The Vidalia advance. (Vidalia, Ga.) 19??-1977, May 19, 1927, Image 1
THE VIDALIA ADVANCE
VOLUME XXV
COCA-COLA BOTTLER
ANNOUNCES $30,000
CASH PRIZE CONTEST
AN ORIGINAL PLAN TO REWARD
THOSE WHO NOTICE THE AD
VERTISING OF HIS FAMOUS
DRINK.
H. Leon Adams, manager of the
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Vidalia,
announced recently that his company
in conjunction with the other Coca-
Cola bottlers in the United States
and The Coca-Cola Co., Atlanta, Ga.,
were going to reward those who keep
their eyes open during the next three
months with $30,000 in cash prizes.
“Os course,” said Mr. Adams,
“we’ve got to know that they have
noticed it, and, of course, we can’t
reward everybody who notices it with
a cash prize. So we hit upon the
idea of conducting a contest, and
we’ll reward those who have been
most alert and most discerning.
“The contest will be conducted
through advertising in magazines, I
newspapers, posters, outdoor signs,
show window, refreshment stand and
soda water fountain decorations. It
starts the first week in May with a
double-page spread in The Saturday
Evening Post, and will continue for
tbre months.
“The idea is to find what we call
six keys to the popularity of Coca-
Cola. These six keys are really six
reasons why people like Coca-Cola.
An interesting thing is that the pub
lic itself gave us these reasons —
through a survey we conducted last
year. The ‘keys’ will be illustrated
and presented in Coca-Cola advertis
ing. You find them and answer two
simple questions, and the prizes, 635
in all, with a first prize of SIO,OOO
will be awarded for the best answers.
“From the number of people who
have already answered about this
contest, it seems to me the public is
going to get a lot of fun out of it,
and some of them are going to get
some real cash money.”
PLEA FOR GREATER
FUND FOR PUBLIC
HEALTH WORK
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PRESIDENT OF THE MEDICAL
ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
MAKES PLEA FOR A LARGER
FUND AT ASSOCIATION MEET.
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9 Athens, Ga., May 19.—A plea for
greater appropriation for public
health work by the State of Georgia,
featured the address by V. C. Har
vard, of Aribi, Ga., president of the i
Georgia Medical Association, at the
association’s 78th annual meeting
heer last week.
Dr. Harvard’s address followed a
review of the beneficial work done
by the state health department since
the passage of the Ellis health law, i
given by Dr. M. E. Winchester in
which he pointed out that 0f'70.000
school children examined during the
year 1926, 29,000 were found to have
physical deftcs which could be cor
rected and 10,829 were corrected.
Six thousand hookworm treatments,
44,000 typhoid vaccinations, 40,652
small pox vaccinations and 27,675
diphtheria innoculations were among
the services rendered. During the
last three years typhoid was reduced
'■ i 3 per cent in countes having full
"Vime health service antl three per
cent in other countries.
President Harvard declared that
“too much praise cannot be given the
splendid results obtained by the
board of health, especially when we
take into consideration the limited
funds and equipment.
“When we compare the appropria
tions of other states no wealthier
than we are, with the niggardly sum
our law-makers allow us for our
health department, we have just
cause, we believe, to raise our voices
in earnest and righteous protest,’
Dr. Harvard concluded.
Dr. W. A. Mulherin, professor of
pediatrics at the University of Geor
gia medical college, Augusta, was
elected president, Dr. H. M. F ulli
love, of Athens, vice president, Dr.
Cleveland Thompson, of Millen, sec
ond vice president, Dr. Allen H.
Bunce, Atlanta, delegate to the
national convention, and Dr. W. R.
Dancy, alternate.
There’s one Progressive Senator
not easy to handle. He doesn’t eat
k breakfast.
MISS WILLIAMS TO
GRADUATE FROM
BESSIE TIFT COLLEGE
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CORRESPONDENT FROM BESSIE
TIFT COLLEGE WRITES FOL
LOWING OF VIDALIA YOUNG
LADY WHO FINISHES THERE
THIS YEAR.
NORMA L. OLIVER
Bessie Tift College, Forsyth, Ga.
Miss Duffie Williams of Bessie Tift
College will complete her work at
that college this year, the Commence
ment exercises beginning May 28th,
and lasting until Tuesday morning,
May 31.
