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CAMPAIGN FUNDS
TROUBLING Ml OF
PARTY MANAGERS
RY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Special Leased Wire to Tire Journal—Copy
right, 1924.)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—Money,
the all-important commodity without
which a national political campaign
can hardly' be waged, is giving the
managers of all parties plenty' to
worry about.
Not only' are campaigns more ex
pensive nowadays than they' have
been, but scrutiny*of campaign con
tributions is unusually sharp.
Both John W. Davis and President
Coolidge have announced that con
tributions will be received only with
the understanding that they' involve
no promise to dispense political or
governmental favor later on. Mr.
Coolidge has gone even a step far
ther in insisting that his campaign
management incur no deficit, for he
realizes that much of the irregular
ity connected with campaign contri
butions in the past has occurred aft
er election, when large sums are
easily obtained from men who want
to he in favor with a new adminis
tration. The Democrats, who were
left with a deficit in 1920, were able
to clear it up only after four years
of patient effort, culminating in
their sale of box seats in Madison
I. Square Garden last June.
The Republicans had one of the
largest deficits they' ever incurred
in 1920 after the election of Presi
dent Harding and it took the person
al intervention of Mr. Handing to
prevent the contribution of excessive
sums from individual sources.
Looking back over the last few
campaigns of the Democratic and
Republican parties, it is an open se
cret that men of wealth who con
tributed to the campaign chests usu
ally received some reward. Some of
the ambassadors and ministers who
were appointed to diplomatic posts,
although they never had had experi
ence in the service, owed their posi
tions to their political influence as
developed through the financial aid
they gave.
Even with many domestic officials
the same story was true. They nev
er would have gotten Jo fust base
in public but for their genetosity
during campaign seasons.
Mr. Coolidge s insistence that no
deficit be incurred is not an easy
command to fulfill. And yet every
body who knows practical politics
i 9 aware that in a two months’ cam
paign waged through the several
states it is almost impossible to know
in advance what things will cost,
and that authorization to spend fre
quently has to be given, and the
bills footed later. Sometimes the
last ten days of a campaign are
critical ones. Money has to be sent
in a hurry to certain sections of
the country. Under the Coolidge
plan the managers are not supposed
to spend a. cent they have not col
lected. What usually happens is
that two or three wealthy men un
derwrite the expenses at the last
minute. The managers confidently
expect that they will be able to pay
the funds back from sums given by
small contributors. What often
happens, however, is that the man
agers become discouraged and accept
the large contributions and thus
“roans” become contributions in the
end.
The subject of finance is a ticklish
one to all parties. None of the man
agers likes to discuss it or see it
discussed. They all need the money
and they are not always too par
ticular about where it originates.
The respective nominees alone are
the ones who really worry, for when
investigating committees get to
work it is they who axe embarrassed.
There is one way that has been
followed in the past, and may be in
the present campaign to avoid com
plications in connection with the col
lection and distribution of campaign
funds. It is the state committee
plan. The federal government has
jurisdiction over funds contributed
specifically for the election of fed
eral officials. It has nothing to say
about money spent in state cam
paigns.
If a man wants to contribute
$200,000 for the national campaign
he may find himself in the public
eye and subject to call by an inves
tigating committee later on, as that
is considered excessive, but it he
feels like contributing SIO,OOO to the
campaigns in 20 states the matter
may not even be reported by the na
tion chairman to the investigating
committees of congress. The money
is presumably given for state pur
poses, the election of governors and
«latures. But there is no law to
ent a state committee from
dinA sums it pleases to help the
mat ticket. Money spent for na
il purposes by a state commit
tee is likewise not within the juris
diction of state tribunals. No care
*ful watch is kept on how money is
spent anyhow. It is lumped under
general heads such as advertising,
publicity, printing and what not.
The item of “workers at the polls”
is frequently camouflaged, though
in some states in the past as high
as $lO and sls have been distributed
on election day to tens of thousands
of voters whose business it is to
persuade members of their families
and friends to vote as they do. No
line can be drawn as money is given
to “workers” who do the persuad
ing for national tickets at the same
time that they take care of local
nominees.
