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3EMI-WEEKLY TIMM-ENTERPRISE, THOMA8VILLB, GEORQIA
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1822
E R. BANISTER WRITES
ON MATTERS OF INTEREST
TO THE COUNTY
Editor, Times-Enterprlse:
In my school days I was taught a
system of working mathematics, which
system was known as "cause and ef
fect." It was very simple, easily ex
plained and easily understood.
For everything that occurs there
must be a cause. If we do not succeed
in an undertaking there Is a cause for
the failure. After making a failure
we should seek the cause, remove the
same and try again, instead of taking
the risk again under the same old sys
tem and then attribute the failure to
"if" and “because."
There has been millions of dollars
spent in combatting the boll weevil,
and many more millions will be spent
ip the future. The history and nature
of the pest is well known by every
intelligent cotton grower. We know
that he cannot survive but a short
time on anything except cotton. We
know that only a very small per cent,
of them survive the winter. Not alone
because they are frozen, but because
there is no cotton to live on. We
the manufacturing North and East, un
der such discrimination, then we con
fess our Inability to grasp the purpose
of their protective tariff. The only
possible thing that can defeat the
Democratic nominee In tbe next na
tional election Is tbe Deague of Na
tions Issue. Wo are unable to attrib
ute Mr. Harding's election to anything
but that issue of the Democratic par
ty. Right or wrong, the American peo
ple are against it, and If the Demo
cratic party Is to he successful It must
relegate the League of Nations to the
Junk pile.
Judging by the recent convictions In
tho Thomas county courts, the county five years. 1
era of Thomas county In the construc
tion of tbe Boston road under tbe sys
tem In which it Is being built. Tbe es
timated cost Is around ten thousand
dollars per mile. If it can be built for
eight thousand, Thomas county saves
two thousand dollars per mile,
twenty thousand on the ten miles. The
thing in which the people should be
mostly Interested Is the time it will
take to build Jt under tbe present sys
tem. It is estimated by some that It
will take four years, and if this be
true one end will be worn out before
the other end Is completed. I have
been officially Informed that the life
of tbe type of work which will be done
on the Boston road is "from four to
commissioners deserve the praise of
all law-abiding citizens for their move
to have the jury list revised. It has
proven to he a very effective means
in enforcing the law. ...
As a matter of Justice to the county
commissioners, as well as information
to the general public, I shall make a
brief explanation as to why the sys
tem of employ hired labor to do cer
tain road work was Inaugurated by the
board of commissioners.
I was a member of the board at the
time, and am willing to assume my
know, or have been taught, that only Qf the responslblllty oI any
the young weevils—those hatched late
in the season—survive the winter.
With all this knowledge as to the
nature of the boll weevil, why do we
leave the green stalks growing in the
field after the crop has been harvest
ed? We do not expect a "second
mistake that might have been made
in the matter. The parties who were
awarded the contract for building the
big concrete bridgo told, in a boasting
manner, of the profit made on the Job,
which profit was about 312,000. The
people who built the two and one-quar-
crop;" therefore, why do we continue^ er nl j] eg Q[ permanent road made, I
raising weevils until nature drives'
them out of the fields?
The winter months of the last two
years were very mild and killing frosts
unusually late, so late that tbe writer
picked live weevils off the green cot
ton on Christmas day of both last year
and the year before. By October
first, we could easily have every cot
ton stalk either plowed under or
burned. Then, instead of going three
months without food, the weevil would
have six months in which to starve.
So let us all admit that tbe cause of
the short cotton crop is the effect of
our carelessness in allowing the stalks
to remain growing In the tleldB.
To a close observer, the political
situation Is anything hut cnoouraging
for the G. O. F. Under a Republican
administration, with a Republican ma
jority In both branches of Congress,
they are unable to point "with pride”
to a single piece of constructive legis
lation, beneficial to the masses. Un
der their "protective tariff we have
absolutely no protection for either the
producer or consumer. If the produc-
understand, a like amount of profit.
