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I,Ugsr)AY. SEPTEMBER 11, 1923.~
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TATE COMPTROLLER IS NOW
STU[)YING DESIGNS FOR THE
LITTLE STICKERS. |
Comptroller General W. A. Wright
L pounced that he has procured a
amm‘; copy of the Miller tobacco
efl o tax law and, making a study of
lfl”.‘l‘-”z; ‘he matter of fixing upon a
[:LI for the stamps, having them
"-‘;t . and the method of handling
”,r'.,( ior the various dealers of the
h"f"' ‘. nlaced entirely upon the
fate = o oeneral: It is his purpose,
mmtu i s -
"ave, to confer with Comptroller
me Duncan, of South Carolm_a.
" lready is carrying out provis
[ Smilar to those in the Georgia
= and to get from the South Caro
o officer an outline of the system
«.d in that state. |
] The Plan. |
The tentative idea entertained by
eneral Wright 1s that arrangements
il be made for stamps of the neces-‘
v denominations—2 cents, I{/21
ots and 1 cent—and that each will
ry a different _and dlstmgugshmgi
esign. When printed they wl,ll l)e‘
ept in the comptroller general’s of
e and supplied to the dealers in the
Jte as needed by them. The act does’
bt require that any dealer carry in|
ock any amount of the stamps, but
mply that he affix the necessary
.mp to each package of cigarettes
4 to each cigar when or before of
ring them for sale. The law does
quire that this be done by the re
il dealer and by specific wording
kes that duty away from the man
.cturer or jobber. Because of that
fovision the law further provides
.t the affixing of these stamps to
e article before offering it for sale
Jl be the only tax required of the
tail dealer, and that this stamp tax.i
nich is collected from the purchaser
the retail dealer when the sale is
.de. relieves the present business or
cupation tax, which~retail dealers
. required now to pay. It does not
ieve the jobber or manufacturer—
there are in the state--of the exist
¢ husiness or occupation tax, be
wse of the fact that there is made
. the new law no connection be
¢en the jobber or manufacturer and
e tax stamp.
Fear Evasion of Law.
Some fear is expressed by state tax
thorities there will be a consider
le evasion of conformity with the
w, particularly in the country places
4 small towns, because of the fact
at the stamps are to be purchased
rectly from the comptroller general,
d, the county tax authorities not
rticipating in the collection of the
nds for the purchase of the stamps
otherwise in any form of commis
n, there will be no local or county
ort to enforce the law.
The enforcement features, however,
ill be amply taken care of in a gen
al tax enforcement companion bill
hich is to be enacted at the extraor
nary session of the general assem
v in November, and which was con
mplated at the itme the Miller law
s passed. In fact, when preparing
K message calling an extra session,
vernor Walker particularly includ
i provision calling upon the legis
rre to enact a bill which will pro
le state machinery for the enforce
tnt and collection of all state taxes,
¢ absence of which now costs the
te, it is estimated, almost as much
t2l revenue as it gets into the treas
v through the various forms of tax
dging. :
OWS HOLD CAECUS
LONG BEFORE DAWN
ny Distinctly Different Cries Are
Heard During Session.
Nothing, it would seem, is more re
rkable in bird nature than the de
tion of the parent crow. The com
mity mounts guard over the nest
til the voung are ready for flight.
\iter the young birds have left the
\ts the different communities or
bes domiciled in the same region
emble with every evidence of sys
natic organization.
heir meetings are held before the
v and the meeting place is a de
'“’% spot where perfect secrecy can
observed,.
uring the session many distinctly
fecrent cries are heard and in them
furalists have professed to see the
iments of a language.
Frequent
Headaches
“ with obronic
tqnitip‘al:g).nnu‘mt would bfin&u
very severe hefihch s z
fi Stfi"hé'};,,pi. otk, VB.
it el
not get relief. I
m; t;gmv«qumt.
