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Mount Vernon, Ga.. Thursday Morning, Nov. 2, 1922.
Bold Example of New County Craze.
The new county craze still
hangs as a nightmare over Geor
gia, and unless the people of an
enlightened state wake up and
assert their rights, the common
wealth will be literally riddled, |
so great is the demand for speci-J
al benefits at the expense and.
ruination of established munici- (
palities. No Georgia county is J
too large to be cumbersome, or '
where any great number of peo- |
pie are greatly inconvenienced
by removal from county seats;
improved roads solved this prob
lem several years ago, but the
problem of satisfying ambitious
towns seeking county seat privi
leges and special benefits lo its
land owners remains to be solved
by the voice of the people at th<
bollot box, and the sooner this is
done the better for the material
welfare of Georgia.
In passing a new’ county bill,
the Legislature simply refers th<
matter of amending the state
constitution to the people, and in
former years the people, either
in respect to the proposed law
or in deference to those yelling j
and pleading, buying and barter-j
ing or by other means seeking!
special benefits, agree by their i
ballots to any scheme that a few
dollars and a lot of gall may
hatch up, and another county is j
set up. Possibly half of the new j
counties created in Georgia with-!
in the past few years are not
self-sustaining. The records in >
the office of the comptroller-gen
eral will show this, whether the |
new county citizens admit this;,
many of them are free to express I
their regrets that they ever spent
time and money on anew county.
Generally speaking, the crea
tion of a new county is a com
mercial enterprise, in which the
pockets of the promoters are
drained before the object of their
craze is obtained; and likewise a
a well-fed gang of professional
lobbyists systematically and ruth
lessly incre.i-ee their ill-gotten
gains. New counties are bought,
and even if the General Assem
bly of Georgia from year to year
keeps up the practice of parceling
territory from one section to an
other. is no reason why the peo
ple of thestate should agree to it.
Let the people say no, by ar
ranging their ballots at the No
vember election so that they will
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read, “against” amendinh the
state constitution for the benefit
of this town or that town.
As already stated, the people
do not have to agree to every
fool thing the Assembly may do,
just to please Tom, Dick or Har
ry. Every time a new county
| bill is advertised, the State of
j Georgia is called upon to pay the
expense, amounting to several
thousand dollars. Stop this graft
on the state treasury, by putting
an end to the reckless new coun
ty rot. The people should con
sult their own rights before vot
ing for any scheme to rob the
state and at the same time rob
one section for another.
The blood of any reasonable
minded man should boil with in
dignation at the thought of the
process by which new county
schemes are put through. Surely
the people have never dreamed
of the diabolical plan by which
the average new county is passed
by the General Assembly—both
literally and figuratively sold to
the highest bidder, in one form
or another—and with no relief
in sight, it remains for the peo
ple, the tax payers of the state,
to exercise their opposition to
such criminality and inconsisten
cy.
The citizens and property own
ers of Forty Valley, a thrifty
town in the northwest part of
Houston county, years ago con
ceived the idea of surrounding
themselves with a new county,
county seat privileges, etc., re
gardless of the fact that their
whim, if ratified by the people
of Georgia, would practically
ruin the old county. Authentic
figures show that Peach county,
if made, would take the majority
of the population, registered vo
ters and a million dollars over
half of the tax values of Houston
county, leaving the majority of
the people in Houston county ne
groes. The actual figures show
that this movement would leave
Houston county a white popula
tion of 32119, and a negro popula
tion of Thus -more than twice as
many negroes. Think of it! Clip
o!f the cream of Houston county
and give it to Fort Valley, simply
because they want it, or because
they, having the most desirable
part of the county and are able
to raise peaches in that section?
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA.
I Georgia peaches are already fa
mous, and certainly it would be
a foolish thing to ruin Houston
county in order to pay a tribute
to the peach, and incidentally add
a few dollars to the pockets of
the the peach growers around
Fort Valley, simply because they
are clamoring for it, and in direct
injury to Houston county.
Houston county, like scores of
other Georgia counties, was well
and fittingly named, and any
movement to disrupt this famous
old county, as in the case of oth
ers which have met such a fate,
is a sacrilege. Sentiment does
not demand it. John Houston’s
memory will be desecrated and
an injustice done the people of
that county if the new county
scheme is agreed to by the people
by the people on November 7th.
