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Foreign—
The Angora government haa inform
ed the allels that If the remainder of
the Greek army in Asia Minor at
tempt* to retreat across the neutral
lone of the Dardanelles, the Kemallsts
will disregard the neutrality of the
•traits and pursue the Greeks in Inter
national territory. The Greek military
mission has left Constantinople.
The immediate withdrawal of the
Greek forces from the Tchatalja region
In European Turkey has been insisted
on by Mustapha Kemal Pasha, the Tur
kish nationalist leader, in conversation
with the British high commissioner.
Kemal says Turkey is not fighting
Great Britain, but the Great Britain
Is obstructing the free development of
Turkey.
The First North Staffordshire regi
ment of 1,000 men stationed at Gibral
tar has been ordered eastward'
Premier Hughes of Australia has ca
bled Lloyd George that Australia Is
ready at any flme to join the home
government In whatever action i3 nec
essary to protect Gallipoli.
Constltantinople reports that more
than 150,000 lives were lost in the sack
ing of Smyrna, in the Levant. Even
the Turkish quarters were wiped out
by fire.
The American secretary of state,
Charles E. Hughes, was on his way
back to the United States after par
ticipating in the ceremonies of open
ing Brazil’s centenary celebration.
Itulian Bhlps are attempting to take
off the Italian colony of Smyrna due
to the fire which is reported raging
in that city.
Smyrna is burning. The population
is in a panic. All the wives and chil
dren of native Americans are being
evacuated to Athens.
The conflagration in Smyrna was
started by a sergeant of Turkish regu
lars, according to Miss Mills, head
mistress of the American college in
Smyrna, says a dispatch to The Times
from Athens.
King George, in order to effect fur
ther economics in the royal household,
is dispensing with a team of state car
riage horses, reducing tho staff and
putting somo servants on porfslon.
There was heavy fighting at Dublin
when Republican Irregulars attacked
the Wellington and Porto hello bar
racks, the King’s Bridge station and
the telephone exchange. One tnan
was killed nnd four others wounded
in nn hour’s battle at the Cliffden wire
less station. The Free Staters have
reoccupiod Ballina.
A veritable storm of indignation con
tinues In inner monarchical circles, es
pecially among the former higher
court nobility, over the former kaiser’s
intention to marry again. Princess
Herminie Schonaich Carolath, a 37-
year-old widow, the happy bride-to-be,
is telling her secret to friends and rel
atives everywhere and makes no con
cealment of her pride over her “catch”
and the fact she will be spoken of in
history as "second wife of Wilhelm IT,
the last Hohsnzollern.”
W ashingt on—
This week Is expected to mark the
close of the second session of the Six
ty-seventh congress, with adjournment
pine die scheduled by the 23rd Instant
and sooner, If possible. Enactment of
the tariff bill and final disposition of
the soldiers’ bonus bill are expected
to furnish the principal features of thcj
closing week of legislation.
Official ire over England’s esti
mate of the United States, as express
ed by Itudyard Kipling, continued to
grow recently. Some senators were
outspoken in saying the poet not only
gave the view of Great Britain, but
that of all European nations which the
United States saved during the World
War.
Obstructionist tactics in the Cuban
Congress in connection with the con
sideration of economic reform meas
ures recommended by the United
States are causing deep concern among
officials of the American government,
it was declared at the State Depart
ment.
Increases in the prices of agricul
tural products as' soon as transporta
tion again becomes normal was pre
dicted by Secretary of Commerce
Hoover. Hoover explained that the
“stricture” resultnng from the strike
had kept prices of farm products be
low their normal level
The refugee situation in Smyrna was
declared to be “appalling" in dispatch
es received by the state department
from Rear Admiral Bristol, at Con
stantinople.
To the general public, the boll wee
vil Is a pestiferous insect which does
something to the cotton crop. To the
cotton grower the boll weevil Is a
cataclysm, a disaster, a nightmare of
terror. To the country as a whole,
the boll weevil Is the cause of an eco
nomic loss of unguessed proportions.
It Is obvious that science can, If it will,
eradicate the boll weevil, just as It
eradicated the mosquito and malaria
and yellow fever from the canal zone.
Mrs. Mabel Gardiner Bell, widow of
Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor of
the telephone, was named as sold bene
ficiary under her husband’s will, filed
for probate. The instrument was dat
ed June 22, 1898. Mrs. Bell and
Charles J. Bell, a cousin of the late
Inventor, were named as executors.
The value of the estate was not given.
The tariff bill returned to the House
recently, written thlß time to express
the will of the house. House and sen
ate conferees ironed out their differ
ences of the chemical dyes and potash
schedules, the senate yielding to the
house on both Items. Chairman Ford
ney reported the bill with a complete
agreement from the conferees, and
house leaders seemed anxious to see
It passed by the house soon.
