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VOLUME FIFTEEN
VIENNA, GA., THURSDAY, June i5th. 1916.
NUMBER 46
PRESIDENT WANTS
MARSHALL NOMINATED
EVERYTHING IN READINESS FOR
THE OPENING OF THE CON
VENTION TODAY.
/
COMMISSIONER P
SHOWS THE Fi
WHAT IT WILL COST
PROPOSED FREIGHT
ARE GRANTED.
St. Louis, June 13.—Secretary of
War Baker arrived here late today
from Washington bringing a platform
drafted by President Wilson and di
rect word from the President himself
that he desires the renomination of
Vice President Marshall.
Delegates gathering for the demo
cratic national convention have tam
ed from discussion of ticket and plat
form to consideration of a chairman
of the new national committee and
those to be associated with him in the
management of President Wilson’s
campaign for re-election.
< Three names are under considcra-
, tisn today for the chairmanship.
They are: United States Senator Wil-
It iSrd Saulbury, of Delaware; Homer
*" H Cummings, of Connecticut, vice
% chairman of the present committee,
and Colonel E. M. House, of New
York.
President Wilson has indicated
that any one of the three men was
V agreeable to him.
Wilbur W. Marsh, national com
mitteeman from Iowa, is most like-
. ly to be chosen treasurer to succeed -
Rolla Wells. Henry Mergenthaus
probably will again be chairman of the
: finance committee. The new nation'
" al committee meets Saturday and ex-
.f ,pects to select the chairman at that
time. The committeemen generally
agree that they would prefer to name
‘ - as leader one of their own members
and will do so unless President Wil
son wants some one else. Mr. Cum
mings is almost certain to be the man
i/the chairman is taken from within
thejr own numbers.
*•. Colonel E. M. House is President
Wilson’s close friend and has carried
out many confidential missl:ns "for
him.
Wilbur W. Marsh, of Waterloo,
Own, led the fight for the Clark forces
roni‘ Iowa and' the'fniddle western
states at the Baltimore convention
ithcl his selection, it was urged, would
further heal any’ scars that may re
main from that contest
ATTENTION SUBSCRIBERS
CITIZENS OF TURNER
PLAN COUNTY FAIR
Ashburn, Ga„ June.—An interest
ing meeting of the Turner County
Fair Association was held- in the
court house here recently. The meet
ing was attended largely by citizens
of Ashburn and representatives from
' nearly every district of the county
„ who have become interested In the
move now on foot to have a fair in
Turner county this fall. This is a
new move for Turner county .id it
i: creating considerable inter *st ! n all
sections of the county.
All sections of the r ■ inty vert re
ported to be heartily in favor of
holding the fair and as a result defi
nite plans were laid which will insure
for Ashburn and Turner county one
Atlanta, Ga., June 14.—The
tical bureau of the Georgia Shippei
Association today gave out the
lowing statement concerning the re
vision of Georgia intrastate freight
rates proposed by the railroads of the
state in petitions on file before the
rcilroad commission:
“Hon. James D. Price, state c om-
missioner of agriculture, who js mak
ing a courageous fight on behalf of
the unorganized, unrepresented farm
ers in the vitally important matter of
freight rates, recently issued a sign
ed statement to tho farmers of Geor
gia in which he warned them that
the new, rates proposed by the rail-
loads if authorized by the railroad
commission, would yield the railroads
an increased revenue of 3800,000 per
year in the transportation of ferti
lizer and cotton seed meal.
“In making thi3 statement Commis
sloner Price had before him the rec
ords of his office, showing the move
ment of fertilizers and cotton 3eed
meal manufactured and consumed in
this state over a long period of years,
and showing that the average move
ment for the past five years has
amounted to 1,282,730 tons per year,
or 85,515 carloads of fertilizer and
cotton seed meal each season.
“Commissioner Price also had be
fore him the petition of the railroads
now on file before the railroad com
mission which shows that tho present
average rate’ on fertilizer and cotton
seed meal, from 5 to 100 miles inclu
sive, is 31.09 per ton, ar.d shows that
the averago rate proposed by the rail
roads, for the same distance, is $ 1.C2
per ton, or an average increase of
39.4 per cent.
