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FORTY-SECOt YEAR—NUMBER 205
UPHAM, G. O. P. TREASURER, BEFORE PROBERS
CANT BAR VOTE
OF GA. WOMEN.
BENNY’S RULING
Attorney General De
clares Rules are UP to
R. L. Maynard, county attorney,
announced today that he had advised
Tax Collector Small to open his reg
istration books for Sumter county
and accept registration from all wo
men qualified to vote, in expec
tation that the state committee would
shortly alter their rule and provide
for the registration of women in the
state before September 8, the date of
the statewide white primary.
ATLANTA, August 31. —That the
women of Georgia are given the right
to vote in the coming primary and
general election and that it is not
necessary for the mto register in
order to do so is the declaration made
by Attorney General R. A. Denny in
a lengthy opinion which he gave the
governor late Monday. The opinion
is also signed by Graham Wright, the
assistant attorney general.
Mr. Denny argues that the wo
men may not register because they
cannot take the oath prescribed for,
male citizens, but that they cannot
be prevented from voting because ‘
the nineteenth amendment to the;
federal constitution distinctly declar
ed that “the right of citizens of the
United States shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States or by
any state on account of sex.”
Mr. Henny holds that the consti
tution of Georgia, the state regis
tration law and all other laws con
flicting with the above quoted sec
tion of the constitution are repealed
and made null. He says that while
“it may be desirable to change the I
laws and constitution of Georgia to
clarify the situation, it is not neces
k sary qualifications under the constz-
F tution is entitled to the right of suf
frage, and no enabling act or statute
is necessary.”
Need Noli Register.
On the question of registration he
says: . ,
“Instead of a change of the pres
ent law with regard to registration
so that women can vote, an enact
ment is necessary requiring them to
register, and, until such is passed,
they are entitled to exercise their
constitutional right of franchise un
der the constitution of the United
States and vote without registration,
provided, of course, they are quali
fied otherwise under the constitution
and laws of Georgia.
“Any other construction than this
would either operate as a disfran
chisement on account of sex in vio
lation of the constitution of the
United States or would demand some
self-constituted state Authority to
enlarge on the registration laws of
Georgia. The latter creates a le
gal absurdity and consequently, un
til legislative action is had, women
can vote without registration.
Can’t Be Barred.
Summed up. the opinion rules that
whether the chairman, of the State
Democratic commitee calls a meeting
of that body, or the sub-committee
of that bodv for the purpose of tak
ing up the matter and making some
provision which will accord exercise
of the right of suffrage in the Sep
tember primary, makes no legal dif
ference whatever. The women.of
Georgia are today, wholly within
their rights and eon^ tu t ion |l en
titlements as citizens of the United
States, to march up to the polls in
anv and every county in the state on
the Bth day of September, rever
ed or unregistered, and demand that
they be allowed to cast their ballot
for the candidate of their choice in
every race in which a party nomina
tion is being sought. The absence
of a registration is not operative
against them. The absence of a vot
ing list of women is no fault of their.
If the managers of the e lec ? 10 "
sire a voting list it will be U P?
those managers to create such alist
bv keeping a record of the names,
ages and place of residence of each
woman voting as she approaches the
polls and deposits her ballot.
If, upon the demand of the wo
men to be allowed to cast ballots on
, the Bth, they are refused exercise
tof that constitutional right, then
b each primary held at that particula
* Zoning Place where the exercise of
the right is refused, will be an in
valid election or primary, and will
be contrary to the constitutional law
of the land.
Completing Paving on
East College Street
The city forces resumed paving
work on the East College street pav
ing project Monday and City Engin
eer Tiedeman expects the job to be
completed Wednesday. Inability to
obtain cement caused the project to
be interrupted a few weeks ago be
fore completion. A limited quantity
has now been obtained. It is not be
lieved enough cement can be had.
however, to warrant beginning any
other city paving project this fall.
Harry Happy Though ‘Ruined
In Politics’ By Suffrage Vote
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Representative Harry Burn, o f Tennessee, and his Mother.
