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NEWNAN HERALD & ADVERTISER
VOL. XLVIII.
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1913.
NO. 45
Farmers 9
Supply Store
Everything for the Farmer
You will always find at this store a full line of
everything needed on a well-regulated farm. We
carry feedstuffs, corn, oats, hay. Best ground
feeds—“Vim,” "Old Beck” and “Primo.” Also
bran, shorts and cotton seed meal.
For Forage Crops—
“Early Amber,” “Orange” and “Red-Top” sor
ghum seed; “Unknown” and speckled pens.
Flour—
“Obelisk” and “DeSoto” are the best grades of
flour, and we sell both. These flours are made
from soft winter wheat, and can always be de
pended on to make good, wholesome bread.
Every sack is guaranteed.
Syrup—
“Peacock” Georgia cane syrup is the best made.
Ask for this brand and take no other. If you do,
your syrup problem will be solved. We have the
“Peacock” syrup in barrels, half-barrels, and 5
and 10-gallon kegs. We also keep genuine Cuba
molasses.
Farm Tools—
Scovil hoes, Hyde cultivators, guano distributors
and cotton planters.
Shoes—
The “Star” brand shoes are better. We have
them in work shoes, for men, women and boys;
also finer shoes and oxfords for dress.
A Cordial Invitation—
Winter has gone and spring is now with us. We
have moved the big stove and will put in ice wa
ter for the comfort and enjoyment of our friends
and customers; so when you come to town drop
in and see us. You are always welcome at this
store.
T. G. Farmer & Sons Co.
TELEPHONE 147.
ASK THE PURE FOOD INSPECTOR
You would not ask Hal Fisher or Dan Manget
to sell you 10-4-4 fertilizer at a price they
would ask for an 8-2-2. When you buy mixed
feed be sure and see what is on the tag—not ;
only the analysis, but the ingredients. On
some you will find “oat feed,” which is only
a fancy name for oat hull. Oat hull has no
feeding value whatsoever. You insist on a
feed high in protein and fat, and low in fiber.
If you do this, you will get a pure feed. Note
the analysis of our PRIMO FEED—protein
11.5, fat 3.5, fiber 9.5.
McBride Grain & Feed Co.
For Sale in Newnan by H. C. Glover Co., H. C. Arnall
Mdse. Co., T. G. Farmer & Sons Co. and I. N. Orr Co.
On sale also at Grantville, Moreland, Sharpsburg, Turin
and Palmetto. Ask your dealer for “Primo Feed.”
KINO AND THE BEGGAR.
He snt upon his golden throne
In all his robes of state alone;
And oa ho sat ho sighed,
And, though he drank from allrer cup.
And at his word a host rose up,
His heart within him cried; '
And though his face was bright and fair,
A specter touched his shining hair.
And at the touch he died.
And yet he was a reigning king.
With all that gold could buy;
And he was kind, and good and young-
0 God, why did ho die?
Ho Bat upon the snowy ground,
And drew his ragged coat around.
To fight the bltiur cold.
His feet and hands were cracked and bare;
No hat was on his grissled hair;—
That, even, had boon sold.
He had no band to press hlu hand;
He was a stranger in the land,
And he was wan and old.
For he was just a beggar gray.
And oft his heart would sigh;
And oft his Ups would murmuringly
Plead God to let him die.
6, God l-we question not Thy will;
And yet the query, never still,
Echoes from sea to sky;
And we shall always want to know
Why beggars live mid want and woe,
While kings grow sick and .die!
BUGGIES! BUGGIES!
A full line of the best makes. Best value for
the money. Light running, and built to stand
the wear. At Jack Powell’s old stand.
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REAL TAX REFORM.
Bill Not Aimed at Pam Property-
Tax Bate Might Bo as Low
as Three Mills.
