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The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-09-12
big SINGING
| SET FOR TODAY
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE
FROM COUNTRY EX-
PECTED TO ATTEND.
DINNER ON GROUND
Singing Will Be Held at First
Baptist Church - Will Be
All-Day Affair-Dinner
AT High School.

For the first time in the city's his,
tory an all-day singing will be helC
in Columbus.
Today is the day and thousands OF
people from all over the Columbus
territory are expected to be here and
be guests of the city.
This morning at 10 o'clock the sing
ing program will begin at 10 o'clock in
the auditorium of the First Baptist
Church.
At l o'clock dinner will be served
on the campus of the Stephen D. Lee
High School, and the event will come
to a close at the conclusion of the
afternoons program about 3 o'clock.
Song leaders from all parts of east
Mississippi and western Alabama will
be in attendance and the singing is
expected to be the largest that has
ever been held in this section.
Columbians have contributed bas-
kets and cash contributions to make
the affair success, and the people of
the country are invited to be the
guests of the city community.
In order to make way for the open
ing of the singing at 10 O'Clock the
Baptist Sunday School will convene
at 8 o'clock this morning and complete
its program by the hour set for the
opening of the singing.
One Of the features Of the dinner
today will be Brunswick stew fur
nished by the Mems Baraca class of
the First Baptist Church. The stew
will be served free to everyone. This
part Of the dinner program is being
looked after by Mr.. +. L. Kuykendall
Those who have promised baskets
should see that they reach the High
School campus not later than IL
O'Clock. A committee composed OF
Mr.. Walter Breland, Mr.. Rush Smith
and Mr.. Ed Cole, will be on hand
to receive and tag all baskets with
the names of the contributors. Per-
sons who are unable to bring or SEND
their basket should telephone to Mr.
j. /. Harrison at the Gilmer Hotel and
arrangements will be made for the
delivery of the basket to the High
School.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-09-12
COLUMBUS Is STRATEGICALLY
LOCATED FOR BIG TRADE CENTER
Possibilities Of This City Expanding Into Big Distributing
Center Are Limitess-Unity Of Action And Thought
Will Put Columbus In The Forefront.

Retail and wholesale possibilities of
this community are emphasized in a
little booklet which has been prepar-
ed in connection with the campaign
for the organization of the Columbus
and Lowndcs County Chamber Of
Commerce. The statement follows:
Get out a map showing the states
Of Mississippi, Tennessee and Alaba-
ma. Somewhere between Birmingham
and Greenville, between Knoxville and
the Gulf, there is going to be a great
trade center.
Why not Columbus?
This city is about half way be-
tween the points named-a geographi-
cal advantage which ought to be cap
italized. Columbus is the logical
place for the upbuilding of a jobbing
trade which will spell prosperity not
only for the city but for the whole
surrounding territory.
That a wholesale business can be
built here has been proved. That there
are in Columbus retail businesses
which might be expanded into job
bing houses of large proportions no
one doubts. That they have not been
SO expanded is unquestionably due in
large measure to the fact that there
has not been in this community big,
strong civic-commercial organization
Ito stand behind them, to help them
in the countless ways such organiza-
tions do help the distributing houses
in other centers, to spread abroad the
good name and solid character Of this
community.
Dallas and Fort Worth are striking
examples of what a reputation as a
jobbing center means. Dallas early
became a wholesale point; Fort Worth
capitalized its cattle industry. In
recent years Fort Worth has made
desperate efforts to establish itself
as a jobbing center; there are men in
Fort Worth who have said they will
gladly undertake to raise a million
dollars if they can take away from
Dallas a good part of its wholesale
trade. They agree that it would be a
hopeless task. 1t is said that five
thousand travelling men go out reg
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-09-12
TOM Z. WATSON
CHOSEN SENATOR
Clifford Walker and Former Senator
Hardwick in Run-0G For
Governor.

