Georgia Historic Newspapers

    v VOLUME 33—NUMBER 32.
N. C. TROOPS WITHDRA WN
AND TRAINS RUN AGAIN
National Guardsmen Ordered
Back from Terminals in
Spencer and Salisbury.
Strikers Place Guard
s Around Chaplains Home
General Manager Simpson of
Southern’s Lines East Re
quested Removal of Troops
At Noon.
Salisbury, N. C., Aug. 22. Asa
result of threatening letters received
by Rev. Thomas P. Jimison, Metho
dist minister, who was assaulted
it is alleged by a postal employe,
Monday morning, a guard of thirty
five shopmen went on duty outside
the minister’s house at 10 o'clock
tonight.
The special guard authorized at
a mass meeting of the shopmen to
day will work in three shifts of
eight hours each.
The alleged assault on Mr. .limi
son by a postal employe Monday
morning was the beginning of action
which led to the movement of troops
from the Salisbury fair grounds to
the Spencer shop and to the Salis
bury postoffiec where the alleged as
sailant of the minister was employ
ed.
Salisbury, N. C. Aug. 22.—A1l
'troops have been withdrawn from
guard duty in Spencer and Salis
bury today except one company
which was kept in this city but scat
tered, and the trainmen estimated
at about 500 in number, who last
night agreed not to move another
train out of this terminal until the
national guardsmen were removed
having gone back to work today
about noon, all was quiet in this
Southern Railway shop center to
night, and trains were in operation
as usual.
The walkout of the big four broth
erhoods and clerks, inaugurated
Monday night, following the placing
of five companies of troops on guard
duty on the property of the South
ern Railway in Spencer, and two
companies in Salisbury, ended ab
ruptly at noon today when the troops
were withdrawn by Col. Don Scott,
at the request of R. E. Simpson, gen
eral manager of the Southern's lines
east. This request was made by Mr.
Simpson immediately after commit
tees of the brotherhoods had wait
ed upon him and requested that the
guardsmen be removed, saying that
if they were withdrawn the train
men would immediately return to
work and promising that order
would be maintained. The commit
tees were sent to Mr. Simpson after
the five unions had held separate
meetings, beginning at ‘.1:30 this
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NEW DISTRICT CARVED
FROM EIGHTY FIFTH
Anew militia district has been
carved from the northern portion
i of the Eighty-Fifth District and at
j the next election votes will be cast
! at Forbes school house which loea
! tion has been selected as the site
j for the district court house. Many
j of the foremost citizens of Jefferson
County reside in this district and
| we trust that the laying out of the
; district will prove of greatest con
i veniencc to them in the exercise of
| public affairs.
I The territory as described in the
! report made to the Hoard of Roads
and Revenue and as shown on the
map made by County Surveyor I*2.
C. Salter is as follows:
Beginning at a point on the Ogee
chee River where the county lines
; between Washington and Jefferson
County intersect said river, and
from thence following the line be
tween said two counties to a point
near but below Almira Station, more
fully shown on plat hereinafter men
tioned; from thence in a straight
line to the point on what is known
as “Boyd's Branch," where the road
from Louisvilc to Bartow intersects
said branch; and from thence fol
lowing said public road from said
branch to the Dixie highway; and
j from thence following the Dixie
Highway to the Ogecchee River; and
I from thence following said river
, back up to the point on said river
mentioned above as the beginning
\ point where the line between Wasli
| ing and Jefferson Counties inter
i sect said river.
The new district has no number
as yet as numbers are assigned by
j the governor of the state which of
I necessity must cause a certain
j amount of delay. In the mean time,
, we understand, there is a move on
foot to call the district Phillips Dis
i trict, hut this has not been as yet
officially decided.
WRENS WILL HAVE A STRONG
GRID TEAM
Wrens, Ga., August 23. Wrens
Institute has hopes of putting a
! strong football eleven on the field
this fall. The larger part of last
year’s team will be on hand this
I year.
