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CLARENCE H. LEAVY
President and Editor.
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The News is the official newspaper
of the City of Bruu/wiek and the.
County of Glynn and United States
beukruptcy court for this district.
Member of the Associated Press
The Associated Press is entitled to
the use for publication of all news
credited to or not otherwise credited
In this paper, and also to the local
news published herein.
ALL DEPARTMENTS PHONE 188
“Struck by Tract” is a familiar
headline.
Now is a very good time to lay
your foundations for swatting the fly.
Bishop ■ Candler is after the “the
ological flappers”—whatever they
are.
June is always welcome—water¬
melons, —I peaches and sweet girl grad- ■
I uates.
There is a threatened split in the
cabinet on the liquor question. “Split”
is the proper word.
Authorities from all over the state,
financial and industrial, assert that
Brunswick will eventually equal any
city in the South. And that in the
near future.
Fred Sale, L*niversity of Georgia
student, pitched a perfect game of
bail against the University of Vir¬
ginia recently. Sale should bring a
good price from some major league
club.
It would be quite a plausible under¬
taking, and one capable of accom¬
plishment, to make Brunswick a
“mosquitoless” town. Co-operation ir
the way to make it so.
Senator Lodge and the president
have reached an understanding in re¬
gard to the world court proposal.
But when did they ever reach a mis¬
understanding on any question?
“Women dress to please t-hem- I
selves and each other, if they '
dressed to place the men they would j
undress considerably.” This was said j
by Mrs. George H. Boker, wife of the j
poet and playwright, more than a i
generation ago, and still goes. j
|
Among the recent dissolutions of |
more than passing notice is People,” that oi j j
the great “Palladium of the
established twenty years ago by Wil- j
liarn J. Bryan. The Commoner is nc | j
more, having suspended publication | I
with its April number. |
S
Macon is to celebrate her cento ,i |
nial anniversary next Wednesday and
the occasion will be one of the most :
pretentious ever undertaken by the j
Central City, which is one of th ; '
South’s fairest and most progressive
cities
The loquacious Mr. McMichael, rep-'
resentative from Marion county, has ;
been indicted by the Bibb county
grand jury on a charge of iibe! ir
connection with the publication of a
letter in the Macon papers charging
a federal highway engineer with
“grafting’’ $15,000. The gentleman
from Marion has an acute propensity
for talking too much.
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The recklessness of motorists, and
the killings for which their reckless
ness is responsible, will Inevitably |
lead to Steiner laws in the interest
of public safety. This comment on ,
the present tendency is made by the
Ghfcago Tribune: “Perhaps public
opinion is not yet stirred to a pitch
*whcre the hanging of motorists who
kill and flee is possible. But if such
murders continue to increase it must
reach such a pitch. Flight in such
cases is a confession not only of guilt,
but of inhumanity. If we are not yet
ready to punish such murders by
hanging, wc can do the next best
thing. Begin the attack upon those
who demonstrate their willingness i
kill in the. method : of their driving, i
Pitt intoxicated drivers in jail. Re
the licenses of persistent speed- '
Yoke
crs. Obi ,-tin authorization of jail ser
ton /os for violators of traffic lav
Then offeree them. -We must have!
il check upon this wholesale slaugh
ter.”
We wonder if the property owners
enjoyed the little scene on Newcastle
street Wednesday morning, when for
two solid hours Brunswick preoperty,
much of it the best city and residence
realty in the city, was used as a foot¬
ball and was toyed with and played
with and finally some of it sold, at
prices that would scarcely pay for the
mortar in the bricks in the buildings?
We say, we wonder if the tragedy
—for tragedy it was—was relished
by those who own Brunswick proper¬
ty, bought in good faith and paid ac
trial values for it and who are paying
taxes on it at assessed values run¬
ning from four to five times greater
than was realized in the aggregate
on holdings disposed of on Wednes¬
day ?
And we wonder if it„can be explain¬
ed why four or five men—all com
putatively well-fixed in this world's
goods—all leading citizens, as the
word “leading’’ is generally con¬
strued, should have elected this time,
when Brunswick is making the effort
of her life at a real development, to
make this spectacle of choice city
property ? Did these leading Bruns
wickians think such an expose would
be a bit of choice advertising for the
city in which all of them have suc
ceeded in gathering together a com-1
potency? Do they think their atti-!
mate tude of placing the value a foolishly low esti- j
on of local real estate i
will aid Brunswick and does it show i
their civic patriotism and faith in i
Brunswick? Or were these gentle- ;
men stricken suddenly with abject :
poverty and needed to realize on these j
holdings to save life and keep body
and soul together?
