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SETTLE CAPITOL LOCATION T
BY VOTE, ONCE AND FOR ALL
Even Those Opposed To Removal Are Anxious To See
The Agitation Ended In The Only Way Possible —
By A Vote Of The People.
ATLANTA, GA.—There will be
introduced in the Georgia Legis
lature a bill to bring the “Cap
itol Removal” issue to a final con
clusion by submitting the ques
tion to a vote of the people at the
next general election, as is pro
vided in an ordinance of the last
constitutional convention.
The measure has the support
both of high officials of the state
who are opposed to removal of the
capitol from Atlanta and of those
who are in favor of its removal.
The purpose of the legislation is
to bring to a definite conclusion
an issue which has been growing
over the state the past eight or
ten years—to end it one way or
the other, in the only way it can
be definitely ended.
Advocates of the measure to
submit the question to the peo
ple for their verdict say that the
support already backing the leg
islation in both branches is in
excess of the required two-thirds
vote in each branch of the as
sembly, and that the bill will be
passed and gotten out of the way
of other big legislation somewhat
before the middle of the session.
Some of the strongest men in the
state against moving the capitol
from Atlanta are backing the bill
to submit it to the people, while
some of the strongest men for its
removal to Macon are, also, seek
ing to end the issue by popular
vote.
Atlanta, Ga.—The people of the state
’of Georgia will finally settle, one way
jor the other, at the next general election,
j the capitol removal issue.
It is to be definitely determined at that
‘ time whether the capitol is to remain
in Atlanta and the necessary improve
( ments and enlargements are to be made
j here, or an adequate and fitting new
| capitol building and governor's mansion
are'to be provided in Macon, in the cen-
I ter of the state.
| The Georgia Legislature at this ses
sion will pass a bill, not as a great
many people have seemed to believe, to
| “move the capitol,” but to submit the
question to a vote of the people for their
; determination.
< A canvass of the state, county by coun
ty, has just been completed and it is
found that, generally speaking, the people
and the statesmen are of one mind on
the subject: they are in accord with
, the opinion expressed by Governor Dor
sey some months ago: That the contin
ued nnsettlement of the “capitol removal
issue” has become a bar and handicap
on the state's business in more ways
than one, and the time has come to
: “end the agitation” by putting it up to
the people to render a final verdict at the
; ballot box, and bring the to a
close.
, There are members of both houses
who will support the measure this year
ito submit the issue to a vote of the peo
ple, and who. when it is submitted, will
stand firmly in opposition to removal of
the capitol from the city of Atlanta.
‘Atnong them are some who will return
to their homes and. in the campaign be
' fore the people on the direct issue, will
acek to cnrrv their county against it.
| but they frankly occupy the position of
desiring the issue brought to its final
I end at. the earliest possible time, and
admit their conviction that there is no
j other, as well as no more proper or
..conclusive, manner of ending it.
Law Says People Must Vote
In no few localities in the state it
has been found the belief exists that the
location of the state capitol is fixed by
the state constitution. In other locali
ties _ though these have been found to
be but few there is entertained some
idea that the state legislature has the
authority to fix the location of the capi
tol, and has passed upon the question.
Neither idea is correct.
The sole authority for future deter
mination of the question of the capitol,
after the adoption of the convention or
dinance has been by a vote of the peo
ple of the state
’ In the light of these facts, gentlemen
:of both branches of the 1919-20 Legis
lature representing both factions —those
i desirous of placing the capitol in the
center of the state, and those opposed
to any change from the present location
have announced themselves in favor
and support of the provision made by the
constitutional convention last held. They
'recognize, as does the present state ad
i ministration, that the issue is one which
must be speedily brought to a conclusion,
and they stand for making the required
I legal arrangements to reach that con-
I elusion this year.
State-wide political issues ordinarily
I go directly to the people, without any
necessity for meeting legal technicality.
This issue, however, is not of the or
! dinary variety. Its final settlement can
■ come' through no other legal means than
faction on the part of the state legisla
ture submitting it to a popular vote.
■ That government founded on the con
sent of those governed is the only firm
and substantial kind.
