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MINERS CONFER
ON STRIKING IN
ALABAMA FIELD
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 2. C.
B. Kennamer, president of tho Ala
bama division. United Mine Workers
of America, conferred here today
with other union officials on plans
for carrying .out the general strike
in the local fields ordered yesterday
by John L. Lewis, national president
of the organization.
The order for a general strike in
this state did not occasion any sur
prise in industrial circles. Hundreds
of miners have already quit their
jobs and several of the mines have
been shut down for more than a
month, partly because of the walk
out and partly on account of the
shortage of cars.
Last May following the award of
the president’s coal commission, Ala
bama operators posted in their mines
notices containing an outline of a
plan for “industrial shop councils"
which were have general super
vision over hours, wages and work
ing conditions. The plan provided
for representation of workers in the
councils. Union leaders at once an
nounced they would not approve the
plan because it did not contain a
statement recognizing the union.
They also charged the councils
would be “packed" with representa
tives of the operators.
On May 6 approximately 2,000
miners walked. Their ranks were in
creased gradually and at present
about 3,000 are on strike. Twenty
thousand men are employed in the
Alabama fields.
A month ago coal operators started
proceedings to get possession of com
pany houses occupied by the strik
ers. Several thousand of these cases
are still in the courts on appeals, the
men claiming their wages were held
back by the companies when they
walked out and refusing to vacate
the houses until they are paid off.
The coal companies claim the men
broke their contracts by quitting
work.
Striking miners have received lib-
X eral support from their local and na
tional organizations. Operators claim
the production has not decreased
•ince the walk-out and have quoted
figures to show it is greater than
at this time last year. Union lead
ers claim production is almost at a
standstill. .To date only one clash
has occurred as a result of the strike.
A miner named Hicks was shot to
death at Carbon Hill following a
quarrel at a coal company commis
sary.
Train Traps Family
On Bridge; Mother
Jumps; Father Killed
FLEMINGTON, N. J.—A Lehigh
Valley railroad train swept down
upon a family of five as they were
crossing the Lehigh bridge spanning
the Raritan river, near Flemington,
recently.
Joseph Mlehre, of Hart street,
Brooklyn, who had led his wife and
his three children on the journey
across the bridge, 'was instantly
killed. Mrs. Miehle saved herself by
jumping into the river. The three
Children dropped to the trestle work
tnd clung to it until tjie train passed.
AH of them were rescued.
Mrs. Miehle was dragged from the
Water by bridge workmen. She was
Bot seriously injured.' Other bridge
employes carried <he children to
safety.
Miehle and his family had missed
their train at the Stanton station and
had begun to walk toward Fleming
ton Junction. The railroad track of
fered the shortest route. When they
taached the middle of the span the
express dashed into view. Miehle
stood dazed as he heard the train ap
proach. He was fifty-two years old.
Peaches Rank Fourth
In Fruit Shipments
Peaches lead all other short-season
tree fruits in the United States in
the number of carloads shipped from
producing regions annually, .accord
ing to figures collected by the bu
reau of markets of the United States
lepartment of agriculture.
» “Considering all fruits, peaches
rank fourth in car lots sent to mar
ket, being surpassed only by the
king season fruits —apples and cr
inges—and by watermelons,” says
the department’s weekly bulletin.
“The approximate yearly average
lumber of cars of the four fruits
mentioned reaching market during
the last four years are: Apples. 67,-
S 00; oranges, 35,000; watermelons,
19,000; peaches, 25,000.
“The only close competitors of
peaches the markets of the
D’rifted States are grapesX of whicn
fcbout 22,000 carloads were shipped
innually, and cantaloupes, the an
nual shipments of which were ap
proximately 17,000 cars.
“The combined peach shipment of
Beorgia and California are as great
|is those of all other states com
pined.”
The carloads of strawberries and
bears shipped equal those of peaches.
Ln average of approximately 7,000
tarloads ofg grapefruit shipped were
Jllghtly less than half and 3,000 cars
>f plums and prunes combined were
Shipped annually for.; the last four
tears.
