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JURY L'STS DRAWN FOR
"BEN HiLi SUP. COURT
OCTOBER TERM, 1926
The Fall ter mof Ben Hill Superior
court convenes next Monday and the
following jurors are called to serve
for their respoctive terms:
: GRAND JURY
Drawn for October Term, 1926
August 12th, 1926
G. E. McMillan.
Jame: T. Mathis.
‘Georgze E. Ricker.
W. J. Mayo.
J. %, Cass, |
T. M. Chalker.
H. L. McLendon.
F. H. James.
B. W. Adamson.
M. T. McGoogan. ~ . o
H. R. Wentz. I
W. T. Mashburn.
B. L. Williamson.
L. L. Griner. ;
C. W. Wilson.
George McCall.
Albert Gibbs.
T. W. Mcßryant
C. M. Chastain.
G. C. Mixon.
Tharpe Fitzgerald.
A. S. Dorminey.
Wiley Williams.
J. H. Mayes.
J. C. Holder.
J. M. Massey.
0. D. Lee.
G. R. Womble.
J. A. Dorminey.
D. V. Williamson.
Tales Jurors Drawn for Ist Week,
Oct. Term, 1926. Aug. 12, 1926.
Percy J. R. Kendrick.
C. C. Mangum.
Percy H. Tripp.
G. W. Saunders.
T. D. Walker.
C. L. Saunders.
Wright Tomberlin.
L. E. Kilpatrick.
Thomas Richardson.
C. B. Batton
S. E. R. Young.
G. A. Troup.
George F. Barnes.
P. D. Roddenberry.
P. G. White.
W. H. Robitzsch.
Warren Brown.
W. K. Bryant.
B. I. Anderson.
D. F. Null
F. H. Chasteen.
J. T. Reddock.
P. T. Craig.
Wiley Garison.
W. A. Adams.
G. W. Williams.
8. D. Williamson.
S. D. Dixon.
S. B. Tomberlin.
S. G. Goodner,
S. K. Wilson.
W. P. Hyatt.
C. C. Rawlins.
L. A. Yarbrough.
E. G. Hale.
N. A. McDuffie.
id Dorminey.
J. D. Bishop.
T. H. Lineman.
Con Rathbon.
D. H. Payne.
C. S. Perry.
W. R. Whitley.
W. M. Watkins.
H. H. James.
R, J. Hanson.
T:'es Jurors Drawn for 2ad Week,
Oct. Term, 1226. Aug. 12, 1926.
J. M. Roberts.
C. I. Powell.
H. G. McDaniel.
", W. Hitch.
0. S. Middlebrooks,
S. J. Walker.
L.. H. Howze,
J. W. Vaughn.
P. L. Bolden.
li. B. Doye, Jr.
J. C. Glover. ,
€. M. Witchard.
iewis Wilcox.
I. L. Parker. |
H. C. Vinson. |
L. A. Padgett. |
J. Horton Taylor. "
AM. A. McCullough.
i+ J. L. McCarty. i
W. R. Luke.
H. A. Moorehead.
B. A. Maddox.
Fred L. Bigham. ;
George W. Rodgers. .
J. C. Register. "’ s
J. L lg;b{e! : :
G. F. Sheppard.
_W. G. -Broadhurst.
-'B. H. Daniels.
J.'B. Seanor.
W. G. Cason. 1
H.'D. Vaughn. ¢
J. T. Hendricks. ‘
~ W. 8. Minshew.
Wright Torrence.
Walker Maddox.
W. A. Batten.
E. W. Adamson.
&. C. Carroll.
E. L. Stone.
. L. Livingston.
~i. J. Haddock.
- M. N. Hopkins.
V. H. Swanson.
~ 0. J. Williamson..
' R.W. Smith.: . \
* L. C. Rodgers. -
A. G. Wilbanks.,
J. O. Livingston.
. J. B. Luke.
~ R. V. Woodham.
