The Leader Enterprise and Press, 1921-03-11

'THERE'S NOTHING TO MEDIATE"--BUGG. Judge Chambers: Severely CntL cizes for Refusal - . « "IT MEANS "No Longer Controversy But a ~ Fight to Finish" Say E en en(By - (By en(By International Neéws Sérvice) ATLANTA - March 11. - Vir 11. - Virtual - tual 11. - Virtual refusal to accept mediation as a means of bringing about a settlement of the walk out of employees on the A. B, & A. this' aiternoon by Receiver Bugg,.re Bugg,.replying - plying Bugg,.replying to a pointed letter from. Judge Chambers and C:- sioner Klutz of the Federal F of Mediation, THER T The official statement given: out by the mediators on the ac action - tion action of Bugg taking the stand. that there is really nothing toar toarbitrate, - bitrate, toarbitrate, contending that the n:% question involved was the inabil inability - ity inability of the railroad to pay the former scale of wages was that his attitude is regretted by med mediators. - iators. mediators. ; St Judge Chambers in his state statement - ment statement said that mediation must be practically abandoned and se severely, - verely, severely, criticized the attitude of the receiver in refusing to accept government mediation. = = Refusal Means Fight ; "B. L. Bugg's refusal to accept mediation in this case," said \/% M. Martin, chairman of the joint. federation committee of the At Atlanta - lanta Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic. employes this afterrioon, "means. that we are no-longer in a contro-. versy but in a fight, and a fight to the bitter end." S Union men here declare thaks Bugg's action is final - evidence" that the railroad operators of the . A. B. & A. and of Ameriea have decided to stand not on law or justice but on brute strength and the power of money. i "We did not invite so cruel a war"_said 'Mr, Magtin, "but it has been forced on us and for our, sakes and our wiles' sakés and thé sakes of our children and. our children's children we will not, can not, submit to being pushed down into another century of wage slavery and poverty and misery. g "Bugg's decision to stand on force of arms makes 'ous case ne longer our case alone, and our 'cause no longer our cause alone," concluded Mr. Martin with feel feeling. - ing. feeling. "It throws down the gaunt gauntlet - let gauntlet to all union labor afd to all labor. 'We have no'cheice in this 'matter; we must fight, fight 1o the bitter end, and may God hegp the side of right." it The statement was' approved by C. L. Fox and P, C. Collins of the press committee. by ATLANTA, March 11 - The first train out of Atlanta#since the strike on the Atlanta Birmingham and At At}lantic - }lantic At}lantic left the Haynes Street Station at 7:15 this morning for Manchester carrying passengers, mail and express. It is expected to return leaving Man Manchester - chester Manchester at 10:30 o'clock tonight, _ Receiver B. L. Bugg said he ex expected - pected expected to extend the serviee Saturday. Col. Bugg will this afternoon give an answer as to whether he 'will accept the mediation of the Federal Board of Mediation created by the New Newlands - lands Newlands Act of 1913. Two members of the board are now here and have been conferring with union chiefs, :

