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Section Two
THE ATHENS BANNER
Section Two
ESTABLISHED 1S1Z.
ATHENS, GA., SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1913.
ESTABLISHED UK*
There were two doting fathers talk
ing of their children. Said one:
"My boy Bill has got a commission
In the army?”
With a lively interest the other
quickly asked:
“What per cent?”
The regular system of municipal
government which has existed
through years of sfleady growth and
progress, prosperity and development,
has put out its men as candidates for
mayor and council. A business man
who has made a success of his own
business and who has been tried in
the office of mayor and was found to
be capable and safe and big enough
for the job—he Is offered to the peo
pie as mayor. Other well-known, en
ergetic young men are out for council.
These men are known—voting for
them or against them the city tax
payer and voter knows what he is get
ting.
Now a change is ofTered, a radical
change, sweeping away the institu
tion of the hundred years of city gov
ernment in Athens. This movement,
it has not been clearly shown by
whom hatched and hovered over and
reared, has asked for followers; the
active work of a dozen men has
brought forth a list of recruits. They
do not say they are authors of the
measure—they "ask to be enrolled ns
supporters of the present bill provid
ing for a commission form of govern
ment for the city of Athens.”
The people of the city have a right
to ask: "Who will be the mayor and
commissioners under the new meas
ure, radical, all-embracing, permanent
and fixed if once adopted?"
It will not be insisted that the very
three men shall be named definitely—
that is hardly possible, though it is
not Improbable that they are picked
out. It Is fair to ask from what class
of citizens will the three all-powerful
commissioners be selected. It is rea
sonable to inquire if they will
three be citizens of one section of the
city, if they will be all three members
of the same family, if they will all
three be members of the same firm or
corporation.
Who are to be the commissioners?
From what group of twenty or a hun
dred or two hundred men will these
servants (?) of the people be sum
moned to lay down their business to
tally and take up places which pay
salaries of the size stipulated in the
measure—the so-called commission
form of government?
It is not unreasonable to suppose
that from the number who have en
rolled themselves as supporters of
the measure these commissioners will
be taken. The commissioners would
hardly be drawn from the men who
are opposed to the system.
Then take the list of those who are
enrolled as the supporters and run
over them one by one. trace down the
three with vour finger. Men of large
business Interests and men of good
salaried positions will not consent to
give up their work, neglect their life-
built business, and devote their en
tire time to a position as commission
er where the salary is not a consid
eration to a man of high efficiency
and where there is abundant room for
acting as bumper to many kicks.
See if you can find the man who
will agree to give up his business, or
his professional career to serve his
city. Will the man with a big busi
ness on hand consent? Will the cap
italist and investor serve? Will the
professional man or the salaried man
consider the proposition?
Who, then are to be the commis
sioners three? From what section of
the city are they to come—there are
four wards, from which three or two
or one are they to be chosen? From
what group of even two hundred—or
"four hundred”—are they to be "elect
ed."
Ml' ' Advertise your mats.
STOVALL
Harvey Stovall Is to
Be Assistant Post
master Under
Mr. Rucker.
Mr. Harvey Stovall, of this city,
younger brother of Hon. Pleasant A.
Stovall, of Savannah, minister of the
United States in Switzerland, will be
the assistant postmaster at Athens,
according to a statement given out by
by Capt. J. H. Rucker whose name
will be sent in by the president for
confirmation as postmaster here, and
who will most likely take charge of
the office about the first of October.
Mr. Stovall was himself prominent
ly spoken of for the position and it Is
a neat thing and a very satisfactory
thing for the patrons of the office for
the new postmaster to name him as
assistant.
FALL MILLINERY
OPENING, BOLEY’S
Tomorrow, the next day and the
day after that—Monday, Tuesday,
and Wednesday—will be red letter
days at Boley's department store,
when the formal fall opening in mil
linery will occur. A most pleasing
showing of hats, trimmed and the un
trimmed shapes, all the popular and
stylish things, domestic and imported
patterns and many of the new things
that are to be seen for the first time—
will make these first three days of
the week busy ones at Boley’s. The
announcement is made in another
place in this issue of the Banner.
Cabbage Plants—Phone 1131 your
wants. su-th-tf
Millinery Opening
MONDAY, TUESDAY, AND WEDNESDAY
SEPTEMBER 22nd, 23rd, and 24th
A most pleasing showing of Fall Hats oE
fashion and approved styles. Autumn Ready
to-Wear here for your inspection. You'll
be courteously shown anything in Millinery
you may desire to see.
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TO-DATE FALL MILLINERY
Untrimmed Shapes in the widest possible
range of styles in bright finished Felts,
Velours, Beavers, Plushes and Velvets in
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shades and black.
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409 BROAD STREET
Hi'S lURY SAKS “MURDBt:”
FOUND Til OTHERS MAY BE AC-
Moat of yesterday and last night
•till nearly 1fae midnight ho(ur tho
coroner’s Jury investigated the killing
of Horace Denton, near the overhead
bridge on Chase street, Friday night
The jury decided that the killing
was done by J. W. Scoggins and thaf
It was murder.
'Sensational other findings were
made, implicating others as acces
sories.
The body of the dead man was ex
amined and 11 wounds were found on
him—any one of -them serious, two ot
'll roe of them mortal.
It developed that the dispute arose
about a young woman—a Miss Jessie
Kilgore, living near the scene of the
killing—a respectable and ladylike
girl, who knew nothing of the tragedy
till hours after It occurred.
