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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 Si