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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be questioned that a large majority of the people of the state are opposed to the tax equalization law, and until It Is repealed, there can be no civic or political peace, har mony or unity among the people, the governor declared.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 DISPATCHES OF IMPORTANT HAP PENINGS GATHERED FROM OVER THE WORLD. FOR THE "busy READER "■ ■' ■■ ' The Occurrences Of Seven Days Given In An Epitomized Form For Quick Reading 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. • • • 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,