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c Mhmta Smmml VOL. XXII. NO. 46. SOLDIER SID MOVE ■LD NEK9 BONDS. IS CLAIM Leaders State That Credit Would Be Inflated and Cost of Living Increased. Still More WASHINGTON. March 4 Leaders of both parties in the house have determined to oppose any soldier aid legislation at this session of con gress, despite demands by organiza tions of service men for bonuses, vo cational education, farm and home loans. . The position of these leaders is that the value of the large amount of Liberty bonds outstanding would be jeopardized by the issuance ot additional bonds necessary t 6 finance any of the soldier aid programs, which call for financial outlays rang ing from $2,000,000,000 to $16,000,000,- 000. Would Hurt Bond Holders The market value of government bonds, now around 90 cents on the dollar, would drop down to between 75 and 80 cents, and it would be necessary to make the interest rate of the soldier aid bonds bear 6 per cent interest, Representative Madden, Illinois, member of the Republican steering committee, and Representa tive Garner, Democratic whip, said today. This much of decline in the price of Liberty bonds would mean' a loss to the 19,000,000 bond holders of nearly $2,500,000,000, Garner esti mated. In addition, the leaders say the program would increase the inllation of credit and send the cost of liv ing up another notch. Democrats on the ways and means committee are virtually solid in their opposition to bonus legislation. Rep resentatives Kitchin, North Carolina Hull, Tennessee? Henry T. Rainey, Il linois, and Dickinson, Missouri, have indicated their opposition during the hearings. Among the Republicans. Representative Longworth, Ohio, also a member of the Republican steer ing committee, does not favor bonus legislation at this time. •As a result of this opposition, i seems probable that the committee will give the service men a pledge to enact the legislation they ask within one, two or three years, or at a time when government revenues can be made to approach the expendi tures. So far the various service men’s organizations have failed to agree on what congress should do for their members, the American Legion, tire World War Veterans, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the private sol dier and sailors' legion and the rank and file association, all presenting different proposals. CLOTHING PRICES IN STATE TO BE FIXED BY MANGET Retail dealers in men’s and wom en’s clothing in all parts of Georgia will be required to limit their profits to 35 per cent on clothing selling up to $45, according to an order which will be issued within the next day or two by John A. Manget, fair price commissioner for Georgia. Mr. Man get has announced that such an order would be issued at once and made applicable to the entire state. Re strictions of this character now are in force in Fulton county. Mr. Manget’s action follows that of the Fulton County Fair Price com mission at its meeting Wednesday, when, after considerable discussion, the 35 per cent margin of profit re striction was retained in effect. An effort on the part of some members of the commission to abolish all re strictions on the sale of men's and women’s clothing was*defeated by the margin of one vote. Chairman Manget voted to retain the restric tion after the commission had regis tered a tie vote, 13 to 13. At Wednesday’s meeting a protest was made against pride-fixing by W. W. Orr, of the George Muse Cloth ing company, and by R. C. Alston, counsel for the retail clothiers. Mr. Orr declared that the merchants of Atlanta have not profiteered and will not do so. but he insisted that the greatly advanced wholesale prices now paid by the retailers make it necessary to charge correspondingly high retail prices. Greater capital now is needed to carry on a mer chandizing business, said Mr. Orr, • and the retailer often is made to suffer for ills over which he has no control. Verdict of Guilty Is Warranted in Newberry Case, Court Declares GRAND RAPIDS. Mich., March 4. Overruling all motions for further dismissals in the Newberry elections conspiracy case, Judge Clarence W. Sessions today held that conviction or acquittal of Truman H. Newberry would not necessarily mean a like outcome as to" the other eighty-four men on trial with the United .States senator. The court held that the prosecu tiqn had made out a prima facie vise, and that there was ample evi dence “to warrant a verdict of guilty ff the jury sees fit to render one.” First testimony for the defense was . heard at the afternoon session. Saves $15.00 On a Suit THOUSAND of men are now paying about the same price for madc-to-meaSura suits as they did four years ago;* according to Mr. James D. Bell, the prominent clothing manufacturer of Chicago. These men, how ever. are buying from a new source. They ere ordering their clothes direct from the manufacturers at actual cost with only one small profit added. Headers of this paper interested in cutting their clothing costs should write the Bell