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NEWS OF THE SOUTHLAND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS
NORTH CAROLINA
JMBIDS VlLLE.—Austin Carter, 50
jßeln ville Va., insurance man, shoots
instantly kills his wife, 35, at
home of her father, here, turns gun
on John Price, 35, brother-in-law,
who was fatally wounded, and shoots
Mrs. Price, 30, who is seriously
wounded. Effort to shoot mother-in
law fails, gun being empty. Carter
flees and is sought by posse. Police
are told Carter accused Price of
ruining his home.
HluH POlNT.—Sylvester Bolton
Os Commerce, Ga., arrested recently
on various charges of larceny and
convicted in police court, is taken to
Greensboro jail to await trial In su
perior court on score of indictments.
He was given 18 months on roads by
local recorder. Rome, Ga., police
wired l.e is wanted there for lar
ceny.
RALEIGH. —State college team
won first place in intercollegiate crop
judging contest held at Chicago in
connection with International Live
Stock and Grain Exposition.
GREENSBORO.— Charging bride
of five months proved unfaithful, R.
M. McCants, insurance man. institu
tutes divorce proceedings. His wife
has returned to parents at Key
stone, W. Va. • ■
HIGH POlNT.—Methodist Protest
ant college announces plan to build
two dormitories each to cost about
SIOO,OOO.
OXFORD.—T. M. Humphreys,
farmer, adopts two young daughters
of Mrs. Lucy Eastwood when su
perior court decrees she must im
mediately leave state. She is held
in jail pending completion of ar
rangements for her departure.
RALEIGH.—General Julian S.
Carr, of Durham, former comman
der-in-chief of United Confederate
Veterans, heads list of six appointed
by Governor Morrison on Stone
Mountain Memorial commission, and
they’ will represent state in matters
connected with Confederate me
morial being cut on Stone mountain,
near Atlanta.
ASSEMBLY SESSION
IDOED BIG REVENUE.
STATE CHIEFS ffi
Although the recent extra session
of the Georgia legislature failed to
enact any new tax law, the bills it
did pass will more than compensate
the commonwealth for the $90,000 the
session cost, in the opinion of various
state officials. The session lasted 38
days, and the state treasurer esti
mates the total cost at $90,000.
The claim that the session more
thAn paid its own way is based on
tlie encatment of the revenue depart
ment bill, the auditing bill, the new
general tax act, and the measure per
fecting the Milner cigar and cigarette
tax law.
Comptroller General William A.
Wright stated Saturday that he has
not been able to get a copy of the
general tax act, but it is his impres
sion that the new bill will raise more
revenue than the present law, and it
is also his opinion that the newly
created revenue department, with
field agents to go after delinquent
taxpayers, 'will bring a large amount
into the treasury.
Revenue Estimates Vary
The comptroller general would not
estimate the probable amount to be
derived from the revenue department
bill, but other officials placed the es
timate at from $500,000 to $2,000,000.
They based their predictions on the
powers given the new department to
enforce the inheritance tax laws, the I
gasoline tax law, the motor vehicle j
fax law, and special taxes imposed oy j
the general tax act. It was pointed 1
out that neither the state tax com-,
missioned nor the comptroller gener-!
al has had the authority heretofore'
to send out field agents, or even to'
check up on the collection of special
state taxes by county tax collectors.
The new bill providing machinery
tor the enforcement of the Milner
cigar and cigarette tax law, and the
placing of this tax under the super
vision of the revenue department,
will guarantee the enforcement of
this law, it was believed. It has been
estimated that the cigar and cigar
ette tax will bring in more than $2,-
000,000, to be used for a new tuber
culosis sanitarium at Alto and the
payment of Confederate pensions.
Bill Injunction-Proof
Representative Milner, of Dodge
eounty, author of the bill, believes
that the new act makes his bill in
junction-proof, and that there will
uow be no obstacles in the way of
its enforcement.
The bill creating a state auditing
iepartment, with instructions to
jheck all departments and institu
tions supported by the state, is also
expected to be a great benefit,
through curbing expenditures and
working out a regular budget system
tor the various branches of the gov
ernment..
Governor Walker has not inti
mated his probable selections for the
positions of state revenue commis
sioner and state auditor created by
the new bills. The governor was
given the power to appoint both of
ficials, and also to approve the selec
tion of their assistants.
Congressman Gordon Lee Satur
day wired the governor, congratulat-
Jng him and the legislature on the
enactment of the revenue depart
ment bill, and suggesting the ap
pointment of John M. Vandiver, of
Rome, as the commissioner. The
name of H. K. DeJarnette, of Eaton
ton, also has been suggested for this
position.
