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Newspaper Page TextVOL. 90 No. 320 Associated Press Dispatches ATHENS, GA., TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 23,1923 Single Copies 2 Cents Daily. 6 Cents Sunday* NEARLY FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS IS SUBSUED TO Y. i. C. A. FORD HERE HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF LARRY GANTT’S DAILY COLUMN Campaign Begins This I Morning When Teams I Begins Canvass Of City. Is Our Climate Changing? ISY T. LARRY GANTT) I had a most gratifying talk tho thrr day with one of our leading business men and most clear- ughteil and conservative citizens, vhii keeps in touch with ail that s going on. He says Athens icvcr had n brighter and more assured future than today. If one will drive over town he will surprised to note the new ses going up and other im provements made. And this is ■ a starter, for by next fall he lon'lidcntly expects to see a regu lar building boom sct.jn. With our increasing trade and the number of people who are anxious to locate in Athens be cause of our find educational and other advantages. GOAL IS $11,000 FOR MAINTENANCE John White Morton Is Di- recting Work And Te>i Teams Are Organized To Make Canvass. trade is liETTER In speaking of the business outlook, this gentleman said that trade was much better than we hand any reason to expect last fall and it is improving every month All of our merchants are doing ell. Of course they are not sel- ..ng near so many goods as in good times, before the advent of the boll weevil and when credit was almost as free as water, but they are doing a real nice business and it is cash or when credit is given the merchant knows he will get his money. Athens never in its histohy has done as much strictly cash trade as et this time, and it will improve right along. One reason for this- is that-neigh boring towns are not in a position to extend credit, and with the in troduction of motor cars and the building of good highways our city is now getting a trade it never before had. Any day you will see people in our stores who Imd always at this season, dealt with their home merc^nts and had their purchases charged. Of course every family has more or less money, and*-when they must pay cash they are going to Ath ens, where there are larger stocks to select from and merchants put in bargain sales. This gentleman says he has in. formation from all the counties around Athens and farmers are going to work with the right spirit to make a crop and they will not owe It next fall, but will have more money to spend than since the war between the States, lie has no hcritancy in stating thnt next winter a great tidal! wave of prosperity and business will strike Athens and you are going to sec things fairly hum. Of course a great many farm ers arc in bad way, but the land- owners will help them to pull through, as likewise 1 our banks and merchants. There are today more home-raised'meat com and forage in the county than ever in its history. Farmers will have to economize and this is best for thorn. The almost unlimited credit system in vogue ever since. the war was a blight on the country, for a! man gave his hands order on some store or had many things charged that he could hate dono without. But when a fellow must hand in his pocket and TEAMS SUBSCRIBE Team No. 1—Captain, J. W. Barnett, eight subscriptions, $.'100. Team No. 2—Captain, C. W. Crook, six subscriptions, $185. Team No. 3—CAptnin ,T. H. Dozier, Jr., ten subscriptions, $760. Team No. 4—Captain, H. H. Gordon, Jr., nine subscriptions, $575., Team No. 5—Captain Morton Hodgson, six subscriptions, $200. * Team No. 0—Captain, Chan cellor Barrow, five subscrio- tions, $270. Team No. 7—Captain, M. G. Nicholson, eight subscriptions. $273.50. Tom No. 8—Captain Chas. H. Phinizy, four subscriptions, $i>25. Team No. 9—Captain* Robert P. White, four subscriptions, $240. Team No. 10—Captain John J. Wilkins, seven subscriptions, $460. Team No. 11—Captain, Mrs. Ralph Hodgson, six subscrip tions, flGA. Team No. 12—Captain, Mrs. Robert McWhorter, not report ing, but will do so Tuesday. The campaign to raise the main tenance fund of $11,000 for the city Y..M. C-JAs.wltf-formally be gin Tuesday morning when the dozens of chnvaskcra begin the rounds, calling upon the people of Athens to respond to the call that the splendid work that is be ing done by the “Y” will not suf fer. .' Seventy-three workers, assem