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VOL. XXXII. FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA, APRIL 14, 1922. NUMBER 39. WHAT THE AT- LANTIAN SAYS OF HON. A. O. BLALOCK For Commissioner of Agriculture. JAIL DELIVERY AT FAYETTEVILLE ESCAPES. FAYETTE COUNTY SCHOOLS GENUS COFFIELD SECOND ANNUAL TARIFF RATES MAY « r ls "L" "“EXCLUSIVE SALES RUN STILL RICHER Ten Reported Killed In Oklahoma Storm—Five Kiled at Rowena. Church Partly Demolished CONTEST. LONG-AWAITEO MEASURE GIVEN SENATE — AVERAGES HIGHER THAN PAYNE-ALDRICH LAW The last few years have been a dis astrous period to the greater farming interests of this state, which, despite o'jrer large interests, is yet pre-emi nently an agricultural state. The State Department of Agriculture has at a crucial time been everything but a “present help in trouble.” Commis sioner Brown is incapable of practical effort because he is of that type which considers oratory a cure for all evils. So, when we have needed service, we have been handed oratory. There may be wisdom in a multitude of counsel ings, but there is seldom wisdom in a multitude of words. It is indubitably true that Commis sioner Brown has been a failure. Jn this'time of stress there has ap peared in the field {as a candidate for the place now held, but not filled, by Mr. Brown, the Hon. A. 0. Blalock, of Fayetteville. It is not extravagant to say of Mr. Blalock that he is one of the most capable and remarkable of living Georgians. Farmer and mer chant, banker and legislator, he has >een a shining success in each of these liverse lines of activity. Such a rec- >rd is truly rare. As a farmer, he is one of the best and most profitable n the state. As a merchant he could lave been one of the commercial mag- lates of the state, but he has been .ontent to do a good job in a moder- ite way, and make a little money lonestly. As a banker he is one of the most irudent and sagacious in the) state, lejias served the state ably and well n *oth houses of the general assem- >ly. For eight years as state head of he federal internal revenue depart- oent, he was easily one of the most apable in that service, in any part ’ the Union. A genuine democrat jttth a little d) he counts his friends lmost by his acquaintances. His ten- er of service comes at an opportune Ime. In his capable hands the de- artment of agriculture would render rjfceless service to the farmers of eorgia, and, therefore, to all the peo- le, for fanning is oui; big industry, [is record is so well known, so filled ith accomplishment, that no other uarantee is needed as to the quality E service. His only motive is to do imething for the Ipeople of his na ve state, and if the people should lect him, as we believe they will, r e can look forward to a per iod of instructive work for the farmers hich will put Georgia at the top of ie list of agricultural states, and in- dentally will enormously increase ,rm land values, a consideration not i overlooked. It would be refiesh- g to see the people use good judg- ent by putting this capable man in e commissioner’s chair. Was to Have Been Hung on May 6th. Genus Coffield, who murdered his nephew, Weyman Coffield, in the su perior court room just after being sen tenced for burglary of the Fife Mer cantile Co., and later ti;ied and con victed of murder, for which he was to hang on May 5th, made his escape from the Fayette county jail about 12 o’clock Tuesday night. Coffield succeeded in blocking the catch on his cell door when the dep uty closed the jme'chanical lock that secures the tier of cells on the upper floor, and later let himself out into the corridor, cutting away the brick work under, a window sill, making a hole large enough to slip through and tying several blankets together, let himself down to the ground. He immediately went to a negro gambling dive and was seen by the watchman of the oil mill coming from this place in company with another negro. Coffield is a black, dish-faced ne gro, slightly stoop-shouldered, we^phs about 160 pounds and about five feet seven inches tall. Sheriff Kerlin will pay $25 for his recovery. Fayetteville and Oak Grove Win. BEItNUEOVER$33O,MI),N0 CONTRACTS VOID CLEAN UP AND PAINT UP The second contest of the Fayette County School brought together two hundred patrons and children, and fully warranted the time and effort expended in making it possible. The enrollment during March upon which item one of the banners was based was only ten less than the fall enroll ment. for the whole county, a splendid indication of the increasing interest in