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WEATHER FORECAST j
For Georgia—General? fair tonight
and Tuesday.
FORTY-FOURTH YEAR.— no. 43.
TO CLOSE SOUTHER DEPOT, BUT RETAIN FIELD
STORY BACK OF ROTARY
BY; ITS LONELY FOUNDER
This Week Marks 17th Anniver
sary Os Founding Os The
Organization
Rotary chibs all over the country
are celebrating the 17th anniversary
of the founding of the organization
during the week of February 19-25.
Here is the story of how Rotary was
founded, by the man who organized
it: '
BY ROY GIBBONS
CHICAGO, Feb. 20.—“ Loneliness
is a terrible thing. It shocks -the
finer sensibilities of man, lowers the
ebb of his morale, and by reason of
its paralyzing influence, tends to
make of him an unsociable animal,
neither understanding others, nor un
derstanding himself.”
In that statement Paul P. Harris,
an attorney here, as founder 1 of a
tiny nucleus group of “Three kin
dred lights” 17 years ago, which to
day has developed into the Interna
tional Association of Rotary clubs,
urns up his reasons for establishing
the order.
Harris, long and lead of body,
i; now, as always, a battler against
jonhness and unfriendliness.
One cold winter’s morning 20 years
ago he rode into Chicago, finishing
the last /leg of a round-the-world
journey. >
In his globe-trotting through Eu
rope Harris -noticed that the lone
traveler always occupied a removed |
place in the hotel lobby, the Pullman i
cur, and that his attitude was one :
of longing for a good pal to cheer j
him up.
So great was the impression made
upon him, that Harris, in Chicago,
decided to voice a tangible protest
against the lowliness of big cities.
His idea was to form a group of
individuals and share with them the
joys of the small town.
With that purpose in view he gath
ered around him three good friends,
who of an evening would join to
gether usually in each other’s office
or some frugal restaurant, there to
abandon business matters entirely
and concern themselves in good
hearted merrymaking.
Because, the meetings were held at
different places, the name Rotary was
given the crowd.
NEARING UPWARD
BUSINESS SWING
So Federal Reserve Board Tells
Congress In Report On
1921
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Busi
ness throughout the country is pro
gressing through well defined cycles
and is nearing the point of an upward
swing of the economic pendulum, ac
cording to the annual report of the
Federal Reserve board transmitted
today to congress.
“There are those,” the report said,
“who believe the beginning of a re
vival of business is not far distant.
When it Joes definitely set in, it will
be followed in due course by a new
era of prosperity.”
The board confined its report to an
account of operations for the year
1921, without offering any suggest
ions for legislation affecting the
board of the federal reserve .system.
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON ‘
Good middling 18 cents.
LIVERPOOL COTTON
LIVERPOOL, Feb. 20. Market
opened very steady 19-28 up. Fullys.
10.83. Sales, 15000 bales. Receipts,
18,861 bales, of which 11,169 are
American.
Futures; Feb. April June
PreV. close 10.09 10.10 10.06
Open 10.43 10.45 10.40
Close 10.22 10.25 10.20
NEW YORK FUTURES.
Meh. May July
I’rev. close 18.18 17.97 17.45
Open 18.25 18.10 17.55
10:15 .. .am .......'..,18.32 18.07 17.57
10:30 18.43 18.13 17.61
10:45 18.36 18.11 17.69
11:00 • 18.30 18.02 17.49
11:15 1§.32 18.05 17.54
H:3O 18.30 18.06 17.55
H:4fi 18.30 18.03 17.51
12:00 noon 18.29 18.04 17.52
12:15 pm 18.36 18.06 17.55
12:30 18.28 18.04 17.54
12:45 18.25 18,0.0 17.51
1:00 ..,.18.37 18.08 17.59
1:15 18.38 18.09 17.59
1:30 18.38 18.14 17.61
1:45 18.40 18.14 17.60
2:00 18.44 18.19 17.67
2:15 18.50 18.22 17.71
2:30 ißj>4 .18.28 17«76
2:45 18.53 18.23 17.72
Closed. 18.44 18:15 17.65
I
ram m
Paul P. Harris.
The plan proved popular. New
members were taken in, each man
representing a distinct craft or pro
fession, a rule which is adhered to
today.
