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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-10
GOVERNOR SEEKS
CHANGE OF VENUE
Illinois Attorney General
Names Conditions
Following Arrest,

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, August TO-
Staes Attorney Mortimer today pro-
posed conditions under which he will
agree to grant Gov. Len Small a
change of venue outside of Sanga-
mon county for trial on the charge
of embezzlement of state funds, for
which the governor wss arrested by
Sheriff Mester late yesterday. The
propositions were that the COVER
nor's counsel file a petition for a
change of venue and confer with
Mortimer in an effoSt to reach an
agreement on some county, and that
both sides agree to a speedy trial.
Governor Small, after resisting ar
rest on indictments for three weeks
ON the plea Of executive immunity or
"that the king can do no wrong" as
stated by his counsel, finally sub
nitted to the sheriff after the latter
had besieged the state capitol viii
depuies for several hours.
The governor protested his arrest
until the last, charging persecution
and asserting his innocence, butthe
sheriff was adamant and insisted on
taking the governor from the execu-
tive mansion to the courthouse where
Abraham Lincoln used the practice
law, before accepting the bonds
There the governor gave surety fol
$4,000 and went his way to await
trial on the charge of defrauding tht
people of the state of some $4,000,
600 while state treasurer through al
legged failure to turn over to th'
state proper interest on state funds.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-10
POSTMISTRESS'
MURDER STORY
BATTLES POLICE
Second Man Sspecuted
In West Palm Beach
Mystery

ORLANDO. Fla.sAugust 1O.-A
statewide search isbeing made here
for "a second mansson whom police
base their hopes of heing able to clear
up the tanele of amazing exploits that
surround Miss Lenas Clarke, West
Palm Beacn postmisbaess.
Miss Clarke is una er arrest here.
charged with the nAlrder of Fred
Miltmore, restaura1t owner, and
with the theft of $50 900 from the
West Palm Beach poStoffice.
Officials who haves questioned her,
and who have on saveral occasions
listened to Confessions" that she
made. only to repudiate them a short
time later. believe she may be trying
to niece together a story that viii
hold water, in order to shield sec
ond man in the case.
Many angles of the evidences thcy
say, Joints to the existence Of this
second man.
Developments fast.
This is the history of the case in a
nutshell:
On july, 26 it was learned that
/ S32,0 had been taken from a regis.
tered mail sack at the West Palm
Beach postoffice.
On August /, Miss Clark appeared
at the Orlando police station, asking
officials to go to a room IN the Sar
.Tuan hotel where she said she had
drugged a man implicated in the rob-
berv, and locked him up until she
could get police helm.
Police found Miltmore lying dead
on the floor of the room, killed by 6
revolver bullet. A gun was on the
floor nearby, toeether with two
money bags, slashed and empty. TAGS
on the bags showed they were sent
by the First National Bcnk of West
Palm Beach to the Federal Reserve
Bank at Atlanta and hat one haC
contained $4,000 and the other
$4,000
Chief Confronts Her.
When this news was .phoned tc
| Chief Vestal, he confronted Mis-;
Clarke.
Didn't YOU kill Miltmore, Mis-;
! Ciarke?" he asked.
mo, / didn't" she replied.
Again he put the question, anc
Miss Clarke hesitated.
Later the chief, in a public state
/ ment, gave this version of the affair
as he said Miss Clarke had told it tc
! him:
'fIn 1918, while she was assistant
postmaster at West Palm Beach
there was a-$38, 900 shortage discov
cred in the office. Miss Clarke sale
that although she never was able t.
get any nroof, she suspected Mjlt
more Both she and Niltmore short
I me later were candidates Tor post
master, and during their candidates.
$2O,0 600 more in cancelled money OF
dcrs disappeared = "his, too. she sale
she believed Milemore was resporsi
bic for, seeking to discredit her can
/ didacv.
"The $4,000 theft, she explained
was Tor the purpose of covering III
the earlier shortages. Size told nt
she brought the money sacks ano
| S726 over to the hotel room and sent
! for Miltmore to prove to HIM that in
her desperation she had taken the
money involved to straighten ur the
/ old accounts. She said she tried to
get him to sign statement regarding
Continued on Page Two)
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-10
Tybee Hotel and II ;
Cottaqes Are Burned

i SAVANNAH. August 10.-Eleven
cottages and buildings, including the.
Curry House, on the south end Of
Tvbee Island, 18 miles from this city
were destroyed bv fire Tuesday af
ternoon. The loss is estimated from
$4,000 to $4,000, with only about
$4,000 insurance.
aMost of the occupants were in the
surf. and lost everything but their
bathing suits. The Cause Of the fire
Is laid to an explosion Of an gil stove
In cne OF the cottages. q,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-10
MUSIC AND MOTORS

