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TWICE-A-WEEK
VOLUME 53.
RAILWYS. REFUSE
LOW GRAIN RATES
AS REQUESTED
Washington.—Railroad executives
representing nearly all the trunk
lines in the United States, notified
the interstate commerce commission
that they would be unable to grant a
voluntar" reduction in freight rates
on grain, for export, which President
Coolidge recently sked of them.
No mention was made in the rail
roads’ announcement, which das de
livered through a committee of trunk
line presients, of their conclusions on
the request of the president for a re
adjustment in rates of coal for ex
port.
Railroad men had concluded, the
committee said, that a reduction iu
grain rates would not benefit Ameri
can farmers, principally because Ca
nadian railroads would immediately
follow the policy of cutting rates to
the seaboard as they had in the past.
In addition, they said, western Tail
roads would be obliged to sdrare in
the losses in earnings which would
result from an export grain rate re
duction, and also would have to
make reuctions to Pacific and gulf
ports to meet the new rates suggest
ed in the traffic to the Atlantic sea
board.
Atlantans Urged
To Give $15,000
To Help Farmers
Atlanta, Ga.—Holding out a ray
of hope for farming 'conditions in
Georgia in spite of the iladk of inter
est displayed by the business inter
ests of the state, Alfned C. Newell,
president of die Atlanta chamber of
commerce, Thursday urged Atlanta
business men to come to the rescue
of the balanced farming program by
subscribing $15,000 a year through
the ehmbcr of commerce to keep up
the Georgia association’s education
al campaign. «
Mr. NeweMte statement was. made
in connection Vith Scntt W. Allen’s
ringnig criticism of the business pub
lic’s apathy, embodied ni his letter of
resignaium as we president of the
Georgia eseciation. 3ttr. Newell as
serted that Mr. Allen’s picture of
Georgia farm conditions was accu
rate. .
“Agricultural conitions today,
however, are far better 'than this
time last year,” Mr. Newell asserted,
“and this improvement to a great
extent has been brought about by
tne Georgia assocition idespite its
limited resaaraes.”
Tourists Flocking to Georgia.
■ i. ■ •
Tourist travel through Atlanta to
south Georgia and Florida, which
holds as great attraction in winter
for tourists as Colorado hwlds in the
summer, is increasing in value every
year, according to Atlanta railroad
r>en, and it could he made an even'
mere valuable asset for Atlanta, it
is pointed out. Various other towns
and cities of the state would also be
benefited, it is shown, if the attrac
tiveness of the Georgia scenery was
more strikingly impressed upon vis
itors, and the delights of a short
stay in these Georgia towns were
made known to them.
The Atlanta, Birmingham and At
lantic railway, which handles large
tourist travel to south Georgia, has
been capitalizing the scenery of the
country and the mildness of the cli
mate, and has drawn to this section
many visitors who have hitherto
gone to other sections.
The value of motor and rail tourist
travel to a state is well illustrated in
the case of Colorado, it is shown by
figures made public by railroad of
ficials. During 1923, thus far,
4,500,000 tourists have visited Colo
rado and they spend $45,500,000 in
the state. The report shows that
the money spent in >the state by
tourists during nine months of the
year exceeded by $3,500,000 the
amount paid into the state treasury
for taxes during the same period.
Denver derives a great income
from the tourists, it is stated, and it
does more, for the thousands who
visit Denver on sight-seeing trips
are impressed with the city, and
many of them make investments and
its beauty of scenery attract people
from all parts of the country.
If every tourist spends $lO a day
while stopping over in a city, as the
Denver authorities claim, Georgia’s
several thousands of tourists are
bringing large sums to the state
each year. More tourists would
mean more money, railroad officials
say, and the more who come there
would be to see the advantages of
Georgia, Ultimately it would be a
J>ig boost to Georgia’s growth.
The NeUs-Herald
COTTON TAKES
BIG JUMP AFTER
OCT. REPORT
New Orleans. —Cotton bulged $8
a bale on the New Orleans Cotton
Exchange Friday morning on the
strength of the Government report.
