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®hc Atlanta Seuntal
VOL,. NO. XXII. NO. 27.
I H TO KILL BOLL
fflt DISCOVEREO
SY U.S. GOVERNMENT
Department of Agriculture
I Announces That Any Far
mer Can Reduce His Dam
age to Negligable Point
300.000 Bales Destroyed
kl By 801 l Weevil This Year
olio wing- statement by the
H Bbrop bureau,for Georgia,
Bfootvs the daipage done by J
BL ho/} iff this state
founts, tol
HL l 1 adv/ 1 nt ot ' weevil
'was largely coincident
breaking out of the war
in fstnope. War conditions "were
responsibl efor a cut of some 600,-’
OCTO acres in 1915. The actual val
ue of the damage during that sea- •
son, as' reported by the United |
State bureau of crop estimates,
was the lows of about twenty-six
pounds per acre in the southwest
ern section, meaning the loss of
approximately 25,000 bales. The
next season the weevil extended
his damage across our southern
section and increased the damage
fii the southwest to about sixty
pounds per acre. The loss due to
> reduction in acreage and reduction
in yield was about 100,000 bales
during the season. In 1917 the ,
weevil extended his scope with i
the result of a loss in production
r of about 140,000 bales. It was not '
1 until the season 1918, however. '
j ' that enough territory was under j
j severe infestation to very greatly f
affect the state average. This I
ear the boll weevil cut the yield '
* in the southern section from 20
to 25 per cent and was becoming
_ active well up the state. During
the season of 1919 the damage
from the weevil was terrific, run-
| ling from 280,000 to 300,000 bales,
fl The state decidedly not
recovered from the weevil, al
though acreage reaction has set in
M ‘ and the farmers in the southern
section have learned to make -cot
ton in spite of him and are'grad
ually increasing their yield. - ’
- By Angus Fertai-son
boll weevil destroyed 300,000
IVi.es of cotton in .Georgia this year.
Taking s22p as the average price
lor a bale of cotton and the seed for
t the year, the boll weevil ate up $67,-
i. 500,000 in this state.
The amount of cotton destroyed is
mated from figures gathered by
> -ccop. bureay for Georgia,
-'tlic heels o “TT eau’s starJ|
that Georgia’s loss
nouncement by the United States de
partment of agriculture that it has;
found away to kill the boll weevil.
"We are ready to say absolutely
that our discovery will control the
boll weevil menace. Any farmer whe
will follow our directions can reduce
his damage from the weevil to a
I negligible point. He can grow about
’ as good cotton crop as he could be
fore there was any weevil."
Dixon Merritt.. bf the information
v bureau of the United States depart
ment of agriculture, makes that an
nouncement here—the first official
statement from the department tc
the effect that it has solved the boll
■ weevil problem.
A white, powder with the appear
ance of lime is the means by which
I the department says that the south
can rRI itself of the weevil.
This, powder is a mixture of cal
cium and argenic, called calcium arse
hate. and ist a deadly poison to the
weevil but harmless to the plant
when combined in the right propor
tions.
Ten years ago government experts
began experiments in the cotton fields
of Louisiana and Mississippi to fine
i away to kill the weevil. They trier
everything, substances ranging frorr
lead poison to Paris green, but no’
until 1916 did they hit on the lime
like powder—calcium arsenate—whicl
gave results. T ' <
Their discovery being in the ex
perimental stage, they ( withheld, of
ficial announcement until sure i’
would accomplish what they hoped
Seventy-five government experts
have been at work since then super
fl vising experiments in the Mississipp
M river lands, each directing calciurr
|fl arsenate Poisoning on 200 to 2,00(
of cotton land.
g| From the results obtained through
■ such wide use of the powdery poison,
United States department of ag- !
announces that it has solv-
the boll weevil problem.
/‘Two instances will show what
MBmlciaum arsenate has done,” says
M 1 .ion Merritt, who arrived in Atlan
from Washington on a' trip
the south and while here
the announcement of th? gov-
discovery. Tn Madison
Louisiana, our experts split
field into three sections of equal
The middle section was dust-
Bwith calcium arsenate; the two
lions were left untouched.
of the end sections that year
flic other end section averaged
pounds to an acre. But the mid-
section —the part treated with :
arsenate averaged 516
to an acre.
