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SANITARIUM FUND
IS REPORTED LOW
DEFICIT OF SIIO,OOO IS SHOWN—
REPORT IS READY FOR
GOVERNOR
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Sections Of
The State
Mllledgeville—Sixty-five and one
fourth cents a day is the total amount
required to maintain each patient in
the Georgia State senatarium, accord
ing to the report of the board of trus
tees of the state hospital for the in
sane that was completed recently tor
submission to Governor Thomas \V.
Hardwick.
This amount of money not only sup
plies each patient with the necessaries
of life, according to the report, but
pays for medical attention and hos
pital treatment. During 11)22 the cost
of each of the patients in the hospital
throughout the year was $238.04, as
coqiparied with a cost of $240.72 in
1921. This exceedingly low cost to the
state of maintaining its needy wards
Is attributed to the great efficiency of
management of the state hospital, and
tin 1 careful economy of the men in
charge.
Hut despite the low cost of main
taining (he sanitarium, the legislative
appropriations for 1922 were insuffi
cient to moot the expenses of oper
ation. The summary in the report to
the governor shows that the cash lia
bilities of the sanitarium at the close
ol the year exceeded its resources by
$76,137.15. Included in the resources
however are $5,282.81 in "receivables”
which are of doubtful value. Supplies
show a shrinkage of $26,924.17.
The 1921 report of the board to the
governor estimated the deficit at
$260,650.00, for which an appropria
tion was asked, but tho legislature
granted only $150,000.00, and conse
quently an approximate deficit of sllO,-
000.00 remains which sanitarium of
ficials hope will be made up by legis
lative appropriations for 1923.
The report shows that 3,972 patients
resided in the sanitarium at the close
of 1922, which is an increase of 74
over the previous year The increase
in patients during the mist ten years
has been 688, an annual increase of
about 68 cacti year.
Illiteracy Drops In Butts County
Jackson. —A striking decrease in illit
eracy in Butts county in tho five year
period since 1918 is shown in tho fig
ures compiled in the recent school cen
sus. The figures reveal there are only
(! white children in the county unable
to rend and write. Tho total number
of white school children is 5,641 and
the per cent of illiteracy is 1 3-10 of
one per cent. There are 85 school chil
dren unable to read and write, out of
n total of 2,095, making the per cent
of illiteracy for colored 4 per cent.
New Cotton Concern Is Organized
Summerville. —The Jolly Cotton com
pany has been organized here, and the
owners, J. L. Jolly, of Rome, and E. A.
.Leonard, of Summerville, have applied
for a charter for tho new enterprise,
which will have a capital stock of $50,-
000. Ttie principal office will be at
Summerville. The trade to be carried
on by the corporation will be that of a
general cotton and warehouse business,
tho dealing in spot cotton and cotton
for future delivery, cotton products, ler
tilizers, seeds, etc.
East Point Fire Costs $150,000
Atlanta.—Fire which raged in the
main business section of East Point
and for a time threatened to spread to
disastrous proportions, razed the large
structure of the Marion Harper Cotton
Oil company and required the combin
ed fire fighting npparntus of three ad
joining cities to bring it under control.
Thef ire caused an estimated damage
to the oil company of approximately
$150,000, covered by insurance, Mr. Har
per said.
Convict Labor Supply Diminishing
Atlanta. —If the inflow of convicts
continues to diminish and the outflow
of convicts continue to increase in the
next twelve months as they have in
the past twelve months, many county
convict organizations in Georgia will
have insufficient men to keep their op
erations going, it was predicted by
Captain Goodloe Yancey, secretary of
the prison commission.
George W. Murphy Named On Board
LnGrange.—At the annual meeting
of the stockholders of the Dixie Cot
ton Mills, held at the mill offices in
LaGrange, George W. Murphy was
named as a member of the board or
directors. He has be n superintendent
of the Dixie Cotton mills for the past
six years and under his management
the mills have enjoyed unprecendtuted
growth and development
I GEORGIA’S INCOME
WILL BE INCREASED
1 Commissioner Henry J. Fullbrigh,
Says Revenue Next Year Will
Be $4,800,000
Atlanta. —Georgia’s income tor tllf!
next two years, based on estimates
from ad valorem taxes, will aggregate
$4,800,000 per annum, compared with
$4,780,000 in 1923, according to figures
submitted to Governor Hardwick by
Henry J. Fullbright, state tax commis
sioner.
A gradual increase in property valu
ations in the state will enable a slight
increase in the estimated revenue dur
ing the next two years, Mr. Fullbright
stated. In his report to Governor Hard
wick, which will be used by the budget
commission, In order to obtain an idea
of the estimated revenue next year, Mr.
