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WOULD EXEMPT
NEW INDUSTRIES
TATNALL REPRESENTATIVE WILL
FAVOR SUCH A TAX
NEXT FALL
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Sections Of
The State
. Reldsville. —All new manufacturing
Industries in Georgia would be exempt
from taxation for a period of ten
years under the provisions of one of
eight tax reform measures Represen
tative Herschel If. Elders of Tattnall
is scheduled to introduce at the extra
ordinary session of the state general
assembly.
This step is favored by the legis
lature in order that manufacturing
enterprises might Ik; encouraged to
:ome to Georgia, he stated, thereby
Improving both the commercial and
Tinanclal conditions of the state.
A graduated income tax, corpora
tion franchise and license levies, in
heritance, privilege and occupation
taxes and a luxury assessment are
among the features of the other
Bight bills, which Mr. Elders stated
he would introduce on the first day
5f the sessior. and fight for their
passage.
The representative .issued the fol
.owing outline:
“1. The general assembly shall have
authority to levy taxes upon net in
comes from whatever source de
rived, which taxes may he gradu
ated, and the general assembly shall
aave authority to allow exemptions
when levying net income taxes, and
:he income lax in no one year shall
exceed five cents on the dollar of
aid net income and as much less as
the legislature may desire.
“2. The general assembly shall have
authority to levy a corporation fran
chise tax and license taxes.
"3. The general assembly shall have
authority to levy inheritance taxes,
privilege taxes and occupation taxes,
which classes of taxes may be gradu
ated and when levied may contain pro
visions for exemptions.
‘‘4. The general assembly shall have
authority to levy special taxes upon
luxuries and the unnecessary things
if life, such things as are used for
pleasure only.
"5. The general assembly shall have
authority to exempt all property from
ad valorem taxes for state purposes
in any years in which the revenue
’rora other sources are sufficient to
neet the appropriations made by the
general assembly for that year and
‘.o pay the interest and provide the
sinking fund for the bonded indebted
ness of the stute.
"6. The general assembly shall have
lutliority to levy ad valorem taxes for
state purposes upon any given class
if property without regard to the meth
>d used in taxing other classes of
property; it also shall have authority
to authorize counties atld municipali
ties to levy taxes in the Same way
tor general county and municipal pur
ooscs, and also to authorize counties,
municipalities and local school dis
tricts to levy taxes for educational
purposes in the same manner as
Serein provided for levying state
taxes. The legislature shall also have
authority to segregate different class
es of property for different tax pur
poses.
"The county tax rate for general
•ouaty purposes shall be limited to
.’itteen mills iu any one year.
"8 All new manufacturing indus
tries shall be exempt from all taxes
!o" all purposes for a period of ten
rears.
"All the above eight provisions
will be constitutional amendments,
tud be iu separate bills and submit
ted to the people to vote on sepa
rately. The bills, of course, will be
full and complete in themselves. 1
aave just given a brief outline of
-ach ”
Rains Cause Alarm
Girard. —Rains which have fallen
.or the past few days are causing
alarm on the part of both cotton and
peanut growers. Cotton that is open
ing fast is compelled to remaiu in
the boll and damage to the lint is
feared. It is feared by the peanut
growers that the more mature pea
uuts will either sprout or decay if
•he present wet condition continues.
Hatchery At Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald.—A ten-thousand-egg ca
sacity hatchery will be installed here
by October 1. according to informa
tion given out by Secretary Owens, of
the Fitzgerald Chamber of Commerce,
who sponsored the arganfzatfon A
suitable building has been secured and
an order for the mammoth incuba
tor has been placed.
Dye Plant Begins Work
Cedartown. —Reconstruction work
on the property recently bought here
by the United States Dyeing and Fin
ishing company to establish its plant
in Cedartown has begun. This prop
erty included the old Josephine mill
property, the old Wahneta mills, the
Blue Springs, a mill village, the F. D-
Noble home and other annexes.
Charles Adamson, president of the
Cedartown Cotton and Export com
pany, was mainly instrumental in get
ting the plant to locate here. The
Josephine mill is being refinished
throughout. The Wahneta mill is be
ing torn down and the useful material
from this structure is going into an
addition to the Josephine mill. There
are also other plans for further addi
tions to this building as the increase
of business warrants it. New ma
chinery is now on the way and work
of production is expected to begin the
latter part of October, with 1,500,000
yards’ output per month.
Jeffersonville Men Figure In Suit
Jeffersonville—A civil suit involv
ing nearly $25,000 will he tried in the
Twiggs county superior court which
convenes here soon, it is said. W. C.
Stokes and D. L. Davis are suing C.