May 28th is the Glee Club and
Grand Concert night, in which Miss
Williams will take part. Sunday
morning at eleven o’clock at the
First Baptist Church, the Baccalau- J
reate Sermon will be delivered. Mon
day, May 30, Class Day exercises will
be given. At 10:00 o’clock Tuesday
morning, May 31th, the Graduating
f exercises will be held in the Bessie
Tift Chapel.
Miss Williams will not only receive 1
her A. B. degree, but she will also
receive a diploma for her B. M. de
gree in Music, which she got last year
and credit for year of Post Graduate
work. She will receive two certifi
cates, one in Piano Normal and one j
given by the Georgia Educational
Association which is a professinal
j
teachers’ certificate.
Miss Williams’ colege career has I
been marked by her talent and effi- j
cient work. In the Inter-Society ;
night of 1926 she represented the
Kappa Delta Society in Piano. Dur- j
ing the year of 1927 she has been
supervisor of piano practice. Indeed
she starts out among the most ac
•
complished young ladies of our town,
one of which we should all be pround.
We would like to say one word to
her, wherein all our best thoughts
are expressed, “Congratulations.”
COOPERATIVE PLAN
FOR IMPROVEMENT
OF PUBLIC HEALTH
R. C. ELLIS, AUTHOR OF ELLIS
HEALTH LAW, ANNOUNCES
PLANS OF NEW PROGRAM FOR
j STATE.
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Americus, Ga., Arrangements are
j being made for a state health con
■ gress at which delegates from all
state-wide civic, commercial and oth
er organizations will adopt a co-op
erative program for improvement of
i Georgia health conditions, it was an
nounced heer today by R. C. Ellis,
author of the Ellis health law and
chairman of the Health Congress
committee appointed at the state ,
healt hconfcrence held in Atlanta on
May 3.
I A survey committee, appointed at
the conference, is now making a
study of health agencies in Georgia
to determine definite practical meth
ods of strengthening their work for ,
reduction of the state’s death rate
and improvement of health conditions
generally. The report of this com
mittee will be submitted to the state
congress.
! “Representatives of more than a
score of state-wide organizations
pledged co-operation in this move
ment when it was launched at the
first conference and we expect to
have delegates from every city and
county in the state at the congress
to take definite action on the recom
mendations of its committee,” Mr.
Ellis said.
i —WANTED—Ladies and Child
rens hair to cut shingle bobs in latest
styles. Price 25 cents. Also fancy
smocking to do. Mrs. P. J. Knies,
301 Green street, ltp.
D. W. Wilder Brings
In Fine Cotton Stalk
Mr. D. W. Wilder, one of Toombs
county’s most progressive farmers,
brought to idalia this \yeek a very
fine specimen of cotton, the stalk
having been pulled from a twenty
acre field, and being about a foot
i high with squares. This is unusually
| early for forms to be on the stalks.
' j So very many have been doing five
: days’ work and scattering it over six
j days.
DEVOTED TO THE MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT OF TOOMBS, THE B EST COUNTY IN THE STATE.
8188 COUNTY’S PART
IN CELEBRATING NEWi
ROAD IS ANNOUNCED
i i
HUNDREDS OF VISITORS FROM
J ALL OVER SOUTH GEORGIA '
EXPECTED AT CELEBRATION
AND MOTORCADE.
Macon, Ga., May 19.—A program
for Bibb County’s part in the cele
bration of Georgia’s new concrete
highway was announced today by W.
E. Pendleton of the Highway Com
mittee of the Macon Chamber of
j Commerce. The local part of the
celebration will take part May 24,
j one day prior to the general motor
cade with which Georgians will cele
brate the completion of 141 miles of
t hard-surfaced road from Perry to
Marietta over the Dixie Highway.
Motorcade participants from Flori
and South Georgia will arrive in Ma
con during Tuesday afternoon to at
tend the dedication of the first mile
of the road to Remembrance, a high
way to be lined from Saulte Ste,
I Marie, Mich, to Miami, Fla., with
1 trees and markers in honor of World
War herioes. This celebration will
take place a few miles South of Ma-
I con, where the Bibb County Dixie
Highway Auxiliary has completed
the first mile of the road. Motion
| picture photographers and newspaper
reporters will be on hand to spread ,
; the news of the new highway to the
world.
; From 6:45 to 8:00 o’clock will be ,
| super hour, after which the Fitz
j gerald Community Band, accompany- j
• ing th motorcade, will broadcast from
j radio station WMAZ. At 9:30 o’clock
the Macon Chamber of Commerce
will entertain its members and all
motorcade visitors with a dance at
the Hotel Lanier.
