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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL VOLUME TWENTY-FIVE -~ The Facts About . ° 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 ‘ 3 o 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. ‘ e ‘ “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 | o " City Tax Notice. | e e | 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. e | 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, ; 1 © Are You Ready for Opportunity | When He Knocks? | 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. i N RS ? 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, Number 17