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FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA, MAY 12, 1922. NUMBER 43. VOL. XXXII. CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES OF ROOSEVELT-TAFT-WILSON ADMINIS TRATIONS BEING PILFERED BY HARD ING’S PARTY. By RICHARD LINTHICUM (Special Correspondence.) AN OPEN LETTER. Washington, May — Discussing his amended resolution for an investiga tion of the naval oil reserves leasing scandal, which subsequently was adopted, Senator LaFollette, repub lican, Wisconsin, paid tributes to Sen ator Kendrick, democrat, Wyoming^ who brought the secret lease of the Wyoming reserves to light; to former Secretary of the Navy Daniels for resisting the efforts of the oil monop olists to obtain control of these naval oil reserves and to the administrations of Presidents Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson in upholding the policy of na tional conservation and for preventing the natural resources belonging to the people from falling into the hands of private interests and privileged class es. Of Senator Kendrick he said: “Ever watchful of the public inter est, the junior senator from Wyoming, Mr. Kendrick was the first member of this body to call the attention in a public way to what had been done. The junior Senator from Wyoming in troduced a resolution calling the at tention of the Senate and the country to the leasing of naval reserve No. 3, located in Wyoming, the richest of all the naval reserves. He first in formed the public that this lease had been made without open competitive bidding to some favored party. That brought the matter to my attention. “The able Senator from Wyoming .‘took the initiative in this matter by his resolution focused upon it the at tention of the public. For that action he deserves the gratitude of the coun try. I propose to support and sus tain him in the stand he had taken.” Of the former Secretary of the Navy Daniels, lie' said: “The ti;uth compels me to say that when Josephus Daniels was Secre tary of the Navy lie did not supinely surrender to these oil-grabbing cor porations. I have read from the testi mony of the Secretary of the Navy Daniels, who during his entire ten ure of office resisted the efforts of the oil monopolists of this country to take within their control the last remnants of the public domain reserved for the use of the Navy of the United States.” Of the three preceding administra tions he said: “It is true that over an unbroken period of more than a decade three presidents—Roosevelt, Talft and Wil son—maintained the policy of conser vation in respect to the natural re sources of the public domain which has now been repudiated and reversed during the first year of the adminis tration of President Harding. “Some time after the present ad ministration came into control of the government the public was informed that a movement was on foot to trans fer from the Navy Department to the Interior Department the control of the naval oil reserves. The change of policy under the Harding adminis tration goes much further than that It involves the forest and it involves the coal lands. “I say now, and I sound it as a note of warning to my Republican col leagues, that you had better halt this administration upon this course. We cannot afford to permit a record to he made here which will parallel the record of Mr. Ballinger, Secretary of the Interior under the Taft adminis tration.” The unanimity with which Senator LaFollette’s resolution for an inves tigation of the oil leases was adopted indicates that the wester Progressive Republican Senators will stand by him and Senator. Kendrick in upholding the policy of conservation and that the reactionary Republican Senators do not care to openly oppose it. Editor of The News: Knowing that your splendid paper stands for the best interests of Fayette county, we are ask ing you to give space for this letter. To the prospective candidates for the high offices of senator and repre sentative of this county (just a word), a mere announcement of your candi dacy in the paper will not suffice. There are questions of vital import to be discussed. We want better schools in the country. When they say to us, thus far shall you go and no farther, -we (question the authority of any board to use such power. We need nine grade schools out in the country. We need to have a voice in who constitutes the board of educa tion. This board ought to be elected by the people at the ballot box. We need better roads as the first step toward consolidation, and (we want to put these candidates on notice now that they must declare themselves. We do not want any evasion of this great question—give us a road that will near ly split the county east and west, north and south; we want to know what you will do, and what has been done with the taxes raised and