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FORTY-FIFTH YEAR—NO. 161
BARRET FAILURE ANNOUNCED ATNEWYORK
Early Peace In Near East Region Is Now Certain
SOVIET PLffl AffIEES
TO ACCEPT TBEffl
TO CONTROL SIMS
Near East Conference Notified
Protocol Will Be Signed at
Constantinople
TO ACT WITHIN 3 WEEKS
Covenant Negotiated at Lau
* sanne to Be Finally Conclud
ed With Interested Powers
LAUSANNE, July 20. (By As
sociated Press) —-Soviet Russia no
tified the Near East conference to
day that she accepts the convention
for the control of the Turkish
straits negotiated here and that she
will sign the protocol at Constan
tinople within the next three weeks.
BRITISH NOTE TO z
GERMANY IS DELAYED.
LONDON, July 20. (By Asso
ciated Press.)- —Lord Curzon is ex
periencing more dificulty in tbc
preparation of his note to Germany,
than had been expected. It is now
reported that the note and the cov
ering letter may not be dispatched
to the Allies until next week, but'
whether the trouble . has arisen
from political fritcion within the
cabinet, as alleged in some qquar
ters, or simply from the inherrent
difficulty of framing a reply to
Germany which would not offend
France, is not evident.
It is not believed though nothing
irig is known officially that Curzons
making the greatest efforts to find
away of compromise on the ques
tion of passive resistance in the
Ruhr. He has had conversations
with the German ambassador, the
latest of which was yesterday,
probably with the idea of finding
how far the German government
might be willing to recede from
its support of the passive resistance
movement, provided France could
be induced to revert to merely civ
il occupation of the Duhr. This
question is considered to present
far greater idfficulty than the
question of assessing Germany’s
capacity to pay as it is a point on
which neither the French nor the
German government is disposed to
yield, and if some method could be
discovered to save the faces of the
two governments, it is believed
that the financial points could be
cleared up with less difficulty
After Thursday’s long cabinet
council the foreign secretary had a
separate conference with Premier
Baldwin. This conference, which
was at Downing street, prevented
Lord Cifrzon from seeing Count
De Saint-Aulaire, the French am
bassador, who called at the foreign
offi-e pile conversation was
proceeding.
Believe It Or
Not
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., July
20.—Hundreds of fish ranging in
size from four to six inches long
fell on the golf’links of the St. Pe
tersburg Country Club at Pasadena
Wednesday afternoon when a wa
terspout estimated to have been
more than a mile high broke on the
eastern shore of Boca Ceiga Bay.
Two local fish companies sent
out trucks to bring in the fish but
it was found they were too small.
The majority were mullet, although
a few small trout and blue fish
were picked up.
During an electrical storm last
ing 20 minutes, four big* water
spouts were seen, three in the Bo
ca Ceiga Bay and one in the gulf.
VALDOSTAfi July 20.—About a'
year ago W. L. Hornbuckle sent
$45 in a special delivery letter to
Mrs. Hornbuckle, who was at Jack
sonville at the time. The letter
and money did not reach her, caus
ing both Mr. and Mrs. Hornbuckle
to wonder what became of it. Noth
ing was heard from it until Sunday,
though Mr. Kornbuekle had inquir
ed of the postal authorities about
it two or three times. Yesterday
he received a voucher from the
post office department for the
amount. It is said thata posta?'
clerk in the office at Jacksonville
had been geonvicted oi stealing
valuable parcels and the Horn
buckle letter and its ,$45 were
among his pilferings.
Statistics show hat the favorite
marriage age is 24 for men and 21
for women in England,
COMMISSIONIORDERS LOWER RATES MADE
Vigorous Protest Made
By C. of C. Directors
FINE SCHOOL PUNT
HOT TO BE JUNKED
IfMMHELP
Frank Lanier Emphatic in Posi
tion That School Needed by
Boys and Girls of District
PLANT IS WORTH $l6O 000
More Dormitory Room Needed
to Care for Additional Stu
dents, Says Prance
■ A vigorous protest was unani
mously voiced by the board of di
rectors of the chamber of com
merce this morning regarding the
■ proposed abolishment of the dis
trict agricultural school of the
state.
