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The Weather: untiniied cloudy with a rising THE Athens Cotton: MIDDLING PREVIOUS CLOSE A ; r ., 28 Me II VOl- No. 322 Associated Press Dispatches ATHENS, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 25, 1923, Single Copies 2 Cents Daily. 5 Cents Sunday* Rotarians Hold Enthusiastic Meeting Here Wednesday; Hear Prominent Visitors Speak l-'ilied with enthusiasm and every moment some thin doing the members of the Athens Rotary Club held one of its best meetings Wednesday. I Among the visitors were, Rich- [erd Stratford, Moultrie; Jack Jackson, Savannah; W. B. Stead man, Atlanta; Mr. LARRY GANTT’S DAILY COLUMN Brown Sounds Optimistic Note By T LARRY GANTT Ami ns Hie prominent visitors l„ our city Tuesday in attendance „n itie Farmers' Conference, was II, a J. J. Brown, State Commls- ,loner or Agriculture. Mr. Brown is from Goshen district in Elbert county, and l knew him as a boy. In slavery days, Gosben was con- liilored one of the poorest parta „f Klli.-r* eounty, being thin grey I,mil. but lying beautifully, almost as level/as a palrie. The large and wealthy nlave-ownera settled in that red-clay and broken section Mag south of Elberton and the peninsula formally the confluence of Broad and Savannah rivers. But alter the surrender ant} the intro duction of commercial fertilizers. , Nix, Com merce and Col. Sam W. Wilkes, of Atlanta, O’BRIEN'S MEN " ENTERTAIN CLUB Manager Vaughan of O’Brien’s mimstrels, accompanied by Eddie Cupero, musical director; J. Les- *?, r , Haberhom, baritone an I Charles R. Wright, tenor render- ®d several splendid selections which were enjoyed immensely by the Rotarians. The absence of Neal OBnen was regretted by the Ro- 1 t a nans, Mr. O’Brien being called to Atlanta on account of the ill- r.css of a member of his family. HON. J. J. BROWN ADDRESSED CLUB . Hon. John J. Brown, commis sioner of agriculture, delivered a short, but very interesting talk on agricultural interests of the state, the hope of a bigger and better Georgia. His talk was receive I with much interest and enthusiasm and it was regretted that time would not permit him to go int i the conditions now existing in ag riculture in this state. BOYS WORK FOR NEXT MEETING Chairman Sexton or, boys work ... . . the program the upper districts like Goshen. Caines and a pnrt of Webbsboro committee reported began to forgo to the front and on for the next meeting. The meet- rtcnrd breaking crops of all • mg for the 31st, will be devoted kinds were grown. Their land commanded the highest price of any other section In Elbert and adjoining counties. These Gosh en farmers were always indepen dent lu thought and action. They were Iron-ribbed members of the Farmers' Alliance and afterwards populists. You had as well at tempt to turn over Stone Mountain with n wooden toothpick as to change a Goshenlte when ho has his mind made up and set. But liner nnd better people never lived and they have been my loyal friends since my boyhood days. This Is the stock from which J. J, Brrwn sprang, and he Inherits that backbone and fighting spirit. DELIGHTED TO MEET MR. BROWN wet Mr. over old times. He was a Injy di’ing Alliance days but canto from good old Farmers’ Aliance stock Ho says that every demand made by those farmers and which were once held In ridicule and con tempi have been enacted Into a law. viz: The election of 17. S. Senator by direct vote of the peo ple; rural free delivery; prohibi tion: the Income tax; regulation nf railroads; the sub treasury bill. We have the Government loaning money on farming lands. l hail a most interesting talk with Mr. Brown about farming conditions over Georgia. He says that meeting now in aesslon In our city Win no very much good In educating our farmers and he exports great results from it. He Is s strong advocate of co-opora- ti'e marketing and tblngn the orranlzatlon of our cotton growers should he mado to apply to all manner of fnrm products that are raised for sale. To receive- full value for hla crops the farmer must organize and soil collective ly To this end they will bo aided and advised by