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MONDAY
EDITION
VOL. XXVI,
NUMBER 43.
FREEZE CAUSES HAVOC WiTH ALL CROPS
LIQUOR RAID MAY CAUSE TROUBLE WITH JAPANESE
United States Seizes Blockade
Running Jap Vessel
HAD PITCHED BATTLE ‘
Japanese Sailors Fight Prohi
Agents in Jacksonville l
(By International News Service) |
JACKSONVILLE, April 11.—Fed
€ral authorities today libeled and
seized the Japanese Steamship Erie!
Maru, charging it carried liquor and,
unlawfully disposed of it in this port.i
An international row may result, |
ONE JAP KILLED .
IN LIGUOR RAID
JACKSONVILLE, April 11.—One
Japanese sailor was shot seriously in |
a gun battle between the Japanese
and prohibition officers. '
Six sailors were grrested in the act!
of unloading . twenty cases of whis-!
key, it is said, from the steamshipl
Erie Maru into a waiting taxicab. |
Officers had been tipped off andl
were awaiting when a small boat
from the ship arrived at dock. Thcf
Japs opened fire on the officers. The |
Erie was raided and forty additionall
cases were confiscated. l
(By International News Service)
WASHINGTON, April 11.—The
extra ordinary session of congress|
opened at noon, both houses startingi
routine work of organization, swear-i
ing iu new members and ratification :
of committee appointments. l
Gillett was re-elected Speakr of the |
House and Cummins president pro |
tem of the Senate. i
WASHINGTON, April 11.—Pres
ident Harding today completed the’
writing of the message scheduled to
be delivered to Congress tomorrow.i
Government by the Republican |
party came back to Washington to-|
day with the convening of the sixty- |
sevnth Cengress in extra-ordinary:
session. I
Tuesday, for the first time in eight:
years, a Republican President will
transmit to a congres that is over-'
whelmingly Republican, a mcssage!
which is expected to chart the course
of the administrat:cn n the mon:ent- !
ous tasks ahead of it |
Peace, taxation, the tariff and the|
railroad questions provide eiough’
we -k to keep congress busy severgl
weok:, aside from the immieration,’
colier relief and appropriations
appropriations problems to be sonved.l
TR ROt AR j
BRITISH SEEK TO |
AVERT BIG STRIKE:
(By International News Service)
LONDON, April 11.-=AI! wine dis-‘
tricts are now adequately protected,
said an official communique from the
board of trade following a conference
of Lloyd George with the executive
officers of the Miners Federation to-l
day in an effort to arrive at a basis on
which the triple alliance strike, thredt
ened for Tuesday, can be averted.
The conference will be resumed at
4 o'clock this aftrnoon. The mine
owners will be represented.
Former Empress Of
Germany Is Dead
(By International News Service)
LONDON, April 11.—Augusta Vic
toria, sixty-three, former Empress of
Germany, diel at 6 o’clock this morn- |
ing at the Castle Doorn, says a news
dispatch from Amsterdam today. ‘
She leaves her husband her hus
band, the former Kaiser, six sons and
one daughter. She had snffered from
heart disease for m:any n.onths, |
The dispatches state the remains
will be taken to Potsdam for inter
ment. J
THE FITZGERALD LEADER
WEATHER—Fair Tonight, Slightly
Warmer; Tuesday, Fair and Warmer
THE SAPIRO PLAN
And THE SOUTH
eBY Vlotor VICIOr sccssismeeion
’ (SEVENTH ARTICLE)
- The preceeding six articles of this series have fallen short of
!their purpose if they have not carried conviction upon these three
points:
! First, that the Sapiro plan, applied to cotton, better than any
iother scheme suggested, short of unrestricted government aid to the
‘cotton farmer and government fixing of cotton prices in the interests
of the cotton grower, will tend to stabilize the cotton market, lessen
‘the present economic .waste in cotton distribution, and insure the
| grower a fair and reasonable profit on the making of his product.
Second, that, outside of the importance of general farmer pros
perity, thus enhanced, to the entire business fabric, the Sapiro plan
in its details is not only distinctly compatible with existing Ameri
can business methods and our existing economic structure, but will
bring direct benefits to the southern merchant, the southern banker,
and the entire southern business field. ;
If-we add to these two points one which will be demonstrated
in the concluding article on “The Sapiro Plan and the Nation”—
namely, that thé general cotton-buying public, including, of course,
all southerners, will not suffer from the new market arrangement,
the conclusion that the Sapiro plan for cotton will be a great and
beneficient power working toward the general prosperity of the
South cannot be avoided. :
In view of all that has been said, the thing should be so obvious
as to need no elaboration here for any intelligent person, and no time
willl be consumed in stating truths which should by this time have
assumed the acceptance of platitudes. But the importance of these
truths will be better understood upon a realization of certain others.
