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Newspaper Page Text8 German Plot to Unite Japan, Germany and Mexico Against the United States ■ k (Continued from Page One' ed States government It is as follows BERLIN. Jan. IS. 1917.—0 n the first of February we intend to be gin submarine warfare unrestrict ed. In spite of this, it is »ur in tention to endeavor to keep neutral the United States of America. If this attempt is not successful, we propose an alliance on the fol lowing basis with Mexico: That we shall make war together, and to gether make peace. We shall give general financial support, and it is understood that Mex-.eo is to recon quer the lost territory in New Mexico. Texas and Arizona. The details are left to you for settle ment. * You are instructed to inform the * president of Mexico of the above, in the greatest confidence, as soon as It is certain that there will be an outbreak of war with the United States and suggest that the presi dent of Mexico, on own initia tive. should communicate with Ja pan Suggesting adherence at once to this plan; at the same time, offer to mediate between .Germany and Japan. Please call to the attention of the president of Mexico that the em plannert of ruthless submarine warfare now promises to compel England to make peace in a few months ZIMMERMANN. DOCUMENT KEPT SECRET! This document has been in the hands of the government since Presua-jit Wll - broke off diplomatic relations with Germany It has been kept secret, while the president has been asking congress for full authority to deal with Germany, and while congress has been hesitating. It we* tn the president’s hands while Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg was dedartrg that the United States had placed an interpretation on the subma rine declaration “never intended by Ger many." and that Germany had promoted and honored friendly relations with the United States, “as an heirloom from Frederick the Great" Os Itself, If there were no other, it is considered a sufficient answer to the German chancellor's plaint that the United States •brusquely” broke off re lations without giving “authentic* rea sons for its action. The document supplies the missing link to many separate chains of circum stances. which until now have seemed to lead to wo definite point. It sheds new light upon the frequently repeated but indefinable movements ol* the Mex ican government to couple its situation with the friction between the United States and Japan It adds another WOMEN OF MIDOLE ACE Mrs. Qpinn’s Experience Ought to Help You Over the Critical Period. Lowen. 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C. chapter to the celebrated report of Jules Cambon, French ambassador in Berlin before the war. of Germany’s world wide plans for stirring strife on every continent where they might aid her in the struggle for world domination which she dreamed was close at hand. It adds a climax to the operations of Count von Bernstorf! and the German embassy in this country, which have been colored with passport frauds, charges of dynamite plots and intrigue, the full extent of which never has teen published. CREDENCE TO REPORTS. It gives new credence to persistent reports of submarine bases in Mexican territory in the Gulfo of Mexico; it takes cognizance of a fact long recognized by American army chiefs, that if Japan ever undertook to invade thd United States, It probably would be through Mexico, over the border and into the Mississippi valley to split the country in two. It recalls that Count von Bernstorff when handed his passports was very reluc tant to return to Germany, but expressed a preference for asylum in Cuba. It gives a new explanation to the repeated arrests on the border of men charged | by American military authorities with being German intelligence agents. Last of all. It seems to show a con nection with General Carranza’s recent proposal to neutrals that exports of food and munitions to the entente allies be cut off. and an intimation that be might stop the supply of oil. so Vital to the British navy, which is exported from the Tampico fields. What congress will do and how mem bers of congress who openly have sym pathized with Germany in their oppsi tion to clothing the president with full authority to protect American rights will regard the revelation of Germany’s machinations to attack the United Statas is the subject of keenest interest. Such a proposal as Germany instruct ed her minister to make to Mexico bor ders on an act of war, if actually it is not one. No doubt exists here now that the persistent reports during the last two years of the operations of German agents not alone in Mexico, but all through Central America, and the West Indies are based on fact. There is now no doubt whatever that the proposed alli ance with Mexico was known to high Mexican officials who are distinguished for their anti-Americanism Among them are Rafael Zubaran. Carranza’s minster to Germany, and Louis Cabrera. Carran za's minister of finance. ZUBARAN KNEW. It