®bt Atlanta @H*WeWto Stounial
VOL. XXII. NO. 135.
X-Ray Shozvs Baby’s Tooth
Is Either Gold or Metal,
Declare Leading. Dentists\
Science Is Baffled in Try
ing to Explain the Dental
"Miracle” That Has Keen
y Interest
ET WARD GREENE
An X-ray examination made Sat
urday proves, according to well
known Atlanta dentists who con
ducted the test, that seven-months
old Eva Catherine Lee either has a
"gold tooth" or a tooth crowned
With some other metal.
Reluctanly—for men of science re
fuse to believe in the unbelievable—
.they discard the theory that the
tooth is diseased. This explanation
doesn’t stand up in the face of the
X-ray negative.
The X-ray shows unmistakably
that the substance on Eva Cather
ine’s tooth is harder than the tooth
Structure itself. If the bright yel
low was diseased dentine, it would
appear black on the X-ray negative.
Instead, it appears -white, Just as
the gold on all X-ray negatives of
teeth appears.
Then, if ft is not a diseased tooth,
declare the dentists, the crown is
either gold or metal. And, if it is
Bold or metal, how did it get there?
The dentists refuse to say; they
are not going to do anything so
sash.
Eva Catherine’s father, J. T. Lee,
a weaver at the Atlanta Woolen
Mills, has his explanation. It is
Very simple.
"God put it there,” he said Satur
day, while he held Eva Catherine in
the dentist’s chair. “How else could
it be there? You see, I watched it
dome, I watched it grow out from
the gum itself. Last Tuesday, when
I first saw it, there was just a glint
of gold in the red gum. It didn’t
come from the outside, it came from
Within. Every day we watched it,
•very day it grew out a little bigger
from the gum, every day a little
more golden. And now it's there,
Where God put it.”
And that, to Hr. Lee, is sufficient.
Kor have the dentists any better ex
planation, men of science though
they are.
Soon to Lose Gold Tooth
The X-ray developed something
•Ise about Eva Catherine’s “gold
tooth.” She is going to lose it. Be
hind the tooth, the X-ray shows new
teeth sprouting. They are pushing
lip. It will only be three or four
Weeks, state the dentists, before the
?gold tooth" will fall out.
Will the. tooth that replaces It
be gold?
That’s something to wait for!
In any event, when the tooth falls. 1
the solution of the question will be
found. As it is now, Mr. Lee—and
the dentists say they don’t blame him
•—will not allow the prodding and
the scraping of Eva Catherine’s tooth
that might serve to establish the
quality of the metal.
• But when the tooth falls out, an
•ssay will be possible.
Four Atlanta dentists and two At
lanta physicians examined Eva Cath
trine’s tooth Saturday Xi the office
of Dr. J. G. Mizell, on the eighth
floor of the Candler building, where
the Lees took their child.
They were Dr. Mizell, Dr. C. C.
Howard, Dr. M. D. Huff and Dr.
K. R. Armstrong, all well-known den
tists; and Dr. E. C. Thrash and Dr.
M. C. Campbell, medical fspecialists.
▲ll have offices in the building.
Then went in to look at Eva Cath
erine skeptical. They came out grin
ning and saying. “Well, by George!
Well, by George!”
“What do you think about it. doc
tor?” each was asked.
And each replied, “Well, by George,
I don’t know whiit to think.”
That was before the X-ray was
taken.
Eva Catherine was quite the hap
piest person vou ever saw in a den
tist’s chair. Poor kid, she little real
ized that, at so tender an age. she
was being introduced to what to
most people is one of the ordeals of
•ivilization. ~ , . .
No, she laughed, actually laughed.
And, to can the climax, they made
her laugh even more merilly at —-
What? The sound the buzzer made.
What’s the Answer
When she began to get fretful, Dr.
Mizell turned it on. Strong men
shuddered. Eva Katherine crowed,
positively crowed
She sat in her mother s lap, while
the X-rav machine was being prepar
ed and various strange men came In
and peered down her throat.
Apparently, she is getting used to
this, for she was quite tractable.
Then thev stuck a plate over her
mouth, held her firmly, started the
juice and, presto, the thing was done.
