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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-08-07
MORE MONEY WANTED
FOR SCHOOLS IN WARE

WAYCRoSS, August "A re-
quest from the county board of edu-
e@Dlon has been received by inc
county commissioners aking for an
additional two mill countrywide tax
leYy Tor school purposes. A number
oI business men also appeared and
asked action from the commissio, !
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-08-07
What's Going
GERMANY
POLITICS
FIRPO-
NAVY GUNS
On in "
Bv CHARLES P. STEWART

The allies, unof-
fidially helped by
America, haN c
been getting to
gether gradually
in the last week
on the subject Of
war claims against
Germany. Pros
poets seem good
for an agreement.
Then Germany
will have to be
called IN. Consid
ering how badly
they were beaten
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-08-07

Mrs. Miriae Amanda Ferguson
(uPPer lef), Democratic candi-
date for governor Of Texas, and
her political rival, Felix Robert
SON (unper left). in the lower
picture Mrs. Ferguson is shown
with her daughters Ouida QefD
and Dorrace (right) and Major
and Mrs. HoouIe, who saunsered
along in time to get into the pic
ture.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-08-07
PACE BABY BOND
BILL is TABLED

ATLANTA, August THE SEN
ate Tuesday tabled the Pace ELL
which would allow cities outside Of
Atlanta to issue baby bonds for
paving. This is a bill requiring a
Constitutional amendment AND
friends of the measure, seeing il
would not obtain the necessary two
-hirda vote, agreed to table it Tues
day. The Senate then adjourned,
BE careful about looking at Their
IN Joly. IT is not polite
o Gus before ladies'.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-08-07
New York Futures

Pc. Open High Low Close
Jan. ~27.47.26.80l2z3 2I26. 80I27.28
Mar. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
May -2783l2728l27.61l 2Sl2752
Oct. 28,20I27 COPS. 06 I2T60l28.06
Dec. Observation-Disclosures l27.40
New Britain herald., 1924-03-04
CALIFORNIA LEADS
 IN AUTO OWNERS
Has More Cars to POpulace Than
 Any Other Place

San Francisco, March 4.-California has more automobiles to each thou- sand of population than any other state in the union. according 10 figures compiled by W. H. Marsh, director of the state vehicle department.
 In the eleven months ended Decem- Der 3i, l,093,660 automobiles and trucks had been registered by the de- partment. During 1922 there were 1I7.S37 motor cars registered.
 Marsh said that an analysis of the records of this and other states indi- cated that during the coming year New York would be the only state having greater actual number of cars than California. For 1923 and 1924 he expects close contest for second place among Californias Penn sylvania and Ohio. He predicts that within less than five years California vii pass New York, because of the climatic conditions that make Cali fornia u yoar-around region for open cars, as well as the 6.94S miles of paved highways within the state. Durin;s the year California regis tered l4,654 motorcycles and 5,S7l trailers. In this period temporary per mits were granted to more than TO- 000 automobiles carrying tourists or settlers into California from other states. II is estimated that more than 2ep,000 persons visited the state in motor cars.
 Statistics prepared by Californians, Inc. an organization for the dissemin- alton Of information about the state, show that for every loo farms in California there are 90 automobiles. said to bo greater percentage of motoring farmers than has been re- ported by any other state.
 Motor stages and truck lines arc having an increasing part in the states transportation facilities, the records of the state railroad commits sion indicate. The new year began with GIT automotire lines operating under Jurisdiction of the commission. or these carriers l G4 transport freight exclusively, and iS3 take passengers only.
 The commission has licensed GS motor carriers whose cargoes are limited to certain commodities, such as milk, eggs and poultry, lumber, fllus. fresh fruits. vegetables and berries. These specialized lines are said to enable the farmer to get pro- duec to profitable markets at low freight rates.
 Motor transportation has left few inaccessible spots. Mountains and desert alike have been overcome. Com panies operating this form of carrier own $500 cars and trucks. Their physical properties are valued Ut s12,50e, 900.
New Britain herald., 1924-03-04
LINCOLN'S OFFICE BOY
 TELLS STORIES OF ABE
AEppenctus Webb Mcintosh, 7e, Civil War veteran Was First Member
 of the Grand Army

