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YOU AND I MUST AGREE WITH HARD ING THAT CHINA’S VOICE SHOULD BE HEARD. TyE inclusion of China in Presi dent Harding’s inviations to the disarmament conference is an indica tion of how important a pact the discusison of Pacific and Far East ern question is to play in the nego tiations. the least militaristic nations, China has but an academic interest in the question of diarmament. But she has a vital interest in any decisions that are taken which di rectly or indirectly affect the future policies, of America, Greai Britain an d Japan in the Pacific. It would be folly to attempt to ar rive at these decisions without giv ing China a chance to state her case. That President Hrading has not committeed this folly in one of the good auguries for the success of the great venture he has undertaken. ALVIN YORK. Alvin York, the war’s greatest hero, has the sympathy of thousands in his fight to save his ’mortgaged farm. The story of his danger of being ousted was printed in the Times-Re corder and other papers throughout the country last “week. And from all parts of the country,. b y hundreds, have come offers of a.d. In addition to. the individual offers, Sunday schools in Kansas City have started a fund to meet the mortgage. The world admires a game fighter. And more, it is always ready to help him. PERFUME. Egyptians had wonderful perfumes. Sicentitst excavating there report tlu-y found, a jar of scent in the tomb of a princess. When the jar wgs opened the fragrance of the scent was still strong, though it had been buried s.nee about 2000 B. C. Four thousand years! That’s even more lasting than the fragrance . of cabbage cooked in Americus kitchens I on a hot day in July. MANAGER PLAN. More than 8,000 citizens of Day- I ton, 0., one of the fist cities to adopt I the city manager plan of government, I have signed petitions for a referen dum to abolish the city managership! the commission form. K»utiz.ens of Dayton are displeased SBith the present form of government Because of a recent rise in the gas rate, * After vll, it is men and not forji'.s /hat make governments good or bod. But no city has ever gone back on the city manager plan. Almost in variably it has eliminated politicians and brought good men into politics. The Dayton movement will be watched with interest everywhere. AMBASSADORS Os 25 picture shows advertised in the London Mail recently, 24 were American productions. Now Mary Pickford and Doug Fairbanks and Wally Reid and Mar guerite Clarke and Charlie Chapplin don't know a thing about interna tional diplomacy, but nevertheless they are our envoys extraordinary, not in the Court of St. James, but direct to the people of England. They are ambassadors of good will in away that no ambassador tc a mere court can possibly be. They are teaching English people to suite and cry with us and folks who smile and cry together over the same things are not likely to fight each other —though' they may fight together. HARD TIMES The necessity of dealing with our economic problems on a world basis, and the impossibility of the United states prospering by itself alone, is ■ irikingly stated by Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce. "The hard times that knock at ev ery .Mage door today,” says Hoover, came frem Europe. •No tariffs, no embargoes, no nav ‘ ,: " n 0 armies can ever defend us from these invasions. Pur sole defense is the prosper lty of our neighbors and our own eommencal skill.” ARMISTICE „„ c( r( l si(l , ent Hard *ng himself has sug-' ’ 1,(1 that it would be fine if the "P'imil international conference on . mmament could convene on Arm lst Day, .November 11. • and'’. A " lustict ‘ Day, 1918, th e Allied term* 1 i'i' P° wers laid down the 1 the c l, "‘ t ' sll 'ipped Germany and mlitai-v 11 l>owers °f danger as a ••maiy menace. sained A ' mistice Ua y> 19 21, these of minimi " S take . Up the P roblem among. th" lg I ,n,htary aggression ■had// t ,' l e " lselves the day will be ■t 1 * doubly memorable. M t . kissing ■ Crusn.i ° dis : Central Sabbath ■ Potion ' s planning to I obseivin . stress to enact Sunday ■ thin.'. '..'m law , s that, among other ■ nin e , trains from run- I 1 , lhe Sabbath. ■er ch-, 1 ,', 11 ’’ l ' d l aw8 > Noah W. Cqop ■ would of the committee says, ■ Pkacur, " lntei 'tere with innocent ■ wif e .' ' ueh as a man kissing his I t'ould never understand uf'i',.,. .’ s 80 much less kiss- ] . lial , 'iage than there was be- ' -'t'e the same girl? Aren’t ■ The Sam< ‘ lips? ‘ th-i'n’Vu * '7 P uzz les no less a per ■ ' tv ‘ Ddly Sunday, who " " yo . u 8° home, tonight, >■ ■ ’ iour wife by kissing her.” THETMWREeORDER PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXiE FORTY-THIRD YEAR.—NO. 164 Harding In Letter Opposes Tariff On Oil Meet Baron Byng O’ the Tanks! He’s Coming to Govern Canada BY MILTON BRONNER LONDON, July 18.—Baron Byng o’-the Tanks sails for America August 3. The immortal hero of Vimy Ridge —the British gen eral who for the first time in his tory unleashed aj fleet of batt bl tanks at Cambrail and routed a su-l perior force of’ awe-struck G e r -3 mans comes to' Canada to assume his new duties as governor general for five years. 1 asked him to talk to me about himself, his plans, his hopes and aspi rations—always a hard thing for a man who has done! big things to con-1 sent to do. " Picture him 59 years old, straight as a line, al most six feet, with dark brown hair, scarcely showing any pray; a dark brown mustache, and friendly smil ing blue eyes. All the time he talks he puffs at a little briar pipe which has gone through many a battle with him. “1 expect to be sworn in at Que bec August 10 and to be in Ottawa on August 11,” he says. “I have never held a diplomatic position be fore. 1 am not a diplomat, but I think my good friends, the Can adians, will pull me out of holes as •they nave done before.” “Canada's a Democratic country like the United States,” 1 ventured. “They will take to you because you are Democratic.” “Oh, everybody has to be Demo cratic these days. Did you ever hear of the world post-war-dom? That is the condition of all the civilized world. It means that since the war the world is more Democratic, peo ple are Democratic, institutions are Democratic. It’s an age of more simplicity. It’s also an age of more criticism. “People take a man only for what he is not for what he was born, nor for what he imagines him self to be. WHIPPED PASTOR STILL IN MIAMI Found At Office In His Negro Church, De spite Order MIAMI, Fla., July 18.—Rev. Philip S. Irwin, white, who is a British subject, and pastor of an Episcopal church in the negro quarter of this city, was found in the office of his church today ■attending to his du ties, though suffering from injuries sustained last night when eight un identified masked men took him to the woods, stripped and whipped him and applied tar and feathers. The police say Irwin refused to answer to direct questioning whether he had advocated race equality. Certain doctrines of uplift to the negroes delivered by Archdeacon Ir winfi objectionable to white resi dents, are said to have been the rea son for the deed. Before being tarred and feathered Irwin was carried into some woods near Miami, where he was stripped, tied to a tree and whipped. The group of masked men outlined their pro gram to him before it was executed and then gave him forty-eight hours within which to' leave Miami. Southern Woods Good For Paper Manufacture MADISON, Wis., July 18.—Estab lishment of paper mills in the south ern states is all that is needed to util ize much southern pine for the man ufacture of book paper, the Forest Products Laboratory here announces. Its experiments (.are said to hare determined that pulp made from one variety of pine is suitable for this purpose. Southern pine has ofter been sug-, gested as a possible supply of mater ial for pulp purposes, but experiments ( met with failure until the local labor atory, working with loMlolly pine, | successfully turned out book paper by the sulphate process. Further experiments will be made here with other varieties of southerh pine to determine whether they will be equally adaptable to the manufac ture of pulp. I What Work has been done with other woods from the squth—-black 1 and tupelo gum, swamp maple and other Simialr material—shows that they 'are all substantially as well suited for the purpose as the lob lolly pine anl the red gum, the en gineers say. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Mathis left Sunday morning by autom'obile for Atlanta and other North .Georgia points, where Mrs. Mathis will visit relatives and friends for several weeks. • . “The thing I am proud of about this appointment to Canada is that the Canadians themselves wanted me. They asked for me. And if anybody knows me, it’s the Canadians. They were a real fighting lot. “When the king conferred the peerage upon me, 1 said I wanted to be called Baron Byng of Vimy in commemoration of the great battle of Vimy Ridge the Canadian troops fought. But 1 didn’t want to take that Title unless the Canadians were satisfied 1 should. So I sent word' to them and got .a very satisfactory answer.” I asked him whether he was go ing to visit us while he was governor general. “I can’t,” he replied. “It’s an un written rule that the governor gen eral does not leave Canada. His wife can, his staff can, but not he. ' “Still, I can go down and look at the most wonderful frontier in the world—the Canada-United States border which has never had its par allel. Three thousand miles with not a soldier, nor a fort, nor a gun on either side, but everywhere the signs of amity and peace. That's a won derful object lession for the world.” Julian Byng joined the army in 1883, saw service in the Sudan and in the Boer war, becoming a colonel. At the outbreak of the big war he was m command of .he British troops in Egypt. He fougDt in France and Gallipoli. Returning to France as a lieutenant general, he had command of the 17th corp# and in May, 1916, was given command of the Canadian corps with which his name is chief ly associated. With them he won the great surprise battle of Cambrai witn the tanks. He was made a full general and in the final campaign of 1918 his army held the lin§ north of the Somme and won some crushing victories against the Germans. The government made him a peer, gave him the thanks of parliament and a grant of 30,300 pounds. In August, 1919, he rsigned from the ,army to become chairman of the United Service Fund, formed to ad minister the proceeds from profits made by army and navy canteens. The funjJ is used to assist disabled soldiysHftid sailors and their widows and dependents. Lfi. V • st BAItON BYNG JERUSALEM POST FORGEORGECOBB * < Americus Man Made U. S- Vice Counsul Os Ancient Citv News has been received bere by Capt. and Mrs. John A. Cobb of the appointment of their son, George Calhoun Cobb, to the post of U. S. vice consul at Jerusalem, Palestine. Mr. Cobb will sail for New York on Wednesday of this week for Mar seilles, from which point he will pro ceed by steamer through the Medi terranean seat to Beirut, going by rail from that port to Jerusalem. The new appoinment, besides be ing highly desirable, is regarded as a distinctly comlpimentary promo tion. It will be desirable because of the fact that, besides being in a land teeming in historical interest, it is in the heart of a new activity, and has a large British colony, being un der British military rule at the pres ent. It is a city of 40,000 people and is taking on decidely modern fea tures as a result of the British oc cupation and also the Zionist move ment, which is bringing in notable Jews and Jewish money for redeem ing Palestine for the Jews from all over the world. It is only a few hours’ ride by rail from Egypt and , other places of high interest to the student of history and travel and it is visited by large number of Ameri can tourists annually. Mr. Cobb joined the consular serv ice only a little over two years ago and no tlong ago returned from the Portuguese Azores islands, which was his first post as vice consul. Recent ly he stood an examination in Wash ington for promotion, and received I the present appointment before the result of this examination was an .l nounced. 100 AddedlnYear Under Pastor Minor I The first Sunday in August will ii mark the‘end of the third year of the pastorage of Dr. Carl W. Minor, ; of the First Baptist church, he an | nounced from his pulpit Sunday , night, and he vyll interrupt his va -1 cation, which will start this week, j to hold services on the occasion. Ke 'stated that the last year has been (the most successful in the history of the. congregation, 100 nfcmeS hav-. ing been added to .the church roll, and that for the period of pastorate an average of one name each Sun day has been added. . Mr. and Mrs. Lovelace Eve and children motored to Atlanta Satur [ day to remain until Wednesday eve .j.ning, • <• AMERICUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 18, 1921. PENSION MONEY READY SOON IF ASSEMBLY ACTS W. & A. Funding Plan Drawn By Secretary Os JState Times-Recorder Bureau, Kimball House. ATLANTA, July 18.