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Friday, July 16, 1909.
There Is one honest taxpayer—
he who pays only tbe poll tax.
Every dog has his day. and soon
he will have forty—all his own.
President Taft will show up for
what be really is during the time
hie wife is out of town.
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Free cotton bagging was too mucn
to expect of the G. O. P. Still, let
us pin our hope on fifteen cents next
tall.
Standard Oil prepares a butter
which it warrants will not be rancid.
Is this a fact, or a bid for public
esteem?
The Roosevelt party expects to
capture a digdig antelope. This
sounds like a fit subject for tbe
big stick.
Cotton is continuing to rise, and it
if it will continue on until the new
crop comes in, the result will be
I a happy one.
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The reduction of the corporation
tax from two to one per cent will
hardly make it just, even if it
lightens the burden.
.
One thousand saloons have ceased
operation In Texas. Still, they leave
several others, and think of the ter
ritory the remaining onea have to
work in. .
The man who deferred suicide
until nfter he had eaten his fried
Chicken. was a southerner of the old
school, now fast passing away.
It does begin to look like cotton
would go to fifteen cents, consider
ing weather conditions and the fact
that we southerners need the money.
An old woman, 109 years old. died
In Columbus the other day. She had
never seen George Washington, and,
Stranger yet, left no recipe for
longevity.
I A minister says that money is the
bane of the Methodist church. It Is
the bane of everything else in theory,
but the demand for ft continue*
lively, even in hard times.
E. . That ovation former Governor
bmith got the other day down In
Barnesville is another of those little
Indications that he has not yet ceased
to be a factor in Georgia's public
life. •
Because France and Germany,
through jealousy of our manufac
tures. have discriminated against
j- the United States In their tariff
rates, the United States will retali
ate by allowing the president to in
crease our rate on goods imported
from those countries. And could it
ever be that the word •’imported,”
as applied to dry goods, could come
I to be a term of reproach?
A BLACKMAIL SCHEME.
The Ingenuity of the blackmailer
has discovered a new and remark
able device which has set all Paris
to talking.
A few days ago one of the wealth
iest tradesmen of that city received
the following startling communtca-
I tion:
On Tueeday morning four carrier
pigeons will be sent to you by ex
press Each bird carries under its
wing a small ease Tou will place
money* tn these carriers to the total
ot eight hundred dollars. Tou will
then set ths pigeons free, and if they
do not return by midday I shall ex
pose what I know about you.
Thera Innocent instruments of a
wicked game came from four dif
ferent cities, and by that time the
tradesman called in the police. It
Was thought that the birds were so
weighted down, when ths hush
money was placed under their wings
that the police would have no diffi
culty in following them on bicycles,
but the airy messengers soared away
with their burdens and were soon
•ut of sight.
There have been many novel
blackmailing schemes In the past few
years, in which the ingenuity of the
mind has taken the place of the
activity of honest work, but this
thing of making the innocent dove
a party to the crime is carrying im
pudence to an extreme degree.
The police have no recourse but
to get a handful of salt and follow
the next bunch of birds which are
made parties to such a crime.
COTTON PRICES ADVANCING.
The recent advance in the price of cotton has sent a thrill of
hopefulness and enthusiasm among the farmers of the south, and the
indications now are that the present crop will bring a handsome return.
No one who is familiar with the law of supply and demand can
doubt for a moment that cotton is intrinsically worth more than thirteen
cents, but for a long time it has been bringing much less than it is
worth.
The unfavorable conditions of the growing crop in Texas and in
other states has sent the price soaring within the past few days, and the
ataple is now worth twelve and a half cents in Atlanta, which is a great
improvement on the prices which have prevailed for a long time. The
efforts of the farmers in organising and holding their cotton have no
doubt contributed to tbe present improved condition, and it is hoped that
the better prices which cotton is now bringing will continue until it is
selling in tbe open market at something like its true value.
This increase in the price of cotton cannot fail to result in a better
feeling and in an improvement in business all along the line. Much
cotton which has been held for some time will be sold within the next
few weeks, if good prices continue, and the money thus turned loose
will find its way through all the channels of trade.
We have been waiting long for these conditions, and it is hoped
that they will be lasting.
THE HAY AND GRAIN DECISION.
