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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. J. T. CARPENTER *********** aias********i> How About Your Home Water Supply' IS IT PURE—PLENTIFUL—DEPENDABLE—ECONOMICAL? Sapply roor home wkh all the pore, deer, fperfcllar water you «eed—direct from wetf or spring ly the Perry system. No water tank to collect slime, mud and rust. Compressed air delivers iresh water under the pressure and in quantities you need. Automatic—economical la operation—easily installed. Water left in well until you need H-ihen drawn Iresh. Call and pt the Perry Book. Let us fkplain tn you the merits of this new system el mist supply, a Just what you need. S*4fif GOODDY & McELROY, 10 W. Washington sf. 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. w 1 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 For Bale by all dealers. - Price 60 cents, Foster-Milbum Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan’s—unit take no other.