Dozier’s Name Mentioned
The name of James Dozier, of
Athens, has been suggested for the
position of stat.., auditor, as well as
tor state revenue commissioner. Mr.
Dozier is a close personal friend of
Governor Walker.
The two new positions pay $4,000
sach, and traveling expenses. The
state auditor has the appointment of
:wo examiners at $2,400 each, while
the revenue eommissiontr has au
thority to appoint field agents at
salaries not to exceed S2OO a month.
Traveling expenses are allowed in
Poth departxnents.
P. T. McCutchen, state superin
tendent of printing, said Saturday
that he leas already received bids for
printing Vxe stamps to be affixed
to cigars g.ud cigarettes, and can get
the stamps delivered before the law
becomes effective January 1. The
design approved by the comptroller
general bears the state seal as a
centerpiece, with stalks of tobacco
on each side. An order will be placed
for 3,500,000 stamps, of seven de
nominations.
Carswell and Neill Satisfied
President George H. Carswell, of
the senate, and Speaker W. Cecil
Neill, of the house of representatives,
were at the capitol Saturday, closing
up their personal affairs, prepara
tory to returning to their homes.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
HIGH POINT. —Crowd stands
horror-stricken as feeble woman, ap
parently 70 years of age, starts to
cross railway track in ignorance of
approach of fast train, and she is
dragged to safety by Section Fore
man C. E. Nabors, train thundering
by instant later, sparks flying from
wheels under- pressure of break*.
Engineer Perkinson hurries back to
thank Nabors, and ip excitement old
woman disappears.
ROCKING H A M —Th i rtee nt h mill
for this town is provided for in con
tract awarded by Hannah Pickett
Co. It will be built by T. C. Thomp
son Brothers, before April 1, 1924,
and will have 25,000 spindles, SOO
looms.
RALEIGH.—Every former slave
in Wake county will be brought here
and given seat of honor at one of
most unusual banquets ever held in
city when negroes celebrate Janu
ary 1, sixty-first anniversary of is
sue of emancipation proclamation.
CHARLOTTE.—Mr.s Harry Her
man, 33, wife of Atlanta, Ga. sales
man, formerly of Charlotte and New
York, said by relatives to be one of
first persons to take insulin treat
ment for diabetes, is buried here,
body being brought from Atlanta,
where death occurred.
CHARLOTTE. Not only is
sanctity of home, bulwark of nation,
threatened but perpetuity of Amer
ica itself is endangered by .spread of
divorce evil, says Dr. W. W. Orr, in
sermon, in which he says evil has at
tained greater proportion in North
Carolina than New York.
RALEIGH. Governor Morrison
declares he will use all available
power to prevent lynchings when he
writes sharp reply to J. R. Boddie,
clerk of Nash county board of com
missioners, in answer to board’s res
olution condemning governor’s action
in sending troops to Nashville for
guard duty during trial of Lee
Washington, convicted and sentenced
to death for attack on white woman.
GASTONIA—North Carolina Bap
tist convention opens ninety-third an
Eighty-Five Dead,
And Many Injured
In Columbia Quake
BOGOTA, Colombia, Dec. 15. —(By
the Associated Press.) —Many per
sons have been killed, and a larger
number injured by an earthquake
which today destroyed two small
towns in the region of Ipiales, near
the Colombian-Ecuadorian frontier.
Already eighty-five dead have
been recovered from the ruins of
Cumbal, which, with the town of
Chile, suffered most severely from
the effects of the shocks, according
to the reports thus far received.
Among those who perished were
the wife and father of the mayor ot
Cumbal.
The from Cumbal to Ipiales
is obstructed by great landslides
and the full extent of the earthquake
has not yet been learned. Numerous
surrounding villages are believed to
have been badly damaged, and a
commission of government officials
i as been sent to inspect the affected
zone. As usual in such cases there
are many homeless and there is a
lack of food and shelter.
Blizzard Death Toll
In New Mexico Grows
As Reports Come In
ALBUQUERQUE, N. 8., Dee. 15.
The death toll in the New Mexico
blizzard this week was increased to
eleven today when it became known
that Leonada Apodaca, 70, had been
frozen to death near Encino. His
body was found by aY searching
party.
Thirty-five automobile tourists still
are trying to get through the snow
drifts between San Marcial and Hot
Springs. The rest of the caravan,
which at one time included 300 per
sons, has made its way through and
many tourists are returning to Al
buquerque.