One of these is that correct co-operative marketing of farm pro
ducts is the most available and vital aid to agricultural prosperity
to which the Soutlf can give attention. Another is that, at the pres
ent moment, correct co-operative marketing of cotton is the most
important phase of this matter to the South. The third is that the
entire South must demand of its farmers that they avail themselves
of this new “open sesame” to prosperity RIGHT NOW. :
Government aid to farmers, more and more of which is being
obtained, is a splendid and important thing ; but there is a limit be
yond which it cannot go without complete revolution of our govern
mental theories; and there is an additional limit beyond which it will
not go in the case of the southern farmer, and the southern cotton
tarmer particularly. The South is only one section of the nation ;
and cotton, to say nothing of many other of its most important crops |
like tobacco or peanuts, is distinctly a sectional product. There is
no need of argument—just think the situation over, not in the light]‘
pf what you think the Southern farmer deserves; but in the light
cf what you actually believe he can get in Washington,
Self-help is the great remedy for the farmer, and for the south
ern farmer especially. And correct co-operative maketing is the
most needed and instantly available form of that self-help.
Intensified farming, cheaper production, diversification of crops,‘
are all great roads to progress which must be used to the limit. But
to make the farmer travel them requires both education which is a
gradual process taking great time, and the ability to change both
present farming methods and the present equipment an southern
farms, whilh requires both time at the disposal of he farmer and a
modicum of wealth. Co-operative marketing which means only, in
the last analysis, the institution of correct business methods in the
selling of farm products, is both the most speedily attainable remedy
and the greatest. In the South, where it has heen practically non-ex
istent heretofore, it can bring about a complete revoluion of his own
condition in life for the Southern farmer in less than a decade. |
Now, all those who cry “We want diversification—give us co-%
operative marketing of other crops besides cotton and give it to us
iquickly I are sounding a clarion call which should be heard and‘
heeded by Southern farmers and business men from Cape Hatteras
to the Rio Grande. But if they fail to comprehend, at the same time
that a more profitable market system for cotton is the supreme need
of the hour in the South, they are falling into a dangetous error.
You cannot accomplish correct and profitable diversification of
farm production in the South in a day. Cotton is still, and must be
for some time to come, the greatest resource of he South. Misery‘
‘and ruin through a number of successive bad years in cotton, while
‘they might accomplish a new system of agriculture in the South at
‘the end, would mean a penalty upon the present generation tgo great
to be borne.. Is not the education and enlightenment that can come
‘only through a little leisure and a little modest but steady prosperi
ity the best road along which to travel gradually away from our pres
ent dependence upon cotton ?
| Mugt we lose our comparative monoply of one of the owrld’s
great necessities, and the power (thus far wasted) which goes with
it—must we fail the world in the production of that necessity to
which we are so peculiarly suited—in order to become producers of
other things as well? Or shall we retain our mastery of the golden
fleecy staple, while we go peacefully and intelligently about the busl
iness of producing other things as well? and thus destroying its més
(Continued on Page Two) |
FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY, GE\ RGIA
- MONDAY, APRIT. 11, 192:. o
SUPERIOR COURT
Judge Gower Appeals For Law
Enforcement In Charge
GRAND JURY ORGANIZES
D. L. Martin Chairman And G.
A. Jolley Clerk Of Jury
Charging strict enforcement of the
law to the grand jury and petit juries
as well as officers of the court and
for especial attention to game, pistol,
(and prohibition law, Judge O. T.
Gower of Cordele today opened the
April term of the Ben Hill Superior
Court. Judge Gower. The judge’s
charge included nothing that could be
construed as even remotely bearing
on the A. B. & A. strike.
~ The grand jury organized with D.
L. Martin as foreman, G. A. Jolley
as clerk and J. H. Mayes as vice fore
man. The other grand jurors are
W. H. Roberts, C. A. Newcomer, M.
W. Chasteen, W. A. Hunter, William
Roberts, S. G. Pryor, Sr., A. W. Mec-
Call, Ted Myers, I. Gelders, O. L.
Dowling, S. A. Troup, C. W. Cook,
J. E. Harris, J. B. Seanor, A. Swan
son, H. D. Vaughn, W. M. Rawlings,
B. I. Mercer, A. E. Ennis, W. L.
Babb, J. R. T. Young. The member
ship numbers twenty-four, the limit
allowed bf law.
The case of largest public interest
which the grand jurf will have to con
sider at its present session is that of
Lee Dodd, charged with rioting inl
connection with the strike. He was
aécused by union men with having{
urged them to assist him in wreckingi
Atlanta " Birmingham and Atlantic
which the grand jury wilt have to con
railroad property. It is considered
at the April term, which will take up
criminal business next week.
Several arrests have been made in
connection with prihibtion law viola
tions that will be presented to the
grand jury, |
I. C. C. Not Probe
.
