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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-10-24
.PEEING CAPTURED
BY { HRS 7 IAN
GENE RAL FENG
Calls On Compatriots to Join
Forces and Stop War
Immediately
(By The Associated Press

Wy = AC <ASSONANAGA EGSSsy
PEKING, Oct. 24-President
Tsau Kun issued proclamation
this morning to the Chinese for
ces ordering immediate cessa-
ton of hostilities and dismissing
WI Pei-Fu, commander of the
Peking military forces, from his
post.
Feng Yu Hsiang. known as
the Christian general, controls
the military machinery of the
day.
He performed a spectacular
and surprising military move
early yesterday when his army
returned from the north and
took possession of the admins
trative forces of the regime un-
der the banner for which he was
supposed to be fighting,
The movement was carried
out under the leadership of Gen
eral Feng, in conjunction with
other elements opposed to Gen
eral WI Pei-Fus war program.
General Feng intends to stop
the Chinese war which has been
raging for weeks, it is said. He
has called upon his compatriots
to Join forces to re-establish
peace in China. He is reassur-
ing all elements, especially the
the foreigners, that there will be
no disorders.
The streets Of Picking are to-
day picketed by General Fengs
troops, wearing arm bands on
which is imprinted. We are
here to preserve peace and pro-
tect lives in the service of our
country
The dictatorship maintained by
General WI will be broken up AID
General Feng plans to establish a
new government in which will be in
cOrporated all the various factions
now hostile to each other.
"Rumor mongers" will be exc
cuted by order of General Feng.
General Feng has withdrawn his
$4,000 troops from the support of
General WI Pei-Fu, the nominal
chief Of the Picking military forces.
who now is engaged in desultcry
warfare with General Chang Tso-
Lin, Manehurian war lord.
Failure of cable, telegraph, tele.
phonic and railway communications
with Picking yesterday was the first
hint that General Feng had desert
ed his nominal chieftain and re-
turned to the capital city. Feng has
practically isolated General Wu.
who is operating against Chang in
the neighborhood of Shanghaikwan.
President Tsao Kun is in pre-
carIous position, as his capital is
occupied by Feng's troops. Feng has
issued proclamation demanding
mat peace be negotiated, but his ul-
innate object in occupying Pekil is
unknown.
The possibility that professed
0hflstlan would seriously contem-
plate obtaining governmental CON
poi OF China is remote. However.
iekln for the second time in is
history is controlled by Christian.
christian troops seized the cit Of
Confucius following the Boxer up
rising.
IA should Feng conclude a treaty
T'cn Chang, who already dominate
,ne vast expanse of Manchuria and
Fart Of Chilli, the central govern
L.eat OF Tsao Kun and WI would
De In a desperate position.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-10-24
RED BARRON DEVELOPS
TEAM AT MONROE.
(Bv Nc Assoeiated Press)

MONROE, Ca, Oct. 24.-"Ped
BARRON star half back at Georgia
Tech for the past few years and
who is now coaching his old alma
mater Monroe A. and H., is develop
ing one of the best gridiron ma
chimes in the history of the insti-
tuition. The team so far this sea-
son has earned victories over Wind
er. North Georgia Aggies and the
University High School of Atlanta
and has registered a tie with the
strong Oglethorpe freshman tealn.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-10-24
EVENING PRAYER AT
CALVARY TONIGHT

Evening prayer win be said in
Calvary church tonight at 1886
o'clock, Rev Lawrence announces.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-10-24

at IL IS estimaed that high water
tL Snls spring washed away several
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-10-24

Some men living a dogs life have
no license to do it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-10-24
AMERIcUs SPOT COTTON

WEATHER-FaE and continued
cool tonight and Saturday.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-27
MOTHER AND NEWSPAPERS = By John Carlyle

