Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-06-18
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THE LONG ROAD
THE LONG ROAD

IFE'S road is long and dreary, howe'er we try
- to grin; and grows faint and weary,
before he sees the inn; the inn where ends his
questing, and where his endless resting and dream
less sleep begin. All cheerily he gambols through
youths bright golden day; but soon he finds that
brambles beset the stony way; and though he sings
and whistles his feet full of thistles, and they
there to stay 1t seems to me wonder that
mortals so brave; while they are beaten under
they sing gladstone stave; through troubles they
go prancing, sorrows lid they're dancing, they
fox-trot to the grave. Alone, man may be gloomy,
and full of fantods Dire when in his rocker roomv
before the evening fire; but when he meets his fell
lows he shakes the blues and yelIows, and paws
gladstone Tyre The road is long and billy, beset
with gin and snare; and often life seems silly, bu.
still we pilgrims fare with jest and laugh and sally
to that inn in the valley, and our long sumbers
there Though tired of all endeavor, we won't admit
We're sore; we'd whistle on forever, and then for
eVermore; our own distress we're hooking when we
are roundly knocking upon the tavern door
considers that the results obtained justified the ex-
penditure, for the increased taxable property listed
resulted in additional revenue that will pay the CITY
out of debt, and put it self-sustaining basis,
something which has not been known here in
years.
The assessors state they equalized rea! estate
values on basis of so per cent. of the present in
flated values here, which means, they believed rs
per cent valuation of the normal real estate valu-
alton here. This was done in all cases. Not one, or
dozen returns were checked on this basis but all
of them. One piece of business property which was
raised, they state, and over which owners made a
strong protest, sold to another party for just
little than double the assessed tax valuation
they put on it, and this happened before the assess
ors had completed their work for the year.
In the matter of personal property, they state
that great deal of that the books this year has
never been returned before, especially money notes
and accounts. For the that facilities for
checking this property is at hand they do not know
how much escaped taxation this year. On notes full
ly secured they assessed valuation of rs per cent.
On open accounts, unsecured, where more or less
bad debts certain. the valuation was fixed at
so per cent This the rule they worked by in all
cases.
This year. also, corporations were required to
make returns the same basis as individuals, with
the exception of banks, which are returned under
the law as corporations. This meant raising of
many corporations returns above what had been
given in during the past. The law requiring this is
state statute, and also applies to city returns, it
has been held.
Especial effort was made this year, the asses
sors state, to treat all taxpayers alike to see that
all returns were made on the same basis and no
one was allowed to return at lower valuation than
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