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The Henry County Weekly VOL. XLIX Hi ENTERPRISE THAT MERITSJOUR SUPPORT Notwithstanding the amount of shipping that is now lying idle in the harbors and at the docks of the United States, ocean travelers are still obliged to pay high rates for trans Atlantic travel, and an unparalleled opportunity to build up the American Merchant Marine is being lost. Recognizing this fact, and realizing that the time was opportune for an undertaking of this nature, the organizers of the Great Northern S. S. Co. formed their Corporation, which received its charter from the State of Massachusetts, October 11, 1922. They visualized a new ocean steamship line, plying between Boston and European ports, con trolled bv the people, which would offer to these same people a chance for ocean travel on com fortable commodious ships, at a price within the reach of all, but large enough to allow a profit for the investor and a sufficient mar gin to allow for carrying on and enlarging of the enterprise. This was their threefold purpose to render a genuine service to the people, —to help build up Ameri can shipping,—and to bring busi ness and trade to the port of Bos ton. In spite of the failure of the Ship Subsidy Bill, in spite cf the opposition which each new com petitor in an established field en counters, this Company is bring ing its plans to maturity and ex pects that very soo 1 it will be able to offer definate sailing dates to the public. This, surely, is an enterprise that merits your support. Mil NEGROES Mil 111 DETROIT Detroit Mich., June, 28th. So many friendless and un known Southern negroes have died, been taken to the morgue, and failing identification have been buried in the potters field here that civic authorities, to gether with negro ministers are taking steps to provide every immigrant Southern negro with an identification card, giving the address of his nearest Southern relatives, or “white folks.” Seventy five per cent of the unidentified dead in the De troit morgue are negroes, ac cording to the Detroit News, and the majority of these are newly arrived from the South. Tuberculosis, typhoid, and in some cases actual starvation, are responsible for the majority of deaths, although a surpris ingly large number of killings occur when the negro competes with the low grade immigrant, and race clashes between the negro and the immigrant class es are becoming more and more frequent. A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of McDonough and Henry County. TOE BARNES COMEDY CO. 11l MCDONOUGH _[IIIS WEEK The Barnes Comedy Co. one of the best high classed comedies and vaudiviile shows that has ever visited McDonough is filling a weeks engagement here this week in the big tent which is located on the vacant lot just East of the Court House. The Barms Comedy Co. is all composed of good people, and with a change of program each night, they are giving an interest ing and highly entertaining ex ercise every night with a big free band concert every evening in front of the big tent. It is a good clean show composed of good people, and is having a good at tendance. REPORT OF BUSINESS BY MCDONOUGHPOST OFFICE June 30 closes the year for the Post Office Department, and from the reports compiled to close this period the postmaster at the Mc- Donough Post Office, Mrs. R. H. Hankinson gives to the people of McDonough and Henry county the following interesting figures. Of the outgoing mail 987 letters and parcels were registered, 2,445 parcels were insured. Of this number two were lost and claims paid amounting to SSOOO. 930 packages were sent C. 0. D.; all were accounted for and money orders received by senders. 1214 letters were specially de liverd from the office. The sale of postage stamp stock for the quarter amounted to $1568.63, which is $94. 23 more than for any other quarter during the year, and slls greater than the quarter showing the Christ mas sales. The total postage stamp stock sold during the year amounted to $5311.94. Money orders issued duriug this quarter amounted to $5045.57. Orders issued during the year amounted to $18,031.50, those paid to $23,716.20. Packages lost 2; damaged 28. Of the 28 packages damaged, fifteen contained eggs and reach ed the destination with one or more eggs broken. All but three claims have been scattered. NOTICE TO SCHOOL TRUCK DRIVERS Bids to drive school trucks for next year must be received by the Board of Education by the Ist. Tuesday in August. Respectfully, T. J. Horton C. S. S. Rosser Reunion The Rosser Reunion will be held at the home of Mrs. Laura Rosser Friday July 27th. McDonough, Georgia, Friday, July 6, 1923. OBSERVER We look a day off on the glorious 4‘h dav of July and some how we are a little short on news items this week but will try an make up for lost items later. Rev. A A. Heath who was called to the p s!t rate of Liberty Hill church a few months ago, request us to st tte that he will begin a revival a that place on the sth. Sunday. We regret to note the death of tha little child of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Carter which occured at their, home in McMullen’s District Wed nesday after several weeks illness We Join the many friends in ex tending to the family our sympathy in their sad hour. Its remains were laid to rest at Bethany yesterday afternoon after appro priate funeral services conducted by Rev. 1. G. Walker. The Agoga Sunday School Class of Atlanta, will be in McDonough next Sunday night and you will miss quite a treat if you fail to hear them. We have never had the pleasure of seeing or hearing this class but from the recent re ports of the newspapers, it seems to be almost a revival on wheels. This class went to Rome Ga. a few Sundays ago and 65 members united with the church at this one service. Every body is cordially invited to come. Sheriff W. A. Ward went down to Miiledgeville yesterday to place a lunatic in the State Sanitarium. The Sheib'f has had a busy week, this week with his prisoners in jail, four of them being negro women, two of whom were crazy and he still has one more to take to the Sanitarium. The annual all day singing at Mt. Carmel on July 4th. was well attended and was a