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*" THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1921.
THE WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER.
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PAGE mV£». J i
HELD AS SLAYER
OF COLUMBUS
POLICE OFFICER
A LETTER
TO THE AMERICAN RELIEF ADMINISTRATION. Elisabethatr.sse
Vienna. 1.
Negro Caught Here At
Home Of His
Sister
Cleveland Edwards, a negro about
*i5 years of age, is being held in the
^'S r cour.ty jail on a charge of
won of being the slayer of Ogi-
cer W. G. i’ate* young Columbus
plain clothes policeman, Saturday
night. He was arrested at the home
• his sister here Sunday night about
o’clock by Sheriff Harvey and
Police Lieut. Lee on orders from the
Columbus police department. Offi
cers are understood to be on their
way here to take him buck to Col
umbus.
The negro’s sister is Mamie Ross,
who lives at the comer of Jackson
street and Factory Row. The negro
v:as in bed when the officers arrived.
The front door was locked, but the
back door, near which he was lying,
was unlocked, it was said, presuma
bly so that he could easily escape.
The officer were upon him, however,
before he knew it, and no effort to
/lee or to resist was made.
Edwards reached Americus on the
Seminole Sunday midnight from Col
umbus, he said. Columbus officers
reported that he had boarded that
train there. He said he had heard of
the killing of the policeman, but
vowed he knew nothing whatever of
it himself.
SLAYER UNSEEN; OFFICER
DIES IN HIS TRACKS.
COLUMBUS, Feb. 7.—Officer W.
0. Pate, 27, operating in plain clothes,
was shot and instantly killed by an
unknown assailant'last night shortly
before 8 o’clock between Nineteenth
and Twentieth streets on.Thirteenth
avenue.
Officer Pate was standing at the
west side of the alley running
through toward Springer’s woods bc-
tweenth Nineteenth and Twentieth
streets.* He was shot by an unidenti
fied person standing on the east side
of Thirteenth avenue.
Shortly after Officer Pate was
shot, a bicycle was taken from
small boy named Fulford, saul
have been delivering packages for
J?Ht Highlands Drug company.
£.&£>ff. : ce.‘ was allot just above th<
heart/ He tiicd 4n his tracks without
regaining consciousness, except
gasp or l we.
Office) Lite y/ns appoint ;J to the
police force July 13, 1920. He was
one of the most conscientious and ef
ficient officers on the force., For the
past several weeks he had been de-
« led on special duty and had been
frating in ^dain clothes, during
ich time he arrested several alleg
ed burglars and made a number of
arrests.
Prior to his connection with the po
lice department he wa*» n member of
No. 1 fire company. JJc also served
in the army during the war.
The officer fired two shots, accord
ing to persons who saw the flames
from the revolvers. His assailant is
aid to have* fired thrice.
A reward of $200 was offered by
Mayor J. L. Couch for any informa
tion leading to the arreat of the per
son who killed the officer.
FARMERS MAY
BUY THEIR CROP
Proposal Made Cheaper
Than To Grow
It
ATLANTA, Feb. 8. — Cotton
acreage reduction meetings which
will be held throughout the state on
Thursday, in accordance with the
proclamation of Governor Dorsey,
"ill consider a resolution to have the
farmers of the state buy cotton them
selves, pooling their resources, rath
er than trying to grow it under “boll
weevil conditions and at the distress
ing prices ndw prevailing.”
The resolution is proposed by the
eotton leaders in Butts county,
comes from the cotton reduction com
mittee, acting on the suggestion of
tho American Cotton Association and
contains the pledge that the farmers
Georgia will plant no cotton
acreage in 1921, but will agree to
operate the cotton farnts and to pur
chase with the money either spots or
f, »r fall delivery, to the extent of the
number of bales usually made.
It is further suggested that a pur
chasing committee be appointed by
the state commissioner o fagriculturc
nnd that the cotton be bought not
,a ter than March 15.
Plan would undoubtedly be
one, if it will work,” Com-
misisoner of Agriculture J. J. Brown,
“for nothing would teach the cotton
gamblers responsible for the present
condition a better lesson.”
