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FORTY-SECOND YEAR—NUMBER 203
COX SHOWERED WITH FLOWERS IN NEW YORK
CITY TO GO ON
BUDGET PLAN
AFTER DEC. 31
Representative Pace Fur
nishes Text of Act,
With Comments
The city government of Americus
will be operated under the budget
system beginning with the new year,
an act so providing having been in
troduced in the recent session of the
Georgia legislature by Representative
Stephen Pace, passed by both houses
and signed by the governor. The
act provides that the fiscal year of the
city shall end on December 31, in
stead of June 30, as has been the
custom, and establishes an “efficien
cy and economy commission,” com
posed of the mayor, the chairman of
the finance committee and the chair
man of the purchasing committee of
council, whose duty it shall be to esti
mate the city’s total revenue for the
coming year and submit to council
a budget of estimated expenses of
the city for the year. The act pro
vides that in no case may the coun
cil appropriate money beyond the
estimated revenue for the year.
Recently Mr. Pace was asked for
a copy of the act for th\ informa
tion of the public, and this he has
obtained from the secretary of state
and furnished, accompanied by the
following letter, which offers some
comment and explanation:
Applying Business Methods.
“I am sure you will readily under
stand that my only purpose in the
enactment of this law was to pro
vide a system by which the finances
of the city can be handled with that
same degree of efficiency and econ
omy as is exercised by every upright
and progressive business man, and as
is employed by the large private cor-i
porations. In my own mind 1 have!
never been able to distinguish be-i
tween the two; that is to say, why!
•public affairs and funds should not;
be handled with the same care as
the average individual requires in his!
personal matters; yet, it is very rarej
that we find a public official who will
give the least regard to balancing
income and expenditures, being en-,
tirely satisfied to appropriate so long|
as funds can be pnvided, legally ori
illegally. A city is notning more!
than a big corporation, much like thej
average private corporation, with a|
Mayor and Board of-Council in thei
place of a President and Board if
Directors; and 1 see no reason why
a city should not, just as any other
business corporation, at the begin
ning of each fiscal year, plan and ar
range its expenditures for the next
twelve months in order shat they
might conform to and not exceed
its income. Os course there are a
few uncertain expenses, but I thinK
you will find that this law amply pro
vides for such.
Constitution Disregarded.
“Another thing; as you know, the
Constitution of the State provides
that no city shall create any new
debt without the assent of two-thirds
of the qualified voters, except that
for a temporory loan or loans to sup
ply casual deficiencies of revenue it
may create a debt not exceeding one
fifth of one per cent of the assessed
value of the taxable property. I
believe this a very wise and neces
sary prohibition; yet, though it 1
written in the Constitution of th
State, it has at times been entirely
disregarded and a floating debt ere
ated more than ten times the
amount allowed by law, rec l ul f' l ’ l ®
the imposition of additonal tax bur
dens. I have tried to so provide
in this law that respect must be
given this Constitutional limitation
“I must add that no act of the
present city administration prompt
ed this bill, for never have I seen
public officials more , an “° us ***o
our present Mayor and City Coun
cil to administer public affairs and
handle public funds according to law
and in keeping with the principle
of economy and efficiency,. and I
know this task has been difficult
in view of the circumstances and the
demands made upon them*.
“1 hope the information contained
in the budget sheet, as prepared in
accordance with Section • o
Act, will, from year to year, be fur
nished the press for publication, and
I have every confidence that through
A the operation if this law the tax
* of our city will bekept fully
advised as to the manner in
nublic affairs are being conducted
and will know that public funds are
beipg expended according to law, or,
if not, they can intelligently deter
mine the reason why and the parties
responsible.”
The Budget Act.
Thetext of the Budget Act follows:
AN ACT.
To amend “An Act entitled an Act
to amend, revise and consolidate the
several Acts granting corporate au
thority to the City of Americus, and
for other purposes” approved No
vember 11, 1889, so as to provide
a budget system for the City of Am
ericus, to create and establish an M
ficiency and Economy Commission,
authorizing and requiring said com
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Cork Lord Mayor
Worse; Rioters In
Belfast Fired On
LONDON, Aug. 28—The condi
tion of Terence McSweeney, Lord
Mayor of Cork, was reported worse
today at Brexton jail, wnere he is
on hunger strike.
