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FRIDAY, APRIL 29. 1915.
THE ATLANTA OEOROTAN-
-ATLANTA. OA\
fill Equalization
M Adds $85,1
Law
$85,557,517
To Georgia Values
Delegates Back From Nashville
Certain of City Winning Big
1918 Meeting.
Members of the Atlanta delegation
who went to Nashville to present this
city’s claim for the 1918 meeting of
the general conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church South, re
turned Friday enthusiastic over the
prospects of the entertainment com
mittee of the general conference se
lecting Atlanta.
The entertainment committee fixes
the time and meeting place for the
next conference and is composed of
J. H. Eakes, of Rome, chairman; H.
U Weaver, of Asheville. N. and L.
F. Smith, of Somerset, Ky.
Fred Houser secretary of the At
lanta Convention Bureau and one of
the delegation, said Friday that At
lanta made a conspicuous showing
before the committee and that indi
cations were this city undoubtedly
will be chosen a - the place for the
next conference.
"The committee," said Mr. Houser,
"will visit Atlanta before they make
their decision, and from what we
could gather from the meeting in
Nashville, we are very confident At
lanta will be the winner over her sis
ter cities. The committee will make
no decision in the matter until, Au
gust.”
Mr. Houser said an address on Em
ory College by Asa Candler, delegate,
in which he outlined the character
and scope of the new institution,
proved a great help to the delegation
in strengthening Atlanta’s claims.
Other delegates besides Mr. Houser
and Mr. Candler were Dr. A. M.
Hughlett. presiding elder, and Dr. C.
O. Jones, pastor of Trinity M. E.
A gain of $85,557,517 in Georgia tax
values in 1914, and a gain in Fulton
County alone of $10,198,085. due to thq
operation of the new tax equalization
law, was acknowledged in the first
annual report of Judge John C. Hart,
S:n4e Tax Commissioner, which has
been filed with Comptroller General
W. A. Wright. The total value of
property for ad valorem taxation In
1915. explained Judge Hart, was $867.-
975,737. which was increased in 1914
to $953,531,254.
The largest Item of increase is "im
proved land,” whose value, according
to the tax records, grew by $40,284,-
822. and whose amount by 735,091
acres.
City and town property shows an
increase of $22,788,423; shares in
banks and surplus. $2,440,146 in
crease; money and solvent debts $6,-
300,000 increase.
A FUG TO
SEND VETS IG
To Veto Act Taking
Away Buying Agent
Mayor Woodward has made It plain
that he will veto the ordinance tak
ing from him the appointment of :he
City Purchasing A^ent, which was
unanimously passed up to him by the
Aldermanic Hoard Thursday after
noon; but the Pryor street paving proj
ect. approved over his veto at the
same meeting, he will allow’ to take
its course without any further fight.
Both of these Councilmanic measures
were passed by the Aldermen without
dissent.
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Old Comrades Can’t Attend
Last Big Reunion.
WiLTON
JELLICO GOAL
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THE HUGO COAL CO.
82 Peachtre* St.
Ivy 1583
Atlanta 3668
Youthful Robbers'
Bonds Increased
Detectives Chewning and Sturdi
vant prepared Friday to ask the
Grand Jury for indictments against
Clarence Hart and .C. L. Batchelor,
two youths caught by Policeman A.
L. Appling last week in the act of
burglarizing the store of the Forrest
Soda Company. Another downtown
robbery is charged to them, too %
On the strength of new evidence,
laimed bv the detectives. Judge Ben
H. Hill, in the Criminal Court, in
creased Hart’s bond from $400 to
$1,000, and Batchelor’s bond from
$400 to $500. The bonds of $400 were
fixed by Recorder Johnson when the
original case was tried before him.
Batchelor made the bond, but Hart is
still ir. the Tower.
Mrs. Bagwell to Lead
Plague Relief Work
The relief committee of the Atlanta
Anti-Tuberculosis Association in spe
cial meeting Thursday at the Carne
gie Library outlined plans for the
year’s work and discussed ways and
means.by which the various churches
of the city might assist in the work.
Mrs. John O. Bagwell, recently
elected to the board of directors of
the association, will direct the work
of the relief committee this year.
Have you just a little bit of change
left over from Tag Day?
Because Monday, April 26, you are
going to have a chance to use it, and
use it in a cause you haven’t helped
before. Monday is Memorial Day, you
know, and it is also Confederate Flag
Day. and on every corner there will
be committees selling tiny flags.
