The Banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1923-1933, July 12, 1923, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextInvest!gata Today) To Rtgular Subscriber* THE BANNER-HERALD 11400 Accident Policy Free Dally and 8unday—10 Cento a Weak. EaUbllahad 1032 Dally and Sunday—10 Canto I Week. ATHENS COTTON: Middling ,-■*•« Freviou* Close ;.W ....26^ THE WEATHER: . Probable showers Thuraday night. Slightly cooler. VOL 91 NO. 128 Aaaoclated Preu Service ATHENS, CA, THURSDAY JULY, 12 1923 A. B. C. Paper Blnila Coplea t Cento Dally. • Cento Sunday. Shopmen Injunction Is Made Permanent 4—4* *-+ Great ^Britain +—+ •b—"5* iwiiiw to Germany federal Judge Make Temporary Order 4* 4* *1* ■ *1* •£• Battles Willard At Jersey City Tonight ^Permanent Thurs Tells Allies That England Is Ready to Draft Reply to Germany’s Reparation Note. NO DETAILS First Prize Will Be $5.001 CONTEST FOR CITY Firpo and Willard To Battle For Chance At i . Jack Dempsey’s Crown ARE G I V E N in Gold S ec o n d and! *»"■» “Man Mountain” and -Wild Ball From tho ARE GIVEN, rnGnld. Se^n nd^nd, (By Associated Press.) JERSEY CITY—Two. modem gladiators, one dom ing from the prairies of Kansas and the other from the far-stretches of the Argentine, will stake their pugilistic futures Thursday night, in a twelve round match in the picturesque setting of the arena known as Boyle’s Thirty Acres, here. * . ‘ For Jess Willard, the man mountain, the placid fighter who will carry the colors of the United States into this international contest for fame and fortune and— a chance at the title of Jack Dempsey, it will be **the test in the comeback which he hopes will obtain fcfr'foim a return with Dempsey, the man who won- his title-, of world heavyweight champion from him at Toledo In 1919, after he had held it for four years. For the other, Firpo. called . • . by some, "th. wild bull 08 th* P.m- th»t titillating day at Toledo, and paa," th. fight will be a critical “ *• Reply Will Carry Coun-| Tickets, ter Proposal Is Thought.! Asks Sympathy and Tol-j J ___ "e aii:_. For the best and most appro- eranCe Of ^illes. Iprlate alosan lor Athens, the Ath- jens Chsmbu- ot Commerce offers • 35.00 In gold. The contest begins Associated Prase.) today and runs to July 31. It Is open to everybody and without geographical or other limitations. LONl5?N,—Great Britain h»« In formed Prance and Italy that she Is ready to draft a reply to the latest German Reparations Pro. poaals. Tba reply will ba submitted to life other allies with • possible hope that they will agree to It'i terms. . Announcement to this effect was made by Premier Baldwin In a statement to the House of Com mons Thursday'oil Great Britain’s Reparation policy. . The British government. Premier Baldwin said, Invites the sympathy ot the allies of all tbs Interested states for, the proposal, which alms solely at the pacification ot Europe and the recovery of the exhausted world. In his pddrest, the.Premier tali: ed to state what the British pro. posals In the not which the gov ernment Intends framing will con sist ot ,nor did he aay anything In regard to. an International Com. mission td examine Into Germany's capacity, bn pay the demands ot Prance and Belgium. The German proposals were sub mitted to the Allies some time since, and were not even consider, ed b- Prance and Belgium, because these countries deemed that th< proposals were worthy of consid eration. An effort to have a meet ing of rapraaentatlves from the al lied countries meet and dlBcuss the Polnegre. stated “'there la nothing proposals failed because Premier to discuss, until the Germans make a proposal which Is - suitable of dlscuaalon." The prise winners will'' bo nounced at a general membership meeting the latter part ot July, the exact date of which la to be announced later. The prise range Is as rollowi. the winners to be named by a competent committee ot judges to be selected by the Board of Di rectors: First Prise Five dollars In gold. Second Prise—One dosen tickets to the Palace theatre. Third Prigs—One-half dosen tickets to the Strand theatre. ' Contestants may submit as many suggestions aa they please, but none containing more then fir. worda will be considered. 