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VOL. 91. NO. 25,
Aaaoclited Preaa S-rrice.
United Preaa Dlapatcliea.
Profs. & Office,
Seekers Sharpen
Up Your Pencils
For Questions Or
You'll Lose Job.
Already "Called”;
To Cut Big Cake
Bloodhounds
Here's the questionnaire that
the Mupfrrne Hypo—* Graft—,
no It Isn't it, oh yea, "Kingdom.’*
thdt’s It, Is said to have pre
pared to send out to school
teat hers, office seekers und the
like In Georgia during the com
ing spring, when politicians
thoughts turn to words of bunk
and the like and prefersors,
botany and biology especially,
turn to thought of life revival
und perchance— -evolution:
Do you believe In God
/ as the creator of the Univeree.
"2 Do you believe in man as
Ood’s highest creation, mat's in
hit\ own likeness and image,
sera rat# and distinct from all
ot^r of h! s creations.
“3. 6o you believe in the
Bible as the divinely inspired
word of Godf
“4. Are ydu in sympathy
with fhe doctrine of the father,
hood of God and the brother,
hood of man?
*5 Are yoe opposed to the
theory of evolution or athe
ism or ahy o'her theory which
ATHENS. GA-, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18.^920
A. B. C. Paper.
Single Copies i Cent* Dellr.
ushed 2 Policemen
Suzanne Lenglen Wills Over Helen Wills In
Straight Sets At Garltpn Club Tournament
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PRESSED TO DEFEAT
AMERICAN C K AIV) Pi
Citizens’ Forum Meeting Tuesday 8 P. M.
EFIDBATHE
Win U. S. Charleston Content
BT SCORE. 6-3. U
»0 establish a marts rlllla.
tlo philoiophy regarding Cod
and creation.
If it Is true that the peraon
who is credited with being the
. chief H boo iter" end "promoter"
of the "ftipreme Kingdom'' In
Ooorgla i» who It la reported to
be then It would probably ho
In order,to abolish the chalre of
Bloloay and Botany In crehools
in tleorgla and ret up Inatead
n chair of Adultery or such like
nad propound to oocupanta
Ih.'reof questions similar to the
following:
1. Do you believe In com
mon adultery?
2. Do vou believe that man
la God a hlgheat creation and
Mheuld b» allowed to take hli~ Krlen,
"enjoyment" wherever he wish-
eth and that the Mann Whitt
Slavery Act thould bt abollah.
ad at a mtnaca to tuch enjoy,
mm,,,., yw. —
1 Do you believe that
breach of promlae tulta art In.
oplrad by "loao of love" or
•want of- money?"
4 Are you In eympathy with
the Velataad law or do you
bellow It lo only for tho
othar fallow." (Nat« tips
payed by Seopoa opponent at
torney?"
S. Art you oppoatd to the
extraction of a dollar—or oven
tan—from tho gulllbl, for tho
purpote of a theory which
eeeka to promote hypocrisy
and discourage thlnkloc, far
one'a doff?
CANNES. France.—
(UP)—Suzanne Lenglen
Tuesday defeated Helen
Wills in the Carlton Club
Tournament finals, 6-“:
and 8*6, and once more
proved her claim to sup
remacy among women
tennis players of the
world.
• The groat French atar. however,
waa hard pretted by tho cr::r
ageoua American champion and it
waa only after a hard fought first
aet and a sensational set that
Suianne finally slashed her way
to victory.
Bright sunshine flooded the
court and the stands were pocked
with a fashionable .gallery, in
eluding all of the big namor of
the nobility wintering along the
Counteah Cathceit and the
Hurl of Graven should bo wel
comed, wirb open orma by tho
"Supreme Kingdom." Maybe
If they succeed In getting by
the In.unlgr.ttlon officers they'll
1* enrolled as "promoters"
tor tho organisation along with
the said to be chief bally-
heoer. -
heard In
town Tuee-
follow.
ad by
vartona parta
day waa canehd by the
Ing' Incident aa relit
Abll Nfx:
Sheriff Walter Jac'aaon went
to a house recently to aemf a
summon on a negro woman.
The woman did not come to
the door but a little child an
swered the Sheriffs Knock.
'•Where's yon mama?" asked
the sheriff. “Bhe'e gone to n
funeni" replied tbe child. "I
hare a paper here for bor and
haven't time to wait Vou give
It lo her when aha comet
hock from the funeral" the
sheriff told the tittle negro.
Bess, she. ain't coinin’ back
from dat funeral. Sbo's
corpae!’* 5 ' ’ ’ "
A huge birthday cake with
five candle*,-and alt the trim
mings that go with birthday
rake. Is on exhibition at tbe
Palace. tbpaWt.- 'W fake «•
made by Benson's tiaksry and
nresented to Jhe;' Palace by
Manager Howard ttenaon. Ed
ward. -PePPOvW • aa BIU
Monday aftM. tlldlejr deceived
the c*ke TuWtay with approp
riate remarita aa rdlograt •
riate
•'Much •bilge.’'
