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MAYORS LEAGUE UNANIMOUS FOR PUBLIC OWNERSHIP
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. The Constitutional Amendments
Committees«of the House and Senate
voted in:executive session Tuesday
afternoon to report the capital re
moval bill back to the General Assem
bly with the recommendation that it
be passed.
This action was taken following an
open hearing held at 3 o'clock in the
hall of the House before a joint meet
ing of the Constitutional Amendments
Committees of both branches of the
Legislature., - The meeting was filled
to overflowing with both Atlanta and
Macon sympathizers and was ad
dressed by some of the ablest men
in Georgia.
While the committee action was
against Atlanta and in favor of the
claims of Macon that the question
should be submitted to a vote of the
people, the measure in committee en
countered more opposition than had
been expected, a still ballot being put
up against it,
Ivan E. Allen, chairman of the At
fanta Citizens’ Committee, stated
Wednesday that prospects of killing
the measure in the Legislature are
brighter now than ever before, as
even the strongest and most opti
mistic friends of Atlanta had not ex
pected as many votes in their favor
as were received. Mr. Allen added
| that it has never been the aim of At
lanta to kill the measure in the com
mittee rooms, but to beat it fair and
square, for now and all time, upon the
floors of both houses. ‘
HOW THEY VOTED. |
In the House committee the vote
was 22 to 11 in favor of the bill, and
in the Senate it carried by a vote of
17 to 7. Mr. Johns of Barrow is re
ported to have fought against the bill
in the House, while Ivan E. Allen of
the Thirty-fifth and Fermor Barrett
of the Thirty-first led the opposition
in the Senate committee. The reso
lution in the Senate to report the bill
favorably was introduced by Ben J.
Fowler of the Twenty-second and
setonded by J. E. T. Bowden of the
Fifth.
“Several members of the Senate
oommittee were absent, but we had
not expected as many votes as we
received even if all had been present,”
said Senafor Allen, following the an
nouncement of the committees’ action.
“The House committee vote was an
agreeable surprise, and I think now
we are in better shape.
“We have never had any idea of
choking the bill off in the commit
tees and indications are good. It con
vinces us more strongly that the
capital removal bill can never receive
a constitutional majority of the whole
House and Senate. The advocates of
Atlanta are delighted.”
The floor and galleries of the House
and even the aisles and doors were
packed when John Bale, chairman of
the Constitutional Amendments Com
mittee of the House, called the joint
session to order at 3 o'clock. Macon
¢ put up only two speakers—Joe Pottle
of Milledgeville, who was snowed un
der several years ago in his race for
governor of Georgia, and Warren
Grice, former attorney general of the
State and now an attorney of Macon.
» ATLANTA'S SPEAKERS.
Atlanta put up Mayor James IL.
Key, Robert C, Alston, Col. H. H.
Dean of Gainesville, Hatton Lovejoy
of LaGrange, J. W. Oglesbhy, one of
the biggest landowners of Brooks
County, and R. B. Blackburn.
Both sides akreed that the capital
removal agitation is not a fight be
tween Atlanta and Macon, Advocates
of Atlanta, however, claimed that At
lanta had spent her-money to provide
a site and build the capitol, and that
to move it would saddle off a burden
of expenses for the taxpayers to
shoulder, while Macon claimed that
there is a State wide sentiment be
hind the movement, and that even if
it does put a burden upon the tax
gayers they have a right to decide
that for themselves and pay it if they
want to,
Before the argument opened Ben J.
Fowler of Bibb presented a memorial
signed by the mayor and council of
Macon, which stated that ecity will
enter into a sacred contract with the
State of Georgia to provide a sixteen
acre tract of land known as Tattnall
Square, near the heart of the city, for
the site of the capitol.
Judge A. W, Cozart of Columbus
fired the opening shot for Macon
when he was called upon to speak on
the resolution. He declared the cap
ital removal agitation has ceased to
be a joke., He said Georgia needs a
new capitol building worthy of the
State, and added that the present
building looks like a "last year's bird
nest.”