Fullbright issued the following state
ment:
“You will appreciate the fact that
in making an estimate at this time
of ad valorem taxes for two years in
advance, the estimate must he pred
icated upon the existing laws as well
as conditions that exist at this time.
“The total digest values lor 1922
were $1,027,794,721. This amount
means total ad valorem taxes of $5,138,-
973. Of this amount, the expense of
collecting, including loss on insolvent
fl. fas, amounts to an average of about
seven per cent, so that the net revenues
from this source for the year would be,
in round numbers, $4,780,000.
Professor Carleton Re-elected Head
Waycross.—The board of trustees of
Piedmont institute held its annual meet
ing rocently at the First Baptist church
and decided to extensively improve the
dormitories and building during the
summer months. Prof. W. C. Carleton
was unanimously re-elected as head of
the school, and announced after his
election that plans are now being per
fected for the opening in the fall. The
student body presented a resolution to
the board of! trustees requesting that*
the school be made a junior college.
While no action was taken by the
board, tho request mot with unanimous
approval of the members.
Pavo Organizes Board Of Commerce
Thomasville. —The Pavo Board ot
Trade has been formally organized with
officers elected and rules and regula
tions adopted regarding the governing
of that body. Besides the regular offi
cers of the board it was decided to also
have a board of control, consisting of
six members, three from the town and
three farmers from the surrounding dis
trict. Tho organization is planned as*
a co-operative one between the busi
ness men of the town and the farmers.
The officers are R. E. Miller, president;
I. P. Hart, vice president; W. L. Adams,
secretary and treasurer. The members
of the board of control are H. C. Ford,
R. L. Bradley, C. A. Adams, D. L. B.
Jones, H. G. Ballard and E. J. Walker.
Good Roads Body Talks Bonds
Macon. —Delegates aro In attendance
at a meeting of the Georgia Good
Roads association. One of tho propo
sitions to be considered is a $70,000,-
000 state highway bond issue to be re
tired by a maximum of three cents per
gallon on gasoline and motor oils.
Members of the committee recommend
ing the bond issue aro Edgar Watkins,
chairmah; J. A. Shurpo, E..M. Thorpe,
Charles N. Howard, Jr., and W. E.
Watkins. Judge) A. B. Moore, of
vannah, is presiding over the meeting.
A strong delegation is here from At
lanta.
Ax Splits Head—Man Near Death
Dublin. —With his head split open
with an ax, George Pope, 60, Is in a
dying condition in a local hospital, the
result, officers says, of his efforts to
bar his son-in-law from his home. Wil
lie L. Tipton was placed in the county
jail here at midnight, charged with as
sault to commit murder. He told dep
utieß who located him that his father
in-law, Pope, was advancing oh him
with a butcher knife, when he grasped
an ax from the woodpile and struck the
old man several times.
Bamesvllla Bank Given Charter
Bnruesville. —Tho comptroller of the
currency at Washington recently noti
fied the officers of the Citizens Bank
of Uamesville. that he had approved the
application of the bank to convert it in
to the Citizens National Bank of Barnes
ville, wth a capital of $50,000. The
application was filed with the depart
ment about threq weeks ago and ex
amination was immediately ordered,
which was made and found satisfact
ory.
Restaurant Owner At Savannah Slain
Savannah. —Angelo Chionis. proprie
tor of a small restaurant at East
Broad and Harris streets, was found
burned to death in his place of busi
ness recently. As the cash register
was open and rifled, and the man's
body was found beside the counter,
it is believed he was slain by robbers
who later set the place on fire
THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
NEWS DRIEFLYTOLD
DISPATCHES OF IMPORTANT HAP
FENINGS GATHERED FROM
OVER THE WORLD.
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Foreign—
Mail from Paris will reach New York
within fifteen hours when the “phan
tom airplane,” invented by Capt. Mau
rice Percheron, has been perfected, Par
is papers say. This is a question now
of only a couple of years, it is asserted.
The north to northwesterly gales pre
vailing in Paris brought disaster to sev
eral of the twenty spherical balloons
entered for the Grand Prix of the Aero
Club of France.
The Spanish nation is finding ex
treme difficulty in obtaining elemen
tary school teachers, of whom a further
28,000 are required, in order to pro
vide the millions of illiterate children
w’ith education. The reason for the
shortage is small salaries.
The French are marching deeper in
to Germany. According to word re
ceived in Berlin, French soldiers have
advanced one kilometer in the vicinity
of Karlsruhe in order to increase the
hold on the railroads of the Ruhr.
Paris newspapers opine: France
holds the whip over Germany; Brit
ain and Italy are in no position to
force the French to relinquish their
hold on the German industrial area;
France does not intend to stay perma
nently in the Ruhr.
A bill to provide that any ship en
tering British waters or leaving a Brit
ish port be obliged to carry a reason
able amount of alcoholic liquors for the
supply of passengers on demand is to
be introduced in the British house of
commons by Lieut. Col. George Loyd
Courthope, Conservative member for
the Rye division of Sussex.
