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FORTY-SECOND YEAR—NO. 171
600 Million Wage Advance For Railroad Men
CUP CHALLENGER
SHAMROCK LEADS
IN THIRDCONTEST
First Over Line, She
Drops Back, Then
Forges Ahead
SANDY HOOK, N. Y., July 20—
The challenger, Shamrock IV, was
the first over the starting line in to
day’s race for America’s cup, but her
ballooner wouldn’t break and in five
minutes after the start the defender
Resolute had nearly caught the chal
lenger, The challenger crossed at
12:15:48 and the Resolute at 12:16:
26.
At 12:22 the American defender
jumped into the lead and eight min
utes later had increased thd lead to
200 yards.
Capt. Burton was again in charge
of the Lipton boat.
At 1:10 the Shamrock took the lead
again. Both yachts had worked to
windward of the course to the first
mark. The Shamrock at 1:30 was
leading the defender by more than
x 300 yards.
Miss Bullard Attached
To Aggie Faculty Here
Miss Evelyn Bullard, of Athens,
has been appointed to assist Mrs. E.
G. Bond as district home economics
agent, effective September Ist, and
she will make her headquarters in
Americus. Miss Bullard will be at
tached to the faculty of the Third
district Agricultural and Mechan
ical college here and will direct the
home economics work in that institu
tion besides superintending the
field work in this section. Mrs. Bond
has been district agent for several
years past, and has done much good
work in this community, /but with
the enlargement of the field it was
decided to give her an assistant, and
Miss Bullard has been selected for
the position. She studied at Cornell
University, is a graduate of the State
College of Agriculture at Athens,-
and last year was county economics'
agent for Jasper county, with head
quarters at Monticello.
7th Straight Game
Is Won by Leslie
LESLIE, July 20. —The Leslie
baseball team won their seventh
straight game Monday afternoon by
continuing their heavy hitting against
Sasser’s star pitcher, Baldwin, get
ting 16 hits for 21 bases. Bass,
Hines, Clark and Deavours each get
ting extra bases.
N. Johnson was taken out in the [
third for a pinch hitter, W. John-]
son replacing him. The latter was
hit safely only one time, in the sev
enth inning.
The final score was:
R. H. E
Leslie 11 16 2
Sasser 7 9 41
Batteries: Johnson, Johnson and
Bass, Baldwin and Milton; struck out
by Johnson, 6; by Baldwin, 4.
Walter Johnson is manager of the!
Leslie team.
County’s New Gravel
Loading Crane Here
A large loading crane purchased
some time ago by Sumter county,
has just arrived, and was being un
loaded today. The crane, which will
be used to load trucks and unload
cars of paving material, will be
erected at the gravel and slaer pit at
the foot of Jacks- n street, and will
be used in the county’s paving op
erations. It has a capacity of 3-4
yard of material each “grab” and
is modern in every resnect. It was
built at Erie, Pa., by the Ball En
gine company, and had been on the
road several weeks when it reached
Americus.
City Tax Board Gets
Down to Business
The city tax assessors. A. E.
Hines, P. B.Williford and H. O.Jones,
began their work of equalizing tax
assessments this morning. It is un
derstood that the assessors will de
vote special attention to an effort
-to increase taxable values uniformly
as well as to bring onto the tax books
a quantity of property now alto
gether unreturned, and that they will
remain in session ar indefinite time
until their duties an completed.
Poles Beat Back
Soviet Assault
WARSAW, July 20.—(8y the As
sociated Press.) —The long a waited
attack by the bolsheviki along the
line of the River Styt in Vol-Ynia
was started Monday and has been
repulsed by the heroic work of seven
Polish divisons, according to an of
ficial statement from army headquar
ters today.
Maine Prospers as Thirsty
‘Tourists’ Flock to Wet Line
DRY" j WET >
! MAINE. | CANADA
JMHKI
This is the “line house” where thirsty “tourists” gather nightly. They
enter “dry”, cross over to the “wet” side and come out the “dry” side
tanked. >
BY LORRY A. JACOBS
JACKMAN, Me., July 20—-Booze
is flowing through Maine like water
through a fire-hose.
And, of course, it’s Canada’s fault
because Canada grew so close to
Maine.
