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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1907)
Georgia Culiings Curtailed Items of Interest Gathered at Random. Atlanta Telegraphers Quit. Atlanta's Western Union and Pos tal operators went on strike Sunday afternoon at 5 o’clock, within a few minutes after Atlanta local No, CO had ordered, by a unanimous vote, a walk out. * * * Notice to Pensioners, The following notice has been given oul at the pension office: Pension Office, State Capitol.—All persons holding vouchers for pensions <lu * and unpaid for 1907 who will pre sent them at this office on August 20; or any day thereafter, will get th< m paid. J. W. LINDSEY, Commissioner of Pensions. * * * Decision in Unique Church Case. The right of the First Cumberland Presbyterian church of At'anta to unite with the Northern Presbyterian clin ch and to retain possession of its church property has been determined favorably by a decision of the supreme court of Georgia. The history of this case forms one of the most interesting chapters in the annals of litigation in the state, involving as it does a struggle 1c (re serve a distinct church organization, and hold the physical property of the con estants. Since the case has been pending the two factions have held s rvices in the church on alternate Sundays. The opinion, written by Jus tice Cobb, is concurred in by all of the justices. * * * Criminal Libel Charged. In his charge to the Catoosa grand jury for the present term of court, Judge Fite instructed the jury to re turn an indictment charging the Chat tanooga Times with criminal libel. He stated that The Times had recently charged Sheriff Pendleton of Catoosa county and other Georgia officers with "fee grabbing,” and intimated that they were a set of grafters. The allegation came up in connec tion with the recent numerous arrests of Chattanooga autoists who have been arrested in the county on charges of violating the various auto laws and regulations of Georgia. * * * Over Seven Millions Gain. Fulton county tux returns for the year 1907, whlcn have Just bene com pleted by Tax Receiver Armistead, show an Increase in property values over (he year 1906 of $7,358,115, near ly twice the amount of increase of 1906 over 1905, and an increase over the year 1905 of $11,396,515. The rapid strides that have been taken in Fulton county during the pa-st year in buildungs, real estate booms, and other projects, have in en-ased the value of property in the locality to such a great amount that f can hardly be realized. For the year 19'6 the total tax value was $66,105,- 759, and in 1905, $62,068,350. The in crease in two years has been $11,396,- 515. The aggregate value of the white property in the county amounts to $72,- 107,020. The aggregate value of the negro property in the county amounts to $1,357,845. 1 Farmers’ Union Day at Fair. Wednesday, October 16, has be n selected as Farmers’ Union day at the Georgia state fair in Atlanta, and plans are now making to have this one of the biggest days of the fair. A number of prominent men have been invited to be the guests of the fair on that day, among them William Jennings Bryan, who, however, has n t decided whether lie can accept the invitation or not. The exhibition of agricultural im plem nts planned for this year’s fair will be the largest ever seen in At lanta. Twelve counties have so fat' decid d to make agricultural exhibits, and. judging by prospects they will be ex ceptionally fine ones. Secretary Weldon is negotiating for a number of midway attractions, but as yet has closed no contracts. He is a’so working on the racing program. * * * State's Honor is Saved. The state will now make the pay ment due on the Georgia building at the Jamestown exposition. The Geor gia commission fouud it was about $7.- •00 short of the amount need d to pal lor furnishing the Georgia building and entertainment on Georgia day. ' The contractor, who put up the Geor gia building, was threatening to sue out a lien, and the honor of the state was at stake. In this emergency the Georgia James town commission, through Governor Smith, applied to the attorney general for a ruling as to whether the state appropriation made by the legislature for the purpose of placing a Georgia exhibit at Jamestown could be used for this purpose. Judge Hart furnished the commis sion an opinion a few days ago, to the effect that the balance of the money due on the Georgia building can legally be paid out of the fund appropriated by the state, and this will be done. * * * For Tuberculosis Sanitarium. Hon. Clem Dunbar of Richmond, who, with Hon. W. H. Burwell of Han cock county, is joint author of the bill in the house for the purpose of secur ing an appropriation of $20,000 with which to establish a state sanitarium for the treatment of consumption, is hopeful that the appropriation needed may be available for this purpose next session. Said he: ‘‘That'there is a crying need for just such a retreat one has only to read the reports of the Anti-Tuberculosis League of America, or its branch in Georgia. "There is nothing settled definitely as to where the sanitarium i 3 to be located. All we want now is to get the money with which to establish it, and the location will be speedily