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PAGE FOUR THE BANNER-HERALD Published Every Evening Except Saturday and Sunday and on Sunday Morning, by Athens Publishing Co. llxfl. Braswell ~ .... Publisher and General Manager B N it eaan ey EATROP B B ... ... ivsvess. .. ‘Managing Editer ; ~ National Adwrtm“ Representatives Chas H, Eddy Company, New York Park-Lexington Building; Chicago, Wrigley Building; Boston, Old South Bullding; J. B, Keough Rhodes-Haverty Building, At lanta, Ga, 4 Members of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for ug:blicatlon of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper also to all local news published therein, All rights of republication of special dispatches also reserved, Full Leased Wire of the Associated Press with the Lead ~ ing Features and Comics of the N, E, A, BRUCE® CATTON’S COMMENT Those timorous souls who have been jigging about on one foot lately wondering when the revolution was going to begin might just as well calm down now. The revolution has already taken place, and there have been no casualties—eXcept possibly for a die-hard Tory or two who suddenly realized what had happened and died of apoplexy. » To say that the revolution has already happened is not simply to use a figure of speech. Simply be-. cause what has taken place happened in an orderly, constitutional manner, without bloodshed or mob scenes, we needn’t think that everything is going on just as it did in the old days. The Roosevelt administration’s industrial control bill steps off in a brand new direction, and it is a good leng step, too. It crumples up all of our old theories about the proper relationship between gov ernment and private industry and tosses them in the wastebasket. It goes so far along the new path that it takes reforms which used to look like the very limit in radicalism—such things as minimum wage laws, short work week regulations and the like —and makes mere incidentals out of them, It avoids classification in the old, established pgeonholes. If it is socialism no socialist would rec ognize it; if it is fascism, Mussolini wouldn’t know jt. It may have borrowed an idea or two from Moseow, yet one of its main ideas seems to be to promote private profit. It draws simultaneous en dorsement from such ultra-progressive labor leaders as Donald Richberg and such solid business men as President Henry I. Harriman of the U. S. Cham ber of Commerce. As a matter of fact, we are about to try an ex periment which is not only new to us but new to the whole world. We made the first great experiment in political democracy, and we proved to a skeptical world that it could work; now we seem about to find out whether a modern democracy can readapt a complex industrialism in such a way that the "es sential features of both democracy and industrialism come through unimpaired. " There is nothing in any of this to frighten us. Revolutionary? To be sure; but isn’t our whole tradition based on revolution? A nation that can put through its revolution in as quiet and orderly a manner as we are putting through this one has little reason te get nervous. It would take a seer of uncommon ability to tell just where we are going to be when the present time of trial is over; but now and then even the least prophetic of men must feel a thrill of excite ment at the enormous possibilities that are inherent in the situation. “In our fight to get out of the depession, start the wheels moving and put men back to work there is more than a chance that we shall take a longer stride along the road toward genuine freedom and happiness than would have seemed possible half a decade ago. - Frances Perkins, secretary of labor, touched on this in a speech before the Girls’ Work Section of the New York Welfare Obuncil not long ago. “As we go about building up the purchasing pow er of the American people in the next year,” she said, “we may find that we have built up a new kind of civilization, “We recognize that our mass production system cannot go on, unless we consciously build up the purchasing power of the people who work in this country, and we are recognizing that out of the building up of this purchasing power—by artificial or other means—may come a blessing beyond anry thing we in our generation have ever dared dream T Words are often deceptive things. That little ex pression, *“building up purchasing power,” for in stance; we say it glibly, and we think of manufac turers’ ledgers and busy . salesrooms as we say it, but back of it there are human values which ate simply dazzling to contemplate, Suppose, for instance, that we succeed in building up this purchasing power, by one means and an other, for one of htose large blighted areas in the nation—those areas where people struggle along through year after year of hopeless poverty, existing rather gpn living; lacking all luxuries and many necessities, What do we do? - ‘We enable these