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THE VIDALIA ADVANCE
N. C. Napier, Editor and Publiaher
Published every Thursday, and entered at the
Postoffice in Vidalia, Ga„ as second-class mad
matter, according to Act of Congress.
OFFICIAL ORGAN CITY OF VIDALIA.
THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1922.
GUoo Men FOR OFFICE.
The people of Toombs and Montgomery coun
ties can at least congratulate themselves that good
men are offering for places in the house of repre
sentatives and tiie senate.
Toombs county has the privilege of selecting
the senator for the fifteenth senatorial district this
year, and two of the strong men of the county have
offered —Attorney George YV. Lankford, at present
serving in the house, and S.B. Meadows, a well
known farmer and business man of the county.
Both men are clean, progressive, public spirited
citizens, and both have had legislative experience,
Mr. Aleadows also having represented the county
as a member of the lower house. The race prom
ises to be close, clean and on a high plane, and
whoever wins, the people of the district can fell
that they will be ably represented in the senate.
Hugh Peterson, a young attorney of Ailey, is
the only candidate thus far to announce for repre
sentative from Montgomery county. He is a mem
ber of a prominent family, is a brainy young man
who is going to make his mark in his profession,
and will make the county a capable representative
if he is elected.
For representative Toombs county will select
between B. H. Grace, a well known farmer and at
torney of the Cedar Crossing section, and Ernest
Wimberly, a prominent young man of Lyons, and
either of these candidates would represent the coun
ty creditably and would quickly take rank as men
above the average in the legislature.
The offices of representative and senator are
not lucrative and as a usual rule it is difficult to
get our best citizens to make the sacrifice of time
and money that legislative service entails. How
ever, we are glad that Toombs and Montgomery
have the assurance that no matter who wins we are
to have strong, clean men, devoted to the public in
terests, representing them for the next two years
in the Georgia legislature.
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MAKING LANDS PRODUCTIVE.
Ihe thing that contributes more than anything
else to the poor crops in Georgia these latter years,
says the Moultrie Observer, is the fact that we are
bleeding our lands to death this last half a century.
The all-cotton system has many disadvantages, one
of the greatest of these being the washed out and
impoverished land that follows successive cotton
crops.
A farming section is rich or poor in proportion
to the poverty or productiveness of its lands. Geor
gia lands are mostly poor. We have made them
so. Lands can be impoverished by one system of
farming, and we know what*this system is, but we
generally choose the wrong system and make them
poorer each year.
There is one corn crop near Moultrie that re
minds one of the corn grown in the Tennessee bot
toms. The corn stands out above all other corn
in this section. When the owner was asked how
it was fertilized, he replied that it was not fertilized;
at all. The corn followed where velvet beans had
been planted for three successive years, and where
livestock had been pastured in winter. The land
has been “built up” instead of being “run down.”
\Ye have millions of acres in Georgia that need the'
treatment this land has had. The land needs peas,
velvet beans, peanuts and livestock on it. It also
needs a rest from cotton, and it needs protection
from the washing rains that carry the soil away
into the creeks and rivers.
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RATHER EXPENSIVE.
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The effort in the Georgia seriaU to repeal the
tax equalization law was defeated by a very nar
row margin, only one vote being lacking to repeal
the present tax equalisation law. We have al
ways looked upon the law as a constructive meas
ure, and unless we have a body of citizens with
power to scrutinize the tax returns and with pow
er to raise the return of some citizens who do not
make a fair return of their property, and also have
• some organization to equalize the basis of returns
between the counties of the state, injustice is go
. ing to result.
However, the equalization boards are expen
sive. From the last minutes of the meetings of
the county commissioners of Toombs county we
1 note that warrants totaling $648 were passed to
pay the per diem of the three equalizers, and that
a further item of $263.50 was paid out for serving
; notices on property owners whose returns had been
; increased. This makes a total of $911.50 which the
: tax equalization law has cost this county this year,
: and as the hoard is to meet later and hear protests
i from citizens who are dissatisfied with the figures
placed on property by the hoard, the cost will run
1 considerably higher.
, We know that in many counties the notices of
an increase in valuation bv the board of assessors
is sent out by mail, and while we are told it is not
a legal service, the law ought to he amended to
make it a legal service. Ts the legislature would
see fit to make this change these notices which in
Toombs countv cost the taxpayers $263.50 this
year and which last vear came near costing over a
thousand dollars owing to the effort made by Sher
iff Culpepper to charge $3 for serving each notice,
could have been served for a little more than $lO.
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SCHOOLS FOR COUNTRY CHILDREN.
Time was when Georgia rural children had
mighty little in the way of school facilities, and
that mighty little was of poor quality. The school
buildings were in many instances nothing more
than shacks, the teachers so poorly paid that
they could not afford to hold on to the rural jobs
when they had acquired enough experience and
learned to get better ones, the sanitary surround
ings of the school lacked a tremendous lot of being
perfect, the interior facilities were crude or insuffi
cient, lighting was poor—indeed, many of them
were excellent examples of what schools ought not
to be.
