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FORTY-FIFTH YEAR—NO. 171
PRESIDENT HARDING STILL IMPROVING
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Staple Carried Overls Less Than 3 Million Bales
SMALLEST CARRY-OVER
OF COTTON IN YEARS.
HESTER ANNOUNCES
Stocks Placed at 2,573,000 Bales
Against 4,879,000 Bales
This Time Last Year
CONSUMPTION 12,829,000
Figures Compare With 12,829,-
000 Bales Consumed in Amer
ica During Previous Year
.NEW ORLEANS, August I.
The smallest carry-over of cotton
into the new cotton year since the
South became an important produc
er of the staple, is announced in
its annual report of August 1, is
sued here today by the New Or
leans Cotton Exchange through
Secretary Hester.
In Hester’s report the world’s
carry-over of American cotton is
placed at 2,573,000 bales, which
compares with 4,879,000 bales a
year ago, the report added.
The consumption of American
cotton during the year ended Tues
day is placed in Hester’s report at
12,631,000 bales, which compares
with 12,829,000 bales consumed by
American spindles during the pre
ceding year.
O ORDERS GIVEN
PROHIBITION AGENTS
Hereafter Dry Officers Will Not
Fire On Rum-Running Auto
mobiles in Georgia
ATLANTA, August I.—ln fu
ture prohibition agents will be in
structed to fire upon no automo
bile, except m defense of their
lives, Fred Dismukes, director of
Georgia federal enforcement offi
cers, stated here today.
The statement was made in con
nection with the announcement that
no action is to be taken against
the three West Point youths who
killed one agent and wounded an
other last week when their car was
halted on the highway. The youths
claimed they thought the dry
«gents were highwaymen in justifi
cation Os their action in firing up
on the officers.
TIFTON TAXPAYERS
TACKLE ASSESSORS
TIFTON, August I.—The board
of tax assessors of the City of
Tifton have had a busy time this
week. All day Monday and Tues
day there was a stream of callers
at the city hall, these callers be
ing property owners whose assess
ments had been raised.
The assessors say they first
sought to equalize the tax returns,
wherein their judgment of equali
zation was necessary. Then they
added 25 per cent to all in order
to raise sufficient funds to operate
the city schools and pay off a por
tion of the city debt.
Harassed property owners who
had paid taxes on the old assess
ment by the skin of their teeth, so
to speak—when they could
them at all—thought this the
wrong time to raise assessments,
and many called to say so.
Tomorrow
.The story of 31 Georgia
(families who are receiving
AN ANNUAL INCOME
OF $725.00 EACH
From a little S9OO Cheese
Factory established in their
county and operated by them
In Thursday
Times-Recorder
Today
THE TURNER
COUNTY PLAN
A .diversified farpiing plan
that is attracting nation-wide
interest and has been bulle
tined and broadcast by the
Federal government.
GEORGIA REVENUE iBILL IS
Turner County Farm Plan
Given National Publicity;
40 Delegates Investigate
» ■■■IIMOI I II —i
Economic Independence Is Coming to County
Through Foresight of Its FaFrming and
Business Interests
As the 1923 season progresses, it becomes more and more
apparent that Sumter county must put more thought and action
into the production of milk, eggs, poultry and hogs—the cow,
the hen and the sow. as Turner county expresses it.
A number of SMALL cash crops, to upplement cotton—
means our salvation, our economic independence when cotton
fails.
Sometimes, those events nearest us are Overlooked, while
our attention is engaged by something far away. The so-called
Turner countv plan is attracting nation-wide interest. It is no
longer a matter of local or stale -
interest.
So remarkable has been the re-1
generation of Turner county un
der the plans promulgated by the
late George T. Betts that The
Country Gentleman, one of the
largest and most authoritative agri
cultural publications in the world,
in its latest' issue devoted its en- !
tire front page to an article en- !
titled: “Turner County Puts It I
Oveer.”
The article is illustrated with I
convincing protographs of actual
farm conditions in Turner county
at the present time.
The writer E. H. Taylor, prom :
inent authority on farm questions,
in his opening paragraph, says that
the' case of Turner county has at
tracted such nation-wide attention
that forty delegations of farmers
and business men from other coun
ties and states have come to see
for themselves the solution of
that hard riddle—how to put
farming on a sound and selfsup
porting basis, that promises a per
manent prosperity to farm owner
tenant and town business man.
