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BY BUD FISHER
COTTON
NEW YORK, July 9.—The cotton market
showed renewed irregularity at the opening
today, first prices being 25 points higher
on the inactive month of September and 2
points higher to 8 points lower on other
positions. So far as cnld be learned there
was only one or two July notices and
there was very little business in that posi
tion, but the continued good weather i nthe
south led to selling of new crop months with
October easing off to 32.62 and December
to 31.03 shortly after the can, or 17 to 22
points net lower. Private cables said Liver
pool was lower under- selling on rumors of
bearish mld-month erop condition figures.
Private reports of rains in Texas seemed
to help the tone of the market during the
middle of the morning, and prices show hl
rallies of some 15 to 20 points from the low
est, with October selling at 32.82 c, or with
in 2 points of yesterday's closing figures.
There was not a great <Jcal of buying aside
from covering for over the week-end, how
ever, and the market weakened again late
in the morning owing to a renewal of scat
tering Julv liquidation. That delivery sold
off to 38.45 c, or 55 points net lower and new
crop months showed net losses of some 17 to
19 points during the early afternoon.
After selling to 32.51 for October, or
about 33 to 36 points net lower on new crop
months the market steadied on covering for
over the week-end and there were slight
rallies but no change in the general news.
NEW YORK COTTON
The following were the ruling prices in
the exchange today:
Tone, steady; middling, 40.50 c, quiet.
Last. Prev
Open. High. Low. Sale. Close. Close.
Jan. .. 30.50 30.52 30.20 30.3 Q 3.0.30 30.60
Meh. . 30.03 30.03 20.61 29.72 29.68 30.50
May .. 29.40 29.40 29.00 29.00 29.40
July .. 38.95 39.15 38.45 39.00 39.00 39.00
Oct. .. 32.87 32.90 32.50 32.65 32.63 32.84
Dec. .. 31.20 31.27 30.85 31.02 31.01 31.20
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
NEW ORLEANS, July 9.—Aggressive sell
ing opened the trading in cotton today and
prices wefe sent 14 to 30 points under the
close of yesterday in short order. October
dropping to 32.05, . Sellers were encouraged
by reports of further curtailment of output
bv mills and by extremely favorable weath
er in the, belt but as the market fell gen
eral realizing set in among the shorts and
their buving brought about a reaction, so
that at the end of the first hour of busi
ness the market stood 1 to 14 points under
the final prices of yesterday.
•The reaction continued in force until the
market was 17 points over to 5 points under
the close of yesterday, October selling as
high as 32.50. The forecast of dry weather
for practically the entire cotton region
brought in new setting under which values
gave ground again so that late in the morn
ing the more active months were 22 to 31
jKiints lower than yesterday’s final prices. -•-
At the lowest of the day the market
stood 27 to 50 points under the final price's
of vestsrday. Julv making the widest loss
and' tradio down to 36.10 c. Profit-taking
again became a factor anl toward the close
the decline amounted to but 2 to 18 points.
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
The following were the ruling prices in the
exchange today:
Tone, steady; middling, 39c, steady.
Last. Prev
Open. High. Low. Sale. Close. Close.
Jan. .. 30.05 30.30 29.92 30.34 30.17 30.35
Meh. . 29.66 29.68 29.35 29.60 29.60 29.70
May 28.55 29.00
July .. 36.60 36.85 36.10 36.65 36.65 36.60
Oct. .’. 32.20 32.50 32.05 32.30 32.30 32.33
Dec. .. 30.80 30.95 30.55 30.80 30.80 30.82
NEW ORLEuxNS SPOT COTTON
NEW ORLEANS, July 9.—Spot cotton,
steady, 50 points lower. Sales on the spot,
347 bales: to arrive, 104. Low middling,
29.50 c; middling, 39c; low middling, 43c.
Receipts, 1,542: stock, 267,286.
SPOT COTTON MARKET
Atlanta, steady, 43.75 c.
New York, quiet, 40.50 c.
New Orleans, steady, 39c.
Philadelphia, steady, 40.75 c.
Montgomery, steady, 40c.
Norfolk, steady, 40.50 c.
Savannah, steady, 40.'75c.
St. Louis, steady, 40c.
Houston, steady, 38.50 c. .
Memphis, steady, 40c v
Augusta, steady, 41c.
Little Rock, steady. 40c.
Dallas, steady, 38.25 c.
Mobile, steady, 39.25 c.
Charleston, steady, 40.50 c.
Wllgington, steady, 39.50 c.
boston, steady, 40.75 c.
Galveston, steady, 38.25 c.
ATLANTA SPOT COTTON
Atlanta spot cotton 43.75 c
Receipts 746
Shipments *. 516
Stocks • • • 15,927
AMERICAN COTTON
AND GRAIN EXCHANGE
COTTON QUOTATIONS
The following were the opening, highest,
lowest, close and previous close quota
tions on the American Cotton and Grain
Exchange of New York:
Prev.
Open. High. Low. Close. Cio*«
Jan. ... 30.50 30.52 30.20 30.32 30.58
Meh. ... 31.03 31.03 29.61 29.68 30.00
July ... 38.95 39.15 38.45 39.00 38.90
Oct. ... 32.82 32.96 32.50 32.63 32.80
Dec. ... 31.20 31.21 31.85 31.02 31.21
LIVERPOOL COTTON
Tone, steady; sales, 3,000; good middling,
27)62d.
