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NEW TAX URGED
FOR ROAD FUND
HIGHWAY BOARD PLANS FOR
INCREASING STATE’S
REVENUE
STATE NEWSJF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From Ail Sections Of
The State
Atlanta. —Anew gasoline tax of
two cents a gallon and a tax on lub
ricating oils to create a state aid road
fund to help Georgia counties which
have not money enough to build roads
unaided, was recommended to Gover
nor Thomas W. Hardwick by the
state highway board. The recom
mendation was made, among others,
in a letter prepared in connection
with the annual report of the high
way department, which was trans
mitted to the governor.
It is pointed out that such a fund,
in sufficient amount, could match fed
eral funds for these counties and that
the counties themselves could be paid
for constructing the roads with their
.convict gangs.
The letter also states that the big
ger counties now have all practically
completed construction of their sec
tions of the state highway system,
so that the little and weaker coun
ties would be the chief beneficiaries
of such a state aid road fund as is
proposed.
By means of the gas and oil tax,
It is asserted, non-residents who pass
through the state by automobile will
help pay part of the expense of up
keep of the roads they use. North
Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama
and Florida all levy such a tax, it is
said.
Of the state funds available for
construction and maintenance of state
roads in 1922, the report shows that
89.749 per cent was used on actual
maintenance and construction, and
6.390 per cent on administration. The
balance went for incidentals, office
equipment, auto expense, and other
incidentals.
I’p to December 31, 1922, the total
amount of money spent by the depart
ment for the years 1920, 1921 and
1922, lihb been $20,040,124.09, with a
total overhead cost of .051 per cent.
It is stated that no state can boast
of a lower overhead cost than this.
There is a total of 170.000 lineal
feet of bridges in the state aid road
system, of which 52,979 feet is com
pleted and 12,727 feet under construc
tion.
A grand total of 2,377.46 miles of
roads and bridges will be either com
pleted or under construction at the
“nd of this year.
Association Seeks Waterways
Savannah. —Tho business men of
Augusta and others who made a trip
down the Savannah river on the
steamer Altamaha were met by a
delegation of Savannahians and car
ried to Tybee over tho new automo
bile road. En route down ther iver
the Savannah River association was
formed. Its purpose is to work for
deeper water between Savannah and
Augusta. L. S, Arrington was made
president and Paul Dunbar, secretary.
They are both of Augusta. Senator
W. J. Harris and several Georgia con
gressmen and Congressman Brynes,
of South Carolina, were among those
on the bont.
To Rebuild Camilla-To-Colqu!tt Road
Moultrie.—The road from Camilla
to the Colquitt county line will be re
built, according to an announcement
made at the office of the board of
commissioners of Mitchell. It is esti
mated that the project will cost SSO,-
000. It is likely that the Colquitt
county end of the road will also be re
built to Moultrie. Work will also be
gin on the Sale Clty-Pelham highway.
This is to be a 50-foot road and work
of building will require nearly a
year
Commended Upon Crossing Law
Atlanta.—James D. Price, member
of the Georgia Public service commis
sion, has, he declares, received a
flood of letter commending his re
cently announced plan to secure pass
age of a law by the incoming legis
lature to prohibit grade crossings on
railroads in Georgia. Commissioner
Price is asking this law in order to
put a stop to the appalling loss of
life in grade crossing crashes between
‘rains and automobiles.
Peanut Choke* Child
Pawsonville.—The 2-year-old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Noah Chester, of
near Dawsonville, died at an Atlanta
hospital recently, as the result of a
peanut lodging in her windpipe. The
child was carried to Atlanta with the
hope of getting tli peanut removed,
but all efforts failed and death finally
resulted. InternUm was at Mimble
vllle cemetery
BANKERS REPORT 228,938
NEGROES IN LABOR EXODUS
President Peter3 Gives Detailed Fig
ures And Causes For Migration
To North And East
Atlanta. —Within the past three anc
a half years, 228,938 negroes have mi
grated from Georgia to the North, ac
cording to figures just compiled by
the Georgia Bankers association and
given out for publication.
This total is arrived at from a cam
pilation of reports by counties re
cently secured by the association, and
as James S. Peters, president, points
out, is probably conservative, due tc
thef act that it was gathered by bank
ers who are noted as a class for that
characteristic.
