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NOTIFICATION OF
GOV. COX IS SET
FOR AUGUST 7
COLUMBUS, 0., July 22.—Chair
man White, of the Democratic na
tional committee, today announced
that Saturday, August 7, had been
chosen as the date for notification
of Governor Cox of his nomination
as presidential candidate.
The following Monday, August 9.
was fixed for the notification of
Franklin D. Roosevelt, vice presi
dential nominee.
Ceremonies for Governor Cox will
take place at “Trail’s End.” his home
near Dayton, with those for his run
ning mate at the Roosevelt home,
Hyde Park. N .Y. Mr. Roosevelt will
r,ttc.»d the Dayton ceremonies, and
>.<o>rnor Cox said today if possible
he will go to Hyde Park.
Governor Cox will leave here to
morrow to begin work on his speech
of acceptance at Dayton. He plans
to confine himself to “Trail’s End”
and work until his address is finished.
The governor said today he expected
the task would require steady work
all next week, and he does not plan
to return here until about August 1.
While at Dayton he wlil be the city’s
here at a “home-coming” celebration
July 30.
Because of time necessary for press
distribution of his address, Gover
nor Cox sail time was short, as he
planned to have his address e-—t out
at least a week prior to August 7.
“I hope to lock myself up at ‘Trail’s
Enr,’ ” said Governor Cox. "and get
it out. I have subjects fairly well
in hand alreadq. There are a num
ber of vital things, and then I shall
have to assemble the less important,
and I cannot tell yet whether the re
sult will be a long or short address.”
The governor. Chairman White, E.
H. Moore, the governor’s convention
manager; Wilbur Marsh, of Ohio, the
national treasurer; George Brennan
and other leaders conferred further
today on organization and campaign
affairs before Mr. White’s departure
for his home at Marietta,’ Ohio, and
an eastern trip. They were unable,
however, to complete the special cam
paign committee. Mr. White said it
probably could not be announced for
a week.
It has been definitely decided, Mr.
White said, to keep the main Demo
cratic headquarters at New York
during the campaign. He expects to
spend much of his time there. Cen-'
tral headquarters, he added, will be
at Chicago. I The question of Pacific
coast headquarters still is unde
terminned.
Mr. Marsh, it was stated, will have
virtually complete charge of finances,
In his capacity as treasurer. It also
is proposed to appoint a special
finance committee, which Mr. Marsh
will head in lieu of the office of di
rector of finance created about a year
ago and filled until recently by W D.
Jamiesson.
DRAGNET READY
FOR 100,000 WAR
SLACKERS IN U. S.
WASHINGTON, July 22.—A na
tionwide round-up of more than
100,000 draft deserters is to be
started by the war department to
bring justice to the men who failed
to answer the call to arms In Ameri
ca’s draft army during the war, Ad
jutant General Peter C. Harris said
today.
For months the war department
has been preparing a mammoth list
of names of men who can be classed
beyong question as actual and not
theoretical draft deserters. This list
expected to be completed soon and it
is estimated that it will contain
names of at least 100,000 “slackers.”
The entire nation and operatives of
the detection agencies of the federal,
state and municipal government are
to be called on by the war depart
ment to assist in the round-up, it
was said. When finished, the final
list of draft deserters will be releas
ed for publication as the first step In
the round-up. Newspapers through
out the country are to be asked to
publish the names of she men on the
list who are on records of the war
department as living in their lo
calities.
Fifty dollars reward will be of
fered anyone delivering one of the
deserters to the nearest military sta
tion.. Actively engaged in the round
’■p will be the militarv intelligence
division of the war department, the
bureau of investigation of the de
partment of justice and local police
of the country.
Every man of the war depart
ment’s “siacker list” will be subject
to military court-martial. General
Harns said. These men will be in
the same category as Erwin R. Berg
doll, brother of the more notorious
deserter, Grover Cleveland Bergdoll.
who surrendered himself to the army
disciplinary barracks at Governor’s
Island, N. Y., after being a fugitive
since 1918.
