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PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
J. 1,. GROSS, Propretor.
Entc at the Post Office at
H.auo, Georgia, as second class
oail matter, May 16th, 1913, under
■ of March 3rd, 1879.
Ancestor Worship
Honoring of parents or other
worthy forbears is most com
mendable, but the extremes to
which some people carry their
pride of ancestry is somewhat
amusing.
We sec many worthless ofl
s iring from high-class parents,
while on the other hand many
persons born in obscurity have
made no'able successes in life.
The divine right of kings was
founded on ancestry, usually be
ginning with some political or
military upstart. The American
‘400” was founded on the wealth
of shrewd, uncouth traders and
schemers of the early days.
While the fetish of ancestry is ।
still worshipped by many, it is
becoming out of date and nowa
days a man must amount to some
thing in his own right if he would
be held in high esteem.
As a recent writer has well
said: “Humanity’s sense of jus
tice would be outraged if decend
ants of a criminal justly hanged,
say,three hundred years ago,
should lie under the infamy of
that ancestor. Why, then, should
glory attach to the worthless
descendant of a hero?”
Saturday will probably be the
happiest day in the life of Chief
Justice and Mrs Richard B.
Russell, Sr., when they will see
their son inaugurated Governor
of the Empire State of the South.
—Thomasville Press.
A trifle odd is the discovery
that Clara Bow and John Gilbert
are on the payroll of a tobacco
manufacturing plant at Louis
ville, Ky. Stranger still is the
fact that the tobacco factory
Clara, like her movie-talkie name
sake, is red headed.
An attack of appendicitis did
not prevent the presentation of
Miss Virginia Dawes, daughter
of the American ambassador, to
King George and Queen Mary at
the royal court recently. Al
though suffering severely, Mi s
Dawes stuck it out until her
great experience was over, then
had the offending appendix re
moved.
An illustration of the art of j
playing safe comes from Kansas [
City, where a strange lunch room ;
customer casually asked the pro
prietor whether lie would tight
if someone held him up, and re
ceived this reply :"No sir; I’d put;
up my bands.” The customer
then said. "That’s sensible; stick
'em up,” and robbed the restau i
rant man of $7.
An unusual collision occurred
on the Great Northern railway
in Minnesota a few days ago,
when the crack limited train Em
pire Builder, running at full
speed, collided with a tornado.
All eleven Pullmans composirg
the train were lifted into the air
and strewn along the right of
way, only the locomotive remain
ing on the tracks. One man was
killed and twenty or more were
hurt out of 119 passengers on
board.
Tae legislature will have the
time of its life trying to legislate
twelve congressmen into ten dis '
tricts. That is exectly what the j
present twelve congressmem
want done.—-Thomasville Press. 1
The name and fame of that er
i atic but brilliant character, Wil
liam Sidney Porter, whose incom
parable short stories were writ
ten under the pen name of “0.
Henry,'’has been further im
mortalized in a biography re
cently published. Many of his
best stories were written during
his three years in the Ohio pen
itentiary, served for irregular
ities as a. bank clerk; his biogra
phers estimate his daily con
sumption of whiskey in later life
at two quarts; he died in 1910 at
the age of 48.
Women not only drive and stoke
locomotives in Russia, but are!
employed in the railway repair
shops.
P. L. Wingo of Abeline, Tex.,
is trying to walk around the
world bckward.
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, GEORGI
Let's KEEP ElechSM Low ’
A small group, now directing most of
its fire from Atlanta, is campaigning vig
orously to induce Georgia cities to go into
the electric light and power business. They
are spreading the usual stories designed to
lead the public into thinking that rates
would be much lower under city owner
ship.
Rates of the Georgia Power Company
are already among the lowest in the na-
tion — 29.1% below the national average!
And the national average includes the rates charged by municipal
plants.
What will happen to these low rates if cities go into the elec
tric business —if electric light and power begin to get under po
litical control?
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In a recent study made of electric rates charged both by mu
nicipal and privately-owned plants, it was shown that if all the
customers of private systems had paid the average rates charge d
by the city-owned systems, the nation’s bill for electric service by
private companies would have been 42%% higher than it actually
was!
If customers of city-owned plants had paid the average rate
paid to private companies, they would have saved over 033,000,-
000.
In spite of that, agitators would try to-make you believe that
municipal ownership and low rates go hand in hand.
Right here in Georgia io their answer. In the past several years,
this Company has taken over the electric service of a number of
communities which formerly had municipal operation. In every
single instance, rates have been materially reduced. And the quality
of service has been improved, too.
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Let’s take a look at the very cities promoters of city ownership
hold up as models. »
Jacksonville, Florida, they say, haa one of the most successfully
operated plants in all America.
JACKSONVILLE’S AVERAGE RATE PER KILOWATT
HOUR OF ELECTRIC ENERGY SOLD IS 105 G HIGHER
THAN THAT OF THE GEORGIA POWER COMPANY.
Jacksonville's average rate is 45.5% ABOVE the national
average — this Company's average rate is 29.1% BELOW it.
And the Jacksonville plant pays NO taxes to city, state or fed
eral government.
