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Evening star., 1923-11-29

value" and asks why he is under
taking to collect money from an in
dividual when he has access to the
klan treasury" 1t asks that the COM
plant be made more specific, and de-
clares that the amended. complaint
docs not show that the plaintiff has
any reputation left" The answer
requests that DR.. Evans be required
to show why "the wizards reputation
is more valuable now than 1t was in
May" and that he also be required to
specify the full value of his repu-
tation."
The answer further asks that DR..
Evans be required to disclose what
disposition has been made Of $4,000
900 in initiation fees and $20.0O0.00O
In dues, alleged to have been col
lected from Klan members.
. The answer was characterized by
James A. Conner, grand dragon for
the realm of Arkansas, as cheap
comedy, and a poor attempt to heap
ridicule on the organization"
Evening star., 1923-11-29
Two TELL OF MURDER
OF BANK MESSENGERS
Deny They Fired Shots, But Give
Names of Three
Gunmen.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 29.-Barlow
Norris Diamond and his brother.
Joseph, have made a complete con-
fession of their part in the robbery
and murder of the two West End
bank messengers in Brooklyn ele-
waited station November IA, District
Attorney Dodd announced today after
seven additional arrests had been
made.
Both Diamonds denied firing the
shots which killed the messengers.
from whom $4,000 was stolen. but
furnished the names of three gun
men alleged to have done the actual
Staying, according to Mr. Dodd, who
said that descriptions of the trio
had been flashed all over the coun-
try.
Mr.. Dodd also announced that An
thony Pantano of Brooklyn, one of those
arrested. had agreed to make COM
plete confession of his part in the crime,
which the district attorney said consist
ed of furnishing information regarding
the transportation of money between
the West End Bank and the New
| Utrecht Avenue branch of the Irving
Bank-Columbia Trust Company.
Evening star., 1923-11-29
ORDER OF CRUSADERS
HONOR UNKNOWN HERO
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. November 29.-There was
a picturesque scene in Westminster
Abbey on the occasion of the COM
memora tion service of the Most Noble
Order of Crusaders. who selected the
unknown soldier as their head. The
Duke of York was among those pres
ent.
A number of members of the order
were robed in varf-colored habits.
The service was conducted by the
dean of Westminster. after which the
pro-grand master, followed by the
Crusaders, placed wreaths on. the
grave of the unknown soldier as a
tribute of respect to Great Britain's
dead The service ended by trumpeters
of the household cavalry sounding the
reveille.
The Order Of Crusaders, recently
created, Is a body OF a serious char
acter. It's leaders include Lieut.. Gen.
Sir Edward Bethune, director general
of the territorial force. 1912-17: Col.
Walter Fdher. retired, and Sir Charles
Wakefield. The cross is a promi-
nent feature of the regalia of the
Crusaders.
Evening star., 1923-11-29
PLANNING SEA OUTLET.

GENOA, Italy. November 29.-An
extensive project is being studied and
plans have already been submitted
in part to the Swiss government. it
is stated here, aiming at the transfor
nation of the nearby port of Vado
into a sea outlet for Swiss commerce.
The project includes the enlargement
of the port, the construction of sew
eral docks and storehouses. and the
readjustment of the existing rail-
way lines in order to speed up the
transport of goods to and from
Switzerland by the Simplon and ST.
Gothard routes.
Evening star., 1923-11-29
WALSKA BALKS AT PART.
Delays Appearance as Musical
Comedy Star.

NEW YORK. November 29.-Ganna
walska McCormick's heralded appear
ance in musical comedy in which
she recently announced she hoped to
become "hard- boiled enough not to
mind what the public or critics had
TO say about her voice has been in
definitely delayed.
She has informed the management
of the minstrel Boy" in which she
was to make her bow as musical
comedy star, that she is unable to
accept the role, 1t was announced
She probably will have a part in
the play when it is filmed next sum-
mer, it was said.
Evening star., 1923-11-29
ID HELD IN KLAN RIOT.
Give Bond for Appearance in
Carnegie Affair.