merenants and hankers Co-opcrativa marketing l> one of the most Important mat ters that now confronts our Oeor- nla farmers and. especially they beginning to grow other money crops besides cotton, like potatoes, nroundpeas, etc. to this work and much interest is being shown in it by the members. There will be five subjects dis cussed at the meeting as follows: “The Boy in the Open;’’ “Indo’r Sports for Boys;” “Athletics in the Schools;’’ “Need and Value of Optical and Dental Clinics in the schools” and the “Boy in the Church. ’ COUNCIL CREATES NEW COMMITTEE A letter was read from Dr. H. B. Heywood, chairman of a new rtanding committee, of the city council to be known ns the com mittee of Commerce and Indus try. This committee is authorized to work with and cooperate in every possible way with all civic and commercial organizations for the betterment of Athens and its . ig. It-ia composed of the following members or council; Dr. H. B. Heywood, Chairman; W. C. Thornton and J. H. Rucker. Splendid talks were made bv Jake B. Joe), Col. Sam W. Wilkes, Rotarinn Stratford, of Moultrie and others. CLUBS HELPING KEEP BOY ON FARM, SPEAKER DECLARES HERE jLITTLE OVER $1,080 TO REACH ITS eom Interest Keeping Up Wonderfully, Total of $9,885.50 Is Raised. Workers Enthusiastic. The Y. M. C. A. campaign fund is *1,116.00 distant from the goal of 111,000.00 and it ia hoped that I Thursday’s reports will put the campaign over. At the meeting yesterday a total of 177 aubscrip- tions for $2,181.60 were reported, bringing the grand total to date up to 469 subscribers and $9,884.60. | The interest is keeping up won derfully in the campaign and the success is now assured. The work ers have been handicapped some what by the bad weather that has i prevailed all the week but the campaign managers are not dis couraged and fee! that the need ed amount will be reported today. Yesterday's consolidated report is ft" TERRIFIC GIVEN FRENCH AS KIWANIANS PLAN GALA TIME FOR THURSDAY NIGHT nwauuv v* .ywjvw j.jujrp- sen Workers 'Most Ef fective Counter Move Yet Recorded. Today’s Program at Ag. Conference Governor-elect Walker to Make Main Address. Governor-elect Clifford Walk/er features today’s program atf the Farmers’ conference. The distin guished visitor will speak at the Walkout of ^65,000 ^ys-StaraTemiSe SS&ri&Sn “■ ' * noon and will be the guest hf hon or at a dinner to be served follow- ESSIG — By the Associated Press) — A French official state ment Issued Tuesday evening de clares that n considerable move ment of German troops has taken place In German unoccupied torri tory. No details are given. 6S.000 THY88EN WORKER8 QUIT taking a new interest In »peakln g of the conditions of tarniTs Mr. nrown says they are taking on new life and hope and with Hi., proper aid from bankers and men hunts will this year make a line imp and by next fail Oeor- f ia win he on the straight road 0 prosperity. This happy condt- Iien applies to all sections of our •'tale, as he knows . by personal Halts and reports from men con- neei.'d with his department, beginning this year, Georgia iFontlmied on Page Tour.) 3.-71 COPIES OF THE BANXER-HERALD The most elaborate meeting over staged by the Athens Kiwanls club is being arranged for Thurs day night when the club’s eighth International birthday will be cele brated and “Ladies Night" obsorv ed. Tbe meeting will be held at the Georgian hotel and the festivities will get under way at eight bells according to the program com mittee, headed by Klwanian Wal ter Hodgson. Captain James W. Barnett will preside at this meotlng, which In itself insures an evening of good cheer, and r. special program has been arranged. KIWANIANS TO “DRESS UP” The Klwanians and their lady guesta are to attend this occasion la masquerade and for a week now the minds of most of the mem bers have been busily engaged in planning costumes for the occasi on. Fancy dress and "tacky" at tire is the order of the night and those who are too modest to re gale themselves thusly will come In tor the ridicule of those who do. Governor Clifford Walker may be In attendance while a number of other honor guests' will be