“In the Mississippi Delta.” continu-
Mr. Merritt, “an English syndi-
owns 35,000 acres of the finest
land in the world. It is bet
|Bter than that in the Nile valley.
land was infested by the boll
but Xhe production was so,
so tremendous, that the grow-'
thought the we'ey'd. was doing
no real damage. I
“That land was fyieldhm 1,400
an acre—thirJk of i\ 1,400
McotVyi land in the -Hybrid.
' said the grlw.
fie request of the <t\
us to desb
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PLAN CORPORATION
TO COMPRESS M
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[Georgia Financiers Interest
ed in Scheme to Save Mil
lions of Dollars to Farmers
of South
The Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
C 23 Riggs Building.
BY THEODORE T1351.E8
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1. —Announce-
ment is made here that plans are
practically completed for the forma
tion of a large corporation to com
bine and standardize a large portion |
of the cotton compressing and ware
housing facilities of the southern
I states and to establish new ware
' houses. Several Georgia cotton
financiers are listed as supporters of
, the plain Rufus R. Wilson, secre-
I tary of the National Association of
j cotton manufacturers and secretary
of the world cotton conference, made
■ the announcement.
At the recent New Orleans meet
j ing it was declared that additional
; warehouse facilities were a para
| mount necessity in handling of the i
’ cotton crop. Southern and eastern I
’ cotton growers, spinners, producers
and bankers are enlisted in the un
dertaking according to Mr. Wilson,
and experts are now conducting a
survey of the "whole field of "ware
housing and compression of cotton
and taking options on many com
presses and warehouses.
“It has long been well known in
cotton industry,” says Mr. Wilson,
“that sufficient facilities already ex
ist to house most of the cotton of
fered for storage. However, the lo
cations of these warehouses is such
that they do not adequately serve
the storage needs of the producers,
I merchants and spinners. They are
I located with respect to distribution
I so as to best serve the needs of the
j trade.
Millions Bost Yearly
• For this reason much cotton that
ought to be stored is now kept in
open lots, streets and on platforms,
with the result that each year’s crop
suffers millions of dollars’ worth of
loss from “country damage,” many
of the existing warehouses are so
I poorly constructed and carelessly
! operated that insurance rates for cot-
■ ton stored in them are abnormally
i high and receipts for stored stocks
- arc, in many cases, unsatisfactory
| collateral for bank loans.
“Many southern bgnkjers declare
they would rather loen money on
i cotton'than on real -fstate,’’ says Mr.
Wilson, “but the - trouble has’ been,
is, wKii the character of the
' eceipts as evidence of
safety,-ownership, weight
I and deliverability.
“Fully conversant with these con
ditlbns, and the need for improving
them both in the,interest of growers
and spinners, a group of men -con
cerned from various angles- with the
• cotton industry are organizing a cor
" poration for the purpose of stand
ardizing warehouses in both the
south and the north.”
The compress plants to be taken
over by the new organization, Mr.
Wilson announces, are those of the
Atlantic compress company, with
twelve plants in Florida, Georgia, and
Alabama, those of the Newburger
Cotton company, with twenty-six
plants in Arkansas, Tennessee, Mis
sissippi and Louisiana, and those of
the St. Louis compress company,
controlled by the Lesser-Goldman
interests, chiefly in Arkansas and
I Missouri. Ten scattered presses will
be taken over.
Special attention will be paid by
the company to the compress and
storage facilities at big concentra
tion points like Norfolk, Charleston,
. Savannah, Atlanta, Mobile, Houston,
St. Louis and Memphis, and to sup
plying them with increased and
standardized service. In addition,
arrangements have been made to
take over a large number of ware
' houses scattered throughout the cot
ton belt, and to erect additional ones
both in the south and the east. De-
■ tailed announcement of these will be
made shortly.
To Faciltate Financing
r It is also planned to organize a
subsidiary corporation whose busi
ness will be to buy and sell cotton
receipts and acceptances, thus facil
itating the financing df cotton in
storage. '
An efficient and adequate system
of warehousing will be of great ad
vantage to both producers and con
sumers, and Mr. Wilson declares it
will prevent the losses no-w occurring
because of the hasty way each big
cotton crop is marketed, will tend
to stabilize prices and insure proper
distribution of the crop, which now
is worth more than $2,000,000,000 a
year.
