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VOL. XXIII. NO. 104.
PRESIDENT HARDIHG
HEDGES FRIENDSHIP;
OF 0. S. TOBRITAIN
LONDON - , May behalf of
the American people. President Har
ding today gave Great Britain a re
newed pledge of friendship.
His message of good will was read
today at the unveiling of a bust of
George Washington in St. Paul’s Ca
thedral, London. Similar busts were
unveiled in the town hall at Liver
pool and Sulgrave Manor, the ances
tral home of the Washington fam
ily.
The busts were the gifts of the
American people and the president's
message called attention to the fact
that Washington was born a British
subject and that the peoples of the
two countries have a "common inher
itance and a common patriotism."
The unveiling ceremonies were the
principal .feature of Britain’s ob
servance of Memorial day. Pams
were taken to see that American
graves were decorated suitably and
there were special ceremonies at the
larger burial grounds.
Text of Message
At St. Paul’s, the Washington bust
was given a place of honor beside
those of Wellington and Nelson. A
special religious service preceded the
unveiling and the speeches by notable
Britons and Americans. The pres
ident’s message was transmitted by-
Ambassador George Harvey. It said:
“On the occasion of unveiling
busts of George Washington at St
Paul’s, the town hall of Liverpool
and Sulgrave Manor, I am moved to
express my hope that those gifts
from the American people may be
received as testifying anew their
long established friendship for the
British nation, and may Inspire a
continued reciprocation of that sen
timent by the British people.
"They will remind both peoples
that Washington was an Englishman
by birth and tradition before he be
came a leader in founding the new
Anglo-Saxon nation of this conti
nent. They will recall that these
nations have a common Inheritance
In language, institutions, customs
and sympathies.
A Common Devotion
“They will attest a common devo
tion to these ideals of liberty, hu
manity and enlightenment which
have ever been the inspiration of
both. Their gracious acceptance for
lodgment in the British shrines of
our common patriotism cannot but
make this occasion a reminder of the
sacrifices that in recent times have
drawn these two peoples so close to
gether.
"In the greatest and most unsel
fish effort that man ever put forth
to protect human honor and reasured
institutions they stood shoulder to
shoulder. They learned how great a
responsibilty they shared in the
world, how greatly they might dis
charge it when serving in complete
accord and alliance Uith other peo
ples likewise devoted to human
rights, liberties and welfare.
"If these memorials shall some
what contribute to the perpetuation
of such accord in such causes, they
will have done for humanity the pre
cise service whose hope is the mo
tive of the gift.”
American Graves Decorated
Os the 2,000 American graves
which are in this country last year
only 650 remain. Each of these to
day was decorated with a wreath sur
mounted by a tiny American flag.
Almost every branch of the service,
including the woman nurses, was
represented in the remaining graves.
Among those decorated -were the
graves of the submarine victims who
went down with the transport Tus
cania and Otranto. (
At Winchester a large wreath was
deposited in the American cemetery
in the name of the British army, “as
a tribute to our gallant American
comrades.”
Ijusitania victims were remember
ed at Queenstown when the American
consul led a procession of British
■oldiers to the cemetery to decorate
the victims’ graves.
2 Mules Confiscated
As Riders Are Charged
With Having Liquor
MQjULTRIE, May 28.—J. O. Stew
art a-id John Cobb, Colquitt
dry J officers, arrested three white
men! Friday afternoon and seized two
mu>s that they alleged were being
use/ to transport alcoholic beverages.
Th) men accused are W. L., L. C.
and J. A. May, brothers. They are
being held in jail, but it was ex
pected that they would arrange bail
during the day.
Stewart and Cobb claim that when
they found the Mays brothers they
were riding the mules and carrying
beer from a swamp .to a moonshine
still, which was later found. Two of
the brothers were on one mule. A
legal fight over the mules is ex-<
pected. The accused men said that
the animals were the property of
their father. It was also stated that
a local bank has a first mortgage on
them.
