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The Lee Co. Journal
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF 1 E COUNIY
AND CITY OF LEESBURG
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Published Every Friday |
J.P. H0RNE.,...........Edit0r
EDWIN F. GODWIN ._Publisher
Enterad at the Postoffice at
Leeshrug, (ia,, ay second
class matter.
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FRIDAY, JUNE, B§, 1923 t
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GENERAL OFFICES
NEW YORK AND CHICAGO
*RAMCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIFAL CITICS
'Nother thing this country needs
is fewer party clothes and more over
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Formerly the sons used to wear the
cast off clothing of their fathers, but
12w the men of the cities wear the
cact off finery of their dudish sons.
LEARNING THE BIRDS
One of the greatest satisfactions
of rural existence is to make friends
with the birds. Their cheerful and
melodious songs represent a higher
form of melody than any tones man
has invented. No concert voealist
can produce a note as liquid or en
trancing as that of maay of our fine
Teathered singers.
It adds a groat Jdeal to the pleas
ures of country life to learn who all
these birds are, and find out some
thing about their habits. Then
every bird call heard will seem like
the voice of an old friend, and you
will listen for them day by day as to
a member of your family. One's
work may be hard and conditions of
ten discouraging. DBut the cheerful
melodies of the birds which continue
through fair weather and foul are a
constant uplift to a tired man or wo
man, and suggest thoughts of good
cheer and hope.
Some of our young boys have been
killing some of the sweetest song
birds recently with air rifles and pa
rents should warn their children,
besides this is a violation of the state ‘
law, |
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SHORTAGE OF FARM HELP }
Complaints are heard in many lo
calities as to shortage of farm help.
Some farmers may agree with those
manufacturers who think the immi
gration law is too striet, and that
more aliens should be admitted to
this country.
The farmers however are not as a
rule enthusiastic about alien help
that cannot understand English, It is
not merely annoying, but extremely
interrupting to work, when you ask
a man to go up to the barn to get
2 monkey wrench to mend a machino‘
with, and he comes back in hali an
hour after a long search, with a rake
or a hoe.
The real trouble is not the lack of
that kind of laborers. It is that
many of our boys who understand
the needs of farm life and can per
form its tasks with the minimum of
friction, are hustling to cities to get
high wages paid just now by facto
ries, which may or may not be perma
nent. |
The boys would not quit the coun- |
try towns in any such numbers, were
it not that farm conditions have not
as yet recovered the prosperity that
has come back to the manufacturing
industries. While the factory work
ers are getting high wages for a short
working day, the farmers are still
having to sell their product for a fig
ure fairly well down toward the pre
war costs. But the prices of every
thing they have to buy remain 60 to
75 per cent above the pre-war figur |-
Many country boys, secing this sit
uation, have beome discouraged and
have gone to the cities. The Leo‘
County Journal believes the major
ity of them are making a mistake in‘
the long run. But their action is not
surprising when you consider difficul
ties immediately in sight. The way
to remedy the shortage of farm labori
is to assist farm industry by every
legitimate means, and make it seem“
attractive to our own boys, who'
should be the farm workers of to-
MOITOW. ‘
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B Top off each meal |
with a bit of |
sweet in the form |
of WRIGLEY’S. {
It satisfiies the
sweet tooth and
alds digestion. i
Pleasure and |
/ benefit combined. |
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666 quickly relieves CO!‘.;EE;:{.-:
t¢n, Biliousness, Headaches, Colds|
:nd Lagrippe. :
WANTED ‘
Mea or women to take m'd:ers;
‘or genuine guaranteed hosiery
‘or men, women and children. |
iliminate darning. Salary 375
a week full time, $1.50 and hour |
spare time, Beautifnl Spring!
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Fever, Dengue or Bilicus Fever,,
It destroys the germs. l
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A c¢ypress tree with a trunk 50 feet !
in diameter exists at Santa Madia
Del-Tule, Mexico. i
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China has 225 people to each square
mile of territory, Japan has 376 and
Australia less than two.
Coca, a shrub growing in Peru, (:on-,
tains stimulant enslaving its users to |
a greater extent than opium. l
The Aland islands are located in the
Gulf of Bothnia and have been award
ed to linland by the League of Na
tions.
Canada has not provided a bonus
fq)x' her soldiers, but has lent over $50,-
000,000 to the soldiers for agriculture |
purposes.
