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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11,
Augustan Talks of War in Europe
DR. AND MRS. GEORGE A. TRAYLOR
ARRIVED 111 CITY FRIDAY A. IA.
Dr. Traylor Says They Were
Arrested By a Mob and Not
By Military—Were in No
Danger of Execution
SAYS GERMANS CONFIDENT
THEIR ARMS WILL TRIUMPH
Broad and Greene Streets Look
Good to Augustans Who Have
Been Away Since April. Were
Treated With Great Consid
eration By Officials in Ger
many.
That Broad and Greene streets look
better to him than Unter Der Linden
or any “strasse” seen since he left
Augusta last April, is the declaration
of Dr. George A. Traylor, who with
Mrs. Traylor, returned to Augusta
Friday morning. Dr. and Mrs. Tray
lor arrived in New York several
days ago on the Rotterdam, of the
Holland-American line and there are
no two Americans who have set foot
on their native soil since the cata
clysm started in Europe who are more
proud to get back home than they.
They left a number of Augustans in
the old country who are returning by
other boats, and they declare that all
of them are well and none the worse
for the wear.
Dr. Traylor was interviewed soon
after arriving in the city and he talks
very interestingly of the great con
flict over the seas.
"We were in Breslau on the 31st of
July," said Dr. Traylor, “when the
situation first began to look extreme
ly serious. We immediately made
arrangements to go to Dresden. I was
taking a course of study. The order
for mobilization had come and all of
the transfer lines’ horses had been
pressed into service and it was a
problem to get our baggage to the
depot. I was advised that we had
better take the six a. m. train for
Dresden as the 11 a. m. train might
not go. I arose at four o’clock In the
morning and secured a hack and ac
companied our baggage to the depot
and we left Breslau on the six a. m.
train arriving three hours later at
Dresden. There we stayed from the
first of August to the 18th.
German Anger Against English.
Germans did not consider the war
so serious until England got into the
conflict and then their anger toward
Englishmen knew no bounds. French
and English signs all over Dresden
were torn down and paper pasted
over them and Mrs. Traylor and I
were in an English and French drug
store buying some articles when a
mob came and forced tne proprietor to
cover up his signs printed in English
and French.
It was while we were on our way
to our hotel from this drug store that
we were arrested, not by the soldiers,
but by the mob. Mrs. Traylor and I
were conversing in English, not trunk
ing we were in danger, when sud
denly a man punched my wife in the
back telling her in German that she
was not speaking the German tongue.
She replied that of course she was not
speaking German. My first impulse
was to attack the man for it seemed
to be an unprovoked insult, but with
in a few moments a crowd of about 25
or 30 gathered. Fortunately for us I
restrained myself. We soon under
stood that we were being taken for
English people and were escorted to
our hotel a block or so away where
the lady in charge informed the mem
bers of the mob that we were Ameri
cans and her guests. We had told the
mob we could establish our identity
at the hotel. It was while tne mot,
vas congregated in front of the hotel
that a young lady of our party from
Atlanta took a snap shot of the
crowd.
Gave Up Her Kodak.
A great deal of excitement was
caused by this act as it is against the
law to take pictures during times of
war. However, she gave up her ko
dak and the German officers devel
oped the pictures themselves. When
she went to court she was treated
with a great of consideration and was
not fined at all, as has been reported,
end they even returned the kodak to
her. As for us being In danger of ex
ecution, that is absurd. After the ar
rest Incident we remained In doors for
a day or two and then ventured out
on the street again and were not mo
lested W’e were given no more trou
ble by any one during our stay in
Dresden. That city was a great
mobilization center and thousands of
soldiers gathered there They were
most enthusiastic and all night long
we could hear sung German patriotic
sours, such as the “Watch on the
Rhine."
Whoever may be responsible for the
gnat conflict which is tearing Europe
from center to circumference the Ger
man people certainly think that their
cause Is Just. They say that they
had a perfect right to support Aus
tria, their ally, when she was threat
ened by Russia and they were confi
dent task of defeating France
and then turning upon Russia and
crushing that monster of the north
would be easy. And even with Eng
land coming Into the war they think
that they are going to triumph. The
enthusiasm of the German people Is
wonderful. Every one is anxious to
go to war regardless of age and even
the women want to take up arms.
