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THOMSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, or TO BE II 19, 1923.
NUMBER 43.
WEEKLY DIGEST FROM
THE NATION'S CAPITAL
LINCOLN SHERIFF
FOUND NOT GUILTY
A telephone message from The
Lincolnton Journal office early today
stated that the jury in the case of
Sheriff Harrison, charged with mur
der in the death of the Cullars broth
ers at Lincolnton last July 4th, after
being out all night, had returned a
verdict of not guilty, thus freeing the
sheriff from the charge. The grand
jury found a no-bill in one of the
cases.
This has been one of the hardest
fought cases in the history of the
Lincoln court, and has attracted in
terest throughout the state, some of
the ablest legal talent in the state
being employed on both sides.
The case of Deputy Sheriff Bur-
gress went to the jury Friday morn
ing, it is understood.
Messrs. John T. West and J. B.
Burnside, of Thomson, represented
the defendant, Sheriff Harrison, in
the trial of his case, and have been
in constant attendance on the case
since Monday morning.
CLUB SHOW WAS
SMALL BUT GOOD
The exhibit of club work as done
by the members of the corn and poul
try clubs of McDuffie county und“~
the direction of County Agent E. P.
Drexel held at the old Wall & Rivers
store on Main street Thursday, Octo
ber, 18th, was a decided success in
point of interest.
The show of products marked the
culmination of a year’s work by the
boys and girls enrolled, and it is
hoped that the interest this year will
bring into line several times the en
rollment next season.
Judges in the poultry department
were W. C. McCommons and John
L. Lokey, while the corn judges were
J. E. Harrison, J. E. Wilson and
Curry Colvin.
Awards were made as follows on
the basis mentioned:
Cora Club.
First—Jack Farr, with 51 bushels
and 25 pounds made at a cost of 41
cents a bushel.
Second—Bunyon Harrison, with
49 1-2 bushels made at a cost of
45 1-2 cents a bushel.
Third—Robert Baggott, with 52
bushels made at a cost of 56 cent-.
Fourth—Alton Howard, with 43
bushels made at a cost of 71 cents.
Fifth—Loyce Farr, with 42 bushels
made at a cost of 75 cents.
Sixth—Hoyth Farr, with 39 bushels
made at a cost of 76 cents
Seventh—Cecil Ganos, with 32
bushels made at a cost of 85 cents
per bushel.
The Poultry Winners.
First—Georgia Colvin, with Barred
Rocks. /
Second—Jack Hubert, with White
Leghorns.
Third—John Fanning, with Buff
Orphingtons.
Fourth — Benjamin McCommons,
with Barred Rocks.
Fifth—Nellie McDonald with White
Rocks.
The records of the corn contesc
show remarkable yields in spite of
bad weather. Jack Farr, the winner
of first place through misfortune to
part of his acre, did not mature but
nine-tenths of an acre, but made 51
bushels on that part. If he had had
.a full acre he would have many near
ly 57 bushels from one acre.
Even the lowest yield of 32 bush
els was over twice the average yield
of the state.
Acknowledgement of courtesies of
furnishing prizes for the show is ex
tended R. L. Hadaway, Gus Agoos,
Roy Johnson, Mrs. Estelle Martin,
J. M. Hayes, McDuffie Progress, M.
Steine, Thomson Hardware Co.
Special thanks extended Mrs. Ed
Wilson and Printup Wilson for use
of building.
FOOTBALL SCHEDULE FOR
THOMSON HIGH SCHOOL
Following is the schedule of games
for the Thomson High School foot
ball team:
October 19—Granite Hill, in Gran
ite Hill.
October 26—Lincolnton, in Lincoln
ton.
November 2—Shamrock (Augusta)
in Thomson.
November 9—Louisville, in Thom
son.
November 16—Wrens, in Wrens.
November 23 (Thanksgiving)—
North Augusta, in Thomson.
POULTRY SALE
NOVEMBER 6TH
A poultry sale will be held at
Thomson Tuesday afternoon of No
vember 6th, to which all people resid
ing in or near McDuffie county am
cordially invited to participate.
This sale will be held on the same
line as those during the Spring.
Hens, broilers, friers, roosters, stags,
turkeys, ducks, geese and guineas
will be taken at a prifce to be agreed
on with the buyer several days befoie
the sale.
