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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL VOLUME TWENTY-FIVE Tybee Season Opens Saturday May 19tb Tybrisa, on the Strand at Ty bee, ‘‘Where Ocean Breezes Blow,” opens for the 1923 Sea gon on Saturday, May 19. The commodious bathhouse, dancing and picnic pavilions have been thoroughly renoyated and made even more attractive than ever -New Bathing suits and all other bathhouse assessories have keen purchased and will be ayailable for visitors. A new dance floor has been built, the lunch counter and refreshment stands put in good condition, and the entire premises painted and made spick and span. New settes and com ;ortable lounging chair haye t.een "provided for the free use of visi tors to both the dance and picnic pavilions. The Chassy-Applewhite Six- Piece Orchestra has been engag ed to play at Tybrisa this season, beginning Saturday, May "19. There will be music for dancing at Tybrisa every night in the week, and concert music on Sun day afternoons and evenings. Tybee is assessible to Savannah by frequent trains run on con venient schedules. The trains consist of clean and well venti lated coaches, drawn by oil burn ing engines, on smooth, well surfaced roadway, making the eighteen mile journey back and forth comfortable and pleasant. Tybrisa, owned and operated ,by the Ceritral of Georgia Rail way, is the largest and most attractive bathing, dancing and amusement palace anywhere on the South Atlantic Coast. - There are numerous hotels, boarding houses, and cottages at Tybee for the accomodation ot those contemplating a stay of a day, week, month or season. The imposing Hotel Tybee, fire proof, with extensive improve ments in every department, opened for the season- on May 5, under management of Tom M. Perry. The Hotel Tybee rates are based on the Amarican Plan, and range from $6.00 up. The Seabreeze, Ocean View, and other smaller hotels “and boarding houses, bathing houses, amusement places, resturaats, lunch stands, ete., are now open for the season. The visitors from the inland will find Tybee even more inter esting this year than ever before becanse of the presence at Fort Sereven, a short distance down the beach from Ty brisa, the Eighth Infantry, *“The Millionaries of the Rhine,”’ who liaye been stationed there since their returia from Germany in February. Visitors are wel come at, the post, and will see the smart soldiers who were the pride of the allied armies. The German and French wives of the soldiers, with their rosy children chattering away in two langu ages, are centers of attraction. Army life today is very different from what it was before the World War. The visitors will gsee the soldier boys at drill and study, as well as on parade. Modern- weapons of warfare, such as the machine gun the deadly one-pounder, are in use for practice. The radio and field telephone outfits show mod ern methods of directing ad vances. The Sandy beach gives an excellent backgrouud for in troducing the scenes of trench warfare. The Agency at Tybee Island was opened on May 1, H A Deuémg Wives Must rn Own Support Rules Court WASHINGTON, D. C.—A man cannot be compeiled to sup port a woman anywhere except in his own house provided he has given her no jest cause to leaye him, . Furthermore, if a wife leaves her husband, without just cause, taking the children along, the duty of supporting them belongs to her and not to him, . These edicts were spread across the high court-annuals of the country Wednesday through a Jecision lendered by the United States Court of Appeals. They are regarded by the legal frater. nity as epochal in their effect on litigation involving domestic relations. Said the court: “A husband who is able- and willing to support his wife and gives her no just cause to aban don him or leave his bed and board cannot be compelled to support her elsewhere than at his own house if he has one.”’ The effect of the decision, ac cording to lawyers, will devolve upon tradesmen the necessity of determining the circumstances of a separation before providing an estranged woman with even the necessities of life, for the husband is not always liable. The decision was rendered in the case of two women who took care of a wife and three child ren, the wife having left her husband taking the children along. The court decided she left without proper cause and reversed a lower court decision which had ordered the husband to pay $4,120 to those who had fed and housed his estranged family. BASS--GAGSTATTER. | Mr. J. W. Gagstatter, of Al bany, Miss Iveylee Bass of this place were married at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Forrester Monday evening at 8 o’clock in the presen e of relatives and friends. - Rev. John H. Wyatt, pastor of the Calloway Memorial Baptist church performed the ceremony. Miss Bass has made her home in Leesburg for a number of years arnd is very popular, she has numerous friends throughout this section. ‘ Mr. Gagstatter is a prominent young business man of Albany and operates one of the largest jewelry stores in this section Immediately after the ceremo ny they left for Albany where they are at home to their friends. TS R S A K T S R TR B S SR SR, ‘Hodges, Agent. Miss Nell V. Lynch is agent at Fort Screven. T. G. Bonner is agent at the Tybee Station, Savannah. ‘ Round trip tickets, at reduced rates, will be sold from the Southwestern territory to Tybee by the Central of Georgia Rail way and connections from May 15 to August 30. Adequate train schedule,-serviceand travel facilities and conveiences are proyided for the ample accomo