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VOL. XXIV. NO. 13.
GREAT RAIL STRIKE CALLED OFF BY UNION LEADERS
PRESIDENT HARDING
GIVEN WARM WELCOME
IN ATLANTA THURSDAY
Thousands were waiting in b
drizzling rain to welcome President
Harding and his party when they
arrived at the Terminal station
shortly after 1 o’clock Thursday
afternoon for the first visit pkid
Atlanta by a president since Presi
‘<l it U--s administration, and
with the most notable company q>
high government officials
Visited the city in one party.
The president’s party came from
Columbus in a special train, which
' made the run from Newnan over
the Atlanta and West Point tracks
at a rate of nearly seventy miles
an hour in order to reach Atlan
ta on scheduled time.
After a nelaborate luncheon at
-the Druid Hills Golf club and a
parade through the down
town streets, the president spoke
from a rostrum at the Grady monu
ment to an audience which packed
the wide expanse of Marietta street
tc its utmost capacity. Traffic was
halted while the president spoke
and while the great crowd gave
him an ovation in keeping with his
high office and with the traditions
of southern hospitality.
Hours before the time scheduled
for the president’s speech, an im
mense crowd, including hundreds of
negroes, gathered around the monu
ment
President Harding spoke about
ten minutes. Shortly before the pa
rade reached *the Grady shaft the
misty drizzle which began shortly
before noon ceased and the sun
shown down ‘' cheering throng
which was gathered to hear his
•peech.
From the Grad’ 7 shaft, the presi
dent and his party went to the Ter
minal station, where they joined
Mrs. Harding and boarded the spe
cial train, leaving for Washington
where he is scheduled to attend im
portant, con fp early Friday.
With the president were Mrs. Har
ding; John W. Weeks, secretary of
War; A. B. Falk, secretary of the in
terior; Oscar W. Underwood, United
States senator from Alabama and
candidate for the Democratic presi
dential nomination in 1912; and Con
gressman Almond, of the Muscle
Shoals district of Alabama.
Arrive on Special Train
They came by special train from
Columbus, where the party on
Thursday morning inspected" Camp
Benning, the world's greatest school
of arms, embracing 100,000 acres and
every form of modern land warfare,
and where special troop maneuvers
and demonstrations of implements of
war were given in their honor.
* Arriving at the Terminal station,
the party were mdt by a reception
committee composed of Governor
Thomas W. Hardwick, the former
colleague and personal friend of
president Harding when they were
in the senate; Lee Ashcraft, presi
dent of the Atlanta Chamber of
Commerce; Forrest Adair, chairman
of the chamber’s entertainment com
mittee; Mell R. Wilkinson, vice chair’
man of the committee; Clark Howell,
editor of the Atlanta Constitution,
■- and Democratic national committee
man from Georgia; Buford Goodwin,
publisher of the Atlanta Georgian;
Major John S. Cohen, editor of The
Atlanta Journal.
In addition to these, a ladies’ re
ception committee was at the sta
tion to greet Mrs. Harding, the mem
bers of the committee being Mrs. Al
bert Thornton, Sr., chairman; Mrs.
Charles Dowman, vice chairman;
Mrs. Thomas W. Hardwick, Mrs.
James L. Key. Mrs. Preston S. Ark
wright, Mrs. Samuel Lumpkin and
Miss Laura Smith.
The greeting extended to Presi
dent Harding and his party was
cordial but simple, without pomp or
circumstance, and within ten min
utes they were on their way in au
tomobiles to the Druid Hills club
for. a luncheon in the president’s
honor. '
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NEW YORK, Oct. 28. —Postmaster
General Hays and a sfcore of other
passengers were slightly injured to
day when the Washington bound
midnight express on the Pennsyl
vania railroad crashed into the rear
end of a Long Branch local at Man
hattan Transfer, N. J. The acci
dent was due to a heavy fog.
Hays, who had come here to in
vestigate the .$1,500,000 mail rob
bery, was thrown from his berth,
and* in addition to shock, sustained
strained muscles. He was attended
by a physician on the train and re
turned to New York City, going im
mediately to a hotel, where * was
ordered to rest.
R. S. Simmons, chief inspector of
. the postoffice department, and Dr.
f Lee K. Frankel, director of the de
partment's welfare difVision also were
•lightly injured. Mrs. J. B. Moore,
of Asbury Park, whose skull was
fractured, was said to be the only
person seriously injured.
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BLANTON. OF TEXAS.
GENSIJHEDBY HOUSE
WASHINGTON. < Oct. 28.—The
hous> of representatives voted to
censßre and to direct the speaker to
reprimand publicly Representative
Blantan, Democrat, Texas, after a
resolution to expel Mr. Blanton had
failed by the' narrow margin of eight
votes.
