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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-02
TELLS HOW CITY
VITALITY NEEDS
GA. POWER ACT
Secretary Greer, Of Mu-
nicipaI League, Here
To Talk To Council

John w. Greer, secretary of the
Georgia Municipal League, is an Am
ericus visitor today and will appear
before the city council tonight in the
interest of the league. which is an
organization composed of municipali-
ties and city officials from all over
Georgia. 1t was this leage
which sponsored bill before the leg
islature at the last session for max
ing it possible for municipalities to
develop and sell hydro-electric pow
er.
eve believed when we undertook
this campaign" said Mr.. Greer to-
day, 'that it would take five years
to put through our program into law.
But we have progressed much faster
than we anticipated, and we feel NOT
only hopeful, but certain that the
legislation will go through at the
coming session in 1921. We realize
that the opposition has unlimited
capital with which to fight US, but
when the people understand the
movement and what it will mean to
them they are for it. Our problem
is educational-to let the people
understand, for when they under
stand they demand it.
"This legislation would enable the
City of Americus itself, or in combi-
nation, say, with Cordele, Vienna,
and Tifton or other towns, to de-
velop a power project on Flint river
and bringing power into the city.
This would be done by the issuance
of bonds, but that needn't scare any
one, for the history of this develop
ment plan in Ontario has been that
never cent of taxes has been re-
CURED as a result, the profits on the
power developed taking care of all
interest charges and paying off the
bonds themselves. This power, once
developed, costs about two mills DER
kilowatt hour. All over that charg
ed for it is profit and can be applied
against interest and bonds. If Am
ericus should develop a project and
charge the rate now being paid in
Atlanta for hydro-electric power the
profits would pay for the entire
plant in ten years. The presence of
this power, too, would result in Am
ericus becoming one of Georgia's
very first industrial cities. Without
this power you can't progress indus
trially.
"The big power companies have
gobbled up sixty per cent of the best
water power sites in the state and
developed only few. Thy can nev
err serve the smaller communities
and rural districts, because under
their plan of finance they can not
make it pay. Their plan, as we all
know, is to issue three dollars of
stock or bonds for every dollar of
cash put in, giving one dollar bonus
for every dollar paid in by the stock
purchasers, and retaining one for
themselves. That means the neces-
sity of earning three dividends on
one investment. The municipalities,
however, can do this development
themselves and reach every nook and
corner of our state with cheaper
power. We've got 10 come to it.
We haven't the coal without long
hauls; our wood is disappearing, AID
we have no gas or Oh. 1t IS the on
ly way out and the quicker we go
ID 1t the better off we will all be" "
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-02
BALFOUR HINTS
GREAT CHANGES
AT NEXTSESSION
Message Of Gratitude To
President Wilson Is
Proposed

GENEVA, Dec. "A resolution
rejecting the consideration of amend
ments to the League of Nations cove
nant at this session and providing
for committee to study changes
before the meeting of the next as
sembly, was passed by the as
sembly today with only one dissent-
ing vote.
In reporting today the decision of
the committee on amendments to the
covenant not to recommend changes
at this session, A. j. Balfour fore
cast the possible need of important
changes in the future. The cove
nant is not regarded as perfect or
immutuble, he said, and the eventu-
atty must be considered of the next
assembly being called upon to con-
slider amendments of far greater inn
portance than those now prosposed.
The dispatch of a. solemn
message of gratitude to President
Wilson for the way in which he re-
sponded to the appeal of the Council
of the League of Nations to act as
mediator in the Armenian situation
was proposed to the Assembly of the
League by President Paul Hymans
shortly after today's session began.
President Hymans also proposed
that messages of gratitude be sent
the governments of both Brazil and
Spain. Lord Robert Cecil, represent
ing the Union Of South Africa, said
that thanks were also due to the
French delegation, particularly M.
Rene Viviani, whose eloquence, he
declared, had inspired "this meritor-
ious effort to save Armenia"
Germanv's protest against accept
ance by the League of what the Ber-
lin government deemed falsified re-
turns from plebescites held in the
Eupen and Mallmedv districts along
the Belgian frontier, has been re-
iected bY the Council
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-02

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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-02
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-02
ARMENIANS In
TERRIBLE PLIGHT
Driven By Turks Entire
lv Out Of Traditional
Territory

