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FORTY-FIFTH YEAR.—NO. 56
What’s Going
on in the
World
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Europe looks very much like get
ting back to the conditions which
led up to the World War.
Primarily the last great conflict
was between Ger-
many and England.
It may not seem so
after the fact, be
cause so many oth
er issues were
dragged in. But
every close student
>f the situation
could see what was
coming eight'or ten
years before it hap
pened.
It was evident that
Germany was deter-
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mined to grow and that England was
determined to prevent her from
growing, because she could grow only
at England’s expense.
Nobody foresaw that America
would be drawn into the struggle,
but plenty of people foresaw that
1 rance argl Russia and Italy and the
Balkan nations and, of course Aus
tria-Hungary would.
True, a great many who saw per
fectly well what the tendency was,
didn’t believe there actually would
be a war. They thought civilization
had progressed too far for such a
thing to be possible. But they were
aware that England’s race to keep
ahead and Germany’s to catch up
were leading logically, in that direct
tion.
Well, it’s the same today, except
that, now, instead of being England
and Germany, it’s England and
France.
THEIR INTERESTS CONFLICTS
Their interests conflict. Nothing
could be worse. A quarrel can be
patched up, but a conflict of inter
ests can’t.
The friction between England and
France isn’t very serious yet, but 'f
things go on as at present, it will get
more .and more so. Probably it will
be ten or twenty years before the
sparks begin to fly. But sooner or
later they will*
Os course this is assuming that
France goes ahead with he r policy
of today and that it works.
Nothing could be clearer than that
she aims to expand, and nothing can
be more certain that, if she succeds
in doing it, she wil lhave England
to reckon with.
ARMED REVOLT IN GERMANY
French propgandists have been
circulating the story lately that the
Germans are getting ready for an
armed uprising in the Ruhr.
No doubt it’s true there’s a good
deal of restlessness there, but the
French have too obvious a reason to
exaggerate for their accounts to be
taken without a liberal quantity of
salt—they want an excuse for tight
ening their grip.
Most of the International’political
authorities are predicting some sort
of a settlement of the Ruhr contro
versy before long, but it looks more
every day as if the Fdench meant to
hang on for good. There may be so
called mediation, yes, France, how
ever, as the plot works itself out,
doesn’t appear, quite so much as she
did at first, To have gone off at half
cock when she seized this German
territory. If she had some well-laid
plan in mind at the time, it isn t like
ly that any conference of outsiders
will persuade her to give it up.
FRENCH EXPANSION POLICY
For that matter,' French and Ger
man “big business” show signs of
getting closer together than they
were. ,
There was quite awhile that Ger
many, in a business way, was so much
more friendly with the English than
the French as to upset the latter.
Wijs the Ruhr enterprise intended,
among other things, as a hint to the
Germans that they’d got to tie up
with France, whether they liked it or
not? And are the Germans beginning
to do it, like cold-blooded business
men who don’t let sentimental con
siderations weigh with them for long
against hard facts?
Indications point that way.
Also all accounts agree that France
is likely to recognize the revo
lutionary government of Russia soon
with which, by the way, England I’s’ni
as friendly as she was. French in
fluence?
At any rate, it’s certain that
France is doing everything she knows
how to strengthen herself, politically
tinental Europe, as fast as she can.
and commercially throughout con-
NEW ALIGNMENT GLIMPSED
The queerest feature of the whole
thing, just at the moment, is that
there’s an underlying sense of better
relations between France and Ger
many .despite the former’s invasion
of the latter’s soil, and in spite also
of the supposedly threatened Ger
man rising against the French, than
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NEGRO CONVICT SLAYS 5 IN TENN.
H 'fl MWEHTS
WIL' COME WITNIII
■S TREATY LIMITS
Minister Os Marine Sends Bill To
Chamber Os Deputies For
Consideration
HELPS FRENCH TO RATIFY
Says Measure Conceived Within
Framework of Washington
Accords
PARIS, March B.—(By Associated
Press.) —The Government’s naval
program was introduced in the
chamber of deputies today by Minis
ter of Marine Raiberti, with the re
mark that the program “was con
ceived within the framework of the
' Washington accords, so that the
French government cannot give
stronger proof of its intention to
obtain their ratification.”