is apparent that the proposal had taken definite form when Zubaran re turned to Mexico City from Berlin re cently. His return from his foreign post was covered by the fact that Car ranza had called in many of his diplo mats for “conferences." Some time be fore that Cabrera, while still at Atlantic City in the conferences of the Ameri can-Mexican joint commission had sug gested in a guarded way to a member of the American section that he regret ted that the commission had not suc ceeded fully in settling the diculties be tween Mexico and the United States, for, he said, he had hoped It might continue its work and make peace for the world. When pressed for some details of how the commission could restore world peace. Cabrera suggested that the American republics controlled the des tiny of the war by controlling a large part of its supplies. Mexico, he inti mated. might do her part by cutting off exports of oil. The .American commis sioners dismissed his ideas as visionary. Almost concident with Gubaran's re turn from Germany. Cabrera returned to Mexico City, open in his expressions of anti-Americanism- Zubaran. before being sent aboard, had represented Gen eral Carranza here, while the Niagara conferences were proceeding, and was no Iss avowedly less anti-American than Cabrera. VON SCHOfcN TRANSFERRED. Meanwhile, Baron von Schoen, secre tary ofgtbe German embassy here, was transferred to the legation in Mexico City. No explanation could be obtained of the reason for this transfer, and such investigation as was possible failed to develop why a secretary from the United States should be sent to the German legation in Mexico. Baron von Schoen's association with the -moves, if any at all, does not appear. The only outward indication that he might have been connected with them is found <n the fact that he recently had been de tached from the German embassy in Tok io and was well acquainted with the Japanese minister in Mexico City. Carranza's peace -proposal was openly pronounced an evidence of German in fluence in Mexico by officials here, who declared It was intended only to em barrass the United States. Then appar ently some influences showed their ef fect on the course of the Mexican gov ernment, and on February 25 Sabrera, the minister of finance, issued a state ment describing the •'amazement” of the Mexican government that the Ameri can newspapers should have interpreted General Carranza’s proposal to cut off exports of munitions as a suggestion that he might cut off shipments ot British oil They were. Cabrera declared, "entire ly groundless," and that feature of the situatioif ended. There was an intima tion that Germany’s astounding pro posal that Japan turn traitor to hoc allies was answered by Tokio. VON BERNSTORFFS PART. Count von BernstorfTs connection i with the plot, further than serving as the channel of communication, is in tensified by the fact that the German I embassy here was not merely the me- ' dium of delivering a message in this instance, but was really a sort of head- | quarters for all the German missions' in 'Central and South America. The German naval attache. Captain Roy-Ed. and the military attache. Cap tain von Papen. whose recall was forc ed by the state department because of their military activities in this coun try, also were accredited to Mexico, and between the outbreak of the war and ■ their departure from this country made at least one visit there. For months many naval officers here have believed that the mysterious Ger man sea raiders of the South Atlantic| must have found a base somewhere on the Mexican coast, and that such a 1 base could not be maintained without! •the knowledge and consent of Mexican officials. Last November the British charge at Mexico presented to the Carranza foreign office a notification that if it was discovered that Mexican neutrality thus had been violated, the allies would take “drastic measures” to prevent a continuance of that situation. In a note almost insolent in tone. Noreign Minister Aguilar replied to the charge that, effect, it was the busi ness of the allies to keep German sub marines out of western waters, and that if they were not kept out Mexico would adopt whatever course the circum stances might command To German influences also have been attributed In some quarters the vigor ous steps taken by the de facto finance THE -ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1917. minister to force loans irom the Banco National .owned by French and British capital. The institutions were closed by the Mexicon authorities and some of their officers imprisoned and held for weeks, despite repeated protests by France, Great Britain and the United States. GERMAN GUNNERS THERE. Reports of German machine guns and German gunners in the Carranza army also have been persistent, although the relative importance to the proposed al liance is not fully established. It was recalled too. that last November, when the Mexican-American joint commission was making its futile efforts to adjust the difficulties bet wee nthe two coun tries. the Austro-Hungarian ambassador at Mexico City, Count Kalman Kama Volkanya. made the trip to the Ujiited States on wiu ; was described as a "se cret mission.