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THOMSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1923.
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FRED M. HATCHER j. TEMPLE GRAVES
INSTANTLY KILLED
Harlem, Ga., Sept. 26.—Fred M.
Hatcher, prominent merchant and
farmer of Harlem, was instantly
killed early Monday night when the
automobile in which he was riding
wrecked on the Harlem-Appling
highway six miles from Harlem, near
the home of Mrs. W. A. Phillips. The
accident is believed to have been
caused by the locking of the rear
axle of the machine.
Mrs. W. A. Phillips was the first
tq reach the scene. She said that
she heard a terrible crash and rush
ed from her house, and about 300
yards down the road towards Har
lem found the car turned bottom up
and Mr. Hatcher’s body lying just
a few feet to the rear of it. He was
then dead, she added, and had ap
parently been killed instantly. There
were no eye-witnesses of the acci
dent.
Mr. Hatcher had been at Appling
during the entire day attending su
perior court which convened there
Monday morning. He was among the
last to leave the courthouse and at
6 o’clock was in conversation with
Solicitor George Hains who was pre
paring to leave in his automobile for
Augusta. Some time after 6 o’clock,
Mr. Hatcher started home in his
roadster. Mrs. Phillips said that she
heard the crash near 7 o’clock.
Mr. Hatcher was a prominent Ma
son. He was a member of Harlem
Lodge No. 276, of Georgia Comman-
dery No. 1, Knights Templar, and
of Okad Shrine Club, of Augusta.
Not only in his home town and
county was he known but he also en
joyed a wide circle of friends in
Augusta and throughout the state.
Besides his wife, Mrs. Jennie
Hatcher, who will most of all grieve
his untimely death, he is survived
by his father, Mr. W. E. Hatcher and
his step mother, Mrs. W. E. Hatcher,
of Harlem; four brothers, Earnest
W. Hatcher and Hulon 0. Hatcher,
of Harlem; Vernon F. Hatcher, of
Atlanta and George O. Hatcher, of
Social Circle, Ga.; one sister, Miss
Evelyn Hatcher, of Harlem, who is
AND SEN. HARRIS
To The Editors of Georgia:
When Senator Wm. J. Harris en
tered the Senate of the United States,
after his wonderfully rapid rise from
private life, I wrote for one; of the
current magazines a prediction that
when his term was ended, he would
be written in the records as perhaps
not the most eloquent, but certainly
as one of the most practical and use
ful men who had served Georgia in
that great assembly.
The results of Senator Harris’ first
term now two-thirds completed, have
abundantly vindicated my prediction.
He has had four years in the Sen
ate. During this time he has had
four different colleagues and today
he is the Senior Senator from Geor
gia. He can soberly challenge the
record that, within these years he
has secured as much or more for
Georgia—for Georgia men and wo
men—for Georgia interests, as any
previous Senator has done since Joe
Brown utilized his “judgment” and
his tact in the service of the state.
I congratulate myself that I am not
a bad judge of men.
Senator Harris has won the honor
of a membership on the great Ap
propriations Committee of the Sen
ate which handles all bills to provide
money for the government under the
budget system. He is the one Sen
ator on that committee from the en
tire southeast, and, excepting Senator
Owen of Oklahoma, he is the only
Southern member of the committee
from North Carolina to Mexico.
He is a member, and in several
cases the ranking member of six
sub-committees which actually draft
the bills—the War Department, Post-
office Department, including federal
aid for good roads, the Department
of Agriculture, the Department of
Commerce, Department of the Inter
ior and the legislative establishments.
The committees of Immigration and
Territories complete his important
assignments.
Through alert and active service
the Senator has been largely instru
mental in assisting the various mili-
WEEKLY DIGEST FROM
THE NATION’S CAPITAL
n6w attending Wesleyan College at tary activities in Georgia with ade-
Macon, and numerous other relatives,
Funeral services were conducted
at the residence Monday at 5 o’clock,
Dr. W. J. Quillian, of Augusta; Rev.
C. D. Reed, pastor of the Harlem
Methodist hurch, and Rev. J. T.
Robins, pastor of the Thomson Meth
odist church officiating. The ser
vices at the grave were conducted by
members of the Blue Lodge of Har
lem Masons.
