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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-01
Bill Introduced in House
 Without Comment Provides Lease of Project Under Sim
 da Terms to Ford's But WodM Increase Cash Pay
JEW YORK CONGRESSMAN
 JEW BIDDER FOR PLANTS
Measure Introduced by Retir- g ing Member, Who Expresses
 Little Hope for Action at Present Session of Houses. Fertilizer Clause Unchanged
WASHINGTON BUREAU I
 THE AOE-HERALD WaehlnEtOn. D. C.. Feb. 28

{sRepresentative Michael J. Ho- ln of New York introduced today
 bill providing for the sale of Muscle Shoals to Representative 1phn Kissel of New York for fS,000,000. Under hte. terms of aae bill Kissel would organize a 71 ,rporation capitalized at S10,000,- ! DO, just as Henry Ford would do, ! lder the provisions of his offer. {, all other respects, kissel would r:ree to do what Ford has agreed r do, save pay the government ! 100000 more than the Detroit ; anufacturer.
 : As soon as Hogan introduced his 'Esl, he and kissell disappeared. As f ssell is a lame duck" and as the y Il introduced by Hogan was the ' inted copy of the Wright, bill in Irlih4d by lead pencil so as to read 1issell" wherever the name rFord' \, ,i,stsi4, .a1aban,iaa sen ,Glit 4sA !. essed the belief that the ''stu3t "a as an example of congressional !. nor near the copclusion of ses- ,fon. At any rate, they did not take S e measure seriously.
 < "DROOkLYN INTERESTS"
 SY WASHINGTON, Feb. 2s.-(By As Nciated Press. )-Another Muscle oals bill was introduced today in 4 D House-this one proposing that Ge1,property be turned over to 3 TMpAnENo be formed by John Kis- %N.H3 Mphblican member of the x5ds4 $m Brooklyn. It was
 epnHd 0f(o the hopper by Represen- n zeH Ean, republican, of New $STH69biy followed the identical e2esXf Hhe Ford offer. as modified .rs 1kAt s6.0o0,oo0 cash pay
 4nt v6uld be made instead of the
 1000, ,de0fin the Ford plan. The sec t)n t6tAtihg to the manufacture oi strAteA for fertilizer remained un-
 No etltctnent was issued either by sr Kineeh of MT Hogan, both of
 hom are to retire from Congress on 1arch l. At Mir. Hogans office However, it was said that large .Tooklyn interests were behind the k taps but no indication was given ,X No their Identity. It was said that AsHnjlAr l5ll would be offered in AsAVnate, although it was stated Eat ittle hope was held for con Hdarttion of either of them at this
 ssHfs of fsCongress. House leaders edicRted there was no possibility oi F tidn on the plan. even if 1t shoulc "a Hkported by committee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-01

"HYSSEN, son of August Thys-
 sen, is being acclaimed by the
 German nation as one of their heroes. He is the backbone of the opposition to the French invaders. He was recently arrested and court martialed by French officials at Mainz, but was later released with a heavy fine, to the joy of the Ger mans throughout the country. Thys- sens power is today greater than ever before.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-01
CONNECTS GROW LESS

For the first time in many months there were fewer convicts in state prisons at the end of February than at the end of any other month. The total number imprisoned when tho records closed for the month was 3.O76, compared with 3.l12 at the be- ginning of February, 3,172 at-the be- ginning of January and 2,95i at the end of February 1922.
 Of the total now in prison 914, are white men 2.023 negro men, l2s ne- gro women and 10 white women. 69 new convices were received durinG
 (Conttauea sn Pxxe Tvs.y
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-01
CODE COMMITTEE BUSY

With all members present the re- cess code committee today began the work of reading and revising the draft of the state code prepared by Judge James J. Mayfield code com missioner Sessions will be held on Tuesday. Wednesday Thursday and Friday until the task has been com pleted and report prepared for sub mission to the legislature at the ad- tourned session which will begin July 10.
 Judge Hugh D. Merrill. speaker of the house. is chairman of the com mittee while Henry R. Howze. of Jefferson Is vice chairman. Judge Merrill was forced to leave during the day for Randolph county where he is interested in the trial of cases Oakley w. Melton. member of the house from Elmore county, Is law clerk of the committee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-01
STILL RECORDS BROKEN

