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JOHN H. HOMES, Proper. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE
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PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY JANUARY 5, 1922.
No. 1.
FARMER BETRAYED
SAYS LA FOLLETTE
IS MAPE TO SERVE INTERESTS OF SOCIALIST LEADER IS GIVEN
HARDING FREES III. S. FUNDS READY
V. DEBS
RAILROADS, 8AYS SENATOR’S
STATEMENT
!s*ys They Agreed Not To Push Le{f
\ Islatlon To Repeal Seotlon Of
j Transportation Act
i Washington.—Charges were nu*de
;by Senator LdFollette of Wisconsin,'
jin a formal statement issued recently
jthat representatives of the railroad!
and of the coal, steel and lumber in
terests, at a "secret” meeting held in
Washington, December 9, attempted
to obtain from farm organization lead
ers and did obtain from some leaden
adherence to-an agreement to not push
legislation to repeal the commonly
called guaranty section of the trans
portation act and to restore state con
trol of state rates.
The Wisconsin senator made his
Charges in elaborating on his asser
tion “that a plan is now afoot to per-
petuato the fundamental provisions of
the transportation act, embodied in
section. 16 A (the guaranty section of
which portion expires next March 1)
i and 1 to render permanent the Intoler
able conditions which have made the
transportation system for the past two
years an instrument for the exploita
tion of the American people."
In substantiation of- his charges,. Mr.
La Follette made public what hq de
scribed as “a brief report of the ac
tion of the conference" held here, De
cember 9, which he branded "as a
’conspiracy to betray not only the farm
ers, but the consuming and the pro-
- duclng millions of the nation."
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WOMAN SHERIFF READY
j TO PERFORM HER DUTY
} IN HANGING OF MAN
HIS LIBERTY THROUGH
COMMUTATION
.Debs Silent About Mission, But It It
Believed His Future Activities
Will Be Discussed
Waukon, Iowa.—When Earl Throst,
.convicted slayer of a girl school teach
er, goes to the gallows for his crime,
another, woman will be his execu
tioner; She iq Mrs, Gunda Martin-
dale, sheriff of Alamakeq county,
where Thrqst must go to the gallows.
It is the. first hangihg during the
term of the woman sheriff and she
said she would not display any femi*
• nine.fears at performing her duty. "I
haYe to spring the trap on Throst and
HI do my duty,” she stated. Throst
was found guilty of murdering pretty
Inga Magnusqn in a lonely school
room. Mrs. Martindale effected the
doomed- man’s capture after an excit
ing chase behind bloodhounds.
FOR STATE
WORKINGS OF WAR FINANCE
CORPORATION EXPLAINED BY
LEADERS AT ATLANTA
Graves And Cots Filled With Whisky
Chicago.—The results of Christmas
celebrating here is causing consider
able apprehension over what may hap
pen New Year's’ Fifty victims of
moonshine liquor fill cots in the coun
ty hospital. Doctors say they will re
cover most of them, within a week.
One man was in so completely dazed
a condition that surgeons took ten
Stitches in a badly lacerated face, and
he didn’t even notice It. "It never used
fio be like , this," said Dr. Karl A. Mey
er, chief of staff. Oprcmaw Hoffman
also announced <W deaths from alco
holism this year, as against 20 last
year.
Guatemala Approves Pact In Principle
Washington.—According to official
advices from" Guatemala received here,
the national assembly has ratified In
principle the pact providing for the
the cretation of a central American
union. Signor Marcial Prem, a dis
tinguished lawyer, has been named. del
egate to the convention which will
meet in February at Tegucigalpa, Hon
duras, the dispatch soya.
Charges Husband With White Slaving
Tacoma, Wash.—William Stubbs, a
hotel keeper, is in jail on a white
slave charge prefered by his wife,
Maude Moore Stubbs, recently acquit
ted at Knoxville, Tenn., of the murder
of Leroy Hart. Mrs. Stubbs alleges
that when she arrived from Knoxville
She found “another woman in her home
and that her husband asked her to
earn her own living.