Aviator Is Killed,
Machinist Injured
In 500-Foot Fall
SAN DIEGO, Cal., May 2S.—Lieu
tenant George T. Roe, of Boston,
Mass., navy aviator, was killed, and
Chief Machinist’s Mate James P.
Dudley, of Virginia, was seriously
injured, when the airplane in which
they were flying feel 500 feet and
struck on North island today.
KillsWifeTThen”
Attempts Suicide
SAN DIEGO, Cal.. May 28.—Mrs.
Kathleen Cannon was dead here to
day and her husband, Albert Joseph
Cannon, dying, following a double
shooting at a local hotel.
Mrs. Cannon, according to the po
lice, was walking along the street
returning to her home from work
when Cannon fired three shots from
a rifle in a second-story window.
She fell, dying. Cannon then drop
ped his rifle and shot himself with
a revolver, the police said. Accord
ing to officers. Cannon followed his
wife here from Texarkana, Texas,
where they had family trouble. They
leave four young children.
MANNING DECLARED
HE WAS FOHGED TO
KILL. WITNESSES SAY
BY HUBEBT BAUGHN
(Staff Correspondent of The Journal)
COVINGTON, Ga., May 30.—Clyde
Manning, negro farm boss on the
John S. Williams “murder farm,’*
was placed on trial here today for
the murder of Lindsey Peterson, one
of the eleven farm hands who were
put to death on the Jasper county
plantation early in March.
Through his attorney, E. Marvin
Underwood, of Atlanta, Manning
pleaded not guilty. He will contend
that he killed the farm hand under
duress by Williams in order to save
his own life.
The defendant was brought under
heavy guard to Covington from the
Fulton tower early this morning. He
was dressed in overalls when he came
into court. He sat directly behind
Attorney Underwood and was appar
ently calm and collected.
Assisting Solicitor General A. M.
Brand in the prosecution was Attor
ney William M. Howard, of Augusta.
Mr. Howard appeared for the state
when Williams was tried early in
April.
Judge A. D. Meadows, of Coving
ton, was associated with Attorney
Underwood in the defense of Man
ning.
Interested onlookers were C. C.
King and W. H. Key, attorneys for
John S. Williams. It was announced
that Greene Johnson, of Monticello,
chief leading counsel for Williams,
would also attend the trial.
Two jurors had qualified at 10:15
o’clock. They were Bob Cason, of
Oxford, and Joe Black, of the Oak
Hill district. Both are farmers.
Williams’ Relations Barred
In striking the jury, defense at
torneys requested Judge Hutcheson
to direct Solicitor Brand to question
all jurors concerning their relation
ship to John Williams, stating that
he has many relatives in Newton
county. They pointed out that he
and Manning were jointly indicted,
and that persons related to Williams
would not be qualified to serve as
jurors in Manning’s case. Solicitor
Brand was opposed to questioning the
jurors along this line, taking the
position that relationship to John S.
Williams would not disqualify them
in Manning’s case.
Judge John B. Hutcheson over
ruled the solicitor and directed him
to disqualify all jurors who admitted
relationship to any member of John
S. Williams’ family.
The court room was only partly
filled when the trial opened, although
a large number of farmers from
the surrounding territory were in
Covington.
Attorneys, for the prosecution and
defense predicted that Manning’s fate
will rest with the jury not later
than Tuesday afternoon.
The jury was complete at 10:45
o’clock. It follows: Bob Cason,
farmer; Joe Black, farmer; C. D
Clarke, contractor; Henry C. Biggers,
farmer; F. A. Briscoe, manufactur
er; Coley Bird, farmer; P. F. Austin,
bus line operator; J. L. Milton. book
keeper; W. A. Hurst; merchant farm
er; Paul L. Dyer, farmer; Otis Har
deman, merchant farmer; J. P. Mos
ley, merchant farmer.
First Witness
After excluding from the court
room all men whose names were in
the jury box. Judge Hutcheson or
dered the trial to proceed. Solicitor
Brand swore the jury and asked
for sequestration of the witnesses.
