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ONLY BELIEF OF
STATE'S STRESS
Need of Board To Readjust As
sessments Urged By Many—
Georgia Polittical Gossip. •
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
The income of the State of Georgia
to-day is approximately $6,500,000.
And although that is more than
double what it was fifteen years ago,
It still is barely sufficient to see the
IState through its necessities, and fur
ther elevation of the tax rate is out
©f the question.
What the State needs, in the opin
ion of many observant men,
a board of tax equalizers—a board
that will make the dodgers pay their
Just share of the expense of running
the State.
It is agreed that nobody pays too
much tax—that is to say, nobody p;i a
more than his Just share. On the
other hand, it is figured that practi
cally everybody and everything that
pays as much as $100 pays less than
hi* or its just share.
If the State had a board of tax
<*quaHzers, it is thought that its
income might easily be Jumped to
I8,^00,000 and more, and its tax pate
lowered, in addition to that.
Nothing really helpful has been
dc»ne by the Legislature in years to
remedy the annual embarrassment of
the State treasury. The Governor,
by—conditional amendment, nn
been aulljp wed to borrow in certain
♦•xifl&rgen* ksjas much as $500,000, in-
etefd of IJflo.OOO as heretofore, but
that helps none in the long run. 'X*-
cdStse the money has to be paid
bjjjffii—Peki merely is robbed to pay
Raul
' JHso certain corporations have been
required to pay their taxes in th< fu
ture at an earliei date in the fad,
bltC that help*' little, too,ns those re-
iU£P s will not l»< marly sufficient
tgzyelleve the sit ua ' ■« n
rxhc* thing authorities are agreed
Ug?n is^*|he nee* ,-dt\ of a board of
equalizer^' wiiV-r* .»y i total of tnv.s
<a£U-lied piay h increased and
rend<ry an increase in
thie rat* u an *•(•«'.-.*• ». In other
wacds. it Jp argued that there will
b£~*io 4inr»:t,rr«ssm.ui: in the State
tre*suryjnf tne State oniv is enahh- l
to get what is Justly and truly its due
from the tax payers.
*pm Augusta Chronicle has t>» 1
njjSyed to speculate wheth* i Govt
nor Slaton will send his first me -
to the'Legislature in the usual
wgg or follow the Wilson lead and de
ltas’ it in person before a joint son
sibn
The chances are he will sen i if .a
the usual way. He has been ». it.
©f one house of the Georgia 1 » a
3atu r <* and President of the other, am.
thsr: probably would not risk beia;
“iSUised bark” In a joint session for
any-thing in this world.
Colon*! James Hamilton Lewi?,
formerly of Georgia, now Senator-
elect from Illinois, was the last Sen i-
tol* of th<- united State* to be elect
ed by a State Legislature.
Hereafter, all Senators will be
named by the people of the various
Stales in direct election.
Three Georgians who went to Texas
many years ago now figure most
prominently in the politics of that
enormous State, according to Benno
Kayton. a iormer Savannahan. now
a resident of San Antonio, who has
coma back to Georgia for a short
visit after an absence of twenty-
three years.
The three Georgians referred to
are R. M. Johnson, editor of the
Houston Tost and ad interim Senator,
Governor Colquitt, and Clarence Ohs-
ley, editor of the Fort Worth Record.
•’Senator Johnson,” said Mr. Kay
ton, “was born and reared in Brooks
County. He began his career there
as a printer’s devil. He is now re
garded as one of the strong men of
the West. Clarence Oueley was born
at Ousley station. Lowndes County,
near Valdosta. As editor of the For;
Worth Record he exerts a great deal
of Influence in the State. Governor
Colquitt was born and reared in
Thomas County. He went to Texas
about the time I did. He made his
mark rapidly.”
It seems pretty well settled that
William J. Harris. Chairman of the
L ouise whi
tist Trainin_
made as interesting
books is instilled wF
rAKER, 10 years old, whom experts at Bap-
School declare is proof that Bible can be
as novel to girls if love of reading good
hey are playing with dolls.
E
PEIS TO SEAT
Three Widely Varying Methods
Suggested to Perfect Title of
Georgia Nominee.
State Democratic Executive Commit-
(*, will resign that honorable posi
tion when he goes to Washington
to accept the office of Direc tor of
the Census.
In the latter office, Mr. Harris will
have to r m o in the National Capital
ynd rouId not visit his home* State
.it V. ’ll to look after the business of
the te uurilttjee . s he. would li'qe to,
and jis it might n quire.
In tiu* evcui of Chairman Harris’
resignation, In* v.nuld be succeeded
by Hoi. W F West, former Presi
dent of toe State Senate, who* is now
vice chairman of the committee.
In Oglethorpe County this monrh
there was not one sheriff sale, ami
the Echo, the count:- organ, in con
sequence calTle^ no legal advertis-
monts whato.yei
Tho Echo consoles Ui if for the
loss of ivveniH' with the pfauffitig
thought that the absence of sheriff's
sales indicates general prosperity
throughout the county.
The politicians of Northwest Geor
gia already have organized the new
Chickamaitga judicial clreuitf .and
Solicitor General Sam P. Maddox is
being boomed for judge.
All that is needed now is for the
Legislature to get busy and ratify
the motion.
If you have anything to seil 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
2X to 30. Councilman C. D. 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 accepted.
Teach Children Love
Of Bible at Doll Age
This Is Advice of Experts at Session
Here of Baptist Training
School.
Varnish
so
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smooth glass-like surface. Why pay a painter when you
can varnish just as good?
