Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-15
The Country Home
BY MRS. w. I'll. FELTON,
The Taxing Problem

The Taxing Pro blem
With the close of the war, in 1918,
eral months might be as high as dur
ing the war period-but nobody eX-
pected them to go higher and high
er, until it is getting to be tyrannl-
cal two years later. There is no
excuse or apology for these soaring
ed that the taxable values of the
state of Georgia must produce a bill
lion and a quarter dollars to meet
the present state obligations Of this
year. A part of this money must
come from farm lands.
If cotton should seriously de-
cline, there will not only be panic,
but collapse to those in debt. The
district agricultural colleges
twelve in number, are demanding an
siderably more than the amount that
was given to them last year. They
are not building big brick houses as
they did at the start, but they are
demanding $4,000 each in 1920, when
$4,000 and $4,000 were the maxi
mum in 1918. This is only one il
luStration.
The county I live in is now pay
the tax money collected in 1919. If
any business concern should thus
exploit itself, it would be in the
day night. 1t goes without saying
that. something will break, if this
continues.
When the family fortune declines
there must be retrenchment and
economy. It looks like the thing
they determine to throw away.
1t is time to call halt.
An Unsettled Account with Grand
father Adam
I clipped the following from a
western newspaper:
may be wise, but I doan' see
why a body should suffer so in
cuttin' teeth. A dog doan' hab
no truble, neber does a coon,
And dis, de preachers tell me,
is on account oh de political
trickery OBJ Adam. Use glad dat
he was counted out OBJ de gar
den OBJ Eden Everybody what
walks. de flo wild a teethin' chile
is natural enemy to dat man.
Little Rock Gazette.
There are startling statistics re-
garding the mortality of infants. l
believe one-third of the race is ex-
pected to die before the teething
stage is over-but Grandfather
Adam cannot be made accountable
We know it is once appointed unto
man to die, but it is a sad reflec-
ton that such a large percentage
should be taken out of life when
they had not sinned or merited the
deathstroke in themselves, as vio-
lating any divine law, or the law
governing their own being
From one other point of view,
these little ones are taken from the
evil to come. They were unfortu-
nate in their particular environment
perhaps. When they were too help
less and too greatly burdened with
the evils they had inherited it is
more reasonable to suppose that the
creator in His wisdom took them
away.
The mother grieves over her dead
baby without thinking of the relief
that the baby received and ex-
perienced when it could cease to
struggle and to suffer.
Grandfather Adam, by the help
of his consort, Eve, raised two
children with remarkable histories
namely, Cain and Abel There could
hardly exist greater difference be-
tween own brothers than existed be-
tween those two boys, and good
Abel was the one to die first, and
to leave no issue behind him. If
good Abel deserved to live, why
not? 1t may be possible that the
good Lord does the best thing for
the good baby, when it's little life
is only like a ray Of light, for an