We have received tbe full text of the epoch-making decision of the
interstate commerce commission in the case of W. 8. Duncan & Co.
st al. against the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louie Railway company
et al., in the matter of the gross discriminations which have ao long
prevailed in favor of Nashville, and against the Interior cities of Georgia
in shipments of grain, grain products and hay.
We shall take occasion to comment more' in detail upon the text
of the decision at another time, but at present we wish to congratulate
the Association of Grain Dealers, with W. 8. Duncan A Co. at the head,
backed by the Atlanta freight bureau, on the excellent service they have
rendered the state. Merchants of Rome, Macon and other Georgia
cities joined in this petition, and they, as well as the Atlanta merchants,
are entitled to their full share of the credit for the good work which
results in lifting the burdens which have weighed upon merchant and
consumer for so many years.
The decision Is tn line with the contention which The Journal has
been making so long, with all the energy at its command. So far as it
goes it affords relief, but there is scarcely a commodity in general use
which is not the subject of an unjust discrimination as against the
interior cities of Georgia. These discriminations cannot be remedied
entirely until there has been an adjustment of port rates In accordance
With the demands of the people as expressed in the Macon platform, but
we are duly thankful for the relief which has come to us through the
Interstate commerce commission in the matter of those rates which
come under their jurisdiction.
The fact that Nashville merchants, by reason of the rebilling
privileges and the elevator allowance for sacking, have been able to
undersell us in our own territory has operated very disastrously against
the merchants of the interior cities of Georgia. By the perseverance
of the parties mentioned the matter has been presented to the interstate
commerce commission in a clearer light than ever before. We are
relieved from the oppressive burden of one great discrimination. But
there are many others which operate against the Interior cities of
Georgia quite as onerously and the fight will be kept up until the people
are given the justice that is their due.
THE TSETSE FLY ACQUITTED.
It has seemed distinctly unfslr that the wide world should have
banded itself against so small an enemy as the tsetse fly, which has
been accused of one of the most appalling series of homicides ever
recorded in history.
The sleeping sickness has been devastating Africa, and has carried
off two hundred thousand people in one province. There was no one
else about who could be neld responsible, ao the scientific world jumped
• to the conclusion that the tseue was gvtlty. An armed force waa
instantly raised against him, and the campaign has now been going on
for many years.
When President Roosevelt started for his trip to Africa attention,
was called to the tsetse fly. He was already not only famous but
notorious on the other side of the water, and when his depredations
were brought home to us by Mr. Roosevelt’s departure, he became
’known in this country.
The Rockefeller institute for scientific research took up his case,
and the result is that he has been acquitted. While it is true that he
conveys the germs of the sleeping sickness, in the same way that the
common house fly conveys the germs of typhoid fever, he is nothing but
the distributing agent, after all. It Is found that the real germ stands
unique in having the power of locomotion. It does not need to be
carried to the prospective patient, who only has to sit still and watt,
and the germ will come to him, even though all the tsetse flies in Africa
should be imprisoned or exterminated.
This is not so much ot a joke as may appear. The sleeping sickness
is one of the greatest scourges of the world. Its very name provokes a
smile, but its result is serious enough.
If the Rockefeller institute has discovered the real nature of the
germ and can find a means of eradicating it, it will have done mtich
towards making the Africa of the future duly habitable.
"MORE MEAN POLITICS."
We reproduce elsewhere today a sound and impressive editorial
from the Albany Herald entitled ‘‘More Mean Politics, which admin to
ters a just rebuke to those petty partisans who have been seeking to
create the impression that Governor Smith, on his retirement from
office, left the state treasury in bad condition.
The Herald points out that the only ’’deficiency” in the treasury, of
which there has been so much ado in certain quartera, la in point of
fact nothing more than "the difference between money now in the treas
ury immediately available for general purposes, and the estimated ex
penses of the state government, including the cost of the present session
of the legislature for the current quarter;" that there was just such a
deficiency when Governor Smith went into office, "but he met it without
making any fuas by exercising his constitutional right to borrow a lim
ited amount of money;" moreover, that it is a condition which has pre
vailed every year, at this season, certainly since the legislature has been
meeting In June instead of in the fall of the year.
