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PUN FOUIM ! OF cons t BLOC I [SOUTHERN CONGRESSMAN TO \ DISCUSS MEANS OF AIDING THE GROWERS VINSON DENIES BLOC RUMOR Determined Effort To Be Made To Have Tariff On Calcium Arsenate Removed i I Washington.—As a step toward or gaulziug a "cotton bloc" In congress, six members of the house from Bouth ern states met recently to discuss methods of aiding the cotton growers. Representatives Lowery and Collier, |Of Mississippi; Black, T. xas; Vinson, Georgia; Wilson, Louisiana, and Parks, Arkansas, all Loinocrats, at tended tho conference. Agreement was reached that a do 'tcrmined effort should be mado to have the tariff on calcium arsenate removed. Such action, it was declar ed, would lower the price of boll woe >ll poisoning and enable the farmers to fight the post more successfully. Southern members of the house, have been Invited by those who at tended the meeting to participate in a conference soon at wh h plans will be made for enactment of legislation beneficial to the cotton grower. Washington.—Representative Carl 'Vinson, Georgia, recently denied that tho conference of south rn congress men was the beginning of a cotton bloc for operation in the coming con gress. "This Is not a farm bloc,” Vinson langhted when told of the rumor. "It was only a gathering of six southern congressmen to discuss my bill pro viding for the transfer of calcium ar senate from the dutiable to tho free ■list.” The Vinson bill will be presented soon after congress convenes and Is expected to receive the full support of southern delegations, Vinson said. The movement follows the activi ties of Senator Harris, of Georgia, who recently callod presidential at tention to the need for free entry for calcium arsenate. COOLIDGE STAND ON WORLD ISSUES REMAINS MYSTERY Position Of Harding On International | Questions J<nown And Successor is Pledged To Them Washington.—Ono moro week and President Coolldge’s firsl message to congress—the document upon which, perhaps, ills whole political future de pends—will bo in the hands of the printers, ready for delivery. What he will say aboi l many do mestic issues is already well known. What position he will take on inter national question—the world court, reparations and an association of na tions, on all of which the late presi dent Harding had definite ideas —is the one outstanding mystery of the address. Because this issue has been taken by Senator Hiram Johnson as a vehicle in which to ride into the primaries, it is the more important to President Coolidge. The world court proposal is bofore the senate, having been put there by Harding. Coolidge, already pledged to carry out his pre decessor's aims, cannot ignore it. In the absence of any world beyond bis determination to complete the pro gram of Warren G. Harding, it is assumed here that ho will urge senate sanction of America’s entrance into the court. Pact To Hit Snag In The Senate New York. —An organized move ment to frustrate ratification of the Lausanne treaty by tho United States senate was undertaken b> a group of influential Americans headed by James W. Gerard, former ambassa dor to Germany and now i imlrman of the American committee for the inde pendonca of Armenia. A memoran dum previously signed by 100 states men, high army officers, financiers, church officials, editors and foruigu relief workers was appro •<! for pre sentation to President Cc ilidge, sec retary of state, and indi' iduai sena tors before whom the treaty will come for ratification at tho forth coming session of congress. Ford Will Raoe Without Platform Detroit,, Mich. —If Henrv Ford Is permitted to run on aa independent ticket without subscribing io a plat form, he will run for the presidency, Robert R. Pointer, friend of tho auto mobile manufacturer, said recently. Pointer is prominent in the movement to elect Ford Ford, so far, has not entered objections to his candidacy, Pointer said. A national convention of Ford-for-President clubs to nomi nate Ford for the presidency will he hold in Dearborn, near here, on De cember 12. Noted Chemist Dies At. Knoxville Knoxville, Tenn.—Dr. Charles E. Wait, 74, head of tho department of chemistry, University of Tennessee, and for years chairman of the faculty conimitteo on athletics anil president of the university athletic association since its organization, died at his home recently. Dr. Wait's service with tho university has bc< u cominu- Ous since the fall of 1888. i rein 1887 to 1888 he wus director of the school of mines, University of Missouri, from which institution he had revived the D. degree. ,1 GRAND OPERA TAli REMOVED IN SENATE OTHER IMPORTANT MATTERB UF BEFORE THE GENERAL ABSEMBLY STATE NEWSJF INTEREST Brief New* Item* Bathered Her, And There From All Beotlons Of The Btato Atlanta. A number of Important changes in the general tax act ai passed by the Georgia