Fitzgerald Exposition Will Be Week Before Southeastern Fair in Atlanta - - - - - - : Following the meeting in Macon yesterday of the association of South Georgia Fair Executives, executive committee of Fitzgerald Fair Associa Association - tion Association decided upon week from October Ist to Bth as best dates for the third annual Fitzgerald Live' Stock and Agricultural Exposition. The recom recommendation - mendation recommendation of the executive commit committee - tee committee will be submitted to. the board of directors for approval. 3 The executive committee, composed of G. S. Willcox, president, Isidor Gelders, vice president,, and R. L. Jones, secretary and treasurer, de declared - clared declared confidence that Autumn time and Fair time would see conditions as prosperoys as in any. normal year. That impression prevailed among all the fair association men at the meet meeting - ing meeting in Macon, according to Mr. Jones who represented the Yocal association at a meeting. - Contracts will be closed this sum sum'mer - 'mer sum'mer for the same carnival company 'that will play at the Georgia-Florida Fair at Valdosta, according to plans tentatively made by the' executive committee. Every effort will be made to make the amusement features ex exceptionally - ceptionally exceptionally good. : The Ben Hill Farm Bureau has a committee appointed to encourage and assist preparing of agricultural and: live stock exhibits for the fair. The corn, pig and calf club boys will fur furnish - nish furnish a strohg department for the fair. The poultry show, as in previous years, will be equal to that at the state fair, £ | Precedes Southeastern Fair | The Southeastern Fair Association" have selected for their 1921 dates Oct. 13th to 22nd, inclusive, instead of Oct.} 15th to 25th as was previously announ-. ced. o | Through co-operation with the pure bred livestack organizations of the South, the National Hog and Cattle Show will again be an exclusive fea feature - ture feature at the fair, and the International Club Stock Judging Contest, which last year was such a wonderful success and created interest from all over the country, will again have its place among the leading features. The best race horses in America will be entered in the Grand Circuit Races, the merit of whch all fair visitors are acquainted, and in addition to the horse races a number of big auto events have been arranged. This year the Worthams Exposition Shows will make their first trip South to furnish the Midway attractions, and will with their own excellent shows and amusements devices combined with those of Lakewood Park, make the greatest collection of shows and rides ever seen at Lakewood Park before. g > A hearty attempt will be made by the mandgement of the Fair Associ Association - ation Association this year to make every depart department - ment department bigger and better, and the won wonderful - derful wonderful entertainment program will be such that will continue to make the Southeastern Fair "The Fair Pre-emi Pre-eminent - nent Pre-eminent in Exclusive Features."

PACKERS' EMPLOYES (By International News Service) CHICAGO, March 11. - Unless President Harding intervenes in the wage cuts and working hours between the big packers and their employees, balloting on a strike will begin Sat Saturday. - urday. Saturday. There are four hundred local unions in the United States and Can Canada. - ada. Canada. i R "Buy Now" uy Now" Campaign' < ° Going Over Natmn' Observers in All Sections Say Prices A\te at Bottom Now Leader News Bureau 4th National Bank Bldg. - ATLANTA, March 11. (Special) - "Buy now and save n}oney'f is the bus business - iness business slogan in Atlanta, and from re reports - ports reports received here by business men, the same slogan is taking throughout the State and the South. . Atlanta business men say that those who fol follow - low follow the advice will be gainers thereby, those who reject it not only will be standing in their own light, but they also will be . obstructing business without a good and sufficient reason. All over the United States, accord according - ing according to reports received here, a cam cam[paign - [paign cam[paign for buying is under way. Tt is a campaign in the interest of the buy buying - ing buying and the selling public and that means the whole public, for practical practically - ly practically everyone either buys or sells. Bus Business, - iness, Business, as pointed out here, has been halted because buyers went on a strike for lower prices. The great troeuble,} says Atlanta business men, is that the strike did not end when the lower i were .obtained. = Prices, it is shown, are down today on practically 'everything. They are lower by far than a year ago, or two years ago, and in many instances they are as low as before the United States' entered the great war. _ Business experts say prices cannot be expected to go any fower than they are now. Instead, they say, there isassurance that prices for most com commodities - modities commodities this spring will be higher than at present. This ,it is stated, is one of the results of the "buyers' strike," That "Strike". causéd mills and . factories to close down, because merchants did not buy, the goods fac factories - tories factories made, and that was because the public did not buy what the mer merchants - chants merchants already had on hand. Qf course, it is declared, there has been some buying all the while else the whole fabric of the nation would have. been destroyed, but it has been lim limited - ited limited buying and not what the public needs demanded. | Resumption of buying, therefore, to which southern business men call at attention, - tention, attention, creates an immediate demand and that demand must be met by re resumption - sumption resumption of activity in industrial plants. Those who buy now help to restore industry to a normal basis, re relieve - lieve relieve unemployment and thus restore prosperity. Frank C. Gilreath, Advertised goods are good goods: Advertisers can't afford to misrepre misrepresent. - sent. misrepresent. s '

