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ly’g, L. RAINEY
HARDEST FIGHT EXPECTED ON REPEAL OF EQUALIZATION LAW
WO BILLION DOLLARS AN
NUAL TOLL ON TILLERS OF
8 soIL IN UNITED STATES.
NVADERS COME FROM EUROPE
pests From Old World Nations Cross
United States Coast Lines in Over
whelming Hordes as .Uncle Sam
Battles Against Them 1n Vain.
One out of every six bushels of
orain, one out of every six bales of
Lotton, one out of every six Daskets
oi fruits or vegetables are eaten by
hugs—just plain, pestiferous, boring
bugs. _ &
B (oton boll weevils from Mexico;
hrown-tail moths from Holland and
France; fruit worms from the Far
Fist; Hessian flies irom Germany;
aterpillars of all kinds from the old
orld; corn borers and Japanese bee-
Bcc—all unite to eat up .the_f?rmers’
rofits and steal away his living. |
Every vear during the last decade
bhe money value of creps laid waste
b the United States by bugs from
grope amounted to $2,000,000,000
& ixth of the total agricultural pro-
Rl ction.
° And That's Not All
And on top of this ther® were 2,-
00000 deserters from the farm last
ear—2.ooo,ooo folks lured away by
be bright light of the city!
A survey made by the department
agriculture shows that the average
vestment on an American farm is
B 100 and that during 1922 the aver
oe cash return was but $715 net after
502 had heen spent for farm machin
v and live stock and $294 for fuel
b the cost of production of food
uffs for the farmer’s family. The
oss return, therefore, was $1,211 on
L investment of $16,400, and work
m 14 to 16 hours a day to get this.
The world war, which rocked the
tions of the earth, is no more se
bus than the bug war, which threat
s to shake the American home from
k {oundations. If things continue as
v are now the city will have to
ove out to the farm and take a hand
the battle.
Every foot of the United States,
m the St. Lawrence river to the
%1{ of Mexico, has been covered by
bug army in its march into Amer-
The sources of the food supply of
whole nation are threatened with
ptruction.
Enemy Seizes Fields.
otton plantations have to a great
ent fallen into the hands of the ene
: the great stretches of wheat lands
§the middle west are being attacked;
D. 000,000 acres of corn fields are in
ger; in short, everything produced
provide food, clothing and shelter
menaced,
.osses on crops this year, although
ires are incomplete, include: Ce
s, $430,204,600; hay, $116,250,500;
ton, $300,000,000; tobacco, $16,900,-
; sugar crops, $426,800; vegetables,
99,412,600; fruits, $141,264,300; farm
rest products, -$22,138,900,
Now the .»(mcrican farmer, deserted
y scveral million of his “soldiers,”
jas found a friend in the program of
gncle Sam. The department of agri
ulture has experimented with spray-
Ing fields and orchards from airplanes
and ‘has found it successful. Poison
lgas is being used on the cotton fields
1 utw south and the corn fields of the
vest,
_ Many thousands of insects are be
ing shipped from foreign nations to
aid in the battle. These insects are
pest destroyers and have been used
with success on western farms. Then,
too, there are native birds—and their
Importance is great.
The Invading Army.
But desnite the efforts of the farm
ers and the helping hand ‘from the
government the farmer is forced to
\\.;rg]\. at his expense, a battle in
which the invaders seem to hold the
upper hand. ;
‘ More than 70 major insect enemies
have been catalogued. The average an
nual loss chargeable to each is many
millions of dollars. Not only do the
mvaders work in the fields while the
(rops are maturing, but also they are
present in the barns, where the crops
are stored. The farmer must wage
;‘»ifl‘j-\]thout ceasing, day and night,
m field and barn, against crawling,
urrowing and flying insects—and
L;(r'n t:u'n he is sure of only a small
Two Brave Defenders.
