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THOMSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1923.
NUMBER 47.
BOTH HOUSES PASS
INCOME TAX BILL 4
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 15.—Both the
Senate and House of Representatives
passed the general tax act, which
increases state revenues about a mil
lion and a quarter dollars.
Governor Walker Thursday morn
ing issued a proclamation calling an
other extra session to be convened
in Atlanta on Friday morning, and to
consider the subjects of budget leg
islation, audits and control of the
state finances and the enforcement
of taxation laws. The Governor’s ac
tion means simply that the two ex
tra sessions will sit concurrently and
in effect amounts only to an amend
ment of his original call for an ex
tra session.
The Governor limits the activities
of this extra session to the consider
ation of taxation and free text books
for the common schools. In this call
it was argued that the legislature
was without power to consider either
a budget system or the creation of a
bureau of audits, notwithstanding
that enactments along this line are
considered by the Governor and oth
ers to be essential in tax reform.
GAS CONSUMED IN
M’DUFFIE IN 1922
According to the records in the
State Department of Agriculture,
352,837 gallons of gasoline were con
sumed in McDuffie county during
1922. This is the amount which was
inspected at tank stations by the
local oil inspector and on which the
state inspection tax of one-half cent
per gallon was collected. Of this
amount, approximately four-fifths
was turned into the state treasury,
the inspection work being done on a
piece work basis, and the inspectors
over the state only getting a small
part of the total amount paid for
their work by the oil companies.
In this respect, it is interesting to
note, says' the department, that
there was a difference of 8,369,838
gallons between the amount of gaso
line inspected, and the amount upon
which the state road tax of one cent
per gallon was paid. This is account
ed for by the fact that the inspec
tion work is done by a force of in
spectors, none of whom are on sal
ary basis, while the road tax is paid
by the oil companies to the comp
troller general’s department and the
Legislature has failed to provide any
machinery for checking payments.
Recently, as a result of the dis
crepancy noted above, the comp
troller general’s office has been
checking their records for 1922 item
by item with the oil inspection de
partment records. They have already
discovered one lot of gasoline of 1,-
178,105 gallons, imported by the
Hercules Powder Company, of Bruns
wick, on which the one-cent tax was
not paid. The company claims that
it is not due to pay this tax, inas
much as the gasoline was used as
a solvent in the manufacture of ex
plosives, and not as a motive power
for vehicles. The law, however,
makes no distinction such as this
and the comptroller general will in
sist upon its payment, it is said.
The necessity for continuing thi3
check between the two departments
is now much greater than before, in
asmuch as the state tax has been
raised to three cents per gallon. It
will be seen that, at this rate, the
eight million odd gallons on which
no tax was paid in 1922, would cause
a loss to the state of over $240,000.
Even at the one-cent rate the los3
was over $80,000.
NEW GROCERY STORE TO OPEN
MONDAY.
Attention is called to the adver
tisement of -the Trimble-Morris Gro
cery Co. in this issue of The Pro
gress. The firm announces that they
will open up their new grocery store
on Main street Monday. It will be
located in the Wilson building, form
erly occupied by Wall & Rivers.
The new firm is composed of
Messrs. Harold Trimble and Jesse
Morris, two well known young men
of high integrity. They are going to
make a strong bid for the patronage
of the people of Thomson and this
community. Read what they have
to say in their ad.
KNOX PUTS IN PLANING MILL.
Mr. P. S. Knox has added a plan
ing outfit to his saw mill in Thomson.
r'y Heretofoi’e he has been sawing tim
ber exclusively, but now i u posi
s* tion to turn out the finished lumber.
NEW FORMULA FOE
THE BOLL WEEVIL
Mr. C. G. Story, of Savannah, was
in Thomson this week getting ready
a spray which he has patented for
spraying his new formula for killing
boll weevjls. He expects to have the
sprayer finished this week.
The formula Mr. Story has pre
pared consists of tar and creosote in
liquid form, and is said to absolutely
protect cotton from boll weevil.
This is the first time that this for
mula has been prepared in a liquid
form, it is said. Million! of dollars
have been spent in trying to perfect
a solution of this mixture that could
be applied with a spray. Mr. Story
says he has been offered $250,000 for
a half interest in his formula, but
that he intends forming a stock com
pany and putting it on the market.
