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Fair and cooler Wednesday night
and Thursday.
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OF APATHY
W i t h Two Candidates
Running in Second and
Fifth Wards, There Is
Not Much Rivalry.
Small Number of Women
A r e Participating in
Athens’ Quietest Elec
tion.
With two candidates running in
he Becond and two in the fifth
inti only one in the first, third an 1
nirth wards offering for the place
ii council from each ward, Athens
* witnessing a very quiet munici
pal primary for aldermen Wednes-
The voters during the morning
\l.)h'ted a .spirit of general apathy
t every precinct and up to 11 a. m.
here had been hardly a hundred
otes polled in the five wards.
\ candidate at one of the down-
own precincts said "It is quieter
h :!> 1 have over seen it.*’
: fw to-
than half a dozen women
:ad deposited their ballots
of the precincts up to 11*
and it was not expected
o interested that many
ote during the day.
man R. T. Dottery is offer-
rtion without opnosi-
i"n fron. the first; Alderman K. A.
dl is running to succeed himself
n th.* second, with R. H. Wler as
>-7»onent; J. H. Rucker is a candi
date from the third; Alderman C.
’ 'Tnufs is running without ov>-
'•sition to succeed himself in the
onrth. and Messrs. Vincent Math
is and Wallace Bell are contest
ed for the seat in the fifth. Alder
man J. ].. McLeroy of the fifth and
11 1 Fondly from the third wards
w not candidates for re-elec-
Election Here' Today
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She Hopes to Be
A U. S. Senator
Pretty'Lawyer, 22, Plans
For Her Future.
House Expected to Pass
Motion Wednesday
Which Will Give Meas
ure Right of Way.
300 Masked Women
Parade Business
Streets of Atlanta
ATLANTA.—Masked women, es
timated at fully three hundred, pa
raded Atlantan streets for the first
time in the history of the city late
Tuesday night.
% The paraders were said to be
Members of the Dixie Woman’s
league, a “patirotic society.” They
xvero arrayed in ^hite costumes,
with nowin- sleeves trimmed in red j n Ngw York Addre&
ANOTHER ■ Will!
GERMANY FORESEE
m e. mmi
Mrs. Felton Still Center
of Interest As She Ap
pears in Senate, a Regu
lar Member.
and blue. The masks completely *** 1 ^' v , a ox *i./iiiuiess, He
covered their tacos and were simt-! Criticizes in a Friendly
lar to those formerly worn by the — — — — — *
Ku Klux Klan. They also wore V-
| shaped hats with red tassels.
I The parade was led by mounted
j policemen with a band. Then fol
lowed the members, grouped In
pairs, each carrying a small Am
erican flag.
Just what it was all about At
lantans did not seem to know.
New-boys dubbed them ‘:women
Ku Klux’es.”
; WASHINGTON.—With the rule:
i committee of tip* house expected to
report a special resolution Wed
nesday giving right of way to the i
administration shipping bill, early
enactment of which was urged by 1
President Harding in his aduruss to j
MRS. W. I. FELTON
DELIVERS SPECH
llttSM
congress Tuesday, the program
then called for a vote on a reso
lution by the house Itself an hour
later. Should the resolution be
adopted as was expected, the moas-
;| ic will he taken up Thursday arc
put on Its way to a final vote No
vember 29.
)he president his adire?s h*- | erioan woman senator, Mrs. W. H.
i f ? r< ' ? J0i “ t s * 9slon *? th « hou Felton, of Georgia, closed her sen-
! cl ’-«oher Tuesday cellared enact- . aiorial career Wednes day after an-
| ment of the shipping hill was nee l swerI once to hor J name anil .
e.sprv to relieve tho federal treas-i mak , a brlef addreas amld
| " ry or Present losses through op- . nIause ot Benator8 and spectators,
eration of government ships and j Her suecessor , waiter p. George,
i ooenro ♦>,« maintenance of a « -
Way U. S. For Post-War
Attitude.
Ticjer of Franca Pleads j
For United Front Bvi
America, France and
Britain. He Rests.
j then was sworn in and Mrs. Fel-
assuro. the
greeted ! C , hant mari ?, e !° Serv f !t! C nati ? n "J i ton“be'came a former senator after
, j war as well as meet the needs of | nn oc tual service of 22 hours and
25 minutes.
"I feel like the happiest woman
in the United States today,” said
Wild applause
Georges Clemenceau during his i its commerce in time of p
American tour. This photograph
was taken during his stay ! n New
York, where he predicted in an ad
dress another war to be started by
the Germans.
