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Newspaper Page TextWEATHER FORECAST For Georgia—Cloudy and cooler tonight; probably showers in east and south portion; Saturday fair and cooler, , FORTY-FOURTH YEAR.-NO. 77 STRIKE TO TIE UP COAL MINES IN 20 STATES IN THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE—ABOUT 1972 jfeC/ II 'H Bi going To do 5o I'l'7. li Z\ i 1 I* 1 ’ MUCH FOR US.WA'/ / Back IN 192 Z / I-AONUS J> < * V i I I ■I :\ / L> '/.‘'Ji'SX. , -1' W1 / X' . ... M ' iWjRrX ife. ■ i XX WaESMkV wj f yoW vHm MEAT MARKETS FOLLOWORDERS All Get Busy After State Inspec tor’s Visit And Avoid Being Closed None of the, city meat markets were closed up by Dr. R. M. Walsh, assistant state veterinarian and state inspector, he informed the Times-Re corder last evening before prepar ing for his departure from Americus on his rounds. None except one small place on the outskirts of the j i city operated by a negro, who was un- | . able to put his place in shape to be approved. All the city market men i had complied with his instruction:; j ' fairly well, he reported. However, j : , ne of them required a second ulti matum yesterday afternoon. “This man apparently thought I didn’t mean what 1 said/’ Dr. Walsh informed the Times-Recorder, “for when 1 called to see what he had done I found he hadn’t done much. He had dusted off some shelves, where the rats had been running freely, and the dirt had fallen down on the meat. I threw out several pieces, amount ing to about one whole carcass of beef, and then he got busy, scrub bed up the floors and did everything I told him. 1 had no -trouble and all of them followed orders. If they hadn’t they would have been closed.” • Dr. Walsh intimated that he would keep his eye on Americus and drop in now and then unannounced to see how his orders were being complied I with during his absence. He has the whole state alone to inspect, but says: he will find it convenient to come back here until he is certain regula- I tion are being complied with or that j the people themselves and the city I officials are not interested in proper l sanitation. While here he conferred with sev- ; eral club women and told them of j conditions as he found them, and j received their promise of co-dpera- : tion, he reported. KIWANIANS DISCUSS BETTER SANITATION. The matter of better sanitary in- | spection for food and milk sold in I Americus was discussed by members I < f the Kiwanis club at the regular i luncheon today at the Windsor ho- . tel. George O. Marshal], county ' • gent, brought up the matter, stat- | i: , g i that two carloads of tubercular c ?.ttle, some of them milk cows and ; me beef cattle, had been found in i Sumter county recently and disposed of as required after detection by a ! rjate veterinarian. He pointed out that such matters and other unsani tary conditions could not be proper ly guarded against in the interest ; of the health of the public unless an official was employed to‘look aft er it as his duties. He stated that | another South Georgia county Imd ' solved a similar problem by the coun ty employing a veterinarian, whose duties primarily were to do the vet- < inary work for the'county’s road mule; and act as sanitary inspector lor county and city, but who was 1 ermitted to do limited private prac t'.ee on the side. He suggested that if some such arrangement could be entered into in this county great benefit in the way of increased safe ty should result without greatly in c erased expense. Other members suggested that i (Continued on Page Two.) CURB MARKET TOMORROW, 1 MARKETS AMERICUS SPOT COTTON. Good middling 17 cents. LIVERPOOL COTTON. LIVERPOOL, March 3Market oponed steady 8-13 up. Fully 10.84. Sales 8,000 bales. Receipts 4,974 bales, of which 2,891 are American. FUTURES: April June Sept. Prev Close 10.28 10.16 9.87 First Call 10.41 10.28 9.99 Close 10.41 10.27 9.99 NEW YORK FUTURES. May July Oct. Prev. Close 17.97 17.35 17.03 Open 17.98 17.40 17.06 10:15 am 18.04 17.43 17.06 10.30 18.00 17.41 17.06 10:45 17.98 17.37 17.02 11 :00 17.98 17.39 17.04 11 :15 . 17.96 17.38 17.03 11.45 17.93 17.34 17.02 12:00 ... 17.90 17.33 17.00 12:15 pm 17.95 17.33 17.00 12:30 .. 17.94 17.33 16.98 1:00 17.94 17.31 16.97 1:30 17.97’17.34 17.00 1:45 17.96 17.32 16.98 2:00 17.