“In connection with these figures
to which Commissioner Price has call
ed the, attention of the fmrers.oj*
Georgia^ it. is interesting; Itffmske'.
few comparisons.
"In the year 1915 the total ad va
lorem taxes collected by the state of
Georgia, from all sources, were $5,-
006,729.
Therefore the increased revenue of
$800,000 per year, which the rail
roads would derive from fertilizer
and cotton need meal under the new
freight rates which they propose, is
16 per cent of the State’s total rev
enue derived from ad valorem taxes.
“In hte year 1915 the railroads
paid into the State treasury the sum
total of $508,001.61.
“Therefore the increased revenue
of $800,000 per year, which tho rail
roads would derive from ferterlizer
and cotton seed meal, is sufficient to
have paid their entire tax to the State
last year, and still leave a surplus of
$291,098.49 per annum.
“In 1915 the railroads paid to the
counties, the municipalities and the
school districts of Georgia the sum
total of $1,428,783.86, which added
to their state tax of $508,001.61,
Tihs is to notify all who are indebted to The News for
subscription that on and after July the 1st the subscription
♦ price will be increased to $1.50 per year. This change-, has
been made necessary because of the marked advance in all
newspaper material.
The News offers this opportunity to all who wish to
take advantage of it: Those who will pay up their arrearage
and for a year in advance before the above date may obtain
the paper for 1917 at the former price, $1.00 per year. Those
who do not pay up before that time will he charged from
July 1st, 1916, at the rate of $1.50 per year.
ONDITIONS WORSE
ON THE BORDER
RUMORED THAT AMERICANS
the State of Georgia’s annual reve
nue from this immensely valuable
property.
'The Western & Atlantic railroad
is conservatively estimated by the
Comptroller General at a .valuation
of $20,000,000. The total valuation
of all the railroads in the state (ex
clusively of the Western & Atlantic,
Georgia Railroad, the Southwestern
and the Augusta A Savannah), as dis
closed by their sworn returns to the
Comptroller General for 1915, was
$105,833,667. .
"Yet the Western & Atlantic, worth
nearly onc-fifth as much as all the
balance of the railroads in the State,
(with exceptions noted) annually
earns for the State only a little more
than one-half of the increased annual
revenue which the railrfrm . _ _
to extract from this one item of fer
tilizer and cotton seed meal.'
KARRIS' MESSAGE
TO THE ASSEMBLY
WILL BE ONE OF MOST IMPOR
TANT PAPERS OF THE KIND
SUBMITTED IN MANY YEARS.
Atlanta, Ga., June 12.—Governor
Harris’s Message to the 1916 legis
lature wili, unquestionably, be one of
Ihfe most itnptrtant papers of the
kind submitted to the assembly Itf a
good many years.
While tile governor nas so for de
clined to discuss, for publication, any
‘ the feptu-es 0 f his message, except
parole law, which is now pending as
unfinished business, but that certain
amendments be made to the pending
bill. Other recommendationi will
cover, probably, the sub-departments
of several of the general departments
of the state In the matter of needed
modification of the system.
MOVE IS ON FOR NEW
SENATORIAL DISTRICTS
BIBLE CONFERENCE TO
BE HELD IN BYROMV1LLE
of -.he best county la.rs to be held to tnelr Blole „ „
in the state. The date for the fair is made a grand total of $1,936,785.36
is .October 13, 1916, a::' " ~
committees
gre already at wor'; in dead earnest.
EARLY DECLINE IN
GASOLINE IS PROMISED
Washington, June 13.—An early
an| rapid decline in the price of gas
oline was predicted by H. G. James,
of Kansas City> secretary of tho east
ern Petrolium Refiners Association,
in testifying before the Federal
'■ Trade Commission’s inquiry into the
gasoline price increase. James said
jobbers are now paying leu for gas
oline than they had paid for months,
and that the retailers would feel the
decline within a few months.
<V R. L. Welsh, chief-counsel for the
Western Oil Jobbers Association, de
clared that the Standard Oil Com
pany had attempted to keep the price
of gasoline down, In Indiana, at least
after it had increased in other States,
“to drive the jobbers from business/
. HG. James arrainged Henry Ford
end She Ford Automobile Company
because they bought up large quanti
ties of gasoline and sold it to auto-
mobilists at wholeule prices.
