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COOLIDGE. SWUNG
ON HIS OWN RECORD.
LAUNCHES campaign
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Special I.eased Wire to 'Die Journal—Copy
right, 1924.)
WASHINGTON. Aug. 30—Presi
« dent Coolidge s home •coining means
the beginning of his active campaign
to retain the office to which he suc
ceeded a year ago.
The strategy of the president is
settled. To all the Democratic cry
of corruption and irregularity, his
answer is simple—ne was not respon
sible for what happened before he
took the oath of office. He stands I
on his own record of a year. Do his
opponents claim he tolerates irregu
larity or connives on it? They must
prove that in the last year he has
identified himself in any way with the
scandals exposed by senate inves
ligating committees. That’s the back
bone of his defense against criticism.
As for his policies, they too have
been unfolded in addresses to con
gress and the country. In what re
spect have they failed? Do they
represent a constructive purpose or
a disturbing influence in the nation's
life? Has the country gone to rack
and ruin under his administration’’
Is the past not an indication of what
can be expected for the future?
Thus does the Coolidge campaign
make its place for its continuance
in power. IHttle new may be loqked
for. The present policies of the
Coolidge administration are well
known. If successful they will be
developed as circumstances permit.
Problem of Congress
There are no commitments one
way or the other except on a few
issues like the protective tariff. Prac
tically everything is in the hands of
congress anyway. The executive has
done a good deal of proposing but
congress has done a good deal of
disposing. t
Mr. Coolidge is not worrying just
now about legislative programs. It
lie wins the election he thinks con
gress will be more obedient. His op
ponents say congress will be even
more truculent as? the La Follette
ticket will bring in a large number
of radical Republicans who wih be
looking toward 1926 and 1928 to im
prove the political strength of their
movement.
Resentment against congress when
it adjourned was intense in many
parts of the country. Even the Re
publican leaders were bitterly con
demned. Privately even the parti
" sans of Mr. Coolidge are compelled
to admit that their real worry is
about congress for with a Republican
executive and a rebellious senate and
house the nation may encounter un
certainty far more disturbing than
“ anything any of the candidates for
the presidency could bring about
alone. It is the weakness in the
• Republican armor. Mr. Coolidge is
safe and sane, but is a Republican
congress? The Democrats have yet
to prove that they will be any bet
ter though they insist they will have
southern conservatives plus eastern
conservatives if they win a major
ity this time, f<*r they do not antici
pate the acquisition of mahy south
ern or western radicals.
Importance of Question
Mr. Coolidge has not yet disclosed
ho* he will handle the question of
getting a Republican congress to exe
cute his policies.- He has entered no
primary fights to prevent the renom
rination of men who opposed him.
So far as is known, the Republican
national organization is not entering
candidates of the pro-Coolidge type
to wrest seats from the Republicans
who blocked Mr. Coolidge's attempts
al leadership. In another month
most of the men who are to run for
congress will have been nominated
Many of them -re reluctantly indors
ing the national ticket for their own
political advantage and thus may es
cape punishment, from Republican
voters who wanted them in the past
to uphold President Coolidge’s poli
cies. Other, congressional nominees
are saying little about the national
ticket. i
As a general thing, very little is
being done to make the Republican
t'artv in congress how t.o/the Coolidge
leadership. Whenever this question
la asked in Republican circles it. is
Usually answered with the statement
that once Coolidge is elected a Re
publican congress will follow hitn.
Before the campaign is another
Month old this p|iase of it will grow
Constantly in importance for busi
ness, big and little, will be worried
less about. Davis and Coolidge than
it will be about congress.
Lock-Breaking Artist
Os Stage Unable to
Conquer Own Door
ANNISTON, Ala., Aug. 29
George ,1. Lewis, known on the
stage as "Great Gabriel.” lock and
handcuff escape artist, was unable
to pick the lock on his own home
here last night.
After a performance at a local
theater in which he removed hand
cuffs, made his way out through
locked doors and performed other
feats. Gabriel went to the home he
had engaged for his stay here, found
th edoor locked. H- was unable to
pick the lock and could not arouse
inmates of the house. He spent the
balanc oof the night at a downtown
hotel.
Children cry for
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MOTHF.RFletcher’s Castoria ( /
is a pleasant, harmless Substitute Jh / \
for Castor Oil, Paregoric. Teeth- f n. / |
ing Drops and Soothing Syrups, /j I
especially prepared for Infants J
in arms and Qiildren al! ages.
