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THE HOME JOURNAL
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Published Every Thursday Morning
Official Organ of Houston County
JOHN Hi & JOHN L. HODGES
Thursday, Oct. 4.
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SPEKS HERE
U. S. Senator W J Harris was
welcomed in Perry Wednesday,
and spent some time before his
address meeting his numerous
friends Here, Senator Harris spoke
at the Court House at eleven
o’clock, Superior Court having re
cessed for an hour for the purpose
Several hundred peoplo from all
sections of the county including a
number of ladies heard his address.
Senator Harris told of his work
to ameliorate the condition of the
farmer as the prosperity of the
country depends upon the success
of the farmer, saying, “if you help
the farmer, you help the merchant
the banker, the manufacturer and
reaoli the very basis of industrial
and commercial stability.” He
explained how he had assisted in
forming the “farm block” in the
Senate, composed of group of Sen
ators who determined to see that
the farmers of America receive a
“bquare deal’’ in legislation con
sidered by Congress. He was able
to point out many beneficial'things
that the “farm bloc” had accom
plished,
His efforts in securing the trans
fer of corps area army headuar-
ters from Charleston to Atlanta
and an appropriation for the south
eastern office of the Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce
in Atlanta were discussed by the
Senator. Tho commerce office Is
proving of great- assistance in se
curing markets for Georgia pro
ducts.
senator Hants explained that
' 'MIH recount all' of tho
things in a short speech which he
had tried to accomplish during the
first four years of his service in
the Senate, but he recounted some
of the most beneficial in the nature
of a report to his constituents. He
discussed his bills to strengthen
the Federal Warehouse Act and to
allow small state banks to enter
the Federal Reserve System as
ouly one-third of the Georgia
banks were oligible for member
ship until Senator Harris’ amend
ment became a law.
The Senator dismissed his ef
forts to secure membership for a
farmer on the Federal Reserve
Board; the change in the law to
permit Federal Rotervo Bauks to
handle farmers’ notes for nine
months; the curtailment of the
power of the Foderal Reserve
Board to spend vast amounts for
*1 ’banking houses such as had boon
"Erected in New York City at a
• cost of more than 820,000,01)0.
■Senator Harris said interest rates
should bo reduced on tho paper of
''farmers and business men instead
' of wasting millions on buildings.
He told ot his fight and other
members of the bloc, on the recent
chairman of the board, W P G
Harding, who was not reappoint-
• '.ed because of the opposition to
confirmation in the Senate.
Senator Harris told of his effort
Yi®'1919 in preventing President
'Wilson from fixing a price of fif
teen Cents a pound on cotton,
showing how this saved many
'millions to the South as cotton .
sold that year as high as 45 cents F0R SALEu Own. Hay. Connw
a P«t>na. Among other afforla l»H| r an. Lard. Side, and Shoal
behalf of the farmers he reooupt-1 (
ed Hie establishment of a leased
ting potash and other fertilizer
materials on the free list, and
placing a tariff on peanuts, vege
table and cotton seed oils to save
the southern farmer from the com
petition of cheap Chinese labor in
raising oriental peanuts.
Peach experiment stations; pe
can test farms; tobacco experi
ment stations and co operation in
boll weevil experiment stations in
Georgia were discussed by Senator
Harris because of bis work as a
member of the Senate appropria
tions sub-committee which pro
vided the money for the stations.
He recounted his successful effort
through an investigation by sev
eral government agencies to re
move tho discrimination against
peanut fed hogs raised in Georgia
as compared wtih the northern
and western corn fed hogs. Sena*
ator Harris told of a recent visit
to Swift & Company’s plant at
Moultrie where fie found that the
packers were now paying as much
for peanut fed hogs as for corn
fed hogs.
Discussing the European debt
question, Senator Harris said he
was the first Senator to introduce
a resolution saying that these
debts should not be cancelled, and
that he had amended the law so
that Democrats must be appoint
ed to the Debt Commission. He
told of his visit to Franco at his
own expense to assist in hurrying
baek the Georgia boys after the
armistice had been signed, the
only one of the 96 Senators who
did this.
Referring to his membership on
the powerful Sonate Appropria
tions Committee Senator Karris
said this committee authorized
the expenditure of moneys that
ran up into billions, and that bis
membership had given him a po
sition of influence enabling him
to accomplish some of the things
he had enumerated.
Senator Harris said be was not
a man who promised always what
he was going to do, but that be
was able to tell his constituents
what he had done and let them
judge for themselves whether or
not he had served them faithfully
and efficiently.
Senator Harris' speech was a
simple, straight-forward statement
of accomplishments which greatly
interested his hearers. On his
visit over Georgia ho will have
been in every county when he
concludes his tour, it being the
first time in the history of the
state that a public man has done
this in a year when there was no
campaign. After his speech in
more than 110 counties- t.he au*
dfences unanimous vote have en
dorsed his record in the Senate.
No other Senator ever received
such an endorsement.
