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DOOMED TO FSII URE:
SUBSTITUTE TO PASS
RY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Special Leased Wire to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1924.)
WASHINGTON, May 13.—Con
gress will not adjourn without pass
ing some kind of agricultural legis
,l'Vion and the question of which of
’the many hills presented shall be
approved is becoming more compli
cated every day.
The McNary-Haugen' bill has the
fight of way. A vote on it will be
forced shortly, and until that meas
ure is disposed of, all other pro
posals must wait. But the outlook
for the McNary-Haugen bill’s pas
sage is not bright. The opposition
to it is growing, largely because
♦then all is said and done it is an
experimental measure, and the oppo
nents of it say they do not think
$200,000,000 should be appropriated
at this time for anything which can
not be proved of direct benefit to
the nation as a whole.
The bill has the support of the
department of agriculture, but it has
not yet won the approval of Presi
dfnt trcblidge. It’s provisions where
by the price of wheat would be raised
arbitrarily on a basis which bears
a constant relation to the fluctuat
ing prices of other commodities are
Slot accepted as workable by the
president, but his opposition has not
been put on that ground. He is not
in, favor of $200,000,000 appropria
tions when there is divided opinion
as to the merit of the plan itself
among farm interests.
Bi-Partisan Opposition
The Norbeck-Burgess bill, which
would have provided funds for di
versified farming, was a much sim
pler bill, but it failed in the senate.
The same line-up of conservatives
aftiong Republicans and Democrats
will be sufficient to defeat the Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill, which is not being
supported by any party, but will
have to run the gauntlet of bi-parti
san opposition.
With the McNary-Haugen bill out
of the way, the administration will
face the responsibility of passing
so.me other, agricultural bill. The
measures which are attracting most
attention as possible substitutes for
the McNary-Haugen bill, though dif
fering materially in principle from
it, are the Curtls-Aswell and the
Capper-Williams bills. Both are
more or less along the same line,
but they have important differences
in the control and power to be vest
ed. in the governing commission
winch is to co-ordinate the market
ing activities of the farmer.
Curtls-Aswell Bill
The Curtis-Aswell bill is based
largely on suggestions made by B.
F. Yoakum, railroad pioneer of the
southwest, who appeared recently at
the hearings here. He describes it
thus:
"The terms of the Curtis-Aswell
bill, in a nutshell, mean that the
government will loan to the inter
state farm marketing association a
working fund of $10,000,000 at 4 1-2
per cent per year; this fund to be
used for organizing a, market sys
tem that will insure to the farmers
an equitable share of what their
goods sell for to the ultimate con
sumer. For this loan the govern
ment will receive ample security
through a commodity assessment,
the assessments to be against such
commodities as the members desig
products than the Capper-Williams
nated, assessments and method of
collecting to be determined and fixed
by the state boards of directors elect
ed by the farmers of the different
states. A practical, well-organized
system of marketing by the farmers
is absolutely the only thing needed
to make farming one of the most
profitable industries of the country.”
Capper-Williams Plan
»The Capper-Williams bill provides
for a $15,000,000 appropriation and
a machinery whereby the sale of the
farmer’s products shall be accom
plished through a commission of five
and under rules made by the depart
ment of agriculture.
Under the Curtis-Aswell plan the
federal marketing board would be
Karate from the department of
Iture as the federal reserve
is from the treasury board,
V working in close harmony
lie government departments.
Curtis-Aswell bill calls for less
:tion on the whole between the
government and the marketing of
measure. At this writing, however,
it Is not apparent which congress
will prefer, for the situation that
wftl follow the failure of the Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill is not easy to de
termine. Its proponents are in ear
nest about the bill, and will not. give
up the fight without a struggle, as
there ere some sections of the coun
try which are so anxious for the
passage of the bill that a systematic
campaign for its indorsement has
been carried on to influence sena
tors and representatives to vote for
it. Most of the farm organizations
favor it, though there are rumors
that the directors here did not like
It originally, and were compelled to
support it by pressure from farm dis
tricts. The farm bloc is lining up
strongly for it, but that body was
unable to put the Norbeck-Burgess
bill through and may find the same
jmag this time.
