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ASSOCIATED
PRESS NEWS OF
THE WORLD
FORTY-THIRD YEAR.—NO. 52.
HARDING INAUGURATED PRESIDENT
No Room For Grouch or Quitter, Governor-Elect Wires, Endorsing ‘Buy-Now’
’ AMERICUS KIWANIS CLUB, Care Ameri
cus Times-Recorder, Americus, Ga.: I heartily ap
prove of the campaign of your organization. No
fight was ever whipped by quitting. Let everybody
WILSON KEPT FROM CEREMONY BY PHYSICIAN
BUY-NOW DRIVE
LAUCHED HERE
TO HELP TIMES
Campaign Aimed To En
courage Discriminate
Purchasing
A Buy-Now campaign is being’
launched today by the Americus Ki
wanis club in conjunction with oth
er clubs throughout the United States
and Canada. This campaign is aim
ed to encourage only the buying of
nc( dol articles in the home and else
where, not indiscriminate buying
merely for business sake. It is aim
cd to restore confidence, and by the
gradual moving of money and good.-.,
to restore trade, nor far too stag-'
nant for the country’s good.
in addition to the publicity con-I
tained in this edition of the Times-1
Recorder, the club will observe the •
Buy-Now spirit in a program to be I
put on at a ladies’ night dinner at the I
Windsor hotel, starting at 7 o’clock !
tonight.
The campaign was inaugurated to
day in connection with the inaugura
tion of President. Harding, which is
expected to result in renewed trade
activities, this marking the begin
ning of an administration which will
continue four years unchanged.
The Buy-Now idea, where discuss
ed has met with cordial endorsement,
and is expected to be followed up
whole-heartedly by the people of t.hi*.
community as well as elsewhere. Ex
pressions of opinion were invited hur
riedly from several leading citizens
of Georgia, here and elsewhere, but
owing to the shortness of the time,
only a limited number of responses I
were received. Those which were I
received in time are published today.
'liie idea was whole-heartedly en
dorsed by the new president of Jhe
Chamber of Commerce, who made
the following statement:
“I note with interest that the Ki-;
wanis Club International, with 450 j
clubs, is putting on a Buy Now ami i
Giouch Killing campaign the week of I
March 4th, and that your local or- :
ganization is co-operating with the
' national headquarters.
“I think this is a splendid idea and |
I should kke to i.ee every individual 1
club member in the city interested j
and actively working with the Ki I
wanis in makin a great success of
this campaign. It is certainly need
ed and would go in my judgment a
- ng ways ip bringing-about normal i
condition'- which, is very much desir-'
ed at this time.
“You may depend on the Americus!
and Sumter County Chamber of.
Commerce cp-operating with you Io
the fullest extent. 1 should like to
see every member take a part.”
Citizens everywhere are invited by:
the Kiwanis club to get behind the ■
Buy-Now movement and practice it in
their home : ami businesses.
GAME HERE CALLED OFF.
The basketball game between the
Americus High schools and the Rich
land high girls, which was to have
been played at. th- Salvation Army
gym tonight, has been called off, .the
Richkind team having disbanded.
The earth’s average speed arotwd
the sun is 18 1-2 miles a second.
The tanton of Unterwalden in
.Switzerland used to control the
styles of dress by legislation.
Os Brazil’s t(>.ooo' miles of lail-
I ■■'
of the United States 2.000.
. WEATHER.
.Eviep.'ist foi' Georgia Fair to
night; warmer in northwest portion,
frost tonight; Saturday fair and
warmer.
AMERICUS TEMPERATURES
(Furnished by Rexall Store.)
4 pm 71 4 am .. 18
C, pin .66 6am .46
8 pm .61 8 am ..46
10 pm 58 10 am ....51
Midnight .... 53 Noon > 56
2 am - -50 2 pm ... 60
MARKETS.
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON
Good Middling 11 3-4 c.
NEW YORK FUTURES
Pc Open Hani Ipm Close
C -May 1 1.70 11.70 11.88 11.93 11.70
July 12.12 12.15 12.30 12.38 12.12
Oct. 12.60 12.70 12.83 12.85 12.60
Notes of the Inauguration
WASHINGTON. March 4.—(By
■ Associated Press.) Warren G.
