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,VOL. XXVII. NO. 23
, CALL FOR EXTRA
SESSION IS LIKELY
ASCOIYGRESS OPENS
i
Little Chance Seen For
i Passage of Any But
Supply Measures
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30—The
turbulent Sixty-eighth congress, with
its record already marked by the
great investigations of last winter
and by a regime of progressive-in- ,
surgent control, returned Monday for '
its final short session which bids fair
to be as stormy as was its first.
The unprecedented ousting of the
f La Follette senators from party
councils by the Republican senate
caucus Friday was the first event of
the session and the bitterness and
dissension thus accentuated will very
likely makes any but the most rou
tine business impossible.
In the deliberate opinion of house
and senate leaders on the eve of the
reconvepng of congress this term
will accomplish nothing beyond the
passing of the appropriation bills
and possibly will dispose of Muscle
Spoals. Other measures will no
doubt be debated and discussed at
length, especially in the senate, and
no doubt may pass one or the other
of the two houses, but there is no
general expectation here that other
important bills will be enacted into 1
laws.
Supply Bills First
The passage ot the appropriation
bills to provide funds to run the gov
ernment for the next fiscal year is a
necessity. Unless they are enacted
the government cannot go on. The
result, of course, of the failure of
any of the important supply bills to
pass before this congress goes out
of existence March 4 would be the
calling of an extra session of the
new congress immediately after
March 1.
President Coolidge has repeatedly
stated he did not wish to call an ex
. tra session next spring. And yet the
A unsettled situation in this short ses
sion may make the calling of a spe
cial session necessary. If during the
three months of this term the supply
bills are delayed by the bickering
and dissension which broke out even
before the term got under way the
end of next February may see a spe
cial session inevitable.
i Three of the outstanding Repub
lican figures in the senate died dur
ing the recess, Senator Lodge, Mas
sachusetts, Republican floor leader;
f Senator Colt, Rhode Island, chair
man of the immigration committee,
and Senator Brandegee, Connecticut,
chairman of the judiciary committee, i
Senator Curtis, Kansas, former Re- I
publican whip, was elected Republic- |
an leader at the caucus Friday to
secceed Lodge. But the most impor- I
tant change, in senate personnel dur- j
>ng the recess probably was the ap- I
pointraent of Republican National
Chairman William M. Butler, to take
Lodge's seat. The titular leader of
> the Republican party, the close
friend and confidant of President
Coolidge, possessed of the prestige of
having led the party through a tri
umphant campaign, Butler, though
the newest senator of the whole •
body, will undoubtedly prove to be i
one of the most influential.
House Line-Up Unchanged
There were practically no changes
in the personnel of the house during
e the recess. The same leaders an.d
f the same line-up of Republicans,
Democrats and Progressives will ap
pear when the house reconvenes to
morrow. Though leading Republic
an congressmen, including the Re
publican leader, Longworth, of Ohio,
have expressed themselves in favor
Os “disciplining” progressive Repub
lican members who opposed Presi
dent Coolidge x in the recent cam
paign, it is not believed this discip
line will »prove as severe as was 1
Dieted out in the senate. No plans j
so far luWe been evident to bar ’
house Progressives from Republican
♦ committee assignments.
Little will be done at the first
day’s session tomorrow other than
to swear in hew members, to pass
resolutions of regret over the death
of members during the recess, and to
appoint committees to notify the
president the congress is in session.
, (Tuesday neither house plans to meet,
the adjournment being taken out of
respect to members who have died
On Wednesday the president’s mes- 1
sage will be read to both houses In
joint session, and on Thursday the
president s budget recommendations
y probably will be presented.
Mutineers in Egypt
Corralled by British;
All Quiet At Cairo
CAIRO, Egypt, Nov. 30.—British
k troops are corralling the remaining
mutineers of the KJevent hbtatalion
# of Sudanese nifantr?\. which made a
futile effort to resist -.he British ul
timatum ordering Egyptian troops
to withdraw from the Soudan, ac
cording to dispatches from Khar
toum, where the fighting took place.
When the last of the remnant has
been captured and disarmed, the
British will search the ruins of the
European hospital building to discov
er the number of casualties among
the black troops. The destroyed
building is believed to be strewn
with bodies of Sudanese soldiers
killed by’ the British bombardment.
, Lord Allenby’ considers the situa-
< tion at Khartotum to be satisfactory-
There is general optimism regarding
the- future attitude of the native and
Egyptian troops in the Soudan, fol
lowing the stern repression of the
Eleventh’.*: xttempted coup. The au
thorities believe that the remaining
Egyptian troops in the area will per
mit themselves to be sent away’ with
out resistance.
