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HIEAMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION
TWO BONE-DRY COUNTIES |
—From The Atlanta Constitu
tion—l’rohibition"is getting good
results wherever there 1s a deter
mined cffort to enforce the law.
T'his is evident from the fact
that patrons of the still :md|
“stump” brands of booze are not
as numerous as formerly in sec
tions where no “moonshine” ever
went begging.
This 1s brought out in a semi
humorous editorial paragraph in
The Cordele (Ga.) Dispatch——
“His friends relate’ a story
about a prosperous peanut 10w~
er of another county, adjoining
Crisp, who became disgusted
with the extremely low market
and swapped a quantity of pea
nuts for a stock of moonshine li
quor on the belief that he could
sell the stuff better than he could
his peanuts. To his dismay and
surprise he found no buyer in his
round over two counties and his
last mave was said to have been
an cHort to rue hs tradc.”
The name of the alleged party
to this bad trade is not given, of
course; but we should like to
give the “two counties” referred
to full credit for what they have
accomplished on the prohibition
side.
It is something of a record—
after undoubted dilgent search—
to have found not one booze buy
er in a two-county canvass!
It certainly means good law
enforcement within their bor
ders, and may entitle them to the
rank of the banner prohibition
counties of the state,
Lditor’'s Note:—The Anti-Sa
loon League might offer a re
ward for the proof of Charley
Brown's statements, they sound
too good to be true.
CALLING COTTON FARM
ER'S STRIKE—The following
is a copy of a resolution passed
by the Board of Directors of the
Federal International Banking
Company, at their meeting in
New Orleans on April 9, 1921,
WHEREAS, the very large
amount of cotton grown last
year and previous years now es
timated at from ecight to ten
million bales, to be carried over
into the new cotton year begin
ning August lst has had a de
pressing effect and is still hold
ing down the price of cotton,
and;
WHEREAS, from present in
dications it is believed that the
greatly reduced buying powers
of the world will not be able to
consume iuch, if any more cot
ton the coming year than con
sumed this year, and;
WHEREAS, the only apparent
hope to maintain the price for
the present stock, and to secure
a fair price for the present stock,
a fair price for the next crop, is
to produce a small crop this vear;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT
RESOLVED by the Directors
of the Federal International
Banking Company, that we be
lieve the efforts to induce the
cotton planters to reduce - the
acreage in cotton about to be
planted, is now of paramount
importance to the South, and
that we believe the reduction
should not be less than thirty
five per cent, and;
RESOLVED FURTHER,
that a copy of this resolution be
mailed to each stockholder of our
company with the request that
they use their influence at once
to secure all the co—ogeration
necessary, looking to the pro
duction gf a new crop of cotton,
which together with the carry
over, will command a reasonable
price.
* There seems no better or more
direct way to help the cotton sit
‘uation than through this organ
zed effort to curtail production,
striking for better pay for the
cotton farmer and 3 fair return
on his investment. It lies in the
power of the farmer to enforce
this curtailment, which way will
you take—the road to prosperity
through a limited crop or the
road to bankruptcy by producing
a bumper crop of cotton?
Disagree on Working Huiss,
After having reached a wage agree
ment, the conference of the National
Association of Window Glass Work
ers and the National Assocl
ation of Window Glass Manue
facturers adjourned, deadlocked over
working conditions. The deadlock re
sulted over a proposal of the manufac
turers that the men work until 5 p. m.
on Saturdays, instead of noon, Joseph
Needan, president of the union, an
i nounced, increasing the working week
i from 40 to 45 hours. Last year’s wage
I scale, which averaged $1.44 for an av-
I erage box of 100 square feet of glass
cut, was agreed on. Another meeting
| will be held.
Labor Leader Awarded Damages.
A rotten egg shower is worth S]O,-l
750 to the man showered in the opin.
fon of a jury at Sumrall, Miss. It ro—l
turned a verdict in that amount in fa- |
vor of “Charles H. Franck, ex-vice
president of the Mississippi Federa
tion of Labor, who was bombed with
ancient eggs and other missiles last
August as he was forced to leave town
after trying to organize a union among
negro employees of the J. J. Newman
Lumber company. The jury held the
company blameless, but its three su
perintendents, Thomas, Ballard and
Lott, responsible, and levied tl¢ pen
alty against them. ‘
Canadian Labor Laws. i
The compensation henetits of the
Canadian laws are about on a par with
the more liberal Awmerican acts. The
scale of benefits is considerably lower,
but, on the other hand, the periods for |
which benefits are paid are much long
er, compensation usually being paid
during disability or until death or re
marriage of the widow, In case of
death the usual provision is a fixed
monthly pension of $2O to the widow,
with an additional $5 a month for each
child, but not over $4O in all. In case
of disability the usual compensation is
55 per cent of the employee's earning,
to be paid during disability.
