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Uncle Fed Takes A
Shot At J. J. Brown
Editor News:
If reports from Atlanta cor
rectly outline Governor Hard
wick’s views on state matters
his final message to the Geor
gia legislature will point the
way to reduce taxes and better
government.
* Georgia has too man)’ hoards
atid burdens says the retiring
executive. Hardwick is right,
and the farmers commend the
governor for his state-manlike
program for the relief of our
sorely burdened tax payers.
The mere fact that the farmers
and Governor Hardwick are
not running together, political
ly speaking, does not prevent
us from giving the governor our
full endorsement in this in
stance. Up is entitled to every
man’s support in this effort to
persuade the incoming general
assembly to abolish useless
boards and bureaus, and the
fact that the governor names
the useless salary-grabbers, and
reccomend their divorcement
from the state’s treasury,
speaks well for the retiring
governor, because it shows
that he is not intimidated by
the powerful political machine
commonly called the depart
ment of agriculture, which costs
the tax payers of (ieorgia near
ly four hundred thousand dol
lars each time the legislature
makes appopriations for the
running expenses of the state’s
government.
In yesterday’s Xews from
Atlanta Josephine Brown says
that his department can’t sur-
Wanted, Wanted.
Two hundred bushels good sound
com free from weevils and with
out the shuck.
We are shippers of Green snap
Beans and Green shell Lima
Beans. Let us have them.
Have you tried our Purina Feeds
for Chickens, Cows and horses?
Do not fail to use our Hess’s Dip
and Lice Powders, with Poultry
Panacea and Stock Tonic.
See us for anything you have to
sell or that you want to buy.
Copeland=Turner
Merc. Company
render any of its men. He
claims that farmers are de
manding increased appropria
tions for the department of ag
riculture. Of course that state
ment is utterly false for far
mers have learned that the
present department of agricul
ture is not a farmer serving
institutions, it is a vast politi
cal machine, and our people
would be willing for the legis
lature to abolish it outright
Instead of serving the farmers
the department of agriculture
has been converted into a state
agency for the guano trust and
the oil companies. Commis
sioner Brown boasts that the
incoming governor fears the
strength of the Brown machine.
Brown emissaries are circulat
ing through the state of Geor
gia spreading propaganda that
Governor-elect Clifford Walker
will throw his support to the
department of agriculture if an
attempt is made by the legisla
ture to investigate that thor
oughly rotten machine.
There is * no surer way for
Governor Walker to kill him
self and wreck his administra
tion than for him to attempt to
shield J. J. Brown. Governor
Walker’s fight against Clayt
Robson Kimball House lobby
is commendable. Decency de
mands that lobbydom be out
lawed. But there are two kinds
of lobbies in the state of Geor
gia and public policy and poli
tical consistency demand that
the incoming chief executive
train his guns on all offensive
lobbyists. The private lobby is
supported by the special inter
ests, the public lobby is the in-
HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY. McDONOUGH GEORGIA.
sidious agent used by the
Browns, the Soules, and the
highwaymen and this public
lobby is financed by the state
of Georgia.
Taxes will continue to climb
skyward until the legislature abo
lishes useless oftices, the publ c
schools will continue to lag be
hind until the legislature trims the
dead limbs frem the department
of agriculture, the highway de
partment and the public service
commission. Our Confederate
Veterans wi'l not receive their
pensions and our people will not
be given free school books until
the Georgia legislature adopts this
platform: Not a dollar for the
boards, bureaus and salary-grab
bers until the common schoo's
and the Vets are taken care of.
There is no legal obligation
upon the legislature to appropri
ate running expenses for the de
partment of agricu ture. Toe fact
that the present commissioner has
diverted the department from its
original course absolves the legis
lature of all moral duty to provide
funds for its maintenance. Let
the legislature adjourn sine die
without voting one dollar to
Brown’s political machine. The
farmer,-, are willing, the tax payers
can’t kick and the onlv disastrous
result possible would be the en
largement of the armv of unem
ployed. J. J. Brown himself is
not a farmer, he is a guano agent.
The men holding office under
Brown are not farmers, they are
as a rule sappers and minows who
feed at the public crib, while their
neighbors and fellow citizens toil
the year round to porvide support
for their own household and for
the drones as well.
Now Mr. Editor, please read and
print this letter in your grand old
county paper. I feel deeply in
terested in some adjustments
along these lines.
