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Newspaper Page TextSUBSCRIPTIONS IN ADVANCE Your subscription t* payable In ad vance and you will aave detaya by complying with thla rule. r SEM I-WEEKLY EDITION OFFICIAL ORflAN Of the City of Thomaavflle and the County of TEtomift VOL. X. No. 50. TH0MA8VILLB, GEORGIA. FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1922. *1.00 PER ANNUM JEWELL PREDICTS RAILROADS WILL CAPITULATE WITHIN TWO WEEKS; NO SETTLEMENT YET LIKELY Says That Labor Will Bring Them to Their Knees in a Very Short Time and End The Trouble.—Troops Be ing Called Out in All Sections of Country and Trains Are Annulled in Many Places Where Strikes Have Got ten in Their Effective Work.—Hitch in Peace Negotia tions Over the Seniority Question. Chicago, HI.. July 20—With ImmeUl ate prospects tor peace in the rail way strike gone, the strikers and railroads today settled down to c test of strength and reports today In dtcated a gradual extension of the curtailment of transportation, some of which however, Is due to the coal strike.- B. M. Jewell, strike leader, pre dicted today that the railroads will capitulate and settle the strike with in two weeks. "The strike Is becom ing more effective dally,” he said, "and the roads will yield as soon os we bring them to their knees.” The railroad executives’ statement on the seniority question was charac terized by Jewell as a camouflage, de signed to cover up rail Issues and the national adjustment board. The executive board of the striking unions will meet this afternoon to consider an answer to the statement of rail officials last night. N. C. TROOPS ORDERED TO ROCKY MOUNT FOR DUTY Raleigh, «. C., July 20.—Acting on the Governor's instructions. Adjutant General Metts today ordered the state troops from Wilson and Golds boro tu proceed to Rocky Monnt at once, and the squad of men now at Rockingham to proceed to Aberdeen. NEW HAMPSHIRE TROOPS ORDERED TO CONCORD Manchester, N. H., July 20— Gover nor Brown today ordered nut the nat ional guard troops tor railroad duty at Concord. WABASH TRAINS CURTAILEO; MAIL SERVICE 8LOWED UP Cincinnati, O., July 20.—Superin tendent Bird of the government mall service announced today that the Wabash railroad had taken oft six 'important trains due to the railroad and coal strikes and that it would "considerably slow up mall service lu this division.” STUMBLING QUESTION NOT ORIGINALLY IN DISPUTE Chicago, July 20—Failure of all efforts to bring about the settlement of the countrywide strike of the rail way shopmen was announced in «i statement iisned last night by Ben W. Hooper, chairman of the United States Railroad Labor Board. “As there docs not seem to be any probability of reconciling the antipo dal views of the carriers and the men on tho queston at Issue of the labor board and none of Its members are now engaged in any further efforts along that line," the itatement said. At the same time the statement pointed out that virtual agreement had been reached between the rail heads and the strike leaders on all of the five points in dispute except that of the return to the strikers of their seniority rights—a question which was not originally in dispute between the roads and their men. Railroad executives, through the Western presidents committee od| public relations of the Association of Railway Executives, issued a state ment last night corroborating Chair man Hooper’s statement that ne further peace conference were being held and that the seniority issue was the principal stumbling block. “There are now no conferences In progress looking to a settlement of the shop crafts’ strike,” the executives statement said. “Chairman Hooper of the labor board has held informal conferences with some railway execu tives, but these have had no results and are now at an end. “Since the strike was called the so- (Contlnued Page 4.1 GERMAN RULERS ALONE RESPONSIBLE FOR ITS PRESENT CONDITION Guarantees Committee of the Reparations Commissions is Ready to Report on Condi tions in Germany and Blame Rests on Government. Paris, July 20.—The guarantees committee of the reparations com* mission having arrived from Berlin last night, it was expected to report today on the results of fts Investiga tion of Germany’s financial status to Premier Poincare and to the commis sion. It is understood the committee has obtained enough material on which to establish the . opinion that Ger many’s rulers alone are responsible for the financial crisis in which she is now struggling. FROM IRISH COUNTIES Food is Low and People Are Fleeing in Terror From the Counties Where Warlike Measures Are Invoked by Belfast, Ireland, July 20.