*95 17.34 16.98 2:15 17.98 17.35 16.99 2:30 .....17,94 17.30 16.94 2:45 17.92 17.30 16.94 Close 17.92 17.31 16.94 CURB MARKET TOMORROW. The Mysteries of the Wireless Are Made Plain By RUDOLPH L. DUNCAN WIRELESS TELEPHONY AND TELEGRAPHY Hero of the San Diego Disaster And Director Radio Institute of America Written For THE TIMES-RECORDER Dun first came- into fame when as chief electrician he brought help to the sinking U. S. S. San Diego in July, 1918, by im provising a wireless transmitting set af ter the ship was flooded. When aid ar rived, Duncan had been in the water five hours. He is now a director in The Radio In stitute of America. ® Since he was 15, Duncan has been a tel- egrapher; first on the C., B. & Q,, the wr Santa Fe, and Southern Pacific, and Vi from 1914 to 1919 as a wirele s man in the naw. A “ z If you want to know wireless, he’ll tell X' t , > / JFyyH ycu— STARTING TODAY THETIMESSRECORDER &j>I£pUBL.ISHED IN THE/HEART OF FRANCE ACCEPTS ‘ U.S. ARMY CLAIM Reply To Note Concerning Pay ment For Rhine Forces Is Made I I PARIS, March 31 (By Associated ; Press).—France replied today to the j note from the United States concern . ing payments of costs of an Ameri- I can military occupation of the Rhine land., The French note repeats a re cent declaration of the minister of finance in the senate that I 1 rance zec ogniizes the rights of the United States in the matter. The only question is to whom the request for reimbursement should be made—to the Allies or to Germany, the note says. The American embassy considers the note full acceptance of the claim I set forth in the American note. PLAN ANOTHER SALE. CORDELE, March 31.—Plans have been made by leading local stock men fqr another co-operative (hog sale to be conducted sixty days hence in Cordele. CURE MARKET TOMORROW. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 31, 1922. SEAT SALE FOR TY COBB GAME TUESDAY OPENS Stands Already Erected And Dia mond In Shape—sl,ooo Rain Insurance Taken There’were several cash orders on hand for tickets and reserved spats to the Ty Cobb-Detroit-Rochester baseball game here next Tuesday when the sale opened this morning. General admission tickets at SI.OO and 50 cents each are on sale at all the drug stores of Americus, but be cause of the impossibility of split ting them up among several places, reserved seats are being sold only at the Times-Recorder office. There are only 1,184 reserved seats, and when these are disposed of no more can be had. Os these 320 are immediately behind the home plate, protected by screen, and are beng sold for 50 cents. On each side, down the first and third base lines, are two other reserved seat sections for which a charge of 25 cents is being made. The erection of these seats by John W. Shiver has been completed. There are eight rows, on the grand stand elevation plan. By arrange ment with the manager of the De troit-Rochester teams, every cent of the receipts for the reserved seat sec tions will go to the Playground as sociation, the right to participate in them as part of the receipts under the visitors’ contract having been waived. This means that the reserv ed seat sale will pay for the con struction of all the seats, and per mit the three grand stand sections to remain on the playground as perma nent equipment, a feature which will be appreciated in future games at the Playground. SI,OOO Rain Insurance. To pro.ide against loss by rain, an insurance policy has been taken cut by the Playground association ‘ calling for Die payment of SI,OOO if as much as one-tenth of an inch of rain falls between 10 a. m. and 4 p. m. of the day of the game, regardless of whether the game is played or not. This will protect the guarantors, which are the three civic clubs of the city, against loss on expenses in preparation for the event. The diamond has been raised and leveled and is in perfect playing con dition, and the entire field -is in splendid shape for a first class game of baseball by big league players. Plans are being laid for the hand ling of a very large crowd in Ameri cus on Tuesday. Indications are that hundreds will be here from many mile;- around, in addition to the large crowds coming from near by. The city people also will turn out in large numbers. Food for Hungry. To help care for visitors to the city committees of ladies and men under the chairmanship of C. J. Clark, will operate lunch stands downtown near the city hall where visitors unable to find accommodations in the restau rants and hotel that day may obtain sandwiches and drinks. While limit ed profit for the Playground is ex pected from this service, it is. recog nized that it will be of value in mak ing it unnecessary for anyone to go hungry because of the large crowd and limited facilities for, handling them. Light lunches, etc , will also be sold at the Playground. Traffic regulations for the game ire being worked out by the various ticket, ground and traffic commit tee 1 , which will be announced later. 