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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1921)
IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THI« AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE NEWS JJFJfHE SOUTH What Is Taking Place in Tha South land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs Foreign— All countries whose nationals have suffered damages from Mexican revolutions have been invited by Pres ident Obregon to appoint delegates who will meet Mexican representa tives and form a permanent commis sion to pass upon claims. The invita tion was issued in the form of a presi dential decree promulgated recently, and it will be sent to all interested na tions by the foreign office. Two German submarine lieutenants, Ludwig Dittmar and Johann Boldt. ■were placed on trial here recently in the supreme court charged with mur der in the first degree for firing on life boats after the torpedoing of the Canadian hospital ship Llandoversy Castle in the summer of 1918. Rioting occurred in Vere street in Belfast recently, says a Central News dispatch from Belfast. Two constables were injured and three civilians were take nto a hospital suffering from j gunshot wounds. Hie Italian government has sent a communication to Washington saying it will receive sympathetically a pro posal for the reduction of armaments. Premier Lloyd-George and Eamon de Valera, Irish “president,” had tea to gether in the premier’s official Resi dence in Downing street, London, one afternoon recently, and discussed plans to settle the age-long differences be tween the English and the Irish. Turkish Nationalists and Greek sol diers are locked in battle before Ku taia. Airplanes are taking part in the struggle for Moutnain Heights, near the town. El Chucha is the name of a new dance which, it is claimed, will carry all before it in England and on the continent next winter. It is the com bined product of 18 British dancing instructors and was exhibited before the International Conference of Danc ing Masters. Discovery of what he believes to be the fossilizezd remains of a huge pre historic animal in the Pasqual Hills, Canada, has been reported by Doctor Ells of the Dominion geological de partment. Washington— Appointment of W. A. Smith, of Tenn., as federal prohibi tion director for the state of Tennes see, was understood recently to be under consideration by Commissioner Blair. Internal revenue officials, how ever, declared that definite decision upon a new director has not yet been made. Louis E. Elkins is the present director. Of tremendous importance to the farmers of the South is the provision in the Fordney tariff bill now pending in the house which provides for the levying of a protective tariff of SSO per ton on imported potash. The state department has been no tified of Japan's acceptance of the in vitation to a disarmament conference. Henr> r Ford has a two hundred mil lion dollar idea that the great uncom pleted Muscle Shoal (Ala.) nitrate plant started by the government dur ing the war, is a good commercial ven ture, and the auto king has disclosed offers to take over, complete and op erate the plan. President Harding and Secretary of State Hughes have begun work on es tablishing the definite machinery for international discussion of armament 1 limitation and far eastern problems. Among the division of experts will be those on far eastern affairs, army, navy and air forces and cables. Thom as Lamont of New York is said to be slated for head of the far eastern di vision, and former United States Am bassador to Tokio Rolland Morris is also to be placed on this division, it is stated. Leaving Washington with the most distinguished group of aeronautical experts assembled since the signing of the armistice the United States navy transport Henderson put out for the Atlantic fleet’s practice grounds, 100 miles to sea, where the bombing and gunnery' tests being conducted by the navy department is under way. The naval appropriation bill, au thorizing $410,000,000 in expenditures and carrying the Borah amendment for a tripartite disarmament confer ence, is now before President Harding for his signature. The world cotton crop for the year 1920-21 is placed at 19,595,000 bales of 50-pound gross, or 478 pounds net, by the bureau of markets and crop esti mates, department of agriculture, which based its calculation on the best information available. The bu reau of the census, commerce depart ment, places the world production of commercial cotton at 19,830,000 bales of 500 pounds net, exclusive of lin ters, basing its calculation