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WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING
WEEK THROUGHOUT COUN
TRY AND ABROAD
EVENTS OFJMPORTANCE
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Foreign—
The executive of the British parlia
mentary labor party sent a telegram
to the Russian soviet government, al
luding to the dispatch of the British
warship Harebell to the Murman coast
and begging the soviet to refrain from
any action tending to precipitate a
resort to force pending further nego
tiations on the British ultimatum.
M. Vorovsky, head of the Russian
soviet delegation at the Lausanne
peace conference, was assassinated.
He was shot several times and killed
outright. M. Ahrens, head of the
soviet press bureau in Laucanne, and
soviet press bureau in Lausanne, and
were wounded, the former seriously.
The appeal of Alexander Howat, de
posed president of the Kansas district
United Mine Workers of America from
an immigration decision barring him
from Canada on the ground that he
might become a public charge, has been
denied by the Canadian department of
immigration.
A bill to provide that any ship en
tering British waters or leaving a Brit
ish port be obliged to carry a reason
able amount of alcoholic liquorß for the
supply of passengers on demand is to
be introduced in the British house of
commons by Lieut. Col. George Loyd
Courthope, Conservative member lor
the Rye division of Sussex.
An emphatic note from the British
government handed to Maxi Lltvinoff,
assistant Russian foreign minister, al
leging propaganda and other violation
of the Anglo-Russian trade agreement
and demanding assurances of uncondi
tional fulfillment of specified require
ments within ten days, is considered
by Russian officials as definitely in
tended to bring about a break in Anglo-
Russian relations.
France and Belgium have again
served notice on Germany that they in
tend the reparation bill shall be paid
in full and that there will be no con
sideration of any German proposal as
Jong as passive resistance in the Ruhr
continues to be the German watch
word.
Argentine is considering going back
into the fold of the league of nations
from which she withdrew in 1921. Pres
ident Alvear declares that he will re
port concerning the restitution of the
country in the league during the pres
ent session so as to obtain congression
al action.
Dr. Krupp von Bohlen, head of the
Krupp works, was sentenced to 15
years in jail and to pay a fine of one
hundred million marks as a result of
the trial by courtmartial here growing
out of the shooting at the Krupp plant
on March 31. Directors Hartwig and
Oesterlen also were sentenced to 13
years imprisonment each, Director
Bruhn to ten years and Baur and
Schaeffer to twenty years each. All
were also sentenced to pay fines of one
hundred million darks each.
VV ashington—
A fraud order was issued by Post
master General New against the Pil
grim Oil company and several individ
uals at Wort Worth, Texas.
Commenting on municipal election
in Baltimore, the Democratic national
committee declared in a statement
that "the overwhelming” Democratic
victory not only redeems that city
from Republican rule, but gives full
assurance that the state of Maryland
is safely in the Democratic column
for 1924.
Complete returns of earning of class
one railroads for March filed with the
interstate commerce commission and
compiled by the Association of Rail
way Executives showed a total net
income of $83,568,000. This amount,
the association estimated, represent
ed an annual return rate of 5.85 per
cent on the value of railroad property.
During March, 1922, the same carriers
earned $83,487,000.
Department of justice officials man
ifest no disappointment over the ad
verse turn taken at the outset in the
government’s sugar suit. Experts de
clare the principle involved is whether
the law now gives the government a
remedy to protect the public against
“gambling” in the vital necessities of
life.
Edward P. Farley of Chicago, former
vice president of the Emergency Fleet
corporation has been presented to Pres
ident Harding as a possible successor
to Chairman Lasker of the shipping
board, whose resignation is effective in
July
An appeal to the Supreme court in the
“shortest Dnssibls time. M Attorney Gati*
oral announces, will be taken by the
government from the New York deci
sion denying an injunction to prevent
speculation on the New York sugar
market.