Turner'county has supplied the
answer to that vexed question and
is showing how that can be done,
but, says Mr. Taylor. “It is doing
so with the ordinary means that
are at hand in almost every coun
ty, ir fact, it had far less of the
real material resources than the
average county.”
Mr. Taylor in his article dpA
scribes the past history of agricul
ture in Turner county:
“Only a couple of years ago
Turner county was down and al
most out. If a general liquidation
had been called for, few in the
county would have escaped bank
ruptcy. The small farmers and
tenants—and over three quarters
of the county’s farmers were ten
ants—were deep in debt to the
large landowners and credit mer
chants. The .latter in turn owed
the banks, some of them so heav
ily they had to turn over their
some sort of settlement could be
property to be held in trust until
worked out. The banks were hav
ing troubles of their own, as banks
always do when a community
threatens to go insolvent.’
One of the familiar disasters
that invariably overtake one-crop
farming communities had occurred
here. The center of Turner coun
tys agriculture was cotton, financ-
I cd by the usual credit system. The
I writer tells of.the coming of the
( boll weevil and the drop in cotton
' prices and adds that this “double
blow left business prostrate and the
I people virtually nothing except
courage.”
| Only Courage L e ft.
That th? farmers and business
men of Turner county had an
i abundance of that 'rare courage
which overcomes the greatest ob
stacles is next told by Mr. Taylor.
He tells the story of the way in
which Turner county farmers turn
ed their misfortune to prosperity.
The origin of this • remarkable
transformation is told in this way:
“One day George T. Betts, banker,
merchant and large land owner of
Ashburn, had an article in The
Country Gentleman telling how
Dalias county, Alabama, had turn
ed a similar disaster into prosper
ity. The article goes on to say
how George Betts immediately
visited Dallas county to learn how
such an evolution in farming was
accomplished and if some of ' its
; principles could be applied to the
i relief of Turner county. Betts re
turned “fired with hope and with
j a new vision of the possibilities
. within his own county.”
The board of trade at Ashburn
j put itself at the head of the new
I (Continued on Last Page.)
frStfPUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF
CHINESE DICTATOR
DEFIES RUSSIA IN
■DR ORDER
General Chang Tso Lin Orders
Trcops Take Over Lands
Ceded to Czarist Govt.
ABOLISHES DEPARTMENT
Chinese Eastern Railway Con
veniion Abrogated Effective
Immediately
HARBIN, China, August I. (By
the Associated Press.) General
Chang Tso Lin, dictator of three
Chinese Manchurian provinces, has
ordered the Chinese authorities
here to abolish the land department
of the Chinese Eastern Railway,
established under an old treaty
with Russia. In addition he has
ordered Chinese troops to take
over all land ceded to the Russian
czarist government, in defiance of
the Soviet uathorities. Measures
prescribed in his orders become ef
fective immediately.
WINING CLASSES
Thalean and Lysian H. S. Classes
to Be Instructed Jointly by
Home Demonstration Agt-
Miss Bonnie Parkman, the effi
cient county home demonstration
agent, has just completed her clas.-
in hep short course by combining
Thalean Academy and Lysian High
school classes together. New Era
and Plains High school have both
been c nsolidated in short course
by Miss Parkman- and the girls are
being thoroughly interested and in
structed in canning, pickling, pre
serving, jelly making and in all
manners of fruit preserving.
Concord and Shiloh have not yet
been united,, but it is planned that
these two district will after awhile
get together. There will be more
fruit preserved in Sumter coXpty
this year than ever before. The
girls that attend these- Consolidat
ed school short courses will op in
structed in every art of cooking,
pickling, canning and sewing.
The work that is being done
along this line in our schools un
der the direction of Miss Parkman
is one of the things that make
Sumter county rural schools among
the greatest in the state.
MOULTRIE LIONS
FIGHT PESSIMISM
MOULTRIE, August I. The
Moultrie Lions c(ub at its weekly
luncheon deplored the spirit of
pessimism that prevails in this sec
tion of the state. It was admit
ted that weaher condiions had been
bad and that the prospects for a
fair crop of cotton were not good,
but argued that the situation was
being aggravated instead! of be
ing helped by the gloom that was
being helped by the gloom that
was being spread by those who are
“down in the mouth.”
