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FORTY-FIFTH YEAR—NO. 120
PROPOSED 2-CENT TAX ON GASOLINE IS KILLED
Counter Revolution Now Threatens Germany
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SHORTER WORK DAY DECLARED IMPOSSIBLE
STEEL BMIES TO
ffISTINUE MUR
Ml IN GREAT ILLS
Committee Named to Investigate
Advisability of Shorter Day
Reports Adversely
REPORT IS NOT FINAL
Change Would Require 60,000
New Employes in Steel Indus
try Who Are Not Available
NEW YORK, May 25.—(8y the
Associated Press.)—A committee
from the Iron and Steel Institute
appointed recently to investigate
the feasibility of abandoning the
12-hour day in the. steel industry, re
ported today through Elbert H.
Gary, chairman of the United States
Steel corporation, that it could no:
at this time recommend such steps.
Gary made it plain that the com
mittee did not consider its report
conclusive or final, but said that un
der present conditions the shorten
ing of work days would create an
acute sistuation in the steel indus
try, due to the dearth of labor and
extensive demands for steel and
iron products. , “At least 15 per cent
would be added to the cost of steel
and iron production,” said Mr. Gary,
“and industry would require more
than 60,000 nior : employee. - ,. The
committee found,” declared Mr.
Gary, “that 12 hours a day of work
of itself would not be detrimental to
employees either physically, mental
ly or morally.”
Following Mr. Gary’s talk, the
committee recommended less rigid
restriction laws of emigration.
JOHUILEISS SUES
IT HOME HEM PLAINS
Funeral Services Held This After
noon at 4 o’Clock at Hebron
Church
John Allen Davis, 37 years of age,
died at the residence of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Wf. W. Davis, in the
17th distrirt at midnight Thursday
night, death following an illness of
a few days.
Funeral services were held from
Hebron Baptist church this after
noon at 4o’clock, Rev. J. E.
O’Quinn, pastor of the congregation
conducting the obsequies. Inter
ment was in the church cemetery.
Surviving are his parents, two
brothers, Eugene Davis, of Char
lotte? N. C., and Hiram Davis, of
Sumter county. One sistser, Miss
Jennie Mae Davis, who resides with
•her parents, also survives.
Mr. Davis was one of the
most beloved young men in his com.
munity, being a member of the Heb
ron Baptist church, attending its
services regularly and being affili
ated with all the departments. He
possessed a sweet ChristiaD char
acter, and was regarded far and
tvide as a dutiful son, honoring his
parents above all else.
Ke was a veteran of the World
War, and while in the trenches sus
tained gas injinfies which perma
nently impaired Kis health and re
sulted in his death. He had lived
at home following the close of the
war, where he engaged with his
father in farming. His death has
cast widespread sorrow over the
community, and deep regret is ex
pressed at the passing of sc, splendid
a young man.
imSTmE Off
HOG MLE J PL®
PrcvaiFng Market Conditions and
Fact That Some Hogs Not
Ready is Cause
The co-operative hog sale arrang
ed for Plains Tuesday, June 5, has
been caleld off by George O. Mar
shall, county farm demonstration
agent, Prevailing uncertain mar
ket conditions and the inability of
a number of farmers who had prom
ised hogs to have their pork ready
to market then is given as the rea
son for the postponement. It had
been planned to market a minimum
of three cars at the Plains sale, and
it is believed a postponement of the
sale for several weeks will result
in substantial profit? being gained
by participating farmers.
EVENING PRAYER AT CALVARY
Evening prayer will be said in
Calvary church tonight at 8 o’clock.
OETBOIT Mil
GETS MIL SEITEUCE
FROM JUDGE IGIM
Waiter Nelson Counsel in “House
of David” Case Sent to Ja.l
By Court
SAYS HE’S TOLD ALL
On Wav to Cell in Custodv of
Sheriff Declaration Is
Made
ST. JOSEPH, Mich., May 25. —.
Walter Nelson, prominent Dtetrogt
attorney, was sent to jail here today
to serve a sentence of 30 days by
Judge Dingeman, of Detroit. The
sentence followed Nelson’s appear
ance before the state’s one-man
grand jury investigation here into
the House of David colony.
As' Nelson was being led out of
the court room on his way to the
< county jail by the sheriff, he said,
) “I’ve told all and everything I
; know.”
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GEMS T FEET PffICHEB
.
