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THURSDAY
EDITION
VOL. XXVI,
NUMBER 46.
ENGLISH TRIPLE ALLIANCE STRIKE SEEMS CERTAIN
U.-S. IN DISPUTE
Mandate on Island of Yap Is Open
to Revision
(By International News Service)
WASHINGTON, April 14—Full
support of the position taken by the
United States in the dispute over
the Island of Yap was promised by
France in a note made public by the
state department today.
The French note replying to Sec
retary Hughes’ communication of
last week asserts that no decision on
the Island of Yap can be reached un
til after a meeting of the Allied Su
preme Council, but Premier Brand
promised to approve the examination
thereof with the greatest desire to
find a solution which will give every
satisfaction to the United States. ‘
(By International News Service) i
TOKIO, April 14—Concessions
by Japan on Jap mandate impossible»,!
according to the Tokio Maiyo, a
newspaper said to reflect official
opinion, insist that Japan will con—!
tinue Yap mandatory. \
To Lecture Here
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On Merchandising
Announcement has been made by
W. A. Adams, secretary of the Cham
ber of Commerce, that he " has ar
ranged to bring to Fitzgerald an il
lustrated lecture on retail merchan
dising. The lecture, together with a
feature film, “Getting the Most Out
of Retailing,” will be given Tuesday
night May 3rd, at 8 o'clock, in the.
Court House. ‘Mr. W. F. Brennan,
representative of The National Cash
Register Company, of Dayton, Ohio,
will give the lecture.
The lecture deals with the value of
newspaper advertising to the mer
chant, tells him how to prepare ad
ertisements, and also explains in
detail the best methods of window
display, store organization, personal
selling, and business control.
The film tells the story of a mer
chant who was discouraged and dis
heartened because he ‘was not suc
cessful. The story shows the indif
ference of- his clerks, his bad system,
poorly arranged stock, and other
causes of trouble. How he finally
rose to success and pros_perity thru
modern methods is shown in the film.
Many ideas of importance to mer
chants and clerks will be brought
out. In other communities where it
has be¢n shown, it has met great en
thusiasm. It is expected that every
business man and clerk in the city
will attgnd. There will be no charge
for admission.
Urges More Extreme
e .
Financing Of Cotton
(By International News Service)
WASHINGTON, April 14—Man
aging director Mayer of the War Fin
ance Corporation today indicated a
distinct improvement in the cotton
situation will result from-the decision
by southern bankers to undertake ex
port financing of cotton shipments
along more vigorous lines.
Managing Director Mayer said,
“The present price levels warrant a
return to more normal proceedure
restricting stocks of raw material and
finished goods carried by merchants
and manufacturers.
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Last Honors Paid I
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To Thomas WnllcoxJ
The remains of Thomas Willcox,
which were visited by hundreds of his
friends at the undertaking parlors of
the Home Furniture Co., where they
laid in state during Wednesday and
last night pending the arrival of mem-
Pers of his family in the city, were
carred to their last resting place this
afternoon, after impressive funeral
services at the Central M. E. church,
conducted by Rev. I. P. Tyson. The
pal bearers were Charles Lee Rogers,
Everrett Martin, E., E. Dorminey,
Reason Paulk, Geo. Boney, and Rob
ert Prentiss, members of Mar-McDon
ald post American L\giofi, of which
the unfortunate young man was -
member, |
Beautiful floral offerings from many}
friends and societies covered the cas
ket, token of love for the diseased and
his family.
The remains were carried by auto
to Ocilla accompanied by a concourse
of friends, where they were laid be
side those of his heloved parents.
' The earth has actually passed
through the tails of big comets, but
no one was a penny the worse. 4\
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originally was a part of the
province . of. New Netherlands.
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quest of New Netherlands,.the
duke of York sold the southern
portion to Lord Berkeley and Sir
George Carteret. The latter had
won some distinction as gover
nor of the little island of Jersey
in the English channel, and it
was in his honor that the new
province came to be called New
Jersey. The eastern portion,
that about Newark, was settled
by Carteret and the territory to
the southwest, where Burlington
and Trenton now stand, fell to
Berkeley, After a few years
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party of Quakers and two dis
tinct® provinces were formed,
called East and West Jersey.
They were reunited, however, in
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English crown.
New Jersey casts fourteen
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Must Wait Seven
Years For Papers
(By International News Service)
CHICAGO, April' 14.—Seven years
from now, if he behaves himself,
James Harold, alias “Jimmy Vinci,”
taay become an American citizen.
Harold was convicted as driver of
the car used by the slayers of
“Mossy” Enright, a Chicago labor
leader. He came before Judge Harry
B. Miller in the Circuit Court in the
final hearing on his application for
citizenship papers.