Tailors, Adams at Green streets, Chicago, Illinois, and ask for a copy of their new Fashion Book, No. 758. with a large assortment of cloth samples in many weaves and patterns. An illus tration of the unusual values offered by this firm is a guaranteed all wool casslraere in a very attractive pattern at only $25.00 for b three-pieee, made-to-measure suit—the quality generally sold at $37.50 to $40.00. They offer even larger savings on higher priced suits. This company, the largest in the world, is thoroughly reliable and will * gladly send you free of nil cost their big iry Fashion Book with simple instructions TEXAN DEMES HE DROPPED MO IN FAKE 'BIJCKETSHOP' i Mann, Greatly Impressed, Declares He Brought Mon ey From Dallas to Cover Stranger ‘Broker's’ Check Claiming that an organized band l of swindlers lured him into a fake ■ bucketshop on Carnegie Way and fleeced him out of $8,200, H. C. Mann, ' a young business man, giving his home as Dallas, Tex., has asked the Atlanta police to help him run down the alleged crooks. Mann says that on January 8 he stopped off in Atlanta on his way from South Carolina to Nashville. Tenn., and while here fell into con versation with a well-dressed stranger at the Terminal station, who later introduced him to another well : dressed stranger at the Piedmont i hotel. They got to talking about stcoks, he says, referring particularly to a “tip” they claimed they had from a big New York brokerage house to buy Mexican crude oil on a one per cent margin just before the New- York stock exchange closed for the day. He says they showed him a telegram to this effect. As a result of their conversation, claims Mann, all three of them re paired to a private home on Car negie Way, and went to a room where Man says there was a big blackboard, telegraph instruments and other equipment of a brokerage office, with several men standing around, apparently "playing the mar ket.” His acquaintances, said Mann, were bewailing the fact that they couldn’t raise $50,000 necessary, they said, to “make a clean-up.” Mann states that he wanted to get in on the oppor tunity, too. Nothing was done at the time, says Mann, but later one of the men he met at the “brokerage office,” whose name he gives as Keene, came to him and told him he had put np a check for $8,200 as part of a pool and had signed Mann’s name to it. "We won a big pile, but we can’t j get. our money until we prove this check is good," Mann claims Keene told him. “If you’ll show these fel lows $8,200 in the long green now, I’ll split with you.”. Mann says he was so impressed that he went all the way to Houston, Tex., got $8,200, brought it back to Atlanta, gave it to Keene, and— hasn’t seen Keene or his money since. • Mann says he went to the house on Carnegie way, only to ,find the room deserted and all signs of a brokerage office gone. He claims he has been scouring Atlanta'ever since to find traces of the men, but had no luck until Wednesday afternoon, when, as he was walking along Car negie way, he saw one of them in an automobile with a girl. Mann says when he shouted, the man in the car stopped the automo ble and jumped out and ran. Accord ingly, called a policeman and drove to the police station with the automobile and the girl. The girl was released on SSOO bond, but after being questioned by Chief Poole, all charges against her were dismissed. Chief Poole said she prov ed to his satisfaction that she knew the ipan with her only casually and had no knowledge of any alleged swindle. Chief Poole, With Detective Shaw, went to the house on Carnegie way, but could find no traces of any swin dlers. They were told by the land lady that she had rented a room to a man about a month ago, but that he had left. She had never noticed, she said, any blackboard, telegraph instruments or any other unusual things in his room. Another puzzling element was add ed to the case when Mann gave the names of several -well-known Atlan ta business men a the alleged swin dlers. They had given him these names, he said, and had pointed out to him their “places of business.” De tectives sought out these men and established to their satisfaction that the swindlers had been masquerad ing as “prominent citizens.” CHAMP CLARK IS UNDECIDED ABOUT ENTERING RACES (The Atlanta Journal News Bureau) 623 Riggs Building. BY THEODO2E TILLER WASHINGTON., D. C., March 4. Former Speaker Clark, who has been worried for some ime by a tempta tion to enter teh presidential nom ination contest, another temptation to run for the senatorial contest in Missouri, and still another not to get into either race, must make an early decision, because of a complication offered by the Georgia presidential preference primary. Without consulting Mr. Clark, cet tain Georgia Democrats have peti tioned that his name go on the Dem ocratic primary ballot. The signa tures of one hundred Georgia Demo crats are sufficient to enter a name on the presidential primary ballot and unless the former speaker of the house takes it off Mr. Clark is en tered in the primary. Forinpr Speaker Clark naturally will not want his name to stay on the Georgia ballot unless he is to make a real effort to get the dele gation. If he enters the presidential race in that state he practically en ters the race in all states, dud so far Mr. Clark has not decided that he wants to try for a nomination which he lost at Baltimore seven years ago. The Georgia situation, however, is one demanding rather prompt action, and Mr. Clark prob ably will issue a statement within a few days, eliminating himself from one or the other, or both contests. Indications are that if Mr. Clark gets into any race it will be the senate race in Missouri. Three Are Killed in Jersey Train Wreck NEW YORK, March 4.