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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-08-31

this country simply sends delegates
to take part IN stfeh elections on the
rare occasions when they occur,
our country gets its full rights in
the court, and does not undertake
any obligations under the League Of
Nations.
k,But the opposition to information
al evaporation on the part Of a
large part Of the Republicans is so
so bitter and unreasonable, that even
this mild and harmless proposal en-
counters intense opposition, and is
likely to keep our country out Of
the world court for the present.
It seems doubtful if the nations
will overhaul the plan which they
agreed upon after great difficulties,
just to quiet irrational notions Of
Republicans obsessed by dislike and
fear of the League Of Nations. Not
much is likely to be done to pro-
mote world peace while the Repub-
licans retain power.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-08-31
THE WHEAT CROP

The most serious trouble with
American farming is that the wheat
growers are raising more Of their
staple than can be sold. The wheat
production of Europe is recovering,
but the purchasing power of Europe
does not gain much. Europe can
not for some years buy a normal
supply of American wheat. The
country is now producing a surplus
which must be sold abroad or not
at all. It seems essential for a
portion of the wheat raisers to pro-
duce something else.
Many people hold that the situa-
ton can only be remedied by gov
eminent action fixing a price for
wheat. Such price fixing would en-
courage an enlargement Of the
wheat acreage, and lead to increase
instead of decrease of the crop. The
best way will be for proportion of
the wheat growers, those whose land
is best adapted to other kinds Of
farming, to grow some other staple.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-08-31
THE HIGHER IDEALS

I'm BOSlNESS
To listen to the conversation Of
many business men, one would
think that their sole object in life
was to make money.
1t is a fine thing for q man to
show ambition and to concentrate
his heart on business success. Only
thus can one expect to achieve salts
factory results. But it is well to re-
member the foundations on which
all business rests, and the relation
it has to the welfare of the com
munity.
Under the present economic or
DER there is in reality kind Of
tacit understanding between society
and the individual producer, that he
is granted the right to go ahead
and have the products of his own
toll and make what money he can.
But in return for this free license,
he is expected to do his business ac-
cording to the principles of strict
honesty. He is also expected to
handle his business so that it will
promote the welfare of the commu-
nifty and the well being Of all who
are employed by him.
The people who disregard these
principles are in reality violating
their tacit bargain with the com
munity. They may by exceptional
smartness win a good deal of fnan-
cial success. But if the entire bust
ness community was like them, the
present social order would stand in
danger of revolutionary distur-
banco, and their entire prosperity
would be menaced.
1t is particularly essential that
business people consider the vel
fare of those who work for them.
They ought to make working condi-
lions as hoalthful as possible and
pay fair wage. If all business con
Germs would do that, if they would
consider human welfare as OF the
first Importance, and greater than
any results that money can buy,
much of the social unrest of the
present time would disappear.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-08-31
THE PRESIDENT AND
THE WORLD COURT

President Harding's utterances
on his western trip reveal what bit
ter opposition he has had to en-
counter from his own party to his
mild and limited suggestion that
this country join the court of in
ternational justice.
In addition to reservations which
he felt at the start to be necessary,
he now suggests that this court, to
win the adherence Of the United
States, should have the last vestige
of relation to the League of Nations
cut o. He would not even let the
assembly of the league, with the
addition of representatives of the
United States for this purpose only,
fill vacancies in the court that may
occur in future years.
If the United States insists on
this point, the result is likely to be
that we shall stay outside of the
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-08-31

best bring up our boys and girls.
Thousands of men and boys each year
are nocking TO the city Clerks In the
city are barely eking out an existence
and they cannot expect to receive
much more In the way of compensa'
ton.
But back on the farms are men
working for q reasonable return, and
In addition they have their houses,
the wonderful sunshine above In
the daytime, the wonderful fresh air
and all the things that the soil pro.
duces. The boy who Is raised on the
farm will have an entirely different
aspect of life and approach the vari-
Gus problems with which he has to
deal In later years In q different way
from the boy who is raised in the
city.
In this period of unrest we are Ger.
tainly vitality interested in rearing
both ON the farms and In the cities
boys and girls with the proper out
look for the future, imbued with the
belief that the activity In which the,
are engaged is, after all, something
that will provide them both with the
necessary things Of life and with hap
piness. For in happiness there Is con-
tentment, and in contentment in
America there Is safety for our insti-
tutions.
Every single banker should feel
that the problems his farmer custom
ers have to contend with are not only
the farmers problems but his prob
lens a. well. He should feel not only
that the farmer must be prosperous
30 that he can deposit more in his
bank, giving the banker more to loan
and thereby increasing his profits, but
that also there is something which
cannot be measured in dollars and
cents. 1t is the thought OF rendering
such service to their eustomors--re-
CARELESS of whether thsy are farmers,
or men working In the shops, or big
business men Of the cities-that will
bring not only prosperity but con-
fentment as well. The banker should
take as his motto: who serves best
profits most"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-08-31
THOROUGH PREPARATION

