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THURSDAY AFTERNOON. AUGUST 28. 1924 MB PRE [MINEHT 11 WETTING Os BIR r Hughes and Lewis Possessors of Most Striking Pairs of Whisk ers at London Meet BY HARRY HUNT WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. Amer ica again proved her pre-eminence a t the recent garden party given by his majesty, George, king of Eng land, etc., to representatices of the American Bar Association visiting in l.unnon. ■ three most striking P airs Ot in evidence on this oc- of whis -by common con- casion, two wer W States. 6 ent conceded to the whis . ‘£“«“ P ”" “ him close,' however and hans hept out of first choice perhaps allegiance to the monarch, was Secretary of State Hughes, who in turn barely nosed out ahead of J. Ham Lew.s or Chicago, former bearded beauty of the United States Senate. in fact, as Baron Renfrew is re ported to have remarked facetiously, Hughes just beat Lewis by a whisk. U No more interesting evolution has hern witnessed in Washington than the changes in the Hughes beard during the past eight years. When he retired from the bup reme Court to run for the presiden cy in 1916, Hughes’ beard was a rich nut-brown, of medium length, fastidiously parted in the middle. When he returned to Washington, after four years of law practice in New York, the barbers had taken half an inch off its length and timt had sprinkled it with a scattering of gray hairs. By degrees, as secretary of state, even this abbreviated length has been shortened. Today, almost wholly gray and still parted with meticulous care, there is not enough of the Hughes beard left to give the most angry diplomat a hand-hold. A diplomatically “safe” beard! Democrats here in the capital are Jiarlticularly pleased that Hughes hirsute victory was not a walka way for the G. 0. P. representative. If the Democratic convention had not already been held, J. Ham might be given the vice presidential nonti mation in return for the showing his whiskers made abroad. Time, however, is taking the high lights out of the beard that was one? the pride of J. Ham’s life. The glowing tints that once won for him the title of “pink whiskers” are now subdued as the graying twilight oi his years advances. Age, however, has not yet touched the jauntiness of J. Ham’s spirit, and the graying beard is flaunted with all the abon donment with which it was worn even in its pinkest, days. Some searcher of the records, del ving for light as to what may happen should Lafollette succeed in dead locking the presidential election this fall, has turned up the generally un known fact that Davis R. Atchison, a senator from Mossuuri, for when Atchison, Kas., was named, is entitl ed to be included in the list of presidents of the United Mates. Achison was president pro-tem pore of the Senate through the twenty-ninth, thirtieth and thirty second Congresses. Th e fourth of March, 1849, falling on a Cunday, Zachary Taylor was not sworn in as president until the following day, March 5. In the meantime the term of James K. Tolk had expired at noon on March 4. The Congressional Biographical Directory, compiled under authority °f Congress and therefore official records of Atchison: this office (president pro-tem pore of the senate) made him presi tnt of the United States during March 4, 1849, as General J'lyior was not sworn into office un lil the following day.” Ail of which fs now presented as a Presidency, next March 4, of Pres- Wecedent for the accession to the ■ Pr °- te mpore Cummins of low-:, , | -<l a deadlock in both houses of vngiess follow a deadlock in the electoral college. MOSQUITOES descend ON CHICAGO COLONY CHICAGO, August 28.—Hordes of mosquitoes descended recently upon North Shore and northwestern communities here in such nmubers that eleven golf courses were closed, the children of one town were ordered to remain indoors. Within 12 hours the danger from fi'e mosquitoes had become so acute that Dr. Harry W. Moore, health officer at Winnetka, issued an order declaring an emergency and direct •nß children to remain at home until further notice. His order came after scores of youngsters had been stricken with fever, said to have Teen resulted from the bite of the unwelcome visitants. Wealthy residents of the fashion -54 de North Shore communities met a, !d donated thousands of dollars to# *und to drive the pests away. A innetka residents and authori ‘es are leading the fight. Sunday le y placed orders for hundreds of ‘■Prayers and many gallons of ernde They issued a call for volun- BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES- There’s a Difference . ■ -By Martin I D\wFr f YGUR COME .{y,,, | CAMB SAVED , WHY, I 90CKG CALLING FOR. CYIIEE I HOW D© Y To e A ., Tn EM IM THE AMD r L HELP 1 t)FF . 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AUAORNIN6 <«AT | VOU TWS ■IL DAY TIEN > OMFTWN’GOOD J \' 'A YOU WT 6-GO.MNA V AACRNIN6, M Jr- 7 “ EAT TAJI6HV.’ ) i 7 | \ T® / I WANE PEAcSH t—' I FPEckLES H| 1 S—U S, T\ ' \ -COB9LE P'J S ' Xy 'h((\C ? ’ B ) Q W JOI ■ ~l inF -oi mBB J - JbU > ,4 w .t’FW J w e J K__ - z < . x 1024, by NE.\SerYi t et Ine.i * . i 1 * * WASHINGTON TUBS II Dewed Cp - rl -1.