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HARDING REACHES
DECISION ON PLAN
FOR m COORT
BY BOBEBT T. SMALL
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1920.)
MARION, Ohio, Dec. 18.—Presi
dent-elect Harding has decided on
the sort of association of nations
into which he believes the United
States should enter. He frankly
says the details of the , plan have
not been worked out, but the broad
general principles of his idea have
been the basis for the conferences
under way during the past week.
Mr. Harding has in mind not mere
ly an International court or a fur
ther exchange of arbitration treaties,
but an “association.” This is em
phasized in his latest utterance:
“I have every confidence in the
world that our America will take
its place in a fitting association for
world peace. I believe we will be
able to answer every desire of the
American people without the sur
render of one thing that we hold dear
as a heritage.”
This statement was made in tne
presence of William Jennings Bryan,
who nodded approval oi wnat Mt.
Harding had to say.
Mr. Bryan also believes m an as
sociation. He never liked Article X
at all, but he was willing to accept
the so-called Wilson League of Na
tions as a whole, believing that ob
jectionable features of the covenant
could be smoothed out later Mr.
Bryan lost patience with Mr. Wilson
when the latter insisted Article X
was the heart of the covenant and
could not be changed in any way.
Much of the criticism of the so
called Wilson league is that it was
an attempt to go too far; that it
sought to lay down rules of action
that were entirely too specific, that
the covenant was too arbitrary and
binding and in effect would tend to
rob individual nations of that selt
determination which so often was
referred to as one of the objects of
the war.
The Harding Flan
Mr. Harding would have an asso
ciation formed on the same general
principles of the League of Nations
with the same general purposes ot
seeking the peace of the worid as
outlined in the opening statement of
the covenant of Versailles. He
would leave the nations free, how
ever, to work out each problem as
it arose. After a course of action
should be recommended by the
league, each soverign state would
have the right to say whether or
not it would give adherence to that
decision. , , .. ♦*
Mr. Bryan stated during his visit
with Senator Harding that this was
the underlying principle of the
thirty investigation treaties nego
tiated by this country during the
time Mr. Bryan was secretary o
state. Mr. Harding believes that
such an association would meet the
general desire that some sort of ma
chinery be set up looking to apeace
able settlement of all questions
likely to result in war. At the same
time America would be left free Ito
express her own opinion as to the
justice and desirability, of any
course of action proposed.
There would be no appointment
of delegates with plenary powers to
bind this-country in advance to any
specific course of action. Congress
would at all times be left free, with
out moral or legal obligation, to
make its own decisions in any mat
ters affecting the United States or
involving the participation by the
United States in any international
undertaking.
The Acid Test
Most of the advocates of a eLague
of Nations have insisted all along
that the ■ great accomplishment of a
league would lie in the fact that
it would give quarreling states an
opportunity to meet together and
talk things over. It has been said
that if there had been any existence
of established means of calling the
nations of the world quietly to
gether in 1914 the world war might
have beea avp*fled.
The j»ssociation Mr. Harding has
in mind would provide this means
of discussions and the further means
of aligning the public opinion of
the world on one side or the other
of an impending strife. Moral sua
sion, it is argued, will accomplish
more in the end than a threat of
armed force.
The Harding plan was undergoing
an acid test today. It was being
considered by “Jim” Reed, of Mis
souri, a Democrat, and the most im
placable foe of the Wilson league of
all the irreconcllables in the senate.
Republican irreconcilables have been
charged with opposing the league
for partisan purposes. Senator Reed
made heavy political and personal
sacrifices in maintaining his stand
against the league ana all of its
work. Mr. Harding has felt that
if his plan for an association could
get even the tacit support of Mr.
Reed its success would be assured.
Senator Fall, one of the Republican
bitter-enders, has indicated that his
mind is prepared to go along with
enator Harding’s. Senator Reed,
who has just arrived in Marion is a
guest at the Harding home. The two
men are close personal friends. Mr.
Reed says the Harding plan de
serves the most thoughtful consid
eration.
EXONERATION IS
GIVEN MARINES
IN HAITI REPORT
WASHINGTON. Dec. 18.—(By the
Associated Press.) —The naval court
of in-sv'/ry which investigated the
comidet 6t marines in Haiti reported
to Secretary Daniels today that there
“had been no proper grounds” for
the statement by Brigadier General
George Barnett, former commandant
of the marine corps, that the Ameri
can occupation forces had been
guilty of “practically indiscriminate
killing” of Haitians.