success. This singing has been held annually for a long number of years, and is always a success. There was a number of good leaders present, and it was one of the best singings that has been held in a number of years. The good people of that section are noted for their gener ous hospitality, and a long table had been prepared especially for this occasion and it was loaded to overflowing with good things to eat. It was good to be there. Mr. C. C. Fargason gave a big barbecue at his house on the 4 h. day of July which was the best one that has ever been h°ld. He has been giving a barbecue for a number of years at his home on the 4th. and it is always looked forward to with pleasuie by his friends who attend each year. A good crowd was in attendence this year, among the prominent visitors present being Bishop W. A. Candler, of Atlanta, Rev. W. W. Arnold. Rev. L. D. King and Rev. J. A. Partridge of McDonough and a number of other citizens of the town and county. The big barbecue and fish fry was served at the noon hour and in the afternoon an inter? sing program was rendered, consisting of impromptu speeches, Bishop Candler being the prinicpal speeches of the evening. It was indeed a very pleasant occasion for those present and the Weekly regrets that we are un able to give an extended account of the occasion, on account of it being so near the hour of going to press with this weeks issue. SENATOR EJ. SMITH AND REPRESENTATIVEA. L NORMANHIGHLYHONORED Senator E. M. Smi.h w«s ap pointed on some very importent committees in the State Senate this week, having been appointed Chairman of the committee on “Constitutional Amendments” and Vice Chairman o f the Western Atlantic Railway, two of the most important committee in the Senate. He was also apponited on a number of other importent com mittees. Representative A. C. Norman was also highly honored in the house, being appointed as a member of the Ways and Means Committee,” and “Appropriations” and also on several other im portent committees. FOURTH OF JULY BARBECUE AT MR. CHARLIE FARGASON'S The annual barbecue and fish fry ws duly celebrated at the home of our hospitable and gen iel friends, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Fargason, who always entertain in a most gracious and charming manner. In these congenial oar ties gathered for the purpose of feasting and making merry. We for the time being that the boll weevil is robbing us of our rights and that the financial crash has depleted our bank account and we feel that friendship is the greatest blessing and life worth while. Those whose good fortune it is to participate in these delight ful occasions always look eagerly forward to the next celebration and we trust that this method of celebrating the glorious fourth, which is the best way possible, may be kept up through the years as Georgians own way of giving irnnt trv hon notrirvlin contimpnf f Vylli VV/ Mu t THE FLYING SQUADRON Don’t forget the coming of the Flying Squadron to our city next Sunday evening. They will have entire charge of the services at the Baptist church beginning promplv at 7:45 p m. Every body c >me and hear such speakers as Morgan Blake and others. COL. H. 0. RUSSELL VISITSJACDONOUGH Col. H. D. Russell, of Maoon, paid The WEEKLY a visit Thurs day. This visit recalled to him his boyhood days. When a boy in school here he and Wal ter Ingram would turn and feed the press. These were happy days well spent. These are the kind of boys who make real men. Notice On account of having taken the 4th. of July holiday we are getting out a small edition of the Weekly this week. $1.50 A YEAR MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIA TION OF GEORGIA Cincinnati Ohio, June 28, Southern negroes who have mi grated to Cincinnati are being gouged to the limit bv the land lords in the negro districts of these cities. Some of them are being charged as much as ten dol lars a week for one room, and three and four families are living in houses built for on because of the extreme congestion in the negro quarters. In addition, prejudice among both the native whites and for eigners against the negro i~ i grants is rapidly rising, and is ex pected to grow even greater. This is particularly true among the whites who live near the districts and as a result who have been thrown in close contact with them. These facts w ere disclosed to day by Ben W. Overton, executive secretay of the Negro Y. M. C. A. of Cincinnatti and an authority on negro conditions in the city. Dr. John L. McLeish, director of the American House down in Mohawk District, where the foreign born live, also disclosed that dislike of the Southern negro was growing among the foreign born unskilled laborers with whom they are in competition. The negro quarters in Cincin nati are largely located down along the Ohio river front in what is known as “The Bottoms” in which according to the police as many as 365 persons have been killed in the course of one year. Each year this district is partially or entirely flooded and the ne groes have to seek safety in other sections of the city until the river recedes. Many negroes have been drowned by these floods. The migration of the Southern negro to the north has fearfully congested these quarters and many of the negroes, born and reared in the warm climate of the South, have fallen prey to con sumption and other diseases caus ed by the cold and congestion. It is impossible to estimate the number of Southerns negroes who have died and health conditions among them are described as “very bad.” Because of the high rents charg- ed by the owners of the negro tenement houses, ranging as high as ten dollars a week for one room the Southern negro, when he is lucky enough to have a job has to spend almost all he makes for rent and what little remains is soon consumed for a meager amount of food. The jobless ne groes have to sleep out in the open when it is warm enough and seek shelter in the cells at the police station in the long period of cold weather. ♦ . The Mizpah Wesley Class Meet July 9th The Mizpah Wesley Class will meet Monday July 9th. at 4 o’clock, at the home of Mrs. Wade Turner with Mrs. H. S. Pless joint hostess. All members are urged to be present.