Cairo is quiet. Repeated parades
of British troops in full war kit here
had the desired effect upon the pop
ulace. .4 majority of the schools
saill are affected by the students ami
teachers’ strike, although a few
? httvp resumed classes.
It is authoritatively stated that
negotiations between the British res
idency and the Egyptian government
of Premier Ziwar Pasha are proceed
ing smoothly.
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a boms treatment which has »■. , i the attacks
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Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
WORLD NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF
NEW YORK. —Estimates place
number of spectators of American
football games during 1924 season at
10,000,000.
LONDON. —Members of British
royal family gather in London to
celebrate 80 th birthday’ of Dowager
Queen Alexandra.
NEW YORK. —Photographs are
transmitted by radio from London to
New’ York by process developed by
Radio Corporation of America.
MEXICO ClTY.—General Plu
tarco Elias Calles, first chief execu
tive of Mexico to be peaceably in
ducted into office in forty years, is
inaugurated.
WASHINGTON?”^’OfficiaI tribute
by government to memory of Wood
row Wilson is to be paid Monday,
December 15, under tentative plans
worked out.
BUENOS AIRES —Secretary of La
bor Davis, in an address, estimate!*,
that 850,000 emigrants entered the
United States clandestinely during
fiscal year 1923-24.
MOSCOW. —'Communist interna
tionale is carrying on propaganda
abroad, Premier Rikoff admits in
discussing Russia’s present situation
among world governments.
KANSAS ClTY—Veterans of For
eign Wars will recommend that Gen
eral John J. Pershing - be reinstated
on active list of the army for life,
national headquarters of organiza
tion announces.
CHICAGO.—:Five-man team from
University of Nebraska takes first
honors in competition with teams
from 23 other institutions in live
stock judging at International Live
Stock exposition.
WASHINGTON. Conference is
called by Chamber of Commerce ot
United States to meet in Washing
ton in T anuary to study problems of
reducing expenses in distributing
merchandise.
CLEVELAND.—More than 90,-
000 individuals contributed to Re
publican fund, '83,299 making con
tributions of less than SIOO, Chair
man Butler repotted in announcing
campaign cost $3,063,952.
MEMPHIS. Monroe 'Dolly”
Stark, one-time major league base
ball player, and former manager of
Memphis team in Southern associa
tion, and Augusta, club in South At
lantic association, is shot and killed
in his roadhouse near Memphis.
WASHINGTON —Discussion of the
French debt to the United States
will be held this week at meeting of
the debt funding commission, treas
ury department announces after re
port of informal conferences on mat
ter between Secretary Mellon and
Ambassador Jusserand.
Says Mrs. Rhinelander
Wants Her Husband,
Not Money Settlement
NEW YORK. Dec. I. Alice
I Jones Rhinelander, who is being
sued by her wealtry husband, Leon
ard Kip Rhinelander, for annulment
ot their marriage on October 14 on
grounds of fraud in representing
herself to be white, will neither af
firm or deny she is of negro blood
in her defense, according to Judge
Samuel F. Swinburne, who is repre
senting her as counsel.
“We will neither affirm nor deny
that Mrs. Rhinelander is ot negrq
blood,” he said. “They have made
that charge and they will have io
prove it. That has nothing to do
with our end of the case. We are
concerned with their charge of
fraud and we shall concentrate on
that.
“Mrs. Rhinelander does not want
a money settlement. She is ill and
she wants her husband back”.
Judge Swineburn announced he
would not file the answer to the
complaint Monday, but would send
the answer to Rhinelander’s attor
neys and later file it at White
Plains. Trial will take place either
[in January or February, he said.
Midland Packing Co.
Head Gets 4 Years
SIOUX FALLS, N. D„ Dec. I.
Beni Salinger, recently convicted for
fraud in the Midland Packing com
pany suit, was sentenced to four
years in the penitentiary and fined
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POSSIBILITY OF TAX
REVISION PUZZLES
COHGRESSMEMOERS
Depends on Unknown Fac
tors of Business and
Economy
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
• Special Leased Wire to The Journal—Copy
right, 1924.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. I.—Return
ing members of congress are show
ing a significant curiosity about the
chances of another revision of taxes.
And they will # ind that the an
swer to their queries cannot be given
them by the president or the secre
tary of the treasury. For tax revi
sion depends on two unknown fac
tors. One is the business condition
of the country —a better economic
situation meaning increased reve
nues—and the other is the spending
proclivity of congress itself.
The treasury estimated last time
that there vould be a surplus of
about $380,000,000, but it actually
came to $505,000,000,- which goes to
show that the forecasts cannot b-s
exact and 'hat a favorable business
situation nd rigid economy can
change a. predictiori materially.