bled at the Association building Monday night and after making preliminary arrangements started the ball rolling by subscribing $3938.60. FIRED WITH ENTHUSIASM After listening to the stories of England Papers Monday | Were Alarmed By Criti- ! cal Developments in the j Ruhr Occupation. FARM CONFERENCE IS NOW IN PROGRESS AT STATE COLLEGE Dr. Soule Welcomes Dele gates To Conference. Stresses Cotton As Money Crop Here. U. S. PROTECTORATE OVER RUHR TALKED Domestic Loan to Ger many Proposed in New French Plans. No Mora torium. Rail Men Strike. BERLIN — (By tha Associated Press) — The report tha* tha Ger man government waa contemplat ing the re-interduction of compul sory military service which la for bidden under the treaty of Veraail lea, waa officially denied Monday. LONDON —• (By the Associated ri*cw) — The critical situation in the Huhr Is a subject of much anxious comment by the morning n-wspaperg, which • regard the outlook as so dangerous that] It la Opening with a brilliant address by Dr. Andrew M. Soule, presi dent of the State College of Agri culture, the sixteenth annual “Farmers’ and Marketing Confer ence” began at the State Collego of Agricuturc Monday afternoon at three o’cock. The sessions will* continue through next Saturday. Immediately after Dr. E. L. Hill pronounced the opening prayer Dr. Soule gave an impromptu welcome to the visitors, more than a hun dred of them being demonstration agents and other representatives of his departments who are car rying the gospel of better farm ing to the four comers of the state. He then launched into his real message. Chain Stores Can Handte Enormous/ Amount Of Produce, If Standard ized, Says Speaker. OUTLINE8 METHODS Dr. Soule's address was on tho anbject, “A cotton Production Cam paign for 1923," and carried with ft Imperative that soma way of re- gome of the soundest principles yet lieving the deadlock be found. . laid down for producing cotton un- Fear it expreased In some quar- | der ^ we0Tl] conditions, tors lest Great Britain be forced , jj e outlined a number of stepa that are necessary in order to sue Attorney Coco After Con ference With Governor Prediets Many Arrests and Indictments. BANTON ROUGE. La.— Attor ney General A. V. Coco, who waa called from Bastrop to the capital to confer wluh Governor John M. Parker on the Morehcuse situa tion. declared Sunday night ns ho wns leaving on hti return to Bas trop to resume the open hearing different ones connected with and ■ * nto hooded band activities fa interested in the Y. M. C. A. every | Morehouse Parish that 25 to 30 worker left the building de- on-e,t » with 75 to 100 Indictment* termined to raise his od her quota wl11 h * Lhe outcome of testimony - - - - presented at the state's investiga tion. He was expected to reach of tho necessary amount and to do it as quickly as possible, feeling that this is a work that cannot be allowed to drag in the city. They heard about the camp near Tal lulah, about the special work be- ing done by Mr. Weems, by Mr. Jones, by Mr. Quillian and by Mr. Forbes, the general secretary. Tuesday the canvass begins and the public-spirited people of Ath ens arc urged to respond to this call. The work is too well known to need amplifying at this , late date. It must go on and its success depends upon the people of Ath ens, the workers realize that. TEN TEAMS ARE “READY" Mr. John White Morton, the general chairman of this most im portant civic and religious move ment to secure the $11,000 requir ed in subscriptions for the main tenance fund for this year, an nounced that'his twelve teams, Bastrop Monday morning. Following tho conference with the Governor Mr. Coco announced that 30 more witnesses would bo heard, and he expected that the hearing would come do an . end Thursduy. He declared he was pleased with the progress mado (Turn to Page Two) American Protectorate in Rilhr Is Urgetk DORTMUND"— Ail passenger and freight traffic' In. the region of Dortmund, Langendeer .and railroad WASHINGTON — Memorial services were held In the senate for the isle Senator Tt)oraaa E. Watson and in the House for the late representative Lemuel Pad- gett. WASHINGTON —Production of iron ore in the United States dur ing 1922 aggregated 45.9IS.000 tons an increase of SO per cent over the proceeding year according 1n estimates made by the U. S. Geolo gical survey, BERLIN—An American protec torate over the Ruhr section as a compromise alternative to ifie present French Invasion