people to house, clothe and feed themselves properly. We enable them to give their children a chance at the good things of |life; a chance at health, happiness, leisure, ambition, con tentment. We let them lift~ themselves up to a new level. Fe replace misery and despair with joy and hope. It is chances like that which are opening up in our fight with the depression. Winning the fight means more than simply setting the factory chimneys smoking again. It can mean, as Miss Perking says, building a neéw kind of civilization. The investigation into the affairs of J. F. Mor gan & Company is important, not so much because of sensational disclosures which may be made as be cause it provides the general public with a free 100 l into what it is, in the last analysis, the public¢’s business. Recognition of that simple fact is one of the most wholesome developments that have come out of the new deal at Washington. The boundtry lines between private business and public business are hazy and ill-defined at all times. By tradition, of course, what a man chooses to do in his own office, in pursuit of his own designs, is strictly his own concern; but in practice it doesn’t quite work out that way, and the mgre imporant the man is the more does the public have a right to inquire into the things that happen in this inner sanetum. The conditions under which all of us live and work and play are determined partly by what our elected representatives do at Washington and partly by obscure economic forces which we do not whelly understand and which we have never yet had much luck in controlling; but a third factor, which in some ways is the most important ®©f all, is the activity of a few men of great wealth and high position— like Mr. Morgan and his partners. Under our present system, these men are respon sible to no one. In the general run of cases there is no appeal from the decisions they make. Much of the time the ordinary citizen does not even know what their decisions are; sometimes, indeed, their connections with his place in society is so involved that he doesn’t even realize that the decisions they have taken will affect him. Nevertheless, the kind of job he is able to get, the amount of money he is able to make, the prices he will have to pay for what he buys, the amount of security he is able to have in his own niche—any or all of these things can be influenced profoundly by the things that such men do. THE SOUTHERN MUTUAL INSURANCE ‘ It has become almost a commonplace |with the Southern Mutual Insurance Com | pany to declare the “usual” fifty per cent | dividend to its policyholders on the oc ,casion of its annual meetings, but when, at {the end of a period of stress and stringen ev such as the last twelve months, an or | ganization announces such an achievement, it occasions more than passing interest |and deserves signal recognition. Such a dividend, aggregating $196,000, lwas declared by the Southern Mutual at |its eighty-fifth annual meeting yesterday, {and this amount will be returned to the‘ 'company’s policyholders throughout the lstate. This extraordinary accomplishment 'of the Southern Mutual is all the more 'noteworthy when it is considered that fire 'insurance companies throughoutthe length 'and breadth of the land have suffered im 'measurably since 1929 not only from shrinkage of business, due to conditions, ‘but also, by reason of heavy losses of anl ‘incendiary nature. And while many com ,panies have managed to barely survive an almost intolerable situation, the Southern Mutual is returning to its policy holders fifty per cent of their premiums as divi ‘dends without encroaching on its reserves, ‘which at this time amount to $1,700,000. This sum is held in reserve for the protec tion of policy holders in event of a catas tronhe such as a conflagration. This phenomenal feat of the Southern Mutual is but another evidence of the soundness of the unique principles upon which it is founded, which, coupled with a rare directing genius on the part of its officers and directors that has proved equal to any and all emergencies, is evi dence that this company will continue its extraordinary career of serving its policy holders to a degree that no other company has yet been able to approach. Indeed, the history of this remarkable Georgia institu tion is without parallel in the fire insur ance field of the country. , The eighty-fifth annual meeting yester dayv was noteworthy, not only for the striking report of the past fiscal year’s ac tivities which it revealed, but also for the fact that it rounded out sixty vears of service by President Arthur E. Griffith. It was ‘indeed fitting that, in recognition of his long and useful service to the organi zation, and as a token of the,affection andl' reverence they bear him, that the ecom pany’s agents should present him a hand some wateh and chain. HOW CAN IT BE CHECKED? The wave of uprising and riotous escap ing of