Evangelist Lipscomb Has Found
a Warm Place in Hearts of
People of Americus
The revival services now in prog
ress under the tent on Jackson ave
nue are eliciting widespread inter
est. Evangelist Lipscomb, of Nash
ville, Tenn., has found a warm spot
in the hearts of many of Americus’
citizens which is evidenced by the
attentive audience. His theme for
Thursday evening was ‘The Church.’
He pointed out the New Testament
origin and usage of the term and
explained why Jesus selected the
term to signify His spiritual body.
Describing the church as a called
out assembly, the evangelist declar
ed that this term was a misfit when
applied to many of the modern
churches/ because they were not
keeping themselves from the world.
He said: “We find them not only
recognizing but actually fostering
worldly amusements under the guise
of Holy religion. In the proportion
tha|t Christians conform to the
world to that proposition do they
displease the Maste,r and in the pro
portion that they keep themselves
separate to that same proportion do
they please Kim. Jesus pays His
church a decided compliment when
He draws a line of distinction be
tween that institution and the
world.”
Evangelist Lipscomb announced !
that the theme for Friday evening I
would be “Instrumental Music in Its I
Relation to the Worship” and stat- I
ed that he would explain in tonight’s
sermon why the desciples with whom I
he stood identified used only vocal j
music in their meetings. The song |
service for the tent meeting are be
ing conducted by Everett Derryber- '
ry, of Columbia, Tenn. Evangelist ■
G. E. Claus, minister for the Church
of Christ at Valdosta, Ga., came to i
Americus to visit and assist in the I
tent meeting. The service:) begin j
tonight at 8 o’clock and all are in
vited. No collection will be taken. '
IEH TEICMS MED
IT rn Hill SCHOOL
New teachers for McCoy Hill ne
gro public school have just been
named by the board of education of
Americus. Old teachers there who
did not apply for re-election are
Geraldine Hiison, who will be suc
ceeded by Jimie Russell; Blanche
Staley, who will be succeeded by
Mary Wallace, and Ozie Belle Tur
ney, who will be succeeded by Lu
cille 'Womack, who has been assist
ant teacher of home economics at
the school during the past year. Pau
line Calhoun also failed to apply to
the board for re-election, but no
one has yet been named to succeed
her.
All of the other members of the
present faculty at McCoy Hill were
re-elected and will 'continue to dis
charge their duties there next year.
There are two places open at*this
school in the home economics de
partment, and three supply teachers
are also yet to be chosen.
McCoy Hill school at the height
of the teaching season has a comple
ment of twenty-one teachers, though
all of these are not employed regu
larly luring the entire year, due to
seasonal employment engaged in by
many negro school childrenl i
THE TIMES- RECORDER
FIFTEEN EXECUTED
DY Bo IS COUNTER
mm
Several Princes, Generals and
Former Noblemen Among
Those Put to Death
NAMES NOT MADE PUBLIC
Revolutionary Activities in Geor
gia Soviet Republic Alleged
Began Last Year
MOSCOW, May 25.—(8y the As
sociated Press.) —Fifteen persons,
all princes, generals or noblemen,
have been executed as a result of
the discovery of an active counter
revolutionary plot in the Soviet Re
public of Georgia, says a dispatch
from Tiflis to the Pravda today.
The names of those who have been
executed are not given but it is said
that all were active participants in
the movement.
Counter revolutionary activities
in Georgia are alleged to have be
gun early last year with a combi
nation of five non-Bolshevik parties
plans are including a general up
rising for the last of September..
They employed bandit leader
Chelokaeff for their purposes, ac
counts state, but the plot failed
when his bands were liquidated with
the aid of peasant forces and the
ring leaders were arrested.
SHEFFIFLDBACKFROg
BON ROTARY EFT
President of Americus Club Tells
of Discussion at Meeting of
Rotary Presidents Thursday
John Sheffield, pwdent of the
Americus Rotary club, retruned last
night f-cm Macon, where he ntten.l
td a meeQ g-of president and rep
resentatives of Rnary clues in tt'.e
thirty-ninth Rotary disenct.
The new presidents of the clubs
were elected May 1 and the meeting
was held so the new officers could
get acquainted with other Rotary
officials.
The visiting officers and repre
sentatives attended a luncheon at
Loh’s case, given through the cour
tesy of the Macon Rotary club. The
delegates held a round table discus
sion at the luncheon.