J. L. Harris. § 2
J:. A, Marchant.
J. T. Mahoney. =%
UNCLE SA# PROVIDTS
NEW FORM INSURANCE
POLICY FOR VETERANS
Atlanta, Go.—-Policy holders of
Uncle Sam and Company, doing 2
large life insurance business. veter
ans of the World War are interested,
|osperially the disabled veteran, in rc
cently enacted Jerislation conferring
ladditimml rights and privileges on
the policy holders.
The disabled veteran suffering
from a service connccted disability
that would otherwise nreveni him
from reinstating may do so( provided
he is not permanently and totally dis
abled) until July 2, 1927, regardless
of date of lapse, by paying all back
premiums. In case he is unable to
pay these premiums they can be
!charged as a loan against the face of
!the policy. The disabled veteran
‘whose disability is not service con
nected cannot reinstate.
The well veteran has until July 2,
1927, to reinstate and convert. If
lapsed less than three months this
can be done by his paying two month
ly premiums and submiting certifi
cate that he is now in as good health
as at date of lapse. If lapsed more
than three months only two monthly
premiums need be paid but report of
physical examination must be fur
nished. Reinstatement and conver
sion can be for any part of the
original amount of insurance carried
in multiples of $5OO except the mini
mum is $l,OOO.
A new form of policy has been pro
vided: A Five Year Convertible
Term Policy. The premium on this
form is only a cent or two higher per
$l,OOO than the yearly renewable
term (War Risk.( At any time be
fore the expiration of the five year
term this policy can converted, with
out medical examination, into one of
the other forms of U. S. Government
Life (Converted) Insurance; which
are Ordinary Life, 20-payment Life,
30-payment Life, 20-year Endow
ment, 30-year Endowment, and En
dowment at age 62. If not desirable
to convert the whole of this term any
part in multiples of $5OO, but not
less than a $l,OOO policy may be con
verted to the foregoing forms.
All forms of Government insur
ance including the 5 year Convertible
"Term are participating. The divi
dends on Gevernment insurance to
date are quite satisfactory and com
pare favorably with others.
A feature of all forms of the Gov
ernment insurance is that they carry
a total and permanent disability pro
vision without extra premium.
This announcement is made by J.
G. C. Bloodworth, Jr., director, Vet
erans’ Service Office, State of Geor
gia, 304 State Capitol, Atlanta, from
whom additional information and
blank forms can be obtained on re
quest.
FEDERATION OF LABOR
AFTER SHORTER WEEK
TO RECOMMEND POLICY TO
ORGANIZATIONS AS BASIS
FOR CONTRACT RENEWALS.
Detroit, Mich.—The five-day week
for all workers came to the fore as
a definite goal of the American Fed
eration of Labor program today in
the final meeting of the executive
council of the Federation preliminary
to the forty-sixth annual convention
which opened Monday.
- President William Green and his
’cabinet, composed of international
officers of affiliated unions, agreed
upon the five-day forty-hour week
as the cardinal point in the advance
ment program of organized labor and
‘determined to recommend the policy
to all affiliated organizations as a
basis of negotiation for contract re
newals and employers.
““The forty-hour week is inevitable
in American labor,” Mr. Green said
in a public statement after the meet
ing, “for the simple reason that it is
economically sound and profitable. |
1t is profitable for the worker, and
for the employer, and has been tre
mendously successful in the numer
ous crafts in which it is already par
tially effective.
“High pressure production and the
}physical., demands of modern indus
try are such that only with the short
er day can we attain notable progress
in mechanical production. In the
printing crafts, garment trades and
building trades, where the five-day
week is effective in some sections of
the country, the results have in-‘
creased production as much as 40 per
'cent. on certain operations with an
actual decrease in the unit cost.
Scientific study of charts in mechan
ical operations point to the shorter
week as the most promising method
of maintaining the prosperity of
American industry, for it will reduce
the labor turnover and increase pro
tduction as well as the quality of
| work, create more leisure for the en-
I joyment of -life and add to the gen
eral high standard of living for the
American worker, the best paid
worker in the world.” .
