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GOV. WALKER ASKS
TAX LAW REPEAL
DIFFERENT PHASES OF STATE'S
NEEDS DISCUSSED BY NEW
EXECUTIVE.
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Sections Of
The State
Atlanta.—The immediate repeal of
the tax equalization law was called
for in the Inaugural address of Gov
ernor Clifford M. Walker, delivered
to a joint assembly of the Georgia leg
islature. The new governor expressed
confidence that the lawmakers would
then proceed to adopt some substitute
measure to raise revenue for the state,
but did not suggest the form of that
substitute, as it had been expected
that he would do.
"The ad valorem system as now ad
ministered has broken down in Geor
gia, as it has broken down in every
other state,'” Governor Walker de
clared. “The general property tax Is
recognized as a failure by practically
every tax expert for a number of rea
sons upon which there is general una
nimity of opinion.”
Governor Walker expressed the be
lief that the chief fault of the present
system Is that it permits intangibles
to escape and places the entire bur
den upon visible property.
"Whatever may be said in its favor,
it cannot be questioned that a large
majority of the people of the state
are opposed to the tax equalization
law, and until It Is repealed, there can
be no civic or political peace, har
mony or unity among the people, the
governor declared.
"Along with an agricultural and in
dustrial awakening, we need an awak
ening of public opinion along the line
of respect for the law,” the new gov
ernor declared. “So long as any indi
vidual of high estate or lowly place,
or any association of men, undertake
to appraise the law to suit their own
taste or passion, in defiance of the
orderly processes of the courts, we
cannot hope for stabilized govern
ment.”
Governor Walker extended a wel
?ome to the women in the legislative
hallß and in politics, and stated that
he deemed himself fortunate to have
the counsel and assistance of women
in his administration.
“A second element which has retard
ed ottr progress is the undue and un
favorable notoriety given our state.
For many years the outside press
has been publicly parading before the
world every sensational incident dis
creditable to Georgia. In this respect,
we have not had a square deal. Many
correspondents of these yellow jour
nals are paid by the column and they
have learned to make their stories un
duly sensational in order to secure
publication.”
Anent the hard times experienced by
the farmers of the state, the new ex
ecutive said that the answer to hard
times is hard work. “Our people have
bared their backs to the summer sun
and returned to the fields. They need
our help. Let us back them to the
limit. Improve their conditions. Give
them a market for their produce. Give
them financial hope. Crowd out the
grumbler with the producer. Crowd
out tin civic slacker with the con
structive builder."
In conclusion Governor Walker
urged the necessity of sacrifice on
our part in this the hour of our be
loved state's supreme need. "The
state’s treasury is empty," he said; "its
future income has been mortgaged to
pay obligations for which our unbusi
nesslike financial system, and not any
one individual, is to blame; our higher
educational institutions are struggling
for life from a lack of proper support,
while year by year accomplished pro
fessors and brilliant graduates are go
ing away from home to develop other
institutions, because of inadequate sal
aries; our boundless raw materials are
lying undeveloped, or being shipped
away in bulk to enrich other states be
cause our boys are not trained to man
ufacture them at home.”
Georgia Man Is National Commander
Minneapolis, Minn.—James A. Mc-
Farland of Dalton. Ga., was unani
mously elected national commander of
the Disabled American Veterans of
die world war at the closing session
if the annual convention here. Mr.
McFarland's name was the only one
placed in nomination. William J.
O'Connor of San Francisco was elect
ed senior vice commander.
Hughe* Killed In Cordele Plant
Cordele.—John M. Hughes, aged 45,
employed by the Read phosphate fer
tilizer works, was instantly killed here
when the mixing machine which mixes
the fertilizer fell on him with about
one thousand pounds of fertilizer in it,
crushing him under the machine and
the fertilizer.
Retrenchment Urged By nardwicK
Atlanta. Recommendations that
the state prison commission and de
partment of archives and history be
abolished; that the public service com
mission be reduced from five mem
bers to three, and that the number
of employes in the department of ag
hiculture be reduced, especially in the
oil inspection branch, featured the
farewell address of Gov. Thomas W.
