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SETTLE CAPITOL LOCATION
BY VOTE, ONCEAND FOR ALL
Even Those Opposed To Removal Are Anxious To See
The Agitation Ended In The Only Way Possible —
By A Vote Of The People.
ATLANTA, OA.—There will be
Introduced In the Georgia keglii
lature a hill to bring the Cap
itol Removal” leaue to a final con
clusion by submitting the Q ue ®
tion to a vote of the people at the
next general election, as is P ro '
vlded In an ordinance of the laax
constitutional convention.
The measure has the support
both of high officials of the state
who are opposed ter removal of tne
capitol from Atlanta and of those
who are In favor of its removal.
The purpose of the legislation is
to bring to a definite conclusion
an Issue which has been growing
over the state the past eight or
ten years—to end It one way or
the other, In the only way it can
be definitely ended.
Advocates of the measure to
submit the question to the
pie for their verdict say that the
support already backing the leg
islation In both branches is in
excess of the required two-thirda
vote in each branch of the as
sembly, and that the bill will he
passed and gotten out of the way
of other big legislation somewhat
before the middle of the session.
Some of the strongest men In the
state against moving the f H P 1
from Atlanta are backing the bill
to submit It to the people, while
some of the strongest men for its
removal to Macon are, also, seek
ing to end the issuo by popular
vote.
Atlanta, Ga.—The people of the state
of Georgia will finally settle, one way
or the other, at the next general election,
the capitol removal issue.
It it to be definitely determined at thnt
time whether the capitol is to remain
tn Atlanta and the necessary improve
ments and enlargements are to be made
here, or an adequate and fitting now
capitol building and governor's mansion
are to be provided in Macon, in the cen
ter of the state.
The Georgia Legislature at this ses
sion will pass a bill, not as a great
many people have seemed to believe, to
**movs the capitol," but to submit the
Question to a vote of the people for their
determination.
A canvass of the state, county by coun
ty, has Just been completed and it is
found that, generally speaking, the people
and the statesmen are of one mind on
ttye suhiect; they are In accord with
the opinion expressed by Governor Dor
sey some months ago: That the contin
ued unsettlement of the "capitol removal
Issue" has become a bar and handicap
on the state's business In more ways
than one. and the time has come to
,J *nd the agitation" by putting it up to
the people to render a final verdict at the
ballot box, and bring the thing to a
close.
There are members of both houses
who will support the measure this year
to submit the issue to a vote of the peo
ple. and who, when It Is submitted, will
stand firmly In opposition to removal of
the capitol from the city of Atlanta.
Among them are some wno will return
to their homes and, in the campaign be
fore the people on the dlreot issue, will
seek to carry their county against It.
hut they frankly occupy the position of
desiring the issue brought to its final
end at the earliest possible time, and
admit their conviction that there is no
other, as well as no more proper or
conclusive, manner of ending it.
Law Says People Must Vote
In no few localities in the state it
has boon found the belief exists that the
location of the state capitol is fixed by
the state constitution In other locali
ties though these have been found to
be but few there is entertained some
Idea that the state legislature has the
authority to tlx the location of the capi
tol. and has passed upon the question.
Neither Idea Is correct.
The sole authority for future deter
mination of the question of the capitol.
after the adoption of the convention or
dinance has been by a vote of the peo
ple of the state
In the light of these facts, gentlemen
of both branches of the 1919-20 Legis
lature, representing both factions—those
desirous of placing the capitol in the
center of the state, and those opposed
to any change from the present location
have announced themselves In favor
and support of the provision made by the
constitutional convention last held. They
recognise, ns does the present state ad
ministration. thnt the issue is one which
must be speedily brought to a conclusion,
and they stand for making the required
legal arrangements to reach that con
clusion this year
State-wide political issues ordinarily
go directly to the people, without any
necessity for meeting legal technicality.
This issue, however, is not of the or
dinary variety. Its final settlement can
come through no other legal means than
action on the part of the state legisla
ture submitting It to a popular vote.
That government founded on the con
sent of those governed is the only firm
and substantial kind.
Why the l«»ue Needs to Be Settled
For ten years there has been constant
ly growing an agitation for removal of
t>ie state capitol to a location nearer
the center of Georgia. At the time of
Its origin it was treated lightly, and
ten years ago was probably not an Is
sue of st.de-wide importance. Devel
opment In that space of time of the
Wonderful wilderness and wild-land south
ern portion of Georgia Into the greatest
farming, trucking and fruit growing sec
tion or the southeast added such impe
tus to the desire for central location
of the state government that it attained
the scope of a big and broad state issue
*ev*ra! years ago. Four years ago rep
resentatives of a majority of the coun
ties In the state committed themselves,
rot to a movement to remove the capi
tol from Atlanta to Macon, but to the
proposition that this Issue is of such
also and importance it must be passed
upon and determined by the voting pop
olatlon of Georgia aa a whole.
