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VOL. XXIII. NO. 21.
Barrett Speaks I
[ At National Meet ]
Os Farmers’ Union'.
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Head of American Farm |
Organization Discusses
Conditions at Kansas City
Convention • !
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 17.—The j
•ecretary of the treasury and the j
federal reserve board d«ult a body i
blow to the farmers of the country ]
I when they “persistently, and in
•pite of the united firmer protest,
repeat, parrot-like, the slogan of cer
tain financial interests that price de
clines are inevitable and unavoid
l able,” Charles S. Barrett, president
of the National Farmers’ union, told
that organization here Tuesday in
the president’s address before the
ennual convention.
‘‘The farmers are called upon to
snake sacrifices not demanded of any
other industry,” President Barrett
said, “and they will decline to yield
to the wishes of certain interests
trying to make them the special vic
tims of what many regard as arti
ficial and unnecessary deflation.”
A committee was named to formu
late plan sto ask-the national board
of farm organizations to form a na
tional marketing board, and to re
port back to the contention. The
committee includes:
Maurice McAuliffe, Kansas: E. M.
Pollard and C. H. Gustafson, Nebras
ka: Harty Booth, Idaho; H. L. Be-,,
. berry. Walter Mills.
Georgia.
Text of Address
Mr. Barrett said in part:
Agriculture has been through a
seething caldron since our last an
nual meeting. Although singed and
scorched it still survives and con
tinues to be the most important of
all industries, the most essential
of all vocations. I might say here
that in the great work of carrying
to the public mind the vast import
ance of the service done for hu
manity by the tiller of the soil the
National Farmers’ Union has played
a full part.
The union has done useful serv
ice in many fields and while its
specific work is -to afford all protec
tion and aid to its members it has
widened and broadened its domain
and has conferred substantial bene
fits upon al] citizens of this- great
nation.
The National Farmers’ Union dur
ing the past year has continued in
its work of charting the troubled ;
seas of agriculture. It is the func
tion of a great farmers' organiza-
Stion to discover and make known
the rocks and reefs, the currents and
cross currents, floating mines and
submarines which menace the agri
cultural interests? New dangers can
z thus be avoided, additional light
houses and harbors of safety be pro
vided and farm progress made safer
and generally more secure.
1 say troubled seas advisedly in
referring to agriculture because
where can one point to an industry!
comparable to it in importance which I
is subjected to such buffetings? I |
refer nob only to the intemperances
of nature as drought, flood, tempest.
» frost, the ravages jof insect pest and
blight, but also to those body blows
to agriculture which are dealt by
human forces. t
Body Blows Dealt
The secretary of the treasury and
the federal reserve board deal a body
blow when they persistently and in
spite of united farmer protest re
peat, parrot like, the slogan of cer
tain financial interests that price de
clines are inevitable and unavoidable.
As a result of such declarations
publicly announced outrageous price .
declines have set in. secretary -
of agriculture in ani’lMfress before ■
the American BankctMfcissociation
in October stated that me recent loss
in value to farmers amounts to two '
and a half billions of dollars. Today '
cotton and wheat are selling far be
r low actual cost of production, bring-
I ing hardships and suffering to thou
, sands of producers. It is needless
for me to point out that bulk-line
costs of producing cotton in 1919
were found by the department of ag
riculture to be thirty-seven cents a
pound, while the foremost authori
ties of the land have carefully fig
ured the costs of production of
wheat for last year at about §2.50.
It is well known that the costs this
year have been heavier than ever
before. Deflation has come with a
vengeance. It is a deflation due to
human causes. There is under rather
than over supply of cotton and
wheat. The world needs our food.
Idle mills in central Europe need our j
cotton. Certain government officials,
have made it impossible to finance
our crops and while making gloomy
predictions, refuse to permit the war
finance corporations to function. In
this great crisis through organiza- 1
tion we can meet these bodv blows '
to agriculture and the Farmers' ■
Union will continue as in the past
to bear its full share of the under
taking.
The city consumers should be made
to know the evil effects of agricul
tural deflation. They should know i
that the farmer in .selling his great'
staple crops is harvesting the result'
of an entire year’s labor. The farm- !
er has but one turnover in the year.
