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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL
VOLUME TWENTY-FOUR
GOVERNOR HARDWICK'S
Summary of Address
Outlines Important
Recommendations.
Atlanta, June 29.—Governor Thomas
W. Hardwick’s message to the 1922
session of the General Assembly, de
livered in person at noon today is prob
ably one of the most non-political docu
ments of the kind ever presented to
an assembly by a governor, In it there
are no “issues.” The paper deals
wholly with statecraft in a very serious
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. THOMAS W. HARDWICK.
vein and may be properly divided un
der two distinct yet complete headings;
viz.: the fiscal affairs of the state, their
status; the insistent prayer for the cre
ation of a practical business pclicy in
handling the state s affairs, -
The governor deals exhaustively
with the question of taxation, using
emphasis in the declaration that he
never has been and is not now willing
to tear down one .piece of necessary
operating machinery until there has
been created something to function in
its place. It i 3 on that basis he deals
with the tax egquaiization law and the
subject of a substitute in the form of a
new system, of which he says: “I
propose that the state shall abandon
the field of property taxation on the ad
valorem basis,” and, as the substitute
machinery which he offers, “in lieu
of the property tax for state purposes
and as a substitute for it, propose a
graduated income tax.”
Financially he shows that the state
faced, January 1, 1921, an actual de
ficit of $2,500,000 which would have
been a deficit of $3,000,000 in Decem
ber of that year but for measures
adopted to prevent it. The state now
owes on ‘“‘unpaid nalances” on 1921
appropriations $63,740, for which re
quisitions will be paid when they are
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: This bank has been & consistent friend of the Farmers
of Southwest Georgia, It has extended them accommoda
tions to enable them to buy their fertilizers and make
their crorfi, it has assisted them in marketing their crops
and it has furnishsd them a safe and convenient place in
whizh to deposit the moneys which their harvests have
yielded them.
Just now we offer special service to Watermelon,
: Cantaloupe and Peach Growers, We can handle your
drafts to all markets and give you every banking service
that will expedite the marketing of your erops.
If your returns from these crops should leave you
more money than you have a present need for, you will
find it safe and profitable to deposit it in our Savings
Department and let it earn you interest at the rate of
10 per annum.
CORRESPONDENCE INVITED .
it FFirst National Bank
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ST FIRS R R RR A P
CARBON PAPER AND TYPEWRITER RIBBONS.
properly drawn. In connection with
the financial showing he draws atten
tion to the provision by law that one
half of all the state’s income, when it
exceeds $8,600,000, shall be set aside
for the public schools, To follow this
requirement, he shows, would make it
impossible, by one-third, for the state
to pay the appropriation as made and,
for well defined reasons he gives, the
recommendation is made that this
clause be repealed.
The Governor shows the total appro
priations made for 1921 werp $10,886,
884, and this total was cut down to
$9,4562,317 for 1922, being a reduction
of $1,434,567.
The governor urges upon the legisla
ture a close investigation of every
board, bureau and commission and, un
der the stress of conditions, that “we
abolish every useless place, purge ev
ery pay-roll of every useless official. He
recommends the departmaent of ar
chives and history be abolished; the
reduction of the railroad commission
from five to three members, the
abolition of the snecial attorney for
the State IHighway department, and, re
peating his own and Governor Dorsey's
recommendations, that the state be re
lieved of heing board-ridden, commis
sion-ridden and trustee-ridden.
The governor especially urges imme
diate establishment by the legislature
“a complete modern and up-to-date sys
tem in the operation of the state’s
fiscal affairs,” referring directly to
the need for an auditing system which,
he points out, should pass upon and ap
prove all items before they are paid,
and in connection therewith he
insists that the departmental and in
stitutional heads be required to make
up advance budgets and working plans
for each year. The auditing system,
he says, should be applied to the state’s
collection as well as to its purchases
and payments, and that every cent col
lected for the state from any source or
any agent be turned into the stato
treasury.
The governor urges the “enactment
of a real and rigid Australian Ballot
Law to be applicahle to primary and
general elections alike, and to be
installed at every precinct in Georgia,”
and that this session of the General
Assembly submit to the people a con
stitutional amendment providing for
bienial sessions of the Assembly.