S e e
1 GODDNESS KNOWS
Mother to young daughter: “I'm
surprised at you reading such a
novel! If you read this stuff now
what will you read when you are my
age?”
I. C. Peppell.
C. A. Miller.
L. E. Martin.
J. C. Stokes.
I. N. Frey.
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1926.
She Was “Wearing
Pink”’ w
By CLARISSA MACKIE {
(Copyright.)
GYOSEPH WEID is home again, 1
J see.” said Miss Marie Freeman to
her sister, Hannali. “He looks pros
perous, too. He ciine I his own car.”
Hannab threaded her necdie care
fully., *“Joey must he getting along in
vesrs,” she remarked sagely. T won
der how mueh longer he’s xoing to
keep Luella Parks waiting for him to
miske a fortune,”
“Luella’s beginuing to fade sowe.
e won't see her this time, for she’s
aoue over to her grandmother’s for a
week, Oid Mrs. Parks is sick with
the grip, you know."”
“Of course 1 know,” retorted Han
nih peevishly. “Maria, you've goL a
terrible habit of handing out some
thing that everybody knows just as
if it was fresh gossip that you just
got from the minister’s housekeeper.”
“For the land sake. Hannah, don’t
get the habit of being hen-peckin’—
I didn’t mean anything much-—speak
ing of Luella Parks, 1 may be allowed
to say that Joseph is coming up our
front walk this minute.”
“Joey ?—here? Maybe he's selling
something. It it's brushes tell him
we don't want to buy any, but if it's
something else and there’s samples,
we'll take two samples!”
Maria went to the door, smiling.
Joseph Weed wus glad to see her and
came in at her invitation, a fine, up
standing, youngish man, clean shaven,
well dressed. 3
“Well, Joey,” said the incorrigible
Misg Hannah, “l 1 suppose you came
home to get married at last?”
“Now, Miss Hannah,” he began
easily, but his color rose.
“Have you got a girl in the city?”
demanded Hannah.
“Of course not. My girl’s here—
you know Luella and I—"
“Pah ! Everybody around here
knows about Luella and you! How
you courted her for ten years and
kept off every other feller that wanted
her, and listen, Joey, Luella’s the
prettiest girl in the county, but you
been waltin’ so long—that somethin’
terrible is happening!”
Joseph paled.
“You mean—there’s another man?”
he swallowed hard.
“There’s hundreds of men in the
world, and plenty who would be glad
to rush in and marry Luella, to say
nothing of heing engaged for ten
vears!”
“What has happened, then?’ he
usked impatiently.
Hannah regarded him with tragic
dark eyes. Perbaps she was thinking
of her own young womanhood, when
she, too, had kept company with Law
yer Oakley, only to have him tire of
her in the end and marry his stenog
rapher, some strange young girl from
the city. He was Judge Oakley, and
Mrs. Judge Oakley looked down her
long nose at Hannah and her sister,
whe were the village dressmakers!
“I won't have anything like that
happen to Luella!” declared Hannah
suddenly.
“Like what?” writhed Joseph, turn
ing despairing eyes on Maria Free
man. But Maria only shook her head
hopelessly. Even she did not guess
what Hannah was driving at.
Hannah drew a deep breath and
looked at Joseph accusingly.
“Tuella Park is wearing pink!” she
said solemnly.
“Good gracious, Miss Hannah, what
do you mean?’ he roared, and when
a man roared at Hannah Freeman she
immediately came to earth.
“When a girl gets to be thirty and
over, and fades, and loses her looks,
you'll find that she buys pink dresses
—it makes her look younger and
fresher—” announced Hannah tri
umphantly, for she cerguinly had their
attention now. “Last week I was in
the village and down at Petty’s store
there was Luella buying yards and
yards of pink stuff. She bought other
things, too, but the pink impressed me!
