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VOL. XVIL.
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J. J.BAOWN'3 GPEECH 3TIRS
GOTTON MEETING T 0 AGTION
MACON, Feb. 6~-J. J. Brown, State
Commissioner of Agriculture, brought
the 1,000 farmers, business men, bank
ers and others attending the cotton
convention here Thursday to their
mwith shouts of approval to his
, crisp sentences that crackled
Hke fire and action.
When he shouted that the majority
of the holders of spot cotton in Geor
gia, including some preachers, would
hold their cotton until it craghed to
5 cents a pound and until hell froze
over and then skate on the ice before
they would sell for a cent less than
35 cents a pound, the crowded yelled
and wildly applauded.
~‘“The South today is more inde
pendent than at any time in history
to hold its cotton and reduce this
year’'s acreage,” he thundered. “And
unless you hold your cotton and cut
the acreage you can not expect the
soldiers’ return to the rural districts
and attempt to raise a crop that now
is selling below the cost' of produc
tion on the futures exchanges.
Scores ‘“Gamblers.”
*1 say, with every ounce of strength
1 have, disaster is staring us in the
face unless we unite and fight this
consuming crowd, and the speculative
gamblers to a finish.
.~ *“I say if the exchanges can not
make a living by doing legitimate
business they should be forced to
close their doors.
“When it comes to a time that
these mill men and gamblers can sit
in their offices and romp on the floor
of the exchanres “nA soll millions of
nales of cotton which they have not
got and don't expect to get, unless
they are able to deliver the cotton—
actual cotton of specified grades—
they should b eput in jail.
“If a man sells you a pig and yvou
fity him your money for it and he de
vers you a dog tail, and as a mat
ter of fact never owned a pig, then
you would have him placed behind
the bars.
“That's the same thing with regard
to this cotton futures business.”
Mr. Brown said that if the Euro
pean countries are to be fed not only
from contributions, but by taxations
ou American property, etc., the Gov-.
ernment should exert every ounce of
its power and have the embargo re
moved from cotton, because Europe
maust be clothed as well as fed.
Must Remove Ban.
*There's a law against going un
clothed in this country, and I suppose
the same rules abroad,” he shouted,
“and the moment the ban is removed
"from shipping cotton to the Central
Empire, and other restrictions are
lifted on shipping cotton to the Allies,
the world will witness an unprece
dented demand for cotton, with prices
going skyward.
“Oh, people, has it come to pass
that our children should go without
an education because a few mills and
gamblers ean combine with European
spinners and dictate the price of our
chief comomdity?
“Has the time come when we must
let the man who never produced a
bale of cofton in his life sit in his
chair and say: ‘Now, Mr. South, I
will give you 20 cents a pound for
your cotton, and if you don't want
to accept that price you can Kkeep
your cotton?"
“And has the time come when we
haven't the grit to stand up for our
rights and say: ‘We will take 35 cents
a pound for our cotton, and if you
don’'t want it at that price you can
close your mill?”
“How many mills will shut down?
Not one.
. Must Avoid Stampede.
“Unless you do cut this year's acre
age and hold your remaining crop,
then the bears will stampede the
South. If I ever spoke the truth in
my life—and I give you my word of
honor I have always been true to you
and gave you my best advice—l say
with all emphasis that if you will cut
this year’'s acreage 33 1-3 per cent
and hold your cotton for 60 days
Jonger, you will be getting not less
than 36 or 40 cents a pound for your
cotton,
“Just the moment that the mills
and gamblers here and abroad are
eonvinced that you mean business,
that you are organized and that you
will fight until you bleed, this un
precedented battle with consuming
interests and others will have been
won, and the South will have won a
victory.”
Short Crop Is
Conference Demand
By THOMAS M. SKINNER.
Georgian Staff Correspondent.
MACON, Feb, 6.-—Georgia farmers
in convention here this morning
pledged to continue holding cotton
for at least 35 cents a pound and to
cut their 1919 acreage in cotton at
Jjeast thirty-three and one-third per
cent.