They claim that they arc fighting for
their very existence and the fact that
England has such allies as Russia and
Japan causes the German Indignation
against the Britons to know no
bounds.
Considerate Treatment,
We were treated with the greatest
consideration everywhere except at
the time that the mob arrested us.
Great crowds waved at our special
train of Americans as we left Dres
den and all along the route to Berlin
on August 15th we were cheered We
remained at the capital of the empire
o' cr night and then continued our
journey to Rotterdam from which
place we sailed. We had the largest
number of first class passengers on
our boat that an ocean liner ever car
ried, over 1.400. People everywhere
take sides violently on the question of
which of the combatants is in the
right and there were several fights
on the boat. As for myself, I shall not
attempt to say who is right. It is a
terrible conflict and I will not pre
dict when it will end.
We were in Vienna when the Crown
Prince of Austria was assassinated,
and the excitement was tremendous.
The papers got out extras and the
feeling against Servia was running
high."
SWIELT SAYS
HAVE NO CASE
AGAINST 01
Brought Evck By Detective
Roney-- Ay Warrant Charges
Only Misdemeanor, Bond Has
Been Fixed at One Hundred
and Fifty Dollars
.T. W. Swindell reached the city in
ihe custody of Detective Sam Roney,
of the city police, yesterday afternoon
and was immediately committed to
the Richmond County jail. He had
not furnished bond early this after
noon.
Swindell says, according to the
jailor, that the authorities have no
case against him and that he should
not have been arrested. The arrest
was the culmination of a rathe- pretty
piece of detective work by Mr. Roney,
Who was detailed on the case on July.
20th, two weeks after Swindell left
Augusta, under pretense of spending
a week or ten days vacation in Ten
nessee.
For several weeks Detective Roney
had been conducting a search from his
office that covered the entire country
practically, when last week it was as
certained where Swindell was —in
! what town, and furthermore, even his
street address —1111 E. Main Street,
LaFayette, lnd.
By checking his baggage, it is learn
ed, the detective trailed him over his
entire route, from here to Atlanta, to
Chicago, to St. Louis, to Decatur, 111.,
and to LaFayette.
He had been living in LaFayette
for six weeks with the woman with
whom he left Augusta, it is alleged,
but Mr. Roney says that when he ar
rived the woman was not there.
Swindell was employed at a livery
stable operated by Joe Shumaker,
which at the time was engaged In
buying horses for the French govern
ment, for service in the war.
At first it is understood Swindell
refused to be brought back without
requisition.
Luckily for the detective, it happen
ed that he found Swindell living near
the Wabash Railway station, and that
one of the employes at the station
helped him move his baggage. Swin
dell's baggage was checked up and in
this way it was learned from a certain
employe at the station who helped
move the baggage exactly to Swin
dell’s street address, which aided ma
terially in finding him.
Mr. Roney says that when he reach
ed LaFayette it was snowing, and ho
was told that it was the first Septem
ber snrw that had ever fallen there.
This was about the time that a change
in the weather was noted here.
As the warrant, which was sworn
out by Mr. E. J. Lyon, his employer,
charges only a misdemeanor, Swin
dell's bond has been fixed at $l6O.
Thfatricat
Notes ot Interest | j
PAUL POIRET, FAMOUS COSTUM
ER, NOW FIGHTING WITH
FRANCE.
Paul Poiret, the celebrated creator
of new styles who made all the cos
tumes for the operetta “Adele,” is now
marching to the front with Ills regi
ment. His Paris shop has been clos
ed; and it will be some time before
other Poiret creations will arrive in
New York. Those who attend the
pi r forma rice of "Adele” at the Qrand
next Friday evening will have a rare
opportunity to view the only Poiret
gowns in the 1815 styles that have
reached this country.