school attendance, and of the suc cess of the work of the attendance officer. The Attendance Banner was won by the Oak Grove School with a total of 273 points. Inman came next with 271 points and Ebenezer third with 263 and Union Grove fourth with 262 points. The Literary Banner went to Fay etteville with a total of 31 points. Hopeful came second with 7 points, The total of Literary points is as fol lows: Fayetteville 31 Hopeful 7 Bethany — — — — •— 5 Union Grove 5 Inman — — — — 1 — 3 ■ Woolsey — — — — — 3 Brooks — — — — — 2 Little Flock 2 Glen Grove 2 The Athletic Banner 'was won by Fayetteville with a narrow margin. The scores of the schools follow: Senate Committee Ditches House American Valuation Plan In Favor Of Foreign Valuation Basis FAYETTEVILLE “Goodbye, dirt! Goodbye, rubbish!” is the topical song heard most in the health bureaus in seven thousand American communities today. . , And to speed the parting guest, ev ery American householder will have on hand the most formidable weapon— next to Mrs. Jiggs’ rolling pin—the great American broom! Father will have a shovel and son a rake. Soon many of the unwelcome visit ors will be on their way. No city can be considered sanitary if any part of it is in an unhealthful condition. Health, >our health, and your fam ily’s health, and your neighbor’s and their families’ health is at stake In this campaign. So clean up and paint up. Do it now. NEWS. Fayetteville — Brooks Hopeful — — Bethany Glen Grove — — — Union Grove Mount Springs — — — Inman 2 Tyrone 2 The list of individual •vvhmers will appear in next week’s paper. Banners and medals have been ordered and will be presented to the schools as soon as possible. FAYETTEVILLE- JONESBORO Washington—The long-awaited ad ministration tariff bill was presented recently in the senate. Senator Mc- Cumber, republican, North Dakota, in charge of the measure, announced that to give senators time to study it he would not call it up before April 20. Some republican leaders thought it would be passed after about sixty days of debate, but other estimates ranged as high as three months. Experts who assisted the senate finance committee majority to prepare the bill estimated that the average of its rates is slightly higher than the average of the Payne-Aldrich law, the last republican tariff act. The Payne- Aldrich level was approximately 41 per cent on all dutiable imports and 21 per cent on all imports, free and dutiable. The average of the demo cratic Underwood tariff which the new bill would replace was 37.60 and 14.88 per cent respectively, in 1914, the first year of its operation, and the only year when trade was not se riously affected by the world war or after-the-war condition. Comparing this bill with the Ford- ney measure, which the house passed last July 21, and of which this is a rewrite, the experts estimate that the average of all rates is iower, though the specific rates, and more particularly those on foodstuffs, are somewhat higher. Exact comparisons of the ad valorem duties in the two bills are somewhat difficult, due to the fact that the senate committee threw overboard the house American valuation plan, returning tff' the for eign valuation principle. While they have not completed all calculation, treasury experts say that the senate measure probably would raise between $330,000,000 and $350,- 000,000 in revenue as compared with the estimate of $300,000,000 for the Fordney bill and the $302,000,000 of revenue returned in the calendar year 1921 from the joint operation of the Underwood law and the emer gency tariff act. HIGHWAY TO BE GRAND COMPLETED. OPERA RATES *ST DIVISION FAYETTE COUNTY Reduced Rates to Atlanta Via A., B. & A. Railway. Work Has Been Started. Bridge to Be Built At Once. iday School Associa tion to Meet. First Division of Fayette County .inday School Association will meet . Friendship Church the fifth Sunday ’ April at 2:00 p. m., when the follow- gj&rogram will be presented. :50—Hymn. . os—Scripture reading and prayer by J. G. Hightower. • 15 Ways of Increasing Sunday School Membership, by Rev. G. P. Gary. . 4Q—Methods of Preparing and Teaching the Lesson, by Col. W. B. Hollinsworth. : 00—Hymn. . Q5—practical Suggestions foi; Va riety in the Sunday School Pro gram, by Rev. C. L. Foote. . 30—The Teacher and Her Class, by Mrs. L. A. Ingram. :50—Hymn. .55—The Meaning of the Ten Ban ner Sunday School Points, by Prof. L. M. Lester. : 25—Measuring the Efficiency of the Sunday Schools by Marking 'ihem on the Division Chart, by Division President J. T. Babb . 