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W BRUNSWICK ■fa s the lowest death rate of Biy City its size in the United |OLUME XXI. NO. 297 XLYNN AFTER THREE jDAYS OF BIG SUCCESS ■POULTRY SHOW |S WELL AS OTHER BBEXMBITS, GREAT wed People Did Themselves ■Soud in Their Excellent Showing. MANUFACTURER’S DISPLAY WAS WONDERFUL FEATURE Frank E. Block Company, At lanta Candy Manufacturers, Was Awarded Best Booth Blue Ribbon. The Glynn County Fair closed last night after a very successful show ing. Visitors from all Parts of Geor gia attended the fair and pronounce it one of the best ever held in the eounty. The department devoted to exhibits from the various colored schools sur prised visitors with specimen of all kinds of handicraft. The Needwood school had on display many and va ried forms of agricultural Products raised in the county, and some speci men of woodwork and wesvery. The Priscilla Art Club displayed all kinds of fancy and practical needlework and crocheting. The Sterling school displayed agricultural products and fancy needlework. ClaVhole school exhibited agricultural products, fan ry and practical needlework, wood- work anil basket weaving. Fvorett City school displayed Ygricul'tiral Products, palmetto and pine neodie weaving and shuck cushions. Buck Swamp school showed agricultural products, needlework, sewing and sit, had a live opossum in a cage. The Brunswick school exhibited needle work and agricultural products. S' Simon school displayed ngrifullut’' products, including peanuts, model, of basket weaving and shucks cush ions. Magnolia school showed the usual agricultural products, specimen of weaving, needlework and a can" bottomed rfiair. W. 11. Si shrunk had a nice display of onions, carrot-:, cab bage, turnips, mustard, collard and sweet potatoes. St. Athanasius school had the best in their depart ment. showing the needlework of the girls' sewing department, including reed baskets (glass bottoms), ami stools, towel rollers. Pin cushions knife and fork picture frames and hook boys of th:" school made a set. inelud ing table six cane-bottomed, bookcase and a typewriting table. The juvenile department had a fire exhibit of preserved fruits and vege k tables-. Credit must be given Cin ' - liana O'N'eill. county demonstrator, for the work she did in managing t colored department. Mrs. Kate Lanier Smith, of the I.'n iversity of Georgia, had an exhibit on nutrition. The Federal Bakeries, Inc., of this city, had a line exhibit showing all kinds of delicious and aps petizing cakes, crackers and bread. Frank E. Block, of Atlanta, had a nice display of cakes and candies, this booth was managed by Mrs. H. B. Kroeber. Mrs. N. Emanuel of this city had a well arranged booth, dis playing her new' Dees products in the form of crystalized candies, stuff ed Prunes, dates ,and sugared nuts. All the ingredients of these products are raised right in this county. Me Brady’s Cos., had a nice display of all kinds of toilet waters, perfumes and face powders, booth managed by Mrs, W. H. Allen. The Phoenix Grocery Cos. displayed their chicken chow and chowder. Alonzo Bros, had a fine dis play of their cigars and special Christmas gift boxes of cigars. .1. M. Prim had a well appointed dis play of their cigars. Credit must he given Mrs. J. J. Wimberly for the fine manner in which lu put on dis play the various and diversified spec imen of the needlework of the ladies of Brunswick, in the art -lenartment. The Industrial Chemical and Fertil izer company exhibited fertilizer, acid phosphate, and nitrate of soda. The National Biscuit Company displayed their line of crackers and plum pud ding cakes. The Brunswick Marine Construction Corporation displayed models of Propellers, models of two schooners, and also a full rigged mod el of a two-masted schooner made by Cant. Chas. E. Gray. The Georgia Orqosoting Company displayed .sec tions of croßSties, poles, shingles, and cross arms. The County Board of Health displayed bottled malarial mosquitoes and minnows. The, Poultry Association had a large display of hens, roasters, and geese under the supervision of the president and secretary, Dr. R. G. Jackson aati Airs. G. V, Cate, respee THE BRUKSWTCir NEWS THE N EWS IS A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS % HARDING NOT SATISFIED WITH SHIPPING BILL AS PASSED BY HOUSE I?y Associated Press Washington. Dec. ].