Maine is celebrating its one hun
dredth birthday this year and the
celebration seems likely to continue
for a long time unless the hootch sup
ply in Canada gives out.
Maine prospers. Tourists are thick
as ants. They’re eating food grown
on the farms and washing it down
with Canadian hootch supplied by
the natives. What could be more
nearly perfect?
I sat on the veranda of Jackman’s
good hotel “The Moose River House.”
Jackman is on the main automobile
road to Canada and the main line of
the Canadian Pacific, being the first
station this side of Hootchland. It
was Saturday night and the hotel was
jammed to the guards. Down the
street Jackman was enjoying itself in
the weekly dance. All was quiet and
lovely as the sun sank slowly be*
hind the majestic pine trees of the
Maine woods.
“This is a quiet place,” I said.
“Hm,” said the hotel clerk. “It
ain’t begun yet.” He will never say
anything truer.
For, the sun down, a steady stream
of automobiles began to appear. One
after another the headlights flashed
and on and on they came, one whirl
ing after another. From them came
no < noise but the whirring of motors.
“Must be a meeting some place,”
I observed.
“Yeh,” said the clerk. “Meeting at
the Line House. The Modern and
Fraternal Order of Hootchseekers
meets there every night.” *
“And what’s the Line House?” I
queried.
“The first watering place on the
border,” said he. “Half of it is built
on the United States side. That
side’s as dry as the desert. The other
‘MEANEST MAN’
ROBSjCORONER
Negro Held For Passing
Fake Bill on Blind
» Official
The meanest man in Sumter county i
—if not in the world—was arrested
today and brought from Leslie byl
Deputy Sheriff S. L. Cox.
His name is Charles Ottis, alias
“Overall Charlie” and he is accused !
of having passed a piece of “wetted”
paper on Ed Jenkins, Sumter coun-1
ty’s blind coroner, for a dollar bill. !
And to make it worse, if possible,
he passed the “phoney” money on the
blind coroner Sunday and received i
90 cents in perfectly good silver as i
change.
The blind coroner conducts a small
store at Leslie, and once before he
was victimized, but this time he
thinks he has the goods on the man
who slim-slammed him, though he
didn’t see him when he did it
The piece of paper which the blind
coroner mistook for real com f the
realm was in evidence at Sheriff Har
vey’s office this morning, and might
easily fool any one who would be [
guided wholly by touch The paper
printed on both sides, had bee care- ■
fully soaked in water, and dried, ap
parently, through some roiling pro
cess, which gave it touch exactly like
that of paper rnonov.
Charlie says he didn’t do it. If
he didn’t, he isn’t the meanest
man in the county, but if he did— i
and the officers say they will prove j
he did —then he will probably build ;
some'miles of good roads in atone-'
ment.
THE! RDER
PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF
I “SUMMER SPORT” IN MAINE?
It would take nothing short of )
an army to stop the flow of liquor S
from Canada across the Maine bor- <
der. The army that is now attempt- >
ing to stop it consists of one U. S. <
customs official, an immigration ?
official, three or four helpers and S
a sheriff and deputy sheriff. ?
It is estimated that places in $
Canada on the Maine border are <
selling $250,000 worth of liquor a >
month in Maine and New England (
for nearly a million dollars. One ?
shipment alone recently that met <
with an ill fate consisted of sl4,- )
000 worth of liquid joy. The cost S
a case in Canada is $32. In New I
England it is from SB4 to SIOO. 1
And rum runners are cheerfully <
paying fines of SI,OOO without >
blinking an eye. j
half is on the Canadian side and that
side’s as wet as the ocean.”
The procession kept up. One would
have thought that someone had con
ceived the idea of having all the cars
in the world meet at the Line House.
There was every imaginable make,
size, and variety. Counting as best I
could I totalled 541 cars in three
hours. In the meantime, the dance
over, all the male residents of Jack
man disappeared, following much
whispering, much talking of Canadian
French and much cranking of autos.
And then about midnight the cars
began to whiz past, going the other
direction. Only now from them came
the sounds of much merriment, much
laughter and most of them were driv
en recklessly and with cut-outs snort
ing.
“Well,” said I, “I guess I’ll go to
bed.”
