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VOLUME 53.
M’ADOfl SWEEPS
GEORGIA FOR
PRESIDENT
Atlanta, Ga. —William Gibbs Mc-
Adoo, former secretary of the treas
ury, swept Georgia Wednesday in
the democratic state presidential pri
mary, defeating Senator Oscar W'.
Underwood, of Alabama, his only op
ponent, by a 4 to 1 vote.
Returns received early Thursday
morning from all but seven counties
in the state showed that McAdoo
had carried 117 counties with a total
convention vote of 312 as against 32
counties with a convention vote of
76 for Uunderwood.
Returns from seven counties could
not be obtained and in four addi
tional couties no primary was held.
' These eleven counties have a total
of 24 convention votes. McAdoo
needed only 207 votes to win.
’ McAdoo’s victory Wednesday
means that his friends or managers
will name delegates from every
county in Georgia to the state con
vention, to be held in Atlanta April
25. G. E. Maddox, chairman of the
democratic state executive commit
tee, Wednesday night sent telegrams
to the various country committees
calling attention to the executive
committee’s ruling to this effect and
asking that no steps be Taken to
ward the appointment of delegates
to the state convention until Mr. Mc-
Adoo or his friends have acted in
the matter.
The state democratic convention
in Atlanta will name the 28 Georgia
delegates to the national democratic
convention to be held in New York
June 24. All 28 delegates will be
pledged to McAdoo.
Gwinnett, a four vote county,
gave McAdoo a majority of about
150.
Vote by counties will be published
in our next issue.
STRAND THEATRE
Edwin Carewe’s drama of high
society and low society, “Mighty
Lak’ A Rose” will be shown at the
Strand Theatre on Monday and Tues
day nights, March 24th and 25th.
Announcement is made that a
special musical program will be
given with both performances and
this picture has an unusually good
indorsement it is belived that large
crowds will attend its showing.
SEND US YOUR JOB WORK
Thoughts Precede Acts. What Are You Thinking?
| Obliteration Yes«-But Not Just Yet I
Howard Elliott, president of the Northern Pacific Rail
road, sounded a helpful note when he told the Harvard Clut
that America is not going to the dogs. Peculiarly, the people
of the greatest country in the world need to be reminded
of this fact from time to time—usually prior Jp a national
election'. Mr. Elliott says that various conditions, situations
and problems call for the attention of thoughtful intelligent
men. He feels, however, in the light of national experience
, and in the knowledge that when they are aroused, the fact
that 99 per cent of the American people are conservative
and law abiding, there is no need to worry about the future.
“We are not going to the dogs,” said Mr. Elliott. “I predict
that the next twenty-five, fifty and seventy-five years will
be the most wonderful period of the world and the most
glorious in the history of the United States.
Conditions, situations and problems we will always have
with us. They are not peculiar to the times. They are the
law of nature. If the problems of the world were solved
nations would wither and decay. There is always work to
do. Reaching perfection means arriving at obliteration, and
the time is not ripe for that.
The outlook for the nation as pictured by Mr. Elliott is
the outlook for practically every town and village in the
land. Here and there we may find little business setbacks,
but in tSe main the advance is bound to proceed. When the
decade closes we will find we have better streets, more
scientific sanitation, a greater respect for law, a more intel
ligent citizenship, and a happier aud more prosperous state
of living. Charity will be on the decline because justice will
largely have supplanted injustice and the necessity for the
‘hand out” will not be so great. The world moves on. All
we need do is guard the principles of the Republic from the
two groups that seek, one to force upon us a greater measure
of “democracy” and the other which aims at autocratic
control.
England gives us another evidence of the fact that she is not so
slow when she sends ui news that 6,000 billboards have been disman
tled in the tight little isle. One of these days the traveller may be
able to see something of rural America.
New York society debutantes are experiencing a religious survival
They are studying The Psalms.
Now that Stinnes is in the movies perhaps we may get a peep
behind the scenes and view more completely the now German money
grip on America while the mark marks time.
How many people know who is vice president of the United States?
A Chirngo tioot’epgcr thought to swindle Hs customer by selling
moons' ’ M ’bi»n he got home he found he bad been
paid in vow..*.. c’s many a slip 'twixt cup ahd lip.
