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©fWUttklM 2o utuul VOL. XXII. NO. 80. HITCHCOCK TELLS OF WOOD’S EXPENSES MEREDITH APPEALS TO CITIES TO SEND LABORTIL FMS Secretary of Agriculture Stresses Danger of Food Shortage and Urges Emergency Action at Once (The Atlanta Journal News Bureau, 623 Riggs Building.) BY THEODORE TILLER WASHINGTON, D. C„ May 22.—1 n an exclusive and authorized inter view here today the secretary of ag riculture, Edwin T. Meredith, ex pressed the fear of a serious food scarcity next winter and urged tljat city folks aid the farmer to harvest his crops. \ 1 Secretary Meredith revealed that he is sending to secretaries of var ious business organization through out the country an dto presidents of colleges and universities, letters urging them to co-operate in the movement to get labor out to the farms to assist in production and harvesting. Secretary Meredith said the Amer ican farmer is today handicapped by various circumstances over which he has no control. What effect this will have on production, coupled with a recent drop in prices with additional discouragement, the secretary is not prepared to say, but he did comment frankly on the danger of a food shortage and the necessity of city residents giving some thought the conditions on the farms. ‘•This problem,” he said, “is as much the city man’s as it is the farmer’s. Their interest are inex tricably bound up and interdepen dent. I often wonder if the people of the cities realize how closely the problem comes home to them. With the exception of the packing centers, the cities of the country have on hand at any one time only enough meat to feed them for perhaps four days. Supplies Lmited “They have only enough flour to last a few weeks. Their vegetables and fruits come in from day to day. Practically everything they eat is only a few days, or at most a few weeks, removed from the farm. Whenever there is a shortage of pro duction it is almost instantly re flc.c r e A .Bf.O-BTg ,qf .UisuciXies- - J "UTfrtanea acreage necessarily means curtailed food production, and without adequate labor farmers can not maintain adequate acreage. Not alone is there a shortage of thirty per cent in the supply of hired farm labor, the country over, but farm work is greatly behind because of the backward spring. “Even with the best possible sea son from now until harvest, these two things, shortage of labor, and late spring, -mean reduced produc tion. With a poor season from now on a food scarcity is inevitable, and food scarcity is a menace to national prosperity everywhere. High -wages would mean little to the city worker if lie cannot buy food except at fam ine prices. “The curtailment of emigration alone during the war has been suf ficient to make a deep cut in the normal supply of labor of all 'kinds. With what labor supply there is, the farmer feels he is unable to compete with the higher-paying industries .of the cities. If he is to get the help he needs this summer, he must rely on a thorough awakening on the part of the city people to their responsi bilities in the situation. They have got to realize as far as agricultural production is concerned that an emer gency faces the country- as grave in many respects as that which faced us during the war and calling for the same degree of patriotic response. War Situation “During the war city residents showed -what they could do to help the farmer. The present shortage of farm labor exactly corresponds in figures and in fact with the short age which existed in the summer of 1918. Yet exceptionally large crops were produced that year. Why? In the first place because the individual farmer gave every ounce of his en ergy to the patriotic duty of seeing that the country at war did not lack for food. Old retired and sometimes crippled farmers, with their wives, went into the field to help. But im portant also was the fact that large numbers of business men, students and workers in the city responded to the appeal that they spend a part or all of their vacation in the fields helping the farmers. Only by simi lar co-operation can we meet the present emergency in the agricul tural situation. Will the city folks respond?” The secretary said he would not predict what the present break in food prices, particularly in the grain market, is going to mean to the farmer, nor could he estimate wheth er this break is to mean most ex pense to the food speculators or the farmers. He said, however, that the farmer was forced to weigh the doubtful prospects as to future prices for his products, when, on the opposite sheet of his ledger he notes the high prices he must still pay for labor, equipment, seed, fer tilizer and other supplies, as well as for the land he tills. Writing to business men and col lege presidents in the interest of city aid for the farmer. Secretary Mere dith will point out that while of coarse the inexperienced farm hand cannot-expect to receive as much as the worker -with farm experience, practically all men and boys who are adaptable to the work should be able quickly to earn good wages in the harvest fields. Altogether the secretary’s au thorized interview presents a rather serious resume of farm conditions and holds un for public inspection and action the danger of a food shortage that may pinch the nation next winter. CURED HER FITS Mrs. Paul Gram, residing at 916 Fourth street, Milwaukee, Wis., re cently gave out the following state ment: “I had suffered with Fits (Epilepsy) for over 14 years. Doctors and medicine did me no good. It seemed that I was beyond all hope of relief, when at last I secured a preparation that cured me sound and well. Over 10 years have passed and the attacks have not returned. 