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MAKINS MING
PAY«TASK
BY RALPH BARTON
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright. 1921.)
WASHINGTON. May 28.—Making
farming pay is one of the big jobs
ahead of the national administration
just now. The help of the federal
government is likely to be necessary
in a great many ways—ln improving
highways and other facilities for
reaching markets, in helping farm
ers through methods so long a fea
ture of the work of the department
of agriculture, and in adjusting rail
road rates so that farm products can
be sent to markets more* profitably.;
A new line of government stance,
however, has developed in scientific
studies of efficient farm management,
which are being made available to
practical farmers with the idea that
they may be helped in solving their
own problems.
The department of agriculture has
just- made known certain results of
its inquiry along this line in the
Ozark region of Missouri, and al
though some allowance must be made
for local conditions, much of the
work will be of value in all parts
of the United States. One very def
inite conclusion which the depart
ment’s experts have reached is that
farms with less than forty acres in
crops do not pay, and a logical ed
velopment of the inquiry may lead
to data which will make possible
something like a standardization of
farms, such that farmers may, by
putting proper amounts of land into
crops of various kinds, have better
assurance of making a comfortable
living than they have now.
“Rule of thumb” methods in agri
culture have been pretty much dis
credited already, so far as the rais
ing of crops and livestock is con
cerned, and now the government is
endeavoring to supplant these meth
ods in farm management by sound
business principles. Too many farm
ers even now have little training for
their work, and many of those who
are technically well equipped lack
the administrative ability that is req
uisite to make the most out of their
resources. It is partly because the
farmer, particularly the small farmer,
has failed as a business man that
his present condition is so deplor
able.
Experts of the department of agri
culture have examined thoroughly
many farms, part of them valley and
level farms and others located in
rolling and hilly uplands. Roughly,
the results of the investigation
showed that farms of either class
which had forty acres or more in
crops returned a fair income for their
labor expended upon it, but that the
other did not. As might be ex
pected, the labor return is greater
for valley than for hill farms. , The
average return for the farmer s la
bor in the hill group of farms with
less than forty acres in crops was
only $165 a year, and for valley farm
only $204. On the other hand, val
ley farms averaging fifty-two acres
in crops—a group between forty and
seventy acres in crops—showed a la
bor return of $591 a year, and those
with more than seventy acres m
crops showed an average labor re
turn of $1,077 a year. The correspnd
ing figures for hill farms were $462
&n The low labor return
cannot be compared with the wage
of a city dweller, for the farmer, in
most instances, obtained a part
of the living of himseU and his fam
ily from the farm, in addition to
quarters. Interest on his investment
and other charges were deducted
from the total farm income as well,
so that labor income perhaps more
nearly conforms to profit than wages.
However, the year was exceptionally
favorable to farming, and in less
prosperous times —and with less in
flated moneys, the labor income
would probably be less.
Careful study of the records of
seventy-nine farms has . indicated
that forty acres in crops is a mini
mum for succesful and profitable
agriculture and that valley faims
are much better prospects than those
on the hills. The family income, in
cluding amounts left from total farm
receipts after deducting expenses,
averaged only $759 for the hill farms,
but was $1,331 for the valley farms.
Immigrant Prorata
By Nations Announced
By U. S. Authorities
WASHINGTON, May 28.—The
number of immigrants who will be
allowed to enter this country under
the new 3 per cent law during June
was announced for some of the coun
tries tonight by Commissioner Gen
eral Husband as follows:
United Kingdom. 5,923; Norway,
930: Sweden, 1,531: Denmark, 433,
Netherlands. 276; Belgium, 119; Lux
emburg, 7; France, 437; Switzerland,
287; Germany, 5,218; Danzig, 22; Fin
land, 298; Africa, 9. The law will
become operative June 3.
The list, which was prepared by
the joint committee from teh depart
ments of state, labor and commerce,
is not complete, Mr. Husband said,
while at the same time he expressed
fears lest there be some trouble as
a result of the present rush of im
migrants who are endeavoring t
reach this country before being ban
ned by the law. There is danger, he
said, that more than the quota for
June already is on the seas
The quota for June will be 28-300
of the number who may enter under
the law next year, it was explained.