He will be ready to supply the mar
ket with the mixture by the coming
spring.
The spray which Mr. Story has
patented works on an ordinary plow
stock and can be used while plowing
the cotton, which makes it x - ather in
expensive to operate.
Mr. Story, by the way, is an old
McDuffie county boy, having been
reared in this county and lived here
up to several years ago. His friends
here will watch his venture with a
great deal of interest and wish him
much success.
HUNTING SEASON
OPENS NOV. 20TH
The hunting season for quail and
doves opens November 20th, next
Tuesday. Hunting licenses can be
secured from either Mr. C. P. Wat
son, game warden for McDuffie coun
ty, or Mr. Leonard Turner, at Thom
son Hardware Co.
P. S. Twitty, state game commis
sioner, is very desirous that the game
law be not violated, according to the
following telegram received by Mr.
Watson Tuesday:
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 12, 1923.
C. P. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
I urge you to put forth extra effort
to apprehend all persons hunting
quail and doves before November 20.
Instruct your deputies to look out
for hunters this week and prosecute
all violators. In all cases require
hunters to exhibit licenses. This de
partment will back you to the limit
if local conditions are such that you
need special state deputy to visit you,
wire me by Western Union immedi
ately and I will send him to your
county. I earnestly beg your hearty
cooperation.
PETTER S. TWITTY,
Commissioner.
DR. POWELL HERE NEXT
TUESDAY.
Dr. W. D. Powell, field representa
tive of the Foreign Mission Board,
will speak at the Baptist church next
Tuesday, November 20th, at 7:30 P.
M. Dr. Powell is a very forceful
speaker and has traveled extensive
ly. He will speak on “World Condi
tions,” and the public is invited. No
admission.
HAYES BUYS TWO BUILDINGS
ON RAILROAD STREET.
Mr. J. M. Hayes this week pur
chased two valuable pieces of prop
erty on Railroad street, being the
two buildings adjoining his store, one
occupied by the McDuffie Bank and
the other by Mr. Cleve Wall’s gro
cery store.
This property is a part of the Fo -
est Watson estate, and was purchas
ed from Mr. Eulond Clary. It is
said this property was bought by
Mr. Watson just twenty-four years
ago from Mr. Hayes, and now reveres
back to its former owner.
OPENS REST ROOM FOR LADIES
Mr. H. A. Price, manager of Thom
son Mercantile Motor Co., announces
that his company hag arranged a rest
room for ladies at their place on
Journal street.
The Woman’s Club having aban
doned the rest room on Main street,
Mr. Price decided to install one at
the Ford Station. The room is neat
and tastily arranged a:
less be a most accept
visitors to tidy up af
uusty ride.
It is understood *h>
invited to make th<’‘
there at all ti’”
!1 doubt-
lace for
'•ng and
WEEKLY DIGEST FROM
THE NATION’S CAPITAL
Washington, D. C., Nov. 15.
LEAKY FURNACES.
The United States Bureau of Mines
and the Smithsonian Institution have
been endeavoring to show the Amer
ican public that coal and fuel oil
used in heating is being wasted
shamelessly. Samuel S. Wyler, Asso
ciate in Mineral Technology of the
Smithsonian, estimates that the same
heating service could be secured
throughout the country with one-half
the fuel that is burned, and that there
would be a saving of $2,000,000 a day
if proper “stokerage” methods were
used.
The Government methods indicate
many of the common leaks of furnace
heat, and particular attention is di
rected to the “shaker,” hich not only
dumps quantities oof unburned coal
under the reckless assumption that
“ashes” are being gotten rid of, but
there are in addition many unscien
tific and hit-or-miss ways of building
chimneys, arranging the flues, and
the failure to make the house suffi
ciently “air-tight.”
Professor Wyler says that in most
houses about 25 per cent of the fuel
is used in raising the heat from sixty
to seventy per cent aboove ordinary
human requirements and a healthy
temperature.
