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the interest charge on the bonds
actually provided for at London, but
also for an additional $3.50, ,00O, 900
At this point. then. II would be
possible to ask Germany to issue
more bonds, since il would be DEM
onstrated in advance that she could
bear the extra burden these inn
posed. Moreover, thus informed
the money markets of the world
might BE- expected to absorb these
additional bonds.
Levy ON Prosperity.
Here. then. we have the ingenious
attempt to levy on the prospective
prosperity of Germany. without arbi-
trarily imposing a burden which
might prove either too great or toe
small. In conformity. with this plan
the supreme council ordered that II
and when. the returns from the ex-
port tax should rise to a point which
warranted 1t, more German bonds
should issue, up to a further value
of 20.5O0, 100000 This would make
the total German obligation s33,-
900, 900. 900. taking into account the
original s12,5o0. .000, 900. The right
to issue the bonds was vested with
the reparations commission, to whom
Germany issued them in advance
and in blank.
This figure of s33 1000. .O00. 900 rep
resents the allied bill against Ger
many. made by the reparations
commission in accordance with the
terms of the treaty of Versailles and
covered. roughly speaking, all OF
the costs of acutal restoration, that
is, of meeting the costs incident -
German destruction in war and, in
addition certain categories OF pen
sions. This last item was inserted
in the treaty against the American
protest and through the clever
tactics Of Gen. Smuts.
sums Up situation.
To sum up. then, the financial
phase of the decisions of the su-
preme council were these: Germany
should undertake at once a debt OF
S12.500. 100000 issuing bonds for the
same within six months, these bonds
to be distributed pro rata among
her creditors. She should also un-
dertake to pay a fixed annual charge
of $500. 100000 in two semi-annual
payments, the first to be made be-
fore June l of the current year
Finally she should agree to turn
over a sum equal to a 25 per cent
levy upon her exports. plus an ad-
ditional l per cent, which was to be
utilized for further bond Issues when
and il made. Just as long as the
return from this export trade levy
did not exceed s260.o00.O00 annually
the sum total of German payments
would be s760, 900. 900. and the ag-
gregate total of German bonds
would not pass the s12,500. 900, 200
mark.
This is all that is Immediately
important in the new reparations
program. All the rest is entirely
speculative, for it is clear that the
total of German exports may not
for a number of years pass the 81
900, 100000 mark. Thus. for the
present you can say exactly that
what the London conference de-
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Hard Work B e gins to
Show Strain on Cabinet
Officers With H e avy
Duties.
By MARK SULLIVAN,

