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Senator Payton Drafts Bill Cre
ating Department of Public
Highways.
Senator John T. Payton, of the
Thirty-first District, has prepared a
comprehensive bil! for the establish
ment of a Department of Public High
ways in Georgia, which he soon wili
present to the Senate for its consid:
eration.
The hill is wide in scope, and seeks
to bring under the supervision of one
competent head all the road work of
the State, whether such work be per
formed by convict labor or otherwise.
The bill provides for a Commis
sioner of Public Highways, to be paid
an annual salary of $4,000, with one
Assistant Cemmissioner, at a salary
of $2OO per month, and six assistants
at a salary of $l5O per month each.
The expenses and salaries of the de
partment all are to be paid from the
fund arising from the collections of
the automobile taxes., The Commis
sioner will be appointed by the Gov
ernor, but all assistants will be ap
pointed by the Commissioner.
Under the terms of the proposed
act, the convicts are to be reappor
tioned uunder the direction of the
Prison Commission, but all the de
tails of the work of road construc
tion wiil be looked after by th‘%De
partment of Highways. The State
road gangs thus would be brought di
rectly under the supervision of the
new department. It will be made
obligatory upon the various counties
to provide for the immediate main
tenance and support of the road
gangs working ‘therein. County au
thorities will injicate the work to be
done in the counties, but the State
Department will superintend it.
After the adoption of the act, ‘the
annual license tax on motor-driven
vehicles and motorcycles is proposed
as follows: On motorcycles, $2 each;
on automobiles, of less than 20 horse
power, American scale, $5 each; on
automobiles of more than 20 horse
power and less than 35 horsepower,
$lO each; on automobiles of more
than 35 horsepower and less than 45
horsepower, $l5 each; on automobiles
of more than 45 horsepower, $2O each.
There is a well-developed senti
ment in the Legislature favorable to
the creation of a Department of Pub
lic Highways, and Senator Payton
feels very optimistic with respect to
the passage of his bill.
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36 Seamen Stick
To Grounded Ship
PENZANCE, ENGLAND, .June 24.
With the captain and a volunteer
crew of 35 seamen on board, the Bel
gian liner Gothland, which went upon
the rocks near Scilly Island yester
day, lies in a perilous position to-day,
and is in danger of being battered to
pieces by the heavy seas unless she is
refloated soon.
The steamship Lyonesse, which touk
off the 86 passengers and 95 members
of the crew, landed them to-da¥.
Aged King Peterl, of
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Servia, 111, Abdicates
BELGRADE, June 24—Peter I,
who ascended the throne of Servia in
1903 after the assassination of King
Alexander, abdicated to-day in favor
of Crown Prince Alexander. A royal
proclamation will state’ that his re
tirement is due to continued ill health.
/" Prince Alexander is 26 years old
and the second son of the present
King. ‘Prince George, the elder son,
renounced his right of succession in
1909. King Peter is 70 years of age.
Urges Vivisection
rges V 0
0f the Condemned
BERLIN, June 24.—Professor Josef
Kohler, of the University of Berlin,
an eminent law authority, recom
mends a change in the penal code to
permit vivisection for scientific pur
poses of criminals condemned to
death.
He says: “The bodies of the con
demned should be used for science.”
Vi e
Soup Worth $1 Bowl
Sp rved in Hospita
erved in Hospital
PITTSBURG, June 25.—Soup worth
$1 a bowl was served to 140 hos
pital patients. The broth was made
from seven chickens valued at $2O
each seized in a raid on a cockfight.
Takes Pledge Not
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To Gamble Again
JERSEY CITY, June 24.—Fred
Eckel, arraigned for non-support,
took a pledge not to zambie for the
xest of his life.
THE GEORGIAN’S NEWS BRIEFS.
REPRESENTATIVE J. E. SHEPPARD, of Sumter County,
leader of the fight in the Legislature to enact a rigid
child labor law for Gleorgia. He has introduced a bill, but will
move that the measure backed _by The Georgian and The
American and drawn up by the htioml Child Labor Reform
League be substituted when his act ‘comes to a third reading.
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2 Slain, 1 Wounded
in Holdup of Pay Car
Three Negroes Escape With $2,300
After Shooting Mississippi Lum
ber Company Agents.
LAUREL, MISS., June 27.—Reese
Pitzpatrick and J. V. Simmons are
dezd and Wyatt Robinson is wounded
fatally as a result of the hold-up
this afternoon of a pay car of the
Gilchrist-Fordney Lumber Company.
The crime was perpetrated by three
negroes, who escaped with $2,300 in
currency. It took place at Stevens,
20 mile 3 from here.
Fitzpatrick and Robinson went to
Stevens on a passenger train, and
were met there by Simmons, book
keeper for the company. The three
white men then proceeded in a motor
car for several miles, when they were
stopped by a pile of crossties on the
track. When they alighted to remove
the obstruction they were fired upon
from ambush,
Preacher’s Son Said
To Be Bandits' Chief
LITTLE ROCK, June 25.—1 s J. J.
Starling, better known as “Jinks”
Starling, a bandit, or has he fallen
under suspicion by reason of associa
tion with evil characters?
That is the question which the
courts are endeavoring to answer.
Starling issthe son of a minister re
gsiding at'Cowsta, Okla. If all the
stories about “Jinks” are true, he is
a most daring leader of a band of
robbers,
IRA MORRIS FOR SWEDEN.
