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VOLUME XIII. THESE COBH OX.UB BOYS, WHO ARE EXHIBITORS IK TEH BIO COBIT SHOW, WEBB PHOTOGRAPHED AT THE WASHINGTON STREET HVTBAHOB OP THE OAPITOL. y ^ S AI ILLL UF AS FLOODS SWEEP STATE POLICE 1 ARRESTING. SEE NATIONAL CAPITAL Grady Lee, of DeKalb, Shows ; What One Small Lad Can Do Oil Farm If He ' Tries Hard ion-Dollar Loss From Tur bulent Rivers in .Central Part of State Grady Lee, of DeKalb county, who Is not much bigger than one of his own ears of corn, stood on the clerk’s desk in the house of representatives Thursday morning: and told his fellow- corn club boys and their sisters and thsir fathers and mothers just how much corn one little boy can produce on a tenth of an acre if he tries hard enough. » "The first year,” said Grady, "I wasnt big enough to hold the plow, so I rode the mule. The second year I just could grab the handles. Now I can plow as good as any of you fellows and I can raise some corn, too.” Grady was but one of the many com club boys who mounted the desk and told of their work and success in the com fields of Georgia. And various gen tlemen who had preceded them had to admit that the boys had it all over tfiem when it came to interesting the audience’ Not that these gentlemen's speeches were fatiguing, for they were not, but most intensely full of interesting sta tistics and good advice. And Georgia’s young farmers, packed in every desk Inf the big hall, swarming through the galleries and even standing in the aisles, listened attentively and cheered long and loud. Tho exercises began at 10 o’clock and ended with the announcement of and the presentation of diplomas winners and the presentation of diplomas to all corn club boys -who have grown 100 bushels or more during the past year. Chancellor David C. Barrow, of the Univeisity of Georgia, who was to have spoken, was absent on account of a death in his family, but sent the boys his well wishes. GOVERNOR SENDS TELEGRAM. Governor John M. Slaton was in New York, but was heard from "'in the form of a telegram to Walter G. Cooper, sec retary of the chamber of commerce. “I regret my absence prevents my en tertainment ' of corn club boys,” read the telegram. ”Klndly provide car for four at ray expense. I heartily ap prove of their work.”' Mr. Cooper accordingly obtained a carriage and it will be in the parade Thursday afternoon, occupied by four young ladies of the canning -clubs -who- will be Governor Slaton’s special guests. The exercises were opened by Wilmer L. Moore, president of the chamber of commerce, who welcomed the boys and girls to the city. M. L. Brittain, state superintendent of education, followed Mr. Mqore with a hearty speech that ..contained much good advice to his young hearers. Dr. A. M. Soule, president of the state college of agriculture, then spoke, praising Atlanta and the chamber of commerce for their enterprise in inau gurating the annual corn show and pre dicting great things for the clubs in the future. He declared Georgia would see the day when its civilization would be centered in the farm as it was in the plantation in former days. V. He announced that inasmuch as all diplomas had not been prepared that many of them would be mailed to the boys after they reached their homes. J. Phil Campbell, head of the farm demonstration work in the state, took the floor' and introduced a number of his young proteges who gave interest ing accounts of their work. The assembly adjourned to prepare for the big parade of the afternoon. At 3 o’clock Thursday afternoon the com show parade will march through the streets of Atlanta. The corn club members will be in it in full force. The other organizations that will march with them are the Fifth infantry, na tional guard. Marist college cadet corps, Georgia Military academy cadet corps, Atlanta boy scouts, Atlanta school boys, the Atlanta board of education, the mayor and members of city council, and (Continued on Page Two, Column 3.) (By Associated Press. : DALLAS, Tex., Der. 4.—Rain contin ued to fall today over central Texas flood districts, adding menace to high waters, which already have cost twenty lives and about $1,000,000 property damage. The area of overflowing rivers spread rapidly over night, the most important new point to be overflowed being San Antonio. The San Antonio river went out of banks and has flooded large sections of the city. Many persons are being carried from their homes by rescuing parties. Much damage was done there but no fa talities are reported. The water this forenoon began to re cede almost as rapidly as it had come up, saving San Antonio from imminent danger of having its water supply shut off by -flooding of the pumping plant. LIST OF DEAD. The death list caused by the floods was: At Belton, five members of the Polk family. At Brownwood, D. Lyton. At Dallas, B. F. Lacy. At Grand Prairie, Manley. At Highbank, near Mariin, two ne groes. At Austin, three unidentified men reported drowned. The ffoods today covered