The magnitude which it has. or al
ready had at that time, reached manifest
ed itself several years ago in the Geor
gia Legislature when efforts were made
to make disposition of the old and di
lapidated house used since 1872 as a
• governor's mansion." a piece of prop
erty acquired by the state from Mr
John H. James, of Atlanta, at a cost
tn that day of SIOO,OOO worth of seven
per cent Georgia bonds. "Capitol re
moval" prevented action then on the
ground that "the people must settle the
Issue by vote first."
Subsequently, or about three years ago.
efforts were made tn the Legislature to
have the state purchase from the Jack
son estate real estate in Juxtaposition to
the present capitol property, for the
f>urpose of erecting an annex building
n order that the present building, then
overflowing, might be relieved to some
extent of the pressure upon Us increas
ing inadequacy. That effort met the
same fate. "Capitol removal" prevented
action until the people should be allowed
to vote on the issue.
The effort to negotiate a sale of the
present mansion property and purchase
mors suitable property upon which to
erect a new mansion suffered the same
experience They all have been blocked
by the "capitol removal issue."
Must Have More Room
Nearly three years ago Governor Har
ris, on nis own responsibility, and In or
der to make room in the state capitol
for the new members of the state court
>f Appeals rented, in the name of the
and at a very substantial rental—
in three figures—a residence buildlrit?
opposite the capitol in which to house
the state military department. The con
gestion in the capitol had to be relieved
rmd there was no other way to relieve
t. At the time it. whs said this build
nK, would afford ample room for the
military department and several com
mittee rooms for the Legislature. Giy
the way, there Is no such thing In the
present capitol as a legislative commit
tee room of any kind.) When the mili
tary establishment moved in it required,
and is now using, the entire residence
building.
More recently, when the legislature cre
ated the state department of archives
•arm the time came to classify and re
move the records of the state, it was
found the department had nowhere to
go, and there has had to be erect* d
m the lobby on the top floor of the
building a series of stalls and shelves
where these records are stored In the
open.
In the past few months the unsani
tary and congested condition of the
casement under the capitol became such
that the state health department, which
iias been housed there for years, had to
move. To provide a place for them
Governor Dors'-y. on his own responsi
bility, rented another residence building
—the Jackson property which the Legis
iaturo had twice refused to buy—and
that Is wholly devoted to the use of this
one department.
A portion of the state agricultural de
partment has had to he transferred from
tbe first floor Into the basement of the
capitol building because of lack of other
accommodations and, when the state bu
reau of markets was created .and offices
were required. It became necessary to
eliminate and tear out one of the toi
lets on the first, floor, overhaul that space
and make of It an office for the state
director.
And still there Is not one legislative
committee room In the entire building
nor sufficient ro in for the appelate
courts, since In at least one instance a
blind flooring has had to be run in half
way down from the ceiling in one of the
rooms, In order to make It Into two
rooms.
Why the Governor Say# Settle It
These are the conditions at the capitol
as they stand today.
At the mansion there Is an even worse
state of affairs. During the adminis
tration of Governor Harris, and his oe
cupanev of the mansion, Its unsanitary
and dilapidated condition caused him to
make complaint to the Legislature, and
errort then was made to make other pro
visions but the effort was stalled by
, removal" as an issue to be
settled first.
Last winter, during Governor Dorsey's
occupancy of the mansion—he is still liv
ing there because the state provides no
where else for him to live—physical and
B fm tary con( li tions at the mansion grew
still worse. The plastering fell from the
walls, the water pipes froze and burst;
the house was uncomfortable and wholly
unsatisfactory.
Toward the end of last year Governor
Dorsey made the flat statement
that the point was reached when "this
capitol removal Issue must he settled
one way or the other." Ho said, as he
has since repeated, thnt It has become
a handicap, and will remain so until
•} } n voted on by the people and gotten
out of the way; that It is standing in
the way of development, repair and ex
pansion of the state's properties to moot
actual pressing demands
VN ltHo these are probably not his exact
words, this is the substance of his com
ment on the situation at that time, and
as it has been printed and repeated by
him since: "It is an issuo that must
be brought to an end. It appears that
it will keep coming up and getting in
tne way of every effort to do anything
about the mansion or an annex to the
capitol until the people have ended it
T herefore. it ought to bo submitted to
the people as quickly as possible, and
f they are going to move the capitol
to Macon, let's know it and go ahead
and build adequate facilities down there
If they are not go ng to move It. then
let them untie our hands and let’s go
ahead and do the tilings that are neces
sary here.”
