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The Douglas Enterprise VOLUME XXXVIII, NUMBER 15 MAN! IDEAS OF GREAT VALUE TO COUNTY BEING SUGCESTED (John W. Greer) The first committees of the Chamber of Commerce began to function Mon day morning the time appointed for the committee on Spiritual Activity to take up its work of making a program for the five year plan. Spiritual Activities. There was a strong working body 'present and they discussed the ques tions that affect the morals of Coffee county directly. One of the most im portant matters was the care of un der-privileged children. It was ascer tained that there are many children in the county that are not properly cared for and quite a few girls and women who need care and assistance. A motion was finally passed request ing the secretary make application to the State Welfare department for a worker to present this work before the county commissioners with a view of putting a welfare wo. kc. in this field. In view of the fact that feo many cases of moral deficiency are closely with physical troubles, a reso lution was passed urging the next Grand Jury to finally pass the Ellis Health Law and put same into effect as soon as possible. On account of continued violations of law in certain sections of the county a resolution w r as passed, recommend ing that the sentiments of the last grand jury and of Judge Harry Reed be carried into effect—that is, to put on a county police employed to give for a time his whole effort in rooting out said violations. It was stipulated that this recommendation in no wise reflect on the existing officers of the law, but that such work required a specialist to give his whole time to it. Idea On Education. The committee on Education and the one on Health and Drainage both met on Monday afternoon and outlined a great program. Education passed a resolution for a county-wide consolida tion of schools, believing this to be not only the most feasible, and Ameri can in spirit, but in the end the most economical. The present system of small schools is not only a waste, but of little value to the average child, giving him only about eight minutes to the study when forty minutes is the standard. County-wide consolida tion will bring all the schools under one system, towns and country, giving first class equipment and teachers in every school in the county. A resolution was also passed advo cating a library in the county with a circulating feature sending the books to all the schools. Parent-Teachers associations were sponsored for every school. A recommendation was passed to be sent to the Legislature asking that the A. & M. School here be made a Junior college. Health Program. The Health committee urged that the next Grand Jury finally pass the Ellis Health law, so that mosquitoes, flies, typhoid, malaria and other in fectious diseases be reduced to the minimum. It was represented that it is much cheaper for the county to pay the cost of this system than to pay the cost of disease. It was urged also in a resolution that the septic and screened toilets be adopted all over the county in country homes as well as in schools and other public buildings where sewers are not available. The eliminaton of flies and mosqui toes and the use of screens on all houses was adopted. A public hospital was advocated for the county. It is more economical they say to cive people proper medical attention than to let them drag: around for life unable to work. And much more economical for our own people to be treated at home than to go else where. Parks and Playgrounds. The committee on Parks and Play grounds met Tuesday morning and held a very interesting session. The chairman, Mrs. L. L. Denton, of West Green, urged the importance of play and the necessity of systematic play, not only for children, but for grown ups, and she was anxious that her committee should make every effort for playgrounds during the five year period. A resolution was passed that it -was the sense of the committee that every person in the county acquire as soon as possible ample parks and (continued to last, page) 'She Enterprise ‘Pulisbhes the Legal of the City of Douglas, Coffee County and County Commissioners MR. ELIE TANNER SELLS LARGE TIMBER TRACT Lewis & Faircloth, of Willacoochee and Quitman, has purchased a large tract of timber on Seventeen Mile Creek frbm Mr. Elie Tanner, and are engaged this week in moving their saw mill to this tract of land to cut the tmber. There are several million feet of large timber in the tract, enough to last two years. Mr. Lewis will move his family from Willacoo chee to Douglas and resde here while cutting the timber. TRAFFIC SIGNALS. The city council this week put in new traffic signals at all of the street crossings on the pavement, equipped with modem light