TIFLIS, Dec. 1.-(By Associated
Press. - (Delayed)-Al Armenian
forces have been driven eastward by
the Turkish Nationalists until the
region they now hold is entirely out
side the traditional boundaries of
Armenia. AS a result, Armenia has
been reduced to a little Caucasus re-
public, such as was created by the
Germans and Turks during the war.
1t comprises only the districts of
Erivan and Novo Bayazet, 30 miles
to the northeast Of that city, and
Etchmiandzin, the ecclesiastical cap
ital of ancient Armenia, about 25
miles north of Mount Ararat.
Conditions are frightful in those
districts held by the Armenians, with
100000 refugees in the last stages
of destitution travelling through the
snow in all directions and the Ar
menian government unable to provide
them either housing or food, pending
the arrival of grain promised them
by the Russian Bolsheviki.
Turkish Nationalist assert they
will not crush the Armenians, but
will grant them lenient terms. These
terms. however, must be in conform
ity with Turkish aspirations, it is de-
clared. The morale of the Armen-
ians' shattered army is very low,
while that of the Turks, by contrast,
is well disciplined and equipped.
Reports that Soviet Russia is in
disagreement with the Turkish Ma
tionalists are accepted here as true,
and it is said the Moscow govern
ment views unfavorably the Turk
ish advance into Armenia.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-02
LEAGUE COVENANT AMENDMENTS TO WAIT
Drove Ambulance
In France; Girl Is
Held AS Distiller

A TLANTA, Dec. 2. = Charged
HAwith concealing distillery in
a pasture near her place on the
Howell Mill road, Miss Ellie Fer
guson, former ambulance driver
IN France, has been indicted by
the United States grand jury. It
is said by federal agents who con-
Quoted raid on her premises last
October a 60-gallon still was
found in her pasture, concealed
in dugout, evidently copied from
those constructed in the trenches
in France.
The young woman was attired
in a mans garb. when the agents
arrived at the house to make the
raid, it is said. She was held un-
der bond for examination by the
grand jury.
D. J. CAN'T, supervising federal
prohibition agent for the South
east, has recommended that
Miss Ferguson be required to pay
double distilling tax to the
amount of $2,544.80.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-02
Lads Arrest Solves
Miami Murder, Belief

JACKSONVILLE, Dec. with
the arrest here last night of Van
Hawkins, aged II, of Asheville, N.
c., the police believe the mysterious
death of Mrs. Alberta Hawkins, aged
20. whose body was found Sunday in
the bathtub Of Miami apartment
house, has been solved. The boy
denies any knowledge of the wO-
mans death and claims she was not
his wife, though he admitted living
with her several days in Miami.
On the inside of the cover of a
small iewelry box, Mrs. Hawkins
wrote before her death, 81 gam
bled in the game of love and lost"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-02
FLIES HERE ON
HUNTING TRIP
Lagrange Physician, In
Own Plane, Stops
Over

Railroad trains are too slow these
days for some folks. DR.. Frank Rid
ley, prominent young Lagrange ply
sician, arrived at Souther Field yes
terday afternoon by airplane, bound
for Florida on a hunting trip, and
stopped last night as the guest of his
friend, Manager Chas. U. Rogers, at
the Windsor. He continued his jour
ney this morning.
DR.. Ridley is flyer not because
of the war, but because he wanted
to fly. He did medical service in
the war in this country, and it was
not until hostilities ceased that he
took up aviation. He owns his plane
and does not have to get permit
from Washington whenever he de-
sires to fly a hundred miles.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-02
ALLIES AGREED ON
CONSTANTINE POLICY.

PARIS, Dec. 2.-Agreement be-
tween Great Britain, France and
Italy relative to the policy to be pur-
sued in Greece should Former King
Constantine return to the throne,
appears certain, according to dis
patches from London to papers here.
The Petit Parisien declares Premier
Lloyd George and the British war Of
flee seem to have accepted the
French viewpoint, but the British ad-
miralty and foreign office have not
yet been convinced that this will be
the best to pursue.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-02
Socialist Party Dies
In Rhode Island By Law

PROVIDENCE, Dec. 2.-The So
cialist party ceased to exist in Rhode
Island as a political party, under the
laws of the state in the last election,
according to an announcement by
the state returning board. Under
the law, in order to be officially rec
ognized a political party must poll at
least 2 per cent of the ballots cast
for governor in each election.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-02
u. S. MEDIATOR TO ACT
NOT FOR WILSON PERSONALLY.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-The rep
resentative to be chosen by Presi-
dent Wilson to mediate between the
Armenians and Turkish Nationalists
will act for the president of the
United States, and not Woodrow
Wilson personally, it was said today
at the state department. The state
ment was made in explanation of the
presidents proffer of personal med
iation."
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-02
President Would See
Harding Next Monday

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-Presi-
dent Wilson will be very glad to see
President-elect Harding when the
latter comes to Washington Monday
for the opening of Congress, it was
said today at the White House.
There was no suggestion, however,
that Harding planned to call at the
White House during his stay at the
canita1
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-02
Six Work1nen Sought
Where Brick Wall Fell

NEW YORK, Dec. 2-An all night
search through massive piles of ma
sonrv that deluged Fifty-second
street at Broadwav when a nine
story apartment building collapsed
there late yesterday, failed to estab-
lish definitely today whether any
lives had been lost. Six workmen,
however, are still unaccounted for,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-02
IN CARS DEpAU.FD.

