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About The Banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1923-1933 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1928)
ATHENS COTTON: MIDDLING .. .. .. .. .. 16%¢ PREVIOUS CLOSE .. ... 16%e VOL. 9. NO. 216. I AM FOR AL SMITH PRESE_;ENT Why am I for Al Smith? To agk the question is to answer it. He is the head of my party and the party of ali my ances tors. o The South has stood for Democracy since the founda tion of this Republic. Th's government was founded by Democrats. It grew great un der Democratic control. Dem ocrats have preserved tie free institutions of the founders. Democrats have fought for and m{intained the Constitution and the Declaration of Inde pendence when these almost di vine instruments were denom inated by the fanatics of the North as scraps of parchment, and the Constitution itself de nounced as a tovenant with death and a league with hell. lor four years the Demo crats of the Soutl; under Lee and Jackson fought for the preservation of the Constitu tion, the pakadium of all of our liberties, and we won the tight. We gave io the world its greategt lesson. That no gection, or people, could trample upon the Constitution with impunity. The principles of Pemocracy have sustained us in peace, and ‘n war we fought for them and many died for them. ; Then let me agk you a ques tion. Why should we desert the party of our fathers, now? To do so we must forget who we are, and we must for gey the glorious history of Democracy. To strike.down Democracy ag she labors in ‘his fight to again secure control of this government and testore it to. .the people under the Consti tution, would be to inflict upon the South a grevious WO nd. to & ' ound A A PR S o by her ememies !fi the Sixties. The Republican party is, and bas always been, a sectional party. It came into existence as a party born of hate, and permeated by a foul fanatic jsm, that Ben Hill said never kept a pledge nor obeyed a law. I wish that I might indict the Republican Party for its high crimes and misdemean ors, past and present, before the bar of :‘America. Jealous of the Democratic statesmen, of the South, who were in control of the Repub (§c, it made unholy and uncon stitutional war on the South, it confiscated millions of our property in slaves which the North had sold us, it forced upon a helpless neople recon struction, a foul blot upon civ ilization, a crime thdt should condemn and damn it forever as a party in the South, it fas tened upon us the robber tar iff that has forced the South for sixty years as bondsmen to pay tribute to New England, it organized the Mmoney centers while the South was crushed, poor and helpless and through this means controlled our very life blood, by man'pulation and criminal methods it has beat down the price of our cotton, and forced us to give it to New Bngland below the cost of production, its hatred of the despised South kept cotton from being recognized as a national product, and by con trolling the price of cotton it kept the South poor, it has published to the world that the South cannot again be trusted with the Presgidency, that it would be dangerous; itt has been maintained as a party of organized wealth, of special privilege, an opponent of state rights and state sov eroignty, a. foe to clean and honest governm=nt, & friend of the grafters, high and pow erful in the party councils. [ call to an accounting Harding, Daugherty, Dobheny, Fall, Sin. clair and Jess Smith, against whom the Statue has not yet run, In the name of the long guf fering South, that it has de spoiled, in_the pame of Am erica, whose ideal of Democ racy it would destroy, in the name of honest men and women everywhere, I indict the Republican Party, and call it to the bar of justice. Ctan there be found a man or woman, of the old South to defend it? No—Not one. Fvery follower of Lee and Jackson is again in arms against the Republican Party. Here still stands the ten thousand who refuse to bend the knee to Baal. But there is a siren voice among the younger generation, advising the Sou'&l to break away from its apcient moor. (Turn to page two.) Daily and Sunday—l 3 Cents a Week. Associated Press Service. United Press Dispatches. HURRICANE TOLL IS OVER 2,000 GOVERNOR SWITH COMES OUT DEFINITELY FOR MCNARY-HAUREN FARM RELIEF BUL CROWD OF 10,000 15 oI IRRED To' CHEERS K 5 SMITH REPEAT: PROMIBITION STAND OMAHA, Nebr. —(UP) — Governor Alfred E. Smith resumed his cam paign through the western farm belt Wednesday after a rather sensational start in his opening speech here Tuesday night, in which he not only gave what farm leaders consirl er an open endorsement of the McNary-Haugen prin ciple, but re-emphasized his prohibition views in ar vnscheduled