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COTTON CO-OP PAYS
SI.BOD.DBONIORETO
GEORGIA MEMBERS
Checks aggregating $1,900,000 are
being mailed out this week to mem
bers by the Georgia Cotton Grow-'
ers’ Co-operative association, repre
senting an Advance of 5 cents a
pound on all cotton turned over to
the association for sale by its farmer
members.
Previous advances made tn mem
bers this season were at the rate
of 20 cents a. pound, and totaled
$6,500,000.
Final payments will be made at
the end of the cotton year, and will
represent the difference between
amount already paid to each mem
ber and the average price obtained
Curing the year for all cotton of
the grade and staple which he
turned in.
No statement is made by officials,
but it is understood that, in spite of
the decline in the price of cotton
from December 1 to the recent low
level, the average price obtained bv
the association is considerably high
er than present prices.
In announcing the distribution,
President J. E. Conwell, of the as-
Miation. said the credit and finan-
■ condition of the association was
and that the distribution
s being made after a. careful dis
cussion of marketing conditions by
the board of directors.
Conservative Polley Adopted
Mr. Conwell said speculators
nave been able to put down the
price considerably and that the as
sociation officials have felt impelled
to be conservative in making ad
vances on the cotton of members,
but that this additional advance is
made in the knowledge that mem
bers need it to apply on their obli
gations and for purchasing fertil
izer and other supplies for produc
ing a 1924 cron.
Mr. Conwell’s formal statement,
follows:
“As all familiar with co-operative
marketing know, the members of
this, as well as of other co-opera
tives, have, signed similar contracts
and this contract is the basis of
all of our operations. One of its fun
damental provisions is that the di
rectors of the association shall mar
ket, gradually and orderly, the cot
ton of all pools during the entire
season, thus insuring each member
grower the average price for his
cotton.
“We have carried out the con
tract, and the recent experience
of all cotton growers, as well as
allied business interests, demon
strates to my mind more than ever
the soundness and the necessity of
the cotton producers and those de
pendent on cotton adopting the co
operative plan for marketing all
our cbtton.
Benefit Fully Recognized
“It gives us much hope, too, to
know that our cotton growers, as
evidenced by the new contracts we
are daily receiving, and our bank
ers and business men, are coming
to accept co-operative marketing at
sound and established business in
the south. I have just received a
letter from a middle Georgia bank
er who has customers that sold at
various prices all during the sea
son and customers as well, who
have not sold to date. His ex
perience with co-operative market
ing and with those of his customers
Who have sold individually, con
vinces him of the merit and sound
ness of selling cotton co-operatively
for he says: 'We appreciate the
fact that your organization has
done much for this section and we
take pleasure in recommending the
association to our customers. It is
our intention this year to have all
who give crop .mortgages be mem
bers of your organization.’
“This letter, coming from a bank
er of Cochran, Ga., is only typical
of the feeling and conviction of
bankers, fertilizer men and business
men in all sections of the state, as
evidenced by scores and scores of
letters that they have written to
this office stating that from now
on they will cooperate with our
members and this association, when
subh has not been the case here
tofore.
“As the co-operatives increase for
themselves the confidence of their
membership and the business world
it gives us an impregnable posi
tion. We are not disappointed in
the least >vith the attacks being
made on co-operative marketing by
a few who / either lack information
or have a selfish interest to gratify.
Members’ Inspection Invited
“We invite any and all of our
members, when it is possible for
them to do so. to visit this office
"to inquire into the workings of the
(narketing of their cotton and ch
ain any information they desire.
We have been especially pleased
.vith the larg« numbers that, have
recently visited the office, mainly to
assure, the management of their
gratification of the progress being
made and of their more than ever
determination Io support this asso
ciation which is working out a. sys
tem that not only will sell its mem
bers’ cotton this year, but from
year to year, in a businesslike man
ner, primarily for the profit of the
producer and for the good gener
ally of all of our people.
