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CKN IK l/OF (HiOKCI \ !< \ I LAV AY
COMPARES OPERATING RESULTS OF
.NOVEMBER 1920 WITH MARCH 1920.
Review of the results of operating the Central of Georgia during peri¬
od following the return of the property to the owners. The transition
period found the Company with an unusually large number of bad order
cars and locomotives and much of the rolling stock was due for heavy and
thorough repairing. It was during this period that the Company was call¬
ed on to handle the heaviest movement of Passenger and Freight traffic
in its history and to do this it became necessary to manufacture increas¬
ed transportation facilities out of increased efficiency.
The improvement is measured by the average tonnage per car and the
average mileage per car day. The following figures show what has been
accomplished:
AVERAGE TONNAGE PER CAR
March November Percentage Equivalent
1920 1920 Gain To
24.6 27.3 11 % 790 Cars
AVERAGE MILES PER CAR DAY
March November Percentage Equivalent
1920 1920 Gain To
20.2 30.1 49 % 3,500 Cars
Or a tctal equivalent of 4,290 Cars
The number of tons moved one mile during the first nine months of
1320 was 1,105,930,000 or 85,365,000 tons more than during the first
nine nonths of 1918.
The increased car loading combined with the increased mileage had the
effect of increasing the car supply 4,290 cars. If the enlarged capacity
provided by increased efficiency had had to bo produced by new cars, it
would have required an expenditure of $12,870,000, a sum of money
which would have been permanently added to the property value of the
Company on which the shippers would ultimately have to pay a return
through rates.
The bad order locomotives on March 1st numbered 58 or 19.4% of the
total owned locomotives, while on November 1st the bad order locomotives
were reduced to 34 or 11.1% of the total owned locomotive*.
THE LEADER ! R1BUNE, FORT VALLEY, GEORGIA
PURPOSES AND METHODS OF
KU KLUX KLAN DEFENDED
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 15.—Colonel
William J. Simmons, Imperial wiz
trd of the Knights of the Ku Kluz
\lan, in a statement issued today,
iia kes spirited and emphatic reply
0 false statements published in cer
uin sections of the country that the
u Klux Klan is spreading the doc
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ine of race prejudice and race
atred.
The imperial wizard severely cen
ired the National Association for
le Advancement of Colored People,
,ith headquarters in New York.
,hich he charges is largely responsi
ile for the misconceived ideas fo the
iu Klux Klan and its purpose.
“This negro association and its
riends »»> says Colonel Simmons,
has falsely held up the Ku Klu:
flan as an enemy of the negro race,
s a breeder of race hatred and hu.
eliberately and maliciously sought
o deceive the negro into believing
lat this organization not onl;
reatens him with bodily injury i;
:e future but already has beate
.id even killed negroes, driven thei
way from the ballot boxes and sou
,’ht to terrify them into fleeing th
ountry by midnight parades am.
threats.
“The National Association for the
Idvaneement of Colored People i.
using the Ku Klux Klan as a cudgi
„o extort money from members o.
the negro race for the purpose ol
carrying on its nefarious purpose
and is deluding them with the hopt
of social and poiiticial equality ane
other wild promises which the back
ers of this association know nevei
■•an and never will be fulfilled. u
Colonel Simmons declares these as
sertions that the Ku Klux Klan is
spreading the doctrine of race hatred
and race prejudice are on a par witL
and originate from the same sources
as those which propagated the slan¬
der several weeks ago that this or¬
ganization was identified with the
“night riders” who were burning cot¬
ton gins and threatening their own¬
ers unless they ceased operations un
til the price of cotton rose.
“We are not surprised and we are
not seriously perturbed by the fact
that from time to time we are called
upon to answer the wilful and malic¬
ious falsehoods circulated about Ku
Klux Klan,” says Col. Simmons, “It
is to be expected that any organiza¬
tion standing for pure Americanism
and which has the courage openly to
avow its purpose and to proceed
fearlessly with its work will be as¬
sailed bitterly by the forces which
are seeking to bring about un-Amer¬
ican America.
