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THE TRUE CITIZEN
TME SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST.
Waynesboro, Gju, May 3V, 1924.
THE THINGS THAT COUNT
There are days when after reading
the news from politics to sports dish
ed up in the most attractive manner,
you lay aside your paper without hav
ing had a single real thrill. You feel
flat and stale. You conclude that it
is tiresome old world full of crime,
scandals and money-grubbing.
Then, for want or something better
to do, you take up your paper again.
You are glancing through the back
pages when your eye lights on an item
which the editors did not think worth
playing up. But something in your
heart, or your imagination, or out of
your experience, plays it up to you. It
gives you that thrill that you have
been wanting.
You may laugh at it, or wonder at
it, or it may bring a frog in your
throat. The sum of it is that it makes
you conclude that this is a pretty de
cent old world, after all. The fact that
you have dug for the treasure, yourself
under the surface of the news, as you
have to dig for gold, makes it the
more satify ng.
Through a small item o) tais kind I
learned that Private J hr. J. Kenney
will not be resting in a pauper’s grave
this Memorial Day. He was buried
in one in April, 1922, by the authori
ties of Newark, New Jersey. They
did not even know he’d been in the
service. He died penniless and with
out friends.
A woman who thought that she
knew him spent nearly two years es
tablshing his identity. When she had
established it she took her informa
tion to Newark Post of the Legion,
which —a.ll honor to it!—acted prompt
ly. It gave Kenney a military funer
al. The body was taken from the un
honored grave in a flag-draped casket
on a gun caisson to the Cemetery of
the Holy Sepulchre, where a volly was
fired and Taps sounded over the ne v
and honored grave.
They say that news is something
new. Probably this incident is not
new, and therefore not worth much edi
torial playing up. However, the
thought that many times before vet
erans have saved the bodies of com
rades from remaining in pauper graves
did not interfere with the thrill I got
I shall have the thrill again when I
hear of another such instance.
What were Kenney’s vicissitudes, af
ter he left the service, I do not know.
The thing that counts was that lie was
in uniform and honorably discharged.
He had matched in step with other
men and shared their life as a sol
dier. This fact, though he died desti
tute and ni rags, gave his life dignity
to other ex-service men. .And all who
read this will understand the feelings
of the buddies of Newark Post as Taps
was sounded, and they knew that they
had saved his body from resting in a,
pauper’s grave for all the Memorial
Days to come.
Of all our national holidays, Memori
al Day, is. the most beautiful and its
significance the most heartfelt, tlt
comes in the most beautiful season of
the year, when spring’s promise is
turning into summer’s fruitulness and
flowers are in bloom.
It originated with Civil War Vet
erans who would set aside one day
for decorating the graves of all sol
diers. On this day we summon the
dead back into our thoughts pay
tribute to them for having died for
their cause. Flowers will not bring
them back to life in the body, only to
life in our minds. So we are really
doing something for ourselves as well
e,s for them through revitalizing the
memory of their deeds and sacrifice.
Our imagination transports us to
Gettysburg, with its rows of white
crosses, and overseas to other rows
of white crosses on the battlefieds of
France. The ones in France and the
cnes of the men who served in the War
with Spain remind us how, the frater
nity of blood against a common foe
has reunited a country which was di
vided a,gainst itself, with brother shed
ding blood in the Civil War.
Long after the Civil War, bitterness
remained alive. The South thought of
flowers only for the Confederate dead;
the North, only for the Federal dead.
The South saw American heroism
at high water mark in Pickett’s
charge; and the North saw American
heroism at its high water mark in the
repulse of Pickett’s charge.
For a long time it was hard for the
people at home in the South to under
stand that a Northernor could be he
roic at all and the people at home in
the North to understand that a South
erner could be heroic at all. It al
ways happens that bitterness at home
is stronger than at the front, where
soldiers test the mettle of the soldiers
of the other side in battle.
