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WEATHER FORECAST
For Georgia.- -Partly cle-.dy to
night and Thursday in south and
probably local showers in north por
tion, mild temperature.
FORTY-FOURTH YEAR NO. 99
LOVING TRIBUTE PAID TO OLD VETS BY AMERICUS
GREAT FT. WORTH
FLOOD GROWING;
46 MAY BE DEAD
Rain Continues, Adding To Men
ace—Millions Os Damage
Done
FORT WORTH, Tex., April 26.
(By Associated Press.) —Thirty-six
persons are dead or missing in the
Trinity river flood, a revised list to
day indicated. No bodies have bees
recovered.
Eleven others are unaccounted for
in a half dozen towns affected by
floods in this section.
FORT WORTH, Tex., April 26.
Rain continued to fall here early to
day and the flood conditions became
more menacing with the continued
rapid rise in the flooded Trinity riv
er. Fears were expressed that the
death list, now approximately twen
ty, would be increased today. The
property damage already has reach
ed several million dollars.
The flood followed a heavy storm
Monday night and Tuesday morning.
Nine inches of rain fell between 10
p. m. and 1 o'clock a. in., breaking
al! previous records. Streams al
ready were at flood stage before the
storm.
The flood was confined chiefly to
the lowlands adjoining the tributaries
of the Trinity river. Marine, Syca
more, Clearforks and the Trinity riv
er were swollen, overflowing the
bottoms nearby.
The flood is the most severe in the
history of the city, according to old
time residents. Trinity river stood
at 36.7 feet at noon yesterday and
was still rising. The guagc measured
only seven feet. With the break of
the East First street levee late Tues
day, it was believed the water on be
ing ieleased would spread out, losing
some of its force.
John G. McCain, Forth Worth city
engineer, issued a statement last
night in which he declared that the
levees around the rivers, which had
broken flooding the lowlands of the
city, were “dynamited by unknown
parties,’ ’and that an investigation by
a grand jury would be demanded im
mediately.
BIBLE READING IS
REVIVAL FEATURE
Seventy-Five Persons Report 973
Chapter Read In Single
Day
(Contributed.)
The revival meetings at Central
Baptist church are growing more in
i eresting every servie. The old-time
gospel songs are being wonderfully
revived in the congregational singing.
Last evening a quartet composed of
- Fry, Boswell, Howell and
Marshall sang fervently, “I Want
To Live My Life For Jesus.’’
A great revival of reading the Bible
is going on in Amerius. Last even
ing seventy-five persons reported hav
ing read 973 chapters that day. Two
hundred and fifteen chapters were
read by one woman and 105 by an
other.
Dr. Farrington delivered two fore
ful addresses on the “Two Visits of
the Angel I ,'’ and “The Indifferent Sin
ner.” At the close ten persons pre
sented themselves for membership to
the church. This afternoon at 4
o’clock, Dr. Farrington will speak on
“The Conflict Between Sin and
Grace,” and tonight at 7:45 on “The
Wilful Sinner.” Mr. Fry will sing
at both services.
All praying Christians are invited
to meet at 7 :20 p. m. in the primary
room to join in prayer for the lost.
Miss Herndon is at the church every
afternoon at 3:30 to meet and ex
plain the plan of salvation to all in
quirers. Whosoever will, come.
APPEALS TO PUBLISHERS
TU CUT WASTE IN SHOPS
NEW YORK, April 26.—Explain
ing the full weight of the American
Newspaper Publishers’ association
against any effort to introduce the 44-
hour week into the newspaper shops
and declaring there cannot be any
reduction in newspaper advertising
and subscription rates at this time, T.
R. Williams, of the Pittsburg Press,
and president of the association, lull
ed on the assosiation members at the
opening session of the annual con
vention here today to eliminate waste
in their plants and get behind the ap
prenticeship school movement in or
der to prevent a shortage of skilled
help.
TWENTY KILLED IN GREAJ
FIRE AT MALAGA, SPAIN
MALAGA, Spain, April 26. (By-
Associated Press.) —Twenty persons
were killed and thirty injured in a
fire which - swept the government
buildings last night and was still
burning today.
MF MORI Al DAY IMF SS AOF rom Confederated
‘’•H-jIVIvzIXI/Alj Lz/A. 1 Southern Memorial Association
BY MRS. A. McD. WILSON
Os Atlanta, President General, Con
federated Southern Memorial
Association
lUIEMORIAL DAY—The day of
memories—kindles anew the
fires upon the altars of patriotic
devotion.