on hand, Including President and Mrs. Morton Hodgson of the Ro tary club. DUSSELDORF — The strike Tuesday of the Thyssen workmen to the number of 66,400 Is the most effective blow yet struck by the Germans agnlnBt Franco- Relglan occupation. In contrast to tlio miners' strike, which ap pears to to a complete failure, and the walkout of the railway men, which was localized, theJThy- ssen workers qiflt solidly to a'man, they gathered In the streets or Hnmborn and Muolhelm singing patriotic songs In which the name of Fritz Thyssen, whoso retention In custody by the French was the cause of the strike, was substltut by teams was as follows; Sob. 16 Amt $147.00 79.00 408.00 346.60 21040 40.00 167.60 166.00 196.60 230.00 142.00 $60.00 .CO-OPERATIVE MARKETING IS SALVATION (OF THE FARMER IS BELIEF OF EXCHANGE HEAD Education Is Big Weak Spot Ip Southern Agri culture Expert Asserts, In Address. (By J. D. Allen.) What the boy’s and girl’s clubs are doing, how they have been de veloped, and what remains yet for them to do were the chief points of discussion in the address by I. W. Hill delivered at the afternoon ceting of the State Farmer's inference yesterday. Mi. Hill is in charge of the boy’s club work carried out by the de partment of agriculture and has familiarized himself with the problems met in that field of cultural life. At the night session Dr. Andrew M. Soule, president of the State College of Agriculture, addressed a large gathering on “Cotton Cul tivation in Brazil,” . from which country he recently returned os the official representative of the United States.' at the Brazilian Centennial. !. 1 agri- DR: SOULE SPEAKS Brazil it making progress in $2,181.50 ing the address. The complete program for today is as follows: MORNING SESSION 9:00 A. M.—12:00 M. Prof. H. P. Stuckey. Director Georgia Experiment Station, pre siding. Terracing Demonstrations — Profs. Guy L. Smith and Breach. Potato Housing Construction— Profs. Fain and Clegg. "The Invertase Method of Syr up Manufacture"—Prof Lowry 12:00 M. Dr. L. G. Hardman, presiding. Address. Hon. Clifford M. Wal ker. Oovomor-olect of Georgia. AbTbKNUON ScSSIUN 3:00-5:00 P. M. Director J. Phil Campbell, pre siding. "Field Crops Other Th»n Cot- ton’’—Dr. John R. Fain. "How We Made a Success of Dairying In Turner County”— lion. George T. Betts, Ashburn, ige-Done to* Be Very-i- rreat. 150 Phones Put' of Commission Here Wednesday. LUTE WEDNESDAY Athens was cut off from the out ! sido world Wednesday morning ’ and Bogart and Colbert were the farthomost points where com munication was iiosslble during the morning. Not a wire, telegraph or tele phone. was working in any direc tion beyond these points and hence the Herald Wednesday pre sents no Associated Press news nor the happenings of the world outside of this Immediate vicini ty. Manager Jarrell, of the tele l Attorney General Cpco Made This Announce-, ment Late Tuesday. Cav alry Is Moved. cotton growing, stated Doctor Sonic, and in some markets - is al ready competing with American cotton. But the South haa nothing to fear from foreign competition. He believes, if she practices scien tific farming and goes seriously into the businees of commodity marketing on a sufficiently largs scale, Continuing, Mr. Hill referred to the conditions formerly existing in the agricultural world 'and at tempted to explain the cause. “Many things,’’ he stated, “have been named- at the weak link in Southern agriculture. Among them are istek of .nitrogen and organic matter in the soil, failure by the farmer U>' diversify his crops, fail I ure to live at home. And these ar« --IwaftkslinSi-alhof BASTROP, La.—(By the Asso ciated Presi)-r-It was officially announced Tuesday mgnt by At torney General A. V. Coco, who has personally conducted the .state's open hearing here Into phone company hopes to establish ■ masked band activities in More- Ga. "Commercial Fruit Growing”— Baldwin. vaunt: us uit: nusne, wan nuuntliut * y. — ed for the name of tho kaiser and I r ' Lyman ®- VCoder, other former national heroes. | ua ' The French continue their re-1 R °und Table Discussion, presentive measures towsrd state I Cou »ty Agents, officials refusing to obey their or- 'EVENING “fr circulated daily among , "I wens and in the homes uf -Mhens. Mighty few Ath- ‘‘,! u homes are without the tanner-Herald. taking either be Banner in the morning or 'be Herald in the afternoon. 