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*HE BRUNSWICK NEWS
Published every morning except Mon*
day by
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Erunswick, Ga.
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CLARENCE li. LEAVY
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The News is the official newspaper
of the City of Brunswick and of tin
County of Glynn.
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ALL DEPARTMENTS PHONE 188
Glynn county has something to
shout about in her superb school sys
tem.
“Stop, Look and Listen,” or if you
prefer to do the other thing, ' Cross
Crossings Cautiously.’’
The president says he “dares not
lift the cup of optimism to his lips,”
thereby qualifying as an optimist.
Gov. Hardwick announces that he
does not intend to “stump’’ 1 1-. stale
this year as he did in his ether race.
This would be entirely unnecessary;
the governor has the state pretty thor
oughly “stumped” already.
The polied and fire departments of
Augusta, Ga., are now “bossed” by a
woman, who has been elected to the
chairmanship of the civil service com
mission. We have always insisted
that all hope for Augutsa was not lost.
The Georgia gubernatorial race will
be a quiet affair, as.neither of the can
didates will stump the state. That’s
fair enough. Everybody knows how
the candidates look and can antici
pate pretty correctly what they would
have to say.
The tax collector of Bibb county has
just presented a bill to tire county
commissioners for $13,000 which Sitth
he inadvertently overlooked in making
up his salary sheet. For goodness
sake, what salary does he make if a
mere trifle like $13,000 is overlooked
in the summing up.
State School Commissioner Brittain
has served his state well and the an
nouncement that he Will not be a
candidate for re-election places him in
the category of one ot the few men
holding public office who do not want
a life tenure on it for the reason that
he has been favored by the people.
Brunswick is pardonably proud of
her crack military company, the Rifle
men, one of the most historic and the
most efficient organizations of the
Georgia National Guard. , The only
reason that they do not make a higher
percentage at their inspections is ex
plained by the reason that there are
no higher percentages to he made.
It begins to look as if the elongated
precedent of North Geoigia furnishing
all the state house offiesrs is to be
broken at last. Unless ail signs fail
Glynn is to furnish the nect state
school commissioner, Hon. >'. H. Bal
lard. And while congratulating our
selves we also congratulate; North
Georgia, for a more capable man could
not have been selected for this posi
tion than the gentleman from Glynn.
There is something decidedly
“fishy” about the arrest of J. L. Phil
lips, .Republican job dispenser for
Georgia. It is now charged that he
was aware that he was to be “arrest
ed” a week beforehand. Congressman
Larsen, of Georgia, characterizes the
arrest of Phillips as aa attempt “by
the attorney general to shield himself
from public criticism.” And it looks
very much that way from this dis
tance. *
That was a very considerate jioy
that tried Richard F. Willingham in
Macop, tliis week. The defendant was
tried jin- 'one of fourteen indictments
and||vas convicted of the larceny af
trust of $163,p00 in ; the first count
He was • sentenced to serve twelve
months at the state farm. Wonder
what would have been the penalty
khad his peculations apiounted to
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WHY TH-E PRISON COMMISSION
I ALSO? *
It is announced that the entire mem
bership of the Georgia prison commis
sion will go to the prison farm at
Milledgeville Monday, when the spe
cial investigating commission named i
•by the governor begins its probe
! into the manner in which this pen
! ul institution is being conducted.
This investigating committee is
composed of live superior court judges
and for one time in its history the
true, unvarnished facts are going to
be brought to light, irrespective of
whom it hurts. But the phase of the
investigation that the people do not
exactly understand is why are the
members of the prison commission to
go along with the investigating com
mittee.
Without being unduly suspicious, we
are very much afraid that some of the
commissioners have already preceded
the investigators to the farm and have
,et the house in order. This is not an
assertion, merely a suggestion, for it
is quite natural to suppose that the
members of the prison commission arc
coins to make the best showing possi
ble when the finai returns are in. I:
is safe to say that the same condi
tions have not obtained at the farm
or the past ten days that existed
here since this expose was made by
Christie, with the possible exception
of the shooting of Tom Hope, a young
white boy from Glynn county, in an
alleged attempt to escape. It is stat
ed on good authority that the shoei
ng of the boy was entirely unneces
sary. as he could have been easily
captured.
The people of Georgia are nauseat
d with the stories that filter through
-Tom the state's penal institution re
garding atrocities that would reflect
seriously on the horrors of Siberia.
The state is suffering from these hid
eous stories that suggest conditions in
this state of the most appalling charac
er. And thee stories have not been
successfully refuted, never reaching
. he public, however, until some inmate
s released and is beyond the jurisdie
ion of the commission and the guards.
It is to be hoped, cr.d it is sincere
v believed that the approaching in
vestigation will be productive of re
alts, that the true state of affairs,
fevoid of "white-wash” will be forth
coming. This hope and belief is pred
leafed on the fact that five superior
court judges of Georgia comprise the
nvestigating committee, appointed hy
ihe governor. They will make a re
port as they find conditions, but will
ihese conditions be those that were es
pecially prepared for the occasion of
.he investigation by the prison author
ities?