Sweeper Left Fortune
Quits Job and Rents
Suite From Employer
NEW YORK, May 13.—Ralph
Evans, 60 years old, who has been
swiiping hallways in the Waldorf
Astoria hotel for the last five years
at sl6 a week, quit his job today
wfcen -> lawyer told him that a broth
er who recently died in England had
left him $50,000.
Evans said he would enjoy a
several weeks holiday in a suite of
rooms in the hotel in which he has
collected dust for so many years.
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CORDOVA, Alaska, May 13.—(8y
the Associated Press.) —Major Fred
erick L. Martin, commander of the
United States ’round-the-world air
expedition, and his mechanic, Staff
Sergeant Alva L. Harvey, who
crashed into a mountain 100 miles
northwest of Chignik, April 30, and
who reached Port Moller, on the Ber
ing sea coast safely on May 10, were
to leave today aboard either the
United States coast guard, cutter Al
gonquin or the Pacific-American fish
eries vessel Catherine 8., en route
to Seattle and Washington, D. C. In
Washington they expect orders to
proceed for India, where Major Mar
tin again will assume charge of the
squadron.
With calm weather forecast for
today at Attu island, where the re
maining three United, States army
cruisers arrived Friday, after flying
from Atka island, the aviators today
are hastening preparations for the
next jump Wednesday of their world
encircling flight, an 'B7B-mile trip to
Paramashiru island, in the Kurile
group, Japan.
Gales prevented the fliers from in
specting, repairing and overhauling
the machines at Attu up to this
time.
Everything will be made as nearly
perfect as possible for the longest
hop of the 27,000-mile trip.
FRENCH AIRMAN LANDS
AT INDOCHINA STATION
SHANGHAI. May 13.—(8y the As
sociated Press.) —Lieutenant Pelletier
Doisy, flying from Paris to Tokio,
has arrived at Hanoi, French Indb-
China, from Saigon. Cochin China,
according to word received here.
BRITISH FLIERS OFF
AFTER REPAIRING ’PLANE
NASIRABAD, India. Mav 13.—The
British round-the-world fliers are
on the wing again.
After ten days’ delay, due to en
gine trouble. Major MacLaren, com
manding the British amphibian
airplane, is reported to have arrived
at Parlu, India. His total mileage
now is 5,580 since he loft England
seven weeks ago.
REMAINING U. S. PILOTS
PREPARE FOR JOURNEY
ON BOARD COAST GUARD CUT
TER HAIDA. ATTU. Alaska. May
13.—(8y the Associated Press.) —
The Haida arrived at Attu
Monday and the aviators quartered
on board th e Eider were put ashore.
The quarters are smaller than those
used at Atka and even more primi
tive. The planes’ tanks were filled
for the long hop to the Kuriles. A
party in charge of radio-man, H. D.
Lane, has set up a shore station,
made aboard rhip, and opened
camp.
Macon Man Foreman
Os U. S. Grand Jury
MACON. Ga„ Mav 13—The Fcd
' oral grand jury of the Southern dis
trict or Georgia was formally organ
ized Monday with the election of
E. B. Burden, of Macon, foreman
The jury was charged by Federal
Judge William H. Barrett. The
judge charged the jurymen as to
their duties along legal lines and
commented upon the splendid se
lection of citizens from all parts of
central and south Georgia to com-
I pose the grand jury.
Quite a large number of criminal
leases .will be taken up, most of
which are whisky cases.
PHILIPS’ DEFENSE
WINS LEGAL POINT
IN FRAUD EVIDENCE
WASHINGTON, May 13.—Justice
Bailey, criminal division 11, Tuesday
afernoon refused to admit testimony
concerning a conversation with
John L. Philips, Republican commit
teeman from Georgia, charged with
conspiracy in connection with sale
of government surplus lumber
stocks, in reference to a division of
a fund of $4,500 which James I. M.
