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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL.
VOL. IX.
MANY MOROS SLAIN
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Wood’s Forces Have Fierce
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Battle With Filipinos,
THREE HUNDRED KILLED
Americans Lose Only Seven in Killéd
and Fifteen Wounded—Renegade
Leader and Fis Followers
Are Surroinded.
Advices from Msau‘a, under Mon
day’s date, state tha flerce fighting
has been going on thtillast two weeks
on the islang of Jol’t between the
outlaw Moro chief, 2ala, with 600
well armed followers,‘md troops un
der the personal command of Major
General L.eonard Wool. Pala’s losses
thus far are 300 kilkd( while those
of General Wood are seven killed ana
fifteen wounded. Pla and his re
maining followers, inaccordanceé with
Moro traditicn, prefe death to cap
ture. ;
General Wood, wit‘ detachments
from the fourteenth -cavalry, the
seventeenth, the twhty-second and
the twenty-third infntry and con
stabulary scouts, havedriven Pala and
his followers into a svamp which has
been surrounded. '
Pala was a noted dave trader and
warrior when the Amiricans occupied
the islands. Later @ escaped with
his followers to the/island of Pula
Sekar, near Borneo. J
One of Pala’s leac@rs deserted and
took refuge in the 3ritish settlement
at La Had. Pala, discovering his
whereabouts, landel with a follow
ing and demanded \: the British mag
istrate that he turr/the deserter over
to him. The demand was not com
plied with, and Fala ordered a mas
sacre. Twenty-five persons, including
several Britons, yere killed. Pala es
caped to the isiand of Jolo and or
ganized the present uprising.
It is reported that the Borneo au
thorites requested General Wood to
apprehend Pala, dead or allve, and
turn him over to them.
BAPTISTS GIVE LIBERALLY.
They Contribute a Total of $354,000
for Foreign Missions.
Fourteen states and territories, rep
resented at the amnual gathering ot
the Southern Baptist convention in
session at Kansas City, Saturday, con
tributeq a total of $354,000 for for
cign missions. In addition a contr
bution of $5,000 to the same fund
was announced from a New York wo
man, whose name was withheld. The
states contributed sums as follows:
Alabama .o ~ .. ..$35,000
Mriansag s o 7000
Georgday .. oo o 60000
Missour! .. i. ~ ‘v 32,000
Rlorida . ~ .0, .. 8,000
Lonisland. .. ... .. ~EBOO
Koentucky. .. i, .. .. 05,000
Oklahoma and In. Ter. 2,000
North Carolina .. .. 25,000
South Carolina .. .. 80,000
* Hoxas . .. .. ive 6000
Tennessee .. .o meies 20,000
Virginia .. .. .+ «. .. 45,000
The four most important enterprises
now under the auspices of the Sout.];;-
ern Baptist convention are the for
eign and home boards of migsions,
the theological seminary at Louisville,
Ky., and the Sunday school board at
Nashville, Tenn. The purpose of this
last board is to publish Sunday school
and other literature and te promote
Sunday sches] work t¢hroughout the
bounds of the conventlon. \
The theological seminary is not ab- i
solutely under the control of the con- |
vention, but its relations are perfect
ly harmonious. ‘
Five Charred Bodles Buried. |
Brief and simple services were held
over the charred bodies of the five un
identified vietims of the South Har
risburg disaster in the Market Square
Presbyterian church at Harrisburg,
Pa., after which they were:mfled in
the Paxtang cemetery. 3
PREACHER AND LAWYER MIX..
Fltzgerald, Georgia, Treated to a Live
-~ ly Street Fight Sensation.
At Fitzgerald, Ga., Thursday, Rev.
E. W. Daugherty, pastor of one of
the local Christlan churches was at
tacked in the street by City At
torney Ryman, who is also editor of
the Fitzgerald Citizen,
The trouble grew cat of a division
in the church and a)'ucles published
by Ryman. /
It i alleged that the ministeé,yms,
struck severa'h 5:% and too ”et—
uge in a livery st ‘where the pro
prietor prevaile’? &} the hggr to
cease his attar®™ ¥ Bel
- ROW WITH HUNGARY,
Immigration Inspector Braun Charges
That His Mail is Tampered With,
. and President Takes a Hand.