Commissioner Brown said that
from reports he had received from
over all the state cotton acreage is
being cut to such an extent that the
next yield will not be over half the
average.
Dr. William Crenshaw, aged 7U
one of the leaders in the denial pro I
fession in the United States, died
•t his home in Atlanta Tuesday after
on illness of a few weeks. _ 1
I am so deeply moved, so full of gratitude, that I will give vent
to my feelings and express my thanks for the wonderful work of
humanity, the child feeding operation, which has saved thousands of
young lives, and to which I am personally indebted for the lives of
my poor children.
I am a Government official by profession, Oberrechnugsrat, that
is to say, an official belonging to the 7th standard. My yearly in
come does not surpass by much that of a tramway employee. The
misery and distress brought upon us by this atrocious, war is not to be
described in words. I
I am the father of five children, from seven to: seventeen years
of age, for whom I have to care. My* podr wife died of tuberculosis
in February, 1919, at the age of thirty-eight. Perhaps'it would be
more accurateyfco say she slowly starved to death during the war,
for she gave to her little ones, tortured by hunger, the’scanty bits of
bread rationed to her rfo she had nothing, left, Until death released
her from hey sufferings.
And yet this poor woman fought desperately against death, fully
conscious that in her death her children would lose the hand that
sheltered and protected them in these terrible times, and that they
would have to face, disaster and ruin. This mental agony was added
to her physical pain. Whenever the children stood around her sick
bed, she looked at them sadly, in dumb despair, and the tears rolled
do\vn her pale cheeks. As long as she was able to eat. all the food I
could give her consisted only of a bit of dry bread; I could not pur
chase anything else for her—neither meat nor fpt nor eggs—abso
lutely nothing.
After the death of my wife, as I could not engage a house
keeper to keep house for us, my children and I did all the domestic
work, such as cooking and washing, and we still continue to do so.
In May, 1919, two months after my wife’s death, I fell ill of n
serious disease of the kidneys, resembling dropsy, and was between
life and death for a while. Today, after a full year has elapsed, I
am not yet quite recovered, as I lack the means to re-establish my
health. , t m U, %
I leave home every morning at seven o’clock, returning at six in
. the evening. All day long the children are left to themselves. Their
food consists of a small piece of dry bread in the morning, and a
piece of bread in the evening; but for this American meal, nil of my
children would have starved and perished.
Even despite this economical mode of living, my income does not
cover my expenses. Where is the money to come from to purchase
linen and articles of clothing for five children, who kept growing dur
ing the five years of war, during which time no purchases were
made? A suit for the bigger boys costs six to eight thousand kronen,
so the poor innoccnt'children have no clothes and must run about in
rags.
The few trinkets I qnd my wife had purchased in the years of
peace have long since been pawned owing to our privations, and now
I am about to sell my pieces of furniture one by one. What is going
to be the end of it, I do not know.
The flat wc live in is on the ground floor, opening into a court
yard, so neither sun nor air comes in.
Like dn angel from Heaven, the great American nation made its
appearance -at the period of supreme distress, distributing wonder
ful food and restoring life to those about to succumb to their misery.
This great nation does not say, “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a
tooth;” they give love for hatred; and millions have come forth from
their source of love. They do not ask for thanks, nor for compensa
tion, they only want to give, in the quiet assurance of saving thous
ands of children who otherwise wo^ld have been a prey to death.
When my poor wife was lying cold on her deathbed, the old doc
tor who came to certify her death, looked at the weeping children
and he sadly turned to the door, saying; » “Children, God will not
forsake you.” And'his words have come true; mV children were
saved by you.
In the evening, when they say their prayers, they asH God to
bless their benefactors.
I should be very grateful if my ihanks coming from tho pure
hearts of my children would be conveyed to the great American
nation. JOSEPH SCHMIDT,
XIX. Rodlcrgasse 4-8, Vienna Oberrechnugsrat.
EDITOR TIMES-RECORDER, AMERICUS. Ga.