Hot Springs today sent out a force
of men to assist the remainder of
the stranded tourists in getting out.
Cotton Bloc Promised
Government’s Aid in
Crop Reporting Reform
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Secre
tary Wallace promised today to co
operate with members of the Cotton
bloc in congress in studying pos
sible changes in the system of cot
ton crop reporting. He told Repre
sentative Rankin, Democrat, Missis
sippi, chairman of a committee of
the bloc, the department of agricul
ture would send experts to confer
with the committee in considering
the problem. A meeting will be held
next week.
Florida Concern Gets
Big Timber Concession
TAMPA, Fla., Dec. 15.—W. F.
Miller, president of a realty and
mortgage company here, announced
today the completion of what he
said was the largest deal of its kind
I consummated in the state in some
time. The company acquired the
holdings of Charles D. Haines, of
Altamonte Springs, Fla., in the re
public of Santo Domingo, and will
incorporate a company capitalized
1 at $2,000,000 to develop the property
: comprising 360,000 acres or 589
j square miles of the finest hardwoods
j available in the world, according to
j Mr. Miller. The wood will be ship
. ped here and to other points in the
i state to be made up into furniture.
Both expressed satisfaction with the
co-operation they had received from
the members of the houses over
which they had presided during the
extra session, and declared that a
great deal of good for the state had
been accomplished by the extra ses
} sion.
President Carswell is expected to
- run for governor in the next Demo
i cratic primary. Speaker Neill prob
■ ably will make the race for the
j house, as representative of Muscogee
| county, and be a candidate for speak
;er again. He is a prospective can
didate for governor in 1926. In the
, event he should not seek re-election
as speaker, Representative Milner,
j of Dodge county, and Representative
Russell, of Barrow county, would
probably be opposing candidates for
the speakership.
Representative Sapp, of Whitefield
county, has announced that he will
make the race for the senate from
his district, and be a candidate for
president of the senate, if elected.
Representative Elders, of Tatnall
county, and Representative Coving
ton, of Colquitt county, have been
mentioned frequently as possible
candidates for governor, either in
1924 0r»1926.
nual session, with Dr. B. W. Spill
man, of Kinston, presiding. Princi
pal subjects are $75,000,000 campaign
and plan for developing greater Mer
edith college on newly purchased
site near Raleigh.
SOUTH CAROLINA
GREENVILLE. —Captain H. S.
Wilkins, of United States war de
partment, is in state making survey
of industrial plants that would serve
for ordnance manufacture in case
of war.
GREAT FALLS. —Bernie Barber,
negress. is electrocuted when live
wire falls on clothes line on which
she is hanging wet clothes.
SPA RT AN B URG. —Fed era 1 Judge
H. H. Watkins announces that after
January 1 violators of national pro
hibition law will be given fines too
heavy to pay, and for second of
fenses will be sent to federal peni
tentiary for five years, without fine
alternative.
COLUMBIA.—HaII of house of
representatives is crowded for gov
ernor's state-wide law enforcement
conference, when Henry Tillman,
Greenwood; Solicitor Ira Blackwood,
Spartanburg; Mrs. Joseph Sprott,
Manning; Rion McKissick, of
Greenville, and others deliver stir
ring addresses on need of co-opera
tion for prohibition enforcement.
AIKEN.—Mrs. Joseph Leiter, of
New York and Washington, aunt of
Lady Alexander Curzon, of England,
whose engagement to Prince George
is about to be announced, has taken
Ridgeley hall for tourist season,
which is now in full blast.
COLUMBIA. —Permit is issued to
Hanna Manufacturing company for
erection of hardwood handle factory
here.
GREENWOOD.—Last week in
January is to be “pay out week”
for centenary movement in upper
South Carolina Methodist confer
ence.
COLUMBIA—Farris .Bailey, 19,
ordered out of Barnwell by police
man, walks to Columbia, sixty miles,
with one of severest cases of small
pox city health authorities here ever
NICOTINE IS FOUND
0000 IS MITE
IN WEEVIL CONTROL
CLEMSON S. C., Dec.
