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FORTY-FIFTH YEAR—NO.
What's Going
On In The
World
The Weeks’ Chief Events
Briefly Told
By CHARLES P. STEWART
GERMAN MARK
NEAR AND FAR EAST
FILIPINOS
The German mark, once worth
nearly a quarter in American
money, fell so low last week that
$1 would buy about a million.
That is, a man worth $500,000
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StEWART
■ The point is that before the war,
German money seemed as sound as
American money does now. Maybe
it’s ridiculous to suggest that
what’s happened in Germany could
happen in the United States, but
that’s what the Germans thought,
too.
To reduce it to terms of prac
tical politics, suppose somebody
who favors a radical change in
America’s monetary system should
get into power, put his plan into
effect, and it didn’t work out as
expected?
, Presidential possibilities are
mentioned, from time to time, who
have such schemes.
RUSSO-CHINESE
PACT?
The East, Far and Near, bulked
large in last week’s news.
Dr. Sun Yat Sen, Chinese rev
olutionary leader, took a positino
which may mark an epoch when he
declared for a union of forces bc
tweent hts country and Russia.
Germany would be friendly, he
predicted, at the same expressing
the conviction that Turkey, Persia
and Afghanistan actually would
join. Japan, the doctor admitted,
has disappointed the Chinese, but
he added that the latter haven’t
abandoned hope of the Japanses
yet. t
TURKEY SCORES
VICTORY.
Turkey in conference with the
great powers at Lausanne, has
forced England, France, Italy-
Japan, Greece and Rumania to most
oi her conditions. Ex-Premier
Lloyd George says it is the most
humiliating treaty England ever
signed. Jugo-Slavia refused but
probably will have to sign later.
America and Turkey are making a
separate patt.
When the Turks joined the Ger
mans in the war, the allies swore
they’d drive the sultan out of
Europe.
Now what?
Turkey’s stronger than she’s
been in centuries. She escapes the
war penalties the allies tried to im
pose. She gets Constantinople back
and eastern Thrace. Foreign troops
must leave her soil. She evicts
Greek viv’Jians.' She makes no
promises concerning the Armen
ians. She ends extra-territoriality
within her frontiers. She opens the
Bosporus and Dardanelles to sue/
‘shipping as she chooses to let
pass. She joins the League of Na
tions on equal term with everybody •
else.
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FILIPINOS ARE
ANGRY
Declaring General Leonard
Wood temperamentally unfitted to
govern “in a democratic manner,’
the legislature at Mania has re
manded his recall as governor-gen
eral of the Philippines.
It’s a renewal of the island’s
campaign for, self-government.
Woodrow Wilson urged it. Wood,
in his first report as governor-gen
eral, expressed the opinion that the
Flipinos aren’t capable yet of man
aging their own affairs. Naturally
he’s disliked by the pro-indepen
dence group. \
WETS AND *
DRYS
When the revenue cutter Semi
nole, scouting for rum runners off I
New York, approached uncomfort- !
ably close to the British schooner !
Thorndyke, outside America’s 3-
nuie limit, the Thorndyke’s captain
threatened to open fire.
The Seminole commander’s su
periors ordered him later, if any
suspected ship should do this, to re
turn the shots.
A fight on the high seas, where
the liquor sleuths’ jurisdiction
doesn’t run, between a United
States government vessel and one
under a foreign flag would be very
serious indeed.
The Seminole’s commander re
ported the liquor fleet stretching
the length of a 35-mile line, just
beyond the 3mile limit, outside
New York, with manaynmylp—
New Pork with many countries rep
resented.
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PRESIDENT ‘MUCH EASIER’ TODAY
SO.GA.TOBACCO MARTS
OPENED WITH PIES
FOP PRODUCT HIGH
Nashville and Hahira Selling
Seasens Start With Values
Better Than in Past
LEAF BRINGS 45 CENTS
Seventy-Five Thousand Pounds
in Two Warehouses at Nash
ville at Opening
VALDOSTA, Aug. 2—The tobac
co markets at Nashville and Hahira
opened today with better prices than
have been known at either place
during past seasons.