President Roosevelt is manifesting
a particular interest in the case of
Marcus Braun, a special inspector of
the United States immigration service,
who is having trouble with officials
of the Austro-Hungarian government,
whom he charges with tampering with
his officia] mail. Inspector Braun com
plained of his treatment to Ambassa
dor Storer, who cabled to the state
department some details of the case.
Inspector Braun has made several
reports to the bureau of Immigration
as a result. of his inquiries in Europe,
especially in Austria-Hungary. One of
these reports was received by the de
partment last eutumn ‘and another
a few days ago.
The firgt is sensatfonal in its state
ments. R contains allegations, back
ed by affidavits, of the Austro-Hunga
rian government's efforts to foist upon
this country immigrants who.may 10:
be desirable from the viewpoint of
American people. The charge is
made specifically that the Austro-Hun
garian government is paying tie
steamship companies large sums of
monsy each year to bring immigrants
to this country and also that the im
migrants are being urged to becoin¢
American citizens. :
The reports of Inspector Braun
have not been published, lest the
statements they contain might cause
friction between the United States and
the Austro-Hungarian government.
The officials of the latter government
have been cognizant in a general way
of the contents of Inspector Braun’s
reports for some time, and it is inti
mated that is one reason for the trou
ble in which he now finds himself ih
volved.
The president, Saturday, called for
the reports of Inspector Braun and
will go over them himself in connec
tlon with the consideration of the in
spector’s present difficulty. Tamper
ing with the mail of an official in a
foreign country is a serious matter,
and there is no disposition on the
part of the officials of the department
of commerce and labor to treat the
complaint of Inspector Braun lightly.
RUSSIAN MAY-DAY BLOODLESS.
Whips of Cossacks Kept Down Expect
ed Rioting in Emplire.
The widely heralded May day dem
onstration in St. Petersburg Sunday
did not result in the bloodshed pre
dicted.
At the Rreobrajensky cemetery,
where the principal meeting in honor
of the “January martyrs,” as the vic
tims of “red Sunday” are popularly
called, had been advertised, a crowd,
largely composed of curiosity seekers,
assembled.
Cosacks dispersed the wcrowd by
using their whips freely, inflicting
many injuries.
There was a similar incident on
Vassili island, where a dozen students,
malinly girls, raised the “Marseillaise,”
and gathered a crowd. Cossacks can
tered up and dispersed the crowd with
whips, seeming to take special pleas
ure in slashing the girl students with
their knouts: but the latter apparently
wgre anxious to pose as martyrs and
deliberately provoked attack by sing-
Ing revolutionary songs.
In St. Petersburag the day was pass
ed happily without a drop of blood
being shed. The revolutionists fonfid
it impossible to execute ethe program
of demonstrations and bomb-throwing
which they so widely advertised, the
workingmen declining to sacrifice
themselves to advocate the propagan
da of their self-constituted leaders,
and the advertised meetings were at
tended chiefly by spectators.
Big Assessment on Stockholders,
Comptroller of the Currency Ridge
ley has levied an assessment of 66 2-32
per cent on stockholders of the First
National bank of Milwaukee to make
good the defalcation of former Presi
dent Bigelow. The amount of the as
sessment will reach $1,000,000.
AGED COUPLE MURDERED.
Man and Wife Found Dead with Skulls
~ Horribly Crushed.
F. M. Holbrook, a highly respected
and prosperous citizen of McDuffie
county, Geprgia, and his wife were
murdered z a horrible manner Tues
day night. Tne aged couple lived
alone and it is thought the object of
the murder was to rob the store ad
joining the residence.
Mr. and Mrs. Holbrook had evident
ly retired and were aroused by some
one vmxout Mr. Holbrook had gone
.to thg door and met his death, It is
mmt that Mrs. Holbrook followed
her husband and was also killed.
