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The president has merely start
ed on his trip “to the people,” but
the results of his first day’s con
tact with them were enougn to in
dicate that the president has known
what he has been talking about
when he has reiterated from time
to time in the treaty squabble
stirred by senate partisans that he
had no doubt about the verdict of
the people in the matter. Here is
a brief extract from the night’s
Associated Press report of the
president’s visit last evening to In
dianapolis, his second scheduled
stop on his swing around the coun
try:
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“James P. Goodrich, republican
governor of Indiana, in a brief ad
dress welcoming the president, said
everyone wanted a better under
standing among the nations, but
that every true American citizen
also favored a strong nationalism.
He pleaded for all parties to lay
aside partisanship in deciding the
issues of the peace treaty.
“When the governor mentioned
that the meeting was to hear the
president, the crowd cheered for
several minutes and the governor
could only stop them by presenting
Mr. Wilson.
“It was ten minutes before the
crowd was quieted and the pres
ident proceeded. He traced the
incidents from which the great war
started, saying the significant cir
cumstance was that Austria and
Germany ‘did not dare discuss’ the
demands made on Serbia. It gen
erally was admitted abroad, he as
serted, that if there had been dis
cussion there would have been no
war.
♦ * *
And a little farther down in the
report:
“The president said he wanted to
forget and wanted the people to
forget that they were republicans
or democrats.
“ ‘I am an Aemrican,” he de
clared, ‘and a champion of the
rights which America believes in.’
“At this the crowd cheered and
there was another outburst of
cheering when he declared he had
not the st ghtest doubt,’ what the
verdict of the people would be.”
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It was much the same at Colum
bus, 0., the president’s first stop,
although the street car strike there
apparently kept many people iron
greting him. However, his re
ception was spontaneous and hear
ty, and the presidept afterward ex
pressed himself to the accompany
ing correspondents as highly
pleased.
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President Wilson has away of
talking to the hearts of the peo
ple. He talks in terms that they
can understand. And he has a
way of making them believe in him.
We may look for this trip to be a
great Wilsonian triumph, and to
see the foes of the treaty utterly
routed before he reaches Washing
ton again. ,
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Why? Because President Wil
son is right; the peace treaty rep
resents, as near as was humanly
possible ,the ideals of the human
race. The mothers and the fath
ers, the sweethearts and wives of
the men of this country want no
more war, and they know—or will
know when the president has in
formed them of the treaty details
—that it is the only device which
offers even the hope of ending war.
The president does not claim
that it will make war impossible.
In his Indianapolis speecn, he said
that no one believed the League
of Nations would make war impos
sible, but that he expected it to
make war “violently improbable.”
The economic and arbitration
sections of the covenant, he ar
serted, would “keep war on the out
skirts” and make it only a “last
resort.”
Calling on opponents of the Lea
gue of Nations to present a “bet
ter program for peace,” he declar
ed it is a case of “put up or shut
up.”
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The Prohibition party, which has
been holding a convention in Chi
cago to decide whether it would
shuffle off its mortal coil, it hav
ing served its purpose and its day,
has decided to continue the party
organization indefinitely. The ma
jority held that the adoption of na
tional prohibition had not ended
the party’s mission.
» » »
A few months ago J. Ogden Ar
mour, the head of the great pack
ing firm, was out with a statement
that prices would remain high in
definitely. Now he has changed his
tune. “The crest rn the high cost
of living has been reached, prices
have already started downward and
will continue. The drop later will
be considerable,” said Mr. Armour.
“Not only all the products of the
packers fall, but all other food
stuffs will decline in price. Condi
tions point to a considerable drop
later on.”
FORTY-FIRST YEAR.—NO. 204.
PRICES DROPPING SAYS U. S. REPORT
FIREMEN AGAIN
ASK FOR RAISE
TO MEET BARE
COST OF LIVING
Petition Council For In-
crease From S7O To
S9O Month
PLEDGE SELVES
NOT TO STRIKE
Declare Necessities of
Life Cost More Than
Present Income
Declaring that the cost of necessi
ties of life for themselves and fam
ilies during August, in the case of
several members, was greater than
the salaries received by them, the
members of the Americus fire depart
ment presented to the mayor and
city council last night a petition that,
their salaries be raised to more near
ly a living wage. The regular firemen
now receive S7O per month, and they
asked an increase to S9O, the salaries
now paid members of the police
force. Increases are also asked for
the chief and his assistant ch.ef.
in the.r pet.tion tne men make
a specific promise not to Scr.ke if
their request is not granted, but
served novice that they will be com
pelled individually to seek other em
ployment unless granted relief.