Seventeen years have passed. That
Harris’ plan has succeeded is attest
ed by existence of 1045 clubs scat
tered in 22 countries with a member
ship approximating 100,000.
Rotary week started February 19
with giant celebrations in club head
quarters over the world to commem
orate the anniversary birthday.
Harris is 53. married but has no
children. Although he founded the
organization his only connection with
the international body is that of pres
ident emeritus.
“It seems but yesterday that 1
started,’’ he says.
And of the futyrc:
“Man must forget himself if he
wants happiness. Life holds only one
thing that counts and that is the ap
preciation of contact with each other.
“Friendships are invaluable. That
is what Rotary strives for with un
selfishness as the underlying working
basis.
“We are nearing the great dawn
of the brotherhood of man. Yes. it
is coming.”
ANOTHER HAT IN
RING FOR SENATE
Railroad Friends Os E. A. Hines
Put Up His Name For
Upper House
Another hat was shied into the
state senatorial ring today by rail
road friends of Representative E. A.
Hines, who asked the Tinies-Jtecorder
to say that, while he had not been
consulted on the subject, they were
lining up behind him and would in
sist upon his running.
The mention of Mr. Hines in the
race brings out the fourth name, the
other:; ;,o far mentioned being Mayor
J. E. Sheppard, Stephen Pace and W.
T. Lane.
Mr. Hines is serving his first term
in the assembly as a member of the
house from Sumter county. He will
serve his second sessoin this sum
mer, with which his two-year term
will expire, making him eligible with
out resigning ‘to offer for the state
senate from this district.
“We realize that the time is early
yet,” said Mr. Hines’ spokesman
friend, “but since the other names
have been mentioned we thought it
wise to begin stirring about a lit
tle ourselves. Mr. Hines has been
in the assembly one year and will
have served, two years this fall. He
knows what is going on in Atlanta,
and the laboring people feel that they
would like to have him go to the sen
ate. We enter him realizing that there
will be other strong candidates for
him to defeat.”
NEW SUPPLIES REPLACE
DICTIONARIES TAKEN
Preparations have been made for
a great demand for the Times-Re
corder’ dictionaries. Saturday a
large number were called for.
A surprising number of people pre-
I -.ented coupons. fipr Ihe Lnivetsiti* s
■ Dictionary, sayingYs they did so that
j the t'Venty-tv.o supplementary dic-
I tionaries of special activities appeal
ed to them with greatest force. In
one book, besides all the other aids
to studying modern English, are spe
cial dictionaries of words used par
ticularly as Americanisms and in au
tomobiling, aviation, golf, baseball,
lawn tennis, war, music, photoplay,
polo, wireless telegraphy and yacht
ing. Besides these are dictionaries of
; atomic weights, classical abbrevia-
I tions, foreign words and phrases,
j forms of address, most common ab
breviations, state names and mean
ings and words of opposite and like
meanings.
the timEsorkorder
[SgUPUBLISHED IN THE AR
DENIES BAILIFF
WAS ORDERED IN
DARK TO LEAVE
Attorney CYiilders, Representing
Accused Schley Men, Says
Bivins Took Fright
That Bailiff Clarence Bivins, of
Schley couuty, who reported Friday
night that he was ordered on penalty
of his life by a group of men in the
dark to leave the home of Henry
Harvey, whom he was guarding, was
concocting the whois story because
of fright was the charge made to tay
in a formal statement by Zach Child
ders, Americus attorney. Mr. Child
ers, with Judge E. J. Ha'rt, of the
City Court of Ellaville, has been re
tained as counsel for Harvey and
' Bennie DeVane, both under arrest
j as two of the lynchers a week ago of
i Will Jones, a negro farmer. Mr.
Childers stated that on Friday night,
after Bailiff Bivins had returned to
Ellaville and reported the alleged
threat on his life, he, had told Mr.
Bivins that it was not true.
Mr. Childers dictated the follow
ing statement to a reporter for The
Times-Recorder:
“I went to the home of Henry
Harvey a short time after Bivins left
Friday night. I conferred with the
prisoner, Mr. Harvey, his fa
ther, two other gentlemen, Mr.
