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-• • :!■■■ ATHENS COTTON: MIDDMMi . 26 l-2c FRIDAY'S CLOSE , 26 5-8c THE THE WEATHERf Rising temperature with _ creasing cloudiness and possible showers scattered over Georgia. VOL !'0 No. 306 Associated Press Dispatches. ATHENS, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 3,1923. URGE CONSOLIDATION OF CLARKE SYSTEM OF SCHOOLS WITH ATHENS IT SMELLS LIKE A FILLING STATION Single Copies 2 Cents Daily. 5 Cents Sunday, j LARRY GANTT’S DAILY COLUMN Prosperity In Jackson County (in T. LARRY GANTT) . During my stay in Jefferson | Committee. Composed Of R . P> Wh5te And w _ M _ Coile Goes Before Com missioners. t Friday I met a number of old j i i('M<l>, both citizens of the town i ml farnu rs. And it was gratify-1 ig tu hear so many of them say j ley read my little sketches daily \ the Banner or Herald. Our pa- j ers have a much more extenued TlVA I>1 tVC IDP >uiitry circulation than I thought ’ 1 *' Altl- i.M-ihie. But Jackson was always POINTED OUT stronghold for the Banner, even I hen I ownpd the paper. | one of the most pleasant ind- Several Counties In Geoi’-, 1 visit to Jefferson was • r , ,. gia Have Consolidated! dents of my visit to Jefferson was in meet my old friend John Ross, whom I have not seen in lo these many ycras. John was an Emory Speer leader white I was a Can dler man, hut this political differ ence never eflccted our personal friendship. John Ross said he ad- an(| coumy school system9 , )e con . Speer against accepting thi . solldated was made at Systems And Are Pleas-! ed With it. i Recommendation that the vised — 77r]"° it, ;soiiaateu was made at the Board teikra judgeship and joining the f Commiss j oners Mt , ctinB Tuos . Republican party, but toldJbmnry | day mornin( , I)y a committee rep. County Board of unucan party, wt wo* day morning’by a committer rep. that he would come back and get! rosent j nB the Count ~ ’ ' any office lie wanted. But Speer,Educ^aHon. replied that it was a life-time jo , The committee was composed of hat he had a family ,of all girls, ^ p t Vhi te and W. M Coile, and had to look to his future. 1 COUNTY-WIDE HERE FRIDAY FARMERS MEET AFTERNOON AT : 1 THREE O’CLOCK IN COURT HOUSE OLD COUNCIL TO .HOLD F1L MEET TO 1922 Members Will Meet At 10 O’clock and Will Be Followed By New Council At Noon. 2 NEW ALDERMEN TO BE SWORN IN FORERUNNER OF CONFERENCE AT STATE COLLEGE TO PLAN 1923 AGRICULTURAL PROGRAM Clarke county farmers will meet Friday at 3 o’clock in the county court house for the purpose of discussing an agricultural program for 1923, Couri- ty Agent Jones Purcell announced Tuesday. Capt. Rucker and Wallace Bell Are New Members. Audit of City Books Is Now Under Way. progressive FARMER These gentlemen pointed out that a consolidation would restdt in saving to the school system. At the same time it was suggested _ „ - ^ {that a consolidation of som£ of the Mr. Ross for many years h .jrural schools might prow as bene- j.rohiinent county olftcc a ficial to the county school system could never be beat. He u , as a combination of the city and one of the progressive f* 0 ’'® 1 ® ’’'county systems. A transportation his county and owns .two v™.system was also suggested. J places. I had a most lntcresti g The commissioners appointed the talk with my fr *«"‘ l P° ss . .J .County Engineer, Homer K.l CHICAGO — Newspaper puhliei the agricultural situatian 1 MNi cho | 8 „n to draw’s map of the, t y, through news stories and paid tMinty for I could not Have met ->, toU ntji Rowing <I the schools advertising was endorsed tn a pub better oiuorxnofl man. j and- the road system of.Jhc COW* Ho. statement .Tuesday by,a’ com- He said some negroes had ex-, ty j n or( tcr to arrive at a definite j mtttee - representing" the Chicago odusted, but not enough to effect I pj an# There are 14 white rind 12 j church Federation, the labor situation, for Jackson j co lored schools in the county sysj .. Th<? mo8t effective way to had a large white P^pulrition an I t^m. ! roach the crowd and interest them was never in the “Black welt A consolidation of the city and in lhe church 1r through tho daily Frank Holden has a contract to county school systems would re-, n(nvH|K , 1Hjr j n Q ft« e s of 