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FORTIETH YEAR
Huns Must Pay to Limit;
Hold Cotton, Says Brown
3 5 CENTS
CERTAININ
60 DAYS.
HE VOWS
“Hold your cotton!*
'.hat i s the message to Sumter
county t'armer s of J. J. Brown, state
commissioner of agriculture, who was
in Americus for a. few hours today
attending a meeting of the state
board of entomology.
"If the farmers continue to hold
their cotton a price of at least 35
cents will be sure to come, i believe
within 60 days, and perhaps much
soone r
"They talk about a cotton shortage.
VYe are on the verge of a world cot
ton FAMINE!” he fairly shouted
with enthusiasm. "There is no ques
tion about it. The world is denuded
cf cotton. The mills of the world
are -unning now on a hand-to-mouth <
basis. They have GOT to have our i
cotton, and if w© just hold a little ;
vhile longer they are going to PAY' <
for out cotton what it is worth.”
Mr. Brown bit mes the restriction
still in existence at Washington un
der the export regulations for a fail
ure of the market to go to its proper
level at once.
' At present there is no competition
for our cotton, and so, why should
ihere be any rise in price?” he ask
ed. “I expect shortly to see all re- '
s’fictions on cotton exports remov
ed, whereby Germany and Austria,
which need our cotton as badly as
ary other nations of the world, re- 1
moved. Then there will be competi
tive bidding, and then you will see i
the price go where it should go. This
may come any day soon; certainly
within two months, in my opinion.
"At the present prices mills are ,
get ;ng for all their products they
can afford to pay the farmer 60 cents
a pound for his cotton —and then
make handsome profits. An instance -
of the enormous profits made by the
mills is in the state of Alabama.
That state owns and operates a cot
ton n ill. which was an investment
cf sIuO.OOO. I have recently had the
repot is of that mill, which are open
to the public, investigated, and I find
that it has made dividends in the last
year of $226,000! If a public-owned
institution has made that much, how
much have the privately owned prop
erties been making?
‘‘Right now Germany and Austria
need 2.000.000 bales of our cotton.
The people of those nations must be
clothed, and we will have to clothe
them. Every shelf in Europe is bare
of cotton goods, and every mill is
either entirely out of cotton or
almost out.
"Five years ago this country pro
duced a bumper crop that left sur- j
plus of 9.000,000 bales. Sine then
we have produced 32.000,000 bales in
four short crops and sold 41,000.000,
which, as you can readily see, has
entirely vyiped out that surplus, and
given only this year’s short crop to
supply* the world.
"There is nothing else to it. If the
farmers will only continue to hold
on a short time linger, they will get
35 cent s for their cotton. I hear of
some Tending” of cotton to the mills
by growers. This amounts to selling
and if carried very far could defeat
the purpose of holding. But that is I
being discouraged everywhere, and
farmers are seeing the real facts of
the world, scarcity and ars sitting
steady That is the way to win. That
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WAR LOSSES OF
AUSTRIA PUT AT
4 MILLION MEN
LONDON. Nov. 29. —Austria's losses
during the way were seventeen thous
and officers and eight hundred thous
and men killed, with total casualties
of four million men.
U. S. EMPLOYMENT
OFFICE WILL CLOSE
D. H. Brackett, superintendent of
the U. S. Employment office here, has
received word from H. S. Stanley,
.rate director of employment, direct
ing that the Americus office be closed
after November 30.
The Americus office has been an ■
emergency agency, opened to assist in ,
recruiting necesary labor fo r war
work, and it usefulness has automat
ically disappeared with the coming
of peace. On the same date the
Americus office goes out of existence,
the similar offices at Carrollton,
Eatonton and Millen will be closed.
Those at Fitzgerald and Toccoa will
be closed December 15 and that at
Bainbridge on Jan. 1.
Mr. Brackett will remain m
Americus until December 5, when he
will return to his home in Atlanta,
where he will enter his brother’s
law office temporarily. He has been
in charge of the local office since
August. Headquarters have been in
the old County Court room at the
court house. Stephen C. Pace has
been chairman of the employment
service board, and the entire Third
congressional district has been under
its jurisdiction.
Mr. Brackett today expressed his
regret at leaving Americus, and ask
ed that his sincere thanks be extend
ed to the public generally for the as
sistance that has been given him in
> ’.e carrying out of the duties of his
office.
