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TWICE-A-WEEK
VOLUME 52.
Commissioner Perry
Writes Savannah Press
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 27th, 1923. —
To the Editor of The Savannah
Press, —Sir: In an editorial appear
ing in your paper some days ago,
wherein reference is made to a bill
introduced by Mr. Wimberly of
Toombs county, proposing to reduce
the number of the members of the
Public Service Commission from five
to three, you make certain state
ments therein that are incorrect, in
point of fact, and which do me a se
rious injustice. I, therefore, ask
that you publish this statement from
me. You state in said editorial,
among other things, “Mr. J. A. Per
ry, who is a member of the Commis
sion, is an advocate of the bill re
ducing the membership from five to.
three.” also state “Mr. Perry,
in his evidence before the railroad
committee, testified that most of the
members ‘loafed’ on the job.”
I was asked by Mr. Wimberly, au
thor of the bill referred to, to make
a statement to the committee, giving
information as to the present work
Commission, which I did. I
four amendments ■to his
bill, neither one of which suggested
or contemplated reducing the num
ber of the Commission. I did state
that under the present method of the
Commission, as a whole, coming here
twice per month, that the work of
the Commission could be done by
three members, in a more satisfacto
ry and expeditious manner, than
five are now doing the work, under
the present arrangement. I also
stated that Commissioners Price and
McDonald had only been in the of
fice thirty days, for the first six
months of this year, and that if
there was work requiring such a lim
ited amount of one’s time, it might
be argued that there was not enough
work requiring the time of five.
At the first meeting of the Com
mittee this year, at which time the
Commission was reorganized, due to
a change in the personnel of the
Commission, I introduced a resolu
tion, proposing to carry out an ex
press provision of the law, and in
which it was proposed that the Com
mission should hold daily sessions.
On page 93, Georgia Laws, 1919,
section 1, the following requirement
of the members of the Commission
will be found: “Each of the mem
bers of said Commission shall give
his entire time to the duties of his
office,” This requirement of the
law has been violated by certain
members of the Commission, with
impunity. During the session of the
Legislature in 1922, the Commission,
as it has been doing for several
years past, appealed for an increased
appropriation, stating that if the
Commission were given ' sufficient
money, it would then be enabled to
function as the law had always con
templated‘it would function, with
the result that we were given an in
crease of approximately $35,000.00,
or about twice the amount this ap
propriation provided for the Com
mission theretofore.
Naturally, I presumed the Com
mission intended doing what we had
promised we should do, and intro
duced a resolution accordingly. This
resolution was defeated by a vote of
four to one. My vote was the only
one registered for it. Certain mem
bers of the Commission construed
this action on fy part to be an ef
fort to embarrass them, eginning
with this, they have felt justified,
seemingly as a means of evening up,
in subjecting me to one indignity af
ter another, since that time. I had
only one motive in proposing the
resolution, and that was to promote
efficiency in the work of the Com
mission. Certainly, the Commission
ers coming here an average of five
days per month retards the work of
the Commission, and the Commission
would be much better off and its
work much better done if wo had
fewer in number.
I gave instances showing the un
fortunate results of these semi
monthly trips to Atlanta. Among
them I cited instances wherein the
secretary of the Commission has
been handling and finally conclud
ing complaints and appeals made to
the Commission, in the name of the
Commission, and without knowledge
on the part of either member <tf the
Commission, except the chairman,
and in one instance, without his
knowledge or information. If daily
sessions of the Commission were to
be held and all complaints presented
to the Commission as a whole, im
mediately they reach the office, con
dtions of this sort would not occur.
I realize the seeming bad taste in
going to hte public with a matter of
this kind, but I am not responsible
for the condition that makes this ne
cessary. To have observed condi
tion!?, which, to my mind, are intoler-
The News-Herald
able, for the past six months espe
cially, and to a degree for the last
four years, I decided that I should
bring it to the attention of the Le
gislature, the source, of the Commis
sion’s creation.
