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Bo many boards of trade, chambers
of commerce and other bodies inter
emted in the development of Georgia
bave adopted resolutions urging an
extra session of the lLegislature for
passing good roads legisiation, that
@overnor Dorsey has indicated his
willingness to give the subject care
gl’eflnsldnmnnn. Tt is expected that
report of the special legisiative
eommittee appointed by the Governor
t 0 draft a State highway law will
wurge, at its meeting on February 25,
that the Governcr issue a call for the
extra session, to be held In the early
®pring.
The reasons for handling this mat.
&f at a special session are many.
Ag every Georgian knows, many good
bills are lost in the confusion of a reg
wlar session by falling to find a place
on the calendar or by being pigeon
holed in a committee room. The high-
WAy measure has heen before every
‘Pegular session for six or seven years,
with hardly any progress It was
ot until a special session was called
that Georgila was able to pass’ a
State-wide prohibition mw, though
the maljority favored it
Unless some State highway sys
tem becomes a law by early spring,
Georgla will loss another year, worth
far more than the cost of the special
pession. KEven if nothing more is ac
complished than to raise the auto li
eense tax and devote the funds to a
State system of roads, it would mean
not less than $6,000,000 for road work
this year, for there is waiting in the
treasury at Washington $1,300,000 in- |
sended for Georgia roads and only |
waiting for the counties to put up
®equal sume. At least 32 000,000 ln(yrt-]
will be available under the new ad
ministration highway bill designed tnl
Belp the labor situation this year.
With this money in sight, many coun- |
ties would immediately come forward |
with bond issues or other means of |
matching the Government fund,
The improvement of the State roads
pow would give employment to thou
gands of men returning from the army
and out of work for a time, and this is
especially worth attention,
A special session would bring back
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HE MAXWELL car of today i 3 so vastly
improved in appearance that many persons
believe we have produced a new model
That is not the case.
It is the same chassis, scarcely with a change,
on which 300,000 Maxwells have been built.
But' it is a better looking car. It is finer in
finish; angular lines have been straightened out;
fenders improved; bonnet simplified; cowl made
flush with the top line of the body; seats thick
ened by three inches; circassian dash installed;
gas tank slung in the rear, etc
There are twenty-four things done to make it
more beautiful.
We made the Maxwell simple to start with
five years ago. Then we kept on making and
making these cars all alike. 'We have now com
pleted 300,000 of them.
There is logic in doing one thing and doing #t
well. We have followed that logic. And re
sults tell today.
Maxwells have always been noted for their reli
ability. Now they will become noted for their
beauty.
And today we are in a position to give you a
June style in a February Maxwell, which a year
ago seemed quite out of the question on account
of the war.
Come and see the latest Maxwell.
. JOS. G. BLOUNT
DISTRIBUTOR
385 Peachtree St Atlanta, Ga.
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Reading from left to right: L. L. Lowe, general manager; George Nelson, gen
eral salesman; .J. H. Thompson, sales manager, and E. F. Thompson, salesman.
the members of the old Tegislature,
who alrecady have studied the high
way problem and favor a Spate road
system which will bring Georgia thg
Federal funds. The members of the
legiglative ecommission are members of
the old Legislature, while not one of
them is a member of the 1919 House
or Henate. |
The cost of the extra session in the
spring would be a great deal less than
that of calling a special session of the
new Legislature after its regular ses
sion, as has been proposed if it proves
necessary, ‘There will be ten more
members In the new Assembly, and
their salaries will be $7 a day each,
while the pay of the present body is
only $4 a day.
The movement for an extra session
has swept over Georgia, and trade
HEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN — A Newspaper for People Who Think — SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1919.
bodies everywhere have adopted reso
lutions calling upon Governor Dorsee
to call the session. Among those act
ing are the Georgia Chamber of Com
merce, the Atlanta Chamber of Com
merce, the Dublin Conference of the
Farmers’' Union, when thirteen coun
ties were represented: the Decatur
Board of Trade, the Georgia Manufac
turers’ Association, the Atlanta Retail
Merchants' Association, the Dixie
Overland Highway Assoclation, of Co
lambus, and the boards of trade of
Tallapoosa, Buchanan and Griffin
County Commissioners all over Geor
gia are taking up the question and
urging the extra session.