Many young people, about now,
are questioning whether or not to
quit school for good and go to work,
or to take some further preparation
for their desired occupation. 1t is
well for them to reflect on the great
ly superior reward that the world
gives to compentence and good
training.
For instance, a friend from an
other state was telling recently of
his daughter who has entered the
nursing profession. Learning Of
management of a hospital, and learn
ed that they could give her a two
year training course. But while
such a study would be very practical
and helpful, it did not go deep
enough to suit this father. He
wanted his daughter to understand
more of the principles of medical
science, the nature and causes and
treatment of disease. So he had her
take a thorough five year course
adapted to that end in college
having a department of nursing.
When she finished that course she
began work in city hospital. With
in few weeks the head of the
hospital was taken sick and had to
resign, and this young college train
ed nurse was chosen above all the
others to take her place. If she had
not had this special training it would
probably have taken years to Sc
cure such advancement.
While an instance of this kind
may be regarded as extreme, still
it is constantly happening in all
callings that well trained young
people will make rapid progress,
while others drag along for years
doing the same thing over and over
again, and perhaps losing their in
itiative as the result of deadening
routine.
The well trained beginner takes
hold of new work with confidence
and sureness that brings ample re-
ward for all the effort of prepare
ton. Difficulties that seem insur-
mountable to people of imperfect
training, seem but slight matters
of every day detail to those who
have mastered them.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-08-31

court. One Of the great difficulties
in the way Of forming such a court
has always. been to find q way Of
forming such a court, has always
been to fnd a way suiting all ma
tions for electing the judges. Elec-
tion by the assembly Of the League
Of Nations, proved the method
that would solve this problem. II
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-08-31
THE BEST THE
FARMS PRODUCE
BY WALTER W. HEAD
First VIee-PresIdent. American Bank
ers Association

Every Banker
and business man
In the country IL
interested in the
farm from anoth.
or viewpoint than
merely q place to
raise farm prod
ucts and live
stock. Above all
the farm is one
Of the plac Q 9
NJ "A oRa wa ram
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-08-31
THE ROMANCE or WORDS
"REDLAM"

HREDLAM." the word BY
~ which we now designate
q hubbub, an excited crowd or
an uproar, has been derived not
from Babel" as might be ex.
pected, but from bethlehem"
the name of an insane asylum In
London and formerly one Of the
most abOminable torture-hOuseS
Of the British capital.
bethlehem" itself dates back
to 1247, when Simon FitE-Mary.
q sheriff of London, founded q
prlory dedicated to st. Mary Of
Bethlehem. Everyone connected
with this institution was COM
PEELED to wear q black robe, with
q single star on the breast In
memory Of the star which guided
the Magi to the stable at Bethle-
hem. Some three centuries later
a London taller named Stephen
Jennings offered to start fund
to purchase the House Of Bethle-
hem and turn 1t into O hospital
for the insane, but IL was not
until Henry VII made a gift Of
the house TO the city Of London
that 1t became an insane asylum.
Owing to the fact that lunatics
were considered at that time to
be possessed by devils, Bethle-
hem was made a place Of chains,
manacles and stocks, while all
manner Of hideous tortures were
devised to pout the evil spirits
which haunted the bodies of the
living. During the Sixteenth
century the place became SO
filthy and lOathqome that no ona
would enter It and It fell into de-
cay, to be renovated In 1875.
when q stone image Of madness.
carved In the likeness Of one Of
Cromwell's doorkeepers, was
placed on the outer wall. In the
literature Of the day we find that
the name Of the asylum Is short
ened, first to "Bethlem," then to
"BGdlem" and finally changed to
'Bedlam," in which form II re-
mains.
% by Wheeler Syndicate. IAS.l
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-27
TIRED OF STAYING
AWAY; SURRENDERS
Chester Caldwell Faces Muir
der Charge,

