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JHATTANOOGANS
■HAVE MEETING
| BjtOISTS and others INTER
ESTED IN RINGGOLD PICNIC
f [get together in chatta-
j Bnooga to boost movement
■ %
motorists have been
IHKIR,! upon io attend a mass meeting
K Htiiat city on next Tuesday night for
I Ba purpose of making final arrange-
I Kent- lor ,lie I{ill trgol'l good roads
on the 30th.
I I The following call for the meeting
I Has been given publicity in Chatta-
:
I I Every autoist and good roads en-
I Hmsiast in the city is requested to
I B 6 P r( ' sent at a meeting* at he Chat-
Hnooga Automobile chib to be held
I H Manufacturers’ building on next
I Hmrsday evening. May 25.
I ■ This meeting of the club is called
I Hr the purpose of getting as many
| as possible interested in the
| Hingvold. Ga.. trip, and to arrange the
I ■Every autoi-t and good roads advo-
should attend this proposed pic-
for many good points on road
< will be discussed by selected
I
I /■l': addition to the antoists that will
K- * r< "" ( hattanooga. a large delega
te K 1 ” <lf autoist-. from North Georgia
I be on hand to take part in the
I BMr. Horace .1. Smith, who first sug-
the picnic, lias seen a number
R prominent Chattanooga business
• Bpii within the past few days and they
I B'* assun ‘d hi"’ that they are coming
that a good delegation will be on
I ground.
I iMr. Frank T. Reynolds, who is
I ■eking after the Georgia delegation.
I to Chattanooga today and while
| H f ‘ I- e he will confer with the officials
| f 3 the Chattanooga Automobile club.
I ■The speakers from Dalton and the
H'akers from Catoosa county and
g Bliattatiooga. will all be eloquent road
and the day is going to be
big one.
■ALTER 1. KENNER
I RAISING BIG CROP
I BM alter T. Kenner, one of the best
i in this section, is in the city
I H® a . v ;,l ’d he states that in his opin-
I ■ 3 nian can make as good crops in
■ JBthis immediate part of the state,
I Rh proper management, as can be
1 in South Georgia.
■ K< , i :i i years ago Mr. Kenner made
■ ex !” riment in South Georgia and
■ gy a> a v,, ry successful one too. but
K "lerred North Georgia as a home
■ BL ,l: " vp d back here with his family.
I B‘ cultivating the old Tibbs
and has put in about 500 acres
rn and expects to plant another
■ B r ’ Kenner says that lie is using’
■ B tiy r 's Prt^’zer ’ as the most
i H' planters in the South do,
E it pays handsomely.
■ IHe also says that the fertilizers are
■Bk a e^er grade than ever be
ll Bore and t} la f Commissioner Hudson’s
■ Ftorts in this direction have been
■ a great deal to the farmers.
I ■ Mr. Kenner has erected a large
I■' f " Vare ene ’ n £ on i° w
I B* 4 an d intends to go extensively in
flß" ca ttie raising.
| Pays Paving Assessment.
Another street paving assessment
today. It was that of Mr.
fl’ B. Haynes, well known in Dalton.
latlg Arjjua.
CARTERSVILLE TAKES
GAME FROM LOCALS
The Dalton High School boys lost
to the Cartersville High School on the
latter’s grounds yesterday afternoon,
the score being 14 to 3 against the
locals. The Dalton team showed up
in better form than they did last
week and got two runs in the first
inning. The Carters-villians however
have been working some themselves
and put up a peppery game. The lo
cals were at some disadvantage ow
ing to strange grounds.
It is quite possible that a game with
the Darlington School will be schedul
ed on Dalton grounds for one day
this week. Announcement of this
game will be made later.
W. N. HARDWICK SELLS
MAMMOTHJAS ENGINE
One of the largest gasoline engines
ever shipped to this section of the
country will be brought to Dalton
within a short time by Mr. W. M.
Hardwick, agent in this territory for
the Olds engine.
It will be a 40-horse power affair
and will drive a 600-light Crocker-
Wheeler generator.
The engine has been sold to the A.
J. Showalter Company for its new
plant. There will be no belts any
where in the plant, but each piece of
machinery will be individually driven
with a motor.
“Life is a game of give and take,”
quoted the Wise Guy.
“Yes. with more givers than tak
ers,” added the Simple Mug.—Phil
adelphia Record.
Good Ears for Music.
