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THE LEE COUNTY JOURANAL VOLUME TWENTY-FIVE Journal of Commerce published in New York reports fall business out look kighly encouraging; building .continues at high plane, employment “firm, manufacturing operations are . on large scale, and crop news en couraging.” - . : Macon—Erection of New Appleton church home 'and two dormitories planned. ‘ Conyérs—New . equipment being installed at local “Times” newspaper‘ plant. S State peanut crop tihis season to be worth appreximately $7,000,000. Savannah—Plans -being made for construction of new modern Sunday achool building for Second Baptist ! ~charch. o West Point—New $lOO,OOO hotel to be built at this point, Savannah—Over $60,000 spent for additions ‘and improvements to local Y. Y. M. C. Atlanta—New John B. Gordon ele mentary schoal undeér construction in this city. , - : ; * Savannah—New building of Y. W. C. A. completed. ; Tybee—City road paving program under way. : Atlanta—New 19-story cotton ex change building to be ready for oc cupancy soon. Donafdsonville—New Methodist church under construction. Carrollton—Road between here and Bremen including bridge at local pumping station nearing completion. Macon—Repairing of = Spring street bridge over Ocmulgee river to | begin soon. Work on replacing sec ond street bridge progressing rapidly. Quitman—New Barney’s: school building completed at this point. Troupville—Rebuilding of bridge over New River planned. Bridge to "be about 900 ft. long and'connectl Brooks and Lowndes counties. Savannah— New community church to be erected on Pine Barren road in this vicinity. Augusta—Contract to be let here for erection of two new school buil dings in Richmond couniy. Milltown—Local farmers to plant approximately 1500 acres to tobacco. Atlanta— Evershine Company, manufacturers of metal polishes, opens local plant. / Atlanta—Southern textile mills running at capacity with unfilled or ders growing in volume. On October 1 index figure of prices paid to producers for main farm products was 27.3 per cent higher than a year ago, 25.6 per cent higher than two years ago and but 11.3 per cent lower than aver age of last 10 years. . ; Salaries and wages paid to rail road erfiployes of all chasses for the first six months of 1923 averaged $136 a month, bn increase of ap proximately $4 a month over the corresponding period of 1922. The total number of employes in service was 1,850,000 as compared with 1,600,000 last year. ; Fire loss of United States in 1922 was over 521,000,000 largest that any country has ever shown and greater than fire loss of all Efrope. Per capita loss lis $4.75 against Greatt Britain’s per capita loss of 72 cents. MONTHLY MEETING OF P. T. A.“ e | The Parent-Teacher Assosiation held its regular monthly meeting at the school building on Friday after noon Nov. 9, with Mrs. Dan Kleck ley presiding. A very interesting and instructive program was arranged by Miss Eva McKenzie and Mrs. H. C. Derricks. The readings by Ethelwynee Hirsh burg, Falba Atwater and Ruth Shroyer were especially good. While Mrs. Merritts, Mrs. Hardin’s and Mrs. Rich. English’s papers on Com munity welfare were very instruc tive, Miss Bessie Johnson’s reading on Armistice Day deserves special mention as well. After a shoft business session the meeging adjourned. Mrs. Perry and Mrs. Allison will arrange a program for the Dec. meeting. b Proot to the Contrary. odd fhing about yawniog; the doc tars say it is eaused by a dediciency in the supply of air to the lungs—-and yet a fellow usually dees his best yawning wheo somebody is pumping “hot alr” “wangering | LEGISLATORS Many New Plans for a Change In the System Proposed by Members. GOVERNOR BOWS TO SENATE ‘ e Agrees to Pastage of New Legista tion Before Present Law Is Re pealed. Tax Commission Recom mends Incomes and Classification Systeme. ATLANTA, Ga.— Recommenda tions for the enactment of a tax ranging from one to three per cent upon the net incomes of individuals and fixed at three per cent upon the net incomes of corporations, a clas sification tax to bring out invisible property and a reduction of the state’s ad valorem tax rate from fivel mills to four mills featured the re port of the state tax commissionl made to members of the Georgia general assembly. The tax equali zation law was not referred to in the report.) i Income Tax Proposals. The income tax recommended by the comimission ranges from 1 per tcent on net incomes of individuals 'above exemptions up to $2,500; one ‘and one-half per cent on net in )comes from $2,5600 to $5,000; two per cent on net incomes from $5,000 lto $7,500; two and one-half per cent on net incomes from $7,500 to $lO,- ;000; and three per cent on incomes ithat are $lO,OOO. or more above the exemptions. ‘ The exemptions recommended are $6OO for single persons, $1,200 for ‘heads of families and $2OO for each child or dependent