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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (March 23, 1922)
FRANCE'S WAR COST GREATER THAN U. S. BRITAIN'S ARMY BURDEN ALSO MORE THAN THE UNITED STATES ESTIMATE PER CAPITA GIVEN U. S. Is Far In Rear Os Other Nation’s Os World In Way Os Expenditures Washington. For every dollar per. capita which the United States is spending on her army, France is spending seven and Great Britain is spending four, according to figures made public by the general stuff. Figuring the population oT the Uni ted States at 106,418,000, and the amount expended on the army at $343,- 155,303, War Department officials es timate the per capita expendture at j $3.22. This contrasts with $22 52 per capita for the French army, $12.35 ; per capita for the British empire | forces, $0.70 per capita for Italy and $3.38 for Japan. Considered from the point of view | of national wealth, the United States! is ter in the rear of other nations of j the world from the amount expend- j cd for military establishment. With an estimated wealth of $350,000,000,* j 000, the United States is expending .10, or ten hundredths, per cent on her army, while the British empire, with an estimated wealth of $800,524,- 500,000, is spending .15 per cent; France, with $100,000,000,000, is spend ing .03 per cent; Italy, with $30,000,- 000,000, is spending .82 per cent, and Japan, with $25,000,(8)0,000 is spend ing 76 per cent. These figures leave out of account the fact that the American soldiers is the highest paid soldier in the world and that in proportion to man- , power tit- American army Is scarce- , ly superior to many of the compara-1 lively Insignificant Balkan states. After enumeratin ' the essential I purposes for which the army must j l»e used if the national defense act J of 1920, is to be carried out the re port of the general staff says: “Any further reduction in the en listed strength will at once force a decision as to which of the missions of the army must he altered, curtailed ! or abandoned altogether.’’ Officials of the War Department j are particularly concerned over stig- i gestlons that appropriations for in i struction to the National Guard and! the Reserve Corps, both officers and enlisted personnel, be reduced. If 1 these appropriations are cut down, they contend, the whole spirit of the i national defense act. whlnli they re gard as the first definite statement of military policy for the United ! Slates, will la* lost, and the whole value of the experiences of the World War will be dissipated. Indictments Charge Railroad Thefts Buffalo. N. Y. Thirty-four Indict- [ ments were reported by it federal grand Jury here in connection with thefts from the New York Central j railroad, said to have aggregated more than $2,000,000 in the last year. The persons indicted are said to include several men connected with the New ■ York Central’s police force. One w it- j ness before the grand jury is said to have placed the railroad company's j losses at more than $4,000,000 since ; 1919. Atain On Trial On Murder Charge Itusthurg. a.—The second Irial of ■ the case of Lonnie Moran and H. T. 1 Shields on the charge of murder in j connection with the death of W. H. : Johnson, whose body was found near Lynchburg, was commenced recently.! Johnson's body was not found for ' nearly a year after the man disap- j peared. In the first trial of the two ; defendants the jury was unulde to agree on a verdict. Anarchy Threatens Again In Flume Fitttne. Party strife again threat-1 ens to plunge Flume into anarchy. Immediately after the fall of the Za nella government, partisan feeling subsided, till joining in choosing Major Giovanni Uiurlatl as head of the government, hut now that he has ■ refused the position, each party is again rivalling the others for control of the city. Mellon Objects To Enlarging Board Washington Objection to increas ing the membership of the federal re serve hoard, with a view to giving the agricultural interests represents s>n as proposed in a bill passed by the senate was voiced by Secretary Mel lon at a hearing before the house hank ing committee The measure provides that the board shall have eight instead of seven members, and stipulates that th< president in making appointments shall gixe "due regard to a fair rep resentation" of agriculture as well as commercial and industrial interests. New York Thug Slays Policeman New York In a daylight pistol bat tle waged among monuments tn a stonecutter’s yard, an unidentified thug was shot in the neck and captured af ter he had killed a policeman. Pa trolman Mi Mail, hearing a woman's screams rushed from his post to in tercept burglars who had been sur prised "at work.'' He grasped the man, and was dropped with a bullet through his head. A special police man pursued the slayer into the stone y»rd, and finally killed the man. Mc- Mail died in a hospital. i TREATY VOTE WILL BE CLOSE 26 Democrats Voted For Reservation, While Four, Including Under wood, Support Treaty Washington.