When you fight a man in a clinch for
four years as the Northerner fought
the Scuthernor you have a close-quar
ter opportunity of knowing, what kind
of man he is. So American manhood
tested American manhood in that fra
toricidal struggle. The manhood of
both North and Scuth was in France.
When a G. A. R. veteran said to a
World War veteran:
“We had a stiffer job than you had
because we had to fight Americans,”
tne youth had to yield the poiut to
the elder.
It the Germans had fought to the
bitter end with the stubborness cf
Lee’s handful of starving battlaions
the World War might have lasted an
other year. The Germans fought well
till they saw the tide going against
them. Then they quit. Lee’s men kept
at it long after the tide had turned
against them.
Today the way that Grant’s men
fought and that Lee’s fought for the
faith that was in them Is a common
heritage of pride for us all as Ameri
cans. Grant was a great American
and Lee was, and their soldiers were
all Americans. As such for this ccur
age we honor them on Memorial Day.
The honor that we did them in France
was to fight/ as bravely against a for
eign foe as they had fought against
each other. From the Civil War we
learned the value of unity for which
we paid e,n enermous price, but not
too much if It were the only way to
keep us true to the best American
traditions.
It is not the ceremonies, the speech
es, the placing of the flowers upon
graves which alone counts in what
we get for ourselves our of service to
the dead. Whenever I look at the
grave cf a soldier who fell in battle
or died young, my respect so intensi
fied as I think of what he missed by
dying, as well as what he paid for
• ’ «' have gained.
the Civil War are
lived to see
jjUchildrcn, and
846 Campbell Stredren, grow
m gth and
* ]--t civil!
w.!omo-
■'
wonders undreamed of in Civil War
(toys. They have had life—tka mif
precious thing there is.
But those who fell at Gettysburg
or Cold Harbor never knew whether
Federal or Confederate won. They
never knew that we were to have wire
less or turbines or that there was to
be a Spanish or a World War. Am
the men who died in France never
knew whether or not we won the
World War They were never to stv
tl.eir homes again.
Before the living stretch the long
vista of years which stretched betere
'he C’vil War veterans in 18*>, fiftj
odd years ago. Veterans of the World
War, who will then be fathers, wjil
still be still living be living in 1980.
These long lived ones have a long way
yet to go . They will see many chang
es of whose nature we may as yet on
ly dream. As we decorate the grave
of our soldier dead fro mWashington’s
day to Pershing’s we must think of
how to keep worthy of what they did
for us and ho w to make the most of
life while we have It.—American Le
gion Weekly.
BURKE COUNTY AND ITS
SCHOOLS
The greatest, and in many instances
the only,, hope, of a section or a com
munity lies in the recreation of its edu
cational interests and enlargement of
its school system.
Burke county, one of the potentially
great counties of Georgia, is just
launching into a campaign for educa
tion and development that presages
great things, if the movement is
carried to conclusion. The Waynes
boro True Citizen, in outlining the
task before the people says:
Waynesboro and Burke county
are interested in the fact tr.at
something must be done to have
a rail session of Cm schools « f th
county ti-is fall and effort*, are
being made right ow to overcome
lb- * i: <ne funds j■ < ,•>
sary to carry on the work of the
schools. The situation is not en
tirely local, but a.lmost every coun
ty in the state is facing the same
question. Burke county will not
allow it schools to close or shorten
their school term of we know
them and the different districts of
the county will vote funds to make
up the deficit and carry on the full
length of time.
Burke county has been re-dis
trietdo by the Board of Education
according to the wishes of the peo
ple of the county and instead of
only ten, thus consolidating the
schools to the pest advantage of
f be children. The consolidation
was necessary to start the machin
ery in mot’on to vote a tax in
each of them to aid in keeping the
schools open for nine months.
Now it is clearly up to the peo
ple of the county to vote this added
taxation because it would be most
detremental to the schools to cur
tail the length of term and not
only to the schools would come
the hurt, but to business in gen
eral for it would be the worst
thing that could happen. Credits
would be affected and there is no
telling the bad effects.
