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AUaula GYMUe cWjj Journal
VOL. XXIII. NO. 106.
GEORGIA COTTON 63 PER CENT OF NORMAL
HOOVER GIVES PLEDGE
' TO LEND MORE HELP
TO COTTON PLANTER
The Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
623 Higgs Building.
BY THEODORE TILLEB
WASHINGTON, Jun© 2. —After a
conference with Herbert Hoover, sec
retary of commerce, former Senator
John L. McLaurin, of South Caro
lina, quoted Mr. Hoover as outlining
• more helpful policy toward the
„ loosening of credits to the cotton
planters of the south. Mr. Hoov
er's statement to Mr. McLaurin, who
is now trying, incidentally, to reor-
• ganize the Republican party in South
Carolina, is believed to reflect the
• attitude of the Harding administra
tion, and is altogether a hopeful
■ign.
After the conference, former Sen
ator McLaurin was plainly elated.
He stated that he believed cotton
would at once rise in price as a-re
shit of Secretary Hoover's statement.
Telegrams epitomizing the conversa
ble* were sent by former _ Senator
McLaurin to J. S. Wannamaker," presi
dent of the American Cotton associa
tion. now in New York.
There was some speculation here
as to whether or not the policy of
Secretary Hoover might not indicate
the political plans or the Republican
party toward the south. It has been
said in some quarters that the ad
ministration might use the argument
that it relieved the financial situa
tion in the south as a plea to poten
tial Republicans in Democratic ranks
to join the Republican party. Some
significance was attached today to
the fact that Mr. McLaurin, who par
ticipated in the conference, has been
chosen by Republican leaders here
to take charge of'rehabilitating the
Republican party in South Carolina,
and incidentally to make inroads in
Democratic ranks.
After the conference, Mr. McLaurin
repeated Mr. Hoover’s statement to
him as substantially the following:
“First: I consider it is vital that
’ the credit facilities to producers and
legitimate business should now be
greatly extended in the southern
states." The curtailments through
th© reserve system have served their
purpose in reducing speculation and
overplanting: They are now bring
ing great hardship. This is more a
question of volume of credit extend
ed than it is of the rate of interest
demanded, and requires the co-opera
tion of both reserve and member
banks. I believe most bankers are
now agreed that this policy is neces
sary.
“Second: We need better organ
ized export credit machinery. The
northern bankers will, I hope, suc
ceed, in joint efforts with their
, southern colleagtfes in creating larg
er institutions under the Edge law
for handling cotton. It appears to
me that some measure of safe credit
could be established by Americans
placing cotton in European ware-
• houses under their own control for
' delivery to European buyers against
Cash. Perhaps co-operation among
producers and bankers could accom
plish something in this direction.
“Third: For better marketing and
financing of the cotton industry, the
warehousing system should be im
proved so as to permit the issuance
of a cotton warehouse certificate ot
such form and character that it can
not onlv become the basis of mobile
credit, but also can pass as actual
delivery of the cotton. This implies
not only guaranteed warehouse in
tegrity. but a complete determination
of grade, quality and quantity. This
Is already current in some states and
needs to" be extended.’’
Court Room Moved
By Pathos of Tria!
Os 11 -Year-Old Boy
KNOX, Ind.. June 2.—The court
room here today presented a picture
that might have been taken from a
fairv book —or a children’s play
room, except for the. tragic and
deathly serious demeanor of the
characters. - „
Eleven-year-old Cecil Burkett,
resting on his mother’s lap, with
his head against her bosom, was the
center of this tragic picture. He
was on trial on a charge of murder
ing 7-year-old Bennie Slavin. His
seven brothers and sisters, all of
tender years, were cared for by the
Russian immigrant mother as she
sat in court.
The mother’s chief attention was
devoted to taking care of her 11-year
old, however. She smoothed his
hair, brushed a spot of dust from
his plain little suit, and gently ca
ressed him.
Other children were grouped
around the court room. Many of
them were witnesses, some for Ce
cil and others for the prosecution.
Bennie’s mother sat near the pros
ecutor’s table, aiding in the presen
•..tation of the case against the child.
She demands that the killing of her
bov be avenged. .
Cecil denies he shot Bennie. He
claims Bennie shot himself accident
rally. Other children who were with
the two boys the day of the shoot
ing, testified that Cecil was holding
the gun when the shot was fired,
and that Bennie, before he died, said:
“Cecil shot me and I am going to
die.”