NEW TELLS WE
WILL RUN HIS JOB
Will Make No Promises; Would
Ba Judged By Perform
ances’ Only
By HARRY HUNT
WASHINGTON, March E\ —Per-
formances, not promises, must form
the basis for the public’s judgment
of the administration of the Post
' office Department under it’s new
! chief, Harry S. New.
‘l’m not making a promise” New
said as he squared away for his new
I job as boss of 339,000 postal em
ployes and head of the biggest busi
ness organization in the world.
“I have no plans for any camp- j
aigns, reorganizations or stunts.
. “I am going into a job, of which :
I have only a theoretical knowledge,
I with only one idea—to administer,
| the affairs of the Posto....ice Depart
ment in a business way to the best
of my ability.
“If I make a success of it, the pub
lic will find it out.
“If I make a failure oi it, the pub
lic will soon make me find it out.
“So far as know, I am taking over
the department at a time when it ’s
functioning in good shape.
“How about the recommendation
of Postmaster General Work, made
in retiring, that postmasters and oth
er appointees be taken form civil ser
vice and political patronage and their
selection handled directly by the de
partment on a business basis?” I
asked.
“Not a word—-not a word!” New
answered, apparently seeing a lead
to the subject of patronage general
ly-
In political circles it has been cur
rently stated that New’s apopint
ment was a direct move by the presi
| dent to put into the office a man who
would use it to strengthen the admin
istration’s political organization for
the battle of 1924. But on all ap
proaches to that subject the new
postmaster general had but one an
swer.
“Not a word!”
LOCAL LEGION POST
TO GIVE ENTERTAINMENT
John D. Mathis Post, American Le
gion band, will make it first pub
| lie appearance this evening in front
|of the W’indsor hotel, when a con-
I cert will be given at 7:30 o'clock.
Practice has been conducted for ,
| the past four weeks under the direc
' tion of Prof. W. R. Ross, of Cor
' dele, who comes twice each week to
I instruct. The band, which was or
ganized a month ago, has made rapid
advancement, and while the members
do not.claim to be finished-musicians,
the Legion boys believe they will
be able to give Americus that which
it has long needed, a local band.
The personnel of the band is com-
I posed of about 20 of the post’s best I
I musicians, and the concert this eve
| ning is for the purpose of showing
appreciation to residents here who
i have given assistance toward promot
ing the work. It is asked by the
members that the citizens attend
the concert, this evening, not with a
view of criticizing the performance,
but to encourage the co-operation
and friendly interest.
Before cutting freshly baked
bread dip the knife in boiling water.
You will not tear the loaf or have
uneven, jagged crusts.
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Detective Agency Employed To
Hunt Mine Labor For French
Gives Up Hope
NEW YORK, March B.—-Harry V.
Dougherty, member of a detective
agehey which specializes in furnish
ing labor to industrial concerns, has
given up hope of helping France ex- ;
ploit the coal mines of Ruhr through j
the medium of American negroes.
IME TERRITORY
PLANT MORE COTTON
Work Is Now Well Under Way
—Expect 20,000 Bales This
Season
MOULTRIE, March B.—Work of
planting cotton seed in the Moultrie
territory is well under way this week.
In fact it is stated that a number of
growers have planted their entire
crop, and that the work will be fin
ished generally by March 15. The
weather has been unusually warm for ;
several days and the cotton crop is
expected to get off to the earliest
start ever known in this section.
Not only are the seed being put in
the ground earlier than usual, but
quick maturing varieties, as a rule,
are being planted. The cotton pick
ing season should open during the
first few days of July. Experience
| extending over a period of several
years has convinced cotton men that!
I the crop must be made before the j
' rain season which usually sets in dur- ;
I ing July and extends well up into
I August. Under such conditions prae-
I tically nothing can be done to combat
the ravages of the boll weevil.
While there has been no lessening
lof efforts given to dairying and the
livestock industry, Colquitt farmers
expect to produce at least 20,000
bales of cotton in 1923 against 12,-
250 last year. It also is planned to
do it on the sqme acreage given the
crop last season. Greater activity’in
fighting the weevil is certain. More
■ and higher grade fertilizers also are
being used with a view of hurrying
; the cotton to maturity.
