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FORTY-SECOND YEAR—NO. 138
SECOND DAY’S SESSION SHORT AND TAME
WEEVIL SQUAD
STARTS DEADLY
DRIVE ON PEST
Youngsters Cheer For
N. A. Ray at His
Invitation—
Thirty-seven boys and four girls
assembled at the rooms of the Cham
ber of Commerce this morning to
participate in the boll weevil drive
staged by Americus business men
this week. All were equipped with I
bottles in which to confine the wee
vils picked in the cotton fields, and :
all started on their work with en- i
thusiasm. Mrs. H. D. Hansford ■
went along with the girls as chap
erone, and C. C. Flatt accompanied
the boys to look after their comfort
and health.
While the boys and girls were
registering with Mrs. Hansford,
Neill A. Ray, whose fine farm is
located three or tour miles out of
Americus, telephoned in to invite
the weevil pickers to visit his plan
tation first, and to say that all who j
came would be treated to a “real i
good time.’’ This resulted in the ;
giving of “Three Cheers, Hurrah, '
Three cheers, we say. Three cheers I
for Neill A. Ray.” After this in-j
vitation it. was decide to send the
boys to Mr. Ray's farm, and accom-i
panied by George O. Marshall,!
county fai-m demonstration agent,l
they left about 8:30 o’clock for the'
fields. were carried out in a ;
truck furnished by C. C. Hawkins |
and driver, by Emmett C. Hawkins, i
who also brought them in later in I
the day. The girls who are partici- ’
paling in the weevil drive, were
taken to the Griffin & Humber place
several miles out on the Dawson
road, being accomapined by Mrs. i
Hansford.
Negro Worker*.
••Besides the white boys and girls i
who are engaged n the hunt for I
weevils, a large number’ of negroes |
who gathered at the .Americus In- 1
stitute were sent to the farm of R. '
P. Stackhouse on the Friendship
r ><iu. where they will work today
and every day th>-: week, unless they
are -ent to soms other p.ace from
day to day. Cash prizes aggregat
ing $275 have been offered for the
boys and girls who find the largest
number of weevils, and in addition
the farmers in whose fields they
work will pay a penny for every wee-!
vil they destroy. Reports of progress j
will be made every night to George
0. Marshall by the white boys and
girls, to Elbert Stallworth by the
negroes who are participating in
this work.
Before the beginning of the hunt,
the boys aid girls were instructed
concerning the danger of damaging
cotton by trampling upon the plants,
and were shown a number of live
boll weevils. They were particular
ly cautioned against mistaking boll
weevils for other less harmful bugs
which are also to be found in cot
ton fields at this eason. It was ex
pl b’ned to them that the small pea
vine weevil, which is practically
haiotless cl'se'y resembles the boll
weevil, the difference being that the
pavine weevil is black, while the
boll weevil is gray in color. The
habits of the two weevils also dif
fer in ’that the peavine weevil will
“shame-up” or become quiet when
handled, whereas the boll weevil
continues active under the most se
vere conditions.
The Weevil Squad.
The white boys and girls who are
assisting in the drive are: Girls—
Fannie Love Stevens, Sarah Reese,
Annie Belle Crabb, Monteen Hans
ford and Melba Hansford. Boys—
Heys Arnold, Allen Brooks, Tye
Ansley, Albert Thayer, Wm. Mc-
Carey, George Brooks, Harry Pitt
man, Derry Oliver, J. R. Livingston,
J. T. Adkins, Jack Hall, Weston Rob
inson; Robert Seig, Lee Jackson Ad
kins, Rolert Culpeppe’-, Emory Webb,
Frank Sullivan, Benjamin McMath,
Gilbert Furvis, Jerre Hollis, Daniel
Murray, Robert Manry, John Ewing
Kiker, T. C. Wisham, George Oliver,
Coney Oliver, Eugene Boswell, C.
A. Langford, James Feagin, Otho
Weed, J. A. Collins, Charles Sulli
van, Carr Sullivan, Orvis Kimsey.
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Irish Sympathizers
Stir A. F. L. Meeting
MONTREAL, June 9—Free Ire- ]
land sympathizers in .he convention '
of the American Federation of Labor
today declared war on the League of
Nations ratification program as rec
ommended by the National Council.
The convention adjourned after an
hour’s session to permit the commit
tees to work.
huffier
Forecast For Georgia—Fair to
night and Thursday; mild tempera
ture.