Reports from Hahira state that
there were a.hundred and fifty
thousand pounds of tobacco on the
floor there and about the sahie
amount stored in adjoining ware
houses at the opening of the market.
At Nashville, where the industry
is developing rapidly, it was said
there were a hundred and seventy
five thousand pqunds of leaf upon
the floor and in the two warehouses
located there.
Prices in the. market ranged from
45 cents for the best grades of to
bacco down to 15 cents a pound for
the less desirable leaf product.
NASHVILLE MARKET
OPENED TODAY.
NASHVILLE, August 2. The
Nashville tobacco market opened
this morning. The warehouse men,
Messrs. Warren and Brown, have
been quite busy for several weeks
making preparations and nothing
has been left undone to make this
as good if not one of the best mar
kets in the entire state.
It is stated that the general av
erage of the grade is very good
and according to estimates there
will be between one million and
a hall and two millions pounds re
ceived here during the marketing
period.
The indications are that the
Nashville tobacco market will be
one of the besfc in the state this
year. Many of the town’s, business
men who are interested in the to
bacco industry here are making ev
ery effort to advertise the local
market and as this is one of the
oldest markets in this immediate
section it is already well and favor
ablv known.
Manv buyers have already ar
rived .in Nashville—mon represent
inb’ every big tobacco concern in
this country will be on hand and
with Messrs Brown and Tingen
•■nd Warren in charge of the ware
houses.
juoraswi
IfflTfflLlMffl
Tells Club Members Tuberculosis
Is Making Inroads Upon Na
tive Alaskan Population
Congressman Charles R. Crisp,
b yinvitation, spoke to Americus
Kounrans yesteruay at their lunen
eon in the Winasor, reciting mieiy
details or his trip into Alaska.
He devoted several minutes to
explaining tne transportation and I
agricultural difficulties which tut
federal government and tne people
of Alaska are lacing.
He declared that tile natives are
dying rapidly from tuberculosis,
caused, it is supposed, from improp
er diet. Tne government imported
200 reindeer from Norway lor the >
natives and now there are 16000.
Judge Crisp says the natives are |
allowed to own only a limited num- |
her and are used as a meat supply.
The salmon fisheries, mining and
other interesting facts regarding
Alaska weer discussed. The address
was received ‘ with enthusiasm by
the Rotarians and thqir guests.
Rev. John M. Outler, J. I’ Eve
and Mr. Ireland of the Birmingham
Slag company were other guests
j present.
‘KNICKERS’ POPULAR AT
THOMASVILLE NOW
THOMASVILLE, Aug. 2—So
many girls are seen on the streets
here" now wearing “nickers” that it
Creates very little comment. While
thev are called nickers it must be
admitted that most of those see*
are iust what are commonly called
“pants” and are not even trousers,
as they fit tighter than the average
trousers worn by the average man
Some people are still scandalized by
seeing girls in this garb walkin'-
down the streets, but they are grad
ually getting accustomed to it
in a year or two nobody will pay any
attention to it. The girls themse’
seem to like it and probably find
it a very com fortaWs.M ■ay of dress
-1 ing for walking.
in German money
when the war
started has $2
now. On what this
does to bank ac
counts, trade and
wages, it’s need
fess to dwell. Os
pourse wages have
risen considerably
Still, for a skilled
worker, $ 1 2
counts as a fait
month’s pay. Be
sides, business is
so disorganized
tat u n employ
ment’s rife.