7 no beat and mbst suitable: slogan aa de termined • by the Judges will be adbpted 4s theofficial slogan ot the Athens Chamber of Commerce ami the business firms of the city will be fequestgd to‘have It print ed on their letter head! and other i Tinted stationery. I An Idea of what might he re garded aa an acceptable slogan tor the City of Athens may be gained from the tallowing: Athens a- Modern City. Albens a Homo city. Athens Looks Forward. Historic and Beautiful Athens. All Roads Lead to Athens. Athens. City of Culture. Athens the Classic City. Athens, Metropolis of Northeast Oeorgla. All slogans must ba submitted •In writing snd forwarded to the secretary before midnight of July THE TURNER COUNTY PLAN A Series of Articles Showing What the “Cow and Hog and Hen” Have Done'for One Georgia County. (Seventh Article) FEED CROP PROBLEMS Collective opinion baa developed that certain measures of boll weevil countrol are worth whllo and that because of the weevil, the cotton acreage must be reduced to five or alg acrea to the plow. But that Is .not going nearly far enough, Ur. Betts maintains. “Whan • further collective opin. Ion la reached," ha says, “as to what must be grown on the acre, age released from cotton by this onforcod cotton reduction we mag be tremendously encouraged. But progress may be made only when a still further collective opinion Is reached as to bow the substitute crops may be grown and a col lective conclusion reached on the part ot the banka and the business men that they most assist In pro viding the necessary faciUtMg i to enable the farmers to grow the substitute crops with profit, those racll(tlei being dairy cows, hogs snd poultry. "But tittle reflection la required to determine the Impracticability of growing on the released acre age shy crape but feed crope. Like wise Is H Impracticabl to grow on our . run-down. . cotton-depleted lande feed crope. If these must be marketed from the farms. Georgia lh now a large market for feed crope from other 100110111. And It would mean a further continuance of one of oar greatest maladies, deoletlon of the eolL Experts of character and ability have calcu lated from testa that a ton of bat. ler-tgkfts from « farm In the form of,cream—retaining on the far* and, feeding through pigs and pouL •ry th.’ Skim milk—takea IMS than a dollar’s worth of soil fertility from the farm. Whereas the feeds required to make the ton of but ter, If removed and sold aa feed, would take fru.j the land over 3400 worth of toll fertility! It It ua- (Turn to page eight.) W. R. Jennings Dies In Atlanta turning point In one of the most sensational careers In ths history of the prlte ring. . ■If Firpo la victorious oyer Wel lard. it means thst h® will b« given a chanct; to knock th® crown from [th® curly head'of "Dtmpeey. Tt U Ith® big stepping stont of his Ilfs If he losses, it mean® F®are more of toll at least*' before he will get ■change at - Dempsey, and pos* slbly never. Firpo, when he enter: I the ring will be fighting for Just more than the money Involved, though ho has nothing to worry about atbng that score. We will bt |fighting for his futura. to make| good on the one* big chance of his he has'worked to that end. Wil lard today, though four years older la In much better shape than h< was when ho fought Dempsey. H< has taken off weight and hardpnec’ thf rent. Ilf hitn t.ik-n off. oi rather trareformed, nine pounds.ol weight Into Tmreele/slncc'hL'i final fight with Floyd Johnson st ’tbv milk fund exhibition Jn New Fork There is no use to devote space to the preliminaries here' for the Interest of the'lighting public Is not In the prelims, but In the main fight. The fans wlU sit. through the opening fights simply because by io doing they will be in time for the big mill. The preliminaries however, will ... ’cfiock bjf Queen Geraldine (By Associated Prats.) CHICAGO—A final decree, making permanent the temporary injunction obtained by the United States gov ernment in Federal Court here on October S, 1922 against I the railway employes department of the American Fed- I eration of Labor and it’s officers and others, restraining J them from interfering in the operation of railroads dur- ing the shopmen’s (trike was entered Thuraday by Judge Wilkerson of the United Statea District Court. 