P9RC1NOTS AND
managers
following are the polling
and managers i nthe day’s
Fi-st Ward—W. D. McCombs
K ?. pric-' and James H. Booth.
S^ond Ward—L. E. Brooks, G.
V Gpntrv and H. T. Tuck.
THrd Ward—G. S. Mnyne, R. T.
Gwhrvn and J. H. Patman.
arth Ward—James Fuller, C.
^ner and A. M. Dobbs.
i ifth Ward—W. L. Florence,
Hr*-v Rie-hnp and Fred McIntyre.
T".p following place*! have been
ns the polling stations:
L TS * Ward—Fire Hall No. 1.
WaH—Citv Hall; Third
( !,r ' , —Bnildinir formerly occunled
” v tho Dniiv News; Fourth Ward
-Fi-.. h„h No. 2. Prir**e avenue
'r 1 Ttili street. Fifth Ward—Old
House on Prince Avenue-
Hepburn of Okmulgee county and Watson whoso death resulted in the
counsel for Governor J. B, A. | vacancy to which’Mrs. Felton was
Robertson of Oklahoma, lined up t appointed in September,
on new ground here Wednesday Mrs. Felton was expected to an-
to continue their legal battle in J RW er one roll call before Senator-
the case against the state execu- j reject George presents his claim to
tive on a charge of accepting a the seat and it also was under
bribe overnight the case moved to stood that she might deliver n brief
Ada from Okmulgee. j address before retiring.
When Judge Thomas A. Ed-
French Women
Not Discouraged
ADA, Okla.—(By the Associat-
Press.)—Prosecutor James
In the senate Wednesday inter
est centered in the nresence there
as a full fledged sitting member of
Mrs. W. H. Felton, of Georgia,
whose efforts to "blaze tl.e rath for
American womanhood” -were
crowned with success Tuesday
when she took the oath of office
at. the senate rostrum. Her aspira
tion realized, it was indicated that
the 87-vear-old "grand old lady of
Georgia.” would be readv to steo
aside today in favor of Walter F.
Georee. who was elected November
7 as her successor to fill the un-
•nired term "of the late Senator
NEW YORK.—(By The Associat
ed Press)—George Clemenceau
Wednesday prepared to rest after
having delivered, in his first ad
dress in the United States*a wan
ing to Americans that German mil
itarists were preparing for an
other war.
In his address, spoken in tin
Metropolitan opera house Tues
-4ay night before &r: ir.me:uo audi
ence, the war premier-W France j
voiced what he termed friendly
criticism of the United States for;
WASHINGTON.-The first Am- ^ P^t-war attitudei decnring t^.
after mixing its blood with tnat ot
the allies, it had stepped out of in - {
ternational affairs, leaving Europe
in a snarl.
He urged America to renew con
versations with France and Great
Britain to present a united front:
to Germanv and show that the
terms of the Versailles treaty, in- |
eluding the payment of reparations j
must he carried out. i
The next address which the Tiger!
will make ir. his American tour v.ill \
be in Boston. He leaves for that (
city tomorrow morning.
Although he snrtke forven.lv for j
**earlv an hour and a half last night j
the Tiger showed little fatigue.
wards of Cordele arrived here i
Wednesday morning to convene
the Pontoco county district court
Governor Robertson was two legal
steps from judicial vindication of
the charge against him, and three
steps from trial by a jury, with
Gas. Co. Held For
Mrs. Felton in her address, which
she delivered standing in the cen
ter aisle and emphasized with crav
ing gestures of her white-gloved
hands. She added that she regard
ed her brief sendee as senator as
■*a historical fact” as well as a “ro
mantic incident.”
Referring to herself as "an old
remnant of the south.” Mrs. Felton
said she never wavered in her pa
triotism and that the. senate could
rest assured that she "Is not going
to disgrace her commission.”
Several times senators broke into
laughter as she referred humorous
ly to her effort to be seated if only
for a day. She was applauded when
she concluded, and senators crowd
ed about her offering congratula
tions.
Mrs. Felton delivered her ad-J
dress of about five minutes imme
diately after the calling of the sen
ate roll. She was recognized by
Senator Cummins, of Iowa, presi-
Mmo F vnlnglGTl, ** ent pro tem, as "the junior sena- j
Mine explosion | tor from Georgia” and spoke with
| notes in her hand, but without re
ferring to them. Stepping from
Those Who Would Create
Trouble Believed to Be
Dangerous Communists,
Say Papers.
