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> . ®be (Tri-WccKlji Sounuil VOL. /XXIII. NO. 5. STATEMENT ISSUED FROM WHITE HOUSE ■ IN SPENCER fflID Stenographic Record of President's Remarks Con cerning Rumania at Peace Parley Is Published WASHINGTON. Oct. 11.—(By the Associated Press.) —The White House made public today what was describ ed as an “official version’’ of Presi dent Wilson's address at the eighth session of the Paris peace conference. The exact wording of this address, directed to the repre sentatives of Rumania, Serbia and Czecho-Slovakia, has been the sub ject of a controversy between the president and Senator Spencer. Re publican. of Missouri. The senator has declared in a po litical sneech that the president had promised Rumania and Serbia that “if any nation ever invaded their ter ritory he would send the American army across the seas to defend their boundary lines.” Mr. Wilson, in a telegram to the senator cn October 5, sa’d that this statement was “false.” In reply. Senator Spencer called for the ofli cial record, saying that the state ment to which he had referred was In the “stenographic notes” of the eighth plenary session, in which the president “was reported to have said:” “You must not forget that it is (force that is the final guaranty of the peace of the world. If the world is again troubled, the United States will send to this side of the ocean their army and their fleet.” The president’s words as given in the official version follow: Official Version “How can a power like the United States, for example—and I can speak for no other —after signing this treaty, if it contains elements which they do not believe will be permanent, go three thousand miles away across the sea and report to people that it has made a settle ment of the peace of the world? It cannot do so. And yet there under lies all of these transactions the ex pectation on the part, for example, of Rumania, and of Czecno-Slovakia. ■ and of Serbia, that if uiv covenants ts this settlement are not observed, the United States will send her armies and her navies to see that Xhey-siT" Observed.” The official version of the full text of the president’s address was furnished to the White House last jveck by Fred A. Carlsun, of Chica go who was an official stenographer with the American peace delegation, and who wrote that he would be glad to swear to the “accuracy” of the transcript. Mr. Carlson's letter was dated Oc tober 6 and was addressed to Charles L. Swefti, stenographer to the president. He expla no 1 that he had read Senator Spencer’s reply to the president in tne Chicago news papers. that he had just gone, over his notes and that he could find “no such statement” as that attributed to Mr. Wilson by the senaor. He add ed that it was barely possible • that the quotation “was from a transla tion into English of M. Mantox's translation into French of the pres ident’s remarks, and. as you know, the translations sometimes mixed things up a bit.” “I wish I were in a position to make public what the president said.” wrote Mr. Carlson, “for I feel that the president is sadly misquot ed, but, of course, as the meeting was a secret one, I can say noth ing." Mr. Carlson’s letter was made pub lic by Secretary Tumulty with this comment: “This letter speaks for itself.” 7,000 Bales of Cotton Are Destroyed by Fire . In Texas Warehouse CAMERON, Tex., Oct. 11.—Loss estimated at $1,000,000 was caused >y Are here Sunday which destroyed 7,000 bales of cotton and the com press and warehouses of the Camer on Compress company’. Officers and the watchman employ ed at the compress expressed the opinion that the fire was of incen diary origin. The ’compress was protected by insurance, but farmers who had cot ton in storage are expected to lose heavily. The compress was owned by A. J. Dossett, of Waco, who lost another oress by fire at Quanah less than a month ago. The Rackdale fire department came to the assistance of local firemen and aided in saving 1.500 bales of cot ton. The San Antonio and Arkansas Pass railway lost 327 flat and 437 compressed bales and the Santa Fe twenty-seven flat bales and 14 < pressed. Twenty-seven cars were de stroyed. Authorities are investigating a •corv tnat an automobile was seen near the press and driven away al Mgh speed just before the flames broke out. MacSwmey’s Mind Is Alert on 60th Day Os His Hunger Strike LONDON. Oct. 11—Terence Mac- Swiney began his sixtieth day of fasting in Brixton prison today with a mind as alert as ever. His de termination to continue his hunger strike until death or unconditional release was still firm relatives said. TA<e Southeastern Fair, Atlanta, Oct. 16-26, Will Be the Greatest Exposition Ever Held.in Dixie Silvan terrac? 