found. “When it is established, we hope to see tried there the new remedy of a cotton sed oil emulsion for which Dr. George Brown of Atlanta, ex-president of the Anti-Tuberculosis L ague of America, is authority for the state ment that as a preventative or as a cure for incipient consumption it has no equal and, in many respects, is su perior to the fish emulsions. • “This treatment, which is rightfully a Georgia treatment and certainly a southern remedy, wil! probably be given its first official test.” * * * High School and College Conference. The third annual session of the Geor gia High School and College Confer ence was held from July Bth to 13th. in connection with the state summer school at Athens. Three hours each morning were giv en to departmental conferences, in cluding English, foreign languages, his tory, mathematics, sciences, industrial and fine arts. Two hours each after noon were devoted to discussions of high school organization and manage ment. Colonel R. E. Park acted as chair man of the English conferences, three sesions of which were held. At the first of these conferences there was a general discussion of English in our educational system. The need of a well articulated course in English from the primary grades through the lower col lege classes was brought cut in the discussions. A committee was appoint ed to prepare a syllabus on English, as sugestive for our Georgia schools. The committee will make a final report in bulletin form some time next spring. In the preparation of this report the committee will welcome suggestions and criticisms from all the affiliated colleges and secondary schools. The report will prove helpful to superintendents and teachers in plan ning their English courses. It is the purpose of the committee and of the conference to'outline a full course in collateral reading for all the grades as well as selected English and Amer ican classic for careful .study. TO FIX MINIMUM PRICE Committee of Cotton Association Will Meet in Jackson, Miss., Sept. 6. Jackson, Miss., will be the meeting place of the executive committee of the Southern Cotton Association, and September 5, instead of September 6, the date, according to an announce ment of President Harvie Jordan. The meeting of the Sea Island Cot ton Association will be held at Whin Springs, Fla., on September 12. Tfcn object of both meetings is to fix tin minimum price of cotton. SOLDIERS HAVE YELLOW FEVER. Ten Cases Reported in American Garrison at Cienfugos, Cuba. The outbreak of yellow fever in the American garison at Cienfuegos, Cuba, proves to be much graver than was at first proposed. Eight additional cases were reported Sunday, making a total of ten cases thus far. The utmost care Is being taken to prevent a spread of the disease to the remain der of the garrison. INCOME OF UTILITIES Slated for Taxation by Action of Georgia House of Representatives in Hunt for Revenue. All public utilities in Georgia, ex cept telephone and telegraph compa nies, less than 100 mites in length, and water powers, were taxed 1 per cent on their gross receipts, by the house of representatives, Friday, which completed its labors on the general tax act, after five days’ con tinuous work. All steam railroads, street car lines, Pullman car, dining car, parlor car, express companies, long distance tel phone and telegrah companies, equip ment companies, manufacturers of pat ent medicines, carbonated drinks, sir ups for soda fountain use bearing a trade or copyright mark, and sewing machine corporations come under this general tax levy of 1 per cent on their receipts, as applied by the house during Friday’s double session The house refused on Thursday to levy a general tax of 1 per cent on all public utilities. Friday morning au amendment was offered by Mr. Al exander of DeKalb, which placed this tax only upon the gross receipts of steam and electric street railroad com panies. All the morning the debate waged, and finally the previous ques tion was called and the vote taken. Upon the final count the supporters of the income tax were found to be victorious by the vote- of 98 to 68. This placed the house on record as being in favor of an income tax. It opened up the way for an avalanche of amendments for the afternoon ses sion. The first of these was by Mr. Way of Pulaski, which proposed an income tax of 1 per cent upon the gross in come of manufacturers of patent med icines, carbonated drinks, sirups for soda fountain use which bear a trade or copyright mark. The house on Thursday voted down a similar amendment by Mr. Persons of Monroe. It now faced the proposi tion again, after going on record to favor an income tax. The aye and nay vote was called, and those who iiad voted for the rail road tax, almost to a man, voted for the Way amendment. This fixes a tax on the manufac turers of coca-cola, kola ade, red rock and rainbow ginger ale, koca nola and similar soft drinks and any number of patent medicines. After this amendment was adopted another was sent to the clerk’s desk by Mr. Hill of Monroe, whereby it was proposed to tax the manufacturers of sewing machines 1 per cent of their gross income. The vote on this amendment was the largest of them all, as many who op posed the single-shotting of railroads took the