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11,000 Aodd*nt Policy Pro* To Rtgultr Subserlber, the banner-herald Inviotlgoto Today! ATHENS COTTON: Middling W-i ] Previous Close Dallf and Sunday—1* CcnU • Week BaUbllahtd 18U, T!..i'Trr- DaDy and Sunday—II Conta a .Week, THE WEATHER: Clear Friday and Colder, I VOL 91. NO. 259. Aaaodatcd J’ress serrice. ATHENS, GA„ fRlDAY, DECEMBER Id, IMS, A. R c, Panar, Sinaia Coylaa 1 Canta Dally, * jCanto Sunday, CHINESE BANDITS PILLAGE TOWNS feBH 1 ^ ,r 4 l 4* ■■»!* ^-4* ^-4 4*—4*' -4* ^4 4*—4 4*—4* 4*—4* 4* 4* 4* 4 # gram of 1LDH00D ILLS It. Bolt, Director of Med- I ical Service of Associa- I lion Outlines General Plan of Demonstration. IVISITS OFFICIALS IN COUNTY FRIDAY Tugram Will Be Built I Around Local Health Or ganization. Director of I Work Expected Soon. A program of health activity Jvitii the aim of eliminating as far ■as possible, childhoml ujs«a«6 in IClarke county and eventually m utheast is planned' by the I Aim dean Child Health Associa- Itlon which will conduct a five year JiiFmoiMtratlon . here, Dr. Richard ■A. Bolt, repr-s.-Mtine th eazsocAn- ■ lion. Friday told a. Banner-Herald Irtporlor. .«/. - I The entire program will be built |iM>n.rthe local health erganiza- ItkiD, the work of the local authorl- |U» being augmented from time ■ to lime by nurses and other health Iwnrkrrrf furnished by the assoria- |tion. br. Bolt, director of the medical |*rvices of Uii! American Child \ \ -<»< •:»tion. arrived in Ath * Tliuraday and' was in consul lution with Dr. Linton Oerdine iBn-Aident-of the City Board I Health, Dr. J. D. Applewhite. |health commissioner, Dr. W. I Moss, Dr. W. H. CabanUe. presi lient county Board of Htalth and I others closely In .touch with the I health conditions of the commu- Inlty. • • ■.?' V I ^DRESSES M tDICAL I SOCIETY FRIDAY Friday liiiHit Dr. Ilolt will ad |IrfiK the County Medical Society "Relation of tiro Medical Pro | fmion to Child Health Work." Actual. work In devoloplng tl e I(rorram of the health demonetra- |tlon will Begin by the flret of 1914 Inwa the arrival of Dr. B. W. Ifarey of Utopiachoaetta who ha, I bwn aoppolntnd director o( the |vork hero. Dr. Caray was to have prrired December owing to ■ 'he llbeaa of the health comnls- I'loner of Masyaohtnet'a' be was I wiueited', to remain on duty It, ■ 'hat atato where he held the of- Ifln of deputy health coramlaaloner. I Dr. BolL whose I vialt la tor the I purpose of miktna the acqualrr.- Imre of health anthoritiea here, lame to Athens from Hanaflnld. I Ohio, where, the' association has |te.n conducting a demonstration I'vo year*,' and. from Rntberford thens Child Health Demonstration \Begin$ January 1 4—5- -5—4- 4*--4- 4>-4 4»- 4* +—4* 4* 4- 4--4- 4-—4- 4-5- 4-—4- 4-— TWO MEN HELD AT FITZGERALD IN CONNECTION WITH BIG SWINDLE !W. L. ERWIN NAMED 1 y Worker % 2' * 1 SOUTH SHUDDERS AS COLD WEATHER AND SNOWS Miss -Janet Fiah, dau HamUton Fish, former stf the New York state A and sister of- Hamilton Fwh, Jr., representative In Congrtoi, has been .appointed suportatendent 0< nurses at St: Marks Hospital, ;N«w York. ■ - Freezing Weather to Ex tend As Far South As Southern Fla. Twelve Bodies Recovered. (By Associated Press) CHICAGO. Ill. — While jnllder weather and rising temperatures In the northwest and central sec tions of the country dispelled the hope for a white Christmas, colder weather and snowfall* were being generally experiencin' throughout the south Friday. x The sweep of the cold wive was expected to extend as far south ; as southern Florida, with y plenti | fuj sprinkling of snow in .’a states I below the Mason, and Dixon L*no. r | Warmer weather aided the re- r- of lief parties la those sections of r of J New Mexico and - Went Texas where ibly t the search Is being made for per- T '~ sons reported to have been lost in th* 1 blizzard .Monday. The bodies of twelve freezing victims have beefi recovered from the blizzard. of (By Associated Press.) :Prominent Young Athens CHICAGO.