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VOE. XXXII.
FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA, MAY
Senator New’s Defeat a Repudiation
Of Harding’s Administration
NUMBER 44.
. Washington, May 17.—The defeat qf United States Senator Harry S.
New for renomination by former Senator Albert J. Beveridge in the Indiana
Republican primary by a large majority has thrown the other Republican
administration candidates for re-election, both senators and representatives
into panic. With Copley of Illinois, the multi-millionaire member oj the
ways and means committee and veteran reactionary leader and champion
of the Harding administration pet, crushed by the weight of 20,000, they are
asking who will be the next victim to fall beneath the righteous wrath of an
outraged constituency?
Senator New’s defeat is the most overwhelming repudiation and power
ful rebuke yet administered to the Hardin|g administration and the Do
Nothing Congress. Senator New is the close personal friend and adviser
of President Harding. He speaks for the administration upon the floor of
the senate. Although the President spoke no public word in his behalf, he
was his silent ally, and all the leaders of the administration were for him
The press of both parties for weeks made it plain that Senator New’s can
didacy was to be a test of the Harding administraiton ,and Senator New
himself made that the issue in his campaign. Administration organs were
claiming his election when all the returns showed Beveridge far in the
lead.
It is clear that the Beveridge majority is a vote of protest within the
party rather than an indorsement of any affirmative principles or policies.
A vote for Beveridge was the only way the Hoosier folk could show their dis
gust with the present Congress and the only way they could answer the
appeal to indorse the reactionary Republican administration, and, there
fore, New was defeated and Beveridge won
MEETING FOR MEN
At Methodist Church On
Sunday Afternoon, At
2:30 O’Clock, May 21.
There will be a mass meeting for
men at the Methodist Church, at Fay
etteville, next Sunday afternoon, at
2:30 o’clock, that should be of 'suffi
cient interest to the men of Fayette
ville and Fayette county, that they will
not fail to attend.
There will be speakers of state-wide
reputation to address you under the
auspices of the . Law Enforcement
League of Georgia. The speakers for
this occasion will be Hon. W. S. With-
am and Mr. W. Woods White, of At
lanta*. You arr' Coidially .invited.
A., B .& A. Purchase
Plan Approved
Moultrie, Ga., May 16.—A resolution
calling upon Georgia to urge the gen
eral assembly at the coming session
to give the voters of the state the
right to say whether bonds shall be
issued for the purchase of the A., B.
& A. if that road is forced on the
block and there are no bidders for it
as a going concern, was passed at
the state-wide mass meeting held here
Tuesday under the auspices of the As
sociation for the State Ownership of
the A., B. & A.
The resolution was introduced by
Senator Johnny Jones, of LaGrangt,
at the close of the meeting at which
addresses were made by Governor
Hardwick, Mayor James L. Key, of
Atlanta; Senator L. R. Akin, of Bruns
wick; Representative A. J. Pearry-i
man, of Talbotton; Representative W.
B. Mann, of Brunswick, and a number
of others.
With a delegation from Atlanta
headed by Governor Hardwick and
Mayor Key, and with representative
men from LaGrange, Brunswick, Tal
botton, Fitzgerald and a number; of
other towns present, the meeting open
ed at the court house at 11 o’clock.
The visitors were briefly welcomed
by City Attorney P. Q. Bryan, acting
for Mayor Covington, who is out of
town. Mayor Key responded.
U. S. CIVIL SERVICE
EXAMINATION
Third Class Postmaster,
Atlanta, Ga., June
the 10th.
At the request of the postmaster gen
eral, the United States civil service
commission announces an open com
petitive examination to be held in At
lanta, Ga., June 10th, to fill the posi
tion of postmaster at Fayetteville,
Ga., salary $1,500 per year.
Application forms, containing full in
formation as to |the requiremnets to
be met and the character of the exam
ination to be given, may be obtained
from the postmaster or Unit
ed States civil service (commission
Washington, D. C.
Thousands of Innocent
Children Dying in
The Far East.
Make Money
Raising Good Cows
I know a man 'in (Fleming county,
Ky., who on his 80 acre farm for years
has kept eight or ten good Jersey cows
and a pure bred bull from ,-a heavy milk
and butter strain of cattle. From his
herd he has sold $1,000 to $1,500 worth
of cream a year and has raised heifer
calves and hogs upon the skim milk.
