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The Montgomery Monitor
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1922.
THE STATE PORT BILL.
The legislature in failing to pass the state port
bill, providing for the submission to the people of a
constitutional amendment authorizing the issuance
of bonds for the erection of warehouses, cold sto
rage plants, and modern port terminals, missed the
Opportunity of doing a great constructive work for
the state, and especially for the agricultural inter
ests of Georgia.
it is a great pity that this legislation could not
have been passed at this session of the legislature
and the matter submitted to the people at the com
ing election. As the matter now stands, no con
stitutional amendment can tie submitted until the
fall of 1924, and this great forward step for Geor
gia is delayed for at least two years.
It is hard to understand the attitude of the leg
islators friendly to Brunswick, who fought any leg
islation at this time and would not consent to the
submission of the matter to the people, with the
question of the final selection of the state port left
open. One is forced to believe from their attitude
that they prefer to see the port-terminal proposi
tion defeated rather than see Savannah selected.
• I'.he experience of the Canadian government in
the development of the port of Montreal and of the
State of Louisiana in the development of their
state port at New Orleans, shows that such a de
velopment as was contemplated for Georgia can
be made at not a single rent of expense to the
the income from the warehouses, cold storage plants
and port facilities being sufficient to pay all ope
rating expenses, as well as pr\v interest on the bond
issue and provide a sinking fund for the retirement
of the bonds,
- Years ago the matter of state owned port ter
minals was endorsed by the Farmers Union of
Georgia, but it was never given serious eonsidcra
tion in Georgia until Representative Kittrell of
Dublin introduced a bill providing for state-owned
Eort terminals, and investigation proved what was
eing accomplished in Montreal and New Orleans'
in the development of a great port and the securing
of better prices agricultural interests which
these ports serve. The advocates of a state port
are on the right line, are trying to add to Georgia’s
greatness and wealth and to aid in the prosperity
of the agricultural interests of the state, hut we
cannot but regret the unnecessary delay in starting
this great development for the good of all Georgia.
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It is not surprising to learn that the raev Cand
ler-Byfield friendship began at the race track.
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The legislature filibustered, frolicked and frit
tered away valuable time, while Georgia suffered.
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And to think the legislature could have made
them fifty golden, glorious days for the good of
Georgia.
A Yidalia undertaking firm is either trying to
help out the careful crossing campaign or they have
a keen eve to business. At a railroad crossing near
Vidalia they have a large sign advertising coffins
and caskets.
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Toombs and Montgomery counties have farm
demonstrators who are doing a splendid work for
the agricultural interests of these two counties.
And Toombs county has a home demonstrator who
is doing a great work for the girls and women of
the rural districts.
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II First National Bank of Vidalia, Georgia |
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RESOURCES. LIABILITIES. ]
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j ■ Loans and Discounts $460,090.78 Capital Stock $35,000.00 j
Overdrafts 126.24 Surplus and Earnings 25.295.23 <
!! United States Bonds 37.ti20.00 ~ «ie no 1
<• Redemption Fund 1/50.00 ~ ’ 4
il Building. Furniture. Fixtures 12.300.00 Re-discounts 36.164.64 4
!! Other Real Estate 6.174.77 Dividend No. 18 1..-50.00 4
;; Cash and in Banks 71.059.15 Deposits 455,916.07 4
I! TOT AI $589,120.94 TOTAL $589,120.94 1
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THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR
THE JIT. MORIAH CLUB
Somebody has said that the civic activity of the cay
in. this modernest of ail modern times “clubs are trumps.’’
The expression has reference to the organizations for co
operation which mark the day as one of a distinctive get
ting-together by the forcer which have in mind, heart and
purpose the advancement of the interests of town and city
and community. There are clubs anc Ciubs, organizations
outside and inside organizations, multiplied organizations
of this and that and the other name and order —and most
of them having the same general objective: Construct
ive support for all those movements which tend to build
up the community. The commercial and civic organiza
tions in the cities and towns have been working marveiß
in notable instances in putting things over for the city
and town. State-wice organizations have here and there
performed wonders in crystallizing co-operation to resit
ful purpose. The many bands of service have done wall;
many of them have done good.
In the country, however, there has been ,the most not
able organization: In the boys’ clubs and girls’ clubs.
Those organizations have been more than ordinarily im
portant because they are fundamental in several respects—
they are eumposed in personnel! of the young life of the
communities in which they have been organized; and they
are essentially concerned with phases of life which have
to do with the original business of the rage, the creating
of wealth, the producing of necessary things out of the
soil.
The “clubs’’ of boys and girls in the various counties
of this state —where the boy’s corn club idea, for example,
originated—are proving trumps indeed. They have in th»
year ago been the means of stimulating an interest among
the maturer farmers in the departments of agricultuarl
activity which make for steady progress in that calling
and for permanent prosperity for the country generally
"which at last depends upon the farmer for the foundations
of prosperity.