It is not as easy to gather statis
tics of what is spent in a national
campaign. The records in congress
show only the sums collected through
the Republican and Democratic na
tional committees and expended by
them. It might be a different story
and a different campaign if all
money handled by state committees
Wire under the same scrutiny.
Bavarian Castle Lighted
Second Time in History
MUNICH. Aug. 30. —Mirror hall
in Hie castle Herrenchiemsee re
cently was illuminated by its 8,500
candies for the second time since
the castle was built. The occasion
was a gathering of Bavaria's first
citizens, including members of the
former royal family, invited by the
government.
The first complete illumination of
mirror hall and Its adjacent rooms
was in 1886. ordered by Prince Re
gent Luitpold to honor the shah
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Attorney General Harlan F. Stone, who thinks that there is too
much political significance in law enforcement, and who believes that
prosecutors should be absolutely independent of the political necessity
of favoring any one.
General Standard of Bar As
sociation Lowered, Says
Stone, Through Large
Number of Yearly Admis
sions
RY CHARLES I’. STEWART
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—Law
and law enforcement are two differ
ent things.
American law, as law, is improv
ing, according to Attorney General
Harlan F. Stone.
But is it enforced, respected?
The public thinks not, the attor
ney general admits.
Is the public right?
The attorney general is afraid so,
at the present time at any rate, for
he says “the actual administration
of justice in these United States is
in a period of decline which began
before the war and was greatly ac
celerated by it.”
Be it said, however, that the at
torney general is not a pessimist.
Having faith in the American bar
and the American people, he believes
we will pass soon into a period of
improvement.
Are Curing Symptoms
But why don’t we do something
now, with a view to improvement?
We do, says the attorney general,
but not the right thing. We doctor
symptoms, not the disease.
Suppose law enforcement goes
wrong, through official Incompe
tence, corruption or both.
There are causes for incompetence
and corruption.
Do we remove the causes? No,
w» remove the officials; maybe pun
ish them.
Or. if lawyers take a hand in at
tempting to reform, what’s their
method?
More law, more procedure—better
perhaps.
But in either case —symptoms, not
the disease, are treated.
“What is nie disease?” I asked
the attorney general.
“For one thing, politics,” he an
swered.
"The prosecutor's joo ought to be
taken out of politics. Why should
it be political, any' more than a
judge’s?”
“Maybe not, but I'd make their
terms longer, anyway—during good
hehavior, even.”
Reflection on Public
“But isn’t politics just a reflec
tion of public opinion, anyway? ’
The attorney general didn’t an
swer definitely.
But in a recent address before the
American Bar association, he said:
“It is axiomatic that a people, in
the long run, will get the kind of
justice they deserve.” And: "It is
a truism that law enforcement can
not rise above its ultimate source
in popular respect for law.”
The bar’s standard needs improv
ing, commented the attorney gen
eral.
“For a generation,’ ’he said in his
American Bar association speech,
“we have progressively lowered the
bar’s standard through the increas
ing number of those entering the
legal profession without sufficient
training, without the background of
liberal education, experience and as
sociations which make for moral re
sponsibility, as well as to develop
the capacity for performing ade
quately the duties of the lawyer.
“Not,” he added, “that I have any
thing against the poor boy who
wants to enter the law. I was one
I myself. But the poor boy with such
an ambition must prepare himself.”
Adds to Difficulties
“Does this add to law enforcement
I difficulties?—among our laws, have
ws some we really don’t want? —
laws that can’t be enforced, yet can’t
be repealed—laws that are broken
even by many of those who helped
to put them and who help to keep
them on our statute books?”
‘‘My job,” answered the attorney
general, ‘‘is to try to enforce the
laws, not to criticize them.”
Yet the attorney general does criti
cize a little, at least by implication.
Thus:
“The extension of government ac
tivities into new fields has brought
about devices in the supposed inter
est of expeditious law enforcement
without inconvenient interference by
the courts, by conferring more or
less arbitrary powers on administra
tive officials, constantly tending to
narrow the common law rights and
privileges of the citizen.
“We will do well to remember that
the most precious inheritance of the
new world from the old is embodied
in those fundamental rights and per
sonal liberty under the law, which
have found their true expression
here in our bill of rights and the
first ten amendments to our consti
tution.”
Swainsboro Asks Mail
On Georgia and Florida
SWAINSBORO, Ga„ Aug. 30.
