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GEORGIA WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL
REVIEW
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republican race now
FREE-FOR-ALL
Home Buildiag, Business Ex
pansion and National Develop
ment are Steadily and Surely Pro
gressing.. Railroads reach out into
New Territory, Wage Schedules
Improve and Prosperity is Assur
ed when Industries and Invest
ment are Encouraged* and Pro
tected by Soundi Sober Publio
Opinion.
Albany—Southern Pec a n
Growers Exchange organized in
this city.
Savannah—New engine house
under consideration.
Waycross—New city crematory
to be erected near railroad.
Dalton—New $170,000 hotel
opened.
Macon—Preparations being
made for new bridge on Okmul
gee river.
Savannah—Work on hew $150,-
000 annex t* Oollius hotel in
progress.
Atlantal-Large modern hotel to
be built at Peachtree and Gain
streets.
Macon—New concrete bridge
over Echeconnee creek completed.
Building contracts in Georgia
for June totaled' 84,899,600.
Atlanta—New Federal Resprtre
Bank building oompleted at cost
of $1,650,000.
Macon—Central of Georgia Rail
way Company to construct new
bridge on Second street.
Lyons—Highway work making
rapid progress in Toombs couhty;
Moultrie—Cotton crop c o n-
dition in this district shows mark
ed improvement.
Savannah—Construction of sta
dium at Daffin Park considered.
Bainbridge—New pecan pack
ing plant to be built in business
section of city.
Maeon—Proposed new 8600,000
eity auditorium to be located at
First and Cherry streets.
Lyons—City progressing rapid
ly as sweet potato center.
Morven—Briok store building and
ether structures recently com*
pie ted .
Atlanta—Viaducts planned for
Pryor street and Central, avenue.
Savannah—New roads leading
from Georgia-Carolina river bridge
in course of construction.
Dahlonega—Hydro-electric plant
to be enlarged.
Macon—164 industries of this
city operating full time and
several over time.
Dasher—Contract awarded for
paving five miles road between
this city and Lake Park.
Newville—New gin nears com
pletion.
Fort Payne—Post office reports
large increase in receipts.
Hogansviile—Const ruction
started on $2,000,000 plant of
Stark Mills, a textile concerned
moved south from Now England.
Atlanta—Eight southeast e r n
railroads entering city will spend
total of $95,000,000 for expansion
and improvements during coming
year. ■ . '
Atlanta—Building permits in
oity for first 6'months 1923 aggre
gated $17,325,337, more than
double amount for same period in
1922. ; ' . ,
Telephone engineers have just
finished what is said to be world’s
first one-pair submarine telephone
cable from Santa Catalina Island
to the California mainland, twenty
five miles away. Seven conver
sations can flow where but one
flowed before.
The first gas company in the
United States was established in
1918, and there are now 45,000,000
persons in the country who use
gas for lighting, heating and cook
ing and customers increase at the
rate of 350,000 a year.
Department of Agriculture esti
mates increase in , July crop for
1923, 25 per cent.
It takes a rich country to spend
the .taxation that this country
stands.
Complete reconsideration of the
1924 political situation in the Re
publican Party becomes necessary
through the passing 0 f Warren G
Harding.
A week ago Mr Harding’s re-
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS
Doings of Georgia Lawmakers
Gathered For The Benefit •
Of Our Readers
Refuses To Cut ^lail Commission
Atlanta.—By a vote of 19 to 1, the
house committee on railroads adverse-
reported the bill to reduce the
nomination was looked upon as all j , -...
butan accomplished Lt. fM £1*8X3*
By Evans, of Screven—To create
listrict . agricultural school for traili
ng of negroes.
By Rowe and Cuinming, of Rich
mond—To provide for indeterminate
tentences in misdemeanor cases.
By Fowler of Bibb—To authorize
lie governor to appoint a commission
Passing Autolsts Are Also Severely
Injured—Loss Is Estimated
At $200,000
Norwalk, Ohio.—One man was kill
;o study various pending tax meas- ed and te n were injured In the explo
the brief period of his incapacity
at Sau Francisco, the view gained
ground that for personal reasons,
he might not seek a second term.
Had Mr. Harding survived and
voluntarily retired from the Presi
dential race, Hiram W Johnson,
Senator from California, was cen-
sidered by many the mostprpbable
heir to tbe 1924 nomination. He
suppored the new tariff bill, the
ship sibsidy and nearly all other
administration measures, and miss
ed liis train when the Newberry
vote was taken.