Washington. — Eugene V. Debs,
former socialist candidate for presi
dent serving a sentence of ten years
at Atlanta penitentiary for violating
the espionage act, and 23 other'per
sons convicted on various charges .of
hindering the government during the
war with Germany, received from Pres
ident Harding commutation of sen
tences to become effective Christmas
day. At the same time five former
American soldiers serving life sen
tences pronounced by a military court
for the murder of a British officer
while serving with the American
army on the Rhine, received full par
dons, effective Christmas day.
The action was taken after the de
partment of justice had studied sep
arately the cases of 197 persons serv
ing sentences for violating war-time
laws and after Attorney • General
Daugherty had discussed the situation
at length with President Harding, who
was said to be desirlous, if possible,
of granting some pardons for Christ
mas. The commutations, it was ex
plained, do hot operate to restore citi
zenship lost by the felony convictions
but the. pardons do. Several of / the
civilian offenders will he deported to
the European countries of their na
tivity; two are under observation at
hospitfils. Jor insane, and others now
are out on paroles which were grant
ed by President Wilson.
..There was no official information
as to the. reason for Debs being sum
moned -t6 the White House,- but it
was believed that President Harding
desired to discuss with the famous
war prisoner and Socialist leader his
future activities.
As he neared Washington, Debs said
that he was not permitted to dis
cuss his “mission,” and that he had
made a pledge that he. would not per
mit himself to be interviewed. x ’
Debs regards himself as a free man
and expects to proceed from Washing
ton to his home in Terre Haute.
“I feel like a young panther,” said
the Socialist leader on his arrival in
Washington.
Debs has come out of the, prison
where he was sentenced three years
ago a little aged, physically worn, but
full of his. old fighting spirit.
He will make no pledge' to the
President' that will bind him to cur
tail his future activities, those close
to him emphatically declared.
If he rests after, his return to his
home in Terre Haute, it will be only
for a short time, his friends say. They
predict he will tour the country, agi
tating for the release of the I. W. W.’s
and other political prisoners convict
ed during theVar, and expounding his
views in the same militant manner as
of yore. He is expected in his con
ference with the President to make
protest because general amnesty for
political'prisoners had not been grant
ed, and plead for those still imprison
ed.
The Soviet government of Russia
bate invited'' the Socialist leader to be
its guest, it was learned. Debs Is
considering the invitation, it was
stated, and later may visit the Bol
shevist country to study its form of
government and the results achieved
by the, Cpmmunlsta.
The socialist leader was accom
panied to Washington by his brother,
Theodore Debs, Miss Lucy Robbins,
secretary of the American Federation
of Labor Amnesty Committee, and
Miss Celia Trotter, representative of
the Debs Freedom League, and David
Karsner, his biographer.
Atlanta.--That a clear and intelli
gent public understanding of the na
ture and workings of the Wax Finance
corporation, which has distributed
182,000,000 to relieve the general fi
nancial depression, $8,000,000 of which
has been used in Georgia and Florida,
is necessary for the state to secure
the greatest good from the institution
was the assertion of leaders in the
corporation’s activities here recently.
Particular attention of small, solidly-
founded and well-conduoted t banks of
this section was drawn to the matter.
Georgia and Florida eotapose a dis
trict of the corporation, which is un
der the jurisdiction of a board com
posed of John K. Ottley, of Atlanta,
chairman; L. R. Adams, of Atlanta;
C. W. Skinner, of Waynesboro; Mills
B. Lane, ef Savannah; Augustus E.
Young, of Cedartovm; W. F. Coach
man, of Jacksonville; D. M. Lowry
of Tallahassee, and T. L. Wilson, of
Bartow; the latter three being tho
^Florida members. With this board
there has recently, been added Robert
E. Harvey, secretary, with offices at
316 Palmer building, and Hollins N.
Randolph, the general counsel for
the Federal Reserve bank, who is
made general counsel for the district
board of the War Finance corpora
tion. These latter two officials es
pecially devote their attention to in
struction and information of the bank
ers and the business enterprises in
their district, and from them may be
obtained the guidance necessary to
bring a clear understanding and the
aid which the plan holds out for re
lief of the so-called “frozen credits.”