The state called Carl Wheeler as
the first witness. He testified he aid
ed in recovering the bodies of Lind
say Peterson and Willie Preson
from Yellow river, near Allen’s
bridge. The bodies were tied to
gether with a trace chain and bags
of rocks were fastened around their
necks, he said. The defense did not
cross-examine him.
Dr. C. L. Hardeman, who said he
resides near Allen’s bridge, was next
called. He told of the recovery of
the bodies of Peterson and Preston
on March 13.
“In my opinion, the bodies had
been in the water ten days when
found,” he testified.
Sheriff B. L. Johnson told of the
recovery of the bodies. He said
Manning identified the bodies as
those of Peterson and Preston.
“Manning said he and Charlie
Chisholm helped John SI Williams
throw the men off the bridge,” de
clared the sheriff.
The witness began to tell of Man
ning’s confession of other murders,
but Attorney Underwood objected to
the evidence as ineligible.
‘‘We are not undertaking to conceal
any of the facts, and we are willing
for anything material to go in, but
unless the state intends to show What
these murders were part of a set
scheme of destruction designed by
this defendant I think evidence of
other murders should be excluded,”
said Mr. Underwood.
Attorney Howard, of the prosecu
tion, declared the state intends to
show that Manning was a participant
in a concerted scheme to destroy
lives to cover up peonage evidence
and that Manning had a personal in
terest in the suppression of such evi
dence.
Judge Hutcheson admitted the
testimony and Sheriff Johnson then
bared the entire confession of Man
ning, in which he told of the chain
of murders on and near the death
farm.
Admitted Fear of WUliamß
On cross-examination by Attorney
Underwood, Sheriff Johnson said
Manning told him he killed the farm
hands at Williams’ command in or
der to save his own life.
Manning’s testimony at the Wil
liams trial in April then was placed
in evidence. B. W. Smith, court re
porter, certified that the brief of the
evidence had been transcribed by
him and that it was correct.
A. J. Wismer, special agent of the
department of justice, was the next
witness. He told of his peonage in
vestigation on the Williams farm and
dec’arGv. Manning told him be was
boss of the farm hands. The wit
ness said the only negro on the plan
tation who gave him valuable infor
mation bearing on the peonage sys
tem was Johnny Williams. He de
clared this negro was found buried
in a pasture on the death farm three
weeks after he gave information.
Cross-questioned by defense coun
sel, the witness said Manning, in all
of his statements to federal agents
concerning the death of negro labor
ers clung to the statement that he
was forced by Williams to aid in the
crimes under threat of his own life.
Asked why the government in-
(Continued on Fage 6, Column 1)
He’s a Real Orator
At Age of Six
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.. Al
BERKELEY, Cal. —Six years
old and a psychologist, a natural
orator and a born leader.
This prodigy is John Hamilton
of this city. He recently deliv
ered a lecture before a local school
on “How a boy should behave.”
So unusual was his clear, con
cise exposition that scientists be
came interested in him and de
clared him to be possessed of ab
normal mentality.
iWtoM
WEARERSOF W
MONTGOMERY, Ala., May 28.
Representatives from every state in
the south that retired from the
United States government during the
war between the states will be pre
sented Friday when the Confederate
White House will be dedicated here
as the shrine of the old south. It
was announced here tonight by the
committee on arrangements.
The governor of every southern
state has been invited to be present
at the ceremony and several have
informed the committee that they
will attend if their duties do not
prevent.
A large number of Confederate
fighters will stand once again at at
tention in front of the home of their
beloved commander-in-chief, Jeff
Davis. Hundreds of southern belles
of the sixties and of the present once
again will make lovely its parlors
and porches when the reception is
held Friday evening.
A few women of the south—daugh
ters and granddaughters of those who
wore the grey—have worked and
fought with unceasing energy and un
tiring devotion and patience for the
preservation of this relic of the old
south.
In 1919 this band of southern
women secured an appropriation from
the legislature of Alabama for the
purchase of a lot on which to pre
serve the Confederate White House.
