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lJAH.iS.UA\ , ariuL to,
ONLY RELIEF IF
STATE'S STRESS
Need of Board To Readjust As
sessments Urged By Many—
Georgia Polittical Gossip.
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
Thi income of t.he State of Georgia
ttHtey ia approximately $6,500,000.
.and although that is more than
oouDie what it was fifteen years ago,
It fctill is barely sufficient to see the
State through its necessities, and fur-
(elevation of the tax rate is it
Xlt tne question.
‘SSSWhat the State needs, in the opin-
qQBDi of many observant men, s
3C b(»ard of tax equalizers —a board
aBnt will make the dodgers pay their
share of the expense of running
-fit* State.
TSTlt'is agreed that nobody pays too
«gft.K'h tax—that Is to say, nobody pays
ijaore than his just share On- the
.'Other hand, it is figured thaj. prat tl-
3piy everybody and everything that
yvs as much as $100 pays less than
» or its just share.
«—-If the State had a board of tax
•^CBualizers, it is thought that its
2&1 • me might easily be jumped to
"00,000 and more, and its tax rate
"jEwqged, in addition to that.
JSSXothing really helpful has been
jg+it t by the legislature in years tc»
Sggmcdiy the annual embarrassment of
2UL State treasury. The Governor,
3g constitutional amendment, ha a
3K* n authorized to borrow In certain
JPii rgencies as much as $500,000, in-
» ad of $200,000 ajy heretofore, but
2ra, helps none in tlte long run. be-
•□Ouse the money has to he paid
□55, jt—Peter merely is robbed to pay
Sul.
jfcXiso certain corpora tions have been
□BErilred to pay theii taxes in the fu-
gjjye at an earliei date in the fad,
3XDt
htti
help
njf. will n<>t l> n .
ggPrepeve the situation
£5£rhK thing author!! : *
PPonris the necessity
Terwi.i liners. whcrcb>
33CB5 cted may i,*< ii
XT. render an
Si rate unnecess
□Sri; Is, it is argued th
3S» no embarrassment
3E>*sury. if the State o
3J2.get what is justly an
JRcn the tax payers.
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those re-
suffident
s are agreed
if a board of
total of taxes
creased and
Inc
in
In other
i there will
n the Stale
v ia enabled
truly Its due
id
SET he Augusta Chronicle has
¥R»ved to speculate win:.:.
aa3 7 Slaton will send his Mrs
3StT' to the Legislature in th
¥Hv or follow the Wilson le ; I .
Sx- it in person before a u*nt
SSn
‘SJidie chances arc he will s< :i i i
JEf usual way. He has hen
Xff. one house of the Georgia la
Sjure and President of the other
fie probably would not risk !>■
SS&ssed back” in a joint acssion
Jjpthlng in this world.
ESTToloiroi James Hamilton I ewi?
jjjff merlT of Georgia, now Sonalor-
ctc* ; from Illinois, was the last Sen i -
tar of the United States to be elect
ed by a State Legislature.
ZZU ere after, all Senators will be
S&nt'd by the people of the various
Str te$ in direct election.
23'hrie Georgians who went to Tftx-e*
jjjmnv years ago now figure most
prominently in the politics of trial
gfomnous State, according to Benno
Jgyton, a former ,Havannahan, no
a, resident of San Antonio, who has
Win- back to Georgia for a short
ni< after an absence of twenty-
tHr- • years.
EO'he three Georgians referred to
Bjy K M. Johnson, editor of the
95uston Post and ad interim Senator,
CgVernor Colquitt, and Clarence Ous-
RSe. . ditor of the Fort Worth Record.
■— 1 SonntVir Johnson.” said Mr. Kay-
E+h. “was born and reared in Brooks
ginity. He began his career then
as. a printer’s devil. He is now e-
flgMcd a» one of the strong men of
gjj; West. Clarence Ousley was born
gt;: < »usley station. Lowndes County,
BO* r Valdosta. As editor of the Fori
SB rth Record he exerts a great deal
OC:influence in the State. Governor
CSJquitt was born and reared in
ffemnas County. He went to Texas
gfiCDut the time I did. He made his
m- k rapidly.”
