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WOMEN ESCAPE
BACK POLL TAX
ATTORNEY - GENERAL NAPIER
HOLDS WOMEN MAY VOTE
MARCH 19
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here
And There From All Section*
Of The State
Atlanta.—ln response of an inquiry
from Judge James B. Park, of Ocmul
gee circuit, Attorney General George
M. Napier issued a statement in
which he holds that Georgia women
who have not registered before, may
register and vote in the county pri
maries and the preferential presiden
tial primary on March 19, without pay
ing poll tax for either 1922 or 1922.
Judge Park, in his letter seeking an
opinion on this point, declares the act
of the state legislature at the special
session in the fall of 1923 changing
registration rules for women voters
has caused considerable confusion
throughout the state.
In his reply, the attorney general
quotes extracts from Judge Park’s let
ter and also the latest amendments to
the registration law. lie then says:
"My conclusion is, that a woman
who has not hertofore registered to
vote, can now register for any ap
poraching election without paying any
poll tax for either 1922 or 1923, and
the law allows her until December to
pay her poll tax for the current year.
"A woman would need to pay ad va
lorem taxes accruing prior to January
1, 1923; just as men are required to
pay such taxes.
"And if a woman had registered to
vote for the year 1922 or the year
1923, she would need pay her poll
taxes for that year or years in "which
she rigistered to vote. She could not
legally vote this year without paying
such taxes.
"However, she can register off as a
voter and be relieved of the taxes but
she would be a non-voter.
“It may be possible that the pro
vision that women can register off and
avoid the payment of taxes is an un
constitutional provision, as you sug
gest, because of the lack of uniform
ity in its operation; but, inasmuch as
the law says these women may be
relieved of payment of poll tax who
have heretofore registered for voting,
the opportunity is uniform as to
women; and blind persons and others
are exempted. This exception will
not be allowed, apparently, to those
women who register for voting here
after. In other words, it would seem
that this privilege is to be exhaust
ed upon such women as have hereto
fore registered for voting who should
now wish to register off and thus
avoid the payment of poll tax.
"As I see it, the payment of poll
taxes by all citizens who are allowed
the exercise of the elective franchise,
is an obligation, and not an option.
"Our law-makers, however, seem to
have been inclined to encourage only
those women to register for voting
who are able and willing to pay the
poll tax.”
Maddened Hogs Attack Children
Atlanta. —Harvey Tatum, 4. Is be
lieved to be dying, and bis cousin, Vir
ginia Thompson, 6. is in a local hos
pital suffering from serious bruises
and lacerations as the result of being
attacked by a large number of in
furiated hogs on the experiment farm
of H. G. Hastings & Cos., four miles
south of Joneshoro. The little bov
was practically scalped, and one ear
was torn completely off. Attending
physicians hold little hope for his re
covery. The young girl, the daughter
of T. P. Thompson, foreman of the
farm, is not as badly hurt as was
at first thought, and unless complica
tions arise, it is stated, she will re
cover. She was cut about the face
and head, but was rescued before be
'tig badly hurt.
Establishes Service To West Coast
Atlanta.—The United American
Lines. Inc., has established direct
Ballings between Saviuiah aud Los
Angeles harbor, San Francisco. Port
land and Seattle, via tlxe Panama
canul. The "Vinita” from Savannah.
February 11. was the first sailing, fol
lowed by the motor ship. “Seekonk,”
March 5 and ’’Eagle’’ March 26. Reg
ular sailings will be made every 20
days.
$600,000 Bond Vote To Be Held
Macon. —City council passed an or
dinance ou its final reading, calling
for a sp' dal election on April 14.
for $600,000 In improvement bonds,
including $150,000 for anew bridge;
$225,000 for sanitary and storm sew
ers; SIOO,OOO for paving; $25,000 for
anew fire engine house and equip
ment. and SIOO,OOO for a stadium.