Confederate Flag Day has been in
augurated by the Woman’s Auxiliary
of (’amp Walker with the assistance
of the commander. Sheriff WheeK r
Mangum, and its purpose is to raise
funds to send the Confederate Vete
rans. who are not in a position to pay
their own w’ay, to the reunion in Rich
mond. June 1, 2 and 3.
Last General Reunion.
It’s going to be the last genera'
reunion, you know—the last time the
old fellows will have a chance to get
together and march for the glorv of
the Lost Cause. General Bennett H.
Young, commander-in-chief of the
United Confederate Veterans, made
this announcement in the Confederate
Veteran, the old soldiers official pa
per. The ranks are getting so piti
fully thin that each year sees fewer
and fewer of the old comrades back.
Ev^ry reunion takes its toll in the
lives of those who are not able to
stand the excitement and the long
march, or the railroad journey itself,
for that matter.
So this year, that sees the last re
union of the gallant old soldiers, as
many as possible ought to go. ‘And
the United Daughters of the Confed
eracy and the four camps of Veterans
in Atlanta are going to try to give
every old fellow who is physically
equal to the journey a chance to go.
So we have Confederate Flag Day <>n
the same day that we decorate the
graves of those veterans who have
passed on.
In Camp Walker there are between
sixty and seventy veterans, about
fifty of whom are in condition to take
the trip. Of these titty only about
twenty can afford it. So in order that
the thirty others will not have to stay
behind when their comrades leave for
the last reunion, the Woman’s Auxil
iary is planning Flag Day. But the
fund is not just for the Camn Walker
veterans. Miss Theo Bowie, presi
dent of the auxiliary, wants everybody
to understand that the money raised
by selling Confederate flags Monday
will be used to provide transportation
for any Confederate veteran in At
lanta who can not afford to attend the
reunion otherwise.
Movement Is Indorsed.
The U. D. C.’s and the Children of
the Confederacy have formally in
dorsed the movement and each will
furnish one of the flag-selling com
mittees. In addition to the street
corners and the streets and public
buildings, there will be committees
stationed at Oaklartd Cemetery and
at the ball park at Ponce de Leon.
Mrs. W. B. Price Smith addressed
a meeting of the Ad Men's Club
Thursday and obtained their hearty
indorsement of Flag Day.
So put your hands flown in your
pockets aga'n and don’t bring them
out empty, for you may never have
this privilege again. And it is real
privilege for every Southern-born
man and woman to have a chance to
help send the men who fought so glo
riously for the South to their last re
union.
ROSWELL VETERAN STRICKEN.
ROSWELL, April 23.—The body of
Elijah Paden. who died at his home
| here of Bright's disease was buried
| to-day in the Citizens’ Cemetery. He
had gone to the postoffice for his mail
and on returning home was taken
suddenly ill and died within a short
dime. fie was a Confederate vet
eran, 70 years of age.
F loyd County, which years ago
used to be one of the most rampant,
counties politically in the State, but
which, on the other hand, for the past
eight or ten years, has inclined to
take its politics a little more peace
fully than of yore, seems to be getting
somewhat back into the old-time
form.
They have on at this time in Floyd
a bond election which reminds one
very much of old times. A» the date
of bridge and hospital bonds election,
which is Tuesday of next week, ap
proaches, feeling between the sup
porters an»l opponents of the Floyd
County 4 'ommissioners is growing
more and more Intense.
In a communication published in
The Rome Tribune-Herald, signed by
Harry MeiUlelyim, manager of the
big Massachusetts Mills at Lindale
and one of the best known men in
the .State, both politically and per
sonally. the Commisisoners are
branded as "totally incompetent" and
accused fiat-footedly of squandering
the county’s funds and building good
roads only in the vicinity of their own
homes and real estate holdings.
The Massachusetts Mills at Lindalc,
of which Mr. Meikleharn is mana
ger. pays taxes -on more- 4^ap one
million dollars*’ worth of property in
Floyd County, and he claims that the
mills have put more than forty mil
lion dollars in circulation in Floyd
County during the fifteen years of Its
existence, and that it has received
back from the hands of the present
Roard of County Commissioners prac
tically nothing, notwithstanding its
• crying needs and deserts.
This card created something of a
sensation and the Commissioners
have issued a statement, officially
signed, declaring thc-ir intention of
building the proposed bridges over
the various rivers that cut Floyd
County, by a fund raised from a spe
cial tax levy, if the bonds proposed
are defeated. Should they do this,
the one and one-half per cent tax
they would levy would cost the Mas
sachusetts Mills about thirty thou
sand dollars.