All records of the capture of stills were broken by the state law en- forcement during the shortest month of the year. The total for the month was 124 or two more than the less previous months.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-01
WILL REvALUE GAS COMPANY

Acting under authority granted by in February the public service com mission today issued q formal order for a revaluation of the property of the Mobile Gas company and set the case for consideration March l2. For nal notice was given to the Mobile Gas company In certified copies of the order.
 The city com mission af Mobile has voted to pay one-third 0s ihe cost of revaluation. Work will be started without delay and the public ser- vice commission proposes to make a minute Inquiry into all elements which are recognized by the law in the establishment of a valuation on the property of the company.
 The Mobile Gas company s lesist- ing In the federal court the vaiua- tfon of sl,700.000 placed by the for mer commission under an order for a reduction in rates, which was based on the valuation. The commission will seek to show the revaluatioa order has rendered the case in the federal court a moot one. The city commission of Mobile Is interested in the revaluation because even If the previous order for a valuation of s1,7OO, 900 should be sustained and the rates based on this valuation consumers of gas would be saved from $50.000 to 0,000 annually, &C., cording to the estimates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-01
DEALERS REQUIRE ] TO RENDER REPORT 0F GASOLINE S0[D.
Utility Board Issues Order Un- der the BroWerf Bill for RevaIu Iuation of Mobile
 Gas Company
STATE CAPITAL BUREAU l
 THE A0E-HERALD :, Montgomery, Ala. Feb, 2S

 Every retail dealer m gasoline and other motor fuel In Alabama will be required to render a statement of gasoline sold, to the state tax com mission. under the' law levying a tax of two cents gallon on motor fuels. This opinion was given the state tax commission today by liar well G. Davis, attorney general, in interpre .tion of the gasoline tax law.
 The orney general was con suited to ambigulties in the law.
 Tn 7 aoice of worGs only will prev retail dealers from avoiding {se ohe section. in dsflp.ns per c,s involved tn txs act, ststA q that "The retail dealers shall include any person herein defined as dis trlbuoor. who Is also engaged In the sale of gasoline as herein defined at any place in the state in broken cuan- tities." If this was followed literally retail dealer not engaged, also in the business of distributing gaso- line (wholesaling) would not be re- quired to make reports and pay the tax to the tax commission.
 But Attorney General Davis cited decisions of the court to show that the terms shall include" does not exclude the general meaning of the word and that since the general meaning of retail dealer is a person who sells In broken quantities, re- tailers must make the report.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-01
THE FORECAST

Alabama Fair Thursday and Friday; little change in teni- perature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-01
BUY IN BIRMINGHAM

Goods adveased in The Age Herald oyBirmsng-lam mer- chants ar guaranteed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-01

Totals =. .s250,477,661 s147.304 ,010 Increase for this year. s103183. ASA, pr 70 per cent.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-09-28
DESTROY STALK
Say This Is Most Effective
Method in Weevil Fight

MOULTRIE, Ca, Sept. 27.-Con-
WINGED that stalk destruction is not
only the most effective method of
combating the boil weevil but also
the cheapest farmers in every one of
the seventeen militia districts of Col
quit have already started blowing
in their cotton fields. The banks of
the county took lead in the move
ment which is resulting in the almost
general destruction of stalks. Ex-
perience Of large number of cot
ton growers who have tried the plan
for several years has shown that the
weevil infestation where the stalks
are destroyed over a considerable
area is so light that the use of poison
has not been found necessary up IN
til we'll in July. The cost of blowing
up the stalks, then going back over
the fields and pulling up the few
that might be missed, is said to not
run over 20 cents an acre. 1t costs
about S. an acre to poison the cot
ton during the growing season, and
where the farmers in community
group together and pillow up their
stalks in September or the first few
days of October it has been shown
that the method is more successful
than the use of calcium arsenate.
Leaders in the stalk destruction
her, however, have point
ed out that it is a community pro-
gram and that for one small farmer
alone to destroy his stalks is not
worth while. Reports received here
state that in sections where cotton
grower is found who opposes stalk
destruction he is being urged by his
to let them do the work.
In some casees more drastic action
is being taken. The new farm pro-
gram that has been adopted in Col
quit calls for not more than five
acres of cotton to the pillow but lead
ing business men here believe that
with that acreage Colquitt can pro-
duce more than twice as much cot
ton as it made this year on an aver
age fifteen acres to the pillow.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-09-28
EVERY COMMUNE
TY INTERESTED