Cecil’s father is a day laborer.
Bennie was the son of a struggling
cross-roads merchant.
The entire section of the county
is divided on the question-of wheth
er Cecil should be punished. The
state will not ask a heavy punish
ment, in case of conviction, but will
demand that the boy be confined in
some home for children.
Four Banks Brothers
Found Not Guilty
In N. C. Murder Case
* ASHEVILLE, N. C.. June 3.—The
four Banks brothers -of Yancey coun
ty, charged witji the murder of Bry
son Henaley, his son, Eugene, and
Daugherty Prudence, were found not
guilty by a Madison county superior
court jury here tonight. Tne jury
was out two hours. A special term
of court was convened to hear the
case, Judge P. A. McElroy, presiding,
and great numbers were attracted
to Marshall to hear the trial which
began Monday morning.
Crew of the Esperanto
Is Brought to Port
HALIFAX. N. S.. June 2.—T'e
crew of the Gloucester schooner Es
peranto was brought to port here
today by the Gloucesterman Elsie,
'-..which had taken them off the wreck
’qj their craft at Sable Island. The
Esperanto, winner of the interna
tional fishing vessel championship
races here last fall, floundered after
'striking a submerged wreck, they
said.
UIISSERANO PRAISES
U. SJOBGINII
CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va.. June 2.
America is one of the nations in the
vanguard of civilization as regards
learning and discoveries. Jules J.
Jusserand, the French ambassador,
deeclared today in responding to ad
dresses of welcome at the formal
opening of the exercises incident to
the centennial celebration of the
founding of the University of Vir
ginia.
"America’s universities, laborato
ries, libraries, scientific periodicals
are the envy of more than one for
eign nation,” said the ambassador.
“She not only receives professors
from abroad, but sends some of her
Cwn, who are received with open
arms—-epeA cars.
“An even more telling proof that
the problem is solved and that
America has come into her own in
the matter of learning, is the high
appreciation in which are held in
every country the medals, prizes, or
other tokens of appreciation she may
choose to bestow. These tokens
sometimes are the sign not only of
her appreciation of merit, but of her
inborn warm-heartedness and gener
osity. The other day, having heard
that the discoverer of radium pos
sessed no radium, she presented a
grjini of the substance to Madame
Curie, the presentation being made
at the White House by th© chief of
state in a speech which went to the
heart not only of the illustrious lady,
but to the whole of France.”
Visitors here for the centennial
were welcomed to the university by
Governor Davis, of Virginia, and Dr.
Edwin E. Aiderman, president of the
university. Besides Ambassador
Jusserand. those making responses
were Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell, presi
dent of Harvard university; Dr. Ju
lian A. Chandler, president of Wil
liam and Mary college, and Dr. Al
bert Ross Hill, president of the Uni
versity of Missouri.
After these exercises the alumni
of the university paid honor to their
war dead. A plaque upon which are
written the names of eighty sons of
the university who lost their liv°s
in the world war, was unveiled.
plaque is on th© south front of the
hitoric rotunda, beside a tablet up 'in
which ar© inscribed the names of liv
ing aod dead officers who fought in
the war between the states.
Captain Alfred Dickinson Barks
dale presented the plaque, which was
unveiled by two little girls. Miss
Bobbie Conrad, daughter of Captain
Robert Young Conrad. who was
killed in action near Verdun, and
Miss Sallie Merrick Kite, daughter of
Sergeant Charles Clement Kite, who
was killed in action near Chateau
Thierry. John Stewart Bryan, rector
of the university, accented the
plaque, and M. Gabriel Honotaux,
commander of the French Legion of
Honor, naid tribute to the Ameri
can dead.
PEACE IS ADVOCATED
BI BRITISH GFFICIJL
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va„ June 2. '
• —The English speaking peoples of ■
the world should be “banded together
in leadership of the nations, to the
era of world peace and. as a first |
step, to the era in which the wars I
which even now we can recognize '
as futile and unnecessary, ar© done I
with forever,” Sir Auckland Geddes,
the British ambassador, said in an
address here today at centennial ex
ercises of the University of Virgina.
“The continuance indefinitely into
the future of peace between our peo
ples is so obvious a necessity of our
national lives,” Sir Auckland said,
“that I do not dream of th© con
tingency of its rupture. What I am
concerned with is something that
seems to me far greater and far nob
ler.”
