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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN @© o 4 Clean Newspaper for Southern Homes e = WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1919,
Rigid Penalty for
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‘ Child Labor Violation
(By Internation:y News Service.)
WASHINGTON, April 22 -—~Employ
ment of one child for one day in con
flict with the child labor tax provi
sions of the new revenue bill will
subject the employers’ business to a
tax of 10 per cent of the net profits
for the entire taxable year,
This is the iuterpretation of the
bureau of internal revenue, the ad
ministrator of the new law, as an
nounced Tuesday afternoon.
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Cow-Testing Association
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~ Will Be Formed Here
A meeting of farmers and dairymen
of Fulton County will be held Friday
at noon in the offices of the county
agricultural department on the ninth
floor of the courthouse for the pur
pose of forming the Fulton Cow Test
ing Association, to bring about great
er efficiency in dairying. The meet
ing will be presided over by Dr, D. BE.
Bawyer, county agent. The State
Veterinarian, it was announced, also
will co-6perate in making the asso
clation a success,
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WAYCROSS, April 28 —Addressing |
a large audience at the session of the |
| Htate Tax Commission here y?flter-!
day afternoom, Hon, 1. R. Akin, mem- |
ber of the commisgion, and w:-11-'
known business man of Brunswick,
(a., declared his hearty support of
the proposed constitutional amend
lmem to provide for a new system of
classification and gegregation of
property for taxation in Georgia,
This statement was of especial in
terest to the bankers of this city in
attendance at the meeting, because
Mr. Akin at one time opposed the
principle of classification of property
for taxation, and also opposed the
suggested tax on bank deposits which
ha# brought forth so much discussion '
from the bankers, both for and
against it. Mr. Akin was scheduled
to make an address at the commis
glon’s meeting In Savananh on Mon
day but when the sesgion had to be
|shurumed on account of the centen
pnial celebration he urged that his
address be dropped from the program
in that city.
“Knowing that the banks are pay
ing taxes on approximately 70 per
ecent cent of their actual valuation,
which is a higher percentage of as
‘sessment than any other line of busi
ness pays in Georgia, 1 was at first ||
‘opposed to any movement which ||
‘would put a new tax on the banks,” }
gald Mr. Akin.
| Changes His Mind.
| “But the study which 1 have made
of the situation, as a member of this
commission, has convinced me that if
a small tax is placed on bank dcépns
its-—as low as one mill, and for State
purposes only, as is suggested-—it will
not hurt money or the banks in (lear
gia. And some radical revision of
our system of taxation seems (o be’
he urgent need in Georgia, elthe
the system of classification as pro
pesed by this commissioy or some
other great change from our prosent
antignated system.,
“1 bave decided, therefore, to lend
my support to the plan of the com
mission for the passage of tie pro
posed constitutional amendment. The
minor details as to what tax shall
be placed on bank deposits, mer
chants, ete,, ean be worked out later,
when the Legislature is given the
necessary power through the consti
tutional amendment. 1 believe we can
trust the Legislature to do the fair
and square thing. Something must
be done th allow Georgia to go for
ward. The present system is inade
quate to provide sufficient revenue
to defray the State’'s normal expenses
and it also contains gross inequali
ties, 8o I believe that the bankers
and other business men also should
get behind this constitutional amend
ment and advocate its passage by tha
next Legislature and its ratification
by the people.”
Governor Hugh M. Dorsey also ad
dressed the session of the tax com
mission this afternoon, advoecating
improvements in the budget system
of Georgia. He referred to the fact
that the State had been exceeding her
income for several years, and sajd |
that he called for a report from the
State Treasurer on April 9, which
showed that there 1s a deficit of §l,-
437,457
Get Money First.
“T do not believe that the Legfsla
ture is an extravagant body of men,
a 8 some people have charged,” sald
Governor Dorsey. “They are merely
trying to answer the crying needs
of State institutions for well-deserved
support. In my opinion, however, we
should not spend money before we
get it. We should have a permanent
budget system which will apportion
out the actual revenue of the State
according to the proportionate needs
of each institution or other cause, and
this revenue should not be exceeded
by the appropriations, ne matter how
great the need. If more money is
needed, as seems to be the case, let a
system of taxation be enforeed which
will get the necessary revenue, and
then let it be spent for these worthy
causes after we get it.”
Other speakers on the program
were W, C. Thomas, secretary-mana
ger of the Waycross Chamber of
Commerce; Hon. Zach Arnold, of
Fort Gaines; Senator H. R. DePar
nette, of Fatonton; Judge Enoch Cal
laway, of Augusta: Hon. Henry J.
