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32,000 MOTOR CARS
ARE UNREGISTERED
SECRETARY McLENDON ISSUES A
STATEMENT ANENT FAILURE
TO SECURE LICENSES
.STATE NEWSJF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here
And There From All Sections
Of The State
Atlanta. —Owners of more than thir
ty-two thousand passenger cars and
fdx thousand trucks have failed to ob
tain their 1024 automobile licenses,
and the state revenue department will
Ret them if they don’t watch out, ac
cording to a statement issued by S.
O. McLendon, secretary of state. The
total registration to March 27 was
135,139, compared to 173,794 for the
year 1923, although the licenses is
sued up to and including March 17,
1924, exceeded the is-uals at the same
date last year.
Sheriff James I. Lowry of Fulton
county announced just prior to the
final date for securing tags, which
Iwas March 1, that he would not en
force the law in this county until
April. Other sheriffs in Georgia took
similar action.
Secretary McLendon has given out
the following statement:
“The total number of passenger cars
registered for 1924, down to and in
cluding March 27. is 118,789. The total
pumber of trucks registered for the
fame period is 166,376, making a total
nf 135,159.
“The total registration for the year
1923 was 151,325 passenger cars, not
Including duplicate tags, and 22,469
trucks, a total of 173,794.
"Assuming that all owners of pas
senger cars registered for the year
1923 still own cars, there are now
unregistered 32,542 passenger cars,
and if ail who owned and registered
trucks in 1923 still own trucks, there
are unregistered 6,093 trucks.
“Motor vehicle owners are advised
that, under the act approved Decem
ber 19, 1923, creating the revenue de
partment, it is made the duty of the
commissioner and of his six deputies,
‘to look after the collection of de
linquent taxes of every kind that
may be due the state of Georgia, par
ticularly to investigate and collect
delinquent license taxes, special or oc
cupation taxes, automobile tag taxes,
chapffeurs’ license taxes,’ etc.
‘This act naturally supersedes that
of Section IS of the motor vehicle law,
which gives to the secretary of state
(lie rigid to appoint an automobile in
spector in counties where sheriffs have
failed to discharge their duty. The
old law did not make It the duty of
the secretary of state to make such
appointments, and the new law, as
just shown, makes it the duty of the
revenue commissioner and his deputies
to investigate" and collect delinquent
automobile tag taxes, chauffeurs’ li
cense taxes, etc.”
Girl Bootlegger, 18, Confesses
Atlanta. —Mis* Billie Roberts, IS, is
being held at police headquarters with
a charge of violating the state prohi
bition laws pending against her as the
result of a raid on her home in which
six gallons of corn liquor were found,
according to police reports. Accord
ing to the officers who conducted the
raid, Miss Roberts admitted selling
the spirits. It was also stated that
rlie said she often drove to the moun
tains of north Georgia, secured car
loads of liquor and returned to Atlanta
unmolested The officers reported
that Miss Roberts said she bought the
liquor in wholesale quantities and then
bottled it at her residence.
Font Valley Re-elects Mayor Riley, Jr.
Port Valley.—Mayor A. C. Riley, Jr.,
was re-elected and William Wright, J.
A. Houser and J. I). Duke were named
councilman. R. D. Hale and C. L.
Shepard were elected water and light
commissioners. Mr. Riley is one of
the youngest mayors Fort Valley has
over had. During his administration
the streets of the city were paved
and a white way installed, besides vari
ous other civic Improvements. His
father, A C. Riley, was mayor before
him.
Atlantan Granted Letters Patent
Summerville. —Parallel and vertical
lines at one operation arc made sim
ple by a ruling device on which let
ters patent were recently granted to
C. J. Farrar, a former Atlanta printer,
find If. W. Farrar, cashier of the Chat
tooga county bank.
Three Injured As Auto Snaps
Lycrlv.—William (“Bill”) Goss has
a fractured skull, broken jawbone and
a brain concussion ns a result of an
auto accident when an an automobile
he was driving left the road, snapped
a telegraph pole and injuring his two
companions more or less seriously.
