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THE NEWS
OF THE DAY:
Baptist churches throughout the
country were urged to spurn
money offered by profiteers, “the
meanest kind of thieves,*’ in a
statement issued in New York by
the Rev. Dr. Samuel Zane Batten,
secretary of social service educa
tion for the American Baptist Pub
lication Society.
“Every Baptist church should
know whether any of its members
are engaged in this nefarious busi
ness of profiteering,” Doctor Bat
tes said.
• • •
Mrs. Elbert H. Gary, has been
elected a member of the Women’s
Auxiliary, an organization made
up of the wives of striking steel
workers. It is now up to Mrs.
Gary to accept or decline.
Barriers between Fifth Avenue,
New York, and Fifteenth Avenue,
Gary, Ind., were swept aside and
it was made plain in speeches and
the election of Mrs. Gary that the
differences between the steel
workers and Judge Gary do not
extend to his family. The vote to
make Mrs. Gary a member was
unanimous. In addressing the
meeting, T. J. Vind, organizer for I
the American Federation of La- <
bor, said:
“One thing about E. H. Gary is I
that he never herded your hus- I
bands to the polls and forced them *
to vote his way.’’ |
• • •
The presence of several hundred i
members of the American Legion (
downed any desires “Bill Bill’’
Haywood might have had in ,
preaching Bolshevist doctrines in ‘
his Sioux City, la., speech a few :
nights ago. The I. W. W. leader ■
denied the use of all auditoriums
in the city and the streets, spoke
from the window of the I. W. W.
headquarters. He refrained from
incendiary remarks on learning
the legion members were present.
* • *
A road of Epsom salts is an at
traction Texas can soon hold out
to tourists, according to the state
highway department, at Austin.
Ten miles of road out of Rock
port are being surfaced with a ma
terial which analyzes more than
one-fourth Epsom salts. The ma
terial is obtained from flats where
constant evaporation of gulf wa
ter has left silt strongly impreg
nated with salts, among which the
Epsom variety predominates.
Highway engineers say the mix
ture forms an excellent road sur
facing material. The salts absorb
enough moisture from the air to
keep the roads damp, free from
dust and firm on the driest days.
One trouble, however, is that the
road becomes very slippery during
wet weather, but this is overcome
by adding a small proportion of
shell and regulating the slope of ,
the surface.
• * •
Old Dame Fashion, Paris, has
packed her trunks and moved, bag
and baggage to Fifth Avenue.
This changeable old belle, whose ,
ephemereal whims only the artis
try and eternal chic of the church i
capital could satisfy since the days
of the early Bourbons, has desert
ed her boulevards and taken bour
geoise old New York—long de- ,
spised—to her bosom.
For today French buyers—rep
resenting the most famous fashion
maisons of giddy old Paris, are in
New York to the new style—and
more to the point, to buy the “Le
Dernier Cri” in evening gowns, i
opera cloaks, filmy lingerie, strik- j
ing hats and other things that j
make up milady's toilette.
And they are buying heavily
these famous costumers and arbi
ters of form. One of them declar
ed today the new American crea
tions were “superb” and that he
would take a complete line of sam
ple gowns and new designs back
with him.
London is also paying its ho
mage to the wonder of the Fifth
Avenue fashion artistry with the
arrival of David Scott of Hanover
Square, London, a famous design
er, who is buying heavily in all j
lines of late American fashions
and fabrics.
* * *
The largest wage increase ever •
given a labor organization there ,
has just been announced at Brock- ,
ton, Mass., in an award to shoe
workers by the state board of con
ciliation and arbitration. Thi
prices given by the board are
$43.20 a week for shoe cutters,
shoe sorters and leather sorters,
$38.20 for cloth lining cutters and
$32.50 for top cutters. The for
mer prices were $35, S3O and $26
respectively. The demand was ,
made for S4B a week,
The decision will affect 1,100
cutters in this city and later will
extend throughout the district, at
fecting 3,000.
! The Weather Forecast ;
For Georgia.—Generally fair to
night and Satur 'ny
FORTY-FIRST YEAR.—NO. 257.