Both for those who try to under
stand a complex thing and those
who try to make 1t clear there are
various devices for simplicity. OF
these, one of the most frequently
useful is to picture a situation in
terms of the men who figure in it,
1t is part of that philosophy which
says that what will come out of any
situation will always be whatever
Is the net resultant of the pulling
and hauling of the strong men in
1t, and that the whole tangle of the
world altogether comes down to
strong men seeking their own ends
in their own ways, sometimes at
cross purposes, sometimes in Coop
Grafton.
Such a picture of Washington be-
gins, of course. with President Har-
ding. His dominant trait and pur-
pose continue to be as in the begin
ming, harmony, good feeling, and
back to normalcy."
Holds to Purposes.
But everybody has learned by this
time that while to President Har-
ding harmony means extreme con :
sideration for the rights and feel
lngs OF others, II is as far as possi-
Bile from meaning willingness to
abandon his own purposes or easy
going compromise.
President Harding will squirm
and shrink from .loing or saying a
disagreeable thing; he will show OBJ
vious discomfort in his resistance
to those who want him to do what
his own judgment does not indorse |:
he will go to any length to leave a
good taste In the, mouth of one who
Is necessarily disappointed at the
end of transaction with him-Hit
in the end President Harding fol-
lows his own ends as steadily and
surely as any public man In wash
ington.
Progrnm Goes Forward.
1t Is a striking fact that this Pres
ident who was to be the Creature
of Senatorial oliearehy" has given
the Senate. in his At spoken way,
more rebukes than 4 has ever had
from any President In the same
length of time. President Harding
has his own program about our for
eign relations, and his own determI-
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nation to support the Secretary Of
State, who is his own choice. That
program goes forward slowly and
steadily, and. in the Judgment or
all except a very few, satisfactorily.
The strongest group OF men IN
Washington, in the narrow sense OF
resolute men determined upon their
own purposes. is the irrenconcil-
abIes of the Senate. Whether you
like the fight they have made or
not. the fact is they won II by sheer
determination and the willingness
to stake their own political exist
ence on the outcome. For the pres
ent. the irreconcilables are not as
dissatisfied as many reports imply.
In the rejection of the league OF
nations they won a 100 per cent
Victory, and the slow and gradual
building of our new bridge to Eu-
rome is not likely to revive the or
ganized opposition of the past two
years.
Hoover Broadly Trained.
BY most ways of judging. Secre-
tary Hoover is the biggest man in
Washington. His engineering train
ing, his business experience, and
the quality of his mind give him
the kind of grasp on the universe
that a small-town grocer has on his
own business. II the country should
ever determine to hire general
manager and leave everything to
him there would be no other caudi-
date in Hoover's class.
OF politics Hoover knows moth
ing whatever. He works out a plan
then finds that for political or for
personal reasons it can't be made
to work, and 'abandons 1t in the
spirit in which he would yield to
an insuperable obstacle in an en-
gineeTng problem. The picture that
most of US in Washington have is
of Hoover and Hughes united in
furnishing President Harding with
guidance on our foreign affairs.
For the purposes of those Euro
pean problems which are most i'm
mediate these two are the big man
OF the Cabinet. Some of the ir-
reconcilable Senators are suspicious
Of Hoover and Hughes as having
not shared the irreconcilable atti-
tude towards the league OF nations.
But this suspicion Is a decreasing
quantity and every indication prom
jses smooth working out of our
foreign problems by President
Harding and his advisers.
Leaders show strain.
Hoover works too hard. He
=
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All-Stars Want Games.

The Northeast All-Stars desire
games with all fast teams in the Is
year-old class in the city. For en-
gagements communicate with Ray
Hunt, Lincoln 5040.
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Lender. show strain.

Hoover works too hard. He
plunges into work in the spirit of
headlong self-forgetfuiness with
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"Humanise' Aim of Hays.

How deep can be the effects of
fatigue on men <who carry heavy
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-14
American Business
Men Are Interested in
German Trade Outlook

WASHINGTON, May 12.-GeI
'nany's acceptance of the allied rer
kration demands has promptly stint
ated interest of American busine
n German trade possibilities. The.
has been a marked increase in th'
humber of inquiries reaching the
ktate department concerning trade re-
btrictions, to which Secretary Hughes
has replied in effect that with the
Exception of a few articles and
Few restrictions, Americans may
barry on trade with German houses
Freely.
The same feeling apparently was
reflected in reports from allied cap
|tals of improved exchange quota
lions. In this connection, Secretary
Mellon said today that he expected
the advances recorded by French
Ind British exchange rates to be
permanent to some extent. While the
kffect of Germany's acceptance upon
Exchange was largely psychological,
Mr.. Mellon said, it seemed unlikely
hat exchange would drop again to
Its previous low rates. vi
Analysis made by administration
officers of the allied plan for the
collection Of reparations caused them
10 declare today that they could see
Ia IL no serious flaw.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-14
Fertiliizing Southern Field Crops
BY F. H. JETER
Soil Improvement Committee

