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VOLUME 43.
Thursday Afternoon Will be Half Holiday
During Summer-Stores and Business
Houses Agree to Close June to August
Waynesboro business men signed a
petition this week to close their places
of business from June Ist to August
15th, thus giving their clerks and em
ployees a half holiday on Thursday
cf each week. Quite a number of
towns and cities are doing this and
thru the efforts of some of the busi
ness men of the city headed by John
McElmurray the closing movement
was successfully put over in Waynes
boro. People from the country com
ing into the city to buy their supplies
or to do shopping will remember
th t beginning next Thursday, June
sth the stores of the city will be
closed from 1 o’clock . The merchants
and places of business have met ev
ery demand upon them by various or
ganizations and appeals to close for
this or that and now that they have
agreed to close a half day on Thurs
day help them by doing your trading
early before the closing hour—one
o’clock p. m. It may be a
little awkward or hard at first
but try to help them make this
movement a success. Their employees
will appreciate your help along this
line. The petition and those who sig
ned are:
“We, the undersigned merchants and
places of business houses and offices,
gree to close each Thursday at ONE
o’clock from JUNE Ist to AUGUST
15th, in order that our employees may
have some recreation during the hot
veather.
Eilison & Seeger
W, G. Harrell, Jr., Jeweler
Steinberg’s Dept. Store.
Neely Estate.
J. F. Humphrey
B. L. Foster
F. E. Culpepper
Yelldell & Williams
Hill & Guess
Lively & Skinner
Palmer-Lewis Hdw. Co.
Stewart Furniture Co.
B. Grablowsky
Branan’s Drug Store.
S. Weintraub.
Johnston’s Drug Store
J. R. Sessions
F. A. Gibson & Co.
H. Sperling
Citizens Bank
Burke County Supply Co.
Stretch-a-Nickel
Cox’s Drug Store
Wimberly & Co.
John F. McElmurray
€. H. Parnell
Economy Store
M. A. Goldberg & Son.
S. Dolin
H. G. McElmurray
Cash Mea,t Market
Pat Smith
J. M. Busbee
E. H. & F. H. Blount
Gary Vinson
R. K. Hurst.
Evans Pick & Pay
Stembridge’s Drug Store
Frank S. Palmer
P. L. Corker Sons
First National Bank
R. A. Templeton
Waynesboro Drug Co.
Jas. H. Whitehead
Waynesboro Grocery Co.
T. W. Brady
City Fruit Store
Mills & Lovett
W. M. Fulcher & Co.
The Morris Hdw. Co.
Waynesboro Bottling Works
S. Schwarweiss
H. C. Daniel
J. L. Oglesby
Waynesboro Coca-Cola Bot. Co.
Durden & Carswell
M. Daitch
New Market
Robt. H. Bergeron
Planters Warehouse
Waynesboro Warehouse
C. W. Skinner
Bank of Waynesboro.
Burke County Insurance Co.
H. D. Barnes.
Jinx Follows Bill
Reynolds’ Team in
Games This Week
Tuesday Bill Reynolds’ aggregation
went over to Wrens for a return game
of baseball and my what drubbnig they
Veceived. With Pantone and Collier
doing the battery work the game went
along very nicely until about the end
cf the game when Wrens made ten
runs in one inning and the jig was up.
The score was 19 to 8 or 9. The local
team was not daunted by the defeat,
but sallied forth again on Thursday af
ternoon to meet Midville on the local
diamond -and before a large number cf
fans played a ten inning game the
score being tied.
Both teams were evenlv matched
and the crowd enjoyed second
game of the season on the local dia
mond.
Mr. Reynolds is not worrying over
the outlook of his team and he wont
be jinzed again if his optimism means
anything for his telm will enliven the
long summer days and our people may
look for some good baseball.
Formal Opening
Beall Springs
Sunday, June 1
The formal opening of Beall Springs
Hotel will take place on Sunday, June
Ist. This hotel has been thoroughly
remodled and put in first class shape
for the opening under the new mana
gement of Mrs. P. S. Tinsley. On the
opening day, Sunday, June 1, a bar
becue dinner will be served a,nd a cor
dial welcome will be extended to all
old friends and new ones who come
on the opening. Beall Springs water
is benfiecial for sufferers of kidney ail
ments and many people go there just
to drink the water. Many additions
have been made and have everything
possible has been done for the comfort
of the guests.