Dear Sir: I am enclosing herewith copy of n letter -Written by n
citizen of Hungary, who lives in one of the sections of Europe where
the condition of children is most serious for lack of sufficidnt food.
As this letter so well expresses the need of that counttry for food
and also the grateful feeling on the part of these people for the
American Relief tendered them, it would be useless for me to Under
take to say more. 9
I suggest that you emphasize in your paper in publishing this let
ter the fact that every dollar that is donated goes, direct to the relief
of these people. Not one penny is deducted for expenses. The
people who are working in this campaign are giving their time and
such money as is being spent to press the campaign to a success as
a contribution in addition to what they will donnte for the cause.
People are being asked for not only money hut anything of
value that cun be sold nnd especially things that are grown on our
farms in Sumter county. •
I am enclosing herewith a subscription form which I will thank
you to publish as a large number of people throughout t.io county
have asked the privilege of contributing farm products instead of
money, which would not be convenient probably at this time.
I thank you very much for your offer to assist in any way you
can through the columns of your paper. I believe all the people
who know anything of the present conditions arc thoroughly aroused
and are ready to respond promptly to this cause. Very truly yours,
Americus, Feb. 5, 1921. W. W. DYKES.
And now to let the public on the “inside.” W. W. Dykes 1ms been
made chairman for Sumter county of this European Relief work, and
he and his advisors hnvo determined that Sumter county «holl not fail
to do her part to keep the destitute millions of women and children
from starving until the next hervest. But she will have the oppor
tunity of doing it in an unusual way.
"I was in Atlopta Monday,” said Mr. Dykes, speaking to a friend,
“and I dropped in at the office of Marvin E. Underwood, tho state
chairman, whom I have known a good while, to tell him that be
cause of conditions it would be imposibio for any campaign to be put
on in Sftmter county at this time. But he handed me'this Vienna
letter and a handful more as pitiful. There was no bricking away
from it; in fifteen minutes he had me almost apologizing for having
even thought of such a thing. I came home with my heart touched
and ready to go to it, for we can’t sit here, with plenty to c*t our
selves, and let these people starve to death.”
Mr. Dykes called in a few to assist in making plans and it was
decided to proceed on a plan a little different It was decided that
the chief difficulty just now is ready money; that the people’s hearts
are as easily reached as ever. It was recalled that many peopld now
hove provisions in plentiful supply that they cannot readily turn into
money. So It was decided to let all who care to help in this move
ment and who will do |o, donate produce or any product that has
value.
J. E. Hightower has offered the use of his toy store on Jackson
street for a headquarters where donations may be delivered nnd as
sembled. It Is proposed to gather this produce so donated at this
room, put it In charge of some organization or inlviduals, and In
vite the public to come and supply household noel* from it. Thus
will it be turned Into cash and the cash be made, available to forward
to help these starving Europeans.
2-PARTY LINES
HERE CO FROM
$2 TO $2.50 MO
Business Service Lifted
From $4‘ tb $5
Monthly
ATLANTA, Feb. 6. — The Geor-
gia Railroad Commission handed
down an order and opinion Saturday
granting the Southern Qeil Tele
phone company authority to revise
its schedule of local exchange rates
substantially In conformity with
petition filed by the company about
six ifionths ago. The new rates ar
mode effective March 1*
The increases* authorized by the
commission’s order are on local »ex
change service, including private
branch exchanges, mileage revenue
etc., but tbc order declines that part
of thq petition asking authority
increase the rates on farmer-lines,
as well as the installation charge
applied for.
Calculations, according to the com
pany, made show that the rates pre
scribed in the order will give the
company n little less than G.50 per
cent on the actual cash investment
in Georgia, provided all the possible
economies outlined are carried out.
Had the petition been granted ex
actly as drawn it would have amount
ed to an increase of 18.11-100* per
cent in the total gros3 revenue
Georgia under the old rates, it
said. Under the order of the com
mission the company gets approxi
mately $50^000 a year less than
asked for.
The Americus Increases.