Had Wrong Pair Shrinking.
» She evidently was a new clerk in
the department storve, and wias doing
her best to please, Tha customer
asked to see wool hose. Two pairs in
a slze she wishel were shown her.
’ One palr was a tritle larger than the
other,
The customer remarked that she
liked the smaller palr better, but that
she was afraid they were not quire
large enough, Bhe wished they were
} the same slze as the others,
The clerk promptly replied: *“Oh,
that is all right, madam, These, the
smaller ones, were made to shrink,
and the others were not. They were
made to stay the size they are.”
Complains Air Has Been Stalen.
The alr is free, however much the
rest of our environment may be in
the possession of other folk, is a con
soling thought that may now be de
nied to us. At any rate, an American
gitizen has become so depressed in his
mind that he has entered court and,
declared that even the atmosphere
and all of its contents and component
parts have passed into-the hands of
conspirators who vivlate the Sherman
act by hogging up all of the 25,000
ether-wave - lengths available to his
broadeasting station.—The Nation's
Business,
New Menace to the Automobile,
In the Fresno court & man is being
sued for damages as a resuit of rail
ure to hang a tail light on a biack
bheifer. It seems this heifer had de
veloped a penchang for wandering
about country lanes and roads after
curfew time and a stranger in an auto
mobile bumped into her. We are lef{
in ignorance as to the fate of the
heifer, but the autcwobile was dam
aged to the amount of $220.52. The
owner of the autemlobile thinks the
owner of the heifer should pay.~-Sar
Francisco Chronicle,
IHE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL, LEESBURG, GEORGIA
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i umber Wante
i anin the ket for Pine Timber will
pay for delivered at my mill 10, 12 and
Y 4 dollars per thousand. This is a good
chance to make money on your timber
if you are p!'v;‘p:n'ul to haul it.
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R. F. POPE,
Leeshirg, : Geoigia
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fieinhardt Schmidt From Ger
many Has Glorious Time, Due
o Fast Siumping Mark.
%ioet every hoy and girl in America
pt some time aas sat down out be
hind the barn or in the tradesmen’s
entrinee to the apartment house or
gomewhere and said: “Wish I had a
million dollars—l'd go to the show
and buy candy and—"
Weli, everyone knows how It goes.
And over in Germany boys and
girls aren’t much different down deep
in their hearts than they are in Amer
ica, perhaps.
With this exception—
Reinhardt Schmidt, aged fourteen,
of Ilamburg, Germany, captain’'s mess
boy on the German steamer Ilans
Hensoth, has had his wish come true.
When he was back In Germany he
did his wishing—only, of course, he
wished for marks instead of dollars.
Then he came to San Francisco,
gnd out stepped a falry or something
and all of a sudden young Reinhardt
found himself in the midst of riches,
A newspaper reporter found Rein
hardt interesting, He told his editor,
And as a result, a girl reporter was
assigned to give Reinhardt one mem
orable day.
The lad was running arvound the
decks of the big freighter which had
peen his home for months, when the
mate stopped him and told him that
for the day bhe was to have shore
teave and be the guest of the fair
lady, who awaited at the gang plank.
Bewildered but anxious for just
one taste of real fun, he eagerly ac
cepted, And the day started. Rein
hardt was to do as he pleased. And
the lady weuld foot the bill,
It started with candy at the ferry
building.
Then a ride through the city in a
Jluxurious sedan—the likes of which
Reinhardt had never seen.
Then to a store for a pair of geod,
American shoes to replace the wooden
ones he wore. Then lunch at- the
city's most fashionable hotel—the
first fruit he had tasted for eight
months was served him in a fruit
cocktail; ox-tail soup, chicken pie,
gpple pie with ice cream, and quanti
ties of milk.
“I drink no alcohol,” he announced
in German. “But milk, at home it is
so expersive,” lle reveled in bottles
of it.
Then a trip to the top of the tall
est bullding in the city, and, next,
out to the beach to the roller-coast
er, the merry-goround and all the
other wonders.
Reinhardt was gaining his poise and
he hardly could wait for each sue
cessive thrill,
“Powder River—letter buck,” he
shouted in his funny English as he
mounted a pony on the merry-go-round
and waved his cap, cowboy fashion.
No satisfactory explanation could
be secured as to where he picked
up the phrase, but it was good evi:
dence that somewhere back in the
days of the war he had met some
one who knew something of the Ninety
first division which erushed through
the Argonne forest with that battle
cry.