Mr. Sheffield said on his return
today that one if the important
things discussed at the meeting was
the question* of taking over St.
John’s Haven, a home for delinquent
boys located on St. Simon’s Island,
by Georgia Rotary clubs. The Burn
swick club, which contributes sub
stantially to the expense of the in
stitution, recommended that, Rotary
adopt the school as a charitable in
stitution, and this recommendation
was discussed by those present at
the Macon meeting, but no action
taken placing the school under the
sole support of Rotary. Rotarians
here and elswehe have heretofore
contributed as individuals to the
support of St. John’s Haven which
is recognized as a worthy institu
tion, affording as it does a home for
numbers of boys who otherwise
might be brought up unedr unwhole
some surroundings, but it was con
sidered unwise and opposed to the
principles of Rotary to take the in
stitution under club auspices.
Others who attended the Macon
meeting besides Mr. Sheffield were
Porter Pierpont, of Savannah, gov
ernor of the thirty-ninth Rotary dis
trict; W.. H. Glen, president of the
Atlanta club; Homer McClatchey,
secretary of the Columbus club;
Billups Phinizy, president of the
Athens club; Herbert Lorick, presi?
dent of the Augusta club; F. T. Bur
ney, of the Waynesboro club; Ed
mund Kalmon, president of the Al
bany club; George Butler, president
of the Savannah club; Fred Warde,
of the Brunswick club - Clarence
Dusen be. - 1 - .’, presided of the Brun
swick club; J. B. Abrams, of the
Brunswick club; Joe Hertfeld, act
ing secretary of West Point club;
Louis Turner, president of the Rome
club; Broadus Wilingham, of the
Macon club and Ed Burke, president
of the Macon, club.
ALBANY GETS NEXT
PECAN GROWERS MEET
WAYCROSS, May 5—A Clarke
Snedeker, of Pierce county, was
elected to *head the Georgia-Florida
Pecan Growers association Thurs
day for 1923-24. Albany won in
the fight for the next annual meet
ing of the association.
Other officers elected are: K. J.
Miller, vice-president, J. Slater
Weight, secretary-treasurer; C. A.
Simpson, R. B. Small, W. B. Born,
executive committee.
AMERICUS, GA., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 25, 1923
SUPERIOR COURT MEET
MONDAY; TO W UP
> CIVIL DOCKET FIRST
I Eighteen Divorce Cases Set For
Hearing, Probaly Will Be Dis
posed of in Single Day
ELEVEN WOMEN PLANTIFFS
Many Ladies Eager to Sever Mat
rimonial Bonds, With a Num
ber to Get Final Decrees
Superior court meets here Mon
day morning at 9 o’clock, when the
’ grand jury will be organized with
f Judge Z. A. Littlejohn presiding and
t’ Solicitor General Jule Felton repre
senting the state. The first week of
the session Wliil be devoted entirely
i to divil business, and Monday will
1 be featured by a number of divorce
j petition hearings.
There are eighteen divorce pcti
-3 tions set for trial that day, and it.
- is expected these will all be dis
. posed of before adjournment is tak
s on. The parties to these cases are
. about equally divided among whites
and negroes, an unusual condition
r as heretofore negroes have largely
. outnumbered white among those
1 l seeking the severance of matrimon
) ial bonds. Women plaintiffs large-
2 ly outnumber the men, there being
eleven ladies suing their husbands
for divorce, as compared with seven
■ men willing to a severance of the
; marital tie. A number of the cases
j set for hearing Monday are ready
for final decrees to be entered,
while others, are to have their ap
teMn only.. One oj the
cases on Monday’s docket has an
alimony plea attached to the peti
tion, and another is marked for dis
-8 missal, the parties thereto having
reconciled their differences.
Three cases docketed as T. R.
Bennett, superintendent <>l banks,
> vs. Crawford Wheatley Estate, fi fa,
t levy and claim, involve claims grow
_ ing out of the failure of the Com
_ mercial City bank here, and are of
j interest to creditors of the defunct
institution.
3 ’
! DEHVER HIT HOW
; SUSPECT IS IRHESTEO
' Man Held in Montreal Believed
, One of Robbers of Mint Truck
• Several Months Ago
. -—.
MONTREAL, May 25.—Detectives
; arrested on the street a man believ
, I ed to be one of a band involved in
- | the big Denver mint robbery sev-
■ I eral months ago.