Its opening Frid’ay will be the cul
mination of their campaign and the
reward of their work.
Dope Thief Operates
ATHENS. Ga., May 28. —A dope
thief appears to be at large in
Athens. Wednesday night some one
entered the office of Dr. E. K.
Wheelis and scattered empty vials
over the office floor. The vials look
ed as if they had been filled with
drugs. Only a small amount of nar
cotics was secured, the police say.
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ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1921.
AIRPLANE ACCIDENT LAID TO
LACK OF UNITY OF CONTROL
SIOO.OOD.DOO GRAIN
EXPORTING CONCERN
FDRMALW_ STARTED
NEW YORK, May 29.—The great
est agricultural marketing organiza
tion in the world was launched here
Saturday when plans were completed
for the Farmers’ Finance corpora
tion.
The corporation, which was formed
for the purpose of handling the coun
try’s grain crop on a co-operative
basis, will have a captilization of
$100,000,600 and a potential power of
at least? $1,000,000,000. Incorporation
papers will be filed in Wilmington,
Del., next week.
To Function at Once
According to officials, the corpo
ration will begin to function im
mediately and may be able to handle
a portion of this year’s crops. The
principal objects of the organization
were described as follows:
Elimination of speculation in
grain.
Stabilization of grain prices, with
equal benefit to farmers and con
sumers.
Increased acreage, with consequent
greater production.
Abolition of unnecessary costs by
direct shipments and elimination of
middlemen’s profits.
If this experiment is successful,
it was stated, farmers’ organizations
throughout the country will apply
the same principle, to other agricul
tural products. The United States
Grain Growers, Incorporated, of
which the Farmers’ Finance Corpo
ration is a subsidiary, will form an
other subsidiary to handle exports.
Committees similar to the one
which has just completed organiza
tion of the finance corporation are
now at work on corporations to
handle livestock, fruit, milk and
dairy products, tobacco, poultry,
garden truck and cannery products.
The Farmers' Finance corporation
will at once lease or build elevators
in Chicago, Minneapolis, Omaha,
Kansas City, Cleveland, New York
and Spokane or Settle and later in
Galveston and Fort Worth.
51,000,000 Shares
C. H. Gustafson, president of the
new organization, explained that the
finance corporation will have 1,000,-
000 shares of non-voting stock with
a par value of SIOO, which will be
sold only to grain growers. The vot
ing stock consists of but twenty-one
shares of non-dividend paying shares,
held by the United Grain Growers,
Incorporated, and will be voted by
the latter’s directors. By this sys
tem, the officials believe they will
be able to insure permanent control
of the finance corporation by bona
fide farmers.
Additional funds will be raised, as
needed, through the sale of bonds to
the public, with the enormous quan
tities of grain and the paid-in capi
tal as security. Through this means
the officials are confident they will
have a potential financial power of
at least $1,000,000,000, and possibly
as high as $1,500,000,000 in the fu
ture. - .
Gustafson said that through the
finance corporation* grain coul.d be
marketed in ways—by the inai
vidual sale system, whereby farmers
sell direct to the elevators: by the
consignment system, whereby they
sell to the millers through the or
ganization, and by the pooling sys
tem. whereby farmers in a communi
ty, county or state pool their grain
and sell over a period of months, tak
ing an equal -profit of each bushel
they have provided, at the expiration
of that period.
“At present, "0 to 75 per cent of
the farmers’ grain is marketed within
ninety days after it' is harvested,
resulting in a glutting of the market,
with consequent loss to them and no
benefit to the consumers,” Gustafson
said.
One Killed, Score
Injured in Crash
Os Trolley Cars
BURLINGTON. N. J.. May 30.
One man was killed, a woman is dy
ing and more than a score of others
were injured in a head-on collision
of trolley cars at Roebling, near
here today.
BY DAVID LAWBENCE
(Lensed Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1921.)
