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DECIDES AGAINST
INCOME TAX AGENTS
OPINION RENDERED BY ATTOR
NEY GENERAL BARS INCOME
AGENTS FROM BANKS
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Sections Of
The State
Atlanta.—lnternal revenue agents
have no right to demand information
from a hank about its customers’ ac
counts, according to an opinion ren
dei ed by Attorney General George M.
Nai ier to State Superintendent of
Banks T It. Bennett.
The opinion wa given at request of
Mr Bennett, following inquiries re
<(.|ved in his office from a number
of banks throughout the state. It ap
pears that in some places internal
revenue eolleetosr, seeking information
for tli*! Income tax collection depart
ment of their office, have gone to
bunks with a list of depositors and
have demanded ft full report of each
of these Individual's balance swith
the hank, the deposits, withdrawals,
(<■., for tiie past year.
Mr. Napier, in iii.s opinion, brands
this practice as cssolutely in viola
tion of both the state constitution and
of the Constitution of the United States,
“it is an invasion, not only of the
rights of On! bank, hut of the rights
of the depositors,” he declared.
11 points out that there is a legal
method, by appealing to the courts,
through which books and papers may
he brought into court. Bit, he contin
ues, until that method Is brought into
play, "all persons should he secure—
actually and constitutionally secure—
in the private and confidential pos
session of their papers and effects
committed to the bank severally se
lected by each.”
The opinion says further:
“The examination of the private ac
counts of depositors of a bank by an
outsider not legally authorized would
he the exorcise of the highest tyran
ny and oppression, of a power mon
strous and revolting. It is the equiv
alent of the ruthless invasion of a pri
vate homo and the search In that
locality sacred from the presence of
nn unwelcome Intruder, of the private
papers and effects of the owner.”
Presbyterians Plan $4,750,000 Drive
Atlanta Final plans for launching
n Presbyterian progressive campaign
on March is by Southern Presbyterian
churches to raiaa $4,760,000 for the
benevolent work ol' the church, tire be
ing made and all churches are now or
ganized with the object of making
the canvas on March 18, it has been
announced. The presbytery of Atlan
ta, which is one of the largest in the
assembly, will lurid a banquet a few
days prior to the launching of the cam
paign at the chamber of commerce cafe.
l>r. Kghert Smith of Nashville, secre
tary of the foreign mission work, will
make the principal address. Rev. W.
1 luck, secretary of the stewardship of
the presbytery, also will attend the
banquet. Seetoins of the South have
been assigned certain amounts to
raise during the campaign. The quo
ta for Georgia is $363,411, while At
lanta’s quota is $162,682.
Tire Dealers Plan Organization
Atlanta. Retail tire dealers of At
lanta formed a tentative organization'
mi tlm Capital City Club, recently, for
the purpose of eorrocting evils said to
he prevalent in the trade, and for fos-
terlng interests common to all.
Representatives of n number of con
corns wore prosont at the meeting. Ed
ward S. Gay. J. L. Carroll and Sara
Levy wore appointed as a committee
to arrange for another meeting In the
near future, at which time the organi
sation will l>e completed, officers elect
ed and constitution and by laws drawn
and adopted.
Mother Of. Youth Sues Teacher
Atlanta. —On the ground that she has
been deprived of the services of her
eon, Mrs. Kate Ragsdale, mother of
Iloke Ragsdale, the Forrest Park
school pupil who filed suit for $50.-
000 damages recently against Prof. J.
D Smith, principal, has asked an ad
ditional $25,000 in damages from the
instructor. The suits charge Professor
Smith with having struck the youth
with such force that his sense of hear
ing in one ear was completely de
stroyed.
Central Of Georgia Freight Wrecked
Macon. Five freight cars were de
railed at Miteli, 55 miles from Macon,
on the southwestern division of the
Central of Georgia railway. No one
was injured, bit there was some dam
age to equipment. The cause of the
derailment is said to have been a
broken arch bar on one of the cars.
