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About Pearson tribune. (Pearson, Ga.) 191?-1955 | View Entire Issue (July 4, 1919)
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. 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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. 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