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ASSOCIATED
PRESS NEWS
OF THE WORLD
FORTY-SECOND YEAR.—NO. 194.
TENNESSEE RATIFIES
TRANS-SEAFEAT
TO BRING DARING
AIR PILOT HERE
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Flight From Panama To
Washington Via Ja?
maica, Planned
Americus is on the route laid out
for one of the greatest airplane
flights ever attempted—a flight of a
single pilot from the Panama Canal
zone to Washington via Jamaica,
which will take the flyer across the
Carribean sea and other i large
stretches of water, a total distance of
2,439 miles. It is intended that the
flight shall be attempted in Septem
ber. Lieut. Chas. B. Austin has been
selected to pilot the airship. Souther
Field is one of the scheduled stops,
the route taking flyer from Havana
to Carlstrom Field, Fla., thence here,
and on northeastward. The official
Air Service News Letter tells of the
plans for the feat as follows:
“The Chief of Air Service announc
es that authority has been granted by
the War Department to attempt a
flight from France Field, Canal Zone,
Panama, to the United States via Ja
maica, during the latter part of Sep
tember of this year. Lieut. Charles
B. Austin, A. S. A., one of the noted
American pilots has been selected to
make this flight. He will fly a D. H.
4 B airplane and will make the flight
alone. This flight has been contem
plated for over a year and a careful
study has been made of the condition
attending such a filght and it is con
fidently felt by all that Lieut. Aus
tin will be able to carry it out' suc
cessfully.
“Plans have been drawn up for re
modeling the plane which will; be
used by Lieut. Austin so as to install
special gasoline and oii tanks for this
trip. The plane when remodeled will
have a capacity of two hundred gal
lons which is considered sufficient to
reach Jamaica which is the first leg
of the journey. The distance between
France Field, Panama, to Jamaica, is
650 miles and it will be necessary for
Lieut. Austin to fly directly over the
Carribean Sea with no possible land
ing place except the water, from the
time he takes off until he reaches Ja
maica. From there he will fly over
the islands and then over a hundred
mile stretch of ocean again to Cuba,
landing at Havana. From there he
will fly to Florida and thence up the
coast to Washington, D. C., his final
destination.
“The distance between stops is as
follows: .
“France Field to Jamaica, 650
miles; Jamaica to Havana, Cuba, 450
miles; Havana, Cuba, to Carlstrom
Field, Arcadia, Fla., 250 miles; Carl
strom Field to Souther Field, Amer
icus. Ga.. 380 miles; Souther Field
"to Favetteville, North Carolina, 350
’ miles; Fayetteville to Langley Field,
Hampton.' Va., 200 miles; Langley
Field to Washington. D. C., 159 miles.
Total, 2.439 miles.
“It is hoped to have all plane and
test flights completed in time to start
the flight not later than the first part
of September. If it is found impos
sible becau e of’ ungovernable condi
tions to start by this, time it will be
necessary to wait until after the hur
ricane season is over which will be
about the latter part of November.
However, if the weathei in Novem
her is unfavorable the flight will not
be made until the next rainy season
as it is impracticable to attempt a
flight of this character in the. dry
season because of adverse winos.
Dawson Gets Readv To
Ask Bids On New Hotel
DAWSON. Aug. 18—At a meeting
of the stockholders of the Dawson
Hotel Co., the following boaid of di
rectors was elected: Guv Chap
pell, W. H. Locke J t A. Shields.
A. Baldwin. A. S. Lowery, T_ B
Raines, R. L. Saville and E.W_ Hol
lingsworth, of Dawson; J. W -Tilley,
of Parrott. J. S Farnum. of Charles
ton, S C , and E. B. Young, of Al
bany. At a subsequent meeting of
the'board. J. A. Shields was elected
president; E. B. Young, vice presi
dent and W. H. Locke, secretary and
treasurer. „ .
The architect. P. E. Dennis, of
Macon, was present and submitted
plans and specifications of the build
ing, which were accepted. Bids for
the erection of the hotel will be ad
vertised for, and will be opened. Sep
tember 15. •
The new hotel which will be erect
ed by a stock company, will be lo
cated at the comer of Seventh avenue
and Main street. It will be three sto
ries with all modern conveniences and
will cost approximately SIOO 000.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Wilson of Les
lie, together with their daughter, Mrs.
Sara Wilson Ba°’lev. left today for
White Springs, Fla . where they will
spend a week or ten days.