5 “Hie decree making permanent the inj'unction, is considered the most widespread restraining order ever obtained in the history of litigation, as it affects approx imately four hundred thousand workmen, moat of them railroad employes, and the officers of the ahop crafts which were concerned in the strike. The litigation over the temporary inj'unction and the efforts by the government to make the, inj'unction permanent brought about one of the hardest fotight legal battles in the history of strikes. .The real basis of the decree was along the lines that by striking, the shopmen weye the cause of serious delays in mail and food trans portation thus violating the Interstate Commerce Com mission Rulings. QUEEN GERALDINE part ot the Monroo Doctrine Can Geraldine Kemp, who won spirit- teuqlal. Miss Kemp Is 18 and was ed voting contest as queen ot the sponsored by the Universal Film MoUon Picture Exposition, which Company against a doten other tali opened.In:Loe. Angelas recently. &r entrants. Equalization Repeal Scores Big Victory lifetime | "tart at eight fifteen o’clock by Firpo’ hue trained, though not at Eaetem Daylight Saving time, and _ - ... W | U j* ot f Qg rapidly aa pos* digently aa Willard. The South American wasted at least two months, which might have in* creased his chances against Wil lard. had he uaed them for training purposes, Instead of*knocklng over set-ups. Firpo made some money in Mexico and Cuba, but hs risked his chances at a real fortune by doing so. ^ HAS EYE ON DEMPSEY CROWN Willard has had his hsart and eye set on Dempsey's crown aver since slble no that ths main bout mufbe brought on. It Is expected that more than seventy thousand people will see the bout from paid seats, whiotf will pises It next in the list of at tendance to the Dempsdy-Carpen- tier fight of two years ago, which by ths way was held In this self same arena.’ Firpo is, the favorite In the odda with the betting rather lively though ,the odds will be likely tc change JlistVbefore the tight be* INJURIES IN FALL Mr. W. M. Thornton, Car penter, WKo Fell From High School Auditorium Wednesday Succumbs; READY FOR DEBATE (By Associated Press.) ATLANTA. — The House voted Thursday to disagree with the' report of the commit, tee on ways and means which recommended that three meee- S ree designed to repeal tha tax qualizatlon act be not pass- ed. The action taken Thura-; day places the bills on the calendar for early considera tion. ATLANTA. «a.~ Advocate® of the repeal of thu tux equalization low threw n bomb Into tiie of the nnti*r**peul crowd Wednes day when they secured a favorable report by General Agriculture Com mittee No. | oh Hons® bill No, 58. whlcji contuln*> repeal clause. T)ic. committee will wmk® ! Itu report Friday recommending that, the bill do pas* by Bpbstitute. I p < « Representatives \ KldSrs, of Tatt nall; Knight, of’Berrien; If^nnftt. of Dodge, and Stanford, <Sf‘Lowh- * Idea, all advocates of the repeal bill ■ were appointed ns a committee to Committee on Constitu-'^/l^rrJHnM'r, on,, bill Is the addition of the clause rj»- enacting the old tax laws that v. ere repealed when the equalisa tion law was pased in 1811. , 'House bill No. 58 was Introduced early In the session by Represen tatives Roe, of Richmond, Stovall, of Elbert, and Beck pf Carroll. Its caption read aa follows: "A bill to repeal and change an act entitled an act to regulate the r'turti and assessment of propsrt) for taxation." * * Speaker Neill recognised the bll 1 as the revenue measure and r#’ ferred It to the ways and means committee but one of the author: asked that the reference be changed and thp mefMire sent to Genera Agriculture Cemmlttc No. I. A# nothing was said about the repeal if the equalisation law In the cap tion of the bill and only the cap tlon THE UNLOADED QUN (By Associated Press) HARTWELL-.Whlle on a fish ing trip near, here Wednesday afternoon, Andrew Shiflet, who layed tacklo on the Mercer football team during the past winter, was shot and seriously wounded by Frank Skelton. Friends say that the wounded man and the boy claim that the shooting was accidental. Doctors hold out little hope for the recovery of Shiflet, who waa brought to hla home here. DELEGATES NAMED FOR FARM MEETING E TUESDAY, JULY 17TH Part of Time Will Be De voted to Practical Wprk in College Poultry Plant. Meeting Will Be Held in Athens Chamber of Com merce Headquarters At 11 O’clock. TO FOLLOW^ UP MARKET’S WORK Survey of Food Crops to Be Planted Will Be Made. All Northeast Georgia Represented. The second annual poultry short course will oe held at the Georgia State College of Agriculture July 17 to 37, according to announce, ment from the Institution. Thla conference !