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-ORTY-FIFTH YEAR. NO. 8
State News Gleaned
For Busy Readers
J. Bell, a negro, about 40 years
of age, who lives about two miles
south of Zebulon, was hit by a
southbound freight train Sunday
about 4 p. m and died at 9 o’clock
Sunday night. It is said he had been
drinking and had gone to sleep on
the railroad track.
Hughey Golden, who is alleged to
have shot and killed Lester Rack
ley Christmas night, near Ellijay,
surrendered to Sheriff Milton Sat
urday and now is awaiting commit
ment trial. He was accompanied by
his attorney, B. L. Smith, of Blue
Ridge, who will defend him.
Commisisoner 0. N. Richardson,
of the road board, has proposed a
bond issue be floated for construc
tion of a new concrete bridge across
the Oostanula river at Second ave
nue in Rome. Commisisoner Rich
and son said in his letter that by us
ing material from the county quar
ry this bridge could be constructed
at about half the cost of the other
concrete bridges that span rivers in
Rome.
Alleging false and malicious ar
rest on suspicion of burning down
tb.e Georgia railway company depot',
S. J. Parker, former railroad clerk,
has filed suit against the company
for $25,000 damages. The depot
was destroyed by lire the night of
October 18, 1921, shortly after
Parker lost his position with the
company. He was arrested,' on a
warrant charging felony on Novem
ber lr and placed in Harris county
jail.' When he insisted on a trial,
Parker declares, the charge was dis
missed.
James G. Truitt, 72, died of pneu
monia Monday after a short illness
at his home in LaGrange. He came
to LaGrance as a boy, accumulated
an immense fortune and was known
to more people personally than any
man in Western Georgia. He re
cently contributed $50,000 to La-
Grange college, of which he was a
trustee.
The directors of the Jackson Ice
corporation have declared a dividend
of 20 per cent, it was announced
Monday. The company has been in
operation for three years, and has
paid a 10 per cent annual dividend
each year.
A petition requesting that the
Jackson Furniture company, a cor
poration of Cochran, be placed in
bankruptcy, alleging certain prefer
ences in payment of bills, was filed
in United States court Monday by
a number of creditors of the con
cern. No answer has yet been filed.
The Jeckyl Island club has been
formally opened for the 1923 sea
son. Several millionaires are ex
pected within the next few days, and
by the first of February the season
will be at its height.
The T. A. Acree company, of Ca
milla, which has been in the mer
cantile business for nearly a quar
ter of a century and has supplied
farmers in that section with goods,
has gone out of business and sold
the mercantile department to Adams
and Fleminn. The original T. A.
Acree company will continue in the
business of manufacturing of fer
tilizers, selling of wagons and bug
gies and handling cotton.
It is confidently believed that the
youngest mother and grandpartnes
in Georgia reside at Howell’s station,
south of Valdosta, near the Florida
line and in Echols county. Mrs.
Flossie Collier a few days ago pre
sented her husband with a baby girl,
the mother being just fifteen years
of age, the little one being born on
the birthday of former President
Woodrow Wilson.
CITY CBBRT ACT
MAY R E UPHEI.D
R. L. Maynard and Hollis Fo.t
Back From Atlanta With
Encouraging News
Judge Robert L. Maynard and Col.
Hollis Fort returned from Atlanta
last night, where thev had gom to
file a brief and argue the c mstitu
tionality of the iCty Court Act be
fore the Supreme court.
The Americus attorneys were
much heartened after talking to the
many city court judges who had
gathered in Atlanta, and al! are of
the opinion that the state Supreme
court will reverse itself and render
an opinion favorable .to the City
Court Act.
The coneei sus of oninion seemed
to be general that the Supreme court
will mate kn own its decision in this
case by • ext Monday, and that o’ 1
the day following the decision will
be known here.
FRENCH ARM
TROOPS GUAR® HOME OF GIRI. WITNESS
FFAR 9WK
THREAT AGAlffi
CERTAINEWDENCE
Daniel Testifies About Develop- ■
ments Subsequent To
Abduction
{ FOUR CITIZENS WARNED:
Residents Os Mer Rouge Told
They Must Leave Community i
Or Be Assassinated
MER ROUGE, Jan. 9.—Act- j
ir.g on an anonymous telephone !
message that an attempt might be |
made to kidnap Miss Addict
i May Hamilton, a prospective state !
