Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-06-09
HIGH SPOTS IN
GEORGIA NEWS

F. W. Shopper, associate editor of
the Dublin COurIer-Herald and one
Of the best known newspaper men in
Georgia, has been unanimously elect.
ed secretary of the Quitman Chamber
OF commerce to succeed Ii. C. Barnes,
who recently resigned to accept a
similar position in Evansville. Ind.
Propaganda for legislative action
to lower the age limit in the compuI-
sorry education law of the state. or
to make it include provisions for
kindergarten departments for public
schools was initiated this week in Sa-
vannah at a meeting of the Waters
avenue school.
Poker in its various forms and
manifestations Is the favorite pastime
of majority of the members of the
general assembly of Georgia, azcoYd \
g to the unpublished information of
The Chamber of Commerce of At
lanta in connection with a directory
Of the legislature which that organiza.
ton has just issued from the press
in accordance with its biennial Gus
tom when new set of lawmakers
come into office.
Josephus Daniels, former secretary
of the navy, will deliver the com
mencement address at the thirty
third annual commencement at the
Georgia School of Technology at 10
o'clock Monday, June 13. Chancel-
Tor David G. Barrow of the Universe
ty of Georgia, also will address the
graduates, and N. E. Harris, former
governor of Georgia, will make the
closing address. The class numbers
1856 men
All Young has come to Alfalfa
from Honolulu to attend the con-
vention therenext week of the Asso-
ciated Advertising Clubs of the
World and to obtain an American
education at Georgia Tech. he ar
rived last week and expects to remain
in Atlanta four years. All Young
is a Chinese, born n Hawaii, son of
wealthy merchant and 81 years of
age.
Injunction proceedings were filed
in Fulton Superior Court Tuesday
against Commissioner of Agriculture
J. J. Brown, State Oil Inspector Mar
vim P. Roam, State Treasurer w. J.
Speer and Russell Shirley by the
Durham Oil company. The injunc-
ton seeks to prohibit the payment
into the state treasury of inspection
fees collected for inspection of kero-
sene and gasoline on the ground that
the Georgia law is unconstitutional.
A complete review of his four
years of administration; recommen-
dations that an improved budget sys,
tenn be inaugurated; that legislation
be enacted to provide for rigid and
immediate enforcement of the law,
and that amendments to the state tax
equalization measure be adopted, will
be embodied in Governor Hugh M.
Dorsey's final message to the general
assembly when it convenes the lat
tire part of this month, says the At
lanta Constitution.
Georgia ranks second among states
in bauxite production, according to
figures of the United States geolog
ical survey. Counties in order of
quantity produced are: Sumter, Viii
kinson, Floyd, Randolph, Meriweth-
er, Macon and Barlow.
According to the annual report of
mthe state railroad commission, just
ent to the governor, more than four
million dollars was paid in taxes in
Georgia uring 1920 by public service
corporations. This shows an increase
of more than million dollars since
1917 which year is used for COM
parison by the commission.
Because of rebuilding work on the
dormitories at Bessie Tiff college, the
regular summer season at that in