WASHINGTON. May 30. —Amer-
ica’s worst airplane accident, occur
ring within a few miles of the na
tional capital, has served as noth
ing else possibly could, to accentuate
the careless way in which aviation
is being handled. Congress heard
bitter complaints about needless loss
of life when the war was on, but
no incident has illustrated even in
peace-time, the looseness of control
which the government maintains
over the most dangerous, yet the
most important of modern means of
transportation.
Ever since the close of the war,
the army aviators have been clamor
ing for unified control of aviation.
They have pointed out that there are
no laws today governing landings,
no laws regulating the use of air
planes over specified routes, no serv
ice which warns airplanes of dan
gerous air currents, just as the ships
at sea are warned of approaching
storms.
Today the army has its own avia
tion service, the navy has another
and the postoffice department has
another. There is nothing to prevent
the department of commerce or any
other government department from
purchasing planes and operating
them just as is the case with motor
transportation. There is today no
pooling of aviation experience, no
combined research, no general board
which handles the whole subject of
aviation any more than there is in
the government anybody which has
authority over cable and radio com
munication.
Independent Ann in England
Other countries, notably Great.
Britain, have spent huge sums for
the support of aviation and have
recognized it as an independent arm
of warfare and peace-time utility.
It is the irony of fate that Major
Connally, former member of con
gress from lowa, who was one of
the victims of Saturday’s tragedy at
Indian Head, often used to argue
that serious attacks were bound to
occur and America was sure to lag
behind other countries if unified con
trol of aviation were not established.
Brigadier General William E.
Mitchell, who commanded the Amer
ican aviation units in France and
who actually led them in battle, has
publicly commented on the Saturday
disaster as the direct consequence of
one defect in AmericA’s aviation
service—the lack of communication
between a central board watching out
for air currents and storms and air
planes which may happen to be in
flight.
Investigation Ordered
The jaunt of the big eagle plane
was not official. 1 It was net neces
sary that the ride be taken. Indeed,
anybody in the army and navy can
take an airplane at any time and go
anywhere. There is no ban on super
fluous flying and yet many of Amer
ica’s best aviators have been lost
on trips that need never have been
taken.
An official investigation of the ac
cident has been ordered. Unfortu
nately all seven passengers were
killed. There is no certain way of
telling exactly what brought the
plane down, though military avia
tors today seemed to think the elec
trical storm did the trick. They are
convinced of this because others like
General Mitchell who were flying in
the same vicinity at the same hour
found the weather conditions an al
most: obstacle. Friends
of General Mitchell, for instance,
were congratulating him today on
his narrow escape, and he made no
secret of the fact that he felt closer
to death in Saturday’s storm than
he ever did on the European battle
front —and General Mitchell has been
decorated for bravery in action.
Unquestionably Saturday’s acci
dent will revive the discussion of
unified control and perhaps accom
plish it.
‘TH Hang After All,”
Escaped Man Admits
WOODSTOCK, Ont., May 28.
“Well I guess I’ll hang, after all,”
Norman Garfield, condemned mur
derer, declared today as he sat in
the death cell here, following 56
hours of liberty after a spectacular
escape from jail.
Garfield, who will hang next
Thursday morning for the murder <9f
Benjamin Johnson, fled from the jail
after attacking the death watch and
robbing hitfi of his keys when the
guard entered the cell for a hat left
by the Rev. Mr. Gaetz.
Chinese Beggar King
Has Saved Millions
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Tau Sing-tau is king of the beg
gars in China. He is said to ha;«
a hoard of $5,000,000, tributes
from beggars all over the country.
Heaquarters: Shanghai. He has
just called a “general strike” of
the beggars’ union in China.
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ALLEGEDBLDCKADER
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., May 29.
Sheriff A. G. Catron, of Walker
county, Ga., who was shot by an
alleged whisky runner on the side
of Lookout mountain, Saturday this
of Lookout mountain Saturday
at 7 o'clock Saturday night.