Lightning Explodes
50 Tons of Dynamite
NEW YORK. —A bolt of lightning
•truck the cornice of a storage build
ing on the grounds of the E. I. du
Pont powder plant, at Wayne. N. J.,
Igniting 100,000 pounds of explosives.
Mid causing a blast that was heard
is far away as Paterson. While many
Windows were broken In the vicini
ty, none of the workers was injured
The building, a one-story brick
Itructure, was destroyed. The slight
Ire following the explosion was ex
tinguished by the company’s fire
ight ing force.
She Is 111 Years Old,
But Balks at Doctor
HIGHLAND, N. Y.—Mrs. Lydia
Le Jarron, 111, was too sick to leave
|er bed when she woke up today. She
Was much vexed, because she was
tight in the midst of her preserving.
Neighbors are nursing her, and want
-4 td to call a physician. Mrs. Le Bar
•on would not let them.
“I’ve got along without a doctor
■ *ll my life so far,” she said, “and
I’m not going to begin calling one
»f them now. I’m pretty well along
n years, but I’m not ready to quit
;his earth yet.”
Carolina Senator
1 Lacks Majority
' COLUMBIA, S. C., Sept. 2.—The
lenatorial race in South Carolina re
gained in doubt today. Returns still
ncomplete and unofficial, compiled by
he Columbia Record, showed Sena
or E. D. Smith lacked about a thou
land votes of being elected in the
irst primary. The vote at noon w’as:
Smith, 49,039; George Warren, 30,
31; former Senator W. P. Pollock,
3,131, and W C. Jrby. 7,884.
'Mail 19 Months Late
WOBURN, Mass.—Miss Gertrude
Devine, of 79 Prospect street, has
ust received a New Year’s postcard
vhich was mailed by a friend almost
lirectly across the street from her
i tome on December 31, 1918. Thus
t took a year and seven months for
he card to reach its destination —
bout 300 feet from where it started.
Miss Elizabeth Giles, of 62 Pros
tect street, was the sender. The card
arries the 2 cents war postage that
I Iras required at that time. Cancella
lon stamps showed that it got into
he own of Winchester, a few moles
|lstant, but beyond that its travels
i re a mystery. However, Miss Devine
I very grateful at its arrival and
f wclares she will mail a return New
fear’s card to Miss Giles at once in
. * ne hope that she will receive it be
ore January 1.
THE ATLANTA TKI-WEEKJLY JOURNAL.
Boy Corn Wizard
Breaks Record
■|k
MOODY
FREMONT, Ind. —Preston
Moody, fifteen, is the champion
junior corn-grower of this state.
He won the title in the Purdue
University contest by raising
147.3 bushels of corn on an acre
of ground near his home here.
Sixteen hundred boys and girls
entered the contest. This is a
new record in Indiana corn pro
duction.
Court Says Snake
Has Legal Right to
Gulp Live Chicken
WINNIPEG.—Does a live chicken
suffer any pain while traversing the
passage between a boa constrictor’s
mouth and stomach? If it does,
which is the crueler —to allow the
chicken to suffer or to let the snake
starve to death?
This problem was propounded to
the Winnipeg police court, and the
judge. Sir Hugh John Macdonald,
decided that although the chicken
may be tortured in body and mind
during the brief moment it is passing
it is more humane to allow it to suf
fer than to let a boa constrictor die
for want of nourishment.
The complaint was filed by the
Winnipeg Humane society against
Miss Westlake, snake charmer
with a erfreus showing here, in which
Miss Westlake was charged with
“diabolic cruelty” in feeding a live
chicken to. her 260-pound boa con
strictor.
“The chickens cannot be killed be
fore they are fed to the snake or he
he wont’ eat them, and he won’t eat
anything else,” said Miss Westlake.