Beavers' Illness Delays Hearing
Atlanta.—Until Chief James I*
Beavers, principal witness for the
prosecution, recovers sufficiently from
illness to permit his appearance in
court, there will be no court action
in cases now on docket against Mrs.
Asa G. Candler, Sr., W. J. Stoddard
and G. W. Keeling, following the ar
rest of those three in an apartment
February 9. The case was checked
by Recorder George E. Johnson Feb
ruary 12, when Chief Beavers failed
to put in his appearance, despite pro
tests of Ben Conyers, representing
Mr. Stoddard and Mr. Keeling, who
insisted on immediate trial. Mr. Con
yers expressed the opinion that the
testimony of Captain A. J. Holcombe,
who was with Chief Beavers when the
arrests were made, would be suffici
ent. When Jesse M. Wood, assistant
city attorney, opposed such a move,
Assistant Chief E. L. Jett explained
Chief Beavers’ absence was due to ill
ness.
Colonel Peel Named Bank Director
Atlanta. —Colonel William Lawson
Peel has been elected to the board
of directors of the Citizens & South
ern bank, according to announcement.
Colonel Peel is one of the leading citi
zens of Atlanta and among the best
known business men of the city. Col
onel Peel is actively engaged in many
important civic affairs and for many
years has been chairman of the board
of directors of the Atlanta Music Fes
tival association. He is probably due
a greater share of credit than any
other individual for the annual Metro
politan week in Atlanta. During the
world war he was manager of the
southern division of the Red Cross.
He is a member of the Kiwanis club,
chairman of the board of trustees of
the Georgia Military academy and
Young Harris college and is chairman
of the bond sinking fund commission
of Atlanta, a post he has held since
the commission’s organization.
Former Grid Star Again In Trouble
Atlanta. —A warrant charging as
sault and battery was sworn out in
municipal court against W. H. (Pup)
McWhorter, former Georgia Tech
football star, by C. J. Davis of 15
West Harris street, who charges that
McWhorter attacked him. Davis al
leges that McWhorter threatened to
“stamp mo in the ground” because he
(Davis) filed suit against him, asking
damages as a result of the former’s
alleged abduction from the Central Y.
M. C. A. almost a year ago. McWhor
ter, Henry Lyons, prominent young
Atlanta clubman; Claire Frye, former
Tech football star, and J. E. Fincher,
are alleged to have kidnaped Davis.
Acocrding to Attorney William Schley
Howard, counsel for Davis, his client
was attacked by McWhorter. Davis
charges that he was walking on High
land avenue with three companions
when McWhorter drove up in an auto
mobile, in company with several other
young men, whose names were not
mentioned.
Georgia Woman Admitted To Bar
Washington, D. C. —Miss KalhleeL
Duggan, formerly of Dublin, Ga., has
been admitted to the practice of law
before the bar of the District of Co
lumbia and before the district su
preme court, a privilege open to very
few women. Miss Duggan, who has
made her home here for some time,
has had her law training at George
Washington university, from which
she will receive her degree February
28. Asa member of the debating
teams of the law school, she has parti
cipated in debates against Swarthmore
college, in Pennsylvania, and against
the University of Virginia, both of
which were victories for her team.
She is the only woman member of
the local chapter of Delta Sigma Rho,
an honorary legal fraternity, and is
a member of the Phi Delta sorority,
to which Mrs. Mabel Walker Wille
brand, assistant attorney general, be
longs.
Old Colony Club Names Atlanta
Atlanta.—Atlanta has been designat
ed as headquarters for the southeast
ern district of the "Old Colony club,”
it was announced. This is described
as a world wide organization for men
of broad vision and recognized stand
ing and its objects are declared to
be covered in the world “service.’
The club has thirty-seven bureaus in
various parts of the world and its
services are divided Into different
types, one to relieve the business and
professional men of travel inconveni
ences. and another to save time and
trouble for travelers by furnishing in
formation and solving problems which
may arise.