Go-operation With Mos
cow Feared. Forced En
trance Into Downing
Street Being Expected.
LONDON.—(By The Associated
Press)—An alleged communist plot
to provoke revolutionary trouble in
; London Wednesday inconnection
( with an anticipated demonstration
by the unemployed, is the feature
' of Wednesday morning’s newspa-
l.ers, some of which predict serious
! rioting.
The organizers of t".e al’og« d plot
are said by several Dapers .which
claims sufficient official support
ior their statements, to be danger
ous communists working in cooper
ation with Moscow. Their plan i>
: said to he the exploitation of the
I ktrge gatherings of unemployed
! who marched from the provinces to
London last week to call attentlbn
to their condition and to ask the
premier to receive a deputation.
•Mr.* Bonar Law declined to re
ceive spokesmen of the unemployed
hut'promised that their cause would
be-heard by the ministers of labori
and health. The leaders rejected’
this offer. v
Lucille Cadwallader. Long Beach. Cat hopes some day to All a seat
in the United States Senate. She’s only 22 now but already ?he’s a ?uli
fledged lawyer is president of the Woman’s Legal Association ot the
University of California, and la looking longingly toward a seat, in the
Rui
the
PARIS.—Benito Mussolini
Ttnifsn premier, in an interview
with the T^iusanne eorresnondent
of Le Matin said that, the allies
shouHl have finished the -war. "vo”
In Berlin and wo in Vienna and
Buda nest.”
"The euemv ought to have beer*
throttled.” the premier minted
as saying. "Now von realize that
you have little chance of *ettins’
your due and von are disappointed.
Germany is resolved not." to nay. in
addition she Is threatening for von
and threatening for us. for a Tou-
tonie flood is at our gates. The Tv-
mi is byt a geographical defini
tion.” '
M. Mussolini urged 'Facisism
for Belgium. Franee. Ttnlv a«d
Great Brita’n to bring western cnl-
ture against Germany and Soviet
Russia.
CHICAGO.—(By the Associated
Press.)—A plea for support in
persuading congress to sell the
Muscle Shoals nitrate plant to
Henry Ford was presented to the
Southern Commercial Congress
Wednesday by W. T. McCowan,
president of the Fayette Still and
Lincoln county, Tennessee, Cham
ber of Commerce.
"Under Mr. Ford’s operation of
the plant,” Mr. McCowan said,
the cost of nitrate fertilizers
would be reduced two-thirds; pow
er, heat and light will be cheap
ened and "society will make great
strides instead of ekeing out an
existence.’*
"That the south has unheard of
possibilities/
WASHINGTON — The prison
pipulation of thd United States, in
eluding # chain ana road gangs and
women committed to religious or
charitable inst.tutlons, increased
from 140,186 on July 1, 1917, to
150,131, on July 1, 1922, the cen
sus 'bureau announced Wednesday.
Including women in such instith
tions and chain and road gangs for
which figures were compiled July
1, 1922, the number or persons in
the country await.ng trial, serving
sentences or held as witnesses on
that date totalled 163,889, of whom
5,540 were in. three Federal peni-
tentiarys 78.763 in 14 state pris-^
ons, 44;283 in 2,451 county-penal
institutions, *12,717 in 296 cha:n
road gangs in certain
States, 21,635 in 1,319 city institu
tions, and 1,041 women in, 24 reli
gious or charitable institutions.
These figures, It was said, were
snread throughout the city Tues
day to the effect that organizers
of the unemployed were determined
to force an entrance to Downing
street from Whitehall Wednesday
and if the interview was still re
fused to start a fight.
It seems probable, however, that
the lurid suggestions made by some
newspapers as to what mav happen T
Wednesday may not he fulfilled In
asmuch as three labor commoners
after an interview with Mr. Bonar
Law last night agreed to advise the
lenders of the unemployed to ac
cept a conference with Sir Mon
tague Barlow, the minister of labor.
A police order was issued ’ last
nleht forbidding Hhe planned dem
onstrations.
EN WATERWAY IS
what hastily but clearly every word
reaching to the .farthest recesses
of the chamber.
