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4 VOLUME XII. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1913. Not a Day of Triumph, ■But One of Dedication; .. To Restore, Not Destroy, Says Woodrow Wilson JIM! FIIL3IIU0 ODDS OF GREKS (FIFO HO SIEGE New President and Vice-President of Our Country The following the full text of President Wilson's in augural address: T HERE has been a change of government. It began two years ago, when the house of representatives became Democratic by a de cisive majority. It has now been completed. The senate about to assemble will also be Democratic. The offices of president and vice president have been put into the hands of Democrats. What does the change mean? That is the question that is uppermost in our minds, today. That is the question I am going to try to answer, in order, if 1 may, to interpret the occasion. It means much more than the mere success of a party. The success, of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose. No one can mistake the purpose for which' the nation now • seeks to use the Democratic party. It seeks to. use it to interpret a change in its own plans and point of view. Some old things with which we had grown familiar, and which had begun to creep into the very habit of our' thought and of our lives, have altered their aspect as we have latterly looked critically upop them, with fresh, awak ened eyes; have dropped their disguises and Sown themselves alien and sinister. Some new things, as we look frankly upon them, willing to comprehend their real character, have come to assume the aspect of, things long believed in and familiar, stuff of our own convictions. We; have b?en refreshed by a now insight into our own life. Wfe see that in many things that life is very great. It is incompar ably great in its material aspects, in its body of wealth, in the diversity and sweep of its energy, in the industries which have been conceived and built up by the genius of individual men and the limitless enterprise of groups of men. It is great, also, very great,- in its moral force. ‘ Nowhere else in the world have noble men and wom'en exhibited in more striking forms the beauty and the energy of sympathy and helpfulness and counsel in their efforts to rectify wrong, alleviate suffering, and set the weak in the way of strength and hope. We have built up, more over, a great system of government, which has stood through a long age as in many respects a model for those who seek to set liberty upori foundations that will endure against fortuitous change, against storm and accident. Our life contains-every great thing, and contains it in rich abundance. » Much Fine Gold Has Been Corroded But the eVil has come with the good, and much fine gold has been corroded. -With riches has come inexcusable waste. We have squan dered a great part of -what we might have used, and have not stopped to conserve the exceeding bounty of nature, without which our genius for" enterprise would have been worthless and impotent, scorning to be careful, shamefully prodigal as well as admirably efficient. We have been proud of our industrial achievements, but we have not hitherto stopped thoughtfully enough to count the human cost, the cost of lives snuffed out, of energies overtaxed and broken, the fearful physical and spiritual cost to the men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years through. The groans and agony of it all had not yet reached our ears, the solemn, ' moving undertone of our life, coming up out of the mines and factories and out of every home where the struggle had its intimate and familiar seat. With the great government went many deep secret things which we too long delayed to look into and scrutinize with candid,. fearless eyes. The great government we loved has too often been made use of for private and selfish purposes, and those who used it had forgotten the people. With This Vision We Approach New Affairs At last a vision has been vouchsafed us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good, the debased and decadent with the sound and vital. With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of ouy common life without weakening or sentimentalizing' it. There has ‘ been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to succeed and be great. Our thought has been “Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself,” while - e reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at tne levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves. We had not forgotten our morals. We remembered well enough that we had set up a policy which was meant to serve the humblest as well as the most powerful, with an eye single to the standards of justice and fair play, and remembered it with pride. But we were very heedless and in a hurry to be great. We have come now to the sober