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SINKING EDISON’S CORK AGAIN.
> Mr. Edison’s questions? Oh, I found them ra
? ther boresome. Really nothing much in them.—
Y Sir Auckland Gecbles, British ambassador to the
< United States.
FORTY-THIRD YEAR.—NO. 117.
JUDGE TELLS SUMTER GRAND JURY TO
SEEK OUT FACTS IN MURDER MYSTERY
‘IT MUST NOT BE
AGAIN’-HARDING
AT HERO’S BIER
President Speaks Sol
emn Words Over Sol
dier’s Coffin
NEW YORK, May 2:!.—“lt must
not be again.”
With these solemn words. Presi
dent Harding today laid a wreath on
the coffin of the first American
soldier to die on German soil at a
funeral ceremony for 5,000 war dead
at the army pier in Hoboken..
His voice was husky and his eyes
brimmed with tears as the president
gazed at rows and rows of coffins.
“One hundred thousand sorrows
touch my heart,” he declared. “It
must not be again. God grant it
will not be. I dno’t pretend that mil
ennial days are here or that there
will be no more war. I would wish
that our nation were so powerful
that none would dare to provoke its
wrath.”
Then there fell a deep silence in
the great army shed and Mrs. Hard
ing could be seen weeping softly.
After the ceremony, President Hard
ing returned to Manhattan, where
he addressed the Academy of Polit
ical science at luncheon.
NEW YORK, May 23.-—President
Harding arrived here today from
Washington aboard the presidential
yacht Mayflower. He landed at West
Ninety-Sixth street at 9:50, to face a
day’s program that will leave him
scarcely a minute for rest.
CHINESE FUND
STILT GROWING
The Chinese Famine Relief fund
here has reached almost $450. The
latest contributions, were announced
today by C. F. Giddings, local treas
urer, as follows:
Previously reported $429-.84
DeMolay Comandery, No. 5,
K. T 10.00
Edgar Shipp, Jr. 2.00
Mrs. J, E. Kiker 2.00
Morgan and James Eldridge
and Eldridge Ferguson . 2.00
Miss Myrtle Rushin 2.00
Cash 50
Mrs. W. M. English’s S. S.
Class SO
Total— $4 4 8-. 3 9
Miss Parsons To Teach
Sumter School Again
At a recent meeting of the board
of trustees at Sumter, Miss Marion
Parsons was re-elected as teacher of
the Sumter school for the fall term
of 1921. Sumter concluded a suc
cessful term of foil nine months
last Friday with a splendid barbecue
dinner on the grounds, which was at
tended by a number of persons out
side the city, as well as by the pat
rons and friends of the school.
The closing exercises of the
school were appropriate and com
mensurate with the splendid work ac
complished by the students during
the school term. Miss Parsons, who
was made principal last September,
has done splendid work among Ihe
students of the school, introducing
a number of attractive features
which have added materially to the
pleasure and benefit of the pupils.
During the stay of Miss Parsons
in Sumter as principal she made a
number of warm friends among the
•trustees and directors of the school,
as well as among the parents of the
pupils and the students themselves.
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THAT SETTLES IT!
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coMeoveiz aho J I
MIX IN MV AFFAIRS J L" /.-
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FATHER SAVES
SNAKE-BIT SON
Slits I ad s Lep and Sucks
Poison From
Wound
An unusual story of the-presence
of mind of a terror-stricken father
in taking heroic action to save the
life of his young son who had just
been bitten by a deadly moccasin
; snake, has just come to light. The
j father was Luther Ivey, lineman for
1 the Western Union Telegraph eompa
!ny here. The child was his six-ycar
j old son, Carlton, the youngest of his
! three boys.
I They were returning home along
I the Seaboard railroad track west of
j town near the trestle Friday cve
j ning after an afternoon of fishing in
I Muckalee. The lad was trailing
i along behind his father when the lat
j ter "heard his scream. Looking
1 sPMimt- quickly he saw the reptile
I clinging about the child’s leg, the
| lad having stepped into his coil, with
fangs sunken into the flesh.
