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► RESERVE BOARD’S
POLICY SCORED BY
SENATOR HARRIS
The Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
623 Riggs Building.
BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Sharp
Criticism of the federal reserve
board’s policy regarding agricultural
loans and price depression, together
■With the suggestion that he would
not be averse to it if some of the
members of the board should resign,
was voiced in the senate late Mon
day afternoon by Senator William J.
Harris, of Georgia.
• Senator Harris spoke in connection
With house amendments to the senate
bill restoring the war finance corpor
ation. He said he would vote for
the house amendment so as to hurry
action on the farmers’ relief legis
lation.
Saying he would accept the house
amendment which struck out the
senate .proviso virtually directing
the reserve board to “loosen up” on
agricultural credits. Senator Harris
expressed doubt that the board would
pay attention to such an expression,
anyway. The Georgia senator said:
“I am going to vote to concur in
the house amendment for two rea
sons. In the first place, the distressed
condition of the farmers of the coun
try is such that if we are going to
give them help, we ought to do it
without delay. In the second place,
the second section suggests to the
federal reserve board that they help
the farmers in a certain way. The
record of the federal reserve board,
as made in the past few months, in
regard to the farmers, shows that
they are not going to help the
farmers in the exercise of their pow
ers, but they are going to do every
thing in their power to hurt the
farmers.
“The other day when this joint
resolution was before the senate. I
offered an amendment making the
rate of rediscount 5 per cent on agri
cultural paper, but the senate saw
fit to vote that down. I had previ
ously introduced in the senate a bill
to reduce the rediscount rate on agri
cultural paper to 5 per cent.
“Since that time it seems that the
federal reserve board has inspired
two statements which have been
■given to the papers and have gone
all over the country. One was that
if congress made any suggestions
like this, the members of the fed
eral reserve board would resign, and
the other was that the rediscount
rate had nothing to do with helping
the farmers of the country at this
time.
“Now, so far as I am concerned,
if some of the members of that board
who have been giving statements to
the press that depressed the price of
cotton and wheat and doing every
thing they could to injure the farm
ers of this country, would resign,
I would be very thankful. I will go
beyond that, and say that if the
friends of the farmers in this body
will join with me, we will not allow
to be confirmed any member of that
board who has been against helping
the farming interests of the country
in times of such distress, and we will
not wait for their resignations.
“The federal reserve bank act is
one of the greatest in our history.
There is nothing that has accom
plished greater good. The New York
bankers, the international bankers, as
the senior senator from Idaho (Mr.
Borah), said the other day, seem
to have the ear of some of the fed
eral reserve bank officials more than
the farmers of this country, and I
agree with him fully in that. The
bankers who are opposed to the leg
islation can destroy it by getting the
ear of men on that board who will
listen to them instead of the appeals
of the representatives of the farmers
of this country. That is the best
way for the international bankers of
this country to have the federal re
serve act repealed or amended so as
to destroy its usefulness to the peo
ple of the country and to the agri
cultural masses who are so much in
need of assistance at this time.”
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WASHINGTON. —Roger W. Babson, famous statistician and
head of the Babson industrial service, has issued the following fore
cast of the probable Harding cabinet. He makes no guess at the
labor portfolio. Here is the list, numbered to correspond with the
pnoto-aiagram above.
1. President—Warren G. Harding.
2. Secretary of State—Senator Henry Cabot Lodge.
3. Secretary of War —Major General Leonard Wood.
4. Postmaster General—Will H. Hays, G. O. P. National chair-
man.
Sweet Potatoes
Can Be Kept Easily;
Here’s One Method
Editor of The Journal: In two re
cent issues of your paper you spoke
of the difficulty confronting the
farmers who have grown the sweet
potato for commercial purposes
Unless a ready and profitable mar
ket can be obtained for perishable
crops like fruit and vegetables,
someone looses and discouragement
is sure to be experienced. To bank
the sweet potato for preservation is
a mere subterfuge and often results
in disappointment. The curing
houses are better, but if they are
not managed scientifically or cor
rectly, serious loss follows.
Sweet potatoes can be preserved
in perfect condition if you will in
voke the aid of nature. What is that
you say? Leave rfie potatoes un
disturbed in the row in which they
are grown and just before winter sets
in take a large two horse plow and
throw enough earth on the row to
prevent freezing and the potatoes
will keep perfectly through the win
ter. It is necessary to grow them
in wide rows or dig every other row
if grown in the usual width rows.
This will give you enough earth to
cover perfectly the remaining rows.