_„ r —- - . - -- BARNESBORO, Pa_The man-I her desk to the^ rent**Zr ?{L HLvL
the initial step presenting the pos- ’ agement of the Reilly Colleries I and lining in slightly
sibility that h.s case might be Company Mine Number 1 at Stooplne uosture. she Bnoke some-
sent back to Okmulgee county, {Spangler, was held responsbile *--* •
where a grand jury indicted him ; f or the gas explosion in the un-
early in the year. The indictment i derground workings on November
charges that the governor accept- j ^ i as t f when 77 men met death,
ed a bribe to permit an insolvent j n the coroners’. jury verdict re
state bank in Okmulgee to oper- turned here early Wednesday.
ate. I
Two motions fn the efise were
file before Judge Edwards Philippines To
Wednesday morning. One was a
win Continue Fight For j™»‘ i b o u n ^ cf ask ^°; e ^/Y our f\ t /"^; Ask Independence
the Ballot,
Paris — (By me Associated
Wessi—The women of Franco
"‘l’* keep on fighting for suffrage
J n spite of the action of the sen-
; ,f ' Tuesday in stcetracklng a vote.
•1‘aders of the suffrage movement
e ^ nr cd Wednesday.
"TV,, wli never say die.” ex-
wained Mme. DeYTitt-Schlumher-
5 6r * President of the French suf-
Ir »g<' association. ‘The battle is
n °t iu France, nor even in the
!* arl iament « will be won
every other clviUxed
cate a change of venue granted jn j
Oklahoma last. Thursday. Hep-, MANILLA.—President Harding
burn alleged the judge was with- a „d congress will be petitioned to
out authority to grant the traps- a ji ow the Philippine legislature to
fer and that he acted in collusion ca ij a constitutional convention to
with the gbverpor in granting the f rame a future independent repub-;
change of venue. The case should jj c j n the Philippines. This is the
be remanded to Okmulgee county, resu jt of the adoption by the
ALMOST FORGOT TO
ANSWER ROLL CALL
•it the upper Cha.uucr
racier and make up might not
e responsive at thir time.
he claimed.
WILL HEAR
OTHER MOTIONS
would go back to Okmulgee. If has been serving* the Baptist
the mqtiun, is. .dismissed, Judge church in Gray for about two
Edwards will/ proceed tq heqr -years, has offered his resignation
other motions. ., f ^ t.ho^teke effect in the near future.
Should Judge Edwards uphold
county attorney, tne case
bouse Wednesday of a concurrent
resolution passed ’by them three
weeks ago,
BAPTIST PREACHER QUITS
GRAY, Ga.—Rev; Caston.
Mrs. Felton was so • engrossed
with the early proceedings that she
almost forgot to answer to her
n**me the onl.v time it was called
when a quorum was summoned.
But. she was nudged in time bv
Senator Harris. Democrat, Georgia,
and responded In time.
Tn oneuln* her remarks. Mrs
Felton, referred to what she said
was her "remarkable campaign.”
ns beefinning after her aonoint.-
ment to the nnexnlred term bv
Governor Hardwick. She said she
received a San Antonio'n&per car
toon which ufctnred the Senate,
end asked "Will thou ask ladies to
take a chair?” ’
here
country/
^ by the senate’s, aCttoji' »-on has.bcen a, very popu-
th n > felt 11 probably, they saj?/ j ia j£ 0 f the governor. asking. that ] a r pastor of the church and the
amber from its indictment against him be church and town regrets to lose
the indictment against him be church ai\d town regrets
quashed on the ground that it was him.
(Contniued on Page Six.) i
(Contniued
Pmnlnvmonf And century, Henry Ford, with mil-
IbmplOyn^nT. J»no lions Of dollars worth of equipped
Payrolls Increase l buildings, in a so-called ideality
—| of the north, with skilled and un-
WASIHIN.GTON — Employment skilled labor surrounding him, is'
increased In 29 ancT decreased in willing to leave it all and is bid-
14 Industries in October as compar ding millions for the opportunities
ed with September, the depart- 'he sees' at Muscle Shoals. The
ment of labor announced Wednes- [south has invited him and public
day. In the same period, 34 of the, sentiment is criticizing in his fa-
43 industries reported increased j vor an( j ^ heeds no prophet to see
payrolls. The figures covered 3,-; him in the immediate future ful-
064 representatives establishments, fining no t on iy his dreams but
which employed 1,525,785 persons ^hat of the greatest optmiists of
last month. * I all our southland.