FIERCE RIOTING IS
REPORTED AT BELFAST
BELFAST, Aug. 28—Fierce riot
ing occurred here this afternoon. The
police barracks in' Cullingtree Road
were wrecked. The military fired on
the crowd and many gunshot vic
tims were sent to the hospital.
IRISH WOMEN PICKETS
BUSY IN NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Aug, 28—Hostilities
were resumed today by five pro-Irish
women pickets who yesterday started
a demonstration that resulted in the
walkout of more than 2,000 long
shoremen employed on Britihs liners
as a protest against Great Britain’s
Irish policy.
THOUSANDS NEAR
STARVATION BY
OWNER’SSTRIKE
Mill Owner’s Strike
Brings Them to Star
vation
BY E. C. RODGERS
LAWRENCE. Mass.. Aug. 28—
Thousands of families here are near
the starvation point because of the !
great wool strike. They have exhaus
ted their savings in the weeks of en
forced idleness. Their credit has
evaporated. Some of them have gone
to other cities to seek work. Some
have gone back to Europe. Others
walk the streets here hoping that
each day will bring the end of the
strike.
This isn’t their strike. They didn’t
vote to strike. They wanted to work.
They wanted to produce cloth for,
clothes.
This strike was called by the Am-!
erican Woolen Co. The leader of the
strike is William M. Wood* president j
of the company.
This, the largest woolen cloth;
manufacturing center in America, I
manufacturing cen|te rin America, i
has had many strikes. Two may be
compared, both lasting for several |
weeks, and both costing workers
and the public a lot of hard earned
money.
The other noted wool strike hap
pened in 1912. On Jan. 11, 1912,
about 14,000 woolen mills workers
struck. The immediate cause of that
strike was a reduction in wages, due
to the state law reducing working
hours of women and children work
ers. That strike was engineered by
the I. W. W. It resulted in an in
crease in wages of from 5 per cent j
for the skilled workers to 25 per j
cent for the unskilled.
The woolen workers strike in 1912
was the first big I. W. W. outburst
in America. The wool strike of 1920
is the largest wholesale lockout ever
pulled off in the woolen industry.
The I. W. W. struck against wage
reductions. Then the average wage
for all woolen operatives here was;
less than sll a week.
Owners’ Strike Now
Now it is the W. M. W. striking I
against a reduction of profits. Last
year the profits were *'15,513,414.
The American Woolen c’v ipany in-!
yeased its net income 316 per cent
tor 1918 over 1914. The net increase
in common stock earnings was 531
per cent. In 1918 the earnings per
share of common stock were $13.86;
in the year ending Dec. 31, 1919,
these earnings were $39.86. This is
after allowance has been made for
preferred dividends.
“This has been a good year,”
Wood told his stockholders, “and
1920 ought to be as prosperous for!
us.”
Then Wood made a mistake. He,
sought to get the government’s ap
proval of his profit-making program.
“We are earning 12 1-2 per cent
above cost,” Wood claimed. Govern-'
ment accountants set to work on the ,
company’s books. They found many
things. Among them was the evidence
tjmjt the woolen trust garnered 35
per cent profit above cost. They also
learned that this profit was made de
spite the enormous salaries and com- J
missions paid Wood and his associ
ates. Wood’s commissions alone in j
1919 amounted to $515,482.
The government’s case was
led by Assistant Attorney H. C. |
Smithe.
Smythe said, “The American Wool-!
en Co., dominates the trade in this i
country. The department feels that;
it has unearthed one of the most im-!
portant cases of profiteering known
since the amendment to the Lever
act went into effect.”
Smythe gave the evidence his in
vestigators had fopnd. Here are a
few instances:
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ERIC
the t imEsbrecorder
PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE
HARDING BRANDS
LEAGUE FAILURE;
FOR TRIBUNAL
Comes Out Squarely
Against Covenant;
„ For Hague Plan
MARION, 0., August 28*—Pro
nouncing the existing League of Na
tions a definite and irredeemable
failure, Senator Harding today pro
posed a new effort to construct a
world association on the framework
of the Hague tribunal, clothed with
such attributes of the league cove
nant as. may be found safe and prac
ticable. He pledged himself if elect
ed to take an immediate effort, with
the advice of the ablest man of both
parties, to form such an association
either .by “putting teeth” into the
Hague court or revising the, cove
nant to protect national aspirations.