PACE DECLINES
TO OFFER AGAIN
FOR ASSEMBLY
Young Legislator Re
tires With Good Rec
ord In House
Representative Stephen Pace, one
of Sumter county’s two members of
the Georgia house, today announced
definitely that he would not Pt a
candidate for re-election. He gave as
his reason that he did not feel he
could longer afford the time spent
each year in Atlanta and the person
al expense necessarily incurred. The
annual sessions consume about two
months or one-sixth of a man's total
time. In announcing his decision not
to offer for re-election, Mr. Pace
gave out the following statement:
“I will not be a candidate for re
election to the General Asesmb'.y.
, “I sincerly trust that my succes
sor, whoever he may be, will be in
terested in the two matters I so ear
nestly hoped to see enacted into law
before the conclusion of my service;
first, the handling of the state’s fi
nances under a budget system, by
which expenditures would be con
fined to and could not exceed the
state’s revenue; and, second, state
regulation of the development of
our great hydro-electric power. This
as I see it, could best be done by the
state taking over the principal jjow
er streams, generating the electric
power at six or eight selected points
in the state, and then let the munic
ipalities become the distributing
agents.
Current on Every Farm
“Under such a plan not only every
city home, but every farm house in
the state could be furnished electric
current and power at a very small
cost, many times less than present
rates, and industrial plants would
spring up in Georgia at every avail
able Location. Just as Georgia con
structed the W. & A. railroad to pro
mote the state, in the same way
should it now develop its enormous
water power, and prevent it from
being monopolized by a few Eastern
iinanciers for their private gain.
“Os course 1 know any man elected
from Sumter county will tight tor
good roads and better roads, good
schools and beter schools.”
lhe announcement! of Mr. Pace
will come/ as a distinct disappoint
ment to many persons who have re
garded him as a valuable man in the
assembly and-an able.representative
of Sumter county’s interests. Having
served through four sessions, while
still under 3U years of age, he re
tires with an excellent record of
measures fathered and supported by
him. Among the acts of local legisla
tion put through by him may be men
tioned the following:
Local Legislation
Introduced and secured the pas
sage of a bill placing the office of so
licitor general on a salary and re
quiring all fees formerly paid to that
office to be turned into the county
treasury, which fees have been more
than sufficient to pay the salary of
both the solicitor general and judge
of the Superior court.
Introduced and secured the pas-1
sage of a bill placing the office of the;
solicitor of tne City Court of Am
ericus on a salary and requiring all
fees formerly paid to that office to i
be turned into the county treasury ■
which fees have been sufficient to |
pay the salary of both the solicitor
and judge of the City Court.
Introduced and secured the pas-|
sage of a bill placing the office o*.,
county treasurer on a salary of sl2oo|
abolishing the old fee system under
which the treasurer received about
S3OOO a year.
Introduced and secured the P as *
sage of a bill abolishing the office of
clerk of the board of county com
missioners, which had called for a
county expense of SIOO a month.
Introduced and secured the P as "|
sage of a bill requiring the handling
of the finances of the City of Am
ericus on a budget system, by which
the expenditures will he limited to
the revenue, and making impossible
the creation of another floating debt'
of over a hundred thousand dollars, |
when the constitution of the state
limits Such a debt, without a vote of |
the people, to about ten thousand,
dollars.
Introduced and’secured the pas
sage of bills appropriating additional
funds to the district agricultural col
lege for the purpose of completing;
and equipping the large academic |
building.
State Legislation
In state legislation he was one
of the principal advocates of the pres
ent State Highway Department plan
under which Georgia is taking the
lead in the building of good roads; of
the present state banking law which
protects the depositor as well as the
banker, and which is recognized as
the be banking law of any state in
the United States; of the law author-j
THE TIMESH RECORDER
PUBLISHED IN THE. OF DIXIE
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SUFFRAGE II
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These states have ratified the suf
frage constitutional amendment:
1— -Wisconsin June_lo, 1919
2 Michigan June' 10, 1919
3 Kansas June 16, 1919
4 Ohio June 16, 1919
5 New York June 16, 1919
6 Illinois June 17, 1919 !
7 Pennsylvania .... June 24, 1919
8 — Masachusetts .... June 25, 1919
9 Texas June 28, 1919
10— lowa July 2, 1919
11— Missouri July 3, 1919
12— Arkansas July 28, 1919
13— Montana July 30, 1919
14— Nebraska Aug. 2, 1919;
15— Minnesota Sept. 8, 1919 s
16— N. Hampshire ....Sept. 10, 1919 !
