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THE BANNER, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 27, 1911. MATH ER H. J. ROWE, Editor and Proprietor. THE ATHENS DAILY BANNER it delivered by carriers in the city, or mailed, postage free, to any address at the following rates: $5.00 per year; $2.50 for six months: $1.25 for three months, or 10 cents a week. NEBRASKA ELIMINATES BRYAN. Mr. ltryan ought to go way back and sit down now'. The democrats of Nebraska, in state convention assembled, passed up their platform without a word to say about the peerless one or any of his policies. That ought to be enough to put Bryan on notice that even his own state is opposed to his further efforts to dominate the democ ratic party. It is however very doubtful whether Mr. Bryan can be thus choked off, 'At the Capital; the Kimball bor bureau the bill creating it, which HIM “OOP SERVED TO ORDER New Labor Bureau Now For Georgia Atlanta, Ua., July 2t>.—To defray the expenses of the proposed state la- even by his own state. He believes lie should continue to butt in and he w ill no doubt do so on all occ asions where he thinks he can have any effect. There was a strong minority in the convention favorable to th«~ endorse . . . mem of Governor Harmon for the presidency, but this minority did not push Remittances may be made by ex-. J press, postoffice money order or regis- "«'> r <'l» lmf * as they were willing lo avoid anything like a tight and to pre trred letter. serve harmony its far as possible. Subscribers are requested to promptly notify the business office of late delivery, failure to carry papers to porches or failure to deliver with absolute regularity on the part of the carriers. Such notification is the only source of knowing of the existence of any cause for complaint, and we will appreciate it accordingly. SPECIAL NOTICE. Subscribers will olease take note that no carrier boy is authorized to collect subscriptions from any one, or to sell papers under any circum stances. Subscribers can either pay the reg ular collector upon presentation of hills or call at the office. TELEPHONE NO. 75. The house of representatives in Atlanta has endorsed the plan for the establishment of a state labor bureau. It will now be seen what the senate has to say about that proposition. The fall season is almost here and with it there should come some big amusement features tor the people ».f this city and seel'on. The people of Athens should get a move on them and provide for some such amuse tiient feature. War clouds are hovering over Morocco on account of the recent mis- . understanding between France and Germany. The situation is rather acute and several nations in Europe may possibly become involved be fore the trouble is over. _ A bill to pay all school teachers monthly is before the general assent- -w«lbly. If that bill will have the effect of having the teachers paid promptly, it shonld * be passed. The greatest disgrace this state now rests under is its persistent failure to pay its teachers their salaries promptly. The University Summer School lms passed through one of its most successful seasons, and will adjourn Its session next Wednesday. This in stitution is doing much for the train lr.g of the leathers of the state and the making of our state school sys tern more efficient in many ways. Nebraska has • liminated Mr. Bryan as far as the action of the state convention could do so, but the question is, will Mr. Bryan remain elimi nated? Tne answer is very plain. He will not be content to so remain. 4 ♦ THE CENTER OF POPULATION. it was believed that the eenttr of population in the United States would move a little toward the South when the figures of the last census were given out. hut a close tabulation of these figures shows that the center of population shifted thirty-one miles to the west and seven-tenths of a mile to the north. There is no doubt about the continued movement of the center of popu lation toward the west, because of the vast uninhabited portions of the coun try in tlie western half, hut there is no reason why there should he any fur (her northward tendency. The South is just beginning to strike its stride and another census will bring the center of population southward. At present the center is in In diana. 551 miles east of the geographical center. Another census should put the renter of population somewhere in the state of Kentucky. The drift of population is sure lo be southward in another decade. The farmers of the wesi are becoming dissatisfied and are seeking new lands. The farming lands of the South, rich in all the essentials necessary to the growing of great crops and comparatively cheap are offering the induce ments for people to move ir.to this section. This will cause a change in the center of population to the South 4 FOREIGNERS AND THE POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS. The average foreigner who lands in America is suspicious of ail private banks. He will not put his money in the ordinary savings banks because ho has little faith in them. He has faith in government, however, and the pos tal savings hanks will appeal to him It is expected that when the postal savings banks are opened in the larger cities of the North that there will be a rush of foreigners to make their deposits. They will willingly trust the government with their money where they would not trust the private banks. Now the government will take the money and pay a low rate of inter est on It: then the government will take this same money and transfer It to the same banks that the depositors would not trust with their money and will charge those hanks a higher rate of interest, so as