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GEORGIA’S SENATORS AND CON
GREESMEN ARE DISCUSSING
'~ QUESTION WITH OFFICIALS,
PAMPHLETS ARE SENT OUT
‘Weevii Expected to Invade the State
of Georgia About This Time
i Next Year.
--Atlanta.
'The saving of millions of dollars to
the farmers of Georgia is going to de
pend on whether the people of this
state awake in time to the fact that
a great, hand-to-hand battle with the
boll weevil is pending.
This Mexican pest is expected to
actually reach the southwestern bor
ders of Georgia about this time next
year, When it gets here, it will be
too late to stop the first damage.
‘Georgia’s senators and congressmen
at Washington are at this moment
busily engaged with the United States
department of agriculture in a council
of war as to the best methods to
bring the advance of the weevil to
a standstill, or at least to save Geor
gia as far as possible from the re
sults of its ravagaes.
The proposition to establish a zone
in which no cotton will be grown next
year and which would amount to a
boll weevil barrier is not regarded
with favor. It would be of doubtiul
legality and very expensive.
In their preparations for Kkeeping
Georgia farmers informed and sup
plied with the best methods of fight
ing the evil, Senator Hoke Smith and
(Congressman Roddenberry, who are
taking a leading part, are receiving
not only the co-operation of their Geor
gia colleagues, but also of senaters and
representatives from adjacent south
ern states.
Senator Smith and Congressman
Roddenberry have retained thousands
of pamphlets and bulletins on the boll
weevil, and are already sending them
to farmers along the Alabama line. It
is said that the great difficulty is
that farmers do not usually become
sufficiently alarmed until after they
have actually seen the destruction
wrought by the weevil. It is only
then -that they wake up and begin
to make a real fight—at least that
has been the experience in other
states. It remains to be seen wheth
er (eorgia “crackers” will have more
foresight. Farmers who are willing
to begin this work this fall are invit
ed to get in communication with Sen
ator Smith or Congressman Rodden
berry..
Many Elevator Accidents. :
The excessive humber of elevator
accidents and tragedies in Atlanta is
called attention to by the current is
sue of Frost’s Magazine, “The Call
of the South,” and suggestion is made
that inspection and operation should
be more careful.
In the Third National Bank build
ing some days ago, says the editor,
an eolderly gentleman was ruthlessly
killed. In exactly the same manner,
a man was killed some months ago
in the Empire building. In the Grant
building not long ago, a lady was crip
pled for life. Many other accidents
of similar kind have occurred in
these rapid-runaing lifts.
“The elevator is a means of tran
sit from one floor to another which
iz easily capable,” the magazine con
tinues, “of such eonstruetion, inspec
tion and operation as to render such
painful calamities impossible.
“The manner of the above mention
ed accidents is almost unaccountable.
How can a man step, fall or be thrown
out of an elevator, under even the
present incomplete construction, in
such away as to fall under the ele
vator and plunge down the shaft?”
Many Shocked by Lightning.
More than a dozen people have
been severely shocked by lightning
and electrical storms, without actual
ly being struck, in and around Atlan
ta during the past few days.
The afternoon thunderstorms have
charged the air with. electricity to
such an extent that people have been
shocked by flashes of lightning which
struck as far as half a mile away from
where they were, -
Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Walker were
knocked unconscious while sitting on
the porch of their Ponce de Leon aye
nue residence a day or two ago, by
a lizhtning flash that did not strike
the house at ail. Except for the nerv
ous shock they encountered no ill ef
fects.
Two negroes in Cobb county were
killed outright, but otherwise no
deaths have been reported.
At least two clofidbursts have oc
curred in connection with the electri
cal storms. One of them caused the
washout that cost four lives in the
wreck on the Western and Aftlantic
‘railroad. ;
Club Sets Good Example.
i‘ The farmers of Brooks county have
set on foot in the organization of the
‘Hickory Head Agricultural club a
movement in which the state depart.
ment of agriculture jgtakaa,x}o small
interest and hopes to be able to en
courage among the farmers of other
counties. slle CEdn
The Hickory Head club is composed
of-the owners or managers of thirty
two farms in Brooks county, who have
organized themselves for the purpose
of ascertaining exactly what they are
aegomplishing and to better that ac
complishment each year. J. G. Stan
ley is president of the club. The fol
lowing report from T. J. Wilson, a
‘member of the club, had just been
submitted to the agricultural depart
ment;
“Hon. J. D. Price, Commissioner of
Agriculture, Atlanta, Ga.—Dear Mr.