Mother of Tennesseean, Who Made Women’s
Vote Possible, Beams at
Son’s Action
There is a young man from Niota
Who for precedent cares no iota.
He sprung a surprise
When he flopped to the “ayes”
And enraptured the feminine voter!!!
By ZOE BECKLEY.
NIOTA, Tenn., August 31.—Harry
Burn, Tennessee representative,
whose last irfinute “aye” put over
suffrage in the 36th and deciding
state, fears this “aye” means “poli
tical oblivion” for him—but he’s hap
py nevertheless!
Burn says: “I am happy simply
because I followed my conscience. It
kept telling me ‘women are people,
and this a government BY the peo-i
pie.’ i
“So I made the choice,” the youth
ful legislator says. “I preferred to!
disappoint some of my constituents.
than be false to what I know is I
right.”
Mrs. Febb Burn, the proud motheri
of the young legislator, says she al-,
says knew Harry would do some
thing big for his country because—
“At the age of 19 months he could
tell the name of town, county, state I
and district!”
“I suppose,” she adds, “there nev
er was a mother who didn’t think.
her children the handsomest and [
smartest in the world,” and mother-!
pride beamed on her face. “Os
course I am proud of Harry!
Helped With Lessons. ;
“There was never a night,” she;
says with just pride, “that my chil
dren went to bed without my having
gone over each lesson with them ana
made sure it was well learned.. If
a child grows up in ignorance it is
usually its mother’s fault.
“They say it was my letter which
made him change his vote. It prob
ably influenced him, but I want ev
eryone to know that Harry is the
kind of boy who thinks and acts for
himself,
“Perhaps,” Mrs. Burn added, with,
a twinkle, “I shouldn’t have used
slang in my letter. But it struck me
that Mrs. Catt and the other suf
fragists had struggled so long to get
their ‘Rat’ into ratification that some
one ought to lend a hand when they
needed it most. I’m proud to say
my boys and I are pals. And I felt
that Harry would see me smiling at
him when he read that-yand know
his mother was with him in what we
both knew was right.
“If I hadn’t felt sure he was at
heart in favor of suffrage I should
not have urged him to say the “aye.’ ”
Burn says he probaly will enter
commercial life, though not in a
city.
“I’ve made a study of the
who leave home and those who stay,”
he said. “I’m for tHe smftll town
every time. If you’ve got anything
in you, you can capitalize it better
by starting something in your own
village than by being started in a
| metropolis. The whole thing is in
j breaking precedents.”
Young Burn, whose switch to
I “aye” made th? ratification vote 49
!to 47 in the Tennessee house, sub
scribes to more than 50 newspapers
1 and magazines!
THE TIMESgIREicORDER
PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF
They Are Pals.
There is a distinct palship between I
the mother and her boys, Harry, i
and James, 22, who runs their.farm.|
The father is dead.
Young Burn has earned his living
a good while. His mother says he
began qt the age of five, when he
loaded tomatoes into his little red
wagon and sold them in the village.
He is now a high Mason, national
representative for Tennessee of the
Junior Order of United American
Mechanics and a member of the tele
grapher’s union. He volunteered
twice during the war, but was kept
at home by his state for his expert
ness at the keyboard. He is not a
college boy, but a graduate of the
Niota high school.
The Bum farm has 400 acres, on
which the youngef Burn boy, James i
Lane, raises wheat and oats and
watermelons and fat red pigs with
clean feet. Mother Burn, “born a;
suffragist,” doc 3 her own housework,
milks the cows, sews for herself and'
her 13-year-old daughter, Otho Vir
ginia. and has time to keep abreast ,
of current events by reading a doz
en magazines and periodicals a week.!
“Harry isn’t through yet,” says
his mother. “Only—well, politics is
such a horrid mess! Just see how
Harry has been attacked and hound- (
ed ever since he cast his vote for
ratification, such injustice will be
rarer when all women vote.
“Women are not perfect, but they,
are more fearless than men. If thdy'
feel a thins: is right, they won’t care;
whether it’s ever been done before
or not. They get results quicker.’
