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TODEMANDVOTE
OF CONFIDENCE
PARIS, July 19—CBy Associated
Press) —In view of last night's vote
in the Chamber of Deputies, after
interpellations on the the high cost
of living the cabinet has decided to
demand a vote of confidence by +he
chamber next Tuesday.
Joseph Moulens, former ambassa
dor to Russia, has accepted the port
folio of Food minister, succeeding
Victor Boret, who resigned when r
vote of confidence was refused.
“DEE” HENDRICKS RETURNS
FROM SERVICE IN FRANCE
D’Esterville Hendricks has re
turned to Americus after an absence
of some time in the military service
in France in the P. W. E. depart
ment. Mrs. Hendricks is with him and
they are at home to their friends at
the residence of Mrs. J. W Stallings
on Church street.
Before her marriage Mrs. Hend
rcks was Miss Anna Mae Nasworthy
so Rebecca, Ga., and she is being ac
corded a cordial welcome in Ameri
cus. Mr. Hendricks is connected with
uie Howell Pharmacy and has made
many friends during his residence in
Americus.
ANSELL QUITS TO PUSH
ARMY JUSTICE FIGHT
WASHINGTON, July 19.—(8y As
sociated Press) —Lieut. Col.. Samuel
T. Ansell, former acting judge advo
cate general of U. S. army and the
central figure in the controversy
within the war department regarding
military justice, handed his resigna
tion to Secretary Baker today.
Colonel Ansell, it is understood,
took this action to bring his fight
more forcibly before the public.
I WEATHER j
lor Georgia—Showers probably
unday; not much change in tem
perature.
Officers and Men Pay Loving
Tribute to 111-Fated Flyer
The body of Gordon D. Gates, ser,
geant major at Souther Field, who
was killed when he dropped from his
plane in an unexplained accident at
the close of the aerial circus Thurs
day afternoon, was started for home
and his last resting place at Flush
ing, L. 1., Friday evening, clad in the
full regalia of an officer,* the right
to wear which Sergeant Gates had
received Wednesday when his com
mission as second lieutenant arrived
from Washington. The body, with
the casket draped in the folds of an
American flag, was accompanied by
Sergeant Ehrgott as special military
escort. The body should reach his
home in time for funeral today.
Impressive, but brief services were
held for the dead flyer at the post
Y. M. C. A. Friday evening. Secre
tary Thomas, of the Y. M. C. A., read
from th e scriptures and a quartet
from among the comrades of the
deceased sang. Colonel Rader, com
manding officer, spoke feelingly of
the high esteem in which Sergeant
Major Gates was held, not only by
himself, but by all of the officers and
men of the camp, and paid special
tribute to his loyalty to his superiors
and to the service and the flag.
Lieut. R. J. Henderson read a pa
per which he had prepared for the
occasion, and which so expressed the
sentiments of all o? the camp per
sonnel! that its publication was asked.
The paper follows:
A Sad Occasion.
“My Friends, We have mat here
on one of the saddest occasions that
has ever been known in the history
of Souther Field. There is not a
person present who, I am sure, does
not feel a personal loss —th£t a friend
has been taken from them forever.
You will miss the glad smile and
pleasant greeting that was always a
part of the life of Sergeant Gordon
Dow Gates. It has happened so sud
denly that, as yet, we are unable
to grasp the magnitude of our loss or
to realize that it is forever.
“The Bible says that Tn the midst
of life we are in death.' It seems to
me that the idea is perhaps conveyed
in away you will better understand
in one of the poems of James Whit
comb Riley. He says:
“Say good-bye or howdy-do ;
What’s the difference twixt the two?
Grasp the hands you’d rather hold;
.. -A M E RIC U
THE TIMES' : RECORDER
PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE
Thaw their weight in solid gold;
Slips their grip while greeting you,
Say good-bye or howdy-do.’
“I will review briefly the life of
Gordon Dow Gates as I have been
able to learn it from the military re
cords available and from associates
who knew him even better than I. He
was born on Staten Island, New York,
23 years ago. He grew up in the at
mosphere of the City of New York
and received his high school education
there. Later he attended City Col
lege with the intention of specializing
in training necessary for a business
career.
“We find that he answered the call
if his country by enlisting in the
aviation section of the navy, but la
ter transferred to the land air ser
vice.
Skillful, Intelligent Flier
“Among the flying officers of
Souther Field, he was regarded as
skillful, and a flyer who used dis
cretion and intelligence in all of his
flights. It was welcome news to ev
ery member of the post when it was
announced Wednesday that Sergeant
Gates had received his commission as
a 2nd lieutenant, R. M. A., and would
be discharged to the list of reserve
officers holding that rank.