Legion Post Opposes War Bonus
, Macon —The Joe N. Neel. Jr., post
of the American Legion of this city,
I many of the members being veterans
| of the Rainbow division, went on rec-
J ord as being opposed to the bonus.
■ The action of the post was in direct
j opposition to a request from the na
| tional department of the legion, it wa?
I announced
r H g OAMELSVILLE VIONiTOR. DANIELSV U.E. GEOHGiA
THE WEEK'S EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS OF STATE, NA
TION AND THE WORLD
BRIEFLY TOLD
ROUND ABOUTJHE WORLD
A Condensed Record Of Happening*
Of Interest From All Points
Of The World
Foreign—
Another step toward the canoniza
tion of the late Pope Pius X was
taken at a solemn meeting at Venice,
Italy, recently, presided over by the
Patriarch La Fontaine, at which forty
witnesses were cited by the vice pos
tulator of beatification.
Raoul Marchand, 20, was condemned
in August last at Laone, France, for
the slaying of a young girl. While in
prison awaiting the result of his law
yer’s efforts to obtain a respite from
President Milerand, Marchand caught
a prison attendant off guard and felled
him with a chair in an attempt to es
cape. The attendant died. Marchand
has been sentenced to death for the
second time.
Widespread disorders, reaching the
stage of pitched battles in the Palati
nate, have flamed in Germany during
the past 24 hours. Fifty-three per
sons were killed in fierce fighting be
tween loyalist and separatists in the
two Palatinate cities of Pirmasens
and Kaiserlautern.
Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer, wife of the
president of the Press Publishing com
pany, which publishes the New York
Morning and Evening World, has filed
an application for divorce at Paris.
The British government would have
made a profit of 15,000,000 pounds on
its original investment had it sold
its 5,000,000 shares in the Anglo-Per
sian Oil company to the Burma Oil
company, It is stated by Philip Snow
den, the chancellor of the exchequer.
The principles by which the five
great naval powers were guided in
drawing up the conventions adopted
at the Washington armaments con
ference were explained to the mem
bers of the League of Nations naval
conference, meeting at Rome, with
a view to extending the principles of
the limitation treaty to the other na
tions of the world.
Communist propaganda influenced
the recent attempt on Prince Regent
Hirohito’s life, according to a state
ment Tokio newspapers attribute to
Minister of Justice Suzuki.
The American cruiser Richmond
and the British ship Capetown have
arrived at Progreso. The reason was
not announced, but it is supposed
they were sent to communicate with
consular officials.
The war department announces that
federal troops under General Obregon
entered Guadalajara and a shower of
flowers. Guadalajara has been one
of the most important rebel strong
holds on the western front.
Durkheim mobs killed six separa
tists who took refuge with others in
the city hall at Dusseldorf. French
troops dispersed the anti-separatists.
There was considerable movement of
police and some troops during the
night, but the situation is in the
Rhineland is generally qtiieter.
Howard Carter presented himself
at Tutankhamen’s tomb and was re
fused admission by the chief of po
lice, who presented a written order
from the government. Mr. Carter
then retired.
Washington—
Slight improvement is shown in the
condition of Senator Greene of Ver
mont. who has been near death,’s
door as a result of a bullet wound
received during a pistol fight between
prohibition officers and bootleggers
on Pennsylvania avenue.
Tax reduction comes back, tempo
rarily at least, to the place in the
center of the congressional stage
which the oil scandal has occupied
for more than a month.
The supreme court of the District
of Columbia has granted the gov
ernment's motion to have impound
ed in the court securities held by
Charles B. Brewer as the basis of his
charges of irregularities in the bu
reau of engraving end printing. Mr.
Brewer was unsuccessful in an ef
fort to have the court prohibit per
sons in the treasury from having ac
cess to information to the docu)
ments
Congressional opposition to the ex-
P< nse involved has halted the North
Pole flight of the Shenandoah. Pres
ident Coolidge has ordered a halt on
all preparatory work.