Hundreds of vistors fro mall over
South eorgia are expected to partici
pate in the celebration and the motor
cade, which will begin officially at
Pery at 8 o’clock Wednesday morn
ing, moving northward to the Spald- (
ing and Henry County line where
the final concrete will be laid with
appropiate ceremonies.
GEORGIA GIRL WINS
FIRST PRIZE IN 4TH
BIG MEAT CONTEST j
MISS PEARL' MILLSAP, OF EP-j
WORTH, GA., IS WINNER OF i
SCHOLARSHIP AND $50.00 IN
CASH IN NATIONAL CONTEST.
~Chicago, 111., May 19.—Selection
of her story, submitted in the Fourth
National Meat Story Contest, as the
best in twelve southern states, has
won for Miss Pearl Millsap, Epworth,
1 Ga. high school girl, a university
scholarship and $50.00 in cash as the
district champion. This announce-'
was made today by the National Live
Stock and Meat Board, sponsor of the
contest, after a committee of promi
nent home economics women had
I completed judging the stories.
Miss Millsap is a senior in the Ep
worth Seminary. The title of her
story was “How Mary Cut The Meat
Bill.” More than 13,500 high school
girls from every state are said to have
competed in the contest.
Winners of nine other southern
district prizes, ranging from $50.00
down to SIO.OO, were Mary Louise
Morrow, Parkersburg, W. Va., Ruth
Schooler, Shreveport, La., Martha
Sue Buttrick, Ashville, N. C.; Flor
ence Pitts, Parkersburg, W. Va; Jua
nita Middleton, Wesson, Miss.; Eve
lyn Crumpton, Ocala, Fla; Lela Bur
dettb, Birchwood, Tenn.; Beulah
Cole, Asheville, N. C.; and Allea
Buffington, Vienna, W. Va.
Dr. P. Mabel Nelson, head of the
foods and nutrition department of
lowa State College, was chairman of
the judging cimmittee. Other mem
bers were Miss enevieve A. Callahan,
associate editor, Better Homes and
Gardens, Miss Alice M. Child, assis
tant professor of home economics,
University of Minnesota, and Mrs.
Caroline B. King, woman’s editor,
The Country Gentlemen.
High School economics teachers
cooperate annually in carrying for
ward the National Meat Story con
test for their students. The project
has proved of exceptional merit as
a means of stimulating interest in
home economics class work. The
present day importance attached to
this study makes the contest doubly
valuable, it is said.
VIDALIA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1927.
EXHIBITION TRAIN
OF G.&F. CHANGED
TO AUGUST 15TH
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DATE IS CHANGED TO ALLOW
I MORE TIME TO PREPARE EX
HIBITS; DATE CHANGED FROM
WEEK OF MAY 23 TO WEEK
BEGINNING AUGUST 15.
i In recognition of constructive sug
gestions originated by several well
informed citizens along its lines and
in compliance with requests from
several important manufacturers
that they be allowed greater time for
the preparation of their exhibits, the
special exhibition train scheduled for j
operation over the lines of the Geor
gia & Florida railroad during the
week of May 23 will not be run un
til the week beginning August 15.
Many manufacturers who have ex
pressed their desire to have exhibits
on the train, advised the Georgia &
Florida railroad officials that it would
serve them more conveniently and
would enable them to arrange more j
attractive displays if more time could j
be provided. At the same time, a '
number of prominent citizens along
th line of the railroad advanced the j
opinion that the middle of August
whe nthe tobacco harvesting season j
is on in full swing, would be the most
logical time for operation of the I
train. It was pointed out that in all |
likelihood more people would avail
s themselves of the opportunity to re- i
view the exhibits by moving the time
up to the newly arranged schedule,
j The schedule of the train will be
the same in August as originally j
planned for the week of May 23. The i
same stops will be made and the time ;
of arival and departure of the train
during each day of the week will be
in acordance with the scedule an
nounced in conection with the pro
posal to operate the train through ,
the week of May 23.
' Quite a number of prominent
manufacturers have signified their
|intentions to arrange exhibits for the
train to be operated in August, while
the same exhibitors advised that it
; would be imposible for them to pro
; vide same should the train be operat
ed at so early a date as the week of
May 23. The railroad is ambitious |
to have as large a number of exhibits
as posisble and to have all displays
arranged in the most attractive man-
I ner possible, hence the change in the
j schedule as outlined in the foregoing, j
STRICKLAND NAMED i
PRESIDENT GEORGIA |
BANKERS AT MEET;
I
FINAL aESSION approves plan
to make depositors pre- i
FERRED CREDITORS.