On the defensive are the Japanese
green beetle and the lady bug. The
iormer cats ten times its weight in
caterpillars each day. The latter is_in-
Valuable in the destruction of the San
os¢ scale insect, which costs an an
wal loss of $10,000,000 in the apple
nd peach orchards. 3
Myriads of birds think insects are
.r'.'.'mj;_morsels and eat down the fig
d' j_l*’: the farmer’s loss. The - despis
-3 'op toad” js another garden clean
w‘ ¢riainly better use could be found
T the more than $Z,000,000,000 that
e ts cost the American farmer each
(‘ Wipe Qut Nation’s Debt.
rliv’(i'rthc $2,000,000,000 could be ap
bith ”‘)‘ wiping out the national debt,
¢ m“N. result’ that in a few years all
bch country’s obligations would be
om.2rged, after which the annual in
-lake( of several billion dollars would
4X€¢ care of government expenses
with %
Mthout resogt to income and other
‘"X” taxation, j
.urgn'lfnca was aghast when Hinden
elds ;mOps_swept over the fertile
B's }? fßelgmm, but little notice is
ible ne fact that an apparently invin
oo insect army is driving Uncle
's own farmers from the land.
THE DAWSON NEWS
W eather Sharks Are
Now Predicting An
Unusually Early W inter
CHlCAGO.—Weather sharks
are predicting an early winter and
a severe one and advising people
to stock up their coal bins. The
temperature dropped to 54 at 6
o’clock this morning and frost is
.-reported from parts of Minneso
tagidlisconsin and Michigan. The
1688 B peratures on record for
AugtSER ¢ Waceported from De
troit and SR e .
Prognosticato® 8 uaner, base '
their predictions Owi = Badight
south of large flocks of t&&iicks,
always the latest of the duck fam
ily to leave the north. Old tim
ers-say this is the first time they
ever recall seeing teals stariing
the southern flight in August and
accept it as an indication that the
weather farther north has become
so disagreeable that they are fore
ed to migrate to warmer territory.
SAYS HE'S THROUGH PATTING
FOLKS ON THE BACK WHEN
THEY DON’T DESERVE IT.
DES MOINES, la.—Editor F. ]J.
Raymond, publisher of The Blakes
hurg (la.) Weekly Excelsior, is tired
of running free advertisements, and in
an advertisement of his own tells the
world about it as follows: '
“Here you will find a schedule o
prices from which no deviation will
be made, but we hope to donate a
certain percentage of o% earnings to
ward founding an asylum for these
feeble minded people who believe an
editor has a soft snap.
“For telling Excelsior readers a
man is a successful citizen when ev
erybody knows he is as lazy as a
bench warmer, $2.75.
“For referring to some gallavanting
fellow as one who is mourned by the
entire community when he will only
be missed by the boozers, $lO.lB.
“Referring to one as a hero and a
man of courage and one who will
stand by his convictions when every
body knows he is a moral coward and
would sell out for a dime, sg.l3.
“Referring to some gossipy female
as an estimable lady whom it is a
pleasure to meet and know when ev
ery man in town would rather see
Satan coming, $3.10.
“Calling an ordinary preacher an
eminent divine, 50 cents.
“I.ambasting the daylights out of
John Barleycorn at the behest of the
local dry forces, $6.77.
“Whooping ‘em up for the repeal
of the Volstead act in the interests
of the local White Mule Funnel club,
$6.77.
“Referring to a deceased merchant
who never advertised and who was
too stingy to contribute toward need
ed public improvements as a leading
citizen and a progressive resident,
$344.99.”
MICHIGAN SENATOR IN PARIS
AIRS A FEW ANTI-PROHI
BITION VIEWS.
PARIS.—The beer bloc will be a
feature of the next session of congress
and if Henry Ford gets a chance at
the presidency he will be for beer too,
says Senator James Couzens, of Mjch
igan. The Detroit man aired a few
anti-prohibition views tonight after
visiting Paris and he seemed even
more hostile to the Volstead act than
he has been in?:\merica. He does not
think much of the bloc system in leg
islating in general, but he thinks the
beer bloc will work.
“I have not talked with Mr. Ford
on prohibition lately, but I know un
officially that he disapproves of it be
cause he thinks it is a restriction of
personal liberty,” the senator said.
Senators Edge, of New Jersey, and
Spencer, of Missouri,'are two of those
named by Mr. Couzens as his asso
ciates in a drive for beers and light
wines which will start in December.
“People with money can get all the
liquor they want,” Senator Couzens
charged. “Only those who cannot af
ford bootleggers’ prices go without.
Prohibition is undemocratic and un-|
American both in principle and in en
forcement.” |
“_Lizzie” and Her Sisters Require
Six Billion Gallons of Gas a Year
Crude Oil Production in United States
Fails to Keep Pace With Increas
ing Demands of Automobiles.
