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By E. L. RAINEY.
DAWSON GETS $10,.000 FROM CARNEGIE FUND FOR A LIBRARY BUILDING
WAN'S DECEIT CAUSES WOMAN'S SHAME
LiES OF MEN AND NOT po(m‘
WAGES ARE THE SOURCE |
OF SOCIAL EVIL. |
VOICE FROM THE UNDERWORLD
women Who Have Lived Lives of
pDegradation Charge Men With Ly
ing to Entrap Them. A Woman of
-1 Years Remarkable Witness.
(HlCAGO.—Reformers and wnre
cormed, the state senate’s vice inves
tication commission and the women
tor whose downfall the commission
is trying to determine the causes,
differed today on the relation be
tween low wages and low morals.
Letters received by the commission
from women of the underworld
mocked at the work which the legis
lators are doing. One of these let
ters, signed “K. R. L.,”” reads:
“To the Commission: Girls don’t
.0 wrong because they are hungry or
hecause they need clothes. They go
wrong because they are tempted by
lies and overpowered by the evil in
men.
“They listen to the fair and pretty
things that men tell them and they
fall because they think they can trust
themselves and trust their tempters.
1t is not the employer. I was a good
oirl and I worked in a store.
“I didn’t get much money, but that
didn't matter. I lived on $8 a week,
and would be living like that now—
but 1 met men. They seemed to con
sider me their prey and all the time
it was fight, fight. They wanted to
be nice to me, they said, and to take
me to the theatre and treat me fair—
and give me a chance to enjoy life.
All Men Bad. .
“I didn’t know men were bad—all
had— where a girl was concerned. I
thought only women were bad. I
thought all a girl had to do to remain
200 d was to be truthful with herself.
God pity women who think that and
who keep their trust in men until it
is too late.
“Every day it was some one else
—always smiling at me—always try
ing to give me a ‘fair chance’ to be
happy. In the street they followed
me. These I could avoid, but the
‘friends’ who hung around!
‘That is the secret of the thing
that makes a good girl bad. If they
had let me he—if they had only let
me be—only let me live as [ wanted
to—l wouldn’t have had to slink
into the room when your commission
was tryving to solve things, and
wouldn’t have had to sit in a corner
with my veil down afraid to look a
good woman in the face.”
Cries From Underworld.
Another cry from the underworld
echoed the words of this letter. It
was more bitter, though, and it read
In part:
“You're looking for the things that
make such a woman as I. Low
wages! Dance ‘halls! Hunger!
Cold! They all helped a bit, but
they didn’t turn the trick themselves.
“You're all a bunch of hypocrites,
afraid to look the thing in the face
and afraid to learn the truth.
“l don’t know any girls who sold
themselves for money to buy bread
or clothes, But I do know lots of us
who hit the road for hell because
a lot of blackguards kept hounding
them with their rottenm ‘attentions.’
God help the men and not us. We're
all right when we start. All we need
is to be left alone. There are hun
dreds and hundreds of kids and
sports who hang around State street
stores and wait like wolves for the
tired girls to leave the stores. Why
don’t you make the' men be good?
All the wages in the world won't
help us. Make the men be good and
the girls will be good.
“Now they haven’t got the chance
and they never will have as long as
the law smiles at one and spits at
another.”
This letter was signed with the ini-
Yals “L. M. 2
While these comments on the sit
uation continued to pour in the civie
every time they get in a ‘‘tight.”
mission bestirred itself in the launch
iz of committees and private inves
tization forces. \
In some stores numbers of girls
dpproached their employers to de
and larger salaries. All were as
fured that they would be taken care
of 4s something definite had to be
dgreed upon. Some Tresignations
Were tendered by girl employes as a
result of parental advice.
Policemen Paid for Immunity.
New York.—The grand jury and
District Attorney Whitman spent to
day listening to the confessions of
“en and women that they paid mon
€¥ o policemen in return for im
lunity from interference while they
Violated the law.