ORGANIZE SPORTSMEN’S CLUB. |
WAYCROSS, March B.—The first:
meeting of the newly organized Way
cross Sportsmen’s club was held at I
10:30 o’clock this morning at the
courthouse. The club has for its pur-1
pose the protection of the game laws i
in Ware county and will be open to
all lovers of the gun and bag, or the
rod and reel, in the county. J. Y.
| Youmans, game and fish warden, is
behind-the movement, and has already
secured a larga number of members
for the organization.
AMERICUS, GA.. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 8. 1923
GEN. SHERMAN'ms
SOUTHERN EfIOEATDF
Preparing For*U. C. V. Reunion
In April Brings This To
Light
BATON ROUGE, La.; March 8—
Launching of preparations for the
annual reunion of the United Con
federate Veterans to be held in New
j Orleans in April as recalled to Lou
jisiana historians an interesting fact
|in connection with one of the out-
I standing figures of the Civil War
which is known to few persons of
the present generation.
General William Tecumseh Sher
man, who headed the “march to the
sea” through Georgia, resigned as
head of a Southern educational in
stitution in 1861 to tender his serv
ices to Ohio, his native state.
There hangs in Garig Hall, at
Louisiana State University here, an
oil painting of General Sherman, who
was first superintendent of the old
Louisiana State Seminary, at Alex
andria. The Seminary was burned
in 1869, was re-located in Baton
Rouge and became Louisana State.
General Sherman, who graduated at
West Point, attained the rank of
colonel in the army, resigned his
i commission, and was elected super
intendent of the Seminary in 1859.
A member of the faculty of the i
Senimanry was Colonel Samuel H. j
Lockett, commandant of cadets, who
graduated second in the class of
1859 at West Point. Colonel Lock
ett was an artist of note and the
portrait of General Sherman now in
Garig Hall was painted by him at
Alexandria. Colonel Lockett, inci
dentally, enlisted in the service of
! the Confederacy at the outbreak of
I the war and as chief engineer with
'the troops at Vicksburg planned the
fortifications at that point which
withstood for many months the siege
of the Federal forces under
Gl The portrait of General Sherman
hung over the mantel in the library
of the Seminary at Alexandria and
when the building burned it was car
ried to safety by the cadets.
TWO STILLS CONFIFSCATED
BY OFFICERS AT DOUGLAS
DOUGLAS, March 8. —Prohibition
Agents J. A. Moore and Jim Land,
accompanied by Sheriff W. S. Wig
gins, Tuesday captured two stills m
1 Coffee county. The first was on the
old Bud Tanner place, being operat
ed by Dave Wright, Mrs. Zissie
• Rollins, and a negro by the name of
I Charley Hagan, all of whom were ar-
J rested and placed in jail with other
I suspects who may be arrested in a
day or two. TLe still, a quantity o’
buck and three gallons of ’shine were
destroyed.
On Brad Adams’ place near Fales,
another still and a lot of beer were
destroyed, but no arrests were made
as this still was not in operation.
OECLJHE THACTDRS
USED CRUSH BODIES
Pathologists Report Identity Os
Method Used In Killing
Daniel and Richard
j BASTROP, La., March B. (By
the Associated Press.) Persons
who have examined carefully the
report of pathologists on the condi
tion of the mutilated bodies of Watt
Daniel and T. F. Richard, found in
Lake LaFourche last December and
who are familiar with mechanical
devices, declare they believe they
identified a so-called torture machine
as one of the many road or farm
tractors in use throughout the par
ish.
The bodies of the two men when
found were crushed and broken in a
methodical manner.
Authorities have received numer
ous anonymous letters from planta
tion owners and farmers of the state
suggesting a tractor must have been
used, and arguments to sultain the
theory are similar to those advanced
here. Experiments with tractors
have been made recently and it has
been determined that a certain type
would crush a body same as those of
Daniel and Richard were mutilated.
FEDERAL JOB
TG HEAD OIL COMPANY
WASHINGTON, March B.—C. H.