Prev.
Open. Close. Close
January ... ..20.69 20.62 20.79
February .... ........ '..... 20.32 20.51
March 20.03 20.03 20.23
April ...... .... 19.80 19.99
June 19.37 19.56
July 23.87 23.71 *23.85
August 23.33 23.49
September 22.61 22.72
October* 22.20 22.15 22.26
November 21.60 21.52 21.66
December* 21.05 20.97 21.15
LIVERPOOL COTTON lIATISTICS
LIVERPOOL, July 9.—Weekly cotton sta
tistics:
Total forwarded to mills 58.000 bales, of
wnicii 51,000 bales was American.
Stock 1,030,000 bales; American 716,000
bales.
Imports 27,000 bales; American 9,100
bales.
Exports 7,000 bales.
COTTONSEED OIL MARKET
Open. Close.
Spots 13.50@14.00
Jan 14.35@14.35 14.10@14.15
Feb. .. .. . .14.35@14.50 14.25@14.30
July 13.4Q@13.50
Aug <13.65@14.00 13.75@13.80
Sept 14.344414.45 14.26@14.2S
Oct 14.25@14.53 14.25@14.40
Nov 14.25 @14.45 14.10@14.15
Dec. 14.26@14.31 14.10@14.12
Liberty Bonds
NEW YORK, July 9. —Liberty bonds: Final
prices today were:
3%s $91.24
First 4s ... 86.20
Second 4s ••••>••• • • .. 85.50
First 4%s . 86.30
4%s / ... ... 85.(4
'Third 4 44s 89.74
Fourth 4%s 85.96
Victory 3%s 95.90
Victory 4%S 95.98
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GRAIN
CHICAGO, July 9.—Bearish forecasts of
the government crop report led to further
selling in the corn market today. Initial
quotations, which ranged from y a e to l%c
lower, were followed by moderate rallies
and then by another sag.
Corn closed heavy, % %l%c net lower.
Oats weakened with com.
Higher prices on hogs strengthened pro
visions. X
CHICAGO QUOTATIONS
I’he following were the ruling prices t»
Ihe exchange today: -
Prev
Open. High. Low. Close. Close.
CORN—
July 1561 i 150% 156 156% 157%
Sept 155% 158% 154% 155% 156
Dec 139% 141% 138 138% 140
(JA’X’B •
Julv ..... 94% 96% 94 94% 94%
Sept 78 79% 77% 77% 78%
Dec 75 77% 75 75% 75%
• RKv ‘
July 28.45 28.50 28.45 28.50 28.25
Sept 30.50 30.50 30.25 30.25 30.25
i.aRD—
July 18.97 19.10 18.92 19.00 18.77
Sept 19.80 19.92 19.72 19.72 19.60
RIBS—
July 16.87 16.75
Sept 17.70 17.85 17.67 17.67 17.62
RECEIPTS IN CHICAGO
. Today.
Wheat 15 cars
Corn 194 -cars
Oats 70 cars
Hogs .. ..27,000 head
CHICAGO CASH QUOTATIONS %
CHICAGO, July 9.-—Cash grain: Wheat—
No. 3 hard, $2.82(^2.35: No. 4 hard, $2.78.
Corn—No. 2 mixed, $1.59%@1.61; No. 2
yellow, $1.61@1.62%.
Oats—No. 2 white, $1.06@1.08; No. 3
white. $1.04@1.06.
Rye—No. 2, $2.21@2.23%.
Barley—sl.2s@l.3o.
Timothyseed—slo.oo@l2.oo.
Cloverseed —$25.00 @ 35.00.
Pork—r Nominal.
Lard—slß.92.
Rib5—517.25@18.25.
< Atlanta Live Stock
(Corrected by W. H. White, Jr., President
White Provision Co.)
Good to choice steers. 850 to 1,000 pounds,
Good steefs, 750 to 850 pounds, $10.50@
11.00.
Medium to good steers, 750 to 850 pounds.
$10.00@10.50.
Good to choice beef cows, 750 to 850
pounds. $9.00@9.50.
Medium to good cows, 650 to 750 pounds,
$8,00@8.50.
Good to choice heifers, 550 to 650 pounds,
$8.00@9.,00. . ,
The- the ruling, prices on
good quality fed cattle Inferior grades
and dairy types quoted below.
Medium to good steers, 700 to 800 pounds.
s9.oo@lo.Ub.
Medium to good edws, 600 to 700 pounds,
S7.OQ@B!OO. '
Mixed common cattle, $6.00@7.00.
Good fat oxen, $8.00@8.50.
Good butcher bulls. «6.50@8.06.
Choice veal calves, $8.00@9.00.
Yearlings, $7.00@8.00.
Prime hogs, 165 to 225 pounds, $15.00@
15.50.
Light hogs, 135 to 165 pounds, $14.00@
14.80.
Heavy pigs, 100 to 135 pounds, $13.00@
13.50.
Light pigs, 80 to 100 pounds. $12.00@
12.50.
The above applies to good quality fed
1 hogs.
LIVE STOCK BY WIRE
CHICAGO, July 9.—Cattle: Receipts, 8,000;
upeven; steers, steady to 10c higher; other
cattle, steady: bulk, beef steers. $13.00@
16.50; veal calves, strong to 25c higher:
bulk, $13.00(314.00’.