reflectors, which considerably improve the looks of these signals. Now if the city will enact an ordinance prohibiting traffiq from making U-turns at these most frequented crossings it will be an act Which will greatly reduce the danger at crossings. All drivers of automo biles or motor driven vehicles should be required to go around the block in stead of making U-turns. HERMAN BARNES IN JUSIIGEPEACE RACE Judge J. J. Rogers has tendered to Governor Walker his resignation as justice of the peace for the Douglas district effective July 7th, and Judge Rogers will hold his last court on Fri day of this week. The resignation has been accepted by the Governor and Ordinary W. P. Ward has called a special election to 'be held on August 7th to elect a successor for the unex pired term. Mr. Herman C. Barnes is a candidate for the unexpired term, and so far, is the only announced can didate. PROF. THRASH EXPRESSES HIS VIEWS TO VOTERS Due to the fact that it will be im possible for me to see all the voters of Coffee county before election day, I am taking this method of giving them a few reasons for electing me as their representative: First: I am in favor of no in crease in taxes but reduction where possible to do so. Second: I am in favor of a bank ing law that will absolutely protect the depositor. Third: I am especially interested in the farmer and the education of his children. My past record and life will well bear investigation. I have’ a family record of 97 years without a case in court. “THE SEA HAWK” COMES TO THE RIVOLI NEXT WEEK One of the greater, spectacular pic tures, “THE SEA HAWK” will be shown by manager Carroll in the Ri voli, next Monday and Tuesday, 26-27. Milton Sills and Enid Bennett heads a brilliant cast of fourteen stars, sup ported by thousands of players. A tale of fierce Barbary pirates and a glowing romance 'filled with adven tures that carry an irresistible appeal to young and old alike. It is a fiery drama of elemental loves and hates with thousands of galley slaves, cor sairs, janissaries, harem beauties and fighting pirates in a mammoth pro duction. The miracle of the movies brings an ever changing panorama of scenes from foreign lands—glowing days and witching nights on the high seas, des ert wastes and mountain fastnesses— unfolding romance, adventure, thrill, and daring deeds to set the blood atingle. Here the magic brings with realism stirring days when pirates •bold harried shores and scuttled ships on the Spanish Main as you will see in “THE SEA HAWK.” The passage of time and the process of evolution has banished for aye these customs and practices of old; we can only know them through history and see them through the silvered screen, but it reveals as faithfully as the human mind can conceive the lives of our forbears. unit Ilif (SoffFP IfUUSIJ ftflus THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE. DOUGLAS, GEORGIA. JULY 23. 1926. THE DAY THAT WAS A PERFECT FLOP I :. m % SSf ,\' • ; f x m ' P P\\ /MEU.O SWEE-T.E-fe \ ' p'-P) K4AT!iI;jLJA€\ K/ / \ \ | MAS OM G-OT UM'S V V/Z r/1 StuRBV WOOD'S ) City cousin tßietd to V make a mitvnmth a t r~y3t% jg*’ 1 - tANCY Bat Min- COSTomQ ©iu The OLD Sw/MAAI*/+4OLE £AA/G - ■ - - - - - - - 4uToC*IYCO. THE M. F. HEAD COMPANY ENLARGES STORE BLDG. » The M. F. Head Co. is preparing to enlarge its business for the coming fall season. The store room adjoining the present location has been leased, and carpenters are now at work reno vating the inside. A new large show window the entire width of the front is being put in the new store room, and a splendid display of new furni ture will soon be displayed in this new show window. The present quarters proved insufficient for the increasing business of this concern and they were •fortunate in securing this adjoining store. BANKERS TRUST GO., PROBEHAS BEGUN Atlanta, July 20.—A Fulton county grand jury today delved through the records of the Bankers Trust Com pany and examined witnesses familiar with the affairs of the company seek ing the cause of .the bankruptcy pro ceedings of company and the sub sequent closing of more than eighty small banks in Georgia. The investigation will be a long one, officials of the solicitor general’s of fice predicted, and numerous witnesses were expected to be called during the course of the grand jury’s inquisition. Judge G. H. Howard, in charging the jury, sent it to its task with the admonition that the individual mem bers devote their best efforts to seek ing out the cause for the suspension of the banks. “Time will not permit me to explain here how it is alleged the failure of the Bankers Trust Company has af fected so many banks and how it is that so many banks believed to be sol vent have closed,” Judge Howard told the jury. “How long this condition must exist I cannot say, but I feel sure that