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i MONEY TO LOAN
On Farm Lands
and City Property*
Joseph Law
Attorney-at-Law
Waynesboro Georgia
HARDWICK AND WALKER
WILL SLUMP THE SLATE
BEGINNINGJN AUGUST
Legislature, In Passing on Pending
Hills and Policies 'Will Cut Into
Platform of Botli Candidates—-is
sues They Have Set Up Will ot Be
sues They Have Set Up Will .Not Be
Adjourn.
Atlanta, July 29.—Immediately fol
lowing adjournment of the legislature
according to arrangements now made,
Governor Hardwick will take the
stump and make as many campaign
opoeones through the state as time
una demands of his ohice will permit
Yv'hile no definite announcement
Horn the Walker headquarters has
oeeu made, the understanding is that
Mr. Walker, also, will begin a speak
mg tour about the same time. Both
candidates will be accompanied by
newspaper representatives.
Speculation now is whether or not
mere will, by force of circumstances,
be a change in the line-up of the
Walker campaign program by virtue
or prouaoie developments in the leg
islature.
One of the principal Walker planks
is repeal of me tax equalization law,
and beyond any reasonable doubt that
law will have been repealed before
the legislature adjourns.
Another of his plans is payment of
the pensions to Confederate Veterans,
ami no reduction in the amount of
class of pensioners. Whether or not
that will remain a campaign issue de
pends on the rapidity with which the
legislature works.
Governor Hardwick has taken a po
sition against the payment of pen
soin money to widows who, many
years after the war, married vet
erans “with one foot in the grave,”
and in that respect he stand for purg
iiig the pension rolls. A bill has got
ten half way through the legislature
providing for that change in the
pension lists, and it remains whether
or not some source of revenue is pro
vided which will raise the funds with
which to make the payment. That,
too, enters into the Walker platform
count, for Mr. Walker platform count
for Mr. Walker announces that, while
he favors the expenditure of the mon
ey, he is opposed to any further taxa
tion rather that he insists on a re- j
duciion of the present taxes. If, the
Assembly passed the Golucke-Bird
luxury bill—which will raise about
three and a half million annually—
it will stipulate payments of the
pensions now due, and prompty in
the future when they become due.
Therefore, assuming that the bill will
be passed, which now is about a 60-
50 chance, two more planks will have
been taken from the Walker platform
So far as the Hardwick platform is
concerned, thr.t also will stand to be
altered somewhat by further legisla
tive operation.
w 4*o torees admit or not, it
it is now a foregone conclusion tnat
the equalization law as an issue will j
be removed from politics so far as the
legislature can remove it next
week. Immediately following that, in
the House pf Representatives, will
come a test of strength to determine
whether or not there will be some
new taxing machinery set up, for it
may now be taken as a certainty that
the filibuster crowd against repealing
Monday, the bill will be passed by
against repealing the equalization law
are going to be swept off their feet
by Tuesday evening and by Wednes
day morning the Carswell income tax
proposition with a general under
standing that a three per cent limit
is to be accepted, is going to be put
on passage. Taken up one side and
down the other, a size up of the house
Indicates that this or some amended
form of the same bill will be passed
and put up to the Senate. That
measure retains the advalorem taxa
tion system, with a further limitation
than at present implied if not direct
ly expressed and it will have a pretty
goori chance of getting through the
senate, where as In the lower, there
is a good strength among the equal!
zation repealists for it.
In one swoop, therefore, that will
have removed another of the planks
from the Hardwick platform and a
couple more from the Walker plat
form, since. In respect to the former,
it supplies a new taxing machinery
while, in respect to the latter it pro
vides for “reaching Invisible wealth”
and promises that, at least to reduce
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VOLUME 4L
WAYNESBORO NEGRO
KILLED IN SAVANNAH
BUPOLICEMAN
John Henry Walker Shot and Killed
by Policeman Gebhardt in Savannah
Last Sunday Night.
0
John Henry Walker, a negro man
from Waynesboro, was the victim of
a Savannah policeman’s pistol last
Sunday night. He had been living in
Savannah for several months and
just could not keep out of trouble.
The following from the Savannah
News gives the details of the shoot
ing:
“A pitched gun battle at Barnard
and Liberty streets between Patrol
man C. R. Gebhardt and a negro at
1.45 o’clock yesterday morning re
suited in the killing of the negro, J.
H. Walker, who was shot below the
left shoulder, tne bullet causing,, in
stant death.
“As Officer Gebhardt entered Barn
ard street from Liberty he challenged
Walker as is the custom of the police
in cases of negroes prowling about af
ter midnight. The negrojmirsed him,
and turning ran down Liberty lane.