C. Humphries for approximately $15,-
000, and Humphries in turn has en
tered a counter suit for $9,000 against
Stokes, according to advices. Hum
phries, one of the parties to the
double suit, is a stockholder in the
Fanners’ and Merchants’ bank of this
city and is a prominent lumberman.
He owns the controlling interest in
the big planing mill at Fitzpatrick, it
is said.
Jeff Davis Highway Praised
Fitzgerald.—Mesdames J. L. Me
Carty and Chas. Isler, of this city,
and Mrs. Willis Cole, of Macon, and
Mrs. Mitchell Gwlnn, of Atlanta, con
stituted a motor party which made
the trip to New York and return, 2,-
430 miles, without a male escort and
returned to their home here without
a mishap, reporting a most delightful
trip. The proposed Jefferson Davis
highway was followed on information
of Secretary I. Gelders, of the asso
ciation. This is the first motor party
from this section which motored over
this proposed new national highway
from this section.
Stock And Poultry Show For Tiftor.
Tifton.—The Tift County Poultry
and Dairy association are working to
gether for the purpose of putting on
a Joint live stock and poultry show in
Tifton in November. Committees
have been named from the two asso
ciations to have charge of all arrange
ments and definite plans will be an
nounced at an early date. Dairying
and poultry raising have made big
strides in Tift in recent years and
some fine animals and fancy firda
will be shown at the show here.
Shippers Are Called For Organization
Atlanta. —With a view to perfecting
an organization of merchants and
shippers in the southeast, a group of
influential cotton men from Georgia
and stirrouning states will meet In
Atlanta September 7, it was announc
ed. Cotton men hi this section, it has
been pointed out, have felt recently
the need of an organization of mer
chants and shippers and with the
assistance of representatives from the
Texas Cotton association such an
idea has been gaining daily in Inter
est.
Colquitt Farmers Pick On Cotton
Moultrie. —Practically no money Is
being paid out In this section for cot
ton picking. It is stated here. . Grow
ers are gathering their own staple, It
is declared. The crop Is short and
believing that the price will advance
few farmers appear to be in any
particular hurry to gather their cot
ton. It would he difficult to get pick
ers If nny were needed, as a result
of the negro exodus, as labor is
scarcer than it has ever been, farm
observers insist.
$60,000 For Riverside Improvements
Gainesville. —Improvements costing
more than $60,000 will be made at
Riverside Military academy. It was
announced here fololwing an enthu
siastic meeting of the coNege authori
ties and the Gainesville Chamber of
Commerce. Construction work on the
college buildings will begin within the
next few days, it was stated, with a
view of having them completed as
early In the coming term as pos
sible.
Waycross Launches SIO,OOO Campaign
Wnveross. —A campaign has been
started in Waycross to raise SIO,OOO
to be used as a development fund for
work in Waycross and Ware county.
The fund when raised is to be used
to aid in promoting new enterprises
and industries already established in
this section. Movement to raise the
fund started with three subscriptions
of $l6O each contributed by John H.
King. Dr. R. J. Heyde and P. R.
Bomeisler. all of this citv
THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE^EORGIA.
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
WHAT HAB OCCURRED DURING
WEEK THROUGHOUT COUN
TRY AND ABROAD
EVENTS OF IMPORTANCE
Gthrd From All Part* Of Tha
'Globe And Told In Short
Paragraphs
Foreign—
Three shots were fired at M. Daska
loff, the Bulgarian ambassador to
France. The ambassador died later
on a Paris operating table. His assail
ant wa3 arrested.
The Spanish battleship Espana is
aground off Melilla. Morocco, and as
sistance has been sent from Gibraltar.
Premier Poincare, in an address at
Chassey-Beaupre, France, served no
tice on Germany that she must make
an heroic effort to pay reparations
just as France did in 1871. The ad
dress was delivered at the dedication
of a monument to the war dead. In
it the premier told Germany not to
look for any reduction in her repara
tions debt.
Grandfather, father and son will be
represented on the programs which
Siegfried Wagner will direct ,in the
United States tour begining in New
York next January, it is announced at
Bayreuth. Bavaria.
One of the ‘‘Petition - ’ crowns, or a
five shilling piece, was sold in London
recently for $l,lOO. Jn the reign of
Charles II a Dutchman was .appoint
ed engraver for new coinage much
to the dismay of Thomas Simon, coin
designer of the day. Simon made an
effort to regain his appointment by pro
ducing the "Petition” crown, around
which he engraved an appeal to the
king asking him to compare his work
with that of the Dutchman.
