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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL VOLUME TWENTY-FIVE Lee County Boys " Completed Work ATLANTA, Ga., Three Lee County boys have completed their year’s work at the Georgia School of Technology. They are: Wesley Mills Kaylor, son of J. L Kaylor, of DeSota; Eligab B. Lee, son of E. B. Lee and Solomon J I Yeoman. son of S. J. Yeoman, of Leesburg. : Lee will begin his Junior term next fall in the Mechanical Engi neering depaitment, while Kay lor wiil be a Senior. Kaylor at tended the Third District A. & M. school, Americus, Ga. Heis a member of the Yellow Jacket Staff and the Pi Lambdo Delta Fraternity. Yeomen will begin his Sophomore term next fall in the school of Commerce. He is a graduate of the Leesburg High School and a member of the Sigma Nu Fraternity, All the departments at Tech have been over crowded during the past year due to the limit on teaching staff, resulting from the small appropriations made by the state Unless the appropria tions are increased for the next year it will be necessary to limit enroliment with the result that probably from three to four hun dred applicants for admission to the freshman class will be turn ed away. Itis hoped to provide classroom accomodation for ail advanced students. The percapita @poropriations for Tech students from the state during the pre sent year was only $61.77, less than one third the total cost of operation with the utmost econo my. | Smithvilie Sunday School News. BY DOROTHY HAYS Swithville, Ga., June 17, 1923. The majority of the Smithville people failed to attend the Metho dist Sunday School. There was a very small per cent. There was a total of 54 that attend ed. Supt. Mr. George Clarke an nounced that on June 24th the pupils will be promoted and the yacaney of tha teachers will be fill ed. Class No. 6 Mr. L. D. Hays, teachier, was the banner class. This class having the highest per cent of any other class in the school, class No. 6 was 85 per cent. There were ¢ix visitors present Sunday. ‘ - —_— 1 . Revival at the . Methodist Caurch. OQur people are enjoying a real revival which began at the Metho dist church here Sunday, Rev. J. Shirah a Methodist minister, of Plains, is doing the preaching. The singing is good and large crowds are attending all the services both morning and even ing. The meeting will last for several days yet and everybody is-urgently requested to to at tend, you will hear some old time preaching from the bible and by a real Christian preacher. Rev. J. D. Snyder the regular pastor is i'decd fortunate ‘n securing the services of Mr. Shirah. Pointer for the Baby. The nurse was in the room with the pew baby. She heard Bobby sofily enter and saw him stand by the crib watching with considerable interest the pew baby using his lungs. The baby was g, 4rong little fellow and he cried louder and louder. “Keep it up,” ad vised Bobby gleefully, “that’s the way I get things.” Peanut Directors Will Meet Monday Final Act of Permanent Organization to be Charter Application--- Middle Georgia Signsl Fast. ALBANY, Ga., June 18.— Directors of the Georgia Peanut‘ Growers Co-operative Association will meet in Albany next Mon day to apply for a charter ofi incorporation for the new co operative marketing organiza tion. This wiil be the final step of permanent organization of “‘co op,, which is expected to be{ a biginfluence in better prices for peanuta. Ballots went to all memiers in the original terrotory - last week and they will be returned to thei election managers this weex. Al vote to be ecounted must be in the hands of the election committee‘ by Thursday night, as this com mittee meets Friday to consoli date the vote and declare the re sults. There will be one directory each from the ten districts in the original territory, besides the oflice of Public Dire«tor to which the Governor has already ap pointed Colonel Robert E. L. Spence, executive chairman of the originial organization. New districts will be laid out in other parts of the state when the cam paign now being waged there is completed, and each of these districts wili have a director. Work of signing contiacts in the up-state counties is moving along rapidly, and by fall that part of Georgia may bhave as many acres under contract as the original terrilory now has. One Middle Georgia county, in fact, has taken the leadership of acres signed away from Mitchell and Karly counties, the barner South Georgia counties. Jasper county is now the leader of the state, having more than 7,000 acres under eontract, while Mitchell has 6,500 and Early 6,300. | Other middle Georgia counties that are signing rapidly are Put nam, Baldwin, Morgan, Greene and Oglethorpe. In addition to these, there are several South Georgia counties that were not in the original twenty-five that are coming into the association enthusiastically. These