Erwin Eergdoll will soon be put
on trial before court-martial on the
charge of failure to answer a draft
call. The men on the list now near
ing completion are those who are
shown by war department records to
have disregarded draft calls after
they had registered. The so-called
draft evaders, or those men who fail
ed to register, come under the juris
diction of the department of justice.
The utmost care is being taken by
the war department to designate on
its list only those men who actually
deserted in the draft.
Anti-Saloon League Is
Urged by Upshaw to
Take No Election Stand
Urging that the Anti-Saloon league
take no stand in the presidential
race, Congressman William D. Up
shaw, of the Fifth Georgia district,
has wired the national attorney of
the prohibition organization saying
that if they do take a stand millions
'of the supporters of the organization
will be alienated. His telegram fol
lows:
“Hon. Wayne B. Wheeler, National Attor
ney, Anti-Saloon League, Bliss Building,
Washington, D. C.:
“As the long-time loyal friend of the
Anti-Saloon League of America, allow me to
earnestly urge the league as an organization
to take no official stand as between the
Bepublican and Democratic nominees.
“With Harding voting for the district bill,
which sought to bring on a liquor election in
Washington, enfranchising the ‘wet’ voting
element among a hundred thousand negroes,
his prohibition record is not very savory’
especially among southern Democrats. And’
with the constitution dry, the supreme court
decision dry and Governor Cox, declaring that
failure to enforce the prohibition law would
be a national crime, the league can well
afford to let the presidency alone and turn
its attention to the election of dry congress
men and senators.
“I frankly believe that any other course
would alienate millions of your now loval
friends and supporters, and hurt the league
and the cause we love beyond all reparation
“WILLIAM D. UPSHAW.”
Woman Seeking Divorce
Says Husband Threw
Her Bodily Into Yard
Claiming that her husband picked
her up bodily and threw her into
the yard. Mrs. Vannie D. Plummer
has filed suit for divorce against
Benjamin F. Plummer. The petition
further charges that her husband
only worked long enough to get
a “gamblp—; stake” and then patron
ized poolrooms ais«S gambling dens.
John S. Highsmith is at
torney for petitioner.
Mrs. Hattie May Green has filed
’•zazx against Warren W. Green, in
—alleges cruelty on the
psrt cf her husband. She claims
that on one occasion she was forced
to go to the hospital and that when
she returned she found that her
husband had sold all her clothes and
had given her ring to another wom
an. Attorney C. I. Vaughn, of Con
yers, is attorney for the petitioner.
Mrs. Louise Jackson Klein has filed
suit for divorce against Samuel
Klein, of Boston. Mass. She claims
that her husband made her sell her
jewelry, piece by piece, in order to
to support him. She claims that he
cursed and abused her when she re
fused to give up her religion. At
torney Samuel A. Massell fD*4 the
suit.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
No Shortage of
Postage Stamps
Why? Because a Woman
Does the Work, That's
Why!
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WASHINGTON, D. C.—Uncle Sam
prints 40,000,000 postage stamps a
day, 250,000 sheets of internal reve
nue stamps. 600,000 sheets of notes
(including United States notes, fed
eral reserve and national bank notes)
and a miscellaneous asosrtment of
government checks, drafts and cer
tificates.
The magnitude of the daily task
obviously involves system, and the
responsibility of executing these
multiple orders is entrusted to a
woman—Miss Laura Eckels, who
is superintendent of the division of
orders, U. S. Bureau of Engraving
and Printing.
Aside from Its regular daily as
signments of supplying postage and
internal revenue stamps and govern
ment bonds, the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing is engaged in the mam
moth undertaking of replacing 59.-
000,000 temporary government bonds
with permanent coupon bonds. The
job was begun last August and prob
ably wlil be completed by April of
The bureau prints all of the blank
checks used by the government, cer
tificates and drafts, the number of
pieces of this miscellaneous nature
totaling 31.000 sheets a year.