-~ A. B. &A. Affairs
Union Request for Investigation of
Management Refused
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion has refused to investigate the
management and business affairs of
the Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic
railway it became known today. The
unions had requested such an investi
gation with the end in view of deter
mining the roads ability to pay the
1920 scale of wages. Val Fitzpatrick,
for the unions, fired back a second
and more urgent request for an in
vestigation immediately on receipt of
the commission’s refusal,
In refusing the union request, the
commissioners stated that such inves
tigation would require so long a time
and the strike would probably be
ended before it could be concluded.
The union chiefs replied that the men
wanted to let the publig know just
how the road was operated and thru
a federal investigation to possibly
put one road on a really efficient
basis, by means of an investigation.
No reply had been received today
to the second request,
Mayor Of Cork Be
Deported By U. S.
(By International News Service)
WASHINGTON, April 11.—Secre
tary of Labor Davis today ruled that
Donald O’Callaghan, Lord Mayor of
Cork, is an alien seaman and must
reship from the United States. Tt was
stated he will be given a reasonable
time to do so. It is believed that six
ty days will be allowed.
Mrs. E. V. McCall has reurned to
her home in Reidsville after a pleas
ant visit of three months to her daugh
ter, Mrs. Lawrence Phillips on south
Main street.
COTTIN—Good Middlinig ---_lo3c
No Receipts No Sales
Judge Demands Prosecution cof
Mob and Horror Farmer
TO INDICT HIS SONS
Williams Boys Still Missing But
Will Be Hunted Out
(By International News Service)
MONTICELLO, April 11 The
Jasper County grand jury today was
instructed to investigate not only the
murders of seven farm hands on the
plantation of John Williams, now |
under life sentence following his con-{
viction for killing one farm hand, but
"also to probe the lynching of Eugene |
'Hamilton, a negro convicted in Aug-l
‘ust 1919 of assault with intest to mur
der and taken from jail by a mob. !
Judge Parks declared that every |
member of that mob was guilty ofl
cold blooded murder, Several wit-:
nesses are here it is sail, ready to
swear to recognition of several whites
who assisted in taking Hgamilton
from the Grays county jail to Jasper |
county where he was put to death. I
Eye witnesses to.two murders on‘
the Williams’ farm, it is said, glso
have been found: l
Indictments will probably be asked'
against the three sons of Williams. '
Solicitor General Brand has asked‘
against the three missing sons ofl
Williams. Solicitor General Brandi
has asked indictments against John
Williams for the deaths of eight ne
groes and for an indictment against
Marvin, Huland and Leroy Williams
‘for the death of “Blackstrap” “Iron
Jaw” and a negro named Smolling!
‘who are reported to have been slain.
last summer. '
e e e
.
Two Killed In Auto l
|
Smashes In Atlanta‘,
(By International News. Service) ;
| ATLANTA, April . 11th Jack
Bauknight, a one-legged man, was iu-:
stantly killed last night when he was
riding in an automobile which struckf
a telephone pole at Pace’s Ferry road. |
Sanford Reed was fatally injured. ‘
Tate Haynes was killed when an
auto truck crashed down an embank- |
ment on the Brown Mill road late
yesterday, |
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,NEWS OF THE WORLD
BY TELEGRAPH
Official Organ -
City of Fitzgerald
Long Delayed Cold Snap Brings
Snow in Many States
GEORGIA CROP UNHURT
Fitzgerald Temperature Re
mained Well Above Freezing
A cold snap, scheduled to Hit the
| Atlantic states about two weeks ago,
finally swept over the section east of
the Mississippi last night destroying
lmil]ions of dolfars worth of fruits and
vegetables.
In Fitzgerald the temperature made
a drive toward the bottom but re
'mained well above freezing all last
’night and no damage to crops locally
'is reported. The lowest temperature
‘was not officially recorded here but
s reported to have been 40 degrees.
WASHINGTON, April 11.—The
freezing temperature which caused
untold damgage to fruit and vegetable
crops will continue tonight FEast of
the Mississippi River, according to
the Weather Bureau.
The weather will be generally
warmer tomorrow.
Widespread damage is reported to
crops. The two freezing spe'ls were
past due by 3 couple of weeks.
BULLETINS
WILMINGTON, Del, April 11.
Five inches of snow fell here last
night. The fruit crops seriously dain
aged.
'~ CAMDEN, N. 7J., April 11. A
‘snowstorm last night damaged the
carly vegetables. A fifty per cent
loss is estimated.
- BOSTON, April 11.—Sharply cold
er weather is registered here. A
snowstorm occured last night,
ATLANTA, Apri] 11,-—Ths temp
crature is 34 above today w.th high
chilling winds.
NASHVILLE, Aopril 11-A kilt:
ing frost came last night. Heavy j’cc
ise reported in Eastern Tennessee,
NEW YORK, April 11.—The tem
perature was 27 above zero this
morning and a light snow was falling.
LUNCH HOUND—“I just had a
plate of oxtail soup and feel bully.”
Counter Fiend—“l just had a plate
of hash and feel like everything,”—
Winnipeg Telegram.