TN HE writer listened With great deal Of
interest some time ago to the brilliant
Nancy Langhorne, of Virginia, who is
now Lady Aston, Of England. She became
the first woman member of the British par
lament. And she won that distinction not
by wealth. but by merit.
In lavender and dropping, brorad-
brimmed hat, she is charming, but even men
soon forget her appearance and listen to her
words
This is what I heard her say:
1.-THE two greatest forces for good in the
world today are the mothers and the press"
That is big order for editors-to be as
useful as mothers.
Of course, Lady Astor was flattering the
press. There is no force in all the earth
and ncT~r can be that will equal in power
for good the influence of mothers.
Mothers are Gods personal agents.
But the press has the opportunity and the
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-27
THE ATLANTA TRl.wEEKLY JOURNAL

raries. But in two qualities, as rare as they
are precious, he surpassed almost everyone;
his faith was unquenchable, and his courage
never failed him.
Beautifully fitting it is that the award of
the Woodrow Wilson Foundation should
have fallen to so keenly appreciatve of
his spirit and so valiant in service to his
vision splendid" The jury making the
award was composed Of DR.. Charles w.
Eliot, presdent-emertus of Harvard; Judge
Florence E. Allen, of the Ohio supreme
court DR.. James r. Angel, president of
Yale; Mrs. Dorothy Garfield Fisher, the au-
thor; Raymond B. Fosdick, David f. Hous-
ton. Thomas w. Lamont, Henry Noble Mac
Cracker, president of Vassar, and Ida M.
lshed by subscriptions from admirers of the
former president and believers in the ideals
of justice and peace for which he stood.
The head of its board of trustees, Mr..
Norman H. Davis, explains in announcing
the award that nominations were not re-
stricted, but were made by numerous per-
sons and groups in response to the invita-
ton of last summer. In all one hundred
names were thus submitted. The decision for
Viscount Cecil was unanimous. 'The board
of trustees" states Mr.. Davis, 'felt that it
would be most appropriate that the first
award should be granted to the person or
persons who had done most to carry on the
work for world peace which Mr. Wilson be-
gan, and that since peace is not local
problem, but an international one, such an
award should not be limited to Americans.
They therefore advised the jury of award
that this years award should be made to
the person Or persons, irrespective of ma
tionality, who had rendered the most meri-
torious service Of public chaacter looking
toward the establishment of peace through
justice, and who had done most to give eff
feet to the ideals and the great plan for
world peace to which Mr.. Wilson gave so
much thought and effort"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-27
Keeping the Peace in Holy Land

tn HERE have been number of Palestines|
all in the same spot. The history Of
Palestine has been large part of the
vital history of the world.
There was the Palestine of the early Jew
ish people, quiet, primitive religious. There
was the Palestine badly governed by Rome
paying tribute to the Caesars, unhappy at
low ebb socially and politically.
There was the Palestine made forever fa-(
nous and forever sacred by the birth life
and death of the founder of the Christian
religion. 1t is the Palestine best remem-
bered for little hill outside city wall.
And there was the Palestine made bloody
by the drawn swords and charging legions
of the crusaders There has been the later
Palestine misruled by the TurkZthe Turk
who seems to misrue everybody and every
thing that falls beneath his hand. H6
Now-today-ther is new Palestine 1t
is land of new activity, new plans and new
dreams.
Whether it is to be the boiling pot of the
ingredients of war we shall see. 1t looks
probable.
There are 100000 Jews in Palestine For
thirteen centuries it has been the home OF
Moslem Arabs. Today the British are there
with their armies. They are encamped
round about Jerusalem. They give promise
of being encamped there to stay.
The Zionists movement aims to have one
million Jews in their ancient homeland in
stead Of 100 900. There is Jewish immigra-
ton there every month. The Zionists arc
hopeful. The British are silent The Arabs
restless s., I
Dr. John Bayne Ascham, traveller, preach I
err writer, just back from there, says theH
Moslems will die by numberless legions be- !
fore they will let the Jews inherit the land y
the Mohammedans have had for thirteen CEN
turtles.
Great Britain preserves peace but it is the
peace of power.
The Holy Land, which saw the birth Of
Christianity, sadly needs that Christianity
for its present and future.
The peace Of power must give way to a.
new peace which will have its beginnings In
the hearts of men.
The eyes Of the wrold rest wonderng1y
upon this new Palestine-with its dreams
and its rumbings.
Copyright, 1920
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-27
MY FAVORITE STORIES
By Irving S. Cobb