Why the Issue Needs to Be Settled
t For ten years there has been constant
ly growing an agitation for removal of
the state capitol to a location nearer
'the center of Georgia. At the time of
i its origin it was treated lightly, and
'ten s'ears ago was probably not an is
sue of st .te-wide importance. Devel
opment in that space of time of the
Wonderful wilderness and wild-land south
ern portion of Georgia into the greatest
farming, trucking and fruit growing sec
tion of the southeast added such impe
i tus to the desire for central location
of the state government that it attained
the scope of a big and broad state issue
several years ago Four years ago rep
resen'atives of a majority of the coun
ities in the state committed thermselves.
! not to a movement to remove tVW capi
tol from Atlanta to Macon, hut to the
proposition that this issue is of such
size and importance it must be passed
i upon and determined by the voting pop
ulation of Georgia as a whole
I The magnitude which it has. or al
ready had at that time, reached manifest
ed itself several years ago in the Geor
gia Legislature when efforts were made
to make disposition of the old and di
lapidated house used since 1872 as a
‘■governor’s mansion." a piece of prop
erty acquired by the state from Mr
John H. James, of Atlanta, at a cost
in that day of SIOO,OOO worth of seven
per cent Georgia bonds. "Capitol re
moval'' prevented action then on the
1 ground that “the people must settle the
issue by vote first.”
Subsequently, or about three years ago,
I efforts were made in the Legislature to
i have the state purchase from the Jack
son estate real estate in juxtaposition to
i the present capitol property, for the
purpose of erecting an annex building
ir. order that the present building, then
overflowing, might be relieved to some
: extent of the pressure upon its increas
ing inadequacy That effort met. the
same late. “Capitol removal" prevented
1 action until the people should be allowed
to vote on the issue.
The effort to negotiate a sale of the
present mansion property and purchase
more suitable property upon which to
erect anew mansion suffered the same
experience They all have been blocked
by tfie "capitol removal issue.”
Must Have More Room
• Nearly three years ago Governor Har
■v on his own responsibility, and in or
der to make room in the state capitol
for the nw members of the state court
of appeals rented, in .e name of the
state, and at a very substantial rental
in three figures—a residence building
opposite the capitol in which to house
the state military department. The con
’7r®*lon in the capitol had to be relieved
, there was no other way to relieve
it. At the time it was said this build-
would afford ample room for the
military department and several com
mittee rooms for the Legislature. (By
the way. there is no such thing In the
present capitol as a legislative commit
tee room of any kind.) When the mili
tary establishment moved in it required,
and is now using, the entire residence
building.
More recently’, when the legislature cre
ated the state department of archives,
and the time came to classify and re
move the records of the state, it was
found the department had nowhere to
go, and there has had to be erected
i n .the lobby on the top floor of the
building a series of stalls and shelves
where these records are stored in the
open.
In the past few months the unsani
tary and congested condition of the
basement under the capitol became such
that the state health department, which
has been housed there for years, had to
move. To provide a place for them
k'°w ern °r Dorsey, on his own responsi
b-bty, rented another residence building
—the Jackson property which the Legis
lature had twice refused to buy—and
that is wholly devoted to the use of this
one department.
A portion of the state agricultural de
partment has had to be transferred from
the first floor into the basement of the
capitol building because of lack of other
accommodations and. when the state bu
reau of markets was created and offices
were required, it became necessary to
eliminate and tear out one of the toi
lets on the first floor, overhaul that space
and make of it an office for the state
director.
And still there is not One legislative
committee room in the entire building,
nor sufficient ro m for the appelate
courts, since in at least one instance a
olind flooring has had to be run in half
way down from the ceiling in one of the
rooms, in order to make it into two
rooms.
Why the Governor Says Settle It
These are the conditions at the capitol
as they stand today.
At the mansion there is an even worse
state of affairs During the adminis
tration of Governor Harris, and his oc
cupancy of the mansion, its unsanitary
and dilapidated condition caused him tc
make complaint to the Legislature, and
effort then was made to make other pro
visions. but the effort was stalled by
capitol removal” as an issue to be
settled first.