8C^ S i 4JATH HOUSE ’ \ This is ho wthe wonderful Southeastern Fair grounds at Lakewood, Atlanta,. would look from ai rplane. Son Confesses But Father Is Sent to Jail MACON, Ga., Oct. 9.—Taking the blame on himself in a moonshine case here Thursday) Jule J Carden failed to save his father, B. M. Car den, justice of the peace in Twiggs county, who was convicted and sen tenced to pay a fine of SIOO and to serve six months in jail. The young er man took the witness stand and testified he made the whisky while his father was away from home. In sentencing the justice o£ the peace. Judge Evans, said to him: "I admire the grit of i-oitr sorr ifi trying to shield you. He perjured himself_Jike a gentleman, but I am sure you are guilty. He is a son you should be proud of.” R. Criswell, a white man, aged 68, came to the rescue of Elbert Rawls, an aged darky, when the latter was arraigned on a charge of illicit dis tilling. Though there was no charge against he voluntarily ap peared in court and said h‘e and not the negro was to blame. Criswell was sentenced to serve two months and pay a fine of SIOO. Clerk’s Error Caused Wheat to Tumble on Chicago Exchange CHICAGO, Oct. 11.—A slij) of a pen in the hands of a clerk in the board of trade here sent wheat priced tumbling, caused the Canadian gov ernment. to consider taking over the wheat market there and caused a proeuamation to be issued by the United States Wheat Growers’ asso ciation urging suspension of all sales of wheat by ffarmers until the price reached $3, it was said today. The clerk, it was said, mistook an order from Rosenbaum Brothers, brokers, to sell 1,000 bushels for 1,- 000,000 bushels and when dealers heard that such a large amount was being thrown on the,market prices immediately began to slump. The market opened at $1.99 1-4, advanced a quarter of a cent and then began to slip point by point. Word soon reached the floor that the brokerage house had dumped a million bushels on the market and smaller dealers began to sell. E. L. Glaser, president of Rosen baum Brothers, said the order was Only oversold about 75.,000 bushels when the error was discovered. He said his house covered at a loss of about 2 cents a bushel. Noted French Aviator Establishes New Speed Record for Airplanes BI'C, France, Oct. 9. —Captain de Romanette. the noted French aviator, established a new world’s airplane speed record at the aviation meet here today. He flew a kilometer in 12.3 seconds, which is at the rate of 292.82 kilometers or aboyt 181.1)5 miles an hour. - Sadi Le winner of the re cent James Gordon Bennett cup race, was; second to de llomanet in the competition, flying a kilometer in 12.5 seconds. \ Cut Off Man’s Leg to Pull Him From Debris NEW YORK, Oct. 9.—Physicians, working with the aid of one flicker ing lantern, early Friday amputated the right leg of Henry Helms, a mo torman, in order to rescue him from the tangled wreckage of two street ears telescoped in a collision that caused injuries to twenty other per sons. Helms, who was pinioned under the '■--ir when nhvsicians arrived, per suaded them to perform the opera tion without an anaesthetic in order to save time. Later, his other leg. badly mangled, was also removed at a hospital. Helms and the con ductor, William Wherax, who re ceived a fractured skull, are said to have slight chance of recovery. The accident happened when the nrakes failed to function on the de scent of a steep hill on Amsterdam avenue. Many of the passengers who became hysterical when the car sped uncontrolled down the hill, es caped injury by huddling together on the rear platform. “A Journey With Aunt Julia" Begins Today on Page Five! The Southeastern fair will open in Atlanta at Lakewood on Saturday, October 16, and will continue' through October 26. It will be the most splendid ex position of its sort ever held in the south. Visitors will gather in Atlanta from all southern states to see the endless variety of products that will be exhibited and to attend the horse races' and to enjoy the fun of the midway. In the agricultural building 3 1-2 acres of floor space will be devoted to a display of all food products of the temperate zone and to an illus tration of what the national govern ment is doing to foster agriculture. Visitors to the fair will see the largest number of county and in dividual farm exhibits ever dis played. Os equal interest will be the Na tional Hog and Cattle Show, which will be held in connection with the fair. It was organized by the breeders of pure live stock in the importance. - Among the fine stock exhibited will be the Hereford bull, owned by E. E. Mack & Son. of Thomasville. Ga.. which won the in ternational grand championship last year. The international grand champion boar of Duroc