Terror seized the father, but it
j took him only a moment to act. With
| out waiting to kill the snake, he
j grabbed the boy, carried him a short
distance, threw him onto the ground,
then with his pocket knife slit his
flesh deeply for several inches, then
with his own mouth sucked the blood
and poison from the wound.
' The act not only saved the boy’s
life, hut saved him more than pass
ing discomfort. The next day he was
siighlly nauseated, but otherwise
feeling good.
NO BASE AT ALAMEDA.
WASHINGTON, May 23. The
provisions in the naval appropriation
bill for a new fleet base at Alameda,
Oak, were stricken from the bill to
day in the senate.
ASSERT HARDING WILL
BACK REVISED TREATY
BY 1! N. RICKEY
WASHINGTON. May 23.—'The
Treaty of Versailes will be back in
the senate within 00 days, with a
message from President Harding urg
ing that it be ratified.
That is the conviction which is
growing very fast among those in
Washington who have been closely
following events since the new ad
ministration came into power.
It will be a greatly modified treaty
as compared with the form in which
President Wilson sent it to the sen
ate and had it sent back to him,
without the ratifying resolution.
All sections and clauses referring
directly or indirectly to the League
of Nations will be eliminated, in
cluding, of course, the covenant it
self with its famous article ten.
Other Changes
The Shantung clauses and those re
ferring to mandates, also will bo
more or less painlessly extracted be
fore the senate is asked to perform.
There may be other clauses of
greater or mss importance, cut out. in
deference to Republican pre-election
pledges and hostile senatorial senti
ment.
President Harding and Secretary
of State Hughes will go as far as
they possibly can to make the docu
ment acceptable to the two-thirds of
the senate whose votes are necessary.
But every indication points to the
one vital fact in the situation that it
is the Harding-Hughes policy not, to
make a separate neace with Germany
but to make peace with her in part
liership with our allies in the war and
on the basis of the treaty negotiated
at Vei’sailles.
Ideas Changed
Whatever may have been .the ideas
and purposes of Harding when he
first took office, the facts of the in
ternational situation as they have de
veloped since seem to have convinced
.him that a separate peace treaty with
•Germany is not only unnecessary but
impractical.
It is doubtful whether President
Harding ever intended to make a
separate peace with Germany. The
THETjffi|I®IHSRDER
RfOlj PUBLISHED IN THE , HEART Os DlX<E~l?^s^
GERMANS DRIVE
POLES BACK IN
SILESIA 5 MILES
Reported Operating On
Resources Os A Reg
ular Army
LONDON, May 23. —Germans on j
| Saturday drove the Polish insurgents
i in Upper Silesia back toward Cross-
I Strchlitz for a distance of 5 miles,
says a dispatch to the London Times
from Oppeln. The Times corres
pondent declares there is every sign
that the Germans operating against
the Poles have the resources of the
German regular army at their dis
posal.
BRITISH TO SEND
i TROOPS TO SILESIA.
LONDON, May 23.—(8y Assoeiat
j ed Press.)- The British government
j has decided to send troops to Silesia
| at an early date, it was announced
I today.
;
DELEGATIONS SENT
TO INTERVENE.
PARIS, May 23.—(8y Associated
Press.) —The Allied High commis
sion in Silesia has sent delegations to
intervene with both Germans and
Poles in an endeavor to obtain a ces
sation of all military operations in
that territory, according to French
official advices today. Each delega
tion was composed of representatives
of France.
5 WHITES DIE IN
EGYPTIAN RIOT
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt. May 23.
(By Associated Press.)—Five Euro
i peans were killed and 72 others
! wounded in rioting here Sunday night
! and this morning, it was announced
j at noon today. The police casualties
j were not given out.
i Women Big Problem For
Southern Presbyterians
ST. LOUIS. Mav 23.—Nearly a
I hundred overtures, including recom
j mendations for regulating the parti
cipation of women in affairs of the
| church, were before committees of
| the Southern Presbyterian General
Assembly for consideration today.
One of the overtures would bar wo
men altogether from church activi
•lics.
A chef in an American hotel carves
vegetables into shapes • resembling
flowers.
fact that he made Hughes and
Hoover members of his cabinet and
has relied upon them to straighten
out the tangle of our foreign rela
tions, is strong proof to the con
trary.
