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MRS. FRANK BREAKS DOWN IN COURT
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Reuben Arnold created a sensation at the opening
of Tuesday afternoon’s session of the Frank trial by
making a motion that all of the revolting testimony con
cerning Leo Frank’s alleged conduct before the day of
Mary Phagan’s murder be stricken out of the records.
He also demanded that all of Jim Conley’s testimony in
reference to watching at the door at Frank’s direction
be expunged except the time he claims he watched on
the day Mary Phagan was killed.
The contention resulted in practically a complete victory for
the defense after a bitter legal battle. Judge Roan said that he
would exclude from the records everything bearing on these al
leged instances, except the negro’s testimony as to what occurred
on the aceual day of the crime. He said, however, he would hold
himself ready to reverse his decision until he made his announoe-
•mbnt to the jury Wednesday morning.
As the charges of degeneracy were being hurled at her hus
band by the Solicitor, young Mrs. Frank hung her head and finally
unable to endure the ordeal longer left the courtroom. When she
returned, her eyes were red and her cheeks flushed as from weep
ing. She breathed heavily and appeared to be making a brave |
effort to regain her composure. It was the first time she had broken
down during the long trial. Frank’s mother left her place, a look]
of utter, wearied misery in her eyes, but a determination to be
brave in every line of her face.
Attorney Arnold asked the judge to strike out not only all'
the testimony in direct examination in reference to Frank’s al
leged conduct, but also all that has come out in cross-examination.!
DORSEY FIGHTS FOR TESTIMONY.
Solicitor Dorsey insisted that the testimony was admissible
and should remain in the records.
“We expect to sustain this man in all the charges he has made
against the defendant,’’ declared the Solicitor. “We have other
witnesses to establish the facts. We will bring them into this
courtroom.
“This motion by the attorney for the defense is merely a trick
to prevent us from bringing in these witnesses.
“The testimony is admissible because it indicates the very
purpose, motive and intent the defndant had in getting that
poor little girl into the metal room. It is admissible as indicat
ing a general practice or course of conduct. The importance of
this evidence, disgusting and abhorrent though it may be, is going
to be made more manifest as the case proceeds.’’
It was at this point that Mrs. Frank left the courtroom.
Arnold’s ground for the motion was that it was placing the
defendant on trial for a crime other than the one for which he was
indicted. He branded the negro as a base liar and a miserable
wretch. Conley listened to the tirade unaffected.
, The startling testimony was brought out during the day
thit Conley entered the factory before either Mary Phagan or
'Monteen Stover entered the building.
Quinn in his statement to the officers and before the Coro
ner’s inquest declared that he came into the factory between 12:20
and 12:25. The negro’s statement contradicts this utterly. Either
Conley is lying again or Quinn is mistaken.
Solicitor Dorsey announced that he was ready to put Dalton,
the mysterious man mentioned in Conley’s story, on the stand
to corroborate the most revolting of the negro’s charges. He
said he might also call Daisy Hopkins, the girl mentioned as a
visitor to Frank's office. The Solicitor said he had both wit
nesses where he could locate them.
STILL CLINGS TO MAIN STORY.
Conley, questioned and coaxed and wheedled and bullied for
& total of nearly 11 hours, was still clinging tenaciously to his
accusations against the factory superintendent when Rosser began
his last desperate attack upon the negro’s story Tuesday after
noon.
He admitted that he had lied without count. He admitted
that he lied in his first, second, and even his third affidavits,
the last of which had been described by the detectives as “the
w^iole truth.’’ He confessed that he had lied for no reason
in particular while he was making his third affidavit.
But every effort to force him to admit that he had lied when
ae said that Frank killed the girl and asked him to dispose of the
Continued on Page 2, Column 1.
AT SARATOGA.
FIRST—6V4 furlongs; Little Nephew
120 (KllUngzworth). b-6, 2-6, out, won;
Reamer 10f (Byrne), 6-1, 2-1, even, nee
ond; Surprising 105 (Nickla.ua), 9-2, 8-5,
4 5, third. Time 1:06 4-6. Also ran:
Black Toney, Spearhead, Harry L., Un
cle Ram, Rharleston.