Miss Eckels, genial in manner,
thorough in the performance of duty,
and modest in the exploitation of her
own accomplishments, has been
an employe of the Bureau of Engrav
ing and Printing for 23 consecutive
years 12 of which she has been
identified with the Division of Or
ders. She is a native of Washing
ton, D. C., and began her business
career at the bottom of the ladder
—a printer’s .assistant.
RIOTERS WRECK
POSTOFFICE AT
WEST BELFAST
BELFAST, July 22.—Rioting was
renewed in the Falls area of West
Belfast during the mill dinner hour
today. The postoffice was wrecked
and the police fired on the rioters.
In the melee a soldier and several
civilians were wounded.
Casualties recorded last night are
two men and one woman killed and
twenty persons treated at hospitals
for gunshot wounds. Many wounded
did not report to hospitals. Fifty
four arrests were made.
The primary cause of the trouble
is believed to be the recent murder
of Colonel Smyth in Cork, as many
men employed at Belfast come from
Bainbridge, which was 'Smyth’s na
tive town.
This morning the workers returned
to the shipyards as though nothing
happened, although the trouble was
started in the yards yesterday after
a number of Sinn Fein employes had
been attacked. The authorities be
lieve they have the situation in
hand.
Unofficial estimates place the prop
erty damage and looting done by the
mob at 100,000 pounds.
HEAVY DAMAGE DONE
BY SINN FEIN RIOTS
ONDON, July 22.—Speaking In the
house of commons this afternoon, Sir
Hamar Grenwod, secretary of state
for Ireland, estimated the value of
property in Ireland destroyed by the
Sinn Fein at 2,005,772 pounds.
Greenwood’s statement was based
on official reports.
Bahnsen’s Fine
Only Testimony
Offered in Probe
A brief session was held Wednes
day afternoon by the joint commit
tee of the house and the senate au
thorized to investigate the office of
the state veteranian, Dr. Peter F.
Bahnsen, who is charged by Repre
sentative Williams, of Worth, with
illegal conduct in office, with viola
tion of his oath, and with operating
his department for his own personal
financial gain.
The only evidence submitted to the
committee was in support of the
charge that Dr. Bahnsen several
months ago was fined sll in the At
lanta police court for violating the
city ordinance, as to adulterated milk.
Dr. Bahnsen operates a dairy at
Americus, Ga„ and it was charged
that samples of milk shipped by him
to Atlanta showed adulteration. The
court record showed that Dr. Bahn
sen was fined sll by Recorder George
M. Johnson.
Although there are several specific
charges in the bill of allegation, the
police court incident was the only
one brought out before the commit
tee. It was announced that another
session of the committee will be held
on Tuesday afternoon of next week.
GAUSTOVE TROUBLES
A new booklet written by Dr. E. E. Pad
dock, Box 55201, Kansas City, Mo.,
tells of improved method of treating
catarrhal inflammation of the Gall Blad
der and Bile Ducts associated with Gall
Stones, from which remarkable results are
reported. Write for booklet and free trial
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Big Ship Brings Tiny Girl
Orphan * ?ort, Hugs Bear
SAN FRaXUISCO, Cal.—With her
Teddy bear clasped in her arms and
all her worldly possessions in a
small basket hamper, little 3-year
old Mary Jessie Wilson arrived here
on the transport Logan from Hono
lulu, on route to her aunt, Miss Jes
sie Whitaker, at Sabinal, Texas.
As the boat docked the little maid
was met by Mrs. S. C. Gobez of the
Travelers’ Aid Society and by her
grandmother, Mrs. M. A. Whitaker,
of Sabinal. But Mary cried when
sfie met her new grandmother, for on
the Logan she had learned to call
Mrs. Charles Clemens, in whose
charge she traveled.
Mary is a pretty child with dark
bobbed hair and dusky brown eyes,
and on the boat became such a fav
orite with officers and passengers
that a collection of $53 was taken up
for her.