Jos. P. Blekerton, Jr., managing di
rector of the New ICra Producing
Co., the sponsor for “Adele," was very
lucky in getting an early shipment
from France on all wardrobe to be
used this season in his productions.
HORSE RACES AT THE FAIR
GROUNDS NEXT TUESDAY
Event of Labor Day, Which
Was a Tie, to Be Run Off.
Was Error in Herald’s Report
Horse racing, in which a cash prize
of 1100 goes to the horse winning the
best three out of five heats, will be
an event of next Tuesday afternoon
at the Georgla-Carollna Fair Grounds
track The races will start promptly
at 3 o’clock.
The horses are "Radium B" owned
by T. J. Daly; "Mollie Romers," owned
by R. A. Somers, and "Lady Klmore,”
owned by Frank J. Rouse These
racers tied on the fair gronds track
Labor Day. It was erroneously re
ported In The Herald that the race
whs won by “Radium B.” The prise
was |SO. Since it has been doubled,
however, and doubtless the exhibition
Tuesday will be fast.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
HIGHWAYMEN SHDOT NEGRO AND
ill HIM DE ALL HIS MONEY
James Franklin, of Jefferson County, Held Up Near Bowles'
Place By Four Negroes, Who Shoot Him Through Ear and
Lapel of His Coat and Then Take One Hundred Dollars
From Him
Jas. Frankln. a negro farmer from
Jefferson county, was held up and rob
bed of SIOO Thursday night while on
his way home from Augusta. Four
negroes whom it Is not thought he can
Id unify held Franklin up at the point
of revolvers. However, they shot him
before they robbed him, one bullet clip
ping off a small piece of one of Ids ears
and the other going through the lapel
of his coat. Franklin was frightened
so much that afterwards he was hard
COTTON HOW RRICHTER FRIDAY
THAN ANY TIME THIS SEASON
Augusta Sold Five Hundred Bales to Liverpool Thursday
Night---Cotton Up One-Half Cent Per Pound From Few
Days Ago---Augusta Banks Shipping Currency to Country
Banks in This Section
Cotton men in Augusta were bright
er Friday than they have been for
weeks, or, tn fact, since the war start
ed. Thursday night Augusta sold her
first cotton to Liverpool for the pres
ent season. The amount sold was 500
bales. There is a general feeling among
cotton men that conditions are going
to improve. Middling cotton brought
7% cents per pound Friday and there
W'as a very good demand.
One factor said that he thought the
worst was over, that the sentimental
depression of prices was a tiling of the
past and that the only depression in
prices which will amount to anything
will occur if there are great quanti
ties of cotton dumped on the market.
The "buy a bale” movement and the
general holding movement is having
Good Enrollment Indicates Splendid
Year in Public Schools of Augusta.
Friday Was Last Day New Pupils Could Register in Gram
mar Schools in Advance of Opening Next Monday. Teach
ers Given Instructions For the Year Friday Afternoon
Arrangements are nearly complete
for the opening of the fall session in
the public schools of Augusta on next
Monday morning, September 14th, at
9 o’clock.
The number of pupils enrolled in
both the grammar schools and hißh
schools throughout ttiis week in ad
vance of the opening would indicate
a most successful year.
The principals of all the grammar
schools have been in their respective
offices every day thiß week until noon
registering new pupils. The old puplkn
as well as the new have been required
to register in the high schools.
Enrolling is not all the children are
doing; there are other things to be
done before starting to school. Many
a mother has been busy for the past
seven, i days supplying her daughter
with the necessary school dresses, etc
The stores have profited by an extra
amount of trade on account of It, too.
Today wound up the week of en
IS ENTIBELY IMPRACTICABLE TO
HOED ALE IF COTTON CROP
Consensus of Opinion Among Factors That One-Third of it
Should Be Sold---Must Not Be Sold Precipitately, But
Gradually
That it Ik entirely impracticable for the entire
crop of the South variously estimated at between 15,-
000,000 and 10,000,000 bales to be held for higher
prices, is the belief of every cotton factor in Augusta.
