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FORTY-SECOND YEAR—NO. 173
HARDING IS NOTIFIED AMID GREAT ACCLAIM
GINNING RATES
GO UP HERE; $5
BALE MINIMUM
New Schedule Due to In
creased Cost, Is Ex-..
planation
Ginning will cost <he farmers of
Georgia considerably more this year.
This came to light today after the
annual meeting at the Carnegie li
brary of of ginners of the Third Dis
trict, the principle business trans
acted at which was the establishment
of a price list for the coming sea
son. The new scale of prices follows:
Minimum on bales weighing 500
lbs or less, $5.
Bales over 500 lbs and less than
600, $1 per cwt. lint cotton.
Bales 600 lbs and over, $1.20 per
cwt. lint cotton.
Bagging and ties, extra, $2 per
bale.
These .prices compare with a rate
last season of 75 cents per 100 lbs
lint cotton and $1755 per bale for
bagging and ties.
The meeting wa presided over by I
Mell M. Stephenson, of Atlanta, sec
retary of the Georgia Ginners’ asso-l
ciation. After the meeting he gave'
out the new schedule of ’-rices and
explained the reasons the ad
vance.
“The incieases were necesary,”;
said he, “because of the increased,
cost of everything connected with
the ginning business. Coal that cost
last year $5.25 per ton delivered at
the gin is costing sl2 to sl3 this
year. Other items have increased pro
potionately, making the change in i
prices imperative. These changes
here are in line with the rates being
fixed in other parts of the sta+i.”
At the close of the meeting the gin
ners were addressed b’’ C. E. Lovett,
field secretary of Georgia Tech, who
explained the school’s program and
how a movement was being perfected
for making the school a big factor in
training textile engineers by the es-j
tablishment of as fine a textile school;
as exists in this country. At the con-!
elusion of his address the ginners |
adopted a resolution endorsing Teen
and extending its co-operation in this;
movement.
U. S. Approves More
Highway Projects
ATLANTA, July 22.—The state
highway department has secured
within the past week, the approval
of the chief engineer of the bureau
of public roads at Washington upon
projects for road work in Georgia,
which total accord- I
ingto the statement Tuesday of offi
cials of that office. . I
Os the above amount, it is added
the federal government will partici
pate to the amount of $461,173.49.j
The roads constituting this program;
of construction are to be built under,
the supervision of the state highway
department. The projects include in
part:
Project No. 173, involving, im-,
provement of 2 1-2 milbs on the
Ellaville-Butler road in Schley coun
ty, at an estimated cost of $23,-;
000.00, of which the federal govern-)
ment will bear 50 per cent of the,
cost. . I
Project No. 164, involving the;
construction of a bridge over Camp[
creek on the Dixie Highway, in Ma-;
con county, at an estimated cost of;
$27,000.00, $12,000.00 of which will!
be refunded by the federal govern-!
ment. <
Project No. 163, involving the im
provement of 1.75 miles of the
Lumpkin-Richland road in Stewart
county, at an estimated cost of $33,-1
261.13, and in which federal govern-!
ernment aid is requested to the ex-!
tent of $12,500.00.
Suggests Sumter Again
Be State Fair Winner
“ u
Copies of the premium list of the |
Georgia State Fair, which will be held ■
at Macon October 28-Nov. 6, have
been received here and Ordinary
John A. Cobb announces that he has
a supply of them at his office at
the court house which may be had
by any one interested. Capt. Cobb is
superintendent of the department of
fine arts of the fair,, and has long
been indentified with it as an officer
of the Georgia State Agricultural
Society or as a department head of
the fair.
Capt. Cobb sugggests that this
year would baa good time for Sum
ter county to get back to her old
place as a leader in county exhibitors
in the state fair. Formerly a blue
ribbon winner, 'Sumter county has ;
not been represented with a county
exhibit in recent years.