—The vote in the sen ate on the proposed Robinson amend ment to the four-power Pacific treaty lias confirmed belief that the deci sion on ratification will be extremely close. While not conclusive, the vote re vealed the extent of the opposition to the pact. The amendment was re jected, 55 to 30. Since only a majority was required, the defeat of the amendment was overwhelming. But to ratify the treaty, two-thirds is required, and the 30 votes in sup port of the amendment indicate the opposition lacks only a few votes to accomplish rejection. Counting prob-' able absences on the final vote, it is likely that not more than 31 votes will be needed to prevent ratification and undo the entire work of the arms conference. However, some of those senators j ! who supported the amendment will, in j • the final test, vote for the treaty it- j ! self. Leaders lost none of their con ! fidence that ratification as things now I j stand, is assured, although by a nar | row margin. The roll call showed: Twenty-six Democrats voting in fa- ! : vor of the amendment. Four Republicans supporting them. j Four Democrats voting with the Re publicans. The four Republicans who deserted their leadership were Borah, Johnson, j LuFollette and France. The three Dem ocrats who joined 'with their leader, ' j Senator Underwood, in opposing the 1 ! amendment were Pomerene. Ransdell i i and Williams. The Robinson amendment would have provided for the participation of other powers than the four that signed the treaty in conferences called under Its terms. The senate also rejected a | similar amendment offered by Walsh i j of Montana as a substitute; the vote | | was 50 to 27 on litis. Senator Underwood, the Democratic ! leader, failed (o show the strength that had been expected. Before the | roll was called, Underwood made a| speech in the nature of a plea, al though he emphasized that in advocat ing the treaty lie was not acting in I his capacity as leader of the minority. ; Several Democrats voted for the ! | amendment because they desired to have the four-power union more elose | ly resemble the league of nations. May Operate On President Obregon Mexico City. Arrival of Dr. Will- ! hint P, Mayo, of Rochester, Minn., here, revived rumors that President Obregon must submit to an operation j j on his right arm which lias never com- ' pletely healed since lie was injured in the buttle of f’elaya in 1914. Dr. Mayo was accompanied by several physfc- I inns. He said (hat the purpose of his i visit was to combine pleasure with | lln inspection of health eonditons here \ j In general. A. T. & T. Accused Os Infringement Washington. Maj. Gen. George O. j : Squier, chief signal officer of the ( | army and recognized by American and j foreign scientific organizations as an ! authority on radio telegraphy, an nounces that he has filed suit in the j United States district court for the ; southern district of New York against i the American Telephone and Tele ; graph company charging infringement on several patents he holds for wire less devices. Hoover Rejects Exposition Proposal Washington.—Declaring President ! Harding had “strongly expressed the wish" that he remain in the director* ; generalship of the food-relief cam | i'uign, Herbert Hoover recently in I lornted Mayor J. Hampton Moore of ! Philadelphia that lie could not accept the director generalship of the qui centennial exposition to be held in i Philadelphia in 1926. "Aggressive War Is Now Impossible” Berlin. Germany.—Minister of De fense Oessler. speaking on defense es timates in tiie reiehstag recently, de , dared there was no question of an j aggressive war by Germany, adding that the German military men were much too sensible to undertake an aggressive war with the means now at I their disposal. Home-Brew Case Defended By Son Lynn, Mass When the case of Mrs. Dora Uornlts. charged \\ itli making home brew, was called in district iourt here, a slender youth with a dignified face, arose and, in quaver ing tones, announced himself as her counsel. Then the boy, his eyes blaz ing. launched into a dramatic defense of the gray haired woman. She was a widow, he told the court, who was struggling to earn enough to feed and clother her five children and to give (hetq a good education. She made homebrew, he said, for a livelihood Women Protest Against "CiivTc Virtue" Nc« ork New lork clubwomen •and leaders in civic affairs recently stint out what may prove to be a fem inine battle cry against Sculptor t'red nrli k MacMonnies' depiction of ’’Civic Virtue, as a nude young man ehthu siastidally kicking the prostrate form of two sirens, representative of urban temptation and vice. Protest was voiced by Mary Garrett Hay and Mrs James Lees Laidlaw. champion ot womans rights, at the announcement that the sculpture was about to be j completed and erected. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR. MT. VERNON. GEORGIA. FAVORABLE REPORT ON SOLDIER BONUS FORDNEY IS REPORTED TO BE STILL ANXIOUS TO BRING UP THE MEASURE WILL COST $4,098,719,350 Estimates Based On Guesses As To Percentage Os Veterans Would Take Certificates Washington.—There were just two developments in the soldiers’ bonus muddle. One was the filing by Chair man Fordney of the ways and means : committee of the majority report of the compromise bill, which was esti mated to cost the government a total j of $4,098,719,350. The other was the j ! circulation of a petition by Represen-; tative Lineberger of California, a for- j mer service man, for a conference of : house republicans to discuss the bo | nus legislation. Mr. Lineberger announces that there are sixty signatures to the petition, or ten more than the number required un der the rules, for a conference call, j He says, however, that he hopes it | will not be necessary to present the ; petition to Representative Towner, | chairman of the republican house committee. Its presentation, he adds, will depend on the outcome of the conference between house leaders and Speaker Gillett regarding procedure j for the calling up of the bill on the J floor. If there is a decision at that con ference to consider the bill under a j suspension of the rules, Mr. Line berger says, the petition will be pre- I sented. There is some speculation as to whether u, formal conference j would operate to delay consideration of the legislation. Chairman Fordney emphatically declares that it is still ! his determination to bring the hill | up under a suspension of the rules, j if that can be done, and, if not, to call it up under a special rule, if such i a rule can be obtained. Valera Launches New Irish Body Dublin, Ireland. — Eamon de Valera has issued a manifesto launching a new Irish organization to be called the ! “Cumann Na Poblachta,” or republi can association, and has asked finan cial and moral support of it. Accord ing to the manifesto the new organi zation takes its stand on the proc lamation of llie Irish republic in Eas ter week, 1916, and its ratification in the declaration of independence of January, 1919. De Valera signed the i manifesto himself. ; Sultan of Egypt Proclaimed King Cairo. Egypt.- The proclamatibn of i tl>e sultan, Ahmed Fuad Pasha, as king of Egypt, was accompanied by the firing of salvos of 101 guns in j Cairo, Alexandria and Port Said, and of 21 guns in all the other provincial , capitals. Field Marshal Viscount Al j lenity hitherto the British high com j tnissioner, accompanied by members j of his staff, called at the royal palace | and congratulated King Fuad, whom he addressed as “Your Majesty.” Central Applies To Issue Certificates Washington.—The Central of Geor j gia railroad applied to the interstate j commerce commission recently for per mission to issue $825,000 in equip ment trust certificates. The issue would bear interest at five and a half per cent and funds front its sale would he expended in the purchase of new rolling stock. 3 Women Sitting On Arbuckle Jury San Francisco. —Attorneys for the state announce that they have accept ed the jury as it stands for the third trial of Roscoe Arbuckle, ’film com edian on a manslaughter charge in j connection with the death of Miss Vir ginia Rappe. film actress. The jury ; contains three women. Kennedy Shooting Case Is On Trial Los Anegles. Calif. —Neither Mrs. Madalynne Obenehain nor Arthur C. Burch, her co-defendant, had anything to do with the shooting of J. Belton Kennedy, according to the burden of argument of Alfred F. MacDonald, de fense attorney, at Mrs. Obenchain’s trial on the charge of murdering Ken nedy. Alabama Woman Runs For Congress Montgomery, Ala.—Secretary of State Cobb announces receipt of the declaration of Mrs. W. D. Edmondson of Decatur. Ala., to oppose Congress- ! man Edward H. Alninn for represen- i tative from the Eighth district The j declaration was filed under the cor- j rupt practices act. Mrs. Edmondson is the first woman in Alabama to seek membership in congress, and the third woman to enter the Democratic pri maries August 8. Dallas and Bibb counties have women candidates for ‘ the legislature. 20°„ Increase Is Asked By The Miners New York. Demands of the antbra- j iite mine workers, including one for' a twenty per cent increase ia wages, have been presented to the mine own ers. and when the workers' represen tatives finished outlining the nineteen an adjournment was taken. The op- , erators are expected to make a re- j sponse at once. The miners have no inkling as to what reply the operators will make. It is understood they plan to tell the union nten that an increase In wages at this time is not in accord , with the trend of the times. DUPRE MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL IS LOST APPEAL TO SUPREME COURT DEFENSE’S PETITION ON ALL GROUNDS OVERRULED STATE NEWS OF INTEREST Brief News Items Gathered Here And There From All Sections Os The State Macon.