A resolution urging the appoint
ment of a committee from the
Lions club to see if the other civic
clubs and the Chamber of Conn
merce would join in a movement
which will have for its object the
holding of a series of meetings in
,various narts of the county «to car
ry inspiration to those who are try
ing to succeed, was passed with
out a dissenting vote,
AMERICUS. GA.. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. AUGUST I. 1923
COMMISSIONER FERRY
FLAYS COMMISSION
BEFORE HOUSE BODY
Georgia Public Service Commis
sioner Says Members Are
Loafing on the Job
HAS TOO MANY MEMBERS
Subordinates Now Doing Tasks
That Should Be Given Atten
tion of Commissioners
ATLANTA, August 1. —Charges
that members of the state public
service commission are “loafing on
the job” and that the full mem
bership of five members is unnec
essary as the work is now being
transacted, were made here today
by Commissioner James A. Perry.
The charges were made by Com
missioner Perry when he appeared
before the house railroad commit
tee in support of a measure de
signed to reduce the personnel of
the commission to three members.
In his discussion of the pending
measure, Commissioner Perry as
serted that ‘‘some of the work ol
the commission is now being done
,by subordinates which should re
ceive the personal attention of of
ficials themselves.” ,
Other members of the commis
sion are expected to reply to the
allegation of Commissioner Perry
before a meeting of the same com
mittee scheduled for this after
noon.
THREE 0!E WHEN
TENEMENT HURNS
Hagerstown, Md., Scene of Fatal
Fire Early Today; Three
Are Injured
HAGERSTOWN, Md., August 1.
Three persons were burned to
death and three seriously injured
in a fire which swept a tenement
house, known as the Old Almshouse
property on North Locust street,
this city, today.
The dead: Jofin H. Carbaugh,
57; Mrs. John H- Carbaugh, 55;
Geraldine Carbaugh, 19.
The injured are: Mrs. Pearl Car
baugh Jacobs, 36; Caroline Jacobs,
11; Keller Carbaugh, 23.
The fire was caused by an oil
eftn in the hands of Geraldine Car
baugh exploding as he was starting
the fire in the kitchen stove.
Keller Carbaugh- was badly burn
ed in attempting to reevue his
mother whos was an Invalid. Mrs.
Jacobs and her daughter, Catherine
Jacobs suffered burns and Mrs.
Jacobs had her hip broken when
she jumped from the third floor
with her father.
Catherine Jacobs also jumped
from the third floor window and
was caught by her grandfather,
John K. Carbaugh, who died on
the way to the hospital shortly aft
erward from shock and burns.
‘BUSTER’ MILAN IS
KILLED AT MONTEZUMA
MONTEZUMA, Ga., Aug. 1—
“Buster” Milan, 8-year-old son of
Will Milan, a farmer, who lives on
.tl a. Levie plantation near Montezu
ma, was instantly killed yesterday
afternoon when struck by passenger
train No. ‘2 on the A., B. and A.
The child', with liu two small
brothers, had been fishing in Hog
Crawl creek, near his home and he
laid down on the railroad track to
wait for the others to come from
the creek. Presumably he fell asleep
and a sharp curve in the track pre
vented the engineer seeing him un
til the train was within thirty feet
of him. His skull was crushed and
both legs cut off above the knees.
MRS. jTw. SMITH IS
DESPERATELY SICK
Relatives of Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Smith have been summoned to her
bedside at the City hospital, where
she has. lain desperately ill for the
past 24 hours. Grave fears are
entertained for her, although a ral
ly early this morning gave hope for
a permanent improvement in her
condition.
' new club organized
COLUMBUS, August I—A num
: ber of Fortson business men have
1 organized a Business .Man’s Evan
gelistic club as a result of the se
ries of evangelistic meetings which
recently closed in the Baptist
church at Fortson. The new club
proposes to assist in evangelistic
services now being held in other
nearby cities*
COTTON PRODUCTION
FORECAST BY DEPT.AT
II BULLION BALES
Condition Placed at 67.2 in Gov
ernment Report issued Today
at Washington
GEORGIA CONDITION 48 Pct.
Average Yield Predicted Is
143.9 Pounds Per Acre As
of July 25th
WASHINGTON, Aug. I—Cotton
production this year was forecast at
11,016,000 bales, based upon condi
tion reports as of July 25, which was
67.2 per cent of normal, the de
partment of agriculture announced
here today.
The July 25th condition indicates,
according to department of agricul
ture expects, a yield of approxi
mately 143.9 pounds of cotton per
acre.
The crop condition in Georgia as
indicated in the report, on July 25,
was 48 per cent of normal.
PKENMMffIUBE
CBWITTEE I* SENATE
Sumter Senator Will Be One of
Those to Conduct Highway
Dept- Investigation
ATLANTA, August 1. —The 12
members of the house of represen
tatives who will sit with the five
senators appointed by President
George Carswell to investigate the
state highway department were ex
pected to be named today by
Speaker Cecil Neill so that the
first session may be held Wednes
day night or .Thursday morning.