To avoid imitations, always lock for the signature of
Proven directions on each package. Physicians every where recommend it
THE ATI \VI A 'RIUI/EKLY JOURNAL
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ST. PAUL PREPAfIES
TO WELCOME 20.000
LEGION DELEGATES
I . .
ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 30.—The
four convention halls which will
house the national gatherings of
the American Legion, the American
Legion auxiliary and the Forty and
Eight, to be held here September 15
to 19, will have accommodations for
nearly 20,000 delegates, according to
Judge Royal A. Stone, general con
vention chairman.
A stage with a seating capacity of
4,000 persons has been placed in the
municipal auditorium, where the
main sessions of the convention will
be held.
The legion auxiliary sessions will
be held in the Central Presbyterian
church and the Forty and Eight
will meet at the Junior Pioneer hall.
The special offices for legion offi
cials will be arranged in the senate
chamber of the old capitol building
and in the armory,
Judge Kennesaw M. Landis will
address the legion auxiliary. The
outstanding feature will be the
states’ dinner on Tuesday evening
at the Masonic temple. National of
ficers, department delegates, nation
al executive committeewomen and
all the chairmen of national com
mittees of the auxiliary, as well as
national officers and department
commanders of the legion, will be
present.
Memorial services will be conduct
ed by Mrs. Dora Plainer, of Ellis,
Kan., national chairman of the Gold
Star committee.
JOURNAL RADIO
CALENDAR
(Mason and Hamlin piano used ex
clusively. Courtesy Cable Piano com
pany.)
TUESDAY
12 to 1 P. M. -Entertainment* by Frank
Wilson, pianist; -Miss Mordee Tyndall,
mezzo-soprano, and Usher T. Davis, bar
itone; Mrs. Davis, accompanist.
3:30 I’. M.— Baseball, news, markets:
Miss Bonnie Barnhardt’s Burgess bed
time story.
S to 9 I’. M.—Concert, by the U. S.
Twenty-second Infantry band, Bandmas
ter Joint Anderson, conducting; message
by General Shanks.
10:45 P. M. Organ concert by Dr.
Charles A. Sheldon.
WEDNESDAY
12 to 1 P. M. Entertainment by Mrs.
t'aroly Sparling Nesbit, soprano; Mrs.
G. I*. Thomas, contralto; Mrs. G. I’.
Ilanlin. pianist.
3:30 I’. M. Baseball, news, markets;
Miss Bonnie Barnhardt’s Burgess bed
time siorv.
S to 9 P. M.—Silent.
10:15 I’. M. Concert sponsored by the
i Woman’s division of I lie Chamber of
Commerce Music committee, H. Knox
Spain in charge.
THURSDAY
12 to 1 P. M. —Program by the Bev.
Andrew Jenkins, blind evangelist, ami
family.
3:30 P. \l. Baseball news, markets;
Miss jhuinie Barnhardt’s Burgess bed
time story.
I S to 9 P. M.—Entertainment by the
Bowling orchestra.
10:45 P. M.—Concert by the Salvation
j Army Silver and Vocal quartets.
FRIDAY
j 12 to 1 P. M. -Concert by the Geor
gia Railway and Power Co. quartet.
3:30 P. M. Baseball, news, markets:
Miss Bonnie Barnhardt’s Burgess bedtime
story.
S to 9 P. M —-Concert by Usher T. Da
vis. baritone; Vaughn Ozmer, tenor; Miss
Ethel Brown, pianist, and others.
1<>:4.5 P. M.—Entertainment by Tur
ner’s Entertainers, dance orchestra.
SATURDAY
12 tn 1 P. M. —Entertainment.
3:30 P. M.— Baseball, news, markets;
•Miss Bonnie Barnhardt’s Burgess bed
j time story.
S to 9 r. M.—Concert by Dr. Tom
Gibbs Fowler, baritone; Miss Louise
Hill, pianist, and others.
10:45 TT M. Week-end Jubilee.
Alfred E.Mummeiy
London “White Wing" Tells
How He Keeps Wolf Away.
Bread and Tea Principal
Food
LONDON, Aug. 30.—1 t isn't al
ways easy for the American work
ingman to make ends meet.
But the lot of the British laborer
is far harder still.
