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THE WEATHER:
Continued Rains Tuesday and
Wednesday.
VOL. 91. NO. 110
ATHENS, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1923.
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Jacobs Gives Up Effort To Bring Back Oglethorpe
11 SPOTLIGHT IT THE AMERICAN LEGION CONVENTION BS5$ »
Speaker At Conferece of
Child Heglth Association
ProposdsrRadical Chang
es in Child Training.
SHOULil DEVELOP
NERVOUS SYSTEM
Basis 'Lines of Physical
and Mental Organiza
tion Laid Down in Pre-
School Age.
(By Associated Press.)
DETROIT.—.Suiiostlona tor rad
ical departures In the training of
America's ebldren were mede
Tuesday’before the annual meet-
Ina of the American Child Health
Aiioclttlon, by Mra.Marletta John,
son, director of the Falrhope Sum
mer School, of Greenwich.' Conn.
Postponement of all Intellectual
nctlVtles, inch as reading, writ
ing and arithmetic until the child
It eight or nine yetre old was one
o( the revolutionary moves Mrs.
Johnson would make.
Tho abolition of the "Three Ha’
trom tho curriculum of children ot
lender years, she said, would make
tor an Impressment of the body,
the ro’nd nnd the spirit
"1 nullin',t.” nho declared, ’That
Pus. of thu needn of the body In
that the.'order of tho development
of tho nervous system shall not
be violated by any work of the
nchool that the body should be al
lowed wholesome freedom that all
speclelifod activity ehall be poet-
poned until a later period. This
alone would mean quite a revolu
tion In our, public school system
It would mean, first of ell. not
more than .0 pdplls to tho teacher,
that all ilntejlectaal activities, huch
a s reading, writing and numbers
would M poitponed until tho child
Is eight.or nlno years ot ago.
MIND NEEDS
INTEREST
“Tho mind neode Interest. Tho
fundamental condition of thinking
Is tutorial. Tho achaal sa'll then
ask: 'What are tha Interests of
childhood t; and will endeavor to
provide these.
“Wo know that all children are
Interested In things of the sense—
In handling, oreatlng. Investigating
and experimenting—In other words
In making and using things. This
would mean that tho school would
he turned Into a workshop and that
tools and material would be pro.
sided for tha moat wholesome aort
ot selt-promotod, creative ecttvi
tr- H
Ot the training of the aplrtt.
Mrs. Johnson laid:
“Tha sR'rlt should ho fearlehs.
Belt-consciousness Is fear. Fear la
death. Education la Ufa. Therafore,
the school, must not permit, much
leu impoes, conditions which de
velop selt-consclousneu or fear.
"All grades, marks, systems, of
promotion made for aslf.conacl-
ouaneu and are. therefore, inimi
cal to health of the apirlL”
Mrs. Johnson also urged a sys
tem through which i to child would
he taught to keep clean and’ eat
the proper, food not because of
fesr but. because there has been !n-
Sttlled In It, a preference for clean
liness and.a desire for the right
tort of food.
Alvin Owsley, nations! commander of the American Legion now in convention m San Froclsco. The
two women next to him ore Mrs. Joseph V. Costello, Snn Francisco society woman, and Miu Louise
Wells, national president of the Women's Overseas Sonrice Legion. t
DETROIT.—Methods of teach
ing to older school children who
have not been so trained ita their
earlier year* were discussed by
Mlu Maud A. Brown, director ot
child heklth.education In Fargo.
' where the first
tha Coipmon.
Health Demon-
la being conduct-
DEAL8 WITH »
PRE-ADOLESCENCE
In her address Mis* Brown dealt
almost exclusively with the pre-
sdolescent boy—the youagitar of
The subject of her paper was
Teaching Health to Older Chil
dren.”
"Of all' human creatures the
most,difficult for the ererage wo.
men to understand 1 .’ ’she said. “I*
the pre-adolescent male, hence h*
“ the most difficult to appeal to
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Bonus Is Slated to Come
Up For Action. Stronger
Americanization Pro
gram Is Planned.
SAN FRANCISCO.—San Francis
co has surrendered. Tho Golden
Gate metropolis capitulates In the
face of an Invading horde of 160,-
000 American Legionnaires and
turna over the keys of the city to
roterana of the World War, who
will conatitate an army of occu-
pafon during the leglon’a fifth an
nual convention now In session
here.
