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PROSPERITY THREATENED
BY RADICAL LEGISLATION
Atlanta, Ga.—In a great many
ways, leading southern newspapers,
discussing business conditions edito
rially, have recently followed to a
remarkably close extent, the speeches
of U. S. Senator Oscar W.
wood, candidate for the Presidency,
delivered at various points in the
country in the Fall.
Like Senator Underwood,
Frequent
Headaches
* I suffered with chronic
constipation that would bring
on very severe headaches, »>
says Mrs. Stephen H. Kincer,
of R. F. D. 1, Cripple Creek,
Va. "I tried different medi¬
cines and did not get relief.
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BLACK-DRAUGHT
and took it for a headache,
and the relief was very
quick, and it was so long be¬
fore 1 had another headache.
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found to relieve constipation,
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THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEV, CA. f THURSDAY. JANUARY 10, 1904. ’
als now attracting the attention
business men, notice the turning of
the tide to an era of prosperity in
| this country beginning with
provided radical legislation does not
| hinder its progress. R. C. Gordon,
Georgia campaign manager for Un
derwood, points to the fact that thu
of a number of leading south-
1 ern editors, as expressed during the
! last few days, are strikingly in
|with what Senator Underwood has
been telling the people of the country
for several years.
Southern editors have expressed
the view, to which Mr. Gordon calls
especial attention, that the business
pendulum is being kept restless by
the uncertainties of a domagogic
deucy in Congress, the effect being
almost as disastrous as the
the legislation proposed; that so
long as Congress threatens to impose
heavier taxes, instead of relieving the
burdens now carried, the influence
is destructive, not constructive; that
so long as Congress feeds the farmer
on platitudes, getting him heavily in
debt without giving him the foreign
market to absorb the surplus of his
production, the influence is to hold
agriculture’s nose to the grinding
stone.
Like Senator Underwood, Mr.
| Gordon says, one editorial declares
I that the issue today is economic san¬
ity. Another editorial, which Mr.
I Gordon emphasized in his statement,
declares that it is time for the out¬
standing thought of the country to
take a stand for sane legislation and
constructive action by those in au¬
thority.
“The Underwood views are bo
strikingly expressed by recent edito¬
rials,” 3aid Mr. Gordon, “that most
of us in the Democratic ranks, as
well as under the Underwood banner,
! feel called upon to express our great
; gratification.”
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ROMANCE OF ORIGIN OF GAS
In the latter part of the seven¬
teenth century two Englishmen, J. J.
! Becher and Henry Serle, were grant
| ed a royal patent for “a new way to
make tar and pitch.” Their new way
was nothing more than the general
method now employed to make coal
gas, the difference being that it was
planned to make the manufacture of
tar and pitch the chief industry and
the production of gas and coke the
secondary interest.
Just what the outcome of this plan
would have been no one can tell
for the trend of the times and the
peculiar turns that industry takes
at unlooked-for points decreed that
gas and coke were to be the main re¬
sults of treated coal and the tar and
pitch to be classed as secondary con
siderations and placed in the eate
gory of by-products, a place where
they rightfully belong.
This condition of affairs is per¬
haps responsible for the belief that
colors, perfumes, flavors, synthetic
drugs are direct by-products of coal.
They are not. The real by-products
are coal tar, carbon, ammonical li¬
quor and spent purifying materials.
The other named articles are the re¬
sult of further manufacture of the
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and chemical properties upon which
its effectiveness depends is being
made. The field work conducted at
Tallulah, La., during the year has
resulted in two achievements of im¬
portance—the development of a quick
test for detecting high water-soluble
arsenic in commercial calcium ar¬
senate, and the discovery that the
dew on cotton plants contains rela¬
tively large quantities of plant exu¬
date, which compounds, in the pres¬
ence of moisture, decompose calcium
arsenate, thus affording a possible
' explanation of of
many cases unan
ticipated plant injury which have
been observed in the dusting of cot¬
ton.
! The demand for calcium arsenate
for boll weevil control has had the
effect of greatly increasing the price
of arsenic and arsenicals. This is now
a serious matter for fruit -grow¬
ers and others using arsenic in
some form for' the control of
insect pest.?, and it is likely to de¬
velop into a more serious one. Work
is being actively prosecuted in the
,
chemical technology of arsenical pro¬
duction for the purpose of discover¬
ing methods for lowering the cost
I of production. Some very suggestive
results have already been obtained.
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PLANTS OWNED BY
CITIES ARE ABANDONED
More than 660 municipally owned
electric plants and other public utility
properties have either been abandon¬
ed or have reverted to private owner¬
ship, according to a survey just com¬
pleted by the National Electric Light
Association, which was based largely
on United States Census Bureau com¬
pilations. The report shows that the
average rate of municipally owned
plants is more than twice as high
as the average rate of aH companies
by-products derived from coal
during the process of treatment to
produce gas.
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THE ADVANTAGES OF AMERICA
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The one thing above all others
that has given modern conveniences
to the common everyday American
citizen has been the character of
government which encouraged
this individual of enterprise to go
, ahead and develop industries
j hampered by stifling interference
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and official control such as experi
enced in other nations.
j The following facts speak for them¬
j selves and are a testimonial as to the
advantage of the American system
! \ contrasted with methods which dis
courage private initiative.
The use of manufactured gas in
Great Britain, where the industry
was born a century and a quarter
ago, is steadily increasing and last,
year totaled 232,600,000,000 cubig
feet or 5,524 cubic feet per capita
on a population basis of 42,000,000.
