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REVISION OF TAXES
TO COME THIS YEAR
BOTH GOVERNORS WILL CALL
LEGISLATURE'S ATTENTION
TO FINANCIAL NEEDS.
STATE NEEDS THE REVENUE
Is an Important and Most Perplexing
Problem That Will Confront the
Georgia Solones.
—Atlanta.
Probably the most important and
certainly the most perplexing problem
that will present itself to the legisla
ture will be the revision of the tax
system of the state.
True, it is not a new question by any
means. Legislatures have tackled it
before. Governors have urged its ne
cessity in their annual messages. In
particular, Governor Brown has rec
ommended tax revision and equaliza
tion in every message that he has
sent to the general assembly since
he has sat in the gubernatorial chair.
Still apthing has been done so far.
This year, however, the condition of
the state's finances is such that, in
the opinion of statehouse officers and
of members of the legislature who
have been interviewed on the subject,
some sort of relief measures, must
come. Xhe question will be present
ed to the lawmakers in such away
.that they cannot evade It.
Both governors are wideawake to
the fact that the present system has
broken down long ago and proved al
together defective. It is known that
the incoming executive has devoted
much time and study since his elec
tion to this subject and he has doubt
less formulated a definite and feasi
ble measure of relief for legislative
action. ,
Georgia Company Prospering.
' It is announced that as a result of
a transfer of its industrial business,
the Cherokee Life Insurance company
of Rome will increase its surplus to
approximately $300,000. This is the
most important announcement that
has been made in connection with
the affairs of the company since
Barry Wright assumed its presidency,
and is one that will be of interest in
insurance circles all over the south.
The company will devote itself in the
future entirely to old line life insur
ance. This policy took form when the
Cherokee entered into a contract to
transfer its industrial insurance to the
American National Life of Galveston,
Texas. The actual transfer is now
under way, the latter company taking
over with the business the industrial
agency force of the firm. The Chero
kee Life was recently re-organized on
a stock basis, with a capital stock
fully paid up of SIOO,OOO. Lloyd Dame
ron will continue as underwriting
manager and director of agencies. It
is pointed out as evidence of the
promise of a successful future that
several southern companies, adhering
exclusively to old line insurance, have
attained substantial eminence in the
last few years. There is a heavy daily
production of old line insurance now
from agencies throughout the states
of Georgia. Alabama, Florida, Tennes
see and Texas.
Anent Grade Crossings.
In connection with the proposed ef
fort to have grade crossing abolished
by the Georgia legislature, it is in
teresting to note that the railroads
have compiled careful statistics to
show that while people do occasional
ly get killed on grade crossings a
much greater proportion of the deaths
are due to the trespassing of outsiders
upon the track where there is no
crossing at all, and that a strictly en
forced law’ to keep people from tres
passing on railroad tracks would save
many Jives annually. ‘‘Vigorous meas
ures must be taken in some way to
make people understand that railroad
tracks cannot be used as footwalks
with impunity,” said a prominent lo
cal official discussing the situation
here. It is shown that in the
past five years 4,361 persons were
killed at highways crossings in this
country, while throughout the nation
in the same time 17,861 persons were
killed at other points along the track.
Os the persons killed at highway
crossings more than 1,000 were tres
passers. Os the persons killed at oth
er point along the track, 17,469 were
trespassers, while only 392 were upon
the tracks on legitimate business.
All Teachers Paid for 1912.
All of Georgia’s teachers have been
paid for the work they did in 1912.
The last of the accounts was settled
with an amount totalling $17,790 12.
Assistant State Treasurer Anderson
says that the money could have been
paid several months ago, but that
various county superintendents have
delayed in getting their requisitions
in.
No Freak Measures.
If the legislature which meets next
week gives serious consideration to
all the measures involving progress
and improvement in state's affairs,
it will have little time this year to
divert itself and the public with freak
measures. There is every indication
that the georgia assembly this summer
will have its hands full of vital work,
and there seems to be a general dis
position among legislators to prepare
for buckling down to hard work from
the very opening day of the session.