breed, owned by Pea cock and Hodge, of Cochran. Ga., will be exhibited, together with the fin est herd of Duroc Jersey swine in the south. * From Micanopy, Fla., will come the international grand champion Poland China sow. owned by F. C. Herlong. To compete with these high pedi greed animals) herds from all the live stock producing States of the country will be exhibited. In the live stock barns at the fair, the fin est cattle and hogs in the world will be seen. The poul ry exhibit will attract fanciers from every section. A neighbor to it will be the rabbit show, which . will astonish the vis itor who has not studied the rabbit as a food producer and as a fur bearing animal. Rabbits, weighing as much as as fifteen pounds, will be shown, and "Others of the Angora breed which produce coats worth five dollars in the rough. Labor-saving machinery of every character which, when in general use will do much to revolutionize farm life, will be on exhibit. Among them will be tractors on which the operator can ride in comparative comfort and which, when the opera tors work in shifts, can be used for the fulll 24 hours, for they may be employed at night as well as in the day ti .Devices for adding -to the com fort of the farm home and for les sening the work of the farmer’s wife will be exhibited in great va riety. One of the most interesting parts of the fair will be the automobile show in the Automotive Industries building. There. 3 1-2 acres of floor space will be devoted to automobiles. The Liberal Arts and Woman’s building is a duplicate in size of the Automotive building. In it will b“ found exhibits showing the work of the Girls’ Canning Club; products of the domestic arts of the home: ex hibits of art work, a flower show, a Sunday school work exhibit illustrations of child welfare work, and many other features, all of par ticular interest to women. An international Judging Contest will be held in which boys from all parts of the United States and one province of Canada will take part. The winners will be given a trip to the next Royal Live Stock show held in London, under the patronage of the King of England. The Boys’ Fair school, which was begun at the time the Fair was started, will be of particular interest and importance. It is possible for two boys from every county in Geor git to attend this school by winning in local contests in Boys’ Club Work. The Roys’ Corn Club Show at the fair will be an illustration of the great work being done by tlm.se clubs. Millions of bushels have beer, ►added to the corn cron of the south through the efforts of the boys who are members of the clubs. The Grand Circuit Horse races which will be held during the fair will bring here the finest trotting pacing and running horses in the world. Until this season the Lake wood oval held the lowest track 'Acnrd of any fair ground in the United States. The effort wil' be made this vear to better the recent records made nt Syracuse, which are a little lower than Atlanta’s. Famous flirt t-nck drivers will participate, in the races. Auto Folo will he among the sports held in front of the grandstand. Onn n f the most notable parts of the F°ir will he an historical nageant held for three nights, with 500 char acters tet’-odneed to po-trav figures in American history. No fair ground In the nation has the natural aflwin tngos; o f hills, trees anfl water offer ed by Lakewood. Tn this snlendid setting the Atlanta Drama League wi” give the pageant. The Midway will he better than ever—a little brother to Coney Island. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12,'1920. Bandits Stage s2oo,oooDeal In Diamonds BUFFALO. N. Y., Oct. 9. —Two hundred thousand dollars worth of set diamonds were stolen from Max Loventhal* 35, of Buffalo, agent for the Philip Present and company, wholesale jewelers of Rochester. N. Y., by two men early today. Loven thal had just aligted from a street car on his way home with the dia monds in two suitcases when he was attacked. After knocking Lowenthal down with the butts of their revolvers, the robbers jumped into the taxicab from which they had alighted and drove away. Clarence Miller, driver of the taxi, was commanded, at. the point of the bandits’ revolvers, to drivq them to the corner of Delaware and Chip pewa streets. Believing them to be strangers in the city. Miller said, he turned off at another street inter section and stopped the taxicab in front of the Pearl street station. He jumped out and ran into the station to notify the police but the robbers escaped. ■ > Shortly afterward it was reported to police that two men were said to have thrown a suitcase into a vacant lot on the east side of the city. Po lice went to the lot and found the suitcase, which bore