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NEAR EAST PEACE PARLEY RESUMED AT LAUSANNE
OIL FIELDS
CONCESSIONS
QUESTION IN
FOREGROUND
LAUSANNE. —The question of the
Near Eastern oil fields, especially
those covered by the Chester conces
sions, is in the foreground Mo as
the allied and Turkish delegat'-.--;
meet in another effort to draft a
peace treaty to both sides
Whether the general subject of con
cessions comes before the conference
formally seems to depend on the suc
cess of direct negotiations between
British and French concession hold
ers and the Turkic' government who
were advised by the allies when they
agreed to detach economic questions
from the treaty. France, it is believ
ed, will probably Insist or the rights
accorded her In 1914 by the former
Turkish government and the British
delegation has let It be known that it
will support the French claim In the
event ,the issue is brought before the
conference.
Both Great Britain and France re.
ceived the news of the Chester grant
with a bit of uneasiness and France
because she thinks the 1914 agreement
gives her priority in the territory cov
ered by the concession, and Great
Britain because she is uncertain as to
whether the region thus opened to
American exploitation affects the
Irak .territory .In .which lie the valu
able Mosul fields.
Delegates here understand that the
United States, through her represen
tative, Joseph C. Grew, will contln re
to support the open door policy that
she advocated at the previous Lau
sanne conference. It Is also believed
that Minister Grew will defend, If
necessary, the Chester concession Irv
the event the American government
decides it is not In vl«latlon of its ad
-1 berenee to a policy of equal rights for
all nations.
As a legacy from the previous -->n
versations, the delegates have on *he r
hands such troublesome questions ar
the legal rlgh.s ofi foreigners In Tur
key and the Ottoman debt. The allies
hold that foreigners In Turkey should
not be entirely under the Jurisdiction
of the Turkish courts while the An
gora spokesmen insist that special
judicial privileges cast an unfavora
ble reflection on Turkey’s sovereign
ty. Great Britain did not accept the
last concessions made to the Turks
last February on this question where
by foreign legal advisers to be named
by the allies would be Informed of all
arrests of foreigners and It seisms
likely that the question will be ce
opened.
SOVIET RUSSIA
MAY BE FACTOR.
Developments Indicate that Soviet
Russia will decline to be eliminated
as a factor In the present negotia
tions, but will Insist on having some
thing to say, as one of the states in
vited to the original conference.
A Russian who was a member of the
Soviet delegation at the last confer
ence, arrived here today and an
nounced that authorized Russian
representatives might come later on.
This statement was regarded as
showing that Russia might be desir
ous of entering into official contact
with the powers and thug make a step
toward official recognition which was
realized the execution of Vicar Gen
eral Bitchkavitch had seriously af
fected.
The same Russian spokesman de
clared today that If the powers had
. left Intervention in the Butehkavitch
case to the Vatican, the churchman's
life would have been saved, but that
Boland's aggressive, attitude forced
Russia's hand.
“AGENT K-97" .
To Again Take Stand in Trial
at St. Joseph
9T. JOSEPH. <Mich.—Frsnels Mor
row, ngent K-97 of the department of
justice. was ready to b« called by the
Mate Monday to relate for the second
time the eventg that transpired gt the
communist convention near here last
August as the second wrek of the
trial of Charles T. Ruthenberg Cleve
land, charged with criminal syndical
ism opened. Morrow, who attended
the convention, told part of hTs story
for the first time during the trial of
William Z. Foster, of Chicago, the
first of the alleged communists Indict,
rd on charges of criminal syndics!-
ism to go on trial. The Jury In his
rase disagreed. The state announced
•that Morrow, regarded as It star wit
ness would be the last to take the
stand. Morrow’s testimony was ex
pected to be more comprehensive than
that given during the trial of Foster.
SHOT BY SON-IN-LAW
Quarrel Over Wagon Leads
to Gunplay
MARIETTA, fia.—Lob Crooks Is In
a hospital suffering from four bullet
nounds and his son-in-law. Ja'K
Brook* le under arrest as the result
of a quarrel Monday between the tw«,
The trouble started Saturday night in
an argument over a wagon belonging
to the e-ompagy where both men are
•mploytd, it wat said.
DAILy, sc; SUNDAY, sc.
(ASSOCIATED PRESS.)