When the warm trade winds of
March begin to blow dig your po
tatoes, assort and place in crates,
have your market ready and move
them out. Just keep from freezing
and hogs and you will be delighted
with the cheap and perfect manner
in which the potatoes are kept.
S. A. WOOTTEN.
Tignall, Ga.
P. S. —Potatoes intended to be pre
served as indicated above should
not be planted before June as more
uniform potatoes are grown w'hen
not planted too early.
New Endurance Record
In Flight Attempted
By Two Aviators
MINEOLA, L. 1., Dec. 21.—An at
tempt was made at Mitchel field to
day by Lieutenant Ross C. Kirkpat
rick and Max Goodnough, a mechani
cian, to break the world endurance
flight record.
The army men started their flight
at 7:30 a. m., in a ten-passenger Cur
tiss Eagle airplane. They hoped to
remain in the air 35 hours. The
present record, 24 hours and ten
minutes, was made in England, in
1914.
The aviators, who were to alter
nate in driving through a system of
dual control, planned to maintain an
average of 2,000 feet. Should repairs
become necessary they proposed to as
cend to 5,000 feet and start a glide.
From this height it would ordinari
ly requ're 15 or 20 minutes to reach
the ground, and it was believed re
pairs could be made in that time.
Kirkpatrick participated in the re
cent flight to Nome, Alaska, and re
turn.
L. & N. Shop Unit
Burned at Etowah;
Loss Is SIOO,OOO
ETOWAH. Tenn., Dec. 21.—Fire of
undetermined origin totally destroyed
the machinery department of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad
shops here between 1 and 2 o’clock
this morning. The loss is estimated
at more than SIOO,OO. Included in
this are two large locomotives which
workmen were unable to get out of
building.
The building was of wooden struc
ture. All the repair work on engines
and cars was done in this plant.
While it was a unit of the entire
shops, all other units depend upon
it for progress in their own work.
The work of the entire shops will be
greatly handicapped by the loss.
By 2 o’clock this morning the fire
was under control. No casualties
resulted.
Irish Home Rule Bill
Adopted by Commons
With Modifications
LONDON, Dec. 21.—The Irish home
rule bill, as slightly modified by the
house of lords, was adopted by the
house of commons today. The meas
ure now needs only the royal signa
ture to become a law. x
Coal Companies Indicted
Under the Lever Act
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 21.—Three
coal companies were indicted late
yesterday, charged with violating the
Lever act. The indictments charged
unjust and unreasonable amounts
were charged for coal and coke. A
profit of 100 per cent was claimed
in many instances. Companies in
dicted were Laning-Harris Coal and
Grain corpora tioii; National Fuel
company and Sheridan Coal company.
Trion Cotton Mills
Running Full Time
ROME, Ga., Dec. 21.—The Trion
Cotton Mills at Trion, Ga., resumed
full time operation yesterday on a 40
per cent reduction in wages. The
mill had been operating for several
weeks on a twenty-eight-hour basis
at the higher wage scale.
More than 2,000 persons are affect
ed, and the new scale was acceptable
to the workers, it was said, who pre
ferred full time at lower wages to
half time at higher wages.
Chicago Starts War on
Naughty ‘Smokers”
BY EDWARD M. THIERY
CHICAGO.—Has hubby been tak
ing an occasional night out lately,
with the innocent excuse that he was
attending a "smoker” or a “stag?”
If he hasn’t—he either isn’t alive
or the possibilities of this, increas
ingly popular form of entertainment
—or he doesn’t care for that sort of
thing.
It has come as an aftermath of
prohibition—a tremendous revival of
Oriental dances, naughty shows that
make the Arabian Nights sound tame.
It’s the new relaxation for the tired
business man.
The committee of fifteen, led
by Superintendent Samuel P.
Thrasher, Chicago’s indefatigable
/*/ o Win hi
foe of things immoral, has declared
war on the “smoker” and the “stag.”
Chicago mirrors the rapidly in
creasing popularity of the surrepti
tious shows all over the country, re
formers say.
Sliding Scale of Bates
Booking agencies exist where a
society, union, club, lodge or an as
sociation—legitimtae or otherwise—
may book every risque act on the
calendar at a sliding scale of rates,
adjusted according to naughtiness
desired.
“Mercedes” and “Gypsy Marie” are
the high-priced stars in Chicago
“stag” theatrics.
“Mercedes” dances so alluringly
in such few, if any, clothes that she
has to keep a taxicab busy six nights
a week to carry her from one secret,
well-guarded hall to another. She
“goes the limit.” So does “Gypsy
Marie,” according to Superintendent
Thrasher.