HARD TIMES COME
FOR BOOTLEGGERS,
INCOME FAX NEAR
Revenue Office Now Busy Checking
Up 1922 Profits Of All The
Liquor Purveyors
Atlanta.—Bootleggers in the Georgia
district, who have not made full and
complete returns showing the exact
amount of their incomes for all the
periods for which returns are required,
will have ample cause to regret their
attempt to dvofd paying a tax, accord
ing to a statement issued by Josiah
T. ltose, internal revenue collector.
The statement of Mr. Rose follows
closely on the publication of develop
ments in Savannah, where 17 indict
ments have been returned against al
leged bootleggers who failed to make
returned according to law.
That the collector means business
is shown by the announcement that
papers are rneing prepared, based on
data on incomes of illegal purveyors
of spirits, and will be used in securing
indictment after indictment against
this class of double law evaders.
Rotary Seen As World Force
Macon. —Rotary as a world force,
with 90,000 members in 27 countries,
furnishing a practical organization for
carrying out the Golden Rule, estab
lishing personal contact with future
Rotarians and citizens through its boy
work program, and offering a model for
business codes of ethics the world
over, was the vision of this organiza-
tion presented to the local club at its
weekly meeting at luncheon in Rotary
hall by District Governor Porter Pier
pont of Savannah. Mr. Pierpcmt pre
sides over 38 clubs in Georgia and in
Florida. This was the occasion of his
first visit to Macon since his election
last spring. President Ellsworth Hall
of the Macon club said in introducing
the speaker that he was the best ad
ministrative officer the district has had
Marietta Purchases New Fire Engine
Marietta. —Anew and up-to-date fire
engine has been purchased by the city
fathers of Marietta. The new truck
was purchased from the Hebert com
pany by Mayor Gordon G. Gann and
members of the city council who made
the trip to Atlanta. The new equip
ment will be modern in every way,
carrying full chemical equipment, ex
tension ladders, water hose and a
pressure pump operated by power from
the motor. The equipment complete
is to cost $14,000, which, it is an
nounced, will ho paid from the regular
appropriation tor the fire department
Fake Stamps Cause Liquor,,Arrest
Savannah. —Ira M. Futcli lias been
arrested by S. M. Moye, federal pro
hibition agent, on a charge of manufac
turing fake government revenue stamps
for liquor. A warrant has been sworn
out for another person in connection
with the same case. It is charged that
Futch had printed a largo number of
fake revenue labels hearing the name
of the "Cedar Brook Distillery” of Ken
tucky. A large number of the labels
were seized at the time. Editor Miller
of the Hawkeye declares he knows
nothing of the matter.
Mail Carrier Dies In Auto Accident
Savannah. —M. M. Lanier, a rural
mail carrier, was killed near Montetih,
15 miles from Savannah, where the
mail truck he was driving went off
the road and overturned. Lanier was
pinned beneath the car, and his head
held under water in a roadsdie ditch.
Ho was either drowned or died of in
juries. Floyd Akins, who was riding
with him, was not seriously hurt.
Akins was to succeed Lanier as driver
and was being carried along to learn
the route.
Organize Mill Company" In Floyd
Rome. —At a meeting of prominent
business men held at Summerville,
Ga„ Holton cotton mill company was
organized with a capital of $200,000.
with $30,000 of this amount subscribed
within ten minutes. The mills will
be located near the Summerville high
school. Oficers elected were J. M.
Hell, president and treasurer; E. A.
Leonard, vice president, and A, T. Mar
tin. secretary.
Child Badly Hurt By Auto
Carrollton. —The four-year-old child
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Morris was
knocked down by an automobile driven
by E. T. Jackson, in front of her home,
and had three ribs broken and was
badly bruised.