Beginning July 1. with the fiscal
vear 20 per cent of each country s
quota will be allowed to enter each
month. _______
$2,000,000 Hospital for
Colored Soldiers at
Tuskegee Considered
WASHINGTON. May 28.—Con
struction of a hospital costing $2,-
000,000 near Tuskegee, Ala., to care
exclusively for disabled negro form
er men. is under considera
tion by the government, it was said
tcn : ght at the treasury. It is ex
pected. officials said, that the in
stitution will have 1.000 beds.
Establishment of the hospital near
Tuskegee, is being discussed, officials
explained, as the cooperation of the
famous negro educational institution
there is desired in working out plans
for the relief of disabled former
service men of that race.
The new hospital is being con
s dered in line with the general
hospitalization plans of the treasury
for providing adequate medical and
surgical facilities for veterans of the
world war.
Tennessean Is Held
For Death of Wife
LEXINGTON, Tenn., May 29.
Arthur Hanna, a lumber broker, was
arrested Saturday on warrant charg
ing murder in connection with the
fatal wounding of his wife at their
home early yesterday. The warrant
for Hanna’s arrest was obtained by
Dr. George A. Brandon, brother of
Mrs. Hanna.
Hanna was quoted as saying that
he was awakened by a noise and,
unaware that his wife had lett her
bed. opened fire at what he supposed
to be a burglar. One of the bullets
is said to have struck Mrs. Hanna
an d inflicted a mortal wound.
Gasoline Stocks
Largest on Record
WASHINGTON, May 28.—Gasoline
stockss on April 30 were the largest
in the history of the country, it
was shown in figures made public
today by the bureau of mines. There
were 755,000,000 gallons in stock
April 30, a net increase of 42.000.000
gallons over the amount on hand a
month before.
The largest increase during April,
the figures showed, was recorded in
the Texas and Louisiana division,
amounting to 1,800,000,000 gallons.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
NOW COMES A PICTURE SHOWING
HOW A FAIR ATHLETE JUMPS
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Athletic champions of girls’ colleges in New York, Connecticut
and New Jersey, competed recently at Mamaroneck, N. Y. Miss Janet
Snow is Oaksmere’s high jumper.
TARDIEU SHARPLY RAPS
GEORGE'S TREATY ATTITUDE
BY ANDRE TARDIEU
Bonner Trench High Commissioner
to America
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1921)
(France continues bitter toward Eng
land. Lloyd George appears to French
men to be more anxious to modify the
treaty of Versailles than to enforce it.
France asks nothing which was not
vouchsafed to her in the treaty and is
tired of having to negotiate with Lloyd
George every time a question arises un
der the treaty. A full and frank dis
cusion must be had to bring about a
better understanding.)
PARIS, May 28.—This week’s long
parliamentary debate on the repara
tions and Silesian questions empha
sizes certain indications I gave in my
dispatch last Sunday about the state
of French public opinion.
France is saturated to the point
of nausea with the negotiations
which have been going on for a whole
year with the allies and with Ger
many. The purposes of these negoti
ations at first was said to be an
improvement in the machinery es
tablished by the treaty of Versailles.
But as t.ime has gone on France has
seen thit all these so-called im
provements have operated to her
detriment.
At San Remo, in April, 1920; at
Spa, in July; at Paris, in January,
1921; at London, in May, various
decisions were reached regarding Ger
man disarmament, all of which in
practice resulted in nothing but the
granting of additional postponements
to a recalcitrant conquered, nation.
As far as reparations are con
cerned, these same successive con
ferences ' progressively reduced the
total of France’s credits. They re
ceded from 136,000,000,000 gold marks
to 110,000,000,000 and then to 95,-
000,000,000 and finally to 68,000,000,-
000, always - without .obtaining any
effective guarantee of payment in
exchange for the reductions.
Xdoyd George’s Speech
In every case the excuse for the
reductions was the necessity of main
taining agreement among the allies,
which, of course, France ardently
desires. But we now see, on the one
hand, that this agreement has been
pursued as an end in itself, instead
of as a means of effective action
as it ought to have been. On the
other hand, it is apparent from Lloyd
George’s recent oratorical sallies, to
gether with the tone of a certain ele
ment of the British press, that there
is strong doubt as to the efficacy of
France’s repeated concessions even
in attaining an accord with England.