to make a neat profit. The government will be In Just that much, but the foreigners who made the deposits might jnst as well have received the higher rate of Interest for themselves had they had the faith In the private banks. The government Is now preparing to open postal savings banks In a number of the larger cities of the country. The experiment was first tried with the smaller cities, then with cities of the middle size ana now with the larger cities. The government professes to believe that the postal savings hanks are thriving and that the experiment in this country Is a thorough success, but It will take a few more years of actual experience before it can be stated positively that the system is a success. There are many shoals over which the boat must pass before safety is reached. The house committee favors the appointment of a state auditor ami the house will soon pass on this measure. Joe Hill Hall, the antlior of the measure, is ail smiles. It is bis hobby and he has been • fighting for it for years. It provides for the appointment of a state auditor for a term of office of four years with salary of three thousand dollars per annum. The house of representatives h is pissed the bill submitting an amend ment to strike* from the state con stitution the words that restrict the use of the common school funds to the teaching of only the elementary branches. If the constitution should finally he amended in this particular, then this money could lie used for the teaching of high school subjects and the rural schools placed In posi lion to do just as advanced work as the schools in the cities. There is merit in the proposition and it is to be hoped that the measure will be come a low and that the people o( the slate will by their ballots sanc tion the ehange in the constitution. An unlimited service pension bill is how before the (ienrgia legislature. Such a measure should not pass. The state of Georgia should at all times be willing to take care of all her Confederate veterans and their wid ows who need taking care of. and this state does that and does it well, lint there is no sense in giving pen sions to the wealthy or to men who tire not in need of them. If the state wishes to increase its expenditures on this line, then let the amount paid to each veteran who needs It lie Increased rather than add to the number receiving it the names of those who do not need it. The state now- pays more than a mllllan dol lars in pensions annually. That is do ing well by tile veterans and there can lie brought forward no reason why the bars should tie let down to admit to the right of pension those who do not in the least stand in need of it. *4444444444444444 ♦ THIS DATE IN HISTORY. 4 ♦ July 27. 4 4 444444444444 4 4 ♦ 1689—The adherents of James 4 ♦ II. defeated the forces of ♦ ♦ William III. a* Killiecrankie. 4 ♦ 1752—Gen. Samuel Smith, who 4 4 held Fort Mifflin for seven 4 ♦ weeks against the entire 4 ♦ British squadron, born in ♦ ♦ Lancaster, Pa. I>ied in Bal- 4 ♦ timore. April 22. 1829. 4 ♦ 1757—Franklin reached London ♦ 4 as Colonial agent. 4 ♦ 1828 -Gilbert Stuart. famous 4 ♦ liortrait painter, died in Bos- 4 *■ ton. Born in Narragansett. 4 4 It. I., Dec. 2, 1755. 4 ♦ 1S20—Revolutionary outbreak in 4 ♦ Paris, ending in the abdion- 4 4 tion of Charles X. a few 4 4 days later. 4 ♦ 1847—Brigham Young became 4 4 lieaj of the Mormon church. 4 4 1894- War declared between 4 4 Japan and China. 4 4 1898—Commodore Davis of the 4 4 United States navy captured 4 4 Ponce, Porto ltiro. 4 4 1901—The new battleship Maine 4 ♦ was launched at Philadel- 4 4 phia. 4 4 1910—Ohio republicans nominal- 4 4 ed Warren G. Harding for 4 4 governor. * 44444444 4 44 44-444 tion case in Kentucky before he was 20 years of age. He was offered the nomination for vice president at the Denver convention, but declined, and has several times been tendered the support of his party for governor of Kentucky. Since 1902 he has repre sented the First Kentucky district in the house of representatives. He i known as a low tariff democrat and at: uncompromising party man. 4444444444444444 4 THIS IS MY 40TH BIRTHDAY. 4 4 Ollie M. James. 4 444444444444444 Ollie M. James, who has been in dorsed by Kentucky democrats for the United States senate, was born in Crittenden County, Kentucky, July 27, 1871. He began his career as a page in the Kentucky legislature and when he was only 26 years old lie was sent as a delegate to the Chicago convention which nominated Bryan being made chairman of the delega tion. In two subsequent conventions h< served in the same capacity. In 1908, he seconded the nomination of Bryan at the Denver convention. .Mr. James was the leading counsel for the late Governor Goebel in the cel ebrated contested gubernatorial elec- 44444444444444 4 WHAT LEGISLATURE 4 DID ON WEDNESDAY 4 4 HOUSE. 4 Refused lo reconsider vote on 4 bill establishing slate bureau of 4 labor. 4 Introduced and pass' d number 4 of local bills. 4 4 SENATE. 4 Tabled service pension bill af- 4 ter a tliree-hour debate. 4 Passed a resolution creating a 4 standing commission to handle 4 the leasing of the Western and 4 Atlantic railroad. 4 Passed several local bills. 4 Received several new bills. 4444444*-4444444 The democratic leaders of the sen te are calling for Governor Smith resign and route on to Washington at once to belli them out. in their fight for the reduction of the tuirff Ills vote is needed there and it is tc him whether lie will tons* nt allow the democracy to be place in a position where its hands be tied. 