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JOHN H. HODGES* Prop'r. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE $1.50 a Yo»r In Advance 55H 25^.* OL. LIII. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA.. THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1923- No. 25 . S. STANDARDS iUMIT AUTHORITY IN COTTON TRADE OF KANSAS COURT 1TERNATIONAL COTTON CON FERENCE REACHES AGREE MENT FOR ADOPTION INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COURT CANNOT REGULATE WAGES, SAYS SUPREME COURT DooaaoaoaooaaaDooDaaaaaaoaaaoaaaaooaoaaeoaaaoacHBaaao REIGN EXCHANGES TO AC1, DECISION DELIVERED BY TAFT nature Of Agreement Withheld state Law Declared Unconstitutional- Pending Confirmation Of Ac ceptance By Foreigners ! .Washington. — $ he International Is In Conflict With Fourteenth Amendment Washington.—The Kansas law creat- cptton conference reached an agree- J a s t a te Industrial relations court ?nt for the adoption of the United waa declared unconstitutional by the ites official cotton standards as the j supreme court so far as it attempted to fix wages in packing houses. Chiei sis for the world cotton trade. Slg- ture of the agreement was withheld , nding confirmation by cable from e various foreign cotton exchanges. The conference adjourned until June to await replies to the recommeu- tidns of the foreign delegates that United States standards and oth- Justice Taft, delivering the decision in a case brought by the Charles Wolff Packing Company of Topeka, said the law in that respect was in conflict with the fourteenth amendment, and depriv ed the company of its property and d their signatures placed on the doc ents questions agreed upon be adoptod liberty of contract without due process of law. "It has never been supposed since he members of the conference the adoption of the constitution," the eed upon the issuance of the fol- court declared, "that the business of ing statement of its proceedings: | the butcher, or the baker, the tailor, ‘The International cotton . confer- the wood chopper, the mining opera- ce, composed of representatives of tor or the miner was clothed with such verpool,'Havre and other continen- 1 a public interest that the price of his cotton exchanges, together with product of his wages could be fixed representatives of the American cot- by state regulation. . . Since the adop- ton trade and of the department of tion of our constitution, one does not High Grade Fertilizers L HOUSES COLLAPSE AS FLOOD SWEEPS THROUGH STREETS. LIGH.TNING PLAYS HAVOC STATE NEWS OF INTEREST Brief News Items Gathered Here And' There From All Se.ctions Of The State jrriculture, has adjourned until Mon- |y, June 18, after two days’ delibera- on the United States cotton stand- 13 act, which goes into effect on gust 1. "It is hoped by all that a satlsfao- .y solution of the difficulties con- devote one's property or business to the public use of clothe it with a pub lic interest merely because one makes commodities for, and sells to, the pub lic in the common callings of which those above mentioned are instances. "An ordinary producer, manufacturer, lered has been attained. The main Q r shopkeeper may sell or not Bell as j question under discussion wad the h e ukes, and while this feature does •;*floptio.n of universal standards, which not necessarily exclude business from standards the European delegates the class clothed with a public interest, ive agreed to recommend for adop- on by the various foreign exchanges. The result of the. deliberations of conference is being cabled to the 'ious foreign exchanges. It is hoped that within a few days irmation of what has been agreed the conference will be fe* vod.” he conference was called by Sec- •ry Wallace at the request of the ltish cotton associations which de- : to present their views on the cotton stands law before regu- ions for its\ enforcement finally re adopted. The new law provides ‘t all saleB and shipments of Axner- n cotton in interstate and, foreijfn imerce mqat be in accordadce with United States cotton standards., retofore/much of the American co£ sold abroad has been on Liverpool- idards. le new law also provides arbltra- through the department of agrl- ture of all such sales and ship* nts. The Liverpool cotton asso* tion has conducted these^ arbltra* ns in the past, and considerable satisfaction has been expressed by erlcan producers and exporters use they had no representation arbitration board. Are Killed In Train, rayllng, Mich.—Six Wreck men were ed in a head-on collision between Michigan Central’s train No. 158 d a freight engine, at the Michigan ntral yards here. The dead include e former train’s engineer, brake- an and fireman and three unldenti- ied men believed to have been riding its baggage car. The freight train ibeman is believed to have turned ohg switch to allow No. 158, a train, to pass, and the colli- n came when both trains suddenly themselves on the same track. it usually distinguishes private from quasi-public occupations.” The Industrial court act was aimed to compel arbitration through a state board, whose decision was to be final, in all essential industries, and thus continuity of production. Poiniing out that the law permitted the employer who was dissatisfied with the decision of the court to go out of business, and the dissatisfied workman to quit, pro vided he did not agree with hta fel lows to do so or combine with others to induce them to quit, Chief Justice Taft said the essence of the statute curtailed the right of the employer on the one hand, and of the employee on the ..other, to contract about their af fairs. r"|prais Is part of the liberty of th6 individual protected by the guaranty $i(lidue process claque of the fourteenth amendment,” he said. While there is no such thing as absolute freedom of contract, and It is subject to a va riety of restraints, they must not be arbitrary or unreasonable." While the law was directed to pre vent strikes in those industries pro ducing food, fuel and clothing, or In the transportation of such articles, and brought under the industrial court all public utilities and common carriers, it was defended by the state in the case decided on the ground that the prepa ration of food was affected by a pub lic interest, and that it was within the power of the legislature to so declare. Macon.