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5 By THOMAS M. SKINNER. 1
% MACON, Feb. 7.—The- first \steps
toward organizing Georgia farmers
definitely into a thorough and far
reaching movement to nokd cotton
‘were taken here. yesterday afternoon,
when the State-wide convention of
farmers and business men authorized
Commissioner J. J. Brown to appoint
& chairman in each county to secure a
working committee and arrange for
wmeetings in every section of the State,
Pledges stipulating & reduction of
23 1-3 per cent below normal in the
1916 crop will be elicited from the
farmers, who will be called upon to
stand together for better prices and
‘acreage reduction.
A resolution prepared and acted fa
vorably upon previously, called for a
reduction of ofly 25 per cent. After
much consideration, the conventlon
decided to go still farther and pledge
to cut their crop even more, adopting
85 1-3 per cent as the nroffer figure.
A second resoluticn, adopted unani
mously, urged the ‘growers to follow
the plan ‘of diversifying crops. Di
wversification was begun some time
-ago, and reports received’by the Agri
cultural Department indicate that it
has té-)onght remarkable and unprece
dented prosperity to those who havi
adopted and ecarried it out faithfu]lf.
Set Date for Pledges.*®
Governor Dorsey was gpalled upon
to name February 15 for State-wide
county meetings to secure pledges
~and take other steps necessary to ef
fect reduction of cotton and diversifi
cation of crops.
“Diversification has given the South
the ability and the grit to demand a
profit on its cotton,” declared the res
olutions committee. Farther and wid
er ohservance would, it was predicted,
imake the Southern farmers inde
b pendent of all other sections, and
self-supporting. ’
Pointing out the fact that exposire
to wedther will ruin the staple, the
farmers were urged, by all means, {o
shelter the \cotton that is being held
for better prices.
More stringent action than first
contem g nted was taken toward abol
ishmeni of the cotton exchange.
CGeorgia's Senators and Congressmen
wer® called upon to hdve passed
through Congress rigid measures reg
ulating the New York and all other
cotton exchanges,
It was pointed out that Government
{A!gislators from time to~time have at
er.pted to curtail gambling on the
Cotton Bxchange by certain legisla
tion, which has not been effective,
but impliedly recognized the right of
the exchanges to gamble in futures
between certain limits,
Gambling Condemned.
Gambling in futures was cons
demned strongly, and the meeting
favored putting the exchanges back
on the basis previous to the entranec
¢f speculators and gamblers, who
‘have made fortunes at the expense of
the South, it was d€clared. i
It was conceded that the exchange
is valuable to the farmer if operated
on an honest basis, providing a fair
means of commuanication and of con
ducting business between buyer and
@dller, and that no objection could be
offered if they were operated as in
tended when they were or?:mized.
By resolution the convéntion rec
. ommended that the exchanges be
ecompelled to publish from day to day
the number of bales offered for sale
and the number of bales actually
_consummated, the names of the par
«gles buying and seiling, the location
?fld the grade of the cotton,
The books would be placed under
’Pnlpectlon and control of the Govern
ment, through &ny of its agencies. Tt
| i provided th&ft any person or flrm
who shall make a false afMidavit shall
be punished by fine or imprisonment
as a criminal.
Demand New Law.
The resolution put the convention
on record as cogdemning “the prac
tice of the New York and other ex
changes tendering nine grades of cot
ton on middling contracts, and de
manding Georgla's representatives in
Clongress to have a law passed regu
lating these exchanges and requiring
| delivery of the actual grade con
"tracto.‘ for, o
" The following telegram from Jo
‘@eph A, McCord, governor of the
;‘edenl Reserve, was received en
i Qmaluugally :
“Regret exceedingly that absence of
associate oflicers prevents my at
tending cotton convention today. I
‘wish to assure the farmers, through
you, that the Federal Reserve Bank
of Atlanta has been and will con
tinue to aid producers through me
dium of national banks and the
State banks that are members of the
Federal Reserve svstem, in financing
the production and marketing of
their crops by the rediscount of their
notes v%len offered through member
banks on commodities when stored in
warehouse and insured,
“We can not rerwder such assistance
through State banks that are not
members of the Federal Reserve sys
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tem. Present conditions of national
finance and world affairs make it im
perative that all eligible State banks
join the Federal Reserve system,
thereby mobilizing the entire finan
cial resources of this, section for
proper agricultural development.”