Omaha, March 4.-Eppenotus Webb Mcintosh. 7G Civil War veteran and former office boy for Abraham Lincoln when the latter was lawyer at Springfield, H., becamcsa painter be- cause the Emancipator started him at this trade. He continued at q paint CT until his ago no longer would per- init him to climb ladders and paint buildings
 In commcmorating the birthday Of the former president Mcintosh, who was the first member of the Grand Army. of the republic. rccited that Lincoln had mixed his first white lead for him and then described how he spent two days painting Lincon's fence. When the job was completed Lincoln selected Mcintosh to clean out his office. which he continued to do for about three years.
 Sometimes he would give mo quarter and then again he would give mo fifty cents. but in those days you could buy busIsl Of potatoes. for three cents" said Mcintosh in telling of his pay.
 When hc was seven years old. Me Jntosh related, Lincoln bought him q drum, carried by the aged veteran throughout the war and which now hangs in the national museum ill Washington.
 When Lincoln was debating the wool question with stephen Douglas, his opponent for the presidency in 1860, Mcintosh accompanied him as his drummer on several Uf his cam paign tours. The only compensation he ever received. Mcintosh declared. were his expenses.
 ''After Douglas had completed his talk. Lincoln got up. !n sections. took off his coat and laid it behind him. As he did so he stretched his long arms above it and said. Lie there. American wool. while l stone stephen He won this dehH '.. by a wide margip.' % Mcintosh asserted. .ntl,
New Britain herald., 1924-03-04
England to Compete for
 Speed Mastery of Air

London. March With view to capturing some 0f th" big speed events Of fine year. and possibly 10 challenge for the Pulitzer trophy. local air craft company has decided to build speedy airpl8un.
 This will be biplanc with Napier Lion engine giving nearly g00 h. r.. and it is believed it will attain a speed of e7o. and possibly 300 miles an hour. The machine already has been enter cd for the Beaumont Cup near Mar seiilcs June 22. and the British Air Derby later. Its performances in these two events viii enable an estimate 10 be made Of it's chances in the Pulitzer trophy contest.
New Britain herald., 1924-03-04
IRISH H,INKrRs pRospI,E

Dublin, March 4.-Statistics recon Iy published show Irciand's banks to be prosperous. some of them paying as high as 2H per cent dividends. The Bank of Ireland, with which the gov ernmcnt deals. declared a dividend Of I6 prr cent and added s1.yoo. .e69 to ifs reserFe. Deposits generally show 4 decrease dge Co tha transfer of fEHds to the Free State national loan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-22
The Box Bunk

Edward w. Box, formerly editor of the
Ladies' Home Journal, believes that the best
way to be ready for war is to prepare for
peace. This has been the result of his $780,
600 contest for the most practicable plan by
which the United States might cooperate with
other nations to achieve world peace. Boks
million dollars brought more intellectual weak
lings out of their beds than Coue's visit. But
it brought more than that
When the mental fog caused by the flood of
inspired writing let loose by the Box money
bags cleared, people begin to rub their eyes
and wonder if what was transpiring behind the
smokescreen of a peace move was not the most
gigantic piece of war propaganda ever con-
ceived in this country.
The jury awarded the prize to proposal
to join the the League of Nations, an organiza-
ton with a reputation as unsavory as boot
logging parlor.
In the favored plan there is no word
about disarmament, the outlawry of war or
any of the other shiboleths that even our libe-
rails like to talk about. The League was the
pet scheme of the worlds most sighted finan-
ciers and its principal weakness was the alb
sence of the United States from its councils.
This country could provide the financial club
that could be used by the capitalist pirates OF
the world to compel the rebellious sections OF
the capitalist class to stay with the machine or
else suffer humiliation. The League would be
the international of capitalism. It would seek
to hold back the tide of evolution with the
Canute broom of American dollars.
It was a sensible plan for the capitalists.
But they cannot agree among themselves
Unity comes hard to thieves. Bustheir profess
= ;--4oIlo e+,,al ~at "a inarS haT never given
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-22
Plus and Minus

Tho canitalist clique that exploits ana OPP
--os +ho citv workers is the same capltailsI
CLIQUE that is driving the farming popuia1ion
of the country into bankruptcy
This truth is timely and cannon DC ~
emphasized, especially at this moment Mnen
en- w. aronlovers and bankers are making
desperate attempt to line up the la
the coming election campaign.
limo and again the farmers have prolesteu
ooainst the tribute of seventy millions OF DOL
lars levied on them annually by the vicious
svstem If pittsburgh plus" The steel Darons'
who are overworking and underpaylng the
hundreds of thousands OF workers III enSii
plants. are pocketing these SfO,OVV'OoV ny
addino to the price of steel manufactured out,
80 ne pittsburgh district the cost that would
he entailed in shipping this product as trelgn'
from Pittsburgh to the destination OF the con-
sumner
Now comes the Federal Trade Commission
with it's story of how the grain gamblers OF the
Northwest, centered in the Minneapolis Imam
her of Commerce. are holding the wheat farm
ers at their mercy and forcing these farmers tC
receive the lowest possible prices Tor tnen
wheat The official report is recitation o.
the most damaging evidence on the extent x
which the wealthy grain gamblers are read!
70 0o TO rob the farmers in this instance thu
EQUITY Cooperative Exchange Of st. Paul wa
the target of the capitalist attacks
The circulation Of false rumors, institutini
unfounded litigation to hurt the standing o
the cooperative grain exchanges, preventing
telegraph companies from furnishing prlc
quotations on grain to the co-operatives, com
pellinq shippers of grain to Minneapolis fror
country points or from st. Paul. to pay certai
commissions are some of the practices of thi
Chamber of Commerce which is one of tn
most aggressive sections Of the National Chan
Der. representing the biggest bankers and II
dustrialists. These methods have been pursue
bv the grain gamblers for ten years.
The plight Of the farmers and the suffering
of the workers arise from the same source, tn
capitalist domination of government and indu
trv. pittsburgh Plus" and "Minneapol
Minus" are symptoms Of one disease.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-22

