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WEATHER FORECAST
For Georgia—Local rains tonight
or Friday; cooler in northeast por
tion.
FORTY-FOURTH YEAR.—NO. 100.
350 FAMILIES FLEEING BEFORE LEVEE BREAK
FRANCEFORCED:
TO BOW BEFORf
NEW ALLIANCE
Unable To Thrust Her Will
Above That of 265,000
Other Europeans
BY HARRY N. RICKEY
GENOA, April 27.—Having sur
vived half a dozen crises in two short
weeks, Lloyd George’s alleged eco
nomic conference for restoration of
peace and industry in Europe still
lives. But that is about the best that
can be said of it.
The net result to date is a treaty
between Germany and Russia—un
der protest and in open defiance of
the allies.
Admittedly this treaty draws Ger
many and Russia closer together,
not only commercially but also po
litically. Potentially it is a threat
to western Europe that 225,000,000
Germans and Slavs are out to domi
nate the continent.
Assuming a generation of co-opera
tion between the Germans and Rus
sians, with the formers’ genius for
organization and the latters’ man
power and natural wealth, western
Europe will face at least 300,000,000
organized and aggressive people.
France has visualized this from
the first and ever since the treaty
was sprung has been making heroic
efforts to circumvent it, threatening
several times to leave Genoa and
break up the conference.
France Near Isolation
But France has been unable to
change the course of events for the
simple reason that the rest of Eu
rope is fed up thoroughly on the
French policy.
France is nearer to isolation today
than at any time since the war. Even
England is showing less and less
sympathy and a marked di inclina
tion to sacrifice, for France’s sake,
her chance to get in with Germany
on Russia’s “ground floor.’’
England’s growing impatience with
France eliminated when Lloyd
George said significantly fn'at unless
attempts to break up the conference
were stopped he would make a state
ment to the world “putting the Jdame
where it belonged.
A break With the British is the one
thing the French cannot afford if
they hope to keep their position as
a first class power and collect repara
tions from Germany. So they have
submitted to the inevitable and con
sented not to press their demand that
the German-Russian treaty be abro
gated.
This was a bitter pill for the
French, and they make no secret
of it.
Co-operation Necessary
At the same time everybody in
Europe, excepting possibly the
French, realizes that permanent
peace and restoration of normal in
dustrial and financial life is impos
sible without the cooperation of the
Germans and Russians.
Together they comprise more than
half the population of the continent,
and a much greater proportion of or
ganizing genius, industrial energy
and natural wealth.
While the arrogant position they
have taken here has amazed and
shocked Lloyd George as much as it
has anyone else, it has demonstrated
the necessity of keeping the confer
ence together to work out an all-
European compact including a non
aggression agreement.
Otherwise the net result of Genoa’s
conference would be increased mili
tarism and financial chaos growing
out of fear of the German-Russian
menace.
The Germans and Russians are
perfectly aware that they have run
diplomatic circles around the allies
and have them in a corner.
They are now oenjjly playing the
game together. One day last week
Tchitcherin visited Wirth and Ra
thenau three times at the Germans’
hotel. Each time he was received
with almost royal honors.
Undoubtedly the Russians’ demand
that the Soviet government be fully
recognized by the powers of the So
viet guarantees payment of pre-war
•debts, was worked out by the Ger
mans and Russians together.
The logic of this de'mand is unas
sailable, but it was a shot aimed di
recetly at the friendly relations be
tween the British and French.
Poincare’* Dilemma
Most of this pre-war debt, amount
ing to $3,000,000, is owed to
French peasants, but the last thing
the present French conservative
government wants to do is to give full
recognition to the Soviet. On the
other hand, the British have no in
terest in pre-war debts. Their big
interest is in opening trade relations
with Russia on as good terms as
Germany got.
Lloyd George would rather not
pay the price of full Soviet recogni
tio nfor this trade—but if he has to
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G. O. P. RIVALS FOR
SEAT IN SENATE
HARRY S. NEW
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ALBERT BEVERIDGE
LEGION CHANGES
MEETING DATES
Waycross Convention Now Set
For July 13, 14, 15.—T0 Be
State Reunion
WAYCROSS, April 27.—0 n ac-
1 count of a number of Legion posts
, in the State of Georgia planning to
' celebrate the Fourth of July with
i elaborate exercises, the slate execu
‘ five committee of the American Le
' gion decided ala meeting held in
Waycross Wednesday to postpone the
state convention of the American
j Legion to be held in Waycross for
i two weeks. The new dates were July
I 13, 14 and 15. It is expected that
fully 1000 iegionaires will be pres-
| ent.
