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BRUNSWICK
Has a landlocked harbor, the
best on the South Atlantic
Coast
VOLUME XXI. NO. 7
GEORGIA’S NEW LAW
ON SPECIAL TAX IS
A SWEEPING 0 N E
Wftih 1922 Act, Nearly Every
Line of Business, in Some
Department, Included.
FROM SMALL PRESSING CLUB
TO MAMMOTH WAREHOUSE.
AH Conducting a Business That
Comes Under Special Tax Act
Should Call at Ordinary
Dart’s Office, Register, Thsn
See Tax Collector Harwell.
Georgla’c new special tax law for
the coming year la sweeping init s na
ture and includes nearly every class
of business, from the pressing chib,
which must pay $5.00, to the big public
warehouse which is t 0 come across
with S2OO.
In sending out the list, the follow
ing gyes with it:
“Any person, Arm or corporation,
engaged in any business enumerated
(below, are required by law to register
their names with the ordinary and
pay the tax collector the tax required
'before commencing business for 1922.
It is a misdemeanor to fail to register
and pay and delinquents ar e liable to
Indictment by the grand Jury. The
state i determined to enforce strict
compliance with this law and those
who feel that their business will not
warrant the payment of this tax
should cut out that which is taxable
It la not right that some should pay
and others evade payment* therefore
the policy of the state Is to compel
everyone to pay these taxes and like
wise register whether their business
la large' or small.
“Special tax list—Advertising agen
cies, bill boards, etc.; bill distributors,
collecting agents; auctioneers, Jewel
ry, junk or furniture; automobile ga
rages; Jitneys and cars operated for
hire; awning or tent makers; barber
•hope; .billiard, pocd or other table*,
book agents; brokers, merchandise
and commission agents; real estate
agents; dealers in playing cards; ci
gar factories, any number of employ
•es; wholesale or retail dealers In ci
gars; cigarette dealers; coal, cok<* or
wood; contractors; corporations;
dance halls; shooting galleries, etc.;
dry cleaning; electrical contractors;
gasoline and oil trucks; dealers in
gasoline, etc., (wholesale); insurance
agents; manufacture of Ice cream;
junk dealers; luundries or dying t-etab
linlimerits; agents for cash registers,
weighing scales or adding machines;
typewriter agents; operator of skd
machines, any kind; btcyc! e dealer,
motorcycles, etc.; musical lustra
menls; agents* of packing houses;
pawnbrokers; photographers; moving
pictures; pistol, pistol and rifle car
trhigoH, bowle knives; soda feuntfl;
hotels; cities, restaurant:; and lunch
rooms; undertakers; cot ten warehoua
,M, merchandise warehouses: pack
ers or shipper* of oysters, shrimp or
, fish; beauty parlor, hair dressing,
chiropodist; swimming pools; sewing
machine agents; pressing clubs; man
ufacturer of soda water; etc.**
It will be seen that those the state
forgot in former years are taken In
on the special list this time. It is not
ed that nearly every Hue of business
1* included, from the pressing club,
which must pay $5.00, to the ware
houses, who are hit for S2OO
The registration . bx>k:i are now
open at the office of Ordinary Rdwln
W. Dart. In the Ghnti county court
hons* and any information wilt be fur
nished by him or Tax Collector Har
well. * •
ENORMOUS DROP
IN FARM PRODIGTS
Crop Report of United States
This Year Valued at More
Than Three Billion Dollars
Less Than Last.
Washington, Dec. 28. —tmpor
taut farm crop ptvducta of the
United .State* this fear are ral*
u*ed at |u.8i.t77,000 today by
the department of agriculture In
a Anal estimate of Ute year.
The Shore- are almost three bll-
Hon and four hundred million teas
than laat year and eight billion
leas than two years ago. when
high price* prevailed
THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
- CANNIBALISM IN
RUSSIA REPORTED.
- (By Associated Press.)
Riga, Russia, Dec. 28. —The
first official report of cannibalism
in the famine districts of Rus
sia were made to the all Soviet
congress by Delegate Ovsienko,
of Samara, according to a dis
- patch to the Official Post News
- agency dated tat 'Mioscow and
- “At Ramokovesky the peo
ple are eating the bodies of their
dead;” Ovsienko said.