And right along this line, let u: 1
explain this unseemly why it although was possible not to make j
accurate j
worthlessness and true demonstration of the utter j
of Brunswick property |
of for investment purposes. urn,,Tim The truth *ri,ti j 1
the matter is that if the owners ;
of the Kaiser company property alone j
paid their just taxes to city and coun
ly; paid them in full; paid them oi; ;
stocks and bonds a. other invisible !
values, then the whole situation i
would be bettered and on that basis i
alone there could be such a reduc- j
I'iiill tion in in the !i 1 «, T'itir city and nn/1 nnmlbr county luv tax votoc rates, j ■
as would make local realty more at
tractive to investors. Then suppose;
hel.d by other Brunswickian i
every was
pulled out in the open for the eyes of
the tax assessors in city and in coun¬
ty, and suppose they were properly :
returned, what would be the result j
along the line of a reduced tax rate in ;
city and in county? j
And while we are supposing—sup-;
pose the city and county tax asses-1
sors should wake up some morning:
and reduce valuations on city and
count y holdings to their actual worth,'
but insist that all invisible property ,
be assessed, how far would that go
towards remedying a situation that
needs to be remedied worse than - any :
other thing in this whole communi- j
ty ?
If the city and the county have a I
right and if they exercise that rigid ;
of forcing every poor devil who own; !
a Ford to come across and pay taxe: ,
on it, why, in the nature of things,:
does not city and county force the
man of millions and half millions and
quarter millions to dig up those stock
certificates and bonds and hidden
property and pax taxes on them ? !
Why play with the illusion of assess- |
ing a -piece of property at $5,500 and
then being exposed at the game, when I
it sells for half the amount? I
These are merely a few sugges-'
lions this morning and we are mak
in.- • them in good faith, in the inter
cst of the people of Brunswick and
the municipality of Brunswick. We
are protesting against a condition
which is dangerous and which has
placed its withering hand too long
and t<o pitilessly on this bc-iaUfn!
little city, which in season and out of
ison, without able or fearless lead¬
ership, has struggled against it!
Next to the crime that has always
i 3ccn perpetrated on Brunswick by the
0 j,} Brunswick company and its suc
cessors in cr i me> this situation to
which wx refer is the most reprehen
s jy e onCj the most damning one with
w j, ich Brunswick has had to contend. |
There ought to be a remedy!
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RESPECT FOR LAW
An Alaskan Indian was arrested :
for murder. His captor started with !
him upon a wearisome journey over ;
snow, which stretched several hun- ;
died miles of waste between him and ,
jail. During the journey the captor!
fell ill; ill that he helpless. '
so was
Whereupon the Indian dragged him j
tW remaining hundred miles to his j
. efotyl and his-own imprisonment, or
perhaps, death.
A short time ago an American In-!
dian, under sentence of death, got a
stay of execution that he might ar¬
range his affairs and harvest his
for his family. At the end of
the reprieve he voluntarily showed up
j for execution.
i Nor are these instances unique;
there are many such.
Apparently the untutored savage
lias a great respect for law. To his
mind, the ukase of real authority is
made to be respected and obeyed. If
broken, the law enacts a punishment.
The Indian mind does not “sea” any
point to evading that punishment.
Even the fact that the punishment
may mean death, does not deter him.
There have been instances of white
men who left jail on parole and re
turned; yet one would hesitate to
trust any man with freedom, who
was under sentence of death!
With such examples given by sav
ages, men with little or no
civilization, or training, it is the
more reprehensible when we, the cit
izens of a nation which prides itself
upon being self-governed, deliberate
ly violate laws because we don’t like
i them. Instances are everywhere; the
j bootlegger and his customer are but
samples of many. Big business vio
lates the law; see any Federal Train
Commission report. Autoniobiiistc
violate the law; see any police court
docket. Granted that misparking and
mislabeling are not crimes to be men- j
tinned with murder; granted that
buying or selling a drink is not to be
classed with robbery. Nevertheless, i
a violation of the law is a wrong; it i
is un-American, unpatriotic, coward- 1
ly. I
Indians are said to be men with i
children’s minds. With the above in- ;
stances in mind, ; ‘A little child shall !
lead them,” takes on a new mean j
ing. :
IS IT FAIR? j
Why live in a fool’s paradise?