The rates made applicable to Am
cricus are:
Business Individual Line Service
*w rate $5.00, old rate $1.00.
Residence Individual Line Service,
iw rate $3.10, old rate, $2.50.
Residence 2-Party Line Service
w rate $2.50, old rate $2.00.
The five largest exchanges operat
ed by the company—Atlanta, Macon,
Savannah, Augusta and Columbus—
bear 87.7 per cent of the total in
creases granted, while 97 local ex
changes scattered throughout the
state will bear, combined* 12.3 per
cent of the total increase. In con
ncction with tho announcement of
the commission’s ordor it is shown
that the decision affects the individ
ual telephone used in the state but
very little, and in its opinion the
commission recites the fact that the
general assembly of Georgia, in ere
ating the commission, provides a re
quirement that it make ‘‘just and
reasonable rates,” that “the courts
of the land, without exception, have
decided that a ‘just and reasonable
rate* is one that affords tho utility
reasonable return upon the fair
valuation of its property used in the
service of tho public.”
The company’s actual average in
vestment in Georgia in exchange
and toll plants in use, real estate,
furniture, fixtures, tools, teams, etc.,
for the year ending July 31, 1920,
shown in its sworn statement to
be $15,038,349, these figures being
admitted to the commission as
tual cost figures.”
More Figures \
For the year ending July 31, 1920
the amount included for depreciation
equals, at 5.75 per cent, $797,031
the total revenues for that period
being $!>,163,4Q8, and the net return
the company—actual income re
ceived in excess of the expense of
operation, etc, as actually disburs-
*—equalled $012,550, which com
puted a return for that year on the
actual cash Investment of 4.07 per
cent. # This is compared with statis
tics for 1910, when the company
eurned upon its investment in Geor-
net return of 0.24 per cent,
hut since that year, the company
showed it has been unable, under the
xisting schedule of rates, to earn
return of 0 per cent % on its "actual
cash investment.” - The company’s
net earning for the four years pre
ceding 1920 were submitted ns fol
lows: in 1910, 0. 24 per cent
1917^ 0.09 per cent; in 1918, 5.40
per dent; in 1919, 0.49 per cent, and
last year this dropped to a net earn
ng of approximately 4 per cent on
‘actual dash investment;" though
figured, the company showed, on ‘‘re
placement cost at the present time,’ 1
would work out below a net re
turn of 3 per cent from the gross
earnings under rates existing at the
time the petition was filled.
Bringing the figures nearer down
date, the commission (found,
says, that the company made less
than 1 per cent net on the actual
cost value of its properties in Geor
gia ‘‘during the five months precod
ing December 1, 1920.”
Franchise Rates Killed.
A feature of the commission’s or
der is direction that all municipal
and franchise rates now in existence
that is, all preferential rates—be
aside when the new schedule of
rates provided for become effective,
on the ground that these preferen
tial rates are discriminatory. The
effect of this is that all municipali
ties, holders of concessions on ac
count of iranenise agreements, and
the like, are brought upon the same
basis as other users of the telephone
service.
Incident to the granting of the
major portion of the company’s pe
tition—and as a result of which fi
nancial negotiations are at once to
be made to provide the ways and
means—additions and extensions to
Leslie Man’s Heart .Touched
By Joseph Schmidt’s Letter and
He Gives $100 To Aid Starving
The people of Sumter county are becoming thoroughly aroused
ov6r hungry 1 children in Europe.
These are some of the comments received by the county chair
man enclosing cash donations: >
“What arc dollars" worth when such letters as the European letter
revealing the true condition of helpless children is read to us!”
“To look my own children in the face at meal time and imagine
that they are hungry and crying for bread makes me feel unworthy
of the food I eat; I feel like apologizing for deferring this matter
longer and enclose check herewith.”
Hero hr a letter received Tuesday morning by Chairman Dykes
from a comparatively poor man, who enclosed (100:
LESLIE. Ga.. Feb. 7thJ 1021.
