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THE NEW ERA.
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Official Organ City of Jeffersonville & Twiggy County
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
J. S. ABERCROMBIE, Editor and Publisher I,
and entered at the postoffice In Jeffersouvuie. Georgia, as
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3rd, 1879.
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NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Hoover's Cabinet Accepted
;by the Senate —Serious
to Rebellion in Mexico.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
PRESIDENT HOOVER'S first offl
cial act of consequence was to
submit to the senate the names of
eight men whom he had selected for
his cabinet. Radical senators were
all set to make a fight against con
firmation of Andrew Mellon for secre
tary of the treasury, but, as was ex
plained in these columns some tlme !
ago, it was not necessary for Mr.
Hoover to send In Mr. Mellon's name, |
since he is a holdover, °so the radi-'
cals were circumvented. Making no
invidious distinction, the President
also omitted from the list Secretary
of Labor James J. Davis, the other
member of the Coolidge cabinet who
was retained.
The senate without hesitation con
firmed the eight names submitted.
They are:
Henry Lewis Stimson of New York,
secretary of state.
James William Good of Illinois, sec
retary of war.
William Dewitt Mitchell of Minne
sota, attorney general.
Walter Folger Brown of Ohio, post
master general.
Charles Francis Adams of Massa
chusetts, secretary of the navy.
Ray Lyman Wilbur of California,
secretary of the interior.
Arthur M. Hyde of Missouri, secre
tary of agriculture.
Robert Patterson Lamont of Illinois,
secretary of commerce.
After a sharp debate the senate
adopted a resolution offered by Mc-
Kellar of Tennessee ordering the Ju
diciary committee to investigate Sec
retary., Mellon's right to continue in
=ttfcbinet without reapptfement
and it determine if he has violated
an old law that prohibits treasury
officials from engaging in any busi
ness. It was not believed in Wash
ington that this action would bring
about results adverse to Mr. Mellon.
The secretary of the treasury, It was
reported, intended to hold the office
for not more than two years.
Since Mr. Stimson is on his way
home from the Philippines, where he
Jias been governor general, Secretary
of State Kellogg consented to remain
In office until his successor arrives In
Washington and qualifies. In general
the President's cabinet selections met
with warm approval.
On Thursday President Hoover Is
sued the call' for the extraordinary
session of congress, to open April 15.
He said in the proclamation that the
purpose is "to effect further agricul
tural relief and legislation for limited
changes of the tariff."
During his first days in the White
House Mr. Hoover received throngs
of congratulating callers from all
parts of the country, and also he set
tled down to the business of conduct
ing the affairs of the nation. He told
the newspaper correspondents he de
sired to continue the periodical press
conferences and to develop them in di
rections that would assist both the
press and the President. He con
ferred with Senator Smoot and Rep
resentative Tilson concerning the call
ing of the extraordinary session of
congress for farm relief and tariff re
vision, and with Attorney General
Mitchell concerning the appointment
of the commission to Investigate the
aduhnist ration of justice and especial
ly the enforcement of prohibition. His
emphatic words concerning law en
forcement in his Inaugural address
were especially pleasing to all the
church and dry organizations, and
they presented him with their felicl
taCons hand Illumined on parchment
an? bound in tooled leather gold em
?r r d. Mr. Hoover desires to place
h^ entire prohibition enforcement
TOP hinery under the attorney general.
This may require legislation, and the
dry leaders in congress are not all in
favor of this course.
MIL AND MRS. COOLIDGE, re
turning to their home in Nor
thampton, Mass., were given an 1m
prcmptu loving welcome by their
neighbors that affected them deeply.
Both of them were sincerely glad to
regime their unpretentious home life,
and Mrs. Coolidge especially seemed
gay and happy. To the reporters Mr.
Coo'idge said, Interviewing himself,
thet he Is not going to practice law
in Northampton or anywhere else at
pr nt; that the several contracts he
bus made for magazine articles are all
ho contemplates now in that line; that
hr- • :11 not write a book and will not
|n.. 3 any speeches. He will not trav
< 'n foreign countries this summer,
fe ..eying there are plenty of interesting
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SRIDIY * \RCH).'929
I—Miracle1 —Miracle church at Lourdes, France, which the pope may visit on his first trip outside the Vatican. 2—View
from the Capitol steps while President Hoover was delivering his inaugural address. 3 —One of Mrs. Cool
idge's last official acts, planting an oak tree on Chevy Chase school playground.
plaits in rue united stales to fie seelie
Gen. Charles G. Dawes, late Vice
President, hastened back to Chicago
and at once resumed work In the bank
with which he was long connected..
He was made chairman of the beard.
He declined to talk politics but ve
hemently denied that he intended to
run for senator to succeed Charles S.
Deneen. On March 28 General Dawes
leaves for Santo Domingo as head of
a commission of his own choosing to
advise the Dominican government on
financial problems.
