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FORTY-FIRST YEAR.— No. 254.
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ARMISTICE DAY
Armistice Day, November 11, will!
be observed by John D. Mathis Post, !
No. 2, American Legion, composed of '
Sumter county soldiers, sailors and
marines of the great war, with a:
banquet and smoker, it was decided at
the meeting of the post last night,
but no attempt will be made to spon
sor a public celebration. However,
Mayor Sheppard is to be asked by the '
post to ask that the city display,
American flags on that date. A com
mittee was appointed at last night’s ‘
meeting to arrange the banquet,
which will begin at 8 o’clock, the
place to be selected later. Every ex- I
service man is invited to be pres
ent. The meeting last night was held
in the Shewg-Jolf club room.
The following rer ’lution was pass-'
ed with instructions that a copy be
ent the Mayor urging him to issue
a proclamation to the effects of the
same.
“WHEREAS, November 11, 1919,
being the first anniversary of the ces- i
sation of hostilities of the recent
world conflict, be it hereby resolved
by the John D. Mathis Post, No. 2,
American Legion, in meeting assem
bled, that every home and business
house in the city ‘display the national I
colors, and that each home represent- i
ed in the service display its servicel
flag in celebration of the victoriousl
struggle for democracy.”
The Legion unanimously endorsed I
the third Red Cross Roll Call, and j
pledged their support of same.
The local post, which heretofore j
has been holding its meetings month- i
ly, voted to meet semi-monthly here- j
after on the first and third Monday of
each month.
The post is gaining new members
every day and has set their goal for
a membership of 400 by January.
John G. Holst was elected adjutant)
to fill the vacancy of former adjui-)
I join
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The first edition of the Georgia.
I Legionaire, the official organ for the
i Georgia division of the American Le
gion, made its appearance and the ef
forts of the editor were highly com
' mended.
The resolutions passed by the
I Georgia state convention held recent
ly in Atlanta, and approv
led.
Sumter’s Invitation Is
Presented To Pershing
—
“Have just presented invitation to
s General Pershing, whose itinerary
has not yet been arranged. Am
' writing fully.’’
This was the text of a telegram
, received this morning by the Cham
ber of Commerce from Congressman
I Chas. R. Crisp, at Washington, in re
! sponse to a telegram sent him Satur
i day asking him to present to General |
' Pershing an invitation of the Sumter
chamber, and city and county offi-
I cials to include Americus, and South
,er Field in his itinerary when he
| comes to Georgia on his forthcoming
| army inspection trip.
THE TIMESBrECORDER
PUBLISHED IN THE OF DIXIE‘.fIgB?
SURROUNDING OF
YUDENITCH ARMY
CLAIMJIF REDS
LONDON, Nov. 4. (By Associat
ed Press.) —Claim that the North
western Russian army of Gen. Yuden
itch which has been attacking Petro
grad, has been surrounded -by the
Bolsheviki, was made in a soviet gov
einment wireless disnatch fiom Mos
cow dated today.
FINLAND REFUSES
I TO AID YUDENITCH.
HELSINGFORS, Nov. 4.—-(By As
sociated Press.) —The Finnish gov
ernment informed General Yudenitch
I today it was unable to co-operate with
j him for the deliverance of Petrograd.
This was the Finnish reply to the
appeal of the Northwestern Russian
government for assistance, coupled
with recognition of the independence
of Finland.
U. S. RAILWAY CORPS
TO LEAVE SIBERIA
OMSK, Oct. 31.—(Friday.) —(By
Asociated Press.) —<’01. George Em
erson, of the American railway mis
sion, has ordered the withdrawal of
the American railway corps from Si
beria, the withdrawn? to coincide with
the evacuation of the Czech forces
for repatriation Nov. 4.
> The Weather Forecast /
For Georgia—Fair tonight and
Wednesday, except probably showers
in extreme south portions, colder
Wednesday in north and central por
tions.
