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WEDNESDAY
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VOL. XXVI, NO. 139
UNITED STATES NAVAL PLAN ACCEPTED BY POWERS
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Ben Hill Syrup For
Farm Bureau Meet
Thousand Bottles to Be Distributed
At Atlanta Meet Monday
When the American Farm Bureau
Federation meets in Atlanta next Mon
day a thousand bottles of Ben Hill
County Cane Syrup will be distribu
ted free among the visitors and dele
gates from the northern states to this
important annual gathering of farm
ers. Through the liberality of C, A,
Newcomer, manager of the Union
Syrup Refinery, cooperating with the
Fitzgerald Chamber of Commerce and
County Agent, C. T. Owens, specially
made syrup bottles have been secured
and are being filled at the Union Sy
rup Refinery this week, to be distribu
ted at the convention by County agent
C. T. Owens, g
The bottles will carry the Fitzgerald
label and will introduce this delicious
product of our farms to the northern
visitors, Several thousand delegates
are expected at this meeting and mat
ters of importance to fagmers are ex
pected to be discussed and their prob
lems solved,
Governor Thomas W. Hardwick
will open the convention, Dr, An
drew M. Soule, president of the Geor
gia Agricultural College; President 3
R. Howard, of the federation, and
leaders on all farm questions will
speak. /
Among other prominent men to
address the convention will be Ber
nard Baruch, during the war, chair
man of the war industries boardk_andr
economic advisor to the American
peace commission at Versailles, who
will speak on “The Greatest Need of
Agriculture:” Senator Arthur Capper
of Kansas, co-author of the Capper-
Volstead cooperative marketing law,
who will speak on “Agricultural Fi
nance,” Henry C. Wallace, secretary
of agriculture, will speak on “The
Agricultural outlook;” Senator W. S
Kenyon of Towa will speak on “The
Agricultural Bloc and Other Blocs:””
and C. O. Moser of Dallas, Texas,
secretary of the American Cotton
Exchange, will discuss “Cotton Mark
cting”
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Annual Meeting Of
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The Presbyterians
Dr, R, C, Reid Delivers Opening Ser-‘
mon At Thomasville |
THOMASVILLE, Ga., Nov, 15—
The sixty-seventh annual meeting of
the synod of Georgia cosvened in the
Presbyterian church here tonight with
a good attendance present, The com
mittees have been busy all day meet
ing the various trains on which the
ministers and elders have been arriving
asd tonight practically all are here ex
cept a few who will come on the mor
ning trains,
The opening sermon of the synod
was preached by Dr R. C. Read, pro
fessor of church history at Columbia
Theological seminary, John Brantley
of Blackshear, the retiring moderator
being a layman, the usual rule that
the retirisgc moderator prach the open
ing sermon, could not be carried out
and at his request, Dr, Reid preached,
Following the sermon, the synod
was formally organized and tomorrow
will start business sessions, This aft
ernoon several of the committees held
meetings, asd others of the ministers
who were fond of a good game of gilf
took advantage of an afternoon of lei
sure to enjoy a game on the links at
the Glen Arven Country Cub, the od
est in the South,
The visitors comisg from north Geor
gia have decided they have struck
summertime with the warm weather
encountered here, The delegates are
being entertained in the homes of the
Presbyterians and members of other
denominations ¢
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Aluminum Sale.was a phenominal suc
cess, When ten o'clock arrived this
morning several hundred ladies had
crowded into the store and scores of
them were waiting on the side walk
awaiting their opportuniy o get at the
aluminum display, Within an hour
.the several hundred HTHTHTprree
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‘num ware, ranging from lc¢ to 99c¢
were disposed of and scores of people
went away from the store unable to
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gains, -
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= By ROBERT FULLER
pE | Special Corr espondent i
CHICAGO, Nov. 15—The newest thing in the
farm bureau movement is a woman's department
which shall, just as early as possible, represent the
great and important congregation of farm women
m the country.
President Howard of the American Farm Bu
reau Federation, has appointed a committee of four
women to work out the details of the women’s
farm bureau departmnet and they will no doubt
present an outline of a plan shortly.
The committe consists of Mrs. Vera Busick
Schuttler, Missouri; Mrs. John C. Ketchum, Mich
igan; Mrs. Izetta Brown, West Virginia and Mrs.