The committee of fifteen recently
took one smoker by surprise. In the
raid six men and the star performer
—“Lucile”—were arrested and haled
into Morals court. Several hundred
spectators were driven from the hall.
She Goes the Limit
The program was like this:
A Rabelaisian monologist.
An innocuous song and dance act.
A fat lady monologist who made
her predecessor sound like a Sunday
school teacher.
“Lucile”—A dancer in few clothes.
Speech by master of ceremonies.
“Now, boys, ‘Lucile’ has gone out
to change her costume —if you’d call
it a costume. You can try tossing
a little.coin on the stage and I think
she’ll go the limit!”
(Jingling of much coin tossed on
the stage).
“Lucile”—ln less clothes.
“Lucile”—ln no clothes.
At this point the unscheduled act
on the program—the raid.
“These smokers are getting to be
regular institutions,” said Superin
tendent Thrasher.
Incredibly Vicious
“They are largely attended by boys
under 20 and are incredibly vicious.
The whole industry must be broken
up. Many smokers are legitimate,
but too often they are mere excuses
for improper dances and immoral
motion picture films.”
The committee of fifteen was or
ganized in 1909 and is maintained
by private subscription. It is given
chief credit for wiping out Chicago’s
segregated vice district and now car
ries on a campaign against isolated
places of commercialized vice and
the exploitation of women.
SOLDIERS LEARN NEW WAY TO “MARCH”
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DEAUVILLE, France.—“An army marches on its stomach,” said Napoleon and now France takes
the Little Emperor quite literally and her recruits must learn to “march” on their solar plexi. It is a
good exercise and not a muscle of the body has escaped vigorous use when a man. finishes his “march.’
5. Secretary of the Interior—Herbert Hoover.
6. Secretary of Agriculture—Henry C. 'Wallace, lowa farmer
editor.
7. Secretary of Labor—No forecast.
8. Secretary of Commerce —Congressman John J. Esch.
9. Secretary of the Navy—Senator John W. Weeks.
10. Attorney General —Ex-Senator George Sutherland.
11. Secretary of the Treasury—Frank Vanderlip, New Yq>rk fi
nancier.
Adopted French Youth
Strong for U. S. Slang;
Is‘Crazy About America
BY I-AY STEVENSON
Copyright, 1920.
NEW YORK —Captain George
Dunagin, U. S. A., is twenty-eight
years old, and his son is eighteen,
which means, of course, that his
son is a son by adoption, Henri
Bezinian Dunagin.
And this is one of the strange
products of the World war, which
produced so many strange things.
The boy, a fine, manly little French
man of the sort that fairly wor
shipped the American army when
it came to the rescue of European
civilization, is staying with the man
he has learned to call father at the
McAlpin hotel. Presently they will
be at home on Captain Dunagin’s
plantation at Laurel, Miss.
“Henri is strong for the Ameri
cans,” said his adopted father, “and
he is an excellent example of what
the American doughboy did for the
youth of France. I met Henri when
I first arrived at St. Denis with
the A. E. F. He was then fourteen
and I took a great fancy to him.
His father was dead and his moth
er is a woman of just moderate
means. I taught him English and
took him all about with me. After
the armistice I was assigned to
the peace commission, but when it
came time for me to part from my
little pal—well, I had made such
an American.out of him that I de
cided to make him my son.”
Very Happy
“And I am just about the happiest
man on earth,” said young Henri
as he drew himself up to his full
height and looked down with pride
upon his brand-new Ameri
can clothes.
“I see those boys didn’t teach you
the words ‘pep,’ ‘punch’ and ‘live
wire’ in vain,” I said to Henri.
"We French boys didn't know we
were alive until we met your red
blooded Americans,” mused Henri.
“I was just a schoolboy with no
particular aims, no particular am
bitions, but when I saw those big
fellows hustling about, something
new woke up in me. I wanted to be
like them —‘full of pep.’ I learned
English, I studied German so 1
could become an interpreter, then I
Beavers and Poole Are
Exonerated by Committee
Os Inefficiency in Office
After conductingf a six-day probe
into the activities and morale of the
police and detective departments city
council Monday afternoon, adopting
the report of the special committee
appointed two weeks ago, gave com
plete exoneration to Chief of Police
James L. Beavers, and Chief of De
tectives A. Lamar Poole, and declar
ed t 1 --*- any charges of ‘‘wholesale
rottenness in the police department
is entirely unjustified and wholly
outrageous.”