They know they have a big program
before them. First of all in impor
tance will come the proposed revision
of the state financial system, coupled
with a movement for tax equalizat
ion. Governor Brown in his outgo
ing message, and Governor Slaton in
his inaugural address, will both stress
the necessity of working on these
lines. The legislature will be asked
to appoint a special commission to
take up the whole proposition of im
proving and bringing up to date Geor
gia’s penal system and criminal court
procedure. This is a measure that
has been endorsed by Judge Patterson
of the state prison commission, and
by leading judges throughout the
state. The compulsory education bill
will be pressed before the assembly
more vigorously than ever before.
One of the chief arguments will be
the fact that Georgia is one of only
six states left in the Union which
have not already some kind of com
pulsory education measure. A host of
other bills of general and serious im
portance have been prepared for in
troduction. One for instance, will re
quire all railroads to provide under
passes or overpasses under direction
of the railroad commission, but will
be so framed as to try to make it fair
to the railroads as well as the public.
Another will be to put the legislature
on a straight salary basis instead of
per diem, and to have biennial ses
sions. In fact, the Georgia assembly
is going to have to put on its thinking
cap this summer.
Chilly and Silly Season.
The chily season and the silly sea
son seem to be synoimous this year.
Atlanta with her dictograph wrangle,
in which more and more people are
being involved one way or another,
must appear to other southern cities
a likely municipal candidate for the
insane asylum, if there is one big
enough anywhere to hold the whole
population. Distressing symptoms,
however, seem to be afflicting the
whole country. A sober and highly
regarded farmer at Marietta sees a
snake with its tail in its mouth roll
ing like a hoop along the public high
way. People In various cities are
taking bichloride of mercury, because
they read in the papers that another
man had said it was a painless death.
A Georgia man has sot up seriously
in the courts of law that he has a per
fect right to beat his wife when he
wants to. Gardeners throughout the
whole blooming south (brooming is an
agricultural and not a slang expres
sion) are spending $4 on tools and S2O
worth of labor to raise 30 cents worth
of lettuce in the back yard.
Vocational Training.
The national interest in vocational
training is being reflected in Georgia
by the suggestions coining from many
sources that it would be a fine thing
for the Georgia School of Technology,
in addition to_its present splendid
high conreses in engineering, to estab
high courses in engineering, to estab
courses in vocational training. The
fact is pointed out that there are
many young men who are unable for
one reason or another to take advan
tage of the highly complicated en
gineering course, which includes the
necessity of studying German, and
otherwise conforming to high curricu
lum requirements; whereas, if< there
was a simpler shorter course, they
could get substantial benefit from it.
The suggestion is that the present
high standards be strictly maintain
ed and that the special shorter cours
es in industrial vocation be added,
thus broadening Tech s already wide
field of usefulness. The same proposi
tion that is going forward In connec
tion with Georgia’s state institution
is being considered nationally at
Washington, and the senatorial com
mittee on vocation and labor, of which
Senator Hoke Smith is chairman, has
conceived the idea of having the
government directly aid vocational
education. President Wilson himself
is an enthusiastic advocate of voca
tional training, and is strongly com
mitted to federal aid.
Hoop-Snake Dead.
The horn-tail of hoop-snake, recently
captured on Marietta road by a Cobb
county farmer and brought to the
state capitol alive, has died, and con
sequently legislators will not have the
opportunity of seeing the promised
wonder, but the remains have already
been picked in alcohol and will oc
cupy a permanent place on the shelt
in the state capitol museum. This is
the only snake of the kind ever cap
tured in Georgia. It has a horn like
that of a cow on the end of its tail,
and popular tradition is that in pur
suing its enemy it takes this horn 11
its mouth and rolls along like -a hoop
How Shall a Sinner
Get Right With
God?
By REV. HOWARD W. POPE
SupenntcnJeDl ol Men
Moody Bible ludtule. Chicago
TEXT—"How can a man bo just with
God?" Job 9:2.
Centuries ago
Job asked the
question, "How
can a man be just
with God?” In all
ages the moral
sense of mankind
has been raising
the same ques
tion. Many an
swers have been
given:
1. The heathen
answered it in
this way: “Make
an offering to the
gods sufficient to
compensate for
the wrong done.” Hence they brought
presents of fruit and flowers, gold and
sliver, and sometimes they even of
fered their own children as a sacrifice
to the gods. They were always look
ing for some way of pleasing God
without right living. The heathen
method is still a favorite one even in
Christian lands. Many a man serves
the devil all his life, and then builds
a library or endows a hospital to
atone for his sins.