To-day with Calvin Coolidge in
the presidency, the situation has
taken a kaiaidsoeopic and wholly
unspeeted turn. President Coolidge
is certain to perpetuate the con
servative ideals of the Harding
Administration. He will stand for
its steady course in domestic and
international politics As firmly as
Mr. Harding did. That there will
be a strong demand for Mr. Cool
idge for President in 1924 can be
foreshadowed with little risk. The
field for,the. nomination is now
Wide open, A competition is in
prospect as intense as in the 1920
race, from which Mr. Harding
emerged the triumphant compro
mise candidate*
Among the numerous possi
bilities may be mentioned Frank
O Lowden, ex-governor of Illinois
Maj. Gen. Wood, Governor of
Pennsylvania. Senator LaFollette
who has the solid backing of
farmers and prganized labor, ok-
Senator Kanyon of Iowa, Senator
Capper of Kansas. Borah of Idaho
Watson of Indiana and Albert
Beveridge, Charles F Huges is
favored by some and Herbert
Hoover is a vote-getter. Secretary
Denby and Secretary Weeks are
in the field.
All that can with certainity be
sat down at this critical honr is
that the Republican Presidential
affairs are in the melting pot. It
looks like a free field, and no sure
favor for any man.
Democratio leaders are standing
pat waiting for the Republican
pot to boii over. The growing im
prossion is that a new man, with
no over hanging prejudices, and a
real progressive American plat
form, will sweep the field. The
independent vote is the controlling
factor and both parties are play
ing for it. Ex
at a meeting held recently. The one
member voting in favor of the bill
was Representative Huxford, of Clinch
county.
Representative Wimberly, Toombs,
co-author of the bill with Rountree,
of Emanuel, asked permission to
withdraw his bill just before the com
mittee wont Into executive session.
This, however, was impossible; as the
rules allow bills to be withdrawn only
in the house.
ires.
By Perkins of Habersham—To re-
Mse sheriffs’ fee bill relative to ior-,
‘eiture of bonds; fixing fee ,at $2. •
By Shedd of Wayne—To amend act
ncorpoarting city of Jesup. *
PRESENT OFFICIALS RETAINED
DEVELOP A SMUTLESS WAT
Calico only 10c per yard at H P
Houser’s.
Work shirts 65c each at H. P.
Houser’s.
Investigators at Washington
State College, after ten years of
experiment, are able to show an
acre of wheat in which the con
tents of smut is less than a tenth
of 1 per cent. Here is a result
Which should challenge the admi
ration of the worl^l for it niaans
a larger production of foodstuffs.
IobS' through damage to
threshing equipment and the end
of a problem which has hampered
wheat growers for ages.
The State College exports arriv
ed at the right combination of
wheats through tests which re
quired unceasing observation,
study and a new delving into the
mysteries of plant life. They
have extended their tests year af
ter year and by every conceivable
process known to science eliminat
ed by degrees the texture from
which smut springs.
The last stagre of this great ex
periment was development of a
grain which would yield in quality
and quanity the same return now
achieved with wheat which pro
duces smut. The farmers who
have seen the acre at the eollege
declare it will provide forty bush
els of smutlets wheat, ah outcome
which has been the dream of ag
riculture.
The tract will produce a limited
amount of seed for distribution
this year. This places the State
Experiment Station in the'lead of
all others in bringing out a wheat
Carbonic Gas Tax Staps Unchanged
Reversing its action, the ways and
means committee of the house of
representatives, voted to keep the tax
on carbonic acid gas at 4 cents per
pound, instead of raising it to 10
cents.
The committee had voted to raise
this special tax in the general tax bill,
to 10 cents per pound at its meeting
but after listening to arguments ad
vanced by representatives of the soft
drink bottlers of the state, they .de
cided that it would be unjust to this
class of business to raise the rate at
this time. ;
The committee’s reconsideration
was largely influenced by the knowl
edge, which practically every member
admitted, that the smaller bottlers in
the state are passing through a hard
struggle to keep their plants operat
lng. It was pointed out that it is
practically impossible to raise the
price of bottled drinks to the ulti
mate consumer, as 5 cents is the es
tablished price and any increase im
mediately cuts heavily into the vol
ume of tho business, upon which the
bottler depends for his profits.
* * *
Zoning In County Sought By Board
A bill which would provide for the
introduction of the zoning system
throughout all of Fulton county was
approved by the board of Fulton coun
ty commissioners at its regular month
ly meeting.
The commissioners referred the
measure to the( Fulton, county delega
tion in the general assembly with the
recommendation that it be adopted.
The bill was prepared by the conn'
ty attorney. If put into effect the
county board will be empowered to
pass on all proposed buildings within
the county.
Upon petition of 60 per cent of the
involved citizens, the measure pro
vides, the board would have power
to establish restricted residential sec
tions. Erection of btlBges, construe
tlon of roads and Similar public im
provements would have to be approv
ed by the board.
