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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-07
]. D. ADKINS To Be
VALEDICTORIAN At
4. H. s. GRADUATION
Misses Villa Sanborn and Cath
crime Goodman to Be Class
Orator and SaIutatorian
AWARDS MADE TODAY
Misses Florence Stevens and
Frances Castleberry Win
Honorable Mention

Wednesday morning at chapel
exercises the names Of winners Of
scholastic honors in the present
senior class were announced.
The record of J. T. Adkins, Jr.,
gave him highest score, and he will
be valedictorian of his class at the
commencement exercises to be held
at the Rylander theater on June 5.
Misses Villa Sanborn and Cath
crime Goodman, having each the
same number of points to their
credit were given the places of
class orator and salutatorian, re-
spectively.
Other highly proficient men,
bers of the senior class whose rec
ord entitled them to honorable
mention are Misses Florence Stew
ems and Florence Castleberry.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-07
MRS WEIGH SEEKING
DIVORCE AND ALIMONY

MACON, May Judge Henry
A. Mathers yesterday granted am
order Of ne exeat aginst D. w.
Welch, whose wife, Mrs Algie
Welch filed suit for divorce and al
mony in Superior Court yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Welch were married
Aug rs. 1928, and separated May
a, 1924. The wife charges cruel
treatment. Renitz and Stephens.
attorneys, represent the plaintiff.
Judge Mathews will grant a hear
ing for temporary alimony May 10,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-07
De L0ACH DATES IN
SUMTER co.. YER CO.

r. H. J. DeLoach who is being
brought here by business men and
farmers cooperating with the Cham
Der of Commerce and County Agent
Marshall, will speak next week in
all parts of the county. These
meetings are to be especially for
negroes, but whites may attend if
they so desire, except that the meet
ing in Union High school is to be
for whites, with seats reserved for
such negroes as may desire to hear
him there.
The schedule of addresses, which
is most important, should be cut
out and carried about by every
man in the county, says George O..
Marshall, whether. he be a farmer
or a business man. The topics to
be discussed are equally important
to all who derive a profit from
farming operation, and that takes ev
cry resident of the entire county.
The schedule of addresses for
Wednesday is as follows;
8 A. M.,-Gatewood Industrial
school, Gatewood's Crossing.
IL A. M.-Nunn Industrial
school, Huntington.
A F. M-Union High school
(Leslie). At this meeting the ad-
dress will be for whites, with spe-
cial seats reserved for negroes who
may attend there.
The Thursday schedule as. pre-
pared for Prof. DeLoach is as fol
lows:
1890; A. M.-Courthouse at
Americas. This is to be a mixed
meeting, with whites and negroes
both expected to attend. All the
other meetings on this day are ne
groes especially, but whites may
attend if they so desire.
2 P. M.-Shipp Industrial school
Near Sumter).
4 P. M. Plains Industrial
school.
At all of these meetings Prof. De
Leach win explain in detail how he
produced a bale of cotton to the
acre upon the Calhoun county farm
of Armour & Company, which he
operator during last year under
most severe weather and boil Wee
vii conditions.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-07
40 AND 8 INITIATION
HERE TO Be BIG ONE
Novitiates VIII Be introduced
Into Secrets Of Order From
Neighboring Towns

La Societe des 40 Hommes ct 8
Chevaux will hold an initiation and
public ceremonial here Thursday
afternoon, the gathering to con
clude with the establishment of a
Locale Voiture in Americas tomor-
row night.
Rylander hall has been secured
for the secret work and social gath
ering to be held tomorrow night,
and novitiates will be here from
Richland, Plains, Albany and paw-
son for introduction into the secret
work of the organization. A large
quantity of poison gas to be used
in the initiatory ceremonial has
been secured from Camp Benning,
and will be brought here tonight
under heavy guard, together with
other necessary paraphernalia used
in the testing of candidates.
Preparatory to the public pa
rade candidates and members at
4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon there
will be a brief meeting at $3.50 in
Rylander hall, which must be at
tended by all candidates as we'll as
members of visiting voitures. The
secret work will being promptly at
the conclusion of the public parade,
and at z o'clock tomorrow night a
barbecue viii be served the mem
bers and visitors who will be here
for the gathering.
1t is expected there will APP
proximately 100 per cent at this
feature of the gathering, which is
always most interesting.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-07
murnpT o o o o O o
.LEONA'S CONDITION
AS RESULT
Of WOUNDS INFLICTED
clad Confessed to Staying of
Gaines IN Attempt to Rob
Restaurant AT Independence
MEN MOVED TO ANTE
Two of Men Taken ForcibIy
From Bed to Start Journey
to Execution Chamber

