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WEEKLY TIMES-ENT*BPRISE JULY 20, 180?.
•' yyui'y fpigLH'lUttnnTIlB i almost (our hundred thousand dol-
BOUTH GEORGIA PROGRESS. 11*™ “or® than the toU1 valuation ln
1 Published every Friday hr the »»»*• gjjj »“ b <*>” tie «» rt,Uoa
TDIES-ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING
, COMPANY.
At the Tlmes-Enterprtse Buftdtfif
Tbomatrllle, Oa.
WDaoa M. Hardy. President.
John D. McCartney, See. and Trees.
Bob*. H. Timmons, Haaager.
1 ot the county and which was the pre
vious high water mark of values.
Such a showing Is something tre
mendously Important. It tells such
a tale of progress as any community
Ihay well be proud of. It speaks
volumes for the progress and proa-
Sntared at the poet office at Thomas-
vllle, Ga., as second class mall
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
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Weekly, 81x Months 8.50
Weekly, Three Monthe 8.16
Dally, One Year 6.88
Dally, Six Months.. 2.68
n *'Jy, Three Mentha 1.26
*- One Month 8.68
RODDENBERY FOR -CONGRESS-
To The People of The 2nd Congress
ional district:
This announces to you that I am a
candidate for congress. -
I shall go direct to the people of
this district ln support of the moral
and pollltcal principles for which 1
have heretofore actively and openly
stood ln Georgia. As they bare
perlty of the people, their honesty, j been endorsed by the masses of this
and the diligence and efficiency of I state and are being enacted Into law
their officials entrusted In tax mat- i by the law making powers ln Georgia
t rs. so i believe, they should be fearlessly
Figures do not He. Tax figures | supported nnd advocated until they
IAL PAPER OP TMOP
COUNTY.
ANTEED CIRCULATION 2,888
- Thomasvilte’s big picnic Jay will
ba batter than a county fair.
Good cotton and good roads help
to ikake Thomas a good county.
The legislature ahould not forget
to be liberal to the University of
Georgia.
We are oppoaed to filibustering. If
it were done It were well were It
done quickly.
do not even exaggerate. The mar
velous development of the county
during the past two yearB Is but a
forecast of that greater and larger
development which Is coming and
coming soon.
Wonder If Representative Rogers
of McIntosh, tbe negro member, prill
vote for disfranchisement?
This move to make the secret or
ders give bonds may . be a shrewd
stab at the “nights off” ot henpecked
hubbies. •>
The Dawson News says everybody
but Andy Roddenbery believes Judge
6rtgga will win. The News Is quite
optimistic now.
Tom Wntson Is afraid the railroad
reform, legislation will peter out with
the appointment of two more salary
pullers on the railroad commission
When the good old 'towns of
Aough and Meigs come to the front
this fall with a Chamber of Com
merce and a football team apiece, all
all the other cities ot tho state may
have to, alt up and take notlco.—Sa
vannah Press.
m
«* The Bishop ot Selklrx, Scotland,
vtnted recently that during his so
journ In the Arctic regions, hundreds
of miles away from doctors and nurs-
• es, people had come to him to have
fingers taken off and teeth extract
ed. One woman came 1,500 mile*,
to have a tooth taken out. He prac
ticed on his wife and (he practiced
on him. Once, when ho lived among
the Esquimaux In a snow-house, he
became suddenly 111 with pleurisy,
and thereupon mixed mustard and
snow with splendid effect, nnd made
himself well again. His predeces
sor as Bishop amputated a man's leg
with a common saw and butcher's
v ^'- o -.
The Mscon platform recommended
and a bill baa been Introduced for
giving every county with mvro than
"O.uOO population a atato senator.
This would be very nice, especially
•for the people who want to ba sen
ators, but with the decreased Income
ithei» la a kuestlon whether the
gttsde -can afford the'additional ex
pense'. had rather see fewer
senators thin to have the funds for
..-ducatloa and pensions cut down.
The question ot economy should also
be considered In the making ot the
new judicial circuits.
' A MILLION" INCREASE.
Thomas county comes to the front
with the biggest Increase yet report
ed among Georgia’s county tax re
turn. The property valuation hat
increased -almost one million dol
lar*. This Is a nplendld showing
Tkl, puts the county back to the
-a**, u bald before a >® r ** »° rtlon
-eras cut off Into Grady connty. In
tact Thomas connty now haa n total
,- ;.rty v»l«t*>* of more than *U
.uid a half million dollars. This Is
HAPPY LAND.
Some glodmy philosophers have
maintained that we were put on this
earth not to be happy but to do our
work. There are many who bolievo
that the chief aim of Individual ex
istence Is Individual happiness. Per
haps tbe best view the medium
between the two, happiness In work.