'that Tuesday will be one of the biggest business days in the history of Americus, if weather does not interfere, is expected. The occasion 'is the regular monthly Golden Rule sale day, which was moved up from Wednesday for this particular oc casion only in order not to conflict with the fy Cobb game by coming the following day. This event' is becoming more successful each month, and it alone is expected to draw a huge throng. The farmers’ metion sale at the court house at 10 o’clock will be an <;vent of the forenoon. > Another event of the day will be a county high school track and field meet at the Third district school, following a literary contest the night before. All the county schools will oe closed all day for the occasion. The curb market, which was launched on the last Golden Rule sale Jay, will he held on its regular day, Wednesday, and not on Golden Rule sale day this month. Next month they will fall on the same day again. LIBRARY WILL CLOSE FOR GAME TUESDAY The city library will be open from 1:30 to 2:30 p. m. next Tuesday, and will close for the Ty Cobb base ball game at 2:30 until 7, when it will re-open, Miss Carrie Speer, li brarian, announces. PORTUGUESE FLYERS LAND AT CANARIES LISBON, March 31 (By Associat ed Press). —Captains Sacadura and Coutino, the Portuguese naval avia tors, who started from Lisbon yes terday morning in an attempted flight to Pernambuco, Brazil, arriv ed safely at the end of the first stage of their journey, Las Palmas, in the Canary Islands, at 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon. CURB MARKET TOMORROW. BOTH SIDES OF COAL STRIKE IT IS NECESSARY STEP ADJUSTMENT—OPERATORS BY J. D. A. MORROW Vice President, National Coal Asso ciation. THE coal strike called for tomor row is simply a step in a great and necessary pro cess of re-adjust ment in the bitum inous coal indus try. That fe-adjust ment can only come if the situa tion is left alone to the natural play of economic influ ences. Interven tion by the govern ment alone can hinder it. Three main facts are involved: FIRST. The rate Ej MORROW of pay and the hours of labor. SECOND. The manner iri which wage scale agreements shall be made. THIRD. The check-off. Must Reduce Scale On those issues the strike has been called. The miners are demanding a six-hour day and a five-day week, which would give employment arbi trarily to an excessive number of miners, and the maintenance of a post-war wage scale fixed on a basic rate of $7.50 a day, as opposed to the eight-hour day and six-day week, with supply and demand fixing the number of employes. Operators insist that the present scale must be materially reduced and the present hours of work main tained to put organized mines on a parity with the wage levels pre vailing in the non-union fields tuid in other industries. The six-hour day and five-day; week is demanded to enable the men ; in the industry to work more nearly ! ! full time. I’he fact is there are more men ‘ employed in the industry than are ; needed, just as there are more mines than are needed. The operators I would let supply and demand for 1 coal automatically reduce excess ‘ employes. All Willing To Meet While a number of operators have I decided to go into a four-state joint ; I conference, all have been willing to i I meet the miners in state conferences. | I Generally, operators in Illinois and j i Indiana have been willing to partici pate in a four-state agreement,! while those of western Pennsylvania , and southern Ohio have refused. ! Why? When the central competitive field arrangement was first established, there was active competition be tween western Pennsylvania and southern Ohio operators on one hand and Illinois and Indiana on the . other. Conditions Changed Changing freight differentjals,! however, have steadily decreased that ' competition. Ohio coal, formerly a popular fuel in Chicago, is no longer qdbted in the Chicago market. Pitts burg coal has vanished from the lower peninsula of Michigan. There is no longer any economic reason for the continuation of the old four-state arrangement. As a re sult, operators wish to deal with the miners of their own particular dis tricts, whether union or non-union, and work out wage scales which i will accord with the competitive • conditions in those respective fields. As to the check-off, under which operators are required to collect the dues, assessments, and fines of the men and hand them over to the •union officials, that was one of the practices cited in the indictment under the Sherman law at Indianapo list as evidence of conspiracy between miners and operators. Naturally, the operators are reluctant to renew ! an agreement so full of possible dan- I ger. No Danger for Public I Out of the strike must come a re- I adjustment to meet post-war condi- I tions of competition and prices. At . present it seems safe to say that a ! 