The committee submitted a lengthy
report of its investigation and this
report was adopted by council in
toto.
White citing no specific instances
the report recommended that the po
lice board further investigate the
charges made against Detectives
Howell, Hornsby and Terry, and de
termine if the allegations made as
to their misconduct are supported by
fact.
The principal features of the re
port, in addition to the exoneration,
of the chiefs, and the recommenda
tions that the conduct of the three
detectives be further investigated,
were as follows:
.First, that there exists among the
police generally a high morale, and
a keen sense of duty. That the men
studied bookkeeping and mechanical
engineering. Captain Dunagin, or
rather my father (here Henri sent
a beaming glance toward his bene
factor) helped me and I was as-'
signed to the American Army Service
corps and headquarters of the gen
eral staff of the American army,
where I served in every capacity
from Interpreter, timekeeper, book
keeper, file clerk, chauffeur, typist
and transportation manager of the
motor service.”
Studies Business
“In other words, you received a
complete business course,” I said.
“Yes; and without that American
spirit of ‘punch’ and energy I should
not have been able to have acquired
so much in so short a time,” said
Henri. ‘Every French boy who came
in contact with the American soldier
caught that spirit just as he might
catch the measles or any other germ.
“Today,” continued the enthusias
tic Henri, “every French boy wants
to come to America. The word New
York sounds like a second heaven.
You might tell the American students
who are worrying over their French
verbs and adjectives to lay down
their grammars in peace. The French
kids are all learning English!
“And it wasn’t only the French
youth which benefited by the Ameri
can .doughboys’ stay in France,” con
cluded Henri. “Today all France has
changed. We have adopted the Amer
ican traffic system. We play Ameri
can jazz and rag. We have estab
lished ice cream parlors (a thing we
never had before the doughboy de
scribed them). All the hotel now
have baths and telephones in each
room. We dance American, dances
and, say—we like American styles—
both for men and women. French
women are just crazy about American
clothes!”
“And your plans for the future?”
“To make my living in America,
have a home here and send for my
widowed mother,” said Henri. “The
war was a terrible experience for
France, but the youth of France has
been awakened and stimulated. We
have been born again.”
are zealous, and in the main honest
and efficient.
Second, that any member of the
department found guilty of being
drunk, be immediately dismissed,
without suspension.
Third, that Detective Shaw Is ex
onerated of charges of accepting
hush money, as Insinuated by the of
ficials of the Southeastern fair, since
all evidence Introduced to this ef
fect i. hearsay, ’nd was not sup
ported by corroborative facts.
Fourth, that the so-called clash
between Solicitor General John A.
Boykin and Chief Poole has been ex
aggerated, and that no real misun
derstanding has occurred.
There was no reference made to
the anticipated recommendation that
the fee system in county offices be
ed, and that violators of the
prohibition law be given chaingang
sentences.
An amendment to the report, In
corporating the latter recommenda
tion, that is: Chaingang sentences
for bootleggers, was introduced by
Councilman Nutting, a member of
the investigating committee, but was
defeated by a vote of 13 to 9.
Reference was also made to the
gambling evil and the difficulty faced
by the officers in proving that the
persons were actually engaged in
gaming.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1920.
“POP-GUN” TARIFF
BILL BARRAGE IS
STARTED BY G.O.P.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1920.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. The
days of the “pop gun” tariff bill are
here again, but this time the Republi
cans instead of the Democrats are
planning to bombard the White
House with tariff measures they
know cannot possibly get executive
approval.
Unquestionably there is a clamor
for tariff revision and it comes from
scattered sections of the country
where economic theory and economic
fact are at odds and the producers
feel that a tariff will help them
against foreign competition. But the
Republican party which controls
both houses of congress always has
been the part yof tariff protection
and it has been impossible to answer
the demand for tariff legislation by
simply saying President Wilson
would not permit tariff proposals to
become law. So the Republicans
have about decided to square them
selves with their constituents and
demonstrate that the White House is
the real obstacle after all.
Not Viewed Seriously
Some of the tariff measures being
proposed have been so hastily con
ceived that if President Wilson did
sign some of them, there would be a
shock on capitol hil Ithat would be
heard round the country. For the
Republicans frankly do not expect
Mr. Wilson to sign protectionist
measures any more than the Demo
crats expected Mr. Taft to approve
them in the fall of 1911 when the
Democrats had obtained possession
of the house and began to fire “pop
gun” tariff bills at Mr. faft with
tariff duties reduced to some unwork
able minimums. Indeed, it is in
teresting to recall that when the
Democrats obtained full possession
in 1912 of all branches of the gov
ernment, including the executive,
they didn’t offer the same set of
tariffs bills upon which they had
forced Mr. Taft’s veto, but an en
tirely new set, much more carefully
considered and carrying a higher
scale of duties.