81 just got tired of staying away,
said Chester Caldwell, %, who walked
into police headquarters and sur
rendered himself on the charge. OF
numbering William o. Sparks whom
he stabbed last November in a figh;
at 1882 Jacksno st.
1.-THE police weren't bothering me
They, didn't know where 1 was,
he said.
Caldwell punctuated his language
with hearty swearing.
Sparks hit me with his fist a cou
pie of times" he said. HE claimed
there was no such organization as the
Ku-Klux Khan. 1 said there was, but
that l wasn't a member. Then he
came after me with a club and
stabbed him once and threw the knife
away"
Caldwell caught a train out of the
city. In Robbins, Tenn, he was rio
ing a freight and thought there was
going to be a wreck. He jumped anC
a passenger train amputated his arm
This was not included in the police
description, making his escape easier
Caldwell has a wife, Maude, 20. He
said he does not know where she is
Caldwell waived preliminary hearing
and was bound over to the grand jury
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-27
LIGHTNING CAUSES
MUCH DAMAGE IN
SUNDAYS STORM
Three Barns, Containing Hay
and Grain, Are Struck
by Bolts.

A barn, owned by W. B. Richard
son, seven miles south of the city
on the Madison Rd., was burned Sun
day after it had been hit by light
ming. Twenty tons of hay, 100 bush
els of wheat - / some farm nipple
ments were stroyed. Indianapolis
fremen pumped water from a creek
to extinguish the blaze, but the fire
had gained too much Roadway. The
loss was $4,000.
Two barns belonging to Frank
Kautsky, farther south on the same
road, were also hit by lightning.
twenty-five tons of hay and straw,
$50 bushels of corn and some nipple
ments were lost. The damage was
$4,000.
Lightning struck the home Of
Minnie Arlifch 1414 Barth Ave, caus-
ing $40 damage.
The total rainfall for the twenty
four hours ending a. m. today was
one inch. The twelve hours before
Z a. m. showed 8 of an inch.
The forecast for today and to-
morrow indicate clearing weather
with probable thunder showers today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-27
TWO GIRLS STEP
FROM MOVING CAR
Passengers DiSmount as Door
Is Opened.

Lillian May Riggs, IA, and Velma
Stevens, IA. both of Mooresville. Ind,
were cut and bruised when they fell
as they alighted from a moving E.
Michigan car at Sherman DR.. Sunday
night.
5 William B. Davis, 21O6 E. Washing
ton St., conductor, told police he
orened the car door to see if he had
reached Sherman DR.. and the girls
stepped off.
Mrs. Ora Meyers, 1899 Reisner St.,
received a scalp wound Sunday night
when she stepped off the rear plat
form of moving street car at Nor
ris and Reisner SITS. Ralph Woodward,
conductor, told police the car was an
open rear platform type.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-27
CHICAGO MAN SAVES GIRL
Bandits Frightened When Companion
Steps In.
RI United Netos

BY United NetOS
CHICAGO, Aug. 27.-The heroism
of Harry e. Madsen, Chicago realtor,
early Sunday saved pretty 19-year-
old Mildred Sovsen, his companion,
from an attack by two bandits who
had held up the couple and robbed
them.
After money and jewelry had been
taken at the point Of revolvers. one
Of the bandits said. You look good
to me-" and started to pull the girl
from Madsen's automobile.
You'll have to kill me first,
shouted Madsen.
"Ill do that" replied the desperate.
The other bandit, however. inter
vened and persuaded his companion
to depart with the loot.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-27
Woman Stabbed With Pick

Leonard Cohn, So, colored! Marion.
Ind, today was charged with assault
and battery with intent to kill. Lieu
tenant Winkler, while searching the
home of Anna Neil, colored, rear All
w. North ST., found Ida Vino, colored.
same address, suffering from a stab
wound in the back. She was sent to
the city hospital. Police said they
learned that the fight occurred Satur-
day night and that Neil stabbed her
with an ice pick.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-27
PURDUE FARM GRADS
TO HOLD BIG REUNION
Invitations Sent to 5000 for Meeting
at Fair, Sept. 6.

