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COTTON
SEW YORK. Aug. IS.—There was consul
.eiuble covering and Wall street buying at
the opening ol the cotton market today ow
ing to the better Polish news, reports of a
.inner spot basis in the southfest and
expectations of an unfavorable weekly
weather bureau. First prices were gener
ally lo to 29 points higher and active months
sold suite 29 to 33 points above last night’s
closing with December touching 28.95 and
January 25.27 during the firs't few minutes.
There was further New Orleans and southern
selling which caused some irregularity.
Liquidation became more active with Oc
tober declining to 25.95 and Dei-ember to
28.00 during the middle of tlie afternoon,
nr about 53 to 68 points net lower, owing
to the more favorable view of crop prog
ress and continued nervousness over general
trade conditions.
Reactions of some 15 to 2 opoints from
The early high point were followed by an
other flurry of covering after the publica
tion of the weekly weather report. October
sold up to 30.05 and December to 29.04,
or about 35 to 47 points net l»igher but the
conclusion of the weekly sunnnai-y read nine
more favorably than the opening and the
market socn broke under liquidation of re
newed pressure. Prices made new low
•.■round for the day in consequence with
ttetober selling down to 29.50 and December
to 28.55 before the end of-the noon hour.
NEW YORK COTTON
The following were the ruling prices in the
•xehang? today;
- 'Tone, steady;' midding, 35c, quiet.
Last. Prev
Open. High. Low. Sale. Close. Close.
Jan. ...25.25 28.31 27.05 27.22 27.22 27.95
?'eh. ..27.88 27.94 26.85 27.00 27.00 27.65
kitty ~.27.75 27.75 26.65 26.71 26.71 27.55
July 26.50 27.2.>
Sept. ..'.. 29.35 30.15
Oct. ...29.90 30.05 28.62 28.75 28.75 29.58
Dec. ...28.90 29.05 27.75 28.00 28.00 25.62
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 18.—Better cables
than due. the continued favorable reports
from Poland and a disposition on the part
of recent sellers to cover put the price of
cotton strongly higher today, the market
gaining 35 to 49 points in the first hour
of business. October advanced to 29.19 and
March to 27,64. Reports of crop deteriora
tion from points both east and west of the
Mississippi river helped the demand.
Just before the time of the weekly crop
tepots the advance amounted to 35 to 59
points. At first the reports were .construed
bullishly, >.-ut claims that the details were
not as unfavorable as the summary indicated
gained many adherents and a hevay selling
movement resulted. Late in the morning
prices were 5 to 28 points under the close
of yesterday. Dctober trading at 28.65. Some
celling arose from unfavorable war rumors
which could not be confirmed.
Heavy unloading of long cotton occurred
In the' late trading and the mar-.etturned
very weak under it. Late in the day the
active months wore 114 to 129 points down
from the highest levels and 69 to 83 points
under the final prices of yesterday. Oc
tober dropped to 28.01.
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
The following were the ruling prices In
the exchange today:
Tone, steady; midding, 33.25 c, steady.
Last. Prev
Open. High. Low. Sale. Close. Close
Jan. ...27.95 27.95 26.78 2G.8-> 26.85 27.60
Meh. ..27.55 27.G5 26.50 2G.58 26.58-27.25
May ...27.28 27.28 26.25 26.25 26.25 26.87
Oct. ...29.11 29.20 28.01 28.11 28.09 28.70
Dec. ...28.40 28.42 27.22 27.39 27.32 28.05
NEW ORLEANS SPCT COTTON
MEW ORLEANS. Aug. 18.—Spit cotton,
quiet. 75 points olv.er; sales o;i the spot.
118 bales; to arrive. 100. Low middling,
22.50e: middling. 33.25 c: good middling.
37.C0c; receipts. 1.62(1: stock, 211,375.
SPOT COTTON MARKET
Atlanta, steady, IJt’e.
New York, quiet, 35c.
New Orleans, steady, 33.25 c.
Philadelphia, steady,- 35.25 c.
Montgomery, steady. 38.75 c.
Norfolk, steady, 38.50 c.
Savannah, steady, 35c.
St. Louis, steady, 36.50 c.
Houston, steady. 33.50e.
Memphis, steady, 36c.
Augusta, steady, 35c. ■
Little Rock, steady. 35c.
Dallas, steady. 32.90 c.
.'Mobile, steady, 34c.
Charleston, steady, 35c.
•Wilmington, steady. S3c.
Boston, sternly. 3G.50c.
.Galveston, steady, 34.50 c.
ATLANTA SPOT COTTON
Adlanta spot cotton 39c
Receipts none
Shipments 94
Stocks 12,707’
LIVERPOOL COTTON
Tone, quiet; sales, 5,000; good middling,
28.67 d.
Prev.
Open. Close. Close.