“Besides, there’s no cruelty, because
the chickens are dead before they
know what’s happening to them.” t
Says Early Picking
Means More Money
Ten acres of cotton picked at the
proper time in the fall from October
1 to November 1 may yield as much
as fifteen acres of the same cotton
picked in January, according to the
specialists who have been conduct
ing farm studies in the south for
the United States department of ag
riculture. ‘ .
On a farm in Arkansas an acre of
Boykin cotton harvested in the per
ion between October 1 and Novem
ber 1 was worth $152 for lint and
seed. In January an acre of an
equally good crop of the same
variety was worth only slob. Ex
press cotton gave $193 per acre in
October, but in January the crop was
worth only sll2.
The result of delayed picking is
chiefly a deterioration in grade and
quality. For example, in a case
where October 1 cotton rated as
“strict middling,” November 1 cot
ton of the same variety rated as
“strict low middling,” while on Jan
uary 21 the same variety classed as
“good ordinary” only.
Tennessee Farm Women
Win by Co-operation
“It was only a little object les
son in co-operative marketing is the
modest statement of a Tennessee
woman whose activities have pro
duced a prospbrous dairying commun
ity.
In 1909 fourteen women were or
ganized at Pulaski, Tenn., to demon
strate the theory of co-operative ef L
fort. Butter and eggs from the rela
tively few cows and fowls of the
community we r e assembled and mar
keted. The quality of the products,
due to the care taken in selection
and preparation, was such that they
commanded the highest prevailing
prices. The women’s husbands be
gan to tak notice and soon interested
themselves in dairy cows. This led
to the introduction of Jerseys, sep
arators, silos, milking machines and
the shipping of whole mjlk and
cream.
Similar results are being secured
in many sections of the country, state
experts of the bureau of markets,
United States department of agri
culture. The movement frequently
starts with a small group of farmers,
farmers’ wives or boys and girls, who
quickly demonstrate the advantages
of improved production and market
ing methods. The county agents
tdvise those interested in the forma
tion of such organizations and the
administration methods to be adopted
and are glad to render every as
sistance upon request.
9,487,727,63 F Pounds
Os Sugar Imported
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. —Tht per
capita consumption- of sugar was
90.6 pounds during the 12 months
period ending June 30, the highest in
history, according to a study by
the commerce department made pub
lic today.
Imports of sugar totaled 9,485,-
727,637 pounds and exports 1,458,-
680,.026. Sugar was bought from
more than forty countries, Cuba be
ing the chief seller with a total of
6,905,709,612 pounds sent to this
country, the biggest Cuban mporta
t‘on in history.
SELLS”ALL WOOL SUIT
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A handsomely Illustrated fall and
winter style book showing all the
latest New York and Chicago styles
in men’s suits and containing 66
beautiful cloth samples of the very
finest, high-grade fabrics, is being
distributed free by the Bell Tailors,
Dept. 855, Chicago, Hl., the largest
concern in the world selling made-to
measure tailored suits direct to
wearer. The values offered for the
coming season are simply amazing.
For instance, they .offer a very fine
all-wool high-grade suit, made to in
dividual measure, at only $25. The
measurement system used is so sim
ple any member of your family can
take your measure and the Bell Tai
lors guarantee to fit you perfectly or
there is no charge. Send for their
style book and price list today and
save big money on your clothes.
U. S. CONSIDERS
MOVE TO MEET
TENN. TANGLE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—The pos
sibility of the Tennessee suffrage
tangle dragging results of the fall
election through the courts and into
the house of representatives has
been recognized by high government
officials and ways to meet it are be
ing considered, it was learned to
day.
In their efforts to avoid such an
event, officials here confidently ex
pect to have the help of Republican
party leaders, although such aid has
not as yet been asked or offered so
far as known.
Possibility of the elections going
into the courts and congress arises
out of constitutional provisions that
a candidate must have a majority in
the electoral college to secure his
election. If courts should declare
after the elections had occurred that
the Tennessee ratification of suf
frage was illegal, all woman’s votes
cast under authority of the 19th
amendment also would be illegal and
there would be nothing to do but
throw out the whole votes of states
where such illegal voting had oc
curred. Thus no candidate would
have a majority of the electors and
the house of representatives would
elect the president.
