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JOHN H. HODGES, Prop’r. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE $1.50 a Year In Advance VOL. LI. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY OCTOBER 6, 1921. No. 40 TO PROVIDE WORK j ELABORATE PLANS FOR HAWS IDLE FOR CONVENTIONS MEASURES TO PROVIDE WORK FOR INVOLUNTARY IDLE ALREADY PLANNED FIRE CHIEFS AND RAILWAY EX- ECUTIVES TO MEET EARLY IN OCTOBER HARDING OPENS CONFERENCE STATE NEWS OF INTEREST Aid Of States And Municipalities To Be Sought In Providing Jobs ! For Workers Washington.—"All America" must co-operate in solving the unemploy ment problem, said President Harding, addressing the opening session of the unemployment conference. "A crystalization of much valuable ipublic thought on this matter would have lasting value in the education of our people," said Secretary of Com merce Hoover. So the conference Is to be open to the public that "All America" may be in on its deliberations and know what it is to do., Public hearings will be held on all subjects under discussion, the first that on unemployment figures. President Harding has spoken the word and Secretary Hoover has taken hold of the machinery for starting one of the most Important domestic read justment efforts of the administration —providing work for the nation’s idle and a breath of optimism for the na- jtions* business. Both of these leaders, in addresses to the first session of the unemploy ment conference, bespoke confidence in the outcome and a demand for prac ticable measures. Both declared there must be no droits upon the public treasury. The "Dole” system practiced I in European countries to relieve the j workless, Hoover denounced as the "most vicious” in the world. The initial words having been spoken and the organization of the con ference having been completed with Hoover as chairman, it is now possible to set forth the measures for relief con templated by the administration and to be effected, if possible, by the group of distinguished Americans here, call ed for this important duty from all walks of business life. Briefly, here is the program: 1. Hold open hearings to establish the exact unemployment—as to num-. bers, classes and locations affected. Labor leaders and the department of labor have declared there are 6,000,000 idle in the country today. Independent statistics, compiled by the department of commerce and other business agen cies, declare there are less than 3,- 600,000 without work. Reporting of the higher unemployment figures ha3 slowed down buying, manufacturing and has had a detrimental influence on business all down the line, delegates re port. So it was deemed advisable at the outset to correct this misapprehen sion and immediately strike a shaft of optimism into the present business de pression. : ’ 2. Employment bureaus are to rec ommend for establishment in all lead ing cities^where unemployment is high. The work of these bureaus will involve the registration by municipalities of all pien who desire work and can’t find it. (Only local residents, not transients, will be so registered. 3. State and municipal executives, after this registration is completed and classified, will be urged to co-operate with municipal and state departments to put as many to work as possible on improvement, contemplated new proj ects, and seek the co-operation of local Industries and others in adding to their employment 4. To obtain addsld employment in industries, manufacturers will he urg ed to adopt emergency measures such as will shorten the work day a given per cent for those now employed, in order to permit of a corresponding per centage of increase in the number of employees. This would entail -perhaps a reduction of wages, corresponding to the reduced hours, for those now em ployed, but it would provide against jsuffering for thousands who are out of work. Lose Court Fight Atlanta.—The petition to enjoin mayor and council of Kirkwood from holding- an election on September 28, to decide whether or not that town will merge with Atlanta, was denied |hy Judge John B. Hutcheson, of the I Stone Mountain circuit, recently, af- iter having heard five speakers discuss' ■the question for four and one-half fmra, - '! 9. S. ARMY RESERVE PROVIDE FOR ORGANIZATION TO 1 PRODUCE 4,000,000 TROOPS IN AN EMERGENCY Brief News Items Gathered Here And There From All Section Of ' The State Atlanta.