Lowenthal’s initials. It contained two or three diamond rings which evidently had been overlooked. After Lowenthal’s injuries had been dressed, he told the police he believed the robbers had followed him from Chicago where he had obtained the diamonds. He said most of the diamonds' were set in 000 tinUm and were value d at S2OO,- Nelther Lowenthal nor Miller, the taxi driver, could give a good de scription of the bandits to the police. Although Lowenthal placed tlie value of the stolen diamonds at S2OO - 000, police said they did aot believe they were worth more than $50,000. Word from Ph'llip Present Co., of Rochester, for whom Lowenthal is a the diamonds were worth $20,000. ATLANTA GIRL RETAINS TITLE AS GOLF QUEEN CLEVELAND. 0., Oct. 9.—Miss Alexa Stirling, of Atlanta, today re tained her title as national woman golf champion by defeating Mrs. Dor othy Campbell Hurd, of Pittsburg, in the finals of the national tourna ment. The score was 4 and 3. Miss Stirling also is Canadian champion. It is her third successive victory in the national tournament, it being the first time any woman has ever won the national title three times. Carolina Congressman, Old Gordon Captain, to Stump Ohio for Cox GREENVILLE. S. C„ Oct. B.—Cap tain John J. McSwain, world war veteran, congressman-elect from the Fourth district, has accepted a call of the Democratic national commit tee to speak for the party in Cleve land, . Akroon, Columbus, Mt. Ver non and other cities in Ohio. He leaves here October'l7 and is sched uled to make twenty speeches in ten days. He commanded a company of Ohio soldiers at Camp Gordon. King of Greece Suffers From Bite of Monkey ATHENS, Oct. B.—King Alexander, who has been suffering for several days from a money bite, sustained when he went to the rescue of his pet dog, which was being worsted in a battle with the monkey, passed a bad night last night. He had two attacks of fever, it is stated, and in testinal complications and jaundice are deciwed to hf.ve net 4 .n. Governor Cox Gives $5,000 to Campaign NEW YORK, Oct. 9.—The Demo cratic campagn fund was enriched today by a check for $5,000 from Governor Cox. The contribution came in a plain envelope addressed to Wilbur W. Marsh, treasurer of the national committe. without ac companying letter, the candidate’s signature on the check being the only means of identification. SAYS 0.5. DB( IISS Hl M.SDMOO m FARM R MISCOUNTS This Figure Compares With Total of $170,000,000 for: Various Other Lines, Di-, rector Jackson Reports That the Federal Reserve Bank of the Sixth (Atlanta) district is car rying at the present time only sl,- 000,000 of agricultural re-discounts, as compared with various other re discounts aggregating $170,000,000, was asserted yesterday by L. B. Jackson, director of the state bureau of markets, in a statement issued upon his return from Birmingham, where he appeared Friday before the directors of the bank of this district at a meeting held in that city and at tended by W P. G. Harding, gov ernor of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington. The object of Mr. Jackson’s trip to Birmingham was to ask the di rectors for an interpretation of a circular issued by the bank last June, in which the statement was made that “notes, the proceeds of which have been or are to t>e used for strictly farm production, shall be exempted from the normal or basic line of the discounting member bank to an amount not exceeding the paid in and unimpaired capital and sur plus of such member bank.” Mr. Jackson’s request for an inter pretation of this exemption of agri cultural paper was taken under con sideration by the board, and their decision was reserved. What Mr. Jackson wishes to know was whether* or not a farmer’s note secured by a warehouse receipt for cotton produced this year, and the proceeds of which were to be used by the farmer tjo pay obligations in curred in the making of a crop, would be exempt from the normal or basic line of the discounting member bank. Point Xs Important This point is considered highly im portant by the market bureau, and ; by the other cotton leaders, for the reason, as they are informed, that numerous member banks are carry ing such heavy rediscounts that they have passed about the 6 per cent rate of interest allowed them up to their basic line, and are there fore paying the higher rate of in terest on the sliding scale. The ef fect of this, naturally, is either to cut down the amount of rediscounts whicha bank can handle, or to run up its interest rate so high that a farm er cannot afford to pay it. Governor Harding’s Statement As the result of Mr. Jackson’s ’appearance before the board, and of inquiries put to him by others interested in the cotton situation who were in Birmingham