—Two pen are being held at Fitzger- ■ Attorney Elected As aid, Ga., according to local police authorities, in con-j Worshipful Master nection with the alleged $5,000,000 swindle engineer- j Mt. Vernon Lodge, ed by Leo Koretz, Chicago attorney. The two men left this city Tuesday in an airplane, bound for Honduras, but were arrested at the Geor gia city on the possibility that their plane may be in tended to facilitate the flight of Koretz to Central America, j The swindle was brought to light when two postal inspectors assigned to co-operate with representa tives of the state’s attorney in investigating the swindle, raided the office of the attorney. It is al leged that the swindler victimized his own mother, . Koretz disappeared and no trace of him has yeti* 1 ****” *“ d ?» *•«&” ch “’' been found ' 1 was greeted with applause. He told «W»IWI THREE THOUSAND SWOOP DOWN ON CHAHO; BURN TOWN AFTER LOOTING; TAKE WOMEM HOSTAGES (By Associated Press.) SHANGHAI.—Three thousand bandits under thi leadership of the two notorious chieftains, Chen Yea . Teh and Wang Han Ying, captured the town of Chat( Wednesday, according to reports reaching this city Friday morning. The reports state that the bandits first looted tbd ..town houses and then applied the torch, leaving the Atol U attornaTJa. S! tow "L a ***** of smoking ruins. night named as Worshipful Master > of Mt. Vernon lodge of Free Ma- I sons, succeeding Oscar Kinnebrew. Dr. Pope B. * Holliday was named I Senior Warden and J. K. Patrick* was elected Junior Warden. John G. Quinn was renamed sec- i retary and W. A. Capps was re elected treasurer. W. F. Dorsey, the lodge's oldest past worshipful masUr and a Ma son for 47 years, presided over the WILLIAM L. ERWIN, who was named Worshipful Master of . Mt. .Vernon Lodge of Masons at the 82nd annual Communi cation Thursday night. Guards Their Souls OF Nominated Thursday. Lamfcin and Hodgson Nominated For* Vice- Presidency. To Hold Election Next Ween. '-Member, of the Klwanls club held the ennuel nomination of of ficer, et the Y. M. O. A. niur.- d,y. Joel A. Wler. chairmen of the board of director, for tho teat yeer wee nominated for tho presi dency, the nomination belnf tanta- "Iintv. Tennessee, where e dem-j mount t o election. Harvey Stovall attrition will bofln ahortly. ra .nominated treaiurer. Tho other nomination! were I follow,: For vice president. L. E„ v a ur u iliHttiun 1 ITUS- J advanced (in OHIO hr Bolt Hated that the work ta Ohio had advanced to the point "here health anthoritiea of other mrnmunl*e« nre vgdUns llkne- Jld to look over the work belay "one them to. the program of pre- rfrllna rblllhood dliene. Event- J*Ur. the- uioolatlon hope,. Ire | health work hare will be need a, * ftodel and grill bring here health ■sthorltio,, from other communl- to aindy tho locel progiam., '*• will tako several month, for Or. Cera, to folly in louph with 'to health oondlUon, in Clarke ,| "l hie Drat Work will bo that of 'ro'uintlng himself with tho need* too then aa the proglira develope •uoclatag will lie brought In to *- the,local health authorities In ■ - nut Hi.- oroaratn. hr. npU tvanbM to' mako If. very. . 1 -r that th i rnsrara will JV ..rked out throurh the present ">lih organisation in the eonnty. will merely ghre your loctil ’otlioriiiee more a rate with which ? “ork." be aald. In other words. " ussaclatlon does not plan to »P a hurriedly worked ont or: amtatlon tnt the purpou ie to to *ly and thoroughly al dthe lo- ** 1 1»itb0rijles in developing a "’•i'll nrganlratlnn whieh t-wh into every phote of health ’rith the primary atm. of course. 1,'-"nilnntlug the dleeesee of ^nilfirpn. .. . ,T* AID LOCAL A UTHORITIS6 "or instancy the health authod* In the rjtv and county nov ,r ® interestPd in control of utber- (Turn to Pag* •«*) Lamkln end W. B. Hodawni trua tee. W. B. Hodgson am. B E. Uni- kln; directors. W.