They think that one-third of the crop should be sold,
not precipitately so that the prices will he forced
down further than they are, hut gradually.
If the crop is 15,000,000 bales and 5,000,000 hales
are sold there will still remain 10,000,000 hales to he
placed somewhere. No one knows how long the war
will last, therefore it is uncertain as to when cotton
will climb to its proper level of 10 cents and 12 cents.
So while the factors are, for the most part, announ
cing that they will hold cotton for their customers
when it is sent to them in sufficient quantities to
cover the amounts thf>.se customers owe, still they be
lieve that one-third of the crop should be sold while
it is green and weighs more than it will a little later.
An extended movement which will embrace the
entire South to plant only half as much cotton next
year as this is imperatively necessary. Il would he
suicidal, think the factors, to have as much cotton
raised next year as this. So the slogan must he “Cut
the acreage one-half in lUIS ”
•ly able to give a coherent account of
the affair.
He had been paid SIOO for a mul#
which he sold and started home in h
buggy. When near the place of Mr.
Dan Bowles he was held up and after
being robbed was left in the road, the
negroes who robbed him disappearing
in the adjacent fields. Tills was be
tween nine and ten o’clock. He came
to the city and reported the matter to
Sheriff Plunket, who began a diligent
search for the highwaymen. He has
not yet made any arrests.
good effect and many of the farmers
are selling the4r first pickings of cot
ton, not precipitately, but gradually.
Cotton is now bringing one-half cent
pop pound more than it was some day*
ago.
Another encouraging sign comes in
the form of a notice to local bunas
from New York hanks saying: “You
are at liberty to discontinue stamping
checks drawn on us ‘payable only
through the New York clearing house,’
as requested in our circular tetter of
August 3, 1914.”
Augusta banks on Friday shipped
large quantities of currency to the
country hanks In this section to ha
used Saturday In paying for cotton
and cotton seed and business appears
to be getting brighter all around.
rollment before school opens, but nat
urally there will ho many more to ho
enrolled the first part of next week.
However, on Tuesday it Is expected
of the teachers to have their classes
fairly well organized and commence
to get down to their regular dally
routine.
Those pupils who have already en
rolled have been given lists of the
hooks they will be required to use this
year. It Is found to he very similar
to last year's Those who have not as
yet enrolled will ho given lists of
hooks they must purchase the first
thing Monday morning. There will he
no school Monday, but there will lie
Tuesday.
A meeting of the white teachers of
the public schools of the system was
called by Superintendent Evans fur
4:30 o’clock Friday afternoon at the
Tubman high school, for the purpose
of giving them instructions for the
year’s work as is customary at the
beginning of every school year.
CITY BRIEFS
State Baraca Sec'y Coming Mr. C. C.
Teague, secretary of the state Baraca
of Georgia, will he in Augusta Sunday
to deliver an address before the BaVaeus
and their friends at the First Baptist
church at ft o’clock. lie will speak at
the Second Baptist church at It) a. m.%
St. Mathew’s Lutheran, 11 a. tn.; St.
Luke’s Methodist, 3:30 p. m . and Wood
lawn Methodist at S p. m.
At Grace Church Sunday Rev. C. K
Camak, head of the Textile Industrial
Institute. of Spartanburg, S. t\, will
preach at the (JVace Methodist church in
North Augusta, next Sunday morning at
11:1ft o’clock. The general public Is in
vited to hear Mr. Camak tell of educa
tional work in tiie cotton mill section of
the state.
Rev. M. M. MacFerrln Returns—Rev
M. M. MacFerrln pastor of the Greene
Street Presbyterian church, returns to
the city today after a pleasant vacation
of several weeks in the mountains. Sun
day morning he will preach on "A Mes
sage from the Mountains." at the even
ing service on "God and War."
ST. LUKE BARACA.
Mr. C. C\ Teague, state secretary of
the Georgia State Baraca Association,
will address the St. Luke Baraca class
Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock.
Mr. Teague is an interesting speaker
and his address is expected to prove
interesting.