1 wish every one who suffers from this terrible disease would write R. P. N. Lepso, 13 Island avenue, Milwaukee. Wis., and ask for a bottle of the same kind of medicine which he gave me. He has generously promised to send it prepaid, free to any one who writes him.” —(Advt.) He Spots Forged I Checks for U. S. | dr /K' K IMlf s? A & K WASHINGTON—Over 350 cases of forgery in government pay checks have been nipped by Louis Albert Hill, and his magnifying glass in the past year. Hill is as sistant chief of the engraving de partment and an expert on hand writing. BOTH DELEGATIONS MOVE IN DIRECTION OF SAN FRANCISCO : Preliminary moves’in the direction of San Francisco were being made Monday by the regular delegation elected by the reecnt state conven tion and the rump delegation repre senting Mr. Palmer. A meeting of the regular delega tion has been called for Wednesday at 12 o’clock in the breakfast room of the Kimball House for the purpose of naming a chairman and secretary, making arrangements for transpor ttaion and hotel accommodations, and outlining the case to be present ~ed—to- the- credentials committee of the national convention. Charles S. Barrett is understood to be the choice of the regular dele gates for chairnaan. He is national president of the Farmers Union and is known all over the country. In the west, especially, the Farmers Union has a large and active and in fluential membership. Mr. Barrett for the past four years has presided at practically all of the joint con ferences held in Washington by the five big national farm bodies. * William J. Vereen, of Moultrie, who was named by the recent state convention as Democratic • national committeeman from Georgia to suc ceed Clark Howell, was in Atlanta Monday conferring with members of the regular delegation. He expected to be here several days anj to meet with the delgation on Wdnesday. The rump delegation representing Mr. Palmer have obtained a certifi cate from Hiram L. Gardner, secre tary of the Democratic executive committee, which is signed by 66 members of the committee. The cer tificate was furnished by Secretary Gardner instead of by Chairman Flynt, which would have been the usual procedure, because chair man refused to sign it or have any thing to do with it. The certificate is based upon Rule 10 of the state committee's rilles for the conduct of the primary. On this certificate issued by a ma jority of the state committee will be built the whole case of the rump delegation when they get to San Fran cisco. The certificate constitutes the final link in their chain of claims to seats on the floor of th'e national convention. Rule ten of the state committee provided that the delegates to the national convention should be select ed from the supporters of the can didate receiving the highest county unit vote. Another rule provided that the subcommittee on rules of the state committee should meet im mediately following the primary to consolidate the returns and declare the result. Another rule provided that a convention should meet in At lanta MayJß and elect the delegates to San Francisco. Mr. Palmer received the highest county unif vote, but the conven tion refused to be governed by the Balmer delegates, who constituted A little over one-third of the members of the convention. The convention offered to give the t’almer people one-third of the delegates to San Francisco, and the offer was refused. They demanded the right to name all the delegates. Demanding all or none, they got none. Hence the credentials of the Pal mer delegation do not emanate from the convention, which under the rule, should name the delegates to San Francisco, but emanate from the state committee, which is seeking to impose its will upon the convention. No Clue Yet as to Bergdoll’s Whereabouts, Attorney Declares WASHINGTON, May 24.—Despite the ?2,500 reward offered by at torneys of Grover Cleveland Berg doll, escaped draft evader, for his capture, no word had been received today by the attorney that would constitute even ithe slightest clue, E. F. Bailey of the law firm of Ansell and Bailey said. “We have not heard a word from Bergdoll and we have not the sligh est clue to his whereabouts,” Mr. Bailey said. FREIGHT JAM MO INCREASEO RATES STUDIED BY I. C. C. t Higher Tariffs Are Asked for Lines in Various Sections. Congestion Situation Is Given Attention WASHINGTQN, May 24.