The sales in the past have been
successful and the cooperation of the
people all that could be desired,
however, for this sale all parties ha\
ing poultry to put in are asked to
list the approximate pounds with the
County Agent of any of the following
committee: \V. C. McCommons, Paul
Geer, J. D. Baston and G. W. Jordan
who will be in charge at the sale.
Weighing will be done by local men
as well as the figuring. The County
Agent, E. P. Drexel, will be manager
of the sale, the buyer merely paying
for the entire offering which makes
the sale as fair as possible to get
with the entire proposition carried
but by local men known to everybody.
Turkeys and hens are especially
desired because of the Thanksgiving
demand for roast fowls.
The quota for Thomson is 3500
pounds which we must have listed
before the sale because buyers are re
quiring guarantees of enough ton
nage to make it profitable for them
to handle these sales on the close
margin they do.
So it is readily seen that the man
agement is subject to making good,
therefore it is requested that every
body give this hearty support and
assist them by listing in advance
their probable offering.
SCORES INCOME
TAXJMEASURE
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 18.—Former
Governor John M. Slaton, of Georgia,
in an address here before the Tax
Commission, severely scored the pr >
posed state income tax measure and
his remarks, which are now being
commented upon throughout the
state, have apparently been well re
ceived.
The former governor, recognized
as an authority on tax questions, d.
dared that the whole purpose of the
income tax measure was not to lessen
the taxes at a time when Georgia
was in financial distress, but to rais-j
them, and he made the startling
statement that since his administra
tion as governor, the increase in the
state’s expenses had been from si :
million to fifteen million dollars a
year, and more was demanded.
He showed that two and one half
million dollars more were raised un
der the automobile and tobacco ta'
during 1923, and this money instead
of being used to operate the regu
lar departments of the state was
appripriated to new purposes large
ly-
He said that the effect of the in
come tax was evident from its op
eration under the United States gov
ernment, which began with an in
come of one per cent in 1913, and
now imposes an income tax as high
as 66 2-3 per cent.
Governor Slaton said further that
it would take a host of bookkeepers
to carry into effect the income tax
and to examine into people’s affairs
for the purpose of levying the tax
which would multiply the number
of officeholders, and establish an
ever-increasing department.
“The extravagance would be so
great that the low exemptions would
be made lower and the farmer and
the laborer would all be subjected to
the payment, after the politicians
had heavily increased the expenses
of the state,” declared the ex-gov
ernor.
In conclusion Governor Slaton said
that he preferred the Constitution of
Toombs and Jenkins and Nat Ham
mond and Benjamin Hill, rather than
a system taken from Europe, and
especially so when Comptroller Gen
eral Wright, who knew more about
the tax laws than anybody in the
state, declared strongly in favor of
the present system of taxation and
said that it only needed enforcement
HEN’S EGGS.
Hen eggs aggregating approxi
mately 11,000,000,000,000 are mar
keted a year.
Washington, D. C., Oct. 17.
DOMESTIC DESIGNERS.
A rapidly increasing demand exis + s
for domestic designers in the fields )i!
commerce and industry, according •'o
a contribution on Industrial Educa
tion.
On textile designs, and in other
fields of exquisite design, jewelry,
silver, gold and platinum ware, pot
teries, bronzes, and many others,
there is a woefully inadequate sup
ply of high-class native talent.
The selling power of art is so grest
that the nation possessing the most
attractive wares will, other things
being equal, be able to dominate the
markets of the world, the circular
claims. America’s weakness in ar
tistic production was revealed after
1*103 in a series of international ex
hibitions including wall paper, tex
tiles, furniture, silverware, etc. Man
ufacturers, noting the superiority in
the appearance of foreign products,
began importing European design
and designers. Until that time paint
ing and sculpture had been consid
ered the only legititmate objectives
for art education in this country.
The world war, in shutting off im
portation of foreign design, gave an
impetus to the development of Amer
ican industrial art, the circular con
tinues. Art schools were successful
during the war in providing a join
exhibition of designs which proved
most pleasing to the manufacturers
invited to inspect them. This proved
the possibility of an essentialV
American school of design such as
foreigners could never produce. With
a return to normal conditions, how
ever, there is, on account of the scar
city of competent American design
ers, a tendency on the part of many
manufacturers to return to the old
method of importation.