I witness in the investigation of al- i
leged mask band depredations ini
Morehouse parish, several men
stood guard today over the Ham
ilton heme near here
Later two soldiers were assign
ed to guard duty in that section- I
The message was received at ;
the headquarters of department of;
justice agents directing the in- i
quiry.
Miss i lamilton, vzho is expected •
to testify against certain More- ;
house men in connection with cer- ,
tain alleged kidnapings, was some !
months ago forced to leave the
parish.
TESTIFIES WARNING
GIVEN FOUR CITIZENS
BASTROP, La., Jan. .—J. L.
Daniel, father of Watt Daniel, hood
ed band victim, testified at an open
hearing here this morning that he had
learned that subsequent to the kid
naping of his son and Thomas Rich
ards, whose mutilated bodies recent
ly were found ill a lake near here,
that 4 Mer Rouge citizens had been
warm'd they would have to leave the
Community or “they would be kill
ed.”
• Daniel said the information had
been given him by Joe Davenport,
another Mer Rouge citizen.
Davenport, Daniel said, told him
he had re eived such word over the
telephone. Daniel further said that
Davenport declared he had been told
by “Captain Skipworth” that the men
“would have to get away.
Captain J. K. Skipworth, of Bas
trop, is the exalted cyclops of the
klan in Morehouse parish.
COSTS MONEY TO
DIE IN HAVANA
First, Second And Third Rale
Funerals To Be Had, Or
Bcneyard Last Resort
’Those people who want to die in
expensively. need not go to Havana .
to do so,” said Mrs. A. A. Barfield,
recently returned with Mr. Bari ieal
from a vi.it o"f two weeks to chat i
city and other points in Cuba. I I
thought passing away was at a high |
rate here in Georgia? but when I ■
went to Havana and found that a :
first c’ai.- funeral amounts to q>l,- ;
500, and this to be paid in cash
before the undertaker even consents
to take charge, so filled me with
amazement that I felt entirely well
during the trip.”
“If one prefers to die second
class,” continued Mrs. Barfield,
“this can be arranged for the price
of $750. Or, if a still lower rata
is preferred, the undertaker relieves
the relatives of SSOO and places the
victim in the third class rating.
There is . another lower dying
process, this secured by the pay
ment of :<> per month on a lot for
tb-2 purpose of burial, as long as
regular payments are made. Miss
ing one ; s-thiy payment entitles the
keeper t sinter, th< I ody and c ast
it into a pj] e o f' bone- designated
as the ’bon..yard,’ and the lot is re
sold to another family, the process
of payment or failure c< pay contin
uing indefinitely.
“Not being able to.credit this hor
rible state of affairs, I visited the
place called the ‘boneyard’ and was
terrified at the great pile of human
bones bleaching under the tropical
sun.
„ ‘We made the trip across in a i
boat, although the price' of $53 for |
voyage only prevented our taking an
■ airplane for the one hour trip from
J (Continued on Page 2.)
THE TIIORRECXIRDER • -'
in the he'art of \ CT
BY MILTON BRONNER,
NEA Staff Correspondaiit.
ANCY, France,
111 Jan. 9. The out-|
lending' thing in
, t-be auto-suggestion
S iinics of Emil-
Ccue is that there
1-0 privacy.
’ When you cotte
come here to Nancy
aitcn< * his rncet
in fU’ you simply
have to make up
xftgsM ' £ your mind to throw
W<Li I'C.erve into the dust
heap.
COUE He shuns private
appointments. He doesn’t liKe to
treat one patient alone. lie prefers
to have them alt in one crowd where
he can speak to all of them at one
time.
There is here a point of crowd
psychology. By getting us all to
gather, he makes us act and react
upon each other.
At any rate Coues clinic is a med
ical confessional in which we confess
our physical ills not only for Mon
sieur Coue to hear but for all the
other present to hear.
Once in a while there is an excep
tion. If some one is suffering from
something that it would cause real
embarrassment to discuss aloud, the
patient is permitted to write down
what is the matter with him or her
and hand the sl’p to Coue.
Starts Work At Nine
Nine o’clock. Prompt to the min
ute, Monsieur Coue enters for his
first clinic of the day. He goes in a
circle around the room, asking each
of us something about our ills.
Then he bids us close our eyes and
keep them closed until he orders as
to open them.
He assure.- us he will not put us
to sleep.
There is to be no attempt at
hypnotism.