16.—Judging from results secured by
the South Carolina experimgrit sta
tion during 1923, nicotine promises
speedily to become an efficient
poison for controlling the boll weevil,
according to a statement given out
here today by Prof. A. F. Conradi,
entomologist of the station. Pro
fessor Conradi’s statement follows:
“Since the successful adaptation
of calcium arsenate to boll weevil
control by the bureau of entomolo
gy of the United States department
of agriculture a few years ago. there
has been a -continually increasing
demand for this poisoin. Realizing
the vastness of the cotton acreage
of this country, as well as the limi
tations of the source of arsenic
the South Carolina experiment sta
tion undertook the investigation of
the commercially available poisons
other than arsenic with a view of
being able ultimately to adapt one
or more to the problem of boll
weevil control. After a careful sur
vey of the field of commercially
available toxins and the conclusion
of a. series of preliminary experi
ments with various materials, it
became apparent that, aside from
arsenic, nicotine* properly prepared
and applied gave the greatest meas
ure of promise.
“A series of tests was therefore
inaugurated at Clemson college and
neighboring points to determine as
far as possible the practical value
of the nicotine dusts under field con
ditions. Throughout these experi
ments calcium arsenate was used
for comparison because the efficien
cy of this poison in weevil control
had been fully established. The re
sults secured in these tests are quite
convincing that nicotine dusts will
speedily develop, so that the in
creasing demand for weevil poisons
may be economicallj’- met.
“In this series of tests the gains
secured from both the nicotine and
the calcium arsenate dusts were
approximately the same and ranged
from two hundred to six hundred
pounds of seed cotton per acre. Ex
pressed in terms of money at cur
rent prices for lint and seed, the
gains would vary from S2O to S6O
per acre after deducting cost of
poison and labor for the season.
“Although these field tests repre
sent only one season’s work in the
field and it is fully realized that a
great deal remains to be done in
the way of research and experiment
ing. yet the uniformly satisfactory
results secured in the various tests
are so assuring that it is felt that
this information should be placed
before the public without waiting
until these tests have been repeated
during another year or two. A de
tailed report is now in preparation
and will be issued shortly.
“The new nicotine dust prepara
tions used in these investigations
are white in color, resembling cal
cium arsenate dust, except that they
may be identified by a pungent odor
and that for the present they are
arsenate. The nicotine dusts can
be prepared cheaper than the arse
nics, and although pungent in odor,
they are harmless in foliage. They
appear to be quicker in action, while
no serious infestation of plant lice
occurred on the nicotine-dusted
areas during the season.
“The nicotine dusts are derived
from waste tobacco, a staple in
Southern agriculture. Tobacco de
coctions and dusts have long been
known and used by farmers, fruit
growers and truckers, but it is only
in more recent years that the ac
tion of nicotine has been better
understood and material progress
made in harnessing this product to
better advantage. It seems to affect
the weevil’s nervous system, pro
ducing a multitude of symptoms giv
ing every evidence of being a vio
lent poison to the weevil.
“Used extensively’ under field con
ditions, no bad results were ex
perinced either by the operators of
the machines or by the mules while
cattle grazing on adjoining pastures
which had received heavy drifts of
the dust from the previous night’s
poisoning were not affected. During
the dusting experiments the ma
chine operators carried handker
chiefs tied around their necks to
draw over the nose whenever condi
tions were such as to make it neces
sary to remain in the cloud for some
time. This seemed to be no serious
inconvenience and could be done
saw, and is under care of city
physicians.
COLUMBIA. —Work is starting
on demolition of building at Camp
Jackson, recently purchased for ap
proximately quarter ot million dol
lars, by Harris Brothers, of Chicago.
H. Barry,
government statistician, reports gin
nings for Spartanburg county to De
cember 1 as 57,261, as compared with
53,721 last year.
COLUMBIA.—h7~C. Hahn, of Ai
ken; R. F. Long, of Newberry; J. T.
Perkins, of Chester; J. Robert Long,
of Newberry; W. C. Martin, of
Branchville, and other prominent
planters, issue statements showing
that cotton co-operative marketing
associations has increased price of
cotton for this year.
COLUMBIA.—Dr7H. W. Evans, ot
Atlanta, head of the Ku Klux Klan,
delivers address to large audience in
old Billy Sunday tabernacle here.
CHA RLESTON.—Mr. and Mrs. J.
H. Jett “go broke” on their honey
moon and start out to walk to
Florida to find work, but policemen
turn them over to charity organiza
tion. which is now seeking job for
“hubby.’’
SPARTANBURG. Agricultural
agents of Piedmont section have
worked out platform for farmers of
section whereby their aim will be
to plant cotton in 1924, but not to
extent that it becomes detrimental
in working out live-at-home pro
gram of diversification.
FLORENCE. —Demand Jn north
for South Carolina sweet potatoes is
greater than ever, with prices good,
and the South Carolina Sweet Pota
to association is making effort to
ship 200 additional carloads to
northern markets, according to
Thomas B. Young, president.