—Governor Thomas W. Hardwick will have one of his floorleaders in the house Tues day or Wednesday to introduce a measure designed to put in effect the McLendon Western and Atlantic funding plan, Secretary of State S. Guyton McLendon having completed drafting the bill and placing it in the Ijands of the chief executive this morning. For the past few months, the scheme of Secretary McLendon has been regarded as the best method of securing immediate relief of the state’s serious financial condition. Several bills proposing to put the plan in effect have already been in troduced in the house, but they are said to be replete with flaws and un satisfactory to the governor and the way and means sub-committee of the lower branch. “If my measure is enacted within the next ten days,” stated Mr. Mc- Lendon this mornjng, “Confederate veterans will be paid their back pen sions by August 1, the immediate problems of the treasury will be solv ed. “I have suggested to the governor that he have the measure introduced at once, or have the sub-committee offer it as a substitute to one of the measures already presented. If quick action is shown by the leaders, the bill can be enacted at the Satur day session of the senater after pass ing the house earlier in the week. “Several days ago the governor asked me if I had drafted a measure to put my suggestion in effect. He had just held a conference with mem bers of the ways and means com mittee. 1 told him. that 1 had not, as I had not considered it proper on my part to be so forward in attempting toz have my plan enacted. Since the request was made, howeverbill has been completed and I gave it to the chief executive this morning.” To date, no opposition, to the pass age of the McLendon measure has been voiced in the house. Practical ly all of the leaders are united in the expression that it is the best method of solving the problems of the tredß ury and will urge its adoption. General James A .Thomas, lin, commander of the Ihrffed Con fdfel’Si.e "Veterans of, Georgia, has 'indorsed if, arid believes that if the assembly passes it, the old soldiers will be given relief within thirty days after it becomes a law. Maj. Fort Expects Political Ax Soon Major James Fort, state prohibi tion officer with headquarters in At lanta, and newly elected state com mander of the American Legion, spent Sunday in Americus with his mother and other relatives. His of fice being with the scope of political patronage, indications are that he will shortly be replaced, and return to Americus to resume the practice of law. WEATHER. Forecast for Georgia—Local show ers tonight or Tuesday. AMERICUS TEMPERATURES (Furnished by Rexall Pharmacy.) 4 pm ..92 4 am ..78 6 pm -89 6 am 78 8 pm 82 8 am .83 10 pm 80 10 am 86 Midnight 78 'loon 90 2 am 77 1 pm 90 MARKETS MONTGOMERY LIVE STOCK MONTGOMERY, July 18.—Hog market, tops, 9.00; lights, 9.00; pigs, 8.00; light pigs, 7.00; roughs, 7.00. LIVERPOOL COTTON LIVERPOOL, July 18.—Market opened steady. Quotations, middling 8.83. Sales, 1,500 bales. Futures: Oct. Dec. Jan. Prev. Close 8.77 8.88 8.85 Open 8.89 8.97 Close 8.87 8.93 NEW YORK FUTURES Oct. Dec. Jan. Prev. Close 13.03 13.45 13.46 Open ...13.10 13.52 13.52 10:15 am 13.12 13.52 13.56 10:30 13.10 13.51 13.54 10.45 ...13.18 13.63 13.5° 11:00 13.05 13.42 13.50 11:15 13.02 13.43 13.43 11:30 .. 13.03 13.44 13.41 11.45 13.08 13.42 13.3- 12:00 13.07 13.42 13:41 12:15 pm .12.98 13.40 13.39 12:30 12.99 13.38 13.40 12:45 13.40 13.39 1:00 12.98 13.40 13.40 1:15 X—■-..12.89 .13.27 .13.40 1:45 b ' 1'2.76 13.17. 13.16 2:00 .. .12.76 13.18 13.15 AMERICUS SPOT COTTON Good Middling, 11c, TITLED BEAUTY'S WAR ROMANCE ENDS / /> WmK W ■• 'Ab ? Oj Illg I ’ J fill./ Hl WHhb ■ Viscountess Uffingtoh. LONDON, July 18.