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We are trying to do our part towards Build
ing up Waynesboro.
Durden & Carswell
All kinds of Building Materials
and Coal. Phone 17
VOLUME 43.
THE ELECTION NEXT THURSDAY IS NOT FOR
BONDS —IS FOR LOCAL SCHOOL TAX ONLY
The people of Burke county will be
asked to vote for an additional levy
of five mills to carry on the present
nine months school term. The Board
of Education has announced that it
can only finance a five months term
beginning in next January, thus leav
ing the fall term of our schools off,
unless some means of financing them
are found. This brings us to the elec
tion called in the Waynesboro School
District and in the Alexander School
District on Thursday, Junel9th, and
FRANK BURNEY APPEALS TO PEOPLE 0 F WAYNESBORO DISTRICT TO VOTE FOR SCHOOL TAX
TO THE PEOPLE OF BURKE
COUNTY:
Our county faces a most serious
situation in regard to the education of
its youth. Until recent years this
county lias not been called upon by
taxation to appropriate one cent to
the support of common schools, and
only now doth the county generally,
by taxation, pay $5,000 on assessments
of $1,000.00 for the maintenance and
support of education. The total tax
rate in this county for schools, coun
ty and state taxes, is only $16.50 per
C. E. M’GREGOR, OF THE GIRARD SCHOOL DISTRICT, APPEALS TO VOTERS 0 F DISTRICT
TO THE VOTERS OF THE 68TH
DISTRICT—The election for the
school levy will be held at Girard on
June 21st and as one of the trustees
I am asking that you all come out
on that day and vote for local taxes,
so we can raise money to pay teach
500 Towns Apply for Playfields to be
Given by Harmon Foundation
More than five-hundred preliminary]
applications have been received by the
Harmon Foundation of New York, N.
Y., in connection with its offer to give
fifty playfields to growing communities
during the present year. This repre
sents approximately one-fourth of the
incorporated places in the United
States which show .a. growth of thirty
per cent or more since 1900 and which
have a resident population of at least
3,000 according to the last United
States Census. Inquiries have come
from every state in the Union and ap
plications have been received from all
but four. One application has .also
been received from Alaska, indicating
a nation-wide interest in the question
of securing play land.
The offer of the Division of Play-i
grounds of the Harmon Foundation is I
open until July 1, 1924, when all for
mal applications must be received at |
the Foundation offices, 140 Nanassau
Street, New York, N. Y. $2,000 will be
available for each site and not less
than two acres will be considered for
a playground. This qualification eli
minates from consideration for this
gift many valuable and much needed
play places in larger communities, but
it is the Jesire of the Foundation to
use the SIOO,OOO which has been set
a ide for this purpose to assist as
.any smaller rapidly growing towns
as possible to acquire suitable perma
nent recreation centers - before real
. state values makes its purchase pro
hibitive Jor non-remunerative activi
s. Applications coming from subur
ban sections of larger cities will be
; considered where there is a population
of at loiast 3,000 resident within play dis
tunce of the proposed playground.,
cerever the community desires to,
make the offer of the Foundation part'
i a large purchase, the Division of l
'.aygrounds will consider such an ap-j
plication, provided the other condi-1
ns of the gift are satisfactory.
Many applications already received 1
annot bq considered in the final se
lection of the fifty playfields for the
reason that the request is for equip
ment and not the purchase of land.
Frequently a permanent site has al
ready been secured as a permanent play
field by the town, but community in
terest has not been aroused to the
need of arranging for equipment, con
tinued maintenance and supervision.
The Harmon Foundation has limited
its activities to co-operation in the
purchase of the ground only, but will
ise its funds in those communities
where the play site is not only a de
sirable one, but where the greatest
local energy and responsiblity is as
sured in future development and
direction of this field as a recreation
center
While most cities and towns make
provision for play space today, there
are few places as yet which set aside
sufficient areas of centrally located
land for outdoor sports l and recreation
especially with refence to future
growth The increasing death rate
among children run down by motor
vehicles while playing in the street,
more and more points to the far reach
ing need for definite places where chil
dren may engage in normal, health
developing games without danger from
traffic
It is the nature of children to play
elections in the Girard, Sardis, Mid
ville and Vidette School Districts on
Saturday, June 21st. The managers
blanks, tickets and all will be at the
voting precincts at the proper time
and the citizens of these districts are
seriously urged to VOTE for the mea
sure.
