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GEORGIA is ENTITLED TO $lO,-!
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GOVERNMENT. |
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pRoVIDED STATEGIVES $20,0()Oi
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cannot Appropriate Amount in Con-i
¢ict Labor, But Must Give the
(ach. Automobile Owners May Be
porced to Pay Part, I
\II.ANTA.—The legislature is go-i‘
ing to do some wore battling with
(e good roads problem this summer,
[, the first place the United States;
government has appropriated a large§
qum {Ol cood roads building, of
whicl (ieorgia’s share is $10,000,“
provided {he state appropriates twic.ei
that much more. In other words, if
he legislature will appropriate $20,-
400 ror good roads at the coming ses
gon the United States government
will wive $lO,OOO in cash, making a
total of $30,000 to be applied to the
puilding of 30 miles of substantial
roadway in Georgia. |
when the information came to
covernor Brown that this provisional
qppropriation had . been made he
wrote to Postmaster General Burle
son asking him if it would answer
the purpose if Georgia should make
he $20.000 appropriation in convict
labor instead of cash, The postmas
er weneral replied that the appro
priation must be made in cash, other
wise Georgia cannot get the $lO,OOO
which the federal government has ap
portione d to this state.
Up to the Legislature.
\¢tine upon this information the
sovernor declined to settle the mat
ter himself, ahd decided to refer it
10 the legislature. He will lay it be
tore the general assembly in a spe
¢ial message when it convenes the
latter part of June.
It is always a difficult matter to
oot the legislature to accept a con
ditional offer of this sort, and there
i« considerable doubt whether the
$90.000 appropriation will be made.
There was some suggestion that one
or more Georgia counties might take
advantace of this offer and put up
$2O 000, in which event the govern
ment’'s $lO.OOO would be given to
«uch counties for the construction of
ads within their borders. The idea
o imnrove those roads which are
qsed by rural free delivery service,
and which would be of value to the
sovernment as well as to the county
and state. Tt is up to the legislature
as 10 whether any advantage shall be
taken of this offer.
After Autc Owners,
Decides this, the question of mak
ing automobile owners.pay for pub
lic rond work is going to be brought
up again this session, It is being ag
itated now not only by good roads
enthusiasts but by automobilists and
automobile dealers. When such a
proposal comes from thLose upon
whom a part of the expemse would
naturally fall it is undoubtedly going
to be listened to more carefully, ahd,
will stand a muech better chance of
enactment than if it were opposed
by all whom it would affect.
Tp to the present time owners of
automobiles have been required to
pay only an advalorem tax, except
the $2 registration fee, which
amounts to practically nothing. Ef
forts have been made in several legis
latures the last two or three years
to ¢ot through a bill taxing automo
hiles upon, some general basis, such
as that of horse power, in order to
raise a road fund. Sentiment in be
hal’ of a law.of this kind has been
growing every year, and if it does
not cet through at the coming ses
son it is pretty sure to be enacted
I near future, notwithstanding
tie orbitant price of gasoline.
NO MORE PARK SPOONING
No More Close Cuddling on Benches
and No More Starlight Spooning
in Parks in Atlanta.
\'TLANTA.—Cupid gets the hodk
2 nt park this spring. = A hard
f | park houard has proadanced
the nandate. No more holding
ands, no mofe cuddling close to
=other on park benches, no spoconing
noonlight.
¢ hright electric lights are to be
ick in thein places above every
1 nook, and love-lorn swains
"l maidens wili have to do their
ing and cooing in the swing on
Deir own lawn at home. .
last year, it will be recalled, eupid
‘a9 particularly invited to take upl
¢ abode in the beautiful park. Be
nz that innocent love-making
lould be promoted the park authori
i+ especially instructed the park
licemen that whei tiey came upon |
- couple holding hands or kissing
“v should turn their backsg and
it it in the other direction.
Zut this year they are going back
O the stern old-fashioned way of
mmning a public park, whicii means
“at the first couple caught kissing
" holding hands or indulging in,
u¥ other public demonstrations will|
ejected from the grounds. i
There are 25,195 reporiing banks
the United States having assefs
cregating $25,000,000,000 and lia
ities to depositors of over $17.-
1,600,000. .
~E DAWSON NEWS.
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CALF CHEWS A $5OO CUD.