Wilson, of Philadelphia, a govern
ment witness, had declared Philips
had exacted as a bonus for selling
him a quantity of the army surplus
lumber.
Wilson testified that there was a
shortage in the quantity of lumber
contracted for and on complaint
Philips returned $750.
Wilson told the jury that in 1919
he paid Philips $4,500 as a prerequis
ite for signing a contract for pur
chase of lumber for the Mueller
Lumber company, of Philadelphia.
Wilson said his contract with Phil
lips involved $9,500, and testified
that Phillips accepted a check for
$5,500 but demanded the remainder
in cash.
He said the deal was arranged at
a. meeting with Philips in a Wash*
ington hotel,
Counsel for the government ques
tioned Wilson regarding what phil
ips ’ him cone ninsr any division
to be made of the $4,500 and met
with objections of counsel for five
other defendants. A long discus
sion between counsel and Justice
Bailey resulted, lasting until court
recessed.
Most of the morning session of
court was consumed in reading by
the prosecution of minutes of con
ferences between lumbermen and
government officials at which it was
decided Philips and John Stevens,
lumberman of Florida, one of the
defendants, would dispose of the
surplus stocks.
Diphtheria Anti-Toxin
Forced on Faith Curers
After Nine Are Dead
LEBANON, Pa., May 13.—Having
forcibly administered anti-toxin to
members of the Faith Tabernacle, a
cult of faith curers, local health au
thorities today were hopeful of
checking the spread of diphtheria,
which in the last three weeks has
caused the death of nine persons. All
the victims were members of fami
lies of the Faith Tabernacle and all,
the authorities declared, have been
denied medical attention. Five of
the deaths occurred in the family of
Mrs. Charles Roth, her husband and
four children dying since. April 21.
One of the children died yesterday
while the funeral of . another was
being held.
Until last nnight the health offi
cials* said, Mrs. Roth steadfastly
had refused medical treatment for
her family. They finally persuaded
her to permit herself and her four
surviving children to be inoculated.
She would not give verbal consent to
the treatment but submitted without
protest.
Anti-toxin was forcibly adminis
tered to other members of the cult,
including the family of Edwin Win
terbone, pastor of Faith Tabernacle,
whose youngest son is ill with diph
theria.
Seven Men Escape
After Being Locked
In Ice Box bv Bandits
NEW YORK, May 13. —Seven men
early Monday escaped death in an
East Side dance hall by breaking
out of an ice box in which they had
been imprisoned an hour and one
half earlier by six armed bandits.
Before forcing their victims into the
refrigerator, the gunmen robbed
them of their money and valuables
and later broke into a safe. The
gang escaped with about $1,500 in
money and jewelry.
The victims, employee of the hall,
were about to close the place after
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ROCKWELL ELATED
NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 13—!
David Ladd Rockwell, national chair
man of the McAdoo campaign, left
this morning with Mr. McAdoo for’
Louisville. Mr. McAdoo is going on I
to Flint, Mich., where he will ad
dress the Michigan State Demicratic j
convention tomorrow night. Mr. :
Rockwell will go to Lexington, Ky.,i
to attend the Kentucky state conven- ;
tion tomorowr. Before leaving Nash-i
ville Mr. Rockwell made the follow-■
ing statement:
“I think that I can safely say that j.-
such a reception as was accorded
Mr. McAdoo was indicative of the|
election of a McAdoo delegation from,
Tennessee to the New York National I
convention.
“Already there are elected 459 Me- ;
Adoo delegates—many more than all;
other candidates combined have bad I
elected for them. There is not* the I
slightest doubt that the progressive |
McAdoo Democrats will control the-!
New York convention and nominate j
Mr. McAdoo. Nor have I any doubt;
that this year Tennesseee will play
a proud part in putting a fourth Ten-,
nessean in the White House. The
country today is crying for another.