LEESBURG, GA., FRIDAY,MAY 19, 1905.
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Nan Patterson Released From
Jail Without Bail.
NOTORIOUS CASE CLOSED
District Attorney Jerome at New York
Decides to Drop Prosecution of
Alleged Slayer of Bookmaker
ol Caesar Young.
After more tfian eleven months in
prison and three mistrials on the
charge of murdering “Caesar” Young,
Nan Patterson walked from.the Tombs
prison at New York Friday a free
woman. As she left the great build
ing which has been her home since
a few days after Young was founad
dying in a cab in lower New York,
2,000 people greeted her with cheers,
for the news that District Attorney
Jerome would move for her dismissal
from custody had spread throughouc
the vicinity of the court house.
The move to discharge Nan Pat
terson came rather unexpectedly to
the public. It was an hour or two
before noon when District Attorney |
Jerome appeared before Recorder
Goff in speclal sessions and announced
that he desired to move the discharge
of the former chorus girl without
bail and on her own recognizance.
Not the least interesting of the |
day’'s events and perhaps the great-|
est dramatic climax to the troubles |
of the former Florodora girl was the
reunion in freedom with her sister,
Mrs. J. Morgan Smith, and her bro
ther-in-law, J. Morgan Smith, both
of whom were discharged by Justice
Cowing in the court of general ses
sions, after being held on charges of
conspiracy in connection with the Pat
terson case. Smith was also held for
contempt of court in failing to obey
a subpoena as a witness at the first
trial. He was fined $250 and released
on this charge. Then came the sur
prise, for Nan Patterson herself paid
the fine out of a check which had
been given her by a friendly news
paper.
District Attorney Jerome announced
his decision to free Nan Patterson in
a speech in the course of which fie
declared that during the last trial
he had information that members of
the jury had agreed that J. Morgan
Smith had bought the revolver and
that Nan Patterson carried it in the
cab and that Young did not commit
suicide.
He took occasion to refute pub
lished reports as to the cost of the
trial, stating that the whole expense
was not more than $B,OOO. Following
this line he declared that the news-‘
papers had made ‘gross misrepresen
tations,” and then said: 1
“This case has caused one more |
step in this country toward trial byl
newspaper rather than trial by jury.
I do not refer to those papers which
have merely reported the proceedings,
but to those that in their editorial
rooms have labored to arouse sympa
thy for the prisoner with the resu]ti
of a serlous miscarriage of justice. |
Everything that the prosecution has
done had my cordial and hearty ap- |
probation. I fear nothing for mysolt]
or my assistants. My assistant did
rightly, bravely, honestly and went}
forward with my entire and perfecti
approbation.” |
He concluded with the motion that§
Naii - Patierson .hz discharged on her |
own recognizance. o 1
When she came into court Nan was I
smiling gayly, but as Recorder Goff
began to address her the tears came
into her eyes and before he concluded :
she was weeping. The recorder spoke ;
with a kindly note in his voice that '
seemed to affect her very much. He |
closed by saying: ‘
“ILet me entreat you in all your fu
ture life to remember the terrible ex
perience through which you have just |
passed and to permit every action of |
your life hereafter to be guided by |
that experience. I feel sure that you i
will do so; that you will remember
your ordeal.” |
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DECISION IN FAVOR OF MORRIS. |
Georgla Supreme Court Settles Cobb!
County Treasureship Case. l
The supreme court of Georgia ch-}
nesday morning handed down a de- |
cision in the Cobb county treasureship ‘
case, in which the decision of Judge |
J. H. Lumpkin is afirmed, and Judge
J. T. Pendleton of the Fulton supe
rlor court, is ordered to have the elec
tlon superintendents of Cobb countyl
assemble, consolidate the vote for
treasurer and declare J. Gid Morr'al
duly elected. The case was broughti
to the supreme court by J. D. Glover,
clerk, of the Cobb county superiori
court, who has acted treasurer.