Among those identified with the
organization corporation are: Robert
Amory, Boston; James T. Broadbent,
Columbus, Ga.; Edward S. Butler,
John F. Clark, Frank B. Hayne and
William B. Thompson, New Orleans;
C. L. Cobb, Rockhill, S. C.; A. J.
Dossett, Waco, Tex.; W. B. Drake.
Jr., Raleigh, N. C.; Arthur J. Draper
Charlotte, N. C.; Randall N. Durfee
and W. Frank Shove, Fall River,
Mass.; J. W. Evans, Houston, Tex.;
G. A. Gordon, J. K. Livingston, M.
A. O’Bryne and A. J. Ritch, Savan
nah, Ga.; W. S Griffin, Greenville,
S. C.; Lloyd M. Hooper and James
B. Ellis, Selma, Ala.; F. M. Inman,
Atlanta, Ga.; W. Lancaster, Mont
gomery. Ala.; J. E. Latham, Greens
boro, N. C.; John A. Law, Spartan
burg, S. C.; W. Gordon McCabe, Jr.,
Charleston, S. C.; Elias Porter, John
Flippin, Joseph Newburger and L. K.
Salsbury, Memphis, Tenn.; Edwun G.
Seibels and T. B. Stackhouse, Co
lumbia, S. C.; E. Kent Swift, Whit
insville, Mass.; James Thomason,
®ew Bedford, Mass.; Sidney Y. West,
Nettle Rock, Ark., and forty or fifty
\re equally representative men.
• Maude Moore Released
F yONXVILLE, Tenn., Jan. I.
Maude Moore, alleged slayer of Le
,Roy-.D. Harth, who was convicted in
Sthe Knox county criminal court, the
Edict of guilty
t degree, with
;es and recom
of twenty-one
tiary, was re
st bond fixed
given a new
PRESIDENT MW
REW HIS FIGHT
FOB PEACE THm
Lloyd George Believed to
Have Notified Wilson That
Reducing Britain’s Votes
Would Be Unacceptable
WASHINGTON, Jan. I.—President
Wilson has re-entered the peace '
treaty fight, in the opinion of well :
informed senators to whom Senator ;
Hitchcock today told details of his
talk with J. P. Tumulty, the presi- j
dent’s secretary, late yesterday.
Mr. Tumulty said he called on Sen- ,
ator Hitchcock to get information for
the president. Senators cannot un
derstand why President Wilson wants
information concerning a matter of
which he said he had washed his
hands, unless he intends to take it
up again.
The president’s interest in devel
opments in the senate is due, it was .
learned, to recent events in London, .
where the utmost concern is now be- ■
ing manifested over the proposal to ;
make the American voting strength In
the League of Nations equal to that
of the British empire.
Premier Lloyd George, who re- ■
cently made a speech championing
the right of Canada and Australia I
to separate votes in the league, is I
understood to have communicated
his views to this government about
the same time, pointing out "that the
reservation on this subject, proposed i
by Senator Lenroot, and made part |
of the Lodge reservations, would I
cause trouble. It disfranchises the
colonies, Lloyd George is said to
have informed this government, add
ling that Great Britain feels con
strained to oppose any measure which :
would deny the self-governing Brl- .
tannic nations of the right to look
after their own interests in the
league.
The Lenroot reservation now
threatens to become the crux of the
treaty fight, displacing article ten as
the obstacle to an agreement.
This was indicated by statements
today of leading mild reservation
senators.
They, said that Democrats have i
offered a definite proposal on article i
ten and other points in dispute. The
article ten compromise suggested by
the Democrats is acceptable, the. res
ervationists said, but, they added, the
Democrats demanded far too much in
return. They want the Lenroot res
ervation eliminated in return for an
agreement to support" the Lodge res
ervation on article ten with slight :
unimportant changes in phraseology.
Republican senators declared they
will not yield on the Lenroot reserr
vation. They cannot agree to Amer
ican entrance into any combination
where tfcey claim this government is
-ixjt danger of -being" overwhelmingly J
’ outvoted on vital matters, uffey said.