Neither of them has ever favored
discarding the Versailles treaty. The
most extreme position either of them
has taken is that it should be modi
fied to relieve this country of cer
tain obligations and responsibilities
which it might not. assume.
Bitter-Enders
The so-called bitter enders in the
senate, under the leadership of John
son and Borah, will fight like snakes
to prevent the ratification of the
treaty, even with the league coven
ant and other objectionable f -atures
cut out.
The administration knows this
perfectly well and is preparing for
the battle.
It is hoped that when the showdown
conies friendly relations will have
been established with enough sena
tors through patronage and other fa
vors to more than offset the Johnson-
Borah influence and that there will
be a safe margin over the two-thirds
required for ratification.
Assuming that the administration
wins its fight and gets the treaty
ratified, the decks will then he clear
for the initiation of the Harding
program for an association of na
tions.
The passage bv congress of the
Knox resolution declaring a state of
peace with Germany will i:i no way
interfere with the United States later
, joining her former allies in the Ver
| sailes treaty, witji modifications. The
] Knox resolution is in no sense a
| substitute for a peace treaty.
The question which President
Harding will have to decide after
the Knox resolution has been passed
i and signed by him is whether he will
; negotiate a separate peace treaty
1 with Germany without reference to
| the Versailles treaty or become a
party to such parts of the latter as
meet with his approval.
f All the indications point toward
‘ his adopting the latter course.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 23, 1921.
LAST POLICIES
HELD BY DEAD
BANKER PAID
%-
Casualty Company Set
j tics Suits Brought By
Ny idow
| Announcement was made Monday
by Col. W. A. Dodson, attorney rep
resenting Mrs. Helen Wheatley, wid
ow of the late Crawford Wheatley,
of Americus, that the Fidelity and
Casuality company, of New York,
had paid the two outstanding acci
dent policies on the life of Crawford
Wheatley, of which Mrs. Wheatley
was beneficiary, amounting to a to
tal of $10,500, together with the
court costs. This action settles the
suits for collection of the two poli
cies which had recently been brought
in Superior court. The penalties of
25 per cent additional and attorney’s
fees, asked in the petitions, were not
insisted upon in the settlement.
Motion for dismissal of both cas
es was made by Col. Dodson short
ly after the opening of the May
term of the court at 9 o’clock.
The settlement was effected Sat
urday in Macon through Attorneys
Harris, Harris and Witman, repre
senting the insurance concern. The
company had promised some time ago
to make a settlement but had failed
to do so, even after*the body of the
late Mr. Wheatley had been exhumed
by the concern’s own physicians, af
firming the verdict of the local phy
sicians at the post mortem following
th» banker’s fatal fall December 31.
These were the last unpaid policies
on Mr. Wheatley’s life, all totalling
$75,000 or more.
FLYER WRECK
IN DEATH PLOT
PADUCAH, Ky., May 23.—What
railroad officials said was probably
a deliberate attempt to take human
life failed early today when the Illi
nois Central flyer, Louisville to New
Orleans, was derailed at Epperson,
near here. Three coaches and the
locomotive tender were partly over
turned. Many passengers were bruis
ed, but none seriously hurt.
TARIFF BILLTO
GO TO HARDING
WASHINGTON, May 23.—The
house today adopted the conference
report on the emergency tariff bill
| which now goes to the president.
Alabama Problem
Not For U. S. Solution
WASHINGTON, May 23.—A re
port to the department by Hywel Da
vies, a special investigator of condi
tions in the mining industry in Ala
bama, made today to Secretary of
| Labor Davis, contained nothing that
i Davis believed would justify the de
partment endeavoring to solve the
industrial problems of that state, it
was announced at the department of
TO VOTE ON BLAIR .
WASHINGTON, May 23. —Agree-
ment to vote Thursday on the nomi,
nation of David H. Blair, of North
Carolina, to be internal revenue com- j
missioner, was made by
in executive session today.
SOMEREADING
YOU MAY FIND '
AT THE LIBRARY
I- ■ # |
! If you have a spare hour or twoj
lon your hands —say on half-holiday.:!