The man who shot Sheriff Catron
escaped in the darkness and although
Georgia officers are in possession
of his name, they decline to give it
out. Tonight posses were scouring
the mountains in the vicinity of
Cenchatt in an effort to apprehend
the slayer. The shooting occurred
when the sheriff and a party of
deputies found three men ;n posses
sion of an automobile containing 40
gallons of whisky and attempted to
place them under arrest
Feeling is high in Walker county
and some fear of mob violence was
expressed by those in authority.
Sheriff Catron, accompanied by Dep
uty Sheriff Harmon and three special
deputies, left LaFayette Friday night
about midnight to make a raid on
transporters of whisky. About 3
o’clock this morning when the of
ficers had reached a point near
Cenchatt, they found an automobile
on the side of the road.* Three men
were crouched on the running board,
two of whom fled, with the officers
in pursuit. Sheriff Catron and
Deputy Abney approached to search
the car when the third man warned
them to stop. Adney threw his gun
on thte man, who quickly drew hl c
own revolver and wounded the dep
opened fire on thte man, and it is
body of Catron. As Adney fell he
opened fire on thte man, and it is
believed that he was wounded.
Sheriff Catron was placed in a
machine and rushed to Chattanooga
for treatment.
GOVERNMENT COSTS
PEOPLE ONE-EIGHTH
OF THEIBJMNGS
BY HABDEN COZ.FAX
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1921.)
WASHINGTON, May 28.—Govern
ment of the people, by the pbople
and for the people, cost the people
of the United States approximately
eight and one-half billions of dol
lars during the fiscal year now clos
ing—about 12 1-2 pe,r cent of all
the money the people earned—ac
cording to figures collected by the
senate and house committees facing
the task of framing a new tax bill
designed to lighten the load.
Peace time never knew such mon
umental cost of government before.
And while the cost of living has fal
len far from the peak it occupied
twelve months ago, cost of govern
ment still stands perched upon its
loftiest eminence, barring the days
when the country was at war and
maintaining a huge army, building a
navy and supporting the allied world
with its loans.
How to get the government down
to figures commensurate with the de
cline in the cost of living and other
costs appears to the committees stu
dying it, as the problem de luxe of
1921. Certain it is that the high cost
of government must be pruned ma
terially, and certain it appears to be
that the job of pruning in one re
quiring the touch and knowledge of
an expert. Certain it appears to be,
also, that the cost of government
cannot come down as far as the
American people want to see it come
and that there will be many thou
sands of disappointed taxpayers
when next year’s tax bills come
around.
Cost of City Government
The federal government has spent
money, during the fiscal year which
closes June 30, next, at the rate of
approximately five billions a year.
The expenses of the government
here at Washington will not fall
much below that sum, it is believed,
when the books for the year are
balanced.
In addition, there are other costs
of government ■which total about
three and one-half billion dollars
more. Chief of these is the cost of
city government. The latest census
figures cover 1919 government costs
in all cities of 30,000 or more in
habitants. There were 227 such
cities enumerated and their popula
tion is placed at 31,000,000 —less than
one-third of the population of con
tinental United States. The cost of
governing these 227 cities in 1919
was approximately $1,200,000,000, the
census states, although part of this
cost was returned in revenues from
such investments as water works,
etc., which showed a profit.
The cost of governing these cities
was not less, it is generally agreed,
in 1920 than it was in 1919. In ad
dition to and on top of this, comes
the cost of state government, a figure
also covered by the census bureau.
The forty-eight states spent net a
cool $600,000,000 for their govern
ment costs, making the cost of gov
erning the 227 cities and the forty
eight states approximately $1,800,-
000,000 for the year— and again it Is
conceded that th® cost of govern
ing the states In 1920 was not less
than in 1919.
Municipal government costs are re
corded by the census bureau, how
ever, only for the larger cities. It
is estimated that it cost every man,
woman and child in the smaller
cities, towns, villages, boroughs, etc,
an average of S2O a year for munici
pal government. In the larger cities
the cost was S4O per inhabitant. And
as there are approximate’y 80,000,000
persons living in those smaller mu
nicipal units, the total cost, there
fore, was $1,600,000,000.
