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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 « PRESIDENT OF THE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA MAKES PLEA FOR A LARGER FUND AT ASSOCIATION MEET. m/m * 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 l 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. „ „ - % -4>; A * *•* ■ ■ ■»— - * • 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 ! ■ 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 ————— 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 J —— 'LIST OF JURORS DRAWN TO SERVE AT THE MAY TERM OF, TOOMBS SUPERIOR COURT TO CONVENE MAY 23, 1927. I* 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 NUMBER 23