Husband Should Pledge to Support
His Wife, Declares Bishop Reese
tiuUTINE BUSINESS
TRANSACTED TODAY
AT DIOCESE MEET
Rev. J. B. Lawrence Elected
Secretary
OTHER OFFICERS CHOSEN
Report of Executive Council
Presented By President,
Bishop Reese
When the Georgia Diocesan Conven
tion convened in St. Paul's church
Monday at 10 o’clock, routine business
was transacted, including the election
of the secretary of the diocese, Rev.
J. Lawrence of Athericus, and the
assistant secretary," Rev. E. M. Park
man of Augusta. Reports followed,
including those of the registrar. Rev.
J. B. Lawrence; treasurer of the dio
cese, B. B. .Russell, 3r.; the standing
committee, and the board of corpora
tion.
The report of the executive council,
presented by the president, the Rt.
Reverend F. F. Reese, D. D.. Bishop
of the Council, reviewed work
of the six departments. re
ligious, education. Christian So
cial service. Nation-wide cam
paign, publicity and finance. At
the conclusion of the report Bishop
Reese stated that this report repre
sentetj the work of the diocese in help
ing to propagate the Gospel in the
diocese.
WOMAN'S AUXILIARY
HOLDS SESSIONS.
Monday morning there were also
sessions of the Woman's Auxiliary *o
the National Council, the Church
School Service League, and the Young
People's Service League, held simul
taneously In St. Paul's parish house,
tf'ith Mrs. Jehn F. Sturman, Mrs. As
bury Hull, Jr., and Mrs. Will Cranston
presiding respectively.
General business sessions were held
with reports from the officers re
ceived, and at twelve o'clock the dele
gates adjourned to the church and
Joined in the noon-day prayers con
ducted by Bishop Reese, after which
the bishop presented his annual ad
dress to the convention.
Delegates to the 101st annua! con
vention of the Georgia Diocese, held
at St. Paul's Episcopal church, In
clude:
Savannah, Christ Church .1. M.
Lee, W, H. Winburn, A. C. Read.
Savannah, St. John’s Church—Rev.
IV. A. Jonnard, Judge George T. Cann
W. Williamson.
Savannah, St, Paul’s Church—Rev.
W B. McGlohon, Judge A. B. Moore
W. J. Brown, S. K. Ward.
Savannah, Rt. Michael and All An.
gels Church—Rev. J. D. Miller. A. F
K. Mustin, F. H. MacFarland.
Augusta, St. Paul’s Church—Rev. O
S. Whltneyt B. B, Russell Jr., Dr.
N. A. Teague, W. K. Miller’
1 Augusta, Church of Good Shepherd
I —Rev, H. Hobart Barber, Messrs.
I Grace and Howard.
Augusta. Arurch of the Atonement
j —Rev. Jackson H. Harriss, Messrs.
Foucher and Richards.
Augusta, Christ Church—Rev. E. M.
Tarkman, J. W, Barnes.
St. Simon's Island—Re D W
I Winn.
Brunswick, St. Mark's Church—F.
| D. Aiken, R. A Gould, P., V. Smith.
Thomasvllle—Rev. Robt. White, Jr.
R. C, Balfour. . ’
Amerlcus—Rev. J, B. Lawrence. ,
Thomas Harneli.*
Waycross— Rev. E. W. Halleck, J. E.
Wadley, Basil Cole.
Balnbrldge—Rev. H. Scott.
‘Smith— Mr. Rassell.
Hawkinsville—J. H. Caldwell.
Jesup—Roy E. Breen.
Quitman —S. N. Conner.
Valdosta—Rev. J. J. Cornish.
Cordeie —Rev. J. Harry Chesley I
SOCIAL SERVICE
IS PRESENTED.
Social Service through the church
was presented at a conference held
yesterday afternoon at the Church of
. the Good Shepherd, conducted by the
■ Rev. H. Hobart Barber, who Is the
vice chairman of the department of
j Christian Social Service of Georgia,
i After a short scrvlc , the Rev, George
I Croft Williams, of Columbia, 8. C. t
secretary of the state hoard of public
welfare, gave the addresa of the after
noon. after which an informal con
ference was held and report* made by
representatives of parish commit-
I tees.
| Mr Williams, whose subject was
I “The Practical Phaze of Christian So.