Negro doctors, as far as possible,
will be employed in the minor medical
positions at the veterans’ bureau hos
pital at Tuskegee, Ala., but the chief
medical officer will at least for the
present, be a white man, it was learn
ed at the veterans’ bureau. This pol
icy has been decided on, it was ex
plained, to give the negro patients the
same treatment that other benefic
iaries of the bureau are receiving at
other institutions.
Final announcement was made at
the treasury department by Assistant
Secretary Moss that the department
would adhere to its former ruling that
a duty of 25 per cent ad valorem would
be imposed on calcium arsenate,
which the agricultural department has
recommended to cotton planters for
use in their fight to exterminate the
boll weevil.
Evidence that pre-dated entries of
assets of the Groton Iron Works were
made in the books of that concern’s
Noank, Conn., plant, and that the Gro
ton company experienced continues
difficulties in obtaining payments
from the shipping board on acount of
government ship contracts was intro
duced in the Morse trial.
Domestic—
A new theory as to the manner in
which a skeleton believed by the au
thorities to be htat of Leighton Mount,
Northwestern university student, who
disappeared following a class rush in
1921, came to be under an Evanston
pier where it was found, was advan
ced by investigators while the grand
jury was questioning a score of stu
dents.
Prediction of a new era in which the
southern states would lead the coun
try in humanitarian treatment of pris
oners, was made by Dr. Hastings A.
Hart, a member of the Russel Sage
foundation and former president of the
American prison commission, in an
nouncing that he might accept an in
vitation of legislative committees in
North and South Carolina to investi
gate prison conditions in those states.
Shrewd business ability of Charlie
Chaplin brought him 1,000,000 profit
from a single motion picture, one of
eight for which he had contracted to
produce for $1,075,000, James D. Wil
liams, organizer of the First National
company, testified at the federal trade
commission investigation into charges
that the Famous Players-Lasky corpo
ration and six other defendants con
stitute a trust.
Federal Judge Knox„ in declaring un
constitutional the provisions of the dry
law as affecting the right of a physi
cian to prescribe for his patient—pro
hibiting the prescribing of more than
a pint of spirituous liquor every ten
days—oread a 3,000 word decision up
holding his contention. He contended
that congress had recognized liquor as
having a legitimate medical use.
Eleven workmen were burned to
death and another fataly burned in
the explosion and fire at the J. K.
Hughes Developing company’s McKee
No. 1 well in the Powell field town
ship, near Corsicana, Texas. Ten were
killed and one died in a hospital a
short time afterwards. The fire origi
nated from a spark as a workman drop
ped a control valve alongside the cas
ing of the gusher.
The government’s application for a
temporary injunction to enjoin trad
ing in raw sugar futures by the New
York coffee and sugar exchanges and
its clearing association was denied by
the United States circuit court of ap
peals at New York before which the
case was heard. The court announced
that a memorandum stating its reason
might be filed later. The United States
attorney had charged before the court
that prices were manipulated on these
exchanges, and asked the court to In
terpret such practice as gambling.
Under an agreement reached between
the city of Birmingham, Ala., and the
Birmingham Railway, Light and Power
company, street car fares were reduced
from eight to seven cents and ticket
book fares were reduced from 6 2/3
cents to* 6 cents. A two-cent charge
for transfers remains in the new con
tract which dates over a period of three
years.
Justice A. H. F. Seeger, of the New
York supreme court, has granted the
motion of Erward J. Collins, attorney
for the defense, dismissing the indict
ments for perjury returned in Rock
land against Evan Burrowes Fontaine,
dancer, and her mother, Mrs. Florence
Fontaine, it has been learned at New
burg, N. Y.
Alexander Hamilton, and not George
Washington, was the author of the
warning against “entangling alliances,”
according to a monograph by Prof.
Samuel Flagg Beamis of Whitman col
lege, Walla Walla, Wash. The mono
graph, “Jay’s treaty,” won the $3,000
first prize offered in the Knights of Co
lumbus, in American history contest.
HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOt GH. GEORGIA.
HIGHWAYS AID TO PROGRESS
Conditions of Living Improved in City
and Country by Better
T ransportation.