include Lowndes, Wiicox, Pulaski, Bleckley, Laurens and others. Fully 35 or 40 counties will be )organized before fall. Negroes Fair Hard | In the North To show some who think that everything in the rorth is so rosy for the negro, we are print ing a local item from a record of cases tried before Justice of Peace, of Willard, Ohio, and which appeared in the Willard ‘Times of that place: ~ Robert MeCowen, colored, who suffered a scalp wound a few days ago from a revolver of Dave Roberts during a quarrel over Roberts wife, was found guilty of disturbing the peace by Jus tice Fackler and when he could not pay was given two hours to get out of town. 1 WANTED ‘ Man to work as Salesman and | Collector for Singer Sewing Ma chine Co., in Lee County. Ap ply 308 N. Washington St., Al-! bany, Ga., or ’Phone 415. 4t Leeshurg, Lee County Ga,, Ihiday JUNE 22, 1923 A STATE PORT — WHAT IT MEANS WHOM IT WILL SERVE—HOW GEORGIA PRODUCERS CAN SECURE SUCH FACILITIES, (By GORDON SAUSSY) Transportation is sufficiently com prehensive to include what we mean by “Highways,” also ‘“Gateways,” The writer contends, that a State owned and State operated Assembling, Grading, Storing and Marketing Ter minal at deep water on the Coast of Georgia, is necessary to complete heri ‘ransportation and marketing system and to {nsure future eccnomic inde pendence for her producers. ( With modern economical Port fucll-‘ Ities at Savannah, Georgia, the pres ent transportation facilities — thut\ highly organized tremendous system, rail and water, already in existence! end now hinged upon the Port of Sa-‘ vannah—and present day condit!ons.‘ 'would favor heavy movement fromi the following arcas: ‘ ‘ Georgia, the entire State. | } South Carolina, one-half of the State. Tennesseo, one-hali of the State. Kentucky, one-halt of the State. | Ohio, one-quarter of the State. | Indiana, one-half of the State. Illinois, one-half of the State. Towa, one-quarter of the State. Arkansas, one-quarter of the State. Mississippi, one-quarter of the State. ' Alabama, one-quarter of the State. ~ ENORMOUS COMMODITIES AVAILABLE: .According to an esti ' mate based on the census of 1920, the value of farm crops in this area is \ Three Billon Two Hundred and Kighty - four Mililon Dollars. The above territory and production there in are what we mean by the term Southeast when 'used in connectlon with natural markets open for sur plus production in the above territo ries. The chief problems of the produc ers and shippers of the South and Middle West are: First: Transportation between in-l terior production points and the Poit. ~ Becond: Port facilities and costs. ~ Third: Markets, ~ Fourth: - Ocean Freights. Our 'markets beyond home consump tion lie on this Continent North of Virginia, and East of the Appalachian' \Mountaina, the Antilles, Central and | }Bouth America, and the West Coast| | of Xurope. In 1914, it cost eight times more to transport by rail than by water. Dur }ing the World War, and immediately thereafter, water borne comimerce paid approximately the same rate as all rail. There has been for the last| three years steadily, a decline in the | rates for water-borne comierce, and water-borne commercs today, is cost ing easlly one-third less than all rail, and there will he a further cheapen ing of the cost of tramsportation by | water, ' CREATED BY NATURE FOR A STATE PORT: When Nature Dit off| a mouthful of the Southesstern part | of the United States, and thus made it possible for the Port of Savannah to be established at a point on the South Atlantic Coast, naturally lessen ing the rail haul and increasing the distance by water, forward-looking Transportation men were quick to see and take advantage of this physical condition, hence the hinging upon| the Port of Savannah of its present highly organized transportation sys tem. These transportation organiza tAons are now prepared, and will con nue, to fight for every pound of ‘commerce from the ahove territory capable of moving into world mar kets through the Port of Savannah. [ A modern publicly owned and oper lated Terminal at deep water must as sure producers and shippers of easy,l 'cheap and sure handiing and storage ‘of perishables as well as non-perish ables, The Terminals proposed to ba jestablished, owned and operated by| the State of Georgia, as presently out lined contemplate a balanced propor-l tion of each of the comprehensive ‘units sufficient for the present, but 'BO designated that additions may be added to any or all of the units as {required, without interruption as tc .what may then bhe traffic conditicns. ‘ ! This facllity for producers must L«;? publicly operated and managed, to be in accord with the public policy of the ‘National Congress, as expressed In the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1919, and in accord with the recommenda tions of the Enginecring Corps of