Practice will begin following the
! opening of school on September 3.
The first game of the season will he
with the Emanuel County Institute
! squad at Summit. Other schools that
, will in all probability meet Wrens
will he Waynesboro, Warrcnton and
| several others.
’flic complete schedule will be an
nounced at a later date. The mana
ger would like to hear from any high
school in this section that is anxiops
to arrange games.
HARDWICK TALKS 1
OGLETHORPE COUNTY
Governor Tells Over 700
Voters of Oglethorpe Coun
ty Why He Vetoed Pension
Appropriation.
Lexington, Ga., August 22.—Twelve
hours after Governor Hardwick had
exercised his veto power on the state
pension appropriation hill, passed at
the recent session of the legislature,
lie was telling more than 700 voters
of Oglethorpe county here today at
noon just why lie had taken such
act ion.
Motoring down from Atlanta,
where late last night he signed hills
adopted by the general assembly and
also used his veto power on others,
the governor was given a great re
ception here, citizens flocking to this
place from all sections of the county
to hear him speak in behalf of his
campaign for rc-elcction to office.
The governor made the pension
issue the chief feature of his address,
which was listened to attentively by
his audience. However, the battle cry
which was heard so often two years
ago in his campaign against Walker,
“Go to it. Tom. tell 'em some more”,
broke a loose when the governor
stated his stand on law and order.
His speech today was more mas
terful than that delivered yesterday
at Alpheretta. He went more into
detail on the state's fiscal affairs,
and dwelled at length on the pension
issue, bringing out very forcefully
the figures and the amount of money
required to pay the old and the new
classes of pensioners and what had
been accomplished during the last
year towards this end.
There arc in the state at present
9,818 pensioners belonging to the old
class. They receive 8100 a year,
which amounts to approximately
$1,000,000, and for which there is
now enough money in the treasury
to take care of.
I he new class pensioners number
6.102, and were to he paid in 1921,
$150; 1922. $175. and 8200 in 1923.
The new class of pensioners’ appro
priations amounted *4n $2,250,000 for
this year, and in 1924 lhe highest
peak would have been reached,
amounting to $3,500,000, which al
most totals as much as is now being
paid to maintain the state educa
tional system.
The legislature failed, in its hurry
to pass tile pension hill, to lake care
i of the new class of pensioners; io
provide any way lo raise the rev
enue. resulting in the governor, in
preference to putting the “ox hack
in the ditch”. However, the gov
ernor sanctioned the hill taking care
of the old class of pensioners.
He went into detail on the history
of the pension system in Georgia.
The first hill passed in the state
was in 1877. and provided for vet
erans having cork limbs. There was
only a trifling amount appropriated
at that time, and yearly the pension
roll has grown. There have been
five amendments to the constitution
and eight increased in pension ap
propriations since the original hill
was enacted, “until it will reach”, he
said, “in 1924 only slightly under the
total of what we spend for state
education.”
The governor stated that he was
greatly in favor of taking care of the
veterans ami the widows coming
under the old class, but that lie was
against giving one single copper to
the rich veterans and to tile widows
who married after 1870. ile charged
that there were many veterans in the
state who are wealthy, yet they are
receiving their pensions right along.
As to the widows, he said, many were
married to the during the
latter years with almost the assur
ance tliat their husbands had one
or both feet in their graves before
the nuptials.
The governor jumped from the
fiscal affairs of the state to the
“conference campaign” now being
conducted by Clifford Walker, lie
fore commenting on any particular
plank in Mr. Walker’s platform, the
governor made the crowd whoop
with the statement that Walker
would make history in Georgia by
being the only candidate for gover
nor who will be defeated three times
within two years.
The crowd was with him, and the
governor branched off from his busi
ness manner and got down to ora
tory that lias made him famous in
every nook and corner of the state.
Holding up the platform purport
ing to have been written by Mi.