on pub lished reports, documents and corres pondence. The white population of Virginia increased 16.4 per cent between 1910 and 1920, while the negro population increased 2.8 per cent, the census bu reau announced recently. The total population in 1920 was divided: White 1,617,909; negro, 690,017; Indian, 824; Chinese, 278; Japanese, 56; Hindu and Filipino, 103. Informing congress that this nation is on the way to such destruction as overtook Babylon, a large delegation, led by Noah W. Cooper, of Nashville, and representing the conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, South marched to Capitol Hill recently and asked senators and representatives to pass laws for Sunday observance, in cluding one forbidding the running of trains on the Sabbath. A letter from Premier Lloyd George to President Wilson, dated August 8, 1920, and dealing with a proposal for cancellation of inter allied war debts, was placed in the record of the senate finance committee recently by treas ury officials during hearings on the administration’s allietj loan refunding bill. John Skelton Williams, former comp troller of the currency; Governor Har ding of the federal reserve board and other persons in financial positions will be among witnesses asked to ap pear before the joint congressional committee of agricultural inquiry. Pledges of a wide majority of votes to lay aside the soldier bonus bill wdre claimed by Republican leaders and were conceded by opponents after President Harding in an address to the senate hud made formal requests for temporary postponement of con sideration of the measure. In making his request, the president called at tention to the condition* of the treas ury, saying that enactment of the leg islation at this time would “greatly imperil the financial stability of our country.” The conference report on the naval appropriation bill finally was adopted by the .senate and house, and the meas ure, which carries funds for the navy for this year, has been sent to the president. t The soldier bonus bill, if it is stop ped, must be stopped in the senate, house leaders declare. This, regard less of what the president may think of the matter. Domestic— An airplane from the Jacuzzi Broth ers airplane factory in Berbely fell at Modesto, Calif., killing the pilot and three others. An ordinance of the city of Pomona, Calif., prohibiting Sunday amusements for which an admission fee is charged, has been held unconstitutional by a superior court judge, and will be taken to the state supreme court. The Edlsto river stood more than a foot over the West Russell street bridge at Orangeburg, S. C., as a re sult of heavy rains July 14. Several mill pond dams have been broken in the county. No lives lost. Steps have been taken by the New York Coffee and Sugar exchange to prevent publication hereafter of the to tal sales on the exchange of coffee and sugar futures. The drowning of Charles Quinn, two years old, in the flooded yard at the Charleston, S. C., home of his parents, is the only fatality reported from a torrential rainstorm in that city, caus ing water to rise several feet in many business .houses and paralyzing street [ car service for several hours. It is stated that the federal reserve board has instructed the federal re serve banks in the cotton states to dis ! count all cotton paper presented by member banks when the paper is se cured by sufficient cotton. The 100 anniversary of the birthday i of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, Con federate general and organizer of the Ku Klux Klan, was celebrated at Chap | el Hill, Tenn., his birthplace, on the 13th of July. The Elks at the Los Angeles conven tion decided to build a three million dollar edifice commemorating the sol diers who fell in the world war. The next meeting will be held in Chicago. W. H. Knox, leader of the state law enforcement forces, now operating in Mobile, Ala., was recently formally | charged with violating the prohibition ! law himself, and placed under arrest. A job as baron is likely to go beg ! ging because Dr. F. M. Tretbar-Dros ten, of Aurora, 111., had rather be an American citizen than have a title. He says Switzerland can keep her title. “I am an American citizen and I like . it fine.” HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, MeDONOUGH, GEORGIA. NOT TO RUSHIAPS ON DISARMAMENT JAPANESE POSITION IN CONFER ENCE, OFFICIAL REALIZE, IS UNIQUE JAPAN FEARS “OPEN DOOR’’ Washington Willing To Mark Tim® While Tokio Gives Full Consider ation To Proposal Washington.