The suspect is being held for
identification by Colorado authori-
■ tics.
i :
BUEIJ VISTA BJIK
BICK Fl WOYEINT
Community There Going After
Hundred Farmers or More to
Settle on Cheap Lands
BUENA VISTA, May 25—Citi
zens of Buena Vista and communi
ty are going after 100 or more small
farmers as settlers for Marion coun
ty and plans now being made call
for securing that many farmers
within a year’s time, these to be
urged to diversify in raising of
crops, it was stated yesterday by
John Rigdon, agricultural agent of
the Central of Georiga railroad.
The busines men and others are
very much interested in the move
ment initiated and being directed
by Mr. Rigdon. Next Wednesday
morning a meeting will be held at
the Marion county court house when
final plans will no doubt be mapped
out for securing the ’settlers. The
meeting will be called to- order at
10 o’clock and J. F. Jackson, gen
eral agricultural agent for the Cen
tral will bet the chief speaker.
Plans already made providing for
manner of paying for the farms will
allow the newcomers an opportunity
to get acclimated and raise crops
' while paying for their land.
The bankers at Buena Vista have
already adopted a suggestsion of
Mr. Rigdon calling for the financ
ing of purchasing 5,000 setting eggs
and these have been furnished farm
ers, who will pay for the eggs from
proceeds of the chickens this fall.
Reports from Buena Vista are
that the leaders in that community
are highly enthusiastic over pros
pects of increasing the importance
of the county agriculturally.
REPORT OF PRESIDENT
TO COUNTY OFFICERS
REVIEWS WORK DONE
Compliments Sumter County on
Selection of Good Men for
Public Office Here
RECOMMENDS CHANGES
Touches on Remuneration of Con
victs and Approves Plan to
Pay Man Part of Profits
At the session County Of
ficers convention in the Rylander
Theatre Thursday, president A. B.
Moore, of Glynn, submitted his re
port which is one of the most in
teresting documents read before the
delegates. In this report many in
teresting suggestions and recom.
mendations are made, the report in
full as follows: ,
Report of A. B. Moore, President
Members of the Association of
I County Commissioners of Georgia,
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Another year passed, bringing
us to our ninth annual convention,
and we start on a new year, with
all of its hopes and ideals for con
structive work, responsibilities to be
assumed and difficulties to over
come.
During the year that has passed
your president has done everything
he could in the small limits of his
ability for the good of our associa
tion and wishes to express appre
ciation and thanks to the officers
who have so ably assisted and to all
members for their hearty co-opera
tion and support.
It is, good to meet here in this
splendid city of Americus and coun
ty of Sumter, to see, realize and ap
preciate the wonderful work that the
County Commissioners have accom
plished, the splendid roads they
have built and other works of an up
building and constructive character
that has been delegated to them by
the people of this great county. I
congratulate the citizens of Americus
and Sumter county in electing such
men you are certainly good
pickers. All of us have been antici
pating with the greatest pleasure
coming to the convention here, be
cause we well knew that with your
entertainment committee, headed by
that fine gentlemen, goad friend and
co-worker, N. A. Ray, Chairman of
your Board of County Commission
ers, and his splendid corps of as
sistants, we would receive royal
treatment in every way that the
word implies.
The wor k accomplished by you ■
association during the past year I
think has been. only faily satisfac
tory. The experience of the last
twelve months has covered quite a
wide range and has developed much :
that was good and pleasant and
demonstrated the necessity of our j
working still more closely together,
so that really worth while things
may be accomplished for all of the
counties and our great state at large.
The County Commissioners
throughout the state are to be con
gratulated and praised for the splen
did work they have undertaken and i
in many cases, completed. So we I
start another y f *ar strong with the
spirit of determinatim to carry on
our great works for the people of
our counties and state, with a loyal
friendship ;or each other and thank
fulness to providence that we are
permitted to meet together in council
again. i
In looking back over the years I i
want to call your particular attention I
to the fact that less than half of the I
counties of the state are members ;
of our association and only -eventy
eight counties paid their dues ftr
last year. It has been hard to cany
on the really necessary work of the
organization under these ronditiens
and makes it especially hard for your
Secretary Treasure • to function pro
perly, and it has only been by the
exercise of h's well known ability
that he has managed, with the as
sistance of some of the larger eoun
ties, to come to this convention
with any balar.ee at all and all 151. s
(Continued on Page 5)
INTEREST GROWS IN
BURMAN-BAILEY BOUT
MACON, May 25-—With possibly
the most interest in the battle be-j
tween Joe Burman, local heavy- I
weight, and Bill Bailey, of Atlanta,
tonight’s American Legion all-star
card promises to be one of the best
attractions of the season. I here
are five bouts in all, of which ore
will he for four round:;, and all the
rest for eight rounds. All of the
battlers are well known here and
each will have a number of back
ers.