Assuming that on the basis of the
figures already published there is an
indicated surplus of about ■ $70,000,-
000, this would not be enough to war
rant a recommendation for a revj
sion of taxes. But the experience of
the past h • taught that treasury es
timates can be exceeded. For this
reason some people have gone so far
as to say there will be a $350,000,000
surplus, notwithstanding the cut
that has been made by the new tax
law in the expected receipts.
Can Bring Surplus
Congress to some extent has it in
its power to bring about a surplus of
$350,000,000. Economy in expendi
ture will do tl e trick. If a business
map wanted to bring about a surplus
at the '■rid of a year he not only
would cut down his expenses of op
eration, but he would look to in
creased revenues by better business
methods. The cov wnment and con
gress can’t improve economic condi
tions except by >mitting to disturb
business and avoiding the imposition
of uncertainties in one f orm or an
other. But congress can do the oth
er. It can fail to spend large sums,
and it can even inquire closely into
the estimates of expenditures made
by the executive department. Pre
sumably the budget director has done
all the pruning possible, but congress
has been known to slash appropria
tions which emanate from the ad
ministration since the budget came
into being.
The relationship between another
horizontal cut in taxes, say 25 per
cent on incomes earned this year,
and economy in government expen
diture never has been so easy to de
termine nor so manifest to the
naked eye of the taxijayer as it is
today. Economy has always been
something academic because the in
come tax law has not'been well un
derstood and the war upset all
standards of expenditure. In the
last few years, however, economy
has become one of the paramount Is
sues. and the election of President
Coolidge is attributed by many of
his friends to his efforts to effect
economies in government operation.
Sentiment Favors Cut
Sentiment among those members
of the house and senate who arc
here for next week’s session is plain
ly in favor of another tax cut. The
argument that the executive branch
of the government has been making
namely that until after the pay
ments made on March 15, next, th?
Cxact jevenue producing capacity of
the present law will not be known,
is recognized as sound, but it usual
ly leads to a discussion of what the
administration will do if there is a
surplus.
I SI,OOO by Judge Woodrough, of Oma
j ha, yesterday. Efforts to stay judg-
I ment were futile but an attempt to
| t'i’e a. writ of error will be made. The
I case will be taken to a higher court.
Cotton Equals Wool
As Blanket Fabric,
U. S. Experts Find
WASHINGTON Nov. 29.—How
warm is a blanket? The bureau of
standards has. investigated this im
portant, if homely, question, and
tonight announced the result.
First, as marly have suspected,
closeness of weave rather titan thick
ness controls blanket warmtn. That |
is especially true when blankets are j
for use indoors. Putting it scien- |
tifically, the bureau announcement !
said that “the greatest resistance to ;
heat flow (by a blanket) in still air :
was given by a blanket having a j
density of 0.0835 grams per cubic |
centimeter.” A heavy, thick blan
ket isn’t so warm, because, the
buerau said, “heat escapes by con
duction along the fibers,” while the
looser weaves in blankets lost much
heat through interstices.
Since the warmth of aJjlankeet de
pends upon how much and how
long it can imprison and hold still
in its texture the original air con
tent, the bureau said that cotton and
wool both-had advantages as textile
material for making blankets. Cot
ton with sheets, indoors, was likely
to be better, it was said, and wool
outdoors, but "no significant differ
ence in heat resistance or resistance
to passage of air Or moisture” was
found between the two materials.
CO-OP MARKETING
IS BOON TO WORLD.
0. S. BOARD FINOS
________
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—C0-op
erative organizations through which
groups of producers and consumers
band themselves together to deal in
commercial markets has become
“one of the most prominent features
of the economic structure of the
world,” the federal trade commission
declared Saturday in a special report.
A description of the co-operative
situation in fifteen foreign countries,
prepared largely from data collected
by Chairman Thompson and Dr.
William Notz, chief of the commis
sion's export trade division, was giv
en in the document.
There are 285.000 co operative or
ganizations in the world, the com
mission estimated, through which
120,000,000 persons carry on co-op
erative selling or buying. In Europe,
it was declared, the shock of the
European war and post-war adjust
ment found in the co-operative or
ganizations "in many cases the
strongest bases upon which recon
struction” could be laid;
"In some of the larger countries
of Europe, like the United Kingdom,
Germany and France,” the report
continued, "the consumers’ co-opera
tive societies rank among the larg
est producers and distributors of nec
essaries of life. In Englapd and Ger
many nearly half the population is
affiliated with the consumers’ whole-'
sale and retail societies.”
The net surplus of the English co
operatives in 1922 amounted to $70.,-
000,000, it was declared, while the
Union of Swiss consumers had a sur
plus of 14.455,218 Swiss francs in
1921.