MAY MILLIONS
SPENT FOR TOYS
More Were Manufactured in
America This Year Than Ev
er Before as Import Declined
Materially.
(By Associated Press
New York, Dec. 28. —More than
$100,000,000 was spent by the Ameri
can people for toys and game* during
1921, the National CUy Bank has fig
ured. The factory value of toys man
ufactured in this country has more
than trebled, it is estimated, since
the war cut off the supply from Ger
many, chief source of America’s toy
imports. The value of toys made here
in 1919 was given as $46,000,000, com
pared With $14,000,000 five years pre
viously. Capital Invested in the Amer
can industry advanced from $10,000,-
000 in 1914 to $25,000,000 in 1919.
Toy Imports declined from $8,000,-
000 in 1913 to $1,000,000 in 1918, while
imports rose in 1920 to $6,000,000 and
to $10,000,000 in 1921.
Exports of American toys jumped
from less than $1,000,000 in 1913 to j
$4,000,000 last year.
EMINENT GEORGIAN
IS LOCAL VISITOR
Judge Harper Hamilton, of
Rome, Member of the Georgia
Legislature, is spending Few
Days Here.
Judge Htrpcr Hamilton, of Rt me,
for many years judge of the city
court of Rome, at present a member
of the Georg’. legislature from Floyd
county, and a nisi! lfit' i’u.-d moutwr .it
the bar of hla home city, Is in the
city for a few' dirt, the guest of his
son in-law. Dr. R 1.. Dednuasure, the
wall kn. wn local health commission
er.
Judge* Hamilton Is not a stranger
to Brunswick, In fact was a visitor
here onl£ a few months ago and he
is greatly Impressed with the city and
Its future.
Judge Hamilton la chairman of the
House committee on the Western A
Atlantic railroad and he Is very much
jin hope that (he state of Georgia will
yet seek to secure control of that prop
erty in order to give the state owned
line a deep water terminus at the port
cf Brunswick. H says th* matter was
considered at the tael session of the
legislature and that many members
were favorable to the plan and he
thinks tt qntte likely that the question
will be thought out seriously at the
s4aion of the law making body which
is to meet In June,
•
Judge Hamilton serves In the leg
islature with our cwn representative,
Hon. B. F. Mann, who had him In
[Charge yesterday showing him the va
rious points of Interest in the city. He
will be tn the city for a few days and
Is being coed tally greeted by hie
i friends here.
WAS SHOT BY COUSIN: IS
IN SERIOUS CONMrtON
..
tßv Associated Press.)
! Charleston. 8 C, Dec. IS. —Lin wood
Prampton, of Allendale, 8. €\, brought
here last night suffering from a pis
tol shot wound In the abdonren was
reported today at the infirmary where
he hi a patient, as being sttlltn a crit
ical condition, with his condition ua
changed * *
Cramp*on was shot h.v Lewis Dart*,
a cousin, who immediately afterwards
| took poison He Is in a critical condi
tion Family trouble* are aaid to have
caused the shooting.
THE NEWS IS A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHAIRMAN RULL
DECLARES PLAIN
• TALK IS IN ORDER
Democratic Leader Speaks at
Banquet Given in His Hon
or at Nashville.
ACTS OF REPUBLICANS
ARE FREELY DISCUSSED
Dinner is Given by State Demo
cratic Committee of Tennes
see and 'Leaders From All
Parts of State Were Present
and Party Talks Engaged In.
(By Associated Press.)
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 28. —Declar-
ing that “the time has come when all
patriotic citizens and Democrats'
should Indulge in plain talking,” Cor
deie Hull, chairman of .the Demo
cratic national committee, in his first
public address since his election, to
night reviewed the Republican admin
istration in national affairs since last
March and contrasted this with the
"unparalleled achievement” of the
Democrats during the previous eight
years.
Chairman Hull’s address, which was
delivered at a dinner in his honor by
the state Democratic executive com
mittee and attended by party leaders
throughout Tennessee, is generally ac
cepted as the opening of the congres
sional pre-election campaign by the
new chairman.
Further relief for farmers, adequate
aid for veterans, reduction of taxes to
compensate for “panic conditions”
now obtaining and a remedy for the
situation resulting from the flood of
tax exempt securities were tamong
the Issues Chairman Hull outlined.