The British air ministry experts are
at work perfecting an airplane engine
capable of developing 1,500 horsepow
er which wll be the largest known.
Two trial engines are nearing comple
tion and will soon be tested.
Recently 800 Arabian stokers made
the Cardiff, Wales, dockfront the scene
of an attempt to settle tribal differ
ences finding their origin on the far
away shores of the Red sea. White
dockers and sailors took their hands
out of |their pockets, spat on them
and leaped into the thick of it without
asking whethfer it was a private battle
or a free-for-all.
Wild celebration in Constantinople
marks the news that the Angora na
tional assembly has ratified the Lau
sanne treaty. The vote of 213 to 14
by which the treaty was accepted is
a striking victory for the Turkish
moderates who have consistently
maintained that the Lausanne con
vention was a complete Turkish
triumph, the allies being defeated on
every point.
Premier Baron Tomasaburo Kato,
of Japan, died at Tokio, following a
period of ill health, due, it is believ
ed, to overwork. His death had not
been expected, and came as a great
shock to the Japanese capital.
Eleven of the late Stamboulisky
cabinet now under arrest will be tried
on charges involving the death pen
alty, Including bribery, incitement to
riot and murder, Minister of Justice
Smiloff announced.
Russia intends to oppose the Brit
ish occupation of Wrangel island, the
scrap of Arctic territory on which the
English flag has been hoisted. For
eign Minister Tchitcherin addressed
anew note to Britain, protesting
against the two previous Russian
notes on the subject.
Washington—
The American export business by
mail and parcel post is growing so
rapidly that department of commerce
officials haved ecided to ascertain so
far as possible the extent of this
business of which no statistics ever
have been kept. It is believed to run
into a huge sum each year, which will
swell th® total value of the foreign ex
ports of the United States.
Publication of a letter written by
Senator Hiram Johnson to a friend In
California, discussing the political out
look for 1924, impelled the senator to
issue a statement saying his respects
to those who gave the letter to the
public and adding that he hoped the
incident would “be taken by the op
position as an invitation to a contest
in California.”
Overruling the contention of the de
fendants, Justice Bailey in the District
of Columbia supreme court decided
that the presence of John G. Winston
in the room with the grand jury did
not invalidate its indictment charging
John L. Phillips, Republican state
chairman of Georgia, and nine others
with conspiracy to defraud the United
States in connection with sales of sur
plus lumber from army cantonments.
The United States government Is
now making iron, but only as an ex
periment and not for the commercial
field, Its blast furnace is located at
Minneapolis, and is operated as a
laboratory by the bureau of mines in
co-operation with the University of
Minnesota. After four years of exper
imention to develop it, the furnace re
cently produced several tons of gray
iron and spiegeleisen.
Approximately 730 acres of public
lands in the Caddo oil field, Caddo
parish, Louisiana, will be offered for
oil and gas lease at public auction
August 29, the interior department an
nounced.
Secretary Mellon will renew to the
next congress his recommendation
for a reduction in the higher brackets
of income surtaxes.
Resumption of friendly relations
with Mexico is regarded at Washing
ton as virtually a certainty, and it
is expected that official announce
ment of such a step will be made
shortly by the Washington govern
ment.
Domestic—
Five hundred or more Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan assembled on a hill over
looking the town of Carnegia, Pa.,
where Thomas ,R. Abbott, of Atlas
burg, Pa., a mepiber of the order, was
killed in rioting attending an attempt
of the klan to march through the
town. The klan has offered a reward of
$2,500 for the arrest and conviction
of the slayer of Abbott.
Caldwell Hardy, chairman of the
board and federal reserve agent of
the Fifth district of the Federal Re
serve bank, died of heart failure at
Norfolk, Va., while riding around in
an automobile.
A little mission cemetery under the
stars and blue heaven she loved so
well, has claimed the body of Ledei
Stechi, the seven-year-old "Poor Lit
tle Rich Girl” who was heir to a
$250 000 fortune and was unable to
touch a single cent of it. She came
into prominence when it was report
ed to an Indian agency in Oklahoma
that she was living in poverty. A
quest for food was started by her
guardians and it resulted in Ledei
being admitted to half dozen institu
tions in as many months.
With the assertion of Lee Houser,
28, farmer, near Hagerstown, Md..
that the box he dug up on the Browns
ville - Weaverton road contained be
tween SIOO,OOO and SIIO,OOO in bills,
besides approximately SIO,OOO in gold
coin, speculation grew as whether
the money is that buried by Grover
C. Bergdoll, draft dodger, before his
flight to Germany.
