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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 21, 1921.
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Law Violated In A. B» & A. Case Is
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
JMINUTE
Germany Calls On
Harding to Mediate
government^' ^ Pr '' / ,socia,cd Pr«s.)—The German
government has formally asked the president of the United States
mediate in the reparations nuestion.
r^hl S : —(ByA^ciated Pre M .)—The German gov-
“ihtth^n'T^ ihc
_ y *" c Allied Reparations commission.
IN AMERICA TO HAVE
SOME FUN, SAYS AGED .
MONTE CARLO RULER
Interesting Interview
With Veteran Prince
Of Monaco
BY R. H. WHITNEY.
NEW YORK, April 21 Albert,
prince of Monaco, has come to New
York .“to have some fun.” Albert
will be decorated this month with
by . the National
Academy of Sciences in recognition
0 v * S£ eat contributions to science
—but that is only one of the rea
8<ms why the ruler of the principal
c® nta ining the world’s greatest
5Kherica^ resor ^ * s a £®in visiting
* 73 t years young,” he said to
m«. My best work is ahead of me:
A IJ* J* 01,1 * 1 * 0 * 8 to Monte Carlo
fun, and I come to America
* ^•aame mission. It is a greal
■o\ ilry, marvelously beautiful, al
lui.iig, enchanting/’
• eiicninung.
"Prince," said I /‘there is persist
ent rumor you Intend purging wlck-
fuS f . ro1 ^ y?ur realm by closing
the Monte Carlo Casino as a gamb
ling resort and building on the beau-
-tlful site fine health resorts in a sot-. g
* - "1 bad not heard Of such
The resorts at Monte Carlo
re under lease, some of them long
CORDELE VOTES
BONDS FOR CITY
ELECTRIC PLANT
People Tire Qf High
Rates And Try New
Remedy
Cordele, April 21.—The people of
Cordele, tired of what they consider
unjust rates for electric light and
power current furnished by the lo
cal power company, by an overwhel
ming ballot yesterday voted a bond
issue of $50,000 for the erection of
a new municipally owned electric
plant or acquire the present pri
vately owned one should occasion
arise and it be deemed desirable. An
issue of $10,000 also was voted to
extend the water mains of the water
plant, already owned by the city.
The vote for the bonds was 380
to only 80 against. The local pow
er company was very active to de
feat the issue, but the movement
was backed by most of the leading
citiaens and went through. The
margin was close, however, there
being only nine votea to spare, the
law requiring a majority of the
voters registered and two-thirds of
those voting for the issue to carry.
The electric rate, in Cordele is 16
cents per kilowatt for lights and 9
cents for power, against 16 and .7
cents respectively in Americus. The
citizens decided tc put a stop to this
condition which has been retarding
industrial growth and to attempt to
furnish 1 power and lights at a more
reasonable rate,- which they are sure
can be done. The present city
water plant was so constructed tha
electrical equipment can easily am.
cheaply be installed, and for this
reason and adequate electrical plant
can be had for a minimum of expen
diture. The operation of the water
plant by tho city, aa in Americus,
has been so successful that few per
sons hesitated to vote for' the city
to undertake this additional ven
ture. -
U.S. LABOR BOA
HOWEVER, ADM
ST IS POWERS FSS
■ ■ jjr rrVvjH* «■
Su$»crests New At ft mpt
Al AureemenJ ana -l~>-
Mibmission On Failure "
CHICAGO, April 2t.—The Rail. ]
l".aS Labor Board today ruled that
Receiver Bugg, of the Atlanta, Bir
mingham & Atlantic ltqllr^a.l,. in
reducing the wages of !t> emfthiyeit
in compliance with the decision pf
Federal Judge Sibley, of Atlanta,
had acted in violation of (he.spirit ,
and letter of the transportation a'ctiV
The board declared .ft was power
less to take action in the cate' at
present and suggested that the' em
ployes, most of whom now are on
strike, again hold conferences with'
the t.wnnvnh'd 'if an agreement is
not reached, to tiring the ease back,
to' tile l.nhoi' Board.
The decision said the hotted be
lieved misunderstanding and the
ige’i.ie,. of tilt- ruse had caused tiles'
federal court to authorize reductions .
instead of sending the caso back to
the Labor Board..