The Herald does not lose sight of the fact that when Governor
Smith came into office he found that over forty thousand dollars was
still due the Confederate veterans on their pensions, whereas he had
paid them every cent due them when he went out of office.
The simple truth of the matter is, as former Governor Smith pointed
out on yesterday, that by exercising the constitutional power to borrow,
the treasury will have over four hundred thousand dollars for gen
eral purposes and the school teachers should be paid the money that Is
due them.
The entire effort to discredit the recent administration by pretend
ing that an unusual condition prevailed in the treasury has only recoiled
upon its would-be perpetrators, as the Herald points out, and places the
discredit upon them.
♦ Taxes on Wealth *
London Chronicle.
An Interesting statement furnished by
the chancellor of the exchequer appeared
in yesterday's parliamentary papers. Mr.
Lloyd George, replying to a question by
Mr. Barhard, said:
"An estate of 5.000,000 pounds, If passing
to strangers in blood, would be liable, on
a rough estimate, to death duties amount
ing to 1,120,000 pounds under the existing
English law, 1.165,000 pounds under the
budget proposals and 1,000,000 pounds un
der the French law.
"If such an estate passed in the direct
line the death duties might be roughly
estimated at 700,000 pounds under the ex
isting English law and 791.600 pounds un- |
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA,. FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1909.
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der the budget proposals and 246,000
pounds under the French law.
’’Supposing a person possessed of 5,000,-
000 pounds to be In receipt of an Income
therefrom at a rate of 4 per cent, or 300,000
pounds per annum, he would pay in in
cotqe tax (at the present rate of 1 Shilling
in the pound). 10,000 pounds. Under the
budget proposals he would pay 11,600
pounds income tax and about 4,000 pounds
supertax—in all 16,500 pounds.
“Under the French income tax propo
sals, as I am informed, an income of
300,000 pounds would pay 4 per cent to be
gin with—i. e., 8.000 pounds, together
with a 6 per cent supertax, which would
involve a further charge of 10,000 pounds
or 18,000 pounds in all.’’
“Dad, what sort of a bureau is a mat
trimonlal bureau?”
“Oh, any bureau that has five drawers'
full of women's fixings and one man's tie
| in it.”—Houston Post.
New Faces in
State Legislature
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Hon. J. Frank Fender
J. Frank Fender, the lumber and tur
pentine man of Valdosta, is one of
Lowndes county’s two representatives in
the lower house of the general assembly.
Representative Fender has never held
a political office before. He has never
held even a town or county office. This
is his first appearance In politics. He
made the appearance after a hot contest,
winning out by a good majority.
Mr. Fender was born and reared on a
farm in Lowndes county. After attain
ing his majority, he entered the turpen
tine and lumber business, and has ever
since continued in that business. He
now owns four prospering plants, one
in Lowndes county, a second in Turner
county, and two over the line in Florida.
In 1894 Mr. Fender married Miss Mittle
Renfroes, »
Representative Fender believes in com
pulsory education to a certain extent.
He believes also in good roads, and
stands for a measure that will effect a
state-wide and uniform improvement of
the highways. He believes that the rail
road commission should be reduced, and
that county commissions should be re
duced to as small number as are con
sistent with effective work, for he does
not believe in unwieldy commission
bodies.
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Hon. Thomas Parker
/ Thomas Parker, of Climax, Ga., is one
of Decatur county’s two representatives
in the 1909 legislature.
In 1867 Mr. Parker was born in the
county which he is now representing, and
today he lives within half a mile of the
spot where he made his first bow to the
world. This in his first time in the leg
islature of the state.
Mr. Parker Is a farmer who believes in
intensive farming—in raising his own
supplies at home. He believes that the
south Georgia lands are adapted to home
farming. He believes also in education,
and stands for improvements in the com
mon school system of the state.
Mr. Parker avers that he did not seek
his present office, and that political as
pirations have never stirred him. His
friends wanted him to run, and he ac
commodated them, and they reciprocated
with a compliment of the highest vote
cast in the county.
S. Brinson, one of Dougherty county’s
two representatives in the general as
sembly, is either named after the town
he lives in or the town Is named after
him, for they are both railed Brinson.
They fllfferentlate between the two, how-
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island, what are you hying a distress signal for?
Castaway: Oh, I just wanted to ask who is leading in the Southern
league.