After careful survey of conditions
the court, presided over by Rear Ad
miral Henry T. Mayo, found that
General Barnett’s charges were “ill
considered. regrettable and thorough
ly unwarranted reflections” on the
work of the marine corps in Haiti,
adding that the corps had performed
difficult, dangerous and delicate duty
worthy of the highest commendation.
8 Reported Killed
In Earth Tremble
In Argentina City
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Dec.
18.—Eight persons were killed and
more than twenty injured by an
earthquake .which occurred at 8
o’clock yesterday afternoon in the
village of La Valle, province of Men
doza, according to dispatches re
ceived today which report the vil
lar-e was virtually destroyed.
The earthquake was felt in several
provinces where considerable damage,
which has not yet been estimated,
was caused. La Valle apparently was
the center of the disturbance. The
houses of the village collapsed and
a number of crevices were opened
in the streets through which hot wa
ter is gushing.
Telegraphic communications with
'some sections have been interrupted.
Late messages indicate that the prov
inces of Mendoza, San Juan, La
Rioja, San Luis and Cordoba felt
the shocks.
Mississipni Has Map
Made From Airplanes
JACKSON. Miss., Dec. 18—Mis
sissippi is assured by the govern
ment of being the first state in the
south to havfr a topographic map
made from war department airplanes,
Dr. E. N. Lowe, director of the state
geological survey, declared tonight.
The work will begin In January.
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BY EDWARD M. THIERRY
CHICAGO.—Ross Crane, Chicago
artist, is, an intrepid man. He’s been
touring the country telling women
how to dress.
Mr. Crane is head of the extension
department of the Chicago Art insti
tute. He isn’t running a style show.
There’s nothing commercial about
his advice. He is trying to teach
women something about art in
clothes—about colors and lines and
types.
Study Silhouettes
“Study your silhouette” is one of
his most frequent pleas. What he
means is that a woman who is too
tall and thin should not dress in the
popular stripes. Conversely, a wom
an of too generous lines does well to
avoid the lure of big soft coats and
cling to the simple lines of a tai
lored suit.’
He talks highbrow stuff in a low
brow fashion. Here’s the way he
works:
“Young lady,” he calls into the au
dience, “You, in the third row—with
the delicious red hair and that aw
ful looking red gown—step up on the
stage—now, now, I’m not trying to be
rude—thank you—yes, stand there—
great godfather, child, who ever told
you you could wear flame-colored
tricolette?-—and with such beautiful
red hair —why, you look like a fire
cracker!—here, try this simple lit
tle thing in green—ladies, I ask you,
isn’t there a tremendous differ
ence?”
Scolds and Mollifies
Crane scolds them for dress mon
strosities and then mollifies them
by showing them how to be beautiful
and chic.
‘ How to dress is just one of seven
phases of the work being carried on
by; this art evangelist. He is also
teaching the art of planning and fur
nishing a home.
This summer the artist visited va
rious state fairs—lllinois, Wisconsin,
Michigan, Tennessee and Oklahoma—
with several trunksful of women’s
BILL TO INCREASE
MEMBERSHIP OF
HOUSE UNDER WAY
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Drafting
of a bill for reapportioning the mem
bership in the house on the basis of
the increases in population shown in
the 1920 census was begun today by
the census committee pursuant to a
decision reached by Republican mem
bers at a caucus last night to push
through such legislation at the pres
ent session of congress.
While no definite numerical basis
for the reapportionment Is under
stood to have been reached, a bill al
ready introduced by Representative
Siegel, of New York, chairman of the
census committee, increasing the
house membership from 435 to 483,
was expected to be used as a basis
in framing the legislation.
Charges that many negroes in the
southern states are not permitted to
vote will be aired by the house cen
sus committee in considering the re
apportionment bill, it was announced
by Chairman Siegel.
The population of the United
States on January 1 this year, as
enumerated in the fourteenth census,
was 105,708,771, as announced by the
census bureau for certification to
congress as the basis for reappor
tionment.
These are the final population fig
ures of the country and the states,
the statistics announced early in Oc
tober having been the preliminary
compilations:
Population by States
The population of the states is as
follows:
States Population
Alabama
Arizona ???'???