The day’s program began with %
meeting of the Democratic state com
mittee this morning, attended by the
national chairman, who later deliv
ered an address to a gathering of Dem
ocrats in the hail of th© hawse of rep
resentative*: ‘Judge Hull undents J.
Garrett of the, Ninth Tennessee dis
trict were the principal speakeri
at tonight’s banquet. *
RIFLEMEN'S PRIZE DRILL .
WAS AN,EXCITING EVENT
W""' !>
The prize drill heldrby the Bruns
wick Riflemen last night was, a*
usual, an interesting event and proved
that the men are rapidly becoming
perfect, as it resulted In a tie be
tween Corporal E. A. Mitchell and
Private Jo* Wilson, for first place and
Private Burbanks won second.
Sergts. Barnhill and Gould acted as
judges and after drilling an unusual
length of time tt was agreed to split
the first money betweei# Mitchell and
Wilson, while Burbank received sec
ond.
ADDITIONAL MEN
LOR YARYAN PLANT
Thirty Will Go on Frjday Morn
ing in All of the Various De
partments at This Big Estab
lishment. ,
In these times when many u f the
large as well as email plants through
out the country are lading off work
era by the hundreds.-St Is encourag
iug to announce that the Hercules
Powder Company, operating the mam
moth plant of the Yaryau Ro?ia and
Turpentine Company, will put on thir*
ty additional workers tomorrow morn*
in* at 7 o'clock. Home of these will
be skilled mechanics while others will
ibe in lea* important place* The thir
ty wrtll b{ placed in various depart
ments. .
That this wtl be tlfe beginning
of a follow suit action in other local
tnduAtrtes there can no doubt.
While fewer have been laid off befe
than has been the case in most places,
yet. ther e have been some and these
are being put back to work as fast
as possible. It is an excellent sign
that the upward trend h* here.
FAVOR TERATY.
Natan. County Meath. Ireland. Dec,
28.—The Urban council o* Xavan has
adopted a resolution favoring rattflea
tion of tha Anglo-Irish pane# treaty.
I This action was taken at a meeting of
the council yesterday.
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DEC. 29, 1921.
THE GIRL WITH A THOUSAND FACES.
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Mi** Gay’ MacLaren. '
Miss Gay MacLaren is said to be a remarkable dramatic artist. She
is able to Impersonate every character she sees on the stage, reproducing
th facial expressions and mannerisms of all the leading actors and actress
es in the country. It is said of her that after attending a given play four or
five times she can imitate all the actors and actresses In it, giving the en
tire production alone.
pu =? 7
Mark Twain’s Daughter is
Among Principal Speakers at
Gathering Held to Regulate
Things.
(By Associated Press ) /
Chicago, Dec. 28. —the movies. Jazz
dancing and the cigarette, as they af
fect public morals, were denounced at
today’s session of the International
Purity Conference. W, 8. Fleming,
of Chicago, manager of the National
Reform Association, addressed the
delegates on the “menace of’ the mov
ies,” while J. Louis Uuyon, a dancing
master, also of Chicago, told “the
truth ahput Jazz.” Mr. Guyon describ
ed experiments, in his own dancing
academy about the manner in which
jazz music demoralized the young.
Mr. Guyon in discussing the word |
“Jazz” claimed that for half a cen
tury it had been a slang expression to
describe immoral acts, and instead of
having aequlrfd respectability with Us
present widespread use in connection
with dancing and music, that if re
garded properly, “must be admitted
to be at least the beginning of acts
of immorality, such as the original
coiner* of the word Intended.”
Mr. Guyon said that If the great
numbers of refined persons who now
carelessly use this word knew its ec
tual nveaning. as used in parts of the
underworld, they probably never
would use tjie word again.
At tonight * session speakers will
inoiude~ Mrs. Kate Walter Barrett, of
Alexandria. TV. president of the Na
tional Florence Crittendon Missions.
SWISS WOMAN WEDS 7 MEN
IN ORDER GET PASSPORTS
Only Way in Which Geneva Fe
male of Business Ability
Could Visit Countries She De
sired to Enter.
<Bt Associated Preas.)
Geneva. Dec 28. —-Marriage. Is for
a woman, the solution of the problem
of getting passports to various Eu
ropean countries, the difficulties of
jrhifh -became almost tasaptyable af
ter the war. a Lucerne business wo
man has discovered.