Good Prices Paid For Georgia Tobacco
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THE ™Sfe;RtCORDER
ESILPUBLISKED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE
MARINES QUELL RIOT IN ORIENT
Cheese Factories Arc Making
Money For Georgia Farmers
Thirty-One Farmers, With Initial Expenditure of
S9OO Secure Annual Income of
$725 Each
Thirty-one farmers near Cartersville, Ga., are daily turning
3,000 pounds of milk into approximately 75 pounds of cheese,
worth $75.00-
’ an expenditure of SOOO for machinery and building,
t “ e l e - 7 9c nn rmers are rece ‘ v * n S an average daily income of $2.42
or $.- .-J. J 0 per year. Ihe plant is owned and operated by the
families themselves under the supervision of the State College of
Agriculture. 5
“For the past five years, visitors
to the Southeastern Fair, at Atlan
ta, have observed Georgia-made
cheese in competition with Wiscon
sin cheese,” J. K. Giles says in
a nartiele in a recent issue of the
Atlanta Journal, from which we
secure the above figures. “To the
careless visitor this means little or
nothing,” Mr. Giles writes, and
continues, “but to the student it
was an eye-opener. Not only did
the Georgia cheese compare favor
ably with that from other states,
but in most instances it made a
higher score and was declared by
experts to be superior. Announce
ment of this fact was made through
the cress and from the speaker’s
platform. It was read or heard,
and in most cases soon forgotten.
Cotton was selling for 40 cents a
round, and conseouentlv occupied
the center and both sides of the
stage and “the goose was hanging
high.”
This apnarent lack of interest
in this subiect did not daunt the
spirit of the live stock extension
forces of the Georgia State Col
!"?■■ o f Agriculture. It aroused
their fightin" spirit and made them
more determined to keep the dem
onstration before the people until
thev made us° of it.
The U. S. Derailment of Agri
culture and the North Carolina A.
and M. college m 1915 built at
Cove Creek, Wataima Countv
North Carolina, a small plant with
"’i outlay of only 845(1. in which
they proposed + o demonstrate the
feasibility of the small communitv
cheese factory. Georgia wa= quick
to spe the possibilities of this new
industry and the officials of +he
Stptn Collo'-o of Apr’c-jlture imme
diately asked the TT S.
to "end us a woll-trnir*'''! 1 man to
look o-ar the state, make re-’orn
mendations and F.- : ’d similar
"lants bare. 1,. H. Marlatt. o-r
Tasn-r fj. Y.. ’'-ba had specialized
In r-hfv’ro production at Cornell
University, was sent down and put
to ”’ork.
“It was thonrhf pt tUo time that
cipco mtfon was bringing such
cood prices the initial '’♦temnt to
intpreef ft-n noiint-'r foil- in this
nowt"nnp-]nj idoo should ho m n do
in tha mountain cnnnt’cs. Mr.
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INTFPROL BODY
DEPLORES LYNCHING
Resolutions Adopted Declare
Stale Government Remiss in
Handling Problem
ASHEVILLE, N. C., Aug. 2
Resolutions deploring what was
termed the failure of the state gov
ernments to handle properly the
lynching problem were unanimously
adopted today by the Commission on
Inter-Racial Co-Operation in session
here today.
The resolutions drew no distinc
tion between various sections of the
country and deplored the failure to
stamp out lynching, which was
termed “the most conspicuous ene
my to justice and righteousness, and
the most flagrant violations of the
constitution of our great nation.”
WYMAN GORED BY
MADDENED BULL
FITZGERALD, Aguust 2.—F. O.
Wymans, one of the best known
rural mail carriers here, is in a se
rious condition at a Fitzgerald hos
pital, the result of being gored by
a maddened bull. His recovery is
doubtful. It is not known by the
family just how he was caught by
the bull, for when first discovered
by neghbors, the bull still had him
down and was tossing him about
at will, he being in an unconscious
conditions. Rushing ’o his assist
ance several neighbors finally suc
ceeded in driving away the mad
dened beast, he was rushed to the
Fitzgerald hospital where his con
-1 dition was pronounced as very se
rious.
AMERICUS, GA., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 2, 1923
M PWICT If
RHffISETTLEBENT
Premier Baldwin Joins Curzon
in Statement on Franco-Bel
gian Replies
LONDON, August 2. (By the
Associated Press.) —Premier Stan
ley Baldwin today joined with Lord
Curzon, British minister of f<V‘-
eign affairs, in informing parlia
ment concerning the replies sent-by
France and Belgium to the British
reparations note.
The replies, both said, seemed to
hold out no prospect of any set
tlement of the Ruhr situation in
the near future, nor even the op
ening of discussions regarding rep
arations.