of tobacco growers, under varying
conditions:
Eight per cent phosphoric acid, 3
per cent ammonia, per cent potash.
Eight per cent phosphoric acid, 3
per cent ammonia, per cent potash.
Eight per cent phoSphoric acid,
per cent ammonia, 4 per cent potash.
Eight per cent phosphoric acid, 4
per cent ammonia, 3 per cent potash.
Eight per cent phosphoric acid, 5
per cent ammonia, per cent potash.
The reason for fertilizing tobacco
so highly are that it produces such
enormous leaf growth, removes large
amounts of plant food from the soil,
and has short period of growth.
The phosphoric acid, should be
used only in the form of acid phos-
phate, and the nitrogen should come
from those materials containing it in
quickly available form, such as dried
blood, cottonseed meal, nitrate of
soda and sulphate of ammonia. If
terial that decays slowly, the tobacco
will not mature properly.
1t is necessary for tobacco to grow
off rapidly from the start, and contin-
ue it's growth until almost mAture.
At the latter period of growth there
should be little nitrogen available, in
which case the plant will color bet
Ter. IL nitrogen is present III TOO
great quantity at this time it will
cause the plant to remain green,
whereas it ought to turn yellow.
The potash applied should always
come from sulphate of potash. Chic
rides in muriate and kainit are in
furious to the burning qualities of
the leaf.
The amount of fertilizer to use de-
ponds, of course, upon the fertility
of the soil. old fields reuuiring from
1000 to 1,400 pounds. In Bulletin
No. 1913 of the Virginia Agricultural
Experiment Station this statement
is made: Higher applications of
paid better than light applications.
Fourteen hundred pounds of an 1913
fertilizer gave net profit of $685.
per acre more than 500 pounds of
the same fertilizer, and the after
effects on succeeding crops were
more pronounced"
Go BE Continued)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-14

This wonderful rat virus, which Is known
Alexander Rat-Killer, is merely mixed
Ia bread or meat scraps and placed where
Is. mice or gophers can get to it. Within
lew hours after rat has eaten Alexander
[t-Killer he gets a high fever and suffers
terrible thirst. He leaves the barns ana
kting holes and goes to the open fields IN
Rrch Of pure air and running water. Rats
q mice affected always die away from
barns and houses, SO there is no odor.
Rt Ia q scientific fact that one rat affects
hers and soon the whole colony leaves the
5ldings and dies. And though this virus
absolutely deadly to rats-chickens, hogs,
ttle or any farm animal can eat it and
be affected at all.
"a confident is Mr.. Alexander that Alex
her Rat-Killer will kill every rat on your
m in less than a weeks time that he
fers to send, as an Introductory offer,
kular $500 tube for only $1.00. Give it
kordtns to directions, and If, at the end
weeks time, you are able to discover
rats, mice or gophers on your farm,
|hr money will be refunded. big Kan
! City bank guarantees that Mr.. Alexander
reliable and will do as he says.
Bend NO MONEY. Just write to E. R.
exander. Alexander Laboratories, 159
Iteway Station, Kansas City, Mo-, and the
be will be mailed at once. When it ar
es, pay the postman only one dollar and
ktage on the guarantee that if not abso-
<cly satisfactory your money will be re-
med without question. Write today-a
stcard will do-and stop your rat losses
A-(Adytl
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-14
Mississippi Growers
Adopt Sapiro Plan
For Marketing Cotton

The Stape Cotton Growers asso-
citation of Mississippi has just COM
pleted it's sign-up campaign for a
minimum of 100000 bales of Missis-
sippi long staple cotton by sign-up
of approximately 100000, and will be
in the market with the 1921 crop, &C
cording to information received here
at the headquarters of the Georgia
Cotton Growers Cooperative associa-
ton Thursday.
This is the second big cotton unit
to go over the top with the so-called
California or Sapiro plan for the
cooperative marketing of cotton, the
first being the Oklahoma. Cotton
Growers association which completed
its organization on the first of April.
The Mississippi campaign was
conducted under the leadership of
Oscar F. Bledsoe, millionaire cotton
planter of Greenwood, Miss, and
complete business arrangements for
the marketing and financing of the
crop were completed sometime ago
when it was known that the needed
slgn-up would be secured.
Both the Oklahoma and Missis-
sippi organizations, together with
such other units as are complete in
time to market the 1921 crop, will,
1t is said, sell their cotton Jointly
through the newly created American
Cotton Growers exchange
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-14
WORK OF u. S. DESTROYERS
IN GUARDING TROOPSHZPS