house of repre sentatives recently, and referred to the Bonate finance committee for con slderatlon by the upper house, were recommended by the committee in ex ecutlvo session. Among the Import ant changes recommended are: Abolition of the $2,600 tax on grand opera concerts in the state. Reduction on the license tax of laundries approximately 26 per cent. The fight in the senate committee to remove the grand opera tax was led by Senator Phillips, who was sup ported in addresses by Senators Moore, Red wine, Duke and King. The vote In favor of repealing this clause being 11 to 5. Sentaor Lankford, who Introduced the resolution placing the tax on grand opera two years ago, op posed the amendment by Senator Phillips. Discovery of a Joker In the grand opera tax provision, which under the house act as passed, provided "that each grand opera producing company filling contracts in cities of more than 100,000 population shall pay a tax of $2,600 for each such concert,” re sulted In an amendment changing the word "concert” to "conixact” before the committee voted to repeal the clause entirely. Had this provision passed both houses worded as It pass ed the hcs*4, grand opera in Atlanta would have taxed local citizens $2,600 for each concert, or a total of $22,600 for the nine concerts offered here each year. The amendment, passed by the house, providing for a tax of SIOO on oach $1,000,000 additional capital stock of corporations In th)e state above $2,000,000 wag adopted by the senate committee. No objection to the amendment was offered. The tax on corporations with a capital stock of $2,000,000 ig S6OO. An amendment relieving motor buses operating between cities from local taxation, but Requiring them to pay state taxes, was adopted by the committee. After hearing a protest against the $26 tax on Pullman cars in the state,' voiced by Albert Hoiwell, Atlanta law yer, the committee voted to repeal this provision. Mr. Howelfl staffed that under the act as passed tyy thfe house railroad companies would be compel led to pay an unjust tax on Pullman cars making up trails plyit>g ( -between Georgia points and dues -hi other states. Widow And Isoort FtoggpKl By Gang Marietta.—Charges of flogging a pretty young Smyrna wjilow and her escort were embodied ta indictment* for rioting and for assault and bat tery returned by the Cobb ooanty grand Jury against Keller Hasty, pitcher for the Philadelphia American league baseball tenfn who l!we here, his two brothers,, Frank and Arthur Hasty, Tom Btacfe, employee of the Atlanta Gas work# who lives In Smyr na, P. c. Cook, automobile mochanio who works in Atlanta and lives In Smyrna, and Job Bramlett who lives near Smyrna. Four of the Indicted claimed alibis. Mrs. Bertha Hol combe, 22, an employee of the Bell Telephone comjpany at Its Atlanta headquarters, and R H. Norton, 25, traveling salesman who resides in At lanta, brought the charges, alleging that they had been forcibly seized by a group of six maskjed men one night recently while going to the girl’s home on the Marietta car line, had been carried in two automobiles’ to a sequestered spot near Smyrna, and thou flogged with a leather strap al most to the point of insensibility. No Indictments In Grant Killing Jonesboro. —No indictments were returned by the Olayton county grand Jury vyhich conolpded its investiga tion at tho mysterious killing of W. F. Grant, night telograph operator for the Southern railroad at Ellonwood, who was shot through the heart os ho sat at his instrument on the night of September. A no - bill was return ed by the body in connection with Oabe Horton, negro, who has been held by authorities for some time. Grant was shot late at night, a small hole through the window of ths sta tion showing where the bullet enter ed. Investigators have been working on the case ever since the killing, but uo definite clews have been found to Indicate the Identity of the stayer, j Fifty Are Indicted In Savannah Quiz Savannah. lndictments against about 60 alleged violators of tha liquor laws were returned here by the fed eral grand jury. No names were given out. The cases to be developed It Is said, are of suoh a nature as to warrant the prediction that a great probe is under way into reported coastwise shipments of liquor in wholesale lots from Savannah to Now York and other eastern points, h is expected that some ringleaders will he brought to the bar in the Yer; i near future. _ j iINSI, , MIUM A DRINK TAX :ASE 18 OPPOB£b Atlai ‘ • Mlo the Georgia hotiM ;of repre:. :i 1 failed to reach l ,\vote in ii, various income lax bill# : devolii!.:,- a ■ ii l ay to hearing nu jtnerous <■< dies on the subject, the ,Bonat i•> committee continued ■its work n.si.i itlon of the goft oral tax a< . making a number of ln> ■portaut cl) in that measure, "which it will o , nend to the uppef [body when ■ bill become* before 8 for final pa l i A manu£a< M..etax of fire oenta 'on candy sola at - retail price of 5C .cents a pom; 1 ‘ ■ :-■*?; repeal of the provisions si. -: ’ g Increase in tai rate? "i '■ remiums and soft drinky provision taxing corpora on each 11,000,000 of car Love $2,000,000, and a nUi . . .nmlttee amend in' nt. ■ by the senate fi nanr . . i the final day”§ consit' • r L general tax act. MOTOR O' LECTiON COST LOW IN GEORGIA Atlant:, -Dark:: the years 1920, 2L 22 and P > November 1, it cost tho st ■ c■ 1 rbi Just 3.17 per cent of its um rhe motor vehicle tax l’or ■ .