“The Ku Klux Klan stands unre
servedly and unashamedly for whiu
supremacy in America. With an un
ending stream of immigration flow
ing ceaselessly into the United State,
from every land and clime, with al¬
ien forces already at work to under¬
mine our cherished institutions and
upset the established order of socie¬
ty, this country today is facing the
most serious problem in its history,
ohall the Caucasion race of toda>
and tomorrow continue to hold itt
lofty God-ordained and self-achievea
pre-eminence, or shall it lose its sa
ored inheritance by permitting the
influences of a fanatical, senseless
and thoughtless sentimentality to un¬
dermine its very foundation? Shall
its manifold glory, its exalted ideals
and its marvelous copocity perish
from the earth? Shall the Anglo
Saxon civilization of America lose
its luster and leadership by the rea¬
sonless injection of inferior blood
and alien purposes into its body pol
itic?Shall the heritage of our fathers
oe repudiated and our birthright be
frivously tossed aside for a consider¬
ation, for less than a mess of pot
.age? Is there a man who would ad¬
mit to the sacred fellowship of his
home anyone who has no conception
of and no regard for the sacredness
jf that fellowship? Is there a real
’White Man” in all America who
will dishonor the fathers, defame his
inheritance and destroy for himself
and his progency a civilization and a
government to guarantee that civili¬
zation by assisting or condonig by
inaction the supplanting of the civil¬
ization by a mongrel mass of far low¬
er mentalities void of lofty ideals?
The only safe-guard is to keep for¬
ever pure Anglo-Saxon ideals, society
and government. No mongrel eivili
ation has ever endured; no people
f mixed race has ever builded foi
hemselves a civilization or kept that
which perchance have been admitted
o by others. If there be a race or
people who would enter into the sa¬
cred fellowship of our politics, so¬
ciety and civilization, then let them
prove their worthiness, their capaci¬
ty by first producing something of
like nature that will add to and not
take away from what we have and
under God shall forever hold. No ra¬
cial monstrosity and babel of tongues
shall ever supplant the only legiti¬
mate child of a stainless ancestry.
** By white supremacy is not
meant imposition or hardship upon
other rac Black, Red, Yellow
Brown—but this is a White Man's
the white man carved it
th# ruggad wilderness, the fore-
fa', hern who drafted and dgned the
Declaration of Independence laid
the foundation stone for a white
man’s country, the wh.te man is re¬
sponsible for its existence and its
destiny and the white man must for¬
ever retain full control of its social,
poiiticial and governmental affairs.
From the dim and distant past the
voice of the great Lincoln must be
heard: ‘There are ’physical differen¬
ces between the races which would
ortver forbid them living together
in terms of poiiticial and social
quality.’
“The sooner this fact is recognized
by those of other races who are here
courtesy of the United States
ernment and its people and who, un¬
der the protection of the American
flag, enjoy greater freedom of speech
and action and greater opportunities
for happiness and prosperity than
hoy could ever have attained in the
’and of their nativity, the sooner will
there be an end to ‘race issues’ and
iie sooner will peace and harmony
prevail.
We are told, forsooth, that the Ku
11 ux Klan is stirring up race preju
lice. Indeed! What then, may we ask,
s stirred up when the National As
ociation for the Advancement of
Colored People feels its power so
crongly that, alone and unaided, it
ipenly and brazenly goes before Con
ress with the demand that repre
ontation of the South be cut dow.
is punishment because of ‘discrimin
tion against the negro at the ballo.
box?
“We presume there was no possi
bility of stirring up race prejudice
when this association willfully and
deliberately uttered the falsehood
hat members of this organizatio
paraded the night before the recent
residential election for the purpose
of terrifying negro voters and, that
m election day members of this or
’•anization beat and killed negroe
because they sought to vote, when
this organization has paraded in pub¬
lic many times each year and ir.
places for the past five years.
“We presume that race prejudice
: s lulled to rest when every negro
newspaper and magazine i s filled
with slurs and slanders upon tin
South and its people and that the
millennium is being hurried by cer¬
tain so-called leaders of the negrt
race who are insidiously instilling in
to the minds and hearts of their ow
race the spirit of hatred against th<
people of the South who have beer
and who will ever be their most sym
nathetic friends and advisers.