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B. H. JONES,
' Grand Inner Guard Knights o>f
Pythias of Georgia
B. H. Jones Is Now
Grand Inner Guard
K. of F. of Georgia
The session of the Grand Lodge
Knights of Pythias which was held in
Rome last week was one of the most
successful and largely attended con
ventions ever held. It was the 54th
a,nnual convention and much work
was accomplished by the meeting, the
subject of an orphans home attract
ing much attention. The reading of
resolutions, reports of various commit
tees, a memorial service, election of
officers and installation and selection
of the next place of meeting being
some of the work before them.
Brunswick was unanimously chosen
as the convention city for 1925.
The officers elected were:
George R. Coffin, Augusta, Grand
Chancellor.
John H. Lewis, Columbus, Grand
Vice-Chancellor.
W. G. Moore, Atlanta, Grand Pre
late.
W. H. Leopold, Savannah, Grand K.
of R. & S.
R. C. Norman, Washington, Grank
M. of E.
J. C. Sipple, Savannah, Grand Mast
er of Arms.
B. H. Jones, Waynesboro, Grand
Inner Guard.
R. A. Denmark, Rome, Grand Outer
Guard.
The delegates from Waynesboro
were B. H. Jones, J. D. McNair and H.
M. Blount. Mrs. George Murrow went
as delegate from Pythian Sister Tem
ple No. 10 and was elected Grand Pro
tector of the Pythian Temple of Geor
gia. This was a decided compliment
to the Waynesboro Temple and Mrs.
Murrow’s friends are congratulating
her upon her election.
Forty-Five Names
Enrolled at the
Meeting Monday
Capt. Evan Howell McElmurray
murray held a meeting at the court
house Monday night to' explain the or
ganization of the military company
proposed for Waynesboro and to se
cure names of those who wished to
join. He had forty-five names before
the meeting was over and enough in
terest was manifested to show that it
will be only a very short time before
the unit will be organized and accept
ed by the national guard of the state.
The organization of this outfit—an
Amunition Train and Combat Troop—
will mean much to the city and coun
ty and Waynesboro will again boast as
fine military organization as it had in
the days gone by. The officers who
will be associated with Capt. McEl
murray are Capt. P. W. Thompson,
and Lt. H. C. Hatcher.
Officers Capture
Two Big Stills in
Burke Wednesday
Deputy Sheriff Broxton and Skinner
captured two big stills in the county
Wednesday. One was on the Gresham
place in the swamp on Brier creek,
eight miles from the ciy. The other
still was taken from Hopeful branch
about ten miles from the city. Both
still were brought to the city. They
had a capacity of about 75 glalons
each, 2,000 gallons of beer was also
destroyed.
No arrests were made altho the of
ficers are pretty certain they know the
operators.
DEATH OF JACOB PHINIZY
AUGUSTA CAPITALIST
EARLY FRIDAY MORNING
- News of the death of Mr. Jacob Phinizy, of Augusta,
was received in Waynesboro early Friday morning. Mr.
Phinizy was one of the wealthiest citizens of the state and
was interested in a large number of enterprises in Augus
ta and was president of the Georgia Railroad Bank. His
death was a great shock to the whole state.
£rue Cißjxn,
Fullbright Says
Governor Opposes
Efforts to Improve
Atlanta, May 24.—The annual report
of State Tax Commissioner Henry J.
Fullbright, which came from the press
today, makes the direct charge that
the governor’s office openly opposed
the efforts of the tax commissioner’s
office to ca,rry into effect improvements
in the state system based on years of
experience. The report says further,
that to again make recommendation
of improvements and betterments
would be not only futile, but improp
er “in the face of the declared hosti
lity on the part of the governor to this
law in its entirety.”