, All young men are invited to meet
with this class to hear Mr. Teague’s
address. .The class room Is at the. cor
ner of St. Luke street and Cranford
avenue.
HOTEL ARRIVALS
Hofbrau Hotel.
A. C\ Jackson. Valdosta, Ga.; TD.
Bargeron, Waynesboro, (1n..; J. A.
Stuart, Thomson, Ga.; W. A. Good
bold. Marion, S. <\; Miss Mahle Webb,
Atlanta; L. \V. Mack, Chicago, 111.
Albion Hotel.
J. B. Massengaie, Atlanta; R C.
South, N. Y.; J. Robinson, Atlanta;
J. A. West, Jr., Atlanta; A. Darcela,
Atlanta; W. K. Stacy Atlanta; W J.
Gosld, Mass.; A. I>. Gone, San Fran
cisco, Cal.; J. 1). Slappery, Atlanta.
Genesta Hotel.
G. Mace. Atlanta; J. F. Chic; Mr.
and Mrs. Ray, Atlanta; IV Juraz, Col
umbia. S. (\; F. A. Holkee, Columbia,
S. C.; H. <\ Davenport, Atlanta; Mrs.
AV. S. Smith, Beaufort, H. C.; C. R.
Tragessor, City; W. Cook, City; Mrs.
Power and Miss Nash, Clinton,,
S. C.; F. F. Carrington, Anderson, S.
C.
Planters Hotel,
J. Jones, Berlin; T. Thomas, Har
lem; M. R. Nixon, Me Mean, Ga.; J.
Lightly, Ky.; N. B. Chiefly, S. C.; G.
Stallings, S. C.
NEW SCHOOL BOOK LISTS
ARE AT THE BOOK STORES
Pupils and Patrons Can Find
Out There Exactly What They
Need For the Coming Year
Lists of the books, in the course of
study, adopted for Augusta's public
schools by the board of education are
on file at the book stores where school
books are sold, and pupils and patrons
can easily ascertain from these lists,
when they go to the stores to buy
books, exactly what they need.
While the list as a whole, is new, In
a good many esses the books are the
same ns tlie ones formerly used, hav
ing simply been re-adopted, and In
these cases it will not be necessary to
buy new *books, If the books on hand
are the ones to be used by pupils in
their promoted grades.
In every case old books, whether re
adopted or not, will be accepted by
the book store at a second-hand ex
change value.
MR. J. H. ROBERTS DROPPED
DEAD IN HIS DOORWAY
Heart Failure Cause, it is Said.
Funeral and Interment Satur
day at Hephzibah
Mr J. H. Roberta, 70 years of age,
dropped dead In the doorway of Ids
store ai 1142 Jackson street, shortly
after 10 o'clock Friday morning. I’hy
slclans say the cause of his death was
heart failure.
He is survived by hln wife, who was
Miss Louise A. Simon, of Hephzibah,
and three children, Mls» Mal/.le E
Roberta and Dessle A. and Alex II
Roberta, of this city, besides two
brothera and three slstera, who do not
reside here
The remalna will he taken to lleph
zlhah at 9 a. m. Saturday for burial
and Interment there.
MR. D. J. BOLSTER HAS
BOUGHT BALE OF COTTON
Mr. Dari Roister has Joined the "buy
a bale of cotton" movement and has
purchased a hale and stored It near
the depot. It la attracting a great deal
of attention.
DEATHS
DIXON MRS MINNIE LEE. wife of
Edward L. Dixon, died yesterday
afternoon at the city hospital, at
3 o’clock, In the 35th year of her
her age, after an extended Illness.
The funeral services were con
ducted from the residence of Mrs
Ella Stone, 535 Wright avenue,
thla afternoon at 4 30 o'clock, Rev.
M W. Ivey officiating, and the
Interment following In the West
View cemetery. Resides her hus
band deceased U survived by five
brothers, Messrs. J, M., L. A., E.
L,, S. E., and J, H. Stone; two sis
ters, Mrs. R E. Elelds and Mrs.
James Stephens.