—Pending negotiations between the United States, Japan and other powers interested in the forth coming armament conference have giv en Washington an opportunity to catch its international breath after an eventful week. As President Harding remarked the other day, “for a slow-going adminis tration, we have been moving rather rapidly of late.” There is no disposition on the part of this government to hurry Japan. It is realized here that Japan's interests in the great conferences are unique and it is natural, say officials, both because of these interests and because of her national trait of caution as well, that she should study her problems most carefully before walking into it. Japan’s concern, it is learned, finds its basis largely in fear lest Great Britain and the United States insist that the “open door” in China become a reality. It is said that Secretary Hughes soon would turn his attention to cleaning up the whole problem of friction growing out of Japan’s sphere of influence in the Orient. It was stated at the time that, in pro ceeding to this end, Hughes had an effective weapon in the form of Amer ican reservations. —made in a note by Secretary of State Bryan to certain ar rangements growing out of Japan’s fa mous twenty-one demands on China in 1915. Fear that these reservations will be brought up by the United States in the proposed conference on far Eastern problems and thus jeopardize Nippon’s sphere of influence in the Orient, in cluding the Asiatic mainland, she is especially apprehensive, it is learned, because of China’s inclusion in the conference. China, long the victim of Japanese aggression, might well take an opportunity to recover certain sov ereign rights—and over the issue of many of these rights the American of ficial reservations taken in 1915 hang like a bugaboo over Japan. League At Work (On Disarmament Paris. —The league of nations is going ahead with its work in connec tion with the disarmament on the theory that it will in no wise inter fere with the proposed conference in Washington and that it may develop information whigh would be of use to such a conference. That was the decision announced at the opening session recently of the temporary mixed commission for the reduction of armaments, appointed by the league, which was presided over by Rene Viviani, of France, chairman of the commission. _ * 15 Per Cent Duty Placed On Hides Washington.—Hides, raw, green and pickled were thrown off the Fordney tariff free list recently by the house, which voted, 157 to 97, to impose an ad valorem duty of 15 per cent to be followed by another amendment tax ing all leather products, including shoes. Eight republican members of the ways and means committee, which framed the bill, voted for free hides, and Representative Garner, of Texas, democratic committeeman in charge of the general fight against the bill, was counted with republicans voting for the tax. 10,000 Stills Running In Porto Rico San Juan, Porto Rico. —There are 10,000 stills in operation in the isl- I and, in violation of the Volstead act and local laws, in the opinion of the prohibition director's staff. This opin ion is substantiated by a recent state ment of Antonio R. Barcelo, president of the senate. The prohibition direc tor’s offfice holds that so long as light fines and sentences are imposed, rum making in the island cannot be sup pressed. Pastor Condemns Modern Kitchenette DesPlaines, 111. —Now we know what's wrong with the country. It’s the one room and kitchenette. “The one room and kitchenette mode of liv ing,’’ said Rev. A. M. Hamilton, Chi cago pastor, at the Methodist camp meeting here Sunday, “is disrupting the peace of a nation. It is dealing a fatal blow to the American home. Many modern wives, instead of trying to make a home for their husbands and to rear a family, are striving to cre ate an almighty bank account.’’ STATE CAPITAL LETTER Resume Of A Week’s Activities Relative To Georgia’s Law makers Told In Brief The bill providing for a state board of examiners for the chiropractic pro fession and the licensing of all per sons practicing chiropractics in the state received a favorable report from the general judiciary committee num ber 2 recently. The measure was in troduced in the senate by Senator Wohlwender of the 24th who has been endeavoring to secure its passage in the legislature for several years. He led the fight for it before the com mittee. Representatives of various associations of the medical profes sion appeared to fight the measure. The same committee also reported fevorably upon the bill by Senators Womble of the 25th and Johns of the 27th calling for the abolition system of