He tells u: that j n each .if us there
is a conscious and an unconscious
i self. If we compare them, we find
; that while the conscious self has a
! very unreliable memory, our uncon
! scions self has a really marvelous
| memory which registers, even with
; out our will, the slightest events, the
BARBOWS YW
RECORD PRODUCT
C C. Hawkins Gets 556
Pounds Lard From Recent
Killing
C. C. Hawkins, Sumter county
fancier, has just killed six barrows
which dressed, aggregated 3,70 C
pounds. The barrows were 20
months old and from the carcasses
Hawkins rendered a total of 550
pounds of pure lard, or approximate
ly 100 pounds per carcass. The hogs
were raised in the mule lot on the
Hawkins farm 5 miles out of Amer
icus on the Ellaville highway. No
feed was given them except such
as they garnered in the stable and
about the lot, which was sufficient
to keep them in good condition
throughout the summer months.
Three months ago special prepara
tions for feeding these hogs were
made- A corner of the mule lot,
so fenced off as 1,0 prevent the
hogs, was selected as a fattening
; pen. . Ground corn was provided
I there in quantities, the hogs taking
J on an average of three pounds daily
during the continuance of the feed
ing period.
All of the hogs were pure bred
AMERICUS, GA.. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 9, 1923.
BRONNER DESCRIBES FIRST DOSE OF COUEISM
EMILE COUE- PHOTOGRAPHED WITH A GROUP OF PATIENTS.
most unimportant facts of our lives. !
! Furthermore, it is very credulous
1 and accepts without reasoning what
it is told.
Matter Os Belief
As our unconscious self presides
over the functioning of our organs
by means of + he brain, a queer thing
happens—if it believes a certain or-!
an functions w6ll or badly, that or-
■ gan does really then function well or
badly.
This unconscious self is called
imagination and it makes us act
even in opposition to our wll. In
any conflict between will and imagi-;
nation, the latter always wins.
Creates An Appetite
“Now,” says Coue, “tell yourself ,
that all the words I am now going to I
pronounce will be fixed in your brain, !
will be pritited, engraved, encrusted !
there; that they will always stay I
there; and that without your wish-I
ing it or knowing it, you yourself j
and your organising are going to obey.
“So now I say to you: Every day,
three times a day, at your usual i
meal times, yf>u will be hungry,
you will eat with great pleasure and j
i without over eating.'
“You will masticate your food
slowly .so as to transform it into a
kind of paste before you swallow it.
“In this way you will easily di
gest your food and so will feel no dis
comfort er pain of any kind in your ■
i stomach or intestines.
‘ You will as a consequence assimi- I
ate your food and your body will ■
make use of it to manufacture blood, I
muscle, force, energy. In a word ■
-life.
“Your body will throw of? the i
waste material without medicines of i
any kind. Every night you will en
joy deed, tranquil slumber, without |
nightmares and you wil wake • up ■
feeling cheerful and ready for your I
day’s duties.
“Furthermore, if you are some-1
times sad, or worry, or look at the i
| black side of things, from hence- -
s orih you will stop it, and, instead,
you are going to be cheerful,
or ill tempered.
“You will no longer be impatient 1
“You will be patient, you will .al
; ways be master of yourself and
j things which formerly annoyed or
| Durocs, and according to Mr. Haw
i kins, their heavy pork yield as well
i as the quantity of lard secured dem
; onstrates conclusively the profits to
bo secured by raising only pure bred
stock.
I
SDPfRTON CHIEF
HELD GUILTLESS
Was Charged With Killing Negro
-—Victim Resisted Arrest
And Showed Fight
• i SOPERTON, Jan. 9. Charged
i wii.li murder in connection with the
j killing of Lee Troup, a negro, Chief
of Police Frost and. his brother, Gra
; dy, were acquitted at a preliminary
healing before Justice of the Peace
Hall, Reynolds and Gillis.
The defendants said they were at
tempting to arrest Troup here Christ
j mas, When he resisted and showed
■ fight.
Green hats are quite the rage of
the moment. Usually they are kept
• in one color, though we sometimes
find them embroidered in gold or
; silver or in peasant colorings.
NOW ON GERMAN SOIL
I worried you will do so no longer.
‘I now add that your organs are
functioning well. Your heart beats
normally and your blood circulates
as it should. Your stomach, intes
tines, lungs, liver, kidneys and blad
der are all functioning properly.
“If up to the present time you
; have lacked confidence in yourself,
ihi distrust will disappear and give
place to confidence, based on this
force of incalculabe power which is
in each one of us.
