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UNFAIR TO THE SOUTH
An unfortunate note of tcctional
tliscard whs struck recently In a
jmmph’ct circulated in Now i. inland,
which warned that •-ection of the
efforts of the South to ecure in
dustries now operating: in the Last.
Strange to say, the pamphlet was
issued by the Tennessee River Im
provement Association, favoring the
bid of th<> American Cyanamid Com
pany for Muscle Shoals, in support
f the claim that acceptance of that
proposal by Congress would be of
grreat benefit to New England.
At the same time it was pointed
eut that the acceptance of the bid
of the Aalbama Power Company and
associates, which was approved by
a joint committee of Congress,
would result in a further loss of
New England’s industries to the
South. Along with pamphlet were
copies of advertisements of several
southern power companies which are
endeavoring to secure new indus
tries for the section which they serve,
these being circulated to emphasize
the warning contained in the pamph-
Itt
Urging support for the Cyanamid
hid, the pamphlet gave several points
to show how the New England states
would benefit by its acceptance,
from which the following are quoted:
“A larger production of raw cot
ton at lower cost. Better competi
tive conditions for New England’s
mills in the world market. Use of
large Southern water powers for
benefit and advantage of New Eng
land, instead of competing with her
manufacturers.”
That such arguments should be
put forth by an organization which
is supposed to be working for the
benefit of the South is strange. Its
object appears to he to insure that
the South hall continue to raise enor
mous crops of cotton to be sold to
New England mills at a low price,
instead of bringing mills to the
South to manufacture cotton goods
near the source of raw materials.
If that would be the real result
of acceptance of the Cyanamid Com
pany’s bid, it might appeal to the
people of New England, but it would
hardly appeal to the farmers of the
cotton belt, or to those who desire
to see the industrial upbuilding of
the South continue.
On the other hand, if it is true
that acceptance of the bid of the
Alabama Power Company and as
sociates would mean the securing of
many more industrial plants for the
South, as a pamphlet suggests, that
bid is more likely to be favored by
the cotton states. .
The efforts to raise a sectional is
sue over Muscle Shoals is unfortun
ate, but inasmuch as Muscle Shoals
is located in the South, the South
should have its share of the bene
fits to be derived from the great
project. It is unfair to expect the
South to stand in the way of its
own legitimate industrial develop
ment.—From The Toccoa (Ga.)
Record of Sept. 10, 1926.
THE SITUATION
Trading politicians would milk Geor
gia to the core;
.If wo can’t STOP their hunching.
they’ll surely STOP the flow.
With a “Hundred Million Hollar
Bond," a shroud would sure enfold
her;
But election day, our votes will say,
“Hold her! John Holder! Hold her!”
The “Bondites” are getting huddled
to put Georgia in the mire;
But voters are not befuddled—on the
sixth their guns will fire;
Altho the “Coalition"' is waxing bold
and bolder.
On election day, our votes will suy,
“Hail, Governor! John Holder!”
P. M. Cheney, Valdosta, Ga.
SENIOR LOCALS
The Seniors have started off a
good year. We hope that we will,
be the best graduating class from
old M. I.
The class met the other day to
elect class and literary society offi
cers. We have a good force of of
ficers in both organizations.
We, the Crawford W. Long, and
William I). Martin societies, met Fri
day in the Eleventh Grade room. The
Eleventh Grade won.
Debate, Resolved, That the Gov
ernment Should Rule all Railroads.
Conchita Bertran and Martha Mob
ley.
Recitation, Frances Hanson.
Music, Louise Roberts.
Ready Writers from Eleventh
Grade, Ralph King and Sarah John
son.
We are very much pleased with
our new force of teachers, and are
going to do our best this year.
' The Ec“’or r-northr.
“Bonds and Receiverships”
Bonds or No Bonds Issue in Governor's Race; Ring Rule
Not an Issue, and Political Waters Cannot be Mudied
by Such Stuff; John Holder is the Man we Must
Look to to Save Georgia from a Huge Bonded In
debtedness, and Keep Us from Receivership
(By Millard C. Horton)
Bonds or no bonds is the only is
sue in the gubernatorial campaign
today. Ring rule is no issue and the
political water cannot be muddied
by such stuff. But, it is doubtless
true that all knockers of ring rule
are themselves forming a ring. 1
believe this statement is without ex
ception. Who doubts but that Dr.
Hardman is forming a "ring with
Wood and Carswell as well as others.
John Holder does not occupy a po
litical office but he is a ministerial
servant appointed by the governor of
the state to perform important func
tions in road building.
But now let us come to the real
and only issue. (Bonds or no bonds).
I wish to say that I will support
John Holder for governor because
he favors a broad, sane and safe
road building program. The state
now has about ten millions of dollars
each year with which to build roads.
