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FORTY-FIFTH YEAR—NO. 135
EMINENT EXPERT SAYS
'BEWARE MOSQUITO:’
TELLS Ml DANGER
Dr. Arthur H. Flickwir Says
Mosquito Imperils Health of
Whole Communities
TRANSMITS FOUR DISEASES
Chain of Life of Malaria Germ
Is “Man to Mosquito and
Mosquito to Man”
EDITOR’S NOTE’ This i.
the first of two artilcles by an
acknowledged health expert on
the summer’s annual pest-—the
mosquito—and how it should be
flight. The second article will
be published tomorrow.
By ARTHUR H. FLICKWIR, M. D.
C|fcfc Health Officer ,Houston, Tex.
Tne mosquito imperils the gen
eral health of a community in a
great many ways. Even tohugh
a particular disease may not have
been caused by its bites, the illness
caused by the loss
swellings
Nf J| enough for any
* %. <f]§3 live municipality,
& county, state or
Hlbc .. jEw® Rovernment t o
% Ibis vemonous lit-
I)R. FLICKWIR
are transmitted solely by the mos
quito.
The first in importance in Amer
ica is malaria. This disease, which
is sometime spoken of as ague, or
chills and fever, exists in numer
ous parts of. the United States, but
more frequently in the South, due
to the numerous undrained lands
and to the mild climate.
Malaria is transmitted by the
female anopheles mosquito. These
mosquitoes .sometimes exist for a
time in a community with no ma
laria, but that is because no per
son with malaria organisms in his
blood (a malaria earner) has hap
pened to sojourn in those parts
Germ Is Cause.
Malaria is a disease due to a
g*¥rn which lives in the red blood
cells of man. The cKain of life of
the malaria germ is: “Man to
mosquito and thc-n again to man.”
The economic loss due to ma
laria alone in the Southern states
amounts to a huge sum, not only
from the loss of time among work
men, but for the amonut of money
expended for quinine ftnd chill ton
ics, let alone the deaths attributed
to this disease.
The next disease in order is yel
low fever. This plague in years
past has taken its toll by the hun
dreds and was dreaded more by
the people than most any other
malady. However, there has been
very little of it in the United
States in recent years and it is the
hope of health authorities that is
death knell will soon be sounded.
Yellow fever is transmitted by
the aedes calopus or stegomyia
mosquito. These mosquitoes exist
in our copntry and the only reas
on there is no yellow fever is be
cause* there are no carriers pf
yellow fever for them to bite.
Great Suffering.
Next in order in the mosquito
born diseases is dengue, or break
bone fever. This is carried by the
culex mosquito and also, as some
authorities believe, by the aedes,
or yellow fever, mosquito.
This disease recently visited the
Southern states and was very
rapid in its spread. While there
was not many deaths from den
gue, hundreds of people suffered
greatly for several days from its
visit and in some instances indus
trial plants could scarcely operate
owing to the number of afflicted
workmen.
Another disease due to the culex
mosquito is filanasls, which is the
infestation of the connective tis
sues, lymphatics and body cavities
of the human with long, slender
threat worms. This manifests it
self most perhaps in the form of
elephantiasis, or barbdoes leg, that
peculiar condition found in tropi
cal countries among the natives,
where the leg or some part of the
body will reach such an enormous
size that the patient is entirely in
canccitated.
Filariasis is not often found in
the United States, although occas
ional cases are seen.
Four diseases that can absolute
ly be prevented by well directed
labor and the expense of the la
bor is as nothing when compared
to the pain, misery, Ihss of life and !
economic loss caused by them. .War
should be immediateyl declared on j
all mosquitoes regardless of the |
breed or classification.
GUN CLUB TO SHOOT
THURSDAY AT 3 P. M.
The Americus Gun club will hold
a shoot Thursday afternoon at 3
o’clock at the club grounds on Elm
avenue. The range at the new club
site near Anglin’s tourists camp has
' been thoroughly prepared, and much
pleasure is expected to be afforded
members who join in the shoot.
