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JOHN H. HODGES, Prop’*. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE $1.50 a Year In Advance 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.’’ PI hm FOD lipifrrp l g aaaaaoaaaaaa BBC | aaaaaaaaaaocNBioaaocNaDoapooaaaoaaoeH3Kia 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, HEARD BROTHERS, MACOH, GEORGIA. Our Perry Agency can Supply you. i inMDoaanaaDoaaaanaMaaaaaaaaoaaaaaaacKiaaaaaaoaoaai 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.