We learn that it will only require
about a three mill levy to carry on
the present nine months term and
that this will be all that will be
asked, but the amount to be voted on
is five mills.
The results of these elections will
determine whether Burke—county will
thousand of taxable values, and this
is the lowest rate of any county in
Georgia. And in addition to this the
values on property placed by the ap
praisers are most reasonable.
The revenues for school purposes
have been reduced some $10,000.00 or
$12,000.00, owing to the removal of
children of school age, the appropria
tion for the county being based upon
the population of children of school
age. The County Board of Education
has handled the situation for the
county under serious difficulties most
ers and have a nine months, school.
Let us go FORWARD and not back
ward. We must give our children an
education. When they secure an edu
cation they have something that can
not be taken away from them. You
can leave them or land or
They need wholesome outdoor recrea
tion as part of their training for adult
life as good American citizens. To
make insufficient or no provision for
play while forbidding games in the
streets is not only unfair and tyran
nical to the children themselves but
results are invariably determental to
society itself. “While there is a pri
mary spiritual side to recreation prob
lems, that part of play which makes
for strength both physical and moral”
says Mr. William E. Harmon founder
of the organization which bears his
name “there is also a material side
which demands a permanent, contin
uously developed location where this
sipiritual training can T je ca T /ied into
effect.”
Waynesboro K. of P.
Invited to Augusta
for Divine Services
The regular meeting of Waynesboro
Lodge, No. 96, Knights of Pythias was
one of the most enthusiastic held in
the (?ity recently and a large number
of the brethren were present. In ad
dition to* work in the rank of page,
Grand Lodge officers in the person
G. R. Coffin, Grand Chancellor; Su
preme Representative George Schau
fele and Messrs C. W Sikes, L. E. Ab
ernathy, Emmett Vaughn, J. R. Mixon,
J. A. Cannon and J. E. Reeves, all of
the Augusta Lodges were present. Af-i
ter the rank of page was conferred a
personal dispensation was given by
Grand Chancellor Coffin and the rank
of esquire was given.
Excellent talks were made by Mr.
Coffin, Mr. Schaufele and B. H. Jones
on the good or the order, and an invi
tation was extended the Waynesboro
Lodge to come as a body or individual
ly to church services at the First
Presbyterian church ‘Sunday night at
8 o’clock, to hear Rev. J. A. Sevier
preach a sermon upon Pythianism.
The South Carolina lodges nearby are
going to attend in a body and the
lodges nearby in Georgia are lilso ask
ed to be present. The meeting is to
be a most impressive one and a large
number of Knights are expected to at
tend.
Waynesboro Loses
at Millen Thursday
Bill Reynolds’ team lost a game to
Millen Thursday afternoon in a rath
er one-sided affair, yet thoroughly en
joyable ball game. Mr. Reynolds is
developing a fast team for the hard
schedule he has arrangfied for sev
eral weeks to come. He needs your
support to win and carry on and his
success depends upon your help. Go
out and see the games and root for
ycur home team. The boys are all
home stars and you will enjoy the
games.
m%mt Citizen.
continue its present system c£ schools
which is recognized as one of the best
in the state, or whether the term will
be shortened. If the people do not
turn out and vote they might as well
vote against the measure, for it re
quires a majority of votes with two
thirds of the registered voters voting.