In 1896 there were four “horseless
carriages” in the United States. To
day there are 10,800,000 passenger cars
and 1,300,000 trucks registered. These
automobiles, of low and high degree,
consume a lot of gas. Experts have it
figured out that the “Lizzie” and her
sisters require 6,000,000,000 gallons of
gasoline a year to keep them chug
ging. |
These experts contend that below
the surface of the earth are stored |
60,000,000,000 barrels of crude oil,
from which to make gas, but the re
serve supply is being used 'up fast. }
When the first “horseless carriage”‘
ventured out on the streets of this
country 12§,000,000 barrels of crude
oil were being produced in this coun=
LAWMAKERS TAKE SIOES
PREPARATORY T 0 FRAY
STATE TAX COMMISSIONER
ENTERS SCRAP AS CHAM
‘PION OF DAVIS BILL. =
ST——— i
Governor Says Fullbright’'s Proposal
Is More Obnoxious Than Present
Law. Session Is Expected to Be
Hot From the Start.
ATLANTA, Ga—With a special
session of the Georgia legislature a
certainty, advocates of tax reform are
beginning to take sides on the legis
lation that will be considered when
3th€ lawmakers get together. It is pre
‘dicted that the hardest fight of the
‘session will be over the repeal of the
‘\.tax equalization law.
~ Henry J. Fullbright, state tax com
imissioner, has cofne out in unqualified
support of the bill offered by Senator
John Camp Davis, of Rome, as a sub
stitute for the bill of Senator Pace, of
Americus, repealing the tax equaliza
tion law. The substitute makes a new
‘method of assessing and cqualizing
tax values, but Governor Walker has
declared that the new method would
be even more obnoxious than the old.
Commissioner Fullbright has given
out the following review of the Davis
substitute:
Grand Juries Would Select.
“Instead of the present plan of
county commissioners selecting three
men and naming them for terms of
six years, und<r the new law the grand
juries will select these board mem
bers {or terms of two years, and de
cide whether the board will consist
of three or more members, not to ex
ceed one to each militia district, and
fix their compensation.
“When for any reason it shall ap
pear that a man has gotten on the lo
cal board who is corrupt, or is partial
in the discharge of his duties, any tax
payer may prefer charges against him,
under oath, and these charges shall be
Tjnvestlgated by the grand jury then
in session, or by the next one, report
ing to the judge, and removing the
‘member if the charges are sustained.
~ “Under the proposed law these
boards may meet at any time for the
purpose of Wnquiring into whether or
not property subject to taxation _is
escaping, and is given all the inquisi
torial powers of a court, for the pur
lpose of determining the ownership
of property as well as its value, to
‘the end that all property shall be tax
‘ed. These investigations are to be con
‘ducted under uniform regulations,
ipwscribed by a state board, of which
‘the governor shall be a member.
.~ Have Cpunty Attorney Present.
“When arbitration is demanded lo
cal boards have the right to request
the county commissioners to have the
county attorney attend the = hearing
and represent the state and county.
“When an increase is' ordered by
the state tax commissioner this local
‘board shall apportion it between tax
payers, instead of it being applied on
the per cent basis, as at present.
“The proposed law makes legal the
calling together of the county tax
officials from the several counties in
each congressional district, in annual
conference with the state tax commis
sioner. After fully comparing values
as shown by the returned figures of
the several counties with each other,
as well as with the actual values, and
considering the local conditions in the’
several counties, the conference will
pass such resolutions and make such
recommendations as it may deem nec
essary in order to adjust the differ
ences in tax values, and as nearly as
possible equalize between counties.
State Board of Review.
“Under the proposed law the gov
ernor, the secretary of state and the
state treasurer will constitute a board
of review for the purpose of passing
upon and determining questions that
may arise between the state tax com
missioner and the county boards. Pro
vision is made for appeals to this
state board instead of arbitration, as
now provided. :
“The state board ot review is also
required, in conjunction with the tax
commissioner, to formulate uniform
rules and regulations to be uqed by all
local boards in conducting investiga
tions and determining values for tax
purposes, so that one county .board
may not follow one method while an
other adopts an entirely different plan
as at present.
try, mostly for the manufacture of
kerosene.
Now that every other house in the
country has a garage th its back yard
the crude oil production amounts to
551,000,000 barrels, and, in addition,
135,000,000 barrels have to be import
eg(.) The whole is valued $10,000,000,-
000.