It developed also that the man who
was killed was not drinking—no evi
dence being adduced to know that
fact. The other man is said to have
been drinking.
Tho finding of the jury late last
night were based on what they be
lieved to have been very active work
on the part of others to aid Scoggins
In the act and in his escape. The ver
dict in full Is as follows:
The Coroner's Verdict.
Clarke Co., Athens, Ga., Sept. 20, 1913.
We, the jury empaneled and sworn
to investigate the death of Horace
Denton, find that he came to his
death from knife stabs by the hanu
of J. W. Scoggins and that the same
is murder and we do further find that
Malcome Smith was an accessory be
fore ithe fact to the killing of Horace
Denton and that Robert Bullock and
Jim Pritchard and Earnest Wommack
are accessories after the fact of the
killing of the said Horace Denton in
Clarke county, Ga., on the 19th day
of September, 1913, and we further
find that warrants be issued by the
coroner for the arrest of all the said
parties that they may be dealt with
as the law direct. This the 29th day
of September, 1913.
J. N. BOOTH, Foreman,
J. H. DORSEY,
F. W. HICKS,
L. H. CROW.
CHAS. BOUGH,
F. Y. ALLGOOD.
FRESH SIW AE GEORGIA SHOWED
IN SPITE OF THE
There is a “fresh” consignment of
"spirit” at Georgia.
The rains last night did not dampen
the ardor of that spirit— except tem
porarily.
Cutting hair of the freshmen may
be an obsolete practice. The class
rush and the class-scrap may be non
considered an absolute mal-practice.
But there were other manifestations
last night which showed up the class
spirit of the hoys of Seventeen and
did not wait till the formal push-ball
rontest of heavy proportions down
on the mead—in next January.
The Freshman class held Its elec
tion of president. One of the old poli
ticians of the college graduates some
years ago and post-graduateed sever
al times since was present with a
guiding hand and lent the fine form
of real work to the election. Bill
Carey of Bostwick, a big Ag. Freshie,
a football player into the bargain,
was chosen over an opponent—seven
ty-flve to five.
Then the spirit opened up. The
red-tops like a swarm of woodpeckers
FURTHER QUESTIONS ABOUT “FATHER?”
And now the advocate of the auto
cratic so-called commission form ot
government comes forward and in
broad and strong assertions deposetb
and saith that "city employes will gel
more pay” under .the so-called com
mission form of government than
they will under the old tried and true
form of government which ihas stood
tne storms of time for these many
years and through its executives o'
this form of government. ,the city ha*
grown and prospered, and today there
is not a city In the South which can
boast of better municipal and com
merclal conditions.
They invite the opponents of the
measure to write to mayor so and so
where commission form of govern
ment is now in operation. What do
you think of that? A commissioner
or mayor drawing a fat salary from
a municipality, the whole cheese
Now what kind of an answer would
ycu expect from him? Of course ho
would tell you) that it is an ideal got
ernment and that the city is pros
pering under his administration. II
he didn’t tell you that he would not
be on his job—not for a little time
Who would be caught by such a gold
brick proposition?
Theoretically, commission form oi
government sounds good and the
beautiful articles published in maga
zines and newspapers tell of such
Ideal conditions existing in tfne cities
where this form of government is .n
operation. But. Mr. Voter, did you
ever stop to think that many of tliesS
articles are written by the commis
sioners themselves?
But now for the better pay of "city
employes." If you elect three coni*
missioners at fat salaries, where are
you going to get the money to pay
the bills? If the commissioners are
to get $2,500 and $3,000 salaries where
are you going to get the money to
pay the poor ‘‘city employes"?
Are you going to raise the tax rate
for this purpose?
Are you going to increase the as
sessments on real estate?
Pray, tell us just how you are go
ing to raise the money to pay fac
salaries to the three czars and have
enough left to pay the hard-worked
school teachers, the policemen, the
firemen and the other hard-worked
"city employes”?
Bear in mind that the working man
has a mind of his own and the “sop”
thrown out by the advocates of this
autocratic czar government will not
catch them “asleep at the switch.’’
They think for themselves, even
though they be “city employes.”
WHO IS BILL’S DADDY, ANY
HOW?
took the streets. They visited tho
State Normal School vicinity and the
Lucy Cobb section. They sang songs
and raised the yells that sounded good
and healthy and fresh. They started
to rush a picture show—full with
many women and children.
The police captain and other offi
cers were nearby. The police captain
stated that he warned the boys to
keep back. He says they refused. He
spotted the leader—who under the
honor of the situation is bound to
lead his followers even to martyrdom.
The big boy was arrested—he did not
fight, but merely allowed tfie officers
to carry him up without any assist
ance from him whatever, Indeed with
some purely physical and stubborn
demurring.
The classmen swarmed up the ave
nue and surrounded the jail, the
numbers being augmented by the up
perclassmen and several spectators.
The boys were In fair humor and took
the adventure as a “heroic” thrust
upon their leader. A sudden shower
came up and the crowd melted.
Later bond was made and the class
president liberated. Mr. E. H. Dorsey
went on the bond of the young man.
Last night, it was reported, that a
number of sophomores caught half a
dozen or a dozen or so of the freshies
and cut their hair—In the good old
tashioned way. The night before It
Is said that members of the faculty
surprised upper classmen as they
were initating freshmen—with the
aid of a simple and innocent paddle.-
Other exhibitions of the old-time
class spirit are to be seen and alt>
gether the outlook for a vigirous
freshman class seems to be good.
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