Swainsboro business and professional
men have petitioned the postoffice
department at Washington to put
mail service on the Bon Air Special,
a train operated by the Georgia and
Florida railway, passing Swainsboro
11:40 at night and 5:55 in the morn
ing.
CONSTABLE IS KILLED
MILAN,- Tenn., Sept. 3.—J. R.
Neill, fifty, constable was shot and
instantly killed here Tuesday follow
ing an alleged dispute with John F.
Spellings, seventy-two. Neill was
a tenant on the farm of Spellings,
and the two men are reported to
have had differences over disposal
i of produce from the farm.
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BASEBALL
SOUTHERN LEAGUE
Won. . Lost. Pet.
Memphis 92 46 .667
j Atlanta 89 50 . 641
■ New Orleans 83 57 .593
I Nashville 74 63 .540
Mobile 64 75 .460
(Chattanooga 56 81 .409
Birmingham 52 85 .379
Little Rock 43 96 .309
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Clubs. Won. Lost. Pct.
New York 77 51 .601
Pittsburg 75 51 .595
Brooklyn 76 54 .585
Cincinnati t;-.t 62 .526
Chicago 68 59 .535
St. Lottis 51 76 .415
Philadelphia 49 79 „83
Boston 47 S 3 .362
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Won. Lost. Pct.
Washington 76 55 .580
New York 74 56 .569
Detroit 69 62 .526
St. Louis 67* 63 .515
Boston 59 71 .454
Cleveland 62 70 .470
Philadelphia 5s 73 .443
Chicago 57 72 .442
SALLY LEAGUE
Won I.ost Pct.
Auguata 72 46 .610
Charlotte 72 49 .595
Spartanburg 60 60 .500
Greenville 59 60 .496
Asheville 59 62 .488
Macon 37 84 .308
TUESDAY'S GAMES
SOUTHERN LEAGUE
Atlanta, 12; Mobile, 2.
Nashville, 15-1; Chattanooga. 4-3.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston. 14-2; New York. 6-5.
Detroit. 2-5; Chicago, 6-8.
Cleveland, 12; St. Louis. 4.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York, 3-10; Boston, 7-2.
Brooklyn, 12-4; Philadelphia. 9-3.
Chicago-Pittsburg, postponed, rain.
SALLY LEAGUE
Spartanburg, 4: Greenville, 3.
Charlotte, 0; Macon. 2.
MONDAYS GAMES
SOUTHERN LEAGUE
Atlants, 10-8; Mobile, 7-1.
Little Rock, 1-4; Memphis. 6-5.
Birmingham, 1-1; New Orleans, 7-7.
Chattanooga. 0; Nashville, 6.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Philadelphia. 3-3: Washington. 5-1.
• Cleveland, 8-13: St. Louis. 11.2.
New York, 3-12: Boston, 0-2.
Chicago, 5-10; Detroit, 16-2.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn. 7-6: Philadelphia. 2-3.
Boston. 5-2; New York. 4-10.
Cincinnati, 6-9; St. Louis. 0-0.
Pittsburg, 5-4; Chicago. 4 3.
SALLY LEAGUE
Charlotte, 4: Macon, 2.
4«beville. 7-7: lugnsta. a *.
Spartanburg, 3 14, Greenville. 2,10.
HOP TO LABRADOR
ASSURES SUCCESS
OF WORLD FLIGHT
IT. S. RICHMOND, AT ICE
j TICKLE, LABRADOR, Sept. I.
■ (By the Associated Press.) —The first
1 circumnavigation of the globe by air
was virtually completed with the ar
rival on the Labrador coast late yes
terday of the American army world
fliers.
Hopping off from Ivigtut, Green
land at 6:29 a. m., eastern standard
time. Lieutenant Lowell H. Smith
and his companions drove their pow
erful seaplanes over the 572-mile
stretch of water without mishap and
alighted at Ice Tickle at 1:18 p. jn.,
accomplishing the hop in six hours
and 49 minutes.
The arm of the Atlantic separating
Greenland and Labrador is notorious
for its ice and fogs but conditions
were almost ideal for the flight. A
slight mist along the Labrador coast
early in the morning cleared away
later and the planes were helped on
their way by a wind out of the
northwest which at times brought
their speed to as high as 126 miles
an hour.