To keep all the automobiles in this
country hitting on all four, or six, or
eight, as the case may 'be, 615,000
wells are producing oil and about 13,-
000 more are being drilled every year,
5,000 of which are dry holes, involv
ing a loss of $100,000,000. .
The total depth of these 13,000
wells, if combined in one well, would
seach clean through the earth and
half way back again. The deepest
well has just been drilled in Califor
nia. Oil was struck at 5,430 feet just
:pben the drillers had about given up
pe. ; ; .
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 4, 1923
. L *
The Girl’s Knickers
. .
Are Just Like Flivoers,
Myrs. Ford Is Told
MARQUETTE, Mich.—“ The
girls’ costumes are chosen for
comfort, not style; they are like
the cars in the Ford caravan.”
This was the reply by the direc
tress of Camp Chatonka at Mich
igamme to Mrs. Henry Ford’s
rebuke for the clothes the girls
wore. The girls were attired in
cut off overalls and rolled stock
ings, exposing tanned legs and
dimpled knees.
“We have the confidence of the
girls’ parents,” said the directress,
“as to our ability to properly
chaperone their daughters and al
so their approval for their dress.”
Mrs.. Ford’s rebuke was given
at Michigamme when a group of
girls asked for her autograph. Af
ter complying with the requests
of several, the flivver manufactur
er’'s wife surveyed the rest and
declared:
“You women and girls show
very poor taste and worse judg
ment in coming into town garb
ed as you are, showing your bare
limbs, and without skirts or
dreSses. I do not want to sign my
name for you and prefer not to
look at you.”
JUDGE TELLS THEM MILWAU
KEE IS NO PLACE FOR
THEM. MUST LEAVE.
The following from the Milwaukee,
Wis., Journal shows how well the col
ored brother is being received by his
“friends” up north: ’
“Twenty-seven negroes Tuesday
were sentenced to the house of cor
rection for ninety days each and warn
ed by Jud¥e Mitchell Blenski in dis
trict court that they must get out
of Milwaukee as soon as they have
served their terms.
“The judge told the negroes to
write to their friends in the south
and say that Milwaukee is no place
for negroes who have no means of
support.
“None of the prisoners were repre
sented by an attorney. The judge call
ed four of the men charged with va
grancy before him one at a time and
questioned them. They would not give
an account of themselves and admit
!te(tl) that they had.me~money and no
jobs.
“Others of the group were lined
up before the judge and asked if they
had any defense. There were no an
swers.
Told They’re Not Wanted.
‘“We do not want men of your
kind in Milwaukee,” the judge said.
‘I am not taking exceptions to your
race but to your actions. You are va
grants who came north expecting to
find soft living.
‘“] am going to give you a chance
to work for the county for ninety
days and at the end of that time you
will have ninety minutes to get out
of town. Write to your friends in the
south and tell them about it.””
“The sentences followed a general
clean up in the west side negro dis
trict staged by three squads of detec
tives. Thirtv-nine men were arrested
but 12 were released.
“Police say that more than 100 ne
groes a week have heen coming from
the south to Milwaukee.”
GOOD NEWS FROM THE HAIR
DRESSERS’ ASSOCIATION FOR
THOSE WHO CUT IT OFF.
CHICAGO.—Bobbed hair is here
to stay and those who planned to
make their living from the sale of ar
tificial hair, rats, puffs and E&armuffs
are in for a hard winter.
This is the message from the Illi
nois Hair Dressers’ Association
through Secretary George Hoppman,
who added:
“Bobbed hair has met with more
opposition than any other fashion in
the history of femininity. It has been
a fruitful source of domestic discord;
it has been‘cited as the -reason why
young girls leave home, why men
quit their wives, or grab some oth
er man’s wife and for suicide.
Opposition Unavailing.
“Yet in spite of all this opposition
it has persisted and will persist until
people recognize it as an acknowledg
ed form of hair dressing and cease to
call it a fad. It is too becoming, too
comfortable, too sanitary to be aban
doned. The contour of a woman’s head
is beautiful and she has too much
sense to conceal it behind or under
a mass of hair, artiffcial or natural
Besides, the new model hats for fall
and winter demand bobbed or shin
gled hair.”