You state in your editorial that the
efforts to reduce the Commission
will not prevail. This is as it pro
bably should be, but one thing you
can rest assured of, and that is, the
methods prevailing in the work of
the Commission since January Ist,
1923, especially, will not continue. I
don’t believe you would want to see
it continue. The law says that each
member shall give his entire time to
his work; anyone making a complaint
or appeal to the Commission has a
right to expect, as the laws srtys it
shall be done, that his case will re
ceive the consideration and judg
ment of five members, and that a
majority of the five shall be neces
sary to give legal effect to any de
cision of the Commission. This is as
it should be.
It did state before the committee
above referred to that one means of
correcting the intolerable conditions
now obtaining in the work of the
Commission, would be to reduce the
number, snice two were here only
five days per month for the first six
months this year, but I did nor advo
cate it, as a matter of judgment, per
se.
This is an important matter to the
public and I feel justified in asking
that you publish this.
I am Sir,
JAS. A. PERRY.
RUSSELL REUNION.
Athens, Ga.—For the first time in
20 years, the Russell brothers, of
which Justice Richard B. Russell, of
the supreme court, is the eldest,
were together at a reunion at Rus
sellville, in Barrow county recently.
The reunion was held in the home
of Chief Justice Russell and brought
together the brothers, Robert Lee
Russell, of New York, captain in the
United States navy, retired, and for
mer judge advocate General W J.
Russell, Athens revenue inspector
for the internal department; Edward
G. Russell, member of the United
States postal staff, Washington;
Lewis C. Russell,, judge Piedmont
circuit superior court, of Winder.
After the reunion at Russellville
the brothers came to Athens, where
they visited the old family home at
Princeton, where in a four story
house the boys were born and reared
to manhood. All graduated from
the University of Georgia. Their
parents were W. J. Russell and Har
riet Brumby Russell, leading citizens
#f Clarke county.
METHODIST CHURCH SUNDAY.
10:30: Sunday school.
11:30. Morning worship, “The
View from a Judean Mountain” will
be the subject of the morning ser
mon.
7:00. The Epworth League.
7:30. The evening service. The
stereoptican lecture failed to arrive
in time for us last Sunday night but
it is expected that it will be given
next Sunday night.
It is less than one month until
Conference. Those who have not
paid their pledge on the “Conference
Collection” pleas esee the treasurer,
Dr. J. W. Nicholson, this week.
OZORA DOTS.
School began last Monday with
Mr. Allman Cowan and wife as
teachers.
Mr. Arnie Bullock and family
spent Sunday with Mr. Jim McCart.
Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Drummonds
and family, of Ebenezer, spent last
Friday night with his father.
Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Head and
family of Mt. Zion spent Sunday
with his father, Mr. C. S. Head.
Mr. L. L. Barnes and family, of
Decatur, spent Sunday with Mr. Jeff
Conner.
Miss Saliie Mae Haney spent Sat
urday night with Miss Clifford Ken
erly, of Mt. Zion.
Mr. Ezra and Della Ewing, of
Pleasant Grove spent Sunday with
their uncle, Mr. A. G. Cheek.
Mr. Hugh Cheek spent Saturday
night with Mr. Poke Ewing, of Pleas
ant Grove.
Mr. Albert Winslette and Hermie
and era McMillian motored to Rob
erts Academy Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Robert Ethridge, of Ebenezer,
spent Sunday with Mr. Joel Ethridge.
Mr. J. J. Camp, of Atlanta, after
spending a few days here, returned
to Atlanta Wednesday.
Mrs. H. E. Buchanan and baby
have gone to Florida to make it their
home.
Mr. P. P. Ford and family have
moved to Florida to make it their
future home. •
LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1923.
Railroads Arrayed to
Wreck Her Business
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Miss Heleu Schultz, 24, of Mason
City, la., is single-handed fighting
four powerful railroads which op
pose a renewal of her permit to op
erate auto buses out of her town.
Will Be Submitted November Ist and
Will Be Along the Lines of the
Dorsey Commission—Opposition.
Atlanta, Ga., October 22. —Gover-
nor Walker’s tar commission expects
to finish its report about the first of
November. The members of the
con mission are |jiigh class men.