Laborers’ Strike Ties
Up 20 Coal Mines
CHICAGO, July 22—A strike of
day laborers in the Southern Illinois
coal fields, with a demand for higher
wages, today had closed more than
twenty mines in the Franklin county
district. Reports said approximately <
12,000 men were idle. <
Woman Doctor Sent By Surgeon
General To Help Georgia Babies
, Public Health Service
Co-Operates to Lower
Death Rate
ATLANTA, July 22—“ When
; Chambers of Commerce pay more at
j tention to the baby death rate than
| to the number of smoke stacks, they
' I will have a much better claim to at
tract people to their cities.”
So says the first woman ever as
. signed by the United States Public
. Health Service to child hygiene. She
is Dr. Lydia Allen DeVilbiss, assign
; ed by Surgeon General Cumming to
. help State Health Officer Dr. T. F.
: Abercrombie save the hundreds of
i children who needlessly die in this
state.
Georgia is a pioneer in the south
in cooperating with the United States
1 Public Health Service in child hygi
ene. Although its figures on births
and deaths are still incomplete, the
statistics which were collected for the
first three months of this year show
ed about one baby in every eight
born dies before it is one year old.
Thorough Cooperation
j Numerous Baby Health Centers
have been established throughout the
J state. During the summer months
; a drive is being made to teach moth
ers how to feed their children and so
avoid the usual summer ailments.
In the fall nutrition clinics and phys
! ical inspection of school children will
! be held. Further work will be to get
in touch with prospective mothers.
In these and other ways Dr. Aber
crombie expects to prevent the loss of
hundreds of Georgia babies.
The doctors of the state are co
operating. The Pediatric Society has
appointed a committee of three, Dr.
A. J. Waring, Savannah; Dr. W. L.
Funkhouser, Atlanta; and Dr. W. A.
Mulherin, Augusta, to assist Dr. De-
Vilbiss and the state board of health.
The baby specialists of the state are
giving their services free in the Baby
Health Centers.
The women’s organizations of
! Georgia are making child welfare and
child hygiene their principal program
I for the year. A Georgia Baby Book
: is to be sent to every new mother
| within twenty four hours after the
| baby comes. This will tell her how to
, feed and take care of her baby.
“We are sure of some good results”
said Dr. DeVilbiss. “But we could do
much more effective work if we had
larger appropriations. Good health
and the preservation of life can be
a certainty in proportion to the
amount of money wisely spent in car
rying out public health work.”
50 Cents a Year
i “Only 50 cents a year per person
| would provide abundant funds for
I health protection. This amount of
i money spent wisely would prevent
virtually all of the communicable dis
! eases and would keep practically the
j entire population in good health. This
! is only a fraction of the amount now
spent for doctor bills.
The United States is cited as the
only first class power that does not
, have a national department of health
with a cabinet officer.
Dr. DeVilbiss was formerly connec
ted with the New York State Depart
ment of Health and the director of
■ child hygieine for the state of Kan
• sas. She says she hopes many other
! women physicians soon will join in
; the work for child hygiene in con-
I nection with the United States Pub
i lie Health Service and the state and
city departments of health.
The United States Public Health
Service field investigations in Child ;
Hygiene are under direction of As- !
sistant Surgeon General Taliaferro j
Clark. I <
Kiwanis Ready For
Ladies’ Night Dinner
The first Ladies’ Ni<’ht the ca-|
reer of the Americus Kiwanis ■~h b:
will be celebrated at the Windsor;
hotel Friday night. Arrangements!
for an evening of fun and feasting!
were being completed by the vari-l
ous committees in charge today. It;
was indicated today that practically
the entire membership, with their;
wives, sweethearts, or other guests >
will be present.
Secretary Mathis asked today that
all Kiwanians be reminded to return
their cards at once notifying him of
their intentions either to attend or
be absent, and if to attend, the num
ber of plates desired reserved. It is
necessary that all be in hand by 10
a. m. Friday.