[Raiding is-the.first newspaper pub
i lisher to serve as president of the
■ United States. He is the 29th chief
executive, reckoning Cleveland's two
terms as separate one because he was
the only president serving twice who
was not re-elected.
* * *
The. twenty-ninth president is the
first of Baptist faith. Mr. and Mrs.
Harding have , not yet made known
which church they will attend, but it
may be that the First Baptist, at Six
teenth and O. Stress, Northwest,
will number them among its congre
gation. The Rev. Henry Allen Tup
per is the pastor of this church, which
is one. of the oldest in Washington,
having been founded 119 years ago.
JF >? ->
This year, for the first time since
; William Henry Harrison was inaug
.! mated in .1841 and “Tippicanoe” club
I started the custom of pilgrimages to
I the capital on a big scale, an. inaug
l uration has been held without or
i gainzed effort to attract crowds to
j the national capital.
Social and diplomatic Washington
looks for a revival under the presi
dent and Mrs. Harding of the formal
state dinners and other social func
tions at t'heWhite House which cea:-
ed with the .entrance- of the United
States into the world war. Direc
tion from Mr. Harding for abandon
ment of the official social events inci
dent to his inauguration were con
ceded by those hoping for a return to
a social normalcy to be a blow to
their expectations, but the recent
shopping trip made by Mrs. Harding
to New York and other events have
renewed their optimism.
Calvin Coolidge is the first Massa
! chusetts man to hold the office of
vice-president since Henry Wilson
served in the second Grant adminis
tration nearly half a century ago.
lys advent into office adds to the
i prominence of his state in national
I government affairs for it is regard
|ed as almost certain that Senator
, Henry Cabot Lodge will be again
I chosen as Republican leader in the
Harding Breaks Custom;
Cabinet AH Confirmed
WASHINGTON, March 4. IBy nominations of his cabinet officers,
i Associated Press.) —Breaking a pre- Less than ten minutes after he bad
I cedent which has stood since the (lays delivered his address of five minutes,
I (.f Washington, President Harding ap- the senate had confirmed al! ten
'pt aiX'd today at. an executive r- ssion nominations. The president submit
of tb.e senate and presented t r ted no further nominations.
edTtoral
p- J
BUY NOW MOVEMENT, international in its scope on the
the American continent, embracing both the States
and Canada, is being inaugurated this week by the 450 Ki
wanis clubs in as many cities, large, and small. In Americus
the movement is launched today with a publicity campaign be
ginning in this edition of the Times-Recorder in a full page
of display propaganda and otherwise, and tonigiit'-with a
dinner for the Kiwanis members, their ladies, and a fpw guests,
the keynote of the program for which occasion will be in line
with this international movement.
This is not a Kiwanis campaign, although being given im
petus by the Kiwanians; it is everybody’s campaign. It is a.
movement intended to assist in starting the clogged wheels of
industry by inducing consumers who have for some months
gone to the opposite extreme after an orgy of spending, and
have been supplying not even their daily needs. It is to re
store sane, but careful.and prudent, buying, which will start
the endless chain to moving, that this campaign is undertaken.
Ihe Americus Kiwanians are glad of the opportunity to
undertake a movement as important and as potent for good as
this. "Up to -now wfc have been at work only along idealistic
lines; f it is time for a little practical work as well,"’ wrote the
international president, J. Mercer Barnett, of Birmingham, in
a communication read before the local club a few days ago. And
the Americus club agreed with' him. As a resylt, Americus
has today the Buy-Now campaign. So all citizens are urged
to supply their needs as they find them, and not to wait longer,
for to wait will keep the merchant, the wholesaler and the mill
waiting, too, and the mill, in turn must continue to refuse to
buy our cotton and other raw. materials until needed to. fill
orders.
Buy-Now means more than spending a little money as you
go along each day. Think it over.
- ‘W--
THE TiMESRECORDER
RUBLI SHED IN THE HEART OF DIX
senate, and Representative Feeder-1
ick H. Gibet; as speaker of the house-1
• • w
The oatii of office of president as
administered today by the chief just
ice of the United States. Edward
Douglass White, follows: ‘‘l Warren
Gamaliel Harding, do solemnly swear
that 1 will faithfully execute the of
fice of president of the United States,
and will, to the best’ of my ability,
preserve, protect and defend the
constitution of the United States.”