Officer Bebhardt followed the negro.
As he turned into the lane the negro
doubled back and fired two shots at
the officer then ran across Barnard
street and east on Liberty street. Two
shots were fired by Officer Gebhardt,
As the regro reached Jefferson street
two more shots were fired, the second
striking the negro in the back below
the left shoulder. He toppled over at.
the corner staggering a few steps be
fore he dropped,
“The body was removed to the Mon
rod undertaking parlors.
“It was later found that the same
negro in company with two others,
had been stopped by Officers Harris,
Anderson and McCord a hall! hour
earlier. The officers were investiga
ing a report of gambling at a place
on Guerard street and questioned
three negroes they met, one of whom
had a package under his arm. When
the officers questioned them the ne
gro with the package attempted to
conceal his parcel between his legs.
Officer Harris took the package from
him and a “billy” dropped out. The
negro ran and was successful in get
ting away. The negro shot by Officer
Gebhardt was identified by Officers
Harris and McCord as being the same
man who eluded them a half hour
earlier.
“The revolver used by the negro
Las not been found and it is assum
ed that it was picked up by some mem
her of the large crowd which gather
ed quickly following the shooting. A
number of witnesses, however, state
that they heard the six shots fired
while one witness to the shooting
claims to have seen the negro running
with the gun in his hand.
“Officer Gebhardt is a new man on
the force, having been in the depart
ment but three weeks.
“His case has been placed on the
docket this morning when he will be
tried on a technical charge of mur
der.”
BERRIEN TO APPEAL
NEWTRIALMOTIONON
TEGHNIGAL6ROUNDS
A bill of exceptions will be filed
Monday by counsel for R. N. Berrien,
Jr., under sentence of from three to
five years in the pententiary for mis
appropriation of sttae school funds, to
the verdict reached several months
ago by a jury in the Fulton superior
court, it was learned Saturday.
Judge John D. Humphries denied
Berrien a new trial in a decesion hand
ed down Monday, after considering
a motion submitted by the law firm
of Watkins, Russell & AsbllT.
The bill of exceptions will be of
fered for Judge Humphries’ signa
ture and then an amended billl will
be presented to the state court of ap
peals.
The bill of exceptions alleges cer
tain technical errors, said to have
been made during the trial of the
banker —Atlanta Journal.
@I)C ©rue Ciliitn.
MILLEN HOG FARM
CITED AS EXAMPLE
FOB THE FARMER
Will Market $6,400 Worth of Register
ed Pigs Each Spring and Fall.—Ev
ery Animal a Living Advertisement
of Jenkins County Possibilities.
It would be to the interest of ev
ery farmer in Jenkins county to make
a special trip out to the G. G. Brin-
Brinson’s farm ana study the full
blood Hampshire hogs belonging to
G. G. &W. H. Brinson. There is noth
ing finer in the State of Georgia. It is
a beautiful sight to see these hogs,
every one of them perfectly marked.
The history of this herd and the
evidences of the possibilities of pure
bred stock is quite interesting, and
for the benefit of the farmers of the
county we are going to publish it in
these columns:
In 1919, Mr. G. G. Brinson purchas
ed his first brood sow, paying $150.00
for it. In speaking of this purchase,
Mr. Brinosn says his friends even
went to an ordinary to try him for
lunacy. However, it does not seem
to have worked out that way. In less
than four months Mr. Brinson sold
six pigs for $150.00 and had three
gilts left. In two years the Brin
son Bros, sold $720.00 from that same
sow and had seventy-six of her de
cendants left
In 1920 they purchased at an auc
tions from Josuhua Smith & Son States
boro, Ga., a Cherokee strain boar for
$65.00 Later they bought a boar, a
three months old pig, from Ole Rosen
quest & Son, Princton, 111, for SSO.
This is a short history of the start
ing of this wonderful herd.
Since then they have bought a
five months old pig for $250.00 This
pig was sired by Victor Wickware,
Victor Wickware was sired by Lt.
Wickware, the board that now heads
the herd of F. E. Oliver, Cantrel, La.
Every pig on the place is registered
and is a living advertisement of what
Jenkins county is capable of doing
in the way of pure-bi'ed stock.
In speaking of his plans, Mr. G. G.
Brinson states they are planning to
breed fifty sows for next March far
row. It is expected to put four hun
dred porkers cn the market next
spring and four hundred additional
in the fall. This will all be done on
a two hundred-acre farm.