•The News-Herahd
OLD OFFICERS
FULTON COUNTY
RE-ELECTED
Atlanta, Ga., With thirty-three
out of thirty-seven precints report
ing it is believed that all of Tulton
coun'.i 's oflir. rs holders we-*
elected, with the possible exection of
one, in the primary held Wednesday.
The closest race is that for solici
tor of the criminal circuit in which
the present inclumbent, Roy Dosey,
seems to be slightly in the lead of
John S. McClellen.
SherifF James L. Lowery defeated
Chief of Police Beavers for sheriff.
Thomas C. Miller was re-elected
clerk over J. W. Simmons. W. S.
Richardson was re-elected collector.
W. H.Abbott was re-elected receiver.
The salary basis of payment for
county officers won a sweaping
victory.
GEORGIA W. JACOBS
DIES IN LOGANVILLE
Mr. George W. Jacobs, leading
citizen of Walton county, dropped
dead on the streets of Loganville
Monday morning at 11:30;
Mr. Jacobs was 75 yeare of age
and was on his way so see his doctor
when is death occured. He was a
former citizen of Gwinnett but mov
ed from Grayson to Loganville some
years ago.
Surviving him are his wife, who
was Miss Sythe Brand, three sons
and two daughters. He was a
brother-in-law of Mr. Gilbert Arnold
of Lawrenceville.
A devoted member of the Metho
dist church, funeral services were
held there Tuesday, Revs. Broyles
and McConnell in charge.
808 THOMPSON SICK
Mr. C. R. Thompson, deputy col
lector of internal revenue, has been
confined to his home with sickness
for several days. Friends trust
his condition will steadily improve
and that he may soon bo out again.
A Fairy Story
Once upon a time a man gave his
wife more money than she could
think of ways of spendig in one
week.
Ye», Oh Yes
I Know a ittle man,
And he plays a little flute;
I know why all the neighbors
Are learning how to shoot.
LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MARCH -£1924.
[MILLION AND HALF HAVE
QUIT FARM SINCE 1920
More than a million and a half
persons have quit the farm since
1920, according to a late survey by
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace,
and the figures canot help but im
press one with the fact that farm
life of the nation is in danger. One
thing about it is that the farm is
rapidly becoming as much of a
business risk as any other given vo
cation as far as success or failure
rre concerned.
In a letter to Representative
Thomas, of Oklahoma, Secretary
Wallace said there has been a great
drain on the manpower on the farm
in the last three years. Mr. Thom
as had asked the agricultural
department for information regard
ing the agricultural population of
the United States, and the present
value of American farms.
Mr. Wallace says that govern
ment officials who may be depend
ed upon estimate the farm popula
tion today .as about 30,000,000 per
sons. The last national census
snowed the rural population to be
81,614,269. Farm leaders attribute
the exodus of the past two or three
years to the depressed conditions of
agriculture which ave prevailed in
Ihe west and middle west in the last
aecade.
According to the last census the
. umber of farms in the United
States was 044,343. Secretary
Wallaces letter says the last three
years served to diminish this num
ber.
An unofficial estimate of the
wealth owned by actual farmers as
of January, 1920, is q 4 billion dol
lars. This leaves out of account 21
billion dollars of farm assets be
longing to farm landlords not en
gaged in farming. Of the 74 billions
owned by actual farmers, about 13
per cent or nearly 10 billion dollars,
consists of wealth other than farm
assets owned by actual farmers.
Adding the farm assets owned by
actual farmers and the assets be
longing to farm landlords not en
gaged in farming the total value of
property u'-ed in farming atf the date
indicated was 85, billion dollars.
The estimate for cash and deposits
belonging to actual farmers is about
3,600 million dollars as of 1920.
An estimate of the amount
owned by actual farmers, as of
anuary, 1920, is 11,235 million
dollars. This leaves out of account
the debts of landaords not engaged
n farming, whose farm mortgage
ndebtedness is estimated to have
been 1,655 million dollars, or 21.4
"sr cent of the total mortgage debt.