under twenty-one years of age. ~ The report recommends the crea tion of a state budget commission on ‘which six of the ten members would be selected by the legislature, and the formation of a department of re venue to enforce the collection of all state taxes. : Governor Bows to Senate. Declaring that he has positive in formation that a clear majority in the state senate will not agree to the repeal of the tax equalization law until some substitute revenue measure has been adopted, Governor Walker urged the Georgia assembly to first pass the tax reform bills rec ommended by the state tax commis sion and then repeal the equalization measure. : “T would have approached the so lution of the tax problem by first repealing the tax equalization law, but faced by a large majority with opposing views in the senate I can do nothing but urge the passage of the reform bills approved by the tax commission and the repeal of the equalivation law upon the adoption of these reform measures,” the gov ernor said in his message, delivered at a joint session of the two houses. Schedule of House. i With the submission of Governor Walker’s message to the legislature administration forces in both houses planned 'to dispense first with the general tax act and then take up the income tax measures as the next step in their program for tax re form.’ : After action on the income tax, according to present plans, bills re lating to the classification of prop erty system will be considered, to be followed by additional tax col lection machinery measures. Then the budget commigsion and state auditor bills will be brought up for debate and : decision. A vote on the income tax bills probably will be reached this week. It was stated by several representa-1 tives. Extensive committee hearings ‘and conferences between authors of ‘ ‘the numerous income tax measures | lwere planned with the view of reach ing compromises and presenting united support behind one bill. Many bills proposing to change the tax system of the state, all pro viding for a different plan, have been introdueed. A motion that the extra session of the general assembly adjourn was voted down. Senate Passes Audit Bill. The senate Friday, by a vote of 32 to 2, passed the Pace bill providing for the creation of a state auditing ‘and accounting department follow !ing its return to the body with the | indorsement of the finance commit- LEESBURG, LEE COUNTY GEORGIA, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 16, 1923. { Our State can yield no worthier tribute to the spriit of Armistice Week than “a heart-ringing answer to the annual Roll Call of the Red ’Cross. Service and sacrifice, free ' dom and progress, pcace and healing, lall that ennobles and all that en dears the memory to which Novem ber the eleventh is sacred, find a continuing, an-:immortal life in Req Cross ideals and.. endeavors. The ranks of this unresting mission are humanity’s defense aginst ever-as sailing foes—against disease, pov erty, disaster and ills innumerable, from those that overwhelm a mighty nation to voiceless tragedies of tlrxei humblest hearthsides. This same shining evangel of the crimson cross that went speeding thousands of leagues to crushed Japan, will haste with equal devotion to a cabin be side of suffering here at home, and find in the distress of one lonely ex-service man as flaming a challenge to duty as if a battlefield called. Service like this is beyond indivi dual power, and almost beyond indi vidual aspiring. It is a miracle which only the mustering of millions of hearts, with their treasures of good will and dreams of a better day for humankind, can bring to pass. It is a greatness, it is a noble ness which invites us everyone and from which no man or community can happily stand apart. If it is America’s Red Cross and the world’s it is‘this State’s too—intimately and divinely. For every town and coun try side within her borders it holds a special meaning and a special mis sion, if we will but open the way in the annual Roll Call. Let us all ve spend.'as befits. a- high-minded, hu man-hearted people. - There will be an election for five TrusteeB for the Leesburg Consoli daated School District, on Friday Nov. 23rd, at the Courthouse. No one has yet beén mentioned to fiill the places but the people want to keep the date in mind and vote for people who will take an interest in our school. The present board is composed of all good men and they have done their part in keeping our school up to the stand ard but we understand that some of them will not offere for re-election. tee. This was the first bill passed during the special. session of the legislature. The bill provides that there shall be a chief auditor with a salary of $5,000 a year, a chief ex aminer and an assistant examiner each with salaries of $3,000 a year, and for such clerks as shall be neces sary. ; Favorable action with