It Is really n duty for each of us
to be as bappy as we can, and to
make others happy. The question
as to tbe bow of this can scarcely be
answered by any Iron clad rule. X’ae
old recipe ot being good to be happy
sometimes falls fer til of us know
that some of tbo very good are like
wise the very long-faced. Then too
the being good with a hope of re
ward falls often to secure either the
reward or credit. On the other
hand seme people who havo the rep-
uthMra of being wl;l:cd seem thor-
ov.galy and entirely happy.
Its another ono of tbe big ques
tions that has a thousand answer.,
but a part of every one would seem
to L-e that It lies within the compass
of our own powers to make ourselves
happy or miserable.
"If solid happiness we prize,
Within our breast this jewel lies.
And they are fools who roam:
Tho world hath nothing to be
stow—
From our own selves our bliss
must flow,
And thnt dear hut, our home.”
TIMES HAVE CHANGED.
The discussion of the If all anti-pass
measure Is npt to bo ono of the In
teresting things In tho houso of Re
presentatives as soon as the prohi
bition ldc a that now dominates the
legislature dies away.
A fow years ago tho man who
would have rated Joo Hall os a con
servative would havo been given the
horse hoot by the public accustomed
to look upon him ns rabid. But
times have changed flnco Hoke
Slmtb fired tho sedge-field.
Mr. Hnll's bill prevents tho Issu
ing of passes to any public official.
It has failed of passage tlmo otter
time, and Is npt to fail tills time. In
the past It was because It was consid
ered to rndical. The solons wanted
Ing on to tho covonted bits of
pasteboard that enabled thorn to
spend Sunday at homo with tbo kids,
or take a dip In tho ocean or cool
tbelr weighty browa In tho inoun-
talns.or Bit ln tho poker game at the
springs. Now It ts considered as en
tirely too conservative by a large el
ement. The Atlanta Journal ts
clamoring for moro atrlngent and
drastic measures, nnd thus tho merry
round goes on.
Ono bill Insists that no person
except direct railroad employes
shall receive a pass aud even Inter
feres with the Interchange of cour
tesies between roods. So tar as we
aro concerned wo travel mighty little
and are able to pay our way, so It
makes no difference to us whether or
not they snatch from our wallet the
pass “good only tn Georgia." But
oa the principal ot the matter n
newspaper has a perfect right to
barter Its space for transportation.
They can do It. and do do It every
day without Its effecting their odl
torts! policy In tho feast, fer there
are some railroad phobltta ln the
editorial fraternity.
The Halt bill ta really the most
sensible of the several proposed, hut
time alone can tell what the out
come will be.
are endorsed by the country and writ
ten upon the statutes of the nation.
Substantially the same evils which
have afflicted our state no less, but
even more, afflict the nation,
reasonable times, I shall with vigor
and without compromise, go to the
people upon these principles for their
endorsement and support.
S. A. RODDENBERY.
Judge Roddenbory's position upon
public questions Is perhaps better,
known than, that ot any other man in
the district.
He has for years been the fore
most leader of the crusade against
the liquor traffic ln Georgia. In fact
he has given much of his time, with
out charge or expense, to this work
when It was not as popular as It Is
today: he has vigorously opposed the
drift of indiscriminate immigration,
maintaining that it made more diffi
cult an expression at the ballot box
of the pure American ideas of gov
ernment, and that It was a danger to
the best Interests of the masses of
the people of Georgia.
BAD FOR THE WAGE EARNERS.
Judge Gross cup Says Municipal Own
ership Would Lower Wages.
Government control and operation
would also bo found. I think, to have
a disadvantageous effect upon tbe spe
cial Interest ot the In boring man. La
bor sometimes gets less than tbe en
terprise employing can afford to pay.
but labor uerer gets more, at least for
any length of time, than tbe enterprise
can afford to pay. 'lowered efficiency
therefore means lowered wages. And
public ownership always has been and
always will be on this account attend
ed by lower wages. Tbe men who are
motormen on tbe municipal street rail-
ways of Glasgow, for Instance, get a
little less than 13 cents an hour: the
motormen of Chicago get from 21 to
24 cents an hour. Thu locomotive en
gineer of a German government rail
road gets 150 per month; the American
locomotive engineer makes easily three
times that much. And through the
whole schedule of wages paid by pub
lic and by private enterprises the same
difference runs.
But there is still another side to this
objection, what may bo called Its per
sonal aide, the effect of public owner
ship on organized labor. Much ns la
bor organizations hare been abused
bare and there by opposing Interests
and much as here end there labor or
ganizations have abused their privi
leges. It la ln labor organizations that
the laboring man finds and will con
tinue to find the source of bettered
conditions.
Asking for higher wages the one
man ta unheard. But tbe many speak
ing ss one make themselves beard. So
that the lalyr organization la the la
borers’ industrial protector.