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Revenue And Pension Bills Proposed
Introduction of a general tax act
Intended to increase the revenues of
the state of Georgia by $100,000; the
bill to appropriate $2,800,000 for urn
paid Confederate pensions and the
measure authorizing the city of Bruns
wick to incur an indebtedness for
port purposes featured the session of
the house of representatives one day
recently.
The general tax act was introduc
3d by the ways and means committee
It is substantially the same as the
act that provided revenues for the
years 1922 and 1923 with certain
changes made necessary by court de
cisions holding portions of Ine act to
be unconstitutional.
The principal amendment requires
Vhat each store in a system of cigar
storesi mpst pay the full retail 11
sense. The old bill permitted the
chain system to pay only one license.
Another addition was a tax of $25
sach on motor bus lines operated out
side of cities. The tax on stock and
bond brokers was reduced from $260
to $100 and the tax on professional
bondsmen from $100 to $50.
* * *
Bills Introduced In House
The following new bills were intro-
luced in the house; j
By PerkinB of Habersham, (by re
quest)—To change constitution so as
to fix salaries of superior court
fudges at $3,Q00 a year, permitting
certain counties to supplement this,
salary up to $5,000. j
By Covington, of Colquitt—To ap-*'
proprlate $5,000 . for 1924 and 1925
sach, to carry out provisions of child
placement act.
By McClure, of Walker, and Lang*
'ey, of Floyd, and thirty co-authors—j
To authorize Issuance and sale of pen-;
sion bonds to the amount of 22,500,-'
>00.
New Executive Chief Also Gives The
Assurance That He Will Maintain
Principles Of Mr. Harding
Washington. — President Coolidge
began Ill's administration as the thir
tieth chief magistrate of (the United
States by desiganting August 10, the
funeral day of President Harding, as
u day of nation-wide mourning.
He also announced that the person
nel of the federal government as pass
ed onto him by hiB predecessor would
remain unchanged for the present and
that the credentials of American rep
resentatives who ure negotiating for
reapproachments between the United
States and Mexico and the United
States and Turkey in the name of
President Harding would be renewed
at once so that their work could pro
ceed without interruption.
In his conference with newspaper
men, the new chief executive then
gave assurance that he would main
tain also thp same principles of pub
licity about the business of the gov
ernment which were followed by Mr.
Harding.
“This is your government,’’ he said,
speaking through the newspaper men
to the people of the nation.
These, the opening scenes of a new
page in American' history, all took
place at the hotel suite at the New
Willard • which has been Mr. Cool*
idge’s home aB vice president and
which will remain an unofficial “white
house’’ until MrB. Harding has taken
leave of the executive mansion. The
president’s flag, with its blue field
and bearing a coat of arms and four
white stars in its corners, was placed
on a standard in the reception room
of the suite, at the same time four
additional rooms were added to the
suite or the use of white house clerks.
Among the officials with whom the
president aonferred during the morn
ing were Secretary Hughes, postmas
ter general, and Acting Secretary Hen
ning, of the labor department. Mr.
Henning talked to the chief executive
about the anthracite situation, telling
him that he believed there would be
no strike despite tho collapse of nego
tiations between operators and min
ers.
Later Director Lord, of the budget
bureau, called to give the new execu
tive a brief outline of the new fed
eral ' estimates of receipts and expen
ditures. Another caller was the Rev.
Dr. J. N. Pierce, pastor of the First
Congregational church, which the
President and Mrs. Coolidge have at
tended while in Washington.
sion of an ammonia tank in the Glas»
building, a five story business black
occupied by the C. F. Jackson De*
partment Store, Main and Benodlct
streets, here recently.
Floors of the building caved and
the street in front of its was torn tip.
Windows of surrounding buildingd
were shattered. Only the four walls
remain standing.
Three men, L. B. Schaclter,, Charles
Witter and Guy McKain, were fe*
pairing the tank in the basement of
the store when the explosion occurred.
Schaclter was instantly killed!.
Witter was fatally injured. His
clothing and entire skin were torn
from his body. Only shoeB and! belt
remained.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sipple, a pedestrain
who was gazing in the store window,
was* thrown across the street by the
force of the explosion. She suffered
probably fatal Internal injuries.
Several auto parties and motor*
cyclists riding in the street were in
jured The injured were removed tou
Memorial hospital.
Loss is estimated at $200,000.
SENTENCED TO DEATH
IN ELECTRIC CHAIR,
FAIRIES KILLS
SELF
Columbia, S. C.—William C. Fairies,
sentenced to be electrocuted on Au
gust 24, was found dead in his cell
at the state penitentiary here the oth
er morning. Prison authorities said
he hanged himself with pieces of a
sheeting during the previous night.
The 62-year-old cotton mill workers,
who was convicted of murder in con
nection with the slaying in September
last of four members of the J. M.