Mr.s Warren G. Harding found
her servant problem solved for her
when she became mistress of the
White House today. Cooks, chamber
maids, laundrywemen, butler and
pantrymen—2o in all are provided by
the government at a cost of $30,000
a year and there is a housekeeper
who has been in charge of the serv
ants since the administration of for
mer President Taft. Previous to that
time a steward was in charge.
■V ♦ *
Florence Kling Harding, the new
First Lady of the Land, possesses an
unusual degree of pluck and outspok
enness. She has' ideas of her own
on many subjects and she does not
hesitate to speak, her opinions
straight out from the shoulder. Those
who work sou her count her a kind
ly and delightful mistress, but they
know that any delinquency will call
down a reprimand they will not soon
■forget. On occasions she has been
seen shaking a forefinger at her hus
band—but of course nobody knows
w hat that ail is about.
» » *
Whatever else he may be, Warren
G. Harding always classifies himself
as an editor, publisher and printer,
proud of his professional accomplish
ments and training. His luck-charm
and most s'acred possession is a print
er’s rule, carried in his pocket where
ever he goes; and his close friends
say he would rather set a stick of type
any day than grant an audience to an
ambassador. For more than thirty
years Mr. Harding's bread and butter
has been earned by the Marion Star,
whose responsibilities he assumed un
der heavy mortgage and whose early
years he nourished at the expense of
going hungry more than once him
self.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 4, 1921.
keep a stiff upper lip and push forward. While
real economy is necessary, prudent and necessary
buying in order to keep the wheels of industry mov
ing is also a necessity. The United States and Geor-
ENOUGH CASH TO
KEEP UP TRADE
SEEN BYM’CORD
Reserve Head Sees Bet
ter Times In Buy- Now
Statement
That there is sufficient cash in the
hands of the farmers, or will he dur
ing the spring through the marketing
of products in hand, aside from the
greater crops still held, to permit of
a good cash trade for the merchants,
is the opinion of Joseph A. McCord,
■ chairman of the board of the Atlanta
i Federal Reserve Bank, in a statement
I furnished the Americus Kiwanis club,
> through the Times-Recorder, in sup
port of its Buy-Now campaign which
it launches today. Chairman Mc-
Cord says in his opinion the worst
is over and that we are headed in
the right direction for better con
ditions in the present year. Says his
statement, which goes in the general
situation:
The Statement.
‘‘l wish to say that after a care
ful study of the situatiori I believe
that we have passed the worst and
are now headed in the right direction
for better conditions during 1921.
“We. must take, into consideration
the fact that our crops have not been
marketed, although they have been
matured and gathered. Another fact
that we must take into consideration
; is that the marketing is going to be
of a slow process, and more along
the desire of the board known as the
orderly marketing of the crops.
“Let me review> one of our main
products, and the conditions sur
rounding this products surrounds oth
er products, such as sugar, rice, lum
ber, rosin, naval stores of all kinds,
beans, peanuts and cattle. The one 1
< refer to, of which I desire to make
! an analysis, is that of cotton. Esti
mating the crop conservatively at
12,060,000 bales, 38 per cent of this
crop is raised or marketed in the At
lanta district, which covers the full
states of Alabama, Georgia and Flori
da, three-fourths of Tennessee, the
southern half of Mississippi, and you
of course know the boundary lines
for Louisiana. This would give u
4,500,000 bales of cotton in Federal
Reserve district No. 6, Atlanta. We
I came ovei’ with at least 50.0,000 bale;
I from last year’s crop, and this would
I make a total of over 5,000,000 bales
cf cotton in this district.
Third of Cotton Sold.