"| a , n 0 (, by any moans to bo taken for
granted, either, that the governor hasn’t
a future Interest in what the people
of the state do on thnt score for in Ids
conversation on the subject, he has left
no room for mistake ns to his sentiment
und intention. Ho is an Atlnntun and
quite naturally Is opposed to removal of
the capitol from Atlanta; so much so
I thnt ho has made It known when the vole
on It comes he will no to the ballot box
«nd register by his vote his desire that
it remain hen—but be has been suf
ficlently broad not to side-step the is
suo; be has been bltr enough to sav clear
ly that he wants to see It settled; set
tled now.
Here Is What Is Neede„
As an outline of what the future con
templates: There Is to be a new man
sion somewhere tn or ne r Ulanta if
the people vote that way. It will mielv
be somewhere in the Druid Hills, and
will bo a building comporting with the
dignity of a governor's mansion There
must be an annex building suffieientlv
j large to house the entire department o'f
! agriculture amt Its sub-branches the
|state board of health; the state military
department; the state geological depart'
ment; the state department of archives
and possibly some of the other smaller
departments. To provide that property
will have to be bought adjoining the pus',
cut capitol, on the opposite side of the
street, the buildings now thereon will
have to be wrecked and a new structure
must so up. When this is done the pres
ent capitol needs and will have to have
no little rubbing up and repairing
These are the necessities They are
why the governor has taken the demo
cratic view he holds In respect to ter
mination of the Issue.
On the other hand, if the people vole
to move tile capitol to Macon, then pro
vision must be made down there, in a
manner satisfactory to tile people of the
state, for the erection of a handsome
Georgia marble state building sufficiently
large to meet all those requirements the
present capitol doesn't meet now und for
the future, and a suitable mansion for
the governor will have to be provided
Those, however, are the things which
the two factions will have to present
to the satisfaction of the people of the
state when the question is submitted
for a popular vote, it will be then that
the comparative advantages to the slate
will have to be drawn and the business
trade with the people of Georgia will
lißve to be made.
In middle and north Georgia there are
state officials who have been consult
ed. men familiar with the situation is
It exists and with the status of the
state's property here and the hopeless
ness of improving it until there is a
popular vote, who view the situation in
the identical light as does the governor
—that the Issue must be settled and the
handicap removed, one way or the other
so that the state may move forward
Only One Legislative Point
Insofar as the state legislature is con
cerned, there is but one point to be cov
ered; Is there an issue involved?
The highest constituted body in state
government has fixed the manner of
disposing of such an issue, when the
constitutional convention said by ordi
nance It must be settled bv the people
If In future (after the sitting of tlial
convention) the location of the capitoi
should be brought Into issue. The con
vention did not say. r.or can the state leg
islature say. that the capitol must he
moved, or must stay where it is. The
people of Georgia are sole judges of
that. What they say at the next gen
eral election Is the verdict under which
the state must proceed. And then im
provements and enlargements can go
on. or a new building can be provided.
The measure submitting It to the
{leople is expected to pass through the
egislature before the middle of the ses
sion has been reached.
PEARSON TRIBENE, PEARSON, GEORGIA, JULY 4, 1919
/■}' THE PIQ CLUB BOY. 4sss
[National Crop Improvement Service ]
In every community where there Is a
pig club hoy you find the living ex
ample of progress, because having
nothing to unlearn he properly cares
for his pig and enthusiastically talks
to father, brother and neighbors, and—
shows them his pig in proof of his
claims.
The most skeptical are bound to be
convinced that they have overlooked
something and that the pig club boy
has opened a new Incentive to do bet
ter and add to the joy of living.
Formerly hogs In the South were not
considered ns collateral, hut the bank
ers now have agreed to finance the
farmers for one or more brood sows
when recommended by their county
agent, and generally consider that a
young brood sow Immunized by a com
petent expert on hog cholera Is worth
$l5 more than the old-fashioned hog.
The pig club boys are revolutioniz
ing "the hog Industry and are proving
that the average farmer Is wasting his
time raising cotton on cotton.
'L
HOG-CHOLERA serum.