discussion of their subject, in this nor mally dry state. l The democratic candidate will i leave here Wednesday at mine thirty o’clock, headed for Oklaho ma City, when be speaks Thurs 'li"ll S Aol ney at Lineoln, Nebragka, for a conference with Governor Adam McMullen, a farm leader, and later for frequent ®ppearances as he passes through Kansas. His opening speech Tuesday night was typical of the Smith New York knows and set the tone of his campaign Jefinitely as a brown derby campaign throughout. He dropped the wmanner of the usual presidential candidate, talk «ed to the crowd of 10.000 in the Omaha auditorium in his breezy, theatrical, conversational way, and then proved he ‘was the same Smith for whom New York has shown such a fondness by strik ing boldly at a challenge issued tqg bhim en his aentry linto this state. / He concluded his speech on farm ‘relief, which, in itself, was a sur prise, and then answered eight | questions propounded to him in a )’new:;paper advertisement which stared him in the face in every "newspaper he picked up here. } Having answered them in his own way, he then suggested play fully. that Herbert Hoover be asked the same questions. The democratic presidential candidate leaves here Wednesday with state leadrs asserting more srmnhatically than ever that he will carry this state in Novem- Aer because of the decided impetu to sentiment for him here, given by his personal appearance. Copsiderable significance ‘s be ing attached #to Smith's conference int Lincoln Wednesday with Gov ernor McMullen, who gave Hoover (Turn to Page Eight) UNIVERSITY CONVENES 128TH SESSION; DEAN H. N. EDMUNDS DELIVERS PRINCIPAL ADDRESS New Pipe Organ in Chap el is Played for First - Time. Several New De partments are opened. With prospects of the largest Jredistjation (n Jits history, the Unlvergity of Georgia convened its 128th session Wednegday morn ing at 11 o’clock in the University chapel. Dean H. N. Edmans, who as sumes his duties jthis term as head of the Law School, delivered the principal address at the open ing. He spoke on “An Educated Citizensghip”. A feature of the opening ex ercises was the organ prelude by Hugh L. Hodgson, organist and head of the Music Department of the University. The new pipe or gan was heard by 'the students for the first time Wednesday. Dr. S. R. Grubb, pastor of the First Christian church, welcomed the students for the Athens churches. The invocation was de livered by Dr. J. L. Allgodd, pre sid'pg elder of the Athens District. THE BANNER-HERALD Tax Rate Remains Same;;‘ Health Board Fund Cut; Mavy Close Tuberculosis Hospital; General Is Cut The County Commissioners fixed the tax levy at the meeting Tuesday afterncon and the rate is the same as the last, 13 mills, which added to the state ra:;le of 5 mills totals 18 mills, or SIB.OO on the thous and. ; . IBY PRISON BOARD IATLANTA., —(#)— The siaie prison commission ' Wednesday recommended commutation to life imprigonment of the death sent ence imposed upon KEula Thomp- Lihel sopvicted:. of padirder in. cou nect'on with the death of Coleman Oshomne, Chattgworth merchant. She is under sentence to die Friday in the electri¢ chair at the Milledgeville pgigson farm, The recc.nmendatipn will be sent to Governor Tlardman’ for k's 4 action. The executive is expected to return to bhig office Thursday from a short vacation. In its findings the prison coms mission said no evidence wag in trodueced te show that Mrs. Thomp son actually was present at the | homicide of which her husband | and a negro already have been ! convicted and executed. With the death list in the hurricane - . striken area still mounting, thousands homeless and destitute, and property damage running into.the mil lions, as Athens listened over the radio for storm news; or read the newspapers for lat est information, the appeal of the Red Cross for financial aid for sufferers is receiving a more generous response than the tirst dav indicated. From the number of contribu tions made Tuesday by Athen ians and Clarke county eiti zens, it begins to look as if this community wiil send a check to the Red Crcss na (Turn to Page Eight) North Georgia M. E. Conference: The Art Department, Business Regearch Buf®au, Music Depart ment, are among the new depart ments opéned at the University thig session. Dean Edmonds pointed out that while statesmen and thinkers since the human race learned its firgt alphabet have exhalted the ideals of government based upon the des irability of an educated citizen ship, it has remained for the pres ent century to bring to life what has in the past bheen only an am bitious dream. ‘The balance of power in politics'”, Dean dmonds stated, “which has in the pagt been in the hands of those under priv ileged in educational opportuni