I bought it myself once,” she ended
pathetically.
Joseph got up, and his face was
still blushing. “I ought to explain
why I came, but Miss Hannah jumped
on me so,” he apologized.
“We guessed you was selling some
thing,” answered Maria kindly.
“If it's brushes, we don’t want any,
thank you,” remarked Hannah, thread
ing her needle.
Joey opened his generous mouth
and laughed heartily. “I came in to
sell you a bit of news,” he said at
last—*you can’t tell it to a soul until
next week—promise!” |
They promised.
He brought a large box from his
car. “Luella asked me to bring this
box of materials to you, and say that
she'd be in later and talk about pat
terns and such—you see, we're going
to be married week after next and
Luella wants you to make her wed
ding clothes!”
As he went happily down the path,
Hannah glanced after him shrewdly.
“] thought I recognized that pink moss
rosebud in his buttonhole—it came
from Grandma Park's garden!®
Copied After Red Cross.
The Blue cross movement is a Brit:
ish organization registered under the
war charities act, and supported by
voluntary contributions, to perform
the same service for horses, dogs and
mules on the battlefield as the Red
cross for soldiers. It established hos
pitals in I'rance equipped with veter
inary surgeens, and also sent medicai
supplies to ltaly, Mesopotamia, Salon
iki and KEgypt.
A vacuum tube and a hisghspeed
camera are being utilized by the
United States bureau eof standards
experts to measure the vibrations of
a gun muzzle during its discharge.
In experiments still continuing, it was
found that a light coating of oily in
the gun barrel caused the gun to
shoot high and that other things be
ing equal, muzzle vibrations increase
as the powder charge is'made lighter.
It is hoped to evolve a formula for
bullets and barrels which will cut in
accuracy to the minimum.
FOUR STATES ARE
COUNTING FLOOD LOSSES
HUNDREDS HOMELESS IN ILLI
NOIS, MISSOURI, KANSAS AND
OKLAHOMA.
Chicago, 111.-:?;—;;—&(1 to new I'::\m-1i
paged by phenomenal autumn Train-:
fall, the rivers and streams of four!
:tates have continued into October
the havoe they wrought throughout
:he last month.
I illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Okla
‘huma were counting flood losses to
i aight, with hundreds of families
I nemeless and many channels threat
lening to unload new tides of raging
| water.
| Beardstown, 111., residents who
| ‘pent many days of September bol
! {ering an Ilinois river levee in the
'iact of rising water, saw their efforts
"made vain when a thirty-foot break
in the dyke admitted to the city flood
| waters which swept the main streets
{and filled the southern section of the
'city to the level of the river.
IFive hundred families were home
less tonight and many of them were
accepting aid from the Salvation
. Army, which sent relief from Gales
i ourg. Downtown stores saw their
ifirst floors hidden beneath the as
sending tide, which made a torrent
'of one downtown thoroughfare for
ten blocks.
' Danville, 111., experienced the worst
flood in thirteen years when the Ver
"million river drove lowland residents
to the housetops, whence they were
rescued by police in boats,
| The Mississippi river reached the
highest fall stage ever recorded at
Alton, lil., and floods in the Missouri
and Illinois rivers above St. Louis,
near their confluence with the larger
stream, made many homeless and
{zovered thousands of acres of corn
‘and orchard lands.
| Over most of Kansas and Oklaho
ma flood conditions were less severe
‘than on Sunday night, with the wa
| ters receding, but many streams had
not yet returned to their banks.
. Three lives were taken by the flood
in Oklahoma Sunday.
| Tracks were washed away and
| highways submerged in many local-
Cities particularly in Illinois.
| September rainfall records for the
| Middlewest, compiled today by the
weather bureau, show a great excess
‘Ol precipitation from westren Ohio
|to central Nevada, most notably at
i Springfield, lil., where 15.16 inches
"of rain fell during the month—almost
i twelve inches more than the normal
‘amount. The record in Illincis for
| September is twenty inches, at Mon
‘mouth, 111., established in 1903.