Hoke Smith to Help.
A telegram from Senator Hoke
Smith assured his earnest support of
the«farmers in any movement they
might decide to undertake, and urged
the importance of opening all mar
kets as soon as that possibly can be
done. Here is his message:
“The work of your convention will
receive my most earnest support, 11
suggest, first, the importance of
opening all possible markets at the‘
earliest’date possi®le for the sale and
consumption of cotton. You know
cotton still is on the embargo list and
is exported under supervision of the
war trade board. They license ship
ments of cotton only in limited quan
tities to northern Kurope. The time
has come when cotton should be re
moved from the embargo list and
permitted to go to all desiring to
purchase it. It might be well for your
cogvention to cable the President
urging the importance of his remov
ing cotton from the embargo list.
“2, The time has passed when
cotton exchanges should bé permitted
to deliver four grades above and four
below middling in settlement of their
contracts. The BSmith Lever bill
should be amended to restrict deliv
eries on cotton exchanges to not more
than two grades above and two
. grades below middling, and if possi
| ble, to prohibit short selling. This
!measure is in force through its tax
'provisinn and the amendment must
ioriginate in the House. You might
'well urge members of the House to
{ press this amendment to the passage.
We can handle it quickly in the Sen
ate, but it first must be passed by
the House. e
' Must Reduce Crop.
I “3. We must raise foodstuff and
ireduce cotton planting this year.
{An eight million bale crop would sell
ttor more than a sixteen million bale
|crop. An eight milion bale crop
| would bring 30 cents or more. A
!sixleen million bale ¢rop would not
i bring half that price. These are the
|lines upon which, at present, service
jcan be rendererb I would be with
lyou but s 6 man¥ pressing measures
are upon us in the closing days of
Congress that I feel J can serve you
best here.”
Captain L. H. Stevens, represent
{ing the Rumble & Wensel Company,
las Natchez, Miss.,, was given a place
on the program. This company has
| been conducting a campaign of ad
| vertising all over the South, urging
'flmt the farmers hold cotton and cut’
jacreage, Advertisements are running
inow in 62 leading papers of the
Southern section, and in other trade
gnd agricultural papers all over the
| country. - .
“For more than fifty years the
South has furnished the world cheap
clothing,” said Captain Stevens.
“And what is her reward? Here it is,
They are living in little mortgaged
shanties in the rural districts, and
have little strips of clay that they
call roads. Poverty is staring them
in the face all the time, their chil
dren are poorly clothed, and are not
well educated.
North Has Prospered.
“The farmers of the North and
West have prospered., Poverty has
caused the backwardness of the
Southern farmér., The speculators
and the mills purpose to pay the
grower nineteen cents for his cotton
next year. With that in view, the
psychology of the situation demands
that the farmer sell at the present
price of 26 cents, or thereabouts,
“But common sense tells him to
hold. I want to plead that every
farmer hold his cotton tightly. Let
none of it get away, and pay no at
tention to fluctuations in the mar
ket. The law of supply and demand
soon will regulate cotton.
Chance to Make Money.
“If we will all hold the staple now
on hand, we can make money on it,
at the prices which must come in a
very short time. And we will be
able to market our 1919 crop for 36
or 40 and possibly 46 cents a pound,
If we raise -even three-fourths as
much cotton we will make about
twice as much money”
Senator H, H. Elders declared that
the Government has lost millions of
lollars on the revolving fund of five
‘million doillars given the rallroads,
jand that it recently has voted the
| #everal hundred million dollar wheat
tbill for 1919 crop of wheat, and that
we are sending a hundred million
dollars to Europe to feed our allies
jand the South is pgying its share in
taxation,
He declared that if the Govern
ment would appropriate a three hun
| dred million dollar fund for the pur
(chase of spot cotton, that it would
| hold the market up, and relieve the
depressing situation in the South.