I feel sure our American friends
easily understand our state of mind.
They are extremely anxious to pre
serve an independence not incompat
ible with co-operation with their
former associates for certain definite
ends.
France has never claimed against
Germany anything but the rights con
ferred by ;the peace treaty which
Great Britain signed. Therefore, it
is quite understandable that the
French people are growing tired of
the necessity of constantly negotiat
ing supplementary agreements with
Lloyd George, none of which has
been advantageous to France.
The French think that contracts
should be executed as they are writ
ten. The United States 2ias not
ratified the treaty of Versailles, and
France has not questioned America’s
right to act thus. Britain, however,
has ratified the treaty and France is
astonished to see th, British prime
minister constantly seeking to modi
fy rather than enforce.
I do not know whether Lloyd
George realizes fully the conse
quences of his policy, but I must say
in all sincerity that France’s strong
ly expressed anxiety over his Silesian
declarations is due to a realization
that this latest attitude is merely
a culmination of the policy he has
pursued ever since the treaty of Ver
sailles was promulgated.
Wants Free Discussion
Do I seem to be pessimistic about
the allied agreement anti to recom
mend ■ a policy of isolation for
France? Not at all. But I do think
that France and England must sit
down and talk frankly with each
other.
It is quite possible that the suc
cessive French governments, since
Clemenceau's retirement, have not in
sisted strongly enough to Lloyd
George on the French parliament’s
determination that France shall not
pqy in Germany’s place. But that
is what the latest agreement amounts
to, on Premier Briand’s own confes
sion. Nothing could compensate for
such a sacrifice except the obtaining,
through allied co-operation, of firmer
guarantees of eventual payment by
Germany.
Where are these guarantees?
Lloyd George’s attitude whenever
this question arises, is far from re
assuring. And when Lloyd George
asks France to abide by the treaty in
the Silesian matter (which is all
France ever asked), French opinion
thinks it a "bit too thin.”
France is as necessary to England
as England is to France. They must
stick together. But between them
there must be an equality of rights
and duties and fidelity to engage
ments, with a certain amount of dis
cretion in tense moments. Above all,
when misunderstanding arises there
must be prompt mutual explanations,
instead of allowing the misunder
standing to spread and grow until
we are at such a point as now.
I believe a full and frank discus
sion will bring about a better un
derstanding. The sooner the better.
In the middle ages drunkards used
to be encased in a barrel, with only
their heads sticking out.
Hand-washed dishes are said to
contain 20 times as many bacteria as
those washed by machine.
STATE ROAD POLICY
FAVOREDJYWATSON
Senator Thomas E. Watson has as
sured the state highway department
of his unqualified opposition to the
Townsend bill, which is one of two
measures now pending in congress
dealing with the continuance of fed
eral aid under practically the same
system as now obtains. The Dowell
measure has been brought to the at
tention of county commissioners,
civic organizations and good roads
advocates throughout the state, with
the idea of securing assistance in
enacting this greatly needed
piece of legislation. Embodying prac
tically all the features of the Mc-
Arthur bill, which failed of passage
at the last session of congress be
cause of a technicality, the Dowell
bill is being urged by state high
way commissions all over the coun
try in preference' to the Townsend
bill, which would virtually strip the
states of control in the matter of
locating federal aid roads and would
centralize authority in a commission
at Washington, D. C.
Senator Watson, who is a member
of the committee on postoffices and
post roads, has, in a letter to W.
R. Neel, state highway engineer, in
dicated his strenuous opposition to
the Townsend bill as tending to de
stroy state control of,, highway con
struction and maintenance. The sen
ator, who has been at work for some
time on the federal highway aid leg
islation, characterizes the Townsend
bill as one “which proposes to penal
ize the states which do not consent
to obey a central highway commit
tee appointed by the presidents and
dictating to the states without refer
ence to local conditions in those
states.”
The Dowell bill, which is receiving
the support of the National Associa
tion of Highway Officials, leaves the
location of federal aid roads to the
highway departments of the several
states, so that local conditions may
be considered and local problems
solved in the construction of high
ways to serve all sections of the
state.
This policy is diametrically op
posed to that outlined in the Town
send bill, which would provide for
the construction of two or three
trunk line highways in each»state
by the use of federal aid, thus build
ing expensive roads which would
serve only a fractional part of the
traveling public.