Officials here see two ways of
avoiding this.
The first way is to get the matter
settled by a decision of the federal
supreme court before election. The
court does not meet until October 4
and the elections are November Z,
giving the court less than a month
to act. Furthermore none of th#
suffrage cases are yet formally be
fore it.
The second way is to get ratifica
tion by a thirty-seventh state. Con
necticut now offers the most likely
chance for such a move as this to
succeed. Suffrage leaders are cen
tering efforts on Connecticut.
Republican leaders, it was be
lieved here, can aid suffrage i n
Connecticut since the state is Re
publican. They are expectea to do
so when the legislature meets in
special session. The Alabama leg
islature meets September 14 accord
ing to word here > b ut the chances
torsuffrage there are deemed slight.
The last election thrown into the
house was the Hayes-Tilden con
test. The first election of Tjiomas
Jefferson also was made by the
house, Aaron Burr being his closest
rival.
CONNECTICUT EXPECTED
TO RATIFY SUFFRAGE
HARTFORD, Conn., Sept. 2.—Suf
frage workers in this state today
predicted that the Connecticut legis
lature would ratify the nineteenth
amendment at the special session,
starting September 14, and thus keep
it in the constitution, despite Ten
nessee’s withdrawal of its ratifica
tion.
“The legislature is decidedly in
favor of the measure,” said Miss
Katherine Ludington, president of
the State Suffrage association.
“Many members have expressed cha
grin at the delay in calling the spe
cial session. Os course we are not
worried about Tennessee. The amend
ment has been passed and proclaimed
by the secretary of state and can
not be Rescinded.”
The September 14 session was not
technically called to consider rat
ification of the nineteenth amend
ment. When Governor Holcomb is
sued his proclamation, Tennessee’s
action was regarded as final. Ac
cording to his proclamation, the
special session is to consider meas
ures to legalize balloting and reg
istration of women voters.
2,300 WOMEN HAVE
REGISTERED IN BIRMINGHAM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 2.
With 2,300 women registered, suf
frage leaders today were making a
whirlwind campaign to push the fig
ure over the 5,000 mark in Jefferson
county before, the poll books close.
More than 900 registered yesterday.
This is the last day to qualify for
voting in the general election.
Civic organizations have planned a
“victory parade” for Saturday, which
has been declared a holiday by the
city commission.
Shrewd Owner of
Four-Legged Hen
Hopes for Riches
WATERTOWN, Wis.—Earl Plumb,
of this town, thinks he has a stran
gle-hold on at least one corner of
the high cost'of living—if he can only
put his plan in execution. Plumb
found a pullet with four legs among
a recent hatching. The chicken is
strong and lively and uses both pairs
of legs alternately. Where Plumb
hopes to cash in is by getting hold
of a young four-legged cockerel,
several of which have been reported
hatched in various parts of the coun
try. Then he will start breeding
fourrlegged chickens, he says, which
won’t cost any more to feed but will
provide an extra pair of drumsticks
for the Sunday dinner table.
Cotton Men Planning
Co-operative Bodies
To Market the Crop
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Sept. 2.
Local co-operative cotton marketing
bodies first will attempt to control
the southern cotton markets, accord
ing to plans before the executive
committee of the American Cotton
association in conference here today
After the local bodies have signed
producers in ironclad contracts to
comply with standardized marketing
plans, the organization gradually will
.extend over cotton-growing states
and merge into an immense holding
corporation, it Is proposed.
A committee on production costs
now is at work estimating a mini
mum cost for the cotton crop.
Seeking Ransom for
Kidnaped American
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 2.—Charles
Hoyle, an American citizen, who was
kidnaped by the bandit Pedro Za
mora at .Cuale, state of Jalisco, on
August 20 and who was later re
lesed, arrived at Guadalajara yes
terday afternoon, seeking 100,000 pe
sos ransom which Zamora is demand
ing for W. A. (Sandy) Gardiner, an
other American, who, with W. B.