Mr. Elders said he would introduce
a bill at the next Legiglative session
putting buyers and sellers of futures
lin jail and revoking charters of State
barks whose officials speculate in
l,o{tton. He said it will provide also
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$ ACON, Feb. 7.—At the big
) . cotton convention here on
é yesterday, just before the
resolutions committee submittedg
5 its report, J. J. Brown, presiding, é
drew attention of the delegates to
work done by The Daily Georgian
and Sunday American in behalf of
{ the farming interests, and, with
gout warning, introduced Victor
Barron, tne market editor of those
papers.
{ Before his introduction of Mr.
2’ Barron, Mr. Brown spoke in praise
2 and appreciation of the newspaper
| assistance received from every pa
{ per in the State, He held The
Ceorgian up as “having the best §
{ raarket page of any paper in this $
{ section.” He called then for a ris- {
§ ing vote of thanks to the newspa- ¢
| pers, which was given with a will. §
{ Mr. Barron spoke for about ten ¢
. minutes. Delegates swarmed upg
! to the press table on the platform,
| congratulating Mr. Barron and as
<Z suring him that The Georgian has
! the friendship of the farmers.
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for closing exchanges in Savannah |
and other Georgia cities, !
The following is copy of an appeal |
sent to President Wilson asking that‘
the blockade be removed and cotton |
taken from the embargo list: )
Hon. Woodrow Wilson, |
President United States, '
Paris. |
Germany having surrendered her'
fleets, airplanes and guns and hav
ing practically demobilized her arm
ies and the military authorities of
the United States advise that Ger
many is helpless and can not renew
the war, we respectfully urge upon
you the necessity of the immediate
removal of the blockade of the Cen
tral Empires, as it has already serve
ed its purpose, and respectfully re
quest the removing of cotton from
the embargo list. This is imperative
to save the farmers and business in
terests of the South from financial
distress,
Signed
Statewide Convention of
Georgia farmers and busi
ness men assembled to
consider the crisis in cot
ton. \
By J. J. Brown,
Commissioner of Agriculture, Chair
man,
Speech by Brown
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Creates Stir |
MACON, Feb. 7.—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 feet
with shouts of approyal to his short,
crisp sentences that c¢rackled like fire
and action. ‘
When he shouted that the majority
of the holders of spot cotton in Georgia, |
including some preachers, would hold
thelr cotton until it crashed to 5 cents
a pound and until hell froze over and
then skate on the ice before they would
sell for cent less than 35 cents &
pound, l“\e crowdd yelled and wildly
applauded, |
“The South today is more indepen
dent than at any time in history to hold
its cotton and reduce this year's acre
age,” he thundered. ‘“And unless you
hold your cotton and o the acreage
you can not expect the soldiers’ re
turn to the rural districts and attempt
to raise a crop that now s selling be
low the cost of production on the fu
tures 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 con
suming crowd, and the speculative
gamblers to n finlsh
“1 say if the exchanges can not make
a living by doing legitimate business
they should bex forced to close their
doors.
“When it comes to a time that these
mill men and gamblers can sit in thelp
offices and romp on the floor of the
exchanges and sell millions of bales of”
cotton which they have not got and
don’'t expect o get, unless they are
able to deliver the cotton—actual cotton
of specified grades—they should be put
in jail i
“If a man sells you a pig and you pay
him your money for it and he delivers
you a dog tail, and as a matter 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 European
countries are to be fed not only from
contributions, but by taxations on
American property, ete, the Govern
ment should exert every ounce of its
jower and have the embargo removed
}rnm cotton, because Europe must be
clothed as well as fed |
Must Remove Ban. (
“There’'s a law against 7"“'“ unclothe
ed In this country, and suppose the
same rules abroad,” he shouted, "and}
the moment tiie ban I 8 removed frnm.(
H.llppinfi cotton to the Central Emplrn-.1
and other restrictions are lifted on
nhl{.plng cotton to the Allies, the world |
will witness an unprecedented ds-mnnd}
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ATLANTA, GA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1919,
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(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Feb. 7.—The subway
employees refused to obey the orders
of their leaders to return te work to
day, despite the fact that the strike
had been settled, according to a re
port in circulation during the morn
ing.