Price: Per your request will inclose to
you reports from thirty-two farms
of the Brooks County Hickory Head
Agricultural club. There are a few
more which I have been unable to get.
However, here is the grand total, to
wit: wa
“Cotton—Acres, 1,450; prospective
vield, 778 bales.
“Corn — Acres, 2,615; prospective
yield, 48,377 1-2 pounds.
“Oats — Aocres, .2,078; prospective
vield, 22,346 pounds.
“Sugar Cane—Acres, 69 1-4; pros
pective yield, 869 barrels of syrup.
Sweet Potatoes — Acres, 74 1.8;
prospective yield, 8,352 bushels.
“Pinders—Acres, 2,255; prospective
yield, good.
“The club owns 45 horses, 146
mules, 488 cattle, 239 turkeys, 3,885
chickens, 2,600 hogs, to root the above
2,255 acres of pinders.
« “This is the record for 1913. Please
keep it on file so that we may tell
whether or not we are advancing.”
The department of agriculture be
lieves that if it were possible to ob
tain this kind of information from all
the counties of Georgia, it would make
it possible for all agencies working
for agricultural development to direct
their efforts a great deal more intel.®
gently and has asked the privilege of
suggesting the use of the Hickory
Head club report forms to other com
munities.
Dan Hughes, assistant commissione?
of agriculture, says:
“] pelieve that this is, without
doubt, the best thing I have seen
along the line”
Wine Had Turned Sour.
Because the communion wine had
turned sour in Rome, Bishop C. K.
Nelson of Atlanta had extreme dif
ficulty in administering the commun
ion at St. Peter’s church last Sun
day. In fact, the service was almost
blocked, as Rome is a prohibition
town, and it seemed impossible to get
a fresh supply of wine. Finally, how
ever, after applying to a number of
prominent people, the vestrymen of
the church found a citizen whose cel
lar supplied the necessary wine.
Fire Insurance Business Good.
The semi-annual and annnal reports
of Southern fire insurance companies
doing business in Georgia have been
made to State Insurance Commission
er W A, Wright, and show that the
Southern institutions have made a
gplendid showing for the past twelve
months.
| The reports of the fourteen re
spective companies forming the Asso
ciation of Southern Fire Insurance
{ companies are particularly interesting.
These companies represent an aggre
gate capital of $2,750,000, and assets
of over $6,000,000. Strength and pro
gressive growth are reflected in their
reports to the state department. H
R. Bush of Greensboro, N. C., is presi
dent of this organization; 3.3 Me-
Kay of Bacon is vice president, and
Charles A. Bickerstaff of Atlanta is
gecretary and treasurer. )
All the Southern insurance compa
nies located in Georgia are making a
strong effort this year to get the state
law amended so as to permit them
to invest in stocks and other stable
securities. The present law on this
subject, they say, discriminates un
necegsarily against them.
No Mew Mansion Yet Awhile.
The present legislature has decreed,
;by negation, that Georgia’s ehief ex
‘ecutive will have to livé for a cou
iple of years more at least in a ram
’shackle, crumblinz and disreputable
old mansion in the midst of garages,
stores and places of business.
' The senate decided to take no ac
tion thig year in the appointment of
la commission to consider getting rid
of the old mansion and providing a
new one. But this does not mean that
the question is settled. It is’'bound
to bob up again the first thing next
lyear, and to keep bobbing up, for the
)'old building becomes more tumble
down each season and the site less
;and less desirable for a governor’s
mansion.
Public sentiment is beginning to de
mand that a new mansion be built in
some attractive residential section.
The suggestion that a site be chosen
in Druid Hills, Atlanta’s most beauti
ful residential section, is still being
seriously considered, and may prove
the final solution of the problem.