ALABAMA
WATERLOO—B. H. Cooper, cash
ier Bank of Waterloo, and E. W.
Lard prevent bank robbery in pitch
ed battle. Wyman Parker, bandit,
is seriously’ shot. F. S. Archer and
Joe Ray, other members of bandit
band, are arrested.
Coolidges Brave Cold
Wind for Rest Trip
Aboard Mayflower
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—After a
busy week filled with conferences on
the approaching campaign, the repa
rations situation and affairs incident
to the assembling of congress, Presi
dent Coolidge sought a few hours
rest this afternoon in a voyage down
the Potomac on the yacht Mayflower.
The chief executive and Mrs. Cool
idge were accompanied on the trip
by several friends. The voyage was
undertaken despite a chill wind and
the lowest temperature of the late
fall.
FLAMES IN BOSK
PART OF CHARLOTTE
00 HIT DAMAGE
I
CHARLOTTE, N*. C„ Dec. 17.
Damage estmiated at from $500,000
to SBOO,OOO was done here Sunday
night by a fire in the East Trade
street mercantile section.
The building occupied by Smith-
Wadsworth company, the building
occupied by the H. C. Long company
and La Mode, Efird's annex, Belk
department store’s garage, Warren’s
barber shop, and George A. New
man’s tire service were destroyed.
Considerable water and smoke dam
age was done to Belk's department
store, the store of the Gatlin Dry
Goods company and the United
States Fidelity and Indemnity com
pany.
Policeman.ls Held
As One of Bandit
Gang in New York
NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—Patrolman
Percy’ J. Hagan was arrested tonight
as one of three bandits who held
up a drug store in the Bath Beach
section of Brooklyn.
Max Tumerman, proprietor of the
store, identified the policeman as
one of the robbers, but the other
two escaped.
48 LaFolette Pictulres
In Wisconsin Capitol
MADISON, Wis., Dec. 15.—Forty
eight pictures, by actual count, of
■Wisconsin’s political idol, Sentaor
Robert M. LaFollette, a<jorn the
halls and offices of the state capitol
here. They range from an enlarged
photograph, four feet wide and ten
feet long to a small miniature In
oils which rests on the desk of one
of the senator’s oldest friends. Many
of them are autographed for friends
with whom he waged his early
political battles in the state. It is
impossible to find a single spot
where the visitor to the capitol is
locks of Senator LaFollette.
War on Cattle Tick
Pushed in Florida
TALLAHASSE, Fla., Dec. 15—Ef
forts are being made by the state
sanitary livestock board to begin
tick eradication work in zones 2 and
13 at the same time, it was stated
today following consideration of the
matter by the board here yesterday.
A committee was appointed to look
into the matter.
At the same time the work will be
carried on in Gadsden and Duval
counties in addition to the present
tick free area composed of Palm
Beach, Broward, Dade and Monroe
counties.
Oldest Odd Fellow
In United States Dead
SPRINGFIELD, O„ Dec. 15.—Rev.
John Hunt, 101, oldest member of
the Odd Fellows fraternity in the
United States, died at the I. O. O.
F. home here today. His last birth
day was celebrated October 17.
Rev. Hunt was born in Lowell,
Mass. His mother lived to be 103.
He was a graduate of Brown uni*
verslty, and was ordained in the Bap
tist ministry in 1842.
without interrupting dusting opera
tions.
“Efforts are now being directed
toward further perfection of the
product with the hope of producing
a sufficient quantity jn 1924 to be
of material assistance in the weevil
fight.”
MANCHESTER.—When fox hunt
ing party of boys build fire and go
to sleep, Clark DeMoinie’s clothing
catches fire and he is seriously
burned.
SCOTTSBORO—State officers on
raiding party near here capture six
stills, 21,000 gallons of beer and
considerable whisky, and arrest six
men.
GREENSBORO—With cotton at
thirty-five cents farmers of county
are rushing crop to town.
MU—CLE SHOALS. —Health de
partment makes highest record ever
achieved at government Camp. Rec
ord is 100 per cent. For five years
no deaths have been recorded on
reservation here.
FLORENCE.—WhiIe in friendly
scuffle with sister-in-law, Miss Car
rie Pruitt, Merlon Holtsford is se
riously wounded in stomach with
pair of scissors.'
HUNTS VILLE.—C. W. Andwson,
of Union City, Tenn., is in serious
condition here from drinking dena
tured alcohol pilfered from doctor’s
office.