□35 seems pretty well settled that
m liam J., Harris, Chairman of tne
L OUISE WHITYAKER, IO years old, whom experts at Bap
tist Training School declare is proof that Bible can be
made as interesting as povel to girls if love of reading good
books is instilled while they are playing with dolls.
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Pete’s’ Devourer Is
Beyond Pale of Law
PUNS TO SEAT
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Three Widely Varying Methods
Suggested to Perfect Title of
Georgia Nominee.
Bine** Senator Baton’s immediate
right to a seat on the floor of the
Senate has been tentatively ques-
tioned in Washington, Georgia law
yers Mate interested themselves pro
foundly in the problem of just what
effect the ratification of the popular
election amendment to the Federal
Constitution does have upon his stat
us in ihe Senate, and some astonish
ing conclusions have been reached,
varying widely in effect.
The question of perfecting Senator
Bacon’s title to a seat in the Senate
is tne primary proposition consid
ered. since it is agreed that the State
Democratic Executive Committee will
not force him into another appeal to
tho party for u nomination.
Three Methods Suggested.
There are three methods of perfect
ing the Senator’s title to his seat
that have been suggested.
First, it is held by some lawyer#
that since the Federal amendment has
not yet been promulgated officially,
and then fore is not yet in effect, Gov
ernor Brown might call the legisla
ture in extraordinary session at once
and have it elect Bacon in the old
Recorder Broyles Seeks in Vain for
Statute Justifying Punishment
for Chameleon.
E,
• STODDARDIZE
For Grand Opera!
In response to numerous inquiries
from “sympathetic” citizens, who
have written letters of “condolence”
to both Recorder Nash Broyles and
The Georgian, the Recorder to-day
ruled that there is no law to punish
the chameleon that so pitilessly swal
lowed "Pete,” the court room fly and
the Recorder’s official pet.
Judge Broyles *aid:
“i wish to state publicly through
The Georgian to all of those who have
expressed sympathy over the tragic
fate of my pet fly, ‘Pete,’ that there
is no legal way in which this crime
can be punished. I wish to assure
these solicitous friends, who had
come to iove ‘Pet**’ by seeing so much
of him in The Georgian, that the ex
treme* penalty of the law would be in
voked on the chameleon if it were
possible to handle it at all. But both
Recorder Pro Tem Preston and my
self have sought in vain through the
statutes—even the Federal laws.
Nothing can be done.”
The Georgian is in receipt of a let
ter to-day, signed “Subscriber,” in
which a strong plea is made for the
punishment of the chameleon. The
suggestion also came to the court to
day that some kind of memorial be
planned for the late “Pete.”
S. A. L. to Improve
Its Savannah Line
Fence Law Great Aid in Eradicat
ing Disease Spread Mostly by
Straying Razorbacks.
Hog cholera, while not yet com
pletely under control, is decreasing,
says Dr. P. F. Bahnson. State Vet-
ernarlan, commenting upon the Fed
eral report of losses in Georgia swine
herd# from this disease.
“In counties where there is a fence]
law,” nays Dr. Bahnson, “the disease
is not as bad as it has been. It con
tinues? to by bad in the open range
counties, where the hogs are allowed
to stray at will, and spread the dis
ease broadcast, for you know a sick
hog never stays at home.
“The money loss from this* disease
no longer is heavy, for the owners of
good grades of hogs are w iping it out.
The deaths are among razorbacks, tlie
kind you have to run down with dogs
or shoot when you want them. And
razorback hogs probably are worth
on an average less than $1.50 apiece.”
The Federal report, issued yester
day. placed the losses in Georgia at
about 165 per 1,000 head, an increase
over last year. Dr. Bahnson believes
there has been a decrease instead of
an increase.
W OMEN should have their ’Evening Gowns, Wraps,
ete., STODDARD1ZED—because STODDARD-
I/1XO is the scientific process of Dry Cleaning which
l, m ‘ ies perfect results and NEVER injures the fabric!
Men, loo. should have their clothes STODDARD1ZED—-
for the sapie reason.
1 A Wagon for a Phone Call
W, nay Charges (one way) on' Out-of-Town Order* of *2 or more.
ii * 126 Peachtree Street Dixie's Greatest Dry
Stoddard Cleaner and Deyr
For Thursday and Friday.