second thought. The scales of hdtdlessness have fallen from our eyes. We have made up our minds to square every process of our national life again with the standards we so proudly set up at the beginning and have always carried at our hearts. Our won. is i. work of restoration. Some Things Which Should Be Altered We have itemized with some degree of particularity the things that ought to be altered and here are some of the chief items: A tariff which cuts us off from our proper part in the commerce of the world, violates the just- principles of taxation, and makes the government a facile instrument in the hands of private'interests; a banking and cur rency system based upon the necessity of the government to sell its bonds fifty years ago and perfectly adapted to concentrating cash and restricting credits; an industrial system which, take it oh all its sides, financial as well as administrative, holds capital in leading strings, restricts the liberties and limits the opportunities of labor, and exploits without renewing or conserving the natural resources of the country; a body of agricultural activities never yet given the efficiency of great business undertakings or served as it should be through the instru mentality of science taken directly to the farm, or afforded the facilities of credit best suited to its practical needs; water courses undeveloped, waste places unreclaimed, forests untended, fast disappearing without plan or prospect of renewal, unregarded waste heaps at every mine. We have studied as perhaps no other nation has the most effective means of production, but we have not studied cost or economy as we should either as organizers of industry, as statesmen, or, as individuals. Basis of Government Is Justice, Not Pity Nor have we .studied and perfected the means by which govern ment may be put at the service of humanity, in safeguarding the health of the nation, the health jjf its men and its women and its children, as well as their rights in the struggle for existence. This is no sentimental duty. The firm basis of government is justice, not pity. These are matters of justice. There can be no equality or opportunity, the first essential of justice in the body politic, if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives, their very vitality, from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with. Society must see to it that it does not itself crush or weaken or damage its own constituent parts. The first duty of law is to keep sound the- society it serves. Sanitary laws, purs food laws, and laws determining conditions of labor which Individuals are powerless to determine for themselves are ‘intimate parts of tho very business of justice and legal efficiency. We Shall Restore, Not Destroy These are some of the things we ought to do, and not leave the others undone, the old-fashioned, never-to-be-neglected, fundamental safeguarding of property and of individual right. This Is the hign enterprise of the new day: to lift everything that concerns our life as\^ a nation to the light that shines from the hearthfire of every man’s conscience and vision of the right. It Is inconceivable that we should do this as partisans; it is inconceivable we should do it in ignorance of the facts as they are or in blind haste. We shall restore, not destroy. We shall deal with our economic system as it is and as it may be mod ified, not as it might be if we had a clean sheet of paper to write upon; and step by step we shall make it what it should be, in the spirit of those Who question their'own wisdom and seek counsel and knowledge, not shallow self-satisfaction or the excitement of excursions whituer tney cannot tell. Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto. And yet it will be no cool process of mete science. The nation has been deeply stirred, stirred by a solemn passion, stirred by the knowl edge of wrong, of ideals lost, Of government too often debauched and made an instrument of evil. The feelings with which we face this new age of right and opportunity sweep across our heart-strings like some air out of God’s own presence, where justice and mercy are reconciled and the judge and the brother are one. We know our task to be no mere task of politics but a task which shall search us through and through, whether we be able to understand our time and the need of our people, whether we be indeed their spokesmen and Interpreters, whether we have the pure heart to comprehend and the rectified will to choose our high course of action. This is not a day of triumph; it is a day of dedication. Here muster, not the forces of party, but the forces of humanity. Men’s hearts wait upon us; men’s lives hang in the balance; men’s hopes call upon us to say what we will do. Who shall live up to the great trust? Who dares fail to try? I summon all honest men, all patriotic, all forward-looking men, to my side.. Go-' helping me, I will not fail them, if they will but counsel and sustain me! Woodrow Wilson, Thomas Marshall, the picture of the, official inauguration medal. ‘Court of Honor” in Washing where they were today inaugurated together, with a face and reverse Democratic Caucus of U, S, Senate Unanimously Votes Georgian a Place on Most Important Committee (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, March 6.