Hogs—Receipts, 27,000; atrong to 15c
higher; bulk, $13.90@16.25; pigs, steady to
25c higher: bulk, $13.00©13.75.
Sheep—Receipts, 6,000; desirable killing
grades, fully 25c higher: top native lambs,
$15.65.
LOUISVILLE, Ky., July 9.—Cattle: Re
ceipts 200; slow, upeven. Heavy steers,
$12.00@13.50; beef steers, $8.00@12.50;
cows, $4.00@10.50; feeders, $8.00@10.25;
Stockers, $7.00@9.50.
Hogs—Receipts 1,300 ; 25 cents higher: 250
pounds up, $15.25; 165 to 250 pounds, $16.25;
120 to 165 pounds, $15.00; .pigs, $9.75@11.25;
throwouts, $11.25 down.
Sheep—Receipts 2,500; 50c to 75c higher.
Lambs, $15.50, down; sheep, down.
EAST ST. LOUIS, 111., July 9.—Cattle:
•Receipts, 1,800; native steers, steady; top
steers, $13.50; bulk, $10.50© 13.50; calves,
25c higher: vealers, $12.00@13.25.
Hogs—Receipts, 6,200 ; 25c higher; top,
$16.55; bulk, $15.75@16.43.
Sheep—Receipts, 1.S00; lambs, 50c to 75c
higher; sheep, steady; top lambs, $15.50;
bulk, $14.50@15.25.
HICAGO PRODUCE MARKET
CHICAGO, July 9.—Butter, creamery ex
tra. 65%c; creamery standards, 64c; firsts,
50@55c; seconds. 44@48c.
Eggs, ordinaries, 35%@37%c; firsts, 40%
@4l%c.
Cheese, twins, unchanged.
Live poultry, fowls, unchanged.
Potatoes, cars. 1; Wisconsin and Minne
sota (per 100 lbs.) and Virginia, $13.00@
135.0; North Carolina, $12.25; early Ohio,
$7.00@7.25.
NEW YORK SUGAR MARKET
Close.
Jnn \. 14.45@14.50
Feb 14.35@13.50
Meh 13.45@13.50
April 13.45@13.50
May • 13.50@13.60
July 17.70(3)17.80
Aug. 17.85@18.0[)
Sept 17.90@18.0
Oct ... .17.70@17.80
Nov 1... 16.95(3)17.05
Dec 16.20(316.30
NEW YORK. July 9.—Raw sugar steady;
centrifugal, 18.81; refined, steady; fine
granulated. 22'00©'24.00.
NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET
• , - ' ('lose.
-Tan. .... 12.68@12.70
Feb. 12.71@12.73
Meh ‘ 12.74@12.76
April 12.71@12.79
May 12.79@12.8»
July 13.65@13.75
Aug 12.61@12.66
Sept 12.54@12.56
Oct 12.58(312.60
Nov 12.61@12.63
Dec 12.61 @12.66
NEW YORK, July 9.—Spot coffee, 14%c.
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET
NEW YORK, July 9.-—Flour quiet and
firm.
Pork—Steady; mess, $38.00@39.00.
Lard —Firmer; middle west spot, sl9 25@
19.35. ■’
Sugar—Raw, quiet; centrifugal, 96-test,
18.56; refined, quiet; granulated, $22.00
24.00.
* Coffee—Rio No. 7, on spot, 13%c; No. 4
' Santos, 19%@21c.
* Tallow —Dull;• specials. 10%c; city, 9%c.
Hay—Quiet; No. 1, $2.40; No. 3, sl.Bo@
I 2.10; clover. $1.7-5@2.35.
Dressed Poultry—Dull; turkeys, 50@60c
‘ chickens, 40@48c; fowls, 23@42c; ducks,
I 26@33e.
' Live Poultry—Steady; geese, 18@20c;
ducks, 25@38c; fowls. 34@35c: turkeys,
35c: roosters, 20c; broilers, 45@55c.
1 Cheese—lrregular; state milk, common to
specials, 20@28%c; skims, common to spe-
I cials, s@2oc.
> Butter—Firm; receipts 27,515; creamery,
i extra, 57%c; do. sjecial market, 57%55%c;
* state dairy, tubs; imitation creamery, firsts,
I 42@57c, nominal.
I Eggs—irm: .receipts 15,727; near-by white
> fancy. 60@62c; near-by mixed fancy, 43%
) ©s7c; fresh firsts, 43%@53c; Pacific coast,
> extras, 44@61c»
M’ADOO SCORES
CORRUPT USE OF
CAMPAIGN FUNDS
NEW YORK. July 9.—William G.
McAdoo, speaking at the dinner of
the National League of Masonic
clubs here Thursday night declared
“there is no menace so great to our
nation as the corrupt use of money
for campaign purposes.’”
“I was secretary of the treasury
for six years and know the harm >
that is done by the misuse! of money
in this way/’ he said. ‘‘l am not
talking about Republicans alone, but
Democrats as well, for they all look
alike to me when they are guilty of
spending money in x tne manner in
dicated/’ '
Mr. McAdoo said that “as an Amer
ican citizen seeking nothing,” there
were some things about the coming
election he would like to refer to.