—Alarm ing accounts of the situation in Kings county or the county of Offaly, as it Is now known, reached Belfast in dis patches today. The towns of Tulla-More and Birr are described as in a pitiable plight, with those of the Inhabitants who are LEWIS DEFIED GOVERNORS TO USE FORCE IN KEEPING COALMINES OPEN FOR PRODUCTION AUSTRIA MAKES PEACE WITH WORKING CLASSES Vienna, Austria, July 20.—The Aue- trlan government, it la understood to day has offered proposals which labor leaders have accepted iu principle, reserving the rights or lurther consul tation with the workers whom they represent. j j„g profiteers. The proposals iaclude an immediate Increase of allowances to the unem ployed; a control commission to -ee placed in all banks to enforce the governmtnt order against trading In foreign monies; prohibition of Impor tation of all dispensable articles, and vigorous prosecution of tooa and clth- vigorous prosecution of food and cloth- able to do so, taking flight In fear of starvation. One party which volun teered to go from Tulla-More to soma of the outlying villages to procure food and milk for the women and children, were held up by the Repub licans on their -way back and their supplies commandeered. IRISH NATIONAL ARMY NOW IN COMPLETE CONTROL Dublin, Ireland, July 20.—A state ment Issued today by the Irish pro visional government on the military situation, says, the national army forces ore now supreme In the whole of twelve counties. RETAIL COST OfF LIVING INCREASED ONE PER CENT Washington, D. C., July 20—The re tail cost of food to the average fami ly in the United States, increased one per cent in the month from May 15th, to June 15th, according to a report to day by the Bureau of Labor statistics. Increases were shown in 2t out of 43 food articles computed In the average. WAYCROSS DEMANDS THAT TROOPS REMAIN UNTIL ALL TROUBLE IS OVER As They Got on Train, Gov ernor Was Wired to Hold Them and They Have Been Detained and Held Pending Further Developmnts. Atlanta, Ga.. July 20.—The nat ional guardsmen sent to Way- cross In connection with disorders arising from the railroad strike will be kept on duty there "a day or two longer,” It was announced today at the office of Governor Hanlwick. WAYCROSS CITIZENS WANT TROOPS TO REMAIN THERE Waycross, Oa.. July 20.—With the troops on a special train ready to re turn to their encampment at St. Sim on’s Island. Mayor Dan Cowart, to gether with a number of prominent Declares if State Executives Plan to Open the Mines They Will Have to Follow in Steps of Other Employers and Treat With the United Mine Workers Union. — Many States Are Planning Active Operations, While the Pitts burgh Association Operating Ohio Mines Will Not At tempt Resumption Under the President's Plan. Washington, D. C., July 20.—The- «d that Gov. Groesbeck, of Michigan, center of developments in the coal contemplated state operation of the strike is steadily shifting today away coal mines, John L. Lewis, miners* from Washington and out into the j chief, said today that "if the Governor coal fields whero the policy of the „f Michigan desires to employ any government, involving reopening of rM| mlnerg Mnne ctlon with his ef- the mines under state or federal pro-,' , tectlon will be tested. ,ort “ ,0 ° n,,ra,e the m 1,163 in Michl ’ White House officials expressed * an ’ hP Wl " flnd thal the stat6 ’ int9 gratification over the responses from| an y °ther employer, first has to make the various Governors to the Presi-:satisfactory arrangements with the dent's appeal, pointing out that Gov. United Mine Workers.” (Continued on Pago Pour) Morrison, of North Carolina, was the only one who refused co-operation which the President asked. John L. Lewis, heed of the miners prepared to leave Washington during the day. Ho said the mine workers’ attitude was unchanged. LEWI8 SAYS MICHIGAN MU8T CON8ULT WITH THE U. M. W. Washington, D. C., July 20.—Advis- LUMBERMEN PLAN BETTER MARKETING FACILITIES Chicago, III.. July 20—Representa tives of lumber manufacturing, wood working and wood using Industries If the United States. Including one hundred and titty organizations, bo- gan a three-day conference bo-e day. These men are said to rep-v- BRAZILIAN COMMISSION NOT GUILTY EMBEZZLEMENT Washington, D. C., July 20.—The State Department announced today that the charges against D. C. Collier, commissioner general of the United States to the Brazilian Centennial ex position, had disclosed “no basis for any charge of dishonesty or moral turpitude.” Collier has been directed to return to Rio de Janlero to take ehurge of the American participation in the ex position. RUSSIAN REFUGEES IN TURKEY TO BE HELPED Ixrndon, July 20.