—Double decorations for two notable conventions to be held in Atlanta the week of October 10 are suggested by the Atlanta convention bureau, one convention being that of the International Association of Fire Chiefs of the United States and Can ada, and the other being the Nation al Association of Railway and Utilities Commissioners. Secretary Fred Hous er, of the convention bureau, sug gests that flags of the United States and Canada be used together in de corations in honor of the fire chiefs of the dominion. Mayors from all parts of Georgia are ooming to Atlanta for the fire chiefs convention, it is Indicated by Mayor Key’s replies to bis recent letter of invitation sent to 600 mu nicipal executives. Among those ac cepting the invitation are Mayor W. R. .Turner, of Milieu; Mayor J. T. Dennis, Jr., of Elberton; Mayor S. H. Dunson, of LaGrange; Mayor W. D. Peeples, of Valdosta; Mayor Sam T. Harrell, of Quitman; Mayor B. E. Lindsey, of Rome; City Manager E. P. Bridges, of Griffin, and City Man ager W. T. Hargret, of Tlfton. One of the big features of every fire chiefs’ convention ie an exhibit of the latest types of fire-fighting apparatus. The exhibit here will be the largest on record, with nearly $260,000 worth of equipment shipped here by manufacturers, embracing everything from a fireman’s helmet to a" monster pump, capable of run ning 24 hours without a stop. Mayor Key invited the Georgia mayors to witness demonstrations of nre-right- ing apparatus of visiting chiefs. Fire departments of all Georgia cities will be represented by their chiefs. Chief Frank Reynolds of Augusta, is first vice president of the asso ciation, and probably will be elevated to the presidency at the Atlanta con vention. A big party of eastern chiefs will spend a day with him en route to Atlanta. Indications point not only to the largest attendance of fire chiefs on record, but also the largest attend ance of wives and daughters of chiefs. Special entertainments being arrang ed for them by the Atlanta Woman’s club. Among chiefs who have al ready notified Chief Cody of their plans to bring- their wives or daugh ters or both, are Chief Mesnar, Can ton, Ohio; Chief Marrot, Quincey, 111.; Chief Gerstrung, Elizabeth, N. J.; Chief McNarrey, Kansas City; Chief Boissenin, Ottawa, Canada. OUTLINE IS_MADE PUBLIC To Assign Full War Complement Of Officers From Present Officers’ Reserve Corps Tired Of Dodging Law; Man Gives Up Atlanta.—Rather than spend sleep less nights as a fugitive from justice, I. H. Cleveland, wanted by federal authorities for violation of the mo tor vehicle theft act, surrendered to the United States district court re cently, entered a plea of guilty, and received a sentence of a year and a day in the federal penitenrialy. Cleveland was accompaniedi by his lawyer. The attorney told Judge S. H. Sibley that his client had dodged officers of the law until he was a living skeleton and was finally forced to return to his home in Bir mingham after roaming all over, Louis- ‘iana. Cleveland was charged with driving a stolen automobile from At lanta to Birmingham, Ala. Man Killed By Fall From Window Macon.—J. H. Bateman, aged 66, a machinist for the Georgia and Flor ida Southern railway shops, was fat ally injured recently when he fell from the second-story window of a boarding house at 456 Oak street. He died a half hour later at the Macon hospital. How he came to fall from the window had not been determined and the coroner will hold an inquest soon to investigate the matter. He was married and had a family. Bate man had not been living at 6 bome, how ever, for* several months'. Washington.—Comprehensive plans for creation of the organized reserve of the army on a basis that will per mit quick mobilization of more than four milion fighting men have been prepared by the general staff. An outline of the preliminary steps now in progress was made public recently by Acting Secretary Wainwright. The first step in perfecting the or ganized reserve will he to assign from the present officers’ reserve corps to the twenty-seven Reserve divisions, the full war strength complement of offi cers, in all more than forty-six thou sand. It is expected thiB can be com pleted by July, when creation of the non-commissioned enlisted personnel, involving the selection of many thou sands of men and their assignment to regiments, will be undertaken. De tailed plans In that regard have not been completed. Allocation of the