The appointment of the senate com
mittee to investigate campaign ex
penditures he declared was one of
the “tew intelligent things the sen
ate ever did.”
“There is one thing Americans
can never stand for,” ne continued,
“and that is the purchase of the
presidency of the United States.”
“In my opinion the election law
should be changed,” he said. "The
expenses fbr running the national
elections should be paid out of the
national treasury and if this were
done the cost would be infinitely
less. It would be reduced one-fifth.
The money should be taken from the
federal treasury and the law should
prescribe specifically how the money
should be spent. If’such a step were
taken it would to a great extent
purify our laws.
“It would then be out of the ques
tion to pass laws for crooked poli
ticians who have to be repaid in
some way for the moneys they have
advanced for some candidate’s cam
paign.”
He urged a nation-wide presi
dential primary at which nominees
would be selected without the aid of
political bosses.
The presidential primaries in va
rious states during the recent cam
paign, he declared, were a disgrace
to the nation. He proposed that
nominations be made in the nation
al conventions by plurality vote, in
stead of the two-third vote of the
Democrats and the majority vot-e
of the Republicans. To make this
successful, ho- asserted, national
politics, must first be purified.
’’The nominee must be the nomi
nee of the people, not of the bosses,”
Mr. McAdoo said. “The nominee of
the future must not be the selection
of a bossed convention. The dele
gates must really represent the peo
ple, so that the candidate can go for
ward and make a fight for the peo
ple.”
Mr. McAdoo said the only method
of preserving peace is the’ adoption
of a League of Nations and sooner or
later, America will see it in its
proper light,.
In order to stabilize conditions in.
the central powers it is necessary,
he said, to aid in curbing economic
boycotts directed against those na
tions. This would also serve to pro
mote domestic tranquillity.
“Let us all remember," he added,
“we have a constitution and all
America reveres it, even with the
eighteenth amendment. We love the-
American constitution and we ac
cept it.”
Government Issues
Forecast of Wheat
And Corn Production
WASHINGTON, July 9.—An in
crease of 28,000,000 bushels in the [
country’s wheat crop as compared j
with last month, with a total forecast
of 809,000,000 bushels; a prospective j
corn crop larger than last year’s and j
larger crops of oats, barley, white po
tatoes, tobacco, flax and rice than
were grown a year ago, were the
features of the government’s July
crop report issued today by the de
partment of agriculture.
WASHINGTON, July 9.—Wheat
‘production this year will be 809,000,-
000 bushels, the department of agri
culture forecast today, basing its es
timate on the condition July 1, of the
combined winter and spring wheat
crops.
Production of corn was forecast at
2,779,000,000 bushels- and the area
planted this year announced at 103,-
648,000 acres. .
Other forecasts of production
are:
Winter wheat, 518,000,000 bushels;
spring wheat,. 291,000,000; oats, 1,-
322,000,000; barley, 1993,000,000; rye,
82,000,000;white potatoes, 388,000,000;
sweet potatoes, 98,500,000; tobacco,
1,501,000,000 pounds; rice, 52,100,000
bushels; hay 84,800,000 tons; apples,
200,000,000 bushels; peaches, 45,200,-
l 000 bushels.
Clara Peck, Former Wife
Os Dr. Waite, Remarries
An echo of the Waite case, one of
the most notorious murders of local
criminal history, reached Ney York
recently' in the news that Clara
Louise Peck, who was the wife of
Dr. Arthur Warren Waite, had been
married at Pasadena, Cal., on June 4
last. Dr. Waite, a dentist and star
tennis player, was executed at Sing
Sing on May 24, 1917, for the murder
of his wife’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
John E. Peck. The former Mrs.
Waite’s husband is John L. Caulfield,
of Grand Rapids, Mich., who was a
playmate and childhood sweetheart
of Miss Peck.
Waite, by his own confession, kill
ed his wife’s mother by administer
ing typhoid germs and six weeks
later mv-dered his father-in-law with
arsenic. His object was to obtain
the $2,000,000 fortune which Mr.
Peck controlled.
A mysterious telegram sent to Mrs.
Waite’s brother advising* an autopsy
on his- father’s body led to the dis
covery of arsenic in. the stomach..
After Waite was convicted and
sentenced his wife obtained an an
nulment of the marriage.
Plague in Texas
AUSTIN, Tex., July 9. —Eight eases
of bubonic plague, with three deaths,
have occurred in Beaumont since the
disease invaded Texas. C. W. God
dard, state health officer, who re
turned from Beaumont today, de
clared.
INDEALISTS WERE
THROWN ASIDE AT
TWO CONVENTIONS
I
BY DAVID LAWBEMCE
(Copyright, 1920, for The Atlanta Jourual.)
SAN FRANCISCO, July 9.—Though
the differences between the Republi
can and Democratic conventions be
few, they are nevertheless worth
analyzing.
Emotionalism reached its peak in
! the discussion of politics here and
in the almost fanatical loyalty with
which the supporters of McAdoo re
fused to accept his declination to be
a candidate and carried his name
through a mighty battle because he
• seemed to embody the vision of a
Wilson and tfie aggressiveness of a
Roosevelt.