An emphatic note from the British
government handed to Maxi Litvinoff,
assistant Russian foreign minister, al
leging propaganda and other violation
of the Anglo-Russian trade agreement
and demanding assurances of uncondi
tional fulfillment of specified require
ments within ten days, is considered
by Russian officials as definitely in
tended to bring about a break in Anglo-
Russian relations.
Dr. Krupp von Bohlen, head ot the
Krupp works, was sentenced to 15
years in jail and to pay a fine of one
hundred million marks. as a result of
the trial by courtmartial here growing
out of the shooting at the Krupp plant
on March 31. Directors Hartwig and
Oesterlen also were sentenced to 13
years imprisonment each, Director
Bruhn to ten years and Baur and
Schaeffer, to twenty, years' each. AH
were also sentenced to pay fines of one
hundred million darks each.
The executive of the British parlia
mentary labor party sent a telegram
to the Russian soviet government, al
luding to the dispatch of. the British
warship Harebell tp-the Murman coast
and begging the soviet to refrain from
any action tending to precipitate a
resort to force pending further nego
tiations on the British ultimatum.
M. Vorovsky, head of the Russian
soviet delegation at the Lausanne
peace conference, was assassinated.
He was shpt several times and killed
outright. M. Ahrens, head of the
soviet press bureau in Laucanne, and
soviet press bureau in Lausanne, and
were wounded, the former seriously.
The appeal of Alexander Howat, de
posed president of the Kansas district
United Mine Workers of America from
an immigration decision barring him
from Canada on the ground that he
might become a public charge, has been
denied by the Canadian department of
immigration.
Washington—
A fraud order was Issued by Post
master General New against the Pil
grim Oil company and several Individ
uals at Wort Worth, Texas.
Complete returns of earning of class
one railroads for March filed with the
interstate commerce commission and
compiled by the Association of Rail
way Executives showed a total net
income of $53.565,000. This amount,
the association estimated, represent
ed an annual return rate of 5.55 per
cent on the value of railroad property.
During March. 1922, the same carriers
earned $53.457,000.
Department of justice officials man
ifest no disappointment over the ad
verse turn taken at the outset in the
government's sugar suit. Experts de
clare the principle involved is whether
the law now gives the government a
remedy to protect the public against
“gambling" in the vital necessities of
life.
Three sets of plans for settling the
country's transportation problem w T ill
battle oevr railroads w’hich may dwarf
be urged on the nation in a political
all other issues in the 1924 campaign.
President Harding and his administra
tion have one plan—a fairly definite
program, based upon consolidation of
existing lines into a score of great sys
tems.
Washington, it now’ seems, is about
to have a national opera house. Ed
ouard Albion’s musical dream seems a
reality—that of a great American op
era company with a home in the na
tion’s capital where American music
by American singers may be rendered.
An appeal to the Supreme court in the
“shortest possible time,’’ Attorney Gen
eral announces, will be taken by the
government from the New York deci
sion denying an injunction to prevent
speculation on the New York sugar
market.
Negro doctors, as far as possible,
will be employed in the minor medical
positions at the veterans’ bureau hos
pital at Tuskegee, Ala., but the chief
medical officer will at least for the
present, be a white man, it was learn
ed at the veterans’ bureau. This pol
icy has been decided on, it was ex
plained, to give the negro patients the
same treatment that other benefic
iaries of the bureau are receiving at
other institutions.
Final announcement was made at
the treasury department by Assistant
Secretary Moss that the department
would adhere to its former ruling that
a duty of 25 per cent ad-valorem would
be imposed on calcium arsenate,
which the agricultural department has
recommended to cotton planters for
use in their fight to exterminate the
boll weevil.
Domestic—
The Democratic party has been saved
from extinction in Wisconsin by Rich
ard Kamke, assemblyman from Merrill,
Wis., and has saved the party for fu
ture elections.
The business of life, at least that
portion of it having to do with the man
ufacture, sale and use of material
things, has become so complicated in
recent years that more than 200 na
tional industrial associations and gov
ernment departments are now engaged
in a co-operative effort to straighten
out thfe tangle. The straightening pro
cess has taken the form of simplifica
tion, unification, and standardization
of raw materials, of manufacturing
processes and of finished products.
Remains of two men found on Cuya
maca mountains, near San Diego, Cali
fornia, near the engine and fragments
of an airplane, were positively identi
fied as those of Col. Francis H. Mar
shall and Lieut. Charles Webber, whose
fate has been a mystery since they left
San Diego December 7 on a flight to
Tuczon, Ariz.
The introduction of modem farming
methods and implements into South
Africa has proven that South Afri
cans are very rough with farm tools,
and that strong stuff is needed.
