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®he Mlmrtn SlemMMeeMfi Smtrmtl VOL. XXII. NO. 43. HOOVER OPPOSES MAKING LEAGUE ISSUE AT WILSON'S PROPOSAL ON RAIL WAGES AND ■ BILL ITSELF SCORED Attack Comes From Union * Officials Senator Cum.- mins Replies w Critics of . Measure in Senate WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Presi dent Wilson’s proposal for settlement of the railroad wage controversy and the compromise railroad bill, pend ing in the senate, were bitterly as sailed ini the conference here today j of the railroad union officials and f grievance committeemen wno were called to Washington to discuss’ the settlement policy laid down by the president. Indications were that a strong ele ment, perhaps a majority, of the’ union leaders would demand that railroad labor stand together in an appeal to the president to veto the Cummins-Esch measure because of Us labor provisions. Some regarded it as destroying all progress made during the negotiations with Direc tor General Hines towards a settle ment of their demands for higher pay. Representatives of the fifteen or ganizations concerned in the set-tle , ment proposal met -bi secret session in as -many different halls. Their purpose was to formulate their own views by majority rule and later meet in a general conference. Heat ed arguments which were admitted to have developed in practically eveiw meeting, were expected to be con tinued in the main conference." Cummins Defends Bill ’•lgnorance and malice have gross ly misrepresented the provisions and purpose of the Esch-Cummins rail road bill,” Senator Cumimns told the senate in urging it to pass the meas ure on which the house took final action Saturday. He replied to criticism of the clause of the bill which guarantees the roads a 5 1-2 per cent return on their investment, and declared he could not understand the assaults against the labor sections of the measure. Presenting the conference report. Senator Cummins emphasized that the rate guarantee seption did not take a dollar out of the public treas ury. ‘Tn order to prejudice it among the people, it has been termed a guaranty of income,” he said. ‘‘This is not true.. There is a guaranty in the bill of the standard return and against deficits continuing for six months after the railways are returned to their owners; but its/u --cessity is "The rate-makiwg section is not a guaranty. Not a dollar is to be paid from the treasury on account of its provisions, and no obligation what ever on the. part of the government is created.” Income Dependent He said the bill merely directed the interstate commerce commission that in so far as was practicable it should make rates that would yield a net operating income of s’,£> per ‘ cent ‘‘upon the true value of the rail- ' vay property.” The income would depend wholly upon location of the. ( roads, the lowa senator- pointed’out, ' asserting that some roads would earn ucit more than 2 per cent. JTo call it a guaranty is to he ; either maliciously false or stupidly ignorant,” he declared. Discussing the anti-strike section on which the. senate conferees yield ed, Senator Cummins said they ‘‘yielded simply to supreme necessi ty,” and that they recognized that a railroad bill had to pass by March i or ‘‘chaos would ensue.” ‘‘With respect to the labor provi sions of the conference report,” Sen ator Cummins added. “I am utterly unable to understand the supposition which they have aroused among la bor leaders, for they leave all free men, whether employes or employers, to do whatsoever they please at any time, at any place or under any cir cumstances.” Mr. Wilson today was drawing his reply to the suggestion of the rail road unions for an arbitration trib unal independent of that set up in the Esch-Cummins bill. He may sub mit it to the railroad men today. Rail Director Hines, who called at the White House today for a con ference with Secretary Tumulty, is preparing for the president a sum mary of the railroad bill. Governor Edwards to Fight Plank ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Feb. 23. Governor Edwards, of New Jersey, announced here Sunday his intention of going to the national Democratic convention at San Francisco prepared to fight for an anti-prqiiibition plank in the party platform. He criticized William Jennings Bryan, wno he des ignated ‘‘a man without a state,” and declared that her* had no fear that Mr. Bryan will seriously injure the party should the, convention take an anti-prohibition stand. Governor Edwards said he was convinced that both parties must face the prohibi tion issue as the livest