Freedom from state interference
and educational effort has served to
allow the large scale development of
the co-operative enterprises, the re
port said. Some European methods
might not be wholly compatible with
the American conditions, it was
pointed out, but room for develop
ment along the same line with the
United States was suggested and dis
cussed.
Farmers’ co-operatives, the report
said, might profitably extend their
efforts for more direct marketing of
foodstuffs to consumers and whole
sale co-operative associations for
dealing in agricultural products
might be encouraged. Co-operation
in rural districts for the supply of
credit, for the distribution of elec
tric power, coal and retailing gen
erally; and extension of co-operative
enterprise for export of American
products were among the possibili-’
ties seen.
Mercy Plea in Vain;
Confessed Wife Slayer
Sentenced to Hang
CARLINVILLE. 111., Dec. 1.-
Pleading guilty to the murder of his
bride of two weeks, and throwing
himself on the mercy of the court,
Lester Kahl, 24 years old, Saturday
was sentenced by Circuit Court
Judge Frank Burton to be hanged
in the county jail December 22.
Sentence was pronounced after
•Vidge Burton had heard arguments
in which Kahl’s lawyer pleaded for
mercy, declaring the defendant had
shot his wife while drunk. Judge 1
Burton, however, characterized the '
deed as ‘ cold-blooded murder,” and
said that "the court feels it would j
be sadly remiss in duty if the de- i
fendant were let off with life sen- '
fence.”
Kahl previously had pleaded not
guilty, but changed his plea on the '
advice of counsel.
Divorced After Fifty
Y ears, Farmer Kills
Former Wife and Self
GUTHRIE, Okla., Nov. 29—John
G. Taylor, farmer, living 15 miles
northwest of here, late yesterday
shot and killed his recently divorced ;
wife, to whom he had been married
for nearly fifty years, and then j
turned the gun on himself, dying in
stantly. The Taylors were parents
of thirteen.
The Weather
i
FORECAST FOR TUESDAY
Louisiana: Fair.
Arkansas; Fa; -.
Oklahoma: Fair.
East Texas: Fair.
West Texas: Fair.
Y’irginia. North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia. Alabama. Missis
sippi and Extreme Northwest Flor
ida: Fair:
Florida; Fair
Tennessee: Increasing cloudiness
and warmer.
Kentucky and West Virginia: Un-
I settled and warmer.
TRDTZKY 10 HOLD
POSITION INF JOE
DFPRESS ATTACK
Commissar of War Branded
Foe of Communisim by
Party Newspaper
MOSCOW, Dec. 1. —Despite the
bitter attacks upon Trotzky in the
soviet press, it is authoritatively
stated that the commissar, of war
will not be expelled from the Com
munist party as a result of the pres
ent controversy.
Denunciation of Trotzky continues
in the party press and in local meet
ings throughout soviet Russia.
Charging that Trotzky himself initi
ated this new discussion within the
party, the government organ- Izves
tia asserts that the internal party
strife brings "sunshine into the gray
lives of the counter revolutionary
emigres abroad and demoralizes the
international proletariat as well as
the new members of the Russian
Communist party and their non-par
tisan sympathizers.” *
In spite of this; discussion is in
creasing. Resolutions condemning
Trotzky's book "1917’’ are being
army.
The Izvestia declares that
nist groups and units of the red
passed daily by provincial Commit
ty congress have abandoned him and
• are now indorsing the central com
mittee of the party. Although Trctz
ky is president of the revolutionary
council which opened its plenary ses-
| sion Saturday, Vice President Frunze
acted as chairman at the opening
meeting. Frunze belongs to the ma
jority group of the central commit
tee of the party which opposed
Trotzky.
The lengths to which the party
conflict has drifted is disclosed in
the declarations made by Leo Kame
nev in addressing a trade union
council. Kamenev, who is pres
ident of the Moscow soviet,
land a member of the central
[ committee of the party—and inci
dentally Trotzky's ‘ brother-in-law—
I denied rumors of Trotzky’s arrest
j and stated that his expulsion from
I the party was not coptemplated.
i strain Kamenev from denouncing
['party. This, however, did not re-
I stran Kamenev from denouncing
I Trotzky’s continued opposition to
I the majority group in the party,
I which, he said, “is calculated to ruin
I the party’s authority, and consti
tutes a danger which cannot pass
unnoticed.” Kemenev declared that
“Trotzky is an echo of bourgeois in
fluence hostile to the proletariat.
'Trotzky has become a symbol for
; the hopes of the petty bourgeoisie."