MONTGOMERY—L. K. Burton, of
Cherokee county, convicted of mak
ing whisky, asks pardon on ground
that he had 2,500 bushels of corn and
1,000 gallons sorghum and could find
no market for it, so he made it up
into whisky.
ATHENS. —Colonel L. G. Hightow
er purchases lot for SIO,OOO and pre
sents it to Methodist church as site
for church. *
AUBURN. Clifton Kirkpatrick,
president of Alabama Pecan Growers’
association, says day will come when,
pecan will rival cotton as money crop
in south.
TALLADEGA. —Talladega sisters
are brides at double wedding. The
couples are Miss Mattie Jeanette
Grice and Henry R. Caldwell, and
Miss Ella Dixie Grice and Roy Davis.
Both grooms are soldiers of Fort
Oglethorpe, Ga.
FLORENCE—Citizens of Tri-Cit
ies disapprove of new offer for Mus
cle Shoals to purchase generated
power from government for $2,500,-
BRYAN VOLUNTEERS
TO NAME SOUTHERN
MAN IS PRESIDENT
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Dec. 15
| William Jennings Bryan will present
I to the Democratic convention the
name of a southern Democrat for
president if elected delegate from
Florida, he said in a statement issued
here today on his return from Wash
ington. The commoner would not
' name the man whose name he plans
to present but stated that it is not
William G. McAdoo nor Oscar W.
Underwood. He stated that the man
he has in mind is dry and progres
sive.
The Bryan statement follows:
“Im I am elected a delegate from
I Florida I shall present to the conven
j tion the name of a southern Demo
crat for presiednt. He is both dry
and progressive.
“I would like to have the conven
tion held in a southern city. For a
generation the south has been send
ing its delegates to all parts of the
north. We have earned the right
to have the convention near enough
for the southern people to attend
without the expense incident to %
long journey.
Sees Split in G. O. P.
“The congressional plot thickens.
Every day furnishes new evidence
of the deep and widening gulf be
tween the reactionary Republicans
and the progressive Republicans. It
goes without saying that any breach
between these two sections of the
party increases the fehantfa of reme
dial legislation in this congress and
of our party’s prospects next year.
“A majority of the country is pro
gressive, as is shown by the fact that
the Democrats and progressive Re
publicans combined have a majority
in both houses. That being true,
the Democrats and progressive Re
publicans ought to unite in the or
ganization of both houses and in
| the framing of legislation.
“The tax question seems likely to
be the biggest issue. The president
has announced himself as against
the bonus, while a majority of both
houses are for it. This is sure to
make a very interesting fight. The
president proposes a cut of about
$300,000,000 in the revenue, but he
proposes no reduction - in the tariff
burden which is ten times as great
and which goes into the pockets of
the manufacturers.
For Excess Profits Tax
“He also opposes the re-enactment
: of the excess profits tax, the most
just tax elected during the war. The
year before the repeal of this tax
it brought $750,000,000 into the treas
ury. If that tax is re-enacted, con
gress will be able to make a reduc
tion of six or seven hundred millions
instead of $300,000,000, and the Dem
ocrats will make the reduction on
fairer lines than the reactionary Re
publicans.
“The Democrats and prbgressive
Republicans stand together in favor
iof the re-enactment of the excess
profits tax and the soldier bonus.
The bonus can be paid for by special
taxes without any addition to gen
eral taxation. In fact, the plan,
when developed, will provide for
both the bonus and a greater reduc
tion of taxation than the Repub
licans propose.
“This is going to be a very inter
esting session of congress—the most
interesting in many years. Out of
this session will come the issues of
the campaign, and the fight in the
senate and house may develop the
leaders of the campaign.”
Another Child Labor
Measure Presented
By Senator Lodge
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15—Another
child labor amendment was introduc
ed today in the senate. It was pre
sented by Senator Lodge, Republi
can, Massachusetts, and would give
congress power to regulate hours of
labor of all persons under eighteen.
Ma Must Not Know
j Daughter —lt says here in the
I paper they have a dinosaur on dis
play at the Bon Marche.
Mr. Neurich —For Heaven's sake,
don't tell your ma—she'll want to
buy it and w’ear it to the dinner
table. —Florida Times-Union.
Texas Committee Woman
DALLAS, Texas, Dec. 15.—Mrs.
Nonie Boren Mahoney, of Dallas,
was elected the national Democratic
committeewoman from Texas by the
Texas state Democratic committee
he>r'’ today.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1923.
000 yearly, saying this will defeat
will of millions of farmers who want
power used to manufacture fertilizer.