Thedford's
BACK-DRAUBHT
Wnd took it for a headachg, and
o g i
=
lack-Draught,
mp‘::le‘t myself get n
M fl.”
i e g S
(purely ve ) :
h:ng bfimrelm.&‘icn the action
8
‘."n'“");f. when it torpld.h:la
Yo drive many poisons ou
system. Biliousness
m‘irefifion. headache, ‘d
sy troubles are -
telieved in this way. It ‘g
giural way. Be naturall
Black-Draught,
Sold everywhere. @
JAPANESE ATTRIBUTE EARTHQUAKE
TO THE WRITHINGS OF SEA MONSTER
SEATTLE, Wash.—According to
the Rev. Dr. H. H. Gowen, professor
of Oriental history and languages and
institutions in the UniverSity of Wash
ington, man; Japanese attribute earth
quakes to the writhings of a “jishin
uwo” or earthquake fish, a sea mon
ster living underground with its head
in the north, where rumblings are
comparatively rare and. its tail be
tween Kyoto and Tokio, where the
tremors center.
The written annals of Japan began
in 645 A. D., related Dr. Gowen, and
tradition tells of two earthquakes
prior to that time. In 416 A. D. and
one particularly destructive in 599 A.
D. In the period covered by writing
he listed the following important dis
asters: -
1185: A great earthquake in Kyoto
attributed to the defeat and slaughter
of the Taira clan. The surface of the
carth was quivering for weeks.
1293: Great earthquake, 23,000 kill
ed in Kamakura alone.
1596: Two great earthquakes, Aug.
LESS THAN 25 PER CENT OF
ALL WHITE POPULATION
FROM NATIVE STOCK.
CHICAGO.—Less than 25 per cent
of Chicago's white population is
Ainerican born of American parent
age.
This was revealed today in census
figures gathered by the Chicago As
sociation of Commerce and consider
ed more reliable, from a statistics
standpoint, than those of the United
States census.
Of the 2,701,705 inhabitants of Chi
cago only 752,329 persons were born
in the United States and of American
parentage, the remaining 1,947,376 of
foreign birth or parentage. In the
American born figures are included
109,458 negroes, leaving _ the total
white American born pobulation at
642,871, or 23.8 per cent.
Poles constitute the largest national
group, their community numbering
319,644; Germans number 285,216;
Russians, 230,668. Swedish and Irish
inhabitants are evenly matched, both
numbering 154,000, while the French
number only 11,379, exclusive of 6,039
Canadian-French. Oriental races—
Chinese, Japanese and Indians—total
3,078.
Auto Carries Wren and
Brood Over 1,000 Miles
Of Rugged Hill Roads
Bird Built Nest on Rear Spring and
Rode Everywhere Machine Went.
Hatched Eggs on Main Street.
LYNCHBURG, Va—A touring
car belonging to D. T. Watts, super
intendent of the Montrose fruit farm,
one of the largest orchards in the
central Piedmont section, which is lo
cated in Amherst county, some 20
miles from Lynchburg, carries a very
unusual cargo.
The extra cargo is a wren and her
brood.
Some weceks ago the mother bird, it
was discovered, had built her nest on
one side of the rear springs of the
automobile and there she laid her
eggs. Somehow the bird seemed to
know when the car was to leave the
fruit farm, for she was always on the
nest when the orchards were left be
hind. .
Hatched on Main Street.
_lndced. the wren clung to her nest
with such persistency that the brood
was hatched while the car was parked
in Mmin street here, and after that she
never allowed the car to leave the
place unless she was found hovering
her brood. Indeed, it is related that
here in Lynchburg, after the hatching
was completed and before the car was
moved, the mother bird was on the
job feeding the young.
"~ At the farm several timés an effort
‘was made to deceive the old bird by
‘moving the car and substituting an
other where she {e‘ft it, but when she
frctlél('jncd che is Said to have always
“mdde a Lee line” for the nest, re
‘gardless of where it was.
Has Traveled 1,000 Miles.
Since the wren laid her first egg in
the nest and up to the present it is
estimated that she rode in the nest at
least 1,000 miles, and the wonder is
expressed that’either the eggs or the
fledglings were not bumped out on
some of the rough roads the car was
called upon to negotiate.