~ WORK OF TRAIN WRECKERS.
Cars Ditched and Six People Hurt,
Two of Whom May Die.
An Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
passenger train was ditched by train
wreckers Sunday just east of Empo
ria, Kansas. Six passengers were in
jured, and two will probably die.
This is the fourth attempt In the
last four months to wreck passenger
trains in the same place. Previous at
tempts were made by piling ties on
the track and without serious re
sults. " X
Sunday’s wreck was caused by driv
ing the spikes and fish plates of two
rails on the inside of a curce. The lo
comotive passed over the loose rails
safely, but a mail car left the track
and was dragged 100 yards along the
embankment before the train was
stopped. The next'five cars, two ex
press and baggage cars, a smoking
car and two day coaches, were.
ditched. The passengers were asleep
when the wreck ocecurred.
There is¢no clew to the wreckers.
Three men were seen Saturday night
near the Howard branch section
house. Sunday morning a track
wrench and @ claw bar were migsing
and they were found in a pool of wa
ter near the wreck.
WOMAN POSED AS CARLOTTA
And Duped a Lot of .Simple-Minded
Dagoes of Boston Town.
A woman, who claimed to be Carlot
ta, the wife of Maximilian, former em
peror of Mexico, and brother of the
present® emperor of Austria, has left
Boston, Mass.,, after securing some
$40,000 from members of the Italian
colony in that city on the pretense
that she was the rightful claimant
of the Austrian throne.
She is being sought by over 100 res
idents of the North End distriet, who
for almost eight years have been pay
ing her money to enable her, as they
supposed, to gain possession of the
Austrian throne, upon which event
‘taking place she promised that those
who' helped her would be made min
isters' al:d nobles and be given vast
estates.
ALLEGED LYNCHERS LIBERATED.
Jury Quickly Decided Five White Men
Were Not Guilty.
After being out fifteen mnrinutes,
the jury in the case against five white
men on trial in Orangeburg, S. C.,
charged with lynching a negro, Keitt
Bookhardt, at Eutawville, brought In
a wverdict of mot guilty. The state’s
avidence was chiefly that of a man
who claimed to have been in the par
ty when the negro was killed. The
defense put up wives and relatives of
prisoner who swore that the defend
ants .were at home in bed when the
crime was alleged to have been com
mitted.
TRIPLE TRAGEDY IN MEMPHIS,
Man Kills Sweetheart, His Rival and
Then Himself,
A triple trdgedy occurred in Mem
phis, Tenn., about dusk Sunday night,
when Thomas McCall, an employee of
the Illinois Central railroad, shot and
killed Edith Ferguson, a woman well
known about town, and Hal William
son. The murderer an hour later
turned the weapon upon himself, fir
ing a bullet into his head. The cause
was jealousy.
GANG IN WASHINGTON.,
Wayward Nan, Her Father, Sister and
Brother-in-Law “at Home.”
Nan Patterson accompanied by her
father and Mr. and Mrs. J. Morgan
Smith arrived in Washington from
New York at 7:20 Saturday morning
ynd proceeded to the Patterson home
or Columbia Heights, a /odegt two
story cottage, where thfey arrived in
tim¢ - for_ hreakfast.
A crowd of ourus persons awaited
the arrival of t/% train at the Penn
gylvania depot. °
Bones of Joneis for Annapolis,
President Roof§s'cit has approved
the recommendation of Secretary Mor
ton that the bod¥y of Jehn Paul Jones
be buried at An}; apolis, Md.
ITALIANS fOR THE SOUTH.
Large Body of Immigrants Are Land
ed at} New Orleans.
Trank P. Sarggent, commissioner gen
eral of immiggation, returned to New
York Tuesday} from New Orleans,
where he wen/' to be present at the
landing of a/ body of Italian immi
grants. 1‘1)7 vessel brought 766 Ital
jans from F/alermo.
The imynigrants were landed at
New Orleffl at the suggestion of the
lialfan aj basador, through whom
gouthern planters made an appeal for
Italign }@borers.