In scope, the greater part of his
message is devoted to an explanation
of the ills under the present system of
taxation, and the imperative need for
roformation of that system, a system
which has made it possible for appro
priations to increacz gradually until
they exceed revenues, as he-is with “se
curing a just and equal distribution of
the present burders of taxation,” to
gether with the practice of “rigid econ
omy by drastic retrenchment, and in
his proposed taxing system he pro
vides for the collection of taxes quar
terly instead of annually,
On this subject matter he presents
not only his own vicws, but such views
as have been advanced to him and,
thereby, he “feels that I am only dis
charging my Constitutional duty to you
and to the public.” He charges the
legislature, though, that, “if the present
taxing system of Georgia is to be
abolished, then it is your duty to pro
vide on efficient and adequate substi
tute.” :
Place your order for JOB
WORK now.
.eeshurg, Lee County Ga., Friday JUNE 30, 1922
'LEE COUNTY
* SUNDAY SCHOOL
CONVENTION
To be Held at Thundering
Springs Baptist Church
Sanday, July 12.
The T.ee County Sunday School
Convention will be held at Thunder
ing Springs on July 12th, and all
Sunday Schools in the county are
invited to send representatives to
this convention. Waorkers from all
schools will bLe weleomed whether
sent by the schools or not. A
splen;lid program is being prepared,
which will make the day worth a
great deal to all who are interested
in bLuilding up the attendance, in
terest and efliciency of their schools
or classes. \
Two representatives of the Geor
gia Sunday School Association, R.
D. \\’J)b, General Superintendent,
and Mrs. W. L. Blankinship, who
is employed for two months during
the summer, will attend this con
vention. Mre. Blankinshipis well
known throughout the State asa
specialist in Sunday School work,
having been for several years Asso
ciate Superintendent at the Taber
nacle Baptist Suaday School, the
largest Sunday School in Georgia.
Mr. Webb, who haseen general
superintendent i Georgia for the
past two years, is regarded asa
most practical Sunday School work
er, and their addresses will prove
helpful to superintendents, other
executive ~officers and to teachers
ian(l parents.
The President of the County
Association, B. I, Christie, and the
Secretary, Miss Kate Harris, are
expecting to make this the best
convention yet held by the County
Assoctation. They ave hoping to
have a one hundred per cent at
tendance at the county convention
and that will mean that every Sun~
lduy School is reprezented by one or
more pPersons.
Division Of Stat
ate
e
Highway System.
' Atlanta, Ga., June 27.—A divis
ion of the state highway systém
into two classes, a primary or county
geat to county seat class, and a
‘secunlury or connecting road class,
ii"‘ being suggested by Representative
B. F. Mann, of Glynn County, who
isalso president of the Macon-Bruns
wick Highway Association. One of
the principal features of the Mann
plan is a state bond issue of $lO,-
000, 000 which he probably will
urge before the legislature, which
opens it session tommorow,
“By a strict adherence to one
highway through a county the mile
age of the primary system would be
about 3,400 miles,’” said Representa
tive, Mann, who is here for the
opening of the session. This should
be completed before any connecting
roads are constructed. More than
half the county-to-county system
could be built of of well graded sand
clay rcads, to cost around $10,00)
a mile, while portions where the:
traflic is Lieayy could be of macadam.
or concrete, constructed at :\houl‘
$20,000 a mile. Following this
plan, after naming due allewanee
for the roads already built with
federal aid and what the gtate will
get each year from the government
the primary system could be con
structed for about $40,000,000.
The auto license fund and the
gasoline tax probably would finance
this size of bond issue safely. It
would take five or six years to con
struct the system. Then the con
necting roads could be considered
and their problems of finance Le
more successfully solved, For the
next two or three years I believe no
honds chould be issned than can be
taken care of by the present income
of thestate highway fund.”’
Highway lesislaticn is expected to
be taken up early in the session of
legislature, The Georgia Good Roads
Association, which has been active
for months dn urging a bond i=sue,
will uge every legitimate effort to
get come definite action early, in
order to ebviate any chance that
another seseion may go by with
nothing done to insure Georgia her
share of the federal aid fund., In
terest in the work of the Good
Road Association is being indicated
hy the increaze in memberships,
many Georgians from all sections
sending their $5.00 anvual member
dues to the Association Secretary,
William E. Keith, in the Walton
Building, Atlanta.