One half of this vast sum is furnish
ed by the United States government,
one fourth by the state of Georgia it
self and the other fourth by the
counties. So, one half of our road
money is given to us by the federal
government and this is an immense
saving. Mr. Holder is not in favor
of mortgaging the state of Georgia
to foreign bond holders and coupon
clippers. He is not in favor of ac
tually oppressing the people and lay
ing upon their shoulders “burdens
that are grievous to Joe borne.”
Neighboring states may brag and
boast of their good roads and broad
highways and scoff at the enormous
debts they owe, but these same states
do not brag of their counties which
are in the hands of a receiver. No,
this phase of the grand road program
is kept a secret A county that ad
joins the state of Georgia has been
placed in the hands of a receiver by
a federal court judge, and why? Be
cause the county assumed too many
obligations and defaulting in the pay
ment of same the federal judge, mov
ed by creditors, app.opted a receiver
displacing the tax collector and col
lected the taxes with a strong hand
and an iron heel. Think of a county
being placed in the hands of a re
ceiver! But such is the case.
Already Heavily in Debt
We are already heavily in debt
and should we borrow seventy mil
lions of dollars more it is possible
and probable that many of our poor
er counties would be placed in the
hands of a receiver and made to pay
to the last farthing. The Bible says:
“The borrower is servant to the
lender.” This was true two thousand
years ago and it is equally true to
day. Mr. Holder is not walling to
sell his brethren into bondage like
the sons of Jacob did Joseph.
Seventy million dollars. Seventy
million dollars! This colossal sum
is hard to conceive. It takes a
mathematicion to grasp that im
mense sum. If we had this vast
sum dumped upon us at once what
would we do with it?
Let me surprise you with this
statement: We do not know how
to build roads, but are by slow de
grees learning how.
In the greatest and richest coun
ties of Georgia which boast of their
scholars and civil engineers, we have
hard-surfaced hog-baeked roads.
These roads were built some years
ago and now every school boy sees
the blunder. A flat road twenty-five
feet wide is a better highway than a
crowned one thirty-five feet in
width. I say everybody knows this
is a mistake today, but our engineers
a few years ago thought it a wise
policy.
I now recall one of these hard
surfaced crowned roads built at an
enormous expense a few years ago
that is now being torn up and made
flat. Think of it!
Appalling Expense
I wish to allude to another in
stance. Four years ago a road in
a neighboring state was graded
through a mountain pass at an ap
palling expense by civil engineers of
the highest type, but this year the
grades and curves of said road were
reset at another appalling expense.
These are simply two instances cf
road building on the part of the
ablest men in the country. So, it is
clear that we are learning to
roads and should do so by degrees.
Great enterprises like small ones
road the human family has trodden
presents a frightful scene of mis
takes and catastrophes. History it
self is largely devoted to mistakes
and the appalling consequences there
of. The reader will pardon me for
a few instances of the great mistakes
of our race. Adam and Eve, fresh
in the morning of life, ate the for
bidden fruit and cursed their race
for all time to come. The homesick
children of Israel, who had been en
slaved in Egypt for ages, should have
made s thirty-day straight drive for
the Promised Land and to the coun
try that “flowed with with milk and
honey,” but hesitating to allow Aaron
to make a golden calf they blundered
and in consequence wandered in the
wilderness for the space of 40 yeacs.
What a tragedy!
Napoleon led a gallant army to
the city of Moscow, wrecked it and
brought himself to the point of com
mitting suicide. The Germans, fall
ing into error, brought on the V/orld
war with the most dreadful and ap
palling consequences recorded in the
catalogue of human blunders.
So, the history of all wars is a
history of mistakes and calamities.
But, let’s take a few mistakes that
come nearer to our hearts and homes
in Georgia Who cannot recall
swell office buildings of twenty
years ago that are now sad and for
saken. How many fine hotels have
gone the same road? The South
ern railroad from Atlanta to Char
lotte, N. C., was built at an enor
[mous expense in 1889-70, but the
! grades and curves of said road were
reset at another appalling expense
a few years ago.
There are a few examples that
sample, but do not exhaust, the im
mense list of mistakes made under
our noses. If private people who
are moved by selfish motives and
personal interest make such huge
mistakes, how easy it is for the gov
ernment to do likewise. Cities,
counties, states and governments
have strewn their pathways with mis
takes after mistakes and misfortunes
after misfortunes till they have estab
lished the adage: “What is every
body’s business is nobody’s business.”
It is much easier for a government
to make a mistake than a private per
son. Dump upon us seventy millions
of dollars. No, but let us live and
learn and build roads and pay for
them as we go.
Deter* Foreign Capital
This big obligation would deter
foreign capital from coming to Geor
gia and would possibly drive from
it capital already here. A group of
northern capitalists are now con
templating the buliding of cotton
mills near Gainesville, Ga., at an esti
mated cost of fifteen million dol
lars. This would doubtless make a
city itself of fifteen to twenty thou
sand people. Think of the work,
wages and fat envelopes this would
bring to the people of Georgia. Think
of the added wealth and increase of
taxes this would bring to our state
Think of anew city of twenty thou
sand! Why, this gang, in a few sea
sons, would consume more country
produce than Sherman stole in his
march to the Georgia hen roosts and
corn cribs.