WILSON TO ACCEPT RESERVATIONS
COMPROMISE
LAST RESORTIF
CHANGES DON’T
NULLIFHREATY
right To Defeat Reserva-1
tions To Be Continued,
1 However
I WASHINGTON, Nov. 7^—(By
JAsosciated Press.)—President Wil-1
I son today told Senator Hitchcock, ad
, ministration leader in tne senate, that
,he would be entirely satisfied with
any reservations supporters of the
treaty might feel justified in accept-
' ing, provided they did not nullify the
League of Nations covenant, and
were designed for the purpose of in
' terpreting the terms of the treaty.
! The president, Senator Hitchcock
.said, expressed “his very strong ap
proval” of what had been done to
date, and agreed that no compromise
should be offered unless a deadlock■
was reached on the resolution of rati- :
fication. Senator Hitchcock outlined ’
the program as first, to endeavor to I
defeat the reservations reported by.
the foreign relations committee; if;
that failed, to vote down a resolution
of ratification containing them; then
present a resolution if ratification,:
and should a deadlock ensue, attempt i
compromises.
Senator Hitchcock was summoned ’
to the white house by president to ■
discuss the program of reservations 1
now before the senate. The senatei
was assembling when the president’s
invitation reached Senator Hitchcock i
and as the reservation program was i
under discussion, Senator Hitchcock;
desired to be present at least during I
the early stages of the day’s debate.;
The whole reservation program was I
discussed at the d’mocratic confer
ence last night, but no decision was I
reached.
Playground Program
To Be Mapped Tonight
I A meeting for the mapping out of,
a definite program for acquiring a :
playground for Americus will be held i
at the High school building at 7 :30
o’clock this evening. J. Ralston Car-’
gill, of the Chamber of Commerce,,
'and Mrs. Frank Sheffield, of the W o-;
, men’s club, were busy today inviting j
the various clubs of the city to have |
representatives at this meeting. In
vitations were extended to the Wo
man’s club, .the Woman’s Literary
'club, the U. D. C. and D. A. R., the
Music Study club, the Rotary club,
the Chamber of Commerce, and
Shrine, Elks and Sumter clubs.
County Sunday School
Convention Tomorrow
I The Sumter County Sunday School
convention will be held at the Pleas
ant Grove Baptist church, east of
Americus tomorrow and Sunday, un-,
der auspices of the Georgia Sunday!
School association. The Saturday I
session will be held from 2:30 to 41
o’clock. Sunday’s sessions will begin I
at 10 a. m. and continue until 4,
with a basket dinner on the grounds.
D. W Sims and Miss Flora Davis, state
superintendent and assistant, will be
here to assit in the program. A num
ber of local speakers are also on the
' program.
D. R. Andrews Named
To School Board Place
i D R. Andrews was elected a mem
i ber of the board of education by the
city council last night to fill the un
expired term of Dr. Lansing Bur
rows, who died recently. Dr. Bur
rows was president of the board. Ar
thur Rylander was elevated to the
presidency of the board at a meeting
of that body Tuesday evening. Mr.
Andrews' term begins at once.
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EUGENE ORR,
PAROLED, OFF
TO START OVER,
A happy man left Sumter county
this morning—not because Sumter i
county was displeasing, but because
he was going home.
The man was Eugene Orr, young
convict trusty, who has been in
charge of the county’s commissary
for the last year and a half, and
whose parole, signed several weeks
ago by Governor Dorsey, cutting his
three year term for confessed em
bezzlement in half, became effective
today.
Orr, who has enjoyed the favor
of a large circle of Sumter county’s
best people, who knew his story and
regarded him as largely a victim of
circumstances whose place was not
in prison, started early this morning
for his old home in Atlanta, from
which place he was sentenced to pris
on. Last evening his sister and her
husband came to Americus by auto,
and the three started early, leaving
prison and unhappiness behind. They
expected to reach Atlanta by noon
or shortly thereafter.
Last evening Orr, attired in a nat-1
ty suit and happy at his near-free-1 <
dom, made the rounds of his friends |
and benefactors here, telling them j
good-bye and assuring them of his
deep thanks for their aid to him.
Orr said he was ready to begin all i
over. He was light-hearted and |
hopeful of the future, and it is said |
he has a position waiting for him in
Atlanta, where he is still trusted by j
those who know him, despite the ’
! prison stigma. Under the terms of
his parole he must remain in the
state until the expiration of his sen
tence, 18 months hence.