14 Million Bad Eggs
Are Seized in Chicago
Libels against 1,400,000 eggs have
been filed by the United States dis
trict attorney’s office in Chicago as
a result of seizures within the last
week on the ground that they were
unfit for human consumption. The
eggs were shipped to South Woater
street commission merchants from
points in lowa, Missouri, -Minnesota,
Nebraska, South Dakota and Wiscon
sin, and that some of the vggs were
so decomposed as to emugnper Efe if
used by consumers was the claim.
6OV, WALKER DOES NOT
BELIEVES SOLONS WILL FIN
ISH WORK AND GET HOME
FOR THANKSGIVING.
lP‘ersonnel of Commission to Study
Tax Question and Make Recom
mendations to Be Announced This
Week. Wouldn’t Add to Burdens.
ATLANTA, Ga.—With the date of
the extraordinary session of the Geor
gia general assembly fixed for No
vember 7, Governor Walker is ex
pected to announce members of the
commission to study tax problems and
|nutlinc a “program of progress” for
| the state at an early date, it was stat
ed at the executive department.
The personnel of the commission
has been under consideration by the
governor for several days, but he has
’givcn no intimation as to whom he
[will appoint, other than to say several
'members of the house and senate will
head the body. :
Farmers, bankers, manufacturers
and merchants will be represented on
the commission. They will be instruct
ed by the executive to make a'‘“‘scien
tific and business-like study of the
entire tax problem; to make a budget
showing in detail the needs of the ed
ucational and elemosinary institutions
of the state, projecting a ten-year pro
gram of construction and mainte
nance, which will place these institu
toins in line with those of the progres
sive states of the union, and formulate
*a plan of taxation which will meet
these needs without adding undue
burden to the owners of real estate
and tangible property, who are now
bearing practically all the burdens of
taxation.”
Subjects to Call. *
The tax problem, tax enforcement,
repeal of the tax equaiization law and
free text books are the subjects in
cluded in the call for the extra ses
sion, and it was stated at the capitol
that while it might be impossible for
the legislature this fall to take up con
sideration of the ‘‘program of prog
ress” the information would be avail
able for the regular 1924 session.
The inclusion of the free school
book issue in Governor Walker’s call
for an extra session cameé as a Ssur
prise to political observers, and has
resulted in many predictions that the
extra session will last much longer
|than had been anticipated.
| The school book issue gives the
| lawmakers three problems to strug
gle with during the extraordinary ses
sion—reform of the state tax system,
’repeal of the tax equalization law, and
| the enactment of legislation authoriz
|ing the state school board to provide
| free books for pupils in the elemen
\tary grades of the common schools.
| All three of these issues have “both
i supporters and opponents in the two
' branches of the general assembly, and
i the school book issue caused several
| warm encounters at the regular ses
| sion.
! Predict Long Session.
l Governor Walker has expressed the
' hope that the special session can com
| plete its work in fifteen days, and he
|is confident that the lawmakers will
| not remain in Atlanta longer than
ltwenty days, but there are many oth
ere who do not agree with this view.
I Several veteran observers of Geor
gia legislatures predict that the ex
tra session will run one or two months
and possibly longer.
l The members of the assembly can
stay in session as long as they please
when callea for extraordinary purpos
es, and there have been sessions in
the past that lasted more than four
[months, it is said.
To Fight Extra Session Plans.
In a letter to the Tax Payérs’
League Frank Weldon, secretary, has
issued an urgent call for a quick meet
ing for the purpose of organizing to
fight Governor Walker’s plans for the
extraordinary session. Mr. Weldon in
his letter claimed credit for defeating
the proposed income tax bills and all
others of the proposed tax reform
!measures. and tells the league mem
"bers there is no chance for any of
the proposefl measures to pass in the
extra session. He calls on the league
to support the Elders bill to limit
county tax levies.
He calls upon the league to help
pass the Davis substitute for the re
peal of the tax equalization law.
Five Thousand Dollars a Year Goes
Begging Because Jonahs Are Scarce
Government Unable to Pind Suitable
Man to Study Habits of Whales
In Vicinity of Falklands.
Five thousand dollars a year for
two vears, with board and lodging to
boot, is going begging in England be
cause nobody seems to know much
about whales. * 1
The English government wants toi
learn all about the habits and beha
vior in general of whales. These mon
sters of the deep inhabit by the thous
ands the waters near the Falkland Is
lands, in the South Atlantic, in sum
mer, but they disappear in the winter.