—Presi dent Harding is not satisfied with the shipping hill ns passed by the house, but will not make known his objections, fearing to do so would confuse the issues and hurt *ltie bill’s cliane it was announced today ar the White House. MRS. W.A. POTTESf PASSED AWAY AT Wonsan Has Bpen Seriously HI Jo- Past Several Weeks Mrs. W. A. IV.tt.'i-. beloved linin’, wick wi.nian. hv.’athi-<I hrr lest short ly after 10 o'clock last night after an illness extending over n lonjr period anil after everything- known to rnedi eal r'eienee had been resorted to ti save be . Reeentb she was brought back from Atlanta, where she had been under the treatment of one of the south’s best specialists and when it became known that, she had return ed to the city, it v.as then that seriousness of tier condition was ized by her friend.. her loved having already been nnnle tin- fact that her passim’ away wonh" he a matter of only a few weeks. lb-censed, who before her marriage wa Miss Josephine Atkinson. wn> born in this city on February 29 1872, and, is will he seen, was some thing over fifty years of age. Sh< leaves three daughters, Mrs. 0. !’• Pitman of Atlanta, Misses Virginia and Helen Potter, of this city, ant three sons, all of Brunswick: William Robert and Arthur Potter. She is a sister of R. L. Atkinson, of Way cross, former local resident and Miss Mamie Atkinson, of this city, and i a niece of Mrs. Caroline Wilson, of this city, and C. H. Atkinson, of Clarksville, On., is an uncle. Since early girlhood Mrs. Potter has been a devout member of the First Methodist church and although she has raised a large family, she alwavs found time to devote to her religious duties and it can he ti-uly said of her that, she was a Christian with all that this great word carries with it. In ttlie days of long ago. as i school girl, she was as devoted to her studies as .she. in after years was to her < Iftrch and her family and friends. She attended school in the old Glynn Academy, which stood for so many years at the corner of Mans field and Ellis streets and it is known that the weather was never too incle ment to cause her to miss even a day. With that Christian fortitude that has characterized her life, she meekly bowed to His "'ill, who knows best and calmly awaited the end restingn in that comfort that can only comej to one of His own flock. Awaiting the arrival of relatives no funeral arrangements have as Vet been made. F. W. DECKER CRITICALLY II I IN SAVANNAH HOSPITA! Many friend, of himself and fami ly will be grieved to learn or th . seriods illness of F. W. Decker, well known citizen, who is in a critical condition at St. Joseph’s infirmary, Savannah, where be lias been con fined for sonip 'time. Hi daughter, Mrs. S. A. Lamb, who returned from his bedside yes terday, states that there is little i m provernent in her father’s condition and I; i fearrd that he cannot re cover. tively. Posters were placed in prom inent poitions, showing how to te' the difference between good laying hens and bad. On display were about thirty six-weeks-old chicks that had been hatched in an incubator and fed scientifically. Prize winners of the poultry contest will published in Sunday's issue. Mrs. Madge B. fwrritt deserve* great credit in her work as home demonstrator, and it, is that iCcntianed on page 8) BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA. SATURDAY, DEC. 2, 1922. “BRAINS” OP TURKISH GOVERNMENT AT LAUSANNE MEET ' I fi> Turkish delegation. In the front row, left to right, are: Rechit Safet Bey, secretary general of the delegation, Zulti Bey, counsellor; Ritanour Be/, government delegate; Gen. Ismet Pasha, chief of die delegation; Zekay Bey, Yell Bey, Mouftar Bey and Munir Bey, all counsellors Tin- diplomatic chiefs of Kemal Pasha’s Turkish Nationalist gov ern mint are now Ditting their mj AUDIENCE HEARS OR. MOTOR ,0N RACE QUESTION Hend of > iiskej>ee liistituie ami Parly of l Spend Day Here. W UREAi EDUCA TOR IS WELL PLEASED WITH BRUNSWICK Address Was a fij i' , \ r-’fi N ' m Which-.Ha Vr.wt|f ' o i I on Tliur. if •mod will iWpart,' jswUlfcjS Ing t<> the cities of the state, wanK rare trout to th,, v a i't throng of )W>J pde of both rnce B who heard it. . Jir. Moton delivered his speech eg an Improvised platform in front of the new Memorial school for colored boy, and girls on Albany street. Smiled on the platform with him, were the twenty live prominent mem bers of his race, who are accompany ing him on his state wide tour of Georgia, representing the various leading negro institutions of sever al states/- Representatives of the local Board of Education, pressmen from the city and other cities and a few prominent Brunswickians. < Promptly at half raast two, William IT. ('lark of this city, who was evi