Andrew Jackson, and McAdoo will;
be the Old Hickory of the twentieth'
century.”
WARNING SOUNDED AGAINST
REACTIONARY CONTROL ■
NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 13.—1 f |
the coming Democratic convention j
is dominated by reactionary forces, j
the party is doomed to certain de
feat in the November election, Wil
liam G. McAdoo, candidate for the
Democratic nomination for presi
dent, asserted in the closing address
of his Tennessee campaign here last
night.
“If, on the other hand,” he said,
“the party is controlled by the pro
gressive forces of democracy, stand
ing for those immutable principled
which Jefferson formulated, which ■
Jackson vindicated, and which Wil-'
son sublimated, it will march irresis- j
tibly to victory in November, 1924. ;
“Two great forces are contending j
for mastery; the forces of reaction I
and privilege on the one hand, and ;
the forces of Democratic progress, j
justice and equality on the other, j
“There cannot, there must not be
any compromise between these
forces. There can be no twilight 1
zone between them. The issue must ‘
be sharpened to the keenest edge so I
the decision of the American peo- I
pie may be clear-cut and definite as
to whether* they want privilege,
plutocracy and reaction to run this
nation with all the graft, corruption
and sordidness which has been dis
played by the Republican administra- ,
tion at Washington for the past
three years, or whether they want
a restoration of Christian, progres
sive Democratic government, clean
and incorruptible, high-minded and 1
high principled like that our match
less hero of democracy, Woodrow
Wilson\gave the nation for eight
years.
Hits Democratic Reactionaries
“The fight within the Democratic 1
party is between the reactionary ele
ment, small in numbers, but power
ful in resource on the one hand, and
the progressive element, large in
numbers but not well organized,
which found expression in Woodrow
Wilson, on the other.
“If the fight were confined to
these two elements within the Demo
cratic party, there would be no
doubt about the issue. But reaction
and privilege is so determined to re- j
possess itself of government that
Wall street and he reactionary Re
publican organization is acting in
concert with the reactionary ele-1
ments in the Democratic party to i
control one-third of the Democratic |
national cc. vent ion, with rhe hope,
that through a deadlock they can
GOOD PEACH CHOP
THROUGHOUT SOOTH
INDICATED IN SURVEY
WASHINGTON, May 13.—Pros
pects for a uniformly good peach
crop in southern states are reported
' to the department of agriculture by
1 its field forces, basing estimates on
conditions of May 1.
An excellent bloom, with fruit
i setting well, is reported in Virginia,
j while in North Carolina damage re
sulting from cold last month was
’ regarded as slight. Some injury to
I fruit was caused by late frosts in
i South Carolina, and another
j crop is expected In Georgia where a
j recent windstorm avoided the main
L peach belt.
Florida peach prospects are good
I as in Oklahoma, while Alabama’s
I crop is showing well. Louisiana and
’’ Arkansas cro pconditions were re-
I ported as slightly unfavorable for
I the month.
Crop conditions by states were
| estimated:
i Virginia. 89 per cent of normal;
North Carolina, 83; South Carolina,
I 78; Georgia, 80; Florida, 85; Okla
I homa, 84; Alabama, 76; Louisiana,
| 69; Arkansas, 85.
■ force the nomination of some reac-
I tionary, or colorless Democrat, and
I thereby assure re-election of discred
i ited Republican reactionaries or to
I continue control through a subser
i vient Democratic reactionary.
“There is little, if any difference
I between the kind of reactionary
I Democratic administration this al
; liance is striving for and the present
I reactionary administration. lam as
i much opposed to reactionaries and
the enemies of true democracy dis
guised as Democrats as I am to re
actionary Republicans.