A bill to abolish all twelve of
the district agricultural schools in
Georgia was introduced in the
house of Representative Thursday
by Representative Harris, of Jef
ferson and Wimberly, of Twiggs.
There l is< no agricultural district
school located in either of the coun
ties they 'represent.
The authors of the measure pro
pose to introduce further legisla
tion to use funds approximately
$250,000 annually now appropriat
ed to these schools to meet require
ments of the Smith-Hughes voca
tional education act for the purpose
of placing an instructor in agri
culture in every high school in the
state.
Present and voting at the meet
ing were C. A. Ames, C. J. Clark,
Frank Lanier, Edgar Shipp, John
Shivers, W. A. Joyner, E. B. Ev
erett,
Frank Lanier, one of the trus
tees of the school located at Amer
icus was emphatic in his opinion
that the work of the schools was
needed and that the plan proposed
as a substitute- would not prove
. successful.
The school here, Mr. Lanier stat
ed, has been run at full dormitory
capacitv. except for one year of the
war. He stated that the state had
a nlant here worth $200,000 against
which there is a debt not exceed
ing $27,500.
‘This year we have asked for an
appropriation of $21,000.,” Said
Mr. Lanier, “$1 1,000 to cancel some
of the indebtedness of the school;
SIO,OOO to purchase and install a
beating nlant in the auditorium an*
: buy chairs and other small equip
ment.
“As it now stand-, wo have a
I building costing 8100,00 that is use
less part of the year because we
! can not heat it. The school is
■ functioning to its fullest dormitory
i capacity. We can secure more stu
i dents when we have building in
| which io house and teacti i.-eni.’'
John Prance, principle of the
I school stated that the school was
' needed—badly need—in the dis
i tr|ct. “We. give the students
■ board at $12.00 and the entrance
fee $7:50.” Mr. Prance confirmed
I the statement that more students
could be cured for if there was
imore dormitory space.
“That* is a step backward, a
step that will throw us 50 years
I behind,” declared Directors . A.
The directors called on the
Ames and C. J. Clark.
' county conhnissioners, the mayor
and council and the civic clubs >
I enter vigorous protest against the
Harris-Wimberly bill, and the fol-
■ lowing resolutions were offered by
Mr. Lanier an unanimously passed:
“Whereas, a bill has been mhtro
duccd in the Georgia legislature to
abolish the twelve district agrieul
i tural schools in Georgia, one of i
I which is located in this county and I
I “Whe’reas, we the directors of the j
i Americus and Sumter .County
I Chamber of Commerce, having per
sonal knowledge of the benefits se-.
■cured bv the students in the college* I
' located in this district, are unalter- j
i ably opposed to its abolshiment and '
hereby enter our most vigorous pro- i
I tost, for the following reasons:
“First, we do not believe the
I State of Georgia would be. acting j
•in good faith with the county v.
■Sumter and the city of Americus,
with the abolishment of the Third ,
■district schorl, because the 'and cn
i which said school is located $30.-!
i 000 in buildings were d elated to
! the State bv this city and county.
; “Second after consultation with
I those competent to nass judgment,
vv* do not believe that instruction
1 (Continue don Page Iwo.)
THE TH®SBRECORDER
PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE
EIITEEII GIRLS IT
TKW n®
More Than a Hundred Standard
Pack Jars Are Filled at
Pleasant Grove
Fifteen girls, twelve from Pleas
ant Grove, three from New Era
' community, attended the thre-day
I short course jtist ended at Pleas
ant Grove school house.. The
course was conducted by Miss Bon
nie Parkman, who described it to
day as a great success.