-—The sen ate caucus was resumed today to deter mine upon a plan of reorganization and for the reshaping of committees that are to have charge of legislation in the new congress. Senator Kern, of Indiana, chasen caucus chairman and majority leader in yesterday’s session of the caucus, had a long conference last night with Pres ident Wilson and was prepared today to discuss in some detail with his col leagues the policies and plans of the new administration. Chairman Kern presented the follow ing names of senators who are to com pose the steering committee to make up Democratic committee assignments, and they were unanimously approved: Senators Kern, Smith, of Georgia; Clarke, of Arkansas; Chamberlain, Owen, O’Gorman, Lea and Thomas, of Colorado., Democratic leaders regard these se lections as carrying a majority repre- sentng the Progressive Democratic el ement of the senate. .The committee assignments they make will be pre sented later to the Democratic caucus for ratification. DAIRYMEN SAY MILK IS JOURNAL’S CABINET LIST WAS A “WORLD SCOOP” Wilson’s Cabinet Foretold Ac curately and First by Ralph Smith Last Monday The confirmation Wednesday by the senate of President Wilson’s cabinet shows the personnel of that body to be exactly as announced by Ralph Smith, The Journal’s Washington correspon dent, in the columns of The Journal on Monday. The announcement by Mr. Smith of the definite slate was the first publica tion of the complete cabinet and there by gave to The Journal’s correspondent the distinction of scoring a ‘scoop on the world.” The Journal, exclusively, printed the slate on Monday, and later the same day the Associated Press dis patches confirmed Mr. Smith’s slate in every detail except the secretary of agriculture. On Tuesday, the day of the inaugura tion, the Associated Press announced definitely who would be in President Wilson’s cabinet and it conformed in every instance with the complete an nouncement made by Mr. Smith on the preceding day. President Wilson announced Wednes day that portfolios had been assigned just as announced the day previous. The senate’s confirmation of the appoint ments, and the official announcement of who they are, confirms Mr. Smith’s ex clusive announcement in every edtail. Insist Part of Blame for Ba bies’ Deaths Must Be Put * on Slatternly Nurses Sickness and deat£ among children were blamed to negligent mothers, rather than to impure milk, by speakers who addressed the gathering of dairy men Thursday morning in the senate chamber at the state Capitol. A permanent association grew from the meeting. Dr. Claude Smith, city bacteriologist, came in for sharp words from a ques tioner, who wished to know why the city health department "is forever put ting blame upon the dairies and trying to cut the throats of the. dairymen?”* Milk and its effect upon children were brought forward by Dr. Smith’s state ment of the appalling numbers in which children die. "During last year,” he explained, "589 children under two years of age died in Atlanta. As you know, the chief food of these babies was milk. I don’t say that all died from impure milk, of that the fault was all or was chiefly that of the dairymen. But some dairymen were to blame.” "But isn’t it a fact, too, that the way their mothers leave them to the care of nurses does much harm?” asked J. T. Tuggle. | “Undoubtedly,” agreed Dr. Smith. "And isn't it true,” questioned S. F. Plunkett, “that a great many babies are left that way, while their mothers ride around with pug dogs in their laps?” ”1 can’t answer a question of that sort," protested Dr. Smith. And what does the health depart ment know about the things that babies cat while their mothers are away?” per sisted Mr. Plunkett. “How can you or anybody else tell what slovenly negro nurses give them? And how do you know that what they get to eat, then, hasn’t caused more deaths than bad milk?” The questions were beginning to come quicker and sharper, when the chairman ruled this inquiry into the nature of babies as an investigation that was be yond the intention of the association, and brought the dairymen back to the means of keeping milk healthful. But before the association grew quiet, ! J. C. Devore put further acrid questions to Dr. Smith. GABINET WILL BEAL OUT Bryan’s Enemies Worried-The President Declines to Dis cuss Pie With Senators BY RALPH SMITH. WASHINGTON, March 6.