Certainly the thinking people of
the country are not going to sta,nd
in the way of education of their
youths when it comes to a matter
of dollars and cents, even if it
does hurt on account of the in
crease in many instances. It
would be nothing short of a crime
to allow any such a thing come
to pass and Burke county people
are not going to fail when the
time comes to remedy the serious
situation tha,t now confronts us.
Burke county has been the worst
hit of any county in the state, with
the possible exception of Laurens by
the invasion of the boll weevil and
though it has marvelous natural re
sources its only prospect for progress
and prosperity lies in educational de
velopment. Let Burke pursue its
course, as mapped out and the county
will come back as one of the) greatest
sections of this country, filled with op
portunities and advantages that can
not be surpassed.—Augusta Chronic’e
Waynesboro High
School Finishes
a Successful Year
(Continued from first page)
with an average above 90—Helen Dan
iel, Nell Hillhouse, Charlie Wallace,
Virginia, Herrington Ruby Mincey,
Lena Gresham.
Highest Average in High School for
ye3,r, Ruby Mincey, 96.3%
Honq/rs fin 'Seifior class—first to
Nell Hillhouse with an average of
96.15% for the four years; second to
Miss Helen Daniel with an average of
95.28% for the four years; Hensel
Stembridge is third with an average of
91 for the four years.
Prizes: Highest mark for the year in
gold given by Mr. Register—Ruby Min
cey, 96.3 average.
Highest mark for ten doll’rs in
gold given First national Bank—Ruby
Mincey, 96.3 average.
Best all round Physics Note book
given by Mr. Chandler five dollars in
gold—Charley Wallace.
Best progress in music for year giv
en by Miss Harrell five dollars in gold
Emma Law.
The dollars in gold given by P. T.
A. to gii 1 in graduating claps' whose
dress was given highest mark—Grace
Taylor.
$5 in gold to second prettiest dress—
Louise Porter.
$5 in gold given by D. U. C. to high
school pupil with best essay on Stone
Mountain—Gharley Wallace.
$5 in gold given by U. D. C. to best
essay on same subject in seventh
grade—Emma Law.
The same in sixth grade—Carol Cox.
The sy,me in the fifth grade—Vir
ginia Crowder.
LIFE DULL? NO.
A meter reader for a gas company
was recently asked to keep a month’s
record of the questions asked him by
the customers, whose meters he read.
His report included the following:
Four hundred and nine customers
asked him the amount of their next
month’s bill.
Seven customers asked about the ac
curacy of their meters.
Two invited him to church services.
One asked if he was in favor of
prohibition.
One asked if he belonged to the Ku
Klux Klan.
One asked if he was married.
Two asked if he thought it would be
a hard winter.
One asked if he knew where a man
could get work.
One if he had ever been to Califor
nia.
One asked him to have something |
to eat.—The Week.
MR. WRIGLEY’S COUNTRYMEN
[From London Opinion.]
«X believe I’ve sot America. I hear a persistent chewing sound.”
Report Shows
Money Georgia
Collected 1923
Atlanta, Ga., May 27.—Follcv ing are
two interesting statistical tables on
the state’s finances, included in the
annual report of State Ta,x Commiss
ioner showing receipts and disburse
ments which carry items not generally
included in the tables made up by
other departments:
Condensed statement of money com
ing into the treasury during the year
1923, the sources from which derived
and distribution of the same to the
various institutions.
Receipts
Back taxes, $48,759.80 fuel oil taxes,
$962,986.58; general property taxes $4,-
960,696.01; inheritance taxes $291,958.-
93; collection on insolvent taxes $49,-
361,54; taxes on insurance companies,
$629,175.95; motor Vehicle taxes, $2,-
156,406.08; inspection fees of fertiliz
ers and foods, $275,053.25; pool taxes,
$365,068.59; rental W. & A. Railway,
$540J000.00; taxes on public utilities,
$837,316.75 ; oil inspection fees $519,-
219.65; sundry items of rents, interest
costs, proceeds of sales of coles,
acts and court reports, etc., $121,-
083.30; fees from Industrial Commiss
ion, $41,157.95; fees from Public Ser
vice Commission, $51,066.55; special
license taxes from various business,
$872,811.19—T0tal receipts, not includ
ing borrowed money $12,722,122.16.