SEES DESIRE TO VOTE.
“Judging from the gathering here,
it ‘'would seem that the people of the
State want to vote on the question,”
he said, “and when it is probable that
§ a majority of the peopie want a con
. stitutional amendment it should be
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Five men sitting in judgment late
‘Wednesday afternoon were to deter
mine the success or failure of the
first phase of layor Key's fight for
municipal ownership of public utili
ties. It was to be the initial test
of strength betwsen the city admin
istration and the power company.
They were the Charter Revision
Committee of City Council-—Council
man J. R. Nutting, the chairman; Al
derman John 8. McClelland, mayor
pro tem.; Alderman Harvey Hatcher
and Councilmen Claude Ashley and
A. J. Orme.
| By a clever maneuver executed at
'the mayor’s luncheon to the visiting
| .
(Georgia mayors at the Capital City
Club Tuesday afternoon, the chances
for the plans being definitely acted on
at the present session of the Legisla
ture were increased enormously.
Walker T. Lee, the mayor’s secre
tary, left his place at the vast lunch
eon table in the ballroom of the club.
He appeared across the table a mo
ment later beside Alderman McClel
land and the two conversed briefly
in low tones. He then consulted
Councilman Nutting, who sat farther
down the line of guests. |
MEETING ARRANGED.
Returning to his seat, the secretary
quietly announced that a special
meeting of the committee had been
arranged for and that a call would
be issued for 4 o'clock Wednesday
afternoon by Chairman Nutting im
mediately after the luncheon.
By nightfall every member had
been informed. The chairman’s agree
ment to the move was not regarded
as an indication of the attitude he
would take toward the measure. Two
reports were regarded as certainties,
but there was much speculation Wed
nesday as to the tenor of the ma
jority report.
Through this action the mayor's
proposed amendments will reach
council at the extraordinary meeting
Thursday afternoon in form for im
mediate action. In the normal course
they would have been introduced
Thursday and of necessity referred
to the committee. They could not
have been reported out until the next
meeting, late in July.
Because of the magnitude of the
fight and of the certainty of many
efforts to delay final action, the sav
ing of two weeks which was effected
was regarded as an achievement of
importance.
A disposition to open up a bit was
noticeable among members of Coun
cil Wednesday in rather marked con
trast to their demeanor on Tuesday
when the mayor's message and
amendments made an unheralded ap
pearance at the regular session. None
was willing to talk for publication,
however.
WOULD CARRY WEIGHT.
The attitude of the Charter Revi
sion Committee was under consider
ation. The majority recommenda
tion, while not final, would carry
great weight, it was believed, espe
clally if it were favorable,
An unauthoritative forecast placed
Alderman MecClelland and Council
man Ashley on the favorable side.
Equally credible observers held con
flicting views of the positions that
would be assumed by the remaining
three members. Councilman Orme,
however, was tentatively placed in
opposition,
The committee was to meet in the
conference room adjoining the coun
cil chamber in the City Hall. Tt was
regarded as like that champions of
both sides would appear before it
Coplies of the mayor's message and
amendments were completed late
Tuesday by the office force of City
Clerk Walter C. Taylor, and a num
ber were distributed to members of
council. The reading of the mes
sage had been interrupted Monday
when the body adopted Alderman
Hatcher's resolution for a special
meeting to consider it.