A. E. Bridgen, New York.
The personnel of the committee was chosen by
President Howard from a long list of names of wo
men already well identified with farm bureau or
farm -organization work. Mrs. Brtdgen is known
throughout New York for her active labor in de
veloping the home bureau. She s president of
the Cortland county home bureau and president of
the state federation of home bureaus.
Mrs. Vera B. Schuttler, chairman of the commit
tee, has played an important part in the organiza
tion and development of the farm bureau in Miss
ouri. She has served as asmember of the execu
tive committee of the St. Francois County Farm
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Not How Long! But How!
By W, M. MARTIN
This subject has impressed me so forcibly that I feel constrained to com
nient on it from my view point.
NOT HOW LONG! BUT HOW! Will we restore harmony and tranquil
ity in the world, both locally and nationally. 1t is generally conceeded by all
people and admitted by the Press, both local and national, that the fundamental
cause of dispute which breeds trouble as between individual, private interests,
corporations, and all the great nations of the earth grow out of a violation of
State or National laws. The only law of our land, written on the statute books
of the United States that is dependable on public opinios for its enforcement, to
my knowledge, is the Transportation Act of 1920, It is also conceeded that
public opinion is the strongest force that can be brought to bear to produce
facts, : g
What is the greatest agency we have that frames public opinion? The
press, both local and national, Public opinion thus created should be based up
on facts growing out of investigation of disputes instead of individual opinions,
publicly expressed through the columns of the Press which in some instances
is either hired or owned by big intcrests or capital, so to speak,
NOT HOW LONG! BUT HOW! Will we prevent such indignant action
as prevailed in Chicago, October 26th by operators of searchlight machines,
tlashlight photograph machines and moving picture machines, apparently to
embarrass the Labor Group who was sighted to appear along with the man
agers of the Railroads and the public to arrive at an adjustment of the pro
posed nation-wide strike, Was it public opinion that threw the opening of the
United States Labor and .Transporation Council into almost a state of pande
monium? Far be it! The public had good reason to cxpect that the dignity
of the United States Labor Board would be maintained at all hazards, but it
developed that a representative of labor complained to the Chairman of the
Board who remained 'silent while the disgraceful performance continued with
searchlights piercing the Labor Group like a torpedo boat searching for a sub
marine,
NOT HOW LONG! BUT HOW! Will we cause the violators of the
Transportation Act to account for their disregard for the law. Section 301
of the Transportation Act, which the Railroads seem determined to ignore,
reads as follows: “
“In the event that the carriers and any group of employees fail
to adjust differences it shall be referred to the Board which is au
thorized to hear and adjust such disputes ”
Has the law been complied with, No! A labor representative called the
Board’s attention to the fact that seventy-five railroads in the United
States have violated the act and none had been called to account for their ac
ton.
NOT HOW LONG! BUT HOW! Will we convince public opinion that
the poor producing classes of our people are today being persecuted and prose
cuted when they endeavor to assert their inherent rights to obtain a fair per
centage of the gross earnings derived from what they produce? Has public
opinion a Soul? If so, what material is it made of? Has public opinion a
sense of vision. If so, have they looked into the thousands of humble homes
in this country where poverty abounds? LOOK! Mr. Public Opinion, for
the day of retribution is sure to come when public opinion will be weighed in
the balance and found wanting. Then and then only, will the poor of the land
laugh at your calamity and mock when your fear comes. Has Public opinion
a feeling. If so, reach forth your hand, grasp the hand of the man who is ac
tually producing the necessary products of food, raiment. and shelter and
you will find in his hand the effccts of his labor. Then in turn, grasp the
hand of the man who is today buying public opinion that be may profit in that
which the poor produce and you will find that soft velvety surface possessed
only by those who scek to destroy today the people he wiil need tomorrow.
NOT HOW LONG! BUT HOW! Will we prevent public opinion from
cendorsing checks on our Government Treasury which is created hy taxation,
to guarantee dividends on corporation industries? Has public opinion a sense
of hearing? If so, I pray you lend your ears to the masses instead of the
ciasses in order that we may live and prosper in the land that the Lord, thy
God, giveth thee, iy
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Finds Stars Are Larger
Than 300,000,000 Miles
If You Don’t Believe It, Measure It
Yourself
CHICAGO, Nov. 15—Discovery of
the existence of greater stars than
Bctclgeuse, the giant star, whose di
ameter was measured as 300,000,000
miles, was announced by Prof, Albert
FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1921
A. Michelson in an address before the
convention of the National Academy
of Science, made public today,
Antares, a star in the constellation
of Scorpio, was named as one of the
super stars, but its exact size has sot
yet been determined, he said,
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~ Mrs, George F. McLeod Miss Irene
‘McLeod, Mrs. J, D. Maynard and
Mrs, Ambrose Beckham of Abbeville
formed a congenial party coming ov
er to see the “Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse,”
ENTERPRISE AND PRESS;
Bureau, a member of the executive committec of
the Missouri Farm Bureau Federation, member of
the committee on relations to the College of Ag
riculture and secretary of the Farm Bureau Roads
(_onvention.