They undestood tse work with open
minds, They seem to be pretty
Wt.il agreed on the main points.
It is generally believed that they
’will draft a report along the lines of
the report made by the Dorhey coml
mission in 1919. They will recom
mend that the present ad valorem
syrtcm be retained for tangible prop
erty—bouses, lots, farms, ‘factories
and all other real estate.
T 1 ey will either oppose the repeal
of the tax equalization law or, out of
deference to the governor remain
discreetly hilent on that question.
Everywhere they went, the people
were strongly opposed to repeal and
fai ored keeping the equalization
law.
They will probably recommend a
low graduated income tax, allowing
the property tax as a credit. Their
plan will be along the line of tha
Lankford bill,
They seem to favor, classification
of property, because that is the only
system, it is claimed, by which any
roidiiderable tax can be obtained
from what is commonly called hidden
wealth.
K is reported that the commission
will not urbe the sales tar at this
time, although there is said to be a
great deal of public sentiment in its
favor. •
Th> report, it is claimed, will be
highly appladded by some and con
demned by others. The impression
grows stronger that the legislature
will not be able to agree on any tax
plan at the extra session. Gover
nor Walker’s opponents figure that
if nothing is done, he will be elim
inated as a candidate to succeed
himself. They are charging that
the only emergency for calling the
extra session was a political emer
gency and, if the extra session is a
failure, the governor will be blamed
for the expense.
It ill take a two-thirds vote of the
legislature to pass an income tax
amendment to the constitution. The
opposition claims a majority in the
house and where the two-thirds can
be secured is said to be a puzzle.
The polite refusal of some of the
authors of tax measures to appear
before the commission is taken, as a
bad omen and is worrying til4 1 ad
ministration’s friends no little. 1 '
YOUNG MAN’S BODY SEVERED
IN TWAIN AT SAW MILL
Clyde Harrison, eighteen years of
age, son of Mr. Pickens Harnson,
who resides at Auburn, Barrow coun
ty, was instantly killed Monday
afternoon about 3 o’clock when he
fell across a running saw at a saw
mill where he was employed, near
Strickland’s bridge, on the Buford-
Cumming highway.
A wire which had been stretched
from the sawyer to the throttle of
the engine became loosed, • and
young Harrison was making an ef
fort to adjust it when it became en
tangled in the saw, pulling him
across it. His body was almost
severed in twain.
Coroner Peter Smith was not fied
and an inquest was held late Mon
day afternoon. •
His body was taken to Auburn for
■‘uneral.
MITCHELL-SUDDERTH.
On October 13th Mr. E. E. Mitch
ell and Miss Olene Sudderth were
joined in marriage, Rev. Wiley W.
Owen performing the ceremony.
FOR SALE.
Purple Straw seed Wheat $1.50 per
bushel; good seed Oats SI.OO per
bushel. Stored at J. R. McKelvey’s
Mill and at W. M. Leatherwood’s
home.
029 c McKelvey & Leatherwood.
Thi&jyeek
By Arthur Brisbane
HENRY FORD, ACUTE STAGE.
FARM HOUSE CONVERSATION.
AN ELECTION STARTER.
SECRETARY WEEKS’ POSITION.
Henry Ford’s public message to
Mr. Weeks, Secretary of War, will
interest politicians and farmers.
Ford invites a libel suit by his blunt
statement that Weeks is selling Mus
cle Shoals piecemeal to prevent
Ford’s producing cheap fertilizer
there for farmers, thus interfering
with the fertilizer trust, which prac
tices extrotion notoriously.
Ford’s talk is blunt. Every real
newspaper in the United States will
print it. Weeks accused of destroy
ing what might be tnado “the great
est munition plant on earth, our
greatest assurance of victory, in case
of war,” to keep Ford from giving
cheap fertilizer to farmers.
President Coolidge knows that this
statement by Ford will be discussed
in every farm house in the Upited
Staifes, and believed by 999 out of
1,000 farmers.
After this attack on Weeks, Ford
will be bound to enter the 1924 elec
tion as a candidate against the Re
publican party, and let farmers de
cide between him and the Republi
can administration. Ford couldn’t
possibly do less.