Representative Blanton was then
taken before the bar of the house by
the sergeant-at-arms and publicly
censured and reprimanded by Speak
er Gillett. There were a few hisses
from the Republican side. i
Speaker Gillett censured Blanton
who walked from the floor and
fainted in the house lobby, falling
upon his face.
In pronouncing the censure,
Speaker Killett said:
“You have inserted foul and ob
scene matter in the Congressional
Record, matter which you could not
deliver on the. floor of the house
and ( which coijld not be
in tile mails without v olating tne
law.’-
The obscene mattery Speaker Gil
lett said, had been into thou
sands of homes and libraries, “and
worst of all -to be read by children
whose cur’e—’ 1 -- will be excited.”
“Because of th : ~ ” Speaker Gillett
said in conclusion, “I hereby pro
nouncfe upon you the censure of the
house.”
Representative Blanton w a s
brought into the house chamber
and led down the center aisle by
the sergeant-at-arms, Joseph Rogers.
With square shoulders and head
thrown back he faced Speaker Gil
lett during delivery of th© censure.
At its close his head dropped and,
looking at his watch, he walked to
a side door. There he fainted and
fell.
. The vote on the resolution was
203 for expulsion and 113 against
and one voting present. This lack
ed eight votes of the necessary
two-thirds to expel the Texan.
Immediately after defeat of the ex
pulsion resolution, the Garrett reso
lution censuring Representative
Blanton was called up. A roll-call
vote Was dejftianded.
The rolljcall favored to censure
Blanton and directed the speaker to
reprimand him publicly for his con
duct. <
When it was apparent the resolu
tion of censure would be adopted by
a wide margin, Speaker Gillett an
nounced that he would reprimand
Blanton before his colleagues imme
diately after the completion of the .
vote.
The resolution of censure was
passed by a vote of 293 to 0, with 26
members voting “present.”
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AT STONE MOUNTAIN
\
-STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga., Oct. 28. 1
—After blowing off the outside door
of the vault of the Granite bank, of (
Stone Mountain some time Wednes- |
day night, robbers secured $24 in
pennies and $55 in old coins, and de
parted. They failed to gbt into the
inside safe of the vahlt, where there
was stored about $13,000 in cash
and SB,OOO in Liberty bonds.
-The robbery was discovered when
the bank opened Thursday mom-
Wig.
Strewn on the floor was about a
thousand dollars worth of diamonds
belonging to Mrs. W. C. McCurdy,
which had been blown from a safety
deposit box in the outside compart
rrfent of the vault.
Several thousand dollars in Liber
ty bonds the outside cham
ber were also overlooked by the safe
crackers. It is believed that they
were interrupted in their work, but
the preliminary investigation by
Sheriff J. A. McCurdy Thursday
morning, developed no substantial
clews, and no witnesses to any
phase of the robbery.
J. S. McCurdy, president of the
bank, stated Thursday morning
that the robbers were evidently ex
perts, since there had been no bun
gling and no lost motion in getting
the big vault door open. One small
hole was drilled at a point where
it was most effective and some pow
erful explosive had done the rest.
The robbers did not try to open the
screwed-door, time-locked safe with
in the vault, which contained prac
tically all the cash of the bank.
Sheriff McCurdy and, officials of
DeKalb county visited the scene of
the robbery soon after it was dis
covered, and were busy Thursday
morning trying to find a trace of
the perpetrators.
The old coins taken from the vault
may lead to the discovery of the
criminals. They were owned by a
collector, who knows most of them,
and if the robbers try to put them
into circulation, they may betray
themselves.
First news of the robbery created
considerable excitement here, but
later, when it was discovered that
there was practically no loss, the
people were inclined to laugh over
the dismal failure of the cracksmen.
$ 100 Prize Offered
For Essay on Seal
Superintendent M. L. Brittain, of
the state school department, calls
attention to the prizes of SIOO each
offered by Secretary. of State Mc-
Lendon for the best essays on the
great seal of Georgia, one to go to
a boy and the other to a girl.
The essays must be in the hands
of Superintendent Brittain hy De
cember 21, 1921, and are to be read
on Georgia day in the schools, Feb
ruary 12.
HARDING'S SPEECH
H BIRMINGHAM
TALKJFCAPITAL
Southern Democrats Criti
cize Utterance,*While Re
publicans Command, Call
ing It "Lincolnesque”
RY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1921.,'
Oct. 28.—Presi
dent Harding’s speech at Birming
ham, Ala., advocating political and
‘economic equality for the negro was
the “talk of the town” today.