-L. Erwin, E. H, Dorsey, c. M. Suolllag. J. M. Pound, W. K. Mendow. C. B. Mer lin; E. B. Mell. H. J. Stegeman, T. W. Baiter. J. T. Plttard, T. F. Green, S. J. Ware nml W. T. Forbes. The members will vote on Sevan of the fifteen nt the next meeting. One truitee and «>« rice, president will also be elected from the nominees. Klwanlan Weir, who wlll__ suc ceed Captain J. ‘ Kxamlnations for the fall^ term ar e being held at th* educational Inetltutions here, Those of University began^ Friday and will last through tf»T 22nd. Btudenta will leave for home aa they fin ish with the 22nd) a* the last day of the fall term. January 2nd is the date aet for the opening of the t'pelng term. The State Normal School closes fo r the fall term on December 20 and Thursday and Fr|dgy of next week moat of th* girls of this school will leave for the holiday* They resume work again January 3rd. Lucy Cobb Institute closes on tho aftersoon of the 19th and will re sume the spring term on January 7th. Tho public- schools of tho city quit on the 21st and will re sume work on the 7th of January. The eprlng term will bring sev eral hundred new students to the State College of Agriculture. Many short courses will begin after the holidays while a number of regu lar term student# will begin work then. briefly of the accomplishments of [the lodge, Its work for the future •and icgretted that so many mem- • bers failed to get the true spirit j of Masonry by not attending the i meetings more often. Me. Dorsey said that although .Thuisdgy night was. known a« the { eighty-seend annual comnuinica- . *»ion of tho lodge in reality Mt. I Vernon ie more than a century old ( as shown by a comer stone in New college on the campus which was I put In place in 1822 by the lodge. Reports of the .secretary and ftieasorer and committees we: read and the new officer snamed. All of. those who were nuiuel I officer.; have taken a keen Inter* est in Masonic affairs. >Mr. Frwtji, who was named Worshipful Mas- j ter. Is one of tho most popular ! young men of the city and is well • versed In the craft of the order. Dr. Holliday and Mr. Patrick are also leaders fa Masonic wohk while Mr. Capps and Hr. Quinn hold offices that ah* more or less iwtmanenL Tholr election was merely roujfhe. Rev. William G, Jones, in charge of the Marine Department of the New York'Bible Society (right foreground), will have completed on Daccmlwr 9—Blbl, Day—hli SO nan of service distributing Bibles to Seamen In New York hv>»r. Bibles are supplied in different lan guages. Eighth-Ninth Dist, Press Associations Combine at Meeting (By Associated Press.) JUAREZ.—Official dis- patcRes received in Jua rez contain reports of the firsts clash between the federal forces and those of the rebel, General Es- Itrada, in Jalisco. The fight The Eighth and Ninth District Press Associations Icordim^ to* tte^renoils' 1 fishing trip ends in jail were combined into the Eighth and Ninth District an( i resulted in victorv savannah, os.—a mi sen- Press Association at the meeting held here Friday. t hp federaLs A reh/l l e r,. 0 v'oXr!rol;yr r *?•> CaldweU, editor, of the Walton News, was f ° r the A rebel BATTLE WITH REBELS NEAR JUAREZ FRIDAY round In th, 1C, bog or a local tl,h and oyater dealer^ wh*ti ho wa, caught by officer, "Why that’, coco - — Barnett n« no way to catch fish,’> aald Judn. -resident, haa been a member of’Meldrlm wbo aantamwd Clwrtl. to The club alece Its organisation and prison for hl« -fishing" trip. Is one of the most active Klwan- tena In Athens. He hta boM t**"*- ly'Identified with all of the wo- Jeota which llflwairio l!»p and Is a worthy successor to I'ae- tata Barnett ' The attendance prise Thorsdey given by ’Ralph,Hodgson was won by judge T. F. Green. wa* given unaru, ursywn, nepo,. t - —..— -- —- when h, plead gumy to a chares named president to succeed Ernest Camp of the ^Mmlt^^rin^lEighth District and J. F. Shannon of the Ninth. Mr. act of fining ii sack with fi*h h# bnannon was named vice president. • - • **-*•' e. W. Carroll was elected aecre- to have driven through but was $2224 FROM GOAL The vantehtng point In the Y. M. C. A. budget campaign will be reached when %2tt* !