denced a lively interest in the com ing of th ( . party to Brunswick and who acted as master of ceremonies, called the crowd to order and pre sented Dr- R. N Jackson, of this city, who jn a few well chosen re marks presented Dr. Moton to his great audience. IR. was loudly cheer ed, as in a quick, jerky step ho*fil ygticed to the platform and aB-r viewing his for a full A never a t a loss ter a thought <M a word in which tdßress it He ir a finished platformForator, punctuates his many sentences with happy and appropriate jokes and hu s a charm ing manner in speaking, which serves only to add to his attractiveness as m orator. Among other things Dr. Moton ] said • “One of fha most interesting pages 'n American history U the record of \’egro progress since emantpation. This progress has been especially significant in the south because the interests of the two races have nec essarily been in a state of readjust ment . In all of this readjustment, both the white and colored people have discovered that the relationship of tie two race s ar e so interwoven that what helps one helps the other and what, hinders one hinders the other. Emerging from the Civil w a r, the south was fact to face with the orobleni of rehabilitating itself along >oonomir lines and adjusting itself to anew situation. One of our most beautiful legacies from the old con ditions have been the devotion of tbons a nd s of individual members of each race to the other, and some times some of ns forget that today there is a devotion on the part of thousand,, of individuals of both races toward each other, quite as sincere and helpful as it was in the past. ‘‘Th world hear s much of the oc _ (Continued on page 8.) wits aratMt the bed mifek of other European governmei* at the peace conference at LausaVnc, WOMAN'S CLUB TELLS NEWS OF APPRECIATION i OF PllBI IC'ITY GIVEN. Mr. C. H. Leuvy, editor. Dear Mr. heavy: The Woman’s Club appreciates the generous public ity given through the columns of your paper to tbe Dull cook ing school. Also your kindness in publishing so readily the many other activities of this or ganization. Thanking your for your spirit of co-operation. Very truly yours. Mrs. TANARUS: W. Mallard, President. ' IpitlETl IS HI ItlMfy " n Circles and i|gS§Mited Home Econom ' ic?W®’'ivement in This State Some Time Ago. (By Associated Press.) Atlanta, Dec. I:—Mrs. Hugh M. Willet, former president of tb e Geor gia Federation of Women's Clubs, di rector of the Tallulah Falls school for mountain boys and girls, support ed by tb e federation; one or the lead ing and bo*t beloved women citizens of the state, died here this mojmng at a private sanitarium after anili nes >f two months. % Mi's. Willet, before her was Miss Lucy Lester, a, nutiviiwf Leon county Florida, fit childhood her family removed to Thomasville, where she received her early educa tion Previous to attending Wesleyan College in Mucon. Shortly after her graduation she was married to Mr. Willet andHthey made tliejr home In that city until 1902, when he became general agent for Georgia of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, and they removed to Atlanta. Sh t . was th<> mother of four chjl dren, only one of whom, Lawrence Willet, gttrvives her. His wife is e daughter of A. P. Brantley of Black Her oldest son, Hugh M. Wi|- died in the service during the vW-|d War. Her mother, Mrs. J. S. IPter, who survives her resides here in the Willet homo. Mrs. Willet inaugurated in the State Federation of Women’s Clubs the department of home economics, which brought about th e establtAi ment of hotn„ economics agents Bn most of the counties of Georgia, un der her direction the Tallulah Falls school has e*P p rienceil a remarkable growth. She was an active, con structive leader in Ponce De Leon Avenue Baptist church. Her funeral will be held Saturday afternoon, and interment will be at Westview Cemetery. Mrs- Willet w a s a cousin of Mrs Brian S. Brown, of this city and visited here last year and was the recipient of much attention by tin club women of the city. She was be loved by all who knew her and bet taking a w a y will cause genuine sor row throughout the state- CLEMENCEAU RESTED St. Louis, Dec. 1. —Georges Clem enceau, former premier of France, who is touring the United States to bring closer together the relation of this country, spent today in secl • ion at t’ne home of Joseph Puriitzsr, Jr. called in in effort to settle the problems, growing outaHne Turks’ successes. M WIPES OUT AtMOST ENTIRE EOWN'MEi Twelve Himderd are Rendered Homeless in I his l ittle City. EANN BY STILE WINDS FLAMES JWEPT RAPIDLY Late Last Night Fire Was Not Under Control and Population Was Calling on Nearyby Places JLit Help. Newberu.wN. G,,- ■-jV:\ 1.