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Foreign—
The London headquarters of the
American relief administration has an
nounced that all Americans in prison
in Russia have been released.
August 4 marked the celebrated
“scrap of paper” incident in Belgium.
The anniversary was fitting celebrated
throughout Belgium. Church bells
tolled and the people made merry.
In London, Colonel House, erstwhile
confidential friend of Woodrow Wil
son, told newspaper men that stories
of squabbles and reconciliation be
tween the former president and him
self were without foundation in fact.
It is announced in Montevideo, Uru
guay that that country has accepted
the tenure of a $7,500,000 loan by New
York bankers.
Because of the restrictive United
States immigration laws, it is announc
ed in Montreal, Italian passenger traf
fic is being directed to Canadian ports.
Fighting is reported in progress
along a ten-mile front fifty miles to
the northeast of Yochow, where forces
from the province of Hunan affiliated
with the southern or Canton govern
ment of China, recently invaded Hupeh
province.
Resumption of diplomatic relations
between France and the Vatican have
been formally effected by the arrival
in Paris from Rome of Archbishop
Beneventura Geretti, who will act as
papal nuncio to the French govern
ment.
The room in Naples, Italy, where
Enrico Caruso said farewell to the
world has been transformed into a
chapel. Gorgeous masses of flowers
banked solidly against the walls and
blanketing the more somber covering
of the bier on which the great tenor
rests make it a chapel of light and
beauty.
Cuba will send a special delegation
to Washington before the sen- i
ate finance committee in opposition !
to the sugar and tobacco provisions
of the Fordney tariff law. says an of
ficial statement issued at the national
palace in Havana.
Enrico Caruso has passed into the
spirit world. Death came to the gold
en voiced tenor in Naples, August 2.
and plunged the world into a pall of
gloom, lie failed to rally after an
operation for aij abscess on the liver.
He had recently offered prayers of
thanks to the Holy Virgin for the re
covery of his voice, and heard mass,
giving 20,000 francs as a thank offer
ing. Warning that his final illness was
at hand came July 30 when he felt
severe pains in the abdomen. He
went to Naples and underwent the op
eration, but the end came.
W ashington—
An initial victory has been won by
the United States in the Egyptian cot
ton conference in London. The British
conferees have agreed to allocation
of 50 per cent of the shipments of
Egyptian cotton from Alexandria to
this fountry to the United States.
The president is still hibernating in
the hills of New Hampshire, and re
ports reaching Washington say he is
enjoying a "bully” time.
A report reaching Washington
through Director Forbes of the war
risk insurance bureau, says that con
ditions at the old soldiers' home at
Johnson City. Tenn.. are awful. The
director declares that the men are liv
ing under astounding conditions of
vice, corruption and immorality.
Two of a score of amendments to
the agricultural bil* have been adopt
ed after a hard fight. One would au
thorize loans by the war finance cor-
Upration to associations of agricultu
ral producers and the other would au
thorize the corporation to take up
$100,000,000 in bonds.
Ocean freight rates on wheat and
cotton moving from Atlantic ports of
the United States to the United
Kingdom were approximately 50 per
cent lower on August 1. 1921, than on
November 1, 1920, according to a state
ment issued from the United States
department of agriculture.
• A decrease of $206,000,000 in the
public debt in July is announced by
the treasury. The total gross debt
July 31 stood at $23,771,000,000, com
pared with $23,977,000,000 on June 30.
It i 9 understood on high authority
that the United States will be repre
sented officially on the reparations
commission
secretary of the Treasury Mellon
| says taxes must be increased $266,-
i 000,000 annually if the government is
to meet all its expenditures during the
present fiscal year.
It is reported at the treasury de
partment that the government is still
spendin ten million dollars a day—the
same amount that the Wilson adminis
tration spent.
Total current expenditures for the
present year are $4,554,012,817, with
the maximum receipts placed at $4,217,-
643,000—a deficit of $336,369,817 on
the basis of the present laws.
The army has no new automobiles
for sale, is the answer of the quarter
master to a query of Senator Harris
of Georgia, some of whose constituents
had requested information about the
disposal at bargain prices of good new
automobiles^
The conference agreement cm the
packer control bill has been adopted
by the senate, and, after approval, by
the house, goes to the president.