Judge Meyerhardt Dead
Rome.—Judge Meyerhardt, past
grand master fo Georgia Masons, is
dead. He had been editor of the Ma
sonic Herald for many years, and was
for forty years worshipful master of
one of Rome's Masonic lodges.
James M. Lewis Sparta Postmaster
Sparta.—James M. Lewis, formei
manager of the Sparta Tribune, has re
ceived official information from the
rostoffice department in Washington
that he has been appointed permanent
postmaster of Sparta
THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
SELLING GEORGIA
TO GEORGIANS
By W, R. Crites
Address Deiivered Before the
Midwinter Press Meeting
at Savannah.
Such a profound impression .was
made by the address of W. R. Crites,
secretary of the Millen and Jenkins
county Chamber of Commerce, before
the Georgia Press Association, his sub
ject being “Selling Georgia to Geor
gians,” that spontaneous expressions,
led by W. T. Anderson of the Macon
Telegraph, were forthcoming that the
address be made available to every
newspaper in the state for publication.
Mr. Crites’ address in full is as fol
lows:
“1 deeply appreciate the honor of
being invited to speak to this organi
zation on a subject that should be very
near to all of us —the full development
of the matchless resources, both min
eral and agricultural, of our common
state.
“When 1 consider the caliber of the
men I am to address, I approach the
task with fear and trembling. That
feeling of personal unworthiness be
comes all the more poignant to me
when I recall that wonderful address,
“The Spirit of the Service,” delivered
so eloquently by Royal Daniel on the
occasion of one of your meetings a
year or so ago. I did not have the
privilege of hearing that address, but
I did have the pleasure of reading it,
and even in cold type without the force
and personality of the man behind it,
it left an indellible imprint upon my
mind. That address should become a
classic in the annals of your asoscia
tion. It is that ‘spirit of service” that
I hope to enlist today.
“My pathway is not made easier by
the thought of the scintillating wit and
clever satire of Mr. Sutlive. Of him
I believe we can all say in true Bill
Biffem phraseology.
“ ‘A guy we like is old Bill Sutlive,
‘Who always wants to live and let
live.'”
“He has been weighed in the balance
of your association and has not been
found wanting. You have honored
him and he has measured up to the
standards of his calling. As we think
of him today I feel that you will all
join me in that old Jeffersonian Rip
Van Winkle toast to his life and abil
ity—“ May you live long and prosper.”
“But this by no means completes the
list. A constant study of your edito
rial page discloses genius throughout
your entire membership. There is the
constructive thinking Neal, the my
riad-minded Bickers, Stovall, the diplo
mat, the vitriolic Anderson, the pro
found Howell, the logic of Cohen, the
easy style of Kirkpatrick, the creative
Camps, the methodical Comfort, the
vision of Brumby, the good fellowship
and ability of that splendid example
of Georgia womanhood, Miss Wood
ward, and all the rest. There is no
slight in omission. To do all justice I
would have to recite the entire roster
of your association.
“When I think of the power that is
yours to wield, is it any wonder that
I feel bowed under the weight of medi
ocrity as I approach the task of en
deavoring to have you consecrate your
lives and abilities to the education of
our people along constructive lines.
In your field of endeavor you have
a wonderful opportunity, and. here, to
day, I invoke the ‘spirit of service,’
hnd bespeak your most earnest co-op
eration in the serious work that must
be done before we can rise to the
heights of statehood that we have a
right to attain.
“With the intense state pride and
love of tradition that fills the heart
of the average Georgian it would al
most seem that 'Selling Georgia to
Georgians’ is more or less of an empty
phrase, but to those who have made a
careful study of the resources that
God has so manifestly blessed us with,
and of the psychology of our people,
we see before us a Brobdingnagian
task.