I dal Service In tho Parish.” defined
first the meaning of social aervlcg as
working together by groups In the
solving of the many problems that
confront the social life .today. The
need, eald Mr. Williams, la to reshape
condition*, and the aim of social **.•-
vlc* is not so much to help In, th* way
of the old Idea of charity, but to wipe
out all unnecessary sorrow and trou
ble. Thla, he said, requires united
effort, and the Episcopal church must
co-operate with ail agencies. The
speaker then pointed out how Christ
as the Great Genial Man., mingled
I wltf the people in whom He was In
tensely Interested and to whom He
_rnlniatesed* and that spirit. Mr. Wtl
’ Hams come down through the
(Continued on Page Five)
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
Failure or Inability to Do
i That Does Not Destroy the
Principle, Says Bishop, In
Discussing Changes In
Marriage Ceremony of
j Church
ANNUAL ADDRESS IS A
MASTERFUL UTTERANCE
Bishop Reese Discusses Af
fairs of Church in Interest
ing and Scholary Manner.
Spoke to Large Congrega
tion at St. Paul’s Monday
Morning.
“Every husband should he obligated
and pledged to support his wife, and
failure or inability to do that does
not destroy the principle, even though
the feminist ladlf?3 and gentlemen
do not agree and talk about the eco
nomic independence of the wife," de
clared Bishop F. F. Reese, of the
Georgia Diocese, In his annual ad
dress before the Georgia Convention
at St. Taul’s church here Monday
morning. .
Bishop Reese’s statement was
made in connection with the discus
sion by him of the general conven
tion held recently in Portland. Ore.,
at which was discussed a number of
changes in laws and ceremonies of
the Episcopal church, particularly
prayer book amendments. He ex
pressed ' the view that the changes
adopted and proposed are, on the
whole, admirablo*ind conservative.
“Prospective brides, who may be
disturbed becapso they may no longer
be endowed with all the worldly
goods’ of their husband, can be con
sorted, if need be, by the fact that
they will no longer be required by the.
marriage vow definitely to ‘obey’
their husbands.” Bishop Reese said.
"In these days of •liberty’ as it is
called,” the bishop continued, “ a
'good many reckless and rather wild
opinions -find ready expression about
everything under the sun, even
things which we thought that hu
man experience had. pretty well set
tl#l. Hut let us have patience. Ear
nest, sincere thought, however errat
ic, makes* for the final restatement
of truth and the things which cannot
bo shaken will tie there when the
storms of extravagance have sub
sided. A good shaking ut> is neces
sary now and then and even the
wjsest of conservatives will profit by
it.”
SCHOLARLY ADDRESS
BEFORE CONVENTION.
Bishop Reese's address, a masterful
and scholarly utterance, deals chiefly
with the affairs of the church in this
diocese, although he discusses matters
of interest to the church at larjte.
The address Is given jn full as fol
lows:
My Dear Brothers of the Clergy and
Laity:
It is my privilege to greet you
again at a meeting of our Diocesan
Convention, the fifteenth since my
consecration, and the one hundred
and first since the organization of the
diocese.
One hundred years of service an 6
growth lie behind us, and the present
is with us for duty and the future
lies before us, for more years of ser
vice I trust to you. May God be with
us today and for all fbuture days and
give us wisdom and courage and
faithfulness, so that the Inheritance
we have received- from our fathers
may be transmitted, enriched and en
larged by our labors to our posterity.
May they look back to our day with
the same gratitude to God. which I
am sure we all feel to Him for the
steadfast ' lovalty g r ,j self-sacrificing
labors of th# men and women of the
past.
Since our last convention two of
our bishops have finished their labors
on earth.
The Rt. Rev. Cortland Whitehead.
Doctor of Divinity, Doctor Pf Laws,
Bishop of Pittsburg, died on Septem
ber 13, 1922, after an Epls-opate ex
tending over thirty years, and In the
31st year of his age. Bishop White
head was at the time of hi* death the
third bishop is seniority In the church
and waa one of the valued members
of the house of bishops. Ho had
been from their first appointment un
til his death, chairman of the two
joint commissions of the general con
vention on the revision of the prayer
book and of th# two Joint commis
sions of the general convention .on tho
revision of the hymnal. In which ca
pacity he rendered especially valuable
service to the church.
(Continued on Page Six).
Bishop Gailor Gets
Insignia of Knight
of Holy Sepulchre
f\ ' A
NEW YORK —The Insignia of
a Knight ot the Holy Hepulchre
for Bishop Thomas F. Gailor. of
Memphis, has b»»n brought here
| from Jerusalem l>y Bishop
Jam»» Henry Darlington. of,
Harrisburg, who arrived here'
Sunday on th* steamship Nieuw
Amsterdam.