That portion of Mr. Fullbright’s re
port which makes these charges and
which constitutes one of the most di
rect and possibly drastic departmen
tal papers ever issued by a state de
partment, recites the law under which
the state tax commissioner is required
annually to “investigate all matters of
taxation and recommend such' changes
and alterations in the tax laws of the
state as in his judgment he may deem
best to bring about a more perfect
and thorough system cf taxation or
valuation for state and county taxa
tio,” afid then proceeds with a recita
tion of the political complexion of the
tax agitation as follows:
“In the ninth annual report the
state tax commissioner specially urg
ed amendments to the constitution so
as to authorize the imposition of taxes
upon incomes and the classification
of property for taxing purposes. He
further urged revision of the present
law providing for reviewing and
equalizing tax values under the ad
valorem systme . Attention was di
rected to some of the defects in the
present law, and remedies were sug
gested. The recommendation for con
stiiutional authority to classify prop
erty and impose taxes upon incomes
resulted from a careful study of tax
ation generally for the past several
years, in the light of the experiences
of rnher states and the needs of this
one. The recommendation for changes
in our present administrative laws,
were the result of four years’ experi
ence in the administration of that law.
which under the circumstances, wa3
thought sufficient to qualify him to
point cut the defects apd to suggest
remedies. These recommendations did
not receive favorable consideration at
the hands of the chief executive, and
the bill which was introduced to carry
them into effect met, not only met
with disapproval, but open opposition
from that official.
“The suggested eonstiutional amend
ments, not having received the fav
orable consideration of the general
assembly at the regular session of
1923, were later incorporated in the
report made to the extraordinary sess
ion by the special commission appoint
ed by the governor to consider the
subject, and of which commission the
state tax commissioner was not a
member.
“These then received the support
of the governor, but failed to finally
receive the necessary majorities in the
two branches of the general assem
bly. Under the circumstances narrat
ed, ic would be highly presumptuous
for the state tax commissioner to make
any it commendations on matter cov
ered by the report of the special tax
coinnrssion. To again recommend
the necessary changes in the machin
ery act, known as the tax equalization
law to perfect its adminstrative fea
tures, would be futile, if not improp
er, in the face of the declared hostili
ty of the governor to this law in its
entirety.”
liter reviewing the work of the tax
ing machinery for the state for the
year, and in conformiyt with the fore
going, Commissioner Fullbright closes
the teport—which includes the cus
tomary tables and a mass of interest
ing and valuable data on the indivi
dual counties—with merely a para
graph of “suggestions,” as follows:
“Since the inheritance tax laws of
Georgia impose no tav upon a transfer
made in contemplation of death, or up
on insurance policies when payable to
designed beneficiaries, the attention of
the governor and the general assem
bly is invited to the consideration of a
gift tax.
“In many cases inheritance taxes
are escaped when a person, realizing
that he will probably never recovre
from an illness, simply transfers both
the title and right of possession in his
property to the members of his fam
ily, which transfers become effective
prion to his death. In the case of in
surance policies it is necessary only
to have the beneficiary changed from
his estate to some individual member
of the family, and, under our law,
without regard to the amount of the
insurance, it escapes taxation. Both
matter could be easily remedied by
proper statutory enactment.”
er statutory enactment.”
The report shows the total assess
ment of property in Georgia to have
been $1,024,645,571 in 1923, compared
with $1,027,794,721 in 1922. The chief
losses were $5,854,677 on country real
estate, $5,497,316 on money and sol
vent debts, $2,165,709 on band shares
$3,885,702 on live stock, $1,398,632 on
automobiles and $1,148,976 on house
hold furniture.
The principal ga,ins were $12,490,632
on city real estate, $3,138,851 on manu
facturirig plans, $2,080,994 on mer
chandise and $625,308 on mineral and
timber leases.
An interesting feature of the report
Is a table showing that $30,467,468.96
(Continued on 2d. page)
Waynesboro, Ga., May 31, 1924
VOTE FOR THE SCHOOLS
For the past several weeks we have been calling your
attention to the school situation confronting the whole
jounty. The day of the election for an additional levy is
set for June 12—but two weeks off. There is not the
slightest danger of this additional levy failing to pass
except on account of negligence of the citizens. Unless a
majority of the registered votes are cast the election fails.
Then there must be two thirds of the ones voting in favor
of the extra levy. At whatever sacrifice we call upon the j
citizens to lay aside their business on this day and vote. A j
failure to vote is against measure.