Deprecating war as a sapper of
the physical vigor of nations, and
denying that “peace will rot the vi
tals of a nation,” the ambassador
expressed the belief “that now is the
time for the English-speaking peo
ples, with their great and peculiar
advantages, to resolve that never
again will they permit this fair
world to be devastated by unneces
sary war if by standing firmly to
gether they can prevent it.”
“What is to hinder their co-opera
tion to this great end?” he asked.
"Nothing that I know of but ig
norance of each others’ ideals and as
pirations and the suspicion that is
the child of Ignorance.”
“Once again the world has passed
through the furnace of war,” the am
bassador continued, "once again the
horror of the battle field, made more
horrible by science, has bitten deep
into the minds of the nation. Once
again for a time they yearn for
peace, but as ever, th© human mind
is forgetful of horror. Already the
memories of the beastliness of war
grow dim and the recollections of
the fellowship, the courage, the
glories of the human spirit rising
triumphant above the terrors of the
body, grow bright and brighter. Our
minds are straytyg back to the old
circular path that'leads men to speak
of the honor of war and then of its
glory and just before they again
know its horror, of its desirability.
“I abate no jot or tittle of what
I have said in the past, but abating
i nothing I think it is no derogation
to speak of the gross folly of war
and to beg of this great university
that it will see that i.e sons and
daughters, ere they go f irth to their
appointed places in the higher or the
subordinate leadership of their na-
I tion, know clearly what is the cost
I of war.”
Moonshiner Warned
By Friendly Hawks
Makes His Getaway
PENSACOLA, Fla., June 3.—After
seeing his quarry warned three times
by hawks i na nearby nest. Sheriff
I Ellis this morning gave up the at
tempt to capture the operator of Z
still of about 15 miles from PensaL
cola and seized the outfit which con
sisted of two 35-gallon capacity stills
and 600 gallons of beer, ready to be
run. The sheriff claims that every
time he approached the scene, the
hawks would rise, warning the oper
ator of the still, which was producing
actual liquor when the sheriff arriv
ed. The operator could not be lo
cated.
■SIN POSITION
TD REDUCE RATES
WASHINGTON, June 2.—The na
tion's railroads now are in a posi
tion to slash freight rates and in
stitute a policy of bargain-counter
bidding for increased business, of
ficials-said here today.
Their operating costs depressed
S4OO-000,000 a year through the wage
reduction order of th© Chicago (la
bor board, plus $100,000,000 from re
ductions on coal purchases, the
roads now are face to face with the
problem of letting shippers and the
general public in on the easier situ
ation, it was maintained. Rates
now are 70 per cent above pre-war
levels.
The matter of rate reduction is
wholly up to th© roads themselves,
it was pointed out at the interstate
commerce commission. The roads
can fix new and lower rates and put
them into effect on thirty days’ no
tice through the simple process of
filing copies of the schedules with
the commission.
New rates can'be put into effect
on five day’s notice instead of
thirty, provided the railroads and
the shippers get together and agree
to reductions. In this case the
interstate commerce commission
makes special dispensation and the
rates go into efteet almost at once.
With President Harding giving
personal attention to rate reduc
tions. reductions are expected short
ly. Now, however, it is practically
agreed that there shall be no general
horizontal decrease. The lower
rates wiH be put into effect on spe
cific commodities to encourage their
movement. In the cases of many
goods, the roads now are handling
as much traffic as they can and the
road managers, therefore, can see
no reason for cutting prices on
such commodities.
A conference here today between
building men and rail managers is
one of hundreds that are being held
in several sections of the country
to hasten rate reductions. In each
case where agreement is reached the
new rates become effective within
five days.
RATES SHOULD COME
DOWN, ASSERTS M’ADOO
NEW YORK, June 2.—Railroad
rates should be reduced at once, in
view of th- recent wcg<- cut, accord
ing to William G. McAdoo, former
secretary of treasury and director
general of railroads
“The present .i.gh freight and pas
senger rates are based, in large
measure, upon the increased wages
of railroad employes established by
the railroad labor board in the sum
mer of 1920,” Mr. McAdoo said in
an interview today.
“Now that this board has ordered
a- large reduction in the wages of
railroad employes, a- prompt 'reduc
tion of freight and passenger rates
should follow.
“High rates are hurting business
and imposing a heavy burden upon
th© general public. Farmers, cattle
men, producers and consumers have
felt it acutely.
“Passenger travel has been re
stricted and every form of competitive
transportation facility has been
brought into operation with corre
sponding loss of railroad revenue. A
reduction of high freight and pas
senger rates should prove helpful
to every interest.”