35—The Greatest Need in Our Sun day School (one minute re sponse, by delegates present). : 45—Adjourn. Account grand opera season, A., B. & A. will sell round trip tickets to At lanta from all stations in Georgia at one and one-half fare. Dates of sale April 23, 24, 26 and 28, good to re turn not later than May 2. Call on A., B. & A. agent for rates and other information, or write W. W. Croxton, P. T. M., Atlanta, Ga. Advertisement. COMPLETE STILL There is no better news item for Fayette county citizens than to an nounce that work has already begun on both ends of the Fayetteville-Jones boro highway. {Convicts are now at work on the big fill at Morning Cr ( eek and Clayton county has begun work on the other end of the line. Engi neer Davisi will have the highway bridge gang at work on the bridges over Morning Creek, Camp Creek and Flint River at once, and there will be no delays to further interfere with the immediate completion of this sec tion of the county’s federal aid road. CAPTURED NEAR FAYETTEVILLE SOUTHERN RAILWAY ANNOUNCEMENT. Still, Steamer, Flake Stand, Two Barrels of Beer Taken Sheriff Keslin and deputy captured a complete outfit for making whiskey, together with a quantity of beer at the Renfro place near Fayetteville, about 3 o’clock Wednesday morning. Grill Swanson was in charge of the outfit and will -be among the number to face Judge Searcy at the next term of court. D. F. Peavy Buys the J. W. Pritchett Store Quarterly Meeting. Phs sjfceond quarterly meeting for the jfetteville charge will be held at adship church Saturday, April 22. [ full delegation of official members sired. Public cordially invited. D. F. Peavy of Fayetteville, buys the stock and fixtures of J. W. Pritchett, general store, and will open with a .complete line of general merchandise and groceries at an early date. Mr. Peavy is a Fayette county man, and has a host of friends who will be pleased to learn of his intention to en ter business here. Atlanta. Ga., April 13.—During the coming summer tourist season, the Southern Railway System will sell round trip week-end tickets from prin cipal points to all mountain and sea shore resorts in the South at sixty per cent of the double one-way fare, or a fare and lone-fifth, for the round trip. As an illustration, where the one way fare is $10, the round trip fare will be $12. These tickets will be sold on .Fri days and Saturdays and will be good for return trip until Tuesdays, this be ing a more liberal arrangement than has ever before been in effect and one which will enable the people of the South to make week-end trips to moun tain and seashore resorts at a very reasonable cost. It will be especially advantageous to .business men who wish to make weekly visits to their families at resorts. These tickets will be sold from Washington, D. C., Cin cinnati, Ohio, and Louisville, Ky., as well as points throughout the South east. These tickets will be put on sale May 15th, and will be sold until the latter part of September. “Panama Workers Must Pay Rent” New Orleans.—Three thousand gov ernment employees of the Panama ca nal and the Panama, railway must pay the government rent for the use of their houses in the Panama canal zone, the United States circuit court of ap peals decided here recently in denying the petition of Harvey McConaughy, representing the workers, for an in junction to restrain the government from collecting the rent. Dallas, Texas.—Heavy winds of cy clonic velocity and rainstorms swept north Texas and southhem Oklahoma, causing the death of about twenty-five persons and immense property loss, ac cording to meager reports received here. Tornadoes were reported at Cisco, where Mrs. R. W. Turner was prob ably fatally injured and one other woman is in a serious condition, at Ardmore and Lawton, Okla., where, it is reported, fourteen persons lost their lives; Wichita Falls, Ranger and other north Texas towns reporting heavy damage. One man was injured, three houses blown down and a portion of the Cath olic church demolished at Ranger. Ballinger, Texas, reported six peo ple killed. The Millings sanitarium at Cisco is wrecked, but no loss of life has been reported. Forty homes are re ported wrecked at Cisco. The left field wall of the Marine baseball park in Dallas was blown down and part of the roof of the grand stand ripped off. Brownwood reports a cyclone nea! Rowena, Runnels county, and fourteen persons killed and much property dam age. Oklahoma City, Okla.