It didn’t hurt. Eva Catherine
didn’t shiver or make a peep. Be ng
80 inexperienced, she neither gripped
the arms of the chair, nor let out a
howl, nor had any fanciful notions
that the X-ray was. an ingenious de
vice to tear out her nerve centers by
the roots. She simply gurgled once,
'•nd let it go at that.
We waited expectantly for the
plate to be developed W hen it v.. s
Drought, dripping from the
and hung in front of the strong light,
everybody took a look. h
T. ere was Eva Catherine s tooth.
• small, gray object, smaller than a
pea. surrounded by queer-looking
white, black and gray mountains that
were gums, more teeth, bone, what
not. But the significmt thin*, the
doctors pointed out. was a speck of
White on the end of Eva Catherine s
tooth. That, they said couldn t be
a decayed spot, it would haie been
bla k in such case. It must be- -
Bold, shall we say, or what. n
You tell us the answer, docile
reader, the dentists wc»:i t.
ANOTHER GOW TOOTH
CASE IS DISCOVERED
BLACKSHEAR. Ga.. Sept.
Raulerson. of Pierce county, <*
trown man- living m a .Y c^°' f ‘ t j.’
a gold tooth that is similar to the
one discovered in Atlants.
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world, recently stated that his firm
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he showed the writer a very attrac
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BASEBALL GRAFT
CHARGED TO MEN
ON CHICAGO TEAM
CHICAGO, Sept. 29.—The Cook
county grand jury investigating
crookedness in baseball, hit the gam
blers’ trail today.
After indicting eight members of
the 1919 White Sox team for alleged
‘‘throwing" of the last world’s se
ries to the Cincinnati Reds, the in
vestigators went into the gamblers’
part in the SIOO,OOO plot.
Officials announced they had suf
ficient evidence, apparently from the
"confessions” of Joe Jackson and Ed
die Cicotte, White Sox stars, to ob
tain indictments of gamblers in New
York, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis,
Detroit, Des Moines and other cities.
In addition the grand jury was
prepared to take up alleged crooked
playing in other games by Chicago
teams. The Philadelphia-Chicago
game in the National league of Au
gust 31 was especially under scru
tiny.
Sheriff Peters announced the ar
rest of the men against whom in
dictments were voted would not be
made until the indictments were for
mally returned. The grand jury was
expected to return the indictments
to the court during the day.
The greatest baseball machine in
recent years was piled up by the
waysidr* as the result of the wreck
caused by the indictments.
Charles A. Comiskey, owner of the
Sox, has built many pennant-winning
machines in his twenty-five years in
baseball, but always pointed to the
present aggregation as the nearest
perfection. The club has been vir
tually intact since the winning of
t» world's championship in 1918.
Comiskey has insisted the team
should have won the 1919 world’s
series, claiming it was the best ball
club, and had every expectation of
repeating victory this year.
“Kid” Gleason, manager, today be
gan taking the few good parts from
battered contraption to present
a front for the remaining games.
He stoutly insisted the Sox were
still in the running for the Amer
ican league pennant, and capable of
a fight for the world’s champion
ship.
HARDING SAYS _ •
DEMOCRATS HAVE
WASTED MONEY
WHEELING. W. Va., Sept. 29.
Declaring that Democratic extrava
gances and mismanagement had
brought the nation to the brink of
financial disaster, Senator Warren G.
Harding told an audience of several
thousand here last night that the
Republican party proposed to in
augurate a policy of economy and
efficiency, that would put the whole
federal government on a sound busi
ness basis.
The. Republican- nominee quoted
treasury .department figures to sup
port his charge of unwarranted ex
penditures and asserted that one ef
fect of the administration's proposal
for a new issue of treasury certifi
cates would be to further handicap
the money market and to increase
the cost of living. He scored Presi
dent Wilson for his veto of the bud
get bill passed by the last Republican
congress and promised that a budget
system would be one of the first pol
icies inaugurated by a new Repub
lican administration.
Sees Disaster
"Unless we check the existing sys
tem of waste and extravagance,” he
continued, “we shall run head-on into
disaster. We have heard during the
last few days from the Democratic
administration at Washington that it
needs money, more money, always
more money. And during these same
days we have heard from a Demo
cratic candidate that if he is elected
to the presidency he will give to the
people of this country a budget sys
tem such as the present president,
with whom he says he is in accord,
rejected last June.”