The price of his feeds, seeds, fertil
izer, farm machinery and what he
has paid for extra labor all are fixed
by forces beyond his control. He has :
borrowed money from his banker to ;
finance his operations and under the ;
present unfair system his crops are '
forced on the market regardless of !
fair prices in order to liquidate these '
loans. The manufacturer and mid
dlemen have many turnovers of cap- I
ital annually. What is a loss to-I
day may be a gain tomorrow. The I
very nature of their business is based |
on insurances and hedges against■
*vss, in. fixing of sale and resale!
prices of their goods and of passing |
the costs on to the consumer.
Price Reduction
Much is being said of price reduc- ■
tion in certain great industries, such !
as sugar, textiles and leather, but '
these are of the great industries j
which have piled up billions in the i
I form of dividends, treasury stock !
•and surpluses. To them price de- I
clines mean very little in view of ’
the enormous profits which they have !
made and yet make. How different !
was the treatment given them to |
that received by .the producers of j
the two great farm staples, where I
cotton went down and the :
ment wouldn’t help to bring it up. -
and where wheat went up and the
government brought it down. Wheat I
was selling for about and over $3 I
a bushel at the terminal market |
when tne government fixed a mini
mum price at the terminal of $2.20
(Continued on Page 7, Column 4)
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OFFICIAL CEBSUS DF
SEOOOIS HUES'
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I Complete census returns for all ',
the counties in Georgia were given ■
out Tuesday by the federal bureau i
of census. These returns , show |
that the total population of the !
state is 2,893,601, as compared with j
a total population in 1910 of 2,- I
609,121. ,
Fulton county, of course, ‘.is far I
and away the largest in the state, **
with a population of 232,606, com- I
pared with a population in 1910 of]
177,733. Chatham. Bibb. Richmond, I
Muscogee, DeKalb. Floyd and ■
Laurens rank next, in the order I
named.
The tabulated returns for all coun- J
ties showing population figures for i
i 1920, 1910 and 1900, are as follows: :
Comity— 1920. 1910. >9 ; i'.>.
Appling 9.866 12,318 12.336 .
Atkinson 7,656 |
Baker 8,238 7,973 6,704 i
Bacon 6,460
Baldwin 19,7111 18.354 17.768 j
Banks 11,814 11.244 J 0,254
• arrow 13,188 ■
Bartow 24,527 25,388 20,823 I
Ben Hill 14,599 11,863 ■
Berrien 15.573 22.772 19,19) I
Bibb 71.304 56,646 50,173 ■
Bleckiey 10.532 '
Brooks ' 24,538 23,832 18.(1)4 I
Bryan 6,343 6.702 6.122
Bullock 21,133 26,464 21.377 I
burke 30,836 27.268 3(1.165
Butts , 12,227 13,624 12.8<’5 I
Calhoun 10 225 11.334 9,2.4 I
Caur'et' 6,969 7,690 7,(G.> !
Candli r 9 228 ■.
Carroll 34.752 30,855 26.576 }
I’luTllen 4.536 4,722 3.592 I
Cat.r'sa 6.6,7 7.181 5.82;;
Chat! urn 100,0!.2 79.<4 o - .1.239 |
‘ liattalioocliee .. 5.266 5,.7,86 5.<9;i |
Chat-o.ga 1 I,::12 13,t’os 12.952 i
. lierokec 18.569 16.6 it 15.2 T, |
. tarke 2 L1!1 -3,273 17,70 s |
Clayton 11,159 10,453
clinch 7.98 i 8,424 8,732 >
Cobb . ...i .... 30.437 28,397 24.664
Coffee 18,<53 21.953 16,169
Colcuitt 2'‘.:',2 13.7'9 6
Colnn.i.;:: 11.718 12,328 10,653
Cook 11.*- -o
Coweta 29.017 28.800 24,980 ;
Crawford 8.893 8.310 10,368 ■
Crisp 18,914 16,429
Dade 3.918 4,139 4,578 I
Dawson 4.294 4,686 5,442 .