But the many speaking as one most
have some one to whom to speslc. some
concrete party with whom to deaL
Under government ownership that pan
ty would be the whole public. Let not
the ready sympathy of tbe people for
allevlatlre measures such as factory
legislation snd the llko be given too
wldo ('significance, for even there
tbe task was long snd bard, nor the
readiness of the public to side ln at
times of labor strikes with the em
ployees. In those situations the pub-
It Is needless to recount that he i ** on outside party, not the other
party. Until ln some public controlled
enterprise there Is a demand by the
employee for higher wages or changed
conditions, some demand thnt will di
rectly cost tbe public something In dol
lars nnd cents, tbe tailoring man Is
without proof that the public can he
more easily reached than private en-
was one of the most eloquent advo
cates of the candidacy of Hoke Smith
for Governor and during that nota
ble campaign spoke In the counties
throughout South Georgia, begin
ning ln Brooks county, where he I terprlse.
made the first speech that was deliv
ered In Southern Georgia for Hoke
STSxlth, except by the Governor hlm-
•elf, and ending his brilliant aeries
of speoches by tho daring political
lent of engaging Congressman Griggs
Something In this line, however, we
already know. Government servants,
from the highest to the lowest are the
poorest paid people tn America. Put
man top man, against corresponding
grades ln private enterprise, the presi
dent of the Suited Statue against tbe
presidents' of the great corporations,
cabinet officers against the managers
ln joint debate, tho day before the j of corporation departments, postal
primary, at Dawson, tho Congress- cJeAs on the railways Wlnst express
clerks, laborers nralnst laborers, the
man’s home town, which event Is
now famous ln the -annals ot Geor
gia political debates. Terrell coun
ty swung Into tho Smith column on
election day.
Judgo Roddenbery has never hes
itated to take an advanced and pos
itive position on the questions ot
public concern. He Is a native of
Decatur county, reared ln Thomas
county and hls public and private
life entitle him to that universal re
spect aod esteem In which he Is held
by the people of Southern Georgia.
Judgo Roddenbery 'taught school
In Thomas county and rend law after
ho was married and had two children
and has steadily by merit fought hls
way to tho front.
At the nge ot 21 he represented
Thomas county ln the legislature,
hns since occupied the position ot
Judgo of the County Court and was
twice elected to the offico of Mayor
of Thomasvllle.
He was for years chairman of the
board of Education of Thomas coun
ty and active ln educational work.
Judge Roddcnbery’s public ser
vices have made him one of the best
known men in this section of Geor
gia; and those who don’t know him
now will know him before the cam
palgn Is over This paper has not al
ways agreed with the political views
advocated by Judge Rodden-
ber.v, but has nlways found him a
fair and open opponent, who fights
for hls convictions nnd who lets the
people know where he stands.
No straddler, no dodger, no trim
mer we predict that the people of the
second district will see him wage a
fearless campaign which will be
memorable ln the history of Georgl*
politics.
clerks, laborers against laborers, tbe
advantage ln every case Is with the
employee of the private enterprise. I
And this wo know, too—that though j
the matter haa often been urged, tbe .
people at large will not listen to any |
proftosltlon for Increase of pay tn the j
government service. Given then a '
private employer or the public as em
ployer with whom to deal, the one a
thousand times moro accetialblo and In
finitely prompter to reach results than
the other, to my mind nothing Is clear
er than that employment by the pubUe
would be followed by a severe Impair
ment of the Influence and efficiency of
the labor organisation and of the good
It has done for Us membership.—Hon.
Feter S. Grosecup ln American Msgs-
Elsetrlo Lighting Plants Short Lived.
During the past yetr the technical
press has recorded the breaking down
of a large number of municipal elec
tric light plants because the equipment
was worn out It is latercetlng to note
that In a large majority of cases tbe
necessity for abandoning or renewing
the plant came at a period of from ten
to fifteen years after It had been In
stalled. showing that the deteriora
tion by woar alone amounted to from
T to 10 per eent a year.
According to the municipal owner
ship advocates who claim that an al
lowance of 3 per cent for depreciation
la adequate, these plants should all
have lived for thirty years, yet wear-,
Ing, out Is only one of the forms of
depreciation, and most of those plants
had been hopelessly out of data before
their breakdown occurred.
Other cities may well take warning
from the experience of these and make
an allowance for maintenance and de
preciation far tn excess of the eatt-
matee of Interested partlca If they
would avoid the thankless task of pay
ing for broken down plants ont of the
tax levy.
Council Bluffs Rejects M. 0.
The city council has turned down the
municipal ownership proposition In
connection with the dty waterworks
plant and votAd to grant a new fran
chise to the water company, whose
franchise expired some months ego.
The action was taken after a monster
petition, signed by almost er®*7 busi
ness man ln the city, had been pre
sented to the council asking that the
municipal proposition be killed Mo-
uldpal Journal and Engineer.
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Mr. A. J. Shaw of Mllltown was
In the city Sunday.
Whit Socialism Would Do.
Tho substitution of socialism, sttber
absolutely or ta a modified form, would
be to strike down tbs beat political
system which haa been thos far de
vised by the genius or vrtt of man, and
It would undermine the last hope of
the loren of republican goesismaot
tn this world.—Vlre PrrehWot Mr
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