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UNION RECORDER, MILLEDGEVILLE, CA. JANUARY S, IMS
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE GOES TO
CUBA TO CEMENT PAN-AMER
ICAN GOOD WILL
Will Deliver Addreea
Day of Sixth lateraj
ferenci* »*f Araericei
Havana, J.nu.
16
Writon Specially for Union Recorder
By Robert Fuller
Washington—January 1. Again
a President of th. United ate* is
to set foot beyond the shadow »f the
flair .
President Coolidge will address
the Sixth International Conference
of American States when it opens
in Havana, Cuba, on January 16.
He will leave for Havana January
1,1 on what may prove the moat
fateful mission rince Woodrow
Wilson crossed the Atlantic to sit
in the great peace conference at
Versailles.
President Coolidge's decision* to
lend the dignity of his high office to
the opening of the conference and
the outstanding caliber of the dele
gation named to represent the United
State* at the conclave indicate the
import attached to the conference by
the Administration.
Charles Evans Hughes heads the
delegation, for President Coolidge
and Secretary of State Frank B. Kel
logg go only as guests. President
Gerardo Machado, of Cuba, came to
Washington in February, 11»27, to de
liver a personal invitation to Presi
dent Coolidge to attend the confer-
Colleaguea of Mr. Hughes include
such men as Henry P. Fletcher. Am
bassador to Italy; Dwight W. Mor
row, Ambassador to Mexico; former
Senator Oscar W. Underwood;
James Brown Scott, Secretary of the
Carnegie Endowment f»r Inter
national Peace; Judge Morgan J.
O’Brien; Ray Lyman Wilbur, Presi
dent of Leland Stanford University;
and Dr. Leo S. Rowe, Director Gen
eral of the Pan-American Union.
President Coolidge will go to the
conference to ask closer co-operation
between this government and the
governments of sister republics of
the New York World. The President
is anxious that one of the achieve-
menta of hia administration to go
down in history shall be the inaugu
ration of co-operation and good will
between the nations of the Western
Hemisphere.
President Coolidge, with full re
tinue, is to go by special train to
Key West, where the Presidential
party will be conveyed to the Texas
flagship of the fleet, for the trip to
Cuba.
His address to the conference w to
be delivered January 16, nnd in nil
probability President Coolidge will
be homeward bound the following
day.
Theodore Roosevelt’s visit to Pan
ama marked the first time a Presi
dent of the United States ever ven
tured abroad while in office. Since
then each President has gone beyond
the borders of the United Statcw at
some time of office.
William Howard Taft went as far
as the middle of the International
Bridge. Woodrow Wilson made his
famous visit to Europe. Warren G.
Nation wide interest has been
aroused in the organised campaign
initiated by the weekly newspaper
pjblishers to restrict government
competition with orivate industry.
A bill to rest-let the Post Office
Department's competition with the
printing industry was introduced in
• ’.-Egress by Senator Oddie, Decem
ber 15. The fate of thsi bill a being
watched with keen interest because
It Will ■mean th recognition by C. n-
gress of the principle that t^c govern-
mint should not •.omiet - with private
Th.,
unusual significance, in view of the
fact that President Coolidge during
the las* few day* has mad’ several
declarations that "the government
should get cut of business as fast as
possible and should not embark up
on any new ventures which should be
undertaken by private capital."
The Oddie bill has the unqualified
endoracmcnt of the National Editorial
Association, which represents thous
ands of small town pubiisht rs and
printers. Officials of the Editorial
Association have pointed out that
they are taking President Coolidge at
his word, and. feel that the President
would directly support this legisla
tion which incorporates his ideas
The
argu
that the Oddie bill will uphold the
principle to which the President is
committed and effectively check ef
forts to extend government activity
in industries essentially of a private
It is significant to note that Presi
dent Coolidge, Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon, Secretary of Com
merce Hoover, Secretary of th - In
terior Work, and Secretary of Agri
culture .1 online, in officinl com
munications to Congress have rec
ently denounced the policy of the
Federal Government taking over in
dustrial projects which can be handl
ed competently by private business.