—Frank DuPre, Peachtree bandit, under death sentence for slay ing Irby C. Walker, Pinkerton detec tice, lost the first battle to save his life recently, when Judge Henry A. Mathews denied him a new trial on a motion argued here. Appeal to the state supreme court will be made immediately, attorneys for DuPxe announced. In the mean while ,11 is believed the bandit, who shot Walker to death as he escaped with a valuable diamond from Nat. C. Kaiser’s store in Atlanta, will not be sentenced again until a decision has been rendered by the high court. Since hearing arguments for the new trial, Judge Mathews has receiv ed numerous letters from “sentiment al and sympathetic women throughout the state,” pleading with him to have mercy on the youthful slayer, it be came known. “These women,’’ said Judge Math ews, “do not seem to be able to real ize that cases of law can not be de cided on a sympathetic or sentiment al basis.” In rendering his decision. Judge Mathews severed his connection with the famous case. Any further motions or possible trial probably will be heard by Judge John D. Humphries, of Atlanta, for whom Judge Mathews was presiding when the case was called for trial. Judge Mathews had the opinion un der consideration several days, when he announced that he would give at torneys defense sufficient time to file a brief in the case after which he would make know r n his decision. COART FOUND GUILTY; IS GIVEN LIFE SENTENCE Talbotton.—A verdict of guilty, carrying with it c recommendation for mercy, was returned by a jury who heard the trial of Major Lee H. Coart, former army officer, charged with the murder of A. B. McNiece, superintendent of county schools at the time of the murder. Judge George P. Munro, presiding, sentenced Coart to life in prison im mediately after the jury had been polled. Two women members of Coart’s family fainted when the verdict was read. Coart administered first aid to tifem hinihelf, handing each a glass of water and helping to bring them to. The jury deliberated for nearly mx hours. Coart reiterated his statement that he had shot McNiece in defense of the honor of his home. Judge A. W. Cozart, of Columbus, a relative of Mrs. Coart, who has been attending the trial with the wife of the accused man, has announced that Mrs. Coart will file a suit for divorce from Coart as soon as a ver dict is reached. Rate Cut Will Save Growers Big Sum Moultrie. —A 10 per cent reduction in the freight rates on watermelons will save Georgia growers approxi mately $200,000 according to officers of the Southwest Georgia Watermelon Growers’ association, which is leading in the fight for cheaper rates on melons. The association started the fight for a reduction of rfites early Inst winter. Already the I. C. C. has held two hearings and now has the matter under advisement. Officers of the Melon Growers' association confidently expect an order cutting rates 10 per cent to be issued. It is estimated that Georgia will ship at least 200,000 cars of melons this sea son. The Southwest Georgia Melon Growers’ association alone has a mem bership with an acreage in excess of 21.000 acres and expects to ship over 6,000 cars. Twelve Months For Carrying Pistol Atlanta.—Ernest Leverett, who was convicted in Fulton superior court recently of burglary, and sentenced to serve from one to three years in the j penitentiary, entered a plea of guilty 1 to the charges of carrying a pistol ; D. Humphries in the same court. He i was sentenced to 12 months on the I chaingang. American Bakeries To Enlarge Plant Macon. —Announcement was made 1 of the decision of the American Bak eries company to build a SIOO,OOO j bakery plant in Macon, to be complet ed early in the summer and to replace I the present building of the company, | which the business has outgrown. Negro Boy Bound Over As Forger Atlanta. —Charged with using the j mails to defraud. Wille Kemp. 14- j year-old negro boy, was recently given i ; a hearing in the office of United States ! Commissioner Carter. On the evi j dence presented by postoffice inspec ! tors he was held for the federal grand I jury- Government officers stated at 1 the hearing that the boy used checks j bearing the name of Fair & Martin, j well known merchandise brokers, by j whom he was employed, and sent the | check sto out-of-town mail order houses j for goods. | DEKALB GRAND JURY RAPS DRESS OF MODERN WOMAN t Says Styles Os Fair Sex And Night Joy Rides Encourage Crime Decatur.