"While I am speaking a * little
bit lengthily, 1 must say further,
we appreciate the co-operation of
our entire membership and their
fighting spirit for the co-operative
system that will sooner or inter
give us fair prices for the cotton
that, we produce.
"We. appreciate no less, the splen
did support of those scoffs and
scores of unselfish business men in
all sections of this state that have
cast their lot with the co-operative
system and made the work of ints
association possible. It is enough
to encourage the discouraged and
to give hope to the hopeless."
The association will handle pos
sibly twice as much of the 1923 crop
as It did of the 1922 crop, it is stated,
notwithstanding that Georgia pro
duced only about 600.000 bales in
1923 as against more than 700.000 in
1922. The total delivery in 1922 was
somewhat greater than one-half of
the delivery in 1923, but this is ac
counted for in the fact that when
the association was chartered in 1922,
many of the members had on hand
"old" cotton produced ag far back as
191$. Under the terms of the con
tract, all of this was delivered to the
association during the season 1922,
and the sum total of it amounted to
several thousand bales, as evidenced
by the records of the association.
Speculators Open Fire
■Letters pouring into the associa-
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THE ATI.ASIA IRt-UEEbtA JOIRINAL
34 and 29-Yea-Old Grandparents
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Carr (standing in the rear of the picture),
of Kirkwood, who are grandparents at the respective ages of 3 4
and 29 years; their daughter and granddaughter, Mrs. Estelle Carr
Lytle and little Jean Elizabeth Lytle, and their son-in-law, Earl
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LIQUOR TRAFFIC
HIT HARO BLOWS
BY GEORGIA AGENTS
Atlanta. Journal News Bureau,
408 Evans Building.
BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, April 5. —Prohibi-
tion Commissioner Haynes made pub
lic Friday a report from Fred D. Dis
muke, director for Georgia, showing
that in the four years since national
prohibition came, 9,320 illicit skills
and distilleries have been seized and
destroyed in Georgia.
In addition, 6,957,104 gallons of
mash, 80,316 gallons of “moonshine”
whisky and 2,575 still worms were
seized and destroyed during this pe
riod. This distilling property was
valued at $1,846,434.
During this period. 4,376 arrests
were made, 7,957 prosecutions recom
mended, 616 automobiles seized and
$4,778,275.52 in taxes recommended
for assessment against violators of
the prohibition laws.
Wife of Dead Banker
Refuses to Serve as
Executrix of Estate
MEMPHIS, April s.—The will of
Robert S. Polk, former senior vice
president of the. Union and Plant
ers Bank and Trust company, who
killed himself ten days ago after the
discovery of an alleged shortage of
$61,000 in the funds of the bank,
was found Friday in a safe deposit
box, after Probate Judge Guthrie had
appointed an administrator for the
Polk dstate.
The will leaves all of the bank
er's property to his wife and Mrs.
Polk is named executrix of the
estate. It was said, however, that
Mrs. Polk will decline to serve in
that capacity and will ask that her
brother, Walter Hunter, who has
already been named administrator
of the estate, be appointed executor
under the will.
Mr. Hunter was named administra
tor several days after Mr. Polk’s
death when attorneys for the widow
informed the probate court that it
was advisable to dispose of certain
stocks held by Mr. Polk which would
earn'' a profit if sold at. that time.
The value of the. Polk estate has
never been estimated. life insur
ance policies in which Mrs. Polk
was named as the beneficiary totaled
$425,000.
Rums of Great City
Are Found in jungle
Os Inland Honduras
WALPOLE, Mass., April 6.—News
nf the discovery of the ruins of a
great city of the first Mayan em
pire, lying miles inland in the unin
habited jungle of British Honduras,
has been received by Lieutenant
Colonel Walter M. Whitman, from
his son. Eilmund S. Whitman, sta
tioned in Honduras, Colonel Whit
man said today.
