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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (May 4, 1923)
BRIEF NEWS NOTES WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING WEEK THROUGHOUT COUN TRY AND’ABROAD EVENTS OFJMPORTANCE Gathered From All Parts Of The Globe And Told In Short Paragraphs . Foreign— A violent earthquake preceded by heavy rumbling haH been felt at Sira cusa, Italy. The first tremor came at midnight and was followed by two ad ditional disturbances at brief intervals. Religious zealots who started, a few years ago, in London, England, to com pile "the great handwritten Bible” are growing tired of their task. "It has beon an incredibly difficult task. The response has been utterly half-hearted,” says Rev. H. A. Powell, secretary of the moment, and he has sent out an appeal for 5,000 volunteers to assist in the ven ture. Search for the 237 passengers of the Mossamedes, a Portugere mail steam er, who abandoned the vessel off Cape Frio, southwest of Africa, a few days ago and put out in small boats is aj>- parently in vain, according to a Daily Express Dispatch from Cape Town. W. G. Ross, president of the As bestos Corporation of Canada, appeal ed to Attorney General Tatshereaus for protection, asserting that strikers at the company’s pits in Thetford mines, after attacking the offices and driving forty constables put of town, were threatening to dynamite public buildings and mine structures. Germany has opened her doors to American tourists. The government rescinded the order which prevented pleasure seekers, and certain classes of business men from visiting the coun try. Admiral Von Tirpitz, "father of Ger many’s U-Boat warfare,’* in an address before the patriotic societies, Hanover, Germany, stated the resistance to the French in the Ruhr should be carried on energetically. He declared that in his opinion it was unwise to make ad vances to England for mediation, sug gesting that Britain may take the in itiative if the present German attitude Irt the Ruhr was maintained. The French have absolved them selves from blame in the killing of 14 German workers outside the Krupp Plant, Essen. Military investigators are understood to have placed respon sibility on the shoulders of six com munists, members of the general workers’ council, who blew factory whistles when the soldiers entered and thus caused the street riot that ended in French rifle shots. The communist congress adjourned after approving without change Leon Trotzky’s plan to take over the heavy industries. The congress also approv ed Commissar Stalin’s recommenda tion with regard to nationalities, Pre mier Lenine’s scheme for control of state apparatus and M. Kameneff’s pro posal for the substitution of a partly monetary tax for the present peasant levy. Petrograd’s Catholic churches re main closed, but hundreds of parish ioners daily crowd the small apart ments of the priests to pray and to hear mass, much as did the first Chris tians in the catacombs of old Rome. Safeguarding of the legitimate na tional interests of the United States and of the principle of commercial op portunity for all nations was officially set forth as the guiding rule of the American representatives when the Near East peace conference resumed its labors In an endeavor to restore P"ace between the allied powers and Turkey, and between Greece and Tur key. Ismet Pasha, Turkish representative, L- attempting to prevent the Near East ern peace conference, which was re sumed at Lausanne recently, from dis cussing the Chester agreement under which American capitalists have been granted rich concessions in Turkey. Washington— Investigation of alleged booze frauds Involving huge quantities of liquor aud more than SIOO,OOO in “fixing” fees has led department of justice agents to start a nation-wide search for Gaston B. Means, central figure in several episodes of international prominence. Fear of violating the spirit of the naval limitation treaty has led this gov ernment to abandon its plans for in creasing the gun range of American battleships. Supporting President Harding in his contention that the United States should participate in the permanent court of international justice, Elihu Root, told the American Society of In ternational Law that the question to the senate was really only a question pf moral support. Prohibition troubles, from bootleg ging to allegations of bribery, accumu lated here and engaged the attention of high officials of at least three fed eral agencies, the treasury and justice departments and prohibition enforce ment headquarters. There were indi cations that facts developed from the several investigations in progress might ultimately come before Presi dent Harding for action. The American consulate at Vladivo stok through which the United States lifts maintained official representation in soviet Russia has been ordered closed. Consul S. Pinkley Tuck and Vice Consuls Charles H. Stephen, Frederick S. Pray and Edward S. Thomas will proceed to Tokio, Japan, as soon as affairs at Vladivostok are terminated and will await there for new assignments to be made by the state department. Participation by the United States In the world court as proposed by the ad ministration, President Harding declar ed in New York City at the annual luncheon of members of the Associated Press, would be in “harmony with par ty platform pledges, candidatorial prom ises and American aspirations” and would not he an entry into the league of nations "by the side door, the back door or the cellar door.” Domestic— The largest upstream tow in the history of the Mississippi river barge linv left Noiv Orleans, La., for Cairo and Memphis in charge of the towboat Cairo. The tow consisted of five barges carrying 7,460 tons of miscel laneous freight. Conflicting statements were made on the result of the first day of the strike called by the I. W. W. Marino Transport Workers’ union at New York. It’s now not fair to hit anyone who tells you your brains are in your feet The possible passing of bumps, the old standbys of the phrenologist, as reput ed indications of one’s character or one’s most propitious mission in life, was heralded at Chicago with the an nouncement that the human mind was as likely to be scattered anwyhere else in the human body as under the skull. The high cost of sugar lumps has some compensation for the toiler. Eighteen hundred employees of the Federal Sugar Refining company, Yon kers, N. Y., were granted unasked for wage increases of $4 a week. Across American breakfast tables and not on the Sahara desert are to he found the greatest shieks in the world. So declared two Cleveland women, Mrs. Edna Bruce Perkins and Mrs. Charlotte H. Jordan, just return ed from touring the African wastes. “Having observed and always be