The Placf .lo five yeara old
this weak and aa niual la
hrldlng a birthday party which
will last thrnnghont this week.
Aa an ekpretslon o( lit l»i"
for Athena the Pataca la pre
senting a bevy of alara lo b»
rnjoved by Athenians and
northeast Georgians at Its
birthday parties avarr day
this week. Tuesday Thomas
Melgban and Virginia Vatll are
here In "7W Man Who Found
tllmaetr.-ih -adaptation ef *
BoBth'TaVkthkttin atory. Wed-
n-wtav tbdtv (toatpatm Will hi
haft- in the "Pataca: nf Pteaa-
ores' «Kh tho "tleorgla Font"
aa aMctfitUmctlon. Mies Viv
ian Kvani untfcJUM.-Pairs' El*.
l_ <TbT6 to R4JC et|hL).
. Given Ovation *»»■-
When Mtaa Wills came on the
court attired in,a-aimple sweater
and bar white tennla frock, a cheer
aroie that reminded Americans of
a Yale-Harvard football crowd hi
action when one of the team, en
ters thd . stadium. *
Mile, Lenglen waa given an ov
ation when ahe made her usual
dramatic entrance and after a po
lite nod In the direction of her
opponent, took her place across
the net- The umpire tossed out
a box of new balla end they stori
ed to warm up. The French wo
man won the tots and chose to
serve first.
A hush settled over the stands
and tho officials made the usual
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FIRE OOES DAMAGE
OF
NEW YORK.—(UP)—
Fire starting in the cable
HOILOIIK WILL
lOISCiiSS STATE
She Socked Him On the Jaw
Athens’ interest in a
state bond issue for good
roads and improved
schools will be shown
Tuesday night at 8 o'clock
wken the Chamber of
C -vnmerce members mert
for the regular semi--
iponlit* r session. •
i James .. ffollomon, / aasfclote
editor of The Atlanta Constitu
tion, and one 02 Vo leaders cn I
the movement for . '-Jaglslature
lo amend the etate , sstltutlon ■
subject to confirmation ot 'So peo
ple in the next genera! ek-tion,
will be the principal speaker. j
Governor Walker has called the
legislature into extraordinary j
session for February 24. The | so
^U LA SKI, Tenri—
(U.')— Bloodhounds and
armt i posses afoot and in
,autos were searching the
countt -side for trace of
three g .mmen who early
Tuesday shot and killed
two polu ,men here from
ambush. . trail of bkud
from the -jeene of the
shooting w&* followed by
.the hounds Is the little
cemetery on t*} outskirts
of town, .indicting the
slayers, one fcady .wound
ed, escaped in a,\ auto
they had left there'.
A sawed-off shotgun, empy .
calibre shells, a table knife
a buckshot shell were found no, <
tho spot where the gunmen wtrv
hidden. .» • .*;.£.
That George Hodson, one of ths
slain officers, sold his life dearly,
was indicated when his body was
found, one hand extended towards
his empty -gun which lay by his
aide.
Bud Jackson, the other victim,
died before he could draw his gun
frm his holster.
The two police officers. ore
{thought to have come upon the
gunmen while in the act of rob
bing a store. Residents , of
'neighborhood hearts .fifteen shot*
exchanged, indicating to*?.
death had lasted several, eftpeofe*.
Negroes sow three m«», ^np
staggering, fleeing tetotide •
*ts Gertrude Kaynes of Waterloo, Io-
-- . , -- 4 '
1 ?w° months ago J. V. Sullivan and h : s sister Louise, both of Grand £ or , N
Rapids, Mich., couldn’t tell the Charleston from the shimmie. Then 'W?***? •mpiw** schools, In-
they started learning it—and in a nation-wide contest at Chicago* the h fher educational in-
.... ... — — Chicago
they Won first prise. Their prises included |1,000 worth* of furniture,
$1,000 worth of Jewelry and a five- weeks vaudeville contract at $600
a week,
•tltutlons. will 'be the principal
matters for consideration.
Athens is vitally interested in
both the hightoay and educational
bond issues. Pop this venr if for
Curtain Drops On 1926 “--• - * crowd u - wrt
Cage Activities For
Athens As Clemson
Meets Bulldogs
BY MARCUS BRYANT
The curtain will be lowered on the 1926 Georgia
basketbsH schedule as far as Athens is concerned
Wednesday night at Woodruff HalL Cierason plays
the Bulldogs here in the final game, though Tech is
__ played Saturday night at Atlanta and the confer*
shaft of the $31,000,000! cncc tourney remain on this season’s program.