The Georgia Power Company, in 1930, paid a total of 01,743,-
809.00 in taxes on its electrical department alone!
* * * *
They point to Seattle, Washington — another example of city
ownership.
A recent newspaper article published in Atlanta said in part:
“ last year the average rate for all current sold by the
Seattle plant was 1.784 c per kilowatt hour.’’
The Seattle plant, also, pays NO taxes —to city, state or fed
eral government.
This Company does not object to paying its just share of taxes
— but allowance must be made for taxes, of course, in any true
comparison between this Company’s tax-paying service and Seattle’s
non-tax-paying service.
If taxes were deducted from this Company’s operating expenses
A CITIZEN WHEREVER WE SERVE
I Georgia Congress of
Parents and Teachers.
The Athens Parent-Teacher
. Institute will be held July 21, 22,
. 23 at the University Memorial
Hall. The program will follow de
finitely the national course of in
structions, provided by Mrs.
’ Arthur Watkins. An effort will
be made to supply sufficient ma
■ terial that every one attending
may receive the national certifi
cate by sending in the course at
the end of the three-day peroid
The expense will be negligible,
j Rooms are offered at the hotels
; for SI.GO per day, two in a room. I
i without bath—correspondingly i
j more with bath. Both noonday
’meals will be conplimentary.'
Breakfast and supper can be
!secured at the rates suitable to.
the individual at the cafeterias, ;
A charge of 50c for registration
this year is required by the Uni- '
versity.
Many people - rop : ,
the facts of something they nM % »
with. They hear or re.. J a ■ J IBBBBBk
somebody else. Tii-y think
studied it and so j; | ®
it as the tru:h. Take a few
senators and ti.f’r abuse L V
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o-e d-■ -’w. hs fj ' £ 3 J I’* t r Company in I9>o
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make a statement 1, :t wa-.-i'g j ~
believe the
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The dist rict presidents will have
charge of the various classes, and
all associations are requested
to have representation sufficient
to participate in the ciasses and
’ support the president conduct-
I
ling the hour. Associations are
' I requested to send at least one
I representative at the expense of I
. the association, and t > provide
' । auto parties if possible, that ex ;
pence may be reduced to a mini-;
mum.
j The state president, Mrs. R.H.!
; Hankinson of M’Donough, will;
;conduct the institute. She prom
■ises to provide sufficient ma-i
terial to those associations at;
tending f r proper operation
during the coming year.
Mrs. R. H. HANKINSON.
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smiles for adults was the price
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the cities and tn^ame^m^it^raßWn the small towns, too
* * * *
So, every customer and every community served by this Com
pany is interested in seeing that this advantage is not taken away,
Municipal ownership in one or more cities is no longer strictly a
local matter. It affects the rates in every community on the system.
Only with a big system can big jobs be done — and big jobs
need to be done in Georgia to bring our state its fair measure of
wealth and prosperity.
Take, for example, the pioneering job of extending electricity
to the farms. In 1930, the increase in electrified farms in Georgia
was far above the national average increase. What could happen to
this activity if the Company’s statewide system were split up and
city ownership became the rule?
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Consider this matter seriously. Think how the movement for
city ownership —if successful — would affect your electric service
and your electric rates. What would it mean to Georgia — especially
to the small towns and the farms of Georgia?
Ask the promoters of city ownership to give you ALL the
facts — not just the pretty-sounding parts.
Georgia
POWER COMPANY
Renew Your Health
by Purification
Any physician will tell you that
[“Perfect Purification of the System
is Nature’s Foundation of Perfect
Health.” Why not rid yourself of
chronic ailments that are undermin
ing your vitality? Purify your en
: tire system by taking a thorough
course of Calotabs, —once or twice a
week for several weeks—and see how
Nature rewards you with health.
Calotabs purify the blood by acti- 1
vating the liver, kidneys, stomach and
bowels. Trial package, 10 cts. Fami-
I ly package, 35 cts. All dealers. (Adv.) .
JNO. S. STAMPS i
INSURANCE
Mcßae, Ga,
Service Motor Co.
ALAMO. GEORGIA
Sales Service
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p A T S DIE
so do mice, once they eat RAT-SNAP
And they leaVe no odor behind. Don't
take our word for it—-try a package.
Cats and dogs won’t touch it. Rats
pass up all food to get RAT-SNAP.
। Three sizes.
35c size-—1 cake, enough for pantry
kitchen or cellar.
65c size—2 cakes, for chicken house
$1.25 size—-5 cakes, enough for all
farm and out-buildings, storage
buildings, or factory buildings,
। Sold and guaranteed by
Peebles Pharmacy.
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CITATION.
। To Whom it May Concern:
! GEORGlA—Wheeler County.
Mrs. Nancy Brown having in due form ap
plied to me for permanent administration on
the estate of Ruben B. Harrelson, late of sa d
county, decsased. This is therefore to cite all
concerned that her application will be heard
in the Court of Ordinary for said county un
the first Monday in July. 1931.
This 9th day of June. 1931,
H. L. SEARS, Ordinary.