Amid the ruins one massive
pyramid, towering 300 feet, the let
ter said.
tion from all sections of the state and
on file at the offices, show conclu
sively, it is stated, that the members
are convinced that an effort has been
made recently to break up the cotton
co-operatives, which, according to
those in position to know, has served
to arouse among the members and
even among non-members, the feel
ing that cotton speculators realize
that the growth and success of co
operative marketing means better
and more stabilized prices for cotton
and a continued growth for all the
co-operative marketing associations.
No better illustration of this fact
was pointed out than by the new
contracts being received, some of the
members delivering large amounts of
cotton to be placed in separate pools
from the 1923 pools which closed on
March 15, or else to go into the 1921
pools.
,s’oll have always bought bears sig-
j nature of
1 (Adc ertisemeptj
Mrs, W, T, Carr and 34-
Yaar-Old Husband, Child
hood Sweethearts, Rejoice
at Arrival of Third Gener
ation
Statisticians, searching through in
surance records and. official figures,
have come to the unanimous conclu
sion that one century or a little more
will provide the span for three gen
erations of a family, but they reck
oned without consulting either Mr.
or Mrs. W. T. Carr, of 119 South
Warren street. Kirkwood.
Mr. Carr enjoys the distinction of
being a grandfather at the age of
34 years, and Mrs. Carr a grand
mother before she is out of her twen
ties.
Mr. and Mrs. Carr eloped and
were married when they were 17 and
12 years old, respectively, and their
first child, now Mrs. Estelle Carr
Lytle, was born about a year later.
This daughter married about a year
ago, and is the mother of Jean Eliza
beth Lytle, aged six weeks.
Both Mr. Carr and his son-in-law,
Earl Leßoy Lytle, are barbers; Mr.
Carr works in the Grand barber shop,
at 123 North Pryor street, and Mr.
Lytle in Foster Brothers’ shop, in
Inman Park.
Mr. and Mrs. Carr are the parents
also of Miss Ruby Carr, 15 years old;
Henry Cafr, .13 years old, and little
Cleo Carr, eight years old.
The father is musically inclined,
and sq are his children. He plays
the cornet, and is learning to play
the saxophone; Miss Ruby Carr is
drummer and xylophonist in lheir
family orchestra; Mrs. Lytle Is
pianist, and Mr. Lytle Is violinist.
Members of the family play in the
Kirkwood Baptist church orchestra,
and In the Imperial Entertainers’
orchestra.
Mr. Carr spoke laughingly of his
early elopement.
“Both-my wife and I were babes
in the wood, but we were in love
with each other, and we still are. 1
think both of us would do the same
thing again if we had an oppor
tunity.
“I believe that music is the best
bond to reinforce the ties of natural
family affection, and I am glad all
my children are fond of music. . We
all enjoy playing together.”
Recently Mr. Carr has bought a
bungalow and is enjoying planning
out and planting the generous ex
panse of front lawn before the house.
' How do you like being a grand
mother at twenty-nine?" Mrs. Carr
was asked.
“I'm mighty proud of it,” she
smiled, patting her grandchild, who
cooed in acknowledgment of the com
pliment.
A., B. & A. Scrapping
Possibility Is
B. L. Bugg Asserts
WAYCROSS. Ga., April s.—Re
ceiver B. L. Bugg, of the Atlanta
Birmingham and Atlantic railroad
company, addressed the Waycross
Kiwanis club at the weekly lunch
eon Friday.
Mr. Bugg discussed in detail many
i of the phases of railroad operation,
and st;.ted that the A. B. & A. is on
the upgrade, and that within anoth
er year he expects to see the com
pany balance receipts with expen
ditures. He the road had passed
the stage where there was danger
of scrapping, and that this year, the
road met all expenditures with the
exception of taxes.