—Damage running into high figures was caused to Macon property by a storm that broke over this city. More than six inches of water fell in less than an hour and a half, the weather bure'hu reported. Tire storm was local, extending no more than 20 miles from this city in any direction. The outer rim of the storm toward the peach belt was at Echenconee. The weather bureati. reported that the storm moved from north to south, to southeast and back to north, holding it in this county. People arriving here from Wellston, twenty-one miles, south of here, report ed that they drove through water up to the hubs of their automobiles. At Echeconee, they said, there was a nar row space as dry as a bone and then they ran into this county’s section of the cloudburst. Because of the washouts on high ways there have been scores of auto mobile accidents. J. W. Harrington, driving a car in which were four chil dren, was treated at a local hospital for injuries sustained when the ma chine turned over. The children were not hurt. There is a 65-foot washout on one division of the Central of Georgia rail way and a similar washout on the Ma con, Dublin and Savannah railroad. The| baseball park was still flooded at last reports. All of the storm ewers of the city were overloaded. Many of them gave way. Basements of scores of business houses are flooded, and that Is where the greatest damage was done. Every available red light in Macon was used on the night of the storm to warn people of washed-out places. The city advertised for one hundred labor ers to join the regular forces in mak ing repairs. Lightning struck four buildings in the city during the storm, but no one was injured. John w! Ramsey chairman of the street committee of city council, made a, tour of the city immediately after the cloudburst, and states tha^t it will cost the city thirty thousand dollars to fill in only the washed-out pieces.' He found three houses collapsed after be ing undermined and scores of others un dermined and badly damaged. We are On the Job from January to S g January, twelve months each year. § | You can buy One Sack or A Hundred | | Tons, or More, any day in the year | I and get prompt delivery. a Our Customers get this kind of Service without S any Extra Cost. | “IT’S WHAT’S IN THE SACK 1 | THAT COUNTS.” § | HEARD BROTHERS. | g Manufacturers of High Grade Fertilizers. g | MACON, - GEORGIA. | aaoanMaaanoaaaaaDaoanaoanaaaaaaonaaanaaoMaaacaacaaat) For Rilling Comfort You Can’t Beat A Temmj Long Spring ON YOUR FORD 12 Inches Longer Than Regular Front Spring and so Constructed that It Ab sorbs the Shocks as no Other Device can n Do. It’s Guaranteed Not to Break. 'Price $9.00 Put on Your Ford. 1 > . ’ \ Perry Auto Co. , PERRY, - GA. esses As Man To Seek Her Husband Kansas City.—Masquerading as 9 in her father’s clothes with the owed purpose of seeking a husband, ra Griffin, 14, left home, accord- to her father, 'recently. Griffin 3 he believesAiis daughter will go the Kansas wheat fields to work, perhaps, also to find "a bi%«trong Many Hurt; Cars Wrecked In Riots Schenectady, N. Y.—Riots in which shots were fired and stones thrown marked the traction strike here be fore the end of the past week. Cars were abandoned in the streets by their crews when bombarded by stones. Res cue crews attempted in vain to take two stalled cars, with every window broken, back to the barns. Shots fired by the crews’ guards failed to rapel the mob. The crews were chased t,o Immigration Increase is Asked Atlanta.—At the annual meeting of the Cotton Manufacturers’ Association of Georgia, held In Atlanta, resolutions were adopted calling upon the United States congress to so amend the Immi gration laws as to permit of a great increase in immigration to this coun try of desirable citizens. The resolu tions also request that arrangements be made to examine applicants for ad mission to this country at ports of embarkation in Europe. The associa tion held its meeting at the East Lake Country club, holding a morning busi ness session and a combined business session and banquet at night. The afternoon was chiefly given over to golf for those who follow the ancient and honorable game. ’son Serenaded At Shrine Meeting ashington.—-Woodrow Wilson was naded at his S street home! by a e patroLfrom Greenville, S. C., ch sang ‘‘Dixie’’ under his win- Many Mental Patients Cured Milledgeville.—Since January 1, 1923, approximately 180 patients have been discharged from the Georgia state san itarium, either partially or entirely free the barns and besieged there and bom-' from the shadows of mental darkness barded with stones. The violence was ‘ i.:tributed to strike-breakers and their uards by Mayor Whitmyre. He said contributing factor was the display of iiream^s by strikebreakers. He de clared some of the strikers tried to aid the besieged crews. Woman Gives $10,000 To Mercer Macon, Ga.—President Rufus' W. Weaver,.at the closing exercises of Mer cer university, announced that Mrs. Louise E. Fay of Americus, Ga., had made a gift of $10,000* to the univer- and then, at his request, followed B ity as a memorial to her husband, a th the "Ster _.S|>angl©d Banner,” F aduate of Mercer. ’ ; ^ that engulfed them when they went to the hospital. During 1922 the hos pital treatment resulted in the complete or partial restoration of 499 mentally afflicted patients. During every month of the year an average of more than forty persons who came to the sanita- rium writhing In the tortures of mania or suferiug from fantastic delusions and dreams are Bent back to their homes, many completely -restored, and the oth ers sufficiently improved to begin their lives anew in the world of normalcy. HEADQUARTERS FOR Steaks and Fresh Meats of All Kinds. Staple and Fancy Groceries. Prompt Service. Phone 12. E. F. BARFIELD & CO. PERRY, GA. * We are carrying a complete stock of Arsenate of Lead and Atomic Sulphur as well as Bushel Bas kets and Picking Baskets. These goods are car ried in stock and we shall 1 be glad to have your or- ■ •' ■ i ders for delivery later or for immediate acceptance. Perry Warehouse Co. INDISTINCT print