“There has not been over one
[ third of this cotton marketed, or to
Ibe ultra-conservative, say 40 per
I cent. This would lettve us over
j 000,000 bales of cotton yet in th.
bands of the producers, although they
arc in debt to the banks and mer
chants therefore. Nevertheless, it is
a frozen commodity. To this should
be added the cotton seed, which con
servatively estimated at $lO per bale,
or one-half ton to the bale, making
S2O per ton, and estimating the cot
ton at $75 per bale, gives a value per
bale of say SBS. Therefore there is
I around $325,000,000 locked up in
this commodity; and other commodi-
■ tics in proportion.
i “Then again, there is outstanding
I circulation of the Federal Reserve
j Bank of Atlanta cf $100,000,000.
: she national banks in this district
J have circulation of $45,300,000,
; which mean.--. a total of $285,000,00
■of currency out in (his distri&t. X
I very small proportion of this istheld
j bv the ban!. . as their till money,'and
! possibly $25,000,000 or $.10,000,000.
; of our bills are floating on the |s-
I land of Cuba, but from this rough,,
i estimate you can see that the pro-'
dhet’s of this district, which,are ly
i ing d<»mant. together with the cur
rency that is floating in ihq hands of
the people in ibis district, will reach
sojnewhere in the neighborhood of j
• three-quarters of a billion dollars.;
And if these products are gradually
I marketed ont, the strained condition?
of our country banks will be' very.'
materially relieved and' their de
mands upon the banks in the. larger]
centers would be .reduced, which .;
would possibly cause a liquidation »f
their indebtedness to the city banks.
, Cash for Good 1 radc.
“1 am cf the opinion that there ate
sufficient* products in the district un
marketed cut of which the" farmers
will get seme cash,- together wit..-,
•the cash that they now have in then
possession, to enable us- to have a
good cash trade in the spuing and sum
mer months ami that'the demands for
accommodation will be materially re
duced, more sb than at any time
within the past four er five' years.
“I am also cf the opinion that the
farmers are going to undertake to
produce the incoming crops on a
more economical basis than in many
Renews Pledge For Association
Os Nations,and Against Alliances
Text Os Harding’s Address
WASHINGTON, March 4.--(By
Associated Press.) —President Hard
ing-in his inaugural address said: .
‘My Countrymen: When one sur
veys the world about him after the
great storm, noting the marks of de
struction and yet rejoicing in the
ruggedness of the things which with
stood it, if he is an American, he
breathes the clarified atmosphere with
a strange mingling of regret and
new hope. We have seen world pas
sion spend its fury, but we contem
plate our republic unshaken and hold
our civilization secure. Liberty—lib
erty within the law —and civilization
are inseparable and though both
were threatened we find them now
secure, and there comes to- Ameri
cans the profound assurance that our
representative government is the
highest expression' and surest guar
anty of both.
“Standing in this presence, mind
ful of the soleninity of this occasion,
feeling, the emotions which no one
’may know until he senses the great
weight of responsibility for himself,
1 must utter my belief in the divine
inspiration of the founding of the
fathers. Surely there must have
been God’s intent in the making of
this new world republic. Ours is an
organic law, which has but one ambi
guity, and we saw that effaced in a
baptism of sacrifice and blood, with
union maintained, the nation supreme
and its concord inspirng. We have
seen civil, human and religious liberty
verified and glorified. In the begin
ning the old world scoffed at our ex
periment. today our foundations of
political and social belief stand un
shaken, a precious inheritance to
ourselves, an inspiring example of
freedom and civilization to all man
kind. Let us express renewed and
strengthened devotion, in a grateful
reverence for the immortal begin
ning and utter our confidence in the
supreme fulfillment.
PROGRESS PROVES WISDOM
“The recorded progress of our re
public, materially and spiritually, in
itself proves the wisdom of the in
herited policy of non-involvmcnt in
old world affairs. Confident of our
i ability to work out our own destiny
I and jealously guarding our right to
] do so, we seek no part in directing
j the destinies of the old world. We
do not mean to be entangled. We will
accept no responsibility, except as
our own conscience and judgment, in
each instance may determine. s .
“Our eyes never will be blind to a
developing menace, our ears never
deaf to the call of Civilization. Wc
recognize the new order in the world,
with the closer contacts which prog
ress has wrought. We sense the call
of the human heart for fellowship,
fraternity and co-operation. We
crave friendship and harbor no hate.