Southern Democrats privately de
nounced it and predicted that -the
hopes of the Republican party fpr a
“white Republican vote” 'had' been
absolutely oashed to tLe ground. Re
publicans commented the utterance
as Loncolnesque.” They called it
a courageous speech, delivered as it
was, in the heart of the south itself.
Irrespective of the merits of Mr.
Harding’s doctrine, there are cer
tain interesting aspects to it from
a political viewpoint. Republican
candidates have in the past spoken
of political equality in their cam
paign speeches without creating
much of a ripple. Mr. Harding said
virtually the same thing in his presi
dential campaign as he said at Bir
mingham—it pleased the negro vot
ers and was hardly commented upon
at the time. -But as president, no
one has gone quite Ms far in recent
years in handling the negro prob
lem as had Mr. Harding. Theoreti
cally, Republicans and Democrats
have admitted upon occasions that
true democ acy means political
equality but in actual practice both
partied have had their controversies
about granting that equality.
Campaign Planned
For several months the leaders of
the Republican party have been
planning a real campaign to break
the Democratic hold on the “solid
south.” Some have advocated that
the way to do it is for some state
ment to/be made which would assure
the whites in the south that they
could vote the Republican ticket
without fear of negro domination.
This has indeed been advocated by
those Republicans who hailed from
the south and who knew that some
such utterance was necessary before
the. whites could be persuaded to de
sert th Democratic standard. On
the other hand northern Republic
ans who have been helped in recent
years by the influx of negroes into
their congressional districts have
feared that such a statement would
be regarded as hostile by northern
negroes.
Mr. Harding has tried a compro
mise. He declares he does not be
lieve in social or racial equality.
That’s an important statement for a
president of the United States to
make. But while the south always
has insisted upon its own right to
determine who shall or shall not be
considered social equals, the trou
ble is that the true fear of political
equality is that it may lead to so
cial equality.
Answer Likely *
At least the southern Democrats
here who have made a study of the
question declare that the line be
tween political and social equality is
too hazy to draw. They argue, more
over, that political equality means
the election to office of negroes to
,rule over whites. Such a status,
they add, inevitably, carries with it
social friction.
Republicans who defend Mr. Har
ding’s speceh were vehement in their
expressions of approval, pointing out
that, the president had made a real
appeal for a united nation and had
not minced words in contending for
a genuine and not an imaginary
democracy.
The fact that negroes had in the
audience applauded and cheered
while whites stood silent, as report
ed in the dispatches from Birming
ham, was regarded as of lesser im
portance than the after effects of
the speech on the mass of people
who read and did not hear the ut
terances. One thing is certain, Mr.
Harding has said something that is
bound to be the basis for discussion.
Indeed, it would not be surprising
if the speech were answered in con
gress by the southern Democrats.
55,00010 DAMIGE
IN FLORIDA STORM
I
; TAMPA, Fla... Oct. 28.—Property
' damage in that section of the Flor
ida peninsula swept Tuesday and
Tuesday night by the tropical hur
i ricane, is estimated at $5,000,000 by
insurance men here who have been
analyzing reports reaching Tampa
from other setions. The damage in
Tampa is estimated at between sl,-
500,000 and $2,000,000, but it will be
several days before definite figures
can be given.
The known death list early today
stood at five, which included two at
St. Petersburg and three in Tampa
and vicinity.
■ , The Dead
Those repotted dead are:
i Jimmy Juarrno, 43, Tampa; elec
trocuted by felling wires.
Mrs. J. B. Wilder, 85, Rocky Point,
Fla., drWvnea.
Louis Vaire, said to. be a Cuban
from Key West, reported drowned;
death unconfirmed.
; J. W. McLean, 80, St. Petersburg,
Fla., died from excitement.
Ferrell Wolffe, 18, St. Petersburg,
crushed under falling roof.
Reports are still to be had from
Captiva, Estero, Marco, Anna Maria
I and other islands south of here, in
| habited by tourists and fishermen.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1921.
GOSPEL OF UNDERSTANDING
IS PREACHED BY PRESIDENT
As Grady Urged Reconcilia
tion for Nation, So Will
America Plead for World
Harmony,Mr,Harding Says
Standing at the foot of the Henry
Grady monument in Marietta street,
President Warren G. Harding ad
dressed a warm appeal for the co
operation of a “truly united coun
try,” in solving -the problems now
confronting it, asked for a “gospel
of understanding,” and urging that
nothing should deter the south from
doing its part to provide “no letter
stage than that of a united country”
for such sons of the south as Henry
Grady and Theodore Roosevelt, on
whose birth-anniversary he was
speaking.
