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The Camilla Enterprise. VOLUME XXIV. COX DELIVERS MAIDEN SPEECH NEW CONGRESSMAN FROM THE SECOND DISTRICT MAKES GOOD IMPRESSION. Congressman E. E. Cox from the Second congressional district of Geor¬ gia made his maiden speech in the national house of representatives on Wednesday, December 16th, when that body was in committee of the whole house for consideration of the revenue bill. The provision of the bill under discussion was the inheritance tax clause, the main purpose of which is to equalize inheritance taxes in all states of the union by providing that the government will refund inheri¬ tance taxes to the state up to the amount of the state tax; in states where no inheritance tax is levied the whole amount of the feder¬ al levy will go into the nat¬ ional treasury and the treasury and the state will not participate at all. Some of the members of con¬ gress have charged that this provis¬ ion is intended to force the states to levy a uniform inheritance tax and the contention is made that the pro¬ vision is in conflict with the Constitu¬ tion of the United States and is an infringement upon local state govern¬ ment. It was this feature of the bill which Congressman Cox discussed and he confined himself to the legal phases of the question. From private sourc¬ es The Enterprise learns that Judge Cox has made a very favorable im¬ pression upon the members of the congress and that his courtesy, tact and ability are making friends rapidly for him. And friends in congress are as necessary to success as in any oth¬ er career. Judge Cox’s first speech is reprint¬ ed below as taken from the Congress¬ ional Record of December 16th. "Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I apologize to the committee for taking the floor in de¬ bate so soon after having become a Member of this body, but there is an important question involved in this provision of the bill under discussion which has not been developed in de¬ bate to my satisfaction. I am sure that there is nothing that I might say that would likely influence the Ways and Means Committee to recede from the position which it has taken, be¬ cause this committee must have sat¬ isfied itself as to the constitution¬ ality of all the provisions of the bill before offering it to the House with their unanimous indorsement. But I take this opportunity, by way of sug¬ gestion, to make a few observations for the consideration of the commit¬ tee before this objectionable clause has been adopted as a part of the bill. "This provision of the bill allowing a credit to an estate to the extent of SO per cent of the tax imposed by the Federal Government, provided the es¬ tate has paid a State inheritance tax equivalent to this sum is clearly to my mind a violation of that provision of the Constitution defining- the pow¬ ers of Congress to lay and collect a tax which shall be uniform. The power to lay a tax presupposes the power to collect it, but under this bill, while the tax is laid upon all alike, it is not within the power of the General Government to collect it from all alike. To illustrate, in a State levying a tax equal to 80 per cent of the levy made under this bill the reve¬ nue derived by the Federal Govern¬ ment will be 20 per cent of the levy made, whereas as to a State such as Florida, which levies no inheritance tax, the revenue derived by the Fed¬ eral Government will be 100 per cent of the levy made, and so on as to all of the States of the Union. "The Congress takes cognizance of the public laws of States, and if it adopts this bill it will do so with full knowledge of the fact that it will be lacking in uniformity in its opera¬ tion upon estates of different States which fall within the provision of the bill. "Certain enlightened gentlemen ad¬ vocating the passage of the bill upon the floor have admitted that it was not for the purpose of raising reve¬ nue, that the General Government could well afford to get along without the tax; that the almost unanimous sentiment of the country demand the retirement of the Federal Government from this field of taxation, and that it is its purpose to retire, but not un¬ til, through the operation of the act (Continued on last page) Sunday Afternoon Raid Nets 6 Gallons Doug Crosby, a young white man, and Tom Barney, a negro, were ar¬ rested last Sunday afternoon by Of¬ ficers Mart Poore, Jack Stratford and R. L. Hudson on the charge of violat¬ ing the prohibition law. Six gallons of liquor, a ten-gallon keg and several empty bottles were found in a fence corner some distance from the spot where the men were arrested, but the officers think they have evidence to prove the liquor belonged to the men arrested. The arrest was made in the Ninth district. Both men made bond for their appearance at the next term of the City Court of Camilla. TRAINING SCHOOL FAIR BIG SUCCESS COLORED STUDENTS MITCHELL COUNTY TRAINING SCHOOL MAKE FINE SHOWING. The second annual Community Fair staged by the Mitchell County Train¬ ing School, (colored) at Pelham on Thursday and Friday of last week was a big success in every way. In staging the fair the school had the co-operation of the citizens of the community, both white and colored, as well as county leaders in school, home economic and agricultural in¬ struction. The fair reflected the