are being raised from the automobiles. Either repeal the law, or give each county its phare. There has been enough money raised this way to pave every main road in Fayette county. We want to know where) you stand on law enforcement. Are you ready to lend your voice and influence to suppress the lawless blind tiger business. Have you, or are you- willing to |go on record as favor ing the reading of the Bible in our pub lic schools? If you altogether hold your peace at this time, there shall be an enlarge ment and deliverance from other sources. The common people will be heard at thej ballot box this fall, ian<l woe is that man who fails to speak so that the people will hear and understand. C. M. TOWNS, Citizen. COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES Of the Brooks Consoli dated School. HOUSE ROW OVER WAR FRAUD CASES DETAILED STATEMENT IS PRE PARED AT THE REQUEST OF THE PRESIDENT MAY MAKE MOVE TO IMPEACH Daugherty Transmits Defense Of Jus tice Department's Handling Of Cases He Didn't Like It A little three-year-old, who had been •summering on a farm, fell into an old well where the water was only six Inches deep and remained there for some time before he was discovered. When he was rescued his pent-up in dignation knew no bounds: “You flnk I kin tay in a well wizout nuffln to eat, like a fwog?" he scolded. “Fy was no better fadder’n mudder’n you, I dess I’d go without children.” Preserving Varnish Brushes. The man who regularly varnishes 'his floors will not want to invest in new brushes each season when the time comes to touch up his floors. Varnish brushes should never be put Into water. They should be suspended in corked Jars of linseed oil. The method of suspension Is to bore a small hole in the center of the cork and wedge the end of the brush into ■this hole.—Popular Science Monthly. The Commencement Exercises of the Brooks Consolidated School will be held in the school auditorium Fri day evening, May 12th. The exercises this year' institute a new era in the Junior High schools of the county. This is the first class to graduate in two years and is the first class to meet the full requirements of a Junior High School. Greater improvement in the school courses will be instituted the coming year as the county hopes to add to the corps of teachers an accredited demon strator to take charge of pib clubs, tomato clubs, etc. A program will be remembered by the Senior Class. The members of the class are: Abram Steinheimer, presi dent; May Howell, vice president; Jesse Stephens, secretary; Nellie A.1- mon, Callie Ree Padgett, Leslye Hen derson. The principal and teachers take this opportunity for thanking the patrons and the community for their interest and co-operation in making this their most successful year. Washington.—In a detailed state ment concerning the prosecution of war fraud cases, prepared at the re quest of the president, and recently transmitted to the house, Attorney General Daugherty declared that exam inations so far completed disclosed in each instance “sufficient indication that a crime has been committed to warrant submitting them to. a grand jury. Presented on the eve of a Republi can caucus, called to consider a legis lative program, including a Republican resolution for investigation of charges of alleged laxity in prosecution by the department of justice, the attorney gen eral’s letter provoked a partisan row in which Representative Garrett (the Democratic leader) broadly intimated that it was intended to smother the proposed investigation. Taking issue with the attorney gen eral, Representative Woodruff, Repub lican (of Michigan) declared the for mer was requested six months ago to appeal to congress for half a million dollars to clear up his war-time docket and that he never acted until Republi cans had assailed the department in the house. Mr. Woodruff reiterated that unless the attorney general al lowed the courts to decide the pending case against the Lincoln Motor com pany “on its merits, I will move his impeachment in the house of repre sentatives.” That Michigan represen tatives asserted that a Republican con gress could “not face the country in an election unless it clears up war fraud cases which smell to high lieaveh.” It is a terrible thing, the attorney general wrote the president, to charge a citizen with robbing his government, and for that reason he had insisted upon a painstaking investigation of all cases involving charges of criminality. It was regrettable, too, he declared, that public attention “should have been so strongly focused on these cases on the eve of their prosecution.” Tracing the various stages of litiga tion, Mr. Daugherty said that after hearing counsel for the receiver and others interested he had concluded that the matter should be submitted to judicial determination “and, according ly, the government’s claim was filed within the time allowed.” In this connection the attorney gen eral sent the president a letter from Federal Judge Arthur J. Tuttle of the eastern district of Michigan, referring to “the recent newspaper notoriety” and saying that Representative Wood ruff was “entirely mistaken in making criticism” of the attorney general and the department of justice “in anything which has happened or failed to happen up to this time in protecting the gov ernment’s interests.” TO OPPOSE SHOALS OFFERS Congress Not Likely To Decide Issue. Believed That Senate Will Accept The Amendment Washington.