The declaration was made in a
•front porch speech to Indiana Repub
! licans, covering in detail the nomi
nee’s position on the nation’s foreign
relations.
350 BALES NEW
| CROP RECEIPTS
I Spot Price Reaches 31
Cents on Better
Demand
Despite continued showery weath-
■ er, which has made cotton picking
almost impossible, approximately 350 !
bales of this season’s crop have been i
received at the Americus warehous-
! es, 150 of them being brought in yes- !
terday The fields contain a great
deal of open cotton and heavy re- j
ceipts may be expected as Soon as a
dry period sets in, which the farm
ers are earnestly hoping for. The
! quality received thus far is fair con
sidering the dampness of the weath
er, and when it is considered that
i each bale of new cotton marketed
. under present conditions contains
several nounds of water, the prices
which have been offered have not
I been as low as they appeared.
Toward the week-end the market
■ stiffened on improved demand, and I
, good middling spots were quoted as i
. high as -31 cents in some instances j
. here Saturday, the high market for
i the new crop. Several bales changed
, hands at 30 3-4 cents.
Girl Put Off Train
Far From Americus
Martha Duncan, 10-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. G.
Durican, returned home Friday from
! Montgomery, near which place she
had been visiting with an aunt. Her
! parents were given a fright when they
met the train on which she was plac
ed unaccompanied and found that
! she was not on it. The conductor
asserted he had not had any child
in his care. It developed later that
| she had been put off the train at
| Union Springs, Ala., by this con
ductor, he telling her she would
have to change cars at that place.
, Luckily a relative, who is a railroad
; man, happened to be in Union
! Springs at the time and saw her and
nlaced her on the right train home
j later, she arriving Friday night.
To Build Fine Home
For Dr. Wise at Plains
i B. C. Hogue, local contractor and
builder, announced Saturday that he
had just contracted with Dr. B. J.
Wise, of Plains, for the erection of
a handsome home in that city at a
cost of approximately $12,000. The
house will be of stucco, old EnglisH
design, and will embrace ab<sut 8
rooms. The plans have been drawn
Iby T. F. Lockwood, Jr., of Colum
i bus. Mr. Hogue will handle the
work on a cost-plus basis, and will
■ break ground in about 10 days.
U. S. Cruiser Sent to
Danzig by Daniels
WASHINGTON, August 28.—Sec
retary Daniels announced today that,
he has ordered the armored cruiser-
Pittsburg to proceed from Reval to I
Danzig for the protections of Ameri
cans at that port. The order was
I given following a conference last
j night between Secretaries Daniels
and Colby.
Trap Shooting Classic
Won By Albert Ivins
CLEVELAND, August 28.—Al
bert H. Ivins, of Redbank, N. J.,
won the grand American handicap,
the classic event of the International
Trap Shooting Tournament, shooting
for the 19 yard line. He broke 99
out of 100 targets.
AMERICUS, GA., SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST, 29, 1920
HERE’S JIMMY COX INCOME OF HIS MANY MOODS
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I •' Governor Cox chatting with
’ Franklin D. Roosevelt, his run-
‘ Z 14 'S n ’ n K mate > an< l f° ur camera stud
ies of Cox, snapped Notification
Day.
REDS WILLING
FOR TRANSFER
OF PARLEYING
Message Says Move To
Neutral Soil Is
Agreeable
PARIS, August 28. (By As
sociated Press.) Wilingness to
transfer the Russo-Polish peace nego
tiations from Minsk to some neutral
country was expressed in a Moscow
wireless picked up by Eiffel station
today. Details of the Soviet offer
not be deciphered, however
the foreign office announced.
RED COLUMN DECIMATED;
HIGH OFFICERS TAKEN.
WARSAW, August 27. — (Friday)
(By Associated Press.) Polish
artillery has decimated the principal
column of the retreating Soviet forc
es on the northeastern front, catch
ing the bolsheviki at short range,
according to an official statement
here. More than six hundred men,
including two general staff officers
and eleven line officers, were captur
ed. Among the killed was the com
mander of the 57th bolsheviki (divis
ion and his chief of staff.
3 U. S. Swimmers
Win Olympic Events
ANTWE/RP, August 28.—Ethelda
Bleibtrey,'of New York, won the fi
nal of 300 meter free style Olympic
swimming race for women today.
