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V OU XXXIV. o c&ts • Mr. Ernest Tidwell is at home again. Mr. and Mrs. C, B. Otwell were in Atlanta on business Monday. The”! tax collector’s third and last'round]appears_this week. Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Otwell were in Atlanta shopping Monday, Mr. Virge Bettis and family are mo ring this week to Atlanta Mr. and Mrs. Will Bell, of Flowery Branch, were visiting in town one day last week. John Ed Kirby, of the U. S, Navy, is at home on a short fnr ough. Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Barrett, of Gainesville, were visiting in our city last Friday. Don’t forget that good flour at Henry Hurt'3-the best in town —and the prices are right. The Lawrenceville association al B. Y. P. U, Convention meets at Buford next Sunday. Miss Louise Montgomery has entered school here and is board ing with Miss Gussie Godfrey. Henry Hurt says for those who owe him to call and pay him. He needs the money, Mr. Cleon Wright, of Atlanta, was visiting in town one day last week. Henry Hurt will sell you more goods for the money than any one else. Mr. Hoy Hansard, of Buford, spent the week end with his fam ily here. Cotton lumped to 32 cents a pound last Friday, Let ’er keep it up. Messrs. John Strickland and John Kirby were visiting friends in Canton last Sunday. A fair crowd in town Monday, - Ordieary’s Court. Also Tues day. Some property sold- Mr. J. D. Davis has returned to our city after after a visit to home folks at Stockbridge, Ga. If you would like to subscribe for McCall’s Magazine, call at this office and get our prices. Dr. Holtzendorff will be in his office at the Brannon Hotel eyery Saturdry from now on to your dental work- We offer you a year’s subscrip tion to the North Georgian and the Southern Cultivator, both for <*l,oo. Can you beat it? If you are due the North Geor gian anything please call and pay it. We need the money to meet our own obligations. Ex-service men: It is to vour interest to read the American Phalanx, a newspaper published weekly, devoted to the interest of all ex-service men. Subscribe now. Write Heard Orr, Box 122, National Sanatorium, Tenn. Hl|£ Jtetlf (jkorgian. Mr. S. H, Allen, of Decatur, spent a day or two of last week in town. Senator E. W. Gilstrap left for Atlanta Tuesday to be on hand for the extra session, Representative J. L. Johnson is attending the extra session of the Geergia Legislature. Don’t forget the Sawnee Cafe carries a full line good things to eat. Prices right. They’ll ap preciate|your trade" Send your suit to Cumming Pressing Club. They will clean and press them and send them back to you by parcel post. To get the best results from your Waterman’s Ideal Fountain Pen, use only Waterman’s Ideal Ink. 15c per bottle- Harvie Simpsop. Get your name on the honor roll by subscribing for the Amer ican Phalanx. Price year, $2.00 Write Heard Orr.i Box 122, Nat ional Sanatorium, Tenn. Henry Hurt has just received a lot of Flour, bought before the rise, and he’ll make the pricos right, i Messrs. Roy Otwell, Royston Ingram, Fred Rogers and Col. Whelchel were in Macon first ol the week. Mrs. W. R. Hall, who came up to be at the bedside cf her sister, Mrs. J. E. Puett, has returned home. Those of our subscribers who have promised us wood on their subscription will please bring it on. We can use it now. Mrs. Warren Brannon, of Gainesville, is spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Brannon. Your attention is called to the notice of Farmers & Merchants Bank, to be found on another page, Mr. W. B. Puett. of Bellmont, N. C., and who came to attend the funeral and burial ot Mrs. J. E. Puett last Friday, returned to his home Monday. Mr. J, P. Edmondson, of War saw, was in to see us Monday. Pink is thinking of moving to Floiida in a short time. Here's wishing him good.luck, Rev. G. M. Eakes, of Decatur, conducted the funeral of Mrs. J, E. Puett last Friday, Rev. Chas. T. Brown being unable to come on account of illness. Mr. Sam G. Brown, of Law renceville, has an interesting let ter in this issue of the North Georgian, Read it. He will have something more to say along this line soon. Have your suit made like new by cleaning and pressing fcby Cumming Pressing Club. They pay parcel post charges both ways. Say people, Edgar Pirkle is looking for you at the Sawnee Cafe with a full line of flour, su gar, coffee, meat, cigars and to bacco, soft drinks, ice cream, fruits, etc. Also hot lunches, or a full meal, if you wish it. Call and see him, CUMMING, GA NOVEMBER A Card of Thanks- We wish To express to our friends the North Geor gian our sincere gratitude foi their sympathy and kindness during our recent bereavement, and for the beautiful floral offer ings. Mrs. Julia Hall. J. Edgar Puett. Red Cross Roll Call|Notice. Red Cross Roll starts Novem ber 11th. Will those who will see me and give me their mem bership dues, also those that wish to join who are not already mem bers- The Red Cross needs your help and you know what a great help it is to the ex service men and to the people in times of disaster and distress. We won’t have a committee to see you. so see me and join. Alice Grogan, Secretary. Mr. Ed Martin, of near Coal Mountain, was seriously