portions of nearly every county in a line drawn northward from San Antonio almost to the Panhandle, and extending eastward from this line to include all the important cities of north and central Texas. Hous ton, Beaumont and Galveston alove were not threatened. The territory affected was ho wide spread that, although the homeless, num bered thousands, there were comparative ly few of them in each district, so that no serious relief problems were present ed. Trees standing in swift water pre sented a serious problem to the rescuers and at least one person has lost his life from being swept against their trunks. No fatalities have been reported from among the hundreds who took to the trees. The death list was pushed up to twenty today when seven negroes were drowned at Hearne, when the Brazos river rise reached that city. Boats were out this afternon at Hearne rescuing many persons caught in their homes. Hearne is about sixty miles south of Waco. Poor Congressmen Hit Another Hard Blow;, Must Pay Income Tax WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—Already de prived of their mileage, allowances for this session of congress, members of the house are now confronted with an other trouble, the question a of deduc tion of the income tiax from their sal aries as congressmen. Sergeant-at- arms Gordon asked the treasury depart ment for instructions on the subject. Whether deductions will be made from future mileage allowances of congress also will be determined. The report of the sergeant-at-arms for the year ending Monday, as laid before the house by Speaker Clark, showed there had been paid out during that period $4,118,000 in salaries and mileage. Mrs. Pankhurst Taken in Cus tody Before “Suffrage War- ship,” Loaded With Women, Reaches Liner (By Associated Press.) PLYMOUTH, Dec. 4.—Wind and sea today helped the police evade suffra gists who had planned to prevent the rearrest of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst on her returned from America. A heavy sea was running when the Majestic anchored. The waves, while they did not affect *the powerful police tug, were too much for the little motor boat which the militant suffragettes had engaged to head off the policemen. Thef occupants, who included “General” Mrs. Flora Drummond and other lead ers, were drenched before they reached the liner. The Majestic, under police orders, had anchored outside the breakwater. The sea delayed the little suffrage war ship so much it did not arrive at the side of the big liner until the police were leading Mrs. Pankhurst down the gangway. The militants shouted to her through their megaphones, “Don’t land! The ‘cats’ are after you.” NO WARRANT NEEDED. Mrs. Pankhurst protested against her arrest and asked to see the warrant. It was explained to her that under the "cat and mouse” act no warrant was necessary. The miltant leader was lodged in Ex eter jail. Six policemen and a wardress board ed the steamer to prevent any of the passengers interfering with the officers delegated to make th actual arrest. In the meantime the ordinary tender on which were many suffragists armed with clubs, was kept standing off and the armed bodyguard was rendered helpless. Suffragettes were on guard outside all the prisons in the southwest of England to which it was thought Mrs. Pankhurst might be taken. During the night at Bristol the women sentries were attacked by a hostile crowd and several persons were hurt. NEW TRIAL HEARING FOR MRS. GOBBLE ON DEG. II Bryan Addresses Young Farmers, Given Excursion at Expense of State’ SELF 115 (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—The van guard of an afcmy of boys and girls, who are doing their part to further the "stay on the fartn” movement have ar rived in Washington. The party num bers about 1,20b. They came from Ohio, where th£y won tjie trip as a reward for the' excellence of the corn grown by the b^ys and the baking done by the girls. ' Secretary Bryjan, who addressed the boys and girls Jit Continental hall last night, said he was kept busy lectur ing to keep a little farm in Kansas run ning. At the jsame time he declared that the farm was the future of the young man and that it offered greater opportunities thAn any other vocation. Next week representatives of boys’ and girls’ clubsp in other states will reach the national capital on a sight seeing trip. There will be champion members of boyr corn clubs from each of the southern fetates, champions from girls’ canning cjlubs from southern, western and northern states, and girls and boys’ potato clubs in Massachusetts, Ohio, Utah, Iow$ and Michigan. Colora- uo will send a Sugar beet boy. While here th$ Ohio party will visit President Wilson and Secretary Hous ton, who will present them with di plomas. The second delegation of boys and girls will reach Washington Decem ber 11. The excursions:-are being made at the expense of the citizens of the states from which the youngsters come. The Ohio excursion, it is estimated, will cost the busihess