Pepresentatives of the electrical
workers promise ‘“some surprising
stoppages tonight.”
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By EARL C. REEVES,
Staff Correspondent of the |. N. S,
LONDON, Feb. 7.-Great Britain's
red terror, arising from strikes in
spiréed by Bolshevik leaders, is wan
ing.
Subways again were in operation
teday after being idle for two days,
and it is believed the steam railroads,
which were tied up by strike troubles,
will have resmmed within 24 hours.
The Government's determination to
smash Bolshevism and arrest the
leaders i 8 expected to frustrate the
threatened strike of the electrical
workers, who declared they wpuld
plunge the city into darkness.
Subway Men Win.
At Glasgow, where a recurrence of
rioting was feared, a majority of the
strikers vofed to return to work
The settlement of the subway strike
was a victory for the men. J. Brom
ley, one of the leaders of the subway
employees, told a representative of
The Daily Express that the principle
for which the tube workers were con
tending is the same as that of the
railway men,
It is unlikely that the hotels and
restaurants will take back many of
the striking waiters, most of whom
are foreigners. The places of these
sirikers are being filled by women.
[,\'M\.\puxn-xs are making an urgent
demand that these foreign strikers be
;uv-[ml‘lul.
Daily Express Comments.
The London Daily Express is re
garded in England as reflecting the
'\n-u.-x of the British Government, In
| view of that faet, the following dis
patch is significant
“We publish an article from Amer
ica showing it is not a strike the Brit
| ish nation is up against; it is an at.
| tempt first to paralyze and then de
| stroy society, including laborers who
l;«n- striking at the behest of the Bol
shevists,” said The Daily Express
| commenting editorially on tne strike
| sitvation today.
| ‘“The country which exiled the
| Kaiser and which had beheaded a
King is not going to bow to these
tinsel Robespieres. The unauthorized
striker will learn in a day or two
that there is a limit to endurance,
even when it wears a smile When
the British nation hits, it hits hard.
"The Government should now act
swiftly."” .
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Strike of Schoolboys
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Is Emnded by Aristice
By NORMAN WATSON,
Staff Correspondent of the |I. N. §
LLONDON, Jan, 25 (by mall) Eng
ih‘h schoolboys are acquiring the
| strike habit They had thelr first
taste of it a few days ago and appar
o'nfi\‘ ked it,
| The Incident occurred at the East
!Hlnmtv:m School The boys struck
| because they thought one of their
comrades had been unfairly dealt
with by the authorities of the insti
| tution. Without warning, they walk
|ed straight out of the school to the
| playground and held a council of war
One youngster suggested “digging in,"”
but a “demonstration” proposal won
the day S 0 they demonstrated,
The police were summoned, but the
boys, while awed by the Hobbies, still
refused to return to =choo' Instead
they formed into celumns of four and
marched to the residence of one of
the school principals He treated
them serionsly and sugegested an ar
n)i:flh'l, pending a pence conference,
at which everything would be inves.
tigated and adjusted, His terms were
accepted and the strikers returned to
the school, each feeling himself a
aero, ’
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Preparations are being made by So
licitor General Boykig to place on the
Criminal Court docket for the week of
February 17 ten murder cases—the
greatest number to have accumulated
in the Fulton courts In many vears, amnd
the resilit of Atlanta’'s recent epidemic
of tragedy
Preparations were made by the So
licitor Friday to docket for trial that
week ten capital cases—the gro:\tefill
number that has accumulated in the|
Fulton courts in many years ‘
Two manslaughter cases, growing Ollt‘
of recent automobile tragedies, ulsr)‘
are outstanding and possibly may be
placed on the ecalendar for trial in
“murder week,” althaugh Soliciter
Boykin said he was not certain wheth
er he would attempt to crowd them in |
on the docket for that ime. It was be
lieved that both of these cases would be
put over until a later date. The man
slanghter indletments are against twn}
autoists—J. D. Smith, whose auto wa.'u‘
said to have run down and killed A. J'i
Waller, and George Harris, a negro, |
whose car cost the life of lityr‘ Robert
Stoddard in West Peachtree ®treet i
Mrs. Abbott on List. ‘
The extraordinary murder calendar
is headed by Mrs. John Abbott, HL’L\'Pl‘!
