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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-29
COTTON MEN DISCUSS
u. S STANDARDS ACT
Public Hearing DiscIoses Wide
spread Approval of Provis-
ions of New Measure

WASHINGTON, May 29.-In an
endeavor to find satisfactory bas-
is for the regulations 20 carry out
the new Cotton Standards act which
becomes effective August /, Secre-
tary Wallace, of the Department of
Agriculture, conferred with a group
of cotton men Monday.
Public hearings conducted iu1ing
the last month in the South have
developed widespread approval of
the new act, it was reported, but
opposition has developed in some
cotton exporting centers to the pro-
vision in the law requiring thai
United States official cotton stan
dards be used in foreign trading.
Department Of Agr: .ukdre OIL
cials hold it would be Illegal under
the new law for an American mer-
chant to accept a foreign offer for
sale of cotton based on grades 9TH
er than the United States official
standards.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-29
PEANUT GROWERS To
MEET IN ALBANY SOON
Permanent Organization Meet
ing to Be Held Friday With
Acreage Goal in Sight

ALBANY, May 29.-With the
minimum requirements almost Sc
cured the Georgia Peanut Growers
Cooperative association has called
meeting in Albany Friday Of all
members of the county organiza-
tion committees to perfect a per-
manent organization, district the
territory for directors, apply for a
charter Of incorporation and issue
a call for an election of officers.
The tentative agreement under
which the Peanut association is
operating provided that so per cent
of the 1922 acreage in the terri
tory comprising the association
should be signed by July / or ear
lier to make the contracts binding
and to permit permanent organi-
zation. It is believed that this
minimum will be secured by Friday,
or exactly one month in advance
Of the final limit.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-29
RUSSELL DROPPED
b. DEAD At TABLE
Resident Of 28th District Expires
Suddenly While Visiting
Home of Son Here

Zacharias B. Fussell, &C years of
age, died at Z o'clock this morning
at the home of his son, H.
Armistead Fussell, 914 Oglethorpe
avenue, death coming suddenly and
without warning while the family
was gathered at the breakfast ta-
BILE.
Funeral services will be held
from the FusselT home on Ogle-
thorpe avenue Wednesday after
noon at $3.50 o'clock, with DR.. Carl
w. Minor, pastor of the First Bap-
tist church officiating at the OBJ
sequles. Interment will be in Oak
Grove cemetery.
Surviving are his widow, three
daughters, Mrs. A. M. Howell, Of
Americus; Mrs. 0. H. Howell, of
the 28th district; and Mrs. Amos
F. Johnson, of huttsboro, Ala;
four sons, Armistead Russell, of
Americus; Luther Fussell, Ernest
Russell and Hugh Fussell, of Plains.
His aged mother, Mrs. Martha Fus-
sell, of Enterprise, Ala, and five
sisters, Mrs. Mary Jones, of Pei
ham; Mrs. Rachel Daniel, Mrs. Nan
McGehee, Mrs. Mary Russ, of En-
terprise, Ala, and Mrs. Patsie Har-
den, of Pavo, also survive, besides
two brothers, James Fussell, of En-
terprise, Ala and Joe Fussel, of
Brockton, Ala.
Mr. Russell, who was born and
reared in Sumter county in the 18th
district, was a well known and high
ly esteemed farmer of that section,
and his sudden death has caused
widespread sorrow in his communi-
ty. He had come to Americus Mon
day to spend the night with his son
and his family on Oglethcrpe ave
nue., and was apparently in his US.
ual health during the night and ear
ly morning. 1t is thought that a
heart affection, unsupported by
him, caused his death.
He was a member of Bethel Bap-
tist church, and was prominent in
affairs of his community.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-29
VOODNEN HERE TO
ATTEND DIST. MEET
Gathering at Bronwood Wed.
nesday to Be Addressed by
DR.. Allen and w. T. Lane