that will come before the national conven tions. “I don't care who is the party’s .candidate,” said the governor. “My wnly concern is to see this question of national prohibition threshed out. It is not a matter of liquor; it’s a question of principle. Personal lib ertv and state’s rights are involved.” H E A LS~Sf 0 MACFTfR 0 U - BLE AND TAPE WORM AT HOME A sample home treatment which gives quick and lasting relief in all v forms of stomach trouble, including tape worms or other worms, is being supplied- to sufferers by Walter A. Reisner, Box C-64, Milwaukee, Wis. He is so confident of results that he guarantees absolute satisfaction in every case or there is no charge -for the treatment. If you suffer i from stomach trouble or any kind of worms, send him your name and address today as this notice may nO V 3 T ) P par again.—ifAdvt.l PRICE OF MEAT MUST BE BASED ON WHOLESALERS’ CHICAGO. Feb. 23. —Retail meat dealers have been warned by United States district attorneys that they must reduce their prices as the wholesale prices' drop, or submit their books to investigation by fed eral agents. This was revealed here by. United Attorney , General Palmer, while en route to Topeka,’ Kan. “The price of meat has been fall ing for three months, but the retail era have not reduced their prices, declaring that their supplies .were old stock purchased at higher prices,” said Mr. Palmer. “The old stocks should be ex hausted by this time and unless the price to the consumer comes down soon, we will have to look into the questions of dealers' profits.” Philippines Indorse Major General Wood As G. 0. P. Candidate MANILA, P. 1., Feb. 23.—Major General Leonard Wood was indorsed as the republican, candidate for president and a platform urging postponement of withdrawal of American sovereignty over the Phil ippin Islands until the masses of Filipinos are capable of ex- ercising the franchise, was adopted at the republican insular convention here today. Census Estimate Makes New York Biggest City NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—Estimates on New York’s census returns for 1920 give the city more than 7,000,- 000 inhabitants, according to census officials. The population of the Metropolitan district, which includes suburbs not actually belonging /'to the city, is said to exceed 8,500,000. These figures would make New York indisputably the biggest city in the world, London coming sec ond with aboyt'l,ooo,ooo less both for the city proper and the London metropolitan area. i E MORE 1 E lO”DAYS — IO Left in Which to Take Advantage of THE CL ÜBBING OFFER 1! 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Editor The Journal: I think wtdeputx licity should be given to the action of the Democratic state executive committee at a recent meeting when it passed a rule reading as follows: “In any case where 100 or more white Georgia Democrats file with the committee by April 1, a petition requesting that the name of any man be placed upon the ballot, his name shall be So placed.” Your newspaper reports that sub sequently the committee interpreted the rule that the words “any man” must be changed to “any Democrat” and it was stated that a subcom mittee directed Secretary Hiram Gardner to write a letter to Mr. Her bert Hoover to ask him whether or not he is a Democrat. The action of the subcommittee appears to be political strategy to keep Mr. Hoover's name off the pri -1 on Page 6, Column 7) ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1920. URGES DRIVE ON TAX DODGERS TO SAVE A BILLION WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. —An ap propriation to finance a $1,000,000,- 000 drive on tax dodgers has been asked of congress by Internal Reve nue Commissioner Roper, it was learned today. This amount, Roper informed the house appropriations committee, can be brought intd the treasury if con gress will allow sufficient funds for a thorough audit of all tax returns. - Audits of the 1916 and part of the 1917 returns have netted $200,- 000,000, but the internal revenue bu reau is so far behind on its work that a large additional force of audi tors is needed to bring more money due the government into the treasury at this time, Mr. Roper said. For this purpose he asked for an appro-1 priation of $3,000 to employ 750 audi tors and 600 auxiliary clerks to go over faulty returns. A preliminary investigation also has shown that the government has been paid money on income and oth er taxes to which it is not entitled, and it is estimated that the refunds during this year will total $12,000,- 000. As to the taxes which the govern ment