—Ways and means of succoring and evacuating the thous ands of Russian refugees in Constan tinople, occupied today's session 9t the Council of the League of Nations. The American Red Cross. American Relief Administration and Y. i-M. C. A , all have made pledges of money or as distance to this work which the Coun cil will use as a nucleus tor contribu tions from other countries. It Is be lieved the Council will terminate its sittings Saturday. Arc YonGoing To Paint This Suitimei ? Now Is The Time We can furnish you anything in the Paint Line you may need WE SELL “Sherwin Williams Paints” The Prices Are Right AHSUMifR DiiJG co. "A Good Place to Tndb." Phonai 105 and 106 STATE ISSUES DISCUSSED BY GOVERNOR HARDWICK IN QUITMAN SPEECH -V- Quitman, Ga., July 20—In his ad dress here yesterday. Gov Hardwick restated and elaborated many Import ant states. He gave a clear and concise account of his stewardship and hi* position on all important Issues. He showed that when he became Governor he faced a treasury defect of 23.000,000, and faced It In a time of profound and widespread financial dis tress. He found that the state had ex hausted Its power to borrow moqey, was levying property taxes up to the constitutional limit of five mills, and yet it had several million dollars of debts that It could not pay by any ordinary method; consequently he had been forced to recommend to the Gen eral Assembley the plan originally sug gested by the able secretary of state, Mr. McLendon, namely to discount five years of the rental of the Western and Atlantic -Railroad in order to pay these debts. He pointed out that practically all of the proceeds of this discount, about two million dollars went to pay the arrears due to the Confederate pensioners, who were the heavies; credit creditors of the state, who could be paid In no other way, and who stood in dire need of the money. He then explained that In order to replace the Western and Atlantic rentals, so discounted for five years, he had recommended and secured the passage of a tax of one cent a gallon on gasoline, which tax he warmly de fended as working hardship on no one, and which he pointed out would raise from 2800,000 to 21,000,000 a year; or from 50 per cent, to almost 100 per cent, more than the railroad rent, which amounted to only 2546,000 jrear. Governor Hardwick next proceeded to (how that responding to his urgent aal to balance Income and outgo ■gainst each other, and to keep the appropriations within the revenue, that the Legislature last year had re duced the appropriations tor 1022 one and one-half-million dollars below the the appropriations ot 1221. He pointed out that on every occa sion on which he had addressed the fully planned, lu advance of legislative Legislature, beginning with his Inau- appropriations, Just bow every dollar gural address on July 25, 1921, follow- :Of the revenue was to be spent, and ed by his address on July 26, 1921. | no more thun the revenue that was to and more recently by bis address at, be appropriated. He wanted a system the beginning ot the present session by which graft and extravagance could ot tile Legislature, he had repeatedly and Insistently urged rigid economy and the abolition of all useless and un ite detected and prevented before they occurred and not after they occurred. He wanted the stable door locked be- necossary offices and places. These j fore the horse was stolen, and not offices and places were created by law,; after the animal wus stolen. He said and could not be abolished unless the; be wanted a system by which any Legislature repealed the laws that'citizen of the slate could ascertain created them. He said that In his ef-j whether his or her tax money was tort to rid the state of as many useless, wisely spent or foolishly spent; could officials as possible he had employed also tell, at any moment Just how every experts to examine Into the several de-jeent of It was spent. He said he had partments and boards, and that the' recommended to the Legislature In de investigators had reported many re-!tail and with ample specification, a trenchmenta and economies that were ! measure to accomplish this purpose, possible and feasible. The Governor j He hoped and believed thiB measure pointed out that he had been forced,would pass, and predicted that If it to employ aome one to make these In vestigations as he did not have the time in the pressure of many other of ficial duties, to attempt a detail work of this kind in person, and had to em ploy the best expert help he could pro cure In order to find out about these things. He said that there had been a good deal said about the “new broom”— his reply was that he had famished ft, In good shape, and In good work Jng order, to the Legislature, who atone could use It; and that if that body refused or failed to use the broom aa he hoped It would not do, the fault would be theirs, and not bis, as he had done all he could, under the constitu tion and laws of the state, and was not to blame If aome other body did not de Its duty. The Governor said bis dearest hope, his greatest ambition, was to establish tor Georgia