President Carswell appointed
the following five members of the
upper hours to act as members of
the probe today: Senator Pace,
Senator Smith, of the Thirty-fifth
district; Senator Coates, Senator
Lankford and Senator Redwine.
Senator Pace was author of a high
way probe resolution, but took the
floor Tuesday to ask the senate to
adopt the McMichael resolution in
the interest of dispatch in the in
vestigation.
He said, however, that he had
not receded from his position that
the McMichael paper was worded
unfairly to the highway department.
■ DISTRICTMS
HEW ® SPEAK
Representative in Congress Tells
cf Observations of Masonry
and Its Usefulness
VIENNA, August 1. —The 23rd
annual session of the Trrfrd Dis
trict Masonic convention was held
here with a large attendance.
Delegates from practically all
lodges in the district having regis
tered. T. R. Smith, worshipful
master, directed the arrangement
of the program and plans for the
entertainment of the guests.
The welcome address was made
by Senator W. F. George. Mrs.
J. B. Smith, one behalf of the 0.
E. S., and Paul Ellison, on behalf
or the Vienna Kiwanis club, deliv
ered messages of welcome. J. B.
Bussell responded to the address of
welcome. The Vienna orchestra
furnished delightful music.
One of the most pleasing fea
tures of the. program was an ad
dress by Congressman Crisp. Mr.
Crisp was not scheduled to speak,
but responded very graciously to an
insistent demand, and told of some
I interesting observations he had
made of Masonary and its activities
in Alaska, where he has recently
been on a tour of investigation.
MAN HELD FOR AUTO
THEFT IN AMERICUS
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., August 1.
Howard Hunter, of Americus, Ga.,
was arrested here at the request of
Sheriff Harvey, of Americus, who
wants him on a charge of steal
ing an automobile. Teh car was
recovered here.
Hunter claims he borrowed it
and will return to Georgia with
out requisition.
GENERAL TAX ACT PUT
ON PASSAGE IN HOUSE
BY CHAIRMAN DENNIS
Amended Act Will Bring in an
Estimated Increased Revenue
of SIOO,OOO
$3,934,197 RAISED IN 1922
Increased Tax on Carbonic Acid
Gas Expected to Yield $30,-
000 Added Revenue
ATLANTA, August I.—The gen
eral tax act, amended so as to
bring in an estimated SIOO,OOO in
additional revenue to the state
treasury over last year, was intro
duced in the house this morning
by Chairman Dennis, of the house
ways and means committee and put
on its passage.
The tax act of 1922 raised a to
tal of $3,934,197, it became known
with the introduction of the new
measure. The bill, among other
changes, increases the tax on car
bonic acid gas from 4 to 10 cents
a pound, the increase Heing ex
pected to yield the state an add
ed $30,000 in revenue.
COUNCIL INSISTS ON
BILL MED BY
CITY ATTORNEY LANE
Committee Caustic in Objections
to Substitute Measure of Sum
ter Delegation
WANT NO COMMISSION
Declare That Commission Would
Be No More Honest Than
Mayor and Council
That council wants no halter
placed about their handling of mon
ey collected for paying off the ex
isting floating indebtedness and
Americus’ bonded debt is plainly
stated in a letter despatched today
to Senator Stephen Pace, Repre
sentative G. W. Riley and Repre
sentative A. E. Hines, constituting
the Sumter delegation in 'he gen
eral assembly. Council in this let
ter insists upon introduction and
passage of the bill prepared by
City Attorney Lane and pointedly
asks the members of the delega
tion to “abandon your voluntary
efforts to provide legislation for
the government of the mayor and
city council of Americus.”
R. E. Allison, W. E. Mitchell,
E. L. Carswell, J. W. Harris and
E. J. Witt signed the letter as a'
committee of council, the text of
which objects to practically every
provision contained in the delega
tion’s bill. In objecting to the
establishment of commissions to |
handle the money to be raised for I
specific purposes under provisions j
of the bill, asserts j
that “it is hardly reasonable to :
suppose that a debt-paying com- I
mission” * * * “would foe I
more honest or honorable than the I
gentlemen who now compose the
governing body of our city.” The
text of the letter sent the delega
tion by the committee, which
should be of interest here, reads
as follows:
“Hon. Stephen Pace. W. M.
