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' WEATHER FORECAST: For Georgia-*—Generally cloudy to- j ni^ht and Friday; probably unsettled < in north portion; not much change in ! temperature. J IERICU! THE „ 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