“There was much commendable
enthusiasm among the girls attend
ing,” said Miss Parkman, “and a
feature that was particularly pleas
ing to me was the interest mani
fested by the women of the
Home Economics Council. Among
the members of the organization
who attended the exhibition at' the
conclusion of the course were Mrs.
Jesse Chambliss, Mrs. Will Cham
bliss, Mrs* W. H. Houston, Mrs.
Will Horn, Mrs. J. T. Methvin, Mrs.
W. Bailey Philips and others.
“The girls during the course put
up a total of 133 jars, all standard
pack club work packages, and beau
tiful as well as delicious. These
jars contain principally peaches and
tomatoes. Os the tomato products
we canned tomatoes covered with
prune sauce, chili sauce and green
tomato catsup, and the peaches
there were packed canned peaches,
peach pickle, peach marm&lade and
peach conserve. Many of these jars
will be placed on exhibition at the
county fair to be held in Americus
this fall, and all were shown at the
community exhibition made in the
school auditorium at .the conclu
sion of the course.
“Among the visitors at this exhi
bition were the loyal trustees of
Plfasant Grove school, who were
given a hearty welcome by the club
girls. These officials were guests
of the girls during a brief program
rendered for the entertainment of
the visitors, and at the conclusion
of the exhibit of products several
peppy yells were given by the as
semblage in honor of the trustees
and other visitors.”
MB THIS IS
wWEOPoima
WASHINGTON, J|ly 20—The
consensus of political opinion here
is that President Harding’s speech
es on his Western trip have as
sured him a renomination, and fur
ther that they have to a large ex
tent outlined ,the .next Repubhi-'
can platform. This opinion neces
sarily carries with the implication
that. the President’s trio was a po
litical speech-making tour and his
speeches bids for votes.
If this consensus of opinion is
sound, the President is placed, in
the very position he said he would
not be placed in. It will be re
called that he declared before
starting on his trip that, if the
journey was to be construed as a
political tour he would rather stay
at home and play with Laddie Boy.
He declared that he was going to
talk to the American people as the
President of the whole people and
doubtless, he meant it a: the time.
But when his speeches were writ
ten it will be recr»i;e'i that they
were Submitted ‘o a number of the
practical politicians of his party
who are said to have approved
them. It was stated at the time
that the speeches were to ke used
in the Minnesota senatorial cam
paign, but it seems they were not
used for" that purpose, and the
President gave Minnesota a wide
berth on his four while his chief
economic policy—the profiteering
tariff—was being repudiated there.
There are some who will regret
that President Harding’s trip turn
ed out to be a political one. Prob
ably the President himself will re
gret it later, but he seems to have
an unhappy faculty of getting him
self into positions in conflict with
and contradictory to his utterances
and for all anyone know-, contrary
to his intentions.
There has little reaction to
his speeches cither in the pres.; or
spoken comment, and what there
has been was largely confined to
pointing out hi; ineptitude in ad
justing his subjects to localities.
AMERICUS GA., FRIDAY AFTERNOON. JULY 20, 1923
Opens to Abolish
Oil Inspectors' Offices
HEADS LIONS I
M ■ I humhhh
I? '
iHL
Il _ ' Z ' Y ■
John S. Noel', of 'Grand Rapids,
Mich., recently elected president of
the International Association of
I Lions Clubs, at the seventh an-
I nual convention that organiza
tion held in Atlantic City., N., J.
Mr. Noel is a prominent manufac
turer and banker of Grand Rapids,
and is particularly well known be
cause of his connection with civic
movements in his own state and in j
the South. He has organized num- .
erous commercial and civic asso
ciations, and has long been identi
fied with the Lions International ;
organizations, having served as first ■
vice president of the- organization 1
last year.
CLffll ora 30-ffl.
sin sipvice ooms
Local Organization Honors Old
Employe in Service of South
ern Bell at Americus
A number of out-of-town Bell
telephone officials were in Ameri
cus last night, coming herd to at
tend a meeting of Local Associa
i tion No. 56. The occasion was the
presentation of a service medal to
J. H. Clark, plant foreman of the
exchange here. The gathering was
held in the recreation room, of the
exchange building- and was attend
ed by practically every member of
the telephone organization here.