Take Alfred E. Mummeby, for in
stance. He is feeding, housing and
clothing himself, his wife and five
children on sl3 a week.
And there are thousands even less
fortunate than he.
For Mummery, employed by the
street cleaning department of the
Borough of Southwalk, which is a
part of big London, gets more rath
er than less thafi the ordinary un
skilled worker. He’s just an av
erage British workman.
But to get back to his living prob
lem in after-the-war expensive Eng
land.
Mummery lives in the Walworth
district. /His home is on the top
floor of a tenement building.
Lucky’ to Have Three Rooms
There are three rooms —two bed
rooms and a room the family uses
as a kitchen, dining room and sit
ting room. It is in the latter his
children study their lessons every
night after supper.
“We rented the flat before the
war,” Mummery explains. “W£ are
lucky to have it.
“Under the law, the landlord can
not put us out, so long as we pay
our rent, and he can’t get over 20
per cent more than we paid before
the war.
“Most landlords nowadays, when
they get an unfurnished flat vacat
ed, put a few things in it, call it
furnished, and ask almost any price
they want. And they can put you
out almost; any time they wish.'
“Our landlord installed in our flat
a coal stove and afeo a gas stove
with a penny-in-the-slot connection
for our gas supply. We pay him
nearly $3 a week.
“In case I get sick, the borough
will pay half my wages for six
months. If anybody in my family
takes ill, we get doctors and medi
cine under the national health act.
If we need dentists we get them free
through the London county council.
“The nine shillings (less than $2)
that I keep for myself, I use partly
in keeping up my dues in clubs that
pay benefits in case of illness or
death.
“Now I suppose you .wonder what
we eat. Well, here’s about the way
it runs:
"Breakfast—Tea. bread and oleo
margarine.
"Noon dinner—Meat, greens or
cabbage, potatoes, tea.
"Five o’clock tea —bread, oleomar
garine, tea.
“Eight o'clock supper —• bread,
cheese, tea.
"My wife uses three or four pounds
of tea a, week costing one shilling
and four pence (30 cents) a pound.
We have about eight or nine pounds
of sugar a week at 7 1-2 pennies
(about 15 cents) a pound.
"When we have meat it is bacon,
or mutton or sometimes beef at one
shilling and four pence a pound.
We get greens at a penny ha’penny
(approximately three cents) a pound.
"Potatoes don't cost us much. We
get three pounds for tuppence (about
four cents.) We need about five
loaves of bread a day. They are
small loaves costing 4 1-2 pence
(about nine cents) each. And our
oleomargarine—running about three
or four pounds—costs us six pence
(about 12 cents) a pound.
Church Fetes Their Amusements
Clothing and shoes for himself
and his family, however, form Mum
mery's big problem. He tries to
meet it by paying some of his spend
ing money into boot and clothing
chibs. That costs him about 12
cents a week.
"When he has paid in a certain
amount, he is entitled to boots or
clothing equal to that amount.
“But we make ours last a long
time,” he says. "I always can buy
leather fairly cheap, and I repair
the shoes of all the family. And
my wife is mighty clever at patch
ing up the clothes.”
Mummery, unlike many British
workmen, doesn’t spend his spare
I time at the "pubs.” public houses
1 or saloons He neither drinks nor
: smokes. And he doesn’t go to the
movies.
Mummery is religious He is a
i regular churchgoer. And he and
i his brood look to the church festi-
I vals for all their amusement.
! "We go to the concerts and the
| services at the Browning Settlement.
; which is near where we live. These
I entertainments don’t cost anything,
I and they are pleasant.
"They often have lemonade and
I cake, and the cost is so small that
; anybody can afford it if he has a
■ regular job.”
That, in brief is how a man i =
supporting himself his wife and five
children on sl3 a week.
Sparta Water Praised L
SPARTA. Ga . Aug 30. Th<
water supply of Sparta, which i
tested monthly by chemists in th<
cffice of the state board of health
has received high praise the last fev
i months for its purity and excellen
j quality. The water supply is ac
quired from deep artesian wells.
Repairs Famly's shoes
GEORGIA TOBACCO.
BWFOWHI
HELPED GT MINS
1--
FITZGERALD, Ga., Aug. 30.
Two hundred thousand pounds of to
bacco have been sold this week on the
local market at an average price of
$26.12 per hundred pounds.