THE ONE PAPER IN MOST HOMES—THE ONLY PAPER IN MA NY HOMES.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 23, 1923
GEORGIA DIOCESE
CENTENNIAL HERE
FORMALLY OPENED
St. Paul’s Church Packed to
Capacity
impressmT picture
As Noted Bishops and Clergy
Advance Upon Marble
Chancel
The Centennial Celebration of the
Episcopal Diocese of Georgia was /or
mally opened Sunday morning by ser
vices and *he Celebration of the Holy
Communion in Saint Paul’s Church,
the place which saw the organisation
of the diocese in the state an hundred
years ago. Long before the hour set
for the services the edifice Vas pack
ed with communicants and visitors
who were on hand to assist with the
celehration, and oiialrs had to be
placed in the aisles to try and care
for the crowds who kept surging In
in a steady stream.
Contrary to their usual custqm the
processional was made from the rear
of the church to the channel instead
of from the vestry, and in spite of
all the many stately and brilliant
occasioifc which have been staged
within those lofty walls, no other yet
has equalled this in majesty and sol
emnity. First came the crucifer,
bearing aloft the sublime gleaming
cross; after him came the vested
choirs of St. Paul’s and the Churbh
of the Atonement, singing in unison!
“Oh. ’twas a Joyful sound to hear
Our tribes devoutly say.
Up Israel! to the temple haste
And keep your festal dag.”
Following these came the vestries
of all the Episcopal Churches in the
city; and after these came visit
ing clergy! clergymen of the local
Episcopal Churches (Winding Rev
erand Hobart Barber of the Church
of the Good Shepherd, Reverend
Jackson Harris of the Chnrch of the
Atonement, and Reverend G. Sher
wood Whitney of St. Paul’s; after
whom followed the Bishops Including,
the Rt. Rev. Kirkman O. Flniay, D.
D„ of South Carolina; Rt. Rev. Al
bion W. Knight, D. D., vice-chancel
lor of the University of the South;
the Rt. Rev. Henry J. Mlkell, D. D.,
of the Atlanta Diocese, amp Rt. Rev.
Frederick F. Reese, of the Geergla
Diocese, all most striking in their
priestly regalia.
As this large procession advanced
upon the marble chancel they present
ed an impressive picture never to be
forgotten by any of those who were
fortunate enough to be present.
The Virginal white marble a'tar, the
gleaming altar brasses and seven
branched candlesticks, the tinted nob
le-arched above with sprays
of lovely spring flowers delicately sil
houetted against it, the contrasting
solemnity of the vestments, and over
all the flickering yellow light of many
gleaming candles.
BISHOP REESE
DELIVERS SERMON.
The morning services were presid
ed over by Bishop Reese who prea
ched the centennial sermon, and cele
brated the Holy Communion at this
service assisted by the other bishops.
The Epistle of this service was read
by Bishop Finlay, and the Gospel was
read by Bishop Knight. Reverand G.
Sherwood Whitney, rector of St.
Paul's made a most Informal little
address of welcome to the visitors
on behalf of his church which reached
the hearts of all by the simple sin
cerity of his message and manner.
Mr. Whitney’s addreas In part fol
lows;
“Dear Friends of the Diocese of
Georgia; In the name of our Lord
and Master whom we serv-, I greet
you and welcome you to old Saint
Paul's. In the name of the warden,
vestry, and the people of this his
toric church I bid you welcortis. Yes
more! In the name of my faithful
and consecrat'd predecessors • Hugh
Smith. William Clarke, and Chauncy
Williams, and ail those companies of
faithful laymen of each generation
since 1923 who have handed on the
torch of faith from generation to gen
eration in the name of Christ, again
I bid you welcome. We have come
(o worship and plan together for
fresh years of labor in our Matter's
service, and I pray that Ood may
bless us In that undertaking, and
endow us with wisdom in th* egten
sion of his kingdom.” •
The sermon of Bishop Itceee was of
the keenest interest from a historical
standpoint as well as a masterly work
of composition and oratory that is
always characteristic of this eminent
churchman. Bishop Reese briefly
sketched th# entire history of the
Episcopal church in Georgia from Its
earliest origin, when the first service
was conducted by Rev. Henry Her
bert who landed with Oglethorpe;
through Its early struggles until it
was organised Into a Diocese at th*
first convention held In old St.