Women Votes Form Branch
Americus. —WVs Virginia Woolley
of Atlanta has organized a branch of
the League of Women Voters in Amer
icus, with a number of influential lo
cal women enrolled and working to
secure additional members. Officers
chosen at the organization meeting
are: Mrs. H. O. Jones, president;
Miss Eugenia Parker, secretary, and
Mrs. Stephen Pace, chairman of the
committee on legislation. A member
ship committee composed of Mr3. S.
H. McKee, Mrs. J. D. Hooks, Mrs.
Frank Sheffield and Miss Evelyn
Crew has been appointed by the pres
ident, and is being assisted in its|
duties by Miss Woolley, who plans to
remain here several days.
Waycross Citizens Protesting New Tax
Waycross.—A number of citizens
are seeking to enjoin the city commis
sion of Waycross from increasing the
present school tax rate from six to
ten mills in accordance with the pro
visions of a special election held here
in November, 1923. Through their at
torneys, E. K. Wilcox, of Valdosta, and
Dickerson A Kelly of Douglas, these
citizens have served a mandamus nisi
on the city attorney, D. M. Parker,
citing the city commission to show
cause wily they should not declare the
election for or against the increased
school millage to have shown a suf
ficient number voting “against” tq
deny the increase.
Americus Creamery Details Completed
Americus. —Final plans for the open
ing of a modern creamery in Ameri
cas were completed here recently when
the chamber of commerce underwrote
a small difference existing between
hackers of the proposed enterprise
that might have retarded its establish
ment for a year. The creamery has
already been incorporated by I. E. Wil
son, Charles M. Council and associ
ates, and has paid in capital of $25,000,
regarded a3 ample, though the incor
porators plan to increase it to SIOO,OOO
as soon as operating conditions war
rant.
Railroad Officials Meet In Augusta
Augusta.—Officials of the passenger
traffic department of the Atlantic
Coast Line and allied lines will meet
in Augusta for a two-day conference
beginning April 23, it Is announced.
There will be about 100 in the party,
and session will be held at the Bon
Air-Vanderbilt and Partridge Inn. It
is pointed out that the meeting will en.
able the visitors to become acquainted
with Augusta as a tourist center, thus
enabling them to give detailed infor
mation to hundreds of tourists regard
ing this section of the South as a win
ter resort.
Heavy Crop Fertilization For Butts
Jackson.—Farmers of Butts county,
taking full advantage of the first good
weather this year, are busy getting the
land ready for planting. Fertilizer
sales have been heavier this season
than for several years past, though the
acreage to cotton will not be increas
ed Heavy fertilization and poisoning
will he the main weapons for combat
ing the boll weevil. The shortage of
farm labor will keep down a large cot
ton acreage, well-informed farmers de
clare.
Cotton Planting Sitars In Colquitt
Moullrie.—The planting of cotton
seed got under way in Colquitt county
just as soon as spring broke, accord
ing to local agriculturists. This work
is being done from two to three weeks
later than usual as a result of the had
wither conditions, but, according to
farm expert.* hero, this fact should not
prove a had-handicap. Every effort
is being made in Colquitt to hold
the acreage down to five acres per
plow.
Rev. J. W. Stokes Goes To Jackson
Jackson. —Rev. J. W. Stokes of Col
lege Park has accepted a call to (lie
pastorate of the Jackson Presbyterian
church, and will move his family here
soon. Mr. Stokes is well known in
Jackson, having preached here on sev
eral occasions. He will give two Sun
days in each month to the Jackson
church and one Sunday to Fellowship
church, the other Sunday not having
been assigned.
W. & T. Shops To Be Built At Dublin
Sandersville. —Announcement has
been made here by Charles Molony,
president of the Wrightsville and Ten
uille railroad, that the shops of the
company would he built at Dublin.
The shops at Tennille were destroyed
by fire several months ago. Mr. Mo
lony stated that location of the shops
at Dublin would save his company $5,-
000 annually in lower power rates as
well as other economies.
Progress In Lamar County Schools
Atlanta.—The work of consolidating
country schools in Lamar county has
boon weil planned and accomplished
to as great an extent as could be ex
pected within the existence of the
county, according to a report of a sur
vey made recently under the direction
of the state hoard of education.