Johnson, a British subject, is still
be'”'t held captive by the bandit.
Hoyle, according to press dis
patches, declared he was released
before the fight between the outlaws
and government troops at Rancho
Divisidero, where the Zamora forces
were badly defeated,.and that he did
not know what might have happened
to the two prisoners after the fight
and during the recent pursuit of the
outlaws. • ,
To Select Delegates
To Veterans’ Reunion
ATHENS, Ga., Sept. 2.—Cobb
Deloney camp, United Confederate
veterans, wdll meet in Athens at the
city hajl next Saturday. At this
meeting representatives of the rail
roads will be present to give rates
to the reunion to be held at Hous
ton, Texas, October -7-8. Delegates
will be chosen to attend the reunion
at the meeting Saturday. Comman
der J, F<\ Payner will preside.
Hooper Alexander
Makes Two Speeches
United States District Attorney
Hooper Alexander, candidate for con
gress from the Fifth district, de
livered two speeches in Campbell
county Wednesday. He spoke Wed
nesday evening at the East Point
schoolhouse.
Mr. Alexander was to speak Thurs
day night at the College Park school
house.
OFFERS KISS TO PAY TAXI BILL! DRIVER
SAYS NIX! WORKHOUSE!
NEW YORK Mrs. Diamond
W ‘ Brown has discovered that
kisses weer not ’invented” to pay
IMEff-J'' taxicab bills. She was haled into
||i||k ibgw court by Philip Grenfield, taxi
driver, who said she refused to
pay charges of SG.2O, but ofered
to kiss him and call the taxi bill
square. ’Twas her second offense
% 80 the j U( l ge gave her five days
in the workhouse to think it over,
Mrs. Brown gave her address as
It the Hotel Vanderbilt.
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IV(atkinsDelivers Powerful
Speech at Hogansville
In Support of Hoke Smith
HOGANSVILLE, Ga., Sept. 2.
More than 2,000 people assembled
here yesterday at a Masonic barbe
cue and political speaking heard Ed
gar Watkins, the distinguished At
lanta lawyer, deliver in support of
Senator Hoke Smith what was gen
erally acknowledged to be one of the
most convincing and powerful argu
ments of the present campaign.
“Nominally there are four candi
dates in the race for the senate,”
said Mr. Watkins in opening his
speech, “but actually there are two,
and I shall discuss the records of
three.”
First in the race for the senate,
he went on to say, is Senator Smith,
whose record would be given briefly
and incompletely, because there was
not sufficient time to do him justice.
He said Mr. Watson, the nearest
opponent of Senator Smith, has a
public record and so has Governor
Dorsey, who has echoed some of Mr.
Watson’s statements and who will
trail Mr. Watson’s vote on Septem
ber 8.
Watkins then directed atten
tion in detail to some of the major
achievements of Senator Smith, in
cluding his registration law ridding
Georgia of fraudulent elections and
the corrupt negro vote, the law en
larging the powers of the railroad
commission and increasing it from
three to five members; his great
business ability as demonstrated
when secretary of the interior in
President Cleveland’s cabinet; his ac
tive work for the immigration bill
which the people of Georgia have
demanded, and for which he voted
to override the president’s veto; the
national educational bill, aiding the
states in common school education;
the vocational bills which are daily
demonstrating their value to disabled
soldiers; his constructive work for
the development of the ports of
Brunswick and Savannah.
Watson Opposes All Things
Mr. Watkins then discussed Mr.
Watson’s “opposition to all men and
all things.” He conceded the fact
that Mr. Watson has a brilliant in
tellect, hut read extracts from Mr.
Watson’s sworn testimony before a
congressional Investigating commit
tee that he advocated political equal
ity for the negroes when he was a
member of congress, and practiced
his teaching by having negroes on
the stump with him and on his cam
paign committee.
