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JOHN H. HODGES, Proper.
VOL. LII.
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PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA. t THURSDAY DECEMBER 7. 1922.
\ No. 49
BIG SHRINKAGE
ANT1-LYNCHING BILL COMES-UP t 35 PER CENT INCOME AND PROF*
AND FIGMT WILL LAST TILL j ITS DECREASE SHOWN BY COM
END OF THIS SESSION MISSIONER BLAIR
SOUNDS DEATi! KNELL TO BILL
Democrats And Progressives Unite In
Successful Attempt To Have Meas
ure Recommitted
Washington.—The senate adopted a
motion to recommit, the resolution au
thorizing a $6,000,000 loan to Liberia,
Democrats and progressive Repub
licans uniting to defeat the adminis
tration forces in this the first major
^legislative contest of the' extra ses
sion. .
The motion to recommit the resolu
tion to the finance committee without
, instructions which was offered by
Senator Simmons, Democrat, North
; Carolina, was adopted 42 to 33. Re-
< publicans who -toted with the Demo
crats were Cameron, Capper, Fernalo,
Harreld, Jones. Ladd, LaFollett?, Me-
Nary, Richardson, Norris, Poindexter,
: Sutherland and Watson.
The vote was generally interpreted
as killing the resolution which was
advocated by the state department
and was passed by the house last May.
Attached to the resolution as amend
ment was a provision authorizing an
^appropriation of $20,000,000 for re
clamation work in the west, and an
other for employment by the inte
state commerce commission of 35 ad
ditional locomotive boiler inspectors.
Prior to the vote on the motion to
recommit the senate rejected, 3S to
34, an amendment offered by Senator
McNary, to send the resolution back
to committees with instructions of
eliminate the Liberian loan feature
and report back the reclamation and
locomotive boileb inspector provisions^
The recommittment vote brought to
an end debate on the resolution which
had been Intermittent since the begin
ning of the extra session a week ago.
Administration leaders urged adoption
rf the resolution on the grounds that
the United States was morally obligat-
ad to extend a credit of $6,000,000 to
Liberia as a result of Liberia’s par
ticipation on the side of the allies
in the world war.
Ossining, N. Y.—Police Commission
er W. H. Jackson has been licked by
the bootleggers and has appealed to
Rev. Hehry Grattan Docjtrell, Baptist
pastor, to run them out of town. Jack-
son's request was made ip a letter to
Rev. Mr. Dookrell. It said: “The police
department is doing all it can, but it
seemB to me that every court in the
land is throwing its protecting arms
about the saloonkeeper. I own up to
bein'g beaten. So far as I am concern
ed you may have my job. I have in
structed the police to escort you at
any time you wish to make an inspec
tion of the places where whiskey is
sold.”
Cutting Water Supply Incenses Mob.
Mexico City.—Several thousand per
sons paraded the streets of the capital
at noon recently in protest against the
alleged inefficiency of the city council,
the laxity of which is said to have per
mitted- Mexico City to be without water
for a week, 1 Carrying banners inscVib-
ed, “We^jant and demand water,” the
demonstrators halted in front of the
municipal hall of the national palace,
where speeches adversely criticising
the aldermen were delivered.
DECREASE 0F$VI41,000,000
Reduction In Revenues Dues To Cpt
In Business and Repeal
Measures
ATLANTA Ff.lSOnl HOUSED 2,170
PERSONS DAILY DURING THE
YEAR LND...G JUNE 30
STATE .NEWS I INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Sections of
The State
Fire Damages New Orleans Wharves
New Orleans.—Fire the other night
caused, one hundred and fifty to two
hundred thousand dollars damage to
the Southern railway company’s eleva
tor and^harves and barges before it
was brought under control, firemen
estimate. One watchman on a barge,
which was anchored at the elevator,
is missing, and fear is expressed that
he was either burned to death or had
drowned in trying to escape the flames.
Washington.—Federal txa collections
during the fiscal year ended June 30,
1922, fell off almost'$1,400,000,000, or
30 per cent, as compared with the pre
vious year, according to the annual re
port of the internal revenue bureau
just issued by Commissioner Blair; in
come and profit taxes collected during
the year showed a decrease of $1,141,-
000,000, or 35 per cent.
Total tax collections for' the year ag
gregated $3,197,461,083 compared with
$4,495,357,061 for 1921, while income
and profit taxes- lor 1922 amounted tp
$2.086,91S,464 against $3,228,137,673 the
previous year.
Miscellaneous collections arising from
taxation, other than that on incomes
and profits amounted .to $1,110,532,618
for 1922, a decrease of $256,686,770, or
19 per cent. This slump, Mr. Blair
declared, was accounted for mostly by
the repeal of reduction in rates of va
rious taxes provided for in the revenue
act of 1921, effective January 1, 1922.
The net expediture for collecting
taxes for 1922 was $34,286,651, which
was equivalent to $1;07 for each $100
collected as compared with 72 cents
for each $100 the previous year.
“The difference in the relative cost
of collection for the fiscal years 1921
and 1922,” Mr. Blair said, “is due
mainly to the large reduction in the
revenues of 1922, incident to the
shrinkage in businetfB and incomes, the
repeal of certain miscellantous war
taxes -and various provisions of the
law such as the amortization pf war
time facilities and the increase in in
dividual exemption contained n the rev
enue act of 19211 with the consequent
reduction in the income tax liability
of corporations and individuals.”