THE DAMELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING
WEEK THROUGHOUT COUN
TRY AND ABROAD
EVENTS OFJMPORTANCE
Gathered From All Parte Of Th#
Globe And Told In Short
Paragraphs
Foreign—
Two million persons are sick with
malaria in the Kuban district of Rus
•ia, according to figures introduced at
he malaria conference at Rostov-On-
Don.
Queen Mary sat recently in a
crowded lecture room at University
college and heard Dr. Walter Seton,
professor in Scotish history, argue
hat the heir to the throne of Great
Britain should be called “The Prince
)f Scotland Wales,” instead of simply
.he Prince of Wales.
Ore containing 76 per cent platinum
s reported to have been discovered
ilong the river Biely, a tributary of
.he Anadyr river. This region is in
:he extreme northern portion of
Siberia, near Kamchatka, about the
tame latitude as Alaska.
John Elite, the official hangman of
sreat Britain, has resigned his job, but
las not given any reason for doing so.
Vmong the many criminals whom he
ias hanged were Crippen, Roger Case
nent and Edith Thompson, celebrated
ind notorious criminals. He couldn’t
even wring a hen’s neck.
Doctor Zeigner, former Communist
premier of Saxony, has just been sen
enced to three years imprisonment
'or accepting gifts while in office. The
jifts were from a man who wanted to
buy immunity from arrest while he
randled illicit flour operations on a
arge scale.
Charged with being implicated in a
>lot to get munitions of war to the de
a Huerta revolutionists, Engene T.
3ailey, one of the most socially prom
nent Englishmen in Mexico City, has
been arrested and placed in a military
prison.
“We expect the rights of our citizens
residing in Mexico to he protected in
accordance with international law,
vhich must be respected if internation
il relations are to exist,” Charles B.
(Varren, the new American ambassa
lor to Mexico, declared on his ar
rival in Mexico City to take up a post
'.hat has been vacant foi; six years.
Great Britain ha3 entered the air
race around the world against Amer
ica. An amphibian plane manned by a
irio of royal air .force aviators rose
'rora Southampton water amid an es
cort of land and seaplanes and turned
its glistening nose toward the coast
af France.
The Louvre has received from Syria
a harp 3,700 years old. It was un
?arthed on the banks of the Euphra
test by the archaeologist, Franz Cu
mont.
Cardinals Mundelein and Hayes are
busy in Rome, Italy receiving visits
of congratulations and opening tele
grams and cables from all parts of
the -world from friends rejoicing at
their elevation to the rank of princes
of the church.
A message to Lloyd’s from the
North Foreland wireless station re
ports that a Japanese steamship, the
Tokuluku Maru, sank after colliding
with the German steamship Heimdal
near Dungeness in a dense fog.
An intercepted radio message from
Wilhelmshaven states that an unknown
American steamship is in distress at
58.51 north, 7.27 east in the North
sea.
W ashing ton —
Improvement continues in the con
dition of Senator La Follette of Wis
consin, who is ill at his home in Wash
ington with pneumonia.
Citizens of the United States have
almost four billion dollars invested in
Latin America, the department of com
merce says.
Ninety per cent of American inter
ests in Mexico “will be better guaran
teed when present dificulties are re
solved with reason and justice,” savs
a wireless message received in Wash
ington by J. M. Alvarez del Castillo,
revolutionary agent, from his chief,
Adolfo de la Huerta at Frontera, Mex
ico.
Indications that the proposed na
tional park, to be located in the Appa
lachian mountains, will be laid out in
me of the Southern states, are seen
in an announcement by the Appalach
ian national park coiurhission that its
survey for a site will not be carried
beyond the southern boundary of Penn
sylvania.
Aroused by charges that Washing
ton is the wettest city in the country,
the capital's police officials again an
nounced “a relentless" war on boot
leggers.
The fight to restore the census of
1890 as the basis for commuting na
tional quotas in the proposed new
immigration bill was opened in the
senate by Senator . Harris, Democrat,
Georgia.