Last winter, during Governor Dorsey’s
occupancy of the mansion—he is still liv
,rß? there because the state provides no
where else for him to live—physical and
samt.sry conditions at the mansion grew
stall worse. The plastering fell from the
walls, the water pipes froze and burst;
the house was uncomfortable and wholly
unsatisfactory.
Toward the end of last year Governor
R or . se L bihdo the flat statement
that the point was reached* when "this
capitol removal issue must be settled
one way or the other.” He said, as he
has since repeated, that it has become
a handicap, and will remain so until
it is voted on by the people and gotten
out of the way; that it is standing in
the way of development, repair and ex
pansion of the state's properties to meet
the actual pressing demands.
While these are probably not his exact
words, this is the substance of his com
ment on the situation at that time, and
as it has been printed and repeated by
him since: “It is an issue that must
be brought to an end. It appears that
it will keep coming up and getting in
the way of every effort to do anything
about the mansion or an annex to the
capitol until the people have ended it
Therefore, it ought to be submitted to
‘he people as quickly as possible, and
~e y are S’ o ' o ” to move the capitol
to Macon, let’s know it and go ahead
and build adequate facilities down there
If they are not going to move it. then
let them untie our hands and let's go
ahead and do the things that are neces
sary here.”
It is not by any means to be taken for
granted. either, that the governor hasn’t
a future interest in what the people
of the state do on that score for in his
conversation on the subject, he has left
no room for mistake as to his sentiment
and intention. He is an Atlantan and
quite naturally is opposed to removal of
the capitol from Atlanta; so much so
that he has made it known when the vote
on it comes he will go to the ballot box
tnd register by his vote his desire that
it remain here—but he has been suf
ficiently broad not to side-step the is
sue; he has been big enough to say clear
ly that he wants to see it settled; set
tled now’
Here Is What Is Needeu
As an outline of wliat the future con
templates: There is to be anew man
sion somewhere in or ne r Atlanta If
the people vote that way. It will likely
be somewhere in the Druid Hills, and
wall be a building comporting with the
dignity of a governor's mansion. There
must be an annex building sufficiently
large to house the entihe department of
agriculture and its sub-branches. the
state board of health; the state military
department; the state geological depart
ment; the state department of archives
and possibly some of the other smaller
departments. To provide that property
wiH have to be bought adjoining the pres
ent capitol, on the opposite side of the
street, the buildings now thereon will
have to be wrecked and anew structure
must go up. When this is done the pres
ent capitol needs and wiil have to have
no little rubbing up and repairing
These are the necessities. They are
why the governor has taken the demo
cratic view he holds in respect to ter
mination of the issue.
On the other hand, if the people vote
to move the capitol to Macon, then pro
vision must be made down there, in a
manner satisfactory to the people of the
state, for the erection of a handsome
Georgia marble state building sufficiently
large to meet all those requirements the
present capitol doesn't meet now and for
the future, and a suitable mansion for
the governor will have to be provided
Those, however, are the things which
the two factions will have to present
to the satisfaction of the people of the
state when the question is submitted
for a popular vote. It will be then that
the comparative advantages to the state
will have to be drawn and the business
trade with the people of Georgia will
have to be made.
In middle and north Georgia there are
state officials who have been consult
ed, men familiar with the situation as
it exists and with the status of the
state's property here and the hopeless
ness of improving it until there is a
popular vote, who view the situation in
the identical light as does the governor
—that the issue must be settled and the
handicap removed, one way or the other
so that the state may move forward
Only One Lefilslative Point
Insofar as the state legislature is con
cerned. there is but one point to be cov
ered: Is there an issue involved?
The highest constituted body in stat.
government haa fixed the manner ot
disposing of such an issue, when th*
constitutional convention said by ordi
nance it must be settled by the people
if in future (after the sitting of that
convention) the location of the capito
should be brought into issue. The con
vention did not say, nor can the state leg
islature say. that the capitol must h
moved, or must stay where It is. Tht
people of Georgia are sole judges o
that. What they say at the next gen
oral election is the verdict under whiol
the state must proceed. And then im
provements and enlargements can gc
on, or anew building can be provided
The measure submitting it to th,
people is expected to pass through th
legislature before the middle of the ses
sion has been reached.