Fullbright, of Wayneshoro, the pres
ent State Tax Commissioner; Dr. J.
H. T. M¢Pherson, of Athens, Ga.; Dr.
Edgar H. Johnson, of Oxford, and
Senator R. A. Denny, of Rome. I
New Manager Chosen for 1
Dempsey Hotel at Macon
MACON, April 23.—W, M. Fowler has
resigned as manager of the Hotel Demp
gey, and has been succeeded by J. h
Davidson, of Harrisonburg, Pa. Mr.
Fowler leaves Saturday for his summer
home at Great Lakes, but may return
to Macon to live. He has a son at
tending school at G. M. C. N. F. San
ford, of Atlanta, has accepted a clerk
ship at the Dempsey,
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Secretary Baker
Your Crematory
City or Power Company?
Was selected by Woodrow Wilson.
Therefore his word will be accepted in Georgia, however dis
tasteful the word of a public official may be to the Power Com
pany, which, according to last reports, is controlled in Boston.
Secretary Baker can tell you what it costs a public official to
fight against a power company.
Have you noticed throughout the war the efforts, at times
amounting almost to treason, to discredit Newton D. Baker be
fore the world?
Mr. Baker, as Mayor of Cleveland, made the fight which gave
that city a municipal electrie plant and put electricity in homes
and places of business at a cost of three cens per K. W. H., where
you pay eight cents, more than twice as much.
We refer the unnamed engineers of the Power Company to
the words of Mr. Baker when he said:
‘‘There is a highly confederated, expertly organized, skillful
ly managed combination among the privately owned public util
ities of this country to pervert and mislead and strangle public
opinion on the subject. . . . . .
“I want to hold out to those who fear political activity in
municipal ownership, that open activity is better than secret polit
ical activity; that it is better to have our adversary in the field
where we can see him than to have him hiding behind ledgers
and books that are closed accounts to public inspection, and
where we never know the extent or character of the forces we are
fighting.”
In this connection vou will recall the refusal of the Power
Company to permit the City to inspect its books. e
Judge Wm. T. Newman, of the United States Court, appointed
a commission to examine the crematory. )
This commission consisted of Mr. J. K. Orr, of the City of At
lanta; Prof. J. 8. Koon, of the Technological School, and Mr.
Joseph Sirene, of (ireenville, S. C., one of the best known en
gineers in the South.
This commission reported to the Court that the value of the
steam going to waste annually at the crematory is $50,000 a year.
Mr. Frank Callaway, whose name has appeared on more than
one advertisement of the Power Company, was appointed Special
Master by the Court.
Mr. Callaway reported to the Court—
“lt is a fact that the steam which is produced is not utilized
by the City in any way, but for all the time the plant has been in
operation has been permitted to blow off in the air.
‘‘The steam so wasted is the equivalent of 500 to 1,000 H. P.,
or 750 to 1,500 K. W. for 24 hours per day going to waste. If this
were utilized it would be worth nearly $50,000 per year.”
We have implicit confidence in Chief Jentzen, of the Sanitary
Department, in charge of the crematory, and in R. C. Turner,
City Electrician, both of whom were selected by you, but, because
of the vicious onslaught which the Power Company has made
upon all of the public officials of the City of Atlanta, we do not
use the evidence of these men.
We prefer to show the misrepresentations made by the Power
gcilm%any in its desperation by the words and evidence of its own
endas.
The Power Company has spent more than SIOO.OO to tell you
that it has one new customer, the Candler Building.
It has spent thousands of dollars in holding up your city to
public scorn and ridiculing your officials as being wholly incom
petent, if not dishonest.
But the Power Company has failed wholly to explain to you
why it is willing to continue paying to the City of Atlanta more
than $1,000,000.00 if the city will repudiate its Mayor and all of
its officials, and refuse to build the generating plant at the crema
tory.
But you can explain this for yourself when you know the
facts.
Richmond, Virginia, making its own electricty, saves more
than $100,000.00 a year, which Atlanta pays to the Power Com
pany.
'¥he Sanitary District, a municipally owned plant, has fur
nighed current to the City of Chicago for its lights at five-tenths
of a cent per K. W. H.
More than this entire page would be required to print the
names of the 1,850 cities and towns in the United States which
suecessfully generate their own electricity.
It is sufficient to say that in addition o the exorbitant rates
aid to the Power Company, the City has thrown away more than
;250,000.00 by its failure to use the steam at the crematory.
If the generating plant is now installed, the value of tge cur
rentl'.{produced will be $131,400.00 per annum.
‘How long will it take at this rate to pay the bonds?
When you vote today, will it be for the City or the Power
Company?
THE CITIZENS’ COMMITTEE