PITTSBURGH. November 29.-At-
torneys representing fourteen men
riot at Carnegie last August, in which
Thomas Abbott, a klansman, was
killed. waived a preliminary hearing
before Justice of the Peace w. H.
Prosser yesterday, and provided $4,000
bond for their appearance at court. The
men are charged with melting to riot.
Evening star., 1923-11-29
VALUATION OF EVANS
REPUTATION DEMANDED
Simmons Asks Why It's Worth Has
Increased Since Last
May.

By the Associated Press.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, November 80.
Attorneys for William ]. Simmons,
emperor of the Knights of the Ku
kluX klan, yesterday filed their an
swer to the amended complaint filed
Tuesday against Mr. Simmons by DR..
Hiram w. Evans, imperial wizard Of
the Klan, who now seeks $150,000 in
libel suit in circuit court here
against the emperor.
The answer asks why the reputa-
tion of DR.. Evans is of f1uctuating
Evening star., 1923-11-29

One feels glad that cold weather
is here, with such a pretty and
warm set of this kind to wear.
Choice Of sand. gray and brown.
Suitable for a nice gift If not for
ones own personal use.
Kann's-Millinery Store
Second Floor.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-09-20
FOR OUR CHILDREN

Let us have a twentieth amendment
to our Z. s Constitution. We have
amended it before in the interest of
the rights of the colored race, in the
interest of women's rights, in the in
terest of the manhood of the nation
by abolishing licensed strong drink
Now the greatest cry for human need
is that of 100000 children under 10
years of age and 100000 under IA
working at hard labor in industries of
the nation deprived of normal phys cal
development in thousands of instances
to say nothing of the lack of oppor-
tunity for education or for simple hap
ply youthful pleasure Twice the
country has demanded through Con-
gressiona law that child labor should
cease. Each of these laws were de-
clared unconstitutional by the Supreme
court Therefore the only recourse
must be 10 amend the constitution on
/ that point. It has been done before.
In the interest of humanity it may
be done again.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-09-20
DIFFERENCE OF TWO
ANGLES

In dealing with the colored race
what seemed an obtues perception of
the real problems by the people in
the north bids fair to become very ac-
ute IN situation at least, Judging by
the recent accounts of troubles in
various places After a SLIGHT racial
clash in Johnstown, Pa, the mayor
simply ordered several thousand re-
cent negro immigrants to get out of
the city. He made no exception save
for the negroes who had been citizens
tor seven years back. 1t was a radical
move and may cause litigation. but
the mayor claimed he had no other
recourse IN an extremely critical SIT
uation The St Louis Health Commits
spon claims to have never faced so
serious a problem as the housing and
health conditions of a tremendous in
flux population of negroes within a
few months, the monthly additions
having averaged $500 recently. and
the approximate total of 100000. Chi
cago and other cities have had their
race riots and it is plain that a sur
prising change of opinions is about to
rise both in whites and blacks.
II - =
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-09-20

" 2N0G - l. 10
n ON
y THINGS
. ~ By M:
RECALLING FIRST
IDEALS

1t is said that our United States
Constitution is more frequently prais-
ed than read. This need not be- The
document of our proud heritage is not
long, just few minutes are required
to read it in full nor is the language
pedantic or obscure. Any grammar
school child may easily read and COM
NIT to memory the preamble which is
more valuable as memory gem than
many others so frequently given. Prof
M, M Parks, superintendent last Year
of State education has advocated a
real systematic study of the constitu-
ton beginning in the seventh year Of
the public school, This Constitution
Week" so designated is to call general
attention to the present prevailing ig-
norance OF our own people in regard
to our national constitution is en-
phasized by the fact that in Japan
the study of our own constitution is
made part of the regular school cur
riculum
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-09-20