Both these measures are scheduled
to come up for consideration in con
gress within the next few days and
the state highway department is
making every effort to secure the
co-operation of citizens throughout
the state in getting the Georgia
delegation solidly behind the Dowel.’
bill.l
Prohibition Violation
Charged in U. S. Bills
In Southern District
MACON, Ga., May 2S—Fifteen
bills of criminal information al
leging violation of the national pro
hibition act against persons residing
in the district handled by the Unit
ed States court at Albany are to
be sent to the clerk at Albany for
filing by the United States District
At'orney’s office here.
Thirty-five bills have been pre
pared against persons residing in
the district under the jurisdiction
of the court at Valdosta which will
be sent to Savannah to be signed by
Judge Beverly D. Evans and then
will be sent to the United States
clerk’s office at Valdosta for filing.
Savannah to Make
Cut in City Salaries;
Reported 5 Per Cent
SAVANNAH, Ga.. May 28.—The
city of Savannah is to cut wages and
salaries. All city employes from the
“white collar” jobs down to the ele
vator job will be affected. The mat
ter has been discussed by the aider
men in caucus. Mayor Stewart de
clines to talk but others in the city
hall talk very freely. It is under
stood a 5 per cent reduction will be
made.
Special Trial for
Mississippi Slayer
HATTIESBURG. Miss., May 28.
Circuit Judge R. E. Hall late today
issued a call for a special meeting
of the Forrest county grand jury
consider the, case of Casey E. Jones,
who shot ’ and probably fatally
wounded Mrs. J. S. Mosely, wife of
a city mail carrier, here Thursday
morning. The call by Judge Hall,
he announced, was to avert threat
ened mob voilence. Jones is ■ under
heavy guard in the county jail here,
where county and city officials are
organized for a stubborn resistance
in the event an effort is made to re
move the prisoner. Jones previously
was saved from a mob when a min
ister intervened at the hospital,
where the man was under treat
ment.
TARIFF BILL TO COST
11. 5.550Q.000.000
WASHINGTON, May 29. The
farmers’ emergency tariff bill which
became effective Saturday, will mean
an additional burden on the Ameri
can people of approximately $500,-
000,000 a year, according to conserva
tive semi-official estimates made
here.
Joseph S. McCoy, treasury depart
ment actuary, has estimated the ad
ditional revenue that will accrue to
the government from the measure
will be $165,000,000 a year. Economic
experts, regardless of party affilia
tions, usually admit that any tax or
tariff is usually multiplied three
fold before it reaches the ultimate
payer, the consumer.
As a result, eliminating other cir
cumstances that may affect the
markets, the bill should increase the
cost of living to every man, woman
and child in the country about $5
a year.
Under the old tariff law. despite
big impcrtations the government re
ceived less than $5,000,000 from
duties on articles included in the
emergency tariff.
The main purpose of the bill is to
admittedly to boost the price of farm
products and its sponsors would like
to see an increase at least three
times as much as the tax imposed.
They ciaim that it is imperative to
pay the farmer a higher price for his
products.
If treasury estimates come to ex
pectations, the tariff will fall heav
iest on three necessities wool,
wheat and wheat flour, and sugar.
Mr. McCoy’s figures show that the
wool tariffs should yield about $90,-
000,000 more than the present sche
dules. Multiplying this amount by
three, it means the cosumer must
pay $2.75 additional if he buys only
one suit a year.
The sugar duties of 1-16 cents a
pound will yield the government au
additional $40,000,000. Already in
the nation’s capital the price of
sugar has jumped 1 1-2 cents a
pound in chain stores. Last Satur
day it was sold at six cents to the
consumer. Today the price was
7 1-2 cents.
Another $20,000,000 is expected
from the duty of 35 cents a bushel
on wheat, although the rate is so
high that it may cause a big de
crease in importations. The balance
is divded between about 25 other
items.
Other articles affected by the tar
iff are:
Flax seed, corn or maize, beans,
peanuts, potatoes, onions. rice,
lemons, vegetable oils, cattle and
sheep, fresh and frozen beef, cotton
and its manufactures, butter, cheese,
milk, apples, cherries, wrapper to
bacco and olives. w
At Odds on Tour Schedules
Republican members of the house
ways and means committee, prepar
ing a final draft of the general tariff
bill, were said tonight to be at odds
over four important schedules in the
new measure. What was described
as an open split has occurred in the
writing of schedules for chemicals,
cotton, wool and silks.