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This remarkable photograph has just been received from Correspondent Warrington Dawson, who is with Colonel
Roosevelt’s hunting party in Africa. It shows how the former president viewed the country traveling by train
to the hunting grounds at Kijabe. Colonel Roosevelt is on the left, the English hunter Cunningham sits next to him,
Ind on the is Dr Means, the United States army surgeon who was retired last winter so that he could accom
pany the hunting expedition. . .
Hon. S. Brinson
ever, by calling the legislator Colonel.
So it’s Colonel Brinson of Brinson, rep
resentative from Decatur.
Colonel Brinson was born in Dougherty
county In 1847. He moved from there to
Bulloch county, and thence to Decatur
county after the war. He is the father
of Russell Brinson, who has represented
Decatur county in the legislature .several
times and who is editor of the Bainbridge
Searchlight.
Representative Brinson is a Confeder
ate veteran and has always been a Demo
crat. He has held several county offices.
The Belled Buzzard
I see that Mr. W. B. Jonea. of Ochlocknee.
Oa., »ay» It’s In Thomna county. It was killed
by Mr. H. C. Freeman, two mllea north of i»al
laa. Oa.. in Paulding county in the year 1885 or
#. Mr. Freeman now Urea near Rockmart, Ga.,
K. F. D. No. 1. As well as I can remember
about it ther said it waa a small brass bell.
If Mr. Jones will write to Mr. Freeman he wifi
hear from him and learn all about it.
R. H. O’NEAL.
Braswell. Ga.
His Opportunity
Catholic Standard and Times.
“I tell you what,” said the sad-looklng
man, “it’s pretty hard for a man with a
large family to live on a small income.”
“Tee,” eagerly agreed the stranger,
“but It's a great deal harder for his fam
ily if he dies on one. Now, my line Is
insurance. Let me interest you—Eh?
What’s your hurry?”
The World’s Flat, Sure It Is—l Can Prove It
From the Bible, Though I Dont Believe It
♦ Rev. J. L. Crook
Is the earth flat?
Oh, no, the question isn’t settled.
Two men down in West Asheville,
N. C., held a public debate on the
subject, and the man who said it
was flat won,—won by vote of the
audience.
Os course the news reached the
newspapers, and caused talk and
discussion. Dr. Charles F. Aked,
Rockefeller’s New York pastor,
wrote a long article for a New
York paper, consigning all "Flat
Earthers,” as he called them, to
new limbos of ignorance.
Now comes Rev. J. L. Crook, the
"West Asheville man who said the
earth was flat, to write a special
article for The Journal to expound
his theory.
In his last paragraph Rev. Mr.
Crook admits that the world isn’t
flat. He only wants to prove that
he can prove it is.—Editor.
BY REV. J. L. CROOK.
I argued in my debate that the rota
tion theory of the earth was incorrect,
because it Is a contradiction to Reve
lations. I asked my opponent to con
sider the Bible infallible evidence. The
Bible is not the opinion of men.
The holy scriptures is the mind of
God revealed unto men.—ll Timothy,
ill, 16.
Now theßible was meant for man's
instruction. You can’t take part of the
Bible and throw away the rest of it.
Here’s what the Bible says about the
sun:
The sun also ariseth and goeth down
and hasteth to his place from which he
ariseth again.—Eccls., i, 5.
The Bible also says in Psalms xix,
4-6:
His (the sun's) going is from the end
of the heaven, and his circuit unto the
ends of it.
Webster says that a circuit means to
move around. Then if the sun moves
around, the rotation theory of the earth
is not correct. If that theory is right,
God’s word is yvrong, I argued.
The Bible says, too, that the earth
is established on a rock (Luke vi, 48),
that it abideth forever (Eccls., 1,4).
This means staying in one place, not
jumping around.
Look at the laws of nature, too,
which God made. Why does water fly
oft a fast-revolving grindstone, or the
wheels of a buggy driven fast through
MORE MEAN POLITICS
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Albany Herald.
What’s the use trying to make it ap
pear that Governor Hoke Smith left
the state treasury practically bankrupt
when the truth is he left it in better
condition than he found it?