lieved that charitable bequests afford the testator a means of gratifying his vanity at the expense of his heirs, 1 make none.” This clause in the will of Stuyvesant Fish explained why the financier left his $2,600,000 estate to his three children and nothing to char ity. The minister of foreign relations and minister of the interior of Honduras wired to Honduras Consul Rodrigerua at Los Angeles, official confirmation of the arrest of Clara Phillips and two other persons at Tegucigalpa. The message urged him to act officially for his government in rushing through extradition proceedings. The hearing on the government’s ap plication for a temporary injunction re straining the New York Coffee and Su gar Exchange from further trading in raw sugar futures, unless backed by actual ownership, or control of the commodity, will be heard in New York , City before the four judges of the United States court of appeals, United States Attorney Hayward announces. Events leading up to the escape of Gerald Chapman, Broadway mail ban dit, from St. Mary’s hospital at Athens, Ga., where he was undergoing treat ment for wounds received, at the hands of a posse, after he fled, March 28, I lrom the federal penitentiary at At lanta. were detailed in New York City by Miss Coralea Ramey, night nurse at the Athens hospital. She identified Sll verstein and Didato, stating they were her as "Cohen” and “Krause,” respectively. She confessed that she met them as per agreement at a plate of entertainment in Athens, but that she had nothing whatever to do with j the escape of Chapman. Hostilities ove/ tho control of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan endtd at Atlanta, Ga., with the signing of an armistice between the opposing fac tions, under the terms of which the klcncilium, or supreme council of fif teen men, assumes full charge of the organization. Col. William J. Simmons, j emperor, and Dr. H. W. Evans, imperial wizard, will retain their present olfices. ; Evans will be subject to the kloncilium and Simmons will have full authority to organize the woman’s organization The discovery of a shortage of ap proximately eight hundred thousand dollars resulted in th<* closing of the City bank, at New York City, and the j issuance of warrants for the arrest of Thomas Baird, cashier, and William H. 1 8011, assistant cashier. HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGH, GEORGIA. ROAD * BUILDING ROAD CLASSIFICATION URGED Necessary In Order to Carry on Suc cessfully Highway Program in This Country. That a public road-building policy re quiring road classification according to function as well as responsibility for construction und maintenance is neces sary In order to carry on successfully a good roads program In this country, Is the gist of a treatise issued recently by the Nebraska department of public tvorks, on “How to Get Good Roads.” The classification policy, the Nebruska officials point out, has been found upon adoption übroad to be a highly suc cessful one for highway Improvement. "That which has secured roads over seas,” says the bulletin, “should secure them here. First: There is the country road. Its primary function is to serve county needs. While Its function is vital —linking farm and market —Its use Is nearly local. The county, therefore, should assume responsibility for it. It should be built and cared for by the county funds. Exception should be made of certain roads In the coun ties whose function places them In an other class —that of state or federal roads. Second: There is the state highway, the aggregate of which con stitutes the stute highway system. These are the roads which, while serv ing local needs In the counties, have for their primary function highway service to the state as a whole. The system Is usually planned to connect the county seats, and all these and the various sections of the state and the state capital. The state, therefore, should assume responsibility for these roads. They should be built and cared for through state taxation. Exception should be made of certain roads In the state whose function places them In a third class, that of national roads. Third: There is the national highway, the aggregate of which will constitute the system of national highways. These are roads which, while serving county needs, state needs and Inter state needs, have for their primary function highway service to the coun try as a whole.” PACIFIC COAST IS BUILDING Oregon Has Spent $57,000,000 In Five Years on Construction of Im proved Roads. In five years Oregon has spent $57,- 000,000 in road building. How’s that for a population of only 800,000? No other state in the Union probably comes anywhere near such a per capita expenditure for good roads. Other Pacific states also are energetically constructing the very finest paved highways. Oregon’s roads have cost $30,000 a mile, exclusive of bridges. The result Is that you can now drive hundreds of miles north and south on roads the equal of any that New York, Chicago or any other large city can boast. Also, it will very shortly be possible to motor clear through the state of Oregon to the Idaho border line, a distance equal to the total length of England. I noticed, too, a great many substan tial roads in many Farts of the west ern half of the country. Good roads always go hand-in-hand with a high state of civilization. If the Romans needed good roads in their day, how much does this far-flung continent need them today? Next to necessary expen ditures for up-to-date sanitation no district can invest a generous amount of money more wisely than in con structing first-class roads, now so nec essary for expeditious transportation of products and so conducive to the development of desirable social inter course. without which we can never hope to have our agricultural resources adequately developed. Yes, the West is on the right track. —B. C. Forbes in Forbes Magazine. PROPER SERVICE FROM DRAG Work Should Be D.one After a Rain While Earth Is Still Soft but Not Sticky. To secure results from the use ot the road drag, It must be operated over the ordinary dirt highway at such a time as the earth is in proper condition to give best returns for the labor and effort expended. It Is not unusual to see men dragging a road when the latter is so dry as to make the effort one of scraping rather than dragging. Highways should be dragged while the earth Is still soft after a rain, yet not soft enough to stick to the drag. The surface which results upon drying Is one which sheds water readily on the next rain if a proper slope to the road is left. An experienced worker will accomplish this by always pushing a little earth toward the center of the highway a/ he operates the drag. IF SICK TODAY! 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