Decatur 31.785 29.1'45 29. I'll
DeKalb 44,051 27.851 21.112 |
Dodce 22.510 20,127 13.1)75
Dooly 20.522 20.554 26.567
Dougherty 20,063 10.035 12.671
Doiwrias 1(6 477 8.953 8,7 <5 I
Early .... 18.983 Ik, 122 1 1.828
Echols 3.313 3.309 3.209
Effingham 9.985 9.971 8,334 >
Elbert 23,095 24,125. 19,729
Emanuel 25,862 25.14.0 21.279
Evans 6.594 I
Fannin 12,103 12.574 11.214
Fayette 11,396 10.966 10.114
Floyd 39,841 36,736 33,113
Franklin 19,957 17.894 17.700
Forsyth 11.755 .11 910 11.5'0
Fulton 232,606 177,733 . 117,363
Gilnier , .406 9.23 ( ;
Glascock 4,192 4,669 4.516
Glynn 19 370 15.720 14,317
Cordon 17736 15,<861 14.119
Grady 20,306 18,457
Greene 18,972 18,51.8 16.542
Gwinnett 30.327 28,824 25,585
Habersluun .... 10,730 10,134 . 13,604
Hall 26,822 25,730 ’ 20,752
Hancock 18,357 19,189 18,277 ’
Haralson 14,440 13,514 11,92? i
Harris 15-.775 17,886 18,069
Hart 17,944 16.216 14.492
Heard 11.126 11,189 11,177
Henry 20,420 19,927 18,602
Houston 21,964 23,609 22,641
Irwin 12.670 10.461 13,645 ’
Jackson 24,6,1 30,169 24,039 ,
Jasper 16.362 16.552 15,033
Jeff Davis 7.322 6,050
h-fferson 22,602 21,379 is‘>;2
ienkhs 14.328 11,520
Johnson 13.546 12,897 11,109
•Tom's •13.269 13,103 i.'Gt.bS
baurens 39.605 30..’.01 25,908 I
lee 1.1,901 11j;79 11)3; 14
JJbery 12.652 12,924 13,1-93
Lowndes 2 1.521 21,436 20,036
ineol.i 9,739 8,714 7.156
Lumpkin 5.240 5,444 7,433 '
Mi'Pnffie 1i.50:i 10.325 '.L804 I
Mclnosh 5.119 6,442 6.531 .
.ilacon 17.<4'7 15,016 14J193 ■
Madison 18,so:; 16.851 13,224 ,
Mario:- 15,527 16,330 16.290 1
Meriwelier 23.109 25.180 23,339 1
Miller 9,565 7,986 6,319
Milton 6,885 7,239 djllO
Michell / 25,5.8.8 22,114 14.767 ;
Monroe ~^'2‘ 1 ,13 s 20.450 20,682 ,
Montgomery .... 9,167 19,638 16,359
Morgan 20,143 19/717 15,813 !
Murray 9,490 9.763 8,623 ‘
Muscogee’ 44,195 36.227 29,836
Newton 21.6X0 18,449 16,-.31 1
Oconee 11,067 11.104 8,602 1
Ggletliv.rpe 20,287 1.8,680 17,881
Paulding 11.025 14,121 12,959 !
Pickens '-.222 94'11 *4:41 ,
Pierce 11.'t".4 1e,71 i 8,100 .
Pik- 21.212 19.495 15,761 '
Polk 20,3-7 20,203 17 s"i; |
Pul: ski 11.484 21.835 15.489 i '
Pil’nnm . ...... 15.1'-1 13,876. 13.436 ! 1
Quitman 3. J7 4.591 4.701 I
Kab’m 5.7 16 5,562 6.285 i !
!!:> id. Iph 16.721 18,841 16,847 I
Ific'-r-e 63, i:>2 58.886 53.735
TlOi-kdale 9,521 SJEIj 7.515 I
Stanley 5.213 5.213 • 5.199 ■ '
Sereve-f 23..-.52 20.202 19,252 1 I
Spalling 21,Qus 19,711' 17.619 ,
Stephens 11,2’5 9.728 | j
Slewart 12.0-9 13.'"7 15.856 I
Sumter 294110 29,092 2-1.212 '
Talbot 11,15 s 114:91; ' 12.197!
Taliaferro .. .. 8. *4l 8.766 7.912
Tattnall ' 14.502 15.7C,9 20.119 |
lavb.r 11.173 10 x 39 9.816.'
Telfair 15.291 13.25 S 10.083 | '
Terrell 19.1101 22.003 19.02'1 !
Thomas 33,014 29.071 31 076
Tift 1 4 493 11,1*7 1
Toombs • 13.897 11.206 j
Towns 3.937 3,932 4.748 ' :
Treutlen 7.1'-1 I
Trou.> 36.097 26.228 21.002 1
Twiggs 10.407 1 0.736 ' 8,716 1'
Turner 12.46:1 10 075
Cnion 6.155 1,1.918 8,481
Ins*m 14.786 12.757 13.670
Walker 23.370 18.C92 15.661
Walton 24.216 25.393 20.912
M'are 25.361 22,957 13.761 , 1
Warren 11.828 11.860 11 163
Wnsh’ngton .... 28.147 28.174. 28.227 I
Wayne 14,381 13.069 9.419
Webster 5.342 6.151 6,618 !