Americus Woodmen, members oe
Ameircus Camp No. 2O2, w. 0.
w., will be well represented at a
district meeting to be held Wed
nesday at Bronwood, when Bron-
wood Woodmen will entertain more
than a hundred visitors.
DR.. Henry B. Allen, past consul
commander of Georgia Woodmen,
and w. I. Lane, prominent
Americus Woodmen, have been in
vited to address the assembla"e and
they will make the principal talks
there.
Entertainment features prepared
for the visitors by Bronwood WOOD
men include large barbecue, at
which more than fifty carcasscs will
be served, and a day of log-rolling
always enjoyable among the Wood
men.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-29
WILL SPEND MILLION
FOR GEORGIA VA N s
Company Headed by John A
Manget, of Atlanta, to Go
Into Potato Industry Big

ATLANTA, May 20. Fifty million
bushels Of Vans from Georgia grow
ers amounting, at present prices. to
nifty million dollars are wanted this
season by the recently organized
Georgia Yam Curing Company. ac-
cofdng to an announcement today
OF John A. Manget, prominent At
lanta capitalist and president of the
new company.
The Georgia Yam Curing Com
pany has been recently formed and
Will be Incorporated for one million
dollars to develop the sweet potato
industry Of Georgia, to cure the
yams by new forced air process
and to ship them to the markets of
the world. Mr.. Manget heads the
company and D. II. Becs, former
ly of Texas and the inventor of the
new curing system is the manager
The company has opened offices at
SO Cone street. Atlanta.
TINS company plans to interest
civic leaders III every Georgia COM
munlty IN the new curing process
and to cooperate with them in
building curing plants in their
communities. 1t will keep in touch
with the distant markets and advise
the local plants when and where to
ship their yanls. In this way the en-
tire Georgia crop can be handled.
The annual production of sweet
potatoes Of fifty million bushels
year desired by the new company
is about four times the usual pro-
duction in the state. Last year only
13,500,000 bushels were raised in
Georgia and of this crop only about |
three per cent reached distant mar
kets because previously no process |
has been devised by which yams
could be properly cured in CONNER
cial quantities for long distance
shipping.
However, the method which will |
be exploited by Mr.. Manget has
proven by actual trial that yans |
cured by it are in good condition
the year after they1are grown. Dur
ing the experimental work, by the
potatoes grown in Texas one
summer were sent to France, and
eaten the following summer. They
were in transit seventy-four days
and arrived in perfect condition.
Plans are under way to establish
these curing plants in every part OF
tbo s+a+a according to Mr.. Manget. /
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-29
TO DECORATE GRAVES

A number of federal army vet.
erans will gather in Andersonville
to decorate the graves of soldiers
buried in the cemetery there, and
an appropriate program viii be OBJ
served. Most of those who will
participate in the ceremonies viii
come from Fitzgerald, the Grand
army post there being charged with
the care of the graves at Anderson
vile, more than thirteen thousand
soldiers being buried there.
Attaches of the cemetery staff
were busy today getting the
grounds IN readiness for the visi-
tors, and a tiny United States flag
will be placed at the headstone of
each grave. Andersonvilla people
as well as a number from Ameri-
Gus are expected to attend the OBJ
servance tomorrow.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-29
IMMEDIATE Economic
BUSINESS MEETING
TO SOLVE PROBLEMS
This Is Demand Voiced by New
York Senator in Commence
ment Address
NO PERMANENCY
Says America Living in Fools
Paradise. Disregarding
Warning of World

RALEIGH, May 29.-An immedi-
ate bushes and economic confer
ence to include all the nations and
from which would be barred all po-
litical differences and intrigue was
advanced as one possible of solution
Of the tangled world affairs by
United States Senator Royals Cope
land, of New York, in aN address at
the annual commencement exercis-
es at the North Carolina State col
lege.
Particular stress was laid on
world conditions as they affect the
American farmer. I'VE are living
in fools paradise" Copeland declar-
ed. "In certain lines in America
we have prosperity, but idleness
in the rest of the world should warn
US that our prosperity is likely to
be transient"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-29
TIVE, KILLED VHE n
GELATIN PLANT is
WRECKED BY BLAST
All of Those Killed Were En-
ployes at Work Inside De-
stroyed Building
CAUSE NOT DETERMINED
Only One Other Building Near
Destroyed Structure Is
Damaged Seriously
CAUSE NOT DETERMINED