The little one is all alone in the
world save for her aunt and her
errandmother. Her mother died in
Honolulu four months ago. and her
father, a soldier, has disappeared, it
is said. ’
ALLIES PREPARE
TO EXTEND HELP
TO POLISH ARMY
PARIS. July 22.—The allies have
decided to take measures preparatory
to giving military aid to Poland, if
that should prove necessary, it was
learned here today.
BOLSHEVIKI REFUSE
TO DISCONTINUE WAR
LONDON. July 22.—(8y the Asso
ciated Press.) —The refusal of Lhe
Russian soviet government to cease
war against Poland at the behest
of Grdat Britain is contained in a
Moscow wire dispatch received here
today. The refusal also constitutes
an appeal to the workers and peas
ants of soviet Russia and the
Ukraine. It is signed by Premier
Lenine, Minister of War Trotzky.
Foreign Minister Tchitcherin and
Commissioner of Justice Kurski.
“If England bad not desired war,”
the note said, “she would have .stop
ped supplying Poland with muni
tions and money. England is carry
ing on negotiations with us as a con
cession to her working masses.”
“If the Polish people,” the commu
nication declares, “desires to receive
an honest peace and an honest fron
tier and find in the person of Russia
a brotherly neighbor, it is necessary
that the Polish people itself should
seek it."
Premier Lloyd George, addressing
the house of commons today, said
the soviet answer to the allies re
garding peace with Poland was in
coherent. ambiguous and propaganda
largely intended for home consump
tion. So far as he could understand,
however, the soviet indicated its will
ingness to negotiate directly with Po
land.
A French mission headed by Jules
J. Jusserand. French ambassador to
the United States who is home on
leave with General Weygand, right
hand man of Marshal Foch, and M.
Vignon, a close collaborator with
Premier Millerand, will leave tonight
for Warsaw to arrange for prompt
succor to the Poles.
On the same train and with the
same object there will be a British
mission headed by Lord Abernon.
British ambassador at Berlin, Gen
eral Radcliffe and Sir Maurice Han
key.
These missions, it is learned, leave
with full authority to say to the
Poles that whatever aid is needed,
whether military or financial or in
the nature of supplies, will be forth
coming if the bolshevik! persist in
a design to march into distinctively
Polish territory.
It is stated unofficially, but on
high authority, that this means help
for Poland in the form of troops, if
they are required.
Already a large number of allied
officers and subalterns are with the
Polish army, which, it is declared,
will be increased according to cir
cumstances with as many divisions
of infantry, tank detachments, air
forces and artillery as many be
transported in due time.
QUARANTINE TO
HALT PINK BOLL
WORM ORDERED
WASHINGTON, July 22.—1 n an
effort to curb the spread of the pink
boll worm in the cotton belt, the de
partment of agriculture has author
ized a quarantine, effective August
1, which will be applicable to areas
in Louisiana and Texas known to
be infested or suspected of possible
infestation. State authorities will co
oprate in enforcing the quarantine, it
was stated.
"The growing crop must be under
the full control of state authorities,”
the department of agriculture’s an
nouncement said, "in co-operation
with federal authorities, who may
inspect fields as often as necessary
and may require prompt destruction
of any cotton in fields that are found
to be infested.”
Enforcement of the quarantine
regulations will include, the depart
ment said, control over all cotton
seed grown in the quarantine areas.
State and federal authorities are in
struted to forbid the use or plant
ing of seed from such districts, and
to require its prompt milling within
the state and, if possible, within the
infested or regulated area where it
is grown.
All cotton seed mills are to be dis
infected at the mills, quarantine reg
ulations provide. AH forms of lint
cotton also are placed under joint
control of state and federal author
ities.
Cotton from the quarantine area of
Louisiana must go out through the
port of New Orleans, and that from
Texas districts must pass through
the ports of either Galveston, Hous
ton. Texas City or Port Arthur.
The new regulations provide that
shipments of these states can be
made only through these ports. Re
quirement also is made that such
shipments, if they re-enter the
United States, must come by all
water route through New York, Bos
ton or some other northern port', des
ignated in permits and on entering
such ports must be treated as foreign
cotton.