A message was sent to President
‘Wilson, urging that he use every
‘source at his command to get Eng
land to abolish the striet blockade
upon shipments into the Central Em
pires, and to advocate reestablish
ment of trade relations with Ger
many and Austria.
Strong condemnation of speculative
short selling on the cotton exchanges
was contained in a resolution, which
was passed at the morning session,
This resolution prepared by T. J.
Shackleford, of Athens, provides that
all firms or individuals, before offer
ing cotton for sale, must file with the
secretary of the exchange an affidavit
showing the location of the eotton and
its grade. The exchange would be
placed in the hands of the govern
ment, and open at all times to in
spection by the publie, and any other
agency concerned in its operations,
Brown Makes Charges.
Telegrams of encouragement were
received from agricultural officials
and prominent men in all sections
of the South, who declared that the
eyes of the world are focused on the
meeting here, and that the decision
of this gathering probably will de
termine the future policy of the south
ern cotton growers,
Charges that a combination has
been at work .against the growers
re made by J. J. Brown, Commis
er of Agriculture. Mr. Brown
xpressed the sentiment that has been
expressed by practically every dele
gate, when he declared that the ques
tion is not whether the farmer can
win out or not, but wnether his case
is Just,
“If we decide that our case is right
and we should be paid 35 cents for
our product, ywe are going to hoid fast
for better prices, in spite of Wall
Street and all its cotton gamblers.
“The South is in better condition
today to hold cotton than cver bhefore.
The mills could pay 325 cents for every
bale of cotton in the South and still
make money. The demand is sure to
increase with removal of trade re
strictions. With resumption of trade
relations with Germany and Austria
and other foreign countries and ade
quate shipping facilities, there will
not be a surplus bale of cotton in the
world, and the tnrm‘er will get a fair
price for his staple.”
Hoot at Sentiment. | 1
Delegates here hooted at the senti
ment, expressed in many instances.
for banning trade with all countries,
which warred against the .\llies. This
stand was brought in the resolution
providing for re-astablishment of
trade with the Central Empires,
which pointed out that the President
has already told the United States
that Germany can not renew hostili
ties, and that with the surrender of
the Kaiser's armies and fleets, noth
ing further can be feared from his
countries,
The spirit of fight displayed at this
convention exceeded any stand ever
taken by the farmers in the history
of the South.
“We are going to hold our cotton,
even if we starve to death” was
heard from some of the most promi
nent delegates before the conference
opened.
The big convention hall of the Au
ditorium was comfortably filled when
the meeting was called to order by
J. J. Brown.
W. T. Anderson, introduced as the
first speaker, delivered the address of
welcome, and his remarks were re
ceived enthusiastically.
“Our purpose on this great occasion
is right and just,” Mr. Anderson said
in part. “It is the cotton situation,
to help prevent business depression.
Our farmers were never better able
financially to hold the staple for bet
ter prices and with less debt among
their rank and file in the rural dis
trict they will be able to cut this
year's acreage and hold on to cotton
now on hand. It doesn't matter how
many resolutions are adopted—the
fountain head of the condition con
fronting the South is that these reso
lutions must be carried out to the
letter,” he said.
Out of Debt First Time.
Mr. Anderson illustrated the pros
perous condition of Georgia by saying
that an‘old negro 100 years old, who
never before since the Civil War was
out of debt, walked into his office the
other day and presented him with a
ham and shoulder and said that he
had SBO in the bank and did not owe
a cent.
“Now if that old man who was re
leased from slavery by Lincoln, who
has never before been out of debt,
has money in the bank, then what do
vou imagine the other farmers of
this section have.” - “The condition
this year is different from any ever
Lefore contront.efl in the South, es-‘
pecially in Ge a, Heretofore, ful- '
ly 210,000 farmers of this State had
to go to the city and receive his ord
ers from the banker merchant and
others before he could commence his
erop,” Mr. Anderson said, “but this
vear the bulk of these farmers are
not renters, but owners, and plant
what they desire to and as much as
they desire to, and it will not be all
in cotton, but something to eat as
well.” |
Must Have Fair Price. |
~ “Unless this State sets a fair price
for its cotton, how in the world does
any business enterprise expect to re
main in business,” he showed. “What
il a newspaper, with a circulation of
22,000 were to only have subscribers
for 20,000 papers, but printed 23,000
cach day. It wouldn't stay in exis
tence very long.”
