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Sljc Atlanta jlemMiedd® Wumal VOL. XXII. NO. 44. NEWYMKATTORNEY. ONCE PROGRESSIVE, 1 SUCCEffIS_LANSING Bainbridge Colby's Appoint i ment Comes as a Surprise. Baker or Polk Were Ru mored as Slated WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—Bain bridge Colby, of New York, who was one of the leaders in the Progressive party under Theodore Roosevelt, wUJ Robert Lanslag as secretary •a state. Announcement of his se lection by President Wilson was made today at the White House. His nomination was sent to the senate late this afternoon. Mr. Colby’s appointment came as even more of a surprise than the res ignation of Mr. Lansings at the re quest of President Wilson. The first hint of Mr. Colby’s ap pointment came a few minutes be fore the formal announcement by Secretary Tumulty. The early re ports that he would get the place were not generally credited. Following the announcement of the appointment Mr. Colby appeared at the White House and was taken to see President Wilsoi*. With Shipping Board I His latest connection with the Wil son administration was when he was a member of the United States ship ping board. He resigned from that position a few months ago. Mr. Colby is a lawyer. His home is in New York. He was born In St. Louis in 18611. During the Republican national convention of 1912 he was in charge of the contest to seat Roosevelt dele gates. He was one df the .founders of the progressive party and dele gate to its first convention. During the war he was a commis sioner of the federal shipping board and a member of the emergency fleet corporation. He was a member of , the American Mission to the inter allied conference at Paris in 1917. Mr. Colby was a life-long Republi- I can until the famous Bull Moose bolt i at the • Chicago convention in 1912. He had been actively identified with ‘ the candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt lor the Republican nomination for I president that year and was in charge of contests to seat the Roose velt delegates in the Chicago conven tion. * X When Colonel Roosevelt bolted the i convention, Mr. Colby helped to found the Progressive party and was a delegate to its Chicago convention in 1912. He continued an active leader in that party and in 1914 and again in 1916 he was a Progressive candidate for senator York state. - , . When Colonel Roosevelt threw the weight of his influence to Charles EVans Hughes in the 1916 presiden tial race, Mr. Colby identified him self with the Democratic party. Mr. Colby was born at St. Louis fifty-one years ago and .graduated from William college, He spent one year at the Columbia Law school and has practiced law tn New York since 1892. He was a member of the New York assembly in 1901-02. Debate Due in Senate When Mr. Colby’s appointment gets on the senate floor for Confirmation, debate on the Lansing-Wilson clash is expected to result.. Immediately after Mr. Lansing’s resignation, a number of senators stated privately they intended to look into the affair when submission of the name of a new secretary for congressional ap proval gave them an opportunity to do sd/ As the appointment may be taken up in executive session, this debate is likely to take place in the committee which will consider the nomination. On leaving the White House Mr. Colby said* "I had a long and unhurried con ference with the president which impressed me with the great confi . dence he has reposed in me. I hope I shall not prove inadequate to these great duties.” Mr. Colby said that pending con sideration of his nomination by the senate he did not desire to make a further statement. A bitter fight will be waged in the senate against confirmation of Mr. ■ Colby as secretary of state, several 1 senators declared today on hearing i of his appointment. . • Opinion among Republican senators, I with the exception of a few progres- I sives, was practically unanimous I that Mr. Colby ‘‘won’t do.” But no ■ member would permit his name to! be tised. Will Oppose Selection Though it is unusual for the sen ate to oppose the president’s selec tion of a cabinet member, this one will be fought to the finish, these senators declared positively. It was recalled by Senators today that when he was nominated for the shipping board Mr. Colby’s confirma tion was vigorously opposed in the commerce committee and in the sen ate, and he got through by the nar rowest of margins in both bodies. Both New York senators. Messrs. Calder and Wadsworth, fought him at that time. His attacks on the senate critics or the League of Nations also may have something to do with intensify ing the fight on him. He went int® several states whose senators oppose the league and attacked them. Mis souri wap an example cited today. Mr. Colby made speeches assailing Senator Reed, who would not discuss the appointment today. President Urges Oklahoma Suffrage WASHINGTON. Feb. 26.