Disbursements
Common schools $4,233,565.09; high
er education $992,714; vocational edu
cation and rehabilitation -49,205.87;
state sanitarium $800,000; other ele
mosynary institutions, $220,635.23;
highway department, $2,134,669.17;
pension funds, $1,152,434.78; civil es
tablishment, including salaries of the
judges and state officials, $420,378.59;
departments of agriculture and horti
culture and the bureau of markets,
$360,365.24; public debt and interest,
including interest in the landscript
fond and temporary loan, $345,166.59;
refund Western & Atlantic rental,
$540,000; legislative payrol l inciden
tal expenses, $120,892.98; military
fund, $32,663.03; prison department,
$107,500 ;public service commission,
$39,324.80; industrial commission,
$41,149.04; Soldiers’ Horae, $44,999.96:
printing fund, $61,361.87 public buil
dings and grounds, $49,477.7210 experi
ment stations. »30,596.29: board of
health, $87,707.12, contingent funds
for various departments Lib-ary
funds ,the department of archives and
history, geological department, game
and fish department, board of public
welfare and all other state expenses,
$164,030.74; total disbursements sl2-
028.838.41.
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THE TRUE CITIZEN SATURDAY MAY 31, 1924.
Weekly Review of
Georgia Industries
Macon—Eight-stor; fireproof apart
ment building to be erected on College
street.
Louisville —Jefferson county dewber
ry groovers organizing to affiliate with
Georgia Dewberry Association.
Augusta—Approximately $36,000 be
ing spent for construction of Furey’s
road.
Camilla—Mitchell County Poultry
Association in first sale of season gets
40 cents per pound for friers, hens
20 V 2 cents and roosters 9 cents.
Montezuma—New peach by-products
plants here and at Majrshallville
ready for installation of machinery.
Fitzpatrick—Pecan industry show
ing steady growth throughout district.
Conyers—Negotiations completed by
Georgia Railway & Power Company to
take over plants and lines of Panola
Light and Power Company.
Atlanta—Plans completed for con
struction of $65,000 Gordon street Bap
tist church.
Athens—'Construction of new con
crete bridge across Oconee river start
ed.
LaGrange—April, building permits
totaled $24,411, against $28,805 for
entire first quarter of year.
Fort Gaines —‘‘Henry Clay” bridge
to be constructed across Chattahoochee
river to cost approximately $144,000.
Chatsworth—Pratt interests pay
$175,000. for power rights on Carter
estate on Coosawattee river.
Blairsville—Construction of Blue
unit cf Atlanta-Asheville highway to
be completed August 1.
Atlanta—Early of iAt
lanta-Americus short line highway • s
sured.
Waycross—City market, modern in
every respect, to be established in
biulding formerly occupied by Chero-
Cola Company.
Savannah —Building permits issued
for month of April call for total expen
diture of $178,835.
Ludowici—Approximately $30,000 to
be spent constructing thirty miles of
roads in county, work to start within
sixty days.
Atlanta—’State seafood packers and
fish and game committee completing
plans for development of shrimp and
osyter packing industry in Georgia.
Macon—Contract awarded at $44 274
for constructon of stone municipal L »u
ditorium building.
Blakely—Blakely Hardwood Lum
ber Company to rebuild and enlarge
big planing mill and dry kiln.
Savannah—Attractive apartment
building to be erected on Park avenue.
Atlanta —Georgia Cotton Growers
Co-operative Association closes con
vention endorsing co-operative mar
keting of all farm products.
Thomaston —Resumption of opera
tion of Macon & Birmingham railroad
at early date reported.