l like the tale of little Hazel who went
to bed one night all tired out, but first she
knelt at her bedside and said: Nov l lay
me down to sleep" At the conclusion, fol-
lowing the parental injunction, she asked
the Lord to bless all the members of the
family. 1t a very large family. YEARLY
the child plodded along through the list
until she had named the last cousin.
Then with an air of weary relief she rose
from her knees.
81 wish l had the kind of kinfolks that
would pray for themselves" she said.
OF somewhat similar tenor is relat-
ing to a small boy who for a fragrant Of
Tense against discipline had felt the maternal
slipper.
Through the day he nursed desire for
vengeance His chance came at night.
According to routine, he knelt and prayed,
winding up with invocation on behalf of
all his relatives. But there was one name
he did not include.
AS he Strengthened after the long drawn
Amen" he fixed a look of triumph upon
the maternal form.
'"There, now he remarked II hope you
noticed you wasn't in it,"
Copyright, 1920
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-27
THE TREE OF TREES
BY DR.. Frank Crane

r HAVE never been there, but want to
| co. to the country OF Mexico, to
the town Of OXaca, thence east two and
q half league to the village Of Santa Maria(
Gel Tule, and there in the graveyard to look
upon tree, the oldest known living thing
on the planet to sit in its shelter, to put
my hand upon it's trunk, to feel it's shade
penetrate my soul with such sense of years
as no other terrestrial object can give.
If 1 were heather man I should worship
not only the sun but the tree. OF all plant !
life the tree seems nearest to man.
At the traditional beginning OF humanf
existence is the Tree Of knowledge in the
Garden of Eden; at the end Of the Tree Of
Life in Heaven.
The tree is mans storehouse, furnishing
him with shelter, food, building material,
furniture and weapons. 1t is mankind's
oldest friend.
Victor Hugo points out how the river with
it's tributaries is made upon the pattern Of
the tree with it's branches Look at your
map and see the tree-ike lines of the Ama7
zon and the Mississippi
1t heard from the winds the stories of the
rise and fall of Babylon Nineveh, and the
oblterated civilization of Yuccatan.
Primeval monsters have lounged in its 4
shade, ape-men have fought beside it, it's
memory goes back to where there were no
men.
Long, silent ages it lived before the Morse
men ever the New World or Columbus
sighted its islands, or Cortez butchered its
inhabitants. But it was old when EuropeI
was a wilderness and England a savage isle.v
1t is Older than any monument made by
human hands; beside it the pyramids are
young, the temples of Karnak and Luxor,
even the sculptured bricks of Birs Nimrod.
The giant sequoias of California were
found by John Muir to have lived but 4,OOO<
years, mere babes compared to the cypress o.
Santa Maria de Tue. .~
Life so ephemeral and fluctuating a
thing, has here it's strangest home, an organ
ism that outspans the history Of race.
About it go the insects that live but
day, and the human creatures that may live
fourscore years; to the tree they seem the
same.
Some day I shall go there. I shall linger
under its branches to see if I can hear in(
its signing leaves some whisper of eternity
| shall touch its bark, and it will seem as If
| had clasped the rugged hand of one Of
the demiurges who helped make the world.
My heart shall feed upon the centuries.
Time and the small concerns of my life will
drop from me as a garment and shall feel
the thrill of that saying, From everlasting
to everlasting"
That is why I want some time to go to-
Mexico and to OXaca, thence east two
league and half to Santa Maria del Tule,
and to the graveyard there and to the tree
of trees.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-27
OUIPS AND OUIDDITIES