? The Cotton Market
No market; election holiday on
New York exchange.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 4, 1919
By Morris j
6 NEGROES ARE
’SENTENCED TO
DIE FOR RIOTS
IN ARKANSAS
Trials Proceeding Swift
ly, With 122 Under
Indictment
HELENA, Ark., Nov. 4. (By As
sociated Press.) —Trial of cases
growing out of the recent race dis
turbances near Elaine, which result
ed in the bringing of indictments
against one hundred and twenty-two
persons, mostly negroes, proceeded
rapidly in the Phillips county circuit
court, verdicts of guilty of first de
gree murder being returned in two
cases, thereby causing negroes to be
sentenced to death by electrocution.
Evidence brought out by the prose
cution in the cases tried last showed
the system of a post of the- “Pro
gressive Farmers and Household Un
ion of America,” the organization in
which, it is alleged, the negroes were
banded for the uprising at Elaine,
near where the disturbances took
place the first week in October, re
sulting in the death of five white
persons and al arger number of ne
groes and the wounding of others?.
Several witnesses for the state re
lated ho'v they jcinAS* the Elaine
post within ten days before the dis
turbances began, and were told to
bring arms to the meetings, because
the union “everted trouble if the
whites tried to break up its meet
ings.”
Finland Worried By
Anti-Red Ultimatum
HELSINGFORS, Finland, No. 4.
(Sunday)—By Associated Press)
Gen. Hannerheim’s letter to Presi
dent Starlberg, of Finland, demand
ing Finland’s intervention in the
! campaign Gen. Yudenitch is waging
I against Petrograd, has caused a pro
found impression in Helsingfors. The
! report is current that Gen. Yudenitch
I proposes, if he effects the capture of
| Petrograd without Finnish assistance,
to levy a war indemnity of twenty
million marks on Finland and de
mand the return of all Russian prop
erty and ships.
Men Urged To Hear
Womans Club Talk
The men of the community es
pecially are invited to attend the
meetings of the Woman’s Club at
the Carnegie Library at 3:30 o’clock
Wednesday afternoon, at which Dr.
Carl W. Minor will speak on the
League of Nations, it was stated to
day by Mrs. James W. Davenport,
chairman of the program committee.
The meeting is open to the entire
community, but the ladies of the club
are especially anxious that as many
men as possible hear Dr. Minor on
this topic.
Vatican Choir To
Appear In Atlanta
ATLANTA, Nov. 4.—Quite aS
much interest as a Caruso opera
has ever aroused has been stirred up
in Atlanta musical circles through
the announcement that the celebrat
ed Vatican Choirs will sing at the
Auditorium on Wednesday night,
Nov. 19, under the special sanction
of his holiness, Pope Pius.
The price for seats, including war
tax being $2.20, $3.30, $4.40 and
for box seats, $7.20.
48-Hour Week For
World Is Proposed
' WASHINGTON, Nov. 4—(By!
I Associated Press.) —An international
convention limiting hours of work in
i industry to 48 ner week in all coun
i tries ratifying the agreement by July
1, 1921, was proposed to the Inter
j national labor conference to the Int |
' the organization committee.
GEORGIA IMPOVERISHED
BY COTTON FOR YEARS,
FINDS HERSELF IN HOGS
Packing House Man Tells Os Strides Made In 3
Years —lowa In Poverty 19 Years Ago.
Figures compiled from government and other sources show that
tor years, pnor to 1914, when the war intervened and furnished
a respite. the South was raising cotton at a cost of 10 1-2 cents and
selling it at 9 3-4 cents, and thereby losing three-quarters of a cent
on every pound produced and sold, year after year during that pe
riod As a the South kept growing poorer and poorer. The
Southern farmer actually reached the lowest state of any class in
the country, with an incom& in 1914 down to a gross average for
the entire South oi $157 per hand"of 18 years and over. In the
same year the average income of the lowa farmer was S9OO.
Nineteen years ago lowa was poorer than Georgia, when she
began to raise hogs. I oday and for many years she has been the
lichest state per capita in the nation because she has been the
leader in the production of hogs and other live stock. During the
last three years, since hog growing got a foothold in Geoigia this
state has increased three times as fast as lowa did at the beginning
in hog growing.”
