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TWENTY PAGES
VOLUME XV
JRAND JURY IS AFTER
AUTOISTS IN TELFAIR CO.
Many People Unwittingly Commit
Misdemeanor Wliile Driving
AUTOS.
DOUGLASVILLE, DOUGLAS COUNTY, GEORGIA., FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1919.
THE CIVIC CLUB
THE NEED OF A
NEW TAX LAW
Mrxiinmes Thud McKoy ambl.
II Alimind were joint hostesses to (From The Dalton Citizen)
tin 1 Civic Club at the home of the II is to lie hoped that the legis-
t'liriii"!*. Tuesday afternoon, need-Matun* at its summer session will
less to sav, a meeting in this deli-j miss rile new tax bill reported by
gilt fit! home is always a pleasure I he speeial tax "omission,
to attend. i No tax law is perfect and no
When file armistice was signed
November the 11, the combined
I armies of the central powers to
taled 7.tiMI),()(IP men, while the all-
1 icd. strength was l(),70(l,00t)men.
In February the forces of the cen
tral powers had been reduced
Taking into consideration the
■ any violations of the state laws
•egarding automobiles, the grand \ | H ,ok shower for the soldiers j one ever will he, lint it wont prove |(it)l) n liil . ih . .|ii" a..''.,,,
jury now m session in this county, I j,, r ,. n will he given in the park hard or very difficult to. put on 1
laken-a \ei\ wise step in that (Saturday afternoon, from 3to (i:30jthe statue hooks a beter law than
«)iey pinpose to educate the people, | )y (| R , members of the tlie one we now have. The present
along this line and point out to Last year a book shower was i I ax eniialization law was amove in
held at .Mrs. McKoy’s home and
the general public the many ways
ithat they are violating the law as
regarding the owning and operat
ing ant oomobiles.
To begin with, the state law
•ays every owner must have a
•t-ate license tag displayed sta
tionary on the rear of the car by
•be first of March each year and
ear'll one without such a license is
guilty of a misdemeanor. It flirt li-
«r states that from one hour after
mndowun until one hour before
•nn-up, at least two good lights
•mst be displayed from the front
of the ear while it is being oper
ated upon tile highwuys, and a red
light directly over the license tag
must be displayed at the same lime
from the rear.
The most important feature of
the law directs that no one shall
drive a ear at a rate to exceed JO
■iles an hour and no one under
the influence of intoxicating
liquors or drugs shall operate one
it all. It fiithcr states that when
passing others on the highway,
approaching a bridge, a curve, a
railroad crossing, etr.. that the ear
•be ear shall be going at a speed
• el to exceed Id miles all hour.
• si] if also states t'lmt ill all eases
amir must be under the immediate
That is. it
fifty volumes were sent to Camp
Gordon. Now we have an urgent
appeal, through the Library Oom-
mision. by Miss Susie Lee Crum-
lee for volumes of fiction and
books of lighter reading for the
soldiers in France who can't come
home.
We cordially invite every one
who will to come, bring a book,
enjoy a. game of rook, afew hours
in tile park and help send Amer
ican literature to the lmvs“Over
There.”
Below is part of Miss Crumley’s
appeal for hooks. A hearty res
ponse in “many volumes” will be
Donglosville’s answer to this ap
peal.
Mrs. Thud McKoy,
Douglasvile. Georgia •
My dear Mrs. McKoy :
"I Hurley trust that von will try
to get it through in some way to
people that tile men over here lice
hooks more than they have done.”
“The book suply is woeful. Men
who Imve not seen books for eigh
teen months, who have been ill the
trenches at the front until they
came to the deadly monotony of
their muddy ramps, are
the right direction, and if it had
been properly enforced il would
’have gone far toward lifting .Geor
gia out of her financial difficul
ties.
At the rate Georgia is now going
she will soon founder in the finan
cial breakers just ahead. The leg
islature meets every year and ap
propriates more monev by far than
the states income, and yet the pub
lic schools of the state are inade-
onntely supplied with funds to
halfway maintain them decently.
The teachers are mdd less as a
monthly salary than a skilled
workman is for a week’s wage.
This one
Olio, or a ratio of
It bout twelve t(: oil". I'liese fig-
ire- ought to qui't the fears of
*h"se who • ir-.. afraid that il will
s a. i tip again.” Inc War Depart
.,* at has se, a mark for bringing
home 010.000 men a mouth from
France Fp to April ot.li the re
leases, from the army had reached
1,1)24,171 men and officers.