SECOND—Mares and geldings, 3-
year-olds and up, selling, mile: Kalinka
104 (Nicklaus). 1-3, out, won; Dartmouth
107 (Byrne), 8-1. 8-5, out, second; Star
O’Ryan 109 (Henry), 10-1, 2-1, out,
third. Time 1:40 3-5. Also ran; Judge
Walsh, Spin.
THIRD—Six furlongs: Hawthorne,
123 (Loftus), 7-10, out. won; Genesta. 98
(Wolf>, 6, 6-5, out, second; Star Gate,
102 (McCahey), 60, 16, 4, third. Time,
1:13 1-5. Hobnob, Buskin ran.
FOURTH—Five and one-half furlongs:
Caauarlna 113 (Bteeie), 3, 4-6, 1-3, won;
Early Rose 110 (Muagrave), 4-6, 1-3, out.
second; Cutaway 116 (McCahey), 12, 6, 2,
third. Time, 1:07. Also ran; Any Time,
Mater. Water Lily, Contrary, Delft, Oal-
axy. May Dora, Addle M.
AT TORONTO.
FIRST—About 6 furlongs: Shippigan
109 (Knight), 3-2, 1-2, out, won; Charles
T. 109 (Hall), 8-1, 4-1, 2-1, second;
Breakfast 104 (Sklrvtn), 8-1, 3 1, 3-2,
third. Time 1:08. Also ran: Mary Pick-
ford. Deadloss, Agnes Dale, Ollie Bryne,
Dragonfly, The Parsons.
SECOND—About 6 furlongs: Louis
Descognets 107 (Dreyer), 3-2. 1-2, out,
won; Merise 105 (McIntyre), 3-1, even.
1-2, second; Tenderheart 105 (Hanover),
3- 1, even, 1-2, third. Time :59. Also
ran: Phew, Bavell Luts, Johnny Harris,
Shreve, Thirty-Forty, Jjolharlo.
THIRD—About 6 furlongs: Ynca 106
(Rklrvin), 4-1. 2-1, even, won; Lucetta
105 (White), 2-1, even, 1-2, second; Is
abelle Casse 105 (Knight), 2-1, even,
1-2, third. Time 1:01. Also ran: Bmlsh,
Protogaris, Jack of Hearts, Susan,
Mother.
FOURTH—About five furlongs: Lasa-
ja, 111 (Warrington), 6, 2. even, won;
Annagh, 109 (Kkirvin), even, 1-2, out,
second; Jennie Wells 106 (Knight), 2,
4- 5, out, third. Time, 1:02 2-5. Mlleaae,
George Karme, Maurice Reed, Cap Nel
son ran.
FIFTH—Mile and sixteenth: Senator
Sparks 112 (Dreyer), 8-2, 1-2, out, won;
Dr. Holzberg 104 (Halsey), 3. even, 1-2,
second; Noon 109 (Bauer), 5, 2, even,
third. Time, 1:64 4-6. Also ran: Moon
light, Ovelando, Lucille, Tannie, Dona
tion, Tackle.
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RACE ENTRIES ON PAGE 12.
LATEST
NEWS
DES MOINES, IOWA, Aug. 5.—
A cow asleep on the track to-day
derailed the engine of a Wabash
freight train eighteen miles east
of here. Arthur Cobb, a train
man, and Henry L.anq, fireman,
were killed, and Frank Luman,
engineer, was injured.
CHATTANOOGA, TENN., Aug.
5.—Norman (Kid) Elberfeld, man -
ager of the local Southern League
club, will be retained a6 manager
next year, according to an an
nouncement made t^-day.
COLUMBUS. O., Aug. 5.—In
dictments against two national
bankers, Elmer G/lbraith and
Charles H. Davis, former presi
dents of the Second National
Bank of Cincinnati, were upheld
in 21 of the 28 counts in a devi
sion handed down by United
8tates Judge Saler to-day.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—A bill
providing for an emerwency ap
propriation to begin the imme
diate construction of three bat
tleships was introduced in the
House to-day by Repreeentative
Britten of Illinois. Republican
member of the Naval Affairs
Committee who asserts thet the
controversy with Japan and the
Mexican situation makes it im
perative to begin at once the
building of new dreadnoughts.
EAGLE PASS, TEXAS, Aug. 5.
