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Mount Vernon, Ga.. Thar Morning, January 15, 1920.
CAMPAIGN FOR PROHIBITION
EXTENSION BEGINS JAN. 16
IN SIX SOUTHERN STATES
Success Forecasted by Prominent Citizens Head
ing Movement in Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
Mississippi, Couth Carolina and Tennessee
Quota’s Total $2,07 5,000 for Enforcement.
With reports from organ)/, it ion lead
ers In every stule giving ■' '
of success, the tampan n 111 1
funds to carry on the Prnliiln 1 ion l<*
enforcement and extc-i, .1 n w "f
the Anti-Saloon League open ) nd;.y
in six southern .slat>-*
The campaign starts Jan I ny In,
the day the National I’!' tlhlll >’i
Amendment becomes effect acl
will continue one week, under the di
rection of Edwunl Young Clark of
Atlanta. The total <|itotu for the nix
southern slates Is $2,975,000, divided
as follows. Mississippi, s.'ieii,ooo; Klor
idu, $350,000; South Carolina, t ■’>' >.-
000; Aiuhuma, $700,000; Georgiu,
$650,007T; Tennessee. $600,000.
“While reports from every section
are encouraging and indicate succ
for the campaign, we must lake nmii
ing for granted,” sytd Judge Nash K.
Mrnyleg, chief Justice of the Genrgia
Court of Ap|ieals and cliaiiaian at the
stats executive committee for Gc r
gis.
Fighting Prohibition •
“Tlie unceasing efforts wli'h h \
marked the organization work po
llmlnury to the opening of the actual
campaign for funds must he continu
ed right through to the I i mlnu • ■
There must be no relaxation an,
where. ”
“The same tireless enei y lliut lit
marked the successful fight to div
from America the legalized ale of li
quor must continue’ through this
movement to provide tin slnev. s of
war with which to enforce the lav
that have banished the trai ltc a d
to continue the attack upon it in o
er lands where It has talon fo.uln
“The liquor element boasts that it
bus billions of Uolluiv with which to
defeat Prohibition; that If it c >
break it down in the court: i t
make prohibit ion so of , naive I <
laxity In enforcement so iiotoi .o .
that the people will demand a Him.
to the legalized saloon.
Hardest Fight Ahead.
“Advised by able ' counsel, led h\
Kllhu Hoot, they hope to make c< «•
tlons so intolerable and the viola! I
so flagrant that the people of tic
country will become disgusted w. s.
the situulloii and will pn*t. r liqu
sold openly by legal action .> the un
licensed reign of the 'blind tiger and
the 'bootlegger.'
"No thinking man can doubt th.
Prohibition right now lias its t ,nl. -i
fight ahead of it. Wo have legislated
the saloon out of business, hut It
niuklng a determined light to eo
built. The liquor form s, ill :voil t .
the last ditch, are making (lie hard'
fight of their lives. Kelt"wed a
lacks now are being made in th
courts to nullify the iTohihitiou j
laws.
"While these legal tiiovt doulnlcs
will be checkmated by the aide conn
sel representing the drys, it cannot Ip
done without great expense. If w
are to see the work of years upheld
and vindicated we mu t provide tin
funds with which to bring it about
We must more than match dollar for
dollar with the liquor Until, w.
must provide aufficient funds to over
•dm them at their own game
u speed and effectiveness with
tlie remaining work is to he
May Change Scat of
League of Nations
Washington, Jan. 11 Recalls i
the United States did not join the
entente powers and Japan in .the
conclusion of peace yesterday it:
Paris, the seat of the league ol ■
nations may go to Brussi 1
giuni, instead of Goneva?S\\
land, as provided in the ha
covenant. President Wilson was
responsible for the selection ot
Geneva in the first place, the
French and British pr> t
yielding to his sugestion th ;
personally they preferred Hr .
sels because it was far more can
veniently situated with regard t
Paris and London.
Informatiou received here to
day is to the effect that the secre
tary of the league which lias been
organized informally in London
dune d< j < nda almost entirely upon
C moral and financial support and
. ,> operation of those* who have made
p. tdble the reaultH ao far achieved.
Calling to the South.
The I'rohihitiou forces are calling
now to the South to finish the Job.
lb re, where Prohibition was cradled,
the place to not the pace and blaze
i i way for tlie balance of the nation
and the world.
"Thin campaign does not propose tc
interfere with individuals; It la wag
ing no war on tobacco; It is driving
only toward enforcement of the law
a Ire idy on the statute books and the
enactment of others that may be
’ nci i ary to reinforce them.
“(I is Intended primarily as a cam
-1 patgn of education. Literature te
counteract the propaganda of the wets
i.s being disacminuted, meeflngs will
la held and dry candidates will b*
lppoi i d against those of the wete
for every political office from presi
dent downward.
"Officer:* charged with enforcement
of the Prohibition laws will be en
c mi <1 and upheld so long ns they
do their full duty and those who are
In, will he vigorously opposed at the
, ’ polls.”
