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THE LEADER TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA, OCTOBER 14, 1920. U.S. NAVY The Happy Life. t'' 1 ■ % : > I mw-m \ It-: •r. •V St itli if A $ : ? lLj, tmmm m •VM . ■ ■m. K; V i -.v. * 2 v > W l l r rl i ’ ^SS**-* a (; A f m 1 M gfe 3* mb x Not worried very much about the High Post of Living, are they? And why stiould they be? Jack gets the same amount of meat, sugar or potatoes at present duv prices as when they cost only one-third as much. And tiie Canteens on board sell him candy, cigars, tooth powder, shaving soap, and all Ids other needs at cost, plus only ten per cent profit. This profit goes into an athletic and entertainment fund, furnishing him with movie films, atldetic equipment, and other play time necessities, for nothing. Its a hard life; that’s the reason the fellows in the picture look so worried. til/JHE AMERICAN IN PEACE RED CROSS w ! ifw’ TINE M A. Aiding Poland. *■-« V *3 OR ! *4 A SE m MS ■ t - % ■ n M k - w i - fv* w mm But for the work of American Red Cross agents In all regions of 1-oianO During the last twelve months, hundreds of thousands of people in that tragic pouotry today would be under the sod, victims of hunger, disease and expo lure. The job In Poland is one of tremendous proportions and cunnot b! abandoned for many months to come, ileie Is a typical scene: A Red Cross worker “at the throttle" of a soup kitchen where hundreds of undernourished women and children are fed daily. l! 3 GOT RESULTS! H 1 s Our Page Ad. in The Leader-Tribune last week certainly brought results. The people £ £ IS were ready for just such a BIG CUT PRICE SALE as we announced, and many £ £ profited by it, and others Continuing to do S £ are so. ii THE SALE IS STILL ON £ plenty of choice goods left at sacrifice prices, Our only excuse is that we would rather £ £ right than the big stock of goods. £ s have the money now s £ £ £ £ £ This is no clearance sale of shop-worn odds and ends, but a bona-fide reduction sale i % on standard, NEW SEASONABLE MEN’S AND BOYS’ CLOTHING, FURNISHINGS SG AND SHOES. £ ! ! £ !! f £ £ £ Why don’t get in on it while the picking is good? II £ i you i £ TRADING CO u Ii £ £ £ EVANS £ £ £ £ i 1 £ l! k ;lci 4 1. I. ia, i I DROP IN PRICE OF SUGAR CAUSES GAMBLERS TO LOSE $250,000,000 Boston.—The drop in the price sugar has caused a shrinkage in - of at 4>ast two hundred and fifty I lion dollars, according to an j made to Attorney General Allen j Edwin Q. Atkins, head of a local su , gar firm and an official of | of the largest companies in this ; try and Cuba. Stocks of sugar in I country now are enormous, he said j and he estimated them at two ; tons. ; The attorney general, who is ing au inquiry iuio the sugar eitua tion, witli special reference to high prices, expressed the opinion i that when the drop in price came j American Sugar Refining should have absorbed some of the loss as a means of helping small deal ers who had stocked up at the higher prices. The attorney general said he | had knowledge that the company im¬ mediately before the decline from the .... mgh pnces maite , 11 compulsory . xoi „ customers to do business of written contracts stipulating pi ices. Rates Are Suspended by The I. C. C. Washington.—The interstate com¬ merce commission has suspended from November 3 to March 3, 1921, the can cellation of class and commodity rates from Jackson, Miss., to Greenville, Miss., Helena, Ark., and Rains, Tenn„ in connection with the Gulf, Mobile, and Northern railroad, as proposed by the Illinois Central Railroad pany and the Yazoo and Missouri Val ley railroad company. Vagrant Rooster Warns Governor Cox Wichita, Kans.—A vagrant and "Cox luck" warned Governor Cox of Ohio, officials of the Democratic presidential candidate's party declar , ed, front danger of another wreck. Alter the governor’s arrival here, a rooster was found perched on the trucks under the candidate’s private i car, “The Federal.”- Capture of the ' rooster led to discovery that flanges of the car wheels were worn out and - in imminent danger of breaking and ditching the car. Government Post Refused By Dailey Washington.—Frank C. Dailey of in dianapolis recently, appointed asisst ant to the attorney general, has de ! dined the post. The statement was ! issued at tiie white house; The: j “The attorney general and Frank C. ' Ualley o£ Bidianapolis culletl at the j white house to let the president know that for business and personal reasons Mr. Dailey felt obliged to decline the place of assistant to the attorney gen¬ eral tendered him by the president. CUTTING PRICES IS CUTTING STRIKES OF ORGANIZED i Washington. Organized labor is j ginning to moderate its drive for | pealed wage increases, Edward j,, Cunningham of the conciliation j) U j reau of labor department, said, j ably as a direct result of the country j wide price-cutting wave.” “The strike epidemic seems com pletely ended,” said Mr. Cunningham "and this should speed up produciiot all over the country,” he pointed oui and continued: “Not more than 50,000 men now an involved in labor disagreements in tin - l ‘ nl ' le United States. Only two cases were referred to the department thi. tor adjustment. A short tinu ago we got from seventeen to twent: new cases each week. More men an ! working regularly now than at an; ; time since the armistice. "Throughout the whole country know of only one strike of any mag : uitude, the walkout of soft coal min i ers in Kentucky. There are indica tions that this will be adjusted verj j 1)rom p t i y Ashes Of Ancestors Held For Ransom Berne, Bwitzei land.—Thieves broke into a crematory situated in Bienne near Barns, recently, and stole r, few sepnlchra. urns containing the ashes of members of wealthy families. Prom 1 inent families of Berne and Zurich art j receiving letters, offering to return llle urns for a consideration varying between 2,000 and 3,000 francs, accord * u g to the financial standing of tilt ! owners. The police hope to lay a ! trap for the ghouls. I The Farmers Would Join A. F. Of L Washington.