Car building and repairing plants “Gove rnments should be oper-
pb in September reported the e eat atcd f6r the go6d of the governed,
est increase in employment with (Th(J navy and CQSt abotI t a
13.7 per cent in October, due tcv billion a year for the good of the
THANKS
SENATORS
Then she said she wished
th«»njc senators for their Thospit-
nble welcome” and also the men of
'Georgia. Her state.-she* said had
been slfnv to promise woman suf-
— (Tura to Pag* Six)
lossibilities,” Mr. McCowan 1 said, gathered os a preliminary to a
is attested by the fact that the ‘ “ mP . te ^ ocon , nlal ot pr 3 ‘
industrial wizard of the twentieth I <In ® rs to be • ak e n ln 19 23.
_ _ C •"sm.re, a rate of increase of 13.1 per-
cent was noted in Federal and
the resumption of work in that in
dustry. Increases ranging from-
4.6 to 5.9 per cenr were reported
for glass, foundry ana Machine
rhops, woolen manufacturing, Iron
steel and chemicals. \
Strikes caused a 30.9 per cent
decrease in the pottery industry’s
employment, while decreases of
6.8 and 5.9 per cent respectively,
were shown in fertilizer and auto
mobile manufactures.
CITY COURT SESSION
- GRAY, Ga.—The city court has
been in session the first two days
of tins week and an unusual
amount of business was transact
ed. Judge ,F. Holmes Johnson pre
sided. . ,
public. The Philippines cost that
all told—this for the sake of hu
manity. Our harbors cost im
mense sums each year for public
good. The Panama Canal cost
$325,000,000. Irrigation, and the
Roosevelt dam in the -west have
tost millions and no one protest
ed.
“Now in the development of the
vreat power plant at Muscle
Shoals, though the government has
«nent more than $100,000,000.
This is (to be returned under the
bid of Ford, but still to*be used as
explosive plant in case of war.
V/e are not asking you for ;mil-
1 ions but are asking you, through
your representatives in ■Congress’, ’-ent^to crime, accordingpo a’
state prisons combined, and the
ratio of, Federal prrsoners to each
100,000 population increased from
CHICAGO.—(By the Associated
Southern Press.—Plans for a canal to/ctm, .
nect the# Gulf of Mexico with the
sheltered waterway dowd the At- i
lantic coast by building a 215 *
mile canal across Northern Flor
ida, were preseijt^d to the water
ways session yof the Southern
Commercial Congress.
The proposed waterway, desig
nated as th^ Atlantic-Mississippi
canal, would connect Cumberland *
Sound, between the states of Geor-_
gia and Florida, with St. George’s
3 in 1917 to 5.1 in 1922, while the .Sound, or Appalachicola Bay.
corresponding ratio ror slate pris- bill is now pending in congress to
oners increased from 72.4 to 74.5.
The combined total, which was be
lieved to be complete, was placed
at 74,460 in 1917 as compared with
84.213 in 1922.
TENDENCY TOWARD
UNIFORMITY NOTED
make a- re-survey of the proposed
route.
The proposed Atlantic-Missis
sippi connection would complete
the chain of sheltered waterways
from Now Orlanas to New York,
.Mr. Ruge said, and would decrease
I the distance between the two
* . . • I ports, apd between New Orleans *
The rat 1 o ; of'state prisoners to J and European ports by 500 miles.
each 100,000 population increased ; , .
In 23 states and decreased in a like I Crnntafl A\ ‘ ' .
number, comparable figures not ; Vxramea ^ J
being available for Deleware. ; Leave BeCRUSe Of
which maintains no state pridbn, j
and Georgia, whose J st 1 included.
““u vjrwigia, wnosc i hi mciuuea.
Members of chain an<S*roqd gangs.
A “tendency towarc uniformity’’
through the qountry was noted in
that the ratio decreased in most
states where it was relatively high
In 1917 and increased in most< of
those having relatively lower aver
ages in that year.
Statistics issued today by the
census .bureau' showing increases
in the number;.of prisoners in state'
and Federal institutions since: the
‘wet”*year 1917, reveat^that • the
eighteprjthi amendment: and Jo jtjiji
Volstead act have’ nbt been deter-
i stater
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Continued Illness
WASHINGTON.—Concern be-
cause of the continued illness of
Representative Charles H. Brand,
of the Eighth Georgia district, is
felt by his colleagues in the dele
gation here.
Representative Charles R. Crisp
has reported the illness of Judg?
Brand to the house and an indefi
nite leave of absence is granted
the Georgia member. It is feared
that he.will not,be able'to return
to his 1 , duties . nfere for several
weeks. The. indefinite leave of ab
sence was granted by unanimous
consent of the. house.
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