It’s all over now, and neither Mc-
Adoor nor Hiram Johnson can be the
beneficiary of a post mortem, but
there is a striking similarity be
tween the devotion of the folks who
worshiped Hiram Johnson and the
folks who fought valiantly for Mc-
Aoo. At Chicago the idealists weren’t
even given a hearing. They were
bluntly shoved aside and outwitted
by the master strategists. At San
Francisco the idealists were listened
to and then coldly overwhelmed.
Few men in recent years have suc
ceeded in kindling the emotion to
which William Jennings Bryan set
fire in the Democratic convention.
Hiram Johnson sat by, admiring the
reception that a California audience
gave to a man who made his appeal
on a moral issue, but cruel and unre
lenting political expediency sent
Bryan to defeat within a few min
utes after the delegates and the gal
leries had ceased cheering him.
They accepted his doctrine but not
his frank suggestion that the con
vention go on record as it had
cheered.
Bryan. Humiliated.
William Jennings Bryan is grieved
and humiliated. His friends see the
aged Commoner disappointed, not be
cause he wasn’t selected for the
presidency, as so many people have
insisted was his ambition, but down
cast because in the hour of his great
est triumph—the ratification of the
prohibition amendment —his own par
ty turned>a deaf ear to as sincere and
forceful a plea as was ever made
on a public platform.
The memory of Bryan fighting for
a dry plank in the Democratic plat
form will always be the dramatic
episode of the convention. He stood
there like a crusader offering his life
to a cause, pleading with the dry
states not to be deceived by the lead
ers from the wet states. But they
didn’t heed his advice.
They dodged the issue and the
wet states nominated a candidate
whom Bryan believes is wet.
Mr. Bryan will not bolt the party.
He - will probably not make any
speeches against Governor Cox, for
the latter will sooner or-later make
it clear that axiy revival of the wet
and dry ‘issue rests with congress.
Mr. Bryan, however, plans- to fight
for a dry congress. In all likelihood
,he will enter the districts of Re
publicans and Democrats alike who
pome out for any increase in the
alcoholic content of beverages.
On the treaty issue, Mr. Bryan
made the mistake of lugging in his
own amendment to the constitution,
so that a majority vote instead of
two-thirds could end war. He would
have been twice as dangerous to the
convention If he had suggested that
the twenty-one Democratic senators
who voted with the majority on
reservations to the peace treaty be
indorsed. As. it was he fell victim
to the effective satire and keen re
torts of Senator Carter Glass, of
Virginia, who distinguished himself
in the debate on platform and show
ed a set of oratorical teeth that will
bite hard into Republican argument,
even though this is his first term
in the senate.
Virginia Loyal to Glass
■ Senator Glass was looked upon by
his delegation as a possible dark
horse in the event that the dead
lock could not be broken. Virginia
remained loyal to him and the vocal
interruptions by John Joyce, of Nor
folk county, Va., his musical excla
mation, “Wonderful!” as Senator
Glass struck away at ,the foes of the
platform, constituted' a species of
favorite son .adultation hardly ex
celled.
The Democratic platform was de
bated in the open. The Republican
platform was debated mostly behind
closed doors. Each convention had
its own method.
As a matter of fact, notwithstand
ing all debate, the program worked
out by a majority of the platform
committee here in executive session
was adopted by the main body of
delegates by as big a vote as at Chi
cago. The Democrats, however, did
put on a better show —William Jen
nings Bryan, Bourke Cockran, of New
York; Carter Glass and Bainbridge
Colby—an oratorical feast extraor
dinary and all in one day.
Also, the Republicans listened at
tentively to Samuel Gompers, and
gave him very little of what he want
ed in the platform. That was exact
ly the treatment which the Republi
can delegates liked. The Democrats
gave Gompers nearly everything he
wanted and that was popular with
the Democrats here. Each conven
tion had its own ideas of what sort
of an appeal the platform should
make —the Republicans catered to the
business folks and the Democrats to
the laboring men. It took just as
long to read the Republican platform
as Chicago as it did the Democratic
platform here and the delegates in
both conventions seemed about
equally dazed and bored by the flow
of political vocabulary conspired in
by fifty men after all night and day
sessions. But newspaper correspond
ents who attend the proceedings ol
congress from year to year thought
both the Republican and Democratic
platform committees displayed won
derful powers of concentration and
evolved in two or three days what it
would take fifty senators months to
agree uijon if, instead of the impa
tience of a waiting convention, they
faced only the indulgent patience of
a waiting public. *
Weevil in Fayette
BROOKS. Ga.. July 9.—Farme-=
in this section have their crops in
■ fine shape, although the appearance
lof the boll weevil is worrying the
(cotton plants. The corn cron is in
good condition, although late, and
with good seasons from now on, a
jood yield is in prospect.
MOORE IS URGED
AS MANAGER FOR
■ COX’S CAMPAIGN
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coming conference. Governor Cox
will talk over the matter with Mr.
Roosevelt before any announcement
is made.
May Visit Wilson
I The governor declared a half holi
day in politics yesterday and spent
the afternoon at his old home, near
Jacksonburg, thirty miles south of
Dayton. A score of newspaper men
and camera men who trailed the gov
erned found him in a grass-covered
ravine roasting potatoes and broil
ing lamb chops oves a camp fire. He
personally served his hungry, intru
sive guests and spent part of the aft
ernoon in the shade of a big willow
tree answering questions about
farming. He conducted the news
writers about his estate showing
them everything interesting about
the farm and his old home.
