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Foreign—
Kissing candidates for the British
parliament is a custo mwhich seems to
be springing up in the country now
that women are allowed to sit in the
house of commons.
ft is reported in Athens, Greece,
that the condition of former Premier
Vonizelos fs serious, and that his de
mise is expected. The republicans
were swept into party in the recent
election, and Venizelos was unani
mously chosen president by the vic
tors.
The editor of Izvestia, Moscow,
Russia, newspaper, roundly scores Sec
retary of State Hughes for his refusal
to negotiate a treaty on a mutual ba
sis between the United States and
Russia.
Italian Aviator Perm, over whose
fate much anxiety had been felt in
Milan, has survived a thrilling expe
rience. He left Sestocalende, pilot
ing a chaser hydro-airplane intending
to proceed to headquarters at Pola
after a stop at Venice. He did not
reach Venice. He was found in the
upper Adriatic still piloting his ma
chine which had safely ridden the
heavy seas for four days.
The London Daily Mail says that
Great Britain possesses a contrivance
similar to the method the Germans
are reported to have discovered for
putting the magnetos of airplane mo
tors out of action by radio.
The Seine river has overflown the
streets of Paris, but it is hoped that
the freshet will not be as severe as
it was in 1910, when people going to
work had to go by boat.
Reports from Mexico City say that
the rebellion is being rapidly over
come, and that before many weeks
the Obregon republic will be safe
again
The Russian princess, Olga Kos
lowsky, daughter of the late Gen.
Vladimir Koslowsky, is under arrest
at Copenhagen charged with stealing
jewels valued at 15,000 kroner from
a country house near Elsinore, where
she was a guest. The arrest caused
a sensation in Copenhagen
where the princess had always been
popular.
Sir Lornar Gouin, minister of jus
tice in the Canadian government, has
resigned his post. Sir Lornar says his
resignation is forced by ill-health.
Premier King announces it will take
effect immediately, but made no com
ment in regard to his successor.
A gusoliue lank belonging to the.
dirigible Dixmude has been found at
sea, according to a wireless message
sent out by the Bizerta, Tunis, naval
station aud picked up at Toulon, says
the cot respondent of the Eco de
Paris. v
.Washington—
President Coolidge has requested
Director Lord of the budget bureau
to confer with shipping board and
navy department officials with a view
to purchase of vessels under control
of these two agencies for use in com
bating rum smuggling off the Ameri
can coast.
Senator Underwood's first inva
sion of the middle West since he
announced his candidacy for the Dem
ocratic presidential nomination will
begin this month. He has accepted in
vitations to speak in Cleveland. Ohio,
January 22. and in Akron, Ohio, the
next day. Both addresses will be de
livered at luncheons given by the
chambers of commerce.
Earnings of 192 class one railroads,
comprising about 90 per cent of the
country s railroad mileage, during the
month of November were at the an
nual rate of 4.68 per cent on
tentative valuation as fixed
interstate commerce commission for
ratemaking purposes, according to
calculations announced by the bureau
of railway economics.
The Stertiug-Towner education bill,
which was before congress last ses
sion, and has been reintroduced In
the senate, was denounced by Repre
sentative Tucker, Democratc, Virginia,
as a drain on the federal treasury
and a step toward a "consolidated em
pire In Washington."
Suit for SIOO,OOO damages for alleged
libel aud slander has been filed in
the District of Columbia supreme
court against Wayne B. Wheeler, gen
eral counsel of the Anti - Saloon
League, and nine others by Francis
C. Harley, chairman of the National
Liberal Alliance.
When the case of George Henry
Terry was called in the supreme court
of the District of Columbia, his attor
ney arose and stated that Terry had
been hanged in Baltimore four years
ago. The judge dismisse(f the indict
ment charging Terry with assault with
a dangerous weapon.
Marketing organizations of farm
ers did more than two billion dollars
worth of business in 1923.
Inauguration of a poster and slogan
contest for material to be used in
a nation-wide campaign "to save lives
at railroad crossings,” is announced
by the American Railway association.