Other members of the A. B. X- A.
who were guests of the club were
C. E. Brower, general superinten
i dent: A. H. Hill, division freight
I agent. A. D. Daniel, passenger traf-
I sic manager, J. B. Cason, freight
agent at Waycross, and G. W. Kemp
i secretary to Mr. Bugg.
Judge’s Time Valuable,
; So He Gives and Pays
$5.75 Suit Judgment
ARKASAS CITY. Kan.. April 5.
I Two young attorneys, Arthur Walker
I and Harry Howard, argued long and
loud in Judge Fitzpatrick's court here
today over a suit so- $5.25.
The judge finally interrupted the
lawyers.
"My time is valuable e”en if yours
isn’t.” he said.
He gave a decision in favor of the
; plaintiff, paid the judgment out of
■ his own pocket and remitted court
' costs.
“I would have to think too long
before being able to decide the case
: on its legal merits, and it isn't worth
the effort/' th judge said.
FARM RELIEF BILL
DEFENDED AGAINST
UNJUST CRITICISM
■
RY DAVID LAWRENCE
I (housed Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1921.)
WASHINGTON, April 4.—Admin
. Istration officials are at sixes and
' sevens over the McNary-Haugen hill
i which provides machinery for the
' purchase of the export wheat, crop,
i The critics are numerous, the at
! tack on the bill extends all the way
i from cries of unsoundness to the
; statement that it will take an army
■ greater than the prohibition force to
' police its operation.
I Charles J. Brand, consulting spe
i eialist at. the department, of agricul
ture, who is probably more, familiar
j with the proposal than any one else
; in Washington trylay consented to
; explain some of the provisions of
' the measure.
• “If people will only read the bill
• and examoine it carefully,’’ he said,
; “they will not find in it on reflec
i tion the imaginary dangers they
pthink they see. For instance, it has
; been said the bill would put the
i grain exchanges and traders out of
business. It will not. The U. S.
agricultural export corporation will
act through existing trade bodies
and organizations. The corporation
is to be actuarial and not a trade
body itself. One thing it may do, I
admit. It may reduce the amount
of fluctuation in grain prices due
to world rumors, but the exchanges
will always be influenced by domes
tic factors and rumors.
Participation Certificates
“What is proposed in t.jie McNary-
Haugen bill is nothing more nor
less than what the agricultural co
operatives now are doing. We sim
ply would buy the exportable sur
plus of wheat for the farmer, not
out of government funds, but out of
funds provided by the farmer him
self and, when the time for settle
ment comes at the end of the year,
she farmer would get his ‘patronage
dividend’ as the farm co-operatives
call it, in the form of ‘participation
certificates which is a. better name
than script. It is a. mistake to at
tribute to these ‘participation cer
tificates’ any legal tender value.
They will be commercial paper pure
and simple. z
“I have heard statements that the
farmers wouldn’t accept these certi
ficates. But let us take an actual il
lustration of how the bill would
work. Suppose a farmer has 2,000
bushels of wheat to sell. The do
mestic price is SI,OOO. The ratio
price of wheat to other commodities
would call for a. price of $1.50 a bush
el, if things were normal. But in
stead of paying the farmer that
amount in cash or $3,000, he would
he, paid for illustration, about $2,700.
The remaining S3OO would be with
held and in its place he would be
given a ‘participation certificate/
Now, how would we determine the
value of that certificate at the end
of th eseason? We are producing
about 750,000,000 bushels of wheat
of whicn 150,000,000 bushels would
be the stimated amount needed for
export, based on previous years ‘fig
ures.’
Dow It Works
“But in the export market, we
would have to sell at a loss, say at a.
dollar a, bushel. This would mean a
total loss of about $75,000,000. Add
to that an approximate cost of $15,-
000,000 the expense of the corpora
tion, though I believe it would be
lower than that, and you have a
total cost of $90,000,000. But if out
of a total production of 750,000,000
bushels, you withhold fifteen cents
a bushel from the farmer for the
equilization fund, you will have on
hand about $112,500,000. Subtract
ing the $90,000,000 of expense, it
leaves $22,500 in your fund and
dividing that sum by the number of
participation certificates gives the
value of each which in this case
would be about three cents a bushel
as the final value of each certificate.