Gan it be true that the boys ana
Z SfiS IN Americus are failing in their
nigh school work because of iazz
and autos?
IT'S the case in Cleveland, accord
m4g to Edward t. Downer, The regis
'far OF Western Reserve University,
VINO says that out of 1900 graduates
o.. Of Cleveland high school who ap-
plled Tor admission to the college
enly 500, or 40 per cent, have been
accepted.
And he blames music and motors,
la1 eI and Joyriding. Also, be thinks
t5and Gleveland conditions are typical of
nose ~ throughout the nation.
,;;,j me remedy? A little home dis
'lPline by father and mother.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-10
YOU AND
MIST REALIZE THERE'S
ONE JOB THE SCHOOL OF
.EXPERIEN nee CAN'T
TEACH. go M

uyE learned to avoid the fire after
IN being burnt Z to ride the bicy-
.Ie after several tumbles; to swim
sfter gulping water. But we can't
learn aviation that way; the first ac-
cident is usually fatal.
Today's fliers must rise on the
,Iipped wings of the fIiers who fell
yesterday.
Scores of fatal accidents mark and
Inar every branch of the govern
mont aviation service. Every acci-
dant I should be studied well so its
jessons may be learned and taught
men while still aground.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-10
HOLDING HANDS

we don't know why they're all
pa puing 1t, but We've seen it on Broad
SSaS Ss,5 New York, and Market street,
pan pai. francisco, on Main street5,
oII opIIineSVllle, o., and in Pawhuska,
M 1neyre all holding hands.
ino | We dont know why they're do
das,51 d,s IL. Maybe because the young
fro@5 fueH2oys brought the habit back
eontl llolli france ard the oil doughboys
'o3ntsgacted nsc the habit.
|bnt VI 1 course, 1t isn't good ctiqucS -
" VINO cares for etiquet nowadays?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-10
SIX AMERICANS Ms
OU'TOF RUSSIA
Holding Others, How
ever Threatens + am
inc Relief Plans

RIGA, Angus 10.-(By Associated
Press. )-Six American prisoners IN
Russia have been released and have
arrived at Narva, Esthonia, in fair
They re Emmett kilpat-
rick, weston B. Estes, William Flick,
x. B. Kalamantiano, H. j. Lamar and
Russell aPttinger.
The fact that only this half dozen
Americans were released and sent
out of the country, was said here to-
day to threaten long delay in, and
perhaps abandonment of negotiations
for American famine relief or Rus
sia.
Preliminary negotiations between
Director Brown and NJ. LitVinoff
opened this afternoon, Brown asking
what the Soviet governments inten-
tions were regarding the freeing of
other Americans in Russia. The con-
ferees were introduced by the Let
Wan premier.
Miss Marie Bell, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas L. Bell, is visiting
vol,+ivoe ot IackrOnVillp Fla where
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-10
YORK

s.l,, senator Mcclellan, of Tennessee
\ s'cS cS,t congress to make Sergeant York
|yorl o@p'a'n on the retired list with pay.
WI, WIN IS the greatest hero of the
|fro,, o,.q war, but he faces eviction
|csnto p,a ms farm at Pail Mall, Tenn, be-
Sse W.T. ne can't pay the mortgage.
gago sV'S * could have paid the mort
|m@SSg; |Sg il ned accepted vaudeville and
|ligiope olfers, but patriotism and re-
|itsEa sGn wouldn't permit him to cap
H. ''Ge bi the reputation he had won
I" M ms country's service.
! hin HI0ogfess should pass the McKellar
YorL WIZ may need more Sergeant
ciStn i9tn'. IT'S well to show we appre.
8TbursJ Pauline McNeill leaves
n
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-10
FATALISM