for labor is rot. To think such things
lowers your efficiency and interferes
with the Job which those above us
have been kind enough to let us
have"
No more deadly doctrine was ever
uurveyed under the guise OF liberal
ism and friendship for the workers
II is far more serviceable for the
maintenance of capitalism with all
its miseries and inequalities than the
outright denunciations and unreient-
ing enmity of every activity OF labor
published by open and avowed sup
porters of the system.
To keep the workers thinking only
Of their jobs, to preserve the notion
of equality, to get them to look upon
their exploiters as their kind ana
loving friends, to preserve the ideo-
logical basis Of American capitalism
| among the manual and white-collar
workers while driving a wedge be-
tween the two groups; to betray and
crush all liberal movements when
they gain strength and at all times
wage war upon the Communist ele-
ments of the American workingclass
is the function of the Hearst press.
It debauches the minds of the
workers by its continual appeal to
their worst passions in its news
colums-its policy Of playing up
every sex scandal--and 1t stupefies
them with its editorial policy Of at
lacking individual capitalists while
never wavering in its support Of the
capitalist system as q whole.
Brisbane, Human, Barry, Hapgooc
and Forbes-liberalism and reaction
the smile Of the seducer and the
sardonic grin Of the betrayer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-22

also, insisting that the proverbial
French thrift and economy will per-
nit the vast majority to get along
with perhaps minor raises in wages
by making sacrifices and denying
themselves until France has passed
the crisis. 1t is realized that if it
is necessary to raise wages any APP
preciable amount the government
must initiate the currency thru print
ing additional billions of francs which
will depreciate the exchange lower
than ever"
The French capitalists, and their
government want the workers and
farmers to pay the costs Of the fl
nancial crisis. The cost Of living OF
the workers will rise, and the work
ers will be forced to demand higher
wages. But the capitalists and their
government will resist. In other
words, greater sharpening of the
class. struggle, strikes, and lockouts
offensive of capital and intervention
of troops.
l THE STUNNING Of reconstruction Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-22
4 Franc Totters and France With 1t

the war-devastated regions means
untold misery for millions Of the
French people. We quote again the
Paris correspondent Of the Chicago
Tribune: "The governments decision
means that thousands Of the people
in the zone which once was the
war-front will continue indefinitely
to live in shacks, dugonts, old tren-
ches or taxpayer tents, and hum
dreds of factories, mines and other
enterprises under construction viii be
abandoned"
The population of the devastated
regions was up to now the greatest
support of French nationahsnl. These
masses lived upon the hope Of Ger
man reparations. Now Poincare is
forced to expose his own fraud, to
destroy these illusions which he had
himself fabricated.
The workers and farmers, the poor
population Of the devastated regions,
the discharged civil servants Of the
state will have to pay the burdens
of the financial crisis. Marcel Cach-
in, leader Of the French Communists,
hurled at Poincare in parliament the
! deadly question: SLOW about the
increased cost of living?" And an
other deputy, Jean Molini, threw the
bomb of the other question into the
debate. "Can we make the poor
pensioners suffer the consequences
of the situation?"
The French capitalists wanted TO
have the costs of the war and the
Versailles Peace paid by Germany
This plan is shattered. Now they
want to have these costs paid by the
French workers and farmers. But
the French farmers do not want "a
nav higher taxes. The national debi
of France has already increased as
# IS, from $3.50 per capita in 1913 tc
S1605 in 1923. The workers VIII de'
mand higher wages and viii strike
The higher wages will inevitably leac
To an initiation of the French curren
CIV. The remedies of the Polncar'
government against the financla
manic in the last instance mean moth
ing but greater and deeper panic
The workers and farmers, the dis
, charged civil servants, the poor pen
sioners of the state, the needy popu
lation of the devastated regions pro
: test against the new burdens an
: thew are crying that they cannot bea
it. But the French cabinet, dying TO
the European hegemony Of Frenc
J imperialism, gives them the sam
answer as the French Grenadier i
: Heine's immortal poem, dying for tn
|, European hegemony of Napoleon
:. empire gives about his family: lie
them go begging if they are hungry.
r The financial crisis in France is
d phenomenon Of the world revolution
! The world revolution is not dogmati
+ In Great Britain it appears in tn
: form of an industrial crisis. In tn
r United States, in the form Of a
r AGRICULTURAL crisis. And in Franc
r in the form Of financial crisis. III
Ie world revolution has many forms, b.
5. at bottom it is a single uniform pre-
n cess, the process of the dissolutio
of capitalism which has turned mi
If imperfF IN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-22
THE HEARST PRESS--LABOR'S ENEMY