But improper combustion is the
worst thief of all, and too much aiv
destroys the heat units and wastes
coal in smoke columns. Professor
Wyler doesn’t use the comparison
but he proved that most furnaces
should have a carburetor and a cho
ker. Perhaps it is this principle so
universal with automobiles and their
fuels that the inventors have worked
out in these coal-saving devices that
are advertised in the maazines. If
the Professor would only learn to
run a Ford or a Reo he would be
able to talk to most of us in a lan
guage less scientific, but easier to,
understand.
garding the enlisted strength of the
arVny an official report says: “The
small pay of the recruit and the re
markably high wages paid for labor
of all kinds throughout the United
States Have greatly discouraged en
listments, but since the close of the
i fiscal year another obstacle has aris
en equally serious. In the act making
appropriations for the War Depart
ment for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1924, the following appears:
‘That no part of the funds herein
appropriated shall be utilized for the
recruiting of enlistment . . . .
unless the applicant furnishes a birth
certificate or the affidavit of two dis
interested witnesses showing such
applicant for enlistment to be 21
years of age.’ For many of the men
who seek to join the army it is very
difficult, if not impossible to furnish
the required evidence of their age,
and they are prone to make no effort
to obtain it. Others, plainly over 21,
resent the imputation that their word
is not good nad angrily give up the
idea of enlistment.”
GRAIN MOVEMENTS UNDER
WAY.
Russia is reported to have ship
ped about 5,000,000 bushels of grain,
chiefly wheat and rye, between Au
gust 1 and October 10. More than
3,000,000 bushels of Russian grain
have already been exported to Ger
many.
A “COLD-BLOODED” PROPOSI
TION.
Although under $10,000 bond on
appeal from a five year prison sent
ence and a fine of $1,000, T. E. Mc
Lendon of Germantown, Tenn., is
still endeavoring through the mails
to carry on his alleged business of
selling “cold-blooded” hunting dogs,
according to a third extension of a
fraud order issued against him by
Postmaster General New. The
scheme consists of selling so-called
“cold-blooded’ h. - ting dogs or un
registered or non-pedigreed dogs on
representations calculated to induce
purchasers to believe that the dogs
were “blooded” stock bred from reg
istered dogs and were either them
selves registered or sulcct to regis
tration in the recognized registration
journals
GEORGIA MARKETS
ARE BROADENED
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 15.—Improve
ments in transportation and in stor
age facilities make it quite feasibl
for producers of poultry and dair;
products in Georgia and other South
ern States to enter markets a thou
sand miles away, according to agri
cultural experts of the Atlanta, Bir
mingham and Atlantic railway wh
have aided farmers in Georgia am
Alabama in handling their produce
to Atlanta and to markets north anu
east.
Journeys that consumed days whe i
Atlanta was Martharsville ere now
reduced to hours and minutes. A
crate of eggs or a firkin of butter,
the railroad experts show, can be
shipped from here to New York in
less time than formerly from Macon
to Savannah. The opportunities thus
opened, it is pointed out, are of im
mense import to the State’s agricul
tural interests.
South Georgia counties have real
ized this truth and are making it
the foundation of new freedom and
unprecedented prosperity. It is
shown that more and more farmers
are adopting the “hog-cow-hen” pro
gram, with its assurance of a cash
income the year round.
SWEETWATER
\ Smiles & Curies.
AMERICAN TRADE WITH THE
BRITISH COLONIES.
Trade of the United States with
the British colonies, protectorates
and dependencies, which have recen ' J
ly been in conference in London, has
more than doubled since the begin
ning of the war. The total trade
with the 26 British colonies, protec
torates, etc., named in the official re
cords of our foreign commerce, was
in the fiscal year 1923, $1,754,000,000
as against $814,000,000 in 1913.
CHILDREN ON FARMS.
There are 7,700,000 children under
ten years of age on the farm homes
of the United States, according i.>
a statement of the Secretary of th j
Interior.
COTTON ACREAGE.
The total area planted to cotton this
season to date in the United States,
India and Egypt is 57,766,000 acres
compared with 57,038,000 acres last
year. The three countries produced
about 80 per cent of the total world
production for 1922-23.
Farmers around here are very busy
harvesting their erops.
Miss Nellie Pearl Wheeler spent
a few days last week with Miss An
nie Lee Langham.
Mrs. W. T. Farr and Mrs. Henry
Ivey were the guests of Mrs. Joe Farr
Tuesday.
Mr. Ed Reynolds and family moved
last week to their new home near
Dearing.