—That 2,000 rebels were killed in
one of the bloodiest battlss of the
present revolution fought Sunday
in the City of Torreon, was
learned today when T. B. Mor
gan, an American and several
other refugees arrived here to
day in an automobile. Governor
Carranza, rebel chief, is reported
killed. According to Morgan the
Federala were victorious.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 5.—Man
ager Jimmy Callanan, of the Chi
cago White Sox, this afternoon
denied all knowledge of a story
that had none the rounds in Bos
ton and Chicago that he was to
be superseded at the end of the
•eaaon by Jake Stahl, former
manager of the Boston Red 8ox.
CHICAGO. Aug. 5.—No confir
mation could be obtained here at
the offices of the Amerioan
League baseball team here of a
report that President Charles
Comia-key considered deposing
Manager Jimmy Callahan at the
end of the season and putting
Jake Stahl in his place to guide
the dub n®xt year.
LEMAN8, FRANCE. Aug. 5.—
M. Bablot, a French aotemobilist,
to-day won the automobile grand
prix of France, covering the 335
5-8 miles in four hoursdeSN s S9Y
5-8 miles in 4 hours 21 minutes and
5G seconds.
This Government to Take Advan
tage of Forfeited Bond to
Remove Revolt Leader,
BRUNSWICK, GA., Auer. 5.—While
taking the United States cruiser De»
Moines to the sea. the Brunswick
harbor pilot was sitting In the pilot
house and overheard the secretary of
the American legation at Laguayra,
Venezuela, tell Commander Long of
the cruiser that he was going down
to Venezuela to bring General Castro
back to the United States.
Commander Long. Secretary Ten
nant, his stenographer, the wheels
man. and the pilot were sitting in the
pilot house when the discussion of the
situation took place, as the ship was
going through the channel.
It was understood that the Govern
ment is taking advantage of Gen
eral Castro being out on bond in
New York, pending the appeal of his
writ of habeas corpus case. As he
has left the country he forfeited his
bond and conditions will afford legal
rights to tyring about hie return.,.
Secretary Tennant and officers of
the Des Moines were very reticent
about talking of their orders, and it
was not until they were at sea and
thought all avenue of news escaping
was shut off did they discuss the sit
uation. The pilot admitted over
hearing the conversation and vouched
for its* accuracy.
The 100 marines from Norfolk, Va.,
that were reported to be en route
to Brunswick to board the Dee Moines
for Venezuela, did not reach here be
fore the cruiser sailed and it is re
ported they have been sent on south
by rail to be picked up later, thus dis
pensing with the necessity of holding
the Dea Moines a day longer.
4 Atlantans Most
Seriously Hurt in
Wreck on Central
SAVANNAH. Aug. 5.—S L. Steph
ens, Atlanta, express messenger, head
badly lacerated; Ennis Morrow, At
lanta, baggagemasrter, mashed under
falling trunks; John Tyler, Atlanta,
negro porter, painfully bruised, and
a negro namee Ashley, of Atlanta,
badly bruised, were seriously hurt In
the wreck of the Central of Georgia
passenger train No. 4 at Oliver, 46
miles west of Savannah, at 8 o’clock
this morning. They were brought to
a hospital in Savannah this afternoon.
A dozen or more passengers, mostly
negroes, were slightly Injured.
A report that the engineer was kill
ed was denied by railroad officials.
The only dead the rescuers found
were two corpses being transported
In the baggage car. The caskets were
almost completely demolished.
Seven e&fs Were derailed and five
were badly damaged. The baggage
and express cars turned turtle. A
wrecking train! carrying physicians
and nurses, was sent from Savan
nah.
Franchise Given to
Railroad by Selma
SELMA, August 5.—The Selma
City Council has granted E. Lamar
and associates a franchise for the
entry of a railroad into Selma from
the coal and Iron fields of the Bir
mingham District, down the Cahaba
Valley. It is believed that the Louis
ville and Nashville Railroad or the
United States Steel Corporation will
eventually finance a line to Selma.
Railroad and financial circles of
Selma and Birmingham are much in
terested In the proposed line.
Smith Sends Thompson to Slab
in Effort to Win Second
Straight From Lookouts.
Score by innings:
ATLANTA 000 0
CHATTANOOGA . . . .000
THE BATTING ORDER.