The hotel owner and several wo
"en who ran disorderly resorts told
10w they contributed to the coffers
0l the “system.” Much of their testi
ony corroborated stories already
THE DAWSON NEWS.
told involving police officers and pol
iticians,
The rest of it brought under sus
picion men not hitherto suspected,
and must in turn be corroborated in
Mr. Whitman’'s efforts to bring the
guilty under indictment. I
One visible result of confessions
made yesterday and today was the
demotion of another police inspector
and of a dozen or more high police
officials, whom witnesses have accus
ed of taking graft. Commissioner
Waldo, after reducing Inspector
John J. Murtha to the rank of cap
tain, transferred him and suspended
him without pay. Murtha formerly
was in charge of the precincts in
Harlem, the district that figured most
prominently in graft disclosures
made thus far.
Woman 74 Tells of Graft.’
One of the most remarkable wit
nesses examined by Mr. Whitman
was Mary Stacom, who confessed to
day, at the age of T 4 years, that 50
years of her life has been spent as a |
keeper of disorderly resorts. Known |
throughout the underworld as
“Mother Stacom,’” this woman pieced 3
together the experiences of her life
with facts that are expected to serve
Mr, Whitman invaluably.
Another startling story has reach
ed the prosecutor in the form of a
writen report by one of the investi
gators. It told how a woman, An
nie Gray, was reputed to have ac
cemulated a fortune of more than
$lOO,OOO as a disorderly resort keep
er. Backed by a former sheriff and
one-time police commissioner, ac
cording to information available to
the prosecution, Annie Gray conduct
ed several of the most noted resorts
of their type in the city. She will go
before the grand jury with an ac
count of her underworld experiences,
;a(:('ording to Mr. Whitman’s expecta
-Itions.
| Samuel Levy, hotel man, went be
}fore the grand jury today to repeat
a graft story he related to Mr. Whit
‘man. In this story he told of paying
;$75 monthly for the privilege of sell
ing liquor without license. Once he
refused to pay, he declared, and there
was a fake raid on his hotel and he
lwas brought to court, but when he
slipped $75 into a policeman’s hand
‘the case against him fell through
for ‘“lack of evidence.” He was told
that this would ‘‘be a lesson to hrim,”’
‘he said.
FINAL GINNERS’ REPORT SHOWS
A CROP OF 14,295,500 BALES.
Georgia Produced Million Bales Less
Than in 1911. Crop Approximate-
Iy 11,000 Bales Less in Terrell.
The second largest cotton crop ev
er grown, amounting to 14,295,500
equivalent 500-pound bales, includ
ing linters, was produced by the
tarmers of the United States during
1912, according to announcement by
the census bureau Thursday in its
preliminary report of the total pro
duction of cotton as returned by gin
ners and delinters.
The number of running bales,
counting round as half bales and in
cluding linters, was 14,076,430.
The crop compares with 16,250,-
9276 equivalent 500-pound bales in
1911, 12,005,677 in 1910, 13,687~
206 in 1908, 13,595,498 in 1906 and
13,679,954 in 1904. Comparisons of
running bales are 16,109,349 in
1911, 11,965,962 in 1910, 13,432,-
131 in 1908, 13,305,265 in 1906 and
13,679,310 in 1904.
In Georgia the total production
was 1,849,303 bales, compared with
2,845,799 bales in 1911 and 1,820,-
610 in 1910.
While the figures have not been
announced by counties The News is
safe in making the statement that
not exceeding 34,000 bales were pro
duced in Terrell county. In 1911
there were grown in the county ap
proximately 45,000 bales.
THEY BLEW THEIR BREATH
THROUGH THE KEYHOLE
ATLANTA.—For ways that are
dark and tricks that are vain two
handsome young Atlanta lads, broth
ers and members of the Athletic club,
have got all of Bret Harte's China
men backed off the boards.
These twe boys, who had best be
nameless, had a good deal of diffi
culty in persuading their mother to
let them join the club. She wanted
them to participate in the social and
athletic pleasures, but she dreaded
the influence of the cafe. At length
she consented, however, with the
precaution stipulated that every
night they went to the club her boys
should come by her room and kiss
her good night.