“Aren’t you the man convicted in
the Enright killing?” Judge Miller
asked. v
“Yes,” Harold replied, “but the Su
preme Court reversed my case with
out remanding it. I'm all out of
trouble now. I feel I'm entitled to
citizenship.”
“You are under a wrong impres
sion,” the Judge answered. “You'll
have to put yourself on probation for
seven years. If at the end of that
time you have led a clean life you
may be able to become a citizen of
"’the United States.”
Grand Jury Takes
' Recess To Monday
- The Grand Jury recessed untl next
Monday 10:00 A. M., at noon today.
The various committees charged with
the investigation of the County’s af
fairs will make their investigations,
and reports next week, .
i Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Seanor and
Mr. Charles Young of Davenport,
Florida are the guests of the formers
‘brother, Mr. J. B. Seanor, enroute to
’their northern home in Kansas.
FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY, GECRGIA THURSDAY, April 14, 1921.
Takes Pride in Talking of Fitzgerald
As His Home Town
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INonsan, Korea, March 16, 1921,
Mr. I. Gelders,
Fitzgerald, Ga, U. S. A,
Dear Mr, Gelders;
I received on last night, several
copies of your paper and we had a
real big time at our house reading
them. Now this afternoon I have
just been bored by a pesky Japanese
spy with their ten million brainless
question, but you know when the ras
cal asked me where I was from in the
U. S. A, T caught myself feeling a
little kink come in my backbone and
I stiffened up a little and expressed
my pride when I said “Fitzgerald”.
Now he didn't know whether Fitz
gerald was the name of my dog or
the boat T came to Korea on, but
| 12,000 miles away talking in a strange
language -I still feel a pride when I
say, “I am from Fitzgerald.”
Once in a while an American boob
will take a couple of inches of that
pride out of me by asking, “And where
is Fitzgerald?” But when they do, I
just reply, “why don’t you know?
you poor simp!” and run along as
though he were hopeless. You know
it is no small thing to have a town
that you are always proud to own—
one that has something too make you
proud of it.
So I am always glad whenever I
get a shot at telling someone that I
am from Fitzgerald. Now don’t fool
yvourself, we know that the personnel
of the town changes, that men come
and ge, and that in the shuffle the fel
low who leaves it for a long term of
years will get lost a little bit in the
shuffle. I believe that it is Ludlow,
surgeon at the Severance Hospital in
Seoul, who tells this one¢. He said
that when he left the U. S. A. his Sun
day School Superintendent headed a
big party that saw him to the train,
and gave him a great send off. Lud
low went back on furlough seven
years after that and met the same
man on the strect. Ludlow spoke of
| course, shaking hands. The reply he
got was, “Why howdy do Mr. Er--
Mr., Yes, have a cigar won’t you. By
the way, I haven‘t seen you for some
time, been off somewhere?” Well,*l
told Ludlow, “You ought to move
laway from that town, and since you
are the fine fellow that you are, I will
give you the privilege of coming to
to Fitzgerald.” “Where is that?” he
asked. “Poor simp, you got just what
was coming to you”, I replied. It
seems to me that half the names I see
in your paper have come there since
1916, and many of them since 1918,
But we are still receiving many let
ters from Fitz and are not being lost
in the shuffle. This goes to show
that the old town leads all the rest ev
en in keeping up with her far away
sons and daughters. And we are
proud of you to. :
You know I never was strong in an
alysis business. I never wanted to
know why syrup tasted good. The
motto that I adopted soon after I got
out of college was, “Don’t worry over
why a black hen can lay a white egg.
GET THE EGG!” But I have been
sitting here.this afternoon and asking
myself, “You boob, what made you
proud when you told that Jap you
were from Fitzgerald. He don’t
know right now what you said.” And
though I am not strong on it, I have
been here trying to figure out just
what there is about Fitzgerald to make
a fellow 12,000 miles away from it
proud of the place. To tell you the
truth I don’t know myself all the rea
sons, but I have figured out some of
them, and I have been wondering if
EX-CONGRESSMAN
Schley Howard to Plead Strikers
Case Sunday Afternoon
The Fitzgerald public is looking
forward with keen appreciation to the
mass meeting next Sunday afternoon
at the Grand Opera house, when
Hon. Schley Howard, former con
gressman from the Fifth District and
several of the Grand Lodge officers
of the striking railwaymen will speak.
The great interest which all this
territory” has in the outcome of the
strike, will no doubt bring out the
largest audience ever gathered in this
city to listen to public addresses.
Mr. Howard’s wide reputation
as platform orator and constructive
statesmanship is well known by all
Georgians and appreciated and in this
case Mr. Howard has not only the
intereste of his clients but those of
the entire territory served by the A.
B. & A. to enthuse him.
Those of our citizens who are not
directly in touch with the strike sit
uation should especially come out
and hear this vital issue presented.