T. B. Conner in Atlanta Constitution.
Inasmuch as the view has been al-
lowed to gain currency that a State
Board of Tax Equalizers would militate
against the farmers and raise the as
sessments on land, a statement of what
one of the clearest thinkers in the
House, a man who haB given much time
to the investigation of the subject,
finds would be the inevitable outcome
of the application of a scientific system
of taxation in Georgia, ought to be
helpful to those who, without prejudice,
are seeking light upon a difficult prob
lem.
In the outset it should be stated that
no tax reformer is seeking to raise the
assessments upon land or upon any oth-
er form of property with a view to
greatly increasing the present burden
of taxation, or of oppressing the farmer
or any other class of our citizens.
It is a groundless assumption that a
State Board of Equalizers, chosen for
the purpose of adjusting the taxi bur
dens of the State among the various
counties so that each county may be
made to bear its just and proportionate
amount of the burden, is going to go
out of its way to r oppress the farmer:
particularly when no one has proposed
to give Bueh a board the right to inter,
fere with the assessments of individual
taxpayers at all.
This has been distinctly disclaimed by
all who have urged the creation of a
State board on the floor of the House
since the effort to secure tax revision
started. It is contrary to the spirit of
the whole movement and would belle
the experience of other States which
have gotten away from the voluntary
contribution system of taxation and
placed their tax assessments upon an
honest basis, for tax revision to have
any such general effect as that.
It is true that proper tax revision
would operate to increase the revenue
of the State, but it would do so by com
pelling the tax .dodger and the dishonest
taxpayer to place his property on the
tax digest, arid would alleviate rather
than add,to the burdens of the farmer,
who of all classes find tax-dodging most
difficult. But increase of revenue
would be only incidental to tax revision,
and is not its main purpose.
The truth about the whole matter is
that the State has reached a crisis in
its financial affairs, with bankruptcy
and nation-wide discredit impending, un
less one of three courses is adopted by
the present General Assembly.
The first proposition is to raise the
tax rate by submitting to the people
Constitutional amendment either taking
off the E-mill limit or fixing a higher
limit. The unfavorable attitude with
which the people would regard such'
proposition as that is so certain as to
almost eliminate it from consideration.
The second proposition is to make
sweeping reduction all along the line in
the expenses of the State government,
such as the Senate committee has in
augurated and such as would bring the
appropriations within the known rev
enue of the State. This, of course,
would set back the progress of the
Stale and of the various educational in
stitutiona which it supports, the com
mon schools included, and would Lr
most regrettable solution of the difficu
ty to any lover of Georgia who wants
to see the State go forward and not re
trograde.
The third proposition, and the only
one remaining, is tax revision.
It will not do to suggest that a way
out can be found in the imposition of
special taxes and the increase of those
already imposed, for everyone who
fdroiliar with the situation knows that
that source of revenue has been drawn
upon so persistently by recent Legists-
t urea as Co be practically exhausted.
It is unfortunate t ■ at those who
have advocated the creation of county
,-ioarda of equalizers without a State
head for the whole syBtem to adjust it
and make it effective, have not dealt
yuite fairly with the people of Georgia.
We have the history of such legisla
tion as a warning, and wo know that it
failed. We know also why it failed.
There is every reason to believe that it
would fail again and for the same rea
son that it failed before, namely, that
conscientious equalizers in a few of the
counties raised the tax burdens of their
citizens, when a good majority of the
counties went on as before, and a good
number of them even reduced assess
ments, bo that the inequalities that ex
isted Were made more glaring than
ever. It is no wonder that the people
rose.up after the law had been in oper
ation for a single year and almost
unanimously repealed it.
"It is absurd,” says Murphy Can
dler. chairman of the Railroad Commis
sion. and one of the beBt informed men
the subject that there is in the
State, "to imagine that boards of
equalizers, acting in the 148 counties of
the State independently and entirely
without any connection with each other,
are gjoing to equalize taxes. They could
not do it, no matter how honest the
make-up of the various county boards
might be. You will have to have a
head to co-ordinate the results in the
counties and adjust them, if you hope
to secure any equalizing at all.”