Atlanta, Ga, Sept. 10.-Thomas +.
Watson, who formerly represented
Georgia in the lower house of Con-
gress, and who became nationally
known as Populist candidate for pres
ident years ago, received the Demo-
cratic nomination for the United
States Senate on the face Of ineom-
plete and unofficial returns from yes
terday's primary as compiled by the
Atlanta Constitution early today.
Senator Hoke Smith was decisiyely
beaten for a third time as senator,
according to these figures, which in
dicated he was running third with
Governor Hugh Dorsey second. John
Cooper, Macon attorney, who favored
modification Of the Volstead act, fail
ed to carry a single county, according
to the Constitution.
Watson, who has long been an out
spoken critic of the Wilson admins
tration and the League Of Nations
covenant, has had a picturesque career
in Georgia. Before he ceased the
practice of law, he had built up re-
putation as a brilliant criminal law
yer; he is the author Of numerous his
tories and novels and at one time pub
lished a monthly magazine and a
weekly paper. These were barred
from the mails under the espionage
act during the war, but he since has
established another weekly. For years
Watson, who is Ga years old, has been
admitted to be a power in Georgia
politics, and in the present campaign
almost every large newspaper in the
state with the exception of Hearst's
Atlanta Georgian, fought him, as did
numerous posts Of the American Leg
ion. Numbers Of former service men
from over the state supported Wat
son, however, according to communi-
cations published by his friends.
Former U. S. Senator Hardwiek,
who, years ago was one Of Watson's
most bitter political enemies, but who
co-operated with him in this campaign,
did not fare so well in his race for the
gubernatorial nomination. II was in
dieated by the Constitution figures
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-09-12
LEGION WRESTLING
MATCH TOMORROW
Naulfus To Meet Jack Ross, Middle
weight Southern Champion.

The first real match of two
wrestling tile holders, or claimers of
titles, will be staged here Monday
night at the w. 0. w. hall under the
auspices of the Tombigbee Post of
the American Legion.
Victor Kaulfus, who claims the
Nebraska lightweight championship
and will meet Jack Ross of Memphis,
reputed middleweight champion of
the South.
Kaufus tips the scales at lao pounds
and has held his own with big Mash
burn and other good wrestlers. Ross
weighs 165 pounds, and is every inch
a man.
Tickets to the match are on sale at
the Bell Cafe. The match begins at
o'clock.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-09-12
OFF FOR OMAHA.

Mr.. S. L. Caine leaves today for
Omaha, Neb., where he goes to attend
a conference Of the executive Board
of the Woodmen of the World. Mr.
Caine is one of the Sovereign officers
Of the order, and represents this Sec
tion Of the country in the Sovereign
council meetings.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-09-12
CITY SCHOOLS
OPEN MONDAY
RECORD ATTENDANCE WILL
MARK OPENING, is
BELIEF.
ALL IN READINESS
Faculties Have Been On Ground
a Week Making Plans For
The Opening Tomorrow
Morning.

Tomorrow morning the city schools
of Columbus will formally open for
the session of 1920-21.
From all prospects the opening this
week will be marked by the largest
attendance by several hundred, in the
history of the Columbus schools. The
compulsory school law, the principal
points in which are published in this
issue of the Dispatch, will bring
hundreds of children into the schools
and this will swell the attendance very
materially.
Prof. ]. c. Meadows, superintendent
of the city schools, has been on the
ground for two weeks getting things
in shape for the opening. He assemb-
led his faculties last Wednesday morn
ing and the program of work for the
session was gone over thoroughly.
Fortunately Prof. Meadows has as
sembled for the schools Of Columbus
one of the ablest and most efficient
corps of teachers to be found in the
State. Practically every teacher is a
college and university graduate and
are eminently qualified for the
branches of work in which they will
teach.
The most important change in the
faculty this session is that of princi-
pal of the High School. Prof. T. A.
Middleton who was principal Of the
cityNschools at West Point the past
session, succeeds Prof.eC. L. Craw-
ley as principal of the Stephen d. Lee
High School: Prof. Middleton arriv-
ed in Columbus early tho 1xst week,
There has been some change this
year in the school books and many
children will have to secure new books.
High school books will be sold this
session at the High School, and books
for all other grades will be sold down
town as heretofore.
Monday and Tuesday will be de-
voted principally to organization work
and classification of students, and by
Wednesday the schools will settle
down to the routine of the session.
All. students are expected to be on
hand on the opening day of school.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-09-12
JEWISH NEW
YEAR MONDAY