230.000 or build a section of road in North, qu j rt , legislative action. Several j OVOPi the reIK >rt said. Carolina and carried away a bunch j Georgia counties have had con-j other exerpta from the com- of negroes, but when the job j solidated school systems for many m |ttee* announcement said: complete Frank will bring them j y Paii s, among them Chatham, it pays in dollars to advertise, back home. Mr. Ross says he does.Q| enn# Richmond and Bibb coun-jone metropolitan church increan- not look upon this emigrating ties, it j s understood the’ schools ot | its loose coib'ction to 422.000 movement among negroes with ap-|j n both city and county have been! i n two yeurs, certain other smal- prehenson, for he knows the dar- • greatly improved and modernized j i er churches showing a prepor- ,oy and they just can't stand the g jnce the Consolidation. tionate increase. .. »•—u« irnnwA The consolidation of the school ••Advertising lifts tne standard systems was urged in a strong of preaching and service and help* statement by County School Su- to make good and come up to the perintendent T. H. Dozier at a j advertising. meeting of the Community Coun- Magazines spend large sums in cil several months ago. Pledger Funeral Services Will Be Held At 3 O'clock Funeral services for Marshal! Newton Pledger, age 79, well know pioneer Athens citizen who died at his residence 920 East Broad street, Tuesday at noon, arc can ambassador to Krnnco. has ar- to be hold from the home Wednes- r>»tved. la Paris from Cannes and day afternoon at three thirty o’clock. Rev. B. F. Elliot will officiate, Rev. George Stone will assist and U ,S. WILL WATCH PARIS.— (By The Associated Press)—Myron T. Herrick, Amori- with Roland W. Boyden, the Am erican representative with the re:- aratlons commission, will watch developments closely during the cold climutc up North. He knows nt several negroes from Jackson county who left and have return ed. Some on his place who moved away have returned home and say they will stay now. Many negroes left for North Carolina to work with tobucco, but that work gavej „ut and they found themselves | among strangers and without money. Mr. Ross says that farm ers could have held their nanus, but they did not think they could profitably grow cotton under boll weevil tenditions and so would not feed them. When farmers need these negroes they will be sick of the North and glad to return.- CAN GROW COTTON Mr. Ross says they arc now con vinced that cotton can be grown under the most adverse boll weevil conditions by the intelligent use of calcium arsenate. This year has settled this fact. About three- fourths of a crop can be made and at around 25 cents per pound farmers can make more money than ever before to our Southern- farmer. Mr. Ross says beginning next year he confidently believes a season of great prosperity will break upon tile Sjiuth. Farmers will raise their own food crops and can make of cotton their _ chief money crop. Instead of having to pay their cotton money out for CONSTANTINOPLE — Official announcement that an Inrurres- tlon had broken out at Mosul In the Kingdom of Irak, was received here from Angora Tuesday. Tie telegram said that the Inhabitants of the entire oil producing region were demanding annexation of the country to Turkey. Dispatches from London Mon day regarding the revolt in Mosul reported thut the hangers of the British airman had hcen burned taking phro advertisement!! In the daily newnpaper*. It pay* or they would not do it. **(j«*t on good terms with the newspaper by <SOO|pilonAlly fur- nlHhing news which does not es pecially concern you or your par ticular church. ••In church announcements put the attractive feature first.” The committees report was its finding on the National publicity conference held here on October 31 attended by more than 400 ministers from 11 states. interment will follow in the Oconee premiers' conference and keep Sec- cemetery. The following men will ‘ of State Hughes well in- act as pallbeaerrs; A. G. Dudley, E. L. Jackson, C. E. Little, H. T. Culp, R. T. Dottery and J. D. El liott. Besides a widow, Mrs. Mary Ann Pledger, Mr. Pledger is sur vived by Mrs. A. E. Andrews, of Tallulah, Mrs. Allison Bradberry, of