The total sales for the season up
to Friday was 750,000 pounds at the
average price of $24.00 per hundred
pounds.
The sales will continue for an
other week, it was announced, and
due to the heavy rain Friday night,
which will put remaining tobacco, in
better condition for moving, sales
' are expected to be increased next
. week over the week just past.
TIFTON TOBACCO SALES
NEAR 2,500,000 POUNDS
TIFTON, Ga.. Aug. 30.—Friday’s
sales in the local tobacco market
159,664 pounds and brought $30,285.-
61. The season’s total is 2,465,422
pounds for $53,653.16.
NASHATLLE’S BIG MARKET
CLEANS UP FOR WEEK
NASHVILLE, Ga., Aug. 30. —Fri-
day’s sale cleaned up all the large
warehouses on the Nashville tobacco
market, sales here today totaling
269,000 pounds, at an average of 25c
a pound. Tobacco sold as high as
71c.
Friday’s sale put this market over
the four and a quarter million pound
mark and will sure reach the five
I million mark next week.
FITZGERALD, Ga., Aug. 30.
Fourth week of tobacco market
closed Friday with sales recorded of
nearly 1,000,000 pounds, at an a.ver
age of above $26 per hundred. The
i Fitzgerald market will continue open
' for another week, closing here Sep
| tember 5. Friday/s sales amounted
to 45.000 pounds, at an average of
$25.62 per 100. The highest price
paid Friday was 59 cents, Douglas
& Turner, of Ambrose, receiving the
$lO gold premium paid by the cham-
I her of commerce for the highest price
received.
Heavy sales are expected on the
local market all next week, several
! of Georgia’s markets being closed,
j and all tobacco ready for sale will
I have to be marketed during next
: week or £lse either hold it over for
! next year or ship it to the North
I Carolina markets, which open the
i middle of September.
QI l.\(A TOBACCO NOT
MARKETED IN CAMILLA
Ql/INCY, Fla., Aug. 30. —Ware-
housemen here are at a loss to un
dersktnd a news story sent out from
i Camilla. Ga., saying that eighteen
' large truckloads of bright tobacco
were departing from here last Tues
j day to be marketed in Camilla Wed
nesday. Investigation shows that
• but one truckload of tobacco left
I here this week, destination unknown,
and perhaps it went to Camilla.
The item further stated that the
I message concerning the tobacco was
| telephoned to Camilla. Records of
I the local telephone office show only
one call from here to Camilla this
I week, and this call was made by a
I lady uninterested in and uninformed
lor. bright tobacco.
i The bright tobacco market here,
I although in its first season, has
j proved a great success.
I SMALL SALES MARK TOBACCO
MARKET AT VALDOSTA FBI DAN
VALDOSTA, Ga., Aug. 30. Friday
brought the smallest receipts of to-
Ibacco since the season opened, or
193.000 pounds. The average price
was also low, as the product graded
I low. At the Saunders warehouse,
; the price was only 16 cents, and at
| the Alliance warehouse it was 21
i cents, and about the same at the
Farmers’ warehouse. For the week
tiie receipts have been 750,000
I pounds.
The warehouses here will remain
open until about September 12. when
the forces and buyers will leave for
| North Carolina to buy in markets
j there. Already movements are on
! foot for another large warehouse
I next season. An option on a large
lot has been secured for it. The
banks here report large deposits
’ from near by places from tobacco
sales.
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The inventor. A. N. Johnson. 642
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j you can get the agency, and with
out experience nr money make $250
ito SSOO per month.
BIGPARTIESHAVING
HARD TIME RAISING
CAMPAIGN ISSUES
BA ROBERT T. SMALL
(Copyright. 1924. by I lie Consolidated Press
A ssocia * ion—Sperlal Leased Wire
to The Atlanta Journal.)
NEW YORK. Aug. 30.—The lead
ing candidates for the presidency of
these United States seem to l?e hav
ing a, great deal of trouble agreeing
or disagreeing as to just what are
the “issues in this campaign.” Until
they get a little nearer together, the
man in the street, must remain in
something of a quandary. At the
present moment there is only one
point of contact and that is the tariff.
Even on that somewhat superannu
ated issue there is not the wide di
vergence of opinion that one might
expect, for while Mr. Davis is de
nouncing the “robber” schedules of
the Fordney-McCumber act, he is at
the same time stating that there
must be a tariff based upon sound
ccmpetative principles so the Amer
ican working man may not suffer
at the hands of cheap foreign labor.