I said Kamenev, arguing that, while
the former moderate Menshevism
| was an open enemy of Bolshevism,
Trotzky conceals his opposition to
.Communism u-nder the most radical
phrases. Reviewing extensively
Trotzky’s antagonism to the Bolshe
vists before the revolution, h? cited
the theoretical differences existing
I between Lenin- and Trotzky in the
I pre-revolutionary days, when Trotz
' ky belonged to the Menshevik wing
|of the party. Referring to Trotz
ikv s recent attacks upon himself,
i Rykov and Zinoviev, Kamenev said
! these were in reality directed against
I Lenin.
■ Kamenev « speech was supported
by his colleague in the central ex-
[ecutive committee, Stalin, who is
widely regarded as one of the most
influential lenders in Russia. Stalin
said that th a danger of Trotzky.ism
hes in the likelihood that it may be
come the center for non proletarian
elements, tending to undermine the
proletarian dictatorship.
"The Trotzky movement.” said Sta
lin, aims to dethrone Bolshevism.
Our party is strong enough to pre
vent a split. We are not resorting
to repressions but are carrying the
struggle into the open for the pur
pose of burying Trotzky's ideas.”
Ever since the revival of the party
j discussion Trotzky has maintained
j <3n unbroken silence.
Georgia Youth Kills
Father With Shotg un
In Protecting Mother
COLUMBUS, Ga„ Nov. 30.—Mor
gan Davidson. GO. was shot to death
YY o is son ' Morgan Davidson, Jr.,
18, Saturday night, at the farm hume
about nine miles from Columbus.
Ihe shooting followed an alleged at
taH< by Mr. Davidson on his wife.
lhe father, after an alleged dis
pute with members of the family,
\ cft the home and returned later.
Another heated controversy, it is al
leged. resulted in Mr. Davidson fir
j mg one time with a pistol at his
i Ihe youth retaliated with a
; shotgun, the charge entering the
} .J.hers cnest. He died instantly.
Transfer of Calhoun
County Offices to
Arlington Complete
ARLINGTON, Ga., Nov. 29.—A1l
:ne county books and records have
: oeen moved from Morgan to Arling
; ton and everything is ready for the
• opening of the initial term of Cal
houn county superior curt in Arling-
■ ton, the new county site as recently
! named by the supreme court. The
I high court's decision came as the
lend of a long period of litigation
' between the Morgan and Arlington
j citizens.
Schall’s Margin Slight
Over Magnus Johnson
ST. PAUL. Minn , Nov. 30.—Thos
D Scha4! had a margin of less than
8.000 votes ov.- Magnus Johnson f. r
junior United States senator
shin of Minnesita In the November
'elections, the report of the canvas
j uxsr luwi-j revealed. The official
vot" was Schall 385,Gin: JonnsoT.
i 380.646.
The canvassing board report
gave the presidential vote as
follows:
Phesident Coolidge 420,759; John
W. Davis 55,913; Senator La Fol
lette 339.192.
In the sixth congressional dis
trict Representative Harold Knut
: son Rcnubiican, received 39.800 and
s C Shipstead, farmer labor, bro
ther nf Senator Henrig Shipstead.
■ecei''eU 33,831 votes.
Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday, December 2, 1924
NOAH’S ARK IS A “BARGE”
IN MOFFAT’S TRANSLATION
OF BIBLE TO 1924 TERMS
Glasgow Educator . Advo
cates New Version of
Scriptures for Understand-;
ing of Each Generation
NEW YORK, Dee. I.—Noah’s
Ark is a "barge,” the Garden of
Eden, a “park,” the city of David,
"Davidsburg,” in the new transla
tion of the Old Testament, just com
pleted by Dr. James Moffat, of Glas
gow, Scotland.
The announced effort of Dr. Mof
fat is to reduce the, Old Testament to
a languge that will be understood
In 1924. The author, who has many
titles from leading societies, is of the
opinion that the Old
the King James version, couched in
the language of 1611 is not clear In
1924. He advocates a ietranslation
of the Bible for every generation in
the languge of 1611, is not clear in
The latest Moffat work is not, the
preface states, a revision of the ac
cepted King James revision of t’ e
Scriptures, but a new translation
from the orginal manuscripts. It is
an interpretation, both exact and
idiomatic, intended for the twentieth
century, he says. The orginal trans
lation, Dr, Moffat holds, was made
from various sources —Judabite and
northern Israel—neither of which
was compiled earlier than the ninth
century.
Reconciles Versions
The first volume, as presented in
the United States by the George H.
Doran company, carries through the
book of Esther.
Dr. Moffat, in his preface, explains
that the Old Testament is for the
niost part made from a collection
of books, Oriental in form and in
thought. They have, he says, been
edited drastically by other' hands. He
has tried to reconcile them and
bring them up to date, in translating
rhe language into modern English.