for the purpose of getting light on farm credits, Governor Harding gave out a statement in Birmingham Friday night in which he declared: * “The idea that has gone broad cast through the country that the federal reserve banks can help the farmer of the south to hold his cot ton for forty cents by financing the cotton crop, cr aid the farmers of the west to get a high price for wheat by rushing reserves to that section to bolster up the wheat crop, is entirely erroneous.” Governor Harding then went on to say that the most effective means of help for the southern cotton grower was self-help through the formation of anexport corporation to open the closed markets of central Europe, thereby making possible a big increase in cotton exports and relieving the cotton market as a whole of an accumulated supply which is or may be greater than it can absorb. In this connection Governor Hard ing made the statement that there was. money in the north to finance such a corporation, but he thought the south should help herself, with her abundant financial resources, and let the north keep its money for needs of its own, Mr. Jackson's Statement It was byway of reply to this statement issued by Governor Hard ing that the statement of Director Jackson, of the market bureau, was given out Saturday. The significant portion of his statement, in which he asserts that agriculturaj rediscounts now carried by'.the Atlanta Federal Reserve bank/ are only a drop in the bucket compared to its total redis counts. is as follows: “Perhaps Governor Harding will tell us why it is that if the north has so much money, two nothern mercantile corporations are now bor rowers from the Sixth Federal Re serve bank (in a cotton district) in a sum in excess of the entire amount the Sixth Federal Reserve bank has loaned on cotton. The cotton grow er will also be interested in learning that at the present time the Sixth Fed al Reserve bank (in a cotton district) has loans aggregating $170,000,000 on miscellaneous paper, as against only $4,000,000 on cotton.” The names of the two mercantile firms referred to by Mr. Jackson were not given out by him. but he indicat ed that his information came from a source which he believed to be re liable. An effort was made Saturday to obtain a statement from officials of the Federal Reserve bank as to whether Mr. Jackson’s information was correct, concerning the amount of cotton rediscounts now carried by the bank. Governor Wellborn and Chairman McCord had not yet re turned from the meeting of the board in Birmingham. No other of ficial of the bank cared to be quoted on the subject. There was obtained by The Journal, however, the rediscount figures con tained in the last statement show ing the condition of the bank, issued October 1. The different clashes of i rediscounts carried by the bank en that date as shown by the statement were as follows: Agricultural $ 18,190,14$ Commercial and Industrial 37,873,862 All others ..120,000,000 Totals $176,064,010 The term “agricultural” as given aboxe, it is understood, includes all kinds of agricultural products, such as cotton, live stock and other prod ucts which are capable of being warehoused and used to secure notes. Exactly what part of the $18,x90,148 covers cotton paper could not be learned. 6 Mixed Baby 9 in Style; ears Short Skirts, \ Shows Dimpled Knees ‘Major Posed As Fake Hero, Officials Say Federal officials predicted Satur- , day that the trial of Ray Vincent, indicted for impersonating an army officer and using the uniform to de fraud. Vvhic hbegan Monday in Unit ed States court, will be one of the most sensational cases heard before an Atlanta jury in a long term of years. The defendant is charged, among other things, with having worn the uniform of a major in the national army and with having represented to residents’ of Atlanta and other Georgia cities that he had command ed troops in France and had been teent home because of wounds re ceived on the western front; when government agents say that his ac tual military service was limited to six months at Fort McPherson as a private soldier and that he was dis charged before his organization re ceived embarkation orders. Many thrilling stories said to have been told by Vincent about how he “captured fifty-nine Germans single handed,” and how he became an “ace” of the aviation branch of the service by downing five Boche planes after they had punctured his own airplane two hundred times, will be repeated to the jury by several wit nesses, which include leading Atlan ta business men and well-known women. The prosecution also expects to show that Vincent, masquerading as a major, became very active in con nection with the various Liberty loan drives in Georgia, making speeches- in