"No ‘pent-up Utica’ for such as
they!” he pleaded, and went on to
speak of the impending conference
on international disarmament. He
said that the United States was go
ing into the conference so imbued
with the desire for world-fellowship
that if the conference failed, “the
fault would lie elsewhere,”
The president’s references to the
part of the United States intended
to play in “turning a disrupted
world into the paths of peace,” were
heartily applauded, and his tribute
to Henry Grady was met with an
ovation.
The following is a complete text
of the president’s address:
“Fellow Americans: I can not
tell you how glad I am to be here,
to greet you men and wdmen of At
lanta, of Georgia and the south, and
to'.receive this testimony of devotion
to our common country. Be assur
ed that, much as I crave, and wish
to deserve, your good will, I shall
not mistakenly assume that such a
greeting as this is for me, or ever
could be for any one man. I recog
nize it as the tribute which a great
people pays to a constituted author
ity in its public life. It is the reflec
tion of the spirit which makes mir
popularity governed institutions se
cure. 1 * But you will permit me to say,
from my heart, that nowhere else do
they do these things with quite the
same zest and flavor and convincing
enthusiasm which spice the hospi
tality of your wonderful south. As
private citizen or public official, it
has always b£en to me an especial
pleasure, to come to the south. As
a youwg man I was very near in
deed to becomi&g" a resident of'fhe
south and a citizen of your neighbor
ing state, Tennessee. Even for the
sake of paying a compliment, I shall
not tell you I am entirely sorry I
didn’t come; it might imply a lack
of appreciation forth 4 somewhat
notable kindnesses that have been
extended to fne by" the people of my
own state, operating in conjunction
with a very impressive company of
friends in other parts.
“To come to Georgia is to come
to the heart of the south. To come
to Georgia on this, of all days of the
year—the birthday of Roosevelt—is
to realize that the heart of the south
throbs for all the nation. To the
making of that typical American of
the new era went equally the warm
er strains # of the old south and the
sturdy stock that gave the nation
its empire state.
“So it is good, in greeting you
men and women of Georgia, to recall
the career of that outstanding Amer
ican who in his life, as in his line
age, taught us how much we are
prospered and exalted because of be
ing united. And* coming thus among
you, it is peculiarly a satisfaction to
speak from the shadow of the shaft
which you have reared to the memo
ry of one who taught a reunited na
tion its duties, its obligations, its
possibilities. For I recall the thrill
with which I read, as a young man,
the address of Hepry W. Grady to
the New Englandf club; that most
famous oration, I think, of its gen
eration; that inspiring call to a na
tion to awaken to itself, to under
stand that its yesterday was dead,
its tomorrow pregnant with mag
nificent opportunity.
Grady’s Great Speech
“If ever one man was ordained to
speak with the tongue of conviction
and the voice of a great people, that
man was Grady. Gifted wiih the
poet’s imagery, the seer’s wisdom,
(he plain man’s humor, and the
statesman’s vision, he pretended to
be neither poet, seer, nor statesman;
he sought no public, place, but pre
ferred the private post close to his
people. But somehow it was his to
understand and interpret the long
ing qf the nation for' a true and per
fect reunion. He appraised the dif
ficulty of fashioning a new temple
of concord and hope out of disap
pointment and sorrow incident to
conflict, but he saw beneath the
surface the hungering to develop a
common inheritance, he caught the
aspirations? for a common glory, he
touched'the chords of sympathy
which echoed the note of common
rejoicing.
“With heart aglow and tofigue in
spired, he felt it his duty to preach
the gospel of new understanding,
and having uttered his new gospel
at home he came north the evangel
of a new day and made his New
England speech. Since that night he
has belonged noli to you of Georgia
but to the nation, to-the truly re
united nation of which in his day,
he Was the foremost apostle and
spokesman. The south never had a
more loyal oi' jealous son; but he
saw, with an eye for wider scopes,
that this people was not to be di
vided. And he preached that gospel
north and south; the gospel of unity
and common destiny; and when he
died untimely, at thirty-eight years
of age, the nation which so soon
had learned to love him, bow«'d its
head in a universal sorrow. Reading
his passionate pleadings for a na
tion-wide understanding, I cannot
but feel that he would have been
content to go as he did if he could
have known how close that tie of
common sorrow would bring the
people for whom his life had been
the labor .of a supreme love.
“How strangely has destiny inter
woven the parts in this drama of a
nation’s restoration! The same year
of 1889 that saw Grady lain away
with love’s laurels on his proud and
noble brow, saw another son of a
mother of Georgia and the south
entered in the career of national
service. In that year Theodore
Roosevelt, following his Impetuous
appeals for better political morals
at the Baltimore civil service con
ference, was appointed by President
Harrison to the civil service com
mission, and his national career be
gan. A son of they east and the
south, but already adopted by the
west, he had become a devout ad
mirer of that son of the south whom
all the nation had taken to its heart.
