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King George gave his view of '
the former German emperor in j
the course of an audience with a ;
missionary at London the other
day. When the missionary told
the story of his captivity of four
years, saying that the troubles had
all been instigated by the Ger
the king replied:
“Well, they are finished now,
The kaiser has had to run away
from his own country. He is well
punished for all he did.
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Governor Black, of Kentucky, in j
a statement following the G. 0. .
P. victory at the polls there last j
Tuesday, blamed the liquor inter- ,
ests, pro-Germans, his failure to I
remove certain appointees of for*
mer Governor Stanley and Pesi- I
dent Wilson for his defeat.
As regards the President, he said '
that whether the action of Mr. Wil- I
son irt writing his coal strike let- |
ter was proper or improper, it in- ;
jured his candidacy in that it ;
caused the striking Kentucky coal |
miners to “go Republican.’’
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The “Mrs. Charles W. John- ’
son" flower, a “cross” of “Silver ’
King” and “Nerissa,” was award- I
ed the silver cup of the American
Chrysanthemum Society at its an- :
nual exhibition.
The flower, said to be a tri
umph in horticultural eugenics,
was developed in Morgan Park,
Chicago. It has a massive white
bloom with a sturdy stem and pro
lific foliage.
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Governor Bilbo has announced
his candidacy for the United
States senate from Mississippi to
succeed Senator John Sharp Wil
liams. Former Senator Jam 's K.
Vardaman announced his candi
dacy some time ago. The election
will be held in 1922.
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Six authorities on alcohol and
its effect after tests on men and
women, regular drinkers and oc- |
casional drinkers and total ab
stainers, have found, according to j
a St. Louis announcement:
Two cups of coffee have as much I
“kick” as twenty-one pints of one- i
half of one per cent. beer.
A stomach full of “2.75” is on
ly enough for one-quarter of one
drunk.
Twenty-one and a half quarts of I
one-half of 1 per cent, beer at a i
sitting is necessary for intoxica
tion, but the human stomach will '
hold only one-seventeenth of that
quantity.
Six pints of one-half of 1 per ;
cent, beer rapidly consumed is the ,
same as one teaspoonful of alco
hol.
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Judge Charles P. Orr, refusing
to grant the right of citizenship |
to five striking coal miners last
week, said they could not faithful
ly take the oath of allegiance and
remain on strike, as the govern
ment had ruled that the strike was
illegal.
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Railway locomotives driven en
tirely by compressed air have been
invented at Rome by a young Ital
ian engineer. Scientific circles say
the new engine wil Irevolutionize
railways of the world.
Coming at a time when coal is
scarce and when strikes in Europe
are hampering mining of fuel, the
invention has caused a sensation
among engineering groups.
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Werner Horn, the German agent
who attemted to blow up the Ca
nadian Pacific railway bridge' over
the St. Croix river between Maine
and New Brunswick, has been sen
tenced to ten years in the federal
penitentiary at Fredericton, N. B.
Horne immediately entered for
mal protest against his sentence.
He claimed that his act was one of
warfare, as Canada, a British do
minion, was at war with Germany
and as he was an officer in the Ger
man army.
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FORTY-FIRST YEAR.—NO. 259.
SAY MINERS WILL FIGHT
Officers Can’t Cancel Strike, Is View
COTTON FUTURE
TO BE FIXED AT
MACON MEETING
To Organize To Retain
Benefits Brought By
War Conditions
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ATLANTA, Nov. 10.—The future
■ of the cotton growing and marketing
in Georgia will bei&napped out and
practically decided upon at the state
meeting which will be called today
by the American Cotton Association,
to be he]d in Jffie city auditorium in
Macon Wednesday, Nov. 19, begin
ning at 10 a.m. Governor Hugh M.
Dorsey has been requested to open
and preside over’the meeting, the
purpose of which is bringing to a
close the preliminary work preced
ing the permanent organization
of the American Cotton Association.
The gathering is to be made up of
cotton farmers, factors, bankers, and
representatives of all those J nes of
business which are directly or indi
rectly dependent upon the success of
the cotton production of the stale,
isthis representation running from
I five to ten men from each county in
j the state.
J. S. Wannamaker, of South Caro
l lina, president of the American Cot-
I ton Association, who for two months
has been deyoting practically his
! whole time to a personal study of
; the world spinning conditions and
I the demands for raw material, and
Ito the actual production from the
1 fields thfemselves, will participate in
the Macon meeting to the end that
proper arrangements may be made
: for concluding the Georgia member
i ship enrollment campaign within the
: time decided upon. That enrollment,
I however, will probably not be wound
up for a couple of weeks after the
j Macon meeting, on a day to be an
! nounced later by Campaign Director
D. F. McClatchey.
; . Former Congressman A. F. Lever,
of South Carolina, who resigned his
seat in congress recently to go into
the administrative branch of the
United States Farm Loan system,
and who also is the author of the
Food Control bill, and the Smith-
Lever Agricultural bill which has
been in operation several years, will
come to Macon from Washington to
lend his assistance in the formation
of the Georgiy division of the Cotton
Association J. B. Cannon, banker,
of Spartanburg, who has probably
done more organization work within
his state than has any other one man
in any state in connection with the
formation of the Cotton Association;
J. J. Brown, commissioner of agri
culture; J. Sheckleford, of the na
tional board of the Cotton Associa
tion and who has in the past couple I
of months covered the whole cotton
belt; Harvie Jordan, now in charge
of the national headquarters of the |
Cotton Association; T. S. Johnson, of
Jefferson, who operate the largest
and most successful farmers’ ware
house in the South, and probably the
only man making farm loans at 6
per cent, are all to participate in the
meeting called for Nov. 19.