Each year he sells three or four good
milk cows at prices varying from $90
to $150 and sometimes even $200 per
head. His farm is known far and wide
as a good place to go to buy a good
farm cow, and so good are the cows
he raises that buyers return when
other cows are needed.
1 Not only does he sell good cows, but
he, has literally seeded the community
1$' standing his bull for which he gets
a service fee of $5. Neighboring farm
ers for miles around 1 bring in their
good milk cows to be bred. This farm
er has placed more good dairy blood
through the community than any other
farmer I kpow of. Indeed it has been
an important factor in getting a neigh
borhood cream-shipping business start
ed, which amounts to hundreds of cans
tijif cream' going out, and th/ousands of
dollars coming into the community
every month.
W. D. NICHOLS.
Death just as certainly (as if those
thousands of children were lined up
-along the avenue and shot down with
machine guns.
The committee is determined to- save,
and will save the children already re
ceived into the orphanages and under
American protection, though at pres
ent the resources are not in sight.
There are approximately a hundred
thousand of them. These we have in
vited to our table, and we will not
drive them away to die.
But there are at least another hun
dred thousand orphaned children who
eagerly wait to seize the crumbs that
fall from our table. Many of them are
now dying in spite of all we can do.
In addition to these children there
are other hundreds of thousands pf
equally innocent and helpless adults—
women and girls—driven in midwinter
from the plains of Cilicia or destitute
upon the war-swept, v famine-stricken
plateaus of the Caucasus. These Chris
tian refugees in Bible lands now. stand
under the sentence -of death by star
vation.
Will America commute the death
sentence for the children?
Five dollars a month saves the life
of an orphaned child.
NEAR EAgT RELIEF, Cleveland H.
Dodge, Treasurer, 151 Fifht Avenue,
New York City.
Senator McKeller
Expects Results From
Gasoline Price Probe
Knoxville, Tenn., May 16—Senator
Kenneth McKellar, in Knoxville Tues
day, vigorously assailed the recent ad
vance in the price of gasoline, and
expressed the belief that the investiga
tion of the raise which is to be made
by the senate canufacturers commit
tee under his resolution adopted Sat
urday would bring some immediate re
sults.
“What I want to know is why the
price of gasoline goes up as the price
of crude oil comes down,” said thes en-
ator. “When Pennsylvania crude oil
was selling for $4 a barrel, gasoline
was 24 1/2 cents a gallon. Now crude
oil is $3.25 a barrel and gasoline is
28 to 29 cents a gallon.
“If the big oil companies have a
valid reason for, the sudden advance
in pidce it is all right, but we want
to know what that reason is. If they
have no valid reason, they should be
made to pay the penalty.”
Senator McKellar left here for Nash
ville.
Fayetteville’s New High School Building.
FAYETTEVILLE HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM
The graduating exercises of thq Senior Class !of the Fayetteville High School will take place at the Fay
etteville Baptist Church on the night of May 26th, at 8 o’clock.
The following program will be rendered.
INVOCATION +..4 Rev. Chauncey L. -Foote
SONG—“THE CALL OF SUMMER’' High School Chorus
CLASS HISTORY ..: Lois Holt}
CLASS PROPHECY .j a «.*>••1—+ Mary Minter
DUET—“ZAMPA” i —Mary Minter and Sarah Burks
WILL AND 'TESTAMENT , | : Sarah Burks
VALEDICTORY » «§§ - Ruby ( Kerlin
MUSIC.
DELIVERY OF DIPLOMAS AND OERTIFICATES. /V ■ JT ’
People of Fayetteville and Fayette Urged To Observe Georgia Week,
May 22d and 29th.
This is a call to the merchants of our to wn and county to boost Georgia Made Products, to display them
(placarded) in their windows and to make every effort to advertise them during this week. If the merchants
have none on hand they are asked to procure some by the week of the. 22nd„
This is a call to the public to inquire of your merchants for Georgia Made Goods, etc. Create a demand
for thfjm and you have done a great deal toward boosting y<dPpH|Rb i ', j 4-
Wear—Eat—Use only Georgia Made Products during this week as far as possible. f
GEORGIA WEEK COMMITTEE,
WOMAN’S CLUB.