—Presi dent Wilson today sent to the Okla homa legislature a message urging ratification of the suffrage amend ment.*' H E ALS STC!MAOH TRO U - BLE AND TAPE WORM AT HOME A sample home treatment which gives quick and lasting relief in all f firms of stomach trouble, including tape worms or other worms, is being supplied to sufferers by Walter A. Reisner, Box C-64, Milwaukee, Wis. lie is so confideftV. of results that h 4 guarantees absolute satisfaction in every case or there is no charge for the treatment. If you suffer from stomach trouble or any kind of worms, send him your name and V address today as this notice may not appeal* again.—(Advt.) Hoovers Name Must Go on Primary Ballot THE DEMOCRACY of HOOVER The following principles for which Herbert Hoover stands have all been enumerated by himself in signed articles and public speeches. They have been compiled by H. F. Burton, staff correspondent of the Newspaper Enterprise association, and published in newspapers all over the United States. DEMOCRACY means the progress of the average man. In business affairs democ racy should limit itself to preventing the rule over the many by the dollars con trolled by the few. Managers of capital are laborers sifted out by competition in a contest of intelli gence, skill and character. The object of economic policy must be to improve the standard of living to all, Man works to get things and service and for saving in old age and for protection of his dependents. Socialism will be here when man Avorks for work’s sake and service to his fellowman —and then it won’t be necessary. Trade unions safeguard opportunity. The right to combine implies the right to bar gain collectively. Corporations get too big when they dominate in wages, prices or production. Nationalization of industry fails where all socialism /fails—by destroying the impulse for efficiency and initiative. The price we pay for the privilege of the play of initiative, ability and character "is that some people get more than they deserve. Inheritance taxes ought to be applied to reducing the public debt or for development of rivers and other national properties. The excess profits tax stimulates waste and is paid by the ultimate consumer. America ought to help Europe help herself by furnishing her temporarily food, raw materials, tools and credit. The League of Nations offers hope of the ending of wars and permits economy in-mil itary expenditures. I’m not for any party dominated by men opposed to free speech or free assemblage or free .representation. • I’m not for any party dominated by men who hope for socialism or other destruction of individual initiative. . The well-grounded discontent won’t be cured until the misery due to selfishness has been rooted out Europe, with its 450 million people, is producing enough for only 350,000,000, large ly because of socialistic impulses which assume: . • - - That a man will work as hard for love of his fellowman as for himself, and That some official can best pick out for a man the kind of work he should do instead of letting him choose his own line of work, and That something has been devised that is better than the school of competition in fitting workers to the places where they can do best. The American substitute for the socialistic disintegration of Europe must be founded in a practical American way, on American ideas, on the American philosophy of life, on th'e normal development of our natural institution, on the fundamental fact’that every section of this country, the farmers, the city workers, the professional men, the employers are in terdependent on each other for maximum production and better distribution of results. 12 ■ MORE DAYS -12 Left in Which to Take Advantage of the “BIG SIX” CLUBBING OFFER!! Beginning with the issue of March 9, 1920, the Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal which has been coining ■ to you twice a week will be changed to the Atlanta Tri-Weekly Journal, coming three times a week. In this day of progress and advancement we feel that you cannot afford to miss this opportunity to place on your family reading table the very best newspapers, farm papers and magazines that are obtainable. 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In fact, he declines to enter the primary in Georgia. It concerns the right of the Democrats in Georgia to vote for whom they please. “Mr. Hoover has proved himse.if to be more of a Democrat than the subcommittee which has changed, the rules. He is more of a Democrat than some of our national representa tives, who, though electee! as Demo crats. have been voting against the administration and party principles.” HOOVER'S NAME SHOULD GO ON TICKET, SAYS ‘NEWS' ROME. GA.. Feb. 26.