Domestic—
An automobile traveling the National
highway near Martins Ferry, Ohio,
rammed a telephone pole so hard that
the Imprint of the license plate was
left and the figures “84,369" are plain
ly visible.
The biological survey of New York
has formally certified the most tre
mendous animal energy In the world.
It Is the mole. Existing underground,
blind, the mole knows no difference
between light and darkness. He works
24 hours each day. He is the only per
petual motion known.
Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y.,
has banned hazing this year. Last
year there were several serious acci
dents, one killed, at that university,
and the faculty has decided that no
more hazing will be allowed.
Passengers arriving in New York
City on the Swedish-American liner
Stockholm say that Sweden has re
nounced prohibition.
The last blast of the rescue crews
seeking the 47 gold miners entombed
for three weeks in the Argonaut mine,
Jackson, Calif., is believed to have
been made, and the tunnel into the
mine shaft is believed to have
been completed. It is believed that the
rush of air will enable the entombed
miners to escape.
It is estimated that the loss from the
fire in New Orleans which raged along
the water front for three hours de
stroying the long 6tretch of wharves
of the United States government com
modity warehouse and vast quantities
of army ordinance and commercial
commodities would reach between five
and six million dollars.
With tho shopmen’s peace plan
threatened by outbreaks due appar
ently to misunderstandings and with
the Now York Central announcing the
failure of its efforts to reach an agree
ment with the strikers, roads not par
ticipating in the Baltimore negotia
tions reported a rapid return to normal
operation in their shops.
Bolshevism is the most active In
fluence in Chinese life, said Bishop
Logan H. Roots, of Hankow China, ad
dressing a missionary mass meeting of
the general convention of the Protest
ant Episcopal church at Portland, Ore
B. Erinquez, of Calexico, Calif., has
announced he and Roberto Norton and
Ramon Ovsven, also of the same city
have discovered in Lower California
two “vast oil fields where oil lies on
the surface.”
Margie Seville, 4 years old, for
whom a nation-wide search has been
made, has been found at Long Beach,
Nassau county, New York, according
to announcement by a New Orleans,
La., detective.
Wood alcohol has claimed a dozen
victims since Labor day, New York
police say, and recently sent three
persons to Manhattan hospitals, two
unconscious and one blind; and blind
ed a woman on States Island.
An explosion heard for ten miles
shook a portion of San Bernardino,
Calif., when dynamite, estimated by
deputy United States marshals to have
been about 30 sticks, exploded beneath
a Santa Fe stock car standing on the
stock yard spur between San Bernard
ino and Colton.
Undeterred by reports of a peace
agreement between the striking shop
crafts and several of the railroads,
the government continued to introduce
evidence from all parts of the country
charging violence and intimidation by
strikers, on the strength of which it
is seeking an injunction against them
Asa northbound freight train en
tered the Louisville & Nashville shops,
Albany, Ala., one of the cars loaded
with pig iron was blown up.
Charles E. Hughes, of Pocahontas,
Va., and J. S. Hancock, of Norman,
N. C., were killed by a fall of slate
in the big veins at Pocahontas. Va.
The government recently speeded up
its case against the striking rail crafts
in an effort to complete the evidence
in support of Attorney-General Daugh
erty’s injunction.
THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
WALKER WINS BY
LARGE MAJORITY
RECEIVEB 22,200 MAJORITY IN
COUNTIES BROWN, PERRY
AND MCDONALD WIN
STATE NEWSJF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There Frpm All Sections Of
The State
Atlanta.—Winning the race for gov
ernor by one of the largest majorities
ever given a successful candidate in
Georgia, Clifford M. Walker carried
118 counties for a county unit vote of
300 over his opponent, Gov. Thomas
W. Hardwick, who carried 42 counties,
with a total unit vote of 112, according
to the complete and final official re
turns made public following the con
solidation of the votes in the 160
counties. In 121 counties, ■ Walker roll
ed up a popular vote of 84,785, while
Hardwick received 62,683, a majority
of 22,202; Baylor, the third candidate,
obtained 299 popular votes.
Mr. Walker, who has been nominated
to the highest state office his fellow
citizens of Georgia can bestow, enter
ed public life in 1902, when he was
elected mayor of his native city, Mon
roe. He served for three years, and
in 1909 was named solicitor general
of the western circuit'd the state, con
tinuing in that capacity for three years.
In 1914 he entered the state politi
cal lists as candidate for attorney
general. He carried 120 counties, and
had a popular majority of 65,000 votes.
During this campiagn Mr. Walker vis
ited practically every county in the
state, cementing many friendships
which still endure.