several cities of the state. Stumped for Liberty Loan Evidence, it is said, will be pre sented that he accompanied United States Attorney Hooper Alexander on stumping tours in behalf of the loan drives; that he was the guest of honor at a banquet given by one of Atlanta’s largest civic organi zations, and that his photographs ap peared, in a major’s uniform, in the Atlanta newspapers, with glowing accounts of the patriotic service “this disabled hero is performing following his return from France due to physical disabilities received In the face of the enemy.” Winning his intp Atlanta’s select social circles by his daring impersonations, federal agents say they will be able to prive that Vin cent, by frequent'yisits to the home of a well known Atlantian who was overseas with the Y. M. C. A., ob tained from his wife Liberty Bonds valued at SI,OOO and sums of money aggregating approximately $2,000 He even secured the possession of the absent husband’s key to his safety deposit vault in an Atlanta bank, according to federal agents and wore the husband’s watch, with his wife s picture on its face Other sensational testimony ex pected to be adduced is to the ef fect that Vincent was placed in full Possession and control of the auto mobile belonging to the family in question, and that he used it for a considerable time. The defendant was taken into cus lL dy .u eVe - ral lnont hs ago following a th» St i ly h’vestigation by agents of the department of justice, and was later -released upon heavy bond. Employed as Barber While incarcerated in the Fulton tower, Vincent is alleged by federal agents to have discussed at length with other prisoners his “military service overseas.” According to the report of Vin cent’s case made to the district at torney’s office, the defendant wore wound stripes on his left sleeve which indicated that he had been wounded fifteen times. „„ Photographs of the man in the government’s possession, and which were to be shown to the jury on Mon day. show medals and decorations' for gallantry in action all the way across his breast. At the time of his arrest, it is said, Vincent was wearing the croix de guerre, service bars, wound stripes galore, overseas ribbons and various other profuse decorations. Since his release under bond, Vin cent has, it is said, been employed as a barber in an Atlanta barber shop. , This is said to have been his occupation before he was drafted into the service as a private. Cleveland Is Ahead Os Brooklyn When Sixth Game Starts With Monday’s game of the world’s baseball championship getting under way as this edition of The Tri weekly Journal goes to press, Cleve land leads Brooklyn with three games won out of five played. In Saturday’s game Tris Speaker’s “Indians,” won out over the Brooklyn “Trolley Dodgers” by a score of 5 to 1. Coveleskie pitched for Cleveland, while Brooklyn used Cadore, Mam maux, Marquardt and Pfeffer in a vain effort to stem the tide of defeat. Sundayis struggle was a sensation al walkover for Cleveland, the final count being 8 to 1. In the first in ning, Elmer Smith crashed out a home run with the bases full, and later in the game Second Baseman Wambsganss staged an unassisted triple play—the second play of its kind ever recorded in professional baseball. The last three games were played in Cleveland before enormous throngs. 38 Killed, 50 Injured In Train Collision on Paris-Nantes Railway PARIS, Oct. 9.» — Thirty-eight persons were killed and fifty nijured today when the Paris-Nantes express ran into a freight train. The acci dent occurred about four miles from Mai sons-Lafitte. Little Louise Madeline, Sur name in Doubt, Is Center of Attraction at Court Trial Jury Finally May Decide Baby’s Custody There is a possibility that the ustody of Louise Madeline,' At anta’s “mixed baby,” will be de teciaed by a jury of twelve men nstead of by one man. Attorneys for the Garners on donday filed an amendment to heir writ of habeaus corpus, vhich, if allowed by the court, will permit the court to award he temporary, custody of the ihild and to leave the question jf permanent custody to a jury rial. The defense objected to the imendment, but, at the request of the defense, the court will re serve its opinion on the admis sibility of the amendment until Tuesday morning. BT WABD GBEENE The feature of Monday's testi mony in Atlanta’s mixed-babies case was the story of the birth of her child. Other witnesses Monday were Steve- R. Johnston, superintendent of the Grady hospital; a hospital nurse; Dr. O. B. Lusk, and several relatives of both families. Another interesting occurrence was the introduction as evidence of the ears of Mr. Pittman. “We offer Mr. Pittman’s ears in evidence your honor,” said William E. Arnaud, attorney