Floyd County is one of the biggest
and wealthiest counties in the State,
and Rome is the county seat thereof.
Lindale, which is five and a half
miles from Rome, and a mill town,
has a population of something like
5,000.
It If freely predicted that bonds "Will
be defeated next Tuesday, and wheth
er the Commissioners will have nerve
enough to make good their threat to
build bridges by a special levy re
mains to be seen.
There are thope who are betting
rather confidently that ibey will not
come through on their promise or
bluff, whichever' they choose to call it.
Atlanta is not the only city that is
having its jitney bus troubles—or
joys, as the case may be.
Savannah, Macon. Augusta. Co
lumbus, and even the smaller towns,
are wrestling with the jitney problem
with more or less success.
Everywhere an effort is being made
to regulate without .prohibiting.
The jitney bus people do not want
to be regulated too much, and the
street car people want them regu
lated but of existence.
Of course, th^re is a happy medium
somewhere between these two ex
tremes that sooner nr later the jitny
bus business will be adjusted to.
Pending that time, it looks as if the
row is to be verv strenuous.
In all probability the Legislature
will be called upon to prescribe gen
eral laws for the regulation of jitney
busses, and it would not be surprising
if a bill were offered and passed de
signed to put jitney bus lines, as weli
as hack lines and all public service
organizations of that sort, under the
control and direction of the Railroad
Commission of the State . Indeed,
there are people on both sides of this
question, for and against the jitney
bus who believe that eventually the
matter must be settled in this man
ner. if over it is settled at all.
Certainly no city in the Statens go
ing to allow jitneys to run at their
own free will, and seemingly it is go
ing to lie mighty bad politics to pro
hibit them entirely.
If a bill is offered in the legisla
ture touching the jitney bus question
the street car companies throughout
the State undoubtedly will direct their
attention to it and it will have both
Its staunch friends and its powerful
enemies.
\Vhat the outcome will be no man
could say, but, in all probability, it
will be a bill regulating jitney bus
organizations, but not at all prohibit
ing them.
People who think that Georgia has
a good many freak laws on Its statute
books are right, of course, because
there are many freak laws. But Geor
gia, by no means, has a monopoly of
the freak law industry.
Most of the laws enacted nowadays
are laws telling us we must not do
something or other.
In Minnesota they have a law pro
hibiting the catching of frogs In
Kansas they have one prohibiting the
use of face powder. In Colorado they
have one requiring chickens to go to
roost before 7 o'clock and another re
quiring that bulls driven along the
road at night shall wear lights. Mas
sachusetts has a law providing that
all weeds and plants that cause hay
fever shall be removed from the road -
side and another requiring bachelors
to pay a tax of $5 per head, and sti
another prohibiting the* wearing of:
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the Legislature, perhaps during the
forthcoming session.
The question of anti-child labor
laws is largely one of education. Cit
izens must be aroused to the enormi
ty of this offense and the heartless-
ness of It before they will take that
erjthdsiastlc degree of Interest in the
same that will insure more whole
some laws.
It will not be many years before
Georgia’s child labor laws are all that
they should be. for the sentiment
against child labor has grown. Just
as the sentiment against convict lean
ing grew, until the latter was finally
wiped out for good and ail. There
will be no more child labor in Georgia
than there is convict-leasing, after
the people have fully realized the
'barbarity of it all and the waste to
the State, us they were finally aroused
to the shame of convict lease.4.
The Atlanta Georgian, by the way,
was the newspaper that projected and
successfully . carried through the
fight which resulted in the abolition
of the convict lease system.
When child labor Is finally wiped
off the statute books of Georgia for
good and all. the entire credit will not
belong to The Georgian nor to ary
other one newspaper, for there are
other newspapers enthusiastically
against this crime but The Georgian
will play it? nart in bringing about a
righteous adjustment of this great
problem.
Motorcyclist Knocked
From Seat by Autoist
C. M. Yates, a postoffice employee,
of No. 52 Walker street, was recover
ing Friday at Grady Hospital, where
he was taken Thursday night suffer
ing from Injuries received when an
automobile crashed into his motor
cycle at Forsyth end Walton street??,
hurling him to the pavement.
Friday the police got a description
of the auto and went in search of it.
Positions Sought
for Idle Women
Following are the appeals from the
Emergency Association for Unemployed.
Women, which has more than 200 wom
en for whom it hopes to get positions
before May 1. In replying to these ads
DO NOT CALL THE GEORGIAN.