Two reasons are given in the cir
cular for the failure of American de
signers to compete successfully, with
foreign talent. One reason is the
insufficient number of industrial art
schools in this country, and the other
is the desire of the American art
student for quick results.
RETAIL COST OF FOOD.
The United States Department of
Labor reports that during the month
from August 15th, 1923, to Septem
ber 15th, 1923, 18 of the 20 cities
showed increased cost in food. Los
Angeles and St. Louis headed the
list with a 4 per cent increase.
FOOD PRICES RISE.
Are living costs advancing? The
answer is given in retail food costs
by the Bureau qf Labor Statistics
covering twenty cities. For the year
period, September 15, 1922, to Sep
tember 15, 1923, all of the showed
increases as follows: Indianapolis, 10
per cent; Chicago and Baltimore, 9
per cent; Fall River and New Haven,
8 per cent; Norfolk, Providence, Ro
chester, Washington, D. C., 7 per
cent; Richmond, St. Louis, St. Paul,
Savannah, 6 per cent; Jacksonville,
Kansas City, Los Angeles, Portland,
Me., 5 per cent; Butte, Houston, New
Orleans, 4 per cent. As compared
with the average cost in the year
1913, the retail cost of food on Sep
tember 15, *1923, was 59 per cent
higher in Richmond; 58 per cent in
Washington, D. C., 57 per cent in
Chicago, Baltimore and Providence;
53 per cent in Fall River and New
Haven; 48 per cent in St. Louis! 47
per cent in Indianapolis; 45 per cent
in New Orleans; 43 per cent in Los
Angeles; and 40 per cent in Jack
sonville and Kansas City. Prices
were not obtained from Butte, Hous
ton, Norfolk, Portland, Me., Roches
ter, St. Paul, and Savannah in 1913,
hence no comparison for the 10-year
period can be given for these cities.
BABIES AND UNCLE SAM.
“It is not the business of govern
ment to tell you how to raise your
baby,” is the way the Washington
Daily News quotes Senator James
Reed of Missouri. Then the News
has its say on the question. The
News says:
“The very start of our beginnings
as a nation had to do with equality
of birth—equality before the law.
Further along we pledged ourselves
I that our citizenry should be protect
ed in their right to ‘life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness.’ Raising
babies, we take it, has an important
relationship with lift. If not, the
| promise of liberty and the pursuit of
happiness is superfluous. Reed’s
idea is that the raising of a baby ia
the private business of the parents
and it is not the province of the
government to interfere or interest
itself. At least, not until the baby
grows up and, perchance becomes a
public charge public nuisance oi
criminal. Then the government may
slap him with the statutes. But it’s
a narrow idea. The government is
the servant of that baby. It can
serve no better than by being help
ful all along the way to a potential
good citizen. Good, healthy babies
are about the finest assets as the
country can have. They are neces
sary to the future good order of
communities and the stability of gov
ernment. By interesting itself in
their proper, healthful, mental, moral
and physical upbringing, the govern
ment is protecting itself far more
adequately and wisely than it will
be able to do with any or all the
laws that can be written. Stature
is more important that statutes.”
MANUFACTURERS MAKING BIG
RECORD.
The big manufacturers of the Un
ited States are bringing in manufac
turing material from abroad at the
rate of over $2,000,000,000 a year.
Already in the seven months of 1923
for which detailed figures are avail
able the imports of manufacturing
material are one and one-third bil
lion dollars, suggesting that the
total for the year will approximate
$2,350,000,000, and exceed that of
last year by about 50 per cent in
stated value. Up to the end of July,
says the Trade Record of the Nation
al City Bank of New York, the value
of the manufacturing material im
ported was 58 per cent above that
of the same period last year, while
all other imports showed an increase
of but 24 per cent. Manufacturing
material now forms nearly 58 per
cent of the imports of th6 United
States against 52 per cent in the
same months of last year. Mean
time the manufacturers are also
pushing their sales abroad and with
apparent success, since manufactur
ers have formed 54 per cent of this
year’s exports against 48 per cent in
the same period of las year.
RESURVEY OF THE PUBLIC
DOMAIN.