- Twelve i hundred are homeless a id tw<> lum- S rlred residences, two churches, two ! warehouses and several stores were [destroyed b.v a fire which today swept t wenty , blocks in the city with a loss estimated at more than a million dol lars. Fanned by high winds the flatties leaped quickly beyond control. Fire in another part of the town divided the tie-fighting forces and as sistance was summoned from nearh.v towns. Late tonight the fire was not under ontrol and additional calls for help were being sent to all places near here. Relief work of a sweeping nature has already boon started suffer ing will be alleviated Possi ble. I IRK IN CAN \I)I AN VILLAGE Montreal, Dec. I. Dire is visible from Montreal in the village of Ter rebbono, about twenty miles from here. g The population of the little city f something over ten thousand. The extent of the damage has not been reamed. MRS. J. W. ABBOTT FUNERAL HELD ON SUNDAY MORNING 'Hie funeral of Mrs. J. W. Abbott was held from the first Methodist church Thursday morning at 10:30 and was conducted by Rev T. IT. Thompson, pastor of that, church. Mr. Thompson was most ini ores si ve in his remarks touching the Christian life and character of the deceased j and dwelt at length upon her life, j Hl* talk wn s the Rllh chapter of K e.leslassea and in which he] spoke at length upon her many acts of kindnesses to the ill and depress de. After the funeral sermon Miss Margaret Humxiw-lt sweetly sang “Fa(' e to Face," an 'Rh ( . choir ren. tiered that beautiful hymn: ‘‘Abide With Me: Fast Fall Du* il'ventide ” And then all that, was mortal of this beloved woman was tenderly laid to rest In Palmetto cemetery, where many sorrowing friends paid their last respect,. to her. Many beautiful floral offerings attested the high es teem in which the deceased wa 3 held by her scores of friends. MUST HARMONIZE LEAVING OF TROOPS NOW ON RHINE (By Associated Press.) Washington, Dec. t -The adminis tration, it was said by the White House spokesman today, is In har mony with the views of the small forces now on the Rhine he returned home but beliove s for the present harmonizing and mollifying the effect of their presenc e as being necessary. STREETS OF CITY OF MEXICO SOAKED WITH BLOOD-RIOTS ACHIEVEMENTS OF TlllA OBSERVERS AT UUSAME ARK MEETING \i I'Holl (By Associated Press.) wP Washington, Doc. 1.- The ad ministartion believes the achieve meats of the delegates at the Lausanne conference will surpass imagination. ■President Harding’s announce ment today that the confidential reports showed so far, that ev erything was going along line' and most acceptably. DR. MOTON’S PARTY $D BUSY TIME OF MT IN BRUNSWICK At Glynn High School Were Presented to Members of Board of Education (B> W. H. Clark.) The party of colored educators and business men headed by Dr. R. I{. Moton of Tuskegeo, Ala., arrived in Brunswick as scheduled Thursday at noon and was taken in charge by a committee of Brunswick's colored cit izens. At the Glynn High school they were presented to memhiu-.s of the board of education. Themrcccptibn was of such a hearty naturif that ful ly three times as much time as figured on the program for this event was spent. The visit to the plant of the Ste Wart hotworks drew from ' member of the statement that, it was thing had con in Georgia. county fair •he Negro inspected to Ihe At this point Was abati 1 the tv had a nesJreAo see the far famed "Marslhos of Glynn.” A quick run vft made to South End for this purpose. The return trip was by lover's oalt, the colored business district and out Gloucester to Lee street where a stop was made while Dr. Moton, Warren Logan, treasurer of Tnskegee Institute; Dr. Harris, of Athens, and other prominent Geor gians in the party, who are personal friends of Charles A. Clark, who is ill at his. home on Lee street, called on the local chairman as a mark of cour tesy and appreciation for the part he played ioJbrmgmg the party to Brunswig™ . The paJHpnrrived at the Mew school building al 1:10 p. m. After a ten minutej^nspection of the building the ''"liny By was served with dinner in Auki; room. Bract! - eally every member of the party ex pressed himself as highly pleased with their visit to Brunswick, The committee desires to thank the citizens generally fu/ their splendid upport which made the event a .suc cess. The white citizens whose words of encouragement and financial as sistance so materially lightened the burden. The board of education and other officials for the very fine manner in which they met arid treated our lead ers. And The Brunswick News for the publicity given our meeting and in fact, paved the way for our suc cess. ROBERTSON TRIAL TO BE OR NOT TO BE THAT’S QUESTION I ADVICES FROM ADA SAYS CASE POSTPONED—OKLAHOMA CITY SAYS IT IS NOT. (By Associated Press.) Ada, Okla., Dec. I.