ties, making possible the demigog, is rapidly pasging into the hands of that class of citizeng who re. quire arguments more substantial than the demigog is able to pre ‘sent. Dean Edmonds declared that nature has endowed mankind with inexhaustible potentialities of hap piness it remains for educated leaders to point the way leading to much that has been undigeov ‘ored, ! ; ATHENS, GA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1928 A committee of citizens was ramed a week ago to co-operate with the commissioners in balanc ing the budget for the county and meet during the week. The Com missioners were faced with either a 4 shortage of funds or a raise in the tax rate, due in part, it was stuted, to the® amounts paid the Athens .General Hospital for char ity patients, amounting to $8,400.- 00 annpally, maintenance of the Tuberculosis hospital, amounting to $9,600.00 annually, interest on the bonds and the appropriation to the Health board, amounting _to $13,000, Before calling in a number of citizens, from whom ihe com niittee was named and composed of H. H. Gordon, dr., who was sick and.did ot atkene the copfer Q. Elder, Sidney Boley and Abit Nix, the Commissioners held similar conference with tha trusiees. of the two hospitals and mem’ers of ine health board and went intc a fuil discussions of the questions of hevprne the hospitals in operation tre kealth hoard maintained arnd the tax quesionm, DN Commissioners Act | Following in part the recom mendations of the committee the Commissioners Tuesday decided on the fo!lowing so far as the three institutions under discussions are concerned: | 1. To discontinue after January 1. next the appropriation of $400.- 09 to the General Hospital* and to pay for the charity patients under competitive bidding. 2. To close up the Tuberculosis hospital on January first as a county operated hospital and lease it for that purpose if possible and if not put it to use for other coun ty purposes. The expression was made that it could possibly be leased to some cne who would operate it and then the county would care for its tubercular pa tients there on a proper basis. 3. The appropriation to the Health “oard was reduced from $13,000 to SII,OOO or a reduction‘ of $2960. This is the amount ap propriated last year. The commit-‘ tee recommended a reduction of | $2,000. The appropriated amount would give the board $22,080.00 as the city appropriates the same amount as does the county, | Voted Bond Issue | In 1924 the county voted $260,- 000 in bonds to take over the Gen eval hospital. It had been built by popular subscriptions and had an indebtedness against it that was secured by the endorsement of a number of Clarkc county business men. The county took over the hos pital January first after the bonds were voted and immediately crea ted a board oi trustees to operate it. When the bonds were “eing ad vocated the statement was made by those fostering them that the hospital would be self sustaining and the twustees now maintain that it is and that the appropria tions from the county are for charity patients. At the same time S§HO,OOO was voted to build a tuberculosis hos pital and a similar board of trus tees was named to supervice the building of the hosvital and to operate it. When the bonds were voted no funa was provided to maintain the hospital and it was evident that it would not e self sustaining. The hospital has had a varied number of patients and it was pointed out Tuesday that five Clarke county patients were there now. Others are being treat ed from other counties. All the patients are supposed to pay fees, those from other counties paying more than those from this county. The hospital is also spon sored by the local Inti-Tuberculo ¢is association, which is expected to hold a meeting immediately. 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Warncr, and finaly Mrs. Caroline O’D Dr. Broughton to Preach on “The Wail of a ' " Broken Heart” at Prince Avenue Baptist Wednesday Night Dr. - Brough'on's sihject to night at Prince Avenue Bap tist church will be: “The Wa'l { Of A Broken Heart”. ¢ S e T “yesday night ‘was arothe great service at the Prince Avenue Baptist Church where Dr. Len G Broughion is preach'ng every day at ten in the morning and at eight in the even‘ng. These spec ial services began last Sunday morning and will continue through next week. From the beg'nning large crowds have attended the services, the evening services be ing especially marked in this re spect. Dr, Broug.ton is well known in Athens. He has many friends here who have followed him with interest during his rcareer, inclugd 4ng his remarkable ministry in Atlanta. These friends of the years ‘are happy, in having him back in Athens and of having the privilege of hearing