In addition to the great work oi
law eni hi cinent and combatting the
liqu i pi pauutidu in this country
11 re is the""greater task of carrying
tin- war on liquor traffic into othei
count rics.
"World Prohibition by 1930 is the
_ aim of the dry forces.
World Dry By 1930.
Itmiic.l from America, many of the
1 1 ii-. and brewers are planning te
i. mine their business in China and
r countries where the liquor traf
i , Mill bolds sway. Already liquor
rut.in . arc preparing to bring liquoi
i this country by airplane Iron:
. Mi iio and tlie West Indies.
Ml tl i !■ countries and those ol
ic and Central and Mouth Amer
ate i illing to us for uid. We must
that thc> arc not disappointed
> i e what wo have accomplishsd
ro . :al they are looking to us tc
... w them the way.
i n mi, , c;,: fully combat the effort*
t the lii|ii"i inter, si at home, to heed
i call for help from China and the
.oi countries where the liquor hi
r< : arc selling to become intrench
I and also to carry Prohibition to th*
tin w.-rkl by the time set —1930- -
ill require a large expenditure ot
funds.
Necessity is Obvious.
it J tlantt, recently placed In
I. ice of Prohibition enforcement in
the South, declares the government
< i print ion for this purpose for 1920
wi.full.v insufficient and that II
w i l he impossible for the federal gov
eminent to take over all tlie respon
nihility.
"There is no doubt that this cam
paign for funds, with its purposes
dearly understood and the pressing
Tec. sily for its success obvious, wll! J
ia reive the active support of a large |
■ i ctitagc of the people of the South :
"tt vitally concerns the business
mail from whose employees the temp
tattoii of strong drink has been re \
.imcd. and it also vitally concerns j
i the mothers of this country, whose
i.s, now grow ing to manhood, will '
ver knew the debasing influence ol
the saloon."
for many months past now is
arraying forjhe selection of per
i it ent headquarters and is ex
picted to decide within a day or
two between the conflicting claims
of Geneva and Brussels.
In Geneva the secretariat al
. aly has selected a large build-'
it; . air; >st completed, with spe- j
To reference to the needs of the I
.e. Brussels cannot extend:
•>. : accommodations but be
m f it'superior convenience
iti th matter of location seems
1. .o:> now to be chosen.
Ti Swiss claims are further
e■»: Hr. 'd by reason of the fact
hat tiie Swiss government has
'.tatinjr about adhering to J
•.uiie. tearing that Switzer
. d's neutrality would be serious
>• affected. The latest advices
at country are that thegovern
r tit probablv would await the;
a mi i>f th United States Sen
ate before determining its own
course.
fHE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1920.
WANTS TO PROBE
| SOUTH’S PRIMARIES
Author of Senate Resolution
Made Visit to Atlanta
Last Week.
Special service to Montgomery Monitor.
Atlanta. —Senator George H. Mo
ses of New Hampshire, author of the
senate resolution providing for a joint
committee of the house and senate
to investigate elections laws of the
several states for the purpose of as
certaining whether any of them re
strict the suffrage of citizen* In vio
lation of the fourteenth amendment
to the federal constitution, was in At
lanta as a member of the joint com
mittee investigating salaries paid the
men in the different branches of the
postal service. Senator Moses was
asked to discuss his resolution and
readily consented. He said it was not
the purpose of the proposed investi
gation to bring about federal inter
ference in state elections, but it was
contemplated that election laws in
certain states —the Southern states,
for example—might have a bearing
upon the number of representatives
in the national bouse apportioned to
those states and upon the number of
representatives their votes in the elec*
toral college. Southern senators led
by Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia are
planning a fight to the finish against
the Moses resolution. They look upon
it as another attempt in a new dis
guise to bring about federal interfer
ence in state elections in the South.
Senator Smith is a member of the sub
committee of the judiciary committee
to which the resolution was referred.
Big Bird Supper To Newspaper Men
Quitinaw. —Newspaper owners and
publishers who attend the meeting of
the Eleventh District Press Associa
tion here January 19 will be guests
of the Quitman chamber of commerce
i at a luncheon at the Country club,
when Georgia and Florida editors will
find broiled birds and the famous
Brooks county Juicy, red hams in
abundance. At a calj meeting of the
chamber of commerce committees
were appointed to make elaborate
plans for the luncheon as well as
tlie entertainment of the visiting
newspaper people.
State Horticulture Meetifig Jan. 30-31
Athens. —The Georgia State Horti
cultural Society wil lhold its semi
annual meeting in Athens on Jan
uary 30 and 31. This meeting fol
lows immediately after a ten-day short
course for general farmers, and a
large attendance is expected. A live
and interesting program has been ar
ranged, and men of national promi
nence along horticultural lines will
lie on hand to discuss the various sub
jects of horticulture.
Monroe To Have Soil Survey
Forsyth.—Monroe county is to have
a complete survey of her soils. Two
:nen front the bureau of soils of the
United States department of agricul
lure and the State College of Agricul
ture will make the survey. An ac
curate map of the county will be
made, showing the various soils and
a chemical analysis will be made of
the various soile for the benefit of
the farmers and those desiring to pur
chase land.