The Hebrew New Year begins at 6
o'clock this evening and ends at
o'clock Monday evening.
Services will be held at the Jewish
Synagogue this evening at 6 o'clock,
and at 10 O'Clock Monday morning.
Stores in the city operated by mem
bers of the Jewish faith will be closed
throughout the day Monday.
Thursday, September 23, another
Jewish holiday, Yom Kippur, will be
observed.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-09-12

| ularly from Dallas-truly a great
army. of boosters building up their
home city. Much Of Atlantas fame
and prosperity is founded on the fact
that it is a great distribution center.
In Dallas and in Atlanta, in Cinein-
natl and Memphis, in New Orleans
and st. Louis, the Chamber of Com
merce are the allies of the jobbers to
an extent not understood or apprecist-
ed by those who have not given the
subject thought.
Columbus will the more certainly
realize its ambitions to become a
wholesale center il ii first assures it's
enterprising business men Of the back
ing of an aggressive, progressive
Chamber of Commerce.
Extension of retail trade is closely
allied to that of the jobber. 1t is a
field of business activity in which a
good Chamber of Commerce is not
only valuable but essential. Coopera-
tion of community in a civic-com-
mercial organization means better
feeling and better understanding in
every part Of the trade district, There
are some communities in the United
States where the mail order houses do
practically no business, just because q
Chamber Of Commerce has been so eff
ficient in creating a general cordiality
between the retailers and the buying
public, and clear appreciation of the
fact that prices in the home stores
are as low or lower than in Chicago
or New York.
The extension Of retail trade in
variably results in larger stores and
larger stocks Of goods, Of faster turn
over and narrower margins of cost.
Columbus is the logical center Of
retail trade area Of a radius of at
least fifty miles. 1t is entirely reason
able to expect that rightly organiz-
ed and efficiently conducted Chamber
OF Commerce will bring about definite
results in an attempt to bring into
Columbus all Of the retail trade pos
sibilities of the great district about
ito the immediate benefit not alone
Of the retail merchants but Of every
citizen Of Lowndes county.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-09-12
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Vacation for the kiddies ends today
The city schools open tomorrow
The college opens Sept. 21.
X
Today is the 2bsth. day of the year
The sun rises at 5:39 and sets at 6:14
A rousing citizens meeting was
held at the City Hall Thursday night,
X X
Everybody is putting their shoulder
to the wheel for better community
Every Columbian should attend the
big singing at the Baptist Church to-
day.
That community is safest where the
maximum number have voice in its
affairs.
" X
If we want a good hard rain have
Mr.. Terry bring out the paving mach
inc. 1t never fails.
X
The colored school enrolment will
be so large that southside school
has been established.
X X
Today is the day to send your
basket dinner up to the High School
for the big singing.
Y X
There are 973 automobiles register
ed in Lowndes county. More than
400 of these are in the city Of Col
umbus.
Newspapers in other towns are
commenting on the fine spirit Colum-
bus is showing in her Chamber of
Commerce movement.
n X
Columbus is waking up. Men are
seeing things from the community
point Of view, and the civic conscience
is being quickcned.
X
Not a single citizen has shirked a
duty in the Cha.nber Of Commerce
drive. The spirit Is one of patriotism
and devotion to the home town.
X X
Women have to give their ages when
they register. A correspondent says,
that now they are finding this out,
there will be slump in the ranks Of
the suffragettes.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-09-12
LET'S TELL THE
WORLD!

IF the people of this country knew
of the natural attractions, the scenic
beauty and the delightful climate: of
the opportunities agricultural. COM
mercial and industrial; above all, of
the wonderful spirit Of the people of
this great section, the population of
Lowndes county and of Columbus
would double within the next FIVE
years. Only Chamber of Commerce
can give US the nationwide reputation
and advertising We deserve and ought
to have."--J. I. Harrison.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-09-12
MR.. LOEB RETURNS.