Write or phone Miss Susan McClellan,
No. 19 Auburn avenue, phone Ivy 7110.
Ask for the information bn the cases by
their number.
No. 36—Expert cakemaker solicits the
patronage of ladles who entertain dur
ing opera week. Price of whole cake
$1.50. anil of half cake 75c. To give
orders, call Main 307-L. For guaran
teed city references for each kind of
cake, call Ivy 7110.
No. 37—Experienced music teacher
wants pupils for summer class now
organizing. Rates $6 per month. Any
city reference given. Phone Ivy
1156-L. t
No. 38 Seamstress who does children’s
plain sewing wants home work. Good
city "references.
No. 39 First-class cashier or desk for
drug business wants position. Is
’ competent, accurate and industrious.
Splendid references.
PAIR ON TRIAL AS SLAVERS.
AUGUSTA. April 23.—The trial of
Milton and Nellie Kneese, charged
with violating the white slave act, is
on in the Federal Court here. They
deny the charge of the Government
that they induced Marie Ford, a 14-
year-old Augusta girl, to go with
them to South Carolina.
LOOK OUT FOR OUR SATUR
DAY SPECIALS.
ATLANTA FLORAL CO.,
97 Peachtree St. Ivy 2879.
58 Stores in 40 Cities.
Only One Profit,
Factory, Hanover, Pa.
Maker to Wearer.
makes sick
skins well
No matter how long you have been
tortured and disfigured by itching, bum
ing, raw or scaly skin humors, just put
a little of that soothing, antiseptic Res-
inol Ointment on the sores and the
suffering stops right there 1 Healing
begins that very minute, and in almost
every case your skin gets well so quickly
you feel ashamed of the money you
threw away on useless treatments
Resinol Ointment and Reainoi Soap clear away j
pimples, blackheads and dandruff. Sold by all drug
gists ; for trial s : .:e of each fr--, write to Rssuioi |
Dept. 3-S. Baltimore. Md. Avoid imitation*.
Latest English Model
Here is an exact counterpart of the new English last shown by
all the higher-priced boot shops, and which is the big selling model
in all the larger cities.
Thus you get in Hanovers the same style that costs $5.00 to
$8.00 elsewhere. We adopt the newest style features just as soon
as they appear in the fashion Centers, consequently Hanovers are
always up-to-the-minute in style.
Besides style you get in Hanovers the best leather, the superior
Goodyear Welt system of making, unusual fitting and comfort-giving
qualities and remarkably long wear.
All this costs you only $3.00 and $3.50 primarily because we are
the only shoe manufacturers who sell exclusively to the wearer di
rect. You'll find it worth while to compare this model with others
shown elsewhere.
Cll AM BE RUN-JO HNSON-DuBOSE COMPANY
Atlanta New York Paris
The First Great Suit Sale of the Season
With Two Hundred Eighty=Five Smart,
Trim Suits We Launch a Typical
Chamberlin=Johnson=DuBose Co. Sale
Let those who have waited, stop waiting; let
those who are undecided—come and see, they
will decide.
Saturday morning, when the store opens at
8:30 o clock, we launch the first great suit sale of
Spring. Take this as fair notice to be up and
doing.
TheSuis We Shall Offer To -morrow Are
Prizes At These New Prices
Two hundred eighty-five suits that we
thought well enough of to select for our regular
stocks make up the sale; there’s not a "specially
bought” sale suit among them—these are our
own, the kinds that have attracted to us the tre
mendous business we’ve enjoyed this Spring.
Every one fresh and new; every one showing
some style feature that means just the most
ideal satisfaction to some woman.
But, here, price-wise is just what the sale
means—
135 Suits Now
Were $25 to $37.50
$1A.50
19
84 Suits Now
Were $35 to $50
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58 Suits Now
Were $45 to S60
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8 White Suits Now $10.50
Were $25 to $35
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Serges, Poplins, Gabardines, English Checks. Every color that’s good
this season, including Navy, Sand, Putty and Black. There are belted
suits and plain tailored suits; there are suits that the military ideas
have made popular. A style for every taste. Among the finer are
suits from such makers as Max M. Schwarcz.
In all, then, it can be said this is a suit* sale that is completely representative of the
favored styles.
Plan now to take advantage of it—it means a savings with ho attendant sacrifice
on the part of your good taste.
Plenty of large sizes t plenty of small sizes, plenty of the in-be
tween sizes---a sale for ALL.
CHAMBERLIN-JOHNSON-DuBOSE CO.
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