Let the hilltop and valley catch
afresh the inspiration of the day.
Send forth the message of the me-
How Memorial Day Way Born
At Columbus, Ga., Apri126,1866
IT is to a little group of Southern
* women that America owes the
custom of setting one day apart every
spring for honoring the dead. Un
der different dates American every
where follow the practice.
On April 26, 1866, a number of
women in Columbus, Ga., went to
Linwood cemetery where they deco
rated the graves of the soldiers. At
the home of Mrs. John Tyler they
organized a memorial society and
pledged themselves to observe the
ceremony every year on the same
date—the anniversary of General
Joseph E. Johnston’s surrender.
Others Spring Up.
Other local memorial societies
sprang up through the South. In
many- places the Southern women
impartially decorated the graves of
the unknown Federal troops. News
of this tribute spread through the
North, breathing new life into the
national love and amity which the
war had nearly killed.
General John A. Logan,, com
mander-in-chief of the Grand Army
of the Republic, issued a general or
der on May 5, 1868, from his office
in Washington, designating May 30
"for the purpose of strewing flowers
or otherwise decorating the graves
of comrades who died in defense of
their country.” Thus the North
joined the South in the annual ex
pression of reverence and gratitude
toward its soldier dead.
Dates Vary.
Most of the Southern states recog
nize April 26 as “Confederate Memo
rial Day,” while the Northern states
celebrate “Memorial Day” on May
30. The Carolinas have set apart
May 10 as their day to observe mem
orial services. Some authorities
say that Charleston, South Carolina,
held the first memorial day on May
Day, 1865. Louisiana observes June
3, the birthday of Jefferson Davis.
Virginia celebrates May 30.
As the years have passed, the men
and women who lived through the
days of ’6l to '65 have turned over
the Memorial Day services to younger
and stronger generations.
National Day
Now a movement is on foot to
have a national holiday set apart,
when on a certain annual date the
whole country will honor not only
its soldier dead but all of those
who have passed on. While this
movement is not opposed by those
who are of the generation that
founded “Memorial Day,” many ex
pressions are heard from them that
the proposed national day Mould not
be'permitted to hide the sqjnificance
of Memorial Day as it was first con
ceived.
In many parts of the country,
[ “Memorial Day” has popularly come
to be called, “Decoration Day.” At
I numerous times during the past 50
; years efforts have been made to
■ have “Decoration (Day” stricken
'from the American vocabulary, but
for some reason the term still lives.
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON.
Good middling, 16 3-4 cents.
i
LIVERPOOL COTTON.
LIVERPOOL. April 26. Market
I opened steady 6-8 up. Fullys 10.38.
' Sales, 7,000 ales. Receipts 8,281
i bales, of which 100 are American.
Futures: June Sept. Dee.
IPrev. Close 10.12 10.007 10.00
First Call .. 10.22 10.14 10.05
Close ... 10.26 10.18
NEW YORK FUTURES.
May July Oct.
prev. Close 18.07 17.73 17.73
I Open 18.20 17.85 17.80
I 10:15 am 18.14 17.79 17.80
! 10:30 18.12 17.77 17.81
10:45 18.18 17.80 17.86
j 11:00 18.16 17.80 17.83
111 :15 ... 18 13 17.78 17.83
11:30 .. 18.15 17.81 17.89
i 11:45 18.16 17.81 17.87
| 12:00 noon 18.15 17.80 17.86
1 12:15 pm 18.13 17.78 17.85
i 12:30 18.11 17.77 17.82
; 12:45 18.10 17.74 17.80
! 1:00 18.10 17.74 17.79
1 1 :15 18.05 17.68 17.74
j 1:30 18.08 17.72 17.77
I 1:45 18.02 17.68 17.72
I 2.00 /18.02 17.68 17.73
2:15 18.02 17.67 17.70
2:30 18.02 17.68 17.72
2:45 17.95 17.62 17.68
| Close 18.05 17.69 17.70
THE TIMESU RECORDER
fegQ PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF
mortal hour, telling again to the
world that the honor accorded our
beloved heroes knows no diminu
tion.
Standind again “upon the
threshold of another day of memo
ries we turn back the pages of our
memory bopk and see pictured
there the silent black-robed group
of women gathered at Columbus,
Ga., April 26, 1866, around the
MEMORIAL DAY
DATES OBSERVED
IN VARIOUS STATES
APRIL 26: Alabama, Florida, i
Georgia, Mississippi.