hopes to recover, Mr. Roper said: 14-We find upon examination that two-thirds of these unassessed taxes lie in a group of about 15,000 returns. These are the so-called consolidated returns —that is returns of corpora tions of all kinds which have many subsidiary companies probably run ning from five to twenty subsidiary companies per return. These 15,000 consolidated returns probably repre sent 100,000 individual company re turns. An audit of 302.938 cases has netted the government $125,705,422.” Taboo Spitting to Halt Influenza BOSTON. As a preventative against the spread of influenza the board of health has started a cam paign against spitting. Spitters have been fined $5 for using elevated and sttbway stations for cuspidors. FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD MOVES TO REGULATE CREDIT Annual Report Designs Course to Aid in Restoring Pre-War Equilibrium in Business WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. Deter mination of the federal reserve board to exert the full power of the re serve banking system in regulating and controlling the credit situation —a course designed to aid commerce and industry in restoring a pre-war equilibrium—was disclosed in the board’s annual report, made public t day. With this as its announced peace time policy, the board was prepared to “test the ability of the system to check expansion and to 'induce healthy liquidation.” The board ex plained it was aware of the implied power to rectify the condition which confronts the country. This power necessarily followed the authority for and employment of an elastic system of reserve credit and note ’ sue, it w . added. Recommendations also were made to congress for amendment of the reseiwe act which would permit re serve banks, with approval of the federal reserve board, to establish normal maximum lines of credit ac commodation for member banks. An as_ ’.ding scale of rates would be provided in event money was bor rowed above the maximum line. This, tl. board believed, would induce banks to hold their own large bor rowers in check and thus work to the end that credit expansion on a large scale would be stopped. Warn ing was given that the country must guard igainst too rajlid deflation. While the board was in entire sym pathy with measures to overcome this evil, it pointed out that reme dies employed to correct deflation dies employed to correct Inflation Inflation itself. Hoover Asked to State \ Id 7 het her He Can Qualify Under Still Another Rule Quoting Version No. 3 of Rule Governing Democrat ic Primary, Secretary Gardner Sends Question ' naire to Former Food Ad ministrator Hoover’s Name Should Go on Ticket, Declares J. M. Vandiver, of Rome ROME, Ga., Feb. 23. —"I believe Herbert Hoover’s name should be allowed to go on Mie ticket iry the state Democratic preferential pri mary regardless of whether he declares himself to be a Demo crat or not,” said John M. Van diver, Seventh district member of the today. “If he is not a Democrat,” said Mr. Vandiver, “the Democrats of Geor gia won’t vote for him.” Three different versions of the rule of eligibility for candidates in Geor gia’s Democratic preferential pri mary, to be held April 20, have been issued by Hiram L. Gardner,, secre tary of the Democratic state execu tive committee, and secretary of the subcommittee on ryles of the state committee. Version No. 1, given by him to the press on the afternoon of Friday, February 6, immediately after the meeting at which the subcommittee drafted the rules of the primary,’ provided that the name of “any man” might be placed upon the ballot by a petition signed bv cne hundred or more "white Georgia Democrats.” Version No. 2, given by him under date of Februlry 21, in a communica tion addressed to the editor of the A r '.anta Constitut'on, that the name of “any Dcmeerat qualified for the . esideney” could be plac ed upon the ballot by one hundred or .lUl'f ‘qualified white Democrats. 