men of that state nearly $100,000. Cartersville Patient Sets Fire to Cottage and Perishes in Flames - Attendants Save Others BUSINESS MUSI AID IN EIGHT ON BOLL WEEVIL ? t Winners of Prizes In * Canning Club Contest j ♦ Here are the counties that took the prizes in the Girls’ Canning ♦ clubs’ exhibition at the state capitol. They are: Pickens, -♦ Bibb, Fayette. Gordon, Floyd, ♦ and Bartow. The first three in- ♦ dividual prize winners are Miss & Clyde Sullivan, of Lowndes county; Miss Erin Dolly, of Oco- -♦ ne county, and Miss Lela E. + Dixon, of Fayette county. A ♦ complete list of the girl prize winners will be published in Friday’s Journal. The canning -♦ clubs’ exhibits have been the big hit of the corn show and con- gratulations are pouring in from all directions for the twelve ♦ young ladies who prepared the ♦ winning displays. ♦ (Special Dispatch to Tne Journal.i M-ILLEN\ Ga-., Dec.’ 4,.^Mrs. Edna Perkins Godbee, under a sentence of life imprisonment for having killed her for mer husband. Judge W. S. Godbee, and his bride of three months, will be giv en a hearing for a ne wtrial before Judge Hammond, in Augusta, on De cember 6. Mrs. Godbee has been in jail here since being sentenced for having killed hfer divorced husband and Mrs. Florence Boyer Godbee, his bride, both of whom she shot to death on August 1§ in the postoffice here. She was tried and con victed in the Jenkins county court in less than two montns and given a life sentence. Friends say that jail life is gradually weakening her. It is understood that the plea for a new trial will be based on attacks on two or more members o fthe jury. It is not known on what grounds the^attacks will be made. Boys and Qirls to Vote In Junior Democracy On Lower East Side NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—On January 1 40,000 children of the lower East Side will vote in the first primary election of a “juvenile democracy" which is be ing organized by the East Side Protec tive' association to' teach the future citi zens of that section of the city self- government and ^politics. The polling places will be at the public schools, and. assemblymen, congressmen, mayors and commissioners of fire, health and street cleaning and other municipal depart ments will be nominated. Each voter will be supplied with blank pieces of paper on which he will write his choice for each office. There will be no party emblems on the bal lots, assuring an “unbossed” primary. The general election will be held on February \2, Lincoln’s birthday, when candidates leading *ln tne primary will be voted on. As soon as they learned of the or ganization the girls of the Washington Irving High school sent a note to Harry H. Shacht superintendent of the East Side Protective association demanding the right to vote, declaring the “mere boys should not have the franchise to themselves.” When the girls from other East Side schools joined in the demand for the franchise, Mr. Shacht decided to have two divisions to the new republic, one for boys and one for girls. ^ G. W. Day. of Cartersville, a dement ed patient at the Oakwood sanitarium near Smyrna, set fire to the cottage in which he was detained and perished in the flames about 2:80 o’clock Thursday morning. It is the opinion of the head of the sanitarium, Dr. J. N. Brawner, that Day was suffering under th© de lusion that he had been called upon to offer up himself as a burnt sacrifice, and the firing of the place was the result. The building destroyed was a five- room cottage in which the violent pa tients of tho institution are housed, and four of the five rooms or wards were occupied when Day set fire to the mat tress in his own locked room. The building, which was valued with its contents at about $3,500, was totally destroyed, as all of the time of the at tendants was used in getting the other patients to safety. None of the other patients was In jured in the blaze started by the man it consumed, and many of the twenty- five people in the main sanitarium did not know that a fire was in the vicinity. BLAZE A MYSTERY. Dr. Brawner is at loss to known how Day came into the possession of the match with which he fired the house, as every precaution is taken by himself and his subordinates to prevent any of the patients securing matches. About 2 o’clock Claud Rhor, the night attendant, was in Day’s room and the man was all right. Twenty minutes later Rhor saw the blaze in the cottage, and Day's room was a mass of flames. Evidently the man had first set fire to the mattress. Within twenty minutes the flames were breaking out of the win dow. Any effort to secure the body of Day would have been futile, so all at tendants devoted their efforts to the removal to safety of the other patients. As some of them were violent this necessitated some time, and when all were safely housed in the main build ing of the institution, the flames had made such headway that they could not be checked by the fire fighting appara tus kept at the sanitarium. Phil Campbell