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UNION RECORDER, MILLEDGEVILLE, GA., AUGUST 2, 1#2« UNION RECORDER R. B. MOORE—EDITOR JERE N. MOORE. Bu.in*.* W SUBSCRIPTION RATES . Year $1.S0 Month. 75 OFFiriAL ORGAN OF COUNTY THURSDAY. AUGUST 2. 1928 amount of chemicals had to be used j ALEX STEPHENS ON RELIGIOUS to keep the water to the standard. INTOLLERANCE The reporst from the State Depart- Few Georgian* made a greater im pression upon their age or are more tenderly revered than Alexander Stflephens, "The Sage of Liberty Hall,” statesman and vice-president of the Confederacy. ment show the water safe out of seventy tests that have been made this year. The water committee con tend that the plant is too *nia!l and that the cost of operation can be materially reduced if the recommend ed changes be made. Three-quarters -f a century The Council voted the committee i Alexander Stephens thus declared ■mploy an engineer to make* himself on the subject of intollcr-' Crop* are looking i ut the county. fighting the boll commend • I' break THE G. S. C. W. PRESIDENT Dr. J. L. Beeson, who ha* bee full knowledge of the of the high ideals of . a* he ha* been a faculty for thirty •ear*, and for the past eighteen nonth* has been acting president. Under his direction and manage- nent the work of the college Ha*, con- inued. and the faculty for next ses- ion ha- been name:. Dr. Beeson is recognized ns one of he lending educator- "f the south, n is well equipped for hte responsi- ili ie* which he has as-umed. Tin- Union Recorder wishes for him a survey of the plant and The city hasn’t the rnoi hese improvents. While ti.e con dition is not critical it is acute am there i- a possibility of them becom mg critical on the minute’s notice i -hould any of the present machiner emergency arise wher plant would have to supply h larger amount of water, he Union Recorder has tried t vc at the facts clearly and t the citizens an exact interpreta of the situation. We have no red out facts, but given them t readers as we have seen them y may drdw their own conclusioi i> the necessity of the change* a plant. ar.ee and freedom of thought: “1 am utterly opposed to mingling politics with religion in any way whatever, and especially am I oppos ed to making it a test in qunlifica- for vi! offic betw» "Religion is a mat .an and hi* Creator, with which •vernments have nothing to do. In iis country the Constitution guanin es to every citizen the right to itertain whatever creed he plca.-es, • no creed at all if he is.so inclined: id no other man has a right to pry .to his conscience to inquire what • believes or what he doe* not be- chool foi WHAT REQUIREMENTS SHOULD A CITY GOVERNMENT SATISFY? Regardless of the form or plan of city government, to be successful it must render a sufficient and satis- fnd tio • the ifford to puy. thfactory, used blanketly ully accomplishment, n satisfied with every a ouncil take-’, is indeed a that ery go ould strive to accomplish. While satisfac tion is often given the cost is so great that when this is weighed the niece*., of the undertaking crumples undei the financial strain forced to accomp lish this satisfaction. Securing satis factory •As n citizen and as a member of iety, he is to be judged by his act j not by hi-, creed. A Catholic •efore, in our country and in all icr countries, ought as all other izens, to be permitted to stand or I in public favor and estimation Jent j upon his own individual merit. i.-! “But I think of all the Christian ting | denominations in the United States, Catholics are the last the South- people should join in atempting ut under the ban of civil prcHcrip- For as a church they have L-r warred against us or our pecu- DR. BEESON (Mucon Telegraph* The best testimonial to the fill of Dr. .1. I-. Beeson to be | of G. S. C. W., at Millcdg the fact that he has been ity acting president for three years, two of there since the death of Dr. Parks and on. during the time that Dr. Parks served a- state superintendent c.f education As far a.- The Telegraph i.« concern ed, it i» delighted with the selection I liar institutions, of Dr. Beeson because he has demon- j “True Americanism, as I have strated his ability. 