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GRIFFIN, GA., MARCH 6, 1919
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GUlette, the next speaker of the house, has
connection with the safety razor guy, but is said
to be a sharp fellow. < . /. ; ,
lie Republicans who'Blocked important and
necessary legislation in congress are being severe¬
ly criticised throughout the country. They
gerve aH that is coming to them.
■, ■ -- r -o --- -— enemies of
It^makes no difference if the political
(he president did block legislation in the senate,
there is going to be a league of nations. President
Wilson is returning to France to finish his work
and Will not return until the job is completed.
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GREAT pPPORTUNITY FOR GOOD ROADS?
It is estimated that with full State co-opera¬
tion l under the terms of the Federal Aid Road
Aetjthe United States will have at least $574,000,
000 for co-operative road byilding during the next
three years. The federal part of this fund is as
sured by the item of $209,000,000 in the postof¬
fice Appropriation bill which is now a law.
Under the apportionment of funds under the
federal aid road act and amendment thereto,
Georgia’s proportion is estimated to be: Availa¬
ble for fiscal years 1917,1918 and 1919 ^ $806,897.- $1,346,-
89; under amendment for fiscal year 1919,
044.75. Appropriation for fiscal yearl92Q, $538,-
417 90 ; under amendment, available for fiscal
. 1921; al¬
year 1920, $2,019,067.12. For fiscal year
lotment, $673,022.38? available under, amendment
for fiscal year 1921, $2,019,067.12. Grand total
for three years for Georgia, $7,402,517.16.
With the sum thus appropriated Georgia must
provide an equal amount, so it is assured that
within three years this State will spend $15,000,
000 in co-operative road building. This, even
should the proposition to raise $40,000,000 from
automobile tax road bonds fail to materialize. Of¬
ficials of the bureau of public roads point out that
this $209,000,000 is the largest sum ever appro¬
priated for similar purposes and a similar period
‘ by any government iii the history of the world
and it enables the federal and State governments
to carry out a road building program of a magni
Sfjdpr’o^St'ta no ted T'^e to
highway work in
amount to half a b\ ion
^ reno rt esti
mates m tTa forllll expCTditures for roads and bridges
a 8 5«or $110,000,000 more than aver
. expenditures for 19
age . ....
The law containing the new app P
broadens the definition of a rural post road, under
which a highway must qualify in order to receive
federal aid. Beforg it was required that mai s
should actually be carried on such roads or there
must be a reasonable prospect that it wou d be
so carried within a short time. The new act con
gtrues “rural post roads” to mean any piiblic
road a major portion of which is now used or can
be used, or forms connecting link “not to extend
ten miles in length of any road or roads now or
hereafter used for the transportation of the Uni
ted States mails,! excluding every street and road
in a place now having a population of 2,500* or
more, except that portion of any such street or
road along which the houses average more than
290 feet apart.” The new act also raised the gov¬
ernment limit in contributions from $10,000 a
mile not to exceed $20,000 a mile and authorized
the secretary of war to transfer to the secretary
of agriculture material, equipment and supplies
suitable for highway improvement and not needed
by the war department. Of the $75,000,000 ap¬
propriated in 1916 for road construction for a
five year period not over $3,000,000 has been used,
so that the balance of this will be available dur¬
ing the next three years. This in addition to the
new appropriation of $209,000,000.
The News and Sun believes that now is the op-
u Z^ft , ^ 1> StaJ 1 !^.
ounty Med! better highway, and
have them. The News and Sun in gratified
the county officials hatfe awakened to the im¬
portance of getting busy along this line and will
immediately ask for an appropriation of
from the federal government for the purpose
the Dixie highway from Experiment to
Henry county line. The chairman of the
sioners favors a* bond issue for permanent road
work throughout the county and this is a
that is held by many if not a large majority of
the tax payers. Why not go further than the
commissioners have already planned and call a
bond issue for sufficient funds to pave the
pal roadways leading into Griffin? Why continue
to waste $40,000 of $60,000 on temporary make¬
shifts of roads? We can issue bonds and build
roads and have the use of them and we surely
need them.
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The bounty commissioners of Sumter county
have ordered an election to be held on April 2 for
purpose of deciding whether road bonds in the
^ Qf ^ 500j00 0 shall be issued for the purpose
f constructing permanent highways, the pro
of the bond issue to be augmented by an
amount of government money from the fed
al road fund. '
Cotton Acreage.
(Savannah News).