Jones, McDougal, Davis, Conyngham
Allen, Reid, Stewart, Porter, Patter-
son, BeaIe, Burrows, Allen, Sterrett
and Tucker were officially credited
by the British admiralty with sue
cessful attacks, and there were 9TH
were not able to present such clear
evidence. For the authorities over
there required pretty good evidence
before they gave any credits.
Good Work of Armed Yachts
The armed yachts, those fine craft
belonging to wealthy Americans
which, from luxurious private pos
sessions were turned to purposes of
war and performed splendid service
well their part and the Mona, Wa
kiva, Piqua, Christabel and Lydonia
were accorded official praise for dam
aging or sending down submarines.
The subchasers at Plymouth and
Corfu had their victories.
But, withal, it was the gallant de-
stroyers which did most to combat
the submarine menace. They were
the bully boys who always kept he
subs on the run. At sea two-thirds
of the time. they escorted three
fourths of the transatlantic tonnage
of them made astounding records.
The first year after we entered the
war at least three, the Porter, Davis
and Conyngham, steamed about Co.
600 miles each, nearly three times
the distance around the globe, while
aged $500 miles month. over ESQ
miles day. No class of ship, big
or little, ever exceled this record.
solve Him Anything He Wants"
Regarding the Caldwell, 1 must
tell you little story, about Com
MnTonn1nSs Ar the
beginning Of the war he was my
naval aid, and when he begged to go
to sea he was assigned to this de-
stroyer, then building at Mare is
land. He reached the California navy
yard not long after the kneel was
ished, he was on the job day and
night. He banged away at it so per
sistently tina the workmen called him
Captain Bing-Bang.'
One day the acting chief Of naval
opera tons came into my office with
telegram from McCandless asking
that a laundry be installed in the
had prepared disappearing the re-
quest. Hold on there, now" I said.
THAT officer is working overtime to
get his ship done. Give him anything
he wants. and send it by express"
Then the acting chief held out his
approving the request. Il knew you
would want this dispatch, Mr.. Secre-
tary, he said, but 1 thought I would
see rst what I could do with the
letter.
Makes Double Record
McCandless finished his ship in
record time and for his trial trip
made another record by making the
run from San Francisco through the
Panama canal to Hampton at a speed
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(To Be Continued)

point have not availed thus far. For
extra large lots there were fractional
reductions, but keen competition kept
prices we'll up.
PITTSBURG.-Inqu for steel
at prices considerably below those
fixed by the United States Steel
corporation on April 13, are coming
into the district and plainly indi-
cate that consumers of plate and
other forms of steel do not expect
the fixed price level to sand. Some
sheet bars are reported to have been
sold at a concession Of 81 a ton
from the April 13 list. The holding
off of consumers is distinctly the
feature of the market today. Judging
from past standards, there is lit
tie likelihood that the steel corpora
ton will change it's schedule for
some time. The old one remained in
effect for more than two years de-
spite the pressure for a change. Some
Independents may report once more
to cut prices to obtain business, but
even this is considered a doubtful
venture
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-14
Fertilizers for Tobacco


Tobacco, being a heavy feeder,
should be well fortified. No crop
responds more readily to heavy fer
tilization. The more fertilizer used
the greater the yield, and the better
the quality, provided the fertilizer is
well balance.
By we'll balanced fertilizer is meant
one that contains the proper proper
tions of phosphoric acid, nitrogen
and potash, to suit the plant require
ments. These proportions will vary
with the soil type, previous cultiva-
ton of the land, and the rotations
that have been followed. A fertilizer
is out of balance when there is too
much of one and not a sufficient guam
tity of the other two of the three
essential elements. For example: IT
a liberal supply of nitrogen is ap-
piled, and not a sufficient quantity of
phosphoric acid and potash, the
plants will remain small in size and
green in color throughout the season,
and produce a tobacco inferior in
quality. On the other hand, if liberal
amounts of phosphoric acid are ap-
piled, and not sufficient quantities OF
nitrogen and potash, the plants will
mature early, be small of growth, and
produce thin, inferior leaf. Again,
if potash is applied abundantly with
insufficient phosphoric acid and nitro
gen, the plants will be stunted, late
in maturing, and of poor quality.
Nitrogent in a readily available
form is the most important constit-
uent of a fertilizer for tobacco. and
the next in, Importance is phosphoric
acid. If liberal amounts of nitrogen
and phosphoric acid are applied good
results will be obtained, but not so
good as if potash, too, had been ap-
piled. However, if nitrogen and
potash are applied in liberal amounts
without acid phosphate, there will be
a fair yield, but the quality of the
tobacco will be inferior. If liberal
amounts of phosphoric acid and pot
ash are used without nitrogen the
yield will be small, but the tobacco
will be of fair quality.
Therefore, the necessity of apply
ing well balanced fertilizer to OBJ
tain the best results.
The following formulas have been
used with success by a great number
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-14
Hardwick Withdraws
Suit Against Paper

