Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-29
ADVERTISING
OF A SORT

curing more duNeIJlSlHS VT n
SORT" than Georgia.
Thousands are flocking to Flor
ida from all points of the compass.
Industries are investing millions in
the Carolinas.
And Georgia lags behind the pro-
cession.
The boil weevil is bad. 1t has
cost this state millions, but cheap
nasty, petty politics is costing the
Empire state of the south more
money than the boil weevil.
Until we clean house there is
little hope for advancement,
We start systeme Of highways,
second to none in the country
Cheap politics butts IN and the
highways go glimmering. And we
get advertising of a sort.
Lynchings and floggings occur
here and there too frequently
through the carelessness or coward
ness of sheriffs and deputies. And
we get more advertising over the
country-of a sort.
Men of vision and patriotism
struggle for years and make grand
opera an institution. Petty poll
tics steps in and the legislature
places an unjust tax, on what the
Atlanta Journal terms "a window
tax on the human soul" More
advertising of sort.
Says the Macon News:
1.-THE State of Georgia has re-
ceived a great deal of undesr-
able notoriety in the past few
months, but it is doubtful II any
of it has been more regrettable
than the action of an upstart
member of the General Assem-
bly, to place tax on grand opera
which an unthinking majority OF
that same assembly enacted In
to law.
Inc MACON NEWS QCnO0iSSA
at that time what the Atlanta
Journal so aptly termed "a win
dow tax on the human soul" and
argued that grand opera, while
it might not appeal to the jazzy
minds of the members who voted
for the tax, was none the less
+, enjoyed by thousands of cultur-
ed men and women all over
r. Georgia who were anything but
% poodle PETERS"
~
y The Literary Digest reproduces
N in. a recent issue summary OF
81 opinions of the press all over the
~ country, and almost without ex-
q ception, the narrowness and I'M
I'LL business of the tax Is discussed
Y with vigor. Georgia is getting
Y more advertising-of sort.
II "While the matter is essen
.sj TALLY Georgia's" says the Lit
d erary Digest, 'neighboring states
NJ who might be expected to feel
3f3 the repurcussions of this act are
Ak not backward in disapproval
.idi This comment extends as far
~ north as Massachusetts, andPenn-
tts sylvania, the Inquirer of Phila-
- delphia pointing out that it is
IN difficult enough to make musl-
W. cal productions of a high order
sae pay without any addition to their
normal cost" In like vein the
q. Admission, Alabama, Star" de-
f, plores a policy that is doing the
entire South an injustice by MAX
ing it harder for the people of
this section to have the worlds
best music; let us have more con-
structive legislation and less TOM
foolery such as this"
From the Fort Gaines Southwest
Georgian the Literary Digest gives
us this particularly significant anC
racy comment:
Although we belong to the
'red-neck" outfit, we do not be-
lieve the Georgia Legislature did
a very noble ana righteous thing
when it voted to impose a heavy
tax on grand opera, and posi-
bly, because some of the mem
bers of the House and Senate
opined that the 'red-neck' boys
back in the woods would be
pleased. We can't use grand OPP
era in our business at all-our
ear for music isn't that kind.
And we haven't any more use for
grand opera than we have for the
brand of demagogy (if it is that
that resorts to class legislation
against a minority with a view of
currying cheap favor. o yes,
we wear a 'red-neck' but the
scarlet doesn't extend into our
brain, nor splotch our moral
fibre"
Again taking up its theme, tn
Macon News continues:
so runs the tune. Nor is it
other than natural that enlight-
ened opinion in the birth-state
of Sidney Lanier should resent
the imposition of this tax, not up