every effort shall be made by the authorities now in charge to bring as early relief as possible,” he added, “and I sin cerely hope and believe they will work untiringly and diligently to this end.” He briefly reviewed the Bankers Trust Company case since its incep tion a week ago when Florida creditors of the company instituted proceedings in Superior Court, and Judge Howard granted a petition for temporary re ceivers and issued a restraining order prohibiting officials of the company fom altering the status of the 120 banks for which it acted as fiscal agent. Later the federal district court assumed jurisdiction of the case upon the plea of Atlanta creditors, and the company was adjudged a bankrupt. When he appointed receivers in Sup erior Court, Judge Howard told the jury it was his blief and “I expressed (continufd to last page) CLUB GIRLS RETURN FROM CAMP WILKINS Nine club girls accompanied by Miss Lizzie Buchan, County Home Demon strator, returned from Camp Wilkins last Saturday afternoon. The following girls made up the group representing Coffee County county from the Southeast Georgia Di vision at the camp last week: Misses Kate Harkleroad, Annette Lott, and Beulah Harden, West Green; Josie Vickers, Clarice Vickers, and Lydia Vickers, Ambrose; Bertie C. Coleman and Bonnie Blalock, Nicholls; Ovida Sumner, West Green. Camp Wilkins is an adjunct of the State College of Agriculture, located at Athens on the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and is a product of the mind of Dr. A. M. Soule, Georgia’s outstanding educator and developer. Under the plan, boys and girls from all sections of the state where club work is being carried on by the county agents, the College and the counties co-operating, are taken to the camp for a week during the summer for study, recreation, and sight seeing. Here Young America has the advan tage of making new contacts, getting a vision of the wonderful opportunities that await those who knock at the doors of the state’s highest institu tions of learning, and gathering inspi ration for putting over things and a larger and better way when returning home. The great objective of the training given the young campers is for effi ciency in service. To attain this end, things are done strictly according to camp schedule. To illustrate: 6:30 a. m. Rising Bell, 6:45 Flag Raising and a plunge in the lake; 7:30 Breakfast, 8:15 Inspection of Sleeping Quarters, 8:30 Assembly, 9:30 to 11 Study Per iod, subjects, Judging, Health, Tree Study, Gardening, Table Etiquette, etc. The afternoons are divided into recre ation periods devoted to visiting points of interest about the College Farm and the city, volley ball, swimming, sup per, vesper services, social huor, 9:30 lights out. Every girl returns a booster for the camp and the great work it is doing for the young people of the state. They cherish sweet memories of the glad days spent there, of the new friendships formed, and they dream of the time for the next pilgrimage. Per crance, not a few come home with ambitions and ardent desires to some day, in the not very distant future, return and enter one of the State Col leges, there to drink at the fountain of knowledge that will fit them for the highest duties of life. The teaching staff of the camp is nxade up of expert instructors from the College and from the extension service. Miss Euchan, our efficient (continued to last page) By A B CHAPIN PAN-AM SERVICE STATION TO BE OPENED SOON Mr. John F. Dent, o\fner of the building on the corner of Peterson Avenue and Bryan Street, has let a contract to R. N. McEachren to con vert this building into an up-to-date, day and night filling station, which will be known as Pan-Am Service Station. Mr. W. 0. Christopher, who has recently been named as manager of the Pan-Am Company for the ter ritory embracing Douglas will furnish the gas and oil for this station. The bakery, operated by Mr. Bo zardt, has vacated the building, and the place is now ready for the contrac tor to take charge. The new service station will be ready for occupancy in the next few weeks. GRANTHAM WRITES LETTERJ3 VOTERS Douglas, Ga., July 23, 1926. To the Citizens of Coffee oCunty, Ga.: It will not be possible for me to see each and every voter in the county in connection with my race for the Legis lature. I have stood, and now stand, for certain issues, and I take this method of letting all the people know my views on some of the more import ant issues of the day. First: When I was in the State Senate I was one of the authors of the Biennial Sessions Bill which was passed and submitted to the people, and by them ratified, thereby saving the people of the State approximately One Hundred Thousand per year in taxes. Second: I advocated and helped to pass the constitutional amendment al lowing counties