Orr’s place at the county stockage I
has been taken by Bernard McGow-1
i an, until recently cashier of the Ma
i con electric company, who has begun
i serving a five year sentence for em-
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 7, 1919.
bezzlement, a charge to which he
pleaded guilty. He is said to be an
expert clerical man, and to fit the
position here excellently. He was
brought from Milledgeville last week,
and was “broken in'' on the job by
Orr before he left.
PALMER TELLS
LABOR LEADERS
U.S. STANDS PAT
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—(By As
sociated Press) —The coal strike and
the industrial situation in general
were discussed by the cabinet today
at a special meeting called by Sec- ■
retary Lansing. Dr. Garfield and
Railroad Director Hines were also
present.
Before Attorney General Palmer
went to the meeting Samuel Gomp
ers and other labor leaders called on
him, and were informed the govern
ment had not altered its decision to
press the injunction at Indianapolis.
Officials in direct touch with the
strike situation were apparently pre
paring for a prolonged shutdown of
the mines.
Soldiers To Put On
Army Exhibition Here
A party of soldiers from Fort |
Benning, Columbus, will be in Amer
icus from November 18 to 21, for
the purpose of putting the army and
the public in'closer touch, according
to a comnrtinication received by
Mayor Sheppard and read to the city
council last night. The soldiers will
put on a military exhibition here, jt
was stated, and asked the co-opera-,
tion of the city in making their stay
accomplish the object of thp trip.
The purchasing committee and the
city attorney were instructed to ar
range for the reception of the mili
tary party.
ATLANTA HOTEL
FIRE R s SULTS IN
3 DEaDJ DYING
ATLANTA, Nov. 7. (By Asso
ciated Press) —Three dead, two dy
ing and several others seriously hurt
■fire the result of a fire which partial
ly destroyed the Wilson Hotel in the
heart of the business district here to
day. Tne property loss was small.
The dead: Capt. Proctor Law
rence, aged 75, day clerk; Sergt.
Schley Flack, Silver Valley, Tex.; an
unidentified man.
High Prices Laid On
Clothes Makers’ Union
CHICAGO, Nov.7. — (By Associat- 1
ed Press) —The present high prices I
for men’s ready-made clothing today
were blamed on the Amalgamated;
Clothing Workers of America, by As-I
sistant United States Attorney Nich-1
olas Michaels, in whose hands were I
the books and records of the organ
ization seized in a raid yesterday on
its headquarters.
Michaels charged that more than
$500,000 in “fines” and “settle
ments,” had been taken from the
clothing manufacturers.
City Gives $l5O To
Sumter County Fair
A donation of $l5O to the Sumter
county fair association was ordered
by the city council last night, in ac
cordance with an agreement entered
into by members of the council and
the fair management previous to the
fair. This action amounted to a re
fund of S7O in license fees for two
busses operating between the fair
grounds and the city for the fair
management, and an additional dona
tion of $8 n .
MASS MEETING
VOTES SOLIDLY
FOR PLANT HERE
J. A. Hixon, Made Chairman, Tells Gathering Far
mers Want Plant That Will Distribute Million
Dollars Month Here—Subscriptions Given Start
And Workers Get Busy Today On Project.
Sumter county is just as sure to have a magnificent packing plant
in the city ol Americus as anything can be that still is in its formative
or organization stage.
This fact was made clear at the meeting in the county court
house yesterday afternoon when men from every section of Sumter
county, and other men from adjoining counties met in session for
organization.
In the absence from the city of Frank Lanier, who was chosen
chairman of the first county meeting. Judge J. A. Hixon was made
permanent chairman, and immediately assumed the chair.
Chairman Hixon, in his preliminary remarks stated that in his
opinion the South Georgia farmer must seek another money crop—
something else than cotton. He said that his investigations, seemed
to show that hogs were the best bet for this section, and in order
to raise hogs a packing plant was a vital necesisty—of first consid
eration.
“It matters little whether a pack
ing plant ever pays its stockholders
one cent in dividends—if it gives us
a place to mark t our hogs after we
have raised them, it is the thing we
want and the thing we are going to
have now,’’ Judge Hixon saia.