Mr. Walker entered the 1920 gover
nor’s race against Thomas W. Hard
wick and John N. Holder. He was der
feated after a run-over election be
tween himself and Mr. Hardwick. He
retired as attorney general in 1921.
Mr. Walker has not only taken an
active part in political and civic ac
tivities of the state, but is a promi
nent Baptist laymen and ardent re
ligious work. He has also been in
terested in a number of educational
activities, having been named a trus
tee of Mercer university and of Shor
ter college, and has taken part in
many educational movements.
Mr. Walker was bom in Monroe, Ga.,
July 4, 1877. He is a son of Billing
ton Sanders Walker and Alice (Mitch
ell) Walker, his father being a law
yer, banker and manufacturer of Mon
roe. He attended school in his home
city, later going to the University of
Georgia, where he has graduated with
the degree of bachelor of arts in 1897.
Official returns from 133 of the 160
counties in Georgia give N. H. Ballard
of Brunswick 196 county unit votes
to 136 unit votes for his closest op
ponent, M. L. Duggan, in the race for
school commissioner. This race was
close as the returns from the first 100
counties arrived, but later counties in
creased the lead of Mr. Ballard until
It is apparent that he is elected as
head of the state department of educa-
tion. ...
In the races for state house offices
the winners are J. J- Brown for com
missioner of agriculture; Walter F.
McDonald of Augusta and James A.
Perry of Atlanta for the two places
on the public service commission ;
Judge Richard B. Russell of Winder for
chief justice of the supreme court; R.
E. Davison as member of the state
prison commission, and Judge R. C.
Bell of Cairo to succeed himself for
a full term as judge of the court of
appeals. _ ,
Congressman William D. Upshaw
doubled the vote received by James
L. Key for congressman of the Fifth
district, the former receiving 1-520
votes against the latter’s 6,232 vo es.
Ralph O. Cochran, candidate for the
same office, received the smallest, 1,-
894 votes.
For the legislature from Fulton coun
ty, J. O. Wood led the ticket easily,
with Miss Bessie Kempton receiving
the second highest vote and John Y.
Smith third.
In the halls of the next session of
the general assembly, for the first time
in the history of the state, there will
be two women present as members,
namely, Miss Bessie Kempton from
Fulton, and Mrs. Viola R. Napier will
represent Bibb county. Also many new
faces will greet the next session. Johns
of Barrow will oe the only senator to
return next year.
C. H. Carswell, senator from the
Twenty-first district, and H. E. Coates
from the Fourteenth district will be
candidates for the senate presidency.
Speaker Cecil Neill of the house of
representatives was re-elected to repre
sent Muscogee county in the house,
and his frinds state that he will he
r candidate for re-election as speaker.
Sentaor Herbert Clay of Cobb county,
president of the senate, was named as
one of the Cobb representatives in the
election.
TYPO UNION MEN CHOOSE
ATLANTA FOR 1923 MEET
Atlanta.—Through the efforts of the
Atlanta typographical “booster commit
tee,’’ appointed by Local No. 48, the
officials of the International Typo
graphical union convening in Atlantic
City have chosen Atlanta as their 1923
convention city.
The committee consisting of Robert
T. Pavlosky and Robert E. Gann of the
Atlanta Constitution mechanical depart
ment, appointed two months ago, was
sent as delegates to the Atlantic City
convention.
Emmett Quinn, president of the At
lanta Federation of Trades, added em
phasis to the activities of the commit
tee by sending an official telegram to
Atlantic City urging that the Gate City
be chosen for the 1923 convention.
A message received In Atlanta says;
“You will be pleased to learn that the
International Typographical Union has
selected Atlanta for the convention city
next year. Atlanta was given a tre
mendous ovation on the floor, the vote
being practicaly unanimous.”
The message was Bigned by Luther
H. Still, Walter M. Fudge, president
of the Atlanta local; Mr. and Mrs.
R. E. Gann, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Smith,
R. T. Pavlosky and Mrs. N. H. Kirk
patrick.
Atlanta union officials feel that they
have achieved a victory in landing the
next convention, as several thousand
delegates attend the session of the in
ternational printers.
SIO,OOO Is Given Tallulah School
Atlanta. —Ten thousand dollars of
the $50,000 “Greater Tallulah” jfund of
the Georgia Federation of Woman’s
clubs was raised by the executive
board of the federation at its meeting!
here. The gifts through executive
board members mark the actual begin
ning of the campaign for expansion of
the Tallulah Falls school, which is the
property of the woman’s clubs of the
state and in which Georgia clubwom
en have taken a large degree of inter
est. A larger plant, more buildings,
more equipment and a large faculty
are aims of the federation’s movement
to expand the school. Its field of serv
ice, according to club leaders, is to be
extended throughout the Georgia
mountain region.