The committeemen also decided to
I make the convention this year a re
union of all the soldiers who enlist-
I cd from Georgia and to that end the
I convention will be advertised as more
of a reunion than a convention.
General John J. Pershing will be
invited to be the honor guest along
with Commander MacNider and Vice-
Commander Berry. It is expected
i that several others prominent in na
| tional affairs will be present. The
■ committeemen also decided toj in
> vite the commanders of surrounding
I states.
The meeting yesterday was presid
: ed over by Slate Commander James
•A. Fort, of Americus. The commit
teemen passed a resolution thanking
! Commander Fort, Adjutant J. E. B.
' McLendon and Treasurer J. A.
i Bankston for the economical admin
j istrrtion rendered during their term
I of office.
VALDOSTA OPENS SEASON
I VALDOSTA, April 27—By a score
|of 10 to 0 Valdosta’s 1922 baseball
I season was pried open yesterday with
the Waycross team as the victims.
The game was played .before the
large: t crowd ever assembled for a
game in Valdosta, it being estimat
ed that three thousand people attend-
I ed.
Miss Norma Johnson, of Donald
sonville, who has been the guest of
Mrs. T. E. Bolton for a few days,
left Wednesday for Asheville, N. C.,
where she will spend the summer.
he probably will.
What the French will do is prob
lematical, but under the pressure of
millions of peasants holding pie-war
bonds and the danger of breaking
with the British, it is hard to see.
how t'ie Poincare government 'can
live if it refuses to follow suit.
From the French point of view—
and the point of view of those who
know the great sacrifices Fiance
made in the war—her position seems
unjust. But, after ail, 38,000,000
Frenchmen cannot dictate the des
tinies of Europe in which are 223,-
000,000 million Germans and Rus
sians and 40,000,000 British who also
insist on having something to say
about how things shall be managed.
THE TJMWWcdRDER
bVayPUBLISHLD IN THE HEART OF
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 27, 1922.
WOMEN AGAINST
RADIO IN HOOSIER
SENATE CONTEST
Harty New Forgot Ladies In
Laying Plans And Beveridge
Seized Advantage
INDIANAPOLIS, April 27.—When
Senator Harry S. New, of Indiana,
first launched his campaign to suc
ceed himself in the upper house of
the national legislature he counted
on waging his fight, to a considerable
extent through speeches broadcast by
radio telephone.
His friends did not deem an orgau-
I ization of women voters desirable in
■support of his candidacy.
They have changed their minds.
Or rather, ex-Senator Albert J. Bev
eridgf, who seeks to go back to
Washington in Senator New’s
place, changed their minds so rthern.
Beveridge went, first and fore
most, after women’s votes. He spoke
and lectured through Indiana, and
for the most part in churches. Frank
ly he sought to enlist women espec
ially in his cause.
After about a month of this, Sena
tor New’s friends acknowledged
that their candidate s women sup
porters must be brought more ac
tively into the contest.
The result is that much of the
mos teffective campaigning, as be
tween New and Beveridge, is being
done by women, and there are more
I women speakers in the field than
men.
New has not given up his fight by
radio. Several of the halls where
he has spoken or is to speak, are
fitted with radio telephones and the
senator hopes, in particular, to
reach thousands of farmers by this
means. Nevertheless, the impor
tance of the appeal to women is
fufiy recognized.
Two such practical politicians as
Senator Watson, Tiepublican, and
Thomas Taggart, Democratic leader
in Indiana, say they think New will
be nominated, and Watson adds
that the Republican nomination is
equivalent to election, as he consid
ers the Democratic party in the state
“greatly demoralized.” The Demo
crats take a different view. Then
version is that the New-Beveridge
rivalry has developed considerable
bitterness, which they predict will
divide the Republican party into sac
! lions, whereas they say their own
contest is friendly, though they
I have five candidates for nomination |
'in the field.
The Democratic aspirants are ex-
Governor Samuel M. Ralston, who,
the press in general seems to con
sider, is likely to get the nomina
tion; State Senator B. B. Shively, a
relative of ex-Vice President Mar
shall; Daniel W. Simms, Dr. Jesse
Sanders and Charles Howard.
The test will come on May 2,
when the Indiajia primaries will he
held. It will be the first test of the
kind, of national interest, anticipa
tory of the next electio.!.
AMATEUR AUTO RACER
IS KILLED AT VALDOSTA
VALDOSTA, April 27.—Funeral
services were held today for Gordon
Ewart, aged 20, who was killed in an
auto crash at the race track late
Tuesday afternoon. This is the first
tragedy on the Valdosta race track.
