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—... ■’" —i—————— - 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.