Nation's Destiny at Stake
“The cause of progressive democ
racy is at stake in the forthcoming
election. Momentous issues of na
tional and international character
must be decided upon. The decision
of the American people depends
i upon their well-being and prosperity t
I and upon their decision depends also
J the destiny of this nation and the
! world for years to come.”
j Andrew Jackson did not believe
I in divided counsels, he told the peo
’ pie of Tennessee, of which state Me
i Adoo was formerly a citizen, in urg-
I ing the state to send a delegation
to New York “instructed to speak in
; the voice of Tennessee for one can-
I didate and for definite principles,
i that the people of Tennessee can
j have a real influence in that con
! vention.”
The speaker urged Tennesseans to
avoid sending a national delegation
■ split into factions as he said was
the case at the Baltimore conven
tion in 1912, when some supported
I one candidate and some another,
I when he said the voice of this state
: spoke no commanding influence or
effect and aid not play the part it
i should have in nominating Wood
; row Wilson.
Mr. McAdoo said that his oppo
nents were urging uninstructed del
egations from the states that are
favorable to his candidacy and that
I in every state they control “rock
ribbed and iron-bound instructions”
are sought.*
“I am willing to have r he dele
gates from every so-called McAdoo
state go to the national convention
uninstructed, if my opponents are
willing to have the delegates they
control go to the. convention unin
i structed," he continued. “But since
they demand instruction in the
states they control, then we should
; meet them on their battle ground by ■
' sending instructed delegates from I
every state that is favorable to the
! cause of progressive democracy. Let ,
I us fight instructions with instruc
l tions and make their issue clear-cut ■
i and unmistakable.”
i Five thousand persons heard Mr
I McAdoo speak.
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TREASURY IN 1923
m OF Bi n.NO
HANDLED 81 STATE
The state treasury handled $17,-
270,690.22 in cash and $3,811,250 in
bonds and securities during the
year 1923, or a- grand total of $21,-
081,940.22 in cash and securities, ac
cording to the annual report of
Treasurer W. J. Speer made public
Tuesday.
Os the total cash handled, $1.4,-
855,254.91 .represented the balance
left on hand January 1, 1923, and
the collections during the year
i from state sources, while $2,134,-
879.32 represented the amount paid
into the treasury for highway con
struction by the federal govern
ment. Other items included $15,-
250 paid by the government for the
motherhood and infancy fund; $4,-
451.52 paid by the government for
control of contagious diseases;
$736.08 in the state board’s funds
for examining architects;
was paid by -he government for
vocational education, and $2 5,053.53
was paid by the government for re
habilitation work.
The Balance
The treasurer’s report shows that
$12,528,838.41 of the state funds had
been expended up to December 31,
1923, leaving a book balance of $2,-
326,416.50. A portion of this bal
ance is represented by bonds and
coupons paid by correspondents in
New Yori" by advances to members
of the legislature for the extra ses
sion that closed in. December, and
by advances to members of the civil
establishment, warrants for which
were issued after January 1, 1924,
it is pointed out. Therefore, the bal
ance was not an actual cash bal
ance.
The common schools of the state
do not participate in any of the
funds provided by the federal gov
ernment, or in the state highway
funds, and therefore will not be
entitled to share in practically half
of the money handled through the
treasury, it was pointed out by Cap
tain Speer.
The bonds aggregating $3,811,250
were furnished by insurance com
panies, state depositories, lessees of
the state’s property at Chattanooga
and the W. and A. railroad, the lat
ter bond alone amounting to $600,-
000.
W. and A. Road Chief Asset
The state's largest asset is the
Western and Atlantic railroad, now
leased to the N., C. and St. L. rail
road for fifty years at an annual
rental of $540,000. The interstate
commerce commission has valued this
property at practically $20,000,000.
Other assets include the public
buildings owned by the state; ISG
shares of Georgia railroad stock val
ued at $48,360, and 440 shares of
Southern and Atlantic Telegraph
company stock, indorsed by the
Western Union Telegraph company,
valued at SII,OOO.
Liabilities
The state’s liabilities include $5,-
290,500 In vaild interest bearing
bonds; $3,500 in non-interest bearing
bonds, and $90,202 in a land script
fund on which the state pays the
University of Georgia 7 jer cent
annually, making total liabilities of
$5,384,202.