“While the railroqd should have a
square deal, it is essential that the
public, including labor, farmers and
shippers, should also have a square
deal.”
“Noose and a Limb”
Urged for Radicals
In Mississippi Town
QUITMAN, Miss., June 3.—Declar
ing that "a noose and a limb’’ await
an yagitator caught in Quitman, citi
zens at the call of the mayor an
nounce that steps have been taken to
discourage entry of undesirable ra
cial agitators.
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ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1921.
COUNTRY PAST WORST OF
PERIOD OF READJUSTMENT
WASHINGTON, June 2.—Convic
tion that the country has passed the
most trying period of readjustment
and Is on the road to recovery is
expressed by Governor Harding, of
the federal reserve board, upon com
pletion of a two weeks’ survey of
the agricultural and industrial sec
tions of the middle west and the
south.
Mr. Harding traveled through Illi
nois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma,
Arkansas, Tennessee and Alabama,
and declared he saw everywhere
great activity on the farms and an
abundance of farm labor, with ap
parently every acre of land cultivat
ed heretofore being utilized this
year.
Summarizing his report of condi
tions made to the board Governor
Harding said:
“The most optimistic sentiment
which prevailed everywhere was most
gratifying. The bankers and busi
ness men of these sections are look
ing for a trade revival in the autumn
and seemed to have no doubt that
there would be ample credit for both
agricultural and trade requirements.
The only exceptions were the live
stock men I met in Topeka., who
seemed anxious to obtain two or
three-yehr loans either through pri
vate agencies or through the war fi
nance corporation or the federal loan
banks.
“The trip confirmed my convic
tions that we in this country have
now passed the most trying period
of the world-wide readjustment of
trade and prices, ana are on the road
to recovery. We are approaching the
new crop season with underlying con
ditions far sounder and more favor
able than they were a year ago, and
in spite of the unprecedented carry
over of cotton and grain, largely fi
nanced and bank credit, the reserves
of the federal reserve system are
nearly 40 per cent higher than they
were a year ago, which leaves no
room for apprehension, regarding
the financing of either agriculture
or industry. Indeed, with the recent
easing of credit and with the fed
eral reserve board ready, as usual,
to exrtend liberal credits to member
banks for the legitimate require
ments of their customers, bankers
everywhere seemed disposed to dis
miss credit as a factor of uncertain
ty or concern in the making of the
new crops.”
Board's Review
While “a definite turn for the bet
ter” has been taken apparently by
some branches of industry and the
business outlook for the season con
tinues more favorable, there is but
little prospect of “an immediate
sharp improvement ot conditions,”
the federal reserve board declares
in its re 1 the financial, an! e.oo
nbmic s I 11 throughout the coun
try dur' I ,11
Recoi I I production and distri-
bution nas**Y>cVn in progress during
the month, the board said, but slow
ly and greatly retarded. However,
it added, the more hopeful attitude
which has shown itself among busi
ness men recently has continued and
is preparing the , war for active de
velopment in some industries.
Financially, the month was one of
increasing strength and of more
prosperous outlook, the board as
serted. In various sections of the
country, it was explained, there has
been an easing of the demand for
funds resulting in part from accept
ance of lower price levels and par
tially from the adjustment of busi
ness to new conditions.
Irregularity and lack of uniformi
ty still exists to a marked degree in
the retail price field, the board ob
served. Serious obstacles to the fi
nal adjustment of wages was fore
cast unless retail prices move much
faster to their final basis.
Adjustment between wages and
prices, especially retail prices, is ex
hibiting financial difficulties, the
board ptaintained, while readjust
ment in wages has been slow.
Foreign Trade Depressed
4 Unstability of wholesale prices,
the board asserted, was retarding
buying for future delivery in many
RIG SLASH NOTED IN
U.S.OISBURSEMENTS
I
WASHINGTON. June 2.—Govern
ment disbursements have been slash
ed $8,406,000,000, or 40 per cent dur
ing the first eleven months of the
present fiscal year, which ends this
month, treasury department state
ments showed today.
' The grand total of all disburse
ments for the fiscal year to May 27
was $12,174,000,000. For the same
period last year the total was $20,-
580,000,000. These figures include
every penny paid out by the govern
ment for any purpose whatever over
the periods covered. Some of the
items covered represent cash paid by
the treasury in taking up short term
certificates. The totals, therefore,
do not represent the actual running
expenses, but are much greater. For
purposes of comparison, however, the
totals indicate roughly that the de
mand for economy voiced by Presi
dent Harding on many occasions is
being recognized and put into prac
tice.