Wheeler 9.817 I
White (i.iir, 5.1 m 5.912 |
Whitfield .. .. 1(1.897 15.93’ 11.569
Wilcox 15.511 13.45; 11.097
Wilkes 23.323 23.441 20.566 .
Wilvkinson .. .. 11.376 10,078 11.410 !
Worth .... 23.863 19.147 18.66', '
Totals 2,893.601 2.609 121 2.216,33! I
Omaha Bandits Secure
More Than $20,000 i
I OMAHA. Neb., Nov. 16.—That loo:
| obtained in the robbery of a mail !
car on a transcontinental passenger
I train here Sunday will exceed $20,-
I 000. as reported, was the belief ex
pressed by officials here Tuesday.
One of the missing mail pouches, it
was said, contained several hundred
thousand doll: in bonds.
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ATHENS, Nov. »1J. —-Rioting broke
out in front of the foreign office to
day as a result of the national elec
tions, in which Premier Venizelos
was defeated.
Many persons, including a num
ber of children, were reported kill
ed when the space before the office
was swept with machine gun fire.
Adherents of King Constantine were
blamed for the firing.
VENIZELOS’ CABINET
HANDS IN RESIGNATIONS
ATHENS, Nov. 1G. —Premier Veni
zelos’ cabinet resigned early today,
and Admiral Coundouriotis, the re
gent of Greece, has sent for George
Rhallis to whom, it is expected, will
b© entrusted the formation of a new
ministry. ‘
The complete victory of the opposi
tion seemed almost certain last
night, although final results were
still lacking. ,Even leaders of the
elements opposed to Premier Veni
zelos in the elections held on Sunday
were surprised by the showing their
candidates had made in' Macedonia
and Attaca.
It is said M. Venizelos will leave
t'he country, and he has advised lib
erals to abide by the verdict of the
people.
Demetrios Gounaris, leader of the
opposition, has declared the foreign
policy of Greece will not be changed.
Latest returns from the election
give the supporters of M. Venizelos
118 deputies against 250 royalists.
M Venizelos and all but two of his
ministers were beaten. None of the
Venizelist candidates were elected in
Greece and Macedonia, with the ex
ception of Epirus and the Aegean
islands.
PARIS, Nov. 16.- —-Reports that
Premier Venizelos. of Greece, met
defeat in the elections held*«on Sun
day came as an unpleasant surprise
to Paris. Newspapers here agree that
England and probably France will
forbid the return of former King
Constantine to Greece.
Hope is expressed by “Pertinax,”
political editor of the Echo de Paris,
that even a compromise* placing
Prince George, the eldest son of Con
stantine on the throne, will not be
sanctioned by the entente. Most
writers fear the result of the elec
tion. if it brings about the fall of
Venizelos, will sti.ll further compli
cate the already difficult situation
in the Near East.
With the defeat of Premier Veni
zelos regarded by the French for
eign office as certain, it is said the
position of France and Great Britain
with regard to former King Con
stantine is very clearly against his
return, and that both pov/ers are de
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ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1920
GRAIN ALCOHOL
CAUSED DEATH OF
TWO ACTRESSES
i CHICAGO. Nov 16. —Sufficient
grain alcohol was found in the stom
achs of Mary Rhodes and Lillian
Thompson,, actresses found dead in
Grant Park here, to have caused
z their deaths, Dr. W. D. McNally, cor
oner’s physician, announced today.
Three men whose identity the po
lice have not disclosed, were arrested
today as suspects.
Traces of no other poison have
been found, the physician stated, al
though he said the autopsy was still
incomplete.
Immediately after the , physician
announced the results of his exam
ination police renewed their efforts
to trace the movements of the two
women after they left the cheap
theatrical hotel, where they were
living with two men until they met
their deaths.
Authorities believed the girls may
j have been kidnaped while returning
to their rooms after having drinks of
fermented grape juice at a nearby
I wine, merchant’s shop. Finding of
Miss Rhodes’ hat in the street near
the hotel was the main evidence on
which the kidnaping theory was
based.
That the women were given al
cohol by their captors—probably
forced to drink it—was the belief
of the authorities. 'When they were
in a stupor from the effects of
drink, according to this theory, they
were taken in an automobile to
Grant park, where they were thrown
from the machine. Both girls, police
believed, died without regaining con
sciousne.-s from the results of the
poison and from exposure. They
were thinly clad and the cold breeze
which s.wefit off Lake Michigan and
over Grant park, where the girls
were lying, would soon cause death
from exposure. Dr. McNally said.