BIG TOBACCO SHOW
| FOR ATLANTA FAIR
I
| e
|GEORGIA’S NEW MONEY CROP
| WILL BE EXHIBITED FROM
| SEED BED TO CIGARETTE—
! FARMERS INVITED.
| Atlanta, Ga.—Tobacco from seed
'hed to cigarette is being exhibited at
ithe Southeastern Fair, which opened
ISaturda,v, October 2, in Atlanta, in
|the first annual Georgia Tobacco Ex
[ position under auspices of the State
!Colleg‘e of Agriculture. ‘
The exposition is under the per-
Isonal supervision of E. C. West
brook, tobacco specialist of the state
college, who has assembled it with
the assistance of county agents and
chambers of commerce in the twenty
'three larger tobacco-growing coun
| ties of Georgia.
| The mammoth exhibit, which oc
cupies half of the central section of
‘the Agricultural Building, was ar
tranged for the Southeastern Fair As
sociation at an expense of several
thousand dollars, to give Georgians
their first personal knowledge of the
factors involved in producing the
state’s newest big money crop.
| Hundreds of tobacco farmers
along the line of the A., B. & A. rail
road who have shared in the millions
of dollars of tobacco money will see
for themselves the processes of age
ing and preparing tobacco for smok-‘
ers that makes it possible for manu
facturers to pay high prices for the'
weed, Mr. Westbrook said.
“Through following tobacco in its
‘entire history from seed pod to pipe
‘we hope to help farmers to under
stand more intelligently the require-|
'ments for high-price dtobacco and
lstimulate the growing of a betterl
quality,” he explained.
The exhibit, as all others in the
agricultural, liberal arts and Auto
mobile buildings, will be open with
out charge to visitors at the fair.
Insanity Is Rife After
Storm In Miami
Miami, Fla.—Nerve-racking hor
rors of the hurricane, sights of loved
ones being snatched into etrnity from
their very arms are given as causes
for 20 cases of irrational insanity by
the lunacy commission here.
Since September 18, 20 persons in
this city have been confined as in
sane, ten have been confined in the
asylum while ten others are still un
der observation of physicians. Fright
during the storm is assigned as cause
for their insanity. Two are divorced
wives, who ‘were found during the
midst of the storm’s fury seeking
their former mates in apparent hys
teria.
ee e e e
Efficiency expert says men do. bet
ter work when surrounded by beau
tifully designed office furniture.
This explains.the demand for pretty
stenographers.
Charlotte’s: .
Voice
By H. IRVING KING
(Copyright.) 3 R
MR. AND MRS. HAMILTON thought
their daughter Charlotte was a
musical marvel. They were rather
commonplace, well-to-do people. Mer.
Hamilton had some sort of business in
the city, to which he went every week
day from his suburban home—and
Charlotte was their only child. The
young lady was quite of her parents’
opinion with regarc to her musical
ability ; though she did not belleve
with them that she could sally forth
just as she was and soar to greatness
on her first song. But, given proper
training, she saw nothing between her
and the Metropolitan,
So she took her parents in hand, as
dutiful and only daughters are ac
customed to do. and it was arranged
—though Papa Hamilton could not af
ford it, really-—that she should have
ler veice cultivated under the super
intendence of * Kugene Stoner, who,
though still a young man, had
achieved # vast reputation as a musi
cal instructor,
So Papa Hamiltor: took his daugh
ter to the “muesiro” —as his friends in
New York called Mr. Stoner—and
stated the case. Just as soon as Eu
zene saw Charlotte he was so im
pressed that he really did not
care whether she could sing or not—
that was a secondary conslderation.
It was the girl herself that “knocked
him for a goal,” as you might say. Mr.