But America, our America,' the
America builded on the foundation
laid by the inspired fathers, can bn
a party to no permanent military al
years past; that they are not going
to plant sufficient quantity to cm
);*!< y outside labor, and that next faU
wili find our section of the United
States in a-far better condition than
it has been since the outbreak of the
world war.”
AMERICUS CLUB
WIRES HARDING
ITS BEST WISHES
_—
KIWANIAN Warren G. Harding,
of the Marion, 0., club, today
, t >ok un the reins of government '
as ni'sident of the United States,
with the good wishes of 450 Ki
wanis clubs. In recognition of the
honor to one of their "members,
the Amei.cus Kiwanis club today
I sent the following telegram to
President Harding:
“Warren G. Harding, President,
‘•Washington, D. C.
"The Kiwanis dub of Americus,
I Ga., congratulates you today, as
j leader of the greatest nation. Ev
ery member assures you of a true'
Kiwahian co-operation in marking
■your -administration the greatest
in American history.
"BRADLEY HOGGG, Sec’y.”
gia are both sound; neither is broke; neither has
room for the grouch or the quitter.
THOMAS W. HARDWICK.
I
Atlanta, Ga., March 4.;
liance. It can enter into no political
commitments, nor assume an eco
nomic obligations or subject our de
cisions to any other than our own
authority.
“I am sure our own people will
not misunderstand nor will the world
misconstrue. We have no thought to
impede the paths to closer relation- j
ship. We wish to promote under
standing. We want to do our part iu
making offensive warfare so hateful
that governments and peoples who re
sort to it must prove the righteous
ness of their cause, or stand as out
laws before the bar of civilization.
ASSOCIATION FOR COUNSEL.
- “We are ready to associate our
selves with the nations of the world,
great and small, for conference, for
counsel, to seek the expressed views
of world opinion, to recommend, a
way to approximate disarmament and
relieve the crushing burdens of mili
tary establishments. We elect to
participate in suggesting plans for
mediation, conciliation and arbitra
tion, and would gladly join in that ex
pressed conscience of progress which
seeks to clarify and'write the laws of
international relationship, and, estab
lish a world court for the disposition
of such justiciable questions as na
tions are agreed to submit thereto.
In expressing aspirations, in seeking
practical plans, in translating human
ity’s new concept of righteousness,
justice and its hatred of war into rec
ommended action we are ready most
heartily to unite, but every commit
ment must be made in the exercise
I ot -our national sovereignty.
| "Since freedom impelled, and in-
I dependence inspired and nationality
: exalted, a world super-government is
contrary to everything we cherish
ana can have no sanction by our re
public. This is not selfishness. It is
sanctity. It ;s not aloofness, it is
( security. It is not suspicion of oth
ers; it is patriotic adherence to ths
1I "S K wnlch made what we are.
loday, better than ever before
kin>l kn °? V | thC t Spirat ’ OnS Os man
kind and share them. We have come
in ’ ,eW ,J eal 4 ati °n of our place
in the world and a new appraisal of
our nation by the world. The unsel
fishness of these United States is a
tnmg proven, our devotion also f’or
ourselves and for the world is well
established, our concern for preserv
i cd civilization has had its impassion
-ed and heroic expression. There was
I no American failure to resist the at-
I tempted reversion of civilization,
; there will be no failure today or
tomorrow.
RESTS ON POPULAR WILL
“The success of our popular gov-!
eminent rests wholly upon the cor
rect interpretation of the deliberate,
intelligent, dependable popular will ot
America. In deliberate questioning
of a suggested change of national
policy where internationa’lity was to
supercede nationality, we turned to
a referendum to the /American peo
ple. There was ample discussion and
there is a public mandate in mani
fest understanding.
“America is" ready to encourage,
eager* to initiate, anxious f> partici
pate in any seemly program likely
to lessen the probability of war and
promote that brotherhood of man
kind which must be God :; ‘highest
conception of 'human relationship,
'i Because wc cherish ideals of justice
and peace, because we appraise' m
; ternational coinity and helpful rela-
I tionship. no' less highly than any peo
| pie of the.world, we aspire to a high
I place in the moral leadership of ]
I civilization and we hold a maintained i
[America, the proven republic, the
unshaken temple of representntiv
, <leih>>caacy, to be not only an inspir i-
■ lion and example, but* the highest
agency of strengthening g'<>d will,
amt promoting accord on both, conti
nents.