Abbeville, S. C M Mrs. E. J. Holmes, Mrs. J. E. Short, L. O. and A. F. Pledger, all of Athens. EASTERN STAR Maternity Death Rate Increased WASHINGTON — Infant mop nliiy has decreased, hut the muter nity death rate has increased, «c The British government through | rorillng to the annual report of its spokesmen at the Lausanne MisK Grace Abbott, chief of the conference has Insisted upon Its children’s Bureau of the Depart- rlght to the rich Mosul oil Helds, I ment of Lalmr, which was made Jurisdiction over which Is claimed public Tuesday. Maternity deaths by Turkey. During the past few weeks there have been several re ports of threatened insurrections In the territory for which I.ondoi ported supplies they will raise has held the Turks paitlal.y re- everj-thing to run their farms at home an be independent. Every Jackson county former realizes. that a brighter day is ahead and will go to work the new year with hope and energy. They are going to plant from five to seven ucres of cotton to the plow and igrow at home .every thing to feed man and beast. , Frank Holden did not make as much cotton this year as last, but he made n good crop. The weevil got a start on his cotton, but he set in and fought the pest hard and to the finish. Several farm ers in the county who used poison made front one-half to a bale to the acre. The farmers of Jackson counyt are tvry much interested in the Hill mixture of arsenic and mo lasses, they have read the page re port of its success in the Banner ami Herald. Already several pat ties arc organizing in the county lo visit Burke and personally in vestigate its merits. I told these farmers that I had, with a party "f leading farmers around Ath ens, visited Burke courty and would write one or more articles for our papers telling what these farmer* and myself sponsible. LONDON — It was stated in of ficial circles Tuesday afternoon that no confirmation of the report that an uprising nad taken place in Mosul had been received. It was pointed out that the source- of the rciiort—Angora through Constantinople—was sufficient to cause it one of the numerous re- mors which might ho expected to be forthcoming dally until settle ment of the Near East conference was reached. r; 2i ■ nd . -. -’-a—vs.-■ ->-*• Colleges Open Sessions Today Lticv Cobb Institute, the State Normal School and University of Georgia will open Wednesday morning for the mid-winter ses sion. The Lucy Cobb|will open at 8:45. No exercises will be held at anv of the Institutions, students returning to regular class work. Registration at the University began Tuesday and trains were bringing students tpick home from; she said, were more numerous per unit of population In the United States birth registration area tn 1920 than any in foreign country for which the figures were avail able and despite the decline of-In- fant mortality. Five other coun tries reported lower rates. Search For Negroes Who Killed 1 Officer And Wounded Four BAPULPA. Okla. — Officers and armed citizens were scouring the hilly country. North of here early Tuesday for four negroes who kill ed one policeman and wounded four others Monday ni„ht when the officers went to the negro dis trict In response to a mysterious telephone cell. A telephone call was received hy the police Monday night reporting trouble at a certain address In the negro district. Five officers were sent out to investigate. They found no disturbance and Institu ted a ■ search. Without warning they were fired upon and L-atrol- man S. E. Brambley fell dead. His four Companions were wound- Tbe negroes escaped and If is believed they obtained a motor car sad drove north. They are armed with rifles. They left be- New officers of the Salonia chapter of the Eastern Star were inducted in office at a public meeting Monday night at the Masonic Temple. Tho ceremony was a very beautiful and impres sive one. Will L. Erwin made the main speech of the evening and Mrs. S. P. Reaves, former Worthy Matron, presided. W. F. Dorsey introduced Mr. Erwin in short and appropriate speech. The new officers installed were: Mrs. Eustinfc Bailey, Worthy Ma tron; W. F. Dorsey, Worthy Pa tron; Miss Myrtle Marlatt, Asso ciate Matron; Miss Ethe! Purcell, formed of tho progress made. Al