Df ti e 11,235 million dollars owned
by actual farmers 55 per cent is
estimated ao have been seemed by
farm mortgages Of the balance
"f tin* debt of actual farmers 3.455
million collars is estimated to lave
'fin c, edit and the remainder is
estimaed o have been owed to mer
chants and other individuals.
ESCAPE FOILED
SATTERFIELD MAY
SEEK REHEARING
Atlanta, Ga.—Foiled in his sen
sational dash for liberty from the
Fulton county tower, J. Bj Satter
field, condemned slayer of his
brother-in-law,R.H. Hart may ask
for a rehearing by the supreme court
of Georgia of his appeal from the
death sentence.
This wasindic ated Tuesday bv Sat
terfiekl’s chief counsel, Murphy M.
Holloway. The attorney’s statement
was made only a few hours aftre
Satterfield had sawed his way out of
the tower and avoided capture for
eighteen hours, being taken into
costody Monday night at 6 o’clock by
two citizens who found him lying
exhausted in the woods near Lake
wood.
While Attorney Holloway consid
ered the possibility of a motion for
rehearing, Sherriff James L. Lowry
sought vainly, he announced, for a
clew as to Satterfield’s methods in
escaping from his locked and
how he secured the fine steel saws
with which he cut the bars of the
tower window.
Satterfield maintained his silence
as to the source from which the saws
came, though he added that no out
side help was given him..
MOVES TO GAINESVILLE.
Mrs. D. T. Hamilton and children
have moved to the city and are oc
cupying the Ray house on Green
street. Mrs. Hamilton is the wid
iwed daughter of Hon. I. F; Duncan
and comes to the city for the pur
pose of availing erself of the ad
vantages of the city’s public school
system for her children.
Mrs. Hamilton will either buy cr
build in the near future and make
Gainesville her permanent homo
Gainesville Eagle.
j SPURNED WIFE CAUSES
ARRESTS THAT SOLVE OLD
MYSTERY IN TENNESSEE
0
Lexington, Tenn.—A woman
spurned is said to have caused the
arrest here Monday of Tom Monday,
Will Bernhardt and Lewis Kelley,
v.ho have been charged with disap
pearance two years ago of Loland
Haynes, 18, a resident of the Yellow
Springs neighborhood in Decatur
county.
The three men were given a pre
liminary hearing today and remand
ed to jail without bail to await the
action of the grand jury, which
meets in June.
Young Haynes dropped vat of
sight in May, 1922, soon after he
had testified in a whisky case.
Searching parties combed the coun
try in the vicinity of Yellow Springs
and dragged the Tennessee river in
an effort to find the boy, but with
out avail. ,
In the meantime, Tom Monday is
illeged to have deserted his wife,
vho officers raid, divulged informa
tion which led relatives of Haynes
.0 employ a Memphis detective.
Disguised as a tramp, it is said,
he detei'tive went to the little com
nunity, made the acquaintance of
Monday and his compaioni and
luring an orgy of drinking, learned
'rom them the details of ihe alleged
niv»G*
ARSENATE URGED
IN WEEVIL FIGHT
“Farmers should not be misled,”
said J. C. Maness, of the State
Board of Entomology. “Cold 'leath
er we have been having has not de
stroyed an apprecible per cent of
the boll weevil,” he sid. “As far
north as Whitefield numbers of live
weevils which have been in the
ground all winter are being found
in the immature bolls of cotton.
“It is a poor business,’’ he con
tinued, “if a farmer can not make
a bale of cotton on small acreage
under bad weevil conditions. While
there are remedies which contribute
to the control of the weevil there is
Oi !y cue specific remedy, the prop
er rst of "calcium arsenate, With
o'• tl use of this the farmer plants
h'« otion without Insurance of
protection, while with it and its
p. oper use he has both assurance
cr d protection.
Farmers Helped by State.
“But for the influence of the
state the farmers would be paying
not less than 16 cents a pound for
calcium arsenate. As it is they are
paying less thn 12 cents, which
means a saving of 4 cents a pound
on 75,000 pounds which it is esti
mated the farmers of Georgia use
annually, or approximately a saving
of $300,000 effected by the state.