Sale of 5,000 Enfield rifles, 5,000,000
rounds of ammunition for the guns,
and eight DH-4 surplus airplanes to
the Mexican government is announced
by Secretary Weeks.
President Coolidge is opposed to any
attempts by congress to alter the es
sential provisions of the administra
tion’s tax hill.
Domestic —
The new motor car driven by five
bandits who held up two messengers
of the Centropolis hank, Kansas City,
Mo., and obtained $32,500 in cash, was
found abandoned near Leeds, Mo. The
bandits apparently have made good
their escape.
Capt. R. F. Coleman, warden of the
Texas state prison at Huntsville, has
offered his resignation in preference
to remaining in a post where it will
be necessary, under the new state law,
for him to become state executioner.
Fully a thousand residents of Santa
Ana, Calif, 35 miles southeast of Los
Angeles, have been temporarily inca
pacitated by an epidemic which physi
cians are at loss to explain.
For the first time in the history of
Virginia three men simultaneously
paid the penalty for murder by hang
ing in the state penitentiary at
Moundsville.
Private Paul Jacobß, 19, of the Unit
ed States infantry, stationed at Fort
McPherson, Ga„ near Atlanta, was kill
ed by a laundry truck in Birmingham,
Ala., recently.
Accusing Governor Gifford Pinchot
of maintaining a secret payroll, State
Treasurer of Pennsylvania Snyder is
holding up the governor’s expense ac
count and declares he will advance
the governor no more, expense money
from the state treasury.
The State Bank and Trust company
of San Marcos, Texas, was robbed one
morning recently by four unidentified
bandits after they had entered the tel
ephone exchange, cut all local con
nections and held the employes at
hay with pistols. An unconfirmed re
port says SIO,OOO was taken from the
bank.
Making reply for the American Le
gion to opponents of adjusted compen
sation, John R. Quinn, national com
mander, in a letter to. representatives
in congress, accuses employers of co
erciug their ex-service men into writ
ing letters to senators and congress
men in oppostion to the proposed ad
justed compensation bill.
The U. S. S. battleships Louisiana,
Jn tow from Philadelphia to Baltimore,
whore it was to have been scrapped,
is reported lost in a strong northwest
gale that swept the coast.
Four persons—one man ahd three
wxmien—occupants of an automobile,
were instantly' killed when the ma
chine was struck by a Big Four train
at Huntsville, Ohio
At least a dozen persons were ac
cidentally shot during the New Year
eve celebration in Baltimore.
Maj. A, R. Gardner of the fourth
artillery, Fort Sam Houston, Texas,
was found dead in his rooiA at the
Regimental Officers’ club the other
day. having killed himself.
A baby hippopotamus was born at
the Philadelphia zoo; weighed G 5
pounds, and was toddling around in
15 minutes.
Recovery of an expenlve automo
bile aud the house furnishings of her
home in Evanston. 111., is being sought
in a petition filed by Mrs. Leo Koretz,
wife of the missing Panama “oil bub
ble" operator, who is alleged to have
dropped from sight with several mil
lion dollars of his friends’ money.
"Dead Man's Basin," at the Battery,
New York City, the government's in
terment place for captured rum craft,
was recently emptied during an auc
tion iiicu and two
smugglers of holiday
“kuocked down" for $5,952.
Miss Mabel Normand, motion pic
ture actress, whose chauffeur shot and
seriously wounded Courtland E. Dines,
Denver oil operator, at Los Angeles,
Calif., says that jealousy on the part
of her chauffeur was not the cause
of the shooting.
Counsel for Harry K. Thaw, slayer
of Stanford White and since 1917 con
fined in Kirbride's asylum in Phila
delphia. are seeking to have him ad
judged sane. If freed Thaw's counsel
hope to obtain for him restoration of
his personal fortune, estimated at
nearly a million dollars.
THE OANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE. GEO <G,A.