Michigan
Minnesota 2,2 nA’c?o
Mississippi
Missouri 3,404,055
Montana 548,889
Nebraska '• 1.296,372
Tennessee 2,337,885
South Carolina 1,683,724
Louisiana 1,798,509
North Carolina 2,559,123
GEORGIA 2,895,332
Florida 968,470
Virginia 2,309,187
North Dakota 645,680
Ohio 5,759,394
Oklahoma 2,028,283
Oregon 783,389
Pennsylvania 8,720,017
Rhode Island • 604,397
Washington 1,356,621
West Virginia 1,463,701
Wisconsin 2,632,067
Wyoming 194,402
Arkansas 1,752,204
California 3,426,861
Colorado ..J 939,629
Connecticut 1,380.631
Delaware .. ?, 223,003
District of Cdiumbia 437,571
Idaho .' 431,866
Illinois 6,485,280
Indiana 2,930,390
lowa 2,404,021
Nevada 77,407
New Hampshire 443,083
New Jersey 3,155,900
New Mexico 360,350
New York 10,384,829
Kansas 1,769,257
Kentucky 2,416,630
Maine 768,014
Maryland 1,449,661
Massachusetts 3,852,356
South Dakota 636,547
Texas 4,663,228
Utah 449,396
Vermont 352,428
Possessions
The population of the United States
with outlying possessions is 117,-
857,509, the outlying possessions to
taling 12,148,738. These possessions
are:
Alaska 54,899'
American Samoa 8,056
Guam 13,275
Hawaii 255,912
Panama, Canal Zone 22,858
Porto Rico 1,299,809
Military and naval service
abroad 117,238
Philippine Islands 10,350,640
Virgin Islands of the Unit-
ed States 26,051
The population of Continental
United States as announced shows a
gain of 25,663 over the preliminary
figures announced October 7.
De Valera to Come
Out of Retirement in
N. Y. Christmas Day
NEW YORK. Dec. 18. —Eamonn
De Valera, “president of the Irish
republic,” will come out of retire
ment Christmas day in New York
City,l according to his secretary,
Harry Boland, who recently denied
reports that De Valera had Ibft for
Great Britain.
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From left to right from ridiculous to fashion plate in each group:
(1) Overdressed, emphasizes prominent nose and receding chin;
softened by simple lines. (2) Careless of hat, coat hemline and
shoes; attractive when thoughtfully dressed. (3) Tall and thin,
wearing stripes; effect softened by broad hat drooping feathers and
1 loose coat. (4) Overweight, change from great, loose coat, furs, and
picture hat, to tailored suit and small, upward-inclined hat.
clothes and three models. His fall
plans included visits to St. Louis,
Evansville, Jeffersonville and Vin
cennes, Ind., and Columbus, Akron
and Newark, Ohio.
He further plans to go into big cor-
• porations in Chicago—stores, facto
ries, telephone exchanges and mail
“HARD” CIDER
IN HOME IS NOT
ILLEGAL-PALMER
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—Use of
cider in the home by its manufac
turer, even after it has become in
toxicating by fermentation, is law
ful and without the bounds of the
prohibition enforcement act, accord
ing to an opinion submitted to the
secretary of the treasury by At
torney General Palmer, made pub
lic here.
The opinion is in direct conflict
with the regulations of the bureau
»f Internal revenue which state that
home-made cider must be "non-in
toxicating in fact.” although not
necessarily containing less than one
half of one per cent of alcohol.
Secretary Houston asked for an
opinion as to whether the term
‘non-intoxicating cider and fruit
juices” means non-intoxicating in
fact or containing les s than one-half
of one per cent of alcohol. The
phrase occurs in section 29 of the
prohibition act which permits the
manufacture of non-intoxicating
cider for use in the home without a
permit.
In answer, the attorney general
held that the expression meant con
taining less than one-half of one
per cent, but added:
“In view, however, of what I un
derstand section 29 to mean, I am
sure it would be misleading for me
to content myself with this direct
answer to your question.”
Congress Intended by section 29
to prohibit the sale but not the
manufacture of intoxicating cider
for use in the home, the opinion
said.
“Congress seems to have recog
nized the peculiar nature of cider,”
the attorney general declared. “When
the juice of apples is pressed out,
the immediate result is cider. When'
this is done an intoxicating liquor,
even within the definition of the
prohibition act, has not been pro
duced. But fermentation very short
ly sets in, producing alcohol and all
that is necessary to convert the
cider into an intoxicating liquor is
the lapse of a short time.