Mr.. Albert Loeb who has been in
the East for the past several weeks
with his father who underwent a
serious operation in Philadelphia, re-
turned home Friday. Mr.. Loeb re-
ports that his father. Mr.. Simon Loeb,
passed successfully the critical stage
of his operation and is now on the
road to recovery. He is still confined
to his room in the hospital at Phil
adelphia.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-09-12
LODGE NOTICE

The Columbus Camp, No. 1915,
M. W. A., will have their regular
meeting at headquarters on next
Thursday night. All members are
urged to be present as important busi-
ness will be transacted.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-09-12

Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Hogan, of Mo-
bile, Ala, are spending few days
in the city with Mrs. r. w. Hutch
ings, Of Balboa Canal Zone, who is
on a visit to Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E.
Abrams.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-09-12

Professor and Mrs. Richard Leigh
and children who have been enjoying
q vacation in the city with their par
ents, Capt. and Mrs. f. NJ. Leigh,
are returning this week to home and
work in Houston, Texas. Professor
Leigh is principal of one of the pub
lie schools of Houston.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-09-12
HIGH LIGHTS
DIR. FELTS' TALK
CIVIC MEETING


Thinking is not popular because it's
hard.
The idea of the survival of the fit
test will kill any community.
The very genius of community life
spells diversity blended into unity.
A real Chamber of Commerce is
unionism at its best-cooperation--all
for all.
That community is safest where the
maximum number have voice In its
affairs.
Factories without schools are NAL
aria breeders; schools without church
es breed imitation.
The self-centered man who lives
and works for himself alone is leech,
a carbuncle on the community neck.
Every time you grease community
machinery with brains you prevent a
hot box and cover a multitude Of CON-
munity sins.
Let us have an organization large
enough to take in converging inter-
ests, strong enough to conserve div
erging interests.
Here is the place for your forum
a clearing house for brains and Drawn.
There will be trash, refuse-but brains
are great sifters.
am aware of the fact that the man
who is opposed to soap and silence"
is not necessarily divinely called to
run community.
X X
The community that leaves its af-
fairs to the few 4 dead, and groaning
for burial. Any place will expand
when brains are busy.
X X
Here is the failure of lodges, ETC.
men join to see how much they can
get out, etc.-If all drink and none
pump the pump is soon dry.
X X
The best citizen is the man who
makes the largest contribution to the
communicative best institution is the
one making the largest contribution.
X X
If this contemplated Chamber OF
Commerce can be made community
center, clearing house, utility cham
ber--dollars put in it bring great re-
turns.
When the clink of cash becomes the
public conscience manhood eheapens,
womanhood becomes a painted scare
crow, and the community becomes a
big, dirty, bowling bluff"
X X
Doing nothing is the shortest route
to hell. We need to grow fertilizer
brains-and brains grow best in the
open forum. What shall it profit a
community to double its population
and lose its brains?
X X
am heartily in favor of this clear
ing house proposition. II will not be
perfect. You can't plant a corset and
grow modern woman, or cultivate a
pair Of suspenders and grow lead
ing member of the Choctaw Clnb-It
will be like a churn-much turning,
twisting, shaking, beating-then but
ter.
Benjamin Franklin never discovered
Tightening till after he was married.
You business men want customers
we customers want food and raiment.
Our prosperity is the measure Of your
prosperity yours should be the
measure of ours-This spells service,
and service is scriptural, ''If any man
desire to be first, the same shall be
last of all, and servant of ALL" "Who-
soeyer will be chief among you, let
him be your servant"
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-09-12

Continued from Page 5.)
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-09-12

Women have to give their ages when
they register. A correspondent says,
that now they are finding this out,
there will be slump in the ranks of
the suffragettes.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-09-12

Not a single citizen has shirked {
duty in the Cka4aber Of Commerce.
drive. The spirit Is one of patriotism
and devotion to the home town.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-04-21
CUMMINGS TO PRESIDE
AT JUNE CONVENTION

CHICAGO, April 21.-Homer s
Cummings chairman of the dcmocra-
tic national committee has been
selected to preside as temporary
chairman of the national convention
at San Francisco June IS and deliver
the keynote address which will an
nounce the party policies in the forth
coming campaign.
The convention slate was framed
yesterday at luncheon at the Iro-
quois club and the democratic chief
tains there assembled then and lis
tened with interest to a speech in
which their leader sounded what they
said probably would be the main point
of his keynote address"
The republican party has lost its
moral character. he declared, in
launching a vigorous attack upon the
action of the majority in congress in
defeating the peace treaty and league
of nations and particularly the meth
DDS by which control OF the foreign
relations committee was held by the
republicans,
The whole fight on the league of
nations dates back to a corrupt cleo
tiun in Michigan" he said, "and a
convicted criminal is the thing upon
which republican supremacy rests"
He was convinced that the people of
the United States wanted the league
OF nations. Tho republican congress
had debated the peace treaty for eight
months and had failed ito pass one
constructive piece of legislation"
Turning to the war, he declared tha,
mot chance, but brains won it. and
for this leadership. he maintained, the
democratic party was entitled to cred
it. at matters not what they may
say of President Wilson. he added,
his fame is immortal and future gen
erations will render tributes of praise
and obligation to this great democrat"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-04-21
TWO UMP|RES Named;
SEASONS OPENS SUNDAY