—Conclusions reached after more than a month’s investiga tion of private proposals, for develop ment of the nitrate and power projects initiated by the government at Muscle Shoals, Ala., have been announced by Chairman Norris or the senate agri culture committee in a statement to the Associated Press. After asserting his firm conviction that the government should retain title to the properties within itself for all time, the senator said congress, in his judgment, would not act at this sesesion upon any of the private pro posals for Muscle Shoals and all that could be expected before adjournment would be the authorization to continue work on the Wilson dam under an ap propriation of $7,500,000. It is his intention, Senator Norris says, to offer an amendment to the army appropriation hill when it is up for passage by the senate which will provide funds for continuing construc tion work on the Wilson dam by army engineers during the fiscal year be ginning July 1. Belief is expressed that the senate will accept the amendment, but will decline, because of its congested leg islative calendar and the anxiety of members to return home for the fall campaign to take up for acceptance any of the offers pending in the agricul ture committee. “I am firmly convinced,” the senator said in the statement, “that the gov ernment ought to retain title to all the property at Muscle Shoals in itself in order to permit the people to 1 , get the full benefit of improvements science may develop in the fixation of ni trates from the air. It ought not to bind unborn generations by accepting a contract made under existing' condi tions of rapid change in the art, par ticularly one which would extend a lease over the properties for a hun dred years.” Future generations should have “something to say about the control of the natural resources of the coun try,” the statement continued,’ addiu* that "it seems, therefore ‘hat the bill proposing a governmeni/corporation for operation and development of the Muscle Shoals plants, or some similar legislation ought to be enacted; some thing along that line is the solution.” “I am impressed with the fact that we are asked to make a contract bind ing upon future generations when we do not know the conditions that will surround the people during its life," says Senator Norris, “and that applies particularly to Henry Ford’s proposal because it continued for 100 years; “Improvements undoubtedly will be made in the art of extracting nitrates from the air,” continued the senator, “and it is not unreasonable to assume that, within a few years, when these new processes are developed, that the methods used at Muscle Shoals now will be entirely obsolete.” FRANCE SEEKING CLOSER U. S. BOND SAYS UNITED STATES WAS WISE IN DODGING THE GENOA CONFERENCE WANTS U. S.TOCO-IPERATE France Announces She Will Not Reo ognize Soviet Russia Except In Agreement With U. S. ATLANTA AND NEIGHBORING TOWNS PLANNING BIG CELI pRATION “PROGRESS AND PROSPERITY WEEK. OPAL ADAMS Voted Queen of the May Festival. The Land of Blades. Japan is called "the land of blades" by Its own people, some of the older scholars having declared that the first sword was invented by the same god who Invented poetry. A maker of swords In Japan was ever highly hon ored among his fellow mechanics. An unusually skillful and artistic smith sometimes was recipient of high mili tary rank, a yearly pension, or was even raised to the lordship of the province in which lie. dwelt. Inevitable Study. “Do you put much study on your speeches?” “Invariably,” replied Sen ator Sorghum. "Every speech is going to compel study at one time or anoth er. If you don’t give careful consider ation to your remarks beforehand, they’re likely to keep you guessing for years to come." Education Not Complete. A man was lamenting his wife’s ex travagance—but mope in sadness than in anger. “Her parents were thrifty foil*” he explained, “and they failed to teach her proper business principles. She was taught only to save her money —never how to spend It intelligently.” Probe Of Convict Mutiny Is Begun Columbia, S. C.