go WAR YOU GWINE"-Wicks Wambolt's go
Whar You Gwne," in the Knoxville Sentinel is being
eprned IN all the papers Some of the editors declare it
CLASSIC and Others want read in the schools You NAV
wish to read Go Whar You Gwine" if you have not al
ready across it:
The other day dropped fivedoar gold niece
h'o the contribution box tn hiking was quarter After
church he of the deacons and asked for
fund The deacon laughed, Get out of here We don't re-
pate anybody from the collection plate You think YOU
ale going to get credit for dropping five dollars into the
contribution box and then get rake-off of four dollars
and seventy-fve cents Nothing doing
All right, said the parishoner as he walked away
III get credit for it in heaven"
Mo, won't" called the deacon after hin, "Yo will
get credit for twenty-five cents"
PROBABLY the deacons statement was true The man
had actually given five dollars but he had not wanted 70
he had wanted to give but quarter If the p'rit of
The act to be considered and the act itself then the
recording angel put down twenty-five cents in the right
hand column OF this particular mans account
recently witnessed lawsuit against an insurance COM
lahy Inc tnsured had policies in companies One
paid Its claim cheerully and promptly The other tried
ny nook and crook to get out of paying but forced
10 40 so by law One company given full moral
credit by the beneficiary for every cent that paid
he other company had pay just the but recev-
cd no commentator and the money was received with a
v'ndctive smoker
saw contribution reported at large banquet for
Ked Cross war fund The signed pledge cards were
ed up to the chairman who read them aloud When he
came up to particular card he looked at it ntentlv
and hestatcd then he sad loudly and crspy Here is
pledge tor only twenty-five dollars from Mr. x We
vii not accept such small donation for such large and
vital cause from man with the giving power of Mr. x"
he deliberately tore the card to bits and let them futter
~ the floor Later Mr. another pledge card for
TWO hundred and fifty dollars THIS accepted with
grim smile but ethcay Mr. got credit for but twenty
live dollars. The committee gave
credit tor the other two hundred and twenty five dollars
1t you are going to do thing do it in the first place
and dent wait to be hammered into it and thus lose al
the credit and all the satisfaction If your wife needs
spring hat and YOU know she needs if and Won know
right well she IS gong to get it, why haggeand fus
about IT. then will feel sense of having done th
generous thing and she won't be sorry she married YOU
When athing IS presented you for consideration de
eide what you ought to do Be generous your decision
--genenous according to particular situation The,
do it and be done with it
AS old Doc S'neeterry says, GO Whar You Gwine"
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-09-20
F AIR Flu N
FEATURES OF
HIGH QUALITY
The Johnny j. j on e
Troupe at the South
eastern Fair Octo-
Der 6 to 13.

Atlanta. Ga.-Johnny is coming
Johnny of the Jones family-Johnn,
j. Jones. if You please.
Everybody ought to know Johnny
and almost everybody does. He ha,
been here before. and he is COMM
again with his great troupe of enter
tanners to make fun and amusemen:
for the visitors to the Southeastern
Fair IN Atlanta in October.
Johnny has one of the best aggre
cations in the whole country, and h.
has never lost an opportunity to i'm
prove and add to it in every possible
way. That's his business, and hi
knows it. He knows what the people
want and he gives it TO em. That.
The secret of his success,
After a round Of the Northern AM
Canadian cities during the summe
he is bringing his bunch South again
to meet you at the big fair.
Old King Tut probably remarked
that there was nothing new under the
sun. and lot of folks have been re
peating it ever since, but Tut died
three thousands years too soon to see
Johnny's 1928 Troupe, and if you are
not dead one too, you will see il
this year
Yes, Johnny is coming. He's al
ready signed up with Secretary Strip
lin to be here, and even if he had moi
siGned he would be here anyway for he
could not afford to miss the Fair.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-09-20
CONVICT LASH BARBARIC
SAYS EX-GOVERNOR
Kilby, Former Alabama Governor,
Censures Restoration of Flogging /
To Convict Camps

ADMISSION, Ala, Sept. 19-"The
whipping system is a relic of bar
barism that no civilized government
should sanction and no enlightened
people should tolerate" declared for
mer Governor Thomas F. Kilby, in
statement issued following the ac-
ton of the Alabama State Board OF
Convict Supervisors in restoring the
lash to- convict camps Governor
Kilby issued an executive order abol-
ishing the lash before his term ex-
pired.
Corporal punishment in the peni-
tertiary was abolished after the
most careful consideration said the
former governor.
"All whipping straps were Destroy
ed and wardens notified that any
violation of the order would be con-
sidered cause for immediate discharge.
he continued "A system of humane
punishment was established to take
the place of flogging, and experience
demonstrated that the new SYSTEM was
an Improvement over the old one"
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-09-20
FIFTY YEARS AFTER