Prices soared from 130 to 158 points
above the lowest level of the morn
ing.
December cotton rose to 31.38
cents a pound and all points went to
a new high level for the seson.
Government Report.
Washington.—A decrease of 767,-
000 bales in the prospective cotton
crop as compared with a month ago
was shown in the department of Ag
riculture of 10,248,000 bsed on con
ditions which prevailed on October
25.
Georgia’s condition at that time
was given as 31 per cent an it’s es
timated crop was 610,000.
Newspaper Jest
Keeps Mary Busy
Rejecting Lovers
Shreveport, La.—When Mary
Garden, the prima donna, was quot
ed on the Pacific coast recently as
having declared she might marry
within a year it started something,
she said here today. The Trouble
was that somebody added a few frills
to it, the principal one of which was
that she had declared her prefer
ence for a westerner. Miss Garden
said it was a plot hatched by news
paper reporters.
“The whole affair was started in
jest,” she sid, “but soon became a
terrible reality when ranchers, would
be ranchers and used to be ranchers
began seeking interviews with me in
order to press their suit.”
Farmers Now Put Fowls to Work
and at Same Time Derive Big
Revenges.
Atlanta, Ga., November I.—Guin
eas and chicks may put the boll wee
vil out of business, if the testimony
of a number of Georgia farmers is
correct, as expressed to officials of
the Georgia department of agricul
ture.
Since the first report of cotton
field being made free of weevils by
chickens and guineas eating the cot
ton pests several other similar re
ports have been received at the ag
ricultural department from widely
separated sections. It appears that
the experiment of turning the fowls
loose upon the weevils is at least
worth the effort, according to ex
perts of the department.
Chickens or guineas—and it was
said the latter is the best weevil ex
terminator, cannot harm the cotton
to any great extent, and if they kill
the boll weevils, as it is claimed
they will, the most puzzling problem
thet has confronted the southern
farmers in the history of the cotton
industry will have been solved, it is
asserted.
Source of Income.
Besides doing invaluable work
possibly for the preservation of the
cotton industry, agriculturists here
say, chickens and guineas in cotton
fields can be a source of income to
the farmers in the eggs they produce
and the young fowls that they would
raise.
Already, as leading farmers of the
state have informed the state agri
cultural department, the hen is one
of the best assets of the farm, being
worth a billion dollars a year to the
farmers of the country, according to
recent estimate.
“It will not make the hen less
profitable for her to fatten and
thrive upon the weevil that is de
stroying the cotton,” said an official
of the agricultural department, “and
it certainly will be cheaper for the
farmer to feed his chickens boll
weevils than corn or other grain.”
Will Be Short Cotton Crop.
According to the estimates of the
national department of agriculture-,
made public by the Federal Reserve
Bank‘of Atlanta, in its monthly re
view, the six states comprising the
district which the bank covers —Geor-
gia, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee,
Mississippi and Louisiana—will pro
duce a cotton crop smaller by 400,-
000 hales this year than last,, and
the increased prices of cotton will
not mean a great deal in some sec
tions where the crop is almost a
failure.
In some sections of Georgia, the
bank review says, tobacco growing is
receiving more attention than ever
before. There are now eleven to
bacco warehouses in this state, and
this year, according to figures com
piled by the Georgia department of
agriculture, 9,101,343 pounds of to-
Ibacco were sold at public sales, at
ao average price of 25 7-10 cents.
LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5,1923.
WhXt VARIETIES OF
PECANS TO PLANT
The Georgia Experiment station is
frequently requested to name the
best varieties of pecans to plant.
This, seemingly, is a simple question,
yet it is one very difficult to an
swer even by those who may be fa
miliar with most of the pecan varie
ties.. This is necessarily true because
the desires and personalities of. the
growers themselves are just as vari
able as the long list of varieties of
pecans from which they select.
Varieties of pecans behave differ
ently under different climatic and
soil conditions, and this fact should
be considered' for each locality.
