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EVERETT SELLS s350,000
 WATER BONDS NEW YORK

EVERETT, February 5-Bid of R. Grant and Co.,, New York City, fo. puI chase of the s35O,OO0 Everett water reservoir bond issue was accepted by the city council yesterday The bid of fers slO0.52 for S100 par value at IA per cent. Grant and Co.,, also offered a bid of s102.22 at 5 1-2 per cent. The council stipulated the first named bid The bid will yield the city premium and will cost the city in interest to maturity of bonds s233 355.
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EVERETT JUDGE GIVES
 FREEDOM ID BURGLAR

EVERETT, February 5-Natler M. Wilson. P. also known as Robert o. Leary, charged by the police with at- tempted burglary, was released from the city jail this morning to go to his home at Occur d'Alene, Idaho. Wilson told the prosecuting attorney that he had attempted to enter a clothing store here to get funds with which to return home, having learned that his father had died. The proprietor of the store joined the prosecutor in recom- mending that the boy be released.
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RESERVATIONS HAVE NO . EFFECT 0N THESE /. BIC COMPANIES
BELLINGHAM COMPANY WILL OPERATE TWO MORE THAN
 LAST YEAR

BELLINGHAM, Feb. 5.-Nine can neries, two more than last year, will be operated in Alaska this year by Bellingham salmon packing compa- nies. The Pacific American Fisheries will operate seven; the Carlisle Pack ing Company will have plants running at Cordoya and on Bristol Bay and the Astoria and Puget Sound Canning Company will operate one on Excur sion Inlet.
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MIXED BOUT PROBABLE

NEW YORK. Feb. 5.-Jack Kearns, manager of Champion Jack Dempsey, has decided to accept the best offer for mixed bout between the champ and Strangler Lewis, the champion wrestler Tom Law, wrestling promo ter, recently wired Kearns an offer or $500 900 for such a match, no holds barred.
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JACK DEMPSEY WON'T
 MEET NEGRO IN BOUT

NEW YORK, February 5-On the eye of Jack Dempsey's arrival in the East to discuss what promises to be an active campaign next summer it became virtually established yester- day that Harry Wills, negro challeng- CT, would not meet the title holder in 1923 if at all
 Though both are believed willing to enter the ring, no promoters seem will ling to undertake the bout.
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TIDAL WAVE SWEEPS ISLAND IF H|LO /. YESTERDAY TWO MILLION DOLLARS DAM- AGES DONE TO PROPERTY
 AND SHIPPING

HONOLULU, Feb. 5.-Twelve per sons were killed by tidal waves in Hilo Bay, caused by an earthquake reported to be 200O miles away. A large number of vessels barely es- caped being sent to the bottom of the bay, the waves reached a height of nearly forty feet.
 It is estimated today that two mil lion dollars worth of property was lost ashore and in shipping.
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TROOPS SHOULD
 BE IN GERMANY WITH FRANCE

NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-American troops should be shoulder to shoulder with French forces in occupying the German Ruh- district Commander Owsley of the American Legian de- clared in an address here last night. He said Germany had violated her re- parations treaty and her debts and France is only using the same meth ods that Bismarck used fifty years ago in debt payments.
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il DAYS 0N BEER,
 IS SURVIVORS, DIET

GALVESTON, Texas, Feb. Sub sisting for eleven days on British beer, three men, half dead from ex- haustion, exposure and fatigue, were picked up by the Morgan line steamer Fl Occidente, 225 miles off the Caro- lima coast on January IS, according to the master of the steamer on his ar rival here.
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LORD CURZoN HOME FROM
 THE LAUSANNE CONFERENCE

LONDON, Feb. 5.-Lord Curzon who conducted the Near East nego- tiations at Lausanne for the British government returned this afternoon. He proceeded to an urgent meeting of the cabinet called to consider the Lausanne proceedings
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.FRE|CHTEIR BESSIE. DOLLAR .
 PICKED UP BY POMONA

SEATTLE, Feb. 5-After being helplessly adrift in the Pacific several days the freighter Bessie Dollar, Capt. Mechan, and crew of forty, were res cued by the freighter Pomona, and is being taken to Yokohama. The vessel had lost her rudder and sent out an $. o. s. call Wednesday.
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RUSSIANS REFUSE GIVE UP CONTROL STRAITS