Premier Baldwin began his state
ment by reviewing the draft of the
British reply to Germany’s last
note, and he followed this by mak
ing the safne statement in the
house of commons that Lord Cur
zon had already made in the house
of lords, expressing regret that the
government could not find enough
material in the French and Belgian
responses to send a joint allied re
ply to the German note.
REICHBANK DISCOUNT
RATE NOW 30 PCT.
BERLIN, August 2.—(By the As
sociated Press.) —The German
Reichbank raised its discount rate
today to thirty per cent.
SMII EUMLf
Hopewell Church Addition and
Remodeling of Several Resi
dences Among Projects
ELLAVILLE, Aug. 2—Extensive
improvements are being made in
Ellaville and in Schley county, not
able among the Schley county proj
ects being the addition of ten Sun
day school rooms to Hopewell church
on the Buena Vista-Ellaville high
way. I'his church has a membership
of about 200 and under the leader
ship of C. H. Wall and R. E. L. Wal
ters, Sunday school superintendent,
has built this addition at a cost of
approximately 2,000. It is a two
story affair and adds very much to
the convenience as well as the looks
of the church.
In Ellaville improvements are be
ing made at the home of Dr. and
Mrs. W. D. Sears and on C. H.
Wall’s residence. Williams and Col
lins have made exensive improve
ments in their store. \
Mrs. D. Holmes and Miss Dorothy
Holmes wil lleaVe tonight for
Franklin, N. C., to spend the re
mainder of the summer, after
spending two months in Americus.
WHAT THOMAS
MEN SAW
Party who visited Cordele
and Ashburn tell of new
j small industries including
I ESTABLISHED
I CREAMERIES
-Where farmers are selling
thousands of dollars worth of
dairy products monthly. Read
this absorbing tale of indus
trial and agricultural devel
opment ig
THE DAILY
TIMES-RECORDER
Tomorrow. (Sumter county
and Sumter’s farmers can
and should profit by the ex
perience of other sections of
Georgia.
1 RESOLUTIONS KILL
DAY FOR HOUSE AT
ATLANTHHURSDAY
Fight on State Department of
Agriculture Again Up Be
fore House
SENATE PROBE TOO WEAK
Objection Made to Resolution on
Ground That It “Had
No Teeth’’
ATLANTA, Aug. 2—The consid
eration of two resolutions, one of
these a senate measure, and the
other ,by Representative Stewart, of
Atkinson, and a hundred and eight
other representatives, were before
the house here today. Both resolu
tions called for an investigation into
the affairs of the state department
of agriculture, of which J. J. Brown
is head.
Objection was made to the pro
vision of the senate probe measure
on the ground that it had “no
teeth.” and that any investigation
made under its provisions would be
“mostly .camouflage.”
ielSthoß
BIG MEETING SUNDAY
Bishop Warren A. Candler to Be
at Rylender, With Ceremony
During Afternoon
Americus Methodists will have
one of the greatest one-day meetinys
ever held in the history of Ameri
cus Sunday, when Bishop Warren
A. Candler will be a guest of the
engregation of First church here,
in honor of the coming of the senior
bishop of the South Georgia Con
ference, Rev. John M. Outler and
the members of the board of stew
ards of the congregation have se
cured the Rylander Theater in \vhich
to hold the usual morning services.
This service will begin at 11
o’clock, with Bishop Candler as the
preacher, and an especially attract
ive musical program arranged. Man
ager Herbert Kincey, of the Ry
lander, himself a good Methodist,
has agreed to keep the temperature
within the theater perfect during
the service, and the large typhoon
fans will be used to emty the theaL’
of air every three minutes. This in
sures perfect comfort during the
hour, and it is expected that one
of the largest crowds ever assem
bled in the big theater will be there
to hear Bishop Candler speak.
The occasion of Bishop Candler’s
visit is the first anniversary of the
burning of the handsome First
Methodist church, which is now be
ing rebuilt, and during the after
noon he will officiate* at the cere
monies incident to the laying of the
cornerstone of the new structure.
