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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. MARKETS _ AMEPICUS SPOT COTTON Good Middling 11 3-4 c NEW YORK FUTURES July Oct Dec. Jan Prev Close 12.06 13.37 13.75 13.82 Open 12.60 13.35 13.75 13.78 10:15 a. in. 12:54 13.29 13.66 13.80 10:30 . 12.55 13.61 13.74 10:45 12.54 13.27 13.61 13.73 11-00 - 12.53 13.27 13.62 13.73 11:15 12.57 13.29 13.62 13.75 11-30 12.58 13.28 13.67 11:45 12.55 13.27 13.63 13.74 12 00 12.56 13.28 13.63 13.75 12:15 P m 12.60 13.30 13.66 13!?5 12.30 ... 12.63 13.35 13.66 13.77 12:45 12,66 13.35 13.73 1 -00 12.67 13.36 13.71 1-15 12.64 13.34 13.70 1-50 i 2.65 13.35 13.70 13.78 1- 12.58 13.29 13.66 13.78 2- .12.58 13.19 13.53 13.78 2-15 .12.48 13.19 13.53 13.64 2-50 12.54 13.25 13.61 13.70 2-45 12.49 13.20. 13.57 13.64 Close ...... .12.36 13.08 13.45 13.55 LIVERPOOL COTTON July Oct. Prev. Close 8:22 8:5.i Open 8.44 Close 8.17 8.51 THAT SETTLES IT! VJom't You Please j j Ikf A I coMeoveiz aho J I MIX IN MV AFFAIRS J L" /.- I^l c ’ • v_ - 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. —* * 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.