“The fight has been a hard one
with mighty sources to vontend
with, but so far we have succeeded.
“The board now has ar
senate in caT load lots ealy to be
shipped to tny point within Georgia
at 11 3-4 cents per pound, in 100
pound sealed containers. Those de
siring a car of 30,000 pounds fer
immediate ot future delivery can
have their orders placed by sending
a check for SSOO to the board. For
the convenience of communities or
persons wh® may not be able to
handle a car load or individuals who
can not get in this on the car terms,
we have a few cars of arsenate in
storage which we will deliver in any
quantity in sealed containers of 100
pounds each anywhere in the state
at 12 1-2 cents a pound.”
FARMER HELD ON CHARGE
OF BEATING HIS NEPHEW
TO DEATH WITH A CHAIN
Laurel, Miss.—Suspected of liv
ing whipped to death his nephew,
Jim Betha, 16, with a heavy iron
chain, Matt Allen, farmer residing
near Stringer, is in jail at Bay
Sprigs.. A corneer’s inquest held
Allen responsible for the death.
The boy had lived with his uncle
several years. Allen was seen whip
ping him with a chain on day last
week witnesses said. The boy'-’ body
was badly bruised and a blow back
of the head is believed to have caus
ed death. He was dead before
doctors could reach him.
Allen claims to boy had a fit and
fell and killed himself. A prelimin
ary hearing will be held at Stringer
Wednesday.
MRS. JACKSON DEAD
Mrs. Ella Jackson, age 43, died at
her hom4 in Winder’ Tuesday and
was buried there Wednesday. Mrs.
Jackson was te wife of Mr. Paul
Jackson, and amoung surving rela
tives are her daughter, Mrs.
Clarence Oakes and a sister, Mrs.
Julius Oakes, of Lawrencevilic.
BOOM RUSSELL AS
SPEAKER OF HotlSE
As politicians flit in and out of
Atlanta to get the latest dope on the
presidential primary situation, quiet
gossip is heard concerning the or
ganization of the new state senate
and house of representatives in the
legislature next year, and the lat
est rumor is to the effect that Rep
resentative Richard B. Russell, Jr.,
of Barrow county, will oppose
Speaker Cecil Neill for re-election
in 1925. As the race is a personal
one waged among the members of
the house, it usually starts early,
even before the new members are
elected. All members of the 1925
house will have to be elected in the
races this fall, hence the campaign
for offices in the house will begin
soon.
“Dick” Russell is unquestionably
one of the most popular members
of the present house. He is speaker
pro tern, having won this position
after Representative Herman Mil
ner, of Dodge, had retired in hi 3
favor last summer. He also is a
member of several important house
committees. Speaker Neill will
round out his second term this sum
mer and it is understood he will be
a candidate for re-election as
speaker next year.—Paul Stephen
son in Atlanta Georgian.
WITH ’GAG RULE’
IN EFFECT, BONUS
MEASURE PASSES
Washington,—With the “gag rule
iv force for the first time this ses
ion, the house has ru-hed through
.he soldier’s insurance bonus and has
aefed it in the hands of the senate.
vVhile verbal opposition to the meas
rc was vigorous, through neeessari
y limited only 54 votes wpre record
'd against the bill, while 355 favor
d it.
Oppdsition came from those who
'ovored a straight cash option, and
hose who frowned on any bonus at
1. There were many others who
enounced the parliamentary maneu
;■ of the middle of the road republi
ins, tacitly supported by the: .no
tte colleagues onthe demo., vatic
ide. When the time came to vote,
lowever, this group jumped on th.
and wagon and was recorded in
avor of the Green bill.
CUT COURT EXPENSES
JUDGF PERSONS SAYS
Jackson, Ga - Any county in
Georgia can reduce its court ex
penses from 90 to 95 per cent by
rigid enforcement of the prohibi
tion law and the low agains; the
carrying of ctrttaled weapons,
Judge Ogden Persons declare! in his
charge to the Butts county grand
j;ry at the opening of the February
cerm of superior court.
“A bootlegger in a community
will destroy the young boys in that
community and it will demoralize
the labor of a community,” Judge
Persons said.