Of all the Allied war fliers none
was more daring than Captain Ans
elme Marchal of the French army.
Everyone expected him to be killed.
In June, 1916, he flew from Nancy
10 Berlin, dropped leaflets on the
German capital, proceeded onward,
disappeared and was given up for
dead. But he had had forced land
line, was captured and-then he
escaped. More battle exploits.
The other days he was killed while
driving in an automobile at mod
crate speed.
Food for argument for fatalists.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-10
Tobacco In 2 States
Suffers Deterioration

WASHINGTON, August 10.-The
tobacco crop of Tennessee and Ken
lucky suffered most from adverse
conditions in July, while in North
Carolina and other Southern states
the crop showed improvement, the
department of agriculture's monthly
report shows.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-10
WEATHER. r

Forecast for Georgia - partly
cloudy tonight and Saturday; little
change in temperature.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-10
KINGS.

Kings must come off their high
hOrse-even dead kings!
This cry isn't raised in Russia, but
in England, where there is much ad-
verse criticism of an equestrian
statute of King Edward by Bertram
McKennall, recently unveiled in Lon.
don.
The sculptor did good likeness
of the king, but concentrated mostly
on the charger.
The Manchester Guardian points
|oW King Edwards chief recon-
Aation to posterity is that he was
|neF military, and adds:
Surely the art of sculpture can
invent some way of dealing with
such charcterful and individual
peronage as King Edward without
.fepresenting him only as an ordinary
@oyal symbolw
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-10
HOSPITALITY.

The eight members of the Japan
csc Diet who recently made an ex-
tensive tour of The United States,
have had much torGAv> of our Ameri-
can hospitality dufing their later So
iourn in Europe Ma
Takeo Tanaka, Progressive
member of the Parliament for Toxic,
told the Manchester Guardian that
he was greatly impressed by the
growing spirit of friendliness and
understanding toward Japan which he
found in America.
Which augurs much for peaceful
settlement of the Pacific problems.
The way 20 be friends is to be friend
In
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-10

Miss Marie Bell daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas L. Bell, is visiting
relatives at Jacksonville, Fla, where
she will remain for two weeks.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-10
MARKETS

caas c"NseRiCus SPOT COTTON
'0'o Mlddling II 3-4c.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-10

TbprgsJi MRS Pauline McNeill leaves
tend lay 4 Tor Indian Springs to at
y Z 'ne camp meeting there.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-10

Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Willis Poole an
neunce the birth Of a son August 4
who has been given the name of Rob-
ert Evans.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-10

ernor wop The. sesfate ,S8rked as He.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-10-12

1t was an enterprising piece of
work for E. S. Kelley of Browning
ton, in charge Of the maple products
project for the Orleans County Farm
Bureau, to make an exhibit at the
Eastern States exposition, and the
result easily demonstrates the pos
sibilities of marketing good maple
products as we'll as the great benefit
and usefulness which the Farm Bu-
reau may give to the farmer. Mr..
Kelley took $50 orders for maple
products to be sent all over the east
ern states and. says the crowds which
tayed about the booth and talked
about maple sugar, and wanted to
buy, was amazingly large and enthu-
siastic. Mr.. Kelley is convinced that
there is very profitable market fol
good maple products when gone about
in a sane manner on the cooperative
basis. Many times the market price
was realized for good sugar and syr
up and no one complained of the price
There is a vast market for high
grade maple product at very pro
fitable price.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-10-12

tial mind, under strong pressure from
important constituents, act IL Y
works. Neither he nor any Republic
can candidate, under any conceivable
circumstances, could lose Vermont,
and in addition Vermont has already
contributed very handsomely to afore-
said deficit. New York is, however,
always debatable ground-and of
course Redmond and his friends could
be fixed up" some way-so the de-
ficit will be taken care of, New York
will be Modified, more or less, and
Vermont can take what's left.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Dale ought to be
in a position to get pretty nearly what
he wants from the presidential hand,
or the delegation, or the people of
his district, or the state of Vermont,
| for that matter. If he wants the Bel
gium appointment, he can probably
get it. If he is a candidate for re-
election he will be reelected. If we
lose a congressional district, Dale can
| represent the state as congressman
at-large If he took it into his head
to run for senator he might make
some people uneasy in quarters where
ease has always reigned.
| In this connection, it is also true
that Senator Dillingham; and Con-
gresham Greene were in favor OF
Redmond, although the Free Press
does not say so.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-10-12