Influenza Only Having
i Recess, Scientists Say
i ST. LOUIS, Jan. I.—Science has not
i discovered a preventive of epidemic
> diseases, but a serum is being for- j
j mulated that may eradicate yellow ’
■ fever, according to delegates attend
ing the convention of the American
Association for the Advancement of
§ci*ence, in session here.
Delegates warned against influenza-,
spinal .meningitis and infantile pa- '
ralysis. These diseases have not !
been wiped out, but are having a
“recess,” delegates asserted.
Dr. Simon Flexner, of the Rocke- ’
feller Institute for Medical Research, 1
and president of the association, ex- |
plained that scientists were progress- I
,ing in their fight on cancer, saying
that medical research “gradually was
getting into a position of strategic
superiority” in its attack on this
malady.
"It seems possible that yellow fe
ver may be the first disease to be
eradicated by science,” he continued.
“It is insect-borne by a particular
kind of mosquito. Dr. Noguchi, a
Japanese scientist, is working on a
serum that may rid the human race
of this affliction.”
Summons for Summit
Woman in Brown Case
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich., Jan. 1.
A summons Was issued today for
the return here of Miss Gladys Sum
mit, of Battle Creek, whose story to
authorities implicating her room
mate, Mrs.- Cecil Vester, caused a
warrant to be issued for the latter
charging complicity in the murder of
J. Brown. Miss Summit is
being recalled, it was announced, as a
witness at the hearing to be given
Mrs. Vester on Saturday, the ac
cused woman having been arraigned
late yesterday and entered a plea
of not guilty.
Officers said Ben Sorenson, a sol
dier at Camp Custer, might also be
requested to testify at the hearing.
Sorenson, Mrs. Vester declared, could
support the alibi she had set up
claiming she was in Battle Creek on
December 23, the, night Brown was
shot to death
Captain Detzer Takes
Stand in Own Beh< 1
NEW YORK, Jan. I.—Capt;fv,
Karl W. Detzer, on trial for alleged
inhuman, treatment of military pris
oners while he was head of the de
partment of criminal investigation
in the American camp at LeMans,
France, entered a general denial of
the charges when he took the stand.
Detzer blamed any inhuman prac
tices that may have occurred upon
his subordinates, many of whom, he
said, were guilty of deliberate dis
obedience of orders.
He named Leonard D. Mahan, a
former lieutenant under him, as
instigator of much of the trouble
which caused investigations result
ing in Detzer’s arrest.
Four Killed, One Hurt
In Car at Crossing
HOMEWOOD, 111., Jan. I.—Four
persons were killed and one hurt
here today when an Illinois Central
passenger - train struck an automo
bile.
John Casper, driver of the auto
mobile, was the only person in the
machine who escaped instant death.
Those killed were:
Mrs. John Casper, Mrs. J. K. Book
mis, Mrs. . M. Slosman apd Mabel
»lossnian. her four-year-oltl daugh
ter. the victims lived in Chicago
Heights. _
ATLANTA, GA., TRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1920.
Uncle S&m Joins Pursuit
Os Dating 'Convicts Who
Leavk Trail of Robberies
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PRINCIPALS IN SENSATIONAL ZISCAPE WHICH STIRRED FULTON COUNTY TUESDAY.
At the top, left, is Joe Webb, the six-fi 00 t er f rom Floyd county who was serving a life term for
i murder and is still at large. At the right, is R. C.' (Dick) Jester, serving five years for auto
mobile stealing, who had already escafi. e d four times and was caught Tuesday only when he walked
out of the woods, stopped an automob|j e> asked for a ride, was granted his boon, and hopped in be
tween the chief of police and one of deputies. He is now in the tower. Below is A. S. Jones and
his family, Mrs. Jones and. the children,! Elizabeth, Everett and Mary Louise, who were out taking
a ride in their Ford automobile when \the convicts kidnaped the car and forced Mr. Jones to
drive them to freedom.—Staff photo of J O nes family by Walter F. Winn. *
OFFICIALS AWAIT
NEW YEAR LIQUOR
DEATH REPORTS
CHICAGO, Jan. lAuthorities
throughout the country today grave
ly awaited reports from New Year’s
eve revels for confirmation ot refu
tation of their predictions that the
wave of deaths from alcohol poison
ing which took a toll of approxi
mately 125 lives during the Clirist
mas holidays would be repeated.
