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Foreign—
The decision of the council of the
league of nations on the upper Sile
sian question, just m;»de public in
Paris, divides the plebiscite area in al
most equal parts between Poland and
Germany, as to the number of com
munes, and provides administrative
machinery for the gradual inauguration
of the new regime over a period of
fifteen years.
In order to insure the continuity of
peaceful economic life in upper Sile
sia after the partition recently decided
by t lie league of nations becomes ef
fective, the council of ambassadors is
urged to take measures looking toward
German and Polish co-operation under
the form of a general agreement.
A mob of 1,000 Syndicalists march
ed upon the American consulate at
Brest, France, recently and smashed
the windows, singing the Internation
ale and the Red Flag.
Delegations of Communitsts called
upon editors of leading Brazilian pa
pers recently, including the Journal
De Brazil, protesting against the death
sentence passed against the murder
ers, Sacco and Vanzetti at Dedham,
‘Mass., U. S. A.
The Portuguese government has
been overthrown as the result of a
monarchist revolt, it was learned at
.Madrid, Spain. A new cabinet, under
Coelho, former revolutionist, probably
will be formed.
“England is in the worst unemploy
ment situation of the century," Prem
ier Lloyd George declared in commons
recently.
An Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Vienna states that a report lias
been roeeived there of the death of
Ludwig 111, former king of Barvaria,
at Sarvar castle, in Hungary. Owing
to the Burgenland trouble in Hungary,
telegraphing is virtually suspended
from that country, and it is difficult
to obtain authoritatively of events oc
curing there.
Renewed agitation lias been started
In Upper Silesia for a general strike in
protest against the decision of the
council of the league of nations re
garding the region, which is increasing
the excitement of the German popula
tion in the district reported to have
been given Poland, according to late
dispatches.
W ashington—
Georgetown university seismographi
cal observatory recorded earthquake
shocks from 1:13 a. m. to 3 a. m., Octo
ber 20. The center of disturbance was
estimated 4,400 miles from Washing
ton.
President and Mrs. Harding aud the
party of officials, who accompanied
them on their trip recently to York
town and Wtlliamburg, Y r a.. returned
to Washington recently on the presi
dential yacht, The Mayflower.
The American Labor Alliance, now
being formed as a political party, was
severely denounced by Samuel Gora
pers, upon his arrival in Washington.
He said, "the 'alliance’ is a movement
of radicals who seek to establish a
workers’ soviet republic in the United
States.
Nearly a thousand copies of a house
committee report on the score of
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, the draft
dodger, and a big wooden box contain
ing certain Bergdoll documents, to
gether with many private letters and
papers, were stolen recently from the
office of Representative Ben Johnson,-
democrat, Kentucky.
Placement of disabled service men
"under conditions that are criminal
and relating to slavery’’ was charged
by Director Forbes, of the veterans’
bureau, in an address recently at the
first meeting of the bureau’s district
managers.
The heads, medical advisers and vo
cational training officers of the four
teen regional officers of the Veterans'
bureau, will meet with Director Forbes
of the bureau in a series of confer
ences here at which efforts will be
made to complete the decentralization
of tne organization.
Immediate translation of the reduc
tion authorized last July in wages of
railroad employees into reduced freight
rates has been suggested by the public
group of the railroad labor board as
“the feasible plan by which the i res
ent controversy can be settled and a
btrike averted ”
Until European conditions are more
stabilized and some international un
derstanding is substituted for the al
lied Rhine police force, so that France
may feel insured against German ag
gression or failure to meet the Ver
sailles treaty terms, an American force
will continue in the occupied German
territory. With the exchange of treaty
ratifications between the United States
and Germany, however, the present
American troops will be reduced in
numbers.
The administration’s peace treaties
with Germany, Austria and Hungary
were ratified by the senate recently,
the vote on the first two being 66 to
20, or eight more than the necessary
two-thfrds, and in the case of the
Hungarian treaty, due to the absence
of three senators, being 66 to 17.
The cost of living has dropped 18
per cent within the last year, accord
ing to the bureau of labor statistics
Within the last six months the drop
has been nearly 2 per cent of the
total. Just how much relieved Mr. and
Mrs. Consumer find themselves is not
revealed by the statistics.
within seven years prices jumped
about 100 per cent.