*' A suggestion Interpreted "by some officials as an ftidication that Germany might have made approaches to Mexico at that time was made by Cabrera, in an address at Philadelphia on November 10. • "The foes of the United States will certainly-assume to be friends of.Mex ico." said Mr. Cabrera, "and will try to take advantage of any sort of resent ment Mexico may have against the United States. Mexico, nevertheless, un derstands that in case of a conflict be tween the United States and any other nation outside America, _ her attitude must be one of continental solidarity." It has been an open secret that de partment of justice agents in their in vestigations of plots to violate Amer ican neutrality by setting on foot armed expeditions in Mexico more than onoe have uncovered what appeared to be trails of the German secret service. A few days ago Fred Kaiser, suspect ed of being a German agent, was arrest ed at Nogales on charges brought un der the neutrality statutes, department of justice agents declaring he had at tempted to obtain military Information on the American side of the border and had cultivated the society of Amer ican army officers with an apparent in tention of promoting those efforts. Last July, when W. H. Schweibz, who claimed to be a former German army officer, escaped into Mexico at Nogales after arrest on similar charges, the deputy marshal Who tried to follow him was stopped by Mexican authorities. The full extent of the evidence of j Germany's plotting against the United! States, gathered by the American se-I cret service, may become known only according to the course of the future relations between the two countries. It i is known that much evidence of the op- I erations of the German embassy and persons who were responsible to it nev er has been permitted to come out, be cause officials had to guard against in flaming the public mind in the tense situation with Germany. The public i amazement which a full exposition of the evidence in the hands of the gov ernment would oause cannot be over estimated. Only yesterday the council of nation al defense created by act of congress, issued an appeal to all Americans to show every consideration for aliens in this country. "We call upon all citizens.” said the appeal, “If untoward events should come upon Us, to present to these aliens, many of whom tomorrow will be Americans, an attitude of neither sus picion nor aggressiveness. We urge all Americans to meet these millions of for eign-bom with unchanged manner and with unprejudiced mind.” SENATE REPUBLICANS ABANDON FILIBUSTER AND BACK PRESIDENT (Continued from Bago One.) lions as disclosed In the newspapers. If the president had the information at that time it was due congress and the people of the United States that he should lay before congress all of the circumstances that might affect the ac tion of congress. Congress is dealing with that situation, and we should have all the Information before taking any steps.” Senator Reed. Democrat, deplored what, he said, appeared to be criticism of the president. ‘*l hope that at this moment, which to me appears to be a very solemn one,” said Senator Reed, “we will not have any more manifestations of dispositions to criticise the president. Let us criti- , else no on© by any kind of Inference. This is a time when Americans should ! close ranks and face one way and I respond to one sentiment. I hope that will be done.” "I a mvery deeply impressed with the gravity of the situation,” said Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Colorado. "We are confronted with a crisis that may be very serious. "It is a coincidence that the Asso ciated Press publication comes when the senate is considering the army and navy bills. WANTS THE FACTS. "But if this letter from the German foreign minister is authentic, and it is said to be by the senator from Virginia, we should know it, and know it now. I hope the resolution of the senator from Massachusetts will be acted upon, and I am sure the president will respond to it. There may be reasons for not giv ing the information, if incompatible with the public interest. "The fact is the Associated Press has given this entire atory to the public, with what seems to be a most important document. It is probably authentic.” Senator Lodge said he little re garding the form of his resolution. "Nothing is further from my mind than to suggest criticism of the president," sad Senator Lodge. “We ought to have this information—the people ought to have it—to know Whether the document is true or not. If .we are to act together we ought to have that fact. ’T have every reason to believe that the inquiry is not distasteful to the president We must not act on newspa per reports and we ought to have the of ficial information. The president ie ask ing great power. For one I think we ought to give it to him. And we ought to have this infonftation in that connec tion.” Senator Pomerene, Democrat of Ohio, said that in addition to the Associated Press dispatches the senate had the statement of Senator Swanson that the ' Zimmerman dispatch was authentic. "Substantially correct” interjected Senator Swanson. "If there is any variance we ought to know that fact,” returned Senator Pom erene. "This resolution amply protects Allceck PLASTEgg The World t CrrttMt External Rttntdy. f Rheumatism, >1 V Lame Back, /1 —Any Local pa,n » I JitfOton X 11 Having f X. AUCOCTSf the president—-permitting him to give the information If compatible with pub lic interests. "We all realize the gravity of ths situation. 