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, GEORGIA.
TH LEGSLATURE
LEGISLATORS ANGRY.
Members of the legislature, and par
ticularly of the rules committee, are
becoming very much incensed overa
series of bulletins put out by Marion
Jackson and the Men and Religion
committee, charging in substance that
Georgia's lawmakers have been treat
ing Georgia hogs better than Georgia
girls and boys.
“Herod's hog and herod's son,” is
the title of the latest bulletin, which
quotes a certain Roman cyni¢ as hav
ing sald “Better be Herod’s hog than
Herod’s son,” and which goes on to
argue that it is a terrible thing for
Georgia to appropriate money to pro
tect Georgia's live stock from hog
cholera and such while there is no
home for wayward girls in the state.
Several menibers of the legislature,
who were heartily in favor of the
measure to create a home for way
way girls, declare that if Marion
Jackson doesn't cease his bulleting,
which they consider are both insult
ing and an attempt to intimidate, they
will have nothing more to do with
that measure.
MEDICAL BILL PASSED.
The medical practice bill, which wag
passed by the house was first shorn
of some of the features that made
it so terribly obnoxious to all physi
cians who were not members of the
State Medical Society.
The advocates of the measure de
clared that it was designed simply to
protect the state from guackery. The
opponents declared that it savored of
a medical trust.
The original bill, it is said, would
have put the control of medical prac
tice in Georgia in the hands of the
society, which is a branch of the na
tional organization, and would have
barred all homeopathic and eclectic
physicians.
The main amendment to the meas
ure as it now stands, however, gives
both the homeopaths and eclectics rep
resentation on the medical board.
The measure will now have to go
back to the senate in its amended
form to be passed again.
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EDUCATION BILL PASSEL BY THE
SENATE.
Senator Sweat's substitute to the
compulsory education bill passed the
state senate by a vote of 27 to 11.
This measure is the most lenient of
its kind that has ever been introduc
ed. It provides that children between
the ages of 8 and 12 years of age
shall be compelled to attend school
for at least twelve weeks of each year,
and also children between the ages
of 12 and 14 who are not engaged
regularly and lawfully in some useful
employment or service. These stipu
lations shall not apply where the chil
has attended for the prescribed pe
riod.
WILL INVESTIGATE SCHOOL
BOOKS COST.
. The house committee on education
substitute for the MeCrory school
book resolution was adopted by the
house, and was followed by a spectac
ular fight to have the original McCro
ry resolution placed on the calendar
with the result that it did not get on.
This resolution calls for the appoint
ment of a commission, consisting of
the members from the senate and five
members from the house, which shall
investigate the advisability of the pub
lication by the state of its own school
books.
ATLANTA CHANGES CHARTER.
The action of the state genate in
passing the Atlanta charter bill will
give Atlantans a chance to say at
the polls wether or not they think
Recorder Nash R. Broyles has been
too arbitrary and czar-like in his po
lice court powers as is charged by
Mayor James G. Woodward.
The revisions to the charter reduce
the limits of both fines and stockade
sentences which the recorder can im
pose. The two propositions will be
voted on separately by the people,
HOUSE KILLS LAST HOPE OF
TEACHERS.
The last hope of the school teach
ers to receive prompt payment of
their salaries by the state Wwent by
the board, when the house, by a vote
of 70 to 99, declined to submit to the
people the right to say whether they
want to clear the state of this debt
and do the honorable and upright
thing by the teachers of their chil
dren.
This stand was taken by the house
whes the administration bill to amend
the constitution to allow the levy of
a special tax of one mill in 1914 and
one-half mill in 1915 for the purpose of
meeting the deficiency in the common
school funds of the state. %
BILLS PASSED IN SENATE:
By Mr. Tyson—To make a husband
and wife compatible, but not com
pellable to testify against each other
in criminal cases. :
By Mr. Boyd of Newton—To create
a new charter for the town of New
born. D a :
By Messrs. Field and Smith of De-
Kalb—To repeal an act to incorporate
the town ‘of Lakeview. ‘
By Mr. Reiser of Hffingham =- To
amend an act creating city court of
Springfield. > ~
By Mr. Moore of Jeff Davis—To
abolish the county court of Jeff Davis
county. s :
By Mr. Moore of Jeff Davis—To es
tablish the city court of Hazlehurst.