“This sef-confidence is absolutely
necessary. When you wish to do
tome reasonable thing or when jou
j have to perform a duty, think always j
i that it is easy. Make the words
‘difficult’, ‘impossible’, ‘I cannot, dis-
I appear from your vocabulary.
“Say to yourself instead, ‘lt is
i easy and I can ’ By considering a
! thing easy, it becomes so for you, al
j though it might seem the reverie
for others. You will do it quicklv
i and well and without fatigue, be
| cause you have done it without
effort.”
Coue said all this and a good deal
I more in a monotonous but soothing
voice. It cradled us all into drowsi
ness from which we emerged only
when he counted, “One—two—
thi ee” and told us now to open our
eyes. Then he once more took up
his discourse, enlarging upon the
necessity of our repeating his fa
i mous formula:
“Tousles jours, a tour points de
j vue, je vais mieux en mieux.”
Which in English goes:
“Every day, in every way, I am
■ getting better and better.’
J Monsieur Coue-said that covered
i everything. Therefore he did not
i have to ask vs all cur symptoms.
' But the formula was more inclusive
i than that. It covered the physical,
j the mental and the moral side of
I things.
One more mechanical, formula.
When we had a pain, we should pass
I our hand rapidly over the aching
I pait, repeating quickly and for a
' large number of times the French
I wands, “Ca passe”—“it is going
away.’ And we would auto-suggest
the pain away.
TOMORROW—Coue finds Bronner
a Stubborn Patient.
'BAPTISTS HERE -
TOMSSWORK
Forty-Five Churches Os Friend
sh'p Association Meetjng In
Americus Today
There is being held at the Central
Baptist church today in Americus, a
meeting of all the Sunday school
workers, missionary societies, as
well as workers in every activity
of .the church within the bounds of
the Friendship Baptist association,
which is made up of forty-five
churches in -the -counties of Sumter,
Schley, Macon, Webster, Marion and
parts of Lee and Terrell.
The convention assembled at 10
o’clock this morning in the Central
Baptist church auditorium, and will
be in session just for the day.
Many interesting and entertain
ing features were on the program,
and speakers of note in the Baptist
deomination are here to attend this
meeting of the association.
Various matters, of church inter
est was discussed and many helpful
talks were maue by visiting minis
ters as well as laymen of Americus
and the visiting guests,
NO DEVELOPMENT
LN ‘REBELLION’ AT
ORPHANS’ HOME
Two Boys In Jail And Others Be
ing Sought For Part In
Escapade
OLDER GIRLS IN REVOLT
“Liquor Parly” Alleged—Chains
Used As Last Resort, Super
intendent States
MACON, Jar. 9.—Up to noon to
day there had been no further devel
opments in the alleged rebellion of
inmates in lh»* South Georgia Con
fer' nee Orphans Home, located here.
ARREST OF BOYS SOUGHT
BY SUPERINTENDENT
MACON, Jan. 9. (By Associated
Press.) —Two boys, J, D. Smith and
Ray Robinson, are held in Bibb coun
ty jail here on a charge of malicious
mist hies, and two other boys are
being sought on the same charge,
while three girls were placed in chains
at the South Georgia Methodist Con
ference orphans home here yester
day afternoon, following what Su
perintendent Smith termed an “in
cipient rebellion” among the older
girls at the orphanage.
The charge against the boys is that
they were trespassing on the grounds
! and broke five windows at the insti
-1 tution.
SUPERINTENDENT SMITH
MAKES A STATEMENT
MACON, Jan. 9.—ln order to quell
what he termed “an incipient rebel
ion” among the older grls at the.
South Georgia Conference Orphans
Home of the Methodist church, Rev.
J. D. Smith, superintendent of the in
stitution Monday placed three girls
in chains nnd swore out warrants
for four boys charging malicious mis
chef. The grls put n chains are;
Mattie Ella Reynolds, 18; Victoria
Davis,lß; and Pearl Lewis, a student
of Lanier High school, 16.
Rev. Mr. Smith last night said that
ho had resorted to the use of chains
because he had been unable to man
age the girls otherwise. Against his
orders, and without the consent of the
matron of their department, they
were with therfour boys against whom
warrants were taken Sunday night,
he said.
The girls were chained together
Monday afternoon when a reporter
visited the heme. A light well chain i
was employed. The three of them
were restricted to an area in the
back yard of one of the buildings.
They said last night that the chains
had not hurt them. Rev. Mr. Smith
released them when they agreed co
abide by the regulations of the or
phanaage.