Bv a unanimous vote the house
passed a senate bill to extend until
December 31, next, the power of the
War Finance corporation to make
loans.
A claim that the Northern racific
Railway company has received a total
of $136,118,533 from the sale of lands
from its government grants, or near
ly twice the $70,000,000 cost of con
structing the railroad, is set upon by
the forest service as a chief reason
why congress should deny the railway
company the right to take over an ad
ditional 3,000,000 acres of public lands
which it claims under the original
grants.
A detailed statement on govern
mental aid to the farming industry
through the federal land banks dur
ing 1923 was given congress by the
federal farm loan board in its annual
report on operations. The board said
it hoped especially for greater use of
co operative organizations i:i order
that facilities of the credit banks
n.>ght be employed to a larger extent.
Inquiry into charges of fraudulent
land operations in Texas was ordered
by the senate in adopting a resolution
offered by Senator Heflin, Democrat,
Alabama.
Approximately 950 specian pensions
would be granted to soldiers, widows
and orphans of the civil war under
an omnibus bill introduced by Chair
man Fuller, of the house invalid pen
sions committee.
Domestic—
Philipse Manor, a landmark of col
onial and revolutionary days, now the
home of Miss Elsie Janis, actress,
was damaged by fire the other day,
believed to have spread from the liv
ing room fireplace, part of the origi
nal structure built in 1683 by Freder
ick Philipse at Tarrytown, N. Y.
Olga Morton, youthful estranged
wife of Frederick Camp, bank em
ployee, was found unconscious in her
West Forty-sixth street apartment,
gagged and bound in a manner ex
actly like that used by the robber
murderers of Louise Lawson, ac
tress, who was found strangled to
death in her studio rooms February 8.
Harry, Edwin and William Drees,
brothers and operators of a steam
boat on the Mississippi which plies
the Mississippi from St. Louis to St.
Paul in the summer and to New Or
leans in the winter, have been de
frauded recently out of $15,000 in a
bad check deal.
William Staniszewiski had fre
quently stood on his rear porch, Chi
cago, and watched the Atlantic ex
press of the Grand Trunk railway
speed by and threatened, when he
quarreled with his wife, to “see how
it feels to jump in front of that train.”
The last time he quarreled with her
he "tried it,” and now he is dead.
The convict prison at Flat Top
mines in Jefferson county, Alabama,
was destroyed by fire recentlly. No
lives were lost.
Although gross receipts from sales
of groceries and merchandise during
1923 totaled $34,695,539, Piggy Wiggly
Stores, Inc., absored a net loss of
$253,892, it is reported from Mempis,
Tenn.
Senator Hiram Johnson, speaking at
Charleston, 111., said the government
is responsible for the plight of the
farmer and must itself seek to rem
edy a part of its wrong.
Many mills in the South which for
merly manufactured cotton seed meal
and oil have converted their plants
into peanut mills.
As an outcome of the upheaval
casued by the boll weevil to the cot
ton crop, hosts of farmers of the
South have turned to the peanut. Now
the demand is so strong in the Mid
dlewest that consumers are asking the
interstate commerce commission to
adjust seeming discriminatory rates
.against that section.
Although the New York City po
lice are convinced the murder of Miss
Louise Lawson, Texas music student,
in her apartment was not the work of
burglars, but a high class criminal
job, detectives working on the case
say they have exhausted every clue
without avail.
It is announced from Chicago by
the Industrial Workers of the World
that unless there is an adjustment
of child labor in the New England
textile mills, a strike will be called
in the early spring.
Lieut. Gov. W. B. Cooper,
recently tried at Wilmington, N. C.,
in connection with certain charges
against him as chairman of the de
funct National Bank of Wilmington,
was found not guilty. There are oth
er charges against him and his broth
er which will be tried in May.
"Let Bergdoll stay in Germany—he
would be so happy at Leavenworth,
much happier that he is at Mossbach.”