■ ra, ** d * It was announced Fridey. N*n* subscriptions totalling $77 were SSrSiTbumdsy HelP reach the vanishing point Business men wbo aided ‘n ^e^camj nafgn last week have several hundred cards representing cl.- liens whom .they are seeing at leliut* in order 4o reach th* vanishing point. . A 0 Term Exams. Begin At State University Eumla.Uaa, marking th, cUw, of lhe prrt term of th. lrapd MMkm «> th, Vnlverstty of Oeocma got under war Friday and will c-mtlnu, ihrougn Saturday of-next week. - —■t* finish tne«r — l •Am the student* — ----- sminstlons, thsy will for them «:hrl*ima» TS«mtWha ^The sr.^mo term begins January »■ LET VAST WEALTH ESCAPE LONDON Th, mvu reiponai- l,ie for ih, opening of th, Klmtwr- | ley diamond field. In South Africa mid the flelda for »f.5M. believing .them eshauited after having re move eeveral thousand stones. Th, field, hav, yielded diamond, ever ’ since. nM' had Kdwbl William I Streeter., Who-died.b«r, recently [at'the age SS»: reUlhed * Ills * property he would have been, ouf i*of the richest m«n in th# world. tory and treasurer 1 and James P. Davison of Cleveland was named assistant secretary and treasurer. The next meeting will be held tn Athens the second Friday In March. The executive committee Is com posed of Louie Morris of Htrtwell, W. T. Bacon, Madison, Rush Bur ton, Lavonts. J. W. McWhorter, Vfadgr, a Morecock, ‘istw rencevlUc, and F. D. Singleton, cterkeevtlle. The meeting Friday was small In attendance oo account of the weather buj very pronounced In Interest ’ Rush Burton, editor of the La- vonia Times, who was to have de livered an address before the meeting was prevented from at tending on account of the condl* tolns of the roads between here and LavonU* Hla message on “How the Weekly Press Can Best Serve the Farmers the First Three Months of 1124/’ wps read, bow- W. T.' Andereom ^editor of the Macon Telegraph wbo was ta *peak on the "Presa and Good Roads/* wired his regret*-. He was prevented on account of the rains SCORES WAVE OF LAWLE88NESS ' Editor-Shannon of thy Commerce Hews spoke on ‘"tye Value of the Editorial Page" and his speech was one of the best ever heard by the association. Mr. Shannon speaks with the same degree of soundness and common sense em ployed In his editorials. He refer red to the value the editorial conll in discussing such vital sub jects a« good roads, agriculture and lawlessness. Mr. Shannon has very definite opinions of th?se subjects and doesn't mind ex- bteoalug them. In referring to law lessness in the state he satd be deplored the «e*mlr.g lethargy that law enforcement had fallen into in Georgia and he called upon the editors to take a stand for justice through th * r-gulsr legal charrels. He aald that the courts had be come too lax in deposing of cases and that ft had come to paa* when a man could go Into court and hy hook and crook hive hi# case pc*|- (Tum to page aix.) captain with 160 men and 125,000 pesos in money, deserted Estrada during the fighting' and joined the federal^ BILL PASSED (By Associated Press.) A T L A N T A.—The House passed the Hoi- dcn-Stovall bill, already passed by the Senate and which is designed to give counties and municipalities the right to exempt from taxation for a period of five years ail new industrial enterprises, including cheese factories and creameries, if they so desired. The bill now j?oe,s to the governor for his sig nature. ATHENS RESPONDS Atheps Is rezpondJng to • tno appeal of the Anti-Tuberculosis Association for money to carry on tho fight against tuberc svs. The committees of wo from the First Presbyterian church cuptalned by Mrs. A. L. McCoy sold 1110.35 worth Christmas Seals Thursday at the booths In the city. This money will be used in fighting tuberculosis here. When you stop to realize that there are over 300 tuberculosis cases in Clarke county who are daily ex posing others it I.