A Central Of GEORGIA freight train
was wrecked Yesterday morning
about two miles below Sn1ithville
Ten freioht cars wore thrown fror'
the track and badly DAMAGED. Tho
cauee of tha wrack was unknown.
Traffic was blocked fer some time by
the wreckage.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-02
Edison Plants Lay
OFF 1000 Employees

NEW YORK, Dec. 2.-Apporxi-
mately 1900 employees of the New
Jersey plants of Thomas A. Edison
have been laid off, the company an
nounced today The reductions were
necessary, it was stated, lin keep
ing with the general trend through
out the country"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-02

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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-02

Mrs. U. S. Hasten, who has been
spending the week with Mrs. Cliff
Williams at her home on Lee street,
will be the guest of Mrs, W. C.
Wright at her home on Church
street for. several days.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-02

MONTGOMERY LIVE STOCK.
MONTGOMERY, Union Stock
Yards, Dec. g. - Hogs, tops, 8.75:
lights, $50; pigs, 500; light pigs.
CTS. Cattle market, slow and steady
at last weeks quotations.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-02

Charlie Robert Cole, of Jackson
vile, is spending several days with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. 7. A. Cole,
at their home on Brannen avenue.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-02
Weather

Forecast for GEORGIA. ara
continued cool tonight; frost in south
portion Friday, fair and somewhat
warmer
AMERICUS TEMPERATURES
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-02
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-02
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New-York tribune., 1920-11-21
An Alice Brown Book

ENHE personal high light OF Alice
Browns The Wind Between the
Worlds (Macmillan) is Madam Brooke,
the "inexorably powerful' old woman
who brings to moments Of befogged rea-
sonings and questionings a sharp, clear
ing breath Of common sense. We feel
safe in placing the home of the TIarve, S,
through which passes so much Of the
movement of this novel, on or near
Beacon Hill, Boston. The time is set
in the months Immediately following
the close of the late war The Har-
veys have lost a son, au-aviator. in
France, and Mrs. Harvey has been won
ever 70 the belief that she is in COM
muncation with her Philip through
automatic writing. To complcate the
plot and give ii an emotional element,
a young girl Andrea Dove, comes sud
denly unheralded, to the home Of the
Harvcys and begs Peter Harvey, the
head of the family, to aid her father
with funds that shall enable him to
continue experiments in an attempt to
interplanetary space.
Andrea's father, poor, half-crazed,
sends his daughter a second time to
plead for help, and the girl lies to the
Harveys, asserting that Philip had mar
ried her few days before he left for
France. door opens and in strides
young Brooke Harvey, Philips brother.
Andrea recognizes him as the man she
had met and loved on the day she gave
az the date Of her marriage to Philip.
That surely Is a rare complication. one
worthy of Charles Reade at the top of
his wave. But the old mother law,
Madam Brooke, is in n corner, obscrv-
ant, comprchending, and, with her
shrewd, year-seasoned wit applied to
the tanglc, gradually the pattern Of
life for the Harvcys and the Doves be-
comes clearer, synthetic.
We read Alice Browns second book
Of the year, Homespun and Gold
I (Macmillan), a collection Of fifteen
short stories, and sat silent for a
moment as the eleventh story Of this
crclet faded from its final page and
became a treasure in memory. The
Path of Stars" is for US wellnigh
perfect picturing of the dropping of
the binders of farm-life habit that
have for sixty years confined the
winged vision Of woman. In one
glorious light bestrcwn moment Aunt
Marietta is made aware Of the
majesty of the lacery Of the stars at
night After that fash of revelation
nothing can weaken her purpose. She
sits alone, night after night, on the
platform of the we'll, jotting down on
paper pencillcd dots in squares, tri-
angles and curves, charting the tirma-
mcnt that, in one divine instant, had
been unfoldcd for her as a field OF
ordered benuty. Aunt Mariettn is
| type not Of Now England alone, but
Of woman universal .bcholding the con-
fines Of drudgcry ovcrarched by song
swept vistas of aspiration
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21
Garnbetta
Ex-President Writes Life
of Garnbetta