Long, If Walsh, ss
Agler, lb Flick, 2b
Welchonce, cf Johnson If
Smith, 2b ElberfeM. rf
Bisland, hb King. c *
Holland, 3b Graff. 3b
Holtz, rf Coyle, lb
Chapman, c Street, o
Thompson, p Covaleskle, p
ANDREWS FIELD. CHATTANOOGA,
TENN., Aug 6.—“Kid” Elberfeld sent
Covaleskle to the mound in an effort
to take the second battle from the
Crackers here this afternoon
Carl Thompson was Billy Smith's
choice to oppose the Big Pole. Neither
team scored In the opening inning
FIRST INNING.
Long grounded out. Flick to Coyle.
Agler walked. Welchonce grounded to
Waleh, forcing Agler at second. Smith
singled to left. Welchonce went to third.
Bisland grounded to third and Smith
was forced at second. ONE HIT, NO
RUNS.
Walsh popped to Agler. Flick Rin
glet! to right and stole second. John
son filed to Holtz. PUberfeld filed to
Holtz. ONE HIT. NO RUNS.
SECOND INNING.
Holland fanned. Holtz also fanned.
Chapman walked. Thompson out, Flick
to Coyle NO HITS. NO RUNS.
King out, Bisland to Agler Graff
popped to Agler. Coyle filed out to Long.
NO HITS, NO RUNS.
THIRD INNING
Long fanned. Agler. Agler also
fanned. Welchonce out, Graff to Coyle.
NO HITS, NO RUNS.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
AT PITTSBURG—
Judge J, S. Heard’s
Descendants Gather
ARMY AVIATOR KILLED,
pedal Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 6.—Lieu
tenant Pollkarpoff. of the Russian
nrmy, and his mechaic were killed
to-day at the Krasnoyesdo aero
drome, when the aeroplane in which
they were flying fell.
Judge John S. Heard will hold the
annual reunion of his children and
grandchildren at Grant Park on Au
gust 7, his seventy-eighth birthday.
Hitherto the reunions have been held
at the old homestead on the Chatta
hoochee River near the Sandy Springs
camp grounds.
Judge Heard Is the father of 23
children, 16 of whom are living. He
has 86 grandchildren living. All will
be present at the reunion, and a pic
nic dinner will be served.
Colonel John W. Moore will speak.
Shippers Defrauded
By Railroad Scales
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—The In
terstate Commerce Commission made
public a report to-day declaring that
70 per cent of the track scales now
In use on railroads of the country
are Inaccurate and antiquated and
that many should be rebuilt and that
additional scales should be installed.
The Investigation shows that the
scales now in use, because of inac
curate weighing, are defrauding the
shippers of the country out of thou
sands of dollars annually.
Plot to Dynamite
Calumet Dam Foiled
CALUMET, MICH., Aug 5.—Civil
and military authorities are seeking
the copper strike sympathizers who
v/ere connected with the theft of dy
namite from the Ahmeek and Mohawx
mines, and a reported plot to destroy
the Calumet dam and cut off the city’s
water supply.
As soon as the dynamite theft was
discovered a heavy guard of troops
was thrown around the dam. No ef
forts were made by dynamiters to
approach the structure.
INVITATION CAME TOO LATE.
MOBILE, Aug. 6.—The Invitation to
particiuate in the conference of bank
ers at Washington upon the disposi
tion of the $6Q,000,000 which Secre
tary of the Treasury McAdoo pro
poses to place in national banks to aid
III moving the crops this fall was re
ceived in Mobil^ too late to send a
representative
NEW YORK 000 000 001 - 1 6 1
PITTSBURG 104 000 00X - 5 8 0 1
Merquerd, Frommi, Crandall and Wilson; Adams and Glbscn.
O’Day and Emslle.
Af CHICAGO—
Umpire*,
BROOKLYN 0C0
CHICAGO 460
200 000 - 2 6 0
300 00X - 13 16 3
Rucker, Curtis and Hecklnger and M iller; Pierce and Needham. Umpires,
Brsnnan and Eason.
AT CINCINNATI—
BOSTON 010 000 ... - . . .
CINCINNATI 200 100 ... - . . .
Perdue and Rarlden; Brown and Clark. Umpires, Rigler and Byron.
