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FORTY-SECOND YEAR.—NO 14.
Irish Protest British As League Council Organizes
FARMERS FAST
SIGNING UP FOR
COTTON ASSOC.
Three Organizers At
Work—More District
Meetings Coming
The work of organization of Sum
ter county unit of the Georgia branch .
of the American Cotton association
is progressing with flattering and ra
pid success, it was announced today
after three members of the state or
ganization field force had spent four
days actively at work in Sumter coun
ty. The three are R. W. Mattox, of
Newnan, and R. C. Frost and J. Q.
Nolan, of Atlanta. Mr. Mattox was
the organizer who attended the first
organization meeting here at the Car
negie Library a few weeks ago at
which plans were laid for the present
campaign.
Os the eight organization meetings
scheduled for the various militia dis
tricts outside of the 27th for the first
part of this week only four were held
for varying reasons, but dates were
announced today for meetings in
these remaining four districts for
next week.
“Our success has been wonderful
ly good,” said Mr. Mattox, speaking |
for the organizers. “Early in the
week, on the scheduled dates, we held
meetings at Plains, Leslie, Anderson- I
ville and Croxfron’s Crossing. All
were highly successful sessions. We|
found the farmers very much inter
ested and solidly behind this move
ment, which is purely a farmer’s;
movement, aimed to insure a profit
able price for cotton and putting the
control of the cotton market in the
hands of the producer and out of
the hands of the Wall street specula
tor.
Sign Up Solidly.
“The Andersonville meeting was
100 per cent successful. All but six
white farmers in the district were
present at the meeting and every one
of them signed up as members of the
association. At Leslie the meeting
was 100 per cent, every man present
becoming a member. In addition con
siderable personal work outside of the
meeting was done at Leslie and ev
ery farmer called on signed up. The
reception the movement met else
where was practically the same.
“Next week we will hold other
meetings and between now and then
we will continue the personal work
among the farmers, seeing as many
of them as it is possible to see and I
securing every membership possible.
We hope to organize the county sol
idly outside of the 27th district, and i
then, when we are able to show just j
what the farmers outside of Americus 1
have done we are coming into this
district and put on a brief but in
tensive campaign in which every busi
ness man in Americus, as well as ev
ery farmer, will be given an oppor
tunity to enlist in the association. N.
A. Ray has been invited by County
Chairman B. F. Hodges, whom we
are assisting in this work here, to
head the drive in the 27th district,
and he has consented to undertake
it.”
Dates For Next Week.
Mr. Mattox announced the date for
the meetings next week as follows:
New 16th School House —Tuesday,
10 a. m.
Old 16th.—Tuesday, 2 p. m.
New 26th.—Wednesday, 10 a. m.
28th, Methvin’s Store.—Wednes
day, 2 p. m.
In the old 16th district, a school
consolidation meeting will be held
at the same time and place, and a
large attendance is looked for by the :
organizers.
"Please state,” '•aid Mr. Mattox,;
“that the women more than wel
come at these organization meetings. I
We find that they are even more in- |
terested in this moveme. t than the
men, for they realize keen»y that it is
for the uplift of the Southern farmer,
which will mean the uplift of the
home and better living conditions in!
every respect, that this movement was ;
launched.”
Odessa Is Occupied
By Bolshevik Forces
BASLE. Jan. 16—Odessa, the chief
port of Russia on the Black Sea, has
been occupied by the Bolsheviki, ac
cording to newspaper dispatches re
ceived here.
4
' What Amenment
; And Enforcement
Measures Provide
<
> /CONSTITUTIONAL prohibition, ■
> effective at midnight tonight <
5 and the enforcement legislation J
< enacted by Congress, make the fol-
( Jawing provisions: £
i Declare unlawful the manufac- >
? ture or sale of any beverage con- S
? taining one-half of one per cent ;
> of more of alcohol.
S Declare places where liquor is J
Isold in violation of law to be com- <!
mon nuisances, abatable as such. S
Search and seizure powers giv- $
en prohibition enforcement offi
cers, except the search of private <
S dwellings unless used for the un- <
S lawful sale of intoxicants or in !
< part as places of business.
< Liquor seized to ’be destroyed, i
< vehicles and other property to be S
) sold and proceeds paid into Unit- s
> ed States Treasury. <
S Advertising of liquor by any <
< method prohibited.
! Permit manufacture at home for >
? personal use of non-intoxicating i
? ciders and fruit juices. While <
5 “non-intoxicating” is not defined
!> specifically, the term “intoxicat- i
< ing” is construed by law to mean !
< one-half of one per cent or more )
? of alcohol.