Pumps and Oxfords
At A Special Reduced Price
Ejg Over 1.000 pairs, 47 dis
ag tinct styles, up-to-the-
aj minute in every respect.
Former prices $4 and
the pair
ag This lot represents the cream of an immeusetpurchaae
■3J made by our Boston office.
Double-Tracking From Cayce, S. C.,
to Jacksonville, Fla., 314 Miles,
Authorized.
1
Stale Democratic Executive Commit-
tee, will resign that honorable posD
<he
*pt the
to Washington
fjfflce of Director of
office, Mr. Harris will
n the National Capital,
visit liia home Stale
:i‘*-a* the business of
. s he would like to,
l require.
of Chairman Harris'
would be succeeded
.V* it. former Presi-
i .Senate, who Is now
i»f the committee.,
Teach Children Love
Of Bible at Doll Age
This Is Advice of Experts at Session
Here of Baptist Training
School.
liA; mbmb
sale, and
in. in con-
1 ad vert i s-
i ti
med no * n
;*vet
f for Gift
pleasing
thought licit the absence of sheriff’s
sales indicates general prosperity
throughout the County.
tie
The p<
gia aIre
Chiekan .1 uga
Solicitor Gem
being bonnet
All that is
Legislature t
the* motion.
inns of Northwest Geor-
have organized tin ne.v
i judicial circuit, and
leral Sam P. Maddox is
d for judge*.
bus
and rat ily
If you have anything to sell adver
tise in The Sunday American. Lar
gest circulation of any Sunday news
paper in the South.
LAUNDRYMEN Of THREE
STATES TO MEET HERE
The Carolina- and Georgia Laundry
Association will meet in Atlanta April
28 to 110. Councilman C. 1). Knight,
proprietor of the Piedmont Laundry,
called on Mayor Woodward to-day
and invited him to deliver the wel
come address to the visitors. Mayor
Woodward a eeopted.
ATLANTA MADE
Varnish
so
Different
Mending Liquid
and
Leather Gloss
k Handy Varnish
Applied With a Cloth
Old Furniture Made Hew. Varnish Your Auto at Night.
Have N?w Car Next Morning.
Water-Proof Dust-Proof
Heat-Proof
No brush marks. Dries hard in five hours. Leaves a
smooth glass-like surface. Why pay a painter when you
can varnish just as good?
Telephone for Demonstration.
The Amber ChemicaS Co.
If you want yout* little girl to find
tho Bible ;is interesting as she will
later Jind society navels start her in
earnest while she's still ^)lAvil|g with
dolls. That’s the advice of experts at
the fourth annual session df tho At
lanta Baptist Training School, who
point with pride to the capabilities of
little Miss Louise Whittaker.
She is able to boast of but ten years,
but her tender age. however, does not
prevent her from ready enjoying Bi
ble reading enjoying it, mind you.
This week she's bustling busily about
trying to help around the sewing room
and everywhere else that there may
be work going on at the First Baptist
Church where*the sessions are being
held. She attends the Oakland City
Baptist Church and seldom is missing
from the Sunday school. Her home
is at 89 Avon Avenue, Oakland City.
Another of the attractive delegates
is Miss Irene Lemke, of 362 East
Georgia Avenue. Miss Lemke is very
proud of her class of twelve tots out
; i the Grant Park Baptist Chuerh and
endeavoring to add another seal to
r diploma of merit by her attend-
ii < * at tin* training school.
The Sunday American goes every
where all over the South. If you have
anything to sell The Sunday Amer
ican is “The Market Place of the
South.” The Sunday American is the
best advertising medium.
SWIFTEST TALKER IN THE
HOUSE ASKS SPEED TRIAL
Second, it is held that the Legisla
ture, under the exac t terms of the act
proposing the Federal amendment,
might authorize Governor Slaton to
appoint a temporary successor to Sen
ator Bacon, and postpone his election
by the people, ii it preferred to do so,
until the next general State election
two years hence.
Third, that the Legislature might
pass an act immediately upon assem
bling. tailing an election for Senator
and have the case passed upon before
adjournment.
