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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL
VOLUME TWENTY-FIVE
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The Facts About
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Railway Valuation
That the capitalization of the Cen
tral of Georgia Railway represents
only $22,281 for each mile of track
operated, a sum less than the con
struction cost of a mile of ordinary
hard-finished highway, is the state
ment of W. A, Winburn, President of
the Central. lie points out that it
costs $25,000 per mile to build such
a highway, with only light grading,
and without considering the value of
the land on which the road is built;
while the railway capitalization rep
resents the right-oi-way, buildings,
Lallasts, ties and rails, heavy bridges,
cignals, teleghorne and telegraph
lines, chops, terminals, ete. |
Discussing “walered stock,” Mr.
Winburn argues that this contrast
proves the reasonable capitalization
of the Central of Georgia. He
poinis out that the railway must build
and maintain its own tracks, whereas
motor trucks and busses, in competi
tion with the railways, have the free
use of hard-surfaced highways, built
and maintained by public funds, and
which must be re-built by tax money
when worn out by motor traffic. He
declares further that the struggle
the railways must make to carn a
modest return upon a low capitaliza
{ion proves that there is no “watered I
stock,” and that the freight and pas
genger rates arve reasonable.
The statement explains the railway
valuation now under attack by radi
cal agitators who aim at Government
ownership. Mr. Winburn says that
the {ransportation companies ask
only such treatment as the Constitu
tion of the United States provides,
and to disregard these provisions
would involve confiscation of private
property and of investments, made
in good faith, such as has never oc
vurred in American history.
Application For Discharge
In the District Court of the
Ynited States for the Southern
District of Georgia, Albany
Division.
In the matter of Geo. T. Bur
ton barkrupt, in bankruptey.
To the Creditors of Geo. T.
Burton of Smithville, Lee county,
Georgia, and district aforesaid,
greetings:
You are hereby notifid that
Application for Discharge in
Bankruptey has been filed by
the cboye-named bankrupt, and
that a hearing ugon the same
will be had before the U, S Dis.
trict Court, at Albany, Ga., on
July 9th, 1923, at 10 o’clock in
the forenoon; that you show
cause then and there, if any you
have, why the prayers of said
bankrunt should not be granted.
Witness my nand and dated at
Albany, Ga., this sth, June 1923.
GEO. F. WBITE, Deputy Clerk
U:S Ditrict Court
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Church Services
Leeshurg
Baptist—J. . Wyatt, Pastor.
Preaching 2nd, and 4ih Sunday 3
Morning and Evening. ’
Sunday School 10 o’clock a. m.
B Y. P. U. 6 o’clock p.m. every
Sunday. 3
W. M. U. Monday afternoon fol
fowing 2nd and 4th Sundays.
Mid Week Prayer Serviee and
Choir Practice Wednezday evening
7 o’clock. :
Methodiat—J. D. Snyder, Pastor.
Preaching 3rd Sunday, morning
ard evening.
Sunday School 10 o’clock every
Sunday.
Presbyterian—Rev. Grille, Pastor
Preaching Ist Sunday morning
and evening.
Sunday School 10 o’clock every
Sunday.
-~ FIRST REAL TROUBLE
Many Farm Hands Failed
to Show up for Work
Monday Morning "7~
The first real experience Lee
!county has had to contend with
in regard to negroes going North
loccurred Sunday night. Early
)Monday morting a number of
’farmers we in here looking for
‘hands that had failed to show up
for work. It was ascertained
that a large number of farm
Jaborers had left for points
North. Up to this time there
had been no special shortage of
farm labor in Lee county, as the
negro population here has alway s
been large and the percentage
leaving has been exceedingly
small, in proportion to the exodus
in other places. Lee county
negroes as a rule, especially the
progressive ones, realize farming
conditions, and are hand ing the
proposition intelligently There
are scores of negroes in Lee
county that haye for years owned
their farms, consisting from 100
to 500 acres and under {inancial
conditions at present are in good
shape. There has been no race
trouble in Lee county for a long
anumber of years. Several negio
mep and women who went to
Pittsburgh and Chicago last win
ter have returned home and re
turned home and report that
wages are high but not high
enouzh to live on; that the con
gested living conditions were bad
and eyerything equal, the South
was the best place for them.