Says Bankers; and Merchants Must Sup port Farmer in Crisis “Bankers a^d merchants should re fuse credits to farmers not producing sufficient food crops for farm con sumption,” said J. Phil Campbell, Geor gia agent of the farmers' co-operative demonstration "work, today In discuss ing the anti-boll weevil campaign to he conducted during the coming year by the Georgia chamber of commerce. ‘Georgia cannot prevent a boll wee vil crisis.” went on Mr. Campbell, “The responslbiaty rests not with the farm ers of the community or the state, but with the merchant and banker. These are the men that hold the key to the situation and they must use It or get caught In the wreck. “The things that must be done to minimize the damages occurring from the advent of the boll weevil are reduce credit to farmers not producing suffi cient food crops for farm consumption; lend money to farmers on other farm crops rather than cotton; establish mar kets In every small town for grain, hay, live stock and truck crops; secure a competent farm demonstrator in every county two or three years In ad vance of the coming of the boll wee vil. “The Mexican boll weevil Is coming Into Georgia. It Is spreading over the entire cotton belt of the south. Noth ing can stop Its march westward. It has already been found In all the cot ton states West of the Georgia line. It has been about twenty years traveling from the Rio Grand© to the Chattahoo chee. “In almost every county of the sev eral hundred infested by the boll weevil a financial panic seized the farmers and business men upon Its approach. This seems to be Inevitable, but sooner or later every county recovers—read justs its system of farming and busi ness methods and at the end of five years finds Itself in better commercial and agricultural conditions than before the advent of u*e boll weevil.” I PASSENGERS LEAP FROM BLAZING TRAIN COAGH Killed While Hunting Week Before Wedding (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) COLUMBUS, Ga.. Dec. 4.—The body of F. L. Turner, a farmer, twenty-two years old, was found in a swamp on his plan tation, six miles south of Columbus, on the Alabama side of the Chattahoochee river, last night, with a gunshot wound in the abdomeh. Turner had been missing since Satur day, when he went hunting. It is be lieved that he shot himself accidentally. Turner was to have been married next Sunday to a young woman of Phenix City, and had the marriage license In his pocket when found. Congress Freshmen To Tell Press Club How New Guy Feels WASHINTON, Dec. 4.—Six ledgling members of the house of representa tives, who made their first appearance in the halls of congress yesterday, will on Thursday night tell the members of the National Press club how it felt to be a legislative recruit. The occasion will be one of the periodical winter entertainments of the club. , William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray, of Oklahoma, is expected to be the first ti detail his sorrows and joys while at tending the first Session of the house. This is not his first appearance In the legislative halls, however, for he was speaker of the first legislature of his state. The other speakers will be Rep resentatives Jerry Donovan, of Connect icut; Albert Johnson, of Washington; W. L. Chandler, of New York, and Sanj- uel E>. Winslow, of Massachusetts. ROME, Ga., Dec. 4.—Several persons were injured when they leaped from the moving train in a panic that started when a passenger coach on the south bound Central of Georgia train from Chattanooga to Griffin caught fire near here last night. An unidentified para- lytio who was being taken to a hospital, was severely burned before he could be rescued. The fire had gained considerable head way before it was discovered at Mar tindale, forty miles south of fhis city. The coach was almost completely demol ished, according to reports here. Constitutionalists Practically Have Conquered Upper Mex ico and Choose Terrazas for Governor (By Associated Press.) JUAREZ, Mexico, Dec. 4.—Whil© loot- Ing by Isolated bands or oonfiscation of ; property by the rebels may continue, the day8 of fighting in northern Mexico ar© numbered, so far as the present revolu tion is concerned, according to opinion© expressed by rebel leaders today. What most immediately concerns the constitutionalist party now is the elab oration of its civil government This em braces a more systematized customs sys tem. The rebels hold all the important border towns except Nuevo Laredo and Piedras Negras, opposite Eagle Pass. There remains also to be put in force a uniform currency system, for new rebel and federal currency are in conflict, on© kind being accepted in one place and an other kind in another. Rebel postage stamps already are in use. Many gov ernors and state officials are to be se lected. Within a short time the leaders say, a government will be in operation in th© northern half of the country, which will be entirely independent of that in Mexi co City. Settlement of the