Knowing that the contractors were
making such tremendous profits, we
undertook a Job on the Boston road—
building fills—by hired labor. But,
before doing so, we had an estimate
mado by a civil engineer, determining
the cubic yardage of dirt necessary to
do the job. While we asked for no
bids on this particular work, work of
exactly the same nature done a few
weeks previous to this, cost one dollar
per cubic yard, under contract. Both
Jobs being federal aid projects, In
which the state and federal govern
ment paid fifty per cent., the former
cost Thomas county around fifty cents
per cubic yard and the latter around
three cents per cubic yard. The State
Highway Commission does not pay
fifty per cent, of the cost of construc
tion, but fifty per cent, of tbe cost es
timated by their civil engineer. If the
estimate on tbe work done by the hir
ing of free labor was too high, Thomas
county profited thereby, because fifty
per cent, of tbe estimated cost was
paid by the highway commission. I
firmly believe that there will be many
Unless we can build permanent
roads that will last at least fifty years,
I sincerely hope that Thomas county,
after completing the road now being
built, will undertake to build no more
permanent roads. Federal aid is
available for sand clay roads, but with
out federal aid, tbe Thomas county
bond issue would have made a fir. 1
class road of that type, of every mile
of public road In the county.
Respectfully,
H. L. BANISTER,
Coolldge, Ga„ Oct. 26, 1922.
BUNK GATLIN FOUND DEAD
Coroner Cooper was called yester
day to hold an inquest over the body
of Bunk Gatlin, who found dead by
the roadside in the Merrillville com
munity. The testimony brought at
the inquest developed that Bunk bad
suffered from a hemorrhage tbe day
before, and It was the opinion of the
Coroner's Jury that he died os a re
sult of this, as be was not known to
have bad any enemies or to have
been at outs with any one. The ver
dict brought In by the Coroner’s Jury
which was empanelled to Investigate
his death, with the evidence submit
ted follows:
Anderson Gatlin, on oath says that
he went to Merrillville with a load of
cross-ties, and when he was coming
hack he noticed Bunk lying beside
door step and got out of wagon and
went to him and found him dead.
Annie Belle Bunks, wife, on oath
says, that Bunk went to Tbomasville
yesterday and ho told her when he
came back that he had had a hemorr
hage in town, and he went to see the
doctor, and the doctor gave him some
medicine to take and warned him that
the trouble would kill him, and this
morning he got his gun and said he
would go out and kill a bird. De
ceased party was not carrying any in
surance whatever.
Mrs. G. W. Davis says that she be
lieves the deceased died from hemorr-
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TH0MASV1LLE GOERGIA
WE VULCANIZE
Attorney Mott Says Evidence
Of Mrs. Gibson Has Been
Corroborated and Case Will
Now Be Submitted to the
Grand Jury.
New Brunswick, N. J., Oct. 27.—
The Hall-Mills murder case is no long
er a mystery, declared Special Deputy
Attorney General Mott, today, an
nouncing that be had found a person
who had corroborated the story of
Mrs. Gibson who was a witness to
the double killing. He kept the name
of the new witness a secret, but de
clared that he could now take the
case to the grand jury.
prominInt CHURCHMAN
WILL BE INTERVIEWED
New Brunswick, N. J„ Oct. 27.—Wil
bur A -Mott, special deputy attorney
general is expected today to inter
view a prominent churchman In
effort to corroborate the statement of
Mrs. Jane Gibson, eye-witness to the
Hall-Mills slaying.
Mrs. Gibson sold tbe churchman’s
car was parked near tbe scene of the
killing, tbe car's beadlight enabling
ber to see tbe fatal battle.
Attorney Pfeiffer, lor Mrs. Hall, de
nied that sbe or ber brother, Henry
Stevens, were present when the cou
ple were slain.
