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feftQ PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIX<g~H?0r7
lORTY-TtllkD. YEAR.—NO. 43
AMERICUS. GEORGIA, SATURDAY AFTERNOON. OCTOBER 29. 1921
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
CHIEFS IN FINAL
WEEKLY ..
EDITION
i
A LESSON IN 100 PER CENT AMERICANISM
HOOPER OFFERS STRIKE TO BE SHORT, BUT
‘VAGUE CHANCE’ CERTAIN, SAYS STOKES
Veteran Scoboad Engineer Tell. Rotary Club of Men’. Grievances—
Sayo Road. Want Somebody To Help Them
Turn Loose ‘The Bear’
“It in utterly impossible fur either I done in the strike emergency. was
the employees of the railroad cxecu- also decided that the It.wants and
lives to prevent the Impending rail- c luh presidents would bo asked
road strike," was 111" emphatic dee-, (() ^ u [he president uf the Ito-
Inration of Captuin lienry Stokes, i j ,| u i, aa „ ,.ivic committee to
Seaboard conductor ami member of I mpt a)iy ( . nH ,,. KU „cy that might arise,
the Americas Rotary club, in extend. |- rn f t ,,. ur Mathis/ resolution pledged
ed remarks to the Rotary cluh at ll5 ||| u . M . rv iccs of the cluh to both the
luncheon today. public and tie railroad men.
"The truth is, gentlemen, mid MjHs V( , rn Henry sang a number
he, "the railroads want homebody t"| 0 f „„ n ' Ka for the club. Mrs. Thomus,
help them turn I .use 'the bear;’ wc j wi f t . u f ji c v. J. A. Thomas, of Colunt-
—the railroad conductors, engineers, j bu ^ s|M)kc (l) t |„, c | u b. i.. I). John
son
the tramnen—knw what’s lhu j so n was a new member received to-
troubie, but I can't tell you today; ( ] r( y |{ (1 tary, with classification
. ..... .. ..... 'sxo-. j Industrial Insurance.
without being untrue
dates. Rut you will he told and that'
'.SEABOARD ADVERTISES
opinion I F0R RAILWAY MEN.
Capt. Stokes said in hi*
Today is the third anniversary of the birthday of Thcodorc Huo.evult. son of a Georgia woman, statesman,
president and man of letters. Sagamore Hill, at Oyster Ray, is the mecca today of throngs of admirers of
"Rwano Tumho." Celebrations of the anniversary are being held in many cities over the country.
INCENDIARY BLAMED FOR;
$8,000 HALE FARM FIRE
Fine Born, Tractor, Truck, 2
Horses And Other Properly
Burned
State Fire Marshal Joiner will be
asked today t© come to Americns to j tent
investigate the fire which early! hpfc*
Thursday morning destroyed the fin<
barn, implements, feed and stock on 80() |, u8 j,cls of ne
th three hogs which were also
the barn. Jhe building and contents
were a total loss.
The barn was a fine structure, one
of the bc*t in this section, erected a
few years ago by Joel W. Hightower
when he owned the farm. Its con-
besides the two horses and
onsisted of a Fordson tractor.
For truck. new grain drill anJ
other implements, wagon, harness,
the farm of C. M. Hale, one mile
north of Sumter City, entailing a
loss of $7,000 or $8,000. The fire
is believed to have been of incen
diary origin, ami it is said there are
persons under suspicion.
'fhe fire was discovered at about -‘5
o'clock when it awakened the over
seer. It. had started on tht* end of
the barn farthest from the house, and
was spreading very rapidly. The
overseer attempted to get to the
floors to release two fine gray hor-e.i V
which were uuurtcred there, but j jetis
the heat was so intense he could not i his
approach it, and the horses perished . to li
i two cribs.
ntity of seed oats and feed onts,
hay and other property.
To offset the loss partially was an
insurance policy for $1,500, taken
out two days ago. Six thousand dol
lars of insurance had been permitted
to Inr e some time ago.
