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YOU AND I WOULD BE GLAD TO SEE FORD WRITE CHAPTER ON “SERVICE’’ INTO HISTORY OF RAILROADS. { HEXRY Ford says that he is not ttving to burglarize the railroad m which he recently bought a con trolling interest. instead he is trying to serve the public with it. If Henry succeeds in making a public servant of his railroad, jp will write one of the brightest chapters in the checkered history of American railroading. That history contains many chap ter of burglary and worse. If it lontains a chapter or the fraction of a chapter that could properly cornel under the title of “Service,” it isn’t visible to the naked eye. EMERY "fie American Legion won't let up m its program for disabled vet-i cr,in until the last man has obtained! the last cent of compensation due him,'' is the declaration of John G.; Emery. the new legion commander. J The untimely death of Colonel Gal-j brai h, who as legion Commander, I well'd unceasinglgy to gpt justice for the di abled soldiers, was a great h> to legion. It was feared that a u< • -or equal to the task of carry ing on his work to a successful fin i h could not be found. Happily these fc.-u eem to have been unfounded. Emer; ■ made of the same stuff. TURN ABOUT A 91-year-old Chicago man has ju t been granted his third divorce. lie ays that his first wife was pretty good, his second just medium and liis third no good ataal a total loso to sfieak. More interesting than this old fel low's opinions of his wives would be their opinions of him. DIVORCES Speaking of divorce, an analysis of the newspapers indicates that it i more or less epidemic throughout tbo world. But we don't have to go <n! id the United States to find the oily that, seems to be entitled to the medal In San Francisco, the ratio of divorces to marriage is about 1 to 2 lit per cent as many divorces as marriages. PERSECUTION The weakening of Soviet rule in certain parts of Russia has resulted in reviving anti-Jewish prejudice, ac cording to Dr. Kreinin, a«promijient Jewish social worker, who has just arrived at Berlin from Moscow. Dr Kreinin fears the extermina tion of the entire Jewish population in White Russia in the revival of the pogroms which have already begun. ’O' tells of Jews forsaking their rtjwmcs and property and fleeing to de frontiers. More thap .50,000 are living in horrible conditions along the Rumanian border. Not a child' under seven years of age is to be found among them, all having died of disease or starvation. I So persecution lives after the World War as before. CAPACITY Page Mr. Einstein. An American I ha been found who understands his’j theory of relativity! He is Edwin I' Rocho Hardy, the 12-year-old Colum-! bia University prodigy, whose mas-| toy of some 20 languages and all I th" higher branches of learning isj' the i durational marvel of the age.; “The Einstein theory is as simple ( n a h c,” says young Hardy. “It is altogether a question of one’s capa i city to understand.” FOOR BUSINESS < ongrei- seems to be pretty cold to *ho request of the Shipping Board I for an appropriation of $125,090,-1 t'OO to meet deficits during the next five months’. It looks as though a lot of very' pe r l inent question l !? will have to be I an wered before this additional bur-1 den i loaded upon the taxpayers. ( \mong these questions is: Why; i British vessels carrying more of,; our trade than our own vessels at J ii time when hundreds of our ships < ar ‘ la d up for lack of cargoes? I ; A year ago shins under the Amer- I 1 flag carried'half of our foreign I1 b | d< To day they are carrying only ; about 35 p er cent. | 1 Putting up $25,000,000 a month to[( 1 I " un deficits, while the bulk of ( (| ur trade is carried in foreign bot-h presumably at a profij, doesn’t;] 'em like a good business proposi- I tion, REFORM . '' v.!isn’t so long ago that Presi-'I '“nt Obregon announced he had Pan-,] ' 10 I ilia's word that the ex-bandit I’ad reformed. 'l' had almost begun to believe it when— ! ' wires carried the word th;>* l ;il ’rho had thrown $200,000 in ail Peculation. WON OVER 1 1 'lent Gompers of the Ameri- < federation of Labor went the < in trying to defeat Harding for 1 (, tri dency, but the president’s for disarmament and world < 'lave won over even the veteran i t” leader. • | ll' ding in the American Federa- i ' • i-e official organ of the fed- 1 f'ompers says: ‘‘The presi- i invitation to the powers to at- ] 11 a disarmament conference j t i, , a most responsive chord in 1 of labor. 1,. 1 ‘ toilers everywhere bear the °f great armaments. They I ; the wounds of war above all < ' nf i U’ey above all others will s , i ience the relief that must come ’ ch-,'' fast ’ n K aside of the great ma- '. of force and destruction.” ' f ’»e Halts Onening Os ' Exchange Till Noon Kvp': W YORK - Aug. 2.