THANKS |
I take this method to thank.
my friends for the many beauti
ful and useful gilts presentedl
me at the shower at the homel
of Mrs Bernice Stovall on Mon
day afternoon last. 1
MRS. J. W. FOUCHE.
MiSS LUCILE VEAL
The sad death of Miss Lucile
Vezl cecurred at the home of
of h:r parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Sexls Veal, at Starksville, Thurs
day afternoon. The young lady
had been ill several days with
pneumonia which caused her
death.
Miss Lucile was about fifteen
vears of age and was a girl of
most lovable character, and was
dearly loved by her friends and
school mates.
The deceased is survived by
her parents and one Lrother.
The funeral and interment will
‘take place at Thundering Springs
Baptist Church this afternoor,
Dog Spider Weigha Pound.
The lurgest spider in existence s
the dog splder of Madagascar, It
weighs about a pound, and each of its
elght legs is as long and as thick as
‘ an ordinary lead pencil.
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‘ “Pgeudo.”
The prefixes of “pseud” and “psete
do” are derived from the Gueek
pseudes, false, and pseudos, falsehood,
Combined with other words—or foring
of wurds—they have the following
meaning: 1. A false, spurious or
counterfeit condition. 2. An abnormal
formn of or a close resemblance te
| (sonething). 3. A resemblance in
' many syinptoms, but a lack of the spe
cific characters that mark the tiue
\{orm; snid of diseases. 4. Non-Kuclid
fan geometry—as, for example, &
pseudo-angle.
lL,eeshurg, Lee Connty Ga., Iriday JUNI 8, 1923
MEAT RAISING IN GEORGIA
Light Thrown On The Existing Situation; Are
Stock Growers To Continue At Mercy
Of Western Packers?
(By GORDON SAUSSY)
For fifty years the Southeast has
been the dumping ground of the big
Meat Packers—thetr market for butts,
belltes, scrubs and seconds. The rea
gons for this are perfectly ohvious.
Our large turpentine and lumber ©p
erations, and our larger farming inter
ests, Lierotofcre and now, were and are
based upon the coinmissary gystem of
foods and supplies for our labor. We
have made “Hog and Hominy” a clag
gic by reiteration, but its equivalent in
plain English is, that we have taken
and consumed meat products which no
other people in the world occupying ap
proximatcly similar social and economic
conditions as we, would accept, pay for
and eat.
Th; Southeast is naturally a meat
producing section. geveral of tho
jarger railroad companies serving the
Southeastern territory, notably the Cen
tral of Georgia Railway, for a number
of years have been maintaining a prop
aganda, having for its objective, piant
ing our cut over lands to Lespeteza,
Dallas and Carpet grasses, eventually
doveloping an almost all the ycar pas
ture. These same companieg have
placed with the farmers of, the torrt
tory served by them thoroughbred cat
tle and hogs.
The governments, Federal and
State, have been pointing the way and
agsisting—even sometimes against our
will—in the eradication of the cattle
tick, and prevention of cholera.
The farmers of the great meat pro
ducing States of the West have their
chief markets st Chicago, St Louis,
Omiiha and Kansas City. The averaze
freight rate on packing house products
from those markets to Savannah, Geci
gia, is from seventy-nine (79¢) to nine
ty (80c) cents per hundred pounds.
The producers of meat—cattle and
hogs—in the Western Sta'es must feed
on an average of at least gix (6)
months in the year, with provisions
planted, raised and harvested, stored,
and from the barns fed to their cattle
and hogs.
Here, In the Southeast, in the last
ten (10) years, there have been estab
lished, and for a time operated by
local people and local capital, packing
rlants as follows:
Moultrie Packing Company, Moul
trie, Ga. Now owned by Swift & Cou
pany. Operating.
Andalusia Packing Company, Anda
lusia, Ala.,, owned by Swift & Company.
Not operating.
Macon Packing Company, Macon,
Ga., owned by The Aliled Packers, of
Chicago and New York. Not cperat
ing.
Tifton Packing Company, Tifton,
Ga., owned by Armcur & Company.
Not operating.
Waycross Packing Co.,- Waycro:s,
Ga., and by New York interests, Not
operating.
Savannah Abbattoir & Packing Com
pany, Savannah, Ga., owned by local
{nterests. Operating; used by the City
of Savannah as a siaughter house
Farris & Company, Jacksonville,
Yla., owned by Southern people, Op
erating.