of her husband, and William H. Al
bright, who shot and killed Carlisle H.
Cristy January 2 in front of the home
of G. C. Febuary, No. 21 Mathewson
place, just after the :wo men had ar-‘
companie® Mrs. Febuary home
Solicitor Boykin made it known that
it is his plan to bring Albtight to trial
first It is generally understood that
Albright will plead wself-defense
Another of the important murder
trials will be that of Arthur Henry
Hill and Richard Moore, jointly inQ'u-t
--ed for the slaying of Aaron Lefchez,
a merchant in Fort street, several
weeks ago lL.efchez was shot down in
his store at night, and at first the iden
tity of his slayers was unknown. After
persistent effort, howewer, officers ob
tained information that led to the ar
rest of Hill and Moore
To Probe Boy's Death,
Dave Rice, a negro, will be tried on
the charge of murdering a small boy,
Abe Ringhoff, in front of the latter's
home in Moore street Rice and anoth
er negro, according to the charge, en
gaged in a pistol duel, as the outgrowth
of a crap game, and one of the bullets
struck and killed the little boy as he
plaved in the street,
Two negro women appear among
those to be tried for their lives One
is Mabel l.emmons, who is under in
dietment for thesslaying of another ne
gro The other is '\“u) Jackson, joint
Iy Indicted with Julius Jackson for the
murder of a negro in loman Yards a
short time ago
Twa of the negroes scheduled for
trial are charged with wife murder
Frank Bates, ipdicted for slaying Myr
tle Bates, and George Brown, accused
of slayving HKstella Brown The Brown
murder occurred three year sago, the
fugitive husband being arrested and
brought back here from New York only
recently
~ The othéPs on the list are Jack Red
ding, a negro, charged with murdering
Kd Teasley, and Grant Durham, a ne
gro, held for the slaying of Jim Waller
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Transcontinental Flyers
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Start Return Trip West
COLUMBIA B ( Feh, 17 Four naire
planes, carrying eight men and a dog land
‘,..l here today holding the record for
"hv‘ longest flight ever made by an alr
‘rvl;nu» The macnines are the first to make
| & transcontinental flight with the same
motore and the same crewn
. Part for part the machines are the same
as when they left Ban Diego, Cal., Deceme«
| ber 4, flow over Arizona, Texas, Louisiana
L Alabama Morida, Georgin sSouth Caro
| linn, North Carolina and on to New York
‘.. distance of 4,500 miles, and now they
| are on their return journey
Major Albert D, Bmith {8 In charge of
the hattery The flight from California
to New York was covered in 66 hours
Upon arrival in New York the machines
woere overhauled and some small repairs
made to the wings Then without chang
ing n single part the machines ptarted on
the return trip
il’arents Defend Secret
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- Society of Tech Students
Parents of Tech High students who are
‘nnmluu of the secret soclety 8 T M
which ecnme nto the limelight recently
when two candidates for membership were
injured during an initiation, have taken
lup the defense of the soclety, as has also
Its alumni membership Mre. L. P. Ros-
Mer, of No. 21 West 16th street, whose son
belongs to the soclety, sald that as the
‘Yuth held their meetings in their homes
| after school hours she did not see how the
mchool authorities had any right to Inter
sere. ‘The injured students were J M. M
Cullough and Fdward Van Winkle Young
MeCullough s sald to be suffering from
concussion of the brain,
Issued Daliy and Eutered as Second-Class Matter at
the PostofMce at Atiants Under Aet of March §, 1579
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PARIS, Feb. 7.—~The United States,
France, Great Britain and Italy have
agreed that Belgium shall receive an
ndemnity of $2,000,000,600 from Cer
many, the first installment to be paid
immediately, according to the no\\x-l
paper L'lntransigeant. [
By ROBERT J. PREW,
Staff Correspcpdent cos the I N. S.