There never was, nor will there ever
be a homogeneous people where there :
is no line of demarkation drawn as
between the rich and influential, and -
those those iclip of the medium mpiiinm class. Where wiinrp ,
,
docs the justice, the equity, come in, !
where on man’s property is assessed j
; '-t $80,000, and the owner of the !
property next door, with the same 1
size building, is asscsscil $15,000? j
Does that have a tendency to
contented, -patriotic citizens, where I
flagrant partisanship is displayed in j
taVfiT favor of AlBi one plnmonf element and »iv»rl /lani/wl denied 4li; the j I
other? fundamentals It is a violation of the very j
upon which this gov
stands.
In simple justice, in fairness and
in order to be equitable to all parties !
concerned, why can’t the city com- j
missiimers order the assessment of
city property based on exactly the i
same figures as those paid for cer- j
tain realty sold recently by the Kais
er company? Are the rich to be giv
en concessions, while the man of
small means is to bear the burden
alone ? These are just a few perti¬
nent questions; and those most vita!
interested await a reply. It’s time
for something to be done about it.
OWN YOUR OWN HOME
“A man who lives in a rented house j
is unfortunate,’’ says the Jackson
villc Times-Union, and many thou
sands who do not own the homes in
which they live will - readily agree
"^h it, for the reason as The Times
Union goes on to say, that ‘he lives ,
f ,om d a y 1° day without being abJ;
to gather around himself the envir
onmcnts t hat egress his ideas of
beauty and comfort. Ho may rent :
palatial home. In that case it is pret- j
ty certain that the building of a home j
°f h; is only postponed. If he '
s own
!ivcs in a rented house because he is
unable to buy or build one of his owr
he lives in a house planned according
to the taste of another man and can
not begin building his own ideas into
his permanent life. Generally, 'he
wil! not even furnish it as he would
like because of his temporary occu
panev for it docs not pay to move
furniture time and again.
AH of which is true as every one
living in a rented home knows. Bu¬
re,-d a little more of what The Times
Union says on the subject; it may be
helpful:
But need a man live in a rent¬
e-1 house? There are very few
who cannot get for themselves
permanent homes of their own.
AH that is needed is a small pay¬
ment down and afterward pay¬
ments that, amount to little if
anything above rent. There is
not one man in ten in Jackson¬
ville who cannot own his own
home if he desires to do so.
After the period of his pay¬
ments is ended and he owns his
home free from incumbrance thi:-
represents an accumulation of
property that he v-culd not have
had if he had continued,to rent.
In -one tease he has t,ho hqnie anil
in the other he has nothing, and
the difference between the cost
of having a home and having
nothing is scarcely noticeable.
In fact, the money- saved to buy
a home is apt to be clear gain
and to carry with ii an additional
gain, for the ran who sayes to
buy a home acqu’res habits of
. economy that prove for him the
foundation of success.
sheeted When lie buys he knows he has
a place where be will
live permanently and lie begins
to improve it. lie plants flow¬
ers for himself—he would not
1 ■riant them for someone else. lie
j plans to make hi£ surroundings
more sightly and more comfort¬
able—his landlord will not make
such plans in keeping with his
tastes, for the arrangement be¬
tween them is temporary. When
lie owns his own home he begins
to live and to plan for his family
and in carrying out his plans he
advances from year to year.
Suggestions contained in the
going are sound and timely. It is
ways timely for those who do
own a home to .make an effort to
so. Many persons living in
homes today c.uM own their homes
they were only willing to make a
tie sacrifice and practice
t°f awhile
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Ein-ing recent years > u:lls it has
demonstrated most conclusively
scientific investigation and
mentation that malaria inflicts
maladies and resultant physical
f «' n ^ s and Uncial loss upon
- lulna!1 fmnily than any or all
agencies. The tax levied by
upon any given community where
is found is heavier, counted in
Tars an<! cents > tlla n all other
to say nothing of the
suffering. And the same
investigation and
tatdon that have demonstrated
^ rom 0110 subject to another,
Fug list of depressing,
maladies, have demonstrated
that this insidious agency
,! *‘ v cnlabk or that it may be
plctely 'hclely ci v _dicated and
' opt out of any given locality.
appears to be criminal
ence cm the part of any
,o tolerate malaria, ihe best
any town or city down
11 our Sountlicrn country can
3 Uie necessary cost of freeing it
' 1 °f malaria audits carriers,
I ultoes
Stearss'TMrie Pasts
ir reresmlzed ;; ilio guaranteed
exterminator f-ir Log. Mice, Ants,
Cockrtm-ii'-c cn-f tVaterbugs.