While the calling of the Legislature
in extraordinary session by Governor
Brown now would be a more or less
sensational way of perfecting Mr. Ba
con’s title, it is contended that there
could be no legal objection to it, and
that the expense of it would be no more
than the expense of holding a spe
cial senatorial election later on.
Authority for Election.
The authority for the second meth
od of procedure is found in the clause
proposing the amendment, which
reads: “When vacancies happen in
the representation of any State in
tiie Senate, the executive authority of
th** State shall issue writs of election
to till such vacancies; provided
that the le gislature of any State may
empower the executive thereof to
make temporary appointment until
the people (ill the vacancies by elec
tion as the Legislature* directs.”
The proposers of this suggestion
hold that it would prove less expen
sive to the State than either of the
other two methods.
The third method proposed would
be about as expensive as a special
session of the Legislature now, but
it still would leave the tentative ques
tion of Senator Bacon’s immediate
right to a seat in the Senate unan
swered.
The result aimed at in all of these
propositions is tHe same, of course—
that is, the perfecting of Senator Ba
con’s title to his seat. It is not with
in the range of the remotely proba
ble that he will have Democratic op
position.
If opposition should develop or his
immediate title be challenged in Con
gress, the question of perfecting his
title and when and how would be
come at once most acute, and it is
this phase of the problem that has
caused some Georgia lawyers to delve
so deeply into the situation, with the
astonishing variety of opinion pro.-
duced.
RICHMOND, VA., April 16.—Pro
vision for double-tracking the South
Carolina division which extends from
Cayce. near Columbia, to Jackson
ville, by way of Savannah, a distance
of 314 miles, is contained in the an
nual budget of the Seaboard Air Lino,
just announced. The total amount
appropriated for improvements is $2
500,000. It is estimated that fully
one-half of this, if not more, will
be necessary to double-track the
South Carolina division.
Among other contemplated im
provements are additional phosphate
elevators at Tampa and Fernandina,
Florida.
President Harahan announces that
a conference of officials will be held
next week in connection with the pro
posed removal of the general offices
from Portsmouth. One report has it
that the offices will be located at
Jacksonville.
'CASCARETS” THE
BEST LAXATIVE
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Black Suede, Patent, Gun-Metal and Tan Calf. f
Pumps, Colonials and Oxfords
Thoroughly cleanses your liver
and bowels while
you sleep.
Used Mails to Pass
Bad Checks, Charge
Vienna. Ga., Merchant Got Goods Be
fore Fraud Was Detected.
Inspecotr Alleges.
No odds how bud your liver,
stomach or bowels, how much
your head aches, how miserable
and uncomfortable you are from
constipation, indigestion, bilious
ness and sluggish intestines—you
always get the desired results
with Cascarets and quickly, too.
Don't let your stomach, liver
and bowels make you miserable.
Take Cascarets to-night; put in
end to the headache, biliousness,
dizziness, nervousness, sick, sour,
gassy stomach, backache and all
other distress; cleanse your in
side organs of all the bile, gases
and constipated matter which is
producing the misery.
A lOcent box means health,
happiness and a clear head for
months. No more days of gloom
and distress if you will take .t
Cascaret now and then. All drug
gists sell Cascarets. Don't for
get the children—their little in
sides need a good, gentle cleans
ing. too.
§*" a d Slippers
Every pair of our $ 4 Satin Evening Slip
pers reduced to $2.95 Thursday and Fri
day. All colors
and sizes in
stock now.
Cuban heels
Pom P o n to
match color.
Also, any $5
Evening S I i p-
per will be sold
for $3.95.
Practically all
sizes and widtha
In each atyle.
The usual
Charge. Refund.
Exchange and C.
O. D. courtesies
prevail.
Please remem
ber that thiB
special price is
for Thursday and
Friday only.
Every pair guar^
anteed in every
respect.
® 1VS■ Rich & Bros- Co-- ^
| “A Department of Famous Shoes.”
Parsing bogus checks by means of
the United States mails got M. C.
Mitchell, of Vienna, Ga.. in jail, a
cording to a report of nis arrest to
day by Inspector McKew to Postoffico
Inspector Sutton.