AT ST. LOUIS—
PHILADELPHIA 010 00. ... - . . .
ST. LOUIS 000 00. ... - . . .
Alexander and Kllllfer; Sallee and Wlngo. Umpires, Klem and Orth.
OF DIXIE
AMERICAN LEAGUE
AT WASHINGTON—
CHICAGO 100 010 000 - . . .
WASHINGTON 000 000 002 - . . .
Benz and Schalk; Boehllng and A Insmith. Umpires, Hildebrand and
Evans.
AT PHILADELPHIA—
CLEVELAND 302 000 ... - . . .
PHILADELPHIA ........ 000 000 ... - . . .
Blandlng and O'Neill; Plank. Houc k and Lapp. Umpires, Ferguson and
Connolly.
AT NEW YORK—
DETROIT 422 010 ... - . . .
NEW YORK 020 001 ... - . . .
Dubuc and Stanage; Keating, Schultz and Sweeney. Umpires, O’Loughlln
and Sheridan.
FIRST GAME.
AT BOSTON—
ST. LOUIS 000 000 000 - 0 2 2
BOSTON 100 000 02X - 3 8 0
Laverenz and Alexander and McAII later; Leonard and Carrlgan. Umpire*,
Dlneen and Egan. S ECON O GAM E.
ST. LOUIS 101 002 00. - . . .
BOSTON 10° 010 00. - .
Wellman and McAllister; Collin* and Carrlgan. Umpires, Dlneen and Egan.
EMPIRE LEAGUE.
SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE.
AT AMERICUS—
AMERICUS—
0 - . . .
BRUNSWICK—
1 - . . .
AT CORDELE—
CORDELE—
000 0 - . . .
THOMASVILLE—
000 0 - . . .
Hall and Bowden; Stiles and Dudley.
Umpire. McLaughlin.
PtT VALDOSTA—
VALDOSTA—
0 - . . .
WAYCROSS—
0 - . . .
Judge Says ‘X-Ray’
Skirts Incite Crime
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 5.—In sen- j
tencing Henry Stearns to 5 years In
Kan Quentin for a statutory offence.
Judge Frank Oster. of Han Ber
nardino. declared that the "trans
parent dress’’ was responsible for an
increase of crime such as that for
which Stearns was convicted.
"It Is apparent to me.” said Judge
Oster. "that the outrageous lack of
modesty on the part of thousands of
women and young girls contributes
in large degree to suc h offenses .”
Packers Aid Cupid
By Wedding Bonus
CHICAGO. Aug. 5.—A cash bonus
to every employe who marries, offer
ed by Swift & Co. at the stock yards,
has caused a rushing business for
Cupid, $50 being offered to all depart
ment heads who marry and $25 to all
other employes.
Albert Nelson, head of the donation
department, said he was kept but-v
all through June handing out the
company’s checks and blessings.
AT MACON—
MACON—
00 - . . .
JACKSONVILLE-
105 - . . .
Martin and Berger; Grover and Kreb».
Umpire, Pender.
AT ALBANY—
ALBANY—
1 - . . .
CHARLESTON—
0 - . . .
AT SAVANNAH—
SAVANNAH-
300 - . . .
COLUMBUS—
100 - . . .
Armstrong and Gelbel; Ward and
Houaer. Umpire*., Moran and Leary.
‘Auto Bug’ Screeches
Like Real Honk-Honk
MASHILDON. OHIO, Aug. 5.—This
city has discovered the "automobih
bug."
It is a brown insect, more than an
inch long, with a hard shell and glorsy
finish like the polished body of an
auto. Two horns, fully two inches In
length, adorn its brow and seemingly
from them it emits or utters or gtves
vent to—or whatever it is an auto
horn does—a rasping sound, startling
like the real Joy-rldlng article.
BOOSTER TRAIN GOING NORTH.
MACON.- Macon’s booster train to
the Northwest will leave on August
31, and will be gone eight days. The
point farthest north on the itiner
ary is Minneapolis, and every impor
tant city along the route will be
visited, if only for a few minutes.
Caminetti Trial to
Follow Diggs Case
SAN P’RANCISCO, Aug 5.—Maury
I. Diggs, charged wdth violating the
white slave law, appeared in court to
day ready for trial. Federal Judge
VanFleet announced that the case of
Drew Caminetti, son of the United
States Commissioner of Immigration,
would be taken up at the conclusion
of the Diggs trial.