—Three persons are dead and more than twelve others injured as the result of the Jersey flier on the Central Rail road of New Jersey crashing at high speed into a Newark local at Eliza ,T„ i""t r'-’h*'. BEST OF CARE COULDN’T SAVE THIS MARSHALL BABY I*-- 1 ■— l p ' is ; S ■n.i% KW. ■ ’• ' i - MMB MARSHALL BOMB EXPLODES UNDER CONSULATE OF U. S. IN ZURICH ZURICH, March 4.—A bomb ex ploded last night under the porch of the American consulate here, seri iously damaging the building but in juring no one. police authorities are believed to have, secured clues as to the guilty persons. WASHINGTON, March 4.—An of ficial report on the bombing of the American consulate at Zurich last night, was made to the state de partment today by Consul General Keena, who said the building was partly destroyed, but that no one was injured. Mr. Keena said the police officers attributed the outrage “to anarchis- LAST NOTICE 5 ’ MORE DAYS ~ 5 Left in Which to Take Advantage of ee |Z|> Igj 9 This is the LAST opportunity we have to remind you that there are only 5 more days to get in on the GROUND FLOOR. After next Tuesday we cannot accept $1.40 far this offer. Don’t delay another minute. SEND IN YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TODAY Beginning with the issue of March 9, 1920, the Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal which has been coming. to you twice a week will be changed to the Atlanta Tri-Weekly Journal, coming three times a week. In this day ot 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. Each publication has the South at interest/dealing with problems that affect your every-day life. 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The BIG SIX offer comprises the fol- Z“ . L ’ s E THIS coupon r ■ s Inc Semi-weekly Journal, lowing papers. Herewith At Jind slAo', for which please send, rhe your '‘Big Six” Clubbing Offer for one year. Semi-Weekly Journal (Tri-Weekly Name after March 9), Southern Ruralist, Weekly p - 0 Alabama Times, Better Farming, House- s hold Journal and Gentlewoman. I/lis °^ fer not sood a - ter Marc/l • ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1920. WASHINGTON. Morrison Marshall, 'foster son of Vice President and Mrs. Thomas Marshall, who died recently, was one of the cap ital’s most inter esting and beauti ful babies. Two years ago Mrs. Marshall bor rowed Morrison from the diet kitchen of a Wash ington hospital. He had been taken there by his moth er in a last de spairing attempt to bring him health. The baby was the seventh of a poor family, and the plain fact was he never had enough to eat. Mrs. Mar shall had a special diet kitchenette built to cook his food. Every aid of mod ern baby culture was brought to bring him back to health. He grew strong, and a year ago might have taken a prize in a baby show. But despite the given him, the poor start he had handicapped him and ,the acidu lated blood that caused his death, is traceable, it is said, to malnutri tion. GERMANY'WILL BE ALLOWED TO LAUNCH A LOAN LONDON, March 4.-r-The Evening Standard states today that the allied supreme council has decided to allow Germany to launch an international loan, because it is recognized that Germany rhined would mean a weak and dangerous spot in Europe. • The loan, the newspaper says, would take precedence over any in demnity payments Germany is called, upon to make. tic activities.” The consulate offices are attached to the residence of Alfred W. Done gan, vice consul, and Mr. Keena said no government property had been destroyed. Tri-Weekly Journal Says “Howdy” as Semi-Weekly Says “Good-by” March 9 It is not given to many newspapers to say Goodby” and “How Do You Do?” at the same time; but this is precisely what The Semi Weekly Journal is privileged to do. That is, The Semi-Weekly says goodby and its successor, The TriWeekly, makes its bow and says good-morning. Beginning with the issue*of Tues day, March 9, The Semi-Weekly becomes The Tri-Weekly, the con version taking place naturally—if your subscription is in force you simply begin getting three papers a week instead of two. So this is a Swan Song for The Semi-Weekly, that has been coming into your home twice a week for years; a Swan Song in a way—they say that swans sing before they die. But not at all a Swan* Song in the sense that The Semi-Weeky is pass ing “from out this bourne of