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TWICE- A- WF A 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.