—Four thousand Virgin ia farmers engaged principally in Hit production of tobacco have applied foi permission to affiliate with ihe Amer¬ ican Federation or Labor, according to. au announcement by Secretary Morrison. While some of the appli cants were farm laborers, a majority a*'- understood to have been employ ' ers. Mr. Morrison in reply advisee l * ie farmers to join farmer organiza tion, although he says the employee, will be permitted to affiliate with the federation. Senator Harding And Wife Shaken Uf Millwood, VV. Ya,—Senator Hard ing's special train narrowly escapee a serious wreck near here, when tin trucks of the Harding car broke down The car was derailed, but no one was injured, although both the senatoi and Mrs. Harding were shaken up The train, which was running thirty, five miles an hour when the accideui occurred, was brought to a halt aftei crossing a deep gully. Governor Cos was in a wreck during the early pari of last week. Botli aspirants escapee unhurt. Woman Needs $100 Per Month Atlanta.—"Atlanta must concentrate , on needs of employed girls or there ! will be more Socialists, more self-de struction here, more of the cry of the Bolshevik!,” according to Miss Mary E. S, Colt of New York, direc¬ tor of campaigns of the service bu¬ reau of the. national board of the Y. W. C. A„ who had laid before the Christian Council of Atlanta a survey made on the industrial conditions of girls in this city by two secretaries from the national board of the Y. W. C. A. “No woman can live decently on less than $100 a month,” declared Miss Colt. "The population in At¬ lanta has increased in ten years 29.6 per cent with a larger increase of females than males,” said Miss Colt. "Boys and girls from the ages of 10 to 17 years number 28,043, which is significant, as it demonstrates that the city schools and consequent civic op¬ portunities are not increasing in pro¬ portion to the needs of the young peo¬ ple. One of every five persons, white and colored, employed in (his city is a woman. As shown by the survey in Atlanta factories 2,336. are working; department stores, 1,297; offices, 4, pOO; cotton mills, 1,150; laundries, 723; hotels, 380; theaters, 225; Bell Telephone company, about 700; West¬ ern Union, 420; five and ten cent stores, 306; a large percentage in the wholesale millinery establishments, motion picture distributing houses and a still larger miscellaneous number. The investigation revealed, said Miss Colt, that salaries for the average working girl in Atlanta range from $4 a week up to $50. Miss Colt deplored the fact that the investigators had found ihe city has no “community consciousness” in providing recrea iton for the employed, no civic cen¬ ters for general recreation being pro¬ vided for either white or colored. Formality Of Law Dispensed With Savannah. — Becoming impatient aver the slow process of the law, Ho mer Geiger, manager of the Geiger hotel, disregarded all legal procedure and ejected his tenant, S. K. Seergy, from tiie premises known as the Ori ?ntal Bazaar. The bazaar is located in the Geiger hotel building. Mi' Geiger sought to dispossess Seergy about a year ago by means of a dis possessory warrant, claiming that his i ease of the premises had expired, but file jury sustained the contention of the tenant that he had the right to re¬ main in the premises at least until October 1, 1920. The obdurate ten¬ ant still remained and so the landlord moved on the store, took out the win¬ dows and the doors and then pro¬ ceeded to pack the goods in boxes and :-arry them into the street. The affair , attracted a very large crowd. | Must Be Over 16 To Drive Car j Rome.—The city commission at a SEVEN reccul session- instructed the chief of police to lutve his men swear out warrants against persons violating the state law in regard to automobile!, particularly the clause prohibiting all persons under 16 years of age from driving cars. Indignant citizens had protested to the commissioners at the lumber of children operating cars in Rome, which they. regard as a dan¬ gerous practice. The commissioners were in accord with the complaints, and warrants will be sworn out against the youngsters should they be seen driving, after this warning. To Begin Serving Sentence Decatur.- it. R. Black, convicted in lie September term of the DeKalb •ounty superior court of killing Spe iiri Officer Wesley Webb and seri jusly wounding County Policeman R. P. on March 16, 1919, will begin serv¬ ing his lfie sentence in the peniten ;iary at once, according to information received from the sheriffs office. Black was convicted of murder by the jury, who recommended mercy. Fudge J. B. Hutcheson sentenced the iefendant for life. Greene Johnson, attorney for Black, tried to secure a .iew trial, but it was denied him. Watson To Cancel Engagements Thomson.—Hon. Thomas E. Watson arrived at his home, having cancell¬ ed his speaking engagements because jf a hemorrhage of the throat. He tvas met in Atlanta by his secretary, Grover C. Edmondson, who accompa¬ nied him to Thomson. At the Wat¬ son home it was stated that the con iition of the senatorial nominee is not at all serious. To Vote Upon New Charter Atlanta,—Women of Decatur will have the distinction of being the first jf their sex in Georgia to exercise :heir new rigid of suffrage at a reg ular election. Otlier communities lave permitted them to vote in pri¬ naries, but not in elections. On Oc- 20 citizens of Decatur, both non and women, will decide by their )a n 0 ts whether Decatur is to have a lommission city manager form of gov or retain the old councilmau c form. Bootlegging Laid To Chicago Police Chicago.—Chief of Police Garrity an investigation of reports that of Chicago policemen are irn in wholesale “bootlegging’ are actig as guards in the Illegal of liquor. The invest! followed reports that $175,000 worth of whiskey shipped here from Louisville, Ky., was stolen from the yards and that each of a doz i trucks used in carrying the liquor had a policeman on it as a guard.