HUNTSVILLE.—Jim Abernathy,
sixteen, follows in footsteps of his
father, who is on chaingang for sell
ing whisky. Boy is arrested and
fined SSO on similar charge.
FLORIDA
TALLAHASSEE—Mrs. Ada L.
Tyre, of Fort Pierce, appointed sup
ervisor of registration for St. Lucie
county to succeed Ed Edge resigned.
ST. PETERSBURG—Strains of
“Yes, we hate no bananas,” played
by J. C. Clark, blind organist, in
Pheil theater quiets audience and
prevents incipient panic as film
catches fire with small explosion.
ORLANDO. —Building permits ag
gregating $80,025 were issued last
Wednesday, bringing total for De
cember to $172,575. Sum brings
year’s aggregate construction to $3,-
002,468, gain of approximately SIOO,-
000 over 1922.
PENSACOLA—On account of
early beginning of half-million dol
lar contract on Escambia bridge,
huge celebration is being planned,
to take place day big contract is
started. Big barbecue is planned and
>,vo or more counties of western
Florida district, and several coun
ties from Alabama and Georgia will
be invited.
TALLAHASSEE. Ter capita
taxation of Floridians for 1923 will
be approximately $27 each above
city taxes and those for special
drainage districts, assuming that
present population of state is 1,-
000,000.
GEORGIA APPLES
OF NIGH QUALITY
BRING FINE PRICE
CEDARTOWN, Ga., Dec. 15— Up
in north Georgia, at a little station
known as Esom Hill, near Cedar
town, there is an apple orchard that
was once a cotton plantation. As a
cotton plantation it was not much
of a success—in fact, the boll weevil
nit it so hard that its owner was
more than willing to sell it at a
sacrifice. On its 8,000 acres there
are now 50,000 apple trees, some
just coming into bearing, and last
year more than 20,000 boxes of ap
ples were shipped, not only to north
ern markets, but to England and
other foreign countries as well.
When the first trees came into
bearing several years ago, a special
box was packed and sent to Presi
dent Woodrow Wilson. The box con
tained only 26 apples and they were
the biggest and best apples ever
shipped out of the state, according
to all reports.
Then several boxes were shipped
to England for trial. They were
snapped up by the leading mer
chants of the country for sale to
the royalty, and those that were not
disposed of that way were sold on
the common market for 50 cents
apiece.
Now these apples are on demand
at all of the leading hotels of New
York and other eastern cities, where
they are baked, and sold, with
whipped cream, for the price of 75
cents a dish.
What does it? Quality. Merely
that and nothing more. The apples
from this erstwhile cotton farm are
said - to be superior in size and flavor
to any apples on the market, hence
they get the cream of the trade and
the top of the market prices.
Owned by Georgia Man
But let Charles R. Porter, of
Rome, Ga.. one of the owners and
| managers of the orchard, tell how
I it is done:
j “To grow quality apples you must
first have the right sort of soil,” says
I Mr. Porter, who was in Atlanta to-
■ day. “Just any kind of soil won’t
! do. Apples need a freestone soil and
I one strongly impregnated with iron
to do their best. The soil of Haral-
I son, Polk and other north Georgia
! counties is especially adapted to the
i growing of apples, which gives one,
' you might say, a natural advantage
j in the business.
I “Then you cannot plant an or-
I chard and expect it to produce a
I fortune for you all by itself. You
I must take care of it. We
i our orchard frequently in the spring
; and summer, and especially during
dry spells, to conserve all the mois
ture possible for the trees. Moisture
is what makes the apples grow, and
if your trees cannot get it they will
never produce first-class fruit. So
that is an important thing in han-
I dling an orchard.
“In the fall we always put in a
cover crop of some kind. Wh. ,
first, because we want to stop the
trees from growing. Trees that
make a heavy growth late in the
fall are easily winter-killed, <«r dam
i aged by frost and freezes. They
j have to be hardened up, as it were.
! Then, again, soil that is left un
covered during the winter is almost
I sure to wash —especially on hilly
' land. At last, but not least, a cover
crop utilizes what fertilizer may re
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RAPHS
This is indicated by assessment
figures for state, made public by
state comptroller, showing assessed
value of property to be $445,103,181,
as compared to $421,448,514 last
year, increase of $23,654,667.
Under this valuation $27,025,603.-
09 must be paid to state and coun
ties for all purposes. This is in
crease of $4,083,012.76 over 1922.
Last year’s total was $22,942,590.33.