President Lewis Elis announced
this afternoon that a business mat
ter which requires the club’s imr
mediate attention would be taken up
at a meeting in one of the hotel par
lors at 8:15, immediately preceding
the dinner, which is set for 8:30. No
business will be transacted at the
ner, and all members are asked '0
be present at this bri f business ses
sion promptly.
baffler
Forecast for Georgia—Probably lo
cal thundershowers tonight and Fri
day.
THE TIMESWRECORDER
PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE
Dr. Lydia Allen DeVilbiis and a normal Georgia baby, Mary Minell
Gibson.
VISITORS WANT
BUSINESS ONLY
Arkansans Ask That
Usual Entertainment
Here Be Cut Out
Actual details of the arrangements
for the coming here on Monday, Aug
ust 2, of a special train of Arkansas
farmers and bankers headed by Gov
ernor Brough, purpose of
studying “how we do it” in Sumter
county, ’/ere put under way today
when a general committee appointed
by President Carr Glover of the
Chamber of Commerce, held its first
meeting and started the ball rolling.
The visit here early in the week of
two advance representatives of the
party provided the information neces
sary to permit of completion of all
arrangements for taking care of the
distinguished visitors. The committee
of which Sam R. Heys was named
chairman, is composed of the follow
ing other members: George R. Ellis,
T. C. Tillman, Lewis Ellis, R. L. M,c-
Math, J. E. Hightower, R. E. Allison,
Alton Cogdell, W. H. Howell, E. A.
Bailey and W. S. Kirkpatrick. The
general committee was authorized by
Chairman Heys to appoint committees
on entertainment and other matters.
Secretary Perkins, of the Chamber
of Commerce, explained the plans
of the party in outline. The special
train of eight Pullmans will arrive di
rect from Little Rock, Ark., about 11
o’clock Sunday evening, August 1.
Americus will be the first stop of the
party on their trip of /one weejk
through the southeast cotton states.
They will spend the night in their cars
and will be met by citizens in autos!
in the morning and driven to the
Windsor hotel where they will break
fast, their train carrying no diner.
At 8:30 they will be prepared for a
trip into the rural districts. It is
proposed to take them in autos first
out the Methvin road into the 28th
district, stopping probably twice along
the way to view’ cotton fields and hear
brief talk on methods used by the
farmers whose places are being in
spected. They will return to the city
via the river road, stopping also en
route for the same purpose.
They will take dinner at the hotel
at noon, and again at 2:30 take a
trip to the countrv. It is proposed
first to visit J. W. Hightower’s farm
west of Americus, thence go to L. M.
Hansford’s pecan orchard, thence to
Sumter City, and thence to Dr. Wise’s
fine stock farm near Plains, where the!
inspection trip will end. It is plan-;
ned then to take the party to Magno-,
lia or Myrtle Springs for a rest and!
for bathing.
Tn the evening the partv will be;
entertained at a banquet at the Wind
sor hotel, and the visitors will board
their train for their departure at 11
p. m.
It was stressed by the advance men
that the tour is purely educational,
the farmers seeking information on
better cotton and general farming
and the use of fertilizers, and not en
tertainment, while the bankers seek
AMERICUS, GA., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 22, 1920
GIRL, 11, SUICIDE;
LEAPS 4 FLOORS
‘I Was No”Use,’ She
Writes in Note to
Parents
NEW YORK, July 22—Preferring
death to punishment by her father 11-
year old Angelia Scire threw herself
from the fourth story window of her
home today and died later in a hos
pital. She left a note to her parents
saying: “I was no use; to get killed
I threw myself out of the window.”
Drys Await Word of
Bryan’s Acceptance
LINCOLN, Neb., July 22—The
' Prohibition party today re-arranged
! its convention schedule, pending word
from Wm. J. Bryan, as to his accept
; ance of the party’s presidential nom-
I ination, all plans being i-.ade on the
assumption that Bryan wjuld accept.