11. Others say that the way for a
sinner to get right with God is to
keep the commandments. Three things
are to be said about this method:
(a) Keeping the law does not atone
for past sins. If one were to obey
God’s law perfectly from this time on,
that would not atone for the sins of
the past
(b) The law never was designed to
save men from sin, but only to show
them that they are sinners. When
Mr. Moody’s boys were young he said
to one of them, “I am going down to
the field, and when I return, if you
will have on a clean dress, and if your
face is clean, I will take you out for
a ride.” The little fellow ran to his
mother at once and had his face
washed and his clothes changed. Be
fore his father returned however, his
face and dress were soiled again.
When his father arrived the boy
claimed the promised ride, but his
father sa(d, ‘‘Ah, my boy, I promised
you a ride on condition that your
face and dress were clean, but they
are not.” ”Oh, yes,” said the boy.
‘‘They must be. clean, for mamma put
on a fresh dress and scrubbed my face
with soap and water.” As the boy in
sisted. the father took him In his
arms, and carrying him into the
house, held him up before the mirror,
and let him look at himself. He used
the mirror to show the boy that his
face was not clean, but he did not
use the mirror to wash his face, did
he? No, he used water for that. Now
the Decalogue is simply God's mirror
to show man that he is a sinner, but
there is no power in the law to save
a man from sin. It- requires grace to
do that.
(c) No one ever kept the law of
God perfectly except the Lord Jesus
Christ, for “All have sinned and come
short of the glory of God.” This meth
od of getting right with God is an ut
ter failure.
111. Paul’s answer to the question
is this; justification through faith In
Christ. “We believed on Christ Jesus
that we might be justified by faith in
Christ, and not by the works of the
law: because by the works of the law
shall no flesh be justified.” (Gal. 2:
16).
Since man has. broken away from
God by sin, it is evident that if any
reconciliation is made, the overture
Is Our Religion Practical?
Religion that does not produce de
sirable results is sadly lacking at its
very heart. A visitor In an Oriental
mosque noticed that the many small
prayer rugs that covered the floor
were tied together. He asked the rea
son for this, and the reply was, “So
that those who come here to pray
will not steal them.” There was,
apparently, nothing incongruous to the
mind of those worshipers in praying
and stealing. We laugh at the ab
surdity; but what about our own re
ligion and our life? Do just as great
incongruities creep in? Does the man
who is claiming the blessings of the
higher Christian life show irritation
if his time for prayer or Bible study
is broken Into? Does our religion
make us steadily more attractive and
easier to live with? Is ours a prac
tical religion? Do the beauty and
love and patience and steadfastness I
and joy and power of Christ shine ■
forth through us in convincing ful> j
ness, and in irresistible appeal to oth- ■
ers to let Christ make of them what |
he is making of us?—Sunday School ,
Tim pa
must come from God. since man has
nothing to offer.
When God told Abraham to take his
only son Isaac, and offer him as a sac
rifice on Mount Moriah, the aged
patriarch obeyed instantly. He even
arose “early in the morning,” and set
out on his sad journey. When they
had reached the appointed place, Isaac
said to his father, "Behold the fire
and the wood; but where is the lamb
for a burnt offering?" And Abraham
answered, "My son, God will provide
himself the lamb for a burnt offering,”
and God did.
So in all the ages the moral sense
of mankind has been searching the
universe for some adequate atonement
for sin. The best they could find did
not satisfy their own sense of justice.
The position of the heathen world
without the Bible is this, “Lord, this
is the best we can find. It is not suit
able nor sufficient we know, but what
can we do? Behold the wood and the
fire, but where is the lamb for a burnt
offering?" Revelation answers, “God
will provide himself the lamb for the
offering,” and he has, even the lamb
of God who taketh away the sin of
the world. "He was wounded for our
transgressions, he was bruised for
our iniquities. AU we like sheep have
gone astray; we have turned every
one to his own way; and the lord
hath laid on him the Iniquity of us
all.”