time and place.” Certainly it is not dy ing; it is merely blossoming into something that, as the old circus posters used to say is “bigger and better than ever.” And also more numerous. Pub- T .hed three times a week, on Tues day, Thursday and Saturday, The Tri-Weekly Journal will be the same size as its predecessor, and you will have in it the practical equivalent of a daily newspaper. A carefully edited paper received every other d..y will keep you fully abreast of the times, and these modern times are well worth keeping abreas.t of. s The pdlitcal trend of today in itself changes so swiftly that what is news today may be stale tomor row—but you will get the latest in your Tri-Weekly Journal. Great things are coming upon this old world; great and new things. 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And this paper will be in your home every other day—three times a week instead of twice; as big as ever —and growing all the time. Qf’course there’s a hint of sad ness in the farewell of the faithful old Semi-Weekly, that has been one of the family for so many years In so many Dixie homes. But under • its new name, The Tri-Weekly in tends and determines with all its heart to be even more an intimate and interesting member of the fire side circle; a more frequent’ visitor, bringing from all the great world outside the cream of the news and the core of events. So with the issue of Tuesday, MOVE TO SAVE PEACE PACT IN SENATE SEEN WASHINGTON, March 4.—Both Republican and Democratic senators who favor a compromise, again have combined in an effort to save the peace treaty from heading into a deadlock over the article 10 reser vation. | A move was on foot for a slight modification of the original reservation around which most of the tumult over the pact has been centered. The Shantung reservation, which was before the senate for action, has given way to the ge..-ral fight over the treaty and the negotiations were being continued today. Some sen ators had moderate hopes of reach ing an acceptable modification to the article 10 reservation, which would clear away one c" the main obsta cles to an agreement on ratifica tion. Discussion of the treaty ranged over a wide field yesterday and when the session ended no action had been taken. Resuming discussion today of the Shantung reservation the senate ap peared ready to vote on it without delay. Senator Hitchcock opposed the. reservation on the ground that its adoption would not benefit China. “In making this reservation we not only do an idle thing, but re linquish our hold on Japan as a result of its promises to return Shan tung to China. If we hoped to bene fit China, the proper course would be to declare that we propose to hold Japan to her promises, mate in Faris and elsewhere,” he said. Senator Reed asked if Mr. Hitch cock’ would support an amendment stating that the United States under stands that Japan will return Shan tung to China. “Yes,” replied Mr. Hitchcock. “That would be of material benefit to China.” _ Senator Norris ridiculed Mr. Hitch cock’s “new friendship for China.” “China is praying to her gods that she will not have many such friends,” said Mr. Norris. “Had this new friendship and desire to aid China existed earlier it might have pro duced some votes for the Shantung amendment, which would have done China some good.” He declared Mr. Hitchcock and oth er senators “tried to reach secret agreements on reservations,” but that Mr.’ Hitchcock “now has lost *-inter est and is not willing to carry out some of these agreements.” Senator Lenroot repeated his charges that Mr. Hitchcock is co operating with Republican “bitter enders” to beat the treaty. March 9, 1920, The Semi-Weekly Journal makes its bow and says goodby—and The Tri-Weekly Jour nal makes its’bow, and says good morning. It’s the same faithful old paper, after all with a new hat, and calling more frequently. And, by the way, this leaves only five more days In which you can sub scribe for the “Big Six” clubbing of fer for $1.40. Beginning next Tues day, March 9, the price of The Tri- Weekly Journal alone will be $1.50. The time to get aboard is now. COUNTRY WILL BE DIVIDED UP DY PWFMMOO And When They Get to ’Fris co the Well-Known Chant “We Want Wilson” May Sweep Convention The Atlanta Journal News Bureau, 623 Riggs Building. BY THEODORE TILLER WASHINGTON, D. C., March 4. It is possible now to reveal how At torney General A. Mitchell Palmer entered the presidential race with the consent of Woodrow Wilson and how th president, waiving any third term ambitions he may have had, has let down the administration bars to the green fields of Democratic poli tics. Attorney General Palmer did not get blindly into the presidential race Monday night. He did not act with out knowing his entry was satisfac tory to the president and that Mr. Wilson would not lift a hand to terfere with any member of his cab inet, or any former member, or any one hundred per cent administration Democrat who wants to seek the Democratic nomination. Vance McCormick, former chair man of