I
I
i Concluding it thirty-sixth annual
convention at the Biltmore hotel on <
Wednesday, the Georgia Bankers’
association heard addresses by Gov- 1
ernor-elect L. G. Hardman, and A.
E. Mobley, state superintendent of i
banks, chose Savannah as the city
for the 1928 convention, elected new
officers, and received favorably a
suggestion by Congresman C. H.
Brand, of the Eighth District, that j
the state banking act be amended so
as to make depositors the first pre
ferred creditors in the liguidation of j
defunct banks.
Robert Strickland, Jr., vice presi
dent of the Fourth National bank, 1
was elected president of the associa
tion to succeed Abial Winn, of Val
dosta, and Joseph S. Calhoun, of Car
tersville, was chosen vice president
to succeed Mr. Strickland. The oth
er officers, all re-elected, are: Haynes
McFadden, secretary; E. L. HendeY
son, of Cedartown, treasurer; Jo- j
seph R. Murphy, assistant secretary’,
and Orville A. Park, of Macon, gen-
I
eral counsel.
Savannah’s invitation for the 1928
convention, which was accepted
unanimously, was presented by J. J.
Cornell, vice president of the Sa
vannah Bank and Trust company.
Favor Tax Reduction
Resolutions were adopted putting
the association on record as favor
ing the immediate reduction of cor- _
poration federal income taxes, in
view of the fact that income taxes
for individuals have been materially
reduced. *
Judge Brand’s suggestion as to
making bank depositors first prefer- |
red creditors in the liquidations of de
funct banks, aroused much favorable
VOGEL STATE PARK
WAS DEDICATED ON
SUNDAY, MAY IST
LAND IS DONATED BY PFISTER
& VOGEL FOR FOREST DEM- I
ONSTRATION AND POTECTION
PURPOSES.
Georgia’s first demonstational area
for forest protection and recreation
was appropriately dedicated on Sun-1
day, May Ist, 1927, just north of ,
Neel Gap on the Blue Ridge moun
tain divide in Union County,, about j
half way between Blairsville and
Cleveland.
I The land donated to the State by
Pfister & Vogel Land company in
cludes two acres in Neel Gap, two
acres on top& of the Blood mountain
just one and a half miles west of
Neel Gap, and twelve acres in the
loop of the Appalachain Scenic High
way, it now remains most important
to connect the top of Blood Moun
! tain with a graded trail into the gap
jso that a modern lookout station on i
j this rugged peak can afford ample I
' nrotection to over 100,000 acres of
NaNtional Forest lands in Georgia
| and other large areas of hardwood
, forest lands at the headwaters of
I the Chattahoochee river. The lands
on the north side of the Blue Ridge
| are receiving adequate protection by
I the Vogel Land company, and their
lookout stations on Coosa Baid and
j Enotah mountains are connected with
. their private telephone lines with a
1 complete system of fire patrol, so i
this gift to the State by Mr. Vogel
jis truly a generous one and will be
! appreciated for the vast benefits to
| be derived from forest fire prevent- ,
‘ ion if for nothing more. t
Another side of this handsome
gift to our State wil lalso be appre
ciated and is already available, for
I the ideal public camping ground on
| the Vogel State-Forest Park offers
wonderful privileges for nicnic din
ners and camping parties which no
other beauty spot in the Appalachian
region can excel. The dedication
on May Day was, therefore, an out
' standing invitation to all Georgia
citizens and to thousands from other
States for the proper enjoyment of
j out-door life on this State-owned
land under supervision of our Board
of Forestry. White ounty will be
benefitted by this gift and the devel
opment of this land as much as any
j other county in Georgia.
District Conference
i
Opened At Uvalda
j
i Uvalda, Ga., May 16—McRae Dis- j
' trict conference convened Monday.
; The Mcßae District Methodist chttseh
i opened her Monday night. Con
ference Monday night with a sermon
: by Rev. J. M. Foster of the Baxley
church.
i The frist business session was held
Tuesday morning with President El- j
! der Rev. W. H. Budd, presiding.
Dr. T. D. Ellis, Louisville, Ky., and
: Rev. W. F. Quillian president of Wes
leyan college at Macon, conducted
the services Tuesday. Wednesday
Bishop W. B. Beauchamp, preached
at the noon hour.
comment, particularly in view of the
fact that a bill carrying this provi
j sion has been introduced by Mr.