Young Ewart, only an amateur driver,
was speeding around the track at the
wheel of a Grant Six which was enter
ed for the Memorial Day races. Just
as the car swung into the home
stretch, it suddenly swerved and
crashed through the infield fence and
struck an embankment. The car
turned over several times and pinned
the driver underneath. His body was
badly mangled, there being several
wounds, any one of which coukl have
caused death.
AMERICUS INSTITUTE TO
DEBATE MONTGOMERY
On Fi'iday night, April 28, the
Americus Institute, and State Nor
mal school, Montgomery, Ala., both
negro schools, will conduct a simul
taneous debate uopn the subject,
“Resolved; that the United States
Government Should Accept Mr.
Ford’s Offer for Muscle Shoals.”
The Americus affirmative team will
defend the honor of their school
against the Montgomery negative
here, while the Americus tetim will
defend their school at Montgomery.
B. T. Kennedy, J. C. Hendrix and W.
A. Knighton will represent the school
at Americus, while Fred! Mitchell,
Wm. Peterson and Chas. Clark go to
Montgomery.
BLIZZARD JURY FILLED.
CHARLESTON, W. Va., April 27.
(By Associated Press.) —The ,’jary
to try William Blizzard, district of
ficer of the United Mine Workers,
on a treason charge, was selected to
day. A majority of the talesmen are
farmers.
Hamlet Where Grant Was Born In 1822 Honored
POINT PLEASANT, April 27.
(By Associated Press.) —The nation
turned today to this little hamlet t •
celebrate the hundredth birthday an
niversary of one of its presidents and
great military leaders, Ulysses S.
Grant. For the first time, though the
village gave to the nation a presi
dent, it was honored with the presence
of a president of the United Starts,
Warren G. Harding, who delivered
the principal address.
MEMORIAL DEDICATED
IN WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, April 27.—The
Grant memorial, dedicated here to
day, is one of the largest groups of
statuary in the world. The eques
trian portion of it is said to be ex
ceeded in height only by the statue
of Victor Emanuel in Rome. Fifteen
years have been required to bring it
to virtual completion.
The entire memorial which with to
day’s dedicatory ceremonies takes its
place in the national capital with the
soon-to-be dedicated Lincoln memor
ial and the great monument which
has stood for half a century as a
memorial to Washington, is a beauti
work of art. Occupying a position
of prominence at the east end of the
Botanical Gardens facing the capital
grounds it has been approved by Au
gustus Saint Gaudens, Charles F. Me-
Kim, Daniel C. French and other
prominent American artists.
The marble superstructure on
which the various groups stand is
262 feet long, 69 feet deep and five
feet above the ground. An eques
trian statue of Grant stands’ on a
high central pedestal at the west side
facing the Washington Monument
and Lincoln memorial at the other
end of the Mall. Lower pedestals at
the north and south ends support mas
sive groups of cavalry and artillery,
respectively. The infantry arm is to
be presented by bronze bas-reliefs
to be placed on the side of the main
pedestal—this being the only part
not completed.
Before the final memorial was com
pleted or contracted for, 27 designs
were submitted and the award final
ly was given to Henry W. Shrady, who
died a few weeks ago, and- Edward
Pierce Casey, architect, of New
York. The erection of the statue was
authorized by congress 21 years ago,
but various causes contributed to the
delay in the completion of the mem
orial. Chief of these was the strong
opposition to the erection in the Bot
anic Gardens on the ground that the
site was on the axis between th* cap-
AMERICUS LAD’S
SONG PUBLISHED
•
“Those Cotton Blues,” By Ralston
Ca; gill, Jr., Makes Its Apj_
pcarance On Music Counters
The Timcs-Recorder has received a
copy of “Those Cotton Blues,” a
song jpst published, the words and
music written by Ralston Cargill, Jr.,
of Americus, which is being put out
through Jack Mills, Inc., of New
York, music selling agents. The
song, which is now on sale in Ameri
cus at Thos. L. Bell’s jewelry store,
promises wide popularity, especially
in the South where its sentiments hit
a sympathetic chord. The words fol
low:
There is a man whoiised to grow cot
ton, and
The man who tries it today—
One time a crop can be gotten,
But now it's disaster to pay—
A little bug is the cause, so they
tell me —
Just another add to your list
For the rest the toll of the weevil
Once a cotton plant is kissed.
(Chorus)
I’ve got those mean cotton blues
Sweetie, listen to sad news
Shirts and collars now cost more dol
lars,
I’m ragged from my hat down to my
shoes.
Here’s what I call a naked fact:
801 l weevil’s .camping hard upon my
track.
When the weevil's on the boll
That means there’ll be nothing sold.
I’ve got those cotton blues.