The Republican nominee’s speech
here was the sixth he had delivered
during the day in West Virginia.
Crossing from Baltimore during the
morning, he made short rear plat
form talks to crowds at Grafton,
Fairmont. Mannington, Cameron and
Moundsville, assailing the labor pro
visions of the peace treaty and de
claring that the Democratic adminis
tration might greatly lease the coal
situation if it chose by invoking the
car allotment provisions of the Cum
•mins-Esch railway bill. ,
In his night speech here, Senator
Harding said the public debt had in
creased from $24,299,321,467 on June
30, to $24,324,672,123 on August 31,
and that the deficit for the last year
would have been nearer three bil
lions than one billion had not the Re
publican congress cut down adminis
tration requests for anpropriations.
Hen Sets on Alligator
Eggs; Leaves on Run
When First Hatches
CORPUS CHRISTI. Tex., Sept. 28.
A hen owned by Dr. W. E. Wills, of
this city, is suffering from something
akin to nervous prostration, accord
ing to the physician.
Dr. Wilis found a nest filled with
alligator eggs while on a hunting
expedition recently. He brought six
of the eggs home with him.
A sedate hen in the doctor’s barn
yard was determined to set and air
though the sun would have hatched
the alligator eggs, Dr. decided
to humor the fowl and put the eggs
under her. Biddy waited for but one
egg to hatch, acording to the doctor,
and then left the nest on a dead run,
cacklin'' wildly.
Pecan Orchard Sells
For Sum of $43,700
AUGUSTA, Ga.—J. H. Statham, of
Cobb, Ga., has just sold the National
Pecan Groves company’s 350 acres
of land lying along their develop
ment project at Flintside. The price
paid for the tract, it is announced,
was $125 per acre, and the whole of
the acreage will be planted immey
diately in paper shell pecan trees.
DfflH CM DRIVER
HELD FDR MURDER;
ITI-IMEMI
Many Arrests, Heavy Penal
ties and Relentless Prose
cution Mark Campaign by
Officials and Public
Atlanta is up in arms against au
tomobile speed fiends.
The tragic deaths of two women
and one man under the wheels of
three automobiles within the space
of thirty-six hours has stirred the
public and the officials of the coun-,
ty and city to a high pitch of in
dignation.
Numerous important developments
have followed the launching of the
war against reckless motorists who
make life perilous on Atlanta streets.
An indictment charging murder
was returned Tuesday by the Fulton
county grand jury against B. F. Mc-
Donald, driver of the death tear that
killed Mrs. Carobel Holley Smith Sat
urday night.
Indictments charging the samp of
fense are being sought by Solicitor
John A. Boykin in eleven similar
cases, two of which involved tiie
deaths of Mrs. Carrie May Merz and
Mr. W. W. Moon Saturday night and
Monday. The grand jury will act in
these matters next Friday. A woman,
Mrs. O. T. Sullivan, and a man, Jo
seph T. McCall, are the defendants
in the two cases last mentioned.
Out of twenty-four speeding cases
tried before City Recorder George E.
Johnson Tuesday morning, twenty
were fined $26 each and four drivers
lost their licenses for thirty days.
Judge Johnson announced that much
heavier sentences, culminating m
prison sentences for the third of
fense, would be the rule hereafter
The establishment of an examining
board which will pass upon the fit
ness of amateur drivers has been rec
ommended. The state legislature
may be asked to enact measures pro
viding for the examining board and
authorizing more drastic violations
for traffic violations.
An increase in the personnel of
the police department, representing
a cost of some $60,000 a year, to
gether with a training senool for
traffic officers, is proposed by traf
fic committee of tne board of police
commissioners.
Mayor James L. Key has called
upon the pub'ic to report and prose
cute every instance of reckless driv
ing that may have occurred where no
member of the police force happened
to be stationed.
A volunteer brigade of “citizen
vigilantes,” who will act constantly
as detectors of violations is strong
ly advised from many, quarters. The
Rotary Tflffb,' the Kiwanis club, the
chamber of Commerce and other lead
ing civic organizations are taking
active part in the campaign. Prom
inent citizens and residents of all
classes are swamping the papers
with suggestions for remedying the
situation.