: GEORGIA NEWE;
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Epitomized Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
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“B. Y. P. U. to Meet in Moultrie.
The eleventh annual convention of
the Baptist Young People’s Union of
Georgia will be held in Moultrie, June
90.22. This has come to be one of
the large state conventions and Moul
tve s preparing to entertain six or
seven hundred young Baptists.
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Lumber Plant Goes Up In Smoke.
The plant of the Adel Lumber com
pany at Adel was destroyed by fire
Sunday with a loss of $20,000, with $4,-
000 insurance. The mill will be re
built at once, Adel being now In its
greatest bullding spirit. The loss,
however, Is a great reverse to the
town and surrounding community.
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Car Works Are Sold Again.
The Georgia Car Works at Savan
nah have been sold again, this time to
E. B. Leaf & C 0.,, of Philadelphia, for
$40,000. Some time ago the property
was sold to M. A. O'Byrne of Savan
nah for $32,500, but Judge Speer of
the TUniteq States court refused to
confirm the sale at that figure.
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To Encamp at St. Simons.
The fifth regiment infantry, Colonei
Qlifford L. Anderson commanding, has
decided to hold a regimental encamp
ment this year in accordance with the
usual custom, at St. Simons island,
off Brunswick. The encampment will
be held from July 15 to 22, and a good
attendance of the regiment is prom
ised. :
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April Shows a Fertilizer Decrease:
According to figures relating to
gales of fertilizer tags for the month
of April given out by Commissioner
of Agriculture O. B. Stevens, the sales
for April, 1905, show a considerabie
decerase over those for the shme
month last' year. The numbaer of far
tilizer tags sold by the department
in April, 1905, was 129,810, as against
169,850 in April, 1904.
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Seaboard Plans New Line.
According to a Savannah news
item, anmouncement s made by
representaitives of the Seaboard Air
Tine, back from a recent meeting with
President James M. Barr, at Ports
mouth, that the Seaboard will soon
have a line open bgtween Savannah
and Atlanta. Details are not given.
Just what route will be secured,
whether via VMalia or via Cordele, is
not stated.
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Georgia in Ninth Place.
8. I. D. North, director of the cen
sus at Whashington has made an es
timate of the population of the vari
ous states«of the union. 2
Georgia ranks ninth, with a popula
tion or 2,405,821, an increase of 189,
495 over the figures shown by the
census of 1900, and 37,898 over the
estimate for last year. In the cen
sus of five years ago, Georgla ranked
eleventh.
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Three-Fifths of a Friit Crop.
If the estimates made by Georgia
growers prove accurate the peach ecrop
this year will b’(- approximately three
fifths, measured iam cars, that of the
movement of last year. This does not
mean that the money return may
not be as great as it was last year,
for /it is probable that the higher
/mice the fruit will bring in the north
ern market will mean as great a net
return for those who have good crops.
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Wants Exhibit from Georgia.
Gwynn Turner Sheppard of Norfolk,
Va., secretary of the Jamestown Ex
pesition company called at the state
capitol a few days ago and had quite
o Jengthy conference with Governor
Terrell.
The Jamestown exposition manage
ment is particularly anxious to have
| a good representation from (}edrgia;'
‘Mr. Shepperd says, and the object of
" hig call upon Governor Terrell was to
talk over this matter and ascertain
what could possibly be done. It may
be the governor will call the at
tention of the legislature to the mat
ter ir his coming message.
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~ Commission Turns Down Appeal.
‘ The urgent appeal for an equitable
~adiustment of rates to and from the
ports of Georgia, which had the ap
proval and support of shippers in ev
‘ ery section of the state, has been de
‘nied by the state railroad commission.
The amended petition in the port rate
case was dismissed over the protest
of J. Pope Brown, chairman of the
commission, Commissioners H. Warner
Hill and Joseph M. Brown voted to
dismiss the amended petition, and as
they represented a majority of the
NO. 50.
board the case was dismissed and the
shippers will continue to suffer. L
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Gordon Statue Selected.