Hamilton left his daughter with the
great instructor amd went away—
wineing a little at the price per les
son stated by the “maestro” as his
customary terms. So Kugene tried
out Charlotte’s voice. She had a very
sweet, sympathetic voice—one that
was pleuasant to hear on the water by
moonlight. But as for her ever be
coming a great prima donna !—Eugene
knew in five minutes that that could
never be.
Ordinarily he would have said so
with the brutal frankness for which
he was noted. But if he told Char
lotte the truth he would, in all proba
bility, never see her again; and the
thought of & world without any Char
lotte in it had suddenly become a
world impossible for him. So Eugene
stifled his conscience, suppressed the
truth and agreed to give Charlotte
lessons. Moreover, when Mr. Hamil
ton came back for his daughter, the
“maestro” asked if he might come out
to Sunnybank, Mr. Hamilton's subur
ban town, and instruct Charlotte in
her own home evenings. He was so
very busy during the day, he said.
Also, he informed Mr. Hamilton
that he had been much impressed by
Charlotte—and her voice of course—
and that the matter of remuneration
for his services was one which might
remain in abeyance indefinitely. The
proud and happy father took home
the proud and happy daughter and the
girl played and sang plaintive little
love songs until late in the evening—
just to try her voice. That was the
beginning; and you can readily see
how things went on, and what a
scrape the great Stoner got himself
into. As the weeks grew into months
Charlotte, with her ambitions fixed
upon a prima donnaship, was scarcely
consciougs of how deeply in love with
her musical instructor she had be
come,
At last she began to be importu
nate with regard to the time when
Eugene would set her free to take her
great and dazzling flight into the
world of song. Now what could the
poor man do?” Things could not go on
like this forever—besides he did not
want them to go on like this forever.
He wanted to marry Charlotte forth
with and live somewhere in the coun
try with her, and have her sing “Annie
Laurie” and “Old Black Joe” to him
of evenings. The thought of her lift
ing up her voice in grand opera made
him shudder. But if he told her the
truth she would never forgive him—
never,
Then, one night, he took the plunge.
He painted for her a word picture of a
luxurious country place wherein they
two should live like turtle doves and
grow sweetly old together. He was
tired of his profession, he said, and
longed for rest and domestic joys.
He had aiready amassed a sufficient
fortune.
“QOh, Eugene,” cried Charlotte, “and
would you sacrifice your career to be
always with me?”
“Yes, and count it gain,” he re
plied. As a matter of fact he was
aware that his vogue was beginning
to wane. New popular idols in his
line had sprung up and, having made
hay while the sun shone, he was ready
to get out while the getting out could
be accomplished gracefully.
“But,” said Charlotte, “there is my
career to be thought of. Shall I never
realize those triumphs of which we
have talked so much together?”
«It is hard, darling, I know,” an
swered the deceitful man, shaking in
his shoes, “but I fear youw must—
and I do love you so!” {
“Bugene,” laughed Charlotte, “you
are g fraud; but I am something of &
fraud myself, too. Two months ago I
went to see Cornelius Haggerty, your
great rival, and he, not being in love,
told me at once that I could never be
a great singer. But I could not bear
the thought of not seeing you twice a
week as usual and so kept mum.” -
Eugene gave a shout and then—
well, never mind. They were married
that June and when Eugene hears his
wife singing cradle songs he declares
that he was mistaken about her voice
after all—it is the most wonderful
veice in the world.
eet ot ee g T et e
Stogie ‘2-Fors’ Cost
- Stephen G. Porter
$l.BO Each In Europe
Washington, D. C.—When Repre
sentative Stephen G. Porter, of Penn
sylvania, goes abroad again his
friends back home need not send him
any Pittsburg stogies.
Porter, just back from Geneva, re
ceived a package from a friend con
taining 2 hundred of his favorite
smokes, which retail two for a nickel.
7173efort; he got rid of them they had
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DrFrauic Cr-me Says( G¢
CI'TIES NEED PURE Wf]‘Eß
~ “I cannot play upon any stringed
instrument; but I can tell you how
of a little village to make a great
and glorious city,” said the old
Greek Themistocles.