reserve divisions by army corps area and states from which their personnel will be drawn is as follows: First corps (Boston): 76th division, Massachusetts; 94th, Connecticut and Rhode Island; 97th, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine. Second corps (New York): 77th New York City and environs; 78th, New Jer sey and Delaware; 98th, New York state, outside of New York City. Third corps (Baltimore): 79th, east ern Pennsylvania; 80th, Virginia, Ma ryland and District of Columbia; 99th, western Pennsylvania. The second army area contains the following reserve divisions allocations: Fourth corps (Atlanta): 81st divi sion, Tennessee and North Carolina; 82d division, Georgia, South Carolina and Florida; 87th division, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Fifth corps (Indianapolis): 83rd, Ohio; 84th, Indiana; 100th, Kentucky and West Virginia. Sixth corps (Chicago): 86th, Michi gan; 86th, Illinois; 101st, Wisconsin. Third army area: Seventh corps (Omaha): 88th, North Dakota, Minne sota and Iowa; 89th, South Dakota, Ne braska and Kansas; 102d, Arkansas and Missouri. Eighth corps (San Antonio): 90th, Texas; 96th, Oklahoma; 103d, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado. ^ Ninth corps (San Francisco): 91sE, California; 96th, Washington and Ore gon; 104th, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Mon tana and Wyoming. It was pointed out that the organ ized reserve can be employed only by specific act of congress. At present, thero is no thought that the divisions ever will be called out except in a national emergency, and the plans were prepared only to prevent delays and huge emergency expenditures in mobi lization for the great war. The active military force of the country remains the skeletonized regular army, backed by the National Guard, subject to con stitutional limitations as to the em ployment as the second line of defense and with the organized reserve, or the nation armed for war, as the third and ultimate line. Red Liquor Falla To Materialize Americus.—Gilbert Carter, a negro living near Flint river, reasoned that muscadines put into beer would make red! liquor, so he put some into the. mash when he decided to make a run, some time ago. Last night he was busy stilling the stuff when Sheriff Harvey walked into his cabin. Only white liquor had been made when the sheriff arrived, which greatly puzzled the negro. So deeply was he inter ested in the effort to make red liquor until he forgot the serious charge against him, and asked the sheriff why the muscadines made, "only white liquor like the other niggers make.” He was brought to Americus and lodged in jail, where he still lan guishes in default of bond. aaoaaaoaaooaaoaaooaaQoaaaoeoaaaQaaaaaoaooeiaeaaaoacHsaBr VULCAN ORCHARD j PLOWS. Vulcan Steel Beam Chilled Plows in One-horse and Two-horse sizes. Vulcan Hillside Plows Vulcan Middle Busters * Vulcan Road Plows Vulcan Power Lift Tractor Gangs We Carry a Complete Supply of Vulcan Plow Fixtures, HEARD BROTHERS, MACON, GEORGIA. Our Perry Agency can Supply you. ianaBPaaBBQoonaDaaoaaaaoaaoaaooaaBaaaaaaaaanaaaBaBi These are Just a Few of The Many Ar ticles that You Will Find at Any Time You Come to See Us Full Width Sheeting 50c yd. Yard Wide Sheeting 12 l-2c yd, '. Fancy Voiles 20c yd. Childrens Fancy Sox 25c pr. And Don’t Forget We Also Handle Plain and Fancy Groceries. PERRY MERCANTILE CO. DON’T BE DECEIVED Buy your Goods for Cash and I will sell you, Grocer ies,! Hardware, Enamelware, Crockery, Stoves, Range*, Glassware, Churns, Etc., CHEAPER than any man in Perry. I am in business to stay; I know that all Mer chandise is cheaper than it was six months ago; I have taken my loss and if you buy from me I will not sell yon one article for less thanjjcost and make it up on something else. All I ask is an opportunity to L meet honest compel tition on any line I sell. Lets Forget the Blues, Go To Worfe.and Make The Best of It. J. W. BLOODWORTH, “THE FARMERS FRIEND/’ PERRY, - GEORGIA. Perry Warehouse Co., Perry, Gr., Gentlemen Having completed inspection of your warehouse and records on Sept. 22,1921, I take this method of com plementing you on the system of accounting and general methods of business, which meets all the requirements of the Federal Reserve Bank. I find very few warehouses and records as well kept as yours. Yours very truly, John F. Threadaway, Cotton Warehouse Inspector, Federal .Reserve Bank.