Fliers Show Strain
The four men—Lieutenant Smith
and his mechanician, Lieutenant
Leslie P. Arnold, in plane No. 2, and
Lieutenant Eric H. Nelson, in No. 4,
with Lieutenant John Harding, Jr.,
as his assistant —showed the physical
strain of the journey and the sus
pense of the long days since they
left Kirkwall in the Orkneys early in
August, but expressed keen joy at
arriving again on north American
soil, declaring their world journey
practically ended.
They were met with a warm wel
come from the Richmond, a detail of
sailors from the destroyer Lawrence
and a few fisher folk from along
the barren coast as well as newspa
per men and photographers who had
awaited their arrival since early in
August.
The coming of the fliers was sig
nalled to those at Ice Tickle by sig
nal men from the Lawrence, sta
tioned on Rodney Mundy Hills, close
by, and then to the wireless station
several miles away. Off shore near
White Cockade Island was the Law
rence, acting as guardship to . the
planes after' the aviators had picked
up through the coastal haze the fur
thest among the outlying islands.
Pass Line of Ships
The planes, in their journey over
the turbulent north Atlantic strewn
with ice and spattered with fog, had
passed over the Milwaukee, off
southern Greenland, the Coghlan and
the Charles Ausburn, which had
been on patrol and which flashed
ahead each in turn the passage of
the planes overhead. a
After a brief halt to replenish
their fuel, the aviators plan to con
tinue forty mileg southward along
the coast to Cartwright Bay, a much
larger and more sheltered anchoring
place where a base has been estab
lished for the next take-off. From
Cartwright Bay only brief stops are
contemplated at Hawke Bay and
Pictou Harbor, N. S.
Just five months and fourteen
days after- beginning their world
girdling tour, the American fliers
landed in the waters of continental
North America. Theirs was the first
west bound crossing of the Atlantic
ocean by airplane.
The planes swept in from the
ocean like huge gray gulls and, fly
ing low over the broad expanse of
water, circled until they dropped to
their bright yellow buoys and float
ed lightly in the green water under
the shelter of lofty ridges of rocks.
This cove was chosen because of
comparatively safe landing* con
ditions it affords and for the addi
tional reason that it is situated on
a promontory jutting towards Green
land, provi ing the shortest route
across the arm of the Atlantic
which extends north-northwest into
Davis strait.
Marvelous Achievement
With their arrival today on the
Atlantic coast of the Ameri
can continent the round-the-world
flyers of the United Stetas army air
service completed the most marvel
ous achievement in the history of
aviation to date—the virtual encir
cling of the globe in heavier-than
air machines. Before the flight was
commenced Major General Patrick,
chief of the army air service, said
tlie completion of it would be a feat
of importance paralleling that of
Magellan, who in 1509, was the first
man to circumnavigate the globe.
The story of the historic of the
historic and record-breaking flight
compares with the most gripping ad
| venture tales of fiction. Like the
pioneers of any expedition blazing
a new trail, these intrepid airmen,
the first to fly around the world, of
necessity had to be men of courage
and with nerves of steel. Notwith
standing the carefully laid plans for
the trip there were certain hardships
which could not be avoided—those
that must necessarily accompany an
undertaking of such magnitude,
compelling as it did flights in all
kinds of climate ranging from the
frigid Arctic weather of the north
Pacific late in March to the near
tropical conditions encountered in
the Far East in June.
All manner of weather had to be
contended with, the elements appar
ently having no sympathy with the
laudable ambition of these men to
be the first to fly around the world.
Treacherous gales, violent rains and
blinding blizzards were encountered
in the Alaskan regions before the
flyers hopped off the North Ameri
can continent for the first attempt
of airplanes to wing their way across
the Pacific. Fog was a dangerous
factor and when the aviators reach
ed down into the Torrid Zone in the
Far East they encountered tropical
winds and rains and in India ran
into a sand storm.
What misfortune or ill luck there
was in the adventure seemed to at
tach itself to the commander and the
flag plane of the squadron. Major
Fred L. Martin, who was flight com
mander at the start, had a series of
mishaps along the North Pacific
coast of the North American conti
nent culminating in his flag plane,
the Seattle, crashing into a mountain
on the Alaska peninsula. Major
Martin and his mechanician. Ser
i geant Alva Harvey, escaped un-
I hurt, but their plane was destroyed.
