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PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 5, L923.
No. 27
COAL PROBLEM IS NEW TAX URGED
iING’S THE FOR ROAD FUN
PRESIDENT SAYS he is OPPOSED HIGHWAY board plans for
To NATIONALIZING U. S. | . INCREASING STATE’S
COAL MINES REVENUE
C8MMISSI8N GIVES SOLUTION STATE NEWSJJF INTEREST
Says Plan Would Be “Only Another Brief News Items Gathered Here And
Step Towards National
Paralysis’’
There From All Sections Of
The State
Cheyenne, Wyo.—In a discussion
here of the nation’s, coal problem in
which he mentioned the industry, the
consuming public and the govern
ment’s interest in all phases of coal
operations, President Harding record
ed himself as being, opposed to “na
tionalizing the mines,” and declared
that the United States coal comrnis-
flion would bring the country "a new
understanding” of the problem and
point out a solution “in behalf of a
Vital public interest.”
The chief executive spoke from the
observation platform of the car in
which he came here from Denver to
his first Wyoming audience. He also
mentioned the problems of the live
stock producers of the state, the wool
interests and called attention to re-!
lief measures which he said congress
and the war finance corporation had
given after war’s Inflation and later
deflation,
, The biggest need of the world to
day, the president said, was work,
adding that the world has no use for
a loafer, big or little, “whether com
manding capital or directing labor.”
In developing his principal theme,
the coal problem, Mr. Harding re
ferred to the strike of last year, as
serting his opinion that many line op
erators were as much responsible for.
that situation as the men who struck.,
Referring to the coal situation at,
another point in his remarks, Mr.
Harding said:
“A few years ago, one of your Wy
oming statesmen made the astounding
statement that your state alone con
tained enough coal to supply the en
tire land with fuel for four centuries
to come. . Whether the statement was
extravagant or not, it was at least
an intimation of your mineral re
sources of which the nation at large
had never dreamed.
“How incomprehensible, Indeed, are
ypur limitless possibilities and you,
are but one of many states of seem
ingly incomparable material riches.
. .Let us hope that the genius of states-:
men ahd the common sense of busi
ness may be combined to solve the
problems of transportation and dis
tribution so that your wealth may be
made an asset to the nation as well
as to the stfte. __ ,
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i Commended Upon Crossing Law
Atlanta.—James D. Price, member
the Georgia Public service commis
sion, has, he declares, received a
flood of letter commending his re-,
-ently announced plan to secure pass
age of a law by the Incoming legis
lature to prohibit grade crossings on
railroads in Georgia. Commissioner
Price is asking this law in order to,
put a stop to the appalling loss of
life in grade crossing crashes between
■rains and automobiles. t
Peanut Chokes Child
• Dawsonville.—The 2-year-old daugh-
:er of Mr. and Mrs. Noah Chester, of
jear Dawsonville, died at an Atlanta
jospital recently, as the result of a
jeanut lodging in her windpipe. The
jhild was carried to Atlanta with the
aope of getting the peanut removed,
jut all efforts failed and death finally
•esulted. Interment was at Mimble-
rille cemetery.
Suggests Weight To Be Tax Basis
Claxton.—Entitled an “act to regu-
<L e the use of vehicles on the puh-
jfg highways of the state of Geor-
■ w a; to create the office of vehicle
. Aiumissioner, define his duties; reg
elate license of tax on vehicles and
provide for the collection thereof and
IjO regulate-.the speed of vehicles and
'isrovide a penalty for the sections of
j^s act,” a measure is to be. intro
duced during the coming term of the
egislature by B. G. Tipping, Evans
•ounty ■ representative, he declared
Atlanta.—A new gasoline tax of
two cents a gallon and a tax on lub
ricating oils to create a state aid road
fund to help Georgia counties which
have not money enough to build roads
unaided, was recommended to Gover
nor Thomas W. Hardwick by the
staJ;e highway board. The recom
mendation was made, among others,
in a letter prepared in connection
with the animal report of the high
way department, which was trans
mitted to the governor.
It is pointed out that such a fund,
in sufficient amount, could match fed
eral funds for these counties and that
the counties themselves could be paid
for. constructing the roads with their
convict gangs.
The letter also states that the big
ger counties now have all practically
completed construction of their sec
tions of the state highway system,
so that the little and weaker coun
ties would be the chief beneficiaries
of such a state aid road fund as is
proposed.
By means of the gas and oil tax,
it is asserted, non-residents who pass
through the state by automobile will
help pay part of the expense of up
keep of the roads they use. North
Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama
and Florida all levy such a tax, it is
Bald. >
Of the state funds available for
construction and maintenance of state
rohds in 1922, the report shows that
89.749 per cent was used on actual
maintenance and construction, and
6.890 per cent on administration. The
balance went for Incidentals, office
equipment, auto expense, and other
Incidentals.