The platform committee in executive
; session was redrafting the platform
| so “there would be nothing in it
which would not meet Bryan’s whole
i hearted approval.”
U. S. Trap Shooters
Victors at Antwerp
ANTWERP, July 22—The Ameri
can team was an easy winner in the
first round of the Olympic trapshoot
ing competition this morning, scoring
115 out of a possible 120 in the team
shoot.
Scaffolding Falls
In Theater, 9 Hurt
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 22
Nine men were injured, two probably
fatally today when scaffolding in a
theater fell here today.
information on how to finance the
crops and supply the farmers’ needs
while the crops are being mhde. For
this reason almost no entertainment
of the ordinary kind is desired. Talks
only of explanatory or educational
nature will be made, even at the
banquet, which will be without the
customary long speeches. Governor
Brough will be the only spokesman
for the visitors. Governor Dorsey, of
Georgia, has been invited to be pres
ent, and in case he accepts, he proba
bly will speak for Georgia.
Because of the high honor paid
Sumter county by this party picking
this as one of the only two counties
in Georgia to be visited—the other
ston being at the state agricultural
college at Athens—every effort is to
be made to make the reception as
near as possible what the visitors
wish and every effort will be bent
along that line, at the same time im
pressing them with the fact that they
made no mistake in picking Sumter
as the chief county, agriculturally, in
Georgia.
The general committee will meet
again Monday at 6 o’clock.
NOTIFICATION OF
COX IS SET FOR
SAT.JUG. 7
Ceremony at Roosevelt
Home to Follow on
Monday
COLUMBUS, July 22.—Chairman
George White, of the Democratic Na
tional committee, announced today
that Saturday, August 7, had been
chosen as the date for the formal
notification of Governor Cox and
the following Monday, August 9, had
been fixed for the notification of
esoßovelt, the Democratic presiden
tial and vice presidential nominees.
It was announced that both candi
dates would start almost immediately
thereafter on speaking tours, Gov
ernor Cox in the central and eastern
states, and Mr. Roosevelt in the west.
Location of campaign headquarters
was also among organization details
considered, New York, Chicago and
San Francisco being discussed for
headquarters sites.
With preliminary organization af
fairs on hand, Chairman White plan
ned to go today to Marietta, 0., his
home, and then a few days with his
family, which is summering at Ed
gertown, Mass. Next Wednesday he
planned to meet Homer S. Cummings,
former chairman, at New York head
quarters, spend the following day at
Washington headquarters and return
here.
Georgia Editors To
Go To Washington
CARROLTON, July 22.—Wash
ington, Ga., has been selected as
the place for next years’ meeting of
the Georgia Press association and all
of the old officers have been re-elect
ed for the coming year. These were
the two matters of most intrest at
the close of the business sessions
here last evening. The officers are:
J. Kelley Simmons, Mcßae, presi
dent; W. G. Sutlive Savannah; C.
Rountree, Wrightsville, and Ernest
Camp, Monroe, vice presidents; H. M.
Stanley, Atlanta, corerspondir.g sec
retary; Charles E. Binns, Butler, sec
retary, and J. H. Powell, Cuthbert,
treasurer.
The memorials committee paid
high tribute to the two members of
the association who have died, George
H. Long and the veteran James Cal
laway, both of The Macon Telegraph,
and the records of the organization
will contain memorials to them.
The plan of the Georgia Medical
society to urge up on the legislature
the passage of an appropriation for
a statue to Dr. Crawford Long in
the Washington Hall of Fame was
unanimously endorsed by the con
vention. A report of a special com
mittee which urged the attendance of
the National Editorial Association
next spring meeting in Miami, Fla.,
and the joining of that association
by the members was adopted.
Shamrock Defeated
In Third Cup Race
SANDY HOOK, N. J., July 22
Resolute, defender of the America’s
yachting enup, came back yesterday
after two straight defeats and won
magnificently over the British chal
lenger, Shamrock IV.