FARIS, Feb. 7.—The aggressive at
titude toward the Ertenfe, \wwhich has
leveloped in Germany since the de
feat of the Spartacides, was among
the questions discussed at th® meet
ing of the supreme inter-Allied war
council at Versailles today.
The existing German Government
will be called upon to explain the
meaning of the advance of German
troops against Poland and why ob
stacles are being put in the way of
the dispatch of the supplies toward |
Peland through Danzig as was stipu
lated in the armistice terms
Held Up Passports.
When the Allies notified the Ebert
government at Berlin that they |n~|
tended to send a mission into Ger
many to draw up a list of the Allled
properties that had been seized the
Cerman Government refused the nec
essary passports until the French
‘grip on German property in Alsace
and Lorraine was loosened
The movement in Germaay against l
letting go @f Alsace and Lorraine and
the German colonies is being allowed
to gather force also.
Alfred Helenferich, former member
of the old Imperial German (Govern
ment, has declared the Aliies must
not expect any indemnity
All of thesa developments are held
to constitute a new provoeative atti
tude with which the war council alone
is competent to deal
Peace conference discussions were
suspended for the day to allow the
war council to consider these matters
| Situation Summed Up.
‘ The situation today regarding the
league of nations seemed to be as
‘fullnws:
The United States commissioners
’.n’o urging that all questions be aub.
mitted to an international tribunal,
’n-n-ulc-rl by the league of nations, and
it appeared that this cuggestion
would be adopted
Great Britain, because of the ex
| tent of her empire, is likely to have
| more controversies on hand than the
United States or France and for this
reason has been oppoging compulsory
arbitration on all questions. If medi
ation as well as arbitration is in
cluded in the final draft the former
'xlll be not necessarily binding
‘ IFronce has objected to compulsory
’;n‘!'nmllun unless assured that the
league should have bhehind it power
that could enforce decisions and at
the gsame time be strong enough to
maintain the peace of the u.mldl
against any power sceking to dis
turb it ]
Attitude of U. S. '
Whether the United States rlc-lvn'
’u.tllnn is in a position to give pledges
that America will © guarantee this
ll'v ree is a question. It is pointed out
that Congress is the only American
' body authorized for the »-mu!nvml-n'f
of much force. The answer of the
American delegates to this nh]u‘tinn,‘
however, i 8 understood to be this
All treaties negotiated by the ‘exe.
|u'ull\v branch of the American Gov
ernment are conditional and depend I
ent upon action of Congress {m‘:
their force For instance, when l}u-\’
purchase of the Danish West Indies |
| was negotiated by Secretary of N'uu-‘
| Lansing Congress had to furnish the |
I;mnh.xm- money--$25,000,000, There |
is no instance on record, it is sald, |
where Congress has failled to m.nkn-‘
valid the action of the executive
branch in negotiating a treaty which
public sentiment strongly d:-m.uul.-u.
‘Save Monroe Doctrine!’
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Is Slogan in the Senate
(By International News Service,)
WASHINGTON Feb i “"Save the
Monroe Doctrine!
This is the slogan in Senate circles
ln.. really is the basis of much of the
opposition to the proposals that the|
I'nited States ghould he called upon \u‘
act as sponsor or guardian to Armenia,
Lithuania or other of the newly cre
| ated small nations: being made out” of
llh. regenerated Egrope that is expect-
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EDITION
Caruso Must
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Have His Little
Joke, To Be Sure
EW YORK, Feb. 7—“ Ah, yes,
N Mr. Caruso said that, but he
must have his little joke,”
said the tenor's secretary in com
menting on the announcement that
Caruso would stop singing on the
day prohibition goes into effect.