Some of the partisan newspapers of
the state have been busying them
selves for a week or more past with
an alleged “deficit” in the treasury and
a great “financial problem" with which
the new administration is confronted,
when the truth is there is more money
in the treasury now subject to legisla
tive direction than there was when
Governor Smith was inaugurated.
Treasurer Brown’s report to Gover
nor Brown a few days ago shows
>534,698.99 in the treasury. Os this
amount it appears that only 141,726.35
is immediately available for “general
purposes.” the balance representing
special purposes for which it has been
specifically set apart. but there is
1227.395.24. arising from the “near
beer” tax, lying idle in the treasury
which can be made available for gen
eral purposes at once by direction of
the legislature.
The "deficiency” in the treasury of
which there has been so much ado in
certain quarters is nothing more than
the difference between money now in
the treasury immdiately available for
general purposes and the estimated ex-
Pointed Paragraphs,
Chicago Dally News.
A man will never acquire a fortune un
less he is proof against the habit of buy
ing useless things because they are cheap.
After putting your best foot forward
get there with both feet.
In the bright lexicon of the hustler
there is no such word as “enough.”
An old bachelor says an optimist is a
married man who is glad of it.
Most of our time is spent in getting
used to the things we didn’t expecb
A wise physician sometimes flatters a
man by telling him he has brain fag.
Many a woman who can converse in
five languages is unable to shut up in one.
If wives would continue to be sweet- •
hearts lots of husbands would cease to'
pay their club dues.
An honest miller separated the wheat
from the chaff—and converts the latter
Into breakfas* *«od.
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BEV. J. &. CBOOX.
Worth Carolina minister wt.o wins
debate on old subject and gets hot an
swers from over the country, write*
for The Atlant* Journal jnet what h«
did mean.
the mud? Centrifugal power.
Why doesn’t the earth, if it Is moving
round at the rate of 1,000 miles a
minute, throw the oceans and moun
tains flying? ’
An eagle on the top of a high moun
tain starts flying east at the rate of a
mile a minute. Where would he be at
the end of an hour if the rotation the
ory is correct? Poor bird, God only
can find you.
I throw a ball so high It takes a
minute for it to come down. According
to the geography, it would alight ...000
miles west of me.
I have seen the air so still that not
even the smallest leaves on the tree*
trembled. How would this be possible
with the earth whirling 1.000 miles a
minute?
Let the reading public decide. I have
given my views. I will say that I have
always believed the earth wm round.
I have never believed it was flat. Our
debate was only a test in logic.
penses of the state government, in
cluding the Cost of the present session
of the legislature, for the current
: quarter. There was just such a de
ficiency when Governor Smith went
into office, but he met it without any
fuss by exercising his constitutional
right to borrow a limited amount of
money. He therefore borrowed >150,-
000 with which to tide over the inte
rim until tax money began to find its
way into the treasury in the fait
Another thing that should be men- #
tioned in Governor Smith’s favor is
that he paid every dollar due the Con
federate veterans for pensions, while
Tie found unpaid pensions amounting to
forty-odd thousand dollars when he
entered upon the duties of his admin
istration.
The treasury deficit of which we
have been hearing so much since Gov
ernor Smith went out of office is noth
ing more than a condition of affairs
that has existed in the state treasury
at this time of the year ever since the .
legislature has been meeting in June
instead of in the fall of the year as
formerly, and the studied effort to dis
credit Governor Smith’s administration
with it is mean politics that will event
ually recoil upon its would-be perpe
trators; for the truth of the situation
cannot long be hidden from the intel
ligent people of the state. ■
Reflections of a Bachelor*
New York Press.
A joke is always a joke when it is on
the other fellow.
A man gets nervous over proposing to
a girl over his not proposing.
Automobiles are good things to teach
men how to take long walks back home.
Twenty years after a girl wouldn't mar-
I ry a man he feels like apologising to hie
grandmother about it.
A woman begins her acquaintance with
one of her own sex by being suspicious
of what she will say about her.
Planning Ahead
Philadelphia Bulletin.
“Theatre parties,” said the prospective
| bride, “will cost about 1200 annually,
flowers as much more, and bonbons say
8100. Certainly we can marry on 800
• a year.” Z
“And have a snug surplus.” suggested
he: dad, “for such incidents as grub f
• and clot nes and house rent.”