Matthew Keith, electrical engineer,
met death in a peculiar manner at Mo
bile, Ala. He was a passenger in a
taxicab that went into a hole on a
country road and was thrown up
against the front seat. He rolled out
of the cab, exclaiming that he was
dying.
One liquor runner was killed and an
other wounded in a running fight with
customs inspectors off Bolivar roads
near Galveston, Texas. None of the
customs officers were injured.
Capt. Frank Fitzsimmons, war vet
eran, and Gunner Lindhl, his mechan
ician, were drowned at Atlantic City,
N. J., when a flying boat crashed into
Lake Bay, three miles from Atlantic
City.
Three-yera-old Benjamin Reid climb
ed down a chimney at Duluth, Minn.,
and a policeman found him wedged
in and fast asleep. It had been ru
mored he was the victim of kidnapers.
A postcard, mailed from Astoria, L.
1., fourteen years ago, has judl reached
its destination at Wilmerding, near
Pittsburg, Pa.
High speed races for the Pulitzer tro
phy and $4,000 in .prizes are to be
run in St Louis, Mo., the last day of
the international air races, October 1,
2 and 3.
Reports from Philadelphia are to
the effect that this year promises to
be a banner one for fairs throughout
the entire country, due, in large meas
ure, to the fine crops that are gen
eral throughout the United States.
Carl Voss of Gloucester was arrest
ed at Beverly, Mass., on a charge of
piracy on the high seas in connection
with the shooting of Capt. Arthur
Moore and Harry Harms, cook, on
the schooner J. Scott Hankensen, off
Rockport, recently.
Sacramento is to be subjected to a
“reign of terror” by the Industrial
Workers of the World, and members
of the organization plan to give the
city “the same kind of a dose that
was administered to Centralia,
Wash.,’’ it has been learned by state
investigators who are probing the ac
tivities of the organization in Califor
nia.
Declaration that the United States
must strengthen its defenses on the
Pacific ocean were made by members
of both major parties on the naval
affairs committee of the house of rep
resentatives at Brimerton. Wash., on
an inspection of naval defenses.
CAP 1
AND**®
BELLs'I
ONLY A 'DEtJul^
Little Jackie was spending a holldav
In the country and was highly mil
talned by everything be saw i n he
barn and farmyard.
red hen’s cackle to announce
that she had laid an egg was a never
failing source of delight. He always
wanted someone to get the egg i ram '.
One day he was allowed the prlv.
liege of going all by himself to fetch
the treasure.
In a few minutes he came running
back excitedly, but his eagerness was
too great. He tripped and fell.
In a minute his hands and blouse
were smeared with yellow as h
clutched bits of broken shell.
But he came up smiling to his moth
er.
"Oh, mummie,” he cried, as he held
up the fragments, "I had a fall, but
It’s all. right, ’cause I didn’t lose any
thing only the juice!”
A8 WILLIE HEARD IT
Guess Mr. Brown’ll be disappointed
with his trip, pa.”
“Why, Willie?”
“He said he was only going for the
week, but knew he’d get strong."
Dish-honored.
He often looks disheveled:
It makes one feel suspicious
That when he looks disheveled.
His wife has been throwing dishes.
Solved.
"Doctor, can you cure me from shop
Ing?”
"Do you only snore In your sleepf
“Yes, but I snore so loud that I
awaken myself!”
"Well, the best thing Is to sleep In
another room.”
A Thing That Rarely Palis.
Madge—Then you believe In marry
ing for money?
Marie—Oh, I wouldn’t say that ex
actly; but when you marry a man it’s
Just as well to know for sure that
there’s, something about him you will
always like.
Was and Is.
“Will you appraise my engagement
ring for me?”
"What kind of a stone is this sup
posed to be?" asked the Jeweler.
“Turkwahs.”
“Turk was, maybe, but not now.
This Is glass.”
Trial by Jury.
"1$ the distinguished lawyer looking
up authorities?”
“No, we have marked a few jokes
for him to use on the jury. He has
no sense of humor himself.”
‘it Was Finally Finished.
Wife (on the way home from the
churdh) —That’s what I call a finished
sermon!
Her Husband —Yes, but do y°o
know, I thought It would never be.
You've Listened to Her.
I have no use
For Missus Walkers;
She is one of
These nonstop talker*
Really Unpleasant.
Miss Wellalong—l declare. I
to feel that I am growing old.
really unpleasant. , ~
Mr. Blunt—lt must be, \ '
for one whe has been young e
A Choice Assortment,
Wood—l was surprised to learn
Stone wtnt flat broke. I tboug
iad all kinds of money. ,
Steele--He baa many kinds, .■
German marks, Austrian kronen 1
Russian rubles and a few thin