Think of them, you Georgians, you
men and women of the whole south
—think of their services and careers
—and tell me, for such sons as these
would you wish to provide a lesser
stage than that of the united coun
try on which they played their
parts? I know you would not, and
never will. For geniuses such as
these you furnish, you must at least
let us afford a fitting scene and set
ting. No ‘pent-up Utica’ for such
as they!
Correspondence Quoted
“The other day there came into
my hands a volume of the letters
of a group of eminent Georgians of
the Civil war and reconstruction pe
riod. In the main, they represented
the correspondence of Alexander H.
Stephens, Howell Cobb, Robert
Toombs, and Governor Joe Brown.
Only recently published, they proved
fascinating reading as I turned the
pages and felt myself admitted to
the very inner thoughts which these
leaders of the Confederacy were
thinking in the years immediately
following the war. Especially was
I interested in the extensive corres
pondence between these southern
leaders and prominent men of the
north, which was carried on at that
period. It was nothing less than
astonishing to note how little of bit
terness, of resentment, of
and recalcitrance was manifested on
either side. With almost no excep
tion, they /breathed the fine spirit
of chivalry"; of readiness to accept
in whole and good nature the
arbitrament of the war. They held
a flavor of something more than
resignation, as if already the
writers were realizing how fortu
nate it was that union should have
been preserved. They were all back
in the harness, working for the res
toration of their state, their people,
their preserved country. They wrote
thoughtful, earnest counsels as to
the wiser policies 'in state and na
tion, seeking always to make their
ffiends in the north understand how
complete and sincere was the
south’s acceptance of its place in
the restored union,' how determined
it was to contribute its utmost to a
v.rt rational accord. At times
they—sormded the note of disappolnt
-7Z uiac the north seemed slow to
accept their protestations as in com
plete good faith, and be assured that
they could be dealt with in complete
confidence. But they were seldom
impatient; they held their heads
high, had no apologies to make for
the past, .but were looking clear
eyed to tlie future of indissoluble
union.
"That was the spirit which made
reconstruction, despite bungling and
some exceptional manifestations of
acerbity, on the whole so rapid and
effective a process, when rfteasured
by like incidents in human history.
They wanted t® be taken back into
full fellowship. ‘We would rather
liave one immigrant from the north
than fifty from Europe,’ wrote one,
a few years after Appomattox; and
he urged his northern friend to
make the northern people under
stand how welcome they would be.
Not even the unreconstructible
hatred of Old Thad Stevens could
maintain an effective front against
such appeals as that. The north
did come to you, with olive branch
instead of sword; a,nd you went to
the north and west, and became full
partners in making that new em
pire which together we carved out
of the trans-Missouri wilderness;
and now truly there can be descried
no sectional division of this land.
Line Is Uncertain
“Recently, passing in a motor car
through a section where historical
interest has inspired the setting of
tablets marking Mason and Dixon’s
line, I heard a group of highly itF
telligent people quarreling about its
geography, half of them insisting
that it didn’t belong there at all,
but some hundreds of miles fur
ther south! Neither the atlases nor
the election returns give us nowa
days a dependable basis for judg
ment of what is south and what is
north; we have been politically an
nexing you—when you were not po
litically. taking us into camp—and
we have beeri socially, industrially,
economically invading and seizing
as much of your imperial oppor
tunities as we could get our hands
on. We have been pooling our capi
tal with your brains and resources,
and both sides earning good .divi
dends on the transaction, and all the
time jointly making a greater re
public.™*
“It would be hard to find a more
fitting platform from which to
preach a gospel of confidence, cour
age and determination than is af
forded here in your wonderful city
of Atlanta. In one of his speeches
—I think it was the one at the New
England society dinner —Henry Gra
dy, turning to General Sherman,
who sat near him, observed that Gen
eral Sherman was “considered w an
able man in our parts, though some
people think he is a kind of care
less man about fire.” That grim
joke contained the spirit of the
south, the courage of Atlanta, the
eternal vision of the brighter side
that is so natural to you people of
the land of sunshine. One who comes
to your metropolis of today can' not
but realize how useless to attempt,
with fire and sword, to discourage
such a people as this, to extinguish
their enthusiasm, to daunt their
matchless courage. What chance is
there to keep down a people who,
when you burn their house, rear in
its place a palace of marble; and
when amid the passions of war you
drive them in thousands from their
home, return in tens of thousands
to build it into a metropolis? The
reason why the south recovered so
soon from the war was that it was
made up of just that sort of people.