Despite the lack of agreement on
these schedules, and the fact that
some others have passed only the
subcommittee stage, Chairman Ford
ney held to his prediction of June 10
as the date of introduction. Some
members of the committee, however,
declared the house would not receive
the measure short of July 2. The
chemical schedule, it was said, has
resulted in a continuation of the fight
originating in the senate against the
further use of restrictions, other
than by tariff rates, on the importa
tion of dyestuffs. Mr. Fordney is un
derstood to have announced his vig
orous opposition in the committee to
any plan savoring of an embargo,
although he was willing to allow the
application of high rates.
The chemical provisions, it was
understood, have been put at the bot
tom of the list of schedules awaiting
consideration. No indication was
given when they would be taken up
again and but few members were said
to feel that the mere passing over
of the provisions would eliminate the
sore spots already caused.
Caucus Wednesday
Neither the subcommittee nor the
full Republican membership has suc
ceeded in establishing basic rates on
the silk schedule, while sectional
views were said to have reflected in
the attempt to fix rates on cotton
and its products. The New England
element in the committee was said
to be fighting against the rates on
cotton products, claiming they were
disproportionate to the rates on the
raw product.
Few members were willing to talk
of the wool schedule, but it was
learned that the division of wool
rates centered around the same prob
lem as those on cotton —disparity be
tween the rates on the raw and man
ufactured products.
Subcommittee drafts of the sched
ules on earthenware, paper, sundries
and minerals are understood to halve
been accepted by the majority mem
bers of the committee.
A formal call for a caucus of house
Republicans next Wednesday went
out during the day. The conference
will discuss and attempt to deter
mine a party policy on the resolution
of Representative Longworth, of
Ohio, which would make tariff du
ties carried by the general bill ef
fective upon the date of introduction
in the house. Representative Young,
of North Dakota, the only Republican
member of the ways and means com
mittee to oppose the plan, announced
today he would carry his fight against
it to the caucus, and declared he had
assurance of strong support.
Colquitt Co. Farmer
Is Killed by Kick
Delivered by Mule
MOULTRIE, May 28.—Will Mead
ows, a Conquitt county farmer, was
killed Friday when he was kicked
by a mule. The report received here
stated that Mr. Meadows was at
tempting to bridle the mule when it
suddenly turned and kicked him in
the chest. He was knocked to the
ground and was dead by the time
witnesses reached his side. It was
said that one oj the mule’s feet
struck Mr. Meadows just above the
heart and the blow is believed to
have killed him.
Mr. Meadows was forty years old
and is survived by his widow and
several children. He lived in the
Harts field district.,
Wesleyan Endowment
Increased $310,000;
3 Trustees Named
MACON. Ga.. May 28.—At the an
nual meeting of the board of trustees
of Wesleyan college here today an
nouncement was made of a gift of
SIIO,OOO from the general education
board of New’ York city. Tho board
of trustees added $200,000-to the gift,
making an addition of $310,000 to the
endowment fund. The board also
authorized the erection of an addi
tional dormitory. Charles B. Lewis,
W. D. Anderson and Judge Warner
Hill, of the Georgia supreme court,
were elected to the board of trustees
Raids Stills Despite
Recent Payroll Order
ATHENS, Ga., May 28.—Scott
Jackson, revenue officer, with head
quarters in Athens, continues raid
ing stills, although the treasury of
Uncle Sam has cut off his pay until
July 1. Judge Walter G. Cornett,
United' States commissioner, is also
off the pay roll as United States
commissioner, but retains his pay as
clerk of the district court. Officer
Jackson raided a house in Athens
Friday and captured a quantity of
whisky.
POPPIES REMIND GOTHAM
OF LATE WORLD WAR
BY JESSIE HENDERSON
(leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1921,)
NEW YORK, May 28. —It is poppy
week and the Flanders blossom
flames at every corner in memory of
the men who died overseas and in aid
of the orphans of France. The war
has been vividly in the minds of the
town the past few days. President
Harding came last Monday to pay
tribute to the 5.112 soldier dead new
ly arrived on the Hoboken pier. There
has been also the solemn commem
orative pageant enacted at the Twen
ty-second Regiment armory before
500 gold star mothers and 800 wound
ed soldiers.