'Version No. ", given by him under date of February 10, in a circular sent to the chairman of the several Democratic county executive com mittees, prov.ded that the name of "any Democrat qualified for the pres idency of the United States” could be placed upon the ballot by a petition signed by one hundred or more “reg istered whl e Democrats of the state • of Georgia, qualified to vote in said J primary.” Questionnaire To HooVor i But version No. 1 is not the ’ version accepted by the subcommit tee as the official version, although ,1t was published in a number 'of newspapers over the state and was accepted by the public as the cor rect version and was not challenged i by Secretary Gardner,* so far as any body knows, until after the secret ' meeting held by the subcommit tee in Atlanta last Thursday aft ernoon. At that meeting it was decided that candidates in the primary must ; be avowee! Democrats; and c.ecided that Herbert Hoover must? ■ avow himself a Democrat before his' | name could be placed upon the bal ' lot in response to petitions bearing ■ more than the requisite number of * which had been receiv ed; and further decided that Secre rary Gardner should address a ‘ let- | ter to Mr. Hoover requesting him ; to say whether he considered him i self eligible under xersion No. 3, I which the subcommittee seems to l have taken as the official version. ! Acting in pursance of the suo I committe’s directions, Secretary I Gardner has mailed from Eatonton J a letter requesting Mr. Hoover to i make known to the subcommittee ! whether or not he is a Democrat. ; This letter as telegraphed to The | Journal by Mr. Gardner Is as fol i lows: » Text of the Letter “To Hon. Herbert C. Hoover, The I Raleigh, Washington, >D. C.—My I dear Mr. 'Hoover: At a meeting of the Democratic executive committee of the state of Georgia, held in At lanta February 6, 1920, a Demo i cratic presidential primary was or ! dered to be held- in Georgia April 20. ■ 1920. “A committee’of seven was ap pointed to make all necessary rules, and regulations to govern said pri mary. The committee formulated and promulgated through its secre tary rules, a copy of which I have the honor to enclose herein, dated I February 10, 1920. Among the rules is the follow ’ ing: ‘Each candidate for the Demo i cratic nomination for* president shall ; file with the secretary of the state j Democratic executive committee no- I tice candidacy by noon,\April 1, 192th The name of any Democrat, qualified for the presidency of the United States, may be placed upon the ballot to be used in said presi dential primary provided one hun dred or more registered white Demo ! crats, qualified to vote in said pri- ■ mary. shall petition the state Demo -1 cratic executive committee, through ] its secretary, to have his name thus i placed, said petition to be filed with j the secretary of the state Democratic |. executive committee by noon, April 1. 1920.’ “In view of recent newspaper in terviews purporting come from you. we do not know whether or not i it would be your desire to qualify under these rules to hgve your name placed upon the ballot in the Demo cratic primary we propose to hold. “One hundred or more registered white Democrats of Georgia have pe | titioned this committee that your i name be thus placed and it is the desire of the committee that you ex press. to us, yourself, whether or not you would meet the require ments made prior to the suggestion ified for the presidency of the Unit ed States.’ “You will, I am sure, appreciate the fact that we are proposing a Democratic primary and will give me a. reply at your earliest conven ience. With assurances of highest regards, I am, cordially yours, “HIRAM L. GARDNER, “Secretary State Democratic Ex ecutive Committee of Georgia. “February 23, 1920.” Evolution of Bule The rule of eligibility for candi dates in the primary has undergone a remarkable and interesting process of evolution in the past two of three weeks. As will be recalled, the Democratic state executive committee met in the Kimball house in Atlanfb. at 10 o’clock on the morning of Friday, February 6, and at tjiat meeting adopted a resolution ordering a state wide preferential primary to be held April 20 for the purpose of ascer taining the choice of the Democrats of Georgia for the presidential nomi nation of their party. A sub-committee of seven was ap pointed to draft the rules and regu lations for the holding of the pri mary. On this sub-committee were named the following: James J Flynt, Griffin, chairman, he being chairman of the state com mittee; Hiram L. Gardner, Eatonton, secretary, he being secretary of the state committee; Fermor Barrett, To coa; Miller S. Bell, Milledgeville; H. H. Dean, Gainesville; J. H. Milner, Eastman; T. H. Parker, Moultrie. The sub-committee met on the aft ernoon of Friday, February 6, in Chairman Flynt’s room in the Kim ball house, and drafted rul«f and regulations to govern the primary. After that meeting Secretary Gard ner gave to John W. Hammond, the Atlanta correspondent of the Macon Telegraph, the Augusta Chronicle and the Columbus Enquirer Sun, a dictated copy of the rules which had been adopted. Mr. Hammond states /that Secretary Gardner dictated the rules to him in his office in the Kimball