Jones-Chandler Company, Jaukmn-l
ville, Fla.,, owned by Southera peopie.
Operating. ’
Bulloch Packing Company, States
boro, Ga. owned by Southern peopie.!
Partly operating. [
Orangeburg, S. C., and Carolina
Packing Company, Wilmington, N. ().,I
tied up by New York interests. INot
operating.
The Sea-Coast Packing Company,
Beaufort, 8. C., owned by Southern
people. Not yet quite completed.
The average freight rate from thece
plants into Savannah, on packing
house products, is from thirty-six (3¢) |
to forty-four (44) cents per hundred |
pounds. A differential in tho freighi|
vate in their faver o deep water of
. 4B gents per hundred pounds, as against |
'qestarn markaiz, i
_pne at all famiiiar with our |
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City Tax Notice. |
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The City Tax books for mnkil:;;]
returns is now open at the office of:
the Clerk and Treasurer. 'l'fmg
books will only be open for a sl;mrt!
time and 1f you do not ake >"“”i
returng you will be double t-:r;ml.!
Be sure and mike your returng and !
save theextra co<t. !
PR BASS, i
Clerk and Treasurer. ;
gection of these United States, will
see at a glance that every omne of
these plants is in cattle and hog pro
ducing belts, and knows that the ter
ritory tributary to these plants {8
casily capable of furnishing almost all
oi the year pasturage, and can and
will produce feed for cattle and hogs
'such as corn, peanuts, chufas, velvet
lbeum:, goy bheans, cow peas, etc, In
tgreat abundance, and because of cli
matie conditions can be “hogged down,”
that is to say, harvestaed by the cattle
and hezs themsclves without serious
I(lntr vioration, from maturity to planting
|again,
| Shipments from all of the South
|casiern plants to deep water at Savan
nah can be made in from four (4) to
twelva (12) hours, which means only
one (1) icing, and that, at the plant of
‘initiation of shipment. Whereas, from
the large Western markets shipments
1(0 deep water on the Atlantic Coast
would take from three (3) to seven (7)
]dz:ys, which means an {cing at the plant
|ef origin of shipment, and an average
of cne (1) icing a day, for each day
en route.
Congideration of these advantages of
ths Southeast, as agalnst the West:
l First: Cost of transportation, includ
ing freight rates and icing.
! Cccond: Natural advantages sure
rounding the breeding, raising and fat
[tcning for market.
l Third: Distance from world mar
keis.,
! With three (3) or four (4) excep
ltions these plants have not been suc
cessful; vet, a Southeastern farmer
!r:an raize cattle and hogs from a cent
}io threa (3) cents per pound cheaper,
’th;m farmers of any of the Northern
or Western States.
| In 1914, about the beginning of pack
ling housa construction in the South
cast, Georgia, was tenth (10th) of the
States of the Union in hog produc
tion. It continuously rose to minth
(9ih), eighth (Bth) and then to sev
enth (7th) place in 1919, and since
tken, has fallen to the ninth (9th)
place. tI seems significant that Geor
gia’s pork products sesm fo be affect
ed by the operation of the plants of
the Southeast.
The writer does not entertain the
|oplnion that the percentage of fallure
amongst the packing houses of the
):‘.-‘ou:‘.he'ast is so high, because of tlie
purchase and shutiing down of these
plants by the big packers in their ef
forts to retain their market for sec
ionds and scrubs, or due to their in
i:fi.bility to compete with the big pack
ers and Western growers, but their
whole marketing and selling scheme
was based on domestic consumption
and that they could not avail them
galves of the opporiunities of export and
the worid’s markets for the reason that
they lacked at decp water a great con
centrating clearing house, with ample
cold storage facllitles—in a word,
there was a hiatus in thelr scheme of
raising, packisg and marketing meat
vroduets, which can only be filled by
publicly owned and operated compre
hensive storage and marketing facilities
at desp wafter.
A steady cash market twelve (12)
months in the year, and the knowl
cdge that ho is geing to get all that
his live stock i 3 worth, is all that is
necessary to make the Ceorgia farmer
increase in harvest, quality and quan
tity, his cattle and hogs.
