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GEORGIA
NEWS
Happenings Over
the State.
Jim Simmons, 18 .and Albert Evans,
39, negroes, escaped from the Greene
county chain- gang in a truck belong¬
ing to the county.
i-< A u#lfc,'«f W&''Atlanta-naval reserve
officers entrained for Savannah, where
they will embark on the U. S. S. Tay¬
lor for a cruise in tropical waters.
The law prohibiting use of the seine
In fresh waters of Georgia would be
restored under a bill approved by the
game and .'isb committee of the sen¬
ate.
During June the electrical opera¬
tion of the city waterworks of Way
■ cross showed an actual savings over
the steim> operation in June, 1930, of
1694.20.
Eire loss of between $20,000 and
$25,000 was done the plant of the
Pineland Turpentine company, prob¬
ably staffing from spontaneopus com¬
bustion.
Rapid progress Is being made on
rebuilding the planing mill, recently
destroyed--by fire, at the place of the
J. N. Bray Lumber company, in the
eastern part cf Valdosta.
Two children were killed and two
others are in a critical condition as
a result of being struck by a bolt
of lightning in a violent electrical
storm at Nicholls last week.
The Muscogee county grand jury re¬
turned an indictment charging Miss
Mary Cone with murder in the death
of Prescott L. Dudley, who died from
gunshot wounds at Columbus.
One person was killed and a score
injured when a bomb was tossed into
the plant of the Pure Milk company
in a flare-up of a “price war" among
distributors at Birmingham,. Ala.
With the rescue of Miss Evelyn
Lynch, Atlanta, from Grant Park
swimming pool last week. Life Guard
Henry Hull made the 466th rescue in
his long career of 14 years in the city
service.
John Rourke, 93 years old, observed
the fourth of July at Savannah, Ga.,
as he had for more than 50 years, by
firing a smlvo from his private cannon.
Mr. Rourke is head of a Savannah
foundry.
For the first time the Liggett &
Myers Tobacco company will make Us
business headquarters in Valdosta dur¬
ing the 1931 tobacco season, the com¬
pany heretofore maintaining its offices
in Titton,
A hearing to uetermine if gas rates
fixed for Augusta by the Georgia pub¬
lic service commission are confisca¬
tory, being hea’rd before 1. Stiles Hop¬
kins, special master of federal court,
has adjourned to be reopened July 22.
A party of Mobile and Bayou La
Batre fishermen landed a devilfish in
the gulf off Mobile, Ala. The sea mon¬
ster weighed 1,800 pounds, the fisher¬
men reported, and was pulled along¬
side a launch after a three-hour fight.
The people of Georgia created De
Kalb county and therefore have the
right to say whether it shall be
merged with Fulton, William D,
Thomson, well-known Atlanta lawyer,
stated before a mass meeting of De
Kalb citizens, in favor of the proposed
merger.
Atlantans will ballot in the Decem¬
ber general election on whether they
want eastern standard time, under ac¬
tion of council last week. The ques¬
tion of what standard time Atlanta
should use has been a perennial ques¬
tion for more than half a dozen years.
The city now has central time.
Georgia bankers stand ready to co¬
operate to the fullest extent with farm¬
ers throughout the state, representa¬
tives of financial institutions in every
district told agricultural experts at
Athens at a meeting of the agriculture
committee of the Georgia Bankers' As
socition and county agents and home
demonstration specialists.
One church sending 369 subscrip¬
tions at one time to its church paper
is a remarkable achievement of pastor
and people, the. Wesleyan Christian
Advocate points out in its first edi¬
torial this week. This record was
made by Rev. C. Pierce Harris and his
people at St. Luke Methodist church,
Columbus, Ga. •
In answer to a $10,000,000 copyright
infringement suit brought by Mrs. Es¬
ther LaRose Harris, widow of Joel
Chandler Harris, author of the famed
“Uncle Remus" stories, attorneys for
the Coca-Cola company filed an an¬
swer in federal court in Atlanta in
which they assert that Harris was not
the creator of the character in the
stories, and that pictures of the char¬
acters used in Coca-Cola advertising
were by permission of publishers of
the books in which they appear.