POLLYANNA
COLYUM
GEORGIA GAS TAX
It wae estimated by tax officials
at tne captol on , Monday that the
additional two cents per gallon
tax on gasoline will result in a
revenue to the sthte of approxi
mately two and a half millions an
nually.
The tax, which went into effect
on Sunday midnight, has added
two cents to the retail price of
gasoline to all cansumers, and the
money it to be devoted to build
ing of roads and amortization of
the Western and Atlantic rental
warrants.
Under the law. one cent of the
three goes to the state highway
department, one cent goes to each
county in proportion to its state
road mileage and one cent to the
treasury and the rental warrants
are all taken up. After that time,
this cent will also go to the state
highway department.
A Perry man
has bought a
horn for his wife
to assist her while
she drives the
family car from
the rear seat.
Bill was tellin’
Sam yesterday that
when two women get
all bet up in couve:-
sation it is a safe bet
that, somewhere, a
third woman’s ears
are burning.
PLAYING SAFE
The dear old lady entered
a local drug store and looked
doubtfully at the youthful clerk
behind the counter.
*‘i suppose’’, she began, “that
you are a properly qualified drug
gist,”
“Yes, madame,”
•“You have passed all the ex
aminations,”
“Certainly ”
“Never poisoned anybody by
mistake.”
“Not to my knowledge.”
’‘Very well then,” she replied,
having a sigh of relief and laying
a coin on the counter. “You may
give me a nickels’ worth of cough
drops.
NO, SIMP, KOI
I looked into
Her eyes so blue.
I loved her well
And this she knew.
I tied her shoe
(a number two).
I didn’t burry much
would you?
Hogs are produced on three
fourths of all the farms of the
United
cities.
States and in all the
The girl who used to be alarmed
lest she show her ankle, snaps
Bill has grown into the woman
who is trying to show her knee or
more.
The smaller the car, the more
arrogantly the driver can toot his
horn. It works in the case of small
men, also.
Correct this sentence: Yes, he
is our only child, boasted tbe
mother, and he is absolutely un
spoiled.
LOST Platinum Bar Pin set
with one diamond; Reward if re
turned to Mrs J I) Martin, Perry
Ga.
'den.
wire for market reports giving
latest information on prices; the
reduction in freight rates in water
melons, cantaloupes and other
Apply
A. A Stnoak, Perry, Ga.
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products; saving of more than ten's Chapman. If found please notify
■million dollars annually by put- T S Chapman, Perry Ga.
UER RIGHT
We heard a Minister say
the other day that if you put a
barbed wire fence on each side of
it you couldn’t keep some men in
the straight and narrow path»
It’s often a GRAVE mistake to
ignore “Safety First.”
One thing that America should
make homo and not import is her
population, thinks Bill.
Wo will now sing that old
familiar ballad, entitled, “A Sock
on tho Foot is Worth Two in the
Eve.”
Man has two brains, says Bill
and both of them are nearly always
on a vacation at the same time.
New York society woman who
eloped to Europe with her dentist
flew into the teeth of criticism
well fortified.
Pennsylvania woman with
twelve children has advertised for
a husband who is willing to work.
If she gets one, it will certainly
be tbe supreme proof that adve’-
tising pays.
SURE
If is arm went‘round her slen
der waist
She coyly raised her head.
“Your form,” he said,” is quite
divine.”
“Of corsetis,” she said.
—PIANO For Sale—We have
near Perry, a fine piano, slightly
used and partly paid for, which
we will sell to party willing to
complete remaining monthly pay
ments. Send name and address
for full information. Cable Pia
no Co.. 82-84 N. Broad Street At
lanta, Ga. i
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| Some very beautiful eesigns.
8 New line of grass rugs “Art Supreme” best
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EXCURSION FARES
For Fairs and Expositions, Fall 1923
via
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY
Fare and one-half sound trip, minimum 50 cents will apply on
account of the following Fairs and Expositions. Tickets will be sold
on suitable dates and ample final limit will be allowed on tickets, Ap
ply to any Ticket Agent for total fares, dates of sale, limits, ete.
Chatanooga, Tenn.,—Chattanooga Inter-State Fair, September
29 to October 6, 1923. Tickets on sale between Cedartown and
Chattanooga.
Rome, Ga.,—Floyd County Fair, October ?-6, 1923. Tickets
on sale from stations between Lafayette, Ga.. and Buchanan inclusive.
Atlanta, Ga.,—Southeastern Fair, October 6^13,1923. Tickets
on sale from all points in Georgia and Alabama-
Columbus, Ga.,—Chattahoochee Valley Fair Association, Octo
ber 15-20, 1923, Tickets on sale from Newnan, Macon, Perry, Al
bany, Cuthbert, Dawson, Ga., Eufaula, Andalusia. Montgomery, Al
exander City, Roanoke, Ala., and all stations intermediato to Colum*
bus, Ga.
Macon Ga., Georgia State Exposition, October 22-27, 1923.
Tickets on sale from all stations in Georgia.
Savannah, Ga..—Savannah Tri-State Exposition, October 27 to
November 3, 1923. Tickets on sale from all points in Georgia, except
north of Cedartown. v
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