Before the war this woman, who la
wall edaeatad and good looking, earn
ed aoflM 118.000 a year by obtaining
mjm
Long Hypothetical Question Will
be Read to Jury in Support
6f the Claim That Defendant
is Insane.
Lds Angeles, Cal., Dec. 28.—A hy
pothetical question which, it was said,
would require five hours to read, was
expected to be put to alienists called
by the defense today at the trial of
Arthur C. Burch,, charged with the
murder of J. Belton Kennedy.
Insanity is an element in Burch’s
defense, and on this question the alien
Ists are expected to base thpir opin
ions as to his mental condition.
Work of laying a foundation for in
troduction of the question took place
yesterday when the defendant’s fath
er, Rev. TVm. A. Burch, of Evanston,
111., gave a detailed account of his
son's life and declared he believed
him insane.
Actions of Arthur Burch, both be
fore and after Kennedy was slain,
were related at length by Rev. Wil
liam A. Burch, In support of the opin
ion he said he had formed that his sou
is Insane.
Rev. Mr. Burch said h© reached
the conclusion August 14 last, when
he saw Arthur In the Los Angeles
county jail for the first time after the
young man had been charged with the
slaying.
Th* father’s testimony took up the
greater part of the sees ton. Other de
fense witnesses were called in an ef
fort to impeach testimony of the pros
ecution witnesses
orders for millinery and furs from
royalty and aristocracy In the several
capitals of Europe, as a representa
tive of French and Viennese dealers.
After the war wbij*. her former pat
rons had no money for luxuries anew
class of the war profiteers demanded
[ her attention, but the passport prob
lem has hampered her. however.
She then formed the plan of marry
ing men of different naUonalitiA .(ev
ery race can bo found in Switzerland),
land paying them to let her divorce
them as s6on as she bad established
a passport in her new cttitenshlp.
i She at present has seven ex-bus
WOODROW WILSON WAS
SIXTY-FIVE YESTERDAY.
(By- Associated Press.)
(Washington, D. Dec. 28.-r-
Fcrmer President Wilson today
quietly celebrated his 65th birth
day at his home here.
While no deviation from the
daily, program of the Wilson
household ■was planned, many
cablegrams, telegrams and let
lei's containing greetings were ■
delivered at the Wilson home on
S street during the day. Sever- ■
al of the most intimate friends
of Mr. Wilson called to extend
their greetings in person.
FUTUREWAR WITH
BRITISH EMPIRE
GUIDING FRANCE
Some Plain Talk Engaged in at
Arms Conference Held
Yesterday.
FINAL ANSWER IS GIVEN
AT HEARING FROM PARIS
Americans, Japanese and Ital
ians Reply to French State
ment With Regret and Sur
prise British, Declaring Such
Program a Menace to Them.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Dec. 28.—Efforts to
limit the naval strength of the pow
ers in submarines and auxiliary war
ships came to an abrupt end today af
ter the French had drawn the British
arras delegates Into a plain spoken ex
change over the possibilities of a war
in the future between France and the
British Empire.
jpumnpf ■ ■ “" l |% ■*. $
instructions from Pcids told tho conj’*
ference with ail air of finality, that
France must remain free to build a
submarine flotilla almost three times
as great as at present and construct,
In addition, cruisers, destroyers and
other auxiliary craft up to three hun
dred and thirty thousand tons.
Americans, Japanese and Italians
replied with expressions of surprise
and regret, while £be British openly
charged such a program must be re
garded as a menace to the British
shores. Agreeing that further argu
ment was useless, the committee turn
ed it* arguments to collateral sub
jects and the net result of today's
deliberations, as far as actual pro
gress is concerned, was an agreement
that no gun of more than sixteen inch
calibre shall be mounted on a capital
ship %-nd nbne more than eight on an
auxiliary vessel or an airplane car
rier.
NEW MILL TO START
ON NEXMOESDAY
Maritime Industries Company
Will Have One of the Best
Equipped Small Sawmills in
This Section.
Unions something, at present, not
expected occurs, the saw and planing
thill at the property of the Maritime
Industries Corporation will begin op
eration nert Tuesday morning and
will employ a number of hands. For
several weeks a force has been at
work getting the machinery and build
ing In first-class condition and both
are about ready
All the heavy timber bought for ship
building purposes by the United
'States Maritime Corporation, will be
tawed first and then the mill is to con
tinue on .Umber that will be purchas
ed But the heavy material which
l was to have been used by the ship
building company Is enough to keep
; the mi|| in conatant operation for
some time.