Mr. Clinton Waller and family will
move near Thomson.
Mr. Dee Cason and family will
move near Washington.
We regret to lose our old neigh
bors, but wish them good luck In
their new homes.
Little Thelma Meadows is still un
der the treatment of a mad stone.
Hope she will soon be well again.
Mr. and Mrs. Olin Hinton visited
relatives near Mesena Sunday.
IDLE LANDS TO
BE DISCUSSED
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 16.—Develop*
ment of idle landd 1 in the South will
be the object of a conference on fore*-
try and reclamation which is sehed-
uled to be held in New Orleans.
The purpose of the conference, a*
stated in detail, will be to devise
ways and means for suitable utiliza
tion of the lands of the United State*
and especially in the South; to elim
inate speculation and exploitation
from land settlement; to safeguard
settlers seeking homes on lands idle
at present; to increase the number
of self-supporting farm homes; to
secure effective cooperation in con
structive development of the coun
try’s idle lands and to secure expan
sion of the Federal reclamation pol
icy into national scope instead of 1
sectional as is the case at present,
it is claimed.
As pointed out here, there are vast
areas of cut-over, swamp and over
flowed lands in the South lying idlo
and serving no useful purpose. Thera
are vast areas of landl which have
been abandoned to grass, weeds and
second-growth timber, which land*
were formerly cultivated fields. It
is essential to the progress and pros*
perity of the South, forestry men
and agriculturalists both claim, that
these lands be utilized in some suit
able manner as producers of revenue
and home-amaking.
MESENA NEWS
By Topsy.
RESUME CAVIAR SHIPMENTS.
Once again caviar, exports of which
in 1914 were valued at $2,000,000,- is
resuming a place in foreign trade. It
is figured that the 1923 export of
caviar from Russia will reach at
least 6,000 pounds, valued at a mil
lion dollars.
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GOVERNMENT’S “BEST
SELLERS.”
The Department of the Interior
has received $57,963.12 from the sale
of 586,283 publications issued by it
during the past fiscal year. The
largest receipts from publications
came from the sale of Patent Office
publications, while the next largest
was from publications issued by the
Lurtau of Education.
COOPERATIVE FARM MARKET
ING.
Approximately 10,000 farmer co
operative organizations with a mem
bership of more than 1,000,000 farm
ers are now actively operating in
the United States, according to the
Department of Agriculture. As a
result of the Department’s study of
cooperative principles and practices
both in the United States and abroad,
the principles of successful coopera
tion are now well understood, and
food producers all over the country
are applying them to their business.
NATION’S GASOLINE STOCKS.
Stocks of gasoline on hand at re
fineries throughout the country Oc
tober 1 amounted to 972,694,832 gal
lons, constituting 40 days supply, ac
cording to statistics compiled by the
Bureau of Mines. The figures rep
resent a decrease of 81,000,000 gal
lons from the first of the month, at
which time forty-seven days supplv
was on hand. Gasoline production
in September was 623,732,834 gal
lons, a decrease of 25,000,000 gallons
from the previous month’s produc
tion, but an increase of approximate
ly 87,000,000 gallons over Septem
ber, 1922.
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ARMY UNABI E TO FILL RANK'S.
The effect of the enforced reduc
tion in the commi:"’ mf ’ strength of
the army has been iar-reaching. Re-
RADIO AND TELEGRAPH MAR
KET NEWS.
Extension of the Federal market
news service by telegraph and radio
during the year now makes it possi
ble for farmers anywhere to keep in
daily touch - with general crop and
market conditions. More than 80
radio broadcasting stations dispatch
the news over the continent, and by
means of a leased telegraph wire
system that stretches across the coun
try from Boston to San Francisco,
into the Southwest and along the At
lantic Seaboard, upon which market
flashes are dispatched 12 hours
daily from and to the leading market
centers for subsequent distribution
among farmers and other agricultur
al interests. i
MORE HOMESTEAD LANDS.
Approximately 15,500 acres of
public lands in the States of Wyom
ing, Colorado, and Arizona have been
thrown open for homesteading by the
General Land Office at the Depart
ment of the Interior.
IDAHO INVENTORIED.