‘Don of said tax. This figure , in a statement giv en ouof State S. Guyt McLer whose department the mo i :le tax Is collected. Total i the three years and ten r.ioi ‘ ■ nod are given at $7,626,101.10. expenditures of $239,320 20. ii i : minted out that under the la 16 per cent of the amount rollec:ed is available for the expen: es of . ecilon, which, on the above figures would amount to sl,- 143,828.67. V '. it is stated, the managem*-: t ■ - partition tlb sav ing the state •> , 00.47, which is the difference be-; e .. the actual expendb tures and the :.mount made available under the law. In a ta' the number at passenger trucks registered by counties, ’"•liter rows the largest registr; . ■ present year, 1923 to d.P .3 live been 28,818 passeng* r cuv . "Motored and 4,90$ trucks TV,. ;i r- registration for passeu is in Union county with on iy ~.’, • ir Quitman county, with si- b. : e smallest number of truck r-’istra ns: The total o collections tor 1920 was $1,918,612. I which cost to col lect $57,6:.4, o.' 2.9 per cent In 1921 It' was l i.703 2i, at a cost of $63,- 786, or _ .■ cent, while for 1922 the re 5,830,047.61. at a cost of r , i 3.5 per cent. For the firm- n ; of 1923 the re ceipts SB, with expense coet $5 . r. 5 per cent. The per ceu of for the entire year 1923 arse', be higher, inasmuch - two months of office >i be counted. Co-op 'c- ;,icreases Payment Atlanta. - < '’ten* of 20 centa per pdund as an . '.value on cotton has been author .iz.' for all members of the Georg: : < ■ .•l owers' Co-opera tive assockv’i its board of direc tors, Pres si ,T. E. Conwell an nounced. A i)" r he directors Is already in ei:. . all banks In the state thro i, i ■ i >:. members draw their drafts > notlfiedAo ac cept draf: < ■’ 20 cents per pound • ivered to the asscciu . notice. Pre viously on cotton has been 15 • ' r nd. The new policy ;• ad members who Ik: i. : - -.ei , payments of 16 ct.; . ill be mailed chocks : r the addiUonal 6 cents ; - ’ • ,-n ihis date last year th i ci: id advanced to its me <'• cotton delivered at that Uni h: ' 2,250,000. This year the i ss advanced ap proximo'- to its members ut ID c who desired an advanc delivery. This year m; v ->f bales of cot ton hav '. 1 from members who did i advance when they dr" ' cotton. Plan - Atlanta Buyers Atlan. . ngs to the Atlanta buying . itronlzing ped dlers dr i. and other gar ments of wc apparel and a re quest for ' l l oper ilon of citizens in appreu -ndifv killers whose goods fail to lil. r. ■ ~ ted Tv ere issued by C. V K:i -•!, -xecutive secre tary of the e ! : Retail Merchants’ association. • Ere. . >w until tho close of the Christm.-. ; days such ped dlers will bo ekremedy active,” the secretary stated .: ny times goods are not as r. and as a con sequence in- and buyers are made victim, oi u.iud. We wish to see that Atlci : protected In this re , Atlanta Retail Merchcbi : rt. i ion will take ao tlve ssi ■ ite vendors of misrepr . : and merchandise.” Two Ar VVu _-cl In Kntfs Battls Gra; - .'hr e rothcrs-ln-law, Bam 'Young, ; rrv 24- : ■ and Tom Small wood, io lit a ’ tUu with knives re cently, and as . result Perry Moore and Sam oung are dangerously vour.de ’ • ] Smallwood 1b in the Jones , :iting the out come of ijurtes. There werc no s to the fight *’ who inflicted : tho. mort L quarrel grew out of a . haul lumber od which o,i ni i lon was scoured of. ooflecting more :m his share. j STUDY MAN-MADE LIGHTNING Engineers Confident That Experiments Going On Will Prove to Be Successful. Two-mllllon-volt artificial lightning Is being created in the research laboratories of the General Electric company, Pittsfield, ‘Mass., in order that buildings and high power electrical transmission lines may be protected against the powerful “electrical dyna mite" that nature discharges during storms, reports the Kansas City Star. F. W. Peer, Jr., engineer In charge of the spectacular experiments now in progress, explains that In addition to the trouble that engineers have in keeping power current from escaping from the conductors there Is the very important problem of lightning pro tection. A few million horsepower are released in a fraction of a millionth of a second when lightning crashes. Elec trical engineers must know how to prevent this destructive force from reaching the conductors of power lines or