Nips Owner’'s Wallet From His Hip
Pocket and Gets Very Busy.
C. A. Grove, treasurer of a Milton,
Pa., store company, placed $5OO in
biils in a wallet prior to going to a
bank to deposit. This he put in his
hip pocket. He had occasion to g 0
to the stable and when passing a stall
where a calf was tied the animal
nipped the wallet from his pocket and
Grove did not notice it.
Back in the store he missed it, and
after a search found that the calf
was chewing the wallet, money and
all. Taking it out he found a ball
of chewed-up money an® leather. It
will be sent to Washington for possi
ble redemption.
LONDON PAPER COMMENTS ONI
APPOINTMENT OF MR. PAGE. '
Says President's Wilson's Choice of |
Ambassador Is Welcomed as Com
pliment to Sense of British, |
LONDON.—The Nation, a weekly
newspaper of liberal tendencies, deals
at length with the ‘‘interesting expe
riment’” in his reversion to the
“scholar diplomat’’ President Wil
son has made in his appointment of
Walter Hines Page as ambassador to
the Court of St. James.
“In offering the London embassy
to Mr. Page,” the Nation says, ‘“‘Pres
ident Wilson has made am interesting
experiment. He has boldly reverted
to the scholar diplomat as the type of
man most qualified to represent the
United States abroad. In doing so
he has paid a silent but striking com
pliment to the good sense of the
British people.
“He has assumed that what we
most value in an American ambassa
dor is not his wealth and his ability
to lavish it on magnificent houses
and huge entertainments, but his per
sopality and his achievements and
the extent to which he brings with
him the true flavor of American
life.”
The Nation declares that Pres
ident Roosevelt tried the same expe
riment with Br. David Jayne Hill,
former American ambassador to Ger
many, and then says:
“Dr. Hill's predecessor was Mr.
Charlemagne Tower, a gentleman of
very great wealth. He was prodigal
of fetes and receptions. He leased
the finest house in the capital and
greatly pleased the emperor by the
splendor he was able to maintain.
“There is no need to go into the
details of the unhappy but illuminat
ing sequel. When the emperor learn
ed that whatever Dr. Hill's other
qualifications for the post weTe his
private means would only permit him
to maintain a modest establishment
and that the days of splash and glit
ter were over it was one of those
incidents that revealed a man and a
society. Neither the emperor TOT
Berlin came out of it with credit.”
DE LOACH 1S A WINNER.
Was Chosen Director of the State
Experiment Station.
Prof. R. A. DeLoach, head of the
cotton industry department of the
Georgia School of Agriculture, was
elected director of the state experi
ment station, succeeding Martin V.
Calvin, at a meeting of the trustees
Wednesday.
The trustees adopted unanimously
a resolution exonerating tormer Di
rector Calvin from charges of ineffi
ciency brought by assistants of the
station.
The trustees also adopted a reso
lution discharging the investigating
committee from any further work.
The other members of the station
staff will be named by the trustees
at<a meeting to be held May 9th.
I FINE CATTLE IN THOMAS.
Sixty-nine Head in One Shipment
. From That County to Savannah. |
Sixty-nine head of Thomas coumyj
raised cattle were shipped Wednesday
to Savannah by the Thomas County
Stoek Company. The steers were |
raised in Thomas county. |
The combined weight of the cattle
was forty-eight thousand pounds, an |
average of over 700 pounds. This isg
‘but one instance of the ability of this |
section to raise splendid cattle for |
market. |
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WIFE REBELLED AGAINST G()ll.i
Husband is Suing Her for Divorce on {
That Ground. i
Like the wife of Job, Mrs. Augusta |
Moore of Atlanta rebelled against |
God when her children died, and her§
husband, J. T. Moore, a prominent |
churchman, has sued her for divorce |
on those grounds. ;
Mr. Moore sets forth that when |
their two children died Mrs. Moore, |
who had been a devout church-goer,;
ceased going to church and came to |
hate all,things religious. 1
e ey |
One of the hardest things to do in |
life is to keep down expenses and!
keep up appearances. i
DAWSON, GA., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 11, 1913.
NUN BEGS FOR PARDON.
Sister of Julian Hawthorne Makes a
Plea at White House.