Last spring the firemen were grant
ed a raise from SOS t 0.570 after they
had delivered an ultimatum declar
ing their intention to strixe at a
fixed hour.
The petition was presented by
Stephen Pace, who stated that he
was acting as a representative of
the fire department, but merely in
the capacity of a citizen. Joseph
1 erkins and Lovelace Eve made brief
talks in behalf of th firemen. The
council without action or discussion
referred the petition to the finance
committee for recommendation.
Training Men Costly.
Mr. Pace read the petition in an
■ elequent manner, resuming his seat
I without comment, preferring, he
I said, to let th? terms of the peti
it on speak for themselves. Mr.
, Perkins touched on tae high cost of
I training new men in responsible po
j sitions, and stressed the point that it
I would probably be cheaper for the
I city* to retain the present men, even
| at higher wages, than be forced to
recruit new men and assume the
liability of a body of inexperienced
men committing somq costly blun
der during a fire. Mr. Eve, who
served several years as a member
of the city council of Decatur, Ga.,
stated that he always considered that
the city should be an example for
the community as an employer of la
bor, and should not grind down em
ployees to the lowest possible wage.
He expressed amazement, consider
ing the wages being paid every
where nowadays, that the city had
been able to retain any firemen at
the salary paid.
Following is the petition present
ed :
The Firemen’s Case.
Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen of the
Council:
“It is not without great reluctance
and some delay that we petition
your honorable body for an increase
in the pay of your firemen; we ap
preciate the financial troubles and
embarrassments your administration
has had to confront in the past, due
to the accumulation of a considera
ble floating indebtedness, but, a
special levy having been provided
for the city for each year will be
a'mply sufficient to pay the annual
current expenses and demands for
such year in the several depart
ments:
“If, notwithstanding, our appli
cation appears without justification,
we ask that the absolute requirements
of necessity be accepted as our ex
cuse :
“The current scale of s 1 r es for
your firemen is as follows:
“Chief, $100; assistant chief,
(Continued on Page Eight.)
E RIC
THE TIMES RECORDER
PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE~IfO7
REDFIELD GIVES
UPCABINET JOB;
OUT NOV. 1, IS
ANNOUNCEMENT
Secretary of Commerce’s
Resignation Accepted
By Wilson
WILSON ADVISER
FOR SIX YEARS
Probably Leaving To Re-
Enter Business Life—
Once in Congress
PHILADELPHIA, September 5.
(By Associated Press.) —William C.
Redfield, secretary of commerce, has
tendered his resignation to President
Wilson and it has been accepted, ef
fective November 1, it was officially
announced today.
Wm. C. Redfield has probably re
signed to re-enter business life. He
had been a successful New York bus
iness man, entered the cabinet of
President Wilson to 1913 as secre
tary of commerce. He was re-ap
pointed when the president began his
second term, and has been one of
his ablest advisers.
in 1902-3 he served as commis
sioner of public works for the bo
rough of Brooklyn, N. Y., and in
1911-13 was a mem-jer of congress.
He is president of the National So
ciety for the Promotion of Industrial
Education.
MINORS BARRED FROM
POOL HALLS BY COUNCIL
It is unlawful today for a minor
to enter a pool hall in Americus—un
less he has the written consent of
parent or guardian. An ordinance
making it an offense was passed by
the city council last night without a
dissenting vote, after It had been
drawn and presented by City Attor
ney Lane upon instructions received
by him at the previous meeting.
The ordinance was drawn as the
result of numerous complaints of par
ents to city officials that they could
not keep their sons out of the pool
halls, much as they desired to do so.
The state law, it was decided, was
inadequate, as it made it unlawful for
a pool hall proprietor to permit a
monor to play pool, but did not pro
hibit the minor from freuenting the
places. The city act was recom
mended by local pool hall men, who
expressed a desire to co-operate with
public sentiment.
STEALS GIRL’S CARD
CASE; GETS 10 MONTHS
i A sentence of 10 months on the
I chaingang or a fine of $75 was fixed
I this morning by Judge Harper of the
City court on Claud Shell a negro
lad of 14, son of Lou Shell, a well
known negro character of the com
munity, when the boy entered a plea
of guilty to the charge of larceny
from the house.
The act for which he was sentenced
| was the stealing of a highly prized
i card case belonging to Miss Mary
! Alice Lingo, daughter of Chas. Lingo,
! from her home Wednesday. Police
’ Lieutenant John Bragg was put upon
I the case and it did not take him
i long to fix the crime on the boy, who
took him to South Forrest street to
i a potato patch and pointed out where
I he had thrown the card case after
; extracting 85 cents in coin which it
contained. The card case was return
ed to its owner.