Up to December 31, 1922, the total
amount of money spent by the depart
ment for the years 1920, 1921 and
1922, has been $20,040,124.09, with a
total overhead cost of .051 per cent
It Is stated that no state can boast
of a lower overhead cost than this.
There is a total of 170,000 lineal
feet of bridges in the state aid road
system, of which 52,979 feet is com
pleted and 12,727 feet under construc
tion.'
"A grand total of 2,877.46 miles of
roads and bridges will be either com
pleted or under construction at the
end of this year.
APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP
DEFEATED BY SMASHING
VOTE
U. S.
Leader Sidney Webb Prophesies Eng
land Will Be Under Control Of
Labor By 1926
39 Boy Orphans Die In Collapse
Calucutta. — Thirty-nine Mohamme
dan boy orphans were killed in the
collapse of a section of the orphanage
building in the bear of Calcutta. Thir
ty-three were injured.
Elect Georgian Hardware Chief
Atlanta.—B. L. Almand, of Socia
Circle, Ga., was elected president ol
the Southeastern Retail Hardware an£
Implement association at the closing
session of the four-day meeting and
exhibition at the auditorium. Tin-
southeastern association is compose,c
of the state organizations of Alabama
Georgia, Florida and Tennessee. Othci
officers elected were W. V. Benton
of Jackson, Tenn., first vice president;
G. S. Meserve, of St. Augustine, Fla.
second vice president, and Walter Har
lan, of Atlanta, secretary and treas
urer. Mr. Harlan has been re-elec.toc
nine times. *
London.—British labor repudiated
communism when in a smashing vote
of the annual labor party conference
it defeated the communist party’s ap
plication for membership in the party.
Leaders predicted a labor govern
ment in England by 1926. Nearly 1,-
000 labor delegates were present.
Voting union by union, each dele
gate representing the whole member
ship of his union, the application was
turned down by a vote of 2,085,000 to
866,000.
Sidney Webb, M, P., presided, and
Arthur Henderson and Ramsay Mb-
Donald were on the platform.
Webb prophesied that England
would see a . labor premier and labor
cabinet in power by 1926, pointing to
the fact that the labor party in the
elections of last autumn secured 4,-
250,000 votes, roughly one-third of the
total votes of the country.
The party is branching out on all
sides and strengthening its locai or
ganizations in all constituencies, and
leaders are optimistic of success. It
is believed that the recent repudia
tion of communism will emphasize the
conservative tendencies of British la
bor and add new members.
The vote against communism stress
ed the fact that there 1b nothing
’pink” about the English labor move
ment. It is, in the main, a liberal
group led by trained men.
Washington.—Declaring that Euro
pean labor unions are surrendering to
communism, the American Federation
of Labor has announced a policy of
isolation from the foreign trade union
movement
In a, long statement reviewing the
trade union situation in Europe, the
American Federation of Labor declar
ed that the most significant develop
ment Is the alliance at Hamburg be
tween the International Transport
.Workers and the Soviet Transport
Workers.
“The developments In this confer
ence and la other conferences of the
month show European labor slipping
toward red revolutionary standards in
a movement that from this distance
looks much like a rout,” the federa
tion says.
“American labor not only will not
join with any organisation or any
movement that seeks in any way to
compromise with the mostrosity of
bolshevism, but it will raise its voice
in protest at every sign of attempted
compromise with that hideous lnstlcu-
tion, no matter where that attempt
may be made. v
Georgian Slain By Crazy Ship Officer
Atlanta.—Asosciated Press cable dis
patches from Lisbon, Portugal, receiv
ed in Atlanta telling of the slaying by
a crazed officer of the wireless oper
ator of the steamer Brave Couer on
the high seas brought a shock to At
lanta friends of Albert Glaser, a
former Atlanta hoy who is well known
in both this city and Athens. The
Idsbon dispatches * were extremely
meager, only stating that the madden
ed second officer shot and killed th^
captain of the vessel, the wireless gd
erator and another officer, and wound
ed a seaman and passenger when h'
ran amuck.
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Railroad Allowed To Increase Capita'
Atlanta.—The Georgia railroad com-
mission-lias been petitioned by the
Georgia, FloridaTind Alabama Railway
company for permission to increase its
capital stock from $450,000 to $2,685,00C
in order to absorb the bonded indebted
ness which with interest amounts tc
$3,359,556.95. Mrs. Cora Williams, pres
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company was originally incorporated
September 13, 1805, with an authorized
capital stock of $160,000 and has twice
amended its charter.
Fire Prevention Drive For Atlanta
Atlanta.—Prevention, of fires in At
lanta is the aim of an active campaign
recently launched by the Atlanta cham
ber of commerce in conjunction with
a nation-wide movement in that direc
tion by the United States chamber of
commerce. The activity of the local
chamber to reduce fire loss will bp di
rected by Edwin Haas, of the firm of
Haas and Howell, who was appointed
by President Alfred Newell as chair
man of the insurance comm/ittee. The
campaign will extend over a period of
ten days.
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ried in stock and we shall be glad to have your or
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