A prominent man in the city of
Atlanta told me recently that he
came near buying some .land in a
nearby state but before deciding to
do so he wrote to the tax collector
to ascertain the tax rate in that
county. That official wrote that the
rate was $45 per thousand, and the
same was due to over road building.
So, our local capitalist declined for
this reason to buy the properrty. Woe
to the Georgia landlord who wants to
sell land, if the bond advocates are
elected.
Florida’s winter climate, gentle
breezes and sparkling lakes are
great assets for that country, but
the absence of heavy taxes in that
state is the one great cause of its
enormous growth and the influx of
population. That state does not owe
a dollar but has eighteen millions in
its treasury today, and its road pro
gram is immense.
70 Million Dollar Burden
Burden us with seventy million
! dollars of an added indebtedness and
. we will drive out capitalists and de
ter others' that might come in. The
c intry counties are now burdened
v h debts and the farmers who
! •? ?~ L rr* e-“’al opportunity with
[their neighbors to make a living,
I should have every consideration
I shown them at the hand of the pub
lic officials. Yes, I say the farmer
[ should be protected for he earns
hi bread by the waat of his br v,.
lie has to be an eyewitness to the
rising and .setting of the sun, dread
the boll weevil, curse the cotton flea
and pray for rain. I appeal especi
ally to the town and city voters to
come to the rescue of his brothers in
the country and save their counties
from the possibility of being placed
in the hands of receivers.
I wish to repeat that a state can
make a mistake easier than a private
business man.
If we vote a seventy million dol
lar burden we will have to pay it.
For: “Whatsoever a man soweth, that
shall he also reap.” In paying this
frightful obligation honest fathers
and mothers and schoolless children
will have to carry the burden The
men will have to doctor their old
shoes to go through another season
and wear pants with ventilators in
the seat, and the humble wife will
turn her old hat around on her weary
head to accommodate itself to the
change of fashion. Before this debt
is paid the noble mule, tired and fa
tigued, will have to stop to bray, and
the faithful old Georgia hen will
ha'’e to lay overtime and economize
her joy of cackling.
“Be ye not deceived, for God is
not mocked, for whatsoever a man
soweth that shall he also reap.”
If we burdn ourselves with an
enormous debt we will with enor
mous toil have to pay the interest
and the principal some day.
My dear voters, do not think of
Dr. Hardman and John Holder them
selves, but looking into the issue in
volved, wash your hands clean of
Georgia’s threatened bondage, bred
and born of the extravagance of the
World war. Be conservative, safe and
sane and vote right October 6, for,
a stitch in time saves nine.” Re
member, too, the famous words of
Benjamin H. Hill, who, fired with
patriotic emotions, exclaimed: “Who
saves his country saves all things
and all things saved will bless him;
who lets his country die lets all
things die and all things dying curse
him.”
75 HEAR CARSWELL’S
ADDRESS AT BAXLEY; ,
ENTHUSIASM LACKING
By W. E. Bradley
(Editor Baxley News Banner)
Baxley, Ga., Sept. 24.—An audi
ence of seventy-five people heard
George H. Carswell, former candi
date for governor, make an address
at the courthouse here Thursday
morning. Mr. Carswell could arouse
but very little enthusiasm in' view
of the fact that Appling county went
by three hundred votes for John N.
Holder in the primary.
Despite the charges and counter
charges injected in his address, Mr.
Carswell received scant applause and
then only when he stated he had
taught school in this county and
paid a glowing tribute to th& peo
ple here. One of the morning pa
pers will say that a large and en
thusaist.ic audience greeted enthusi
astically Mr. Carswell’s speech, but
by actual count only seventy-flive
people were plresentj and three
fourths of those present were staunch
Holder supporters. Appling, county
will again go for Holder by a larger
majority than that of September
8.
THE MAN WHO BOOSTS
There’s no one that ’ovgs a knocker,
Unto him no praise is due,
For he is a useless being
Whose dread presence we eschew.
Give to us the man that’s loyal,
One who knows and knows he can,
A believer and a booster
And a real, upstanding man!
None can countenance a shirker,
He’s the wrench dropped in the
works;
For a constant source of hinderance
Is the nondescript who shirks.
We are for the live-wire fellow
Who holds loafing as a crime,
And delights in work and boosting—
, We are for him all the time!
—Exchange.
MOTHERS KEEPS MUMMIES
OF HER BABIES 60 YEARS
So great was her love for her
two children that when they died
Mrs. Jane Shaw, of London, Eng
land, kept their mummified bodies
in her home for 60 years until she
herself died. The bodies w’ere found
in a copper box in Mrs. Shaw’s
home. Friends said that the boxes
always were carefully guarded and
were locked with a secret combina
tion.
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