Mr. Anderson said that the South
can command just as much for a 12,
000,000 bale crop as for a 16,000,000,
‘bale crop. “Every time the South
grows a 16,000,000 bale crop it throws
away fully 4,000,000 bales, including
‘labor and cost of production, because
a 12,000,000 bale crop would bring
just as much money.” Illustrating the
}strong holding movement of cotton in
Georgia he said that a New Orleans
cotton firm recently wanted to send a
representative to the State to buy
cotton but was informed that they
probably could buy about 8 or 10 bales
and that the price would be at least
}3O cents a pound, against inquoted
prices of about 27 cents,
“Just as soon as the new govorn-‘
ments are established in Europe and
the embargo is lifted from cotton, a
great demand will prevail for cotton
at high prices, This fight you uroi
| carrying on can be won by using pa
tience, counting the acreage and oon-‘
‘(lnumg to hold what cotton you have,
and 1 am glad yov have the spunk to |
‘hold, you certainly have the mlnds]
to do it,” he concluded.
Attorney General Clifford Walker
said: “We have not come here for hot
alr, We have come for attention.
Now is the time for the cotton farmer
to take his stand. Now or never
must be his motto, We are prepared
to make a fight. With the help of
God, we are going to forestall Wall
Street.”
Mr, Brown, who followed Mr, Walk
er, declared that the Federal Reserve
Banks are assisting the farmers by
lending money on cotton and that
there ig no reason in evidence at thn‘
present time why the South should
not win out in her fight, 1
Resolution Passed, |
The following resolution urx-:in({
cutting acreage was passed:
“Whereas in view of the fact that
the law of supply and demand s at
present seriously impaired by reason
of expert embargoes on cotton, lack
of shipping facllities and dnon-luul‘
conspiracy against the welfare of cot.
ton farmers, and
Whereas under the present condis
tions it now seems apparent that if
a normal r,-otlunAcrup is made this
season thta the sAme will be market
ed for a price less than the cost of
production,
Therefore, be it resolved first, That
i norder to secure a fair and adequate
price for the next crop, not more than
nine million bales should be produced.
Second, That in order to bring
about thig result, it is necesgsary for
the cotton planters to reduce the
acreage, at least 20 per cent of the
acreage planted last year.
Third, That tis ceonvention shall
formulate such plans as will brifg
about this resulit.
Organization of the State to hold
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HOUSTON, TEXAS, Feb, 6.—
William Hart is held today follow
ing the murder late yesterday of
Mrs. H. S. McConnell, 19-year-old
wife of a soldier now recuperating.
in a Chicago hospital from wounds
received in the fighting in France.
Mrs. McConnell was shot through
the heart. Hart, who is married
and has two children, says the
shooting was accidental,
. (Hart is not Willilam S. Hart, the
movie star,)
WORCESTER, MASS., Feb., &.—
AMore than 700 patients of the Wor
cester State Hospital, 256 of them
confined in the violent ward, were
removed in,safety when fire broke
cut today. Most of the patients
were taken out by policemen and
attendants on stretchers and in
wheel chairs, Lives of more than
2,000 inmates were imporiled, but
firemen xept the flames coafined to
one ward.
WHEELING, W. VA, Feb. 6.—
Three men, heavily masked, robbed
the Bank of Fulton, at Fulton, two
miles east of here, this afternoon of
a sum said by bank officials to be
between SBOO and SI,OOO. The men
held up the cashier, his assistant
and the stenographer and then es
caped in an automobile. The rob
bers overlooked $20,000.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 6-—Four
teen persons were injured, two
seriously, when a Philadelphia Rap
id Transit trolley, heavily loaded
with passengers, crashed into a
Baltimore and Ohio freight train at
a crossing on Twenty-fourth street.