But as they stayed out sometimes
pretty late the mother occasionally
dozed off to sleep, and the boys
sneaked noiselessly to their room
without awaking her. The first time
this happened the mother tapped
DAWSON, GA., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 21, 1913.
PROBLEM FOR CONGRESSMEN
Cutting Patronage Pie for the Office
seekers Who Swarm Every Street
" and Alley in Washington.
WASHINGTON.—W ith the demo
cratic administration in office just a
half month today and impatient of
fice seekers pestering senators and
representatives for jobs democrats in
both the house and senate admitted
that the most serious problem con
fronting them is the patronage ques
tion,
Evm'y democratic congressman’s
office is visited daily by a dozen job
seekers, and the strain on the law
makers is getting heavy.
Great pressure is being brought on
Postmaster General Burleson to turn
out of office 40,000 fourth class post
masters. If this be done it is said
the democratic patronage situation
will be relieved greatly. Democratic
congressmen from the West and
South are incurring enmity daily,
they declare, from’ office seekers in
their districts, which, they fear, will
kill their chances of renomination.
For this reason they are using every
influence to have the administration
hurry appointments and save them
from defeat.
CALLED TO HAPPY
HUNTING GROUND
Hollow Horn Bear, a Noted Sioux
Chieftain Dies in Washington.
Body Sent to the West.
WASHINGTON.—HoIIow Horn
Bear, big chief of the Sioux Indians,
on the Rosebud, South Dakota, res
ervation, and probably most famous
of all Sioux chieftains, died here ear
ly today of pneumonia.
For sixty-four years the big chief
had defied death on the war path,
the plains, the mountains and the
forest, but the inclemency of March
iweather in Washington, where he
came to attend President Wilson's
’inauguration, was too much for the
old warrior
' When he was stricken Wednesday
;last the young chiefs of his party
consented to take him to the pale
face medicine man at a hospital,
where it was seen there was no hope.
Hollow Horn lingered in a semi-con
scious condition until early today,
when, just about the time the break
fast smoke was curling through the
tops of his people’s tepees on the
Dakota reservation, the Great Spirit
called him to the happy hunting
grounds.
Born a pagan, Hollow Horn died a
devout christian. The Rev. Wm. H.
Ketchum, director of the bureau of
Catholic missions, gave him the last
rites. His body will be laid to rest
with those of his ancestors out West.
ON BRIDELESS HONEYMGON
Worz Broke His Ankle, Was Pois
oned at Wedding Supper and His
Wife Missed the Ship.
ed Julius Worz, a Dutch tobacco
merchant, ever since he courted Hen
rietta Erhardt. Even marriage did
not kill the hoodoo, and yesterday
Julius arrived here on the steamship
Rotterdam on his honeymoon trip
without a bride.
“What is it you say that I am ‘in
Dutch?’ Well, I guess it must be so.
When 1 first called on Miss Erhardt
in Harlem a black cat crossed my
path and everything has gone wrong
since.
“The day T proposed I slipped and
sprained my ankle. I was carried
into the house and asked Miss Er
hardt to be my wife. She accepted,
and then was ill for @ month. We
were married on February 28, and I
got ptomaine peisoning at the wed
ding supper.
“Just before sailing frem Rotter
dam my wife missed something from
her hand-bag. She went back to get
it, and then missed her ship.
He will await her arrival on an
other vessel.
gently on the door of their bed
room. .
““We are undressed and ready for
bed, mother,” they called out cheer
fully.
- ‘Well, just blow your hbreath
through the keyhole, and I will go to
sleep satisfied; I love you boys, but
f don’t trust you.”
Silence and consternation reigned
on the other side of the door.® Both
boys had been sipping a little wine.
“Hurry, I'm waiting,”” called the
mother, good-naturedly.
Then, in the midst of his terror,
the older brother had an {nspiration.
Stealthily seizing a small hand bel
lows that stood in the fireplace he
put the nose of it against the keyhole
and worked the handles.