NEGRO STOLE GLTTA*R FROM
GOSPEL TENT, VOW IN JAIL
Tillman McCalpin, a y,>ung negro
man about 19 years old, was arrest
ed Saturday night and locked up for
stealing a guitar from the Gospel
tent at the corner of Journal and
Greenway streets Sunday night a
week ago.
McCalpin lived in the vicinity of
the ball park, and it was in one of
the lockers used by the players when
games are played at the park that he
had hidden the stolen guitar. Chief
Half- rescued the instrument and re
turned it to Mrs. Dean at the Gospel
tent. The negro is in jail awaiting
trial at the next term of court.
WILL OPEN NEW STORE
ON RAILROAD STREET
A new store will soon be opened
up on Railroad street by Mr. R. L.
Hadaway, of Hadaway’s Department
Store.
The business will be known as the
Racket Store, and will be located in
the Masonic building, where the
Thomson Bee Hive was located prior
to moving to present quarters.
Mr. Hadaway will install an up-
to-date stock of dry goods and furn
ishings in his new place. Opening
date will be announced later.
quate appropriations, particularly at
Fort Benning. The rivers and har
bors of Georgia have received large
allotments from the government.
Such important work as the develop
ment of pecans; the subjugation of
the peach pest; ,the stations for boll
weevil experiment work; telegraphic
reports on market and crop condi
tions for live stock, watermelons,
peaches and other fruits and vege
tables, have been assisted through
Senator Harris’ efforts.
He is the author of valuable legis
lation written in the statutes of the
67th Congress, and several of his
bills passed the Senate but failed of
final action in the House. Among
the laws which he introduced are the
limitation of cost to $250,000 for the
construction of Federal Reserve Bank
buildings without consent of Con
gress; the amendment to permit
small state banks to enter the Feder
al Reserve system; the amendments
to the Federal Warehouse Act to
broaden the scope of products which
might be stored and to strengthen
the warehouse receipts.
Summing up the achievements and
usefulness of a first term in the
United States Senate, our Senior Sen
ator from Georgia may well rest up
on that record for a practical en
dorsement in 1924, as a public serv
ant who has fulfilled the scriptural
standard, “Diligent in business, fer
vent in Spirit”—serving the State.
(Signed)
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.
R.
S. HADAWAY BUYS
STAR PRESSING CLUB
Washington, T). C., Sept. 27.
FARM LOAN LEGISLATION.
Senator Borah lost no time in call
ing on President Coolidge, upon his
return to Washington. The next day
the Washington Star published an
editorial under the heading, “The
Farmers’ Relief Problem.” This edi
torial starts out with a thrill, as fol
lows:
“Wanted: A practical method of
helping the American farmer under
the conditions spelling ruin for many
of the agriculturalists, now confront
ing him. President Coolidge, his cab
inet, Senator Borah of Idaho and
other legislators are giving the mat
ter their closest attention. If such a
method can be found and plan form
ed, requiring additional legislation,
then Congress, Senator Borah be
lieves, will be called in special ses
sion by President Coolidge, who is in
hearty sympathy with the plight of
the farmers.”
Senator Borah believes that it is
essential—and so does the President
—that a definite plan be approved
by the administration before calling
Congress together. “If we can’t
agree on what should be done before
an extra session is called, we would
not be likely to agree afterward,” is
the way the Idaho Senator puts it.
Senator Borah points out that the
farmer today is compelled to sell his
products at pre-war prices and to
buy his supplies at war prices, and
at the same time he is compelled to
pay treble the amount of taxes he
paid before the war. There is a big
crop of wheat and of other staples
this year, all of which tends to de
crease prices received by the farm
er.”
The Washington Post carried an
editorial on “Farm Legislation” on
the same day. “The permanency of
the benefits claimed by Senator Len-
root for the farm credits is proved
by the relief it has effected,” bays
the Post. “It enables the farmer to
help himself, to dig himself into pros
perity, to hold his own against
changes of market. The Wisconsin
Senator’s disclaimer of panacea prop
erties for that law is self-proving.
