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B 0 many boards of trade rh;un)wmi
©f commerce and other bodies inter- |
ested in the development of Georgia
bave adopted resolutions urging an
extra session of the lLegislature for
passing good roads legislation, that
@overnor Dorsey has indicated his
willingness to give the subject care
ful consideration. Tt is expected that
Rhe report of the special legislative
eommittee appointed by the Governor
%0 draft a State highway law will
wrge, at its meeting on February 25, ]
that the Governor issue a call for Hm!
extra session, to be held in the early |
spring
The reasons for handling this mat
&t at a special session are many. |
As every Georgian knows, many good |
®ills are lost in the confusion of a reg- E
ular session by failing to find a place|
on the oalendar or by being pigeon-|
holed in & committee room. The high i
way measure has been before every |
‘Pegular session for six or seven years, |
with hardly any progress It was|
mot until a specia! sesgion was called |
that Georgla was able to pass al
Btate-wide prohibition law, though |
the majority favored it
Unless some State ighway sys-
Sem becomes a law by early spring
Georgia will lose another yoar, wortlh
far more than the cost of the special
session. Even if nothing more i 3 ac
eomplished than to raise the auto U
eense tax and devote the funds to a
Btate system of roads, It would mean |
not less than $6.000.000 for road work !
fhia year, for there is waiting in the|
freasury at Washington $1,300,000 in- |
tended for Georgia roads ind un!‘i
waiting for the counties to put up|
egual sums At least $4.000.000 more |
will be available under the new ad-|
ministration highway bill designed to
Belp the labor sitoation this year
With this money in sicht, many eoun
tien would immediately come forward
with bond issuecs or other means of |
matching the Government fund !
The improvement of the State rnnds!
mow wonld give employment to thou
gands of men returning from the army !
and ont of work for a time, and this is
especially worth attention. 1
A special session would bring back
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February Maxwell
HE MAXWELL car of today sso 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, .
an 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 alikaa. W e have now com
pleted 300,000 of them,
‘ There is logic in doing one thing and doing it
well. We have followed that logic. And re
sults tell today.
Maxwells have always been noted for their refi
ability. Now they will become noted for their
beauty.
And today we are in & 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 I IF. Thompson, salesman.
the members of the old Legislature,
who already have studied the high
way problem and favor a Sfite road
gystem which will bring Georgia thg
Federal funds. The members of the
legislative commission are members of
the old legislature, while no! one of
themw is a member of the 1919 House
or Senate.
The cost of the extra seswion in the
apring would be a great deal less than
that of calling a special session of the
new Legislature after its regular ses
gion, as has been proposed If it proves
necessary. There will be ten more
members in the new Assembly, and
their salaries will be §s7 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
‘HfléRST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN — A Newspaper for People Who Think — SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1918
bodies everywh ere have adopted reso.
lutions calling upon Governor Dorse®
to call the sessipn. Among those act
ing are the Georngia Chamber of Com
merce, the Atlanta Chamber of Com
merce, the Dublén Conference of the
Farmers’ Union, when thirteen coun
ties were represented; the Decatur
Board of Trade, tha Georgia Manufac
turers’ Association, the Atlanta Retail
Merchants’ Assoclation, the Dixie
Overland Highway Association, of Co
lumbus, and the boards of trade of
Tallapoosa, Buchaman and Griffin,
County Commiss.oners all over Geor
gla are taking up the question and
urging the extrz session. |
Under the bill virtually agreed upon
by the legislative committee, and
which probably will be reported to the
Legislature for passage, the farmers
| (iltettee tires will soon be as nc
| merous as Gillette razors if present
| indications count for anything. A
! large number of substantial tire deal
ers throughout the South have taken
or: 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-
Itors of Gillette tires.
Dr. 8. P. Woodward, president of
the Gillette Tire Company, was in
the city list week, conferring with
the Lowe-Thompson Company, and
while here added another State to
their territory, which now gives
them Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
South Carolina and Mississippi.
Dr. Woodward talked very inter
estingly of the chilled rubber proc
ess whieh he patented and which
gives the Gillette tire its slogan of
“A Bear for Wear.” This process,
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. ‘
Enthusiastio. Usen. ‘
Mr. Lowe has just received an un
sollgited letter from a prominent lo
cal physician stating that he has
been a user of Gillette tires and that
he would have no other. He stated
further that they could refer any
;uto owner who was skeptical to}
im.
and citizens generally of Georgla vm“
not pay one cent for good roads, ex-‘
cept in the ecapacity of automobile
owners, It is purposed to fix a li
cenge 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 twently years
Under this plan, the State will have |
a system of permanent highways
from county seat to county line, to
be paid for entirely by motorists. The
motorists 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, where concrete roads covey
the State, the average tire runs 10,000
miles instead of the guaranteed 5,000
miles,
The bill 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
eru;s,lly among the congressional dis
triets,
It 12 provided that the State shall
take over and pave and maintain the
principal highways ‘in each county.