• designed tor thoso Interested In poultry raising elthei ue a business or a sideline, and a aeries of locturea and deraonatra- tiona of a vary practical nature baa boon arranged. About one.thlrd of the time will be (pent In the class room, and tho remainder will be devoted to prac tice work In the planL The college TUT nnZnfZ ‘of "The 9° u * tr 7 PUnt U well equipped for — dM mt'reMSiT.'Tt at hoy! Icsicuctlonel purposes, there being ^rThai thlv Mboat iMt blrt * of •>•«!» breeds sent lo the agricultural committal Word reached Athens Thuraday of the death In / Hants of W. R. Jennings, for se-eral years a law partner of Judg*. H. M. Holden In Ihl* city. Mr. Jennings waa well known la Athena where he was associated with Judse Holden for more than two yean. In active practice. Be fore moving to Athena Hr., Jan- ninga waa aScretary .to Judge Hoi- church Friday morning at 11 o'clock den, when the latter waa ‘on the ^th Rev. John D. Melt • BapUat aupremc court bench for four year. minister In charge. Mr. Thornton later occupying the fcame postton W oa a member- of the Baptist with Judge. Warnef Will for ovei church. Interment will be In the not years. •- * family oematary at Carlton. Beru- Mr. Jennings waa a son of Rev ,teln Brothers, funeral directors. ATLANTA. Oa.—With the legis lature only (wo weeks old, whal waa conceded aa the mott Inr'.ort* ant Issue before It, that of revis ing tha tax syattm. Was mad. I ready for debate In the bouse lau Jennings, who for sev eral years after the close of the Civil War. waa pastor yf the First Baptist church here. / » Mr. Jennings’ death w|a due tr heart- failure and he had recently passed hie 53 year. He la survived by hla widow, two sons, Stephen and Albert,, the latter residing In Macon and two daughters. Mrs. A W. White of Atlanta and Mary Elisabeth Jennings. He waa a brother-in-law of Mrs. Horace M Holden of Athena. • Thuraday evening a service wilt be conducted In Atlanta at the home of Mr. Jennings by the Bike, of which organisation Mr. Jen- nlnss waa a member. • Tba body will b» sent to Craw- fordvUlc on thq,first train Friday morning, tha.ftmwal aery Waa be ll!, held Immediately upon the ar rival of ,lha body there at eleven o’clock. Mr. Wiliam M Thornton. dgad ,4, died at 1:30 o'clock Wedens- day night at a local hospital from Injuries received whan he fall from the new High School auditorium on which, he waa working about noon Wednesday. Funeral services will { Wednesday whan the house com ducted from tha Carlton Baptist on , m ,odm«oto. to the cow- atltution, of which Representative Frank A. Holden of Clarke la- o member endorsed the bill of Re presentative Elders of Tatlna.1 which abolishes the ad valorew system of taxation for arising th. state’s. revenues, and substitutes-i method baaed upon the North Car* tional Amendments of|. Horn* Favors North ^.Summer Sales Carolina Plans and Rec-i " . , , ommends Passage. i Greet Attendants I At Summer School made up largely of farmers and or <rwhe!m!ngly In favor of repealing original the equalisation M- will be In chaflse, Tha active pallbearer* will ba: W. K. Whitehead, T. C. Emerson. Jngo Deadwyler, J. W. Bhellnu*. Jesse Brown, Jacob Eberhardf. (Turn to paga tight) Massengale Named Capitol Custodian fc. E. Massengale, whom Clarks county contcredata veterans an. doraed for ths position, has boon appointed custodian of the capital and keeper of grounds snd build ings by Governor Clifford M. Walker. Mr. Msaaesgalc la • Confederate veteran. He succssds H. G. Fra*, man. Mr, Massengale Is anthor of the bill which censed establish ment, of tbs Georgia Baldlen Homa. ..I;. A—.- RECOMMEND PASSAGE PUBLIC HEALTH Leading Business Houses of At h e n s Appreciate p art journalism Plays in .Trade of indents an. jittering Condition Told Merchants Offer . Special Bargains. Shopping In tho stores oC Ath. ene Is one pf tho outside features tho summer school sfiident’* stay In tho given an li enco that the merchants appreci ate. ' *' -• '■ * ' This week mhny of the stores eve holding mid-summer reduc- The committee voted to submil, (j 0 n sale* and offering special the bill to the house with Jhe prices on neasonablo goods which ore being taken advintago of by By Sanford. Hodgson Recital Tonight. recommendation that It pass. The Vote In committee was If to Three of the six adverse votes