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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15. 1924 CAMPAIGN COST WILL BE GIVEN WIDE PIMTV Senator Borah and Committee Will Tabulate Presidential Election Funds WASHINGTON, Oct. 15—How much will the election of the next president cost? Three millions? Five millions? Ten? The amount of hard cash contri buted to and spent by the respec tive organizations handling the Coo lidge, Davis and La Follette fights is to’ be tabulated by a special Se nate committee headed by Senator Borah, other members of which are Jones of Washington, also a Repub lican; Bayard of Deleware and Ca raway of Arkansas, Democrats, and Shipstead of Minnesota, Farmer- Labor party. The work of the committee has begun and regular reports are now being made, but no totals have been announced as .yet. From now on, however, reports are to be made at 10-day intervals, with the idea that publicity will be an effective curb on extravagant expenditures. * ♦ ♦ Present likelihood is that the cost of this years campaign will not equal that of 1920, when a record amount was spent to bring abn.it the election of President Harding. Managers of the Harding cam paign spent nearly $8,000,000 that year, as compared to about SIOO,- 000 spent by Republicans in the first campaign to elect Lincoln, There are two reasons why the outlay this year will not be so lav ish. Presidnt Coolidge is by na ture not merely thrifty but fugal. The keystone of his campaign is the slogan, “Economy and common sense.” He insists that his mana gers shall practice what he preaches. The second reason is even mere compelling. Contributions are nit so lavish. There is ample cash, but there is no barrel. Possibly the reserves are merely being tapped as the amounts are needed, so the Borah report may not be damaging Every effort is being made to keep the fiscal report in shape to justify the claim that Coolidge, in his cam paign as well as in his personal expenditures, is the “hard-boiled economizer,', he has been dubbed by Senator Capper of Kansas. ♦ * ♦ The Democrats and the Indepen dents are- economical from necessity rather than choice. Both have attempted to make capital out of their lack of capital, declaring they would rather have single dollars from many individu als than large sums from a few. and that big donations not only were not sought but were not want ed. However, there is no record cf either outfit being compelled to re turn any large checks in order to live up to their good resolutions. The drive of the Democrats for “Victory Club” contributors, and the sale of La Follette-Wheeler me dallions art $1 each, continues un abated. 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Write or see R. C. Ellis, President, or G. C. Webb, Vice-Pros*, dent, in charge of the Home Office, Americus. Georgia.— Empire Loan and Trust Company Americus, Georgia When Bomb Exploded in Army Blimp TC-2 i ' • • - • ‘ . ... .—jflHafflWhnr,,--1... y ..... 1 Jib az.,, i ■- -<w < s • J Here is the wreck of the TC-2, I • ; army blimp which crashed to earth i at Langley Field, Newport News, ; I Va., when a bomb exploded. Lieu ’l tenant Bruce R. Martin died of in •. 1 juries. Others of the crew owe ■ their lives to the fact that the bal : I loon was filled with helium instead . of highly explosive hydrogen. high in administration and Rem.it lican counsels, took an active part in keeping Washington’s dope on ■ straight during the world’s series : games here. Postmaster General Harry New, ; who used tto be a sport write' on . - his father’s paper, the Indianapolis • , Journal, turned reporter again and . I “covered” the series, therby g‘tt- ■ | ir.g a free seat in the press box and ■ ' a “by-line” in a Washington paper. ( Colonel George Haive ,<m r ■ ambassador to Great Britain, r.iw editor-in-chief of Ned McLean's -1 Washington Post, who 40 years ago . , sold a story to St. Nicholas Maga ; zine about a game between the i Peacham and Danville <Vt.) teams, . resurrected this fact as testimonial . to his claim of being a “sport ex . pert,” and therefore qualified to , i speak with authority on the tech i nique of the Giants and Senators. . ‘ I might “horn in” on this situa | tion for my own family by pointing . out that the hero of Haryey’s Hunt, who, according to the colonel, pitch i ed the first curve ball ever thrown ; in New England. CENTRAL BAPTIST JR. B. Y. P. U. WEINER ROAST Mrs. J. J. Kinard, leader of the Juinor B. Y. P. U., entertained the members of it with a weiner roast this week on the Ellaville road After many games were played ’ and after supper was served they , returned home. Mrs. Kinard was assisted in en- > tertaining by Mr. and Mrs. Banks and Miss Bertha Kinard. •| The members present were: j Virginia Purvis, Marion Tillman Marie Purvis, Ruth Howell, Verna i Kinard, Bernar O’flarity, Marvin i Keenmore, George Kenmore, B n | Hall, Linton Fletcher, H. W. Smith, I Herbert Banks, Joe Boswell, Fate | Hall, John M. Parker, Addison Dea | vours, Frank Worthy, James Eld ridge, Buster Deavours, Kenneth Kinard. LOTS OF FLOWERS Flowers are seen everwherc on the fall frocks from the small em broidered nosegays on the lapels of the tailored costumes to the cors ages of natural orchids. Camellias, roses, orchids and combinations of small flowers are popular. Was a Good Judge of Liquor. 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Among these f are the coal question, the clothing : of the family is heavier and more expensive raiment and whether or not the cotton crop will reach 20,- 000 bales or more. Since the war another worry has been added to the many that con front us at the start of the winter season. This regards the migration of the negro northward. The farm , er will no doubt welcome the news’ chat the influx of the negro to the colder climes has just about stopped. In an interview with H. C. White, freight and passenger agent for the Central of Georgia Railroad, wo find that at this time last year ne groes were going north at the alarm ing rate of 250 a month. At the present time he rarely sells over 15 northbound tickets monthly. These statistics should be welcom ed by the farmer and the merchant. It means cheaper and more plenti ful labor, especially during th-i planting season. While the railroad ticket show a decrease in northbound fares, the agent feels that the negro, if he is employed in the South at SIO.OO a week will spend probably ha-f of this on short ride fares. “Taking everything into consider ation' we should be glad that the negro has stopped his rambling and is gradually becoming immune to the promise of so-called higher wages in the North,” says Mr. U bite Several northern cities are wres tling with the problem of preventing more southern negroes moving to them under the mistaken impression that work is plentiful and wages good in the north, it is pointed cut by railroad passenger agents. 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She is speaking in behalf of her Socialist husband’s candidacy, de spite the violent objections of her tatlier, the of Gurzon. those who go north soon find the promise of work a false one and when their money is exhausted, which is very soon after arrival, they are helpless and powerless to return again to their southern homes ” 30 ROUNDS OF BOXNIG - American Legion Armory Hall FRIDAY A 6 "ffa* OCT. 17th. 8 1g A p BP M ( Main Event 10 ROUNDS BEN SPIVEY The Lightweight Who Knocked Out Bob Gibson VS DICK WHITE The Hard-Hitting Columbus Lightweight Boxer (naaanM|| wi | MaauiaMManKMHaaaMßaßaßMannßMßa ■HaHmMMßHmmaaaamaMaaaMMaaMi Semi-Final 8 ROUNDS Baxter Roper vs Phillip White Two Hard-Hitting Lightweights WMwg M— wmwubi igwawt-wyegtTaaiTMTtiiMi!! .'mgi—m— rnmiTiTiiM i n mm !■■■ ■—wtn—B— i mu. unHf-m TWO EXCELLENT preliminaries POPULAR PRICES SSIMI® ramFKffli Statistics Show Murders Increas ed Where Executions Were Abolished i CHICAGO, Oct. 15—.1s the death | penalty a deterrent to murder and ' a protection to society? Much argument over this is likely to enliven the legislature at Spring field this coming winter. The ques tion becomes acute as a result of the judge’s decision in the Leopold-Loeb case. It is the old attempt to abolish cap ital punishment in Illinois. It is timely for the ordinary citizen to prime up the subject. The experi ence of other states affords one ap proach. In the last 10 years five states abolished the death penalty and then restored it. The general reason was that crime had increased. Arizona abolished the gallows as the maximum penalty for murder in 1916 and restored it in 1918. Missouri abolished the death pen alty in 1917 and restored it in 1919. The homicide rate had increased from 91 for each million