SEATTLE, WASH., Feb, 6.—Fire
in a Japanese rooming house here
early today caused th% death of
three persons. Twenty others are
missing and fourteen are injured,
according to police reports,
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Feb. 6.—Kingz George
is expected to formally open the
fishing season February 11 at Mal
moral on the Dee. While a devoted
sportsman, the King has not an
gled since the war began.
HAMMOND, IND, Feb. 6.—Pint
and quart hip pockets for dry In
dianians are a specialty, a tailoring
firm Lere is advertising.
CLINTON, IOWA, Feb, 6.—
Guarding himself against a fall, R.
1.. Seig put out his paralyzed arm.
It struck the sidewalk. When he
got up, Seig found his arm was as
good as ever. It had been paralyzed
since last June.
cotton was provided in the following
resolution:
“Whereas, it has been resolved by
this convention that the reduction
of the cotton acreage for this season
is vitad to the economic safety of this
section; and,
“Whereas, that in order to bring
about such reduction definite com
mittees are absolutely necessary
therefore be it, #
’ “Resolved, that each person parti
‘cipating in this meeting pledge him
self to return home and immediately
~call together the leaders in his coun
ty. and appoint district committees,
‘each with a county chairman, said
‘chairman to stay in close communi
cation with the Commissioner of Ag
‘riculture, in order that the public
'may be kept informed of the progress
being made,”
’ Here is the resolution asking Pres
ident Wilson to move toward lifting
the embargo on cotton:
Want Blockade Removed.
“Whereas since the signing of the
armistice on November 11, 1918, the
Central Empires have surrendered
their war fleets, including their bat
tleships, and have demobilized all
their armies, and surrendered their
airplanes and guns, as required by
the Allies! and Germany has retired
her armies behind the lines, and
“Whereas the military authorities
of the United States have advised the
‘President of the United States sev
eral weeks ago that Germany was
helpless, bare of food and clothes, and
‘tt;ould not renew the war, therefore
be it
. “Resolved, That we call upon the
President of the United States to
insist upon the immediate removal
lof the iron blockade of the Central
Empires, as that blockade has fully
'served its purpose and outlived its
usefulness, We believe such a policy
)ls dictated by the requirements of
Justice and mercy, The history of
the world has established that mag
ranimity, exercises by the victor on
| peace settlements have been an un
| told Dblessing, meeting the noble re
| quirements, both of victor and the
vanquished and the world.”
The resolutions advocating laws to
punish short selling of cotton as
cambling Jwere as follows:
core Cotton Exehanr.
“Whereas the Cotton Exchange is
no longer a legitimate medium of ex
change, but has degenerated intc a
gambling machine, which, in the
hands of interested speculators, has
been used as an instrument for years
to deprive the farmers of the South
o(vn fair price for cotton, and
Whereas the continued existence
of sald Cotton Exchanges s, as at
present operated, a menace to the
prosperity of the South, and being
upon the same level with the Lou
isiana Lottery, should be abolished in
the same manner by legislation, and
“Whereas our Senators and Rep
resentatives in Congress bave from
time to time attempted to curtail the
gambling in the Cotton Exchange by
certain legislatibn, and
“Whereas thls legislation has not
been effective and In a measure hay
impliedly recognized the right of the
Cotton Exchange to gamble in fu
tures between certain limits, now,
therefore, be it
“Resolved by the ecotton planters
and business men of Georgia, in con
vention assembled this day at Macon:
“First. That we call upon our Sen
ators amd Representatives In Con
gress to introduce and pass more
stringent measures regulating the
Cotton Exchange,
Must Locate Cotton,
“Second. That in said legislation it
shall be provided that before any
lp(-rmn or firm shall propose to sed
fcotton In the Cotton Exchange he
|stall file with the secretary o book
keeper of sald Cotton Exchange an
LaMidavit showing where said cotton
‘h deposited and the grade of each
bale,
| ““Third, That #=ald Cotton Exchange
tshall publish from day to day the
| number of bales offered for sale and
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Out at General Hospital No. 6, Fort McPherson, you may see a degmonstration of the fine spirit that sent ‘‘our boys’’ against
the Huns with a dash and a sportsmaniike lust for the game of war that utterly bewildered the matter-of-fact Teutons. Now a
lot of the boys are coming back crippled—but not in_spirit. In this interesting group you may see a wrestling mateh betwen two
soldiers, each with one leg missing. It is a good, hard grapple, too—and the spectators, who are also in the one-legged class, un
doubtedly include one or more athletes ready to ‘‘challenge the winner.”’