—drop in at the library and look
over the magazine, table. You will |
be surprised at the number of excel
lent periodicals that are to be found
there.
There is the Musical Courier for
those musically inclined; the Scien
tific American for the scientific;
Good housekeeping, House Beauti
ful, Garden Magazine, Ladies Home
Journal, Vogue, for the ladies; North
American Review for the reviewers
and Literary Digest for the digesters ;j
Popular Mechanics for the mechani-j
cal, and Life for the living; On-i
tury and Scribner for the higbrows, I
ami the American for the Demo-'
cratic; School Arts and Crafts for j
the artful and the crafty; St. Nich
-1 das Little Folks, and Youth’s
1 Companion for the young; Saturday
Evening Post, Outlook, and Collier’s
for everybody, The London News,
| New York Times, and Americus
: Times-Recorder fox those addicted to
| papers.
This is only a partial list but you
j are expected to show partiality in
I this case.
| A pleasant and profitable hour
! can be spent in your own library in
I your own way. Everybody welcome.
SETH TANNER
Family trees is sometimes like
other trees— they need srpayin’.
Flattery is a knok, knocked inside
Out. «, «
TAX EQUALIZERS
SYMPATHETIC
County Board Starts
Grind— Realize Con
ditons
The county board o ftax equalizers
began their annual session Monday
morning at the court house. The
board is constituted the same as last
year, the membership being F. A.
Wilson, chairman last year, J. If. My
ers, and George I). Wheatley. The
firs) session was devoted entirely to
preliminary affairs, matters of poli
cy for this year not being even dis
cussed, it was said. Asked as to
the attitude of the board, Mr. Wil
son said:
“We realize the condition of the
tax payers of the county.”
This statement was not elucidated,
but it was taken to mean that the
board would be inclined to accept
lower valuations on property this
year than last, realizing that valua
tions have decreased considerably as
a general rule since laid, spring. It
was stated that the policy of the
board would he publicly outlined af
ter the members had discussed the
situation and agreed upon one.
It was said no instructions had
ben received from the county com
missioners other than, “Go to work,
transmitted by Chairman Neill A.
Ray.
The board will occupy the office
of J. B. Ansley, county engineer, at
the court house while the grand jury
is in session, returning to its for
mer quarters after that body ad
journs.
BOBBY JONES"
WINSATSTART
I
, HOYLAKE, England, Mav 23
[ (By Associated Press.)-—America
I came off victorious in the initial con
test of the English amateur golf
championship here today when Bobby
Jones, of Atlanta, beat G. C. Man
ford, and Luffnes New in the opening
round, 3 and 2.
To Form Leslie
Farm Council
The first organization meeting of
the Farm Bureau campaign in Sum
ter county will be held at Leslie
Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock, C.
C. Sheppard, county manager of the
campaign, announced Monday. The
Leslie Community Council will be
organized at that time, embracing
the membership in that section of
Sumter county. All members and
their families, and any other citizens
interested in the movement are urg
ed by Mr. Sheppard to be present.
Couple Both Testify,
Both Given Divorce
Mrs. Lizzie Parker Hobbs was
granted her second decree of total
divorce in Superior court Monday
morning, the first of numerous di
vorce cases taken up. Her husba'nd,
Chas. S. Hobbs, who had filed a
cross-bill, appeared in his own be
half and the verdict removed his
disabilities also. Both testified.
Each accused the other of cruel
treatment.
University Instructor
To Make A<?gie Address
The literary address at the Third j
District shool commencement Tues j
day night will be delivered by Prof. |
F. V. Sanford, professor in English, i
of the University of Georgia. He I
is said to be a pleasing and enter
taining speaker, although not a great
orator. He will arrive Tuesday af
ternoon.
“Dusty” Burke is a member of the
| Sumter county grand jury, which
| convened this morning. “It is the
| first time I have ever been summon
ed for jury duty,” said he. He
made no excuse to the judge to be
released from service.