ERIC U S
THE TIMESHRECORDER
Awful Frost, Whispers
Old-Timer In Ear of Girl
Writer As Lodge Spoke
Mabel Abbott Writes Wonderful Description of
Scene in Coliseum at Chicago
National Convention
’BY MABEL ABBOTT,
N. E. A. Staff Correspondent.
CHICAGO, ILL., June 9
I listened yesterday to the open
ing session of the Republican Na
tional conven-
tion my first
c o n v ention.
“Listened” is
the right word.
A national con
vention is an ex
t r a o rdinary
thing to hear.
As a spectacle
it is so big and
confusing that it
is meaningless.
When you have
wandered
through forests
of raw timber
posts and climb
ed hillsides of
apparently aim-
jfck i »;■ .■
MABZL ABBOTT
less stairways you suddenly come
out into something that is not like
anything in heaven or earth.
The flag-hung light - studded
coliseum is too big for an iriterior
and not big enough for all out-of
doors. . Crowded with faces as tiny
and expressionless in its enormous
setting as the faces in a Chinese
tea cup, with the platform thrust
ing out like a peninsula into the
center of the vast space, and with
the unprecedented outline of the
sounding board and the three
square wooden horns of the tele
phonic voice magnifier suspended
like some mysterious symbol
above it.
It is all incoherent —the wild
eyed women delegates trying to
find the entrance to their sections;
the tiny gesticulating figure of the
speaker under the doom-thrusting
finger of the sounding board; the
long low perpective of the galleries
from under which the unfortunates
stowed away there like cock
roaches from a dark shelf, the
strange effect of the floor where
the upturned faces and closely
packed heads look like a sea of
skulls under the ton light—all
these things seem to have no rela
tion to each
3 CHOIRS SING
AT BIG REVIVAL
Splendid Music Feature
of Central Baptist
Services
Americus people are attending the I
series of revival services being held
in the Central Baptist church. At the
morning service of one hour unusually
large numbers are present. At the
evening service three choirs are en
gaged in the rendition of a splendid
musical program each night. One
choir is composed of grown people
possessing pleasing voices, another is
the junior choir, while the third choir
is composed of girls and boys under
twelve years of age who are rehears
ed daily for the night’s program. The
third choir is called the “Sunshine
Choir” and sunshine radiates from
their happy young faces and bright
songs they sing.
The service is in charge of Rev.
William Wear, of Cordele, a gifted
speaker. His eloquence is of the far
reaching kind, and his subjects are so
simple and searching. At last night's
service the Junior Choir san? “I’ll
Bring One,” and it was beautifully
rendered. Tonight the Sunshine Choir
will sing the well-known “Jesus Bids
Us Shine.’ The Juniors meet every
evening thirty minutes before the ser
vice for a special practice, while the
Sunshine singers meet every morn
ing at 9:30 for rehearsal.
Dr. Wear’s subject last night was
“Why My Prayers Are Not Answered
ed,” and so forceful was his presenta
tion that a number offered them
selves for special prayers.
Recess Appointments
Made by President
i
WASHINGTON, June 9.—Presi
dent Wilson today made recess ap
pointments of Henry Jones Ford, of
New Jersey, Mark W. Potter, of New
York and James Duncan, of Massa
chusetts, as a member of the Inter
state Commerce Commission; Marston
T. Bogert, of New York and Samuel
W. McCall, as members of the United
States Tariff Commission and Nicho
las Kelley, of New York, assistant
secretary of the treasury.
The natives of the Andaman
Islands average 3 feet 11 inches in
height and weigh under 70 pounds.
PUBLISHED IN THE HEAR~6r ,W blXlE;" ,, '§ :
no single impression on the mind.
But the noise, that is perfectly
comprehensible. A blind man
would “get” the convention per
fectly. The sound of 13,500
voices all talking at once, is no
more like the sound of ordinary
speech than the roar of the sea is
like the splash of a bucket of wa
ter. It is the tremendous under
tone of the convention. It dies
to nominal quiet when a speaker
appears of the nlatform, but it is
always there.
Above it before the session
opened rose the blare of the band
from its niche over the gallery, so
far away from the press stand
that the red coated figures of the
leader looked like a dancing doll.
It played “Aida” and the song of
the lovers mingled queerly with
the clamor of politics. Then it
played “Dixie” and the voice of
the convention showed for the first
time what it can do when it is
raised in a yell. It made we want
to cry, not because I care particu
larly about Dixie—l am not a
Southerner —but because the
sound rubbed my nerves as the bow
of a violin rubs the strings.
The crowd cheered again when
Chairman Hays stepped forward to
open the convention, and again
when Henry Cabot Lodge, gray
headed and frock coated, stood up
with his speech in his hand to
“sound the keynote, but the old
timers beside me in the press stand
were not satisfied.