Singular, that this bill was de
feated by the committee on
amendments /to the oonstitution
in the House of 1921 eighteen to
ten, and then this summer placed
on the calendar for passage,
having been reconsidered after
a lapse of twelve months. The
bill passed by a margin of one
vote, and that after some of the
mercenary transactions relative
to its development had been ex
posed and plainly set before the
House of Representatives.
Montgomery is today heavily
in debt as a result of losing over
two-thirds of its territory to the
formation of new counties, and
surely her people will take enough
interest in thd fate of a sister
county to go to its rescue while
the’knife is raised over it. But,
after all, not so much for Hous
ton county as for Georgia, whose
legislatures have long since de
veloped an unsavory reputation
for new county bartering. Only
last year the promoters of one of
the recently created new counties
openly offered to yield the county
seat to another town in that
county if the citizens would re
pay them a certain sum of money
which they had spent in the cre
ation of that certain county.
The full story cannot be told,
without revelations of a most un
savory nature, figured in by men
whose honor should not allow
them to participate in methods
as Questionable as have charac
terized the new county projects
of Georgia since 1905. The peo
ple of the state can save Houston
county, and in saving it in a
measure redeem the name of
Georgia, as well as put an end
to a very grave leak in the state
treasury, if they vote against
the creation of Peach county at
the polls November 7th.
Bethel News
Mesdames Sallie Dees and
C. Graham were shopping in Vi
dalia Saturday.
Bro. Ralph Griffin is to fill his
regular appointment here next
Saturday and Sunday. All are
cordially invited to come and be
with us.
Miss Beatrice Moore visited
Mrs. Make Morris Tuesday.
Mrs. John Newsome, who lives
near Center church, is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Wm. Morris.
Mrs. S. L Morris and little
daughter. Mildred, visited Mrs.
Make Morris Thursday.
Farmers of this section are
very busy now making syrup.
The cane crop is an unusually
short one this year.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Bacon
and little daughter. Lucille, have
moved to Miami, Fla.
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Graham,
Mrs. Sallie Dees and Miss Nettie
Graham were guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Make Morris Saturday eve
ning.
Mrs. Mathala Graham, who has
been visiting her daughter. Mrs.
T. L. Beckum at Charlotte, has
returned home.
Mrs. Sallie Dees is planning to
spend the week-end at Glenwood
visiting relatives.
Mr. M. H. Darley, who has
been sick for some time, is not
improving.
Mrs. Make Morris, who has
1 been sick so long, is improving
since her return from Park View
! Sanitarium.
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Sheriff’* Sale.
Georgia—Montgomery County.
Will be sold before the court house
door in said county on the first Tues
day in November, 1922, between the
legal hours of sale, to the highest bid
der for cash, all tha. certain tract or
parcel of land situate, lying and be
ing in the 1343rd G. M. District of
said county and in the Town of Mt.
Vernor., said tract fronting 100 feet on
lots No. 1 and No. 2 and running back
east an even width to a line between
said tract an l land of J. C. McAllis
ter, bounded north by lands of Mrs.
G. V. Mason, east by lands of C.
McAllister, south by L. C. Underwood
and west by lots Nos. 1 and 2, former
ly owned by H. W. Connell, said land
levied on as the property of H. W.
Connell to satisfy an execution issued
on the 9th day of August, 1922, from
the Superior Court of said county in
favor of International Harvester Co.
against H. W. Connell. Written no
tice given defendant this 2nd day of
October, T 922.
F„ E. BURCH, Sheriff.
Sheriff’* Sale.
Georgia—Montgomery County.
Will be sold before the court house ■
■door in Mt. Vernon, on the first Tues- j
day in November, 1922, between the I
legal hours of sale, to the highest bid- |
der for cash, certain property of
which the following is a complete des
cription :
One bale of short staple cotton in i
warehouse at Tarrytown, Ga., sai-d j
county, and numbered 3022. Also'
about 1000 pounds of seed cotton at
place of H. H. Adams. Levied on [
and will be sold as the property of |
H. H. Adams to satisfy a fi fa issued j
from the city court of Treutlen coun- |
ty, February term, 1921, in favor of
W. L. D. Rackley vs U. T. Allen
and H. H. Adams. Levy made and
returned to me by O. E. Burch, Dep
uty Sheriff. Written notice of levy'
given in terms of the law. This the
2nd day of October, 1922.
E. E. BURCH, Sheriff.
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