Disinfection of cars and boats
used for shipment of cotton from
infested areas also is required.
The agriculture department has or
dered that all volunteer or other cot
ton growing In a non-cotton zone
must be promptly destroyed. *
Hardwick Discusses
Issues in Hawkinsville
Before Large Crowd
HAWKINSVILLE, Ga., July 22.
Regardless of the tremendous down
pour of rain, the largest crowd gath
ered at the city auditorium here Wed
nesday to hear Thomas W. Hardwick,
candidate for governor, that has
gathered at any political gathering
here since the joint debate of Gen
eral Evans and W. Y Atkinson a
number of years ago. E. W. Goode,
of this city, introduced the speaker,
and touched on several issues of the
Hardwick campaign.
Mr. Hardwick stated how he stood
on all of the public questions of the
day, and talked quite a bit of the
achievements of the San Francisco
convention. He challenged his op
ponents to come out openly on pub
lic questions as he had done. The
senator fired several hot shots at
Clifford W. Walker, an opposing can
didate, and stated that he knew that
Walker would have never defended
Martens as he had done, for the rea
son there was a $30,000 fee in it.
and he would never nave tne oppor
tunity of defending such a client,
intimating that it was too big for
him to handle. Mr. Hardwick used
much humor throughout the entire
address.
People from Dooley, Laurens,
Dodge, Telfair, Bleckley, Wilcox and
Houston counties came to hear the
speaker. Hardwick supporters here
claimed that this was a regular Hard
wick crowd.
The three candidates for governor
had been requested to meet here in a
joint debate, but Hardwick was the
only candidate present.
Six Injured at G. 0. P.
Convention in lowa
DES MOINES, la., July 22.—Six
persons were injured at the opening
of the Republican state convention
here today when a curtain which
they were leaning against gave way
and threw them from the platform
to the floor of the coliseum.
Injured included Congressman Gil
bert M. Haugen, of the Fourth dis
trict, and Congressman Ramsey, of
the Sixth district. ■»
Boy of 15 Stole SL6OO
WORCESTER, Mass.—Harry Dom
blatt, fifteen, of this city, was ar
rested on a charge of larceny of
jewelry and Liberty bonds valued at
$1,600. The bonds and jewelry, it
is alleged, were stolen from Marcus
& Co., who run a collateral loan
business at 183 Front street and by
whom Domblatt had been employed
The police have recovered $1,200
worth of the stolen property, and
Domblatt admits he did the stealing.
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have decided. In a campaign to les
sen accidents, particularly those in
which automobiles are concerned,
“graveyard” headboards have been
King Cotton Must Share
Throne With Tobacco in
New South Georgia Belt
BY LAMEDIN KAY
(Staff Correspondent of The Journal)
IXU’GLAS, Ga., July 22.—The
early—enthronement of tobacco as co
monarch with King Cotton in south
Georgia’s wiregrass district is con
dently predicted by local and outside
authorities following this week’s uni
versally successful opening of the
season at the markets now estab
lished in ten towns in America’s
newest tobacco belt.
Not only did initial offerings of
Georgia leaf bring consistently high
prices everywhere, but the high qual
tiy and satisfactory size of this
year’s crop indicate a huge profit for
the season and a threefold increase
in acreage next year. Fifteen mil
lion pounds of bright tobacco, as
good as or better than that of the
Carolinas and Virginia for cigarette
and pipe mixtures, will be gathered
and sold in Georgia this season at
prices that will probably increase
the state’s agricultural income by
close to $6,000,000.
If the prospect ahead is fulfilled,
it is expected that Georgia’s perma
nent and important place on the to
bacco map will be assured in 1921
with a crop of fifty million pounds—
an output more than sufficient to ac
celerate further the investment of
hundreds of thousands of dollars in
stemmeries, re-drying plants an<J
warehouses by leading manufacturing
and export tobacco concerns of the
world. Three .such plants—one in
operation at Fitzgerald and two more
practically completed at Tifton and
Douglas—already stand as proof of
the unrivaled suitability of south
Georgia’s loamy soil as tobacco coun
try extraordinary.