Fulton county, pioneer in the state¬
wide movement to reduce the 161
counties in the state,- was cast as a
principal in a new merger effort. The
bouse county and county matters com¬
mittee approved without opposition a
bill to place before the voters of Mil
ton and Fulton a referendum to unite
the two districts.
Struck in the temple and apparent¬
ly only slightly injured by a baseball
as he was sliding to the home plate,
Clarence McMullen, Atlanta, became
.
violently nauseated a few hours later
^nd died en route to Grady hospital.
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Hoover Moratorium Plan, With French Modifications, in
Effect—Great Britain Calls Conference to
Work Out Details.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
■« : ■**
Julius Curtius
be considered as in effect as of date
of July 3.
Brefly summarized, tbe agreement
provides that debtor governments
shall be relieved of payments due be¬
tween July 1, 1931, and.-'July 1, 1U32,
aggregating approximately 80# mil¬
lions of dollars. Germany will be re¬
lieved of reparations payments to the
former allied and associated govern¬
ments totaling nearly 400 millions of
dollars.
Great Britain, France, Italy, Bel¬
gium, ami other debtors will be re¬
lieved of war debt payments approxi¬
mating 400 millions.
The greatest sacrifice will he made
by the United States, which will fore¬
go war debt receipts totaling 260 mil¬
lions.
Beginning July 1, 10.33, tbe deferred
reparations and war debt payments
will he paid In installments during a
ten-year period, in addition to the reg¬
ular current payments.
Payment by Germany of conditional
reparations totaling 243 millions will
be unreservedly suspended. Germany
will be required, however, to pay the
unconditional reparations, amounting
to $130,600,000, with the understand¬
ing that this amount in full will be
loaned back to Germany.
A loan of about 25 millions will be
made to Central European countries
if necessary by the federal reserve
banks of the United States and Euro¬
pean central banks.
The accord reached was entirely
satisfactory to both the Americans
and the French. President Hoover
gained his chief point, the gist of the
whole plan, for Germany does not
have to pay any international debts
for one year. The French statesmen
congratulate themselves because the
accord calls for the moral support of
the signatories in getting a private
loan for France's central European
friends, and lays upon Germany moral
responsibility for not using her mora¬
torium saving for armaments.
Foreign Secretary Julius Curtius
and Chancellor Bruening of Germany,
of course, are pleased beyond expres¬
sion, and the former paid warm trib¬
ute to the work accomplished In Paris
by Secretary Mellon. The German
press, however, professes to be dis¬
gusted with the compromise, several
Influential papers declaring that it
wrecks the plan entirely.
In concluding his announcement of
the agreement. President Hoover
touched on the question of world dis¬
armament, which he considers the sec¬
ond feature of Ids program for re¬
storing economic prosperity.
O WING ably seconded Mr. Hoo
*1 vor's effort to bring about tbe
moratorium, the British government
called a conference of tbe powers to
work out the details of tbe plan. The
premiers and foreign ministers are to
meet in London, and it is expected
Secretary Stimson will participate ns
an official observer when he reaches
England.
This conference will meet from time
to time for several months, it is un¬
derstood. and may continue to func¬
tion for several years. Before this
body, toward the end of tbe one year
ilfioyer moratorium, will come ihe
question of the capacity of Germany
to continue paying tbe Young plan
reparations, tlie question of extending
the Hoover debt holiday another year,
and the question of revising repara¬
tions and war debts downward.
\f ICE PRESIDENT
* Curtis came out in
the open In earnest
opposition to the poli¬
cies of tile federal
farm board, and, in
company with Sena¬
tor Arthur Capper of
Kansas, went before
Chairman Stone and
Carl Williams of the
board to urge that it
j ceraing change its stand its wheat con-
1 holdings. The two Kansans argued for
hours tiiat this wheat should not be
| put on the market until the price
| reached 85 cents, but Mr. Stone re-
1 fused to make any such pledge. He
j did state, however, that the board
| the would present not offer low prices. any of But its wheat he made at
;
it plain that the board would abide
by its policy enunciated July 1, which
was that it would feel free to sell up
to a cumulative maximum of five mil¬
lion bushels a month for the next
year.