Chict McArthur and three men
from the Americas fire department,
lesnonded to a call with the motor
pump, but were unable to render any
AUGUSTA BANKER
ENDS LIFE WHEN
BANK IS CLOSED
Eugene E. Rosborough Kills Self
Wiien Merchants Bank Is t
Taken Over
AUGUSTA, Oct. 27.—After the
posting of a notice on the door of
the Merchants Bank here last night
stating that the bank would be closed
today, its affairs were turned over
to the state banking department.
Eugene E. Rosborough, vice-pies-
j ident and director, committed suicide
, in his Broadway apartments hen this
; morning.
OF RAfcPEACE
Member Of Board Makes Final
Appeal To Unions On Behalf
Of Government
HEARING ON CAUSES OF
ORDER ENDED ABRUPTLY
Fruitless Day Spent In Quizzing
Chiefs—Government Injunc
tion Hinted
CHICAGO, Oct. 27.—(Bulletin,
3:10 P. M.—Ben W. Hooper, of the
Railroad Iutbor hoard, left the con
ference of the “Big Five” union ex
ecutive rhoitly after noon and nsid
the strike was not settled yet,
that a settlement “hardly could bo
expected while he was at the meet
ing.’' The meeting broke up soon
after Hooper left, with the announce
ment that the live urgutrizution*
would hold separate meetings, and
then a joint meeting at 3 o'clock this
afternoon.
The executives of the five unions
rearsrmhled in joint session at 3
o’clock. Just before joining the
meeting, President Lee, of the Train
men said, “the situation is unchanged
insofar as the trainmen are concern
ed. Our strike ballot says when one
of the other unions goes out wc go
out. That stands.”
Three grand vice presidents of the
engineers. Daugherty, Griffin and
Burges-, arrived at labor head'piar
tors at 3:30 and went into conference
with the hoard.
CHICAGO. Oct. 27.— (By Asso-ji
eiated Prr: Noon p i .sed today j l }
with the “nig Five” union represen-K
tatives in a (ong executive conference j /
on tht^ pos sibilities of a strike settle- j >
ment. U
Ben W. Hooper, of the Railroad] ATLANTA, Oct. 27.—Following ix
Labor Roar. , wax before the ™n- (k , tcxt (>f ,, rclli(k . nt Harding’, nil-
ference what he termed n vague | droe9 dcliv ,. red , t 3 . 30 „. clock thia
atterneon here at the base of the
Grady monument:
Fellow Americans: I can not tell
nt i* 1 ’ 1 1 f. 1 • tr ~ 4 A tr J y° u how gl«d I «m to bo here, to
Hooper left h,x off.ee at 9:45 this mu „ W0Blen o( At | anta>
mornig for the Masonic temp o,l f Ct . 0 „ ia the South and t0
where the prerldcntx, general chair-! rccolvo lhia tclUniony of dcvo tion to
our common country. Be assured
that, much ns 1 crave, and w«Kh to
rvc, your good will, I shall not
and the strike would not interrupt trnf-,
fiee for longer than a “few days.”
“There are employes of the rail
roads thai have received wage in-
treases of as high as 500 per cent.
The trainmen received about an av
erage of 42 per cent. The railroad
executives were asked to cut all em
ployees in the same percentage as
they received raises, but refused.
They want to cut. the man who got
•12 per cent and the men wlin got
1j00 per cent the sgmo 12 per cent.
This we won’t stand for.”
Captain Stokes said that in ease of
trike tbc striking railroad employes
wruld do everything in their power
to help the community in preventing
any suffering.
Prof. J. K. Mathis offered a rear*
Ition, which was unanimously adopt
ed, pledging the services of the club
and the individuals of the club to the
community for whatever could be
CORDELE, Oet. 27.—In a large
advertisement in the local paper the
Seaboard Air Line railroad is asking
for applications from men who will
work r.s engineers, firemen, conduc
tors, trainmen, yardmen and tele
graph operators to fill the places of,
the men who are expected to walk
out next Sunday morning at G o’clock
on the great strike.