County Agent Owens Tells of Big Time in Store for Young Youngsters - sters Youngsters This Year | The following 'notice to club mem members - bers members was handed to the Leader by Mr. Owens before his departure for Atlanta today: - "It might be interesting to the club members in this county to know that we have sixty Corn and Pig Club members already enrolled and we fully expect to ,increase this number to at least one hungdred.. We hope to make this year's work with the club boys through the Farm Bureau morg interesting and helpful than it has ever been. "Sometime about August Ist, we expect to have a camp for the Club boys in this county in connection with the Club boys of Irwin county, either at Bone Lake or Bowen's Mill. During the three days spent in camp we will have some of the Club Di Directors - rectors Directors from the State College of Ag Agriculture - riculture Agriculture with us to give some real illustrative lectures from moving pic pictures, - tures, pictures, teaching all kinds of improved methods of farming and growing live stock, alsp with this moving picture outfit we will have some real inter interesting - esting interesting and funny picture shows to entertain the boys. "We hope also to have a number of boy scouts with us and will divide the boys into military companies and do some' real military drilling,. We expect to make this one of the best Club boy camps held in Georgia. "Different 'prizes will be awarded at this time on the best record books and other contests which will be held. There will be at least two hundred boys available to attend this camp camping - ing camping providing they carry out the work undertaken in the growing of their acre of corn and pigs. Through these. contests the boys will have an oppor opportunity - tunity opportunity of preparing themselves for some of the state contests to be held in Atlanta, Macon, and other points in Georgia. "I trust that every boy in the coun county - ty county will enter into this work with the idea of making good and winning some of the State prizes. I earnestly request the parents of the Club boys to assist us in making this a success successful - ful successful year for Club boys in this county. Please don't hesitate to call upon me for any information' desiced n re regard - gard regard to this work, : "Yours very truly, 5 "C. T. Owens, County Agent."

e ° "Assisted By Sadie" - Draws Large Crowd Youthful Thespians Draw Generous Applause With Snappy Farce. | "Assisted by Sadie," presented last night at the Grand Opera House by the Seniore Class of the Fitzgerald High School, drew a record crowd for ameteur . performances in Fitzgerald. To say that the play and players madei a hit would be putting it mildly. Thei performance was a delightful success and the clever acting of some of the players drew frequent applause. ' Pauline Dunn, in title roll as Sadle Brady, a private detective, won her way quickly into popularity with the audience with a clever and unaffected portrayal of her part but the other outstanding stars of the evening were a juvenile comedy roll, accomplished the thing most difficult to amateur actors, submerging themselves com completely - pletely completely in characters they represen represented - ted represented and actually "playing" rather than reciting their parts. Eldrige Powell and Effie Cleo Brewer were the only ones who seem seemed - ed seemed to be entirely free from self-con self-conscious - scious self-conscious unease. Ruth Martin in an Irish character part was also unus unus'ually - 'ually unus'ually good. : _ Ronald Burke, as Dr. Beedle, a col college - lege college professor, Norma- Shannonhouse, as Vicky Vaughn, a society girl, Ear Earnest - nest Earnest Justice, as an English gentleman of leisure, Mildred Haile, 'as a sweet young girl with more heart than brains, Audre Wilcox, as an adventur adventuress, - ess, adventuress, all evidenced varying 'degrees of histrionic talent and handled their parts very well. Edwin Stovall, as a crooked detective, and Floyd Wilcox played quite up to the average for high school performers. $115,000 Bond Jumper ® ~ Captured In Florida { (By International News Service) CHICAGO, March 11. - Detectives today are enroute from Chicago to Jacksonville to bring back Frederick Buckminster, alleged to be a member of the two million dollar band of con confidence - fidence confidence men who have been sought two years. He is under a sentence of three years imprisonment for swind swindling - ling swindling a farmer of-$3,500 in a fake horse race. Other indictments are pending. fHe jumped a bond of $115,000. :