Telling of the time when he was;
called in by Moultrie to help diag- j
nose the needs of the town, he said ;
factories were wanted, but he con-1
vinced the leading men that what!
they wanted and needed was an in-I
dustry to develop the surrounding!
country, and that a packing house j
would do this. He said that at that
time Colquitt county had 3,000
farmers, 10 per cent or 300 of whom
knew how to market what they pro
duced—which was twice the average
for the South. “What is needed is
something to help these remaining
2,700 farmers make good,” he told
the local leaders. And that is what
they did.
Speaking of the fear that more
packing houses mean more competi
tion, and danger of them not paying,
he said that so far every packing
house that his firm had built had de
veloped more hogs than it could han
dle, resulting in the consequent pros
perity for the sections.
Answering the question as to
whether such a plant would pay di
vidends as an investment, he said
that, while dividends are secondary
consideration in plants of this type, '
organized and operated by home peo
ple for the benefit of the section and
the furnishing of a close by market,
the packing industry is one of the
most highly profitable in the coun
try. He said that, despite figures
published by the big packers to the
contrary, their profits prior to 1914,'
since when there have been no ac
curate figures, the profits from the|
industry for the country over aver- ’
aged 30 per cent per year. He held j
out no promises, however, of such j
profits from a small plant, particu-!
larly at first, but assured his hear
ers that attractive profits could be
made and would be made, if a com
petent manager was put in charge
and allowed to handle the business,
instead of being hampered. In the
matter of indirect dividends, he cit
ed the fact that the influence of the
Moultrie plant had been largely re-!
sponsible for increase in hog produc-1
tion in Sumter county, and cited the I
fact that some 80 carloads had been j
shipped this year from Plains alone, j
Mr. Greer expressed regrets that I
he could not be in attendance at the I
organization meeting at the court j
house Thursday afternoon at 3 j
o’clock. At this meeting, however, I
Mr. Brooks, and it is hoped other |
men experienced in the packing
house industry, will be present.
It was assured today that a num
ber of the leading men from the sur
rounding counties as well as Sum
ter’s representative men will be pres
ent. It was shown today in his talk
by Mr. Greer that the surrounding
counties profit as much from packing
plants as those in which they are lo
cated, for it is the place where the
money is paid out for the live stock
that benefits instead of the place
where the stock is sent.
“Three times as much has been I
paid out by the Moultrie plant in.
Brooks county, Ga., and Geneva
county, Ala., for hogs as in Colquitt
county,” he said, “because they were
far ahead of Colquitt in the produc
tion of hogs in the beginning.”
These were some of the statements
made this morning by John Greer, of
Moultrie, before a small group of
I business men of the community gath-
I ered to hear him discuss community
| building. Mr. Greer had been invited
! to attend the packing house organiza
tion rally next Thursday afternoon
lat 3 o’clock, but was unable to be
here because of a previous engage
ment, but, passing through, fie drop
ped in for a discussion. Mr. Greer is
an expert industrial promoter and
community builder, a native of Geor
gia and a man who has helped many
communities to do big things. He
was enthusiastic about the movement
here for the organization and erection
of a packing plant.
“Georgia needs 25 packing plants,”
said he, “and the sooner it gets them
the sooner will the stats show that
prosperity of which it is capable. It
needs that may to take care of the
stock that the farmers can and will
produce, if they are assured of a de
pendable market —and plenty of
packing houses will furnish the mar
ket.” He declared that, while some
of the early packing house interests
in Georgia had feared competition it
had been demonstrated to them thor
oughly since then that more packing
houses make hogs and encourage the
increase of stock raising and thereby
prove benefits to the plants already in
existence, instead of competing con
cerns.
Mr. Greer, who was formerly sec
retary of the Charpber of Commerce
at Moultrie, at the f ime of the organ
ization of a packing plant there,
1 which has resulted in such phenome
i nal prosperity to Colquitt and sur
' rounding counties, told of his con-
I nection with C. L. Brooks, formerly
> manager of the Mnultrie plant, now
manager of the Macon plant and
Southeast representative of the Al
lied packers, who spoke here a week
ago 'Thursday. “We are partners in
the Brooks Engineering company,”
said he, “and we have been engaged
in building packing plants in the
; South since we discovered their suc
cess. We have already built 11 such
’ plants and have three more under
; construction. We not only build, but
Supervise as well. During the war
:we did not build any .plants, because
the government would not let us. But
|we have been operating since then.