No legislation of the ‘cure-all’ variety
can be devised for agriculture until
Congress is vested with control of
weather conditions, of world mar
kets, of international relations and
economic forces. This means that
Congress deserves credit for the good
it has done in the way of agricul
tural relief legislation. There is a
limit to the effectiveness of legisla
tion in dealing with agricultural con
ditions. Agriculture is subject to so
many influences and forces beyond
control of any governmental agency
that it is folly to talk of enactment
of laws that will insure the farmer
against ills from every quarter. The
sooner this is realized by self-styled
‘progressive’ champions of the agri
cultural cause the better for all con
cerned.”
to the increase of 36 per cent in the
number of children employed indus
trially in the United States. He in
formed the President of efforts in
the past to stir up agitation on the
subject, and told of representatives
of eighteen national women’s organ
izations having met with federation
officers to form a national conference
on child labor. He said they were in
formed by expert counsel that be
cause of the Supreme Court decision
invalidating the child labor law, a
constitutional amendment would be
necessary. It is understood that
they will wage the fight to put
through such an amendment.
BLAMES COAL COST CHIEFLY
TO LABOR.
The United States Coal Commis
sion, in a report to the President on
“Irregular Operation and Overde
velopment of the Bituminous Indus
try,” declares that labor disturb
ances resulting in strikes are most
serious obstacles to a super-abundant
production of coal for the consump
tion of the American people. The
commission admitted that ineffective
transportation machinery had a bear
ing on shortage of fuel.
THE RECLAMATION PROBE.
Secretary of the Interior Work’s
“fact-finding commission” has been
invited to present “a blunt report of
conditions, good of bad.” When the
report is completed Work will pre
sent it to the President and Congress.
GOES FOR PRISONER.
Sheriff A. D. Adkins left Wednes
day morning for Atlanta to bring
back a prisoner, Gip White, a negro
well known in McDuffie county, who
left here a while back. He is charg
ed with cheating and swindling, sev
eral warrants having been sworn out
for him.
Gip is the party of whom the
story is told that he lost a quarter
of a dollar in a lint room and struck
Mr. R. S. Hadaway has purchased
from Mr. Floyd Montgomery the
Star Pressing Club, located on Jour
nal street.
After the first of October the
pressing club will be located in the
building now occupied by Mrs. Es
telle Martin’s millinery parlors,
which will be moved to the Wilson
building on Main street as soon as
remodeled.
ROAD TAX NOTICE.
Road Tax for McDuffie county is
now due and can be paid if paid be
fore the 10th of October for $1.50,
. after that date it will be $2.00 to
n !l n roperty loss everybody. Please see the collector
or call at the court house and pay
this and save moneyl
Thi3 the 26th day of Sept., 1923.
G. W. LOKEY, Ordinary.
about $2,000.
A little 26c ad in the "Want"
column will «eli that article you want
£. gat out or yonr way.
BORAH WITHHOLDS PLAN.
After his conference with President
Coolidge, Senator Borah has decided
to withhold his program for relief
of the farmers, pending announce
ment of the plans of the administra
tion.
Senator Borah said he .would much
prefer that the executive department
take the initiative in suggesting rem
edial legislation, “as it would have
more force back of it than if a mem
ber of the Senate took the lead.”
The Senator said he found the
President keenly alive to the needs
of the farmer, and the only question
in the mind of the chief executive is
the best thing to do to remedy that
condition. He added that there was
little discussion of the possibility of
an extra session, as it seeems use
less to issue such a call, as the Presi
dent pointed out, unless some con
crete program which could bring im
mediate relief was advanced, and no
such scheme is now in sight.
QOMPERS REVIEWS CHILD
LABOR LAWS.
Restrictions of child labor in the
United States through legislation
that will stand review by the courts
was discussed with President Cool
idge by Samuel Gompers, president
of the American Federation of La
bor, at the White House. It is be
lieved that agitation of the subject
will come at the opening of the next
Congress. The labor leader pointed
JAPAN’S GIGANTIC BUILDING
PROGRAM.
Housing opei-ations as America
knows them even in war times, ap
pear insignificant beside the scope
of the building operations Japan now
faces in reconstructing the great
cities of Tokyo and Yokohama, says
the Far Eastern Division of the De
partment of Commerce. The latest
reports place the destruction of build
ings in the devastated areas at 316,-
000 in Tokyo, or about 71 per cent
of the total number in that city,
while Yokohama out of the 85,000
buildings standing before the disaster
only 15,000 are left intact. The dis-
truction in the outlying districts may
bring the total of buildings destroyed
up to the half million mark, the large
majority of which are homes. This
number, added to the housing short
age that existed in Japan before the
earthquake, will necessitate the con
struction of dwelling houses on a
large scale. Since Japan normally
looks to the United states for about
60 per cent of its lumber require
ments it is expected that the demand
for American lumber during the re
construction period will be very
heavy.