him again, At the present he is addressing himself largely to church people. Next Thursésy night, however, there will be a break in this re spect when he speaks to the young people of Athens on “Christ's Attitude to the Modern Cake Eater and Flapper”, as the world hag come generally to re gard a certain type of yvoung life. He particularly called attention to this service Tuesday night, and expressed the desitg that he be given the privilege of speaking to many young pople of the commun ity, including the students in the ‘colleges and the university, He said he was particularly anxious ‘oo speak to the studant body of the city. It is expected that the ‘Garge auditorium of the Prince Avenue Church will be erowded to its limit to hear this message. ' Text From Luke. The subject of Dr. Broughton's Graphic Picture Of Conditions In Hurricane Area In Florida Given By Eye-Witness To Wind Disaster By E. A. Shelnutt. United Press Special Correspondant SEBRING, la.~—Conditions are almost indescribable along thel upper shores of Lake Okeechobee. ) Suffering and deaths are every-| where, It is probable that sever- | al hundred lives have heen lost in the devastated communities about the lake. Weeks will be! needed to determ’me accurately the .number of dead and injured, | g 0 deep is the debris and wreck. age. . Because of scarcity of food, shelter, clothing and medical sup plies, suffering is intense, Sanitary conditions are also, alarming. The stench from hun-! dreds of dead cattle, horses and | other animals is unbearable. This writer counted more than sixty | guch bodies in a distance of two! miles mear Moorehaven Tuesday | night. . Relief workers believed that similar conditions exist through sermon last night was, “The Bap tism of the Spirit?. The n'ght before he had spoken on the “Lost Power of the Church”, and in his message last ‘night he out- Ipower cou'd be fregained.” His text was taken from Luke, 24th chapter and 49th verse: *‘Behold I send the promise of my Father upon you; but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until ye be endued with power from on high”. At the outset he declared that there is a distinct difference between being saved, and being saved and Spir:t baptized. He said that the disciples weve saved before they were baptized of the Spirit which‘ came upon them while they tar-: ried in obedience to the command of the text. ' “One of the greatest needs of the church of today”, he contin ued, “is the enduement of baptism of the Spirit, which means noth. ing more nor less than supernat ural control of indiviqual and ¢hurch, The pity of it is sup-| ernaturalism is being discounted today by church leaders as neverl before since Christianity got its atagty The ‘emphasis ,/today .is' placed upon reason rather lhani supernatural power and leader ship. Jesus was not willing to turn His kingdom affairs over to His disciples until they . were Spirit baptized; and the Pentecost as revealed in the second chap ter of the Acts of the Apostles is but tbe manifestation of Spirit’ leadersh'p, or the control of the supemnatural. This manifestation was largely Jewish, but the same can he said of the Pentecost for the Gentiles as it is revealed in the 10th chapter of the Acts of the Aposties. Peter was the spokes mai on both occasions, and there is the same type of Sp'rit manifes. | (Turn to page three.) | out the area, Scores who escaped with their liveg are being given first aid treatment at Moorehaven and pther towns near the lake, and then brought here over cleared roads, ; At Okeechobee (ity, on the nor. thern rim of the lake, at least 250 families are homeless and in gerious pl'ght. Similar conditions were found in practically every set'lement, D . R. MeNeil, pregident of the Peoples Bank of Okeechobe :, is sued an appeal throygh the United Press for assigtance?® “Clothing is needed, especially for scores of children who have hardly a rag to put on, We also need food and medical aid,” he said. Without a single exception evéry frame house at Okeechobee City was either demolished or badly damaged by the hurricane. | Many three story huild'ngs were flatteped, Brick buildlogs ol ) Daily and Sunday—l 3 “2 3& Week. A. B. C. Pa, (BY ASSOCIATED PRES 3) : The West Indian Hurricane which wreaked its first fury on Porto Rico and upward through Florida, causing deaths that may well total 2,000 and dam age of approximately $100,000,000, was spending its force on a final spurt up the Middle Atlantic states Wednesday. | The wind was no longer of hurricane velocity (80 miles an hour) but full gale warning were posted \ as far north as New England and the storm was still | 4 serious menace to shipping. R—— T —————— COMMERCE Ga—The first class in History - conducted by Dr. W. H. Wrighton, newly