Most Of our readers have noted
that American Education Week is
to be observed this year from Sun
day, November Is, to Saturday,
November "a, somewhat earlier than
in former years. The program
emphasizes the importance of the
country schools by devoting the ex-
ercises of two days mainly to the
consideration of rural problems.
Sunday, November IS, is desig-
mated, "For God and Country; Mon
day, American Constitution Day;
Tuesday, patriotism Day.; We'd
nesday, "School and Teacher Day.;
Thursday, "Illiteracy Day.. Friday,
Community Day. Saturday, "Phy-
steal Education Day..
The slogans for Friday, Novem-
Der 23, are, Gan Equal Chance for
All Children; "a Square Deal for
the Country Boy and Grip. The
suggested program emphasizes the
plea for Equality Of opportunity
for every American boy and girl''
and urges the Importance of a pub
lie library in every community. 1t
is expected that every rural COM
munity will assemble at it's school
house on that day. On Saturday
will be featured, "The Great Out
of7doors" and the Conservation
and Development of Forests, Soil,
Roads and other Resources.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-09-28
SHORT
COTTON CROP

MONTEzUMA, Ca, Sept. 23.--
Montezuma warehouses received 1876
bales of cotton Saturday, which is
slightly less than the receipts of last
Saturday and very much less than
the usual receipts in the height of
the cotton season. Warehousemen
state that the prospect grows more
gloomy each day, the farmers
throughout the county reporting that
their crops will be shorter than they
expected. Some are through picking
The conditions vary, however, in diff
ferent sections of the county and
some report fairly good crop.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-09-28
COUNTIES CANNOT
BORROW. MONEY

According to a decision of the
United States Supreme Court county
authorities cannot borrow money
without the authority of the voters
Of the county.
The Farmers Loan & Trust Co.,
of New York lost in the United
States Supreme Court last Monday
its appeal for hearing of a suit
against Wilcox County, Georgia, to
recover $4,000 loaned the county
officials for county expenditure in
anticipation of tax receipts.
Reputation by the county author
tiles of the debt was based on the al
legation that under the Georgia con-
stitution the county was not author
lied to borrow money without au-
thority from the voters of the coun-
ty, which was not had in this in
stance.
The Farmers Loan & Trust Co.,
contended this assent was not neces-
sary for the specific loan and
was valid.
The decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States will
make it impossible for county au-
thorities to borrow money. They
must wait until the taxes are paid.
The Winder News.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-09-28
BLIND NAM
DRIVES AUTO

The editor of the Banks County
Journal has the following to say in
a recent issue of his paper: "Once
upon a time while in Clayton, Ga,
we saw one beautiful young lady
riding steer. This was little
out Of the ordinary, but this week,
we saw blind man driving an auto
mobile, through town. Mr.. Dewitt
Smith, of Atlanta, came up on a
visit and he was driving his car
about with no one on the seat with
him. l had rather risk my life with
Dewitt driving than with some
around here who have two good
eyes and nothing back of them"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-09-28
A Holy Trxat.

AS many people are aware. most OF
the older streets in Montreal are
named after saints, male and female.
A progressive Yankee has q typical
American drug store at the corner OF
two of these streets, and last summer
he put the following sign in his WIN
how: "Meet your girl here for an ice
cream soda. This Is where st. Thomas
meets st. Observation-Disclosures Mag
zine.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-09-28
HOW ARE
YOUR SCHOOL
ADVANTAGES
~ so, or 80 Per Cent Normal !?