Solves 801 l Weevil Problem
With Sea Island and short staple
cotton seriously curtailed by* the in
vasion of the boll weevil, the s-weep
of the tobacco movement over the
region means little short
of salvation to this part of the state.
Yielding a far higher return ppr
acre than cotton, requiring less than
three-quarters the same acreage, han
dled in seven months as against thir
teen for the staple, and yielding the
planter a quick cash return at a
heretofore stagnant period of the
agricultural year, tobacco deserves a
high place as a rival to cotton as
Georgia’s money crop.
The unanimity with which buyers,
factory representatives, warehouse
men, auctioneers and other newcom
ers from the old tobacco belts de
clare that South Georgia’s cheap
lands are mechanically and climati
cally qualified to produce better leaf
than the choicest and most famous
growing districts elsewhere, is noth
ing less than remarkable. Veterans
who have spent their lives in the to
bacco business—most of them totally
disinterested, save as to securing
good tobacco and more tobacco as
cheaply as possible—are all emphati
cally of the same favorable opinion.
More knowledge and experience in
planting, cultivating and curing the
crop are all that is needed, they say.
Optimism is rampant throughout
Georgia’s belt today. Last year, be
cause of an unprecedented unfriend
ly season, brought disappointment
and failure to growers who were
fighting hard to master a new phase
of agriculture. Yet, undismayed by
reverses, Georgia farmers planted
nearly as large an acreage as in 1919,
and seem certain to be rewarded with
a much heavier poundage and a dou
bled price. Last year’s crop was
about 9,500,000 pounds, and it sold
at an average of less than 18 cents
per pound. This year’s crop of
about 15,000,000 pounds should bring
from 35 to 40 cents, the experts be
lieve.
Competitive Markets
Flourishing, well-cultivated fields
of the broad-leafed weed, with bat
teries of little cubicle curing houses
—one for six to eight acres—now dot
the countryside in something like
fifteen wiregrass counties, while
twenty other counties are beginning
to devote more and more land to to
bacco. One or more competently op
erated warehouses in Douglas, Tif
ton, Abbeville, Fitzgerald, Blackshear,
Nicholls, Lyons, Vidalia, Asburn and
Nashville furnish enough competitive
markets that stimulate planters to
ward increased production. Auctions
—themselves an institution worthy
of a column of description—are con
ducted every day in the week except
Saturday throughout the marketing
season, which begins in July and ends
in September, providing a cash outlet
for the crop
Coffee Leails State
Coffee, the pioneer county of Geor
gia in tobacco production, will lead
the state in acreage and crop, while
Douglas, the county seat and the
site of the state’s first market, will
handle probably 4,000,000 pounds of
the leaf before fall. Georgia’s or
iginal curing house was built seven
years ago by S. J. Brown, a former
Carolina tobacco grower, on his farm
at Nicholls, a Coffee county town on
the A. B. & A. railroad, and an im
portant tobacco market despite its
population of only a few hundred.
Georgia’s first auction was staged
at Douglas four seasons ago in the
warehouse of the McLain-Koss com
pany. J. N. McDonald, J. P. Ross, and
J. H. McLain, prominent Douglas
citizens who conduct the warehouse,
have contributed immensely to the
cause, as have Messrs. Lea, Pegram
and Motley, of the second Douglas
warehouse.
The China-American Tobacco com
pany, a big concern exporting an
ever increasing tonnage of leaf to
the Orient since China banned opium,
I introduced in the busy downtown sec
. tion. One striking sign reads: “A
Fatal Accident Occurred Here Last
’ Year.” During the first week of the
i campaign not one fatal accident oc
. curred and there were no really se
i rious smash-ups.
selected Douglas for building a big
stemmery apd re-drying plant, which
will soon be in operation under the
direction of Arthur Barbour, a vet
eran in the tobacco game. This firm
buys something like twenty-five per
cent of the Georgia crop and will
clear its purchases through Douglas
Tift Forging Ahead
At Tifton, the well-organized and
efficiently directed activity backed by
the entire citizenry of Tift county,
led by Irvine Myers, prominent bus
iness'man and planter; W. E. Algee.
secretary of the Tifton board of
trade; H. H. Tift, Sr., millionaire
lumberman, planter and capitalist:
Frank Lorry, president of the Tif
ton Trade Expansion board; W. E.
