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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.
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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.
Women’s complaints often prove to be
nothing else but kidney trouble, or the
result of kidney or bladder disease.
If the kidneys are not in a healthy
condition, they may cause the other or
gans to become diseased.
Pain in the back, headache, loss of am
bition, nervousness, are often times symp
toms of kidney trouble.
Don’t delay starting treatment. Dr.
Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, a physician’s pre
scription, obtained at any drug store, may
be just the remedy needed to overcome
such conditions.
Get a medium or large size bottle im
mediately from any drug store.
However, if you wish first to test this
greet preparation send ten cents to Dr.
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.
But the “Bad Man” Is Preferable.
The “bad man of the plains” is now
extinct, his place having been taken
by mere defaulters, embezzlers, swind
lers, yeggmen and other criminals.-
Boston Transcript.
Cuticura Soothes Itching Scalp
On retiring gently rub spots of dan
druff and itching with Cuticura Oint
ment. Next morning shampoo with
Cuticura Soap and hot water. Make
them your everyday toilet preparations
and have a clear skin and soft, white
hands.
She Wants to Know.
“Pale of Poems. Wordsworth, sl.”
Thus read a placard in the book de
partment.
"I see you claim those words are
worth a dollar,” said a thrifty shop
per. “But what are they selling at 7’
Classified.
Rub —Is patience really a virtue?
Dub —No; at best only a necessity.
—New York Sun.
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U. S. Government buys It.
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