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SOUTHERN RAILWAY
SYSTEM
Efficiency and Lower Rates
"CREIGHT rate reductions
X/made by the Southern Rail
way System in 1922—first on
farm products and later on all
traffic—have effected a saving for
our shippers of $15,000,000ayear.-
Average receipts per ton-mile are
now 12 per cent lower than two
years ago.
Before the World War rise in
prices, our ton-mile revenue was
a little under a cent. Cotton then
averaged about 10 cents a pound;
locomotive fuel cost a little more
than a dollar a ton; the average
pay of our employees $880 a year.
than double the old prices, and
our average freight charge on cot
ton shipments is only a quarter
of a cent a pound. Coal costs
nearly three times what it form
erly did, and the average pay of
our employees for the past three
years has been $1,580,an increase
of 79 per cent.
While our average freight charges
today are 40 per cent above the
pre-wdr level,cotton sells at more
By greater efficiency of operation,
the result of large expenditures
for betterments, and the loyal co
operation of our employees, we
have have been able to absorb
a part of the excess of the in
crease in operating costs over the
smaller increase in rates. We
are continually working for greater
operating economies.
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Southern Railway System deposits
in Southern banks an average of
$150,500 each banking hour.
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THE SOUTHERN
SERVES THE SOUTH
vania,' president ' of' the American
School of Oriental Research, received
a cablegram recently announcing the
formal opening of the new American
School of Oriental Research in Bag*
dad. Bagdad,, as 13 known to many,
is neat* the site where scientific and
theological minds* have placed the Gar
den of Eden. It has heen said by
some writers'that the seed of human
life can be found in the earth around
that neighborhood.
Mascarelll Faces Federal Charges
Mobile, Ala.—Witnesses from Penn
sylvania, North Carolina and Florida
will come to Mobile to testify in the
preliminary hearings against Joseph
Mascarelll, alias “Daniel Perri," Phil
adelphia barber, now being held in
jail here on four federal charges and
who is under heavy bond. This was
learned from United States Commis
sioner J. I. Burgett, who stated the
hearings had been fixed for separate
dates over a period of several days.
Much morbid curiosity is evidenced in
the case.
LLOYD GEORGE ENDS TOUR
“Am Sorry To Leave This Hospitable
Country And Warm-Hearted
People," Says George
Winchester Is Held Pending Probe
Tuscaloosa, Ala.—Alf Winchester
was arrested at his home three miles
from here and lodged in the county
jail pending further investigation of
the finding of the charred body of a
young woman in & negro church which
burned in this county recently. Ac
cording to officers, the identity of
the woman may be established. Doc
tors’ examination of the skeleton of
the woman showed that her skull
had been crushed and ribs broken.
Two Men Killed When Autos Collide
New Orleans, La.—Two men are
dead and two probably fatally injur
ed as the .result of an automobile
accident, on the New Basin shell road
near 1 here when two machines collid
ed head on. The dead: Paul Car-
roll, 20, a chauffeur, and Richard
Mormon, 21, glazier. Those fatally
injured: Frank Mayeur, 36, and
Charles Werner, a 18-year-old bellboy.
» New York.—David Lloyd George,
garet, and daughter, Miss Megan.
Right up to the minute of sailing,
in his cabin and on the broad decks
of the tseamer he was besieged by
officials and delegations wishing him
former premier of Great Britain, sail
ed for home on the steamship Majes
tic after a triumphant tour of Amer
ican cities with his wife, Dame Mar-
Godspeed. Among' those who called
to say farewell were John W. Davis,
former ambassador to England; Sec
retary James J. Davis, of the depart
ment of labor; Sir Henry Thornton,
president of the Qanadian National
railways, and R. A. C. Smith, head
of a delegation of the citizens’ commit
tee of New York. 1
Receiving newspapermen, Mr. Lloyd
George said:
“I am very sorry to leave this hos
pitable country and warm-hearted
people."
A laudatory resolution was present
ed him on behalf of ship news re
reporters. In acknowledging it the
former premier said the sentiments
expressed would be a great help to
him “in the struggles to come.’’
: “We are just at the. beginning of
big things,’’ he added, “and I am not
through with them."
ABked what he intended to do when
he returned to England, be said he
would have a rest, adding: “But a
rest never lasts very long." .
Replying to questions concerning
his Impressions of American audi
ences Mr. Lloyd George said he had
found “the American people very in
terested in European affairs; very in
terested in the Mint of view. They
wanted to hear, whether they agreed
or not”
The American people, he continued,
made very good audiences and were
up to the very best, saying: “Every
where I'wenTl waa welcomed,
touched me most of all. They
.very glad to, see me,"
As to the effectiveness of any ctri
operation between Great Britain and)
the United States as urged by m
Lloyd George in his addresses on thial
continent, he said, “It dependB upon!
whether'you follow through.
*T{ there is any doubt oh the parfc
of France that England anil America 1
don’t intend to go through; then it
won’t go through," he said. ,
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Cigarette Blamed For Macon Blaze;
Macon.—Fire, believed to have orig
inated' from a cigarette spark lighting
some gasoline, badly damaged the
building occupied by the Peaoock^
Auto Supply company at the corner of
iCotton avenue and Poplar street. A
.touring par belonging to H. H. Fount
tain, Qjt Gordon, Ga., was destroyed.,/
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