I The apportionment of $699,600 ap
propriated by Congress for the sur
vey and resurvey of the public do
main of the United States will be
arranged to give Alaska $48,000;
Arizona $41,000; California $41,000;
Colorado $48,000; Idaho ■ $37,000;
Montana $48,000; Nebraska and
South Dakota $37,000; Nevada $30,-
000; New Mexico $48,000; Oregon
$48,000; Utah $48,000; Washington
$20,000; Wyoming $36,000.
VIEWS OF SECRETARY OF THE
TREASURY MELLON.
“The American people cannot have
lighter taxes and indulge in such ex
travagancies as bonuses and similar
luxuries.”
“Only a very rich country could
stand our complicated and expensive
system of government.”
“British taxes sound very heavy,
but in actual fact the average Eng
lishman pays less than the average
American.”
“Since 1920 state taxation has
risen while federal taxes have been
reduced. Since 1913 the per capita
increase for eighteen states has been
from 100 to 200 per cent.”
“Tax exemption is repugnant to
every principle of American govern
ment, but the elimination of tax-
exempt securities will not solve the
problem of excessive taxation.”
PLASTER AND STUCCO INVES
TIGATION.
During the past ten years investi
gations have been conducted at the
Bureau of Standards with the object
not only of improving stucco but of
developing more permanent and
pleasing finishes of this type for res
idence construction. The results of
this work have formed the basis to
a large extent of the “Recommended
Practice for Portland Cement Stucco ’
adppted this year in revised form by
the American Concrete Institute.
LUMBER, LATH AND SHINGLES.
The Department of Commerce an-
MAP OUT PLANS
FOR THE FUTURE
The second shipment of 500 pounds
of alfalfa seed and receipts of a;
proximalely 1200 pounds of swe :c
' clover seed for last week signifies
the interest being taken in the leg
ume campaign for soil fertility and
feeds by McDuffie farmers.
County Agent E. P. Drexel states
that this is the result of greater
general confidence in a more stabil
ized agriculture, for these crops are
distinctly investments whose returns
are not measured in one season.
Hay Making.
Alfalfa planting is an effort tc
provide more feed for more live
stock, thereby diversifying and sav
ing labor in providing roughage
which heretofore were supplied by
pulling fodder. The labor necessary
to pull fodder has now become ex
pensive, so much so that it3 use will
have to be abandoned in large meas
ure by those farmers using livestock,
to diversify their farming program.
With all the work of preparation
and seeding done at one time to last
for five to eight years, leaving mere
ly the mowing and curing as the an
nual labor necessary to securing the
hay crop is a powerful argument in
favor of this superior hay crop.
Every farm above the railroad in
McDuffie county should have several
acres of alfalfa on it.
Soil Building.
Sweet Clover purchases to date
amount to approximately 3000 lbs,
and whose soil building qualities wil',
reach some 500 acres of McDuffie
lands badly in need of building up.
The beauty of this crop lies in its
winter and summer growth working
to save nitrogen when the land in
bare. Its practical value is in its
ability to reseed under the most ad
verse conditions, thereby adapting
itself to the farmer who has a clover
spell of enthusiasm about once in a
lifetime, for once it seeds our system
of farming will make the crop per
petual. It is not a weed nor has it
any objectionable qualities such as
burrs or Johnson grass.
A few tons of lime and alfalfa seed
as well as some sweet clover seed
can still be had by any one wanting
some.
nounces that the total production of
lumber during 1922 in the United
States was 31,426,922,000 feet. This
is an increase of 16.5 per cent when
compared with the cut reported for
1921 but a decrease of 9 per cent
compared with the cut for 1919.
The production of lath was report
ed as 2,905,595,000 in 1922 and 1,970,-
696.000 in 1921, and the production
of shingles 8,068,585,000 in 1922 and
6.843.187.000 in 1921.
ANTHRACITE AND BITUMINOUS
COAL.
Resumption of mining in the an
thracite region has caused a slight
reaction in the production of bitum
inous coal, according to the United
States Geological Survey. Increased
demand in anticipation of a stoppage
of anthracite had carried production
of soft coal to 11,737,000 tons in the
last week of August. In the week
of September 29, it declined to 11,-
308,000 tons, a decrease of 429,000
tons.
UNIVERSAL COTTON STAND
ARDS.
The signing of agreements with
European cotton associations for the
establishment of universal standards
for American cotton marks the cul
mination of 10 years of effort on the
part of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture. This achieve
ment is the direct result of the pass
age of the Fulmer Cotton Standards
Act by the last Congress, prohibit
ing the use of other than American
cotton standards in interstate and
international trade, and means the
universal use of American grades.