Wants Rural Credits
For Smaller Banks
Washington, May 13.—(By Consti
tution Leased /Wire)—Senator Har
ris ,of Georgia, said today he would
urge the committee of the argiculture
block considering ural credits legisla
tion to provide sufficient regulations
to allow the small banks to participate
in the plans to be worked, out.
This is in line- with the bill of
Senator Harris and Representative
Lee to amend the federal reserve act
so as to allow small banks to come
into the system which are now barred.
Senator Harris attended the bloc
meeting this week, which discussed ru
ral .credits legislation.
Chance At Annapolis
For 3 Georgia Boys
Washington, D. C., May 13.—Three
young men recently nominated by Sen
ator Watson for entrance to the An
napolis Naval Academy, have failed
to pass the entrance examination, it
is learned. Senator Watson is now
looking about for £hree more young
men as principals, and first and sec
ond alternates to take the entrance
examination. There is but little time
remaining as the cadets must enter
July 1, with the next class.
GOT IDEA FOR WATER WHEEL
Assinboine Overflows; Great Damage
Winnipeg, Man.—The flood of the
Assinboine River is, spreading and tre
mendous damage is being done to prop
erty, according to information from
Reaburn, where the inundation was
reported at its worst. Roads and
ranches were covered with water and
the only transportation was by boat.
Fifty head of cattle were isolated on
an island which was being washed
away.
Says Columbus Birthplace In Spain
Madrid.—An attempt has been made
to prove that Christopher Columbus
was born in Spain. The subject came
up for discussion in the Spanish con
gress, when Deputy Iglesias stated
that documents and investigations in
Pontevedra, Galicia, indicated that the
birthplace of the discoverer of Amer
ica, was located in Spain.
Three Kinds Of Alcohol Protected
Washington.—The Senate recently
passed a committee amendment put
ting 3 cents a pound duty on three
different kinds of alcohol—amyl butyl
and propyl—after having defeated by
a vote of 19 to 40 an amendment
placing, the duty at one-quarter of a
cent a pound. The amendment was
offered by Senator King, democrat,
of Utah.
World Greatly Indebted to Humble
Cow and Man's Quick Percep
tion for the Turbine.
The huge hydro-electric power de
velopment now reaching every part
of tiie world owes its origin to n
homely incident which took place In
California many years ago, in .-which
an early day miner and his cow
were the chief factors.
History and legend relate that on
a hot day in the summer of 1860 a
typical placer miner of that period
toiled on his claim. To supply water
for washing the gold-bearing gravel
lie had provided a long length of or
dinary hose, and as the fall above
was considerable the water gushed
from the hose with decided force. As
the sun sank the cow came to the
workings to slake her thirst, and was
in danger of upsetting some of the
sluices and other devices of the
placer miner. So the man turned the
hose on the cow. By chance the water
blast struck the cow In her cup-llke
nostrils, throwing her head back
sharply.
The man was Lester A. Pelton, out
from Ohio on a mining venture, and
later world famous as the Inventor
of the Pelton - water wheel, the de
vice which forms the basis of the
great turbines which transform water
into electric energy.
Pelton said many times that the
idea of the invention came to him
when he saw the effect of the water
blast coming in contact with the cow’s
nose. Within an hour lie was rigging
up a wagon wheel with empty cans
tied to the rim and was able to prove
the value of what was later to be his
great invention.
been a valuable prize to me. It was
so bulky, and the leaves were so cov
ered by marginal notes in manuscript,
that had I been confined 100 years, I
need never to have been Idle. I was
only ten days deprived of my liberty,
but on recovering it, I was saturated
with Justinian, and the decisions of
the Roman legislators. It was thus
I acquired my knowledge of the civil
law.”
USED TIME TO ADVANTAGE
Napoleon Profitably Occupied Hours
Which He Was Forced to Spend
In Unjust Confinement.
When Napoleon I was forming the
Code Napoleon, he astonished the
council of state by the readiness with
which he Illustrated any point in dis
cussion by quoting whole passages, ex
tempore, from the Roman civil law,
a subject entirely foreign to him, as
his whole life had been passed In the
camp. On being asked by Treilhard
how he had acquired so familiar a
knowledge of law, Napoleon replied:
“When I was a lieutenant, I was
once unjustly put under arrest. The
small room assigned for my prison con
tained no furniture, save an old chair
and a cupboard. In the latter was a
ponderous volume, which proved to be
a digest of the Roman law. As I had
neither paper, pens, Ink or pencil, you
may easily Imagine this book to have
Appropriate, What?