REBELS ARE IN CONTROL AT PEKING
**** *** ****** *********** *****
New Treaties May Wnravel Whisky Tangle
MARITIME ROWERS 111
EFFORT T 8 ESCAPE
I). S, LiOB RULINGS
Department of State Initiates Ne
gotiations to End Existing
Situation Through Treaties
OFFICIALS FAVOR SCHEME
Rum Fleet to Be Broken Up
When Inconveniences to For
eign Ships Removed
WASHINGTON, June 13.—. I
nformal negotiations initiated by the
State Department with the various
nrqai it: ipe powers /contemplate |i!
solution on a reciprocal basis of
the ship liquor controversy andi
rum smuggling fleet problem
through the exercise of the .treaty
making power of the government.
American officials, it was reveal
ed, see in this method an oppor
tuinty to eliminate inconvenience
to foreign ships within the three
mile limit, due to prohibition en
forcement regulations, whilel at
same time the sovereign fleet of
rum smugglers off the American
coast may be broken up through
the extension by treaty agreement
of right of search for this specific
purpose up to the twelve mile limit.
missTarSms it
MEETING OF AGENTS
District Convention of Home
Economics Workers in Ses
sion Today at Vienna
Home demonstration agents of
the Macon district, comprising the
southwestern section and adjacent
counties, are gathered today in Vi
enna in convention of methods per
taining to state and county work.
Sessions are to be held in the ex
perimental laboratory of the Vienna
high school and fifteen home agents
are present.
Miss Lois Dowdle, of the State
College of Agriculture, is on the
program for the four days, and will
give daily lectures on the work be
ing done throughout the state by
home demonstration agents in their
counties.
Miss Rosa McGehee, general agent
of the Macon district, is also on
the program, and will have'charge
of the programs each day.
Sumter county will be represent
ed by Miss Bonnie Parkman, home
agent, who will have a full report of
the splendid work done in Sumter
county this year by the club girls
and the work of the home demon
stration work recently organized
among the women of the county.
Studies will be made of the new
est and most improved methods for
canning, preserving, pickling, these
to include fruits and vegetables, and
home-grown products.
During the absence of Miss Fark
man the women of the home demon
stration work will have charge of
her classes throughout the county,
they having perfected themselves in
this special branch of home service.
WILL CONSIDER SPECIAL
GRAVEL BASE FOR ROAD
CORDELE, June 13.—Chairman
John S. Sheppard of the county
board of commissioners announced
today after the routine work of
the monthly meeting of commis
sioners had been completed that
the board would be in special ses
sion Saturday for the purpose of
getting state highway regulations
on the special gravel base which it
is expected will be the first work
done in the paving of the National
highway.
MOBILE MAN BUYS
CORDELE OIL PLANT
CORDELE, June 13.—The Inde
pendent Oil company plant be
comes the property of the Palm Oil
and Supply company of Mobile un- i
der a sale which was consummated
today Mr. W. K, Hanley, of Mobile,
is the nurehaaer. W. T. Perry, of
Cordele is the new manager, and
the new plant is being re-opened.
! It will be operated as the Cordele
I Oil company. The former own-
I ors were Messrs. Edgar Fletcher,
' .1. W. Bivins, Jr., and Mr. Fletcher,
! Sr. .
SL ATON SAYS VOLSTEAD
LAW SHOULD BE CHANGED
NEW YORK, June 13—Former
Governor John M. Slaton, of Geor
gia, sailing abroad on a liner for
France today declared that undoubt
edly there would he a modification
of the Volstead act as it applies to
foreign boat... “In fact I feel we
should treat foreign ships in the
i same manner as we should want
them to treat us,” he said.
THE TIMES- RECORDER
U. S. CITIZENS; DEMANDING ACTION
CONDITIONS II CHI
REPORTED liSt NOW
THUN II ill YEARS
American Association in China
and Chamber of Commerce
Unites in Statement
SEND CABLE OF PROTEST
American Lives and Liberty Be
ing Endangered by Lack of
Strong Action Is Claimed
SHANGHAI, June 13.—(8y the
Associated Press.) —Conditions in
China is termed the “worst since
boxer outbreak” in a statement in
which the American Association of
China and the American Chamber
of Commerce of Shanghai is unit
ed.