Entirely Teo Much
That makes a total of $8,400,000,000
for the cost of all government—fed
eral. state, city, town, village, bor
ough.
In addition to recording govern
ment costs, the census bureau also
gives figures covering the nation’s
income—-the wages, salaries and oth
er earn’ngs paid the vast army of
toilers in the United States, num
bered at 40,000,000. Their total an
nual income is placed in round fig
ures at approximately $64,000,000,000,
an average of $1,600 for every man,
woman and child who works.
Figuring the government cost in
averages, the committees find that it
costs every wage earner in the
United States —and that term in
cludes the salaried men and women,
too —about $2lO for government dur
ing the past year. Some officials
believe that it cost even more than
that.
In other words, out of every dol
lar the toiler gets, government takes
12 1-2 cents. It is too much; and
how to make it less is going to cause
many headaches and not a few hot
verbal encounters on the floor of
congress during the days near at
hand. v
William F. Moore Sets
Gun for Chicken Thief
And Gets Shot in Leg
Following an accident with a set
gun placed to shoot a chicken thief.
William F. Moore, of 1519 Washing
ton street, is in the Georgia Baptist
hospital suffering from a severe
wound in the right leg. Mr. Moore
is the father of Will G. and James
F. Moore, well-known young At
lanta attorneys.
Mr. Moore had been bothered for
several months with thieves stealing
his chickens, so on Friday evening
he set a shotgun inside the chicken
bouse with an attachment so that
if an intrudtr should open the door
during the night he would get shot
in the leg.
Saturday morning at 11 o’clock
Mr. Moore went to show a neighbor.
H. A. Robertson, how he had rigged
up his set gun He thought he had
disconnected the apparatus which
fired the gun. but when he opened
the door of the chicken house his
own gun exploded and he fell
wounded seriously in the calf of his
right leg.
Dr. W. S. Aken, who was passing
tbe house, adminstered first aid. and
Mr. Moore was rushed to the Georgia
Baptist hospital. Physicians stated
Saturday afternoon that the limb
probably could be saved. Mr. Rob
ertson. the rieighbor, was injured
slightly in the hand by shot from
'he gun.
W. U. Cable Ship
Gives Up Fight
WASHINGTON. May 28.—The
Western Union's cable laying ship
which has been waiting off Miami.
FiA„ for many months in the hope
of bringing up the Barbadoes cable,
'eft here tonight for New Y'ork, navy
department officials have been ad
vised.
The action indicates that the com
pany has abandoned of obtain
ing the permission or tne federal
government to land the cable A
naval sub-chaser, which has been
standing guard over the ship since
it attempted to land the cable, de
spite the refusal of former Presi
dent Wilson to grant permission, is
accompanying the vessel, it was ie
ported to the department.
r CENTS A COPY*
i $1.50 A YEAR.
NATIONLOYALTO
SELF. BUT HELPFUL,
PRESIDENTS IDEAL
WASHINGTON, May 30.—A nation
loyal first of all to itself, but never
failing to measure up to the demands
of an advancing civilization was pic
tured by President Harding as an
American ideal today in a Memorial
day address at Arlington National
cemetery.
American heroes of every war, the
president said, had accomplished far
more than the immediate ends tor
which they fought, because they had
helped erect and preserve a shrine
for the liberty-loving of every race.
He declared the whole mission of
America would become an unrealized
dream if this heritage ever were
sacrificed.
"Our country,” said Mr. Harding,
“has never failed to measure up to
the demands presented to it in behalf
of humanity, and it never wilt. When
it ceases to meet these drafts, it will
no longer be our country; it will be,
if that time ever comes, the wretched
and decaying memorial of another
civilization that has crumbled, of an
other ideal which has failed, of an
other ambition for men’s happiness,
which has somehow gone awry.”
In equally emphatic language the
president asserted his conviction that
this duty to civilization could be ac
complished only if the nation took
care first of its own integrity.
