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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 ■jU ’** s^§sy tit f ||^r%;^f 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 ' $:-iv A * - hB jfl * I****. V » 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 ay »T»nl 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. I . 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,