The convention will he a mom-
Mnatlon of work and play. There
will be division reunion!, parades,
dances—eren fleet maneuvers—to
regale the ex-eervice men. And
then will be serious business.
Problems expected to be In thf,
forefront ot debate when tho le-1
glon assembles Include:
Measures urging more etrln-
gent Immigration laws.
A program for aolvlng tha
problems of disabled war vet-
arana.
Provision for orphans of
World Wsr veterans.
A men stnnuous American
isation program.
An International air disarm
ament confemnc*.
And, last but net leaet, the
old question of adjusted com
pensation.
BONUS IS
UP AGAIN
The problem ot adjusted com-
pensatlon, or a national bonus,
may furnish most ot the emoke at
the legion’s sessions. It le not un-
Merchants Begin Signing Up
For Support of Campaign For
Trade Revival in This City
IB STORMS Tli c =%£™ it
BERLIN STOCK
EXCHANGE,
IT
likely that t|w election of a
Uonal commander will b ni e
around the tattle
The question, It le believed, will
come up In the form of a resolu
lion advocating that Congress pass
a compensation measure. That
Congreas will do so at Its next
session Is conceded by some of the
bonus’ foremost opponents, Includ
ing Congressman Theodore E. Bur
ton of Cleveland. But. according to
forecast, tha bonus question will
become Involved with amendments
moiHficattons and provisions to
such an extent that the measure
will occupy much of the conven
tion’s time.
Legion leaders. It la prert’eted
all will be drawn into this debate,
and thus It may become the real
battle-ground for tho commender-
■hlp candidates.
Square and Compass
Meets Tuesday
The Square and Compass club
ot the University of Georgls Is to
most Tuesdsy night In Dr. B. P.
Stephens’ class room In the Acad-
emfc Building.
This club Is the Masonic organi
sation ot the student body.
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON—-A mob tried ts
force Its way into the Berlin
stock exchange Tuesday morn
ing, aayt a Central news dis
patch from the German capi
tal.
The deor* wSrs promptly
closed end the'police took up
the tack ot dealing with the at
tacking' throngs. A mob also
tried to storm the City Hell,
the mcicag* states, but the
- police appeared In a strong
fores and seemed to be mast
ers of the situation after fierce
fighting In which a number of
persons warn Injured serious-
iy.
The city hall and stock ex
change have been locked end
strongly guarded and the WII-
hsmstraass closed to pedes
trians and vehicles.
Saw Mrs. Stokes
In Apartment, Is
Claim of Witness
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK.—Hf*. Anna Doer
ing, ot Norwalf, Conn., witness pro
cured by Hatfe Johnson, negress
active -In obtaining evidence far
W. E. D. Stokes In hla divorce ac
tion testified she he* esse. Mr:.
Stakes on a stairway 'n tue apart
ment house of Eugef T. Wallace.
Mrs. Doering said aha hu.l also
eeen Mrs. 8tokes at a hotel In the
same apartment house In which
Wallace’s apartment was located
and It was on a visit to the daugh
ter that aha saw Orre. Stokes on
the stairway .
She admitted the negress had
called on her with Stokes several
times.
Enthusiastic Response.
Act. on Results of Can
vass Probably Wednes
day.
Five team* ot Athons business
men took the streets, Tuesday
morqlng in a canvas* of tha city
for the purpose ol signing up tho
merchants and business man tor
tho big trade month that will b«
Inaugurated hern |f sufficient in
terest is manifested.
The canvass will be completed
Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday
a meeting of Wo business men of
tbe city will probably be called to
determine what action la to bo
taken on the results obtained. It a
sufficient number ot business I Saturday night. The program will
bousee enter Into the proposition j be elaborated but these events arc
committees will be named to the main attraction!,
launch It and It la the belief of
thou who are backing tha avent EXPECT FARES
that the prises will be swarded end BE REDUCED
that all the merchants and busl-
ness houses wlU enter Into the | It le expected that one way
e con
E HE
TB BE BIB EVENT
Plans Started Tuesday At
Meeting of Committee of
Alumni of University
Here.