1 want the most explicit In formation before acting in a matter which may be so grave in its conse quences.” Senator Smith. Democrat, of Georgia, said lie hoped the resolution would be adopted at once. STONE’S ATTITUDE. After reading the resolution. Senator Stone said: "It seems to me that the resolution ought to go to the committee on for eign relations. Here is *a newspaper report that the secretary of foreign re lations of the German government has sent the ambassador in Wash ington a certain letter which appears in the morning papers. We are not in formed as to the source. We have no facts upon which to determine our judgment as to the resolution’s ac curacy. "There may be information in the hands of the state department of a con fidential nature that it might not be •’’'■light compatible with public inter est/to reveal.. Then again, this alleged ch may uoi be authentic. It may not be true. "There may be something behind all this we do not know about,” continued Senator Stone. "It seems to me in the exigencies of this moment it is the part of prudence and sound judgment to pro ceed deliberately. I think the wiser course would be to send the resolution to the committee and have that com mittee make the necessary investiga tion and then .report what action in their opinion should be taken. "But. if that view is not coincided in by the senate then we ought at least to have the resolution broadened so as to call on the president for all informa tion respecting the sources of this state ment said to have been given out of ficially or semi-officially. I would like all about it; how it was ob tained and from whom and I want to know the facts tending to establish its authenticity. We might fall into a sit uation we do not care to touch. I do not see how we can act until we know the facts. WANTS FULL ADVICE. "We ought to be as fully advised not only as to the Associated Press, but as to the state department.” Senator Smith, Republican of Michi gan, suggested the president could re fuse to give the information if he de sired. - “But the senate,” added Senator Smith, "as the counsellor* to the executive In these matters, ought at least to ask for the information. I have sustained the president throughout this crisis and I am going to sustain thim now, but I think we are entitled to information properly within his possession, with- I out any hesitation, or delay.” Senator Poindexter, of Washington, asked Senator Pomerene why the pub lication of the Zimmerman instructions created a situation of great gravity. “I fail to see very much news in thq | item,” he said. “We have been reading I for months of alleged activities of this I kind concerning which this Zimmerman note appears tq me to be a mere inci dent. Every senator in this body has read of the inciting of insurrection in Cuba and various machinations in Mex ico. Reports like this have been circu lating for weeks and months. Even if this is true, what change is there in the situation?” “I have seen rumors and rumors of rumors,” said Senator Pomerene, "but this morning for the first time we have a concrete statement purporting to be a note issued by a high official of the German government. I pray to God it is not true, but at the same time, when confronted with what seems to be docu- . mentary evidence and with the statement by the senator from Virginia in effect that the president said the matter pub lished was 'substantially correct,’ I think I am within the bounds of reason when I say that there is a ‘grave situation.’ I am not billing to act until we can have the fullest information the presi dent can give us compatible with the I public interest." HOW POINDEXTER FEELS. "Well, that does not change our sit uation,” Senator Poindexter continued. "It does not alter the- fact that it is impossible for us to send an army to Mexico or Germany, or navies either.” Senator Hardwick said he did not ob ject to referring the Lodge resolution to the committee, but only to its imme diate consideration. Senator Townsend deplored the ob jection of the Georgia senator putting the resolution over until tomorrow un der the rilles. "There may never be any ‘to. borrow’ in this session,” said Senator Townsend, Republican, of Michigan. "This new element injected has made it very diffi cult for the senate to act on the resolu tion of the senator