60-day srike would entail no par ticular hardship on business ami in [ dustry generally and would not ex i haust stocks to the point where an , increase in prices would occur. The consumer, therefore, may look with a fain degree of equanimity upon the approach of this struggle. Our industrial fabric has been ' erected upon a foundation of low | cost of coal. This strike is Simply one of the inevitable steps that must i come if our industrial activity is to i be restored to a sound and enduriqg i activity. In this the householder— the small consumer—is vitally con cerned. It means for him a lower ing of prices not alone for the coa] he buys himself, but of all commodi ties into which the use of coal enters. CORDELE CITY LEAGUES TO OPEN NEXT MONDAY CORDELE, March 31.—Beginning with April 1 business houses in Cor- I dele will be closed at 6 o’clock each evening and the city league will start their regular baseball schedules. Th? schedules will begin on Monday and run through ten weeks. Over a hundred local business men will be in the teams. Two games at the same hour will be under way on I the city park. 1 CURB MARKET TOMORROW- PRICE FIVE CENTS. FORCE?! ON US IN EFFORT TO CRUSH UNION—LEWIS BY JOHN L. LEWIS President, United Mine Workers of America. T’HE United Mine Workers regret j * more than anyone else the neces- sity for a suspen sion of work by the unioq coat miners of the country. We have done everything human ly possible to avoid the suspension, or many weeks we have fought to in duce the coal op erators to keep faith with us and with the govern ment and meet us in joint confer- rajHreS- Y LEWIS i once, o that a new wage and work ‘ ing agreement might be made that I would maintain industrial peace ami : pievent any inconvenience to the public. ' mo: c ica'exzfifl 12 78 7890 789 80 Two years ago the operators sol -1 eninly agreed that they would meet I with us before April 1. They pledg ’ cd then- word as business men. They I signed that agreement in writing in i New York. It was a pledge as bind- I ing as any bond or promissory note I that any set of men ever signed. Broke Agreement We thought they signed it in good faith. But now they refuse to live up io their agreement They have I refused point-blank to do as they I agreed'they would do. If they were , to refuse to pay their debts it would ‘be no more dishonorable than their ! refusal to keep their agreement with the miners. These operators do not deny that I they are contract-breakers. They only say: “Well, what are you going ! to do about it?” In the latter part of last December | I asked the operators, in compliance I with their promise, to meet with the I miners in Pittsburg to begin negotia • tions for a ngw agreement. Illinois , and Indiana operators and a part of I the Ohio group accepted the invita tion, but of the Pitts- I burg district and a part of Ohio re ! fused. They merely said they had i decided not to keep their word. They scrapped their agreement, i just as the kaiser scrapped his treaties with other nations. And/ | like the kaiser, they started in to 1 destroy the other party o he afree . inent. The invasion of Belgium by ! the kaiser was no more ruthless than the invasion of the miners' union by these Pittsburg and Ohio . operators. Seek to Break Union They propised to wreck the union, ; as the kaiser wrecked Belgium and I northern France. Suffering and : starvation of coal miners and their | families became of no greater con , sequence to them than the suffer ing of the Belgian and French peo ple. It is, perhaps, the most notorious and unpardonable case of. contract breaking and di-regard for business honor that the country has ever seen. When the Pittsburg and Ohio operators refused to meet with the miners, the Pittsburg meeting was necessarily cancelled. Later, I issued a second call for a meeting, think ing that, perhaps, these men would yet decide to live up to their prom ises. But they refused again. Refused U. S.' Request. So flagrant and indefensible was their action that President Harding denounced it and directed Secretary of Labor Davis to call on the opera tors to keep their word. But they refused even the government. Instead, they asked the govern ment to keep its hand off and allow the coal companies to make their fight for the destruction cf the miners’ union. In other words, these coal companies have arbi trarily placed themselves above the government it-elf and have politely told the government to go to. There was nothing left for the miners to do but to quit work until the question of what their wage: shall be is determined. We are not asking for higher wages in the oi tuminous coal industry. Scale