is being proposed In Rourie circles. to mm msn Into some form of active Interven tion against her will. Some cir cles are also (earful that) If France pursue* the present line of her policy ehe will ne obliged to increase her force* greatly in the occupied district with the re- cult that. Germany may follow Ith military action which' would • mean war. There already has been a report • that Germany was arranging to | re-lnstltute conscription, but no . official confirmation ot this was forthcoming Monday morning. An 1 other report Monday from Paris, | said thnjt General Ludendorf has j been recently at Muenater where i he witnessed manuvera by troops i gathered at that point This, how ; ever. w«l also, unconfirmed |THINK FRENCH fWOULD WITHORAW Tho property loss was Three Shoplifters Are Given Fines put his „ . pay out cash for what ne buys ho coni pogcd of eight workers each, will think twice • before spending ar0 rea dy f or VO [k. ti rickcl. We of course had to pay for that saturnalia of extravagance in which we rioted during the time of forty cents cotton. We arc now taking our medicine and it will ef- Thcro are ten workers and two teams with Mrs. Anne P. Johnson is major of. the women’s division, who are to visit the people of Athens to. secure cither renewal Three of the colored shoplifters nabbed by thd* police Saturday had less than forty-eight hours to wait before hearing the judge pass sentence on them for the nimbieness of their fingers, or since they were caught cold may be it should be stated the unnim- bless thereof. -* In Judge Bradwell’s court Mon- day morning Willie Hayes, Lizzie teams of men,farmer, and Mary Lizxie Lewis, ;eams of Indies, j aged 17, 19 and 19 respectively, Monday. $15,000. The dead are Mrs. John Winnie, her twin sons, aged six, and her daughter, Catherine, 13 years, and Thomas W. Davies, proprietor a: the hotel. Davies was awakened by the crackling of flames and was so badly burned trying to save the others that he died In a hospital a few hours after the fire. John Wlnnlo and his family were asleep on the third floor when thn Ore started. Winnie was carried _ I down ladders by firemen who, , Tur*lwhen they sought to save Mrs. " — • *' Winnie and children wore driven Mother, Her Twin Sons . _ .« , *t ' rx , i the belief that France Is convlnc- Age 0, and Her Daugh- 1 ed She has miscalculated the Oer ter Acre IS Amnn<ri n,an temper and, finding the re- Snf’ m? « ’ - “"? 0n S. suits of the occupation, not what Those Who Perished. : she expected, seeks a mean* of - — . withdrawing, If possible, without PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Five per-; loss of her prestige, sons , were burned to death In a ■ ' To this end It is stated here, fire which destroyed the Davies 1 France Is ,o*xamlnlnr the British hotel In Homestead, near here,; and Italian proposals wnich she cosstully combat the weevil ..and stressed the point that cotton could not be grown simply by the appll cation of various forma of poison to kill the weevil. In brief, the following steps are necessary, according to Dr. Soule: 8ELECT AND PREPARE GROUND •“Roger’s Chain Stores and oth ers can handle an enormous amount of. the foodstuffs raised by the Georgia farmer for market- provided, hh produce is standard ized,” declared Hon. S. B. Tolley, president of the Rogers' chain to an audience of more than 700 farmers, bankers and business men last night.. / “But under present conditions,” I he continued, “it is almost impos sible to deal directly with the pro ducer. All human > endeavors is based on confidence. When a dealer buys goods, he must have confidence that what he orders he will get. That is how your co-operatives can help. They can standardize the products of Georgia and thus assure a ready market for then;. .... WANTS STATE TO PROSPER kiah government has protested to the- 'Allied high commission against Greek military conceptra- tions in )Vestern Thrace. BERLIN — Minister of Finance Hermes has Issued orders forbid ding the payments of customs end local coal tax and export dues to nny account other than German. VLADIVOSTOK Workmen paraded here on the orders of the soviet government as a protest against French occupation of the Ruhr. fret a sure and lasting cure. With 0 f their annual subscriptions, or e-third or one-fourth of a cotton j 0 obtain new gifts from, friends i>p ami the staple selling for 26 _j, 0 j, avo no p been among that or better, with . hare* and