“Awful frost,” they growled;
“if it wasn’t for that yell leader
they’ve got to call for cheers and
whoop ’em up there wouldn’t be
any. You ought to have heard ’em
when Teddy was nominated.’’
But I was listening to another of
the convention sounds, the “tired”
voice of Henry Cabot lodge, queer
ly multiplied by the apparatus over
his head and borne upon the mur
muring tide of sound that will not
end until this c invention like the
many others that Lodge has seen
has also passed into ’history.
STORES TO CLOSE
Here’s List of Signers to
Half Holiday
Agreement
Following is the complete list of th’
business houses of Americus which
have signed the agreement to close
their doors each Thursday at 1 p. m.
during the summer, beginning this
week for the observance of a weekly
half holiday for the benefit of their
employes:
Churchwell Bros., Tillman & !
Brown, Pinkston Company, Rylander I
Shoe Co. Hightower Book Store Shes- j
field Co., Williams Niles Co., W. J.
Josey, Gatewood-Cogdell Hdwe. Co.,
T. L. Bell, J. W. Harris, W. D. Bailey
Co., W. A. Joyner, U. S. Woolen
Mills, Chas. L. Ansley, Standard Dry
Goods Co., H. E. Dunaway Co., S. L.
Sills, McNeill Electric Co., S. A. Dan
iels, Singer Sewing Machine Co., Am
ericus Lighting Co., Miss Ellinor Till
man, Mrs. E. J. Walker, The Bee Hive
Edwards Music Co., Turner Electric
Co., Chamber of Commerce.
Police Stop Driving
Through Rees Park
Chief of Police John T. Bragg to
day posted signs in Rees Park pro
hibiting driving through that reser
vation. The action was taken after
complaint had been made that par
ties were using the park as a road
way, and because of the danger to
children as a result of the practice.
The park, which is located in front
of the High school building, is a
playground for many children of the
neighborhood, and residents there
hope to preserve its beauty, which
was being greatly marred through us
ing it as a roadway. Vehicles must
hereafter pass around the park, when
traveling there, roads on all four
sides being open to the public.
13KILLED IN WRECK
SCHENECTADY, N. Y., June 9
Thirteen were killed and 21 injured
when a fast east bound American Ex
press special crashed into the rear of
an accommodation passenger train on
the New York Central near here to
day.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1920.
STILL LOWDEN
AGAINST FIELD,
RICKEY’S VIEW
His Selection Would be
Triumph For Machine
and Boodle
By H. N. RICKEY.
N. E. A. Staff Correspondent.
CHIC * GO, June 9.—The first
session of the convention was as!
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a-
H.IV
for Hays. There was not, although
his greeting was friendly. Hays’
speech was short and snappy. Sena
tor Lodge’s was long and heavy. Ev
erybody was bored stiff while he was
speaking and glad when he finished.
Very few heard what he said and
nobody seemed to care.
The newspaper men all had ad
vance copies and knew that it con
; sisted in most part of peevish criti-
I cism of Mr. Wilson, and fulsome
eulogy of the Republican Congress
' for saving the nation from the ter-
I rible man in the White House.
Nothing happened to give the
! slightest clew to who is going to be
■ nominated. As this is the only
thing in which 99 per cent of the
delegates and visitors are interested,
the adjournment to Wednesday was
i a relief to everybody. There was a
rush for the hotels which are the
centers of activity in the great pres
idential free-for-all.
Until midnight the headquarters j
of the candidates and the corridors i
were filled with people, tobacco I
smoke and rumors. The rumors were |
infinite in number and variety. They]
emanated from the score of candi-j
| dates’ headquarters. After analyz-;
\ ing and sifting the rumors one was
'forced to this conclusion:
i body is going to be nominated some'
i time—maybe. About 12:30 I met
a very important man who would
i know what really was going on be
hind the scenes if any one would.
From past experience I know I had
this man’s confidence.
“Yes, I know who is going to be
nominated,” he said in answer to my.
question. I had my first convert-1
tion thrill. The great scoop was'
mine. I steered the important man I
into a nearby side corridor so that
the answer to my> next question
: would reach no ears but mine.
! “Who is? Tell me. I swear not
i to betray your confidence.”
My important friend put his face
close to mine and whispered:
“I know, but I can not tell.” |
After the nomination is made I'
am going to see this man again and
when he tells me how sorry he is.
that he could not let me in on the!
secret I shall say:
“What a liar you are.” I
It is still Lowden against the field.'