It the prohibition law is strictly
enforced the bootlegger will leave a
community or a county, the jurist
stated. •
HOW THE COTTON MONEY IS
SPENT.
The United States Department of
Agriculture has made an investiga
tion to see how each dollar of cot
ton money is divided and how much
of that dollar —*<i to the farmer,
who digs the crop from the soil with
his horny hands, working twelve or
more hours a day, wat pehr cent the
railway man, working eight hours,
and how much is paid the speculator
and manufacturer, who earn their
daily bread by the sweat of their
tongue or cheek. Here is what that
investigation reveals, and it ought
to set the farmer to thinking. And
this report is correct, for it' is of
ficial:
The farmer gets 18.9 cents out
of each cotton dollar for planting,
working, fertilizing and growing
that cotton, and the railroad gets 1
1-4 cents out of each dollar for
hauling that cotton from the depot,
where placed by the farmer, to its
place of delivery. Out of his share
the farmer pays for the picking and
ginning, and the railroads pay for
the compressing, but most roads
own or control the compresses.
The remains of the cotton dollar, or
79.85 cents, is gobbled up by the
factors, commission houses, manu
facturers, jobbers, and retail deal
ers.
BUD EWING HERE
Mr. A. E. Ewing, of Orlando, Fla.,
arrived in ths city in time to cast
his vote in the county primary.
Everyone likes Bud and tho he is
missed here are glad to kpow that
he is doing well in the land of
flowers.
Gwinnett Officers,
To Serve 4 Years,
Elected Wednesday
The election for officers of Gwin
nett county held in all eighteen dist
ricts Wednesday ran true to form in
that practically every race was hot
ly contested, tho but about half of
the registered vote, totalling 8739,
found their way into the ballot box.
For democratic nomination for
president of the United States Mc-
Adoo beat Underwood 148 votes.
Robinson’s vote over Wages, for
ordinary, was 225.
McGee beat Robinson for sheriff,
by 321.
Holt won over Green, for clerk,
by 413.
Hinton was ahead of Simpson, for
tax collector, by 324.
Bowen beat Teague, for tax re
ceiver, 118 votes.
Norton won from Mrs. Hagood,
the only woman candidate, for trea
surer by 1421.
Taylor beat Meriweather, for
superintendent of schools, 441.
Harris was first for county com
missioner, (three to be elected) Sims
second and Busha beat Jackson by
13 vot§s for the third place.
Veal, for surveyor, was the only
unopposed candidate.
Smith won from Langley, for
coroner, by 292.
In Lawrenceville district the old
xecutive committee, Patterson,
Kelley and Brown, were re-elected.
The largest vote polled by any one
candidate went to Thomas L. Harris,
seeking re-election as a member of
the board of commissioners.
Thirty-five candidates were asking
for the twelve places to be filled in
Gwinnett county and for some time
talking politics has been the “order
of the day” in every section.
It is said that many tickets were
thrown out as they were not voted
according to law. In some cases
two names were left on where only
one was to be elected for the place
and in others tw T o only were left
where the vote should have been for
hree. One vote. - in Lawrenceville
district was so anxious to be x'epre
ented in the box that he voted a
bank,check instead of a filled-oui
ballot. Who he intended voting for
has not yet been learned. Several
blank ballots were also voted. At
the time go to press with this
edition no notice of contest for any
office has been filed.
Congratulations were in order for
some candidates and other were
sympathized with; one gentleman,
well known in Gwinnett political
circles, said that about thirty years
ago a gentleman ran for tax receiver
and two votes out of the
number east in the entire county.
VYhen tis vote was consolidated this
ANNIVERSARY EASTERN STAR
The Eastern Star will hold a meet
ing this afternoon at 3 o’clock.
Quaint little invitations have been
sent out for this occassion which ts
the third anniversary of the East
ern Star in Lawrencevilic. It - : s
hoped that a full membership will be
present. ~
REPUBI ICAN CALL
A call for the republican state
•onvention has been issued by J. L.
Phillips, chairman, and John R.
Barclay, secretary, to white republi
cs to meet in Atlanta on Wednes
day, April 30th. There are 412
delegates from Georgia and Gwin
nett is entitled to four of this num
ber.