And then I found another reason,
besides his own conscience and his
mother’s wish, why Burn voted for
this item adds considerable
charm to McMinn county for him.
The local time table for such
trains as stop at Niota gives “Rea
gan” as the next station. Miss Myra
Reaeran lives there.
Next year Myra will move up one
station and her last name will be
BU And she is AB-SO-LUTE-LY a suf
fragist! , x -
So you see there are lots of reasons
why Harry Burn voted that “aye”
vote that enfranchised millions of
women!
Americus Firm Builds
$5,000 War Memorial
An order for the erection of a
handf*>me $5,000 monument as a
county who served in the late war, to
memorial to the soldiers of Berrien
to be erected at Nashville has just
been placed by the Schneider Marble
works, of Americus, through J. W.
Lindley, their representative. The
monument is being erected by the
public of that community.
According to a Postoffice Depart
ment report, there were only about
12 1-2 million internatiional reply
coupons in the world, having a sale
value of $751,000 and a redemption
Value in stamps of $626,000.
AMERICUS, GA., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 31, 1920
SENATOR SMITH
I PLEASES VOTERS
| ON COUNTY TRIP
Talks to Them in Frank
Manner—lnvites Crit
icism
Senator Hoke Smith, who reach-
ied Americus at 5:20 this morning:
. and spoke here at 3 o’clock this as-!
i ternoon spent the morning visiting
i several towns in the county where ’
: he talked with the residents and in I
an informal way discussed with the
j voters the issues of the campaign.
! Accompanied by five automobiles
filled with his admirers, Senator
Smith first went out to DeSoto where
he arrived at 9:30. He made his
tour of the county in L. G. Council’s
big car and riding with him were W.
T. Lane, W. P. Wallis, P. B. Willi-
i ford and M. A. Holloway, who acted
i as chauffeur. R. L. McMath, F. B.
I Arthur, Dan Chappell, Robt. C. Lane,!
Robt. Lee McMath, L. L. Sutlive, W. i
T. McMath, W. H. Chappell, J. E. I
i Sheppard and several others accom-'
' panied the senator on his visit to De
: Soto, Leslie and Plains, and the
party reached Americus on the re
turn trip about 12:30. Many friends
of Senator Smith called on him at
his rooms in the Windsor before
he left Americus for his ride about
the country.
Greeted at DeSoto
At DeSoto Senator Smith was
greeted by probably fifty voters, be
sides a number of ladies who re- ’
quested that he be presented to them. !
At this plac j Senator Smith sat upon
a bench in front of the store of E. A.
Luke and there he talked with the
people who had gathered to greet
him, and in an informal manner told
them of his efforts for them and
their interests during th 3 six years
he has represented Georgia in the
Senate of the United States. Senator
Smith made no speech at DeSoto —
he merely talked and he talked con
vincingly upon two or three subjects .
• in which, he said, the people of Geor-
I gia are especially interested. He first
I told the DeSoto people of his ef
forts to maintain the price of cotton
in 1914; of his fight to get cotton
I overseas before the United States
entered the war with Germany and
then with a fatherly smile upon his
features he asked those present to
tell him what they thought about
him.
Asks For Criticisms
“If any of you here have anything
on your mind you want to ask me
about, if there is anything I can tell ■
you about it, if there is anything I
1 have done as your senator in con
gress-—or failed to do-—just ask me i
about it,” said Senator Smith, which |
; caused Freeling Scarborough to ex- j
; claim:
! “I guess we are all about satisfied •
‘senator.” >
,i Several questions were asked him,
[however, one of these being about
J the collection of alleged illegal to
bacco taxes which are now being re
i funded by Governor Dorsey. This,
[he said, Governor Dorsey should
■'have known was illegal, adding that
;I one of the representatives from Gor
' don county in the legislature had con
. [ ferred with Governor Dorsey before
.[the legislature adjourned, demand
. ing that these taxes collected in Gor-!