Walker, whom the governor called
“whispering Cliff”, he shouted, “Such
unmitigated nonsense”!
On the tax equalization plank in
his opponent’s platform the governor
dwelled at length. “If Walker should
he elected”, said the governor, “and
there is not a possible chance, he
will put upon the state the following
additional burdens which he now
proposes in his platform: ile advo
cates .53,500,000 for free school books,
$2,000,000 more for new class pen
sioners, $3,000,000 more to match the
federal appropriation lor a state
system of roads, a total of $8,500,-
000, which, added to the state’s pres
ent expenditures of $10,000,000 would
bring his annual expeditures up to
approximately $19,000,000.
“He advocates a repeal of state
equalization law, is opposed to the
income tax law, and is opposed to
all other forms of new taxation. How
can he expect to pay additional ap
propriations without an increase in
income”?
AVERA YOUNGSTERS WIN.
Avera, Ga., Aug. 15.—The small
boys team from Avera defeated the
team from Stapleton composed of
youngster, 7 to 0, on the Avera dia
mond.
The game featured by the pitch
ing of Wiggins for Avera, who struck
out twelve opposing hatters and the
hitting of Philips, who secured three
hits out of four trips to the plate.
Dixon for Avera caught a very nice
game, and Streetman threw out a
man on what should have been a
hit.
LOUISVILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. AUGUST 24. 1922.
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DEMOCRATS INIO
CQIUDEMN RECORD QF
TIEADMiSMI
Mention of Wilson’s Name
Brings Applause—Republi
cans Also Meet and Ask
Backing for President and
Administration.
Columbus, Ohio.—The records of
the Republican administration both
in national and state affairs, and
tlie reduction of taxes in Ohio, were
set forth by Democrats in their
state convention here today as the
main issues of the coming political
campaign.
The appearance at the convention
of Senator Pomcrane. candidate foi
re-election and of A. V. Donahey,
the party’s standard-bearer on the
state ticket, was the signal for vo
ciferous cheers by the assemblage.
Mention of the names of Woodrow
Wilson and .lames M. Cox also
brought enthusiastic demonstrations,
that for Mr. Wilson being particular
ly protracted.
Beyond reaffirmation of the na
tional platform of 1920, the state
platform today did not mention the
league of nations.
Charges against the Republicans
both at Washington and Columbus
included statements that “they have
been utterly unable to grapple with
the problems of government” and
that they were “more intent on per
sonal aggrandizement and on plun
der for a retinue of corrupt hangers
on than on good government.”
Senator Pomcrane in his address,
characterized the tariff bill as the
“greatest piece of ‘pork barrel’ leg
islation inthe history of congress.”
Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 22. — (By the
Associated Press.) —With the slogan
“stand by the president and the na
tional administration’ Ohio Repub
lican leaders came here today and
laid their plans for the state cam
paign which will terminate at the
polls on November 7th.
Congressman Simeon I). I* ess of
Yellow Springs, the party nominee
for United States senator, sounded
the keynote of the campaign in a
speech before the Republican state
convention at Memorial Hall.
The Republican platform will con
tain strong indorsement of the na
tional and state administration. In
sounding the keynote of the com
paign—“stand by the president and
the national administration”—Con
gressman Fess outlined the accomp
lishments of the Republican con
gress and the Republican national
administration under President
Harding, himself an Ohioan. Refer
ring to the anitona! budget system
inaugurated by the present adminis
tration, lie declared that “the day
of the pork barrel legislation is for
ever over.*
HARDWICK VETOES THE
NEW PENSION BILL
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 22.—Governor
Hardwick today voted a bill passed
at the last session of the state legi
slature appropriating $1,200,000 for
confederate pensions. The governor
said he took this action because the
legislative body failed to provide the
revenue with which to meet the ap
propriation.