Now, let us examine the results of
the Investigations of Representative
Jones, of Coweta, the man referred to
in the first paragraph of this article,
and Bee the conclusions which he has
Mr. Jones has found, in looking into
the history of the Act of 1891, when the
county board system without a Slate
head was tried before, that the eigh
teen or nineteen millions of dollars in
crease in assessments, effected by that
Act, came solely from the increase in
returns of agricultural lands. That
law hit the farmer and nobody else.
There were forty-one of the counties,
the returns from which were reduced,
during the year 1892, the only year in
which the law was allowed to operate,
and eight of the counties of the State
bore the burden of eleven millions of
that increase, while the remaining
seven millions was Bhared among the
nearly one hundred counties left. Could
any further commentary be needed on
the injustice and inadequacy of such a
law?
gone further than this. He finds that
there are 2,119,000'acres of land in Geor
gia that are not now returned for taxa-
tion at all. There is this much differ
ence between the acreage rOturnB to
the Comptroller-General and the census
figures of the United States Govern
ment. Now, Mr. Jones insists that it
would not be the small farmer, every
acre of whose land now gets on the di
gest, that would suffer, if the owners
of all this landed property were com
pelled to pay tax on it. >
He says that there are at least $50,-
000,000 worth of horses and mules in
the State, according to the census re
turns, which are not given in for tax,
yet the small farmer is giving in hiB
horse or mule.
The effort made by some of the oppo
nents of a State Board of Equalizers on
the floor of the House to show that the
iBsue 1b one between country and city,
and that the farmer alone is being an
tagonized, Is particularly unfortunate,
because no Buch line-up has been made
among the membership of the House,
and no such issue has ever existed in
the minds of those who have advocated
State-wide reform.
The votes of the members of the
House show Representative Wimberly
of Bibb, Cochran of Fulton, and Wohl-
wender of Muscogee, all representing
city counties, arrayed against the State
board principle:
On the other hand, who is more qual
ified to speak for the farmer than the
Representatives of the agricultural
counties, such as Mr, Jones himself,
and Representative Dodd, of Bartow;
Suggs, of Haralson; Henderson, of
Jones; Berry, of Whitfield; Liles, of
Camden; Ledbetter, of Polk; Greene
and Holtzclaw, of Houston; Dorough,
of Franklin; Cheney, of Cobb; Estes,
of Lincoln; Wisdom, ot Forsyth, and
others that could be named? .
These are all ardent advocates of
equalization among counties, with a re
sponsible State board to head our taxa
tion system, and, while all of them are
not fanners, some of them are, and the
rest draw their living directly from the
tillers of the soil.
What does Mr. Jones find from his
investigations would be the result of a
law that really equalized; that is, com
pelled everybody in the State to pay
who owned taxable property, and com
pelled all to pay alike?
Mr. Jones finds that there Ib fire in
surance in force on personal property
in the State aggregating in round num
bers $426,572,000, while the total re
turns for personal property are only
$116,300,000. Every one knows that the
insurance companies will not insure ar
ticles for their full value, but, taking
the insured value as a basis, Mr. Jones
finds that there is $310,272,000 worth of
p trsonal property of an insurable na
ture that is escaping taxation altogeth
er.
He estimates that the stocks and
bonds owned in the State, which are
subject to taxation, would amount to at
least $50,000,000, when they are re
turned for taxation only at $2,800,000.
There are in the State $85,000,000 worth
of automobiles and bicycles, by the cen
sus estimate, returned at $3,265,000.
The money in cash and solvent debts
unreturned would be an enormous fig
ure, probably exceeding $250,000,000.
Watches, jewelry and silver plate are
returned at $1,687,000, when, according
to Mr. Jones, there are at least $25,000,
000 worth of such articles in Atlanta
alone.
Here we would have an aggregate of
nearly $700,000,000 of personal proper
ty, according to the figures which Mr.