He admits that the original Hebrew
text has in many cases no exact
translation into 1924 English.
Dr. Moffat discards the word
“Jehovah” and replaces it with “The
Eternal” as more nearly represent
ing the meaning of the ancient
Hebrew word to modern thought.
The new translation in dealing
with the creation says:
"Then God the ternal molded
man from the dust of the ground,
breathing into his nostrils the breath
HOEBITEOH
SHOALS ISSUE IN
COM SEEN
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—When
the Muscle Shoals issued is called
; up on the senate calendar Wednes
day it probably will be referred back
to the senate agriculture committee.
Administration leaders are known
to favor such a course, and are
willing to accede to demands of
southern senators that a time limit
be fixed for the committee to report.
Since the adjournment of congress
last June the Muscle Shoals situa
tion has become complicated by the
withdrawal of Henry Ford’s offer,
: the preparation of new proposalrt
and revision of some of the other
bids. Senator Curtis, of Kansas,
the Republican leader, said today it
Would be difficult to consider the
question properly on the senate floor
and he thought it should go back to
the committee.
Senator Underwood, Democrat,
Alabama, who led the fight for the
acceptance of Ford’s bid, will in
troduce his new bill, which has the
support of the southern senators.
This bill provides for government
ownership and either government or
private operation of the property
for the production of nitrogen for
fertilizer and explosives.
It is planned to offer the Under
wood bill as a substitute to the Nor
ris bill, which is now on the senate
calendar. In many respects the two
bills ere alike, but it is understood
Senator Norris, Republican, Ne
braska, prefers his measure, and
will seek its passage.
An entirely new offer appeared
today from Howard Sutherland,
i loi-mer senator from West Virginia,
; who, as a representative of Hamble-
I ton & Co., bankers, of New York,
I proposes to organize a $50,000,000
; corporation to lease the property at
] a yearly rental of 4 per cent of the
I government’s investment ur> to May
i 31, 1922. The corporation would
| operate under government supervi
| sion, and produce fertilizer, chemi
. cals and distribute power.
Southern Baptists
Will Be Canvassed
For 15 Million Fund
NASHVILLE. Tenn., Nov. 29.
With a iew to underwriting a
budget of at least $150,000,000 for the
general missionary, educational and
benevolent enterprises fostered by
the denomination for 1925. more than
100,000 teams Sunday’ will begin an
! every-member canvass of the 28,000
l white Baptist churches of the south,
it was announced Friday by Dr. C.
i E. Burts, of Nashville, general direc
j tor of the unified program of south
i ern Baptists. The canvass will con
| tinue until December 7. it was said.
At the same time the workers will
seek to round out the payments of
all subscribers U the Baptist $75 -
000,000 campaign. Dr. Burts an
nounced
Vernon W. Van Fleet
To Head Trade Board
W ASHINGTON. Nov. 30.—Vernon
W. Van Fleet, of Indiana, will be
cofu» cb.s.!!-'pan of the federal trade
commission on Decemocr 1, hi c<-
- cordance with the pracitce of nam
ing the commissioners to the chair-
I manship by’ rotation, it was an
nounced by the commission Saturday.
Van Fleet is a Republican. At the
time he was appointed by President
Harding in July. 1922. he was a spe
cial assistant to the attorney gen
eral. Prior to that time, he was a
'judge of the superior court of In
jdiana. ha« ch-arce of the legal
, '’-prk of the commission.
of life; this was how man became ;
a living being.
Park Is Planted
“In the land of Eden, in the Far
East, God the eternal then planted I
a park, where he put the man whom '
he hads molded.
‘And from the ground God the [
eternal made all sorts of trees to !
grow that were delightful to see and j
good to eat, with the tree of life and (
the tree that yields knowledge of I
good and evil in the center of the |
p; rk.
"From Eden a river flowed to i
water the park, which, on leaving |
the park branched into four I
streams.”
The story of the flood is told as
follows:
“So God said to Noah: 'I have re
solved to put an end to every human
being, for they have filled the earth
with insolence and outrage. I will
destroy them and the earth togeth
er.
“ ‘Build a barge of cypress wood;
build cabins inside the barge, and
cover it with pitch inside and out.
> “ ‘This is how you are to build it :
The barge is to be 450 feet long, 75
feet broad, and 45 feet high.
“ ‘You must put windows in the
barge 18 inches from the roof and
ritake a door in the side of the barge;
also put three decks in it.
Sends Deluge to Earth \
“ ‘For 1 am sending a deluge ot
water on the earth to destroy every
living creature under heaven; every
thing on earth shall
The story of the destruction of So
dum and Gomorrah is explained' by
the statement that the cities were
surrounded by oil wells, which is a
solution which modern science has
frequently offered, heretofore with
out direct Biblical authority, to ex
plain their fate.