—At least ten persons are reported dead as a result of cyclones throughout the southwest ern part of the state, according to re ports filtering in to the weather bu reau here. Efforts are being made to confirm a report that four or five persons had been killed near Lawton. An other report says one was killed. All lines of wire communication were down. Another report says a storm struck between Oklahoma City and Lawton. Several were reported to have been injured. San Angelo, Texas.—Five persons were killed at Rowena, twenty-seven miles east of here, in a tdrnado. Nine houses were destroyed. Relief parties were sent, to the stricken town from Miles and Ballinger. Heavy rain and hail totaling three inches accompanied the storm. All wires are down west of here. Streams are bankfull. The dead at Rowena include two children of Frank Kavatil, one child of Joe Kutchik, an unknown white man and one negro. The schoolhouse and many dwellings were blown down. Wire communication with the stricken districts is down. CONTRACTS MADE BY MANUFAO TURERS REQUIRING EXCLUS- SIVE SALE NOT BINDING JUSTICE DAY MAKES RULING Ruling Of Supreme Court Says Dealer Cannot Be Forced To Observe Terms Of Contract “Get Busy On Dam Quickly," Is Plea Washington.—Early authorization by congress for renewing work of con struction on the Wilson dam at Mus cle Shoals, Ala., was suggested recent ly by Col. W. J. Barden, army engi neer in ccharge of that project, before the senate agriculture committee. Un less a decision is made soon, the colo nel said, the engineers would be un able to begin work this summer and another year of delay would result. Charges Against Governor Scouted Washington.—Officials of the war de partment were inclined to discount the seriousness of charges which are re ported to have been tiled against Gov. E. Mont Reily of Porto Rico by a grand jury at San Juan. President Harding and Secretary of Weeks confer red on Porto Ricau affairs, hut it was said that no action with respect to the administration of the island would | be taken until a full report had been i received of the charges against the j governor. Reily is understood to | have been indicted for alleged misuse j of public funds. Washington.—Contracts of sale made by manufacturers, requiring retail deal ers exclusively to handle their prod ucts, which may have the effect to lessen, substantially, competition, were held by the Supreme court to be in Hughes Condemns Navy Money Bill Washington.—Leaders of the move ment seeking to defeat in the house the naval bill proposal cutting the en listed personnel to 65,000, presented a letter from Secretary Hughes setting forth the view that it would reduce the American navy below the 5—5—3 ratio, as fixed by the arms conference and prove “most injurious” to the na tion’s interests. Strike Week Production 3,500,000 Tons Washington.—Production of bitumi nous coal in the United States dropped to 3,500,000 tons, the “lowest in mod ern history,” while work in the anthra cite field “ceased entirely” during the first week of the coal strike, accord ing to a review of the industry is sued by the United States geological survey. Reports received by the sur vey indicated that from 60 to 64 per cent of the bituminous tonnage of the country has been closed down by the strike, while the remainder—“a significant portion—has not been oper- I ating recently for lack of demand.” i U, S. Claims Just, Britain Admits Washington.—The American govern ment has won its case before the allied powers for a settlement of the $241,- 000,000 due from Germany for main tenance of American troops on the Rhine. Recognizing the claims as un questionable, Great Britain, in a for mal reply to Secretary of State Hughes’ recent note on the subject, adds her assent to that previously giv en by Belgium and France. Steamship Wreck Reported By Radio San Diego, Cal.—The wreck of a large steamship was sighted recently off the Lower California coast, about three hundred miles from San Diego, by the freighter Neponset, according to a radio message sent to the eleventh naval district headquarters. ’ Shipping men here are at a loss to account for such a large derelict as that reported. The steamer Fairhaven was wrecked off the Mexican coast several weeks ago and a various times since the hhlk has been reported afloat, but it is not believed here that the Fair- haven could have drifted so far north. Ex-Service Men Asked To Go Home Indianapolis, Ind.