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?‘v' THE POST-SEARCH LIGHT Published Every Thursdey at Bainbridge, Georgia. E. H. GRIFFIN Editor sod Proprietor Entered at the I’OBtoftlce in Bnin- bridge, (1ft., ns second class mail ninttcr under Act of i'ongreHB March 18th, 18117. Subscription Rates ONE YEAH --I1-W) SIX MONTHS... r >0c Advertising Rates Advertising rate depends on position, number of insertions and other requirements, anti will be furnished at the business office. •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