Mrs. Izetta Brown is the owner and manager of
& dairy of pure bred Holsteins and Jerseys in West
Virginia. In addition to her dairy she operates
two general farms. Mrs. Brown has had an active
part in national affairs.
Mrs John C. Ketchum, also brings to the com
mittee a wealth of experience. She was for vears
closely associated with her husband in his work
a 5 Master of the Michigan State Grange. For the
first two years she was a member of the executive
committee of Michigan Farm Bureau Federation.
At present Mrs. Ketcham holds a number of im
portant offices.
A woman with the title of Assistant Sceretary
will head the department. The committee will al
sc develop a program of work for women members
f the farm bureau. This program of work will
nrobably be largely concerned with the improve
ment of the social side of farm life. It will have
to do with the establishment of community cent
ers, the rural church, boy's and girl's clubs, consol
idated schools, ete.
Picketing Is Begun
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In Garment Strike
Garment Workers Refuse to Return
To “Sweatshop” Conditions
NEW YORK, Nov, 15—Picketing
of 3,000 garment shops by striking
workers began today, Every picket
was provided with a card of isstruc
tions from the union warning against
engaging in arguments or making a
disturbance,
The manufacturers claimed that
more than 40 per cent of their work
ers the most efficient operatives, had
remained at work, but the union lead
ers asserted that the strike had start
ed a 100 per cent success.
Some of the smaller manufacturers,
the union men said had already enter
ed into negotiations with the workers
and work would be resumed in those
shops as soon as agreements weve
signed
Representatives of the Cloak, Suit,
and Skirt Manufacturers Protective
association asserted their forces would
be working at 60 per cent of normal
within a few days, They defended
the change to piece work and the 49
hour week as essential to the reduction
of prices on women’s clothing,
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Baptist B. Y. P. U.
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Convention In Moultrie
South Western Regional Convention
Meets There This Week
The Southwestern Regional Con
vention of the B. Y, P. U, of the Bap
tist Church will convene in Moultrie
this week Thursday and Friday. This
district takes in thirtcen Associations
and Mr, Herbert Bradshaw is vice
president of this district, There will
be about four or five hundred dcle
!‘;’:lt(‘i and the convention will be a
profitable and inspiring meetisg,
Those going from here to repre
sent the Baptist Young people of our
city are Misses Ozella Bradshay, Dor
othy Thurmond, Margaret Pope Thur
mond, Lillie Mae Hughes, Clio Cros
by, Louise Osborne, Gertrude Brant
ley, Pauline Ennis, Nora Ensis, and
Messrs Herbert Bradshaw, Chester
Strickland and Mrs. E, A Ressell,
NOTICE
There were registered for the regu
lar city eiection to be held December
20th, 1921, 605 persons, This notice
is in_accordance with section 33 of
the’ Citv charter,
'w;rlhis the 9th day of November,
David L, Paulk, City Clerk,
Harding’s Address
Pleasing To English
George Washington Served Mankind
Well in Saving America To Anglo
Saxons Harding Says
WASHINGTON. Nov. 14—Presi
dent Harding tied the bonds of friend
ship with England tighter today in an
address at the laying of the National
Victory Memorial cornerstone here,
“America's trusted allies of France
and England will agree that George
Washington served mankind well ™
President Harding declared, when he
saved the American continent to ;\n-'
glo-Saxon domination and thus Cun-‘
tributed very greatly to making 1)0,»4-1
sible this wide flung family of Eng
lish speaking nations, |
President Harding uttered these
words as he laid aside the historic
trowel used by George Washington in
laying the cornerstone of the Capitol
‘l)uilding and brought out again today
today’s ceremonies,
“If, on the one side, Washington
was the personal force that wrenched
apart the two chief branches of the
English-speaking race, he was on the
other the greatest personal factor in
saving this continent to Anglo-Saxon
domination; and in doing that he con
tributed very greatly to making poss
ible the wide-flung family of English
speaking nations” President Harding
said: “If as leader of the revolting
colonies in '76, this time aided by
France, he tore them from the grasp
of England, it is equally true that two
decades earlier he had saved them
from possible domination of France,
I am sure today our faithful friends
and trusted allies of France and Eng:
land alike would agree that in both
cases, viewed in the light of subse
quent events, he served mankind well,
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Women’s Club To
- Hold Flower Show
The Woman's Club will open the
doors for their annual chrysanthemum
show at 3:30 o’clock Friday afternoon
in the auditorium of the Carncgie Li
brary building,
The public is cordially invited to at
tend the show, also to enter their blos-.