“Broadly speaking:. one who has
manufactured ider which has not
yet had time to ferment has not
manufactured intoxicating liquor.”
Section 29 has manifestly sought
to make it clear that it was not
intended that one who manufactured
cider and kept it in his home for
beverage until it fer
mented would be guilty of possess
ing intoxicating liquors unlawfully,
the opinion stated.
“Section 29 says that to manu
facture this cider for use in the home
shall not be unlawful,” Mr. Palmer
asserte<j. “Obviously it does not
mean for imediate use or necessarily
for use before it has had time to
ferment. I think clearly the pro
vision means that after being manu
factured as sweet or non-intoxicat
ing cider, it may be kept in the
liome for future use without violat
ing this statute.”
Possession of intoxicating liquor
is not prohibited by the eighteenth
amendment the attorney general ex
plained, and the only offense against
the enforcement act which a manu
facturer of cider for use in the
home could be guilty of. would be
having it in his possession after it
ferments and produces alcohol.
“By the provision above quoted,”
he said, “I think congress has, at
least, by necessary implication, pro
vided that the possession by the
manufacturer of cider, even after
it has by fermentation become in
toxicating. shall not be unlawful so
long as he holds it exclusively for
use in the home or for sale to those
having permits to make vinegar.”
While the opinion is binding on
the treasury, prohibition enforce
ment officials intimated tonight
that Mr. Palmer might be asked to
reconsider his iecision in view of
the conflict between his contention
and the existing regulation.
Street Car Conductor
Gives His Own Life
In Saving Firemen
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 18.—William
Pierce, forty-seven years old, a street
Car conductor, is dead today, as the
result of his attempt to stop a fire
hose truck, speeding to a fire, from
running into a dangerous hole in the
street, last* night.
Standing in the path of the speed
ing truck. Pierce made frantic efforts
to flag it, his signals finally attract
ing attention. The truck was brought
to a halt just shoft of the hole, but
not until it had passed over Pierce’s
body, killing him instantly.
I order houses—and show girls how
, to dress. He plans to substitute ed
. ucation for unsuccessful arbitrary
i dress rules.
When he gets through he says
farmers’ wives and farmers’ daugh
• ters and salesgirls will look like fash
l ion plates.
DECREASE SHOWN
IN RETAIL PRICES
FOR FOODSTUFFS
WASHINGTON. Dec. 18.—Retail
prices of important commodities de
creased 2.5 per cent in November,
the labor department announced to
day.
For the year ending in November,
the average monthly prices of the
same articles showed an increase of
1 per cent.
Price cuts during November
brought 12 per cent reductions in
pork chops and rice, 9 per cent in
corn meal and onions, 8 per cent in
navy beans, 7 per cent sugar, 6 per
cent flour and canned tomatoes, 5
per cent on round steaks, hams, cof
fee and oranges, 3 per cent on ba
con, potatoes, cabbage and prunes, 2
per cent on sirloin steak, rib and
chuck roast, lamb, hens, cheese and
bread, and 1 per cent for plate beef,
canned salmon, evaporated milk, oleo
margerine, nut margerine, lard,
baked beans, canned corn, canned
peas and bananas.
Five articles increased in price
during November. These were
Eggs 7 per cent, raisins and storage
eggs 3 per cent, peas 2 per cent and
butter 1 per cent.
Prices remained unchanged for
fresh milk and marcaroni.
Decreases by cities:
Decreases —Memphis, 5 per cent;
Birmingham and Seattle, 4 per cent;
Atlanta, Butte, Cleveland, Dallas,
Houston, Minneapolis, Kansas City,
Little Rock, Louisville, Manchester,
Mobile, New Haven, Richmond, St.
Louis and Savannah, 3 per cent;
Baltimore, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincin
nati, Denver, Detroit, Fall River.
Jacksonville, Los Angeles, Milwau
kee, New Orleans, Norfolk, Omaha,
Philadelphia, Portland, Me., Portland,
Ore., Providence, St. Paul and Salt
Lake City, 2 per cent: Boston.
Bridgeport, Columbus, Newark, New
York, Peoria, Pittsburg, Rochester,
San Francisco, Scranton and Wash
ington, 1 per cent; Springfield, 111.,
less than half of 1 per cent.
Palm Beach Editor
Asserts He Is Not
Afraid of Gov. Catts
WEST PALM BEACH. Fla., Dec.