the Democratic national com mittee and campaign manager for President Wilson three years ago, was the principal intermediary between the attorney general and his chief. Mr. McCormick will probably be cam paign manager for Mr. Palmer in seeking election if he is nominated,. Democratic politicians in Georgia played almost if not quite as import tant a role in bringing out Mr. Pal mer and in getting the O. K. of the White House. Through an emissary in Washing ton it was represented to the White House and to ’ the attorney general that the factional situation in Geor gia was such that It Has necessary to enter immediately there a one hundred per cent administration can didate, otherwise, it was represented, the Georgia delegation might fall into hostile hands. It is authoritatively understood here that the desire of Mr. Palmer to get into the race ahd the joint representations of Mr. Mc- Cormick and Georgia political lead ers finally moved the White House early this week to give the “Go, Go” signal to the attorney general. With in a few hours Attorney General Palmer had wired the secretary of the Georgia executive committee that he was authorized to put Palmer’s name on the presidential preference primary ballot. On the Wilson Record This anouncement from Attorney General Palmer was practically the same as a White House statement that Mr. Wilson had climlnSWriiim self as a third term qaijjjidate. .Mr. Palmer would never have announced so long as there was any uncertainty about this. He is one of the most loyal n en in the cabine: and will run squarely on the Wilson record with out getting the go-ahead sign from the president, Mr. Painter would no more enter the presidential :ace than would Josephus Daniels, secretary of the navy, or Secretary of War Ba >ker. , It has been known for some time that Mr. Palmer had further politi cal ambitions. But, like Mr. Mc- Adoo, the president’s son-in-law, and former cabinet officer, Mr. Palmer held back awaiting some indication of the president’s attitude toward a third term. His sudden action Mon .Y is fraught with significance and virtually tells the story, even if oth er details were not known. The s tor Y> however, goes further than this. It is understood here that as matters now stand both Attorney General. Palmer and former Secre taxy will be the “fair-haired boys” of the administration. The president apparently is willing that each should go out and corral as many delegates as possible. They have sort of “go to it boys” permis sion and each has the blessing of the party chief. Another well authenticated angle of the situation is the shaping of a program whereunder Mr. Palmer will contest for delegates in some states and Mr. McAdoo in others. Probabilities are now that Mr. Mc- Adoo will not go into Georgia, al though it is his native .state, because he took his name off the ballot there before Mr. Palmer’s name went on. At that time, Mr. McAdoo was hold ing back, evidently in view of the silence of the White House. Mr. McAdoo, it is said, will most likely get into the Texas contest, while Mr. Palmer will be an onlooker. Here and there Palmer and Mc'Adoo dele gates will be gathered up, for such developments as may come at San Francisco. No cahdidates, according to pres ent indications, wil go to San Francisco in command of the con-/ vention. Un’ristructed delegations doubtless will nold The balance of power. May Start to Chant But with the president out of con sideration it will be a lively and fair fight. It is within possibility, of course, that somebody will start the chant—accompanied by the famil iar stamping of feet and the me thodical pounding of hands together —“We want Wilson; we w’ant Wilson; we want Wilson.” If that should happen and the con vention should go off its feet, it is easy to surmise to whom the Palmer and McAdoo delegates would be thrown.. Nevertheless, in view of developments within the past three days there is little belief here that the president is thinking of a third term. At last lie appears to have reached a self-eliminatieq decision, albeit his letter to the Jackson day diners, challenging the opposition to throw the peace treaty into the cam paign. was construed as making him a potential candidate. It is known that some weeks ago Vance McCormick, who has just an nounced in his newspaper his sup port of .Palmer, endeavored to draw cut the White House regarding the Palmer candidacy. At the time, it is understood Mr. McCormick received the suggestion to wait awhile. This he did, meanwhile anxious no doubt to have Mr. Palmer get into the race at the earliest moment. Then along came the Georgia sit uation helping out Mr. McCormick. Hoover sentiment was sweeping Georgia and there was another com plication—the claim that the anti administration element in the state, might mobolize all Democratic op- 55J.23 A TEAR. CENTS A COPY. MOVED SENTIMENT' STRONG IN ALBANY • AND DOUGHERTY Mayor Peacock, Chairman of Dougherty County Ex ecutive Committee, As sails Effort to Bar Hoover BY ROGERS WINTER (Staff Correspondent of The Journal.) ALBANY, Ga„ March 4.