The advertisement is attracting
wide interest ami reveals that the
toad is engaged in the business of
making final plans to keep i's traf
fic moving.
The advertisement “Men Wanted”
in this day when five millions are
without jobs is within itself a big
news item. It is much like the ad
vertisement of* a big southern line
two years ago to people to stay off
the trains during the holidays be
HARDING BRINGS
GOSPEL OF GOOD
WILL TO GEORGIA
Delivers Great Speech On Unity
At Henry Grady*s Mon
ument
SAYS PARLEYFAILURE
MUST REST ELSEWHERE
U. S. To Enter Arms Conference
Imbued With Desire For .
National Friendship
ATLANTA. Oct. ZJ—The gospel
of understanding and good will, not
only binding the North and Sou^h in
closer union, but bringing all th©
nations of the world into qu-operati^*
and enduring am ty was preached by
President li'arding here today in an
address outlining some of his, con
cept ions of the coming arinanien#
conference.
Speaking at the statue of Henry
Grady, Southern apostle of national
reunion, the president declared th©
United States would enter.the con
ference so imbued with a desire for
international friendship tha*. th*
blame must rest elsewhere, should
the negotiations for reduction of
armament result in failure.
“I believe it wholly consistent, (he
president said, "to pteltch pence and
its triumphs in that convincing sin-'
eerily which an unselfish nation T<vn-
mands, yet^to make sure about our
proper defense/'
Atlanta wm» gaily decorated, for
the president and his party whore prp
gram on arrival early In the, after
noon Included n luncheon at th?
cure there won already too much no<m “ifbriefa*
lire** there, and the public addre**
TEXT OF PRESIDENT’S 1
SPEECH IN ATLANTA
possibility" for settlement. Mean--
while the Board marked time, withj
a meeting scheduled for this after- j
and executive committees of the
“Big Five” unions were in session. (
aid he made a final appeal'
poet’s imagery, the seer’s wisdom,
the plain man's humor, and the states
man's vision, ho pretended to be neb
their pKS, seer, nor statesman; he
sought no public place, but preferred
the private post close to his people.
But somehow It was his to under
stand and interpret the longing of
the Nation for u true and perfect re
union. He appraised the difficulty of
fashioning a new temple of concord
nd hope out of disappointment apd
ing
behalf of the government for caR-j mistakenly arumc that x'uch a greet-1 ' orro , w ?>"«'«»• t but ho
*"""»• , hr ™ t "'V i |i!.R SB th.j is for me, or every could tb *-’ 1 ‘ urfat,! tht ’ hunK, ’ r -
The Board’s investigation of the .
uses of the strike threat ended ah-
Hale is principal of the Amor
[igh :jrh*>ol, and devotes nil o
ic outside of his school dulie
farm.
JAPAN READY
TO HUNGARIANS TO CUT NAVY
cigliboring Nation* Demand His
Surrender And Pay For
Mobilization
LONDON, Oct. 27—Associated j
•css.)—The Little Entente, com- j
mm! of Rumania, Czeeho-Siovakia i
J Jogo-SIavia, has !."ii : j
,te to Hungary, demanding ’.he
. ren.l- ’ of former La'.. ror
.arlt-M, ilemoliolization i'f the Hon
iian army and reparations
„t to drfray the expenxese <
Hie Entente's mobiltzatio
rding It) a Vienna dispatch.
If Powers Reach Understanding
Soy- Vice Admiral
Kite
| ABOARD THE STEAMSHIP KA
SHI MA MARU, Oct. 27.— (By Ast^-
j socitacd Frers.)—Japan stands ready
| to cut down her navy if the powers
j . rr.eh an understanding at the forth
coming Washington conference, ac-
*.i r to Vic* Admiral Kato u mem
ber uf he Janancz? delegation trav-
«ling u Washington.