—Investigation has been begun by prison officials of the mutiny of prisoners at the state peni tentiary here the other day which re sulted in the wounding of fourteen men and a guard. Two of the pris oners are in the city hospital and their condition is reported as serious. Ap parently the prisoners had planned a general delivery, officials stated, add ing that severe punishment would be meted cut to the men responsible for the disorder. Constance Talmadge Files Divorce Suit Los Angeles, Calif.—Constance Tal madge, motion picture actress, has filed in the superior court here a suit for divorce from John J. Tialoglou, “a natice of Turkeyfl a subject of Greece, native of Turkey, a subject of Greece and a cigar manufacturer of New York,” according to the complaint. She charges “cruel and inhuman treat ment.” They were married September 26, 1920, at Greenwich, Conn., and separated April 5, 1921, the complaint states. 8th U. S. Infantry To Quit Rhineland Washington.—War department plans now contemplate the return from the Rhine of the Eighth United States in fantry, the last combat unit of the A. E. F. to leave Europe, late in June, according to a letter from Secretary Weeks recently sent to Senator Wil liam J. Harris of Georgia. The regi ment’s headquarters will be at Fort Screven, near Savannah. “The exact date of the arrivals at Savannah,” Sec retary Weeks wrote, “cannot yet be de termined.” However, it will sail some time in June. Paris.—Premier Poincare is seeking closer co-operation with the United States in dealing with European prob lems, especially that involving soviet Russia. This became apparent when it was authoritatively announced that France would not recognize the soviet govern ment except after agreement with the United States. French hjgh officials are evincing greater respect for America’s foreign policy, especially since the Genoa dif ficulties. Whether they are looking ahead to a possible rupture with Great Brit ain, in which case the United States would be the only great power they could turn to, is not known. But high officials have left no doubt that they will endeavor to act in harmony with America’s views whenever possible. France, is is learned, concedes that the breaking up of the conference is inevitable, convinced that the soviet reply will be either negative or in conclusive. Every time the allies have proposed anything concrete, officials say, the soviets have sidestepped or countered with demands for loans and advances of credits. France considers that the Genoa conference has changed nothing with regard to the allies’ relations with Russia. In fact, the highest officials admit that America proved right in refusing to participate. “It isn’t the first time we’ve learn ed a good lesson from the policy of the United States,” a high official laughingly told the press. “We hop^i to learn others. Here after we will liave a good understand ing with the United States before ar ranging with the soviets.” This indicates that the Poincare government is seeking a closer and more intelligent co-operation with America than its predecessors desired and are trying to draw what benefit they can from the example of Amer ica’s method of dealing with Europe’s problems. Meanwhile, officials point out that it is unnecessary to have formal trea ties to enable individuals to trade with Russia so long as the soviets are in power. France, it was said, rather prefers to deal this way. The May Festival will take place next Friday, May 19th, at 4 o’clock on the court house lawn. The high school elected as queen Miss Opal Adams and she has appointed as her attendants the following: Maids: Misses Tommie Kerlin, Lois Holt, Sara Burks, Hazel Sams, Wyno- na Wilder, Gladys Sams, Lillie Pearl McElwaney and Mildred Seawright. Knights: Delma Evans, Wright Brog- don, Andrew McLucas, Earl Travis, Willie McLucas, Walter McLucas, Wil ber Hugh Beadles and Steve McLu cas. Canopy Bearers: J. W. Sams and George Gary. Scepter Bearer: John Murphy. Flower Girls: Frances Adams, Em ily Kitchens, Iris Kerlin, Mary Dan In gram, Elizabeth Stewart, Adamson McLucas, Julia Wallace and Marion Seagraves. The following will herald the com ing of the queen: Nettie Ruth Mize, Emma Lee McElwaney, Catherine Travis, Griffin Perry, Jr., James Far- ror and Gilbert Duffy. For the baby show, which follows, the prizes are: for the girl, an import- I ed Swiss dress, and for the boy, a pair j of rompers. i Next -will'be the parade of tots 2 to j 6 years. The girl’s prize will be a i dainty doll necklace, and the boy’s, a ball. After this will be the May Pole, ; and then some folk songs by the girls. ; Every one must visit the circus and see i the boy stunts, the clowns, Maude the j Mule, the trick dog, etc. ! All children will be admitted free, : and the older people for 10 cents. On j the grounds there will be sold ice | cream, lemonade, i peanuts, popcorn, j candy, balloons, etc. There will be fotir prizes awardterMvrthe four sell- ling most tickets: First: A flapper’s going-away bag. Second: White silk hose. | Third: A silver pencil on cord. I Fourth: A pretty barrette. [ The prizes were donated by Rich I Co., High Co., Chamberlin-Johnson-Du- I bose Co., Davison-Paxon-Stokes, Fal- laize’s Linen Store and others. Big Festival in Atlanta May 29-June 3. “War Just Begun,” Says Chinaman Washington.