One of the most important ele
ments in making a small town a great
and glorious city is the assuring of
an ample supply of pure water.
As cities have grown larger the
problem has become more difficult.
The extent to which municipal gov
ernments have gone to insure suffi
cient uncontaminated water for their
citizens is shown in the case of Los
Angeles, California, a few facts about
whose water system should be of
value to all interested in city plan
ning. :
The Municipal Water Bureau, with
its supply and distribution system,
represents an investment of more
than $75,000,000. .
The main source of supply is a
giant aqueduct nearly 250 miles in
length. It is known as the Owens
River Aqueduct and is laid across the
Mojave Desert and up the east side
of the Sierras to tap the melting
snows near their summits.
It took five years to complete and
is canable of meeting the water needs
of two million people. This aqueduct
is said to be the largest in the world
bringing water to a city. |
Fifteen reservoirs are used for the
storage of the water. They have a
AUTC TOURISTS AID
IN BOOSTING SOUTH
MOTORISTS FROM NORTH AND
EAST HELP TO MAKE DIXIE
BETTER KNOWN TO COUN
TRY-AT-LARGE.
Atlanta, Ga.—One agency that has
helped to make Southern opportuni
ties better known to the country-at
large and therefore has contributed
largely to Southern industrial and
business development is the automo
bile tourist from the North and East,
according to business leaders here.
And the improvement of Southern
highways, it was pointed out, has
been one of the factors contributing
to the bringing of the motor tourist
into the South.
It was the well-to-do motorist from
the North, seeking relief from the
'tigors of a Northern winter, who
,first discovered the possibilities of the
South as a land of business and in
vestment opportunity, it was shown
here. He came with his family and
he told his neighbor and the neigh
'bor came with his family, and soon
)whole droves of them were making
‘the annual journey southward.
l Of course the railroads brought
many to the South, but in a good
‘many instances those who came by
rail came hurriedly, saw less as they
‘passed through the country and were
seeking pleasure more than a place
to locate and invest.
The motor tourist right now is
making his plans for another trip
South. To the number of some hun
dreds of thousands the well-to-do
Northerner with a car and a family
is looking Southward and is making
his plans to get down here, for a few
months at least.
The motor tourist, Atlanta busi
ness men point out, is worth looking
after. He is a potential power for
development. It pays a town or state
to cultivate him, to make him feel ati
home, to show him the best the state
and the South have to offer and to
make his coming easy by providing‘
roads he can travel in comfort and]
safety. And the motor tourist soon |
will be headed toward the South.
Georgia Autoists Paid
$3,326,398 for Licenses
Atlanta, Ga.—September collec
tions from Georgia’s automobile
registration fees amounted to $58,-
166.69, according to the monthly
statement isued by the secretary of
state’s office.
Since January 1, Georgia motor
ists,- through' th epurchase of state
licenses, have poured $3,326,398.52
into the state’s coffers. This is an
increase of $393,233.68 over the
amount of registration fees received
by the state during the correspond
ing period last year, it was an
nounced.
| A total of 234,652 passenger car
tags and 34,228 truck tags were is
sued by the secretary of state from
January to October, the records
'show. This is an increasé of 27,183
|passenger cars and 5,250 motor
'trucks over the corresponding period
'{of 1925, it was said.
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fcost him $l.BO each. |
| First, there was 16 cents per
stogie duty at the Swiss customs
‘house. When he unthinkingly
chucked the can in his grip on a
week-end trip to Monte Carlo, and
forgot to declare them for duty at
the French border, he was held up
for attempting to “smuggle” 1:obaccol
into France. l
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The government recently spent
$25,000 in repairing a temporary of-é
fice building, damaged by white ants
known as termites. 1
total capaciyt of 120,000 acre feet or
about 39,000,000,000 gallons. Ths}
is enough to meet the city’s domestic *
water requirements for an entire
year without being refilled.