elected mem her of the bistory department. of the Universily of Georgia, wag ber 18th. o This class, supervised by the Extengion Départment of the Uni versity of Georgia, includes a de tailed study of Xnglish History from the Roman invasion ito the present time, Threg hours University credit ig given for the completion of this course, The class meet once a week for thirty-six weeks. The class is to be attended by many of the High school instruc tors and mote advanced sthden'® of the schools in the vicinity of Commerce. If sufficient interest is shown in this clags the University plans the addition of o‘her classes as well as library service and lec tures. The next clasg is to be held Tuesday night September 25th, at 7:30 in the library of the school build’'ng. ‘ e I ~ Crop Cenditions - Given By Dept. WASHNGTON.—(P)—The sum mary of crop conditons for tne week ended Tuesday as summar ized by the epartment of Agricul ture says cotton showed some im provement in North Carol'na bn rain was again damaging at the cloge of the week, The crop was at a standstill in ithe .P_:edmmfl gection of South Carolima and deteriorated else where in ithat state. Coctton was opening rapidly in Georgia and ginnings progressed favorable but many rotting bolls were evident and shedding con‘inued. tas a rule, withstood the wind. Moorehaven and Clewiston es. caped with only small damage. No casualties were reported in éliher c'ty. Only by some gtreak of good luck was the death toll kept down at Okeechobee. After the houses cracked and collapsed like paste board, the residents were caugh in a serieg ‘ol tremendously high waves, tossed up by the hurri cane winds. These waves, de scribed ag thirty feet high, swept over the town and receded. They were believed to have pulled in their undertow many of thoge now missing, Stories of entire families swept out into the lake as the waves receded, were being told here Wednesday. No trace of many of these missing has been fouhd., ’Because of fears that scores werg drowned ‘and the'r bodies lost, 1, ‘lef workers revised upwards their Cdonth - MAML Y 100 05t il e . (Copyright 1928 By United Press, THE WEATHER: Rising temperature with fi‘m chifting winds Thwsday, fah‘.ihi» Single Copies 2 Cents. 5 Cents Sunday. - - RE22 | In the districts of worst suffering, first estimates of 1,000 dead in Porto Rico seemed justified by later reports. The fig ure of 660 in the: French West Indies still stood and the list of 250 known dead in Florida was con lstantly increasing. | The plight of the tens of thous. ] ands of homeless was eritica®. | The threat of disease and starvas i.tion was general. il de=ERR o R S g R g io i X 200 ARE BURIED WEST PALM BEACH, m«:@ | Howard Selby, chairman of th i Palm Beach county Red . OT | ganization told relief Cfi:‘ifis Wednesday morming that te date bodies of 200 persons, victimg of the hurricane, had been buried in local cemetaries. ST The bodies, half of them white persons, came from the regiou around Lake Okeechobee.g.s said. “Conditions in the siricken area are growing worse every mhngx Selby said. “About 8,000 persons. the lake region, are in desperate need of clothing, food and medical aid.” i ' “The estimated damage of Palm Beach county placed Tuesday at $25,000,000, now is nearer 30,- ' 000,000.” o ’ “Sam’tary conditions in the lak region are terrible, although \ conditions along the coast ) fairly gocl. In the lake re@ion two companies of natl(mal»fmr& troops arrived Tuesday night and are on duty. The sections arpund i Rahokee and ecapal points,/ are under military controt”, | l FI::ST EXPEDITION { OKEECHOBEE CITY, Fla.—(™ i The first official relief expedition to go into the sorely stricken dis | tricts southeast of the: lake, left ! this city in boats Wednesday, fol | lowing reports of heavy loss of life { around canal points, especially at ' Pahkoee. | Major Roger Lyle, commanding l national guard forces in the area, ' mccompan‘ed by Captain W. BEu | gene Jones, Dr. B. L. Arms, of | the state board of health, and Dr. ‘A. T. Eide, Haines City, Red Cross | (Turn to Page(Three) ] o f , it o MACON, Ga. -—(AP) — Demo# crats clearly have a right to vote for Herbert Hoover in the: No< vember eclection “because the democratic candidate has repudi ated the platform drawn at Hous= ton,” William H. Fleming, of Aus gusta, declared in the ‘keynote speech at a statewide convention of “anti-Smith democrats” ‘here Wednesday. i o The pseaker, a former congress« mar, who was elected permanent crairman of the convention, tol¢ kis audience’ that the e]ectiofim:% Governor Al Smith, “would 'be hailed from one tad of the watihtal to another as a V@Ol‘!’!&h» nmg It was ¢stimated that mgve thatt 400 tr]él‘sons_ representing. man counties ‘in 2 / convent ion"'t"ht‘i ”F""W -