LAUSANNE, Feb. 5.-The Russian delegation at the Near East confer enee announced at a meeting of the 9ttaits commission today that Russia would not sign . 'connvsption prpvid- ing lfo- allied contro, Of 7 the Darda- nelles and the Bosphorus. ].
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TOM GIBBONS SEEKS
 FIGHT WITH DEMPSEY

NEW YORK, February 5-Tom Gib- bon, St. Paul light heavyweight box CT. today filed with the New York State Athletic Commission a formal challenge. accompanied by the regular forfeit of $500, for a worlds heavy weight championship match with Jack Dempsey.
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RARE WHITE FELT TRAPPED

FORT WILLIAM, Ont, Feb. 5.-The
 pelt of a. pure white beaver is in pos session of a fur buyer here who pur- chased it from a trapper in the Nipi- gon distarict. There is not trace of color in the pelt which is of fair size. White beaver is one of the rar- est skins brought in from the north,
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WOULD ADMIT HOMELESS
 CHILDREN FROM ARMENIA

WASHINGTON Feb. 5.-Twenty- five thousand orphaned or homeless Armenian children would be admitted to the United States to be placed in homes here, under bill passed today by a senate measure. The bill would also admit six thousand adult Arme nians.
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Fl LAYTON SOLDER
 FACE MURDER CHARGE

SEATTLE, Feb. 5.-Murder charges were filed before United States Con- missioner Bowman against Douglas l., Cauley, Fort Lawton soldier, who on January 27, shot and killed com panion, Frank E. Peterson, in the company squad room at the fort.
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AGAINST WITH DRAWAL OF
 BRITISH TROOP FROM RHINE

LONDON, Feb. 5.-Lloyd George to- day expressed himself as absolutely dead against" the proposed withdraw al of the British forces from the Rhine in the present situation.
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BROUGHT ID
 GET TURKS 10 SIGN

LAUSANNE, Feb. 5.-Richard w. Childs, American observer, announced today that the Lausanne conference is bringing all possible pressure to bear upon the Turkish delegation to persuade them to sign the peace treaty ceding the Mosul oil fields to Britain.
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UNITED STATES HAS RIGHT
 TO KEEP RUM RUNNERS AWAY

\ WASHINGTON. Feb. 5.-The Uni ted States has the same right to keep
 rum ships away from it's coast that it has td say that neither piracy nor the
 slave trade can -be practiced otf the
 coast, Wm. J. Bryan declared tonight.
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HALIBUT CATCH FOR 1922
 AGGREGATED 25,6oo,ooo LBS

PRINCE RUPERT Feb 5.-The hal ibut catch shipped through this port in 1922 aggregated 25,600,O00 pounds, port authorities announced today
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GERMANS ARE WEAKENING

PARIS, Feb. 5.-Faced by penury through confscation of their mines, coal barons in Germany sent out feel CTS to France today to discover ba- sis for new negotiations.
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BRITISH FORCES WILL BOMB
 ANGORA IF TURKS ATTACK

LONDON, Feb. 5.-The war office announced today that British forces will bomb Angora if the Turks attack Mosul.
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MILLION 4 LAY PAID
 ID OEX-WAR VETERANS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-The treas ury department in a statement today disclosed that the United States is now paying at the rate of a million a day to disabled world war veterans, and that it is also still paying civil war veterans aggregating seven hun dred thousand a day.
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RUSS REFUCEE SHIPS,
 50DABDARD MISSING

MANILA, Feb. 5.--Fear is express ed here that seven Russian refugee ships with more than 800 persons on board have been lost in the China Sea en, route from Shanghai to the philippines
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ASKS APPROVAL OF BRITISH
 DEBT FUNDING SETTLEMENT

WASHINGTON. Feb. 5-President Harding today prepared a statement to Congress asking for approval of the British debt fand ding ! settlement by tho American British debt funding committees.
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VEAL THY PLUMBER IS
 SUED FOR SUPPORT

SEATTLE, Feb. 5.-W. o. Nelson, wealthy plumber, owner of two large apartment houses, was found guilty by jury this afternoon of fail ure to provide for his four minor children.
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WORLD FAR FROM BEING
 IN STATE CONFINEMENT