Fenner, progressive warehouseman
with interests in all tobacco sections;
and others, have resulted in bringing
the county in line for place as one
of the first markets of Georgia. The
Imperial Tobacco comnany, an Eng
lish concern with millions of cppi-<
tai, which buys about half of Geor
gia’s tobacco, has, a magnificent
plant almost finished at Tifton and
will clear its tonnage there, export
ing to Liverpool via Brunswick.
Opening day last Tuesday at all
the towns maintaining- tobacco mar
kets was made a semi-holidajr
everywhere, with barbecues, chicken
dinners, speaking programs and oth
er features. While planters as a rule
were cautious in putting their first
gathering on the market-bringing in
cnly the low-grade leaves known as
“prinjings” and “sand-lugs” in lim
ited quantities—reports of splendid
early prices have put the whole
wiregrass county in a confidently
opaimistic frame of njind. The bus
tle and activity apparent in all the
market towns, resulting directly
from the influx of thousands of dol
lars in cash at an off-season, is a
welcome and significant testimonial
to the vast possibilities tobacco
means for South Georgia.
Attention Widows!
Here’s the Very Man
ROME, Ga., July 22.—-Winsome
misses, village belles and other fluf
fy “woulb-bes,” sand aside! Harry
Camp can’t be bothered. ,
The following classified “ad” ap
peared in the News Wednesday aft
ernoon :
“WANTED—To marry a widow with
eight or ten children large enough
to pick cotton. Answer immediate
ly. Harry Camp. Route 5, Rome, Ga.”
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Water-Power Control
Bill Favorably Reported
By Committee of House
At the conclusion of one of the
most spirited public hearings on pro
posed legislation held thus far dur
ing the 1920 session of the general
assembly, the house committee on
constitutional amendments Wednes
day afternoon voted to report fa
vorably two bills sponsored by the
Municipal League of Georgia.
These measures propose to amend
the state constitution so as to create
a state hydro-electric commission,
which shall have control of water
power development, with authority
to incur debt necessary to purchase,
construct and operate plants for the
development of electrify current from
water power. The bills also propose
to allow municipalities, or other poli
tical divisions, to incur debt in ex
cess of the present constitutional
limit of 7 per cent for the purpose
of acquiring water powers by nego
tiations or condemnation, of develop
ing and operating power plants.
The committee voted, 10 to 7, for
a favorable report on both bills. As
the measures are constitutional
amendments, a two-thirds majority
of both the house and senate will be
necessary for their approval before
they can be submitted to the people
for ratification.
The speakers for the measures
were Marion M. Jackson and Repre
sentative Covington, of Colquitt
county, one of the authors of the
bills, while the speakers for the op
position were H. M. Atkinson, chair
man of the board of directors of the
Georgia Railway and Power com
pany; Attorney Joe Hill Hall, of
Macon, and Roby Robinson, well
known Atlanta bond and stock dealer.
Each side was given one hour for
argument.
The opening argument for the
measures was made by Marion Jack
son, a member of the Municipal
League of Georgia. He declared that
the ownership of water powers by
municipalities has worked out to the
advantage of the public in every in
stance where it has been attempted,
calling attention to the situation in
Ontario, Can., where, he said, the
hydro-electric commisison is now-de
veloping hundreds of thousands of
horse power at a low
Cleveland Situation Compared
Mr. Jackson compared the situa
tion in Atlanta with that in Cleve
land, where, he alleged, a 3-cent per
kilowatt rate as against 8 cents per
kilowatt in this city. Rates in Seat
tle, Wash., said Mr. Jackson, are half
those in Columbus and Savannah,
where the water powers have been
developed by the same company. Ex
panding his views, Mr. Jackson de
clared that between 1,850,000 and
2,500,000 horsepower is now going to
waste in Georgia for lack of facilities
to develop the waterpowers of the
state and he urged the committee to
approve the two-measures, which, he
asserted, would mean the emarftipa
tion of Georgia cities.