“I counsel no selfishness,” he said,
“no little Americanism. no mere
parochialism, when I urge that* our
first duty is to our own, and that in
the measure of its performance we
will find the true gauge of our
capacity to be helpful to others.”
Text of Address
The text of the president’s address
follows:
“We are met on sacred soil today
for a solemn hour of sacrament and
consecration. But the soil whenca
we come is Hf-sanctified through
the sacrifices of those who lie here.
Wherever our flag flies, within thd
boundaries of the republic, it is
over lands whose freedom and secur
ity have been wrought through thess
sacrifices.
“It is the privilege of this conw»_
pany to utter our tribute of love
and gratitude in this sacristy of
beauty within the sight of the na
tional capitol. But others, no less
devout, will assemble all over our
land, and other lands, under foreign
skies and among alien peoples, to
pay like tribute of love and mem
ory. There are no restricted boun
daries to the reverence of this day.
There is no discordant note in the
hymn of gratitude. With old wounds
healed, and a new generation’s offer
ing on the altars of our patriotism
there is no sectionalism in our mem*,
orial. Above the murmurings of
grief is the swelling concord of un
ion and the dominant note is out
faith in the republic.
"It will be a tribute today spoken
in many tongues, and by diverse
races. Wherever men are free they
are wont to give thought our
country’s services in freedom’s cause.
Where men may but aspire to a.
freedom not yet achieved, their in
stinc. turns the eye and the thought
of hope this way, and they pray
that their cause may gain our ap
probation. They know that we have
never drawn the sword of oppres
sion, that we have not sought what
was not our own, nor taken all that
we might have claimed. They have
seen our protecting ;irm stretched
over the ou’posts of liberty on ev
ery continent. For more than a, cen
tury our plighted word warned ty
ranny from half the world, then
when the gauge was taken up by
mad ..mbition, men felt the blow
that arm could strike when freedom
answered in its utmost might. Across
the seas we sent our hosts of lib
erty's sons, commissioned ‘to redress
the eternal scales.’ Today, the sona
and daughters of other lands td»
which they gave their all are plac
ing with loving hands their laurel®
on American graves, not less rev
erently than we are doing here. Tn
me, no thought comes with more of
inspiration than this, that now our
’Memorial day is become an interna
tional occasion; that it calls upon
the fortunate free of many lands
and countries to help in its observ
ance; and that equally to them and
us it is a reminder of our common
troth to civilization, humanity and
•everlasting justice.
Our Debt
“There are gathered here the
ashes of a great army of those who
fought in the struggle which pre
served our union and insured our
high place in the community of na
tions. Our debt to them will never
be paid, but we can come for them
and for ourselves on this national
commemoration day, to attest our’
veneration and undying love. They
rendered a service greater than they
knew, for they saved our nation to
the cause of human freedom and
paved the v to that power and in
fluence which enabled it to play its
part in behalf of all mankind in the
time of supreme crisis of the world.
We will not over appraise their sac
rifice if we say that, had they failed,
their failure would have so weak
ened the forces of liberty and en
lightenment that they would havs
been doomed, in the more recent
world trial, to failure and defeat. A
divided America would have been in
capable of the effort that was de
manded to hold our present day
(Continued on Fage 6, Column 2)
»»Pi 5
By HUNSTO ALLIES
PARIS, May 30.—Germany today
paid the allies $200,000,000 and
thereby met the first clause cf the -
recent allied ultimatum.
The money wap paid over to the_.
allied reparations commission with
out ceremony. Dr. Wilhelm Mayer,
German ambassador here, carrying
the money in a suitcase, unaccom
panied by a guard, met the commis
sion and took its receipt. It was
the biggest single financial transac
tion since the war.
The money was in the form of
- gold bonds of $10,000,000
each. The papers bore the indorse
ment of four Berlin banks. They
were brought here by couriers.
The reparations commission will
divide the money on a pre-ar:anged
basis, Belgium. under the peace
treaty having first claim to it.