Provision is made in the agreements j
for the arbitration of disputes ove* 1
cotton transactions.
COTTON MILL MEN LOOKING
OVER MILL FRIDAY.
A party of Atlanta gentlemen, rep
resenting the Candler interests, were
in Thomson Friday examining the
Thomson Cotton Mill.
While nothing definite could be
learned as to their mission here, it
is believed plans are shaping for
resumption of the mill in the near
future. Those in touch with the pro
position seem to think so.
✓
A little 26c ad iu the “Want"
'.nluinn will sell that article you wan
C get out of your way.
CLUB BOY WRITES
OF FAIR SCHOOL
As one of the two club boys from
McDuffie county who were given the
privilege of attending the Southeast
ern Fair School last week, I wish
to express my thanks to our county
agent, Mr. E. P. Drexel, and to the
officials of the two banks, the Bank
of Thomson and the City Bank and
to any others who may have helped
to make it possible for me to attend.
Perhaps on first consideration one
might think that just two boys from
our county is such a small number
it would be of' no consequence, but
when you think of the 250 to 300
boys from all parts of our state who
go to this school each year and who
under some of the best instructors
in the state, are filled with the desire
to make two ears of corn grow where
only one grew before, you will re
alize that it will lead to “hog and
hominy” at home instead of having
it shipped into - Georgia from the
West.
Aside from the benefits of this
school which undertakes to teach U3
“to work, to save to think,” we were
conducted all through the fair and
were given lessons in judging stock
of some of the finest prize winners
of the South.
We were also taken about over our
Capital City and entertained and
amused in various ways. I found it
altogether to be an enjoyable and
instructive course.
LOYCE- FARR.
SWEETWATER
Smiles & Curies.
Miss Elmer Tankersley, , who is
teaching school here, spent the week
end at her home near Winfield.
Rev. W. A. Johnson spent Sunday
with his daughter, Mrs Belle Farr.
Mr. and Mrs. George Colvin and
Mrs. Nannie Harwell spent Satur
day afternoon with Mrs. Nannie
Hai’daaway.
Mrs. Frank Norris, who has been
visiting her mother, Mrs. Geo. Story,
returned Saturday to her home in
Washington, D. C. >
Mrs. Seab Jones and Mrs. Ger
trude McCorkle are on the sick list
this week, but wish for them a
speedy recovery.
Mr. C. P. Meadows was busy this
week making syrup.
Mrs. Nannie Hardaway, Mrs. J. E.
Reynolds and Miss Ruby Hardaway
made a trip to town Friday.
NEW MEAT MARKET ON
RAILROAD STREET.
Mr. Eulon Clary has opened up a
new meat market on Railroad street,
known as the City Market Co.
Mr. Clary is making a strong bid
for the patronage of the pec pie of
Thomson and the • ommumly by of
fering first class go j :1s at close
prices. He has a free delivery sys
tem and invites householders to use
his phone freely. Phone number iS
240, and prompt delivery is assured.
People of Thomson and commun
ity are cordially invited to visit Mr.
Clary’s new place and see for them
selves the choice things he has for
their tables.
MAD DOG KILLED.
A mad dog, apparentaly a fine
blooded hound, was killed on.Mr.
Ralph Smith’s porch Thursday morn
ing. It attacked some negro school
children but was beaten off before
harming anyone. It ran up on Mr.
Smith’s porch and was shot by Mr.
Henry Perry while trying to plunge
through the window. The town mar
shal was summoned and was soon on
the field of action and amid the ex
citement.
RETURNS FROM HOSPITAL.
Mr. Harold Birchmore returned
from the University Hospital in Au
gusta Tuesday, where he was carried
last week suffering from an injury
to his back caused by machinery in
The Columbia Sentinel plant earl >
last week. His friends are glad t *
know that the injury is not as serious*
as at first reported, and Mr. Birch
more is expected to be at his post
again soon.
PARENT-TEACHERS TO MEET.
The Parent-Teacher Association
will meet Tuesday afternoon, Octo
ber 23rd, at 3 o’clock in the school
auditorium. The program will con
sist of a health pageant given by the
children of the fifth grade. After
the program there will be a social
hour.