But I ought to say, because I speak
as a son of a veteran of the con
flict, that the north had no desire to
destroy. It was merely the combat
for understanding, cruel though it
was, and a battle to preserve the
(Continued on r»ge 6, Column 4)
J. J. BROWN FLAYET
ON MANY CHARGES
INWATSMTSPAPER
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Waste, "Salary Grabbing,”
Lo.byingand Politics Cred
ited to Department
4
Wholesale charges alleging, waste,
extravagance, , lobbying, salary
abuses and politics in the conduct
of the Georgia department of ag
riculture under Commissioner J. J.
Brown’s Administration are publish
ed in the current issue of Colum
bia Sentinel. Senator Thomag E.
Watson’s newspaper.
The article is written under the
signature of Grover C. Edmondson,
Senator Watson’s, secrptary, arid it
flays Commissioner Brown for al
leged manipulation of the depart
ment for political motives. The
commissioner has systematically
built up a political machine, has frit
tered away state funds in scores of
unnecessary salaries, has impover
ished the Georgia School of Tech
nology by using revenue which
should have beep given that insti
tution -and has alienated the federal
government, the statement declares.
“Somebody is riding for a hard
fall next year,” Mr. Edmondson
prophecies in his article.
“Tire only thing I have to say is
that the article itself shows that Mr.
Edmondson is totally ignoran of
Georgia politics,” is how Commis
sioner Brown is quoted in comment-
Trig on the attack.
REV. BASS’ MOTHER
PRESENTED JFffi
/ ——
MACON, Ga., Oct. 28.—With the
election and installation of officers,
the 135th annual communication of
the Masonic grand lodge of Georgia
closed Wednesday afternoon, after a
most successful session. Most of
the delegates left during the day for
their homes. Joe P. Bowdoin, of
new grand mas
ter of Georgia.
The feature of the last session was
the presentation ceremony of a past
master’s jewel to the aged
mother of Grand Master Charles L.
Bass, on behalf of her son, the re
tiring grand master. This was the
first time that such a ceremony has
been conducted in a grand lodge ses
sion, and it was a very touching
scene. \
The lodge came to ease and the
aged mother, leaning on the arm of
her son, Grand Master Bassm. came
down the aisle to the rostrum. She
was followed by a procession of past
grand masters, two of whom carried
large American flags. Past Grand
Master George M. Napier in a beau
tiful and touching speech, delivered
Mrs. Bass a huge bouquet of roses
on behalf of the lodge. Raymund
Daniel, on behalf of the lodge, pre
sented her the past grand master’s
jewel for her son, following a very
touching address. She responded
to his remarks in feeble tones and
thanked the grand lodge for the hon
or bestowed upon her and her son.
In a broken voice mingled with
tears, the retiring grand master
thanked the lodge for its honor. The
procession then moved out of the au
ditorium and business was resumed.
New Officers
The following officers were elected:
Joe P. Bowdoin, Adairsville, grand
master; J. D. Herriek, Carrollton,
deputy grand master; J. E. Shep
pard, Americus, senior grand warden;
W. S. Richardson, junior grand war
den; J. M. Rushin, Boston, grand
secretary; Frank- F. Baker, Macon,
grand treasurer; J. G. Patterson,
Dublin, grand chaplain; A. G. Mil
ler, Waycross, senior grand deacon;
Hal Revier, Columbus, junior grand
deacon; B. L. Patterson, Lawrence
ville, grand marshal; Hugh L. Taylor,
Cuthbert, first grand steward; R. S.
Talmadge, Monticello, second grand
steward; R. H. Palmer, Mt. Vernon,
third grand steward, and Lee Wages,
Macon, grand tyler.
The vote of the grand lodge on
treasurer and secretary were
cast by the vote tellers instead of
having the entire lodge ballot on
them. This is the usual way of
electing them.
SI,OOO for Hospital
The various committees named
Tuesday made their reports at the
closing session and all were adopt
ed. The finance committee report
ed a grand total of cash on hand of
$246,144; a total Masonic home fund
of $104,696, aside from the endow
ment fund. The usual contribution
from the grand lodge of SI,OOO to the
hospital for crippled children in At
lanta was made. Twelve new char
. will be granted this year to
new lodges over the state.
F. O. Miller, past gram. master,
presented jjjrand lodge with a
copy of tlie grand lodge proceed
ings at Milledgeville in 1845, donated
by an Atlanta lodge. The grand
lodge, on recommendation of the
committee on Masonic service asso*
ciation, voted to withdraw from this
association after this year. The
Georgia lodge has been pay
ing this association a membership
fep of $3,000 annually.
