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ATHENS COTTON: MIDDLING ... .... ..18%e PREV. CLOSE .. .. .. ..I%¢ VOL. 6. NO. 210. I AM FOR AL SMITH PRESI)II;ENT I suppose it wili do little good to talk about liberty for it seems to me that it is no losger the fasticn of the day. Economy seems to be the ~ catchword of modern politics. 1 know little of political econ omy and am constantly as | tousded at statements that I ~ read about it. It is my belief .~ that very few people know much about it and are always under the necessity of being ~ advised by experts. This is now the tariffs grew, The ex perts were interested only in economy. 'The nations have not departed from the basic . principle laid down by Adam Smith long ago, and he de clared this to be the selfish in stincts and desires of mankind. He, himself, knew there was a better system that approached ! more nearly the truth and said gO, but he knew it did not ] | appeal to men. He was a con temporary of Thomas Jeffer son whose views on liberty are ' the starting point of all that is good in reasonable Democ racy. Jefferson did not over ! look the necessity for econ omy but he did+know that econ omy and liberty are mortal enimies. He knew that these two, Eeconomy and Liberty, Jead in opposite directions; one to tyrany, oppression and suffering for the masses; the other to anarchy which is as bad. He knew that our people could not exist {n happiness l and prosperity without a due . regard for both liherty and ‘ ' economy, but that economy, in termg of experts, dea}’s with material wealth, and liberty is an abstract principle. Hence his waying, “The price of lib erty ig eternal vigilance”. You liberty. copomy s t 0... profits and immadiately grips | a man to the temporary ex clusion of all thought of lib erty. But when liberty is lost wealth can very easily be taken away by one who has more wealth. It seems to me that a man does not need an expert to point these th'ngs ont to him, If he will con gider his own home life with his family it will appear. Let him in ject the most rigid economy into his home, and the liberty of his family will depart and with it also will go his famfly’s happiness. He may save money but it will be at cruel expense to the members of his family. There must be a con. stant compromise to maintain, the necessary degree of economy andl the equally necessary degree ot' liberty. It is so with the nation. Tew succegsful business men will insist upon the same degree of economy ip their homes as is their | businesses, for they maintain them ‘ for different purposes. We must not confuse our Government with our businegs. lr'l‘lw Republican party has ac cepted, I believe, and will continue to cherish; a false idea of the im portance and purpose of wealth. With its continuons slogan of «prosperity” it leads men through cupidity to think that with wealth liberty can be bought. The rich may buy immunity but that is a gort of liberty that they neither can nor will share with the poor. It ig a kind of bribery offered to | the people to sell their birthright of liberty to concentrated capi tal. = It offers the right to share i the ownership of stocks and bonds which in turn appears to bear them out in “heir arguments tor high tariffs to pay dividends. 1t is a viclous circle that creeps around and stifles liberty and sets the whole nation to gambling in stocks and bonds. There are mil- Yions of automobiles and other luxuries, all good 'things in mod eration, that are bought with high wages and 'dividends - but with them as we now have them I be-‘ lieve there’ are digtracted minds and breaking hearts, with shrunk en values of land and its products and vanishing fields of endeavor for independent men, (Merchant may soon haye to give up their bus'nesses because they cannot compete with concentrated power. Farmers may soon become peas ants or have to leave their farms for they cannot much longer com pete with other walks of life that are protected by tariffs. It is rediculous for Hoover and the Re pultican party to tell the farmer that his hope is in distribut‘on of hig products. That cannot be. There can be no economy in dis tribution without first mass pro duction. That would restrict the farmer to the State of a peasant apnd a peddler. All kindg of men are feeling the pressure, traveling salegmen, real estate and insur ance men, all sorts of professional men. All must become members of one of two dasses—either the | (Turn to page sy . THE BANNER:HERALD Daily and Sunday—l 3 Cents a Week. Associated Press Service. Vote Of 200,000 Predicted For Primary | ; | 1 ROOSEVELT FIELD ——(AP)——| Clifford MecMillian was the first to take the air Wednesday in the trans-continental non-stop air derby to Los Angeles. | He left the grounds at 10:37 eastern standard time. \ MeMillin, accompanied by C. A. Herrick was flying a Stimson mon oplane with a Wright whirlwind engine. McMillin is from Sysacuse N. Y. and Herrick from