J don county, be refunded immediately
i and asserted that Geovernor Dorsey
J had refunded them 70 per cent of the
’(amounts collected, and had asked
i the complaining representatives to
! say nothing about the matter.
Hundred at Leslie
1 At Leslie there were a hundred
[ people in the crowd that greeted Sen
ator Smith and he talked with them
, all, hat in hand, upon the sidewalk
’ in front of the Bank of Leslie. Here
i he again asked for criticisms of his
. congressional course but no adverse
i ones were heard. One or two Dorsey
I men among his hearers refused to
! ask Senator Smith a single question
! though they said they had heard,
or believed he was opposed to the
• i League of Nations, even with res-
I ervations. This subject he touched
j;Upon in his talk and in his remarks
,jhe brought out his positions clearly.
’ I The Lodge reservations to the League
I covenant. Senator Smith said, were
j considered by the senate, separately
| one at a time, and afterward adopt-
I; ed as a whole. Seven of these, he said
Ihe had opposed and voted against,
J though when the final vote upon the
ratification resolution came up he
’ had voted to ratify notwithstand
ing the seven objectionable reser-
' vations, in order that ratification of
the peace treaty might be assured
■ and peace again established with its
' commercial and other advantages.
Plains Stores Close
At Plains all of the stores or near
ly all of them, closed that all the
t residents of that town might hear
• I him. Senator Smith there calle.d for
> questions from his audience and sev
i eral were asked. Each of these ques
tions he explained at gome length and
Cox Brands Hays’ Statement
On Fund As ‘Absolutely False’
Also Makes Complete Denial of Charge He is Being
Supported by Wets in
Campaign
COLUMBUS, 0., August 31.—Gov
eronr Cox in a statement today de
clared as “absolutely untrue and
false” statements attributed to Will
H. Hays, Republican national chair
man, that it is not the policy of the
Republican committee to obtain sub
scriptions in excess of one thousand
dollars.
Governor Cox referred to what
purporetd to be an offical document
issued by the Republican commit
tee to prftve the assertion. He said,
contrasting this document with Hay’s
statement yesterday under oath, that
he could not believe what Hays says
on the subject.
Answering testimony of Hays,
chairman of the Republican national
committee, before the senate
committee investigating campaign
expenditures in Chicago yesterday,
Governor Cox declared that “the
‘wets’ have not contributed a dol
lar to my campaign and they will
not. “The governor added that nei
ther had the “drys” contributed.
Governor Cox’s statement was
DEATH NEAR FOR
STARVBMAYOR
Belfast Riot Dead Reach
es Total of Nine
Persons
LONDON, August 31.—Terence
Mac Sweeney, lord mayor of Cork,
who has ’been on hunger strike in
Brixton jail since August 12, was
still alive this morning, but his sis
ter, Mary, who visited him, said “the
end may come at any moment.”
NINE DEAD FROM
BELFAST RIOTS.
BELFAST, August 31. —Nine per
sons are dead as the result ,of the
rioting yesterday, another man being
killed last Revised Ireports
show that since the riots began last
Wednesday twenty have been killed.
Never in the history of the city has
there been such disorders as prevail
ed yesterday.
LONGSHOOREMAN’S
STRIKE HITS BOSTON.
BOSTON, August 31.—The strike
of longshoresmen, against steamships
under British flag in protest against
the British-Irish policy, was extend
ed to this city today.
Boston Firm to Purchase
Packers Big Stock Yards
WASHINGTON, August 31.—The
plans of the “Big Five” meat pack
ers for disposition of their stock
yard interests as required under the
recent agreement with the depart
ment of justice, contemplate the sale
of such interests in fifteen cities
to the F. P. Prince company, of Bos
ton. The book value of such prop
erties is placed at between $30,000,-
00 and $40,000,000.
Gulf Road Applies For
Half Million U. S. Loan
WASHINGTON, August 31.—The
Gulf Ports Terminal Railway com
pany today applied to the interstate
commerce commission for a loan of
$500,000 out of the revolving fund
created by the transportation act.