The organization agreed that
“American lives and liberty a(re
endangered and their prestige in
business is being destroyed by lack
of strong action.”
A cable of protest was sent to
the secretary of state in Washing
ton.
It w%s charged that the Chinese
are continuing outrages against
foreigners, and that American ves
sels had been fired up up the
Yangtze river and the American
flag insulted. American gunboats
are said to be inadequate to pro
tect Americans.
SUNlfli GIRLS
ML ffil MONDAY
Gathering Will Be Held in Newly
Finished Room in Basement
of Courthouse
Sumter county’s home demon
stration clubs will be represented
in Americus Monday afternoon in
a called meeting at 2:30 o’clock in
the. recently finished home eco
nomics room in the basement of the
court house, Miss Bonnie Parkman,
Sumter’s home agent, announced
today.
Three representative women
from the five rural clubs will come
to organize a county council for
promotion of home demonstration
work throughout the county. The
council wil be organized for the
sole purpose of enlarging county
community work, in which much
enthusiasm ha*, been manifested
since the beginning of the home
economics clubs several months
ago.
At the meeting plans will be dis
cused whereby measures will be
taken to increase the membership
of the home demonstration clubs
throughout the county, to enlist
the interest of homemakers in can
ning, preserving, brt(admaking,
sewing, mililnery and other fea
tures of home economics.
' Delegates will be appointed
at Monday’s meeting to attend the
demonstration convention to be
held in Athens in July, when it is
expected a number of club women
from this county will attend.
The premium list will be drafted
at Monday’s meeting for home dem
onstration work which will be ex-
Monday afternon to represent
Sumter county at the state home
liibited in the fall county fair.
ROME MINISTERS WOULD
CLOSE ALL POOL ROOMS
ROME, PUNE, 13.—Endorse-’
ment of the Woodruff anti-pool
room bill has been given by the
Rome Ministerial association and
the state senator and representa
tives from Floyd county will be
asked to support the measure.
The association also discussed the
Vacation Bible school and heard
an address on that subject by the
Rev. W. W.. Carroll, who conduct
ed a school of that nature last
summer.
The anti-poll room bill proposes
to prohibit the operation of licen
sed pool rooms but not to inter
fere with pool and billard tables
used in clubs and homes without
profit.
TROOP 11 BOY SCOUTS
MEETS FRIDAY NIGHT
Troop II Boy Scouts will hold
regular meeting Friday night at
7 o’clock in the office of Scout
master R. P. Ewing.
Important matters will come be
fore the troop, and the s<jr,ibc.
urges all Scouts to be present
promptly at the h ur named.
Much gratification was manifest
ed over the meeting last week, the
attendance being good and the dis
cussions filled with resu’ls.
AMERICUS, GA., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. JUNE 13. 1923
FRENCH TO ENFORCE
DEATH PENALTY OH
ACCUSED ENGINEER
Director of Famous Aniline Soda
Works, Convicted of Sabot
age Must Die
CONFESSION IS ALLEGED
French Court-Martial Authorities
Impose Highest Penalties
On Convicted Official
MAYENCE, Juen 13.—(8y the
Associated Press) —The death pen
alty has been imposed by the
French courtmartial here upon the
German engineer, George of the
Baden Aniline Soda Works at
Ludwinkshafen, charged with sa->
Ijotage.
The French authorities say he
confessed.
IBelievelt Or
Not
VALDOSTA, June 13.—While
J. T. Johnson, a young grandson
of Mr. Jeptha Hughes, of Dupoin
was driving some cows to the
dipping vat a few days ago, the
boy stepped on a large rattle
snake. The reptile had a frog in
its mouth at the time or it would
have bitten the boy. The boy call
ed for help and the snake was j
killed. It had twelve rattles and
was quite a large one.
TEXioSiDEPIJE
NEW YORK STATE ACT
Effort to Pass Measure Com
mending Wet Law in That
State Decisively Defeated
AUSTIN, Tex., June 13—The
House of Representatives adopted
a resolution deploring the action of
the New York legislature in repeal
ing the prohibition act.
The vote was 60 to 29, while an
amendment seeking to commend the
New York legislature’s stand was
tabled 78 to 8.