FAYVILLE, Ills, May 20. -
Five men were killed and three
were injured in an explosion at the
Hercules Powder company here to-
day.
The explosion was in the gelatin
plant in which the five killed were
working.
The cause of the blast is un-
determined.
The packing plant was destroyed
but only one other of the numerous
buildings of the plant was damaged.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-29
.DAUGHERTY DENIES He
WILL RESIGN.. KNOWS
NOTHING OF REPORTS
Cabinet Returned to Duties at
Washia gton After Several
Weeks Rest in Ohio
BACK ON JOB ACTIVELY
Says Hes Better and Feels Bet
ter Than Since Taken Ill
Eafly Last Winter
WASHTNCTON Mov 90

WASHINGTON, May 29.-Attor.
ney General Daugherty, returning
to Washington after period of
rest in Ohio, today attended the
first cabinet meeting in several
weeks and denied reports which
had been circulating that he would
resign.
I have heard nothing and know
nothing OF the reports published in
Ohio that / am to resign" Daugh-
erty said, Il feel better and | am
better than since | was taken i'll
last winter, and am now ready to
get back on the job actively"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-29
TO HONOR OVERSEAS
GRAVES ON MAY BOTH

INDIANAPOLIS, May 29.-Sol.
emn ceremony for final consecra-
ton of the 81 100 graves of Ameri-
cans in foreign soil will be con
Quoted in Europe by the American
Legion and the Overseas Memorial
Day association on May 80. These
services have been arranged to pay
tribute to the resting places Of the
American dead in France, Belgium
and Great Britain.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-29
DENVER TO GET NEXT
KIWANIS CONVENTION
Portland, Seattle and St. Paul
Are Making Bids for Gath
ering in 1925

ATLANTA, May 29-Reports Of
standing committees featured the
general session this afternoon Of
the Kiwanis Clubs International
now holding their seventh annual
convention here.
With Denver virtually decided
upon for the next convention, in
terest turned to the contest for the
1925 convention city, and Portland
and Seattle, in the northwest, were
joinedb by St. Paul, Mimi, in MAX
ing bids for the meeting
Candidates for the next interna-
tional presidency We're also discuss
ed, with the name of Elwood Tur-
ner, of Chester, Pa, prominently
mentioned.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-29
FORMER GOVERNOR
FOLK DIED MONDAY

WASHINGTON, May 29--Joseph
w. Folk, SO, former governor of
Missouri and once leading figure
in democratic party politics, died
Monday in New York.
Information of his death was re-
ceived at the law office he has
maintained here for the past sew
eral years. He passed away at the
home of his sister, Mrs. James A.
Webb, after having been in i'll
health for some months.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-29
FIRST CAR OF GEORGIA
PEACHES is SHIPPED

MACON, May 29.-Tho first car
of peaches shipped from Georgia
this year was handled Monday by
the Central of Georgia railway from
Bradley, Ga, the peaches being of
the Mayflower variety and the des-
tination New York Civ.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-29

REVEALS IN PROGRESS
AT WAYCROSS, NOT HERE

The omission of a single line
sometimes gives such a difference
of meaning that in Mondays edi-
tion the Times-Recorder printed an
item to the effect that revival were
in progress at both the First Bap-
tist and First Methodist churches,
The item sent the Times Recorder
by its Waycross correspondent,
should have been dated Wayeross.
Attention is called to the error,
so that none here may obtain a
wrong impression therefrom.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-29
MAN DANGEROUSLY HURT
is BROUGHT TO GRADY

ATLANTA, May 29.-Probably
fatally hurt, A. J. Maderson, 23,
OF 1928 Whitehall street, was
brought to Grady hospital by two
men, with a serious wound on his
head, The men would not give
their names nor tell how Maderson
received the wound. Police are
conducting an investigation and ar
rests will probably be made today,
it is indicated.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-29
JOHN VEREEN DIES

MOULTRIE, Ca, May 29-John
Vereen, %, youngest son Of w. 9,
Vereen, wealthy Moultrie banker
and manufacturer and naval stores
factor, and a brother of w. j. We
reen, former chairman of the state
democratic executive committee,
died suddenly Sunday night. Fun
eral services were held Monday af-
ternoon.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-29
THOUSAND ARE KILLED
IN INDIAN EARTHQUAKE
At TURBAT | HAIDARI
Advices From Teheran Give
Few Details of Great Disas-
ter There
SEVERAL SHOCKS FELT
Many Villages Said to Have
Been Devastated as Result of
Tremors