“The duty to obay a decision' o1‘-
this hoard is not any leu un obllga-
Ition on the receiver* of a/rahil tun ’
on the owners of a‘road* - lie ilc-h
sion uid.
MISSIONARIES SENT INTO
GEORGIA?HO W SHOCKING
The Prince of Monaco, photograph
ed on his arrival in New York.
HHST9N1S-MADE
Yet It is True, Former Georgia,Bov, Nowt ‘Yan-
kee^From De troit,T^I©,^
time contracts. 1 can announce'no f °T ,Undout :<>"<> lh « spirituai
definite plans bccsusc I have made awakcning; ,he otI,er the worldly
madness for pleasure. It is all nat-
AIDE TO HOOVER
none.
“If _
plan,” t ventured, "undoubtedly our
blue law advocates here would wel
come the news.”
“Blue laws have done much dam
age and much good,” he replied.
for
have no announcement
prophets of moderation.”
• What do you mean,” I persisted,
about seeking pleasure inf Amer
ica?”
'*1 am much interested in ocean
ography; that is, studying the ocean
depths. It is fun to present my
findings to American scholars. I
am likewise interested in paleontol
ogy, and it is fun to tell your sci
entists what I have discovered about
fossil organisms. It in fun to meet
old friends here; to visit with them
and study them. It is fun to see
the wonderful theaters and witness
the charming plays. And I intend
fto do all of these things.”
Amiable and enthusiastic, Prince
Albert is wide-awake, ruddy of
countenance, calm of manner, dig
nified to a nicety, and fairly radi
ates health.
uraliy so because it is plain evolu
tion. I believe it will not bo long
now, however, before th* truly seri
ous master the froth of life, and the
world will come back to Its normal
state.”
“In that connection,”' I said,
“what do you think of the German
reparations, the resumption • of trade
with Russia, the independent peace
of America with Germany, and the
Irish question?” i
“I am a guest in America. I must
not talk on these subjects. I have
opinions, but they must remain
locked in my breast. You will ex
cubq me?
■ut I will say this concerning
pleasure. The seeking of fun does
not restrict itself to Europe. Every
where I go I 3ee folks dancing. They
love to play. That is true in Amer
ica as well. Now that the war is
over the world wonts relaxation, and
those who haven’t much of retsraint
find it harder than ever to restrain
themselves. That is why there is
so-called recklessness. Let the
world play for a bit; it won’t do any
Tennesseean Mentioned
For Cabinet Place
Given Berth
"I rise at six in the morning.” he | harm,
continued "I retire late. Even , On April 25 the prince will de-
lo, the days arc too short to accom- j liver an address on his oceanic re-
plish all I wish to accomplish. The searches before the National Acad-
great war hampered my activities I cmy of Sciences in Washington, and
and my studies. I grieved over the | on the 27th wilt be awarded the
war. i Alexander Agassiz medal. He wit)
“But in the wake of this war twa 'tour the country.
WASHINGTON, April 21.—Nom
inations made by President Harding
today included C. H. Huston, of
Chattanooga, to be 'assistant secro
tary of .commerce; David H. Blair,
of Winston-Salem. N. C„ to bo com
missioner of internal revenue, and
Charles F. Marvin to be chief of the
, weather bureau. •
Huston was formerly prominently
mentioned for a cabinet position in
recognition of Tennessee's going
Republican.
Two Premiers To
Confer Privately
PARIS, April 21.—Premiers Bri-
and and Lloyd-George will meet in
a strictly private conference at
Rythc on Sunday. No one else will
ho present except one secretary for
each.
HARVEY SCORED
AS STRIFE CHAMP
Senator Harrison Calls
His ApDointment Re
ward From Hardine
WASHINGTON. April 21— Sena
tor Pat Harrison, of Mississippi,
charged today in the senate that the
appointment of George Harvey, ed
itor of Harper’s Weekly, as ambas
sador to Great Britain, was n "re
for his efforts” to discredit
ilson administration. He de-
Harvey was a "vindictive,
If-anointcd and itfolerant political
accident" and had ‘no equal as n
Creator of prejudice and stirrer of
strife."
