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EXPENSE CUTTING
NEED OF GEORGIA
ATLANTA MAYOR SCORES GOV
ERNMENTAL EXTRAVAGANCE.
ECONOMY URGED
STATE NEWS_OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Sections Of
The State
Atlanta.—Warning that a spirit of
revolt is growing among the people as
the result of continued effort to In
crease taxes to keep pace with ever
growing governmental extravagance,
Mayor Walter A. Sims recently Issued
an appeal “to the people of Georgia"
for an expense-cutting commission to
replace the Georgia tax commission
which Is now seeking means of adjust
ing the tax system of Georgia to meet
equitably the growing demands made
upon it.
Mayor Sims’ attack on governmental
extravagance is hinged on a denial
of taxrdodging implied In Governor
Walker’s statement to Atlanta credit
men that “half of the property in At
lanta is paying no taxes at all.” Ful
ton county puys one-fifth of all taxes
collected by the state of Georgia,
Mayor Hims said, and a closer check
Js kept on taxable vulues here than
in any other county.
“If the same amount of energy
wore used in reducing expenses to
meet revenue as is used in trying to
iucreaso revenue to meet expenses, we
would find that Georgia has plonty
of money for all necessary purposes,”
the mayor declared.
“One out of every 12 adult males
in the United States in holder of a
public office of Borne kind and one
eighth of the total earnings of all the
people In the United States Is going
now to maintain government,” he as
serted. “In Georgia state government
expenses has increased from $6,000,-
000 for 1916 to $16,000,000 for 1923."
In Income tax is assailed by the
mayor ns dangerous to farm, indus
trial and commercial progress and he
protests against Imposing any penalty
on the thrift and Industry of the peo
ple.
Power For Valdosta November 1
Valdosta. —Work of oroctfng the
transmission line for the Georgia-Ala
bama Hydro Electric company to Val
dosta is progressing rapidly and It is
announced hero that the line will
very probably reach this city by No
vember 1. The line has been com
pleted through Eldorado, between Tlf
ton and Valdosta. When the power is
turned on over this line the 'present
steam plant of the Valdosta Lighting
company will not bo abandoned, but
will be fully maintained for use in
emergency. With this new source of
powor the local company will be in
position to supply every demand for
power in this city for many years to
come.
Clearings Greatest Since Early Spring
Atlanta.—The encouraging upward
trend of fall business was noted sub
stantiiflly recently in the announce
ment from the Atlanta Clearing House
association that clearings for the week
wero larger than those of any week
since March, totalling >80,148,373.03.
Such a total shows an approximate
>10,000,000 average for the six business
days. Clearings had not mounted to
that mark since the week ended
March 17, when they were $61,418,-
666.26. The week also made a gain
of $4,081,940.16 over the correspond
ing week in October, 1922.
One Tyhoid Death In Thomas
rhomasvlllo.—Only one death from
typhoid fever in Thomas county this
year is the report from Dr. Winches
ter. health officer of the county. This
case was that of a negro child who
dtd not take the free vaccine at one
of the colored schools. Dr. Winches
ter has been remarkably successful in
his work in the anti-malarial and
typhoid fever campaigns, and he is re
garded as one of the best health offi
cers in the state.
Decrease Shown In Cotton Ginningg
Thomasville.—According to the re
port of H. B. Btul)bs, special agent,
there were ginned in Thomas county
of the crop of 1923, prior to Septem
ber 26, 1,694 bales of cotton, as com
pared with 3.626 bales to the same
date in 1922. This is not quite half
of the amount made in the county last
year. The acreage this year was very
much larger.
Combining Schools Is Issue In Brooks
Quitman. The school election
which is to be held on the east 6lde
of the county soon will be hard fought
by both sides. The election comes as
the result of a plan to consolidate a
number of rural schools on the cast
elde and the bone of contention is
the site of the school center
COURT OFFICIALS RECEIVE
MANDATE IN GAS DECISION
Way Cleared For Rebating Atlantj
Consumers For Higher Rate Sinco
Litigation Was Repealed
Atlanta.—Attorneys for the Geor
gla public service commission, succes
sors of the railroad commission ol
Georgia were notified recently by 0.
C. Fuller, clerk of United States dls
trict court for the northern district
of Georgia, that the mandate of the
United States supreme court in the
gas rebate appeal of the Atlanta Gas
company, has been received by hi!
office.
The attorneys were expected tt
take action soon toward officially maki
lng the supreme court mandate the
order of the coal federal court. WheE
such step is taken the final barriei
In the way of the return to the gae
ÜBers of approximately $200,000 wil'
have been removed.