HANDSOMEST LINER IN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC'' j
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WTO METROPOLIS 5 ' 1
“HANDSOMEST LINER IN
SOUTH ATLANTIC.’’
All the Southland m 2" well take
pride in the “S. Walden” the new
9,000 ton freighter built by the
United States Shipping Board for
the South Atlantic Maritime Cor
poration and assigned by the lat
ter to the export trade between
the four South Atlantic states and
the Argentine Republic.
For not only lias the “Walden”
been pronounced by Shipping
Board experts “the handsomest
liner in the South Atlantic” hut
her distinction goes further than
that. Strange as it may seem to
those familiar with the energy and
the commercial growth of the
“new South,” the “Walden” is
the very first liner to run in the
export trade between the South
eastern states and South America.
She will ply between the ports of
Charleston, Jacksonville and
Buenos Aires.
On her trips she will fly the red,
white and blue pennant of the
South Atlantic Maritime Corpora
tion, the quasi-public shipping or
ganization formed by the five
ports of Wilmington, Charleston,
Savannah, Brunswick and Jack
sonville for the development of
trade with Latin America. Mat
thew 11 ale of Boston is president
and the vice presidents are Wil
liam H. Sprunt of Wilmington, R.
(1. Rhett of Charleston, (leorge F.
Armstrong of Savannah, F. I). M.
Straehan of Brunswick and M. F.
Coachman of Jacksonville. Other
ships an cl other routes are assign
ed to the other ports, depending
upon the harbor and freight facili
ties.
SOME OF YOUR BUSINESS.
Latest available figures, the
United States Treasury Depart
ment announces, show that an
nually more than 5,000,000 per
sons in the United States apply for
and receive free aid.
That is, it was free to them,
Other citizens paid for it, to the
tune of some $100,000,000 and
maintained institutions valued at
half a billion.
This aid was mostly temporary;
only 314,234 persons remained in
such institutions at the close of
the year. Probably a small nest
egg would have saved a vast ma
jority from what most people
dread, and the thrifty citizens of
the nation would have had their;'
tax hills materially reduced.
The citizens of Barrow County 1
should support the National
Thrift Campaign, now everywhere
manifesting itself, self interest
dictates it. The national govern
ment’s best security, Savings
Stamps, is issued in denominations
as low as $5 and bears high inter
est. There are other safe means of
investment. The distinction of the
poor, a wise man said, is their pov
erty. It also bears hard on the tax
payers, let’s abolish it. Moderate,
steady saving will do it.
Eaminq and Spending.
Earning money keeps some men
from their Spending n aey
drives some women farther away from
their husbands. The proper way is for
husband and wife to earn together and
spend together.
FORDING MARYLAND.
W. H. Faust.
Four days travel in a Ford car
can bring people to changes that
vary greatly from the scenes they
are accustomed to daily.
Our party consisting of Mrs.
Faust, Misses Mildred Thrasher,
Hilda Faust and Mrs. W. M. Ilol
senbeck, left Winder Monday,
June 23rd, and traveled thru
incessant rain over wet roads to
Concord, North Carolina., the
first day, a distance of 202 miles
thru superb southern scenery,
cotton prospects are as fine as one
generally sees this time of the
year, In North Carolina we left
the cotton industry and came to
peanuts, tobacco and grain from
there to the close of our trip part
of Pennsylvania and Maryland.
The roads were fairly good with
a few stretches of highways that
were simply awful, the stretch
from Richmond to Washington
down thru the Chopawanesic
swamp is fierce, the construction
company is concreting ti e road
now and it will he finished in a
few weeks. The second night we
spent at Bardtown, Virginia.
Surely there are enough pea-
nuts and tobacco growing as well
as wheat to supply the needs of
the w orld. The third night -we
stopped over at Occoquan, Virgin
ia., about twenty-five miles from
Washington. There Mr. A. L.