position that if one was tax ed all should be. Mr. Perry of Hall sent up to the clerk’s desk another and still longer amendment, which took Reading Clerk McClatchey fully five minutes to read. This took in nearly all of the neglect ed corporations. Only the short dis tance telephone and telegraph compa nies and water power companies were left out. It was passed. The state’s revenue was seen to be increasing by leaps and bounds. Ac cording to the mathematicians of the house the first amendment taxing rail roads will, if accepted by the senate, and collected, bring Into the state treasury from this source alone a half million dollars. The patent medicines, carbonated drinks and soda fountain sirups are expected to net fully $25,- 000 the sewing machine companies are expected to contribute another SIO,OOO, and those other corporations are expected to yield $50,000. This brings the total of expected revenue up to nearly three-quarters of a million dollars, if enacted into law. COMPANY’S RETURN RAISED. Postal Must Pay Increased Amount of Taxes in State of Georgia. The board of arbitration in the ease of the assessment for taxation of the property of the Postal Telegraph com pany in Georgia made report of Its award to Comptroller General Wright Friday. The Postal returned its property at about $170,000, and the comptroller general assessed it at $356,000. The board of arbitrators fixed its valua tion at $306,000 fiat SOUTHERN REINSTATED License Restored in Alabama on Agree ment of Road to Obey New Laws of State. After three days of conference, in Montgomery, Ala., the state came to an agreement with the Southern rail way Thursday afternoon, as a result of which the licenses of the company recently canceled, are to be restored, and in return the road puts into ef fect, beginning September 1, the 2y 2 - cent passenger fare and the bill fixing freight rates on 110 commodities. The result is a complete victory for the state, securing the enforcement of two acts out of which the people are ex pected to realize great saving. At the conference Governor Comer represented the state and Colonel E. L. Russell, vice president of the Mo bile and Ohio; J. S. B. Thompson, assistant to President Finley; Colon-1 Alex P. Humphrey of Louisville and James Weatherly of Birmingham, at torneys, represented the Southern. The laws in ques:ion will not be put into effect permanently. The agree ment specifically declares that their operation, beginning September 1, are only subject to the final determination as to their constitutionality and their reasonableness, when a decision of these questions is finally rendered by the court of last resort. Meanwhile, the other laws enacted by the legisla ture at its winter session affecting the railroads of the state will remain in force. The railroad’s representatives agreed that they would appear before Federal Judge Jones and ask him for an order modifying the restraining or der issued by the United S:ates court two months ago, to permit of the im mediate operation, subject to the final decision of the courts, of the two acts in question. In consideration of the agreement of the railroad representatives to per mit of the immediate operation of these two laws, the one affecting pas senger traffic and the other the freight, it was agreed by Governor Comer that the revocation of the license of the Southera in Alabama should be can celed and the company permitted to do business without hindrance by the state. The compromise affects only the one railroad system, the Southern, The other railroads of were not parties to the conference. A test case on the law by which the license was revoked will be made in order to determine the validity of the act and to establish a certainty of procedure in the future along this line. PRESIDENT BARRETT IS ILL. Head of National Fanners' Union in Bad Way at Conway, Arkansas. Forced to Bed in Conway, Ark. Griffin, secretary of the Arkansas Far mers’ Union in Conway, Ark. Mr. Barrett is in Conway attending the meeting of the state convention of far mers. Charles S. Barrett, president of the National Farmers’ Union of America, is critically ill at the home of Ben MEXICANS SHOW THEIR HATE. Tried to Lynch American Engineer Because His Fireman Was Kiled. The parents of Patrick Haff y, a lo comotive engineer of Henderson, Ky. ; have received word that he is in prison at Jimenez, Mexico. Haffey was arrested'jecause his native fireman fell off a train and was killed. Bitter feel ing against Americans caused a mot to form and the young man was al most lynched. TICKERS IN GOTHAM SILENT. Strike of Telegraphers Effective in New York Ahead of Time. The strike of the telegraph opera tors which has affected many cities throughout the coun:ry, was extended to New York. Monday whee the men employed by both the Western Unior and Postal companies quit work. Ninety Per cent of the Postal and 50 per cent of the Western Union quit. MORE REBATES ARE BIFFED. Wisconsin Central and Two of Its Officials Must Pay Eig Fine. Judge Page Morris in the United States district court at Minneapolis, has fined the Wisconsin Central Rail read company $17,000 for rebating, of which it was convicted last April. Bur ton Johnson and G. T. Huey, freight officials of the road, were fintd $2,000 and SI,OOO respectively fer paying re bates to shippers. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MENTS FOR AUG. 18 BY THE REV. I. W. HENDERSON. Subject: The Ray of Atonement, Lev. 16:5-22 Golden Text, Heb. 7:2s—Memory Verse, 2 Commentary. The day of atonement and the ceremonies thereto attendant im press upon our minds facts that are inseparable In our religious expe rience. First, the fact of sin. Sec ondly, the necessity for confession of sin. Thirdly, the forgiveness of sin. Fourthly, the forgetting of sin. The day and the lesson of that day, whfch we shall study, impress other thoughts upon us but we shall con fine ourselves to these. The day of atonement is a recog<* nition of and an emphasis upon the fact of sin. The offering is for sin. The confession is a confession of sin. The scapegoat htones for sin, is an earnest of the forgiveness of sin, is the example of God forgetfulness of forgiven sin. And all this rests up on the basic consciousness of human sinfulness. For whatever may be onr opinion as to bow and when and why sin enters into the life of the individual and of humanity we must all agree that sin is a fact, that the consciousness of sin is the first step toward the affirmation of proper re lationships with God after we have fallen away from Him. Whatever the ideal life may be we are to-day sin ning against God. However useless and fruitless and wicked and unnec essary sin may be from any point of view the fact of humanity’s present and prevalent sinfulness remains. The fact of sin is inescapable. Equally conscious are we that the only hope of escape from sin lies in the confession of our unworthiness to the living God. However philo sophical we may be, and however learned we may be; whatever may be the peculiar twists of our state ments of the problem of sin and sal vation, we must all come, and all of us do come, to this common ground that without confession of and re pentance for sin there can be no for giveness, no salvation. Also we know that forgiveness follows in hot haste upon confes sion. Perhaps we had better say that forgiveness meets confession — and more than half the way. Even as God met the high priest on the earth as the commissioner of the people so He stands just beside the confession soul and holds forth par don for confessed sin. • Tfie scapegoat never carried a sin so far into the dessert of forgetful ness as God can and does. When God forgives He forgets. And He ex pects in the proper sense to do the same and if experience counts for anything He aids in this process of a proper forgetfulness of sin. For giveness that is not correlated with forgetfulness is no forgiveness at all. We would not want even God to hound us with the memory of for given sins. All these lessons are linked with the story of the day of atonement. It is no wonder that the day of atonement is even to-day the mighty day in the Jewish calendar. The modern Jew may not go to syna gogue for fifty weeks a year, but he is no Jew who forgets the day of atonement. Why? Because the day of atonement touches the universal note in the Jewish heart. It taps the' spring of his deepest experience and of his direst need. The fact of sin is one that we ought not to overlook. It ought not to be overemphasized, but it had rather be overemphasized than for gotten. Man is made in the image of God. He is created a little lower than Jehovah. He has inalienable birthrights as a son of God. But man is also a sinner. And his sin is worse as we understand his relation to divinity and his ancestry. We must not let men forget the fact of sin. We must not withhold condem nation of their evil. We must por tray the exceeding viciousness of sin. For if we do not convict men of sin they will not confess it. And no man without a comprehension of the real nature of the consequences of his wilfulness will confess his sin. We must make men understand the enor mity of sin or not confess it. And conscious unconfessed sin is the worst hell that God or man can de vise. “Confession is good for the soul” Is more than a phrase. Forgiveness follows confession. And forgetfulness completes the work. God pardons and He erases the record. His forgetting enhances His forgiving. And He not only for gets, hut He enables us to forget. And it is right we should. The mem ory of sin is one of the most spirit ually debilitating things that we can imagine. To be sure, we should profit by our mistakes. But we should not be unnerved by our re membrance of them. What you were you were. Forgiven of God in Christ you are no longer what you were. Behold, all things are passed away. You are a new creature. You are what you are. i There are few, if any, greater joys in life than the sense of forgiven and forgotten sin. A sin unconfessed is a scar unhealed. A sin confessed is a sin healed. The day of atonement is a profit able subject of study because it is linked with facts. And it Is linked with facts that we can well discount or avoid if we are as a church to do our work for the regeneration and salvation of the world to God through Christ. Christ recognized the fact of sin and we shall be imbeciles if we shut our eye 3to it. The solution oi its problem in the world is our work. God grant we shall face it with cour age.