The Stuart pecan is possibly more
widely adapted and the most exten
sively planted variety of the list.
Yet this variety has not done well
on some of the red clay soils of the
piedmont section of Georgia, where
it should give place to other varie
ties.
The Mobile, generally recognized
as being a very poor variety, fills
out much better when grown on the
piedmont soils than when grown on
the coastal plains. Its habit of early
and heavy bearing has caused many
growers to plant the Mobile in the
piedmont country, even though it
has other serious objections. The
Teche is another very heavy yielding
variety which is much prized by
some growers even though it is a
nut of rather inferior quality.
The Delmas, once a very popular
ard choice variety has been largely
discarded due to its susceptibility to
the pecan scab.
The Schley, which is recognized as
the queen of quality, scabs to some
degree in the coastal plains section,
while it seems fairly free of scab in
the piedmont region.
The Moore and Moneymaker are
verj early and prolific bearers, and
seem fairly well adapted to prac
tically all sections of the state where
pecans are grown. The Frotscher
seems well adapted to the Tifton
sandy loan soils, while the Pabst and
Alley seem rather generally adapted.
Fiont the feHbwing list, growers can
select varieties suitable for their
conditions iq. most sections of Geor
gia: Schley, Stuart, Pabst, Alley,
Success, Mafieymaker, Moore, and
Froscher. * ,
H. P. STUCKEY, Director. -
Here’s Proof That Advertising Pays
Famous Wrigley Building in Chicago Being Doubled in Size
The part of the Wrigley Build
ing erected two years ago has tilled
such a want that the north section,
nearly double the floor area of the
south section, is being added.
This north section, nearly com
pleted, occupies the entire block,
immediately across North Water
Street, fronting on Michigan
Avenue and reaching to the height
of the main part of the first stroCT
ture, with a connecting bridge.
The space in the new section is
already nearly all taken by high
claaa firms in advance of the com
«ktioa o< the building.
THE FAIR STORE’S
MONEY-RAISING SALE
In a full page in today’s News-
Herald the Fair Store, J. Cohen,
Prop., announces that their Money-
Raising Sale will open Wednesday,
November 7th.
Mr. Cohen states that they tnust
have $6,500 within the next ten days
to meet some bills and will offer
goods from their huge stock of gen
eral merchandise at sacrifice prices
in order to raise the cash.
Read their advertisement and take
advantage of the opportunity to save
on your winter purchanes.
fc l' —I-
H. R. SAUL STARTS
HUGE SLAUGHTER SALE
On page four of today’s News-
Herald appears the announcement of
Mr. H. R. Saul that beginning Wed
nesday, NoNvember 7th his store
will put on a Slaughter Sale for the
next fifteen days offering goods at
slaughter prices.
Mr. Saul says if you have not re
ceived one of his large red circulars,
which are being mailed out, to come
to his store and ask for one. He al
so states that this sale is for the sole
purpose of raising some needed mon
ey and that prices have been cut to
the bone on his large stock of gen
eral merchandise.
You are sure of receiving a cor
dial welcome and getting some good
bargains if you attend this sale.
CHRISTIAN SERVICES. <
Rev. Dean Hokkins, of Auburn,
will preach at the Lawrenceville
Christian church ’ Sunday morning
and night, November 11th.
All members are urgently request
ed to be present hnd hear Mr. Hop
kins. A cordial invitation is extend
ed all others to "worship at both ser
vices.
" iu,
PUBLIC AUCTION OF
OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
...At li o’clock Tuesday morning,
November 6th, in the court house
square will be sold furniture consist
ing of parlor suite. Bed room suite,
dicing room, kitchen and hall furni
ture. Te La sold ta the highest bid
der for cash.
► ■ . MISS -LOIS TAYLOR.
— i
Here is a concrete (as well as a
steel and glass) proof of the say
ing that “advertising pays.” In
these magnificent buildings Mr.
Wrigley has erected an impressive
testimonial to this great truth.
They loom large and beautiful.