Right here Mr.. Human throws a
couple of fits. Remember that Hearst,
his employer, is looked upon as al
libeNal and his papers as friendly tol
the wage-earners. The "disgorglng
Of wealth" proposed by Sydney Weppl
is rhetorical phrase and nothing
more. 1t is to be long slow pro-
cess covering a period of time during
which the British capitalists will de-
wise more efficient means of exploit
ing the British workingclass. Ex-
pansion of the unemployment insur-
ance scheme, inheritance taxes, en-
largement of sick and old age pen
sions-these will be the means by
which the Webbs will get the capital
lists to "disgorge".
4 To these measures no one but a
4 supporter of the most hidebound sec
ton of the American capitalist class
would object. Hearst's liberalism and
:, his friendship for the wage-earners
7 is Of the same character. Human
/ and not Brisbane speaks for Hearst
+. Forbes Function
2 The job of B. G. Forbes is to keep
the white-collar slaves docile and al
E the same time Undue them with the
"go-getter" spirit that makes them
efficient and allows them no time to
think. Only incidentally does Forbes
a mention the toiling masses-the
I wage slaves who make the things
! that executives and statesmen sell.
h Typical of the all-for-one and one
g for-all philosophy which Forbes a.
f the mouthpiece Of the Hearst inter
s ests desires to have the workers
n adopt as their guide is the following
y paragraph:
The street cleaner can feel that
10 he is contributing invaluably to
4 the health of his community.
" The clerk in the store can feel
that he or she is playing an indis-
\ pensabIe part in supplying the peol
pie with the necessaries or the
comforts or the Injuries of life.
The iron worker in the foundry
or factory can feel that the prog
ress of the world has been made
possible by the sweat of his brow,
spent in supplying mankind with
steel.
The needle worker, the cotton
WcdNcts TIC Elm ihCtuty WI nv
the wooden mill worker, each and
all can and should feel that the
world could not spin around very
comfortably without their labors In
clothing mankind.
And, of course. all statesmen en-
gagged in honorable work can ant
should pet the vision which thu
Ingersoll salesman got at that con
vention, where he saw hundred
and hundreds of wage-carners a
work, filing the orders he and hi
fellows statesmen had drummed up.
Here we are, boys says th
apostle Of Hearst liberalism, "all
us doing the same great work al
all of us of equal Importance. Thil
of your noble work, which only
lu- cidentally is source Of profit
il my boss and all the other divide
de drawers. All this stuff about class
in society and the lack Of rewa
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-22

out Wall Street organs. he IS wrong
IF course when he calls Henderson,
Webb and Snowden "revolutionlsts" i
They are nothing of the sort and the
Moderation of British Industries-the
organization of British imperlalists-
knows it. They are humanitarian
liberals. mild reformists; they DIS.
trust the mass of British labor just
as much as do the employers and the
bankers; they have a mama Tor re-
spectability and most OF their Llme
for the last six months, during Wnlch
the swing towards the labor party
was unmistakable, has been devoted
to a sincere effort to convince the
british businessman that his Inter
ests are theirs. Concessions must OF
course be made to the workingclass
elements who supported the party
but this is a matter of party polltlcs
and the masses are just as certain
and no more of getting something
substantial from the British Labor
Party politicians as they are, from
the Conservatives and Liberals
Nevertheless they are not OF the
traditional British rulingclass and
only the dire straits IN Whlcn tht
empire finds itself are responsible foi
their rise.
The True Hearst.
Human voices the fears Of thu
American capitalist class; it is no
SO much what the British Labor party
may do as the possibility that will
labor in the mother country holding
the position formerly in the hands o
! capitalisms elect, strange notion
may enter the head of the American
workers. Human quotes Sydne
, Webb as saying:
"The big problem that faces tn
people who are going to govern J
the problem of forcing the wealth
to disgorge their wealth"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-22

The Bank of France raises the
discount rate to SO, 51sS6, and then
even to go.
But all these measures against
the panic only increase the panic.
The French government of the cap
italist goes still further.
The Poincare ministry introduced a
financial program of drastic action,
increasing by 209o all existing taxa
ton, including customs, income
taxes, taxes on alcohol, matches,
theatres, dances and Injuries.
But even that is not enough. The
government proposes Draconian
measures to prevent fraud in the
payment of taxes.
But that is still not enough. The
cabinet wants to have the parlia-
ment adopt measures to cut expenses