Ii would be greatest piece of short
sightedness to allow the school terms
to be cut to five months for if would
disrupt the entire work that'has been
accomplished in the schools and the
children would have no standing at
any of the colleges of the state Teach
ers could not be secuiei that wers cf
wisely and economically, but they are.
now without funds to finance the
schools for full time of nine months,
and we face a most serious problem
When the preesnt term ends, June Ist,
there is no money in hand and there
will be none for school purposes until
next February The City of Waynes
boro has never appropriated or ex
pended one penny for the support or
maintenance of the City School, the
entire revenue for the support of the
schools for years being derived from
the amount turned over to the City
what not, but all those things are no
good unless they have an educationand
know how to take care of what you
have left them. Money, etc., are not
worth much without education. If
you love your children or care any
thing for them at all come out on that
Walking Marathon
to Be Staged at
Augusta Resort
The people o: Waynesboro wdi be
interes ed to know that in the walking
marathon which is to be staged at the
Dean Bridge Resort in Augusta, that
an effort is being made to interest
some Waynesboro walkers on the con
test Trizes of $350 in gold will ee
•rstriVaied am ,np the winners ane
why net a Waynesboro man win same
of them. The contest will begin • n
June 16 at 9 o’clock and continue for
five flays and nights, ending Saturday,
June 21, at midnight The contestants
will walk night and day and eat and
drink while walking and be allowed
four hours rest out of every 24. These
contests have proved very populai in
other sections of the county and will
attract much attention in this section.
“Watch em walk” will be a popular slo
gan as the contestants get away Mon
day at 9 o’clock.
Read the advertisement in this is
sue of the contest.
Facts About the
School Tax Elections
Elections will be held in the Way
nesboro and Alexander School Dis
trict on Thursday, June 19th.
They will be held at five voting pre
cincts in the Waynesboro District, viz;
Court house, Waynesboro; S. A. Rog
ers’ Munnerlyn; H. C. Syms’
store, Greens Cut; M. W. Tomlin’s
store, Shell Bluff and L. W. Dye’s
store (Cross Roads) near Keysville.
The managers for the Waynesboro
District are: F S. Burney, C. A. Gray,
Joseph Law; Munnerlyn, R. F. Jen
kins, J. M. Carpenter, J. W. Lewis;, at
L. W. Dye’s (Cross Roads) store, C. R.
Broxton, L. W. Dye, J. P. Palmer;
Greens Cut, J. F. Miller, J. H. Reese,
W. (H. Hickman.
The managers at Alexander are: G.
L. McElmurray, Guy Chance, S. M.
Elliott.
Ajfi Girard: J. F. Odom, S. W. Odom,
G. L. Cochran.
At Sardis: J. F. Chance, W. D. Bell,
G. W. Bargeron.
At Vidette: S. A. Thompson, J. E.
Rowland, R. J. Peel
At Midville: J. B Murphree, W. C.
Mulling, J. E. Cross.
Elections for the Girard, Sardis,
Midville, and Vidette School Districts
will be held on Saturday, June 21st.
Markers for Graves
of World War Vets
Mrs. Frank Brinson, president of the
Woman’s Auxiliary of the American
Legion Unit No. 120 B. L. I. Post, asks
that all who wish a marker for the
graves or World War veterans, confer
with her regarding application blanks.
The government is furnishing mark
ers for these graves to those who wish
them and if you are interested see
Mrs. Brinson so she can make the
proper requisition.
#
Waynesboro, Ga., June 14, 1924
ficient and we might as well not have
any schools.
Some may argue that the children
do not take advantage of the opportu
nities that are now offered them but
give them the. opportunity and do your
duty There ai a some iliat will profit
by it and those who do are well worth
the money wo epend.
Others may say that high tax.o are
ruining i s uut wuac about iin rar
Wcn’t it t. st us more than the amount
spent in ti>mg to give oui toy. and
girls the fight to be
come better citizens The prosperity
"f our ienty, city state and nation
Board of Trustees by the County Board
of Education. It is true that the City
erected the school building and aids
in its equipment and furnishes lights,
water and coal.
In order to meet the present crisis
the County Board of Education pro
poses to have new school districts, the
plan of which has been thoroughly
outlined by Mr. O. M. Gresham, our
County Superintendent, and in this
way by a very small school levy to
raise sufficient funds to give a full
nine months term This plan is the
day and cast your \ Oce for local ia..es
If you don’t care a darn for yourself,
yc-ur children or your friends, then
cast vour vote for local tax *s. If
you don’t care a uaru fer yourself,
yopr children or your friends, then
cast your vote against it. Some of
Asks City to
Protect Trees
We realize that Waynesboro is to
be greatly improved by her paved
streets, but at the same time the
propable ' sacrifice of her beautiful
trees is hanging like a pall over the
community for if the city is depleted
of her trees she will certainly be
shown of all per beauty.