In his letter notifying Mr. Brackett
of the discontinuance of the office
here Mr. Stanley wrote:
“I wish to convey my thanks to
you and your underclerk for the
many courtesies shown me while this
office was in existence, and to assure
you of my warmest esteem. I regret
very much that this office could not
be maintained permanently, but you
can well undersand that the necessity
for this is no longer apparent.”
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v ill bring 35 cent cotton to the South
and millions of dollars to Georgia.”
Mr. Brown left thi s afternoon for
Thomasville, where he goes on official
b<r jness _
PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 29, 1918
MRS. HOHENZOLLERN
JOINS EXILED HUBBY
LONDON, Nov. 29. Dispatches
from Copenhagen today say the for
mer kaiser will leave Ameroagen,
Holland, soon for a destination which
is unannounced.
The former war lord is receiving
great masses of correspondence from
Germany.
The former kaiserin, who has been
ill, has joined her husband at Amer
ongen. She seemed in good spirits
and had twenty trunks. She was
met by the wife of the German min
ister at The Hague.
The proposal that the former kaiser
be transferred to Spain from Holland
is being made in Amsterdam.
The former emperor of Austria was
ordered to leave Austria following the
discovery of a reactionary plot hatch
ed at Leipsic, says a Switzerland dis
patch received here today.
BOLSHEVIK! THREATEN
BALTICPROVINCES
LONDON Nov. 29.—The Bolsheviki
have captured Dvinsk and are bom
barding Narva, in the Gulf of Fin
land says a dispatch from Helsing
fors today.
They ar© threatening to invade the
Hep Baltic provinces so rstores of
food and other loot.
Grave disorders are reported from
Dvinsk.
GEORGIA ENTOMOLOGY
BOARD MEETING HERE
Americus is today the scene
of an important meeting of the
state board of entomology which is
in session here for the purpose of
mapping out work tor the entire state
fo r the immediate future, the board’s
previous program having been badly
interferred with by the war. a num
ber of field men employed by the
board having gone into army service.
The meeting, which is presided over
by J. .1. Brown, state commissioner
of agriculture, as chairman, was to
have been held at Thomasville, but
cam© here because of the inability
of Capt. J- A. Cobb, ordianry of Sum
ter county, who is a member, to leave
Americus at this time. The meet
ings are being held in Capt. Cobb’s
office at the county court house.
Others beside Mr. Brown and Capt.
Cobb in attendance at the meeting
are Robt. C. Berkman of Macon; A.
( C. Lewis, of Atlanta, state entomol
ogist, and Ira W. Williams, of
Thomasville, assistant state entomol
ogist. Mr. Williams has charge of the
state experiment stations at Thomas
ville and Valdosta.
MARSHALL NOT
TO ACT WHILE
WILSON IS GONE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.--America's
three peace delegates, who will rej
resent this country around the w’orld
peace table, will be announced from
Hie White Hous© within a few hours,
it was learned authoritatively today.
Ii is now indicated that they will be
Col. E. M. House, Secretary of State
Lansing and Henry White, former
ambassador to France under President
fait. •
President Wilson, of course, will
not sit at the peace table as a formal
delegate, which was made plain in
the official announcement of his in
tention to attend only the opening
session.
in his forthcoming statement the
piesident is expected to announce
only the names of the delegates. He
is expected to wait until he goes be
fore congress to make any statement
with reference to the broader phases
of the conference and the part Amer
>ca expects to piay in shaping world
peace.
Ti e president today is working up
on his message to congress and is
denying himself to practically all vis
itors. It is now generally believed
that his message will be delivered at
the opening session of congress
Monday.
Vice-President Marshall has can
celled his proposed speaking trip to
the west, but he will not act as
i president during President Wilson’s
I absence
BOARD TO TAKE UP
FLU BAN TONIGHT
An informal meeting of the city
board of health, at which no quorom
was present, was held this morning
foj- a discussion of the influenza sit
uation and the advisability of lifting
the ban next week on public meet
ings. particularly school sessions. Dr.
B !■’. Bond, county health officer, met
with the city members. On account
of t.c quorum no conclusion could be
leached. It was decided to hold a
meeting tonight when action one way
or the other will be taken.