To give an idea of what this means
in dollars and cents if these pigs are
put on the market at ten months old
.cighing two hundred pounds, at 8
cents per pound, would be $6,400 in
the spring and a similar amount in
the fall. In addition, the very best
of the herd would be sold at much bet
ter prices for breeding purposes.
When asked how he expected to do
this. Mr. Brinson states it was neces
sary to furnish green feed by plant
ing oats, rye and rape. He suggests
cutting the place up into patches of
about eight acres to the patch. These
are planted as above in the fall. In
the spring plant the same patches in
to brown-top millet cat-tall millet and
Sudan gress. It is best to have a dif
ferent feed lot for each patch and
have the hogs fed at night froffi each
lot.
In addition the hogs will be fatten
ed on corn meal. Mr. Brinson states
that he considers corn meal with the
proper amount of water, one of the
best hog feeds that can be secured.
Plans are now being made to sell
two carloads of porkers early in Sep
tember. These are now being fed on
green corn and Java peas.
At the present there are agout 250
in the herd—Millen News.
SCREVEN’S FIRST BALE
OF COTTON FOR 1922
Sylvania, Ga., July 29.—The earli
est bale of cotton ever brought into
Screven county was brought in today
by J. A. Mills of Sylvania.
The weevil in this section of the
county will probably make 12,000
bales which is far below an average
crop.
In bringing In the first bale of the
season Mr. Mills states that he has
at least twenty more bales on his
large plantation that are now open
and ready for picking. Business con
ditions in this section seem to be
gradually improving.
Waynesboro, Ga., August 5. i 922
HOUSE VOTES 104 TO
86 FOR REPEAL OF
TAX EQUALIZATION LAW
Georgia House Passes BiU to Repeal
Tax Equalization Law By Exactly
Required Majority.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug 2.—Politics in
Georgia reconvened today. The House
of Representatives passed the bill re
realing the state tax equalization
law by a vote of 104, exactly the num
ber of votes the constitutional rules
require, to 86 against it. Then the
state senate adjourned “out of hon
or in respect to the House of Repre
sentatives.”
That the Senate, to which the bill
after winning a further technical fight
was immediately transmitted, will
pass the measure there is no longer
the slightest doubt. In fact, while or
dinarily it would take only 26 Senate
votes, it is now claimed the bill will
poll 30 to 31 votes in the Senate.
There will, of course, be a pretty stiff’
fight on the question of the right of
the Senate to even consider the mea
sure again, and that will be fought;
on the ground that it will require a
two thirds vote to admit the measure
to further consideration. That will
be the senate, which will require on
ly a vote of 26, which the bill will
get, to place it on its passage in the
upper body.
Among the incidental business
transacted in the house was a re
port of the penitentiary committee
that the prison reform bill presented
by its special subcommittee be pass
ed back to the House with the recom
mendation that it do pass. It is
question whether the rules committee
will place the bill in time for action
before it is too late to be gotten
through the senate. The appropria
tions committee, which some time
ago adopted a resolution declining to
report favorably on any appropriation
bill, today broke over that resolution
by recommending for passage bill to
appropriate enough money to pay the
losses to the several counties who suf
fered through the peculations of R.
N. Berrien, Jr., in the school warrant
shortage case.
CULTS WILL NOT RUN
FOR CONGRESS FROM
THE FIRST DISTRICT
Ernest Allen Cutts, who has been
urged to run for congress from the
First district, today issued a state
ment in which he says he will not
make the race. The statement in
full is:
While deeply appreciating the
compliment paid my by various
delegations who have requested
me to run for congress, and the
kind assurances of many friends
who have telephoned me from all
over the city urging me to make
the race, I find on close investi
gation that it would not be wise
for me to run.
Having 'been away from my
business practically the entire
cotton season, at least for six or
seven months, attending to the du
ties of my national office, I find
that my business requires my
close attention and my correspon
dents and cotton friends expect
from me very close application to
their business.
I am not a politician—have nev
e r entered politics, and do not be
lieve I would be justified in mak
ing the sacrifice that would be en
tailed upon me should I assume
other responsibilities.
While thanking my friends for
the assurance that I would win
in the race, I cannot leave my
business and must stay right at
my post of duty—Savannah Press
August 1.
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1922 ESTIMATE PLACED
AT 11,449,000 BALES 8Y
GOVERNMENT AUGUST I
Estimate Based on July Report Which
was 70.8 Per Cent, NormaL —Condi
tion of Georgia Crop Shown to be
54 Per Cent.
Washington, Aug. I.—The year’s cot
ton crop was placed at 11,449,000
bales of 500 pounds gross weight in
the second forecast iof the season
announced today by the department
of agriculture, basing its estimate on
the condition of the crop July 25,
which was 70.8 per cent, of a nor
mal.