—The Stock r K o sLsoned >ts opening until 1 because of a fire in its 1 re T .'u lt ’ on ' The blaze did not * /’'' exchange itseJf, but smoke'l Wd ' l ? trading impossible. . ( thetjHessrecorder PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OR FORTY-THIRD YEAR—NO. 177. ENRICO CARUSO, GREAT TENOR, DEAD SUMTER’S FIRST BALE, GEORGIA’S SECOffI.ISSOLD Grown Bv A. A. Forrest And Brines Fifteen Cents Sumter county’s first bale of cotton of the 1921 crop, and the second for the state of Georgia, as far as has been reported, was marketed Tuesday morning by Albert A. Forrest, wcl known farmer living Hear Leslie. The bale, weighing 420 pounds, was ginned by the Farmers Cotton Oil company and taken to the L. G. Council warehouse where it was sold through Mr. Council to Coffin Bros. & Co., buyers of Americus and Co lumbus, the price paid being 15 cents per pound, which was a considerable premium above the market. It grad ed American middling. Mr. Forrest has captured first bale honors for a number of years in Sum ter county. He is a bit later this year than in some other seasons, the first bale frequently being marketed in July. The earliest record here so ■far as known, cotton men say, is July 27. The first bale for Georgia was de livered at Moultttie last week and ex pressed to Savannah where it brought nearly 70 cents per pound at .auction, being bought by Ernest A. Cutts, big cotton factor there and formerly an Americus man. PARDON WON FOR GIRI. IN PRISON Times-Reeorder Bureau,- Kimball House. ATLANTA, August 2. After a fight which was started when bouse and senate committees inspected the state prison farm, Senator Dennis Fleming, of Albany, and Senat >r Al vin Golucke, of Crawfordville, suc ceeded in securing from Governor Hardwick today a pardon for Mar garet Harris, seventeen-year-old girl, who left college only to fall into the clutches of the law on the charge of larceny. The prison commission heard the petition Monday morning an I in the afternoon recommended that the girl I be pardoned. The governor' signed the papers this morning. Now the J two senators are getting up subscrip tions to send the girl to her home in Indiana. '4 LITTLE ONES’ FUND OVER $32 The fund for the “Four Little Ones,” who with their pachnts are in need, today reached $32.52 cents, as a result of the generosity an l big heartedness op the people of th’s community, and thus they are insured against being turned out of their home for the present. Other dona tions will be thankfully received. The second list of donors follows: • Previously acknowledged $19.52 Cash 1 Bb Calvary Church « 2.00 A Friend ’■ LOO R. L. Lyons LSO Mrs. J. A. Pinkston 1-50 J. W. Young LO® Cash . ’-JO Mrs. John Oliver . - Ott Mrs. John T. Taylor LOO Mrs. G. B. Turpin LOO Total — $32.52 Motors To New Hampshire Town PORTLAND, Maine. August 2.- President Harding left here for Lan caster, N. H-, shortly before 11 o’clock today, making the trip by au tomobile. An informal reception was tender ed him when he arrived after an over-, night trip from Plymouth on the I yacht Mayflower. Later he made a brief address from the steps of the. Municipal building. No Demonstration Over Killing Os Mingo Men j MATEWAN, W. Va.. August 2.--( The bodies of Sid Hatfield and Ed Chambers, Mingo gun men who were shot to death yesterday at Welch, were brought home at midrigni.. Their widows were on the same train. There was no demonstration. Public Debt Lowered $206,000,000 In July WASHINGTON, August 2. - De-1 crease of $206,000,000 in the j üb lic debt during July Svas announced today by the treasury. The total gross debt July 31 stood $23,771,900,- 000. ■ ... 1 EQUALIZATION ( I LAW IS SAVED; i I GAS TAX WINS 7 Filibuster Broken In Both Houses After Fielit Times-Recorder Bureau, i Kimball House. ATLANTA, August 2.—The fili buster was renewed with the oe/iiingi of both houses this morning imi con-1 tinned until the senate ha* defeated! the bill to abolish the tax equaliza-i tion law, and the house started vol-1 ing on the gasoline tax measure. The gasoline bill passed the house ] by a large vote at 1:3) p. in. 'Senator John 11. Jones and Sen ator Snow led the fight against abol ishment of the tax equalization law (in the senate, and mustered enough strength to keep the measure from j (receiving a constitutional majority. | Twenty-two votes were east for the I ; bill and twenty-two against it. The Troup delegation and Repre i sentative Lankford, of Toombs, fought the passage of the gasoline tax measure, while Representatives | i Culpepper, McMichael, Beckham and ' ! others supported it. Speaker Neill was forced to use an I iron rule to quell the filibuster. On account of night sessions in t ( both houses. Governor Hardwick has I postponed his reception planned for | tonight until a later date. In discussing the filibuster, which ' j has cost the state thousands of