Kemstead. Nick Maner of Spokane was the second to leave. He took off at 12:15 p. m., in his Buhel Sesqui plane. Maner was to have been accom panied by C. A. Paulsen of Spo kane but after a false start the passenger had to be left behind to lighten the ship. ! Forced Down . ROSSEVELT FIELD, N. Y. — (AP(—A telephone message re ‘ceived here Wednesday afternoon from Clifford MecMillin of Sysra lcuse first to take off in the trans continental air race said that he ‘had been forced down on a moun tain eight miles west of Wilkes ‘Marra, Pa. The flier reported his ;};lane had not been damaged but he requested that a ship with ispare parts be sent at once. DRGAMZATIONS 10 DEGIDE PLAN FOR - WELFARE FUND The second monthly Chamber of Commerce luncheon, which was held at the Georgian Hotel Sep tember 11th, was turned over to the informal committee from the various organizations in Athens for a discussion as to the neces sity of and plans for the formu ‘.latpn of some centralized body which would asists each of the member organizations in outlining their Wans of actiyvity, to avoid an pverlapping in the work. Mrs. T. F. Green, President of (Turn to page six.) YEGGS KOB P. 0. AT LA GRANGE OF $20,000.00 LAGRANGE —(AP) — Robbers obtained $20,000 in stamps and SSOO in cash from the LaGrange postoffice Tuesday night. It was the second time the office had been looted this year, The sum of $25,000 in stamps was stolen by safe crackers in the first robbery which occurred last February. Doors to the vault were cut open with torches. Tools of the robbers were left behind including crow bars, a large acetelyne gas tank, a smaller tank and canvas used to hide the light of the torches. A cord ran from the safe to the money order window evi dently to a confederate and to e used as an alarm. The robbers were believed to have hid in the !Eost office before the closing hour Tuesday. Paul Gunter, 15, Dies in Madison Co. Buried Wed. {Paul Gupter, 15. year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gunter of Mad ison county, died at the home of his parents Tuesday morning, and will be buried in Comer cemetery at 3:30 Wednesgday afternoon, as. ter services in the Comer Meth odist church. which will be con ducted by the Rev. W, L. Jolly pastor. Bernstein Brothers funer # home in charge of arrangments. The boy had resided in Madison county all his life. He ig survived by his parents, four sisters, Mrs. May Stewart, and Misses Bertha, Lola May, and Lois Gunter, and four brothers, B. w., C. W, C. G. and Heard Gun ter. E COTTON SEED CRUSHED WASHINGTON —(AP) —Cot ton seed crushed during the thir ty period August 1 to August 31, totalled 73,895 tons compared with 159,856 tons for the same pe riod a year ago and cotton seed on hand at mills August 31, totall ‘cl 117,484 tons' compared with 205,433 tons a year ago, the Cen sus Bureau announced Wednesday, United Press Dispatches. SMITH, RESTED, IS READY TOSTART FOR THE WEST ALBANY —(UP) — Ten days rest and rescreation, interspersed with a few hours daily in his of fice, have put Governor Alfred E. Smith in excellent physical condition for his two weeks’ west ern campaign tour beginning Sunday nignt, which will be try ing even for one in robust health. The Democratic candidate has played golf nearly every day and has been sleeping more than us ual. He still has a few more days for relaxation, and will use them to store up needed sirength for the long ride through - thirteen ‘states. - “I never saw him in better shape physicially, nor in as good -spirit” Mayor Jimmy Walker of New Yor]f( commented after a visit this week. Campaign speaking is the hard est task the New York Governor does. He throws himself wholly into the effort. He does not have the strenuous platform antics of a Billy Sunday, though he is a mimic ad a pantomist but uses just about as much energy as the evangelist. X The campaign will te a trying ordeal, because he has decided to discard the usual formal manner of presidential candidates and to speak extemporaneousiy. He will make seven speeches in a little lover two weeks.' HOOVER GIVES UP FISHING TRIP TO FINISH SPEECH WASHINGTON —(UP) — The way Herbert Hoover looks at it, his chief worry of the presidential campaign is—too many speeches to make and not enough time in whichgto write them. _For a week he has been hacking and sawing at his labor address to he delivered next Monday at New ark and when he went to the Un ion Station to greet Pres. Cool idge Wednesday morning he had not yet finished it. The delzy has broken wup his plans for a two-day fishing trip the end of the week. ot Writing speeches is something new in Hoover’s life. He has never been in apolitical campaign be fore. Speeches he delivered in many parts of the country up to the time of his nomination con cerned subjects with ‘which he is intimately familiar— radie, rail road car, haulings, shipping, for eign trade and the like. They were written like the engineering re ports of his