The network of water mains carry
ing the water to consumers totals al
most the number of miles across the
continent.
Surveying and other preliminary
work has been done for a second
aqueduct about 260 miles long which
will be built in the future. It will in
crease the capacity until seven mil
lion inhabitants can be taken care of.
The water brought from the ‘melt
ing snows is pure at the source and
comes through the aqueduct uncon
taminated. Th eproblem of keeping
it pure in the reservoir is met by ‘an
elaborate system of tests and sterili
zations,
Instead of the old method of throw
ing in powder, chlorine gas is mixed
with water in a way similar to the
charging of carbonated water, and
this is run into the tanks.
It is a significant fact that the
health department reports that since
1902 not a single case of water-borne
disease has been reported in the city.
This one example of the extent to
which enterprising cities will go in
their struggle to insure pure water is
indicative of its importance in urban
life.
RAILROAD INDUSTRY
IS NOW ENORMOUS
NEXT TO AGRICULTURE, IT IS
LARGEST SINGLE ENTERPRISE
IN UNITED STATES—EXECU
TIVES GIVE FIGURES.
Atlanta, Ga.—The railroad indus
try, next to agriculture, is the largest
single enterprise in the United
States, and with its 296,000 miles of
main tracks and an additional 110,-
miles of sidings and industrial
tracks, with 68,000 locomotives, 2,-
400,000 freight cars, 57,000 passen
ger cars, and the steamboats and fer
ries, it serves the every day wants of
all the citizens, according to a state-
ment issued here today by railway
executives.
The railroads consume 25 per cent
of all the lumber cut, over 27 per
cent of the coal mined, and 30 per
cent of the iron and steel produced,
it was stated. R
The railroad plant today presents
an investment of about $21,000,000,
which is almost double what it was
in 1900, the statement says.
But the service performed today,
measured in ton and passenger miles,
as the result of increased economy
and efficiency, and improved meth
ods, it was pointed out, is three
times as great as that rendered in
1900.
The ' railroadus, the executives
show, spend approximately $5,000,-
000,000 a year for wages and sup
plies, and through their payrolls and
other expenditures form the .source
of livelihood for more than one-sev
enth of the total population of the
country.
It was further stated that the
American railroads are now paying
over a million dollar sa day for each
working day in the year as taxes to
support the Federal, State and Mu
nicipal governments, and these taxes
now exceed the total railroad divi
dends paid to the public.
This public payroll, it was shown,
costs every man, woman and .child
in the United States $34 a year, or
$9l per annum to every working
person over sixteen years of age.
' Berry’s Jersey Herd
! Wins Many Prizes
| Atlanta, Ga.—The champion Jer
!sey herd of Berry schools at Mount
Berry, Ga., which has been exhibited
at the Knoxville, (Tenn.) fair, won
twenty prizes, according to reports
igeceived here. These consisted of 6
| first prizes, 4 second prizes, 8 third
iprizes, 8 fourth prizes and 4 fifth’
iprizes. Some of the best Jerseys in
{the United -States were in competi
tion, it was stated. _
This herd has been developed at
the Berry schools by C. F. Russell, a
lßerry graduate of the class of 1915
and at the present time the farm
superintendent of the school. It is
stated that the herd will be exhibited
‘at the Chattanooga (Tenn.) fair, at
'the Southeastern Fair in Atlanta and
'at several other large fairs.
| From the model dairy at the
!schools is produced milk, butter and
| beef from 75 grade Jerseys and many
‘that are registered, the school au
‘thorities state. This herd is constant
1y improved by breeding and selec
tion.
“The dairy boy is taught the value
of pure breds and the value of regis
tering his cattle,” said G. Leland
Green, superintendent of the school.
“He knows how to work out a feed
ration which will help him to econo
mize and get better results from his
dairy cattle, and perhaps save the -
expense of a veterinarian who is of
ten called by dairymen as a resuit of
over-feeding.”