—Argu ment on the applications of the rail roads of the country for a general in crease in freight rates to afford the 6 per cent revenue guaranteed by the new transportation act began today before the interstate commerce com mission with the presentation of the carriers’ case. Howard Elliott, chairman of the subcommittee of the general rate committee of the Association of Rail way Executives, made the opening presentation of the roads’ case, speaking for the railroads of the country as a whole. Frederick Strauss, of New York, is to follow Mr. Elliott to present the financial aspects of the case, and Daniel Wil lard, president of the Baltimore and Ohio, will make the opening argu ment for the eastern territorial group of roads. Chairman Clark announced that the railroads’ argument would be heard in the order of the eastern group first, followed by the southern and western territorial divisions. By In vitation of the commission, he said, three state commissioners have been invited to sit with the commission during the hearing, because the mat ter covered is intrastate as well as interstate. The state commissioners are J. A. Geyer, of Iowa; R. C. Dunn, of Florida, and W. D. B. Ainey, of Pennsylvania. Thirty local committees located at all the principal rail “gateways” were at work today surveying their indi vidual freight problems with a view to recommending to the interstate commerce commission a policy to be followed in the future relating to priorities and embargoes. In the meantime the general ex change of equipment, to commence tomorrow is expected tq ease the congestion of the roads to a certain extent. Railroad officials, however, are of the opinion that weeks of co operation between the commission, the roads and shippers would be nec essar yto bring about normal con ditions. Method of fixing the valuation of the railroad properties on which the government guarantee will- be based will be one of the questions thresh ed out at the hearings. All interest ed parties will be given an opportun ity to present their claims both as to the proposed increases in rates and the valuation problem. Howard El liott, chairman of the subcommittee of the general rate committee of the Association of Railw’ay Executives, was called to open the case for the carriers. Elliott Asks Increase Increases in freight rates of 30.43 per cent in eastern territory, 30.95 in southern territory, and 23.95 per cent in western territory, “to meet the difference between the six per cent return on property investments permitted under the transportation act,” were advocated by Hr. Elliott. The $1,017,000,010 additional reve nue which the railroads are seek ing through increased freight rates does not take into account any in crease in wages which the railroad labor board may grant the 2,000,000 railway employes, Mr. Elliott stated. Mr. Elliott pointed out that in the eastern territory, railroads for the year ending October 31, returned on property investments “less than one fifth of one per cent.” In the soutn ern territory, he said, the returns were less than three-fourths of one per cent and in the western territory slightly more than two per cent. For the country as a whole the return was said to have been slightly more than one per cent. Under the conditions of private ownership and operations of rail roads, “with governmental regula tion, protection and encouragement, Mr. Elliott said, “the railroads must obtain earnings enough to meet all obligations and have sufficient credit to sustain them in competition with other forms of industry into which people put their time, brains, energy and <money.” A Under the new transportation act; he said, the two pressing questions now under discussion by the inter state commerce commission and the newly created labor board, are the requests for wage increases exceed ing $1,000,000,000 a year and an addi tional $1,017,000,000 needed by the railroads to meet "the prestn basis of wages, costs, interest and a sum for dividends and improvements.” Norfolk, Va., Increases 71.6 Per Cent With Population of 115,777 WASHINGTON, May 24. —The cen sus bureau today announced the fol lowing 1920 population figures: Norfolk, Va., 115,777; increahe, 48.325. or 71.6 per cent. Meriden, Conn., 29,842, increase of 1,577, or 9.5 per cent. Burlington, la., 24,057, decrease 267, or 1.1 per cent. Meridentown, Conn., including Meriden city, 34,739, increase 2,67”. or 8.3 per cent. Norfolk, ranking as eighty-second most populous city.of the country in 1910, had about 1,600 inhabitants less than Akron, Ohio, which was eighty first city. Akron had enormous growth in the last ten years and returned a population of 2)8,435 for 1920, an increase of 201.8 per cent. Norfolk ranked as second Virginia city and eleventh most populous mu nicipality of the south in 1910 with a population of 67,452. having shown in the ten years from 1900. an in crease of 20,828 people. Jacksonville Fla., which ranked as fifteenth southern city'in 1910 with about 10,000 people less than Nor folk, has returned her population this year as 91,543, an increase of 58.7 per cent. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1920. CARRANZA'S BODY IS TIKENTO IMS ST FAITHFUL GUARD Reward for Villa, Dead or Alive, Reported—Obregon Assures U. S. of Good Will of New Regime ABOARD SPECIAL./ TRAIN OF GENERAL CALLES, LA FLORA, Coahuila, May 22.—(Via El Faso, May 24.) —(By the Associated Press.) —The de , facto authorities of Mexico have served, an ultimatum on Francisco Villa, giving him until May 25 to decide whether he is to be at peace or at war with the new government, General P. Calles an nounced late today. MEXICO CITY, May 24.—A dingy little train of three wooden coaches today brought the remains of Venus tiano Carranza, murdered president of Mexico, back to his former capi tal. Drawn by a rusty crippled engine the train slowly puffed its way into the city at 5:50 a. m. on the narrow guage railway. . No more than 150 persons remain ed of the crowd which earlier had thronged the Colonia station to await the arrival of the body of the former ruler of Mexico. The faithful watchers included most of the for eign diplomatic corps. George Sum merlein, American charge, was con spicuous in a high silk hat. The other watchers were chiefly newspaper men, photographers, and the mourning-clad members of the dead president’s family. A few men from the Carranza regime, who had not fled the capital with their chief were waiting. They were dressed in mourning. Herald Approach of Train The sun was just rising -when rail way officials announced .that the train was approaching the station and would stop at a crossing about 200 yards away. When the word was passed about the little crowd filed down the tracks through the early dawn. As the train stopped at the cross ing a band of faithful Carranza sol diers who had acted as its guard clambergd stiffly to the ground. They were ragged, dirty and unshaven from days of the hardest kind of campaigning in the mountains of Puebla. Reverently, sombreros in hand, the soldiers lifted a rough wooden box from one of the coaches. It was the casket containing the body of Car ranza—draped in the national colors of red, green and white. Then, as the sun rose over the sur rounding hills, the remnants of the once proud Carranza army—a tat tered group of sleepless, hungry men—lifted the ’ casket solemnly on their shoulders and started the last march with their chief. It was an impressive testimony of loyalty. Followed by the mourners the little band moved off toward the Carranza residence. Diplomats and newspaper men brought up the rear. Daughters Get Body At the residence the procession broke up and the body was placed in possession of the dead president’s daughters, Julia and Virginia, who were to arrange for the funeral. They planned to hold it either this after noon or tomorrow. Burial will be in Dolores cemetery—the “Cemetery of Sorows.” General Murguia, Aguire Berlanga, Ignacio Bonillas and General Urquizo, who rode to the city bn the funereal train, abandoned it at the suburb of Guadalupe, finishing the journey by motor. • Some of the loyal soldiers complained bitterly of this. “They thought too little of Car ranza to stick to the end,” one grimy old veteran said. The brothers Cabrerra were report ed safe in a town in Puebla. The revolutionists had provided nd form of official reception for the body, but the loyal Carranzistas did their best ot make it an impressive ceremony. “Old Guard” Salutes As-the casket was lowered there was a bugle blast and the Old Guard” drew up in proud dignity to “present arms,” forming a martial column through which the procession started to the president’s home. The place at which the train stopped was only four blocks from the Carranza residence. Some laborers and townspeople, going early to their tasks, fell into line as the procession wended its way through the quiet streets. They walked quietly, hats In hand. There was no outcry, no demonstration of any kind to mar the solemnity of the occasion. Once when the procession was stopped while a photographers snap ped the casket an old Carranza sol dier muttered a subdued protest. As the procession neared the presi dential home with the gray outlines of Chatepultepic castle —the. official residence of the rulers of Mexico, silhouetted against a misty 1 -wk ground of mountains —thef tension reached a cljmax. A window in the house was raised and four women leaned out. They were the two daughters and two nieces of the slain president. Sud denly the silence was pierced by a woman’s scream. They Have “Killed Him” “The traitors —they have killed him”—she cried. It was Carranza’s daughter, Virginia. General Juan Amador, who accom panied Carranza from . the moment when he fled from his capital until be was killed, gave a complete detail of the assassination. The soldiers under Rudolfo (Continued on Fage 6, Column 2) JOHNSON IS ASKED POINT BIINK IF HE WILL BOLT G. 0. P. Telegram Sent to Califor nian on May 10 by North Carolina Republican Still Is Unanswered BY DAVID LAWRENCE (Copyright, 1920, for The Atlanta Journal.) WASHINGTON. May 24.