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Love comes just ex
while, T Wy wiesi g
Ambition needs to look out for brok.
en rungs.
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CENTRAL OF GEORGIA GIVES FACTS
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ABOUT RAILWAY VALUATION
Radical politicians, whose purpose is to establish Government ownership of railways, have
receii'y launched an attack upon the valustion of American railways, as fixed for rate-making
purposes by the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Patrons of the Ceniral of Georgia Railway have a right to know the facts, conccrning the
valuation upon which rates are based, and to have the figures as to the capitalization of this ra'lway,
so they may judge for themselves as to whether this Company Is expecting to earn returns upon
over-capitalization, or as it commonly termed “watered stock.” :
Here are the facts concerning the Central of Georgia Railway and the lines leased and opera
ted by it. The aggregate par value of the securities cutstanding as at December 31, 1922, was
$75,778,826. Cn that date we owned 298 locometives, 9,056 freight train cars and 312 passen
ger train cars. Ihis equipment alone cost as follows:
Locomotives, $ 5,770,431.02
Freight cars, 8,796,884.99
Passenger cars 2,758,309.60
Total $17,325,625.61
At present prices this equipment would cost more than $30,000,000. But substracting only
the smaller figure, representing actual cost, from the capitalization outstanding leaves only
$38,453,200.39 as representing the value of our roadway with its right-of-way, ballast, ties and
rails, bridges, signals, telephone and telegraph lincs, other railway property, even including
buildines, land, roundhouses, shops, freight and passenger stations and the like. The value of
o 1 terminal properties at Savannah and other important cities runs into large figures. For exam
ple, our terminal in Savannah, comprises 288 acres with one mile of waterfront for the handling of
dowestic and foieign traffic. ,
The Central of Georgia operaies and leases 1,964.55 miles of railroad, but counting addi
tonal main line trackage, passing tracks and yard tracks, we have 2,623.25 miles of track. If the
$58,453,200.39 referred to above, covered the value of tracks alone (excluding all other property
ueed in the service of the public) it would represent only $22,281.89 for each mile of track. It
casis arproximately $25,000.00 per mile to build hard-surfaced highways with only light grading
and bridge construction necessary, and without including the cost of acquiring the land on which
the road is constructed. Will any reasonably minded person deny that the Central of Georgia
track with its right-of-way, station buildings, ballast, ties and rails, heavy bridges, signals, tele
rhone and telegraph lines, and other appurtenanccs, is worth more pe: mele than it costs to build a
iile of hard road and without 12cluding the cost of acquiring the land?
The Interstate Commeice Commission, after years of thorough investigation, has fixed the
remtolive valuation of 01l American railways at $18,900,000,600. Those attacking the justice of
this valuation are trying to maks it appear that it is based upon present-day replacement costs; that
it is excssive and that it imposes a burden upon those who pay freight and passenger rates. This is
erroncous and misleading. Valuation figures are based upon cost determined as 2t June 30, 1914,
and ignore entirely the increase of costs during the war period. Itis a matter of common knowledge
that pre-war costs have practically doubled. ~Additions since the valuation at 1914 figures, have
been taken by the Commission at actual cost, minus depreciation.
The present outstanding capitalization of all raiiways is about $2.000,000,000 less than the
present tentative valuation.
In 1922 out of every dollar spent by the carriers, 86 cents wnt to pay the actual costs of the
service rendered to the public. The act of valuation can have no conceivable effect upon these
costs. Only about 14 cents remained out of which to pay interest on indebtedness, rentals of leased
lines, dividends and the cost of enlargements and improvements. ;
The railroads ask only that the Interstate Commerce Commission treat them in accordance with
the provisions of the constitution as interpreted by ihe "courts. To disregard these constitutional
provisions, as demanded by radical agitators, would involve such confiscation of private property
and investments made in good faith, as has never occurred in American history.
Constructive criticism and suggestions are invited. L
- W. A. WINBURN,
President, Central of Georgia Railway Company.
Savannzh, Ga., June 7, 1923.
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Secure From Fire---
But you are secured from going ‘‘hroke’’
. after the fire if your property is properly
insured,
Others consider it hetter to pay a little for
surance than to love a lot hy fire. How
ahout you?
| represent the most reliable Companies of
America,
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" T. C. THARP,
.cesburg, - Georgia.
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