Attorney Mott called Mrs. Gibson to
go over tbe details of tbe story. It
also became known today that Mott
had ordered the seizure of an antique
auto, which Mrs. Gibson said stood
near the scene of the double-killing.
MRS. HALL AND BROTHER
CHARGED WITH MURDER
New Brunswick, N. J. OcL 27—Mrs.
Francis Stevens Hall, widow of the
slain rector of the Protestant Episco
pal Church of St. John the Evangelist,
and her brother, Henry Stevens, are
the man and woman named In the
sworn statement of Mrs. Jane Gibson,
self-styled eyewitness of tbe double
slaying of the Rev. Edward Wheeler
Hall and Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills on the
night of SepL 14. last.
This announcement was not made by
the authorities, but became known to
day through the lsuance of a state
ment by Mrs. Hall's attorney, Timothy
Pffelfer, denying tbe facts of Mrs.
Gibson’s account and declaring that
neither the rector’s widow nor her
brother were on the Phillips farm on
the night of the double slaying
"Mrs. Gibson’s statements are con
trary to the facts,” Mr. Pfeiffer said.
“Mrs. Hall was in her home all eve
ning. Barbara Tough, one of the
maids, was out that night, and Louisa
Oeist, the other maid, was on the
stoop.
There was no one else but a little
seven-year-old niece In the house with
Mrs. Hall. But there may have been
one visitor.
Henry Stevens’ Identification as one
of the quartette seen on the farm is
also contrary to fact Henry was at
Lavallette, N. J., all that night.
Mrs. Gibson In her statement, it Is
known, declared that she had seen four
persons on the night of tbe murders
under the crabapple tree, where two
days later the bodies of the rector and
the choir singer were found.
Mrs. Gibson also said In her state
ment that she heard the man, whom
she alleges she saw fire a series of
shots at the rector and the choir singer
addressed by his companion.
The cries of Mrs. Mills, which Mrs.
Gibson declared “still ring In my ears
at night," had hardly echoed, the wom
an farmer said, when ths second worn*
and In the quartette screamed tn s ter
rified tone, “Oh, Henry.”
Vote AGAINST “Peach County”
W HAT would you say to • proposal that Georgia ba chipped awa?
to form new states?
Who would dare attempt it?
Georgia, proud member of the original thirteen colonies, in earlier raw
erations gave of her wilderness at the westward that younger atatea might
be bom. But the times no longer call for sacrifice. And Georgia remains
ah empire.
Who would demand that Georgia give again, in order that.
might constitute itself the capital of a state of its own? Or l
°No one would be so foolhardy. UNLESS THERE WERE MONEY IN
IT. Then the Big Lobby Butt operates around the Capitol a Atlanta
would cuddle up to the job. y
It might ovto orlflnat# tho Idea-
It enfmtM now on moroljr •
E - out of tho wild# bowrrao tho Flint #nd
ulgoo Rlvoro. So wtdo wtra Its bordtra
even In thooo Mlly timU It ranked ••
one of tbs "Big Six" of Georgia counties. How*
"LnL'.m ssriu ^
to her reus. Houtton gave life unto other
countie#, and gmva. #nd. |m agxtn. What It
left It enough, no doubt: for Houston It •
froaperous county, with fine ratftit and fkitnt
and a contented people.
B UT YOU will not sign. YOU ARE WARNED NOW. Yob an awaka. ALERT,
Yon ncogntia the handiwork of tbit insidious Inflratira whWh has boon depraving
our weaker lawmakers for years, sine, tho golden days of Honor. A ponderer. Arousing
eupldlty, envy, covetousness, in gnod men that R may sell Us seTviicat tn gratify or lia
protection to forestall A moat on worthy thing that has waxed kt and powerful among
us by grace of our indifference Or 'our confident* at tho poila.
YOU KNOW IT NOW.