• lie Won an') • lub of Waynesboro
has sent a petition to the Mayor and
Council asking that the tre -3 at 6th
street and Academy avenue may re
main undisturbed. The petiiim is as
follows:
Ty the Mayor & Council of Waynes
boro Ga.
Gentlemen:-
in paving the streets of Waynes
boro, we know there are trees that
will have to come down. However, we,
the members of the Woman’s Club of
Waynesboro, ask that the tre 3 that
numbers it life by one hundred and
fifty years, at the intersection of 6th
street, and Academy avenue, be spared
This tree is just off the line of pav
ing. It has sheltered the children at
play for many years, and aside from
sentiment it is a protection to human
life. In this day and age when no
attention is paid to the speed limit,
this tree calls a halt to the speeders.
We ask you gentlemen to stay the
axe and spare that which it has taken
God Almighty more than a century to
grow.
MRS. H. J MORTON
MRS. CHARLES A. EVANS
MRS. JUDSON McELMURRAY
MRS. M. E. MCCULLOUGH
MRS. S. A. GRAY
MRS. F. L. BRINSON
MRS. ROBERT LAW
MRS. LEONA POWELL
MRS. M. G. MILLEDGE
MRS EDGAR BARGERON
MRS. TODD SEEGER
MRS. R. M. McMASTER
MRS. W. A. LAW
MRS. D. DURDEN
MRS. EDWARD C. BLOUNT
MRS. O L. GRESHAM
MRS. E B. GRESHAM
MRS. S. P. WHEELER
MRS. HUGH M. BLOUNT
MRS. J. E. GUESS
MRS. ZILLAH L. REDD.
MRS. R. A. BELL.
MRS. S. A. PHELPS.
MRS H. A. MACAULAY.
MRS. I. V. RAINWATER
Savannah Get
Acquainted Tourists
Are Early Birds
The Savannah get acquainted tour
of the state which begins Monday
with their first stop at Augusta, will
pass Waynesboro too soon for us to
do anything for them. They leave
Savannah at 1201 a m. the morning of
the 16th and arrive in Augusta at 6
o’clock. Efforts were made by th»
Board of Trade to have them visit
Waynesboro, but the early hour will
probably make their stop impossible.
depend educated men and women
and if we ; y these future citizens >f
ours their right to have every oppor
tunity to secure this, are wc doing
the right thing by timm?
It is easy to say that the te.u rs
are being prua too much; tnat money
is wasted; that corners could ha rut
here and there. And it is all too true
that the teachers of Georgia are woe-
Luliy underpaid. This situation ex
ists all over the state today. When a
civic organization like a Chamber.of
Commerce wants an executive secre
tary, do they think of offering him a
small satary. No they do tot and
only solution of the problem, and with
out it our schools will close for this
fall. There is not a City in the State
of Georgia, that I know of ,that does
not levy some tax for the support of
its schools and shall the City of Way?
nesboro and Burke county fail to
measure up to this important demand?
The small assessment that you will
be required to meet Is an investment
in the lives cf the youth of our county.
To the mo"st it can not be more than
$5.00 upon each assessment of SI,OOO
of the property and will most likely be
our people are thinking we are trying
to consolidate all our schools into one.
We are not and cannot if we wanted
to for we are not able financially to
do so. I hope all the voters will see
the bright side for if you want schools
Will South Become
Manufacturer of
News Print Paper
Atlanta, Ga,., June 11.—Will the
south be the center of the paper in -
dustry in the future 9
A new industrial opportunity has
been opened to the south as a re
sult of the Canadian embargo on *he
exportation of wood and pulp wood, it
was pointed out here today by Atlanta
publishers. The Canadian embargo
places the manufacturers of paper in
this country face to face with a i eri
cus situation, •it was shown. With
out the Canadian puulp supply, paper
manufacturers must find new sources
of supply or a substitute for pulp
wood in paper.