1 learned it, is like true Christianity— While the trustees were making up disciples in neither are confined to their mind* with regard to the sue-; any nation, soil or climate whatever, cessor of Dr. Parks. Dr. Beeson has ■ Americanism is not the product of been handicapped in his work, as* the soil; it springs not from the ar.ing president, he was not free to| ground or soil; it springs not from formulate and project policies that i he land nor the ground: it eminates would he continuing, or that would from the head and the heart; it extend over ane considerable length look* upward and onward and out- The peach shippers say that they id not realize any profit. The all day singing brought a large rowd to the city Sunday. The Methodist are spending several ours pleasantly this afternoon. Now and then a candidate for a state housl ofice drops into the city, nnd spends .a few hours. It has been dull around the court muse since Superior court adjourn ’d. A well signed petition has been circulated asking the City Council to continue the Jefferson street pave ment to the Georgia Railroad depo*. • he afford to pay i price the is the acid government, guinent set forth & city manager ar to other municipal government prove • that none of the so called Ition plans fulfill every re- t and render the complete ‘i at a cost within the city’s - the city nmnager plan. Our l rati the best sendee a a cost we car ford to pay. It stand- to reason that one directly ir. charge of every bit oi city’s business, active every mi in the interest of the city* busi and thoroughly trained in the i ngement and operation of the city af fairs can accomplish and rend more efficient sendee, a more s factory service and at a cost we aford to pay. Haphazard business in city affairs* have been the reason for the adop tion of a City Manager plan of Gov- nted with the possibility that the ne other man for the permanent •sidency. With his election to the •manent presidency, he is now en- ved with that freedom a college sident should have. As The Telegraph -aid months ago, trustees should either have ac ted Dr. Beeaon or someone else Mediately for the sake of the col- e, and the selection of Dr. Beeson, this paper believes, will ho generally pleasing because of the demonstration he has given as acting president. Dr. on ir from a long line of men of r ■ and himself an eminent list, with the highe.-t testimonial i others in hi.* field of his ability, lerved as dean of the college of art, and sciences ; fore he became at i.- the author of a r G. S. C. W. be ing president and mber of treatises. of the ent : ADVERTISE IN YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPER The Manufacturers Record ha* of ten urged the business people South to advertise freely in local papers for influence which this will have in stimulating confide home and in attracting the attention of outside people who may see copies of these paper.-. This point is strong ly presented in an article quoted by the Ocala, Fla.. Star, from the Ameri can Banker, which said: Mo business man in town should (V a newspaper published in Y n to go without his name and bu: being mentioned somewhere ward: its life and soul are those grand ideas of government which character ize our institutions and distinguish us from wll other people; and there art- n<» two features in our system which so signally distinguish us from •ill other nations as free toleration of religion and the free doctrine of ex patriation—the right of man to throw off his allegiance to any and every other state prince or potentate what soever, and by naturalization to be incorporated as a citizen into our body politic. “TMe genuine ‘ disciples of ‘true Americanism,’ like the genuine fol lowers of the Cross, are those whose hearts are warmed und fired—puri fied, elevated nnd ennobled by those principle.* doctrines and precepts which characterize their respective “It is for this reason that a Kam chatkan. a Jew, a Briton or a Hindoo •an he just as good a Christian a* anyone horn on Calvary’.* brow, or re the sermon on the mount was ichcd. And. for the same reason. Irishman. » Frenchman, a Ger- i, or Russian can be as thorough ly American as if he had been horn within the walls of old Independence Hall itself.” “To the talk of dangers ol lien plotting The city manage more than the oxtc business principles i >f busi is nothing of sound ci " al « OY ;i factum, I bile deab lumns. This applies to all kind.