j goodly number, who from year to year ih, houses filled with home-1 " ear jmve made possible the great It- supplies any discerning p<T- j wor k that has been done for the •an see that an era of better ^y, and young men of Athens i 0 n hand. He was fined $100 or a - ■*•* for Athens and a nd Clarke. sentence of four months. were sentenced to pay $60 and costs or to serve four months at the state farm -'after pleading guilty to the charjg$; Nellie Bush, the fourth girl caught, plead not guilty, but was remanded to the Juvenile court and will be.given a hearing about February 1st. Berry Johnson, colored was tried and found guilty of having liquor are ahead for Athens and whole country. IS CLIMATE changing One of our oldt/st citizens told (Turn to page two) " II \T IS NOT ADVERTISING Advertising is a definite pert of j he business. What is charged to it» account should be veal adver tising—not the expenses the indi- ' ideal feels he most incur in order to be a “good fellqw.” A writer i» Printers’ Ink Bate free goods, announcements in picnic and ha- raar programs, ana donations to charitable, religious and fraternnl organizations as “charges that do n*l belong in the advertising qe- reu.LalthQpgh too j frequently. jwt I here.’ Youi pur- .taKSfasKs chase of newspaper space. _ THE BANNEK-HKKAI.D The Gill-Edge Advertising Med ium for This Section. The Athens Y. M. C. A. has probably more friends and regular annual subscribers to its work than any other association in the south, when the sixe of the city i* considered. Thlr is one of ths reasons why the' Athens is able to carry on such an extensive program. 618 subscriptions were; secured last year in the annual campaign. .... The captains working with Mr. John White Morton are: Messrs. J. W, Barnett, No. 1: C. W. Crook, No. 2: Thos. H. Dozier, Jr., No. 3; H. H. Gordon. Jr., No. 4; M. S. Hodgson, No. 6; D. C. Barrow, No. 6; M. G. Nicholson, No. 7; C. H. Phinizy, No. 8; Robert P. White, No. 9; Jno. J. Wilkins, No. 10 Ladies’ Division: Major, Mrs. Annie P. Johnson. Captains; MriLSail* .Hodgson,. No, 11; Mrs. Court recessed,following the af ternoon session and the jurors were excused until further notice. Recent Disorder In Ark. Probed ipalgn Cashier,. Mr: Audley, a; Campaign Director, Mr. Cam Morton; W. IV Forbes. . “It is better to mold a Boy tha lo Mend a Man.” LITtLE ROCK, Ark.—LegilLa- tivo action ot the sllliatlon along the Missouri and North Arkansas railway .is scheduled to begin here Monday when several witnesses from Harrison, Ark- and other ;pelnta along the railroad win ap pear before a joint committee ot the Arkansas general assembly appointed last week, following Uie disorders during which one men was lynched. In the absence of many of the legislators. Who spent the week end inspecting the various ednea tiongl Institutions of the ofeto de tails for the htsring were not, an- qounepd. The hearing probably will be held In the senate chamber ■ [ the capital. MEXICO CITY — A strike of stree] car motormen and conduct ors m sympathy with the me chanics strike started 10 days ngo, has parallzed transportation ser vice. It was reported. H MOIIIIS BE FM FIRH MEETING back by the flames, rejected al the Paris conference. Meanwhile Monday development* In the Ruhr age awaited In Great Britain with much anxiety. GERMANY MAY MAKE CLAIMS ON FRENCH “First, select ground best suited for growth of cotton, eschewing rich bottom lands that tend to pro duce weed but late cotton, prefer ably moderately rich, elevated, well drained laud that will mature the crop early. After selecting the ground, have it well cleared of weeds and, trash and plough deep ly, preferably In the fall. After tho ground is broken up let it stand for thirty days before . planting, and store lip all the water it will. Thirty daya before planting bed hp tbe land an. it wiu warn Up sooner. After this la done add the terflpOr- aturo of tho ground reaches About 70 degree Farenbctdt, plant” Ear lier planting In waterlogged land la almost. certain to result In a waste of time and efforts, according to Dr. Soule. Tbls la essential In tbe growing of cotton, early ploughing and properly preparing tbe land and planting at tbe right time, (Turn to Page Six) Ashworth Goes ; To N. Y. Meeting C. C. 