January 20.81 20.85 20.88
February 20.59 20.62
March 20.26 20.31 20.34
April 20.09 20.16
May 19.96 19.87 19.94
June 19.68 19.74
July 19.48 19.46 19.54
August 23.77 23.76 23.85
September 22.68 22.75
October 22.04 22.10 22.12
November 21.44 21.46 21.52
AMERICAN COTTON
AND GRAIN EXCHANGE
COTTON QUOTATIONS
The following were the opening, highest,
mwest,a close and previous close quota
lions on the American Cotton and Grain
Fxcbange of New Yorn:
Prev.
Open. High. Low. Close Do**.
Jan 28.25 28.40 27.05 27.19 27.95
Meh. .... 27.90 28.00 26.90 27.00 27.65
May .... 27.75 27.82 26.60 26.70 27.50
Oct 29.88 30.05 28.65 28.73 29.6*
Dee 28.90 29.04 27.75 28.00 28.69
COTTONSEED OIL MARKET
Open. Close.
Spots 12.00 Ci 12.75
January ••■>»•■. 13. Oldi 13.15 12.9, (ii, 13.00
February ...... 13.lOfti 13.40 13.00<a13.25
March 13.25 Ca 1.3.50 13.20fa13.50
August .... .... .12.25 Cd 13.25 12.00(0 12.60
September .. .. 12.45(1/12.54 12.30(012.32
October 12.92(812.93 12.75(0,11.80
November .. .. 13.05(813.35 12.95(812.97
December .. 13.00(013.05 12.90@12.95
Tone, dull; sales, 6.6Q0.
Money and Exchange
NEW YORK. Aug. 18.—Mercantile paper,
8. Exchange irregular. Sterling 60-day bills,
3.58%; commercial 60-day bills on banks,
3.58%; commercial 60-day bills, 3.58; de
mand, 3.62%; cables, 3.63%. Francs, de
mand, 7.31: cables, 7.33. Belgian francs,
demand. 7.75; cables, 7.77. Guilders, de
mand, 33.00; cables, 33.12. Lire, demand,
4.81; cables, 4.83. Marks, demand. 2.05;
cables, 2.06. New York exchange on Mon
treal. 11 15-16 per cent discount.
Government bonds, irregular. Railroad
bonds. Irregular.
Time loans, strong; 60 days, 90 days and
six months, 9.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
GRAIN
CHICAGO. Aug. 18.—Light receipts and a
limited selling pressure at the start today
caused wheat prices to open %c to %c
higher.
Wheat closed %c to %c above yester
day's finish.
Corn started in sympathy with wheat,
opening quotations being unchanged to %v
higher.
Corn showed a net loss of I%C to 3%c.
There was a light trade in oats dhich
started unchanged to %c higher.
Provisions were quiet and easy.
CHICAGO QUOTATIONS
The following were the ruling prices is
the exchange today:
Prev.
Open. High. Low. Close. Close.
WHEAT—
Dec 239 241% 238% 239 238%
Mar 241 243 % 240% 240% 140%
CORN— .
Sept 149 149 144% 145 148%
Dee 125% 125% 122% 122% 125
OATS—
Sept 69% 69% 68 68 68%
Dec 69% 69% 68 68 % 69
PORK—
Sept 24.90 24.90 24.80 24.80 24.90
Oct 25.80 25.80 25.50 25.50 25.85
LARD—
Sept 15.77 15..82 15.60 18.60 18.75
Oct. ;... 19.12 19.15 18.90 18.90 19.07
RIBS—
Sept 15.20 15.-J 15.05 15.07 15.20
Oct 15.70 15.77 15.52 15.52 15.65
RECEIPTS IN CHICAGO
Today.
Wheat 128 cars
Corn 81 cars
Oats 166 f- ars
Hogs ... .... 16,000 head
CHICAGO CASH QUOTATIONS
CHICAGO, Aug. 18.—Wheat: No. 2 red,
$2.59(112.60; No. 2 hard. $2.57%(5)2.59.
Corn—No. 2 mixed,, $1.58fe1.59; No. 2
yellow, $1,616(1.61%.
Oats—No. 2 white, 72<J>@73%c; No. 3
wilite, 69%(572e.
Rve—No. 2. $2.04.
Barley—sl.Os6i 1.17.
Timot hyseed—sß.oo(s? 11.00.
Cloverseed—s2s.oo(s/ 30.00.
Pork—Nominal.
Lard —$18.50.
Ribs—sl4.so@ 15.00.
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET
NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—Flour, dull and
unsettled.
Pork, dull; mess, $32.00(5/33.00.
Lard, easier; middle west spot, $19.00@
19.10.
Sugar, raw, dull; centrifugal, 96 test,
13.04; refined, dull; granulated, 17.10©
20.50.