The welfare of our city and this se®-
tion is closely bound up in the pro
per settlement of this controversy
between the railroad company and
its former employees.
you woud be interested in them.
Now I I know what you are think
ing. You are thinking schools, rail
road shops, etc., But they are common
to every place in the world almost.
If I had to summarize the reasons
for my being proud of of the city I
woud say, “Fitzgerald ‘Spirit.” Now
of course that can mean many things,
and will have to be explained. Right
here I give you a suggestion. Why
don’t you run a column on the ques
tion, “Why I am proud of my town.”
If you can afford to give three col
umns to that bosh about junking the
A. B. & A. you ought to have a little
room left. I said when I read that,
that you were some hard up for filler,
and that some of us would have to
come to the rescue. Mrs. Taylor in
sisted that my skull was thick and
that you were vying with Johnny
Spencer in getting out a joke column--
and had beat him to it. But there
I have sidetracked.
Fitzgerald spirit in the first place
to my mind always carries the idea
that we shall never be satisfied with
anything less than doing the best job
possible in every thing we tackle and
in also getting the best of everything
that we do. If we have a bank, she
is a “Honor Roll” sister and her re
ports all show the strength of the
town, and all the state newspapers
comment on it. If we have a show,
it is the best one in the whole works.
If we run a Sunday school, it must be
the best. So the first thing that pops
in my mind when I think of Fitz is
the thing of getting and doing only
the best. Say you know that gets in
to the marrow of fellow’s bones, and 1
verily believe that it saved my neck
last year. Most of you have heard
I suppose that I came pretty near
cashing in—l am sure from the num
ber of nice letters that I got that the
majority of you heard anyhow, Well
I thought when I got out here that
the bosh about it taking four years
to get to préaching in this Korean
language hadn’t met a Fitzgerald man
yvet. So I went to it. When I had
been on the field one year I had pass
¢d two examinations that is had done
itwo year's work, and was calling for
‘the third and fourth year examina
tions. I got a medical examination :u
-stead of a language examination. The
doctor put me to bed. Said I would
have to stay there flat of my back for
three months. I slipped my Korean
Bible in the room, and the next morn
’ing. he caught me reading it. He
pulled his chair along side the bed,
and T thought he was going to tell me
‘my dog was dead, from the look on
‘his face. “Young man, you have the
'wrong idea for the mission field. You
will have to be satisfied with doing a
little less than you are trying. You
have Angina Pectoris, maybe organic,
I don‘t know yet (It wasn’t), and you
are liable to drop dead any minute of
your life. The slightest shock may
mean your death. Very few men in
your condition ever recover”. “The
majority die?” 1 asked. “Yes.” Very
sternly. ~ “That nails me” I said.—
“This is no time for joking. Yoi{
must be satisfied to do a little less
than the best. If some one learns
language you think you have got to
learn a little more than they do.
Where did you get that spirit any
how?” I got it in my home town,
Fitzgerald”, I said, “That's the way
we always do things there,” I replied.
“It will be your death,” came the
graver answer. “Say dor, I said,
“this thing hasn‘t met a Fitzgerald
man yet, did you ever hear of one
dying with it?” “Don’t be silly.”
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Uncle Sam’'s choice diphin. <
plum—the ambassadorship ta the
Coort of St Jame: (LEngland)--will
likely go to the man who was most
divectly responsible for putting
Woodrow Wilson 1w the White
House And his appomntment will
come from a Republican president,
according to reports He is Col,
George Harvey, editor of the North
tAmerican Review The neted edis
tor supported President {lailing ir
the recent campaign
~ (By International News Service)
CHICAGO, April 14—All hearings
on the controversy over national
working agreements between rail
roads and employees before the Unit
ed States Railway Labor Board were
postponed until April 25th, it was
announced today.
The contending factions wanted‘
more time for preparation of cases
for wage reductions, including hcar-!
ingse of twenty-six - railroads which
were scheduled to begin Monday. ‘
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Chemical Society To
Meet In Rochester
(By International News Service)
ROCHESTER, N. Y., April 14—
The American Chemical Society, the
largest scientific organization in the
world, will meet here in the week
‘beginning April 25, when 3,000 chem
ist members will be present.
Dr. Edgar Fahs Smith, president
of the American Chemical Society,
will preside at the session. Dr. Smith
is credited with many important dis
coveries in electro-chemistry in the
the Harrison Laboratory of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, and is also
the historian 6f American chemistry.
|r"'zmn Implemeats Are
Reduced 10 Per Cent
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(By International News Service)
CHICAGO, April 14—A ten per
cent reduction on all products in
which steel is the principal material
was announced today by the Inter
nation Harvester Company effective
immediately. Machinery composed
i of wood and iron was reduced ten to
lfift(-cn per cent last month,
Prosecute Murderer
Of Thomas Willcox
Col. J. B. Wall has been secured
to assist in the prosecution of Clark
Willcox in Telfair county, who sur
rendered to the sheriff in Mcßae for
the murder of Thomas Willcox. Col.