the present tax equalization system providing for the return and assess ment of property for taxation. Al though the committee sent the bill back to the senate with a favorable report by a vote of 5 to 4 several members who voted for the bill stated that they did so simply to get the measure before the senate and would probably oppose it at that time. Sen ator Womble strongly urges the pas sage of the measure stating that the present system of tax equalization is useless and involves an annual ex pense for the state of around $400,000. The general judiciary committee number 1 gave the bill by Senator Fleming of the 10th, providing for hotel keepers a lein on baggage left in the hotel, an unfavorable report. The measure gave hotel keepers the right to sell baggage after being left at th hotel thirty days. Members ex pressed themselves as believing the measure to be too drastic. Bills Introduced The following bills were introduced in the senate: —By Senator Colson, of the 15th — To repeal the act creating the Glen wood public school system. —By Senator Thorpe, of the 2nd — To amenw the act establishing the* city court of Reidsville. —By Senator Collum, of the 13th — To aid in establishment of one or more consolidated public schools in each county in the state. —By Senator Boykin, of the 29th — To put into effect the constitutional amendment approved in November election of 1920 allowing all confed erate veterans residing in Georgia on January 1, 1920, to draw pensions. The following new bills were intro duced in the house: —By Mr. Singletary, of Gray—To regulate signing of criminal bonds by professional bondsmen. (Special ju diciary.) —By Mr. Hamilton, of Floyd—To prohibit taking, killing or giving away of partridges and other birds. (Game and fish.) —By Mr. Maddox, of Spalding—To provide for more prompt payment of pensions by issuance of state certifi cates during emergency. (Pensions.) —By Mr. Mayo of Mitchell and others—To repeal the act fixing fees in Albany judicial circuit. (General judiciary No. 2.) —By M. Clifton of Lee —To amend the constitution as to Confederate vet erans and payment of pensions so as to extend time of marriage limitation, eliminating January 1, 1881, and mak ing read “up to date.” (Amendments to constitution.) —By Coweta delegation.To amend section 5083 of code relative to issue of deeds to secure debt. (General ju diciary No. 2.) —By Mr. Moore, of Appling—To pro vide for removal of any county officer in the state for incompetency, drunk enness, violation of law, etc., on recommendation of grand jury. (Gen eral judiciary No. 1.) —By Mr. Brownlee, of Elbert. —To require fishways on all dams in the state. (Game and fish.) —By Messrs Ennis of Baldwin and Carswell of Wilkinson —To appropriate $20,053.57 to cover deficiency of Train ing School for boys. (Appropriations.) —By Mr. Carswell of Wilkinson—To amend constitution by writing a new paragraph 1, section 2, traicle 7, on taxation so as to authorize the gen eral assembly to levy a gross income tax. (Appropriations.) —By Fulton delegation and others— To fix the number of employees used on passenger trains, etc. (Railroads.) —By Mr. Fowler of Bibb by Request —To create a board of examiners of music teachers and to regulate teach ing of music. (Education.) —By Mr. Kitrell of I-aurens by Re quest—To appropriate $S for mainte nance of public welfare board for 1921. (Appropriations.) —By Mr. Mundy of Polk—To pro vide fbr biennial instead of annual sessions of the general assembly. (Amendments to constitution.) —By Mr. McMicbael of Marion —To authorize common carriers to sell un claimed freight or baggage. (Rail roads.) FRESH HOWLERS There are two classes of clergy, the beneficial and the un benetieial. * The Iliad and the Odyssey were tw’o babies In a cradle, and a wolf found them. An anachronism Is a thing a man puts down in writing in the past before it has taken place In the future. The Order of the Bath orig inated away back in the days when a man never took a bath except by order of the king.— Boston Transcript. AT HOME AND ABROAD France has 450 women physicians. Italy imports American-made spa ghetti. Poland has begun to use motor driven plows. Ten per cent of the married women of Boston are employed. There are 10,200 posts of the Amer ican Legion and 2,150 auxiliary units. Oh. “John, you were talking in your sleep last night.” “W-w-what was I talking about?”' “Business.” “Oh.” —Louisville Courier-Journal. WOMEN NEED SWAMP-ROOT Thousands of women have kidney and bladder trouble and never suspect i-t. 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