MANILA, Feb. 5.-The world today is far from being in a state of univer- sal contentment, and every nation Should prepare for possible world wide war, Governor General Wood declared today at the annual convention of Veterans of the Philippines Revolu- tiOn.
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DELEGATE SUTHERLAND WRITES RANcHER THAT PROBLEM
 MAY BE PRESENTED
OPPOSED 10 REGULATIONS
Creation of Reserve Means Rights of Free Fishery Denied to Many
 Alaskan Citizens

Clyde Coombs, the Pearl Island fox 'rancher, received letter from Dele gate Dan Sutherland on the last boat which shows how an important Alas kan industry may be stified if the pro- posed bureau of fisheries regulations are placed in effect The letter fol lows:
 Washington, D. C., Dec. P, 1922. MT. Clyde Coombs, Pearl Island. Port
 lock. Alaska.
 My Dear Sir:-Your letter of Octo be. 26 at hand and have been waiting 10 learn from the Bureau of Fisheries just what their attitude is going to be with regard to the fox raisers who want salmon with which to feed their stock, as we'll as the cod fisher,hen who desire to use the poorer grades of salmon for fox bait. have had this matter up with the Bureau of Fisheries and they assure me that E is their intention to see that the fish ermen are provided with bait.
 "However, 1t is felt by the Biologi- cal survey here in Washington that che problem of domesticated foxes on the Aleutian Islands is going to mean a problem with regard to the supply of salmon for food and they are of the opinion that eventually other fish will have to be used in part.
 rI am strongly opposed to this whole reservation system and have expressed myself very emphatically on the subject. It is held by the De pa-tment of Commerce that ii Con- gress will pass the necessary lave fof the protection of the salmon they will be glad to withdraw the reservation. I hold that the creation of the reserve and the method under which it is ad- ninistered means that the free use of fishery is denied to many citizens and the industry is thus passed over 10 the big monopolists. I am having quite fight on this matter just now and will try to advise you of the re- suits.
 Since dictating the above 1 have taken up the matter of catching sal mon by the fox ranchers in Alaska with Mir. O'Malley and he assures me that it is the intention of the Bureau 70 aid this industry in every way It can, and that instructions will be is sued to their wardens in Alaska to not interfere with the catching of salmon for fox feed so long as it is done le- galIy and the salmon not taken from the creeks and spawning beds.
 Sincerely yours,
 DAN SUTHERLAND,
 Delegate from Alaska"
 The wardens will not interfeer with fox farmers so long as salmon are caught legally" This means that permit will be given to fox farmers to fish in certain waters, and Ii the fish are not there the foxes go hun gry. The big companies are taking fish cut of the mouths of the rivers, and keeping salmon from the spawn ing grounds. A fox farmer will feed ten tons of cereals to a few hundred salmon, the fur output per salmon be- ing worth ten to twenty times the val ue of the fish if canned Foxes will not eat other fish than salmon, and would be starved into it.
 The reservation can have no ether effect that forcing fox farmeEs to dis continue feeding salmon, and being forced to buy cereals.
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cHILBERB PLACED ON TRIAL

SEATTLE, Feb. 5.-Former Presl- dent Chilberg of the defunct Scandina~ vian American bank, was placed on trial today for unauthorized borrow ing from the bank now defunct
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ST. LOUIS sNoWLESS

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 5.-For the first time in 47 years the month of Janu- ary passed here without single flake Of snow falling.
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BULGARIAN MONARCH BOMBED.

SOFIA, Bulgaria, Feb. 5.-A bomb was thrown at Premier Stamboulisky last night while he was seated in a box at the National theatre with three of his ministers. No one was injured.
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pEvALERA BREAKS INTO PRINT

DEVALERA BREAKS INTO PRINT
 NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-Eamon De Valera, in letter to the Irish World says the greatest of all the many crimes English statesmen have com mitted against Ireland when Lloyd George compelled the Irish delegates to sign the treaty of December 10, 1921.
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SEATTLE MAN DIES OF
 DEADLY SLEEPING SICKNESS

SEATTLE, Feb. 5.-Elmer R. Carl son, a young business man died of sleeping sickness.
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DEPARTMENT JUSTICE WILL
 INVESTIGATE KU KLUx KLANs

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-The De partment of Justice today launched a nation. wide probe of the Ku Klux klanS.
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TURKS REFUSE TO SIGN

LAUSANNE, Feb. 5.-While the Turks flatly refuse to sign the peace treaty, allied leaders say resump- ton of the conference is likely.
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HALlsUT PRICES HIGH