Miss Lulu Shaw, woman mayor of
Grandon, Wis., has started a campaign
on the liquor enforcement law. She
recently conducted an anti-silk stocking
campaign.
The embryo town of Longview, Wash
ington, will celebrate its first birthday
this summer, preparing for a popula
tion of 20,000 inhabitants by 1928. This
town was established by the Long-Bell
Lumber company in connection with
the development of timber areas of the
Northwest.
Holding twenty employees of the Os
termoor &. Cos., mattress manufactur
ers, at bay, at New York, three armed
bandits robbed the treasurer of $1,500
and escaped in an automobile, passing
police headquarters in their flight.
Fifty students and guests of the junior
prom of Rose Polytechnic institution are
under medical treatment, due, physi
cians believe, to drinking poisoned
punch.
Advance in prices, of which we are
just now hearing so much, is by no
means confined to the United States.
The fact is, say New York newspapers,
price advances in all parts of the world
are in nearly as large proportion as in
the United States.
Prediction of anew era in which the
southern states would lead the coun
try in humanitarian treatment of pris
oners, was made by Dr. Hastings A.
Hart, a member of the Russel Sage
foundation and former president of the
American prison commission, in an
nouncing that he might accept an in
vitation of legislative committees in
North and South Carolina to investi
gate prison conditions in those states.
The government’s application for a
temporary injunction to enjoin trad
ing in raw sugar futures by the New
York coffee and sugar exchanges and
its clearing association was denied by
the United States circuit court of ap
peals at New York before which the
case was heard. The court announced
that a memorandum stating its reason
might be filed later. The United States
attorney had charged before the court
that prices were manipulated on these
exchanges, and asked the court to in
terpret such practice as gambling.
LitUe//lSk
Bit J 'I m
Humorous }t
mull
CAN YOU BEAT IT?
“It Is very annoying,” he said to hi s
wife when they returned from the
whist party. “You asked what was
trump at least a‘dozen times.”
Yes, dear, I know’,’ she explained,
“but I really didn’t have to. I did It to
show I was taking an interest in the
Tame.” —Boston Evening Transcript.
Leave It to Father.
Mrs. Multikids—l never punish my
children. It’s decidedly against my
principles.
Mrs. Morekids—l wonder how you
can expect to manage them?
Mrs. Multikids—l tell my husband
when they misbehave and lie larrups
them. —Detroit News.
Removing the Difficulty.
Mrs. Bundy.—My goodness, Mrs.
Grundy, you’re taking a iot of cough
drops these days, aren’t you?
Mrs. Grundy.—Well, you see I get
most cf my pleasure listening at my
neighbors’ keyholes and if 1 have a
cough all of a sudden, It spoils all
my pleasure.
Bribery.
“You call her a pest?”
“Yes.”
“Then why do you Invite her to your
party ?”
“Well, I can’t invite a lot of people
I ought to invite. If I don't Invite
her she’ll go around telling them."
THE TARGET
“Does your wife break many
dishes?"
“Not any more. I'm learning to
catch them.”
Finish cf Mary's Lamb.
Mary had a little lamb,
Her father shot It dead.
And now it goes to school with her
Between two hunks of bread.
He Got the Job.
“Suppose," said the bookseller to
the applicant for a job, “suppose a
customer asked for a volume we didn’t
have. What would you do?”
“Why,” said the young fellow, "I
would book the order and then order
the book.” —Boston Transcript.
Good Listener.
Greene —Wilson has had his salary
.'dlsed.
Smith —For extra work?
Greene —Yes. He always listens to
the boss telling the smart things his
baby says.—Baltimore Sun.
Some Satisfaction.
The Boss—You are always gram
bling about something.
Clerk—Well, I’m glad you admit
that I’m not grumbling about nothing.
Black Does Something Shady.
“I’m surprised that Black should
lend himself tc any such scheme."
“He didn’t lend himself. He waf
bought."—Boston Transcript.
Wasn’t Used to It.
“Why don’t you treat your wife a
’lttle better?
“I tried it for a while and she got
60 suspicious I could hardly live wit
her. —Answers, London.
Speaks With Authority.
Nlpp—Skinnura attributes his sue
cess in the stock market entirely to
pluck. f
Tuck—Pluck Is right. I was one oi
the pluck.
Up Against It.
“Sir, I am a poor man—”
"Consider Diogenes. He was so poor
he lived in a tub.” „
“I ain’t even got an office, mister.
She Probably Wouldn't.
“She’s wearing one of those Eg.'P*
tian dresses.” ..
“Yes; I wonder how she'd like
t. told her she looked like a mummy-
The Backfi-e-
She —I have decided to accept . J
after all.
He (who has changed his uainvi—
But I can't marry my sister.