ROBERTS, MR. JOHN H.—Died this
morning st his residence, 1141
Jackson Street, Deceased ts sur
vived by two sons, Dessle end
Alex II Roberta, and one daugh
ter, Miss Mazle K. Roberts. Ills
remains were shipped to llephzl
bah today, and the funeral ser
vices and Interment will take
place there tomorrow.
The Cotton Holding Movement in This Section
of the South Has Teeth In It
Let no one deceive themselves —the
cotton holding movement in the South
-certainly this section has teeth In it.
Fanners are holding cotton for a long
pull six months at least —a year if
necessary—until the war is over—
until an adequate foreign demand
springs up.
People who are buying cotton are
buying it for an investment not t.o
speculate in futures. They are not wor
ried by margins or the mischievous
ability of the NOw York Cotton Ex
change traders to put cotton up or
put it down. The South is buying to
hold until the war is over.
The farmer—the real farmer—the
man who owns his farm and who
owns himself, never was in a better
position to hold his cotton. A good
many cotton factors will tell you that
they put out less money than usual to
their customers that this crop, as
far as they are concerned, was made
on 25 per cent less advances than
usual.
Many farmers who raise cotton are
able not only to hold their own crop
until the war is over, but they have
money in the bank —their own money
with which to buy and hold their
! neigrbohrs’ crop, if ho is forced to sell,
i A good many well-to-do farmers are
going to do this very thing. They
figure, it is a good investment for
them to buy cotton cheaper than they
can raise it. City folks are figuring
the same way.
“Distress Cotton” is cotton that
never ought to he raised, for it is
raised for the most part by careless
and improvident tenants and crop
pers on borrowed mony. “Distress
cotton” is the of the South and
when , land-owners, country mer
chants, country hanks and city fac
tors will decline to take the perilous
hazards of advancing money to ralHo
this "distress cotton” which is always
forced on the market, to bent down
the price of cotton, then will come a
new era in Southern agriculture.
Farmers* unions, crop reduction
pledges, etc., cannot cure this evil, but
the land-owners, the country banks,
the country merchant, the city fac
tors can put a crimp in it whenever
they decline to take the big risks of
loaning money to careless and im
provident tenants and croppers and
renters, who annually raise the “dis
tress cotton” of the South and which
yearly puts down the price of cotton,
when this “distress cotton" each year
is forced on the market.
There will he mighty little advances
made next year In the South to raise
“distress cotton." The present hold
ing movement, which bids fair to hold
for some time, will see to that. Mighty
little “distress cotton” is going to be
raised next year on the money of the
country merchant, the country bank
and the city factor.
Farmers are keeping their cotton on
the farm this year. The glriners re
port. indicates that they are not even
in a hurry to gin it. Some declare It.
keeps better in the seed and Improves
the quality of the lint. What’s the
use in rushing cotton on the market,
when there Is no foreign demand? Let
the demand come and at the right
price and the South will furnish the
cotton. ITntil the demand comes and
until a fair price is offered, it’s foolish
to offer cotton on the market. None
is being offered save Ihe usual “dis
tress cotton" -the curse of t|ie South.
News from the trade territory of
Augusta, in Georgia and South Car
olina, as published daily in The Her
ald, in the series of articles by a staff
correspondent, shows that the farm
ers, the merchants and the banks are
BIG LEAGUERS IN THE SPOT LIGHT
New York.—John McOraw In going to
have ;i hard tank from now on In lo
cating subjects for lilh semi-weekly
newnpaper artlrlen. John til to hh«
iiif* considerable* space dwelling on Junt
wlmt he expected lilh team would do In
the world nerlen. Hut thone Bouton
Braves have rness?d thing* up no much,
from n New York viewpoint, that John
no long*** Im ahnolutely mire that he and
hln'n are going to mingle In that nerlen
Whenever John larked other subjects
he would devote a column or ho to In
forming th«* populace that the National
League at Iff of umpires certainly In the
wont collection outside of Jail. But
John can't do that anymore. He deliv
ered himself of a bitter arraignment of
the umpiring persons a shrjrt time ago,
saving that President Tenor ought t<»
|AK| action Tener 414 but It wann’i
the kind of action John demanded or
expected.