NEW ORLEANS, May 7.-Tbe
six men sentenced to hang Friday
were taken from the parish prison
here today and started on their
journey to Amite, La, where the
executions will take place. Thep
were escorted by the natioRel
guard.
When Warden Rennyson awaken
ed the condemned men from sleep,
ne found that Roy Leona, of Brook
Ign, had stabbed himself five times
with a three inch dirk. One OF
the wounds penetrated the lung mad
Is regarded as serious. Leona con-
fessed no staying of Dallas Clames,
Continued on Page 81
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-07
COTTON FARMERS ARE
" A R n T D BY DEPT.
EXPERTS ON VEENL
Too Much Confidence Being
Put in Effect of Late Cold
Weather, They Say
TO BE PLENTY WEEyILS
Information Has Been Light,
But Enough Remain TO DO See
rious Damage to Crop

WASHINGTON, May MARY
cotton farmers are placing too
much confidence in the January
cold weather and expecting lighter
invasion of the boil weevils than
they will actually experience this
year in the opinion Of experts Of
the department of agriculture.
The government statement today
says that while Information is light,
there are still sufficient weevils to
do serious damage in almost all sec
tions.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-07
missing BABY FOUND.
NEAR PARENTS HOME
Corinne Model, Stolen Monday
By Woman Now In Custody
At Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA, May Cor
inne Model, the 10 weeks old baby
which was stolen Monday, was
found this morning in a Philadel-
phia house in good condition. The
infant was found about a mile
from the home of her parents, ard
was identified by her father when
the police broke into the house. The
woman found with the baby is az
legged TO hsve confessed to taking
the infant.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-07
CUBAN GO VERNNENT
SAYS REVOLT ENDED

HAVANA, May THE govern
ment believes that it is possible
to consider the rebellious movement
which was begun last week at San
ia Clara as Finished" has been an
nounced today from the palace.
The war department announced
100 rebels have surrendered at
Cienfuegos.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-07
Swimming Season VIII
open Here On Thursday
SEVERE EARTHQUAKE
is FELT AT MANILA

MANILA, May IA severe
earthquake, the center of which
is believed to be about 625 miles
off the eastern coast of the
Philippines, was recorded here
at 1910 this afternoon. There
were four aftershocks.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-07
COOLIDGE DEFEATS
HIRAM JOHNSON IN
HIS OWN HOME STATE
Overnight Returns Show Presi-
dent Received $1,000 More
Votes Than Californian
RETURNS ARE INCOMPLETE
Figures Are Based Upon Re-
turns From 46lS Precincts
Out of 1874 Precincts

SAN FRANCISCO, May T.
Overnight returns from yesterday S
presidential primary in California
gave results from 4618 of the
states 6974 precincts as follows
Johnson 1854; Coolidge 219,-
943; McAdoo 1908; Democratic
no-preference 1919.
Fifty two Of the states's SO
counties were represented in the re-
turns.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-07
MOVEMENT s ATED
t D MAKE AGGEE
INTO JUNIOR COLLEGE
Third District Wanted BY Coun-
ty Board AS Training School
For Teachers
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
School, Under Plan, Would
Teach Only 10th, 18th, 18th
and 18th Grades

