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NOW SLOGAN Constitutions Part Everywhere Welcomed on Return Trip From Macon PARTY ENTERTAINED IN JACKSON AND OTHER TOWNS People of Butts and Monroe Counties Enthusiastic Over Movement to Cooperate in the Building of Better High. ways The Trip Back to Atlanta. Good roads" Is written on the mind and heart of middle Georgia Inr letters or gigantic slie and a spirit of rea slvenese and sincerity intensified. Coordination Between George. cour ties the coordination that Is destined to splderweb the state of Georgia with a matchless system of highwava.

lowering the cost of transportation to the farmer and narrowing the boundaries between the city and the country. Unstinted and unanimous praise anti gratitude to The Constitution for tak- ing the Initiative In the good roads movement from Atlanta to Macon and return and from county to south Georgia. Another Incalculable and stale tac- tor a ded to the set that are each year making sure wealth for Georgia. These are the futures that stand out In glaring significance as the re- sulr of the wonderful consummation or The Constitutions first pathflndln tour its Georgia good roads con- test for multiplying thousands of dol- tars. The nd Trip.

The lightning-fast White steamer pathfinder of The Constitution In the Macon contest drew up before The Constitution office at 7:50 o'clock last evening. The two hours and fifty minutes it lacked of chiming with schedule was due to marvelous zeal In the very mis- sion It set out to promote the sowing broadcast of the rood roads religion In Georgia. For It was concrete effort toward co operation In roadbulldlng between the Georgia counties and typically lavish Georgia hospitality and enthusiasm that threw The Constitutions nut psthfinding party two hours and fifty minutes off schedule. The rod commissioners sod the representative citizens of Butts county detained The Constitution party to be witness to a challenge in a good reads linking contest between that county and Monroe as told elsewhere. And the generous hospitality of middle Georgia as exemplified In many of Its foremost people.

literally held The Constitution party at bay an hour and a halt at Indian Springs. CUlee of Routes. Primarily The Constitutions path- finding party set out from Atl nt Monday morning at 10:30 to explore the roads between Macon and Atlanta. and to meet delegations from south Georgia at the Central City. The first path-finding expedition Is now history.

The choice of routes le till to be determined since against th mile stretch along th Central way. mile stMtch via. Jackson opposes Its most opposition. f3 TJhU unsettled Is is tSp to the fact that the counties SSiute have developed dramatic and Sifent rivalry In the good roads cause as related In another column. The wide success of the project-at-large Is assured In the formation a permanent good road- organization at Macon with provisions made for a.

committee of seven. with Clark Rowen chairman to administer thy numerous otters of prtie pouring Into The Constitution office since the announcement ten ago of this papers eight simultaneous contests from strategic points In la to Atlanta. If the experiences encountered by Tile ConstltuUon parties from Atlanta to Macon and. return and from Fitzgerald to Macon. are tall' Indications.

It may be assured that all Georgia Is In the throes of a Rood roads revolution that will inevitably place Georgia. In the lead of all American commonwealths In this- vital respect. Detail the Trip. The pathfinder left Macon. at 0:10 this morning on th return trip.

shd should have reached Atlanta at 6 o'clock this afternoon. A blow out" tire at Vinevllle caused a delay of about twenty. minutes. But that was not th reason toy the arrival of the delegation In Atlanta at 7W. Nearly jv hour and a half was spent Indian Springs at dinner.

a the- Vueiti rfiibe chamber of jmm rci PROMINENT CITIZENS WHO GREETED THE CONSTITUTION PARTY Photo by Abanansa Studio. On the left mayor of Fitzgerald and members of Ben Hill county board of commissioners. Reading front left to right. Mayor J. G.

Knapp of Fitzgerald Chairman W. R. Bowen of the county board Commissioners H. SI. Warren and Wesley R.

Walker. Photograph taken for The Constitution just before the start from Fitzgerald. On the right. members of the Waycross delegation. photographed for The Constitution just before leaving Fitzgerald.

Reading from left to right J. B. Whitman prominent automobile dealer of Waycross E. J. Berry.

clerk of the superior court of Ware county Alderman C. M. Sweat or Waycross J. F. Taylor.

member or the Ware county beard. General Manager Scott Has Consultation With Ooyi Smith in Afternoon. DIRECTORS OF GEORGIA URGE ENO TO STRIKE Generally Believed That Labor. Commissioner Neills Visit Will Result in Arbitration and That Trains Will be Running Within Few Days. Conferences were the order of the day in the Georgia.

railroad strike sit- uation yesterday. With the arrival from Augusta. of General Manager T. K. Scott accompanied by Major Joseph B.

Gumming general counsel for the railroad corn- party. the conference stage began. First some of the directors of the Georgia Railroad and Banking Com- pany met Mr. Scott and urged upon him the Importance of taking steps looking to some solution or the problem which now has the roads traffic effectually tied up. Coafrreaee at Capitol.

Following this there was a confer- ence In Governor Smiths office at the capitol between the governor and At- torney General John C. Hart. and General Manager' Scott. Major Gumming and Sanders McDanlel. one of the At- Continued on Page Two.