C. D. White, plant foreman lor
Georgia, with headquarters in At
lanta; V. H. Gibbon, district plant
chief, of Macon, and 3. C. Douglas,
| district plant supervisor, with head
) quarters at Macon, were among the
: visitors present, and the chief talk
i of the evening was made by Mr.
Whitte, who presented Mr . Clark
I with his service me'lul. In giving
.th: faithful employe this token of
j appreciation and recognition of sus-
Joyal service, Mr. White said:
i “Officials of the company, appre
i dating the loyalty and devotion to
i duty which has bound you to the
service (faring the passing years,
have endeavored on their part to
make the association contribute to
ycur personal happiness with this’
honor badge.”
Besides Mr. Clark, there are a
f number of other employes of the
company who have spent many
years in the service of the local ex
change, and within a few days
Mrs. h.-sie. Smith will have been ’in
the service here during twenty
tears; Miss Mabel Callaway has
been with the company nineteen
years and Miss Christine Argo has
been with, the Americus exchange
during nine or ten years. Miss
Marie Martin is another employe
who has been with the company -a
ong time having been connected
with the exchange during the past
seven year.*.
A very pleasing circumstance
developed in connection with Mr.
Clark s long period of service that
was brought out last night was that
during the entire term he has serv
ed the company here he has been
away from his po.st only six days
either from illness or other cauess.
Other employes of the local ex
change have records showing
equally efficient and uninterrupted
records covering the period of their
continuous employment.
At the conclusion of the prog
lam last night the members of the
local organization here enjoyed a
social hour in the exchange recrea
tion room.
REPRESENTATIVE B
WILL SEEK TO ffiO
DISTILLATION BILL
Wants Only Three Officers to
Perform Duties of Army of
Inspectors
MANN BILL IS REPORTED
General Agriculture Committee
No. 1 Puts O. K. on Measure
By Glynn Legislator
ATLANTA, July 20.—With the
submission to the house of a fav
orable report by general Agricul
ture ommittee No. 1 on Represen
tative Mann’s bill providing for a
distillation test for gasoline instead
of the gravity test as it present,
Representative New, of Laurens,
when the measure was brought to
the floor for consideration, an
nounced that he would seek to
amendit so as to abolish the offices
of oil inspectors in all cities of the
state and provide for only three
officers to perform their duties.
| Representative New is the author
I of a similar bill, with the exception
that his measure provides for abol
ishment of the numerous fertilizer
1 inspectors and a reduction in the
! tag tax on fertilizers from 30 to
10 cents a ton.
With the adoption of the Mundy
.Senate bill to hold biennial legisla
,tive sessions yesterday, it was ex-
I pected this would be brought be
fore the attention o fthe House
late today.
In commenting on the measure
Governor Walker declared that it
was the first piece of economic leg
islation coming up during the pres
tient administration which would
effect a saving in expenditures of
state funds. The governor predict
ed that the House would adopt it
by ! an overwhelming majority.
“Only five other states have an
nual sessions of the legislature,” de
clared Governor Walker, “with the
constitutional right vested in the
Governor to call extra sessions in
any case of emergency.
“f can see no good reason for
annual sessions. The bill will save
the people, directly and indirectely,
more than SIOO,OOO per year. This
administration is pledged to econo
my and this is the first and the best
opportunity to practice the economy
which we preached when campaign
ing for office.
“I am confident that the construc
tive thought of the Legislature will
favor the passage of this measure.’”
K ROSCOE CARROLL
HURT IN AUTO CRASH
VIENNA, GA., July 20. A
fast southbound Southern freight
train struck the limousine of Mrs.
Roscoe Carroll early this morning,
and Mrs. Carroll received injuries
from which she is reported dying.