Police officers upon starting on
the daily rounds are instructed to
look out for speed fiends, even at
the risk of neglecting their other du
ties. Conservative automobile driv
ers, street car motormen and con
ductors. <-’- ! vers of other vehicles and
all other citizens are being urged to
help curb the epidemic of disregard
.for the law that has brought the
traffic problem to an acute stage.
Not all the blame is heaped upon
the motorists. It is declared that
pedestrians in large numbers con
sistently disregard the rules of the
road, thereby endangering themselves
and putting the lives of autoists
and other pedestrians in continual
jeopardy. Any person on foot who
wilfully winks at the regulations
govern!-- his »r her case stands a
chance for prosecution equal to that
of a reCkless driver. .
It developed Tuesday that B. F
McDonald, held under $3,500 bond
for the killing of Mrs. Carobel Hol
ley Smith, of 60 East Harris street,
under the wheels of his automobile
on Saturday night, has a sensation
al police and court record. He was
tried for the killing of O. B. Stevens,
Jr., on Auburn avenue some years
ago, was sentenced to a prison term
but carried his case to the higher
courts and secu’red a new trill which
has never been held because of the
death of two of the principal wit
nesses. McDonald also was involved
in the shooting of a man named Mc-
Intyre at a road house near Atlanta
more than a year ago. This case
also is pending on the superior court
docket.
Hudson,Essex,Overland
Car Price Reductions
Made by Companies
DETROIT. Mich., Sept. 28.—The
Hudson Manufacturing company,
manufacturers of the Hudson and
Essex cars, today announced a price
reduction of all models of the two
cars ranging from S2OO to $450.
The new price will become effec
tive immediately.
WILLYS-OVERLAND CARS
REDUCED SIOO TO S2OO
NEW YORK/ Sept. 28.—Reductions
in the prices of automobiles made
by the Willys-Overland company of
from SIOO to S2OO per car were an
nounced today.
STUDEBAKER ANNOUNCES
REDUCTION IN PRICES
CHICAGO. Sept. 28.—The Stude
baker corporation announced a re
duction of from $125 to S2OO in the
prices of its cars.
Placards Threatening
To Bum Irish Towns
Are Posted in Ennis
DUBLIN, Sept. 28.—Police placards
threatening to burn county Clare
towns were plastered over the city
of Ennis today. t
The placards bore the ultimatum
that the cities will be destroyed if
Captain Lenbrum, who disappeared
while in Kilkec is *pt returned un
harmed within twCTity-four hours.
The places threatened were Kilkee
Kilrush, Carrigaholet. Doonbeg, Kil
mihill and other West Clare villages.
Prices on Second-Hand
Automobiles Slashed
CHICAGO, Sept. 27.—Prices on sec
ond-hand automobiles were slashed
here today by many dealers. The
bottom has fallen out of the used
car market, one dealer stated.
Reductions range from $250 to
SI,OOO, according to H. L. Harris,
a member of the firm of Harris &
Rodgers.
“We think It advisable at this time
of the year to lower prices,” said Mr.
Harris. “There is a tendency in the
market for prices to go lower and
we are merely anticipating it.”
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1920.
TIME TO FIRE THE CHAUFFEUR!
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Above appears Cartoonist Brewerton’s powerful > pictorial protest against a public peril tha
has precipitated a wholesale campaign against ‘‘speed fiends” who are terrorizing Atlanta.
Mayor Key’s Expulsion
From Civic Organization
Stirs Up Hot Squabble
Mayor James L. Key, of Atlanta,
has been dropped from the member
ship of the Presidents’ club, one of
the city’s foremost civic organiza
tions. and the circumstances sur
rounding the incident are occasion
ing spirited comment pro and con.
News of the affair came to light
when the mayor wrote a letter to
Colonel Frederic J. Paxon, a promi
nent member of the club, asking if
he was to understand fro mvarious
rumors that he had been expelled.
Colonel Paxon replied in the af
firmative, explaining that this atcion
had been taken because of attacks
made by Mayor Key upon Mell R.
Wilkinson, founder and head of the
Presidents’ club, during tire mayor’s
recent successful campaign for re
election.
Mayor Key addressed his letter to
Colonel Paxon because Mr. Wilkin
son is absent from town. The may
or’s letter was pointed to an extreme.