Harold Potter, an alleged desert
er from the. Great Lakes Naval
Training station, was taken into
custody today. Potter, police said,
was a familiar figure around cheap
cabarets, near where the two act
resses lived
A tip which may lead to the find
ing of the owner of the automobile
whi.ch is believed to have carried the
actresses to Grant park, was received
by police today.
It came from' a check girl at a
cabaret. She is said to have given
the tip because of jealousy. One
of the men believed to have accom
panied the actresses Saturday night,
is said to have been a former sweet
heart of the check girl.
$17,000 Is Found
' Hidden in Extra Tire;
On Postal Clerk’s Car
HENDERSON!LLE. N. C„ Nov. 16.
]L. V. Graves, dispatching clerk in
the Henderson postoffice, was ar
rested Monday night by postoffice
inspectors and charged with robbing
registered packages of more than
SIB,OOO. One SI,OOO Liberty bond,
and cashto the amount of $17,000
was found concealed in an extra tire
cart ied on Graves’ automobile, ac
cording to the authorities.
focused upon Graves
when his known living expenditures
mounted to figures far in excess of
his salary, which was $l5O per
month, according to inspectors who
made the arrest. One package con
taining $10,400, shipped from a
Louisburg bank to the Federal Re
serve bank in Richpiond, and another
package containing $2,500, shipped
from the same town to a Richmond
bank were both missing from the
postoffice here November 3.
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5 OF 16 MEN IN
MINE FIRE DEAD,
. 11 ARE RESCUED
i. i EARLINGTON. Ky., Nov. 'l7.—Five j
■ 1 of sixteen men trapped in the Arnold
i mine by »fire, were taken out dead
i this mornmg, victims of suffocation.
1 The®dead are:
Roy Carnes. forty-two, white; (
Hugh Perkins, forty-two, wftite; Jack 5
Bond, forty-four, white, and Alex i
James and George Anderson, negroes. ,
The other eleven men were .rescued
■ and are in a serious condition.
The fire was discovered in the mine
> j late yesterday.
A mine workers’ car from Evans-
I ville and rescue crews from the}-
l East Kentucky Coal company’s plant
• at Sturgis arrived on the scene ,
; early. After unsuccessful efforts ,
, to enter the mine, the fire was bar-
i ricaded and the work of tunnelling •.
. in behind it was started.
At 11 p. m. the tunnel reached the
! shaft and equipped with oxygen ,
■ . tanks and masks, rescuers entered.
■ The first men found were uncon- <
scious, but revived under first aid i
treatment. At 1:25 a. m., nearly 12
'■ hours after being entombed, the ,
■ first man was brought to the sur- ;
1 face. At 3:30 the last man was
> brought up. All of those rescued ,
I are negroes. The mine is owned by
-1 the St. Bernard Coal company, of
• i Evansville, Ind.
b $3,5007600 Haul
’ Landed by Bandits -j
In Train Robbery
■j COI NCIL BLUFFS, la.. Nov. 17.
Loss in the Chicago. Burlington and
I Quincy mail car robbery here last
s Saturday night will total .at least
$3,500,000, according to a story pub- ,
lished today by the Council Bluffs !
Evening Nonpareil. This, according 1
to the paper, became known today ’
t when additional postoffice officials J
, came to assist local investigators in ’
i a check of the insurance* on the 1
• stolen mail pouches was made. ’
One sack which was found ripped 1
open contained SBOO,OOO in govern-
■ ment bonds, the investigators said. 1
The bonds were en route from San ’
Francisco to Washington, D. C., and ;
it was believed that a larger amount i
. had been contained in the bag. Os- i
fleers made a thorough search, but <
no more sacks were recovered.
i Merle Phillips, twenty old, j
, I mail sorter on the train, "sticks up (
Ito his story that he merely stood j
watch on the locomotive while two
i others did the actual robbery, but ■
j officers asserted that they are con-
! vinced that he is withholding val- -
uable information. ]
Millions of Dollars
Lost at Shipyards, <
Engineer Testifies
NEW YORK. .Nov. 17. —Machinery '
i and ship-building equipment valued ,
1 at millions of dollars was left out .