-Col. W. W. Dykes, Americus, Ga. I
Dear Sir: I have been reading appeals in the Times-Recorder
nml other daily papers for some time for donations for the relief of
tiro Near East, and have failed to respond so far. But after reading
Joseph Schmidt’s letter to the American Relief Administration in Sun
day’s issue of The Tlme.i-Rccorder, I can no longer restrain from a
small donation. I am a very poor man, but thank God I have a big
and tender heart. God has blessed me with a very humble but com
fortable little hhme, nnd with plenty of very common but ^holosomo
food, and with a plenty of very common but comfortable clothes.
Therefore, I feel that I am a very rich man, compared with those
poor and suffering women and children in Europe and other countries.
“I. highly approve of your plan of raising subscriptions by accept
ing form produce, as the country is somewhnt depressed, at the pres
ent. There are numbers of farmers whom I am confident will donate
liberally of this product, when If they were asked to donate money
alone it would be difficult for some of them.
“Enclosed you will find my check for one hundred dollars, which
with my prayers I trust will help some poor suffering child, or women
and children. I trust that everybody that can will donate liberally to
this very needy cause, and that Sumter county will stand head and
shoulders over any other county in Georgia or the United States.
Yours very truly, , R. E. BROWN."
This is only a starter. The coupon In printed herewith. Fill it
out today and forward it at once to W. W. Dykes, county chairman,
or The Times-Recorder.
TO SAVE STARVING CHILDREN
OF EUROPE
(100 Cents of Every Dollar Donated is Used For This Purpose.)
I AGREE TO DONATE:
Cash $ ; Wheat, sacked, bushels Corn,
sacked, bushels ; Peas, sacked, bushels, ;
Peanuts, sacked, bushels ; Potatoes, sacked, bush
els ; Syrup, gallons ; Hams i
Shoulders ; Sides
Will deliver to J. E. Hightower in Americus, or to
School house on day of Feb.
(Sign Here.) ....
1921.
paratory training in Americus -
schools, spending the last three year*'
in the Third District Agricultural "
school there. ,
And then it was that our renown- (
ed Sim Douglas journey to the classic
city of Oxford in the fall of 1917 to *
enter Emory. His first year, he did
practically nothing and was not so
well known. He himself said, “All
I did was study and that didn’t do
much gpod.” The fall of 1918 was
spent with a goodly number of his
school mates trying to keep the gym
warm in tho service of Uncle Sam.
But these, tho days of S. A. T. C.,
soon passed away, and work, real
college work, was resumed, and. !*
was not long beforo ‘Doug” fell in to
do Ids share of the work (and inci- .
dently to carry away his share of
tho honors.) , , , ■ 1
It was in Few Society that Wal
ters did his best work,, having held
priclically every office except presi
dent, besides representing Few ably
on several debates during the past
three years. Ho is now an integral
part of tho Inter-olleglate , Debate
Council that has recently come to
nean so much to us since we have
Uur schedules for debates arranged
with Harvard, Trinity, Missaaps, and
othera
Walters also handles the .business :
end of our monthly. magazine, tho. .
Phoenix, besides being advertising
manager for the Campus. Last year,;,
too, he was connected with the bUjiL ,, .
ness end of the Wheel. w '; v j. .
Last year “Doug" was on the
Junior Class Council, whereas this
year he represents tho School of Lib- '
era! Arts or. the Student jActivities
Council. He is president of the Min- .
Isterial Association, a position that
he ig justly proud of.
For two or three years, Walters
has been playing football: but last '
fall he played so well that he wss
awarded an "E,” and, man, he la the
proudest thing of that tetter you
ever say. Good boy, "Doug.” ;> sia -
Walters is a members of the Non- . .
Fraternity Council and of the,P.,Y«
M Senior Honor Society. . L ,|
Carl Johnson, aged 38, well-to-do.
Athens business man, walked Into an '
Athens drug company, took a pistol
from tho drawer of the .druggist's
desk and shot himself through the
head, dying a few minutes later..No .'
cause Is known for his act.