Tidd, Jim Phillips and three la_
dies who were in the home of Harvey
ail that night. They stated positively
no one had been there to threaten
Mr. Bivins or told him to leave. They
said the only parties who had been
there that night were Mr. Bivins’
son-in-law, Mr. Nelson; his son.in
law’s father and one other person
whose name 1 do not remember. They
said Mr. Bivins stated in their pres
ence that he asked these men to come
there that night.”
Night Wasn’t Dark
In coirfronting Mr. Bivins, Mr.
Childers said he asked him whether
he recognized any of the men wl*o
threatened him. When Mr| Bivins
replied he did not, Mr. Childers said
he informed Mr. Bivins that he did
know them well enough, because they
were the two Nelson men, whom, he
, had invited there.
“I went out around the house that
night,” said Mr. Childers, “and I was
able to see all about. It wasn’t very
dark. The well is only five or six
feet from the house. What was his
son-in-law doing down in the swamp
with a lantern if he was out after a
' bucket of water? There just isn’t
anything to the story; he got feather
legged; that is all, and left the job.”
I It developed today that after Bail
iff Bivins left the Harvey home at 9
o’clock Friday night, Sheriff Battle
telephoned a Mr. Tidd and Jim
Phillips the latter a brother of George
Phillips, one pf the five missing
Schley county farmers wanted for
the lynching of Jones, to go to the
Harvey home and act as guards in
place of an officer that night, which
they did. Saturday night Bailiff A.
J. Autry, of the LaCrosse district,
was sent to the Harvey home, and is
still on guard, it is understood.
I According to Mr. Childers, Mr.
Harvey has pledged his word that he
will not try to escape, but will sur_
render as soon as able.
“He seemed greatly relieved to see
me Friday night,” said Mr. Childers.
“I found him in his home propped up
in bed. He told me that folks said
he didn’t have much, but that he did
have his honor,- and that he wanted
me to carry word to the sheriff as
soon as the doctor said he was able
—not when he could walk, but as
soon as he could be moved—he would
voluntarily come to jail. But he
added that it would take a better
man than he to move him until the
doctor said he was able to go.” It
was indicated that be would be in
condition to move in a few dayij,
possibly a week.
Will Surrender Soon
Attorney Childers Saturday de
manded of Sheriff Bantie a commit
ment hearing for Bennie DeVane and
Mr. Harvey, who were arrested
Thursday, the first of.the nine ac
cused men to be taken. He said the
sheriff evidently on the advice of
County Attorney McCrory, who is
acting for the state at the present,
refused on the ground that the cor
oner’s inquest precluded such a hear
ing. Today he communicated with
Solicitor Jule Felton at -Montezuma
regarding the case, but reported Mr.
Felton did not want to interest him
self in it just now.
Mr. Childers was in Ellaville this
afternoon and was expected to take
some further step in behalf of his
clients. He insists the law gives his
clients the right of a commitment and
will ask Judge Littlejohn of the Su
perior court for such an order, if the
county authorities there persist in
their refusal, it is understood.
Mr. Childers was asked whether
the five missing men in the case will
AMERICUS, GEORGIA. MONDAY AFTERNOON. FEBRUARY 20, 1922
DAMOCLES AND THE HANGING SWORD
BSH LOOK! i I "T ,
SG6T iwo ! V
CuTTiN* edges $ V : ~
jfj)
SOULE INVITED HERE FOR
GOLDEN RULE SALE DAY
Third District Aggie Pupils And
Other Pupils To Co-Oper
ate In Big Event
; Several new and interesting sea-
1 lures will be added to the Golden
I Rlue Sales for 1922. The first sale
I comes Wednesday'week, March 1.,
with approximately 30 of the local
merchants signed up for the first
sake
The committee has invited Dr. An
drew M. Sdule, president of the State
College of Agriculture, and one of
the most forceful speakers in the
state, to speak at 11 o’clock the day
of the sale, in the court house. The
high school pupils from every school
in the county have been invited to
come in and hear Dr. Soule. John
Prance, principal of the Agricultural
college has written Dr. Soule that
all of his pupils will attend. It is
practically certain that the county
board of education will agree for oth
er high schools of the county to at
tend.