from Missouri (that empowering the president to act). We are in doubt as to what we ought to do. Not a senator here believes the resolu tion of the senator from Massachusetts was offered with intent to embarrass any one.” Senator Pomerene asked uanimous consent that the Lodge resolution be referred to the foreign relations com mittee with "a request for immediate action.” Senator Norris, Republican, of Ne braska, asked that the resolution be referred to the committee with instruc tions to report back tomorrow. Senator Stone objected to any refer ence with directions or instructions to the committee. He said he resented implications that the committee might not act upon it. AV I4SW- I 'TV vrSiV I ■ K Pi <|i 11 w||| Jp —— Tired aching feet feel re freshed after an application . of Sloan’s Liniment, do not rab, it penetrates and soothes. Cleaner than mussy plasters or ointments, does not stain the skin. Have a bottle handy for rheu matic pains, neuralgia, gout, lum bago, sprains, strains, toothache, bruises and muscle soreness. At all druggists, 25c. 50c. and SI.OO. ROME MAKES A SPLENDID PRESENTATION OF CLAIMS FOR ARMOR PLATE PLANT (Continued from Page One.) speaker, wbo was Dr. S. W. McCalla, state geologist of Georgia. DR. M'CALLA'S FACTS. Dr. McCalla presented a summary of the vast respurces of iron ore, manga nese, coal ajid other mineraJs in the vi cinity of Rome that make it a suitable lo cation for the armor plate plant. He did not, however, go into xietails. but filed , three comprehensive geological reports on the subject, and briefly called atten tion to the subject matter contained in each of these reports. First he called attention to the de posits of red iron ore in the Rome dis trict. He estimated the available sup ply at 230,000,000 tons, showed that the ore averages 45 per cent of metallic iron, [ and submitted a detailed report showing the location and extent of each vein and tihe analysis of samples. Next he called attention to the depos -1 its of brown iron ore in the Rome dis trict. He estimated the available supply at 75,000,000 tons, showed that the ore averages 51 percent of metallic iron, and submitted a detailed report showing the location and extenent of each vein and the analysis of samples. As to coal. Dr. McCalla showed that m the Rome district are deposits aggregat ing 920,000,000 tons of coal of good qual ity for manufacturing coke. As to manganese, he showed that the vast deposits lying between Rome and Cartersville are the principal source of manganese supply In the United States. In conclusion, he called attention to the abundant deposits of high grade lime stone. ANALYTICAL CHEMIST. The next speaker was F. R. Maddox, an analytical chemist, whose services are engaged by commercial furnace in dustries in the Rome district. He gave the board exact and valuable informa tion concerning the sulphur and phos phorous content of iron ore used in the commercial furnaces of the Rome district. Y. A. Dyer, a chemist and metallur gist, speaking along similar lines, sub mitted data showing the low percentage of phosphorous in the Rome ores, and testified that the ores in the district contain no elements that would harm the quality of armor plate steel. Further information on the chemical contents of the Rome ores was sub mitted in a letter written by J. A. Gar vin, a furnace owner, just across the state line in Alabama, who intended to be present but was detained. This covered the case so far as min erals were concerned, and Secretary Grafton then Introduced John M. Grant, a Rome contractor, who submitted a statement from all of the local contrac tors giving the number of houses for plant employes which they would be ready to build as soon as the government should be ready. These figures were backed up by statements signed by the presidents of the five Rome banks, tes tifying to the financial# responsibility of the contractors. Next came hydro-electric power. W. Rawson Collier, of the Georgia Railway and Power company, stated to the that practically the whole mineral ter ritory embraced in Dr. McCalla’s report is covered by the company’s transmis sion lines, so that the work of mining and transporting ores can be done elec trically if desired. He stated that the company has eleven hydro-electric pow er sites with an approximate total of 500,000 horsepower, of which 160,000 already has been developed. He stated that if the government should decide to operate the armor plate plant by elec tricity, and should use as much as 35,- 000 horsepower, the company would furnish it for 4.5 mills per kilowatt hour. B. M. HALL’S REPORT. The next speaker was B. M. Hall, the well-known Atlanta engineer, who went to Rome with the Atlanta delegation for the purpose of giving facts concerning the mineral resources of the Rome dis trict. He submitted several maps showing vast deposits of red and brown iron ore (not particularly touched on by Dr. Mc- Calla), which extend from northeast to southwest in a belt across the state about fifty miles south of Rome. He