»- - ,
H. V. CRUTCHER IS
ARRESTED FOR MURDER
W’AYCROSS, June 13—A war
rant charging murder of W. Tillman
Rodgers, young white man of Folks
ton, early Sunday morning at Bra
ganzia, was sworn out this morning
for H. V. Crutcher, quarter boss at
the lumber mill situated at that
place.
Crutcher is alleged to have done
the shooting from the dark which
resulted fatally for young Rodgers.
It was stated by county officers this
morning that Crutcher claims to
have fired twice while standing on
the sidewalk in front of his home,
but that both shots were fired up
ward.
WAYCROSS MASONS READY
ENTERTAIN DISTRICT MEET
WAYCROSS, June 13. —At a reg
ular communication of Waycross
Lodge No. 305, F. & A. M. held in
the lodge rooms Tuesday evening at
8 o’clock plans were launched for
of the district conven
tion which comes to Waycross July
\J and 141 for a two-day session, ac
cording to announcement made this
morning by Worshipful Master Joe
D. Mitchell. Mr. Mitchell says that
he hopeis to make the July conven
tion the most successful ever held in
the history of the district, and he
hopes that a full attendance will be
on hand at tonight’s meeting.
HIGHWAY OFFICIALS
REPORT WORK DONE
WAYCROSS, June 13.—Offi
cials of the state highway depart
ment here Tuesday, issued a sum
mary of the, work that has been
done in Ware and the surround
ing counties during the past month.
The-aggregate amount of expendi
tures for the entire division was
$6,046. Os this amount, $623 was
.expended on roads in Ware coun
ty, the most part of which was
spent in improving the Dixie high
way south of Waycross,
'CIVIL WAR RAGES IN
BULGARIA: FORMER
PREMIER IN FLIGHT
Stambouisky, on Horseback, Re
ported Seeking Refuge in
Balkan Mountains
TWO MINISTERS KILLED
Oboff and Duparinoff, Members
of Stambouisky’* Cabinet,
Shot by Revolutionaries
BELGRADE, June 13.—(8y the
Associated Press.) —Dispatches to
Jugo-Slav newspapers here today
report existence of a state of civil
war throughout the greater part of
Bulgaria. ,
Former Cabinet Ministers Oboff
and Duparinoff are said to have
been killed during an engagement
with revolutionary troops.
STAMPOULUSKY FLEEING
WITH LONE FRIEND.
SOFIA, June 13. (By the As
sociated Press.) —Former Premier 1
Stamboulisky, accompanied by a
lone friend, is reported this evening
to be fleeing on horseback throlagh
the mountains of Central Bulgaria
in the direction of the city of Pir
dop, pursued by a squadron of
revolutionary horsemen.
POWER EIINEEi ARE
BEFORE CITY COUNCIL
Project of West Florida Power
Company Would Supply
Thomasville and Others
THOMASVILLE, June 13.—The
city council held an informal ses
sion last night at which time Mr.
Mees, of Charlotte, N. C., went
fully into the details of the pro
ject of the West Florida Power
company. He explained the loca
tion of the project ten miles west
of Tallahassee on the Qchloeknee,
the style of the dam construction,
the water-storage and the amount
of fall and power capacity
could be generated there. The
dam will cause a pond of over five
thousand acres and covering a dis
tance of fifteen miles back toward
lamonia Lake and about a mile
wide at most of its distance.
The plant will generate about
five thousand horsepower or twelve
million kilowat hours per year. The
company is planning to get into
the construction game and with
that end have sought contracts
from the available municipalities
and industrial plants in connecting
distance. Tallahassee has signed
up with) the use of the steam plant
that Mees and Mees built at Talla
hasse as an auxiliary. Cairo has
‘signed and Quincy is being pre
sented the proposition now. De
velopments are planned to the west
with Attapulgus and several largo
industrial Fullers Earth plants are
ready to sign up.
WILL ENDEAVOR TO END
OFFICE OF TREASURER
MOULTRIE, June 13.—The of-
I fiee of county treasurer for Col
| quitt county will be abolished, if
j a local bill sponsored by Repre
sentatives Covington and Norman
l is passed by the coming session
of the general assembly. It is pro
posed to establish a depository’and
custodian for the county, funds.