The importance of this measure can not be too strong-1
ly emphasized. It would cripple our county for years to
come to cut short the school term. The fact is we could
never get over it. State School Superintendent Ballard in
his address the other night at the auditorium strongly
urged the consolidation of the schools of the county and a
•nine month’s term. Governor Walker before the Rotary
Club on Tuesday made a similar plea. The county board
has done its best. It is now squarely up to the people.
The teachers who have been re-elected could not possibly
live on a five month’s salary and would immediately re
sign. The standardization of the school would be with
drawn; our graduates could not enter college; it would
keep many people from coming to Waynesboro.
The failure to vote is against the levy—do not listen
to the few who talk about taxes ruining the country .An ad
ditional tax is not half so bad as illiterate children, as an
illiterate county.
There may be a few families who can afford to send
their children off to school, but the vast bulk of them can
not; there may be a few who could hire private teachers,
but the vast bulk of them can not; there may be a few who
can afford to let their children stay out of school, but the
vast bulk of them can not.
The Waynesboro High School has been on the accre
dited list of Southern Schools for the past five years—
this gives it a ranking in itself that is worth the addi
tional levy. It would automatically lose this classification
with a term of school under nine months. The high school
is turning out large classes every year; these are going
to the leading colleges and universities of the coutry—
seventy of these fine young people have graduated from
the high school within the last few years. With a five
month’s term it would take the high school pupils eight
years to get through the high school. Make it unanimous
and show the rest of the state that when it comes to a
question of schools, Burke is in the lead.
Once again—June 12th should find every registered
voter in the district at the polls. It is an important and
maybe even more so for the country people to respond to
this than the city. Let every rural patron rally to this
important movement.
Gov. Walker Makes
Address at Vidette
Vidette, Ga., May 29. —Gov. Clifford
Walker delivered the literary address
at the graduating exercises here to
the largest audience eyer gathreed in
the school auditorium. Although the
Governor had spoken at Midville and
Waynesbord during The day he was at
his best. His subject was “What is
the most important thing in your life.”
and in a sehorlarly and masterly man
ner pointed out to the class their re
lation to man and relation to God.
His illustrations were apt and fitting,
making the address, the strongest ev
er listened to on an occasion of this
kind. After his address diplomas
were handed, to the following students.
Rubye Murphy, Louise Thompson,
Ethel Davis, Elizabeth Rowland, Mait
land Martin, Gladys Mcßride, Andrew
Agerton, Julia,n Rowland, Richard
Smith, Robert Chance. These young
people delivered their addresses in a
most creditable manner. The gover
nor said he had attended exercises of
like manner* throughout the state, and
did not say to them all, what he was
saying to this class, that he had never
heard a. class, whose papers showed as
much clear keen thought, and prepa
ration and were delivered as well as
these.
The matthematcis medal offered to
high school student making highest av
erage was given Maitland Martin.
The school closes a very successful
year. Attendance has been best in its
history. Pupils have done good honest
work. Prof Fortney plaps higher at
lainments another year. The gover
nor paid a loving tribute to the un
selfish untiring work of Miss Eliza
beth Holt in the cause of education
throughout the state.
Gov. Walker was entertained by Mr.
and Mrs. It J. Peel. They had as
their guests to lunch. Gov. Clifford
Walker, MiVkdge Gresham, Cou.uy
School Superintendent, Dr. Bent, Prof
and Mrs. J. L. I-ortney, Rev and Mrs.
R. J. Kerr.
The baccalaureate sermon was
preached at the school auditorium to
a large congregation in a very able
manner by Rev. R. J. Kerr, pastor • i
the Associate I tformed Presbvt .' f an
church. His Un. me was following the
Star.”
Governor Walker
Spoke to Rotary
Club on Tuesday
Governor Clifford Walker spoke to
the Rotary Club at its luncheon hour
Tuesday being the guest of President
Frank Burney and the club on this oc
casion. The regular program was
omitted and the entire time given over
to the govrenor’s address, which was
upon a subject that is very close to
all of us—the education of the youths
of our city, county, state and nation.
Mr. Walker paid a very pretty tribute
to Woodrow Wilson during the course
of his remarks.
During the day the governor made
an address at Midville and again at
night at Vidette where he made the
literary address to the graduates of
that school.