Under the bill virtually agreed upon
by the legislative committee, and
which probably will be reported to the
Legislature for passage, the farmers
Qillettee tires will soon be as nu
merqgus as Gillette razors if present
indications count for anything. A
Jarge number of substantial tire deal
ers throughout the South have taken
‘o this popular line of tires during
the past week and many other inqui
ries are in the hands of the Lowe-
Thompson Tire Company, distribu
tors of Gillette tires.
Dr. 8. P. Woodward, president of
’the Gillette Tire Company, was in
the city last week, conferring with
‘the Lowe-Thompson Company, and
while here added another State to
their territory, which now gives
‘lh«m Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
South Carolina and Mississippi.
. Dr. Woodward talked very inter
estingly of the chilled rubber proc
ess which he patented and which
gives the Gillette tire its slogan of
“A Bear for Wear.,” This processd,
‘which is carried out in the making
of rubber for Gillette treads makes
the rubber so tough that it is almost
impossible to see any signs of wear
after many miles of use.
Enthusiastic Usen,
Mr. Lowe has just received an un
solicited letter from a prominent lo
cal physician stating that he has
been a user of Gillette fires and that
he would have no other. He stated
further that they could refer any
auto owner who was skeptical to
him, ; :
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and citizens generally of Georgia will
not pay one cent for good roads, ex
cept in the ecapacity of automobile
owners. It I 8 purposed to fix a li
cense tax of S2O average on all cars,
according to size and horsepower, and
devote this $2,000,000 or more a year
to paying interest and sinking fund
on a bond issue of $40,000,000, to be
taken up in twenty years,
Under this plan, the State wfll have |
a system of permanent highways
from county seat to county line, to
be paid for entirely by motorists. The
motorista will welcome the higher tax,
for it will save them an average of
SIOO a year in tires and upkeep, to say
nothing of reduced gasoline bills, In
California, wbere concrete roads cover
the State, the average tire runs 10,000
miles instead of the guaranteed 5,000
miles.
The M provides for a commission
of three members, to be appointed by
the Governor and paid only a per
diem and expenses; a State highway
engineer, who shall pass upon all road
projects; a division of road work
equally among the congressional dis
tricts.
It is provided that the State shall
take over and pave and maintain the
principal highways in each county.
This will leave the County Commis
sioners free to spend their tax money
on the less important ds leading to
the farms, which have been neglect
od in the past for the sake of the more
important hjghways.
The bill provides for permanent,
paved roads, which will be good all
through the winter, instead of the
present dirt ronds upon which vast
sums are spent every year, only to be
washed away with the winter's rains.
It is proposed, in most cases, to de-l
velop and pave the highways which
already have been laid out and mdw
by the counties, thus devoting nearly
all the State funds to actual paving
and maintenance imstead of to expen
slve grading. :
General Motors Surplus
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Gains $18,000,006 in Year
The condensed consolidated’ balance
wheet of the General Motors Corporation
~ud subsidiary companies aa of September
30, 1918, compares as follows:
ASSETS,
Sept. 30, "18. Dee. 31, "17,
Real estate, plants,
equip, good will§ 76,144,354 § 38 657,835
CIOOE WL «oviiios bunsnsvans 11,697,503
Patents, agTee
ments, ete. . ... 246,300 274,100
Investments in al
lled companies . 9,158 7%0 2,030,273
OB i virrrines I 18,565,645
Marketable securt-
B iscivabnunne wssserbihe 1,265,000
Z4horty Donds .... JOBOLITE .o, veeiis
Notes receivable 933,004 ..........|
Accta, receivable . 22,520,650 18,"!.53..