“What for?” asked the clerk. “You
can’t sleep. No one can here Saturday
nights. The cars make too much
noise.”
That was the most truthful clerk I
have ever met.
HARDWICK MAY
ANSWERWALKER
Expected to Make New
Reply in Speech Here
Tonight
It was stated today that Dr. B. F.
Bond, county health commissioner,
would introduce Former Senator
Thomas W. Hardwick when he ap
pears at the court house at 8 o’clock
tonight for a speech in the interest of
his campaign for governor of Geor
gia. No seats will be placed on the
platform with the speaker, as is cus
tomary in political campaigns, there
being no formal Hardwick organiza
tion here.
Mr. Hardwick is expected to draw
a capacity house because of the inter
est that is being developed in the
campaign and the vigorous manner
in which the fight is being waged
among the various candidates. Mr.
Hardwick has been, dealing vigorously
with his opponents, particularly Clif
ford Walker, who is well known here,
and is expected to answer Mr. Walk
er’s latest attack on him which is
published in another column of this
paper. Both Mr. Walker and John
Holder, the other two candidates, are
expected to speak in Americus later
in the campaign.
The entire court room, including
the balcony, will be reserved for
white people.
Mrs. C. C. Holliday and children
leave tonight for Atlanta and Du
luth, where they will spend several
days visiting relatives.
AMERICUS, GA., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 20, 1920
PERKINS AGAIN
SECRETARY OF
LOCALCHAMBER
Accepts Offer of Place
When Oliver Asks
Release
The directors of the Americus and
Sumter County Chamber of Com
merce, with a full attendance, in
cluding the county members, except
R. S. Oliver, of Plains, and W. M.
Jones, of Americus, today re-elect
ed Joseph Perkins secretary of that
organization, effective August 1, for
one year. Mr. Perkins had been ac
ting secretary since J. G. Oliver was
named for that position several
months ago, and had before that been
secretary, the position which he has
again accepted. President Carr S.
Glover stated following the election
that Mr. Perkins was again taking
up the work at a personal sacrifice,
the salary to be paid being consid
erably less than what he would have
received in a position he had been
tendered, but which would take him
out of Americus to reside. Mr.
Oliver recently asked to be relieved
i of the secretaryship to accept a more
•lucrative offer to enter business in
Athens.
With the election of Mr. Perkins
as secretary, the directors of the
Chamber of Commerce immediately
took up the proposition to hold a
fair in Americus this fall, and it was
decided to organize a permanent fair
association to handle the proposition.
This fair association, President
Glover said, will be incorporated im
mediately with a capital stock of
$25,000, although only a portion of
this will be offered at this time. It
was decided that the fair should be
held this fall on the pounds at the
Third District Agricultural and Me
chanical college here, and that $5,000
of stock in the fair association be
offered Americus merchants and
business men within the next thirty
days. Directors present at the meet
ing this morning subscribed $2,700
of this amount, their subscriptions
being made on the basis of the
amount of stock to be issued and
it being understood that they will
take additional stock when the re
maining treasury stock is offered for
sale. Only business men will be
asked to subscribe to the first of
fering of fair association stock. It
is announced that the balance of
the stock, $20,000, is to be sold later
and used to purchase permanent
fair grounds and erect buildings
thereon.
The directors of the chamber have
been working on the fair proposition
for some time, and have already ob
tained options on several sites, though
none of these have yet been closed.
The short time which elapses be
tween naw and the time for holding
the fair makes it necessary to use
the Third Aggie fair buildings, and
j these can be put in good condition
at small expense, so the directors
j will not definitely settle upon the per
' manent fair site until after the 1920
j fair has been held.
; In purchasing the permanent fair
; site, President Carr Glover said this
| morning, the directors will have in
mind the need for a country club
! and golf links at Americus, and it
is planned to acquire a tract which
! will contain sufficient acreage to pro
i vide these advantages, and a part
!of the tract will be leased to per
; sons who may be individually in
! terested or to another organization.
Planes on Way From
Maneuvers Stop Here
Four DeHaviland planes command
ed by Capt. Charles Hale, passed
through Americus yesterday, en
route from Sarasota, Fla., to Mont
gomery, Ala., stopping for a brief
stay at Souther Field. With Capt.