“Both of you,” called the mother,
and the bellows worked again. She
was satisfied, and row those wicked
boys are working that bellows trick
consciousness awakened by the com-
REGULATE WOMEN'S FASHION
OHIO LEGISLATURE IS ASKED TO
ENTER VIRGIN FIELE. '
Evening Dress Is Barred and Silk
Stockings and the Peck-a-800
Waists Are Taboo.
COLUMBUS, ' O.—Declaring that
the immodesty of the attire worn
by women on the streets and in pub
lic places is the cause of a ‘‘great
wave of immorality now sweeping
over the country” Representative}
Chappelle of Cincinnati this evening
introduced a bill in the lower house
of the legislature providing for the}
appointment by the governor of a
committee to ‘“prescribe the fashions
to be worn by the women in the state
of Ohio.”
Introduetion of the measure re
sulted from a charge filed with Gov—l‘
ernor Cox today by a woman who did
not sign her name ‘“that immora]ityl
is practiced by married men in the:
offices of the state house and else-%
where in the state of Ohio.” |
Under the provisions of the bill‘
the proposed commission would be
compelled to fix limits on decollutte!
dresses so that ‘‘not more than two
inches of the neck below the chin
shall be uncovered.” Another clause
of the measure provides ‘‘that trans
parent stockings shall not be display
ed or worn in public places.” |
Those Fish Net Things. ;
Another provision of the bill states
that ‘it shall be unlawful to display
or wear any outer garment trimmed
or combined with laces, insertion or
any kind of embroidery, mesh or net
through which the color or texture of
the skin may be distinguished with
out having the lace or other trans
parent material backed with opaque
material.”’
Members of the proposed commis
sion, aeccording to the bill, would
‘have to be between 30 and 50 years
of age. Two of them would have to
‘be married men and of good moral
character. One would be a minister,
%one a parent of not less than three
%childreu and the third a social settle
ment worker.
! The commission would be author
ized ‘‘to prescribe rules and regula
}tiuné for the designing and manu
ifacturp of women’s clothing and to
| prohibit &uch styles and patterns of
‘:.:arments as the commission after
hearing shall deem to be detrimental
[to virtue and chastity.”
, The bill goes so far as to prohibit
Idepartment stores from displaying
| undraped artificial figures. The bill
makes a violation of the act punisha
! ble by a fine of not less than $25.
WILL BE NO WARD POLITICS FOR WILSON
lI‘RESII)ENT WILSON DECIDES ON
| A SQUARE DEAL TO ALL
| DEMOCRATS.
l
| At
lmz WANTS NO DISSENTION
il’ustmus(or General Informs Repre
| sentative Howard That Congress
! men Will Name the Postmasters
i in Their Districts.
WASHINGTON. President Wil
son isn’t going to play ward politics
in dispensing federal offices within
his gift. This is being made clearer
every day by his own attitude and the
comments of the cabinet officers.
! Mr. Wilson’'s desire that his admin
istration should not be characterized
by the spoils system is giving the
organization men deep concern.
When there is a vacancy the senator
or representative who exercises the
right which custom has given him
of awarding patronage to his friends
and supporters is not going to find
the president inquiring whether they
were his political supporters, but on
ly whether they are efficient and have
lnot been offensively partisan in their
opposition to him.
Representative W. S. Howard and
other Georgia congressmen who have
)talked with Postmaster General Bur
leson hear that efficiency will be the
’principal test, if not the only test, to
' be applied to candidates for postmas
‘ters’ places.
The talk that Oscar Underwood’s
supporters in Georgia will not be
given consideration at the hands of
President Wilson is absolutely ridi
culed by Mr Howard.
W. S. Howard on Patronage.
“I called on Mr. Burleson with
Mr. Bell of Georgia and asked him
frankly what would be the attitude
of the administration in the filling
of postoffice places,’”’ said Mr. How
ard. ‘“‘He said to us that he would
follow the wishes of representatives
in every case in filling offices in their
respective districts, except in the
home towns of senators. Under long
established custom senators have
been allowed to fill these offices.