~ OCTOBER s, the ffteth ami
I versary of the dowNfal of tho
Empire and the establishment
of the French Republic, olnc.as OF tue
French government visited the house
IN Paris "across the Seine" in which
Gambetta died 1t is timely, the pub
llcatlon of translation of Paul Des-
ehanel's Garnbctta (Dodd, Mead < Co...
doubly so in that the present is for
France fulhllment of many of Gam
betta's hopes in the direction Of a
squaring Of accounts with Germany
and in the fact that recently retired
President Of France is the author OF
this biography.
Gambetta stood for all that was the
best in France, for the perpetuation of
her nobler traditions and the estab-
Hshment OF a government popular in
form and yet containing the dignity
Of the Napoleonic regime. He loved
France and his impassioned eloouence
always was poured forth in her behalf
and her Justification. In him at birth
there must have been fused three dis
tlnctly Gallo qualities, given to him
by the region that lay near and around
his early home: Genoesc adaptab.lity.
charm and talent, Gascon daring and
eloQuence, and the strong will Of Ca
hors. With these elements that made
Tor success he fought his way onward,
always loving those near to him and
writing to them in the manner of Vic
tor Hugo to his wife. progressing
steadily to the hours of the famous
Baudin case in the latter part of 1868
Baudin had been dead for seventeen
years. but Gambetta, in his defense
OF Delescluze, resurrected him and
made him The tip of bayonet in a
charge on the government. See how
graphically Deschanel pictures Gam
betta's triumph and the way he made
use Of it, "He burst headlong into
history, the history that for fourteen
years was to resound with his name
Thenceforward, like a soldier in bat
tie, he would clutch at every bush,
e''IS nloHe, eNeiN Willhle III lNc SOIL
that could help him to advance, and
fight, and win"
But it is the record of Gambetta's
toll as Minister of War during the
Franco-Prussian War that appeals es-
pecially to Deschanel Gambetta had
seen through Bismarck's strategy of
isolation Of France from the sfnrt He
knew well the weakness of the empire
and the infatuated policy OF Napoleon
''thc little He also saw the need OF
France for swift awakening Of re-
publicanism. knitting together OF the
people in a force for national defense
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21


tween the girl Becky of The Trumpeter
Swan and the young woman Susan
Blake Of Lee Wilson Dodd's The Book
OF Susan (Dutton). The former is Of
day rapidly slipping below the horizon
Of fiction. The latter sophisticated
young person SO electric with the pres
ent that she forecasts a future, flashes
back and forth between New Haven and
New York. and then leaps to France
and the war. Susan is the female pro-
team, shaking the mud of the gutter
from her shoe with a flip Of her foot and
then donning the sandals Of Artem;s to
dance up through the spiral of life even
to its ultimate refinements, with no step
too difficult for her treading toes
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21

are heard even in the Kentucky wilder
ness. The author describes Clark's
daring expedition. which captures
Nincennes and other French towns near
the Mississippi. The hero takes an
active part in ali this frontier warfare
for he knows the Indian language and
eXerts great influence upon the tribe
with which he was brought up. He
experiences many adventures with his
red acquantances, and once narrowly
escapes being burned at the stake. He
discovers that his mother is held
prisoner hy the tribe and rescues her
before he goes back to live With white
folk for the rest OF his life
The novel contains many splendid
word pictures of the wilderness. The
opening paragraph is an illustration:
"Streaks of red ran upward, and in
answer the great gray eye OF the viii
derness lifted lis mist -frnged lid.
FROM the green depths came the fluting
OF lone woodthrush. Through them
IN owl flew on yelvety wings for his
home in The heart Of primeval poplar
A cougar leaped from the low limb
6 an OAK. missed. and 4 shuddcring
deer streaked through forest aisle.
bounded into & little clearing, stopped
rigid, shifted a deadlier enemy and
whiried into the wilderness again"
Readers Of the authors earlier novels
will perhaps miss some of the charac-
teristic local touches which give Mr..
Fox's stories of the Southern hill folk
q distinct place in American literature.
Yet Erskine Dale-Pioneer possesses all
the Ingredients of good romance-a
manly hero, lovely heroine, plenty Of
adventure, with dashes of hunaor and
local color The authors style loses
none Of its old fire and exuberance.
The novel would certainly attract thou
sands OF readers, even apart from the
authors previous reputation.