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GEORGIA WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW MS _ 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. * * * 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. ir Mm 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