June probably will add another sl,-
000,000,000 to the grand total of dis
bursements for the year bringing it
to $13,000,000,000. Grand total dis
bursements in May were $1,125,000,-
000.
The ordinary, or running expenses
of the government for the eleven
months of the fiscal year totaled $4,-
815,000,000, as compared with $5,902,-
000,000 for 1920. Os this $858,410,-
«000 was interest on the public debt
’or 7 per cent of the grand total. Un
der the item "purchase of obligations
of foreign governments” was listed a
disbursement of $73,897,000, or 0.6
per cent of the grand total.
On the public debt, reductions for
the eleven months’ period amounted
to $7,559,000,000, as compared with
$14,678,000,000 for 1920. It will be
reduced about $1,000,000,000 in the
next two years, according to esti
mates by Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon.
Columbus, Ga., Man
Convicted of Murder
Os Fortune Teller
COLUMBUS, Ga.. June 3. —Charles
Creamer was convicted here today
of the murder of Mrs. Mattie Wells,
an aged fortune teller, who was beatr
en to deat hand robbed in her home
here July 15, last. The jury return
ed a recommendation for mercy, car
rying a sentence of life imprison
ment, which was imposed.
lines, both in industries where re
covery was in progress and those
which were Still declining. In the
-wholer&ale and retail trade-therer has'
been some recession, mainly seasonal,
it continued, the reaction being only
sporadic, as gains made by business
generally in preceding months have
been retained on the whole.
Foreign trade during the month
was described as still arrested or
depressed, with its movement con
tinuing toward a more equal balance
of imports and exports. Especially
noteworthy in the foreign trade sit
uation has been the volume of goods
as reflected in the figures showing
decreased foreign shipments and in
creased receipts from abroad during
the month, the board said. Unem
ployment was on the increase in May,
the board reported, despite the an
ticipated improvement in the labor
market, due to the opening of spring
agricultural activities. However, it
added, voluntary unemployment has
been considerably augmented as a
result of increasing labor difficulties
accompanying wage reductions.
Agriculturally, the board declared,
the situation during the month may
be characterized as unfavorable and
backward. The wet, cold weather of
May, it explained, interfered with
crop development and did great dam
age in certain sections. The fruit
crop over wide areas has suffered
severely, and the development of the
cotton crop throughout the south has
been retarded by unfavorable weath
er conditions.
U. S. CLAIMS TITLE
TO HONSHU'S VALID
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Lensed Wire Service to Tile Journal.)
(Copyright, 1921.)
WASHINGTON. June 3—America
considers absolutely valid her title
to the German ships seized in Amer
ican ports about the time of the out
break of war with Germany.
Dispatches from abroad stating
that the reparation commission would
examine whether the ships should
be turned over to that commission
as a portion of German assets, fail
ed to disturb the equanimity of offi
cial opinion on the subject. No claim
has as yet been made for the ships,
but if it should be presented, the
United States government will take
the position that title to the ships
was obtained by President Wilson
after the passage of a special act of
congress authorizing him Io seize
the ships.
So far as domestic law is concern
ed, our government’s right to the
ships is unquestioned. As for a Ger
man claim for the return of those
ships, the American government finds
nothing in the Versailles treaty
which permits Germany to make such
a claim as the Berlin government
gave away all her rights to the ships
in that treaty. Therefore, the only
parties who could dispute th© Amer
ican ownership of the vessels are the
allies. The latter have taken pos
session of all the assets of Germany
and it is insisted here that even
though the United States hasn’t rat
ified the treaty of Versailles, this
government continues to have a voice
in the disposition of any property
in the hands of the principal associ
ated powers at the time of the ar
mistice. Secretary Hughes will in
struct© the American representative
on the reparations commission to ex
press the American viewpoint if any
claim should be made for the Ger
man ships.
The theory on which the allies have
been helping themselves to German
shipping has been that Germany
must make good losses by submarine
destruction. American tonnage sunk
by submarines was not very large,
but it has been assumed that in han
dling claims against Germany, Amer
ican ship owners would be paid out
of the proceeds of such shipping as
had been seized from Germany.