He declared that he had not been
notified of his expulsion, asked what
the reason was. and stated that the
public of the city would doubtless
be interested in action concerning
the head of the municipal govern
ment.
Colonel Paxon replied that the
mayor had been informed correctly,
that the club had ‘unanimously in
dorsed the action of the executive
committee in dropping the mayor’s
name from the rolls, and that notifi-
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Mother of Slackers
Is Adjudged Guilty
Os Conspiracy Charges
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 29.—Mrs.
Emma C. Bergdoll and her four co
defendants were found guilty last
night of conspiracy to aid two of
her sons, Grover and Erwin, evade
the< draft. The verdict was returned
before Judge Dickinson, in federal
court.
Mrs. Bergdoll, her son, Charles A.
Braun, and former Magistrate James
E. Romig were found guilty of every
count under which they had been in
dicted.
Albert S. Mitchell and Henry
Schup were acquitted on the indict?
ments in which they alone were de
fendants, but found guilty with a
recommendation for mercy in the
joint bills.
On application of their counsel
the defendants were Released on
SIO,OOO bail each pending a motion
for a newi trial.
cation had not beennecessary. Mayor
Key could hardly expetc to sit at
the same table with Mr. Wilkinson
presiding, said Colonel Paxon, after
Mayor Key had assailed Mr. Wilkin
son during the recent campaign.
REPORT DEFICIT
OF $766,280.71 FOR
WILLINGHAM CO.
MACON, Ga.. Sept. 29.—A net
deficit of $766,289.71, the schedule
. of the Willingham warehouse, which
Will be filed in the United Statps
clerk’s office the latter part of this
week, shows that the corporation
operated for four consecutive years
at a loss of $160,326.89, excluding
the $666,737.17 which the schedules
show, was lost in speculations in
cotton futures.
During the years 1916, 17, 18* and
19, the books of the corporation re
ported profits, while the auditor’s
report, compiled by W. C. Martin for
the receivers, B. S. Deaver, Jesse B.
Hart and T. B. Mcßltchie, shows
that the warehouse was operating at
losses ranging from $5,000 to $65,-
000. Dividends were not declared by
the directors of the corporation
during these years, but the auditor’s
report further reveals that in June,
1919, R. F. Willingham and R. H.
Sissons drew out of the accounts of
the corporation, which was already
insolvent, $50,618 in the nature of
cash dividends.
The books of th& corporation read
that the warehouse was realizinfi
profits instead of losses. In 1916,
the books showed a profit of $5,-
595.96, while the warehouse lost $54,-
404.04. A book entry of $60,000 was
made to account for’this difference.
The losses in 1917 were approxi
mately $65,000 compared with fig
ures on the books the warehouse,
which gave a profit for that yeqz'of
$9,253.76. In 1918 the loss was's3s,-
502.68. In 1919, $5,120.17 combined
with a loss of $666,737.07 due to
speculations in cotton futures.
The Joss in 1920, until the ware
house was realized a bankrupt,
amounted t o $95,491.83. This was
the largest loss of any single year
for the operation of the
the warehouse.'
The auditor’s report further shows
that profits aggregating $50,618 were
made with six cotton brokers, and
that R. F. Willingham and R. H.
Sissons took it, Willingham receiv
ing $44,543 and Sissons $6,074. This
money was apportioned according to
the amount of stock/owned by them,
Willingham ’544,000 and Sissons $6,-
000. The money advanced to the
Willingham Canning corporation, at
Franklinton, of which R. F. Willing
ham was president, was Itemized as
“R. F. Willingham.”
The waste department, which was
operated in connection with the ware
house, was also insolvent, the report
shows.
The liabilities of this department
are given as $194,511.97 and the
assets $144,543.19. The Willingham
warehouse is indebted to the waste
department in the sum of $192,511.07,
and there is a deficit of $49,986.78
in this account.
Besides the figures given above,
the report showed that the corpora
tion was organized in January, 1909,
with a capital stock of $50,000, and
that on July 7, 1919, the corporation
purchased a seat on the New Or
leans cotton exchange for R. F. Wil
lingham, the amount paid being sll,-
600.