This ceremony will be held at the
church site, and wii’ start promptly
at 4 o’docu Siiri’ay afternoon, ae
cordin gto an announcement au
thorized this afternoon by the pas
tor, Rev. Joh M. Outler. Al| of
congregr.will oe pie.-cat at tins
ceremony, and Bishop Condler is
expected to speak briefly at that
hojir. The handsome stone to be used
is now being prepared for placing
under direction of E. W. Rawlings,
who has the contract for erecting
the new edifice and everything will
oe in readiness for the affair Sun
day afternoon at the appointed
hour.
Letters received today and Wed
nesday by Mr. Outler and members
of the board of stewards as well as
members of the congregation, indi
cate therg will be a number of out
of-town visitors here to greet Bishop
Candler, and numbers of Americus
people having relatives in nearby
towns have asked these to be their
guests Sunday, so they may enjoy
the opportunity of hearing Bishop
Candler, who is one of the greate.it
pulpit speakers in the entire coun
try.
FUNERAL OF POPE
CALLAWAY WEDNESDAY
LA GRANGE, August 2.—Fun
eral services for Pope F. Callaway
were held here yesterday morning
from the home of his brother Ful
ler E. Callaway. Mr. Callawy died
aftpr a brief illness. Interment
was made in Hillview cemetery.
Mr. Callaw was the son of the
late Rev. Abner R. Callaway and
a brother of the late Dr. Enoch
Callaway, former justice of the Su
preme Court of the United States.
He is survived by four brothers,
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CHINESE SOLDIERS
TOK lERONS
OH BOARD STMEB
Captain of Schooner Alice Dollar
and Wife Subjected to Indig
nities at Ichang
BOTH SERIOUSLY HURT
Fifteen of Rioters Arrested by
U. S. Bluejackets Summoned
to Aid
LONDON, August 2. (By the
Associated Press.) —In a fracas
aboard the American steamer Alice
Dollar, caused when a crowd of
Chinese soldiers boarded the ves
sel at Ichange and demanded free
transportation, the. captain of the
ship and three women were seri
ously injured, 5 according to a report
reaching customs officials here to
day. The injured women are the
wife and daughter of two of the
Dollar line agent’s here.
After the fight had been in
progress during some time, a party
of bluejackets from an American
gunboat responded to <tl:s for help
and succeeded in overpowering the
rioters, fifteen of whom were ar
rested. A number of shots were
fired before the trouble finally
ended.
cwWfim
STUDY COIL fflMLffl
Twenty-Five of Country’s Fore
most Mine Operators Com
pose Body Just Formed
WASHINGTON Aug. 2— -Twenty
five of the country’s foremost op
erators of soft coal mines were
named today by John C. Brydon,
president of the National Coal as
sociation, as members of a commit
tee whose purpose it sha'l be to
continue the study of problem.) con
fronting the industry, to pass on
questions of policy affoeti'ir the as
sociation and to form a closer liai
son between mine owners and the
public.
This committee is to be known as
the policy committee Os the associ
ation, a new body formed as the re
sult of a suggestion embodied in the
inr.ugural address of Mr. Brydon
when he was elected president of
th.e organization at its recent annual
meeting in Atlantic City. In select
ing its members the association’s
president not only chose carefully
with a view to giving the industry
adequate geographical representa
tion but the personnel is equally di
vided among owners of mines em
ploying union labor and those con
ducted under the open shop system.
By virtue of his office Mr. Brydon
will be chairman of the committee.
“We must organize to put our
selves regularly and continuously
into closer contact with the pub
lic’s interest and the public’s mind,”
Mr. Brydon declared today.
“In my opinion,” h.e continued,
“the action taken by the member
ship of the National Coal Associa
tion at its recent annual meeting at
Atlantic Qlty in authorizing the
appointment of a policy committee,
is the most advanced step we have
taken. It means that the members
of the association have recognized
and are ready voluntarily to assume
the obligations which belong to a
great industry.
“The membership of the policy
committee is not confined to the
National Coal Association,” Mr.
Brydon explained. “In making up
the committee, counsel and advice
have been sought beyond as well as
within the association. This has re
sulted in a committee membership
which is truly representative of the
industry as a whole.
“For example, the entire mem
bership of the Bituminous Operat
ors’ Special Committee, which was
not confined to the association, is
included in the policy committee.