—Wi1l Senator Hiram Johnson bolt the Re publican national convention unless the treaty of Versailles, League of Nations and all, is condemned? Republicans who like the Califor nia sqnator and want to help him win the Republican nomination, but who are not in sympathy with his stand on the treaty question, are eager to know. Indeed Leland Stan ford, a resident of Stoneville, N. C., has put the question squarely before Senator Johnson, but says that as yet he has received no answer. He is a full-fledged Republican and was asked to serve on the committee in North Carolina which would promote the candidacy of Hiram Johnson In that state. Before accepting mem bership on the committee, however, he sent the following telegram to Senator Johnson: “There> is on foot a concentrated and organized movement to put you over by a substantial majority in our North Carolina primary June 5. I am requested to serve on your com mittee in this state to promote your campaign Do you intend to bolt from the Republican party unless reservations, league, treaty and all are condemned by the Chicago con vention? Will division exist on your part and your followers if the epn vention stands for the Lpdge reser vations? Wire me what reconcilia tion you and your supporters de mand. (Signed) "LELAND STANFORD. •‘Attorney, Stoneville. N. C\” Effect of Joint Resolution On Peace Is Discussed By Ex-President EK. H. Taft BY WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT (Copyright, 1920, for The Atlanta Journal.) The peace resolution, which has passed the house in one form and the senate in another, has brought out an interesting discussion of con stitutional and international law. The limits of an article like this do not permit lengthy consideration of the opposing positions taken. The question of the such a resolution declaratory of peace by a joint resolution of congress has two aspects: First, does it make peace with Germany? Second, does it have any domestic effect calling for its passage? The following seems to the writer to be _a short statement of sound conclusions: First, (a) A war may be brought about by the declaration and acts of one nation against another. Wheth er the other nation consents or not, a status of war is thus created. In the United States war must be de clared by congress undei- the consti tution, but we may have a legal status of war without such a declara tion when either domestic insurrec tion or foreign war is begun against us. 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SEND YOUR 50c TODAY If you wish to secure your subscription without cost to you send us four new subscribers at fifty cents each for this offer and we will send you The Tri-Weekly Journal till November 10th for your trouble. THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga. Here is 50c enclosed, for which send me THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL from now until November 10, 1920. Name R. F. D P. 0....................... State ?.... The Long and The Short of It | MW* * ' f; |- • I ■ >1* j “He reached so high he touched the sky”—and on the other hand —‘‘he’s only as big as a minute.” The giant is Van Albert of Amster dam. He’s 19 years old, weighs 165 pounds and stands 8 feet 5 inches in his woolen socks. His little friend, Sepptoni, the midget, h-iils from Switzerland, and tow ers merely a couple of 12-inch feet in the air. this country and another country, because congress’ sole act does not constitute an agreement. Nor is> the war ended by an act of re pealing the former declaration of war, because congress cannot thus end that which it could begin by a unilateral act. This act produced a status of war, to the ending of which both parties must agree. Agreement Ending War (c) An agreement ending war may be by treat;/ of peace, and with us, under our constitution, the treaty making power is intrusted to the president and two-thirds of the sen ate. But this agreement can be ef fected ih any other way permitted by our constitution. In practice we have made what in substance are agreements and constitute a meet ing of the minds of two nations by co-ordinating legislative acts of the legislatures of the two governments. Thus the last proposed reciprocity agreement with Canada was to be constituted by an act of congress, by which certain duties were to be im posed on Canadian products coming into the United States, if at the same time by Canadian statute cer tain duties were to be imposed on goods going from the United States into Canada. This agreement made between the two executives was to be embodied in these two statutes, neither of which became operative until the other was passed and each of which would cease to be opera tive when the other was repealed. (Continued on Fage 6, Column 5) Scents a copy. $1.50 A TEAK. 110,000 WIS SENT TO GEORGIA. WHE CONTESTWAS MADE $15,000 Expended In New Jersey and $12,500 in Maryland, Witness Tells Senate Committee X WASHINGTON, May 24.