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JOHN H. HODGE5, Prop'r.
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VOL. LTII.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1923.
No. 11
TO CARSY WORLD
i MI TO PEOPLE
PRESIDENT TO GO OVER HEAD OF
HOSTILE SENATE IN ORDER
! TO CARRY OJT PROGRAM
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FOR AGRICULTURE
OPTIMISM KEYNOTE OF SPEECH
I BY PROF. J. PHIL CAMP-
j BELL, FARM EXPERT
WILL ANTAGONIZE FACTION STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
In Letter, Harding Says That It Is In
conceivable To Him That Amer
ica Should Turn Down Plan
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i Washington,—President Harding is
going over the head of the United
States senate to ask the support of the
people for his proposal to join the per
manent international court of justice
at The Hague. He has started on a
long controversy with a powerful fac
tion within his own party which may
lead directly into the next presidential
campaign.
Just before he left for Florida, the
president gave unmistakable evidence
of his intention to challenge the power
of the Borah-Jolmson-LaFollette faction
<n the senate. His purpose is to sum
mon the power of public opinion against
those within his own party who would
resist his efforts to lend the strength
ening hand of the United States to the
international tribunal. It promises to
be a fight us full of rancor as that
which Woodrow Wilson precipitated
when he tried to force the league of
nations upon a hostile senate. For the
United States senate has always been
Jealous of its jurisdiction over the na
tion’s foreign policy, and especially so
nince it won out in the great test case
which the league of nations Issue pro
vided.
The white house made public recent
ly an important letter which the pres
ident wrote to Lieut. Gov. Earl D.
Bloom of Ohio, acknowledging a res
olution of the Ohio senate commending
the international court proposal. In
that letter. President Harding made
this significant statement:
"I may say fravkly that it is con-
oflvable to me tha - the American peo
ple, who have so long been devoted to
this ideal should refuse their adherence
»ow to such a program as is represent
ed by this tribunal.
President Harding intends to make
Ills international court suggestion the
main theme of his speech - making tour
through the West this summer. He
confidently expects to start such a
backfire from the country that when
the senators return here next Decem
ber they will not dare oppose him.
logically, the president can count on
support from all pro-league Republi
cans and all pro - league Democrats.
Then he has a large body of opin
ion which, though suspicious of the
league of nations, favors the interna
tional court idea.
» Such powerful figures as Elibu
Root, George W. Wickersham and
Henry Taft can be counted upon to
use their influence within the Repub
lican party. While Democrats criticise
the proposal as belated, cannot con
sistently oppose it, many have already
signified their intention of supporting
the plan.
This leaves only the small group
of extreme Irreconcilables to carry
on the opposition. They could con
ceivably filibuster for some weeks
after the new congress meets, but,
With the country and the majority
ot the senate against them, such ob
structive tactics could not last long.
Therefore, the president is reason
ably sure of winning the senate’s con
sent before the next presidential
campaign gets fully under way and,
with that achievement to point to, he
believes that he will be well armed
agginst Democratic assault on his for
eign policy.
CLOW TO BONAR LAW GOVERN
MENT CREATES TREMEN-
DOUS SENSATION
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
j There From All Sections Of
The State
Athens.—“Prospects for agriculture
in Georgia during the coming year are
better than at any similar time in re
cent years," declared Prof. J. Phil
Campbell, director of extension work
for the state college of agriculture, in
an interview on farm conditions in
the state.
During the past month, Professor
Campbell has traveled extensively over
Georgia in the interests of his de
partment, an speaks from first-hand in
formation gathered while studying lo 1
cal conditions in agricultural pur
suits.
“People have gono back to work with
a spirit and determination that has not
been shown since tha boll weevil be
came so bad. When the weevil first
came, it stunned the people. They saw
what great damage was being done to
the cotton crop and they became dis
heartened. All of their other activi
ties were affected by their discourage
ment. But now they have gone back
to the job with a grim purpose not
to quit and the outlook for this year,
I think, is very much more hopeful.”
Attributing much of the new spirit
to llio interest aroused by the Btate
conference of farmers held here in
January, Professor Campbell affirmed
that the conference had had “a wonder
ful effect, 1 ' and that much good would
continue to come out of the gather
ing.
"The series of meetings in north
and south Georgia scheduled immedi
ately after tho conference," he declar
ed, “have put the message over to
the farmer. These meetelngs, one se
ries of which is now under way, were
conducted by men trained here during
the conference, men who have studied
the farmer’s needs and are well capable
of saying what the fanner must do if
he would save himself,
"The record attendance BhowB that
the bankers and business men of the
state are interested deeply in farm
conditions, as well as the farmer.
“In addition to the north Georgia
meetings, a series of cattle meeting in
south Georgia was held with a greater
attendance than e-er before, even
though the farmers of that section are
going to grow considerable cotton."
OUST THIRDJORY EMBER
Liberals Insist Government Should Re
quire France To Define Her Inten
tions Toward Germany
Tax Shortage Ca&e Is Settlde
Summerville.—The special meeting
of the Chattooga county board of com
missioners of roads and revenues, call
ed, for the purposeo f perfecting a set
tlement between tbe county and A. H.
Glenn, tax collector, and his-bondsmen
in regard to the shortage of the 1920
taxes, brought about an agreement to
settle the affair, the commissioners
agreeing to accept a settlement on
basis of 8 per cent interest
amount of the shortage and the pay
ment of all costs and attorneys' fees
3|>y Glenn and his bondsmen.
Clubs To Build Audltortum
Bainbridge.—Bainbridge is to have
a 8,000 seating capacity auditorium
with rooms for all clubs and organiza
tions. A meeting, called and presided
over in the city hall the other after
noon by Mrs. Gordon Choson, state
chairman of civics, resulted In the in
dorsement of practically all cl ( ubB and
organizations of the city for the proj
ect. Will Fleming, president of the
board of trade, was elected general
chairman, to take charge and go ahead
with all plans, but to be aided by repre
sentatives from all men's and women's
clubs and organizations. The building
is to be a handsome and modern one
in every respect
Tax Levy Election Deferred
Savannah.—Chatham’s election, for
an additional levy of 2 1-2 mills for
school purposes, set for March 1 by
Judge McAlpin at the request of more
than 10 per cent of the voters, has been
postponed.
London.—Another member of the
Bonar Law government, John Wallet
Hills, financial secretary of the treas
ury, was defeated for a scat in parlia
ment in a by election. The announce
ment caused a tremendous stir in po
litical circles.
Sir W. W. Rutherford, the sitting
member for the Edgohill division of
Liverpool, retired to provide a seat
for Mr. Hills, after the latter’s appoint
ment to Bonar Law’s cabinet. The
polling gave J. H. Hayes, Labor, 10,300,
and Mr. Hills, Conservative, 0,250.
Edgohill has been a Conservative
stronghold and apparently nobody
doubted that Mr. Hills would be re
turned. The Labor candidate is said to
have had not the least expectation of
victory.
The successive defeat of three cabi
net members in by-elections is unpre
cedented in parliamentary history.
The debate in the house of commons
on affairs in the Ruhr reflected the
strong growing feeling which has been
observed of late in the Liberal and La
bor press deprecating the government’s
attitude of benevolent neutrality and
insisting that England take a definite
stand, not necessarily withdrawing her
troops from the Rhine, but informing
Franco plainly in a formal note that
England disapproves of the French
policy and demandB that the French
government explicitly define its inten
tion towards Germany.
J. Ramsay MacDonald, leader of the
Laborites, moved a resolution that, with
a view to securing peace, England
should invite the French and Belgian
chambers to appoint representative
committees to meet a similar commit
tee of the house of commons to ex
change views on the occupation of the
Ruhr and the problems of security and
reparations.
Mr. MacDonald supported the reso
lution in a speech characterized by
moderation, which elicited from Mr. Bo
nar Law expressions of full agreement
with many of bis statements, but the
prime minister maintained hie previous
nositian that the time was not ripe for
intervention, that such a move would
be regarded as hostile to France and
that the government was not prepared
to assume that responsibility. He ap
pealed to the Labor leader not to press
the matter to a division, and the res
olution was talked out. Mr. MacDon
ald’s plan provoked little enthusiasm in
the house generally. Lord Robert Ce-
cile, H. A. L. Fieher and Mr. Bonar
Law all agreed that it had little to rec
ommend it, though many of the speak
ers voiced full sympathy with the La-
borite’s general references to the
French action.
Mr. MacDonald declared that France
was rewriting the treaty of Versailles
without consulting her allies, and
events were happening which were only
too likely to lead to a new war. He
feared that the nations were becoming
less shame - faced in openly talking of
preparations for the next war, and he
warned the house of the possibility of
France signing a separate peace with
Germany and presenting the allies with
the accomplished fact. He admitted
he did not insist upon the letter of
his resolution, but only upon its sub
stance.
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Potato Profits Show Increase
Newnan.—To the Coweta County
Sweet Potato association belongs much
credit for the increase in acreage and
profits from sweet potatoes in the coun
ty. In 1921 and 1922 there was a rapid
increase in the acreage here, causing
Divorced Wife Of Secretary To Marry
New York —A marriage license was
issued recently to Harry Arthur Leen,
30, a New York art dealer, and Mrs.
Nora Mary McMullen Mellon, 44, di
vorced wife of Andrew W. Mellon, of
Pittsburg, secretary of the treasury.
Mrs. Mellon could not be reached at
the construction of fourteen govern- j her apartment, 349 Park avenue, but
ment type curing houses, with a storage
capacity of about 36,000 bushels in 1921,
on the an< ^ nearl y doubling this in 1922. How-
sver, the selling in 1921 was not suc
cessful, as the entire crop was thrown
on the local market and brought only
around 60 cents per bushel. ‘
servants said they had been informed
the marriage would not take place at
present. The Mellon divorce proceed
ings became an international question,
following their separation in 1909, and
was brought before parliament in
England on several occasions. Mr.
Mellon obtained a divorce in Pittsburg
in 1912, They were married in 190QJ
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