JoneB has compiled from the census es
timates and other sources of informa
tion, which are not now on the tax di
geata at all, and which, added to the di
gests, would bring the total assessments
above a billion and a half dollars, al
most doubling the assessments of last
year.
A tax rate of three mills upon this
assessment would bring in $4,500,000,
which is $551,016 in excess of the $3,
958,934, which the report of the Comp
troller-General shows was raised by ad-
valorem taxation last year. This would
give the various State institutions more
money than they have ever asked for,
and the farmer, so far from having his
taxes increased, would pay, on the pres
ent scale of assessment, only three-
fifths of what he is now paying.
Of course Mr. Jones and the other
advocates of tax reform are not so un
fair as to argue that personal property
should be made to appear on the tax
books to the exclusion of real property,
or that any distinction should be made
by the taxing officers in the treatment
of each. These figures are adduced
simply to show how the revenue of the
State can be substantially increased
and, at the same time, the taxes of the
farmer, who is now returning his lands
for taxation, almost cut in two.
The investigations of Mr. Jones have
It Cannot Be Done.
Memphis Commerelnl. Appeal.
In a dozen or more American cities
the chiefs of police have endeavored to
regulate the wearing apparel of women.
It cannot be done. It is not for man to
say what women shall wear. It is their
own particular province. It is an in
herited right that has descended from
the Garden of Eden,,when Mother Eve,
the maternal ancestor of the daughters
of tho present generation, decided that
the fig leaf formed an appropriate dra
pery for the human body.
The fig leaf of that distant day was
possibly more discreet and modest than
some of the garments wom to-day.
The editor of a religious publication in
South Carolina, a man eminent in the
thurch, was moved to recently publish
his opinion that a nude woman is less
offensive and lesB suggestive than - the
woman who to-day appears in slit skirts
and visible shirt-waists.
It does seem to the sensible observer
that women in their dresff are trying to
Bee jUBt how far they can expose their
physical forms and escape the vigilance
of the police.
But why worry? Woman is going to
have her way. Men cannot curb this
seemingly indecent fashion. If a woman
desires to attract attention and expose
her person it iB no doubt her personal
privilege. Most men will not object. At
the same time the future of society is
placed in a questionable position.
It looks to the conservative man and
woman—to our grandmothers—as if the
world was running wild. The bars are
down. Morals are at a low eb|>. Our
dances, our songs, our novels and our
styles of dresB for women, show a state
of social demoralization.
Fashion is a power as invisible as it
is despotic, and it is as despotic as the
Grand Lama of Tibet. Her mandates,
of which the origin is utterly unknown,
are nevertheless understood and com
municated by some inscrutable inBtinct,
and obeyed with a still more inexplica
ble and uninquiring submission. The
rich and the independent are the most
eager to become her slaves^ and her vo
taries delight in their idol in proportion
as her reign is tyrannical, her fancies
capricious snd her tastes preposterous,
Man is helpless to combat such an in
fluence. Just how far this regime of in
decency will extend no one will venture
to soy, but so long as woman is inclined
to dress in this manner she will do so,
and man cannot prevent her.
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When it Concerns a Woman.
It is always a satisfaction to hear of
a cure being made by Foley’s Kidney
Pilla, but particularly so when the for
tunate one is a woman. Mrs. M. M
Welch, Young Harris, Ga.,-had a bad
case of kidney trouble that affected her
system, and caused much suffering,
backache and rheumatism. She writes
"Foley’s Kidney Pills cured me when
all else had failed.” J. F. Lee Drug
Co.
We Will Know Some Day.