Agreeable. Our men did not make a living last year, and they are not yet mak ing a living, but they are willing I to take the chance with the present i wage scale for the next two years, ;in tile hope that there will be a business revival that will afford them : reasonably steady employment and an opportunity’ to earn a living for their families. The miners are nit quitting work because they want to Quit. They want to work. But the operators are determined that they shall not work except at starva tion wages, and that the union shall jbe desroyed, so as to deprive the men of all means of protection. Want Public to Know ■ We want tht public to know all ■ the facts, because we know that the ; public will then place the blame where it belongs. The operators I started ill deliberately to compel the i miners to strike. They have declared that all coal i miners shall work for the same mis- I erable rate of starvation wages that ' are paid to the poor, helpless in the , non-union fields of West Virginia | . CURB MARKET TOMORROW. ij iy GREATWALKOUT STARTS TONIGHT IN UNION FORCES Alabama , Employing Mostly Non-Union Miners, To Profit By Tie-Up PANA, Ills., March 31.—The first actual stoppage of work in the Illi nois i vl fields occurred shortly be fere noon today when 800 miners packed their foods and went home. INDIANAPOLIS, March 31.—(8y Associated Press.) —The iast day of work under the present wage scale will be completed today by the coun try’s half million union coal miners. Officially their suspension of work is to begin tonight at midnight, but virtually it will start six hours ahead of schedule, when most of the min ers end their shift their in the mines. A complete tie up of the union fields in twenty states was predicted today by union officials. ALABAMA TO PROFIT BY WALK OUT. BIRMINGHAM, March 31. The Alabama field will profit by the strike. of union coa; miners if the expected walkout takes place, ac cording to operators ami non-union men. Approximately <>nly 2,900 of the 10,000 union mine) ; in the field are emlpoyed, union dtfificials stated today, while more than 29,000 non union men were at work last week. PACIFICATION OF IRELAND SIGNED Free State Parly Declared Enor mously Strengthened By Agreement LONDON, March 31. (By Asso ciated Press.) —The Free State par ty in Ireland is enormously strength ened by the agreement’ for the paci fication of Ireland, signed here iast night, the house of commons today was told by Winston Churchill, sec retary for colonies. The Irish Free State bill became a law today when King George gave his assent to the measure. The House of Lords decided not to insist upon the amendments it had adopted and adjustment reached between the two houses of parliament. IRISH POLICE TO BE DISBANDED. BELFAST, March 31. (By Asso ciated Press.) —Demobilization of the police in six counties of Ulster will begin today and is expected to be completed not later than May 81. Disbandment in 26 southern counties will begin at the same time and be finished as soon as possible. NASSAU, BAHAMA, REPORTED AFIRE Flagler Hotel Dynamited In Ef fort To Slop Progress Os Flames MIAMI, March 31.—The Colonial Hotel at Nassau, Bahama Islands, one of the chain of Flagler hostel ries, was r ‘ported burning today. At 10:15 a. m. a radio message said the entire town of Nassau was threat ened by fire and that loss at that hour was in the millions, the hotel being dynamited in an effort to check the flames. LOWER MICHIGAN UNDER SNOW AND ICE DETROIT, March 31. —Lower Michigan today was under a blanket of snow and ice and communication lines were crippled. Many highways were impassable and a glaze covered the ■southern half of the lower pen insula, while in the north a heavy snow was reported. Officials of the Michigan State Telephone company said tne damage to its equipment alone would reach $1,500,000.* and Alabama. They are seeking to reduce the level of American citi zenship by cutting down the earn ing capacity of these workers. But , the union miners will not stand for it. Nor would any other .American citizen stand for it. Up, Not Down Why not work to bring the condi tion of these non-union men up to ‘he level of the organized fields, in stead of dragging the organized fitsjds down to the degraded level of the non-union fields? The United Mine Workers of America face this struggle with the firm belief that the American pub lic realizes they are uiakihg a fight' for the maintenance of justice in the J coal industry and for the preserva- ■ tion of a moral standard in busi ness. We believe business men should live up to their contracts. S 4IRB MARKET TOMORROW. J .. -

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