(79 198 &) 'Rick" Woodward Is No Self-Made Man Baseball Promoter Who Is Strike- Breaker Inherited Wealth. Since the spot light was turned on "Rick" Woodward, millionare coal mine operator and baseball promoter through his activity in taking the throttle of the first locomotive to draw 'a train over the Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad tracks, local union men have looked up his history and find that he is not at all the self made millionare he was at first said to 'be by the daily press, "Rick" Woodward's father was a millionaire coal operator and owged a stretch of mine railroad which his son inherited with other property. "Rick" 'Woodward was taught to handle the 'throttle of a locomotive on his fath fath'ers - 'ers fath'ers locomotives by employes of his father. Since hé came in posession of 'the large properties he has kept in practice by "testing out" his new en engines. - gines. engines. ; g Some difference of opinion exists locally about the reason why Wood Woodward - ward Woodward has not attempted to take a train past Lineville, Ala. Some hold that he 'realizes that he is not capable of handling a locomotive on a longer trip. Others believe that he is afraid to cross the Alabama line into Georgia." Woodward is said to be in the forties_.' His hobby is baseball and he owns several baseball parks and clubs. The desire for personal publicity which led him to take active interest in baseball, which is given more free advertising by the daily press than any other bus businsse - insse businsse in the world, is said by local un union - ion union men to have actuated his "stunt" in operating the train, He is also an honor director of the Atlanta Birming Birming'ham - 'ham Birming'ham and Atlantic. : : ! s il i AL JEWELER KILLED AND ROBBED IN NEW YORK (By International News Service) NEW YORK, March 11. - Abraham Harris, Jeweler 'was found shot to death in_a jewelry store on Eighth Avenue today with his hands tied. A %:M. SO L '3 'n

| of e 0 50t Prohibition Law Blow Confirmed By G.O.P (By International News Service) WASHINGTON, March 11 - The ruling -drafted by A. Mitchell Palmer, retired attorney general, giving a li liberal - beral liberal interpretation to the Volstead law and upsetting many existing en enforcement - forcement enforcement regulations governing man manufacture - ufacture manufacture and sale of non-beverage li liquors - quors liquors will be anitted to stay in force it was annotinced at the depart department - ment department of Justice today. s- - - / P ; NO CHANCE FOR TAXES TO BE REDUCED | WASHINGTON, March 11, Congress has failed to decrease ap appropriations - propriations appropriations to a point where they, will permit lower taxes, according to members of the Senate finance com-} mittee and House ways and Means. committee. ; The appropriation bills passed dur during - ing during session just closed, together with army -anid naval appropriation bills to be passed during a special session, total around one billion, three hundred fifty million doflars. Practically the same as provided for the present fis fiscal - cal fiscal year. CRISSINGER NOMINATION CONFIRMED BY SENATE (By International News Service) WASHINGTON, March 11. - The United States Senate this afternoon" confirmed the nomination of D, H. Crissinger, of Marion Ohio, to. be Comptroller Currency. %+ SRR ey & ESCH FOR ICC | SAYS HARDING | WASHINGTON, March 11. - Pres 11. - President - ident 11. - President Harding today sent to the Sen Senate - ate Senate the nominations of John Esch of Wisconsin and Mark Potter, of New York, to be members of the llnter llnterstate - state llnterstate Commerce Commission. Esch was defeated for re-election to Con Congress - gress Congress in November. 'He is one of the authors of the Esch-Cummings Rail Railroad - road Railroad bill, |

BAKER IS GIVEN HIS COMMISSION AS ARMY COLONEL . . (By International News Service) .~ WASHINGTON, March 11. - New 11. - Newton - ton 11. - Newton D. Baker, former secretary of war, has been commissioned as colonel in the officer's reserve corps, judge advocates general's department. Sec Secretary - retary Secretary Weeks announced today. Col. Baker returned last Saturday to his home in Cleveland, wrere he has re resumd - sumd resumd practice of law. e e e e e *° . Resolutions Against - . - Strikers Solicited Grand Lodge Learns that Alma Resolutions Were "Fixed." Information received by local union officials from grand lodge officers in Atlanta is that the resolutions said to have been passed at Alma, Georgia, by the board of trade there was writ written - ten written and was delivered to an Atlanta 'newspaper reporter for pubjication be before - fore before the meeting of the board had ever been convened. "This indicates to us," says Val Fitzpatrick, chairman of theofficer's committee, "that resolutions con condeming - deming condeming us are inspired by certain people interested in defeating the strike." i Atlanta headquarters also reported yesterday that religious services were being held ih Manchester at the union meetings similar to those in Fitzger Fitzgerald. - ald. Fitzgerald. The Tifton meeting at which Bugg was endorsed was attended by only nine men, according to reliable infor information - mation information reaching here today. Five of these nine went to Tifton in automo automobiles, - biles, automobiles, representing the A. B. & A. rail railroad. - road. railroad. These men left immediately after the meeting to attend one at Omega. - Mrs, Charles I. Isler will entertain a number of friends Friday aftérnoon at her attractive home on South Maine Street complimentary to her charming RO e e R