SHEPPARD MOVES UP
j. IN GEORGIA MASONRY
Mayor J. E. Sheppard and Prof. J
‘ E. Mathis have returned from Macon
1 where they attended the meeting of
! the Georgia Grand Lodge of Ma on* ;
Mr Sheppard was elevated from
grand senior warden, only tw- >teps
! removed, from grand master. Prof.
| Mathis was occupied with important
committee work all during the ses
sion.
ruptly at. 8:3ft last night when the
five union lenders askd permisrion
to make announcement to their men.
Executives of the big brotherhoods
and the switchmen, after a day of
verbal jockeying with the United
Sta*es Railroad Labor Board, declar
ed late yesterday that no power on
earth rave a “rat.isfactory settlement"
could prevent their man walking out
beginning nex* Sunday morning at
clock.
The
dee I,a
■ at the do
of a day of fruitless questioning,
when Judge R. M\ Barton, rhnirmnn
of the Labor Board, railed each union
president in turn and askud him four
prepared questions, the third of
Which wa
“If the
MARKETS
AMEK1CUS SPOT COTTON
G<iu(t Middling, 18c.
LIVERPOOL COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, Oct: 27. — Market
pened <iuiet 14-21 down. Quota-
onn, fully*, 12.55. .Sale:
LOOO
Receipts
balex, "f which
DOG LICENSE LIMIT IS
SET IN THOMASVILI.E
THOMASVII.I.E, Oet. 27.—rlor
, „„V m- their owners will suffer ,
must p»> <>r “ , .
themselves to be led before the m..joi
at police matinee. November L> is
the last day on."Urh the dollar dog
tax can he paid. arc ., thr "
thousand dogs in Thomasvi e, _ ; a.d
a prominent citizen recently, ane
it ,| 0 ,. s look like « could get a doh
lar from three hundred of them.
— — k
AMERICUS TEMPERATURES
(Furnished bj^Re
58
si
UNCLE SAM CUTS GUT
GRASS SEED FOR YARD
THOMASVILLE, Oct. 27.—Poor
!*n Ic Sam hn’t able to furnish any
. seed to make the Thomasviile
po: toffive grounds attractive this
winter. This is one of the non es-
Hint*a!v and as a consequence the
grounds may become Fere and yellow,
t*-, ' er «!of the usual beautiful green,
i.' -omebody 'Ln’t volunteer so.ne
- ced.
CONFEDERATE PARADE
IS PREVENTED BY RAIN
CHATTANOOGA. Oct. 27.—Rain
caused the Cor.fcdtrxt* Reunion com
mittee ta call off the annual veter-
rade here today, the Uxt day
te
rex N’ov. Dec. Jan. Lch
Close 12.08 11.98 11.8S II 2
l ...v 11.90 11.*9 n
12.08 11.98 1 1.88 11
NEW YORK FTURKS.
t Dec. Jan. Met:, M»
Close 18.78 18.58 18 It 17
l 18.70 18.45 18X8 17
■» am 18.68 18.44 Ik.20 17
) 18.80 18.56 lx/:; 17
5 18 80 18.62 18 42 17
> 18.85 18.62 18 42 17
; 18.75 18.57 18.36 17
) • 18.86 18.64 18.43 18
5 18.82 18,64 18.46 17
) 18.9.1 18.7.1 18.57 18
1 pm 18.95 18.74 17.53 18
) 19.00 18.82 1860 18
1 19.04 18.84 18.65 18
7 !8.98 18.79 18.58 18
) ,.19.02 18.80 18/2 18
1:45 18.00 18.78 18.53 18
18.80 18.76 18.53 18
bonrl "hull declare n strike
is no* justified anti should not or
cur and din*#t that the emnloyes not
strike will that order be obeyed?’!