REBELLION broke out in several
states in Mexico and speedily
reached alarming proportions. A num
ber of governors and military chief
tains Joined in the movement, directed
at tfe government of President Portes
Gil and aimed particularly at what
they called "Calles domination." They
immediately ordered opened all the
churches that had been closed by the
Catholic authorities in protest against
the religious laws which Calles, while
President, put into effect. At first the
rebels under General Aguirre gained
possession of Vera Cruz and other Im
portant cities. Gen. Gonzalo Escobar
was sent by the government to Mon
terey to combat the revolutionaries,
but on arrival there he Joined the reb
els and was made military chief of
the movement. President Portes Gil
appointed Calles secretary of war, and
under vigorous direction the federal
troops regained possession of Men
terey, Orizaba, and other strategic
points. Aguirre In Vera Cruz state
was deserted by most of his men, and
Escobar was said to be surrounded by
three strong armies. The government
issued a bulletin predicting the earl,
collapse of the entire rebellion, and
dispatches from Ambassador Morrow
Indicated the same belief.
It was stated at the White House In
Washington that the new adminlstra
tion would continue to Inforce the em
bargo on arms shipments to Mexican
rebels that was maintained by Pres!
dent Coolidge, but that licensed arms
shipment's would be permitted to go
forward to Mexico City if requested
by the Mexican government. The
State department said every effort was
being made to prevent the smuggling
of arms across the border.
THAT fuss over an alleged secret
Franco-Belgian military treaty came
to an end when the man who sold the
document to a Utrecht newspaper was
arrested and confessed that it was A
forgery. He was set free by a Bel
glan Judge and declared he was really
an agent provocateur of the Belgian
government. The Dutch journalists
passed a motion of censure on the
Utrecht editor who published the
forged paper.
TREATMENT of racial minorities
in Europe was the topic the council
of the League of Nations took up
when it met in Geneva last week, but
there was no prospect of action, for
the council felt the problem was too
big to be settled now and should be
studied by a subcommittee. Sir Aus
ten Chamberlain, British secretary for
foreign affairs, said: "The rights of
the minorities cannot be separated
from their obligations, and they have
to show that they have behaved loyal
ly to the country of which they are
part and given true allegiance to the
country to which they are subject." -
INSTEAD of whitewashing Gen. Um
berto Nobile for the disaster of the
dirigible Italia in the Arctic regions,
the Italian court of Inquiry censured
him severely. The report of the court
is divided into three sections The
first deals with the, causes of..the. #ccl
fol, The second with Ilie behavior of
the survivors, and the third with the
relief efforts. After stating that the
loss of the dirigible was due to error
in handling made at the moment of
the accident, for which the commander
of the expedition must take responsi
bility, the report passes to a consider
ation of the charges of cannibalism In
connection with the disappearance of
Dr. Finn Malmgreen, the Swedish
scientist, and the third man with
Capts. Alberto Mariano and Fllippl
Zappi on the Arctic ice.'
Regarding General Nobile's action
In allowing himself to be rescued first,
the report says: "It cannot find
plausible justification and it can qply
be explained, not justified, %^3'dl
tlons of physical or moral depression
In which he was found which did not
permit him to estimate the just value
of his action, even though It was de
termined by the pressing Invitation of
Lundborg." Lieut. Elnar-Paal Lund
berg was the Swedish airman who
took off Nobile.
CONDITIONS In UI V evince
were so serious that the National
ist government of China was reported
fearful of defeat at the Imads of Gen
eral Chang's rebels and therefore try
ing hard to arrange a compromise by
which further hostilities might be
avoided. Meanwhile large numbers of
government troops were being mobil
ized. The commander at Chefoo re
iterated the charge that the Japanese
were financing Chang.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER. JR., was
the victor In the dramatic "war of
the proxies" which reached Its climax
Thursday in Whiting, Ind. The final
battle ground was the annual meet
ing of stockholders of the Standard
Oil Company of Indiana and the man
who went down to defeat was Col.
Robert W. Steward chairman of the
board of directors. With about twice
as many shares as Stewart could con
trol, the Rockefeller forces ousted the
colonel from the board, replacing him
with Dr. W. M. Burton, Inventor of
the famous cracking process; and
Stewart's close friend, L L. Steph
ens, general counsel and director, also
was put out. Stewart had proxies
from 31,336 stockholders, the "little
fellows"; but the Rockefeller proxies,
though only half that number, were
from the rich men and corporations
and easily controlled the situation.
Stewart had the satisfaction of pre
senting a report that showed the com
pany had just closed the most pros
perous year 1a Its history and be was
uproariously applauded by Ids sup
porters.