It’s an interesting situation for
Mr. Coolidge, also for Mr. McAdoo.
The same decision that ninety per
cent of the people who own Muscle
Shoals would advocate would let
Ford take the plant and show what
he can do about his promise to sup
ply cheap fertilizer and send cheap
power 200 miles in all directions.
Any Republican who thinka that
Ford would poll a small vote as an
independent knows little about poli
tics or the present mood of Amer
ican farmers and workingmen.
Secretary Weeks won’t sue Henry
Ford for libel He’ll ask Congress
to investigate Ford’s charges. This
shows a Christian spirit, for no
charge could be more serious than
Ford’s accusation against’Weeks.
Ford, who passes rapidly from one
On His Birthday
October 27
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The birthplace of Theodore Hoo*
relt lo New York City ba.been r
stored and on Saturday, Oct. 27t
•he 66th anniversary of bis blrt
iedieated to perpetuat# hir ideal'
Americanism. The
»elt exhibit wIU ha housed there.
America’s Best
Judge of Hogs
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M. G. Ergenbright, of Lafayette,
ad., ie lhc champion Judge of bogs
n America. In the National Hog
Show and competition at Peoria, 111.,
he scored 806.5 out of s possible 850
HOMER CHESNUTT FINED
S7OO IN FEDERAL COURT
Atlanta, Ga., October 22.—Homer
R. Chesnutt, former -postmaster at
Lawrenceville, Ga., plead guilty in
federal distriit court here Monday to
an indictment charging embezzle
ment of postal funds and was sen
tenced by Judge Samuel H. Sibley to
pay a fine of s7od or serve six
months in jail.
Chesmltt told the court he plead
ed guilty not because he rad em
bezzled the money, but because he
could not prove that he .did not. “I
am guilty in that I wa3 responsible
"or what went On in the postoffice,”
he declared. He told the . court he
knew nothing of the shostege of the
funds until a check was made at the
expiration of his term.
Several prominent Lawrenceville
citizens voluntarily informed the
courj that they considered Chesnutt
an exceptional young man and ex
pressed their belief that he was
guilty of no wrong doing.
SUNDAY SCHOOL RALL if.
Following is the program for the
Sunday school Rally, Third Distritc,
Mulberry Association, to be held
with Bethel church Sunday after
noon, November 4th, 1923.
2:00. Devotional —J. W. Hogan.
2:15. • “Evil Tendencies in Our
Sunday Schools”—W. E. Moor?.
2:45. Special music.
2:66. “Our Task”—J. M. Dodd.
3:30. “Soul Winning in Our Sun
day School”— J. R. Burel.
3:50. “Our Plans for the Year”
—By Superintendents.
4:10. Business and adjournment.
The public is cordially invited to
attend.
A. A. LOVELESS, Pros.
cage to another, like the boy at the
Zoo, now announces a plan to let his
employes share in the profits of his
railroad.
He will help them buy profit shar
ing certificates in installments from
their wages. They may get their
mosey back any time, but must keep
their certificates, not sell them, “un
less to fellow employes.”
Whatever you may think of Henry
Ford, yeu must admit that’ the prob
lems of this country would be sim
plified and the security of those that
have money increased, if other big
employers understood as Ford does
the handling of workingmen.
“Milk from contented cows” is a
well known, ingenious motto.
“Work from centented workmen”
ought to be the employers’ motto.
Contented cows don’t kick or buck.
Jiohn D. Rockefeler, Jr., has given
$500,000 to the Zoological Society,
promising to duplicate that amount.
E. S. Harkness gave SIOO,OOO, the
efftate of Mrs. F. F. Thompson $50,-
000.
The work of the Zoological Socie
ty is done scientifically. It does not
merely collect elephants to amuse
children and monkeys to rebuke men.
It carries on admirable, permanent
scientific work. In days to come not
one of the specimens in the Zoo will
be left alive on this earth. Ail will
have gone to join the carnivorous di
nosaur, great auk and the dodo. This
is the time to gather information.