The Sumter County Board of
Education wants a junior college es-
tablished here, and would convert
the Third District Agricultural and
Mechanical school into such an in
stitution.
This desire took concrete form
here Tuesday with the passage Of
resolutions by the county school
board to the effect that ito meet
CONTINUED on Page Six
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-07
WEATHER

For Georgia-Unsettled weather
with probably local showers tonight
mad Thursday; no change in temp
erature.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-07

PC. Open High Low Gloss
Jan. -32.6OI23.6sl28.77I23.52l2
May ..29.Ssl3O.10i3O.3OIS0
July Observation-Disclosures
Oct. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Dec. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Americas strict middling 80 cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-01
Lenin, Foster, Organization

Some remarkable speeches were made at
the great Lenin memorial meeting last Tues
cay night under the inspiration Of the occa-
sion and the enthusiasm of the vast gathering.
There was eloquence aplenty and the audi
ence showed its appreciation, but it likewise
gave its approval to something more than
beautiful and stirring oratory.
The response of the crowd to what was
really an organization speech by William u.
Foster, the response to what was not only an
invitation to join the Workers (Communist)
Party of America, but reprimand for not
doing so, must have been a source of
pleasant surprise to party members. The
audience was told without any mincing of
words that the Communist movement is a
movement of action and struggle and that in
this it differs from every revolutionary move
ment that has preceded it. "No one is Com
munist," said Foster, "who is outside of the
Workers Party of America" and the audience
reared its approval.
This is significant incident 1t shows that
the left wing of the American working class
in Chicago, at least, is awakening out of the
apathy it has been sunk in for some consider
able time. 1t is beginning to orient itself and
to the evidently large group that wants to re-
sumo activity the Workers Party of America
offers the only field for their efforts. Foster,
IKE Lenln, is essentially an organizer ana II
at the Lenin Memorial meeting he was trying
to sound working class sentiment for revolu-
tionary education and action he received re-
spouse that should satisfy him that the time
for organization work on broad scale is ripe.
The Workers Party is carrying on cam
paigns that use up every ounce of the energy
Of the present membership. There is no active
comrade that is not overworked and more
members are needed. They are coming in but
not fast enough to supply the demand for the
workers the intensive activities of the party
demand.
We believe that new drive for member
ship would, if the response to Fosters speech
is an indication, net greater results for the
party than the one that ended with the con-
vention, successful as it was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-01

Murky Prosperity in the Building Trades

creasing and available Office space
is greater than the demand. Shultx
puts it this way:
During the war years nearly ev-
cry city was faced with an acute
shortage of Office building space.
After the war there was such a
strong demand for space that, re-
CARELESS of construction costs, in
Vulnerable Office buildings went up.
But now that the demand has been
largely filed we shall probably see
building operations taperiag CT for
some time to come.
"The new space that has been put
on the market is necessarily high
priced, because the cost OF building
material and the unprecedented
wages paid to labor"
Babson declares that the present
abnormal amount of building cannot
continue, and states that "if costs
should advance further we would ex-
perience severe reduction in con-
structior work.
The New York Building Trades
Employers Association had issued the
announcement that if wages became
higher they would decrease building
work, and are already starting a
campaign to lower wages Since the
Eastern district would be mainly hit
by stoppage Of larger construction,
the announcement by the president
of the Owners and Managers Asso-
citation that skz-scranar cop.trnct. r, :,
would stop means a slackening in
building activity in New York and
vicinity.
Fifty per cent of present construc-
ton work is confined to residential
properties, for the most part the
smaller types. A gradual increase
in unemployment is bound to affect
this activity as the rents charged in
the newer structures cannot be met
by the workers.
United States Commerce reports
for December 81, 1923, show a de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-01

