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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 S v.’\ ■'.< mm a: ■ the r-sult? ■B I i-di:.- -1 • : "' 1 |||il||p r- >:: w'.vil irea'Tmeut to ■ 1 ° f i ""' 1 Sfcfe'-'X.,. BB a.:'.. ■■teu Bl Coim:in ?) PLAN CORPORATION TO COMPRESS M HKM [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 I 1 j 1 wfcwt t mhHK. * 11 I /W K jf ' Ik i i kK j : IRf i -- k It > • T W wife, 'i 1 ; r \'- . . .Ji. .. ‘ .->■■■ 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 ' ‘ 1 ” •■iVi' : v."-, ’ > i 1 ■ * st Lripes for citizen's ' 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. Central t co 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 '■ 1 ' 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 ■ .ere*J ' iqflg . 'WJgSJvTi oiP z '\ ' ‘ ' Ct< J-' f> .40 '