—The Rome News said in an editorial last Mon day: “A preferential primary would, not be what it Should be if the voters are not permitted to express their preference for whomsoever they please, and if Hoover is a good e..ough Democrat forth J members of that party to vote for him, he is good enough to have his name on the ticket.” The News as a Democratic news paper believes that Hoover’s name should be placed en the ballot in the Georgia Preferential Primary, regardless of whether he declares prior to the primary that he is a Democrat if the rules adopted by the committee will not permit this the rules should be amended. (Signed) Robert H. Clagett, fnanaging editor. HOOVER NOT ELIMINATED BY TELEGRAM, TRIBUNE-HERALD ROME, Ga., Feb. 26.—1 n the opin ion bf the Tribune-Herald, Mr. Hoover’s telegram in no wise al ters the situation in Georgia, hut is merely a consistent adherence to his attitude throughout, namely, that he is not an active and avowed candidate for the Democratic nomi -nation.- He dores not state "that lie is not now a. Democrat, but says he was not iidentified with the party before the War and does not claim identify with it because of his war service. This newspaper believes in the fullest and freest possible expres sion of the people’s will in this and in all other political matters it holds that if the Democrats of Geor gia wish to instruct their delegates to the national Democratic conven tion to vote for Mr. Hoover, they should be given an opportunity to so express themselves. TRIBUNE HERALD. Text of Mr. Hoover's Telegram, in Reply To Secretary Gardner NEW YORK, February 26, 1920. Hon. Hiram L. Gardner. Secretary State Democratic Executive Committee, Eatonton. Ga. I feel confident that it is not necessary for me to dwell at length upon my gratitude to you for the honor implied in your letter of February 22. I specially appreciate it since I was not identified with the Democratic party before the war. and my official connection with the government has been solely a war service, and consequently not of a partisan character. I have not been able to persuade myself that any real pub lic service will be performed by injecting myself into the race for the nomination to the greatest honor at the disposal of the American people. Therefore, aside from any other reason, I do not intend to file my name. HERBERT HOOVER. STEADY INCREASES SHOWN IN PRICE DF FOOD IND CLOTHING WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—The fol lowing statement, presenting com parative statistics showing the rise or decline in prices of retail and wholesale food at 'I other commodities ay reported by fifty leading vAmer ican cities, has been issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor: “According to reports received by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of La bor from the retail dealers in fifty cities, the av ge family expend iture for food was two per cent high er on January 15. 1920. than-on ’De cember 15, 1919. The cost in De cember was 2.6 per cent higher than it had been in any previous m nth. These 'igures show an increase of nine per cent since January, 1919. and an increase of 104 per cent since January, 1913. The comparisons are based on the average retail prices of the following articles, weighed ac cording to the consumption of the average family: Sirloin Steak, round steak, ib roast, chuck roast, plate beef, pork chops, bacon, ham. lard, hens, flour, corn meal, eggs, butter, milk, bread, potatoes, sugar, cheese, rice coffee and tea. Since January, 1919. monthly re tail prices of food have been secured for forty-four food articles. During the month from December 15, 1919, to January 16, 1920, twenty-nine of the forty-four articles of food for which prices were secured in 1919 increased as follows: Cabbage, thir ty-three pei 1 cent; potatoes, twenty six per cent, granulated sugar, twenty-three ;cr cent: onions, eleven per cent; lamb and rolled oats, eight per cent, each; hens, seven per cent; plate beef, six per cent; flour, five per cent; sirloin steak, rib roast, chuck roast, bread and cream and ri.ee, two per cent, each; ham, evap orated milk, macaroni, baked beans, tea, coffee and bananas, one per cent, each. Bacon, nut margarine, cheese and crlsco each increased less than five-tentlis of one per cent. The eleven articles which decreased in price s were: Strictly -fresh eggs, eight per cent; butter, five per cent; lard and canned tomatoes, three 'per cent each; pork chops, storage eggs and oranges, two per cent, each; fresh milk, canned corn, canned peas and prunes, one per cent, each. Prices remain unchanged for oleo margarine, corn menl, corn flakes and navy beans. Changes in One Year ; During the year period. January, ; 1919, ito January, 1920, twenty-five ; c the forty-two articles for which prices were secured on both dates increased a 0- follows: Onions. 