est as to advise the Negro girl to
90 into trade unions, he would at
once be acting against the rich class
that maintain these institutions.
Such a person would forthwith lose
his position.
no race of men is more apprecia-
tive of wholesome womanhood than
the Negro. And yet, If prostitution
is daily on the. increase among Negro
girls, we must look primarily to the
conditions of insufficient wages as a
cause. 1t is not the lack Of religion
that is responsible, but the lack Of
bread. iH
What girl can live on $12 a week
and maintain her decency? There is
an increasing number of shops since
the war which are turning out white
girls and putting in colored. The
sickly sentimentalism Of the Negro
leader interprets these acts as an in
dication of change OF ethical con-
science on the part of the white em-
ploying class. He would rather not
see that the Negro girl is given pref
erence in such cases because she is
in no union, and such being the case,
can be paid less and worked longer
hours.
Present-day Negro leadership has
no program or policy which can in
any way approach even an ameliora-
ton Of the miserable social conditions
Of the Negro. Each, from the graft
ing, hustling politician of the Second
ward to the average Negro bishop is
so bound up, part and parcel, with
the capitalist class of the nation,
which has it's heel on the neck of the
Negro, that to expect any general
social benefit from them, would be
10 expect man 10 20 consciously
contrary to his personal interest.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-01
BY HARRY CANNES.

BUILDING trades workers are apt
II to think their industry is unaf-
fected by the general, Oppressive
trend of business generally in the
United States, and that unemploy-
ment is a remote possibility for them.
A glance at the facts in the build
ing industry warn the building trades
unions, however, to be on the guard.
Envious and disgruntled at the COM
paratively high wages paid building
trades workers, the master builders
are straining at the leash for an OPP
portunity to stamp into the dust the
organization of the building workers.
Prices of building material is
dropping, and the past four to five
months shows decline of from four
to ten per cent. To the building CAPT
talist this is sure sign that wages
must come down; and if strong or
ganization is successful in maintain
ing wages or even increasing them,
the conclusion is drawn by the build
ing bosses that the organizations
must come down with the wages.
How the master builders were
training apprentices in every line of
the building industry to Illustrate
strikes has been pointed out by Max
Schachtman in the Young Worker.
This is an important factor that can
not be overlooked.
Just the other day Earle Shultz,
the president of the National Associa
ton of Building Owners and Mar
ayers Can organization representing
SIS, 900, 900 worth of property in
the principal cities of the United
States) announced that the putting
up of skyscrapers was going to stop.
He echoed the warning note that
Babson initiated in recent building
trades survey: Too many Office build
ings went up in 1919; business is
falling, the number of failures is in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-01
Out in the Open

Little effort is needed to convince the aver
age worker that in American politics TODAY
money is king and corruption its prime minis
ter.
But it is somewhat difficult task to win
over the average American worker and
farmer to the belief that the present govern
ment is run by and for the capitalists interests.
It is true, one can point to the tariff which is
an outright bonus of more than three billion
dollars annually to the capitalists Now and
then, with increasing frequency to be sure, it
can be shown that Senator or Congressman
is in the pay of some big private interests and
is simply doing time" on Capitol Hill in be-
half of his corporation masters.
Yet, it is not often that Senators and Con-
Lressmen dare come into the open as servants
of big capitalist interests. The case of ex-
Senator McCumber of North Dakota, is an
Illuminating example of this type. McCumber
is now appearing before the United States
Tariff Commission, in behalf of the southern
sugar interests to demand that present tariff
rates on sugar be not lowered
Mr.. McCumber was the father of the tariff
act which costs the working masses approx
mately $90,OOO,0OO year in increased sugar
prices arising from higher sugar import sched-
ules While in the Senate, Mr. McCumber did
all he could to enact legislation which would
levy this gigantic tribute on the workers and
farmers. Now that he is out Of the Senate,
Mr. McCumber is rewarded by the sugar in
terests with handsome fee for arguing their
case before the Tariff Commission to. perpetu-
ate this tribute being paid them by the work
ers. Apparently experience is an asset of
paramount value in our great national game
of selling out those who work to those who
own.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-01

