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VOL. LX.
PERKY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY OCTOBER 13,1921.
No. 41
DEBATE ON FUNDS
DECIDES TO POSTPONE MEAS
URES UNTIL AFTER ARM
AMENT CONFERENCE
OATH OF OFFICE IS ADMINISTER.
ED TO FORMER PRESIDENT
W. H. TAFT
THREE POWERS.TO MEET
Strong Sentiment Among Lawmakers
To Ban Warship Building During
i World i Gathering v
-rvasmngton.—mvKatrogJ recent^
to Belgium, the Netherlands and Por*
; tugal to participate in the approach
ling conference on the limitation of
armament, closes the book. This,
therefore, limits the conference to
five major and four minor powers, the
major powers being the United States,
Great Britain, Prance, Japan and Italy,
while the minor powers are China, , p ied the highest executive office in
Belgium, Portugal and Netherlands. j t he nation, by the senior associate jus-
The latter powers are not interested jtj C e, Joseph McKenna'. The oath
in the problem of naval disarmament taken by.Mr. Taft supplemented the
but are keenly interested in the prob- constitutional oath administered on
Jems of the Par East in that they :j u i y soon after the appointment
have many conflicting interests with j 0 f the former president by President
USUAL RlTESABE OBSERVED
Senior Associate Justice Joseph Mc
Kenna Administered Oath Of Of
fice To New Chief AJustide
Washington.—Administration or me
judicial oath of William Howard
.Taft, the new chief justice of the Unit
ed States, marked the reconvening of
the Supreme court for the regular fall
tierm.
The oath was administered' to Mr.
Taft, who thereby became the first
chief justice to have previously occu-
Great Britain in that issue.
The house committee on appropria
tions has tentatively decided not to
take up or discuss the army and navy
appropriation bills for the fiscal year
beginning July 1, 1922, until after the
armament conference, and there is
now a strong movement to have this
government stop all work on warships
during the conference. President
Harding will be urged to that end,
Senators Borah and, Poremene taking
the initiative. These senators are of
the opinion that such a suspension by
the United States would make a con
siderable impression in the world. It
might not impress foreign delegates
to the disarmament conference, but
Lt, would impress the people of the
countries from which the delegates
come, the senators hold.
"If the world gets to know that
America is honest about this disarm
ament matter the people in other
countries will exert a tremendous In
fluence of their delegates to the Wash
ington conference, and we shall end
by having all the nations honestly and
earnestly seeking ways to reduce arm
aments,” said Borah,
i "But how farcical for us to go on
building dreadnaughts, cruisers and
destroyers while we solemnly talk
about limiting naval armaments.
"Of course, we will be told that
the other nations with naval programs
are continuing. This continuance will
doubtless be based upon financial
grounds. We will be told it means
loss to the government to stop work
on warships now under construction.
"But to a great many folks m the
country it will appear that the way to,
disarm is to stop building any more
engines of war. And it will be a great
deal easier not to resume buildings
after the conference that It will ce.to
stop them, and a great deal cheaper.”
The determination of the nouse ap
propriations committee to hold up ac
tion on the big supply bills was not
only to prevent embarrassment to the
administration during the parley by
having congress debate armament ex
penditures but because the conference
may dictate material changes in the
amount of money the navy and army
will actually require.’’
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OF GEORGIA ROADS VULCAN ORCHARD
PLOWS.
NEW AND SYSTEMATIC PROGRAM
OUTSTANDING FEATURES
OF ACTIVITIES
Harding.
The administration of the judicial
oath, the final step in the induction of
a new chief justice, was attended by
all of the age-old ceremony attached
to the nation’s highest tribunal. The
oath binds the chief justice to "admin
ister justice without respect to persons
and do equal right to the poor and the
rich.”
. The induction of the chief justice ac
complished, James M. Beck, the new
solicitor general of the United States,
'was presented to the court, and then
ithe various attorneys whose applica
tions to practice before the court had
been approved since the court’s ad
journment last June. .
The chief justice and the associate
Justices, at the conclusion of these
ceremonies, followed the custom estab
lished years ago, and went to the white
.house to pay their respects to the
president
■Will Introduce New Amendment Soon
Washington.—The council of the na
'tionAl woman’s party, after two days’
discussion, has;decided that the con
stitutional amendment removing legal
inequalities of women will be intro
duced at the beginning of. the regular
session In December. It was thought
that introduction at the present time
would be useless because of the pos
sibility of an adjournment of congress,
And the short time remaining for dis
cussion. The amendment is designed
!to remove all legal inequalities now
operating against women, in all states.
The council decided that the dedica
tion fo the new home of the party
should occur in November, with suit
able- ceremonies.
David Bispam, Singer, Passes Away
New York.—David Bispam, baritone
and one of the best-known American^
lyric artists, died of intestinal trouble
recently after an illness of Bix weeks.
He was 64 years of age. A widows
and two daughters survive him. Mr.
Eispam, a native of Philadelphia, made
his operative debut in London in 1891.
After a successful career abroad, he
came to the Metropolitan Apera com
pany, singing baritone roles in Frenoh,
German, Italian and English. He was
one of the founders of the Society of
American Singers, producing classic
opera , comique in English.