Early today there was slight, evi
dence that celebrators of the arrival
of the new year had not profited by
knowledge gained of the effects of
drinking outlawed liquor. The more
pessimistic officials pointed out,
however, that it would probably re
quire a full day for the serious con
sequences generally to become ap
parent.
Chicopee, Mass., and the Connecti
cut valley, with fifty deaths, today
ill led all localities that suffered
m the Christmas flood of fake
.sky. In Chicago thirty-two
..aths attributable to wood alcohol
poisoning had occurred since Decem
ber 1, according to Peter M- Hoff
man, Cook county coroner.
Fully awakened to the dangers of
consumihg the poisonous beverage,
city, state and federal officers from
New York to San Francisco today
were directing their efforts toward
eliminating sales of the liquid. Sev
eral state’s attorneys announced their
intention to ask for death penalties
for vendors of the poison if murder
indictments were obtained.
In New York, San Francisco, Chi
cago, Memphis, Tenn.; New Haven,
Conn., and a number of other cities,
alleged sellers of the poisonous liq
our were under arrest.
Whisky substitutes intended for
New Year’s celebrators at San Fran
cisco contained crude oil, embalming
fluid, oil of peppermint and oil of
carmine, chemical analysis revealed.
Saw White Deer
POSENBERG, Ore. —A snow-white
deear, a freak of the animal kingdom
seldom seen in this vicinity, has
been observed by a number of hunt*
ers in the Yellow Creek mountain re
gion. The animal has created such
a surprise taht he has been able to
get away before being killed, al
thoug he has ben soht at several
times. t
Joe WeVib and Roy Dicker
son Sitill at Large, While
Dick Jester Is Back With
Convint/ that Joe Webb and Roy
DjckersoX, two of the three con
vic.s whL staged a sensational escape
from thL Fulton county chaingang
Tuesday! morning, have succeeded
in leavf n g this immediate vicinity,
the cotf jn ty police, with immediate
aid in 1 a jght from Uncle Sam, are
using tl’n e telegraph wires to extend
their fl/et outside the state.
Officials directing the pursuit
scout 1 the idea that the fugitives
heid idp w. h. DuPree, of 9 Clifton
street! on Wednesday night. Mr.
u Pr|f e> while driving a ' Ford Car
on Sifnipson street near the Hightow
er r y>ad, was stopped by two men
and/relieved of sl2 and his machine
at tjie point of revolverb. The high-
fired several shots in his
as they drove away.
-jlccording to the theory of the
Col Jnty police, the convicts were far
01 *>.side the city limits of Atlanta
wl fen Wednesday night’s holdup oc
cu *wed. After abandoning their
automobile at Barnes viUe
afternoon, the police be
utive, the' fugitives continued their
5 Tight away from the city. Dicker-
6 on has relatives in Alabama and
' trkansas, while Webb has family
c Connections in north Georgia and
r lerinessee, and the police believe
i aeir quarry will endeavor to reach
i heir friends.
Jester Back on Job
In the meantime, “Dick” Jester,
jonVicted automobile thief, thee third
nember of the trio figuring In the
41arihg escape, was back at work on
1 iie county chaingang, again wear
i! ig stripes and shackles. On the
a fternoon of the day the break was
h ade, Jester was recaptured whan
h k unwittingly asked a squad of his
P irsuers to carry him to Atlanta in
9 ieir automobile. Hi°< sweetheart
h< *re was the attracti<SMMHß|Aved
h s
Tin- robbery of the
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' ATLANTA BANKS
PAY DIVIDENDS
FROM FULL TILLS
; The greatest business year in At
-5 lanta’s history was closed by Atlanta
banks with the payment of dividends
aggregating nearly $300,000, some of
which have been paid already and
the others being scheduled for early
meetings of the directors.
In the order of their age the banks
and their dividends are as follows:
Atlanta National, with a capitaliza
tion of $1,000,000, has sent checks to
its stockholders for its customary
semi-annual dividend of 6 per cent,
mak/.g a payment of $60,000. The
Atlanta National, states Robert F.