—One doesn’t have to seek far to find I Hoover sentiment in the city of Al bany and the county of Dougherty, and by the same token one doesn’t have to seek far to find men pro testing vigorously against the action of the subcommittee of the Demo cratic state executive committee in attempting to shut Hoover out of the primary. Mayor Herbert Peacock, for exam ple, one of the leading young lawyers of this section, formerly a member of the house of representatives from Dougherty county, and mayor of the City of Albany, is a red-hot sup porter of the former food admin ' istrator. “I am going to vote for Hoover,” ; said Mayor Peacock to The Journal correspondent, “and I am going to vote for him regardless of whether his name is placed on the ballot in the preferential rimary. If his name is placed on the ballot, then I will vote for him and thousands of oth ers will, in my judgment. If his name is not placed on the ballot, then I am going to scratch all the names on it and write on the ballot myself with a pen and Ink the name of Herbert Hoover. Os course, they may not count my vote if I vote' 1 that way, but I am going to vote for Hoover A.ist the same. “If the subcommittee wanted to ' shut Hoover (Ait of the primary and ' eliminate him from the Georgia pref erential primary—which undoubtedly must have been their object in chang ing the rules of eligibility after the game started—they certainly have ' succeeded in accomplishing directly the reverse of what they intended. Their action was neithei* sportsman ; like nor democratic. It ’ has created a very bad impression. It looks like ■ a piece of political chicanery, pure and simple, and is so regarded throughout the state, from what I see and hear. It has made Mr. Hoov er the central figure of a raging con troversy in the public prints, adver tising him all over the state. In a sense the whole primary revolves around the questipn of .whether Hoov er’s name shall go on the ballot. O course, the effect of this agltitlori J is to help Hoover, and I have no ob- - jection to the subcommittee’s action to ‘hat extent. Why He Havers Hoover “The problems confronting our government for the next four years or more will not be political prob lems but economic problems, and we need a man of great ability to han dle those problems. That is why I favor Hoover as the Democratic can didate and the next president. To my mind he is pre-eminently quali fied to handle the vast problems of an economic character, not only na tional but international in scope. The people know him, they admire his magnificent record of Service in the war, they are satisfied of his inde pendence and character and fearless courage, and they will vote for him. “He is the only man, in my judg ment, with whom the Democratic party can hope to win success In the next election. Everybody knows that we haven’t got a chance if we count on’nothing but thp straight Democratic vote. We arc obliged to have the independent vote ,and It is not coming to us if we try to win with a candidate ‘who makes no ap peal but a partisan appeal. The west is going to cut a very great figure in the outcome and so are the newly enfranchised women voters. All ac counts are that Hoover will sweep the west.” Mayor Peacock is chairman of the Democratic executive committee of Dougherty county, and he and other members of the committee have been much interested in the action taken by the Democratic executive commit tee of DeKalb county, where the de termination was made a few days ago to place the name of Herbert Hoover on the ballot of the prefer ential primary in spite of the action of the sub-committee declaring him ineligible to be placed upon *the bal ot upon petition of 100 or more white Georgia Democrats. t “We are giving serious thought to the interesting suggestion contained in the action of the DeKalb county committee,” said Mayor Peacock. “It certainly was an admirable stand for , that committee to take. It shows their independence and courage. I would like to ask the distinguished political experts of the sub-committee two questions, to-wit: “What Is a Democrat?” “What is a Democrat? “What is a Republican? “Do they know a test /by which to determine whether a man is a Democrat or a Republican? Do they think it is sufficient to say merely that so-and-so has always itoted the Democratic ticket, thereby making him a Democrat? Or would they be willing to go on record with the proposition that a man is not a Democrat because he has not always voted the Democratic ticket? I would like to know, honestly I would, as a matter of public information, what is a Democrat? Are not the principles enunciated by Herbert Hoover, in his speechei and state ments, good sound Democracy? If (Continued on Page 6, Column 6) Mrs. Paul Gram, residing at 946 Fourth Street, Milwaukee, Wis., re cently gave out the following state ment: "I had suffered with Fits (Epilepsy) for over 14 years. Doc*’ tors and medicine did me no good. 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