Midville School
Closing Exercises
Midville, Ga., May 28.—The com
mencement exercises of the Midville
High school being Friday evening with
a recital by the music and expression
classes. Sunday morning the sermon
was preached by Rev. John Page Jones
of the Waynesboro Baptist church, in
troduced by Rev. Welborn Rountree.
Monday evening the class play “The
Wren” was presented to a large and
appreciative audience.
One of the most interesting features
of the commencement was the address
Tuesday afternoon by Gov. Clifford
Walker on “Education.”
On Tuesdya evening the graduating
exercises took place when hte follow
ing boys and girls were delivered di
plomas by Supt. A. W. Strozier: Paul
McNeely, Harry Wasden, Emory Sam
mons, Willie Drew, Robt, Nasworthy,
Florence Drew, Julia Thigpen, Sara
Pearl Franklin.
The baccaluareate address was de
livered by Col. W. W. Abbott, of
Louisville, introduced by Mr. R. L.
Wilburn, secretary of the board.
Althc the year just passed is con
sidered the best in the history of the
school, the prospects for the future
are still brighter, since work on the
new $60,000 school building will be
gun shortly.
Revival Services
Began at Baptist
Church Wednesday
Revival services are being conduct
ed at the Baptist church by Dr. E.
Pendleton Jones, of Virginia, and will
last for a week or ten days. The ser
vices began Wednesday evening and
each day and evening large crowds a,re
attending. The services are growing
in interest and before the end will
have done much good, not only for
the church, but the city as a whole.
Dr. Jones is the father of our local
pastor, Rev. John Page Jones, and
he is a splendid preacher, earnest and
sincere in his appeal he is making a
host of friends among his hearers.
He is assisted by Mr. T. W. Tinsley,
who is leading the singing.
The churches of the city will call
in their night services Sunday night
in order to allow their congregations
to worship with the Baptists.
Five and Ten Cent
Store to Operate
in City by August
Messrs Morris Grusin and Henry
Atopolsky, of Augusta, will operate
a, five and ten cent store in Waynes
boro opening for business about
August Ist. They have secured the
store now occupied by Mr. H. D.
Barnes and are now busy securing
their stocks for the opening. Such a
store'ought to do well in the city and
its career will be watched with much
interest.
GODIN SPECTACLE CO
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ST.
EYES THOBOUGHLY EXAMINED
Burke County as Seen From the Inside by
One From Outside-Newspaper man’s Story
of Progress and Development in the County
Waynesboro High
School Finishes
a Successful Year
The closing exercises of Waynesboro
Academy ended Monday e/ening with
the delivery of diplomas to the follow
ing high school students who had com
pleted their course of study: Wister
Black, Julian Burton, Lois Chance,
Helen Daniel, Isabel Crowder, Edith
Hatcher, Mayme Harrell, Neli Bill
house, Mary Greiner, Annie Laurie
Godbee, Maurine McNorrill, Ida Lou
Miller, Robert Oliver, Louise Porter,
Ross Stribling, Hensel Stembridge,
Fl,a,udie Thompson, Grace Taylor, Nel
lie Taylor, Annie Mae Wren rmd Pau
line Reese.
State School Suprintendf nt I . H.
Ballard made the baccalaureate ad
dress to the students and audience
which filled the auditorium to over
flowing and he was well received. He
gave the growth of the public school
system of education in Georgia from
k its earliest history. Mr. Ballard was
well qualified to handle this subject
as he had been a county school super
intendent for more than 25 pears prior
to becoming head of the state system
of education. His plea for educational
opportunities for the country boy as
well as the town boy was eloquent
and well chosen. He stressed the
value of education in no uncertain
terms and cited many instances of
the noted men of Georgia who had
gone to the top because of their sacri
fice to learn. Obscurity and poverty
did not deter them or hold them down
as they fought their way up “Communi
ties must make sacrifices for their
children,’ sa?d he, “and no state can
make sacrifices - for edueat
ing its children without producing
some noteworthy examples.”
Mr Ballard’s address was most
timely in view f the fact that Burk *
now fnces a shorteuPd school term un
less addition 1 taxes are levied to car
ry on the work.
Chairman Frank Burney, of the
Board of Trustees of Wayae ;boro,
made a sti.ng plea for the support of
the people cf the city and ojmry in
endorsing the enlarged educational
piopu m now before them.