Hardwick delivered to the legislature.
A policy of general economy and re
trenchment was urged with a survey
to indicate where savings may best be
effected. Asa step toward the en
forcement of the law, Governor Hard
wick recommended that a state po
lice organization be formed, under the
supervision of the governor, and that
the chief executive be given the power
to remove or suspend sheriffs who are
guilty of dereliction in the perform*
ance of duty.
Great Preparations For Valdosta Fail
Valdosta. —Announcement has just
been made here that the fair will be
put in operation this year, after an
absence of one year. The business
and professional men, after a thor
ough canvass of south Georgia and
north Florida, among the leading farm
ers and agriculturists, have decided
to hold what i3 termed one of the larg
est educational fairs ever attempted
in the southland, especially in this
section, and after a careful consider
ation selected A. H. Wale, of Quincy,
Fla., as manager. He is the general
director of the Independent Co-opera
tive Marketing association, which he
started several years ago. Mr. Wale
last year greeted a fair grounds at
Quincy, Fla., with his own capital. He
went into the venture single-handed
and it is reported that it was one
of the largest county fairs in the
state. He will hold this fair agait
this year.
Liquor Probers Are Bound Over
Atlanta. —Charged with violation o'
the state prohibition law, four inves
tigators employed by the Railway Aud
it and Inspection company, who ro
cently appeared as witnesses against
jitney drivers, w T ere bound over t<
state courts by Recorder George M
Johnson. The investigators also were
charged with operating a business
without a license, but hearing on that
case was deferred, when the city at
torney will be present to make a rul
ing on it. One of the investigators
H. K. Fox, of the Scoville hotel, whe
was at liberty under SIOO bond for ap
pearance in police court to answei
charges of violating the state prohi
tion law, forfeited his bond. He is
being souhgt by the police. It was
stated that he appeared in police courl
under an assumed name charged with
disorderly conduct. He was fined $5
and costs on that charge.
Willachoocheeans Join Methodists
Willacoochee.—The greatest reviva
of religion that ever swept this com
munity closed at the Methodist churcfc
on the night of July 1. A score oi
more of the leading citizens of ths
city, together with the mayor, have
joined the church. In all 85 havs
joined in the past two weeks. Evan
gelists Harry A. Allen and Tom Wal
ker of Macon have held the services
assisting the pastor, Itev. Frank Jor
dan.
Boy Burns To Death At Tybee
Savannah. —Stewart Clay, the elever
year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Williair
L. Clay, was burned to death in i
fire which destroyed a cottage at Ty
bee. The body was found later. The
boy had evidently returned to th*
burning house to get his pet dog anc
became trapped. Savannah firemei
and appartus went to the resort, 20
miles away on the ocean, for the first
time over a newly constructed road
Tobacco Growers Cure Twice In Weei
Vidalia. —Tobacco growers in ihb
section have had a satisfactory week
most of them having gathered am
cured twice in one week It is said
the yield will be well over first expec
tations and the grade is holding uj
well. The warehouses from which
the auction sales w'ill be held will no'
open until after July 15, but the grow
ers will have their crops in hand
by this time and can bring the leaf
in as the prices will warrant.
Charged With Homicide, Bound Ovei
Dawsonvllle. —At a prelimfharj
hearing here Reese Whitmore ■war
bound over for the alleged murdei
of Hancil Tinsley, which occurred a
Yellow Creek court gfound recently
Several witnesses were introduced by
the state, but none for the defense
The case was tried before Justices
Kirby, Pruett, Gilreath, Brice ani
Price.
Four Dead Toll From Explosion
Sumner. —Four deaths resulting
from a boiler explosion which wreck
ed the sawmill of J. D. Bridges here
is probably the total toll, though one
more death is expected. The fourth
death occurred when Henry Baker
fatally scalded, succumbed to his in
juries He was an onlooker at the
plant twhen the explosion occurred.
THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
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Foreign—
The frontier between occupied and
| unoccupied Germany has been en
tirely closed for a fortnight by the
allied high commission in reprisal for
the bombing of Belgian troops at
Hochfeld. The casualties were re
ported as ten killed and some two
score wounded.
The assassination of Gen. Juan C.
! Gomez, first vice president of the re
-1 public of Venezuela, was characterized
; by congress as “most execrable, with
: out precedent in the annals of Vene
zuela.”
Government troops summoned to
Sydney, New South Wales, to hold
in check rioting steel workers, dis
persed a mob of several thousand
strikers and their sympathizers by fir
ing a volley over their heads after they
had battered down the gates of a mill,
in which several police were injured
by rocks thrown by the crowd.
A Russian soviet commission has
arrived in Poland, charged with the
task of purchasing 10,000 cats with
which to fight the rats which are be
coming a scourge in Russia.
The trial of Ernest Judet, newspa
per editor, charged with communicat
ing with the enemy during the war
lias begun at Paris.
Three German civilians were killed
recently in the Belgian occupied area
of the Ruhr, according to information
received in German quarters at Dues
seldorf.
The attempts of Britain and France
to come to an understanding about
what to say to Germany in answer
to her note, now already three weeks
old, have been interrupted by the pro
longed ministerial crisis in Belgium.
Following Red disturbances recent
ly, at Parma, Premier Mussolini has
ordered militia to occupy the working
class district of the city, searching
all houses for weapons.
Information that “Pussy-foot” John
son has sailed to “dry up” the Near
East causes little alarm at Constan-
Premier Nikola Pachitch, of Jugo
slavia, was attacked and slightly
wounded shortly after leaving the
house of parliament, Belgrade. Six
shots were fired at him, one of which
struck his left hand, as he was en
tering his motor car. He dropped to
the bottom of the car and this action
is thought to have saved him from
further Injury or possible death.
Approval of the North Pacific Hali
but fisheries treaty between the Ca
nadian and United States govern
ments was voted by the house of com
mons after a heated debate in which
the authority of Ernest LaPointe,
minister of marine, to sign the treaty
without the British ambassador, Sir
Auckland Geddes, also signing the
document, was questioned. A rider
attached to the treaty by the United
States senate making it applicable to
the nationals and bessels “of any oth
er part of Great Britain’’ also was
assailed.
Washington—
Many of the medium priced men in
the employ of the government are re
signing because they say they cannot
live on $5,000 a year in Washington
and keep up social appearances.
Operation of the government rail
road of Alaska, including all branch
lines and telegraph and telephone
lines connected with it, has been
placed under the jurisdiction of the
Interior department through an execu
tive order issued by President Har
ding. Publication of the order fol
lowed the formal notification that the
last length of the standard gauge
track had been laid into Fairbanks
thus completing all the engineering
work on the main line.
Flat opposition to any project for
using the army to aid in prohibition
enforcement work was voiced at
Washington by Secretary Weeks,
speaking at the graduation exercises
; at the army war college.
Director Hines, of the veterans’ bu
reau. announced that he will arrive in
Tuskegee, Ala., July 6, to “see if I
can reach an understanding with the
citizens there with regard to the de
cision to man the veterans’ bureau
hospital there completely with negro
personnel.”
Every doughboy may be practically
a machine gunner in future wars due
to progress made by ordnance ex
perts in developing a semi-automatic
shoulder rifle to replace the regular
service magazine guns.
Edgar N. Read, now divisional pro
hibition chief for Maryland, Dela
ware, West Virginia and the District
of Columbia, was transfered to be
come acting director for Alabama. He
will serve until a permanent director
is chosen to succeed Charles M. Sar
tain, the director who recently re
signed.
Flying may be a young man’s game,
but Major General Mason M. Patrick,
chief of the army air service, won
his pilot’s wings. General Patrick,
now* in his 60th year, the age when
most men are retiring to quiet old
age, climbed into the cockpit of an
army training plane at Bolling field,
looped, spiraled and dived before the
examining board.