Coffee, Rio No. 7, on sjot, 9@9%c; Santos
No. 4, 15@15%c.
Tallow, steady; specials, tlOc; city, 9c.
Hay, easy; No. 1, $2.00©2.25; No. 3,
$1,456/1.80; clover. $1,306/2.05.
Dressed poultry, quiet: chickens, 41@56c;
fowls, 26(5/42c: Long Island, 36c.
Live poultry, quiet; geese. 25c; ducks,
286/30c; fowls, 34© 37c; turkelys, 35c; roost
ers, 24c; chickens, broilers, 386/39c.
Cheese, quiet: state milk, common to spe
cials, M(Ti 28%c; skims, common to specials.
56/17%c.
Butter steady; receipts 6,650; creamery,
extra, 55%©56c: do. special market, 566/
56%e: state dairy, tubs; imitation creamery,
firsts, 456(55%c: nominal.
Eggs—Near-by white fancy. 70@72c; near
by mixed fancy. 456/65e; fresh firsts, 496/
58c; Pacific coast. 50©72e.
NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET
Close.
JannaryX 8.146/ 8.16
February 8.306/ 8.32
March 8.476/ 8.49
April 8.52© 8.54
Jf:iv .... 8.576/ B.St.-
June 8.62© 8.64
July 8.686/ 8.70
August 7.28© 7.30
September 7.286/ 7.30
October 7.526/> 7.55
November 7.756/1 7.77
December 8.98© 8.00
NEW YORK SUGAR MARKET
Close.
January 9.50@ 9.60
February 9.356/! 9.50
March ....!. 9.00@ 9.50
April .. ...... 9.35© 9.50
May 9.35©. 9.50
August 10.78©10.82
September 10.756810.82
October 10.656810.70
November 10.60 W-10.63
December 10.506810.55
NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—Raw sugar, nom
inal; centrifugal, 12.54; refined, quiet; gran
ulated 17. !0©22.50.
LIVE STOCK BY WIRE
EAST ST. LOITS, 111., Aug. 18.—Cattle:
Receipts 4,500, including no Texans. Market
lower; native beef steers, $13,506/14.00;
yearlings, steers and heifers, $11.00©1L50;
cows, $7,006/11.00; Stockers and feeders,
$8.00©8.25; calves, $13.25@13.0; canners and
cutters. $4.00@5.50.
Hogs—Receipts 9,500; market 15©25c:
mixed and butchers. $15,506/15.70: good and
heavy, $14.50@15.25; roughs, $12.50@13.25;
light, $15,756/15.90; pigs, $12.756815.25;
bulk, $15.606/15.85.
Sheeii —Receipts 3,000; market lower; clip
ped ewes, $6.5(1©7.00; lambs, $9.00@11.50;
canners and choppers, $1.50©4.50.
CHICAGO, Aug. 18.—Cattle, receipts.
7,000; market opened very slow on beef and
butcher cattle; early sales steady: choice
steers scarce; bulk good and choice grades,
$15,256/16.40: grassy cattle very draggy,
bulk, $9,506? 14.(X); Wyoming and Montana
rangers on sale late; birtcber cows and
canners steady at $4.0012.50: bologna bulls.
$b.506/$7.50; half grades dull: tending low
er; stockers firm.
Ilogs: receipts, sls,ooo;Smarket, unevenly
10 to 20 cents lower than yesterday's aver
age: early top. $16.00 bulk, light, and
butchers. $15.15© 15.85; bulk packing sows,
$14,206/14.40; pigs, 15 to 25 cents'lower.
Sheep: Receipts changed to 33,000; mar
ket, slow, mostly 25 cents lower; spots.
50 cents down; packers top native lambs,
$12.00: bulk, $10,506/11.50; culls mostly 75
cents lower; very wet westerns, $7,00; good
Montana lambs. $12.25; best feeder lamlis
largely $12.00.
CHICGO PRODUCE MARKET
CHICAGO, Aug. 18. —Butter: Creamery ex
tras, 54%6/55c; creamery standards, 53c;
firsts, 48©52c; seconds. 446/47c.
Eggs—Ordinaries, 42©43c; firsts, 45%@
47c.
Cheese—Twins, 22%c; young Americas,
23%c.
Live Poultry—Fowls, 30c; ducks, 32c;
geese, 22c; springs, 38c; turkeys, 45c; roost
ers. 24c.
Potatoes—9l cars; Wisconsin. Minnesota
and early Ohios (per 100 lbs.), $2.50©2.75.
METAL MARKET
NEW YORK, Auk. 18.—Copper, steady;
electrolytic, spot and third quarter, 19: iron
firm and unchanged; tin, firm; spot, $48.00;
futures, $48.256/.8.50; antimony, $725;
lead, firm; spot, s>>.(©©9.so; zinc, firm;
spot, East St. Louis delivery, $8.00©8.12.