convicts from prisons and chain gangs has grown to such proportions that the condition has become of alarming mag nitude. It may be the manner in which these criminals are dealt with by officials that causes them to grow to a point of desperation where their lives are of little consequence to them. Such a condition is possille with those who are life-termers, but with the misdemeanor and the short term, felony prisoner, it does not seem rea sonable that this class of criminals would have a desire to take such chances of es cape. Recently, eleven prisoners in Kan sas penitentiary made a break for liberty abducting the warden, his wife, and daughter, and a young woman, a friend of the family. These desperadoes did not harm the women, but allowed them to go free after frightening them and causing them to believe that their lives were at stake. In the Kansas occurrence, it was consideration and kindness of the officials that provided a way for these criminals to make their escape. The eleven men were serving life sentences, hardened in crime, they had little to look forward to; the of ficialss did not weigh their records against them, but extended to them the privilege of attending a baseball game being play ed by other inmates of the prison. Tak- 1 ing advantage of this freedom shown to them by the guards and officials, these desperate characters made their getaway.i Kansas does not have capital punishment, consequently life sentence is the extreme penalty. However, if the prison officials would keep this class of conviets segre gated, and, if need be, in solitary confine ment, there, no doubt, would be an im provement in the conduct of such men. The escape of nine convicts from the Wilkes county chaingang last week was another outbreak of violence on the part of long term prisoners in that camp. The escapes are all desperate criminals, who would not hesitate to take the life of pur suing officers, if the opportunity arose. The condition has grown serious through out the nation; a remedy must be found; either through stricter regulatiens ang se-‘ verer punishment or else kindness in the treatment of these people. It is not gen erally believed that kindness would reach or solve the perplexing problem of escape by such men. They are desperate and have no ambitions for the future, consequently they are a menace to the public and should‘ be kept in such confinement as to elimi nate them entirely from exposure to soci-‘ ety. In recent years better prisons have been built; rules and regulations governing the treatment of convicts have been modified and humanized, yet from recent outbreaks, it would indicate that the criminal of to day is beyond redemption and unworthy of the liberalty and kindness shown him by the officials and guards in the various prisons and chaingangs throughout this country. Thomas Gainsborough painted his fa mous “Blue Boy” to disprove the theory that blue cannot be used, successfully, as a predominating color in a portrait. The Chinese li, a measure of length, is the equivalent of one one-hundredth of a day’s walk; on the level this slightly ex ceeds one-third of an English mile, but in hilly country it might be as little as one- S e e o COMPANY fHE BANMER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA DID IT EVER OCCURTO YOU - - A Little of Everything, Not Much of Anything BY HUGH ROWE Licensing the sale of beer by the mayor and couicil is the subjeot ¢f much discussion on the part of the people, pros and cons especially, } Since 3.2 beer has been declared ‘non-lntoxicatiog by the govern ment, many of . the states and many of the towns and cities in dry states have enacted ordinances licensing the sale of malt bev erages, The petition -as presented to the mayor —and couneil last week will be considered at the next regular meeting, it is stated, at which time the matter will be dis cussed and disposed of either for or against, : Politics appear to be boiling in this district, especially in Athens where a number of the candidates are making merry \ with the voters. | Monday, Candidate Cartledge, of ’Augusta. was here making ac quaintances and soliciting votes; the same daywame Paul Brown, of Elberton, who is Known to nearly all the people here. He has many relatives in this city, among them bheing the Thornton family, Frank and Ben Thornton. Tuesday Rcy Harris, of Augusta, was here and with Col. Lamar C. Rucker they were <¢alling on the . people, Mr. Harris, too, has many friends here Hon, Hoke O'Kelley, of Logans ville, former candidate for gover nor, was another candidate visitor here, Evidently the candidates consider Athens and Clarke coun ty as the hub for the campaign in the Tenth district. 