The woman whose father invented
the typewriter and who was herself
the pioneer operator of that primitive
machine has seen in the interval of
fifty years the machine perfected and
its use revolution;zing business and
affording women in special manner
wider sphere in both the business
and political world as the operation of
this machine has called into activity
number of not less than 100000
women typists at the present time
The inventors name was Christopher
Sholes and his daughter now residing
in Milwaukee is Mrs. Lillian Sholes
Fortier. She has been attending a
golden anniversary of her fathers in
vention at his home town of Ilnon, n.
Y, and will have the further graft
cation to see soon a monument erect
ed to his memory as a token of his
contribution to ''emancipated women.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-09-20
lCHARD LLOYD JONES
Mind Minis Money

SllgeEeGs of s1ccpss rho
who exactly what he
way '"r
we are 700 prone to look
"c'ey only tie Ia himself
is MINI tha AIUnty MAKE
Dorn Witn
let the spoon -" ~ 80
!oNefsJ Is not Il vITtGe it is Meth atoif
praise raise philosophy when they Of
hidaous -
starting ~ " 80 ~ a. -
what have your -
neai hontS Is the tT't % heart culture
and your heart grows big only into the ant.1
hearts "
bettfhliEatlon is richer asset is
spensabe tool that is successful COMPLEXION 81 Every
!oD you alay desire compelled to tackle
determination (cn,g,
one thing and held - 71 w. 'N'
S hcentauon the control of the cultivated
cares Wnether Lincoln Edison
account because
iuev cullVated
determination 10 do something
above the poverty above the inducte we nth
of the world. " - 49, '0e W q
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-09-20
SNAP BEAN FARM"

Like the "Wren's Nest all children
familiar with Uncle Remus are apt to
know what it is, the home OF the real
little boy Joel Gambler Harris who
heard the tales from real old negroes
that ne so delightfully."- told to all of
them i'll his books. This small tract
ad5o'ns the home called Wren's Nest
where he later lived and which is the
property of the Uncle Remus Assoc :
alton and the scene yearly of a most
delightful celebration for children.
Theodore Roosevelt, John Rockefel-
Ter and other admirers of Uncle Rem
us bought that home many years ago
10 be a sacred spot dedicated to his
memory, Now the expansion of the
city endangers the seclus on and the
quiet OF tn S memorial home unless the
association purchases also the back
garden or field portion named the
Snap Bean Farm las realty compan-
les would be quick to buy and build
both houses and streets through it.
To meet such an emergency the as
SOC at'on is to be given the proceeds
from Rose Day VIII CHI is tag day
sale OF handpa'nted Cherokee roses on
September oath and this sum will be
applied on the necessary $4,000 which
is the purchase price.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-09-20

WAKE UP GEORGIAi-Souh Carolina is going after
Your aurels; Georgas claim to imperial FREEDOM nance IS
challenged. Up there in S. c. where the writer Wis ted
last week, they have Land Settlement Commission
which is assisting its white farmers to become
fomc owners and when they exhausted their home
material this commission proposes go into other states
and secure such desirable citizens for their farm
lands The state II credit back up the tenant
farmer become home ard thus open the door
OF hope for hem and their posterty. large Of
money has been raised by the leading cites of South Car
Dina present their the outside world and it
appears the writer that they have wonderful picture
unfold.
What Caroinans claim be rather inferior section
of their state looked like garden spot after pass
ing through the wcevl devastcd counties OF Georgia
Columbia Cotton fields white as snow banks for
miles, made by the INTEL gent ght against the wecv
which had played havoc with them in 1922 Feed crops
velvet beans and peavne hay abundance from the
Savannah to the Congaree strings of factories
surrounded by beautiful Mill villages br ok school bu Id
ngs IN rural sections with well kept play grounds super
to most towns One pays three gasoline tax and
extra penny for the state with each cigar but its
pleasure contribute a States revenue which makes
roads, the Jefferson Davis Highway from Augusta to
Columbia, sand clay but a wonderful road to travel is
said to extend equally well kept Cheraw near the N
C. line where the Jefferson Davis Highway enters the
Iarheel state
If what we passed through in South Carol ma -~S
inferior to others of its vast domain then South Carolina
has wonderful story tell the outside world and will
gain settlers galore by telling it,
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-09-20
Little System Is Used
in Dragging Highways

