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POST-SEARCH LIGHT
Published Every Thursdey at
Bainbridge, Georgia.
E. H. GRIFFIN
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•OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TUB ( ll'V
of hajmjkidok and dkcatck
(TOO NT V.
Telephone No. 239
Several South Georgia mem bers
voted against their fellows ir
the line-up and these same fel
lows will have occasion to regret
their licking the boot of Atlanta,
playing the jade with their own
section. South Georgia voters
will bear these bullies in mind
forever and a day.
The friends of the Capitol Re*
Imoval bill are not all discourag-
j ed by any means and it is only a
! matter of time until this last few
I needed votes will be gotten and
| then some things will happen in
old Georgia that will make cer
tain interests and influences
I wake up and take notice.
The old time method of elect
ing men in (stacked conventions
will not play any more games in
this state.
The'state campaign will open
now in dead earnest and the
boys will be spell-binding all
over the state in the next three
weeks. The congressional races
are also heating the atmosphere
to a remarkable degree. Things
all along the line will take on
new life.
The return of Senator Eakee
to the Senate was welcomed by
his friends who have him
practically already elected
Treasurer. The Rockdale man
has friends and influence and
will win sure as shooting.
Jim Bowers of Thomas County
is another one of the South
Georgia boys that has made
many friends in the house and
should Thomas return him to the
house he will be a most useful
man. Here’s hoping that our
neighboring county will do the
wise tiling here.
ALAS, POOR
CHEROKEE
The Cherokee Judicial Circuit
has the chance now to rid the
state of their judicial kangaroo
this year and they certainly owe
it to the balance of the slate to
do so. The man Judge Fite,
may be a good man, as Judge
he is an eternal and crying
shame on the state. Loving
advertisement as much as movie
actress he uses his Kangaroo
legs to jump into everything
under the sun that will give him
publicity of the most disgusting
kind and bring shame and dis-.
gust to every man that loves |
the purity of the Judiciary of thej
state. From this distance,!
we the good citizens of the state j
are prayingtthat Bartow’s three-1
ringed broncho buster and wild I
snake charmer will be retired:
from the bench in Georgia and
allowed to start a street carnival j
and get the kind of publicity that!
he enjoys and the kind that will,
bring no reproach upon the,
judicairy. If the Cherokee Cir-j
Decatur county is fast becom- cu ’ t does n °t rid of this two- j
ing one ot the best known fer-a-nickle tyrant, may their
counties in the state and her own heads. ^ We are hoping that
good roads are her most valuable I they will. They are good people
advertising medium. Everybody j ar, d the only wonder is that they
over all Georgia knows ©f them! have stood for him and kept him
and we are accredited with being { on the state this long.
very progressive. That is onej w—~—o—
of the real values of such irn-l
provements.
SOLICITOR
BELL.
The announcement oi Solicitor
R. C. Bell for re-election has
given great and meaning
pleasure to the friends of that
gentleman all over the circuit
and it goes without saying that
it gave the people of Decatur
county as much pleasure as those
of any other county.
Mr. Bell is one of the able and
painstaking officials of the sec
tion that can do his duty and
retain the friendship of all people
and even those that he at times
has to be severe on. An henest
and a very conscientious official
who deserves his second teim if
any man ever did and who not
only deserves it but who will
really ana truly appreciate the
confidence of the people as few
men ever do, if they do they do
not show it like the subject of
editorial does.
The Post-Searchlight joins in
with his many friends over there
in wishing for him good health \
that he may continue to serve
his people as he has in the past.
The Legislature adjourned sine
die last night and the members
are all hurrying home to their
work and their races for re-
election. Some of the boys spent
the last days - of the session in
worry and aggarvation over
what their future might be and
whether or not the brethren had
been pleased.
The visit of William J. Harris
to Atlanta was attended by an
immediate call for his aid in the
gasoline situation. He very quick
ly relieved the Atlanta dealers
that had been put on the black
list by the oil companies. Show
ing the need of .the Federal
Trades Commission. A mere
popular citizen that Mr. Harris
does not live in the state.
For sale 125
about 3 m iie S
Facevi lle-i n Ec
munity-65
^ ati ?. n ~~ six «x>
dwelling, nice 8t
3 room tenant i
all built last wint,
good school and,
Improvements
price.
Good soil-
acresl
The Reunion —Georgia Divis
ion. U. LC, V. will be held at
Americus, Ga. August 24-25th,
1916. Low rates have been
authorized by all Railroads. See
advertisement in thisissue.