- i! affiSSyWfe By Blosser / \ T (mfAAut f N6 f^ R ' I TOR W / RMS DESLRW DIET OF LIVER AN' f SHOOT SKY «XK£TS_, THIS AIN'T NO SHIP oFHOwmsh 4 . •r> ONNiK <5T ' NEARER THAT 7//<®W H V JU ( L a ‘ <Wf TREASURE =V\W nf >' KERB 4lX\| o /\W in the'south wZwZ3 \ .rvWsP’A JL4 s k rt 'k\ GETTING RIM l/W/O \\T. f ° SB- " VTv\—ll-r I b V"- ll \F. -iW-ZJr J j 1924, by SEA Service? ice.—-- DIRECTORS M WE WK Continued from page 1 judging from all reports and press comment, they have found this cf material value in the development of their agriculture in accordance with the Georgia Association’s “cow hog-hen” plan, and in bringing their agricultural resources to the atun tion of the interested reading pub lic. This article, Mr. White explain ed, would, if desired, be fallowed by others subsequently, without cost to the county, as has been the case in several of the counties he has “covered” since the series of coun ty agricultural stories was begun a year ago. , Jt Was pointed out also that by joining ilew Sumter county woulu have whatever benefit might accrue from representation in the Septem ber number of Georgia, the maga zine that is published monthly by the Georgia Association, which num ber will in particular feature the dairying and tobacco industries in this state and be ciruclated widely among a selected list of prospective Georgia home-seekers new resident in the Carolinas and the states of the north, west and middle west. The foregoing are only a few, and the most immediate, of the many advantages of membership, as ■explained by fthe two speakers, amont Others being representation at the National Dairy Show, to be held at Milwaukee, Wise, Septet ! ber-October4, inclusive, and at the International Livestock Show, to be held at Chicago next December, for each of which the Georgia Associa- sistance of the Association in theg organization of a local far n credit , corporation through which Sumter farmers would have access to the , federal funds of the Intermediate Credit Bank, Columbia, S. C., at 7 per cent interest and three year/ time, with which to equip thei farms with livestock; access to al inquires for farm lands and rural opportunities, which inquiries are received by the Georgia Association as a result of the advertising it does through its magazine, the Sunday American articles, and special art icles, that appear from time to time in newspapers and periodicals of na tional etc. . , • The Georgia Association, which is a state-wide development, non-piot it, organization, under the leader ship of the late President George T. Betts, Ashburn, is responsible for the adaptation of “the cow, the hog and the hen” system of farming as a means of overcoming the ravages of the boll weevil, and its applica tion in Turner county, whence came its now nationally famous eppella tion “the Turner County Plan.” At the meeting Wednesday the facts were brought out, that through the activities of the Association in co-operation with those of the State College of Agriculture and the Stat.? Department of Agriculture, all three instrumentalities working in har mony and conjunction to a single purpose, 10,000 animals hav e been added to the dairy cow “popula i tion” of Georgia within the last i year; that since the cow-hog-hen plan was inaugurated in Turner county the number of creameries ! n > operation in Georgia has increase! from one to more than 20; that in . the same period of time commercial > egg hatcheries, with a combined r capacity of upwards of 650,000 eggs - per month for five months in the T THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDS! < ?ia; that the poultry alone in Geor gia has been increased in monetary value more than $20,000,000 per annum, and that, while the hog in dustry in Georgia and the country over experienced a severe falling of I last year, at this time, according to official statistics, the number of brood sows, bred to farrow in the fall, has increased approximately 0 pei - cent as against a decrease ol more than 5 per cent in the natii n as a whole, etc. While Sumter county has made a splendid showing in every phase ot its agriculture since our farmers generally began diversifying their crops as a meana of combatting tho boll weevil, the concensus of the opinion expressed ny the Chamber of Commerce officials at tnc meet ing Wednesday is that still greater progress along this line can be made if the county becomes affiliated with the state’s only recognized organize tion for state-wide development, and thus to avail itself of the benefits to be derived through cooperation ac tion and the facilities for develop ment that have been worked out and perfected by the Georgia Associa tion. UNION HIGH SCHOOL WILL OPEN MONDAY LESLIE, August 28.—Union High School will open for the fall term Monday morning, September . 1. The teachers for the year wdl i be: J. M. Harvey, Superintendent; i W. L. Lamb, Printipal; Miss Gladys i Taylor high school; Mrs. Annie G. Jones and Miss Christine' Martin [ sth, 6th and 7th grades; Miss Lucy I Furlow and Miss Louise Walters s 2nd, 3rd and 4th grades; Miss Jose ; phine Harvey, Ist grade and Frenca 1 • . V _ a THE OLD HOME TOWN i - By Stanley . _____ '~ l - 2 say -so BF?UNO shows/ .XMnn r ~( FAR othys J/) I DP there ll / ESie V wEto fM & SliagL l IFA/<v m / a ” ; 1 -" W - IF/ ’yf- Ifi' i i 1 M Irr <d|K w li ) j| ’/ < ctanlc / / IT WAS A CLEVER. OF MAR-SHAL. OTEY WALKED /W IN MAKING A CAT CENSUS TO WA»T UNTIL. THE ( TOADVILLE FISH MAN THROUGH TOWN J PAGE FIVE