Mrs. Carroll had taken her hus
band to the ctffice of the J. R. Bar
field Lunmber company and was re
turning home when the train struck
her machine. Mrs. Carroll evident
ly did not see the train until it was
upon her. She . has been uncon
scious since the accident and unable
to give any account of it.
The big automobile was rolled
over and over, and that Mrs. Car
roll was not horribly mangled is
miraculous. She received very few
bruises and cuts, but her skuull was
fractured.
The young woman is a danghtei
of .1. D- Barfiield, a wealthy lumber
man of Vienna.
LEADERS AID EFFORT
TO GET CONVENTION
ATLANTA, July 20. Many
leaders in the Democratic Party
have pledged their support in the
effort being made to bring the Na
tional Democrat convention here
in 1924, according to C. J. Haden,
chairman of the committee which
is seeking to have Atlanta selected
as the next convention city. Ac
cording to Mr. Haden, Atlanta
and New York thus far are the
jonly prominent contenders for the
! convention.
RATE REKTIH CH
COARSE GRAINS ftBE
ORDERED BV I. C, C,
Texas Producing Points Are
Principally Affected by New
Order
28c CWT. TO VICKSBURG
Proportionate Increases Accord
ing to Distance West of River
Are Allowed
WASHINGTON, July 20.—Rail
roads were ordered by the Inter
state Commerce today to make by
October 10 next a series ot retrac
tions in rates on corn, oats, sorg
hum and other coarse grains mov
ing from Texas producing points
to Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia,
South Carolina and Florida.
In order to guide these reduc
tions the commission ordered that
between Texas producing points
and Vicksburg, rates should be 28
cents per hundred pounds. The re
vised schedules to be made up will
contain increases proportionate to
distances over Vicksburg levels on
shipments to points further.east.
LJOIIS TOURNMENj
LMI IS EXTENDEH
Bad Weather During Past Two
Days Made Change in Pro
gram Necessary
The ladies tournament at the
Americus Golf Club has been ex
tended through Tuesday night, Evan
Mathis announced today. The exten
sion was made necessary, he says,
because of th.2 bad weather of the
past two days. .
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rylander
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Caye and Wal
ter Page are in Macon today.wit
nessing the golf, tournament.
Arthur Rylander, Jr., and Bill
Caye yesterday at Macon qualified
for the tournament in the fourth
flight.
SOLONS PAY TRIBUTE
TWSOJIWfiY
House and Senate Hold Joint ,
Session For Memorial Serv
ices in Atlanta
ATLANTA, July 20.—Thomas E.
Watson, late L'nite<| States Sena
tor from Georgia, was paid tribute
today in memorial exercises at a
joint session of the house and sen
ate. Governor Clifford M. Walk
er, United States Senator Uprris,
Secretary of State McLendon, Mrs.
William H. Felton, who was ap
pointed to succeed Senator Watson,
and Senator Walter F. George, who
was elected to succeed Senator
Watson, and other officials were
on the program. Senator Watson
had more friends in Georgia who
would follow him at all times than,
any other public man within my
time,” Senator Harris said in his
eulogy of the dead senator.'
KIBEEE M
WN ST IMS TEE
MACON, July 20.—Intermittent
sunshine greeted the first pair of
players to tee up this morning
starting the match play for the
championship of the Georgia ama
teur golf tournament now in prog
ress at Idle Hour Country club
course, i Kibee Crump was the
honor man at the tee, making a
rlean drive toward the first hole at
8 o’clock, followed a little later by
J. . Jones, Jr., his partner.
Beginning with those players
lihted in the fourth /light, all of
| wjiich will be started off before
I 8:35, the flights will be sent around
i the course today in the first round
;of the mate hplay. The champaion-
I ship» flight, headed by John Beach*
I man, Jr., and Charlie Black, »s
i schedule* Io begin play at 10 a.m.
I while the final play will be sent at
111:3. .