Mr. Francis O. French, who has
William H. Vanderbilt for a cousin,
and other ri.h folks, having lost his
money in Wall Street, starts driving
a “checker” taxicab. His home is
one furnished room, “although his
family has houses in New York, Tux
edo, Newport, and Paris.”
The society reporters weep over
this, of course. But, rich parents
that spoil children please notice that
this young man’s first day of real
education will be his first day on
that checker cab. He will learn
that if you don’t steer straight, you
will be bumped. And as he counts
up his day’s profits, he’ll realize that
a dollar means something.
Good Schools Increase
Income of Community
The United States maintains the
most comprehensive system of pub
lic education in the world.
The per capita income in the Unit
ed States is higher than for any oth
er nation. Farmers of the Un : ted
States produce per worker 2.3 times
what the farmer of the United King
dom produces; 2.5 times what the
German farmer produces; 3.2 times
what the French farmer produces,
6.5 times what the Italian farmer
produces. Is it an accident?
Farmers of the United States send
their children to school less regular
ly and fewer days per year and few
er years than commercial, clerical,
banking and professional classes.
Agricultural workers constitute 28
per cent of the total of occupational
workers and get 17.4 per cent of the
national income. Commercial, cler
ical, banking, professional and mis
cellaneous classes constitute 32 per
cent of the total of occupational
workers and get 40 per cent of the
national income. Is it an accident?
California enrolls a higher per
centage of the population in high
school than any other state. The
state university at Berkeley enrolls
twice as many farm bred students as
any other state university.
Oout of the 50 agricultural coun
ties in the United States realizing
the highest net income California
has 13 and out of the 10 highest
counties California has 4. Is it an
accident?
Every Community Interested.
Most of our readers have noted
that American Education Week is to
be 'observed this year from Sunday,
November 18, to Saturday, Novem
ber 24, somewhat earlier than in
former years. The program ei> pha
gizes the importance of the country
schools by devoting the exercises of
two days mainly to the consideration
of rural problems. (
Sunday, November 18, is desig
nated “For God and Country ;” Mon
day, “American Constitution Day;”
Tuesday, “Patriotism Day;” Wed
nesday, “School and Teacher Day;”
Thursday, “Illiteracy Day;” Friday,
“Community Day;” Saturday, “Phy
sical Education Day.”
The slogans for Friday, November
23, are “An Equal Chance for All
Children;” “A Square Deal foe the
Country Boy and Girl.” The sug
gested program emphasizes the plea
for “Equality of opportunity for ev
ery American boy and girl” and urg
es the importance of a public libra
ry in every community. It is ex
pected that every rural community
will assemble at its school house on
that day. On Saturday will be feat
ured, “The Great Out-of-doors” and
the "Conservation and Development
of Forests, Soil, Roads and other Re
sources.”
CONSOLIDATION BULLETIN.
Consolidation of schools and trans
portation of pupils is the subject of
Bulletin, 1923, No. 41, soon to be is
sued by the United States Bureau of
Education. The bulletin is not con
fined to what is popularly known as
the consolidated school but is an at
tempt to review and evaluate in gen
eral the entire educational move
ment that has for its purpose bring
ing children together in larger
groups so that the wealth and ener
gy of greater areas may be concen
trated on fewer and better schools.
It deals with the loca i -n and funda
mental weaknesses of the .136,000
one-teacher schools in the United
States, the history and development
of consolidation and
since the time of Horace Mann the
economic- and educational forces that
have caused the establishment of
consolidated schools and their value
in school progress. In tracing the
history of consolidation the author
presents the main facts relating to
the growth of city systems, indepen
dent and special districts, and the
gradual extension of the township
and county as units of school admin
istration.
There is a discussion of the pres
ent statue of consolidation, its dif
ferent forms as shown in complete
and partial consolidations, state
graded schools, union high schools,
and county secondary schools.
Statistical measures both absolute
and relative, of the amount of con
solidation in the United States are
given. Finally, the progress of the
consolidation movement, its purposes
and the outlook for it is stated for
each of the 48 states. The bulletin
is generusly illustrated with half
tones, maps and graphs.