There has been, likewise. Joan
with her thirteen small comrades.
Perhaps nothing could make the war
more real than the arrival of these
fourteen babies from England, some
of them orphans, all of them war
sufferers, seeking a home and par
ents. With an eagerness surpris
ing even to the committee which
brought the babies over, hundreds of
men and women immediately begged
for the privilege of adopting a child.
Joan was largely the causa of this
enthusiasm Joan, so sunnv-tem
pered, so prettily shy, so full of joy
and love for a world little deserving
of either at her dimpled hands.
With the president, whose visit
inaugurated the week, oame Mrs.
Harding. Many striking incidents
signalized her stay, such as the
thrusting of a rose into her hands
by an old woman who had waited
hours for the opportunity. But the
most striking thing, from a feminine
viewpoint, was that Mrs. Harding had
to change her gowns twice on the
few hours of her visit. Gray and
brown tweed made her trimly correct
for the yacht Mayflower voyage; mid
night blue charmeuse and a wide
feathered hat gave dignity and charm
for a ride through town by the presi
dent’s side; and an iridescent even
ing frock added the regal touch de
manded by an elaborate reception at
night.
It has bden rather a nice week, too,
for high school pupils. The school
authorities have adjudged Ruth Sein
fel, of Brooklyn, sixteen years, a
perfect physical specimen; something
beside which gold seems silly and
rubies pale. Moreover, David Koch,
a seventeen-year-old pupil at the
High School of Commerce, got a gold
medal and two prizes totaling $1,250.
He deserved ’em, for he wrote an es
say on "The Teachings of Adam
Smith in ‘The Wealth of Nations’
and Present-day Economic Condi
tions,” and what, if anything, do you
know about that?
The best that New York seems able
to do in the way of deep sea stuff
these anemic times, is to regulate
bathing suits at Coney. If the aider
men have their righteous way, Coney
Island will look like the landing of
the Pilgrims, with the human knee
as scarce as the clam in a chowder.
Events ashore have not been with
out a certain excitement. A seven
year-old boy ran across a roof anil
off the edge; on his way down from
the fifth story he grasped a clothes
line at the thirfi floor; it broke, but
he clung to it, swung clear across
the courtyard, banged against a third
floor window, dropped to the ground
and escaped with a broken leg. The
New York Medical society announced
that there’s nothing so conducive to
diphtheria immunity as frequent rides
in rush hour subway trains, though
a lot of people prefer diphtheria. Two
eleven-year-old boys found some
guns and cigarettes and started west
to fight Indians, but were overtaken
at Fort Hamilton Parkway by the
Children's Aid society.
Mrs. Julia Warshoff. a middle aged
Russian,-arrested for threatening an
optician, achieved the most spectac
ular attempt at suicide which New
York has lately seen when she shot
herself while seated in a motor car
that halted a moment in the traffic
at Broadway and Thirty-fourth street
in full view of many thousands of
passersby.
The three big cases in which wom
en figure so prominently are boiling
nicely; the Reid case has located all
its mysterious blondes; the Stokes
case resumes next week; the Stillman
case has arrived at the out, out, brief
scandal stage where private set
tlement appears likely and a SIOO,OOO
offer from the movies is dangled be
fore Mrs. Stillman simultaneously
with a $90,000 a year separation in
come. Once it was the woman who
collapsed under a divorce grilling.
Times have changed. W. E. D.
Stokes and James K. Stillman have
both been too ill to attend the hear
ings.
Exports to Europe
And South America
Show Sharp Decrease
VYASHINGTON, May 23.—Exports
to Europe and South America fell off
sharply during April while imports
from South America were nearly
$10,000,000 in excess of exports, for
eign trade figures .issued today by
the department of commerce, dis
closed.
Exports to Europe totalled $174,-
645,581 compared with $364,094,160
in April last year while imports ag
gregated $69,146,424 against slll,-
346,889. . J
For the ten month period exports
amounted to $3,053,315,328 compared
with $4,184,087,642 a year ago and
imports $822,352,715 compared with
$968,937,520.