120 per cent; cabbage, ninety-eight per cent; potatoes, sixty—nine per cent; granulated sugar, sixty-five per cent; raisins, fifty-three per cen canned salmon, sixteen per cent; crisco, thirteen per cent; cream of wheat ; and bananas, eleven per cent; oleo margarine and strictly fresh eggs, ten per cent, each; bread, eigh; per cent; fresh milk and corn meal, six per cent, eacl • hens and butter, five ‘per cent, each; evaporated milk and storage, eggs, four per cent, each; lard, two per cent; and lamb -nd tea, one per cent, each. Articles which decreased in price during the year were: Navy beans, eighteen per jent; plate beef, sixteen per cent; bacon, fourteen per cent; canned tomatoes, eleven per cent: chuck roast and baked beans, ten per cent, each; pork chops, eight per cent; ham and canned corn, six per cent; round steak five per cent; rib roast, f per cent; cheese and canned peas, two pej- cent, each; and sirloin steak, nut margarine and oranges, one per cent, each; The price of cornflakes was the same as in January, 1919. Soviet Russia Said To Seek Peace With The United States LONDON, Feb. 26-—The soviet com missary of foreign affairs has dis patched notes to the United States. Japan and Rumania, offering them peace with soviet Russia, according to a wireless dispatch from Mos cow, received here today. STATE DEPARTMENT HAS NOT RECEIVED MESSAGE WASHINGTON, Feb. £6.—State de partment officials said ■ today they had not received any communication from the Russian soviet government proposing “peace” between the United States and soviet Russia. SENATORS REED AND FDANCE BITTER IN ATTACK ON LEAGUE WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Another broadside of denunciation was loosed by irreconcilable opponents of the peace treaty today when the sen ate took up the subject under an agreement to keep it constantly un der consideration until disposed of. Senators France, Republican, Maryland, and Reed, Democrat, Mis souri, led off for the irreconcilables, the former characterizing the treaty as an instrument of “hate and de struction” and the latter calling it a “serpent of treason.” The debate began after the senate had voted with only a few scatter ing “noes” to pass over article ten until action had. been taken on all the other proposed reservations. The motion was made by Senator Lodge, the Republican leader, and although I Senator Knox. Republican, Pennsyl vania, one of the irreconcilable group, said he could not see the wis dom of delaying a decision, no roll call was demanded. Senator France, presenting formal ly the resolution he offered several i days ago for a declaration of peace, declared the reservations discussion had descended to “sophistry” and -/“mere quibbling over language.” Neither the Republican or Demo cratic reservations proposed, he said, would materially modify the Leaguo of Nations. The France resolution also pro vides for an international conference to consider a concert for peace, but provides that this authorization shal Ibe ineffective© if a president pledged for the league with or with out reservations shall be elected next fall. By this method, the Mary land senator argued, the presidential campaign could be made a referen dum on acceptance of the present league covenant. , Beed Bitter “This serpent of treason must be killed a second time.” Senator Reed, of Mossouri, Democrat, in opening debate on the treaty. “Any senator is warranted in taking any amount of time he pleases to discuss it.” Senator Reed brought the name of Bainbridge Colby, newly-named sec retary of state, into the discussion at the very beginning of his speech. “One of the men who most assid ously misrepresented the League of Nations to the people of the United States, has just been named secre tary of state.” said Senator Reed. “I simply remark that if he doesn’t know anything more about the league and the foreign affairs of this coun try than he did when he was out in my state making speeches, he needs a long and painful course of instruction. But on account of his acrobatic t ability he will doubtless be able to change his opinion as easily as he has in the past changed political parties.” Senator Ashurst, Arizona, came at once to Mr. Colby’s defense, declar ing he wanted to put into the record “an antidote for the poison Senator ’ Ree dwas trying to spread against Colby.” He said Mr. Colby is courageous and able. “I think a mistake was mad© in not nominating a Democrat,” added Senator Ashurst, ‘‘but you will look a long time before you will find a better man than Mr. Colby.” “What are some of these at tributes?” asked Senator Reed. “Did it take much courage to leave j.he Republican party and vote for Wil son? If it did then a lot of Ameri can citizens are as brave ac Mr. I Colby.” Senator Reed “’declares that “it takes more than the holy oil of I presidential approbation to save a' man Lom criticism in'the senate.” ■ Senator Ashurst said that Senator ; Reed ..as “a master of infective and I sarcasm.” Newfoundland Dog Saves Master’s Life NEW YORK, Fen. 26.