Additional travel pay is due in
the million and a half men who
have been honorably dirharged
from‘.the army. navy, and marine
corps and sent to their hooiue,
places of residence or to the orig
inal points from which they were
mustered into the service.
. l’uhlir Law No. GOO, enacted
February 28, 1919, authorized the
VICTORY LOAN GOING OVER
I RUNNING teeunscram.
BIJNG MACHINERY
The fifth, or Victory Ismu is
proving the moot popular of all.
\nd from reports throughout the
country, it is going over with a
rush.
Douglas enmity must and will
do her part, in the matter. We
should go over Friday (today)
while the crowd is here to see the
great war monster, the govern
ment Tank, That did such effec
tive work in winning the victory.
The .business concerns of Don-
glasville and Lithia Springs are al
ive to the importance of this drive
as you wiH see from the patriot
ic advertising they are doing
this week ; also a number of Atlan
ta ’senterprixing merchants who
serve the people of Douglas Coun
ty are uniting with us in this ap
peal to help put 1 he county hack on
a normal basis.
The Doiigl’asville linns who are
to be commended for this patriotic
spirit areiTlie Douglasville Bank
ing Co. and the Farmers and Mer
chants Bank, N. B. & J. T. Dun-
.. .. ... can, Giles Bros, Stewart Bros,
is lor a weeks wage, i |R iput of five cents a mile as Lois Cotton Mill, J l(. Duncan,.!.
'"<•« ,s t0 < \ ,,Il i! 1 It raiding Spences for these -Ms
a* nie Present ri- j aI .g ( ,$ mPlli but. prior to that date
ol the state ot;^ wrte „i| owu< j WHS three and a
itImiit recourse the present fi-j
ini system of
... , , , . > J1111 f tents. It is obvious, therefore
Tin* Citizen knows how hard a 1 tllll+ r H „. ,„„„ mlt itb>d to the dif-
prooblelll is hi*I the legislatin'!
in the iust consideration and pas
sage of an emiilnhle la
*nost
L. Selnmn and Son, J. Groodzinsky
Mozley Brothers. Edwards Gro. Co
13. C. Roberts, Upshaw Bros. Sel-
imin Brothers, .1. C. McCarley, Bag
gett & Burton. I larding Supply
Co., and the Douglas County Sen-
that‘the men entitled to the dif
ferenee 'between five and tin
and a half cents are those who tiuel. At Lithia Springs arei.Rich-
, . have been discharged between t1101 nnlson. Adamson Company and
very person, and every inter-e ( | at| , h ,-,,* November the 11th 19181 |>at II. Winn. Atlanta: Black-
, st in the State wdl want the tax 1 11M|| j|,e 28. 1919, for*stock. Hale & Morgan. Smith &
to tall on (lie other fellow and the (il snbsqiieiil to the; I[j !?tr |„. s . E. Morgan, .taeobs De-
„tl„.|* interests It will be Her- , (|s| na , , iv ,, (1 t |,e
feetlv right to lut everybody. .111st 1
so von dent hit me.” will not be
NUMBER 4.
INFERNAL MACHINE
SENT TO HARDWICK
So ulprit presumably an An
archist. mailed to Senator Hard
wick an infernal machine which
was received at his home in At
lanta Tuesday and resulted ill fo*
tal injuries to the colored maid
who opened it and serious injuries
to Mrs. Hardwick.
The package had been mailed
from New York and the federal
imthonilies are trying to link the
occiirnnee with a similar attempt
on the life Monday of‘Mayor Han
sen of Seat h*. Washington to
whoom a similar package with a
similar wrapping Imd been sent
from the same address.
RUNNING THE STREET j
RAILWAYS
War boards wore created for
most every imaginable purposS
One of these had the power to
raise the wages of the street ear
employes and it did it. Il may
have had the power to help fi
nance these utilities, the same as
has been done with the steam
roads; hut instead of doing these
sensible things the aforesaid hoard
“recomrnded that local bankers
aeeomidnte the utilities.” This par-,
tieuular war board found the
street railways in a predicament as
to bow to*‘get by,” since they
were tied by five cent fare agree
ments So it heaped on a lot of
additional burdens, and turned
the road loose. As a result of 500
miles of street ear track being ab
andoned in the United States duV-
.ontroinf the driver lmnks Their officers plead
•ball 1,01 be " V," 1 :,: boxes of books, whil
*peed that will endnnport.no mosi , :
and limbs of others. The law al-j 1 ' 1
no specifies the brakes shall 1
kepi in pood repair and eneh ear
in\ist In* (*(piipped with a horn or
‘i
It
’anting dovim
lemeanor t*
half of the
in lx* furnished for
ill is a sop of l wo or three.