" DRIVE TO SAVE SOUTH BEGINS AT MACON
MACON, Feb. 6—~The great drive
begins today to save Georgia, and the
entire South for that matter, from
disaster and safeguard the prosper
ity this State and section has enjoyed
during the last few years, with farm
ers, bankers, business men and State
officials leading the charge.
Promptly at 10 o'clock, the State
convention, called by J. J. Brown, to
bring about concrete pledges to great
ly reduce this season’s acreage in
cotton and to further and more ur
gently impress upon holders of spot
cotton the absolute necessity of stand
ing pat until the price of cotton re
‘bounds to a more satisfactory price—
above the gost of production, plus a
legitimate profit to growers—will be
gin on its all-day grind.
~ Resolutions will be introduced, to
urge those attending the meeting to
return to their home and place the
cold facts before the farmers, busi
ness men and bankers of their respec
tive counties of the danger that con
fronts Georgia and the entire South
if the acreage is not drastically cut
this year, not less than 25 per cent
and to hold with inflexible hands the
remaining bales of unmarketed cot
ton.
| Short Selling Attacked.
A resolution also will be intro
duced to prohibitive speculative
short selling of the cotton exchanges
and the prohibition of delivery of low
grude cotton on future contraets. In.
addition to this a resolution will eall
the embargo on cotton shipments to
Austria-Germany, inasmuch as it is
abeolutely essential that these coun
ot
the number of sales' actually con
summated, and the names of the
parties buying and selling, and also
showing where the actual cotton is
located.
“Fourth. That the books and busi
ress of the sald Cotton Exchange
shal! at all times be under the in
spection and control of the United |
States Government througi\any of
ite duly appointed agents, anl that it
shall be also provided in said legisla
tion that if any person or firm shall
make a false affidavit that the same
shall be a crime to be punished by
fige or imprisonment or both.”
Orglnlu for Fight,
T. J. Shuackelford, of Athens, pointed
out the vital necessity of oTnnizlng the
selling end of the cotton Industry, ““The
bull element, entering into the cotton
world of the South, co-operated with
the New England mills and beat down
the interests of the growers. The cot
ton exchange and the speculators have
‘drh\;en the farmer almost to ruin,” he
said.
- MOrganization of the seller is a matter
of patriotism, just a 8 much as the stand
tnken by America against the German
Empire. Our duty is to teach the mill
‘not to go to the exchange for his cotton,
but to come direct to the farmer, The
buyers have been organized all along,
and the farmers, in their disorganized
condition, have never been able to fight
;)mt combination. We have been com
elled to =it back and see our rights
trampled vpon and ignored.
“Polities entered into the forming of
the cotton board. There was not a
grower represented. Instead, it was
made up entirely of mill representatives,
bulls and men in sympathy with every
speculator in the county, 'This board
succeeded in striking a great blow to
the Bouth when there was u large crop
in the South, but last year, when our
cotton crop was short, the immediate
~~~~rnrßy VICTOR BARRON ~~~~n
Market Editor of The Georgian.
tries may be in position to start their
manufacturing plants humming again
that they may pay the tremendous in
demnities, which they must, and will
pay.
Many other resolutions also will be
introduced, which have not been fully
prepared,
City Is Crowded.
Last night the hotels were packed.
Delegates from all sections of the
State, business men and farmers stood
}in the lobby of the hotels until after
midnight discussing and preaching
the real, true meaning of diversifica
tion and the importance of holding
cotton,
Many came in their automobiles
Wednesday night, while others
streamed in Thursday morning, rid
ing in their cars—and they were not
all “lizzies,” either. This was a grand
illustration of Georgia's prosperity,
which has been challenged by the
speculative gamblers and mills here
and abroad.