though the United States is with out an observer at the premiers’ meeting it Is in «t>c— touch wltji the French foreign office and the visiting delegation und will bn kept informed through the usual dp ln- matiu channels and the reparations observers, so that tho state de partment In accordance with In structions given will be able to fol low events closoly. The old council, that Is the 1922 members, with the mayor, will hob! its final session of the year Wed- j nesday morning, convening at the city hall at 10 o'clock when re ports for the past year will be heard and adopted and all the busi ness of 19Z2 closed. * Immediately following this ses sion the new council for 1923 will meet nt noon. and tb° two new j members will be inducted Into of fice. These members are Captain J. H Rucker from the third ward and Wallace Bell from the fifth, elected tu succeed Paul H. Conolly nnd J. L. McLeroy, respectively, who uid not offer for re-election. Both of these new members are well known citizens of Athens. Captain Hncker served as postmaster dnr- liu Ipo Wilson administration until over a year ago when he resigned, lie tins already seen former service in council and Is thoroughly ac quainted with the affairs of the ny. Ho is one of the most popu lar citizens of the city ond will take h large Interest In the affairs of Alliens coming before the coen- cllmantc body. Mr. Bell Is a nephew of Con- grensmnn Bell of the Ninth district nml has been a resident for a long lime of the now section of the city taken in when the incorporate 11 «.• Its wore extended and knows thor oughly the needs of that section. The Martin Auditing company, o£ Atlanta, la completing an audit of the city's books and will havo the reports ready for the meeting Wednesday. Tills audit will show the financial status of the etty. Mayor Thomas states that for the first time In 119 years tho city begins the new year with a balance in the hank. This does not mean. Commissioners Ask $25,000.00 More For Roads The county commissioners quested an additional |25,000.00 from the Federal government for road improvements in Cralke county at the meeting Tuesday. G. W. Darden of the State and federal road department was iu attendance at thu meeting and lock i'.o request to he trnusfereu for auic.i. The cc. j( y has already b- en c'- iotted $50,000.00 for road im provements In this county and the ddttlonal money is for extension Ither on the Bogart or* the Dan- ielsvllle road, tho latter to be im proved this spring. ROUTINE BLLINEtS Thq meeting Friday will bis : a forerunner to the big agricultural conference at tho State Cottage of Agriculture which will be held January 22-27. Experts in'all lines of agricultural development will here to give their aid In perfect* ing a state program. COMMUNITY CENTERS Mr. Purcell declared Tuesday that the county will be organised on a commodity basis and that in struction in growing cerUU. crops will be given at community cen ters. AH demonstration work will then be carried out in the various communities around the respective centers, in such a way that every man, and woman in the county Other than this routine business was attended to. Talmadge Bros, awarded the supplies contract nnd Flanigan’s market will furnish the meats. Tho Empire Shoe compa ny won tho shoe hid. No action was taken on the Uni versity grading project, due to the absence of Chancellor Barrow, J. H. Grlffeth the newly elected chairman, presided. 10 may have equal opportunities to get the greatest amount of ser vices from the Demonstration Agent. Each community will meet arid a program of work will be map ped out and then steps taken to carry forward tho plans. For In stance; one section may decide to raise poultry on a large scale, an other section may decide. to raise a certain breed of hogs, or develop orchards. TO ORGANIZE ASSOCIATIONS It was reiterated Tuesday that ic^nToverVenl 1 wo°uW h? dicntlon? (haTufe e ?' I W»’.!r Thon.as'wD! name h's new hraaklne'im* J| h Jht nenvakn committees either at the meeting breaking up might pro\oko bodio ... . . week nrobably eipresslon from Washington. j nt t he Initial meeting of tho yonr ju“t lX« the ope A ntag ““he con- | f^Vanv'ot'the^mmmeM ‘ h ° WD fcrenco - that the