“In the selling of Georgia to Geor
gians we are confronted with the ne
cessity of overcoming the thoughts
and habits of a century. For years
the trend of written thought and ora
torical effort has been filled with the
pleasing idioms of chivalric speech to
the extent that there has been foster
ed a complacent and self-satisfied at-
titude toward life. There has been
built up a belief that we have reached
the ultima thule of all human progress
and that the day of making traditions
Is over, when as a matter of fact we
have only been marking time, and
along some lines have even been
retrograding. While out oratorical
lips have dripped honeyed compli
ments to the glory of Georgia man
hood and womanhood, we have allow
ed ourselves to drop to the disgrace
fully low point of forty-fourth in mat
ters of education; while we have been
writing lavender scented tomes on
crinolined dame and gallant squire the
soul of the thinker has writhed in
agony as he saw our mineral resour
ces being shipped away to be manu
factured into finished materials by
other states; while we prated with a
justifiable pride of traditions other
divisions of our country have been
making great strides in manufacture
through development of their water
power, and our streams still run un
harnessed to the sea; and while we
have indulged in countless dreamy
siestas, we have seen our farmers
shackled with seemingly unbreakable
bonds to a cross of cotton and the in
iquitous systems of farming and cred
its that have grown up around that
commodity.
“In addition to this our hearts can
not help but be saddened by the
thought that we have failed to herald
to the world the virtues of our people
and the glories of our possessions. As
a result we feel the scorching sting
of criticism in the oft-repeated state
ment that we live in a land of ‘moon
shine, lynching and illiteracy,’ instead
of an Eden of opportunity, awaiting
the magic alchemy of the forge and
the retort of the manufacturer and
the scientific development of agricul
ture to transform it into a golden
blaze of wealth.
“Oh! Member of the Georgia Press
Association! I hope that I can bring
to you a vision of the Georgia that is
to be —a Georgia of highly educated
men and women, a Georgia of indus
trial activity with splendid cities filled
with busy factories, and a Georgia of
a happy and prosperous countryside
established upon the solid foundation
of a sane system of farming and mar
keting. If I can bring to you that
picture and can enlist the concerted
power of the institutions you repre
sent, in five years there will be anew
and greater state rising Phoenix-like
from the ashes of the old.
“A salesman, to be successful, must
first sell himself. Perhaps we have
not realized the extent of the natural
blessings that we have been endowed
with, and it may be necessary in or
der to catch the inspiration to famil
iarize ourselves with the resources of
our state and in this way arrive at i
own conclusions.
Mineral Resources.
“On the authority of the eminent
Dr. S. W. McCallie, state geologist, we
find Georgia rich in mineral resources
beyond computation. In state docu
ments he informs us that our geolog
ical formation accounts for an unusual
diversity of minerals, which for com
mercial purposes cover a range not to
be exceeded by any geographical di
vision of the same area in the world.
“This mineral belt extends entirely
across the state with its southern
boundary running from near Waynes
boro to Columbus. It can be divided
into two sections—the Piedmont pla
teau and the mountain region. All
that vast stretch of territory is rich
in marble, granite, slate, iron, coal,
bauxite, asbestos, dopper, gold, ochre,
corundum and talc. While the extreme
northern section lias not' been fully
explored it is known to contain im-
mense deposits of mineral wealth.
“In addition to these most impor
tant minerals there is a miscellaneous
production that must not be overlook
ed. In this we find barytes, cements,
soapstone, Fuller’s earth, marls and
graphites. Manganese is found in
the same section as some of the iron
ores, while mica is distributed through
out the Piedmont plateau. In the mat
ter of ochre Georgia produces' half of
the output of the United States. Even
precious stones are found in variety. 7
There has been no systematic attempt
at mining along these lines, but acci
dental finds include diamonds, rubles,
amethysts, rose quartz; rutilated quartz!
smoky" quartz, agate, jaspers, opals,
beryls, garnets and moonstones.
“Tlie marble deposits are so exten
sive that it has been estimated that
all the monumental land marks of the
world could be reproduced from them
without serious diminution. The same
is true of granite, but with all this
the Georgia state capitol building was
not built of Georgia materials.