Wall will go to Telfair county Satur
day to acquaint himself with the de
tails of the case.
NOTICE
There were registered for the
White Primary Election to be held
April 18th, 1921, 1474 persons. This
notice is in accordance with Section
33 of the City Chrter,
Dated this 12th day of April, 1921,
DAVID L. PAULK, City Clerk.
Mesdames Lon Dickey, C. C. Per
sons and H. A. Mathis returned last
evening from Unadilla, where they
attended the Third District conven
tion of the Federation of Woman's
Clubs,
COTTIN—Good Middling --__lo3/c
No Receipts No Sales
Union Men Unsatisfied ‘with Decision
of Two Federal Judges .
ATLANTA, April 14—The broth
erhoods concerned will take appeal
from the decision of Judges Samuell
H. Sibley and Henry D. Clayton, ofl
| the federal court, in construing the
| Newlands law applicable in the A,
B. & A. railway strike case only to
men actually engaged in the physical
operation of trains and declining to
restore the strikers to their former
| status as employees.
Branch and Howard, counscel for
the unions, are now preparing the
; appeal, according to Val Fitzpatrick,
chairman of the committee of officers
representing the fourtecen brother
hoods involved in the strike.
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British To Renew
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- Amesican Loan
Negotiations to Begin on Arrival
of Lord Chalmers
(By International News Service)
WASHINGTON, April 14--Nego
tiations for funding the British debt
to the United States will begin im
mediately upon the arrival of Lord
Chalmers, secretary of the treasury
Mellon announced today. Lord Chal
mers sails from England Saturday.
Under the law of maturity of the debt
cannot be extended beyond 1947 and
the interest must be equal to that of
Liberty Bonds unless special legisla
tion provides otherwise,
Government To
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Assist Farmers
Farm Loan Bonds to Be Offered
! to the Public
(By International News Service)
WASHINGTON, April 14th—Sec
retary of the Treasury, Mellon today
announced that within a few days,
the treasury department will former
ly announce an offering of I'2rm Loan
Bonds to the extent of {orty-inillion
dollars bearing five per cent interest
at par.
Harding Nominations
arding Nominations
] Go To Senate Today
(By International News Service)
WASHINGTON, April ]4.——Nom-‘
inations of George Harvey, Ambas
is:ldor to Great Britain and Myron
| Herrick, Ambassador to France,
| headed a long list sent to Senate by
President Warren G. Harding today.
t Other nominations were: Charles
' Dawes, Brigadier General Officers
| Reserve Corps; John Esch, Interstate
Commerce Commission. Governor
iof the Canal Zon¢ and Ambassador
{to Japan to be announced tomorrow.
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Attempt to Split Triple Alliance
to Avert Strike -
GENERAL STRIKE FRIDAY
Report Miners Enlisting in Citi
ztns’ Emergency Police
(By International News Service)
LONDON, April 14—An attempt
by Lloyd George to split triple alli
ance and avert the general strike an-=
nounced for 10 o'clock Friday night
‘hrokc down early this afternoon. All
hope for settlement seems to be shat
tered. :
Premier Lloyd George tried at a
conference with the spokesmen of
railmen and transport workers, to
turn them against the miners but
failed. After a three hours confer
ence on Dowing Street, J. H, Thom
as, chief power of the triple alliance,
gravely shook his head saying that
'he saw no hope whatever of settle
ment,
Unless some unforeseen develop
ment happens’ this week-end will see
over five million men idle.
LONDON, April 14.—The striking
coal miners are enlisting by thou
sands in a citizens emergency force
called for by King George, thus
drawing government pay and rations
which will exceed the strike benefits.
Crowder Report On
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Cuba Is Received
Seayas Faction Is Favored in His
Reports ‘
(By International News Service)
WASHINGTON, April 14th, —A
final report of Major-General Crowd
er on the condition of Cuba was re
ceived at the state department today.
It is understood the report is favora
ble towards the Seayas faction,
.
Hardwick Plan To
To Help Cotton
(By International News Service)
WASHINGTON, April 14—Gov
ernor-Elect Hardwick, of Ggorgia,
today proposed for the president’s
consideration that-the allied nations
underwrite the German bonds to en
able Germany to negotiate purchase
of cotton in theswUnited States of
which she is sorely in need. These
bonds to be applied against allied in
debtedness to the United States.
Hardwick stated this - plan would
give Germany cotton, provide reduc
tion of allied indebtedness to United
States and relieve cotton growers
materially. - President Harding prom
ised to give the plan careful consid
‘ eration. ‘
According to the Bureau of Bio
logical Survey, among the birds who
do not migrate are the red bird,
woodpecker, chinadee and titmouse.