J.B.L
*2 ofiii’e Hamit Boflj
2% 'BambrUlge,
See our line o£ s
Brady atthej. M.
The friends of of Representa
tive John Knight of Berrien ex-
tened their sympathy to him last
Saturday morning over the un
fortunate accident when his son
ran over a lady in the driving
rain storm and from which ac
cident the lady died. John Knight
is a man that has a number of
friends all over the state who
THEY DONT KNOW.
The wofu! ignorance of the
people of North Georgia as to
South Georgia is one of the most;
appalling things of the day sind
time. A Decatur citizen spend
ing a while in Atlanta this past
month was asked more foolish
questions about the section of
the state from which he hailed
than a 1(1 year old girl can ask at
a baseball game. The average
Candidate Joe Pottle whooped
them up in Atlanta the other
night. Went right intocandidate
Dorsey’s stronghold to beard him
as it were. Here is where there
is going to be something doing
in a short while.
The recent invasion of Decatur
by the politicians has put the en
tire business on the jump und
things will be picking up in a
few days. The more the merrier
and the boys need the money
that are engaged in the news
paper business.
Bill Makes, candidate for State
Treasurer seems to be hot on the
trail of the old man that should
bear the title of “Georgia
Barnacle’’ from the way he sticks
on that cob. Something like 30
years w an awful long suck at
the tit and a big feed from the
trough.
The race for Speaker is deve
loping already and it seems that
South Georgia is going to get
that lum this time with Turner
of Brooks making a strong bid for
the honor and with a good line
up behind him it may be possible
that the Speaker will really be
elected from south Georgia.
Georgia needs a state Auditor
worse than any state in the
Union and it is each year turned
down with the cry that no more
offices ought to be created and
the same men that raise this cry
will aid in making more offices
each year. There is a negro in
the woodpile somewhere.
The towns and cities of the
state that are not awake to the
value of good roads are being
left off the itineraries of the
prospectors that are corning
through the state this fall and
we learn that there will be
many.
I^rother Joe Pottle seems to
have gathered to himself some
considerable attention by his
shying his castor into the forensic
field and daring the other boys
to take it up. Joe shot a good
V* liti.-rd U.’t rbH “'ihar” for the
folks do love a man wifh ki Jne\ s.
ill learn of the accident with North Georgia citizen dont know,
that tobacco is raised in his own j
deep regret.
The test vote on the capitol
removal indicated that South
Georgia has a majority vote in
the house but a two-thirds
majority is hard to get. If they
will lay down all differences and
get together they can now con
trol thing-s in the state and in
making appropriations beat down
the excessive ones.
The effort to make the theft 0}
automobile felony was not suc
cessful at this session. A man
that will steal one is a mighty
bad man but ought a man go to
the penitentiary for stealing a
Ford when they are getting
cheaper every year and it wont
be long before the convicts them
selves can almost own one.
The Felder incident seemed to
have only caused newspaper
comment. His conduct has been
such that be he right or wrong
he has received no sympathy at
all in hour of affliction. This
paper loathes the man, was sorry
to see him out, if he really was
cut. It is to be hoped that he
gets well and lives to play his
profession in another state.
The legislature has adjourned
and as much as they have been
ridiculed by the daily papers that • ■
state and the full meaning of the
great tobacco industry of Decatur
and Grady counties has never
impressed them because of the
lack of knowledge of getting out
of Atlanta. A leading Atlanta
citizen on being told that thirty
thousand people were interested
in the tobacco industry in those
two counties and the joining
counties in Florida ot Gadsden
and Leon was astonished and
frankly said that he had no idea
that tobacco was grown in the
state at all. This man is one of
the supposedly leading men of
the state, one often quoted on
state matters and his ignorance
of the magnitude of his own
state was ridiculous. He has
been held up to South Georgia
folks as a great developer, a
great leader on commercialism
and how in the name of common
sense a man oan be set up as a
leader that does not even know
what is in his state or anything
about the Georgaphy of it.
The lack of knowledge is
partially due to the fact that the
industry has not been exploited
at all. Some movement among the
tobacco men to advertise this
industry would have a great
tendency to create a market for
the commodity. The Post-Search
light is ready and willing to aid
the Tobacco Packers and Growers'
some organised method of
WILL TRADE.
Will trade forty acres of pood
better feilow'than Bob*Le" Seuer , Dine ,umb f !and - e Jf n
4 . , • ., , ,, Swap, for a good automobile,
does not live m the grand oi l A . T. McLaughlin, Route R.
state of Georgia. < I. B. 53, Marianna. Fla.,
they fail to be bossed by the wCwill begin this movement. !