—Millen—Jenkins County Division
of Georgia Cotton Growers Co-opera
tive Association launches campaign to
enlarge membership.
Waycross—Local capital backing
movement for establishment of modern
ice cream factory.
Habitual Constipation d
in 14 to 21 Days
“LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN” is a specially
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Constipation. It relieves promptly and
should be taken regularly for 14 to 21 days
to induce regular action. It Stimulates and
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per bottlf
Central Railway
Will Assist in
Soil Building
An appropriation of SIO,OOO, to en
courage soil redintengration has been
authorized by President L. A. Downs
of the Central of Georgia Railway
The Railway Company will spend $125
in each of the eighty counties it serves
to prove that soil waste may be check
ed and soil fertility increased.
Why _prove a fact so well known?
Because knowing is not doiu?. Much
been learned about doing in ihe
past few years, and there is a need for
proving that a combination of methods
both old and new will get results. In
creased crop yields, due to incrcau *d
plant b ed obtained at a cost which
will sin v a good profit, is th° "esult
desired.
Pro' ng that this may be done, calls
for the adoption of unfamiliar methods
and a larger expenditure than many
farmers feel pustified in attempting,
until tl ev have actually seen Hie in
creased crops. Therefore the Man
agement of the Central of Georgia be
hoves the Railroad Company can af
t ;rt! to pay half the cost of the needed
expenditure to establish in each of
tint counties it serves in Alabama and
Georgia, a Soil Redintegration Test
plot, to be farmed according to
methods prescribed by the State Ag
ricultural Colleges.
Soil building, soil redintegration, or
whatever ir may be called, is not a
problem cf the Southeast alone, Agri
cultural authorities everywhere are
giving it the most careful study. In
Ohio, Illinois, and many other states
they are earnestly trying to solve this
problem. Mr. E. Davenport, former
Dean of the Illinois AgriculturaUCol
lege, and recognized the world over as
an authority in this matter, states:
“We are all living on our fat, as
other nations have lived that have
played their part and passed off the
stage. We are mining our fertility
as we are mining our coal, and we are
cutting off the food supply of our de
scendants as effectively as if we in
tended to handicap them in the busi
Twelve Hundred Dollars for Founders Roll to Be
Solicited by Twelve Representative Men of Burke
The Margaret Jones’ Chapter U. D.
C. are much pleased upon securing the
invaluable co-operation of twelve
splendid friends to take part in soli
citing contributions for the Founders
Roll Tablets. It, was the hope of the
Chapter to have completed this fund of
$2,000 by Memorial Day, but now they
re hoping to have it in hand by June
3. the birthday of President .Jefferson
Davis. With the help of the following
gentlemen we feel safe that this great
Stand by the Preachers
Ministers in any community are leaders in
solving moral and spiritual problems. Re
moved from the conduct of commerce, they
can see moral distinctions a little clearer than
some of the rest of us.
Support Them Iby Church Attendance
The ministers are working only for the good of
the community. When they say, “Let’s do it,”
they deserve to be supported by all progressive
citizens who desire constructive advance. Regu
lar church attendance on the part of each family
v in the community will encourage the preachers
in their job of helping the world.
"Whatsoever things are true —whatsoever things are honut—
think on these things. "
ness cf living.”
The Southeast has a wonderful grow
ing climate, lots of sun, a,nd plenty
of rain. Consequently we have rapid
pitot growth, and equally rapid ex
haustion of soil fertility.
The South’s main crop leaves very
little on the land to go back to the
soil. Clean cultivation of cotton helps
the sun and rain to evaporate and
leach out plant food.
But our conditions that favor soil
depletion, also favor the rapid growth
of plants that will restore nitrogen and
humus to the soil.
Soil Redintegration is the whole pro
cess of preserving, restoring, and In
creasing the fertility and productive
ness of our soil. The Qentral of Geor
gia, Railway wants to co-operate with
men who are willing tc take the lead
in the practice of this process, for the
benefit of their neighbors as well as
themselves.