They typify the achievements of
the man who built them. They
stand as a monitor over the activ
ity of the Nation’s second city
inspiring—dominating—massive—
bearing unanswerable testimony
to the POWER OF ADVER
TISING.
Stranger Killed
By Girl’s Brother
Following Insult
Lafayette, Ga.—The body of a
man identified by papers in his pock
et as Simon T. Henderson, of Syra
cuse, N. Y., today was buried in the
potter’s field here, following his
shooting to death Thursday by James
Hixon, brother of a gir! on the Hixon
farm near here, who was sai to have
been insulted by the stranger. Ac
coring to her story, the man appear
ed at the farm Thursday while her
father was away and her brother
was in a nearby field, and attempted
to seize her arm, after bowing and
•miling and making an insulting re
mark.
The girl screamed ana her brother
rushed into the house, seized a gun
and shot the mn, who died almost
instantly. The Hixon youth surren
ered to the sheriff.
Communication with authorities in
the east revealed to local officers
that the man Henderson had only
one surviving relative, Maltilda
Woodward, of Lambertville, N. J., a
niece.
Laying of the Corner Stone of the
Alexandria, Va., November I.
With solemn ritual, in the presence
of the nation’s highest officials and
one of the largest gatherings of blue
lodge Masons in history, the corner
stone of the lofty national memorial
which will be erected by the Free Ma
sons of America to their revered
craftsman, George Washington, was
laid today.
When completed, the structure will
be one of the largest monuments
ever erected in honor of an individ
ual. Standing on the crest of Shoot
er's hill, the massive granite pile,
will rise in columned dignity 200
feet above the stone set in place to
day, to command a perpetual .view of
the vast estate once owned by Wash
ington, the capital of the republic
he helped make possible, and the
quaiht old town of Alexandria where
he presided over Masonic meetings.
Not 1 far away lies Mount Vernon,
where he spent much of his life, and
died.
CooTMgc Wields TroweL
President Ceolidge, though not a
member of the fraternity, silently
spread the first mottar with the
trowel his illustrious predecessor
used in laying the cornerstone of the
first national capitol and the first
Masonic temple erected here. Chief
Justice Taft followed him, using the
same relic, which then was put away
to be guarded until, about five years
hence, its final resting place is ready
in the shrine that was consecrated
today. After the president and the
chief justice had performed their act
of homage, Charles H. Callahan,
deputy grand master of Virginia,
and the Brand masters of every ju
risdiction in the United States or
their emissaries, with a number of
past grand masters, convened as
members of the grand lodge of Vir
ginia, each in turn spread mortar
with a silver trowel destined to a
place among the treasures of their
giand jurisdiction.
Mr Callahan presided over the cer
emony at the request of James H.
Price, the grand master of Virginia,
in recognition of his service for the
advancement of Masonry in the
United States and because the
erection of the memorial was his
suggestion. He was attended by the
full grand lodge, two past grand
masters bearing the Holy Bible and
three others carrying the lesser
lights of Masonry.
Use Masonic Ritual.
The great stone, bearing the em
blematic square and compass of Free
Masonry and containing a Bible, an
American flag, a copy of the United
States constitution and the Declara
tion of Independence, literature de
scribing the history of the order,
other documents, and tokens from
each of the grand jurisdictions, was
tried with the working tools of their
offices by * the grand master, the
grj nd senior warden and the grand
junior warden, who pronounced it
“true, trusty and well laid.” It was
lowered into place by “operative”
Masons with three distinct move
ments between each of which “grand
honors” were bestowed.
The Masonic tone and language
was maintained throughout the cere
mony, which included song and story
telling of the devotion of George
Washington to the cause of liberty
and the ideals of Freemasonry. Af
terwards the Rt. Rev. Edward Free
man. Episcopal bishop of Washing
ton, delivered a eulogy to the na
tion’s first chief, whom he called
“the Great-Exemplar.” Second only
to his elevation to the bishopric, he
said, he regarded his selection to de
liver the oration as the greatest hon
or ever bestowed upon him. Urging
rededication of the nation to the
principles of Washington, he warned
against influences which tend to
create religious hatred or might
alter the fundamental basis of the
nation’s relations with other peoples.