Exports to South America aggre
gated $20,717,814 lat month against
$47,026,874 a year ago. Imports
$30,535,874 against $7,007,072 for the
ten months, and exports 1487,919,-
783 as compared with
last year; imports $442,246,673
again st $716,373,697.
14,000 Russians Are
Making Ammunition
WASHINGTON, May 28.—The
Russian Bolshevik government in
April was maintaining approximatelv
14,000 munition workers at Tula, the
most important pre-revolutionary
arms factory, according to reports
received here today in official
quarters.
Approximately 50,000 workers were
estimated to have been employed
there before the Bolshevik regime.
Arms and ammunition were
in good condition at the factory *r.
the following quantities: 35.000 Rus
sian rifles and 2,800,000 rounds of
ammunition; 15,000 officers’ Nagen
revolvers and 1500.000 rounds of am
munition; 18,000 soldiers’ Nagen re
volvers; 35 machine guns and 3,800
hand grenades.
Putnam Cotton Mills
To Run Full Time
EATONTON. Ga-, May 28.—The
Putnam Cotton Mills, which have
been closed for nearly a year, it is
reported, will reopen on full time
June 1. Superintendent Frank Gurry
has been in the north and east for
several weeks and announcement of
the mills’ reopening brings a note of
optimism and- cheer to the business
life of Eatonton. Active preparations
for the mills’ reopening are already
in progress.
The Eatonton Electric plant, for
merly owned and operated by the
Floyd Brothers, of Savannah, has
recently changed hands and will be
thoroughly remodelled and over
hauls d at once.
Preacher Caches Food;
Warned by Bible
SANTA ANA, Cal., May 28. —The
discovery of two ’ons of food se
curely cased and buried deep in a
canyon near here, caused an investi
gation by Sheriff C. E. Jackson to
day.
The sheriff said he found the cache
had been made by a local preacher
and two members of his congrega
tion, who explained they had acted
on a Biblical passage that they be
lieved foretold a time of famine.
The sheriff declined, to give their
names.
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the world that she has the most
shapely figure in Paris? She
wears the new “costume” at the
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COTTON UH FM
WHWIES
PHILADELPHIA. May 28.—The
American Cotton Manufacturers’ as
sociation, at its closing session to
day, adopted a resolution favoring
whatever tariff policy congress de
cides upon as essential to the welfare
of the country’s industries.
Resolutions were also adopted urg
ing the necessity for a permanent,
self-contained coal tar industry to
guard against a possible repetition of
the plight the American textile
industry found itself at the outbreak
of the war and a protest against the
high price of machinery repair parts.
In his annual address, President
Allen F. Johnson said no one in busi
ness anticipated the disturbances ex
perienced during the last year.
“While all knew war prices could
not continue indefinitely.” he de
clared, “it was hoped and rather ex
pected that liquidation would be
gradual and extend over a period of
years, that the decline, when it came,
would be an orderly retreat and. not
a rout.”
Yacht With Scotch
Creates Sensation
On Arrival in Port
TAMPA, May 28.—The yacht Inia,
which was captured at Tarpon
Springs with 400 cases of Scotch
whisky, arrived here yesterday In
charge of federal prohibition agents,
and a curious crowd, headed by a
photographer and assistants for a
moving picture concern, was on
hand to greet the arrivals. A pre
liminary hearing has been given the
officers and crew of the Inia, which
is a British vessel hailing from
Nassau, N. P.
Five of the men were bound over
in sums of $1,50J each, and the
sixth is held in SSOO bail. The 400
cases of Scotch are stored in the
federal building, along with the seiz
ure of sixty cases made near Fort
Myers last week.
Japan to Exchange
Mandate Memoranda
TOKIO, May 27.—(8y the Asso
ciated Press.) —Japan, according to
the best available information here,
has not sent a formal communication
to Washington as an answer to Sec
retary of State Hughes’ note on the
mandate question, but will inaugur
ate an exchange of memoranda in an
effort to find a wav to a direct set
tlement of the question of the Island
of Yap between Japana and the
United States. This is described as in
keeping with Japan’s policy frankly
to discuss with the new administra
tion in Washington all problems that
arise between Japan and America, in
an endeavor to reach a co-operative
accord.