The detective made his way up the stairs
Of the office building and presented himself
at the door of the music academy.
Excuse me-" he said to the young lady
who opened the door but | hope that
you'll give me what information you have
and not make a fuss"
What do you mean?" was the indignant
question.
why that little affair-you know" said
the detective.
Il don't understand you at ALL" replied
the young lady freezingly.
why, We got tip from the house next
door that somebody here has been murder
ing Wagner. and I've been sent along to
look into the case"
woman was crossing the street when a
big dog ran into her with such force that it
knocked her down. Just then light
nearly ran over her. A man, witnessing the
accident, came to her assistance.
did that dog hurt you?" he asked.
She looked at him little dazed and re-
Piled
mo, the dog didn't hurt me. 1t was the
tin can tied to its tail"
She was in Alaska looking over fox
farm. After admring a beautiful silver
specimen she asked her guide:
Just how many times can the fox be
skinned for his fur?"
Three times. madam" said the guide
graYelY. ANY more than that would spoil
his temper"
Jim was newly married One day when
he arrived home he found his wife had been
baking and there a pie Of immense
length on the table.
whats this, Maggie?" he asked.
That's rhubarb pie" replied Maggie
proudly.
And whatever have you made such long
one for" asked her husband.
why" said Maggie in aggrieyed tone,
its only as long as the rhubarb."
''Your show is the worst we have ever had
here said the manager of a theater in a
western town, as he handed the manager Of
the touring company his share of the box
office receipts
That's strange." said the manager OF the
company why, when we played in Omaha
we had the longest run in the history of the
city,"
I'm sorry" replied the manager of the
theater.
Sorry about what?"
Sorry the audience abandoned the chase"
Harry wanted dog, and had had many
arguments with his mother the subject.
He was sent to the grocer's, and was gone
so long that his mother became anxious.
Stepping to a window she saw Harry down
the street manfully pulling at a rope, the
other end Of which was tied around the neck
of small dog. The pup was resisting every
step of the way.
Presently Harry entered the room.
Mother" he cried. won't YOU let me
keep this little dog? 1t followed me home"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-27

machlneTy Tor carrying a decent gospel TO
millions
BY a decent gospel I mean a gospel Of
faith in human progress, of faith in the ulti-
mate triumph of wise ideas, of faith in peo-
pies capacity to partic' >ate in an improving
civilization.
Those who do not believe that the world
is getting better and will get great deal
better would serve best by getting out of the
way and giving room for others.
1t is a great challenge that the wise Lady
Astor throws down to the press If news
paper is not engaged in providing accurate
information and forwarding decent projects,
it is not making an effort to t"ke its place
alongside that other sublime influence in
the life of the wOrld-the influence of
m
With mothers what they and with
newspapers what they might be, we should
find glory on the face Of the earth
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-27
Is the Earth S7o1Oing Do1On9

STRONOMERS tell us the day is
N growing longer-not the hours of
daylight in the shortening December
day, but the period of rotation by the
earth upon its theoretical axis; in a word
the earth is slowing down in spite of the
general and hectic notion that everything
about the earth is speeding up
Professor Ernest w. Brown of Yale Uni
versty, announces that an exhaustive study
of ancient eclipses indicates that the earth
spins today in more lesurely fashion than
it did one thousand, two thousand, or sew
eral thousand years ago, and that we are
warranted in the assumption that 1t will
continue to slow down as the thousands of
years slide by on Professor Einsteins "tme
line" in the llimtable limbo of the past
However, We need not apprehend that the
earth presently is to start webbing like a
top running down, or that, finally ceasing
to spin altogether it will go plunging-into
what?
The rate of decrease in the spin is cal
culated by the careful and conservative pro-
lessor at one-tenth of a second per day every
thousand years-a decrease probably out
side the notice of even the oldest inhabi-
tant today, so far as his personal observa-
ton Is to be trusted
But the detection Of so small a change
over so lengthy period Is in itself a tri-
umpb Of mathematical astronomy, and the
story OF it constitutes another fine compli-
ment to the powers of modern, ratiocination
though the first notice that there was some
announced by the great English astronomer,
HALEY, who could not reconcile the motion
OF the moon as 1t then was known with its
motion OF centuries earlier
The theories then advanced for this dis
crepancy were, first, that the attraction Of
other planets, though minute, was sufficient
to account for gradual change in the speed
OF the terrestrial rotation, and, second. that
the friction OF the tides OF the sea was ex-
ercising drag that was slowing down the
spin of the earth.
In the last decade. calculations OF the
most astonishing nicely have shown that
oceanic friction actually does account for
this phenomenon. The earth really is spin
ming more slowly than a thousand years
ago, and when it is stated that the de-
crease in the spin amounts to more than
thirtysiX, seconds in the terrestrial year it
sounds like a much more important differ
ence than the statement that the length Of
a single rotation has been increased by one
tenth of second in the last thousand
years.
But this interesting change really is moth
ing much to worry about
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-27
The Winner Of the Wilson
Prize

