the low bidder for cotton
bales under an AAA diversion pro
gram launched July 27. The offer
will supply the entire quantity of
cotton patterns called for in this pro
gram, comprising enough to cover one
million bales, at a cost per pattern
of not more than that of ordinary
bale covering. The program makes
possible the first comprehensive and
widespread use of cotton as bagging
material —a purpose long advocated
by cotton growers and cotton mills.
* * *
Cotton prices have fluctuated con
siderably during the past few weeks
with a tendency to decline. Major
influences, reports the Bureau of Ag
ricultural Economics, include the po
litical crisis in Europe, general re
duction in mill activity in the princi
pal foregn manufacturing countries,
and smaller sales than production
of cotton textiles by manufacturers
in this country. Sales of cotton tex
tiles by domestic manufacturers in
the first 6 weeks of the current cot
ton-marketing season apparently have
been below production despite in
creased sales in the second and third
weeks of September.
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This Week in Washington
(PUBLISHER’S AUTOCASTER SERVICE)
Washington, D. C.—The dramatic
and unexpected passing of the Eu
ropean war cloud has had a marked
effect upon the state of mind of
official Washington.
Ever since last Spring the shadow
of apprehension lest the powder
magazine of Europe might explode
and entangle the United States in
another World War has hung over
the deliberations and plans of Gov
ernment, creating an atmosphere of
uncertainty. Now that it seems
that there is not to be a war, at
least for an indefinite time to come,
Washington is breathing easier.
In high official circles, however,
there is no inclination to ease off in
the preparations for national defense.
While war was averted by the reso
lute stand of the great European
democracies of Great Britain and
France, it was touch-and-go for a
couple of weeks.
It is felt here that if President
Roosevelt had not sent his appeal to
Hitler to settle the Czechoslovakian
question by conference instead of
by force, and followed that by join
ing with England in inviting Musso
lini to take part in the four-power
conference which finally settled the
decision for peace, this country
might today be facing a situation
such as we faced in 1914, and with
much less time in which to decide on
the part we would eventually take in
the conflict.
In intervening as he did, the Pres
ident, it is held here, definitely lined
up the United States not only on the
side of peace, but on the side of
democratic government.
How far Mr. Roosevelt’s appeal
impressed Hitler with the idea that
if he precipitated war with Britain
and France he would have America
on his neck, too, nobody of course
can tell. The State Department be
lieves that the Presidential message
which oup foreign office actually
wrote got the idea across to Der
Fuehrer that whenever the clash of
totalitarianism and democacry oc
curred, this country would line up
with the other democracies.
The official attitude is that it is
no business of ours what kind of
government the people of any nation
choose to tolerate for themselves,
but when they try by force to im
pose their kind on peoples of other
nations who prefer self-government,
then it becomes our concern.
Benefits Anticipated
Direct benefits to the United
States are anticipated as a conse
quence of the peaceful solution of
Europe’s immediate problem.
The Department of Agriculture,
especially, is much more hopeful that
its plans for exporting surplus wheat
can be carried out, and that the di
version of Europe’s interest from
war preparations to peaceful in
dustrial pursuits will enlarge the for
eign market for American cotton.
If as a result of the whole affair
European nations now feel safe in
diverting their attention to peaceful
problems, there is hope expressed
here that negotiations toward defi
nite settlement of wartime and post
war debts of those nations to our
own government may shortly be
under way.
And it is regarded now as certain
that the long-discussed new agree
ment on international trade relations
with Great Britain will be concluded
in the very near future.
There is no inclination, however,
to accept world peace as something
permanent, or to slow down in the
effort to 'bring America’s fighting
strength, in the air, on the sea, and
on land up to a point where we
would be ready to meet any emerg
ency.
It is no secret here that England
and France were not yet ready for
the war that Hitler seemed ready to
force them into, and that was the
reason why they were willing to
concede him so much of what he
demanded from Czechoslovakia. Next
time there may not be so much
warning, so much time in which to
negotiate.
Official Washington recognizes ful
ly that it is unsafe to place too much
confidence in promises of dictators.
So American policy, so far as the
Administration can influence and
Congress is willing to follow, will be
to prepare for any emergency.
Propaganda Campaign
International problems of another
nature are beginning to come to
the front here, also. The Government
is definitely set upon the project of
a great pro-United States propagan
da campaign in Latin America, with
high-power broadcasting stations to
furnish programs in their own
tongue to the peoples of South
America and impress them with the
friendliness of this country toward
them and the advantage of buying
United States goods in preference to
those of Europe.
The question that is worrying of
ficials in that connection is where to
find the people who can carry out
such a propaganda campaign without
letting anybody know that it is
propaganda.
It is part of the world-wide cam
paign for democracy and against
dictatorships in which the State De
partment is engaged. The trouble
is that South Americans are accus
tomed to dictators who profess dem
ocratic ideals, and it may be difficult
to make Latin America understand
the difference.
Political Issues
The end of the war scare has
turned Washington’s attention back
to political issues. Attention is fo
cussed now on the State of New
York, where the Republicans are
showing more hope than for several
years, and the Democrats have
recognized the Republican strength.
Therefore, when the Republicans
nominated for governor the fighting
young District Attorney of New
York county, Thomas E. Dewey, the
Democratic leaders decided their
hope of victory lay in “drafting” Mr.
Lehman to run again, to which he
agreed reluctantly.
Experienced observers here be
lieve the New York contest will be a
close one, and an index of the na
tional trend of political opinion upon
which the 1940 Presidential election
will turn.