Claude Miles, of Pendleton. and a.
Davis. of Helix. have been appointed
by President Ellis. of the Blue Noun
tain league, as unpires for the season
which opens Sunday. One more
arbiter is yet to be named and he win
be appointed from applicants in Mill
ton, Freewater and Walla Walla. For
the opening game Miles will likely
worh, here. Davis at Athena and the
third man at Walla Walla-
The season will open here at PAS
on Sunday with the PendleOn nine en-
tertaining Pilot Rock. The local squad
will appear in uniforms. but probably
will not be in shape to play mid
son ball owing to the lack of practice
caused by snow and wind. Pilot Rock
has had two games with Helix this
seaSCn but has come out on the short
end both times
Practices will 'be held here every
evening this week. If possible. to get
tho local nine in shape for the OPEN
ing game. The infielders have had
several good workouts but pitchers
have been hampered by cold winds
and what the boys can do with the
stick remains to be seen. Other teams
are under the same handicap as Pen
dleton, however. as the poor weather
has been general.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-04-21
c. |. WOODARD BUYS
EARL TULLOCH HOME
FOR $4,000 CASH

+ For a price of s26. 900. cash 4
+ Casper l.. Woodward. prominent 4
= Adams farmer. has purchased
4. the Earl Tulloch home at 500 .
+ Jackson street. The place is one
= of the most modern homes in
+ the city and the sale has been
+ one of interest, accordingly.
+ The new owners are to take :
; possession within a month or two I
+ and at that time Mrs. Tulloch 4
= will leave upon a visit to Cali 4
+ fornia and later at Oregon coast 1
= resorts before returning to the I
+ city. They have one of the Bow 1
+ man apartments leased and will !
+ reside there after the apartment 1
+ has been vacated.
!. Mr.. Woodward has 1900 1
r acre farm just north Of Adams I
= and he also farms 5000 acres in 4
F Adams county. Wash. He is a !
+ son of Mrs. Rose Woodward of 4
+ Walla Walla. Mrs. c. L. Wood i
+ ward was formerly Miss Nettie j
Elliot of Walla Walla, daughter 4
+ of Mrs. Sarah Elliot and sister :
= of Mrs. Dave Stone and Miss !
r Maxine Elliot of Athena and of !
? Mrs. j. T. Elam of Walla Walla. 7
F + r I. + + + = + f. + + + + + : I
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-04-21
SINGLE MAN AND BENEDICT WILL
8 SETTLE TOSSERS' TITLE SATURDAY

gle men. Ed Olson. who is married
but doesn't look set in his ways, is
manager for tho benedicts. He has
blown the dust off the books of an
cient history and announced today
the following on his side
Finis kirkpatrick. behind the bat;
Frank Hays and Walter Lehman on
the mound: Carl Hoft ON first base;
Olson. himself. on second; Crews at
shortstop; Gunner Peterson at third
base: Guy Johnson and the Penland
brothers. three OF them. for the out
field candidates. The lineup. Man
ager Olson says is subject to change.
Manager Vaughan is still working
on the q. I. and will not announce his
selections until later.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-04-21
OWNERS MAY POOL
: TIMBER IN BIG SALE

SPOKANE, Z April 21.-Arrange-
ments for marketing $50, 900. 900 feet
of timber near Tekoa, in this county,
involving the construction of a logging
railroad and other expenditures total
ing Ss07. 500. is to be discussed by
homesteaders and farmers of that dis
trict at n meeting called for Teused,
Idaho. noxt Saturday. it was announc-
ed today. II is proposed for the own
ers to pool their timber and sell it TO
Timber owners association to be
formed.