Mr. Curtis' activity in the contro¬
jyjUTUAL sions by conces¬ the
United States and
France, obtained by
clever negotiation, re
ulted in the accept¬
ance of the Hoover
moratorium plan in
principle by the
French government
All other important
nations already had
accepted, so President
jj 00Te r announced
that the plan might
charles Curtis
versy over the board’s wheat hold¬
ings has been interpreted as indicat¬
ing a desire on his part to avoid re¬
nomination for the vice presidency
and to run for the Kansas senator
ship which he formerly held. When
asked about his political plans, he re¬
plied “They'll not get anything out
of me for at least three months.”
Senator Watson of Indiana, Repub¬
lican leader of the senate, also has
been trying to influence the farm
board, arguing for 92 cents, which is
said to he the average price paid by
the stabilization corporation for Its
wheat, as the figure below which the
board should not sell. Senator Wil¬
liam E. Borah, Insurgent Republican
of Idaho and chairman of the agri¬
cultural committee named at the
“progressive conference" last March,
has Resisted that the board defer all
sales until wheat goes to $1.25.
^ CECRETARY OF STATE STIMSON
is having a pleasanter time on his
European vacation than has fallen to
the lot of Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon. Starting too late to get mixed
up in the moratorium negotiations,
Mr. Stimson arrived at Naples Tues¬
day on the steamship Conte Grande,
accompanied by .Mrs. Stimson. He was
met by Ambassador Garrett, ami, fol¬
lowing a visit to Pompeii and Hercu¬
laneum, went to Rome by automobile.
Thurday evening he called on Premier
Mussolini at the Palazzo Venezia and
later met him at a dinner given by
the American embassy. In Mr. Stini
son's honor the ruins of the ancient
Roman Forum, just beyond the Capl
totlne hill, were brilliantly lighted up
at night.
The secretary’s European vacation
will last two months and he will de¬
vote considerable time to an investi¬
gation of conditions on the continent.
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Dr. J. I. France
helping to the extent of their powers.
The doings began with a public meet¬
ing at Mount Ararat farms, the doc¬
tor's country estate in Cecil county,
Maryland. Very soon, it is expected,
he will make a tour through the grain
states of the West.
Assisting France in getting his cam¬
paign under way are Jonathan Bourne,
former senator from Oregon and head
of the Republican publicity bureau
during the Wilson administration, and
Eyie Rader, who is described as “a
prominent New York chemist and Bi¬
ble speaker.”
Doctor France says that on his trip
in the West he will give his reasons
for seeking the presidential nomina¬
tion and will discuss “the grave world
crisis and its remedy through the ap¬
plication of the principle of righteous¬
ness to economic, social and interna¬
tional problems.”
rj'KOBE the convention of the
* J Great lakes Hudson Waterways
association in Albany. N. Y.. Senator
Copeland and Representative Hamil¬
ton Kish of Ihe Empire state and
various others attacked the proposed
St. I.nwrenee ship canal nno urged
that congress begin ns soon as possi
Die the construction of all American
waterway: from the Great Lakes to
the Atlantic seaboard by way of the
Mohawk valley and the Hudson, as a
means to relieve unemployment.
It was declared by the speakers
that the St. i.nwrenee canal was con¬
sidered only because the farmers of
the Middle West wanted it for nn
outlet for their surplus grain, ami Mr.
Fish said the Russian wheat situa¬
tion "now makes the building of a
ship canal through Canada a fantas¬
tic myth.”
’THOUGH it is un
a derstood in Rome
that Pope Pius and
Premier Mussolini
have both decided to
avoid any precipitate
action in their contro¬
versy, they continue
to hammer at each
other with encyclicals
and newspaper arti¬
cles. The pope stead¬
ily maintains that the
church is suffering
perse cution at the
hands of the Fascist rulers of Italy,
but for the present at least he will
not consider the withdrawal of the
papal nuncio to Rome. Mgr. Borgnn
cini-Duca. The nuncio, for his part,
has been doing ail he could to bring
about a peaceful settlement of the
quarrel.