President Coolidge evidently has
made up his mind completely to
ignore the "honesty in government”
issue raised by Mr. Davis. Mr. Cool
idge in taking the position that under
him “honesty in government” is to
be assumed, not questioned. Mr.
Davis has been courteous enough to
say that no one would question Mr.
Coolidge on that score, but he doesn’t
seem to believe that Mr. Coolidge
would be the entire next administra
tion if elected. Instead he thinks the
president would fall a victim to the
same “system” which surrounded
Mr. Harding and made Teapot Dome
possible.
Agree on Klan
Mr. Davis by his speech at Seagirt
last week and by his visit to Colum
bus, Ohio this week, has ehdeavored
to bring the ku klux klan to the fore
as an “issue” but thus far Mr. Cool
idge has insisted upon ignoring the
subject and the chances seem to be
that he will not agree with Mr.
Davis, that the way to deal with this
subject is for both of the leading
candidates to denounce the klan and
all its works. In any event Mr.
Davis has the support of Senator
La Follette in denouncing the klan
and here, as well as on the subject
of “honesty in government” the
Democrats have the co-operation of
the “third party” nominees. This
support is not to be dispised.
With both the Democrats ana Re
publicans ignoring the issues raised
by each other and with the La Fol
lette following wondering where they
can go in the face of the indecision
on the part of the two older parties,
the campaign promises to become ex
ceedingly trying on the nerves and
no one knows just where it will end.
The Republicans, as w'as forecast
in these dispatches some time ago
are endeavoring to push forward the
foreign relations angle to the cam
paign. They feeel that without en
tering the league of nations they
have accomplished much. The Dem
ocrats say they could have done the
same thing years ago by entering
the league. Thus the discussion be
comes academic, and if there is one
thing the Democrats can attack Mr.
Coolidge is that he did not act with
any too much celerity in view of
the exposures which were being
made by the senate investigating
committees. They claim Mr. Coolidge
did nothing at all until the situation
forced him to act. Os course Mr.
Coolidge replies there was nothing
for him to do until he was apprised
of the misconduct.
Hard to Keep Mad
Inasmuch as the Republicans feel
they have a good arguing point on
this issue, and inasmuch as they say
their faces are set toward the rising,
rather than the setting sun, the
Democrats are having a little diffi
culty in keeping up their “rage.”
Senator Wheeler, the La Follette can
didate for vice president, is doing
the best he can to help the Demo
crats on this score and for his as
sistance they are duly grateful. On
all other matters they are somewhat
scornful.
President Coolidge is attempting to
spike the La Follette guns so far
as is possible by committing himself
definitely to farm relief legislation in
the next congress. Just at the mo
ment, however, the farmers are sit
ting pretty and needing no relief.
However, it is always a good idea
to hold out to them the promise of
relief even though the “farmer vote”
of Hie middle west always has been
Republican. The La Follette move
ment which started off with such a
clashing of cymbals and beating ot
drums seem to have met with de
terrent currents because the “gam
blers in the pits” have been boosting
the price of wheat and corn beyond
the wildest dreams of avarice on the
part of the dirt farmers. On this
“issue” Mr. Coolidge unquestionably
has carried off the “breaks of the
game” and he has added to his wora
that the man in the street takes no
stock in, it is academic discussions.
Most political observers believe
that the election might as well be
held tomorrow. They think the vot
ers have made up their minds and
that all the money, energy and words
to be expended between this time and
election day in November might bet
ter be conserved. Still and all, the
United States without a quadrennial
thrill over the presidency would be a
dull place indeed.
Anderson Makes Plea
For Larger Program
In Road Construction
MONTEZUMA. Ga., Aug. 30.—W.
T. Anderson, of the Macon Tele
graph, and member of the Dixie
Highway commission, was the guest
of the Kiwanis club of Montezuma
Thursday, when he delivered an ad
dress in the interest of good roads in
Georgia.
According to Mr. Anderson the
progress of Georgia in road building
compares unfax .-ably with manv
neighboring states, notably Florida
and North Carolina, ana as a re
suit there is a great annual depre
ciation in the value of Georgia’s
automobiles and but little demand
for Georgia lands. Stating that
“roads are the pillars of the house
of progress,” Mr. Anderson made a
plea for wiser legislation and an en
larged program of permanent road
building.