-; furniture dealers. Iq&ablishments. Milledgeville has two negroei who have rendered long and faithful ice in dieir respective positions. They arc Cornelius Wilson jaintor at the G. S. C. W. and Brantley Mills jaintor at the court house. The members of the Kiwanis Club enjoyed the watermelon cutting given them by Mr. J. C. Cooper last Friday evening. There were some big water melon eaters in the crowd. The i chant who fails to ■ the » missing an opportunity. i here remains another st nonth, but two months of hot i r may he expected. I her place* offered, ity and Oconee Hight. reasonable, but will con sir offer. i J. L. SIBLEY businesf on the methods of fifty years ago nor can we run the business of the state with the same machinery of 1877. With a spirit of cooperation —and this spirit is essential to the advancement of our state—we can do much to improve efficiency in govern- t. We also need to realize that before we can advance we will be compelled to see conditions as they exist and to face them fearlessly. This; commission should go into -a thorough and scientific survey of the government, how it can coordinate, resulting in the consolidation of all state functions into 12 or 15 major departments with responsible heads under executive control, suggesting names duties, titles, etc., of each department, details and steps that arc necessary; and draft the laws necessary to complete such a reorgan ization of the state government to the legislature for their approval. “When this Mirvey has been made is should be ascertained from all the data brought in what the cost of the srevice which the citizens demand will he for education, eleemosyrfttry, penal and corrective institutions; for health conservation, agriculture and for all our variou, odminutratiTT partment, and kuowln* -■do means of raising revenue „ M °- “Our appropriation,; .« maJe lump sums for support and raai ance and the spending of these- propriatinos is left almost to the directing official without, ae i or hindrance. There ir, no ten,™ oversight and our part experience h. been that we reward extrava aaB ' with a deficiency appropriation an - punish economy by failure to pr „ vi ” the necessary means of expansion "We have 24 educational institc tions with 321 trustees spending 000,000 of public money a nd y f j each school local official m-inagr r spends without any general contn.1 and if the hoard of trustees «,f University of Georgia have such con. trol it is not exercised. “We have 161 county system* 0 f public schools and 34 independent systems,” Mr. Slate said, in a review bf the various department.* of t ), e state government. “All income of whatever kind an j character from whatever .-ou rce .should be converted into the stgjj treasury.’’ KEEP SMILING 8 WHAT IS IT? f 5 Yesterday you had health. Today you are *ick. Why the ? ( change? Health it normality. Disease is abnormality. Restore ? today what you had yesterday and you have normality— * HEALTH. You did not have drugs. Then how can you RE- v STORE by them? ? A man breaks his back. He is paralysed, perhaps dies. Why? g o The spinal cord has pressure on it or is injured. Life force was J •:_• cut off from the brain. v £ Some of the bones of the back get ont of place, pinch nerves— £ v Disease is the result. Adjust these bones to proper place and o § you have NORMALITY—HEALTH. g X Chiropractice locates and adjusts these bones of the spine and o v HEALTH is restored. I H. E. STANFORD, D. C.! | HEALTH SERVICE PALMER SCHOOL GRADUATE l § SANDFORD BUILDING NEUROCALOMETER § a Phone Office 14—Residence 156—Out Thuridxy Afternoons y 6 Office Honrs- 9:00 to 12:06—1:00 to 5:00 % ml institutions re. d: “What dai threatening, or have they ever plott ed? Let them he named. How, when nnd where? Was it when Lord Balti more. a Catholic, established the col ony of Maryland, and for the first time on this continent established the principle.* of free toleration in reli gious worship? Was it when Charles Carroll, a Catholic, signed the Decla ration of Independence?’*—Walton Tribune. FOR RENT—A i IS THE STATE OF GEORGIA TOO BIG FOR THE BRITCHES The State Auditor of Georgia, Sam Slate, is continually reminding Geor gia State Departments of prevent overlapping and get better efficiency in managing state affair* is one of tatho- the great needs of Georgia. He spoke ns at the University of Goor- The many< * that a othc-i to the soundne The city mu re;pon*ibility. trying this * ^«Zn?