The latter is not easy to do, it was
asserted. Experiments made with the
fiber of cotton stalks and with other
word fibre have not been satisfactory
Thus far the only material paper
makers can depend upon is pulp from
pine trees, a material that is becom
>ng exhausted in the North and Norrti
east and which still abounds in the
south. The sou:a, it is believed by
paper manufacturers, reports received
heie state, offers the only solution to
their difficulty.
One difficulty, as pointed out here,
that has tended to prevent the use of
Southern pine in paper making has
been the inability to overcome the
rosin handicap. Until a few years ago
it w.an thought that the rosin content
of southern pine rendered It unfit for
paper ruaking by any known process,
but the research chemist has over
come this difficulty.
The south’s output of strong brown
kraft paper in the mills now in opera
n is said to be around 600 tons
daily. And although so far southern
pines have not been generally used in
the manufacture of news print and
other white paper it is believed here,
in the light of recent developments,
this, also, has been conquered by the
chemist.
The Southern states of Georgia, Ala
bama, Virginia, North and South Caro
lina, Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas,
Louisiana and Eastern Texas have
pine forests which it is believed are
ample to supply the needs of paper
industry for a number of years, per
haps indefinitely, if yield management
and conservation is co-ordinated.
Three Games at
Home Next Week
Bill Reynolds’ aggregation will play
three games of baseball at home
next week and one away. Much in
terest is being manifested in the
games and the fans will be given a
treat next week. Go out and see the
boys play good ball.
Tuesday—Sylvania.
Wednesday—Swainsboro.
Thursday—Local American Legion
team. This game will be played be
tween all home boys.
Friday the team goes to Swains
boro for a return game.
GODIN SPECTACLE CO
ST:
EYES THOBOUGHLY EXAMINED
when they want a man they g. site'
and pay lum real money. But when
they went a school superintendeui and
teachers they begin to see how little
money the} can get them for. They
want a highly trained man fo.: tljeir
civic secretary, but a plug will do for
their schools. Underpaid teachers arc
a tax on the future of this or any oth
ei state. Underpaid teachers are a
liinderance /to the children of the
community. The Waynesboro schools
could be conducted on a cheaper rate
than at present ;the schools of the
county could be conducted on a cheap
er rate than now, but both would be
only $2,00 or $3.00, and after the first
year two it is estimated it will be
less. There is no other way to meet
•the situation and to every thoughtful
and patriotic citizen, to every man
and woman we appeal for your sup
port.
The East has led and dominated
this country largely by reason of the
emphasis it has put upon education
and the Middle West and Northwest
owes its progress and prosperity to
the money that it has invested in the
cause of education.
we will have to pass the local tax to
get it. Come out one and all and put
your shoulder to the wheel and help us
push forward. If the local tax is not
passed we will only have a five months
school term and it will take the chil-
Recent Congress Marked by Bitterest
Partisanship Washington Has Ever Seen
Central Railway
Officials to Talk
to Augusta Rotary
President L. A. Downs, Jack D. Mc-
Cartney, W. McN Knapp and Fred J.
Robinson, of the Central Railway at
Savannah, will talk to the Augusta Ro
tary Club next Tuesday, June v 17th.
Waynesboro Rotarians are extended a
special invitation to hear these gen
tlemen on this occasion.
Mr. Downs is a wonderful speaker
ana has a message that will he well
worth hearing.
The officials of this splendid system
—the Central—are well known to
many of our citizens and it is expect
ed that a number of Waynesboro Ro
tarians will go to Augusta to hear
them.
Believe Williams
Will Surrender
Soperton, June 7.—That Crosby
Williams, town alderman, who shot
and seriously wounded Horace Flan
ders, editor of the Soperton News, fol
lowing the printing of certain editor
ials offensive to the town official, is
still in this county, and would give
himself up shortly, is the opinion ex
pressed today by Sheriff Ware.
Sheriff Ware received word from Mr.
Williams several days ago, leading
him to believe that he (Williams) in
tended giving up. Both criminal and
civil proceedings have been filed
against the missing man.
Editor Flanders is reported recov
ering.