Idaho is called the Gem of the
Moutains. It contains 83,354 square
miles. It has 4,500,60° -'wes of land
in intensi.v «:u! ' ’’ ”
000,000 acres a-* tuuhn
McDUFFIE PROGRESS AND
SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR
BOTH FOR $1.50.
The McDuffie Progress has made
arrangements with The Southern
Cultivator, of Atlanta, whereby wo
can send both The Proogress and
Cultivator for $1.60 per year, the
regular price of The Progress.
Both new subscribers and renew
als are entitled to this offer.
is especially famous for its potatoes,
sugar-beets, alfalfa, corn, wheat,
Italian prunes, apples, beans, oats,
and barley. Idaho is the third sheep
and wool producing State in the Un
ited States. Idaho produces $17,-
000,000 mineral values in 1922. It’s
abundant supply of water power
available for electrical development,
together witth its raw materials, af
fords great opportunities for manu
facturing. j &
INCREASING EXPORTS OF
AMERICAN SHOES.
The United States exported 5,609,-
428 pairs of leather boots and shoes
during the fiscal nine montths of
1923. Cuba was the principal mar
ket, taking 3,203,389 pairs in the 1923
period compared with 1,587,308 pairs
for the fiscal nine months of 1922.
By Topsy.
The oyster supper given* at tha
home of Mr. P. E. Ogletree last Fri
day night was quite a success. The
net proceeds of the sales will go to
the fund being raised to paint the
school house.
Mr. Fred Hall and family, long
time residents of Mesena, have mov
ed near Union church. We are sorry
to lose these good people from OUf
community, but wish them mighty
well in their new home.
Mr. Joe DeMedicis, of Thomson,
was a visitor here Sunday.
Mr. Tom Avrett and family ,of
Camak, were the Sunday guests of
his brother, Mr. J. V. Avrett.
The devotional meeting of the
League held at the Methodist church
Sunday night, was well attended#
The young people had put on a good
program; a special feature being the
splendid music rendered by little
Miss Aline McCarthey.
Messrs. T. S. and J. T. Farr and
families motored to Augusta Mon
day.
Rev. and Mrs. Odum Clarke visit
ed Mr. B. M. C. Bell and family at
Fountain Tuesday.
Rev. J. M. Bruce, superintendent of
Warren county schools, visited the
school here Wednesday. He found
our school progressing nicely.
Appreciate your welcome very
much, Juanita. We are glad to be
numbered in the illustrious line up
of Progress correspondents.
SALEM NEWS.
By Cutie.
NATIONAL BANKS ARE
HEALTHY.
Returns from the national bank
call of September 14th show that in
the past year deposits increased
$500,000,000 and total resources
$750,000,000. These figures give evi
dence of the increasing earnings of
business and industry and strength
ening of the nation’s financial struc
ture.
PHILIPPINE TRADE DECLINES.
The trade of the Philippine Is
lands in September showed a contin
ued decline in both expoi s and im
ports. ' A favorable balance, which
has characterized Philippine trade
since February, has been maintained.
MEXICAN FINANCIAL CONDI
TIONS. •
Official reports from Mexico City
show that recognition ty the United
StaYes has not made any marked
: difference in the economic situation.
Mrs. J. J. Mathews left Monday
for Savannah, on account of the 111*
ness of her daughter, Mrs. W. f.
Norris.
Mrs. Gertrude McCorkle, Nina and
Furman McCorkle were the guest*
of Mrs. J. O. May Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Mathews and
Julia spent Wednesday in Augusta.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Ivey, of
Tignall, spent the week-end with
Mrs. G. W. May.
Mr. and Mrs. R. T. May and chil
dren were the guests of her mother,
Mrs. Heath, near Augusta, Monday.
Mr. E. L. Mathews spent a short
while in Thomson Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. O. May Mrs. G.
W. May and Mrs. Gertrude McCorkl®
motored to Augusta Thursday.
We hope to see Brown Eyes back
in the paper again this week, for w*
sure do miss her when she is absent.
PLAY WRENS FRIDAY.
The Thomson High School Foot
ball team went down to Wrens today
(Friday) to play the Wrens team.
The boys are getting in some good
practice now and are fast coming to
the front.
The Progress does all kinds ot Job
printing, and prices are way below
others.