The price of Japanese lumber de
livered c. i. f. Yokohama or Tokyo
has been approximately 20 per cent
higher than that of similar qualities
of American lumber, and American
freight rates have been favorable.
The American market also finds itself
in a favorable position as regards
delivery. It often happens that the
Japanese importer can secure deliv
ery from Pacific ports to Yokohama
in less time than from Hokkaido,
Karafuto, or even from the northern
Provinces of Japan proper.
Japan’s preference for American
lumber, aside from the price consid
eration, is due, perhaps, more than
anything else to the fact that our
lumber is more nearly like that of
Japan proper than the product of
any other country from which it
draws wood supplies. This similar
ity of wood makes it possible for
Japanese builders to substitute
American lumber for Japanese in all
building projects. In fact, its use
has become so universal that Ameri
can lumber is now specified in many
instances.
GRAVEL FINE FOR
STREET PAVING
Gravel procured from the farm of
Mrs. Ira Farmer and placed on the
street in front of the Thomson City
Bank and Palace Drug Store seems
to fill the bill as a covering for
streets.
The gravel hardens in a very short
while and does not become soft and
mucky as readily as other kinds of
top soil. For this reason it would
be the ideal material to use on all
the streets of Thomson. The cost
would be a minimum. If the city
owned several acres of this soil it
would be a permanent quarry from
which to get paving material, and it
is said it is almost as durab4e as as
phalt paving, and surely not near
so expensive, as the only work re
quired to put it on is the hauling of
the dirt and shaping up of the road
bed. No doubt the city officials have
this material in view since they are
giving it a thorough test.
ILL AT HOSPITAL.
PLAN NOW
C0TI0NSTALKS
Kill the green cotton stalks two
weeks or more before frost and save
next years cotton crop.
The most effective and practical
measures of boll weevil control are
proper poisoning and the killing of
all green cotton stalks two weeks or
more before frost. The destrution
of the green stalks stops the raising
of the young weevils and forces
some of the grown weevils into
hibernation early so that they have
to come out very early in the spring.
But the most important thing about
killing the green stalks before the
cold weather kills them is that nearly
all your boll weevils starve to death
and very few go into hibernation at
all.
The weevils that live through the
winter and come out in the spemg
are not those old ones that are worn
out nor those that hatch out after
frost, but those that hatch a week
or two before frost and have squares,
blooms, young bolb or tender leaves
and buds of green and grownig cotton
to feed on until frost. Boll weevils
cannot have more than ten or twenty
Thomson friends are much con
cerned over the critical illness of Mr.
Porter Reville, at the University ,
Hospital in Augusta. Mrs. Sallie dayS wlthout some ™ * of green and
Reville, his mother of Jesup, is at his | grow ! ag cotton to c ' ak if the weather
bedside, and hopes are entertained ” stlU warm enou * h for cotkon Lo
for his recovery. He has been a stu- ! be green ’ 30 we starve them out if
dent in the senior class of the Med-1 We klU the cotton ’ pll ' win * under
ical College of Augusta, making fine I the st J alks after frosfc does littIe in
progress in his studies. I regard to controlling the weevil, for
few of the weevils in the field at that
* — | time would live anyway, but killing
to solve a problem is to get a legis- the stalks two or three weeks before
lative body to rule against it.”
HOW TO RAISE CALVES.
The raising of dairy calves, begin
ning, with the cow before the calf is
frost will do a great deal of gopd.
The greatest percentage of ''the
weevils are killed if the stalks ax - o
turned under with a plow, but this
complete breaking of the land takes
born and carrying the young stock ' 80 much time that sonie of the farm-
along to two years of age, is the sub
ject of a recent Farmer’s Bulletin,
ers will not have time to break all
their cotton land and finish two
No. 1336, Feeding and Management wees beforG frosi - The stalks can b
killed by ripping them up, either
with a middle buster going once to
the row or with a turn plow going
twice to the row and either of these
of Dairy Calves and Young Dairy
Stock, now ready for distribution by
the United States Department of
Agriculture.
REVISION OF ENTIRE SHIP
POLICY.
