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TZE CARROLL FREE FRESS, CARROLLTON. CARROLL COUNTY, OA -ST THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1923 MORE LIGHT ON THE SCHOOL QUESTION CARROLL’S POULTRY SHOW Killed in 30 minutes with PAR-A-SIT-I-C1DE Buy no substitute. 50c at JONES DRUG CO. Stop Coughing The simplest anil best way to stop coughs, colds, croup, bronchia “An 1 * n.nd lai/rirmo rntirrhsifl total ‘flu” and la grippe coughs is to take CHAMBERLAIN’S COUGH REMEDY Every user is a friend Good Thing - DON’T IUISM IT. Send your name and address plainly written together with Scents (mid this slip) to Chamberlain Medicine Co., De« Moines, Iowa, and receive in return a trial package containing Chamberlain’s Ootign Remedy for coughs, colds, croup, bronchial, **llu” and wh. ping coughs, and tickling throat; fhambcrlain’s Stom ach and Liver Tablet* for utomach troy- bloa, indigestion, gapyy j r.ii.a that crowd the heart, bilioutuu~d nn.i constipation; Cftiamber Inin’s Salve, needed in every family for bums, ncald*, wounds, piles, ami skin affections; t!u •* valued family medicines for only 6 cents. Don't mins iL Watch t!:e Kidneys Before and After Childbirth During the period of pregnancy the kidney.-; have liuunla work to do, which is upt to strain and weaken them so tli.u they break down and fail to keep up their work • t llltonng the uric poisons ou. at the blood-sl ream. 'I mu condition, unless looked aflcr promptly, may kill the baby before birth and min the mother's health, too The expectant mother, should have her urine examined every two weeks. This should tie done-by tbo attending physician, or send sample to Dr. Pierce's Invalids' Hotel, iu Buffalo, N. Y., for analysis. For toning up weakened kidneys. Dr. Pierce’s An-uric (antl-uric-acid) Tablets provide effective treatment, and a bottle siiould lie kept in the house und should be urod for a time after baby Ims come to keep the blood free from poisonous matter that might ulTect the little one dur ing the nursing period. "An uric” can now be had from all medicine dealers. Drink Water If Kidneys Bother Take a Tablespoonful of Salts if Back Pains or Bladder is Irritated Hush your kidneys by drinking a quart o.i water cadi day, also take salts occa sionally, rays a noted authority, who tempos that too much licit food forms acids which almost paralyze the kidneys mijjneir efforts to expel it from the blood. '1 hey become sluggish anti weaken; then you may suffer with a dim, misery in the kidnev region, shun >ojA5 in the back or sick headache, dizzi ness, your stomach sours, tongue r coated, and when the weather is bad you have rheumatic twinges. The urine gets .cloudy, mu of sediment, the clian- i^.Ts often get sore and irritated, oblig es A’°u 1° s °tk relief two or three times during the night, To help neutralize these irritating acids; to lieip cleanse the kidneys and flush off the body’s urinouS waste, get four ounces of Jad Salts from any phar macy here. Take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few' days, and your kidneys may then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, com bined with lithia, and has been used for years to help flush and stimulate slug gish kidneys; also to neutralize the acids in the system so they no longer irritate, thus often relieving bladder weakness. Jad Salts is inexpensive; can not in jure and makes a delightful efferves cent lithia-water drink. By all means have your physician examine your kid neys at least twice a year. * i I Inactive liver i » » p 4 "1 have had trouble with an inactive liver,” wrote Mrs. S. Nichols, of 4412 Spencer ff St., Houston, Texas. “When M 1 would get constipated, I would » feel a fight, dizzy feeling in my g head. To get up in the morning ft with a lightness in the head and N a trembly feeling is often a sign • that the stomach is out of order. I For this 1 took Thedford’s • « m m « ! « Black-Draught, and without a ^ doubt can say I have never ^ found its equal in any liver £ medicine. It not only cleans g) the liver, but leaves you in such ft a good condition. I have used it a long time, when food does not seem to set well, or the stomach is a little sour.” ft P ] If it isn’t I Thedford V ft m have to bo doin' and 1 her by eliminate some of the teachers, so that those re tained might be paid morel > Why can wo not live within our in- I tome temporarily at least until business becomes more stable and certainf Oar- roll county made a good cotton crop this year, but look at the gia reports and see what some other counties are j making this year which made tremen- , dons crops last year. Look