> Permit manufacture as alcoholic -
> liquors for sacramental and medi- <
< cinal uses, under restrictions.
j Permit manufacture of alcohol >
< for industrial and scientific uses. ;
Permit possession of liquor in <
> home if purchased before prohibi- :
5 tion became effective.
s Physicians prohibited from pre- '
< scribing alcoholic liquor for patient ?
? unless in good faith they believe >
? it will afford relief from ailment, s
? Not more than one pint can be (
> prescribed in any one month for <
S one person. ?
< Complete records of sales, in- S
< eluding names of persons obtain- $
i ing liquors, required of manufac- S
? turers and druggists. <
■ Various penalties for violation <
fixed, the most severe being $2,- (
’ 000 fine and two years imprison- ?
£ ment. )
FOUR MURDERED,
HOME BLOWN UP,
THEN SET AFIRE
Amory, Miss., Scene Os
Terrible Crime—One
Arrest Made
AMORY, Miss., Jan. 16.—Robert
Mitchell, aged 50, his 18-year-old
daughter, 16-year-old son and an 8-
months-old baby were shot to death
at the Mitchell home near here last
night, according to " information
reaching the sheriff of Monroe coun
ty today.
Before the shooting the house was
dynamited and after the shooting set
on fire. jj
Tilly Marshall, aged 21, has been
arrested in connection with the crime.
Marines In Battle
In Haitian Capital
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—United
States marines and Hatian gendarma
rie yesterday repelled an attack on
Port au Prince, the Haitian capital, by
a force of three hundred bandits,
more than half cf whom were killed,
wounded or captured, after being pur
sued outside the city.
The Cotton Market
LOCAL SPOT COTTON.
Good middling 39 1-2 cents.
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NATION COES DRY
'FROM NOW ON’
AS MIDNIGHTTAPS
Constitutional ' Prohibi
tion Effective, Ending
Hopes Os Wets
VI ASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Consti
tutional prohibition becomes effective
j at midnight tonight.
From 12:01 a. m., the “manufac
ture, sale or transportation of intoxi
cating liquors within, the importation
thereof into, or the exportation there
of from the United States and all ter
ritory subject to the jurisdiction
thereof for beverage purposes” is
prohibited by the 18th amendment to
the Constitution, and the United
States becomes the first nation of the
world to make such a provision part
of its basic law. Congress has defin
ed an intoxicating liquor as any bev
, erage containing one-half of one per
' cent, or more, of alcohol.
Actually, the advent of constitu
tional prohibition will make little dif
i ference in the daily life of the peo
: pie of this country, as they have been
living under the nation-widej war>-
■ time ban on alcoholic drinks since
I last July. There have been eager
I hopes entertained by the thirsty, by
distillers and by speculators holding
i large quantities of whisky for higher
prices, that war-time prohibition
would be lifted before today in ac
cordance with the recommendation of
‘ President Wilson to Congress, but
Congress refused to do so and the arid
spell now about to begin under au
thority of the nation’s Constitution,
which prohibitionists declare will
continue in effect for all time inas
much as it could be revoked only in
the same manner in which it came in
to existence, will permit no oppor
tunity for replenishing of private
cellars or the unloading of investment
stocks. There is one case pending
in the Supreme Court, however, at
tacking the constitutional prohibition,
that by the state of Rhode Island.
Thousand of Gallons Held.
Thousands of gallons of whisky re
main in bonded warehouses with no
chance to be sold at prevailing high
prices. The liquor can be taken out
j only for medicinal and scientific uses
I with the Bureau of Internal Revenue
exerting extreme precautions to see
I that none of it is used in violation
|of the law. During the last two
: months, many owners of alcoholic li
i quors, foreseeing no opportunity for
; sale in this country, have endeavored
to rush the surplus tb other countries.
Lack of (shipping space prevented
; more than a fraction being exported.
I Cuba and the Bahamas have received
most of what was sent abroad. There
were 70,000,000 gallons on hand
when war-time prohibition went into
effect. The amount exported is not
known but is probably less than 20,-
000,000 gallons.
Attacks on constitutional prohibi
i tion, began in several states, appar
ently are not viewed with alarm by
the reform forces. After the Su
preme Court upheld the constitution-
■ ality of war-time prohibition and the
measures to enforce it, Wayne B.
■ Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti-
Saloon League of America, an
nounced that the only question left
on which the wets could make a fight
was whether prohibition was a proper
j subject for constitutional action and
j whether the amendment had been le
: gaily adopted. He contended there
was no doubt on the subject. New
■ Jersey officials who searched state de
i partment records of the amend
ment, announced they had found no
variations in language which would
; warrant attacking it.
Up To Revenue Bureau.
Enforcement of constitutional pro
| hibition was lodged by Congress with
I the Bureau of Internal Revenue,
i which for years has been in close
touch with distilling and brewing in
: terests in the collection of excise
taxes and active in running down
“moonshiners.” Evidence collected
by the bureau will be used in prosecu
tion by. the Department of Justice.