At London, copper, spot 94 pounds; fu
tures, 95 pounds 12s 6d; electrolytic, spot,
111 uotinds; futures.. 117 pounds; tin, spot,
274 pounds 15s; future, 281 poonds 15;
lead, spot, 35 pounds 10s; futures, 36 pounds;
zine, 41 pounds ss; futures, 42 pounds 15s.
Liberty Bonds
NEW iORK, Aug. 18.—Liberty bonds
closed:
3%s $90.02
First -is, bid 84.44
Second 4s 84.20
First 4%S 84.62
Second 4%s .... 84.22
Third 4%s 87.76
Fourth 4%s 84.G2
Victory 3%s 95.50
Victory 4%s ... 95.52
Governor Defends Course
In Appointing Collectors
Os Illegal Tobacco Tax
Between 200 and 300 friends of
Governor Hugh M. Dorsey, attend
ing a meeting at the Kimball house
Tuesday night in response to invita
tions which evidently were sent all
the 18,000 registered voters in. Fu
lton county, heard the governor for
the first time break his silence of
many days on the subject of the il
legal tobacco tax which has aroused
the ire and the protests of mer
chants all over the state.
Hsi reply to the charge that his
special investigators collected $60,-
000 illegally from dealers in cig
arette tobacco, out of which they
drew commissions of 20 per cent in
addition to 10 per cent paid county
tax collectors, was to declare that,
when elected governor, he took an
oath to enforce the law impartially.
The merchants he described as "tax
dodgers.” He claimed he was em
powered by a ruling of the attorney
general to .make them "come across,
and that the camptroller general
afterward commended him for as
suming a burden no other governor
in fifteen years was willing to as-
SU He did not explain why he ignored
the regularly-elected tax collectors,
and appointed special collectors, two
thirds of whom lived in
among them his executive secretary.
He said that the collectors who got
a commission were entitled to it by
law, and "we had to give it to em
because they delivered the goods,
but he did not mention his authority
for giving the special investigators
•>0 per cent commission.
OFFICIAL REPEATS
HIS ADVOCACY OF
BONDED COTTON
T. R. Bennett, state superintendent
of banks of Georgia, on Tuesday is
sued a statement reiterating his pre
vious advocacy of the bonding of cot
ton warehouses under the terms and
requirements of the United State,
bonded warehouse act. which applies
uniformly to cotton warehouses in all
cotton states. The statement by Air.
Bennett is as follows;
"We have just gone through a very un
fortunate experience in Georgia, in
to the cotton storage situation which should
give pause to every banking house m Oeor
"ia when approached to make loans, partic
ularly large loans, on stored cotton. It is
alwavs with keenest regret that the details
of nnv financial embarrassment conies to
us. but in this case it seems to ine that the
details of the recent large cotton embarrass'-
ment. in one of the best and largest cities
of the state, serves to so forcefully empha
size the risk, indeed the danger Os plac
ing loans on cotton stored in unbonded and
unexamined warehouses, that the bankers of
Georgia would take the lesson closely to
thpmselvps. .
•‘ln the case under discussion it was re
ported from most responsible sources that
loans had been made on large quantities of
cotton, which were supposed to be of stand
ard grade and good cotton. When exam
ined it was found that the cotton did not
at all juhtifv the loans made on it, and, in
fact, was cotton of a very inferior grade, in
deed and such as would not command or
Justify loans. At the sam etime these
things were becoming known, it was re
ported that receipts were outstanding agains
some cotton which did not exist.
“The point I am trying to make is not
that of stirring up water which already has
gone over the dam, but to cite this as em
phasis of the need for more general employ
ment of bonded warehouses of a proper sys
tem for the handling and financing of our
cotton crop. Where warehouses are brought
within the bonding system they are subject
to the proper periodical inspection and ex
amination of what they have on storage, and
thev are not in a position to igsue receipts
against anything not actually carried on
storage with them. It is that point I am
trying to bring out, somewhat in the nature
of a word of caution and advice to our fi
nancial institutions. That season of the
vear when cotton will begin to go into ware
house storage is nearly upon us, aird I be
lieve it would be well for this matter of
increasing the number of bonded warehouses
to at once be given very sreious considera
tion.p -
Illegal Tobacco Tax
Collector Said to Be
Forming Dorsey Clubs
CUTHBERT, Ga„ Aug. 17. —Soma
idea of the interest and indignation
in this section respecting the col
lection of the illegal tobacco tax and
the payment of a special corps of
collectors a fee of 20 per cent for
their work was evidenced here yes
terday afternoon.
Senator Hoke Smith had about
concluded his address in the public
park. He had invited questions con
erning his own record and the is
sues of the There was
none, for the minute, and the sen
ator was about to proceed with his
concluding remarks, when Col. A. S.