The union chiefs. Warren S. Stone
of the Engineers; \V. G. Lee of th*
Trainmen; I.. E. Sheppard of the
Conductor*; W. S. farter of the Fire
men. and T. C. f’ashen of she Switch
men—declared in turn they had m»|J°
power to cancel the strike order, ex- to
pressed the idividual opinion that; y Ci
their men would not obey an or*^-r
from ♦hem rr tlm board to remain
at werk: and reiterated their previous
declarations that “'Tnly satisfactory
for any one man. I rccognizo
it as the tribute Which a great people
pays to a constituted authority in itfl
public life. It is the reflection of
the spirit which makes our popularly
governed institutions secure. But
will you permit me to say, from my
heart, that nowhere else do they do
these things with quite the same zest
and flavor and convincing enthusiasm
which spice the hospitality of your
wonderful South. As private citi
zen or public official, it has always
been to me an especial pleasure to
• ome to the South© As a young man
I was very near indeed to becoming
a resident of the South and a citi
zen of your neighboring state, Ten
nessee. Even for the sake of pay- j
ing u compliment, I shall not tell you
I am entirely rorry I didn’t come;
it might imply a lack of appreciation
for the somewhat notable kindness
es that have been extended to me
by the people of my own state, op
erating in conjunction with a very
impressive company of friends in
ther
•To
heart
o Georgia is to come
f the South. To come
i on this, of all days of the
birthday of Roosevelt— Is
that the* heart of the South
throbr for all the Nation. To the
making of that typical American of
nt equally the warm
1 settlement” <nuU avert the walkout. |" *'™»* »*«• “" (l th / !
8 ! Such n settlement, thev raid, would , ! ur<i >’ st,,ck ,hal K» ve thl ’ Nntl °" "*
7 j be reconsidered by the Labor Roord, Kn 'i’ ira
1 i Of its 12 per rent wage reduction or-1 So rt ia krec mg you men
der of last Julv !. or a movemen*
by the individual railroads to confer
with the unions and sot aside the
board’s order.
W. S. Carter declared a settlement
should nbo reimburse the
the pay lost since July 1, a
of the wage cut.
of Georgia, to recall the
areer of that outstanding American
vho in his life, as in his lienage,
aught us how much wc are prosper-
d and exalted because of being unit-,
f or cd. And, coming thus among you,! Roosevelt, following his impetuous
a result » f »* peculiarly a sntisfac ion to speak j appeals .for better political morals at
ing to develop a common inheritance,
he caught the aspirations for a com
mon glory, he touched the chords of
sympathy which echoed the note of
common rejoicing. *
"With heart aglow and tongue in
spired, ho felt it his duty to preach
the gorpel of new understanding, und
having ut'ered his new gosp^k- at
home, he came north, the evangel
of a new *lay, and made his New
England speech. Since that night
he has belonged not to you of Geor
gia, hut to the nation, to the truly
reunited nation, of wF-lch, ih hia day,
he was tile foremost apostle and
spokesman. The South never had a
more loyal or jealous ron; but he
saw, with an eye for wider scopes,
{I.hat this people wan not to be divid
ed. And ho preached that gospel
North and South; the gospel of uni
| ty and common destiny; and wi'er
he died untimely, ut 3K years of age
the nation which so soon had learned
to love him, bowed its head in
universal i arrow. Reading his pas
sionate pleading for a nation-wide
understanding, l can not but
that he woertfl have been content to
go an he did he could have known
how close that tie of common sor
row would bring the people fot whom
hi?; life had been the labor of su
preme love.
Rontrvell, Too.
“How strangely has destiny inter-
woven the parts in this drama of
nationV, rertoratiort! The same year
of IHBft that raw' Grady lain away
with love’s laurels on hi* proud anil
noble brow, saw another Ron of
mother of (ieorgia and the South
entered in thd caroei*, of national
ror vice. In that year Theodore
ut the Grady monument later in thj
day.
brief stay made
at camp benning.