REPORT ON ABANDONED
COTTON ACREAGE ASKED
WASHINGTON, September 5.
(By Associated Press.) —The secre
tary of agriculture was directed, in
a resolution by Senator Smith, of S.
Carolina, adopted today by the sen
ate, to report the number of acres
of cotton land on which planting
was abandoned this year.
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The Weather Forecast
For Georgia Fair tonight and
Saturday.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 5, 1919.
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INDIGNATION AND
SURPRISE GREET
TERMSIN VIENNA
GENEVA, September 4. (Thurs
day.)— (By Associated Press.)
The Austrian peace terms were re
ceived in Vienna with the greatest
suprise and indignation, according
to advices reaching here. It is be
lieved the Renner ministry will fall
as a consequence.
Monarchists circles consider the
terms have definitely killed any hope
of a return of the Hapsburgs.
GERMANS ‘CANT OPPOSE’
UNION WITH AUSTRIA.
BERLIN, September 5. — (By As
sociated Press.) —The'German re
ply to the note of the Allies with
regard to the representation of Aus
tria in the German reichrath says
the German peace delegation inform
ed the Allies on May 27 that Ger
many had no intention to modify
Austro-German boundaries by viol
ence, but could not undertake to op
pose the German-Austrian spontan
eous desire for unity with Germany.
FIRE DAMAGES ROOF OF
HOME OF MRS. M’LEOD
Damage estimated at about $l5O
was done to the roof of the home of
Mrs. R. L. McLeod, the corner of
Church and • R’-own streets, shortly
after-12 o clocit today when a s h ari
started a blaze on the roof of the
rear porch, spreading to the shin
gles of the main pact of the house.
Quick action by the firemen halted
the blaze before it obtained much
headway.
SHEPPARD RURAL HOME
SOLD TO LAGRANGE MAN
Dr. E. N. Campbell, of LaGrange,
has purchased the C. C. Sheppard
‘home place five miles north of Am
ericus. Dr. Campbell will shortly j
return to Americus, bringing his
family. He intends to locate here and
erect a handsome dwelling and make
Americus his home.
WOMEN OF ITALY ARE
GRANTED SUFFRAGE
ROME, Sept. 4—(Thursday) —(By
Associated Press.) —The chamber of
deputies today adopted a bill giving
Italian women the right of suffrage.
Betrayer of
Edith Cavell
Hears Doom
PARIS, September 5. (Bp As
i sociated Press.) —Georges Gaston
Quien, on trial before courtmar-
I tial, charged with having treason
! able dealings with Germans and
having betrayed Edith Cavell to
i them, today was convicted, and
i condemned to death.
DORSEY NAMES NINE TO
ILLITERACY COMMISSION
ATLANTA, Sept. s.—The Illiter
, acy Commission created by an act of
the last session of the general as
sembly for the purpose of eliminat
ing adult illiteracy in the state has
been apopinted by Governor Dorsey.
There are nine members of the com-
I mission, in addition to the governor
and State Superintendent of Educa
i tion M. L. Brittain, who act as ex-,
officio members. Five of the mem-'
bers were appointed for a period of
two years and four for ’foor-year
terms.
Those appointed for two years
were Charles J. Haden, of Atlanta;
Mrs. S. B. C. Morgan, of Savannah;
Dr. R. W. Weaver, of Macon, and W.
V. Vereen, of Moultrie. Those who
will serve the four year terms are
Prof. Karl, Milledgeville; Mrs. Rog
ers Winter, Atlanta; Hon. H. H. El
ders, of Reidsville, and A. J. Fleming,
of Jenkinsburg.
COUNCIL IS DEAF TO
SEXTON’S ULTIMATUM
Chas. Lewis, sexton of the negro '
cemetery, served notice on the city ■
council last night by letter that he I
would have to have his pay raised |
from s2l> per month to $1.50 per !
day, or he would give up the job. :
The council referred the demand to
the cemetery commitee with power to ,
fill the vacancy.
; The Cotton Market
NEW YORK FUTURES.
LOCAL SPOT
Good Middling 27 1-2 cents.
Prev.
Close Open High Low Close
Oct. 29.01 29.02 29.28 28.60 28.89
Dec. 29.35 29.35 29.55 28.35 29.11 !
Jan. 29.28 28.20 29.48 28.15 29.05
By Morris ;
M’MATH’S COBB
PLANTATION OF
2,46OACRESSOLD
Announcement was made today of
the completion of one of the largest
land sales ever made in Sumter
county, 2,460 acres, owned by R. L.