Equitable building in theL"" 0 ? % '£? ZTX
heart of New York’s_fi- l ~ to >H. n> Kre,uck^. w ^
ed to attend t)ie matting Tueaday
night and hear Mr. Hollomon.
Andrew C, Ervrin, prealdent ot
tho Chamber ot Commerre, wilt
preeide. The aeml-monthly meet-
Inge were authorized by the metn-
berahlp for the purpoae of making
ft potaibJ* tot membera to mart
often and dlacoaa topfca of 1n-
teraet- to’ t!» comnnnlty.
Tho mooting- Tueaday night will
be bald in tha Chamber of Com-
merco headquartere ' on Clayton
street amt College avenue.
ide Kaynes of Waterloo, Iowa;la an athletic young lady, .piotch^f bl:od near the roadtSa
part of her expenaea at Drake Univeralty by aupervla- e j wud pol | ce t0 believe Ai
.. W...lines playground. A ma.her took ^ by Lhu .rm aa rite woum i„| bandit had ato«d there
walked . -<:e one night—and ahe hit him on tho Jaw, knocked him waitIn _ for hia companion. to
into tho a *er 2Uid called tho copa. He ran away before the police rc turn with the auto.
N.E. Georgia Tournament
Winners To Get Gold
Basketballs; Other
Trophies Offered
ACTRESS KILLED I
LEAP Ff
STORlllT
penetrated the 24th and the Oconrin: five and it Is certain
a.., m __j j.j A||. A ithat ho will not bo. ready for the
40tn HOOTS And cud <»10U,-|ciomion game. It Is probably that
000 damage.
Fifteen firemen were overcome
by smoke and taken to a hospital.
Throe men living In an apartment
constructed on the building’s
roof were forced to flee for their
lives os the fire threatened to
cut them off in their airy dwcll-
forty stories above the
•trebt.
The building at the tfcne it was
built was the largest in point of i tlOUSC
floor space in the world and now *
is the largest in this city. It
stands on the site of the old
EauitaUe Building which waa
KSyj
ho will return In time for the Tech
pmr Saturday. '
Cjemson standa In a tic for six
teenth place with Auburn among
the twenty-two membera of the
Conference, having won. only* one
game of nix starts.
i Ciemson Lost.
Last year Clemson lost both
{Turn to page eight.)
destroyed, by fire in 1912.
MEETS
DEATH; SAID TO
BE1CI0ET
Committee
Agrees To Spend
Hundred Million In
Airplane Progress
PRES. CLEVELAND’S
Et
A PARIS DIVORCE
Announcement Svas made TuesJiy that members
of the winning team in the 1926 Nuviheast Georgia
I High School Championship Basketbai. Tournament,
nnraatm nnnsin to be held here the last week in F'ebrua v, would be
PRyMIrn HH s presented individual miniature gold basketballs by!
niLmlUl Ull'HIlu lo the A. G. Spalding Company, manaufa turera c*|
athletic goods. .
This aan.t aw rad was mode )«st
H VOTE OF
COHERE
P.YRI8.—(UP)—A divorce* was vraJftutnary budgat,project,
PKKIX, Chin*.—(UP)—The vet
eran mtMftlnnary Xllea D. Nilcon.
of the American United Lutheran
MlMtan, ha* been' “ticideiitnlly”
killed at Slnyang. n town recently
Captured by General Wu pel Fa.
according to r. telegram Titefdny t*t
(h> T'nUaut - k'lotpa Uffltlon
(he United fctatea legation.
■No dHaU« were .addfrl t»u
!*•««?»“< ..j..
tb.
WASHINGTON. - UP) — Thr
houar naval rominitlM haa about
agreed upon a five v.ar building
program for the naval air aervlee
to roat 1100,000,000.
Six Youths Hold
Up Bank And
Get $8,000
8lx
srr. Lomu, m ...
young men Tuesday hold up fh*
Wnteriower, Bohk und escaped fti
ah dutn with all the money avail
able. ratinMted between 18,000 and
$10.0
T$e teliKl- '’fired at the bandits
bUC Boot 9t his shotf ju>9k effect.
granted Tuesday to Marlon Cleve
land Urll. daughter « f the lare
President Orovi-r Cleveland from
Will itfm Ktanley Dell on the
ground* of her huataind'a Injurious
attitude towards hU wife.
PARIS, —(UP>— After many
week* of bickering and delay and
at the close of a night marked by
the, most bitter recrimination* be
tween socialist and government
i, the chamber of deputies early
Tuesday gave 1 render Briind
year by the Spalding Company.