It was the first time the superin
tendent had resorted to so drastic
methods, he said. He had repeatedly
warned the girls that they woir|d be ;
put in chains if they further violat- i
e the rules, de declared, and he had i
exhausted every appeal.
“Sunday night,” he said, “I drove i
to Wesleyan College to carry a
I preacher to church. I drove back
I and found the three girls out in front
!of one of the buildings. I ordered
i the girls upstairs and they were im-
I putent. The boys were also impu
’ dent. 'Shortly after the girls went
j upstairs I heard a crash in one of
■ the boys’ buildings and I rushed out.
iln the darkness I caught J. D.
Smith, who had formerly been at the
home. I was told that Ray Robinson
was with thim. I found five panes
had been knocked out of windows in
the older boys’ building. After things
quieted down, I drove to town and
attended church.
“Upon my return I found one of j
the girls in the hallway near my
apartment with a boy, another on the
back steps with her fellow an
other in the sitting room. The ma
tron had asked the boys to leave and
they had refused. She asked the
girls to go to their rooms and they
had refused. They were impudent to
her. The boys had slipped in. In
their car in front of the main build
ing, I found a quart of liquor.
“This morning, I tried to talk with
the girls, and they wouldn’t take me
seriously. They chided me for not
having carried into execution my
promise to put them in chains. I or
deied the chains put on them. It was
a light well chain, the kind com
monly used to stake cows out with.
They couldn’t hurt.”
PRICE'FIVE CENH
COMMISSION VOTE
PLACES GERMANS
AS DEFAULTER}
Coal Deliveries Short Os Amo:: 'i
Required Ev Trea’/' —Vote
Three To One
OCCUPY ESSEN THURSDAY
U. S. Scheme Has Not Been Act
ed Upon At Yet By Parts
Authorities
ESSEN Germany, Jan. 9—(By
Associated Press.) —The advance
of troops of the French army large
ly with technical equipment have
already reached the neighboring
town of Kettwig, 7 miles south
west of Essen, and the section be
tween Dusseldorf and Essen is
half covered with the French mil
itary .forces, according to private
advices.
GERMANS DECLARED
WILLFUL DEFAULTERS
BARIS, Jan. 9. (By Associated
Press.) —The Reparations commis
sion today voted Germany in willful
default in her coal deliveries.
The vote was three to one, Sir
John Bradbury, the British member,
casting a negative vote.
HUGHES REPARATIONS
PLAN BELIEVED REJECTED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—The plan
for settlement of the reparations con
troversy between France and En
gland, outlined by Secretary Hughes
in his New Haven speech, has been
communicated to the French govern
ment through official channels.
No final reply has been made by
Paris, although it was learned that a
preliminary answer had been re
ceived here from the French foreign
office. It was said at the state de
partment that the proposal was re
garded as still before the French
government for decision.
It was. not stated when the Amer
ican communication was sent, but in
dications .were that it was trans
mitted through «diplomatic channels
before Mr. Hughes delivered his
address at New Haven.
It was said authoritatively that the
transmittal was “perfectly definite”
in character, and it was indicated that
it revolved about the. suggestion that
international financiers be called in
to formulate a reparations payments
plan.
Official comment as to the nature
of the reply already received from
Paris was withheld. The statement
that the American suggestion still
was definitely before the French gov
ernment, however,"was interpreted to
mean that the French answer was
an unqualified, rejection of the whole
i scheme..
DECIDEWOR’S
CHOICE IN COURT
SAVANNAH, Jan. 9.—The courts
will have to determine who is to be
njayor of Savannah drying the next
two years. This became evident this
morning in the mayoralty election
when votes wer e cast for both Mur
ray M. Stewart, Democratic nomi
nee, and Paul E. Seabrook, inde
pendent, who failed to qualify,
whose petition in his behalf was de
clared insufficient.
S. E. Bayne, W. 0. Kinney and
Roe Stamps, members of the special
grand jury committee investigating
' orphanages, were at the orphanage
i when the girls were released. Bayne
said last night he regarded the pun
ishment an more humiliation than
anything else. He said he Sid not
i consider it cruel.
The three girls readily admitted
they had violated regulations of the
superintendent.
j Bishop W. N. Ainsworth, who is
! now in Macon, promised today to i.i-
I vestigate the affair, first informa
i tion of which was conveyed to him
, by a newspaper reporter.
Rev. Mr. Smith came to Macon a
month ago to take charge of the in
stitution, succeeding Rev. T. O.
Lambert. He was formerly president
of the South Georgia College for
Women, operated by the Methodist
conference.