The governor has intimated he may
go to Washington in the neai- future
for a conference with President Wil
son. It is known that he has held
a number of conversations over the
telephone with Secretary Tumulty
(luring the past few days.
The prohibition issue is fast com
ing to the forefront in the prelimi
nary plans for the campaign of Gov
ernor Cox.
Dry factions of the party, it is
apparent from telegrams now being
received by the Ohio governor, are
bent upon forcing him to declare for
the present prohibition laws. Anti
prohibition forces have started a
counter-offensive, thus making him
a storm center.
No Inkling of what William J.
Bryan, with the backing of the Anti-
Saloon league, Intends to do about
the Cox candidacy has been received
here, but the Commoner is the one
leading Democrat who has sent no
congratulatory message.
Although the prohibition question
is becoming so important that it is
certain to be one of the main topics
of discussion of the big conference
of party leaders, Governor Cox ap
parently is not worried over develop
ments. He expects to send a reply in
the near future to the demand of
Richmond P. Hobson and: -the Anfi-
Saloon league that he declare oppo
sition to any change in Chs Wolstead
law. -
According to his friends, Governor
Cox will state he proposes to enforce
the Volstead law as long as it is on
the statute ( bookS, and that any
change in its terms can come only
through a “damper” congress.
Governor Cox stated today that
his personal campaign headquarters
will be in Columbus. He would not
comment on reports that national
headquarters may be established
there. “That is a matter for the na
tional committee to determine,” he
said. He said it was probable there
will be an eastern and a western
headquarters.
The presidential candidate arrived
at his newspaper office from his
hom6 at Trail’s End at 10 o’cloca
and immediately saw newspaper rep
resentaotives,
, Congratulations Continue
Among the morning messages was
one from D. S. Ewing, chairman of.
the Democratic state central commit
tee of California. It told the gover
nor that it will be easier for the
Democrats to carry California this
year than in 1916. Another message
was from Joseph W. Folk, fofmer
governor of Missouri. “Let’s kill ten
horses instead of one,” it said.
The Democratic candidate learned
today that Texas has a James M. Cox.
The Texan, whose home is at Tyler,
wired as follows: . »
“Congratulations' I know you will
be elected. You have a good name.
The governor said he did not know
the Texan but apprehended that he
must be a Democrat.
A letter highly prized by the gover
nor came from- the Jefferson Masonic
lodge at Middletown, Ohio, of which
the governor is a member. It _ com
mented on the fact that the Middle
town lodge has furnished Ohio two
"tovernors, the Democratic presiden
tial nominee and former tlovernor
James'E. Campbell, and concluded:
“Now our Jimmy has received tna
highest honors of the Dmericratic
party and he is goingr to win.
Governor Cox had no comment to
make today on the refusal of the
Louisiana legislature to ratify the
suffrage amendment.
Two congratulatory messages were
received by Governor Cox today from
women’s Democratic or
They came from the Ycmng
Democratic league of New York CKy
and the Englewoo* Jane Jefferson
club Women’s Democratic Organiza
tion of Araphoe county, Colorado.
Both pledged the Democratic canal
date their hearty support.
Brand Whitlock, minister to Bel
i gium, cabled from Brussels, as iol
-1O“My wife and I ‘send cordial con
gratulations. Am writing. „ cntc .
The Ohio Society of Detroit sents
its “‘congratulations and most sin
cere well wishes. ’ adding. We al,
owing to our native state, have more
than a common interest in your suc
cess. While we realize that one of
1 Ohio’s native sons must go <lown tn
| defeat, we glory in the fact that soon
she will have to her credit another
president.”
Two Men Influenced
Two men, one a small-town school
teacher and the other a railroad
president, guided his career to a
presidential nomination, Governor
Cox thinks. , , „ „ ,
The school teacher, John Q. Baker,
i Middletown, 0., changed Cox from
a Republican to a Democrat and the
railroad president caused him to quit
his work as a reporter and become a
congressman’s secretary, thus start
ing his political career.
Mr. Baker “converted” young Cox
in high school by preaching Demo
cratic tariff policies to him. The
railroad president, who is still living
but whose name Governor Cox de
clines to give, became angered at a
story the nominee wrote about his
railroad and caused the governor to
lose the railroad assignment of a
Cincinnati paper. A; few days later
Cox was offered the secretaryship of
Representative J. Sorg and went to
Washington.
I doubt if I would have quit being
a reporter if it had not been for the
railroad president,” Governor Cox
said.
PRESIDENT WILL CONFER
WITH COX ON CAMPAIGN
| WASHINGTON, July 9.—Governor
James M. Cox, Democratic presiden
j tial nominee, has held two long-dis-
COMMITTEE OF
SENATE TO PROBE
EXPRESS MERGER
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tive to increase of tax for school pur
poses.
House bil No. 695—T0 amend the
charter of the town of Apalachee.
House bill No. 664 —To abolish the
office of county treasurer of Forsyth
county.
House bill No. 742—T0 establish
the Barrow county board of commis
sioners of roads and revenues.
House bill No. 680—To create a
new board of commissioners of roads
and revenues for Dougiierty county
House bill No. 657—T0 provide
salary for treasurer of Mitchell
county.