There slight difference of opin-
ion in the matter of road building, as
expressed by Bates and by Dix. We
recall distinctively having heard
Bates say more than once in approx
imately these words, "Let us drain,
widen, straighten and grade our
roads, then surface with the best ma
terial at hand and when a proven
hard surface has been found for this
climate we will be ready to use it,
Dix in a recent address at Rutland
said in substance as reported by the
Rutland Herald, 81 am not ready to
recommend a type of road to be used
everywhere in the state. Water.
bound macadam has gone by and
gravel roads are probably best TO,
the state as whole. The type OF
road built must at present be govern
ed largely by the material at hand
Gates, Bates, and Dix agree remark
ably well when we get down to brass
tacks. These men have studied roaC
making and Vermont conditions
Powell, Reynolds, Mentzer, ct al, are
good men in their business, but they
should not be allowed to lead US of
into some highway wilderness o.
"bond-for-hard- surface-roads" wher,
we shall be lost. Let US follow mel
who keep their feet on the earth ant
their ear to the ground.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-10-12
Dale and Redmond.
(Rut1and Hera1dl

The nomination of julius M. Mayer
of New York for United States cir
cult judge is noted by the Free Press
as marking the end of the attempt Of
the Vermont delegation to land the
nomination for John Redmond, the
choice of. the Vermont bar and of Yer
mont people generally who knew
about it. There is much more "to it,
than appears on the surface, either
of the brief dispatch announcing May
er's appointment or of the cOntem-
porary's comment.
The judgeship is one of the "big''
things that Vermont almost had a
chance to land. 1t is so much bigger
than the relationships, marshalships
and district attorneyships in the gift
of the delegation that it has been put
ahead of them and Congressman Dale
in particular, is said to have waived
his natural desire to go abroad as am
bassador or minister in order to leave
the way clear for Redmond.
Just when things seemed about
settled, the powerful New York del
egation 'cut in" to the game and the
Redmond appointment was held up
the accounts of the national commit
, tributors were evidently favorine
] Mayer, so Redmond was summoned tt
Washington and offered almost any
thing else," even to the half of the
presidential kingdom if he would day
"off" the judgeship. Having been duly
chosen by his colleagues and the del
egation, Redmond refused and stood
pat on the judgeship or nothing.
The result shows how the presiden
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-10-12

just constructed most difficult, cost
ly and unusually troublesome piece of
road UP Mount Mansfield. Mr.. Powell
is on record for hard surface roads.
He voted and spoke that way when a
member of the senate in 1915 and Sem
ator John K. Mcclellan of Plymouth,
Windsor county, was another who had
the courage of his convictions during
the following session in 1917.
That these propositions were over
whelmingly voted down does not
mean necessarily that they are dead
for all time-merely that the state was
not then ready for them. 1t may be
ready for them now, and it may not.
There is certainly great interest in
better roads as a state enterprise.
Mr.. Powell admits that permanent
roads wear out, but says that electric
cars, rails, motors, generators, pumps.
etc., do likewise. He puts it thus:
If Howe's theory of finance had
been universal, he would today be
carrying water from the town pump
his wife would be lighting him to bed
with tallow candle and he would be
taking his monthly additions in q
, portable tin tub.
/ ~
| absurdam method of argument and il
might be well to remind Mr.. Powell
that the failure of public lighting
water and street railway systems has
been at least partly due in many in
stances to overlooking this very fac
tor of apparatus wearing out, some
times before the bonds were paid for
Neither can we see that the able
and ingenious Powell has met the rea-
point of Howe's objection. If, al
Powell suggests, we had bonded the
state for $5,000,OO0 and built water.
bound macadam roads ten years ago
would they have lasted ten years OF
would they have gone to pieces in two
or three wears as they have elsewhere
especially in New Hampshire?
/ It gets down in the end to the type
of road, and until we are better salts
fed in regard to what is best for US
to build in this climate. we are in
clined to call for "more light" before
endorsing a n-million-dollar bono
issue.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-10-12
Spelling the Children.
(Randolph Herald and News)