In sponosring the measure the rep
resentatives are carrying out a
recommendation made by the grand
jury that served at the April term
of Superior court.
SECOND COTTON BLOOM
SENT IN FROM DESOTO
The feecond cotton bloom of the
season in Sumter was sent in to
Americus today by K. H. West,
a prominent farmer living at De-
Soto. The first >vas brought in
Tuesday afternoon by Clyde Webb,
of Sumter, as told in another col
umn in this issue. ,
DR. SCULLY ORDERS DOG
KILLED, 9 BULLETS USED
WAYCROSS, June 13.—Nine
bullets were requier* to stop a
mad dog said to have been owned
by Ed Hitch, well known insurance
representative of the city, yester
day, according to word received
| from reliable- sources in the police
j department. ' Policeman Leroy
! Smith acted on the advice of Dr.
jJ. R. Scully, city health officer,
! who received a call |rom Mrs. E.
| P. Peabody, stating ‘that the dog
was mad,
MEW YORK BROKERS
PLEAD GUILTY TO
BUCKETINGOFORDERS
Edward Fuller and Frank Mc-
Gee Admit Guilt Before
Court at New York
SWINDLED TENNESSEE MAN
Two Defendants, Following Plea
Are Remanded for Sentence
Friday
NEW YORK, June 13.—Edward
Fuller and Frank McGee, stock
brokers, who started in New York
a most sensational busketshop case,
pleaded guilty to the charge of
bucketing orders from Franklin
Ling, of Tennessee, and were re
manded for sentence Friday.
LIGHTNING BOLT
HITS WISE HOME
Pars of Ceiling of Porch, House
Boxing and Wiring
Destroyed in Flash
Tuesday afternoon between 4
and 5 o’clock lightning struck the
home of J. P. Wise, at Plains, do
ing considerable damage, but for
tunately no one was hurt.
The bolt struck during an elec
trical display which accompanied
a heavy rainstorm and tore 'oiff
the ceiling of the front porch and
a. quantity of boxing around the
roof. The electric wiring was also
disarranged, and the sitting
room where several members of
the family were gathered was fill
ed with smoke, but none of those
there were hurt in the least de
gree.
Thirty minutes later another bolt
struck a barn belonging to Mr.
Wise and located only a short dis
tance from~!he house. In the barn
was a quantity of feedstuff, in
cluding some newly harvested oats,
half a load of which was destroyed.
A fine mule quartered in the barn
was killed instantly. Plains fire
departm/ent assisted; In /hanging
the fire which caused damage es
timated at SIOO, except that caus
ed by the loss of the mule, which
was worth $250.
WILL LAW LEAVES
ATLANTA HOSPITAL
Friends in Americus have receiv
ed letters from William Law, who
underwent an o 'eration on his eye
in Atlanta this week, stating that
he passed through the ordeal suc
cessfully and has left the hospital.
Mr. Law says that it will be Tues
way before he can leave Atlanta,
but at that time he “intends to
catch the first thing smoking out of
Atlanta” for Americus.
A number of years ago, when Mr.
Law was an infant he was playing
on the floor near a fire and crawling
too close thereto, his clothing be
came ignited. He fell against the
blaze, burning his eye seriously,
completely disfiguring that side of
his face. The operation, it is said,
will restore his eye and face to
normal.
DEMONSTRATES TRUCK
GROWING IS PROFITABLE
MOULTRIe”Tune 13.—1L,-
Maire, Sr., who operates a truck
and vegetable farm two miles east
of Moultrie is doing a great deal
to demonstrate the latent possi
bilities of this section in growing
vegetables the year around. Mr.
Maire produce something like for
ty different vegetables during the
year, and he grows them “in sea
son and out of season.” He is now
selling an English cabbage that is
as fine as the world produces. Ke
is marketing a white rutabaga that
is as tender when cooked, lljoth
root and leaf, as the fall turnips.
It is a mild vegetable without the
loud flavor of the ordinary ruta
baga.