This is the appeal from France
where the hardest most wearing
and Fast glorious work ol the war
i. being done bv the nil'll who
nlist star and guard the fruits of
noken out loud, but it will be aet-
d out ln*"l and continuous]v
it hold | wliile the bill is being considered
ill** 1 its pnsa're sought.
Tin* ire-lichees of the legislature
knowing the ol the re
vision. will neither turn to the
right nor to the left If tliev do
I heir full duty. Imt will drive
slrnight to tin* goal of tax reform.
the best
be pr
full iparlment Store, Robison Flirnitur
five cents per mile I owliich they i (!o„ mid .1. (.'. Duggan,
were entitled I When il comes to buying bonds! ing the past year, and the coinin-
Many if not all the men, now 11 |n*xc eoneerus will he found in the! unities that have had to depend
know of the public Law No. Him. front and they urge the people as! upon I'liese transportation faeili-
1 are applying to the Red Cross;whole to rally to the support ol'jties have “'had to walk or go
1 Ionic Service Workers for in- t he government
strnelioux ns to the method to pur- [
siir to obtain the difference due
them. Tin* government, however. |
Tin
some p
although they w
luum
•film
ul.l far
■ in .1 tie
ii1111<•<I that limy ran I even
bear
mneli
has mad** it very plain that it is; Clean up day
not ye! ..ii*i pared to mail checks](he civic Leagt
anineil. was pri
icrvel. 1 hough th
!.is d’ilTerenee and eorre-
eontainiiig questions in
the matter merely "logs'
afoot.
Washington bus fairly gurgled
CLEANING UP with mince to city officials regar
ding a readjustment of tile reta
ils designated by l ions bet ween the inunsiplit ics and
te and the town, the street ear companies. But an
tty generally oh- - :■!;■ A a'-Alial . results from
e seiieeilv of 1 :ibe>1 Washington shows Unit tile feditr-
.d in no way j off of rubli
with the hnii!ing : al
?rt tJiii" a few ,
■d the bu
ot
sininly in* rea-
1 the utilities,
things b.-ttcr.
i , ■ in** .Fed
ith
iust
who i
The
allow*
old law
,erning driving allowed those
Jr,,,. Hie age of fifte**n to drive a
far where the driver was iiccom-
I lin i,.d hy an adult, but under the
resent law no one who lias not
■ ached the age of Hi can drive a
Si’iul |
/iv«>n nn the attimlwtl slip wwI
rout<• is direct t<> l‘ i
Yours very trulv,
SI’S IK LKIO riil'M U*iV.
()rujiui/'
hut
. *• i turn Ii;
(I (Vi- do.
dital
A men at
on of nil-
un that, the
it to mak<*
r the amount due
nplieations hinder
-Ini tlie matter the
much
id,.
nd
1 to this aditionali pivmisi s and th
Jar.
RUNNING. THE .RAILROADS
Ryer since the Government look
The grand jury, it is understood.
of the sheriff to! operation ol the railroads 1\\«>
and he will I important filings have been hap
have he
the promt
f eport these viollltel'S
I emit izc the toown marsliiiU to of pening. i. c: wages have been
i . .mil v tn aid him in enforcing raised time and again, and rails
". ‘ ilieitor iois prom- have been advanced. The latest m-
It,, nroseeiitc all cased brought crease in wages brings ,tin*, total
T'lV-e 11iin and cadi offense is increase up to $1.3(15.000.000 more
'punishable bv a’fim* ”f not. U’SS.tluin before the war “< heape
of not less tluin hei’ore tlie war
*100 nor more Ilia $1,000. j administration” under flu* gov-
/.Ta'inil sentenei* not not to ex-, eminent lias resulted in tremend
f eeed 12 months.
q, is (lie purpose ot. the grand , | nd,. Si,
(ft her
juj’v to give fair warning to
iViers .if these laws. Children of ,*,,
all ages, at least from ten y
a,,* allowed to drive cars,
drivers have a Habit of driving
ears unto as fast -theyw,
van. some attaining a speed ot 40
to (i0 miles an hour
ih,. taken to prove..- -
tions The purpose of the graml ne ss
iurv in making known these laws,
s been use of its belief that if he,
people know it to be against -he,
L thev will desist in the practiu . j Last wccli
The enmity commissioner and given out by
the sheriff were liotli present at
^debate of Uds matter aud they
rnnient In
mis deficits for tin* past year. But
as sprinkled bis benc-
io-jfits with a bounteous hand, and
ad stock holder
pons have been kept
government, are not
a great deal with tin* accumulation
of results. But til
T MPORTANT INFORMATION.