Postmaster General New’s stand is a
unique one, for he is diametrically
opposite in his policy to that of his
Chief and fellow Cabinet members.
It would appear thut the Povlmaster
General is the lone champion of pa
ternalism in the Cabinet. Mr. New
does not want his department to give
up its monopoly on the printing of
envelopes, which is the outgrowth of
a bureaucratic system.
The Oddie bill, S. 1752, asks Con
gress through the enactment of prop-
legislation, to restrict the merch
andising and distribution of a com
modity—printing—which is available
from private sources. This measure
premits the sale of plain stamped
lopes with the skeleton corner
card.
John C. Brimblecom, Chairman of
the National Editorial Association
Legislative Committee, states that
“the publishers of the country feel
that u vital principle is at stake in
the Oddie bill which is now pending
before the Sennte Post Office Com
mittee. While the printing of special
request addresses on stamped enve
lopes takes away from the publisher
and printer many thousands ’f dol
lars, we feel that the principle in
volved is more important thnn the
monetary consideration. Ou.- orob-
lem is one that should attract the
sympathetic attention of all forms of
private business, especially those
particularly vulnerable to competi
tion from the Federal Government.
President Coolidge in his bi-weekly
conference with press representatives
.•n Decembir U again emphasized hi*
'•ws on paternalism, when ho said
vdfiah p: :»ple nfttn attempt to per-
. :cde the government to op. rate a
j oldie vin.ure in their own ii.t *r
,intend of for benefit of the Nati» ml
Treasury.” This is particularly true
in the case of printing special r?qu-*«t
corner cards on stamped envelopes,
where a small group of citizens are
benefited at the expense of all other
tax payers.
“There is nothing new in the fact
that our organization is taking the
lead for the recognition of his
principle, because we have brought
thin to the attention of Congre.-s in
other years. We now hope to have
legislation passed at an early da ,
and if we are successful it .will s Tve
paternalism that thin govi.nimrn'
should not extend its ae iviti. ; and
d-v : ate from the true purpos * of
government."
‘railv
ginze
danger of allowing the
l to extend i s field of
influence unchalengcd is ob.ious
from the comment of Mr. I.ewir E.
Pie i von, President of the Chamber of |
Commerce of th- United State , in j
wh'c-h he nays: “If government finds
the
out
he
long will
all business? And when government
lias wormed its way into the whole
spread of Ann rican trade, th; heart
will be gone from American busi
ness, and American government, as
cur forefathers built it, will have
vanished from the earth. This, then,
is the first responsibility of the
American business man to his gov
ernment—to prevent that govern
ment from destroying itself in the
process of destroying private initia
tive."
STUDENTS RETURN TO
COLLEGES AFTER HOLIDAYS
The Millcdgeville young men who
arc attending college have returned
to their studies after spending the
holidays with their parentsJpere»
McCombs Hines has gone back to
Athens to inter the University of
Georgia; Alton Rogers, Ned Holmes,
Julius Holt and Harold Williams have
gone bark to Georgia Tech: Fitzhugh
Chandler, Wallace Butts and Hender
son Warnock have returned to Mcr-
c:r; and Robert Taylor has gone *o
the Naval Academy at Annapolis Md.
Returning to Emory were: Harry
Bone. Jr., Winfred Wynne, Walter
Minor and Walter Blanks. Walter
Minor will be awarded his M. D. de
gree in June.
Our
Greatest
Growth
Beginning the New Year with Re
sources Larger than ever in the
History of this Bank we thank
our friends and patrons for
their loyal support in 1927
and wish for them a
very Happy and
Prosperous
1928
JANUARY 3, 1927
THE RESOURCES OF THIS BANK AT THE BE
GINNING OF BUSINESS IN 1927 WERE
$708,368.68
JANUARY 3, 1928
WITH THE YEAR 1928 WE BEGIN BUSINESS WITH
RESOURCES OF
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