°vrti'fy| ,,nd of the city manager 1 *° U should liuve page adve f the paper, but yo HON. R. E. DAVISON ■ candidacy of Hon. Robert E. on to succeed himself on the be mentioned, if Bo • than a two line bci agei nager plan centralizes j eliminates politics,, y a much needed busi- i-nt of ull i:* affairs*.I by looking j in the pape •r picking up a newspa- ? able to tell what busi- sented in the local town : the business mentioned Mr. Davison has been a membe the board for seveteen year*, has been chairman for about fifteen gia Summer School a few days ago and spoke at length on the necessity of reorganizing the state departments under about twelve or fifteen heads to take the place of more than half a hundred under which the state works at present. In regard to needs and method.* of reorganization. Mr. Slate spoke as follows: “We are attempting now as a state, the same experiences that a grown man would undergo if he attempted lothes he wore as a child,” the state auditor mid discuss ing operation of the state government under a constitution prepared in 1877. “The result has been patching, al terations and makeshifts and the time, in my opinion, has come that the state needs to order .* other words to prepare August Clearance OF ALL' SPRING AND SUMMERT SUITS ONE-FOURTH OFF PLENTY OF THESE IN THREE AND FOUR PIECE, THAT ARE HEAVY ENOUGH FOR FALL STRAW HATS HALF PRICE COME IN AND GET YOURS NOW JOHN HOLLOWAY “Men’s Clothiers” of clothe THE COUNCIL AND THE WATER PLANT The City Council ha* divided itself as to the Water situation that was recently made public by the Water Committee, headed by Dr. Sum Anderson who charged that the plant isist was inadeuatc sary to make the pumping id tha Pdiate rhiii at *** v e—m—*k »auon supplying the . City. drawer*, bed stead*, spring*, mat-. of Mr. Davison s experience in the T|_ - 1 lre »» e »- che.t of drawer*, dressing conduct of the farm and other impor- n s, , -? " ; 1 '* W '’ Kl—ry «*>W. „-ih.t.nd., tant feature, eonneeted tvith the 1, Z T ,ht ': •«“" chin, ^bln.t. eunduct „f the pri,..n la.ard ^Greent is mentioned! Mr. Davison has filled the poi i-ho doe- not with credit to himself and to t*s» an injus- state. He has given to the -ttata u town. The service of the highest standard of ng the busi-1 excellency and eficiency. its to town but refuses! As chairman of the board, Mr. is own is not a valuable! Davison has had charge of operations ny town. The life and | at the suite farm and always kept n depend upon the wide- j matter.* there to a high state of ef- il advertising men.” J ficienc>\ —— J • The ller.-ild-Journal feel- that the should continue t«> make lery i order n/hittee, inudi of the plant and reported hack to the' Council the situation as they had ing found it. which included the report 2t. p published in the Union Recorder in . part a few weeks ago. The report H* said the plant was inadequate and Hciou that in order to give a safe supply > nouri timea the ordinary chair*, | boro Herald Journal. ' I- i ; FOR SALE—The of the la Eimr Colu about three ve you tried Cocomalt, a dc • food drink, it i* delicious am thing either hot or cold—A*k CHANDLER BROS. effectively, economically spon-ibly. the functions of g, nt that We are undertaking. "After fifty years* we have gone along under a constitution prepared in 1877 and have prospered but in the multitude of services now de veloped upon the state we have out grown our machinery. We have now- in the administrative branch 28 de partment*. 21 hoards. 24 educational institutions, 2 experiment stations, 3 educational and clcemosnary institu tions. 3 corrective institutions.” Mr. Slate advocated the authoriza tion by the legislature of a commis sion “w-ith the right to employ the very experts that we cun secure der to throw the complete searchlight of modern knowledge and experience of the past few yearu upon the af fairs of the state. “I do not desire to he hypocritical; nd McIntosh Sti ula. 1 can be found at tha borne, if any ona wi*ha* to make offar for tka proparty. Mr*. R. H. Hutching*, all of the present state system is not wrong, but today we do not Dine Outdoors in Atlanta Thu Outdoor Dining Terrace oi tlu Henry Grady Hotel, now open (o. the spring and summer months, rightfully deserve* its reputation a* "Atlanta t most delightful place to For here you will find a won- detlul variety of delicious diiht-v perfeedy prepaied and served amid moat attractive Henry The The Terrace overlook* Peachtree Street, the South’s most famous thorolare, giving you an unob structed view oi ona of it* liveli est and moat colorful pan*. And no matter how hot tha night may be you are sure to find U pleasantly cool on the Terrace. When you am in Atlanta come and enjoy the advan tage* ol the Hoary Grady. Rates from $a.ya Hotel Hotel -