It is announced that the British
built naval dirigible ZR-2 will sail
from Howden, England, August 25, for
its station at Lakehurst, N. J. The
weather conditions will control the
length of time consumed in crossing
the ocean.
Issuance of regular series of war
finance corporation short term bonds
may begin in the near future in the
event of passage by congress of the
pending legislation to broaden that
body’s powers to include the making
of advances for agricultural and rail
road relief, officials of that corpora
tion say.
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon is
to reappear before the house ways
and means committee and is expected
to present a revised copy of his mem
orandum containing possible new
sources for taxation.
Benjamin C. Marsh has been elect
ed managing director of the Farmers'
national council, succeeding the late
George P. Hampton.
Criticism of federal reserve system
credit policies which is being contin
ued before a congressional committee
by John Skelton Williams, former
comptroller of the currency, aroused
resentment recently on the part of the
system’s highest officers, Governor
Harding of the reserve board and Gov
ernor Strong of the New York reserve
hank.
The passport of Dr. Ben Reitman.
formerly connected with Emma Gold
man, and an official of the Chicago
health department, has been "taken
up” by the state department, it is
learned. The state department refuses
to give the reason for taking up Reit
man’s passport.
High officials of the Harding ad
ministration are firmly convinced, ac
cording to the best authority, that il
is vital to American interests that the
United States have an official instead
of the present unofficial voice on the
reparations body.
Domestic—
Eleven persons were injured, one
fatally when a sightseeing omnibus
overturned in Denver, Colo.
Des Moines street cars are in the
barns in accordance with a federal
court order ordering traffic suspension
because the car company is unable tc
meet its obligations.
In a pistol duel at Pineville, Tenn.
one man was killed and two injured,
one the chief of police.
Melville Reeves, “skyscraper bur
glar,” has been arrested in New York
charged with being implicated in a
number of recent mail robberies.
Miss Cora Robertson of Hillsboro
111., recently jokingly picked out hei
coffin. Later she was kilkled in an
automobile accident, and was buriec
in the coffin she had selected.
Wisconsin drinkers, in accordance
with the law. when they go to soft
’Mrink” establishments, must keej
their feet off the rail.
Rouge, La., four negroes were killed
In a train-auto wreck near Bator
Authority to sell $750,000 of its pro
ferred stock in Indiana was denied the
Farmers’ Finance corporation by the
| Indiana securities commission.
Gold movement over the week-end
shows a total arrival *>f nearly sixteer
and a half million dollars at New
York.
A cotton growers exchange has beer
formed at Memphis, Tenn. Carl Wil
liams of Oklahoma City was elected
chairman, and C. O. Mosey, Dallas
Texas, was selected as secretary. Dal
las will be temporary headquarters.
The Illinois state’s attorney’s offic«
charges that there is a plot under wa>
to cover ilp the financial operations ol
Warren C. Spurgin, missing president
of the closed Chicago Michigan Ave
, nue Trust company. The books are
alleged to be missing.
Governor Groesbeck of Michigan has
j refused to permit extradition to Geor
gia of Thomas Ray. negro, wanted ir
that state on a charge of murder. Ray,
held in Detroit on a warrant of rendi
tion for several months, claims he act
ed in self-defense, and that it means
his life if he is sent back to Georgia
Robert Emmet Burke, prominent Illi
nois Democratic politician, died r©
cently in Chicago.
HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGH, GEORGIA.
DEFEAT IS FEARED
BY PARTY LEADERS
POLITICAL OCTOPUS OF TAX RE
VISION RAPIDLY TAKING GRIP
ON THE G. O. P.
EXPECTS IMITATION ECONOMY
Conditions And Suggestions Disclose
Very Acute and Perplexing Rev
enue Problem.
Washington.—Republican members
of the ways and means committee ot
tl:t house are in a .Truth grapple with
that poli'.iiul octopus—taxation revis
ion—well knowing that they and their
Republican colleagues are in imminent
danger of being the victims at the
next congressional elections should
they unwarily become entangled in its
tentacles.