The United States does not contem
plate a great increase in its air fleet
such as has been announced by Great
Britain, which purposes to double its
forces, it was said at the war depart
ment.
Domestic —
For the first time in twenty years
a white man has been sentenced to
be hanged in Baltimore, Md. Nathan
Lasky was found guilty of the murder
of his wife, and, although pleading
insanity, the jury found him guilty of
murder.
So many friendless and unknown
Southern negroes have died, been
taken to the morgue, and failing iden
tification have been buried in the
potters field, Detroit, Mich., that civic
authorities, together with negro min
isters are taking steps to provide ev
ery immigrant Southern negro with
an identification card, giving the ad
dress of his nearest Southern rela
tives, or “white folks.”
Three more foreign liners, the Chi
cago of the FTench line, the Olym
pic of the White Star, and the Cun
arder Saxonia, arrived at New York
with their return supplies of liquor
under government seals,
William J. Adams, of Dallas, Texas,
sentenced in 1921 to serve from eight
to fourteen years in the Louisiana
penitentiary for burglary, was parol
ed because of meritorious service
while in prison, only to be arrested
on a federal warrant charging thefts
of funds from the postoffice at Paris,
Texas. He was cited for his work
during the two years stay in the
Baton Rouge (La.) prison.
Seventy-five Piute Indians in na
tive garb and with their faces cov
ered with bright-colored paints, greet
ed President Harding and his Alaska
bound party when the presidential
party reached Cedar City, Utah.
One man was killed and Another in
jured in a spectacular fight between
alleged bootleggers and western pro
hibition agents in Buffalo Bill’s old
stamping grounds near Cody, Wyo.,
according to a dispatch received at
Cheyenne, Wyo.
Improved economic conditions in
the United States during 1922 brought
the suicide rate down slightly, the
Spectator, an insurance publication,
reported, in announcing that the rate
for the year was 15.1 per hundred
thousand of population, as compared
with a rate of 15.7 in 1921.
Continuing their persistent assault
on the 12-hour day in the steel in
dustry American churches published
an exhaustive bulletin calling the two
shift system a ‘moral trespass”
against 150,000 workers, and urging
that a change to the eight-hour day
would add no more than three per
cent to the cost of steel.
The Book committe of the Southern
Methodist church elected Dr. Alfred
F. Smith, of St. Louis, lately editor of
the St. Louis Christian Advocate, and
at present chaplain of Barnes hos
pital, St. Louis, editor of the Nash
ville Christian Advocate, the organ
of the Southern Methodist church, to
succeed Dr. Thomas N. Ivey, who
died recently.
Prediction of falling prices in the
cost of building and general real es
tate activity were made by speakers
at the opening session of the six
teenth annual convention of the Na
tional association of Real Estate
boards at Cleveland, Ohio. The con
vention, said to be the largest gath
ering of business men this year, at
tracted approximately 7,500 delegates
from the United States and Canada.
Mrs. Anna Buzzi was found guilty
of the murder of Frederick Schneider,
wealthy Bronx .contractor by a su
preme court jury. She was. found
guilty of first degree murder. The
Jury had been out for more than ten
hours, but sent in a request to Jus
tice O'Malley for transcripts of the
testimony in the trial.
Nearly a score of deaths and great
property damage resulted from the
recent storms in the northwest, re
ports from St. Paul, Minn., revealed.
The Bremen of the North German
Lloyd has arrived in Hoboken bone
dry except for its supply of medicinal
brandy. It is said that the possibility
of a fine in the United States court
will be a serious factor when trans
lated into marks at ISO.OOO to the
dollar.
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS
Doings of Georgia Lawmaker.
Gathered For The Benefit
Of Our Readers
Clifford Walker Takes Up Duties,
Atlanta—Clifford M. Walker sue
ceeded Thomas W. Hardwick as gov
ernor of Georgia at impressive
monies in the hall of the house of
representatives at the state capitoi
in the presence of an overflow aU( |j.
ence. The incoming executive was
given a tremendous ovation as he took
the great seal of state from the out
going governor, and, in turn, passed
it on to Secretary of State S. Guyt
McLendon for safekeeping.