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Plan National Protest
Ry Organized Farmers
Against Credit Policy
WILSOWREPEATS
HIS POSITION ON
LEAGUEAHTICLES
Reiterates Version of Arti
cles X-Xlj on Revolts
Against Member Nations
and Self-Determination
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. The
first public document in the present
presidential campaign to be issued
at the Avhite House was made public
today. It deals with the League of
Nations and was in the form of a
letter to E. M. Swartz, of Los An
geles, written by Secretary
at President Wilson's direction.
The White House letter was in re
ply to one to the president in which
Mr. Swartz had declared the forces
supporting the Republican ticket
were contending taht if Article X of
the league covenant was ratified the
United States “would be bound to
support England in holding Ireland
under subjection.”
The letter to Mr. Swartz follows:
As to Article X
“In reply to your letter of the 20th
of September, I beg to say that the
identical questions containel in your
letter, with reference to Article X
and the right of self-determination,
found in the covenant of the League
of Nations, were placed before the
president while he was on his west
ern trip last year and fully answered
by him. The president directs me to
call your attention to the following
questions and answers given by him
to the press at that time, which 1
think satisfactorily answer your in
quiries. The questions and answers
are as follows:
" ‘Q. —Under the covenant, does the
nation obligate itself to assist any
member of the league in puttipg
down a rebellion of its subjects or
conquered peoples?
“ ‘A.—lt does not.
“ ‘Q. —Under the covenant can this
nation Independently recognize a gov
ernment whose people s seek to
achieve or have achieved their inde
pendence from a member of the
leaguer?
TT. 8. Mot Limited
“ ‘A.—The independent action of
the government of the United States
in matter of this kind is in no way
limited or affected by the covenant
of the League of Nations. '
" ‘Q. —Under the convenant are
those subject nations or peoples only
that are mentioned in the peace
treaty entitled to the right of self
determination, or does the league
possess the right to accord a similar
privilege to other subject nation or
people?*
“ ‘A.—lt was not possible for the
peace conference to act with regard
to the self-determination of any ter
ritories except those which had be
longed to the defeated empires, but in
the covenant of the League of Na
tions it has set up for the first time
in Article XI, a forum to which all
claims of self-determination which
are likely to disturb the peace of the
world ar tn# good understand.ng be
tween nz.tloT.s upon which the peace
of the world depends, can be brought.
Article XX
“ *Q. —Why was the case of Ireland
not heard at the peace conference?
And what is your opinion on the sub
ject of self-determination of Ireland?
“ *A.—The case of Ireland was not
heard at the peace conference be
cause the peace conference had no
jurisdiction over any question of that
sort which did not affect territories
which belonged to the defeated em
pires. My position on the subject of
self-determination for Ireland is ex
pressed in Article XI of the covenant,
in which I may say I was particular
lv interested, because it seemed to
me necessary for the peace and free
dom of the world that a forum should
be created to which all peoples could
bring any matter which was likely to
affect the peace and freedom of the
wor 1 d.’ ’’
NEWSPAPER SAYS
TABLOID FOOD IS
GIVEN M’SWINEY
LONDON, Sept. 29. —Lord Mayor
MacSwiney. of Cork, was reported
in an unchanged condition today at
the beginning of his forty-eighth
day as a hunger striker. A Sinn
Fein bulletin said:
“There is very little change in
the mayor's condition. He is suffer
ing great pain in the rig®t arm.
To his sister, Mary, who visited him,
he said, ‘I feel quite used up.’ ”
In rebutting the arguments of
Lord Mayor MacSwiney’s friends
that the extreme care given him
and the precautions taken against
blood-poisoning, make the duration
of his fast less remarkable, it is
suggested by some of the newspa
pers that this explanation would not
be difficult to accept in hi s case,
but seems to be illogical when it is
considered that there aiße eleven
hunger strikers in Cork who have
been abstaining from food for two
days longer than MacSwiney. and
all’ of them seem to be making
quite as surprising an exhibition of
endurance.
In connection with this feature
of the case. The Yorkshire Post
says:
“It is not only asserted that
Mayor MacSwiney is being fed, and
this by direct orders of dignitaries
of his church, but even the name
of the sustaining’ tabloid from which
it is alleged het draws sufficient
nourishment to remain alive is
given.”
Price of Lumber Is
Cut Throughout U. S.