The only organized leadership here
j is among a group of machine politi-j
cians centering in the national com-,
mittee. Lowden is their candidate
In past years these men have taken'
orders from the “old guard.” Hav-;
ing disintegrated, they are now op-,
erating without orders and have i
formed an offensive and defensive
alliance to keep control of the party ,
machinery in their respective locili-i
ties. There seems to be no doubt ;
that they have received satisfactory j
assurances from the Lowden people ,
The strength of their position lies in,
the fact that the onnosition is not!
j organized. It is scattered among a,
' dozen condidates, each one of whom
thinks he may have a chance. I
The moral leadership which could (
put the machine politicians to route,
is not here. At least, it has not
shown itself yet. Such leadership,
would force the other candidates to (
sacrifice their personal ambitions for (
the sake of the country and the par
ty and consolidate their strength be
hind some man whose nomination |
would be responsible to the great
popular demand for the end of ma
chine politics.
Entirely apart from the question
of Lowden’s personal fitness for i
presidency, his nomination would be
the triumph of machine politics and
boodle. The consensus of opinion
seems to be that neither Wood nor
Johnson can beat Lowden. The hope
of those outside of the group of
fourth-rate machine bosses and their
hard-boiled delegates is that the
Lowden drive for 493 votes by the
fifth or sixth ballot can be stopped.
If it can be, and there are good rea
sons for believing it can, tnis con
vention may mark the beginning of
another great epoch in the history
of the Republican party—it may
nominate Hoover.
listless and lack- i
ing in enthusiasm
as possible. Even I
Chairman Will'
Hays, who is j
prob ably the
most p o pular ■
chief executive j
the Republicans ■
have had in a I
generation, had;
to be satisfied ■
with a cheer or'
two when he
called the dele- ‘
gates to order.
It had been pre-1
dieted that there
would be a great
demonstr a t i o n
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Fletcher Leads Catts
In Florida Election
TAMPA, June 9—Returns from
177 out of 197 precincts of the state
compiled by the Times here, show
Senator Fletcher leading Governor
Catts for the senatorial nomination
by more than 5,500 and Hardee lead
ing in the governorship race.
ADDRESS BY WOMAN,FIRST
IN CONVENTION HISTORY,
SENSATION OFSECOND DAY
Platform Committee in Long Hard Grind—Negro
Delegation Presents Demands ‘As Your Equals*
—Gompers Offers Labor’s Demands
OLISEUM, CHICAGO, June 9—The Republican
National Convention was in session only an hour
today, devoting itself only to routine preliminaries.
For the second day’s sensation the convention heard
a woman speaker, Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter, of
Kansas, the first woman to address a national con
vention, after which it adjourned to I 1 o’clock to
morrow morning.
The delegates and alternates were slow in arriv
ing and the hour before the opening was given over
I to the usual entertainment features.
“Drift to Lowden" and "growing strength of
a' I
I
I
Wood” and “turn of delegates to Johnson, heard so much down
town were little in evidence in the . .
The delegates assembled with their
views as to who will lead the party at
the polls still a mystery even to them
selves. There had been no demon
stration even for favorite sons and
no mention of “the big three,”
Wood, Lowden and Johnson. The
Wood supporters drew comfort from
the developments yesterday, which
placed Senator Watson at the head
of the resolutions committee, and
Duffield at the head of the creden
tials body. Both delegates are in
structed for Wood. Other leaders
continued to talk much of Lowden’s
gathering strength.
It was 11:20 when Chairman
Lodge called for order. Dr. John
Timothy Stone was today’s chap
lain. On the call for the report of
the committee on credentials it was
read by Chairman Duffield, who
moved its adoption. Robert Church,
a Memphis negro, who was unseated
by the committee, said he would not
ask the convention to consider the
minority report. The report was
adopted, as was that of the com
mittee recommending the temporary
organization be made permanent.
After the announcement that the
resolutions committee reported only
progress, Senator Depew made a
short address, followed by Mrs. Mar
garet Hill McCarter, of Kansas.
Depew Makes Hit.
When the resolution committee
sent word it could only report prog
ress and was not ready to present the
platform, Chairman Lodge asked the
convention what it wanted to do
mean-while. There were cries for
“Depew, Depew,” from the floor. De
pew walked out on the speakers plat
form to the accompaniment of ap
plause and cheers. “Senator Lodge
says I’m an old man, but he’s mis
taken,’’ said Depew. “A man down
South who heard me speak recently
wrote me a letter and said he heard
I claimed to be only eighty-six. ‘All I
’'»ve to say, he wrote, ‘is that you an
either a miracle or damned liar’.”
Depew said the country needed ex
perienced statesmanship to deal with
the problems growing out of the war,
declaring the Republican party had
handled it“ with ability” after the
Civil War and has proved its ability
NEGROES PRESENT DEMANDS ‘AS YOUR
EQUALS;’ LABOR PLANK DEMANDS IN.