Haston, of Tennessee, assistant sec
retary of commerce, is expected to
resign in the near future to accept
the presidency pf the World Com
merce corporation, a new oil com
pany now being organized in New
York and Pittsburg for the purpose
of acquiring control of oil lands in
Venezuela and Central America, and
establish a shipping service to mar
ket the product.
imH KETSG
BEN HUR KNIGHTS
The Ben Hur Palace No. 4 of the
Knights of Oriental Splendor will
meet tonight at 7 o’clock at the
Temple. It is urged and requested
that all members be present as mat
ters of supreme importance will come
before the order.
WILLIAMS ENTOMOLOGIST
ATLANTA, March B—lra W. Wil
liams, who has been general field
agent of the Bureau of Entomology,
State Department cf Agriculture,
was elected state entomologist yes
terday at a called meeting of the
Board of Entomology. Mr. Williams
succeeds M. V. Reed, recently ie
signed. ——j. —
TRISP DAWSON KIWUHIS
LUNCH GUEST TODAY
Congressmen Will Confer With
Residents There Regarding
Public Building Plans
Representative Charles R. Crisp
who is spending his vacation at home
in Americus, went over to Dawson
this morning for a visit of a day. La
ter he plans to visit many parts < f
the district, where he will meet resi
dents and discuss with them various
questions of interest in this section.
At noon today, Judge Crisp was
honor guest at the Dawson Kiwanis
club luncheon, and discussed with the
members Dawson’s new postoffice
building, for the erection of which
congress has already appropriated
$55,000. From information at hand,
it appears the postoffice department
has, been unable to get a bid within
the sum appropriated for the Daw
son structure, and it will now be nec
essary to alter the orginal plans In
order to secure the buildng without
prolonged delay.
Judge Crisp has recently been at
work to secure a change of plans and
has been given the promise of the
department that these will be chang
ed, so as to bring the expenditure
within the sum appropriated. Today
he is conferring with Dawson people,
ascertaining their wishes in the mat
ter. As soon as possble now he will
again take up the matter with the de
partment, and it is hoped the new
plans will be drawn and bids asked
for erection of the structure before
next fall. Judge Crisp will return
here tonight.
HAWKINSWLLESCENE
Os FATAL SHOOTING
Mill Operative Kills Jerry Perdue,
Claiming Self-Defense—Vic
tim Carried No Weapon
HAWKINSVILLE, March B.—Jer
ry Perdue, well known here is dead,
and D. D .Wood, an employee of the
Henry Cotton mills is in jail charged
with the shooting.
Perdue was shot last night on the
street.
Wood declared he shot in'self-de
fense.
Officers say they found no gun
on Perdue.
TWO DIVORCE SUITS
ARE FILED IN MACON
MACON, March B.—Mrs. Verna
Louise Johnson McGinnis, in a-peti
--0.. for divorce filed yesterday
against her husband, T. H. McGin
nis, charged that she had been fool
ed in the belief that her husband
was healthy when she married him,
but after the marrige she discovered
that he was a consumptive. The
petition stated they were married
December 4, 1922, and she left him
December 24, 1922. Her husband
had been discharged from the army
on account of his lung trouble, the
petition stated. The su.t was filed
to the July term of Superior court.
Another petition was that of Har
rison Johnson, former city treasurer,
who yesterday filed suit for divorce
against his wife, Mrs. Caroline Woo
ten Johnson, and sought custody of
their two children, who, the petition
stated, are now with their mother in
Los Angeles, Cal. One child is 6
and the other 10. The petition stat
ed the couple were married in 1907,
and that in 1919 Mrs. Johnson, with
out cause or provocation, deserted
him.
GOOD MONEY FROM COLLARDS
BAINBRIDGE, March B.—H. R.
Hall, who has averaged S6O a month
on the 6,000 collard plants he put
out last September, is now planting
seeds for the early summer vegeta
bles. Mr. Hall has used vacant lots
in his neighborhood for gardens,
letting‘the use of vegetables off-set |
rent. This arrangement has kept I
vacant lots free of weeds and saved j
the owners about sl2 a year—the
estimate of expense if property is
kept up within city requirements.