COLUMBUS, Oct. 27.—The l
uf Columbus were awakened Hgl
mhrniriK by tW roarimt of K»n» at
Cainp Benn|ptr, siltnlfyin* the arrival 1
of President Harding and his party
on nn official inspection of the camp.
The party arrived at the Infantry
school at 6 o’clock. After a stop
of a.couple of house the. party pro*
ceeded to Atlanta.
SUNDAY PAGEANT HARKS
BACK TO MIDDLE AGES
’ The pageant to be given in Calvary 1 ^
church Sunday morning i» o revival j
of the miracle and mystery play.; of
r„„ middle apex. Tjiexe plays arose
from the perception that what one
eccx with the eye} mokes a deeper
impression upon him that what hu
merely hears with the earn.
The pageant ncijt Sunday show*
j "Misxion of tho Church.". Tho
three speaking parts represent tho
voice of tho Divine Mediation, tho
Word of God and the Appeal to tha
Human Spirit. Other charactcra rop-
esunt races of peoples among whom
nixsionary work is being done and
tin- methods, medical, educational,
angclicitl, by which tho worii
ix done. The vested choir will sing
appropriate music.
The pagermt commqmoratcn tho
centennial of kho ddnUutic and
eign missionary »'jdcty ot the^Epte*
copal church and the. golf^n jubilee
of the W.oman’a Auxiliary*
from the shadow of the nhaft which’tho Baltimore civil service confer-
^“auTbo'rUy Vn ^iabo^ani-1 Z anTS £
a withdraw the order or For I recall the thrill with which 1,8*6. A son of th. East and df the
ston a strike? read, as a young man. the addrers SouLl, ^but^ already adopted by tho
“Suppose you, the chief executive
of your organization or your execu
tive committee Ifkued nn order or a
statement that a strike should n,t
occur, do you not believe the strike
would be presented?
"Will you, *» chief executive, n-e
your power and influence to see that
the orders of*. board on toe matter
of Henry W. Grady to the New Eng West, he had become n devout ad-
land club; that moat famous oration nttrer of that son or the South u. v
I think, of its generation; that in- all the nation had taken to its heart.
spiring call to a nation to awaken j Th
to itself^ to understand that iti
terday was dead. It* to-morrow
nant with oppirtunity.
Tribute To Grady.
“If ever one m
1 i peak wi|
f them, you (»
l women of the wh<
think of their services an
and tell me, for such Ron?
!>uld you with to nrovi.le
hiag© tjum tHat of the uni'
ilayed th
3
ished,
I adt|-
NEW POINT CHURCH TO
BE OPENED SUNDAY
The New Peint Methodist church,
three miles west of Americua on tho
I’lnins road, which ha* just been re
built utter l»|ing burned several
months ago, will be opened for sef-
vwex (nr the first timo next Sunday.
There will be preaching at It p’clo|k
by l’uxtor Partin, of Plains, the reg
ular supply minuter. Thereafter
service will bo hel<l regularly every I
second Sunday, ax was the custom
prior to the lire. Tho new structure
has been painted,snd nicoly finish. J
and wilt prove n reni(o|leble and ■
(junto rural house of worship.
EXPULSION OF ULANTON
IN HOUSE IS CALLED UP
WASHINGTON, Oct, 27. — T|ta j
resolution for expulsion 1 from^^H
house of Tlipmps L. Blanton,
Texas, was called up today by Rep
resentative Mongcll, Republican lead
er, who asked its ndy-tinn. Ilian 1
occupied hie .ucuslom, ,1 scat."
$5,(100,000 DAMAGE.
5 DEAD FROM STORM
TAiU’A, Oct. 27.- —IVoperty d 1
age in .hr- section of Florida sw
by the hurricane Tuesday is estin
ed at $5,000,000 by insurance
here wJ*o have been analyzin
reaching here. The
“ at fix