The pope's latest encyclical dealt
severely with the Fascist position on
the education of youth, and was
CLEVELAND COURIER.
r\U. JOSEPH I.
L-' France, for m e r
United States senator
from Maryland, evi¬
dently was in deadly
earnest when recently
he announced that he
was a candidate for
the Republican nomi
nu!lon for the l>r, ‘ si '
dency in 1032. Already
he has started on his
summer campaign,and
ills many friends are
Mgr. Borgon
cini-Duca
characterized by the Italian press aa
a return to the medieval conceptions
about the respective authority of the
church and state. Copies of the docu¬
ment were not only distributed in the
churches of Rome, but also were sent
out of the country by special couriers
—which action -drew Fascist ridicule.
fAYBE there will be another war
i-Vl in South America before long.
Dispatches from Asuncion, Paraguay,
said that Senor Guachalia, minister
from Bolivia, sent a note to the for¬
eign office declaring he had been or¬
dered by his government to suspend
diplomatic relations between the two
aations. The Paraguayan government
replied with the announcement that
it had ordered its minister to Bolivia
to return home. Don't ask what it's
all about.
Peru has been having a little war
of its own—government versus rev¬
olutionists. The other day the rebels
were defeated at Huambutio and the
city of Cuzco, their headquarters, was
taken. The revolters thereupon fled
to the jungle, and probably little more
will be heard of them.
* Act- • w
BishopValencis
bishop of Vera Cruz, has in¬
structed all Catholics of the state to ab¬
stain from attending dances theaters
and other festivities until the conflict
between the church and government
is ended. The bishop also has in¬
structed his priests to keep their
churches open, even if the state for¬
bids services conducted by priests.
J TOSEF STALIN’ has made public
the new poliey of Soviet Russia
in dealing with the bourgeoisie and
the kulaks of well-to-do farmers.
These classes, hitherto suppressed,
persecuted and exiled, are now to be
conciliated to an extent if they will
consent to co-operate with and labor
for the Soviet regime. The rulers of
Russia have discovered that the
brains and skill of the old order are
needed to meet the growing demands
of agricultural and industrial devel¬
opment
As part of the new order of things
Stalin also presented a program en¬
tailing radical changes in the govern¬
ment's policy toward Igbor and indus¬
try to insure the success of the five
year plan.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER celebrat
«•» ed his ninety-second birthday qui¬
etly at his home in Tarrytown, N. Y.
The only event of the day was a fam¬
ily dinner attended by Mr. and Mrs
John D. Rockefeller. Jr., their mar¬
ried daughter, Abide, and her hus
band, David Milton, together with
four other Rockefeller children. To
the press Mr. Rockefeller said: “These
occasions offer me a very welcome
opportunity: first, to express my grat
Unde to tiie many, many friends who
not only at this time but throughout
tho year have shown their kindly re
gard for me; and second, to wish
them and theirs and ail the world
a large measure of health and con¬
tentment. which are the basis of real
happiness.”
DlLLY BURKE of
*-* Greenwich. Conn.,
professional golfer
whose real name is
Burkowski—he is a
Pole—is the new open
golf champion of the
United States, wear¬
ing the crown which
Bobby Jones laid
aside. In the tourna¬
ment on the Inverness
course at Toledo,
Burke and George
von for first place
with cards of 292. Next day they
undertook to- play off the tie at 36
holes, and again tied. So on Monday
ilie second play-off was staged and
Burke won by a margin of one stroke,
finishing the longest tourney in golf
history. Burke bad a total of 5.89
strokes for the 144 holes played in
the five days of their battle, and Von
Elm had 590 This was slightly over
an average of 4 for each hole.