Senator Boise Penrose, chairman of
the senate finance committee, the of
fice of the Southern Tariff association
at Washington, and ail members of
the Georgia delegations in both
branches of congress received a me
morial from “farmers of Newton
county, Georgia,” protesting against
the rates proposed in the permanent
tariff bill on vegetable oil importa
tions and urging higher rates.
Virtually all immigration would be
stopped temporarily pending relief of
the unemployment situation under a
resolution introduced by Senator Har
ris, Democrat of Georgia.
Senator Thomas E. Watson was a
recent celler at the white house. The
call was filling an engagement, but the
senator declined to make any state
ment as to its portent.
The United States was responsible
under the transportation act of 1920
for damages arising from its failure to
enforce state rules and laws regulating
transportation within their borders.
A decision to this effect awarding S4OO
damages against the director general of
railroads because three negroes were
permitted to ride a railroad car with
A. E. Stevens and other white passen
gers from Pascagoula to Biloxi. Miss.,
will stand.
Domestic—
Controversy over the religious affili
ation of David Lloyd-George, who has
been claimed at Springfield, 111., by
both Disciples of Christs and Baptists,
has been settled by Lloyd-George him
self. He wrote. "I am a member of
the Disciples of Christ, but attend the
Baptist chapel." Thus the British
prime minister nominated himself to
the electorate of Solomon.
“The upward swing of the business
pendulum is clearly defined to those
who can read the economic signs of
the times. It is the bank, the railroad,
the postoffice, the mill and the field,
and it calls for a spirit of optimism
and an attitude of self-reliant, forward
looking confidence on the part of the
business men of the country,” wrote
Vice President Coolidge, recently, to
the Boston chamber of commerce.
Property damage exceeding $250,000
resulted from three fires which broke
out October 21 in New Orleans, fanned
by a stiff wind, and threatened destruc
tion of large industrial and residential
sections before gotten under control.
Charles Bellmyer, of Bloomington,
Ind., on trial at Nashville, Tenn.,
charged with the murder of W. C.
Puckett, of Atlanta, and Charles Stew
art, of Indianapolis, during the recent
state fair, recently gave up the fight,
pleading guilty to the Puckett mur
der, but claiming the Stewart killing
was accidental, and receiving a sen
tence of thirty-eight years in the first
case and two to ten years in the other.
Use of “bloodless surgery’’ on the
face was described in papeers read
recently before the convention of the
American Academy of Opathalmology
and Otolarnygplogy, at Philedelphia,
Pa.
Answering the warning “lick the
ant or he’ll take your town.’’ Selma.
Ala, recently started a war of exter
mination.
Congressman J. M. Robinson, of
,Kentucky, in an address at the bien
nial eonventioen of Tennessee Ken
tucky Union Mine Workers' at Knox
ville, Teiui., declared that “the strike
is always an evil. It is often a nec
essary evil, but it is no less an evil.”
Ernest A. Cutts. Savannah. Ga., im
perial potentate of the Ancient Arabic
Under, Nobles of the Ancient Mystic
Shrine, upon an official visit to Pitts
burg. Pa., told Shriners of that city
the organization had pledged itself
’o the expenditure of $10,0u0.000 for
the care and cure of crippled children.
, Re t ort* front European capitals, and
from South America recently, indicate
the existence of an international Com
munist piot to secure by intimidation
the freedom of Niecolo Sacco an 1 Bar
todomeo Vanzetti, Italian Communists
convicted of a brutal rauruer of a
pa% mcater and a guard at South
Br.i ntrt.i, Mass,, recently
HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, MeDONOUGH, GEORGIA.
BRIGHTER HOPE FOR
STRIKE SETTLEMENT
TWO MORE “STANDARD’' UNIONS
LEFT TO BALLOT ON OR
DERS FOR WALKOUT
FREIGHT SERVICE RESUMED
Rail Executives Say Backbone Of The
Scheduled Strike Is Broken.
Washington Optimistic’
Chicago.—The prospective rail strike
scheduled for October 30 was limited to
approximately one-fourth of the ra
tion’s railroad employees wiicu offi
cials of the Brotherhood o? Railway
and Steamship Clerks, freight Hand
lers, Express and Station Employees,
representing 350,000 men, voted not to
authorize a walkout by their members
for the time being.
This action increases the number ol
major rail unions which have voted
not to strike now to nine and the num
ber of railroad employees bound by
such action to about three-fourths of
the country’s total of approximately
two million.