Contracts have been let for remov
ing the craft in course of construction
when the war ended and ranch of the
material will be saved. It is, <ai
coarse, of the best, and will prate
valuable when k comas from the saw
mill
BRUNSWICK
Has the lowest death rate of
any city its size in the United
States . ..... v . . M .
PRICE FIVE CENTS
FORMER GOVERNOR
BICKETT OF NORTH
CAROLINA IS DEAD
End Came Yesterday Morning
Shortly Alter Nine
O’clock.
NORTH CAROLINA GRIEVES
FOR SON SHE HAS HONORED
Suffers Stroke of Paralysis at
His Home Tuesday Night and
Remained Unconscious—Was
One of South’s Greatest and
Leading Orators. ! f
Raleigh, N. C., Deo. 28. —Former
Gov. Thomas Walter Bickett, who suf
fered a stroke of paralysis at his
home here last night, died at 5P.15 this
morning without ever regaining con
sciousness.' .•• .
Flags at Half Mast.
TTie former governor wae : stricken
last night while he was seated beside
the bed of Mrs. Bickett, who is slight
ly ill. ’ He lapsed into unconsci6’q.6ness
and never cam e out of (he state,of
coma. His from the first
held out absolutely no hope for his
recovery, his entire right sifted being
paralyzed. Strong were
administered to the former governor
at Intervals throughout the bight, but
without any good effect., , T;*
The end came peacefully at 9:15
this morning. Mrs. Bickett, their one
son, William Bickett, relatives and
close friends being at his bedside. ■
Funeral Arrangements.
The body of Gov. Bidkett will lie
in state in the rotunda of the state
tapitol from 9 o’clock tomoribw morn
ing until 1 o’clock in the afternoon,
when it wilL be carried to Christ Epis
copal church, of which the former gov
ernor was a member, where funeral
services will,be conducted by Rev.
Milton W. Barber. Following the ser
: jjypgchjjie body will be
burg, thirty-seven miles north of this
city, where burial will take place late
.tomorrow.
As soon as the news of the former
governor’s death was announced, the
flags on all state buildings were placed
at half mast and the state offices were
closed.
Great Orator,
•
Thomas' Walter Blckett was born in
Monroe, Union county, North Caro
lina, on February 28, 1869, the son of
T. W. and Mary A. Bickett. He was
the oldest of four children, whose
father died when be Whs but 13 year*
old. After attending the * public
schools at Monroe, young Bickett
worked his way through Wake Forest
College, graduating with the class of
1890. IJe taught school for two yeare
and entered the Unitersity of North
Carolina to study law, pa*sing the
bar in 1893. He practiced law In Mon
roe and Louisburg for a number of
years and entered politics in 1907,
when he was elected a member of the
lower bouse of the state leglslatur.
Mr. Bickett was a member of the
Democratic party. >
In 1908 Mr, Bickett was elected at*
! torney general and re-elected to that
| office in 1912, He retired from the
office of attorney general Ip 1916 to
become governor of North Carolina,
ending his term of fou ryears as gov
ernor in "January of this year. Since
leaving the governor's office Mr. Bick
ett had practiced law in Raleigh.
Governor Bickett was reputed to toe
one of the best debaters and orator?
in the state. He was in great demadd
during the vfyt ;ae a speaker and vto*
tted various tactions of the country
in the interest of the Liberty loan
drives and other war activities.
Stricken Suddenly.
Mr. Bickft was apparently in the
best of health and spirit* aß*day yes
terday and up to the tmwfbe was
stricken last night. He b*i| prepared
supper for Mrs. Bicket, who is HI,
and was sitting on the side of her bed
talking to her when he wae seised
with a violent headache. A few mo-
I menu later he lapeed Into tpaco
js&pueness and when a physician ar
rived there was Iwt little sign of life.
The doctor administered strong re
storatives and Mr. Bicket rallied
slightly. Mr. Bicket served two
terms as attorney general before be
ing elected governor in 1916. He was
succeeded as governor by Camsroc
Morrison io January of this year.