All that is asked of the investiga
tors is to hue to the line, “let the
.hips fall where they may.” Georgia
must be spared further disgrace on
ieca*fm of the heathenish conditions
which to all appearances exist at the
state prison farm.
A BRILLIANT GEORGIA TAX ACT.
There will be a determined effort
nade at the next session of the legis
ature to have the special tax of $2,300
evied at the last session on each per
ormance of grand opera in Atlanta
last April. The deficit to be met by
the guarantors of the great opera
season in Georgia’s capital is approxi
mately the amount exacted by this un
just tax, $17,300.
The annual visit of the greatest op
jra stars extant to Atlanta is not only
r great advertisement for Atlanta and
.'or Georgia, but affords music lover?
tn opportunity to hear these stars in
.he leading operas that they would not
otherwise have. It is not a money
making proposition for its promoters,
jut merely an enterprise in which eil
zens of the entire- state are interest
ad from the standpoint of state pride.
There is no reason why this tax should
have been levied, and the legislature
would do a gracious thing to repeal it
Commenting on this brilliant Geor
gia tax law, the Birmingham Age-Her
ald has the following to say:
“Citizens of Atlanta are promptly
making up the grand opera deficit in
hat city this season, the first in 12
years, and are arranging for opera
iext year. That kind of citizenship
builds communities.
“The deficit was caused by bring
ing half a dozen big stars to Atlanta
instead of the usual two or three and
by a tax of $8,500 levied by the last
session of the legislature on each per
formance of grand opera. This tax
done amounted to $17,500, and is the
principal item in the 25 per cent defi-
cit.
“It is difficult to understand the
spirit that animated the legislature
of that great state of Georgia In levy
ing a heavy tax on a form of enter
tainment which has added to the pres
tige of their, chief city, has brought
money to and (has ;-served
to educate the sojrth / ''along''’’cfiit£Ural
lines. .It is a reflection on the intelli
gence of the Georgia legislature,
"A strong effort will be made -to
have this unjust tax repealed, and it,
should succeed. BV this time the leg
islators who voted for the tax should'
INFINITE VARIETY
On Activity In County and Town
Evidenced Daily In South Georgia.
Waycross is sending to the North
and East and West demonstrators to
show how good Georgia Sugar Spuds
are.
Toombs county is shipping honey tc
North Carolina.
Seventy-five purebred pigs have
been distributed to tile boys’ clubs in
ind around Ashburn.
Lowndes county has shipped more
chan 100 cars of cucumbers.
The Dewberry Association in
Toombs has ended a profitable season.
Loading cantaloupes is steadily pro
Tressing around Valdosta, with water
melons in sight soon.
Lowndes county is now gathering
nany tomatoes for shipment.
Colquitt is shipping carlots of mel
jns daily. •
Mettcr wants anew and larger ho
tel.
Vidalia is to have anew men's fur
lishings store.
Jefferson county farmers have bc
un to diversify in earnest—specializ
ing profitably this season in snap
jeans.
Carmens are beginning to move
rom the peach belt.
/
Fitzgerald’s dairy association wants
\ cream station at Fitzgerald.
Baker and Mitchell counties an
planning co-op. sales.
ie thoroughly ashamed of themselves,
low on earth is anything cultural to
be done if after the federal govern
ment has collected the 10 per cent, the
state comes along and strikes a still
iard,er blow?
“Cannot some things be let alone?”
THE TWO EXTREMES.
Undernourishment and overeating
ire the two extremes directly respon
sible for more deaths than the most
errific plague that ever swept the
world, according to a statement made
by Dr. Seale Harris, of Birmingham,
an eminent student of dietetics, in At
anta before a meeting of city and
Tate health officers. Included in the
itatement was the assertion that
wenty-five years may be added to the
ife of the average person.
Doctor Harris, who studied health
conditions in Europe after the war at
he request of the government, offers
t panacea for many ills that is at once
so simple and so inexpensive that it
will attract far less attention than'
t warrants, even with the promise of
twenty-five years added to the span
of life, which, be it known, is far from
.he biblical three-score and ten.
Doctor Harris has no hard and fast
-ules nor tables of figures giving the
lalory content of all imaginable foods,
instead he asks only that one read
>ny of a dozen available booklets on
Dietetics; books written for lay read
ers and easy of comprehension.
Adding to the force of the address
made befr-.c the health officers was
:he repo-, of Doctor Thomas B. Wood,
jf Columbia University, Chairman oi
the Committee of Health Problems
of the National Council of Education.
“Records based on a study of twen
y-two million school children during
918,” says Dr. Wood, “showed twen
ty per cent of the American school
children malnourished.”
A statement such as this, the au
henticity of which can not be doubt
id, is enough to make one pause.
What will be the result of this mal
nutrition of these children? The pic
ure is not pleasant to contemplate
nor is it pleasant to consider the care
lessness of parents who give small
thought to the food their children eat
;o long as it be in sufficient quantity
It’s a mighty good old world ii
which we live—down here in South
Georgia.
Richmond is ready for the Con’edor
ate veterans. Did you <iq your part
yesterday in seeing zi it that ihi
Glynn veterans are letdy for Rich
mond?
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