Paul's here, and then carried the dio
cese through Its hundred years of
organised evangelism down to the
present day. Episcopalians who heard
this Inspiring sermon came awey
knowing more about their church
Continued on page Five
DR. TIKHON S
TRIAL BEFORE
SOVIETS IS
POSTPONED
MOSCOW.—The trial of tn®
Most Rev. Dr. Tikhon, former pa
triarch of all Russia on a charge or
treason and hindering the carry
ing out of soviet orders, has been
postponed Indefinitely. It had been
set to begin Tuesday morning.
RlGA.—Bishop Nlfont and Dea
con Lepokrov, have been convict
ed by a tribunal in Tsarltsm,
Russia, of opposition to the se
questratlon of church treasures, ,
according to advices received hero.
The bishop was sentenced to seven
years Imprisonment and the dea
con to a 'term of eight years.
WARSAW. —The Russian colony
here Sunday held a big mass
meeting in protest against the
trial of the Most Rev. Tikhon, for
mer patriarch of all Russia by the
soviet government.
TJie trial of Dr. Tikhon, which war
to have been begun Tuesday, was
expected to develop oven greater In
terest and significance than the re
cent trial of the Roman Catliollc pred
ates and priests which resulted in thi
execution of Vicar General Butchka
vitch and a death sentence upon
Archbishop Zepllak, which was after
wards commuted to ten years impris
onment.
Tlio trial now indeflntely i ostponed
was for the hearing of charges against
the former head of the Russian Or
thodox Church, for centuries the au
thoritative state church of Russia,
and tho prosecution of Patriarch Tik
hon waas regarded in church quarters
more as a challenge of the Soviet to
the former ertabUshe'd religion than
as a etalght mjthearlng of the patri
arch's alleged aeditioug acts.
The charges- against Dr. Tftdion
charged him of pronounced counter
revolutionary activities among others
maintaining connections with such
militant enemies of the Soviet as Ad
miral Kolohak and General Wrangcl,
favoring the restoration of tho mon
archy and demanding resistance to
the sequestration of church treasures.
Moscow dispatches Sunday night
quoted the Soviet press as assorting
that Dr. Tikhon had made a confes
sion admitting these and other
j charges, but there has been n t> con-
I flrmation of this report from church
sources.
The patriarch's trial was first set
for April 11. and then was postponed
until April 17. but later was announty
ed to have been definitely set for
April 23. Latest reports until Mon
day's announcement of an Indlflrrte
postponement, were that It should
surely begin by noon tomorrow.
World War
Vet Dances
107 Hours
DALLAS, Texas—R. J.'New
man, local athlete and world war
veteran, quit tho floor here at 3:52
o'clock Monday morning, having
set a record of 107 hours and two
minutes dancing. He was allow
ed a 15 minutes rest period each,
four hourse of his endurance test,’
which started at 4:47 p. m. last
Wednesday.
On the basis of 15 minutes rest
every four hours, Newman had a
total respite of about 6 1-2 hours
of the 107 total. Six contestants
started Wednesday, but five In
cluding three girls, dropped' out
after about the sixtieth hour. Phy
sicians announced Newman in.
“fairly good condition”, when ho
quit this morning.
Bombs Explode
In Baseball Park
of the White Sox
CHICAGO.—T h r e e bombs
were exploded Monday night at
the Chicago American League's
baseball park, shattering lights
In the grand stand and windows
in nearby houses. Thomas Ita
ly, night watchman, sitting |n
the office of the park, wgs
thrown from his chair by the
force of the explosion, but not
injured.
The bombing was attributed
to labor trouble.
A weekVago vahdals deatroyed
the plumbing in the remodelled
park of Hie Chicago National
League Club. That, act also
was laid to labor difficulties.
NEW HIGH RECORD
In Cuban Raw Sugar on New
York Market
NEW YORK. —Cuban raw augar
Monday roI4 at. a new high rerr,rt l
nine* 1920 with a *al* of JO.dOO base*
to an operator for May ahlpment at
•Mb cent* coat and freight, equal to
A2* 'icUverer). Raw future * a*at#
'touched high record* and one
local refiner advanced Hat price* for
#j*aul*4«4 t«a pvu. U to 9.19.