Pardon of Espionage
Offenders Is Asked
By Senator Watson
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—Senator
Watson, Democrat, Georgia, Thurs
day introduced a resolution to re
quest the president to pardon all per -
sons convicted under the espionage
law. Another resolution by the Geor
gia senator requested specifically a
pardon for David T. Blodgett, in
lowa, for circulating statements
from a speech by the senator.
NATIONAL WALKOUT
SCHEDULED FOR MONDAY
AVOIDED BY DECISION
SURRENDER OF KARL
DEMANDEDATONGE
BY LITTLE ENTENTE
X
LONDON, Oct. 28.—(8y the Asso
ciated Press.) —The litttle entente,
composed of Rumania, Czecho-Slo
vakia and Jugo-Slavia, has dis
j d a note to Hungary demand
ing the surrender of former Emp .-or
C aries, the demobilization of the
Hungarian army and reparations
sufficient to defray the expenses of
the little entente’s mobilization, ac
cording to a Vienna dispatch to the
Cential News Agency today. Un
less Hungary replies satisfactorily
.within two days, the little entente
troops will enter Hungary, the dis
patch said.
COUNCIL DECIDES TO
HOLD KARL ON CRUISER
PARIS, Oct. 28.—(8y the Asso
ciated Press.) —The allied council of
ambassadors today decided that for-
Hungary and ex-Empress Zita
should be placed immediately upon
a British battle cruiser in the Dan
ube, pending another meeting of the
council njxt Saturday when a final
decision regarding their disposition
is to be made.
The ambassadors were unable to
reach a final decision today because
they were faced with the disinclina
tion of various countries to furnish
asylum for the ex-monarchs. It was
said their final disposition was prov
ing to be an awkward problem.
8.427.700 BALES
H. CJL FORECAST
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 28.
The American Cotton association
Thursday announced a forecast of
the United States in 1921 to be
6.427.700 balesi
This estimate was contained in
the address of J. Skottowe Wanna
maker, president, delivered at the
opening session of the annual con
vention here.
Mr. Wannamaker also presented
several estimates pf the supplies of
raw cotton in this country and a
forecast of consumption by the mills
of the world for the cotton season,
beginning August 1, 1921, and end
ing July 31, 1922.
The convention of the association
opened here today for a three-day
session.
Questions of timely interest to the
grower, manufacturer, banker and
merchant wlil be discussed. Much
time will be devoted, according to
the convention’s officers, to a con
sideration of price, marketing, the
boil weevil and acreage curtailment.
Consumption
United States stocks of tenderable
carry-over was estimated by Mr.
Wannaiqaker as of August 1, 1921,
at 5,113,491 bales. The estimated
consumption, American and Cana
dian, to August 1, 1922, was placed
at 5,500,000 bales, while the estimat
ed demand for exports to the same
date was given as 6,500,000, making
a total! estimated consumption of 12,-
000,000, or a deficiency in supplies
of 458,809 bales.
“It is unanimously agreed by .econ
omists,” Mr. Wannamaker continu
ed, “that it is necessary to have on
'hand at the close of the cotton year
on July 31, at least 3,000,000 bales
of American cotton to supply the
needs until the cotton from the
growing crop can reach the spindles,
so that the apparent shortage will
bet more, marked than it appears
from figures given.
“The cotton mill consumption in
the United States for the month of
September just passed, amounted to
485,000 bales, or' at the rate of 5,-
829,000 bales a year. The exports
for September were at the rate of
6,276,000 bales per annum, making
a total domestic consumption and
exports exceeding 12,000,000 bales.
Our forecast of consumption for the
twelve months ending July 31, 1922,
based upon the above facts, is, there
fore, conservative, as consumption
is increasing instead of diminishing.
Exports
As another evidence of this fact,
the exports of American cotton for
the second week in October amount
ed to 244,000 bales, or at the rate
of over 12,600,000 bales per annum
for exports alone. If this rate of
exports should continue for six and
a half months, the entire^
of 1921 would be shipped abroad to
foreign spinners, leaving only the
stocks brought over from the 1920
crop to supply our domestic mills.
“The world production of cotton
in 1921, at present, is estimated to
be under 11,000,090 bales, against a
normal production of 20,000,000
bales. The American and Egyptian
crops will not exceed 50 per cent of
the 1920 production. This tremen
dous shortage cannot be'supplied by
the estimated carry-over of cotton
throughout the world. Either there
must be an enforced restriction in
spindle operation during the next
ten months, or the supplies of spin
nable cotton will be practically ex
hausted by July 31, 1922.