R. Ranaotno, Jr., In Cleburne (Tex.) Enterprise.
The other day I waa at a railway sta
tion and purchased a ticket for a short
journey I took that day. While at the
ticket window there stood beside me
one of the world’s unfortunates. His
clothing consisted of one old, red shirt,
faded that its original color was not
distinguishable, and a pair of patched
blue jeans trousers. HiB hair was un*
combed and his personal appearance
was unkempt. Upon'his face were the
unmistakable marks of Ignorance and a
hard struggle with the adversities of
life. His condition waB deplorable, but
there were two little girls with him,
whose smileless little faces wore pitia
ble indeed. There waa no sunlight,
there had been no childish happiness,
no merry laughter had made music in
the hovel that they called home, and
Hunger had sat beside them many a
long, dreary day, going to their pallets
with them, lingering in their dreams,
jeering at them when the morning
woke again. A man who sat with me
at the time, and whoBo heart is as ten
der as a maiden’s, asked the man where
he was going. The man replied that he
was going back to Kentucky, because
he had made nothing in Texas for four
years. In Buch haste was he to get on
the train and commence the journey
back to the old home that he left his
change in the window, and the ticket
agent had called him back, knowing
that the seventy-five cents change rep
resented a large sum to him and the
children.
Life is full of Buch conditions, and
such unfortunate people are all around
us and about ub. This poor fellow had,
no doubt, made the best fight that he
could to provide for his family, handi
capped as he was with the lack of
knowledge, and while he waa Btrainlng
every nerve, eating out his heart in a
vain endeavor, maybe the Grim Reaper
came into the sunless home and car
ried away the mother of the two yel
low-haired girlB, she yielding up her
tired body with little reluctance, except
the thought of leaving her bablea moth
erless. I cannot unravel the riddle why
there are bo many of life’s unfortu
nates, why the eyes of Bweet little
children should be dulled by the tears
and longings for things they crave
bo much, and their faces made gaunt
by lack of food, while there are thou
sands of other children with every
thing that tffetr' hearts desire, and lux
uries "piled upon luxuries laid at their
feet. One’s heart cannot help but go
out in sympathy for the man, and es
pecially the children, whose bodily hun
ger and whose heart hunger is pitiable.
Maybe when the last trumpet is sound
ed and the last summons comes we will
know why some people are poor and
lonely and Ignorant, while others are
rich, happy and contented. There must
be a reason, for a well-matured plan
runs through all the Btory of the past
and the ages to come, outlined from the
beginning, and having in view the final
good of man. Perhaps some must Buf
fer that others may be Induced to feel
sympathy, and be constrained to minis
ter to the wants of the needy and cheer
and comfort the lonely and the deso
late.
Wisconsin has done many notable
things in a,legislative way, but it will
not succeed in suppressing malicious
gosBip by law. Even if it were possible
it would be a pity to do it. Malicious
gossip is the chief mental resource of a
great piany people whose intellectual
balance sheet consists mainly, of liabili
ties. Taking gossip away from them
would be like taking away the crutch
of a one-legged man tyho has forty
miles to go uphill. It lightens the
gloom and relieves the bile of the envi
ous and inefficient. The man or woman
who edges into the twilight, with a
gnawing sense that he or she is of no
particular account, and that everybody
knows it, can still catch a little,burst
of sunshine by repeating a neighbor’s
foibles.—Saturday Evening Post.
IT’S A MISTAKE
Made by Many Newnan Residents
Many people in a misguided effort to
get rid of kidney backache, rely on
piasters, liniments and other make
shifts, The right treatment is kidney
treatment and a remarkably recom
mended kidney medicine is Doan’s
Kidney Pills. Newnan is no exception.
The proof is at your very door. The
following is an experience typical of
the work of Doan’s Kidney Pills in
Newnan.
H. W. Jennings, 78 Murray St., New
nan, Ga., says: "For several years I
was subject to attacks of kidney trouble,
coming on after I caught cold or ex
erted myself. At such times the kid
ney secretions were irregular in passage
and I had such acute pains that ft waa
hard for me to do any work that obliged
me to stoop. Since I learned of Doan’s
Kidney Pills, I have never failed to get
relief through their use.” 1
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cents, Foster-Milbum Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name—Doan’s—unit
take no other.