DESIRED
The I’etisiim Oommisioner of
Georgia lias requested file Ordi
naries and Tax-Receivers ol the
State to investigate and make a
Hst of those classes of Confederate
' e several counties who will be el-
Soldiers and widows residing in
j gable under the Constitutional
\miiieiidments ratified at tlie lastl 1 ^ J, ,, ^ ^ p w j|i be promptly
i lection to a ]iension when the Gen,' ' .' .
end Assembly has amended them' ' .
pension laws of the State so as to THE TELEPHONES
allow pensions to that class here-
tofore excluded by reason of owing] !>,,*(.master General Burleson
more than $1,500.00 worth of pro
pertv and file widows who wen
an
sum to wait until th" 'amounts an
i ready for (listrilmtion and the..
'to apply to the local Red Cross
j Home Service office and have the
j worker give him all necessary help
I in making his appHcutioon at t he
j proper time and with rctisoouiible
it must tie
in is held res.
lditioli of his
Must lie Kept
COTTON BAN TO BE LIFTED
SOON
1’residcnt Wilson has assured
RUNNING THE LABOR OF
THE WORLD
People should learn not to speak
lightly of Samuel (lumpers pre-si-
dent of the American Federation
of labor; director,of the war poli
cy with reference to labor j and
candidate for the exalted pousiti-
oti that will place "running the
labor of t lie world ” id his keeping.
If the Rockefellers and the Mor-
Congressman William D. I.pshaw ir;m s should suddenly have the
that the embargo on cotton will
lifted immediately after the sign
wealth of Croesus added to t'lieir
hordes they would not be able to
ing of the peace treaty and that it tell exactly what it must do, as did
would have been removed helore \i r (junipers in the case of the
had the United States pooss.'ssed I tlirenteue<l railroad strike in the
the power to remove it. fall of 191ti, and**,as lie did in ni-
Tlu* message from President, numorablo cases, almost daily, all
started his telephone nd'ininistrn- Wilson came in response to an up-; through the world war.
lion with the promise that hr i peal sent hy Congressman l pshaw t'inislied. his job in the
arried before -laiiiiary 1st. 1881.j R . (|J1 | ( | re( | UC (. rates—and lie has|. isk j n g that some iissurauee of tlm United Stai.-s in a way satisfae-
is rccpicsted that the ( i un J ,s i ra j B ed them for local anil long dis-1 removal of the embargo he given. )m . v ) ( , himself, Mr. Gompers bus
tanee service. And the P. M- G. j Jieeau.se. of the depression ex’sting ; . ,.,,11.-,., ning himself with tlie'
usolidate :nu(m g cotton farmers and the world situation, and he went a-
prohable effect upon the \ ielorv broad and' fixed up “international
f Confederate Yeterans and th
whose eon-1 PflKjjigers of the Coiifederaey i
ooil b\ the^eounty eo-operate with tlies
mplainiiigj ( ,j v j| „|*fj C ers in getting up tlies
m'ber what
Steps are to] Vanderbilt said about th
at these viola-j when he was in th
said he was gom
1 |u* lines all over the country. Gis
. latest order is to release something
| lists, for the reason that this ' n -j|j| (( , 10,000,000 small companies
pillule—well, | |'( )rnl |,tion ill he important to pre- (b, vi .|.|iiuent management;
inodori
nii'blii
| sent to the next General Assembly | "^"he'evidimtly lias forgotten all
" If there is
individual in the Cnitedl Slates
il.niit t he nti'hlie l () ,.| mt (be number to he admitted] . ilt <‘e.„nsolidation.”
he railroad busi- 1 1,,. pension rolls of the Slated ](i i llt li v itl ual l in the Uni
; may he known and the amount of* w | m s ] 1011 |d 1„. convinced that Onv-
—- _ ' ! money that wilt be required to pay, nt management ot tole-
$105,000 FOR OPERA 11 he pensioners for 1920 ami the | | lf>llf;s ; s „ failure and an impo
—— sueceeding years may be provided ! j|ion upon t |,e public., tliat mdi-
k, a. rdiug to lignres )o| . *pi,e average pension to be ., ,\l G. of the United
iv C. B. Bidwell. treas-1 a j ( | AV ilI be around $100.00 perL, '
botli agreed to take immediate
net ion. especially in eases where
Hie driver did not have a license
tag and reckless driving,
tag and reckless driving.—Tel fall
'Enterprise.