Atlanta papers or a proposition
they are immediately charged t-, , , '
with being an idle body but The looming up ot Turner of!
when they happen to please the' 15 ™? 9 for f ^ aker doe-j
,, is the best
they ever saw. Bosh. j mos , any other feature. The 1
Among the leading figures of \ e T^\
the present House ot Represent- method tp push forvvard another
auves was Speaker Pro Tern' every opportunity given '
Robert Lebeuer ot Crawford ! hjm to shine but he seems t0
county. One of the most popular have faUen down on his iob and
fellows that ever was in the ' the Brooks county man guthered
house and a man that well de- ikl t st h jn the iatter
serves all that his county will, day6 of the ^ion.
give him. Ever alive to the in-i
terest of hi? county and his j
people he at the same time look-:
ed well into general matters. A
It tests iore How
To Furnish fransportatioi
Than Ever
The same business laws apply to Railroads as to all other concerns an
with State and Federal jurisdiction over them, their every operation is ope
to the public.
It is no secret how their costs have and are increasing, while the pric
to be charged for their manufactured product — transportation —'remai
tixed by law.
General business organizations meet increased expenses from year t
year and day to day by increasing prices and by economies not permitte
to Railroads.
The Railroads of Georgia are hauling freight today at rates less
those fixed in 18c3o.
In what way are the Railroads different from other business enterprisi
that they can live without increasing their prices when expenses are con
tinually increasing?
To the average individual, the Railroad is an engine and passenge:
coaches, or freight cars.
Below is the precentage of increased costs of these items which th
Railroads have had to bear between 1907 and 1916:
LOCOMOTIVES 45%
PASSENGER, MAIL AND EXPRESS CARS 93%
FREIGHT CAR EQUIPMENT 33%
Average percentage increase in cost of all
equipment 62%
In previous statements the average per cent of increase In price of twenty-
live necessary articles in daily use by the Railroads o£ Georgia, from anglo „
bars to waste cotton, has been shown to bo 77.71/0
(The percentage of Increase in wages paid for lator bus been 142. %
The percentage of increase In taxes paid by the Railroads of Goorg:a in „
Georgia alone (for 1U1 5 over 1901) has been Ho. A.
AND YET, THE FREIGHT RATES TODAY ARE
LOWER THAN THEY WERE IN 1SOO.
Nothwithstanding such increased costs public improvements must go
on. Of the sixty-four railroads operating in Georgia, nine, namely, the
Atlanta & West Point
Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic
Atlantic Coast Line
Central of Georgia
Georgia Railroad
Georgia Southern & Florida
Seaboard Air Line
Southern, and Western & Atlantic,
for the eight years ending June 30, 1915, spent for per
manent improvements in (he State of Georgia, not in
cluding any expenses of operation or maintenance, or —
rolling stork whatever, the sum of $22,304,773.00
For additional right-of-way and land for stations alone, ci c CIO 9R
there Was paid to the people of Georgia the total sum of biO,OJtf.Z.o
For station buildings, the sum of 1,891,475.79
For none of these items is there any increased revenue received by th?
carriers. Nor are any of these expenditures made from earnings, but M
solely investments which have been provided for by additional capital.
THE PROMISE OF THE RAILROADS
“IF Ollt PFTiTlON ll> BK HKAHI) BY THK ttAIldtOAl) COMMi*-
Mt>\ or OKOiiiilA, iili.'l \\t\(i At tU ST 17, tote, IS GKANTF.il. WF
Vi'll.i, NOT prill.iSH KFV1SFH KATKs BKTVVEKN POINTS IX GHOli-
GtA PKIOit TO THK IWKI.IPATION OK ItEVTSKD RATIOS FROM IX-
- T10USTATK ITU NTS, SITH AS CHATTANOOGA, TKNN'.t R1KMING-
v HAM. ANNISTON, GADSPF.V AM) MONTOOMKRV. AKA.. TO POINT-
IN THIS STATE, A Mi IX AOPOKI'ANCF, WITH OUR ANNOFNCKH POl.-
IQV, Wil.l, NOT MAINTAIN RATIOS FROM 1KTKKSTATK POINTS
r TO OKOKGIA fOWKK THAN RATKS PROPOSKP HKTWIOFN POINTS
IN THIS STATU FOR THU SAMTC HLRVICE." ,
THE RAILROADS OF GEORGIA