Here is what the convention is en
deavoring to accomplish, and which,
{no doubt, will simultaneously spread
over every section of this great South
land:
The Program.
1-—-To organize farmers to cut this
year's cotton acreage no less than
one-fourth of last yvear's omltivated
area, which was 5,432,000 acres, and a
subsequent probable yield of 2,100,000
bales, or the largest since the season
of 1916-17, when it totaled 5,545 000
acres-—a crop of about 1,885,000 bales,
2--To further organize the already
strong holding movement of cotton in
an effort to halt the decline in future
contracts as well as sympathetic
breaks in the actual, with the resuit
that it will aid materially in stabiliz
‘ng prices,
3—To impress upon growers the
dire necessity of diversifying to the
e i
c;‘y was for a Federal price on the sta
ple,
“Conditions in Europe are torn up at
present and we have no visible market
at present for our crop, but immediately
with the abolishment o fthe blockade
on trade with Kurope there will be a
huge demand for our erop. « Here is what
we must do: The ro{t(m mills have
saild, “We are golng on half time,’ so let
the l'u[':'-ru say, ‘We are golnfi_ to plant
ouly W™ our normal erop’ he mills
say they are folmg to hold their cotton.
Now let the farmer say he is going to
hold his cotton,
“The mills started this fight against
the farmers on the cotton exchange, and
we are goin gto fight it out with them
Germany expevts to buy 4,000,000 bales
in one lot, as soon as It can be ob
tained. If we let the speculdtors alone
they will go on the exchange and beat
the market down until they can buy
cotton for almost nothing, and the
farmers must look on, helpless against
|:;w combination being worked aguinst
hem,
“Now, If we are going to hold our cot
ton, we would be ’l’)’nlu to plant a nor
mal crop this year, and only add to the
surplus now on hand I'he less cotton
we raise the more money we will make
If we can hold our present cotton we
can make money on it, and rafse a new
crop that will sell for 40 or [0 cents a
Jpound. If we dump our cotton on the
murket the South will not recover In
ten years, :
“The only way we cah fight is to or
7nnlm-, We have got to do it. Our
| familles and our own dear South de
| pend upon it. Stand tn#pther for our
rights, and let ug put some system in
our stand, lest the South be brought
to bankruptey and ruin,”
The resolution committee was com
’,mm‘d of John N. Holder, chairman: T,
J. Shackelford, J. H. Boykin, J, J. Flynt,
H. A. Boykin, L. B. Jacksin and W, T
Anderson. Dudley M. Hm’;hou and Se
ator H. H. Elders made short talks b
fore the resclutions were introduced,
Issued Dafly and Entered as Second-Class Matter at
the Postoffice at Atlanta Under Act of March 8, 1879
limit and to forever abandon the one
“rop system.
4—To force, or rather strongly urge,
President Wilson to lift the ban on
shipping of cotton to Austria and
Sermany.
h—To keep prosperity in this State
and the entire South that we may en
joy better comforts of living; have
better educational facilities; have vet
ter roads and that we will forever
have a say-so in the price that is to
be paid for the hardest and most ex
pensive product grown. ’
Steady Cotton Mill,
6—To keep the price of cotton
steady and distribution slow—just as
mills need it.
7—To unite so that this entire sec
tion and the South will reap, to
gether, the wonderful increased har
vest of prosperity, which is bound to
come,
A HERCULEAN JOB! Perhaps, but
not for a HERCULEAN PEOPLE!
ORGANIZATION!
That's the big, mammoth word in
Macon today-—especially among those
attending the convention.
Never before in history of the State
have the farmers been so determined
to place their backs to the wall and
fight for a decent compensation for
their hard labor.
Farmers Share Prosperity.
The ancient adage: ‘“The farmer's
always the goat,” apparently has lived
it life—the death knell was sounded
today, Why? Because in the last few
years he has, through better farming
diversification and the return of a
more or less fair price for his prod
vets, has enjoyed, to some extent, the
real comforts of life, or to know that
life was worth living for, if lived
properly-—to have the real thing to
live for, money, home, moral and de
cent compensation for untiring work.