18.—That when boiled down, the
fight was one between good govern
ment and demagoguery, was the
statement made today by Joe L. Ear
man, president of the state board of
health, and publisher of the Palm
Beach Post, in reply to the letter
received last night from Governor S.
J. Catts threatening "to visit West
Palm Beach with a shotgun loaded
with buckshot,” and to have “a
final settlement.”
“I am not afraid of Governor
Catts.” Mr. Earman declared, "and
I had hoped that he would remove
me from office in order that I might
demonstrate my record.
“The only reference I made to the
Catts family in my editorial was
regarding his son-in-law, K. R. Pade
rick, of Jacksonville, tax collector
of Duval county.”
Mr. Earman demands that Gover
nor Catts explain the resignation of
Edgar Thompson as state’s attorney
prior to the June primary and offers
him space in his paper for the ex
pl a n a t ion.
Alabama Man Jailed
On Murder Charge
CLANTON, Ala., Dec. 18.—Robert
Teel, Clanton business man, was
placed in jail here today under a
murder charge following the death
in a Montgomery infirmary of Gor
don S. Jones, another business man
who, it is charged by officers, died
.as a result of being hit over the
head with a stick by Teel in a row
here yesterday. Both men are prom
inent, having been engaged in busi
ness here for many years.
Dies From Oyster Shell
Lodged in His Throat
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 18.—
Thomas L. Bradley, 21, is dead here
today as the result of injuries re
ceived at dinnei- Tuesday evening
when a fragment of an oyster shell
lodged in his throat, and later cut
its way through to his stomach.
After intense suffering for several
hours, death followed late yesterday.
OVER FIVE MILLION
SPENT DN GEORGIA
HIGHWffiIN 1820
That there has been expended tn
Georgia in the calendar year 1920 a
total of $2,402,911.74 of federal funds
for aid in highway construction, is
shown by a detailed statement is
sued Saturday by the state highway
department.
For every dollar of federal funds
expended in Georgia, there was more
than a dollar of state and county
funds expended. The grand total of
highway expenditures for the year,
the statement further shows, is $5,-
724,204.18. This, of course, covers
projects handled by the state high
way department. It does not count
the many miles of cqunty highways
built by the counties at their own
expense and under their own super
vision.
From the beginning of federal aid
for highway construction down to
June 30, 1921, which will close the
present fiscal year of the federal
government, there will have been ap
portioned to Georgia from the fed
eral treasury for highway construc
tion the sum total of $7,000,000, it
was further shown by the highway
department. The government’s fu
ture program of highway construc
tion is yet to be determined by con
gress. Several bills ‘ are pending.
One provides for a continuance of
aid to the states in general high
way construction, while another pro
vides for two or three trans-conti
nental lines to be built and maintain
ed at federal expense.
State Aid Preferred
Officials of the state highway de
partment of Georgia are hoping for
a continuance of the present policy
of aid for the states, inasmuch as
the construction of a few trans
continental highways would benefit
only the particular localities through
which they passed.
Counties in Georgia which have
supplemented the state sfnd federal
funds with funds of their own have
thereby enabled the state highway
department to go forward promptly
with the construction of the links of
the state highway system located in
those counties. In this connection
the state highway board made the
following statement:
“It' is highly advantageous to
counties to supply funds of their
own to supplement the state and fed
eral funds. For example, the state
and federal funds pro-rated to the
counties in a given congressional
district might not be sufficient to
inaugurate on a large scale the con
struction of the state highway roads
in that district, whereas the addi
tion of county funds would enable
the department to go forward at
once and complete the principal proj
ects. Thus would the counties get
immediate benefits instead of wait
ing on piece-meal construction. Un
der the state highway law, every
county contributing to the construc
tion of a state highway project shall
be given credit therefor, and when
the entire system (of 4,800 miles)
has been completed, such counties
shall be entitled to a refund of their
contributions.
“The state highway board is firm
ly convinced, after investigation,
that every dollar invested in high
way improvement brings back $lO
in the form of increased land values.
Lands in Florida which could be
bought for $5 an acre not many
years ago are now being sold for
SIOO an acre as the direct result of
improved highways.”
The detailed statemept of federal
funds expended in Georgia in 1920
contains two columns of figures. One
column shows the amount of federal
funds expended in each county, and
the other column shows the total
expended in each county, counting
federal, state and county funds al
together.
Figures in Detail
The figures are as follows:
County. Work completed. Federal aid.