BILL HAYWOOD
JOINS RUSSIANS
SCOUT MEETING
Very important meeting of the
Bov Scouts is called for Friday
night at 7 o'clock at City Hall. Le’t
every Scout in the city he present
promptly on time. You will he
sorry if you are not there.
SII.AS JOHNSON,
Scout Master.
I. W. W. Leader, Due
To Serve Term, Is
Missing
Five Youthful Bandits
In Auto Get $25,000
CHICAGO, April 21.—Five youth
ful bandits in an automobile held up
John Amberg, vice-presUent of a
real estate firm, here today and es
caped with $25,000 he was car
rying to a downtown hank.
NO COUNCIL MEETING.
Because of the absence of Mayor
Sheppard and two aldermen, the rnf
ular meeting of the city council to
night has been postponed. It was an
nounced this afternoon by City Clerk
and Treasurer Fildt iiige.
CHICAGO, April 21—Federal
officials today received confidential
information that (“Big*Bill”) Wil
liam D. Haywood, secretary of the
Industrial Workers of the World,
who is scheduled to begin a sentence
in Leavenworth prison, had fici
from the United States and was now
in Moscow or Riga.
PERSONAL
Mrs. Charles Hudson left Wed
nesday for a short visit to friend,
in Macon.
Mrs. Daisv Gnosspelius is spend
ing a few days with Mrs. H. W.
Smithwick at her home in Brooklyn
Heights.
Mrs. Charles R. McLeod, and lit
tle son, Charles R., Jr., of Pineview,
are the guests of some time of her
parents. Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Ertz-
berger, on Hampton street.
SETH TANNER
Los Angeles Shaken,
No Damage Reported
LOS ANGELES. April 21—An
earthquake shock was felt here at
7:37 o'clock this morning. It was
slight and of brief duration and no
damage was reported.
RULE ON GUARDSMEN.
MONTGOMERY, Ala., April 21.
The supreme court today held the
caaea of Robert Lancaster and eight
other national guardsmen, charged
with the lynching of Will Baird in
Walker eounty, must be tried in
•ion- county. Judge Sowell has
announced the trials will begin im
mediately. A, t !
Some girls’ heel, get snore air than
their ears. Charity makes music out
uv meuy e loud uoise.
OPEN LETTER NO. 3.
Dear Folks: Did you 1 know that
missionaries are being sent to
Geqrgia? it’* a fact. A..for
mer Georgian, who styles himself
one of those d—— Yankees up
in Detroit/’ brought that news to
a days ago. He was
U B ' Mansfield, president of the
Mansfield Steel Company and the
Detroit Trailer Company, two
largo manufacturing concerns of
that marvelous motor-making city.
Mr. Mansfield was a member
of the Georgia Tech Industrial
Tour party that spent a week tra
velling tho state and trying to
rpuie the people of Georgia to
their senses and to the fact that
they are sleeping on their birth
right industrially, while the other
fellows in other atatea are getting-
wealthy from Georgia raw pro
ducts. Mr. Mansfield, who is a
nephew of Neill A. Ray, Sumter
county farmer, was born at Bluff-
ton, Clay county, a little town that
nasn t evtn a railroad, fie spent
somft time at Georgia Tech, al
though unable lor financial reas
ons, to complete his course there.
He was for a time an employe of
a Macon concern on Cherry street
at $12 a week. Now, after a doz
en years in the North, he is a cap
tain of industry, has made a “pot
full” of money, and is the biggest
kind of a business success. He
gives Georgia Tech the credit for
it all. “And I’m going to pay
Tech back $1,000 for every dol
lar she spent on me,’’ he 3aid re
peatedly on the Tech tour.
But back to the missionaries.
“You know, it made me sore when
I found my church was sending
missionaries to Georgia,” said he.
“It not only made me sore because
the church was doing it, but be
cause you guys down here are so
far behind the timer, that you let
them do it. They think you are
a bunch of hook-worm victim.? who
can’t take care of yourselves,
and, by golly, when I look around
and see how little you arc doing
with what you have, I don’t know
that they arc so far wrong, after
all.”