but one dis senting vote on the committee bill to amend the state constitution in order to provide for an income tax ‘was taken by the committee on con stitutional amendments Friday aft ernoon. The bill would amend the constitution to allow for a state in come tax, limiting the rate to five per cent. Pepealists Stand Pat | The speed with which an agree ment on tax reform is reached is believed by observers to depend upon the attitude of the opponents of the tax equalization law, headed by Representative Stovall, of Elbert county, with a steering committee consisting of Representatives Stew art of Atkinson county, Knight of Berrien county ond Haddock of Early county. At a meeting held in the Kimball house Thursday night more than fif ty repealists voted to adopt the role of stand-patters and insist upon the passage of the repeal measure be fore considering other tax reform measures. ThiTs attitude is bound {to bring the house in conflict with the senate, which reffused at the last session to pass the repeal bill before some substitute revenue measure had been adopted, and is of the same opinion still. 2 OTHERS HURT ‘Three Are Victims of Electric -1 ity in Colquitt Connty ~ MOULTRIE, Ga., Nov. 15.~0ne electricion was killed and two others ‘were seriously injured late today ‘when the wire on which they were ;working came into contact with a line carrying 44,000 volts. The dead ‘man is Clifford Best and the two in jured are Georgie Parker and Law rence Irwin, both of whom were said to be in a serious condition at a local hospital tonight. All three men were in the employ of the Baker County Power Com papny. They were sent here in con nection with the extension of the company’s line to a industrial plant. While putting up a new wire it was pulled too hard and came in con tact with the heavily charged main line. Best toppled over dead and Parker and Irwin were picked up nuconscious. All three men reside in Newton. The recent Grand Jury which was in session here last week recommend ed in their Presentments that Lee county employ a County Demonstra tion Agent, and at the meeting of the County Commissioners on Tues day it was brought before that body and they decided to hire an agent at an early date. It has been several years since this county had an agent and it is stated that much good was accomplished throtigh his efforts and we believe an agent at this time is just what Lee county needs. The farmers are without a market for their products and this will be part of the agents work to aid the farmers in getting their products to market at the right time and in marketable shape. \ L — ~ Development of idle lands in. the South will be the object of a con ference on forestry and reclamation which is scheduled to be held shortly in New Orleans. | The purpose of the conference, as stated in detail, will be to devise‘ ways and means for suitable utiliza tion of the lands of the United Statesl and especially in the South; to elimi nate speculation and ' exploitation from land settlement; to safeguard settlers seeking homes on lands idle at present; to increase the number‘ of self-supporting farm homes; to secure . effective co-operation in con structive development of the coun try’s idle lands and to secure expan sion of the Federal reclamation pol-‘ icy in to national scope instead of sectional as is the case at present,l it is claimed. ‘ ~ As pointed out here, there are vast areas of cut-over, swamp and overflowed lands in the South lying idle and serving no useful purpose. There are vast areas of lands which have been abandoned to grass, weeds and second growth timber which lands were formerly cultivated fields. It is essential to the progress and prosperity of the South, forestry men and agriculturists both claim, that lands be utilized in some suit able manner as producers of revenue and home-making. Enjoying Other Men* Minds. 1 dedicate no inconsiderable portion of my time to other people’s thoughts. I dream away my life in others’ specu lations. I love to lose myself in other men’s minds. When I am not walking, [ am reading; I cannot sit and think, Books think for me~—Lamb. e Needed Spraying. " Miss C. L. S. sends us the following which she received direct from the lady referred to: Marjory, five years old, after hearing for the first time the story of Eve and the apple, re marked: ‘You know, Miss Smith, 1 think the trouble was that tree wasn't sprayed, and Eve should never have eaten an apple off of a tree that wasn't sprayed. You never can tell what will happen.’ "—Boston Transcript. , ALBANY, Ga, Nov. 12.