dation of visitors from up state. Any Agent of the Central of Georgia will quote you the round trip fare and - tell you all ahout the schedules, service, etc., and make your sleeping and parlor car reservations in advance. PigoshitedTeo Coffnty iy Friday MAY 18, 1923 GEORGIA’S STATE PORT Its Plans and .Purposes and What it Means to . ~ the Georgia Farmers. The State Port was .concetved 1n the moment of (eorgla’s recent re awakening agriculturally. It was when Georgia farmers and Georgia bankers and other business men discovered clearly what had been casually bhoast ed and boosted, that— Georgia lands and Georgia climate’ mixed by Georgia labor and with gkill can literally produce anything almost any other state of the United States can produce—and produce it in abund ance and profitably with reasonahle expenditure of effort and skill; that any crop on earth, almost, can be gro.wn out of Georgia soil in some section of the state which has every Kknown variety of soil and six of the seven hrands of American climate; that Geor gla can grow all sorts of fruits except the tropic fruits; that Georgia can raise worlds of live stock — poultry,’ goats and hogs and cattle, dairy and beef cattle; that Georgia factories and mills can make anything that is made anywhere else; that Georgia mines and quarries and clay beds have wealth untold. - But economically it became apparent, bold and stark and emphatic, that it now is a question -of marketing what fs being and can be produced. Agitation and discussion, organiza tion and co-operation for marketing has become the big- agriculturally eco nomic gquestion in Georgia. The co-operative sales in the coun ties is helping to solve the question— hut that, while tremendously of advan tage, touched only one county at a time and ome product at a time—the puccess of some great project that would take in the whole state and all the scores of products could be as in credibly more advantageous! This is logical, it appears, from the rela tively great results for good in the co operative ‘sales of eggs and poultry/ hogs and potatoes, peanuts and melons and other products in limited areas. The big economic question of the hour for the agricultural states went down immediately to the idea of a great reservoir system, a storage point, terminals situated with reference to the markets of the world stretching out every way, where for long periods grains, potatoes, other vegetables, pea nuts and cotton and cotton seed, frufts, poultry, meats, dairy products, scores of perishables—could be kept for dis tribution at the best marketing time— and where warehouses could hold for release too—for the markets of the world by the promptest and cheapest transportatiop means — finished goods from the mills and factories. - The “state port and state terminal fdea” did not originate in any other port city or town of Georgia— « It was born back in the interior— And not there of capitalistic parent age, ‘but of the necessity of the present and the desideratum of the future of the farmers. B i A high-rank, thoughtful member of the Farmers’ Union thought out the project of a State Port and Terminal Commission to study the plan which had been successfully executed in oth er states and other lands— SO SUC CESSLY OPERATED THAT THE TERMINALS PAID THEIR WAY FROM THE START AND COST THE TAXPAYERS NOT A CENT OF OUT LAY, BUT PRESENTLY BEGAN TO PROVE A SOURCE OF ACTUAL IN COME TO THE PEOPLE. The farm ers thought of the idea first, because the farmers had come to a big need in their economic progress. And the interior farmers thought of it first, be cause there are more of them than of any other class ard their need was therefore larger. The port cominission was formed, following an act of the Legislature Smithville Sunday School News The Sunday school attendance was exceedingly good, there be ing a total of 71. There were two honor classes, No. 2, Mis. George Clark, teacher, 100 rer lcent. Class No. 7, Mr. L. D. Hays, teacher, 100 per cent. l There were 17 visitors present ‘as this +was Mothers Day the ’following progrom was rendered; | Song— Brighten the Corner | Where you are, Audience and (By D. G:. Bickers,) providing for it. That commission went about the plans and had an ex pert survey made of the ports of the state, The commission obtained detailed data on which to propose a state bond fssue for the development of terminals —with docks and warehouses, grain elevators, cold storage plants and pos sibilities for® every facility to handle every product in large quantities, 'l'he commission has in hand the record ot ‘Montreal and of New Orleans WHERE STATE TERMINALS HAVE IN STEAD OF COSTING THE TAXPAY ERS A CENT MADE MONEY FOR THE STATE—and they have the pros pective plans of other state ports in the Southeast — prospective develop ment at Wilmington and Charleston up coast and Jacksonville and Mobile around the other way. The farmers themselves, however, in great numbers had not thought out the plan as a necessity, an economic scheme for outlet for the products to the markets of the world for all the times to come; their bankers in the towns and cities had not taken time to think the thing out and talk it over with the farmers nad the other business men; and so the legislators at the last session, not having had the wishes and will of their constit uents expressed to them, failed to do anything in.the matter of state termi nals. The matter is to come up again, Thousands of farmers and business men in the state have learned much ‘ot the proposal and will intelligently ‘favor the proper sort of solution of this ‘ great marketing