The two sailors had just returned
from a long voyage and it was good
to get back on English soil once more,
says Tit Bits. They w*re a little in
clined to be sentimental about it.
Above the rumble of the traffic they
heard a very harsh, unmusical voice.
After listening for a few moments one
of them turned to his companion and
said:
“Eh, Jack, it’s been a long time
since we heard that song.”
“What song?” asked the other.
“The one that fellow’s singing in
the street —'The Light of Other
Days.’ ”
“That fellow ain’t singing 'The
Light of Other Days.’ at all,” replied
the other. “I’ve been listening to
him. He’s piping ‘The Banks of Al
len Water.’ ”
“Here Tommy,” sailed out the first
man to a small boy, “run along and
find out what that man’s singing.”
“He ain’t singing at all,” protest
ed Tommy, “he’s hawking herrings.”
Gentle Reminder.
It was midnight, says Tit Bits. The
burglar had entered the house as
quietly as possible, but his shoes were
not padded, and they made some noise.
He had just reached the door of the
bedroom, when he heard someone mov
ing in the bed as if about to get up
and he paused. The sound of a wo
man’s voice floated to his ears.
“If you don’t take your boots off
when you come into this house,” it
said, “there is going to be trouble and
a whole lot of it. Here’s it’s been
raining for three hours and you dare
to tramp over my carpets with your
muddy boots on! Go downstairs and
take them off this minute!”
He went downstairs without a word
but he did not take off his boots. In
stead he went straierht out ino he night
again, and he “pal” who was waiting
for him saw a tear glisten in his eye.
“I can’t rob that house,” he said,
“it reminds me of home.”
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1911.
GRADUATES TO
HEAR SERMON
PUPILS OF TENTH GRADE WILL
ATTEND CHURCH IN A BODY
AND HEAR BACCALAUREATE
SERMON BY REV. FOOTE.
Pupils of the Tenth grade, graduat
ing class of the High School, will as
semble tomorrow (Sunday) morning
at 10:45 o'clock at the City Park
school building and march from there
to the Methodist church to hear the
baccalaureate sermon, which will be
delivered by Rev. W. R. Foote.
In case of inclement weather, the
graduates will proceed to the church
individually in time for the eleven
o ’clock services.
All pupils above the primary de
partment are invited and urged to* at
tend. A special musical program,
under direction of Miss Mabel Lester,
will be rendered.
ORDINARY BOGLE WRITES
ABOUT USE OF CONVICTS
Editor of The Argus:
I trust your fair-minded readers
will not regard as impertinent the pre
sentation to them from time to time of
my views on public questions, which I
believe are of vital importance to the
taxpayers; those who differ with me
have precisely the Same right to their
views, and the free expression of them
that I have. I have attacked no one;
I am not seeking a newspaper contro
versy, and am simply trying to lay
before the people the result of investi
gation, carefully and honestly made,
on a subject of great importance to the
financial welfare of our taxpayers.
Those who attack me with padded
figures and insinuate that I am, or
have been trying to mislead the peo
ple are reminded that common courte
sy and decency would require that
they furnish a bill of particulars
when making so grave a charge. The
gist of my last article was that the
working of convicts on our public
roads involved so great a change of
policy and of our tax rate that the
question ought to be submitted to the
people before making the plunge. I
also stated that to equip and work
them in large enough numbers to be
at all profitable, would require an in
crease in our tax rate to $1.20, and
more, rather than less, and gave as a
reason that Bartow county, with a
considerably larger tax digest than
ours, and equipment presumably paid
for, had a tax rate of $1.20 and Cobb
county, $1.40, both in the Seventh
congressional district, and no abnor
mal conditions prevtailing in either
county, so far as I knew.
To take an isolated county, here and
there, laboring under peculiar and ab
normal conditions would not be a fair
guide, and could be distorted into
proving almost anything, by those
who are not fair-minded, to boost a pet
argument.
Suppose, for instance, that someone
wanted to prove that taxes were in
creased by not using convicts and
would point in support of their con
tention to Gordon county not using
convicts. The tax rate in that county
for the year 1910, for state and coun
ty, was $1.55. Would that prove their
contention? Only a slight investiga
tion would show that 40 cents of that
was for a new jail.
Then suppose that someone had a
pet hobby that to use convicts would
really reduce the tax rate, he could
point to Muscogee county, using con
victs, and show that the tax rate
there is only 80 cents, state and county
or 30 cents on each SIOO of property
for county taxes. Would that prove
or tend to prove any such theory?