“To stop singing—that Mr.
Caruso would not do. He takes a
little old wine when he sings in
cold weather. It is to warm him
up, you knaw; but he has sources
of supply for that.”
Leaving a scribbled note to her sis- ‘
ter, saying that she could not bear
her troubles any longer, Mrs., M. C.
Bostwick, 26, took several poison
tablets about 1 o'clock Friday morn
ing in her rooms at the Frances
Apartments, and an hour later died at
the Grady Hospital.
The note, hastily written on the
backs of three envelopes, and ad-,
dressed to Miss Elizabeth Caldwell,
No. 86 East Sixth street, is as fol
lows:
Note to Sister.
“Dear Elizabeth:
“l 1 have tried to bear my troubles,
but I have come to the point where
I can't any longer. | am so miser
able. 1 have staved away from you
for that reason. I would be glad for
vou to have Robert—don't let them
know about me, Forgive me.
ML
Shortly after 1 o'clock Friday
morning Mrs. Jessie Holmes, a nmxh-1
bor in the Frances Apartments, heard
sounds of a struggle and wroamnx“
in Mrs. Bostwick’s rooms, She called
|
her brother, Harry G. Hall, who lived |
in an apartment acrogs the hall, '.uhl}
asked him to see what was the mat- i
ter. Mrs. Bostwick's door was un
locked. She was found om the floor, |
almost unconscious, The ambulance
was called as quickly as possible, but
she died soon after reaching the hos
pital.
Mrs; Bostwick was an expert tele
phone operator. She was married at
17, and the marriage had turned out
unhappily. There were two t'hlhiren,‘
boys, of 6 and 8 years, living with
relatives at McDonough, Ga. Mrs.
Bostwick and her husband had been
geparated for some time, and he is!
now supposed to be in Alabama. She!
had instituted divorce proceedings !
against him. }
Besides the sister, Mrs. Bostwick is
survived by a brother, C. E. Cald-~ |
well, living in Savannah. The body
was taken to the Harry G. Poole
chapel, to be taken later to Savannah
for burial, |
Decatur Protestants ]
Take Church Census
The four congregations, Methodist, Pres
byterian, Baptist and Episcopal, in ln--i
catur united Thursday afterncon in a cons
certed drive to secure information from
every home in the city econcerning church
affilintion and relationship About Nl"y‘
men In pairs visited every ward in Deca
tur from three to six o'clock and returned |
to an office established in the "H'Nh_\‘ll"-‘
ian Church bearing cards (led with des
tails showing names and addresses, church
membership or inclination, whecher attend.
ing Sunday sehool or not, et The pnse
tors of the churches will meet Friday
night to sort out the Information and to
Iny plang for further united efforts in
reachipg thelr constituencies,
Two Wounded in Duel ‘
. .
I'mproved in Hospital
Dr, W. T. Danifel and 8. L Hmrrml'mn.l
of Duluth, Ga., who were brought to At
lanta hospitals foliowing a knife and rr-\
volver duel, were said Friday to be rest
ing easily, and both are expected to rn~‘
cover. Daniel in suffering from numerofs |
cuts about the thront and Herrington has
n bullet wound on the chin The two
men quarreled over Ly, Daniel's inability
to attend n member of Herrington's fam
ily during the influenza epidemio he said
Later he was attacked by Herrington with
A knife In front of his home and shot to
defend himself, according to his state
ment to the police
‘ ’
No Beer, No Work, Is
Slogan of 30,000 Men
(By Internatienal News Sevvice.)
NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 17 ““No beer, no
work,’” is the slogan ob the 30,000 workers
of the local bullding trades’ council as a
result of a meeting at which it was des
cided to ask the Essex trades councll to
call a strike throughout the State on July
1 if the sale of beer is stopped,
FESS IN SPEAKER'S RACE,
WASHINGTON, Feb, 7.-Representative
Bimeon Wees, of Ohlo, chairman of the
Republican congressional committes, for
mally announced himself as a candidate for
the speaker of the next house yesterday.