MAY 10: North and South
Carolina.
MAY 30: All states and pos
sessions, except otherwise noted.
JUNE 3: Louisiana. Tennes
see celebrates on May 30 and also
observes Confederate Day on June
3, the anniversary of Jefferson Da
vis’ birthday.
2 POLICEMEN
SLAIN BY THIRD)
Anniston, Ala., Scene Os Tragedy
—Officer Gives Up, Claiming
Self-Defense
ANNISTON, Ala., April 26.—Po
liceman Joe T. Holliday and C. B.
Hurst were killed here today by
Policeman Marshall Welch. After
slaying the two men, who were
riding in an automobile, Welch drove
the car to an undertaking establish
ment and surrendered.
According to the police, Welch said i
he shot Holliday in self defense and I
that the shooting of Hurst was acci
dental.
FEDERAL COURT AT
ALBANY POSTPONED |
ALBANY, April 26.—United States '
district court for the Albany division i
has been postponed from June 19 to j
June 26 by Judge Beverly D. Evans,
according to a letter to Geo. F.
WJiite, deputy clerk, has received. !
Both grand and traverse jurors will
be summoned as a longer session is
expected than in February, when the
adjourned December term was held.
IRISH PARLEY CONTINES.
DUBLIN, April 26.—(8y Associa- j
ted Press.) —The conference between |
Free State Republican leaders, which '
was renewed today, continued into '
the afternoon, when it adjourned un- i
til Saturday. Three labor leaders i
also were in attendance.
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 26, 1922
sacred resting place of our im
mortal dead.
As they heaped upon the new
made mounds the rarest blossoms
of spring, they pledged themselves
to “perpetuate as a religious cus
tom to wreathe annually the graves
of our martyred dead.”
Thus came into being our Mem
orial Day, born in the hearts of
the womanhood of the South in
commemoration of the valor of the
knightliest and bravest race the
world has known.
Through the intervening years
JAPAN SHAKEN AS
VOLCANO SPURTS
Tokio Damaged And Several Kill
ed—Chinese Quarter Os Yo
kohama Destroyed
TOKIO, April 26. (By Associat
ed Press.) —A heavy earth sholk en
tering in Tokio occurred at 10:15
o’clock this morning. Considerable
damage was done buildings in the
city and their contents.
The quake was preceded by erup
tion yesterday of Mount Asamayama,
90 miles northwest of this ity, whih
broke out with a loud report, pouring
out volumes of ashes, stones and
smoke. No serious damage was caus
ed by the eruption.
The quake caused the death of a
few persons, none of whom were
Americans or Europeans.
The American ambassy was silght
ly damaged.
Yokohama was as severely shaken
as Tokio and the Chinese quarter
there virtually destroyed and the
waterworks disrupted.
Seismographs in the observatory
were diimaged, making it impossible
to obtain an accurate record of the
shocks? "
MISSING SEAPLANE IS
FOUND; PASSENGERS SAFE
MIAMI, Fla., April 26.—The sea
plane Santa Maria, missing since ear
ly Monday morning when it started a
flight from Keywest to Nassau with
six persons aboard, has been found
at Wilson Island, according to a wire
less received here this morning from
Havana. The radio said the passen
gers were taken to Nassau by a small
boat, while the pilot and mechanician
remained with the plane. The mes
sage came from one of the naval
planes searching for the lost craft.
SONS CF VETERANS i
RE-NAME OFFICERS
At the annual meeting of the local
camp, sons of Confederate Veterans,
held at the court house this fore
noon, all officers were re-elected for
the en uing year, headed by John
W. Shiver, commander, and Gordon
Howell, adjutant.
of more than half a century they
have kept the faith and our Mem
orial Day lit the torch that lighted
the sacred custom over the na
tion.
Our women have counted it a
piiviiege to pay homage in martial
music and the tramp of marching
hosts, and to tell again the mes
sage—not in bitterness, but bend
ing in eternal reverence above the
green mounds of our heroes—and
to write yet higher upon the his
tory of time the record of their
glorious achievements.
I A Memory
BY HAL COCHRAN
THE thunder sound of cannon
And the tread of marching
feet;
The steady roil of snare drums
To a perfect meter beat;
The stalwart sons and fathers,
And the muskets held up high;
The tears and waving kerchiefs
As the marchers marched on
by.