Maddox, president, has had a splen
did .year, with greatly increased de
posits; savings increased to more
than $5,000,000; and with business
good and cotton bringing a good price
he sees for Georgia and the south a
continuance of prosperity.
Lowry National, with a capitaliza
tion of $1,000,000, on Wednesday
mailed checks to its stockholders for
its customary quarterly dividend of
3 per cent, making a payment of
$30,000. The Lowry National’s de
posits during 1919 .increased from
$13,000,000 to $20,000,000.
Citizens and Southern, (formerly
Third National), with a capitaliza
tion of $2,000,000, has paid its Cus
tomaif quarterly dividend of 3 per
cent, * amounting to $50,000. Frank
Hawkins, chairman of the board,
states that the deposits of the Citi
zens and Southern in Atlanta alone
nave increased over $8,000,000 since
the consolidation on September 27.
and in all four banks have increased
over $10,000;000. In addition to div
idends, the Citizens and Southern
paid $'32,000 to employes as a share
in profits and .5-124,000 to savings de
positors in interest payments.
Fourth N/itional witli a capitaliza
tion of SOOO,OOO, Is expected to pay
its customary semi-annual dividend
of 6 per cent when the directors hold
their annual meeting next Tuesday
and review the year’s business. ’This
dividend amount to $36,000. In
Ikaddition,, the Fourth _ National paid
•iiore' than/ §3O',(Joh L>"“em'pioyes as a
j share -s deposits have
; by leaps and "bounds, be
ll ing hearXthe $25-,oooj' ( ’ <l ' mark.
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STATE MEASURE TO
CURB IHWIE
THEFTSISMB
Grand Jury Names Legisla
tive Committee —Taxicab
Drivers Are Scored by So
licitor John A. Boykin
At an open session of the Fulton
county grand jury held Thursday
morning to discuss legislation to put
an end to the theft of automobiles.
Solicitor General John A. Boykin, of
Fulton superior court, made the
statement that taxicab drivers
should be considered as a big factor
in the situation.
Solicitor Boykin went intc. consid
erable detail concerning his experi
ence with taxicab drivers in prosecu
tons for highway robbery, selling
whisky, use-of automobiles for im
proper purposes, etc. He expressed
the opinion that’no legislation will
get down to the bottom of the auto
mbile theft syndicate unless it re
quires a registration and inspection
of garages. "The thieves rent ga
rages in respectable neighborhoods
and hide stolen cars in them.” said
he.
After a general discussion lasting i
more than an hour it was agreed ti ,
have a special committee to draft a !
bill for introduction in the legfsla- !
ture at the next session.
On this committee were appointed I
R. L. Foreman, a member of the .
grand jury; John E. Smith, presi- I
dent of the Atlanta Automobile ns- "
soclation; James L. Beavers, chief of .
police; John A. Boykin, solicitor gen- i
erhl of Fulton superior court; John |
M. Harrison, representing the Un
derwriters’ Detective bureal; Repre
sentative John Y.l Smith, Virlyn B.
Moore and Walter C. Hendrix, cf
the Fulton delegation in the bouse,
and State Senator Ivan E. Allen.
Besides the above-named represen
tatives of automobile interests and
the members of the legislature, the
meeting was attended by Chief I’oole,
of the detective department: A. L.
Bele Isle, who runs a taxicab and
rent car service, as well as various
other citizens who are anxious to
put a check upon the operations of
automobile thieves.
’Prevention Proposed
Robert L. Foreman, as a member
of the grand jury, who was instru
mental in having the discussion,
opened it with a paper on the sub
ject of automobile thefts, in which he
suggested a law requiring the vendet
of a used car to give a bill of sale
showing complete’chain of title, back
to the original purchaser, and fur
ther requiring a registration of suph
sale with the secretary of state. He
said he believed these requirements
would. rqa.ke-it itEgeticirliy tmpeL&Pibhs
TO dlspose’of a used car except hon
estly, more especially if there was a
law depriving the possessor of a car
of any right or title unless he had
j such a chain of title.