|
What sort of school advantages dc
your children have and the children
Of your community? The three main
questions to consider are these?
/. Are the provisions for teach
ling elementary grades efficient and
,up-to-date?
2. Then after passing through
the elementary grades, can your
boys and girls get modern high
school instruction without having to
leave home and go to the expense of
boarding" somewhere?
3. And does this high school pro-
vide proper instruction in vocational
agriculture and home economics?
But to be more thorough we wish
to present twenty-five tests that will
show whether or not the school adj
vantages offered your children are
60, 70, 80, 88, or Sc, ETC., per cent
of what they should be. Read over
the following list of twenty-five
questions, credit yourself with four
points for each question you can an
swer afirmatively, and see how your
school advantages score:
1. Have you progressive school
board?
2. Have you special local tax
to supplement general support?
8. Have you a vocational agricul-
tural department and teacher for
high school grades?
5. Have you a home economics
teacher for your high school girls?
6. Have you community audi
forum?
Z. Have you school farm or
garden, laboratory, and workshop.
8. Have you a school band or
orchestra?
8. Have you an up-to-date school
library?
10. Have you literary or debating
societies for the boys and girls?
II. Have you a school fair and
Judging teams?
IL. Have you a nature study de-
partment?
13. Have you well equipped
playground-fdr baseball, basket
ball, tennis, and minor sports?
ID. Do you provide trensporta-
ton for distant children?
Is. Do you have community sing
ing and community plays in connec-
ton with your school?
16. Are there reproductions of
beautiful pictures on the schoolhouse
walls?
II. Do you have public com
mencement each spring?
10. Is there medical inspection of
the pupils once year?
10. Is your school building well
planned for comfort, fire protection
and care of the eyes; and if built
Of wood, is it regularly painted?
20. Do you have inter-school de-
bates, sports, oratorical contests, etc.
81. Do you have large enrolment
of boys and girls in clubs-corn,
cotton, garden, poultry, pig, calf,
etc.
%. Do you have year-round pro-
jects in the home and farms of. chill
dren?
%. Have your school grounds
been. beautifed by proper planting
of flowers, trees, shrubs, and vines?
"a. Have you teacherage or
teachers home, modernly built and
equipped, at your high school?
%. Are the sanitary conditions of
buildings, water supplies, and
grounds such as to preserve the
health of the pupils?
1t might be an interesting thing
to read out these twenty-five ques-
tons to each member of your fami-
lily, ask each listener to mark the
numbers which he or she thinks
should be answered in the affirma-
tive, and then see how nearly you
all agree on the proper score fol
the school advantages offered your
children.-The Progressive Farmer
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-09-28
PEANUTS ARE
BEING DELIVERED

ALBANY, Ca, Sept. 24.-Pea-
nuts are being delivered to the Geor-
gia Peanut Growers Cooperative AS
ISOLATION rapidly by it's members in
all parts of the state, according to
statements made by officers of the
big new cooperative marketing or
ganizaation, which has headquarters
at Albany.
Members are being advanced a
first payment of $500 ton on No.
peanuts within less than "a hours
after their warehouse receipts reach
headquarters at Albany. The initial
advance was first placed at $4,000
ton on No. 1 peanuts by the execu-
tive committee Of the Board of Di-
rectors, because of desire con-
servation, Colonel Robert e. L..
| Spence, President of the Association,
stated. AS soon as il was found that
an advance of $500 a ton could
safe be made on No. rs the first
payments were increased $500 a
ton. Colonel Spence, stated this was
done in a desire to see that every
grower, had as much ready money as
possible available just now, when so
many of the growers need it.
These advances of $500 ton
are not all that the Associations
members will receive for their pea
nuts, Colonel Spence stated, but is
simply first payment, to be fol-
lowed by others during the period
of months over which the Associa-
ton will market it's members stocks
in an orderly manner. 1t is expect
ed that the final payments will bring
the total for the members to much
higher average than the non-mem-
bers will receive for their peanuts.
One member of the Association
living in Dougherty County deliver
ed his crop of ten tons to an associa-
ton warehouse at Albany and went
by the headquarters Office with his
receipt for payment. When he re-
ceived his check for $4,000, he
said that the initial payment he had
just received amounted to exactly
$3.50 a ton more than he received
altogether for his peanuts last year.
It is estimated that the Peanut
Association controls more than 70
per cent of the commercial peanuts
in Georgia this year, having con-
tracts covering more than 100000
of the states $4,000 acres.
Due to the high prices at the open
ing of the market season, many of
the leading business men Of the pea
nut belt are afraid that the farmers
will go in for peanuts too heavily
next year, and accordingly urging
their farmer friends not to over
plant peanuts. They declare that
! it will be just as ruinous to the
state to have peanuts for a one crop
burden as it is to have cotton the
sole money crop. Many of the best
minds in this part of the State are
urging a diverse system of agricul-
ture, which includes not only pea
nuts, cotton, tobacco and other well
known money crops, but also perma-
nent pastures, corn and velvet BEANS
hogs, hens and milk cows. 1t is i'm
possible for a farmer to have a
failure in all of these in one year.
unless from a national catastrophe
of some kind, they pay.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-09-28
STATEMENT OF CONDITIONS
OF THE
BANK OF LEESBURG