MACON. Ga. May 12.-Following
the filing OF an apology by w. T.
Anderson. publisher and editor of
the, Macon Telegraph, in the city
court, the suit for 100000 damages
filed by Governor Thomas w.
Hardwicl in the city court last Oc-
tober was withdrawn.
The suit filed by Mr.. Hardwick
resulted from an editorial in which
it was claimed the Telegraph was
guilty of libel in the publication of
paragraph in the editorial which
Mr.. Hardwick alleged to be an in
situation that he conspired to have
sent to him for political capital a
bomb which exploded in his home.
The apology filed in the nature Of
an amendment tn the answer filed
by Mr.. Anderson follows:
This defendant SAYS that said
editorial was published in the heat
of a political campaign and while
the same was not intended to give
offense, this defendant now retracts
said publication as being unfair to
the plaintiff and hereby expresses
it's regrets at having published the
same"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-14
LITTLE CHANGE SHOWN
IN CLEVELAND DISTRICT
BY GUY T. ROCKWELL
(Leascd Wire Service to The Journal.)

(LeaSGQ Wire Service to Ile J0urnal.)
Copyright, 1921
CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 12.-In-
dustrial conditions here show but
little change. Financially, however,
it is noticed that an unusually
heavy demand upon the federal bank
is being made by member institu-
tons which is reflected in a decline
and federal reserve note liabilities
from IS per cent to 65.3 per cent in
week.
Bankers explain this condition
this wise:
The Cleveland district is largely
a manufacturing section and there
has been a large decrease in deposits
following the curtailment among the
steel plants which were about the
last to shut down. Banks are ex-
tending commercial loans much long
err than usual and in so doing are
tying up money that ordinarily would
be available for investment purposes.
Upon this condition comes a strong
demand from the farming districts
for funds to carry on the spring
planting which makes for a heavy
strain on credits.
Settlement of the building trades
and possibly the printers strikes is
looked for before the week is over,
but indications may go awry. Owing
to the inquiry for funds from bul d.
ers and investors for July and
August, it seems as if there should
be considerable building started in
the late summer.
The motor car business apparently
has taken a turn, and while some
Of the smaller companies report a
continuance of orders some of the
larger ones are not unduly optimistic.
One company which cut prices re-
ports an increase in sales traced to
that account. No doubt the agita-
tion Of reductions in motor and tire
prices is having a tendency to delay
buying.
Ratification of the financing plan
by stockholders of the Goodyear Tire
looked upon as favorable for the
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-14
Georgia Debaters
Claim Championship

ATHENS, Ga, May 12.-The Uni
versity of Georgia debating team has
added to it's record another victory
in the defeat that it handed Wander
bflt university recently. The Uni
versity Of Georgia represented the
negative side of the question, Re
solved, That there should be some
compulsory arbitration Of all railway
labor disputes in the United States"
w. D. burden, of Graymont, and Joe
Berman, of Savannah. composed the
University of Georgia team.
This is the third debate in which
the University Of Georgia has been
victorious this season, having al
ready defeated Virginia and Auburn.
The team was indicated last season
so they hold clean title to the
southern championship.