John M Harrison, whose bateau
is engaged in running down stolen
automobiles, did not oppose the plan
suggested by Mr. Foreman but >e
suggested that ft w’culd raise a
serious problem, inasmuch as i.
■ would tend to drive automobile
thieves‘immediately across the stat?
line to other jurisdictions'- to dispose
of stolen cars.
“Atlanta,” said Mr. Harrison, "is
the-southern headquarters of a syndi-
I cate of automobile thieves. More
i cans are stolen here than in any city
I south of the Fotomac and east of
I the Rocky Mountains.”
1 State Senator Allen expressed the
; opinion that thefts of automobiles
are the cause of as much crime as
fiquor ever was, and was heartily
in favor of laws to make the dis
position of a stolen car an extremely
difficult transaction.
Similar sentiments were expressed
by other members of the legislature.
Representative John Y. Smith, in
passing, remarked that it would be
easier to get through a bill if the
Atlanta Automobile association would
not make itself so active in oppos
ing'bills introduced from 1 other quar
ters.
-The one he had in mind was a bill
requiring registration of the sale of
used cars with county sheriffs and
providing for a sheriff’s fee of $1 ixl
’ each registration. John E. Smith ex
plained that the association opposed
! that bill because it was a fee bill
I which would have dpne nothing but
| increase the compensation of sheriffs.
Baby Is Drowned in
Four Inches of Water
NEW YORK, Jan. I.—Love for a
-Christmas doll caused the drowning
of a one-year-old baby in four inches
of water in a pail during the voy
age of the steamship Nieuw Am
sterdam, which arrived from Hol
land today.
Mrs. Jan Pustus, who is on her
way to Des Moines, la., with her
husband and family, bathed Jan, Jr.,
at his bedtime the day after Christ
mas and put .him in his bunk witn
the doll .Santa Claus left. Vihen he
toured the ship. Then the family
went to dinner, leaving baby asleep.
The bath pail was inadvertently left
beside the bunk.
Jan, Jr., awoke and started playing
with, Santa’s gift. The doll fell out
of the bunk and Jan reached for
it. He fell headfirst into the pail.
The water covered his face and he
could not extricate himself. When
the family returned , from dinner he
was dead.
The baby was buried the next day,
his father cutting the rope which
sent the little body into the sea-
The passengers made up a purse of
several hundred dollars for the
family.
000, has paid to its stockholders the
customary' semi-annual dividend of 4
per cent, amounting to $40,000. In
addition, it paid its employes a sub
stantial share ip profits amounting
to nearly $20,000. Its deposits like
wise have greatly Increased.
Fulton National, with a capitaliza
tion of $500,000, has paid its custo
mary semi-annual dividend of 3 per
cent, amounting to $15,000, and has
substantially increased its undivided
profits, as -well as haying a splendid
year’s business, and n.'aking plans for
its magnificent new Some to be built
on Marietta street adjoining the Citiu
zens and Southern Fank building. 1
Besides the abovt
::r:ng house banks' the
t, i..v oi Georgia on
e<l cl-.ee.k3 to its sto.-k
iJUUXTX A rOl'Y.
A YEAR.
SENATOR SMITH TO
FIGHT FOR GORDON
OB SENATE FLOOH_
inspects Cantonment
Declares He Will Whip I
House Bill to Scrap sl2 r
000)000 Plant
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Senator Hoke Smith, leaving for .
Washington Thursday after spend
ing the Christmas recess in Georgia,
goes back to the capital with thq' in
tention of whipping in the seriate
the bill passed by the house to scrap u
Camp Cordon.
Senator Smith on
ternoon made a personal Inspection g
of the cantonment and the hospital- fl
He found the buildings constructed s
of the best grade of heart pine, set I
on cypress underpinnings, each bar- e j
riv-ks lwu.se with a kitchen and dining,
room and hot and cold baths, the
hospital buildings marvelously
ped and up-to-date in every
ular, with steam heat throughout and
miles of covered and screened walk
ways connecting them together, the
warehouses built as well as
possible to build warehouses out
, WOOd.