hnrt in an automobile accident Wednes day night last week, while re turning from Atlanta. The ac cident occurred a short distance from Roswell, and was caused by the wheels locking and which caused the car to turn turtle, Mr. Martin sustained two broken ribs, besides numerous cuts and bruises. He was brought home Saturday and i3 doing as well as could be expected. The American Phalanx is at all times at the service to help all ex-service men in every way possible. You should subscribe now, and read what the weekly paper is doing to help all ex-ser vice men. Heard Orr will be glad to take your subscription, $2.00 a year. Do it now. Address, Box 122, Nntional San atorium, Tenn. The Sa-wnee Cafe are agents tor the Gainesville Steam Laun dry, celebrated for their prompt and up-to-date methods. You must be satisfied, Give them a call. Ex-service men be sure to sub scribe for the AmericanlPhalanx, a weekly newspaper Ja devoted to the interestjjof ex-service men, Write Heard Orr at once, Box 122, National Sanatorium, Tenn. For the School Children. I carry a full line of pencils, pens, ink, etc,, for the school children. Call and get a supply. Haivie Simpson, FOR RENT. Five room house, in one of the best neighborhoods in town. For further information call at this office, A first class cafe and grocery store is an absolute necessity. The only way to keep one in a town is to give it your patron age. The ISawnee Cafe will en deavor to anticipate your wants in every particular and in return expects and will appreciate a part of your trade. NOTICE. Will gin after Oct, 27th only on Tuesdays. Thursdays and Sat urdays. After Nov. 3rd, only on Tuesdays and Fridays until fur ther notice. Cumming Oil & Fertz. Cos, FARM! WANTED. Wanted to hear from owner of farm or good unimproved land for sale, this vicinity, l. Jones, Box 828, Olney, 111. LETTER FROM S. G. “BROWN. Lawrenceville, Ga., Nov. 2,1923. There are a great many prob lems confronting the American people and if we all sit idly by and let things go on as they have there is no telling what the end will be. One of the greatest prob lems and the most vital problem is that of taxation. The average person does not realize the se riousness of the situation. Our politicians have been so interest ed in gotting office and satisfy ing their own selfish desires that they have thrown on the people laws upon top of laws that ought to be off the Statute books. The truth about it is there are so many laws until one violates one or more laws before he can turn around. The greatest aim of our lawmakers has been to pass meas ures to help their own selfish end and the people are having to pay the bills and carry the burden oi taxation. Today there are outstanding more than twenty bil.ion dollars worth of non-taxable bonds, only a few being partially taxed,own ed by the rich who pay absolute ly no tax whatever, which throws the burden of taxation on the people who do not own these bonds. About one half the peo ple in this country are paying ali the taxes and they are the poorer classes and the very class that need some kind of relief, and the other half are going tax free, which class own the money ano should be made to pay certainly -heir part or the expenses to run our Government, Did you know that out of every dx days you work all the money you make in one of these days go to pay your taxes? This is abso lutely a correct statement, and it you do not believe it I can prove it to you. Just to think one has to toil one day out of six to keep up a bunch of people employed oy our Government is a shame md disgrace to a civilized nation Not only that, if the thing keeps going like it is and has been go ng, you will have to work two Jays in the week and so on until your whole time will be taken up working for a bunch of Govern ment employees who ought to be out working just like we have to work. Did you know, also, that one man in twenty is on the pay roll of the Government? Just t( think one man draws his earn ings and keeps up his famih from the work £of only nineteen ethers; in other words, nineteen men are compelled to pay a sala ry to one man and keep up his family each year. If that man gets two thousand dollars per annum, and this is a small salary compared to many who are em ployed by the Governiuoiu, the other nineteen men arc having to go down in their pockets and pay to that man one hundred and five dollars and twenty six cents. Do you not this is a wrong per petrated on our citizens and that there ought to be a remedy some where for it? I venture to fay that the average man in the state of Georgia will not clear this a mount of money in a year’s time and in some sections where the boll weevil has cleaned up the farmers they are not making this amount of money in a year’s time. These are some of the prob lems confronting us and others will be discussed later, Sam G. Brown. Rev, G. C. Light filled the pul pit Sunday night at the Baptist church, There was no services at the morning hour. LONGSTREET. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Phillip?' •spent Thursday r ight with Miss es Maude and Mae Phillips, Misses Viola and Nora Brvan were visiting Mr. and Mrs. Ro Betti ■ Friday night. Miss Alice Hall'and brothers. F-r-n t and Frank, spent Sun day with Mr.and Mrs. 1 G Thomp son. Misses Nora Bryant and Nellie Phillips spent Sunday night with Mr. and Mrs. Plenger Lummus. Mi’s. Arthur Lathem and little • laughter spent Saturday night with Mrs. Mary Garrett. Several from here attcn.led|the funetal of Mr. T M Sams at Friendship Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. James Thompson of Canton were visiting Mr. and Mrs. I G Thompsen Sunday af ternoon. Dr and Mrs. J T Hunter at tended the funeral of Mrs. J E Puett at Cumming Friday after noon. Master Jesse Lummus spent Sunday night with Frank Hall. L. 11. Tax Collector’s Third and Last Round. I will be at the following places on the dates named,for the pur posed of collecting State and County Taxes for the year 1923. Also Drainage Tax. Monday, November 12th. Cross’ store, 9am L D Gilbert’s, 10 a m 1 D Buice’s store, 12 m Sheltonville, Ipm Cd Va jghan store, 2pm dig Creek, 3pm Stripland’s store, 4pm Tuesday, November 13th, Homer Holbrooks’ store, 9am W W Jones place, 10 a m and It Bagwell store, 11 a m -Vi!is store, Ipm Dr J T Hunter’s, 3pm f M Sams’ store, 4 p m Wednesday, November 14th. Henry Stripland’s store, 9 a m L M Jones’ store, 10 a m F M Porter’s store, 11:30 a m W T Crow’s store, 12:30 p.m Orr’s store, 2:30 p m Chattahoochee co’tground 4 pm I will be at Cumming on all public days and you will find me it i;i liice in the court honsc. dv order of Comptroller General interest at the rate of 7 per cent per annum will be charged on Itate and County Taxes not paid by December the 20th. W. A, Jhally, T. C. ANTIOCH. Next Saturday and Sunday are regular meeting days at this place. Misses Lula, Ollie, and Ruby Williams visited Misses Cleo, Kate and Louise Tate Monday afternoon, Mr. M E Little left the last of the week for South Georgia, where he will make his future home. We regret to give them up, but wish them well in their new home. Mrs. Jane Irish visited rela tives in this part last week. Mrs. S C Williams spent awhile Tuesday evening with Mrs. M E Little. There wasn’t any Sunday school at this place Sunday on account of the rain. Miss Louise Tate spent one night last week witn Miss Ruby Williams. Mr. and Mrs. J N Davis and son and daeghter made a busi ness trip to Gainesville one day last week. Two Sisters. NO- 45 Atlanta, Ga, Nov. 5. Mem ber.:; of the legislature visiting in Atlanta the last few days have expressed the opinion that the •hances of passing new[tax bills a" the approach'ng extra session ip) arently are growing”less and e. sand less with each passing day—if may judge by the gen ual talk among the legislators. Representative Whitney’s state ment that he will will'move for a recess on .the veryifirsCday of the session'has been followed by a prediction from representative harles Stuart, of Atkinson coun ty, that the extra session’will be over in ten days.iTheseltwolmen are leaders in a bloc, said to num ber more than a majority of the House S The trouble Iseems to be, as pointed out by lawmakers, there are so many different tax plans under consideration that it will take all the winter for the va rious groups and leaders to reach a compromise—if’such a compro mise were possible. Comptroller General Wright’s statement that Georgia does not need anew system of taxation so much as to tighten nuts on the prefent machinery, has, it is shown, thrown cold water onfthe tax reformers. Colonel Wright has been at the head of Georgia’s tax collecting department for 40 years. He has seen legislatures and administrations come and go t'er a long time, His opinion is that the is sound and that the real burden is the city and county taxes. Atlanta, Ga , Nov. 5.—A gen eral shake up of the Georgia Public Service Commission is ex pected at the session of the leg islature next year, if not before, as the result of alleged friction existing between members of that body, it is rumored in polit ical circles here, Since charges and counter charges of certain members of the commission during the last few months, which occupied con uderable space in the newspa pers, legislators are said to be keeping check on certain phases of proposed legislation. Legislators, who have discuss ed the situation in capitol and notel lobbies in Atlanta, take the position that the entire commis sion should be composed of men vf special training and expe rience, with expert knowledge Knowledge of the mony intricate and technical subjects coming under their observation; in other words, they should not be politi cal plums. Reduction in the membership of the commission from five mem bersj to three members, which has been proposed in the past, is still a subject of discussion. Whether or not two commission ers whose terms are next to ex pire will have opposition is not definitely known at present, al though a number of probable candidates have been mentioned Used Parts for Dodge Car. Mr. W. R. Blackston, of the Blackston Bros. Garage, has all kinds of used parts for Dodge car for sale at a price that will save you money. Call and see him. Waterman’s Ideal Ink is abso lutely the best for all writing. It is uniform in quality, and will not thicken and dry up, is non corrosive and everlasting in its record qualities- Harvie Simpson, See Tax Collector’s notice-