The Georgia division of the Cotton
Association has spent 60 days in an
educational campaign preparing for
this gathering and there is no differ
ence of opinion among those men
who have covered the territory in
behalf of the association that no
gathering held in the state in years,
if ever before) has meant as much fi
nancially to the immediate future of
the individual farmer as well as to
the state as a whole as will what is to
transpire at the preorganization
meeting of the American Cotton As
sociation next week.
Those men who have devoted
themselves to cotton marketing and
production are in accord now on the
fact that principal concern for farm
ing interests of the South now is
more a ouestion of so systematizing
and organizing as tq be able to hold
what they have gained up to this
time than anything else. It is their
view that though cotton is a more
valuable farm product today than it
has been at any time since the war'
between the states; that it is nearer
' a basis of giving to producer a fair
i and reasonable profit on his labors.
I There is no certainty it will continue
■ to retain that position after the pass-
.AM £ RIC U
THE TIMESORECORDER
PUBLIS HEP IN THE HE AR T OF
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TURKISH REBEL
PLANS ALLIANCE
WITHBOLSHEVIKI
LONDON, Nov. 10—(By Associat
ed Press.) —Mustapha Kemal Pasha,
head of the Nationalist Turkish gov
ernment, set up in Asia Minor, has
proposed an alliance with Nicolai
Lenine, the Russian Bolshevik pre
mier, acocrding to an Exhange Tele
graph dispath from Copenhagen.
An army of three thousand Turks
to attack the Nationalist forces, the
report says, has been organized at
Belu Keesenu.
COMMUNIST ROOST
RAIDED IN BERLIN.
BERLIN, Nov. 9.—(Sunday.)
(By Associated Press..) —Communist
headquarters were raided by the au
thorities today, troops seizing litera
ture and maps showing the division
of Berlin into eighteen communist
districts.
Unfilled Steel Orders
Show Big Increase
NEW YORK, Nov. 10.— (By Asso
iated Pi ess.) —Unfilled steel orders
of the United States Steel corporation
on Ot. 31 were ,473,668 tons, ar
cording to the monthly statement is
sued today. This was an increase of
188,030 tons over the previous month.
? The Weather Forecast <
For Georgia —Probably rain to
night and Tuesday warmer tenight
in ’.entral and northeast portions;
cooler in west portion.
ing of the present readjustment peri
od through which the world is now
passing unless the Southern farmers
and business men shape themselves
to hold what they have in the past
two years won and that is the object
of American Cotton Association
whose principal meeting in Georgia
is to be held in Macon Wednesday of
next week.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 10, 1919.
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Kiltie Recites For
High School Students
A delighted audience of enthusias
tic high school students listened to
Bobby Brollier, vocalist, with the
Scotch Royal Highlanders’ band, in a
series of dialect recitations for half
an hour this morning, and when he
had finished they wished for more.
Mr. Broillier was in Scotch kilts, with
gaudy red jacket and bare knees.
He did not sing, but proved himself
a high class entertainer at reciting.
Tonight the band will appear at
the Opera House under the auspices
of the local post American Legion, in
the program announced in yesterday’s
edition. At that time Mr| Brollier,
who is a tenor of high repute, will
sing, accompanied by the band. The
concert will begin at 8 o’clock. There |
will be no reserved seats, but admis-i
sion tickets may be obtained at Dud
ley’s.
The band played a matinee engager
ment yesterday at the Albany audi
torium to a packed house.
BLIZZARD HITS
WEST; TOWNS
SHORTOF FUEL
LINCOLN, Nebr., Nov. 10.— (By
Associated Press.) —High winds, ac
companied by snow, interfered with
trans-continental wire communica
tions today. The resultant drop in
temperature found many communi
ties facing fuel shortages, according
to the state railway commission.
IN MINNESOTA AND
NORTH DAKOTA, TOO
FARGO, N. D„ Nov. 10.—(By As
sociated Press.) —A mild blizzard pre
vailed over Western Minnesota and
eastern North Dakota today.
HOME COMING PLANNED.
A home coming celebration is being
planned at Big Bethel colored Bap
tist church for November 23. accord
ing to the pastor, Dr. C. C. Chisholm.
Services will be held at 11 a. m. and
3 and 7:30 p. m. on that day.