Sunday morning at 11.30 Dr. C. A.
Campbell, pastor of the Druid Hills,
Presbyterian church, preached the com
mencement sermon. Dr. Campbell is
no stranger in our midst and he was
greeted with a large and appreciative
audience. His sermon was forceful
and a masterly handling of the par
able of the talents. He gave the boys
and girls who graduated good whole
some advice which could be taken to j
heart by all who heard him. He point
ed out that there was something mot e'
in life than just drifting along w ith
the tide.
Dr. Campbell preached again on
Sunday night at the Presbyterian
church which was filled to overflow
ing. His text was “Lift up yea,r heads,
O, ye gates, etc.” and he spoke on; the
“enthronement of Jesus.” in the hu
man heart, in the church, in national
life and in the world.
Several prizes offered the students
of the high school were delivered dur
ing the closing exercises Monday even
ing.
The school has had a most success
ful year with a good attendance and
the work has been most excellent
throughout the year, the number of
promotions attesting this fact. Plans
a,re now being made for a bigger and
better school next year. The teach
ers and pupils have earned a well de
served rest which they are now en
joying.
List of Students not tardy or absent
during the year:
Second grade—Billie Blount, Fourth
grade—Myrtice Lowrey, 6th grade—
Mary Frances Murrow, 7th grade—
Elizabeth Morris, Ernest Mundy. Bth
grade—Mary Bell, Kathleen Hatcher,
Lena Gresham, Bob Lovett, Ruby Min
cey; 9th grade—Douglas Black, Ellen
Callaway, Virginia Herrington, Sara
Lovett, Bill Taylor; 10th grade—Lu
cile Hatcher, Louisa Manau, Alden
Rowland, Charley Wallace; 11th grade
Wister Black, Nell Hillhouse.
Grade Pupils not absent but tardy—
Paul Lovett, William Callaway.
Grade pupils not tardy for the year
—First grade—Billie Black, Tommie
Barefield, Ed Byne, Lewis Heath,
Floyd Humphrey, Bob Taylor, Jones
Tomplin, Ben Willis.
Second grade—Edward Blount, Sara
Brinson, Edna Collins, Louise Collins,
Ouida Kelley, Bob Law, Mary March
man, Rountree Sessions, Elizabeth
Moseley, Shelly Sparks, Mary Dorothy
Tomlin.
Third grade—Miller Barefield, Rich
ard Black, W. A. Law, Richard Mose
ley, George, Murrow, J. R. Sessions,
G. B. Wallace, Alice Gray, Eloise Far
rar, Louise Ouom, Sarolyn Palmer,
Patsy Sparks; Fourth grade—Myrtice
Lowrey, Sadie Fulcher, Frances Evans
Isabel Cook, Harry Gage, Thomas Hat
cher, John Herrington, Jack Junior
Lance, Elizabeth Montgomery Carolyn
Mundy, Wright North, Richard Odom,
Burtno Stroup, Sidney Bates, Miidred
Cohen, Mary Osee Gordon, Virgil
Farrar, W . R. Thompson, Chester
Thompson. Jesse McCellan, Zannie
McClellan, Carswell Daniel, Mamie
Joe Ba.rgeron; Fifth grade—Edna
Dent, Billie Johnson, Inez Jones, Jane
Gresham, B. J. Hatcher, Vason Rain
water, Bertha Reese, Joe Sapp, Emma
Steadman, Edward Stembridge, Myrtle
Lee Stroup; Sixth grade—Emily Apple
white, Gladys Barefield , Carol Cox,
Dorothy Heath, Katharyn Southard,
Frances Stembridge, Annette Vaughn,
Janette Wallace, ‘ Edna Guy, Melvin
Jones, Milner Lively, Horace Odom,
Lilian Bargeron, Eloise Chance, Henry
Daniel, Jr.; Seventh grade—Nofvell
Kelley, Katharine Hillhouse, Mary
Cates, Virginia Morris, Jim Goddard,
Mary Willie Lively, Gladys North, Eli
zabeth Morris, Albert Thomap, Job
Gresham, John Dent, Metts McNair,
Ned Black, Frank Brinson, Pearl Bow
en, Lois Cook, Annie Goldberg, Eugene
Herrington, Ruby Woodward,
High school honor roll for the year
(Contineud on 2d page)
NUMBER 11
The Savannah Morning News of May
4th cairide core than a two p;.ye
article on Waynesboro and Burke
county, written by Mr. Dan G. Bickers,
associate editor of this great Georgia
and South Georgia daily newspaper.