showed that Rome occupies practically the center of one of he richest iron ore regions in the whole of America, and in conclusion he called attention to the vast deposits of manganese between Rome and Cartersville. Following Mr. Hall. Secretary Graf ton read a letter from H. M. Stanley, state commissloneer of commerce and labor, touching the labor conditions of Rome and the state in general. He showed that there are now approximate ly 14.000 men employed In foundries, machine shops, boiler factories and oth er iron and steel industries of the state, and their average wage runs from $22.50 to S3O a week. He showed that there is an’ abundance of both skilled and un skilled labor in the state and that gen eral labor conditions have always been good. Retrben Towers, a Rome manufacturer who runs a foundry and machine shop, was the next speaker. He stated to the board that in twenty years in Rome he had never experienced any difficulty in securing labor, both skilled and un skilled, and no difficulty in his rela tions with employes. Along the same line, W. S. Cothran, secretary and treasurer of Towers & Sullivan, manufactuqgrs of agricultural implements, stated to the board that his company in the forty years since it be gan business has not lost a single day on account of labor trouble. Rome's easy access to the coal fields was the next feature presented to the board. R. W. Graves, a Rome coal deal er who handles about 175,000 tons of coal a year, showed that coal is always easy to secure for the reason that Rome is about midway between the fields of Tennessee and the fields of Alabama. When coal cannot be secured from the one, it can ’be secured from the other. Mr. Graves further showed that the best grade of coke In the United States is made at the Durham mines near Rome. Health was the next detail of Rome’s case presented to the board, and In this respect she made a most impressive showing. Dr. M. M. McCord, health of ficer of Floyd county, showed that the United States public health service made a complete health survey of Floyd county last year, spending eight months in the county and visiting every home. i He showed that this survey was the | eighth of its kind to be made in the ; United States and the first to be made in Georgia. He showed that Floyd coun ty is the first in the state to have a full-time health officer. He showed that there is only one case of malaria to 500 population: that there are no malig nant fevers, that typhoid was reduced 40 per cent in 1916; that there were only! 119 cases of tuberculosis during 1916 | in Floyd county’s total population of 40,000. Rome’s weather and climate were pre sented by W. M. Towers, United States observer at the Rome station. Based | on records of sixty years, he showed that Rome’s mean average temperature is 61 degrees, that the winters are short and not severe, that the summers are 1 made pleasant by cool nights, that the j rainfall is well distributed and the river* readings fairly uniform through out the year. GRAFTON SUMS UP. After c. Terhune had spoken for the owners of the sites inspected by the board, showing that they sold their op tions at prevailing reasonable prices 4BM ARCADIAN a. 7x7 Igp Ammonia No. 6 TOP DRESSING TALKS' HOW to beat the 801 l Weevil? Keep the cotton ahead of him. Fit your land early, plowing in .all the vegetable matter available. Select good seed of an early variety. Plant early with a liberal amount of fertilizer, so that the cotton will get a good start. Then, to keep it moving, ,top dress with 100 pounds of Arcadian Sul phate of Ammonia per acre at an early stage of growth and the boll weevil will have no show. Write for our 8011-Weevil Booklet. ARCADIAN SULPHATE OF AMMONIA ARCADIAN Sulphate of Ammonia is the well-known standard article that has done you good service in your mixed fertilizers for years past. Especially kiln-dried and ground to put it in splendid mechanical condition. Ammonia 25% % guaranteed. / ASK YOUR DEALER For information as to application, write Athens The Company Ne ~ Ga. 1 N. Y. AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT without any attempt to "hold up” the governmept, and showing that Rome and Floyd county stand ready to buy any site selected and donate it to the government if the government will ac cept it, the concluding statement of Rome’s case was presented by Secretary Grafton, of the Rome chamber of com merce. . Himself an engineer of wide experi ence, Mr. Grafton not only knows every detail of Rome's claims to the armor plate plant, but took part in working up a great/ deal of the technical data, and prepared the magnificent brief of Rome’s case which was filed several weeks ago with the authorities in Wash ington. Summing up, Mr. Grafton showed that Rome is the center of a 75-mile radius embracing the most enormous commer cial deposits in the States, among them being red and brown iron ore, manganese, copper, sulphuric acid and aluminum; that embraced in this radius are streams with, a potential ca pacity of 1,000,000 or more