5 With four weeks from today to electioneer in, the candi dates will have a short time in which to cover the seventeen counties and sea the voters face to face. However, speech making, in central points in the district will, no doubt, be. resorted to. Candi date O’Kelley has announced that he will speak in Athens perhaps next week, Mr., Harris opened his campaign here over a week ago and it is understood tat Represen tative Cartledge, former Senator Pitner and Hon. Paul Brow will speak here at an early date, Oth er candidates in the field are ex pected to visit Athens during the | campaign, ’ Delivering the baccalaurate address before the graduating class of Lincoln Memorial Unidersity, in Harrogate, Tenn,, Major A. V. Dalrymple, director of prohibition endorsed 3.2 beer. In the course of his address, Major Dalrymple. said. that “the legalization of beer has made the enforcement offiecer’s job easier Public opinion has swung toward broader co-operation, and erugorce men conditions generally aré im proved.” He added that he was an advocate of repeal or modifieation Ten thousand speakies in New York and Chicago, he estimated. had#been forced to close with ths return of legal beer, or abandon sale of illicit drinks and pay taxes to serve the 3,2 per cent brew, Whether we have 3.2 per cent beer or not, the mayor and council should avail themselves of the opportunity of securing a loan from the R. F, C, for municipal improveméents. There are needs for extension of water and sewer rains, and espec ially for street repairs and im provements, The paved streets in many sections of the city are worn to a frazzle and should be re paired before they are past re demption. It will cost more to re build the streets than it will te repair them, if the work is done now, but to procrastinate will mean an additional cost of thous ands of dollars to the tax payers of this city, The money for muni cipal improvements can be bor rowed from the R. F. 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ANOTHER ENTRANT ._ IN CONGRESS RACE (Continued Fromy Page One) ands of lives and millions of dol lars. 5 “Spanish War Veterans feel that they have’ beén unjustly, dealt with by the government in having laws favoring them ruthlessly abolished. When a soldier volunteers or en lists he feels that he is entering into a contract with his govern ment. He feels that if he does his duty as a soldier the government will clethe him properly, equip him properly, feed »im properly, equip him properly, feed him prop give him ne c e sa r y shelter and medical attention. Should he be ‘killed his widow or other de pendents will be properly cared for and he himself when suffering from the disability caused by in juries or diseases ' and hardships properly looked after by the gov ernment in his declining years. “It appears that in many in= stances under the provisions of the above Economy Bill number 2-73rd Congress and the regulations pro mulgated the government has broken faith with Spanish War veterans. This being the belief the National Counsel of the United ‘Spanish War -Veterans has decided ‘that at the next session of Con gress the mnecessary bill or bills ito replace upon the Statute books legislation - favoring -Spanish Wax Veterans such as existed on those Statute books prior to the pass age of the Economy Bill will be introduced in the Congress and a ~determined fight will be waged to secure the passage thereof. : “Spanish War Veterans and their friends of the Tenth Congressional District are interested in having a statement from you as to the po sition thay you will take in respect to this proposed legislation. You will either be for us or against us in this matter.. If you are not for us, you will be against us, there can be no n}ld%le ground.” Rev. Tyler Opens Revival Services Here Next Sunday Rev, R. Z. Tyler, presiding elder of the Decatur-Oxford district, will begin a series of revival services at the Young _Harris Memorial Methodist church next Sunday. Rev, Tyler' one of the outstand ing ministers -in the ' Methodist church, is noted for his work among the young people. Still a young man, he has served several of the larger <churches of the North Georgia conference, such as Emory university, Before being made presiding elder last Novem lber, he closed his fourth success ful year at the Grace Methodist church in Atlanta. Singing will be conducted by Rev. A. E, Barton, pastor of the Winterville Methodist church, Ser vices will began at 10 a. m, and B:ls°'p. m, e il St aa sl loans. It is an opportune situation which has grown to be acute in Athens. SEVEN YEARS AGO : June 7, 1926 . . svse Ceotton: 17 1-8 cents, ° Weather: Fair. ATLANTA . Judge Chas L, Pettigrew, of the Atlanta muni cipal court, died Monday after an illness of two months, NEW YORK, N. Y, — The New York World Monday said the fa mous Charlie Ross abduction case was thought to have been solved iand that Ross, 65 years old, mar ried and with six children, is in New York. Major General Peter C. Harris, adjutant general of the army dur ing the World War and brother of William J. Harris and Major Hunter Harris, will deliver the patriotic address here on July 3rd in connection with the state meet ing of the Spanish-American War veterans. + WASHINGTON, D. C.