17— Utah Sept. 30, 1919
18— California Nov. 1, 1999
19— Maine .. Nov. 5, 1919
20— North Dakota Dec. 1, 1919
21— South Dakota Dec. 4, 1919
22 Colorado Dec. 12, 1919 I
23 Rhode Island Jan. 6, 1920
24 Kentucky Jan. 6, 1920
25 Oregon Jan. 13, 1920
26 Indiana Jan. 16, 1920 .
27 Wyoming Jan. 27, 1920
28— Nevada Feb. 7, 1920
29 New’ Jersey Feb. 10, 1920
30— Idaho Feb. 11, 1920
31— Arizona Feb. 12, 1920
32 — New Mexico Feb. 19, 1920
33 Oklahoma Feb. 28, 1920
34 W. Virginia .... March 10, 1920
35 Washington, .. . March 24, 1920
36 Tenessee, Aug. 18, 1920 ■
izing the consolidation of the county
schools, and providing for financial
aid by the stat® to such consolidated
schools. He prepared, introduced and
secured the passage of the present I
Georgia “Blue Sky” law, which pro-j
tects the people of the state from the
many fraudulent schemes in oil and;
other wild cat stock and leases.
During the 1919-1920 sessions hei
was a member of the rules committee,
which is the steering committee of
the lower house; was chairman of the.
general judiciary committee, and a
member of the committees on ap
propriations, highways, banks and
banking, amendments to the consti
tution and education.
Some Stores To Be Open,
Others Closed, Thursday
Owing to some misunderstanding
about town as to the date to which
the Thursday afternoon holidays
should extend, several of the larger
merchants conferred informally today I
and, referring to the original agree-1
ment w’hich they all signed, found
that the date was the “middle of Au
gust,” instead of the “end of Au
gust,” as has been believed by some.
Consequently it was announced that
most of these stores would remain
open tomorrow afternoon, the middle'
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST IS, 1920.
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President of The National American Woman Suffrage Association.
The struggle of 60 years is ended and the women of the great
republic are now endowed with political freedom. It was a long
time to work for an inevitable grant of justice. Women will assume
their new duties with high expectations of serving their country, and
with an intelligence and experience which cannot fail to be of value
to the nation.
of August having passed. Ansley’s
’ store, which has displayed a window
i card announcing Thursday closings
■ throughout the month, will be open
■ I with the others, it was stated. Pink
■lston’s store, however, which had ar
ranged to close, will do so at 1 p. m.
J|ile Felton, solicitor general of
the Superior Court, was here from
i his home at Montezuma last even
ing on legal business.
Charleston Is Given
67,957 By Census
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18—The
I census bureau announced the popu
lation of Charleston, S. C., as 67,-.
; 957, increase of 15.5 per cent. Other
|south.ir: towns announced included,
; Bay Minnette, Ala., 1,992; Conyers,
• Ga., 1817; Glennville, Ga. 1069 and
Sonora, Ga., 1684.
Measure Is Carried In
House by 50-47 Vote;
Ask Reconsideration
Speaker Changes Negative Vote To Affirmative
And Now Has Privilege of Bringing Up
Action Within Two Days
NASHVILLE, Aug. 18.—Tennes
see, the thirty-sixth state, today rati
fied the federal suffrage amendment
when the house adopted the resolu
tion by a vote of 50 to 47. The sen
ate ratified last Friday.
The vote in the house was 49 for
suffrage but Speaker Walker chang
ed his vote to aye, and moved that the
action of the house be reconsidered.
ALL OVER NOW, BUT WOMEN CANNOT
STOP, SAYS MRS. CATT, OF VICTORY
NEW YORK, August 18—Leaders
of the women’s suffrage movement
are rejoicing over the adoption of
the suffrage amendment. The senti
ments of many of them were ex
pressed by Mrs. Carrie • Chapman
Catt, president of the National Am
erican Woman Suffrage Association,
who said in a prepared statement:
“Our mothers began it. So it
came on to us as, in away, a sacred
trust. And a great part of our re
joicing today in the hour of victory
is compounded of our feeling of loy
alty to the past and our satisfaction
that we have stood faithful to its
trust.
“It was fifty-one years ago that
the women of the National Suffrage
Association began what was to be a
fifty-year long campaign to get the
Congress of the United States to pass
a federal suffrage amendment. Con
gress had been importuned for the
amendment by the women even' be
fore that, but 1869 marked the or
ganization of the “National” with
the avowed purpose of securing suf
frage by national legislation.
“From that day until June 4, 1919,
the maintenance of a congressional |
lobby in Washington to work for fed
eral suffrage was part of the pro
gram of the National Suffrage Asso
ciation. It meant keeping up an un
broken chain of lobby work at Wash
ington over half a century.