[National Crop Improvement Service ]
The United States department of ag
riculture says that there Is an Increas
ed use of serum arising from the good
results of the government Inspection.
“Scrum will prevent the disease but
will not cure It,” says Dr. G. P. Fitch
of Minnesota.
The fact that there have been no
sweeping losses through hog cholera
In districts where the serum la used
proves Its efficacy.
PAaw.ion J 0,.,
FOOD FOR YOUNG PIGS.
[National Crop Improvement Service.]
A great variety of feeds, Including
succulence and protein are essential,
but the feeder should remember thnt
the stomach of the pig Is small. This
Is why the pig gets the reputation of
feeding all the time because his stom
ach will hold food only for a few
minutes. The feeding of young pigs
three or four times n day at first Is
good business. Small amounts of feed
that will he cleaned up quickly, and
feeding at frequent Intervals Is highly
Important.
PIGS NEED EXERCISE.
Probably nothing contributes to thrift
and growthlness as exercise; or put
ting it the other way round, nothing
will stunt a pig quicker than lack of
exercise. Beginning gradually, even
young pigs must be induced to move
about.
GIVE HOGS MINERAL.
[National Crop Improvement Service.]
Furnish your hogs with mineral In
some form. It is essential for the
maintenance of tlielr bodies, and to
facilitate digestion and to produce
bones. The Colorado agricultural col
lege recommends the following mix
ture, stating that It Is especially good
for hogs In that It furnishes salt, and
at the same time rids the animals of
worms:
1 bn. soft coal.
8 lbs. salt.
4 lbs. air-slaked lime.
1 bu. ashes.
4 lbs. sulphur.
2 lbs. copperas.
Mix all of the Ingredients except the
copperas. Dissolve the copperas In a
quart of warm water and add to the
mixture. This mixture should be kept
before the hogs at all times. A self
feeder compartment, or a trough, can
be used for this purpose.
WHERE TO GET PIGS.
[National Crop Improvement Service ]
The loader of the boys’ and girls’
clubs will have no difficulty in locating
some purebred stock of almost any
breed desired. Most of the leading
breeders of the country will make a
price which the boy can afford to pay
at weaning time this spring, and if
any boy does not enre to pny for the
pig at time of purchase, arrangements
can be made with the breeder or at the
bank to take the boy’s note without
security until an agreed date when
the project Is completed. It Is very
necessary that the boys should make
friends with the husiness men early
in life, for as soon as the farmer boy
feels that he is a business man he will
be on the high road to success.
PIG CLUB ARITHMETIC.
“I borrowed S2O from the bank to
pay for my sow,” says Hamlll Brook of
Jacksonville. Texas. “She dropped ten
pigs. I raised nine pigs and sold eight
for ?40. I kept one pig valued at $lO,
and the sow was worth $25. Total S6O.
The total cost of feed figured at 3 cents
a day amounted to $7.30, and I paid
back $21.75 borrowed money, leaving
$30.95 net profit. My sow will find pigs
In a few days.
FOOD FOR THE FAMILY.
When every Southern farmer real
izes that he is particularly blessed In
soil and climate, the Idea that he must
buy his food In cans will seem to him
silly and extravagant. Every farm
should raise Us fiSIPjWB 9 ftug homlnj,
CPasson’s Department Store 0
IS SELLING OUT
Clothing, Shoes and Hats at 50 per cent,
on the Dollar and Upward.
Have 3,500 Pairs of Shoes now on Hand
All Domestics from 3c to 5c a yard less than can be bought elsewhere.
Come Round, it will cost you nothing to see these great bargains.
THESE PRICES CONTINUE FOR 30 DAYS.
PASSON’S DEPARTMENT STORE, Pafford Building.
COULD HARDLY
STAND ALONE
Terrible Suffering From Headache,
Sideache, Backache, and Weak
ness, Relieved by Cardui,
Says This Tezaa Lady.
Gonzales, Tex.— Mrs. Minnie Phil
pot, of this place, writes: "Five years
a, , I was taken with a pain. In my
left side. It was right under my
left rib. It would commence with an
aching and extend up into my left
shoulder and on down Into my back.
By that time the pain would be so
severe I would have to take to bed,
and suffered usually about three days
... I suffered this way for three years,
and got to be a mere skeleton and was
so weak I could hardly stand alona
Was not able to go anywhere and had
to let my house work g0...1 suffered
awful with a pain In my back and I
had the headache all the time. I just
was unable to do a thing. My life
was a misery, my stomach got In an
awful condition, caused from taking
so much medicine. I suffered so much
pain. I had just about given up all
hopes of our getting anything to help
me.