This then Is the scripture method of
getting right with God—justification
through faith in Jesus Christ. “God
was in Christ reconciling the world
unto himself, not imputing their tres
passes unto them.” (2 Cor. 5:19). No
tice also that it is the death of Christ
and not his life which Is the ground
of our reconciliation. “Much more
then being now justified by his blood,
we shall be saved from the wrath of
God through him.” (Rom. 5:9),
Our Unitarian friends are fond of
talking about the beautiful life of
Jesus, but the life of Jesus alone is
simply a discouragement to the sin
ner, because he has no power of repro
duce that life, were it not for his
death. Jesus Christ might have gone
about saying beautiful things and do
ing good until this day, but had he not
made atonement for us by his death,
we should still be burdened with the
guilt of sin. Not in the manger, nor
on the mount, nor in the garden was
our atonement made, but on the cross.
"Who his own self bare our sins in his
own body on the tree.” (I Pet. 2:24).
Three things are to be remembered:
By the death of Christ we are de
livered from the guilt of sin.
By the life of Christ In us we are
delivered fronrthe power of sin.
By the coming of Christ we shall be
delivered from the presence of sin.
Past Mercies.
"Forget not all ills benefits." We
should remember past mercies and
blessings. If we do, our past will
shine down upon us like a clear sky
full of stars. Such remembering will
keep the gratitude ever fresh In our
hearts and the incense ever burning
on the altar, Such a house of memory
becomes a refuge to which we may
flee In trouble. When sorrows gath
er thickly, when trials come, when
the sun goes down and every star
Is quenched and there seems nothing
left to our hearts in all the present,
then the memory of a past full of
goodness becomes a holy refuge for
our souls.
A Crisis.
There has not been a period in the
history of the Christian dispensation
when there were so many efforts to
induce the church to enter into com
petition with other organizations as
now. It Is a moment of crisis. If the
chureh can be kept to its own mission,
then her victory is assured. If she
answers the many voices which are
now calling to her, and goes out into
the world to compete with all sorts of
human organizations in all sorts of
work, then her power is declining, and
will decline until she be brought back
to her Lord’s own appointed way and
work. —Methodist Recorder.
Heart Awakening.
This is the season of awakening,
the season of joy and of flowers —let
it be also a time for the growth of
faiths; It is a season when joyful
chorals are sung—let it be marked by
a new spirit of thanksgiving in the
heart and of Christlike ministries in
the life. Resurrection should not ail
of it be postponed until the last day
—much of it may take place on earth
in redeemed hearts and regenerated
societies. The Lord of life is even
now by His Spirit transforming hearts
and lives to the likeness of a higher
life. Resurrection thus becomes a
continual process, consummated at
last In the skies, where it reaches the
plane of a perfect life. The Lord, if
we believe and are faithful, will per
fect that which concerneth us.
If you take your boy to see the pro
cession don’t blame him for wanting
to go to the circus.
There is nothing like faith in God
for changing a dark prospect Into a
bright one.
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The man who doesn’t get all that’s
coming to him is generally lucky.
Cut Down.
Husband —Is that pitcher really cut
glass?
Wife—Well, I got it at a bargain
sale.
She Waited.
George was famous for being late
at his appointments. He was engaged
to be married to a young lady in a
neighboring city, and when the day of
the ceremony arrived, George, as usu
al, did not put in an appearance. The
bride was on the verge of nervous
prostration when the following tele
gram was received from the missing
bridegroom:
“Dear Helen —Missed the early
train. Will arrive on the 4:31. Don’t
get married until I get there. George."
—Ladles’ Home Journal.
No Time to Lose.
They had been married just two
months and they still loved each other
devotedly. He was in the back yard
blacking’ his shoes.
“Jack!” she called at the top of her
voice. “Jack, come here, quick.”
He knew at once that she was in im
minent danger. He grasped a stick
and rushed up two flights of stairs to
the rescue. He entered the room
breathlessly, and found her looking
out of the window.
"Iztok,” said she, “that’s the kind of
bonnet I want you to get me.”—Har
per's Magazine.
The Spring Deluge.
“Why do you-avoid your friends of
late, old man? Anything gone wrong?"
“No; but about this time of year
everybody you know wants to sell
you a ticket for something or other.”
Please the
Home Folks
By serving
Post
Toasties
They are among the
good things to eat, but not
in the cook book, because
they require no cooking.
Toasties are always crisp
and appetizing — ready to
eat direct from the pack
age. You save heaps of
time and avoid hot work
in the kitchen.
Some rich cream —sugar
if you want it —or cool fruit
juice, with these fluffy bits
of corn and you have a
dish that is fascinating for
any meal of the day.
Toasties are sold by
grocers everywhere.