McMath and others as the McMath
Plantation Company, being trans
ferred to Messrs. Lucius Humber,
Owsley and Shanks, of Columbus.
The price was not indicated by
those connected with the deal.
The land is located near Cobb,
and embraces some very fine land,
a large acreage of which is under
cultivation. More than 700 acres is
in cotton this year, and it said a fair
crop will be produced The deal,
however, transferred the crop and
everything on the plantation to the
new owners, which are already in
possesion.
GEORGIA WILL ERECT
MEMORIAL TO HEROES
ATLANTA, Sept. s.—On Wednes
day afternoon at a meeting of the
executive committee of the Georgia
Memorial association in the state cap
itol, it was decided to erect by pub
lic subscription a handsome building
as a memorial to the Georgians in the
Great War. The building will cost
$500,600, it was stated, and will be
used as a repository of state histori
cal records. t
The proposition will be put before
the people at a statewide meeting No
vember 11 which President Wilson
will be invited to attend. In the
event the president will not be able to
be present, some other national fig
ures will present the proposition. The
association will announce soon the
plans in connection with the raising
of the fund to finance the proposi
tion and will appoint its committees
to carry the work to a successful con
clusion.
U. S. MARINES NAMED
PART OF FIUME GUARD
PARIS. Sept. 5. (By Associated
Press.) —It is understood a commis
sion of Allied generals which was sent
to Fiume to investigate the disturb
ances in which French soldiers werej
killed, has made recommendations to |
the peace conference which include i
the maintenance of public order in
Fiume by an American and British
police force, marines forming the :
American contingent.
HOME
EDITION
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
NATION SOLVING
WAGEPROBLEM; ]
OPTIMISM IN!
TRADEREVIEW
Reaction Toward Nor
mal Set In, Says Re
serve Board
BUSINESS KEEPS
AT HIGH LEVEL’
Food and Apparel Prices
Both Coming Down
Already
WASHINGTON, Sept. s.—(By As
sociated Press.) —Reaction from the
high price level established during the
war has set in, says the Federal Re
serve board’s review of business con
ditions in August. Not only are some
foodstuffs declining in cost to the
consumer, but the price of wearing
apparel, such as textiles and shoes,,
also has been affected, the review?
says.
Business continues at an “extreme
ly high level” and confidence of a
satisfactory solution of the wage and
price problems are reported from all.
sections of the country.
CHILD UNHURT AS TRAIN
PASSES OVER ITS BODY
ATLANTA, September s.— While
waiting to cross the tracks of the
Georgia railroad at Candler cross
| ing Thursday morning with her three -
I little children Mrs. Lucy Worley, 131
Flora street, was knocked down and
seriously hurt by the Altanta-Au
gusta passenger train.
Lotta Catherine, her seven months
old baby whom she was carrying at:
the time was knocked from her arms
and thrown between the tracks. The
train passed completely over her but
she was uninjured. According to the
! railroad officials one of the children
■ started across the tracks in front of
the on-coming train and the mother,
becoming excited started after her. .
Another little girl three years old
was slightly bruised in the accident.
BARBERS OF ATLANTA
! BOOST PRICES A NOTCH
i
ATLANTA, Sept. s.—The old ul
timate consumer got another jolt
when the union barbers in Atlanta
announced that the minimum price
of a shave would be twenty cents and
hair cut forty cents. There were
various other raises of singes, mas
sages and so forth but just the raise
on the plain barbering seems quite
sufficient without worrying about the
fancy stuff. The prices go into effect
October 1. The little advance notice
doesn’t do any good because you can’t
hoard a shave or a hair cut.
TOMORROW BIRTHDAY
OF GENERAL LAFAYETTE
ATLANTA, September s.—Gov
ernor Dorsey is preparing a procla
mation requesting the citizens of the
state to observe with appropriate
ceremonies the birthday of LaFayette
on September 6. The governor’s
proclamation will suggest that the
exercises be held in the county seats
throughout the state. September 6
is also the anniversary of the battle
of the Marne.
DID GET CENTRAL BUT
COULDN’T GET FIREMEN
“In justice to the telephone girls,
I want to correct a statement ap
pearing in The Times-Recorder yes
terday in connection with the fire at
my house,” said C. B. Pouncey, city
marshal, today. “It was stated that
Mrs, Pouncey coul* not get central.
The fact was that she did get central
to answer, but was unable to get con
nection with the fire department, and
had to go to a fire alarm box to caß
the department.”
COMMITTEE TO MEET.
WASHINGTON, Sept. s.—(By
Associated Press.)—A meeting of the
executive committee of the national
democratic committee will be held at
Atlantic Citv September 26. Chair
man Cummings announced today.