The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-07-23

9. Vocational Rehabilitation of
Wounded Soldiers. Helped prepare
and put through the Senate the
Smith-Sayers Act under which aid
is given to the injured soldier. to
enable him to prepare again for
active work. He has been an in
tense supporter of every measure
to relieve the condition of the in
jured soldier, and led the fight in
the Senate for the recent $1,000 a
month increase in their compensa-
ton.
10. Parcels Post. Helped perfect
and put into active operation, the
parcels post.
II. Good Roads. Supported act
lively national aid to good roads.
and while on the Post Office Com
mittee, with Senators Bankhead and
Swanson, perfected the plan which
was subsequently adopted by the
Senate.
II. Clayton Act. Served on the
subcommittee which perfected this
act and personally had charge of
the provisions of the bill recogniz-
ing the legality of farmers coop
erative societies and labor organi-
cations
Is. Federal Reserve Banking
System. Actively supported and
helped perfect the Federal Reserve
Banking System. At his instance
the number of Federal Reserve
Banks was increased to twelve
that a proper number might be To-
Gated in the South, and he was
largely instrumental in locating one
Of them in Georgia.
IA. Farm Loan Banks. Helped
perfect and pass the act providing
for farm lean banks by which the
rate of interest charged to owners
of agricultural lands has been
greatly lessened, and by which
purchases of small farms are made
easier.
Is. Nitrogen Plant. Helped per-
feet and pass the Act under which
the Government is creating plants
for the production of nitrogen from
air, and supported actively the
provision requiring the use of these
plants IN times of peace to furnish
their products to cheaper the cost
of fertilizers for the farmer.
16. Income Tax Reduction. SEN
ator Smith made the fight in the
Finance Committee just after the
Armistice was signed, to reduce
the normal Income tax one-third,
ard every Georgian, when he pays
his income tax, is getting the bene-
fit of this work of their senior
Senator.
II. Georgia Military Camps. Not
only did Senator Smith render eff
Gent service in securing military
camps for Georgia during the war,
but his efforts were likewise d.
rectod towards securing for Geor-
g;anS the contracts for the con-
StrCction of these camps,
TIE permanent establishment of
the Infantry Officers Training
School-the biggest military school
in the United StateN and the school
to which West Pointers, after their
graduation, are sent for their ac-
tual field training--at Camp Ben
ming, Columbus, wSs due, in large
part, to the Untiring efforts of
Senator Smith.
During the last session of Con-
gress, he succeeded N stopping the
attempt to dismantle Camp Gordon.
Senator Smith urges the retention
Of this camp, that Georgia boys
and boys from this section of the
Southeast, who enlist In the army,
may be permitted to receive their
training near their homes. The
provision in the. military bill, CIV
ing an opportunity for men in the
army to take vocational training
and make special preparation to
return to civil life, was introduced
and put through by Senator Smith.
Senator Smith on entering the
Senate sought and obtained an as
signment to the Committee on
Agriculture, as membership on
CllAo SOAhlIlINCC gave llLh VIC bSSG
opportunity to serve the farming
interests of his state. The work
which be has done for the farming
interests, both of Georgia ana Of
the country, were recognized in the
Democratic platform, which called
attention, as achievements of the
Democratic Party. to measures
Georgia's Senior Senator had pre-
pared and put through, naming the
Smith-Lever Farm Demonstration
Act and Cotton exchange regula-
ton and the Market Bureau and
Warehouse Acts.
Senator Smith has never spared
himself in his earnest and Jealous
support of all measures which
would be os value 70 his constitu.
erts, and has never failed to or
pose those which he believed would
burden or iniurs them.