Indications were!" 1 many of the committees. would “Dixie Flyer,” Tourist Train Between Chicago and Florida Derails Near Macon. that a compromise would be reached, preserving tho allied ac cord on reparations. Such a com promise, It was thought, might take the line of strictly economic guar antees In return for a moratori um for Germany and probably In clude an agreement on n reduc tion of the total Indemnity. Harding to Act On Pension Bill WASHINGTON - President Harding Is expected to take final „ . _ „ ... ...action within a day or two on the Secretary; Treasurer, Dr. W. A. j Bursum bill, granting an Increase Clarke; Conductress, Mrs. Faye| 0 f pension to civil nml Mexican Sullivan; Assistant Conductress,iveterans. Mrs. Leola McDorman; Chaplain, Tho measure was forwarded ae- Miss Harris; Marshall, Mrs. Dor- f cording to custom to the Interior othy Tiller; Organist, Mrs. Ollie) department for the study of . ffl- Bottomley; Ada, Miss Ethel Jack- son; Ruth, Miss Libby Reynolds; Esther, Mrs. Eunice Applewhite; Electra, Miss Alma Hughes; War den, Mrs. Annie May Wood Bry ant; Sentinel, T. M. Forrester. The Masonic quartette made music and Miss Kinncbrew sang also. holiday vacation* all during the j hind a ten* quantity of ammunl- end to complete revelation in 15 ‘lion. — Ordinary Holds First 1923 Court Judge H. C. Orr. ordinary, at his first court of the year Monday granted a number of petitions fo- year’s support and probated one win Mr*. Jennings'. All tho matters coming up were of a small scale and the sosstnn was a short one. Entire Testament Read in 15 Hours lain who will be responsible for its administration an] who haw now completed report regarding li It Is helievud executive approval will be recommended. Northcliffe Left About $25,000,000 LONDON — The Daily Expresf understands that the estate of the Into Lord Northcliffe is valued nt 5,500,000 pounds. Chinese Girl Is Back Home And Says She Will Marry SEATLE, WASH.—The an tire New Testament was to be read today in the first Baptist church of this city. Sixety readers, each •iking. 15 minutes will start - with Gospel according to BL Matthew hours. WASHINGTON. — Mildren Wen, 17-year-old Chinese girl of this city who has twice thwarted family plans for her marriage to George Nan Lee, New York Unirerally slit dent, by disappearing from her home here, returned again Monday night after an absence of a week with a New Year's resttlutton* on her lips ‘mot to do It «Mjr more." Thor young woman’s engagement ring still gliuered’iitrtor Huger end «he told reporter* the wc ldlng "probably will tato place in the spring." t Judge Blanton Fortson has drawn a new grand Jury for the January term nnd has decided not to summon the old jurors who served at the October term as was announced Monday morning when he drew the petit jurors for this couit. ’ The grand Jurors drawn to serve are a« follows: H. E. Martin. W. H. Kytle, A. C. Hancock, O. H. Newton. R. E. Wll Hams. J. B. Thornton, W. R. Tuck, M. G. Michael, Otho Brown. J. H. Mealor, W. H. Simpson. W. W. Puryear, S. L. Autrey, A. It. Nichol son, J. M. Rogers, W. C. Thorn- ■mi, Kjlgar Levy. R. J. Hancock, W. C. Pitner, Wm. S. Calloway, J. \V. Thomas. A. W. Dozier, R. L. Bruml>lett. H J. Rowe. James R. ’Myers. Harvey Stovall, Goo. H. Holme, Jr., W. J. Peeples, J. F. Whitehead, L. M. Leathers. 4 Killed, 5 Hurt Under Big Press SHARON. Pa.—Four men were killed and five others were injured nt the Petroleum Iron wonts ac Masur, Ohio, near here today, when, they were caught under six hundred tori hydraulic press. The men were working under the* press when It collapsed. MACON, Ga.