SEATTLE, Feb. 5-Seattle price for fresh halibut at noon February fifth, 17 cents per pound.
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PRINCES ARRIVE IN SEATTLE

SEATTLE, Feb. 1.-Two princes of Denmark, Prince Valdemar and his son, Prince Eric, arrived here today, passengers on the freighter Peru.
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FRENCH OCCUPY OFFENBERG
 BERLIN, Feb. 5.-The French today occupied Offenburg and Appenweirer, in Baden.
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 E WEATHER FORECAST

Coast and Susitna valleys. :, colder tonight and tomorrow.
 Clear weather for Seward. . H ' H | a >s .s u '4 3s a u ua
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-02-22
Searchlights on Washington.

That congressman and cabinet Of
ficials with their families have enjoy
ed unquestioned social privileges at
extra public expense and that a strong
social lobby has contributed not little
more to their entertainment is late
revelation of Mrs. Poindexter, in s.
newsy letters home to Tacoma, Wash.
getting her isto unpleasant publicity
along with those she criticized rather
sharply, and to be plainly inferred in
a recent measure introduced by Repre-
sentative Herrick of Oklahoma, pro-
hlbitlng members of the house or SEN
ate from accepting entertainment at
the hands of an individual citizen or cor
poration or going upon pleasure trips
commonly called junkets, where the
expense is borne by private individ
ual or corporation. Expulsion and a
fine of ST 900 are prescribed for offend
ing members of congress and a SINH
lar line and one year in jail for private
citizens who so offend The bill will
hardly get through but it seems tc
indicate custom wholly without COM
mendation.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-02-22
n II Il
Plan Lives, Originator Dies.

What is true of men at all times,
leaving unfinished plans when they
die, is just little more noticeable
when the projects are as large and
unique as is the idea of floating
school being worked out by a corpor-
alton headed by the Gamblers of Allan
ia but which had its conception in the
mind of Col. E. T. Winston, retired
army officer, who died at Fl. McPher-
son Hospital, Friday morning. A grad
uate of West Point and other army
schools, serving in the PHILIPPINES and
the West Indies, he was detailed as
military instructor by the government
at several educational institutions be-
fore his retirement He was made
vice-president and general manager of
this floating school which is to make
its world tour as junior college be-
ginning next Eeptember.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-02-22
SzH 21o3
SPOTI,IGHTS
ON
PEOPLE
Memorial for Thomas Watson.
elders

The City of Thomson would like
to keep in their town the fine library
of Thomas E. Watson, said to be the
finest private library anywhere. There
has been some question as to what the
late senator's wishes may have been
as to it's ultimate disposal, whether
Mercer University might not have
first call because of his having been
student there and retaining friendly
connections for years. Naturally, the
use of the books at law school would
seem to be of wider benefit than in
small community like Thomson. But
quite naturally too, the town of Thorn
son enjoys it's own prestige as the
home of the Sage of McDuffie" and
would be proud to have, memorial
Library which they now have in mind,
as the show place of their commun-
ity rather than a shaft of marble to
honor Watson's memory. If Mrs. Wat
son will, consent, then the people
Thomson will set to work by public
subscription to erect building, and
even then an endowment will be need
ed for the upkeep. Doubtless tn
friends and admirers of Watson all
over the country would render gener-
Gus assistance to any memorial what
soever and this might be deemed the
most fitting.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-02-22
WHAT HAVE WE TO DO WITH EURopE7