Your Unc'e Fed, W. B. F.
A STATE PORT - WHAT IT MEANS
WHOM IT WILL SERVE—HOW GEORGIA PRODUCERS
CAN SECURE SUCH FACILITIES.
(By GORDON 9AUOSY)
Transportation Is sufficiently com
prehensive to Include what we mean
by "Highways,” also “Gateways." The
writer contends, that a State owned
and State operated Assembling,
Grading, Storing and Marketing Ter
minal at deep water on the Coast of
Georgia, is necessary to complete her
transportation and marketing system
and to insure future economic inde
pendence for her producers.
With modern economical Port facil
ities at Savannah, Georgia, the pres
ent transportation facilities that
highly organized tremendous system,
rail and water, already in existence
and now hinged upon the Port of Sa
vannah —and present day conditions,
would favor heavy movement from
the following areas:
Georgia, the entire State.
South Carolina, one-half of the State.
Tennessee, one-half of the State.
Kentucky, one-half of the State.
Ohio, one-quarter of the State.
Indiana, one-half of the State.
Illinois, one-half of the State.
lowa, one-quarter of the State.
Arkansas, one-quarter of the State.
Mississippi, one-quarter of the State.
Alabama, one-quarter of the State.
ENORMOUS COMMODITIES
AVAILABLE: .According to an esti
mate based on the census of 1920, the
value of farm crops In this area is
Three Billion Two Hundred and
Eighty • four Million Dollars. The
above territory and production there
in are what we mean by the term
Southeast when used in connection
with natural markets open for sur
plus production in the above territo
ries. p
The chief problems of the produc
ers and shippers of the South and
Middle West are:
First: Transportation between in
terior production points and the Port.
Second: Port facilities and costs.
Third: Markets.
Fourth: Ocean Freights.
Our markets beyond home consump
tion lie on this* Continent North of
Virginia, and East of the Appalachian
Mountains, the Antilles, Central and
South America, and the West Coast
of Europe.
In 1914, it cost eight times more to
transport by rail than by water. Dur
ing the World War, and immediately
thereafter, water borne commerce
paid approximately the, same rate as
all rail. There has bpen for the last
throe years steadily, a decline in the
rates for water-borne commerce, and
water-borne commerce today, 1s cost
ing easily one-third less than all rail,
and there will bs a further cheapen
ing of the cost of transportation by
water.
CREATED BY NATURE FOR A
STATE PORT: When Nature bit off
a mouthful of the Southeastern part
of the United States, and thus made
it possible fpr the Port of Savannah
to be established at a point on the
South Atlantic Coast, naturally lessen
ing the rail haul and increasing the
distance by water, forward-looking
Transportation men were quick to see
and take advantage of this physical
condition, hence the, .hinging upon
the Port of Savannah of its present
highly organized transportation sys
tem. These transportation organiza
tions are now prepared, and will con
tinue, to fight for every pound of
commerce from the above territory
capable of moving into world mar
kets through the Port of Savannah.
A modern publicly owned and oper
ated Terminal at deep water must as
sure producers and shippers of easy,
cheap and sure handling and storage
of perishables as well as non-perish
abies. The Terminals proposed to be
established, owned and operated by
the State of Georgia, as presently out
lined contemplate a balanced propor
tion of each of the comprehensive
units sufficient for the present, but
so designated that additions may be
added to any or all of the units as
required, without interruption as to
what may then bo traffic conditions.
This facility for producers must be
publicly operated and managed, to be
in accord with the public policy of the
National Congress, as expressed in
the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1919,
and in accord with the recommenda
tions of the Engineering Corps of the
War Department for “unless owned
and operated by the public, and pro
gressively developed in pursuance of
an intelligent policy based on the
promotion of the general growth and
prosperity, It Is probable that the pub
llc interest will not be properly serv
ed, and that private methods or ad
vantages of one kind or another will
serve to prevent the Port from achiev
ing its highest usefulness.”
FARMERS MUST HAVE A VOICE:
The farmers of Georgia well know
and fully realize the importance of
State ownership. State operation and
management of this facility, for the
simple reason, that no other owner
ship, opera‘ion or management will
fit* them a voice in its affairs, and a
hand in or n -*tlng and managing it. (
The farmer* of Georgia xvfff not new
consent that this institution be ereat*
ed, owned and operated by any agQre*
gatlon of private capital, any parti>
ular City or County.