There was a decline of 0.4 points in
condition from June 25 to July 2.
The condition of June 25 having
been 71.2 per cent, of a normal, on
which the first forecast of the season,
11,665.000 bales of 500 pounds gross
weight, was based. The average
change in the last ten years between
June 25 and July 25 was a decline
of 3.9 points.
The final outturn of the crop, the
department announced, may be larg
er or smaller than forecast, today as
conditions developing during the re
mainder of the season prove more or
less favorable than average. Crops
of previous years and the July 25
condition in those years follow:
Year crops . Condition
1921 7,953.641 64.7
1920 13,439,603 74.1
1919 11,420,763 67.1
1918 12,040.532 73.6
1917 11.302,375 70.3
1914 16.134,390 76.4
(Record)
1912-21 12,279,348 72.9
(Average)
The acreage of cotton abandoned to
July 1 was summarized at 7.1 per
cent., the department announced in a
supplemental statement issued in re
sponse to senate resolutions.
County agents reported 80.2 per
cent, and exporters of the crop re
porting board estimated 71.3 per cent
of the total acreage was infested by
the boll weevil.
WEEKLY COTTON LETTER
(Savannah Cotton Factorage Co.)
Savannah, Ga., Aug. 1. —This was
a big day in the cotton market. The
following Government reports were
published and the market advanced
106 to 110 points (net) over yester
day’s close:
Crop condition as of July 25th—
-70.8 per cent.
Estimated Yield per acre—ls 7.2 lbs.
Estimated Cr0p—11,499,000 bales.
Acreage Abandoned—7.l per cent.
The 801 l Weevil Report was not
complete, but indicated an average
damage of about 25 per cent in this
section up to date.
The futures markets advanced
rapidly as soon as the condition fig
ures came out, as they proved to be
about 3 points below most private es
tiniates of the past week, indicating
a yield of 500,000 to 1,000,000 bales
less than the trade expected.
We give the following statistics as
information:
Spinners’ Takings of American Cotton
American Mills, this season, 6,307,-
594 bales.
American Mills, last year 4,931,-
786 bales.
Foreign Mills, this season, 6,532,-
623 bales.
Foreign Mills, last year, 5,336,344
bales
801 l Weevil damage to 1921 crop
—3O per cent
801 l weevil damage to 1922 crop
—(not yet completed)
Acreage abandoned in 1921—1,169,-
000 or 3.6 per cent.
Acreage abandoned in 1922—2,474,
000 o r 7.1 per cent. This large aban
donment due to Spring flooods.
The carry-over is back to pre-war
size, or less than 2,000,000 bales, and
if we, make only 11,000,000 it is need
less to say that satisfactory prices
should prevail throughout the season.
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NUMBER 20.
LONNIE FRANKLIN
RESIGNSAS SOLICITOR
AUGUSTA CIRCUIT
I
George Haines and Isaac Peebles, Jr.
Immediately Announce for This
Office.
Solicitor General A. L. Franklin,
of the Augusta circuit, who is unop
posed for the judgeship of this circuit
yesterday formally announced that he
would tender his resignation as so
licitor to the governor to become ef
fective October 6, 1922,
Following Mr. Franklin’s announce
ment Hon George Haines and Hon.
Isaac Peebles, .Jr., announced their
candidacy for the solicitor’s office. It
was reliably stated that Ben E. Pierce
prominent local attorney, would also
become a candidate. Mr. Pierce has
not announced for the office yet, mut
he is expected to make some defi
nite announcement today.
Solicitor Franklin made the follow
ing statement yesterday morning in
explaining his position in the mat
ter:
“The question now comes up as to
how long I shall serve as Solicitor
General of the Augusta Circuit, hav
ing under the rules of the White Pri
mary Committee been practically as
sured of flfce Judgeship of this Cir
cuit. The natural and ordinary
course for me to pursue under the cir
cumstances is to serve as Solicitor
General until January 1, 1923, when
I am to begin as Judge of the Circuit.
However, there seems to be those who
desire to succeed me as Solicitor Gen
eral and the consessus of opinion is
that the people of the Circuit desire
to select by ballot my successor to
begin January 1, 1923, and serve for
two years, rather than leave the ap
pointment for such term to the Chief
Executive, which would necessarily
give to the appointee the advantage
of all those who may desire to run
for the long term. To. do this the
law requires that there must be a
vacancy in the office thirty days be
fore the general election in Novem- i
her 1922. To make this possible will
require a financial sacrifice on my
part that I do not at all feel able to
make at this time;nSuT~ln order to
give the people of the circuit a chance j
to vote for my successor as Solicitor .
