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GEORGIA NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS,
With the exception of cotton, Geor
&la crops are in fine condition, accords
ing to Commissioner Thomas . Hud
son of the state department of agri
culture, who has returned from an
extended visit through the middle and
southern sections of the state. Com-
Issioner Hudson states nat the
ition of the oat crop is excep
ally good. Corn is also growing
. The cotton crop, however, will
short and late, according to the
mmissioner, |
Patents issued Georgians: J. E.
rman, Atlsnta, ' optometer; T. J.
arper, deceased), Atlanta, fireplace;
H. E. Kirby, Marijetta, chain clasp; J.
Regenstein, Atlant\a, one-plece folding
suitcase and box.
Benjamin J, Leywis has been ap
pointed postmaste; a! Eldora, Bryan
county, vice Z. Leywis, resigned.
A company compposed of the prom
fnent farmers of {the Lincolnton sec
tion of the countly, has been formed!
for the purpose of erecting an oil mill
at Pansy. ThisJis in keeping with
other developmests that are going on
in Lincoln coujty.
The Bibb, tounty board of educa
tion ‘)Aead.ml{ by President T. D. Tin
sle)y, appeared before the county com
mfissioners and asked for an appropri
}l m of SBO,OOO for the running expens
es of another scholastic year. This
is a larger amount than has ever
been asked for the schools of Bibb.
The increase in attendance has made
it necessary to add a number of
teachers and a number of new school
buildings have been erected.
R. H. Burton, who is serving a sen
tence of twelve years in the peniten
tiary for killing his nineteen-year-old
son, Jesse Burten, in Columbus in
1903, was pardoned by Governor
Smith. Burton was convicted of man
slaughter and has served five years
of his sentence. The prison commis
sion declined to recommend a pardon,
but the governor took a different view
of the case,
The state court of appeals decided
that a municipality may prescribe
strinzent regulations for the sale of
near-beer, but cannct prescribe such
regulations as shall be prohibitory.
Two d=cisions were handed down,
against the city of Waycross and
against the city of Thomasville. It
was decided that the Waycross ordi
nance governing the sale of near-beer
is invalid because the regulations pre
scribed are so stringent that no one
could possibly comply with them,
amounting to the prohibition of the
sale of near-beer.
By organizing the Georgia State
Game Protective association and by
agreeing on a game bill to be present
ed to the next session of the legisla
ture, the sportsmen of Georgia, as
sembled some forty or fifty strong in
Atlanta made the first concerted
move toward game protection in Geor
gia. Charles L. Davis, of Warm
Springs, was clected the president of
the association and it was left to him
to appoint the secretary and the mem
bers of the executive committee, of
which there are to be two from the
state at larze and one from each of
the eleven coneressional districts. The
meeting was called to order by Mr.
Davis and Henry A. Tarver of Dough
erty county, and was selected tempo
rary chairman and Marshall Andrews
of Muscogee county as temporary sec
retary. Mr. Davis then addressed the
meeting, explaining what had been
done and what was yet to be done to
secure game protection in Georgia.
He outlined the provisions of the
proposed law, chief of which are the
prohibition of the sale of game, pro
hibtion of the hunting on the land of
others without written permission
and a system of licenses for shooting
which shall provide enough money to
make the game commissioner’s office
self-supporting. After the election of
officers and the transaction of other
business, the meeting took up the pro
posed game law and discussed it fully.
The passagze of this law will be urg
ed upon the next legislature by the
new Game Protective association.
In reply to letters sent the mem
bers of the Atlanta chamber of com:
merce asking for suggestions, Attor
ney Charles J. Haden offers the sug
gestion that the chamber not only ad
vertise Atlanta to the world, but take
steps to set forth the advantages of
the rest of the state. Mr. Hade» t~"o3
the position that since Atlanta must
draw from the rest of the state «<-°
must aid in bringing money to it. He
suggests some method of publicity
which would bring the resources of
the state to the attention of outside
ers. He tells how this has been done
in Texas and the southwest, where ir
rigation is necessary to bring the land
into productiveness. In south and
southwest Georgia, he says, lands are
lying idle or are not producing to
their capacity because outside capital
does not lknow about them. Those
lands have plenty of rainfall, and pro
duce everything that those out west
do.