The Auction sale, under the direc
tion pf George O. Marshall, is being
worked up .to larger proportions than
the two former sales and several of
I the local merchants have suggested
| that each merchant desiring send
i things out of their stock to be aue
i tinned off.
| President Mize, of the Advertising
' club, has ag '■ed t > divide the mer
chants participating in the sale into
| sections, with a’ chairman for each
i section, the section tn be composed
'of those competing, in each line of
j merchandise, as hardware sec
• tion, grocery section, shoe section.
| The chairman of the section will get
i his section together and they will se
' lect the articles each is to use in the
» circular and iwo-page advertisement,
I thus eliminating duplication and se
' curing the best out of each store,
> each merchant looking at the sale as
j a whole and not from an individual
’ standpoint.
DISPATCHERS TO
| GET OVERTIME
Rail Labor Board Hands Down
Decision Affecting 5000
Men
r CHICAGO, Feb. 20—The United
States Labor Hoard in a decision to
day authorized time and half for
overtime work done by train dis
patchers after the ninth hour. Eight
hours remains the standard for a
day, the decision say's, adding that
heretofore dispatchers have not re
ceived overtime.
The decision affects 5000 men.
The question of vacations was
remedied to' further conferences of
the men with road offiicals.
surrender about court time., hiding
out until then to avoid remaining in
jali. He replied he did n t know
where they werej
■ ■ A
' * k,. -
Following is a partial list of those
firms that will participate it) the first
sale. Others will be added today and
tomorrow, however, Because their
contarets havei not been returned
their names arc not carried:
Allison Furniture Co.
Americus Lighting Co.
Americus Steam Vulcanizing Co.
Americus Steam Laundry.
Americus Auto Co.
Bell, Thomas L., Jeweler.
Bragg’s Market.
Churchwell Bros.
Fashion Shop.
Gyles-Andrews Furniture Co.
Gatcwood-Cogdell Hardware Co.
Georgia Motor Co.
Harris Hardware Co.
Josey, W. J., Dry Good and Cloth
in g. " x
L. W. Rogers Co.
McDonald, Middleton.
McKinstry, G. I’., Photographer.
Mize Grocery Co.
Model Bread Co.
Murray, Nat<han, Druggist.
Mathews & Co., Market and Gro
ceries.
Matthews, Frank, Insurance.
Piggly Wiggly Store.
Rylander Theater.
Sheffield Co., Hardware.
Turpin, G. A. & W. G.
Williams-Niles Hardware Co.
Heiress to Oil and Harvesters
Millions to Wed Riding Master
CHICAGO, Feb. 20.—Harold F.
McCormick, president of the Interna
tional Harvester company, last night
formally announced the engagement ,
of his daughter, Miss Mathilde, aged ,
16, to Mr. Max Oser, 48-year-old |
proprietor, of a Berne, Switzerland,. 1 !
riding academy.
The announcement which followed
a day of family'conferences, was is
sued through the butler at the home
of Mrs.* Cyrus McCormick, mother of
the harvester president, and no in
timation was made as to when the
wedding will be.
s Miss Mathilde, who came home
from Switzerland with her governess
a month ago to seek her father‘and
mother’s consent to the wedding, is
planning to return to her home in
Zurich, where she has lived since she i
was eight years old, in a short time. :
Th.e formal announcement says: - I
“Mr. Harold F. McCormick an- '
nounces the engagement of his I
daughter, Miss Mathilde, to Mr. Max
Oser, of Berne, Switzerland. This
announcement is hastened a few
weeks by the fact of thcufecent news
paper publicity.”
Though all comment was refused
at the McCormick home it was un
derstood that the engagement was ap
proved by Mrs’. Edith Rockefeller Mc-
Cormick, who recently obtained a di
vorce from Mr. McCormick, and by j
Miss Mathilde’s grandfather, John D. ;
Rockefeller, Sr.
Miss Mathilde is one of the heirs,
of the great fortunes of John D.
Rockefeller and Cyrus Hall McCor
mick, inventor of the reaping l ma-|
PRICE FIVE CENTS. '
KIDNAPED IRISH
ATHLETES FREED
Members Os Republican Army
Football Team Released On
Orders Os Viceroy
BELFAST, Feb. 20.—(8y the As
sociated Press.) —-Members of the
Irish Republican army football team
captured at Dromore last month,
were released from Londonderry jail
today in conformity with an order
issued last night by Viscount Fitzal
an, viceroy.