E. B. Carson, sales manager of the
Ciasumers Refining Company, of Chi
cago, charged before the commission >
that big oil interests caused the in-1
paid by the railroads to cover all
taxes of e very kind for the year.
“Therefore the increased revenue
of $800,000 per year, which the rail
roads would derive from fertilizer
end cotton seed meal,, is 41.3 per
cent of all the taxes both stae and
local, which they paid in the Stale
of Georgia last year,
"In the year 1915 the Statu of
Program of Bible Conferences to be
held with First Methodist Church,
at Byromville, Ga.
Tuesday, June, 20th, 8:15 p. m.—■
Sermon, Rev. W. L. Wright.
Wednesday, June 21at, 8:15. p. m.
—Address, Col. Jule Felton, Monte
zuma, Ga.
Thursday, June 22nd, 10:00 a. m,
—Devotional led by Mrs. J. J. Coop
er, Vienna, Ga.; Topic: Consecration;
Mrs. B. F. Forbes, Vienna, Ga.; Top
ic; Three rules in giving: (1) Every
one; (2) Everyone Willingly; (8) Ev
eryone according to ability Mrs.
Hugh Lasse ter, Gordele, Ga.
12:00 M. Adjourn, Lunch; 2:00 p.
Devotional, Mrs. B. F. Forbes,
Vienna, Topic: Our Young People;
Mix I. J. Prentiss, Fitzgerald, Ga.,
Topic: Missionaries; Mrs. Gao. H.
Munn, Perry, Ga.; 8:16 p. m. Rev.
Walter Anthony, Cordele, Ga.
a change that wi'
tion out of the general auembly, it is
known that there will be a dozen or
more important recommendations, all
bearing on the state government, and
some of them proposing changes that
will materially modernize the present
more or leu obselete system follow
ed by Georgia* In comparison with
methods which obtained at the time
they were adopted snd those which
are held to be euential under the
present day condition, aome of the
recommendations will ask for radical
changes, all of which the governor
will hold will be a material improve
ment in governmental affairs.
A brief insight into whst is most
likely going to be the trend of the
message indicates conclusively that
Governor Harris has, since last July,
been making a very careful study of
the method* of every department of
the government and, while there has
been little outward sign of it Is the
Ashburn, Ga., June.—There is
strong movement on foot in the
counties affected, to create two now
senatorial districts, one composed of
Turner, Tift, and Crisp, and tho other
composed of Irwin, Wilcox and Ben
. - Hill. - , t • - "
* Sinaia- '' A'«<«ttnfc*ni'*c held ln^Ashbm-n
next Thursday morning, at which
time delegates from the counties af
fected, will draft bills and appoint
committees to push the- matter
through at the approaching teuton
of the legislature. It is expected
that ths present representatives,
county officers and a large number
of prominent citizens from the dif
ferent counties affected, will attend
the meeting to give the movement
much impetus u pouibie, as a consti
tutional amendment will be necessary
to accomplish the object.
Georgia’s total appropriation to pen
sions of Confederate veterans and
their widwoa amounted to $1,070,000,
"Therefore the increased revenue
of $300,000 per year, wl'ch the.rail-
roads would derive from fertiliser
and cotton seed meal, is equivilant
to ' t per cent of the al-l which these
old men and women received from
the State in 1916.
“At the’ present time the State of
Georgia's bonded debt is $6,218,202-
Thcrefore the increued revenue of
$800,000 per year which the rail
roads would derive from fertilizer
and cotton seed meal, is enough to
retire all Georgia bonds outstanding
in a little leu than eight years.
“The rental paid to the State of
Georgia, under the present lease of
the Western & Atlantic railroad, is
$420,012 per year.
FLORIDA DELEGATES FOR
WILSON AND MARSHALL
Jacksonville, Fla., June.—Instruct
ed to vote for the renomination of
Woodrow Wilton, the members of the
Florida delegation to the Democratic
nomlnktion are today on their way
internal, suggestions and recommen- 1 to St Louis. The last left JacksOn-
dations to be made will be exhaustive v ille this morning. WUson
of all the departments.
While it is not definitely known
yet, it Is understood that a reommen-
dation will be passed to the legisla
ture that they enact the automatic
HAVE BEEN KILLED IN
RISING.