A MEMORY—'tis a sweet one,
™ That comes back to us today,
When we are paying tribute
To the men who wore the gray.
The flowers from the hillside
That are made into bouquets,
Lend a hand to pay the honor
To the men of olden days.
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A. SACRED tribute carried
With each soldier’s grave be
decked —
Just a memory we are keeping,
| Just a memory of respect!
I
HUNDREDS RESPONDS TO
GYPSY SMITH’S CALL
ALBANY, April 26.—Now that
. Gypsy Smith in his evangelistic cam
i paign here has reached the stage of
icalling sinners to repentance, inter-
I est in the services has reached even a
I more acute stage of interest, if such
were possible in a community already
stirred from center to circumference
by the evangelistic services. Each
j night hundreds are going forward
I pledging their lives to Christ or re
| consecrating their services. The
.evangelist has drawn no distinction,
unless it was to score the more heav
ily the sinner inside the church. Par
l ticularly vehement have been his de-
I nunciations of the church officials
“living lives at anarchy with God.”
j The series of meetings, declared by
practically everyone to b-? the most
i effective Albany has ever had, will
close Sunday night.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
Celebrating no victory in war,
I yet cherishing these shrines in our
i innermost hearts and the saintly
knighthood and Christian chivalry
that prompted the immortal Lee to
issue orders in invading the ene
my’s territory, “Let no discourtesy
be shown the women and children,”
we bowed to the arbitrament of the
sword but cherish in idolizing devo
tion the “story of the glory of the
men who wore the gray.’’ Let our
prayer ever ascend, “Lord, God of
Hosts, be with us yet. Lest we for
get. Lest we forget.”
EARLY COLLAPSE
AT GENOA HINTED
London Comment Declares Con
ference And Lloyd George’s
Plan Failure
LONDON, April 26. (By Asso
ciated Press.) —An Allied note will
be presented to the Russian delega
tion at Genoa tomorrow, says the
Exchange Telegraph, which will be
practically an ultimaum demanding
unequivocal replies on four principal
points—the payment of war debts;
payment of pre-war debts with the
granting if necessary of a reasonable
moiaatorium; indemnity of all dam
ages caused to foreigners, and resti
tution of confiscated property.
LONDON, April 26—(By Associat
ed Press.) —The probable early
breakdown of the Genoa conference
is more than hinted at in some Lon
don newspaper editorials today. The
Northcliffe Journals, which constant
ly opposed the conference and Pre
mier Lloyd George’s advocacy there
of, declare the meeting is a failue.
RUSSIA CONTRIBUTES
ANOTHER SENSATION.
GENOA, April 26. (By Associat
ed Press.) —Soviet Russia contribu
utt'd another sensation to the eco
nomic conference Tuesday by send
ing a note to the Polish delegation
remonstrating against Poland’s ac
tion in joining with the Allied pow
ers in protest against a seperate
treaty between Russia and Germany.
Russia claimed that the peace treaty
between herself and Poland covers
all relations between the two coun
tries, so that Poland, like Germany,
should not participate in the discus
sion of Russian affairs, even inti
mating that Poland, by her present
action in the conference, has abro
gated the treaty signed at Riga on
March 18, 1921.
Russia has a strong Red army
encamped near the Polish border, and
for that reason, the Russian remon
strances are regarded by some of the
delegates as equivalent almost to a
threat against Poland.
The experts on the Russian ques
tion, sitting without the Soviet dele
gates, compared notes on the new
proposals presented by the Russian
delegates at yesterday’s session, and
decided to forward their report to
their respective governments. It is
expected that when the answers are
received from the various capitals
the powers will submit counter prop
ositions to the Soviet couched in firm
language, in an endeavor to reach
a working basis for an accord.
“We cannot stay here forever,”
said a French delegate.
U. S. RESERVES ALL
RUSSIAN DEBT RIGHTS.
LONDON, April 26.—(8y Asso
icated Press.) —Richard Washburn
Child, American ambassador to Italy,
has notified the Genoa conference
that the United States reserves all
its rights on the repayment of war
debts due from Russia, says a dis
patch to the Evening Standard from
Genoa. These debts include private
bankers’ loans and advances to the
Kerensky government.
WATER TANK EXPLODES
IN BURNING RESIDENCE
CORDELE, April 26.—Fire which
started in the cottage home of A. E.