The chief enemy of the public man
of today is the taxation octopus. Its
habitat is as wide as civilization, but
in the United States is particularly
fierce and powerful, often inflicting a
slow but painful death upon its prey.
Many a political scalp hangs at its
belt and more public careers have
died aborning from its sting than from
any other cause.
Republicans and Democrats alike
have learned through bitter experience
to give this ferocious antagonist a
wide path and to avoid conflict when
ever possible. But the secretary of the
treasury, Andrew W. Mellon, has forc
ed the issue by appearing before the
ways and means committee and point--
ing out that “we need the money”—
lots of it, and it’s up to you to pro
vide methods for getting it. And Mr.
Mellon went further and gave the
committee a lot of suggestions as to
how' it couid best be raised, and if his
suggestions are adopted every man,
woman and child in the United States
will feel the government’s right arm
probing about in their pocketbooks or
wherever else they keep their money.
The committee didn’t need any ad
vice as to how to raise the money.
What the committee wanted to know,
and still wants to know, is how to
raise the money without any accom
panying howl of protest. The Demo
crats don’t like Mr. Mellon's sugges
tions, but hope they will be adopted.
The reason is simple. In the words
of one of the Democratic leaders, “the
Mellons suggestions are excellent. I
hope they will all be adopted. Their
adoption will wreck the Republican
party.”
And this same Democrat went on
to say that the Republicans were too
shrewd to bring about their own sui
cide. “In my opinion,” he continued,
“the Republicans will reduce taxes to
such an extent that revenue will be
less than expenditures, point with
pride to their streak of economy, and
run up a tremendous deficit, which,
of course, will have to be paid for later.
But they won’t cross that bridge until
they get to it.”
School Dynamited Near Chattanooga
Chattanooga. The East Ridge
school building, located in a suburb
east of Missionary Ridge, and which
was partly destroyed by a cyclone
recently was completely razed by two
charges of dynamite placed by some
one unknown to the authorities. The
building was a one-story concrete
structure comparatively new and the
only building of the kind in the su
burb. The only motive officials offer
for the outrage is that it was done by
some member of the criminal element
who has recently been arrested in a
crusade being enforced to prevent joy
riding and attendant evils.
National Staff Needed On Farm Relief
Washington.—Establishment of war
fainance corporation machinery in all
parts of the country may be necessary
in event congress enlarges the duties
-of that organization, officials said re
cently. Administration of agricultural
credit relief, especially in the West
and South, officials declared, would
make essential the extension of the
corporation’s facilities for handling
business into the farming centers.
Legislation now' pending, it was ex
plained. would authorize the corpora
tion to deal with some 31,000 banks
in the interest of farm export loans
as well as trust companies and individ
uals.
Awful Conditions At Soldiers’ Home
Washington. Conditions at the
Johnson City, Tenn., old soldiers’ home
are so deplorable that unless congress
acts immediately casualties will be
proportionately higher than occurred
in the world war. Director Forbes of
the bureau of war risk insurance de
dared before a senate committee.
Agents of the bureau have just com
pleted a secret investigation of the in
stitution in w'hich are quartered nearly
850 former service men and who, the
director declared, were living under
astounding conditions of vice.
GEORGIA STATE MS
Atlanta.—Judge George L. Bell, in
Fulton superior court, recently grant
ed a temporary order on the petition
of Mrs. Sallie Smith Hause, to pre
vent her husband from visiting her
home or molesting her in any way.
A hearing for a permanent injunction
will be held soon. The petition set out
that Hause had been obnoxious to
roomers in his wife’s home, had sworn
at her and beaten her in the presence
of the roomers, and had driven away
roomers w T ho provided her only source
of income.
Savannah. —Seen at an early hour
acting here, J. A. Stewart, 60 years
old, and well known as an employee
at a concern near the union station
for many years, was detained by the
police and died two hours later be
fore a physician reached him. The
nature of his fatal illness is not
known. Some time after being de
tained he disrobed himself and declar
ed that he would be dead in fifteen
minutes. He was dead in less than
ten. *
Macon. —Half of the equipment of
the Central Georgia Pow r er company
at the substation at Forsyth was de
stroyed by lightning during a storm
that struck that city recently, accord
ing to news dispatches reaching here.