Lee Sales Agency
Changes Hands.
Mr. R. W. Davis, well known
(iarage and Automobile man has
bought the Lee Sales Agency and
taken charge of came. e has for
some ti ne been operating the Gar
age of the Lee Ageney but has now
taken over the supply part. Mr.
Davis will carry a large stock of
parts and tires and wiil be glad to
serve his friends when in need of
Automobile repairing, parts, tires,
gas or oil.
Card of Thanks.
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I wish to thank the people who
on Sunday night helped me remove
my ¢tock of goods from the store
which came so near being destroyed
by fire when the dwelling of Mr.
Bulloch was burned. Had the
building burned with the goods in
it the loss would have been heavy
orme I cannot in words tell you
how much I appreciate what you
did. :
MRS R. W. DAVIS.
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All Business To
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~ Close Tuesday.
The 4th To Be Observed
As Holiday.
On next Tuesday, July 4th, all
business in Leesburg will be
suspended -for the observance of
Independence Day, and though
there is to be no public demonstra
tion or program carried out here,
throughout the country such obsger
vances will be held and no doubt
but our citizens, many of them,
will repair to other places for the
day, whatever theic patriotic in
clination leads them, while others
hie to the streams and wood to en
joy thesports there afforded, ov ¢tay
at home for the rest and quietude
to be enjoyed from the regular rou
tine of business affairs.
It is not customary that news
papers suspend publication for the
week though they . always curtail
their news matter and allow the
printers and printers devils a rest
from their regular grind. Hence,
if our paper i 3 not up to the stand
ard just remember that we are off
on a jgint with the “devil”” out of
sight and out of mind and will re
turn in time to issue an excuse with
a promise to make up for the short
coming the next week.
Pears Now
.
Ready to Ship.
Every year Lee County ships
several cars of Pears from Leeshurg
and Smithville. These are of a
very early variety and are now
about ready to ship.
Buyers have already been in the
county and contracted for the en
tire crop and wshipping will start
next week, Lee County is fast com
ing to the front asa fruit county
and within a few years we will see
great improvements in this line of
farming
Secure From Fire---
But you are secured from going ‘‘broke’’
after the fire if your property is properly
insured.
Others consider it better to pay a little for
insurance than to lose a lot by fire. How
about you?
I represent the most reliable Companies of
America.
T. C. THARP,
Leesburg, - Georgia.
J. E. Johnson and W. I.Thompson
Proprietots,
We are prepared to ali kinds of Blacksmith Work
on Buggies, Wagons, Log Carts, Plow Tools and
i fact we can fix anything made of wood or iron.
Horse Shoeing a Specialty.
Shop Near Stovali and Yeomans Grist Mill,
RESIDENCE '
DESTROYED
‘ BY FIRE.
Good Work By Citizens
) Saves Other Buildings
at Fire Sunday Night.
Sunday night as the clock was
striking twelve, the fire alarm
sounded and it was reported that
the residence occupied by Mr. S. R.
Bulloch was on fire. Within a
ghort time the entire building was
ablaze and wae soon destroyed.
The good work of the bucket-brigade
fire department with a small chemi
cal wagon did good work in saving
the store which is very close to the
residence. Mr. Bulloch and lis
family had a narrow escape and
nothing was saved from the house
except one bedstead, a pair springs
and two mattresses. The property
was owned by Mr. C. H. Mathis and
was only partly covered by insurance,
This is the first fire Leesburg has
had in some time.
Typhoid Fever
.
Increasing.
The Typhoid Fever season has
come and many people in Georgia
are still unprotected so faras being
vaccinated is concerned. Time and
\:uguin the State Board of Health
};uul the County Boards of Health
have gent out warnings and advised,
even begged, the people to - be vac
cinated. Last year 798 people who
turned a deaf ear to such timely
advice have already crossed to the
unknown.
Any one wants typhoid vaceine
this year had better order at once.
The #upply is by no means un
i limited.
~ Order your vaceine from the State
; Board of health. Have your physi
clan or health officer administer at
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once,
GEORGIA STATE BCARD OF
HEALTH.
Number 22