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Congressman Andrew J. VolstAid.
who makes u» all drink water,
snapped as he left Washington to re
ttro tq private life In Minnesota.
SAYS DAUGHERTY
WIELDED POWER
FDD POLITICAL
PURPOSES
PITfSHUHO. Attorney Oncral
Daugherty w*i* acetified of using the
power of Indictment In tho wrtr camp
contract chhps for political purposes
and of besmirching reputations with
out evidence to “even decently” sup
port Ihls charges In a speech here
onday by H. O. Marshall, Jr., chief of
the construction division of Qio army
during the war.
Addressing a s business men’s lun
cheon, Mr. Marshall, who formerly
held the rank of brigadier general,
said tho Department of Justice "after
five years and following Investiga
tions costing the government hundreds
of thousands of dollars,” hkd had tho
"unmltlgatod effrontery” to plead un
preparedness In several of tho cases at
the same time accusing contractors of |
Inefficiency for having built whole
cities ln # 90 days.
’’The spectacle of these men (the'
war camp contractors) pilloried In the ,
public press, posted ss evil
ers in the time of the nation’s tra- 1
vail,” Mr. Marshall said. **ls tho re
sult of our fluctuating political pow
er. There are men and processes ac
tively at. work lr this great depart
ment today who, unless restrained,
can so discredit the functioning of
that, organization that the confidence
of the people In it will be lost.”
fMans for letting contracts under
which war-tlrne carnps were con
structed, he continued, were tho only
plans under which they could have
bem properly built, In the time x
qulred. The form of the contractors,
Me said, were Identical with those
generally employed In commercial
work, and contractors who built the
camps received less than .1 per cent
gross profit and less than 1 per rent
net profit when tales and other
elpirges not reimbursable, wen* de
ducted.
Mr. Marshall denied charges that
there Nvss “an unc< nscjonable waste
of material and labor,” declaring It
was ’’bitter Irony that the men who
built the camp* at a time when
enough skilled laborers Impos
sible to find,” now were accused of
fraud "because they produced results
with the second and thl#d and fourth
rate men testimony on
which the Indictment* were based, he
said, was given by * handpicked wit-
Tier
Foreign Movies
Are Debauching
Chinese Morals
PEKINO.—-Foreign motion picture*
'are rfebaualng fblneia moral*, accord
ing to the I*»IIy New*, fatten
of robbery and murder along the fa
miliar line* of the movie, hava
reported from Shanghai . and other
porta, the paper ray*, and In conse
tjuencr, there ha* been a general out
cry agalnrt the showing of questiona
ble pictures. ,
18 CENTS A WEEK.
LEASED WIRE SERVICE WEATHER u ° Ußta and vicinity: Partly Cloudy
ULnillLn tonight; Tuesday local showers.
INJUNCTION ISSUED
BY THREE FEDERAL
JUDGES IN BOSTON
PUBLICATION OF
CROP FORECAST
RESULTS IN
. PROTESTS
RT. MATTHEWS. S. C.—Proposal
for a national conference of "rep
resentatives of agriculture ami
rriendly allied Interests” to meet in
Washington to protest against the de
partment of agriculture report on the
probable acreage of principal crops is
made in a telegram sent To Norman
Mayer A Co., of Now Orleans, by
J. S. Wannarnnker, president of the
American Cotton Association and
made public hero Monday. The tele
gram urgi-H members of the firm to
confer with friends and advise the
sending of their judgment saying that
many requests for such a conference
have been received.
Mr. Wannamaker in bis telegram
said he bad assurances that lie could
seenro the co-operation of agricultural
interests in the west and other sec
tions of the eountry for a national
conference In Waahlngtop "as a pro
test against government policy of In
terfering with ibWh of agricultural
products.” He said that the grain
growing west “urges joint co-opera
tion In reduction of acreage west, and
south as a matter of mutual protec
tion.”
In nnother telegram sent to the
same firm Saturday, Mr. Wannamaker
says that he can find "no law. either
human nr divine. Justifying action of
government In Issuing report Monday
morning showing acreage Increase In
cotton of approximately 12 per cent.”
ST. MATTHEWS. K. C—The notion
of government official* In making
public the crop and acreage report of
JR economist* to the Department of
Agriculture were denounced In a atate
mnnt hero Monday by J. S. Wenna
maker, iresldent of the American As
sociation.
JYotest* against the report, Mr.