The two young men are charged
with taking Martha Warrington and
Lola Norris, two oacramento girls, to
Reno, Nev., for immoral purposes.
TRYING TO SAVE NEGRO.
SAVANNAH.-—In an effort to save
Frank Collier, under sentence to hang
August 22 for killing another negro,
George W. Owens, Collier’s attorney,
will go to Atlanta on Thursday, to
appear before the State Fripph Com
mission.
Governor Slaton and Mayor
Woodward Welcome Delegates.
Single-Crop System Hit.
Welcomed by Governor Slaton and
Mayor Woodward, the Southern Mer
chants’ Convention opened Tuesday
morning in Taft Hall at the Audito
rium with an excellent attendance.
How to Induce the Southern farm
ers to desert the one-crop Idea was
the topic for Tuesday's session, and
!t was taken up from all angles. J.
W. Vaughn, of Cartersvllle, Qa., took
up the subject as a whole. Yancey
Hill, of Montezuma, urged that the
merchants set the farmers an exam
ple, as the merchants own a large
proportion of the farm lands In the
State. James R. Bachman, of the
Atlanta Milling Co., spoke on the
marketing of the surplus of grain.
W. H. White, Jr., of the White
Provision Co., spoke on cattle and
hogs a* a by-product of the farm, and
Joseph A. McCord, vice president of
the Third National Bank, emphasized
the fact that greater stability of cred
it would result from diversified farm
ing. An "Open Parliament’’ or gen
eral debate followed, each speaker
being allowed five minutes.
Theater Reserved for Them.
The delegates, who come from
Georgia and surrounding States, at
tend the Forsyth Theater to-night,
the entire house having been reserv
ed for them.
Registration began this morning at
7 o’clock, and continued steadily
throughout the morning. Early in
dications are that the attendance will
reach 4,000 as a total for the two
weeks of the convention.
Bishop W. A. Candler delivered the
invocation, in which h P extolled the
j spiritual significance of commerce.
Governor Slaton said a welcome to
merchants had been extended by
Georgia in 1799, when the Great Seal
of the State was made to bear a de
sign of ships loading for export, to
gether with tilled fields, an armed
man and a representation of the prin
ciples of government. This was sym
bolic, he said, of the fact that while
commerc© and agriculture thrive, the
welfare of the State is assured.
Called Optimists of State.
"I welcome you, gentlemen, because
you are the optimists of the State,”
he said, "and because you teach in
forceful manner the benefits of the
stern virtue of economy.”
Mayor Woodward seconded the
Governor’s welcome, and took occa
sion to refer to the principal topic for
the day. The farming regions might
well pattern after Atlanta’s success,
he said, and Atlanta’s greatness is
built, not on one great industry, but
upon the diversity of its employ
ments.
R. O. Crouch, of Griffin, responded
to the address of welcome with a
felicitous speech.
J. W. Vaughn, of Cartersville, took
up elaborately the subject of soil ex
haustion. The theory that soil can
be destroyed has been exploded, he
said, but it has been established that
fertile fields can be injured by abuse.
He urged careful study of the Sci
ence of farming, in distinction to the
art of farming. Incidentally, he char
acterized many of the farm demon
stration agents as inefficient.
Plea to Country Merchants.
Yancey Hill, of Montezuma, declared
that his investigations show that 50
per cent of the farm lands of the
State are owned by countr> mer
chants. These men, he said, should
set an example for the farmers by
raising a diversity of crops them
selves, instead of encouraging big
cotton crops as now.
Mr. Bachman said that his mill,
with a capacity of 42.000,000 bushels
of corn a year, ground not a single
bushel of Georgia corn in 1912, de
spite the fact that Georgia corn is
the best in the world for milling. "1
think my subject is a joke," he said.
"I am asked to sit beside a man who
makes $1,600 and spends $2,000 and
tell him how to invest his surplus
However, the future may bring bet
ter things."
Mr. McCord’s address derided the
I notion that cotton is any better basis
for credit than the general products
of the farm, and pointed out how
safety lies in diversity, so that the
failure of one crop will not mean
widespread disaster.