“Mr, Wilson will certainly deceive
thousands of loyal democrats all
through the country if he adheres io
the partisan prineiple that soms of
SOUTH CAROLINA SENATOR HAS
SUSPICIONS OF SENATE DEAL
Gives Up Plan to Deliver Vitriolic
Speech Because He Wants to
Promote Party Harmony.
WASHINGTON.—Senator B. R.
Tillman's unusual speech in the dem
ocratic caucus last Friday, when he
failed of acceptance as chairman for
the appropriations ~committee, be
came public today when it was print
ed in full under authority of the sen
ate.
References to Senator Martin's ac
tivities leading up to his selection
for the appropriations chairmanghip
have aroused general discussion in
congressional circles.
Senator Tillman declared he was
unable to understand why Mr. Martin
should have withdrawn from the
contest for party leader and should
then been given the most important
chairmanship in the senate.
“] would hate to believe there has
been any understanding er any prom
ises or pledges made,” he said. “As
1 have no proof I must perforce leave
any nu'usatians unsaid. PBut I can
not help the suspicion that there
must have been a deal of some kind
or Senator Martin would not have
retired without a show-down.”
Mr. Tillman said he had given up
his plan to deliver a vitriolic speech
because he wanted to promote party
harmony.
“Democratic harmony and concert
of action are more necessary at this
time than anything I know of,” he
said. ‘“‘Democratic discipline ig also
needed very much, for, as compared
with the republieans, we are an un
trained mob.”’
SUCCESSOR TO MR. CALVIN
lN('w Head of State Experiment Sta
| tion to Be Selected April 2. Sev
eral Would Like Place.
ATLANTA, Ga.—A sub-committee
lof the board of directors of the state
experiment station will meet here
lon April 2nd to select a successor
to Martin Calvin as director of the
state experiment station.
There are two active candidates
and two receptive. J. J. Connor,
,present commissioner of agriculture,
fand J. M. Kimbrough, assistant di
{rector of the station, are active can
| didates, while Hon. O. B. Stevens,
iformer commissioner of agriculture
|and railroad commissioner, and J. J.
ll<‘lynt, a well known Griffin man, are
ithe receptive candidates.
| The salary is $2,000 per annum.
his so-caile.l spokesmen are claiming
he will in making appointments,”
continued Mr. Howard.
“The president of this republic, as
I have sized him up, is a great-mind
ed, broad-gauged man. He is above
the skyline of playing a small game
of politics. He will not do so unless
tliose upon whom he relies to make
nomirations deceive him. He is also
wise enough to have the future of his
varty, enunciating the principt2s lor
which he stands, at heart.
“Mr. Wilson is not unmindful of
the fact that he was a minority can
didate at the Baltimore convention.
He does not for one moment discredit
the democracy of the democrats who
supported Clark, Underwood and
Harmon,
Wilson Wants No Dissension.
“Mr Wilson also realizes fully the
importance of winning over, within
the next four years, a million voters
from the republican and Progressive
rarties. As the successful but mi
rority victor in the November elec
tion he could not afford an excuse
for dissension in our own ranks.”
HE WALKS INTO HOME ALIVE
Man Thought to Have Died in Macon
Turns Up in Vermont. Body Bur
ied for Him to Be Disinterred.
RUTLAND, Vt.—Edward Sage, a
‘son of James Sage of West street,
'Rutland, walked into town yester
day and proved to his parents and
friends that he was alive. Several
months ago he was buried in the
Cavalry cemetery here—that is, a
body supposed to be his was buried.
This body was shipped here from
Macon, Ga., where the man had died
from exposure. A Kkeyring on the
body of the Macon corpse was mark
ed Edward Sage, Rutland, Vt., and
when later the body was shipped here
it was identified as that of Edward
Sage and interred. The body now
buried here will,be exhumed and
an effort made to find out who the
dead man is.
SEND THE CASH.,
All orders for meal and hulls
must each be accompanied with the
cash. SOUTHERN COTTON OIL CO.
'WHO HAS GOT THAT DIPPER?