Tener, Instead of firing the whole
staff because John didn’t like 'em. pass
ed the word to John that now and hence
forth John must not say harsh, cruel
things abodt the umpires Tener, ’tis
said, made his order very emphatic, end
John has promised to be n. nice, refined
writer In future.
Of course, John could use up a few
columns putting forth alibis but lt*» a
bit too early for John to come to the
front with an alibi concerning the loss
of the pennant. And John his used up
almost every possible alibi to explain the
recent slump of the Olants and their In
dlff#*-ent work all season. Ho, you see
John has n hard Job ahead of him think
ing up things to write about since Stall
ings and Tener polntly robbed him of his
pet subjects.
I>aJole's case Is one thst shows that
there Is no sentiment In baseball. Lajole
was one of the big factors In the making
of the American League For many
years he was Its brightest star He drew
countless thousands of fans to the parks
that he visited during those yoirs, arid
even now, when his brilliance Is fading,
some fans go to the park Just to see him
In action.
Back in 190F> or 1906 It was estimated
that Lajole alone had drawn 150A.000
Into the American League coffers during
the few' years he was In the league. That
was something like eight or nine years
ago, and If those figures are correct,
It means that Lajole, In Ids dozen years
In the American League has drawn at
least 91.004,000.
ft whs only last v*«r thst Pharlle
flomers, owner of the Naps was quoted
ss saying
“Lajole has s Ilf* job with the Cleve
land club We win never sell or trade
him He has made money for me in
the years gone bj and when he Is
through a Mr league, I shall five him
his unconditional release"
And now. less than a year litre the
management of the club Is tr ing to shut
him off The club hasn’t made money
this year and Homers wants to cut ex
penses Lajole Is r» blgn priced mnn
iind HomcA’S, Iti pursuing the retrench
ment policy arid harking to the charges
made against Lajole by Manager Birm
ingham, Is Willing to let him go but tie
won’t give him his unconditional release,
lie wants to sell or trade him. and It
seems that he Isn’t particular whether
ilotrry goes to a minor league outfit or
standing shoulder to shoulder. They
propose to hold cotton until the war is
over and the foreign demand starts
up. It is the simple, sensible thing
to do. Most of these farmers, mer
chants and banks are amply able to
bold all or a great portion of their
cotton. Many of them have plenty of
corn, meat, oats and foodstuffs to
carry them through. Many of them
have money in the bank and can and
will help to take “distress cotton” off
the market. One cannot read these
daily reports from the substantial
.citizens of this section without being
impressed with the fact that the cot
ton holding movement in the South
this year has teeth in it.
Fertilizer companies In Charleston
are agreeing to take cotton in pay
ment of accounts and hold it for the
farmers—merchants and banks In the
country are doing the same thing—*
machinery men. livestock dealers are
also co-operating on the same terms.
The “Buy a Rale” movement Is just
getting under way throughout the
South. Other sections, the West with
its high priced wheat and corn and
oats and meat, will soon be coming
South to buy cheap cotton if it can.
Cotton is bound to bring better
prices when the foreign demand starts
up. It’s foolish to try and sell any
thing when there’s no adequate mar
ket for it. Until the foreign demand
starts up the only cotton on the mar
ket is going to be “distress cotton”
and the demand for that is gradually
forcing the price up in the local mar
ket. Get in the game—buy a bale of
cotton—it’s a good investment at the
present prices. The South is going to
protect Its cotton crop this year as
against the lack of foreign market and
the only way to do it is to hold its
cctton until the demands starts up.
It’s folly for the South to raise cot
ton unless it is prepared to protect
cotton. It’s folly for the South t#
lend its money, year after year,
make a cotton crop, unless it Is pro
pared to protect these loans when they
are paid back In cotton.