That the drastic break in cotton
since the signing of the armistice,
wholly unjustified, unwarranted and
without the mergs¢ shadow of reason
ableness, has not taken the heart of
farmers, was evidenced t?' their hap
ry. optimistie and co-opérative spirit
Service Men’s “Ads’’
For Busi Positi
F.G . .
ree in Georgian-American
T HE GEORGIAN AND AMERICAN have opened their “Situations
Wanted” columns to American soldiers, sailors and marines
free of charge
Thousands of our boys are returning. Many of them are under
the impression that it will be difficult for them to resume the posi
tions they occupled before they went away
The Georgian-American will see that it is not difficult,
If you have the honor to wear a uniform, all you have to do is
write your advertisement, bring it to the office of The Georgian-
American and request its publication without cost.
If you are now in clvilian clothes, all you need is your discharge
papers. They will, as would the uniform, be all that is necessary to
secure publication of your advertisement in the “Situations Wanted"
columns of
hld A [
The Georgian an merican
20 EAST ALABAMA STREET
in this holding and acreage reduction
move.
Every solitary farmer here has his
sleeves rolled up and fight is in his
eyves, the regular old Georgia cracker
fighting spirit.
There's not one of them here who
does not believe they already have
the battle won and that it only is a
maltter of a few weeks until mills here
and abroad as well as cotton future
gamblers will yell “Kamerad” and
fall over each other in an attempt to
tuv cotton, but there is not a farmer,
probably in the entire State, who will
rart with his staple for less than 30
cents a pound and gmny of the more
independent growe and merchants
assert, with pronounced assurance,
that they will not sell for a cen. less
than 36 or 40 cents a pound,
“l have 20 bales of cotton and
plenty of monpey in the bank, plenty of
food and nothing to worry about, and
I'll be darned if I sell for less than 35
cents a pound,” shouted one enthus
ins@ec farmer.”
Cut Cotton Acreage.
Mr. Brown, Commissioner of Agri
culture, who will outline the purpose
oi the meeting, asserted that the rea!'
tk'ng that will be impressed upon
growers is to CUT THIS YEAR'S
COTTON ACREAGE NOT LESS
THAN 26 PER CENT.
*“The holding movement is Inost
suceessful, and the most general 1
have ever seen” he stated, “but it
mi st be STRONGER AND MORE
GENERAL-~ABSOLUTE SOLID"”
“If every newspaper in this State
and throughout Georgia would supe
jort this holding and acreage redac
tion movement ap The Georgian is,
and has been doing, it would be the
biggest help in the world,” said Judge
J. J. Flynt, of Griffin, “I want to
corgratulate The Georzian upon its
s 1 lendid market page. 1 consider it's
cotton department the best in the
South, and it is doing the South in
estimable good,”
There were many amens to his lec
larations in the lttle party he was
ta'king to.
'SECONDNEWS|
CEARiEI)
PRI e
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Among the wallflowers at all M
public dances in Atlanta Wednesday
night were military and clyil auß
thorities bent on ascertaining’ wheth
er a bad moral atmosphere surrounds
the local dance halls. In most in
stances the uninvited guests were
plain clothes men, so there 'u no
opportunity to tame down the bumy'
hugs, or fox trots, or cheek rubs, 'l!
whatever it is the police flm
tionable. Therefore the i ction
was regarded as a fair test, and &‘;
dance halls came through with &
clean bill of health. i
“There were only three dance halls
in operation Wednesday night,” mevi
Chief Beavers, who led the inspecting
forces, “and all were being conducM
properly. The dancer were polite and’
decent. No improper women W‘f‘
present and there was nothing at l!l{
wrong. We are going to make t.h.
inspections frequently and Withwl’
notice, so if there is anything impflmfi
er, we will soon find it out.” .