NORTH CAROLINA
COUNTY LEADS
“Mothers in Anderson county, N.
C., who canned 250 quarts of soup
mixtures and tomatoes for the use
TWICE-A-WEEK
of their children during the winter
months have given that food to be
used in the noon lunches which the
children will receive in school. This
sort of preparedness is quite new
and worthy of imitation. Hot school
lunches are known to be of great
value to the youngsters who consume
them dur ng the wniter. What could
be wiser, then', than for the moth
ers, who know that their children
will need them, to prepare for the
food for their especial benefit?”—
Baltimore Sun.
If every rural school had a canning
club and a cooking club, or the two
combined in one, the hot lunch prob
lem would be solved for them. The
preparation of a soup or a vegetable
stew would be a simple matter. In
some cities school children consider
themselves badly treated if they can
not have hot lunch every day. Under
weather conditions in most rural
communities the hot* lunch at school
is more important than in the cities.
The delicious lunches that can be
prepared in these country schools
would make the city children en
vious.
THE VITAL RURAL PROBLEM.
The low prices the farmer receives
for what he produces and the high
prices he pays for what he must buy
involve several problems. But a
more vital problem is involved in the
cheapest thing the farmer uses. That
is the country school. It is too
cheap. Reports received this year
from about half the counties in the
United States show that there are
98,000 one-teacher schools in these
counties and that the average salary
paid the teacher is $729. The pity
is that thousands of teachers regard
even that low average as princely. In
20 states 3,100 teachers of one
teacher schools receive less than
S3OO a year. In 32 states 4.580
teachers receive between S3OO and
$400; in 34 states 5,589 receive be
tween S4OO and $500; in 40 states
8,307 receive between SSOO and
sooo; in 42 states 16,525 receive be
tween S6OO and $700; in 45 states
16,432 teachers receive between
S7OO and SBOO a year, or something:
near the average of $729. More
„han half the teachers are thus ac
counted for but it is h’ttle consola
tion to them to know that the other
half receive more han $729.
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ACTIVITIES OF THE ~'
AMERICAN LEGION;
Gainesville, Ga. —Upon the return
of Edgar B. Dunlap, Department
Commander, and Howard C. Hosch,
Department Adjutant, from the sth
Annual Convention in San Francisco
the American Legion in Georgia is
confroted with a busy month during
November.
Beginning November 3rd the posts
in the 10th district will hold a con
vention at arrenton, a day having
been set apart by the management
of the Warren-Glascock Fair as Le
gion Day. Several thousand Le
gionnaires are expected to attend-
On November 7th the poets in the
7th district will meet in convention
at Marietta as guests of Horace Orr
post No. 29. Invitations have been
sent to all Legionnaires in the 7th
district and a large attendance is ex
pected.
On November 9th the Ist district
will meet in convention as guests of
Chatham Post No. 36 at Savannah.
A general invitation to all members
of the Legion in Georgia has been
sent out by the Savannah post and a
record breaking crowd is expected to
be there.
On November 10th the lllh dis
trict convention.will meet in Valdos
ta. At the same time a meeting of
the Stats Executive Committee will
be held. This date will mark the
closing of the Educational Fair in
Valdosta which is to be held Novem
ber sth to 10th. Many notable speak
ers have accepted nivitations to be
present on the 10th and take part
in the Armistice Day Celebration
which is to be in charge of the local
Legion Post.
An event of national importance
will take place in Rome on Armistice
Day. Shanklin-Attaway Post No. 5
is erecting a memorial to the mem
ory of the last soldier dead to be
brought to this country from the bat
tlefields of France—Charles Graves,
a Floyd county boy. His renmins
now rest in “Memorial Place” Myrtle
Hill Cemetery. This soldier repres
ents all th known dead of the World
'War and therefore belongs to the
nation as well as Floyd county. The
memorial is to be unveiled on Armis
tice Day and a number of prominent
soldiers and statesmen from various
parts of the nation will take part in
hte ceremony.
NUMBER 102,