Gardner runs a hotel, such Va.,
ham and fried chicken is to he had
as will make ones mouth water
months afterward just to think of
it. Gracious hosts are this New
Yorker and his excellent wife.
The roads there become perfect
concrete and macadam all the way
to the nations capital and clear
thru as far as we went thru mary
land and Pennsylvania.
The fourth night we spent with
homefolks at Deer Park, the fam
ous summer resort, on the top of
ti e Alleghanies, being over 3,000
feet above the flat country. The
trip from Washington to Deer
Park is one that surpasses descrip
tion.
The scenery around the famous
Chevy Chase Golf Club is superb.
Every county site in Maryland is
connected with every other coun
ty site with tine macadam roads,
and tke National Highway is cou
pled up with them all. Such roads
a Georgian never dreamed of.
Glorious, superb, matchless, splen
did and every other adjective im-
aginable is needed to describe
these roads arid then they all fail,
such homes and such fields of
grain and such cattle, blooded and
fat, one sees in few other places.
We struck the mountains and
famous battlefields all along the
route from a point below Hagers
town, Maryland.
On the top of Fairview moun
tain the Potoinae river can he seen
in light distinct places, such a
mountain view is to be Had in few
other places in the south.
We came along the hanks of the
Potomac and to Cumberland and
paralleled the world famed Bal
timore and Ohio Canal over which
yet two mules pulling tandam
draw great freight boats laden
with produce of various sorts. The
old tow path brings back memor
ies to many of other days before
autoes and aeroplanes.
Above Hancock we passed thru
the Towloway Apple orchards
said to be the largest in America.
Our party never saw so many
apple trees and apples before.
Just beyond is Sideling Hill
which readies an elevation of 1633
feet; there is a sheer grade here of
760 feet in a mile and a half,
rough on brakes and nerves too.
One unconscioush feels himself
leaning to the mountain side of
the ear as he passes along.
Cumberland is a thriving city
growing rapidly, it is the center of
a great agricultural and mining
seetion.
Beyond Frost burg we crossed
over Big Savage and kittle Sav
age Mountains by a handsome
home the the mountain tops occu
pied by a lemal descendant, of
SPRINGDALE FARM
Duplex Freestone Springs
One mile of city limits of Winder; fine two-horse
farm, abundance of saw timber, cord wood. .Ml of place
not in cultivation. Wired in pasture; Hue bottoms on
dredged creek.
Spring alone worth SI,OOO.
If interested in a paying investment, see
DR. SAXON
WINDER, GEORGIA
HOUSE AND LOT
FOR SALE
I have a good 7-room house and lot I will sell at
a bargain or swap for a farm.'
It is located in best section of Winder and fronts
east.
See me at once as it will he on the market but a few
days.
JUNE H. WOOD
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
Remeber that when you bring your Ford ear to us
for mechanical attention that you get the genuine
Ford service—materials, experienced workmen and
Ford factory prices. Your Ford is too useful, too
valuable to take chances with poor mechanics, with
equally poor quality materials. Bring it to us and
save both time and money. We are authorized Ford
dealers, trusted by the Ford Motor Company to look
after the wants of Ford owners—that’s the assur
ance we offer. We are getting a few Ford cars and
first come first to receive delivery.
FLANIGAN & FLANIGAN
WINDER, GEORGIA.
Bov. Johnston of Maryland, who
nominated George Washington as
commander in Chief of tlie contin
ental Armies.
The roiid from Keyset's Ridge to
Beer Park is thru the greatest
scenery, finest farms that one sees
anywhere outside the famous
Shenandoah Valley.
Th# eoo! refreshing mountain
breezes, the fresh green grasses,
the trees covering the hills, the
fat contented cattle grazing the
pastures, the snug little towns and
villages cosily hashing in the vah
leys appeal to one accustomed to
the clean tilled cotton lowland of
the South.
The trip was made with only
one puncture, caused hy driving a
ten penny nail into a front wheel.
Kveryhody who can possibly do
so ought to take trips it is truly
wonderful.