In view of the uncertain status
of all war claims because the Unit
ed States has not ratified the Ver
sailles treaty, it is unlikely that any
action will be forced by the allies
at this time which would embarrass
the American government work
ing out its foreign policy, it is an
other significant development, how
ever. which proves that either in
■making a new peace treaty .0r.,»&
cepting certain parts of the Ver
sailles treaty, America’s negotiations
will nominally be with the Germans
but actually with the allied powers.
This now is officially admitted. The
sending of American representatives
to the various allied commis
sions, is a step, therefore, in
the direction of negotiating a trea
ty for it will be through Ambassa
dor Harvey, at London, who sits on
the supreme council or Ambassador
Herrick, at Paris, that the United
States government will work out the
details of the treaty which must fol
low the passage of the Knox-Porter
peace resolution.
Hartford, Alabama,
Is Visited by Fire
Causing $50,000 Loss
HARTFORD, Ala., Jun© 3.—Hart
ford early yesterday was visited by
a fire which damaged property to
the extent of $50,000. The Hartford
Motor company’s accessory depart
ment, the city market and J. H.
Smith’s grocery store were destroyed.
The fire is believed by firemen to
have started in th© building of the.
Hartford Motor company. /
DROP IN PRODUCTION
TO ONE MILLION BALES
IS INDICATED FOR 1921
HOUSE DISPLEASED
WITH NAVAL BILL
WASHINGTON, June 2.—Passage
of the naval appropriation bill by the
senate paves the way for what prom
ises to be’a sharp contest in confer
ence between the senate and house
over senate increases of $98,000,000
and the Borah amendment authoriz
ing and requesting the president *>
call a disarmament conference of
the United States, Great Britain and
Japan. House sentiment is under
stood to be against the appropria
tion increase and its leaders have in
dicated a desire to broaden tire Bo
rah plan to include military as well
as naval disarmament in a general
conference of many nations.
As passed by the senate the bill
carried $494,000,000, as compared
with $396,000,000, voted by the house.
Th© senate vote wjts 54 to 17, the lat
ter including five Republicans and
twelve Democrats whose opposition
was based principally on the senate
increases. Sixteen Democrats joined
with thirty-eight Republicans in
voting for passage.
Almost three weeks of vigorous
contest were required in the senate
to dispose of the bill and the economy
drive waged against it was contin
ued up to the moment of its passage.
The drive, however, netted a reduc
tion of but $2,500,000 —$1,500,000 ly
elimination of the committee amend
ment tet/start a new Pacific coast
naval base at Alameda, Cal., and
$1,000,000 lopped from transporta
tion and recruiting funds.
Amendments Dost
In the final effort for reduction
a motion by Senator King, Democrat,
Utah, to recommit the bill to com
mittee with instructions to cut out
$100,000,000 was defeated. 43 to 25,
the affirmative including ten Repub
licans. Other amendments by Sen
ator King to suspend work on new
battle cruisers and super-dread
naugnts of the 1916 building pro
gram were rejected without record
votes.
The senate retained by a supple
mentary vote of 38 to 24. the com
mittee amendment providing about
$40,000,000 additional to maintain an
enlisted personnel of 120,000. The
house fixed the personnel at 100.000.
The ten Republicans prominent in
the economy campaign voted for the
reduction.
The senate without.a record vo‘e
also provided for continuing appro
priations of 1918 for the dry dock
and channel at the Charleston, S. C.,
navy yards. These Include $1,150,-
000 for the-dry dock and unexpected
appropriations from a fund of sl,-
500,000 for dredging.
Borah Amendment Intact
Another amendment previously
adopted and finally eliminated was
that of Senator McKellar. Democrat,
Tennessee, authorizing reappointment
to the Annapolis academy pf 110 mid
shipmen who were forced to resign
last term because of scholastic de
ficiencies.
The Borah disarmament amend
ment, adopted recently by the unan
imous vote of 74 to 0, was retained
intact. Because of its inclusion. Sen
ator Borah, its author, voted for the
bill.
“I have great hope in that (disar
mament plan), probably greater than
my colleagues,” lie said. . "But I
know there still is much opposition
to the amendment and to the cause.”
Senate conferees will insist to the
end upon inclusion of the Borfh
amendment, Senator Poindexter, head
of the senate managers, said tonight.
Senator Borah said the appropria
tion burden of the bill could not be
justified” to the tax payers. Similar
sentiments were expressed by‘Sena
tors Pomerene, Ohio: Hitchcock. Ne
braska: Watson, Georgia, and Heflin,
Alabama, Democrats, in explanation
of their votes against the bills.