'Ashworth Ic-lt Sunday for New York city where he will at tend'the nnnual convention of the Metropolitan Life Insurance com pany. Mr. Ashworth is manhger of the local office. , He stated before leaving for New York that tho moat Interesting pro- Aram ever arranged for a similar convention will be enjoyed by the agents and that arrangement* bad been made to broadcast the Satur day nlgbt program over the tadlo station. W. E. A. F. Four hundred meters will be the tuning Jcogth for Athena to catch this program and next Saturday Is ilie date. Tbe jfqtropolitan: Giec club will sing and there will elso t-t selec tions by John Charles Thomas, ono Off the country’s famous baritones. ! -Mr. Ashworth said ne was delighted to Invite Ills friends hdre who had seta to enjoy ibis program. BERLIN — (By the Associated rreas) — The picture of Germany countering future claims of France and Belgium with an Indemnity bln of her own for the Ruhr occu pation is already being sketched In political circle* here.- Ih these quarters It is confidently- believed thnt the Reich will not heights to model her own statement after the pattern afforded by her obliga lions to the Alltel. A long-list of claims again* France and Belgium by German nationals la expected and to these will probably bo added the na tion’s estimate of the damage to Its soverlgnty by the armed occu pation. As precedents for such a course of action, Reichstag lead ers have already turned to the Tuesau and Ingoldstadt Incidents tvhen the Reich was fined on* mil lion marks because German civlll an* Insulted ' members of ' the Kntepte commission. AMERICAN PROTECT ORATE, FAVORABLY CONSIDERED Commissioner Of Agri culture Will Be .One Of Principal Speakers On Program Today. Dry World Up I.Hon. John J. Brown, Commis sioner of Agriculture, arrived Monday evening to be' present at the Farmers' Conference, which is being held at the State College of Agriculture this week. I Commissioner Brown will de liver an address this morning on the subject “The State Bureau of Market's Program tor 1923." He is one of the boat speakers in the •tote and in his subject he • wUl bring to the,fanners of Georgia and to those attending the confer ence a meesage which will contain much information of value to the people of this state. - I Mr. Brown ha* many friends here and his viait* are looked for- ward to with much pleasure by then!. IH BAN FRANCISCO — A dry world la coming. But It depends on the success of OlohlbUlon e n ' forcemenl in the United States, sayg William E. (“Pussyfoot") Johnson, International prohibition campaigner, bock from a dry cru. aade In New Zealand. Bo now "Pussyfoot" plare s campaign for enforcement here. "Every law-maxing body on earth la grappling with the liquor problem fn some way.” he* says. “The liquor traffic Is being cur- tailed, restricted, pronlhlted every- A 'suggestion for an American protectorate over the Ruhr is meeting with considerable favor in Bourse circles where it origin*- »ted. Huch step It Is believed will Prevent the French from per- mcnemly controlling the Rhen- nlsh Industrial Area, and would therefore be In the Interests of thn American and BrMsh trade. An Immediate coal famine In unoccupied Germany la not gen erally feared here If the Ruhr coal sun HOUSE BURNS NEWPORT, R. 1.—At a loss to establish a motive or to find n Ini re trace of a third' person In the house, police authorities here Mon day were admittedly at sea In their efforts to account for the deathe Sunday of Mr. and Mr*. J. A. Fraser McLelsb and the fire .hat almost wiped out all signs of the mystery. In the little lodge which the victims occupied ns caretakers of the estate harbour view. •. Mrs. Paul Fitzsimmons, of New York formerly Mm. Elsie French Vanderbilt, owner of the estate, came here from New York with her son. William H. Vanderbilt. Im of the tragedy, of the tragedf. The wounds on the head* of tha McLelsh’ and a single crushing blow cm tbe head of hie wife were still unexplained of any. possible weapon In tho place. mines ean maintain the output ot the last ten day*. Only one half of tho Reich’s supply come* from I T •«._ J Cfnfaa that quarter and with British im 1 O uniieu wlalvo portatlons and stimulated produc tion in -other. / fields, a shortage doe* not seem Imminent. It Is ad milted that considerable depend* upon the ability of the Ruhr mines to operate. The arrest of the Ruhr mag nates has served to cristallse fur ther public opinion. The govern ment has ordered 4be German charge D’Affslrs at Paris to pro test the arreste. “An nations are watching Amcri ca. If .we enforce our. dry law*, booze will vontah -from the face of the earth, el- •,( I • • • if we fall the -world win be doomed to > universal' drunkenness — but thnt won’t FRENCH OFFER NEW REPARATION PLAN pari8 — (By the Associated Press) — The new French repara tion plan, ready for submission to the reparations commission Mon day. provides for a German domes tic. loan ot three billion gold marks guaranteed by the Reich’* lead- ins industraUsta. With the exception of 500,000,- (Turn to page two) U. S. Minister to China Is Dying We, too, want to see Georgia prosper. But how can she when over 2,000 carloads of produce that could easily have been raised with in the state are shipped into At lanta alone during the short period of three months? Over 76 million dollars a year go out of Georgia to ’buy foodstuffs that Georgia herself can raise.” Proposing* a huge advertising agency tq advertise Georgia prod- | ucts. throughout the country, tho 1 speaker pointed out the numerous possibilities in this field, calling particular attention to the cane , syTup, sorgum and pecan Indus- | ' “My institution,” he stated in conclusion, would gladly contri bute $100 to every co-operative marketing association organized in the state of Georgia, provided - we„ are assured that Georgia farmers. will standardize thei products. I look forward to the lay when that will be done. Whcti it comes," GcoYgin-will be prosper ous." Preceding Mr. f Talley’s address, movies -wero, -shown .illustrating the Work that Is being done at the Agricultural College. The meeting was presided over by Dr. Jarni- gan. N “Times and conditions have changed, and now every industry and profession Is organized except that most important industry of farming,” declared J. E. Conwell. president of the Georgia • Cotton Growers Co-operative Association and chief visiting speaker at the first meeting yesterday after noon. . , “We are organizing commodity jassociations because we cannot or ganize the farmer," ho continued “There are so many different minds, so many shades of opinii that full co-operation by farmer: on every farm subject is now im possible. With .ns many financial situations ns there are farmers, ’ is natural that it should be so. “But in marketing associations,’ 1 pointed out Mr. Conwoll, “the growers arc all of one mind. Thi each have a product to sell. The object is a reasonable prico fo: their product,« prico thnt will en abio them to pay the costs of pro duction and have something left over for tho proper support and! education of their families. There fore, there is a common meeting ground and marketing associ: tions are feasible.” - “There is more than one ft why the cotton farmer should or ganizc," continued Mr. Conwell “For one thing, by doing so, hi can sell direct to the manufactu cr and. so eliminate the middle man’s profit.” I TELLS OF PROGRESS SHANGHAI,—(By the Associa ted Press)—-Dr. Paul Reinah, for mer United States minister to China, is believed to be dying from broncho-pneumonia, which set in as complication of encepha- tis. He is unconscious. He came here from the interior of China some time ago, ' suffering from lakdoi complete breakdown. Expulsion of Jews Sought In Vienna VIENNA.—(By The Associated Press)—Expulsion of the Jews was openly advocated at a demonstra tion held Sunday before the city halL Speakers asserted that efforts to regenerate the German people would not succeed until the Jews were ousted .from the dominant po sitions In oconomlc life, art, stage and press. A heavy police guard was. present and only a tow minor collisions occurred. ; , COURT TO RE! WASHINGTON ~-CL_ Taft announced Monday, that the Supremo court after delivering opinions on next Monday would to February 19. Recalling the origin of Georgia Cotton Grower’s Co-opiq ntive Association, the speaker viewed briefly the history of tl organization and spoke in glowinc Items of its success. One year ago’ there was $35 dollars in its trea* ury, he declared. Since then, it hm borrowed three and one-half milf lion dollars which It has advance to the members of the association and if the 66,000 bales of COttol in its warehoqses were sold at day’s price* there would be a pr |it of one and one-half million <lnl lars left ir. share among its men bers. ■ “This phenomenal success,” Mr. Conwell, “was mado possible (Turn to page two) FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ■■ The world’s greatest and nm- reliable wars ggthsrtag organM la received daily. 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