COTTON shipped to BAT
TEY & CO., The Efficient
Cotton Factors of Savannah,
Ga., yields satisfaction as is
evidenced by the large vol
umn of business entrusted to
them. Isn’t it to your intei’est
to try them? Do it now and
be convinced.
Optimistic Over
Rail Conference
Warren S. Stone, D. B. Rob
ertson and E. H. Fitzgerald
Give Opinions of Results
Expected.
i
Cleveland, Ohio.—Warren S. Stone,
president of the Brotherhood of Lo
comotive Engineers and I). B. Rob
ertson. president of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen and Kngine
| men are optimistic regarding tomor
i row’s conference of railroad exccu
j tives and transportation brother
hood chiefs in New York in an cf
; fort to reach a settlement of the
i shopmen’s strike.
“1 am optimistic regarding tomor
row’s conference with the railroad
managers,” said Mr. Stone late to
day. “Some way will have to he
reached to end the strike. I am
hopeful of reaching an agreement.”
Mr. Robertson expressed the same
optimistic feeling.
Mr. Stone and Mr. Robertson will
leave tonight for New York.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. 22. (By
The Associated Press.) F. H. Fitz
gerald. president of tlie Brotherhood
of Railway and Steamship Clerks,
Freight Handlers, Station and Ex
press Employees, in a statement to
the Associated Press today declar
ed that “he had always felt opti
mistic” regarding the outcome of
the conference of railroad execu
tives at New York tomorrow, and
that since he had returned from
New York, where he was inconfer
• ence with the rail union chiefs his
j “optimism has increased due to the
j seriousness of the situation.”
FIRE AT MIDNIGHT
A house belonging to Prince Low
ry, colored, was completely destroyed
by fire Monday night. Sandy Carr,
the son-in-law of Prince, lived in
1 the house. Prince was in town for
1 a few days visiting his children.
| and narrofvly escaped burning. When
i he discovered the fire the flames had
eaten through the walls of the house
and were in only a short distance
of his bed. He immediately gave the
alarm and his neighbors came to his
jaid succeeded in saving most of his
household goods. He carried no in
surance. Though the house was in
the city limits no water was put on
the blaze as the hose was not long
enough to extend from the nearest
water plug. Though the fire bell did
! not ring, many Louisville people
heard the cries of the colored people
and went down to render such aid
| as was possible.
MINERS GET INCREASE
Greensburg, Pa., Aug. 22 — Increas
ed wages averaging 4 7 per cent and
affecting between .‘IO.OOO and 40,000
non-union miners in Westmoreland
and Fayette counties were decided
upon at a meeting of operators here
today, it was officially announced
tonight. Included in this group are
the H. (’. Frick Coal and Coke Com
pany, Keystone Coal Company, Del;
! mont Gas Coal Company, Irwin Gas
Coal Company, Westmoreland oal
Company And the Mount Pleasant
Coal Company.
VISITING MINISTER PREACHES
HERE.
Rev. Sampel Tinkler of Lake
Wales, Fla., preached at the Asso
ciate Reform Presbyterian Church
last Sunday. Rev. Paul Pressl” was
in Vidette, where a protracted meet
ing was in progress.
NOMINATE DU PONT.
Dover, Del., Aug. 22.—Without a
dissenting voice the Republican state
committee this afternoon nominated
T. Coleman duPont, of Wilmington,
for United States senator and Dr.
Caleb R. Clayton, of Georgetown,
for congressman.
WAGE INCREASE OF
n PER GENT GIVEN
TO STEEL ÜBOREBS
United States Steel Corpora
tion, Midvale Steel and
Youngstown Sheet and
Tube Company Give In
crease Without Explanation
New York. Aug. 22.—Three big steel
I corporations employing normally
I nearly .'IOO,OOO workers, today an
nounced a 20 per cent wage increase
for all day laborers in their manti
| facturing plants, 'flic United States
j Steel Corporation took the lead, hut
: was quickly followed by the Midvale
j Steel and Ordnance company and the
Youngstown Sheet and Tube com
pany.