I Nothing was heard from the two
■ men for ten days, despite a thor-
I ough search of the regions, and
i hopes for them were about to be
| given up when a rodiogram from
I Major Martin to the chief of the
I army air serviee announced their
safety This accident eliminated
I Major Martin and his mechanician
! from further participation in the
> flight.
Jinx of Commander
When the accident occurred
Major Martin was piloting his plane
i in a fog toward Dutch Harbor on
I Unalaska Island to join his com
t panionns. The commander, due to
■ a crack in the crank shaft which
caused a leakage of fuel, was forced
■ down on the flight from Seward to
’ Chignik, Ap :! 15. and he and Har-
I vei wars to spend the night
OLD PARTIES OFFER NOTHING
TO REMEDY EVILS THEY HAVE
FOSTERED, LA FOLLETTE SAYS
Slaves of the Same Great Financial Interests, Both Talk
of a European Issue While Monopolies Systemati
cally Rob All Classes, He Asserts
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. —Assail-
ing the Republican and Democratic
tarties, which he declared offer noth
ing; to remedy “the evils which have
arisen under their respective admin
istrations and as a result of their
policies,” Senator La Follette, of
Wisconsin, in a Labor day message
broadcast by a chain of radio sta
tions, appealed Monday to the voters
of the nation to support his inde
pendent candidacy for the presi
dency.
Senator La Follette asserted that
he had entered the campaign as a
candidate to “convict” the monopoly
system which he contended is “pro
tected by certain laws and by the
failure to enforce others and whose
power is so great that both of tl e
old parties have become its abject
slaves.”
“The message of the Republican
and Democratic parties,” said Mr.
La. Follette, “is a message of despair.
In it the American people find no
ray of hope for relief from the bur
dens which oppress them.
“But the people have found a great
hope and that hope is in the pro
gressive movement. We have en
listed in this campaign to restore
this government to the service of
the public, to secure to the laborer
and producer in all lines a greater
share of the product of his toil, while
portecting the consumer against the
trust-fixed prices on all he buys and
to drive out of the government at
Washington the corrupting influ
ences now so dominant.”
What He Pledges
If elected president, Senator La
Follette pledged himsel fto work for
the repeal of the transportation act
of 1920, behind which he asserted
the interstate commerce commission
“has taken refuge in its refusal to
reduce the present exorbitant rail
road rates;” downward revision of
tariff duties, readjustment of tax
schedules, reorganization of the fed
eral trade and tariff commissions,
conservation of natural resources
and promotion of cooperative
marketing, free from government
control as an aid to the farmer.
in their plane. They were found
the next day by the destroyer Hull,
both men were suffering somewhat
from exposure. Two weeks were
required to obtain a new engine for
the Seattle from Kanatak, 120 miles
distant, and in the meantime the
other fliers rested at Dutch Harbor
waiting for the commander to join
them.
Major Martin left Chignik on April
30. and shortly after noon bumped
into the mountain. When no word
had been received from him the
next day all the fishing boats in
the regions were urged to aid in
the search for the two men in the
waters south of the Alaska peninsu
la, while dog teams took up the
search on land. Later an army air
plane scouted over the territory.
Across the Atlantic
From London the schedule ar
ranged to bring the aviators to the
Atlantic coast of the North Amer
ican continent included stops at
Hull, England, then a jump of 870
miles to Kirkwall in the Orkney Is
lands; one of 275 miles to Thorshav
en, Faroe islands; then to Horna
fjord, Iceland, 260 miles; to Reykja
vik, Iceland, 339 miles: to Angmagsa
lik, Greenland, the most northerly
point touched in the Atlantic, 500
miles; to Ivigtut, Greenland, 500
miles, and to Indian Harbor, Labra
dor, 572 miles.
The remainder of the trip will
take the flyers to Cartwright Harbor,
Labrador, 40 miles, thence to
Hawkes Bay, Newfoundland, 290
miles, and on to Pictou Harbor,
Nova Scotia, 420 miles. From the
last point the aviators will begin
to think of home, which to them
after such a. trip will be the entire
United States. A flight of 520
miles will bring them down along
the Maine coast to Boston, with only
two more hops left, one of 185
miles to Mitchel Field, and another
of 220 miles to Washington.