SMALL TOWN EDITOR GIVES
NEW YORK THE ONCE OVER
Successful Meeting of Ma
sonic Grand Lodge.
For the first time in several years
the editor had the pleasure of at
tending the annual communication
of the Masonic grand lodge at Ma
con on Tuesday and Wednesday of
this week.
The party, which was composed of
Worshipful Master Hardy G. Robin
son, Grand Marshal B. L. Patterson,
Dr. G. S. Kelley, Past Master James
F* Langley and your humble ser
vant, left Lawrenceville Monday
afternoon in the Robinson car and
motored to Macon via Atlanta. We
stopped at Forsyth, where we spent
the night with our sister.
The grand lodge was opened in
due form by the regular officers
Tuesday, the feature of the first ses
sion being the annual address of
Grand Master Joe P. Bowdoin.
There were many Masons present
from the four quarters of the state,
and they made an imposing array.
The children from the Masonic
orphans’ home, 153 in number, ap
peared before the grand lodge Tues
day morning. They are being well
cared for, educated and trained at
the home. Myrtle Lee Wright, of
Lawrenceville, appeared as happy as
a cricket and is developing rapidly.
The biggest single item the grand
lodge considered was the motion to
restore the charter to Lebanon lodge,
of Atlanta, which had been arrested
by the grand master when the lodge
violated the Masonic law by enter
ing the realm of politics. The char
ter was tentatively restored on con
dition that the lodge be purged.
Lawrenceville retained her stand
ing among the official family by
again having Bedford L. Patterson
reappointed grand marshal. He has
filled this position with honor and
distinction for the past several
years.
The grand master is nearly al
ways given an indorsement term, and
Dr. Bowdoin having served two
years retired, and those next in line
were moved up one station higher.
The full quota of officers is as fol
lows:
Grand master, James J), Hamrick,
Carrollton.
Deputy grand master, W. S. Rich
ardson, Atlanta,
Senior grand warden, A. G, Miller,
Waycross.
Junior grand warden, R. L. Cox,
Monroe.
Grand treasurer, F. C. Jones,
Thcmasville.
Grand secretary, Frank F. Baker,
Macon.
. Grand chaplain, Rev. J. H. House,
Camilla.
Senior grand deacon, Raymund
Daniel, Atlanta.
Junior grand deacon, Hugh Taylor,
Cuthbert.
Grand marshal, B. L. Patterson,
Lawrenceville.
First grand steward, A. S. Hardy,
Rome.
Second grand steward, C. H. An
drew, Macon.
Third grand steward, Dr J. H.
Bennett, Jefferson.
Grand tyler, Lee Wages, Mscon.
—Gwinnett Journal.
First Case Tried
In City Atlanta’s
Night Police Court
Atlanta, Ga.—“ Justice tempered
with mercy”—just as Recorder Pro
Tern A. W. Calloway said—marked
the opening session Thursday night
of the first nocturnal police court
ever conducted in Atlanta. Accord
ing to all initiations the solution of
the overcrowed, over-run docket sit
uation has been reached. Sixty cas
es were disposed of in less than an
hour and fifteen minutes.
The first case was dismissed. It
had to deal with a Senegambian
trombonist, charged with violating
the “dive” section. To the delight
of the criminal element the musician
was discharged, after he had ex
plained to .Recorder Calloway that
he had merely been employed to fur
nish a part of the musical entertain
ment for a fox trot convention at
409 West Mitchell street. Accord
ing to testimony of Officer Acree,
in charge of the “purity” squad,
raided the dance, locking up all oc
cupants of the building. The danc
ers, 20 in number, were assessed
fines of $lO and the traditional
“costs.”
W. L. NIX,
Attorney at Law,
Offica in New Tanner Building
LAWRENCEVILLE, GA.
R. N. HOLT,
Attorney at Law,
Collection* and winding up eatate* a
specialty.