PUBLICILOOKINGYTO YOU
■TO FERRET OUT FACTS,HE 1
SAYS; HITS GAMBLING, TOO
Says Nearly All Crimes Spring From Violation Os
Laws Against Gambling, Liquor and Lewd Wo
men; Deplores Dorsey Controversy With Jurists
Getting to the bottom of the Scarborough murder, if possible, was
put squarely up to the Sumter county grand jury Monday morning by
Judge Z. A. Littlejohn in his charge in opening the May term of the Sum
ter Superior court. Without mentioning the crime by name, but calling at
tention to its occurrence and the blot it had placed on the county, he said,
“the public is looking to you to ferret out the facts in this case.”
Earlier in his charge he had dwelt upon the importance of suppressing
gambling, and stated that practically all crimes spring from violation of the
laws against gambling, liquor and lewd women. Inasmuch as these three
elements have been definitely connected with the Scarborough case, his
words were taken as having particular significance to the mystery which
has stirred this part of Georgia for a week and is still unsolved.
Judge Littlejohn touched on the controversy in Georgia over Governor
Dorsey’s pamphlet on alleged mistreatment of the negro, deploring it as
having - a bad effect on respect for law and those who enforce the law, the
dispute having brought about attacks by the governor on the courts add
by some of the courts upon the executive. He said that, regardless of the
merits of the governor's charges i« his pamphlet, ho didn't think any people
ever benefited from washing their dirty linen before the public.
The grand jjury retired at 10
o’clock to begin its inquiry. J. E.
Mathis, superintendent of the city
schools of Americus, was foreman.
Among the members of the body,
composed of 23 men, were a number
of leading citizens known as leaders
in the community far law enforce
ment and enemies of vice and crime.
One minister, Dr. Carl W. Minor, of
the First Baptist church and one of
the leading preachers in the South,
was a member of the grand jury. In
completing his charge Judge Little
john called attention of the jurors to
the oath they had taken— to indict
no one through malice, envy or ha
tred, and to leave unindicted no one
through fear, favor, affection, re
ward or hope thereof. /
Lower Offense* Set Out
Thirty-two of the 36 grand jurors
drawn responded, seven were excused
and two were discharged, there being
the limit of 23 without them. Judge
Littlejohn in the early part of his
charge called attention to sections
of the code as required by lav' enum
erating numerous offenses set out in
the code. He mentioned tha*. all the
offenses which he was compelled to
call to the attention of the jury were
lower grade of offenses or misdo
meamrs, such as gaming, carrying
deadly weapons, interfering with re
ligious worship, sale of narcotic
drugs, violations of game and fish
laws, etc. He explained that this
was due to the fact that ail major
crimes, such as murder or arson, di
rectly affect, some one and there is
always a prosecutor, whereas there is
almost never a prosecutor other than
the state for gaming violations, and
other minor crimes are in the same
category. He said that if the minor
offenses were to be suppressed it
would ho only through the honest and
conscientious endeavor of the grand
juries interested in preserving the
rights, peace and integrity of the
couht.v.
“One reason why the law says I
must call these lesser crimes to your
attention,” said Judge Littlejohn, “is
that a majority of the higher crimes
follow from the lower offenses. II
has been mv experience that, if the
grand jurien are determined to sup
press law violations of the lesser
grades they have fewer of the major
crimes to came to their attention.
Homicides Far Le»* Now
The statute makes it my duty, also, j
to call your attention to the prohibi
tion law. Since the prohibition law
has gone into effect the courts don’t
have over one-fourth the homicides
t try they had in tl <■ Jays of the
open barroom. want to say
that T have observed that almost ev
ery offense :hat conies before the
court may be traced in some manner
t> illegal traffic in liquor. The li
quor laws of Georgia are stringent
They do not permit a man to possess
liquor, to sav nothing of make or
sell it, and the supreme eouvr has rul
ed that to nossess a spoonful is as
much a violation of the law as to
possess a gallon. The purnose of
the law is to close all avenues oG es
cape for the violator: it was not the
purpose of the legislature primarily
to make it a crime for a man to pos
sess liquor strictly for his own use.
But that is the law, and it will be
observed in time that if we keep li
quor away from out citizenship we
won’t have the trouble we have been
having. *
‘‘Nearly all crimes flow Groin vio
lation of the laws against cards,
drink and lewd women, and.if these
are suppressed we won’t have the
crimes that shame anv community.”