—Squarinfi his action by his word, President Wil son today declined to take up the ques tion of pationage with Senators Fletcher and Bryan, of Florida, who called at the White House, to recommend the appointment of a United States mar shal and a district attorney for the southern district of Florida. The pres ident referred them to the department of justice and will rely upon the rec ommendation of Attorney General Mc- Reynolds. The Florida senators were cordially received by the president and were not at all offended by his action. Thy left the White House in the best of humor, with the statement that they had ’found President Wilson a most democratic gentleman. In the statement he issued yesterday, the president’s statement declared “it is his intention to deal with appoint ments through the heads of the several executive departments,” and in refer ring the Florida senators to the Attor ney General, he simply suited his ac tion to this utterance. While President Wilson’s attitude with reference to patronage is generally approved, there are persons who be lieve that he may experience difficulty in living up to it squarely. Those who know Mr. Wilson* however, are confi dent he will find a way and that the cabinet offices will dispense most of the patronage. The president’s atti tude magnifies the importance and re sponsibilities of his cabinet as few other things could have done. THAW CARRIED BACK TflMATTEUi ASYLUM; Writ of Habeas Corpus Sud denly Withdrawn by His Attorney (By Associated Press.) NEW YORK, March 6.—With Harry K. Thaw in court, the writ of habeas cor pus obtained in his behalf was sudden ly . withdrawn at the request of his counsel today. No explanation was of fered. The slayer of Stanford White, was brought down to New York from Mattea- wan today and appeared in the supreme court to fight for his release on a writ of habeas corpus, a proceeding in which he has been defeated on several pre vious occasions. , He was represented by Dr. Charles Kennedy, a lawyer-phy sician. William Travers Jerome ap peared for the state. Subsequently it was explained that the move was made because Dr. Charles Kennedy, the lawyer who obtained the writ for Thaw had been denied the privilege of consulting privately with his client at Matteawan and for this reason was not ready to go ahead with the case. Thaw was taken back to the asylum and the right of his lawyers to see him In private there will be thrashed out in court. Three Squadrons of Greek; Cavalry Under Command off General Souzo Enter Fort-i. ress at 9 o’clock Thursday' NORMAN MACK URGED FOR POST IN AUSTRIA PARCEL POST CHIEF TO JOIN EXPRESS COMPANY NEW CABINET IN FIRST Wilson's Official Family Will Hold Its First Formal Meeting (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON*, March 6.—President Wilson’s cabinet was scheduled to meet formally today for the first time. The conference yesterday was held before the nominations were sent to the senate and the meeting had no official stand ing. No provision had been made today for Vice President Marshall, although Pres ident Wilson has been quoted as saying that he saw no reason why the vice president should notTsit with the offi cial family. Chief Clerk of Postoffice De partment Quits for An other Place (By Associated Press.) ■WASHINGTON, March 6.—George G. Thompson, chief clerk of the postdflice department, who did much of the execu tive work of organizing the parcel post, resigned today to become general pur chasing agent of the United States Ex press company. Charles A. Lutz, chief examiner of carriers’ accounts for the interstate commerce commission, resigned to be come comptroller of the same company. Their employment is part of a plan, it was said, for a general reorganization of the executive staff of the express company. Other companies are said to be planning similar changes to meet the new requirements which will be im posed as a result of the interstate com merce commission’s recent investigation of their rates and practices. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, March 6.—Severa\ members of the Demochatic national comittee are urging upon President Wil son the appointment of Norman B. Mack, of Buffalo, N. Y., former chair man of the committee as ambassador to Austria. Mr. Mack is a candidate and enjoys the friendship of Secretary Bryan. (By Associated Press.) ATHENS, March 6.