Baldwin $ 13,226.28 $ 6,282.49
Brooks 211,152.12 99,202.57
Bleckley .. .. .. 35,237.93 16,733.26
Bacon .. .. 18,011.71 6,985.90
Bulloch 45,416.62 21,572.89
Bibb 477,121.99 199,386.10
Baker-Mitchell .. 8,758.88 4,160.47
Brooks-Lowndes . 4,172.00 1,981.70
Chattooga 34,326.04 16,084.55
Coweta 19,849.12 9,924.56
Carroll .. ... ... 51,145.78 15,840.53
Candler 34,833.16 16,545.75
Cherokee 69,288.50 33,122.91
Cobb 14,584.85 6,927.80
Columbia 11,259.87 5,267.43
Chatham 482,228.17 186,877.27
Clarke 12,706.80 6,035.73
Colquitt 13,585.01 6,792.50
Charlton 33,573.70 15,947.51
Cook 84,716.42 30,582.62
Dade 34,947.22 14,562.96
Dawson 4,821.14 2,290.04
Decatur 6,578.98 2,437.51
Dooly 10,836.12 5,147.16
Douglas
Dougherty ... ■.. 200,676.56 68,239.51
Evans 8,919.03 3,558.69
Emanuel 140,438.01 70,220.28
Elbert 14,656,34 6,961.76
Franklin 3,480.43 1,487.88
Forsyth 17,003.09 8,076.46
Floyd 100,182.78 47,192.51
Fulton 34,673.03 15,152.11
Glynn 67,027.10 31,838.82
Gwinnett 47,674.36 22,192.41
Gilmer 4,224.80 1,966.64
Grady 60,150.25 27,958.38
Henry 27,369.66 6,159.41
Hall-Lumpkin ... 36,812.62 18,166.22
Harris 18,814.18 8,757.99
Heard 63,544.23 30,183.50
Haralson 67,091.60 32,594.03
Habersham .. .. 9,901.87 4,703.38
Hancock 9,023.67 3,857.62
Jackson .. .. .. 66,065,76 32,276.55
Jefferson 10,799.01 5,026.93
Lowndes 127,681,36 62,730.88
Laurens 163,225.51 77,531.17
Lumpkin .. • • • 7,040.32 3,344.15
Lee 8,154.22 3,873.25
Lincoln 4,824.48 1,741.63
Macon 173,530.46 93,554.57
Meriwether .. • • 65,579.99 30,508.66
Montgomery . .. 5,511.12 2,094.22
Mitchell 74,266.05 33,092.13
Montgomery- „„
Wheeler 87,594.24 41,607.26
Milton 14.659.67 6,406.27
McDuffie 13,447.38 6,387.51
Morgan 172,830.59 77,168.80
Paulding 12.846.69 M 12.17
Pulaski 123,043.85 43,146.43
Rabun 17,270.90 8,039.60
Randolph 17,567.75
Richmond 5,634.85 2,408.90
Spalding 271,502.23 114,182.02
Stephens 45,232.39 21.480.67
Sumter 156,113.54 46,818.26
Schley 3,478.00 1,288.60
Taylor-Upson ... 38.513.49 |7.196.27
Towns .. •• ... 39,728.t>4 18,871.06
Thomas 166,899.39 77.402.64
Terrell .. ... 26,526.64 7.810.32
Troup 255,412.31 104,092.96
Walton-Oconee .. 85,549.08 40,635.64
Walker 2,284.11 998.16
WHkes .. .. .. 449.051.92
Walton 118,772.88 76.42,.<H
Wheeler 15,103.13
Worth 91,581.38 43,001.16
Washington .. .. 31,127.28
Wilkinson 4,688.36 1'870.60
Ware 9,598.78 4,509.42
$5,724,204.18 $2,402,911.74
ALABAMA CONSTRUCTION
AMOUNTED TO $1,832,106
MONTGOMERY, Ala.. Dec. 18.—
Highway construction in Alabama
during the year 1920 cost $1,832,-
106.15 the annual report of the state
highway commission, released today,
shows. Sixteen projects, Involving
83.84 miles, were completed at a
cost of $737,800.20, while twenty-nine
other projects are under construction
at a cost of $1,094,295.95, their mile
age being 190.46.