The board itself meets once a week
at its offices hero, but is subject to
call at any time for the consideration'
of applications.
General information, from credita
ble sources, is that the aggregate dis
tributions so far made by the corpor
ation, a lesser amount lias come into
this section of the agricultural coun
try than hap gone into the west and*
to tho larger cotton handling enter
prises, because of the fact that there
appears to be a lack of understanding
of the purposes and methods of func
tioning, and yet an explanation of
the system of operation makes per
fectly clear the fact that banking en
terprises throughout the state, and
through them the farming people as
individuals, have within their reach
all the financial aid necessary to pre
vent extreme stringency, an^l to carry
over through the period of after-war
readjustment.
To Assure Large Grain Crop
Rome.—A drastic move to force the
farmers of Floyd county to raise their
own foodstuffs next year was taken
at a meeting held recently by a com
mittee of the chamber, of commerce,
in conjunction with a committee of
the county farm bureau, when a res
olution was suggested declaring it the
sense of fhe two organizations that
farmers in this county who fail to
plant foodstuffs sufficient to at least
cover their own needs shall not r<$-
ceive credit or suppliM of money to
make their other evepa from business
men, cotton faoUce mr bankers.
, Plea<4a Guilty Te Running ftilll
Atlanta.-—Franklin Huff, once the
defendant in a federal peonage case,
entered a plea of guilty to a charge
of distilling at hie farm ta Spalding
ooointy whea arraigned before -Judge
Samuel H. Sibley. The United States
judge ordered him to pay a fine of
$360 or serve four months in the Ful
ton tewer. Huff was charged with
having a still in operation on his plan- 1
I tatioa. He is said to be one of the
mo3t prominent planters in his county.
I The peonage charge against him sev
eral months ago, on which he was ac
quitted, attracted wide attention.
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Vulcan Hillside Plows
Vulcan Middle Busters
* 'Vulcan Road Plows
Vulcan Power Lift Tractor Gangs
We Carry a Complete Supply of Vulcan
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TOURISTS GARAGE.
GENERAL AUTO REPAIRING
BY EXPERT MECHANIC.
Gas, Oil, As9esories
and Storage.
We Are At Your Service.
THE TOURISTS GARAGE
“ON BOTH HIGHWAYS”
Perry, * Georgia.
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DON’T BE DECEIVED
Buy your Goods for Cash arid I will sell you, Grocer
ies, ] Hardware, Enamelware, Crockery, Stoves, Ranges,.
Glassware, Churns, Etc.,. CHEAPER than any man in
Perry. l 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 thangcost and make it up bn something
else. All I ask is an opportunity to ^eet honest compe
tition on any line I sell.
Lets Forget the Blues, Go To Work and Make
The Best of It.
J. W. BLOODWORTH
“the Farmers friend.”!
PERRY, - GEORGIA
Urges Retaining U. S. Troops In Haiti
Washington. — Continuation of a
small American ’military force is nec
essary for the peace and development
of that country, in the opinion of the
special senate committee which has
just returned from an Investigation of
conditions In Haiti and the Domini
can republic.
Postmaster Appointed For Griffin
Griffin.—Robert L. William, * who
was appointed postmaster for Griffin
by President Harding, has assumed
charge of the local office, succeeding
William H. Wheaton, Jr. The new
postmaster states that, for the pres-'
ent at least, there will be no change
made in the personnel of the force at
the Griffin office.
We are in the market at all timet for Seed Cotton,
Cotton Seed, Peas, Velvet Beans and all
other farm products.
Bring us yjfcHproducts from the farm.
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