House bill No. 674—T0 abolish of
fice of cqunty treasurer of Clayton
county/
By Senator Allen of the Thirty
fifth—To authorize the governor to
acquire enough .sets of permanent
supplement of Park's annotated code
to supply to all officers courts and
institutions now receiving reports of
supreme court.
Bills Introduced
Bills introduced in the senate* Fri
day morning were as follows:
By Senator Pruett of the Thirty
second —To fix the |ime in which a
wido wof a Confederate soldier shall
apply for a pension on his death.
By Senator Reynolds of the Fif
tieth—To authorize trustees of the
state university to sell, exchange or
transfer money obligations held by
them as university assets so as to
make them stable and permanent.
Senator Fowler of the Twenty
secend—To regulate casualty and
liability insurance companies and
for computing reserves for liability
and workmen’s compensation in
surance.
By Senator Reynolds of the Fif
tieth —To admit woman to Franklin
college, the academic department of
the University of Georgia.
By Senator Ennis of the Twentieth
—To repeal the old law governing
the admission of students to G. N.
& I. C. at Milledgeville, So as to
give the school authorities power to
regulate new enrollments.
HOUSE EXPECTED
ON REMOVAL BILL
• ni- ■*• .
myo:i*(Contlnti«d from Page 1)
debts for the purchase, lease, con
struction and operation of public
utilities for the state. A companion
bill would empower municipalities
and other political divisions to ex
ceed the seveen per cent limitation
and incur debts for the purpose of
.purchasing by condemnation or ne
gotiation all kinds of public utilities.
The same measure authorities
municipalities to construct and op
erate public utilities.
These two measures are advocated
by the Municipal League of Georgia,
and the proposals they contain were
discussed at the recent meeting of
Georgia mayors and other city of
ficials held in Atlanta.
A bill which aroused considerable
interest was introduced Friday mak
ing it a misdemeanor to operate a
motor vehicle with the muffler cut
out. Another measure amends the
act providing for the licensing of
persons to carry pistols. The new
bill would authorize ordinaries to is
sue such lisences to persons over
twenty-one years of age who should
be required to furnish '?10,000 bond.
The present age limit is 18 and the
present bond is only SIOO.
The disqualification of superior
court judges to try any given case
because of personal prejudice or bias,
is provided for in another bill intro
duced Friday. This measure pro
vides that ajudge would be disquali
fied on the affidavit of any* of the
parties to the action, stating that the
judge was prejudiced.
Two amendments to the motor ve
hicle license tax were Offered,
One of them would exempt all motor
vehicles owned by counties and
would also reduce the license fee on
vehicles carrying mpre than ten pas
sengers. These vehicles now pay a
fee of $75, and it is proposed that
their license fee shall be same as for
five-passenger vehicles. The second
amendment would provide for the
licensing of all persons dealing ip
or soliciting for the sale of motor
vehicles at retail. Under the pres
ent law, an agency may take out a
blanket license covering all its solic
itors in a given territory.
Adjournment was taken at 12:30
o’clock until 11 o’clock Monday morn
ing.
Bills Passed
The following bills were passed by
the house;
j By Mr. Johns of Barrow—To
I amend the charter of the city of
Winder.
By the Fulton delegation—To al
low the Fulton county commission
ers to increase salaries of municipal
court employes.
By Mr. Hines of Bryan—To pro
vide four terms of superior court in
Bryan county.
By Mr. Rimes of Bryan—To abol
ish the city court of Bryan county.
By Mr. Ramsey of Columbia—To
abolish the offlbe of treasurer of Co
lumbia county.
By the, Wilkes delegation—To
amend the/act creating the city court
of Washington.
By Mr. Clarke of Mclntosh—To
abolish the city court of Darien.
By Mr. Pace of Sumter—To fix the
salary of the judge of the city court
of Americus at $3,000 per year.
—Z
i tance telephone conversations with
the White House since his nomination,
it was learned today.
It was also said at the White House
that a conference will be held soon
between the nominee and President
Wilson. w
Both of the telephone conversa
tions were with J. P. Tumulty, sec
retary to the president. It is under
stood they discussed campaign plans
and referred to the proposed confer
ence between the candidate and the
president.
Governor Cox comes here he
will likely see President Wilson on
the south portico of the White House,
where the president has spent so
much time since his illness. Any
campaign documents which he writes
probably will be pinned on the por
tico, which White House officials are
now referring to as the “back
porch.”
.The meeting will be the first one
since the president started his tour
of the country in the interest of th<3
peace treaty. His first stop on that
tour was Columbus, the Ohio capi
tal.
SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1920.
Q (LJ 0
New Questions
1. Q. —Why was Leigh Hunt put
in prison?
2. Q.—ls our foreign trade increas
ing?
3. Q. —How many young people
graduate from 6ur universities each
year?
4. Q. —When a word sounds the
same as another, but is spelled dif
ferently and has a different mean
ing, what is it called?
5. Q. —Should a baby sleep with a
pillow under its head?
6 q. —Why did Roscoe Conkling re
sign from the • senate shortly after
Garfield was elected president?
7. q. —What man has been candi
date for president the oftenest,
8. Q. —What was the old-fashioned
ceremony known as the “Stubble
call.”
9. Q. —How did the‘American cast
his vote in his war council?
10. Q. —Who coined the expression,
“Blood is thicker than water?”