EXAMINATION
FOR TEACHERS
PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS TO
STAND EXAMS AT CITY PARK
SCHOOL FOR TWO DAYS, JUNE
2 AND 3.
An examination for prospective
teachers will be he’d in the City
Park school Friday and Saturday,
June 2-3, between the hours of 9 a.
m. and 4 p. m.
The subject embrace reading, spell
ing, orthoepy, sentence building, dia
critical marks, arithmetic, English
grammar, U. S. history. Geography.
Arrangements will be made for the
simultaneous examination of white
and colored applicants, the superin
tendent conducting the one and Prin
cipal Green conducting the other.
Again a slight investigation would
show that Muscogee has a tax digest
of more than twenty-two millions, sev
en hundred thousand dollars and that
a tax rate of 30 cent's produces a rev
enue of over $68,000.00, while Whit
field ’s digest of a little over four mil
lions and one-half, with our tax rate
of 50 cents, will only produce a reve
nue of something over $22,000.00, and
besides, think of it, that Mucogee has
41 square miles of territory less than
Whitfield: considerable less milege of
roads, and more than three times the
revenue, even at her lower rate, so
that, I repeat, sporadic cases of coun
ties, abnormally situated, are entirely
worthless as a general guide, as to the
effect that using convicts has on the
tax rate. I think a much safer guide
would be the average tax rate of
counties of about the same class, all
ove rthe state, that are using convicts,
and the following figures, carefully
compiled from official sources, are re
spectfully submitted, and if there be
any hypercritical critics who doubt
their accuracy or think them mislead
ing, they are invited to come and ver
ify them. “Come to the book.”
The average state and county tax
rate of all the 146 counties in Geor
gia, for 1910, was $1,30 7-10 on each
SIOO worth of property; the average
rate in all of the counties using con
victs, is $1,361-3; The average rate
in counties not using convicts is $1.12;
the average rate in counties, using
convicts, with tax digests of over ten
million dollars, is $1.14 and a small
fraction; the average tax rate of coun
ties with tax digests of over five mil
lion dollars, and less than ten million,
using convicts, is $1.21; the average
tax rate of counties, using convicts,
with tax digests of less than five mil
lion dollars (Whitfield is in this
class), is $1.41 9-10.
The average cost in the state of
keeping one convict, according to the
report of the legislative committee,
for 365 days, is $333.33 1-3. Take off
Sundays, legal holidays, days they
might be sick and all days too wet or
too cold to work outdoors on the roads
and 4 what does a day’s work of a con
vict on the roads cost? I don’t know.
Any reason in all this why I should
suggest that if we go into the business
properly our tax rate would go to
$1.20 and more, rather than less?
I have heard, or have seen it stated
somewhere, that we are spending now
$9,029.92 each year on our roads,
which is the gross amount obtained by
multiplying the total of the property
on digest by the road tax rate of two
mills; misleading? Probably not in
tentionally so, but parties using such
figures ought at least to inform them-
REAL SURE ENOUGH
RAIN FALLS TODAY
Cooling, delicious, delightful, wel
come, grateful, dust-settling rain ar
rived in Dalton today.
It was running about 672 hours late
and the gasping population of this
township smiled with satisfaction and
chortled with joy when the first drops
pattered down and struck them in the
face.
The tree leaves drank in the mois
ture, the grass blades nodded thanks
and the young growing corn pricked
up its ears. (No offense.)
It was not raining rain today, it
was raining good nature and garden
truck.
■■ ' - i - - M
SEN. EMMETT SHAW
SPENDS DAY HERE
Senator Emmett R. Shaw, of Clay
county, is in the city today and talk
ed interestingly of state polities, in
which he is interested, being a very
live and wide-awake senator.
Senator Shaw is a prominent Geor
gia cigar manufacturer and while
here he conferred with Dalton distri
butors relative his famous “Rounder
Cigars,” which will be placed on the
market.
*
selves sufficiently beforehand to know
that from the gross total given above
the road funds proportionate share
of the following items must be deduct
ed before the net or real amount is
reached:
Ist, Errors on digest; 2nd, Insolvent
list, or those from whom nothing is
collected; 3rd, tax receiver’s commis
sions; 4th, tax collector’s commis
sions; sth, County treasurer’s com
missions.
This would reduce the amount con
siderably and I think correct figures
are best.