Riley, A. E. Hines, Atlanta, Ga.,
Gentlegmen:
“Following up a night letter sent
Continued on page 4.)
BENEFIT GAME HERE
WILL AID BALL TEAM
Manager T. L. Bell of tfie base
ball team, announced today that
all funds taken in through the sale
of benfit game tickets here Thuife
day and for Thursday’s game will
go into the \offers of the Americus
team, and that the special tickets
will remain on sale at $1 each un
til the last admission has been sol/
at the gate. For the benefit of
those who may have a wrong im
pression, Manager Bell states that
regulay tickets will also be sold
as at the gate, at the regu
lar price, the purchasers of the
special tickets merely contributing
50 cents extra to the support of the
game here,'
WEATHER
For Georgia Partly cloudy in
north portion; probably local thun
dershowers in south Wednesday and
Thursday.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
mi NIGHT HAD
Bi EXECUTIVE M
MR TENPERATURE
Statement Issued at 8 o’Clock
This Morning Says Condition
. Is Improved
PULSE RATE DECREASES
Temperature 99 When Bulletin
Issued, With Pulse 114 and
Respiration 40
PRESIDENTIAL HEAD
QUARTERS, Palace Hotel, San
Francisco, Aug. 1— (By Asso
ciated Press) —President Hard
ing today seemed certain of re
covery barring improbable de
velopment of new complications
in his illness or the equally im
probable increase of the present
ones.
Brig-Gen. Chas. Sawyer, chief of
staff of physicians in the president’s
case, was still standing by his state
ment of last night that the crisis
had passed and that “the president
is well on the road to recovery.” Ad
ded to this was the declaration from
an authoritative source that the only
reason for concern over the presi
dent’s condition, was because the
patient was president of the United
States and not because of any new
symptoms or likelihood of any.
“Since we have our toxin well un
der control I feel safe in saying
that we have passed the peak load
of trouble,” was the statement. “I
don’t want to be too emphatic about
it, because we always face compli
cations, but I feel that the crisis is
over and that the president is well
on the road to recovery.”
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1—(By
Associated Press) —An informal
statement issued at 8 o’clock this
morning by General Sawyer, per
sonal physician to President Harding
said tfyut (he president had spent a
“very restful night, and that his
pulse at that hour was 114, temper
ature 99 ■ and respiration 40 de
grees.’’
These figures, the statement add
ed. represented a decrease in the
pulse-rate and temperature as com
pared with the last previous bulletin
his pulse rate being less by 2 de
grees, and his temperature by 1.1
degrees lower. The respiration rate
given in each bulletin was the same.
HAD NORMAL AMOUNT
SLEEP LAST NIGHT
PRESIDENTIAL HEADQUAR
TERS, San Francisco, Aug. 1—(By
Associated Press)— President Hard
ing awoke shortly .after 6 o’clock
this morning, having had almost his
normal amount of sleep. His rest,
which was described as the most nat
ural of any since his illness, bega)i
before 11 o’clock last night.
COffllTTlE If BB
GETTING UPPROGRAM
Chamber of Commerce Workers
Encouraged in Efforts to Put
on Great Fair Here
Chamber of Commerce workers
were busy today and yesterday ar
ranging for publication of the an
nual fair catalog, which is to con
tain a complete list of the prem
iums to be offered at the annual
Sumter county fair here Sept. 25-
I 29. George O. Marshall and
' Henry P. Everett are at the head
of this committee, and merchants
: who have been approached in con-
I nection with the publication have
’ been generous in their encourage
j ment. There remains, however,
I some work yet to be done before
the catalog is complete.
George 0. Marshall, county farm
demonstration agent, and Elbert
Stallworth, negro county agon/,
were in conference this morning
relative to awards to be offered
negro exhibitors at the fair, and
as soon as these have been defi
nitely arranged!, a further ■ an
nouncement will be made. In this
connection, Mr. Marshall stated to
day that a number of added prizes
will be given exhibitors'at the fair
this fall, and that prizes :ff</ed
to negroes will in no way conflict
or reduce those offered to whites.
FRUIT EXCHANGE CLOSES
ITS OFFICE IN AMERICUS
The Americus office of the Geor
gia Fruit Exchange, which had
been maintained here since the be
ginning of the peach season ,was
closed Tuesday afternoon. M. IL
Sears, who was in charge of the
office here, returned to Macon fol
lowing the closing of the office in
the Merritt building on Jackson
street. According to information
furnished the Times-Rccorder to
day, a total of 96 cars of peaches
were iced here during the season
just ended.