ALLAHARD, British India, May
20 -(By the Associated Press. :.
Persia adyices to the newspaper
Pioneer, from Theran state that
one thousand persons have been
Killed by an earthquake at Turbat,
haidari. y
The earth shocks covered a period
of several hours.
Many villages are said to have
been devastated.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-29
TWELVE GIRLS GET
DIPLOMAS At ANDREW

.CUIHBERI, May 29.-The grad.
uating exercises of Andrew College
took place Monday. Twelve young
ladies went from old Andrew to
battle with life's problems. Judge
W. H. Covington, of Moultrie, de-
livered the literary address to the
graduating class. Judge Covington
is strong man, a substantial citi-
zen, and mayor of his town, and
member Of the General Assembly
from Colquitt county. His address
was timely, forcefuI and logical,
couched in rhetorical language and
listened to with rapt attention by
not only the graduating class, but
by all who hear him.
prohibition law, and I now fear it
will require an extra session to
effect a solution Of the greatest Of
all question, that is, a lair and
adequate tax system,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-29
WEATHER

For Georgia - Partly cloudy to-
night and Wednesday: probably
thunder showers.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-29

AMERICUS SPOT COTTON
Strict middling, q "a.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11
Justice Sanford

Appointment and confirmation of Ed
ward n. Sanford of Tennessee as an
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
generally is hcralded as well deserved
promotion" Editors suggest that his
years of experience on the district court
bench will enable him TO bring to his
new duties that judicial pose and edu-
cation which generally is considered
necessary in the highest court. There is
some criticism on the part which Chief
Justice Taft is declared to have played
in the selection but it is overshadowed
by the general acclaim.
Calling attention to the fact that
many of the most important decisions
OF the court have been handed down
by five to four vote" the Baltimore
Sun says this lin itself is sufficient to
show that the Constitution in its APP
plcatiOn to the complex, economic prob
lens of this generation is largely a
matter of construction, opinion, and in
depreciation and, as the Supreme Court
itself said, the Interpretation often may
be influenced by such extra-legal con-
siderations as public policy. Like JUS
tice Butler of Minnesota, Justice San
ford comes to the Supreme bench with
out being well known to the country.
He comes to the court with the oppOr-
tunity to make 4 great reputation, for
in the next few years the tribunal will
be called upon to make decisions which
will have a far-reaching effect upon
American economic and industrial his
tory" 1t is the conviction of the De
troit Free Press that "the nation at
large will see no reason to object" to
the fact that two justices now are
from Tennessee and it emphasizes the
fact that Justice Sanford was recon-
mCndcd by Chief Justice Taft who knew
him when he was an assistant attorney
general. Since then Justice Sanford
has been continuously on the bench and
his experience is n further assurance
that the country will secure the services
of trained and competent juriSt.
Similar in effect are the views of the
Nashville Banner, which recalls that
Judge Sanford has a record of judicial
fitness behind him. He has many
friends of general character. He is
social in his disposition, genial. a good
listener and n good talker. He has never
neglected his civic responsibilities and
has always lined up with movements
whose trend has been toward a better
ment of civic conditions" In every way
his training for years, the Norfolk
Ledger Dispatch holds, has been such
as to fit him for the high position for
which he has been selected"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11
SEES NO REMEDY
To The Editor:

To The Editor:
After reading Mr.. Finnigan's wild
but wcll-meaning dissertatiOns-Mr.
Hamilton's saccharine and sugar coated
effusions anent everything and nothing
in particular and last but not least Sen
or Winters sanity condescension and
autocratic I-know-it-iveness, permit Fac,
a perfectly harmless psychologist, to put
in my oar: =
What ails the world today? Ny an
Swer: everything,
Is there any specific remedy? Ny
answer: as the political and economical
stands tOdaJ-practically none.
Why?
Because an ultra conservative crowd
in all of our big cities takes its hat off
and plays into hands of the lower crust
"a nice word for the underworld) and
both these upper and lower crusts have,
with diabolical cleverness built up bar
riers so that the great middle classes
can't move against them.
In other words civilization is a huge
pie; the upper crust and the lower
crust completely envcloping the insides.
However. try as hard as | can, | can't
suggest any improvements.
Things are rs good as they can be,
under the circumstances.
KERSEY PALM.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11
WILLIAM r. WINTERS.
HOT SHOT FOR DALLAS.
To the Edifnr:

To the Editor:
My attention has been attracted to
IN editorial that appeared in the Dal-
las News some little time agO-anl
evidently by the same luminary you
once quoted as having discoursed on
whom" being the object Of a prepo-
Sltion land a nonresident one at
that ,. This worthy is apparently just
about one Of the wiSCst little guys"
thai ever happened.
The editorial that I refer to is bril-
liantly entitled "Soddcn Mexico" and
| would take the liberty Of quoting
same in full but for the imposition on
your space. Permit me. however. TO
quote some of the scintillating truths
2 therein dogmatically set forth, as
follows:
Mexico is probably about as near to
being stabilized as it ever will be un-
I'll 1t rids itself Of red liquor and red
radicals. The alcOhOlizcd and BOlshe-
vlsed elements make more trouble for
Mexico than the illiteratcs and ban
dts do. No reasonable man, no man
whose power of observation is equal to
his thirst, can leave this saloonless
land and 20 into Mexico without con-
cciving such n respect for prohibition
as will soften his antipathy toward
that reform, il he was opposed 70 II
when he left. All the collateral vices Of
drunkenness flourish in Mexico, de-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11
THE MEDINA TOLL.ROAD.

To The Editor:
1t strikes me that the Medina Toll
Road AssociatiOn-or whatever its rcai
name is-has a fearful gall in asking
people to pay money to ride over such
Il road as it maintains. Between San
Antonio and Medina Lake it is the only
rotten bit of road there is and we are
expected to pay for it. l don't object
to the idea of toll road but for
Heavens sake let us have a road that
is something like a decent road.
l note too. that the Chamber Of
Commerce, whenever it sends out n re-
port on roads always says of this road,
good at all times" This is deliberate
misrepresentation. The raod is not good
at any time or in any place. It's a
mighty poor road at all times and in
all places. The bridges are so poor
they are liable to fall down at any
time.
. The people of San Antonio would
get a better return on their money If
they would contribute something toward
n fund to help Medina COUNTY put in
some good roads. As for the toll-road
people, it is time their hand was
called. They are overplaying it TOO
hard. "
FISHERMAN.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11

dictate such laws in the present LcgiS.
lature. The third House is composed
of schcmers and pie-hunters. Schemers
are those people who pay very little or
no taxes themselves, but want TO do
great things with the tax money paid
| by others. The pic-huntcrs are, of
course, the fellows who are out for the
dough- The result is that we now have
all kinds of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
on wheels, government by commissions,
| government by bureaus and many other
s0-callcd kinds or government, but in
reality n great lcgalized graft machine.
! If Coke, Sullivan. Ross or Jim HOgg
could look down on this thing we call
our state government, what would they
say?
The state has automobiles galore that
are continually Cavorting over the state
Something over 4 gear ago n fellow
driving state highway automobile stop
ped at the little station Frat on the
post road to get five gallons of gaso-
line. When paying for it he asked the
garage man To stamp the bill paid. and
that he would fill it out himself. The
garage man did so. Very likely when
this bill was handed in as voucher
II Gdlleu lOT ten, fifteen OF InuNDe twenty
gallons of gasoline. This fellow certain
ly had an object in wanting to fill out
the bill himself. What is TO prevent
the state from being robbed in thousands
of instances by these travelling auto
mobiles?
The founders of the University only
intended that Texas boys should be
given a good university education at the
University. They never intended that
we should have university on wheels.
The \. and NJ. College was also in
tended 10 ground Texas boys well in
the principles of agriculture and mechan-
les. There was no intention of having
an 4. and NJ. College on wheels. This
sO-called extension service of these two
institutions may be of some little bene- !
fit, but the benefit is not worth one
twentieth of the cost. and this service |
should be abolished.
A law should be passed to keep the |
different departments of the state gov
eminent within the appropriations as
fixed by the legislature, and to make |
the heads of these departments and |
their bondsmen liable for any excess
expenditure. As long as the Iegisla-
turc makes good the deficits of these
so long will they continue
10 occur. You can have no economy
under such conditions.
W. F. MILLER.