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If you want your little girl to find
the Bible as interesting as she will
later find society novels start her in
earnest while she’s stijl playing with
dolls. That’s the advice of experts at
the fourth annual session of the 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 really enjoying Bi
ble reading enjoying it, mind you.
This week she’s hustling 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 KH Avon Avenue, Oakland City.
Vnothei of the attractive delegates
is Miss Irene Lemke, of 362 Fast
Georgia Avenue. Miss Lemke is very
proud of her class of twelve tots out
M the Grant Park Baptist Chucrh and
< endeavoring to add another seal to
: r diploma of merit by her attend
ance at the training school.
The Sunday American goes every
where all over the South. If you have
anythin to sell The Sunday Amer
ican ic ‘The Market Place of the
South. ’ The Sunday Americrn is the
best advertising medium.
SWIFTEST TALKER IN THE
HOUSE ASKS SPEED TRIAL
WASHINGTON, April 16.—Repre-
-ent'.ulvo Herman Metz, of New
York, believed to be the champion
h "h-spoed talker of the House, came
on! to-day i\ itti a challenge to the
, ttieial stenournpheni of that body
that th»v "could not take him.” He
travels at the rate of 250 words a
minute, which even Speaker Clark
concedes Is "some sliced."
Representative Murray, of Massa
chusetts, and Representative Martin,
of South Dakota, are now the high-
- peed artists of I 've House, with 225
words a minute.
JOS. E. REEVES ON TRIAL
FOR P0ST0FFICE THEFT
Joseph E Reeves, who has obtained
two postponements* of his trial on the
charge of embezzling postotflee funds,
was finally put on trial to-day in the
Federal Court.
Reeves escaped the first trial be
cause tin 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 $1,000 alleged to have been
stolen was taken by his assistant in
the postoffice at Vaughn, Spalding
County.
FORCED TO PAY FARE FOR
CHILD: SUES FOR $25,000
The refusal of a railroad conductor
to transport free of charge a child
under 5 years damaged them to the
amount of $2'.,000, according to M. R-
Barfield and his wife, Sarah J. Bar-
field.
They filed suit in Superior Court
against the Southern Railway Com
pany. alleging that last December,
while on route from Spartanburg. S.
c.. to Atlanta, they were forced to pay
fare of a child under five years
Since Senator Bacon’# immediate
right to a seat on the floor of the
Senate has been tentatively ques
tioned In Washington, Georgia law
yers have 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 the 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 the 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 a 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 lawyers
that sjnee the Federal amendment has
not yet been promulgated officially,
and therefore 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
way.
Second, it Is held that the Legisla
ture, under the exact 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, if 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, calling 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 th** amendment, which
reads: ‘When vacancies happen in
the representation of any State in
the Senate, the executive authority of
the State’shall issue writs of election
to fill such vacancies; provided
that the legislature of any State may
empower the executive thereof to
make temporary appointment until
the people fill the vacancies by elec
tion as the Legislature directs.”
The proposers of this suggestion
hold that it would prove less expen
slve 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.
‘Pete’s’ Devourer Is
Beyond Pale of Law
Recorder Broyles Seeks in Vain for
Statute Justifying Punishment
for Chameleon.
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
rifled that there Is no law to punish
the chameleon Dial «o pitilessly swal
lowed “Pete,” the court room fly and
the Recorder’s official pet.
Judge Broyles said:
“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 love ‘Pete’ by seeing so much
of him in The Georgian, that the ex
treme penalty of the law would he in
voked on the chameleon if it were
possible to handle it at all. But both
Recorder Pro Tern 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
Double-Tracking From Cayce, S. C.,
to Jacksonville, Fla., 314 Miles,
Authorized.
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 Line,
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 otflees will be located at
Jacksonv ills.
Used Mails to Pass
Bad Checks, Charge
Vienna, Ga.. Merchant Got Goods Be
fore Fraud Was Detected,
Inspecotr Alleges.
Pa swing bogus checks by means of
the United States mails got M. C.
Mitchell, of Vienna, Ga., in jail, ac
cording to a report «>f his arrest to
day by Inspector McKew to Postoflico
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.
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vertisement in the next issue will sell
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STODDARDIZE
tm
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-
ernarian, commenting upon the Fed
eral report of losses in Georgia swine I
herds from this disease.
“In counties where there is a fence
law,” :-'ays*Dr. Bahnson, “the disease
is not as bad as it has been. It oon-
tinueq to be 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 1 disease
no longer is heavy, for the owners of
good grades of hogs are wiping U out.
The deaths are among razorbacks, the
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.
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and bowels while
you sleep.
No odds how bad 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 an
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 a
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.
For Grand Opera!
W OMEN should have their Evening Gowns, Wraps,
etc., STODDARDIZED—because STODDARD-
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brings perfect results—and NEVER injures the fabric!
Men. too, should have their clothes STODDARDIZED—
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Practically all
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for the
Want Ad” Man
i Speedy Cartercar
a Dollar for You
Read the “Want Ad ” Section of the Georgian.
If your name is found, mark the paper and be
ready when the “Want Ad” man calls next
morning.
Sample “Want Ads” as They Appear
HELP WANTED
HELP of every description is furnished
through these columns; the wise ones
use them in seeking help for office, store,
shop or home. If 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
safe in these columns at very attrac
tive prices; the opportunity to buy your
own home is here. If Mrs. George
Brown, of 366 Capitol Avenue, finds this
“ad" and has same marked when the
"Want Ad” man calls to-morrow morn
ing he will present her with One Dollar.
Georgians “Want Ad” Man 1 ravels in a
Speedy “Cartercar” Roadster. Be on the Alert
and Get Your Dollar.