BIG DANCEHELD
OPENING NIGHT
Program Opens Friday
Night With Big Rally.
Virginia Plays Georgia
Saturday Afternoon.
’iHome Coming Day,” November
10th. when Georgia plays the
University of Virginia in Athena,
will be a fin la event here this fall.
Plan* are underlay to makf
this one of the biggest football
?amee ever stuped In Athens am’
a committee meeting was held
Tuesday morning to perfect an
organisation and to advertise ‘ar.d
nonage tho details of the day.
Athens' business men arc co-oper
ating with the athletic authorities
of tho University in arranging
the program.
DEATH LURKS IN
ROARING WATERS
Fifteen Thousand People Abandon
Homes As Flood Waters Rise and
Threaten Lives. Relief
' Bodies At Work.
DECIDES NBT TO
PUSH REQUEST TO
BOOK
Withdraws Request in
Deference to Sentiment
of English People, Geor
gia Educator Says.
ONE PURPOSE OF
TRIP REALIZED
E. H. Dorsey is again chairman
at the committee on decoration.
He to going to call upon all (He
buitacn houses to decorate their
pl.ee, of business and It ii very
probable that a handsome - price
will be offered for the best decor
ated window.
The program will open up Fri
day night with n rally at the
chapd whan yells and speeches
krill be the attraction. There will
be a dance that nighL For tho
forenoon of Saturday a parade will
be worked up for 11 o'clock, this
to be followed by an alumni
luncheon and a meeting of the
“G” men.
The gam* it at S o'clock In the
afternoon and following this will
be receptions at the chapter houten
and dormltoriei while a “G" club
dance will dote the day's events
(By Associated Press.)
OKLAHOMA CITY.—A catastrophic flood grip
ped Oklahoma City Tuesday.
With virtually the entire south side inundated,! Nations.
‘Jhe flood waters of the North Canadian river were ’
rising rapidly and creeping relentlessly upward from
the lowlands cariy Tuesday were lapping the very
threshold of the retail business center of the city
with every prospect that the crest of the high water
will not be reached for some time.
The raging torrent, swollen to
unprecedented proportion* by
nifna of the past four days broke,
through the municipal reservoir
Sought to Make Sacred
Memory of Founder Tie
of Good Will Between
THIS TERRIER IS
SOME POSSUM
TREER
stimulating proposition.
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FRENCH DO NOT
“TAKE TO” CURZON
PLAN, IT SEEMS
(By Associated Press)
PARIS—T3ie French government
is not disposed to provide British
and other allied governments with
a specific plan as suggested by
Lord Ctirxon j n his speech to the
Imperial Conference Monday,/ tell
ing Germany how she should col
lect reparations funds from her
own people.
The French Idea, at expressed
authotfatively Tuesday, fs that it
It for Germany to pay and to pro
vide her own meant of payment.
Must Die on Gallows For
Slaying of Another. Jury
Was Out Only Five Min
utes.
A verdict o( murder was render
ed Monday afternoon by tho jury
trying Great Johnson, colored, for
tho killing or Guy Colbert, sues
Guy. Hawkine, In Athene lest Au
gust.
The Jury was out but flee min
utes and left no alternetiro (or
Judge FUrtaon but the sentence ot
death on the scaffold. The Judge
had not named the death -date
Tuesday morning but was whiting
for the doomed man to testify In
the case agalnit Warren Bhew,
colored, who Is also Implicated In
tho killing. ,
It was at Shaw’s house where
Mte fatal .hooting took piece and
Johnson Claimed on the stand that
Shaw gave U’m the gun with which
he tired tha fatal shot and told
him to shoot. He also stated that
tha dead man was killed In a scuf
fle over the weapon. Shaw’s trial
la awaiting the selection of a Jury.
Homar 8mlth was being tried
Tuesdqy morning (or assault and
battery, It bel. g claimed that ha
.napped a n’.tol at Homer Wil
liams.
The grand Jury la still la session
but ft I. expected to present its
presentments either Tuesday aft
ernoon or Wednesday morning.