(GGovernor Smith received a letter
detailing an unusual instance of he
roism. During the recent jtornado
which swept portions of the South,
Ada Price, 15 years old, living near
Bowden, (}a.‘ found her mother dead
under the rains of her home and her
father alive but pinned beneath
wreckage. With an axe the girl work
ed till her strength seemed spent, only
to uncover a large rock too heavy
for her to lift and which held her fa
ther’s arm immovable. The father
ordered’ the girl to chop his arm as
the only hop saving his life. She
refused torn hand€™ con
tinue g at the rock un
berated. The let
th asks for 'direc
tpk for Q'Q'f,ne‘
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Hart Says Tax System of
gnmla is Behind the Times,
- Atlanta, Ga.~“Little more than
passing around the hat for contdibu
tions,” is the way Attcrney General
John C, Hart characterizes the Georgia
tax laws in his annual report just out,
Georgia's taxing system and meth
ods, he points out, are mcre than a
century old and he thinks it about
time to begin the work of bringing
them up to date,
With a legal requirement that frop
erty everywhere in the state shall be
returned at its market value, tax re
ceivers accept 1t at anywhere from 25
to 65 per cent—sometimes less and
seldom more—according to their way
of looking at it,
“We have recently made some prog
ress in amending our tax laws,” Judge
Hart says, “but a study of them will
dcmonstrate very conclusively they
are inadequate to present times and
conditions,
“The machinery and method of col
lection of taxes today in Georgia are
over & hundred years old. The returns
are practically voluntary and amount
to but little more than passing around
the hat fer centributions, -
“There should be established iln
Georgia's state board of equalizers
and in each county a board of asses
sors, to the end that taxes are equita
bly imposed and collected.
“Georgia's taxable values amount to
seven hundred and five millions, as re
turned by the tax payers, yet it will
scarcely be doubted if all the prop
erty in the state was returned at its
market value the volume of property
would be doubled.
“If every property owner in Georgia
measured up to the duty required of
him by the law in making his return
for taxation, the treasury would be
relieved of its embarrassment and
Georgia would meet her appropria
tions promptly.
“The administration of government
depends solely on taxation. The aver
age man looks upon taxes as a bur
den for which he receives nothing in
return and, therefore, feels at liberty
to resort to any and every means to
avoid this burden. As a matter of
fact he gets more by way of dividends
for his contribution to the support.of
government than to any, even his
most favored financial ventures. He
must look to the government to pro
tect him in the enjoyment of life, lib
erty and provertr. and but for the
taxes annually contributed by means
of which the government is sustained,
anarchy and chacs would reign.
“It is essential to the stability of
government and the nublic safety,
peace and tranquility that the power
to tax be preserved and machinery
should be provided to the end that
each piece of property shall contribute
to the support of the government de
signed for its protection, proportion
ately to its value.
“There are thousands of men in
Georgla who return their property as
the law reguires it—at its value—and
there are thousands who do not re
turn it at half its value, and thous
ands. no doubt, who do not return it
at all, and under such state of facts,
the result is the burdens of the dis
honest man are borne by the honest.
This ought not to be, and, as stated,
may be remedied very largely by the
creation of county assessors and a
state board of equalizers.”
“Legislation of this class has been
frequently recommended and now and
then considered by the legislature, but
no definite results have yet been
reached.
“It is possible that the gradually in
creasing embarrassment of the state.
treasury may soon stimulate legisla
tive action, as a result of the unques
tioned necessity of providing sufficient
funds to meet the appropriations
which the legislature malkes.”
Tried to Extort Cash From
Widow of Ben L. Jones.
Macon, Ga.—Caught in a trap at
the home of Mrs. Ben. L. Jones, on.
Mulberry street, S. T. Hill, local sta
tion agent at night for the Southern
railway, brcke down and confessed to
officers that he had planned a bold
scheme to wring money from Mrs.
Jones by improper proposals.
He is held under charge of disorder-
Iy conduct. His alleged scheme start
ed in several improper and unusually
endearing letters to Mrs. Jones.
These were unsigned, but she became
alarmed and determined upon a dis
closure when others came and turned
them over to her son, Henry Jones.
and consultation with detectives led
to a course which trapped Hil .
Those who knew of the affair can
hardly account for Hill's conduct. He
stated -to Officer Allen on the way
so the police station that he only got
$39 a month and was after money
from the widow of Ben L. Jones to
help himself. He has a wife, a mem
her of a prominent family, and six
children. He is fully thirty-five years
of age and was well thought of in the
community where he lived in REast
Macon.
Georgia Grand Lodge of Knights
. of Pythias Elect Cijicers.
Columbus,. Ga.—The grand lodge of
Knights of Pythias of Georgia ad
journed to meet next year in Bruns
wick on the third Wednesday in May.
Dalton, also, extended an invitation,
but the ccast city won out.
The election of officers resulted as
follows: Grand chancellor, Clifford
Walker, Monrce; grand vice chancel
lor, B. D. Brantley, Blackshear; grand
prelate, George T, Cann, Savannah;
grand keeper of records and seal,
William H. Leopold, Savannah: grand
master of exchequer, R. C. Norman,
Washington; grand master-at-arms,
‘James W .Anetin, Atlanta; grand in
ner Guard, Miller S. Bell, Milledge
ville; grand outer guard, H. M. Stan
ley, lénbl;n;‘ supreme representative,
T. J. Carling, Macon, T, Ha,' Vickerson, -
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