Jackson on Northern Heights early
Tuesday morning caused the explos
ion of a water tank in the heating
system which shook that section of
the city and sent the tank through
two adjoining lots. Luckily the fire
department and spectators escaped.
The house was completely destroyed,
the loss being partially covered by in
surance.
PAPER MAKERS REJECT
WAGE TERMS OFFERED
NEW YORK, April 26.—(8y As
sociated Press.) —The strike vote
taken by the International Brother
hood of Paper Makers was over
whelmingly against the acceptance of
the wage reductions proposed by the
manufacturers of newsprint, Jere
miah Carey, president of the broth
erhood, announced at a conference
with the manufacturers here today.
HOME
EDITION
HAVE FAITH IN
YOURSELVES, IS
CHIEF MESSAGE
Judge George, of Vienna, Deliv
ers Splendid Address To Rev
erent Audience
“Have faith in yourselves. The
government doer, not come to men as
self-executing, but men get out of
government what they put into it
themselves, it is up to us to look
more to ourselves for the solution
of our problems following the great
war than to the government.”
This, boiled down, was the mes
sage brought to Americus by Judge
Walter F. George, of Vienna, former
member of the Georgia Court of Ap
peals, in the Memorial address de
livered by him Wednesday forenoon
in the Rylander theater before an
audience of young and old that taxed
the capacity of the building.
Judge George’s address was a mas
terpiece of oratory, splendid in
thought, and sublime in ideal. It was
the chief number on a program in
which loving tribute was paid to the
heroes of the sixities—living and
dead—that for elegant simclicity,
sheer beauty and impressiveness,
probably never was excelled any
where. It was a perfect occasion in
commemoration of great deeds of
Other days. Every detail of the af
fair was in complete harmony with
the rest; there was not a hitch and
not a flaw', the whole being perfec
tion.
Stage Bower of Beauty
1 he stage made a bower of beauty
under the brilliant lighting by goi
geous spring flowers of many kinds
and varied hues from the gardens of
Americus. On a double circle of
chairs were seated the heads of the
many patriotic organizations of the
community. Sitting beside the prin
cipal speaker was Mrs. Frank Har
rold, state president and national first
vice president of the U. D. C. Capt.
H. D. Watts, commander of the local,
camp of Confederate veteran::, was
on the front row, proudly wearing a
uniform of grey, despite hi- rather
feeble step. Mrs. James W. Harris,
Jr., president of the Americus chap
ter of the U. D. C., and the leader in
preparing the details of the Memorial
day exercises, also occupied a promi
nent position. Mrs. Clarence Niles,
regent of the D. A. R., Mrs. Lawson
Stapleton, president of the Legion
Auxuliary; John W. Shiver, comman
der of the Sons of Confederate Vet
erans; Dan Chappell, representing the
American Legion, and several others
participating in the program, also
were on the stage.
The members of Camp Sumter, U.
C. V., occupied seats reserved for
them on the front rows of the main
floor of the theater, immediately be
fore the stage. Directly behind them
were members of the Sons of Veter
ans, who acted as their escort for the
day. In another part of the house
were a company of High school ca
dets under command of J. G. Holst,
commandant, with their guns by their
sides. Citizens and pupils of the
city school who marched to the thea
ter by classes, made up the remainder
of the audience.
Introduced By Pace.
The speaker was introduced by
Stephen Pace, a fellow member of
the bar, who was unusually eloquent.
His introduction was brief. He re
called that while it had been 57 years
since Lee had given the command to
stack arms, and 56 years since Jack
son had been lifted to immortality,
the memories of the great struggle
which demonstrated that Americans
are ready to die for principle, live
on and on.
Judge George declared that rev- ,
erence is the measure not of others
but ourselves. He said that men be
come what they worship ;that their he
roes are the ones after whom they
(Continued on Page Three.)
SH a
AIR TIGHT—Very attractive.
ANKLE EXCURSION—When
a flapper has to walk home.
APPLE-KNOCKER—A hay shak
er, hick, or gobby from the country.
APPLE SAUSE—No good, awful,
BARLOW—A flapper or spring
chicken.
BARNEY—ScandaKwalker.
BARNEY-MUGGlN—Business of
making love.
BEASEL—A flapper slightly iiiora (i
advanced than a Barlow.
BEASEL HOUND—-A girl chaser.
BEES KNlFES—Peachy, very nice.
Sometimes known as “The Berries.”
(Tomorrow from "bel” to “boy")