“You will recall, one short week
ago, at our aerial circus that the
looping contest was won by Ser
geant Gates in competition with two
of the most expert airmen of the post.
He was pleased with his success, as
we all are pleased by good work well
done. In his office at headquarters
he supervised the work incident to
his position as sergeant major and
performed a large portion of this
work himself. He was looking forward
with keen anticipation to the part he
should have in the circus of Thursday.
He took part in the first formation
and piloted one of the ships without
any sign of fear or nerve strain. La
ter he went up again and performed
a series of acrobatic stunts for the
edification of the crowd.
“He was a man of deep religious
belief and had stated that if he did
his part in living a life that was ac
ceptable to the standards of God and
man there was a higher power than
himself to protect. Pinned to the
wall of his office, beside the desk
(Cot tinned on Page 5)
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 20, 1919.
MUSCOGEE MEN
TELL BENNING
PROBERS OF BIG
PRICESFORLAND
Exorbitant Rates Paid
For Farms They Tell
Congressmen
IN RUSH TO BEAT
ATION IN SENATE
Acted After House Had
Expressed Disapproval
of Project
WASHINGTON, July 18—(By As
sociated Press) —After the house ex
pressed its disapproval of the Camp
Bennings project, the war department
in its haste to purchase land before
the senate could act, paid exorbitant
prices for plantations forming part
of the camp, the special house war in
vestigating committee was told today
by Dr. Charles N. Howard, Jr., of
Cusseta, Ga,. and C. A. Rheuark
chairman of the Chattahoochee coun
ty board of commissioners.
SOUTHER FIELD WANTS
SHEET METAL WORKER
Lieut. Walter Armstrong, finance
officer at Souther Field, announces
that Souther Field desires to em
ploy a sheet metal worker at once.
The salary will be $125 per month.
Working hours at present are as
follows: 8:15 to 12:00, and 1:00 to
4 :45 p. m. This position will last for
from two to four months. None but
capable applicants considered. Tele
phone or see Lieutenant Walter Arm
strong.
JOHN HENRY BRAGG
REMAINS IN ARMY
John Henry Bragg, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Bragg, who joined the
army at the beginning of the war
and vowed he wouldn’t come home
until he reached Berlin, has-reached
Camp Gordon on his return from
Germany where he made good his
vow, and has been granted a 30-day
furlough and will arrive at the home
of hi s parents here within a day or
two for a visit. He liked the army
life so well that he has enlisted for
another year of service.
STATE APPROPRIATIONS
PASSED WITH RECORD
ATLANTA, July 19.—The Geor
gia legislature has broken all rec
ords by adopting, after three days
of consideration, and only twenty-one
days aftey the beginning of the ses
sion, the entire state appropriation
bills.
“This is the quickest I have ever
heard of any appropriation bills be
ing disposed of,” said George Cars
well, chairman of the budget and in
vestigating committee.
) COTTON MARKET. ■
LOCAL SPOTS
Good middling 34 3-8 cents.
NEW YORK FUTURES
Prev.
Close Open High Low Close
July 35.50 35.60 35.95 35.60 35.80
Oct. 35.40 35.64 35.85 35.64 35.75
Dec. 35.38 35.60 35.86 35.60 35.70
Although the cotton market was
sharply up Saturday, Octoger and
December options on the New York
Exchange reaching new high marks
since last fall, there was very little
selling by holders in Americus. A
price of 34.3-8 cents also high for
this year, was being offered for
good middling spot cotton, but it was
said by warehousemen that most of
the cotton was being held in lots for
a price of 35 cents for the lot, which
would require a market of 35 1-2 for
good middling to move it. Some is
ready to sell at an average of 34
cents, but the market was a shade
too low to take it Saturday.
Cheek, Shimmy and Jazz Steps
Bring Request of City’s Leading
Women to Clubs to End Them
Believing that the cheek, shimmy
and jazz dances, which have been
the craze in so many places and in
vaded dancing floors in Americus
exert a degrading influence upon
the young people of the community,
and especially the young girls, but
not wishing to deprive the young
folks of wholesome and harmless
pleasure, a number of the leading
women of the city, most of them
mothers of girls of the dancing age,
or approaching that age, many of
them mothers of boys who belong
to the dancing cluus, some of them
women who regularly act as chap
erones for dances, and others mem
bers of the clubs themselves, have
sent to the three dancing clubs of
the city written request signed by
the name of each of them, that the
three dances mentioned be forbid
den.
The clubs receiving copies of the
request were the Sumter club, the
exclusive dancing organization, the
Monaco club, the new organiza
tion of men which maintains club
rooms in the Cotney building, and
the Shewg-Jolf club, also a new
organization of the younger lads of
the community, with rooms in the
Merritt building. A copy of the
request, with the names which were
signed to each in the original, fol
lows:
The Ladies* Request.