This will leave the County Commis
sloners free to spend their tax money
on the less important roads leading to
the farms, which have been neglect
ed in the past for the sake of the more
important highways.
The bill provides for permanent,
paved roads, which will be good all
through the winter, instead of the
present dirt rouds 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
velop and pave the highways whlchl
already have been laid out and graded
by the counties, thus devoting nearly
all the State funds to actual paving
and madntenance instead of to expen.
sive grading.
General Motors Surplus
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Gains $18,000,000 in Year
The Nndnu-df consolidated balanoe
sheet of the Ge 1 Motors Corporation
and subsidiary companies as of September
30, 1918, compares as follows:
ASSETS,
Bept. 30, "I 8 Dwe, 31, "17.
Real estate, plants,
equip, good wills 76,144,364 §3B 657,835
?«‘u\ :\li sessasas ssanssssss ANODS.AO3
‘atents, agree
ments, ote. ... 245,300 ML
Investments in ale
lied companies . 8. 168730 2.030,373
Cash . Lo 8R336.33T MLNER 640
Marketable securs
ties Sweh SEanAsinhs 1,285,000
fdberty bonds .... J 0004.278 .. ......0s
Notes receivable 933,094 R
Accts. receivable . 23520660 13 llt.”‘
Inventorion . 83864.70% 4455000
Deferred - axponoos 1,216,087 ;u,c.u‘
Potals ........ 208250 477 $133.789,784 |
LIARILITIRS !
Preferred stock $ 19,054,300 § 19,476 800
Common stock 106, W 96, 40 KUS.W‘
HEubsid QON° Bure
plus and cap'tal
Wik Bt owued
by O M corp . 173283 LW i
Accts payable .. 1L777.400 .
Hills payuble . LATE.MO- uunu’
Tasew, pay rolls
wie 25540 LBSOB 3%
PEa diw. payable, 19 43 196 708
Heserve sos depre
clation 38 RIS ioennnes
Res for fed tas, |
B i 19 848,037 (R RITY
Nnpenets. ...aBO.OI. .. enaans|
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Tl oo BROR PR OTT L 3 TNNIN !
Harris Profit-Sharing |
Fund Pays $3.33 for $1
OHICAGO, Feb. L 6 The annual report
of the trustess of the employes savings
At p?fl! sharing fumd of the MHarrs
Trast Bavings Hank, shows the bank
oontributed $30.373 te the fund fur 1918
l'mu the employss contribuied $15.001
There I 8 bow to the cradit of each smploye
$5.33 for every dollar he invested during
the past year. The plan has boen operat.
ing sipee 1818, and combining the results
of the throe years, smployes whe have ine
vestod §IOO a your 'n this fun! now Pave
o thelr aredit 51280 27, or o than feyr
Uitnes what they vut i The bank paves|
Mite thin fund each vear § per cont of s
vt eßraings Erployes pay in pet less
than T por cent nor more than & ber eent ‘
of their salarvies, and B Be olee thate thah
S a vear
Estimated truck production for 1819
will be a minimum of 325,000 trucks,
according to George D. Wilcox, di
rector of sales and advertising for
the Commerce Motor Car Company:
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
risdiction of the War Department.
According to statistics furnished by
Mr. Wilcox, in October, 1914, three
months after the Allies \?em to war
with Germany, the United States had
in commecrelal use within its border
only 38500 motor trucks., By the end
of 1917, America's first year of war,
production for commercial purposes
and increased to 109,865 motor trucks.
And at the end of 1918 it had reached
a total of 164,264, Ang, aceording to
Major Wilcox, the 1918 production fig
ures will be double those of 1918,
Major Wilcox speaks authoritative
ly when he says positively the CGlov
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 totaled
204,700 cars. When hostilities ceased
official figures dhowed there were no
less than 55,000 American-made mo
tor vehicles overseas in General Per
shing’'s command.
American automobile and truck
manufacturers at that time had de
lvered to ports of embarkation 98,000
commercial and passenger cars.
“This,” Major Wilcox declares,
“leaves a balange of about © 48,000
trucks still in 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 Lhree-ton jobs, the Postoflice
Department 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
lon, is the first great step toward a
complete motorization of the United
States. ‘
“The Government putting trucks
into usge 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
big 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 fact, the first real vear of big pro
duction, with a possible shortage on
delivery.™ J
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F. W. Woolwerth January
Sales Increase $1,206,066
F. W. Woolworth & (o report January |
sales of $7.128.377, as compared with 35 - |
922,310 last year, a gaip of $1,206,066, |
equal to 2036 per cent §
Of the total gain for the month $9lO . |
333 waz A7e to increases in sales - ° storos |
that have been operating = full +
ANNOUNCEMENT
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oppesite Piedmont Hotel, where
we will be glad to meet and serve
all our patrons and Atlanta motor
ists with a complete line of auto
mobile accessories. . . . . .
For Tires or Tire Repairing Go
to Our Store at 33 Luckie Street
JOHN K. GEWINNER
Distributor Hood Tires
Phones Ivy 406 and lvy 405
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