By Morris
WILSON, HELD
IN EDGE CASE,
BROUGHT HERE
*
Information around the court
house today was that Walter W. Wil
son, accused in Jensia McCullough’s
statement of the murder of Joel Edge
and who was arrested a week ago in
another unnamed city and held there,
has been brought to Americus and is
now in the county jail, where the Md-
Cullough woman, Lena Coolidge and
Henry Binyon, the other defendants,
are held. He has employed the firm
of Shipp and Sheppard to represent
him.
Wilson is understood to have made
a detailed statement denying any part
in the crime at the time of his arrest,
which statement is in the hands of the
state.
Hotel Porter Held For
Sample Room Thefts
Chas. Hawkins, a negro porter at
the Windsor Hotel, was arrested yes
terday by Police Lieutenant John
Bragg for the theft of clothing from
a salesman’s sample room at the ho
tel. Officer Bragg found the negro
at his home three miles out from
Americus, and in searching his prem
ises located a number of articles of
wearing apparel which are alleged to
have been stolen by him. He is in the
county jail awaiting action by the
grand jury.
Allies Not To Interfere,.
In German Elect’ J
PARIS, Nov. 10.— (B-
Press.) - The ur>renv-ie
decided riot to !■',{. rL- Z
nan municipal dSd:
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FEDERATION OF
LABOR SCORE
COURT DECISION
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Injunction Action So Autocratic As To Stagger The
Human Mind,"Says Statement, Carefully Pre
pared By Gompers and Morrison and Passed By
Committee —Called Invasion Os Rights Os Men.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.— (By Associated Press.) —Labor
leaders predicted today that the officers of the United Mine Work
ers would not call off the coal strike as directed by Federal Judge An
derson, at Indianapolis Saturday, whatever the legal consequences
might be. One spokesman said he doubted if Acting President Lewis
would have the right, if he had the inclination, to comply with the
mandate. He said:
The strike was ordered by a delegate convention in the event
the operators refused to grant our demands and Lewis merely carried
out his instructions. A convention must call it off.”
The American Federation of La
bor stood today before the country as 1
unqualifiedly endorsing the strike of
the soft coal miners and bitterly op
posed to the government’s action in
attempting to end the strike through
injunction proceedings, which it char
acterizes as “so autocratic as to stag
ger the human mind.”
Endorsement of the strike was an
nounced last night in a statement by
the executive council of the federal
tion.
The Lever act under which the gov
ernment acted in the court; proceed
ings, never was enacted 'to apply to
workers, the cpuncil asserted and its
use against the miners was classed as
“an injustice, not only to workers but
to all liberty-loving Americans.”
The statement was carefully revis
ed and re-written by Samuel Gom
pers and Frank Morrison, president
and secretary, respectively, of the
federation.
The council, in its statements, pre
sented lat length the history of the
negotiations which led up to and pre
cipitated the strike, declaring almost
in the first sentence that the “offi
cers of the United Mine Workers of
America did everything in their
power to avert this great industrial
struggle.” !
The statement characterized the
action of the government in taking
out an injunction, as “invasion of the
rights of miners,” intended to starve
the miners into submission by cut
ting off their strike benets and de
manded the withdrawal of the in
junction obtained Saturday at Indian-;
apolis, Ind., “to restore confidence
in the institutions of our country and
I respect to the court.”
“By all the facts in the case, the
I miners’ strike is justified,” it con-1
! eluded. “We endorse it. We are
! convinced of the justice of the min
| ers’ cause. We pledge to the minerts
, full support of the American Federa- I
tion of Labor and we appeal to the
workers and citizens of our country |
to give like endorsement and aid to
the men engaged in this momentous
struggle.”
BIG CROWD OF OFFICIALS
AT INERS CONFERENCE.
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 10.—(By I
Associated Press) —All the members,
of the general committee of the I
United Mine Workers, including th
international officers, district p r
dents, members of
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HOME
EDITION
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
PLAN TOSTEACHS
ALL ADULTS TO
READ AND WRITE
The, statewi'e campaign for the
reduction of adult illiteracy, both
white and black, will be extended to
Sumter county this week The move
ment will be inaugurated here at
meetings next Saturday of all of the
teachers in Sumter county, who will
be addressed by F. E. Land, of Ma
con, state school supervisor for this
district. The white teachers will
meet at the Carnegie library at 10:30
a.m. and the cplored teachers at the
McKay school at 2:30 p.m. These
meetings have been arranged by
County School Superintendent Me-
Math.
A special invitation was issued to
day by Mr. McMath for all interest
ed person- of the county to attend
these meetings, for it is desired to
have the solid support of the com
-1 irunity in waging this campaign for
the improvement of the citizenship.
It is especially desired that all of
the ministers and representatives of
all of the women’s clubs, the Cham
ber of Commerce, and various other
civic organizations be present.
! Superintendent McMath stated to
' day that all county teachers are ask
ed to compile lists of all adults in
I their respective districts who are un
able to read and write. It is to map
out a plan whereby these people
may be quickly and easily taught
these fundamentals that this cam
paign is being undertaken
! Georgia Dry Workers
To Hold
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