This little excerpt from the news colums of The Lyons
Progress, published in the county of Toombs, Is Illustra
tive of the earnest, practical work being done by the girls’
clubs in more than 125 counties of the state:
“Last Tuesday we met at Mrs. Bowen’s to do some
canning. All the club members were present, a'iso a few
visitors. After some Interesting conversation we began
to work. With Mrs. Thorpe’s assitance, we canned some
soup mixture, green tomato pickles and also learned to
pack the whole tomato. We hope to have good results at
the end of the year.”
That’s what the Mount Moriah Club is doing. The
Mount Moriah Club is one of several in the many districts
of Toombs county; Toombs county is a fair type of the
other hundred and a half and more counties or the state.
The clubs of boys in all those districts of all those coun
ties are also alive and at work.
Will anybody have the nerve to try to estimate what
the boys’ and girls’ clubs in Georgia are really doing this
year—and for the future years?—Savannah Morning News
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BIENNIAL SESSIONS.
We have long been an advocate of biennial ses
sions of the Georgia legislature, and with the record
of the past session before us, we are more than ever
convinced that the state should save $125,000 every
other year by the adoption of this law.
The work of the past session could easily have
been accomplished in ten days. At least forty days
of the fifty-day session were frittered away, and
while biennial sessions will not cure the fault of
postponing important legislation until the last min
ute, as the Athens News says, if forty days are
to be squandered, is it not the part of common sense
to do this only once in two years instead of every
year ?
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« We had hoped that the legislature was through
creating new counties in Georgia, but Peach county
is in the blossom and will mature in the November
election.
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In defeating the state port legislation, Bruns
wick citizens say: “And ’twas a famous victory.”
Maybe so, but to our notion the voters of the state
won’t see it that way.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1922.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
For State Senator.
I hereby announce my candidacy
for State Senator, subject to the Dem
ocratic primary of September 13th, and
solicit the support of the voters of
Toombs county-
S. B. MEADOWS.
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For State Senate.
To the Voters of Toombs County:
I am a candidate for State Sena
tor from the 15th senatorial district,
composed of the counties of Toombs,
Montgomery and Wheeler, and will
appreciate your support.
G. W. LANKFORD.
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For Judge Middle Circuit.
I hereby announce my candi
dacy for Judge Superior Courts
of the Middle Circuit, subject to
tl)e coming primary.
Respectfully,
F. H. SAFFOLD.
For Judge Middle Circuit.
To the Public:
I hereby announce my candidacy
for the office of Judge of Superior
Courts, Middle Judicial Circuit.
Very respectfully,
R. N. HARDEMAN.
For Representative, Toombs County
To the voters of Toombs county:
I am a candidate for representative
from Toombs county, subject to the
coming primary, and will appreciate
your support.
Very respectfully,
WORTH D. POE.
For Representative, Toombs County
I use this privilege to announce my
candidacy for the office of Represen
tative of Toombs county. I will ap
preciate your support.
ERNEST C. WIMBERLY..
For Representative, Toombs County.
Having an honest desire to repre
sent my county in the legislative hall
of Georgia, I hereby announce myself
a candidate for representative from
Toombs county, subject to the rules
and regulations as prescribed by the
democratic primary to be held Sept.
13th, 1922.
Respectfully yours,
B. H. GRACE.
For Representative, Toombs County.
Having consulted with and having
been requested by quite a number of
friends in different sections of the
county to offer for representative, I
yield to their wishes and offer my
services and announce myself a can
didate for the legislature, subject to
the white primary to be held Septem
ber 13th next.
If elected I promise to render the
best services that are in me for the
relief of the over-burdened taxpayers
of my county and state and at all
times to safeguard the interests of my
people to the best of my ability, the
only thing any honest man can offer.
For Representative Toombs County.
Subject to the rules of the white pri
mary, friends from Wavcross and Heb
ardsvillc, Ga., announce J. A. L.
Glaze as a candidate for representa
tive. He begs the ladies, for the sake
of their children, to keep an eye on
immorality and their fingers on every
rotten, being, roguish, crooked politi
cian who invades America and rapes
a civil sovereignty, thus characterized
as a disgrace to Southern politics. A
thousand gratified thanks extended
those seven hundred and eighty-seven
plebiscites of Toombs county who
wrote their names on a stolen ballot
two years ago. Read the 11th chap-
I ter of St. Luke, 52nd verse, and get
|on the firing line. Speaking dates to
He announced later.
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IT is in time of business readjustment that the
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Our Resources have been conserved in prosperous
days for just such a readjustment period as this
and with the added advantage of our Membership
in the Federal Reserve System we are better
equipped to serve you now than ever.
THE BANK OF SOPERTON
CAPITAL $25,000.00 SURPLUS $25,000.00
N. L. GILLIS, President. J. E. HALL, V.-Pres & Cash.
J. B. O’CONNOR, V.-Pres. I. H. HALL, JR., Ass’t Cash.
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