population to 103. Oregon abolished capital punish ment in 1914 and restored it in 1921. Washington took the death pen alty off in 1913 and put it back in 1919, largely due to deeds of viol ence by the “wobbles.” Tennessee abandoned capital pun ishment in 1915, re-established it in 1917. Crime Decrease Follows, lowa in 1872 got rid of the”death penalty. But six years later that state restored it by allowing juries to fix punishment for murder, which ic either death or imprisonment for life. In a bulletin in 1917 the Mas sachusetts sivic alliance said: “Mur der in lowa increased very rapidly from 1872 to 1876, until, for this reason, the death penalty was re stored.” Colorado abolished capital punish ment in 1897, but as a result of a lynching outbreak in 1900 restored it in 1901. Vermront repealed the death pen alty in 1911, except that a jury could render a verdict “with capital punishment.” The law, however, was supposed to be a complete repeal of capital punishment. Ihe result, so the' civic alliance bulletin sets forth, was that in the first year after the repeal there were 20 murders in the little state of Vermont. But after a jury gave a verdict “with capital punishment” in the Elroy Kent case and sent him lo the gallows the -rime wave “sub sided almost entirely. “This illustration of the marked effect of the hanging ot one n.un in that state, says the civic alliance, was so great, that the Vermont legi slature in 1913 restored full capital punishment by mandate for mur der, by an over-whelming majority.” Even in Rhode Island, which elimi nated the death penalty in 1852, murder increased and violence among lifers in the state prison be came so serious that in 18*1 capital | punishment was partially restored for murder by a life convict within 1 the prison. Thus, .at least one-eights of the states appear to have learned from actual experience that the death pen alty is a service to society and that it possesses value as a deterrent. I The mere presence of capital pur-' ishment in the criminal code, of course, is not sufficient in itself. Inevitability of punishment always is a far greater deterrent of ciime than is severity of a threatened pen-' alty. When combined they are the greatest discouragement. Chicago saw this a few years ago. | The crime commission pointed out that on April 1, 1920, there v/. re 135 persons awaiting trial for rnur- ‘ der in Chicago, and of those 101' were out on bond, many of them committing other crimes. Four judges in the civil courts vol unteered to sit in the criminal court until the docket was cleared. In the' trial of these cases 12 were sentenc-' cd to hang and 12 to the peniten tiary. The effect upon crimes of viol ence—murders, burglaries and rob beries—was electrical. The murder For healthful complexions eat foods made with cimun THE WOBED'S GREATEST BAKINC POWDEB Its greater leavening strength means light bakings perfect digestion SALES 2*/« TIMES THOSE OF ANY OTHER BRAND PAGE SEVEN rate was cut in half. Where there were 330 murders in Chicago in 1919 there were 190 in 1921.’ The burglary and robbery rate fell olf, and where the police in 1919 re ceived 15,000 criminal complaints in 1921 they received 10,500. re duction of cue-third. Much of the propaganda for re-? peal of tne death penalty seeks to prove that fewer murders occur in states without the gallows than in these with it. The figures, however, are the reverse of convincing. In the first place, statistic* op crime are haphazard and unsatipfgc-. tory and not standardized. Qbnci tions vary greatly according to states, the makeun of population, the centralization of people in cities. One pamphlet seeks to compare a homicide rate of 35 per million pop ulation in the f’ve states, Maine, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan, whwh have no capital punishment, with a rate of 84 per million population in 25 death pen alty states. The comparison is worth less, one factor that makes it foolish is the rate among the negroes in the south, which is about five times as great as the homicide rate among whites. BREAKFAST COATS Changeable taffetas and satins are made into the most attractive break fast coats that are padded and quilt ed and lined with soft white wool. Neuralgia or headache—rub the forehead -“melt and inhale the vapors VICKS V a f=» o R u e O«*r 17 Million Jan Uud Yoarly