Graduates, former students and
short-course students of the Purdue
University School Of Agriculture will
hold their annual reunion at the Indi-
ana State Fair at the Purdue Bldg,
Thursday noon, Sept. 6, Harry Reed.
president of the Agricultural Alumni
Association, announced today. Invi-
tations have been sent to 5000 alumni
in the State.
J. H. Skinner, dean of the School
ofZAgriculture. and George I. Chris
tie, director of the agricultural expert
ment station, are among the speak
ers. President Elliott has made plans
to attend the meeting.
Plans for perpetuating the associa-
ton and expanding the organization
will be discussed at a dinner at the
Chamber of Commerce Wednesday
evening, Sep. 5.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-27
MARSHALLS ADOPT LAD
Billy Carr, ., Romps at Home Of Elk
vice President.

Playing contentedly in the Wash
ington home Of exEVice President and
Mrs. Thomas r. Marshall of Indian
apolis. Billy Carr, 2. does not realize
that his temporary mother is the
former second lady Of the land.
Mrs. Marshall became interested in
Billy while doing work with the Child
Welfare Society. So took the child
from the Children's Hospital, saying
that she either would adopt him or
find a home for him. Billy has no
known relatives.
Billy Morrison Marshall. adopted
son Of the Marshalls, died nearly three
years ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-27
MEN STEAL 'ON THE FLY
Ultra-mOdern Purse Snatchers Have
New Operating Scheme.

One of three men riding in an old
automobile reached cut Of the machine
as it drew up beside the sidewalk,
seized her beaded purse containing
$3.50 and drove away, Miss Marie
McGlenn. 215 Minerva St. told po-
lice today.
- The men hailed her and two other
girls as they were walking on w. New
York ST.. west of Illinois st. when
she moved to the edge Of the sidewalk
to identify the men one took the
purse.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-27
DedaIker Heads State Drive

Robert N. Dedaker, $3.50 Park Ave,
will act as chairman of the Indiana
committee for the $5,500,000 national
drive for Northwestern University,
Evanston, ILL.,, it was announced to-
DAY. He will be assisted by Robert
Moscrip, Ray Harris and Miss Harriet
Brown, all Of Indianapolis, and by
local committees throughout the State.
The money will be used for a new
campus for the law, medical. dental
and commerce schools in Chicago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-27
COMISkEY AND
WALSH ROBBED
White Sox Leaders Lose
$4,000 in HoId-Up,
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, Aug. 2S.-While Miss
Alice Reidy. the "Old Romans" sister,
played ragtime on piano unaware
that anything unusual was happening,
two negro bandits held up others at
the Charles A Comiskey home and
escaped with $4,000 cash and jew
elry last midnight.
AS big Ed" Walsh, assistant man.
ager Of the White Sox, and Mrs.
Grace Comiskey stepped out the door
to put pup which howled at the
music in the garage, the negroes
stuck guns in their ribs.
After stripping the couple of valu-
ables the negroes locked them in the
basement They finally aroused Miss
Reidy who was still playing, by
humping on the floor and she liber-
ated them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-27

BIZ IlWeS SpcctdI
SHELSYVILLE, Ind. Aug. FL
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Johnson of
Summitville suffered cuts and bruises
when their automobile was struck by
an Indianapolis and Cincinnati trac-
ton car at the crossing at Fountain
town. The automobile was wrecked
and Mr.. and Mrs. johnson and their
three children were dragged for some
distance along the track.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-27
oWSLEY OFFERS TRIBUTE
Legion Commander Places Plaque on
Tomb of Unknown Soldier.

Americas tribute to the unknown
soldier of France, a bronze plaque,
Sunday was laid upon the tomb at
Paris by Col. Alvin M Owsley, ma
tional commander of the American
Legion, according to word received
at Legion national headquarters to-
day. The plaque was the work Of
Capt. Francis Jacques, who served
with the American Army in France
and who is a member of the Paris
post of the legion.
An inscription on the plaque is a
Symbol of those who gave their
lives for the cause of justice and
truth in the great war of 1914-1918."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-27
PREACHERS MEET
They Want Equal Rights in Pulpit
and Church.