THOMAS TAGGEBT, for many
years the leader of the Democrats
of Indiana, passed away at bls home
in Indianapolis at the age of seventy
three years after a long Illness. Start
ing business life in a lunch room In
Xenia, he became a very wealthy man,
and a power In his party both in the
state and In the nation. He was given
the credit for making Woodrow Wil
son President, and Thomas R. Mar
shall, twice Vice President, said his
success in politics was due to Taggart.
Moses Edwin Clapp, former United
States senator from AUpne,ota, died
In Washington where bifhad practiced
law since leaving the senate in 1917.
Among other recent deaths were those
of Haley Fiske, president of the Met
ropolitan Life Insurance company, in
New York; and of David D. Buick of
Detroit, a pioneer In the automobile
Industry.
JUST before he left office, Attorney
__GCO era1 Sargent crapted freedorn oul
The Humble Person
When men are cast down, then thou
shall say, There Is lifting up; and he
shall save the bumble person. He
shall deliver the Island of the Inno
cent; and it Is delivered by the pure
ness of thine bands.—Job 22:29, 30.
Living and Giving
Abundant life always means over
flow The Christian life that Is not
overflowing is spiritually sick. It Is
dwarfed Instead of being full grown.
It is carnal, not spiritual.
parole to ThouiaS AV. Millen ferner
alien property custodian, who was
serving a term of eighteen months in
Atlanta penitentiary for conspiring to
defraud the government In the han
dling Os German property during the
World war. Miller was convicted In
1927. and began serving bls sentence
last April.
IN SUMMING up the work of the late
Seventieth congress It Is found that
It authorized new expenditures total
ing more than a billion dollars during
the next decade. The chief authoriza
tions Included the following:
Mississippi flood control project,
$325,000,000.
The 15 cruiser construction bill,
$274,000,000.
The Boulder dam project, $165,000,-
1 000.
Public buildings and army struc
- Itures, $175,000,000.
Compensation for German ships, pat
ents, and radio stations, $100,000,000.
River and harbor projects, $72,000,-
000.
Increased capital for Mississippi
barge line, $10,000,000.
CHOICE CULLINGS
One can describe his Joy, but seldom
his grief.
All may do what has by man be#
done.—Young.
The majority rules—when in accord
with the boss.
The older the abuse the more serial
it is.—Voltaire.
If "nothing matters' 'we ought nOT
er to be miserable.
A cunning minority often beats 9
overconfident majority.
Sweetening one's coffee is the Bret
stirring event of the day.
Opportunity does a great deal that
ability gets the credit for.
One half the world makes a ~
living working the other half.
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No desire is too ttivial or too
troublesom to receive sympathy
and attention, and the most inti
mate family matters may be dis
cussed with us in the full assura
nce that the client's confidence
will be respected.
Our long exptrien^e enables us
to give valuable advice when ad
vice ; s wanted.
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Phone 161—Macon, Ga.
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stop at
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Reasonable Rates.
American and European
Wi^T
Kraut's Comeback
—fo^off
%1 EOPLE used to "put down"
a barrel of sauerkraut for
winter. Then the consumption
of sauerkraut lagged until its health
properties were recently discovered.
Now sauerkraut is b()onQg__£hQ
more it appears in our homes, ana
the dining car& on crack trains and
the most famous hotels and restau
rants are serving it.
A change, however, has come
over the home use of sauerkraut, for
with the dwindling of storage space,
a barrel has become too cumber
some. Instead, the convenient car
is used and so popular has tins be
enrre that ecerMv in one year over
250 000 'ns o' ^bhage were con
verted into sauerkraut bv commer
cial firms. Some of this was pu+
up in barrels for large consumers,
but most of it went into cans.
Sauerkraut may be served in
many ways, aside from the regula
tion heating. For instance, it makes
TRAVEL BY TRAIN
THE MOST ffl THE
RELIABLE Q SAFEST
THE MOST COMFORTABLES
RAILROAD SCHEDULE.
MACON DUBLIN AND SAVANNAH RAILROAD C
PASSINGER SCHEDULE
Passing Jeffersonville.
East Boun> West Bound
4'40 P.M. 9 48 A M
a delicious salad with tuna fish.
Mix two cups flaked tuna fish, two
cups sauerkraut, one cup diced cel
ery, two tablespoons onion juice,
and eight sliced, stuffed olives with
jenpygh. HoiteL-pUd dressing to
moisten. Chill. Serve on lettuce.
Sauerkraut Steak
Another sauerkraut dish—this
time combined with meat —is this:
Have round steak cut an inch
thick. Sprinkle with salt and pep
per, cover with thin slices of bacon,
place as much sauerkraut on this as
possible and roll up or fasten with
skewers. Put in a double roasting
pan with a pint of water and bake
in a moderate oven until done.
Thicken the liquid with flour and
serve on a hot platter garnished
with parsley and lemon slices. For
three pounds of meat allow about
an hour for cooking.*