earlier days. The first printed draft of his Newark speech was finished last week. He has torn it apart since then and now he does not “elieve advance copies will be ready for circulation before Thursday. ATHENS HAS LIVELIEST DAY IN MONTHS AS ELECTIONS, OPENING OF UNIVERSITY, AND STARTING OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS ALL TAKE PLACE ON SEPTEMBER 12TH By Guy Hamilton Wednesday has proven to be one of the < most bustliig days in months for Athens. In the first place, today is election day, a time for the people of the city and county ‘to assemble at the court house and assist in the process of putting some new men in the rooms over at the capitol and of keeping some more men at their desks in the famous buiding. Washington street was crowded with parked automobiles, and side walks around the courthouse were packed with citizen: on their way to and -from the polls, and with other citizens who had nothing special to do except, debate the merits of the various candidates, and wait for something exciting to happen. ' Within the courthouse ore people were crowded into the downstairs lobby, Where voters gave their names to election of ficialg, were examined to see it they had registered, and were di rected to voting hooths upstairs. From early in the morning until dark the slow moving stream of voters will continue to flow, and after the dark will come the hour, during which the fatal count will begin. Clarke county’s decision which, with that of other coun ties, wil] determine the governor, commissioner of agriculture, prison commissioners, legfslators and oth er officers of Georgia for next term, will be told to the state dur ing the night hours. Over on the University of Geor gla campus, an equally busy event was oceurring, one of the biggest events of life for some 550 fresh men that are coming in to reg jster at the University and to gpend four years in the ghadows of its halls, College avenye was i Established 1832. COOLIDGE RETURNG TO WISHATON S OFSK PILED ek WASHINGTON —(AP)—Pres ident Coolidge returned from his Wisconsin vacation Wednesdflg morning and within fifteen min utes after his train arrived he had gone to work at his desk, the first business being a conference with Secretary Kellogg. ~ Secretary Kellogg was among the cabinet members who welcom ed Mr. Coolidge back to the capi tal. The president was anxious to obtain from his Secretary of State al details as to the impression created in Europe by the anti-war treaty und also to ostain Mr. Kel logg’s idea Tregarding the much discussed Franco-British naval agreement. On reaching the white house Mr. Coolidge left to Mrs. Coolidge the task of inapecting their home and looking over the imjrovements made during their absence. Hardly pausing he proceeded to his office where he found papers stacked high on his desk. He glaneced brief ly through these before making a round of the office and greeting those members of the executive staff who did not accompany him ‘to Wisconsin. > HODVER REFUSES PLEDGE, 10 EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMT WASHINGTON —(AP)— Her bert Hoover Wednesday frankly told a delegation from the Wo men’s Party that he would not pledge himself to an equal rights amendment to the Constitution un til he had completed an exaustive study of the effects of such a change in the fundamental law. The Revpublican presidential can didate said he was having an in vestigation made and would mare fully econsider the results. He ad ded that he wanted to be honest with the delegation and that he did not know anything more se rious than a candidate for office or a public official to pledge him self to work for a change in the Constitution. He said that any plea for equal onportunity had a strong appeal for -him but that he had long ago decided not to make final conslusions on paramount public quesitons without a very careful study. filled with groups of them, walking hesitantly up the street with suit cases in their hapnds. The walk in front of the academic building was algo alive with them, as they passed the famous entrance arch and were given directions for reg ister'ng by Y. M. C. A. men. On the steps before Registrar Reed’s office and extending back into the building, and on down the corridors to the office of the dean of men, the stream of boys stood, moving slowlg up to the reg'ster ing desks. The men were reg's tered at the dean’'s office, and then went to the registrar’s to con tinue the progess. Physical exami. nations for the freghmen start im mediately, and tonight in the chap d! the first meet’ng of the new men will be held. Members of the fac ulty wil]l speak. A third event, which vitally af fects the affairs of young Athen jans more than anyone elge, is the opening of the Athens public schools, which occurs today. Class work starts in earnest, the regis tration and examinations having been completed. The season of haseballl and swtmmlng., camps and fishing is