Governor Brown's Old Fashioned
Drinking Gourd Has Been Swiped
From the Executive Office.
ATLANTA.—Sadness reigns in the
governor's office today at the capitol.
Little Joe is himself disconsolate, and
Secretary Perry’s flaming hair has
taken on the melancholy hues of the
sunset. No, it is not because they
are soon going out of office; both
will be pleased enough to get away
from their arduous duties at the cap
itok. Their sadness comes from a
much more serious cause.
Yesterday some wicked thief walk
ed into the office and stole the gov
ernor's water gourd. It is the old
yvellow, long-handled, hand-whittled
gourd that Georgia's politicians and
law makers have been accustomed to
see hanging on the office wall ever
since Little Joe first became a fixt
ure at the capitol. The farmer legis
lators took particular delight in see
ing it there, and occasionally it would
be filled with water handed around
in place of the glass tumbler, just
for the sake of old times. Secretary
Perry says the governor would much
rather the thief had picked up a roll
er top desk or something else of more
intrinsic value but less sentimental
worth. |
RECOVERS REASON
AFTER 19 YEARS
Mrs. Jordan Awakes to Find Mental
Faculties Restored Through Oper
ation. Her Joy Unbounded.,
ATLANTA.—Nineteen years ago
Mrs. Carrie Belk Jordan of 23 Oli
ver street lost her reason just two
weeks after her baby daughter was
born. Monday, after an operation,
she suddenly recovered her reason,
and found her baby daughter grown,
married and the mother of two chil
dren.
Mrs. Jordan can hardly believe that
Ler Laby girl is the mother cf chil
dren and that she herself is a grand
mother,
Mrs. Jordan's recovery is consider
ed a remarkable feat of surgery. For
nineteen years she had been without
reason. The latter part of February
she was operated on, but the opera
tion was without immediate effect.
On Monday she recovered her rea
son without warning, and her cries
of joy notified the attendants of the
Red Cross hospital of her sudden re
covery.
DAMAGES AGAINST A DOCTOR
Surgeons Can’t Tinker Upon Patients
and Get Away, Without Damages,
Says Georgia Court.
Failure on the part of a physician
or surgeon to render skilled treat
ment to his patients makes him liablie
for any damages which may accrue
'to the patient from neglect or lacg
of skill. .
This was heid by the state court of
appeals Tuesday in a decision affirm
ing the judgment of the Bibb supe
rior court in the case of Mrs. Anna
May Smith vs. Dr. A, B. Hinkle, both
of Macon,
According to the evidence in the
case Mrs. Smith, the wife of asMacon
city fireman, fell and dislocated her
shoulder. Dr. Hinkle was passing at
‘the time and the husband sumamoned
;him to treat the suffering woman.
1t was alleged that Dr. Hinkle sat
‘Mrs. Smith down and placing his
unclean boot against her body vio
lently pulled her arm until he pro
nounced her shoulder back in posi
tion. In her suit for $15,000 dam
ages Mrs. Smith claimed that Dr.
‘Hinkle then went away and did not
‘return to give her any further atten
tion. She says the shoulder was im
properly reset, and as a result a false
socket formed, which has permanent
ly injured her and caused her intense
pain and suffering.
The verdict which awarded Mrs.
Smith $5OO and all court costs is sus
tained by the appellate court.
ASKSPRAYERONLASTDOLLAR
“All Good Christians Please Pray
That My Desire for Rum Will
Vanish,” Writes C. C, Cartier,
ROME, Ga.—Changing a dollar
bill for a stiranger on a street car yes
terday a Mr. Willis was surprised to
find on examination of the bill the
following inscription written legibly
with ink:
‘“Thig is the last doilar that I have
left of a mis-spent fortune. Now I
am going to spend it for strong
drink, the way my g'nt»ire fortune was
squandered. All good christians that
read this please pray that my desire
for rum will vanish. C. C. Cartier,
Baltimore Md., Nov, 1, 1912.”