Commissioner Roper has establish
ed an entirely separate division in the
Bureau of Internal Revenue for the
enforcement of prohibition, headed
Iby John F. Kramer, of Mansfield,
Ohio. He will have under him nine
federal supervisors in charge of as
many districts, a director in each
state and a mobile force which can
(Continued on page 4)
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 16, 1920.
Well, Here sTo\ ou —Ry Morris
vlsk 'll I
W i ft
,
Col. Lane’s Baying
and Poole’s Agility
Deadly to Possum j
Aiderman J. E. Poole says he
doesn’t know whether it was City
Attorney Tom Lane’s ferocious
possum-hound voice that scared Mr.
Possum into stopping dead still, or
whether it was his own agility in
leaping a fence and heading Mr.
Possum off, causing the animal to
realize it was useless to go any
farther. But, whichever it was Mr.
Possum occupies a box in the Poole
back yard awaiting the pleasure of
the lady of the house as to when he
shall be served to her family, prop
erly stewed with sweet potatoes and
other well known delicacies.
Messrs. Lane and Poole were on
their way home from council meet
ing about 9 o’cjpck last night rid
in Aiderman Mashburn’s car. They
had just let Mayor Sheppard out
at his College street home and
were proceeding eastward on Col
lege, just ready to cross Lee street,
when they spied the possum start
ing diagonally across Lee street
from Dr. Prather’s corner to the
Mayo home, under the glare of the
street light. With a whoop Mr.
Lane, who is a renowned possum
trailer, caught the scent and leap
ed out on one side and Mr. Poole
on the other as the car came to a
sudden stop. The possum hesitat
ed, then started to run. Both offi
cials were after him “in high.” The
possum leaped upon the coping
about the Prather front yard,
where, possibly frightened by the
baying of Col. Lane to Mr. Poole
to “stop him” as the latter vault
ed the coping and leaped into the
yard, the possum halted dead still.
As they approached him he climbed
a short pole.
Mr. Poole wanted Mr. Lane to
grab the possum. Mr. Lane sug
gested that Mr. Poole do it, so the
latter picked up a brick and at
tracted the animal’s attention while
Mr. Lane slipped up behind and
seized his tail—and the capture
was complete.
The two carried their prize in
triumph to the waiting auto where
they tried to give it to Mr. Mash
burn, but the latter declined to
share any of the prize, and it fin
ally fell to Mr. Poole’s lot to take
HEART OF DIXIE
CLEMENCEAU IS
OUT OF CONTEST
FOR PRESIDENT
Aged Premier Asks His
Supporters To Re-
Elect Poincare
PARIS, Jan. 16.—Premier Cle-
! menceau today announced his with
drawal as a candidate for the presi-
I dency of the republic and asked his
supporters to vote for President Poin-
; care’s re-election.
The joint parliamentary caucus of
the senate chamber and deputies to
i day cast a secret ballot for their
choice for presidential candidate. The
! vote resulted: Paul Deschanel, pres
i ident of the chamber, 408; Clemen
| ceau, 389; Poincare, 16; Senator Jon
l nart, 4; Leon Bourgeois, 3; Foch, one,
Mize Gives Up Lease
On Prospect Park
1 Notice was given by H. L. Mize to
the city council last night that he did
not care to renew his expired lease
on Prospect park, which he has held
for the last ten years at a rental of
$25 per year. Following this an
nouncement the suggestion was made
that it might be well for the city to
sell the park property, but this met
with immediate opposition, and the
public building committee was in
structed to take up the matter of
leasing the property again.
Mr. Mize has operated the property
during the summer as a resort, main
taining a bathing pool among other
things, which enjoyed a fair patron
age during the hot periods.
Masked Bandits Get
SIOO,OOO In Whisky
CHICAGO, Jan. 16.—-Spectacular
robberies marked the early hours of
prohibition eve here. In one hold-
I up six masked men bound the yard
j master and watchman of the Penn
' sylvania railroad and took approxi
> mately SIOO,OOO worth of whisky
i from two cars.
I
I it, which he did.
“It isn’t extra large, but it is
young and will sure make fine eat
ing,” Mr. Poole said today.
$ Meals Served Here
'At Profit At 10c;
J Oh, Yes, It Is True .
Come hither, all ye knockers at j
the High Cost of Living!
Meals are being sold at a prif- j
it of 10 cents each right here it.
Americus.
You don't believe it? Well, the ;
records are in the clerk's office at I
the city hall.
This fact was brought to public '
attention at the meeting of the
city council last night when Aider
man J. E. Poole, chairman of the
finance committee, o.k.’ing the cur
rent bills for approval by council,
noted the fact that one statement
called for the payment of $9.70 to
Mlirion Warren for serving 97
meals to city prisoners held in the
guard house.