Mr. Bickers spent several days visit
ing the different points of interest in
the city and county and could have
spent several weeks here if he had had
the time, but he covered the situation
very thoroughly and in a most pleas
ing manner. His story of Burke coun
ty from the inside as seen by one from
the outside is one that will appeal to
thousand? of people reached by this
great dailv exponent of Georgia and
this section of the state.
Alrea4y about fifteen counties have
been the subject of Mr. Bickers’ write
ups, and in every single instance these
counties have received benefits that
:n mey could not buy. The exploita
tion of Burke was well worth thous
ands of dollars to the county, but it
was the pleasure of the News to send
a man here to tell a true stor> of t.on
ditions as he found them and without
a single cent of cost to anyone.
“Burke county: little empire with
in itself,” was the title of Mr. Bickers
story and it is filled with revelations
all the way through. The Citizen is re
publishing it this week through the
courtesy of ihe News, anad cur p»vpie
and those woo did not see it in t» at
papei ill tavt the opportun ty *■» »-<e
what our city and county is really
doing.
Ihe Citizen vishes to express its ap
preciation of Mr. Bickers well written
story published in the News and to
say Hia» when the story is to'J again
that Mr. B. will find more and newer
things of interest as well as the solids
and substantials he found while here.
Burke county is not going to stay
still, with such publicity as given in
the News of the May 4th issue
President Coolidge
Signs Immigration
Bill Excluding Japs
Washington, May 26. —The immigra
tion bill was signed today by Presi
dent Coolidge.
Despite the provision making Japa
nese exclusion effective next July 1,
put into the measure over his vigor
ous opposition, the President decided
because of other considerations to give
the executive approval necessary to
spread the legislation on the statute
books.
It was pointed out that inasmuch
the present immigration law expires
on June 30 a veto might have made it
necessary to rush through an emer
gency measure in the closing hours of
the session.
Such a step, the President felt would
not be practicable in view of the tang
led legislative situation and the cer
tainty that any emergency provision
at amendment and possibly blocked al
together.
As soon as he had fixed his signature
to the bill, the President began pre
paration of a statement expressing his
disapproval of the failure of congress
to provide for a longer delay in the ef
fective date of Japanese exclusion.
State Weather and
Crop Conditions
Atlanta, Ga., May 28, 1924—Some
what warmer weather during the past
week caused an appreciable and gener
al improvement in crops, although
there was still too much rain in many
places, chiefly in the northwest, and
warmer nights would be more benefi
cial, The piean tempreatures this
week more nearly approached the nor
mal; more sunshine is needed, how
evre. Replanting cotton that hau been
killed by previous cool nights is nearly
finished; chopping is general in the
northern and central divisions and is
practically completed in the southern
division ; stands range from rather
poor in the north to fairly good in
the south; as a rule the crop is farily
well cultivated. Growth this week
was about the average to fairly good
5n nearly all sections, though the
plants are still comparatively small
and late. Lice are very numerous in
many counties. Weevil, however, up
to date have been reported in very
few places (5 correspondents out of
200 mention them for the first time
this week). Planting corn is under
way in bottom lands stands are irre
gular, and worms are doing consider
able damage; the crop improved this
week. Harvesting oats has commnec
ed; wheat is heading. White potatoes
are mostly good, though potatoes bee
tles are numerous digging continues.
Transplanting sweet potatose made
good progress, though a scarcity of
plants is reported in the north. Pas
tures are good. Peanuts are still being
planted. Grapes, figs, and berries are
promising in the south, and melon
vines have small watermelons and can
taloui es on them in large numbers.
Shipments of dewberries will begin
next week. Some shipments of May
flower peaches were made during the
past week; the outlook for peaches re
mains highly favorable. , Truck crops
have improved, and peas, beans, let
tuce, onions, and spinach have be
come very abundant. Considerable
farm work was accomplished during
the week in spite of some scarcity fo
labor. *
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