Paving Of Florida Road Progressing
Thomasvllle. —The paving of the
highway from Live Oak and Lake City
on to Jacksonville Is of the great inter
est here, as it will give Thomasvllle a
fine road to the Florida metropolis.
This is in charge of Frank Mitchell,
a Thomasvllle man. This stretch of
road has been a great drawback to
travel between Thomasvllle and Jack
sonville by automobile, as it has al
ways been much of a sandbed. An
other Thomasvllle man has the con
tract for building four bridges on the
highway out of Tifton, John Vaughn,
of the Vaughn Construction company.
He has started this work, which is a
state highway project.
Road Burplus Paid To Education
Waycross.—The Ware county bond
commission, after completing the high
way south of Waycross to the Charl
ton county line, still has $463,494.02
out of the total of $618,000 bonds sold.
Out of this total $70,000 has been
paid to the county board of education
and they have built some of the most
modern school houses of any county
in the state, including the Waresboro
school, and the Heberdsville building,
which is now nearing completion.
Work now is progressing on the
Waresboro-Nicholls stretch of the
highway, which is expected to be com
pleted before the winter tourist traf
fic begins.
Farmer Of Hart Shot To Death
Hartwell. —Earl Sanders, prosperous
farmer, living just outside the city of
Hartwell and a member of a promi
nent Hart county family, was shot and
instantly killed in the public square
here recently by Walter A. Ayers, a
local stock dealer. Sanders and Ayers
were discussing politics and the elec
tion in front of Hailey’s Drug store
and an altercation followed the dis
cussion and became so heated that
Ayers is said to have drawn his pis
tol and fired on Sanders, who reeled,
grasped an automobile and then fell
to the ground dead.
Congress Race Tied In First District
Savannah. —A tie in the county unit
system shows in the returns from the
first congressional district, J. W. Over
street, the incumbent, has carried
Chatham, Burke, Screven, Mclntosh
and Effingham counties, with 18 units,
while W. Lee Moore has the same num
ber of units in carry’ng Jenkins,
Evans, Bullock, Bryan, Liberty, Long,
Tattnal and Candler counties. The
popular vote, which was not available,
will decide the question.
20,000 Population Increase in 2 Years
Atlanta. —Atlanta’s population has in
creased 20,000 since the official census
of 1920, and is now' a city of 220,047
popualtion, according to the latest gov
ernment census figures received by Dr.
J. P. Kennedy, city health officer. The
government figures for 1920 placed At
lanta’s population at 200.616.
Humorous j f
gJi
PATRIOTISM.
“This Idea comes from abroad”
“Year
“War profiteers ought to feel grate
ful to the ex-kalser for starting the re
cent row."
“Our profiteers are too patriotic for
that, but some of them might smile
slyly when war contracts are men
tioned, and admit that Uncle Sam is e
good old scout.” —Birmingham Age-
Herald.
Confidence.
“You know this movie didn’t cost
$1,000,000.”
‘Tm not prepared to argue that
question,” replied the eminent pro
ducer.
“But-—”
“Say no more. My publicity direc
tor says it cost that much, and I’m
the last person In the world to doubt
bis veracity.”
HE WAS WISE
He: Darling, I wouldn’t swap you
for any ten other wives.
Bhe: Oh, George.
He: No, slrl Living’s too high
these times.
Present Realities.
fhe heroes of a classic age,
Oh, why should we their daeds recall?
We read upon the sporting page
Of live ones who can hit the ball.
The Big Expense.
What a very stunning coat of arms.
I’m sure you ought to be very proud
of it.”
"We are. But George says it will
cost a lot to put It on the door of the
limousine.”
‘‘Why? Because It’s so intricate?”
“No. Because tve have to get the
limousine first.”
Discouraging a Helpful Spirit.
"I don’t understand that new wom
an next door,” remarked Mrs. Gadder.
"What’s the trouble?”
“She calls herself a seeker after the
truth. I’ve told her everything I
know about the people around here,
but she doesn't seem to be the least
bit Interested.”
Pereonal Charm Absent.
Fair Aspirant (with manuscript)—
Do please let me read my story to
you.
Publisher— Don’t trouble, my dear
young lady, my reader will see it.
Fair Aspirant—Yes, but he won’t see
me.
Under Suspicion.
“How long had he lived a life of
crime?”
“Only one year, he told the court
For six years previous to that time
he was a taxicab driver.”
“Umphl That means seven years
of crime In all."
Home Humor.
next-door neighbors are
iuarrellng over a vacuum clean f r ’
Hub—Well, look out and don t get
ernwn Into It.
Ht, Al IWflM— I—*
WELCOME j r
“My love for you drive.
“I think I’m the one to S
•bout It."
Cheer.
Let’s give a cheer
For Old Man Banks.
He never moves
“A vote of thanks.