a complete and modem business system for the transaction ot Its fiscal affairs, by audit and by budget, so that Georgia might have the same kind ot a business system as that employed by all large and suc cessful buslness ( concerns. He wanted a system by which It could be care- did. the present General Assembly would have performed a lasting ser vice of Incalculable value to the- peo ple of Georgia. He said that, as far as he was concerned, he would be will ing to rest the claims of his admlnle- tratlon to service to the people upon this one measure, which ought to have beo enacted long ago, above and be yond any one matter. In discussing the subject of taxation the Governor stoutly maintained the position that he has maintained (throughout bis administration. He contended that the present tax system was Inadequate to supply the needs of the state, and unjust lo Its distribution of the burden of taxation. He con tended that more than 90 per cent, of the tax burden was borne by visible and tangible classes of property, and lest than 8 per cent, by the Invisible and Intangible classes. He said that In this period of profound depression In agricultural circles, tuts was a great hardship on the farmers, and that he earnestly believed a portion of this burdeo ought to be transferred from their shoulders to the stronger shoul (Continued on Page Four) White House officials declined to discuss the Governor’s course. MICH.. GOVERNOR WANTS TO TAKE OVER COAL MINES Lansing, Mich., July 20 -Gov. Groes- lieck In a telegram prepared for tnsmlsslon to the President today sked the sanction of the federal gov ernment of a plan to take over end operate th» coal mines under state control and whether the federal gov ernment would join the state in tak ing over the properties. PITTSBURG COAL COMPANY WON’T TRY TO OPERATE Bellalre, O., July 20 —Charles Bis con, Secretary of the Pittsburgh Vein Coal Operators’ Association, which about twelve billion dollars of Invest- mi capilal and their industries have an annual output of approximately tour billion dollars. The general purpose of the confer, i controls mines producing about once Is to introduce economies and | third of the ooal mined in Ohio to- elemlnate misrepresentation and day said that members of the Assocl-i- manlpulation of lumber products. Uion would not attempt to reopen the I mines under the President’s "proteo tion plan." MILLEDGEVILLE MAN GUILTY OF MURDER Mllledgeville, Ga., July 20.—The jury In the case of Oleon Johnson, charged with murder in connection with the stabbing of Lonnie Griffin on May first, today returned a verdict of lullty with a recommendation tor life imprisonment. The fight took place at a dance. Columbus, O., July 20.—The Consol idated Coal Company, of Perry county todey sent an open letter to Governor Davis declaring that It wished to re sume operations and asking military protection for its workmen. Should the Governor refuse, the Company said It would appeal directly to tho President. TEN MEN ACCUSED Wi;H PHILIPS IN . BIG LUMBER DEAL AT WASHINGTON FALL OF ITALIAN MINISTRY YESTERDAY Rome, Italy. July 20.—The fall ot tho ministry of premier Defactu which resigned yesterday, appears to have been precipitated by the Catholic par ty, which altho it has but eight mem bers in the cabinet passed over to the opposition. Kurly today the King had taken no action on the resignations. Since the leading Socialists, Communists, Pas- Conspiracy to Defraud the United States of a Million Dollars Or More is Made the Basic Charge Against Them In Grand Jury Investigation. Washington, D. C., July IS.— An in dictment against ten persons, charg ing conspiracy to defraud the Unite ! States of over a million dollars in connection with the disposition of government lumber, was returned by the special federal grund Ju-y to dey. The Indictment Included Johu L. Philips, .Republican national com* ctetl and Liberals also voted against ;mitteeman for Georgia; John Steph* the Defacta cabinet, there appears to lens, partner of Philips, Ernest C. be no indication of their intention to J Morse. Charles S. Shotweil, George advise the crown regarding solution M. Chambers, Gus Eitzen and Mitch- of the crisis. I ell A Touart, Jr. f SOMETHING NEW FOR THE MEN AND BOYS Just received new line of men’s and boys caps in pretty patterns and stvles. See window display. $2.00 Smith-Harlcv Shoe Co. New Neckwear New Collar Laces and Embroideries— Collar, Cuff and Vest Sets New Net and I.ace Guimpes. I.acc Trimmed Organdie Ruffling for Collars. Round See these new trimmings—they “dress up” your dress. LI THft SHOP OP QUALITY ON THB CORNIR The home of Hart Scha finer & Marx Clothes.

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The Times-enterprise semi-weekly edition. (Thomasville, Ga.) 1???-????, July 21, 1922, Image 1