Australian Coal Production.
- The average vearly output of coal in
Australia is about 10,000,000 tons, of
which quantity over 9,000,000 tons are
raised in New South Wales, the only
Australian state producing any large
\ quantity of coal. Of this New South |
‘ Wales production about 5,500,000 tons i
~are used locally, about 2500,000 tons
shipped to other Australian states and
; the balance shipped to New Zealand
and overseas ports,
| LA S
| State Cares for Apprentices.
- The state of Wisconsin .is said to be
- the only one which gives any attention
to apprentices. There is a code of laws
governing the subject and upon com
pletion of an apprenticeship a certm-l
eate is issued by the state,
Good Work Is Costiy.
The remarkable difference in prices
of tennis rackets is not so much due
to the difference in the cost of the raw |
materials of which they are made us'
to the Kind and wnount of labor on
their making, says the American For
estry Magazine of Washington. Best
tennis rackets are works of art, and
the skill of the worker is retlected in
the price as much as In any other
article belonging to sport and ath
leties,
The Really Terrible Thing.
Mrs, Gush—Too bad about your
voor hustand getting his arm broken
in your motor accident yesterday. So
sSOrTy.,
~ Mrs. Swagger—Oh, thank you, but
that wasn't the worst; my new hat
was simply ruined.—Boston Tran
seript. ‘
A Moving Question,
Redd--1 understand that abour 95 |
per cent of the motion pictures shown
in Britsh India are American produc-1
tions.
Greene—Dßut can the average audi.
enca out there tell whether it's an
American pie which is being thrown or ‘
u discus? ‘
“‘Perhaps never, ma‘am,’ said
Whistler calmly.” |
Boys Study Reforestation, l
Reforestation clubs for boys are be
g formed in the public schools ot|
Douisiana. Seeds and trees are sup-‘
plied by the state department of con
servation “and prizes are offered for|
the best results. The work is tlmely,l
in view of the assertion, made re
vently by the forest service, that tlm-l
ber is cut and burned in the United
States four times as fast as it is grow- |
ing.
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. Not Wasted. I
Miss Sue Brett—So you courted that
girl for six years, did you? |
Footelighte—Yes, I did. ‘
“And you didn’t marry her?”
“NO-"
“Then all of love's labor is lost?”" ‘
“Oh, no, I can't say that. You see,
~she's a film star now; and by the xmt'
~eyebrows of Venus! you just ought to
see her make love!”
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1921.
NEW YORK CENTRAL DIRECTORS RESENT
SECURITY OWNERS ATTEMPT TO MEDIATE
Security Owners President Is
’ Criticized by New York
Central President
e fee o ata 0
Haley Fiske Replies Taking‘
Him to Task for Unduly
. Arbitrary Attitude
Following is the substance of the
correspondence between A, H. Smith
president of the New York Central
Railroad and Haley . Fiske, of the
Railroad Security Owners Associa
tion. The owners of railroad secur
ities are attempting to reach an ami
cable settlement wijth the employees
for the purpose of protecting theirf
linvestments in railroad property. Thc!
‘railroad operators are not in accord
with this effort. b
The correspondence, in ‘part, fol
lows: |
News Item Appearing In The New
York World, March 31, 1921
A. H. Smith President of the New |
York Central Railroad (_'onumn,\',l
‘made public last night a letter which
‘he has sent to S. Davies Warfield,
president of the National Railroad Se
}rnrilh s Owners Association, in which
llu- protests aganst the action of the
association in inviting the chiefs of
four big railroad brotherhoods to a
conierence on the labor situation, and
making it plain that the association
does not speak for the New York
Central,
Mr. Smith's letter follows:
“The newspapers this morning
print the letter dated the 30th instant
addressed by you to the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Enginemen and Fire
!n]tn. the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen and the Order cof Railway
'r’v!"llll‘t()r\ of America, in which you,
|74 vresident of the Railroad Securi-
ties Owners Association, invite rep
resentatives of those brotherhoods to
confer with a committee of your asso
ciation for the purpose of considering
}\‘.'h:nt should be done in regard to wag
¢s and other matters affecting the
railroads.