Editor Flanders condition is much
improved and it seems that he will
recover from his wounds Williams,
who shot him is still at large despite
rumors that he will return and give
himself up Mr. Flanders is a brother
of Mrs. Roger Burton, of this city.
First Cotton Bloom
Brought City on
Last Saturday
Mr Gray Quinncsy brought the first
cotton bloom of the year into the
city last Saturday, June 7th. This
was early, but the plant is beginning
to bloom now. Every effort should be
made to protect the cotton from the
ravages of the weevil for now is the
serious time with him.
For 24 years
the leading eye
Spectacles, Eye-
Glasses and Ar
tificial Eyes cor
rectiy fitted,
sight specialists
of Angnsta, Ga.
NUMBER 13
most inefficient.
If there is no help Waynesboro and
Burke county can expect a backward
turn that will require years to right
and now is the time for us to help
and put over the levy arid not make
the mistake we know that we are mak
ing by defeating it, should that be the
case. It will be a serious mistake to
allow anything to interfere with vot
ing fo rthe measure, and next Thurs
day go to the polls and register your
sanction on a better, broader educa
tional system without the fear of any
shortening of our school term coming
up again soon.
I cannot believe that one of the rich
est, and oldest counties of one of the
Original Thirteen Colonies shall fail
in this crisis.
Our lands our homes, and- our fu
ture security, stability and prosperity
depend upon an educated citizenry.
Most respectfully,
FRANK S. BURNEY
Chairman of Board of Trustees, Way
nesboro High School
dren two years to make one grade.
Remember the date —June 21st and
come out and vote to keep a nine
months term. C. E. McGREGOR
Girard, Ga., June 11, 1924.
Washington, June 8. —The sixty
-;i congress which ended its first
session* has furnished excitement, sen
sation, bitter partisan debate and in
ternal party strife of a character not
witnessed in the capital in many
years.
Six months and four days constitut
! the life of the session, and for
practically all of that time the mem
bership divided attention between the
oors of the house and senate and the
committee rooms, where cabinet offi
cers and their assistants, army and
navy officials and a host of others
passed in review before a grop of in
vestigating committee which kept Wash
ington and the country tingling with
the thrills they furnished
During the period two cabinet offi
cers were forced out of office and the
two houses locked horns repeatedly
with the president over fiscal legisla
tion.
The Mellon tax bill was born dur
ing the session, only to be discarded
r the Simmons-Democratic plan,
which President Coolidge signed af
ter disapproving some of its
ions.
The drastic immigration law in
cluding its Japanese exclusion pro
visions, was placed oj the statute
hooks.
The soldier bonus law was enacted
vetoed and re-enacted over the veto.
The Bursum pension bill for Civil war
veterans met executive disapproval, as
did the postal salaries increase bill.
Farm legislation embodied in half
a dozen measurees, which were put
into shape early in the session, failed
of enactment, although efforts were
continued for it up to the last hour.
Likewise, no railroad legislation of
great importance was placed on the
statute books. This legislation, how
ever, and much other was put into po
sition where it can be taken up at the
next session with much of the work
of hearing and investigation complet
ed.
Muscle Shoals, a question which has
been in the forefront now for many
months, once more went over for set
tlement at the December session.
One of the important factors in the
work of the session was the balance
of power held by the insurgent group
headed by Senator La Follette, Repub
lican, Wisconsin. This group, by rea
son of tiie close ratio between the Dem
ocrats and Republicans in both houses
wielded a powerful influence. Joining
with the Democrats, it seated a Demo
crat Senator Smith, South Carolina,
as the head of the senate interstate
commerce committee. In the house,
again joining with the Democrats, it
forced a revision of the rules.
The constitutional rights of con
fess to investigate government de
partments was never exercised to a
greater extent. Beginning early with
the Teapot Dome inquiry senate com
mittees investigated Attorney Gener
al Daugherty; the internal revenue bu
reau; Russian recognition; the elec
on of Senator Mayfield, of Texas; the
existence of propaganda touching the
United States’ foreign relations; charg
es of land frauds in Texas; medical
diploma “mills” and many other sub
jects.