It is a matter of common knowledge
that our roads have been greatly im
proved in practically all parts of the
county during the last ten or twelve
years, and many, very many, of the
worst stretches of road, especially on
our main thoroughfares or lines of
travel, that were almost impassable
in bad winter weather, years ago,
have been permanently improved, un
til now heavy loads can be hauled over
them at any time. Many of the small
er roads have also been improved,
more or less. This is a matter of com
mon knowledge, and it will hurt no
one to be fair and truthful about it.
We have never had funds to build
pike roads a._d the first great duty de
volving on our road men is to try to
keep the roads all over the county
repaired for present use. This from
the very nature of the case cannot be
made all permanent, but because a
great deal of it is all to do over and
over again is it wasted? If so, all
that we eat and wear is wasted, be
cause it is gone with present use.
The expense of today’s rations will all
be to be gone over with again tomor
row. If we do not advance we are go
ing to stagnate or go backwards. We
ought to advance, to be progressive as
fast as we are able and willing to
foot the bills, and that our roads have
been progressing in improvement for
several years is admitted by those who
know the facts and are willing to
speak the truth.
Whether our people want to ad
vance faster and are willing to pay for
the accelerattd speed is for them to
say.
All that I insist upon is that they
be placed in possession of all of the
facts which might guide them to a
correct concdusion, and it is entirely
(Continued on last page.)
RJAD THE LOCAL NEWS
THE SAME DAY IT HAPPENS
IN THE DAILY ARGUS.
10 CENTS A WEEK BY CARRIES
10c PER WEEK BY CARRIER
TEMPLARS TO
HONOR DEAD
ON FIRST SUNDAY KNIGHTS
TEMPLARS WILL DECORATE
THE GRAVES OF FORMER
MEMBERS OF THE ORDER
ADDRESS BY DR. HEADDEN.
On Sunday, June 4, the Knights
Templar, of Dalton, and perhaps also
the members of the Blue Lodge, will
meet at West Hill cemetery and deco
rate the graves of those members who
have gone before.
Rev. Dr. R. B. Headden, of Rome,
will deliver an address at the ceme
tery and flowers will then be placed
on the last resting places of the four
Knights Templars who have been
called by death.
The four are: Mr. W. C. Huff; Mr.
Jim Lewis, Mr. B. D. Leonard, and
Mr. George Ferguson.
On the same date the Knights
Templar will send a floral offering to
Chattanooga with the request that it
be placed on the grave of the late Mr.
Will Fischer, who was at one time a
resident of this city and who was
such an ardent friend of the Dalton
order.
Not long before his death'Mr. Fis
cher made the Knight Templars of
this city a present of a handsome sil
ver service, which was destroyed in
|he recent fire. ■ •
The exercises will be held on Sun
day afternoon June 4 at about 3:30
o ’clock.
The Blue Lodge has its meeting on
next Monday night and at that time
the invitation of the Knights Tem
plars to join them in the ceremonies
will be extended.
She —They say an apple a day will
keep the doctor away.
He—Why stop at that. An onion a
day will keep everybody away.
St. Mark’s (Episcopal) Church.
Special Notice.
As the High School commencement
sermon is to be preached at the M. E.
Church, South, there will be no ser
vices on Sunday, May 21st.
The next appointment will be on
the first Sunday in June.
G. L. L. Gordon, A. M. Rector.
WEEK SHOWSlifi
INDUSTRIAL GAIN
Chattanooga, May 18—For the week
ending yesterday the new industrial'
organizations in fourteen Southern
states, as reported by The Tradesman,,
represent an aggregate capitalization
of over five million dollars. When
the fact is considered that the list is
only partial, certain mercantile lines
not being included, and enlargements
are not taken into consideration, some
idea can be formed as to the rapid de
velopment all sections of the South
are enjoying.
The Blood-letting Branch.
Not every pun is as good as the one 1
credited to a Dublin gentleman of long
ago by the author of a recent book
entitled, “In many lands,” says the
Aberdeen Register. George IV on
his visit to Dublin in 1821 met at a
reception Sir Phillip Crampton, Ire
land’s great surgeon.
“In what branch of the sendee is
that magnificent loooking man?” ask
ed his majesty.
The gentleman to whom the ques
tion was put was too polite to hint
hat he king was misaken in suppos
ing that the distinguished surgeon was
a naval or military officer.
“Sire,” he replied, “he is a gener
al in the Lancers.”