To The Members of the Sumter
Club, Monaco Club and Shewg-Jolf
Club.
Gentlemen: We, the undersign
ed, regret that some of the danc
ing set in Americus continue the
cheek dance and extreme shimmy
or jazz.
In other places these have been
cut out among the best people
and we are anxious that Ameri
cus’ society uphold its past record
of always standing for the best.
We want our young people to
continue to enjoy all wholesome
and harmless pleasure, but feel
that in this issue they need the
advice of older people who have
danced, or attended dances, for
many years and have seen such
ultra dances cast aside always
when they do not come up to the
standard of refined society.
We believe the three dancing
clubs here can help us in correct
ing these above mentioned and we
ask you to taring the matter before
your clubs and ask that each mem
ber do his part to keep our dances
a proper place for the sweet, re
fined girls of Americus to attend.
In signing this request, we have
in mind only the sincerest interest
of our young people. Yours very
truly,
(Signed) Mrs. L. G. Council,
Mrs. Macon Dudley, Mrs. G. R. El
lis, Mrs. J. Ralston Cargill, Mrs.
Thos. Harrold, Mrs. John Sheffield,
Mrs. James Davenport, Mrs. Frank
Harrold, Mrs. W. S. Ivey, Mrs. Will
Dodson, Mrs. J. D. Hooks. Mrs.
Jack Britton, Mrs. H. O. Jones,
Mrs. H. S. Walker, Mrs. H, B. Al
len, Mrs. C. O. Niles .Mrs. Brown
Small, Mrs. W. O. Easterlin, Mrs.
Thos. B. Hooks, Mrs. W. S. Pra
ther, Mrs. D. R. Andrews, Mrs.
Mary Clay, Miss B. Pilsbury, Mrs.
W. Rylander, Mary Ella Davenport,
Mrs. D. F. Davenport, Mrs. Frank
Lanier, Mrs. E. C. Parker, Mrs. J.
W. Harris, Jr., Mrs. W. T. Lane,
Mrs. A. C Crockett, Mrs. E. L. Bell,
Mrs. A. Rylander, Mrs. J. A. Walk
er.
Without Much Result.
It was stated Saturday by offi
cers of each of these clubs that
the requests had been officially con
sidered, but apparently had been
without effect or result.
“The request was in line with
the policy which our club has pur
sued all along,” said Col. W. A.
Dodson, president of the Sumter
club. “While I was not present
when the request was received, it
is a fact that the Sumter club has
never permitted cheek or shimmy
dancing, although it does permit
a little- jazz dancing, which has
nothing of the extreme or objec
tionable features complained of.
Our rules are ahead of the ladies’
request. In fact there have been
several occasions when dancers
CIVIL SUNDRY BILL SIGNED
WASHINGTON, uly 19.—(8y As
sociated Press) —The $613,000,000
sundry civil bill as revised by con
gress, to meet his objections was
signed 1. day by President Wilson.
violating these club rules have been
quietly informed, without making
a scene or giving them any em
barrassment in public, that they
would have to quit or they would
not have the privileges of the club
again. Not so long ago two young
ladies from another city, who were
experts at shimmy dancing, and
would have made wonderful danc
ers on the stage, were highly in
dignant when told they must stop.”
“The request of the ladies was
brought before the board of gov
ernors of the club,” said J. Lewis
Ellis, secretary of the club, “and
laid on the table after it had been
discussed. We considered that as
our rules already covered the
ground no other action was nec
essary.”
The request was considered at a
meeting of the Monaco club, but
no action was taken other than to
order it displayed on the club's
bulletin board at the entrance,
which was done.
Picked Out a Violator.
“There is no cheek dancing in
our club,” said Dan Chappell, pres
ident of the Monaco club, “but they
do shimmy and jazz some. We leave
the style of dancing largely to the
individual dancers. However, there
is none of the extreme dancing
done in our club. I told the la
dies that we would co-operate with
them all we could, but it didn’t ap
pear that there was much to be
done. One night when we were
having a dance I asked one of the
chaperones, who had signed this
request, to tell me if she saw any
objectionable dancing going on.
She called only one boy to my at
tention and I took him off the floor
and told him of the complaint. In
this case, however, I am sure the
lady was mistaken, for the young
man can scarcely dance at all, and
I fche mistook his awk
wardness on the floor for an effort
at extreme dancing.”
The request of the ladies was
read to the members of the
Shewg-Jolf club by Owen Poole,
president.