UP.
El Fuo, June 13.—A rumor that
several Americans have been killed
an uprising of natives at Chihau-
hua City gained wide circulation here
his afternoon. The rumor was credit
ed to a dispatch coming over the
wires of the Mexican Northwestern
Railway, but officials of that company
denied that any such message had
bean received
Secretary of State Lansing today
announced that the conditions in Mex
ico in some instances are worse, while
in other places they are unchanged,
as compared to the dangerous situa
tion of yesterday. At no point has
there been a'change for the'better,
the 'Secretary said.
Communications occurred between
Secretary Lansing and Assistant Sec.
etary of War Ingram today, and an
important announcement concerning
Mexico was expected.
With a avalanche of official re
ports reaching Washington telling of
‘ the worst Mexican situation wo
have had yet,” officials of both War
nd State Departments fear that even
more troublesome times arc not for
distant. Special efforts are being
made by the War Department to have
the 1,500 additional soldiers already
ordered stationed on the Mexican bor
der before Carranza is totd officially
that American troops will not bo
withdrawn from Mexico at this time.
Warnings have reached the State
Department that the delivery of
President’s Wilson’s note refusing to
comply with Carranza’s demands will
be a signal for violent anti-American
outbursts throughout Mexico. It is ex
pected that the transmission of tho
note will be delayed until the com-'
panics of engineers and artillerymen
ordered yesterday 3hall hove time to
, LjfiLg'oete-.to which General
Funston wishes to dispatch them.
In Washington it is believed .that
the White House has drastically
changed its views of the Mexican sit
uation. Since General Funston re
quested the call for the State Militia
"f Texas, Arizona and New Mexico,
he has a number ( of times asked for
taoro troops, but* all requests were,
refused until Secretary of War.Baker
issued yesterday’s orders. The an-
nouncement of tho lending of addi
tional forces came after the receipt
at the state Department of official
messages forecasting the attitude the
Mexican people would take when
they learned that the American forces
were not to be withdrawn.
opposed for the presidential nomina
tion and Marshall deflated Governor
Major, of Missouri, for the vice pres
idency in last Tuesday's primary
election.
_ "Therefore the increased revenue
prices' Of gasoline by ' the I of $800,000 per year, which the rail-
speculating in crude petrolium and I reads would derive from fertilizer
Tiatrt puls ting the market. | cotton seed meal, is almost bouble
Mass Meeting' Saturday to
Discuss County Division
There will be a mass meeting held at the Court House
in Vienna Saturday morning June 17th, at 10 o’clock for the
purpose of discussing the proposed new county of Lamar.
The object of this meeting is to allow the people from all
parts of Dooly county to express their sentiments in regard
to the proposed county division. Those people living or
owning property within the territory that would be taken
from Dooly are especially requested to be present.
HUGHES SUCCESSOR
ON SUPREME BENCH
Washington, June.—Selections of
a successor of Charles E. Hughes on
tho supreme court already la being
considered by President Wilson. At
torney General Gregory probably
will be called into conference In a day
or two, and the appointment may be
made within the next two .weeks.
It is understood that thq president
would like to appoint John W. Davis,
solicitor general, but may be deterred
from doing so because Mr. Davis pre
pared a number of cases pending be
fore thedepartment of justice. Sev
eral messages urging an appointment
cf former President Taft, bare been
received but the president is expect
ed to name a Democrat since the court
now has five Republicans and three
Democrats.
THE BATTLE CRY OF PEACE.”
The Intention of this great spec
tacular picture is. to show the great
need of the preparedness of peace
spelled “Power." The Battle Cry 61
Peace surely fulfils the every inten
tion of its author for it portray! a
ooignant truth in a characteristic
way that cannot fail of appreciation.
Some idea of the size of the offer
ing is gained when it is known that
25.000 soldiers, 8,000 A. R. men,
5.000 horses, numbers of aeroplanes,
reaplsnes, submarines, dread naughts,
Sattleships, torpedo boats and armor
ed motor care. This photoplay la said
by competent critics to be equal to
The Birth of a Nation.” ’ -
Will be at Palace Theater, Cordde,
la., Thursday and Friday, June 22
:nd 23. Admission 50 cents. Seats
nay be reserved by mail