The question of Attorney General
Daugherty’s resignation is being dis
cussed in all quarters.
Fort Henning, Ga., will receive an al
lotment of $385,000 for the construc
tion of : b arracks.
A dispatch from Honolulu, Hawaii,
says three army aviators were killed
apd two injured when a Martin bomb
er airplane, taking off at Luke field,
stuck iu an air pocket, crashed to the
earth and burst into flames.
St. Johns river, Jacksonville, Fla.,
will receive $130,000 for improvement.
The charge that Secretary Mellon
is occupying ofice illegally because of
his interest in various financial con
cerns has been recently revived in the
senate.
Secretary Work advises the selec
tion of a site for a national park in
the southern Appalachians.
Prediction that the revenue and sol
dier bonus bills will be reported to
the senate by the finance committee
within two -weeks and that action on
the measure would be speedily forth
coming was recently made by Republi
can leaders.
Domestic —
Mangled by a circus lion, 8-year-old
Schubert Hellgram was rescued from
what appeared to be certain death by
trainers at Los Angeles, Calif.
Mrs. Edith -Roosevelt, widow of The
odore Roosevelt, has returned from
a globe tour, and is at her New York
home.
The French steamer Tours, in colli
sion with the American steamer Ed
ward Luckenbach about fifty-five miles
off Cape Charles, Va., passed in the
Virginia Capes with a hole in her port
side and leaking badly.
The solitary bandit, dressed in a
sailor's uniform, who robbed the Na
tional Bank of Louisa (Va.) of $1,855,
at the point of a pistol, was captured
near Mineral, Va., by two residents of
that place.
Three New York City thugs shot and
seriously wounded Joseph Landau, a
clerk in a lower East Side jewelry
store of that city, and escaped in a
waiting motor car after having taken
several handsful of gems from the
counter.' Landau, with two bullets in
his breast, pursued the car for two
blocks, but collapsed before he qould
find a policeman or induce pedestrians
to halt it.
With the traditional award of hon
ors, Philips Exeter academy (Vt.) has
closed Its winter term to reopen on
April -24. The highest scholastic
award was given to a Fort Ogletherpe
(Ga.) student, R. J. Fleming, Jr.
Reports have been received at We
dowee, Ala., of a race clash in Roan
oke county (Ala.), in which Walter
Foster was killed and Hoyt Peacock
and Kellar Neal, all white men, were
dangerously wounded. Goodwin Jen
kins, Hoyt Jenkins and B. Wilson are
in jail at Wedowee in conection with
the case.
Morris Rosenwald, prominent as a
pion’eer for half a century in LaSalle
street finance, Chicago, is expected to
die within the next few hours, a bulle
tin issued by his physicians announces.
His brother, Julius Rosenwald, the em
inent philanthropist, is at his bedside.
For the first time in history a rail
road labor bank is to participate in
financing the requirements of a rail
road. The Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers Co-operative National bank
of Cleveland, it was announced a
New York, will join the National Citj
company, of New York, in underwrit
ing a $3,500,000 issue of International
and Great Northern six per cenl
bonds.
Donald B. MacMillan and his party
of arctic explorers are safe, according
to reports received at headquarters oi
the American Radio Relay League al
Hartford, Conn.
Unearthing of what is believed t<
be a huge rumrunning plot was re
vealed in the arrest at Cleveland
Ohio, by government officials of Mrs
Minnie Sack, 30, of Toronto, Canada
Medical officials announced that ai
autopsy performed on the body ol
Miss Mary Coleman, 60 years old
New York boarding house proprie
tress, had disclosed she was kille<
by a blow on the head and not by
the fire in her apartment which sub
sequently led to the discovery of hei
body.
Bishop Manning, of the Protestam
Episcopal diocese of New York, has
informed the Rev. Dr. William Nor
man Guthrie, rector of St. Mark's-ln
that his church woulc
remain “without Episcopal visitatioi
or ministration” for its rector’s re
fusal to discontinue eurythmic danc
ing in connection with services a
the church.
William Jennings Bryan, one of tht
hoariest of Democrats, suggests th
possibility of a successful third party
in the 1924 campaign, recently during
a two-hour stop-over in St. Louis.