The vote was taken in a meeting
which lasted several hours in which
some of the officials at first favored
n walkout October 30, in protest ot
recent wage cuts. These officials fi
nally swung over to a “no strike now”
policy, but the question of quitting
work will be taken up again after the
labor board renders a decision on the
rules and working conditions' now be
fore it.
The action by the clerks left the
signalmen and the telegraphers the
only organizations in the eleven “stand
ard” rail unions which may join the
conductors, firemen, engineers, train
men and switchmen in the strike they
have called.
The telegraphers tentatively have
aligned themselves with the “big five,”
but officials of this union say that
the decision might be changed before
the strike date arrives. The signal
men have not yet voted.
While the official statement an
nouncing the clerks’ action said that
everything had been harmonious in the
meeting, individual officials declared
the decision had been made only after
vigorous debate. It was argued by
these officials that the clerks are more
closely related in their work to the
members of the four big brotherhoods
than are any of the other unions and
that consequently many of them
thought they should support the big
four in its strike call.
The turning point in the debate came
when it was said the officials announc
ed that they, like the leaders of the
other “standard” unions, had not been
able to persuade the brotherhoods and
the switchmen to agree to support them
throughout the proposed strike. When
it was announced that the brother
hoods had informed the officials that
their men would return to w r ork when
their personal grievances had been
settled, regardless of the action of oih
er striking unions, the sentiment
swung to the no-strike plan, it was said
by those present at the meeting.
Railroad officials expressed the be
lief that the backbone of the propos
ed strike was broken when a majority
of the standard unions, which control
the railroad employees, decided not to
strike October 30. Although a strike
would affect all train service men, offi
cials said that service would not be im
paired for more than a day or two
and that these men would be quickly
replaced.
Force On Rhine To Be Reduced Half
Washington.—The gradual withdraw
til of American troops from Germany,
expected to start within two weeks,
will involve a reduction of the Amer
lean forces there to about one half of
the present strength of 13,500 officers
and men. The reduction will be ac
complished by the middle ot nexl
March.
Federal Control Of Roads Opposed
Atlanta, Ga. —The newlv-elected offi
cers of the Georgia Wholesale Gro
cers’ association, which met in Atlan
ta recently, voiced their opposition to
federal control of railroads in the
event of a general railroad strike, and
advised the members of the associa
tion that it was their duty.
Efforts To Speed Up Revenue Actior
Washington.—Republican leaders in
the senate will redouble their efforts
to speed action on the revenue bill.
Sessions will begin at 10 a. m., in
order to lengthen the senate's work
day. and night sessions will be held
if this seems necessary. Indication
are that the compromise plan on the
bill will be adopted virtually as agreed
upon by the agricultural “bloc” and
those in charge of the tax bill, bu
there will be much debate. The vote
for the 50 per cent maximum surta
disnoses of, one troublesome point.
GEORGIA STATE NEWS
8
Americus. —Major I.awrence Church
ill, former commanding officer at
Bouther field, has returned to the post
here, after an extended absence. He
has been under treatment at Walter
Reed general hospital, Washington, D.
C., recently, for disabilities resulting
from war service in France. Major
Nethersole, the present postcomman
der, is absent from Souther field on
vacational leave, but he probably will
be relieved of command on his re
turn here.
Atlanta. —Physicians at the Grady
hospital recently were bending their
efforts to save the life of Mrs. Maud
Bush, forty years old, of 97 White
foord avenue, a teacher at the Faith
Street school, who was discovered re
cently in an unconscious condition in
her bedroom. It was said that she
had be£n overcome by gas, which, it
is believed, had from an open
gas jet in the kitchen.
Savannah. —Handing down an opin
ion that there is no “unwritten law”
in Georgia and “most certainly it will
not be recognized in this court,” Judge
Peter W. Meldrim, in the superior
court, recently denied a new trial in
the case of Grovere C. Curtis, who
was sentenced to serve three years in
the penitentiary on a charge of man
slaughter for the killing of little Iris
Broom, 5-year-old daughter of Allan
Broom, restaurant keeper.
Gray.—Recently a boiler connected
with a gin in Jewel blew up and scald
ed five negroes. Two have died from
the effects, George’Smith and his son,
Ike. Another negro is expected to
die. The two that died were so com
pletely scalded that the sink came
off when their clothes were removed.
