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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