A few years ago the sight of a man
In overalls and a straw hat hard at
work with the hoe was convincing evi
dence that he was a farmer. Store
clothes bespoke the city dweller.
Times and the road have changed.
Highway transport is sending the city
man out to the country at the close of
his day’s work and bringing the farmer
and his family Into town. The old dis
tinctions are passing and the cartoon
ist of the future will have to look to
a new type for his characters.
Public recognition of the social in
fluence of highway transport has been
perhaps the outstanding development
of the last year. The second national
conference held by the highway edu
cation board served to crystallize opin
ion which has been growing steadily,
and many are studying the Influence of
the motor vehicle on the sociological
as well as the economic problems of
the day.
It is no longer necessary to talk in
general terms. We are beginning to
obtain specific evidence of the influ
ence of highway transport upon life
In this country, writes Roy D. Chapin,
vice president of the National Automo
bile Chamber of Commerce in the Mil
waukee Sentinel. Definite traffic
studies now under way under the di
rection of the bureau of public roads
Indicate clearly the flow of commodi
ties from farm to market and from
market to market.
Economic studies by the National
Automobile Chamber of Commerce
disclose a growing use of the vehicle
by the laboring class and a consequent
decrease in their overhead costs of
living through homes taken farther out
In the country.
Intimations of unprecedented sub
urban developments are seen in the in
clination of the man who lives in the
city to get out far enough to have a
home of his own and a plot of grass for
his children.
The task which remains Is one of de
veloping the vast network of highways
necessary to complete communication.
Broad financial policies must be laid
down to insure an expedited but effi
cient program of expenditure. Cen
tralized control is essential in order
that there may be a proper relation
between the possible earning power of
the road and the cost of the construc
tion and maintenance.
The construction of highways is of
benefit not alone to those of us who
are paying the taxes today, but to
those who will follow. If we are to
have the roads In our lifetime we must
predicate our initial outlay in many In
stances upon serial bond Issues which
will give us and our children the road
at a reasonable rental for Its use.
Property values, whether in the city
or country, are definitely affected by
highway improvement and if we are to
proceed soundly from a financial stand
point the full property power of the
state should be thrown behind state
bond issues.
The road user should be willing to
pay all of the costs of maintaining the
highway, not so much as a matter of
principle as because his operating
costs will be directly influenced by the
quality of the highway on which he is
driving, and when all Is said and done
the motor vehicle fee offers the most
direct protection to the state’s Invest
ment in the highway, because It is an
annual revenue and can be directed
against an annual charge.
Any use of motor fees which deflects
funds from this fundamental use Is
vicious and should not be counte
nanced.
It Is also Important that county
systems bear some relation to state
improvement, as otherwise the less Im
portant highway might be improved at
the expense of the more Important—as
stated in terms of traffic, the only fair
measure.
GOOD ROADS ARE ESSENTIAL
Without Improved Highways Govern*
ment Could Not Carry Out Duties
Imposed Upon it.
Garland W. Powell, assistant na
tional director of the American Le
gion, points out that without good
roads, and the proper use of the motor
vehicle, the federal government could
not successfully carry out some of the
duties imposed upon it by statute. Mr.
Powell suggests that, as a result of
Improved highways, the people are
brought in closer touch with business,
social, educational and governmental
affairs, that the rural free delivery
service is made possible and those on
farms and in far-away places are nc
longer compelled to live a life o'
isolation.
IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONA!,
Sunday School
' Lesson ’
{By REV. P. B. FITZWATER, D. D.,
Teacher of English Bible in the Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago.)
Copyright, 1923, Western Newspaper Union.
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ELIJAH, THE BRAVE REFORMER
LESSON TEXT—I Kings 18:17-46.
GOLDEN TEXT—Choose you this day
whom ye will serve.—Joshua 24:15.
REFERENCE MATERIAL—MaIachI 4:
5,6; Matthew 11:14; 16:14; Luke 1:17; John
1:21-25; James 6:17, 18.