Trade Board Instructs Planters
Griffin.—The Griffin and Spalding
county bourd of trade, through County
Agent W. T. Bennett, is sending to
every cottou raiser in the county a
circular containing forty-two sugges
tions for cotton production under the
boll weevil conditions. The*»e sugges
tions cover cottort'culture from the be
ginning to the end of the crop and
give specific directions for the prep
aration of the land and cultivation
and fertilization of the plant in detail.
New Highway Planned
Savannah. —A highway from Pitts
burg, Pu., to Miami, Fla., via Savan
nah. is being vigorously projected by
! Pittsburg interests, according to an
J nouncement made here. The interest
of governors of the states anil mayors
of the cities through which the pro
: posed tourist highway shall pass is
being actively solicited.
"
Dredging Begun On Terminals
Savannah. —Work has been begun
by the Globe Dredging company on
deepening of the Seaboard Air Line
terminals here to accommodate ships
of 25 to 35 foot draft. A, total of 10.- f
000 square feet of berthing space wilt
be available, with 26 feet of water at
mean low tide.
Hides In Swamp; Then Surrender?
Dublin. —Matt Edwards, the white
man who shot and fatally wounded
his wife near Winter. about ten miles
from Dublin, was arrested by Sheriff
W. N. Watson, after Edwards had
been in the swamp ten days. Ed
wards » 56 years of age. and was
found in bad physical shape from
exposure. His feet are frostbitten and
he was almost starved. He weut tc
the home of his brother-in-law about
; fifteen miles from Dublin, and noti
tied the sheriff, who later found hiui
•here.
Fred M. Harris
Attorney at Law
MT. VERNON, UA
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Millionaire Club At Brunswick OfAr
Brunswick. —The first guests of the
"Jekyl Island dug have arrived on
the island, and from now on it is ex
pected that the beautiful home of the
millionaires will be crowded, as many
of the best known millionaires in the
country will visit the resort, some tc
spend the remainder of the winter.
The club house was formaly opened
and some one hundred to be employed
as help having arrived recently.
Fitzgerald Bank Plans Building
Fitzgerald.—The Exchange National
bank lias completed plane tor a new
bank building at the corner of Grant
and Central avenues, and work will
begin this month for its construction.
The building will be one of the hand
somest in this section, equipped with
the latest devices for the convenience
and protection of its patrons and em
ployees.
Coast Cane Crops Good
Brunswick. —Never lias there been
such a good sugar cane crop in this
section of the state as at present, and
as a result there is more Georgia cane
syrup to be had than has been in
years. For some reason, farmers in
this particular section of tlie state
planted more sugar cane than usual.
Over in Camden county it is under
stood that every farmer has made
more syrup than ever before this year.
Road Not To Be Scrapped
Augusta. —Statements that the Geor
gia and Florida railway had already
been scrapped is in error. The road
is advertised for sale in February
with the right to “scrap." However,
the business men of Augusta and
along the line are making every ef
’ fort to save the road, and it is be- ,
that they will do so.
j
Hon. J. C. Clements Passes In Mcßae
Mcßae. — Hon. J. Clayton Clements,
j prominent citizen, former member of
\ the state legislature and for some
twenty-five years treasurer of the
Geosgia Agricultural Society, died at
; his home at Towns ten miles south
of here, after having been in declin
ing health for more than a year.
Dissolution Notice. _
The firm of H. V. Thompson cY
Bro., composed of H. V. Thomp
son and C. G. Thompson, lift- thi
i day been dissolved by mutual con
sent, H V. Thompson continuing
the business, collecting all ac
counts due said firm and paving
indebtedness outstanding
against the firm. This the loth
day of December, 1919.
H. V. Thompson,
C. G. Thompson,
1 Alley, Ga
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Building Material.
Best grades of Rough Lumber,
Framing, Sills, etc., cut on short
notice. Mill six miles north of
Mt. Vernon. See or phone
Jas. W. Adams,
1113tf Mt. Vernon, Ga.
Corn Wanted.
; Will nay $1.25 per bushel for
new corn, shucked. See
i Cockfield Milling Co.,
jll27tf. Mt. Vernon, Ga.
| Syrup Wanted.
j ' Wanted, 100 barrels Pure Geor
gia Cane Syrup. Any size lots
from one to lOOjbarrels.
South Georgia Produce Co.
11272 Vidalia, Ga.
| Cypress Shingles. .
I have on hand an unlimited
number of hand-drawn number
one cypress shingles for sale. See
me at once. A. B. Hutcheson,
1016tf . Mt. Vernon, Ga.
Syrup for Sale.
200 Gallons Pure Georgia Syrup
for sale at lowest market price.
Willie M. Sharpe,
12114 Rt. 1, Ailey, Ga.
House and Lot
For Quick Sale. Located at Col
lege Hill, Rrewton-Parker, Mt.
Vernon. Cheap. Two acres of
land included. Bargain. See
L. C. Underwood,
12114 Mt. Vernon, Ga.
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