> ■ in the open to deteriorate in value 1
• !-months after plants were closed 1
! down with the ending of the war,
Paul H. Mac Neil, a former resident i
engineer of the shipping board in 1
’ the South Atlantic district, testified '
’ yesterday ‘ before the Walsh commit
: ! tee investigating shipping board af
’ 1 fairs.
’ Mac Neil said Iv. was stationed at
■ i Savannah and had five yards under
1 i his supervision, his immediate chief
• i being R. H. Dillingham, at Jackson- •
' ' ville. the district plant engneer. Just
• j what his own authority was he did 1
I i not know, he testified, but he said i
: he “assumed a great deal in the en- i
I deavor to straighten out tangles.’’ y
STITE DEPHIMEU
.« WESTEM
SEyERJELATIONS
NEW YORK, Nov. 16.—The West
ern Union Telegraph company has an
nounced completion of arrangements
with the German telegraph adminis
tration for the handling of cable
traffic between Germany and the
United States.
WASHINGTON, Nov. IG. (By the
Associated Press.) —The long-stand
ing controversy between the state
department and the Western Union
Telegraph company has. reached the
stage of an open break, the company
refusing to handle any further cable
messages for the tlepartment ex
cept upon prepayment of tolls.
The company’s order was issued
on November 10, it was said Tues
day at the department, and ostensi
bly was to apply to all departments
of the government. It was under
stood, however, that messages sent
from other departments were ex
cepted informally from the ruling.
The Western Union company is
stated to have based its action on
the delay by the department in mak
ing payments on cable messages
previously handled. Department of
ficials asserted today, however, that
it was, m their opinion ,d step in
retaliation for the failure of the de
partment ,o permit the landing of a
cable at Miami, Fla., connecting the
Barbadoes w.ith a British cable from
South America
Denieq Cable Landing
Several moriths ago the Western
Union Applied for an executive per
mit to land the cable at Miami, but the
state department was said to have
demanded a copy of the contract be
tween the Western Union and the
British company owning the connect
ing South American cable line. The"
copy was not forthcoming, according
to state department officers, and the
permit was withheld.
Later a British cable ship which
had been chartered to lay the cable
was ordered to Miami. At the sug
gestion of the state department, the
navy department sent destroyers to
the Florida port to keep the British
ship outside the three-mile limit. The
British embassy also took a hand
in the matter ordering the captain
of the vessel not to attempt tojand
the cable.
Some time after this William G.
McAdoo, former secretary of the
treasury, became counsel for the
Western Union company and depart
ment officers say he delivered a copy
of the contract to the department. It
had been explained previously that
the department before issuing the
permit desired to determine wheth
er the contract between the Ameri
can and British companies would
strengthen the cable monopoly held
by the British company on the east
coast of South America,
The permit to land the cable still
was withheld, it being explained of
ficially that action was being defer
red until after the meeting of the in
ternational communications confer
ence. now in session here, and which
is considering tee whole question of
world communications.
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COAT FREE
Goodyear Manufacturing company,
4208 Goodyear Bldg., Kansas City,
Mo., is. making an offer to send a
handsome raincoat free to one person
in each locality who will show and
recommend it to their friends. Jf
you want one, write today.—(Advt.)
South’s Bankers
Give Millions to
Export Company
PRESIDENT WILSON
SENDS GREETINGS
TO LEtt MEET
WASHINGTON. Nov. 17. —Presi-«
dent Wilson in a message to Paul
Hymans, president of the League of
Nations assembly, today expressed
the hope that the “labors of the as
sembly will be of immense value to
the whole civilized world.”
The president’s message was in
reply to one from Mr. Hymans in be
half of the assembly “praising Mr.
Wilson’s work toward the establish
ment of the league.”
• The president's message follows:
The greetings so graciously
sent me by the assembly of the
League of Nations through you .
have gratified me very deeply
indeed. I am inded proud to
* be considered to have played any
part in promoting the concord
of nations with the establish
ment of such an instrumentality
as the league to whose in
creasing influence and success
I look forward with increas
| ing confidence.. Permit me to
extend my personal greetings to
the assembly, if they will be
gracious enough to receive them,
j together with an expression of
my hope and belief that their
labors will be of immense value
to the whole civilized world.
The message of Mr, Hymans to
the president follows:
The assembly of the League
of Nations, has by unanimous
vote, instructed me to send you
its warmest greetings and to
express its earnest wishes that
you may be speedily re
stored to complete health. The
assembly recognizes that you
have done perhaps more than
> any other man to lay the foun
dations of the league. It feels
, tbqt the present'fneet
ing will greatly advance those
principles of co-operation be
tween all nations which you
have done so much to promote.
