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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 ' : f e t -i . . ; •' i ' :H i f 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.