—Former service men of the country were asked to go back to their home town and get a job, in an appeal which Hanford Mac* Nider, national commander of the American Legion, asks the Associated Fress to broadcast the jobless veter; ans who, he said, are congregating in the larger cities, where the unemploy ment situation is becoming worse. The legion’s effort to find employment for the 700,000 jobless former service men, begun three weeks ago. is gaining in effectiveness. MacNider said. Prussianism Laid To The U. S. Navy Washington.—Charging that Prus sianism exists in the United States navy. Senator Walsh. Democrat, of Massachusetts, declares that the na val air service has been wrecked by discrimination against volunteer offi cers. “Hundreds if naval airmen valid. The opinion was delivered by Jus tice Day in a case Drought by the Standard Fashion company, a New York corporation, against the Ma- grane-Houston company of Boston, and sought to compel that retail company to observe the terms of a contract, which the Supreme court declared was one of sale and not of agency or joint venture. Being a contract of sale, Jus tice Day (Kated, the only question that remained for the court to determine was whether the facts established that it would substantially lessen competi tion. Adopting the findings of the circuit court of appeals for the first circuit of the results obtained through the contract, the Supreme court reached the conclusion "that the contract, prop erly interpreted, with its restrictive covenant, brings it fairly within the section of the Clayton act under con sideration.” It therefore affirmed the decision of the circuit court which held the contract invalid. After describing minutely the prac tices of the Standard Fashion com pany, under the contract, Justice Day analyzed certain features, pointing out that “the Clayton act sought to reach -the agreements- embraced withir,.its sphere in their incipiency," and “to determine their legality by specific tests of its own which declare illegal contracts for sale made upon the agreement or understanding that the purchaser shall not deal in the goods of a competitor or competitors of the seller, which “may substantially les sen competition. Justice Day stated that the court did not think that the purpose of the statute in using the word “may” was to prohibit "the mere possibility of the consequences described,” but that “it was intended to prevent such agree ments as would under the circumstanc es disclosed (in the present case) probably lessen competition or create an actual tendency to monopoly.” Con gress by statute did not intend to reac hevery remote lessening of com petition," he added, and disclosed this purpose by providing that the contracts should be prohibited when they caused a “lessening" of competition* which was “substantial.” Under its contract, the Standard Fashion company agreed to sell its standard patterns at a discount of 50 per cent from retail prices and to allow certain privileges when be tween certain dates semi - annually it would receive in exchange at nine- tenths cost discarded patterns. In July, 1917, the Magrane-Houston com pany decided to discontinue the sale of the Standard Fashion company pat terns and place on sale in its store patterns of a rival pattern company. It was to enforce its contract that the fashion company brought suit. The decision in the United States district court for Massachusetts as well as for the circuit court of ap peals were adverse to its conten tions, those courts ruling that the con tract was in violation of the Clayton act and, therefore, not enforceable. When the case reached the Supreme court, the federal government inter vened, filing a brief in which it con tended for the construction placed up on the contract by the lower courts. ALL POWERS COURT RUSSIA Staggering Burdens Of Land Armamen* Are Expected To Force Move To Limit Size Genoa.—The preliminary moves on the European chess board to which the day before, the opening of the eco nomic conferencec was largely devoted, plainly showed all nations, great and small, courting Russia, although they wished to appear not over-eager in the courtship. Thctetoie, the Russians seemed to ho.d a position of distinct advantage, all depending on how they manipulated (heir pawns in their proj ect to be admitted to the council of nations as the representatives of *he Russian state. The conditions of Russia’s entry are outstanding and dominating subject ot the conference. In the meantime the allied chiefs have had two lengthy sessions which were marked by some sharp exchanges between the British prime ministers, Lloyd George, and Louis Barthou, representing France, apd settled on a definite program of technical work for the conference. The appointment of commissions as at the Washington