Originally it was intended to have
the flight end at Washington, but
a short time ago officials of the air
service announced that they favored
Clover Field, Cal., as the finishing
point in order that the air route
around the world actually would be
completed. It is proposed to have
the fliers leave Washington for the
cross continent flight, following the
route to Moundsville, W. Va., Day
ton, Ohio, and then along the air
mail line as far west perhaps as Sac
ramento, Cal., before turning south
to Clover Field.
Air officials plan to have the trip
west made as expeditiously as pos
sible in order that efforts to beat
the record of the American fliers,
which are expected to be started gen
erally, may be made as difficult as
possible.
After the crash Major Martin and
his mechanician retrieved some of
heir food supplies from the wreck
and started down the mountain side.
Seven days elapsed before they came
upon a tranper’s cabin at the souther
most point on Port Moller Bay. They
were exhausted. There they found
food and rested for three days, then
walked to the beach, whence Martin
sent his radiogram to Washington,
in it he said the two men owed their
existence to concentrated food and
nerve.
Dr. Wm. F. Kuhn, 75,
Royal Arch Mason, Dies
KANSAS CITY, Sept. 2. —Dr. Wil
liam F. Kuhn, seventy-five, grand
high priest of the general grand
chapter of Royal Arch Masons of
the United States, was found dead
in bed at his home here today. Death
was said to be due to apoplexy.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1921
“I will, if elected, use the ap
pointive power of the executive,’’ de
clared the Wisconsin senator, “to
free every department of the govern
ment from the control of special in
terest. . . . I would place at the
head of the department of justice
and in the office of every United
States district attorney men who
would vigorously enforce all laws,
and I would instruct them to bring
and prosecute criminal actions
against every profiteering monopoly
which violates the anti-trust laws
with the same vigor which I*should
require of them in the prosceution of
a bootlegger.”
Insisting that the two old parties,
seeking to divert the attention of
voters from pressing domestic is
sues, point to Europe and say “there
is the solution,” Mr. La Follette con
tinued:
“The original source of the Demo
cratic and Republican plans respect
ing Europe is the same. That source
is the well-known source of the bank
ing house of J. P. Morgan & Co. Con
nection of this banking house with
the candidates of both old parties
and with the leaders of those parties
is close and intimate and. confiden
tial. The so-called Dawes plan is
merely the Morgan plan.”
Promises Revelations
During the campaign Senator La
Follette declared he intends to tell
“the American people exactly what
has been going on in Washington,”
during his eighteen years’ service as
a senator. “In that time,” he added,
I believe I have been in a. position
to observe the influences behind cer
tain of the enactments of congress
and the policies of the executive
branch of the government which are
of the deepest significance to the
public.”
In the course of his address Sen
ator La Follette referred to the
combinations which go to make up
industry,” the “sugar monopoly,”
the “oil monopoly,” the “banking
combination,” the “transportation
monopoly,” and the “meat packing
combination,” as only a “few of the
combinations which g to make up
the monopoly system.”
MARRIED AT 14,
MOTHER OF 13
ASKS DIVORCE
Married at the age of fourteen!
Now the mother of thirteen!
Such have been the marital experi
ence of Mrs. Nettie Johnson, who
lives on the Chapel road, according
to testimony upon which she gained
her first verdict Tuesday in a suit
for divorce in Fulton superior court.
Mrs. Johnson said she was married
in 1902 and separated from her hus
band, Emmett Johnson, in February
1923. She said she separated from
her husband because he beat her
with a bottle when she went to the
rescue of his mother, whom, she al
leged, he was mistreating.
SWISS IS ELECTED
IS PRESIOENT HF
LEAGUE ASSEMBLY
GENEVA, Sept. I.—(By the Asso
ciated Press.) —Dr. Giuseppe Motta,
former president of Switzerland, was
today elected president of the Fifth
assembly of the League of Nations.
Dr. Motta received 45 out of 47
votes cast. He was escorted to the
chair amid tremendous enthusiasm.