COLQUITT FARMERS MAY
SHIP CARLOAD OF BEANS
MOULTRIE, June 13.—County
Agent Stratford believes that Col
quitt county farmers can easily
ship a • car load of beans to mar
ket and is moving arrangements
to see if a car can be loaded at
early date. He points out that
500 people furnishing a bushel of
beans each could load a car, al
though 600 crates or hampers can
be loaded.
■IK
THE WEATHER
For Georgia Partly cloudy to
night and Thursday.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
LI YUAN HUNG FLEES
CHINESE CAPITAL ON
SPECIAL TO COAST
Chinese President Yields to Pres
sure of Militarism After Long
Resistance
MAKE SPECTACULAR DASH
Flight of President Leaves Pe
king With Neither Executive
Nor Cabinet
PEKING, June 13.—(8y the
Associated Press.) —Presidents Lj-
Yuan Hung, with a hostile army
of his own countrymen at the
gates of his capital, ready to enter
if he refused to vacate his
today yielded to pressure by mili
tarists and left for Tien Tsin on
a special train. General Feug Yu
Shiang, military inspector of the
metropolitan area, had threatened
to invade Peking unless President
Li-Yuan Hung left.
The president made a spectacular
dash for his residence to the rail
road. station in a motor car, and
the special, which had been made
ready for an emergency, pulled
out immediately. Only the vice'
minister of war and a handful of
faithful adherents waved good-bye
to the departing president, whose
flight left Peking not only without
a president, but without a cabinet
as well.
The entire cabinet resigned June
6, ostensibly because of a disagree
ment with President Li Yuan Hung
over the appointment of certain
petty officials, but in reality it
was said, beacuse of the finaricial
impasse faced by the government.
President Li-Yuan Hung had vain
ly endeavored to re-organize the
cabinet since that date.
oiirmis o i
COiG BAPTIST CHIP
Plains Pastor Believs Many Will
Be Here to Attend Friend
ship Association Meeting
Rev. J. E. O’Quinn, pastor of
the Baptits church at Plains, was a
visitor in Americus today and
while here was busy arranging
some of the details of the> big en
campment which members of
Friendship assoication will hold at
Myrtle Sprnigs, beginning July 2.
Mr. O’Quinn is chairman of camp
activities and expressed the belief
that the encampment will be one
of the most successful affairs in
the history of the association.
“It looks as though we will have
everything we need,” said Mr.
O'Quinn, “the Southern Cotton Oil
company has given us all the lard,
Wesson oil and peanut butter we
can use, and will also have Miss
Whitfield, who is said to be the
best dietetian and domestic econo
mist in the South to direet the
cooking. She will give five lessons
in domestic science and home eco
nomics during thei encampment.
“The Smith Grocery company
has donated flour and we are ex
pecting other dealers to furnish
teas, coffees and many other ar
ticles to help out in this gigantic
undertaking. It all comes in ans
wer to prayer. What a great privi
lege it will be for our religious
workers to have a week of outing
religious training. It is of God 9
it off. If it is His will it will go
gloriously over,
ly over.
I want some of our country
friends to give us 'some country
meat, and some meal, and then I
want every Baptist who can pos
sibly be there to come, and let’s
m;ike it the greatest week the
Friendship has ever had.
“Next Sunday is booster day in
all the chruches. I want some to
deliver a four-mintite address on
the encampment in every church
that day and send in a list of your
delegates at once to Mrs. Cars
well.
DOUGHERTY FARMERS SF.E
FLORIDA METHOD TRIED
ALBANY, June 13—About thir
ty-five farmers saw a demonstration .
of the Florida method or boll wee
vil control on the farm of T. E. Min
hinnett Monday morning. Ail
squares were picked from the cotton
and home-made sweet poison 'ap
plied to the buds. A check plot was
left in order that the results may be
accurately checked.
FINE MULE KILLED
DURING ELECTRIC STORM
During an electrical storm at
Plains Tuesday afternoon lightning
struck the barn belonging to J. p.
Wise, killing a fine mule quartered
therein. C. W. Law, of the Texas
Oil Company, who travels out of
Americus was passing the scene at
the time and assisted in extinguish
ing the blaze, using the Pyrene ex
tinguishers with which his truck ia
equipped.