at adjoin- i ing counties. We have no assurance ! that Carroll will make n liig crop an- I other year and judging from tho history of other counties wo may reasonably expect the contrary. Have we forgotten ottr financial straits of 1920 and 1921 when tho “City Fathers” allowed many to pay their taxes on the Installment plan, and some are not paid Tot? When business went to the bad and we were harrassod by bills wo could not pay? Tho Chair man of the Board claims that tuition which is now $2.00 cannot he raised, hoenuso the people are unable to pay moro, although somo of tho teachers are telling the pupils that unless tho (axes are increased that the tuition will be doubled, hftiw wo are not in favor of increasing the tuition, and wo think tiro Board should go one step further and cut out some unnecessary expenses that aro forced upon tho pupils and parents. There was a ‘‘High School Annual” last your at a cost of about $750.00 which tlio patrons were sup posed to buy at $2.00 each. In addi tion to the cost of the printing, thoro was the cost of the photographs, plates, negatives and group pictures, etc. Who pays tho expense of tho chil dren running ovor tho country playing basket ball base ball and foot ball? Who pays for the uniforms, tho rail road expenses and automobile expenses ? Athletics aro good to a certain extent but thoro should bo a limit to every thing. Who pays for the moving pic ture machine that cost about $400.00 in order to show the lUtlo fellow that the world is round? How about the music boxes for the children to march by, in stead of tho good old-timo ‘‘Hep, Hop, Hep” and the good old whistle? How about electricity to play hall at nghit and run electric ranges to bnko cakes for tho good ladles? Well, you say that the Hoard don’t pay for those tilings. Suppose they don't, the pat rons do and they are the ones who pay the taxes. Thrift, and economy are un known practices and lost arts, so far as our schools are concerned. Mr. and Mrs. Non-Resident coining into Carrollton, up Depot street, no t ceil a banner across the street adver- tinin a poultry show. This banner aroused in Mrs. Non Resident a desire i to see the chickens in tho show. She was successful in getting Mr. Non-Resi dent to stop and sec it. As Mr. nnd Mrs. Non-Resident approached tho door, . Mr. Non-Resident ran his hand in his pocket to get some money to pay thoir entrance fee.. Ho was informod thnt there was no charge. This causdd a surprised look to come ovor his faco. but lie said nothing. They were shown through, nnd their sovcrnl questions were courteously answered. Whon they had fiinishsd scejng tho show they ask ed how an expensive show as this was put on and no ndmittnnco foe charged. His question was answered by showing him tho following list of firms nnd in dividuals who by their contributions had made this show possible: TAX PAYERS!! in* ’ H ilTii' A. & M. School $25.00 Citizens Bank 25.00 Mandeville Mills 25.00 Carrollton Hardware Co 25.00 Griffin's Store 25.00 Moore & Cloin 25.00 First National Hank 25.00 C. M. Tanor Groeery Co 25.00 Farmers Store 25.00 Prock-Cobb Grocery Co. 25.00 Jones & Company 10.00 Then, too, if wo continue to mnko good crops in t'arrol! county our taxa ble property ou perSonh Ity will gradu ally go back to normal, about $850,000,- 00 more than at present and at the rate of 5 1-2 mills this would give our schools nu additional annual income of $11,000.00, which added to the present, 'income of $29,000.00 would be sufficient to pay alt expenses. Bo there is noth ing to bo alarmed about. Our city is compared with about six other towns and figures are presented to show that wo have a lower tax rate anil pay less for school purposes than sim ilar towns in Georgia. It depends on who is doing the figuring as to the re sult obtained. Thre are nt least 100 towns in Georgia having a population within the range of tho towns they se lect. Why aro only about six selected? Don’t you think it reasonable to as sume that all oxcept thoBO six towns havo the same or a lower tax rate than Carrollton has, else why should they se lect only those six for comparison. They don’t tell how many miles of paved streets Nownan has, how many LaGrango has or how many the other towns have. They select Tyus district nnd the Chairman says that tho taxes are 15 mills in thnt district. He don’t tell you that out of this tax, Tyus dis trict pays the current expenses of tho school, and also the principal and inter est. on* tho bcvpds for their building. Carrollton pays with the 5 1-2 mills only tho current expenses and an ad ditional tax is levied to pay the princi pal and