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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.