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for the proieM of reconstruct Lou la which ail have to soars.
—JAMES J. HILL
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The Successful Farmer
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Raises Bigger Crops
and cuts down costs by investment in
labor-saving machinery.
Good prices for the farmers' crops en
courage new investment, more production
and greater prosperity.
But the success of agriculture depends
on the growth of railroads —the modern
beasts of burden that haul the crops to
the world's markets.
The railroads —like the farms —increase
their output and cut down unit costs by
the constant investment of new capital.
With fair prices for the work they do,
the railroads are able to attract new capital
for expanding their facilities.
Rates high enough to yield a fair return
will insure railroad growth, and prevent
costly traffic congestion, which invariably
results in poorer service at higher cost.
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National wealth can increase only as our
railroads grow.
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Poor railroad service is dear at any
price. No growing country can long pay
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IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OP THIB
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE NEWS _OF_ THE SOUTH
What la Taking Place In The South,
land Will Be Pound In
Brief Paragraphs
Domestic—
The most sensational robbery in the
history of Girard, Ala., opposite Co
lumbus, Ga., was pulled off in true
western style. Four masked and arm
ed highwaymen entered the Phoenix-
Girard bank, held up the president, as
sistant cashier and other officials at
the point of pistols and proceeded to
loot the institution, making their get
away with currency aggregating about
thirty thousand dollars. Officers of
Columbus, Ga., Phoenix City and Gi
rard are on the lookout for the rob
bers.
Harry New was found guilty of sec
ond degree murder in Los Angeles for
the murder of his fiancee, Freda Les
ser, in Topango canyon, near that
place, on the night of last July 4.
Enforcement of nation-wide prohibi
tion, which becomes the law of the
land, begins at 12:01 a. m. on Jan
uary 17, it was announced at New
York City at the office of Col. Daniel
L. Porter, of the United States in
ternal revenue service.
A call for one of the greatest inter
national conferences of commercial
and financial figures ever assembled,
in an effort to find a remedy for the
financial and commercial chaos in
which the world has been left by the
war has been issued in New York
following a meeting of a coterie of
nationally known financiers.
Atlanta, Ga., stands twelfth in na
tional bank clearings for the year
1919 with a total of $3,290,186,377. This
is the announcement in the annual
compilation of figures published in
Bradstreet's Journal.
Stories of terrible cruelty, unre
dressed murders and devastation of
properties were given the senate sub
committee investigating the Mexican
situation by men in close touch with
conditions in Mexico. The subcom
mittee is holding sessions in San An
tonio, Texas.
A six-year job faces the federal pro
hibition agents in making the United
States dry. At the end of that pe
riod the revenue bureau figures that
the United States will be as dry as
i desert.
The senate subcommittee now in
San Antonio, Texas has received a
report that a large shipment of am
munition for the Carranza government
has been received at Manzanillo, Mex
ico. It seems to have been shipped
?n a Japanese vessel.
Leading members of the New York
Bar association, the trustees of the
New York City Club and the trustees
Df the Citizens' Union united in voic
ing condemnation of the action of
the state assembly in suspending its
Eive Socialist members.
Washington—
The partial lifting of the blockade
against Soviet Russia is described in
a dispatch "as an exchange of goods
on the basis of reciprocity between the
Russian people and allied and neutral
countries." The decision, it is stated,
provides taht facilities will be afford
ed the Russian co-operative organi
zation to import clothing, medicines,
agricultural machinery and other nec-
essaries, in exchange for grain, flax
and other goods of which Russia has
a surplus.
Definite plans for furnishing Poland
with war materials and food to aid in
checking the westward spread of bol
shevism are being considered by the
United States and by allied govern
ments, Secretary Baker said before
the house ways and means committee,
supplementing the declaration of Gen.
Tasker H. Bliss that Poland was "the
only bulwark against bolshevism."
Establishment of a separate state,
under the protectorate of the United
States, for the segregation of the na
tion's negro population, was advocated
before the house judiciary committee
by representatives of the negro race.
Establishment by the United States
Grain Corporation of $150,000,000 in
credits would feed Europe until the
next harvest without imposing any
burden on taxpayers. That is what
Herbert Hoover told the house -'ays
and means committee. Early payment
of the loans made could be counted
upon, Hoover said.
Decision to withdraw the American
troops from Siberia upon the comple
tion of the repatriation of the Czecho
slovak forces next month hag been
reached by the American government.