At a meeting the past week at the
office of State Treasurer Robert E.
Park in Atlanta the John B. Gordon
Monument association selected Solon
H. Borglum of New York as the sculp
tor to bufld the statue of the late'
John B. Gordon, which will stand at
the Hunter and Washington street
corner of oapitol square. The selec
tion was made after considerable dis
cugsion, the monument committing
having favorably reported upon the
Borglum design. M
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Big I}lfward Is Offered. B
Governor Terrell has offered a re
ward of $BOO for the arrest and cen
vietion of the criminal who murdered
F. M. Holbrooks and his wife at Wal
kinsville, Oconee county, on May 9th.
The reward #8 the largest offered by
the governor durlng his administra
tion.
According to a letter recelved by
the chief executive, the county of Oco
nee will also offer a reward of $500:
for the criminal, making a total of:
$l,OOO. \
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~ Atlanta’s New Depot Opened. e
~ Last Saturday afternoon the gen
‘eral public was given an opportunity
to inspect Atlanta’s $1,500,000 new de
!pot and from 3 o’clock until 10 o’clock
‘at night every part of*tne new build
ing and the great train shed was
the gcene of admiring thousands.
Prominent state and city officials
and a large number of out-of-town
railroad officials were among those
present. On every side the happiest
of comment and enthusiastic praise
was handeq out.
Before the reception a parade in
which the new cabs, truck wagons
and vehicles of the Atlanta Baggage
and Cab company played an important:
part, brought out some very flattering
comment by all. The sixteenth Uni
ted States Infantry band furnished
music for the occasion.
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[ Representative Ellis Reslgns.
Governor Terrell -a- few days agey —
received the resignation of Hon. Ro
lanq Ellis of Bibb county as a mem
ber of the legislature. Mr. Ellis re
signs on account of pressing business
matters.
The governor will accept the res
ignation and direct the ordinary of
Bibb county to order a new election
in time for the meeting of the gen
eral assembly on June 28.
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Bear Stampedes Albany Citizens.
A wild stampede of the residents
of Sand Town, a western suburb of
Albany, occurred Sunday morning
about 10 o’clock, when an immense
black bear suddenly appeared in the
principal street and gave vent to a
series of flerce growls.
Primus Pitman, a negro, sallied
forth with a big pistol and attacked
bruin. The first shot inflicted a slight
flesh wound, and the bear immediately
made a savage rush at Pitman, who
fired the remaining shots from his
revolver at close range, one of the
balls entering the bear’s brain when
it was within a few feet of the ne
gro. One shot wag fired at the bear
by Sheriff Edwards, who was passing
in his buggy. The beast proved to be |
an unusully large one of its spcies,
weighing abouf 260 pounds. It prob
ably wandered from the Pocoson
swamp, three miles away.
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President Johnson Makes Appeal. .
Every means possible is being ex
hausted by President M. I. John
!son of the Georgia division Southern
| Cotton Assoclation, to impress upon
{the cotton growers and business in
| terests of the state the necessity of
| becoming members of the assoclation,
and alding in the work at hand.
‘ In a cireular addressed to these
! interests, President Johnson says:
| “Bvery man in the state should be
{a member in good stauding, wearing
| our badge. We strive for all. Als
} ghovld help us. It is a common cause
i'e,xm a 4 common good we serve, I
| therefore appeal to each one’s patriot
tlsm, love of family and home, love
| of fellowman and lastly to his self
{ lovae. It Is best for all and best for
him, it is the bulwark of (‘,‘Qc lav
gelf-defense. Thus resting on *
{d rocks of home supplies, di
crops, reduction of acreage ¢
tilizers (already done) few pv
on time, slowly marketing ¢
ton, stable* prices for same
other money crops, opening
more markets for cottor
the nations of the wr
)be independent of ar
trust. A trust in s
each and all, doing g
the individual. It is
and to this end I ask
Georglan.”
| There age nearly
| dn Eump‘ Russi: