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PERKY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1923.
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No. 19
'ATLANTA, MACON, AUGUSTA, SA*
VANNAH AND COLUMBUS
TO GET REDUCTIONS
ISTATE NEWsToF INTEREST
, jBrief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Seotlons Of
The State
' Atlanta.—Reductions In telephone
.rates estimated to save live Georgia
cities $328,235.28 per annum was
made on May 1 by the Southern Bell
'Telephone and Telegraph company, in
obedience to an order Issued by the>
public service commission on April 10.
Atlanta, Savannah, Macon, Augusta
and Columbus have borne the brunt
of the Increased rates allowed by the
commission on March 1, 1921. There
are minor reductions to be made in
other cities in the state on the same
date, it is announced.
Present and reduced rates in the
five largest cities in the state are as
follows:
Atlanta.
Present. May 1.
Single line business— $10.60 $10.00
•Two party business 9.80
Single line residence.....^. 6.00
Two line residence 4.00
Four party residence........ 3.50
Macon and Augusta,
Single line business $ 6.60
Two line business............ 6.00
Single line residence....... 3.90
Two line residence 3.30
Savannah.
Single line business........$ 7.60
Two line business 6.90
Single line residence .*. 4.35
Two line residence 3.76
Columbus.
Single line , business $ 6.25
Two line business .... 6.60
Single line resideifbe 3.75
Two line residence —. 3.10
Four party residence. 2.50
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4.60
3.50
2.75
$ 6.26
6.76
3.65
3.30
$ 7.00
6.25'
4.00
3.25
| 6.00
6.25
3.60
2.75
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' Silence Funeral Bells, Urges Patter
Atlanta.—Abandonment of the cus
tom of ringing funeral bells at the en
trance to Westview cemetery' because
of the depressing effect of the bells on
the- community was recently urged In
the preclude to a sermon at the Bap
tist Tabernacle by Rev. John W. Ham,
the pastor. "My heart had often been
stirred over the injustice done the peo
ple living in the vicinity of .West View
cemetery by the constant ringing of
the funeAil bells at the entrance to the
cemetery.” he said. Hundreds of wom
en, and children axe forced to listen
almost hourly to the ever-recurring re.
minder of death. The psychology of
fuch a suggestion is sufficient to de
press a hehjthy normal person, in this
thickly populated section there are
many who are constantly sick. The
presence of the cemetery is of itself In
air of its silence depressing enough
but! to add to It the sad tolling of bells
oyery hour is enough to become excru
ciating in its action upon the mind and
the nerveB." /
[ New Cotton Bill Dleeusaed Here
; ; Atlanta.—More than two hundred
Cotton growers, mill owners, buyers and
'^department of agriculture representor
'.fives, from Georgia and the CardKaas,
gathered recently at the Atlanta Com
mercial exchange, and discussed vari
ous phases of the Fulmer bill, or cotton
standards act, which will go into ef
fect in Ajfcupt Lloyd S. Tenny, as
sistant cbgf of the bureau of agricultu
res of the department of ag-
eaded that department's del-
d explained what effect the
„„„ „ wv _ have on those interested
1 in the cMton Industry stating that he
m believed the bill is of benefit to the
* ^-rower, for the reason that his cotton
11 be classified* that is, examined
,nd placed in certain clasBeB, such as
iddling and, poor middling without any
large.
will bar liquor:
PRIVATE OWNERS MAY DEVISE
MEANS OF BENEFITING
BY DECISION
COMPLICATKARE CERTAIN
State Department Officials Are Now
Concerned Over Probability Of
Retaliatory Measures v
Washington.—The government-own
ed merchant fleet will continue bone
dry beyond the three-mile limit, re
gardless of the supreme court's decis
ion that liquor may be carried by
Americans ships on the high seas.
President Harding has decided to ad
here scrupuously to the spirit as well
as the letter of the prohibition act.
He will presently make known his in
tention not to take advantage of the
loophole offered by the supreme court.
But private owners of ships under
the American flag are likely to be
less conscientious. Floating bars prob
ably will be opened in large numbers
by Americans to bob at anchor Just
beyond the three-mile limit where they
can put liquor aboard out-going ships
and take -it off of incoming ones—all
under the gun muzzles of the helpless
rum chasers scouting along the edge
of the forbidden zone.
Political and international complica
tions growing out of the court’s de
cision recently will he far-reaching.
Briefly, it was held that no ship,
American or foreign, can bring liquor
within the three-mile zone, even as
ship’s stores sealed under bond. The
court! overturned a previous ruling of
Attorhey General Daugherty and held
that American? ships are free to carry
liquor when outside the territorial
waters, though it conceded congress
the right to regulate this traffio, or
:to suppress it altogether.
The prospects are that congress will
enact a law suppressing it and mak
ing Amqrlcan ships hone dry both
when inside and when outside of the
three-mile zone. Drys set about round
ing up their forces to this end imme-
jdlately upon learning of the supreme
jcourt’s action. Wayne B. Wheeler,
general counsel of the Anti-Saloon
-league, said congress would take ac
tion when It reassembles in Decem
ber. Wets are confident they will win
If the fight is reopened and both sides
will use the question as a test of pro
hibition in advanee of the coming pres
idential campaffcij. /Wets , are eager
te show that the .tide is turning in
their favor whfle'sttrye are equally de
termined to prove that the country is
'mom favorable to prohibition than
ever*
INJUNCTION PROCEEDINGS TO' BE
CARRIED THROUGH, SAYS
DAUGHERTY
TO
FUTURE TIE-UP
Presented Evidence Of “Ramifications
Of Disorder And Property Damage
Attendant On The Strike"
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Emerson Hough, Noted Author, Dead
Chicago.-—Emerson Hough, author,
idled in a hospital in Evanston. Mr.
jHongh was 66 years old and was taken
(to the hospital suffering from intesti
nal of struction. An operation wne per-
'formed. Heart and respiratory compli-
Ications caused death. Mr. Hough, who
was a devotee of outdoor life, bgd wjr!£•
ten many western stories. Hie meat
.recent book, "The Covered Wagon,'’
eras reproduced in motion pictures. In
the winter of 1895, donning skis, he
park and his activity after this trip
was credited with instigating the act
of congress-protecting buffalo herds.
School. Census Shows Increase
Dalton.—The contention of Dalton
that thegovernment missed many res
idents oi Dalton jin taking the federal
census in 1920 is ’ borne out by the
school census just completed here, it
|b said. The school census lists the
names of 2,438 children between the
ages of 6 and 18—1,987 whites and 461
colored. • ' ......
MtHMcttni Decides To Clean House
Rorae^dPremier, ,.03enito Mussolini
has deeid&H, to clean house within his
own faacistr^arty, according to air in
dications. The moral standard of the
fascist!, the Giarnale Roma declares,
has been lowered because of many un
worthy elemmtlg. have recently joined
the popular order. Because of this con
dition, Mussolini has decided to close
enrollment and undertake a rigid and
Washington. — Attorney General
Daugherty declared that the injunc
tion proceedings in Chicago against
leaders of railroad shopmen who were
on strike last year “must be carried
to a final conclusion in order that
universal strikes which, interfere with
the transportation system of the coun
try shall be a thing of the past.” •
Mr. Daugherty said he had instruct
ed Blackburn Esterline, assistant so
licitor general, in charge of the gov
ernment’s case tb proceed with the
the px'esentation of evidence despite
the withdrawal from the iproceedings
of counsel for the various defendants.
The case, he declared, will not he
permitted to go by default.
Mr. Esterline was instructed to con
fer immediately with Jacob M. Dick
son and Orville J. Taylor, special as
sistants to the attorney general, who
have had charge of the taking of tes
timony, and to arrange with them to
lay before the court all of the evi
dence obtained by the government.
In a statement, the attorney gen
eral said he was determined that his
assistants should present the entire
mass of evidence obtained “against
those who were responsible for the
chaos, destruction of property, inter
ruption of Interstate commerce and
the taking of life brought about by
the strike conditions when 400,000
shopmen were directed by their lead
ers and radicals to lay down their
tools, crippling transportation sys
tems, impeding Interstate commerce
and threatening the food and fuel sup
ply of the nation."
The attorney general said he was
not surprised at the withdrawal of
counsel for the labor leaders, as he
had an intimation recently that, Buch
step might be taken. Since the
granting of file temporary Injunction,
Mr. Daugherty added, he has steadfast
ly refused to dismiss the case notwith
standing requests of the defendants'
counsel that he do sa
In his statement Mr. Daugherty de
clared that at the time temporary
tajuUetlop was granted and since, he
presented to the court “cumulative evi
dence of irrefutable character—evi
dence that indicated positively the ex
tent and the ramifications of the dis
order and law violations, property
damage and loss of life caused by the
strike.
"Since the injunction was granted,"
he added, "hundreds of those guilty
of violations of the law, destruction
of property and the taking of life have
been prdeecutod and sentenced all
over- the country."
Rum Ruling Forms New Perplexities
Washington.—The liquor problem has
again become the paramount concern
of the federal government as a result
of the decision of the Supreme court
drawing a prohibition deadline around
the territory and territorial waters of
the United States. On one side offi
cials turned their attention searchingly
to the question of what to dp in the
face of the court’s ruling that outside
the three-mile edadllne American ships
can become under the present law as
wet as they desire,
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Head Of David Colony Freed By Court
Marysville* Ohio.—Steadfastly refus-
. . , . ,_ , ,lng to reveal his identity during more
.. ,. . st 1 r, 6 inemb ® r ‘ than twenty-four hours of incarceration
shlp g list. expelling the. spurious ele-| in the county Jafl her6j Whlle an jnves .
* tigation was made in an effort to identi-
Teacher Is Killed And Children Hurt
Hutchinson, Kans.—A tprnado which
struck a rural school house about 22
miles southwest of Syracuse, Kans., is
.reported to have killed Miss Winifred
Rogers, teacher of the Sher.wood school,
and injured three of her pupils.
Blanche Green, pupil, was carried a hall
mile by the tornado and dropped, with
fy him, a man thouhgt to have been
“King Benjaimn Purnell, missing lead
er of the Israelite House of David col
ony, was released from custody by
Sheriff Charles Collier qf,Union county.
Chemists Heads Nitrate Investigation
Washington.—Harry L. Curtis, an in
dustrial chemist, was appointed by
.. . . „ . ... * QT _ Secretary Hoover to head the nitrate
no other injury than a broken arm. . „ gr . . .
ircvn q 1™ md. parried a Investigation authorized by congress in
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quarter of a mile and was scalped. Her the Question of fertilize ^ -
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.quarter of a mile and was scalped. Her
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