'NOTHER THING, a care- ! ul rh *ck -hows that only 174 in Athens take both the .'bnner and the Herald. crefore the duplication in be city eireulation of the i-anner and the Herald i* less ,nan per cent. To Reach all the homes >n Athens, Advertisers jnould use both the Kanne, and the Herald. Orchestra music for the evening will be furnished by Morris’ or chestra and n number of special stunts and prizes have been ar ranged for. Income Tax Forms Are Now Ready W. W. Wade, deputy revenue collector with offices in the iiost office building here, announces that all forms for making Income tax returns for 1922. except from No. 1120 corporations returns can he secured either from his office at room 201 Federal building. Athens, or from the Internal Doy- enue Collector, AManta. Form 1120. corporation return will he released later, acording to Mr. Wade. ders, but appear to have aban doned the Idea of placing the de linquents In jail, contenting them selves with dismissal and expul - tlon. The expulsion of Count von Roedern from Cologne was car ried out Tuesday by the French, with tho authorization of the Brit Ish authorities, despite the strong protest of Von Roedern, whose appeal for British protection fail ed. COLLECTIONS PROCEED In the Rhineland, measures for the collection of the coal tax and taking over the state forests are proceeding slowly. In the face of the resistance of German officials. The customs employees at the Mayence Central station declined to work under French supervision and quit this morning. Herr Fedell-Below, the the relch com missary of forestB at Wiesbaden, who refused to turn over the re cords to the French, asserting tbat the Wiesbaden forests did not belong to the state, hut to the municipality, was dismissed from office Tuesday and expelled. He Is the third relch official at Wies baden to be expelled In tbe past five days. The switchmen and trackwalk ers at the Melderlch and Ober- hausen yards. In the Belgian zone of occupation, also quit work Tues day afternoon after damaging the switch boxes. The train service In the Ruhr Is generally a little below normal, but has Improved since yesterday. . The output of the coal mines Is Increasing hour ly, according to the French, and a persona! fnvestlgstion seemed lo bear out the statement. SESSION—8 p. m. Dr. John R. Fain, presiding. “Stabilizing the Dairy communications with Atlanta and Elberton later in tbe day while the Western Union and Postal telegropb companies arc endeavor Ing to get their lines working. MUCH DAMAGE 8U8TAINEO The sleet and ico did much dam- age here, especially to trees and telephone wires, It Is estimated that 159 local telephones are out of commission and falling limbs have caused havoc to be brought with the lines. Many line trees on Prince. Mil- ledge and other streets were rent : to pieces by the heavy load of Ice house parish, that the hearing would be concluded Wednesday. rrae attorney xqneral and hi. “But education, according to Dr. Sonle, is tne one real week spot. for all those things finally resolve thomsoives into a question of education. And I agree with him. “With whom is it most import ant that we begin education? Who else but the children? Tkk’history of all great movements, political ly. socially and economically, ahowa . that thoy have begun by chili' ' ' President Of Cotton Growers Exchange De livers Inspiring And In structive Address, (By J. D. Allen.) “The farmer’s problem is to re store the prosperity, of -the farm er’s dollar and . that is what he to. trying to do-in this economic-rev olution that has swept over the country during the lastfew years,” declared' Honorable Carl , Williams, president Cotton Grow ers exchange at the State Farm er’s Conference here Wednesday. Speaking on “Co-operative- MaY- - keting of Farm Crops” to • large audience, Mr. Williams went on to explain the origin of the coopera tive system of marketing. 