ALBANY SEEKS BOUT
FOR YOUNG STRIBBLING
ALBANY, Feb. 20—Plans are un
der way to arrange a boxing bout
in Albany March 9 between Young
Stribling, of Macon, and some good
opponent, probably Battling Budd,
who has held Stribling closer than
any other man he has met. Strib
ling is a native of South Georgia,
has relatives in Thomasville, Cairo,
Bainbridge, Meigs and other towns
in this section, and the bout would
draw a tremendous crowd. It is be
ing arranged under the auspices of
the Albany Y. M. C. A. basketball
team and will probably be at the
Municipal auditorium, one of the
large-1 halls in South Georgia.
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MISS MATHILDE'M’CORMICK
i chine. Her fiance, of whom little is
known here, is?said to have an in-
' come of slo,obo a year. He is just
two years younger than Miss Math-
: ilde’s father, who was .born. in Chi
-1 cago fifty;years;agp 4
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$25,000,000 on
PLANES WILL BE
SHIPPED OR SOLD
Orders Indicate June 30 To Be
Date Set For Ending
Activities
Definite orders have been received
at Souther Field for preparation for
the closing of the Supply depot,
where government property estimated
at $25,800,000 in .value, most air
planes and equipment, is stored. At
the same time the news came that
( Souther Field would be retained a>-
an airway station for the use of air
service, but without army personnel
stationed here other than caretakers.
In effect, according to Major Law
rence S. Churchill, commanding offi
cer, this means that the field will
be retained as a landing station and
little else.
Orders have been received to pre
pare the property now stored in the
depot, a small part of it tor shipment
to other air service stations and the
most of it for sale. The orders state
that it is to be disposed of between
now and June 30, next, which leads
to the conclusion that this is the date
set for the closing of the camp. • June
30 is the end of the government fis
cal year. All officers and men will
be retained for the present, as they
will be required to put the materials
in the depot in shape to comply with
the’ orders for its disposition.
The civilian employes of the catnp
have all been informed of the coining
closing of the depot and informed
that, efforts will be made to place
elsewhere all working under the civil
service.
Most of the property in storage
consists of airplanes of types now
obsolete. Souther has been an in
active post for two years.
i MONTGOMERY LOSES
AVIATION DEPOT.
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Feb. 20.
Orders have been received at the
Montgomery aviation repair depot to
abandon the supply station at the de
pot. Four million dollars worth of
aviation supplies and materials will
be shipped to other stations or sold.
The order stated that other supply
stations also are being abandoned.
UTE NEWS
BULLETINS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20—Presi
dent Harding, replying to the Hitch
cock resolution in the senate asking
information relative to the negotia
tions of the Four-Power Pacific
treaty, stated it was impossible to
furnish the requested information,
because most of the negotiations were
conducted without maintaining a re
cord. The president said it was not
compatible with the public interests
to disclose confidential negotiations
of treaty negotiators, but declared
there were “no concealed undertak
ings and no secret exchanges of
notes.”
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20—Rank
ing Republicans of the house ways
and means committee were invited
today by the majority senate finance
committee to a conference to discuss
the valuation plan to be written into
the pending tariff bill. The confer,
cnee will be held late today.
NEW YORK, Feb. 20.—■ William
A. Russell, a messenger for the
Greenwich Bank, was robbed of $22,-
000 in currency today by an automo
bile bandit who boarded the truck in
which he was transporting the money
to a downtown bank.
DIVORCE BETRAYS
MAN WANTED 48
YEARS AS SLAYER
ROME, Feb. 29—Hiram Nettles
was taken into custody Saturday to ?
answer for the killing here 48 years
ago of Bud Mooney, a saloon keeper,
who was shot to death, according to
announcement by Sheriff Wilson.
Nettles, who had been farming near
Birmingham for 20 years or more un
der th'- name of “George Nichols.”
was arrested by Jefferson county an
thoritics on request of Sheriff Wilson j
and placed in jail in Birmingham. J
Mooney’s death was- believed to i
have been caused by a desire to get. '
revenge for the death of another trail
for which Mooney had been accused
of having hzen indirectly resuonsi-;
ide, it was skid at the sheriff’s of
fice and Nettles was sought at the
time as the slayer. He ’eft-thj coun
try, however, and as the years pass
ed by the crime was forgotten. Re- ■
eently he and his wife were di/orced
ami his identity ca;ne out.
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