“The board of directors of the New
York Central has adwised me to ad
vis¢ your association and ybu as its
president, that that board and the of
ficers appointed by it represent the
New York Central and its stozkhold
ers in all matters of management,
including relations between the cor
poration and its employces, whether
these relations have to do with wages,
working conditions or practices. The
hoard further directs me to say that
it regards as most unfortunate the
attempt which you and the associa
tion of which you are president are
apparently making to intervene in
the present labor situation and that
it cannot recognize any right or pro
priety in your doing SO,
“Copies of this letter have bheen
sent to the chiefs of the four brother
hoods so that they may understand
that neither you nor the Security
Owners Association speaks for the
New York Central or the companies
which it controls in asking for the
conference which you propose to
hold.”
A copy of Mr. Smith's letter was
sent to Warren S, Stone of the Bro
therhood of * Locomotive Engineers,
W. G. Lee of the Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen, L. E. Sheppard of
the Order of Railway Conductors of
America, and W. S, :Carter of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engine
men and Firemen, To each of these
men also this letter was sent:
“This morning's newspapers report
that Mr. S. Davies \\'a’rficld, presi
dent of the National Association of
Owners of Railroad Securities has in
vited representatives of the four rail
road brotherhoods to confer with a
committee of his association for the
purpose of considering what should
be done in regard to wages and other
matters affecting the railroads.
“For your inform:ltiqn, and that
you may know that neither Mr.
‘Warfield nor the National Associa
tion 'of Owners of Railroad Securitics
speaks for the New York Central nor
the companies which it controls. I
am enclosing herewith copy of my
letter of even date to Mr. Warficld
setting forth the position of these
companies with respect to the confer
‘ence which proposed to hold with
representatives of the four railroad
‘brotherhoods.”
No Interference Intended
Your assumption that in secking a
conference with the labor represen
tatives, the most important element
in the present problem we are pre
tending to represent you or your
hoard was quite unwarranted. We
very frankly put our real position be
fore these organizations and the pub
lic, We think the present truculent
attitude of some raiiroad administra
tions towards the operatives and the
unions a great mistake which may
lead to disaster: and that it is time
that all concerned in the properties
should show some conciliatory dis
position, at least .to the extent of en
deavoring to get the point of view of%
labor and to seek some method of
negotiation to end the present imrl
pasge.
And now that o6ur conference is[
over, we feel that we have accotii
plished much. In our " opinion it isl
time that all of the interests—the in
vestors, administrators and operatives
get together; and that it is not a
time for recrimination. ;
Respectfully yours,
HALEY FISKE, President.
LETTER TO A. H. SMITH |
By Haley Fiske, President Of Metro
politan Life Insurance Company
iEarE o Z
New York, April 7, 1921
A H. Smith; Bsql
President of N. Y. Central R. R,
] Dear Sir:
When we read in the n(-\\'spapcrs!
to which you sent it in advance of its
receipts by the addresses your letter
of March 31 to Mr. Warfield and Mr.
!Stonc we were disposed to reply in
lus sharp a tone as that displayed by
l_\-uu. But it scemed better to take
'the matter under consideration. Now
.;u't«;r the lapse of a week, we feel that
| we should make protest.
| This company holds securities of
|your railroad and its subsidiaries to
%thv amount of $23,000,000 par value
{and in addition has on its books loans
‘:mrl agreements to loan over $9,000,
%()(?() on bonds and mortgages upon real
|estate to finance your operations in
!tfi(‘ neighborhood of your terminal.
| Altogethegy our financial interest
|amounts-to $32,000,000. This is about
15 per cent of our total investment in
raliroad securities.
Frankly it disturbs us to have your
board of Directors sav that they rep
in-svnt in their dealings with the pres
!um conditions of affairs the stock
;holdcr without any recognition of the
superior obligations of the railroad
tcmnpunics. It may very well be that
!as matters now threatening the stock
| will become a rather negligible quan
|tity; the bond will never become so.