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Lieutenant Edwards Has
Returned From France
First Lieut, A, M. (Gus) Edwards,
well known Atlanta boy, Is back after
serving for ten months with the
American expeditionary forees In
Fronce,
lLaeutenant Edwards is enthusiastie
in ils praise of *he American soldlers
and tells of their bravery iime after
time in constructing trenches under
fire of the Germans between times
wher they ‘went ‘over the top.” He
wny attached to the Pifty-fourth In
fontry and took part in the Meuse-
Argonne offensive A
Gus left his position with the Ja
cote' Pharmacy Company to entor the
second officers’ training camp at Fort
Oglethorpe, graduating as a second
lHHeutenant., After a few weeks at
Camy Wnadeworth he was ordered
oversensg, where he was statinned for
ten months. On receipt of hix dis
charge he will assume his former
duties ot Jacobs'
W. B. COLEMAN RETURNS,
News has been received in Atlafta
by Mr., and Mrs. George H, (Coleman
of the arrival in Charleston, 8 C., of
thelr son, Wilhur B, Coleman, who
iha‘ been in France thirteen months
wish the S O S,
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Here are some of the city officials who attended the second annual convention of the Georgia League of Munteipalities held Tues
day at the Capital City Club, when a state-wide movement for municipal ownership of public utilities was launched by unanimous
vote. The two mayors in the rear of the upper group are J. C. Walker of Cedartown and Andrew €. Erwin of Athens. DBelow,
Mayors R. M. Strickland of Tallapoosa, E. W. Fowler of Covington and G. A. Tanuner of Douglas, The central figure is Dr. W, A,
Palmour, mayor of Gainesville. At the lower left is Archibald Blackshear, city attorney of Augusta, who introduced the reso
lution committing the league to the principles of public ownership of public utilities. At the left are Commissioner J. I. Jones
of Rome, secretary-treasurer of the league, and Mayor W. M, Tift, president, both of whom were re-clected to serve another term,
Exposition Cotton Mills
Boys and Girls in Camp
The Bluebird Club of giMs and the
Ironside Boys' Club of the Exposi
tion Cotton Mills held a three-day
eamp at Silver Lake July 4 to 7
Twenty-five youngsters, chaperoned
by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Netherland,
turned out to the outing,
The campers left Atlanta Thurs.
day i motor trucks and arrived at
Silver Lake late that afternoon. Tents
were pitched near the lake and the
crowd proceeded to have three days of
real pleasure. One of the features of
the camp was the watermelon feasts,
An entire wagon load of melons was
brought out by the campers. The
party returned Sunday afternoon.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1919
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German Food Minister,
v .
Free Trade Foe, Quils
COPENHAGEN, July 9.—Herr Wis.
gel, German food minister, has re
elgned, owing to difficulties of opin
fon with the ministry growing out
of opposition to his ideas of free
trade,
HELD AS SHOPLIFTER.
Bertha Liletzau, 578 Simpson street,
the wife of a goldier, way bound over
under bond of S2OO on a charge of
shoplifting by Record® George Johne
son Tuesgday afternoon, Special Ofe
ficers Young and Scoggins arrested
the woman on th'e charge of stealing
several articles feom a downtown
department store. The woman denied
the charge and stated she would
prove her innocence when tried,
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Depuiy Sheriff Fails
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To Enjoy Milk Bath
Deputy ¢heriff Lane Mitchell, fol
lowing an experiment, was convinced
Wednesday that he doesn't care for
milk baths as a regular thing.
The deputy was given a “shower”
of buttermilk when he and Deputy
J. H, Estes went to the home of K,
Strange in LaSalle avenue to gerve
proceedings taken out by Mrs.
Strange for the custody of her young
pon, The officers stated that several
women assailed them, and that one
of them poured buttermilk on Deputy
Mitehell's head,
Hearing on the petition for custody
of the hoy was hod Tuesday after
!nnon before Judge Humphries, who is
acting in the motion division of Su-
Iperlor Court. The boy was turned
over to the mother
Suider in Bad; Storm
.
Slips Up on Negro
Clarence Willlams, negro, of Griffin,
gtated emphatically Wednesday morn
ing that Professor Snider of Griffin
is all wrong In his predictions of
weather conditions, The professor
predicted beautiful sunshiny weather
for his trip to Atlanta, Willlams said,
but this is what he got:
During the electric storm Tuesday
afternoon Willlams was knocked
down and severely bruised by a bolt
of lightning in front of the Morris
Brown College in North Boulevard,
He was taken to Grady Hospital,
where he remained until, Wednesday
imnrnln'; when his condition had
greatly improved
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OWN UTILITY SYSTEM
A tremendous step in the movement for municipal ownership
of public utilities wes made Tuesday when the Georgia League of
Muniewpalities, without a dissenting vote endorsed the prineiple in
its eutirety and appointed a committee of five to nppear before the
present sessicn of the Georgia Legisiztire and appeal for legisla
ticn permitting municipalities to acqyuire or build and operate suh
publie vtilities as they may desire.