—The smiling flapper, peri winkling about the streets in abbre viated skirts, flapped right scadablab into scorching recommendations of ’ DeKalb county’s grand jury recently. Her clothes are terrible —awful, so says the jury. And in the judgment I of “serious and thinking men,” they are worse. "As serious and thinking men,” the recommendations read, “we deplore - what we consider the indiscreet, sug gestive and highly improper tenden . cies in the styles of female dress, j , and give it as our opinion that the present-day styles encourage lax think- L ing, if not actual crime. We invite the female element of our population, who have recently taken up the duties . and responsibilities of citizenship, to aid in whatever manner they may the , return to more conservative styles of I dress.” Paying its respects to the joy-ride , auto, the grand j!*w finds as followd: “The advent of the automobile has opened new and grave dangers to the j , moral purity of our young people, j The mother who permits her daughter | to go without a chaperon on automo- j bile night rides subjects her daughter , to dangers of the utmost gravity, and it has come to our knowledge that numbers of young lives are wrecked, j or started on the road to ruin, in this j way. We cannot refrain from calling the attention to the mothers of our county to this great danger and urg ing them to use every means in their power to see that their daughters are duly protected.’’ School Building Plan Announced Atlanta. —Erection of at least thir teen new elementary school buildings and on annexes at eight or ten others, immediate abandonment of six pres ent plants and ultimate abandonment of the seventh, were recommended for the white schools in the survey com mission’s report submitted to the board of education by Commissioner W. L. McCalley, chairman of the fin ance and building committee of the board. The report recommended the abandonment of three negro grammar schools, erection of at least five new buildings and annexes at two, and ren ovation of other buildings. New white elementary schools are recommended as follows: Ansley park, one to re place the present Calhhoun and Ivy street schools; Hardee street to pro vide for growth of population in the territory west of Kirkwood and east of Faith; Form wait; Faith, on another site farther west; Fraser on a site southwest of the present school; Ma rietta street; Ormewood; Stewart ave nue; West North avenue, to relieve Williams, Luckie and State; Williams street. However, it is recommended that for the present the Williams street building be renovated. Cotton Pool Quota Oversubscribed Athens. With Clarke county’s quota of 5,000 bales oversubscribed by nearly 300, indications were that more than 75 per cent of the cotton raised in this section of the state will be marketed through the Georgia Cotton Growers’ Co-operative associa tion. Reports show that in 1921 only about 8,000 bales of cotton were rais ed in Clarke county and experts de clared that the number of bales of cotton raised this year will not be far in excess of that number. It will be recalled that the cotton produc tion for this county in 1920 was in the neighborhood of 15,000 bales, the number of bales being greatly reduced the next year, however, by the advent of the boll w’eevil. Augusta Trolley Service Stopped Augusta.—When the Augusta street cars ran into the barn at midnight they went there to stay. The Augus ta Railway and Electric corporation, in a statement to the public, issued recently, announced that it had decid ed to stop the operations of the cars. This “card to the public” appearing in The Chronicle, will be the first in formation to the public that the com pany has decided to quit. Two hun dred employees are involved, and about thirty-five cars, and forty miles of track constitute the equipment. The Augusta-Aiken line from here to Aik en is not involved nor is the lighting, nor power service. The gas company is not owned by the street railway company. Narcotic Violation Case Is Dismissed j Atlanta. —J. F. Stowers, held on a j charge of violating the Harrison nar- i cotic act, was acquitted in the federal court for lack of evidence that the sub stance he is allleged to have sold was an opium derivative. A chemist, who analyzed the drug, declared it to be codein. instead of heroin, as was at first claimed. Stowers is under a j S3OO bond on another charge, it is said. Comer To Organize Commerce Body Athens. —Through the co-operation j I of the Athens chamber of commerce, j a commerce body will be established in Comer, tla.. a town of more than a j thousand people in the Athens terri- j tory. Steps have been taken by a i number of the leading citizens of the town in the direction of haring the trade body and the Athens chamber of commerce, through its president. 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