WASHINGTON, June 26.—Ira Mor.
ris, of Chicago, probably will be nom
inated Minister to Sweden by Presi
dent Wilson in the near future, ac
cording to a report -to-day at the
Capitol.
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Trans-Ocean Airboat
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Sets Record in Gale
“America,” Built to Cross Atlantic,
Carries Seven Men and Lifts
4,368 Pounds, in Test.
HAMMONDSPORT, N. Y., June 27.
Over the raging waters of Lake
Keuka, lashed to a fury by a 30-mile
gale, the flying boat America this
afternoon broke all flying boat rec
ords for paseenger carrying and
weight lifting.
In addition to Lieutenant Porte
and George Hallett, the men who will
pilot the America in her attempt to
cross the Atlantic next month, the
great whale-like flier carried five
other men.
In addition she carried 240 pounds
of hallast sand. The America weighs
2,850 pounds. Thus the combined
weight lifted by the broad wings of
the America was 4,368 pounds, twice
as much as any flying boat has ever
lifted before.
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Man of Sixty Killed
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Chasing a Baseball
AVON, MASS., june 25.—While chas
ing a baseball across the railroad
tracks Cornelius Lynch, 60 years old,
was struck by a Brockton bound ex
press train and killed.
Lynch was a shoe worker and was
playing baseball.
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King Peter to Return
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To Throne of Servia
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BELGIUM, June 25.--Official an
nouncement was made to-day that King
Peter’s abdication is only temporary and
that. he will return to the Bervian
;hr'c;{z; ag soon as he recovers hiy
ealth. :
FORGES UNITETD
FIGAT GHILD
— LABOR
Sheppard Substitute Bill Meets
Approval of Many Organiza
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tions in Georgia.
All over Georgia the foes of child
labor are uniting in the fight for the
Sheppard substitute bill, prepared by
the National Child Labor Committce
and supported by The Georgian and
The Sunday American, Women's
clubs, church societies, the State Fed
eration of Labor and other organiza
tions are already taking up the ques
tion in a way that indicates the)}' ure
going to be satisfied with nothing less
than the passage of this bill, which
will be a great step in advance for
Georgia.
The legislative committee of the
State Federation of Women's Clubs,
through its chairman, Mrs. D. C, Lyle,
of Atlanta, is preparing to send out
letters to all the clubs in the State
urging them to assist in the cam
paign.
Clubwomen in the Battle.
Mrs. Z. 1. Fitzpatrick, president of
the State Federation, who was in At
lanta several days last week, says:
“The clubwomen of this State have
for years been advocating better child
labor legislation, and now v-e feel that
the time has come for something to
be done. When I spoke before the
biennial convention of the General
Federation at Chicago this month, I
stated that the women of Georgia had
always been able_to get the legislation
they asked for from the Georgia Leg-.
islature without the ballot. If the
members of this Legislature refuse to
pass this reasonable bill that will
give Georgia children some chance for
an education and a normal childhood,
however, I will have to retract that
statement. I do not believe they will
fail to appreciate its importance. The
clubwomen of Georgia want child la
bor abolished, and we are going«to do
everything within our power to sup
port the Sheppard bill
©~ “We need compulsory education,
but the proposed child labor law,
with its educational qualifications for
employment certificates, will have a
tremendous effect upon illiteracy and
ignorance of chfldren in the factory
and mill ;communities.”
Mothers Give Hearty Aid.
Mrs. Howard Payne, of Elberton,
president of the Georgia Branch cf
the Mothers’ Congress, which met
here last week, expressed for lihe
executive committee of that organi
zation its hearty support of the Shep
pard bill, Letters are being sent by
Mrs. Payne to all of the twenty moth
ers’ clubs in the State urging them to
help. $
The executive committee of the
Christian Endeavor Societies of At
lanta indorsed the Sheppard substi
tute bill at a special meeting Wednes
day eyening, and is appealing to all
the young pcople’s church societies in
the State to take up the question.
The need for child labor legislation
in Georgia is to be discussed in two
evening services to-day, at the North
Avenue Presbyterian Church, Peach
tree street and North avenue, and at
the West lEnd Christian Church,
The Men and Religion Forward
Movement has joined in support of
the bill.
Dr. Wilmer Tells of Right.
One reason why Georgia has so
long allowed child labor to go on al
most unchecked is that the friends of
better legislation have been divided.
Dr. C. B. Wilmer, one of the charter
members of the Georgia Child Labor
Committee, orgamized in 1900, says:
“¥or fifteen years we have becn
fighting for better laws for children
in this State, and the only thing we
have secured is the law passed in
1906 and still in force. It was the
best we could get then. I sometimes
think it would have been better not (o
have had any, for then we might have
more easily gotten a law that really
meant protection.
“Now is the time for all the sincere
friends of child labor legislation to
join hands. There is no reason why
Georgia, the Empire State of :he
South, should not be ahead of other
Southern States in this matter. There
is certainly no reason why she should
remain with the lowest standards for
children of any State in the Union.”
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Villa Buys $l,OOO Tub
To Replace Huerta's
WASHINGTON, June 27.—General
Francisco Villa will soon have a $l,OOO
porcelain bathtub. A firm in Chi
cago, according to information re
ceived to-day, has filled the rebel
leader’s order and has shipped the tub
to Juarez.
It is believed that Villa plans to
carry his new tub to Mexico City to
yubstitue it for tha tnow used by
Huerta. There is sald to be no bath
tub like Villa’s $l,OOO purchase either
in the White House or in the homo
of any Cabinet officer here,
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