soms for the following prizes offered
by the Woman's Club:
For the best collection of five differ
ent blossoms, $3.00,
For the best basket of blossoms of
any color, $2.00. {
For the most perfect blossom of any
color, $l.OO, |
Anyone desiring to enter blossoms
will please call Mrs_ S, L. Smith, phone
212, or Mrs, Forrest Farmer, phone
262 n tme for the flowers to be ar
ranged, Lades of other towns are
cordally nvted to attend, also to enter
thier blossoms,
~ An admission fee of 25¢ will be
charged, the money to be used to pur
chase a heavy floor covering for the
auditorium to deaden the sound in the
library underneath, There are no charg
-s for enterting blossoms in the show,
Light refreshments will be served
!(luring the afternoon, and an enjoyable
‘prngrum is being arranged by the
flower committee of the club.
Watson’s Charges
To Be Probed
Special Senate Committee To Formu
| late Plans
WASHINGTON, D, C,, Nov, 15—
Members of the special senate com
mittee appointed to investigate charg
es made by Senator Watson of hang
ings without trial of American soldiers
in France stated today that their in
quiry in all probability would not be
uin until after the meeting of congress
in regular session next month, The
committee members will attempt to
formulate this weeck plans for the in
vestigation
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Fitzgerald High School Business: College
Is now offering standard an—d 7(Vi'i‘é,rt‘inct courses in Twentieth Century
Bookkeeping, Gregg Shorthand, Touch Typewriting, and the allied
commercial subjects. ’
~ Enter now and through its efficient instruction and practical trgining,
increase your earning capacity, and at the end of the school year be
ready to accept the awaiting positions.
$50.00 Tuition Covers all Subjects
For further information, see or write: MRS. WALTER MORGAN,
Principal, or ULRIC J. BENNETT, Superintendent, Fitzgerald, Ga.
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Rail Unions Heads
Meet In Chicago
eet in Chicago i
No Statemtn Issued After Session To|
Discuss Abandonment of Strike l
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CHICAGO, Nov, IS—Six-lmn(lr«-«li
general chaimen and officers of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive lingincvr:.‘
and Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men and Engisemen opened a three
day mecting here yesterday to con
sider their officers action in calling
off the threatened railroad strike and
to plan their future course o action,
Warren S, Stone, grand chief of the
engineers and William S, Carter, pres
ident of the firemen and enginemen,
announced at the end of the first ses
'sion that they would have nothing to
;S:ly before otmorrow night, when a
lstatcmcnt probably would be issued,
| Although T C. Cashen president
of the Switchmen’s Union of North
l/\mcrica was reported to be in the
city with several of his executive offi
cers, he did not attend the meeting,
and Mr, Stone said he was not ex
pected, Neither W, G. Lee, president
of the Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men, nor L. E. Sheppard, president
of the Order of Railway Conductors
was present or represented,
Union officials explained that the
general chairmen in attendance were
those who did not respond to . the
United States railroad labor board's
order to attend the hearing here two
wecks ago which cutminated in the
calling off of the threatened srtike,
Following an explanation by Mr,
Stone and Mr, Carter of the reasons
which actuated the unions in cancell
ing the strike order, several commit
For Defense Only |
Is U. S. Navy Idea
‘ s U. 5. Navy Idea
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’ WASHINGTON, Nov. 15—Limita
tion of the world’s navies so that they
}\vill be adapted for defensive purposcs
only is the fundamental motive which
inspired the propoals submitted to the
armament conferences by Secretary
Hughes, it was learned last night from
authoritative soureces, The proposals
were based, it was explainde, on thc%
proposition that navies should be so
restricted in gun and mas power that
they would not be used for offcnsivcl
purposes, ‘
The cosception of defensive navies
it was stated, produced the American
formula with limitation of capital ves
sels as the primary basis, and subsid
-laries of such ships the minor f;lctors,‘
subject to readjustment throught ex
change of the views of the naval ex
perts of the poviers ‘
VWith the primary consideration that
oi providing for detensive navies, the
American delegates, is drafting the
proposals now hefore the conferenre
were saiu to have adopted the pres
ent relative strength of the three great
naval powers as the only feasible ba
sis for every agreement The proposed
litnits of lapital ships for the three
powers were regarded as suffisient for
respective navies of defense, The
American delegates were reported to
haverejected, as basis for cossidera
tion, the questions of territorial poss
essions, their extent and whether they
were scattered or collected, They also
were said to have rejected, as imprac
tical in considering a defensive navy,
the question of mileage of respective
coast lines.