GOODROADS BILL
IN SENATE FIGHT
WASHINGTON. June 2.—Friends
In congress of the good roads move
ment are rallying together to pre
vent what they call an attempt to
make federal aid in building a “pork
barrel” rivalling the old rivers and
and harbors and public buildings
bill.
The contest probably will be
fought out ovoP the Townsend good
roads bill, now before the senate
post office and post roads commit
tee, of which Senator Townsend,
Michigan, author of the bill, is chair
man.
Senator Townsend is leading the
fight to prevent the good roads as
sistance of the federal government
being turned into a political asset
for ambitious congressmen.
Hearings before the committee i
have disclosed the "pork barrel” idea. ,
It has been shown:
That some states are “spotted"
with pieces of road built in part
with federal funds. These “spots”
it has been shown in some cases do
not connect with roads “that go any
where” to quote one witness.
That roads are built with Uncle
Sam’s aid, and then not maintained,
the federal government "assuming”
that the states or counties will keep
up those highways.
That some states have laws de
signed apparently to convert federal •
road aid into “pork” by requiring it
to be parceled* out among congres- I
sional district.
Decision Declares
State Prohi Cases
Distinct From U. S.
MOBILE, Ala., June 3. —A decision j
to the effect that an acquittal or con- ,
viction in the state courts in prohi
bition cases has no bearing whatever I
on the same case in the federal j
court, was rendered Thursday by j
Judge Robert T. Ervin, in the trial I
of Spencer Newell, of Prichard, tried !
and convicted of selling liquor.
Irish Republicans
Fail in Attempt
To Sink Destroyer
CORK. June 3. — Republicans at- I
tempted last night to blow up a
British destroyer, which was under- I
going repairs in the Haul Bowline I
dockyard. The destroyer was slight
ly damaged.
In consequence of the outrage all
the dockyard employes were paid off
today ojy twenty minutes’ notice.
Scents a copy.
$1.50 A YEAH.
The condition of Georgia’s cotton
crop is 63 per cent of normal, ac
cording to the report of the co-oper
ative crop reporting service, which
bases'its figures on data compiled by
statisticians in every county in the
state. This is three points belovr
the condition report for the entire
cotton belt and more than one-third
off from a normal crop condition. It
is also 13.7 points under the ten
year average 76.7 per cent and estab
lishes a low record only exceeded by
the condition report for May 25. 1920,
which was 55 per cent. This year’s
crop condition report, as of May 25,
is the lowest in 125 years except for
that of 1920.
The condition statistics, taken in
connection with the figures showing
cotton acreage in Georgia, as well as
throughout the cotton states, ar®
taken to indicate that the 1921 cotton
crop will be the shortest in more
than two decades. Government re
ports made a few weeks ago, esti
mated the 1921 crop at a trifle more
than 8,000.000 bales and showed
acreage reduction amounting to ap
proximately 50 per cent in some sec
tions. Data gathered by federal and
state agencies indicates that Geor
gia's cotton acreage reduction will
amount to almost that figure.
According to the co-operative crop
reporting service, the Georgia crop
will total approximately 1,000,000
bales, this estimate having been
made some time ago and now reiter
ated on the showing made in the con
dition report. The co-operative crop
reporting service is a joint agency
of the federal bureau of crop esti
mates, and the state department of
agriculture. It maintains correspond
ents in everv section of the state and
its reports are recognized as being
by far the most accurate of any oth
er agency.
Bad Weather Factor
Bad weather conditions, Meeessitat
ing replanting, combined With other
natural causes -to bring a Pout the
sub-normal status of the. co l } o ' l
on May 25, according to the repot t,
while, the reduction of fertilizer ap
plication has further
growth of the plants. Th® analysis
accompanying the statistical report
the circumstances
which brought about the present
rsssssa
splendidly prepared. But cold dry
weather set in in April and ®t®Y®
through early May, hindering plant
ing, germination and growth. The
seed had much difficulty in getting
out of the ground. Continuous cold
weather killed outright much of the
young cotton, and much of it is stm
dying. „„ *
"In some counties over 50 -per cent
I of the crop had to be replanted, ac-
I cording to our reporters, and re
, planting is still going on. Not a
■I few farmers pave planted as many
' as three times: A good many of the
abandoned fields are not going into
i cotton again; they are being put
i into corn and peanuts and peas,
i thereby effecting a further reduction
! in an already substantially reduced
: acreage. ~ .