TAX COLLECTION ON
TOBACCO IS HELD UP
TAX IS CONTRARY TO CONSTITU
TION OF UNITED STATES,
DEALERS DECLARE
STATE NEWSJF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here
And There From All Sections
Of The State
Atlanta.—The 10 per cent stamp
tax act imposed by the last Georgia
legislature upon retail dealers in
cigars and cigarettes was temporarily
enjoined on constitutional grounds by
an order passed by Judge George L.
Bell, of Fulton superior court, at the
instance of dealers in cigars and
cigarettes, represented by Attorneys
Mark Bolding and Dorsey, Brewster,
Howell & Heyman, and Judge Bell set
January 19 as a date for a hearing
on the injunction.
The petition for injunction was
filed in behalf of E. K. Lloyd, J. T.
Selman, Thomas G. Athan, Marshall
& Reynolds, Crisp & Smith, Shelton
& Park, A. R. Munn, Inc., Stewart
P. Murray company, Capital City To
bacco company, Oppenheim Cigar
company, Thomas H. Pitts company,
Crawford Drug company, Whitaker
Brothers, Franklin & Cox, Louis K.
Liggett company, Duke Farnsworth,
George Brown and John Kirk, the de
fendants being W. S. Richardson, tax
collector of Fulton county, and John
M. Vandiver, commissioner of reve
nue of the state of Georgia.
The petition, in substance, alleged
that the stamp tax act approved Au
gust 15, 1923, involved appropriations
for the Alto sanatorium and for the
payment of Confederate veterans’ pen
sions in violation of article 3, section
7, paragraph 9, of the constitution of
the state of Georgia, which confines
the general assembly, in making gen
eral appropriations for the support of
public institutions, to the general ap
propriation bill, and which expressly
provides that all other appropriations
shall be made by separate bills, each
bill being limited to one subject of
appropriation.
The petition also alleged that the
act is in violation of the constitution
of the United States because it ex
pressly requires tax stajnps to be at
tached to all original packages or
containers in which cigars or cigar
ettes may be sold, no exception’ being
made in the case of cigars or cigar
ettes sold in original packages re
ceived in interstate commerce.
Numerous other attacks are made
in the petition against the'act, as be
ing violative of the state and federal
constitutions.
Camp Appointed State Printer
Atlanta. —Appointment of Josephus
Camp, of Miilen, editor and publisher,
to the position of state printer, was-am
nounced by Governor Clifford Walk
er. Mr. Camp succeeds P. T. McCut
cheon, who has served in t capac
ity for the last four years. Mr. Camp
is recognized all over the state as a
leading publisher, having ■ -operated
newspapers at both Miilen and Met
ter for several years. He is a broth
er of Ernest Camp, Editor of the Wal
ton News, and one of Governor Walk
er’s staunchest supporters. Earl
Camp, of Dublin, is also a brother.
Duties of the office consist of super
vision of all printing work of the
state and to execute contracts made
by the state printing board composed
of the secretary of state; comptroller
general and attorney general.
Does The Grave Give Back Its Dead?
Atlanta. —Confronted with reports
that his first wife, from whom he has
never been divorced and said to nave
long been given up as dead, has re
turned to Atlanta to add a charge of
bigamy to that of murder, Frank
Hughes, jointly indicted by the Fulton
county grand jury with his wife for
the murder of his mother, Mrs. M. C.
Hughes, slumped into an attitude of
silence for the first time since his ar
rest. The Fulton county grand jury
returned an indictment charging mur
der against Hughes and his wife. Mrs.
Ida Hughes. Indictment of Hughes
on the murder charge came as a sur
prise, as he had been held on an
.accessory charge, and a statement
by hia wife immediately after
the shooting credited him with hav
ing no part in the tragedy.
Doctor Morgan Leads Spartrf Revival
Sparta.—Evangelistic meeting at the
Presbyterian church, announced some
days ago. began recently with Rev.
