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BAINBRIDGE. GA.
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Tl IF. AMFIIK AN PRESS ASSOCIATION
Maybe the legislature will live to
meet again, but when they do, they
will have learned something of the
ingratitude of the people.
o
Every citizen of the United States
anould make a careful study of exist
ing conditions in this country and the
governmental methods of dealing with
them. The greater the knowledge
and interest displayed by private citi
zens, the more carefully will public
officials watch their steps.
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Every man is ready to hop on the
tax business. We would like to see
some man handle the tax matters of
the state us well as Henry Fullbright.
He has the hardest job in the state
and the most thankless. He is the
only man that can fill the job. The
state has no better.
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Smc guy has figured out now that
Solomon’s Temple cost four billions
of dollars. Marion Jackson must
have done that figuring, ns it. sounds
very much like some of his water
power figuring of profits. A little
figuring can he made to look many
different ways.
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Jim Key says that Georgia does not
want Tech to let Atlanta have it.
Some blow hard, Jeems seems to be.
It seems that the best thing he can
do now is to give the poor taxpayers
of Atlanta some relief and not be beg
ging every year from the powers that
bo rights to tax more ami more out
of the folks. He would do well to
make Atlanta’s institutions self .sus
taining before Inking on other things
that they can’t handle. Of course,
all know that Jim's stution in life
rests on bombast, bull and bluff.
Such as this the record shows.
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The Wesleyan Christian Advocate,
is jumping on the Ku Klux Klan. The
one thing that makes us think well
of this Klan, is the fact that Ashby
Jones is against it. Ashby as per
the Search Light, invited a lot of swell
ladies out to a reception last week,
and when they got there they found
quite a number of colored women in
vited to sing solos and otherwise par
take of the pleasures of the evening.
“Shore" would like to have seen Ash
by sitting between brown and a high
yellow, along about eating time.
What a boost for the inter-raciai com
mittee. It must he so too, as the edi
tor of the Seach Light is still living.
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YOUR FOREIGN INVESTMENT
News dispatches from Washington,
recently informed us that there was
an "understanding” under the Wilson
administration whereby the payment
of interest on the ten billions of dol
lars owed to us by certain foreign
governments was to be deferred for
something like twenty-five years.
Indications now are that the present
administration will adhere to this "un
derstanding."
There are something over a hundred
million people in the United States.
Ten Billions of dollars, with interest
now due and unoaid, means one hun
dred dollars, pro rata, for every man,
woman and child in this country.
That represents your forced loan
to foreign governments.
Apparently you are not to expect
any interest on this loan for twenty-
ftve years or more.
You should not be surprised if you
rover see the interest or the princi-
pal.
Vow do you like it?
Or do you like it?
The tax collector will be around as
usual
ONE SHINING VIRTUE
Much criticism has been offered on
the legislature, just winding up, and
while some of it may just be criti
cism, there has nqt been a single
ertic that has found trie one shining
virtue in the house, just adjourned. It
is a set of men that are free from
corporation bating and seen the wis
dom of a policy of fair dealing to
wards these business interests.
The demagogue that rides to notice
of trying to fan prejudice and unfair
criticisms of the business interest
found very cold ^rea'.ment at the
hands of this House. The very at
mosphere of the Assembly was one
fo fairness. You could sense it in
the lobby and the hall. They may
not have set the world on fire with
their actions, but they were good men,
and men anxious to do the right and
help the state and anytime they fell
*hort of doing this, it was because
of the failure of their leaders to point
the way correctly. No man with a
prejudice or a graft could impose on
this House. They know and fully
realize that the legislative atmosphere
for the past ten years has been inimi
cal to business interests and discour
aging to outside capital seeking to en
ter the state. Georgia, at least, owes
something to this set of men. Many
dollars will come into the state to .
develop its resources because of this
fairness and disposition to show them
justice. It is-easy for any man to
stand on the curb stone and work up
harmful prejudice to just business de
velopment, and an Herculean task for
any set of men to stop this harm
ful prejudice, when once started by
the careless and non tax paying citi
zen, Georgia owes much to this leg
islature, and while they did not find
gobs of money to spend, their conduct
and air will bring many investing dol
lar into the state that will bear their
portion of taxes, and as well develop
the resources of every section. If
they lacked any thing at all, it was
leadership, certainly not intent to deal
fair with every interest and fair
enough to invite development. Any
man that has been familiar with the
past six houses can appreciate the
tenor of this editorial. Formerly all
you had to do was to yell Railroad,
Nigger and Liquor, and you could
put over any steal that you wanted
to and lots of it was done under the
guise of dencency. At no time has
been the influence of the lobbyist or
the buzzard at so low an ebb, and the
hate singer was just not considered
at all. Marion Jackson, Jim Key. and
others sang their song of hate in
several different keys, but not a note
reached the spot. This is one of the
most encouraging signs about this
legislature that has been found. They
wanted to, and did as far they knew
how, to treat every man, corporation
or business interest with absolute
fairnoss. In the tax bills they may
hnvc put too much burden on some
particular business, but that was
merely the opinion ns to whether that
business was a necessity or a luxury.