—The Turkish for-V tress of Janina, key to the European of Epirus province, with its garrison of 32,000 men surrendered to the Greek; army today after a defense which stands out as one of the most brilliant episodes of the Balkan war. The surrender was preceded by a fierce! bombardment continuing two days and nights. Every available gun, including j heavy howitzers, lent by the Servian ] artillery, was brought to bear upon the] forts defending the beleaguered city, i Thirty thousand shells were fired byl the Greek guns during the first day’s’ cannonade. Gradually the Turkish bat-j teries at Bizani, Manoll, Sakni and else-■ where were silenced. The Greek commanders, by a feint, led the Turks to believe that their at tack would be made from the right., As soon as the attention of the defend-' ers had been distracted the Greeks hurl-* ed large bodies of infantry onto the' Turkish left. The Ottoman troops, ut terly surprised, fell back in disorder. ! Batteries on the heights of Bizani, the mainstay of the defense, had been unable to stand the pelting of the shells and "were reduced to complete silence at 11 o’clock yesterday morning. ^ The Greeks pushed their forward movement during the afternoon and oc cupied the Turkish batteries on the Sakni and Elas hills, capturing all the guns and 110 artillerymen. Then the Greek battalions gradually deployed on to the plain in front of the city it self. The Turkish flight immediately be came general. The whole detachment succumbed to panic and joined in a mad race into the city. The Greek troops* followed almost to the walls. With all the defending batteries in the hands of the Greeks and the hellenic soldiers at the gates of Janina, Essaad Pasha, Turkish cornmnder, at 6 o’clock this morning sent messengers to Crown Prince Constantine, of Greece, an nouncing the surrender of the city and all the troops under his command. The fall of Janina was announced by the crown prince to the Greek war of fice. Wild enthusiasm reigned in the streets of Athens on announcement of the news. All houses were decorated with flags. Excited people thronged thfe thoroughfares singing the Greek na tional anthem. % The Greek advance on Janina began late in October. The Turks retired rapidly before their opponents, and op erations around the fortress opened about the beginning of December. The attack continued with varying success even during the period of the armistice, to which the Greeks never formally agreed. Several of the outlying forts fell be fore the Greek assaults, and the attack on the principal fortifications was grad ually pressed home. Untrimmed Democrat Gets First Hair Cut As Hundreds Look On ICE FAMINE DUE DURING SUMMER NEW YORK, March 6.-—With spring almost at hand the New* York ice com panies report that less than one-sixth of the normal cut of three million tons of ice for the metropolis has been harvest ed. Relief depends wholly upon the state of Maine, where the ice companies are concentrating all their forces to minimize the shortage as much as pos sible. At best, however, it is declared the city probably* will be short 1,000,000 tons. 100 REMAINS CHIEF FOR PRESENT ANYHOW ORLANDO, Fla., March 6.—Code Hill, an aged resident of Orlando, yesterday had his first haircut in more than six teen years. During the campaign of 1896, he made a pledge to allow his hair to grow untrimmed until a Democrat be came president of the United States. An echo of the Wilson inaugural fes tivities at Washington attended the operation of clipping Hill’s flowing locks, which was performed in a band stand on the public square. Scores of townsfolk asembled for the event', and cheered a speech by Hill, in which ho declared that the pleasure of parting with his locks was not half so welcome as tho assurance that the country was at last to *enjoy Democratic prosper ity. HAD PLATE IN SKULL FOR GROWING HORNS? (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) THOMASVILLE, Ga., March 6.—Joe Wright, a negro, was operated on in the city hospital here Wednesday for the removal from his skull of a sliver plate, which, according to hils narrative, had been inserted by a noted doctor for the purpose of attaching horns to 1J. For additional Inau- gu ration news see pages 2 and 3. AVIATOR IS KILLED; PLUNGES 5,000 FEET SALISBURY Plain. England, March 6.—Geoffrey England, a British air man, fell 5,000 feet from his mono plane here today and was instantly killed- Secretary of War Garrison In structs Him to Continue Until Further Orders (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, March 6.—Secretary of War Garrison today instructed Major General Wood to continue under his original designation as chief of staff of the army until further orders. The purpose of Secretary Garrison’s action was to enable President Wilson to have time fully to consider the question of a permanent designation. “THE HALF-GOD” A charming story by Albert Dorrington, author of “The Radium Terrors,” “The Chil dren of the Cloven Hoof,” etc., will start Tuesday, March 11 and be printed in each issue o( The Semi-Weekly Journal. “The Half-God” is a story of tremendous human inter est, and is altogether worth while from start to finish. It’s just the thing to while away a half hour each afternoon. Get started with the story Tuesday! 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