dol-1 ; lars and has delay • 1 action on im-1 I portarft legislation, Senator John 11. j Jones, of LaGrange, declared that, I •proponents of the tax equalization I abolishment measure had not “lived i I up to their promises,” regarding the 1 I time when a vote would be taken. “Ou Wednesday, July 20,” said the (senator, “the senate adjourned at 1 j o’clock, after an aye and nay vote ( had been recorded, hut a second be fore the result could be announced, i This vote would have* tabled the • measure, thereby facilitating the 1 work of the senate. “But on the next morning, unani i mous consent was asked to repeal the i previous vote and postpone consid ' oration of the bill until Thursday, ' July 28, fixing it as a special order I for that date. We, generously, did I not object. “On las! Thursday, however, re- I alizing that they had lost, the propon ents of the bill began an utterly un- i reasonable filibuster, which, even in | the face of their waning strength, j they have carried to an outrageous point of stubborness. “There is no principle which will justify this, extended, helpless fili- i buster, which is forming an obrtable that may prove fatal to hopes of avoiding an extra session. This re sponsibility has been so clearly and ! ro fully fixed upon certain should ers that their efforts lo transfer the ( blame for this waste of time io the' senator who have fought from the ■ very beginning to bring about an :m-1 mediate vote. “Such tactics are enti’’eiy consist- ■ ent with the methods pursued by the filibusterers at a time when every minute is valuable in this crucial leg-( islative period,” he concluded. House Committee Hits Prison Board ATLANTA, August 2.—Derelic-: tion in performance of its duty at the : state farm, with special emphasis on I its laxity in the ease of Abe Powers' ; escape, is charged to the state prison I commission in the report of the house: penitentiary committee, adopted in; executive session Monday night and to be submitted to the lower branch ; of the assembly Wednesday morning. Sweeping recommendations for oh-1 servance and maintenance of the. penitentiary on a plane of efficiency ! as required by law, and for the ap-i pointment of a sub-connnittee of at least seven to continue investigation of actual condition at the farm fea tured the report. Senator Dennis Fleming is cham pioning a report in the senate which condemns the commission, while Chairman Campbell is supporting a report giving the board and officials white wash. Pitv Poor Fireman In Slumber, Chief Pleads “T*lease ask the -people to be a bit more considerate of the firemen during sleeping hours,” was the re quest today of Fire Chief McArthur, “in sending their police calls to fire department. The police telephone, No. 327,_ has an extension into the, fire department and are only too glad to take these calls when the police are out on their beats and no one at headquarters. But some people have gotten into the habit of calling 63, which is for fire calls only, when , they want police service. The result is that frequently in the dead of I night the fire call rings, getting every t man out of bed, as No. 63 rings ai large gong in the sleeping riuarters. We keep a man on duty all night and he will answer the police phone the same as at any other time. So please ring 327 for police instead ofi 63,” - AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 2, 1921. BELOVED GREAT TENOR, WHO IS DEAD IV ' f wIBO. w- Jem'' >*' ' a FT V JW' 'Mn I f J® mJ fc If ■ O Www 1\ FA -” r /-I WPr /| | W W /-I iC ? 4 Ml ill All O j 9 Above, (’aruso and his wife, formerly Miss Dorothy Benjamin, of Nev York; below, the gieat tenor in some of his most famous roles. FORD’S PLAN FOR MUSCLE SHOALS BY EDWARD THIERRY. (Copyright 1921.) IN CAMP, via Oakland, Md., Aug ust 2.—What is Henry Ford going to do with the nitrate plant at Mus cle Shoals, Ala., which he has offer er to purchase from the government for $5,000,000, cash and a yearly rental of $1,680,000 on a 100-year lease? His plans are so stupendous he will not now reveal them. Bpt in an exclusive interview he authoriz ed these statements: A mammoth electrical industry will be established on the hanks of the Tennessee river. Nitrate production will only use one-third of the cheap water power. One big industry will be the melt ing of steel railroad cars into an al loyed metal —making three cars out of one! Ford .who is vacationing in camp with Thomas A. Edison and IJ. S. Firestone, chuckled over his own amazing statement that he would make three cars “grow” where only one “grew” before. “I cannot discuss plans in detail while the proposition is still before congress,” Ford said. Lighter, Better Cars. “Yes, we plan 1o make nitrate for fertilizer. But nitrate is only a.part of it. One big reason we made the proposition to the government—and a reason that might interest the rail roads-—is that we want to manufac ure railroad cars that will be lighter and better. “Light rolling stock is one of the big needs of American railroads. And we will make new' and better cars out of junk! <- “We expect to use one-third of the 900,000 horsepower at Muscle I Shoals —cheap horsepower—for elec l.trlc furnaces to melt up steel cars. IWe will make alloyed metal cars. Out of every one cai‘ that is ready (for the scrap heap we will make three new cars. “Stretch them—that’s the idea, i When the steel is melted down we will introduce alloys and stretch a REFUSES TO LET GA. HAVE NEGRO LNSING, Mich., Aug. 2.