Tho audits of tha various county
Officials will ha a part of the pro-
senlments. , <
fares- will ba granted by the vari
ous railroads entering Athena and
that special trains will be operated)
here over the mein line*, espec-.
lally from Atlanta, Macon and
Tha game I* on* of the two re
maining to be pleyed here and
will draw the largest crowd of the
season. Last year Virginia xnd
Georgia tied, 7-7, as la the custom
of the two teams it seems tnd this
tie will be broken In a victory of
one or the other teams is the gen
eral belief and Georgia will I»lnt
for thli big homo gam*, the first
after the Auburn g»me in Colum-
n the' 3rd of November.
Ifewsll and Walter Hodgxoi
at the night hawks’ pastime.
A few months ago Walter
Hodgson had an excess of fox
terrier* et'.ils house and made
1 M.ck Howell a gift of one,
“Trixie, Jr.” and the puppy
snon became a pet around tho
wholesale house of Webb and
Crawford and many a rat has
met Ita daath before her on
slaught.
Monday morning whon tho
janitor of the store went to
the front door to open up
Trixie was barking frantic*!-
•- on the Inxlde and when
the door was opened sh*
sprung out and behind a flour
sign standing doss to tho
wall and upon Investigation
back of it was found an
o'posaum, young but genuine.
Mack is growing the ani
mal for an , early entertain
ment while Walter is thinking
of going Into the fox ttrrier-
'poeium dog business.
ten miles west early Tuesday nniTl
flung a nine foot wall of water to
spread further disaster to the al
ready stricken lowlands of tho
city's southside.
IT. H. Gordon, Jr., Guy Han
cock, Howard McWhorter,
Rots Crape and ono or two
other champion o’posaum hunt
ers of tho city were green
with envy Monday morning-, mu wiu bukucii sccuun, ivu.jati (q
^ycr tlj# success of McBrido of life is reported but mnny per- memory
Ur,.’«rM nn>l Wnlfra,. t-evra. os-*. * lilt*IIIury
gtu
ing the atrickcn section. No-loss
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON.—In deference to 1
!!sh sentiment Dr. Tfccrr.woll
cobs, president of Oglethorpe Uni
versity, has decided to withdraw
the request of his university that
the body of General James B.
Oglethorpe, founder of the state
of Georgia, bo transferred to a pro
posed shrino on the campus of (bo
Univi rnity in Atlanta.
Dr. Jacobs, In announcing hlu
decision, said' his request wan two-,
fold; first, that the gravo of Ogle
thorpe, exact location of which
had actually been forgotten in
England, might be made a center
of instruction for our youtih in the
great principles upon which Gen
eral Oglethorpe founded our com-
liivnUy.
The second purpose was the do-
afro to . make him and hfn *ncrwl
bus on !
Trial of Garrett
Resumed Tuesday
(By AmvvmiUc) Press.)
CMBERLAND COURTHOUU8E,
Vs.—Th.' second trlpl of Robert
O. Ganrett, charged with tbe mur
der ol Rev. Sydney Pierce, started
Tuesday. The Juno-wa* being ee-
1 acted from a centre of 60 South
hampton county cltlxen*. Two
talesmen teatUled they bad con
tributed to a fund to prosecute
Garrett
Police Arrest Men Believ
ed Train Robbers.
(By Associated Prase.)
■PORTLAND. Ore.—MorrJ* White
and Frank Howard war* arrested
Monday night at McMInuvIlla and
brought 10 Portland for Investiga
tion on suspicion they were con
nected wlih the Southern Padttc
train hold-up and killing ot (our
trainmen near Bjohl-You, Oregon
last Thursday.
Gulf Storm Loses
Force As It Goes
NEW ORLENA1L—A gulf storm
which moved rapidly during the
night taking ou hurricane propor
tions Tuesdsy apparently bed pass
ed I’nlnnd somewhere east ot New
Orleans and loot It* force as It
sped overland. Damage along the
coast dpperently was small.
eternal tie of good' will
between England and Amorca.
fret purposo was nccornpllHh
are imperiled.
"« accompli.!
reservoir reached tho city .at 4i »,i l --.i.; nRd Hy thn jir.rir..
o’clock Thiewlay momlnir ai.d With, testes ol te" Knell,!, ,,
In an hour had spread to within
IS blocks of the principal business
section.
The swirling current with
powerful undertow defeated the
efforts of city firemen to reach 16
arsons marooned in the Mulligan
Irovo district
One man la said to be hanging
desperately te the rafter of a
church and a family of 12 I* re
ported marooned In a house In the
Grove district.