That would mean for 2,000 bushels,
a total of S6O in addition his original
2,700 or $2,760 in all.
Now. compare that with present
conditions when this farmer gets at
present prices approximately $2,000
for the crop. Wouldn’t he accept a
scheme that assures him of more
than he is getting? 1 am sure he
will."
Mr. Brand denied that plan inter
feis with the preorogatives of con
gress in fixing tariffs and said that
just as congress had delegated au
thority in the case of the present
flexible provisions of the tariff act,
it could give the proposed corpora
tion authority to raise the tariff
within a certain measurable propor
tion.
To Fix Low Price Level
The whole purpose, of the bill, Mr.
Brand claims, is not to guarantee or
fix a price, but to establish a mini
mum price level for export. He in
sisted that there would be no sub\
stantial increase in production, ar
guing that, during the war, with
wheat above two dollars a bushel,
the was 908,000.000 bushels and that
the limit of easily usable wheat lands
had been reached. - He declared that
the bill would help other products,
of course, besides wheat, and would
be especially helpful to the hog rais
er since a ratio would be established
based on the prices other commodi
ties. He did not see how there could
he any material increase in the hog
production because the price of corn
would regulate that. Tn fact, his
theorv is that a stablized relation
would obtain between all farm prod
ucts.
Mr. Brand has against him some
of the influential advisers of the ad
ministration on agricultural econom
ics. President Coolidge is endeavor
ing to maintain an open mind. The
bill has been reported favorably to
the senate by the agricultural com
mittee and has the support of the
scretary of agriculture. It is being
considered in executive session by
the house committee on agriculture,
and already there is evidence that
the bill will be the center of atten
tion in the agricultural world as well
as in the grain business for manj
weeks to come.
Candidate for Congress
Hurt m Auto Crash
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn., April 5. I
i Richard M. Barry. forty,- president I
of the Erwin State bank. Erwin,
Tenn., and Democratic candidate for
congress from the First district of
Tennessee, was injured, perhaps fa
tally, this morning when his car col
lided with another driven by James
Huff. IS, at a street crossing in i
■ Erwin
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COTTON CO-OP SEEKS SIOO,OOO
IN SLANDER SUIT AT CANTON
Jones Mercantile Co, Ac
cused of Effort to Smash
Co-operative Marketing.
Six Officials Named ",
Suit for SIOO,OOO damages for al
leged slanderous and libelous charges
was filed in Canton. Ga.. Saturday
against the Jones Mercantile. Co.,
Paul W. Jones, manager, and five
other officials of the company, by
attorneys for the, Georgia Cotton
Growers’ Cooperative association.
The others named are R. T. Jones,
H. L. Conn, E. M. Rudasill, L. L.
Jones and J. E. Johnston.
The complaint, which was drawn
by Aaron* Sapiro, Bryan & Middle
brooks, of Atlanta; ‘Wood & Vandi
vere, of Canton, and John W. Collins,
of Canton, attorneys for the cotton
association, alleges that the defend
ants have circulated false '-tements
in pamphlet form and In advertise
ments in country newspapers for
the purpose of injuring and destroy
ing the credit of the Georgia. Cotton
Growers’ Co-operative association,
which is a “part of the co-operative
movement, in more than thirty states
and embracing more than one mil
lion farmers.”
The charge is made in the com
plaint that it is to the financial in
terest of Paul W. Jones and the
Jones Mercantile. Co. to break down
co-operative marketing in Georgia,
because of the fact that they are
cotton buyers on a large scale from
the producers in Cherokee and ad
joining counties.