1 I 'HOUGH Max Sehmeling of Ger
many won a clean-cut victory
over Willie Strihiing in their battle
in Cleveland, defending his heavy¬
weight title, he is still out of favor
with the New York state boxing com
mission. Chairman J. A. Farley of
that body is quoted as saying:
“Sehmeling will never meet another
boxer in New York as long as he
refuses to meet Jack Sharkey again.”
The New York commission gave
Sehmeling the title when Sharkey
fouled him, hut, according to Farley,
it does not consider him the cham¬
pion.
■^JOTABLE •tv week was among that the of John deaths Ilrisben of the
Walker in Brooklyn. For many years
he was often in the public eye as a
soldier, business man. writer and edi¬
tor and crusader for world peace.
The duke of Aosta, cousin of the
king of Italy, also passed away, to the
great sorrow of the Italian people.
He won considerable fame in the
World war.
(Si 1:31. Western Newsrsner Union.!
JyJEXICO’S quarrel
with the Church
of Rome is now cen¬
tered in the state of
Vera Cruz and the
prospects of a peace¬
ful settlement are
growing more and
more remote. In pro
test against the re
cently enacted law of
the state limiting the
™ mber °! priests. Rt.
Rev. Rafael 0 Guizar
Billy Burke
* TALES...
4
of the TRIBES
By Editha L. Watson
The Hopi
The Hopi call themselves “The
Peaceful People," but they can fight like
•
mm •• -■
Hopi.
Long ago, they moved from the vil¬
lages at the feet of the mesas, build¬
ing their picturesque homes on the
elevations, where raiding enemies
could not surprise them. Farming in
the land below must have been a very
exciting and dangerous occupation
sometimes, when the fields must be
cultivated almost furtively, and the
farmer must have his weapons as close
to haDd as his digging sticks.
Farming under primitive conditions
in scanty soil is a tedious work at
best, but the Hopi know how to make
the most of what they have. It is
related that an agricultural expert
was sent to the province of Tusavan,
as Hopi-land is called, to show the
Indians how to farm. They allowed
him to experiment, but when growing
time came, it was their own scanty
corn, watered by hand, that made the
crop, and the "expert’s” field burned
up under the ardent Arizona sun.
The Hopi religion includes fire-awl
sun-worship, and also ancestor wor¬
ship, and it is a tiling to which they
cling as closely as to their lives. At
one time they were practically forced
into adopting the Christian faith, but
during tiie great Pueblo rebellion of
1680, they returned to their own be¬
liefs, and only one Ilopi pueblo, that
of Awatobi, continued in the new re¬
ligion.
Awatobi was thus a thorn in the
side of the other Hopi villages. With
tiie white man’s religion, these people
had also acquired their troublesome
disposition, and were constantly
harassing the people of the other
pueblos. They would not return to the
ancient faith, though they grafted
some of it onto their new beliefs, and
adhered to this mixed religion with a
tenacity seemingly inspired by the love
of annoying their tribesmen. These
chafed more and more under the con¬
tinued harassing, and accordingly, one
night when many of the Awatobians
were gathered in a large kiva, their
neighbors crept upon them, suddenly
pulled up the ladder—their only means
of escape—and threw down upon tiie
trapped men firebrands, greasewood,
and crushed red peppers, which they
puiied down from where they hung
drying on the houses. Tbe other con¬
verts In the pueblo were hunted down
and killed by their exasperated tribes¬
men. and only a few, mostly women
who were especially proficient in the
Indian arts, and children, were spared.
Peaceful People, indeed!
Tliis happened in 1700. That it Is
not a legend was proved in 1895. when
Dr. 3 . Waiter Fewkes of the Smith¬
sonian institution excavated the ruins
of Awatobi. and found the fire-black¬
ened remains of the once flourishing
pueblo and its Inhabitants.
Now the Hopi live very quietly on
their mesa-tops. They cultivate crops
on the land below, as they have done
for centuries, and they cling to their
old beliefs and ceremonies. People
come from far lands to witness the
famous Snake Dance, in which the
“little brothers” of the Hopi are called
upon to aid in prayers for rain, and
so efficacious is their assistance, that,
it is said, never more than three days
elapse until it rains.