Attorney General Daugherty’s
opinion submitted to President Cool
idge holds that the Lasker-Farley
plan for transferring the fleet to
corporations organized under state
laws would be unlawful under pro
visions of the shipping act limiting
disposition of the fleet to cash or
credit sales. The proposed transfer
of title to ships in considehation of
stock in the corporation, the opinion
held, is authorized neither expressly
nor by any implication to be drawn
from provisions of the act.
That the government would in a
“real and substantial sense” part
with title to its vessels “must be ad
mitted,” Mr. Daugherty said in con
sidering the argument that the gov
ernment as stockholder, would remain
the real owner of the ships conveyed
to the corporations. Corporations,
he added, are legal entities, and
their stockholders are withoujt legal
title to their property.
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LAWS.
Americans have at least 100,000
laws to obey, according to the Wash
ington Daily News, which comments:
“An expert makes this estimate. He
is too conservative. The last Con
gress passed 930 new laws. And the
various State Legislatures pass about
13,000 laws a year. We are too in-
“HOW TO OWN YOUR HOME”
MANUAL.
“How to Own Your Home,” a man
ual just issued for the public by the
Department of Commerce, presents
figures to show that the percentage
of Washington home-owners rose
from 24.2 in 1900 to 25.2 in 1910,
and jumped to 30.3 in 1920. The
manual contains a foreword by Sec
retary of Commerce Herbert Hoover.
Subjects dealt with include making
of loans, selection of the house, site,
choosing of building plans and ma
terials, and the cost of home main
tenance.
is faster than \broadcast breaking
the land.
Many have tried to kill the green. ’
stalks by cutting with a stalk cutter ■'
or a disk harrow, but these always
leave too many stalks that are too
big to cut or break.
To be most effective this
should be done by October 15th,
Many farmers will not have their
cotton open in time this year, but
most will have their cotton open in
time to kill the cotton stalks two or
three weeks before frost.
Weevils will travel sometimes sev
eral hundred yards going into and
coming out of hibernation and an
individual farmer who destroyed his
stalks might get some of the weevils
of his neighbors who didn’t, though
he will have fewer weevils than if
he had not destroyed his stalks. How
ever, every farmer should do this for
the sake of his neighbors if not for
hiniself.
Many of our community would do
well to make this a community job
and get everyone in it to kill his
green cotton stalks.
E. P. DREXEL,
County Agent.
LOSS IN MINED COAL ,OF 35
PER CENT.
Bituminous coal lost to consump
tion equals nearly 35 per cent of the
possible total annual production, the
Coal Commission reported to Presi
dent Coolidge. The Commission
listed 19.4 per cent as “avoidable”
loss and 15.3 as arising from causes
which normally could not be obviat
ed.
UNITED STATES SEEKS
$2,500,000.
Failing to reach a settlement by
negotiation, the Shipping Board has
instructed its legal department to
terested in enacting new laws, not I prepare suit against the Bethlehem
M. A. POTTER DIES IN INDIAN
APOLIS.
The following item taken from the
Atlanta Constitution of Thursday,
will be of interest to the people of
Thomson, in that Mr. Potter was a
brother of Mrs. J. H. Bartlett, of
Thomson, and had visited here, many
of our citizens doubtless having be
come acquainted with him:
“Word was received in Atlanta
this week of the death on Tuesday,
in Indianapolis, of M. A Potter, sen
ior member of the firm of E. C.
Atkins & Co., Inc. Mr. Potter was
chairman of the board of directors of
this company at the time of his
death and had been closely associated
with it ever since its foundation by
E. C. Atkins, many years ago.
“Mr. Potter was a prominent mem
ber of the First Baptist church in
Indianapolis and the funeral will be
held from the church Thursday after
noon. The Atlanta office of the firm
at 132 South Forsyth street, will be
closed all day Thursday on account
of the funeral.”
enough attention to enforcing laws
we already have. Easy to under
stand. We have a national mania
for believing that all we have to do war contracts.
Shipbuilding Corporation for recov
ery of about $2,500,000 alleged to
ENTERTAINMENT AT CALLA
WAY.
There will be given at Callaway
school an entertainment on Saturday
night, October 6th, for the benefit
of the school. Everybody is cordially
have been overpaid under the firm’s | invited and urged to be present.
I There will be plenty of fun for all.