crease in the activities of nearly all
basic industries. Production of steel
by independent steel mills totaled
188,144 tons in November of 1928,
as against 225,714 in October. Plant
capacity was decreased.
Building permits for 81 states
showed a decrease from 319,860 in
October to 289,263 in November.
While it is true that this is some
what due to weather conditions, the
fact that the total building contracts
in the Northeastern states dropped
from 1928, 1888 in June of 1928,
to $274, 205,100 in July of the same
year, proves that the building indus
try is also capable of quick retreat.
On the whole no rapid unemploy-
ment can be expected in the build
ing industry; tho no one will deny
that all facts and statistics prove a
gradual shutting down. How far
this will go depends on the movement
| in the basic industries, which are any,
thing but encouraging. With the
coming depression there will be init
ated a drive for lower wages. Con-
certed effort by the Builders asso-
Citations to install apprentice schools
shows that they can foresee the time
when they can materially weaken the
strength of the building trade unions,
while on the other hand the unions
are following the northumberland
policy of excluding and limiting the
number of apprentices, and keeping
good many of the young fellows
who are bound to become building
tradesmen out of the union.
The present breathing spell should
be time girding and strengthening
the fighting capacities Of the build
ing trades unions in order tp main
tain the existing wage rates, espe-
cially, as was pointed out before
when unemployment threatens the
basic industries and there is drop
in prices of building material.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-01
Negro Leadership

races, has been maintained.
The money that has gone to build
up Negro institutions of learning
turnout the South has come largely
from members of the capitalist class
of the North; those, who at the same
time, are the most relentless exploit
ers Of Negro labor, whether their in
terests be established in the North
or South. The popular Negro leader
at this time cannot speak out in the
full and true interest of his race.
And this is because he draws his sub
sistence from the capitalist class
who are daily exploiting the Negro
in the mills, factories, mines, on the
plantations, in the transport indus
tries, etc. Consider such organiza-
tons as the National Association for
the Advancement Of the Colored Peo-
pie and the Urban League. Could
one conceive of the Negro officials
Of either Of these organizations ad-
vocating labor unionism among Ne
groes, knowing that their best con-
tributors are the very persons who
benefit most by the Negroes economic
helplessness, his unorganized condi-
ton in the labor field?
1t is pitiable how the Negro girl
is overworked and underpaid in the
meat packing industries and the gar.
ment factoriesl Yet, the Young
Woman's Christian Associations and
other female philanthropic organiza-
tons dare not advise the Negro girl
on the necessity Of unionizing in the
shops and factories. Were any Ne
gro officials Of any one such institu-
tio~s to 20 forget his personal inter
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-01
Daugherty and the Khan

Lest some may be burdened with the fear
that the epidemic of congressional investiga-
tons will reach the Ku Klux Khan, we point
to an interesting disclosure just made in the
February issue of the International Magazine.
When Congress opened, a good deal of noise
was made about the case of Senator Maytield
of Texas. To the innocent public it appeared
as if the Ku Klux Khan would surely be I'M
masked because the republican administra-
ton would welcome a chance to conduct at
least one damaging investigation on its south
ern democratic opponents
Not so. In the last of the International
series on the Ku Klux Khan we have the fol-
lowing: Congress started to investigate the
Ku Klux Khan. The hearings were suddenly
called off. People all over the country won
dered why nothing came of it. The Khan used
pull on a government official. The govern
ment official saw Attorney General Daugh-
erty. The investigation stopped"
The article quotes from letter purporting
to have been written by Harry B. Terrell, the
Ku Klux attorney at the congressional hear
ings, to the effect that certain Colonel Acuff,
personal friend of President Coolidge and
Daugherty, had agreed to see the Attorney
General because it is generally conceded that
the latter has more influence with the Presi-
dent and upon this administration than any
other cabinet member.
This is an eye-opener. 1t shows conclu-
sively that the employers government is
tacitly supporting the Ku Klux Khan. 1t shows
very clearly that the Ku Klux Khan is looked
upon by the capitalist class as one of its most
powerful allies. What is more, it completely
establishes the fact that the government will
not take any serious steps to punish those who
have been defrauding the country's treasury
and stealing our natural resources