Of the various revenues, tobacco
and fermented liquors taxes only show
ed increases over 1921. Collections
other than income and profits taxes for
1922, as compared with the preceding
fiscal year were; Distilled spirits in
cluding wines* $46,636,000 against $82,-
698,000j. f^rmpnted .liquors, $46,00Q
against $25,000; tobacco manufacturer,
$270,769,000 against'$265,219,000; oleo-
margine, $2,121,000 qgainqt $2,896,000;
capital stock tax, including/other spec
ial taxes, $90,644,000 against $91,281,-
000; miscellaneous including was ex
cise taxes since 1917J $686,881,990
against $914,277,000 and sales of in
ternal revenue stamps by postmasters,
$14,616,000 against $20,880,000.
New York.-—Charging that 96 per
cent of dll oil stock advertising Is
“flamboyant, misleading and deceptive,”
the national vigilance committee of
the Association Advertising Clubs an
nounces a nation-wide campaign against
sellers of stock of fraudulent oil com
panies. The announcement comes on
the heels of a special report on oil
promoters issued by the committee af
ter an investigation in the Texas oil
Yields by Edward A. Schwab, and a
number of government Inspectors en
gaged.
Alcohol Taboo Has Seized Turkey,
Constantinople.—Under the Turkish
prohibition law, published recently, all
alcoholic liquors in the country will be
confiscated, or shipped abroad, all per
sons convicted of manufacturing, im
porting of selling spiritous beverages
will be fined and jailed, and those
found intoxicated will be liable to im
prisonment from three months to two
years. Offenders occupying govern
ment positions will forfeit their offices.
There »will be no appeal from these
decisions.
Guilty Of Operating Insolvent Bank.
Louisville, Ga.—W. C. Marion, form
erly cashier of the Jefferson County
bank, which collapsed a year ago,’ and
In connection with which he was accuse
ed of a shortage of $27,000, -jvas found
guilty of the first count of the indict
ment under which he was tried. Tfye
jury was out four ,hour& I
Allied Officers Attached By Bavarians.
Berlin.—British and French officers
of the inter-allied control commission,
who, announced their intention to in
spect a munitions depot at Ingol3tadt,
Bavaria, wer.e attacked on their arrival
at the depot by a band of civilians,
armed • with clubs. A British officer
was* injured. No German soldiers were
concerned in it.
Washington, D. C.—Tho £ scleral peni
tentiary at Atlanta housed during the
year ending last June 30 an average
of 2,170 persons daily, an increase of
340 over the daily average for the pre
vious year, Superintendent of Prisoners
Votaw reported to Attorney General
Daugherty recently.
. Mr. Votaw, in his report, estimated
the daily co3t per man in the Atlanta
penitentiary last year as 77 cents com
pared with 92.7 .cents the year v previ-
911s. The~ total Vcost of maintenance
during the fiscal year ending last June
30 was $657,618.
The cotton duck mill at the Atlanta
prison,” the report continued, "is now
operating at about 85 per cent of its
full capacity on orders from the post-
office department and the navy depart*
ment. The output of the mill has been
3,094,396 yards of cotton duck, valued
at $1,191,797.86. A system of paying
the prisoner employes a bonus of two
cents per -yard has been put into ef
fect, and during the year the prisoners
earned a total of $60,579.90.
“The beneficial effect of tjiis sys
tem is noticed in the building up of
self-respect and confidence in the priq>
oners to a degree heretofore largely
lacking. By enabling prisoners to con
tribute to some extent to the support
of their dependents,, this system also
had a far-reaching influence upon the
institutioifigself. ' Prisoners assigned to
work on'tnetarpss produced crops v£lF
ued at $69,214.88, about the; same as
last year. These prisoners are placed
on the farms op their honor, and have
proven most faithful to their trust and
labor diligently. Only about 1 per cent
have escaped, or in other ways misused
the liberties allowed them.”
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Salvation Army 8avlng Paper
Atlanta.—A total of 2,490,330 pounds
of waste paper was collected—by the
Salvation Army in Atlanta during the
fiscal year ending September 30, ac
cording to a report just compiled by
Staff Captain Ferdinand Braun, in
charge of the men’s social department
of ,the amly for the Soutb, with head
quarters here. On the basis that for
every six' tons of paper salvaged • an
acre of pulp timber is. conserved, the
Army last year saved 207 acres of tim
ber land by its work in Atlanta alone.
Ih addition to this it provided employ
ment for many men who were “down”
but not “out,” who, coming; to the
Army without resources, were paid to
^collect, sort and bale old newspapers
and magazines, which were shipped to
various! paper mills throughout the
country. Through this, as well as in
the collection of rags and discarded
furniture, the Army enables men to
help themselves back to good citizen-
ship.
Seven Are killed ih Mine Explosion'
Albuquerque, N. M.—The list of dead
caused by the, explosion In mine num
ber four of the Albuquerque-Cerillos
Coal company at Madrid. N. M., about
fifty miles northeast of here, remains,
at seven, but the( number of injured
has been reduced from about thirty
to thirteen. Only twenty men were
in the mine at the time of the explo
sion and all were killed or Injured, of
ficials of the company declare. Therj
are no telephone facilities at Madrid
night telegraph service. (
States Differ About Divorce Of R. R’s
Washington.—Public service commit
sions of two western states—Wyoming
and Idaho—put themselves on record
the other day before the interstate com*
merce commission as favoring separa*
tidn of the Central Pacific from tba
Southern Pacific, while the Nevada,
commission urged continuation of the
merger. Representatives of the three
commissions expressed their views at
the hearing on the Southern /Pacific’s
application for authority tp retain the
Central Pacific even though, the Su
preme court has ordered separation,
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