Shamrock finished a scant half
boat length ahead, with a lead of 19
seconds, but as she had gained pre
icsely that advantage at the start the
race was—miraculously in yachting
events —a dead heat over the 30 mile
course. Resolute won by the amount
of her handicap, seven minutes and
one second. The fourth race of the
series will be started Friday.
It was a real yacht race from the
start, and it proved a finish rivalling
in closeness that of a n ck-and-neck ;
horse race.
Leslie Trims Pineview
On Muddy Ground
LESLIE. July 22—After defeating
Pineview here yesterday in a driz
zling rain by a score of 9-3 the Leslie '
baseball team went to Leesburg today
where a game is being staged this af
ternoon.
Considering the condition of the
grounds the game yesterday was good
although Warren, hurling for Pine- ;
view, recei- ed rather ragged suppoit,
owing to the wet and muddy ball. All ■
of the Leslie players hit well, 12
clean hits being secured. The score:
RHE
PINEVIEW 3 3 6
LESLIE 9 12 3
Batteries—Warren and Moore;
Johnson, Bolick, Sumerford and Bass
and Johnson.
Spellacy Expected to
Succeed Roosevelt
WASHINGTON, July 22—Thomas
G. Spellacy. of Hartford, Conn., is j
understood to have been selected to
be Assistant Secretary of the Navy 1
to succeed Franklin D. Rosevelt.
NOISY BANDS, MARCHING
DELEGATIONS, DO HONOR
TO REPUBLICAN NOMINEE
Senator, in Speech of Acceptance, Gives Prohibit
tion Only Passing Notice—Straddles
League Issue Again
ARION, 0., July 22—The Republican national campaign attained
full speed ahead today with the formal notification here of Sen
ator Harding. These ceremonies brought to Marion most of the big
leaders of the party, together with many thousands of Harding enthu
siasts from all parts of the nation.
Senator Harding's speech of acceptance came at the end of a
long program in which high-pitched enthusiasm ruled as the visiting
delegations marched to the Harding residence in broken succession
from thirty special trains and thousands of automobiles.
Delegation after delegation, with bands blaring and colors flying
marched to the Harding home, then reformed, marched and counter
marched through the city.
Marion was dressed within an inch of its life. Business was sus
pended and partisanship forgotten in acknowledgment of the honor
pdid a fellow townsman. Painstaking arrangements were made to pro
vide luncheon for the crowds. Most of the public counters were un
der the supervision of the churches) Long before noon Senator Hard
,n B nad abandoned hope of shaking hands with all those who came
and he smilingly waved acknowledgments as the throng marched
past.
HARDING SAYS LITTLE IN SPEECH
ACCEPTING LEADERSHIP OF G. O. P.
MARION, 0., July 22—A pledge
of constitutional government, admin
istered by party and not by individ
uals and absed on national rather than
world ideals, was giveri by Warren
1 *u ar today in ac c e Pt'ng formal
ly the Republican nomination for the
presidency.
He welcomed a popular referen-i
dum on the League of Nations, ad
vocated increased production to tut
1 i lg i. cos t living, pleaded for
obliteration of reactional and class
conflict, and declared for industrial
peace not forced but inspired by
the common weal.”
Prohibition he gave only passing
notice, saying that despite divided
opinion regarding the eighteenth
amendment and the statutes enacted
to make it operative, there must be
no evasion in their enforcement. He
declared it his “sincere desire” that
ratification of the suffrage amend
ment be completed to permit women
vote this fall in every state.
Reviewing and commending brief
ly many other planks of the party
platform, the candidate declared for
collective bargaining for farmers, re
presison of the disloyal, “generous
federal cooperation” in Rehabilitating
the railroads, intelligent deflation of
the currency, enlargement of govern
ment aid in reclamation, a genuine
expression of gratitude to veterans of
the world war and maintenance of
an ample navy and “a small atmy but
the best in the world.”