"It would be a horrible
mib'.’e ; ;• p this in ves t
of more than §12,000,000,” the
i ; tor declared, “To duplicate the
’ tonment would cost the
lat least $16,000,000 under
I costs. Soi.’.ewhere between the
j tomac and Rio Grande there.
obliged to be a cantonment for a
vision of troops. Camp Gordon is the Ji
logical place to put tnem. It is the
only existing place where they can B||
be put. If they are put elsewhere: a H
new cantonment will have to be built M
No criticism put»iipon the war .de
partment has been half so severe as ■
the criticism congress; would put upon ■
itself for scrapping Camp Gordon. I- j
am going to whip the house bill wheat
■it combs to the senate, because no, K
j man can stand up and defend such a. IB
waste of the public money as the M
■ scrapping of Camp Gordon would in-
II volve.” . ■
Stuuics I£aterial
i Senator Smith gave particular at- J ';
I tendon to the class of materials a.nd
I the kind of workmanship that went
into the construction of Cqrnp Gpr-,
dop, for the purpose of answering a *
recent assertion by a certain captain
ot the. corfts, isritl-fy-
- jSg» ittioW ... 'c'rtngt CTw’ohal'
gating committee, that both were Sg
poor. He satisfied himself beyond /e
question that the tacts do not sup
port any such assertion, but on the
contrary that the buildings are good
lor fifty years if protected by paint.
The senatqr gave out the follow
in gs 1 ntement concerning his plans
for defeating the attempt to scrap
the cantonment,
"Atlanta was selected by Gcrieral ”
Wood in 1916 as the place ip the
southeastern states where theie
should be located a large ' amp tr
fort, where in time of pea e
would b- stationed a division
troops, t roops to the an t.
between thirty and forty
The cor;. truction of Camp GordonWW
was partly due to this decision
General Wood’s' and partly td meet W
Ihe emergency cqv.fed by our en • ■
terlng the warEJU'.’' ‘ 1 1
"I am ad vised’'that 'he work ar I
Camp txorddn is 'wearly all of a J
permanent ciiarketjer. The city of ■
Atlanta spent a large sqm to carry ®
water to Camp Gbrdon. Water- A
works were completed' by the
e’rnment .all over■ the camp. Hot
"cc Id water cacnt.lje’ furnished to
one of the buildings. The sewerage
is all built for. permanent “ervioe.
The disposal 'plant was constructed
at large expense arid thp sanitation ja
of Camp Gordon ,bs equal to of J®
the best city in‘the country.
“The main hospital at* Camp Gor- J
don will accomrrodate over fifteen
hundred men. It is constructed with
modern appliances and for p.nnan » g
ent service. The convalssceiht’ has •'•J
I’ital will, 'I understand, aceommp- fl
date more than fifteen hundred men. ’3
about the camp, I am Ji
advised, is built upon thp theory .if J
..permanent use. A small amount for ■
■Taint will be sufficient to pre w
'’serve the buildings now on the J
■ grounds tor many years.
i' "Even, with an army of two hun- »
fired and fifty or three hundred
thousand men, there must be a divi
sion located In the southeasterh
states. *Atlarita'is the point from
which the soldiers can be disiribut- I
ed to all parts of the southeast and ■']
even' to the north and the* Mexican '■
line,i with quick transports'.ir'' and
■minimum expense. There 's no oth
er point in the entire section from fl
the Potomac to the Mississippi f
which h?.s the permanent buildings ;
and the perfect preparation to take fJ
care of a division of soldiers.
Cost $12,000,CP0
"The government has’ spei,t about .
twelve millions of cTOHai's on Camp
Gordon. It could not*be reproduced *
today for a sum anything likely ha
It has cost.
“I am sure a the war" department ■
and the general! staff desire the re
tention of Grfmp Gordon. It would
be a horrible waste of public money •
to scrap it. I have arranged for- a
hearing before the senate committee
on military affairs, and am confi
dent of the result.
“I succeeded in placing upon the
military bi” 'n the winter 0f’1915-
16 a provision for vocafc|e*ial train
ing for privates in the army during
i peace. The vast military bill Car
j ried an appropriation for four mil- •
l lions of dollars for this purpose. J
’earnestly pray that many years xnav >
I pass before ou“ soldiers will be again
required upon the battlefield,
’ our plan of mi itar, organization
only require two years’ service
the colors and then three
the life.
is ipy
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