conference was arranged for, composed of representatives of all the nations, with sub-commissions, the membership of which is restricted to the nations having particular interest in the particular economic topics to be taken up. The French delegates an nounced that complete accord existed between Great Britain and France in all matters. The inaugural session will be devot ed to formal addresses. Thirty-four states and three continents will be represented. Turkey is the single Eu ropean power not represented, the en tente powers being unwilling to admit either the representatives of the sul tan or of Mustapha Kemal Pasha, the Nationalist leader, and on this ques tion probably will occur one of the great fights which Soviet Russia will make in the conferenoe, as it has entered into many treaties with Kemal Pasha and insists that this govern- ! ment is the actual controller of the Turkish domain in Europe and A&|n. Soviet Russia and Japan speak i6r Asia in the conference; Canada rep resents North America, and the South African federation will speak for the great dark continent. South America is the single great land division of the world without a spokesman. Cloudy Paths Given As Cause—Twe Passengers Believed To Be Americans t Sir Conan Doyle To Lecture In U. S. New York.—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the materialistic Sherlock Holmes, but now a sincere believer in things spiritual, arrived here recently to “raid” America. “I propose to make a raid on American skepticism,” he said, in explaining the purpose of his proposed lecture tour. “I propose to raid church and laity alike.” Iw whose training cost the government $4,000,000 are being kicked out because they are not naval academy graduates,” Walsh told the senate naval affairs committee, investigating alleged dis crimination in the navy. He prom ises further disclosures. Plane Wrecked On First Lap Of Trip Clarion. Pa.—Capt. Roald Amundsen, Arctic explorer, and four flying com panions narrowly escaped death at Mi- ola, near here, when the monoplane in which they were going from New York to Cleveland, the first lap of a continental journey, turned over when it was forced down in a field. All oc cupants were reported slightly scratch ed and bruised, but otherwise uninjur ed. Those with Captain Amundsen ewer H. T. Lewis of Bellefonte, Pa.; H. U. Gade of New York and E. Ruhl and J. Ondell. Levee Collapses Down In Arkansas Memphis, Tenn.—Flood water, held within bounds along the Mississippi, urns, at last accounts, taking its toll in southern Arkansas as a result of a break in a levee along White river which let in water that ultimately will engulf upwards of twenty-five square miles of cultivated land and a dozen or more towns and rice farming settle ments in what is known as Laconia Circle at the confluence of the White and Mississippi rivers in Desha county. Chicago Car Fare Cut From 8 to 6c Chicago.—Fares on Chicago surface car lines were ordered reduced from 8 cents to 6 cents—a cut of 2 cents— by the Illinois commerce commission recently. The reduction is effective May 1, Robbers Bind Victim And Get $75,000 New York—The other day three rob bers drove up to the store of S. & M. Sandberg, furriers, on Madison avenue, walked in and gagged and bound the four men present and then carried off sixty-five thousand dollars’ worth of furs, eighty-five hundred dollars’ worth of jewelry and fifteen hundred dollars in cash. News of the hold-up carried on while hundreds of persons walked by the store, did not become public until the robbers had made a thorough get-away, leaving no clue whatever. FIVE ARE KILLED AS AIRPLANE CRASHES Paris.—Two luxurious air-Pullmana, one a French machine returning to Paris from London with its load of passengers, the other a British ship bound for England, with mails and freight, crashed in a head-on, mid-air collision near the town on Granvilliers. Three passengers in the French Go liath, the pilots of both machines and a mechanician were killed. Among them Mr. and Mrs. James Bruce were Americans, said to have been residents of New York. A fog described by observers as “impenetrable,” caused this, the first catastrophe in the history of trans channel commercial flights in which any passengers have lost their lives. Pilot Ducke of the British machine was taken from the wreckage breath ing, but died while surgeons were op erating in a vain attempt to save his life. Pilot Mire of the Goliath was killed outright, as was M. Boursiez. chief en gineer of the factories of Mureaux in the Seine-et-Oise department.