Nowadays babies are so scarce and
confinement expenses so high that
when one arrives in a household it
is petted and pampered to it's immense
injury. 1t must have everything it
wants and nothing it doesn't want. It
mustn't be denied or crossed lest it's
raucous cry be heard to the agony of
it's fond parents and the discomfort
of the immediate neighborhood, who,
in such rare event, would promptly
conclude that the child was being
beaten to death by it's inhuman father
and mother. The old idea that it was
a good thing for a baby to test out
it's lungs has been dismissed as fitted
only for the cave-dwelling era. The
idolizing parents, grandparents, un-
cles and aunties, all the callers and
visitors, pay sycophantish homage to
the youngster and humor his every
wish.
With the natural result. At an
early age he is complete master. And
he never yields that mastery. When
he enters school he resists all the di-
rection and authority he possibly can.
He has never been made to mind at
home, why should he elsewhere? His
parents secretly or openly sympathize
with his rebellious attitude. The old
days when a boy got licked at home
whenever he got licked at school have
passed-for two reasons, the first of
which is that he is not licked at
school. The Montessori and other
systems that have banished the old
blackstrap account for that. The
girls, of course, are beyond all severe
restraint or correction. 1t is the du-
ty of parents and instructors to APP
peal to their reason and their higher
instincts to inculcate right precepts
on the sometimes unfounded assump-
ton that they possess these elements
Whatever happens their immediate
comfort and happiness must be safe
guarded
The habits and demeanor so indus.
triously nurtured bear their natura
fruit. The young have little regard
for anything or anybody if it means
interference with the things they
crave. In employment they find that
it is hard to yield to authority, to dc
what they are told and as they are
told. They have to be handled with
an immense amount of consideration
to enlist their best efforts. Their ca
pacity and self-reliance are their re
deeming traits of diplomacy, patience
and disposition prove equal to TIT
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-10-12

Thousands of people in the United
States, and some in Orleans county,
have bought German marks because
they offered big gamble. A few
months ago the mark was worth be-
tween two and three cents where to-
day it is worth less than one cent.
Some of the very people who would
not buy United States government
Liberty bonds paying 40 interest
are reported to have bought German
marks. Just what kind of citizens
such persons can call themselves is a
question. One security is offered by
the richest government in the world,
the government which is protecting
and aiding us, while the other securi-
ty is that of perhaps the weakest
government in the world. a recent
enemy. There is grave doubt in
the mind of financiers whether the
German mark will ever recover or
not. Usually the type of person who
would gamble with the German mark
would not gamble with local under
taking. They would not think of
taking stock in community enter
prise. because they might" lose.
Until people can see as much in their
home towns as in some bamboozle
from Tinabuckto it will be difficult to
push the home town far into the
realms Of advancement and prosper
perity.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-10-12
Rural Schools.

(Morrisville Messenger)
The fall term Of school is in full
swing.
If you live in rural district, have
you met "the school mann"
Is she a young girl from some vii
lage home?
If so have you stopped to think
she may be lonesome and homesick
Did you ever know anyone who
was homesick to do their best?
Do you want good school in your
district?
Did you ever stop to think you
have duty to perform if you want
a good school?
Make the teacher contented and
happy.
Treat her as you would like q
stranger to treat your girl if she was
away from home.
Take an interest in the teacher and
help her in every way and the first
step is to get acquainted with hel
and show her you are interested in
her and her work, and want to help
make it a success.
A few words of praise and fewer
of fault-fnding will help towards
making your school a good school.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-10-12
ask of drawing them out. The bust

task of drawing them out. The bust
ness world quite often furnishes the
first needed corrective for some of
the ills that flesh is nowadays heir to.
When a young man and young
woman either or both of whom have
been reared under the influences de-
scribed, become mated, clash often
ensues. How frequently the 'incom-
patibility of temper" generated in
childhood leads to the "intolerable
severity" that figures SO largely in
the divorce courts, there are of course
no statistics to establish, but it must
be startling proportion of all such
cases. 1t takes more yielding, more
unselfishness, more cooperation, to
maintain a complete domestic es-
tablishment than many of the parents
of young couples have any reason to
anticipate for them.
A year or two ago Pope Plus issued
a solemn warning against the disre-
spect for authority of all kinds shown
by the youth of today. 1t was deserv-
ed. Such note should have been di-
rected to and needed by the parents
years ago, however, to have accom-
plished the results desired.