The damage will exceed $7,000, it is
estimated, and it will require front
six weeks tc two months to replace
the damaged equipment.
Macon. —The safe in the store of the
F. W. Woolworth company on Cherry
street was opened recently and $750
in cash, representeing the proceeds
of the store’s Saturday’s sales, was
stolen. The burglar worked the com
bination of the safe. J. H. Hunter,
manager of the store, expressed the
belief that the robbery was the work
of an expert, as oniy~ a young woman
employee of the store and himself
knew the combination.
Summerville. —Approximately 1,200
Blue lodge Masons their families and
friends attended the annual meeting of
the Chattooga County Masonic conven
tion, which was held at Menlo. Be
sides the Masons from Chattooga
county, there were a large number of
prominent men wearing the square
and compass from other sections of
Georgia, and some from Tennessee and
Alabama. The public barbecue was
in the Lawrence grove, near the Law
rence Mineral springs.
Augusta—While playing baseball in
the streets, Clifford Rogers, a young
white boy of this city, was run over
by an automobile driven by Kate Kel
ley, a negro girl, recently and died at
a local hospital from internal injuries.
The negress was arrested on a murder
charge and is now being held in the
Richmond county jail. She claims the
accident w’as unavoidable.
Americus.—The largest sale of cot
ton here recently was consummated
when the holdings of Ernest Stathem,
a member of the county board and
one of the largest farmers of the com
munity, consisting of more than 200
bales, were disposed of to local buy
ers at 11 cents a pound for the lot.
The grade was said to have averaged
better than middling. The cotton was
held among the three local ware
houses.
Toccoa.—The Stephens County Med
ical association met recently and dis
cussed the general condition of the
profession in the county. Each doc
tor w'as asked the question concern
ing pellagra in the county so far as
he knew. Every one without excep
tion said it was not nearly so bad as
in former years, and that at the pres
ent time, there were only three cases
in the county. They declared it was
decreasing in this section and no need
for alarm need be felt. The county
physician, who would most likely have
more cases because of his position as
county doctor, said he had not had
less than three before. It was his
opinion that there was not any danger,
Dublin.—A fight between George
Walker, a 17-year-old white boy, and
George Avery, another youth o£ the
same ut Aritinnci, on the lower
edge of Laurens county, resulted in
the cutting to death of young Avery.
An indictment was recently returned
againt Walker by the grand jury, and
the young man is held in jail awaiting
trial. It is stated by officials that
Avery called the Walker boy away
from church, where services were just
being concluded and that the fight re
sulted. The combat ended w'hen Wal
ker stabbed Avery in the abdomen,
causing him to bleed to death in a
short time. The two young men are
declared to have fought on previous
occasions. Accounts differ upon wheth
er or not Avery was using a knife jj.
the fatal encounter.
New York.—The first bale of new
Georgia cotton was sold at auction on
the cotton exchange recently for 50
cents a pound. It weighed 394 pounds
ind was classed as strict low middling.
The proceeds of the sale will go to
Jiarity.
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Insect Carries Bacteria.
li appears that Infection-spreading
must be added to disastrous voracity
in our indictment of the striped cucum
ber beetle. The United States Depart
ment of Agriculture finds that the bac
teria of cucumber-leaf wilt are carried
in the jaws of this beetle, find in the
intestinal tract may survive the in
sect’s hibernation, prepared to attack
the first leaf of spring. This is the
first time insects have been known
to carry bacteria throught the winter.
SHORT AND SNAPPY
Be up and doing; but mind who yon
do.
Good intentions should be covered
with asbestos.
A w oman who is not dangerous isn’t
worthy to be a woman at all. /
Never hesitate to tell a woman that
you love her. It increases her self
respect.
The man who courts trouble is lucky
to get oft' with merely a breach-of
promise action.
There isn’t much difference between
sight and vision except when you make
the mistake of calling a woman one
when you mean the other.
It fs abstinence, more than absence,
that make the heart grow fonder.
When a woman needs sympathy, cry
with her. When a man needs it,
swear with him.
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W. N. U. f ATLANTA, NO. 33--1921.