over, and the old mat iters of school books, lessoy assign ments, recesses, etc. &re again pre senting themselves. The enroll ment is the largest in the school history, and is Keeping the superin tendent and teachers busy in solv. ing it 85,000 MAJORITY | PORTLAND, Me, —(UP)— The ! Republican majority in Maine's ' “harometric”’ state election peared lthn 85,000 mark as late returns J trom Monday's balloting filtered in Wednesday. ; ATHENS, GA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1928. r ’ \ l Oday S Ihe DHV' ‘ : A STORY IN PICTURES BY ARTIST JOE KING | R| G S 4N£. . ! f A . i b B B B- Al * \scnooL_BooKs |, r p ‘ I S SPRRL £ ll}"" s | B\ - L= 0 f"‘~ S . s R T \ OAQ‘ YA ERY~ .00 | o EEN Bi B e W s 1" ] B D \ o, o PN RO b Lkt X &"T T 3 . b ; s L,fi 9 B A \|\‘- . N ; it "“%v’ &F: g 3 1A A !!“ o\V. b £ A 5 . B 5 ) i f A\ YN >4 .I B A :~:» 2\ % _-:; v 2 ?‘d§ 34 % . ‘ - ;P g i IINR T N - BN e F Tot i AEE T s 2 ; T P N W . * B : « ?. n S lg lflf i v S ety g AL 2 < : 2 el | RN Y MG Y - TR gAR « P el P '::. ,?:~:'.v -fl;:. f’} :‘f;f v v o 7 ":: " " > < 2 s dwiill B\ B V) BT 5 S oaREE S Fama )vl B Psk & { GS, S Ry g g L 7 e / L ) ifii R f, /fl oks§ A f b R N I S S U Qe T e RS e s i e ol N R o . .. 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GENEVA.—(UP)—A conference based on discusgsion of evacuation of the Rhineland will be resumed "Thursday—with the leading pow ers participating—and there were indications Wednesday that the en tire marter of evacuationn would be examined from a techni georgrapical and jurisdicial stand point. Aristide Briand, the French for teign mpister, has delayed his de parture for Parig so that he may attend the Thursday conference. The entire interpational situa tion, which momentarily had be come delicate through Briand’s re cent blunt angwer to Chancellor Meuller on disarmament appear ed improved Wednesday and au ithoritative reports says that in Tuesday’s discussion of evacuation said that Meuller had not pre sented any concrete evacuation proposal. Chancellor Meuller Tuesday night gave a statement to news papermen, replying to some of the iterms of Briand's recent speech, and indicated that Francn-German relations still were unruffled and that the evacuation negotiations were proceeding satisfactorily. “T raigsed the question of dis armament in the Assembly solely for the purpose of heipipg the League to a solution of the prob lem"”, he sa'd. ‘ Meantime we had the first con ference today relative to evacua tion. It was only a preliminary contact but will be continued fThursday. The German viewpoint on the question already is /well known. 4 “{ agrees with Briand that we must have the confidence of the League. It is our only hope of preventing future catastrophes, but the acocmplishments must be based on accompiishments and not words. That is why we criticized the League's disarmament meth ods. “The criticism was not for prop aganda. We already have accept ed ithe principle of disarmament by gradual stages. “Meantime we had the first con ment s virtually complete. “Naturally, we have an immense (Turn to page six}. WASHINGTON. —(UP)— The government igsues its weekly wea ther cotton report Wednesday as follows: The condition of cotton is spot ted. It was again too wet for cotton is Atlantic Coast states and de- . terioration was < reported from many places within the last ten days, | Mn the squthern mortion this area, particularly Georgia reports showed bolls rotting, seeds sprout.' Ang and plants shedding to an unusd extent with the staple ol‘ open cotton damaged. COTTON WILL BE PENALIZED, RULE i { The Atlantéec Cotton Assocla-“ tion, an association covering the states of Alabama, North Caro lina, South Carolina, Virginia and Florida, has issued circulars noti fying cotton dealers, farmers and others that under a ruling that has been enacted by the Association, $1 per ba'e will be deducted on all hales of cotton weighing be tween 300 pounds and 400 pounds. and that = bales weighing 300 pounds or less may be rejected, but if accepted, 20 pounds per bale must be deducted from the weight on account of bagging and ties. The Athens Cotton Exchange is adviging merchants and farmers of. the above as the Exchange has been informed that the above reg- | ulatlons will be strictly enforced, Bales 'of cotfon weighing ap proximately 500 pounds are gener. aVly preferred by cotton merchants and manufacturers. I FOR MARRIED WOMEN CLEVELAND —Married women have an equal chance with their unmarried. sisters for employment by the City of Cleveland. ‘“We do not remgard committing: matri mony an offense,” says Major Ells worth Jeffrey, secretary of the Civil Service Commission. “A married woman is entitled to all y';,g rights of life, iiberty and the ursuit of happ‘ness without re gtriction.” oL Daily and Sunday—l 3 Cents a Week. A. B. C. Paper. Single Copies 2 Cents. 5 Cents Sunday. EEP'NE | WASHINGTON.