DR, ELLIS HERE-
FOR MEETINGS
Overflowing Congrega-
gations Hear Unique
Wisdom Sisters.
in
Dr. T. D. Kills, pastor of Mulberry
Street Methodist church, Macon, ar
rived in Americus Monday at soon
and preached a stirring sermon in
the auditorium of the First Metho
dist church in the afternoon to a
well filled house. Dr. Ellis will be
the guest of hi* brother/ Col. George
Ellis, during his two weeks’ stay
Americus.
Assisting tyr. Ellis in the revival
services are the Wisdom sisters, the
famous trio of singers, who. have
toured the United States in tho soul
winning campaign they instituted
several years ago. They will have
charge of the musical features of the
service*, and under their direction a
large chorus choir will he inaugurat-
at once. Members of the choirs
from other churches have been in
vited to participate in the song serv
ices, and it is urged that every one
who can sing will join this choru
work.
The methods of the Wisdom sisters
ire unique. The old-fashioned spir
itual hymns are sung without instru
ment, their voices supplementing thi
musical tones of the instrument,they
wish to represent. They sang Sun
day at both services, and overflow
ing congregations heard them. They
ill sing at each service afternoon
and evening during the two weeks
continuance of the Revival services.
This church is the first in the
South Georgia conference to secure
the services of the Wisdom sisters,
who came front Birmingham, Ala.
From here they will go to Macon to
assist Dr. Ellis in a revival which
will be held in Mulberry Street
church for two weeks. Later they
go to Columbus to assist Dr. J.
Thomas in a revival In St. Luke’s
church.
AMERICUS BOY
EMORY LEADER
Douglas Walters Promi
nent Figure At Meth
odist University
Wild burros of the Grand Can
yon of tho Colorado have forced out
native wiild game by denuding the
plant in Georgia, the cost of whicn
approximate $3,402,964, are to be
made, and this is shown to be but
portion of general construction
program in this state which covers
period of five years, the total of
that program being $12,820,330, a
considerable portion of the first
expenditure to be in the city
Atlanta and its surrounding ter
ritory. And, in that connection, the
commission shows that it finds 40
cent of the company’s total in-
vestment in Georgia is located in At.
lanta, and that Atlanta pays 38 per
cent of the company’s total gross in.
come.
Douglas Walters, of Americus, who
is now in his fdurth year at Emory
l/nlveraity, Atlanta, has become a
figure of prominence among tho stu*
dent body of that school, as evidenc
ed by the following from the school
publication, ‘‘The Emory Wheel,” un
der tho caption, ‘‘Who’s Who At
Emory:”
Sim Douglas, athlete, debater, and,
ministerial student, is one of that
group known sometimes os the “old
school' 'of Emory. For nearly four
years “Doug” has been a flxturo at
this Institution, and for more than
three years more his fellow students
will witness his pleasant smile on the
campus and his hard-hitting form on
the gridiron ere he leaves this seat
of learning possessedd 1 of his Divin
ity degree. Maybe by that time he
wil be helping buck Georgia’s line.
Sim wun born on December 28,
1897, in that metropolis of South
Georgia commonly known as Ameri
cus. Although his parents movgd to
the country when he was twelve, he
received the major part of his pre-
Jim Burkhalter, a prosperous Ba
con county farmer, is in'jail at Ainu*
for criminal assault. It is said that •
his victim'was a relative. The jail
under heavy^ guard to keep him
from tha hands of a-mob.. ■ tv*
Natives of the Philippines make
substantial*bridges of bamboo.
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PE-RU-NA
A «rut Medlokw
Mr*. II. J. Rtley.R. R, No. I, Bos ICI.Ctt-
vert, Texas, writes:
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years
MRS. RUSSELL SPEER
and i
tl7!C7
MISS ELLA CAMERON
ANNOUNCE THEIR 4 V,
Jt
SPRING MILLINERY OPENING
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OF BEAUTIFUL PATTERN HATS
FRIDAY and SATURDAY V
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In Their Parlor*, 606 Jackson Avenue. To Which Their Friends
*- Are Cordially Invited. \ i J| l