Perry interrupted:
“Tell us about that tobacco tax
that the governor collected,” he re
quested.
Senator Smith remarked that he
had only the information that he
had read in the public press, and
added that it was evident the state’s
finances had not been well handled.
“I am told,” he said, “that one
of the men who collected this tax
and who received 20 per cent for his
efforts is now engaged in organi
zing Dorsey clubs. It appears from
the press reports that the tax was
illegally collected and that those
who paid it hafe not been reimbursed
by the state.”
Laurens’ First Bale
Is Sold for $l9O
DUBLIN, Ga.. Aug, 18.—Laurens
county’s first bale of 1920 cotton was
brought in Tuesday from near
Cadwell by D. E. Brown, a white
farmer. It weighed 475 pounds.
The bale was auctioned off in front
of the courthouse, and was sold to
the Union Warehouse company for
$l9O, 40 cents per pound.
SENATOR SMITH
CHALLENGES DORSEY
TO JOINT DEBATE
(Contlnaed from Page 1)
purpose to sink American vessels
and began executing their threat,
I voted for war and voted for the
draft.
Dorsey’s Silence
“Governor Dorsey, having just
been elected by Thomas £. Wat
son, who wrote his platform,
never chirped once on the sub
ject of the draft. Mr. Watson
I was attacking it all over Geor
gia and was attacking President
Wilson viciously. Governor Dor
sey, in close alliance with Mr.
Watson, and depending on him
for support, was in communica
tion with him, was dining with
him, and so far as the public
knew was giving support to his
assaults upon the draft.”
The invitation by Senator Smith to
Governor Dorsey to meet him in joint
debate is the second one issued by
the senator since the campaign start
ed. Two weeks ago he accepted what
was reported in the newspapers as
an invitation by Mr. Watson for a
joint debate, and appointed Felix
Jackson and William Schley Howard
as a committee to Arrange the de
tails. This acceptance by Senator
Smith elicited from Mr.- Watson the
assertion that he had never challeng
ed the senator. Som'e days later Sen
ator Smith renewed his acceptance
and publicly invited Mr. Watson to
meet him. That invitation remains
unanswered and unaccepted.
There is keen interest here, and
doubtless the same throughout the
state, to know what hhswer Gover
nor Dorsey will make t to Senator
Smith’s challenge for a joint debate
in the Atlanta auditorium.
Receives Ovation
Jumping from • the wiregrass sec
tion to the mountains of nortli Geor
gia, Senator Hoke Smith was given
an ovation by the people of Haber
sham and adjoining counties here to
day. The warmth and optimism of
his friends in the is not
one whit less than that of his fol
lowers in southwest Georgia, and
the same earnestness and zeal that
marked his visit to Terrell and Ran
dolph counties was apparent here to
day in Habersham.
Arriving this morning byway of
Cornelia, Senator Smith spent a cou
ple of hours before the court recessed
renewing acquaintances with old
friends* and meeting new ones. On
the Southern railway 7 train, coming
from Atlanta, the senator spent
much time in the smoking compart
ment, where he was surrounded at
all times by a crowd of admiring
friends, with whom he discussed fea
tures of the campaign. At Gaines
ville, Congressman Thomas M. Bell,
who is seeking re-election in the
Ninth district, boarded the train en
route to Clayton. He was accom
panied by his well-known brass band.
He and the senator chatted pleasant
ly as the train sped to Cornelia.
D. W. Autrey, who organized the
band many years ago and who is still
its leader, gave to Senator Smith a
most encouraging report concerning
his candidacy in this section of the
state. He has visited every section
of the Ninth district, and he declared
that the contest is between Senator
Smith and Thomas E., Watson, and
that the chances favor a victory for
the senator.
Citizens Who Heard Him
Among the well-known people whp
heard the senator at \ Clarksville
were F. M. Reeves, cashier of the
Habersham bank; F. L. Asbury, prom
inent merchant; O. B. Smith, real
estate; Judge J. A. Robinson, ordi
nary of Habersham county; Colonel
Robert McMillan, attorney; J. A.
Fry, farmer; M. K. Idester, farmer;
J. C. Grant, sheriff; ’G. P. Jones,
clerk of the court; W. R. Asbury,
J. E. Stewart, merchant; F. E.
Gabrells, ex-sheriff and assistant
cashier Habersham bank; S. F. Wood,
merchant; G. W. Wheeler, farmer; G.
Y. Catheya, farmer; Rev. J. R. Mc-
Alpin, Presbyterian minister; B. A.
Fry, merchant; Virgil E. McLain,
farmer; J. N. Blair, farmer; R. K.
Martin,’ farmer; J. D. Lambert, farm
er; J. H. Asbury, merchant; J. A.
Griggs, orchardist; John T. Hill,
farmer; J. D. Hill, sawmill operator,
and many others.
Among the crowd were many citi
zens from Rabun and other adjoin
ing counties.
The senator’s speech was along the
lines he has followed heretofore in
his discussions with she voters of
Georgia, and, as elsewhere this week,
he paid his respects to the forces and
motives of the opposititti to his re
election.
The great legislative achievements
of the Democratic administration, the
San Francisco platform and the pres
idential candidacy of Governor Cox
formed the chief burden of the
speech, and aroused unmistakable
evidences of indorsement.
Here, as in southwest Georgia, the
people, more especially the mer
chants, are exercised over the col
lection by the state of the illegal to
bacco tax and the payment to the col
lectors of a commission of 20 per
cent for exacting from the merchants
money that was really not due the
state.
The defense of the collection of
this illegal tax, as offered by the
Atlanta Constitution, is far from sat
isfactory to many citizens, who pro
fess to see in the defense an attempt
ot relieve Governor Dorsey of re
sponsibility for the collection and the
employment of the collectors at such
a healthy compensation..
“Senator Smith, in his Cordele
speech, admitted to having made
mistakes —mistakes that injured no
one but himself.” it was remarked
this morning. “He should be com
mended for his frankness. But when
Governor Dorsey is accused of blun
dering, the same influences that at
tack Senator Smith’s frankness seek
to excuse the governor at the- expense
of someone else.”
The State’s Finances
In his speech today, Senator Smith
made only passing reference to the
collection of the Illegal tobacco tax
along with his comment 4 about the
finances of the state, concerning
which he said:
“The state institutions are about
to be closed fox Jack, of funds to
Veterans of Civil War
Indorse Legion Fight
On Watson,Hardwick
Atlanta camp No. 159, United Con
federate Veterans, said to be the
largest camp of Confederate veterans
in the state, has indorsed the fight
of Atlanta post No. 1, American Le
gion, against Thomas E. Watson and
Thomas W. Hardwick, It was an
nounced Tuesday by M. C. Kollock,
commander of the camp.
Mr. Kollock stated that at a meet
ing Monday, the members of the
camp passed a resolution condemn
ing the candidacies of Messrs. Wat
son and Hardwick, praising the valor
of American soldiers in the late war,
commending the stand of Atlanta
post No. 1, of the Legion, and urging
other camps of Confederate veterans
in Georgia to take a similar stand.
“We do not wish to indulge in
politics,” said Mr. Kollock, “but the
members of the camp felt this was
a matter on which tney should ex
press themselves outright.”
UNFAIR TOBACCO TAX
NOT COLLECTED k IN
BIG GEORGIA CITIES
(Continued from. Page 1)
collected. The special tax investiga
tors and the county tax collectors
had taken the remaining 30 per cent
in commissions. Therefore, the posi
tion was taken by the state that the
state could not refund money it had
not received and could only 'make a
70 per cent refund except in cases
where the special tax investigators
and the county tax collectors were
willing to refund their commissions.
In such cases a 100 per cent refund
would be made.
As a matter of fact, some of the
special investigators and most of
the tax collectors were willing to
refund their commissions on cig
arette tobacco taxes illegally collect
ed. Some of them have refused to
make such refunds, declaring that
they went to considerable expense
in cellectlng the tax and are entitled
to the commission they received as
compensation for their work.
Thus far the governor’s warrants
have been drawn for about $8,200 in
refunds to merchants who paid the
illegal cigarette tobacco tax and who
have filed the proper affidavits show
ing that they are not liable for the
tax. In some cases these warrants
represent 100 per cent refunds, while
in many others they represent only
70 or 80 per cent of the total paid
by the merchant, depending on
whether the special tax investigator
and the county tax collector have
refunded their commissions. As fast
as such affidavits are forwarded to
the state capitol, the refund war
rants are drawn.
On January 1, 1920, the commis
sion paid to the special tax investi
gators was reduced from, -.0 t o 15
per cent and on this basis thej still
are operating to a greater or less
extent, although there have been no
cigarette tobacco taxes collected this
year.
operate. The state’s finances are in
a deplorable condition The s tuat on
suggests the lack of constructive
leadership in handling the affairs of
the state during the administration
of Governor Dorsey.
“The governor has suggested that
he attempted to relieve the.
condition by proposing to the legi.
Uture a amendment
providing for an income tax on the
people of Georgia. Yet, the governor
is a candidate for the n^te ° n
platform that pledged him to the re,
duetion of our federal inc ? m . e h^"^e
Senator Smith declared that the
governor’s suggested plan of an in
come tax could not have relieved the
situation.
“The people of the state mnst
tatify a constitutional amendment,
said the senator. “Every one knows
that If the constitutional amend
ment had boon submitted to the vot
ers of the state, nothing couid have
been done until the
legislature again next summer,
when it would have been authorized,
under the amended constitution, to
levy an income tax. But even so,
the tax still would have to be col
lected, and not a dollar of revenue
from such a source could have been
collected or made available before
1922.
“The dilemma of our state insti
tutions is immediate and pressing.
Money collected two years hence
won’t relieve a situatio nthat is
present today. In the meantime, all
of the institutions demand imme
diate relief.
“The governor, it seems to me,
should have foreseen the condition
into which he has plunged the state.
He should have studied the finances
of the state as closely as he has
studied the finances of his cotton
bank. The condition of temporary
bankruptcy might thus have been
avoided.” ... ~
Watson and. the Constitution
The relationship between Thomas
E. Watson and the Atlanta
Constitution came in for at
tention by Senator Smith. He read,
with telling effect, .the Constitutions
editorial declaring that while Mr.
Watson has differed with the admin
istration about the League of Na
tions, his voice and pen had sup
ported every act necessary for the
prosecution of the war and the main
tenance and support of the army.
"That was when the Constitution
was seeking a combination with Mr.
Watson before the recent presiden
tial convention in Atlanta,” said
Senator Smith. “And the Constitu
tion knew, as you people know, that
Mr. Watson sought to. obstruct the
draft, and actually attacked, its con
stitutionality in the courts. You
know, too, that his paper was sup
pressed by the government because
of its attitude during the war.”
Concerning the convention in At
lanta and the charge that he made
a deal with Mr. Watson, Senator
Smith quoted Mr. Watson’s own
words declaring that he (Smith) had
not spoken or written to him in
twelve years. He read, also, the edi
torial extract from Mr. Watson’s
paper; telling how he (Watson) had
prevented the convention from in
dorsing the administration.
“Mr. Watson says that a Palmer
delegate told him that I was send
ing a resolution of indorsement, and
that unless the convention was ad
journed, the Palmer delegates would
have to vote for it,” said the sen
ator. “And I had sent a resolu
tion to the convention, indorsing the
administration. Mr. Watson’s mo
tion to adjourn defeated the consid
eration of that resolution.”
QUIZ
New Questions
1. Does one-fourth of the popula
tion live In the eastern part of the
United States?
2. Who was the oldest president of
the United States?
3. Are most of the metals of the
world put to some use?
4. When and by whom was the
first operation for appendicitis per
formed in the United States?
5. What ,was the “Balm of Gil
ead”?
6. How fast do rats and mice in
crease?
7. How many of our presidents
were lawyers by profession?
8. Which has the fastest speed
record, automobile, motorcycle or air
plane?
9. Os what nationality was the or
iginal Hapsburg family?
10. What is the correct name of
the game known as “muniblety
peg”?
Questions Answered
1. Q. Since the constitution requires
a man to be forty-five years old in
order to be president, could Franklin
Roosevelt, who is but thirty-eight,
succeed Cox if he were elected and
did not serve out his term?
1. A. The constitution requires that
a man be thirty-five, not forty-five,
in order to be eligible to the office
of president. Theodore Roosevelt,
our youngest president, was forty
two when inducted into office.
2. Q. What are the sugar crop
prospects?
2. A. The department' of agricul
ture says that crop conditions on
July 1 promised an increase in next
fall’s sugar production in the United
States of approximately 333,000 tons.
This means that there should be
twenty-two pounds of sugar for each
person in the United States, an in
crease over last year of six pounds
each.
3. Q. A claims there is a difference
in value in the sum of 1,000,000 in
different countries. Is this true?
3. A. The word “billion" is dif
ferently interpreted in different
countries. In Ajnerica and France
1,000,000 is 1,000 million, while in
England and Germany it is 1,000,000
millions.
4. Q. How much does cork weigh?
4. A- Cork weighs 15.6 pounds to
the cubic foot.
5. Q. When was the night of the
big wind in Ireland? Can it be com
pared with cyclones and tornadoes
in this country?
5. A. On the night of January 6-7,
1839, a terrible tempest and hurri
cane prevailed. Limerick and Dub
lin suffered much damage, 200
houses were blown down, twenty per
sons killed and 100 drowned. Great
er storms ofte nvlsit the United
States, but this marks a date to the
Irish, since Ireland, is exceptionally
free from windstorms.
6. Q. —How fast do rats and mice
increase?
6. A. —The common brown rat breeds
six to ten times a year, producing an
average of -ten young at a litter. At
this rate a pair of rats, if not
checked, would at the end of three
years (eighteen generations) be in
creased to 359,709,482 individuals.
Our Washington information bureau
upon request will send a bulletin on
Destruction of Rats.
7. Q. —How many of our presi
dents were lawyers by profession?
7. A.—Twenty men who have been
elected to the presidency were law
yers.
8. Q. —Which has the fastest speed
record, motorcycle, automobile, or
airplane?
8. A.—The airplane has a record
of 176 miles an hour, the automobile
comes next with 156.04 miles an
hour, and the motorcycle last with
100 miles run in 1 hour 7 minutes
and 57 seconds.
9. Q. —Os what nationality was the
original Hapsburg family?
9. A. —The original family was
German, founded about 1100, to
which have belonged the rulers of
Austria since 1276, of Spain from
15,16 to 1700, and many of the Holy
Roman emperors.
10. Q. —What Is the correct name
of the game known as “Mumble-ty-
P e S ? ” .
10. A. —“Mumble-ty-peg is really
the name of this children’s game.
'Mumble-the-peg,” another designa
tion for the game, derives its name
from the fact that the loser must
draw a peg from the ground with his
teeth after it has been driven in by
the winner. The game consists of
a specified number of plays perform
ed with a jack-knife.
TENNESSEE 36TH
STATE TO RATIFY
19TH AMENDMENT
(Continued from Page 1)
will begin work to get a reconsidera
tion and will attempt to make th©
changes needed to turn defeat Into
victory. •
Women now will be able to vote in
the November elections on equality
with men, unless the amendment is
blocked in the courts or a reconsid
eration changes the result.
The session was one of the storm
iest in the history of the legisla
ture. Time and time again the ser
geant-at-arms was employed to re
store order. Speaker W’alker and
Representative Riddick, when the mo
tion to table was up, engaged in an
altercation that looked like it might
develop into a fight and the sergeant
at arms and several members rushed
to them. , . .
Spectators hooted. cheered ana
hissed when the faction to which
they adhered scored a point. This
made the transaction of business
difficult. The speaker threatened at
orfe time to adjourn the house un
' less the members took their seats.
Several had to be persuaded by the
sergeant-at-arms.
A legal attack will be made on
suffrage, according to the officers
of the Tennessee Constitutional
league, which is composed of law
yers. The argument will be that the
state constitution forbids action at
this session of the legislature.
Aside from this and the possibility
of a change in the result through
a reconsideration, the only step re
maining to make the nineteenth
amendment operative is the promul
gation of a decree from th© secretary
of state.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1020.
FARMERSTOSTUDY
TOBACCO CROP IN
TOUR OF CAROLINA
Delegations Os farmers from the
Georgia “tobacco counties,” and from
Georgia counties which plan to go in
for the wealth-producing crop that
has made the Carolinas rich and
famous, will go on tour early in
September,’ on a week’s pilgrimage
through North and South ! Carolina,
to see how tobacco is grown and
cured and handled by experts with
a heritage of generations of suc
cessful tobacco growing and market
ing back of them.
At least, this is the plan suggest
ed by the Atlanta, Birmingham and
Atlantic railway development de
partment, and at present the idea
gives every promise of an interest
ing and productive fulfillment.
Chambers of commerce, boards of
trade, tobacco warehousemen, the
state college of agriculture, and other
railroads interested, all are consider
ing the plan; and W. W. Croxton,
passenger traffic manager of the A.,
B. & A., Is receiving some most en
couraging letters in regard to pros
pective delegations of farmers for
the trip.
The general idea is that Georgia
is capable of producing in many
counties very fine tobacco, and, in
fact, is producing "some” tobacco;
but that the size and quality of the
crop should be vastly increased—and
that first-hand inspection of the
methods in the old established to
bacco belt 4s the best way to bring
this about.
The proposed itinerary Includes
Florence, S. C.; Wilson, Greenville,
Rocky Mount, Henderson and San
ford, N. C. It is suggested that the
going trip be made through Savan
nah and the return trip through At
lanta, with stops at the points men
tioned and at Athens, Ga„ where the
Georgia State College of Agriculture
is located.
The cost of the entire trip—of one
week —will amount to approximately
SIOO, including railroad fare, sleep
ing car berth for the entire trip,
m6als, etc.
The Georgia State College of Agri
culture will take the lead in
"field inspection,” and the local
of commerce, boards of
trade, ot county agents, will be re
quested to handle the details for
each county. It is hoped there will
be enough farmers from the tobacco
counties to secure a separate sleep
ing car for each county.
Any one desiring to make the trip
is requested to get in touch’ with
his county agent, county board of
trade, or chamber of commerce, or
write direct to W. W. Croxton. P. T.
M„ A., B. & A. railway, Atlanta.
Chief of Police Is
Sentenced to Pen
COVINGTON, Ky., Aug. 17. —Sen-
tence of one year in the federal pris
on at Atlanta, Ga., and S2OO fine was
given L. E. Bullock, former chief of
police of Covington, in federal dis
trict court here late yesterday by
Judge A. M Cochran. Block re
signed as police chief last week after
his conviction on indictments carg-
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