The trouble with most dragging is
that it is done with so little system
and with so little perseverance. Roads
which are dragged after every rain
can be distinguished readily from
those which receive attention only
now and then through the season.
Still, the poorest job Of dragging will
improve any road in which clay is
present in any large amount. In some
localities where the roads are gray
eled it is customary to run drag
over them when wet This. of course,
is not because of reasons similar TO
those which govern the use of this
implement in the case of dirt roads,
but because the gravel responds more
readily to treatment when it is soft
than it does when it is dry. A smooth
err and more unj 'orm effect is produced
under such conditions.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-09-20
OBLIGATIONS OF EDITORS

Quoting Mr.. Rountree The growth
and development of newspapers have
brought greater obligations and larg-
err respons billtieS to those who serve
their constituents as editors. Journal
1sms responsibility supercedes all 9th
er professions. Why? 1t goes into
more homes, comes into direct contact
with more people, oftener than any
other and therefore has a greater op-
portunity for constructive social good.
The true lessons of Fife the best there
IS IN HE is now carried blythe average
Georgia newspaper. They are the
textbooks from which the readers
learn these lessons and the person who
does not read them is missing much
OF the best of life today"
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-09-20
THRIFT IN OUR scHooLs-our schoc

HKlF I'm OUR SCHOOLS--OuT schools re-
opened few days ago. and it is appropriate that
we give thought at this time to the important prob
lem OF thrift instructions to the young In a recent
statement, Secretary Hughes of the u. S. govern
ment said: The primary lesson for the citizen
OF democracy is sef-control, and this is achieved
only through self-disciplne. AS | look back up
On my life find the best lessons were the hardest
1t is important that our boys and girls be given
thrift instructions, because of the things briefly
referred to in this quotation from the IT, S Score.
tary OF State. Thrift develops self-control and
self-dscipline and we do no kindness to any child
when we pamper It. when make the way too
easy, or when we foster the idea that life has no
hardshps
More and more the subject OF thrift is being tax
en- up IN our schools and no educational movement
is OF greater Importance. A few moments a day
spent In the correct instruction of school children
on these practical matters will prove of incacula.
bic benefit to our nation and to all humanity.
We want to our school savings bank reestabshed
in our schools. During the regime OF Sup Richie the
Leader established School Savings Department with
Sup Rtche the Pres dent and Prof Morris the Treasurer
and Cashe err The department worked whilst these ex-
ceent teachers the job but when others followed
TO take their places the bank into liquidation and no
moe has been heard of it. During its few years OF exist
ence, the United States Department of Education fire.
quey referred 10 the progressveness OF our school bank
fhere being only one other mar institution in the entire
country the schools of Philadelphia having nauguraed
banking department with actual savings features about the
same time he saving habit is easily acquired
during the school and form the habit of thrift in
Inc child ITS financial future is practically assured
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-09-20
HUSBAND DIVORCES
GLORIA SWANSON

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 10 Gloria
Swanson, one of the best known &C
tresses in moving pictures, preferred
here career rather than married life
according to her husband, Herbert K
Comborn, manager OF a film com
pany, who was granted divorce from
her in Superior Court here Wednesday
Somborn testified that he and the &C
tress were married December 20, 1919
and that she deserted him in April OF
1921. They have one child, daugh-
ter, aged 3. Somborn testified he had
provided trust fund for the support
of the child.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-09-20
RESTRICTION ON
GUESTS

Contrary to the usual custom to
let visitors do about as they please, the
Confederate veterans last week in
State reunion at Rome found them
selves up against one rigid rule as
guests of that city, they were not al
lowed to spend one cent for ANYTHING
while there so far as known. This
liberality of the hosts was not confined
to eats and drinks which is more usual
but also just anything else that was
sought in purchase The Sons of
Veterans had made it r. ally
that they were paying all Bills This
may have proved little embarras-
ing at times but in general was much
appreciated courtesy