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A large number of farmers immedi ately joined and are now enthusiastic members, and it is likely that in a short while the membership will num ber several hundred. FORMER ATHENS CITIZEN IS DESPERATELY ILL Mr. R. K. Pridgeon, for Years Con nected with the City, Is III at Soldiers’ Home. News reached Athens last night of the dangerous illness in the Soldiers' Home at Atlanta of Mr. R. K. Prid geon, who was for years a valuable employe of the city in official capacity about the city hall. He was a mem ber of the official family for many years and hundreds will wish for him speedy recovery. passed the house on Tuesday, author ized $6,0(10 for salaries and expenses. I provides for a commissioner of la bor at a salary of $2,400 per annum, an assistant at $1,800 per annum, a stenographer at $900 per annum and ah who are iim rested in the drama $000 iter annum for expenses. The hich is being enacted by Governor ( bureau will have authority to compile inita and oilier politicians ill the statistical information of labor condl- state. lions in general in Georgia, investi- generally believed that Gov-j gate labor in mills and factories, as nor Smith will lemain in office u:i- j especially relating to child labor, and latter part of November in or j it: various ways improve tile laboring r that lie may make good his prom- conditions in the state. for appointments made during , lenatorial contest. II was freely Iked around the mpitol and in Kimball house lobby yesterday that no more appointments of ttie vernor would he confirmed at Ibis ssion of the legislature. This much the senate seems :o tie fixed on. riends of Governor Smith, however, ate that he will make the appoint ments just so soon -is the legislature adjourns, but on the other side of the it is said that when lion. J. M- aton comes in as governor and the legislature meets to inaugurate a gov ernor in January that all the appoint ments made by the governor now will be withdrawn and likely other parties ill be appointed by Governor Slaton or his successor in office. Dissatisfied with Pope Brown. Governor Smith and his political friends are uneasy over the candidacy of Pope Brown for governor. They do not feel that he Is the man to rep- sent their wing of the party and 1th "Little Joe" Brown in the race. Pope Brown would not be in the run ning. Then again the record made by Pope Brown for entering races for of fice and retiring is another argument why he should not he the leader of the Smith faction. The people of the state feel that it is not safe to tie to him as a candidate who will not last throughout all heats. At Wajvross Saturday Mr. Brown opened his campaign. It was an nounced that three thousand people were present to hear him. From re ports received at the capital from clt- ixens present, the crowd is said not to have reached two hundred, men, women and children. This has discouraged the followers of the Smith faction and they are now looking around for some one else to enter the race. It is common talk that Governor Smith and many of his followers prefer T. S. Felder, now at torney general of the state, to head the ticket for the Smith faction. It is believed by them that on account of the splendid showing made by him last year against Hon. Hewlett Hall that he would make the strongest race of any representative in the Smith faction. On the other hand it is argued, and many in both factions agree, that the large vote received by Mr. Felder for the office of attorney general was due to the fact that tho voters of this state were under the impression that they were voting for lion. T. B. Felder, of Atlanta. Tom B. Felder, of Atlanta, is one of the best known lawyers in the state and enjoys the acquaintance and friend ship of citizens in practically every lown, city, county and hamlet in tho state. On account of the name it *s aigued that T. S. Felder profited suf ficiently to gain enough votes to bring about his election. The Smith orguns in Atlanta are attacking the administration of "Lit tle Joe" Brown just as if lie bail an nouneed his eandidac v, which is tak en by the people over the state as an admission of his strength and t lie absolute certainty of his election should he announce. Primary Election. A report was circulated at the cap- itol yesterday to the effect that Gov ernor Smith was much exercised over i:n article sent out from Washington. and published in tho Atlanta Constitution yesterday. It is stated that he has said to some of his close friends that lie would now remain rt the office of governor just as long aj he could before the opening of con gress in December, and that short It lie would have the executive commit tee to call a primary for the selection of a governor to su; coed him when he retires from the office. This report caused much comment pro and con. but it is generally be Ht-ved that the governor will see ti 1*. that the primary is held before many weeks and certainly before he retires from the office of governor. Summing up the "dope" being hand ed out and easting over the political ground around the .apitol and the Kimball house, it is certain that Georgia will have a primary within the next few- weeks and the candi dates will be "Little Joe" Brown anJ Thomas S. Felder. Bathing Caps We have just received a stock of Bathing Caps If you need one for that seashore trip, call us up They are 75c. H. 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P.WiLSON AUCTIONFER tVUl sell real aauta, merchandise « anything to be aold at auction at »ir '.lzne or place lu Georgia Alto, agena fer iron 8afea.. See me and do a aati hazlnesa. Addreia 12$ Colleio »« nue. Ri-slder.ee 263 Hoyt St. TitfsPil Take No Substitute. te .' r Arrival and Departure of Trains. CITY TIME. Leaves Arrives 7:00 a. m. 12:15 noon 4:0$ p. m 8:60 pi m.