WEATHER
For Georgia:. Partly cloudy in
north, probably local thhndershow
ers in south portion tonight and
Saturday.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
BIG MOM COTTON
FIRM SUSPENDS: SEAT
ON EXCHANGE GONE
Frank H. Barrett Notifies New
York Exchange He Is Una
ble to Meet Obligations
HAD OFFICE IN~ AMERICUS
Teho Erwin Local Representa
tive of Cotton Factors Here
Recently
NEW YORK, July 20.—Frank
11. Barrett, cotton broker, of Au
gusta, today notified the directors
of the cotton exchange here that
he was unable to meet his obliga
tions and requested that his seat on
the exchange be sdld.
Barrett is senior-member of the
firm of Barrett & Co., cotton fac
tors with extensive connections in
Georgia and other states, his firm
being one of the largest in the cot
ton growing section. H'e is also
an officer in the Hill’s Mixture
Corporation, which concern is en
gaged in the manufacture and dis
tribution of patented boll weevil
poison mixture throughout the
south.
REPRESENTED HERE
BY THEO IRVING.
Barrett & Co., of Augusta, whose
suspension of payment was repore
ed today on the New York .ex
change, has maintained an office
in Americus during several years,
and is at present represented here
by Theo Irving, with offices over
the Americus Drug Company, on
Lamar street. The concern, it Is
stated, has done only a nominal
cotton buying business here during
the past two or three years and the.
failure will have no effect in local
business circles.
The announcement of Barrett &
Co.’s failure came as a complete sur
prise in cotton circles where I* rank
H. Barrett had long been recognized
as one of of the most conservative
of traders. The failure, it was said,
would affect the entire southeast,
(Continued on Page 2)
EDITORIAL
If you read the ads in yester
day’s paper, this morning you
know that “Whole Grain Wheat”
is on sale in Americus. This is*
the wheat made famous by W. T.
Anderson in his front page
editorials in the Macon Tele
graph— (or was it the wheat that
made Editor Anderson famous?)
A few weeks ago the editor of
The Times-Recorder persuaded
Mr. R. T. Matthews, the market
man on h'orsyth Street, to secure
the distribution rights for Amer
icus. We wanted to see it on sale
here.
Like thousands of others we
be came interested in this whole
grain wheat through reading the
front-page editorials on dietetics
written by Mr. Anderson. >
These editorials caused us to
purchase Alfred W. McCann’s
book on pure foods and dietetics,
“The Science of Eating.” The
most casual reading of this book
will be worth a great deal tp ev
ery family, for among other ma*-
ters, it shows the necessity of
eating the whole grain wheat,
eating whole wheat bread and
drinking milk. . , . '
We are interested in anything
-in everything—that will' bring
to our readers more perfect
health. We are fighting for the
control of malaria and the elim
ination of the mosquito. We have
advocated the use of screens in
every home.
The prevalence of malaria
causes a lowered vitality ancj for
that reason we must have as
nearly a perfect food ration as
can be secured. And this is par
ticularly true at this season of
the year, especially with the ba
bies and children.
It is our opinion that whol6
wheat, whole' wheat byea(l and
pure milk is as necessary in the
individual fight against malaria
as screens.
The health of the .community
iswts most valuable asset. If we
can say a word here and there
about pure foods, about the ne
cessity of eating whole wheat, of
drinking pure milk, and the say
ing of that word causes our read
ers to think and to act, then, we
have accomplished just that much
for our community and our peo
ple.
Mr. Matthews has formed the
Americus Food Clinic for the
distribution of Whole Grain
Wheat. It is a fodd and not a
medicine. It can not be sold by
merchants from their shelves. It
is, as Dr. McCann says, a perfect
balanced ford, containing all the
elemciits that make a perfect
food, and the only other perfect
food i ( milk. t
Mr. Matthews has made a most
thorough investigation of whole
grain wheat. He and his family
have tested it for many weeks.—
L. E.