-, no woiui.r that Athenians are buying Christmas Souls to help ralso the money to prevent the spread of tills awful rijM’asf. "Aufii is the boat word to describo tuberculosis. It IS an -awful dis ease. It slowly saps the life strength out of its victim, all the wMile the victim knowing that the odds are against.nlm The odds are against the vfc tlm unless the disease is dl« covered In time. If It Is found In time.the patient may be saved. It has been done many, many times, it is ike purpose of the Anti-Tuberculosis Associa tion to continue employment the tuberculosis nurse who ta keeping in constant touch with tuberculosis victims, teething those just developing the dis ease bow to protect themselves and throw it off and Instruct ing others in advanced stages bow to prevent others from catching the disease. This work is making Clarke county a more healthful place and a less, dang- eroq» place in wbteh to live. In remembering the large num ber of tuberculosis cases In Clarke don't get the Idea we are worse off than many other communities In the state. We are not. The difference in us and othar communities is we see the danger and are trying to eliminate It as far as possi ble. A committee from the Col lege Avenue P. T. A., with Mrs. F. G. BIrchraore in charge sold Christmas 8eola Friday. How many did you boy? Well, buy some more Saturday and help carry on this fight You may ive a life. TUBERCULOSIS IS COX- TAGtOUS. The Magistrate and Ed- u c a t i o n Commissioner- and two other official* were carried off by tha bandits, according to tha dispatches, with more) than one hundred dents of the town, among the number many women as well as men. It is not known as yet, due to inability, to dear up communication lines, whether any foreigners were taken as hostages or to be held for ransom by; the bandits, or whether any suffered death at ths| haads-of the marauders. i This is the second big raid staged by Chinese bandits since the one sev eral months ago which al most threw the Chinese- government into interna tional difficulties, wiihi : a several other countries. Five United States de stroyers are said to b# cruising in Chinese wa-. ters at this time. STATE LAUNCHES IN ATTACK* ON FOX’S DEFENSE t ter« tint* WILL EXPORT 8UGAR PRAGUE—The sugar crop Czechoslovakia fs so good this year that, after meeting local needs to the extent of 230,000 tons, th#* republic will have 3TO <>00 tun* for export. ATLANTA.—A war! tin* with ror for many jrarg for the to come when he would either be*- come a raving manioc as Big brother died or else pass into ■ Htate of brooding senility os did. his father before his • death, brought about a condition wittft Philip E. Fox, on trie! for hds.!5te. tor tho killing of W. 8. Coburn* which unbalanced the mind of Ure accused', defense counsel la tho case said Friday when the trial was resumed. The defense outlined the basis of its |9>gal struggle for the life of Fox by submitting a death cer tificate to show that Jack . Fox, young brother of Phil Fbx. died II* the throes of violent Insanity, and produced witnesses to show that Fox's father had lost his mental equilibrium as the reeult of flnaa* rial reverses. It was further shown by form er associates of Pox from Texas that while engaged In newspaper work there he was subject to spells of brooding and extreme nervous ness, and that on one occasion b« was discovered In an unconscious condition fn the city hall. Tho state lost no time in launch ing its attack upon the Insanity, plea. Solicitor Oeierol John A. Boykin calling attention of tha Jurors to the foct that the death certificate in the case of Jack Fox stated that the boy came to ai violent insane death as the result of unwholesome practice on his own part. At the same time, wit nesses called*by the defense Ini show that Fox's father. Samuel Fox, was "odd" and "brooding/* were subjected to severe and proa longed cross-examination. _ ^