Business-like efficiency and speed
marked the inauguration today of
the work of the assembly. Paul
Hymans, Belgium’s en»r«etic for
eign minister, who opened its pro
ceedings in his capacity as presi
dent of the council of the league,
conducted affairs like the chairman
of the board of directors of some big
American organization.
Referring to the London agree
ment for a reparations settlement
with Germany, M. Hymans said it
ushered in a period of quietude and
progress on the road of civilization
and had caused a new and hopeful
era to succeed the previous times of
trial, sacrifice and suffering. He
remarked that countries which were
not yet members of the league, like
the United States,-Germany, Russia
and Turkey, had partiepated in the
work of the technical organizations
of the league, pointing out that thus
the league's sphere of action was
rapidly being extended and the spirit
ot solidarity daily gaining strength.
Bares Enemies’ “Fallacies”
The League of Nations, he said,
had aroused the persistent hosillty
of all who worshipped force and who
represented patriotism as wearing a
mask of hatred and anger and “who
degrade the love of country into an
egotistical and ferocious national
ism.”
There is, he continued in ringing
oratorical phrases, a tendency in cer
tain quarters to oppose the idea of
country to the idea of solidarity, as
if these were conflicting and irre
concilable conceptions,’ Yet, to use
the words of M. Barthou, of France,
he said, “the spirit of internation
alism can and ought to be in har
mony with the idea ot country.”
Applause burst from the galleries
as M. Hymans flayed the enemies
of the league as being opponents of
progress and. civilization. Alluding
to the charge that the league was a
super-state, the Belgian minister de
clared it did not supersede the func
tions ot individual countries, but ex
tended, developed and encouraged
them.
“Individual countries,” he declar
ed. “do not lose a single iota ot those
inalienable rights which are alike
their protection and their pride.”
Ahead, Not Behind
M. Hymans appealed to the world
to look forward and not to look back
ward to the terrible war that had
begun ten years ago this summer.
The memory of great deeds done,
the heroic sacrifices made and the
blood so courageously shed must be '
cherished, he said, but the time had .
now arrived to safeguard the world ’
from the recurrence of such disas- :
ters as had occurred and to estab- .
lish on an unshakable foundation i
the reign of law and the sanctity of ,
treaties. ' J
ARaFoR C•’oLLECTOk - bi AD
NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—William
Henry Riggs, donor of a $3,000,006
ccliection of arnin- in the Metropoli
tan museum and one of the most
famous armor coliertors in Eiirop". |
di°d Sunday night at his summer
home in Un Fyrennees,
TWO JAILED AFTER
BREMEN SHOOTING;
ONE OEAO; 2 BLING
BREMEN, Ga., Sept. I.—Haralson
county officials began today an in
vestigation into all phases of the
alleged family quarrel which result
ed Sunday afternoon in the shoot
ing to death of J. D. Holcombe,
twenty-seven years old, of Birming
ham, and the wounding of his cous
in, L. D. Sumerlin, also of Birming
ham.
Ollie Golden, who lives near
Bremen, a brother-in-law of Hol
combe, and John B. Cash, a brother
in-law of Golden, are held in jail
at Buchanan, the county seat of
this county, on charges of murder.
They are charged with emptying
two double-barpeled shotguns, load
ed with buckshot, into an automo
bile in which Holcombe and Sumer
lin rode past Golden’s home Sunday
afternoon. Both surrendered to of
ficers immedately after the shoot
ing it, was said here.
According to the best, information
available here, the shooting is sup-
Holcombe’s sister, about three weeks
posed to have resulted from an al
leged attack by Golden on his wife—
ago. Golden is said to have struck
his wife over the head with a piece
of stove wood. He is under a bond
here as a result of the alleged attack
and he and his wife have separated.
According to officials, consider
able enmity has existed betweeen
Golden's family and the family of
his wife since this affair, and Golden
is said to have stated prior to the
shooting that he had heard that
“Holcombe had sworn to get him.”
Both he and Cash have remained
silent since the shooting, according
to officers.
Holcombe was driving the automo
bile at the time of the shooting.
When the two shotguns blazed away,
it was said, Holcombe sank down
over the steering wheel while the car
was going at a rapid speed. Sumer
lin, himself dangerously wounded, is
said to have pulled Holcombe from
under the wheel and to have taken
control of the car, driving it for
about half a. mile before getting as
sistance. When he stopped the car
he is said to have collapsed.