Specific complaint is made against
the publication of a pamphlet en
titled, “Another Year of the Cotton
Co-op T'nder the Generalship of a
Raisin Professor,” which is alleged
to have been issued by the Jones
Mercantile Co. on February 20, 1924,
a.nd against an article said to have
been published in the Cherokee Ad
vance of February 29, 1924, over the
signature of the same company.
J. E. Conwell, president of the
cotton co-operatives, made the fol
lowing statement about the suit:
“This action has been brought by
order of the board of directors, nam
ed by the members of this associa
tion. It is not a personal matter,
as I don’t know that Paul W. Jones
or any of his associates, named as
defendants in this case, are even
known, to a single member of our
entire board of directors. It is
brought solely for the reason that
Paul W. Jones and his associates
have published false statements
that are damaging to the associa
tion and that deny the integrity
and honesty of the management.
All of our directors naturally know
that there are some individuals and
interests that don’t favor co-opera
tive marketing in some instances
because of lack of information, and,
in others, because of a selfish in
terest.
"But the question involved in this
case is that this association is a
corporation legally organized and
doing business according to the laws
of the state the same as is the case
with the banks of this state.
“Any individual has the right to
differ with the association as to the
advantages of co-operative market
ing for any reason that may be suf
ficient to him or themselves, but
no individual or set of individuals
has the right to publish false and
libelous statements against this as
sociation and our directors are de
termined to defend and to protect
the character and integrity of this
association against those who may
attack it falsely and at all hazards.”
JOURNAL RADIO
CALENDAR
Tuesday
12 I«1 P. M.—Program sponsored by
Mrs. Carroll Summers, teacher of voice.
3:30 to 4 P M.—Howard theater or
chestra overture and prologue.
5 P. M.—Home gardening talk -y'
William B. Peckner, news, markets.
5:30 P. M.— Miss Bonnie Barnhardt’s
songs and Burgess’ bedtime story.
5:40 P. M.—Miss Helen Moncrief, so
prano.
8 to 9 P. AF.—Concert by the First
Methodist church choir, of Monroe. Ga.:
Mrs. Paul N. Launius, director. GL
10:45 P. M. Entertainment by Meint
zer’s Pe Luxe orchestra.
Wednesday
12 to 1 P. M.—Concert sponsored by
Miss Mary Lansing, teacher of voice.
.1:30 to 4 P. M.—Howard theater or
chestra overture and prologue.
5 p. y.—vick Myers Melody orches
tra, news, markets.
5:30 P. M.—Miss Bonnie Barnhnrdt's
songs and Burgess' bedtime story.
S io 9 I". M.—Silent night.
10:45 P. M.—John McCrindle, Scotch
basso; other entertainers.
Thursday
12 to 1 r. M.—Organ concert by Dr.
Charles A. Sheldon.
3:30 to 4 P. M.—Howard theater or
chestra overture and prologue.
5 I‘. M.—Children’s program by the
first grade orchestra of the Glenwood
school, Mrs. S. JI. Holmes, director;
news, markets.
5:30 P. M. — Miss Bonnie Barnhardt's
songs and Burgess’ bedtime story.
8 to 9 P. M.—Organ concert by Dr.
Charles A. Sheldon from the First Pres
byterian church: lyric soprano solos by
Miss Eunice Peters, pupil of Mrs.
Kurt Mueller, from WSB's studio.
10:45 P. M.—" Evolution of Dixie,”
composed and arranged by W. Whitney
Hubner, violinist and director of the
Rialto theater orchestra, featuring the
Kialto theater orchestra.
Friday
12 to 1 P. M. Entertainment.
3 to 4 P. M.—Sunday school study
class, conducted by Dr. j. Sprole Lyons.
5 p. m._ Vick Myers Melody orches
tra, news, markets.
5:30 I’. M. Miss Bonnie Barnhardt's
songs and Burgess’ bedtime story.
8 to it P. .M.— Entertainment, hr the
“Seven Adairs.’’ featuring Green B.
Adair, character singer; Mrs. Green B.