‘(.)ur interest in your company is a vi
{tal one. It is very disturbing to read
that you are disposed to ignore this
to find yourself and the board resent
any action on our part to protect our
interest. [t is even more disturbing
interests. We have seen no disposi
{tion on your part to recognize our n
!tcrcsts or to consult with those who
{in a sense own your property. On
tthe contrary, we have seen in the last
|rather violent antagonism to our ef
fforts to promote helpful legislation,
{which now that has been passed some
;of your people are taking credit for.
i None of the railway managements has
i thought it wise to seek any counsel or
110 recognize in any way the serious
situation in which we find ourselves.
!()n the other hand, you are objecting
l.if you will pardon us for saying so_
lin an offensive, not to say imperti
?nent way, to our endeavor to protect
!our own investments. We feel that
lwe had a right to expect co-opera
gtion and help rather than opposition.
Labor’s Exodus From Ohio Farms.
According to a recent survey made
by an agricultural statistician of the
United States bureau of crop esti
mates and the Ohio bureau of agricul
tural statistics, there was a decrease
of 60,000 men and boys over 15 years
of age working on farms in Ohio for
the year ended June, 1920. The sur
vey covered from 100 to 300 farms in
every county of the state. For every
man who came back to farm life dur
ing the year covered, seven left farms
for other work.
It is estimated from the returns that
at present 410,000 men and boys are
“actually working on farms as com
pared to 470,000 a year ago and ap
sroximately 500,000 three years ago.”
Seventy thousand were reported as
having been hired for wages, while a
year ago there were nearly 100,000.
About one-half, therefore, of those who
abaudoned the farm during the twelve
months covered by the survey were
hired men.
At 125 Degrees ¢/ Death Villey,
- At Greenlaud ranch, in Death vale
ley, Caiifornia, the air tempera:ure,
;as recorded by a tested maximum
thermometer exposed in a standard in
strument shelter, rose to 100 degrees
or highe: on 23 days during June, and
on every day during July, 1920. The
extreme maximum was 125 degrees,
recorded on the last day of July. On
July 10, 1913, the temperature there
reached 134 degrees Fahrenheit, the
highest officially recorded air temper
ature In the world.—From the Bulle
tin, American Meteorological Society.
Curious Masterpieces.
Literary masterpieces have been
written on strauge mediums Smart's
poem, “Song to David.” was written
with a key on the walls of & mad
house. Coleridge once wrote a sone
net on a scrap of seaweed.
Old Engiisn s.perstition.
An old Sussex (Eng.) cure for
whooping cough is: Borrow a donkey,
place the‘patient on its back with his
or her face towards its tail and lead
it to a certain spot fixed on in your
own mind three times running for three
succeeding days.
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Georgia’s Industrial Development
Halted By Socialistic Doctrine
Promoted By Atlanta Newspapers
Below is printed a letter from a
progressive Georgia business man in
which he tells of the changed attitude
of Northern investors toward the pe
can industry because they ‘“do not
want to put money in a state whose;
capital is so tainted with Bolshc-l
vism.” ;
What Mr. Perry says of the pecan
industry is equally true of every other
business. Money cannot be had in
Georgia to build Street Railways, In
terurban Railways, Gas Works, Pow
er Plants or transmission lines for the
‘same reasons as are so plainly told
iyou by Mr. Perry. Nobody wants to
put money in a State whose capital is
'so tainted by Bolshevism. No ex
tefisions of [Electric transmission
lines, Street Railways, or interurban
Railways are possible unless new
capital can be obtained for the cost
lof their construction and new capi
tal has been frightened away from
Georgia by the support given to a
few socialists by Atlanta papers.
! These men who are preaching pub
lic ownership are indifferent to the
'dzunag’o they are doing to the State
of Georgia by killing new enterprises.
"I‘hc_v carc nothing about the effcctsl
of their misrepresentations but seek |
only political power. The same f;IISC-'
hoods are being used in Georgia as|
were used in Seattle to induce 'thatl
| city to buy its street railways, where
'in 21 months the street railways un- |
ldvr Municipal Management created a
| deficit of $1.503,500, and where the
street Railway employees are now hc-‘
ing paid by City warrants instead of
Cash. It 1s ust a lepitition n c('or-i
gia of the same tricks practised in;
Seattle where the public have been
fooled by the political adventurers into
voting $15,000,000.00 ostensibly to ob-‘
tain cheaper car fares but in reality
I(-o enable the politicians to play with
lin City politics. Car fares have heen
increased far beyond what the private
Company charged and the Seattle tax
payers are out a million and half dol
branch of the same hrand of socialists
lare aking for ten times as much of
your money for similar purposes. 1
“Hon. B B Gritlin |
Bainbridge, Ga.