Savannah. —Work will soon be start
ed on a new SIOO,OOO Methodist church
in Savannah. The cornerstone for
the church was laid recently. Bishop
Warren A. Candler spoke. The As
bury church is preparing to abandon
its small wooden structure and go into
a handsome brick building, when it is
completed, which, it is hoped, will be
Easter Sunday. $75,000 of the neces
sary amount will be given by the
Centenary fund. The church will be
a “community house” as well a
church, and will have recreational fea
tures. ■
Atlanta.—General Nathan Bedford
Forrest, of Atlanta, commander-in
chief of the Sons of Confederate Vet
erans, delivered an informal address
before a meeting of the John B.
Gordon camp, No. 46, in which he
stressed the importance of increased
efforts on the part of the Sons oi
Veterans because of the large increase
in deaths among the southern heroes
of the sixties. He said that in the
year preceding more than 375 camps
of the veterans had been discontinued
because of deaths, and that the toll
for the past year was even larger.
Jonesboro. —Two deaths were the
toll of an accident recently when Cen
tral of Georgia passenger train No
10, Atlanta to Macon, crashed into a
truck at the crossing just north of
Jonesboro depot. R. I. Berry, 65-year
old Clayton county farmer, was in
stantly killed, and his brother, J. M.
Berry, 58 years old, died at an Atlanta
hospital, where he Was rushed a few
minutes following the fatal crash.
Atlanta. —A two-cent per gallon in
crease in the price of gasoline was
exepected to become general through
out Atlanta, since the Texas company,
the only biy supply company which did
not raise the toll to twenty-four cents
recently, was hourly expecting a tele
gram instructing them to add anothei
two cents. Kerosene jumped two
cents also, making the price now four
teen cents wholesale.
Jackson.—Stricken suddenly with
heart trouble Mr. B. F. Watkins, Sr.,
one of Butts county’s best known citi
zens, died at his home in Jackson
recently. He died while sitting in
a chair on the porch of his home. Mr
Watkins belonged to. one of the old
est and most prominent families of
the country. He was a large and sue
cessful farmer, and was known as the
corn king of Butts county. He held
the record for Georegia for corn pro
duction on a singe acre, and his yield
of 175 bushels attracted attention ab
over the state and Southeastern fair
on several occasions and won a num
ber of premiums.
Atlanta. —After taking a sleeping po
tion recently, Mr. Milton B. McClure,
a department manager for the
0. W. McClure Ten-Cent company, fell
unconscious in-tlie dining room of his
home, and died on the way to a
hospital. a letter found in his
trunk, and a note which was found
on the floor, it is said, indicated that
Mr. had contemplated sui
cide. Shortly before falling uncon
scious. and while at the table with
his wife, Mr. McClure, it is said, re
marked, "It will all be over in a few
minutes.” He had been in bad health
for some time, and was suffering from
a nervous trouble. His physician had
prescribed a sleeping potion to be
taken only in small quantities before
retiring at night
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Men and women who toll, either
physically or mentally, use up energy.
When they overwork they use up
more energy, and sometimes the blood
gets in a run-down condition. Without
rest the blood cannot get back to nor
mal, so that it becomes clogged with
waste matter from over-exertion.
The clogged blood virtually withers
the body. The strained looks on pale
faces, the thin, bloodless arms, the
sunken cheeks and necks, the dead
tired feeling, ure the results of stale
blood depriving the system of life
giving oxygen.
Workers go to the drug store and
get Gude’s Pepto-Mangan when they
feel weak and run down. They take it
in either the liquid or the tablet form.
That makes the blood rich and red
and drives out the poisons. Life-giving
oxygon, carried by the little red cells,
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about business. In business matters
I’m a baby.”
“Can't deal with you, then. A baby
wants it all. Send me somebody who
does know something about business.”
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Hurry, mother! Even a sick child
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the bowels. A teaspoonful today may
prevent a sick child tomorrow. If con
stipated, bilious, feverish, fretful, has
cold, colic, or if stomach is sour,
tongue coated, breath bad, remember a
good cleansing of the little bowels is
often all that is necessary.
Ask your druggist for genuine “Cali
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for babies and children of all ages
printed on bottle. Mother! You must
say “California” or you may get an
imitation tig syrup.—Advertisement.
She Was Sort of Drowsy Like.
Husband (reading paper)—Here’s
something about a girl who slept con
tinuously for two months. I wonder
if it wasn't the same one who worked
for us la-st year.
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