Adair, pianist and soprano, and the kid
quartet.
10:45 P. M. Bob Hardin's orchestra,
Miss May Everett, soprano, of Signor
Volpi's studio.
Saturday
12 to 1 P. M.—Entertainment, spon
sored by Miss Henrietta Ward, lyric
soprano,
3!30 to 4 P. M.—Howard theater or
chestra overture and prologue.
5 P. M.—Locust Grove Institute or- l
cliestra and soloists, news and markets.
5:30 P. M. —Miss Bonnie Barnhardt's
songs and Burgess' bedtime story.
a to 9 P. M.—Concert sponsored by
United States postoffice employes.
10:45 P. M. Hired Help jamboree,
also Mrs. Kathleen Rogers Pape, pian
ist nnd soprano.
Heflin Says Ford’s
Chances of Getting
Shoals Are Better
WASHINGTON, April s.—Senator
Heflin. Democrat, of Alabama, chain
plo nos Henry Ford’s offer for Mus
cle Shoals in the senate agriculture
committee, today declared that pros
pects for acceptance of Ford's offer
by the senate are better now that
they ever were.
“Western senators are being
swamped with letters from their
farmer constituents, demanding they
vote for the Ford offer," Heflin said.
“If they obey the dictates of their
farm voters and join the solid con
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there is no doubt we will put the
measure across.’,’
Heflin, said he noted a steadily’
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01 BANKS OF STATE
FDD 'CO-OP'ESSAYS
Three prize? of SIOO each will be
offered all public school students of
the state by a. number of banks in
terested in the co-operative market
ing movement for the best essays
on the subject, “The Value of Co
operative Marketing Associations for
all Farm Products to the State of
Georgia, Organized on the Five-Year
Contract Plan.”
Announcement to this effect was
made Saturday by N. H. Ballard,
state superintendent of schools; F.
E. Land, director of state board of
vocational education, and Paul W.
Chapman, supervisor of agricultural
education for the state board, who
have been constituted a committee
to supervise rules and regulations
for the contest.
All essays must he in the hands
of a committee of judges that will
be appointed not later than May 11,
and a prize of SIOO ill be awarded
the winner in each of the following
groups: All high school students;
all students in the elementary de
partments of schools in incorporated
towns, and all elementary school
students in rural communities.
Essays are limited in length to
about 1,500 words, and it is an
nounced that while primary consid
eration will be given to subject mat
ter, the other requisites of good
writing, neatness, penmanship, rhet
oric, composition and spelling, also
will be given due consideration.
Following are the banks that have
contributed the S3OO in prizes for the
three groups:
People's bank. Summit; Farmers’
bahk, Wrightsville; Bank of Louis
ville, Louisville; George D. Warthen
bank, Sandersville; Citizens’ bank,
Sandersville; Planters’ bank, Still
more; Bank of Kite, Kite; Wrens
bank, Wrens; Citizens’ bank, Wrens;
Bank of Stapleton, Stapleton; Citi
zens' bank, Carrollton; Bank of
Meansville. Meansville; Upson Bank
ing and Trust company, Thomaston;
Fourth National bank. Macon; First
National hank, Waynesboro; First
National bank, Lawrenceville; Brand
Banking company, Lawrenceville;
Citizens’ Bank and Trust company,
Jefferson: First National bank. Jef
ferson: Commerce Bank and Trust
company, Commerce; Atkins Na
tional bank. Maysville: People’s
bank, Tignall; Bank of Comer,
Comer; Madison County bank. Col
bert; Bank of Donalsonville. Donal
sonville: Bank of Arnoldsville, Ar
noldsville: Bank of Lexington, Lex
i ington; Georgia National bank, Ath
lens; Bank of Cartersville, Carters-
I ville; First National bank. Dallas;
| First National bank. Marietta; Bank
i of Cherokee county, Canton; National
City bank, Rome: Bank of Portal,
Portal; Sea Island bank, Statesboro;
Bank of Metter, Metter; Georgia
Bank and Trust company Cuthbert;
Shellman Banking company, Shell
man; Milton County bank, Alphar
etta; and People’s bank. Comer.