Located at Leesburg, Georgia, Lee
County. At The Close of Bust
ness Sept. 18th, 1928, AS Call
ed for by the Superintendent
of Banks.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-09-28

WANTED-Men or women to take
orders for genuine guaranteed
hosiery for men, women, and chill
dren. Eliminates darning. Salary
$75 a week full time, $3.50 an hour
spare time. Cottons, heathers, silks.
International Stocking Mills,
Norristown, Pa.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-09-28
6 6 6

Cures Malaria, ChiIls and
Fever, Dengue or Bilious
Fever. 1t destroys the
germs.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-09-28
Value Of Society.

Society hath this good at least: that
1t lessons our conceit, by teaching us
our significance, and making US &C
auainted with our betters.-Thackeray.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-09-28
STATE OF GEORGIA:

Lee County.
Before me came T. C. Tharp,
Cashier of Bank of Leesburg, who
being duly sworn says that the above
foregoing statement is true con-
dition of said Bank, as shown by
the books of file in said Bank.
T. c. THARP.
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this oath day Of September 1923.
R. R. GREEN,
N. P. Lee County, Georgia.
Evening star., 1923-01-28

semester. 4.465 were enrolled, an ex-
cess Of more than 800 over the record
set year age.
1t Is confidently expected that the
5000 mark will be approxima.ed
within the next ten days. There are
number Of beginning courses being
offered in language and in matne-
matics.
Prof. Robert Griggs, botanist and
discoverer of the famous valley of
Thousand Smokes" will offer new
course on Evolution" which Is ex-
,pected to prove unusually popular.
Tomorrow afternoon the stated
meeting of the board of trustees will
be held in the. office of the president,
DIR. Howard L'<Hodgkins, in the ad-
ministration building. II -.
The George Washington University
Glee Club, under the direction of Prof.
Edward Mueller, will give Its annual
concert and dance at the City Club
Saturday night.
Mid-year elections of-the Columbian
Debating Society will be held Friday
night, according to William Z. Reese,
president of the organization.
The George Washington University
Hospital alumni gave dance at
Rauscher's the night Of January IL.
the proceeds Of WHICH will be devoted
to endowing a room for George WASH
ington University nurses. The affair
was in charge of Miss E. Lundine.
Miss Lucy Lamon. Miss Gertrude
Stewart and Mrs. G. Heatley Quesen-
berry,
Evening star., 1923-01-28
DUNBAR HIGH SCHOOL.

The following program was pre-
sented before the junior class,
Wednesday, January II, at dismissal:
Piano solo, "Bohevian Suite" Janet
Avery; recitation. Lillian Washing
ton; Piano solo, African Dances" s.
Soieridge Taylor, DR. Eva B. Dykes:
recitation, Julia Dulaney, and ella ss
Journal, recounting activities of the
Junior class. Joseph Jenkins, class
president. Vice President Mary Nor
ton was In charge Of the program and
promised other enjoyable progra ms
Tor the juniors. Miss Brooks. dean of
girls, was present for a short time.
orief business meeting was held
Following the program.
Pupils of Dunbar are awaiting the
close OF the semester SO that the gen
eral nonor roll may be announced.
rms honor roll will contain the names
OF all pupils who have maintained an
average OF excellent in all subjects s
pursued tits hoped that the number
on the roll this semester will be very
large.
The Home Circle of the FIeur-de
Lis Club is having an exhibition {
various kinds of needIework, which
may De seen in the case near the
olnee OF the dean. OF girls. The work
Is attractively- arranged and shows
skiil on the part Of the members of
the home Circle. Edna Cunningham
Is chairman OF this active club.