.Into Dixie land an army has marched
The fields of white are its camp.
“Old King Cotton” is being watched
By a deadly cotton vamp.
To sing a little song about all of
your troubles—
Here is one that will head the list—
It’s worse than plagues and the South
Sea bubbles,
I must tell you I can’t resist, (cho)
FQRT WORTH FLOOD
DANGER NOW PAST
FORT WORTH, Tex., April 27.
Trinity river was well within its banks
this morning after a drop of sixteen
feet overnight. Street ear service
was resumed in all the flooded su
burbs.
The dead and missing here are now
i listed at forty-nine s
WHERE HARDING SPEAKS TODAY
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Just 100 years ago, April 27, 1822, General Ulysses S. Grant was born
at Point Pleasant, O. This picture shows the main street of the town and,
on the left, the stone steps where President Harding will deliver an ad
dress during the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of Grant’s
birth. A radio will carry the message to all parts of the country.
GRANT MEMORIAL AT WASHINGTON
wo
- wee
This is the Grant memorial looking toward the capitol at Washington,
which was dedicated formally with elaborate ceremonies today. The cen
tral figure of Grant on his horse is of bronze and weighs 10,700 pounds.
itol, the Washington monument and
the Lincoln memorial.
In October, 1907, contractors be
gan making excavations for the foun
dations of the memorial, but hardly
had they started when an order from
the Supreme court of the District of
Columbia stopped the work, requir
ing the contractors to show cause why
they should not be enjoined from cut-
MARKETS
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON-
Good middling, 16 3-4 cents.
LIVERPOOL COTTON
LIVERPOOL, April 27. Market
opened quiet 5-6 down. Fullys 10.35.
Sales 8,000 bales.
Futures: June Sept. Dec.
I’rev. Close ... 10:26 10.18
First Cail .. 10.19 10.13 10.06
Close 10.21 10.16 10.11
NEV/ YORK FUTURES
May July Oct.
Prev. Close . .18.05 17.69 17.70
Open .. . 18.05 17.73 17.72
10:15 am 18.09 17.73 17.77
10:30 . . 18.10 17.72 17.78
10:45 18.02 17.63 17.73
11:00 18.00 17.66 17.74
11:15 ...18.01 17.63 17.72
11:30 18.06 17.65 17.72
12:00 18.08 17.70 17.76
12:15 pm 18.06 17.66 17.74
12:30 '18.06 17.69 17.74
12:45 .18.06 17.65 17.75
1:00 ,18.00 17.62 17.68
1:15 .18.00 17.61 17.64
1:30 17.99 17.59 17.64
1:45 .18.00 17.60 17.64
2:00 17.99 17.58 17.65
2,:15 18.00 17.59 17.66
2:30 17.99 17.60 17.66
2:45 18.01 17.62 17.68
Close 17.99 17.60 17.65
$7,000 IN HOGS
SOLD IN A DAY
Three Cars Go At Farmers’ Co-
Operative Sale At Leslie And
Two Cars Here
Five carloads of hogs were sold In
Sumter county Wednesday which
.brought approximately $7,000 in cash
to farmers. Three cars were sold at
the farmers’ co-operative sale at Les
lie and two were made up in Amer
icus al private sales, all being han
dled through George O. Marshall,
county agent. The three cars at Les
lie and one from Americus were
bought by A. J. Evans, of Fort Val
ley, who paid $8.71 for tops. The
other car went to a butcher in South
Carolina. Gordon Heys and R. P.
Stackhouse furnished the two cars
marketed in Americus.
Harry Fain, of Atlanta, is in the
city on business. Ke is the guest
o fhis mother, 4 Mrs. Louise H. Fain,
on College street.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
ting down certain historic trees in
clearing for the site. It was not un
til May, 1908, that the contractors
were able to resume work. The orig
inal contract called for the completion
of the memorial within a period of
five years, but it became necessary to
extend that limit several times. The
cost of the memorial is estimated at
about $300,000.
AGREE TO ALTER
FORD PROPOSAL
Representatives Os Auto Matter
In Executive Session With
House Committee
. WASHINGTON, April 27.—Fur
ther modifications of Henry Ford’s
proposal for the Muscle Shoals pro
jects is understood to have been
made by W. B. Mayo and J. W.
Worthington, official spokesmen for
Ford, in negotiation* before the
house military committee in execu
tive session. It was learned on good
authority that one modification en
tailed an agreement by Ford to pay
the government four per cent interest
annually on the money it will spend
to acquire the flowage lands at dam
No. 3.