Mr. Watkins next credited Gov-
Dorsey Surprises Audience;
He Says Treasury Is 0. K.
And Provokes Laughter
STATESBORO, Ga„ Sept. 2. —A
real surprise of the senatorial cam
paign was uncorked in Statesboro
Wednesday when Governor Dorsey
declared to a large audience of Bul
loch county citizens that the fi
nancial affairs of the state are in
equally as good condition now as
they have been for fifteen years.
This new and startling argument
by the governor moved many of his
hearers to laughter, for they had
already heard him remark ipon the
strained condition of the treasury in
his attempt to explain why his spe
cial agents forced rural merchants to
pay under vigorous protest thou
sands of dollars in illegal igarette
tobacco taxes.
“I collected this tax,” he declared,
“because the treasury was empty and
the state was in urgent need of
money with which to maintain its in
stitutions. The attorney general said
the taxes were just and past due,
the state tax commissioner ruled
that they were legal and acting on
their expert advice, I put my special
investigators to work.
“Compti oiler General William A.
Wright is the state’s chief tax of
ficial, and while this tobacco tax
was being- collected by my field
agents he raised the point that there
might be some question as to the
legality of the tax. I love Mr.
Wright and I very promptly de
ferred to his judgment, ordering the
collectors to discontinue the ciga
rette tobacco tax collections.
“We are refunding the money as
fast as the treasury’s condition will
warrant.”
The governor spoke in a pine grove
near the heart of the city. A barbe
cue dinner was served immediately
after the speech. The crowd at the
barbecue was estimated at 2,000, al
though less than 1,000 heard the
governor’s appeal for the suffrage of
ernor Dorsey with the vivid claims
“which those who are unhampered
by facts are making in his behalf,”
although a member of the legisla
ture who was present. Representative
Knight, of Berrien, who has been in
the legislature twenty-one years, de
clared that Governor Dorsey has had
less influence with the legislature
than any other governor during that
time.
“We can be over-generous with Mr.
Watson and Governor Dorsey,” said
Mr. Watkins, “but even so, the rec
ord of Senator Smith so far exceeds
both that we are obliged to prefer
him if we wish real service in the
senate.”
In summing up his argument Mr.
Watkins made these points:
“Senator Smith has ability and
suitability; Mr. Watson has ability,
but wholly lacks suitability; Gov
ernor Dorsey collects in small towns
a nillegal tobacco tax. Senator
Smith has accomplished much that is
of value; (Mr. Watson has thrown
monkey wrenches in the machinery;
Dorsey’s record must be supplied by
the vivid imagination of a political
writer.
“So much for the past, by which
we must be guided. The future pre
sents problems which require the
strength and talents of Senator
Smith. The right of the south to
white supremacy is threatened again,
by the force bill and the Madden
amendment requiring negroes in la
bor unions before the unions can be
legally recognized. On this issue
Senator Smith has by a law in Geor
gia and his opposition to the force
bill shown what he can do. Mr.
Watson has openly and in the printed
record gone contrnry to the wish of
the southern people and openly used
the negro as a political associate. As
for Governor Dorsey, he has dis
missed a white man as florist at the
capitol and employed a negro In his
place.”
After the speech Mr. Watkins
was given hundreds of congratula
tions. It was one of the most inter
esting, logical and convincing argu
ments ever heard here. One man
told him he had been up until 3
o’clock the night before working for
Governor Dorsey, but he was now go
ing to work for Senator Smith.
'‘There is no doubt that Senator
Smith will carry Coweta, Troup and
Meriwether counties, which were
represented in the audience here
Wednesday, although Mr. Watson
has a strong following in all, and
especially in Troup and Coweta.
the voters of Bulloch and adjoining
counties.