“Mankind needs a world-wide
' benediction of understanding. It is
| needed among individuals, among
I peoples; among governments, and it
I will inaugurate an era of good fee!'-
ing to mark the birth of a new order
iln such understanding men will
■ strive confidently for the promotion
i of their better relationships arid ria
[ tions will promote the comities so
essential to-peace.
TRADE TIES BIND CLOSELY.
“We must understand that ties of
trade bind nations in in closest in
(Continued on Page Three.)
SECTIONAL NEWS
BY SPECIAL
CORRESPONDENTS
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
WILSON REFUSES
TO RESPOND TO
CROWD’SCHEERS
He and Harding Silent
On Ride To Capi- '
tol
WASHINGTON, March 4.
(By Associated Press.) —Warren
G. Harding, of Ohio, and Cal ■
,vin Coolidge, of Massachusetts,
were inaugurated today as presi
dent und vice president of the
United States.
Pressing his lips to the historic
Bible used at the inauguration of
Washington, President Harding
took the oath, administered by
Chief Justice White.
President Wilson, yielding to
last minute entreaties, tdok no
part in the inaugural certmonies.
Immediately after taking the oath,
Harding began his address. Pledging
faith anew to American' institutions, ,
he reiterated his plea for a return .
to ’ “normalcy,” for industrial peace,
and for friendshp wth the world, and
spoke again a promise to work for an
association of nations, making a
fresh pronouncement against ‘‘en
tangling alliances.”
Yiel ii >•; to tn,' hr i minute to the
entreaties of his family physician,
President Wilson took no part pi the
inaugural other than to accompany
President Harding frem the White
House-to the capital. He witness
neither the cereomnii: in the senate
attending the inauguration of Vice-
President Coolidge nor those on the
plaaz where the incoming president
lock the oath. Immediately afier
signing sonic bills, President- Wilsbn
drove to his new home on S. street.
President Wilson did nbt make it
known until he had arrived at the
capitol that he would not attend the
inauguration. After requesting that
Harding and Übolidge be invited to
visit him, he told tnem because of
the steps leading to the chambers
he did no' think hi cm:ld attend. He
first explained to Senator Knox and
said:
“Senator, the e-.ia'e fens throv/i;
me down but I'm' not gmng to fall
down.” • . ■
I The inaugural program got under
way acwu'ding Io Veh dul<‘ promptly
at, 10 o’clock this morning when in
augural committee arrived at the
New V. liku-i hotel to < sc . 1 tin; preyi
(lent-elect; and* wife and the Vice
t ■■> ■
the'White House. Everything wa.j in
rcadhv ss for the cert-monies of the
next, three hours, whic '• concluded
with "the actual inauguration of thu
new president al the capitol. >
Coherers about the same time wax
resuming it work and with less than
three- b to live m. tempting
to clear i'. ■ ijeck . The weather was
clcaij* and cold.
Harding and U-.>q-:ge left the lib;
tel for the White House at 1.0:20
a. .m., accompanied .by members oi
tin con r< ional inaugural commit
tee and escorted by four troops of
j. cavahy. • Afier an hour delay
] at the White House the party started
I for the capitol. President . Wilson,
I Hardini: .Senator Knox, Represents.
live t nnon riding in an open tour
ing car and .Mrs. Wilson- Mrs. Kard
ine. i-i ■ .landaulei.
The perty rode down Pennsylvania
chet ring but
President Wilson-made >wl-
edgement:- ami Harding, obvipusly
in respect tn th eoU goipg president,
‘ took none of the -heering to him
1 self. -
Al the dj*.)!' <>: tin capitol Presi
dent Wilson pair.cd. then walked into
, the building ur. .--..id, passing Lae
rolling chair which had been yrovid--
1 cd for : use. '.'li ieW ilson ■ Look
up J'-- ■■ k e-i' : -bile , Hard-
’ ing went to th< cna e chamber. He •
! whs alre.-dy in the • - presidentroom
I'when V/ii wi arii ed and joined the
f I others there including members of •
• 1 the Wilson cabinet, in clapping hands
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