In the future why not make all ad
vances to raise cotton, payable in cot
ton. Many landlords now collect their
rents in cotton. Make so many tons
i*f fertilizer each year, payable in so
many pounds of cotton. Let the coun
try merchant and the country bank
who run tenants and croppers who
raise nothing but cotton make their
loans payable in cotton. Why make
the farmer take all the risk of rain
and cold wind and hall and heat—
#»ven of an Ruropean war and lack of
market? Raise less “distress cotton.’*
The South has raised a magnificent
crop of cotton this year. What is she
going to do with it? The “distress
cotton,*’ as usual, is going to he forced
on the market to beat down the price
the rest of it is going to be held
until conditions right themselves, until
the foreign demand starts up, and it
is going to bring fair prices.
The annual fight for a fair price
between “fine cotton”—the owners*
own cotton and “distress cotton” is
going to take place in the South, de
spite the Ruropean war. Farmers
who can hold, are going to keep their
cotton on the farm. “Distress cotton”
is going to he hawked around, war or
no war, at any old price. Next year
♦ here is going to be less “distress cot
ton” raised, for the reason that the
parties who usually furnish the money
and the credit and take the risk to
talse this “distress cotton” have found
this year that it has been unprofitable.
But the farmer who raises his own
supplies, who lives at home, is not
going to suffer while the war lasts,
and he Is going eventually to make a
profit out of it. Conditions are im
proving every clay.
not, Just so long as Homers gets his
pYlce.
“Rabbit” MaranviUe, the whirlwind
shortstop of the Braves, Is in danger of
cither being arrested or having his nose
punched. It’s all up to Pete Daley, of
the Yanks, :** to just what’s going to
happen to "Rabbit.”
Maranvllle landed in **cw York for
that memorable three-game series ten
♦ lays ago and found that his bats had
been lost In transit. He borrowed the
lightest war clubs from Ids teammates,
but. none suited him. Finally, he got a
“tip" that Da ey had a bat In his lock
er that might prove to his liking. Mar
mvllle got the key to the locker and
possessed himself of the bat. When the
Braves left New York. Daley’s bat went
along, carefully guarded by Marunvtlle.
“When Dalev gets back tell him I’ve
got bis bat and I’m going to keep It.”
MaranviUe told the groundkeeper. "I’ll
piy him for It If he names the price,
but be can’t hive the hat back. Its
the best dub I ever used and I’ll need
It In my business more than Daley will
In bis.”
It so happened that Daley had a par
ticular fondness for that same bludgeon
and when he learned that Maranvllla
had taken It he set about preparing an
ultimatum. The contents have not been
made public.
LAST DAY FOR ASSIGNMENT
CASES IN THE CITY COURT
Today In the laat day for attorney*
to give notion to the clerk of court
concerning the assignment of casee
for trie! In the city court during the
week of September 21 at. In a notice
Judge Kve sent out the 12th Inst.,
tiaturdny, wan given aa the last date,
hut thin wan an error.
MAY ORDER AMERICAN AUTO* FOR
WAR USE. *
Fteel maker* ar* much Interested, eaye
The Iron Trade Review In an order
which practical/ ban been deed with
American builder* for 2,000 motor ambu
! lance* and truck* for *h!pment to ona
jof the European nation* now at war.
The value of the order 1* *et at I&.000,-
000.
Railroad* *r* putting out fair bridge
Inquiry The Btngor t Aroostook la
taking bid* on • bridge at Van Buren,
Me requiring 1.500 ton* of steel. The
I’enni.- Ivanla railroad ha* Issued mle
eellaneou* new Inquiries totaltng about
1,500 tor*, end the Atlantic Coaat Lin*
i, in the market for a bridge at HUlton,
N i" . Involving 700 ton* of »t*el,
NO jOHK
"Strange." »ald the first tramp medi
tatively. "how few of our youthful
dreem* ever come trua!"
"Oh 1 dunno. *etd hfa companion. 1
remember I used to dream about war
in’ Unix pant* end now I guea* I wetr
’em longer than any one *-l*e In the
country.”
No matter what other* offer you in
suit*, punt* or furnishings we have
the beat for the prtce.F. G. Medina.
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