Inventories ...... 63,864,702 46,869,394 |
Deferred expenses 1,216,067 854,435
Totads ... 8208 262 477 $133,789,724 |
LIABILITIRS |
Preferred stock ..§ 19,654,300 § 19,676,800
Commeon stock . 105,996,400 76,873,300
Bubsid, coa' sur
plus and cap'tai i
sk, mpot owned
by G. M. corp, . 1.732.33%9 1,399,583 |
Accta. payable .. 11777669 ..., ]
. Bills payable .... 1,476,000 10,665,718
Taxes, pay rolds, 2 ‘
B icasaiisey SIS 4,868,326 |
Prd. dlv. payable, 196,843 196,768 |
Reserve for depre- ‘
SIRION . scisess BN ...ovnnnse
Res. for fed. tax,
W9O siranveonse ENIORANS AOS
Ngt 6,152,083, ... 1,671,818
BULPIUS .. oeaceees 29,940,780 11,608,398
Totals . 0000 .. 5208, 262,477 $133,789,724
Harris Profit-Sharing
Fund Pays $3.33 for $1
CHIOAGO, Feb. 16.—The annual report
of the trustees of the employes' savings
and profit sharing fund of the Harris
Trust & Savings Bank, shows the bank
contributed $30,378 to the fund for 1918,
while the employes contributed §513,091,
There Is now to the credit of each employe
$3.33 for every dollur he Invested during
the past year., The plan has been operat
ing since 1916, and combining the results
of the three years, employes who have in
vested SIOO a year in this fund now Bave
to their credit $1,388 37, or more than four
times what they m\n in. The bank payes
into this fund sach vear § per cent of its
net earnings, Employes pay in ot less
than 2 per cent nor more thah § per oent
of thelr salarias, and b Bo Gase more than
3100 A wear
Estimated truck production for 1919
will be a minimum of 328,000 trucks,
according to CGeorge D, Wilcox, dl-i
rector of sales and advertising for
the Commerce Motor Car ("ompany,}
Mr. Wilcox, an authority, has just re
linquished command as a major in
the army of the most important truck
manufacturing district under the ju
rigdiction of the War Department.
According to statistics furnished by
Mr. Wilcox, in October, 1914, three
months after the Allies went to war
with Germany, the United States had
in commercial use within its border
only 38500 motor trucks. By the end
of 1917, America's first year of war,
production Tor commercial purposes
and increased to 109,865 motor trucks.
And at the end of 19i8 it had reached
a total of 164,264, And, according to
Major Wilecox, the 1919 production fig
ures will be double those of 1918,
Major Wilcox speaks authoritative.
ly when he says positively the Gov
ernment will not auction any of the
passenger cars or motor trucks that
they bought for war purposes.
At the time the armistice was
signed the Government's war orders
for automotive equipment totalsd
204,700 cars. When hostilities ceased
official figures showed there were no
less than 55,000 American-made mo
tor vehicles overseas in General Per
ghing’s command.
American automobile and truck
manufacturers at that time had de
livered to ports of embarkation 98,000
commercial and passenger cars.
“This,” Major Wilcox declares,
“leaves a balance of about 48,000
trucks still Lin America. The 55,000
shipped across and in the service of
the United States army will not be
returned to the United States.
“Of the balance of 48,000 trucks re
maining on this side of the water,
consisting of one-ton, two-ton and
some three-ton jobs, the Postoffice
Departnmnt is already requisitioning
on the War Department for a large
number. They are going into the
postal service, extending rural routes
everywhere.
“As this movement gains headway
from year to year our country will
employ for postal service alone more
than 100,000 trucks. This, in my opin
ion, is the first great step toward a
complete motorization of the United
States.
“The Government putting trucks
into use in this big way means better
highways all over the country and
the extension of intercity commercial
delivery routes. The farmer has al
ready awakened to the huge possi
bility of the motor truck. With the
blg demands being made by commer
cial business, the farmer and the
Government, everything points to 1919
being the beginning of big business
for the motor car maker and dealer——
in faet, the first real year of big pro
duction, with a possible shortage on
delivery.™
F.W. Woolworth January
Sales Increase $1,206,066
F. W. Woolworth & Coe., report January
sales of $7, 128,377, as compared with $5
922,310 last year, a gain of. $1,206,066,
equal to 20.36 per cent. 1
Of the total gain for the month $910,-
833 was due to increases in sales of stores
that have been operating a full vear
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