—Gover nor Grosbeck last night refused to permit the extradition to Georgia of Thomas Ray, a negro wanted on the charge of murder. The negro is wanted at Irwinton, Ga., for the murder of V. W. Falkner last spring a year ago. Attorneys for Ray. the governor announced, had produced evidence indicating that re turn of the negro to Georgia might endanger his life and that he might not receive a fair trial, while Georgia authorities, the governor said, had failed to produce evidence that they had a case against Ray. ' Ray, held in Detroit for several months, claimed he acted in self de fense and that statement was sup ported by a witness at the hearing before the governor. The Georgia authorities deny there is any danger of mob violence to the negro. 60,000-pound car into three times its equivalent in light, duiiablq metal. ’“There is water power at Muscle Shoals that will make our electric furnaces nossible. Water power is the big thing. It is being criminal ly wasted everywhere. “Thomas Edison and I took a ride down the Potomac river the other day. Oil!the canal we saw canal boats hauling coal. ‘‘We agreed that if the river were harnessed properly there would be no need of the coal being carried up and down. Houses could be heated and lighted and factories Operated on cheap water pdwer. Shouldn’t Burn Coal “Why, coal ought not to be burned at all! • “The common sense thing to do is to take the coal out of the mines and take out all the by-products— light oils, coke, tar. benzol, gas, etc. ‘We do that in Detroit. We use 3000 tons of coal a day, and we have enough of valuable byproducts left over after using everything we need in our plants to sell coke to the city of Detroit and pul gas into the city gas mains,” _ .» A A frog is at the foot of a bank four feet high. He climbs up two feet a day and slips back one foot at night. How many days will it take him to climb up? Answer to yesterday’s: Five calves, 1 pis:, 94 lambs. Surgical Operation Fatal to Opera Idol In His Native Naples Peritonitis Follows Effort of Surgeons To Remove Internal Abscess. —Favorite of Georgia as Well As Whole Musical World. NAPLES. Italy. Aug. 2.- (By Associated Press.) -Enrico Caruso, world famous tenor, died here today. LONDON, Aug. 2. Enrico Caruso underwent <u> operation Sunday, say: an Exchange Telegraph dis] atch today quoting a Naples message. The operation was for abscess between the liver ami dtaphram, which caused acute peritonitis. Caruso’s wife and brother were at his bedside. CEI .EBRITY OF WORLD FOR 25 YEARS MOST POPULAR VISITOR TO GEORGIA Enrico Caruso, for more than 25 years a celebrity in the world of song’, the tenor with “the golden voice’’ idolized by millions in America and abroad, had an artistic career as well known as that of any famous states man or military leader. He was born in Naples, Italy, February 25, 1873,! the son of Marcellius Caruso, a me chanic, who detested music but was persuaded to permit his son, when 11 years old, to sing in the churches I of his native city. An unpromising; pupil, for three years he studied un-! der Guglielmo Vergine, pledging his! teacher that when ready for a pro-1 fesisonal career he should pay him I one-quarter of his earnings for the I following five years. lie made his debut in “L’ Amico ■ Francesco” at the Nuovo theater,; Naples, in 1894, later toured Italy' and Sicily and was engaged for four; seasons at La Scala, Milan. Subse quently he sang in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Warsaw, Rome, Lisbon, Par is, London, and leading cities of Ger man. When he came to the Metro politan Opera House in Now York on November 23, 1903, the critics did not go into ecstacies over him. One of them wrote, on the opening night :j “Signor Caruso (as the Duke in! ‘Rigoletto’) has many of the tire-! some Italian vocal affections and when he neglects to cover his tones, as he always does when he becomes strenuous, his voice becomes pallid.” It is interesting to observe that when Caruso made his Naples debut' he sang the title role four times fori which he received 100 francs, a pair; of stage shoes, a suit of fleshings and I a neckd.chief. Some years later Maurice Grau, the impresario, neg otiated