At any rntc the business interests of
the state are in safe hands with this
General Assembly, AND FOR THAT
reason all enn feel safe. They will
with another years experience find
more ways to say to the outside man.
“come on, your dollnr is safe ns any
citizen’s dollar in Georgia.” Georgia
at least owes them that. Business
is thankful that they are in office, and
that their minds are open and un
prejudiced.
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WITH MAN’S APPROVAL
All honor to the Mayor of* Boston,
the birthplace of culture and the home
of beans.
His Honor has approved the wear
ing of knickerbockers in daily life, by
the women of his city, and there is
not a gasp. He sees in this innova
tion greater freedom of movement, in
creased health, and a degree of femi
nine modesty, superior to that of the
present mode of dre-s,
And possibly he is right.
Women arc always hampered in
their movements by trailing or cling
ing skirts, and especially is this so
by those who earn their daily bread.
Skirts are hot in summer and unsani
tary at all times. They are a nuis
ance and an ever increasing source
of expense. There is no reason why
they should not be side-tracked in
favor of garments that are more sane,
sensible and economical in every way.
When knickerbockers make their
appearance they will be erticized, but
if the throwing of stones is restricted
to those who are themselves without
fault, there will be but few of them
thrown.
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Huh, dont’ want any tax on the
rich man’s Grand Opera, but don't
hesitate to knock the devil out of the
poor man's picture show Any fool
knows that pictures art 1 far more ed
ucating to the general masse* than
Grand Opera, AND the man ha* to
bo educated BEFORE HE HEARS
GRAND OPERA to appreciate it.
What is more educating than the Paa-
aiou Play in moving picture*?
VERY MUCH AWAKE
There may have been a time wher.
the residents of a small country town
or a farming district took little or no
intere.-t in affairs outside of their own I
local community, other than to vote
their straight party tickets at elec
tion time.
But that time is not now. It has
not been for many years.
The man behind the counter or the
plow is just as vitally interested ir.
state and national affairs as i? his
cousin in the great city.
The foreign news is just as care
fully scanned from day to day, and
the field of research and invention is
religiously scrutinized.
There is little that transpires in
the world of affairs that is not known
and understood by the man in his
rural home, for it is through his con
stant search for advanced knowledge
of a practical nature that he is en
abled to keep pace with the swiftly
moving tides of life.
If a just comparison could be made
it is probable that, man for man, the
person in the country town or on the
farm would be found to be better pos
ted on the acairs of the world in gen
eral than the average dweller of any
of the great cities.
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COMPLAISANT AMERICA
It is not to be expected that the
recent indictment of the governor and
lieutenant governor of Illinois, for al
leged illegal acts, while acting as state
treasurer should escape widespread
discussion throughout the United
States.
Time and a jury will determine
their guilt or innocense, but their in
dictment serves to bring forciby to
the public mind the fact that we
Americans are entirely too complais
ant for our individual and collective
good.
The averare voter has too little to
say in the selection of candidates who
arc to make the race for public office.
Our self-appointed political leaders
very considerately do the selecting for
us by secretly choking off those who
are not acceptable to them, while the
rest of us perform our “sacred duty
as sovereign citizens" by tpddling up
to the polls and voting for them like
good little fellows.
It is seldom that we ever dawn into
n candidate’s past to determine wheth
er or not he is a suitable man for an
office of public trust.
It is equally seldom that a poli
tician’s past is resurrected to plague
him unless a rival politician goes gun
ning for him, as it is charged was
done in Illinois.
It is often the case that rival can
didates for an office are both tarred
with the same brush, and neither
cares to scratch beneath the surface
for fear of being forced to swallow a
dose of his own medicine.
What we need in this country is
more independence and assertiveness
on the part of the plain voters. We
will always have political leaders, be
cause we can not well get along with
out them, but they should be taught
to select men of character and ability
for public office or expect them to
he defeated for the nomination or at
the polls. They should be taught to
understand that we want men who
will labor for the collective good of
all of the people, and not be swayed
by the wishes ofl the bosses who
place them in office.