Questions Answered
I—Q.1 —Q. What was done about the
debt that Virginia tried to make
West Virginia pay after the states
separateed?
1— A. In 1907 a suit was brought
by the state of Virginia against the
state of West Virginia in the United
States supreme court to qompej the
latter state to assume its proportions
of the state debt created prior to
1861, when West Virginia separated
from the other state. The suit was
pending in the supreme court until
June, 1915, when that body handed
down a decision holding that West
Virginia should pay Virginia $12.-
393,929 aft its net share of
the debt. In addition West Virginia
was required to pay $8,178,000 in in
terest. The court held, however,
that West Virginia was entitled to a
share of the assets arising from the
original principal debt, and fixed
that amount at $2,966,000. '
2 Q. Did an American ride the
winner in the English derby?
2 A. “Scion Kop,” with Frank
O’Neill, of St. Louis, in the saddle,
won the English derby at Epsom
Downs, op June 3. A quarter of a
million people. including King
George and Queen Mary, saw the
race. “Scion Kop,” who is owned by
Captain Giles Lodger;' was quoted at
16 to 1 iff the betting; “Archaic.’
who ran second, was a 16 to 1 shot,
and “Orpheus," 'who was third, was
quoted at 50 to 1.
3 Q. How was Benjamin Frank
lin’s kite experiment conducted?
3 A. In experimenting with elec
tricity in the atmosphere with his
kite. Benjamin Franklin used a kite
made of silk, at the top of which
there was a free sharp-pointed wire.
To the end of the twine next to his
hand, he tied a silk ribbon and where
the silk and twine joined, fastened
the key. The kite was raised durjng
a thunderstorm, and when the clouds
came over the kite, the wire brought
the electric fire from them, and the
kite with all the t\«ne became elec
trified. When the rain wet the kite,
it conducted the electricity freely so
that it streamed out from the key.
4 Q. Is It true that King George
of England of Revolutionary times
could speak no language but Ger
man?
4 A. George 11, who was king of
England at the time of the War of
'American Independence, learned to
speak German and French during his
youth, but also spoke English as his
native tongue, though he was con
sidered poor in English conversation,
as his edrCcation as a whole had been
neglected. It was George I of Eng
land who was unable to speak Eng
lish.
5 Q. • Who said "It takes a sur
gical operation to make a Scotchman
see a joke?”
5 A. The quotation is: “It re
quires a surgical operation to get a
joke well into a Scotch understand
ing.” and is attributed to Sydney
Smith, an English humorist whose
writings appeared early In the
Nineteenth century.
6 Q. What is the name of the
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drug that is being used to cure
leprosy? /
6 A. The treatment being used
is the administration of "ethyl
ester,” the active constituent’ of
chaulmaugra oil. Remarkable re
sults are being obtained from its
use, according to the United States
Public Health Service.
7Q. How much is a ton of gold
worth?
7 A. The mint value of gold does
not vary, but remains constant at
$20,67183462 per troy ounce, or $lB.-
84151 avoirdupois. Basing a calcula
tion upon this stilue, a ton of gold
would be equivalent to $602,928.00.
8 — Q. Will a horse hair develop
into a snake if put in water?
8— A. This is a fallacy and prob
ably is due to the fact that there is
a horse hair snake or worm which is
extremely similar in appearance to
a horse hair.
9Q. Did Jesus eat food after his
resurrection?
9A. King James’ version of the
Bible states thdt Christ said, “Have
ye here anything to eat?” The
verses that follow say, “And they
gave Him a piece of broiled fish.
And He took it, and ate before
them.”
10— Q. Is thqre a zoo of prehis
toric animals? *
10—A. At the Hagenback Zoolog
ical park, In Hamburg, Germany,
there is an open air exhibition in
which animals and reptiles are
shown as they existed in prehistoric
ages.
Two Bandits Hold Up
Ten Men in Newport
NEWPORT, Ky.—Two robbers, un
masked and armed, entered the pool
room owned by Albert Gleason, York
street, Newport, and ordered ten men
alleged to have been participating in
a dice game to give up their cash.
The two hold-up men raked to
gether the money on the table, total
ing $1,009, police were told, deposited
the silver in a bag, and, as one man
threatened the players with a revol
ver, his companion searched each in
dividual, taking two Liberty bonds
of SIOO each, eight watches, two dia
mond rings and approximately*:|2oo
more.
R. W. Mullens, 27 years old. Louis
ville, later arrested, is said to have
confessed.
$16.13 Lowest Wage on
Which Woman Can Live
The lowest wage on which a wo
man can live, according to statistics
gathered by the United States gov
ernment, has increased from $9.50 in
1915 to $16.13 in 1919.
Hen in California Lays
“Peanut” Eqg, So They Say
LOS ANGELES, Cal.—Many prize
hens have laid freak eggs—big eggs,
little eggs, round eggs, short eggs,
long eggs—but it has remained for a
Los Angeles hen to attain enduring
fame by laying a peanut egg.
The Hen is a White Rock, owned
by Jacob Winkler, and 'is said to
have exhibited no unusual egg lay-/'
Ing propensities until this time.
Winkler took the peanut egg >. to
the chamber of commerce, where it
will be included in the array of
southern California wonders. The
freak egg is remarkable in its physi
cal outlines of the lowly peanut.
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