This was Corliss Hooven Griffis, ad
vice to all other would-be kidnapers
of the draft evader, imparted during
his address at a banquet in Chicago.
Cross-examination of Arthur H.
Sawyer, manager for Barbara Lamar,
film actress, is to be resumed soon
in the trial of Herman Roth, charged
with attempting to extort money from
Miss Lamar's manager, says Los An
geles (Calif.) dispatches.
ROAD
BUILDING
TRUCKS AND ROADS
HELP CREAMERIES
Some fifteen or more years a KO
predicted larger co-operative cream
eries would be established and that
the smaller ones would pass out of ex
istence on account of the comma 0 f
the truck and better roads. The < mal
local creamery has served Its purpose
well, but we have come to a period in
the development of the creamery i D
dustry when larger local creameries
are essential. The advent of the truck
and good roads makes this possible
and practicable.
It is well known to every manufac
turer that he must have a certain vol
ume of business In order that his prod
ucts be manufactured at the least ex
pense. There is such a thing, however,
as an Institution being too large to be
economical, as well as too small. There
is a happy medium for the size of our
local co-operative creameries. An in
stitution manufacturing 1,000,000
pounds of butter in a year will have a
minimum manufacturing cost provided
the management Is efficient.
We think well of having a creamery
in every community and of sufficient
size that it can carry on its business
upon the proper basis. It is something
every community can be proud of; it
gives increased value to the land, for
when a creamery Is situated close to
the farm there Is always a sure mar
ket for the cream or milk produced on
the farm. When milk or cream was
delivered by team It was essential that
the creameries be closer to the farm
for in most cases it was not economi
cal to haul milk more than three or
four miles. A local creamery now can
be ten miles from the farm and the
product can be delivered to that
creamery cheaper by truck than when
the patron lived but three miles away
from the creamery when horses were
used for hauling the raw products of
the farm to the creamery.
Good roads and auto trucks are
changing our creamery system. They
are changing it for the better, for they
Increase the capacity of creameries,
making It possible for them to render
a better service to their patrons, pro
duce a more uniform quality of prod
uct, and engage in other activities like
the handling of poultry and eggs.-
Hoard’s Dairyman.
Compound Interest Paid
on Highway Investment
The gradually accepted figure of 10
cents a mile as the cost of operating
the average automobile was adopted
recently by the Wisconsin railroad
commission as its official standard.
The rate is held interesting for its
many applications.
In Minnesota, for example, the re
cent traffic census showed that the
average section of the state trunk
highway is traveled by 834 ve
hicles a day. If anew location or
other change shortens the distance on
a route carrying average travel it fol
lows that It would mean a saving to
834 car owners — auto taxpayers who
are bearing the big share of trunk
highway costs.
At 10 cents a mile, that saving
would be $83.40 a day—more than $30,-
000 a year, and $300,000 in ten years,
all exclusive of the cost of improun,
and always maintaining the extra bn
unnecessary mile.
Highway Billboard Nil
in State of Minnesota
Minnesota’s new law passed by the
last legislature, prohibiting ail a
vertislng signs on trunk highways,
gone into effect. Thousands of ■
ranging from small tin tags to )
boards of various sixes on state r g
of way, were removed. Only s
- excepted by the law ar
be left. Bulletin boards for legal
tices and marking of trails are
main exceptions. ,
According to highway department
officials, the removal of the
not only take away unsightly
but eliminate billboards which
struct the view and distract
tion at dangerous cross roads.
Reclaimed Rubber Made
Into Bricks for Paving
New tires roll over old m ““cb*.
perimental pavement laid by at
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
the Main street grade cro sin* g
cine. Wls. The paving #
“brick” made from scrap
new process recently deve ' l . by
design of the pavement was _
C. W. Brainbridge. chief
design of the railroad, am w00(L
her bricks rest on a base "
if the experiment is a “ install
railway company intends - syS .
similar crossings throughoc
tern.