SECRET SESSIONS AKE
I FAR FROM ASSURED
I GENEVA. Nov. 17.—Secret dis
| cussion of League of Nations af
fairs was believed far from assured
I when the assembly opened today’s
j meeting at 10:30 a. m.
I Yesterday’s decision that the six
commissions which will thresh out
all questions subm.tted to the as-
■ sembly may hold secret or public
- sessions as the members please, was
i expected to meet renewed opposition
• today.
! Newspaper correspondents who
s waged a fight for greater publicity at
Versailles were disappointed at the
; ruling and were prepared for another
attack on secrecy.
; The business today included' re
, ports on the work of the league coun
, cil which settled many matters be
, fore the assembly was called. These
> decisions included the Malmedy
. Eupen plebescites and the Polish-
Lithuanian agreement which later
1 was shattered. v
" Many delegates arrived here
5 primed for attacks on the work of
" the council and speeches against va-
rious aspects of its work, were ex
pected to be numerous.
’ Premier Lloyd George is expected
1 to arrive here soon, according to
3 newspaper dispatches.
Honorio Pueyrredon. heMd of the
t Argentine delegation, took the floor
! first after the opening of the assent
t bly session today. Speaking in
; French, he reviewed the attitude of
1 Argentine during the war. He fol
lowed this by declaring that the sue- ,
1 cess of the league required a most I
complete membership, referring to i
the necessity, in view, of the I
'■ United States coming in.
i Germany is understood to be plait
t ning to protest to the assembly of
. the League of Nations against the
i allocation of the Euphen and Mai- |
rr.edy, districts to Belgium by the !
! council of the league. Dr. Gastoada |
Cunha, Brazilian representative at .
i the assembly meeting, declared to- j
J day.
Dr. da Cunha’s statement was I
l made to a Havas representative. The
Brazilian added he was convinced
[ the United States would enter the
league. He said the example and i
firm attitude of South American na-
■ tions would, in his opinion, deter- :
: mine the policy of president-elect ;
. Harding.
Sale of Willingham
Warehouse Directed
By Referee Talley
MACIN'. Ga., Nov. 17. —Sale of the ,
,Willingham Warehouse was author
ized Wednesday afternoon by .1. N. ■
Talley, referee in bankruptcy, when ’
he instructed T. B. Mcßitchie, trus-I
. tee, to see the property after ad- !
vertising it in the newspapers for :
four consecutive weeks.
This action took place at a hear- :
i ing of the Will'ngham warehouse |
j creditors Wednesday.
.! The Shippers’ Express
, I principal creditor of the concern. |
petitioned that certain properties
held by it as security on notes be :
not adjudged a party of the bankrqpt ;
estate. No action has been taken in I
this matter.
5 CENTS A COPY.
$1.50 A YEAR.
Georgia Banks Pledge SL
OBS,SOO; Tennessee, Flor
ida, Alabama and Other
States Also Respond
BY EALPH SMITH
(Staff Correspondent of The Journal)
MACON, Ga.. Nov. 17.—With $834.-
' 950 actually subscribed and $253,550
tentatively pledged, making a total •
of $1,088,500, it is regarded as certain
that Georgia’s quota of $1,500,000 of
the capital stock of the Federal In
ternationa] Banking company will be
forthcoming within the time limit
fixed by the organizers of the insti
tution at their New Orleans meet
ing.
The chances are good that the
banks, exporters and wholesalers of
Georgia will subscribe exceeding the
quota allotted the state, and if the
response in other southern states is
equally as successful the big export t
bank will begin business with a ’
capital stock of more than $6,060,000.
The success of the international
bank in so far as Georgia Ts» con
cerned was assured at the extraordi
nary session of the Georgia Bankers'
association here Tuesday. Every
banker present at the meeting wrote
his name on the dotted line, either
subscribing outright or agreeing t>>
subscribe 3 per cent of, the capita;
and surplus of his bank'to the capi
tal stock of the export enterprise
subject to the approval of his board
of directors.
No banker present at the meeting %
here recalls ever having attended ;■
more earnest and enthusiastic assem
bly of business men. After formal;,
indorsing the international bankin
company, by the passage of resoln
tion, the bankers, in their eagerness
to put it over in Georgia, dispensed
with the set program and suspended
the rules so that every man present
might announce the purpose of his
bank.