Save Poultry Droppings.
Save the poultry droppings. Con
sidering high fertilizer prices, their
monetary value is greater than ever
before.
No better place to apply the manure
at this season of the year than on
clover or glass sods or on the fall
cover crops.
No one is justified In burning straw'
except to keep up an all-night smudge
to protect the orchard and early or
late vegetables.
A list of fifteen admirals, headed
by Admiral William S. Sims, was sub
mitted to Secretary Daniels by Sen
ator Hale of Maine, chairman of the
senate naval subcommittee on inves
tigation of navy decoration awards,
with the request that the officers be
•summoned to appear before the com
| mittee.
The coal strike settlement commis
sion has begun actual work of consid
ering and adjudicating claims of bitu
minous miners for advanced wages
and shorter working hours, the oper
ators having agreed to abide by the
decision of the commission whatever
It may be.
Foreign—
Premier Georges Clemenceau went
down to defeat at the hands of his
countrymen in a caucus of the French
senate and chamber of deputies to
choose a candidate for the presidency
of the republic. Clemenceau then an
nounced his withdrawal and asked his
supporters to cast their votes for the
re-election of President Poincaire.
In an official communication-issued
in Paris, the supreme council approv
ed of recommendations to relieve the
population in the interior of Russia
by giving them medicine, agricultural
machinery and other commodities, of
which the people are in sore need, in
exchange for grain and flax.
The supreme council, at Paris, has
drafted a note to the Dutch govern
ment asking for the extradition 6f the
former German emperor.
The note refers to article 227 of the
treaty of Versailles and invites Hol
land to join the allied powers in the
accomplishment of this act.
It is rumored in London that be
fore peace with Germany is a week
old the British public has been
brought up sharply against the pos
sibility of another war.
The estimates of the Berlin papers
of tfhe casualties in the rioting places
the dead in excess of thirty and the
wounded at one hundred. Quiet haa
been restored.
The German Social Democratic par
tj' has issued an appeal to its mem
bers not to allow themselves to be pro
voked by Independent and Commun
ist "wire pullers" to play an unscrupu
lous game with human lives.
Many persons were killed or wound
ed in Berlin when the troops fired
upon or bayonetted demonstrators who
tried to rush the reichstag in Berlin
in protest against the exploitation law.
Crowds have paraded the streets of
Berlin following an appeal from the
radical Socialist organ for workmen
to demonstrate in protest against the
law. The demonstrators bore flags
inscribed "We Demand an Unrestrict
ed Workers' Council Bill." The street
car service was partly suspended, the
men being on strike. Ten dead were
taken into the court of the reichstag
building, and order was finally restor
ed by the police.
The so-called German exploitation
law is an outgrowth of resolutions by
the Social Democrats endorsing a sys
temt of workers' and economic coun
cils as the first step towards sociali
zation. The Soviet system is strong
ly condemned by the German Social
Democrats.
The Russian Bolsheviks have cap
tured seventeen columns of Polish le
gionnaires, sixteen guns and 20,000 ri
fles in the Krasnoyarsk region. The
Bolsheviks have also occupied the Ba
lai station, fifty miles east of Kras
noyarsk.
London newspapers state that the
only two countries in the world now
at peace are United States and Ger
many.
In the supreme council at Paris,
the United States ambassador raised
the question whether the council in
tended to maintain the percentage pre
viously adopted for distribution among
the allied and associated powers of
the warship tonnage to be given up
ber German. Receiving an answer
i nthe affirmative, the United States
ambassador stated that, in that case,
the United States waived its claim
to any part of this tonnage'
Immediately after the peace proto
col was signed the allied leaders hand
ed a memorandum to the German dele
gates, including the delivery of 5,000
locomotives, 150,000 cars. Germany's
failure to evacuate all parts of Russia,
the sinking of certain submarines
which were to have been turned over
to the allies, failure to deliver stolen
works of art taken from Belgium and
France, the delivery of agricultural ma
chinery and exportation of certain
aeronautical materials in contraven
tion of the agreement with the aliles.
A Korean national army has crossed
the Siberian frontier into Korea and
has captured En Chin from the Japan
ese provisional government forces, ac
cording to a cablegram received in
Honolulu from Shanghai to the Kor
ean Hawaiian association.