Other guests of the club, all of
whom made short talks, were Edwin
Murray, president of the Fort Val
ley Kiwanis club: L. D. Haie. mayor
of Fort A'allev; R. A. Hicks, of Rey
nolds, and Rev. J. M. Johnson, of
Waynesboro.
Miss Susan Myi ick. secretary of
the Dixie Highway Auxiliary, was
also present and gave several de
ishtfu’! readings.
TUE.'.IAY, SEi i u,. 2, 1521
ALL WITNESSES UNANIMOUS
IN PRAISE OF FIGHT FROM AIR
AGAINST THE BOLL WEEVIL
Experts and Lay Observers
Join in Expressing Belief’
in New Method —Cordele 1
Demonstration Impressive'
BY ERNEST ROGERS
(Staff Correspondent of The Journal)
CORDELE, Ga., Aug. 29. — Re
capitulation of opinions expressed by
agricultural experts, business lead
ers and others interested in the
demonstrations of the airplane meth
od of dusting cotton with calcium
arsenate held in Athens and Cor
dele. finds fill who witnessed the
events unanimous in praise of the
most modern method yet devised
for cornbating the boll weevil.
Senators William J. Harris and
Walter F. George, Congressman
Charles Crisp, Dr. J. Phil Camp
bell, head of the extension depart
ment of the State College of Agri
culture; Dr. George A. Maloney, per
sonal representative of Dr. B. R.
Coad, of the government experiment
station, at Tallulah, La.; J. J.
Brown, state commissioner of agri
culture; David D. Long, soil expert
of the soil improvement committee;
Thomas H. Huff, head of the Huff
Daland Aeroplane company, of
Ogdensburg’. N. Y., and others, in
reflecting on the demonstrations,
gave their approval to the new
method, and are convinced of the
practicability of the process.
The two planes, operated by
George B. Post and Roy L. Mitchell,
of the Delta laboratories, in Ath
ens —under most difficult conditions
—and in Cordele —under more fa
vorable conditions due to the smooth
ness of the terrain —demonstrated to
approximately 20,000 Georgians the
possibilities of dusting cotton with
airplanes at a minimum cost and
a maximum of efficiency.
Dr. Campbell, who has made an
intensive study of the method, and
who was the personal representa
tive of Dr. Andrew M. Soule, head
of the State College of Agriculture,
at the demonstrations, has evinced
great enthusiasm for the method.
| BASEBALL
SOUTHERN LEAGUE
CLUBS— Won. Lost. Pet
Meiuplii 90 46 .662
ATLANTA 86 50 .632
New Orlean s 81 57 .581
Nashville 72 62 .537
Mobile .. 64 72 .471
Chattanooga 55 79 .410
Birminglianis2 S 3 .385
Little Rock ... 43 94 ,314
AMERICAN LEAGUE
CLUBS- Won. Lost. Pct.
Washington 74 55 .574
New York ... ... 71 5> .564
Detroit 68 59 .535
St. Louis 66 61 .520
Cleveland 60 69 .466
Boston 68 68 .460
Philadelplra ... 5S H
Chicago 54
NATIONAL LEAGUE
CLUBS - Won. Tost. Pct.
New York 75 49 .605
Pitstburg ... I- 4 61 .58.’
Brooklyn -"jJ
Cincinnati 6< 6’- ..->l9
St. Louis 64 j 4 .4-2
Phladelpba 49 <a .JT>
Boston
SUNDAY’S RESULTS
SOUTHERN LEAGUE
Atlanta 7; Mobile. 3.
Nashville, 2; Chattanooga. 10.
l.ittle Rock. 2: Memphis, 6.
liirnaingbain, 6;New Orleans, 4.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago, IO; Cleveland, 1.
Washington, 4; New York, 2 (I 0 innings).
Detroit. 4; St. Louis, )4.
Only three games scheduled.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York, 2; Brooklyn. 3.
St. Louis, 4; Chicago, 5.
Pittsburg, 2; Chicago. 0.
Only three games scheduled.
SATURDAY’S RESULTS
SOUTHERN LEAGUE
Nashville, 3; Atlanta, 11.
l.ittle Rock, 3; Birmingham. 2.
Memphis, 0: New Orleans. 3.
Mobile-Chattanooga, postponed, rain.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Washington, 1; New York, 2.