the .War Department for “uniess owned ‘and operated by the public, and pro gressively developed in pursuance of an intelligent policy based om the promotion of the general growth and prosperity, it Is probable that the pub lic interest will not be properly scrv ed, and that private methods or ad vantages of ore kind or another will gerve to prevent the Port from achiev inz its highest usefulness.” ! FARMERS MUST HAVE A VOICE: ! The farmers of Georgia well know | and fully realize the importance of ‘State ownershlp, State operatisn and management of this facility, for the ‘simple reason, that no other owuier 'ship, operation or management wiil ‘give them a voice in its affairs, and a hand in operating and managing it. The farmers of Georgla will not now consent that thig Institution be oreat ed, owned and operated by any aggre gation of private capital, any partic ular City or County. .The project includes in-bound and out-bound railway yards. The out— bound recefving yard will hold seven sixly car traine, The classification vard for the same service, will pro cide ten forty-car tracks, all directly connected with dock facilities. A storage yard with a capacity of seven hundred cars. A supporting warechouse five hun dred (500) feet long by Two Hundred (200) feet wide, and six (6) stories high. A grain elevator system, two mil l Hon (2,000,000) bushel capacity. FACILITIZES FOR PERISHABLES: A cold storage warehouse, two hun dred (200) feet long by one hundred tweudty-five (125) feet wide, seven (7) stories high; five (5) stories being for sold storage, approximately omne million (1,000,000) cubie feet of refrig erator capacity. On each cold stor age floor will be well ventilated corri dors in which sampling, exhibitions and sales may be taking place. The ground floor constructed for offices, to be rented to jobbers for cold st%r age, and for the main offices of the Co-operative Selling Organizations of the State of Georgia. Ample storage and handling of Naval Stores, and other bulk non perishable products, A modern plent for the unloading and shipping of T'ertilizer products. Ample facilities for the storage and handling of Cotton. The site of Georgia’s State Port will surely hecome an sll-the-year market for cotton, and will very likely be come the chief market for cotton in America. Docking facilities will provide ac commodations for from eight (8) to twenty (20) ships, taking general cargo 4t one berthing, It was estimated that a compre hensive Terminal hased wupon con struction costs for the Spring of 1922, wouw' 1 cost approximately, allowing One Million ($1,000,000.00) Dollars for unforeseen items, and Omne’ Milllion Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand ($1,250,000.09) Dollars interest during construction,—~Fifteen Million ($l5, 000,0%.00) Dollars, The site required of Savannah by the Harbor, Port and Terminal Com mission is valued at,Two and One half Million Dollars, This site 18 to be a gift to the State, The proposed Censtitutional amendment provides that the entire plant and the site are to secure the bonds. WITHOUT COST TO THE TAX PAYERS: Georgla can build and maintain a State Port without cost to the taxyers of the State, Practical demoustrations elsewhere have prov cd conclusively that this use of pub lic credit does not neceasitats In any way the'levying of any taxes upon the people. Louisiana, for instance, has permitted the use of its State credit up to thirty-five million dolla.(x)‘z for such a plant at New Orleans. thie credit less than twenty million dol lar have been used during the past fifteen years and the people of Louis iana have not been called upcn to con tribute one cent, The great BBtate Port at New Orleans has met all ex pences, including interest and bonds, and made a handsomo net profit in addition, Is there any reason to be lieve the great wealth-producing State of Georgia could not duplicate this ex perience while {ts producers at the same time were enjoying the vast benefits accruing from diversification and increased production end up to date marketing methods? The fifteen million dollars includes the cost of constructicn, and interest on the bonds until the entire plant is con structed and in operation. Thereafter, the plant, as a going concern, will pay its operation, interest and creats a sinking fund to retire the bonds. ' The proposed State owned and op crated Terminal is to he hullt by the State of Georgia, under the direction of the State, to be pald for by the State of Georgia,—no City or County of CQeorgla being interceted {in the #lightest particular in the cost of con struction, or in any way concerned, or participating in the expenditure of the cost of construction. The pro l(-,ceds from the bonds as sold, will be vlaced in Banks in different parts of |the State, and draw interest untfl ex pended. The state will run no risk of either losing its money, or of having to pay interest on the honds from other sources of income, IF' THE PRODUCERS 0:;;i GEOR GIA WANT THESE SUP% B %Anr KETING AND SHIPPING FACILI TIES, CREATED FOR THEM, MAN AGED AND OPERATED BY THEM, THEY CAN HAVE THEM. ALL THAT I 3 NEEDED IS FOR J‘EHEM TO BRING THEIR INFLUENCE TO BEAR DIRECTLY UPON THERIR LEGISLATORS TO SUBMIT ;I"BE MATTER TO THEM THROUGH A CONSTITUTIONAL AMBENDMENT, NOW I 8 THE TIME TO AOT. lThree Hurt In Auto Accident Marion C. Cook, of Ameri cus, Perhaps Fatally Injured CAR RUNS INTO A DITCH AMERICUS, Ga., June 19.