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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.