Wannamaker declared, had come "to
him, by telegraph from every section
of.tho country and from person* In all
walks of life, including members of
congress
"These economist* must be mlrid
readers.” Mr. Wannamaker said,
"because they profess to tell us what
the farmers 'lntend' to plant and In
addition, they must be readers of the
future, because they tell us what na
ture Is scheduled to do In connection
with the crops during the coming
months."
In making public a government
forecast at this time, the Cotton As
sociation head asserted. Is unprece
dented In this country for at least fif
ty years, the first regular forecast
not being due until July. Cast year
year, he continued, Department of
Agriculture officials refused the re
tpicals of cotton Interests that the
probable decrease In a<reage be esti
mated early In the year, whereas this
year, when there la the possibility of a
contrary effect of a prediction. It Is
made. .
Mr. Wannamaker questioned the
authority with which "these econo
mists. prophets snd mind readers"
spoke In regard to crops, adding he
doubted If they had sufficient Infor
mation upon which to base n depend
able statement of conditions.
"NATURAL CORNER"
EXISTS IN COTTON.
There exists now, he declared a
"natural corner" In cotton, due to the
law of supply an-’ demand, which
law Is governed In this case by the
consumption and production factors.
Consumption Is overlapping produc
tion. ha said. The visible
supply of American cotton Is only
1,i»74,62S bales, according to Mr. Wan
namaker, while, he asserted, the mills
of the world sra using It at the rata of
a million bales a month. The result
Is the "natursl corner,” ha said.
"The problem of thosh who sold
cotton that did not exist and were
making frantic efforts to secure It
while realising the Inevitable failure
of their efforts to do so through ex
haustion of the supply, and who.
therefore, were facing enormous loss
es," the cotton association president
asserted, has baen solved by this ac
tion of the government In behalf of
the gambler, Mr. Wannamaker
charged that European Influences
were working to depress the pflce of
00*100, "The statement has he«n
made by one of the highest textile of
ficials of Europe," he said, "that It
la necessary for Europe to secure
cheap American cotton In order that
European governments may pay their
enormous debts to the United States,
sand that Individuals of Europe must
be able to psy tlielr obligations to
Rrnerlcnn Individuals and corp*ra
t.ons. He declared that they would
not pay a price for cotton which would
enable us of the South to take our
women and children out of the fields
and put them Into the home* and
achoota,'*
HOME
leditioh
BOSTON.— A permanent
injunction restraining the
interstate commerce com*
mission from carrying out
its recent order providing
for the sale of non-transfer
able and interchangeable
mileage tickets at a 20 per
cent price reduction was is
sued Monday by Judges
Mack, Brewster and Morris
in the federal district court.
The injunction order was is
sued after a hearing on a
petition of fifty eastern rail
roads opposed to the inter
state commerce commission
ruling.
WASHINGTON. lnte
rstate commerce commission
officials said Monday that
the federal court order is
sued at Boston restraining
the commission’s railroad
mileage installations from
going into effect would
probably be appealed at
once to the supreme court
for final decision.
SI? FLORIDA BM
IS BEATEN TO
DEATH 111
MICHIGAN
ORLANDO, Fla.—An examination
Monday morning of the body of Frank
Patterson, an Orlando youth, who It
Is alleged in letter* written to his par
ent* by Inmate* of a reform schol at
lona.Mlch,, died 'rom the effect* of a
whipping which he received at the
hands of a guard. Indicated, accord
ing to Undertaker Hand, mortuary ex
pert, that the lad had been beaten to
death. Three large fractures were
found on the skull, the pr'nclpal
wound having been received on top of
the- head, which It I* said by those
examining the body which reached
here late yesterday s did away with the
theory that the boy had come to hi*
death from the effect of a fall to the
floor received In an alleged riot In tha
Institution.
There were three more r'.nor
wounds i 1 the forehead plastered ov
er by the lona undertaker' with some
sort of substance like rouge to cover
up the scars, It was stated.
Patterson had been an Inmate three
years of the Michigan Reform School
at lona, Mich, Two letters, which wera
received here by Frank’s parents be*,
fore the body arrived, charged the lad
had been killed by hie keepers. One
of the letters mentioned the alleged
alayer’s name,
A statement had been Issued from
the reform school that there waa a
riot In the Institution and Frank fell
or waa thrown on the .cement floor in
the course of the scnffle, dying of a
wound thus received of concussion of
the brain.
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