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lO'' . CO v ' £*• the HcBuftte Progress .w C'* 1 ,UL. XXIV. 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. lies i.-c vt home 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. A li- get v unt* 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.