BIZ United Neps
CHICAGO. Aug. 27.-The Interna
tional Association of Women Preach
ers will open its annual convention to
night, with members from all parts
of the United States, representing
seventeen denominations, here to urge
equal rights for women in the clergy
The association has announced that
one of its principal objects is ito Sc
cure equal ecclesiastical rights for
women and to encourage capable and
consecrated young women to take up
the work of the ministry"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-27
WILLIE VISITS POLICE
Woman, Smashing Bottle From Car,
Causes His Arrest.

Police arrested Willie Carey. 90. of
329 Kentucky Ave, John Murphy, 2Sr
Grand Hotel. John Dummy Ford.
%, 81 Douglass St. and Viola Kress,
436 Giesendorf ST., all in Carey's au-
tomobile parked at 156 n. Blacford
ST., for operating a blind tiger. Mary
Carey and baby, wife OF Willie Carey,
We're not taken.
Police say that Mrs. Kress threw
a bottle Of white mule to the street.
Another was found in the car. The
car was confiscated, and the occupants
charged with operating a blind tiger.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-27
Captain ConIib Changes Post.

Staff Captain James Conlib and
Mrs. Conlib, for three years in charge
of young peoples work for the Saliva
ton Army, will leave for Chicago this
week to take up similar work there.
A farewell service in their honor was
given at Salvation Army Hall Sunday
night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-27
Chimney Landmark Wrecked

One of the oldest and tallest brick
chimneys in Indianapolis will be a
thing Of the past within month.
Work of demolshing the stack. 26O
feet in height and thirty years in
service, at the Mills st. station Of the
Indianapolis Light and Heat Com
nenY, is being pushed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-27
QUAKER MEETING CLOSES
Kansas Pastor Is Chosen New Super.
intendent of Friends.

By Times Special
PLAINF1ELD, Ind, Aug. 27.-The
Western Indiana Yearly Meeting of
Friends edjourns here today. The
Rev. Richard Newly Of Wichita,
Kas.. was chosen new superintendent
to succeed the Rev. Enos Harvey OF
this city. ~
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-27
Joy Riding on slump"

The weather was not so good for au-
tomobile joy riding Sunday. Result:
Only one automobile, a Maxwell coupe,
parked on Market St, between Penn
sylvania and Delaware St., belonging
to Malcomb Bosse. 1927 n. Talbot
Ave, was reported stolen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-27
Man Faces Forgery Charge

John Smith. 10. of 1852 Cornelius
Ave, today is under arrest charged
with forgery and grand larceny. Po-
lice said he cashed a pay check be
longing to John Shipley of the same
address.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-27
Pocket Picked of S139.95

When Louis 3. Asmus of Emmer-
louisville boarded a crowded w. Tenth
st. car at Illinois and Washington
SITS, his pocket was picked of S139. 95
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-27
of Successful Men Pay
= Tribute to Teachings of miss Sue
Greenfield Woman Con-
ducts Sunday School
Class Since 1868.

GENERATIONS have come and
= gone in the fifty-five years
j that Miss Susan Amanda Viii
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-29
Cub Pilot
Has Praise
for Catcher

CHICAGO, Sept. 2o.--Bnl Klllefcr.
" clever manager Of the Chicago
Cubs. and famous MS tho battery
partner OF the great Grover Cleve.
land Alexander. announces that as a
player he Is about thru. While able
to stili do n good job of catching,
Killefcr is now content TO pass up
the backstopping to the youngsters
on his club, confident they are able
to deliver.
II regard my first string catcher.
O'Farrell, as the best catcher In tho
National league. He IAN do every.
thing we'll. and better yet, his work
improves with every game. lie has
come along in such fine style that l
am no longer worried over the catch.
ing on my club, In n year or so
OFarreil will be the most talked
about catcher in the National league
circuit"
Bobby Wallace. now scouting for
tho Cubs. in his day ono OF the
greatest players that ever wore a
big league uniform, rs just as Opt.
mlstlc about O'Farrell.
Hes n great catcher right now,
and getting better every day" says
Wallace. But then how could Eel
low with the name O'Fnrrell fail to
deliver"