Germany is now at peace with the
allies. The treaty of Versailles, com
pleted after months of labor last June,
has been declared formally in effect,
operative January 10, 1920.
When Readjustment Comes.
The economical production of feed
and the utilizing of all roughage Is
going to be necessity in fanning if
it is to be profitable when readjust
ment comes and prices go lower.
Expect Plenty Seed Corn.
Everybody is expecting that there
will be plenty of good seed corn next
spring. Being careless on that ex
pectation has left more than one mai
without seed at planting time.
PRESIDENT GREETS
MEN OF AMERICAS
THE LEADING FINANCIERS OF
21 REPUBLICS GATHER FOR
FINANCIAL CONFERENCE.
81BIIETT WELCOMES VISITORS
Secretary Glass, President-General
of the Conference Occupying the
Chair at Opening Session.
Washington.—Marked by the pres
ence of the leading financiers and bus
ness men of the twenty-one republics
of the western hemisphere, the second
Pan-American Financial Conference
opened here for the consideration of
international problems arising from
the return of peace.
President Wilson sent a message of
greeting, declaring that Pan-Ameri
ca sought no selfish purpose in assist
ing world reconstruction and would
regard it as a privilege to fulfill the
obligations Imposed by the great ad
vantages enjoyed by the people of
these republics. Secretary Lansing
brought out the same idea In address
ing the delegates, when he said the
Americas accepted the burdens thrust
upon the new world by the war.
Welcoming the visitors to the build
ing of the Pan-American Union, John
Barrett, director-general, spoke of the
union's moral influence in preserving
peace and building up commerce.
Secretary Glass, president-general
of the conference, occupied the chair
at the opening session.
BRYAN ANTI-PROFITEERING
AND PUBLIC OWNERSHIP IDEA.
.New York. —Profiteering and public
ownership were declared by William
Jennings Bryan to be two of the great
Issues on which the coming presiden
tial campaign should be fought.
THOUSAND CASES OF FLU
SAID TO BE IN HAVANA
Havana. —Many cases of influenza
have been reported in this city, but
no authoritative statistics are avail
able A newspaper report states that
1.000 cases have been found here, but
this has not been corroborated.
PROHIBITION AMENDMENT IS
TO BE GIVEN ANOTHER TEST
Washington. —Validity of the federal
prohibition constitutional amendment
is to be determined by the supreme
court, which granted the ? state of
Rhode Island permission to institute
original proceedings to test It and en
join tho enforcement in that state.
HOLLAND IS REMINDED OF
HER INTERNATIONAL DUTY
Paris. —Holland is told in the allied
note demanding the extradition of for
mer Emn p ror William that she will
fiot "fiffill her intern^ : onal duty"
if she refuses to associate herself
with the entente powers in chastising
crime committed by Germans during
the war.
AMSRICAN RED CROSS WILL
LEAVE SIBERIA VERY SOON
Washington.—Orders providing for
withdrawal of American Red Cross
personnel from Siberia at the time
American troops start homeward have
been cabled it was announced to head
quarters at Vladivostok of the com
mission headed bv Lieut. Col. Rudolph
B. Teusler, of Virginia.
AUSTRIAN SCHOOL CHILDREN
SUFFERING MUCH FOR FOOD
Paris. Representatives of the
American mission for the relief of
children have just finished an exami
nation of school children in Vienna
and found, according to a dispatch re
ceived by the Austrian delegation here
that 97 per cent of them are suffering
from lack of food.
ARMY TRANSPORT POWHATAN
IN NO IMMEDIATE DAN3ER
New York. —The army transport
Powhatan, in distress about 700 miles
past of New York, reported by wire
less to the army transport offices here
although she was leaking and her
boiler room flooded, shf> was in no
immediate danger." The 500 passen
gers were "calm and comfortable, the
message said. When the sea be
comes smoother, ihe passengers will
be transferred to the White Star
iner Cedric, which is standing by.
VOLUNTEER NURSES FIGHTING
TO CHECK SPREAD OF FLU
Chicago —Chicago's health depart
ment was swamped with appeals for
nurses to combat the spread of In
tluenza and pneumonia, of which more
than 2.000 cases have been reported
in the last 48 hours with 50 deaths.
Health department officials declared
the city needed *t least 10,000 nurses
to handle the situation.
Six hundred nurses, operating from
Mght dispensaries, began a survey o1
the crity to aid in relief measure®.
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