horsepower; that In this radius are 2,000 miles of main trunk line railroad, assuring ade quate transportation facilities in all di rections for the assembling of ore, pig iron and steel. Every statement of fact in Mr. Graf ton’s brief backed up by his au thorities, and in nearly every case where he spoke of mineral deposits he cited the United States geological survey as his authority. BOARD IMPRESSED. Os course the members of the armor plate board gave no intimation of what they think of Rome’s claims in com parison with the claims of other com peting cities. Nobody in Rome expect ed them to give any such intimation, and everyone carefully avoided tbe sem blance of an attempt to draw them out. But Captain Commander Clark did not hesitate to tell Secretary Grafton that Rome’s presentation of claims was magnificently comprehensive, touching every point to be considered in the lo cation of the plant; and Admiral Fletch er himself remarked, at the conclusion of the hearing, that Rome had covered the ground so thoroughly that the board could not think of any question to ask. During their tour of the sites, howev er, the members of the board did ask a number of questions. It was plain from the manner In which they probed into this and that feature of each site that they were considering Rome as a strong competitor fqr the plant, and were anx ious to familiarize themselves thor oughly with every feature of Rome’s advantages. At 7:25 o’clock Wednesday evening th* members of the board left for At lanta, accompatnied by the Atlanta dele- . gation and several Rome citizens, and Thursday morning they were to be driv- ( en over Atlinta in automobiles as guests of the chamber of commerce. Widow of Funston Is Granted Pension WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—A bin grant ing a pension of SIOO a month to the widow of the late Major General Freder ick Funston was passed today by the senate. CALOMEL IS MERCURY, IT SICKENS I CLEAN LIVER IND BOWELS GENTLY Don’t lose a day’s Work! If your liver is sluggish or bowels constipated take “Dodson’s Liver Tone.” You’re bilious', Your liver Is slug gish! You feel lazy, dizzy and all knocked out. 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Co Free to anyone who sells only 12 Jewelry Novelties at 10 . _ Jh XSSSSSSSSSSSS3S& all THESE FREE finished Signet Extension Bracelet, fits x ■ ■ ' Cobb County in Market For Farm Demonstrator MARIETTA. Ga. Feb. 28 Cobb coun- ty is again looking for a farm demon strator after having lost its last one, W. D. Hasty, to Thomas county recently through failure promptly to meet its obligations to him. His successor will be chosen probably within two weeks. The last meeting of the county com missioners voted the assuming by the county of $390 of the $1,500 salary for a demonstrator. The federal govern ment pays half the total sum. and S3OO has been promised by the Southern Bell Telephone company if definite arrange ments for the remainder, are made. Heretofore the board of education and private parties or civic organizations have made up the difference. The farm demonstrator's duties in this county have become extremely vari ous, residents daily calling for advice and information and practical assist ance, and it is the intention of the commissioners who have the selection in charge to avail themselves of the most expert services. Second Lieutenants Are Needed by Uncle Sam (By Aasodsted PreM.i WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—T0 speed up the obtaining of second lieutenants for the regular army. Secretary Baker, in an order made public today, directs that ’distinguished colleges" designate ten honor graduates from tbe 1917 class and ten from the 1916 class to be examined tn April for provisional commissions. ♦ , Under previous regulations such col leges designated one honor graduate a year. These men, it is specified, upon appropriate examination, are to be ac cepted into the service ahead of any other candidates for commissions from civil life. Aubrey Named Judge Os Cartersville Court Governor Harris on Wednesday ap pointed G. H. Aubrey, a lawyer of Car tersville, to the judgeship of the dty court of that plak'e. Mr. Aubrey will succeed Judge Joseph M. Moon, who died recently. CASTO RIA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears Signature at guarantee that each .vpoonful win clean your sluggish liver better than a dose of nasty calomel and ’ that it won’t make you sick. Dodson’s Liver Tone is real liver medicine. You’ll know ft next morning because you will wake up feeling fine, your liver will be working, your head ache and dizziness gone, your stomach will be sweet and your bowels regular. .You will feel like working; you’ll be cheerful; full of vigor and ambition. Dodson’s Liver Tone is entirely vege table, therefore harmless and can not salivate. Give it to your children. Mil lions of people are using Dodson's Liver Tone instead of dangerous calo mel now. Your druggist will tell you that the sale of calomel is almost stop ped entirely here. —(Advt-»