There has been a great deal of agi
tation in various quarters to have the
nan at least partially lifted next
week, and it is said that there is some
likelihood that this may be done.
3EW YORK COTTON FUTURES.
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Close Open Noon Close
January ...26.50 27.38 27.65 2T.18
Md’ch ....26.50 26.60 26.40 25.38
May 26.05 26.18
December . 28.20
Great German fleet which surren
ders to Admiral Beatty. Here is the
great German fleet in battle forma
tion which was surrendered to the
British Admiral Sir David Beatty.
The fleet is to be held until the final
approval of the peace terms. (C)
Underwood & Underwood-
RECTOR WRITES OF
ARMY HARDSHIPS
J| D. Stewart, of Church, street,
has just received a letter from Rev.
James B. Lawrence, rector of Cal
vary Episcopal church, who is in
France with the army, on leave of
absence, in which he stated that he
wa 8 well, but gave no hint of when
he might return to Americus to re
sume his pastorate. The letter was
written Nov. , nine days before the
signing of the armistice, from 12 Rue
d’Agessean, Paris. Following are
extracts from the letter:
“We do all o four marching, prac
tically, night,so as to keep the
enemy guessing as to our where
abouts When I get back I will show
you on the map the different places
where we have been. I am keeping
a short diary of each day. so as to be
able to tell the folks at home about
oii|- movements. Os course, 1 can’t do
that now, because it would not pass
the censor.
“It will certainly be nice to get
a place where I can sleep between
sheets and eat my meals out of china
dishes. 1 have not had my clothes oft’
in a week now. although I have been
able to take my ssoes off every night
except one. This is a great help, be
cause- when you can’t get your shoes
ffo for several days and nights your
feet certainly do hurt.
“But I enjoy it all a great deal I
like the men with whom I am thrown
very much and while there are hard
ships to undergo, it seems to agree
with me and my health is very good.
“I am delighted that the church
hag got a minister. You will remem
ber that I suggested his name to the
vestry before leaving. J hope the
church is prospering under his minis
tration in every way.”
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BRITAIN’S
PREMIER
TELLS OF
PROGRAM
LONDON, Nov. 29. — “Germany must
pay a war indemnity up to her capac
ity, ’ Premh r Lloyd George announc
ed in an tddress at Newcastle-on-
Tyne today.
“There must be a sternly just
Peace,” he said. “The principle al
ways has been that the loser must
pay. That is the principle we should
now proceed upon regarding Ger
many.”
Premier Lloyd George indicated
that c favors punishment of the
kaiser .saying “we should so act now
that men in future, when tempted to
follow the example of the German
rulers, would know what is awaiting
them in the end.”
“Is nobody to be punished for the
crimes of the war?” he asked. “I
mean to seethat th erne nwho mis
treated our prisoners shall be made
responsible, but I do not want, when
the war is over, to pursue any policy
o fvengeance,” he explained.
SOLF RESIGNS FROM
HUN FOREIGN OFFICE
LONDON, Nov. 29. —The German
cabinet has the resignation of Foreign
Secretary Sols, under consideration.
The resignation of Herr Erzberger
and Herr Schiedeman, ministers with
out portfolio, are believed imminent
General Hoffman, who represented
th© German army at the Brest-
Litovsk conference, has been in
terned in the Russian fortress of
Kovno.
The Liberals of Baden issued a
proclamation today demanding “free
dom from Berlin, from Prussian mili
tarism and from anarchy.’ The South
German separation movement con
tinues to grow.
COPENHAGEN. Nov. 29.—A Ger
man courier, going from Berlin to
Austria. ha s been arrested in Bavaria
and his papers seized by order of
Kurt Eisner, head of the new Bavar
ian republic, according to a dispatch
from Munich today.
This development is expected to
widen the breach already existing be
tween Berlin and South Germany.
76TH REPLACEMENT TO
BE FIRST ON WAY HOME
PARIS. Nov. 29.—The 76th Re
placement division, now at St. Nazaire
will be the first American infantry
unit to .-tart for home, acording to
current report here today.
The 76tb, it is said, will be fol
lowed by the 27th and 30th divisions
made up largely of Carolina troops,
which fought so valiantly with the
British in the final battle of Flanders.
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♦ WEATHER FORECAST ♦
♦ Forecast for Georgia.—Fair; ♦
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