In his promise of “a party govern
ment,’ Senator Harding reiterated
his belief that the Vice President
should have a part in the affairs of
the cheif executive’s official family
and declared there also should be
“a cordial understanding and coord
inated activities” between the exec
utive and Congress.
“No man,” he said, “is big enough
to run this great republic. Our first
commital is the restoration of repre
sentative popular government, under
the constitution, through the agency
of the Republican party.”
Promising restoration of peace as ■
soon as a Republican Congress should
send a peace declaration to a Repub
lican President for his signature, the
candidate assailed the league cove
nant as brought home by President
Wilson, but declared the war’s sac
rifices would be “in vain if we can
not acclaim a new order, with added
security to civilization and peace
maintained.”
“We Republicans of the Senate,”
3 ARE KILLED IN
BELFAST RIOTS
Property Damage in Ir
ish City Put at Half a
Million
BELFAST, July 22.—The city is
quiet this morning after a night of
sanguinary and almost continuous
fighting between Sinn Fein ad' Un
ionist mobs, and the situation re
mains tense.
Two men and one woman were kill
ed during the disturbances of the
night, while a score of others are in
hospitals today, having sustained
gun-shot wounds. Many of those
wounded, failed to report at hospi
tals.
Property damage as a result of the
rioting was placed early today at
$500,000.
TULSA HAS 72,075
WASHINGTON, July 22—Census
figures announced today gave Tulsa,
Okla., 72,075 population, an increase
-of 296.4 per cent.
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he continued, “when we saw the
structure of a world supergovera
ment taking visionary form, joined
in a becoming warning of our de
votion to this republic. The Republi
cans of the Senate halted the barter
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responsibility of this republic. We
were resolved then, eveJas we
day ’ ) Vlll be tomorrow, to pre-
public f fh e and inde P end ent re-
public. Let those now responsible or
seeking* responsibility, propose the
h7>nf nder ’ 1 wbether with interpreta
tions, apologies, or reluctant reserv
ations—from which our rights are
'“"“.".'.S' "ferend..
With a Senate advising as the
constitution contemplates, I would
hopefully approach the nations of
Hi»t°^ e n < ? nd » Os j the earth ’ Proposing
that understanding which makes us
a willing participant in the consecra
tion of n; tions to a new leadership,
Sworm ran 4 lt tbe mor^ 1 forces of the
; world, America included, to peace
and international justice, still leav
ing America free, independent and
tn f n e lu nt ’ b ?t offering friendship
to all the world.
Declaring railway employes ought
to be the best paid in the world,
the candidate emphasized the re
sponsibility of such service and add-
“The government** *might well
stamp railway employment with the
sanctity of public service and guar
antee the railwav employes thht just,
ice which voices the American c in
ception of righteousness on the one
hand and assures co. tinuitv of serv
ice on the other.”
In his reference to prohibition and
law enforcement he said:
“People ever will differ about the
wisdom of a law—there is divided,
opinion regarding the eighteenth
amendment and the laws enacted to
•make it operative—but there can be
no difference of opinion about hon
est law enforcement: ***Modification
or repeal is right of a free people,
whenever the deliberate and Intelli
gent public sentiment commands but
perversion and evasion mark the
paths to the failure of government
itself.”
(Senator Lodge’s speech of notitica-
I tion will be found on page 6 of this
issue.)
ALLIES TO AID
POLES AT ONCE
Prepare For Action, if it
Is Necessary, Paris
Reports
PARIS, July 22.—The Allies have
decided to take measures immediate
ly preparatory to giving military aid
to Poland, if such action should prove
necessary, it was learned here to
day.
Central Authorized
To Guarantee Bonds
WASHINGTON, July 22— The
Central of Georgia railroad today was
authorized by the Interstate Com
merce Commission to guarantee un
conditionally punctual payment of
principal and interest of first mort
gage 5 per cent thirty year gold
bonds of the Ocean Steamship Ce.
The bonds are due this month and
have an aggregate value of $1,000,-
I 000.