Porit waste tine 1 ir- ipc to kill these pests
with powders, i'-cui-l.; or any experimental
preparations.
Ready for U'.so-D#tter than Traps
C-oz. t.-ox, Goa 1,-oz. box. $l.j0
GQ&.EJ LIVESYWHERE
DON’T VO U
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If you'd look Spring¬
like smart and nice.
You’d bettor take our
clothes-advice.
» OOK over your ward
I robe and pick out the
- garments that need
cleaning- I’crhaps your
^last yeau’s prin,-- suit
[vj would - suit you to a “T.”
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; CLAIR Krr::,r.r
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■issis:
Bleached
LAZARUS & CO.,
Wholesale Distributors
*!• U + 4 * 4 4 4 M 4
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^ E. MATHIS & SONS.
♦ Makers of
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; Automobile Tops- Trim*
| ^ ming, Supplies & Painting.
,
( Side and Back Curtains—
,-f All style glasses
+
^ Sewing department under
supervision of Mrs. R. J.
j Churchill, is prepared to
, ^ make Shirts, Dresses, Boys
Blouses, girls’ Dresses, in
j* fact, everything in sewing
■f —fine and plain.
♦
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Special: Wc manufacture
!♦ and make over Matresscs.
| -4- ♦ 2520 Norwich St.
I *!* -4--4-4--4-4--f-4--f +
HKBSaS?' $S$N8i?fc
>- 7^350-/ 7FM
In the electric Hue wc. are known
a s experts Folks are told that we
made a thorough study of electri¬
cal science and that we are equip¬
ped to give proper service. Our
repair department expeditiously
and efficiently attends to your
wants. And we sell standard
brands of electric goods.
BrunswickElectricS
ELECTRICAL COHTRACTING & SUPPLIES
PH0NE 99 1528 NEWCASTLE ST
1404 Oglethorpe Street
Phone 495
Luke Dawson
Wc have Fresh Fish every
Day.
BASS, SHEEPHEAD AND
MULLET, AND FRESH
WATER FISH.
FRESH OYSTERS
At 35 Quar'
We deliver and Dress
Fish when requested to
do so.
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i-RI'DAY JV ‘ MAV" '44” 4 923.
The Story of the Big House
on the Hill
EVERY town has its “big house on the hill’—a rich man
who has become financially independent and is perhaps the
envy of these around him.
But the base of all this prosperity has been thrift. He
has banked his money—then invested wisely with the co¬
operation of his banking- connections.
Yes the big house on the hill is built on the sound found¬
ation of THRIFT.
4 PER CENT AND SAFETY FOR YOTJR SAVINGS.
KI^yNswjcK
‘‘THE BANK WITH A HEART.”
MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM.
Goal-C oke-W ood
CEMENT SLAG
LIME SEWER PIPE
PLASTER EIRE CLAY
BRICK FIRE BRICK
SAND FLUE PIPE
SHINOLES FLUE LINING
LATHS . , ,:t
rt'E HAVE LIME IN SMALL PACKAGES FOR WHITE¬
WASHING AND ALL DISINFECTING PURPOSES.
Coney & Parker Company
Phones 17 and 18 1129 Bay Street
SUMMER
VACATIONIST!
Summer will soon be here. Now
is the time to make your plans.
The glourious Mountains of W©st¬
ern North Carolina welcome you.
“THE LAND of the SKY”
The Vacationists Paradise
All Out-of-Door -Sporls
Reduced Summer Fares, beginning
May Fifteenth.
SOUTHERN
RAILWAY
SYSTEM •
Question all you like about dependable tires- you’ll iiud
fair prices to be the reply. It is the answer to your entire
satisfaction. You just see ii it isn’t.
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