question, What would happen if there were ‘state owned terminals at a port in ‘touch with the world, at a point where railroads and highways concentrate to imeet the ships of the seven seas and where there is money to back enor mous husiness involved in storing mil lions of stuff (on which advances could be made as farmers required money) is. this: ’ No matter what the farms of Geor gia preduce there would be a safe place to store-the-stuff, get advanceg upon it, keep it without deterioration until markets were right and release ‘it to the world ‘markets—not simply the market of'thé next town or the county nearby in the same state; beef cattle raising in the state could be developed and meat by millions could be marketed to the East at a profit; 80 with poultry and eggs and dairy products; sweet and Irish potatoes by the millions could be sately stored to be released to the world when sup ply and demand combined to make prices attractive; peanuts and pecans could be kept in immense quantities and for indefinite periods — pecans tor example which bring forty cents in South Georgia and $1.50 a pound in New York could be sold in New York when New York wasg paying that price; North Georgia apples could be gtored by the thousands of barrels to be sent by refrigerator boat to New York and Boston and Philadelphia and ‘Washington when they could meet and match the fanty apples of the North west. So with. dozens of other products— and with grain to fill elevators at the terminal port. With such reservoir the production of these articles for which a certain profitable market could be afforded would be stimulated. Still other crops would assume commercial importance, In short, the state port and state terminals would prove the great agri cultural products’ banking institution, the clearing house, the reservoir and distribution point, che stabilizer and standardizer of the crcated wealth of the state. Choir. Prayer—Rev. J. D. Snyder. Song—My Desire, *Choir and Audience. Song—My Mothers Bible, Choir Introduction—Supt. Geo. Clark. Poem—Wilbur Sparrow. Reading—Girls and boys classes Reading—Lydia Phillips. Musical Solo—Lyla Scarbrough and Miss Ansley. Reading—Mrs. C. R. Malone . Duet—Mrs. Henry Ernest Simpson. 1 Reading—Dorothy Hays. Benediction—Rev. Snyder, - Senator Harris to Speak in Leesburg . U. S. Senator Wm. J. Harris the first senator to make a tour of the entire state of Georgia in a year when there was no elec tion and reports reaching herei today tell of the large audiences which greet him throughout' South Geocrgia. He is giving an account of his stewardship during the first four years of his term and discussing legislation passed by congress, as well as plans for measures at the next session. In many places a rising vote of approval is given his record. . Senator Harris plans to visit every section. He will speak in Leesburg, at 4 o’clock p. m. at ‘the court house, on Friday, May ’2sth. On June 2nd he finishes his present itinrary. He will by that time have visited each of the sixty-five eounties from the Florida line north. - Mrs. Harris and daughter, Miss Julia Wheeler, will join the sena tor early in June in Georgia upon ‘the completion of their daup:h-l ter’s school terms. \ POTATO PLANTS ~ Porto Rican yellow yam pototo slips, for sale, J. R. LONG. | R.F.D. 4, Box 43. R. H. FORRESTER, Agent NEW YORK LIFE INSURANGE GO, ASSETS $952,632,139.00 Protect Your Family WITH A GOOD INSURANCE POLICY. An Irshman came running down the street with his hat in one hand and his bandana in the other, puffing and blowing, almost out of breath. He ran up to the station just in time to catch hold of the rear of the train, but tbe train had gained so much monetum that it threw him sprawling on the ground. A bystander [remarded: ‘‘Pat youdid not quite catch it,”’ to which pat replied “‘Oh yes, Oi caught it, but it got away.”’ Another remarked: ‘‘Pat you did not run quite fast enough,”” and Pat replied ‘‘Sure I did run fast enough, but I did not start soon enough.”’ That is just the trouble with some people in saving money—they do not start soon enough, consequently do not get anywhere and, like Pat, when an opportunity comes along for them to make a profitable investment they have to let it go by. Right now is the time to begin, even if the begin ning is small. The longer you put it off, the harder it will be for you to accumulate something. LET US HELP YOU. : BANK OF LEESBURG, G.A.NESBIT, PRESIDENT O.W.STATHAM, VICE-PRESIDENT T. C. THARP, CASHIER, Mrs. Tom Watson of - Thomason Expires - THOMASON, Ga., May 14.— Mrs. Thomas E. Watson, widow of United States Senator Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia, died at ‘her home here at 11 o’clock to night froman attack of acute diabetes. - Mrs. Watson had been in fail ‘ing health for several months, ‘but her condition had not be come alarming until a short time ‘before her death, She took a ‘su«lden turn for the worse early tonight which resulted in death. She is survived by two. grand daughters, Misses (icorgia Lee and Georgia Watson. Mrs. Watson was the first. woman ever to be tendered the appointment as United States Senator, Gov. Hardwick haying offered the seat made vacant by the death of her husband last fall. She declined the appoint ment, however, and it was then given to Mrs. Rebecca Latimer Felton, of Cartersville. Funeral arrangements had not been -announced late tonight. It was thought probable, how ever, that the funeral would be held Wednesday. No Such Luck. Many a thing would go without say tng if people had wisdom enough to fet them. Capmin Sl tn g Number 14