for Mr. and Mrs. Johp C. Garner. “He has very peculiar ears, what I a layman, would term convex ears. The ear in the picture of this little dead girl, Mary Elizabeth, you will note also are convex.” When the hearing began Louise Madeline was In the witness too n. but later Judge Bell ordered her brought into court, and by his .rt structions her cap was removed. The judge also had brought into the court Edna Pittman, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pittman. The three it tie Garner girls also were In court Mrs. Pittman took the stand, and like Mrs. Garner last week, told a timple, but dramatic storv of the birth of her child. She said 'hat while she took an anaesthetic she was semi-conscious all the time and came from under it’s influence while still in the delivery room. She told how the nurse, Miss Stewart, said. “Oh, what a fine baby,” how the nurse caught it in her arms, how she asked the nurse was it a girl or a boy. how the nurse answered that it was a girl, how she exclaimed. “I wanted it to be a boy,” how the nurse answered, “That’s the way with all these mothers, they want boy.” Mrs. Pittman said her baby had black hair, which was inclined to be curly. She described, in detail the arrangement of the bed tn the ma ternity ward. . She said the babies were brought in in the day time in the arms of the nurses. That at night either the nurse or Lily, the maid, would bring them in. some times in their arms, and sometimes on a truck. Scratch on race Her child was born at 9:50 Thurs day night, she said. It was nrought to her at 9 o'clock Friday morning to nurse. She noticed its features, its hair, the scratch on its face. She had it again from 2 to 3 p. m. Mr. Pittman came in at this time. “She has pretty black hair, she gets it from me,” Mrs. Pittman said she told him. “She has sweet little hands,” said Mr. Pittman. Continuing this statement Mrs. Pittmand said: "I saw the scratch on its face. I also saw on the back of the neck, near the edge of the hair, running half way into the hair, a birthmark, three red splotches. For two months after birth the marks showed plainly, it is on the child now. but very dim.” "At 2 o’clock Saturday morning,” said Mrs. Pittman, “Lily brought in the babies on the roller truck. She carried the babies to their mothers Mine was the last taken off. Some how I didn’t think I had the right child. I laid there in the dark try ing to decide while Lily left the room for a minute. When she came back I asked her to turn up the light. I looked for the familiar marks They were not there. I asked Mrs. Garner if she had a baby in a grey wrap with a blue stripe and a scratch on its face. She said she. did. The Lily looked at the tag on my baby. She said to Mrs. Garner ’What’s your name?’ When Mrs. Garner, answered 'Garner’ she changed the babies, giving me my right baby.” Louise Madeline, the baby two mothers want, is one year, four months and eighteen days old. In politics she is a bit of a Social ist, betraying a marked tendency to kick against t-estraints and to de mand freedom speech. Her chief ino or sport is thumb sucking. One aiJo feels she would make a good golfer; her stance is excellent, though a bit wobbly, and she invariably keeps eye on the ball, which is big an>j She is a devotee of style. Skirts to her ankles she insists on wearing to her neck, thereby revealing socks and pink knees in the mode. She also believes in sleep and plenty of it, regardless of time and circumstance. Her conscience must be clear, for she snoozes under a judge’s nose with bailiffs and law yers all around her. Her poise is perfect. She is as much at home in a strange court room as a debutante at a party, and can outstare a witness with the calm (Continued on Page 7, Column 4) SCHh'TS A (jbfY. $1.50 A RELIEF FOR FARMER BYCDTTDNEXPDRTS URGED AT MEETING Atlanta Business Men Pledge Aid in Opening Foreign Outlet for 3,000,000 Bales This Year The aid of Atlanta bankers and business men in forming a great ex port corporation to finance the sale of cotton to central European coun trieSt in the manner advocated for the past two years by Governor Harding, of the federal reserve board in Washington, and reiterated by him in his statement issued in Bir mingham Friday night, was enlisted Friday afternoon at the cotton meet ing held in the chamber of commerce assembly hall at the call of the finance committee of the American Cotton association. Richard I. Manning, former gover nor of South Carolina, and chairman of the organization committee of the cotton export corporation launched in South Carolina a few weeks ago, pre sented the details of the plan and re quested the aid of Atlanta business men and bankers in obtaining sub scriptions to the capital