FIGHTING BOLL WEEVIL
Big Decrease in Cotton P ro .
duefion Attributed to
Ravages of Pest.
Production of cotton In the United
States dropped from more than i%
000,000 bales in 1014 to about 10 000
000 in 1923 when the largest acreage
in history was planned. This decrease
can be attributed mostly to the rav
ages of the Mexican boll weevil which
entered this country near Brownsville
lexas, In 1802, and has gradually
Worked' lfs way across the cotWn belt
until the Infested area reaches fo the
Atlantic coast and as far north as Vir
ginia. In 1914 about thre<*fourths of
the cotton belt was Infested while in
1923 nearly the entire area was rav
aged by
Conservative business men estimate
that under present world conditions a
15,000,000 bale cotton crop would
bring a price of at least 20 cents per
pound. Figuring on this basis the
loss of 5,000,000 bales in 1923 meant
a loss of $500,000,000 to the farmers
of the South: There are approximately
1,000,000 cotton farmers and this
amount divided among them shows
that the average loss to each farmer
was about SSOO.
It therefore behooves the farmers to
rid themselves of this pest and turn
their losses into profit. If they do
not, It not only means that they will
lose this amount, more or less, each
year,, but that the high cost of produc
ing the crop in this country and the
subsequent 1 losses will encourage and
are encouraging other countries to in
crease production and. with the cheap
labor available to them they soon can
make It Impossible for the American
farmer to raise cotton and at the same
time maintain a decent standard of
living.
The seriousness of the situation is
somewhat reduced, however, due to
the fact that there are tested and
proven methods of control. Scientists
and -experts, progressive /armors,
bankers and other business men are
convinced that If these methods are
put into general practice the boll
weevil can be controlled and the yield
and profit increased.
These methods have been worked
out and are explained in recommenda
tions made by the Association of
Southern Agricultural Workers, con
sisting of scientists and experts of the
United States Department of Agricul
ture and the state agricultural col
j leges, who, for the first time since the
boll weevil invaded the cotton belt and
after thirty years of experiments and
have assembled a definite
body of knowledge to give to the
farmers. These methods and recom
mendations, briefly stated, are as fid-
lows:
‘‘Prepare ground early so as to
have a firm, smooth and well set I led
seed bed at planting; delay planting
until all danger from frosts and cold
is past and the soil is warm enough
to cause quick sprouting and vigor
ous early growth ; plant one bushel or
more of seed to the acre; plant on y
selected seed of an early maturing ta
riety having a staple of not less than
% inch.
“Cotton rows should he from three
to four feet apart, according to the
fertility of the soil; and spacing in the
rows should be from eight to twelve
Inches with one to three stalks to the
hill. „ .
“An application of either a
mixed molasses-calcium-arsenate mix
ture or calcium arsenate In dust torn
should be made when there are a
many as twenty boll weevils on an
acre of young cotton before toe u
indication of squaring.
“For the treatment of fruiting -
ton generally, and especially on *'■
capable of producing one-third of •
bale or more to the acre urn > r
mal conditions, the calcium arson. ■
dusting method is most rebate a
-and is strongly recomni.n
ed in preference to late season <•:!“
cations of any syrup mixtures
"Dusting should begin when
cent of the squares show weevil
ture and at least three applications o
five pounds to the acre should be
at intervals of not more or less in
four or five days. Thereafter du-t
should be applied only as n •
to keep Infestation below P“ r
until after a full crop of boos
set and become well grown.
“Community-wide action n
control may add greatly to t .e > ■
iveness of each of these .j
Therefore, the co-operation 0 “
growers, whether owners or ten.- • •
should be enlisted in putting
feet this fundamental progr
weevil control.” , oti , lD g
The methods and recommen
as outlined do not advocate an
crease in acreage and expert.-- -
the opinion that a small a
should be planted and intensive ■
vat lon applied. This thorn-' n
expressed In the slogan,
to the acre, not more acres to .
Information on boll weev ,
has been placed in the . ,
county agents and it nl _ av ;a
from them or by requesting
the state college of agrfeu