Hale were Lieut. Wade, Lieut. Cum
mings and Lieut. Smith. One other
plane which left Sarasota with the
party became disabled en route and
was left at Ambros, Ga., Capt. Hale
reported. The squadron, which is
equipped with machine guns and
full war material, belongs to the air
fleet stationed at Langley Field, Va.,
which is their ultimate destination.
They made the trip from Sarasota
to Americus, a distance of about 400
miles in 4 hours. The squadron had
been attending artillery maneuvers
in the Gulf of Mexico, and is now
en route to the home field.
•
Flies Here From
Montgomery For
Setto at Bridge
4
Col. H. M. Claggett, commanding
officer at Taylor Field, Montgomery,
Ala., flew to Americus Sunday af
ternoon for a few rubbers of bridge
with Col. Duncan, officer in charge
of the examinations at Souther Field
and an old friend. He returned in
the afternoon, the round trip requir
ing little more than two hours, and a
DeHaviland plane being used.
Style Demonstration at Aggie
Proves Feature; Experts Call It
State’s Best Short Course Yet
“The best short course yet; and
the best Aggie college we have yet
visited.”
The foregoing is the consensus of
expression by experts attending the
short course at the Third District
Agricultural and Mechanical College
here. The course began yesterday
with a much larger attendance than
had been anticipated, and the college
authorities were compelled to bor
row army cots from Captain Law
rence Churchill, commanding officer!
at Souther Field, in order to provide
adequate sleeping accommodations in
the college dormitories.
All day yesterday additional stu
dents registered at the college, and
new clases were formed to accom
modate those who arrived late. In
the woman’s department, conducted
under supervision of Miss Lois P.
Dowdell, of Athens, there were three
classes in steam-pressure canning in
operation at one time, and in addi
tion students were given instruction
in one other method. The steam!
pressure method, however, is being
stressed especially, due to the fact
that larger cans may be sealed by
this method, with the number possi
ble to preserve also largely increas
ed.
The canning demonstrations yes
terday were given in the home of
Principal Prance, who arranged to
permit the use of both stories of his
pretty home on the college campus
for this purpose. Miss Dowdell was
in charge of the demonstrations on
the first floor, with Mrs. Olin Wil
liams, Sumter county agent, in
charge of one class on the second
floor and Mrs. E. G. Bond, of Col
umbus, conducted another. Miss
Dowdell, who is state home economics!
agent, was the chief lecturer, and!
she explained the problems of can-|
ning to the girls and young women!
attending in a manner most easily
understood.
Assist in Demonstrations
Miss Jessie Fortson, of Columbus,
assisted in the steam pressure can
ning work, as did also Miss Rosa
McGee, of Athens. Mis McGee who
is now a student at the State College
of Agriculture, will graduate next
year, when she plans to go into ex-;
tension work, and her efficiency here!
yesterday demonstrated to advantage
her fitness for that field of en
deavour.
Miss Evelyn Bullard conducted the
I open-kettle method canning demon
stration, and her class was one of
I the largest assembled for the short
; course session.
All classes yesterday canned a
I soup mixture, made from
f vegetables grown upon the college
i farm, of which there are an abund-
■ ance. This farm also supplied the
' dormitory tables with vegetables, al
! though it was necessary to purchase
; a small quantity of tomatoes for use
iin the catsup preserving demonstra
! tions.
One feature of much interest to
i the women and girls attending the
! short course was the style demon-
■ stration staged just before the day’s
work was concluded with a round of
games led by Miss Myrtice Soule
Brown. This consist'd of an exhibi-;
tion of illustrated styles, and a lec
ture on the creation of proper dress
for girls of various ages. The lec
turers in this class not only explain
ed to the students technical methods
of style-creation, but actually dem-
I onstrated with cloth the methods to
pursue in the making of certain dress
. designs. Miss Dowdell conducted
' this class in person.