8YSTEM NOT NEW “The system,” he, said “ia not new. It has been practiced in the countries of Europe for genera- - tions and in America its history reaches back for decades. But we in the South are only begining fully to realise its full extent and purpose, • ~ ; . • - *$5 r \ “If co-operative marketing is good.for the.ten._per cent at farm- j era you have in Georgia, Mr. Coin- well.’’ he declared,’addressing di rectly the head of the Georgia Co-r operative, “it is (good for 60 pet cent, foT.100 per cent, and that is- what we Want . ■ “Cotton co-operatives saved method last year.” , ! ' Explaining the'cardinal points of the marketing system, Mr. Wil-: items stated that “the long-term - contract ia perhaps it's most !m-. ponaiil feature. He further de clared that since the first was >;!gl;«d "a little ini.'-j than two iars ago, 200,000’farmers of the oiith have signed long-term con tracts for, the handling of their end training the children, new ideas into the m coming generations. placing on thr BEGIN WITH CHILDREN “If we want to revolutionize agriculture in this whole country, the strongest place, to begin work staff of assistants made reserva tions for their return to New Orleans Wednesday afternoon. The detachment of I cavalry brought here several week! ago to relieve infantry and machine gun droops who had been on duty since the middle of December are preparing to leave for Jennings, Its home station Wednesday af ternoon. Stabilizing the Dairy Industry” ; 10 n ,eces by the heavy toad of Ice —Prof J. A. McLean, Chicago III. “ nd magnolias, elms and other brit “Financing the Farmer”—Ma- tle var,cUe “ w,th heavy follaae jor H. B. Hunter, President Geor gia Bankers’ Association. Experiments In tho Use of Cal cium Arsenate in Controlling the Boll Weevil,”—Hon A. E. Grant ham, Richmond, Va. Mrs. Susie Pitts Died Wednesday Funeral services for Mrs. Susie Pitts, age 49, who died at the home at Barnett Shoals at noon Wednesday, will be held from the Methodist church at Barnett Shoals Thursday at 3 p. m.. con ducted by Rev. C. N. Hayes, with interment following in the Bar nett Shoals cemetery. Bernstein Bros., funeral directors in charge. Mrs. Pitts was the wife of Mr. C. S. Pitts, and with her husband had resided in Athens prior moving to Barnett Shoals years ago. She was a native of Richmond county, N. C. Surviving are the husband and one daughter. POSTPONE MEETING CIRCLE NUMBER The meeting of Missionary Cir cle No. 2 of the First Methodist church, which was to have been held Thursday at the home of Mr.i. A. H. Davison Sr. has been post poned. varieties with heavy foliage have suffered most The street car service, though somewhat tied up Tuesday night, was running almost on normal schedules Wednesday. This freeze Is really welcomed by many who realize that a cer tain amount of cold weather is necessary. The sleet and snow Is said to bring millions of dollars worth of amonia Into the soil and there Is the bright side as well as the dark and cold side to it all. The coal people have had the first rush of the winter and go loshes have come into their own again whfle the school children en joyed that age old game of mow- ball all day Wednesday. No werth er forecast Is available. . Gas Supply Here Almost Exhausted Says Manager If Possible; Cook With Something Else, So As To Conserve During Emergency. More than one public service enterprise will be forced to sus pend business within the next few hours unless gas consumers In Athens come to the rescue of tbe company and help conserve the limited supply, it was announced Wednesday by E. Weston, manag er of the Athens Oaa Light 4c Fuel company. Death Claims Mr. | J r\ Ain'li* i collapsed and before the machine , u, Cl Uillion CCL,d be repaired the cold westh- Mr. J. O. O’Dillion, age 65. died at his home in ‘Barnett Shoals Wednesday at 11 a. m., following an illness of four months. Funeral arrangements will be announced later by Bernstein Bros., funeral directors , who arc in charge, but will be held from the Methodist church there. Mr. O’Dillion was a native of Oconee county and had been rr set in