Another interesting sidelight on
the situation is that the people wlvt
really have sponsored most of the
protective measures in recent years
do not regard the present tariff dis
cussion seriously. Their lobbyists
aren’t even on the job. The truth is
the Republicans had a genuine un
derstanding that nothing would be
attempted in the present session of
congress and notification to that ef
fect was conveyed to all the Inter
ests affected.
Agitation Started
However, the farmers came to
Washington and througjj their nu
merous organizations started the
present tariff agitation in the hope
that something immediate might be
done to cure the financial crisis in
the agricultural world. Manufactur
ing interests of the east are not a
bit pleased over the invasion by the
farmers and secretly hope the whole
tariff effort will be blocked at this
session of congress.
It is pointed out, for Instance, by
manufacturers who don’t want
kind of tariff proposed, that the
farmers are inconsistent in demand
ing the revival of the war finance
corporation to finance the export of
farm products while at the same
time they would impose a tariff
amounting to an embargo on the im
portation of farm products. It is
insisted that by reciprocity alone can
foreign trade be stimulated and that
the rates of exchange will not im
prove until America manifests more
of a give and take spirit in making
tariff duties.
The whole question of reciprocal
trade measures is expected to be
revived as a consequence of the ab
normal trade conditions. Otherwise
the foreign countries, it is suggest
ed, will impose retaliatory tariffs
and America will not be able to sell
abroad, in free competition with oth
ter countries which do not impose
high tariffs.
New Alignment Seen
Moreover a new alignment may be
looked for when the Fordney tariff
bill just reported in the house of
representatives gets over to the sen
ate. Instead of finding a natural
Democratic and Republican division,
the prospects are that the eastern
Republicans, representing large man
ufacturing and banking communities,
will have a different viewpoint from
that of the agricultural west and
south. There is no certainty that
any tariff measure could be passed
in the present senate, where the Re
publican majority is slender, but a
coalition of west and south, such as
passed the recent resolution reviv
ing the war finance corporation, of
course, is possible. But the south
ern senators are divided on the tar
iff question and the Fordney measure
may remain the pop-gun effort of
only One house instead of congress
as a whole. In any event, the pub
lic can rest assured that nothing vi
tal on the subject of tariff revision
will be done until a special session
of congress is convened by Presi
dent-elect Harding.
Conditions in Ireland .
Are Reported on by
League of Women
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Two rep
resentatives of the British branch of
the Women’s International league
today laid before the commission on
conditions l>n Ireland a formal report
of their survey in several Irish
cities.
The report, signed by ten mem
bers of the British branch, spoke of
“innumerable outrages by govern
ment forces which have left ‘devas
tated areas’ resembling those of Bel
gium.
“The regular raids by police and
military are conducted in such away
as to strike terror as widely as pos
sible,” the report said.
Favorable Action on
Bill Granting Tax Grace
Os 50 Days Withdrawn
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Favor
able action recently taken on the bill
of Representative Edmonds, Penn
sylvania, to allow fifty days’ grace in
tax payments due December 15 was
withdrawn today by house ways and
means committee.
Members said the bill Is dangerous
and that the committee had made a
mistake in reporting it.
Sentences Shortened
As Christmas Gifts
M’ALESTER, Okla., Dec. 31.
Twenty-eight prisoners In the state
penitentiary here will spend Christ
mas as free men, thanks to Governor
Robertson. Nearly all of them had
but a few days or weeks more to
serve after Christmas and the Okla
homa executive granted them par
dons.
Textile Workers’ Pay
Will Be Reduced
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 21.—The
wages of more than 200,000 workers
in the textile industry of this city
are to be reduced from ten to thirty
per cent in the near future, officers
of a number of manufacturers’ asso
ciations included in the trade, said
today.
Notices of a ten per cent cut were
posted in the Turkish toweling mills,
and the manufacturers of Wilton and
Brussels rugs announced they would
notify the union representatives to
day that a twenty-five per cent re
duction would be put in effect on
January 17.
Hosiery workers are to be reduced
from fifteen to twenty-five per cent
and coarse yarn spinners, sweater
knitters and other knit fabric em
ployes from ten to thirty per cent.