—Frank H. Hitchock, one of Major General Leonard Wood’s campaign managers, told a senate investigating commit tee today that so far as he knew the largest sum spent in any state by the Wood organization was $15,000 in New Jersey. He added that the next largest was $12,500 in Mary land. Hamilton Kane, Republican na tional committeeman in New Jersey, took charge of the Wood expendi tures in that state, the witness testi fied, adding that all of the money used in the state was accounted for under the direct primary law. Mr. Hitchcock paid he could not give details as to campaign contribu tions, as it had been understood when he joined the Wood organiza tion that he was not to assist in the financing work. Some individuals/ he added, had sent money to him direct, but this, he said, would not exceed $25,000. Mr. Hitchcock said that in Michi gan the Wood campaign was fi nanced “by local people” without any call on the national organiza tion. Colonel Fred Alger, of De troit, he said, was the state chair man. Mr. Hitchcock said that in New York, “as in a number of other states,” the Wood supporters “fi nanced their own campaign in their own way” without asking assistance from the Wood organization/ Was a Manager Mr .Hitchcock identified himself as “one of the managers of General Wood’s campaign.” “Who are the others?” Chairman Kenyon asked. “William C. Proctor is the general manager,” the witness responded, “while assistants in charge of vari ous sections include Representative Norman Gould,.of New York; Thomas C. Miller and Senator Moses, of New Hampshire.” “This committee would like to know the amount of money expend ed in your campaign, its sources and who the contributors are,” Chairman Kenyon continued. “Can you give us that?” “All that can be obtained,” Mr. Hitchcock answered, “but the treas urers of the campaign organizations have the data. I asked to be ex cused from the financing work, though after my connection with the campaign became established some checks were sent to me by individ uals amounting to not more than $20,000 or $25,000, I think. All of that I turned over to the treasurers. “All of the campaign contribu tions have been made through fi nance committees in each state. Aft er their receipt they have been turn ed over to two treasurers, Horace C. Stebbins, in New York, and Elbert A. Sprague. All the expenditures have been made by checks and a full record is available. “Then in addi tion the Leonard Wood league which has 60,900 members or so all over the United States, has had an in dependent fund collected in its own way." I don’t know about that at all as I have no connection with it or its expenditure.” Colonel Alger on Roll Senator Reed, Democrat, Missouri, wanted to know if Colonel Alger wag not a wealthy man and whether any other wealthy men were on the Wood organization roll in Michigan. ‘He was the only one who would answer that description, I think,” Mr. Hitchcock replied. Asked how much the Michigan organization raised, Mr. Hitchcock said: “I don’t know, that was their own affair.” In Delaware, Mr. Hitchcock said, nothing was given by the New York office. Senator Reed asked how much th<) New York state organization spent. “I don’t know,” replied the wit ness. “That campaign was begun long before I entered. I was in formed that less than SIO,OOO was spent by the local organization. “The great expenses were in the big primary fights, like Ilinois, and Ohio. I had nothing to do with those; they were handled from Chi cago. I didn’t favor making con tests in those tw« '•*"*—" Mr. Hitchcock said Tie had charge of the Maryland contest. His rela tion to the campaign generally, he said, was “supervisory.” Senator Reed said that with the eastern and western headquarters and the separate state organizations the Wood organization seemed to have a number of units. “Yes, it is a little complicated,” • Mr. Hancock said. Mr. Hitchcock said he was not fa miliar with the expenditures of the Chicago headquarters. He told the committee that the New York office confined its work to the eastern and. through Senator Moses, /of New Hampshire, to the southern states. « He added that Colonel Proctor and the Chicago treasurer would have the information as to expenditures by the Chicago office. Two Are Summoned Chairman Kenyon gave notice dur ing Mr. Hitchcock’s examination that he had summoned Horace C. Stebbins and Elbert A. Sprague, treasurer, re spectively, of the Wood headquarters at New York and Chicago, to appear before the committee. Senator Pomerene said it appeared Mr. Hitchcock had nothing to do with raising or spending-funds and asked his line of work. "My function has been largely ad visory, superisor,” Mr. Hitchcock re plied. “I have endeavored to inter est political leaders over the country in the Wood cause—friends of mine, political leaders, I had previously (Continued on Fage 6, Column •>»