Adoption of the resolution endors
ing municipal ownership came late
Tuesday afternoon, just before the
close of one of the most momentous
conventions ever held in the State.
Those who came to the convention
as doubters had been swept off their
feet by the overwhelming volume of
evidence introduced by various advo
cates of the reform. The resolution
came before the convention with
unanimous approval of the resolu-‘
tions committee and was unanimously
adopted without discussion.
ASK LEGISLATION.
The resolution, as presented by
City Attorney “Archibald Blackshear,
representative of the City of Augusta,
declared first for municipal owner
ship as opposed to private ownership
of street railways, gas, electric light,
water and power plants., It next pro
vided for the appointment of a com
mittee of five to apbear before the
Legislature and ask for legislation
as t2llows:
A bill granting municipalities the
right to acquire real and personal
property such as may be necessary
to own and operate gas, electric
light, power, steam heating and
water works plants and street and
electric railway systems,
Authority to purcg’ufle plants al
ready in existence by negotiation
or condemnation proceedings, with
proper safeguards for the rights
both of the municipalities and the
former owners.
Permission to municipalities en
gaging in public utilities business
to furnish service to other muniet
palities desiring service and the
right of municipalities to act in the
ownership and operation of publie
utilities either individually or col
lectively as they may elect,
The' Legislature will also be asked
to guarantee to the municipalities
that their right to own and operate
their own public utilities shall not in
any way be abridged or restricted.
With the .adoption of this resolu
tion officers of the league were ton
vineed no one could now deny the
people of ' the towns and cities of
Georgia have voiced their desire for
municipal ownershin and the plea of
the Georgia municipalities for the
necessary legislation will be heeded
by the General Assembly.
ASK BETTER WATERWAYS,
The league went furthef in its
recommendations than mere endorse
ment of municipal ownership on an
individual or collective scale. A res
olution introduced by Kirst Commis
sioner Vandiver of Rome, memor
ializing Congress in the interest of
development of waterways in Georgia
received unanimous approval, |
Commissioner Vandiver's resolution
urged that matters coneerning flood
control, navigation improvement,
construction 4nd operation of power
dams, construction of freight inter
changes and terminal facilities be
longed properly to federal agencies
and urged that federal aid in these
motters be called for,
The resolution pointed out the vast
amount of work being done by the
government for Western States in ir
rigation, construction of power dams,
ete, and asked that Georgia be given
similar aid. Damage to property and
crops in this State because of lack
of flvod control was cited, It was
urged that the govermment construct
great power dams on the Georgla
streams Wod dispose of the current at
a falr price to the Georgla cities for
distribution through municipally
owned clectrie gystems, ;
U. S. AID IS SOUGHT.
“The rivers and waterways belong
to the people,” Commissloner Vandi
ver declared in urging adoption of his
resolution, “but there is grave danger
of thelr product being glven away and
the heritage of unborn generations
being squandered through our jack of
forexight. ‘
“T'he government can handle thom‘
development schemes far better than
can private enterprises, and should
do 0. No private ownership or prl-i
vate control should be permitted to!
enter Into this field, The auwm-i
ment, in co-operation with the .\‘t.m-‘
and the manicipalities, can develop
the 2,000,000 ke rsepower of electricity |
that now poea to waste, distribute
it to the people and make of Georgla
the garden spot of America.”
The general sentiment of the cone
vention appeared to be in favor of the
formation of a giant system of hydro
eclectric power production and distri
bution similar to that in existence in
the provinee of Ontario. Canada, as
described to the convention by R. T.