Here Judee Littlejohn paused- and
took from his desk a note that had
been laid there by the sheriff, read
it to himself, then sat as in deep
study fpr half a minute while seem
ingly assembling words for what he
had to say next. He began.
The Scarborounijh Ca*e.
“I have been bragging around
over this circuit to the various grand
juries charged in the last few weeks
that, with the great amount of crime
prevalent in the country—and I
IN DAYS BEFORE THE TA*ICAf4„
Ten men hire a coach. By getting 4 more? p&l- )
sengers, the expense to each it cut $1.20. What S
do they pay for the coach?
Answer to yesterday’s: 1 near, 4 cents; 1 orange, )
5 cents. , . *
might say our state, for wd have our
share—with murder and robbery and
other crimes going on, we have been J
perfectly quiet in this circuit. And ||
1 had made my mind to talk the *
same way to this grand jury today—• oj
how we had been law-abiding, gen
erally speaking, with not an offense,
no! a striking crime, that would at
tract attention or startle the public.
But I regretted, just as I was com
ing back to Sumter ccunly, to dis
cover that I had been cut off from ;
making such a boast here, for just
a;; I returned borne there was an oc
currence that did attract attention, M
apd did startle the public, an oc
currence which all good people re
grot. And I want to, aay to you, ,i|
it is up to this grand jury to get :|
every fact and ascertain every de- I
tail possible. I don’t, know hop?
much you will be able to, but the |
public is looking to you to*ferret out j
the facts in this crime.”
Dornov'* Pamphlet.
This was the judge’s entire refer- i
cnee to the Scarborough case, and
he turned to the recent controversy -'i
in the state over Govenor Dorsey’s
pamphlet setting forth alleged mis
treatment of negroes in Georgia. He jf
continued:
“Another matter I wont to mention
to this grand jury is the fact that
our state has been lately very much
torn and censure voiced, to my very
deep regret, as a result of a contro
versy between seme of the judiciary
and the executive department. I
don’t think any good can come as a
rosuH of a fight through the press.
If the governor’s namphlet * was j
wrong, if was issued in bad judg
ment, or was a mistake. I don’t think j
any neople ever benefited by wash
ing dirty linen before the public. Yet
we have undoubtedly been benefit
ed by the discussions that, have gome .-1
aheut an a result of this controversy, il
The harm comes from lowering the
respect of the public for those whose . M
duty it is to uphold and enforce the
law. Our safety and peace lies in
a high regard of the public for jaw
and high respect for those who en
force the law. ts we break dwon that
we destroy our neace and safety. j
‘A man who lives in a good sec
tion of the state does not appre
ciate law and order until he moves
to a section where he does not know,
after the sun sets, that he and, his -jj
j family are safe until the sun rises
; again—and there are places in this
state where such conditions exist.
They come about from lack of respect
for low and those who enforce law,
and the result is no protection from
the law. It is up to you to assist
in maintaining respect fog- law.” ,
SCARBOROUGH CASE
NOT YET TAKEN UP.
It was stated by members of the
grand jury that when that body re- |
cessed at 12:30 o’clock for lunch
that the Scarborough fentfrder and
reported vice conditions on the west J
side had not been mentioned during
the morning, the first session being j
consumed with trivial cases. Several
true bills were returned. It was a
thought to be the plan of Solicitor
Felton to clean up other pending cas- .
es before going into the Scarborough
case, which may require considerable
lime.
STILL HE CAN’T-ESCAPE.
PARIS, May 23.—Pierre Pontage j
received a neatly engraved notice
from the v retu h government inform
ing him that lit' owed SB,OOO taxes. ’ i
He killed himself. Now the govern- S
ment is trying to collect inheritance
tax from his heirs.
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* Stained glass windows in. English’
• cathedrals are being attacked by a J
1 mysterious disease tiyit causes the
5 glass to flake. Jffl
WEATHER. I
Forecast for Georgia —Generally* '
i i fair and continued warm tonight and
i Tuesday.
5 Norma Itemperntures and partly. M
j cloudy weather will prevail during 3JJ
[ the week with occasional’- showers. M
PRICE FIVE CENTS.