This means the markets North of
Capo Hatteras, and East of the Ap
palachian Mountains, the markets of
Western Europe, Cuba and Central
America; this in turn, means ocean
tranaportation, all of which are pres
ently impossible and must so continue,
until there be established a deep
water, on the Goorgla Coast, what ia
place. It seems significant that Geor
gia as State Port, or in more readily
understecd words, & State owned, Btate
controlicd, State managed plant.f
warehouaing, ccld etorege, marke!
and shipping fcorzia products,
WANTED
Man to work as Salesman and
Collector for Singer Sewing Ma
chine Co., in Lee County. Ap
ply 308 N. Washington St., Al
Lany, Ga., or "’Phone 415. 4t
Prooi to the Contrary.
Odd thing about »awning; the doe
tors sny it is caused by a deficiency in
ihe supply of air to the lungs——and yet
g fellow vsuntly does his best yawning
when somebody is pumping “hot air”
nto him.-—TLoston Transcrivs
’BANK LOSES
IN FIGHT TO
~ RECOVER $20,000
Voters Did not Authorize
Officials to Borrow
i Money is Verdiet
! WASHINGTON, D. C., June
4.—The Farmers Loan & Trust
Company, of New York, lost
in the United States Supreme
Court Monday its appeal {or
hearing of a suit aganinst Wil
cox County, Georgia, to recover
$20,000 loaned the county oflicials
for county expenditures in anti
cipation of tax receipts.
Repudiation by the county
authorized of the debt was based
on the allegation that under the
Georgia constitution and county
was not authorized to borrow thej
money without authority from
the voters of the county, which
was not had in this instance.
The Farmers [oan & Trust
Company contended this assent
was not necescary for the specfic
loan and the debt was valil.
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PAY-UP SUBSCRIPTION.
R. H. FORRESTER, Agent
NEW YORK LIFE INSURANEE GO.
ASSETS $952,632,139.00
Protect Your Faiily
WITH A GOOD INSURANCE
POLICY.
Vocal Rhusic Supreme,
Wagner wiote: The human voice is
really the foundation of ail music; and
whatever the development of the art,
whatever the boldest combinations of
A composer, or the wost brilliint exe
cution of & virtuoso, in the end they
must always return to the standard
get by vocul musie,
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Are You Ready for Opportunity
| When He Knocks?
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i Every person who has any ambition is interested in
| making money.
E To take advantage of opportunities that often pre
i gant themselves, you must either have morey or credit.
' You can haye both of these requistes through a bank ac
i count with this institution for we extend toevery depositor
j accomodations limited only by restrictions of careful and
- safe business procedure.
| There was never a truer saying than ‘it takes
! money to make money’’ and there bas been a time in your
life—and there will be again—when if you had a few dollars
with which to take advantage of a good opportunity to make
- a profitable investment you could have mad= some money.
We cannot urge too strongly the importance of open
" ing an account with our bank and thereby establiching a
connection that will be valuable to you.
, Every courtesy and attention will be shown you,
" whether your account he large or small.
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BANK OF LEESBURG,
G.A NESBIT, PRESIDENT O.W.STATHAM, VICE PRESIDENT
T. C. THARP, CASHIER,
Presbyterian Holding
Splendid Meeting
Services at the Presbyterian
church began Tuesday night,
June bHth, at 8 o’clock, with Dr,
Henry L. Walton conducting the
services. Rev. Walton- held a
protracted meeting at the Bap
tist church here about two years
ago, and he is well known thro
ughout this section.
‘Good interest is being mani
fested in this meeting and the
)spirit of christian service is ex
tant and the harvest of the Lord
will undoubtedly be great ‘as a
rewatd unto this good preachcr
and his christian membership
who are so consistently and con
scientiously laboring for it.
Rey. Waltun, as well as the
memlership of the church ex
peets a good meeting and since
they are imhued with the proper
spirit and have entered this
meeting with the work of theie
Master uppermost in their hearts
no doubt but the labors thus ex
pended will return a fruition for
the seeds thus sewn. :
We areequested 10 invite all
people, regardless of creeds, to
come and enter into and assist
in this meeting and the bwilding
up of His Kingdom ina christian
citizenship. The services will
probably last until the middle of
next week.
Birds as \wcather Prophsts,
At least some Dbirds are good
weather proplets, The green wood
pecker is known in gome parts of thig
| country as the “rain bird” because hig
Inughing cry so often precedes a down
ipum‘. The miscelthrush, again, hag
gained (e name of “storm cock,” be
seause he sings before wind and ralo,
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