New York State alone, whose first
manufactured gas company was
established in 1823, has developed a
per capita use of gas nearly double
this amount, with an estimated pro¬
duction this year of approximately
90 billion cubic feet.
The production of electrical en¬
ergy in Great Britain last year reach¬
ed a high total of 5,738,000,000 kil¬
owatt hours, whereas New York State
this year will use approximately
9,000,000,000 kilowatt hours or
nearly 800 kw. h. for each person in
the state, as against 134 kw. h. for
each of the 42,000,000 persons in
Great Britain. ♦
When it comes to telephones, there
is one for every 8 people in the
nation, something unheard of in any
other country in the world.—Clarks
dale (Miss.) Register.
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BETTER INSECTICIDES AIM
OF BUREAU OF CHEMISTRY
One of the most important fields
of activity of the Bureau of Chem¬
istry of the United States Department
of Agriculture is the work the bu¬
reau is doing to develop cheap and
effective insecticides and fungicides
for the control of insect pests. As
crop production becomes more inten¬
sified new biological problems arise
in the attempt to maintain an equi¬
librium which wiU be of benefit and
profit to man. Some of our most ac
cute agricultural problems originate
from insect depredations or from
plant diseases transmitted or stimu¬
lated by insects. The work the bureau
of Chemistry is doing in chemical re¬
search of insecticides and fungicides,
therefore, has a tremendous economic
significance. This is being recognized
and is being developed and expanded
as rapidly as possible,
A study Is being made of foliage
injury by arsenical* and other insec¬
ticides and fungicides in order to de¬
velop spray materials which, while
acting in an efficient manner, may
be applied to tender foliage without
injuring it. Owing to the importance
which calcium arsenate has assumed
in the dusting of cotton for the con¬
trol of the cotton boll weevil, an in¬
tensive investigation of the physical
reported. Other facta disclosed by
the report are:
In 1912 power was purchased by
8.7 per cent of the municipal plants.
In 1917 <power was purchased by
23.3 per cent.
Of the population of the United
States served with electricity the
companies serve 93.8 per cent and
the municipal plants 6.2 per cent,
The average city tax in 1921 as
shown by the United States Census
in cities of over 30,000 having mu
nicipal plants doing commercial busi
ness was $19.31. The average city
tax rate for the non-municipal plant
cities nearest in population to the
above was $15.50. Exempting munic¬
ipal plants from taxation necessarily
means that the tax rate on other
property must be increased.
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ELECTRIC RAILWAYS GAIN
DESPITE BIG HANDICAPS
Although great difficulties have
confronted the electric railways of
the country in the last ten years, par¬
ticularly during the war and since
in keeping the cars running, the in¬
dustry is growing stronger daily,
James W. Welsh, secretary of the
American Electric Railway Associa¬
tion says.
He declares; “In 1922 there were
117 electric railway rides sold for
every man, woman and child in the
United States. In 1817 only 109 were
sold and in 1912 only 100. More than
13,000 new cars have been put into
service during the last five years.
There are 80,000 electric railway
cars operating in the United States.
About $250,000,000 will be spent fer
improvements th'is year. Much use¬
less track has been done away with
in recent years and supplemental bus
service added. Electric railways have
come back. The foregoing facts dem¬
onstrate it.
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RAIL FREIGHT HAULAGE
GOOD BUSINESS INDEX
Atlanta, Ga.—Railroads, in -the
amount of freight they handle, usual¬
ly are good business barometers,
business men and manufacturers in
Atlanta declare. Many of those lead¬
ers in the commercial world were
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A Striking Value.—at $ 295 f
Considering the improved ing its cost to the purchaser.
appearance of the new Ford Acomparisonextendingover
Touring Car, one would a long period of years will
naturally expect a propor¬ reveal thefact that the present
tionate advance in price. price is actually the lowest
Larger scale production,how¬ at which the five-passenger
ever, has made it possible to open car has ever been sold.
incorporate in this new type TheFordTouringCar stands
touring car a number of de¬ today, as it always has,a most
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ments with¬ Thitcarconbe obtained through the value in the
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motor car
G. L. STRIPLING & CO.
Fort Valley, Ga- i
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CARS • TRUCKS • TRACTOKS
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seen by this correspondent and
for views on the business
Men in all lines of business
the opinion that when freight
ing is heavy—and it is now at
height on the
generally is good throughout
country.
It is estimated by traffic experts
the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic
Railway in Atlanta that the 1923
freight movement on American rail¬
roads, when the figures are,all in;
will total more than 50,000,000 cars.
More than 46,000,000 had been load¬
ed and moved up to December 1, a
gain of 6,500,000 over the corres¬
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Keep ijour system /
In fightinO trim
Y^UR A engaged liver, in kidneys, constant and battle other against organs infec¬ are 1
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tion and body poisons. When they sluggish to'
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these poisons “back up” and collect in the
blood. Headaches, backaches, constipation,
dizziness, biliousness, foul breath, and coated
tongue are the danger signs. Don’t neglect
them. Drive out the poisons, r v /
Help the lighting organs— III tltC IcffilOUS
the kidneys, liver, bowels and blue jDrapper
pores of the skin. Keep them aePlLLSJIk
healthy and active with
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FAVORED FOR FIFTY YEARS
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ponding eleven months of 1922. This
freight movement Is by rail only
and does not count the tremendous
amount of freight handled by motor
vehicles. Each carload of freight
represents future business in the
making.
While business is picking up as
never before for the railroads it
will take good business for quite a
long time to enable them to get a
firm grasp in pulling themselves out
of a financial hole.
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There are none so blind as those
who will not read The Leader-Trib¬
une.