“Dear Sir:
i “I have noticed in the state press
that vou are actively opposing the
proposed bills of the Municipal League
and I am taking the liberty of ad
dressing you on this subject and wish-‘
ing you Godspeed in this work.
i “When these measures were first|
| proposed, they seemed very fair, and
1 was inclined to favor them, but as |
I made a deeper study of them, I
found them to be very dangerous
measures. 1
“If these bills become laws, we could
| have another era of ‘carpetbag’ bond
issues, that would bankrupt our en
tire state, and' make it impossible for
any one to interest outside capital in
helping us to develop our natural re
sources.
“T am engaged in interesting east
ern capitalists in furnishing money
to heip us develop the pecan industry
in South Georgia. I wvisit almost
| every city in the north and east, and
have presented our proposition suc
cessfully to the leading bhankers and
other monied men, and in every
instance, one of the very first ques
tions that is is asked is, ‘what protec
tion do the Georgia laws give foreign
capital? 'Up until recently I have
bheen able to tell those men, convinc
‘ing‘ly that ewvery branch of our state
Birds and Superstition.
Numerous birds are mixed up with
signs of death. Let a pigeon enter
a house, or a robin come through the
door, and some people expect calami
ty. Owls, again, are ominous birds te
the superstitions
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government gave ample protection to
outside investors, but the recent ac
tivities of the Municipal League, and
the vicious attacks on the Railroad
Commission have been so well ad
vertised by the Atlanta papers, that I
have found eastern capitalists very
slow to furnish money that is the
very life blood of my business.
“The Atlanta people and the At
lanta papers would resent the idea
that they have been doing great dam
age to the state as a whole by their
attacks on capital, and I will credit
ithcm with having done'this ignorant
ly, and without intending the far
\rcaching‘ effects of their acts, but they
have given the state so much adverse
lad\'crtising, that I find my business
orcatly affected, and the eastern capi
talists have frankly told me that they
do not care to put money in the state
whose capital city is so tainted with:
bolshevism.
“The leaders of the Municipal
League may mean well, but their doc
trine and their ideas do not appeal to
the men to whom I have to go for
money to develop my business. Those
hard-headed business men are satis
fied with a small rate of interest, but
they demand complete safety of their
investment, and insist that the moraf
risk be reduced to a minimum.
“The Municipal League may not
know that there are in South Georgia
about sixty thousand acres of magni
ficient pecan orchards, and that al
‘most every orchard has been financed
by northern men. The nut crop brings
into Georgia about $2,000,000 annual
ly, which will largely increase as the
years go by, and practically very
dollar of this is due either directly or
indirectly, to the¢ outside money that
made it possible to bring these or
chards to maturity.
~ “It may seem a far cry from ‘water
power’ to ‘pecan orchards, but the
‘same type of men finance both, and
‘they have already become weary about
helping us to build our pecan or
chards, and frankly tell me they fear
for the safety of their investments, if
the enthusiastic dreamers of the
Municipal League get control of our
legislature.
“T have no personal or financial in
terest in auy corporation in the state,
except in certain pecan orchards in
Randolph, Calhoun, Lee Dougherty,
and Mitchell counties. :
‘T have no interest nor concern in the
Atlanta ‘gas rate’, nor do I care in
the least whether or not Atlanta buys
or makes her own power, but when
self-seeking politicians would, with
one-hand, tear down our constitution
‘al limitation on faxation, while with
‘the¢ other they wave the red flag of
‘socialism, then I feel that it is time
for the sober minded business men of
'Georgia to get in the fight, and sweep
those fellows into the political rubbish
heap.
“You have my bhest wishes in your
manly fight against the nefarious
schemes of the Municipal League, and
I hope that you will feel free to call
on me, if T can assist you In any way,
not as a lawyer, but as a business man
lwho is pround of his native state, and
proud of the part he has taken in
helping to build up some of the waste
places of South Georgia.
“Again assuring you of my interest
and with highest personal regards
land best wishes, T am,
I * “Yours very truly,
; ASS PERRY.”
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i Original “Limerick.”
The word is said to have been
adopted as a name for a certain kind
of nonsense rhyme because an old
song current in Ireland, which had the
same verse construction, contained
the place name “Limerick.”