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NEWS BRIEFLYTOLD DISPATCHES OF IMPORTANT HAP PENINGS GATHERED FROM OVER THE WORLD. FOR THE JSY READER The Occurrences Of Seven Days Given In An Epitomized Form For Quick Reading 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.