You are grouted to its (nenacn And by thw»rtigg it for tho first time since
sew county projects were mi rad upon ae a touroa of revenue—by blocking 8 NOW—i
yon decree its end.
You are AGAINST "Poach County"
Citizens of Macon and Houston Counties
(AUvcrUssmenU
U. S. MAY HAVE AN
OFFICIAL OBSERVER
TO PRESENT BILL ABOLISHINQ
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN GA.
Atlanta, Ga., OcL 27, C. T.
Osbum, president of the League For
the Abolition of Capital Punishment
announced that a bill providing for
the abolishment of capital punish,
ment has been drawn and will be
presented to the Legislature at its
next session. At the same time Mrs.
Osbum made public a letter from
Mrs. M. E. “Mother” Gibbs, presi
dent of the Protestant women’s
Political League, indorsing the move,
ment and offering, “hearty moral
and financial support.
Washington, Oct. 27.—The United
States probably will be represented at
the Near East peace conference by an
official observer. There is virtually
no chance that the Washington gov
ernment wlU participate directly In
the conference, however, or be a signa
tory of the treaty of peace to be evolv
ed.
Decision of allied governments to In
vite American participation as a party
to the peace negotiations, it can be
said on authority, finds the attitude of
the Washington government unchang
ed. While the reply to the invitation
can bo formulated only after it has
been received, probably today, there
Is no reason to doubt what the nature
of the American answer will be. The
American policy of standing aloof from
European political tangles and of con
fining Itself strictly to questions in
which It has a direct Interest, com
mercial or otherwise, such as the free
dom of the Turkish straits, has under
gone no change.
Paris dispatches indicate that the in
vitation is to be presented to Secre
tary Hughes through the British,
French and Italian embassies
Washington. That it will be met with
appreciation of the importance at
tached by these powers to their propo
sal that tho United States share in tbe
difficult task before the Lusanne con
ference is to be expected.
It la expected at the same time,
however, the embassies will be very
fully advised that as a non-belligerent
in the war between the allies and Tur
key ,tbe United States feels that It
can not have any direct share In
peace conference to bring that war to
an end.
American Interests are too deeply
Involved In the final solution of the
problem of the Turkish straits, how
ever, and also In the immunities that
American eltlxasa shall enjoy in Turk
ish territory, both In commercial and
religious matter*, to permit the Wash
ington government to stand wholly
aside from tbe peace parley. Secre
tary Hughes made this plain recently
during the most tense moments of the
Near East crisis when he refused to
discuss In any way any political ques
tions Involved, but declared that the
American policy demanded freedom of
the straits and adequate protection of
racial and religious minorities in Turk
ish territory. It can be said authori
tatively that the American viewpoint
Is still summarised In that declara
tion that the decision in Paris to Invite
equal participation In the peace con
ference by the United States has not
affected that attitude.
BIRDS ARE FAITHFUL TO
HOMES BUT NOT MATES
Chicago, Oct. 27—.The yellow
journals in birdland, if any ex
isted, could print some racy stories
about .thqir (prominent fcitizena ’if
polygamy were news, but on the con.
trary it’s quite common among
featheyed friendfi, according ,to S.
Prentiss Baldwin, of Cleveland,
specking to-day before the fortieth
State meeting of the American
Ornithologists Union at tho Field
Museum. Birds, he has found, show
little fidelity for their mates beyond
a single season and have new ones
every year.
Mr. Baldwin has a farm at Thomas,
ville, Ga., and has been handling
birds since 1919. In one respect,
however, the birds show remarkable
fidelity to their “Sommer homes,”
Mr. Baldwin has observed among
those birds he has banded. They re.
turn from the North to the Southland
regularly each Winter and go back
to the pen where they were first
banded. Mr. Baldwin said, though
usually with a new mate.
One house wren observed by Mr.
Baldwin had a new mate each
son for four years. In another case
Mr. Baldwin observed a pair of
wrens in 1919. They returned in
1921 with a son, each with a new
mate and the son himself bad taken a
bride. Bat the following season the
younger bird’a mate had joined the
father bird.