Concluding his argument, Mr. Jack
son compared the present hydro
electric situation in Georgia to the
days of the carpet-baggers, saying
that the capital engaged in water
power development in Georgia today
comes from the same section of the
country that sent the carpet-baggers
to Georgia in the reconstruction
days.
Opening the argument against the
bills, Harry M. Atkinson, chairman
of the board of directors of the
Georgia Railway and Power com
pany, deplored the remarks of Mr.
Jackson concerning the carpet-bag
gers, asserting that no capital is
available in Georgia for the develop
ment of waterpowers and that ot
necessity the capitalists of the east
had to be called on to furnish finan
cial resources. Mr. Atkinson charac
terized the purpose of the two bills
as socialistic and spoke facetiously
of the similarity between the princi
ples they involve and those enun
ciated by the recent convention of the
“third party” in Chicago.
Citing the railroad situation as a
fair example of what public owner
ship of public utilities means, Mr.
Atkinson declared that the policy of
the Municipal League is to “confis
cate and wreck property and then
recoup by taxation of the public.”
In conclusion, Mr. Atkinson re
counted the achievements of the
Georgia Railway & Power company
in developing waterpower in Geor
gia, but stated that his interest in
that company was merely incidental
to his concern over the threatened
catastrophe to be expected as the re
sult of such legislation as the two
bills under consideration.
Effect on Credit
Roby Robinson, speaking as a deal
er in. bonds and municipal securities,
declared that the credit of Georgia
municipalities would be ruined if the
proposed bills were passed, taking off
the constitutional limit for ,the in
curring of debt. He asserted that
the credit of Georgia cities and
towns is now the highest in any sec
tion of the country, due to the con
stitutional limitation on contracting
debt. He insisted that very few
municipalities in this state now have
any considerable margin on which to
issue bonds.
Amplification of this phase of the
argument was offered by Joe Hill
Hall, veteran legislator and attorney.
He urged the committee not to place
the stamp of approval on bills that
would ck'.stroy the credit of Georgia
cities and towns and plunge the state
into a socialistic scheme that was
sponsored by “dreamers and theor
ists.”
Marion Jackson, taking the floor
SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1920.
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EMORY OFFERED
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Although no official announcement
has been made it was learned Thurs
day that Dr. M. M. Parks, president
of the Georgia Normal and Indus
trial College at Milledgeville and one
of the south’s foremost educators,
has been tendered the presidency of
Emory university.
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serving as president of Emory,
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and Chicago universities in addition
to extensive travels and studies
again to conclude his argument,
quoted extensively from printed
statements concerning the rates for
electric power paid in Ontario, Seat
tle and Cleveland, comparing them
with the rates paid in Georgia. He
•was followed by Representative Cov
ington, who made an impassioned
plea for the two bills, ridiculing the
attitude of Mr. Atkinson, who had
stated that he came back to Georgia
for this hearing after having left to
enjoy a vacation. The speaker re
ferred sarcastically to Mr. Atkin
son’s hurried return to Georgia “to
save the state.” He denied that the
legislation is socialistic and insisted
that it is in line "with the modern
idea of progress.
There was some discusison among
the members of the committee as to
whether Preston S. Arkwright, pres
ident of the Georgia Railway &
Power company, should be given an
opportunity to speak, but it was
finally decided that the original
agreement of an hour to each side
should be adhered to and Mrs. Ark
wright was not allowed to address
the committee.
At the conclusion of the arguments,
the committee went into executive
session and within a few minutes
adjourned, announcing that the bills
had been approved by a 10 to 7 vote.
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