P. C. Morgan of Athens in charge.
Rev. Morgan is a son of Dr. G. Camp
bell Morgan, noted Bible student, and
Is considered to be one of the most
able preacher in Georgia. His con
gregation for the first night of the
meeting was excellent and is expect
ed to increase nightly during his two
weeks' atay
2 Georgia Farmer* Win Cotton Prizes
St. Matthews, S. C. —When the
American Cotton association inaugu
rated its South-wide education cam
paign for boll weevil control last
spring, SI,OOO in cash prizes was set
aside to be awarded and distributed
to 1 four farmers conducting a ten
acre cotton demonstration farm, who
complied best with the specified
terms of the contest, and produced
the best results. The prizes t were to
be distributed to the successful con
testants on the following basis of de
termination: First, greatest yield of
lint cotton per acre on a ten-acre plot
—3O points. Second, the best written
account in diary form showing the
system of culture and boll weevil con
trol methods employed—3o points, and
third, the best showing of profits on
cost of production based on the com
mercial price of crop including both
lint and seed —40 points.
State Board Scored By Clarke County
Athens. —Clarke county board of
commissioners has addressed a letter
to the state highway board asking
that organization to stop “promising”
to maintain highways in this county
or affecting this county and actually
do some work. This action was taken
after the board had tried repeatedly
and exercised considerable patience
in trying to get the department to
maintain the roads in this county, it
is pointed out. The commissioners
claim the department promised Clarke
county $30,000 state aid on projects
which have since been completed
without the state aid being paid.
Negligence of highways in thi3 sec
tion, particularly in Madison county,
is scored by the commissioners.
Cap Pistol Wounds Prove Fatal
Atlanta. —Charles Harper, Jr., 7-
year-old son of Mrs. Gertrude Harper,
of College Park, died at a local hos
pital—the victim of a toy pistol re
ceived for a Christmas present. Sev
eral days ago the child in playing
with the pistol bruised his hand.
Treatment was given the apparently
insignificant abrasion of the skin and
he was dismissed pronounced “well.”
Charles continued to play with his
fellows for some time and when he
put his head in his mother’s lap and
complained that he was feeling bad.
He was seized with paroxysms of
lockjaw shortly after and was rush
ed to a hospital in Atlanta where he
died.
Historic Old Bank Being Torn Down
Savannah.—Work was started re
cently dismantling one of the most
historic buildings, in Georgia, the old
Merchants.’ National Bank building,
which is to be cleared away to make
room for a modern office building.
The old United States bank, located
once on the corner of Bryan and
Drayton streets, was acceded 'by tji6'
Marine Bank of the State of Geor
gia, on the site where the Merchants’
National is now being {orn. away, a
bank building unlike any other bank:
in the. United States, colonial in style
throughout, and the home of the cen
ter of finances in Savannah a hum
dred years ago.
Judge Keeps Silent On View
Quitman. —No word has come from
Judge W. E. Thomas in regard to the
tick dipping mandamus qnd injunc
tion situation and under the tempo
rary restraining order, dipping vkill
continue until he signs an order pro
hibiting its further conduct. The
county commissioners had passed a
resolution withdrawing from tick erad
ication to take effect at once,
but the rule nisi of the court
has enjoined them from quitting and
cattle owners will be compelled to
drive their cows. to tlje dipping vats
unless relieved by the order of court,
which is sought by the anti-dippers.
Georgia Press Meeting In Savannah
Savannah. —Practically final ar
rangements have been concluded be
tween a group of business men of Sa
vannah and the Atlantic Coast Line
railroad for a special train to bring
more than 200 members of the Geor
gia Press Association to this city on
February 16 to attend a banquet and
to see Savannah. The proposed meet
ing would follow the adjournment of
the mid-winter meeting of the asso
ciation, which is to be held in Cairo,
Grady county. Full details will be
forthcoming later.
Athens Building Has Big Increase
Athens. —Athens’ building opera
tions for 1923 doubled those of 1922,
according to report of J. W T . Barnett,
city building inspector. The total
amount of permits for the year was
$615,755. Two new grammar schools
and an auditorium for the high school
were among the new projects.