“The ideal organization would be
one where every farmer, every mer
chant, owned stock, an organization
large enough to kill a million dollars
worth of hogs every rnonth in the
year; and it will take not less than
$250,000 to build and finance a plant
of this size.”
This, the chairman explained, sim
ply meant that $1,000,000 would be
kept in circulation every month in
this community. The establishment)
of the plant here, he said, would!
save not only the freight in shipping;
our hcqgs to another plant, but also
would save the shrinkage and loss
from death and accident caused by
rail transportation to another plant..
This loss is estimated at a minimum I ■
of seven pounds per hog, “and the > 1
farmer always pays for this loss,'
either directly or indirectly,” said 1
the chairman.
Judge Hixon introduced C. L. |'
Brooks, of the Allied Packers, who '
now is managing the Macon Packing 1
Company. Mr. Brooks repeated his 1
talk of a few days ago, when he 1
came to Americus as the guest of the '
Chamber of Commerce. Many ques
tions were asked Mr. Brooks and the j
crowd seemi d satisfied with all of his j
„nswers. .
Vote Solid for Plant.
Judge Hixon, after the talk by Mr. ,
Brooks, put this question to the (
meeting:
“Do we want a packing plant and
are we willing to go out and sell the I
stock and put it over now?’ The,
response to this question was unani- ;
mous. If there was an undecided
man present, he was unnoticed when
the crowd stood.
On motion Chairman Hixon was
instructed to name a steering com
mittee, which should canvass the en
tire county in the sale of stock in
the plant. This commjttee, the chair
man said, would be announced later.
In speaking along the lines of or-1
ganization, the chairman said, aftet ;
consultation, it was his opinion that’
the stock was to be sold as follows:
shares of SIOO to $5,000 each; that
it was to be paid, one-fifth on call—
that is when the entire block of stock
had been sold and a charter applied 1
for—the remainder to be paid one
fifth every 60 days, or along as the
money was needed for actual con
struction. “We don’t want all of this
money piled up in the banks,” the
chairman said. “We should call for
it just as we need it.”
Ju«t as soon as the stock selling
campaign has been completed, the
chairman and the steering committee
will call a meeting of all of the
stockholders for permanent organi
zation. At this meeting directors and
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
630 STARVE TO
WPETROGRaD
HELSINGFORS, (Thursday) Nov.
6. (By Associated Press) —Bolshe-
vik report received through German
sources says that 630 of 1,060 in
mates of the Eresty Prison in Petro
: grad have died of starvation.
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officers will be elected and the cor
poration actually formed.
Subscriptions Started.
The stock books were opened near
the close of the meeting yesterday,
and those present began calling out
the amounts they desired to subscribe.
Practically every man making a sub
scription stated that the subscription
was only a beginner, that he would
double or treble it later. “It is our
desire that every man in the county
and in the adjoining counties be given
an opportunity to come in on this
proposition,” John Sheffield said. “The
more men who own stock the more
hogs we shall have to kill in our
plant,” W. T. Calhoun said as he put
down his subscription for several
thousand dollars. As the subscrip
tions rolled in John Sheffield called
out to the chairman to double his
subscription, and others present
said that they were ready to double
after the county had been given an
opportunity.
today Chairman Hixon has been
busy organizing his campaign. Dur
ling the day several committees were
put out and went right to work. Other
committees were called and told to
get busy tomorrow. Judge Hixon
says his campaign in the Twenty-Sev
enth district, including Americus, will
be completed in five days, that he ex
pects to secure not less than slsoj
-000 from this district. The other
SIOO,OOO will be apportioned in the
| other districts and in the counties ad
joining Sumter.
1 “We must get our neighboring
counties interested,” the judge says.
“We will need their hogs and we want
to spread this prosperity all around
us.”
At the time of going to press The
Times-Recorder could not secure any
adequate figures of the amount of
stock already taken, for committees
were all out and were not to report
until their territory had been com
pletely covered. It is known that sub
scriptions. both large and small, were
being readily secured, and the solici
tors are all of one accord —
Sumter county is to have a packing
nlan and that very soon probably
in operation within eierht or ten
months.