The mandate was Issued on Octo
her 10 following the refusal of the
supreme court to grant a rehearing
of the appeal, which was formally de
nled on June 11, 1923. The appeal was
taken from a decision handed down
by the local district court on January
26, 1922.
Tourists Interested In Thomasville
Thomasville. —W. M. Parker, secrt
tary of the Thomasville chamber ol
commerce, states that Inquiries are
coming in every day from parties will
lng to come to Thomasville for the
winter and It looks as though a tour
Ist hotel here could be filled very
rapidly. The newly organized Tour
Ist Association Is also receiving In
qulrles .from those wishing to come
hero from various sections of the
country. One man who went to CAll
fornla last year Instead of coming te
Thomasville, writes that he founf
nothing there that suited him as It
did here, so he Is writing to buy
winter home so he can come every
year.
Farmsrs’ Union Aids Brooks Fair
Quitman. —The Farmers’ Union hae
appointed a county-wide committee tc
make arrangements to secure the besl
exhibit possible for the Brooks county
fair, which will be held the second
week In November. It Is the purpose
of the union to demonstrate that agrl
cultural conditions in Brooks county
are not as bad as they have been ex
pressed and It will assemble agrlcul
tural products of every nature possible
and have experts in charge to explain
the proper manner of cultivation ol
diversified crops.
Brooks Backs War On Tick
Quitman. —When range riders begaL
to tighten down on the owners ol
horses and mules and stop them at the
Florida state line, the merchants ol
Quitman complained to City Managei
Fluker that local trade was being
jeopardized by the strict enforcement
of the state and federal dipping law ;
and the city manager took the matter
up with Dr. J. W. Woods, U. S. Veter
lnarlan, in charge of the dipping cam
paigu in the county’.
Nelson Gets 2 Years As Bigamist
Moultrie.—William F. Nelson, world
war veteran, tried in Colquitt super
ior court on a charge of bigamy, told
a strange story in his defense —told
it in such a straightforward manner
that he won the sympathy of many ol
the court room spectators, but failed
to convince the jury and was found
guilty. His sentence was fixed at two
years In the penitentiary.
Night Polloe Will Start Soon
Atlanta. —November 1 has been des
lgnatcd as the date for the opening
of night sessions of the city recorder’s
court. It was announced by Judge
Johnson. The opening, however, Is
contingent on council approving the
finance committee’s recommendation
that $l6O a month be appropriated for
a clerk and stenographer.
Prominent Specialist Passes Away
Atlanta. —Dt. James Madison Craw
ford, of Weaverville, N. C., for years
a resident of Atlanta, and prominent
specialist, died at his home following
an illness of only a few days. Before
his removal to Weaverville Dr. Craw
ford lived here, having moved here
In his youth. He was 68 years old.
Georgia Masons Meet October 30
Macon. —Masons of Georgia are mak
lng preparations for the 187th annual
session of the Grand Lodge of Georgia,
F. and A. M., which will be held In
Macon. October 30-31, In the city hall
auditorium, the meeting being one of
great Importance because of the vast
amount of work In the hands of com
mittees,
Twitty To Inspect Coast Oyster Bed*
Savannah. —The recently appointed
state game warden, P. S. Twitty of
Dublin, will, within the next few days,
visit Savannah and begin a several
days’ Inspection of the work of his
bureau along the coast, with especial
reference to the protection of the oys
ter bads
the danielsville monitor, danielsville. oeorsia.
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING
WEEK THROUGHOUT COUN
TRY AND ABROAD
EVENTS OFJMPORTANCE
Gathered From All Parts Of Ths
Globs And Told In Short
Paragraphs
Foreign—
The London Daily Mail reports the
sudden death of Charles Rothschild,
partner in N. M, Rothchild & Sons,
at Ashton Wold.
The fourth fort of the Warsaw, Po
land, citadel in which explosives were
stored, blew up, causing great dam
age in Warsaw.
The reparation problem, as a whole,
is still where it was before the Ger
man government announced cessation
of the passive resistance program in
the Ruhr. This is the conclusion in
French official circles after a visit
to the French foreign office of Herr
von Hesch, the German charge d’af
faires.
The United States government has
submitted to the German government
the preliminary draft of a trade and
consular agreement which is under ex
amination in Berlin. No negotiations
between the two governments have
yet been entered into.
A dismal picture of Europe was
drawn by Lloyd George in one of the
most significant speeches he has de
livered on his American tour. The
British war leader told his audience of
5,000 at Toronto that he wished he
could say the world was tired of war.