civil questions is on© reason why Villa has asked General Car ranza to meet him at Chihuahua. Syl- vestera Terrazas, a newspaper editor in Chihuahua, who is not related to the wealthy Terrazas family, has been se lected for governor of the state. Villa expects to leave to Carranza the task of establishing civil government, devot ing himself to the military campaign southward towards Mexico City. Metropolitan Museum Enriched by Death of Three Art Collectors NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—The year 1913 will have an unusual record to contrib ute to the history of fine arts in this country. This ract is brought to the fore by the death of the third multimillionaire art collector whose decease during the year promises to enrich the Metropolitan Museum of Art with priceless treasures, which may be roughly estimated above $100,000,000 value in all. % The deaths of J. Pierpont Morgan on March 31, of Benjamin Altman, a New York merchant prince, on October 7, and that yesterday of George A. Hearn, an other wealthy merchant, indicates to some extent that wealthy Americans have lately indulged in the private col lection of art objects, with the generous project in view of leaving their collec tions to the public. The Metropolitan Museum is likely to get the bulk of this greats treasure store if it is able to provide suitable housing for the collections. Mrs. Pankhurst Taken In Custody by Police On Reaching England (By Associated Press.) PLYMOUTH, England, Dec. 4.—Con trary 'to expectation there was no dis turbance when Mrs. Emmeline Pank hurst, the militant suffragette leader, was arrested on board the steamship Majestic on her arrival from New York today. Mrs. Pankhurst was transferred to a tug which had been chartered by the po lice and was taken to Devonport dock yard. Pupils' Cut Out Eggs CHICAGO, Dec. 4.—Pupils in the pub lic schools nave joined Chicago Wom an's club members in the egg boycott, by which it is hoped to reduce the price of eggs to 32 cents a dozen. Fort Gaines Objects To Street Fair Which Its Council Licensed (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) FORT GAINES, Ga., Dec. 4.—Fort Gaines is much excited over the effort of its citizens to prevent a street fair from being held in the town; and as the city fathers have refused to revoke the permit issued to the fair people, the mat ter will be carried into the courts, asking for an injunction prohibiting the fair frt>m gong on. The far opened today. It was some thing new and large crowds were ex pected to attend. Citizens of the town, however, held a mass meeting to see what could be done to prevent the fair’s coming into the town, and they decired to ask th city fathers to revoke the per mit. If the merrymakers insist on setting their tents, citizens who regard the fair as a nunisance will petition the Judge of the Pataula district for an injunction. Methodist Ministers To Be Denied Solace Of Tobacco in N. C« (Bt Ai.ocut.d Fr«i«.) CHARLOTTE, N. C., Deo. 4.—Preach* ers ordained hereafter by the Western North Carolina conference of the Meth odist Episcopal church, south, will not be allowed the solace of tobacoo, the conference taking: this action after a hard light. The members of the confer ence now addicted to the weed will be allowed to continue Its use, without on. couragement. Conference adjoumisd today aftoi choosing Shelby as the place of raeetltul next year. A votes was taken on the proposed change of the name of th* church to the Methodist-Episcopal Church In America. This resulted In s victory for the conservatives, but the delegates to the general conference were Instructed to favor a change of nami to the Methodist church. This action It taken to mean that this conference favors union with the Northern Meth odists. A resolution to eliminate the words ‘‘Holy Catholic church” from the Apos tle’s creed of the church service wa* lost by a close vote. Reunion Liquor Puts City in a Quandary; Either Way Is Wrong (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) CHATTANOOGA, Term., Dec. 4r-Oni of the most peculiar lawsuits in th< annals of Tennessee is now staring the board of commissioners of Chattancogi in the face. Early last spring th© jk> lice department raided the saloon of R L. Allen and seized several gallons oJ liquor found there to use as ©videnoe Several weeks later during th© Confe<V erate reunion the city physician usee, the intoxicant for feeble veterans. Now Allen demands payment from th© city for the whisky. Th© peculiar point of th© litlgatlor Is this: If Allen receives payment from the city for th© liquor he is guilty oJ J violating the state prohibition laws; if the city does not pay for the liquor it is guilty of confiscating property foi Its use in violation of the federal oobk stitution. The problem which faces thr city attorney is apparently as complex as the Mexican situation. —Staff Photo by iWix* ATLAXT4, STURDY YOUNG GEORGIA FARMERS WHO ARE MAKING TWO EARS OF CORN GROW WHERE ONLY ONE GREW BEFORE