ad¬ mirable progress that has already been made and gave promise of much greater and more beneficial results phich may be expected in the future. Prof. Oliver W. Akers, Principal of the school, gives high praise and much credit for the success of the fair to the splendid co-operation he has received from the various county agencies and the people of Pelham. He expresses doubt that there is an¬ other community in Georgia or in the South where such a varied and inter¬ esting exhibit could have been collect¬ ed, and especially where the most at¬ tractive and useful articles exhibited were made by the colored school pu¬ pils. In mentioning the advantages surrounding the school which has helped to make the work a success, Prof. Akers recites: “A beautiful community spirit; a splendid colored board of trustees to smile with, the chairman of which is president of the School Fair; a most intelligent and whole-hearted Board of Education which lends help to this cause re¬ gardless of cost; a group of honest, unselfish and impartial business men; co-operation of splendid white schools and their officials, and seemingly spe¬ cial attention and help coming from the agricultural department of the state. Now, if the school fails, whose fault is it? This school feels indebt¬ ed to the above organizations of friends for our progress and asks fur¬ ther your prayers for the advance¬ ment of industrial work.” The interesting display of the fair filled six class-rooms and a large ex¬ hibit hall in the school building and these reflected the skill and talent of both pupils and teachers. Among those who took part on the program were: Dr. A. G. Richardson, University of Georgia, Athens, who spoke on Dis¬ eases of Animals and Prevention. Prof. T. H. Wilkinson, Principal Public School, Pelham. Prof. Farmer, Agricultural Instruc¬ tor, Pelham. Prof. T. H. Beauford, Agricultural Instructor, Albany. President C. G. Wiley, Georgia State Industrial College, Savannah. Prof. Alva Tabor, Supervisor of Agricultural Education, Savannah. Superintendent J. R. Sloan, Camilla. Dr. C. O. Rainey, County Health Commissioner, Camilla. Miss Ella Foy, County Home Dem¬ onstration Agent, Camilla. Prof. H. B. Dixon, Cairo. Rev. Dummnity, Pelham. Prof. Walden, Baconton. Miss F. M. Cochran, Jean Super¬ visor of Mitchell County, Pelham. Prizes to the amount of $50.00 were awarded. Fast Basket Ball Game At Sale City A fast basket ball game will be played at Sale City Saturday night, December 26th, between the Sale City team and the Southern Sports Team from Macon. This is expected to be one of the most interesting games that has been played in this section during the season and a large attendance is expected. CAMILLA, GA., FRIDAY. DECEMBER 25, 1925. (gmittupa To our Readers and Friends we extend many Good Wiskes tkis Ckristmas Season. May Happiness and Prosperity be yours eack day ol tke coming year. Tke Camilla Enterprise NEW MANAGEMENT FOR FORD AGENCY CONTROLLING INTEREST SOLD THIS WEEK TO MR. W. J. HALEY OF CUTHBERT, An important business transaction of this week was the sale by J. D. Led¬ better and B. C. Gardner of controll¬ ing interest in the Georgia Motor Company, local Ford agency, to W. J. Haley, of Cuthbert. The transaction was closed Monday and Mr. Haley will take over the management of the business on the first of January, ac¬ cording to announcement made after the deal was closed. In the transac¬ tion Mr. Gardner disposed of all of his stock in the Georgia Motor Com¬ pany, and Mr. Ledbetter sold enough of his stock to give Mr. Haley sixty per cent of the stock and actual con¬ trol of the business. The considera¬ tion was in the neighborhood of $20, 000.00, it is understood. Mr. W. J. Haley is a successful Ford dealer and for some time has managed the agency at Cuthbert. He is a brother of J. T. and W. B. Haley, of Albany, who operate the Ford agency at that place and are inter¬ ested in other agencies in this section. It is announced that Mr. W. J. Haley will move his family to Camilla at an early date and make his resi¬ dence here, taking charge of the bus¬ iness here and giving it his personal attention. Mr. J. D. Ledbetter, who has managed the business in the past, will continue with the company but his duties will be on the outside in or¬ ganizing and conducting the sales campaigns. Improvements are already being considered, we understand, which will greatly enlarge the business and pro¬ vide better service for its growing list of customers. Additional garage space for the storing and repairing of cars is one of the improvements being considered and negotiations are now being carried on for adjacent prop¬ erty suitable for this purpose. The Georgia Motor Company is one of the oldest Ford agencies in this part of the state and from its organi¬ zation the business has been a profit¬ able one. Recently Mr. J. D. Led¬ better, the manager of the business, has found that in the interest of his health it would be necessary for him to shift a part of the duties involved in the management of the business to someone else, and the negotiations with Mr. Haley was the result of this decision. Mr. Ledbetter is an exper eir.ced Ford man and is very popular with the trade and the shift in man¬ agement which will place him on the outside in closer contact with the cus¬ tomers of the company is regarded as