“The 1921 cotton crop, based upon
present estimates, indicates the
shortest yield of an.y crop in thirty
five years. This is due to reduc
tion of practically 30 per cent in the
cotton acreage planted this year as
compared with the 1920 acreage; the
non-use of high-grade commercial
fertilizers: the widespread destruc
tion by the cotton boll weevil, and I
adverse climatic conditions in all
sections of the cotton belt.” |
5 CENTS A COPT.
SI A YEAR.
CHICAGO, Oct. 28.—The October
30 railroad strike order was cancelled
today.
News 'that the five big brother
hoods had bowed to the authority
of the government as represented
by the United States railroad labor
board was transmitted to 400,000
workers of the transportation group
of rail employes.
Brotherhood chiefs, a confer
ence that lasted all day and far into
the night, decided to rescind the or
der 'for a which was to staj-t
at 6:30 Sunday morning.
basis of settlement follows: x—
-1. Brotherhoods accept the assur
ance ’of the railroad board that no
petitions for cuts in wages, present
ed, by carriers will be considered un
til decisions are reacholi on rules and
working conditions. This is taken
to mean there will be no wage cuts
on the roads for year.
2. Railroad executives have prom
ised not to act arbitrarily in mat
ters of wages and working condi
tions, but to submit all matters to
the railroad board.
To Ben Hooper, President. Har
ding’s spokesman on the railroad
board, is given the credit for avert
ing t/ie strike.’ i
Hooper appeared as au “uninvit
ed gyest” before the brotherhood
chiefs and their executive commit
tees. He warned, threatened and
promised and won the leaders who
hadffbeen determined the strike
would go on.
The resolution passed by the board
several days ago, which stated there
.would be no consideration of wage
cuts until working agreements were
passed upon, was the basis of settle
ment Hooper offered,.
William G. Lee, president pf the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen,
was the peace advocate in the
brotherhood meeting. Lee stood alone
for peace after he had heard Hoop*'
er and convinced others of the wis
dom of calling off the strike.
The trainmen, engineers and con
ductors voted for peace at midnight.
The firemen voted against it. The
switchmen, headed by T. C. Cashen,
did not vote as the matter had been
settled before their ballots were
marked. •
UW INDORSED
FOR 111 MARSHAL
Walter Aierman, prominent Re
publican and well-known citizen of
Cartersville. Ga., has beep indorsed
by the Republican -headquarters of
Georgia for the position of United
States marshal for the northern dis
trict of Georgia.
J. L. Phillips, Republican state
chairman, says he has forwarded
Mp Akerman’s name to Washing
ton as the choice or the state com
mittee for the marshal’s place, and
presumes the nomination will be
sent to the senate within a-ehort
time.
Mr. Akerman will succeed Claude
Bond, the incumbent, who has held ,
the posi|ion since the spring of 1920.
The appointment of Mr. Akerman
is in keeping with the announced
policy of the Republican adminis
tration in allowing Democratic .of
ficeholders to serve eight years’
time. While Mr. Bond has been in
office only about eighteen months,
Democrats have held the marshal’s
position here for the allotted time.
Mr. Akerman has been chairman
of the Republican organization of
tpe Seventh congressional district
for the past twenty years. He is a
graduate of Princeton university,
has served as postmaster and prin
cipal of the public schools at Car
tersville, and did Red Cross work
overseas during the war. *He has
two sons,who served in France with
the/United States army. His father
was attorney general under Presi
dent Grant’s administration.
When Mr. Akerman is appointed,
he will be the fourth Republican to
succeed to a federal position in the
northern district of Georgia under
the present administration. Fred
erick D. Dismukes, recently appoint
ed prohibition director for the stats,
has already entered upon his du
ties; Clint W. Hager and J. T. Roso
have been nominated for the posts
of district attorney for the northern
district and collector of internal rev
enue, respectively.
FEMNG AND FOCH'
HADE FOR AMERICA
■ i *
NEW YORK, Oct. 28.—Two ocean
grehounds were speeding along the
south shore of Long Island today
on the last leg of their trans-Atlan
tic race from France to America.
General Pershing was on the George
Washington, which was leading the
steamer Paris, carrying Marshal
Foch, by about an hour. Stokers
of the George were
working furiously to get their ship
to port first so Pershing can be on
hand to greet Foch when he ar
rives. '
Big Bootlegger Plot
Unearthed at Newark
NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 28.—An
other big alleged bootleg bribery plot
was broken up here today wnen a
squad of prohibition enforcement
agents arrested three men and a
woman. The men are charged with
conspiracy and bribery. The woman
is held as a witness.
Prohibition Agent Drake alleges
he was offered a bribe of $36,000 by
the accused men, to release to them
400 barrels of alcohol which he sus
pepted was to be used to make boot
leg whisky. *