Norman Ross, of Chicago, won the
final 400 meter free style swim event.
Tennessee’s Growth in
Decade is 7 Per Cent
WASHINGTON, August 28.—The
pouplation of the state of Tennessee
was given out today as 2,337,459
an increase of 152,670 or 7 per cent.
MARKETS
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON
Good middling, 30 3-4 cents.
NEW YORK FUTURES
PC Onen 11 am Close
Oct 28.33 28.50 28.98 29 70
Dec _.26.58 26.80 27.12 27.80
Jan 26.00 26.1 J 26.52 27 15
Meh 25r-15 25.80 26.19 26.80
NEW ORLEANS FUTURES
PC Open 9 am Close
Oct 27.25 27.45 27.83 28145
Dec 25.79 26.10 26.48 26.94
Jan. 25.52 25.73 26.05( 26.59
Meh 25.15 25.36 25.67 26.15
Labor Finds Record Os Cox
Clean; Harding Often Wrong
By HARRY B. HUNT.
WASHINGTON, August 28.—The
Non-Partisan ■ Political Campaign
Committee of the American Federa
tion of Labor has just completed its
analysis of the records of presiden
tial candidates Harding and Cox.
From the record presented, cov
ering the attitude of the two men
on both state and national issues
involving labor, the committee finds.
“There can be but one conculsion
based upon a careful and impartial
survey of the actions and declaia
tions of the candidates. Governor
Cox has shown himself possessed of
a fuller understanding of the needs
of the working people, a readier re
sponse to their needs and to their
proposals and a broader statesman
ship in his public discussions of the
industrial world.” .
Which means, of course, that ir
respective of the entrance into the
presidential contest of a Farmer- La
bor party, the Federation of Labor
recognizes that the third party will
HALE LEAVES
HIGH SCHOOL
Principal to be Succeed
ed by Prof Cason, of
Augusta
C. M. Hales, for several years prin
has resigned and Prof. Cason, of
Richmond Academy, Augusta, has
cipal of the Americus high school,
been elected to fill his place, it was
announced yesterday by Supt. J. E.
Mathis. Mr. Hale’s resignation re
sulted from his increased farming
interests in this county which de
manded more of his time since his
brother, who had managed the farm
last year, recently moved back to
Virginia Prof. Cason is an educator
of a number of years experience,
having been several years in Rich
mond Academy. He is a graduate of
Mercer, class of 1902, is married
and has a family.
Supt. Mathis also announced that
Robt. M. Smith, whose present home
address is Malone, N, Y., has been
secured to take charge of the manual
training department. The securing of
Prof. Smith is regarded as a stroke
of exceptional good fortune. He has
been superintendent of the depart
ment of manual training of the Chi
cago public schools, with 237 manual
training schools and 13 technical
high schools under his supervision,
in which position he made unenvi
able record. He is coming South be
cause of the necessity of seeking a
milder climate for his wife’s health.
School will open on September 20.
cut no particular figure in the elec
tion, that the contest lies between
Cox and Harding and that the
strength of organized labor, so far as
it can be swung politically by fed
eration officials, will be put solidly;
behind the Democratic candidate.
The committee making the report 1 '
is composed of Samuel Gompers,;
president of the federation, Frank!
Morrison, secretary, and Matthew!
Woll, first yice-president.
Not So Good.
Harding, as a state senator, is I
found voting six times on labor pro-1
posals, all favorably. As United ,
States senator, however, his record!
is not so good. On 18 proposals af
fecting labor he is shown to have
voted favorably seven times, unfa
vorably ten times and to have been
paired unfavorably once.
Cox’s labor record, however, both
in Congress and as governor of his
state, is absolutely clean, the com
mittee finds. In Congress he sup
ported both the “Phossy jaw” bill
and the bill creating the Children’s |
Bureau, the two labor issues arising!
during his service in Congress.
As governor he has approved and
put into practice 59 measures de
signed to safeguard the worker and
improve industrial and employment
conditions. “Not an adverse action
is shown on any of the legislative
measures,” the report states.
Guides Workers.
The record set forth is for the guid
ance of American workers in de
termining where to cast their votes.
It doesn’t urge organized labor in
so many words to vote for Cox, but
its conclusion is inescapable.