As was shown in Comptroller Gen
eral AVright’s report published last
Sunday, the niain item of revenue
for the state was the general tax,
amounting to $4,960,696.01 in 1923,
compared to in 1922.
The largest disbursement was to the
common schools of the state, or
$4,233,565.09 in 1923, compared to
$4,532,408.63 in 1922. Since this re
port was compiled the schools have
been paid an i.dditional $50,000 out
of 1923 revenues, and are to get at
least $50,000 more, it is said.
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| BASEBALL
SOUTHERN LEAGUE
Clubs— Won. Lost. Pct.
Memphis 20 7 .714
ATLANTA 14 10 .583
New Orleans It 12 .538
Birmingham 15 13 .536
Mobile 13 11 .481
Nashville 12 13 .480
Little Rock 9 H -409
Cha t tanooga .... ■ 7 21 .250
AMERICAN - LEAGUE
Clubs Won. Lost. Pct.
New York 14 7 .667
Boston 11 s .579
Detroit 11 10 .524
Chicago 10 10 .500
St, Louis’ 11 H -500
Washington 11 12 .478
Cleveland 10 11 .476
Philadelphia 6 15 .286
NATIONAL - LEAGUE
Clubs— Won. Lost. Pct.
Cincinnati 15 7 .682
New York 11 » .609
Chicago ....15 11 .577
Boston 9 JO .474
PittsburgH 13 .45S
Brooklyn 8 11 ,421
St. Louis 9 13 .400
Philadelphia 6 13 .316
SALLYLEAGUE
Clubs— Won. Lost, Pct.
Augusta 19 2 .904
Charlotte ’....12 9 .571
Asheville 9 10 .474
Greenville 10 12 .455
Spartanburg 8 12 .400
Macon .... 5 18 .217
TUESDAY 7^ G A MF.B
Southern League
Memphis. 2; Atlanta, 5.
Nashville, 10; New Orleans, 2.
Chattanooga, 7; Mobile, 4.
Little Kock, S; Birmingham, 9.
American League
Chicago. 7; New York. 5.
St. Louis, 5; Boston, S.
Detroit, 3; Washington, 6.
Cleveland, 3; Philadelphia, 2.
National League
Boston. 1; Pittsburg, 5.
Brooklyn. 1: Chicago, 3.
New York, 3: St. Lottis, 8.
Philadelphia, 3; Cincinnati, 4.
Sally League
Augusta, 9; Macon, 2.
Charlotte, 3: Spartanburg, 4.
> Asheville, 5; Greenville, 5 (fifteen in
nings, darkness).
MOND'AY'S - GAMES
Southern League
Memphis. 5; Atlanta. 6 (eleven innings).
Little Rock, 6: Birmingham, 15.
Chattanogoa. 9; Mobile, 7.
American League
All games were postponed on acc<’ ; :
. in, net grounds and cold.
National League
Brooklyn, 7; Chicago, 3.
New York. 3; St. Louis. 5.
Philadelphia, 1; Cincinnati, 4.
Sally League
Augusta, 5; Macon, 0.
Greenville, 9; Asheville. 3.
Spartanburg, 9; Charlotte. 2.
Virginia League
Wilson. 3; Portsmouth, 2.
Norfolk, 3; Richmond, 2.
Petersburg, 6; Rocky Mount, 8.
Florida State League
Tampa, 4; Bradentown. 2.
Daytona. 2: Orlando, io.
Lakeland, J; St. Pciershurg, 0.
Piedmont League
Danville. 3: Durham. 7.
Greens'ore, 3, Highpoint, 2.
THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1021.
BUTLER'S REMARKS
BRING REFORMERS’
i COUNTER ATTACK
BY ROBERT T. SMALL
(Special Leased Wire to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1921.)