were cast, It was explained not in opposition to the bll Us a general principle, but because the memberr felt they could Aot support it aa worded at present With a few amendments all three aUted tha' they would reverse their poaitlot snd vote ‘for ft. Afterwardn It developed - that of these three votgn wouMiho rhe Womens Club short course . . at (he University of Georgia Bum* ® city, and the Oracle Is mfr tfchpoj f R now at Its height Impetus hy their pres- At,tho fourth meeting of the club, tt,* raw»s«vt.a*». rere.v**n*i- nmmbers whp arc attending the course, which was hold In Peabody Hall Thursday morning, the aub ject of discussion was "The Club lit Relation to Public Welfare.** Dr. Allco Moses* Public Health Ser vice, Atlanta, spoke on *,The Club and Public Health;** Dr. Daisy M. O. Robinson, U. 8. Public Health Service, Washington, gave a talk on “Socf'l Hygiene," and Dr. 8. V. Sanford lectured on **Journalism." these you nr people, as well as tho general/public. The Banner-Herald today carries announcement* from leading merchants I® evenr line, and at tention Is directed ta the adver tising In lb's Issue of firms con ducting these riles. Including DevIr/m-NIcholson CV>„ Oonrlai Fnlm Garden, Mortfn Bros; Cosf**s lYVGrevrc col Athens shoe Co., . Afce Joel Bona* Co* changed if thq income ;ta* M. P. F«cbe»t Jewelry Cp.. Msv. In the proposed blU ataowld be T. Collins. Inc., Th® (Turn tc page eight) | Style Shop'and. others. ] » . . QUICK WORK W. A. Norvillo of Bishop In Oconee county came very near breaking the record for quick * sales on the Athens Curb Mar ket Thursday morning. Mr. Norvlllo sold $7.50 worth of beans and Irish potatoes la fifteen minutes and left for Bishop to put In a day’s work. “There Is nothing like it," de„ dates Mr.', NorvIIIe. Representatives from every com munity In Clarke county and most Of tho counties In this section have been appointed for the conference ou gtOre-ing food crops for market (Turn to page eight.) BILL IS READY up-to-date equipment I* In use. Ths basic principles or poultry hatching and Incubation, brooding, raising, utility lodging, csponltlng, dlsessas and parasites and poultry house construction are the ■ub- Jecta that will receive most atten tion. Professors Wood, Cannon, Wooster, McCoy will be In charge of tho course, and It Is expected Atrainut Monairra <3o\r„ that there will be s large attend, unce, due to the tremendous In- ““ terest being manifested in poultry raising throughout tho utate at this time. Found Only One Senator Senator Mundy, Its Au thor. Signed By Forty. Dr. Moses brought out what the Club might do In education, in promoting activities. In providing funds to Insure Inoreused appro Public Health. She showed that the work of‘the-'Womens CKrtls hosld be u-thing' for the commu- (Turn to p«ce eight) Dr. E. L. Hill, Athens PresbVterjan Minister, Tells Rotarians World Is Starving Spiritually. The world ,1s starving spiritual. ty/Dr. E. L. Hill, pastor ot the F)fst IVesbytertan church, told members of the Athens Rotary club Wednesday at the club's regular |0 lution calling luncheon. , The world In growing mors snd more prosperous materially hot Is od the verge of spiritual bank ruptcy, uald the minister. Hs point, ed out that very few convictions are being mads In eases or homl- ATLANTA. Ga. — Signed .nearly forty senators, the biennial session bill of Senator Munday, 38th district, a constitutional amendment providing that a aix- ty-dny session of the general as sembly be .he!,! every two years Instead of an annual meeting of ffity days, is ready for introduc tion. “I have found only'one senator against my bill to date,” said Sso- itor Mundy. “Over in the house, cadera tell me that the sentiment ia Just as strong for it. If this Senator Pace, 13th district, an- ’he would intrdouce a r«*- nriaflena for the State Hoard of elde. citing the high rate ot homi cides-In New- York nna amatl num bee of conviction*. 1 ‘ »*i Dr. Hill's address was thorough, ly enjoyed by tho clhb. olution calling on every depart- t Jmcnt to furnish within 15 days * complete -list of its officials and employes, with a statement of tha excat duties performed by each. *1 believe,” he said, "that tb&l Information will enable the s sembly to proceed intelligently trying- to cut down expenses of tj state,”* adding that he was opinion there are many " jobs in varlou.i branches < emment."