—Viscountess Offington, beautv bride of the son of the late Earl of Craven, has just filed a petition in the divorce court here asking for a decree for restitu tion of conjugal rights. This, in Eng lish»4g)urts, is. the usual first step in application for divorce. The' father-in-law of the vis countess fell from his yacht recently off the Isle of Wight and was drown ed. Her husband inherits the title and estates. The viscount had about everything that society and good luck can give a man. He was handsome, and he had a good stack of American dol- FOUND GRAVE OF AMERICUS HERO Rev. Silas Johnson Lo cates John D. Mathis Resting Place That the grave of Lieut. John D. Mathis, of Americus, who was siain in France, and for whom the local American Legion Post is named, is known and marked, instead of being unknown as was believed by his par ents, Dr. and Mrs. E. T. Mathis, is reported bv Rev. Silas Johnson, who returned Friday from six weeks abroad in which he visited various battlefields of France and Bel gium. “I found the grave of John D. Ma this,’ said Mr. Johnson, “in a little cemetery in France near the spot where he fell. I found a caretaker who located it from the records with out much difficulty. There are two the removal is completed, with bodies eral smaller ones. I was told that about 4,000 bodies were being re turned to the United States at the request Os the families of the dead, which has caused these cemeteries to be widely torn up just now. As a re sult visitors are hot allowed in them and canvass curtains around them keep prying eyes away. It is the plan, I understood, to fill up the vacated spots in the large cemeteries, after the removal is completed, with bodies from the smaller burying grounds, concentrating the fallen Americans in two large cemeteries. The body of John D. Mathis will be allowed by his parents to lie in France with his comrades.” Dry Officer Slain In Raid With Posse CHATTANOOGA, July 18.—Ed Howell, deputy prohibition enforce ment officer, was killed fi-om ambush 12 miles from Decatur, Ala., on the Tennessee river late last night. He was with a posse hunting a wildcat still when fired upon. RAILWAY MERGER ASKED. WASHINGTON, . July 18. - Au thority, to unite the Chespeake and Ohio Northern Railroad with the Chespeake and'Ohio was sought of the Interstate Commerce Commission today in a petition filed bby the lat ter er parent concern. Three tenta tive plans were outLned for approval. ! The odd digits 1,3, 5,7 and 0, total 25; the even [figures 2,4, 6, and 8 total 20. Arrange these so that the odd ones and the even ones add up alike. Answer to Saturday’s: O train is twice as fast as the other. lars, for his mother was an American heiress, daughter of the late Bradley Martin, New York capitalist. War came and the viscount enlist ed, joining up as a subaltern as soon its he reached the age of 17. He was sent to Scotland for training. There he met the viscountess, who was Mary Willianiina 'George, daugh ter of the town clerk of a Scottish village. The bridegroom was sent to France for active duty. Shortly before the that one leg had to be amputated and armistice he was wounded so badly his left arm was permanently crippled. * PREMIER CALLS DEVALERAANEW General Smuts Reap pears, Also, In Irish Negotiations LONDON, July 18.—(By Asso ciated Press.) - General Smuts, South African premier, reappaered today as a factor in. the Irish nego tiations. With Lord Lieutenant of Ireland he conferred with Premier Lloyd George George more than an hour this morning. It was learned the priminster and Smuts had a long discussion on the situation yesterday at Chquers Court. At the conclusion of the morning conference the premier called the cabinet members to meet him in the commons this afternoon. De Valera, l\ish Republican le der, in response to an vital ion of Lloyd George, -.'ulL' l at No. 10 Downing street at Jrd 5 this afttr noon for a conference. C. A. Ames, who has been ill at hi home on Hill street during several weeks, has recove»-ed sufficiently to resume his usual duties at the South-1 ern Printers, of which establishment, he is one of the owners. G. C. Webb has returned to Amer icus from a visit to Mrs. G. C. Webb at Clayton, where she is spending a- portion of the summer. Miss Mary Alice. Lingo left Sun day for Rocky Mount, N. C., where she will visit relatives for two weeks. From there she will g > to Winston- Salem for a visit of two weeks with Mrs. Sidney Womack at her home there. Mr .and Mrs. Cecil Walters are visiting relatives in Plains for two w’eeks while Mr. Walters is taking his annual vacation. Theo By ton left Saturday for a month’s training at the military training camp in South Carolina. Mr. And Mrs. Charles Lingo will' leave in about two weeks for a visit to Mrs. Sidney Wqmaqk at her home I in Winston-Salem, N," <5. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Williamson have returned from an auto trip of PRICE FIVE CENTS. FIGHT TO BLOCK DUTYONCOTTON IS DUE TUESDAY Republicans Seek Import Charge When None Is Imported • KASHINGTON, July 18—(By As sociated Press) —The house today re sumed consideration of the proposed oil tax in the Fordney tariff bill, and fixed a limit of three and a half hours for debate. The discussion centered around the Treadway amendment, introduced Saturday, which would transfer crude and fuel oils from the dutiable to the free list. The test of President Harding’s letter to Chairman Fordney oppos ing the imposition of a duty on crude petroleum and fuel oil and suggest ing a barga.ning provision “to guard against the levy of duties against us,” was presented in the house to day by Fordney. The text differed materially from the recently publish ed versions of the communication and, replying to questions, Fordney said there was another letter Irom the president which he did not pro pose to read. Under the special rule governing ' consideration of the tariff a final vote is due late Thursday, Democratic members of the house from cotton growing states announc ed afterinformal conferences that al most a solid party vote would be cast against the Republican amendment to the Fordney tans fbill providing a duty of ten per cent advalorem. on raw cotton. Outlining the position of the mi nority, Representative Garrett, of- Tennessee, acting Democratic! eader, declared the “iniquity” of the pro posal "was glaringly apparent” in view of the statement of Representa tive Green, of lowa, ranking Repub lican member of the ways and means committee, that it would not increase the price paid the fanner fbr his products. Mr. Garrett added that "the only exeyse for the tax was to enable Republican sto increase the duty on cotton goods.” “Amidst :,u many jokers in the Fordney bill,” said Mr. Garrett, in a statement, “it is well nigh impossi ble to say which is the superlative one, but certainly the proposition— When nine is imported, and the treas ury can derive no duty thereby—is at least as great as any. “To bring it immediately home to the cotton farmer, a duty on raw cot ton will give nothing of increase ih price, but it will be made the excuse lor raising the duty and therefore the price upon everything made of cotton which he hag to buy.” In framing the tariff bill the ways and means committee kapt raw cot ton on the free list—where it was in the old Payne-Aldrich bill. When the Republican causus took the bill in ihamT, however a fight led by Southern Republicans was made to tax cotton, some oL the advocates of this move asserting it would help break the “solid South.” >. The cotton tax amendment, under the special rule by which the bill is being considered in the House, will be taken up for a vote Tuesday. Re gardless of th e zmeenrne then there will be another vote on the prbjtojfcir prior to final passage of the measuro Thursday night. two weeks to the mountains of North Carolina, including Asheville, Hen dersojiv.lle and numerous other points. They report a 'highly enjoy able trip of 1,300 miles without the Slightest motor trouble. They w§re accompanied by two sisters of Mr. Williamson, Mrs. E. E. Collins and Miss Maude Williamson, of Ellaville. Chas. Wheatley, son of Mrs. Craw ford Wheatley, underwent a surgi cal operation for appendicitis at the City hospital Saturday. He was re ported as doing splendidly. Miss Willie. Fincher is spending several days with Mrs. R..L. Maynard at her home here. Miss Fincher is a student a Wesleyan college, and is spending' her vacation here. Miss Julia Glenn is attending a house party this week in Newnan. Mrs. Ernest Anderson, of Summit, will arrive in Americus Tuesday for a visit to relatives, and will attend the wedding Wednesday of Miss Green and Mr. Sheppard at Smith ville. Mrs. Lula Oliver left Sunday night for Homestead, Fla., where she will spend some time with het sister there. J. J. Slappey, of Micanope, Fla., is spending a week with his son, R. A. Slappey, at his home on Church street. He will visit relatives in Ft. ' Valley, Albany, Hilton and Troy, Ala,, before returning home. “Miss Katherine Thomas returned yesterday from Americus, where she visited relatives. Miss Emmie Mor gan, of Americus, arrived in the city yesterday for a visit to her aunt, Mrs. J. A. Thomas.-—Columbus Ledg er, MAIL EDITION