LAWRENCEVILLE, GA.
TWICE-A-WEEK
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER.
New sir, if you
could jus fetch up your chair and
set and listen, you could hear the
dangedest lot of whoppers this week
about big fish that got ketched and
big fish that got away and some of
the whoppingest whoppers would be
told by a man from Kansas where
they catch sardines with a can op
ener.
Ed Howe—old Ed Howe—better
known as ye editor of the Atchison
Globe, is in New York for his first
visit in 15 years, bound south for
Miami where the sword-fish strops
its blade on the tiger shark and ths
savage Barracuda uses the sword-fish
for a tooth-pick. That’s the kind of
whoppers you’d hear this week out
at the home of John Golden, the the
atricl producer, at Little Neck, L. 1.,
where old Ed Howe and Golden and
some other Florida fishermen will
hold their experience meeting before
lighting out for Miami.
Not exactly humble, but not what
you’d call a confessed oracle, either,
Ed Howe talked to New York re
porters about New York, about the
newspaper business about people and
cookin’ and this and that when he
landed here from Atchison after 15
years. He came here for seclusion
among the six millions, because in
New York he can stand at Broadway
and Forty-Second for hours and nev
er see a soul he knows.
In New York he could go all win
ter without even having to take off
his hat, but it has got so in Atchison
that he just can’t winter there any
more, what with tippin’ his hat and
tippin’ his hat to this one and that
every time he goes out in the cold.
He was going to Florida for the
fishin’ anyway, so he thought he’d
come by way of New York for a
change and take the rest cure.
“Matter of fact,” he said, "I'm not
the only <jne coming from the coun
try to the city nowadays to rest up.
With all the drinking going on in the
country, farmers’ sons are getting to
be drunkards and they *r« sending,
them to the cities to straighten up;..
You just ought to so* the twiner
drinking in the country. Wrm awrokF
see something downright disgraceful.
It’s easier to make and herder to i
catch them making it in the country.
Why, you take it right in- the tittle
town of Atchison, there’s- some men
with as much as two barrels of liquor
in their cellars. I’m a prohibitionist
and I thought state prohibition was
fine, but national prohibition is a
failure in Kansas,”
Ye editor has not come to Gotham
at the age of 70 to accept a position
at a handsome salary on one of the
metropolitan newspapers, because
nobody ever made him an offer and
he isn’t sure he coufl make the grade
either. Inasmuch as most of the
successful men in New York only
came here after they made good in
towns like Atchison, he thinks the
New Yorker is a pretty good article,
taking him this way and that.
“I wouldn’t even know how to
work on a New York paper,” he ad
mitted. “If I didn’t have a nickel in
the world and had to get a job here
I doubt if I would know how to go
about getting a story; I don’t believe
I could learn to run a New York pa
trying to tell what the people of the
greatest city in the world need in
the way of a newspaper. But if I
worked here I’d try to be a good re
porter. Almost all good writing is
just reporting and a good reporter
has t<? know people. People are
smart. They give yoil lots of good
ideas. Out in Atchison 1 used to
watch the trainmen, because a train
man is a smart rooster and thinks up
lots of smart things to say.
“New York is al right. I want to
have a look at the new tall buildings
that went up since I was here last
and I’m having some fun in the
crowds in the subways. Out home,
people are always calling me up
about items for the paper or about
not getting their paper today or
about somebody’s initials being
wrong in the paper. If 1 walk along
Commercial street I just go by steps,
talking to people all the time. While
I’m here I want to see George F.
Baker, the banker, because I under
stand he never talks for publication.
I don’t want to talk to him. I came
here to get away from always talking
to people. I just want to sec the
man who got famous for not talk
ing.”
Old Ed Howe doesn’t set much
store by the food in New York.
That’s one thing he has against the
town. He will eat the last possible
quantity of provisions while he is
here and if it comes to such a pass
that he has just got to have some
home-folks food he will rail on bis
daughter and let her fry some ham
and eggs for him.
NUMBER 2.