The Church at Work, published by
the National Council of the Episcopal
church, tells of a resourceful native or
ganist who was called upon suddenly
to furnish the music for a mission
wedding ceremony at Hankow, China.
The bridegroom had recently become
a Christian. Following the custom,
he sent a beautiful sedan chair and a
brass band to escort the bride to his
home, where the ceremony was to be
performed. Something delayed the
bride, and the Impatient young man
hurried down to the mission house,
where It was decided to have the
wedding on the spot. A meeting was
In progress in the church, so it was
impossible to have the brass band
play. Whereupon one Elsie Li was
commandeered to play the wedding
march. There was no sheet music on
hand, and Elsie was not equal to the
task of playing Mendelssohn from
memory. She was strong, however,
on one good old march tune, and ac
cordingly the wedding party were dum-
founded and amused a few minutes
later when the bride and bridegroom
marched blithely forward to the altar
to the tune of “Onward Christian
Soldiers, Marching as to War.”
"Passion Play” Result of a Vow. #
The Oberammergau “Passion Play,”
a dramatic representation of the suf
ferings of Christ, originated from a
vow made by the inhabitants of the
little Bavarian village in 1633, with
the hope of staying a plague then
raging. The original text probably
was made by the monks of Ettal, but
the parish priests have since carefully
revised It. The music was composed
by Rochus Dedler In 1814. The play
Is given by amateurs In a purely rever
ential spirit, and not for gain. It re
quires a cast of about seven hundred
persons. In 1901 an $S0,000 playhouse
was erected especially for the pres
entation, which Is given every ten
years. The first performance was
given in 1634.
In his speech supporting his resolution for an investigation of the leases
of the naval oil reserves to private interests controlled by subsidiaries of
the Standard Oil Company, Senator LaFollette (Rep., Wis.), paid a fine
tribute to Senator John, B. Kendrick (Dem., Wyo.), for having brought
this scandal to light and to former Secretary of the Navy Josephus Dan
iels for having resisted the efforts of these oil-grabbing corporations during
his entire term. He said:
“Ever watchful of the public interest, the junior senator from Wyoming,
Mr. Kendrick, was the first member of this body to call attention in a pub*
lie way to what had been done. The junior senator from Wyoming intro
duced a resolution calling the attention 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 informed 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 and •
by his resolution focused upon it the attention of the public. For that ac
tion he deserves the gratitude of the country. I propose to support and
sustain him in the stand he has taken.
“The t/dth compels me to say that when Josephus Daniels was secretary
of the navy he did not supinely surrender to these oil-grabbing corpora
tions. I have read from the testimony of the Secretary of the Navy Daniels,
who, during his entire tenure of office, resisted the efforts of the oil monop
olists 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.”
ELECTRIC POWER
An Editorial From the
Pen of Perry D. Rich, in
the Colquitt (Ga.) Sun.
Too Long to Walt.
Mr. Oidsmith—Do you refuse me be
cause I’m too old? I’m practically
certain to live 20 years more.
Miss Philippa—Oh, nol You’re not
too old. You’re about 20 years too
young.
It is said that twenty-five years ago
Lee Hall, of Baker County, while a
mere lad, stood on the banks of the
rushing Notchaway Creek and pre
dicted that twenty years hence there
would be a powerful dam across said
creek and that the surrounding coun
try would be furnished hydro-electric
current by the waters of that creek.
Lee’s dream is about to come true.
The dam is nearing completion. The
wheels are in place and in a , short
while the current will be turned on.
I I would like to hear his prediction
for twenty-five years hence as'to whaf
hydro-electric power will be doing in
this section of the country.
Is it not possible that hydro-electric
power will be accessible in every town
and on the principal highways of this
section?
How do they know we will be using
automobiles twenty-five years from
now? Who knows but that aeroplanes
and electric vehicles will supersede
Henry’s flivver?
I think it is indeed fortunate that
these things are being developed by
private capital and not by the state
and its political subdivisions, because
then its failure would be assured.
I have no sympathy with the at
tempt now being made to create a
sentiment in this state in favor of
public ownership of such industries.