But these are things difficult of ac
complishment until the plain voter re
moves the political halter from his
neck and stands forth a free and in
dependent man, voicing and voting his
own convictions and accepting dic
tation from no source, but manfully
accepting the verdict of the majority
when the votes hive been counted.
Public office is a public trust. It
should not be made an object of dis
trust
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The Atlanta papers and Jim Key
have been trying to, it seems to run
out of that city, all the men at the
heads of businesses that have devel
oped the town and the resources of the
section. We wish that they could
run some of them down into this
section, where they would be wel-
! corned, treated fair, and their every
effort to develop, sympathized with
and with encouragement. We need
them, and would like to get them.
Just think what it would have meant'
to this section, if we could have got
ten a man like H. M. Atkinson, the
head of the Georgia Railway and
Power Company, that Key and co
horts seem to despise into this sec
tion with his financial connections,
business foresight and developing ten-
der.ces. It look' like a darn shame
that men like this get into sections
that don’t apprecaite them and don’t
try to help them along with their de
veloping projects, that can only be
for the good of all, A man like that
can’t make a dollar without hundreds
of others getting some of it too. Some
day maybe, our politician* will wake
up to this fact. BUT IN AtlunU’a
case, it aeems hopeless until Key l»
unhoned.
TAX LEVY, AND LOCAL TAX
DISTRICTS
Whereas, the Board of County Com
missioners of Decatur County are in
receipt of the following certificate
and recommendation signed by the
Hon. Rowland Bower, County Super
intendent of Schools: “The Board of
Trustees of the local tax district of
Decatur county, having certified to me
the rate of taxation desired by them
to be levied for the year 1921, I here
by transmit the same to your Honor
able Board and recommend that the
tax be levied in each district at the
rate set opposite each district in the
following table:”
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X s H "o ot
S g j£j 1 5 Ss
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Alliance 2 0 2
Attapulgus 5 P 6
Bell-Dixon 5 0 5
Black Jack 5 0 5
Brinson, consol 2 0 2
Climax 5 5 10
Faceville, consol 5 0 '5
Fowlstown, consol 5 5 10
Harmony 3 0 3
Littlefield 5 0 5
Maxwell 2% 0 214
Mount Carmel 4 0 4
Mount Pleasant 5 0 5
Recovery 10 1
Parker 101
Pine Hill, consol 5 0 5
Pine Grove 5 0 5
Sylvania 3 0 3
West Bainbridge 2V4 0 214
Swicord 5 0 5
Wherefore, it is ordered by the
Board of County Commissioners for
Decatur County, in j'egular meeting,
nt the time when the tax for Coun
ty purposes was levied for 1921, that
the taxes for school purposes in each
of the foregoing local tax school dis
tricts be levied and fixed on all of
the property in each of said districts
at the rate of taxation set opposite
each district, and that the Tax Col
lector of said County is hereby autho
rized to make out and collect taxes in
said school districts at said rate. It
is further ordered, that said \evy be
advertised in the same manner as the
levy of the County tax.
Done by order of the Board of Com
missioners of Roads and Revenues of
Decatur County, in regular meeting,
this the 2nd day of August, 1921.
W. G. HARRELL, Chairman.
Let the kiddies drink all they
want. Bottled Cherry Blossoms.
NOTICE OF ELECTION
. IT , 5? S ? LVE ?> > the h ca |
ties sold.
CITATION—Administration
Georgia, Decatur County.
Dodson’s Liver Tone
Kills Calomel Sale, n , „ ua
I Board of Trustees of the Pin e Hi,,
Don’t sicken or salivate yourself or ^ on?< ?lidated School District of th.
paralyze your sensitive liver by tak- 1 Geor^m w^fchdisWct^ locaHa’
ing calomel which is quicksilver. Your is now being levied for school a
dealer sells each bottle of pleasant, poses, that, ™’
harmless “Dodson’s Liver Tone” un-, WHEREAS, a petition signed bi
der an ironclad, money-back guaran- on ^ f° ur th of the registered qualifiJ
tee that it regulates the liver, stomach field" ith said board of trultoe; *5
and bowels better than calomel with- in? for an election for the purposed
out making you sick—15 million bot- determining whether or not bonH!
, shan be issued for the purpose ?f
j building and equipping a school hdus.
or houses, for said district in the tow
'EMI °* ^ wenty Thousand (?20,0(M|
To All Whom it May Concern: n E t’ t TREREFnRF' prom,,.