stock. Governor Manning showed that the stoppage of cotton exports to central Europe has cut off entirely a market 5 that regularly consumed an average of 2,000,000 bales a year, before the war, and that this lost market is s the fundamental drag on the cotton ' market today. . He showed that Governor Harding ’ began two years ago the movement to form in the south a great expo: t corporation for the purpose of pro viding central European countries with the financial accommodations * they need, and that Governor Hard i ing particularly emphasized the j point that such a corporation mu: t be formed in the south with south ern capital. Governor Manning then related j briefly the history of the movemeiit B as launched a few months ago i.i South Carolina with the appointmen: B of an organization committee of bankers, business men, planters an r lawyers, to work out the details o _ a plan for organizing such a cot B poration. He was made chairman o t the committee. Their plan was sub f mitted to .the American Cotton ass _ elation at its annual meeting i Montgomery a few months ago. l i was submitted' Har i ing and approved by him. It w e submitted to William G. McA«h t former secretary of the treasu;, e and approved by him. 1 $10,030,000 Capital 0 The plan provides for a capit-’ 1 stock of $10,000,000 to be distribut. * throughout the cotton belt. Sui s scriptions are payable in cash, LU v erty bonds or cotton at governmen r grades and prevailing prices. f Governor Manning described In <le l Jail the great need for raw cotton 0 to revive the cotton manufacturing r industry in Germany, Austria, Bel gium, Czecho-Slovakia and ©titer countries of central Europe. He sai l * the organization committee of the 5 ‘export corporation had thoroughly - investigated the situation with prom ise of the most favorable market for ’ cotton. Those countries, he said, ii have thousands of idle spindles, thou . sands of Idle laborers, an adequate supply of coal and only need the J raw cotton and the financial accom- - modations to enable them to buy cot , ton. They stand ready to give iron clad security for every purchase, these securities to be guaranteed by the- governments of the respective . countries, and such securities, ho t said, could be handled in the banke of this country. Besides these se- > curlties, they stand ready to mako , part payment for cotton with raw , materials of their own which can be readily sold for cash in this coun- ■ try. i The export corporation, Governor t Manning declared, gives promise , first, of substantial profits to the ' stockholders, so that it is not launch » ed as a philanthropic enterprise; and promise, second, of beginning ship ments in the immediate future of ‘ cotton to Europe. 1 He said the central European coun : tries are especially equipped for > handling low grade cotton, which at present is a drug on the market be- ’ cause of a large accumulated supply, . more than the American and British i spinners can handle. At the same , time, however, as he pointed out, this accumulated supply of low grade cotton drags down the level of all ’ grades. "Only Permanent Belief" k “The only -substantial and perma nent relief for the cotton market," declared Governor Manning, "lies in . the opening of the central European markets. The time has come, as Gov ernor Harding has repeatedly pointed out, for the south to help itself. We ! have here the money, the brains and the initiative to launch this corpora tion. We have been repeatedly en couraged by the best business men in the country to go ahead and do it. The very first shipment of cot ton that leaves for central Lur<»,— 1 will have an immediate effect upon the cotton market.” The last quoted sentence of Gover nor Manning was almost verbatim the same as a sentence used by Gov ernor Harding in his statement is sued in Birmingham Friday night urging the ' formation of an export corporation. Governor Harding, of course, did not know that Governor Manning was speaking here on the same subject while he was speaking in Birmingham. ■ Following the address by Gover nor Manning, there was a very force ful talk by J. A. Brown, a prominent planter and banker of North Car' lina, on the necessity for close eration and team work between business men, the bankers and the cotton growers of the south to put this section in a better economic po sition. "Farmers are paying the rete of $2 per 100 pounds to get cotton picked,” said he, “and are having a hard time to get pickers at that. Do you realize how much that figures? It figures S3O a bale or 6 cents a pound—merely to get cotton picked. Thousands of bales of cotton are rotting in the fields because the farm ers cannof get pickers even at $2 per (Continued on Page 7, Column B)