“It was in 1878 that the amend
ment was presented to the 45th con
gress by the National in the form in
which it was finally passed. Twenty
Congresses were to have a chance at
it in that identical form. Before
twenty-two congresses the women
of the National were to stand and
Mayor Sheppard Heads Club
To Boost Senator Smith Here
A number of enthusiastic support-!
ers of Senator Hoke Smith in his|
race for re-election in the primary of|
Sept. 8, met in the court house Wed-j
i nesday night and organized a Sumter
! Cbunty Hoke Smith club to conduct
I uie campaign locally.
i Mayor J. E. Sheppard was unan
' tniously elected president of the club \
With L. G. Council and R. L. Me-,
Math, as vice presidents; W. P. Wal-i
lis, secretary, and P. B. Williford as I
treasurer.
An executive committee was
,'i named to act with the president and I
vice presidents in an advisory ca
pacity. They were W. T. Lane, C. S.
Hogg, H. O. Jones, T. C. Hudson, R.
iC. Moran.
In accepting the presidency of the
i club Mayor Sheppard expressed him
:jself as satisfied that Sumter epunty
j would be carried by Senator Smith.
IHe reviewed the record in Congress
' I of the Senator, declaring that he was
! one of the strongest men Georgia
had ever sent to the United States
: senate. He gave the senator a large
measure of credit for Sumter having
secured Souther Field and said that
‘but for the senator’s banking knowl-'
ledge and foresight in having the Fed
eral Reserve banking act amended so
as to allow the issuance of six hun-l
dred million dollars in emergency!
‘notes, the country would have ex-
I perienced the greatest panic in its
‘history. He said the senator was re-
■ sponsible to a large degree for the
Smith-Lever act.
ir “Today Georgia needs a strong
■ man in the United States senate,”
! ,the speaker declared, “and needs him
•as never before. Senator Smith has
.■proven his strength.”
. The speaker declared that Watson
|is a destroyer, not a builder; that
1 ' Governor Dopey has made a reasona
• i bly good governor, but that he can-
Ihiot point to a single large acaieve
ment that he may claim as his own.
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\OARt- BE LATfr
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
Walker now is privileged to call up
the resolution for reconsideration at
any time within the next two days.
Adjournment was taken to 10 o’clock
tomorrow.
Possible moves of the opposition to
delay the action of ratification of the
suffrage amendment was the principal
topic of discussion when the house
met today to resume debate on the
measure.
plead for justice. Os these twenty
two congresses the Republicans dom
inated both branches in eleven and
the Democrats in four, while in seven
the House was Democratic and the
Senate was Republican. In this reve
lation of well-divided, long-continued
opposition lies, perhaps, the explan
ation of why women smile somewhat
cynically today at all party claims to
a monopoly of merit in forwarding
the suffrage program. Never was a
measure so systematically opposed,
never one whose progress was so ve
hemently disputed inch by inch.
“As with its passage, so with the
ratification. Delay and obstacles
have been the constant portion of the
National Suffrage Association in se
curing the needed 36 states. Be
cause of the failure of the 65th Con
gress to pass the amendment, the
measure had to go to the state legis
latures in an “off” year. Only ten
states could ratify in regular session.
Twenty-six special sessions have had
to be called to secure the full com
plement of ratification. To get these
special sessions called has been in it
self a monumental work for the Na
tional Suffrage Association, necessi
tating an interminal chain of let
ters, telegrams and special personal
emissaries.
“Now that it is all over, the feel
ing of “ceaselessness” is probably
the sensation uppermost with us all.
And perhaps it is just as well that it
should be. For women cannot stop.
The National cannot "stop. With a
new purpose, the purpose of making
the vote register for an improved citi
zenship, the women of the National
are already lined up under a new
name, the League of Women Vot
ers.”
Dan Chapell was nominated for the
secretaryship but declined, stating
that since he was commander of the
local post of the American Legion,
and since the post was opposing the
election of Watson and Hardwick, he
felt it best for the cause of Senator
Smith, and the Legion as well, that
he decline to take an official part in
the campaign. After this statement
Mr. Wallis agreed to undertake the
work of secretary.
Mr. Sheppard stated that commit
tees would be appointed in each mi
litia district in the county and that
the club would hold meetings in each
of these districts, making a vigorous
campaign.
The club decided to hold a public
meet next Monday night at 8 o’clock
in the court house at which members
would be enrolled. into the
club. Last night the roll
was started with the names of
all those present and a number of
others had sent word to enroll their
names.
C. G- Griffin Markets
Sumter’s Third Bale
Suipter county’s third bale of cot
ton of the 1920 season was brought to
the city shortly after noon today by-
Clyde C. Griffin, well known farm
er of the 28th district. It weighed
495 pounds, was ginned by Griffin
Brothers, and went to the Commer
cial City warehouse.
WecMer
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Forecast for, Georgia—Partly
cloudy tonight and Tuesday, with
probably docal thundershowers. No
change intemperature.