Photo by Abananza Studio. CASS ABOUT TO LEAVE FITZGERALD TOE MACON AS PATHTINJ EXPEDITION FOR THE CONSTITUTION'S GEORGIA GOOD ROADS CONTEST. Anniston Ala. May 25. Special.

Panic on a special LOullvl1le and Nashville passenger train tonight when Special Officer Strlcklanr1 of Ironton beat Private Crllighead. of this city with a Club and held nearly the entire company Alabama national guard at bay with a revolver. which discharged during the. excitement. The train was en route from the Georgia.

firemen's tournament al Talladeua- Several ladles were amoung the passengers. Allentown Pa. May 25. The Scranton flyer on the Central Railroad of New Jersey was wrecked tonight at Suite I am 15 miles west of here by the breaking of a brake. beam and six cars left the track.

None or the passengers were injured officials lIay. Cralibead accldentaly struck Strickland on th foot with his rifle. This was tile alleged cause. Officers say Strickland will be prosecuted for wearing In the prnee of females shooting on train and assault to murder. Berlin.

May 26. A special corres- pondent of the Tageblatt sends the following from Larnaca Cyprus The situation in Syria is most serious. The autonomy movement to gaining ground with horns rule' as the watchword. The troops stationed at Damascus re- fuse to recognize Mehmed V. as sultan.

The Vllayet' of Adios to Quiet. but a generfl uprising la feared. Strikebreaker on Engine in Augusta- the-Cause of Outburst of Violence DETECTIVE SNOT PISTOli SERVED WITH WARRANT Engineer Ran Engine Into a Freight Caboose and Had a Up Strike-Breakers Made Proposal Which Vice President Kelly Declined A Warning Against Impostor. Augusta Ge. May Special.

For the purpose of transferring six or eight freight cars to the Charleston and Western Carolina railroad yards. a switch engine left the Georgia railroad yards shortly after noon today with Engineer Thompson a strike-breaking fireman and Guard Hewett head of a Savannah detective agency. d. In the Harrlsonvllle yards of the Georgia railroad the train was Interrupted by a crowd or angry strike sympathizers who would probably have. wreaked vengeance upon the strikebreaking fireman had not Sheriff Clarke and a posse of deputies arrived Just" In time to prevent a disturbance.

Meanwhile Hewett had fired one shot In the direction the crowd and' Engineer Thompson. opening his throt- Continued on Page Two. Photo by Abanania Studla- iqn the-right side BenHilIJ8 flr rcpre ntoUva right Via. Marion Dlc kiwnvwho Vll 11 Ben Hill rau isggf- i. Southwest Georgia on ire diet the Constitutions Good NUT ONLY TALKING BUT BEADK10 111 Ben Hill Wilcox Puluki and Houston Counties Show a Marked' Interest and Are Determined to Get Good Results in the Very Near Future.

By Lauren Foremaa. One thin that the good roads a jhusiasts who went down from Atlanta and points along the Central to Macon. in the interest of The Constitution' I great Georgia good roads contest found was that the people of the wire- grass are on flr with good roads en- thuslum. and are determined to passable highways at once. a Ep ciaily doe this apply to th citizens of Ben Hill.

Wilcox Pulaski' and Houston a It was through th counties that the Fitzgerald to MCOU trip In the Interest of the good rod movement Inaugurated by The Consli. ration was and It was mainly the citizens of these CUntlH that rj enthusiastic delegation Which wpty Into Macon Monday afternoon wa made up. Be Hill lad Pulaski. To Ben Hill county must be 8l the palm for taking such quick hold' of The Constitutions movement. and pushing to such a signal success th remarkable auto pilgrimage to Macon but the other counties are not to forgotten.

for they all did their part. Good meetings were held in AbbeviUe. and Perry while the HawklnsvlUa citizens only showed their en thuslum. but gave the visitors enter- talnment that would have glen a city Or 60000 inhabitants cause to te When the good roads boosters. nWr berlng almost a hu dr d.

reached' lle. the Pulu1d citizens were reedy for them with an elegant din- ner at the Brown hot and later. when the good roads meeting held in the auditorium. was over the delega. tlon was piloted to Perry.

and on to Macon by the following commltteeOt representative Pulukt citizens whor are heart and soul In the good roads movement C. D. Bohannon and F. Flnleyson. county commissioners TV Holder.

R. O. Pate. D. R.

Pearce. M. Boyer Ed. Coleman Clayton Kenl y. ft N.

F. Buff Harry Ellis. W. Id. fluff Walter Means.

Deflolte rk Hoii to Houston showed an- earnest desire for definite and Immediate action. the rousing meeting held In the Weather Prophecy SHOWERS. light to mode vtly tk. Ix west temperature Highest temperature Mean temperature Normal tempera Rainfall In 24 ours IntfhW Deficiency since lit of mont Excess since January I. la Report.

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cloudy Boston clear Buffalo cloudy Baltimore cloudy Charleston cloudy Charlotte cloudy Chattanooga rain Chicago. rain Cincinnati cloudy Car Chrl l. cloudy Denver. rain Detroit cloudy lodge clear ston cloudy Huron. gain Jacksonville cloudy Jupiter.

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