to combine the offices of Tax Collector and Tax Receiver. Since this authority has been given by a vote of the people, I am in favor of proper legislation combining these two offices in this County, as this will save our people approximately Two Thousand per year in taxes. Third: I helped to pass legislation while a member of the Senate en abling the farmers to borrow money through the Intermediate Credit Cor poration ior the purpose of helping them make their crops. I understand a great number of people have taken advantage of this cheap money, and I feel proud that I was able to help the people in this way. Fourth: Wfhile in the Senate I in troduced a bill to compel all State Banks to insure their deposits, or give a Surety Bond against loss to their depositors. I fought for this measure but it failed to pass. If I should be elected as your representative I ex pect to introduce certain amendments to our Banking Law, and fight to pass them, to better protect depositors, and save further wholesale failures .such as (continued to last page) ?.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE MARKETS PREPARE FOR OPENING AUG. 3 Throughout approximately 60 coun ties in south Georgia preparations are’ being made by the tobacco growers for the opening of the sale of tobacco n August 3. This date is one week later than the markets opened last year, but it is regarded as advan tageous, inasmuch as it will allow the growers more time to get the tobacco housed and cured. All through the tobacco belt the warehouses are ready to receive the miracle weed of south Georgia which has come to rank next to cotton in im portance as a money crop in this sec tion. Bright leaf tobacco has been grown in Georgia for nine years, but this is the third year that it has pass ed the experiment stage and reached the proportions of a money crop. In 1925 the acreage was estimated at 70,000, which yielded 49,200,000 pounds which sold at an average price of 14.50 cents per pound, bringing into the state something over $7,000,000. This year the acreage has been cut down to about 50,000 acres, and a finer quality of the weed has been grown and it is estimated that the price for 1926 will average 20 cents per pound on a yield of 50,000,000 pounds from which the farmers expect to receive from $10,000,000 to $12,000,000. Douglas is located in the heart of the tobacco-growing area and in 1925 led all markets in the sale of the weed. Four warehouses here sold 7,795,000 pounds last year and it is expected that this city will maintain the lead again in 1926. Forty-three warehouses are expect ed to be operated in 21 cities this year as follows: Alma 1; Baxley 2; Bain bridge 1; Blackshear 4; Cairo 1; Ca milla 2; Douglas 4; Fitzgerald 2; Ha hira 3; Hazlehurst 2; Lyons 2; Met ier 1; Moultrie 1; Nashville 4; Pel ham 1; Quitman 1; Thomasville 1; Tifton 3; Valdosta 3; Vidalia 2; Way cross 2. Georgia bright leaf tobacco is used mostly in the manufacture of cigar ettes, the bulk of the crop being ship ped abroad for manufacture. Foreign tobacco firms all have buyers here who remain throughout the season, which usually lasts about two months. Cash is paid for the tobacco by the buyers. EAGLE CAFE CHANGES HANDS. The Eagle Oafe on Peterson Avenue changed hands this week, by which the former owners sold out to Frank Ruby of Plant City, Florida, and the new owner has already taken charge. The new owned formerly owned and oper ated the old Pierce Hotel in Hazle hurst but sold out while prices were high and went to Plant City where he has been engaged in the cafe business for the past three years. He is an experienced man >in the cafe line and promises Douglas a first closs cafe. HOf W. C. LANKFORD HEREJOR SUMMER Cong. W. C. Lankford'arrived this week from Washington and will spend some time in Douglas and in the Elev enth District during the summer va cation. During the summer he will visit the different parts of the dis trict. He has no opposition this time and is therefore not troubled with a campaign. ‘ J SUNDAY SERVICES AT THE METHODIST CHURCH At the morning worship, 11:30, the third of a series of sermons on the Apostles will be preached. James, the son of Zebedee will be the subject. These studies have been interesting and instructive. The pastor is en deavoring to reveal the power of the Lord to save and keep men amid the trials and temptations of life. Sun day school 10:15 a. m. The Epworth League will have a splendid program at 7:30 p. m. Miss Clyde Wheless will have charge of the service. At 8:30 the pastor will speak on, Partnership With God, a study in every day living, the sustaining power of the consciousness of a personal re lationship with God. We need this today when there are so many things that try us. And so many failures in' financial and moral obligations among men. »