Since the inhabitants of the islands
make a living by catching whales, the
government wants to learn where the
monsters go to in the winter. J
Hence tiie “Discovery,” the historic
ship of Scot, who iost his life while
Pup Has Returned to
Vigil Beside the Tomb
Of Lamented President
MARION, O.—A small dog
which took up a position near the
coffin of President Harding dur
ing ihe funeral services, only to
be chased away by soldiers the
next day after it had lain at the
foot of the coffin all night, return
ed again to the tomb today and
has been adopted by the soldiers
on guard there.
At the time of the funeral Mrs.
Harding made a personal request
that the dog be not molested, and
it was left alone, but the next
day the soldiers drove it away.
When they learned it had been
Mrs. Harding’s request that the
dog be left alone they made a
fruitless search for it. But today
it returned and was adopted. It
has been named ‘“‘Bambino.”
RACE SUICIDE NOT
PROBABLE IN STATE
CENSUS SHOWS LARGE NUM
; BER OF BIRTHS. MORE
g AMONG THE WHITES.
1 There is little danger of race suicide
in Georgia, according to Dr. W. A.
Davis, director of the state bureau of
vital statistics. '
“For every ten women between 15
and 45 of age in the state in 1922,
the director said today, “there was one
baby born, or, in other words, one
women out of every ten gave birth
to a child during that year. Accord
ing to the 1920 census there were
685,335 women in this class, and ac
cording to the state bureau of *vital
statistics records there were 69,615
children born. ,
“The white race shows a better rec
ord in this matter than the negro.
There were 385,654 white women and
44,525 white babies born, or one baby
to each eight women. There were 25,-
042 negro babies born to the 299,681
negro women in the child-bearing age,
showing a ratio of one baby for each
12 negro women.
“The greatest number of children
were born to fathers between 25 and
30 and to mothers between 20 and 25
vears of age. An attempt to verify
the ages of parents when given as
over 50 in the mother and 70 in the
father was made. In some cases the
local registrars apparently made no
[effort to verify these ages and in oth
‘ers they were forced to take the state
ment of the parent who in the negro
race many times did not know the ex
act age.
BLACKBEARD ISLAND
A BIRD SANCTUARY
'GOVERNMENT WILL EXPERI
MENT WITH WILD GAME OF
}r CENTRAL AMERICA.
- SAVANNAH, Ga.—Blackbeard Is
land, adjacent to Sapelo, will be used
by the department of agriculture for
’cxperimenting with game birds and
animals to be brought here from
South America and Central America.
The island was leased by the gov
ernment some months ago to Howard
Coffin, of Detroit, who is part owner
of Sapelo island. It is a natural bird
and game sanctuary, no shooting be
ing permitted.
The government at present has an
expedition in Central America captur
ing birds and animals which will be
brought to' Blackbeard Island to see
if they can be acclimatized.
Mr. Coffin is now at Sapelo Island.
He said yesterday that his connettion
with the plan is purely a co-operative
one, his purpose being to give the
governmen¢such assistance as he can
in carrying on the experimental work
contemplated.
“The government,” he said, “has
had considerable difficulty with the
|island, which is isolated, and has had
indifferent success in guarding the
‘place. The department of agriculture
wishes to do experimental work there
with birds and animals from South
America and Central America—the
treasury department is the nominal
owner of the property. It was felt
that it would be better looked after if
those who owned the a?{]acent prop
erty had charge of it. The work will
be carried on under the supervision of
the bureau of biological survey of the
department of agriculture.
exploring the Arctic regions some
vears ago, is being fitted out for an
expedition to the Falklands to study
the habits and peculiarities of whales.
The expedition will take two years.
Applications have been received by
the score for the job of master oi the
expedition, but as yet.no one has ap
plied who seems to know enough
about whales to assure the success of
the enterprise. ;
Georgia’s Tobacco Sales |
Reach 8,061,772 Pounds
The 1923 crep of leaf tobacvo raised
in Georgia and sold at various ware
houses throughout the state has ex
ceeded 8,061,772 pounds, according to
reports obtaincd Moaday frem 10
warehouses by Peter V. Rice, statisti
cian of the department of agriculture.
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’fllfl EXPENSES FIRST,
EVERY $lOO,OOOOOO SLASHED
OFF BUDGET TC BE FOL
LOWED IN INCOME LEVY.