house, and that he wrote them off on his typewriter, word for word, as they were dictated to him. Version Ko. 1 The rules thus issued by Secretary Gardner were widely printed in newspapers over the state. Mr. Ham mond furnished them to his papers —the Macon Telegraph, the Augusta Chronicle and the Columbus En quirer-Sun—and also furnished them to the Atlanta Constitution and the Savannah Morning News. They were published not only in these newspa pers, ,oq the mornitig of .Saturday, February 7, but were published also in several afternoon newspapers of tho same date, including The Atlanta Journal. So far as can be learned, Secretary Gardner made no. correc tion in the published version. These rules as thus given out and thu^ pub lished contained Version No. 1 of the eligibility of candidates of the pri mary, and this version was as fol lows: Every candidate for the Dem ocratic nomination for president must flic with the secretary of the state executive committee a statement or certlfigpte of his candidacy on or before April 1. Provided, however, that in any case where 100 or more white Georgia Democrats file with the committee by that date a peti tion requesting that the name of any man be placed upon the bal lot, Ills name shall be so placed. Acting upon this rule, several hun dred “white Georgia Democrats” of Hall county, headed by Col. H. H. Perry, a prominent Gainesville law yer, and including such men as the judge and solicitor of the superior court and the mayor ot’ Gainesville, signed a petition requesting that the name of Herbert Hoover be placed upon the ballot. took it for granted that Mr. Hoover was “a man” within the meaning of the rule above quoted, and presumably they felt that his democracy was satisfac tory to them. Their petition was duly forwarded to Secretary Gardner. Several other movements looking to Hoover petitions were started in va rious parts of the state. It looked as if Hoover was gaining headway. Version No. 2 After these petitions had been re ceived, and after it had become ap parent that Hoover was to be a fac tor in the Georgia primary, the sub committee held in Atlanta last Thursday aftern<?on, February 19, a secret, meeting. As a result of the meeting the nature of which was not disclosed to the public, it was the subcommittee’s decision that Hoover must avow himself a Democrat be fore his name could be placed upon the ballot, and in accordance with this decision Secretary Gardner was directed to address him a letter re questing him to state whether he considered himselfr eligible. When the news of this meeting •leaked out to the public through the. newspapers, various explanations and numerous protests were imme diately forthcoming. The first in formation concerning the meeting was to the effect that the subcom mittee had amended the rule of eligi bility so as to require that candi dates in the primary must be Dem ocrats. This, however, was denied by Chairman • Flynt, who said the committee had merely “interpreted” the rule to have that application la the case of Mr. Hoover. v Then Secretary Gardner came for ward in a card addressed to the editor of the Atlanta Constitution in v.hich he asserted that the rule origi nally. adopted on February 6 was a. rule requiring candidates to be Dem ocrats and further asserted that there had been no change in the rule, and he gave it as follows in Version No. 2: Each candidate for the Demo cratic nomination for president shall file with the secretary of this committee, by noon on April 1, notice of his candidacy. The name of any Democrat quali fied for tho presidency shall be placed upon the ballot on the petition of one hundred or more qualified white Democrats, said petitiofl to he filed prior to noon, April 1. Version Ko. 3 It will be observed that the lan guage of 1 the rule in Version No. Stents a copy. $1.23 A YEAR. POLLS URGESAGREEMENT ' TO RESERVATIONS BHREATYFRIENDS Former Food Administrator, in Johns Hopkins Speech, Declares for Sanity in U. S. Relations With Europe - BALTIMORE, MD„ Feb. 23.—Her bert C. Hoover, former food admin istrator, declared today in an address at Johns Hopkins university his op position to making ratification of the treaty with Germany an issue in the presidential campaign. He insisted the injection of the argu ments for and against reservation.