BARTOW—Joseph’ W. Wood
ward, former clerk of the Polk coun
ty board of public instruction, re
cently pardoned after serving great
er part of two years’ sentence at
Raiford, for misfeasance in office,
eommitts suicide at home of broth
er, in this city, by drinking several
ounces of carbolic acid. ~4n note,
found when his body was discovered
after death, he seemed to be par
ticularly worried over the fact that
his wife would not give up good po
sition held in Tampa, and take up
life in Bartow with him. Her
friends allege that while it was
true that she had refused to give
up her place, which enabled her to
support herself and child, she was
willing to resume wifely duties as
soon as he had established himself.
ORLANDO—F. B. Mills, of New
York and Florida, announces that
he is planting 2,000,000 gladioli bulbs
at Orange county garden farm near
Orlando. Bulbs will be in soon after
January, 1, and by March and early
April pldce will be riot of color and
beauty, as it was last year. There
is no more beautiful sight in Florida
than these great fields of brightly
colored gladioli, stretching out al
most as far as the eye can see.
SENATE DEMANDS
IMMEDIATE REPLY
FROM SHIP.BOARD
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15—A res
olution charging the shipping board
with having “neglected and re
fused” to respond to a resolution,
and at the last session, and direct
ing it to make “immediate reply,”
was adopted today by the senate.
It was offered by Senator King.
Democrat, Utah.
The original resolution, approved
last January 16, called on the board
for the names of all attorneys who
have been employed by the board or
the Emergency Fleet corporation
together with their salaries or fees.
It also asked whether any attor
neys who have acted upon the per
manent staff of the board or cor
poration have resigned to enter pri
vate practice and thereafter accept
ed retainers or fees from the board
or corporation.
main in the soil. It does nqt leak
out, but remains in the form of
nitrogen to be turned back into the
soil later for the benefit of the trees.
“Culling is another important fac
tor. If we see there is too much
fruit setting, we cull it heavily. It
is much better to .have a relatively
small number of ! high-class apples
than it is to have! a great quantity
of small second or third-class sam
ples of fruit.”
Mr. Porter, who was for many
years the head of a large insurance
company, is now a well-known capi
talist, residing in Rome, where he is
called “The Apple King of Georgia.”
He is a great believer in the future
development of the apple industry in
Georgia, being a leading member of
the North Georgia Apple Growers’
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G. F. HUNNICUTT,' .
FARMER - EDITDB,
TO OPPOSE BROWN
G. F. Hunnicutt, prominent farm
er and editor of the Southern Culti- »
vator, a well known farm publica
tion, is a candidate for commissioner
of agriculture of Georgia in oppos>
tion to John J. Brown, the incum
bent, subject to the Democratic pri- 9
mary next year. Mr. Hunnicutt for- '
mally announced his candidacy Sat
urday.
Mr. Hunnicutt declares that he
will “cut down expenses, reduce the
number of appointees” and other
wise strive to improve the efficiency
of the department of agriculture, in *
the event of his election. He
promises, also, to bring the depart
ment in close touch with the needs
of the farmers of Georgia “instead
of using patronage to build up ‘a
huge political machine.’ ”
Than Mr. Hunnicutt there are
few Georgians better known to the
farmers of the state, nor few men
more intimately informed concerning 4
their difficulties and requirements.
A recognized authority on agricul
tural matters, Mr. Hunnicutt is him*
self a dirt farmer. He has success
fully cultivated for many years a
farm in Clayton county, although a
citizlen of Atlanta. *
As editor of the Southern Cultiva
tor, Mr. Hunnicutt has made a lifs
study of agricultural questions, and
through his journal has written, ex
tensively on problems of the farm.
His work has given him a wide per
sonal acquaintance throughout the
state and has brought him in close
contact with conditions in every
county.
Philippine Senate Rejects
Proposed Manila Mayor
MANILA, P. 1., Dec. 15.—(8y the
Associated Press.) —The senate oC
the Philippine legislature today re
jected the nomination of Geronimo
Santiago to be mayor of Manila, re- »
cently made by Governor-General
Leonard Wood. Thus for the third
time within a few months Manila
is without a mayor.
BILIOUSNESS—SICK HEADACHE,
call for aa tft Tablet, (a vegetable
aperient) to tone and etrengthea
the organs of digestion and elimi
nation. Improve* Appetite, Relieve*
Constipation.
Oct® Vsed for over’
Your
Chips off ihe Old Block
Nl JUNIORS Little N?e
One-third trie regular dose.SMade
of same ingredients, then candy
coated. For children and adults.