Palentologists Seek
Proof of Life of Men
Before Ice Age in West
LOS ANGELES. Cal.. April 6.
(By the Associated Press.) —Prelimi-
nary survey’s were made today by
two paleontologists, in what they
hope may prove the beginning of
research work to develop evidence
of man in America before the end
of the Pleistocene, or Ice Age. Dr.
Chester Stock, paleontologist of the
University of California, and Dr.
William A. Bry’an, director of the
Museum of History, Science and Art,
began a surface tour of an area on
the northwest borders of Los An
geles. within the boundaries of
which are the Lahrae pits, the Cuna
jo pits and the site of the uncover
ing of the Pleistocene camel.
The Lahrae pits uncovered a
wealth of skeleton remains of Pleis
tocene mammals, preserved in oil
seepage, which scientists say they
have for some years back establish
ed with definiteness to be relics from
the Pleistocene age.
The saber-tooth cats, or tigers, the
giant and lesser sloths, and a host
of other mammal remains, extinct
since the Pleistocene age, were re-
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NEW WILL PROPOSE
COMMISE PLANS
FOB P. 0. SALARIES
BY THEODORE TILLER
Atlanta Journal New« Bureau,
408 Evans Building.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April fl
it was learned here that, through
Postmaster New, the. administration
early next week will recommend to
congress increases in postal salaries
fox - about one-third the amount pro
posed in bills now pending in con
gress.
Total increases for DostsQ workers
amount to $43,000,000 nee year will
be recommended instead of proposed
increases that would range from
$125,000,000 to $150,000,000 a. year.
Postmaster General New will write
Senator Edge, of New Jersey, chair
man of the joint senate and house
committee, now considering the pos
tal pay increase bills, that the ad
ministration thinks the scale pro
posed in the Edge-Kelly and the
Paige bills are unwarranted.
The treasury department. Post
master General New will say fur
ther, is not able to stand the strain
of postal increases, but will suggest
that, the $43,000,000 annually be al
lowed and that postage rates he in
creased to pay this amount to the
emoloves.
The postmaster jreneral and the
administration will recommend that
this sum be raised by increasing the
postage and fees on the following
classes of mail to yield the follow
ing amounts annually.
Second class, $4,985,000; third
class, $500,000: fourth class, $30,-
100,000; insured mail, $1,750,000; C.
O. D. packages, $1,200,000; registered
mail, $1,100,000; special delivery,
$900,000; money’ order fees. $2,761,-
000. Total. $43,296,000.
The parcel post, therefore, would
carry r most of the increase. Post
master General New will advise con
gress that he thinks an upward re
vision of parcel post rates is justi
fied by the service rendered. He
estimates about $30,000,000 extra,
may'be obtained in this way.
Salary’ Seale I’roposed
The administration will recom
mend as a substitute for the Paige
and other bills, that congress work
out a scale of salaries based on an
increase of S2OO per year for clerks
and carriers in first-class offices
having an annual revenue of $600,-
000 and above, and an increase of
SIOO for clerks and carriers in first
class offices producing less than
$600,000 per year, and a similar in
crease of SIOO for all clerks and car
riers in second-class offices.
This forthcoming announcement
from the postmaster general indi
cates that the president will sign
a bill drawn along the lines sug
gested, but that he will not approve
the legislation in the form now
pending, and also that the salary in
creases must be paid for out of the
postal revenues, and not the gen
eral treasury.
covered in these pits and only the
definite period of the Pleistocene is
yet to be demonstrated, Dr. Stock
said.
The. Cunajo pits in the. past two
weeks gave forth the skeletal re
mains of four men and a woman.
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ASHLAND CITY, Tenn., April S.—
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