The special committee has for some
months been making a careful, ex
haustive and intensive study of the
soft coal industry in co-operation
with the United States Coal Commi
ssion. The policy committee will ben
efit by inclusion of all special
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WORKING TO PUT ~~
LINKS IN CONDITION
WAYCROSS, August 2. r— "he
greens committee of the Waycross
Golf club began Monday the work
of putting holes seven, eight and
nine in condition for play.
WEATHER
For Georgia: Local thundershow
ers probably tonight and Friday.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
CONDITION GE LUNGS
SHOWING DEFINITE
IPROVEINT NOW
President “Feeling Easier This
Morning and on Road to
Early Recovery
ACUTE ILLNESS IS OVER
Marked Exhaustion Remains as
Chief Symptom of Recent Se
rious Attack
PRESIDENTIAL HEADQUAR
TERS, San Francisco, Calif., Aug.
2. (By the Associated Press.)
An official bulletin issuer by Gen
eral Sawyer, President Harding’s
attending physician, at 9:4.5 this
morning said that the chief execu
tive had several hours of restful
sleep during the night and that ex
cept for the marked exhaustion of
acute illness he had expiessed him
self as “feeling easier this morn
ing.”
The attending physicians said in
their statement at that hour that
while the president’s recovery
“would take some little time” they
were more confident today than
heretofore as to the outcome of
Harding’s illness.
The condition of Mr. Harding’s
lufigs which became affected Mon
day by pneumonic symptoms, the
statement said, .showed “definite
improvement” today.
HAD RESTFUL NIGHT.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
PRESIDENTIAL HEADQUAR
TERS, San Francisco, Aug. 2—(By
Associated Press) —President Hard
ing had another “restful night,” his
second within forty-eight hours, and
his temperature this morning was
normal, according to An informal
statement issued here today by
General Sawyer, who is the presi
dent’s personal physician.
At 7:55 this morning the presi
dent’s condition was reported as
generally better, with temperature
98 1-16, respiration 36, and pulse
110.
COUNCIL IN REGULAR
SESSION LAST NIGHT
Routine Business Conducted
With Committee Authorized
to Borrow SI,COO
City council met last night in
regular session at the council cham
ber, a quantity of routine business
being conducted. I 'resent at the
meeting were Mayor J, E- Poole,
and Aidermen Mitchell, Witt, Cars
well, Allison and Mize, and the busi
ness before the body was quickly
dispatched.
Aiderman Carswell presented a
resolution authorizing the finance
committee of council to borrow sl,-
000 from the Planters Bank of
Americus at 8 per cent interest,
payable December 1, which was
unanimously, passed, and he also re
ported that the finance committee
had discounted the taxes of the
Bank of Commerce, amounting to
$ 1,460, at 8 per cent to the bank,
which action was formally approved
by council. The bank’s taxes were
discounted, Aiderman Carswell
stated, instead of borrowing a like
sum from the bank, Mr. Sheffield
having declined to make a loan to
the committee until after a con
sultation with his attorney who at
the time was.out of the city.
Aiderman Mize reported that he
has visited the “pest house” proper
ly of the city and had arranged with
W. J. Josey to rent the same at
SB.OO a month for the two houses.
He also informed council that the
pond created by a dam placed in
Town Creek by the. Americus Light
ing Company had been reduced with
the water now at normal, and that
this no longer constituted any health
menace.
Aiderman Witt directed attention
to the fact that several city depart
ments have exceeded their monthly
quotas under the budget as adopted
by council, and cautioned council
and heads of departments against
th'fe practice. It was evident from
his remarks that Aiderman Witt is
determined the city shall live within
the budget appropriations, and this
view was also shared by other mem
bers of council who discussed the is
sue after the session adjourned.
The usual approval was given all
properly audited bills, after which
council adjourned.
MRS- SMITH CONTINUES
STILL DESPERATELY ILL
Mrs. James W. Smith continues
desperately ill at the City hospital,
her condition remaining unchanged
since Wednesday.
Physicians and nurses are fight
ing to save her life, and it is hoped
that the crisis will be met today
and passed successfully. .