Long before the hour for the inaug
uration the gallery and the ante-rooms
of the assembly hall were filled, in
the crowd were people from practical
ly every county in the state. The
house and senate went into joint ses
sion for the inauguration ceremonies*
The inaugural party was wildly pa
plauded as it marched into the cham
ber. At the head of the long column
were United States Senators Walter
E. George and William J. Harris and
several ex-governors of Georgia, in
eluding Nat ,E. Harris, Joseph M.
Brown and Hugh M. Dorsey.
Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Walker of Mon
roe, the parents of the new gover
nor, marched just in front of Governor
Hardwick and his successor. AH
state house officers and the judges of
the supreme court and the court of
appeals, the assembly inaugural com
mittees and the citizens’ inaugural
committee followed.
The Rev. L. A- Henderson opened
the exercises with a prayer, in which
he asked for less politics and more
statesmanship in the operation of
Georgia’s affairs. President George
H. Carswell of the senate then pre
sented Mr. Walker to the general as
sembly, and announced that he was
ready to take the oath of office. An
other great ovation followed, after
which Chief Justice Richard B. Rus
sell of the supreme court adminis
tered the oath of office.
The first person to congratulate
Governor Walker was his predecessor,
Governor Hardwick.
Senator G. A. Johnson, chairman of
the assembly inaugural committee,
then presented Dr. Lucian Lamar
Knight, state historian, who present
ed a cluster of flowers to Mrs. B. S.
Walker, the mother of the new gov
ernor, and congratulated her upon wit
nessing the triumph of her son on her
birthday.
After the ceremonies had been com
pleted, Governor Walker and former
Governor Hardwick returned to the
executive offices, where the affairs
of state were officially turned over
to the new governor. An informal re
ception for the governor followed.
After the preliminaries were finish
ed, and after he had subscribed to the
oath of office, Governor Walker deliv
ered his inaugural address, setting
forth his plans to give the state an
“efficient and economical” administra
tion. He informed the legislature that
he would appear before it again in a
few days with a message containing
his recommendations relative to the
changes in the Georgia tax system, the
most important issue of the year.
Several committees consisting of leg
islative /representatives took part in
the inauguration ceremonies,
citizens’ inaugural committee was
headed by Judge G. H. Howard, with
Edgar Alexander as vice chairman
The other members were Mrs. Bessie
Anderson, Miss Bessie Kempton,
George Hillyer, Dr. 0. E. Collum, San
ders McDaniel, J. Ot Wood, E. E.
eroy, Judge Frank Harwell, Charles
B. Gramling, Jesse M. Wood. V. alter
C. Hendricks, James A. Hollomon,
ojhn W. Hammond, Paul Stephenson,
Hubert Baughn, R. S. Elrod, J. M. Hoi*
lowell and George L. Keene.
Audit Department For State Asked
A bill by Senator Stephen Pace cre
ating a state department of auditing
and accounting, was introduced in * e
senate and referred to general J’ J| >•
clary committee No. 2 for consul' ra
tion. The bill is in line with a rec
ommendation made by Governor Har
wick in his farewell message to ’ e
'egislature.
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Bills Introduced In House
Representatives Clark and N eW or
Laurens and Harrison of Johnson
duced a bill for the abolishment of t o
ports and harbors commission, _
had in charge the preliminary pn J --
for a sttae-owned port, and ha 1 A
vored the construction of such a P°* -
at Savannah.
Representative McMichael of
ion county, introduced a bill propo- -■=
a redistribution of highway fund- •
3n a basis of the rogd mileage in
county. He also introduced a re? 1
tion calling for an investigation
?tate highway department, and secure
the reference of this resolution to - e
committee of the whole house ?
•eport by July 6. The vote ou
motion to so refer the resolution
73 to 55,