a good business move as well as giving him an opportunity to recup¬ erate from the inroads made upon his health by the close confinement of the office. Mr. Ralph Middleton, of Miami, Fla. came up last week to spend the holi¬ day season visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Middleton. TYSON & DAVIS MILL OPERATING NEW LUMBER CONCERN BEGINS OPERATION ON EHRLICH PLANTATION. The new saw mill of Tyson & Davis, which has been erected on the old Ehr¬ lich plantation in Southwest Mitchell, is now operating to full capacity and the first carload shipments of lumber from the nfew plant were made from Camilla the first of the week. The mill has a capacity of about 15,000 feet of lumber daily and employs twenty to twenty-five hands regular¬ ly. The company is cutting some fine timber now and the market for this class of lumber is very satisfactory, prices ranging from $30.00 to $75.00 per thousand, f. o. b. shipping point. Tyson & Davis employ several trucks to haul the lumber to Camilla for shipment. The firm of Tyson & Davis is a new partnership in this county composed of Mr. T. G. Tyson, the well-known saw mill and lumber man, and Mr. J. B. Davis of the firm of J. B. Davis & Co., naval stores operators. The partnership was organized a short time ago when Mr. Tyson severed his connection with the large company at Cross City, Fla. The Enterprise learns that the firm of Tyson & Davis owns or holds options on several large tracts of fine pine timber in South Georgia which they expect to cut in the next few years. The body of tim¬ ber they are cutting now contains something like 4,000,000 feet. Both Mr. Tyson and Mr. Davis are highly rated in business circles and have ample financial resources to car¬ ry through the rather extensive pro¬ ject they have undertaken together. We are glad to have a firm of this character set up business in Mitchell county and wish them success in the venture. Dr. Bascomb Anthony Preaches Sunday Night Rev. Bascomb, D. D., the new pre¬ siding elder of the Thomasville Dis¬ trict, who succeeds Rev. O. B. Ches¬ ter, will visit the Methodist church here Sunday for the first time in his official capacity, and will preach Sun¬ day evening at 7 o’clock. Dr. An¬ thony is one of the most prominent figures and well beloved ministers of the South Georgia Conference. Ev¬ erybody is given cordial invitation to come and hear him preach. Woodmen of World to Have Oyster Supper Notices are being mailed out to members of the local camp Woodmen of the World by Clerk J. T. Kelley, that an oyster supper is to be given at the local lodge rooms on Tuesday night, December 29th, and all mem¬ bers of this camp are invited to at¬ tend, provided they notify Mr. Kelley of their intention to be present by Saturday night, December 26th. Banks To Be Closed Friday and Saturday Both of the Camilla banks will be closed from Thursday evening till Monday morning. Friday is Christ¬ mas Day and a legal holiday here and Governor Walker has designated Sat¬ urday as a legal holiday, also, and it is understood that practically all of the banks in the state will be closed Friday and Saturday. Customers of the banks and local business men who will need extra change during the holiday period are expected to supply their wants on Thursday. FARM LANDS ARE CHANGING HANDS SEVERAL TRANSACTIONS ARE REPORTED IN VICINITY OF CAMILLA. Although no land boom has struck Mitchell county as yet, there is con¬ siderable activity in farm lands and the several transactions that have been recorded in the vicinity of Ca¬ milla lately have been at fair prices. The demand seems to be mostly for small farms and one of the obstacles to any Considerable amount of trad¬ ing in lands is due to the fact that most of the farms are too large for the man of small means to finance. Among the important transactions recently concluded in this section of the county was the sale of a 625 acre farm four and one-half miles north¬ east of Camilla by J. L. & E. W. Stripling to T. G. Brooks, of Camilla. The consideration was given as $17,- 500. This place is kanwn as the E. W. Stripling place and has been ope¬ rated by him for a number of years. The greater part of the place is un¬ der cultivation and it is regarded as one of the best plantations in that section of the county. Mr. Brooks has already taken charge of the place and getting things in shape to ope¬ rate it next year. He expects to run about twelve plows on the place. Since the sale of the above place E. W. Stripling is reported to have purchased 250 acres of the Townsend place, west of Camilla, for which he paid approximately $5,000. He pur¬ chased 100 acres from J. W. Middle ton and 150 acres from the Townsend heirs. These transactions have not been recorded in the county clerk’s office and the exact details of the transaction are not known. Two important land sales were made this week by Mrs. Ida S. Bush, of Camilla. Mrs. Bush sold A. R. Bolton, of Pebble City, 227 acres of land at Pebble City for $45.00 per acre. The consideration for the land and certain personal property includ¬ ed in the deal was $11,332.20. At the same time and on the same terms Mrs. Bush sold 241 acres of land to M. L. Wood, of Pebble City, this be¬ ing the place now occupied by Mr. Wood. The land in this transaction was valued at $45.00 per acre, the con¬ sideration for