TITO Lord Robert Cecil one of the truly
noble figures of International states
manship, goes the 1924 award of the
Woodrow Wilson Foundation a prize OF
twenty-five thousand dollars, for "meritori-
Gus service of a public character tending to
the establishment of peace through justice"
1t Is for far-ranging and continuous en-
deavor rather than for any single accom-
are thus outlined by the Foundations: "For
five years he has carried on the ideals of
MIR. Wilson. In the Italo- Grecian crisis a
year ago he fought for peace, for mediation,
for fair settlement, with an honesty and
a rightness which could not be denied He
was instrumental in gaining statehood for
Albania, thereby tending to assure peace in
the Balkans. He has aided In the develop
ment of an international conscience in the
matter of mandates-the sacred trusts OF
civilization dreamed by Woodrow Wilson.
He has been pioneer for control in arms
traffic. He has been increasingly active in
behalf of racial, religious and linguistic mi
norities"
This is indeed a shining sum- 1t is quite
supposable that but for efforts of Viscount
Cecil the world would lack much OF it's
quickened hope for better day; certainly It
would lack much OF renewed good will and
understanding. What he has done what he
has tried to do, what he has held aoft amid
Tor an international attitude of mind that
cannot be too highly valued.
Born an aristocrat, the third son OF the
Marquis of Salisbury, Lord Robert Cecil Is
one OF the great Liberals OF the age His
devotion to the right and the welfare OF the
rank and lle OF humankind u.s. doubtless, the
main motive OF his labors for peace--peace
through Justice During the World War he
held Important posts under the British min
lstry OF foreign affairs, and subsequently,
went to the Paris peace conference There
he aroused singular interest by the frank
ness and freedom with which he would diff
fer from his own countrys colleagues when
he deemed them in error. and also by his
pleas for the broadcast sort OF international
cooperation distinguished from the old
balances of power. After the establishment
of the League of Nations he entered its
assembly as a representative, not OF Great
Britain, but of the Union Of South Africa,
and contributed notably to its achievements
in sundry fields. Some years later he was
named by Britain as the Empires repre-
sentative at Geneva so that he acquired
membership in the Leagues Council as we'll
as in its Assembly.
Viscount Cecil's tribute to Woodrow Will
son upon the latterS death in February of
this year was one of the most discerning of
the thousands said, and is newly interesting
today a revelation~ot the Cecil personality
itself. Wilson" he said, chad many and
great qualities of mind. \ vigorous thinker.
he had intellectual Imagination in high de-
gree, and outstanding eloquence. But these
gifts. great as they were, were not his great-
est. In them he had many competitors. and
perhaps many equals, among his contempt
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-27
VIENNA ADJUSTMENTS CLOSE

VIENNA.-Much has been written about
the success Of the League of Nations in re-
facilitating Austria, but the situation of
Venna's amusement industry speaks diff
ferent language. A great part of the restau-
rants, bars cafes and cabarets are closed
down, and the theaters face collapse Wide
Unknown places like th8 "Parsien," Fem
inia,' "Tabarin," "Hoelle" and the Reich
shallen' have closed forever.
When the Venpese have money for
amusements their situation must be des-
perate.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-27
NJ. HERRIOT'S ELEPHANT

day from the French colonies in India as
present for NJ Herriot, the French premier
1t is called Lulu and is eleven years old
and is accompanied by its own veterinary
surgeon. 1t is to be placed in the geological
garden of Lyons, NJ. Herriot having been
mayor of this town for many years.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-27
HOUSE 1000 YEARS OLD

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. on the small
Danish island, Lind, have uncovered we'll
preserved house from the stone age The
director of the Copenhagen National Museum
estimates its age at 1000 years.
Lind is very rich in prehistoric objects.
More than $4,000 have been unearthed there
in the last twenty years.