Purse Snatcher Foiled
When Woman Victim
Springs Jiu-Jitsu Trick
CHICAGO, Dec. 18.—Out of thou
sands of shoppers thronging State
street, Stanley Zepeccki, a purse
snatcher, chose Mrs. W. A. Middle
ton, aged 50, as a victim. He did
not know she was a teacher of phy
sical culture.
After demonstrating a few jiu
jitsu tricks, and regaining her purse,
Mrs. Middleton surrendered him to
police.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1920.
BONDING BOARD
MAY RESTORE
COTTON PRICES
That the formation of emergency
bonding companies throughout the
south, on the Georgia-Carolina plan
put forward by W. J. Walker, prom
inent planter and business man of
Screven county, would go far to
ward restoring a fair price for cot
ton, was the opinion expressed Satur
day by J. J. Brown, commissioner or
agriculture, in a letter to Mr. Walker.
The latter has been in Atlanta for
the past week or ten days presenting
the plan to bankers, business men,
owners of farms, public officials, and
others at interest in the cotton sit
uation. The Georgia division of the
American Cotton association, which
indorses the plan, has been co-operat
ing with him. Mr. Walker stated
Saturday that the plan was meeting
with general approval, and he ex
pected to see emergency cotton bond
ing corporations launched in several
counties in Georgia in the near fu
ture.
In the meantime, the information
comes to him from South Carolina,
Mr. Walker further stated, that the
Georgia-Carolina plan is going for
ward there with strong support, hav
ing received the indorsement of the
American Cotton association and of
the South Carolina branch of the
same.
Commissioner Brown’s letter to Mr.
Walker was as follows:
“At your request I have made an
examination of the plan put for
ward by yourself and others to form
local companies for the issuance of
emergency bonds on cotton.
“As I understand it, the plan con
templates the formation by farmers,
merchants, bankers and others at
interest in a county, of a cotton bond
ing company; which company would
issue emergency bonds running for a
term of six months, underwritten by
the bonding company, secured by the
warehouse receipt of the cotton In
storage and insured, and further se
cured by the owner’s note; these
bonds in small denominations to be
then used by the owners of the cot
ton to liquidate their pressing obliga
tions, and to be used by their cred
itors to liquidate obligations of
higher creditors; the cotton to be re
deemed at maturity for the face
value of the bonds plus interest.
“The advantages of this plan, as
they present themselves to me, are as
follows: , .
“1. Producers of cotton would be
enabled to meet pressing obligations,
and their creditors to do likewise,
since it is contemplated that the
bonds would be passed along from
one to another as a current medium
of exchange. , ~ ■ ,
“3. By su6h a plan, we would help
ourselves immediately; we would
demonstrate our ability to meet a
great economic problem in a busi
nesslike way.
“4. The amount of bonds to be
issued upon the cotton of any par
ticular owner would not be fixed, but
would be variable and elastic, this
question being left in the hands of
the approval committee of each local
company, who would naturally and
necessarily take into consideration
the solvency and financial responsi
bility of each particular owner, inas
much as all me mber J 9 . o^ th ®.?Ki- d l’A?
company would be jointly liable
the redemption of the bonds at par
upon maturity.
“This last mentioned point I would
stress particularly, as it se ® n J®
to me to be the crux of the whole
plan. By the exercises of due pre
caution in this respect, every bonding
company through a carefully selected
approval committee should be able to
insure the redemption of . _ lts . n b °^ s
a< maturity. It is reasonable to sup
pose that no bonding company would
over-bond the cotton of its com-
m “The’plan offers the hop® of im
mediate and substantial relief. Cot
ton is now quoted on the exchanges
at a price far below the cost of pro
duction. There is every reason to
believe that the price will advance
substantially within six months.
Emergency bonding c ° l ? P ?'ud£-
throughout tho south, in my Bjag
ment, would go far towards restoring
a fair price.”
Co-operative System
For Farmers Planned
At Agricultural Meet
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 19.— Preliminary
arrangements for launching a
tional system of co-operative markets
and financial institutions designed
to rehabilitate the farming industry
in this country were completed here
Saturday at the concluding ses
sion of the agricultural conference
inaugurated by the national board
of farm organizations.
The conference indorsed a plan to
establish nine grain ha 1 ? 1 !. 111 ®
ters and will seek the united support
of all farmers co-operative grain
marketing organizations in carrying
out the project which is to
eliminate the, middlemen and ena
SP The^e l terminals are to be located
in Kansas City, Chicago, Omaha,
Sioux City, Oklahoma City, Minneap
olis. Seattle, Buffalo and St Lotns
Representatives of agricultural
interests in the territory contiguous
to these points will meet January 4
to arrange for a convention at whicn
the grain marketing organizations in
the various sections will be invited
to send delegates to arrange for
financing the project.