CHICAGO, Sept. 27.—Reduction
of lumber prices of 16 to 35 per cent
when February quotations was an
nounced today by retail dealers in
Chicago, with an average whole
sale reduction of 27 per cent
throughout the country. according
to statistics made public by L. R.
Putman, directing mapager of the
Wholesale Lumber association. The
greatest reduction is in hardwood.
Mr. Putman said, quotations being
reduced 35 per cent under February
prices. * |
5 CENTS A COPI.
$1.50 A XEAR.
Commissioner J. J. Brown
.Asks Head of Cotton As
sociation to Call Meetb'
at Washington
A meeting at once in Washingto.i
of the heads of every farm organi
zation in the United States, for the
purpose of making a protest agairftt
the policy enunciated by Secretary
Houston, of the treasury department,
in respect to farm credits, will be
suggested by J. J. Brown, commis
sioner of agriculture of Georgia, to
J. S. Wannamaker, president of the
American Cotton association.
In recent statements issued in
Washington, Secretary Houston has
declared that federal reserve banks
cannot extend credit to farmers for
the purpose of holding their products
until prices go up ,for such a policy
would be in effect aiding a conspir
acy against the consumers.
These statements issued by Sec
retary Houston are sharply chal
lenged by President Wannamaker, of
the American Cotton asociation, in a
telegram sent Tuesday to the gov
ernors, senators, congressmen and
commissioners of agriculture of the
cotton states. Dorsey and
Commissioner Brown received their
telegrams Tuesday morning. The
governor sent his reply, which ap
pears below, and Commissioner
Brown was in conference with Presi
dent Maddux, of the Georgia divi
sion of the American Cotton asso
ciation. and other officials of that
body, for the purpose of framing his
reply.
Must Assert Rights
Prior to giving out his statement.
Commissioner Brown said he had
come to the conclusion that Secre
tary Houston’s announced policy in
regard to farm credits makes It nec
essary for the producers of food and
raiment in this country to assert
their rigths, once and for all.
“We are planning,” he said, “to
suggest to President Wannamaker a
meeting in Washington, at the earli
est possible date, of the heads of
all organizations of farmers In the
United States, including not only the
cotton growers, but also the wheat
growers, the cattle growers, the ho-r
growers, the corn growers, the fruit
growers and others.
"The federal reserve act explicit
ly provides credit facilities forth?
producers of farm crops, the intent
of this being tq enable them to hold
their crops for favorable irjarkets.
Apparently Secretary Houston is un
dertaking to repeal the policy of the
federal reserve act by a personal
dictum. His logic if carried to its
ultimate conclusion must mean that
the farmer shall dump his products
on the market regardless of price
and regardless of whether he get's
the cost of production plus a rea
sonable»profit.
“It is all very well to talk of de
flation, but the process should be ap
plied where inflation has occurred,
I instead of proceedin in the opposite
direction. As long as the spinner is
making $4 worth of cloth out of
every 40 cents worth of cotton, it
is not worth vzhile to talk to the cot
ton grower about deflating the Cot
ton market. As long as the miller
is making multiplied profits out of
flour, it is not worth while to talk
to the wheat grower about deflating
the price of wheat.
“We have been positively informed
in writing by the officials of ‘the
Sixth Federal Reserve Bank, in At
lanta, that they are not going to cur
tail their discounts on paper secured
by cotton warehouse receipts. We
want to know why Secretary Hous
ton is outlining one policy in Wash
ington, while the officials of our bank
in this district are outlining another.
Secretary Houston’s statements have
already hammered down the price of
cotton 150 points. The farmers are
insisting on bonded warehouses. They
are offering warehouse* receipts for
legitimate loans. They are doing
everything in their power to secure
the benefits of the federal reserve
system. Thy are handicapped by
the failure of many state banks to
become members of the system, and
by the statements of Secretary
Houston, which are being issued in
Washington."
Dorsey Answers Inquiry
Governor Dorsey, in his telegram
to Mr. Wannamaker, did not deal
with the problem of farm credits at
home, but replied to Mr. Wanna
maker’s inquiry as to the best means
of financing exports. His idea is to
organize in each/ cotton state a cot
ton bank similar to the one he is or
ganizing in Georgia.
Two questions were propounded
by Mr. Wannamaker in his telegram
broadcast on Tuesday. The
first was the question as to what
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