the land and personal property included in the deal being $11,625.05. This Pebble City proper¬ ty is considered among the best farm property to be found in the county and the price and terms at which this land was sold is considered very at¬ tractive from the purchaser’s stand¬ point. Mrs. Bush owns a considera¬ ble amount of farm land in this coun¬ ty and she has been selling off her farms on attractive terms to respon¬ sible white farmers. During the past year she has sold approximately 1,000 acres of land under this plan. A small land deal near Flint is worthy of note as indicating the val¬ ue of land on the Dixie Highway. J. E. Collins recently sold ten acres of land with a small house on the south¬ east corner of the intersection of the Flint and Newton public road with the Dixie Highway to M. O. Davis, of Flint. The consideration for the tract was $1,250.00 or $125.00 per acre. This is an unusually attractive site for a home and we understand that Mr. Davis expects to make his residence on this place and improve it. Several other deals of more or less importance are talked on the streets but have not as yet reached the stage of transfer of papers. The higher priced lands are slow to move, most of the trading being in the medium price class where there is an oppor¬ tunity to realize on prospective ad¬ vances in land values and the finan¬ cing can be more easily arranged. NUMBER 37. FARM RALLY HERE ON JANUARY I4TH WILL BE ONE OF A SERIES OF 160 MEETINGS TO BE HELD THROUGHOUT STATE. The itinerary of a series of farm meetings to be held in every county in the state during the week of Jan¬ uary 11-16 has been announced by the State College of Agriculture at Athens. The meeting for Mitchell county is scheduled to be held at Ca¬ milla on Thursday, January 14th. Ac¬ cording to the program arranged, a general meeting to which every far¬ mer in the county is invited will be held at the court house at 10 o’clock in the morning. At this meeting sev¬ eral speakers from the State College of Agriculture will be heard, as well as any local citizens who may have something to say. In the afternoon another meeting will be held which will be attended by the County Agent, the members of the Mitchell County Advisory Agricultural Committee, the Vocational Agricultural instructors and others who will join in a round table conference with the representa¬ tives of the State College for the pur¬ pose of discussing the county exten¬ sion program. The meeting to be held in Camilla is one of a series of 160 meetings which are to be held in one of the most extensive farm rally programs ever inaugurated by the State College of Agriculture. Twenty-two groups of speakers have been appointed and are being trained especially for the task assigned them. They will hold two meetings daily during Farmers’ Week, with the co-operation Of farm extension agents throughout the state. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss special problems confronting the farmers of each particular sec¬ tion of Georgia, and to assist them in formulating a well-balanced farm pro¬ gram for 1926 and succeeding years. The extension work in this county, as carried on in the past, has been based upon a definite program or goal of attainment. Some features of this program have been attained and County Agent O, L. Johnson and the members of the County Agricultural Advisory Committee are expected to get together prior to the date of the farm rally to be held here and formu¬ late a revised program which will be submitted at the meeting for discus¬ sion and approval by the farmers of the county. That much good has resulted from the extension work in this county in the past no one doubts and a big fac¬ tor in the success of the work has been the time and attention given it by the members of the Advisory Agri¬ cultural Committee and the co-opera¬ tion of leading farmers throughout the county. The diversified agricul¬ tural program which has worked so satisfactorily in this section during the past few years is undoubtedly re¬ sponsible in a large degree for the favorable conditions prevailing among the farmers of Southwest Georgia as contrasted with the failures that have occurred in other sections. But just now the faith of the farmers in this program is being put to its severest test and it is expected that the temp¬ tation to enlarge the cotton acreage next year will cause many good men to forget the lessons learned in 1922 and 1923. The principal object of these meetings to be held throughout the state is to try to prevent the stampeding of our farmers to any one crop. The meeting here January 14th will be an important occasion for the far¬ mers of Mitchell county and a large attendance is expected. The dates of the meetings to be held in this section follow: Group Twenty. Monday, Jan. 11—Donalsonville. Tuesday, Jan. 12—Bainbridge. Wednesday, Jan. 13—Cairo. Thursday, Jan. 14—Camilla. Friday, Jan. 15—Moultrie. Saturday, Jan. 16—Sylvester. On Friday afternoon, January 16th, Group Nineteen will hold a meeting in Newton, Baker county. Camilla Boy Returns From Business Trip Mr. Dallas Cross is at home for the holidays, having just returned from a business trip through California, Wahington and other Western states. Mr. Cross holds a responsible posi¬ tion position with the Callaway Mills, of LaGrange, Georgia.