He says Europe resembles a man who
got drunk and fell down stairs, crack
ing his skull, breaking his arm, bruis
ing himself sorely, signed the pledge
and then began filling his cellars with
Intoxicants before the sticking plas
ter fell off.
The French government has no com
ment on the reported declaration by
President Coolidge to the effect that
the allied war debt to the United
States must be paid.
The Zeppelin airship ZR-3 being
built in Germany for the United
States cancst be completed before
early next spring The delay is caus
ed by many technical dificulties.
As Hugo Stinnes, mysterious colos
sus of multiple industries, clutches to
seize full power in Germany, Chancel
lor Stresemann is planning negotia
tions with Paris and Brussels to re
sume reparations payments. Featured
by the bitter struggle between politi
cal and economic factions events of
the recent past moved swiftly toward
climax.
All changes necessary to make Con
stantinople once more a real Turkish
city are to go forward as rapidly as
possible, and authorities assert that
Turkish will soon be the dominant
language even in the European quar
ter of Constantinople.
M. Lemarchand, producer of the Fo
lies-Bergere, has under consideration
a proposition made by an American
theatrical manager that a company of
the prettiest Folie segirls be shipped
to the United States. He is studying
the statutes of the various states of
the United States in an effort to find
out how far the Parisian beauties, in
their scanty attire, may go with the
American public.
Establishment of a free custom zone
and other measures to revive industry
and trade in Fiume are contemplated
by General Giardino, the rUilltary gov
ernor, with the consent of .Premier
Mussolini' of Italy.
The Tarafa measure, in Cuba, de
signed to provide for consolidation of
Cuban railroads and for establishing
national ports, has been signed by the
president of Cuba, Zayas.
Washington—
The German government has repeal
ed the decree prohibiting eGrman Na
tionals from making application to the
cocupational authorities in the Ruhr
for import and export licenses cov
ering shipments of merchandise to
ind from that territory, the state de
partment has been informed.
The nomination and election of
President Coolidge in 1924 was predict
ed by W. I. Ward, chairman of the
New York Republican state executive
committee and Republican leader of
Westcheste- county, after a call at the
white houee recently.
Negotiation of a treaty of amity
and commerce with Germany will be
undertaken on the return to Wash
ington from Germany of Doctor Wied
felt, German ambassador.
A maximum increase of 4 per cent
in the retail cost of food in the month
ending September 15 has been shown
in the compilations announced for 20
cities out of 61.
Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania,
speaking at a mass meeting held in
Washington made the amazing indict
ment that prohibition has been ham
strung by politics at Washington. It
has been bestrayed in the house of its
friends, he said. No sincere, intelli
gent effort has ever been made to en
force it. Coupled with his statement
was the demand that President Coo
lidge take personal charge of respon
sibility for enforcement.
One divorce to 7.6 marriages in the
United States last year is the record
disclosed by the census bureau’s mar
riage aud divorce survey, the first
since 1916, when there was only one
divorce to almost 9.3 marriages. There
were only one-fifth more divorces and
about one-fiftieth fewer marriages per
100,000 of population last year than ifti
1916. The statistics, including figures
from every state, were issued without
comment.
Direct shipment to Canada of cot
ton grown in regulated areas under
the federal pink boll worm quarantine
will be permitted after October 15, it
is announced by the federal horticuL
tural board.
Domestic —
Charles Hunt, member of the local
high school football squad and son of
E. G. Hunt, Lexington, N. C., was in
stantly killed when pinned beneath a
heavily loaded flour truck that over
turned on a hill two miles east of
Lexington, his neck being broken.
A systematic search covering sev
eral states and parts of Canada has
been launched by New York police in
an effort to run down the man who
strangled to death Estelle Phillips, de
partment store saleswoman, after an
apparently maniacal attack.
Nineteen persons were injured, two
seriously, when an extra express train
on the Pennsylvania lines collided with
the rear of a passenger train near
High Spire, seven miles south of Har
risburg, Pa.
The bodies of four unidentified per
sons have been recovered in the wake
of the disastrous brush fire which
raged twenty-four hours over an area
of twelve square miles between the
cities of Glendale, Pasadena and Eagle
Rock, Ark.
At least a full week of investigation,
with possibly every member assigned
to some committee, faced the lower
house of the Oklahoma legislature. It
is expected that special committees
will investigate the state penitentiary,
the Btate reformatory and other insti
tutions.
One child was killed and four others
injured at Columbia, S. C., when an
unoccupied automobile became “un
braked” and plowed into a group of
children playing on the sidewalk after
a seventy-five yard dash down a steep
hill.
King George of Greece, traveling
incognito and accompanied by Queen
Elizabeth, is coming to the United
States to study farming. They pur
pose spending most of their time in
California, which, climatically, is very
similar to Greece.