* would “obscure our pressing do mestic issues by conflict over a question in which the country al ready has made up its mind, ’ and added “it is my impression that there is no party credit in this posi tion.” Hope for immediate ratification of the treaty rested, he said, in rhe acceptance by “lesser reservation* ists” of the proposals of the "mild reservationists.” The two combined, he said, could secure ratification. “It also appears to us,” he contin ued, “that even from the point of. view of the ‘lesser reservationists’ they will have secured all of thA major functions and values of the league. If it be put into being and if it proves its living value in the world, no one can doubt, that zany necessary changes (will be to it by common consent as the years go on. For my part, if the league cannot prove its value under the lat-- est proposals of the ’mild tionists’ it will never prove them under the proposals of the lesser xeservationnists.’" The present danger Europe is fac ing, Mr. Hoover said, is not so much a revolutionary cataclysm as the "steady degeneration of the standard of living and the slow de cay of the forces of stability.” Re stored productivity, he insisted, is essential if the allies are to receive the maximum reparation. "Until then we shall not have real peace,” he said. “It will ba delayed as long as we hang Ul9 treaty in the air, for we are a of it.” People Want League “I do not believe the adherence of the American people to tho league requires any demonstration,” he con tinued. "It has been under discus sion for eight months. It has been given able debate and consideration in its every complexion. I believe the majority of our people ure con vinced of thq, necessity of reserva tions .with the league. Both par ties to the conflict appear to con cede this. The conflicting groups ever the character of the reserva tions have gradually abandoned their extreme ground and have come closer and closer to a common mind. It would appear to an outsider that both sides were in agreement on all the great major ideas of the league and the major ideas of reservations, but that they are in disagreement mostly over secondary questions in the reservations. In the meantime the world is held in suspense. In finite. misery goes on accumulating. Forces are set in motion that may yield new conflicts. Already the distrust and ''under mining of confidence and credit in the world has crippled our export market.” '■» Regarding the part the United States will take In the rehabilita tion of Europe, Mr. Hoover coun selled moderation. “We have two ex treme views among our people,” lv said, “upon the policies we shou’d adopt in all these matters. One con tends that the ideal is isolation^ — leave Europe to herself: the other contends for at least moral domina tion as a mission of international justice. Many of us want neither ex treme.” Assuming that the treaty would be ratified "some day”, in “some form” he expressed a nope that it might serve to bring about a reduc tion of armament and the “develop ment of engines of conciliation, of arbitration and codes and courts of international justice.” "We hope for its influence in th a j destruction of the economic barriers j set up before and since the war,” he continued, “which stifle- the recu peration of and the free entry tot our own commerce over the world. Some of us hope the league will not ’ interpose in international differences I except in the last stage necessary to • mitigate the growth of conflict. I Some of us have no liking for man dates of any European state, for we would thus plunge ourselves’ terri torially into Europe itself with a long train of dangers. Most of us have no ambitions to moral or other domination.” Flea For Teacher* Except where the interests of the United States are vitally concerned, Mr. Hoover declared himself as op posed to American membership on the various missions provided for in the treaty for the settlement of questions raised by the war. The loaning of money except to alleviate distress was also opposed. “Our best assistance in healing Europe’s wounds lies in the promotion of the processes of private com-, merce,” he said, “not in loans from our government.” Mr. Hoover’s references to the peace treaty and its ratification was preceded by the presentation of statistics calculated to indicate what he called the “heart-breaking under payment” of school teachers. There are, he said, 110,000 teaching posi tions in the public schools that now are vacant or filled by teachers below standard. The number of teachers receiving less than $450 a year he placed at 120,000. Salary increases had been granted in some cases, he said, but these ranged from 10 to 25 per cent while the cost of living had increased from SO to S 5 per cent. “There is not a university in the United States,” he said, "that is not losing month by month some, of its best ability by the