The road seeks the loan to put in
operation its entire line between
Pensacola and Mobile.
apparently to the satisfaction of his
hearers. He asserted that the lack of
commercial representation in Ger
many, doubtless hampers the United
States in its foreign trade and said he
hoped to see the treaty ratified be
fore March, 1920, which would pro
vide these advantages. He told of
having opposed the proposal to place
an excessive protective tariff on pot
ash as requested by the western pot
ash manufacturers and said he fa
vored a reasonable tax only. The com
petition of Chinese peanuts and ori
ental oils, which he said have demor
i alized the peanut and cotton seed
markets of the South, he said, should
be neutralized through the imposi
| tion of a proper import duty. He
' said “there will be tariff legislation
anyway, and I believe in a practical
i view of everything. I refused to be
i carried away with any theory.” He
! told again of his fight for the cotton
! producers of the South in 1914 and
1915 and said “I always have in mind
the products my peopel produce.” A.t
the conclusion of his Plains talk he
returned to Americus.
Following his speech here at 3
o’clock he was to leave at 5 p. m.
via the Seaboard for Jesup,
made after reading newspaper ac
counts of the hearing in Chicago be
fore which Chairman Hays read a
letter purporting to be from George
T. Carroll, president of the New Jer
sey federation of Jiquor interests
askingi for contributions to help elect
Cox.
“It is well understood in this state,
in particular,” Governor Cox said,
“that the ‘wets' have not been ac
tive in politics for some time. Of
ficial reports to the secretary of
state show that in the last year or
two, the ‘wets’ have not apparently
been able to make large campaign
contributions for wet referendums.
If Mr. Hays will take the time to
investigate the official reports in
Ohio, he will find that the ‘wets’ have
never contributed a cent to any of
my campaigns.”'
The governor declared any state
ment to the offset that the “wets”
are contributing to his campaign to
be “absurd on its face,” adding that
he only made reply because “silence
might be misconstrued.”
COMMITTEES GET
START ON FAIR
Enthusiasm. ' Displayed
in Group Meeting to
Make Plans
Three enthusiastic meetings of the
Sumter county fair committees were I
held at the Chamber of Commerce
this morning at which plans for work
were put under way. The committees
meeting were the Education commit
tee, J. E. D. Shipp, chairman; the
Merchants and Manufacturers Com
mittee, R. E. Allison, chairman and
the Poultry and Pet Stock committee,
George D. Wheatley, chairman.
The other members of the Edu
cational committee are E. J. Mc-
Math, J. M. Prance, J. E. Mathis,
and Rev. J. B. Lawrence. Mr. Prance
who is principal of the Third Dis
trict agricultural school, offered the
fair association the use of the school’s
administrative building, which has
just been completed, for tt’e white
educational exhibits, and this was
readily accepted, it being nvithin on
ly a short distance of the main fair
buildings on the Aggie campus. A
separate building will be set aside
for negro educational exhibits and
a negro committee named to take
charge of the work. Representatives
of the committee will be named in
every school in the county to prepare
for collective school exhibits, in addi
tion to individual displays. The com
mittee was most enthusiastic over
the opportunity to present the ad
vantages of education to the general
public in this manner.
The Merchants and Manufacturers’ j
committee will work out details to |
obtain displays from manufacturers!
and retailers. It is planned to desig
nate Saturday, the final day of the
fair, as Everybody’s Day, and to en
courage the celebration of the event
in the city by making it a special sale
and bargain day for products dis-1
played during the week at the fair. !
the Poultry and Pet Stock com- j
mittee is going ahead determined to
make a most creditable showing in
this line for Sumter county.
Other committees will meet Wed
nesday and Thursday as follows:
Wednesday, 10 a. m.—Farm ma
chinery committee, Alton Cogdell,
chairman.
Wednesday, 11 a. m. —Agricultural
committee, C. C. Hawkins, chairman.
Thursday. 10 a. m.—Women's De
partment committee, Mrs. S. H. Mc-
Kee, chairman.
Thursday, 11 a. m.—Live Stock
committee, J. W. Hightower, chair
man.