Farmers who are willing to give
such co-operation, and realize { t is
just as necessary to feed their soil a 3
their work stock, should address J. F.
Jackson, General Agricultural Agent,
Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah,
Ga. An application blank which brief
ly outlines the methods proposed anJ
gives the requirements for a soil Re
dintegration Test contract, also a copy
of the form of agreement under which
the Central of will pay its
share of the cost will be mailed. Or,
these may be obtained from the Cen
tral of Georgia Agricultural Agents, cr
the County Demonstration Agents.
Items of Interest
To Colored People.
The Waynesboro H. & I. school
closed a most successful term last
Tuesday when it held its graduating
exercises at the Thomas Grove Bap
tist church. Eight pupils received di
plomas from the High School and six
teen were given Sta.te Certificates
having completed the grammar school
course. Prof Jesse O. Thomas, Atlan
ta, Field Secretary of the National
Urban League delivered the address to
a full audience. The high school pu
pils presented a play “The Captain of
Plymouth.” Rev. R. L. Boyd, Augusta
work of love will be completed with
out fail and with out any hardship
upon any one. They are going to give
everybody in Burke county the oppor
tunity of contributing to the making of
this memorial, sacred to the memory
of our Confederate dead. The men
who will help are: Messrs John D. San
ders, Sim Bell, Battle Sparks, T. G.
McAllister, Hugh M. Blount, F. M.
Cates, Sr., Hosee. Blount, F. S. Palmer,
F. S. Burney, E. E. Chance, J. L. Boyd
G. F. Cox.
preached the baccalaureate sermon *
last Sunday afternoon at the Neely’s
Grove C. M. E. church. Those receiv
ing diplomas were Ella and Lizzie
Scruggs, Charlotte Whitehead, Madel
la Williams, Willie Carpenter, Minnie
Jones, Bertha Luke, and Johnny Car
penter. The Salutatory, “Failure as
a success” by Johnny M. Carpenter
and the Valedictory. “Self Help and
Education” by Ella Scruggs were re
sponded by the vast audience with
hearty applause.
Madam Louvenia Hudson of Keys
ville wishes to announce the engage
ment of her daughter Lillie Mae Ola
to Dr. Lonnie C. Wall of Philadelphia,
Penn. The wedding will take place
June 26.
Prof. T. R. Neal, Vocational Agri
cultural teacher at the W. H. & I.
School left this week to continue his
course in Vocational Agriculture at the
Tuskegee Institute.
Leona Oliff Cummings of Atlanta is
spending the week with Hattie Good
win and Gaynell Walker. While here
she is the charming guest of many so
city events.
The teachers of the W. H. & I.
school left last Thursday for their
homes: Essie Hannah, Savannah;
Serena James, Statesboro; Ethel
Hannah Savannah and Sula Green,
Wad ley.
Fullbright Says
Governor Opposes
Efforts to Improve
(Continued from Ist page)
or 83.6 per cent, of the total property
tax levied in 1923 was for local pur
poses, while $5,964,503.37, or 16.4 per
cent., was for state purposes. The
poi centage for county purposes was
41.r>. for city purposes 21.8, and f-.r
school purposes. 20.5. The total tax
levied bv counties was sls ini..947.40,
by cities $7,945,427.43, and by counties
and districts for school purposes was
$7^479.094.13.
Fulton county led in taxable values
with $203,990,265, paying the state sl,-
019,451.30 and the county $2,243,892.90.
DeKalb county showed taxable
values of $23,275,715 paying the state
$116,378.50, and the county $348,135.75.
Chatham county showed values of
$56,302,995, paying the state $281,514.95
and the county $703,787.45.
Bibb county showed values of $46.-
976,355, paying the state $234,881.75
and the county $783,298.
Richmond county showed values of
$41,127,330, paying the state $205,636.55
and the county $263,204.90.
Muscogee showed values of $38,233.-
520, paying the state $191,167.*0 and
the county $344,101.70.