—-Civil war in China “has only just begun,” Ma Soo, repre- senative here of the Canton govern ment, declared the other day, in an swer to predictions by other Chinese leaders that the defeat of General Chang Tso-Lin’s Manchurian army be fore the gates of Pekin would end hostilities. The Cantonese troops, Ma So said, have been ordered north to continue the campaign against Gen. Wu Pei-Fue. New Eruptions Of Mount Etna Heard Catania, Sicily.—Mount Etna has broken out with eruptions of increased violence and is emitting continuous roars which can be heard for several miles. - Dense black smoke is filling the sky. Aviators Complete A Long Journey San Diego, Calif.—Lieutenant J. H. Doolittle and L. I. Andrews, flying in an army airplane, flew here from San Antonio, Texas, in 12 hours 20 minutes. The distance is about 1.S00 miles. New Levee Break Inundates A Town Natchez, Miss.—The levee protect ing the old portion of Jonesville, La., about two-thirds of the town, broke. The new section outside the levee was already flooded. The water is report ed to be from two to four feet deep in the streets of the town. Jonesville is in Catahoula parish on Black river, and has a population of about fifteen hundred. First All-Woman Jury In Tennessee Nashville, Tenn.—Tennessee’s first all-woman jury was impaneled at Mur freesboro the other day to hear evi dence in a civil suit brought by a mother against a son to recover prop erty which she had deeded to him. Judge Thomas B. Lytle, in ordering only women summoned for jury serv ice, stated that it was his desire to allow the farmers to stay in their fields, as the planting season had ar rived. The case is being watched with a groat deal of interest all over the state. MELLON CREATES SURPLUS NEW CONFERENCE FORMED BY SOUTHERN METHODISTS IN GENERAL CONVENTION By Postponing Payments Due. Orders Formation Of New Annual Conference In The State Of Arizona Hot Springs, Ark.—The formation of the Arizona annual conference was or dered in the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, South. Dr. J. E. Harrison of Phoenix presented the following facts: Methodism in Arizona has doubled in membership and in property owned and acquired the past quadrennium. The new conference created will embrace all the state of Arizona and territory will be equal to the states of Mary land, Virginia, West Virginia and Ten nessee. Arizona had the largest per centage of gain in population during the last decade of any state of the Union. J. M. Rogers of Savannah present ed Mr. and Mrs. Heizburo Nakamura of Kobe, Japan. Mr. Nakamura is the director of the forward movement of Japan Methodism. Preacher Robbed Of Many Jewels Philadelphia. — While the Rev. James Isenberg was exhorting his flock to “Make the Jericho Road Se cure,” thieves were looting his home of jewels and other valuables. They made their escape through the rear door as the pastor walked in the front door on his return from church. The Rev. Isenberg is planning to preach on “The Return of the Prodigals," but will have a policeman guard the fatted calf, Proposes Probe Of Steel Merger Firms Washington.—Inquiry into reported plans for a merger of seven large steel corporations was recently pro posed in a resolution introduced in the senate by Senator LaFollette, Repub lican, of Wisconsin. The resolution referred to the reported merger of the Midvale, Republic, Lackawanna and Inland Steel corporations with the Youngstown Sheet and Tube com- panyil the Steel and Tube company of America and the Brier Hill Steel com pany. It added that the Bethlehem Steel corporation would join. Secretary Mellon is certainly the modern wizard of finance. By a sim ple twist of the wrist he changes a deficit into ja surplus, thus: There is an admitted threatened deficit of $24,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922. Within that period $71,000,000 obligations fall due. By postponing the payment ,of these obligations until next year the secre tary’ of the treasury is able to make it appear that there will be a surplus of $47,000,000. This is the same kind of financial sleight-of-hand by which $17,000,000 is put in the list of “savings” of the Har ding administration when $17,000,000 of Pittman, act 'certificates fell due and were not paid. Secretary Melon has already admit ted that there will be a deficit of $4S4,- 000.000 for 1923, but this does not in clude a proposed $50,000,000 for Mr. Lasker or $75,000,000 for the initial bonus, $17,000,000 extra for rivers and harbors and $60,000,000 extra for the navy in excess of General Dawes’ esti mates. There is a prospective deficit, therefore, for 1923, of $66,000,000, and the administration is going right on claiming that it is saving money, prac ticing economy and reducing taxes. Atlanta, Ga., May 10.