ATLANTA AD CLUB HEARS
FAMOUS PRESS AGENT
ATLANTA, April 27.—Advertis
ing men had the opportunity today
of listening to a talk by one of the
most famous press agents in the
world, when William J. Guard, prses
representative of the Metropolitan
Opera company, addressed the Ad
vertising club of Atlanta. •
An address on how opera is
staged also was made by Edward
Scidle, the technical director of the
company, sometimes known as “the
czar of back stage,” who is directly
responsible for the finished produc
tions which have delighted the eyes
of Atlantans for many years.
Oreille Harrold, American tenor,
and his father were honor guests.
The invitation to Mr. Harrold was ex
tended as a mark of respect and
esteem on the part of local ad men
for the place which he has achieved
in the operatic world as a distinctly
American product.
SCOUTS AND CLUBS TO
HEAR SCOUT SERMON
The members of the Rotary, Ki
wanis and Lions clubs and the local
Boy Scout troops, will attend joint
ly the morning services at the ?irsi
Methodist church next Sunday, April
30, at which Rev. Guyton Fisher will
preach a special Scout sermon at
,11 o'clock. Each of the Scout
troops is sponsored by one of the
three civic clubs.
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EDITION
ANOTHER BREAK
ADS TO FLOOD
NEARN.ORLE.ffIS
New Ct evass e Occurs Ten Miles
South of Crescent City—Sit
uation Is Serious
NEW ORLEANS, April 27. A
break in the Mississippi levee occur
red at Poydras, ten miles south of
here, today and approximately 350
families are fleeing before the fiood
waters. Poydras is on the east bank
of the river and it is expected a large
area will be flooded.
TOWN OF 2000 IN
PATH OF WATERS.
NATCHEZ, Miss., April 27—Flood
waters of the Mississippi which late
yesterday broke through Weecoma
levee on Lake Concordia, today had
entered the town of Ferriday, La.,
which has a population of 500, all
of whom had amlpe time to escape.
The town of Vida.Ta, La., of 2000
population, is in the path of the re
leased waters aUd expected to be
reached today. Probably the greater
part of four parishes will be covered
by the flood.
RIVER FLOOD TO
BE INTENSIFIED
WASHINGTON, April 27. The
flood in the lower - Mississippi and
Atchafalaya rivers will be intensified
and prolonged by the break in the
levee last night above Ferriday, La.,
'aid a special river bulletin issued by
the Weather Bureau.
The bureau declared that the crev
asse at Ferriday was 100 yards wide
at 5:30 tonight ami said the f7ver
“will overflow the greater portions of
Goncordia, lower Kansas, and eastern
and lower Catahoula parishes. Water
will return to the Mississippi ana
Atchafalaya rivers through the black,
lower Ouachita and Red rivers and
intensify and prolong the flood in the
lower Mississippi and Atchafalaya.
BLIND OFFICE
SEEKER IS HERE
W. R. McDonald, Assemblyman,
Os Augusta, Wants To Suc
ceed Murphey Candler
W. B- McDonald, of Augusta, who
is a candidate to succeed C. Mur
phey Candler on the state railroad
commission, Mr. Candler - having an
nounced his retirement, was an
Americus visitor for a few hours
Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Mc-
Donald. They are on a tour of the
various counties in Georgia by auto
mobile in the interest of Mr. Mc-
Donald’s candidacy. They spent some
time Wednesday forenoon in Buena
Vista,
Mr. McDonald, who is only .30
years of age, is.blind, having been
in that condition since 13 years of
age. He is now a member of the
Georgia assembly from Richmond
county, serving his second t!rm.
While here he called on Stephen
Pace, who served with him in thu •
house and who is his great admirer.
According to Mr. Pace, Mr. McDon
ald has a wonderful memory, stored
with facts, and he is able to hold Lis
own with the best of men in the dis
cussion of public matters.
He had with him here a beaptiful
cane, silver mounted, and engraved,
which was given him by the firemen
of Augusta in recognition of serv
ices rendered in their behalf by him.
BELL POLISHER A Bea el
. Hound who likes to linger in the ves
i tibule at 1 a. m.
BIG HEARTED Complimentary
i adjective describing a young man
. who supplies the cigarettes.
BISCUIT—A pettable Barlow or
Beasel, a game Flapper.
BLAAH—►Apple Sauce, anything
that is no good.
BLOUSE—To leave or take the
air.
BLOW THE JOINT—To Blouse
in a hurry.
BOFFOS Dollars, berries or
jack.
BOILER FACTORY—An undesir
able boy or girl.
' BOOK LEGGER—A man wno
deals in suppressed novels, sold most
ly to Dumb-Bells.
BOZARK—A stupid girl.
(Nert—From “Brock’’ to “Cow.”