COMMERCE BODY BANQUET
ROCHELLE, March 8. The Ro
chelle Chamber of Commerce will
have a barbecue this evening. This
is a calling together of the citizenry
of Rochelle and adjoining communi
ties for the purpose of formulating
plans to make Rochelle a better town
and Wilcox a better county. Post
master W. A. Adams, of Fitzgerald,
will be asked to speak on this occas
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WEATHER
For Georgia Fair tonight and
Friday; little change in temperature.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
I SB NASION S FAMILY
WCTIK KILD SHOTS
■ FROM DEMN S PISTOL
, Negro Had Been Paroled And
Was Staying In Communiiy
Temporarily
MOTHER SERIOUSLY ILL
Family Were Up With Her
—Woman Died Early
Todav
NASHVILLE, Tenn., March B.
Sam Haston, a brother of the secre
tary of State of Tennessee, his
mother,' sister and Tullus Trogden, a
boy living on the Haston place, to
gether with a fifth man whose name is
unknown here, were shot at the fam
ily home, 3 miles from Spencer ear
ly this morning by Lewis Douglas, a
paroled negro convict, who escaped
after the shooting. The cause of the
negro’s attack upon the/ Haston fam
ily is unknown.
It is understood that ail of the
members of the Haston family were
sitting up with Mrs. Sam Haston, who
was seriously sick, and who died at 9
o’clock this morning, when the shoot
ing began.
PRESBYTERIAN WOMEN
GUESTS O£CORDELT
Church Auxiliary Workers of
Ameicus Gave Fine Program
Monday Afternoon
Organization of a Woman’s Auxil
iary in the Cordele Presbyterian
church was the occasion of a splendid
program given in that city Monday
afternoon by the Woman’s Auxiliary
of the Americus Presbyterian church
Mrs. Seeman, president of the ta?*
dies Aid Society of the , Cordele
church, welcomed the Americus wo
men, receiving them in the Sunday
school rooms where sandwiches and
coffee were served immediately upon
the arrival of the visiting auxiliary.
The Americus women outlined the
work of the auxiliary here, giving
as the topic Southern Presbyterian
Missions in China, the subject being
“North Kiang Su Mission.”
Mrs. A. C. Crockett, president of
the local auxiliary, presided at the
meeting, and responded to the wel
come of the Cordele Auxiliary.
Mrs. George Duncan gave an in
teresting paper on “Work in Tsing
kiangtu,” followed by a talk by Mrs.
Fred Arthur on “China’s Present
Needs.”
Miss Marie Walker read “The
Ninety and Nine,” and Mrs. Albert
Harris gave the life story of Mrs.
Chow.
Mrs. Howell Elam and Mrs. Dan
O’Connell sang together “All of Self
and None of Thee,” which concluded
the program.
Mrs. Crockett outlined the work
done by the auxiliary in Americus,
and an open discussion of methods
and programs followed, during which
ideas were exchanged.
The auxiliary at Cordele now
numbers about 20 earnest women
working for the advancement of
Christian methods in their communi
ty and chtirch, as well as for exten
sion of mission work in foreign fields.
Participating in the exercises of
organization were Mrs. A. C. Crock
ett, president of the axuiliary here;
Mrs. S. H. Young, Mrs. Louise Fain,
Mrs. Charles Bostwick, Mrs. John
Goff? Mrs. Durelle Graham, Mrs.
Howell Elam, Mrs. George Duncan,
Mrs. Cobb Milner, Mrs. Linnie
Brown, Mrs. E. C. Bland, Miss Ma
rie Walker, Mrs. Charles Burke, Mrs.
W. E. Estes, Mrs. Fred Arthur, Mrs.
Frank Ledbetter, Miss Edith Nelson,
Mrs. J. T. Stukes, Mrs. C. P. Davis,
Mrs. Albert Harris and Mrsj, Dan
O’Connell.
—
E A. PORTER NOW
WITH CHURCHCWELL’S
E. A. Porter, fo r some time con
nected with Churchwell’s store in
Corcdele, has been added to the lo
cal force of the Americus store,
where he will occupy the position of
general salesman.
Mr. Porter has already assumed
his duties here. He comes highly
recommended, and will contribute to
the efficiency already maintained in
the local store in this city.
Dip slices of mush infto white of
egg before frying and they will be
crisp and brown——just as you like
them, Ijfci