“I told the ladies I didn’t think
it would do any good .although I
was ready to assist them in any way
I could,” he said. “The members
listened to the reading of the pa
per and then went on dancing as
before. They shimmy and jazz a
good deal. But we have chaper
ones usually from among the wo
men who signed the paper.”
An officer of one of the clubs,
who is a member also of another,
declared that there is none of the
real shimmy dancing done here.
“This jazz and shimmy they do
here is far from the real thing,”
said he. “I know, for I have
watched them as they are danced
in the cabarets and other places
in New York and other big cities.
The real thing is something to talk
about for sure.
Suggested Another Plan.-
Another officer of one of the clubs
who refused to allow his name to
be mentioned, told of a conference
he had had with some of th e sign
ers of the paper.
“I am just as much for stop
ping these extfeme dances as you
are,” he said he told the ladies,
“but you are going at it in the
wrong way. I know from experi
ence, and from what I have heard
many of the young men say, that
they do not like these extreme
dances; they are disgusting in
many respects. But when a pret
ty girl partner lays her cheek
against the boy’s he just naturally
isn’t going to tell her to stop. They
just won’t do it, that’s all. I told
these ladies that the place to start
was on the girls; that they should
get the girls to agree not to dance
these dances ,and not to dance with
a man who did them. That would
solve it immediately.
“And what do you suppose their
reply was? ‘We can’t do a thing
with the girls.’ And there you are.
I told them they had a poor chance
to get results then, but I assur
ed them that we would help, and
w® are doing it.”
SHIP LAUNCHED AT TAMPA
TAMPA, July 19—(By Associated
Press) —The 9,500 ton steel ship
Seminole was launched by the Oscar
Daniels Co., today.
HOME
EDITION
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
AMOUNT LESS
THAN EXPECTED;
‘ALL YOU NEED,*
BOARD'S VIEW
Decision on Scramble
For Funds Announc- -
ed Saturday
SIOO,OOO LIMIT FOR
IST YEAR’S WORK
Commission Promised
All That Could Be
Used In Year
ATLANTA, Jiily 19—(Special)—
Sumter county’s allotment of the
July apportionment of federal aid
■funds for permanent highway con
struction is $50,000 the state highway
department announced th's afternoon.
The board had teen si ice Tnursday
reaching an agreement on the ap
portionment, ib> re being only about
$2,400,000 available at this time,
and ten times tht t amount sought by
th<- various counties.
AMOUNT ALLOTTED PROVES
DISAPPOINTMENT HERE
The allotment of only $50,000 of
[ federal aid money to Sumter county
! as announced by the state highway
j ccn-mission Su.io’av proved a big I’s
ajpointment to Sumter county offi
cials who have been at the head of
the movement for paved roads in
Sumter county. However, taking in
to consideration the facts that the
county is not yet ready to begin
spending money, and the assurances
of the state highway commission
made at the hearing that federal aid
money will be available as rapidly as
it can be spent, there was no incli
nation to criticise unduly, although
Judge Hixon and Judge Maynard who
interviewed members of the highway
commission in advance of the hear
ing had been given to understand that
'more than $50,000 might be expect
'ed at this time.
1 “It is a distinct disappointment,”
was the view of Judge Maynard,
county attorney, when informed of
the board’s allotment. “However, we
were assured by the highway commis
sion that we would be given as much
money as we could spend, and this
seems to indicate that they think we
cannot spend more than SIOO,OO0 —
including our own portion of the
amount —before the next apportion
ment next year. This may be correct
and it may not be. But it means that
we are limited to somewhere near 5
miles of road during the year.
“A number of counties wer e on
hand with applications for federal
aid money for sand-clay roads, and
I suppose got their share, although
it is hard to believe that the com
mission, in the face of so many coun
ties clamoring for money to build
permanent roads would set aside any
mony for any temporary road build
ing.” .
Word from Atlanta, however, is to
the effect that only for~th e personal .
work and insistence of Judges Hixon
and Maynard resulted in Sumter
county faring as well as she did. It
was a great scramble for funds, with
only a tenth enough to meet the de
mands, and Sumter county wa s given
a fourth of her total request.
REV. AND MRS. FISHER
BACK FROM LONG TRIP
Rev. Guyton Fisher and Mrs.
Fisher returned Saturday morning
from a three-weeks tour of points of
interest in the northern part of the
country. They attended the Methodist
Centenary celebration at Columbus,
and were there about a week. From
that point they visited Detroit, Niag
ara Falls, Buffalo, many Interesting
points in Canada, and from there to
Kentucky, where they saw the Mam
moth Cave.
Mrs. Fisher speaks interestingly of
the beauties of the northern part of
the country and says the Centenary*
convention was past all description
in educational interest.