—Every ef fort was being made today to save the life of “Prince,” a big Newfound land dog, shot by holdup men when he went to the aid of his master, Martin Matarch, a restaurant keeper who was being robbed. When the two armed men ordered Matarch to “throw up his hands” the dog entered from an adjoining room and leaped on the intruders as one fired a shot which grazed Matarch's wrist. One of the bandits was thrown to the floor but freed himself from the <lbg’s hold and shot him through** the stomach. Both thea tfled. Scents a < op: 51.25 A DEMAND NOT ABATED OR LIKELY TO ABATB SAYS COUJNEL PERRY E. S. Ault, of Charges That Subcommit* tee Held Originally Hoov* er’s Name Might Go o$ Ballot ' / - ? Having Read Me Out Os Both Parties, Let’s Get on With Issues —HERBERT HOOVER NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—Sen- ' ator Penrose having established that Herbert Hoover Is not a Republican and William J. Bryan having read him out of the Democratic party, the way is now clear to “get on with the before the country, Herbert Hoover declared in a statement to the United Press here today. “We are making decided progress toward the determina tion,” said Mr. Hoover, “for political parties on the solu tions of the great business and social issues for the next elec tion,” said .Mr. Hoover. “For r instance. Mr. Penrose has de clared I am not his kind of a Republican. Mr. Hearst has de clared I have not his variety of ' patriotism. I at once agree with these gentlemen. “Having now disposed of this momentous matter let us get' • on with the issues our, methods of taxation for in stance.” Herbert Hoover’s telegram to " Hiram Gardner, secretary of the atat« Democratic executive committee, re specting the forthcoming preferen tial primary, has confirmed and strengthened his friends in their de termination to press him as a candi date before the Democrats of Geor gia. Far from removing or eliminating Mr. Hoover from the field of Demo cratic ellgibles, his telegram to Sec retary Gardner is construed as leav ing the situation wholly unchanged, although its publication has develop ed diametrically opposite views among members of the state Demo cratic executive committee who were. 'Present at the first meeting of the subcommittee. ■ Colonel H. H. Perry, of Gainesvllle.i whose name heads the list of 100 Hall l I county Democrats, who filed Mr, < Hoover’s name as a candidate, is t insistent in the demand that Mr. Hoover’s name be placed upon the i ballot. ! Judge Jarnos J. Fly nt, of Griffin, ! chairman of tfie state committee, “re grets that Mr. Hoover did not sea | fit to qualify under the rules," which ;he declares with emphasis were formulated without having in nit nd the name of any candidate or pos-< sible candidate. At Issue with Flynt E. S. Ault, of Cedartown, a mem ber of the state committee, takes is sue with Judge Flynt, and declares unequivocally that he was present; at the meeting of the subcommittee when the rules were formulated and that it was then stated distinctly.' the rules would permit Mr. Hoover’s nanip to be presented to the Democrats of Georgia in the prefer ential primary. , • Lon J. McConnell, of Royston, Democratic war horse of thirty- sev en years’ activity, in view of Mr, Hoover's telegram, does not believa the Democrats of Georgia will tol erate any further attempt by the subcommittee to deprive the Demo crats of the right to vote for or against Mr. Hoover in the forthcom ing preferential primary. Colonel Perry, Mr. McConnell affd scores of other Democrats, without. waiving their inalienable rights a<4 citizens to vote as they think, read' in Mr. Hoover’s courteous telegram to Secretary Gardner modest sions that unquestionably qualify him ; to participate in the preferential, primary. Mr. Hoover makes it plain that while he has been identified with v the Democratic party since the declara tion of the war, he takes no -ereditJ for this affiliation because, like, many other patriotic Americans, hia was primarily a war service. Although Mr. Hoover makes no mention of the fact, it is a matter , of public record and a cause of Re publican resentment that in the las* campaign he espoused the cause o£ the Democratic party and appealed for Democratic support in the elec tion of the senate and house of rep resentatives. But Mr. Hoover, in hk message to Mr. Gardner, modestly ignores hl« services to the Democratic party and in a spirit of patriotism remarks that his labors were of a non-partisan character designed to help the gw*- ernment in its period of greatest' stress. Doesn’t Forbid Use Colonel Perry, Mr. McConnell and other point out further that Mr. f Hoover, in his message to the state committee secretary, refrains from forbidding the use of his name in » the Georgia preferential primary. He will not himself file his name as a candidate, nut his silence is eloquent and unmistakable concerning the ac tivities of his supporters in Hal! county, who are insisting that his n .ie be placed upon the ballot. Neither Colonel Perry nor any of his associates have received word, hint, or suggestion from Mr. Hoover or any of his close, advisers protesting against their action in propcflfc-ig him . I (Continued on Fage 6, Column 2) >