Everybody knows that the age-old operation of
the law of supply and demand^ frequently submits
to the influenced of checks of various sorts ynth :
in small limits and for short periods of time. The
price of cotton from year to year has been, gen¬
erally speaking, regulated by that old law, al¬
though artificial causes have frequently tended to
move/the price up or down from day to day. This
is by way of preamble to saying that the law of
supply and demand will give Georgia cotton grow
ers a bigger price for a short crop this season
than for a big crop. That seems a fundamental
statement, and yet it is very difficult to make ev¬
erybody accept it as true. Or else, while all cot¬
ton growers may believe it, some of them some¬
where in the belt may think that it will be all
right for them to plunge on cotton because other
growers are going to cut down on their acreage.
And the trouble about that sort of policy is that
when picking season comes round the price is not
satisfactory because too many growers expected
too many other growers to curtail.
So, the smaller the crop, the better the price
Within a certain limit of reduction which never
will be reached. Cotton is not going to be made
cheaply this year, and it must command a good
price. Every pound of Georgia cotton of the crop
of 1919 should be money cotton—that is, none of
i£ should be exchanged for meat or vegetables, or
othqr such things to eat by the men who grow it.
It would be folly to make so much cotton as to af¬
fect the price adversely and then take cotton mon¬
ey to pay for expensive meat which could just as
readily have been raised by the man who made the
cotton. This is the whole point in the effort to
bring about a reduction of cotton.
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• Editing the Local Paper.
(Moultrie Observer).
There is a man in Reidsville who by his own
confession has said fifty times in the last five
years, “I. want to edit the Tatnall Journal on <2
month.”
other day Editor Hhoden got ready to taka
a^n“" ^
He devoted two'thirds of his editorial space to
*> ‘‘■tide telling what he thought the owner of
from other papers and two short ones of his own
writing, one about cleaning off the cemetery and
^ attention to an approaching pub
^ meeting
0 £ time is gone and he has not written
Qf thfi „ hot gtuff ,. which he thinks the editor
QUg j 1 £ wr it e from week to week. And he will
no t write about it next week. When the harness
^ p U ^. 0J1 arK j tli e responsibility is felt, there is ar
taming down that takes place and the desire to
** r {p » em up the back” is not so great as while look*
j ng on f rom the outside. •*
There are a-iot of folks who know just what the
e( jjt or ought to write and what the preacher ought
to preach, but they are spending their own. lives in
th e shallows doing little with the talent that has
t> een given them.
V. JOHNNY
LISTEN TO JONES.
(LaGrange Daily Reporter)
Editor Duke labors under the impression that Griffin
has a monopoly on pretty girls, but he will be forced to
change his mind if he comes to the press meet here this
summer, Monroe has more pretty girls than any town in
Georgia of its size, and we can prove it.—Walton Tribune.
Editor .Camp judges his fine city’s female population in a
general, collective manner, while Editor Duke is perfect¬
ly justifiable in claiming anything in the world for Griffip
on the strength of the charms of the one and only god
deas-on-earth.
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Stylish Apparel in Brilliant Array
The fashion show is on—Spring is here and critical
women who have for years relied upon this store for au
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thentic styles, ate invited to come and make full inspection
of our beautiful Spring showing inf
Suits, Capes, Shoes, Hats
All that is new in wearing apparel is here. We riiust say that the models
for this Spring, as well as the merchandise, Is the most attractive for many years; and
truly it can be said that the most fastidious women can find something to please. •
The early Spring models are built on cbnservativeness, slim straight mod¬
els, and the skirts are a bit longer and narrow.
Popular. v
Capes Are Very
They are of beautiful blues, grays, taupes and other colors.
NEW SILK BLOUSES—These blouses are mentioned because they are
especially designed to be worn with the new Spring suits and are worthy of your i
inspection. —
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Let ns have a talk about the follow
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FOR SALE
Residence with servant house on
6th street; pnee, $1,350.00; rented for
$13.00 per month. \
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Two houses and lots North 8th
street, rented.
One-half acre of land knd residence
close in, $2,500.00.
Vacant lot West Taylor stredt,
Nelms ' house lot at a reason¬
able price.
e. s. McDowell '
Real Estate and Insuraliee
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We wish to Announce a Showing
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LADIES'EARLY SPRING FOOTWEAR j
Oxfords, Pumps and Colonials
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Black Brown and White
We have also very attractive styles
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/ WHITE BOOTS
9 Kid and Canvas
__ We cordially Invite you to call and
inspect our stock
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JONES SHOE CO.
The Shof and Stocking Shop.
MERCHANTS & PLANTERS BANK
Griffin, Ga.
Prompt aod personal attention to all customers *
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R. F. STRICKLAND, President J. C. BROOKS, V. P. and Cashier
J. S. TYUS, V. P. O. S. TYUS, Assistant Cashier
DIRECTORS
N. B. DREWRY JAS. M. BRAWNEB
W. J. KINCAID sr-L. R. F. STRICKLAND
J. C. BROOKS t T J. S. TYUS
HASKELL U. BASS • r ALLAN LITTLE