The financial system advocated by
the delegates providing for a national
union of farm loan associations.
The resolution covering this proj
ect stated 4,000 farm loan bodies at
present have no opportunity of get
ting proper representation at Wash
ington, and charged that the policy
of the federal farm loan board has
been to discourage attempts by the
associations to form state federa
tions. | ,
Another resolution ' protested
against the Poindexter > anti-strike
bill just passed by the sjenate. The
conference recognizes the harmful
effect of strikes, the resolution
stated, but considers that under cer
tain circumstances united protest, is
the only means of self-preservation
for the workers. ,
Federal control of the packing-In
dustry and passage of the Kenyon-
Kendrick bill was advocated in
another resolution. __'
Ex-Doughboy Finds
Hat He Left in France
PERTH AMBOY, N. J., Dec. 18.—•
Howard Tappon, an overseas veteran
of the world war, purchased a cap in
a local renovated army goods store
here today and discovered that it was
the one he had discarded in France
after the armistice. On the inner
band was his name, written in his
handwriting.
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BY BAIFH SMITH
(Staff Correspondent of The Journal)
NEW ORLEANS, La., Dec. 19.
With the completion of the organiza
tion details at Friday’s conferences,
interest Saturday among visiting and 1
local bankers in New Orleans cen- >
tered about the selection of officers j
of the Federal International Bank- j
ing company. The names of a dozen |
or more recognized authorities on in- 1
ternational banking have been sug
gested for president of the bank,
but the actual choice will be deferr
until the formal election of the
board of directors at the meeting on
January 7th. It is not improbable
that a southern man will be chosen
to direct the affairs of the banjc. in
co-operation with a strong executive
committee from among the members
of the board of directors.
The bankers who remained in New
Orleans today are enthused over the
success of the undertaking, especially
the Oversubscription of stock that
enabled them to fix the capital at
$7,000,000 instead of $6,000,000. They
are confident that'within a relatively
short space of time additional sub
scriptions will swell the capital of
the bank to $10,000,000.
It is believed that many big whole
salers and erporters in different
parts of the south and other sec
tions of the country will welcome
the opportunity of taking stock in
the International bank, and it is not
unlikely that bankers in the east
will subscribe to the stock also if
outsiders are permitted this right.
The board of directors will pass upon
this question at its first formal
meeting.
The Texas bankers here express
the confidence that the banks of the
Lone Star State will double their
original subscription of $1,550,000.
They were chagrined that both
Louisiana and Georgia, smaller in
area and with much less banking
capital, subscribed to as much or
more stock than did the banks of
Texas. The Texans were insistent
that the stock books should be held
open so that they might continue
their drive for subscriptions.
“Putting over a campaign of this
magnitude in a few weeks in the
state of Texas is an undertaking that
persons unfamiliar with our geog
raphy cannot appreciate," said J. A.
Pondron, of Houston.
“It is as far from Texarkana to
El Paso, both in Texas, as it is
from Atlanta to Washington, D. C.
It is impossible to make systematic
and effective canvass of such a vast
territory in a few days or few
weeks. We will return to Texas to
renew our efforts, and we are con
fident of success. Nothing succeeds
like success, and the success of the
Federal International Banking com
pany was demonstrated at the organ
ization conferences yesterday.”
The plans of the visiting bankers
to test their skill on the golf links
this afternoon were upset by a steady
rain that drove them to the theaters
and movie hodses. Most of them will
leave tonight, though Robert F. Mad
dox will stay over tomorrow ant!
John K. Ottley will make a side trip
to Mississippi before returning. Mills
B. Lane returned to Savannah today.
Haynes McFadden returned to Atlan
ta tonight.
Ban on Gold Coins
Christmas Is Asked
WASHINGTON. Dec. 18.—National
and other banks have been requested
by John Burke, treasurer of the
United States, not to distribute gold
coins for holiday purposes. The re
quest is in line with the policy of
the treasury to conserve the gold re
serve, it was explained today, but
when gold is demanded upon gold
obligations the demand will be met
Old gold will be paind, however, and
no $2.50 gold pieces will be issued
as the coining of these pieces has
been stopped.
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