Legionalre Scores Watson
Leßoy Cowart, a well-known
young legionaire, opened the meet
ing with a terse but scathing denun
ciation of Thomas E. Watson. He
made no reference to Governor Dor
sey’s candidacy, but appealed to the
voters present to defeat Mr. Watson,
whom he characterized as “unsafe,
unsound and un-American.”
Albert M. Deal, a Statesboro at
torney and a Palmer delegate to the
Democratic convention at San Fran
cisco, introduced the governor as a
“poor young man who has guided the
state of Georgia through a crucial
period with great credit.”
The governor admitted at the out
set that he has given to Georgia its
most constructive administration. He
asserted that a great deal of bene
ticial legislation has been enacted
during his term of office, due largely
to his efforts in the state’s interest.
Some of the credit,” said he, “must
accrue to the legislative bodies and
if everything that happened during
my administration has failed tc
Please you don't give me all of the
blame.
He proudly declared that he has
visited the various state institutions
more frequently than any other gov
ernor.
My opponents,” continued the gov
ernor, “say I should be defeated for
the senate because I vetoed the Stein
er bill. It was unconstitutional and
I acted under the ruling of the at
torney general when I vetoed it. I’d
do the same thing again tomorrow.
Simply because Mr. Steiner, a
wealthy man who made millions con
ducting a brewery, left bequests to
the Shriners’ home and the Grady
hospital, my opponents say I erred
in refusing to sign the measure
which sought to exempt the legacies
from payment of inheritance taxes.
“I could have signed that bill and
received the applause of Forrest
Adair and a few Atlanta Shriners
but I refused to perjure mys* s *
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1923.
HENSON REVIEWS
HARDWICK’S WAR
RECORD IN 1898
The Spanish-American war record
of Thomas W. Hardwick still is short
an "explanation,” according to the
Georgia department, American Le
gion anti-Watson-Hardwick campaign
committee. The committee quotes
former Private A. L. Henson, of Cal
houn, state commander of the legion,
who is directing the anti-Watson-
Hardwick campaign.
Mr. Henson declared that Mr. Hard
wick, in “his first speech since the
expose of his record, had failed to
go into his volunteer record except to
attempt to sling mud at a Legion-*
naire who was gassed in France, and
who he knows was in the front-line
trenches while he and Watson were
fighting the United States govern
ment at home.”
Mr. Henson said: “The repudiated
United States senator appears unwill
ing to talk about his ‘patriotism’ at
the outbreak of the Spanish war and
how he volunteered to serve as a
‘despised officer,’ and then, without
having been mustered in, ‘volunteered’
to quit.
“As a matter of fact, Hardwick
was attacked with a severe case of
cold feet when he got to camp in
Griffin and saw patriotic Georgians
there drilling with real guns, so he
appraised himself, rightly, tdo, as
not being officer material, and, leav
ing the men there he had recruited
as privates, told his colonel he was
not ‘cut out to be an officer’ and
asked to be ‘excused.’ He was ex
cused, and no doubt it was a good
thing for the regiment.
"Any so-called man guilty of the
same show of ‘patriotism’ in the late
war would have been dubbed a
‘slacker.’
“If Hardwick realized he was not
cut out to lead men in battle, the
American Legion would like to know
why he did not enlist as a private
along with the eight men he in
duce dto enlist as privates.
“We should say his experience with
the volunteer system was rather brief
and not altogether honorable, but it
was as honorable at least as his
action in condoning Watson’s orgie
at Buford.”
Aircraft Will Bomb
Battleship Indiana
WASHINGTON.—Another old-time
American fighting ship—the battle
ship Indiana —is to be sacrificed to
the cause of' naval efficiency. In
lower Chesapeake bay in September
the vessel will be subjected to a
rain of bombs from a squadron of
naval seaplanes.
This will be the first actual test
to be conducted by riny navy to show
the possibilities of direct attack upon
warships from the air, according to
American naval officers. Flying at
heights ranging from 4,000 feet to
about 8,000, six planes w’ill demon
strate the practicability of hitting a
target the size of a battleship, using
for this purpose non-explosive bombs.