Manufactured Goods’ Value Tripled
Washington.—Totaling almost $63,-
000,000,000, the value of the products
of the nation’s manufacturing indus
tries in 1920 were three times as great
as they were in 1910 and five and a
half times what they were in 1900, ac
cording to the census bureau’s an
nouncement of. last yearA.manufacture!
goods census
Children’s Mother Not Preacher’s Wife
Meridian, Miss.—Charged with de
serting his family, Rev. W. E. Bennett,
Nazarene preacher, testified at his
trial that the woman with whom he
admitted living twenty-eight years and
the mother of his eight children, is
not his wife. Bennett said his only le
gal marriage was to a young woman
of Bell county, Texas, whom he wed
ded, acording to his testimony, last
January. A 26-year-old daughter of the
preacher testified that she knew of no
grounds for her father leaving her
mother. A brother of the defendant,
Rev. L. Bennett, a Methodist minister,
was among the witnesses.
STATE NEWSJF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Section Of
The State I
Atlanta.—A new and f systematic
program of road maintenance in Geor
gia is to be the outstanding feature of
highway improvement activities in the
state for the coming year, according
to plans announced by IL W. Neel,
state highway engineer.
Commencing January 1, 1922, the
state department will take over the
upkeep of the 6,500 miles of roadways
included in the state highway system
—the 1 trunk lines arteries which reach
more than three-quarters of the pop
ulation of Georgia—leaving the coun
ties free to devote their energies to
the repair of the lateral or "feeder”
roads.
In pursuance of this plan, the state
will he divided into eleven road dis
tricts, each of which will have a main
tenance supervisor in charge of up
keep of approximately 6,600 miles of
road. The district in turn will be
divided into fifty-mile patrol sections
with a foreman and five patrolmen
on each section, one patrolman to
every ten miles of road.
The patrol sections will have com
plete equipment, consisting of one
tractor, one truck, five road drags,
one road machine, five slip scrapes,
along with small tools. In addition
to the patrol section Equipment, con
sisting of 10-ton hoe tractors* ‘■large
road machines, scarifiers and other
implements which will cover the en
tire distrlot, doing the heavy machine
work several times a year. This
maintenance work by the dtate high
way department will not only release
the counties from upkeep of the state
system of roads, but will also put
this entire system In a passable condi
tion 365 days in a year. It is esti
mated that about 60 per cent of funds
derived from automobile license fees
will suffice for state maintenance
work, leaving 40 per cent of this
fund for ubb of counties in matching
federal aid appropriations.
Retain Matheson, Teoh Board’s Aim
j Atlanta.—State-Wide interest is cen
tered in the meeting of the board of
trustees of the Georgia School of
Technology, at which the board
will discuss the situation that
,has arisen with reference to an offer
to Dr. K. G. Matheson. Tech’s pres
ident, of th£ presidency of Drexel in
stitute at Philadelphia. Dr. Matheson
has not announced his decision on the
offer, which would afford him more
than twice as large a salary as he is
receiving at Tech, and officials and
those interested in Tech’s welfare
have been deeply stirred in their ef-.
forts to provide means to retain the
services of Dr. Mathesoij.
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,
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MACOH, GEORGIA.
Our Perry Agency can Supply you.
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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.
Atlanta Man T« Argue First Case
Washington.—The reconvening of
Supreme court and the induction of
Chief Justice Taft into office marks
the opening of a calendar congested
with eases, one of the most important
of which, in its effect upon future liti
gation in this country, is to be argued
early in the week by an Atlanta attor
ney, Hollins N. Randolph of the law
firm of Randolph & Parker. The case
at issue Is without precent in the Su
preme court of the United States.
Watson’s Spring Bankrupt
Athens. — Watson's Spring, Inc. f
went into involuntary bankruptcy re
cently, the petition being filed with
Judge W. G. Cornett, of Athens, the
deputy of the federal court. The in
corporation includes the spring, a
hotel valued at $16,000 and approxi
mately 500 acres of land. The entire
plant is valued at $50,000.
Labor Committee To Hold Hearings
Washington.—The senate labor
committee will resume hearings in
Washington soon in its investigation
of disorders in the Mingo, West Vir
ginia, coal region. Chairman Kenyon
announced recently that it had been
planned to start the .hearings soon,
but it was found impossible to obtain
•witnesses — —‘
Charged With 8ale Of Narcotics
Macon.—A. D. Faber, a former phy
sician of Macon, who now claims At
lanta as his home, was arrested here
recently by narcotic inspectors, who
said they purchased, through an out
sider, two drams of morphine from
hha and found more on his person
when they raided his room at a board
ing house on Third street.
Floyd, Farmers Marketing Cotton
Rome.-—The week Just closed proved
to be the best in a long time in the
local cotton market, the receipts here
by wagon averaging daily mere than
three hundred bales and therq seems
to be no holding at alL Farmers seem
to have profited by their experience of
last season in holding and being finally,
Zeroed to sell at low prices.
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 you
one article for less tbanjeost and make it up on something
else. All I ask is an opportunity to L meet honest compe
tition on any line I sell. '
Lets Forget the Blues, Go To Worte 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. 22,1921,1 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.