SEND US YOUR JOB WORK
Meed Mot Riii J ||f|
Here is a man who had every right to and—didn’t. Ever hear of
Aaron Sapiro, of Oakland, California, who makes $500,000 a year at
the age of thirty-eight?
One of nine children, born in a stable loft, brutalized in an orphan
age, he is toduy recognized leader of the cooperative movement among
farmers.
llis first ride in any public conveyance, a cable car, was at the
funeral of his father, who was killed when Sapiro was nine. His first
square meal came when neighbors donated food to the stricken family.
His first whole suit of clothes came when his mother placed Aaron and
three brothers in an orphan asylum and they gave him a cotton uniform
labeled “No. 58.” For six years he was brutalized and poorly fed.
Despite these hardships he graduated from the, orphanage school
with high honors. At sixteen he entered Union College at Cincinnati.
Then he worked his way through Hastings Law College at Frisco by
sawing wood, pressing clothes and tutoring.
' Incidentally he returned to the Orphanage aa Superintendent, reor
ganized it, jailed Its brutal keepers, arh'd made it a model institution.
About 1914 he developed his scheme Of cooperative marketing and
l>ecame chief counsel to the State Market Commission. At a dimer
recently given by Otto H. Kahn, international banker, at which Judge
•Elbert H. Gary, bead of the billlon doUftr edited States Steel Corpora
tion was a guest, he waa asked why the Ollllforfila 'growers were run
ning away with the Eastern markets.
, Turning to Judge Gary, Sapiro said:
••Eastern farmers market their 'products as individuals. They are
not organized. Western farmers used to dump their outpu. Wherever
it was grown. Thus they created a glutted local mafkst from which
speculators could buy at their own price, That’s had business. Now,
the California farmers, by pooling their products, and having a cen
tral business organization of experts to sell them, have adopted the
fltttnte method# am the itreat steel industry •
TWICE-A-WEEK
defeated candidate is said to have
remarked that “everybody who
promised did not vote as they had
promised but that he and his son
voted for the best man in the race.”
Every candidate in the race Wednes
day received more votes than this
gentleman.
The gentlemen nominated in Wed
nesday’s primary are to hold office
for the next four years and it is
truly believed that the affairs of the
county will be in safe hands.
The consolidated vote t>y districts
will appear in our next issue beinjg
made up too late to get in the paper
today.
The total vote received in the
county by the different candidates is
as follows:
FOR PRESIDENT
McAdoo 1988
Underwood . 1840
FOR ORDINARY
Robinson 1722
Wages . 1497
Williams 847
FOR SHERIFF
McGee . 1757
Robinson • 1436
Bullock 656
Pounds 202
FOR CLERK
Holt 2290
Green ... 1777
FOR COLLECTOR
Hinton - 1746
Simpson - 1422
Campbell 815
FOR RECEIVER
Bowen l7BB
Teague - 1670
Lawson £Bs
Wood - - 180
FOR TREASURER
Norton . 2329
Mrs. Hagood 90S
Ethridge 819
FOR SCHOOL SUPT.
Taylor 1&«*
Meriwether S9L.
Herring 837
Brock 203
FOR COMMISSIONER
To Sc Elected)
Harris 2672
Sims 1872
Bu: ha 1526
Jackson 1513
Miller H 75
Hopson . 1046
Sammon 1045
Garner 676
for surveyor
Veal (unapposed.) 4.05 S
FOR CORONER
Smith SL 4 1733
Langley 1441
McGee 80#
PROGRAM STRAND THEATRE.
FRIDAY—“What Wives Want”
and a Harold Lloyd comedy.
SATURDAY —Wm. Farnum in
“Peaceful Peters” a western, and
Harold Lloyd in a comedy.
LUMBER AND POP CORN.
If you want to haul lumber two
and one-kalf miles at $2.00 per
thousand or if you have pop rorri to
sell see
E. T. HOPKINS
m2oe Lawrencevilic, Ga.
WANTED
Single bedstead, mattre-s and
spring.
D. H. BYRD,
Lawrenceville, Ga, Route 5.
Phone 2412.
NUMBER 38.