“The plants generally present a
I stunted appearance. This is as
| cribed to the cold and sparing us®
lof fertilizers. Stands range from
! bad to poor, and are mostly bad.
i Only a few good stands are in evi-
I dence. Much of the replanted cot-
I ton has not come out of the ground.
I Where cotton is up the size of th®
plants is very irregular, ranging
from just-up to six inches high in
some localities.
“Chopping out is making generally
poor progress. Hundreds of fields
have not as yet been put to a stand.
Correspondents says the crop aver
ages from ten days to six weeks late.
And it is lousy; the lice are eating
it up stem and leaf. Many com
plaints are heard of boll weevil at
tacking the bud of the young plants.
The weevil is causing great appre
hension. «
“Excessive rains fell after May 10
for several days in central and south
ern Georgia, causing the fields to be
com© boggy and grassy and weedy.
In this salient the state of cultiva
tion is generally poor because of th®
rains. Warm, dry weather during
the last days of May enabled cotton
growers to overcome somewhat the
lateness of the season and give their
fields much needed cultivation.
Back of Fertilizer
“According to our reporters, 1n
some counties over 60 per cent of
the cotton acreage has not been fer
tilized. Where used this year fer
tilizer averaged 195 pounds per acre
on cotton, and the average value of
the application was about $3.11 per
figures by counties ar®
given in percentage, as follows:
Atkinson, 75; Appling, 90; Banks,
66; Bartow, 62; Baldwin, 50; Bibb,
74; Bleckley. 60; Butts, 65; Bullock,
61: Burke, 63 Baker, 40; Ben Hill,
59; Berrien, 53; Brooks, 69; Bacon,
70; Brantley, 53: Byran, 63.
Catoosa, 89; Chatooga, 67; Chero
kee. 79; Clarke. 62; Cobb, 47; Camp
bell, 62; Carroll, 70; Chattahoochee,
60; Clayton. 68; Coweta, 66; Candler,
59; Columbia, 55; Calhoun, 49; Clay,
50; Clinch, 50; Coffee, 41; Colquitt,
82: Cook. 70 Crisp, 70.
Dade, 72 Dawson, 80; DeKalb, 64;
Douglas, 66; Dodge, 67; Decatur, 61;
Dougherty, 56; Dooly, 54; Elbert, 69;
Effingham, 83; Emanuel, 58; Early
59: Echols, 93; Evans, 63.
Floyd, 66; Forsyth, 75; Fulton, 77;
Franklin, 69; Fayette, 57; Gordon, 61;
Gwinnett, 75; Greene, 51; Glasscock,
45; Grady, 80; Hall. 68; Habersham.
65; Hart, 58 Haralson, 66; Hams,
45; Heard. 63: Henry, 61 Hancock,
47: Houston, 71.
Irwin. 72: Jackson. 70; Jasper, 71;
Jones, 53: Johnson, 60; Jefferson, 65;
Jenkins. 58; Jeff Davis, 58.
Lumpkin. 83; Lincoln, 66; Lamar,
56;
Lowndes, 65; Liberty, 90; Long, 68.
Murray, 75; Milton, 70; Madison,
66; Macon. 63; Marion. 53; Meriweth
er. 61; Muscogee. 53; Monroe, 63;
Montgomery, 64; Morgan. 60: McDuf
fie. 69: Miller, 48; Mitchell, 53; New
ton. 76.
Oconee, 57: Oglethorpe, 65: FgUi
ding, 69; Polk. 71; Pickens. 76: Pile®.
67; Pulaski. 57; Putnam, 58; Pierce,
53; Quitman, 50.
Rockdale, 78; Richmond. 64; Ran
dolph. 60; Stephens, 66; Schley, 58;
SpaltJuig, 68; Screven. 71: Seminole,
73: Stewart. 50; Sumter, 58.
Talbot. 59; Taylor. 71; Troup. 56;
Talliaferro, 51; Treutlin, 59; Twiggs,
45: Terrell, 76 Thomas, 55; Telfair,
58; Tift. 69; Turner, 78; Tattnall,
70; Toombs, 45.
Upson. 55; Walker. 73: Whitfield,
76: Walton. 70; White. 95; Wilkes,
60: Washington. 50; Wheeler. 49; Wil
kinson. 65 Warren, 61; Webster, 70;
Wilcox, 60; Worth, 65; Ware, 68;
Wayne, 80.