Philadelphia, 18-7; Boston, 7 2.
Chicago. 6; Cleveland, IL
Detroit, 6: S'. Louis, 1.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston, 1-8; Philadelphia. 7-10.
New York, 5; Brooklyn, 8.
Cincinnati, 3: Pittsburg, 12.
St. Louis, 5; Chicago,_6.
SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE
Greenville, 4: Charlotte, 7.
Augusta, 2: Spartanburg, 3.
Asheville. 8: Macon, 4.
Alleged Bandit Slain
By Woman When He
Swings Onto Auto
NEW ORUEANS. Aug. 31. —Thom-
as Thomason, an alleged highjacker
and bandit, was shot and instantly
killed Saturday by Mrs. Ethel Thomp
son, as he leaped on the running
board of an. automobile occupied by
her and her husband. Joseph J.
Thompson, in the business section
of the city. The Thompsons imme
diately drove to police headquarters
made statements, were charged with
manslaughter and were released on
$5,060 tends each.
Ihomason, according to the po
lice report, had been accused by the
husband and wife of holding them
up in Jefferson parish recently and
robbing them of $250. Thomason is
'alleged to have threatened the cou
ple for filing charges agai t him.
which it was reported had been
withdrawn within the last few days.
The scene of the killing was at
Common and Dryades streets. a
busv corner in the business district.
"[ thought he was after his gun.’
Mrs. Thompson declared. “He had
! threatened our lives and I believed
! he was going to kill us, so I turned
i around to the back of the coupe
: and grabbed our revolver. I shat
I him once and he fell to the ground.
Thomason was shot through the
l heart.
Questionnaires Quiz
Bibb Candidates Upon
Klan, League, Dry Law
MACON. Aug. 30. —The Macon
l.eague of Women Voters has sent
1 out the usual questionnaire to the
Bibb county candidates for the gen
eral assembly and has also mailed
•i copy to Major Ben J. Fowler and
Sam Rutherford, of Forsyth, can
didates for congress from the Sixth
congressional district, with letters
asking the candidates to fill out
the blank and also to attend the
league meeting Wednesday after
noon, when answers to the ques
tions will be read. The candidates
at that time will have an opportu
nity to address the women voters.
The questions ask the candidates
nosition on the prohibition law,
Ku Klux Klan, the Beague of Na
tions and other issues.
There are seven candidates for the
house of representatives from Bibh.
They are: Tom Butler, Julian F.
Urquhart. Nat E. Winship, Mrs.
Viola Ross Napier, A. W. Graves,
; John Y. Roberts and J. F. Malone,
i Mrs. Napier and Mr. Winship are
| the incumbents.
“I think Dr. Coad and his asso-1
ciates, through the co-operation of i
the Huff Daland company, have]
hit upon the most practical meth-j
od yet devised for boll weevil war
fare,” he stated Friday in Cordele.
“We have viewed the demonstra
tions carefully and we feel that
there is no gainsaying the fact that
no other method of dusting cotton
approaches the airplane method for
effectiveness.
"Dr. Soule has for some time been
deeply interested in this project and
I am sure that when h ft returns
he will be impressed with Ihe re
port I shall make. I think .It is a
most progressive step and one from
which We will hear later.”
Senators Harris and George also
voiced these sentiments following
the Cordele demons! rat ion. They de
clared that they felt gratified at)
the results and predicted that the I
method would he in common use in 1
the near future.
Never Saw Its Equal
Mr. Hong’, a deep student of soil
conditions and boll weevil warfare,
was one of the most enthusiastic
proponents of the method.
“I have never seen anything like
it,” he said. “I have been amazed
twice, first in Athens and then in
Cordele. I consider this the most
forward step yet taken to offset
the ravages of the cotton pest.”
Mr. Huff, whose company de
signed the planes for the govern
ment, was pleased with the com
mendatory expressions from mem
bers of the parties at both demon
strations. From all sides he was
complimented for his work in as
sisting in the demonstrations and
his efforts in assisting Dr. Coad in
perfecting a machine in line with
the scientist's ideas.
Commissioner Brown, who has
worked untiringly to better agricul
tural conditions in the state, agreed
with the others that “the forces
of the air will eventually conquer
the menace of the cbtton belt.”
Farmers Impressed
At Athens and Cordele the party
was accorded the full hospitality of
the municipalities. No pains wer?
spared to take care of the enormous
crowds at both places and the agri
cultural experts and newspaper rep
resentatives were extended excep
tional courtesies.