“In the famed Pittsburg district iron
ore has to be transported by water
and rail from the mines in the far off
Lake Superior region to coal. In Geor
gia these two minerals are found lying
side by side, together with all the
fluxing and purifying ores necessary
in the making of steel. The opal Is
of the highest heating value and for
cooking purposes cannot be excelled.
Bauxite, the basic material of alum
inum, is found in Polk, Bartow, Chat
tooga, Walker and Wilkinson counties,
but practically the entire production
is shipped to New York and Pennsyl
vania and not a pound of it is being
manufactured in Georgia.
Practically all of the asbestos In
the United States is found in Georgia,
only one other state having shown
a deposit. This ore is found chiefly
in the Piedmont plateau- New uses
are being discovered for it every day,
but in spite of this demand it is being
shipped away to be made into finish
ed materials elsewhere.
(Continued In Next Issue.)
Although it is believed that certain
interests have designs on all the ether
close to the earth for a radio monop
oly, interplanetary space has not yet
been staked oul
Sc raps,a
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WINNING PARSON'S FEE, MAYBE
V '■* *
“What is : ,it„,deaj?” asked her girl
friend, finding her in tears.
“W-why ” she sobbed, “I t-told
Jack, after he proposed, to go into the
library and see papa.”
• “What of that?”
“Why, they started playing cards
and how he goek to see pupa every
night.”
The Process. s
“How long did you work on that
Speech?
“Several weeks.”
“I didn’t know it took so long to pre
pare a political address.”
“Ordinarily it doesn’t but there are
times in the career of a public man
when he Ims to submit his views to a
number of influential voters before he
passes them on to the connnon people.”.
TRIBUTE TO A SPORTSMAN
Visitor—Are there any fish in this
stream?
Country Boy—There was yester.
day. But since you’ve been walkin’
up an’ down with that fancy fishin’
outfit I shouldn’t be surprised if they
had all jumped fur the river an’ hid.
A Warning.
You have only one life on this earth,
So be careful with this’n;
Ten seconds are all that it takes
To stop, look and listen!
New Disease Found.
A dejected-looking World war vet
eran applied for assistance at the
Pittsburgh chapter of the American
Red Cross not long ago, saying he
j was ill.
“What does the doctor say is the
matter?” he was asked.
“I dunno just what it is,” replied
the applicant, “but he says it's ‘forma
tion of the diagnosis.’ ”
The Old Sermon Problem.
“That’s what I call a finished ser
mon,” said a lady to her husband as'
they wended their way home from
church.'
“Yes,” was the reply; “but. do you
know, I thought It never would be.”—
Everybody’s Magazine. .
The Effect of Environment.
“It’s a strange thing about a tele
phone booth.”
“Well?”
“A man who is truthful most of ths
time will shut himself up in one of
1 those compartments and immediately
become a facile liar.”
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Resourceful Woman.
, Artist —That clumsy girl has flicked
1 a dust cloth across the fresh paint on
my new 7 picture. It is nothing hut a
smear.
His Wlfe-^—Never mind, dear. Call
It a country scene viewed from a speed
ing automobile. , '•
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No Second-Hand Stuff for Her.
Betty on a visit to her aunt, being 1 '
offered for her lunch some fragments
left over from Sunday 7 dinner, politely
declined. “Why, dear, don’t you like
turkey?” inquired her aunt.
“Only when It’s new,” said Betty.
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THAT'B FAIR
He—Come on dear, let's kiss and
make up.
She—All right, HI go and make
jp, and you kiss yourself good-bye.
A Good Phrase.
Above his desk
This phrase I saw:
In all things I
Observe the law.
Honest.
“Well, there’s one thing I’ll say f^ r
that new maid —she’s honest.”
“That so?”
“Yes. The other day she broke
one of my best dishes and didn’t
rlalm that It fell apart In her hands.’