The project includes in-bound and
out-bound railway yards. The out
bound receiving yard will hold seven
sixty car trains. The classification
yard for the same service, will pro
cide ten forty-car tracks-, all directly
connected with dock facilities.
A storage yard with a capacity of
seven hundred cars.
A supporting warehouse five hun
dred (500) feet long by Two Hundred
(200) feet wide, and six (6) stories
high.
A grain elevator system, two mil
lion (2,000,000) bushel capacity.
FACILITIES FOR PERISHABLES:
A cold storage warehouse, two hun
dred (200) feet long by one hundred
twenty-five (126) feet wide, seven (7)
stories high; five (5) stories being
for sold storage, approximately one
million (1,000,000) cubic feet of refrig
erator capacity. On each cold stor
age floor will be well ventilated corri
dors in which sampling, exhibitions
and sales may be taking place. The
ground floor constructed for offices,
to be rented to Jobbers for cold stor
age, and for the main offices of the
Co-operative Selling Organizations of
the State of Georgia.
Ample storage and handling of
Naval Stores, and other bulk non
perishable products.
A modern plant for the unloading
and shipping of Fertilizer products.
Ample facilities for the storage and
handling of Cotton.
The site of Georgia’s State Port will
surely become an all-the-year market
for cotton, and will very likely be
come the chief market for cotton in
America.
Docking facilities will provide ac
commodations for from eight (8) to
twenty (20) ships, taking general
cargo at one berthing.
It was estimated that a compre
hensive Terminal based upon con
struction costs for the Spring of 1922,
would cost approximately, allowing
One Million ($1,000,000.00) Dollars for
unforeseen items, and One Million
Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand
($1,250,000.00) Dollars interest during
construction,—Fifteen Million (516,-
000,000.00) Dollars.
The site required of Savannah by
the Harbor, Port and Terminal Com
mission is valued at Two and One
half Million Dollars. This site is to
be a gift to the State. The proposed
Constitutional amendment provides
that the entire plant and the site are
to secure the bonds.
WITHOUT COST TO THE TAX
PAYERS: Georgia can build and
maintain a State Port without cost to
the taxyers of the State. Practical
demonstrations ,elsewhere have prov
ed conclusively that this use of pub
lic credit does not necessitate In any
way the levying of any taxes upon the
people. Louisiana, for instance, has
permitted the use of its State credit
up to thirty-five million dollars for
such a plant at New Orleans. Of this
credit less than twenty millipn dol
lar have been used during the past
fifteen years and the peopie of Louis
iana have not been caiied upon to con
tribute one cent. The great State
Port at New Orleans has met all ex
penses, including interest and bonds,
and made a handsome net profit in
addition. Is there any reason to be
lieve the great wealth-producing State
of Georgia could not duplicate this ex
perience while its producers at the
same time were enjoying the vast
benefits accruing from diversification
and increased production end up to
date marketing methods? The fifteen
million dollars includes the cost of
construction, and interest on the
bonds until the entire plant is con
structed and in operation. Thereafter,
the plant, as a going concern, will pay
its operation, interest and create a
sinking fund to retire the bonds.
The proposed State owned and op
erated Terminal Is to be built by the
State of Georgia, under the direction
of the State, to be j paid for by the
State of Georgia,—no City or County
of Georgia being Interested in the
slightest particular in the cost of con
struction, or in t any way concerned, or
participating in the expenditure of
the cost of construction. The pro
ceeds from the bonds as sold, will be
placed In Banks-in different parts of
the state, and draw interest until ex
pended.
The state will run no risk of either
losing its money, or of having to pay
interest on the bonds from other
sources of income.
IF THE PRODUCERS OF GEOR
GIA WANT THESE SUPERB MAR
KETING AND SHIPPING FACILI
TIES. CREATED FOR THEM, MAN
AGED AND OPERATED BY THEM,
THEY CAN HAVE THEM. at.t,
THAT 18 NEEDED IS FOR THEM
TO BRING THFTR INFLUENCE TO
REAR DIRECTLY UPON THEIR
LEC'SLATORS TO SUBMIT YHa
MAI TER TO THEM THROUGH £
CON STJTUTIONAIi -AMKNDMiaiifc
NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT. T!*?