“Chink” Cabin Boy
Was With Farragut
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♦> JbFurv Earle
SAN FRANCISCO.—Eighty-three
years old, 73 of which have been
spent on the sea, part of them as
cabin-boy with Farragut, in the old
Ironsides, back in the youth of the
United States navy, John Earle,
American born Chinese, Is in the
Emergency hospital here after an
arduous wandering through the city
because he didn’t like things at the
Marine hospital where he has been
for 18 months.
Born in 1836, the young Chinese
boy ran away from home at 11, and
at Boston shipped with Farragut.
The battles of New Orleans and Mo
bile might have been yesterday to
the weazoned old sailor whose ship
of life is so near its last port. His
reminiscences include seven years
service with the revenue cutter Bear.
He has made countless trips to Point
Barrow, the farthest stop north. .
Queer sights and experiences in
far lands, the growth of his loved
San Francisco from sand hills to a
“velly fine city,” an acquaintnce
which runs the gamut from ad
mirals to newsboys—these are what
make his last days endurable.
He escaped from the hospital,
among other reasons, that he might
vote the Republican ticket, which he
has always voted “straight,” He does
not want to go back to China. “Melli
ca good enough born, good enough
die. Mebbe not So Ing die nw. Joha
pay bills, be kind evlybody. John not
’flaid now,” he says.
Pittsburg Negro,
Bold and Versatile,
Is Freed From Pen
William Maxwell, a Pittsburg ne
gro,' after spending five years and
thirty days in the Atlanta federal
prison for counterfeiting, was giv
en his release Tuesday, and was start
ed happily on his way home in a new
suit of clothes, with a railroad tick
et to Pitt, and ten dollars in real
money.
At the penitentiary Maxwell was
regarded as the boldest and most
versatile prisoner ever confined here.
He demonstrated both when he set
up a small distillery in the prison
last summer and began to manufac
ture moonshine at a rapid rate. This
was disclosed Tuesday when a depu
ty marshal went to the prison to es
cort Maxwell to the United States
commissioner to complete his dis
charge papers.
Maxwell smiled and admitted he
would have been set at liberty thir
ty days earlier if he had not taken
a crack at the dry law during his
term of imprisonment.
“It looks mighty queer on the out
side,” said Maxwell at the federal
building Tuesday, one hour after he
had discarded the prison garb of con
vict No. 6888 and donned the dull
gray suit of civilian clothing pre
sented to him by Warden Zerbst.
“I’m going to Pittsburg and have
a real Christmas for the first time
in five years, and I’m going to be
gin life anew on the first of the new
year and lay off this counterfeiting
business —and distilling, too,” he as
serted.
Cotton Warehouse Burns
REBECCA, Ga.. Dec. 21.—The C. S.
McCall cotton warehouse at this
place was totally destroyed by fire
about 4 o’clock Saturday morning.
About 180 bales of cotton in the
warehouse were a total loss with the
exception of one bale. The cotton
and warehouse were fully insured.
The supposition is htat the fire may
have caught from a train that had
passed noly a few minutes before.
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J. J: BROWN URGES
FARMERSTOSTORE
COTTON CROP
Speaking Tuesday at the first day’.-
session of the annual meeting of th<
Georgia Farmers’ union, J. J. Brown
commissioner of agriculture tOc:
his stand squarely on the pqymeni
of all obligations by the farmers.
“I stand for the honest paymeni
of every honest debt by the farmers
of Georgia,” said Cornmissionei
Brown. “I do not and would not
approve the repudiation of a single ]
obligation by the farmers. My ad
vice to farmers now, as it was lasi y
fall when they began to pick theii 1
cotton, is to store it in bonded ware
houses, insure it and have it graded,
use their bonded warehouse receipts ,
as security for bank loans, and use
the money to pay all or part of their
pressing obligations.
“I believe a farmer storing his
cotton in a bonded warehouse, insur
ing it and having it graded, wil
not find it hard to obtain a ban 1
loan on his warehouse receipt as col
lateral. There is not any shortag<
of currency, and we have been re
peatedly assured that there is to b<
no curtailment of agricultural ored
its.”
Commissioner Brown expressed th<
view that the government shp*j’<
meet the farmers half-way, a'fte
they have followed the above plan
by extending them every reasonabh
credit accommodation, and further
by aiding exports of farm product:
to Europe.
Other speakers at the Tuesday
morning session were J. H. Mills
president of the Georgia Farmers
union, and Charles S. Barrett, presi
dent of the National Farmers’ union
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meeting economic problems.
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