The battleship will then be sub
jected to the explosive worce of
bombs carrying a minimum of 1,000
pounds of TNT.
8 Speeches in 2 Days
Announced by Upshaw
Congressman W. D. Upshaw Tues
day announced the following speak
ing engagements:
Friday, September 3, at 2:30 p. m.,
Wesley Chapel; 4 p. m. at Panthers
ville; 7 p. m. at Edgewood Phar
macy; 8 p m. at Kirkwood.
Saturday, September 4, at noon,
Southern rallrord shops;. 1:30 p. m.,
Union City: 2:30 p. m., Fairburn; 4
p. m., Palmetto.
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“BLACK HEELS ON
WHITE NECKS”
Fifty white men and six hundred negroes met
in Labor Temple in Atlanta on the night of
July 16 and perfected plans to organize the
NEGRO LABORERS
In every city and county in Georgia. I ear
nestly appeal to all my fellow citizens who
favor law and order and the impartial en
forcement of all laws to vote for
HON. WALTER R. BROWN
For governor. The only candidate who has
called attention to this impending peril to
Southern domestic and social life. He is
against GOMPERS and his BLACK LIEU
TENANTS.
JOSEPH M. BROWN/
Marietta, Ga., September 1, 1920 ' v
TENN: GOVERNOR
MAY CERTIFY TO
ACTION OF ANTIS
NASHVILLE. Tenn., Sept. 2.—Op
ponents of ratification this afternoon
declared that they had assurances
that Governor Roberts would certify
the action as requested by the Ten
nessee house of representatives this
morning, which adopted, by a vote
of 43 to 36. a motion to furnish the
governor with a sworn transcript of
the action taken by the house Tues
day in non-concurring in the suffrage
amendment resolution and ask the
governor to certify this transcript
to the secretary of state at Washing
ton. According to the motion as
made by Representative Hall, a com
mittee of three will secure the tran
script.
A written motion was introduced
in the senate this afternoon accept
ing the message from the house, re
turned yesterday, and ordering the
message which recited the house’s
reconsideration and non-concurrence
last Tuesday in the senate’s action
in the ratification resolution. The
motion reads: .
“Without undertaking to deter
mine the question as to the validity
or invalidity of the action of the
house and without undertaking to
determine the legal .status of senate
joint resolution No.' 1 (the ratifica
tion resolution), I move you that out
of courtesy and deference that one
house owes to the other, we receive
the message from the house and
spread the same on the journal, as
is customary in these matters.”
The motion was adopted, 21 to 4.
The claim is made today that the
governor of Tennessee has never
certified to Washington that the ac
tion on the ratification resolution
was “legally and constitutionally”
had. Members of the house who held
a conference with the governor last
night say todpy that the words “le
gally and constitutionally” appeared
in a rough draft of the certification
prepared by Attorney General Frank
M. Thompson, but that when Gov
ernor Roberts came to these words
in preparing the certification which
went to Secretary Colby, he elimi
nated them and supplied "passed and
adopted ... in manner and form
appearing on the journals of the two
house s.’
Good Progress Made
In Campaign Against
Malaria in Georgia
The state board of health Is now
engaged in four malaria control
projects at Albany Jhomasville
Cairo and Savannah. More than a
hundred towns, villages and mill
settlements have been doing similar
v.'ork and according to reports made
to the state board, the results, have
been most satisfactory. It Is shown
that malaria has been reduced from
70 to 95 per cent at a relatively low
per capita cost.
As the output of sawmills and
other industries has been increased
materially by the reduction of ma
laria and the consequent increase in
efficiency on the part of the opera
tives, the railroads and industrial
enterprises are taking greater in
terest in- malaria control projects.
Communities desiring to have ma
laria surveys made should communi
cate with the state board of health,
which, with the United States Pub
lic health service, will make the
survey and supervise drainage ope
rations without cost to the com
munity. The city or town vill be
expected to pay for the greater part
of the drainage operations, how
ever.
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