Two subscriptions, other than from
banks, were received at the meeting
W. V. Davis, of Savannah, after an
nouncing the subscription of his
bank, personally subscribed SI,OOO,
and the Garbutt Cotton company, of
1* itzgerald, by M. V, Garbutt, sub
scribed $2,000.
One hundred and sixty-five banks,
located in seventy-three different
counties, were represented at the
meeting.
Group Chairmen Named
lhe membership of the Georgia
Bankers’ association is something
over 800. so. that the subscriptions
taken yesterday include onty a small
proportion of the banks of the state.
It is the belief that every one of
them will subscribe when they fully
understand and appreciate the pur
pose of the International Banking
company.
Robert F. Maddox, of Atlanta,
chairrpan of the state campaign com
mittee, with the approval of the
bankers’ association, will make a
systematic canvass of the banks of’
the state, and each will be offered an
opportunity of participation in the
export bank.
in order to facilitate the campaign
work in Georgia, it was decided at
yesterday’s meetings to make the
canvass under the group system.
The state is divided into five groups,
and of each group Mr. Maddox, yes
terday, appointed a chairman to as
sist him in the campaign work.
-The group chairmen are:
First Group—J. P. Doolan, Hi
bernia bank, Savannah.
Second Group—Rufus H. Brown,
Georgia Railroad bank, Augusta.
Third Group—Ely R. Callaway.
LaGrange National bank, LaGrange.
Fourth Group—J. S. Peters, Bank
of Manchester, Manchester.
Fifth Group—C. E. Martin, Citi
zens' Bank of Fort Valley.
Under arrangements with Mr. Mad
dox, these group chairmen will keep
in daily touch with him, and will re
port the progress of their campaign
work. Announcements will be made
daily concerning new stock sub
scriptions.
Bist of Subscribers
The subscription received her:
yesterday, including the subscrip /
i tions of Atlanta banks heretofore,
i published in The Journal, follow:
Merchants and Farmers’, Willacoo-
■ chee. $1,000; Bank of Williamson.
! Williamson, $750; Merchants and
! Farmers’, Milledgeville, $4,800; Ban!:
; of Cartersville. Cartersville. $4,5001
i First National bank, Cartersville, $4.-
, 500: Exchange National, Fitzgerald.
$6,700; First National bank, Fitzger
| aid. $7,500; Bibb National bank, Ma
i con, $7,200: Fourth National bank..
I Macon, $33,000; Macon National bank.
I Macon, $7,500; Luther Williams
Banking company, MacOn, $1,500:
I Pembroke National bank. Pembroke.
$2,000; Citizens’ bank, Waynesboro.
I $3,500; Waynesboro Savings bank.
■ Waynesboro. $650; First National
! bank, Waynesboro. $3,750; Jackson
I Banking company, Jackson, $3,600;
Jackson National bank. Jackson. $3,-
000; Farmers and Merchants’. Jack- •
I son, $4,000; Bank of Arlington,<Ar
i lington. $1,500; Bank of Edison, Edi
! son, $2,400; Hammock-Rish bank. Ed
i ison. $500; Bank of Metter, Metter,
; $1,500; Citizens’ bank, Metter. $1,500
American Bank and Trust company
| Savannah, $7,000; Chatham Bank and
| Trust company. Savannah. $18,000:
i Citizens’ Trust company. Savannah.
! $6,000; Exchange bank, Savannah
| $5,000; Hibernia bank. Savannah, sls.- •
8 000; Liberty Bank and Trust com-
I puny. Savannah, $18,000; Savannah
Bank and Trust company. Savannah,
! $42,000; Bank of Fort Gaines, For f
! Gaines, $2,700.
Pittard Banking company. Wlnter-
I ville, $1,000; Bank of Jonesboro.
Jonesboro. $1,500; First National
ißank. Marietta. $4,500; Moultri®
I Banking company. Moultrie. $6,000:
■ Citizens Bank. Moultrie. $6,000: Firs-.
I National Bank. Moultrie, $3,900:
; Manufacturers National Bank. New
nan, $4,500: American Bank and
: Trust company, Cordele, $5,000; Ex-’
■change Bank, Cordele. $6,000; Baln
, bridge State Bank. Bainbridge.
$3,000; Citizens Bank and
: ’■l'ririt company. Bainbridge. s3,9ii>)
First National Bank. Bainbridge!
$1,500: Citizens Banking company.
Kastman, $3,000; Merchants arid
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