-- Marion C. Cook was perhaps fatally hurt in an automobile ac cident at Smithville, near here, this afternoon, and Jesse Faust badly injured. - Lawrence Phy sioe, an Americus lad riding with Cook and Faust, escaped serious ‘injur,v. ~ The party were going south on the Dixie Highway, when at a point just south of Smithville the car was smashed, running ‘into a diteh. " The accident, it is believed was due to Faust, an unexperienced driver, putting his foot upon the‘ gas lever in mistake for a brake. Cook who was brought here for surgical attention, former lived in Augusta, but moved here from that city seyeral months ago, and has since been employed as an automobile salesman here, He probably will die. Faust isa a prosperous farmer and Physioc is an Americus sch»ol boy. Streets Improved The streets of our city present a most worked improvement this week. Since the water and sewerage system has been ccm pleted and all ditches refilled, the streets were full of shallow holes and many ridges. How ever under the personal super vision and untiring efforts of strect committeeman R.E. Howe the streets haye been thoroughly scraped and are in first class shape again. City Tax Notice. The City Tax books for making returns is now open at the office ufl the Clerk and Treasurer. The books will only be open for a short time and 1f you do not *make your returns you will be double taxed. Be sure and make your returns and save the extra cost. T. R. BASS, Clerk and Treasurer. o Confidence | The confidence of the community in a bank is iis greatest . element of strength. | . | The strength of our bank is evidenced by the confidence ~ of its large number of depositors and salisfied customers, - among whom are some of the best people in the country. Our directors are composad of the best men of the coun | try, who actually direct the affairs of the bank, Men who ~ have made a success of their own affairs and are capable of " handling the affairs of the bank on a safe and sound basis. | Our bank is examined at frequent intervals by capable ] auditors sent out by the state (government) who come with ‘ out our foreknowledge. We are also required to make and ' pubiish sworn statements of the condition of this bank at | regular intervals. The call for this statement comes to us | based on certain dates, without our having any knowledge | of when it is coming, hence we are unable to ‘‘fix’’ for these f periods, even if we were disposed to do so. In addition to " this we are required by law to carry a certain per cent of depcsits in cash reserve in order to tuke care of any emer | gency that might arige. | ’ Deposit your money with us where it is as safe as the i Rock of Gilbralter. BANK OF LEESBURS | § ' G.A NEsBIT, PRESIDENT O.W.STATHAM, VICE-PRESIDENT ; T. C. THARP, CASHIER, Carry Out the Grand Jury Recommendations Three different Grand Juries have recommended that the Court Hcuse grounds ba cleaned up and beautified, but as yet no move on the part of the proper authorities in this direction has been made. Lee County has a beautiful and modern court house in every respect and a credit to our city. A grand iury’s pro ceedings are supposed to be car ried out, and we would respect fully suggest that our County Commissioners take up this mat ter as soon as possible. Bill Requiring Vehicles Full Step for R R, Crossings Plans for the introduction of a bill in Congress requiring all motor vehicles to come to a full stop before crossing railroad tracks at public crossings haye been discussed by train service men and oflicials of various roads, insurance companies and promi nent citizens of Atlanta with Congressman W. D. Upshaw at a meeting. “*Such a bill, with the purpose of reducing the loss of lives and personal injuries as the result of the failure of drivers to be care ful in crossing railroad tracks would be a great help in fighting our accideut toll,”” said Congress man Upshaw. The recklessness of automobile drivers is increas ing as is shown by the accident records of 1922, in which it is stated that approximately 1,800 people were killed and 5.000 were injured in the United states at railroad crossings, which was a substantial increase over the ac cidents of 1921.” Notice Business Licenses now due and payable to Clerk and Treasurer at once. T.R.BASS, C. & T. Number 9