Il his question, which is being occasionally ask
cd, is rather completely answered, thinks B. c..
Forbes by set of very interesting figures which
may also in part explain why members of the
iarm bloc i'll Congress are now reported to be in
favor OF some sort of economic conferences on
European affairs. These are the facts gathered bv
Mr.. Forbes in a recent issue of his "Forbes Maoa
zine:
What have we to do with Europe?
OF the total exports of 20 articles aegregating
|$zoOOOOoOOO, Europe bought one billion, five hum
dred million doolars during the fiscal year 1922
What have to do with Europe?
OF total exports of $l13OOO,OOO meats Europe
bought $97yOO0,O0O of lard exports totalng sos
100000 Europe bought $76OC0lOO
What have we to do with Europe?
OF tota wheat n<rorts of less han $280OOOOOO,
europe bought lully S21OOOO,On0; of $16OOOOOOO
corn exports, Europe bought $4,000, 900; Of flour
exports Of $970OOO00 Europe bought SIS 100000.
What have we to do with Europe?
OF total cotton exports of $596OOOOOO Europe
bought $40OOOOOOO
What have we to do with Europe?
OF total gasoline exports of SLY, 100000, Europe
bought $74,0O0,O00; of $78,OOO,OOO exports of lu-
brlcatins oil, Europe bought $57OOOOOO
What have we to do with Europe?
OF copper exports totaling$S8, 100000, Europe
bought $6SOOOOOO
What have we to do with Europe?
OF %7OOOOOO sugar (refned) exports, Europe
bought $62OOoOOo; of 100000 exports of can
ned goods, Europe bought $14O0QOOO; of S1OOOO,-
oOO exports of prunes Europe bought 100000.
What have to do with Europe?
OF tobacco exports Of $157,OOOOOO, Europe
bought $120OOOOOO.
What have we to do with Europe?
Europe bought three -fourths OF the total exports
OF 20 principal articles entirely the products of our
soil mines.
What have we to do with Europe?
Europe bought more than $2OOOOOOOOO OF
American products in this fiscal year of 1922 or
well over half of Americas total exports to the
entire world.-Literary Digest
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-02-22
Fallen From the Ranks.

Atlanta feels a keen loss in the
death of two women pioneers. Pion-
GERS in respect to the woman move
ments of the past half century. Lollie
Belle Wylie, writer and newspaper
woman, was acknowledged as a peer
by the men of the profession long
before It was common or popular for
women to enter the field. This emin-
ent position has been hers till her
death and AIDED to this has been the
love and admiration of thousands of
Georgia women, who have looked to
her as one of the leaders in all that
interests them, in clubs or other for
ward movements. Mrs. William Law
son Peel and her esteemed husband
have been social arbiters and spon-
sors of progressive movements like
that of the music festival association.
bringing grand opera to Atlanta. and
other social or civic interest ?tGSem
other notable events of social or civic
interest during a long period of years.
Her death occurred last week, also.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-02-22
BEN HILL COUNTY SET THE PAcE-When

BEN HILL COUN1Y Sci 1t1E PACE-W men
twelve years ago Superintendent R. J. Prentiss
OF the Ben Hill County Schools laid the founda-
ton for the consolidation of the small rural
schools of Ben Hill County, in which he had the
vigorous support of the Leader, from the very
start, he started movement for rural school de-
velopment in South Georgia which is today the
pride of the state and is beginning to attract
nation wide attention.
Superintendent J. H. Billiard has stuck to the
original plan and added to it as rapidly as the
hnanceh of his Board would permit.
County after County in this section has
taken the cue from Ben Hill Countys
progress in the early years of rural school devel-
opment, until today, there are several of our sister
counties who have forged ahead of us in their rural
school progress. The latest to have taken up this
progressive move is Lanier county, which, like our
reighboring county, Wilcox, has gone u" one bet
ter" and brouiht city and county schools under
one management, thereby increasing the oppor-
tunities of the children of the farming sections,
without imparing the facilities of their city cous-
ms, who already were better supplied with school
and facilities than their country cousins. AS the
Savannah News states in recent issue: "Consoli-
dalton is not merely Capitalization; it is central
zaton for better results for the same expenditure
OF money and energy and skill-or the possibility
of ten ties Of still greater good results from better
effort, more funds finer efficiency
We are watching with a great deal of interest
the newly consolidated system OF Wilcox county,
where each school in the county, has been put I'M
der one Board of Education and one Superinten-
dent with the result that thirty eight former scat
tered town and county schools have been consol-
idated into about thirteen schools, with High
Schools for all of the aspiring pupils for higher
education, located in the three municipalities Of
the county.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-02-22
Community Forests.

The most splendid idea for refor-
esting the state of Georgia and of de-
veloping civic pride and instilling an
interest in the provision for the COM
ing generations is that project of the
Georgia association to establish COM
munity forests near all towns and cities
that can be induced to take hold of the
movement. Waste lands may be used
in some cases and after a systematic
cultivation and yearly planting, often
under the direct supervision of the pub
lie schools it is expected that in course
of time that there will be revenue
from the forests that will be applied
to school purposes and will relieve
taxation to that extent A comparative
~ small outlay of money is needed
but much attention and care from each
community to make the scheme the
success its projectors wish it to be and
which has had practical demonstration