NEW YORK, May 13.—The Antl-
Saloon league, the W. C. T. U., the
Methodist Board of Morals and other
organizations interested in the en
forcement of prohibition have made
it known here that they will not be
idle when attempts are made at the
Republican and Democratic national
conventions to force “damp” planks
into the platforms of the two grand
old parties.
They also have let it be known
that they are not yet through with
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi
dent of Columbia university, who
had the audacity to come out in a
public speech with the statement
that the present scheme of prohibi
tion was a failure and should be
wiped from the statute books in fa
vor of a workable and sane liquor
control law, such, for instance, as
prevails in certain provinces of Can
ada.
Dr. Butler has been warned by
some of the reform spokesmen that
they will not rest until they obtain
his removal from the presidency of
Columbia, numbering its students
in the tens of thousands. The rad
ical prohibition advocates have con
tended that Dr. Butler was out of
step with the heads of virtually all
the institutions of learning in this
country and that he should step
down. These advocates were elated
today over the publication of the
statement by Dr. Eliot, president
emeritus of Harvard, who took se
rious issue with his fellow educator.
Eliot Reformers’ Champion
In their first attack on Dr. But
ler, the reform elements pointed
with pride to previous statements
by Dr. Eliot. That he should have
come out at this juncture with a’ re
iteration of his views that great
progress is being made with enforce
ment and that total prohibition ac
tually is in the offing, has filled the
foes of the Columbia head with re
newed confidence of success in their
fight to unseat Dr. Butler and make
him an example to any other promi
nent man in a similar position who
might dare to give expression to
views contrary to the tenor of the
Volstead act.
Dr. Butler has stated that in five
years prohibition will end. Da, Elioi.
has stated that in five years prohi
bition really will prohibit. Thus the
titular heads of two great univer
sities appear before the country with
views diametrically opposed. The
reform forces have joined in now
with the prediction that in five yeatd
Dr. Butler will not be in a position
to make, another attack on prohibi
tion. The prohibition advocates are
not inclined to be lenient with their
enemies at any time. The promi
nence given to the words of Dr.
Butler and the inference drawn in
some quarters that his statements
might be taken as a reflection of a
changed on the part of s he
people toward prohibition, hit 'he
prohibition advocates in an unex
pected quarter, but they are rally
ing from the blow and are promising
quick retaliation.
The students at Columbia ap
parently are not frightened by the
dire threats made against their
“prexy.” The}’’ hotly resent the at
tempt of some of the reformers to
convey the impression that Colum
bia is a hot bed of intoxication, that
liquor flows ... .evitable streams
across the campus and that revelry
holds the boards until far into the
night.
Deny Campus Is Soggy
They say the national prohibition
laws have nothing to do with the
morals of Columbia or any other
university. The rules against intoxi
cants, which have always prevailed
at Columbia and were neither
■strengthened nor relaxed with the
coming of national prohibition.
Dr. Butler’s intimation that he
wovld bring up the Volstead act at
the Republican national convention,
to which he is a delegate at large
from tii.i state, has been uu.,,.erei
by the prohibitionists with the an
nouncement that they too will be at.
Cleveland to see that nothing in the
nature of a 'd stand on pro-
hibition shall be so much as breathed
in any plank of the Republican plat
forr; .
They have further announced that
they will be here in New York in
great num' ers to fight t. a ' boom”
of Governor Al Smith or any other
candidate who may be viewed bj’
them as being of the damp variety.
The “drys” proclaimed anew to
day that at the Democratic conven
tion, whoever dares to a<.a i gun at
the Volstead act will be pilloried on
the soot. The “drys” say that far
from being acquiescent, the recent
outbreak of the "wets” has but spur
red them on to greater militancy.
Long County Reaches
Paving Agreement
LUDOWICI, Ga., May 13.—The
greatest road building stride by Long
county since its creation in 192.0
was made last week when the coun
ty commissioners accepted the prop
osition made by the state highway
department for the rebuilding of the
old Macon-Darien road through this
county, extending from the Tattnall
to the Mclntosh county lines, a dis
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