Rifle ammunition destroyed since
the armistice amounts to 992 million
rounds. . .
.COMMUNISTS Ifllffill
' OS ESSEN; BIG GEBlffl
INDUSTfIfAL C E H T E R
Government Asks Permission of
French Authorities to Send
Police to Gelsenkirchen
MANY BANDS ARE ARMED
News Dispatches From Berlin In
i dicate Alarming Conditions
Previa! in German interior
LONDON, May 25.—(8y the As
sociated Press.) The German govern,
ment is alarmed at reports that re
ports that armed communist bands
are marching on Essen, says a Cen
tral News dispatch from Berlin this
afternoon.
It hag asked permission of the
French authorities to send forces of
German police from the occupied
districts to Essen and Gelsenkirchen,
rnnffiTis
GIH POU® BT
OMmFB DEPUTIES
Only Communists Refi-iain From
Participation in Greeting to
Premier Who Resigned
INTERPOLATIONS RESUMED
Hcots From' Communists Side
Onlv Serve to Increase En
thusiasm of Other Deputies
PARIS, May 25.—(8y the Asso
ciated Press.) The entire chamber,
with the exception of the Commun
ists, gave Premier Poincare a great
ovation when he entered the Cham
ber today, when that body met to
day for a continuance of yester
day’s interpolations on the Ruhr
question.
The Communists hooted the pre
mier, but this reception of him only
seemed to serve to increase the en
thusiasm of the remainder of the
deputies assembled.
RESIGNATION REJECTED.
BY FRENCH SENATE.
, PARIS, May 25.—Premier Poin
care and his colleagues in the cabi
net submitted their resignations to
President Millerand, but thf presi
dent declined to* jc'mpt them.
The action of the ministers was
the outcome of the refusal of the
■ fen ate to proceed with the trial of
Marcel Camin and other Commun
ists chargrf with illegal acts against
tne French republic. M. Poincare
informed the correspondents i that
Ihe interpreted the vote in the sen
: ate as proof of want of Confidence
i in the cabinet, which made it* impos
i sible for the ministry to act against
eommuist plots.
Immediately after the meeting
of the senate, Poincare ' called a
council of ministers. A brief discus
sion took place and then the pre
mier and his colleagues proceeded
to Elyses Palace to place their res
: ignation in tne hands of the presi
; dent.
The senate, sitting as a high court
in secret session, voted relaTve to
the trial of Communists on the fol
lowing points: First, can the court
declare itself competent or incompe
tent; second, should the ques/lon of
competency be referred to a com
' rnittee; third, is the court compe
:tent?
The senate voted in the affirma
tive on the first question and in the
negative on the last two questions,
the final vote being 148 to 101.
« After the vote was taken the high
court formulated its decision in sub
stance :
“The matter before tne court is
not of a nature reserved for its ex
amination; hence, it is not necessary
for the court to proceed with the
hearing. The case against M. Cach
in and the others should, therefore,
be set before a competent body for
its decision.”
The senate’s vote was a complete
surprise. While it was known that
several senators disapproved of the
use of the high court, heretofore re
served for outstanding figures such
as General Boulanger, Caillaux and
Malvy, to try politicians of the cali
nre of Cachln .nd his associates,
who, it was held, could be dealt with
more cheaply and less elaborately by
ordinary court, it was not believed
that a majority of the senators took
this view.
WAYCROSS, May 25.—for the
tenth time the Sangra of Waycross
school has gone to press, and this
year it comes out in a handsome red
cover with the nam stampd in gilt
letters. Considerable praise has
been given those who had it in
charge, as well as to the members
of the faculty, Will D. Miller, who
assisted the staff.
