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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1923
Page
12
Letters praise a proposed statewide conference led by Georgia agricultural leaders to discuss diversified production, credit access, and cooperative marketing. Officials J J Brown and Andrew M Soule join calls for cost plus pricing, stabilizing farm income, and reversing rural exodus amid boll weevil damage.
Atlanta editor praises a Georgia business leaders gathering and a Thursday meeting to choose officers to continue George Betts work after his death. The monologue lauds the Constitution editorials and Hotloman article as forceful, noting Betts death as a loss and a strong Georgia association being formed to push progress.
A chorus of Georgia editors and leaders from Columbus, Savannah and Rome advocate a state wide conference to extend George Betts work on economic agriculture. They emphasize soil improvement, diversified farming and profitable markets for animal products, urging support from business and public alike.
Readers in Tifton LaGrange and beyond hail the Betts plan for systematic intensive coordination of Georgia agriculture. Editors J L Herring John H Jones and John Jones urge swift state wide action to extend Betts work, end cotton domination, and spur industrial growth and prosperity.
Ben R. Padgett writes in the Atlanta Constitution praising a Thursday meeting of Georgia businessmen to back the newly elected officers of the Georgian association after the death of George Betts. He pledges cooperative support from Rogers Realty & Trust and from the writer to continue Betts's work.
Columbus Ga June 25 The Constitution editor urges Georgians to back the Betts led movement for a more economical agricultural system. He calls the Georgia association a key to the state’s future and urges a large turnout for the proposed week meeting to place agricultural interests on a sounder basis.
Under present state leadership the Georgia system calls for every county to be aroused organized and a proper county plan adopted to save agriculture and farms. Bowdre Phinizy publisher Augusta Herald notes support and cooperation, with Athens endorsing more generous Georgia association funding and a state-wide meeting set for Thursday. Athens and Clarke county to send a delegation, E W Carroll secretary Athens Chamber of Commerce.
Elks leaders arriving from New York plan a morning conference to block the Harry Greb Jeff Smith boxing match during the grand lodge reunion in Atlanta July 9 to 14. Grand Exalted Ruler J Edgar Masters and trustees pledge to use all legal means, even seeking a Georgia law to forbid bouts, while promoter Dr P L Provano says plans proceed and investment stands at thirty to fifty thousand dollars. Local Elks insist the bout will be stopped and may pursue court action to the state assembly if needed. The dispute divides members as discussions continue.
A statement will be issued this morning after the Atlanta lodge officials meet at the convention board rooms. The gathering will discuss all angles of the affair and coordinate opposition to the proposed boxing bout with every available means.
New York June 26 Mrs Anna Baezi testifies in her defense denying any connection to the murder of Frederick Schneider a wealthy contractor she had lived with for years She says she never left her apartment on the day of the shooting Schneider was killed at the wheel of his car on a lonely highway in the Bronx a farmer saw a woman walk away from the car and up the highway
George Maxwell, president of the Authors Ushers and Composers Association of America, returned to New York from abroad to surrender to a charge of writing poison pen letters to Allan A. Ryan. Maxwell had denied the charge through counsel and was reported to have reached Halifax before arriving in the city this week. The surrender was expected this afternoon.
The Protestant Women's Political league will hold a meeting at 804 o'clock tonight at 5812 South Forsyth Street, announced Monday by Mrs. Martha Stallings, president.
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