Dr. Moffat does not hesitate to
use modern English to denominate
social aspects of the Biblical age and
calls a. spade a spade with modern
abandon. At times he verges close
to American slang, but the product
is extremely interesting. For in
stance, in the story of Isaac, Dr.
Moffat translates a remark of Re
bekah to Isaac: "These Hittite wom
en tire me to death.”
Two years ago Dr. Moffat brought
put a New Testament translation
into modern English. Since 1915 he
has held the chair of church his
tory, in the United Free Church col
lege, Glasgow, prior to which he was
at Oxford, England.
JUDGE SUMMEfIALL
DROPS DEAD WHILE
SPEAKING IN CHURCH
WAYCROSS, Ga., Dee. 1 —Judge
J. I. Summerall, of the superoir
court of Ware county, dropped'dead
Sunday while speaking at Newborn
church, Telmore. Ga. In the midst
of the speech, the judge asked for
a glass of water, and ds the water
was handed him he fell to the floor.
Appoplexy is said to have been the
cause of his death.
He was 60 years old, and is sur
vived by a widow and three chil
dren. He had been a resident of
Waycross for the past eleven years
and was one of the most prominent
citizens in the section.
Funeral services will be held from
the First Baptist church here at 2
o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Fol
lowing the services here tlie body
will taken to Blackshear, Judge
Summerall’s former home for in
terment. The Waycross lodge of
Masons win conduct the services at
the grave and active pallbearers .will
be selected from the board of deacons
of the First Baptist church. Hon
orary pallbearers will be named from
members of the bar associations of
Waycross and Blackshear.
Judge Summerall was completing
his ninth year as judge, being elect
ed to this office first in 1915, suc
ceeding Judge Quinney, of Douglas,
who was filling out the unexpired
term of the Ware county superior
court this morning. A hard student
of law, Judge Summerall prepared
his decisions with the greatest of
care, and the fact that he had sel
dom been reversed by the supreme
court was a source of pride to him
self and to his friends.
Judge Summerall moved to War
cross from Pierce county, anh be
fore. his election to the office of
judge practiced in Blackshear and
Waycroas. Recognized as a suc
cessful “■actitioner, he was urged to
make the race for judge when the
office became vacant in 1915. Fol
lowing an active campaign he was
elected by a large majority. Jn 1922 j
he was opposed for re-election but
was returned to office by another
large majority.
Teacher Who Wed
17-Year-Old Pupil
To Fight Dismissal
CANBY, Ore., Nov. 29.—Mrs. Clif
ford Leßoy Samuelson, high school
teacher, formerly Miss Rosamond
Lee Shaw, who was married recent
ly to one of the seventeen-year-old
pupils of the school announced to
day that she would fight action
taken last night by the school board
in dismissing her. The board decid
ed to revoke the teacher’s contract
after considering a petition signed
by 10G citizens and patrons of the
school.
Mr. and Mrs. John Samuelson,
the bridegroom’s parents, declared
today they would not ask for an
nulment of the marriage, nor inter
fere in any way with the young
couple's plans.
“We are perfectly willing that
they v.ork out their own problems,
and we shall furnish no obstacle,”
the father said. "We are well
pleased with our son’s wife, ana are
g'.an tr, Welcome her into the fam
ilv.” '
3 Below in Ohio City;
* One Dead From Exposure
COLUMBUS. Ohio, Dec. I.—Wil
mington, Ohio, was the coldest spot
in the United States today with the
mercury down to nine degrees
above zero. The cold wave was
accompanied by a snow fall reported
five inches in .some places. On'-
death wus rcpß.ed hvuj exposure.
3 HUA To -1 COPY,
SI A YEAR.
FORMER ACWORTH
BANKER DIES POOR
INEASTPITTSUG
Mr. Jesse L. Lemon For
merly Was Wealthy Cobb
County Citizen *
PITTSBURG, Pa., Dec. I.—The
body of Mr. Jesse L. Lemon, agec
64 who died in East Pittsburg, near
here, in apparently destitute circum
stances, and who is said to have,
been president of the Lemon Bank
ing company, of Acworth,-Ga., prior
to coming to this city several years
ago, was shipped to his cousin, Mrs.
Maria Nichols, ot Acworth, by a lo
cal undertaking firm this morning.
It is said that Mr. Lemon was a
wealthy man. He came to this dis
trict as a collector for a sewing ma
chine company. \
Mr. Lemon died last Friday after
noon in a rooming house at 712 Lin
den avenue, East Pittsburg. His
body was removed to the morgue,
where it was identified by Guy L.