Jeffery, member of the Hydroelectrie
Power Commission of Toronto, who
came here at the request of the league
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to present the facts about the Ontario
system.
Mr. Jeffery addressed the conven
tion Tuesday afternoon, explaining
the Ontario plan in full detail. His
address lasted for more than an hour
and was received with the closest at
tention by the Georgia municipal ex«
ecutives. At the close of his address
he was given an ovation.
JEFFERY DESCRIBES PLAN,
The plan that has worked so suc
cessfully in Ontario, as described by
Mr. Jeffery in detail, is substantially
as foilows:
The province of Ontario created a
Hydroelectric Power Commission, to
act under control of the provincial
government, in the production of hy
droelectric power for distribution te
the citizens of the province through
municipally owned lighting and power
systems.
Money to finance the scheme was
raised through an issue of bonds
which mature in thirty years, for the
redemption of which a sinking fund
was created from the excess profits of
the system. Funds for the establish
ment or purchase of distributing sys
tems by the municipalities are raised
in the same way.
The commission brings the power
on its own lines to the municipalities
desiring service and seils at a fixed
price requiring the municipal sys
tems in turn to sell at a fixed price
established by the commission,
A total of 756,000 horsepower of
current has been developed by the
commission, which now supplies 95.7
of the electricity used in the pgovince,
in competition with a convenient and
fairly cheap coal supply. Private en
terprise competition is not forbidden,
but has been gradually displaced on
account of inability of private enter
prise to produce and sell as cheaply
as the commission. The commission
has power to purchase by negotiation
or condemnation proceedings any
plant deemed necessary for the con
duct of the system. Condemnation
proceedings have never been found
necessary, fprivate owners having
“read the handwriting on the wall,
that private cwnership in Ontario is
finisted.”
GROWTH PHENOMENAL,
The growth of the system has been
phenomenal and is, in itself, a most
convineing testimonial for govern
ment and municipsl ownership. Fromn
twelve municipalities in 1910, the
commission has come to serve 234
municipalities with power. The mu
nicipalities served have a combined
population of 1,750,000 people, or &
total of 200,000 consumers. A total
of eighty-six electric generating sys
tems have been absorbed by the'com
mission. The commision has 1,500
employees,
The benefits derived from the work
of the commission are incalculable.
He sald rates were reduced to the
domestic eonsumer from S cents per
rK. W, H. to 2 1-2 cents or less than
one-half the rate charged by private
| doncerns. Encouraged by certainty
of low power rates and prospects of
stid lower rates as the system ex
tenaded, huge manufacturing interests
have sprung up in the province, The
profits that formerly want to pay div
idends on stock-—largely ‘w’n'ered
stock, at that—-now go to swell the
coffers of the municipalities partak
ing in the enterprise, Even with
rates as low as 2 1-2 cents per K, W.
H., the profits mount to a sum that
can not be regarded as negligible.
KEvery vear the rates are revised
downward to keep down the profits,
Across the boundary, in New York
and Maine, where the citizens are
paying much higher rates for elec
trical current, Industrial growth has
not been o rapid during the last ten
years as it has been, proportionally,
im Ontario, It is becoming increas-
Cingly difficult to convince the eitis
zens of those Statés that government
and municipal ownership of public
utilities is a fallure. The facts and
flgures are too well known.
‘ PLAN NEW VENTURE.
The commission is preparing now
to go extensively into the interurban
electric raillway business. It's first
‘venture in that field-—the purchase of
‘the London and Port Stanley Rall
way, a twenty-five mile stretch tha*
had been run down and unprofitable
is now ‘the best eguipped road in
the provinee and shows a net annual
surplug of over $25,000 since 1915,
wher the commission aequired the
system,
The Georgia municipal executives
wera profoundly impressed by the
account as given by Mr, Jeffery.
Mayor Key, who introduced the
speaker, declared ‘Georgia stands on
‘the threshold of wonderful ;chhz,
‘ment and the Empire State of the
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