In the absence of Charles Schwab
and Eugene Grace of the Bethlehem
Steel Corporation, no other official
of that company would commit him
self. Secretary Brown said, how
ever, he did not know of any action
that had been taken on the wage
question. President Matthews of tlie
Crucible Steel Corporation said his
company had taken no action “as
yet”. It was generally believed in
financial circles that all important
■ independent steel firms would an
: nouncc increases within a few days.
News of the increase came as a
surprise to the financial district,
probably because wage adjustments
in other industries have been gener
ally downward. I* was followed by
slight recessions in the prices of
steel shares.
No explanation of the increase was
given by the steel corporations.
However, it is known that the immi
gration law has cut off the supply
of unskilled laborers which formerly
drifted to the iron and steel centers.
When the labor shortage became
acute last spring and the steel indus
try began to show signs of rehabili
tation, temporary relief was afford
ed by the employment of men
thrown out of work by the coal
strike.
Resumption of coal mining and the
increasing demand for laborers in
other industries, combined with the
expected business revival this fall,
is reported to have caused appre
hension among mill managers, who
feared that the higher wages else
where would cause sufficient deser
tions to hamper their operations at
a time when there was every pros
i pect for heavily increased orders.
The United States Steel Corpora
tion employs approximately 220,000
men, of whom 1 .'>o,ooo are affected
by the wage increase. The highest
| rate paid to the company for day
labor was 47 cents ail hour, from
February to May, 1920.
On May 16, 1920. reduction of 20
per cent was announced and in July
of the same year overtime was elimi
nated. On August 19, 1921, day labor
was reduced to .'JO cents an hour,
the rate now in effect. The increase
will bring the rate up to 36 cents
an hour.
The average payrollof the corpora
tion during 1919, the banner year,
was over §450,000,000, but it dropped
: to about $332,000,000 in 1921, when
there were approximately 190,000
men employed.
A forecast of what is to come is
seen in the large orders for rolling
stock recently received by railroad
equipment companies. The demand
in other lines is also growing and
there is much rush work on hand,
which calls for forces in many plants
. in excess of the number now avail
able. In this connection, it is re
ported that little success has been
obtained thus far in inducing men
laid off in the dull period a year
ago to return at the wages prevailing
i before the increase just announced.
| Many of these men have left tlie
i steel centers.
SURPRISE FACTORS ENTER
INTO STRIKE SITUATIOi
GRANZE SCHOOL OPENS
SEPTEMBER FOURTH
Prof. S. L. Price requests the an
nouncement through the columns of
1 he News and Farmer of the open
ing of the Granze Public School on
Monday. Sept Ith. Prof. Price ha
hern principal of this school for
several years and under his man
agement the school has grown rap
idly. Successful junior high school
work is being done. Eleventh grade
work is included in the schedule for
the ensuing year. The Granze school
district was one among the first in
the county to embrace the local tax
law. At the time this question w.e
decided upon by ballot onl\ one
\ote was east against it. thus show
'r the people as a whole in the
. /, 'unity stand behind the school
mi-.y, dly support it. The expec
tancy v / September 4th is ;i record
in enroh.nent unrivaled in the past,
with keen anticipation for the best
in school life to follow.
UNUSUAL ACCIDENT
AT LOUISVILLE. GA.
H. G Jones Killed By Tim
bers Falling From Building
Upon Which He Was Di
rooting Work.
Mr. Hatrwcll G. Jones was killed
here last Thursday afternoon about
three o'clock by falling timbers from
tfit' old Louisville \cndemy.