John R. Wilson, Co-Administrator, thft.„ »i u u m RES L 0I -VED,
having in proper form applied to me House ■ HUnX-t 6 ?i St tb | ^° urt
for Permanent Letters of Administra- Geore-ia on the S j , a ? *i y S n Statio ",
tion on the estate of Arice Cook, late 1^ r • °t Se P t ™bet
of said county, this is to cite ali and "LA? . of the
singular the creditors and next of kin t amount *
of Arice Cook to be and appear at my Twentv ThmunnH \ s £ m °*
office within the time allowed by law" ($20,000) Doll.,,
and show cause, if any they can, why by ^
permanent administration should not u .| ,• lct * or . purpose of
be granted to John R. Wilson on Arice L d ‘"f A ec >"'PP"?» * “*>ool hoc*
Cook estate. , f' h ,°A s f. ,n . sa,d sch ° 0 J district, sa it
Witness my hand and official signa- ,, b f:^ Pnty l 1 ’ 0 ! 111 "Mitier of
ture .this 5th day of July, 1921. °h 0l \ e , Thous w.d
T. B. MAXWELL, Ordinary. j each^and dated Jan.
CITATION—Year’s Support
Georgia, Decatur County.
To All Whom it May Concern: : after and payable on the 1st day"f
Notice is hereby given that the ap- January, each and every vear tiler,
praisers appointed to set apart and after unti i all of said bonds shall be'
assign a year’s support to Bessie R. come due and payable . said
Belcher, the widow of Ralph R. Beich- shall bear interest from date at ft
er, deceased, have filed their award, rate of 6 por cent . er annu ™
an dunless good and sufficient cause the interest on all of said bonds re
is shown, the same will be made the ma ining unpaid shall be due and pay
judgment of the Court at the August ab ] e annually on the 1st day of Janii
Thi’ T, - ’ r iSoi C ° Urt ° f 0rdlnary ' ary in each year after that date
This July 5,1921. | BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,
T. B. MAXWELL, Ordinary, . that notice of said election so now
ear* u . il h W, P aIled *? be held on said date be Riven
t^Old in toe Head by posting a copy of these resolutions
is an acute attack of Nasal Catarrh, at three public places in said district!
IS f , re , q „ uent " c0 ' d s tn the for a period of ten days previous to
head" will lind that the use of HALL'S j „ ‘ 1 ,* , “ , ~
CATARRH MEDICINE will build up the said date of election and be published
System, cleanse the Blood and render for four weeks preceeding said elec*
them less liable to colds. Repeated at- tion in the Bainbridge Post-Search-
tacks of Acute Catarrh may lead to i:_e f ,
Chronic Catarrh. light Of said county. *
HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE is I BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED
token ffitsr.nau?. and^ acts through _the that said election be held by said
Board of Trustees or a majority of
j uary 1st, 1922, one of said bonds to
I become due on the 1st day of January
j 1927, and one each of the remainder
jof said bonds shall become due there^
restoring normal conditions.
All Druggists. Circulars free.
P. J. Chenoy & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
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HOLLY CAMP NO. 28.
Woodmen «I§ world
Meets Second and Fourth
Monday Nights.
Visiting Sovereigns Always
Welcome.
H. L. HILL, Council Commander.
F. E. STRICKLAND, Clerk.
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them, or by three free holders of said
district, and the ballots used in
election be so printed that each voter
shall have the option of voting “FOR
SCHOOL HOUSE BONDS'
“AGAINST SCHOOL HOUSE
BONDS,” and that none but the regis
tered qualified voters of said school
district shall be permitted to vote in
said election, and that the ballots cast
and the voting be lodged with ami the
returns thereof made to said Board
of Trustess said Pine Hill Consolidab
j ed School District, who shall declare
’ the results.
This July 30, 1921.
T. E. RICH, Chairman.
W. N. McDONALD, Secretary.
i Your dealer has a delicious
cold bottle of Cherry Blossoms
for you. Try a bottle.
SERVING LOCAL INTERESTS
The wider the territory to be gov
erned, the less local laws can be.
It is obvious, therefore, that our
State Banking Laws can include
provisions enabling State banks to
perform more local services than
would otherwise be possible.
Going to step farther this institu
tion endeavors, to render the type
of service in best accord with the
needs and ideals of the community
to which we owe our growth.
Here your needs can be satisfied
promptly and courteously.
The Citizens Bank & Trust Company
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA
H. B. EHRLICH, President " H. L. CANS, Vice-President
MAX KWILECK1, Vice-President E. F. VICKERS, Cashier
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