NO. 161
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(By International News Service.)
SEATTLE, WASH,, Feb, 7.—-With
the anger of a city slowly rising o
the belef that “this is Bolshevism’
Seattle awoke today with thousands
focdless, with thousands more ma
rooned either in their suburban homes
c¢r downtown where hotels could net
acccmmodate them and restaurants
frowned emptily at them with closed
doors, with armed troops ready with.
the police for quick eall, while grave
trbuble is ever brewing.
| Industry is still utterly paralyzed
as the result of the general strike
vesterday in sympathy with the Metal
Trades Union--which is challenging
the Macy award. Fifty-five thousand
men ore idle. The situation is tense.
With the belief growing that Seattle
Fas been picked as the seat of the
first Bolshevist “revolt” in America,
citizens are beginning to colieet in
little groups about the dessrted streats
and mutter,
Mayor Ole Hansen carly today is
sued a statement in which he said:
“Don’t let a few radicals disrupt
our entire industrial life. Operate
your businesses, open your stores,
publish your newspapers, and I will
see Lo it that you have ample protec
tion"-—this grimly as e called at
tention to the fact that 1,000 soldiers
have arrived from Camp Lewis ot
vovernment order; that he has 1,000
special poilee armed and machine
gurs mounted on automobile trucks,
In so far as industry is oonecerned
the situation remains that of the flrst
hours of the strike. Street cdrs are
dead in their barns. Only one news
paper has been published sinece the
general walkout, Restaurants are
cosed and net even the seup kiteh
ens planned by the striking union
raen to feed their own members are
in aperation and labor is a victim of
Its self-madeshunger
Elevators hang lifeless in office
buildings, shipping is crippled and
every phase of industry in which un
fon labor is represented is affected.
In Tacoma the strike has grown al
most to the same proportions as in
Neattle, and there, too, the War De
partment has dispatched troops to
aid the authorities in preserving or
der
Striker Is Found Dying
<
From a Bullet Wound
(By International News Service,)
LAWRENCE, MASS., Feb. 7.—The
first death in connection with the
textile strike occurrgd early today,
when Blaggio Venturo, 41 yvears old, a
gtriker, died from a bullet wound.
The police belleve Venturo was shot
Ly a feillow countryman during a
wrangle, He was found dying and
unable to say who was responsible,
A new method of attack was adopt.
ed by the strikers and their sympa
thizers when the mills opened today.
Bottles, glasses and other missiles
were thrown from windows on worl
¢rs on their way to the mills and on
the police. Three arrests were made
for throwing missiles at the pollce,
two were arrested for attacking work
crs and several others were a‘tesisd
charged with loitering
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Camp Lewis Soldiers
v
In Seattle and Tacoma
(By International News Service.)
TACOMA, WASH., Feb. 7.-Ordered
by the War Department to proceed at
once to Beattle and Tacoma to protect
Government property, to quell disorders
or to intervene If the emergency arises,
1,600 soldiers from the First Infantry,
Camp Lewis, with a machine gun bal.
tallon, are here and in Seattle today
awaiting orders i
The men are regulars, equipped with
rifles and hand grenades Sixteen ma
chine guns to A company comprise the
equipment of the machine gun battal
fon, That the Government duthorities
are apprehensive in regard to the strike
wituation is shown by cancellation of all
leave to officers and men stationed at
Camp Lewis. An order posted at eamp
ro-qu!’r--u every officer and man to be
prepared for “immediate duty.”
1,279 Men Return From
v v
Kurope to Camp Gordon
Three officers and 1,279 enlisted men
arrived at Camp Gordon from home and
overseas contingents tMis week to offset
‘nu- 74 officers and 1,063 enlisted men dis
charged last Monday The populatien of
the camp now numbers 11,640 officers and
men of which number 853 are officers
Only 1,698 of the eamp's personnel con
#ints of negro troops. No definite Informa
tion has bheen received with regard te (he
proposed transfer of several thovisnds as
soldiers from Camp MeClellan o Camp
Gordon.