The opinion is expressed that Ja
pan will offer some form of interna
tionalization of cables affected.
Although Japan will seek a politi
cal arrangement with America says
the Jiji Shimpo. it thinks the legal
matters involved must be settled be
tween America and the allies as a
w hole.
Alabama Captain
In Bolshevik Dungeon
RIGA, May 29. (By the Associ
ated Press.) —Confirmation of the re
port that Captain Emmett Kilpatrick,
of Alabama, the American Red Cross
worker in the hands of the Bolshe
ciki, has been transferred from a
• prison camp to a dungeon in the
Tcheka prison has been received here
through Terijoki, Finland.
From the same sources advices
state that Corporal Haselwood. form
erly of the Siberian expedition, is
imprisoned in Moscow and seriously
affected mentally.
All the Americans imprisoned in
Russia are now said to be receiv
ing supplies of food.
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ASHBURN, Ga., May 28.—During
the past few weeks the Ashburn
board of trade has been making ex
tentive investigation of the dairy in
dustry with the view of interesting
the farmers of Turner and adjoining
counties, as well as all of the towns
and counties traversed by the
Hawkinsville and Florida Southern
and Georgia Southern and Florida
Railways, to the extent of getting
them to supply enough cream to war
rant the establishing of a creamery.
As a result of this investigation, a
meeting was held Monday afternoon,
at which time a report was given to
the business men of Ashburn, as well
as to a few of the farmers who were
available at that time. The report
was very encouraging and a creamery
for Ashburn was assured. Farmers
attending this meeting expressed
themselves as being enthusiastic o.ver
this phase of farming. They say
that it is compu’ *ry for them to
take up something in lieu of cotton,
as they can not raise it profitably
under boll weevil conditions.
They consider dairying a safe and
profitable line to turn to, as it af
fords a ready market on the farm
for their feed crops, a cash income
throughout the year for the sale of
cream. The skimmed milk will be
fed to pigs which can be marketed
through the entire year. It is said
that the packing plaits prefer milk
fed hogs to those fattened on other
feeds, and will pay a premium for
same. The building up of the soil
through the use of the fertilizer,
thereby enabling the reproduction of
a larger yield per acre and increas
ed land values is the most essential
advantages of the dairy business and
one in which the farmers are most
interested.
In order that more of a the farmers
may have the benefit of*the investi
gation. which has been made, a meet
ing will be held at the courthouse
Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock, to
which all of the farmers and busi
ness men are invited. Invitations
have been extended to all of the
towns on the two railroads to have
representatives present and to co
operate in the movement.
Colquitt Farmer Is
Slain and Son Shot
By Negro Saturday
COLQUITT, Ga., May 28.—Dutch
Jordan, a white farmer about fifty
years old, was shot and instantly
killed this morning at his farm four
miles from Colquitt by a negro
named Lit Balkman. The negro also
shot and seriously wounded George
Jordan, the eighteen-year-old son of
Dutch Jordan.
Reports are conflicting as to the
provocation for the killing. It Is
reported that the negro promptly
surrendered to the sheriff, who has
him in custody. The negro Balk
man is a farmer about fifty years
of age and has resided in this county
all his life and has borne the repu
tation of being a hard working and
peacable -negro and has never had
trouble before.
It is said young Jordan, while
quite seriously injured, will recover.
The shooting was done with buckshot
and all three are reported to have
had their guns. The shooting took
place at Jordan’s home, in the pres
ence of his family.,
Oldest Woman Doctor
Dies in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS, May
Elizabeth Cohen, believed to be the
oldest woman doctor in the coun
try, died here tonight. She recently
celebrated her 101st birthday. She
retained all her faculties to the end
and was a constant reader. Mrs.
Cohen was born and educated in
England. Her husband died many
years ago.
German Police Dog
For Greenville Force
GREENVILLE, S. C.. May 28.—A
registered German police dog very
soon will be doing service with the
sheriff's forces in this county, for
Sheriff Carlos A. Rector has become
the proud possessor of a five-months
old pup of that caliber, and has al
ready begun the work of training
him for duty such as only a dog
of that kind can render. The dog
was given to the sheriff by Walter
Bull, of this city, after the officer
had made several unsuccessful at
tempts to buy him.
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