For Georgia Unsettled tonight
and Saturday, with occasional show
ers; slightly warmer in central and
north portions tonight.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
MiraONERS Nil
NEYI OFFICERS; 801
NEXT CONVENTION CITY
M. C. B- Holly, of Richmond,
President; With Dr. Heard, of
Bibb, Browne and Jongs
BOND PROPOSAL LOST
As Is Also Proposition to Recom
mend Tax on Gasoline and
Motor Oils
The County Commissioners Asso
ciation of Georgia in session at th”
Rylander Theater here Friday elected
officers who will direct the destinies
of the association during the ensuing
year. The nominating committee of
which Dr. Charles Davis, of Warm
Springs, is chairman, made its report
shortly after eleven oclock and the
names of those presented were unan
imously chosen. They are: President,
Dr. J. H. Hardy, of Troup county;
first vice president, M. C. B. Holley,
of Riehmomf; second vice president,
Dr. J. H. Heard, of Bibb; and third
vice president, Rhodes Browne, es
Muscogee.
Following the election Dr. Hardy!
resigned and the convention elected
■the following who will serve: Presi
dent, M. C. B. Holley, of Richmond;
first vice president, Dr. J. H. Heard,
of Bibb; second vice president Rhobes
Browne, of Muscogee; third vice pres
ident, C. H. Jones, of Liberty.
Rome was selected as the'next con- .
vention city, with invitations
ed by Rome, Brunswick and Savaii-.
nah.
The convention opened Friday
morning with Judge Moore in the
chair.. The first business called for ■
the report of the resolutions commit
tee. While waiting for the committee
Judge T. E. Patterson, of the Pri; on
Commission of Georgia, stated to the
convention that the county physicians. ’
had formed an organization Thursday
and would meet each year with ’the
county commissioners and requested
a place on the program for one of its
members. The doctor stated that the
physicians would inform the eorftmis
sioners what they thought was nec
essary for the commissioners to do
to control infectious diseases in the ,
prison capips and in otherwise better
ing the ifealth of the counties, in line
or sttnitatipn and health.work.
The resolution extending life mem
bership in the associationrito all ex
presidents of the association was
unanimously adopted.
' The resolution memorializing the
General Assembly to take from the
governor the power or authority to
revoke rules of the prison commission
. was unanimously adopted. . i .
“A resolution establishing a com
mittee on membership, whose duty-it
will be to endeavor to secure the
membership of every county cmn
missioned in the state for membership
in the County Commissioners Asso
ciation, was adopted.
A resolution offered by the Sum
ter county delegation 'was unani
mously adopted, requesting the legis
lature to amend the auto tag tax so
that- the tag would show the horse
power and tonnage of all motor
trucks and the tonnage ynd horse
power of all motor vehicles carry
ing passengers for hire.
The morning session was featured
by the discussion of a proposal to is
sue §30,000,000 in state bonds for
the building of the state highway sys
tem. Commissioner Mann, of Glynn,
who was one of the first speaker ,
declared that if the association should
try for any large bond issue without
really first finding a basis for financ
ing at least §50,000,000 in bonds, ’
which would require some three >r r
four million dollars in annual inter
est, that the proposition would be re
jected both tv the General Assembly
and the people.
He called attention to the faet
that Georgia has not yet developed
a revenue sufficient to sanction such
a bond issue as had been proposed,
although this has been done in North
Carolina and other neighboring
states. The situation in Georgia, 'he
declared, is now very acute, and he
advised the assembled commissioners
to act cautiously, asserting that it
would be unwise and probably would
weaken the strength of the body to
go beyond what the state is now abl i
to sustain financially in the way of
a bond'issue. _ ; |
He suggested that the commission
ers either recommend a three year
program covering some fifteen ov
twenty counties as a start, or “hat 4
the proposition l(e financed upon a
cash revenue basis. The need el Geor
gia, he declared is some wise solu
tion of the state’s income problem
•luring the comin" session of the leg-"
.islature. For the first time in the his
tory of Georgia, Mr. Mann asserted,
several constitutional amendment;
submitted to the peonle last fall we:,
rejected. “We must take the peep 1
into our confidence,” he said, a 1 '
continuing asserted that the comn ,;
sioners should be exceedingly cm:
tious. As the work progresses g'>' <>
roads supporters will have opportun
ity to present the problems of the
highway department to the people,
said, and at the conclusion of .his
address he moved the adoption of the
amendment providing for a bond is- «
sue of §50,000 and the adoption of a 1
three-year road building p- .-gram,
with roads constructed of type to
( Continued on Pag? 3.)