they must arrange so that It will discharge harmlessly to the ground when It does get to the line. The highest voltage actually used at the present time for the commercial transmission of power Is 220,000 volts on a line In California, but the General Electric company has an experimental million-volt line. Mr. Peek declared that It Is too early to say whether such high voltages will ever be acquired In practice. RETORT WAS RATHER GOOD Evidently These Were Humorists In the Missouri Legislature of the Year 1887. W. O. L. Jewett of the Shelbina Democrat tells an Incident In the legis lature of 1887, In which Mark Twain figured: "Henry Newman, representing Ran dolph county, was the wit of the house, and was trying to secure the passage of a bill to amend the stock law. This, Robert Bodlne, represent ing Monroe county, was opposing. Mr. Newman said in his humorous style: " T was In the gentleman’s county once. I made a speech at a big picnic In Florida, and 1 thought I made a good one. In it I referred to the fact that we were close to the place where Mark Twain was bom. After I was through, one of the gentleman’s con stitutents, a tall, raw-boned long haired, unkempt Individual, came up, and shaking his finger in my face said: "What liars you politicians are. I have lived here nigh onto fifty years and there was nary a man named Twain about here.” ’ # "The gentleman from Monroe county Immediately was on his feet to reply: " ’Mr. Speaker, I want It distinctly understood that when the gentleman from Randolph was In Monroe county It was before the enactment of any stock law.’ ’’ —Kansas City Star. Not Prepared. The old deacon was the. kindest of men, deeply religious and always ready with a good word. One day while he was driving to town he overtook an Italian peddler with a large pack on his back. Stopping his horse, the dea con suggested tlyit the man ride. The Italian carefully stored his pack In the back of the spring wagon and then climbed to the seat beside the good deacon. For some time the two talked pleas antly. Then there was a rather long psuse, snd. thinking to improve the occasion In a religious sense, the dea con turned and asked, "My friend, are you prepared to die?” With a shriek the Italian sprang to the ground and disappeared 'lnto the nearby woods. The calls of the deacon only hastened the fellow’s flight, and neither the deacon nor any one else ever saw him again in that neighbor hood. It seems that the peddler was not prepared. Sentiment and Sense. It was evening by the sea and the poetess walked with the professor along the margin of the ocean. “Don’t you love to see the phosphorescence on the waves T’ she said. “What can It be, I wonder? Is It the mermaids lighting up their lamps, or the glow from the sea fairies’ ballroom? Or can It be the reflection of • golden treasure stored In the vasty caverns of the deep?” •I think not, madam,” said the pro fessor. "It is only quite recently that the discovery of luminous bacilli has rendered possible any general explana tlon of the phenomenon, and even yet Its wide applicability remains to be proved. It is, however, generally at tributed to the decaying organic sub stances of diseased fish,”- —Boston Herald. 6he Had it Right. Two Irishmen had visited St Paul's cathedral. One was from the country and had been taken to the famous building by his friend, who wished him to be duly Impressed by its gran deur. As they came out, the resident of the city said: "Well, Mike, and phwat do you think of it? Isn’t It grand?" "Pat” said the one from the coun try, "it bates the dtvtl I” "That,” said his friend, “was the intention." Every Day Is Sabbath Day. Every day is Sabbath somewhere in the world. The Greeks observe Mon day ; the Russians Tuesday; the As syrians Wednesday; the Egyptinm Thursday; the Turks Friday; the Jew Ish people Saturday, and the Ohristlani Bunday. , V ... To My Friends: My new store building is now finished and I have in stalled a nice line of Groceries and General Merchandise. I have also installed a Filling Station and will nandle the hest grade of Oil and Gas. I will pay you the top of the market for Your Barter, I will appreciate, very much, a portion of your trade. Where? Four miles South of Cumming, on the Highway. WHO? Glenn Guthrie, of course NOTICE. This is to notify ah parties indebt ed to Farmers & Merchants Bank, Cumming, Ga.. to call at once and make satisfactory settlement, oth erwise suit Avill he started. M, W. WEBB. Liquidating Agent. Save Money by trading with me, I carry a good line of Saple & Fancy Groceries, Hardware, Overalls, shoes Tobacco and Snuff. Highest prices paid for Barter I’ll appreciate yotia trade and tieat you right. H- L- Hurt We Invite you to call and see us. W e carry everything usually carried in a first class drug store and sell cheap. A full line of school books on hand. Cumming Drug Store.