The Ku Klux Klan stands firmly and
my of the negro or of any other race
The Ku Klux Klan stands firmly am
jnalterably for the proper function
ng of all the races in their Divinel.
itended relationships and strem
msly opposes any compromise b
nixig of these relationships. Th
tars will fall from their ceiestir
sockets before the white race wil
urender its inalienable rights am
.chievements to a lower race ol
.hatever color. In this the white mai
vill die but never surrender. The ur
•rupulous politician, the dirty cm
ny of all races, and the fanaticr.
'ader of other races may well lay r
ide their vile hopes aau! ungodly an
jitions and become reconciled to th
od-created racial right. It is in a
things and at all times defensive am
in no thing at no time offensive. A
it always has been, it is today an
forever will be,at all times and in a
daces, the sympathetic friend o
Right and being this, it stands an act
ive and uncompromising foe ol
W rong. Withiut courting popular ap
plause, without, apology, its forces
are marshalled to answer the behest
of solemn Duty in all the relation
ships of life and living without fault,
without fail, without fear and with¬
out reproach. m
William J. Simmons, Imperial Wizard
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
THE CROSS
Deep darkness shrouded land and
sea,
And sin enthroned brought death’s
dark night
Until the Lamb of Calvary
Poured forth his blood to give us
light.
The Cross has its appointed place;
The measure of God’s love pro¬
found,
It bears the Offering for the race.
The Crucified, arisen, crowned.
Unto the Cross we look today,
Behold the Christ, and hear His
cries.
The blood He shed it takes away
Our load of guilt and purifies.
Through it we shall as victors race,
More of Christ’s wondrous glory
find, i
The fullness of His saving grace
The rest for all God’s saints de-j
signed.
W. C. Carter.
Powersville, Ga.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1921.
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As Well As Beautiful
This store has become justly famous for its
Birthday merchandise. Purchases are made in
the perfect assurance that they will reflect good
taste and will be RELIABLE. You demand
these qualities, we feel quite sure. Gifts must
be above reproach. The character of the store
where they were purchased is an indication of
YOUR sincerity in making the gift and your
determination to send only the very best.
This is indeed a “Birthday Gift Shop” in the more dig
nified sense. Watches, pins, cut-glass, silverware, clocks,
rings—all of the exquisite and COMMON-SENSE articles
you have grown to associate with this store—will be found
in the prevailing models. We ARE up-to-the-minute.
Here you will find the ENDURING gifts—the ones into
which lasting sentiment is wrought. To remember birth¬
days SUBSTANTIALLY, with gif ts that never die, is proof
of your wisdom and judgment
We have a complete line of the Nationally known and
Nationally advertised W.W.W. Guaranteed Gem-set Rings.
We recommend them because they are manufactured with
a PLEDGE TO YOU, the purchaser. If gems are cracked
or fall out perhaps accidentally by you, they are immedi
ately replaced. We approve of this kind of salesmanship—
it is OUR way, too.
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Fort Valleys, Ga.
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White Haired Alabama Lady Says She Has Seen Medicines Come
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Came and Stayed.
Dutton, Ala.—In recommending Thed
lord’s Black-Draught to her friends and
neighbors here, Mrs. T. F. Parks, a well
known Jackson County lady, said: ‘T am
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white. I have seen medicines and reme¬
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? I Black-Draught will relieve indigestion
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An Opportunity {t j
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For L.ive Boys To Make Money. \\
towns Several within live the boys logical in Fort circulation Valley and territory neighboring | |
of this ■ |
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two’s work each week in their spare time. If you are f J
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ir don’t take up time. You’ll have to EARN this
our
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and there are boys who can get it.
Act promptly, but know your mind first. We can
use only one or two boys in each town, and the first to
qualify get the plums.
S | The Fort Leader-Tribune Valley, Ga. jjj ffi
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ssiststhe liver in throwing off impuri-'
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Every one occasionally needs something
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Try Black-Draught. Insist upon Thed
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