The A., B. & A. railroad, through
the passenger traffic department
and its agricultural department,
added much to the comfort of the
party in furnishing a special Pull
man for the trip from Atlanta to
Cordele. The car was stationed at
Cordele Thursday morning, remain
ing on the tracks throughout the
day and bringing the group back to
Atlanta Friday.
Farmers of north and south Geor
gia have gone back to their farms
deeply impressed with the power of
the airplane as their champion in
the fight against “the billion dollai
bandit.” Interest has been aroused
to high degree and there is a feel
ing of greater security throughout
Georgia through the consciousness
that huge monsters of the air are
ready to swoop down to deal death
to the boll weevil.
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< Ain ER 1 IS EM EM .) (ADVERTISEMENT.) j'
John T. Boifeuillet, Professional Office Holder for 35 Years,
Severely Criticized for Devoting His Time to Personal
Business at the Expense of the State
For more than nine weeks Mr. Bolfeull- articles each week for The Atlanta
let ha« called upon io name a Journal for which he Is paid a largs
single instance where he has initiated, salary, contrary to law and his oath of
since he has been on the Public Service office. H» has toted to
Commission, a single movement for the neer $25 P er ./ a X
benefit of the agricultural industry. Five should have done hi nself as a Commis
voars ago his salary was increased ias not, aid he will not,
$llOO per vear with the express pro deny the t'Uth of a single one of the
vision that he entire rime to ni.« abm e statements. e I? r . r .
ofjire. Still, he writes four lemrf&y ; O. R. BENNET, Ga.
FULTON TftX VALUES
TOiSffIEfIEFICIT
INTO NET INCOM
Fulton county overcame a deficit
of $12,000,000 in the (ax digests ot
the other 159 counties in Georgia '
and brought the state of Georgia a
gain of $19,000,000 in taxable prop
erty for the year 1924, according to
a report made public Saturday by
Henry J. Fullbright, state tax com
mission er.
The total tax digest for the state
is estimated at $1,043,212,480, of I
which amount Fulton county lists <
$235,057,180, or more than 22. per
cenl. 7 j
The astonishing increase of prop- J
erty in Fulton county is revealed by I
a review of the five-year peF.od
since 1919, when the county digest
showed $149,681,760. The increase
since 1919 has beun 57 per cent. ‘ ~J
"Digests from 35 counties, after
adjustments were made in some of
them as the result, of the require
ments of the state td,x commissioner,
showed aggregate gains of $3,799,-
061” the statement declared. “Digests
from 113 counties, as finally accept
ed by the state tax commissioner, ;]
scowed aggregate losses from 1923
values of $12,721,847. This left a net |
loss on 148 counties of $8,922,786.
Adjustments Pending
"There are three counties in which
adjustments are now pending that j
will probably show losses of $2,882,-
038. This will mean a total net loss
from 151 counties of $11,804,824.
"There are eight counties yet to ™
report. The i ggregate values as '
shown by the digests of these coun
ties in 1923 amounted to $38,695,182,
with a net loss from the values o*.
the year before of less than $100,"
000. Allowing for a net loss in these
eight counties for this year of $195.- u
176, we will have a total net Loss q
for the state, outside of Fulton coun
ty, of $12,000,000.
"The loss in the state, outside of
Fulton county, in 1923, was $17,257,-
855. The gain in Fulton county for
that year was $14,108,705, reducing
the net loss for the state as a whole
t0'53,249,150.
j “The gain in Fulton’s tax digest
! for 1924 is $31,066,915, which over
j comes the loss of $12,000,000 in all
I other counties and causes the state
I as a whole to show a net gain in tax J
i digests of $19,000,000.
j "The total taxable values, not in
cluding the returns of public utilities |
! made to the comptroller general, 1
i amount to $1,043,212,480. These 1
figures, will, of course, be slightly
changed by the final returns from J
the remaining counties.”
Honduran Insurgents
And Government-to
Enter Peace Parley
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Aug. 30.
Representatives of the revolutionary 5
general, Gregorio Ferrera, and the
Honduran government, at the re
quest of the diplomatic corps at
Tegucigalpa, have arranged a meet
ing at which an attempt will be
made to arrange, a settlement of the
existing difficulties, according to ad
vices received here today.
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