During the first six months of 1923
77,50 b negroes have left the state and.
for the same period, 29,513 while peo
ple have deserted the farms of Geor
gia, the figures show. Asa result
of this exodus from the rural com
munities, the report continues, 46,
674 farm dwellings in Georgia have
been left vacant, and estimating
thirty acres to the plow, there are
55,524 idle plows. Labor shortage on
the farms, as estimated by the same
questionnaire, was 70,843 on June 15
Juicy Melons For July 4th
Thomasville. Georgia "water
melon” will have the right of way
during the week and all roads going
out of this section will carry this
juicy product to the northern and
western markets. The crop is later
than usual this season and every
grower wants to get to market in
time for the Fourth of July market.
A big "Tom Watson” melon from
Georgia seems to be considered a
part of the celebration of the Fourth
by the North, and the highest prices
for them are obtained for that cele
bration. Many a Georgia negro who
has migrated North will feel his
moutfy water when he s.ees one of
these watermelons from "down home”
and he will do without many other
things in order to get one.
Bibb Legislators For Dry Repeal
Macon. Two of the legislators
from Bibb county will support the
Arnold bill, which has been drafted
for the repeal of the bone dry law
In Georgia, it was reported here on
the eve of the departure of Ben J.
Fowler, Nat 11. Winship and Mrs.
Viola Ross Napier, Bibb’s representa
tives to the general assembly. The
Arnold bill was announced shortly
after Governor A1 Smith, of New
York, signed the bill repealing New
York’s prohibition law. One of the
members of the legislature from Bibb
stated that he would support the bill
if it ever left the committee and was j
assured of the support of one of the
other two members of the body front
Bibb,
Savannah Speeder Killed In Accident
Savannah. —One of Savannah’s Sun
day speeders rode to his death here,{
when E. Gordman, a second-class wa
ter tender on the coast guard cutter
Yamacraw lost control of a motor
cycle which he was riding on one of
the county roads and fell headlong to
the paved roadway, fracturing his
skull, from which he died a few hours
later. Witnesses state that the man
was traveling at a rate of speed esti
mated to be about 60 miles an hour
when the accident happened. The
man was a native of Woodruff S.
C., where his mother now resides.
He was 29 years of age and a veteran
of the world war.
Horses Battle In Bitter Duel
Savannah. —Prompted by some se
cret cause of bitterness known only
to the equine minds, two horses, both
attached to light wagons, engaged in
a duel at the corner of two business
streets in Savannah, and so desper
ately did they fight that one was
killed. Frank Weaver owned the vic
torious duellist; Jack Blocker lost his
animal. The winner first bit the oth
er animal on the neck so viciously
that it is said the spine was broken,
and then not content with the death
bite with double results, the animal
stabbed and stamped the reeling loser
of the fight with iron shod hoofs.
May Throw Light On Murder Case
Savannah. —What is believed evi
dence that will eventually reveal that
a murder was recently committeed in
the neighborhood of an illicit whisky
still near Levy’s Langing. S. C., was
j reported discovered by W. T. Day, en
forcement officer, and his men who
in a pile of partially hurned rubbish
and wood found a human skull and
j Unib bones. Officers are working or
the case.
Carutliers Killed By Lightning Bolt
Abbeville—Struck by a bolt o
lightning recently Joe Caruthers, 60.
was instantly killed. Caruthers and
! two companions were fishing on the
1 Ocmulgee river, eight miles north of
: Abbeville and while standing under
a tree during a thundershower, licht
ning atruck the tree. One of Caruth
| ers- companions. Mose Cohen, was
j badly shocked but will recove*-
THE DANfELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
DISPATCHES OF IMPORTANT HAP
PENINGS GATHERED FROM
OVER THE WORLD.
FOR THE JUSY READER
The Occurrences Of Seven Days Given
In An Epitomized Form For
Quick Reading
Foreign—
Mor,e drastic enforcement of the
,aw r s against illegitimate trading in
marks has been urged by Chancellor
Cuno upon the German legislative as
sembly.
Two of the most vital issues in Eng
land’s labor movement today labor s
relation to Communism and its atti
tude toward the monarchy will come
to the fore in the 23rd annual confer
ence of the English labor party which
opens in London for a four day ses
sion.
London proprietors are a bit gloomy
for only 60,000 Americans are now in
England blowing their rolls in cele
brating freedom from the Volstead
act.
Lado Barbagallo, watchman of Mt.
Etna observatory, will live among the
heroes of Sicily as the man who
Bcaled the burning mountain side and
returned to tell what he saw.
British ship owners have decided to
put squarely up to the American gov
ernment the question of whether it is
prepared to break up his majesty’s
seal on cargoes of English ships. The
liquor will be carried under seal and
into the port of New York.