—With the bulk of the peanut crop in South Georgia harvested and delivered, the Georgia Peanut Growers Co-opera tive Association with headquarters at Albany has turned its attention largely to the crop in Middle Geor gia, which is now being delivered in volume. Due to better weather conditions, both during the growing season and at harvest, the Middle Georgia yield is expected to be much heavier per acre than that in South Georgia. The crop in Middle Geor gia is largely a new one, but most of the growers in that part of the State have had excellent results in their initial efforts. Splendid loyalty is being shown by the Middle Georgia grower toward his Association, just as was shown by the South Georgia grower whose crop was ready for delivery earlier in the season. Only a few cases of willful disloyalty have developed among the nearly 6,000 members of the Peanut Association, despite the temptation of high prices that_the Association has had such a l?rge part in bringing about; peanut prices this fall have ruled high and firm from the first, making the re turns profitable to all growers, whether members of the Association or not. Several non-members havel | attributed the prices they received {this fall to the existence of the‘ Peanut Association above all other factors. Although the Peanut As sociation has no membership cam paign under way just now, volun tary contracts are being received each week from growers who recog-1 nize the benefits of a co-operative ‘association. In the past in South | Georgia, which heretofore has pro duced practically all of the State’s commercial peanut crop, prices have averaged low in the fall when all of the growers were selling and high in the spring when they were plant ling, but had none to sell. This year the market opened high and has con tinued high from the first, a con ’dition which Wewspapers, bankers !and other disinterested observers have attributed almost entirely to the Peanut Association. Climate and Deafness. l It is curious to note how deaf mutism varies in different countries, In Switzerland, for instance, owing to the prevalence of cretinism, 245 per 100,000 of the Inhabitants suffer from ! it, whereas the general average among European countries is 79, and in the United States, 68, per 100,000, CREDIT, CHARACTER, CONFIDENCE There may come a time in your life—for it comes to all of us sooner or later—when the endorsement or recom mendation of a good bank will mean a great deal to you. Confidence and credit once established constitute an incalculable asget. A bank account gives you prestage in the business world that you can obtain in no other manner. If you possess character and credit, this gives you the confidence of the people and naturally prestage, and there is little else you need to make you successful in this old world of ours. This bank invites you to confer with its officials rela tive to the facilities it offers in the transaction of all kinds of financial business. Our business is to help others succeed. May we not help you? We are just plain every-day people, human in every respect, representing a good strong financial institu tion and will gladly talk over any businessvprobl‘etris with a view of giving any assistance your case may merit. 3500 ¢ ~ 5 BANK OF LEESBURG, G. A. Nesbit, President =O. W. Statham, Vice-President T. C. Tharp, Cashier. - = NUMBER 35 Executive Committee Will be Called Together Early Next Year. l According to information it is be ‘lieved in political circles that the ‘primary for the nomination of coun ty officers for Lee county will be held early next year. The people }scem to think that an early primary will be best as it will not interfere 80 much' with the work of the far mers who are very busy in the spring and do not have time to talk with the candidates for the variouse of fices. As soon as the committee meets and a definite time set the dif ferent candidates will be around as it is reported that there is going to be a good many in the field this time. 3 w # At present the value of products obtained froMe cottonseed in this country is in excees of $150,000,000 lannually, according to officials of the Georgia Department of Agriculture. JThé one-time nuisance has become a veritable gold mine of enormous im portance to the prosperity off the cotton states and of wide diversity in its uses. The manufactured arti cles that trace their source back now ‘to cotton seed include many of the necessities and comforts of modern life. . “The magnitude of the loss suf fered by the South in the failure to discover earlier he possibiliies of cot ton seed can hardly be computed” said an official of the state agricul tural department. “It can be under stood in a degree when it is concid ered that the seed represents two thirds of the cotton crop and the cot ton itself only one third. Huge piles of coton seeds that rotted on the ground or found their way into rivers and creeks to clog them fform ed a problem that worried farmers and ginners in the South sixty years ago.” Wanted, to purchase for a friend in Atlanta, a farm, improved or unim proved, in Southwest Georgia. Write what you have, giving complete de scription, price and terms. Box 228, Leesburg, Ga.