with him to.sing in America for S7OO a month but thought the salary excessive and the deal fell' through. Grau was quick to per-; ceive the opportunity he had lost and finally engaged Caruso for 50 per formances at SI,OOO a night. But Mr. Grau became ill and Caruso, when singing in Lisbon, received well that: again he must abandon his hope of singing in America. Heinrich Con-! reid, who followed Mr. Grau at the; i Metropolitan, Xpwever, cabled Caruso; an offer to cross the Atlantic and his; ambition at last was realized. Although no official statement of, his earning was ever made public, it I is known that Caruso, at the height J lof his Metropolitan career, was re ceiving $3,000 for each performance. On special occasions, such as his 1920 season in Havana, he was paid $lO,- 000 a night. The list of Italian and French op eras in which the noted tenor’s name! figures since he first sang in New York revealed an amazing versatili ty. In 16 years he sang no less than 549 times, in one season, 1907-081 making 51 appearances, a great test of endurance for any voice. He was ifnsparing, if not reckless, of his vo cal powers. No grand opera tenor in America, from the dayjs of Brignoli, Campanini, Ravelli, Tamag no and Jean de Reszke, it is recorded ever reigned so long in popular fa vor. Caruso, after his strenuous opera seasons, some times had trouble with his throat, which he usually overcame with a little rest and care and at cer tain intervals, rumors that “Caruso will never sing again” were frequent ly printed. In the center of 1920, however, he suffered a serious afflic tion when a small blood vessqi in his throat burst while he was singing in “E’lisie d'Aniore” in the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Recovered from this mishap, Caruso was stricken with pleurisy. After his recovery last, spring he sailed with his family for Naples, where he died. Durnig his indisposition, Caruso was the object of ddvoted attention by his wife, formerly Miss Dorothy Benjamin, of New York, whom he married in 1918. One child was born to them. Caruso had a son by a former wife, a singer name Ada Cia chetti, with whom he had beep as sociated in opera at Treviso and Bo logna. Caruso’s repertoire in America in cluded the following: (Italian) “Aida,” “Rigoletto,” “La Boheme,” “L’ Africaine,” “La Facorita,” “La Somnanbula,” “La Traviata,” “Les Huguenots,” “Fedora,” “Adrienne Lecouvreur,” “Cavallieria Rusti- 4 ■ PRICE FIVE CENTS. cana,’ “Pagliacci,” “L* Amorc dei tre Re,” Un Ballo in Maschera,” “Lodo letta,” “Marta,” “L-’Elisir d’Amore,” “Manon Lescaut,” “Madmn Butter fly,” “La Fanciulla del West,” “Lu cia di Lammerm.oor,” La Gioconda,” “II Trovatore,” “Don Giovanni,” “Germania,” “Iris,” “Lucrezia Bor- I gia,” “Tosca,” “La Forza del Des tino.” (French) “Les Pecheurs de Perles,” “Armide,” “Faust, “Julien,” “Le Prophete,” “Carmen,” “Samson iet Delila,” and “Manon.” » ! The famous singer was the guest of honor ala silver jubilee cele ; hration, o*n the 25th anniversary of i his operatic debut, in November, 1919. at the* Metropolitan at which prominent New Yorkers, including the mayor and other officials, spoke lof his great artistic achievements. IHe received an illuminated parch ment from 35 families holding boxes in the $7.n0n,000 “Golden Horse- J shoe,” a flag from the Citv of New 'York, several medals and numerous I gifts from-hi*: "fellow' artists .I Mr. and Mrs. Caruso resided in J New York City during the opera sea ,l son. They had a summer home on ! Long Island and another residence, 1 Ville allo Pancho, at Florence, Italy. Caruso enjoyed an intimate place in the hearts of all Georgians. Since the beginning of the annual visits of the Metropolitan Opera company to Atlanta, which began more than ten years ago, he was a visitor almost every year until last season, when ill ' ness suddenly put a stop to bis ap- I pearances. Os a bright and playful disposition, he always was the fa vorite in Atlanta and entered hearti ! ly into the spirit of the gay week so cially and otherwise, always enjoy ing the visit to the Southland as a delightful vacation, although usually appearing in difficult roles at least three times. He learned to love At lanta and Georgia just as deeply as they loved him. Although his voice had been heard from the Atlanta stage in reality by thousands of Georgians, who will nev ; er forget it, thpre ale other thous j and:; multiplied many times who have ! heard it ami had been charmed by it through the agency of the phono ! graph, and through it he will con- I tinue to live in the hearts and homes I of the South, as well as of the whole i world. •WEATJHER. Fc recast for Georgia Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday; prob ably local thundershowers Wednes day; little change in temperature. 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