By Mr. Carter of Colquitt—To cre
ate a new charter for the city of
Moultrie.
By Mr. Duwer of Franklin—To amend
an act creating the city charter of
Royston. :
By Messrs. Field and Smith of De-
Kalb—To amend the charter of the
town of East Lake.
By Mr. Rhodes of Clarke—To amend
the charter of the city of Athens.
By Mr. Mc€ray of Wilcox—To incor
porate the town of Pine View.
By Messrs. Field and Smith of De-
Kalb—To amend the charter of the
town of Kirkwood.
By Messrs. Field and Smith of De-
Kalb—To amend an act creating a
new charter for the town of Deca
tur.
By Mr. Smith of Fannin—To create
a new charter for the town of MCays
vills.
By Mr. Stewart of Coffee—To create
a board of commissioners of roads
and revenueg-for Coffee county.
By Mr. Stewart of Coffee—To re:
peal an act creating a board of com
missioners of roads and revenues for
Coffee county.
By Messrs. Blackburn and Smith
of Fulton-—To provide for a municipal
court for the city of Atlanta.
By Mr., Johnson of Montgomery—To
create a board of commissioners of
roads and revenues for Wheeler coun
1y
By Messrs. Cooper and Crawley of
Ware—To amend an act creating a
new charter for the city of Ware.
By Mr. DeVaughn of Macon—To au
thorize the working of Macon county
streets by chain gang.
By Mr. Herrington of Emanuel—To
incorporate the town of Aline.
By Mr. McCurry of Hart—To amend
tiie charter of the city of Hartwell.
By Mr. Cooper of Ware—To amend
the charter of the city of Waycross.
By Mr. Shipp of Pulaski—To create
a new charter for the towno f Coch
ran.
By Mr. Power of Franklin—To
amend an act incorporating the city
of Lavonia.
By Mr. Hopkins of Thompson—To
provide for a city depository. in
Thompson county.
SLATER RESOLUTION PASSED.
The house has taken at least one
action which will definitely relieve the
condition of the state’s finances, but
only temporarily. It has unanimously
passed the Slater resolution author
izing the governor to borrow upwards
of $500,000 to meet any deficiency in
the treasury due to slow tax returns,
1f this resolution passes the sen
ate and receives the governor's sig
nature, the teachers will almost im
mediately receive part of the pay,
They are now several months in ar
rears. The attorney general has al
ready decided that such an action
would be constitutional. :
The house has also passed an inher
itance tax bilil, providing for a tax
on all bequests of $5,000 and over,
When the bequest i 8 in a family, the
tax is one per cent, When it is
made to somebody not a member of
the family of the testator the tax is
five per cent. But the “administra
tion” measure providing that one-half
of the ad valorem tax be added to the
general school fund, was killed by a
vote of 106 to 69, falling 17 short of
the required 123 votes,
SAYS THE STATE SHOULD PAY
DEBTS.
Declaring that it is high time for
(Gieorgia to pay her debts, Governor
John M. Slaton has given out a ring
ing message to the people dealing with
the financial condition of the state.
The only honest way, he urges, is
for the state to pay its debts, and
under no conditions to spend more
‘than it takes in. He declares that
Georgia should set an example for
business probity and not permit kiting
processes. :
“Certainly the governor,” declares
Mr. Slaton, “should not be required
to draw warrants on a treasury in
which there is no money.”
NO REFCRM LAWS.
Indications are that when the pres
ent session of the legislature adjourns
Georgia will be exactly where she
was before in the matter of compul
sory education and child labor—that
is, at about the tail-end of the civil
ized world, keeping company with
Alabama.
The senate has put the hook to the
Randolph Anderson child labor bill,
which was so designed as to meet
most of the practical objections
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Sergeant—Because it's the general's
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Private Murphy—Then, bedad, what
are they doing with “private” above
the door?
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