Taylor family at Clover in York coun
ty, was discovered when attendants
went to his cell about seven o’clock
to take him his breakfast.
A note was found in the death house
cell occupied by Fairies, which read:
“Dear Friends: “I leave you all in
peace and hope to meet you all in
peace. I want to go down in peace
and no one make light of me, and my
hope is to meet you all in glory and
peace.’’
Towels only 10a each at H P
Hash's*
which has proved, smut-resistent, j 1 By DaT S ’ of F1 °y d —T° make lar *'
y#t of excellent yielding quail 4 **" 3
—Spokane Spokesman-Review.
1 t v i a u: na jeny of an automobile a felony with
lyet of excellent yielding quality. ?uni8hment by conflnem ent not more
Three Lose Lives In Benzol Fire
Milwaukee, Wise.—Three men were
burned to death and three others are
missing in a fire which swept the
Greenfield avenue plant 6f the Mil
waukee Coke and Gas company. .The
fire started with an explosion in the
building used for the storage of ben-
sol and. spread so rapidly and burn,
sd so fiercely that firemen.. were un
able to get within a block, of the
place until it had partly burned itself
>ut.
France Revives Its Code Of Honoi*
Paris, France.—Paris has taken one
more step back to pre-war conditions
by reviving duelling. Two barrister*
who insisted on settling a personal 1
difference with duelling swords reviv
ed a procedure which, Binoe the' war,
has appeared ridiculous even in tho
eyes of the French, who still main*'
tain that thore are some disputes that
can only he decided “on the field of
honor;.*
Eight Are Killed In Auto Aootdent
Buffalo, N. Y.—Eight persons werdi
killed and two fatally injured when fti
train crashed in an automobile truck:
carrying a picnic party in Niagara.
Falls. Mrs. Camillo Capriotto and 1
her fire children were killed. Angelo
Bartollb, 85 years old, and a baby
also were killed. The huBband of the.
dead woman and another man were
fatally hurt.
Automobile Kills Five; Injures OnC
Oakland, Calif.—Five persons were
almost instantly killed and another,
was seriously injured when the auto
mobile in which they were riding col-’
tided with a train between Hayward 1
and Mount Eden. The dead and in*:
lured all resided in Mount Eden.
Favors Exchange OT Ads For Passes
Montgomery, Ala.—Newspapers will
allowed to exchange advertising
space for railroad passes under a bill
passed in the Alabama house of repre-,
sentatives by a 35 to 31 vote, tho'
measure having been earlier adopted;
by the senate. The bill becomes ef->
Active with the signature of Gover*-
jor Brandon. A bill providing rigid!
regulations on pool rooms apd billiard'
mils, said to have been asked by pool*,
room operators, passed /in the lower:
louse, and there is no doubt of ltd;
passage in the senate.
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Is Planning Solution Of Reparations;
Brussels, Belgium.—An important
lession of the Belgian cabinet was de
moted to the study of the reparations
leadlock. It is understood that Bel
gium may suggest the following so-
.ution: First, Germany to pay Belgium!
and France only for material dam-
iges committed in wartime; second,!
England to renounce debts owed byl
;hc allies; third, Germany to pay Eng-
uud the equivalent of England’s debt;
o United' States; fourth, Belgium to
ake the initiative in calling an inter-
Ulled conference for settlement.
Evangelist Rece'ves Death Threat
Columbus.—Word came to Evangel-;
1st Alex Haggard that he would bej
killed. The evangelist, who conduct-
ed a series of meeting' in Girard, Ala.,
treated the “news” lightly. He de
clared he has been given; a lease on life
by the good Lord for a period: beyond:
the time specified in the threat, when
his series ©f revival meetings dose, :
and that he has no*ears. Evangelist 1
Haggard headed the party of citizens
going to Montgomery three davs ago in
the interest of law enforcement in Gi
rard.
Republicans Lose Vote In The Senate
Washington.—The Republican or
ganization in the senate will lose a ;
rote during the next congress through:
the death of President Harding—a
vote which many of the party leaders
tll __ Ateht v»nm might be necessary to save
than eight years nor Jess than control of that party over matters
.wpuB»JpaHP8Jte —J * )mui.w II _
Girls To Be Taught At 8ummer Camp
Barnes villa—Mrs. Kate Clary, home
econonHcs agent of Lamar county, had
arranged a camp for all the club girls
of the county, to be held at Llfsey
Springs, July 2-9. There are more
a hundred club girls in the county, and
it 1b expected a large majority of them
will attend the camp. Miss Rosa Mc
Gee of Macon, district agent, and oth*
er experts, will give courses of various
kinds to the camp girls, such as can
ning and basketry. Llfsey Spring* id
one of thfe most ideally located placed