“The American labor movement,”
the report says “asks from no man
or woman a pledge of political con
duct. It seeks to dictate none. Its
field is limited, and properly so* to
furnishing the rank and file the in
formation upon which it may base
conclusions.” But—
“ln addition to his superior un
derstanding of the needs of the
working people,” the report contin
ues, “Governor Cox is the candidate
on a platform which marks a measure
of progress not found in the Repub
lican platform and the planks which
more nearly approximate the desired
declaration of human rights than
do the planks of the Republican plat
form.
“Not only in specific utterances
relating directly to questions held
paramount by labor is the comparison
favorable to Governor Cox. His
progressive and constructive view
point holds throughout his declara
tion of public questions.”
The great Kimberly diamond mine
in South Africa is more than 4000
feet deep.
The repeating rifle was known and
accepted in sporting circles as early
as 1840, but was not adopted by the
United States army until 1864.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
BOLD. BRAZEN OR
FOOUSH HE CALLS
Tumultuous Welcome
Given Candidate by
Gothamites
NEW YORK, August 28.—Re
publican efforts to raise presidential
campaign funds were said by Gover
nor Cox here today to be “bold,
brazen or foolish.” It was his first
official visit here since receiving -the
nomination.
Governor Cox received a tumult
uous welcome on his arrival, then
delivered two addresses in which ne
dealt with Republican campaign
funds, the League of Nations and
Americanization. His first address
was given at a luncheon at the Na
tional Democratic club, and the sec
ond at the police field day at Grave
send.
Governor Cox was showered with
flowers when he stepped off his pri
vate car at the Grand Central Station
for a two-day visit to New York.
Arriving here from New Haven
about an h<)ur ahead of schedule,
the presidential candidate found that
thousands of men and women massed
in the terminal to greet him were not
to be caught unawares by any shift
in the time table. They were early
and they came prepared to give Gov
ernor Cox a hearty informal wel
come.
As he left his train on which he
had breakfasted, he was greeted by
a committee of Democratic women.
Proceeding down the platform he
found the train crew lined up to re
view his party and with each man,
from blue uniformed conductor to
engineer in overalls, the governor
shook hands.
'lhe real reception, however, came
when Mr. Cox entered the rotunda.
An aisle had been roped off across
' the tiled floor. He tound not only
j the main floor but galleries and the
I grand staircase thronged with men
and women. Appearance of Gover
nor Cox’s party halted even the rush
of Saturday vacationists.
As the presidential nominee
reached the center of the hall, pro
longed cheering broke out, followed
by cries for a speech. Then came
the rain of flowers.
Governor Cox bowed to right and
left, and, hat in hand, made his way
slowly across the floor. Now and then
he would stop to shake hands with
some admirer, ljut he could not be
induced to make a speech. Reaching
j his hotel, he went at once to his
| room to prepare for the reception
j parade in his honor for the Na
! tional Democratic Club on Fifth
avenue.
After the final ceremonies set for
; the day, the candidate was the guest
I of J. J. Fitzgerald, of Brooklyn, and
I Geo. White, national chairman, at a
dinner party and house warming at
I the former’s new home.
There, the governor planned to
pass the night and spend Sunday
quietly attending church and mak
ing several “canned” speeches on
phonographic records.
SMITH TO SPEAK
3 P. MJDESDAY
Senator To Arrive at
Earlier Hour Than
Expected
It was announced Saturday that
Senator Hoke Smith, who will speak
1 in Americus next Tuesday afternoon,
would be heard at 3 o’clock in the af
ternoon instead of 4 o’clock, as pre
• viously announced. The sneaking will
L be out-of-doors, unless weather con
. i ditions interfere, this being regarded
’ as the only way in which all who de
( sire to hear him may have that op
portunity.
, Word from Atlanta Saturday was
that a change had been made in the
senator’s itinerary, and he will come
to Americus on the early morning
’ Central train Tuesday, unless it
, should be decided to schedule a stop
J for him at some point near Americus
; and have him brought here during
’ the forenoon by automobile.
In announcing Senator Smith's ad
dress here it was stated by the local
club that he offers to divide time
with either or both of his opponents
. I on this occasion.
I
For Georgia—Local showers and
i thunderstorms probably tonight and
I Sunday; no change in temperature.
Next week —South Atlantic and
east Gulf states: generally fair, but
1 with local thundershowers; normal
’ temperatures. There are no indica
tions at this time of a disturbance
in the West Indies.