But times have changed. The rural child has
won the right in Georgia to be given just as good
schooling as the child in the more populous places.
To satisfy this right it has been necessary to pro
vide consolidated schoolss, that is, to give a school
sufficient patronage to permit it to provide the
right sort of building and facilities, the right sort
of teachers and enough of them to make a real
graded school, and roads and transportation to get
the children from a considerable distance to and
from the school.
It has not been an easy task, and those persons
in more densely populated states who were wont to
criticise Georgia’s rural schools seemed to forget
that it is far easier to have good schools in a pop
ulation of a density of 100 to the square mile than
in a section where the density is probably twenty
to the square mile —if that much. The one reason
the city puffil has had better school facilities than
: his rural cousin has always been that it is easier
to provide good schools for a bunched population
.than for a scattered one.—Savannah News.
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Some folks will spend ten dollars getting toys
and candy for a child, when they won’t spend ten
dollars to relieve it of some imperfection that will
stunt its growth or prevent its proper mental de
velopment. —Thomasville Times-Enterprise.
THE VIDALIA ADVANCE
THURSDAY, JULY 20 ; 1922.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
For State Senator.
I hereby announce my candidacy
for State Senator, subject to the Dem
ocratic primary of September 13th, and
solicit the support of the voters of
Toombs county-
S. B. MEADOWS.
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For State Senate.
To the Voters of Toombs CSiintyi
I am a candidate for State Sec
tor from the 15th senatorial district,
composed of the CPuhties of Toombs,
Montgomery and Wheeler, and will
appreciate yur support.
G. W. LANKFORD.
For Judge Middle Circuit.
I hereby announce my candi
dacy for Judge Superior Courts
of the Middle Circuit, subject to
the coming primary.
Respectfully,
F. H. SAFFOLD.
For Judge Middle Circuit.
To the Public:
I hereby announce my candidacy
for the office of Judge of Superior
Courts, Middle Judicial Circuit.
Very respectfully,
R. N. HARDEMAN.
For Representative, Toombi County.
Having an honest desire to repre
sent my county in the legislative hall
of Georgia, I hereby announce myself
a candidate for representative from
Toombs county, subject to the rules
and regulations as prescribed by the
democratic primary to be held Sept.
13th, 1922.
Respectfully yours,
B. H. GRACE.
For Representative Toombs County.
Subject to the rules of the white pri
mary, friends from Waycross and Heb
ardsville, Ga., announce J. A. L.
,Glaze as a candidate for representa
tive. He begs the ladies, for the sake
pf their children, to keep an eye on
immorality and their fingers on every
rotten, lieing, roguish, crooked politi
cian who invades America and rapes
a civil sovereignty, thus characterized
as a disgrace to Southern politics. A
thousand gratified thanks extended
those seven hundred and eighty-seven
plebiscites of Toombs county who
wrote their names on a stolen ballot
two years ago. Read the 11th chap
ter of St. Luke, 52nd verse, and get
on the firing line. Speaking dates to
be announced later.
FLAPPERS AND FORDS
SAID TO DOOM STATE FAIR
Macon, July 17.—Flivvers, flappers
and fighting—the world war—are be
ing blamed by business men here for
the failure of the Georgia State Fair,
the state’s annual exposition held in
October, which is in financial straits.
A final effort to pay off the debts
of the old association and finance a
1922 fair will be made at a meeting
Friday afternoon at the Chamber of
Commerce.
“It's a hopeless proposition,” Dr. W.
G. Lee, one of the biggest backers of
the fair, said. “People used to come
to state fairs and stay a week to have
a good time. With flivvers, a farmer
can jump into his car and run to the
nearest county fair, stay four or five
hours and get all the good time he
wants and see as much as interests
him.
“You can’t get a thrill out of trap
eze Or airplane stunts any more- The
world war fed up people on thrills.
Our boys made exhibition fliers look
like pikers.
“Flappers have taken away all the
thrill of the midway. Days were
when you could walk down the mid
way, and see interesting sights in the
‘City of Bagdad,’ where Oriental la
dies from South Georgia danced the
strange dances. You don’t have to go
down the midway any more. You
have to turn your head to the wall to
carry on a conversation on the street
and to drive an automobile down a
main thoroughfare—well you have to
wear blinders, that's all.”
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recent years. These days the progressive farmer
realizes that he is a business man, and keeps an
accurate record of his transactions.
Such farmers take advantage of the facilities
offered by a modern bank like ours. We make a
specialty of farmers accounts, something they all *
seem to appreciate. An account at our bank saves
the farmer a lot of book-keeping, insures the safety
of his funds and places him alongside other pro
gressive business men where he properly belongs.
If not already a patron of our bank, come in any
time. We want you with us.
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Vidalia, Georgia
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