CHICAGO, June 9. (By Asso-'
ciated Press). —Final sifting of the'
issues for the Republican platform*
began today in special sub-commit
tee of thirteen, while the remainder
of the resolutions committee kept
open house to hear last-minute sug
gestions and advice.
On the program of hearings be
fore the full committee was Sam
uel Gompers, who brought some la
bor “demands” from Montreal, and
Frank P. Walsh, heading a delega-j
tion asking a declaration for recog-’
nition of the Irish republic.
Resolutions in vigorous opposi
tion to federal legislatrnn similar to
the Kansas industrial court measure,
to unrestricted immigration and to 1
the use of injunction proceedings in!
strikes were contained in the “de-;
mands” submitted by Gompers and
Matthew A. Wall, of the American
Federation of Labor.
Other demands included immedi
ate relief from the high cost of liv
ing burdens; extension of the farm
loan act to give credit to a’l proper
ly organized co-operative and in
dividual farmers, issuance of a
monthly statement by the Depart
ment of Labor on the cost of man
facture of staple articles, prompt
federal investigation of profits and
prices and making accessible of all
income and other tax returns.
Demands that the Republican
patty take ‘en unequivocal” stand
for the enforcement of the Four
teenth amendment and against the
continuation cf the “reign of lynch
law’ were mine by a delegation
headed by Wikiam H. Lewis, a ne
gro and former assistant United
States attorney general.
Edward H. Wright, a Chicago ne
gro, who spoke on the demands, also
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
to do so. He took successive flings at
Pres. Wilson’s trip to Europe to the
great amusement of the delegates.
Other presidents, he said, had dealt
with foreign nations but had selected
iV, e best brains and men in the coun
try to go and do it. He prophesied
that out of the convention would
come wisdom and enthusiasm and that
the nation “standing for principles
of Washington, Lincoln and Roose
velt, would take its place as the
leader for the peace, unitv and civil
ization of mankind.”
Mrs. McCarter, of Kansas, follow
ed with her speech.
Few Rules Changed
Chairman Howland, of the com
mittee on rules and order of business
reported that only new material in
rules was an increase in the execu
tive committee from ten to fifteen
and a new assistant secretary. This
he said, was to take care of the “re
inforcement to the party—the ladies.’
Mrs. McCarter’s speech was short
but snappy and the audience liked it
The movie men demanded a shot at
the first woman speaker on a Repub
lican platform.
“Saturday noon at the earliest” is
the estimate of the leaders when
asked when adjournment may come
The delay is more attributable to plat
form differences than to uncertainty
over the nomination. The word has
gone out to give the radicals every
chance to present their views and es
top any possibility of a charge of
steam rolling, or as some call it an
excuse for a bolt.”
CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE
MAKES FEW CHANGES.
CHICAGO, June 9. By Asso
ciated Press)—After working all
night, the credentials committee of
the Republican national convention
completed the permanent roll at
4:30 o’clock this morning. Previ
ous rulings were sustained in all but
three cases. Two delegates were
taken from Lowden—one from
Tennessee and one from Georgia
and given to Wood; but in the fifth
Missouri district two Lowden men
were seated, leaving the standing
unchanged.
(Continued on page 8)
declared none of the claims had
"come from us as supplicants, for
we come as your brothers, and your
equals,” he declared.
Realizing it had serious party his
tory to write, the sub-committee
moved away from the swirl of dele
gates and took up quarters in a se
cluded hotel bedroom, leaving or
ders that it was not to be disturbed
for any one or for any reason.
Members predicted it would not be
ready to quit before midnight at the
earliest.
At the outset the subcommittee
read through the report of Chair
man Hays’ committee of 171, as it
had been revised in pre-convention
conferences. Most of it was written
into the platform without extended
discussion.
Samuel Gompers in presenting his
demands vigorously denounced cer
tain provisions of both the Esch-Cum
mins Railroad Bill and the Kansas
law as attempts to take from “la
boring people the right of ownership
to themselves” and added that strikes
could no be prevented in this way.
A large crowd, including William
Jennings Bryan and a score of Sen
ators and representatives heard Gom
pers. Senator Watson who had been
absent from the chair, resumed it to
hear him.
Prohibition crept into the hearing
when Wayne B. Wheeler, general
counsel for the Anti-Saloon League,
and four other drys urged the com
mittee to take a firm stand for en
forcement of the dry laws under the
Volstead act. Wheeler said the Dem
ocratic party would be compelled to
I take a similar stand. Joseph Obergfell
of Cincinnati, urged modification of
> the present dry laws.