After a three and a half days of
eruption, the volcanic tumult of Mt.
Aetna continue its frightful display-
The lava is advancing steadily. The
small townships of Cerro and Catena
have been totally destroyed. The
railroad station at Castiglione is bur
led under lava. Giarre’s 20,000 people
have fled, leaving only troops remov
ing the dead and bed-ridden.
A Belgian corporal and a private
was wounded at Marl, near Reck
linghausen, when they endeavored to
search two Germans at a control post.
The Germans, upon being challenged,
drew revolver# and began shooting.
They were arrested by other members
of the post and the authorities have
announced that actions will be taken
against the town and district where
the shooting occurred.
Eight cruisers will be added to the
ten vessels of that class now in pro
cess of delivery for the navy, if the
budget bureau and congress, in turn,
accept the recommendations of a
building program to be presented by
the navy department at the next ses
sion. In addition the program, as
announced by Secretary Denby calls
for three cruiser submarines and four
river gunboats, the latter to be used
to replace the old vessels now assign
ed to the Chinese river patrol.
The assured future of the cotton
growing section of the United States,
it seems clear, the department of ag
riculture announced is in standard
izing upland cotton production to a
very few superior varieties, and in
Improving the quality of cotton, in
evenness of staple, strength and oth
er desirable spinning qualities, so as
to completely free American cotton
growers from competition of the in
ferior cottons of India, China and oth
er cotton growing sections of the
world.
A general conference next October
will be arranged by the department
of commerce to discuss the adoption
and use of the standard sizes and
weights of hollow building tile recom
mending to the department by a spec
•al committee.
Washington—
The coal commission is rushing to
completion its report on wages, prof
its and costs in anthracite mining, in
order that its findings may be brought
to bear in a labor situation of in
creasing intensity now arising in the
industry
Customs officials in New York
were ordered by the treasury depart
ment to break the seals and seize all
beverage liquor on the steamship Bal
tic, which arrived in that port re
cently.
Conversations regarding joint ac
tion in China are proceeding between
the United States and other powers,
notably Great Britain. A far east
conference is likely to result.
Successful development of anew
powder for use in small arms and ar
tillery. which possesses all the driv
) ing power of the type now in use
I and at the same time is smokeless,
; flashless and impervious to moisture,
; is announced by the war department.
Both the moisture proof quality and
the fact that the new powder can be
exploded without a flash are regarded
by department experts as of great
importance.
Upward revision of wages for en
gine room forces of 15 to 18 per
cent was proposed to the shipping
board by a committee representing
the Marine Engineers’ Beneficial as
sociation.
Theg overnment took under advise
ment a plan for requiring steamship
companies to maintain at their own
expense proper immigrant stations
in this country.
An official report from the Ameri
can commissioners sent to Mexico
City to discuss questions involved in
the recognition of Mexico set at rest
reports of the last few days that a
deadlock had occurred in the nego
tiations. The report indicated that
the conference was proceeding in a
generally favorable atmosphere.
American-made motor cars rule the
highways of the world. Reports to
the department of commerce revealed
American automobiles are being fa
vored over all other imported cars in
a majority of foreign nations. For
the current fiscal year more than 85,-
000 American machines were export
ed.
Fifty-nine persons have perished
as a result of the heat wave sweeping
a great part of the United States.
These casualties occurred in Mis
souri, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, New
York, Massachusetts and Pennsylva
nia.
Domestic —
Sumner Curtis of Washington, rep
resentative of the Republican national
committee, accompanying President
Harding’s party on its western trip,
and Thomas French, of Denver, were
killed and two other men were in
jured seriously when the automobile
in which they were making a moun
tain tour plunged off the road into
Bear Creek Canyon, Colo., twenty-five
miles from Denver. The injured are
Donald Craig, manager of the Wash
ington bureau of the New York Her
ald, and Thomas Dawson, Colorado
state historian and veteran Wash
ington newspaper man.
J. I. Maienthal, 56, garment store
manager, Memphis, Tenn., and his
wife are in a hospital seriously in
jured as a result of a mysterious at
tack upon them in their bedroom by
an unidentified person who beat them
over the head with a heavy blunt
instrument as they slept. Three per
sons are under arrest on suspicions
after a day of police investigation.
Wearing with pride and grace her
newly acquired title of Queen of the
Seas, the Leviathan is back in her
home port, New York, ready to de
fend her record against any and all
passenger ships, from whatever coun
try, ready even to challenge any oth
ers disputing her right to the laurels
she has entwined with Old Glory at
her masthead.