One day a Birthday Almanac was
thrown In my yard. After reading
Its testimonials I decided to try Car
dui, and am so thankful that I did,
for I began to Improve when on the
second bottle... I am now a well
woman and feeling fine and the cure
has been permanent for It has been
two years since my awful bad health.
I will always praise and recommend
Cardui.” Try Cardui today. E 78
WASHINGTON AS MODEL CITY
Chicago Newspaper Points to National
Capital as an Example Worthy
of Being Followed.
It Is strange that American cities
have been so slow to appreciate the
value of a plan ns It Is exemplified ut
the national capital, remarks the
Chicago Tribune. The city of Wash
ington was planned by the best land
scape architect the founders of the re
public could call to their aid. The
beauty, spaciousness and facilities of
the city with Its great open circles
and radiating streets, affording vnrled
sites for residences and commanding
locations for public and commercial
buildings, Impress every visitor and
justify the pride of every citizen in
the cupltal of his country. But Chica
go’s plan, even though it Involves the
reconstruction of Its planless areas, Is
still greater, because It provides a
water front that any city In the world
could envy, and because It compre
hends all parts of the city and starts
the people of every section on further
plans to Improve and beautify their
home surroundings.
Importance of City Planning
As the best humanitarians hold that
man builds upon the basis of charac
ter, so It is that cities In their phys
ical planning, as It affects their sur
roundings, must provide for the finer
things that tend to make the mind as
well as the body rich. The city plan,
iu view of these conditions, becomes
one of the most Important and far
reaching Influences of the times.
What Is done now for the future
must be done right I
Compared Ghent to Venice.
Ghent was approached In 1041 by
John Evelyn, driving along the Brus
sels road in a coach and six with
which Sir Henry de Vic, the English
agent, had accommodated him. He
had traveled to Ghent “to meet my
Lord of Arundel. Earl Marshal of
England," and he compares Ghent to
Venice because “the Lys and the
Scheldt meeting In this vast city, di
vide it Into 26 islands, which are uni
ted by many bridges.” The population
of the British In the old Flemish city
recalls the time, many centuries ago,
when Ghent, under the van Arteveldes,
was the powerful ally of Edward HI.
Evelyn mentions having seen a palace
3f Plantagenet memories.
So Are Scouts.
American soldiers are clean, the
luartermaster’s department In the last
half year having bought for the A. E.
F. 119,000,000 cakes of hand soap, and
100,000 packages of tooth soap.—-
Boys’ Ufe-.
The Pearson Pressing Club.
LEWIS SPEED, Proprietor.
I beg to announce to the people of Pearson and vicinity that
I have opened up a firs it lass shop for Cleaning, Pressing and
Mending Clothes. Let me conserve your clothes by keeping
them cleaned, pressed and mended. 1 propose to give nothing
but the very best of service to all my patrons.
Shop in Theron Kirkland Building. PEARSON, GA.
EXIDE SERVICE STATION
Exide Batteries for Sale.
ALL MAKES OF BATTERIES REPAIRED AND RECHARGED
AUTOMOBILE ACCESSORIES
Goodwin-Battery Tire Co.
Bunn Building, - Waycross, Georgia.
THIS SPACE BELONGS TO
D. A. DOUG LASS
He has opened a selected stock of
Staple and Fancy Groceries
in the 11. Kirkland, .Ir.. storehouse and invites all
the people to sec him. He will sell his goods for cash
at the lowest prices.
SEE DOUGLASS. HE’LL TREAT YOU RIGHT.
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~ tPT * The Complete Electric
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Light at the touch of a button —bright, clean, safe —
no wonder Delco-Light users are enthusiastic.
It provides power to pump water, to operate Hie churn,
cream separator, washing machine, sewing machine, fans
and other light machinery.
It brings the comforts and conveniences of the city to
the farmer's home.
At the same time; it saves so much time and labor that
it actually pays for itself in a short time.
EXPERT HOUSE WIRING
McLean Electric Company,
DEALERS
DOUGLAS, - GEORGIA.
fi U UAIICr BRICK MASON,
(la Ha VnUvLji Pearson, Georgia.
Do all Kinds of Brick Work.
Build Tobacco Furnaces. Still and Boiler Setting.
MONEY TO LOAN
On Farm Lands at a Low Rate of Interest.
us before contracting BiuKERSON & MiNGLEOORFF,
elsewhere. Pearson. Georgia.