Miss Brown, who is here through
an effort of the American Red Cross
i society to encourage motherhood and
: protect the lives of infants, is
! working in co-operation with the
! Georgia State Board of Health, and
! her lecture was one cf the most
i interesting features of the after
noon’s work. She served during the
'war in France as a member of the
TROOPS DEFEND
NEGROES:! DEAD
Mob Unable to Get Trio
Accused of
Assault
RALEIGH, N. C., July 20—Three
negroes arrested at Graham Satur
day as the result of an attack on a
white woman, , were placed in the
penitentiary here this morning for
safe keeping. One man was killed
and three injured last night by the
militia when a mob attacked the
Alamanice county jail at Graham
in an effort to lynch the negroes.
Forecast for Georgia—Porbably
local thunder showers tonight and
Wednesday.
famous Emory unit, and during her
foreign service nursed many wound
ed American soldiers. This, how
ever, was not the principal topic of
her talk yesterday, her subject being
“Saving The Babies.” This she il
lustrated by quoting many figures
showing the excessive death rate i
among babies, many of these being;
from preventable causes. The duty
of the state toward the mothers of;
the future, Miss Brown says, begins 1
with the young girl attending the
high school, the prep school, and
the institutions of higher learning/
These girls and young women, she;
says, should be encouraged to see!
and appreciate the need for trained!
nurses, and to grasp and enlarge the
great field of service open to them'
there. According to Miss Brown,'
the number of properly trained
nurses is already sorely inadequate!
to meet the demand, while, since the!
signing of the armistice that field of
service, apparently, has been aband
oned.
Should Know Nursing
Whether a young girl intends to
follow nursing as a life work or not,
she should learn its principles, Miss
Brown says, and the high school and
prep institution is (the (place best
suited to impart this primary know
ledge. No other profession so fits a
young girl for the duties and priv
ileges of motherhood as does nurs
ing,, according to Miss Brown, and
every mother should see that her
daughter is prepared for mother
hood, which is one of woman’s high
est privileges.
At the conclusion of the classes
in the various buildings, Miss Brown
organized the students into play
bands, and within a few minutes the
campus was covered with rollicking,
jolly crowds, recuperating at
wholesome play after several hours |
of hard work. This continued until;
rain interrupted the exercises, the;
ride about Americus as guests of
the Americus Rotary club being,
postponed by weather conditions.
In the men's section of the short
[course, W. H. Howell and Carl Wal
lace, both of Athens, were the chief
I lecturers. “Cattle Selection” was
I the topic discussed by Howell, while
Wallace again lectured on “Swine.”
Cattle and swine belonging to
the college herds were used to illus
trate both these lectures. With
about fifty interested men and boys
the two lecturers went into the cat
tle pen on the agronomy division of
the campus, and there the various
good and bad points of the cattle and
swine were pointed out. At the;
conclusion of the lecture, students
present were asked to select the best
animal in the assembled herd, and
the selection of each was then ana
lyzed by the lecturer, with explana
tion of errors made and proper con
siderations allowed.
The chief point of consideration
in the' selection of a milch cow, ac
cording to Howell, is the udder, for
without a large udder, no cow can
be expected to produce more than
an ordinary quantity of milk. And
the shape and condition of the ud
der enters into the consideration as
well as its size, for this vessel should
not only be large, but it should be
properly shaped as well. The udder
that is oval shaped at the bottom,
with a reasonable firmness, but de
void of muscular tension, and which
has large “milk veins” running into
and away from it, indicates a good
cow, Howell told the students. And
there are other points which should
be considered as well in the purchase
| of the family cow.
Illustrates Cow Shapes
A cow in order to produce a
amount of milk, he said, must have
a large “middle,” that is the stomach
capacity must be sufficient to store
away enough food to provide, the ex
pected milk, for, he told his hear
ers, the cow producing a large quan
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DORSEY URGED TO
JOIN GOV. BROUGH
Invited to Spend Day
Here With Arkansans
Aug. 2
The directors of the Chamber of
Commerce today adopted a resolu
tion requesting Secretary Perkins to
formally invite Governor Hugh M.
Dorsey to join the party of Arkan-!
sas business men and farmers who;
are to be here August 2, and this
telegram was sent the governor this
afternoon.
The Chamber of Commerce will be
host to the visitors during their stay
here, and it is hoped that Governor
Dorsey will join the party and go
with them on their tour of the farms
and show places of Sumter.