Both men were taken to Bremen,
and Holcombe was rushed from here
to Atlanta in an automobile. He
died there Sunday! night and his
body was returned here this morn
ing. The funeral probably will be
held Tuesday.
Sumerlin was rushed by train to
Birmingham, where he is reported to
be in a dangerous condition. His
face and body were thoroughly pep
pered by the heavy shot and one of
his eyes was said to have been torn
out. He is not expected to recover.
RACE TO ATLANTA IN VAIN;
VICTIM DIES IN HOSPITAL
J. D Holcombe, 27-year-old victim
of the double shooting affray near
Bremen Sunday, was rushed to the
Georgia Baptist hospital here, where
he died about 10 o’clock Sunday
night. His 1 cdy was returned to
Bremen for funeral and interment
at 6:15 o’clock Monday morning.
Novef Punishment Given
For Petty Theft in China
TSINGTAO, China, Aug. 30.—The
park police here demonstrated a new
and effective mode of punishment
for vandals recently when two men
were caught stealing flowers.
The officers took the culprits to
the main boulevard and made them
kneel. To the prodding of police
rifles they were made to shout to all
passers by why they were being thus
treated.
For 15 minutes they were com
pelled to shout: “I took what did
not belong to me and promise never
to do it again,” while they were
made to hold the stolen flowers
aloft.
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how free from decay the teeth can be kept by
using gum after each meal.”
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for the nerves and appetite and digestion, too.
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OFDRUTALMURDER
CHICAGO, Sept. I.—Jacob Franks
has sold his home—the house to
ward which his son, Bobby, was
trudging after a day at school when
he accepted an invitation to inspect
a tennis racquet and was, instead,
kidnaped and slain; the house that
he, the older Franks, had purchased
from Albert Loeb, father of Richard,
one of the youthful murderers, 15
years ago, a year before Bobby was
born.
The new master of the spacious
residence, located in the heart oi
the south side fashionable district,
will be Joseph Trintz, part owner of
a string of motion picture houses.
The Franks family will move to a
north side hotel, Franks said
today.
It was necessary in transferring
title to Mr. Trintz to give a quit
claim deed to Mr. Loeb, who had
once owned the property.
Constant association with un
pleasant reminders of their son's life
and the circumstances surrounding
his death prompted Mr. and Mrs.
Franks to sell their home. Certain
incidents which had occurred in the
neighborhood since Bobby died also
induced them to arrive at their de
cision.
Among these occurrences was the
discovery a few weeks ago on the
front porch of a neighbor and friend
of a human skull and several bones,
placed in the form of the age-old’
pirate death symbol. Between the
bones was a note reading: “If the
court don’t hang them, we will."
Judge Caverly, who has been con
stantly applying himself to a study
of the evidence developed at the
hearing that closed Thursday, rested
Saturday afternoon, but returned to
his work Sunday.
When Judge Caverly pronounces
sentence Wednesday, September 10,
among those present will be Albert
H. Loeb, father of Richard, and Na
than F. Leopold, Sr., father of young
Nathan.
Mr. Loeb has announced his in
tention of disregarding the advice
of physicians to attend court on the
fateful day. He is seriously ill with
an affliction of the heart and has
been resting for several months at
the family summer estate at Charle
voix, Mich. Mr. Leopold has attended
all sessions of the hearing.
Ban on Quail Hunting
In Douglas County Is
Held Unconstitutional
A special act of the legislature
forbidding the hunting of quail in
Douglas county for a period of five
years, was he'd to be unconstitu
tional by the Georgia supreme court
Tuesday, because there is a general
law on the same subject. Th supreme
court holds that the constitution re
qires equal application of general
laws to all counties.
The case was that of 11. L. Downs,
against the state of Georgia. Downs
was found guilty of hunting qauil In
violation of the special act, hut
proved that he had been hunting
during the open season under the
general law. The verdict against him
was reversed by the supreme court.
i iar vestorTn ventoiTdies
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Sept. t.
Henry J. Case, 85, inventor of
harvesting machinery and picneer
in the agricultural field, died hers
yesterday.
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