—(UP)—Secre tary of State Kellogg’s warning to 'Republicans and Democrats not to attempt to make a partisan issue out of the recently signed anti-war treaty caused speculation Wednes- | day regarding the possibility that the non-partisan theory might be‘ exitended to other treaties sched uled for senatorial consideration this winter. , More than thirty contentjons and treaties will come before the Sen ate fgreign relations committee for report to the senate during the sghort session., Nineteen of these were in committee or be fore the senate and adjournment last May. Among them is the Geneva protocol of 1925 for the outlawry of gas and bacteriologi (Turn to page six). BOTH PARTIES IN MO, DEGLARE FOR TOLERANGE JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.—(UP). Candidates of both political pay ties of Missouri were launched Wednegday upon the national campaign with platforms which demand religious tolerance, prom ise farm relief and sidegtep any specific mention of prohib'tion. The platform convention of the Republican and Democratic forces, attended by all the major candid ates of both, adopted a set of prin ciples here Tuesday night which also gave blanket endorsement to. the action of the two national con. ventions, A feature of the two gatherings was the refusal of «thq{ Democrats to adopt a plank of fered by James A. Collat, defeat ed wet candidate for the United States Senate, which would have commiited h's party to an endorse ment of Goverpor Alfred E. Smith's proposed modification of proltbitiony 0o 0 ean R THE WEATHER: Moskly fair Wednesday night and Thursday. ~ Fair weather and inter est in the Governor’s, Commissioner of Agricui ‘ture and Legislative races ‘brought out a large vote in Clarke county Wednes ‘day' and a steady stream of voters began filtering through the corridors of court house when the poll:: opened at 7:30 and will }contmue until they close at 6:00 o’cleck. It is predicted that 200,000 Georgians will vote in the primary. A total of 3373 names appeared on the county’s registration lists and all but 510 of these are in the - precinet, which means” that the election battle in this county is really being fought out in the city of Athens. Winterville and Georgia factory, other incorporat ed town distridts, will /poll the ! next largest votes. Workers Busy. Workers for various candidates appeared at the polls simultan eously with the managers and arve remaining on duty all day. ©Can didates for the two places in the legislature, Henry Culp, R. T. Du- Bose, Jake Joel and Emory Wood, were all on 'hand canvassing the votcrs in their own behalf. Many of their relatives and friends werd ] also at the polls working.s eal e ol Biafe Riese, TN | Friends of Governor Hardman ; {and Ed Rivers, candidates for the ' t.’?.”,‘; ) ‘:0 “are Worki ‘.‘ a”;~ ~. 3> ¢ .;ii ?«. *flx‘ interest is that between Lugene Talmadge and G. C. Adams for Commissioner of Agriculinre. Hardman and Talmadge are run {ning for an endorsement term, { Congressman Charles H. Brand and | Solicitor General Henry H. West, { unopposed for their offices, are al so around the polls. ’ ; It is predicted that around 2400 votes will be polled in the connty, wer 2,000 of these will be in the city. The rural precincts close at 3 o’clock, while the polls at Athens, Winterville and Whitehall remain open until 6. At 2:30 a total of 1128 votes had been polled in the city pre cincts with a light vote reported in the rural precincts. The Banner-Herald will call the returns from its office on {Hancock Avenue Wednesday night, and the public is invited to hear them from the street below. Returns will be gin commig in about 7 o’clock. STATE-WIDE VOTE. ATLANTA — (A P) — From practically all parts of the state came reports that fair ,weather was playing its part in bringing out what was expected to be a heavy vote in the statep rimary election Wednesday. S In Atlanta—voting began brisk ly with the opening of the polis with indication that the good weather would bring out a num her of voters. Brunsgwick and Mil ledgeville both reported heavy votes being polled as did Columbus and Valdosta. Macon was some thing of an exception to a gegeral rule, the vote iheir beire compara tively light. But in Albany the voters came out in large numhen their interest in the primary Wi whetted by a heated local . cam paign. ity ;b i JOHN D. WADE IS VITING IN ATHENS s T Prof. John D. Wade, formerly & member of the Unlversity of*Geor. " gia faculty but who has been ele¢ts ed a member of the faculty of Vagi derbilt university, is here on & visit before going to Nachviile. Prof, Wade had been doing histori cal research in Washington fx the past two years after hi?' absent from Georgla a year on He has many friends here. o COSTA'S NEW SIGN = § Costa’s new neon gas and elegs tric sign was turned on Tuesday night for the first time and caus ed much comment among ghose who were down town for the ivugf- , ing. E"l‘he main sign “Costa’s” is in red with a blue border around the . entire signe & bk