Plan Savannah Fair At Early Date
Savannah.—The Savannah fair of
the coming fall will probably be held
on an earlier date than in any for
mer year, it is announced by Tri-State
exposition officials, who are already
arranging fo ra bigger fair with more
buildings and better exhibits and
amusements.
'JTOAD *
building
Study Science of Roads
in Elementary Schools
The automobile industry l s S h oW ] ne
more than ordinary interest in a bul
letin just issued by the bureau of edu
cation, Department of the Interior en'
titled “Main Streets of the Nation”
and intended as a study of projects
on highway transport for elementary
schools. J
Prepared by Florence C. Fox, spe
cialist in education systems for the
United States government, it will p ar .
ticularly appeal to the children be
cause their lives are very close to the
highway question; good roads playing
an increasingly important part' m
every child’s experience.
The bulletin shows the remarkably
interesting and practical lessons which
have been worked out for elementary
grades. In arithmetic, for example, a
question such as this is asked: “If the
railroad fare from New York to San
Francisco is $138.18, how much more,
or less, will it cost to motor through
the Lincoln highway than to go by
train?” The solution involves prob
lems in the cost of gasoline, the wear
and tear of the machine, and the day’s
living expense en route, as compared
with the cost of travel.
In the geography department inter
esting lessons are presented which af
ford imaginary journeys over the
country’s great highways. Important
cities are located on the way, and
brief essays written about the national
points of interest in passing. The bul
letin gives in great detail how such
lessons may be prepared.
Problems in simple science are
brought out by a study of road build
ing, drainage and grading. Lessons
in civics are exceptionally interesting
and these include problems on financ
ing; how to obtain a right of way;
how bond issues are cared for, etc.
An important lesson deals with the
safety question. Every parent is in
terested in this, and the work in
volved cannot fail to be of help and
practical use to the young student in
the face of the crowded streets and
highways.
Wisconsin Will Renumber
All Its Trunk Highways
Immediately following a conference
Of the special legislative committee,
appointed to select 2,500 additional
.miles to the state trunk highways, di
vision engineers aud the state liigh
'way division commission to determine
finally what roads are to be added,
highway experts will begin work on the
enormous task of renumbering all of
..Wisconsin’s trunk highway system.
Almost every trunk highway in the
state will have to be renumbered to
conform with the additions made by
the special legislative committee.
1 Under the new system there will be
fewer short highways and fiiore long
highways, with several numbers over
lapping each other on the main trav
eled through routes.
Wherever it is possible highway ex
perts will plot routes direct from im
portant centers. There will be no
change, however, In the system or
plan of marking the trunk highway
system.
All highway maps are to be reprint
ed and revised following the new al
location of main highways, but this
will probably not come until late in
the spring. It will make main routes
easier to follow, for it will not be nec
essary to switch off from one highway
to the next on a long journey. Motor
ists will be able to enter the state
on one highway and follow that clear
through the state or to their destina
tion.
Large Mileage Is Added
to Federal-Aid Highways
(Prepared by the United State* Department
of Agriculture.)
Federal-aid roads totaling o-®-
miles were completed during the fi gca
year ending June 30, 1923,
the total of federal aid roads com
pleted to 26,586 miles. The mileags
completed during the year Is classinea
as follows:
Mile*
1,110.1
Graded and drained 719.i
Band-clay 311$ *
Gravel
Waterbound macadam ,
Bituminous macadam " 75 3
Bituminous concrete 3440.3
Concrete 79 3
Brick ” jo.S
Bridges ""
,3,320 2
Total
The projects under construction at
the close of the year amounted
to 14,772 miles and were estimated
at 55 per cent complete. In addlt;
to the 26,536 miles completed and t,
14.772 miles under construction tnei*.
were at the close of the year a
her of projects approved but >
placed under construction, the aggr
gate length of which was 6,917 miles.