The official report says Mitchell
contracted the habit of sending for
large shipments of goods from mer
chants in other States, and accom
panied the order with a check on a
bank in which he had no funds. He
succeeded several times in getting the
merchandise before the check was put
through for collection. Complaint
made to the Postoffice Department,
however, caused his arrest, on the
charge of using the mails to defraud.
OUT!
for the
’m
Eckman’s Alterative
FOR THE THROAT AND LUNGS
Eckman’s Alterative is effective in
Bronchitis. Asthma. Hay Fever,
Throat and Lung Troubles, and in
upbuilding the system. Docs not
, contain poisons, opiates or habit-
forming drugs. For sale by all lead
ing druggists. Ask for booklet of
cured cases and write to Eckman
Laboratory, Philadelphia, Pa., for
1 additional evidence. For sale by all
of Jacobs’ Drug Stores.
\\ \SHlNGTON* April 16. —Repre
sentative Herman Metz, of New
York, believed to bo the champion
high-speed talker of the House, eame
out to lay with a challenge to the
official stenographers of that body
that they ‘V«»uld not take him.” He
travels at tin* rale of 250 words a
minute, which oven Speaker Clark
concedes is "some speed.”
Representative Murray, of Massa
chusetts. and Representative Martin,
of South Dakota, are now the high
speed artists of tv House, with 225
words a minute.
JOS. E. REEVES ON TRIAL
FOR P0ST0FFICE THEFT
“Want Ad” Man
in Speedy Cartercar
Has a Dollar for You
Read the “Want Ad “Section of the Georgian.
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Office 702 Forsyth Bldg. Laboratories SI Piedmont Ave.
Phone Ivy 3131.
soph F Reeves, w ho has obtained
two postponements of his trial on the
('barge of embezzling postoffice funds,
was finally put on trial to-day in the
Federal Gourt.
Reeves escaped the first trial be
cause the wrong name had been used
in the indictment against him, and the
second due to the absence of wit
nesses. In his defense Reeves charges
that the $ 1 .ot*o alleged to have been
stolen was taken b\ his assistant in
the postotiice at Vaughn, Spalding
County.
FORCED TO PAY FARE FOR
CHILD; SUES FOR $25,000
ESTABLISHED 23 YEARS
DR.E.G. GRIFFIN’S
GATE CITY DENTAL ROOMS
BEST WORK AT LOWEST PRICES
Ail Work Guaranteed.
Hours 8 to 6- Phone M. 1708-Sundays 9-1
24 » Whitehall St. Over Brown &, Allen®
The refusal of a railroad conductor
to transport free of charge a child
under 5 years damaged them to the
uimAint of $25,000. according to M. R.
Barfield and his wife, Sarah J. Bar-
field.
They tiled suit in Superior Gourt
u^fiinst the Southern Railway Com
pany, alleging that last December,
while *'n route from Spartanburg, S.
G., to Atlanta, they were forced to pay
th.** fare of a child under five years
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IS
A New Silk
Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads
The Sunday American. YOUR ad
vertisement in the next issue will sell
goods. Try it!
Dobbs & Co., tbe Fifth Ave. Hatters,
bave recently introduced this silk bat.
It's new, distinctive and different, pos
sessing original lines and a style quite
agreeable witb tbe fashion in France.
We are exclusive agents for Dobbs y
Co. s Hats in Atlanta.
If your name
ready when the
morning.
found, mark the paper and be
Want Ad ” man calls next
u
Silks $8. Operas $8
Cloud-St anfor a Co.
Sample “Want Ads” as They Appear
HELP WANTED
HELP of every description is furnished
through these column^; the wise ones
use them in seeking help for office, store,
shop or home. lf~Mrs. John Smith, 137
Highland Avenue, finds this “ad” and
has the same marked when the “Want
Ad“ man calls to-morrow morning he
will present her with One Dollar.
HOUSES FOR SALE
HOUSES and lots are advertised for
sale in these columns at very attrac*
tive prices: the opportunity to buy your
own home is here. If Mrs. George
P r 2^ n ' of 366 Ca P'“" Avenue, finds this
, an A.!’ a * same marked when the
Want Ad man calls to-morrow morn
ing he will present her with One Dollar.
Georgian’s “ Want Ad” Man 1 ravels in a
Speedy “Cartercar” Roadster. Be on the Alert
and Get Your Dollar.
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