William Zinsmeister, 35 years old,
shot and killed his 15-year-old daugh
ter and Sarah Connelley, 16-year-old
companion and three other young
people at a church picnic in the sub
urbs of Louisville, Ky. Then he turned
the gun on himself and ended his life.
Four trans-Atlantic passenger liners,
two British, one French and one Ital
ian, arrived at quarantine recently
with large quantities of liquor under
seal. R is stated these have been sent
to test the United States’ liquor rul
ing.
Guy O. Baird, 43, accountant at the
Frisco railroad at Springfield, Mo.,
strangled himself to death with his
necktie in a cell at a police station
after the city physician had examined
him and expressed the opinion that
he was demented.
Ruth Bryan Owen, granddaughter
of William Jennings Bryan, was recent
ly married at Cape May, N. J., to Wil
liam Painter Meeker of Baltimore.
Neither of them is yet twenty-one
years old.
Fred Tremaine, stepfather of Mrs.
Alberta Meadows, victim of Mrs. Clara
Phillips, hammer murderess, was sen
tenced in superior court to serve a
term of from one to ten years in San
Quentin penitentiary for grand lar
ceny. Mrs. Phillips is serving a life
sentence in the same prison.
Clarence Gibbs, 35, was struck by
lightning and instantly killed m an
open field of his farm in the eastern
part ot this county, according co re
ports received here since the electri
cal storm of a few days ago. His fa
tner, six feet behind him, was not
struck The two men had been work
ing in the field and were trying to
reach home during the storm.
Two hundred million dollars in gold
and securities, the greatest sum ever
transferred at a single time in the
history of New York, was carried by
an armored caravan several miles up
the East Side, New York, while the
city’s bMidits slept.
President Harding while he was in
St. Louis placed before the country a
renewed plea for American adherence
to the permanent court of internation
al justice” as the one and only existing
agency of peace’ to which we can
safely subscribe without violating the
basic principles of our national bo
ing.”
Just #1
ri i Little^ 1
FAIR ENOUGH
“But, your honor,” protested the
speeder who had just received a jail
sentence, “you don’t realize that my
time is worth money.”
“Oh, indeed!” said the judge. “Well,
if you can produce a single citizen
who doesn’t consider that his life j s
more valuable to him than your time
is to you I’ll let you off with a nominal
fine.”
Another Kind.
“What’s that young man you roomed'
with in college doing now?”
“Oh, he’s making a living with a
hand organ.”
“A hand organ! Gee whiz!”
“Yes, he’s running a very successful
manicure journal.”
Identified.
“You say Jeffs has grown whiskers
since you say him last? How did you
recognize him?”
“By my umbrella.”
\
Heard on the Campus.
First Undergraduate—Get any mail
today, Jack?
Second Ditto —Naw, not a cent.—
Johns Hopkins Black and Blue Jay.
NOT WHOLLY A LOSS
She —If you were to lose me, dar
ling, would it break your heart?
He—Yes, dearest; but my bank ac
count would mend.
Too Many Slackers.
I’m sure the world
Would soon take heart
If every man
Would do his part.
The Difficulty.
“Is bridge whist a difficult game to
learn?”
“It is, if you wish to learn to play
it well enough to suit your partner.
Might as Well.
“Our neighbor has borrowed all our
books.”
“Send him over the bookcase.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Talk.
Emily—Helen and May talked or
nothing but their diamonds.
Carrie—lt must have been a brilUam
conversation.
Could Say That.
“Did that young couple just marn
take a flat?” . ,
“I don’t know about the couple,
know the bride did.”
A Real Heavyweight. w
“How stout that Miss Perkins is.
“Yes, she tells me she c “ nt e ' e
skip in reading a dull novel. ’
That New Slogan.
“Say,” objected the w*!®®.
chronic kicker, poking his nose i
the supply sergeant's shack, h
too smnll for me. Every time 1 • s
It slides off my head.” „ re .
“Here’s one two sizes larger ’„ Try
marked the sarge pleasantly,
and laugh that off.” —American
Weekly.
Out of Tune.
Mrs. Jones-Miss Screecher is
sing over the radio tonight.
'Tr‘Jones-. think i.
sible to get her in tune, my laS j
worked an hour trying to -’
night.
The Trouble. cefV .
“Do yon have trouble keeping a
- end
“I’ll say I do. I can’t seem “
any girl who likes the way I
with her.”
Shopping. .
“I fear this gown Is a little -
for your daughter.”
“I want it for myself.”