I We have erected or are building 7
! plants in Georgia, two in Florida, two
! in Alabama, one in South Carolina
; and two in North Carolina.
! .The state of lowa has 23 packing
plants; Minnesota, also a leading livz
stock state, has 19 plants; Missouri,
one of the oldest of the western
stock growing states, has 30, and so
on. The packing plants and growth
of the live stock industry go together.
One is s«pendent upon the other. You
cannot successfully ship livestock far
Shipping 100 miles a hog will lose 7
pounds in weight and a steer 40
pounds; going 200 miles the shrink
age will be about twice that amount.
So you see, it is expensive, to say
; nothing, of the cost in freight. And
’ besides, the farmers take more in-
I terest in a plant that they know is
! close by. They know it offers a regu
lar and dependable market.
Following the quotation of figures
given above on the income of the
Georgia farmer in 1914 being only
$157, Mr. Greer said:
“Ninety-three per cent, of " the
business of the cotton belt was based
■ HOME
i EDITION
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
MINERS’ UNION
CHIEF BREAKS
SILENCE BEGUN
WITH INJUNCTION
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' Simple To Set Bar«»Jning
I Machinery In Motion,
> f He Says
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 4. —(By
Associated Press) —Breaking silence
for the first time since served with
the federal writ of injunction last
Friday, John L. Lewis, head of the
United Mine Workers, gave out a
statement today in regard to the
government’s efforts to end the
strike of approximately 425,000 soft
coal miners.
“The machinery of the joint sys
tem of bargaining in the mining in
dustry is intact. It will be a simple
matter for the government and coal
operators to get it in motion to ne
gotiate a wage agreement,” he said.
PROPOSES PRESIDENT
ATTEMPT ARBITRATION.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.—(By
Associated Press) —A special presi
dential commission to attempt arbi
tration of bituminous’coal strike was
proposed is a resolution introduced
today by Senator Kenyon, of the sen
ate labor Committee.
GARFIELD AND OPERATORS’
HEAD IN CONFERENCE.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.—(By
sociated Press.) —Efforts to reach
a basis for possible settlement of
the coal strike were made today at a
conference here between Fuel Ad
ministrator Garfield and J. D. A.
Morrow, president of the National
Coal Association, an organization of
the leading coal operators of the
country. What proposals Garfield
had to make were not* disclosed in
advance of the conference.
ALABAMA PLANS FOR
FEARED FUEL FAMINE.
MONTGOMERY, Nov. 4.—-(By
Associate Press) —The Alabama
Public Service commission today ac
cepted authority to act as guardian
of the public in trying to get coal
for the public, should a fuel famine
ensue. The request was made by
the railroad administration.
SHIPPING UNHAMPERED,
NEW ORLEANS REPORTS.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 4.—(By
Associated Press) —So far the coal
strike has not interferred with rail
or water transportation here, accord
ing to officers of the Association of
Commerce, the maritime board of
the Board of Trade. The large re
serve of surplus coal for vessels has
been untouched. i
General Strike Is
Ordered In Miama
MIAMI, Fla., Nov. 4—(By Asso
ciated Press.) —Labor unions here
will go out on a general-strike next
Monday as a result of the employ
ment of non-union labor on the con
struction of a hotel here. The walk
out will affect 3,600 union men and
hold up work on $3,000,000 of build
ing.
BOLIVIA GETS AN OUTLET.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.—(By
Asociated Press.) —Chili has given
Bolivia an outlet to the Pacific, ocean
by ceding a strip of land north of
the province of Arica, according to
official advices received here today.
upon this $157 income, fur that rep
resented the average income of 93
per cent, of the population. So you
can see what thin ice we were skat
ing on then and for years before. We
saw ourselves getting poorer and
poorer; every year we had less and
less. The boys and girls were leav
ing the farms and going to the cities
to work. We saw we were going to
ruin. Finally it became apparent
that we had to diversify—-that we had
to raise something besides cotton.
Then the war came on and we did
diversify. Down our way we started
in to raising live stock.”