Wholly • unpracticed in speech-
making, Mr. Mansfield was one of
the most (effective talkers of the
entire party of distinguished and
skilled speakers. He spoke in the
language of the street, of the
farm and of the factory; he could
“get next” to the common people,
handing out what he had to say
in language that they could un
derstand far better than the aca
demic, polished words of the more
brilliant orators. And he enjoyed
every minute Of it, laughing, and
chuckling with great glee as no
poured the hot shot into the hard
ened hides of hfs hearers.
*T want to tall you something/*
he declared on one occasion, ad
dressing a large crowd, “you fel
lows ait around here and cuss the
d— Yankees. Well, I’m one of
those d—— Yankees myself. In
the city of Detroit there are 175
of them who came- from some
where below the Mason and Dix
on lino who control a large share
several millions fdr Alabama.
“Now these y^nkees that you
cus3, do any of y6u know what a
Yankee is? Well, I’ll tell you. A
Yankee is any man who comes
down hero from the North, buya
your cotton at 10 conts a pound,
shipps it to Detroit and makes it
into padding for automobile cush
ions, ships it back and resells it to
you at $1.45 a pound, plus freight,
and you leave your check before
you drive off.- That’s me.”
Mr.' Mansfield, quaint in many
of his mannerisms, with the front
of a millionaire, the business brain
of man of affairs able to hold bin
own with the best, and with the
heart of a boy, came to be
genuinely loved by every member
of the party, and the losing of his
companionship r.mong others was
one of tho real regrets at the
breaking up of the party at the
end of the tour of .one week. Ho
never failed to hit a hard lick for
Ground Showered Bv
tdbhunka of Hot-MetaL.
Substance
Tech when the opportunity pre-
f or the Boy
sented itself, nor for the Boy
Scouts, of which he ia a high of
ficer; he 3cemcd to feel conscious
that Tech had taken him a* a
green country boy and made a
genuine success in the world of
him, nnd that it could do the same
for any other boy—(and would if
the people of Georgia would only
permit it.)
“I hope the people of Georgia
took what I said, which wasn’t of
much account, in the spirit in
which I gave it,” said Mr. Mans
field in a letter to the writer a
couple of days ago, recalling the
pleasure the trip gave him person
ally. And he closed/ the letter
with this paragraph:
“My prayer is that Tech gets
her requirements fulfilled to the
utmost; I know of no worthier
cause that should go home to each
and every person in the grand old
state, as well as her sons else
where.”
That is the prayer of every man
who made that Tech tour, and it
i3 a worthy prayer. W. S. K.
BURST METEOR
FALLS AT Pins
PITTS, April 21.—A meteor of
largo proportions and traveling in a
northeastern direction exploded over
this city at 9 o’clock Wednesday
morning. More than a dozen heavy
explosions were heard, then, as if n
machine gun had been pressed into
action, there was to sharp crackling
In the air for several minutes and
red hot metal, some picco3 weighing „
six pounds each, began to fall to the i nationality,
earth, leaving black smoke trails in
Week Creates Berth
For General Pershing’
WASHINGTON. D. C.,-April 21.
The organization of n war staff
headed by GcneralJohn J. .
to take charge of field on#
the armies of tho United
time of war, was nnnoq
by Secretary of War
It will bo entirely i
the office of c|ilof of
lory .Week* said, which will i ntlnud
to dirict the administration ,d the
military establishment in tin
,lcncL -- .
Alabama Alien-Born
Population Decreases
WASHINGTON. April "I
bama’a foreign born white ' i
Hon showed a decrease ’
decade,' census figures, unhoun
day shewed. Thero wore a t
17,282 foreign born white |
in the'stato at the last-cense-, co
nared to 18,058 in 1010, the ci
bureau announced. Tbho la
number was Italian, while ten ;,
ago tho largest number woe Gera
i, leaving _
absolutely djndi*.' »kiV~ No j 3 A. L. Superintende nt
P«r*ona Was reported injured. i
The majority of tho metal places, 1
resembling lead, fell in an open field
on tho outskirts of tho city, some
of them sinking deep as three feet
into tha earth. One piece fell al-
moat at the feet of a negro farm
hand at work in tho field. He states
that it was red hot as it entered tho
earth, and it was too hot to handle
after it had been excavated from Its
hole, which required a period of at
least ten minutes.
Many pieces were picked up in
the field, and tho largest has been
tioxod nnd shipped to Atlanta by cit
izens to be analyzed.