CATHOLICS MUST NOT MARRY
EXCEPT IN THE MORNING
Savannah, Ga., Oct 27.—Bishop
Keyes, of the Catholic Diocese of Sav
annah has called the attention of
priests of this diocese to the rule
providing that marriages In Catholic
churches In Georgia, (hall take place
In the mornings The Bishop declar
ed the rale was not being strictly ob
served.
BI8HOP KEYE8 WILL
SPEAK IN MACON
Macon Ga., Oct. 27—The address
of Bishop Keyes of Savannah Is to be
the feature at tbe convention Sunday
of the Catholic Laymen’s Association.
Seven hundred delegates are to at
tend morning mass.
TWO AVIATORS KILLED
WHEN PLANE FALLS
Norfolk, Va., Oct 27—Lieut Edward
Lewis Ericsson, of New York city, and
Lieut Roger Franklin Armstrong, of
Rochester, N. Y. and Norfolk, naval
aviators, were killed Instantly at 1:18
o’clock this afternoon when a plane
crashed to earth with them near No.
1 hanger at the Hampton Roads naval
air station. Their awaiting advices
from relatives.
The badly crushed bodies were
dragged from the plane’s wreckage
by a dozen men who witnessed the fall
The shoes and leggings of one of the
men had been unlaced and removed
apparently as If be had expected his
plane to fall In the water nearby and
made ready to jump for safety. The
fliers, both of whom wero regarded
as first class pilots, and themselves
constructed, or rebuilt, the plane In
which they took their last flight
yesterday. It was of the JN-4 type and
a land machine and they were mak
ing a test of Its strength this after
noon.
They were not "stunting,’' accord
ing to men at the air station, who
witnessed the fall. The plane had
been In tbe air only about ten min
utes when the crash came.
Men who saw the fall said that the
"flippers” were out of control. The
naval hoard of Inquiry called to In
vestigate the accident had little to
work upon, becauso the plane was so
thoroughly wrecked that Investiga
tions of causes of the tragedy were
doomed to futility.
As well ns they conld estimate, wit
nesses said the machine went Into a
nose dive for 800 feet and tanking the
earth with a terrific impact, was shat
tered. Lieut. Erlsson was in com
mand of the squadron of seaplanes
which "attacked” ships of tbe Atlantic
fleet last month with torpedoes hurl
ed fro mthe craft .
The accident cast gloom over the
air station on the eve of the big navy
day celebration today. Both victims
were popular and were recognized as
Intrepid filers. A dance scheduled to
be held at the station last night In
honor of Capt. H. E. Yarnell, com
mandant, hai been Indefinitely post
poned. Llent Erison was scheduled
to have commanded six torpedo
planea in a flight over Norfolk this
morning ai a feature of the navy day
celebration. The accident will not
Interrupt the plana for this flight, it
is said, as another filer win be assign
ed to take Llent. Ericsson’s place.
got to him.
Evans Gatlin, his brother, eaye de
ceased bad been complaining of not
feeling well for some time and was
able to do very little work of any kind,
and that he believes that the hemorr
hage killed him. He was on good
terms with everybody, bo far ae he
knows.
GEORGIA, Thomas County:
October 26, 1922.
We, the jury, sworn to investigate
tbe death of Bank Gatlin, find that he
came to hit death from severe hemorr
hages.
WM. MCMILLAN,
JOHN MARSTON,
M. G. SUBER,
W. J. MANNING,
F. M. DYKE,
J, W. SLOCUM.
J. C. COOPER,
. Coroner.
The Fall Opening Sale
Is still on at the
Coolidge Bargain Store
Don’t fail to visit same, where you
can get Big Bargains for Httle money.
The Coolidge Bargain Store
A. OROVITZ, PROP. COOLIDGE, GA.
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