interest on the school bonds, amounting to about $150,006.00. Car rollton’s total tax for school purposes is about 10 mills. If tho rate were 10 mills going directly to the School Board, judging the future by tho past, they would spend every dollar of it and go in debt besides and still they would be crying for more money. They sav teachers are paid more in other towns but they dqn’t tell how many teachers they have.' If we had only half as many teachers as we now have, they could receive twice as much •as they are now receiving. They say tho walls of the building on College street arc dirty; that the heating plant at Maple stroot school has gone bad and the negro school needs repairs. Yes, and they will still bo iu the same condition after tire taxes are raised. This is tho same cry and speil 'hat was made to get the people to vote :• $100,000.00 bond issue about two years ago. We suspect that if the truth was known the Board wants this additional money so that they can fill up the hol low back of tho High School building, (and four sacks of feed) L. W. Rogers Grocery Co 25.00 Georgia Railway and Power Co 25.00 A. .T. Baskin Co 10.0‘J Carrollton Drug Co : 10.00 .T, N. Johnson 10.00 Fisher’s 10c Rtoro 10.00 Pteinbach’s 10.00 Horton’s 5.00 Kytlc & Aycock - '. 5.00 Clifton Hotel 5.00 Parker & Hamnn 5.00 Hnrris Hardware Co 5.00 Jones Drug Co 5.00 Travis Jackson 5.0ft Carroll Renlty & Ins. Co , 5.00 J. T. II. Robertson 5.00 W. B. Dixon 5.00 E. M. Strickland 5.00 J. G. Buyers 2.50 J. T. Jones 2.50 W. H. Watson i 1.00 Boston Dry Goods Co 5.00 Army Store 5.00 II. II. Alexander -• 10.00 Red Club 15.00 J. H. Turner 1.00 Mrs. W. S. Walker 1.00 Mrs. V. D. Whatley 5.00 E. T. Jackson 2.5g G. .T. Gray f You are hereby notified that the tax books will close next Thursday, December 20th, for the purpose of paying State and County Taxes. J. T. !«'■' i-' T. C. C. C. C. B. Ingram..- T. 11. Morrell Co.. Bovki i & Ttoyk in ... lO.frl "I? oop Smith Tl.r hi wart & Cadlo Co 5.00 5.00 K/itf Dr. B. J. Brock ...Silver 1 oviu" Cup w Travi & Bon* Silver 1. will" Cup W. B F/olds ... ..Silver I oviii" Cup w Coca Cola Dot. Co.. ..Silver 1 oving Cup Chero Cola Hot Co. ...Silver 1 joying Cup Ballard & Ballard 'Feed Co ten 100-lb. bags I’uoltry Feed Security Mills.. 1,000 lbs. Poultry Feed Sngarino Feed Co 500 lbs. Foul. Feed Pratt Feed Co. 4.20 Tkgs. Remedies Sanitary Grocery Co 1 Sack Flour Sunny Acres Farm. H. II. Alexander, Prop., one 250-capacity Broodor C. C. Conkev Feed Co. will feed and disinfCset tho show. After looking this list over, Mr. and Mrs. Non-Resident saw their question answered. • Is your name on tho list? GOOD HOME FOR SALE Forty ncres of land. Onc-horso crop open; good 4-room houso and hall; good barn, orchard, pasture, running water. In one-fourth mile of Mt. Zion. Good |j school nnd church. Good neighborhood. Turkev Creek west line of farm. For further information, see n. W. ORTF- FIES, on tho place. 15nov4tc Baby chicks from well selected and inspected flocks. Popular broeds. Placo orders at once. Buy at home and know what yon are getting. Visitors welcomo at all times.—Fourth District A. & M. School—N. V. Davis. 18octtfnc build a 6x6 vulvcrt through the hollow, encloso the ground with fence and build a grand stand, all of which will cost about $6,000.00. They say their school will be drop ped from the ‘‘accredited” list, what ever this iB. It must mean that gradu- ! ates of our school get something tho.y | are not entitled to. If they lcavo our school properly trained in the essentials of public school education they will bo ACCREDITED every where they go, but lacking in this they will be DIS CREDITED wherever they go. ‘‘Keep ing up with the Jones” is what is ruin ing this country. We believe in good schools. We want as good schools as any town—our size. Wo will comparo our school buildings, plants, teachers and everything with any other town tho size of Car^ollt.on and wo will not be ashamed of our school. The trutn is there is nothing to this matter—just a tempest in a Tea Pot—‘‘much-a-do about nothing.” ? t ; •> Finding Christmas gifts of distinction is easy and pleasant at this store- year ’round. -for we please particular men the Buy gifts of true usefulness. Make your holiday funds go as far as possible. HATS ^—: SHIRTS SHOES TRAVELING BAGS SWEATERS UNDERWEAR BELTS GLOVES SLIPPERS CAPS HANDKERCHIEFS SUSPENDERS KNITTED VESTS UMBRELLAS SOCKS “The Store of Useful Gifts” - Lit ~ |TjB. 1 ^ J From our large and complete stock you can find just what you want. • • You’ll like our service. ri i /ix 5 STEINBACH’S ECONOMY SHOP dihv ’. aim Ebsttltenof iser -'ii . *■ *