causing Athenians to use more gas thsn ordinarily. The re serve supply of gas has been ex- auated and the company can "now depend only on the supply made hourly. ’ Several business concerns must have a certain quantity of gas or else suspend operations. These c-ncerns can be supplied with suf ficient gas for necessary opera tions if those who can use other means for heating and cooking wil! resident of Barnett Shoals for th*inot draw on the gas supply. The P a *t three years. comoany requests that this be done Surviving are four sons and j until the old weather Is gone five daughters. _}the machine is repaired. Yesterday’s Combined Declaring that boy’s and girl’s dubs afford the means of train ing the rising generation in better agricultural methods, Mil Hill urged the county farm and dem onstration agents to continue their efforts to organise in every com munity the boys and girls of tho farms. “There ere 6,400,000 fa’ids in the United States,” he asserted. “We need to train each year 360,- 600 boys in modern agriculture to keep up with the demand.’’ “Beef and hogs, among other things, can be more cheaply raised in Georgia than in the central states, Tell this to the boys, and teach them how to do it. The place of boy’s and girl’a clubs is to re direct farm practice! and to re adjust home practices. And there is no greater work in the world than the training of boys and girls.” -Honorable C. A. Cobb, editor of the Southern Ruralist. followed Mr. Hill with a brief, impromptu speech in which he pledged the firm import of his paper to the cause of the farm boy and girl.’’ “Evqry effort of the Southern Ruraliat,” he said, “will be aimed towards giving the farm boy ani a fair chance.” will be organize Mr. Williams odds which, he nixed in the eystem. pointed out the declared, are over-. whelmingly against' the individual farmer in marketing his cotton. “It is our business to protect ourselves, and that we arc doing through the cotton co-operatives, through a realisation of tho fact that as individuals we haven’t aufr ficient knowledge to put out- frits, againdt the bjuyer-ajfeclallat. STABA LIZES THE PRICE girl Mr. J. C. Mitchell Died Wednesday The. fundamental problem, and the accomplishment in part. IMh in the stabilisation of the price of cotton on a aupply and demand basis, without regard to cotton speculators. In showing how commodity/Wfflt keting works in other sections, Mr. Williams stated that 60 per cent of the tobacco production in the United States is handled by tl)i* system and that more than 400,- 000 dairymen are banded togeth er in marketing organizations. “The movement has spread over America like a prairie fire, before a strong wind. In California. • in Georgia, In the New England states, in Louisiana, the farmer* are grouping themselves together for the better and more profitable disposal of their products.” "] “Two schools of thought have arisen as to the solution of-.'the fanner’s problem,” ha stated, 1n conclusion. “One hwlidves economic problems can be solved by political remedies. The other school knows that there are no po litical remedies for economic problems, that only tsconqmic remedies will cure economic dis eastf. France bad one anto to every 131 inhabitants in 1921. Never push tbe automobile back ward by the radiator. Great Britain had 962,000 autos, on August 31, 1922. Mr. Julius C. Mitchell, aged 36, died at his home near Winterville in Oglethorpe county Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock. Funeral ar- ng rangements will be announced later. The body is at the chapel of Bernstein Brothers awaiting final disposition. Mr. Mitchell is survived-by his mother, one daughter,- one sister and five brothers, Ur. Mitchell re tired from active business and farming about two years ago on account of ill health. He was a member of the Baptist church. Last’s Week’s . CIRCULATION Combined banner-Herald Was as follows Tuesday Wednesday Thursday . Friday .... Sunday ... 5,051 6,197 6,075 4jm No Isaac of the Banner is pub lished on Monday morning. No is sue of the Herald to printed on Sat urday evening. BANNER-HERALD ATHENS, GA. Copies