'Chalrm' an of Appropriations Commit
tee Agrees With Mellon That Sur
taxes Must Drop, and Insists That
Further Economies Be Included.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Antici
pating an economy program K never
before attempted by congress Chair
man Martin B. Madden, of the- house
appropriations committee, has an
nounced that he has found a way of
reducing income taxes and will pro
pose the plan at the approaching ses
sion,
While giving no details he explain
ed the plan sufficiently to make it
ciear it will consist of holding up re
duced appropriations as the price of
reduced taxation. The statement fol
lowed a conference with Secretary of
the Treasury Mellon, but Mr. Mad
den said his declaration had nothing
to do with his meeting with the sec
retary of the freasury.
~ In part the chairman of the appro
‘priations committee goes with the
treasury head to the extent of favor
ing the reduction of surtaxes from
50 to 25 per cent. He goes farther
and believes income tax reductions
can be accomplished, but his plan calls
for continued economies in govern
ment expenditures. .
Opposes Building Program.
He registers emphatic disapproval
of the treasury's plan to undertake a
nation-wide building program, con
tending the time is not ripe for such
an expenditure. He is willing to have
a survey made of the government’s
building needs so constructions may
be ordered when other building oper
ations fall off, but will not approve a
government program which would be
put into effect when prices are unus
ually high and when the government
would be bidding against private
home building enterprises.
He has plans in mind relative to
reducing the necessity of postoffice
building programs which spells’ the
doom of the usual congressional pork
barrel enterprises along this line.
The declaration that further drastic
economies will be indulged- in_ has
‘brought fear to advocates of a larger
’navy, who foresee remewal of the
fight between the “big” and “little”
navy men which resulted disastrously
to the “little navy men in the last ses
sion lead by Mr. Madden.
This year Mr. Madden will hold
out to the taxpayers the attractive bait
of having their taxes reduced provid
ed they can reduce expenditures. If it
is not the navy, government officials
are asking, where will the axe drop?
They realize the house committee
chairman holds a whip hand and par
ing estimates to the bone will be the
keynote cof the next session.
“The public is too ready to demand
appropriations,” Mr., Madden said,
“but overlook the fact that before ap
propriations arc made the money must
be raised and it must come out of the
pockets of the taxpayers.” _
Bonus May Also Suffer.
Another possible victim of the econ
omy program thus determined upon
is the soldier bonus which will, if
passed, necessitate new demands up
on the taxpayers’ resources, which,
Chairman Madden declares, already
‘have passed the limit. The only de
‘tails of what Mr. Madden says will
‘be a practical working program of re
‘ducing taxes which he would give
was that with the reduction of $109,-
000,000 of expenditures there would
be a reduciion in income taxes.
The place where the economy axe
‘will drop next -year is made more un
certain when it is recalled that for the
year 1922-3 an estimated deficit of
' $823,000,000 has been changed into a
;surplus of $309,657,460. Chairman
'Madden, in a recent published inter
view, showed the expenditures for the
last year, outside of those directly
traceable to the war, were less than
before the war period. ;
~ The expenditures of the present
‘year, which will end June 30, it is
proposed tc bring down to $3,000,-
000,000 exclusive of the: $500,000,000
for debt reductions. Comparison of
income and outgo indicates a deficit
of $30,000,000, which heads of depart
ments have been ordered to wipe out.
The result is that with economy hav
ing reached the seeming limit and
with every one ordered to save “until”
it hurts,” Mr. Madden proposes to eut
still more, with a view of lessening
the call upon the pocketbook of Mr.
Everyman.
‘OHIO MAN SELLS HIS .
| FAMILY FOR 100 DOLLAI‘RS
ißuyer of Wife and Seven Chiidren
Held. Hunt for Husband.
STEUBENVILLE, O.—John Mii
ler sold his wife and seven children
to Mitchell Davis, of Beech Bottom,
and then disappeared. Brooke county,
W. Va., authorities are seeking him.-
Davis, however, is in Wellshurg jail
on complaint of Mirs. Miller. :
“l am tired of married life,” Miller
is reported to have told Davis, “and
I will s¢ii my family for $100.” Davis
so informed Sheriff Stephens and said
he accepted the offer. \%hen he w
at the Miller home for the family Mr:
Miller drove him away and swore out
5 \v:a:ranti.‘a ili- b made
at charge will be Cer
tain, He is held now for “m
conduct.” ; el
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