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N. Y. Futures—July Oct. Dee. Previous Close .. 26.55 23.85 23.36 Open 26.35 23.75 23.26 11 a.m 126.45 23.76 23.31 Close '26.47,23.60 23.21, 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.