The explosion was heard in a ra
dius of more than seven miles from _ __
Only n few citizens sighted the I ftnG^natmim/lahor po^y^l^^
meteor as it approached the city. Inn ; |.<i..d as inimical'to industrial.pro,,
immediately after the first cxplo Uess by W. R. Bassett, of Ni v Yoi !
sion, which was equal to a dynamite in an addresa today befqrM»i|
To Be Met By Citizens
A iarga committee of the uiu.m-
her of Commerce was appointed the
oftrenoon by President Jt. K. Alli-
son .total! op General Superinten
dent Walton, of .the Soabonnf Air
Line, -who will arrive in Americus
in hia private car:at 6:10, to remain
over night. Friday morning at 10:39
tho members of the AmOri.u, Hr.
lary Club will call on Mr. Walton in
a body in. his car. — 3?.
.. . ‘
Any U. S. Labor Policy
Opposed As Havpiful
blast, there was considerable excite
ment and almost the entire popula*
Lion witnessed the rest of the unus
ual daylight spectacle. •
Tho meteor was seen at Albany,
Cordele. Huwkinsvillc and other
nearby places.
tional Association of Cotton Mann
rncturers convention. He-said--tin* ,
history of government tntgrfei. -
*" Ubor had shown successes when
the decisions, favored tho workman
and failures when tht verdicts favor-
/'d * he. employers. - ^ ,
MARKETS
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON
Good Middling :...!! 1 -2c
. ■■ Tho richest pa^oTC.
or. that great city-manufacture, menia 1$ the valley of
or*at least manage it. And De- with artificial irrigatio
troit alone does as much business
as the whole state of Georgia com
bined, with a surplus left over of
NEW YORK FUTURES
Pr Open 11am ljtn Close
•May 12.K2 11.05 11.87 II.00 11 KK
July 12.54 12.60 12.40 12.52 12 47
Oct. 12.08 12.12 13.06 13.07 13.04
Dec. 1.7,55 13.54 13.63 13.55 13.5)’
„ WEATHER
Foreeast for Georgia—Showers
tonight and Friday, somewhat warm
er tonight.
AMERICUS TEMPERATURES
(Furnished by Rexall Pharmacy.)
* pm .....74 4 ,m K4
6 pm 72.
8 pm 68
10 am 62
Midnight 60
2 ant 55
G am 54
8 am 50
10 am .../..;...6g
Noon ,..H
.2 pm 76
excellent grapes
vegetables, as well i
and corn.
METEOR FRAGMENTS
BROUGHT TO CORDELE
CORDELE. Apr:! 21.—Fragments
of the meteor which burst and fell
yesterday at Pitts, near here, wer«
brought to Cordele this morning and
were the centtr ulDday of a curious
throng. The substance appeared to
be pure manganese iron, some of
which was crystallized beautifully
strewn among the dark coloring be
ing green crystals which appeared t«
be emeralds.
When the meteor. wh:ch waa seen
and heard here, had aped by, the ait
was rent with what seemed lightning
front a brilliant clear sky. The brit
liance of the freak was more than
that of the run and the extra heal
was felt Itv same.
Of course, the meteor was gom
long before the Hrst noise of it was
apparent, and when people looked a>
the first rumbling, they saw a amok,
tdresk exactly like that made by an
a:rp!ano using too much gas. Mans
declared it war. an airplane on fire
and persisted in an effort to find thos.
who were willing to make a search
Mexican Radicals Plan
■ May Demonstration
MEXICO CITY, April. 2i.—ElVh':
orste preparations for a May Day
demonstration throughout • Mexico
are being made by radical ohimanta
nore, ana in some quarter’there in
apprehension that ob»t’rvanc«* of to
day may lead to disorders. Govern
ment authorities have been amply
informed of the plans nnd arc pre
pared fo rthe emergency.
CARTOONETTE
k\„-
for it.
Disabled Vet Service
Leaves Public Health
WASHINGTON. April 2l._
Transfer from the public health scr-
vice and consolidation with the
V Bureau of War Risk Insurance of al. I
Eli work,; offices and. personnel of tlici
th service connected with |
1 treslment of disabled j
rans was ordered today by
ry Mellon. I
.. NOT IN THE AL