151st AT CAMP MERRITT
The One Hundred and Fjfty-
Pirst Machine Gun battalions
I'hich includes about 175 others
SSnd men from Georgia, has a-
ready reached the States and s
now at Camp Merritt, V *L 1 ™
unit,, commanded lqr Ineutenan
Colonel Cooper D. Winn, of Ma
con, probably will reach Camp
Gordon the first oof next week.
lirer of the Atlanta Music Festival I ,. n pit >t for each vein'
Association, between 35.000 and .1. W. LINDSEY,
40.000 people in Atlanta spent [ Cmninissioneijof Pensions.
$105,000 to hear the Metropolitan 1
grand opera company. Plans arc ATIANTA WOMEN SEEK VOTE
already lieing discussed for opera
next year. Tlie past season was
, one of the most eminently suecess-
j fill Atlanta has ever had.
Atlanta—The question as to
whether Atlanta women shall be
allowed! to vote in the next city
BABY BORN AT CAPITOL
Atlanta.—The capital of the
State of Georgia was the birth
place Monday of 11 fine, looking
young man whose mother lives in
Anniston. Ala. The stork put in
his appearance while Mrs. Ellen
Moore was visiting the Capitol.
Mother and son are doing splen
didly at the GradV rospital.
ODD FELLOWS
TO CELEBRATE
On next Sunday at the Metho
dist Church the local lodge of Odd
Fellows will hold their annual cel
ebration. .
lev G. P. Braswell will ('“each
il
Loan in the South. Mr. Upshaw's bibm- h .■gisiation,' and by means
message, sent to paris in care ot 0 |‘ jL eommittee reported the t'ind-
tlic peace coferettee. follows: iugs t» the peace eonference.
•‘On the eve of the Victory Lib- | |, im |,is return to the United
ertv Loan campaign, 1 am gravely , Stlltl , s thi* conference looked Goia-
coneerned about the response in 1 , t . s ru p 0l q over, ami thought it
the cotton States. Having spoken j sjioiihl la* aimmended slightly,
in former campaigns, I note a whereupon Mr. Gompers expl’o-
marked difference of sentiment. t | (li | as follows:
especially due to uncertainty, de-, .| eabelt'd* President Wilson that
pression in price and disastrous ; alll ; m p C ||ed to protest aginst
losses. ! any amendments or reopening of
“Genuinely patriotic men sup-] lllt '. eoveiiant.”
porting you in the league of nn-i j, remains to be seen wlietlier
lions declare the situation would jj,., Gompers can dictate as freely
white primary will be put up the sermon. A circular letter lias
the city executive _ committee,!^ lnailcc \ to all members of the
which makes rules for the f' 1 ' 1 i‘ ra t U rnitv and a laTge crowd is cx-
mary, when it. meets next Eatur-'
day. 111 This should prove ft red letter
A delegation of women, headed ^ Fellowship a fritter- t„ sll y f n you that of course tiler
* Mrs. Emily McDougard. Mrs. | ' iit * >r is tmlnv doing more ac- will bo no embargo after peace is
by Mm. Emily McDougard. ims - n ij v that is today doing
Elliott Cheatham and Mrs. Beau- tn( Jj ,,lmrity work than any other
mont Davidson, will appear and similar orginazation. The pohUc
present arguments as to why the 1 is eordually invited to a cue 1 »
cast ballots service
be greatly helped if you would an
nnounce that bite full embargo will
be lifted after tin* treaty is signed,
or before. For the sake of every
vital issue involved 1 , please be good
enoougb to wire us some encour
agement.”
T. P. Tumulty, secretary to
President Wilson, replied for the
President
tin* democracy of the world,
as lie ha- autroeratieally done in
the “democracy of America.” One
-an hardly fail to recognize the
fact that he has done good work
in the interest ol labor and the
kings and one man po
Two men gave their orders to a
vaiter in a resturant. One in. I
"The President lias asked eggs in bis order. The other
told the waiter to duplicate the
proclaimed, and that in the mean
time every restriction which the
United States could remove has
been removed.”
order, but eliminate tlie eggs
The waiter left, but presently
returned and said: “Sir. the cook
says lie’s broke his ’liminator’j
will you have thorn fried?’-’