“I wonder what he feeds ’em?
was Mr. Poole’s curious query as
he took a second squint at the
statement.
“About as many peas as yoti
could hold <m half your- hand and a
slice of corn bread,” spoke up
Engineer Ansley . “But he feeds
those that work on the streets bet
ter,’’ Mr. Ansley explained. “These
men need considerably more be
cause they have manual labor to
perform, and he is paid 25 cents
per meal for feeding them."
Warren is a negro and the meals
he furnishes at these prices are
to negro prisoners, it was said.
Warren lives on Head's alley and
had been feeding the city prison
ers for many years—at the same
price for a long time. The rising
cost of provisions has not caused
him to raise his price, it is said,
but has caused him to reduce the
portions considerably. But he
proves that it can be done—that
there is away to beat the high cost
of living, and that is, eat less.
DeKoven, Composer
Os ‘Robin Hood,’ Dead
CHICAGO, Jan. 16.—Reginald De
Koven, American operatic composer
and conductor, died here early today
of apoplexy. He had been here sev
eral weeks superintending the pro
duction of his opera “Rip Van
Winkle." DeKoven is best known as
the composer of “Robin Hood,” writ
ten twenty or more years ago, of
which the ever popular “Oh, Promise
Ma” song is a part.
News of The Whole
World By
Associated Press
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
LEON BURGEOIS
MADE CHAIRMAN,
DRUMMONDSEC’Y.
Commission Named To
Trace Sarre Basin
Boundaries
PARIS, Jan. 16.—Representa
tives of France, Great Britain,
Italy, Greece, Belgium, Spain, Japan,
Portugal and Brazil, members of the
council of the league of nations, met
in the “clock room” of the French
foreign office at 10:00 o’clock this
morning, for the first meeting of the
League.
The council organized at 10:30
o’clock, electing Leon Burgeois, of
France, chairman, and confirming
the choice of Sir Eric Drummond, of
Great Britain, general secretary,
lhe first official act of the council
was the appointment of a commis
sion to trace upon the spot the front
iers of the territory of the Sarre
basin.
The council received its first for
mal protest during the session. It
came from the “envoys of the elected
government of the Irish Republic”
against the “unreal English simula
tion of an international league of
peace.” No mention of the protest
was made during the council meeting,
but copies were handed to newspaper
correspondents after they left the
foreign office
PURPOSE OF COUNCIL TO
ACHIEVE WORLD PEACE.
The purpose of the League of Na
tions council, which held its first
meeting in Paris today, is declared
in the covenant of the League to be
to "promote international co-opera
tion and achieve international peace
and security.’’ This was to be ac
complished by the nations obligation
themselves not to resort to war; by
prescribing open, just and honorable
relations between them; by establish
ing international law as the actual
rule of conduct, by maintaining jus
tice, and by scrupulous respect for
all treaty obligations:
Glawson Not Talking
For Public, He Asserts
| “When a man is figuring on get
s ting into politics he had better not
, talk to a newspaper man. lam not
saying anything.”
1 This was the enigmatic and sage
; comment yesterday of James L. Glaw-
I son in reply to a direct question as
’ to whether he had made up his mind
to make the race for sheriff of Sum
ter county or not to make it.
While reports absolutely conflict
ing regarding Mr. Glawson’s inten
tions have been going the rounds
ddily Mr. Glawson imitates the well
known clam, as far as a public state
ment is concerned. He is talking con
fidentially with his friends here and
there, and some say that he is making
a quiet canvass of the situation to get
■ an accurate estimate on his chances
’ of winning should he enter the race.
; One interesting report of the last
; day or two was that Mr. Glawson had
selected John Monohan, secretary of
' the Elks club, to be his deputy, but
this report met with a chuckle and
declined either to confirm or deny.
“I’ll let you know if I decide te
j enter the race,” he said.
U. S. Labor Agents
Are Called Off Here
Mayor Sheppard informed the city
council last night that he had receiv
ed word by letter and telegram from
Georgia senators and representatives
in congress and from Labor Comniis
' sioner Stanley at Atlanta that govern
ment labor agents “had been ordered
to work no hardships on any com
; munity,” and that likely none would
; come here looking for recruits for the
Wilson dam project in Alabama or
other projects, as was planned and
announced at the previous meeting,
i Because of the continual drain on la-
I bor here for government purposes at
Souther Field since its establishment,
and the visits of labor agents *:o re
cruit help for work elsewhere, it was
felt that this community had already
contributed more than its share to
I carrying on government work.
WEATHER FORECAST.
For Georgia.—Rain tonight and
■probably Saturday; somewhat colder
i Saturday in north portion.