The longest railroad tunnel in the
world is the Simplon, 12 1-2 miles
long, running through the Alps.
him. sp»»hs YE*
Z**" ~ STUCK A POU HD
21 PCT. INCREASE
AWARDEMJNIONS
TO TAKE BALLOT
Means 18 Pct. Freight
Rate Increase, Says
Whittier
WASHINGTON, July 20—Immedi
ately upon receipt of the announce
ment of the wage award, the rail
road executives in session here, went
into conference today to frame rec
ommendations to the Interstate Com
merce Comm?- on for an advance in
rates to meet the added expense.
CHICAGO, July 20—'Hio United
States Railway Labor Board today
awarded nearly two million organiz
ed workers inci eases in wages totall
ing $600,000 ' CO. The increases
amount approximately to 21 per cent
of the present rate of pay. The award
is retroactive to May 1, this year.
‘•The board assumes as the basis
for this decision,” the award says “a
continuance in full force and effect
of the rules, wrrking conu ;<cns and
agreements in force under the Ju
thority of the Federal Railroad Ad
ministration. The intent of this de
cision is that the named increase, ex
cept as otherwise stated, shall be ad
ded to the rates of compensation es
tablished by the railroad administra
tion.” «!
The decision grants approximately
sixty per cent of the billion dollar in
crease which the railroad workers
sought.
Whether the award as given will
stave off the threat of a general rail
road strike remains to be seen. The
leaders of practically all of the six
teen big railroad unions who were
present when the award was announc
award to the one thousand general
ed left immediately to present the
chairmen gathered here to pass upon
its acceptability. They refused to
make any comment before the meet
ing.
An eighteen per cent increase in
freight rates will be necessary to
meet the wage awards, E. T. Whit
tier, representative of the railroads
in hearings before the labor board,
announced.
The new railroad unions which call
ed a series of strikes this spring will
submit the board’s decision to a ref
erendum vote of their membership,
John Granau, president of the Chica
go Yardmasters Association, declar
ed.
Train dispatchers are given an in
crease of 13 cents an hour and yard
masters and assistant yardmasters,
15 cents an hour
The following increases are added
to the established rates for clerical
and station forces:
Storekeepers, chief clerks, foremen
and other clerical supervisory forces,
clerks with one or more years’ rail
road experience, train and engine
crew callers, assistant station masters
train announcers, gatemen and bag
gage and parcel room employes, 13
cents an hour.
Janitors,' elevator and telephone
operators, watchmen, employes of op
erating office appliances and similar
work, 10 cents an hour.
Freight handlers or truckers 12
cents an hour.
All common laborers in and around
stations, storehouses and warehouses
not otherwise provided for 8 1-2 cents
an hour.
Clerks of less than one year’s ex
perience, 6 1-2 cents an hour.
Office boys, messengers and other
employes under 18 years of age, five
' cents an hour.
Stationary engine and boiler room
employes were advanced 13 cents an
hour for engineers, firemen and oil
ers, while water tenders and coal
passers receive a 10-cent increase.
In the signal department foreign
inspectors, maintainers, signal men,
and their assistants, 13 cents an hour;
helpers 10 cents an hour.
The increases follow:
Passenger Service: Engineer and
motormen, firemen, helpers, 80 cents
per day.
Freight Service: Engineers, fire
men, helpers, $1.04 per day.
Passenger Service: Conductors,
ticket collectors, baggagmen, flag
men and breakmen, S3O per month.
Suburban passenger service employ
es S3O per month.
Yard Service: Engineers, firement,
helpers, 18 cents per hour.
Freight Service: Conductors, flag
men and breakmen, $1.04 per day.
Superseding rates established by
the railroad administration the board
fixed the following schedules:
Yard Service: Sngineers, firemen,
day; helpers $6.48; switch tenders
$5.04.
Hostler Service: Outside hostlers,
$6.24 per day; inside hostlers $5.60
per day: helpers $5.04.
The following increases were au
thorized for shop employes:
Supervisory Forces: Machinists,
, boilermakers, blacksmiths, sheet met
tal workers, electrical workers, pow
; er men, moulders, cupola tenders and
coremakers, including those with less
than four years’ experience, all
crafts 13 cents an hour. Regular
and helper apprentices and helpers,
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.