—Prosperity i* here—according t oreports from Atlan ta, which city is planning to hold a big celebration during the week of May 29th through June 3rd—a full week of wonderful entertainment, pleasure and profit. The movement resulting in this event is being direct ly sponsored by the Rotary Club, Ml- wanis Club and the Lions Club, #h every other civic, social and commer cial organization in the city co-operat ing. Atlanta calls this event “Progress and Prosperity Week,” with its object and purpose to revive and foster a stronger feeling of optimism, confi dence and civic pride. Its scope is , not confined to the city of Atlanta, bull encompasses the state of (Georgia and the entire Southeast. ■"* R. M. Striplin, secretary of the South eastern Fair Association, has been chosen as director of the event, jand he has arranged for a most elaborate program of amusement. A splendid float parade will usher in the week of festivities. This parade is an exact reproduction of the famous Proteus pa rade of the New’ Orleans mardi-gras, said to rival similar parades of New Orleans and Paris. Numerous other parades, band concerts, etc.Jwill be a part of the downtown, program. At Lakewood, Atlanta’s big amuse ment park, there will be a great vari ety of entertainment, including Chey enne Rodeo Round-up, light opera, pa geantry, athletic and water sports, aes thetic dancing, lectures and moving pictures, band concerts, fireworks, div ing girl exhibition, Venetian singers, and nummerous other attractions. This is an event that will attract thousands of visitors to the city during the week and it is hoped by those in terested that it will furnish a busi ness, commercial and industrial stim ulus that will extend ove'r the entire section. Our Great South’s Needs for Cows There is right here in this civilized country thousands > of boys (and girls, underweight, with bad teeth and dull intellect, starving for the cheapest and best food on earth, milk and butter. If we are to develop our citizens, jwe must produce the food that is doing this, and in doing this the producer will provide himself with the best in surance policy for a standing income. Cream is one item that can be sold every day in the year, winter and sum mer. It can be made to pay bills and keep money jingling in our pockets. Old King Cotton is sold one month of the year, but it is treacherous and disappointing, when we depend upon it the other eleven months—so we say get good cows; grow good pasture for them; give them good food; consider carefully the marketing of their prod uct, and you will soon find that your farm is making money for you. For the good cow not only pays good dividends to her owner, but pays them every day. Special Sermons At Baptist Church Monastery Wine Mystery. Mystery surrounds an old monas tery near South Lea farm, DatcheL The greater part was pulled down some years ago and Are destroyed a good deal of the remainder. Thera are several deep wells, and It is said that at the bottom of one there are 3,000 bottles of wine placed there by monks, but an attempt to find them has failed. Under the ruins are a large number of earthenware bottles of quaint pattern, and there is a legend that a subway leads from the monas tery to Burnham abbey.—London Daily Mail. The pastor will preach a special ser mon on Sunday morning on “The Great Teacher, His Pupils and the Book.” All teachers and pupils are cordially invited to hear the message. The sermon Sunday night will be to boys and girls on “What a Boy Did.” Special song by the young people. Let the fathers* and mothers come with their boys and girls. Probably Sticks, at That. To permit thorough cleaning a win dow has been patented that slides up and down, swings back and forth hor izon - ally on a pivot In its center and open< sideways on hinees. New Food Preparation. A newly patented kind of food, j up ready for the housewife’s insts use. Is prepared by mixing 0 chopped meat with milk and a lit flour. The paste thus formed is fill Into molds and exposed to heat whe by the contents undergo slight shrli age and acquire a sort of “skin.” T molded masses are thus easily dropp out, to be thereupon put into cai which are sterilized and sealed. Curious Courtship. A very curious method of courting Is adopted by the Zaparos, a tribe of South America. The love-stricken young man goes out hunting, and on his return throws his game at the feet of the woman on whom he has set hts affections. If she takes the game, lights the tire and commences to ci> k, he knows his suit Is accepted; If r<>\ he knows he is rejected.