The Hopi raised cotton before the
advent of tiie whites, and one of their
parly manufactures was cotton cloth,
beautifully woven and often embroid¬
ered, Pottery making is another art
for which they are famous, and al¬
though at present their skill in decora¬
tion does not flourish ns it once did,
they copy and adapt designs centuries
old with considerable effect.
So they are once more the Peaceful
People, but perhaps, if necessity
should arise, they would again show
the world that they know how to
fight.
{($, 1931, Western Newspaper Union )
Wanota. the Yanktonal chief. Is de¬
scribed (in 1823) as wearing white
buffalo skins, a necklace of grizzly
bear claws, red sticks in his hair: his
face was painted vermilion, and he
j carried a turkey feather fan.
Tree rings are now used as a means
of telling the age of ruined Indian
buildings. A beam from Walpi. one of
the Hopi pueblos, was cut in 1427—
65 years before the discovery of Amer¬
ica by Columbus.
Eskimo children had a greater va
riety of toys than any other. Their
many dolls had fur clothing, and fur¬
niture.
The name “stogie,” a cigar. Is de¬
rived from Conestoga, where they were
first made.
In 1778. according to historians, a
woman presided over the Winnebago
triba
fiends when they
consider it neces¬
sary. Living as
they do in a wild
land of mesas and
canyons, they have
partaken of the na¬
ture of the coun¬
try, and are aloof,
implacable, and
wary of the out¬
sider. They con¬
sider themselves
capable of attend¬
ing to their own
affairs, and resent
interference.
slap!
mosquitoes
Largest Seller in 121 Countries
Not by Choice
Housewife—How m the world did
you get into this terrible state?
Tramp—Well, you see, lady, dey
gives me 24 hours to get outa the
last one— Louisville Courier-Journal.
Off Again; On Again
“Hear anything from Gladys since
she started going to riding school?”
"Oh, I hear from her off and on.”
For it over has been 50 Malaria
years household Chills
the
remedy fo r al l
forms of 2HF“ and
It is a Reliable, Fever
General Invig¬ Dengue
orating Tonic.
SWELLING REDUCED
And Short Breathing relieved when
caused by unnatural collection of
water in abdomen, feet and legs,
and when pressure above ankles
leaves a dent. Trial package FREE.
COLLUM MEDICINE COMPANY
Dept. A, Atlanta, ia.
Call It a Muveum
An antique shop is a sort of muse
um visited largely by people whv
have no intention of buying.—Ameri¬
can Magazine.
Sound Effecti
“Your horses’ hoofs in this picture
do not sound natural.”
■ 1 know it. We used real horses.”
ir you
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Everybody’. Mi.take
It’s almost universal, the error of
thinking we can size people UP the
first time we see them.—American
Magazine,
Luxury becomes a necessity after
you get used to it.
IF YOU FEEL WEARY
—it might be due to malaria, chills,
fever. Take St. Joseph’s Lax-ana
(double strength). Marked improve¬
ment in 3 days. Costs less per dose;
does more per dose. At all druggists.
OQUBLE STRENGTH
Picture the Growth
Every four years enough new
homes are built in this country to
make a city the size of New York.—
Woman's Home Companion.
The keener the critic the more
cutting the criticism.
BUILD UP HEALTH
AND PAINS GO AWAY
Women- who find themselves in a
painful condition due to a run¬
down state of health should give
Cardui a fair trial, for a reasonable
length of time, as did Mrs. E. G.
Hodnett, 1101 Hazel St., Texarkana,
Texas, who writes: “I was anxious
to build myself up bo I could enjoy
and take interest in my home. I had
suffered with soreness and a constant
pain in my side. My mother told me
she thought I should try Cardui. Soon
after I began taking it I noticed an
improvement, so I kept on until I had
taken three bottles. By this time I
was feeling so rfcuch better, the pain
and soreness were gone.”
Sold at drug stores. ra-t*
CARDUI
HELPS WOMEN
W. N. U., ATLANTA, NO. 29-1931.