SR e
Flight of Death for
Millions of Butterflies
Annual Event Marks the Close of
Their Short Career.
NEW YORK, N. Y—Millions of
milkweed butterflies traveled over the
city today on the last long southward
flight to the sea from Canada to New
England. Their fluttering white wings
scintillated in the sunlight and hun
dreds of them were carried by air
currents through thc open windows
of downtown office buildings.
Willian Beebe, curator of ornithol
ogy in the New York zoological gar
dens, said the “flight of death” of
these buterflies was an annual event,
marking the close of their short ca
recr since they emerged from chrystals
formed a few weeks ago. They lay
eggs for the production of next year’s
generation and then start on a migra
tion in a southerly direction, finally
drifting far out to sea and falling,
spent, to their deaths in the ocean.
They have been found thousands of
miles from their breeding places, and
science has as yet no explanation for
the phenomenon.
NO SUBSTITUTE OFFERED.
Say what you will about druggists
offering something “just as good” be
cause it pays a better profit, the fact
still stands that ninety-nine out of a
hundred druggists recommend Cham
berlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy,
when the best medicine for diarrhoea
is asked for, and do so because they
know from what their customers say
of it that it can be depended upon. ad
30 and Sept. 4, across the main island.
Osaka castle badly damaged. Kyoto
very badly damaged. Temples and
houses throughout the city fell in a
moment. Seven hundred ladies of the
imperial court killed.
1664: Earthquake shook Japan for
an entire month. They were attribut
ed to lack of virtue on t& part of the
emperor, Whose abdication was forced.
1703: Great earthquake followed in
1707 by the great eruption of Fujlya
ma. -Yeddo castle almost destroyed
and 37,000 lives lost i’ Yeddo. A tidal
wave swept away 100,000 people in
three districts.
1804: Earthquake and tidal wave
destroyed Shimoda. The Russian
freighter “Diana” lost.
1855: Tokio wrecked by earthquake
and fire, 104,000 people perished.
1891: Earthquake over considerable
part of main island, especially severe
in the neighborhood of Yipi.
1893: Earthquake and eruption in
K{lushi Kagoshima, almost buried in
ashes. .
SHARP CONFLICT BETWEEN
THE ADHERENTS OF RI
VAL ORGANIZATIONS.
ALBANY, Ga.—Sharp conflict with
the National Pecan Growers’ Ex
change, which has been in existence
for several years, developed at a meet
ing here of growers to form the
Southern Pecan Growers’ Exchange.
About fifty members of the older or
ganization were present, and at times
the meeting bordered in the turbu
lent, as the hostility of members of
the older organization to the new
movement was demonstrated. W. P.
Bullard, of Albany, president of the
national association, was interrupted
while speaking, by those who protest
ed that he was simply attacking the
new movement and he was charged
by R. B. Small, of Macon, who pre
sided over the meeting, with having
endeavored to prevent the attendance
of government experts_ who were on
the program for addresses.
The principal address was made by
Charles J. Brand, consulting special
ist in marketing of the United States
department of agriculture. C. A.
Reed, of the same department, was
another speaker.
A contract with Aaron Sapiro, of
New York, for a co-operative mark
eting association, was entered into,
subject to Sapiro’s personal approval.
It provides for the signing up of a
minimum of 250,000 pounds of nuts
by October 1, and contemplates a five
year contract beginning in 1924, when
2 minimum of 1,000,000 pounds is to
be signed up by July 1. Another
meeting for more effective organiza
tion of the new exchange is to be
held here in about ten days.
Snake breeding has become a rec
ognized industry.
The Leading Cotton Factors of Southwest Georgia
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PRODUCERS TRIBUTARY TO DAWSON
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prepared to serve the public than many of our competitors. We have every equipment
‘ necessary for handling the farmers cotton to the best advantage.
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our customers at all times. Simply having a warehouse to receive cotton
. does not necessarily mean Efficient Service. /
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