Brand and is pending in congress.
Action by the state legislature
1 would be necessary to change the
present order of preference, under
which depositors now stand fifth on
the list of preferred creditors. Judge
Brand pointed out that this action
is necessary to restore confidence in
banks generally throughout the coun
try.
Dr. Harman, speaking along gen
eral lines, declared that Georgia’s
present financial troubles are to a
degree preventable. He appealed for
a better supervision of banking af
fairs in the state, and the observance
of the highest standards of integrity
and financitl judgment in the con
duct of banking business.
“Greed and the desire to get rich
quick has been responsible for most
of our bank failures,” he said. “This
'has resulted in speculation, with dis
astrous results in many cases. The
moral element is paramount in bank
ing, and no collateral is good if dis
honest operations are involved any
where n the transaction.
| “The integrity of Georgia bankers
is better than any guarantee fund
that could be devised.”
FARM EXEMPTION
MEETS APPROVAL
OF STATE BANKERS
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PROPOSED TAX EXEMPTION FOR
SMALL GEORGIA FARMERS RE
CEIVES HEARTY /PPROVAL
OF A NUMBER OF GEORGIA
BANKERS ATTENDING MEET.
Atlanta, Ga., May 19.—Iloarty ap
! proval of the proposed sta tax ex
emption for small Georgia farms, AS
a gesture which will bring ousands
j of new farmers to cultivate lands
in this state, was expressed here this
week by scores of bankers attending
the convention of the Georgia Bank
ers Association.
“I have heard this plan referred
j to as a land-selling scheme,” said one
prominent South Georgia Banker.
“I am glad to accept it on that basis,
for if there is anything we need it
is to sell some of our abandoned
farms to people who will make them
pay. I can see no objection to the
| plan on that basis.
“If we can bring into Georgia, by
advertising to the nation that our
state has voted this gesture of invi
ation, we will increase he production
of our farms enormously, and it will
not all be cotton, but crops that will
pay. We could use a hunder good
farmers in my county, men with capi
tal and energy and the determination
,to make their farms earn a profit.
And I believe such advertising will
bring them.
| “I wish every big plantation in my
county was cut up into hundred-acre
tracts, each cultivated by the owner,
even if he had only a small equity in
j it. Our farm tenants are moving
l about, here and there, deserting their
rented lands. They take no interest
in improving property, in raising live
stock or food crops. We need more
farm owners and my bank is willing
to help them carry on.”
The proposed constitutional amend
ment, to be presented at the coming
for state tax exemption, for ten years
section of the legislature, provides
on farms not exceding 100 acres,
with only one such exemption for
any one owner. County taxes are
not affected. It is expected that
change of ownership will be so very
gradual that the state’s income will
hardly be affected as the changes
take effect.
TRAVERSE JURY
DRAWN FOR MAY
TERM OF COURT
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'LIST OF JURORS DRAWN TO
SERVE AT THE MAY TERM OF,
TOOMBS SUPERIOR COURT TO
CONVENE MAY 23, 1927.
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1. J. F. Murchison
2. A. L. Page
3. J. P. McNatt
4. Dess Gray J
5. John Durst
6. H. E. Grace
7. G. L. Jackson
8. Joe Hackel \
9. R. M. McCall '
10. J. M. Davis
11. J. H. Sharpe
12. G. B. Clarke
13. F. L. McCullough
14. F. W. Stanley
15. W. W. Anderson "•
16. F. H. Barker * \
17. H. L. Brown
18. O. D. Warthen
19. V. B. Herring .
20. A. H. Lilliott ' ' l
21. D. M. Odom
22. Chess Abernathy .
23. J. A. Bland —..
24. J. A. McDilda
25. G. H. Edenfield
26. J. C. Wing
27. D. E. Odom
28. P. O. Fiveash *• *- +> •
29. P. A. New f
30. J. P. Dees *
31. J. Ezry Taylor ,}
32. T. G. Stanley ** j
33. M. G. Wheeler ' f" * ft
35. T. C. Collins t } J
36. C. L. Stanley
37. C. G. Garner -<
38. F. B. Glover
39. R. E. L. Mann *4
40. W. E. McLean
41. E. Durden
42. S. J. D. Hall ,
43. Tom Kenm
44. W. R. Smith
45. P. D. Wing
46. E. D. McGill
47. S. W. Smith
48. Linton Muriis
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