Mr. Jones was on the floor of the
building directing the work of tear
ing down the old building. Two very
tall cross beams were being taken
down and were expected to fall in
a certain direction. By some strange
mis-chance the beams turned com
pletely and fell the other direction,
struck two other huge beams which
in turn hit and crashed through the
outside shell of a wall. Mr. Jones
saw the first disaster, it is believed
and jumped out of the way. hut
other falling timbers struck him
breaking his neck, his left leg. He
was killed instantly. One of the
miraculous escape of the wreck was
that of the negro Booster Long who
was on the first beam that fell. Be
ing a large piece of timber it fell
slowly and when it struck the outer
wall the negro grabbed the narrow
shell muscled himself up and clung
to the tottering wall until danger
had passed. Two other negroes nar
rowly escaped severe injury.
The funeral services of Mr. Jones
were held Friday at Parker church,
the sermon being preached by Rev.
J. Gordon Gunter. He was a well
known young man .and highly re
garded. He is survived by ii is'wife
and several brothers and sisters.
SCHOOL SUPPLIES
JUST A LITTLE OVER A WEEK, AND
SCHOOL STARTS AGAIN
Last year the Rexall Line of School Tablets, Inks, Pen
cils, etc., was such an enormous seller, and we had to
re-order supplies so many times, that this year wc|
have started in with the biggest stock of school sup
plies that has ever been bought in Louisville.
WE ARE NOW READY TO FILL YOUR ORDERS:!
Smooth Paper Tablets 5c
Pencil Tablets 5c
Composition Books 10c and 5c
Loose Leaf Binders 50c
Loose Leaf Fillers 10c
Inks and Writing Fluids 10c
Spelling Blanks 5 C
Drawing Tablets 10c
Rulers lOc
Pencils, 2 for 5c and 5 C
Pen Holders 5 C J
Pen Points, dozen lOc
Erasers 5c j
As usual, the Rexall Tablets contain more leaves than
any tablet we were able to find.
-THE-
Louisville Drug Go.
REXALL STORE
Louisville, Georgia.
“Going Since 1896—Growing All the
Time.”
$2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE i
Meeting of Association
Railway Executives Tod?
May Be Influenced by D
velopments.
EASTERN RAILROADS
HEADS BOUND FOP, U.
Executives Leave Europe \
Majestic to Try to Sett
St r ike Steel Increa
Causes Talk.
New > ork. August 22.—Four s,
prise factors entered into the r
i
which, according to repn sentath
v]
ally influence the action of the A
social ion of Railway Exccntrl
when it meets tomorrow to consul
proposals for mediation with tj
V. j
1. The announcement that prej
dents of three powerful cast(]
roads. Samuel Rea of the IVnns]
\ania, E K. Loomis of the Lchi
\ alley and William Beselcr of I
Jersey Gcntral. were expected |
arrive from Europe mi the Majcsfl
n time to participate in the confj
nice of the Association of Railxl
Executives. !
‘2 Hie grant by three large, sti
corporations of a 20 per cent I
creased wage to then several h!
dred thousand day laborers.
3 Assertion by L. I'. Lorce. pr<|
dent of the Delaware and HudJ
and chairman of the eastern prj
dents’ conference, that predict iJ
of a strike settlement and peace]
the industry were “all hunk.” ]
1 The announcement that scvcl
of the brotherhood chiefs arc ]
route from the west with prartig
proposals for settlement of the si]
crafts strike, which they will suhJ
I to rail executives if all other peg
advances fail. J
Heads of the Association of nJ
way Executives refused to comm]
on the unexpected arrival of g
three eastern presidents. Their I
turn-on the same boat, and in I
midst of the present crisis, was I
mittcdly significant, however, esjl
ially since the ir respective vice-pri
idents have been the nucleus of ]
group which in conference of ]
national association, has consisted
fought against any peace plan whl
included reinstatement of strik]
with seniority right unimpaired.]
The decision of the steel corpj
tions to raise the wage of labor!
announced just 24 hours prior to ]
scheduled meeting of the executiJ
was hailed by the strikers as a p<|
in their favor. It not only* just if]
their refusal to accept wage J
fixed by the railroad labor boJ
( they said, but was ample proof]
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