The bill is being exhibited as an
object of curiosity, and. it is not at
all improbable that the local Wo
man’s Christian Temperance Union
officers will write to the address
given,
YOL. 13. NO. 49.
A FARM BOY IS NOW HEAD OF A
BIG AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY.
Bound Out When a Child, Afterwards
Became a Carpenter, and Now
Employs Five Thousand Men.
Probably no industry has furnish
ed more striking examples of the so
called “self-made’” man than the au
tomobile business.
Enormous sums of money have
been involved in the development of
the industry, heart-breaking failures
have been recorded and great suc
cesges accomplished, in all of which
the human element has been para
mount,
C. W. Nash, president of one of
the largest motor car manufacturing
groups in the country, is one of the
men who can attribute his rise to
fortune and influence to the automo
bile In twenty years he has risen
from a laborer at a dollar a day to
the presidency of a powerful corpor
ation.
Mr. Nash was born in DeKalb, 111.,
January 26, 1864. When he was 7
years old his parents moved to Mich
igan and he was bound out to Robert
Lapworth, a farmer, at Flushing. By
the terms of the agreement Charlie
was to get a suit of clothes every
yvear, go to school three months in
every twelve and at 21 was to get
two suits and $2OO in cash.
Become a Carpenter. ’
The lad stood it for four years and
then ran away. He didn’t like the
farm. He went to Mount Morris
township and stopped long enough
to learn to be a carpenter at $7 a
month. About the time he had learn
ed to drive a nail without pounding
hig thumb a farmer offered him a dol
lar more a month to work for him
on the farm and he made the change,
He was there until he was 18 years
old, and then went to work for a
hay presser.
After three years with his employ
er Nash went back to the farm for
seven years, and later was married
and moved to Flint, Mich., where he
got a position as clerk in a grocery
istore. A prominent man in the town
hired him to pick plums, and the
work was so well done that he hired
Nash to work in the trimming de
partment of the Flint Road Cart
‘ Company.
| Before long Nash was made super
intendent and now he is general man
ager of a motor company employing
5,000 men. He is also president of
a syndicate of producers which ex
lpect to turn out 57,000 cars ir 1913,
valued at $30,000,000.
LAW’'S HAND ON ARSON RING
Warrants Out for Thirty-One DPer
sons in Chicago Who Profited
by Using the Torch. v
CHICAGO.—One hundred and
fourteen warrants for thirty-one al
lezed members of the ‘‘arson ring”™
were issued today at the instance of
Assistant State’s Attorney Johnston.
Twenty-eight of those named in
the warrants are business men, SOme
of them wealthy. Their names were
not made publie, pending arrests.
When arrests are made on today’s
warrants the total number of per
sons taken into custody will aggre~
gate forty-four, alleged to have been
implicated in forty fires from which
a total of $BOO,OOO was collected in
insurance. '
A special grand jury probably will
be required to hear the:esvidence
gathered by Johnston and his assist
ants. Johnston declared that a large
number of warrants growing out of
smaller fires probably would be is
sued at a later date. The present
writs were based on alleged guilt in
connection with important fires.
~ In some cases three warrants
charging separate offenses were ‘tak
en out against ome person. They
charge arson, burning to defraud and
conspiracy to defraud.
MARK TWAIN ON SUFFRAGE
Files of Old Newspaper Reveal Atti
tude of the Great Humorist
On the Mooted Subject.
MEXICO, Mo.—A copy of a news
paper published in this city on April
sth, 1867, and taken from an old
trunk yesterday, contains a letter
written by Mark Twain on woman
suffragists. It read in part:
“I knew before ithe canvass was
three days old it would be an estab
lished proposition that every woman
in the state was ‘no better than she
ought to be.
“Think of the torch light proeces
sion; think of curious legends on
the itransparencies; ‘vote for Judge
MeKinnes, the incorruptible, for state
milliner. Nine children.’
‘““Also in that day the man who
hath beautiful whiskers shall beat
the homely man of wisdom for gov
ernor, and the youth who waltzes
with exquisite grace shall be chief of
police in preference to the man with
energy.”