Chief Beavers agrees with Lieuten~
ant R. J. Bennett, of the military po
lice, that it is better to have dance
halls operated under military and po
lice supervision, than to forbid them
entirely. Both officers insist that the
soldiers and girls are going to meet
and dance somewhere, and it is bet
ter for them to dance under police su
pervision than to search out ;
where they can not be watched, |
is the plan of the authorities to expel
from the halls and forbid the return
of any women known to be of bad
character, and to break up any Sug
gestive dances. 7
The investigation of dance halls
was started as the result of a re--
quest by Carl Hutcheson that all
dance halls in the city be closed. J.
C. Little, chairman of the police com=
mittee of Council and ex-officio mem
ber of the police board, took up the
complaint of Mr. Hutcheson and or
dered the probe. In fact Councilman
Little has made a personal inspection
of conditions surrounding the dance
halls, and accompanied the officers on
their visits Wednesday night. Lieu=
tenant Bennett, of the military police,
also aided in the inspection. g
The complaint against publie dance_
halls has aroused unusual interest in
the city and has been discussed at
meetings of various civie organiza
tions. Council is divided as to taking
any action in th ematter. However,
as the dances are attended to a large
extent by soldiers and the training’
camp activities committee has urged
that they be continued for the enter
tainment of men in the camps near
Atlanta, it is not regarded as probable
that there will be anything more
than close supervision.
Little Gives O. K.
Councilman Little, who is in charge
of the issuance of dance hall permits
as head of the Police Committee of
Council, stated that the investigators
found some of the best people of At~
lanta at the dances, and that every -~
thing was proper and orderly,
“I am in favor of having dance
halls, if they are properly conducted,”
Stated Mr. Little. “We always have
had and always will have dances
somewhere, and it is better that they
should be where the police may sup
ervise them. The soldiers here, as
well as our own young people, are en
titled to some innocent form of
amusement. However, we are going
to weed out any undesirable features
in connection with public dances, and
investigations will be made frequent-
Iy "
In each dance hall visited the man
ager agreed to co-operate fully with
the plans of the police department.
.
McClellan Man Killed
.
By Fall of Big Truck
ANNISTON, ALA., Feb. 6.—Ser
geant John New, of Long Island City,
N. Y., was killed instantly at mid
night last night when a five-ton truck
went over a fifteen-foot embankment .
Just south of Edgemont Cemetery be
tween Anniston and Camp McClellan,
The Long Island man’'s back was
broken when the rim of the seat
ground him into the earth at the foot
of a small tree, and he was dead when
rescuers pried the truck off his body
and removed him from beneath the
wreckage.
Sergeant Charles Blancke, of Lin
den, N. J, a member of the quarter.
master detachment at Camp MeClel
lan, was a passenger on the truck
and was painfully injured at the same
time. The truck was driven by Lieun.
tenant A. A, Ball, of Bishopville, 8. C.
who is assigned to duty with the
Twenty-sixth Field Artillery,
Y .
T. R. Called Bolshevik
»se ’
By Wisconsin Senator
(By International News Service.)
MADISON, WIS, Feb. 6 Calling
Theodors Roosevelt a Bolsheviki in his
utterances of 1912, Senator Arnold, Mil
waukee Socialists, bitterly fought a plan
t 0 have a State statue of Roosevelt
erected in Milwaukee, Arnold's home.
Arnold’'s charge wa made in reply
to a declaration by an up-State Senator
that the statue of the Rough Rider
was most needed in Milwaukee, ds an
example of true Americanism,
Senator Schultz, sos Milwaukee, satd
there were enough poor statues in Mil
waukee now without adding another
The resolution, which was debated for
hours, ended In a decision to erect the
statue somewhere in Wisconsin
.
Jones in Chattanooga
. y e .
On Textile Situation -
CHATTANOOGA Feh 6 —Jerome
Jones, editor of The Atlanta Journal of
Labor and a representative of the De
partment of Labor., who is aiding in the
reconstruction program of the Govern
ment, s here In the interest of the tex
tile situation He will return to Georgia
the latter part of the week and ex
pects to be back in Chattanooga nex!
Morday to carry on the work that les
before him here
A part of the duty of Mr. Jones = t
g 0 to communities where thore are
labor troubl and endeavor to bßring
about a harjponious settlement
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