The winning team Is presented a
twenty four Inch slatut*
of a basketball player, mounted on
a ebeny l»asc by the tournament of
ficials. As this award Is present,
od the winning team, fhe Hpaldlng
Company awards (ho gold tsiaksU
balls as a personal trophy for tbe
membtn of the championship quin.
tet.
tournament drawings will be
field at the Athens Y. M. C. A. Sat
urday «ift moon at three thirty
o'clock and each team entered mav
representative present If’It
vote of confidence, fit to 14 on hit Jim desires. Piny* in the towns*
Thar socialist
from voting:**
; Now the 1 measure
Iment will lie opened duting tha last
refrained week in this tnonth.
The 1928 tourney will be the fifth
(Turn U save d»M.)
(o the!
Irore wills
e Drland i .
“Selling Old Time* Religion
ANOTHER “8UCKBK" GAJIH
Ten Dollars Per Throw”
At
What You Will
! Hear On The
Radio
n';«i
YORK —OP)— Pfttfac
an ac.ress who N***n
In ill hcaith leaped fr©m
on the fourteenf.i fioof of Ut$ yd"
ton Hotel on Lexington Avllnus
Tuesday. . ’ r ~' 0 ,
Slio was Instantly killed.
Tho actress ciad only In a pink
nlgh’dresT, landed cn the 4ltb
|N.ree' sfdo of the building front of
FOB DEATH OF
n trance.',
The n’Ansger and police at flfif
unable to Identify the body, die
ted thu room by the screaths*’of
jValerb* Brandt, her maid. .
She toM police that when»she
went to anwser tlte telephone ilia
heard Miss Armltage and tttfiUnfc
saw her l**ap from the window.
Since it has been announc
ed that the “Supreme King
dom,” Atlanta, will demand the
resignation of at least one
University of Georgia profes
sor because he teaches tha
theory of evolution in ex-
pleainlng the botanical de
velopment of thing! it •'night
' be of interest -.here .tin* ai A
hit of additional :Ujbt be v!
thrown* on*‘tha xmranfamtfcm *
that U said to bgMk&rttw
resignation or dtamkasi af^l
' numbw of adteatagk far Geor-»
gin, incjutttl* JW Hulrer,
former Gret.tU University In-
atructor and graduate of that
institution.
Concerning thia organiza
tion nnd it. main promoter,
F. Y. Clarke, the New York
Wofld carried In it. Sunday
laaue the followin atory under
an Atlanta date line:
ipedal Dbpatr'u to The World
ATLANTA. Feb. 13^-
x Edward Young Clarke the au-
Edward Young <
.per-aalretnan who made the
Kn Ktax Klin prominent and
i profit*;,te,. ia at it again.
7 N*wJre is selling allegiance to
WEDNESDAY
WDAF—Kansas City—M» nut-
1,. -I p. m. C3T—Amoritan
Lemon Program.
WJZ—New York—4*4 metre.
—t:J0 p. m. EST—Chamber
Muaie Concert.
WSAI—Cincinnati—S2I mat-
r.^10:W p. m. C8T-W8AI
String Quartette.
WEAF and regi-'er Ijaak-up—
10 p. m. EST— Ros.- and hi*
-ganO
(The*; |F t*B
)W—Portland—412 matre*..
$ P. m. PCST—7th Inf.jtnr ,
THOMASTON, Ca.—<M - Sara
and Cliff Dogged and Judge and
Walter Owens, were Indicted tog
the Upe'-n county-grand July here
Monday for the alleged mut far of
Chilton Brown laat fall.
Tha body of Brown war : ound
Jn flint River near Woodh irry-
Tha four men Indicted are aaldtd ,
have been the laat peraone , teen ’
with the dead man.
Commissioners
Meet Tuesday
Tho Board of County Commls
sionSrs Tu»sdav agreed to grogs
the high school ground fo( a-drill
field an, soon as th** libotwpr. t
b«? spaietl to do the worit. J
liualnoih won trunsac
Ifoard Tuesday,
HOME CATCHES.FIRS
Tho homo of Jack Thowpeap**
Ingfcsk-'e waa damaged h}-. ffta
earhr Tueaday morning. Tfnr
boujo was not deatrv
bsd!y damaged.
Discovering Children’s Talents
rnRoucn natural play >
1
Unique Demonstration At. L. C. L
Dr.
Florida C. Orr)
Wtonlfred Saekrille St:mor
will hold n unique demonatraUon
at Lucy Cobb Chapel Wedneatay
afternoon Feb. 17th, at thitee
o'clock. Wedncadoy (a National
Child Welfare Day and this dem
onstration of Dr. Stoner s mil bar
most anproprisU). ’ ’•*
As one of the elgniftctail foett-'
iq the new education is to Xind lightful deaoaiUauoa,
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out definitely vary early ia -Ufa
what tendaocy or talent ebififared
naturally posseas. \ l f
With groups of children ood
various tops and garnet Dr. 8to$r
t r will show that children thaw
their natural aptitudes through
Play. with on aim.
Prominent citiaans ,and teach*
ers .will act as judges in this da-