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Dr. Steveas To Lecture
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At Baptist Church
Dr. Emmet Stephens 17 years as a
missionary in Ching will deliver a free
lecture at the First Baptist Church on
Friday evening the 18th, Dr. Steph
ens is a fine talker and you will be
oth edified and imstructed by
~]‘w;lkt'r. :
Come and bring your friends with
vou, Remember the time and place,
J. F. Singleton,
PUBLISHED ON
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY
AND FRIDAY
Official Organ City Of Fitzgerald
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BRITAIN, FRANCE
W ,\.\'l[L\l(l'l"()f\:Y Nov. 15 For
mally acepting “‘in principle and spir
iit" the American proposals for reduc
ing and limiting naval armament,
)(irn-:n Britain, France, Italy and Jap
‘:m today pledged their adherence and
began discussions of details.
Japan wants more than the 60 per
cent as compared to the United States
and Grea Britain, which the original
proposal would allow her,
France and Italy want to be taken
into consideration at the outset and
not wait for disposal of the question as
i affects the big three, Morever, both
France and Italy feel that they should
be permitted to increase rather than
decrease their forces to bring them up
to a figure comparable with what is
being allowed others.
British Wants
Great Britain, as previously outlined
wants the replacement program spread
over 3 period of years rather than tak
en up at the esd of a ten year holiday,
and she wants further reduction and
definite limitations on submarines.
Afer a session of little more than
an hour, he conference afer hearing
addresses of general accepance by Ar
thur J, Balfour for tht British; Baron
Admiral Kato for Japan and Stnaor
Cchanzer of Italy and Premier Briand
for Franct, adjourned to mee again on
the call of the secretary Hughes, and
the newly appointed commitee on na
tval armament went into secret session,
Bumper Crop Of
Corn In State
Georgia Farmers Raise Rocord-Break
ing Crop of Corn and Pota‘oes
ATLANTA, Nov, 16—Georgia far
mers have produced 90,315,000 bushels
of corn this year, according to reports
compiled by the industrial department
of the Georgia Railway and Power
Company, This year's crop sold at
present prices, the compilation shows,
would net the producers something
like $81,284.000,
A market must be found also for
Georgia's 14,000,000 bushels of sweet
petatoes says the bulletis of the Pow
er Company, Tt is pointed out that
farmers are learning that sweet pota
toes, by being cured and kept through
the winter, may be marketed at much
better prices, Reference is made to
many curing houses which have been
established in various parts of the
State,
To assist in the marketing of cotton
the power company shows that grain
elevators with an average capacity of
5,000 bushels have heen established by
business men of Forsyth, Fitzgerald,
Cochran Fatonton, Albany, Athens,
Augusta, Blackshear, Buford, Fort
Valley,M oultrie, Milledgeville, Macon
Thomasville Valdosta, Waynesboro,
Donaldsonville and other towns, where
grain is heing stored, graded and dis
tributed to the markets in accordance
with the demand.
A campaign of education for better
marketing facilities for Georgia farm
ers has heen undertaken by various
organizations and public officials,
W. S. Roach Funeral
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Is Held In Americus
e ks
AMERICUS, Ga., Nov, 14— The
funeral of W_ S. Roach, one of Sum
ter county's leading farmers, held
from his home on Lee street here yes
terday, was largely attended, Among
the most prominent men of the city
were the six pall bearers and an equal
number of honorary pall bearers, Dr,
Carl W, Minor and Rev, H, T, Brook
shire, the pastors of the two local
Baptist Churches officiated. Mr. Roach
who had been a sufferer from rheu
matism for many years, died of urem
ic poisoning, He owned one of the
largest and finest farms in this see
tion, W "!m