PRIMARY TOPlC—Elijah and the Poor
Woman.
JUNIOR TOPlC—Elijah’s Wonderful
Victory.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC
—How Elijah Defied Wickedness.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
—What Modern Reformers Can Learn
from Elijah.
I. Elijah Meets Ahab. (vv. 17, 18).
At the Lord’s command Elijah
showed himself to Ahab. When Eli
jah last was seen by Ahab he an
nounced that rain would only be given
by his word (17:1). In connection
with the prophet’s appearance before
the king, rain was promised.
1. Ahab’s Question. “Art thou he
that troubleth Israel?” (v. 17). Ahab’s
aim was to intimidate Elijah, to awe
him Into submission.
2. Elijah’s Answer, (v. 18). He
denied the charge and boldly de
clared that the calamity which had
befallen the nation was caused by
the idolatry of Ahab and Ills family.
11. Elijah’s Challenge, (vv. 19-24).
1. The People Assembled, (vv. 19,
20). The king convened the people
at the urgent request of Elijah.
2. Elijah’s Ringing Call to Decision
(vv. 21-24). (1) The question asked,
“Who Is your God, Baal or the Lord?”
(v. 21). Many of the people had
not wholly forsaken God. They at
tempted to worship both God and
Baal. Many today are halting be
tween two opinions. They are halt
ing between self and Savior, sin and
holiness, mammon and God. (2) The
silence of the people, (v. 21). This
may have been because of fear of the
king or of ignorance, for many were
of the opinion that to be religious
was the only thing necessary, Ir
respective of the being worshiped.
There is all the difference between
merely ■worshiping and really wor
shiping God that there is between
hell and heaven. (8) The method
of decision (vv. 22-24). Two sacri
fices were to be provided—one to be
offered to Baal, the other to God. The
god who answered by fire was to be
the God. The people consented that
this was a fair test. Accepted sacri
fice is the grand and supreme test
by which God is calling upon men
everywhere to make the decision be
tween Christ and the heathen gods.
111. The Test Applied, (vv. 25-29).
1. The Offering by the Prophets of
Baal (vv. 25-29). Elijah gave the
prophets of Baa L-the first opportunity
to prove to the people as to whether
Baal was a real god. The real differ
ence In the issue of prayer is the
person to whom prayer Is made.
2. The Offering by Elijah (vv. 30-
89). (1) The people Invited hear
(v. 80). His object was for them to
see the entire proceedings in order
to fully grasp the genuineness of the
test. (2). The altar repairs (vv. 80-
32). Elijah took twelve stones repre
senting the united nation. (3). The
offering on the altar (vv. 33-85). Af
ter the bullock was in place he had
four barrels of water three times
emptied upon the sacrifice and the
wood so as to fill the trench about
the altar. So sure was Elijah that
God’s power was sufficient that he
heaped difficulty upon difficulty. (4).
Elijah’s prayer (vv. 86, 87). (a) It
was based upon covenants (v. 80).
The foundation upon which all real
prayer rests Is covenant relationship,
(b) Its object was God's exaltation
(v. 36). Elijah was Jealous for God’s
glory. His supreme desire was to
honor and magnify the Lord, (c) It
was for the salvation of the people,
(v. 87). His heart yearned after
Israel. He was most desirous that
they should come to God. (5) The re
sult (vv. 38, 39). (a) The fire of the
Lord fell and consumed not only the
sacrifice but the wood, stones and
dust, even licking up the water in
the trench, (b) The people fell on
their faces and confessed that the
Lord was the God.
IV. The Execution of Baal’s Proph
ets. (v. 40).
The reason for this drastic action
was that Israel’s government was a
theocracy. God was their king.
Idolatry was trehson against the
king. These false prophets were
traitors to God and therefore should die.
V. God’s Prophet Vindicated, (vv.
41-46).
The proof that Elijah was God’s
prophet was incomplete till rain came.
Israel under his ministry had now
turned back to God and God made
known unto them His graclousness.
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