—Two jersons are oported seriously Injured and tight others hurt as tho result ot tho Dixlo Flyer, a northbound tourist train enroll to from Jacksonville Fla., to Chicago, Jumping I be trucks six miles from here early Tuesday. The Injured havo been taken to a local hospital. Two baggage cars, one mall car. a day coach and a (lining car turn ed over. Ten Pullmans left tho track but remained upright. The engine left the rails but did cot turn over. The train crew said the train was linking about 30 miles an hour when It left the rails. There were approximately 150 passengers on beard the train. Those in the Pul'maus are said to have been severely jestlcd but were not in need of hospital atten tion. Thoso who were Injured were riding In the Jay coaches, It was said. First aid was administered to many of the passengers haring slight lacerations and bruises from being thrown into a pile as the coaches left tue (racks anl turned over. The wreck occurred at Rlvoli, n flag statlonj The train had jus: completed pulling a long hill und was bowling over flat terrain, when It left the rails. The engine plowed up the tracks for about one hun dred yards. Rail officials say It will he several hours before traffic (an e resumed. Those injured: Mrs. J. A. Kitchens. 36, Sylves ter. Ga., Injuries serious. Jack Faulkner, 8, Waycross, Ga., Injuries serious. W. H. Smallwood, 35, 361 Fair St., Macon. J. R. Liles, Amerlcus, Ga. Mrs. J. R. Liles, Americ s, Ga. Miss EUza Liles, Amerlcus, Ga. T. F. Payne, Griffin, Ga. go (o every iv him if he |‘t this line, it ga to find out ,{B slpcd in or- hC Organization of aizocigtioni for the purpose of promoting growing of certain. commodities is planned together with marketing ma chinery. The community plan of instruc tion will save considerable time and serve to please the county on a better organized basis for agri cultural development, it is believ ed. It will work as follows: Suppose a certain community, j which has about two hundred < farmers in it, should have six J men who wanted assistance in I oaring for their orchards. If the County Agent had to go to evSry man’s house and ask him if he wanted any help along would take more time just who could be helped chard work than it would really take to help the five men who did want it. By the organized method, u meeting will be called in that community and the people asked to let us know then just what things they are interested in and the names of the five persons wanting orchard work taken. These five men will then pick from among themselves an or chard centrally located and these five with any others, will meet there at this one orchard and the County Agent will give his demon stration to ail at one time. The County Agent will only have to keep in touch with the, one man whose orchard was selected and thi man would notify the oth ers of the demonstration. This will mean a minimum of work for each demonstration conducted. * * ’ THE MODERN WOMAN SHE IS A BUSINESS WO MAN. SHE MAKES 80 PER CENT OF ALL PURCHASES MADE IN RETAIL STORES. SHE IS AN ASTUTE, CURBS BUYER. SHE RUNS HER HOUSEHOLD STRICTLY ON A BUSINESS BASIS. SHE IS CONSTANTLY IN TOUCH WITH THE STORES AND THEIR OFFERINGS. THROUGH THE ADVERTISK- ING SHE KNOWS THE LOW EST PRICES, THE BEST QUAL ITIES AND THE NEWEST _ COMMODITIES. LONG BEFORE SHE LEAVES THE HOUSE FOR A SHOPPING TRIP, ■ SHE KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT SHE WANTS. WHERE TO GET IT AND HOW MUCH TO PAY. SHE BUYS MERCHANDISE OF ESTABLISHED RBPUTA- Mlss Gertrude Butler, Waycroes, ll ION. IF IT’S CLOTHING. SHE Ga. I KNOWS HOW WELL IT The negro porter was also lu-j SHOULD WEAR AND WHAT Jured. He was taken to the Macon THE STYLE SHOULD BE. IF hospital. Attempt Made to Destroy Statue ; Benjamin-Gibson Wedding: on Saturday Reported in Paris PARIS — The Paris Herald learns Mrs. Beatrice Benjamin Gibson, daughter of William E. Benjamin, of New York, and Cap tain Charles A. Cartwright of the Royal Nary ware married hero last f Saturday. . BERLIN—Reports from Hallo state that an attempt was made Monday evening to blow a large monumental group romprising ennestrisn statue of Empqrer -1 William I and monuments to Bis mack and Von Moltke. The latter monument was hurled Into the ba sin of the .Fountain. Attempts to destroy the Victory Column In. front of the postoffice and' the home of a well known banker were frustrated. * IT’S A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT SHE KNOWS WHAT TO • EX PECT IN TONE AND WORK MANSHIP. IF ITS A VACUUM CLEANER, SHE KNOWS WHAT KIND OF SERVICE IT SHOULD GIVE. ASK HER AND SHE WILL TELL YOU IT PAYS TO READ THE ADVERTISEMENTS. IT WILL PAY YOU TOO. IT WILL SAVE YOUR TIME, MONEY AND EFFORT. IT WILL HELP YOU DRESS BETTER, EAT BETTER, SLEEP BETTER AND LIVE BETTER. TRY READING THE ADVER TISEMENTS. YOUR TIME WILL BE WELL INVESTED, - ••