In every city that I know anything
about they have made a signal failure
with municipal ownership. Here in
Colquitte right now we are having to
pay more for electricity than any
where else by reason of the city own
ership of the plant. If this plant was
owned by a private corporation I am
sure that the rates would not be near
ly so heavy as they are now.
A private corporation will nearly
always have able management. A
city will always have political man
agement. A : private corporation will
operate their business economically
and the city management doesn’t care.
At any rate the municipalities that
have tried owning their own plants
have made miserable failures with
only a few exceptions and the private
corporations generally succeed.
If the Baker County Power Com
pany was owned by a city, county or
state it would never have been built.
If it had been built the waste and
graft in its construction would have
made its cost of construction enor
mous.
The United States government built
Muscle Shoals and look what a mess
it is.
I say let the private corporations
develop these things and then let the
people see to it that they trqat the
public right.
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GOOD ROADS
MEAN BETTER
MARKETS
Funds Are Raised For Milk Depot
Atlanta.—The first definite move to
secure sufficient money to put the
West Point milk depot, where babies
will be furnished milk free, on a sound
operating basis, was made when the
members of the Girl Scouts of Atlanta
took up collections at 56 churches and
when pastors of the remaining church
es received contributions for this pur
pose. Mrs. R. G. McAiley, chairman
of the committee appointed by Mayor
Key to supervise the raising of funds,
announced that the efforts of the Girl
Scouts and the ministry were highly
successful although the total amount
obtained will not be known until soon,
when ihe committee will receive re
ports from the various churches.
Georgians are beginning to realize
that one of the surest ways to bring a
return of prosperity to this state is to
establish the system of good roads laid
out by the State Highway Department,
which will assure them better market
ing facilities for their diversified crops.
So long as bad roads make the near
est market a day’s journey away, our
farmers will be slaves to the one crop
With good roads, gooA ttmr--
kets will be brought within a few hours
of every farmer and will enable him to
produce and market crops that will
bring him money all the year round,
and free him from the credit system
which impoverishes him.
Georgia can only hope to quit paying
tribute to the north and west when she
wakes up, as those sections have done,
to the value of good roads and good
schools to the rural community. Mil
lions of dollars go out of this state
each year to purchase food stuffs that
can he grown right here in super-abun
dance, but our farmers lack the incen
tive for producing these crops because
marketing conditions in the past have
been so poor. Good roads will change
all this and keep at home the money
we are paying out to enrich the west
ern producer of hay, grain, meat prod
ucts and canned goods.
If the farmer could realize what good
roads mean to his welfare, he would
enthusiastically support the proposed
bond issue for good roads, for by this
means he will have his highways built
for him by the automobile owners of
the country without having to pay out
one cent in additional taxes. The bond
plan simply takes the income from the
automobile license fees and gasoline
tax and converts it into a fund to re
tire the bonds, thus making it do in
ten years what otherwise it would take
thirty to accomplish.
Thinking citizens all over the state
are turning to the bond issue as the
means for helping the farmers who
have been stricken hy the boll weevil
pest back to prosperity, and they are
supporting the measure with enthu
siasm.
Practically every civic organization
in the state has endorsed the good
roads bond issue. The Farm Bureau
Federation president, Hon. J. W. Mor
ton, of Athens, is enthusiastically for
it, as are the maioritv of the Chambers
of Commerce in the state. The inter
esting thing about all this enthusiasm
for the bonds, however, is the fact that
the people who will have to pay for
the roads under the plan, the automo
bile owners, are the ones most heartily
supporting it. They regard it as a
measure of economy. They say the les
sened wear and tear on their cars and
the saving in gasoline consumption will
amply compensate them. The farmer
is the man who will benefit most from
the good roads and they will cost him
nothing, for only such an amount of
bonds will be issued as can be retired
by the automobile license fees and the
gasoline tax. More than this amount
is prohibited in the constitutional
unendment.
President Harding To Defer Bonus
Washington. — Transmission by
President Harding of his views on
pending soldier bonus legislation to
Republican members of the senate
finance committee will await the re
turn of the executive from his week
end trip to New Jersey, it was said by
Senator Watson, of Indiana, one of the
Republican committee members, after
a conference at the White House.
LaFollette (Rep.) Says Kendrick (Dem.)
Deserves Gratitude of Country