—Political and legislative interest in Wash ington Monday centered around the farm relief situation and the close related lowa primary, | MURDER SUSPECTED WAYCROSS, Ga. —(#)— H. M. Peagler, jr., Homerville turpentine operator, was found dead in his cabin at Astoria, seven miles south of here Tuesday with his head crushed. Ware county officers advanced a theory of murder. A DAILY CARTOON LoV LUCK - oy o€ WIPE? Qur SORRY, Xl unags.. | _.p welr N e \/Ou 4 — L_T_;- M AFCAID W(JZ?'V‘ LOO:‘(»’ WEYE COme . # - &)z j} ’lt c HAVg ;0 BT 70 LWE Wirsy s | % TAK S P=2 i U V) i) |\ 7Y &? 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G S {B &) ‘ - 7Aé/ l /\@% @) Twenty-Nine Are Awarded Diplomas At Negro School Twenty - nine students weere awarded diplomas Wednesday morning in the closing. commence ment exercises at Athens High and: Industrial school. The main ad-% dress was delivered by Abit Nix.l Dr. John D. Mell awarded the di plomas, . The honor graduates were ‘Wil liam A. Allen, the winner of first honor, and Arabella C. Billups, winner of second honor. The class officers were as follows: William Allen, president; Mattie L. Raines, vice-president; and Indi A. John ' son, secretary. The following received diplomas: Benjamin Adams, Arabella Billups, Virginia Brown, Hattie Davis, Ma mie Harris, Hannah Howard, Ruth Howard, Mildred Jackson, Indi Johnson, ILee Linston, jr., Lula Neely, Mattie Raines, Pauline Redd, Sara Willis, William Allen, 111, Lillie Brown, Marjorie Burch, Catherine Favors, Whitman Hill, James Howard, Annie Jackson, Es tella Johnson, Clemonia Lee, Liz zie Neely, Charlie Peterson, Ber tha Ray, Dorothy Turner, Minnie Wright and Carrie Lee Wyche. LIONS CLUB WILL PRESENT DANCERS SATURDAY NIGHT Athens Lions club next Satur day will again present the pupils of the Marion Rhyne School of Dancing: in a recital for the bene fit of the wunder-privileged chil dren of the Athens grammar schools. This is the seventh annual spring recital and promises to be one of great interest and enter tainment. Miss Rhyne has studied extensively with world famous dance schools and includes in the program many styles and varieties of dancing, both novel and inter esting. There will be colorful costumes and interesting music and authen tic national dances whijch include the following: . Burmese, characteristic = Rus R S AN ST e b\~\ v Ve d Ko7 ',;‘J, 3 :\' 3 _.:’fi \-:2::,‘:,'»,".”" . \ \\‘)t’/ : A i Openi h | , nncuncing the Opening of the . . ° Underwood Elliott Fisher Agency ¥ ¢ R e ! . o il We have opened an agency at 245 College Avenue, and will sngsh “_’\ il K line of Underwood Standard Typewriters, Bockkeeping M‘"“.'”(’\y.;,“i .5 ¥ carriage models from 11-in. to 26-in. widths, Visible Index C;“ ‘“ Type* : ' Address Stencil Writers, Typewriters for special‘wof‘k» 'i"l Quiet i writers, Continuous Fanfold Billers, Key-Set Decimal Ta‘,uw: o Appliance Models, Noiseless Typewriters, Noiseless Por’tab_‘f- P e : Adding and Figuring Machine, and Eilwood Typewriter Ribbons, = { 3 Paper and Supplies. We also carry a stock of rental madf'nj‘_ T dition to the above we will mtintain a first class shop equipF ,; l 1:;«: out guaranteed precision work in charge of a factory trained ::,'k_;dlusp T ; . We will give you the lowest possible estimates on cleaning and s ing, overhauling and re-building work. ]; g s f UNDERWOOD ELLIOTT FISHER PRODUCT i 6 W. B. INGRAM TELEPHONE 16 ==z 4_-.,:::-... sian, Spanish, American Indian Chinese and East Indian. (Besides all this there will be lively tap dancing and musical comedy numbers. ‘Among those taking part in the recital are: Jane Bowden, Madge David, Dorothy Aan Davis, Lloyd Flor ence, jr. Gertrude Hayes, Lloyd David, Shirley Orr, Elsie Peace. Mary Elizabeth Smith, Sidney Thomas, jr., Sybil Thomas, El eanor Williams, Virginia Tate Wright, Edna’ O'Kelly, Ruth John son, Onida Yarbrough, Florence Jackson, Frances Forbes, Marion Rhvne. A VACATION AT THE GOR D O N § MNWAYNESVELT INOBT H € ADD LN : A vacation 3,000 feet above the sea . . . where y it g can Pla)' golf on a “‘sweet” 18-hole course for cents a round . . . fish in the Carolinas’ famo trout streams . . . ride a horse over mil cleared bridle paths . . . play tennis on liv clay courts . . . swim the mountain lakes or Il new Country Club pool . . . become breathle with the beauty of this mountain scenery ... | cool and comfortable . . . in the happy compa of gay, kindred spirits . . . that's the sumn enjoyment offered you by the Hotel Gordon. hundred rooms of solid comfort. Three delid Southern - cooked meals a day. At the surpri ingly low cost of from $3.50 to 35 per dier Make your reservations now for your share this fun. And bring the youngsters — theres thoroughly equipped playground for them the GORDON. : : g i ‘ANGUS CRAFT . . 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