In a small grocery store a man
and hli wlf* wore Isolated await
ing rescuer*. The boatmen sue-
ceded In carrying several per
sons to safety before the ewiftly
rising waters covared Mulligan
Grove neighborhood.
Oglethorpe University
ravor to see that his grave Is for
ever remembered.
DR. if™
REVIVAL SERIES 1
Dr. John E. White began Monday
night a series pf services at tha
First Bapt’st church which prom
ised to attract largo crowds.
Dr White preaches at 8 o’clock
In the evening and IX o’clock In
the morning. He Is on eloquent and
engaging speaker ad hla messages
are certain to attract widespread
attenton In this city.
Dr. Whfto is ono ot tho south’s
leading Baptist preachers. lit
spoke Tue.duy morning on 'Tie-
Ordered to places of safety. vlv „i 8 /.
Monday evening by city authorl-|
tics approximately 15,000 residents
abandoned their homes In an area
of the flood’s path comprising 117
city blocks nnd were being shel
tered and fed by hastily formed
relief organizations.
The uptown street swore choked
with refugees. Doctors, pressed
into srevice by the city adminis
tration. gathered from all over
the city at points of concentration
xnd ambulance* and fire trucks
ind automobiles clanged their way
In and out of the danger zones.
ACCIDENTALLY KILLS HIS
WIFE, THEN ENDS OWN LIFE
cotftizr's^-o. »iW:“^ri f ,. b b^;
a&r AoX irre 1 ^ n'sFssnx?*
Rhodes accidentally killed his
wife while cleaning a gun then,
overcome by the tragedy, com-
rolt’ed suicide.
Rhode* and bis wit* ware shot
twice.
then shot himself through the
heart. Rhodes had lust coma from
work. He was employed as a night
watchman.
Mr. add Mrs. Rhodes celebrated
their golden wedding anniversary
September >0 when there waa a
According to Mrs. Sally Black, tended by 41 grand children, two
their daughter, after her nfother J tamfly reunion In their home at-
had been accidentally shot her i great grandchildren and eight 'mar-
tathcr rushed Into the yard and at- tied aon* and daughters.
LATE REPORTS SAY
CREST IS REACHI®
Every hospital in the city la
filled with refugees, while breat
and cofee line* nave been forme,
te give sustenance to those, forced
to abandon their homes. Later in
the day it eras reported officially
that the water at the reservoir
had dropped six feet and although
it had not yet dropped in the city,
It waa taken to indicate that the
crest of the flodo had been reach
ed. Pandemonium reigned for a
time aa thousands of refugees
clogged the uptown etreete.
BIG WHISKEY HAUL
IN NEW YORK CITY
(By Associated Prcts.)
NEW YORK—Twenty-tour pris
oners were taken and IXIJIOO
worth of bottled whiskey confis
cated by the police ot Westchester
station In the Bronx early Tuesday
la the capture of a 76 foot cabin
cruiser mirage In the Long Island
Sound.
LOW WATER ON ALTOMAHA
LUDOWICt, Ga.—Tbs water In
th* Alumaha river to at a very tow
,bb and according to latest re
ports to still falltor. , .mu’
GULF REFINING CO.
CUTS PRICE OF GAS
2 CENTS WEDNESDAY
Local Representative An
nounces Company’s Re
duction to 20 Cents Gal
lon Effective At Athens.
Announcement has been mailo by
Sidney S. Thomas, Athens reprb-
sentative of the Gulf Refining com
pany, that the price of Gulf gano-
llne at thp service station here
will be reduced Wednesday, Oct
ober 17, to twenty cents per gal
lon. Thta includes the 3 cents tax.
This reduction follows tho act/on
of tho Gulf company at its service
stations In twenty four states,
Georgia, included, according to Mr.
mas. The Gulf Refining com
pany is the only company making
tho reduction says tho 'announce
ment.
CONGRESSMAN DIES
GREENVILLE. Miss.—Hen jam ta
Grubb Humphrey*, for more than
20 years a member of
from the tbfrd Mississippi district
died suddetly at hla homo hero
Tuesday. DeaUt was duo to h,
trouble.
destroy