Regulars Victors
Over Outlaws 6-5
In a fast ten inning game yester
day between the Regulars and Out
laws, the Regulars walked away with
victory by a score of 6 to 5.
Dodson broke up the game in the
tenth inning when, with Holt on
! third, got a clean single over second,
. bringing in the winning run.
Pantone pitched a fine game for
I the Regulars, striking out the Out
law’s heaviest sluggers whenever he
desired.
The batteries were: Regulars, Pan
i tone and Dodson; Outlaws, Williams
! and Payne.
The regulars will meet the fast
Thompson team at the Aggie Field
tomorrow at 3:30 p. m., and a good
game is promised, as these two teams
have met in some close games in the
i past.
» -c M FEVER-
l KA-choo*
L— 1
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
SWEARS HE HAS
NO KNOWLEDGE
OFQUOTASHEET
But Committee Sends
Him Back to Offices
For It
CHICAGO, August 31. Denial
under oath that he. ever had seen,
heard of, or ordered made up a list
of campaign quota assigned to va
rious cities, as charged by Governor
Cox in his Pittsburg speech, was made
today by Fred W. Upham, treasurer
of the Republican national commit
tee, in his testimony before the sen
ate investigating committee.
Chairman Kenyon called attention
to the list, saying it totalled more
than eight million dollars.
Upham also flatly denied the of
ficial bulletins issued from his office
to field workers were secret or
counselled secrecy. He pointed out
that the only prohibition was in re
spect to publishing the lists of con
tributors in local newspapers, be
cause some persons objected to see
ing their names in print.
Upham produced figures showing
the committee had received $1,700,-
000 for both national and state cam
paigns between June 14 and August
26. He said that of this $618,000
was for the national campaign. He
presented the names of 12,589 con
tributors at a fixed average contri
bution of $82.11.
The committee sent Upham back to
his office to get all record and to
produce the much discussed “quota
sheet” showing the amount each state
was asked to raise.
POLiSiTPARLEY
GOING TO RIGA
Letvia Agrees to Change
—Reds Claim Suc
cesses
POLISH PARLEY—
WARSAW, (Monday)—August 30
(By >Associated Press.)< —Letvia
has agreed to permit Poland and
I Soviet Russia to transfer the Minsk
peace conference to Riga. This is
being done on the request of the
Poles.
SOVIET FORCES
CLAIM SUCCESSES.
LONDON, August 31. Russian
Soviet forces north of Brest-Litovsk
have occupied a number of villages
from ten to twenty miles southeast
of Bialystok, according to a Mos- 1
cow wireless.
Heavy fighting, declared to be fa
vorable to the Soviet forces, con
tinues in the vicinity of Lemberg
and Perelysl, in Galica, while in the
Oriekhov section of Crimea the Bol
sheviki have been successful, it is
stated.
Mysterious Meeting
Is Called at Leesburg
LEESBURG, August 31.—A mys
terious mass meeting has been called
for Thursday, September 2, at the
court house by dodgers which have
been distributed. These dodgers state
that “a mass meeting of the repre
sentative citizens of the county has
been called for September 2, next,
at the court house, Leesburg, at 9
a. m., for the purpose of discussing
a matter of vital import "to the resi
dents of Lee.” There is much spec
ulation as to the purpose of the meet
ing.
Cox, Roosevelt and
Watkins at Ohio Fair
COLUMBUS, 0., August 31.
Governor Cox and his running mate,
i Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Dr.
Aaron Watkins, the Prohibition party
presidential nominee, featured the
Ohio state fair today. The speech
making was to start shortly after
noon, with Watkins speaking first,
followed by Governor Cox.
Massachusetts and
Maryland Census Out
WASHINGTON, August 31. —The
census of the State of Maryland was
today announced as 1,449,610, an
increase of 11.9 per cent; State of
Massachusetts, 3,851,615, an in
crease of 14.4 per cent.
G. Y. Harrell, of Lumpkin, was a
visitor here today.
I Forecast for Georgia—Generally
fair tonight and Wednesday.