Oklahoma City is threatened with
a flood of unprecedented proportions.
The highest waters in the history of
the weather bureau are reported at
Woodward, Oklahoma. The North
Canadian river is already above flood
stage at Oklahoma City.
The bodies of two sisters, in their
forties — Mrs. Gussie M.- Durr and
Miss Tillie Bang —were found on a
cot in their home in Ocean Grove,
N. J., with the gas stove open. Nearby
lay a note indicating a suicide pact.
Four bricklayers were fined $6
apiece at Larchmont, N. Y., for work
ing on the Sabbath. “That’s all right,”
they said as they peeled off the bills.
“Counting the double overtime, : we
make $36^ for every Sunday’s work.”
Tom Mix, movie star, was injured
by a premature dynamite explosion
recently near Santa Cruz, Calif.
The negro population of Allgeheny
county, Pennsylvania, have been warn
ed to leave that section. The author
ities have promised all law-abiding
negroes ample protection. *
The Chicago Garment Workers’ Un
ion, as an aftermath of the action at
the A. F. of L., convention, expelled
41 members, some of them officers,
charging them with "red” affiliations.
Rt. Rev. Herman Page, bishop- of
the Protestant Episcopal diocese of
Spokane, has been elected bishop of
the diocese of Michigan and has ac
cepted.
Twenty-two places, mostly former
saloons, in Yonkers, N. Y., were raid
ed recently and seventeen proprietors
and bartenders arrested for violation
of the prohibition laws.
Samuel C. Dunn, editor of the Rail
way Age, speaking to farmers at Kan
sas City, Mo., blamed the railroad la
bor unions for much of the distressed
condition of the farmers this year.
A list of vessels reported ashore
at Seattle, Wash., has grown to three,
included in which is a vessel loaded
with lumber for Japan
Current
Wit/}
Humor, A
ANOTHER LINCOLN STORY
In 1862 an Intimate friend of Presi
dent Lincoln visited him at the White
House in Washington. He found him
rather depressed in spirits as a result
of the continued reverses which the
federal troops were then suffering.
“This being president isn’t all that
It is supposed to be, is it, Mr. Lin
coln?” said his visitor.
“No,” the president replied, with a
faint twinkle in his eye. "I feel some
times like the Irishman who, after be
ing ridden on a rail, said: ‘lf it wasn’t
for the honor of the thing, I’d rather
walk.’ ” —Judge.
wit
v m in
LOVE’S ORDEAL.
“Dear, do you love me yet?”
“Yes, Henri, I love you; but your
grammar Is simply rotten.”
Very Well.
Once I heard a mother utter:
"Daughter, go and shut the shutter."
“Shutter’s shut,’’ the daughter uttered;
“I can’t shut it any shutter.”
His Sarcastic Fling.
“I don’t like to invite Mrs. New
rich to my bridge party, and yet she's
a sure loser and a good pay.”
“I don’t see how you are going to
to get her money without her com
pany,” said the sarcastic husband.
“What do you expect her to do, frame
your invitation and send you a
check?”
Exciting Their Curiosity.
“I know somepin I ain’t gonna tell’
Thus sang a little sprite on the side
walk.
“Stick to that line, ldd,” counseled
the sage of Sage Center, “and you 11
always have people running after
you.”
Of One Opinion.
The Suitor—l am going to marry
your sister, Johnny, but I know I am
not good enough for her.
Little Boy—That’s what she says,
but ma’s been telling her she can t do
any better- —London Answers.
WOULD.— ” HI.
Frank—Will you love me if I S ive
up all my bad habits?
Ethel—But, Frank, how could you
expect me to love a perfect strang
Timid Was She.
“Of what are you afraid, W c
Inquired the kindly teacher. „
“Oh, sir! The flowers, the> are
Replied the timid creature.
Ten Per Cent Off.
Stock Broker—Yes, I’m feeling be
low par.
Friend —Say about 95. . f j
Stock Broker —Worse than
think about 90 would hit it.
Labor Saving.
Wife—Mrs. Strong knows -
manage her husband. She has
eating out of her hand. . gn - {
Hub —Lucky man ! Then he
have any dishes to wash.
Under Direction.
“Many of the movie queens .
lng directed by their husban * woU id
“I should think better results
be secured the other way H
Natural Surmise.
She—What is his hobby?
He— Antiquity. him?
She —Is that one of them
—London Answers.
Cleans Up the Loose Ch * n f after
“Your daughter Helen in
her mother, doesn’t she / ,
“Yes, if there’s anything
pockets.”