—The Pontotoc j county district court where Governor Robertson, of Oklahoma, is scheduled to stand trial beginning on December 12, on charges of accepting a bribe, was adjourned here until April in an order issued late today by District Judge Union, regular judge of that court. Till VI, IS SCHEDULED. ( By Associated Press.) Oklahoma City, Okla., Dee. I.—-The trial of Governor Robertson, of Okla homa, will be held at Ada on Decem ber 12, as scheduled, despite action of Judge Bolen in adjourning the Pon totoc county court until April, it is announced tonight, BRUNSWICK Has/ landlocked harbor, the South Atlantio CoaSh • • • PRICE FIVEv LACK OF WATER CAUSES MOB TO. STORM CITY HALL Police l-ire With Deadly Effect and Seventeen Reported killed. LEADERS RETURN AND SET THE BUILDING ON EIRE Wild Night in Capital and Fed eral Troops May be Ordered to Take Charge of City and Situation. Mexico Cilv. Dec. L.—Federal troops guarded a badly battered municipal building today while the city counted the casualties of a pitched battle between the police and a mob which attempt ed to storm the building last night. The death list as a result o 1 Ihe lighting stood at seven teen today, while eighteen are known to have been seriously woundd and thirty-three slight ly hurt. The city, after a night of wild ex citoment, found its main plaza be fore the municipal building a sham bles of broken glass, timhej-s hud stone, evidence of the anger of th e mod which forced its way into the building half an hour after the police rides their toll. , lasted for more Started when a Crowd file city KuWko protest against the 'alderman wh are held responsible for . conditions lending to the water famine. The demonstra tion was intended by lh<> labor unions that organized it a s a peaceful Pro test and several hundred persons Pa raded the Aowntown streets before proceeding to the hall to voice their sentiments against the city govern ment. These protest ant, were rein- forced along the routs and when the intinicijji luifldjtucjvag reached the crowd vl than 2.000. the nl denneimthe mob to it worm by hurling sfftles and oth er miswle.s. When one leader sug gpstf^rtlmt the hall he entered, the deni*strators made a concentrated rucm forward. The police fired over the heads of the crowd, which, how ever, did not yheck its course. The police fired point blank with deadly effect. The demonstrators retired, carry ing the dead and injured, but in half an hour they returned and several of their number, breaking windows, entered tile hall and set fire to its contents. Valuable documents, some of them dated back several several centuries, were tossed into the street and the city records were given to the winds. By this tim e federal troops arrived hut intruders were not ejected before th<> building had been fired jn many places and the furniture wrecked. A line of hose, which the fire depart ment was able to bring into Play de spite the water shortage, was suc cessful in holding hack the crowds outside. Several sParodic attempts to con tinue the demonstration were made in the succeeding hours, but when the demOn^AanHs letnVned to the attack they found a cordon of sev pral hundred soldiers before the building and contented themselves with jeering and hooting. Thus baffled in their attempts to rP-enleh the hall, several small group s of citizens marched through the streets committing minor depre dations. They called on all the news naPer offices and hooted and yelled before the residences of the city of ficials . The residences of all aldermen were also under protection of federal troops. It was said today that the city election, scheduled for next Sun day, would he postponed in view of last, night's occuranc e and the sug gestion was made in many quarters that the federal government take over the city administration tempor arily. HARDING FAVORS DYER ANTI-LYNCHING BILL BUT SAYING NOTHING Washington, Dec. I.—President Harding personally favors the Dyer anti-lynching bill, it was declared at the White House today, although it was made clear that Hie executive Would make no comment on the pres ent Democratic filibuster aganlst the bill