General for my unexpired term of |
wto years, beginning, January 1, 1923 J
I shall tender to the Governor my res
ignation to take effect October 6, 1922
A. L. FRANKLIN,
Solicitor General, Auusta Circuit.
—Augusta Chronicle.
MAN ESCAPES ARREST
BUT WHISKEY CAR IS
CAUGHT NEAR SYLVANIA
Sylvania, Ga., July 28.—Having had
a tip Chief of the County Police
Dickey and other officers captured a
Buick six roadster this morning load
ed with liquor. They lay in wait for
it after a detour of the Dixie High
way. There was one white man and
one negro in the car, and as it ap
proached the top of the hill the negro
whose name was Ben Williams, was
sent down to see if anyone was watch
ing and of course was nabbed. The
white man becoming suspicious turn
ed the other way, at a high rate of
speed.
The negro was put in the county
automobile and Chief Dickey with
Chief Coursey of the city police, took
out after th~ Buick, while Mr. Dolan
of the county police force, Mr. Brew
er city court sheriff and Green Dickey
went across to Jackson Burrough
Bridge: to cut them off, the Buick was
unfortunate, however in striking a
bog hole between Newington and Blue
Springs where it was captured. The
white man whose name was not learn
ed jumped from his Buick when he
saw the officers approaching and took
to the woods, he was not caught. It
was not learned where the car came
from The oar contained 192 quarts
of rye and Scotch whiskey.
A Cadillac roadster which was con
fiscated here sometime ago was sold
at public sale Saturday and brought
$1,290.
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RADIO FANS DRAY SOON
REAR PRARIE DOG CON
CERTS FROM MONTANA
This, It Is Believed, W ill Be Done in
the Near Future, According to An
nouncement from Washington.
Washington, Aug. I.—“ The next
number on tonight’s program will be
a piccolo imitation entitled “The
Whistling Chorus, by the Rocky Moun
tain Marmot Singing Society of one
million voices.”
Such may be the announcement to
astonish the ears of any number of
listening radio fans in the near future
if a proposal before the National Park
Service of the Interior Department
is carried through. It will be possibly
the most novel treat that the num
berless radio am&teus could ask
whose apparatus would tune in with
a broadcasting station in Glacier
National Park, in the heart of the
Rockies, which would catch and trans
mit the shrill whisting of the small
dog-like animals.
Wiithin fifty miles of the park, in
the northern part of Montana near
the Canadian border, resides the larg
est colony of the animals on the
North American continent. It is es
timated there are close to a million
of them, living in dense population.
On still nights, the wonderful shrill
ing chorus of the piccolo-like voices
is carried miles on the rare mountain
air, and tourists in the camps enjoy
the evening programs immensely.
It has been proposed that a receiv
ing set and broadcasting station of
200 watt capacity, sending at a 360
metre wavelength be installed close
enough to catch the voices clearly.
Such power would' be capable of
sending throughout a radius of 1,500
miles, and could be picked up alrqpst
form coast, to coast.
The perfection of the radio now sug
guests the iclea of broadcasting this
volume of weird whistiling music,
which has a tone all its own, to radio
receivers as far as the waves will
carry.
When the full chorus is on it
sounds as if a whole city of people
were playing piccolos in concert. The
radio fan who is lucky enough to lis
ten in will not have a bit of trouble
in recognizing the marmot voices ev
en though no preliminary announce
ment is made from the broadcasting
station.
AUGUSTANS SEND
DELEGATION TO
RE-OPEN PRIMARY
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. I.—Citizens of
Augusta are here today to discuss the
question and endeavor to obtain from
the state executive committee a rul
ing that will reopen the primary en
trance dates in order that candidates
for solicitor general in the Augusta
circuit may run in the September
primary. The matter will be, it is un
derstood, presented to Chairman W.
J. Vereen, who could not be reached
today.
The statement is made that Hon.
A. L. Franklin, the solicitor general,
who will become judge to succeed
Judge Henry C. Hammond, will ten
der his resignation as solicitor gen
eral about Oct. 1. If the primary is
not reopened for candidates it will
mean that the race for his successor
will have to run in the general elec
tion, when the vote would be open to
participation by negroes as well as
whites, and it is the desire, so it is
said, that such a contingency be avert
ed by placing the race in the Septem
her primary.
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