Synder, of 1439 Mill street, Wilkins
burg. a fellow employe. Pulmonary
tuberculosis caused his death.
Mr. Lemon came here about three
years ago and obtained employment
with the sewing machine company
as a collector, receiving $lB a week.
Lately he was placed on a commis
sion basis and earned only about $2
a week, it is said. He was stricken
ill and died without the aid of a phy
sician. At the time of his death, he 3
was sharing his room, which was
pcorly furnished, with another em
ploye of the sewing machine com
pany.
A newspaper clipping found in
Mr. Lemon’s clothing indicated thill
his son, Mr. Millard Lemon, was
killed in France during the war. It
is said that Mr. Lemon has a brother.
William Lemon, of Sulphur Spring.-:,
Texas, and other relatives.
Officials of the coroner’s offfc-:
learned that Mrs. Maria. Nichols, of
Acworth, was his cousin and a tele
gram was sent to her notifying he,-
ot the death of Mr. Jesse Lemon
and also that his body was at the
morgue. A message came from her
yesterday instructing the local offi-'
cials to have the body shipped to
Acworth, Ihe necessary expenses <
also being sent here. A local undei
taking establishment was notified
and the body was shipped to Ac
worth todav. - 1 >
MR., LEMON fORMERLY
LEADING ACWORTH BANKER
ACWORTH, Ga., Dec. I.—Funeral
arrangements had not been com
pleted today for Mr. Jesse L. Lemon,
formerly one of the best-known
bankers of this section, whose bodv
was shipped today from Pittsburg io
Mygi- J- Nic-hols, of Acworth, a--
\ Mr. Ldriion some twelve years ago
wris connected with the Lemon Bank
ing company hera, an institution
which his father founded, and owned
a great deal of real estate, being
generally known as a leading busi
ness man. Old friends who recalled
him today said, however, that he
was practically penniless when he
left Acworth, the drink habit being
blamed for the loss of his fortune.
All spoke of him as a fine man be
fore he began drinking, and it was
recalled that he delayed his depart
ure several months in an effort to
settle all his debts.
Mr. Lemon is survived by his di
vorced wife and four children, R. M.
Lemon, of Decatur; Linton Lemon,
of Birmingham: William Lemon, of
Acworth, and Mrs. Z. L. McLain, of
Rome.
Ousted Boy Emporer .
Os China Is Refug ee
At Japs’ Legation
PEKIN, Nov. 30.—The causa
,1 ? s . fe , ar ,lna PParent, Husan
China’s ‘‘hoy emperor," js in retug •.
at the Japanese legation here, a sek
invited guest.
Although there have been no re
ports against Hsuan’s life, it wax
said that he was "nervous” am;
"wanted to take no risks” before his
proposed trip to America. The
move was made with full knowledge
of his father, Un, the for
mer regent, and tutoi,
who went with him toThe legation,
Hsuan first asked for refuge from
the British _ and Dutch ministers.
They hesitated about granting the
request, and suggested that the Jap
anese minister, Yoshizawa, be ap
proached. Yoshizawa also was loth
to invite Hsuan, but the youth, who
meantime had visited the German
hospital, proceeded alone to the Jap
anese legation where courtesy neces
sitated receiving him.
After Monday it is understood that
Hsuan’s two wives will join him in
the legaton and will remain with
him until his departure, which is as
yet unfixed.
Since November 7, Hsuan has been
living in the home of Prince Chun, a
former ruler. Hsuan was ordered to
leave the imperial palace in the for
bidden city, where the royal Manchu
hne has resded since its collapse in
the 1911 revolution. Feng Yuh Slang,
the “Christian general,” issued the
order removing Hsuan from the pal
ace.
Cold Weather Will
Continue; Mercury
Falls to 27.4 Degrees
Continued cold and clear weather
is forecast for Monday and Tuesday
by C. F. von Herrmann, head of the
local weather bureau.
The mercury Monday morning
dropped to 27.4 degrees, 4.6 below
freezing, .Mr. von Herrmann said,
and the prospect is that the low
reading I uesdajc will be 25 degrees.
A slight, turn for the warmer is
predicted for Tuesday afternoon. The
forecaster expects cloudless skies.
rreezing temperatures are prob
able Monday night as far souHi as
the South Carolina coast and frost
to the interior of central Florida.
Fair weather will prevail Tuesday
in the Washington forecast district,
it was stated.
The temperature will be lower in
the Atlantic and east gulf states
Monday night and it will rise in the
lower lake region, 'the Ohio valley,
Tennessee and the east gulf stati
on Tuesday and throughout ihe
Wa-hingtop forecast district b-i
Wednesday.