Appealing for merey for her broth
er, Julian Hawthorne, who is serving
a term in the Atlanta federal prison,
Mother Mary Alphonsa Lathrop, a
Dominican Superioress, went to the
white house in Washington and
found an advocate in Secretary Tu
multy, who promised to lay her ap
peal before the president.” Mr. Tu
multy heard all she had to say in be
half of her unfortunate brother, and
left her fully assured that the presi
dent should hear it as it fell from her
lips.
With a word of thanks Mother Ma
ry, a pathetic figure with her pallid
face and the quiet garb, left the exec
utive office. She had hoped to see
the president himself to plead for a
pardon for her brother,
GOVERNOR NAMES DELEGATES.
To Southern Conference on Women
and Child Labor Conference.
~ Governor Brown has appointed the
following delegates to represent the
state of Georgia at the Southern Con
ference on Women and Child Lab-r
to be held at Meridien, Miss., April
28 and 29: H. B. King, Augusta;
J. D. Massey, Columbus; F. J. Paxon,
Atlanta; A. H. Hodgson, Athens; H.
F. Meikleham, Lindale. ¢
ESTIMATE LOSS AT $25.000
Recent Fire at Smithville Fell Heav
ily on Property Owners, Who
Carried No Insurance,
Conservative estimates of the loss
es in the recent fire at Smithville
place the damage at $25.,000, one
merchant alone B. F. Christie, hav
ing lost property to the amount of
$12,000.
It is claimed that tflese figures are
conservative estimates, as there was
no insurance at all on the buildings,
which were cqmpletely burned, so
that no excessive estimates of loss
would be placed upon them for the
purpose of endeavoring to secure fire
damage. Only the store of J. A. Hill
was insured. This store was only
partly damaged, being the brick store
which prevented the fire from wiping
out the business section of the town.
Another story of the origin of the
fire is told in Smithville. It is to
the effect that Douglass Turner, the
boy whose leg was burned by the
flames, caused the fire by dropping a
cigarette stub in a puddle of gasoline
in the pressing club room. This is
the substance of the story told by the
negro presser as to the origin of the
fire, while the Turner boy claims the
negro started it by sousing a heated
iron in a can of gasoline.
It’s Clear Country Expects Tariff Duties
To Be Changed, Declares President Wilson
WASHINGTON, D. C.—President
Wilson began his message to the sen
ate and house as follows:
“T am very glad indeed to have
this opportunity to address the two
houses directly and to verify for my
self the impression that the president
of the United States is a person, not
a mere department of the government
hailing congress from some isolated
island of jealous power, sending mes
sages, not speaking naturally and
with his own voice, that he is a hu
man being trying to co-operate with
other human beings in a common
service. After this pleasant experi
ence I shall feel quite normal in ail
our dealings with one another.”
' Text of the Message.
The president then proceeded with
Ithe text of his message as follows:
“To the Senate and House of Rep
lresentatives: I have called the con
gress together in extraordinary ses
lsiou because a duty was laid upon the
‘party now in power at the recent
elections which it ought to perform
ipromptly. in order that the burden
Icarried by the people under existing
{law may be lightened as soon as pos
!sib]e and in order also that the bus
livess interests of the country may
Inot be kept too long in suspense as
|to what the fiscal changes are to be
fto which they will be required to ad
just themselves. It is clear that the
' whole country expects the tariff du
'ties to be altered. They .must be
| changed to meet the radical altera
'tion in the conditions of our econom
ic life which the country has wit
inessed within the last generation.
While the whole face and method of
Eour industrial and commercial life
‘were being changed beyond recogni
!tion the tariff schedules have re
mained what they were before the
change began, or have moved in the
direction they were given when no
large circumstance of our industrial
development was what it is today.
Our task is to square them with the
actual facts. The sooner that is done
the sooner we shall escape from suf
fering from the facts and the sooner
our men of business will be free to
thrive by the law of nature (the na
ture of free business instead of by]
the law of legislation and artificial
arrangement).
Patronage, Not Protection.
“We have seen tariff legislation
wander very far afield in our day—
THE GOVERNOR'S HOME
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MANSION, BUILT FIFTY YEARS
AGO, IS SADLY IN NEED OF
MUCH REPAIRING.
IS IN DILAPIDATED CONDITION
Is Located in Valuable Business Sec
tion of Atlanta, and All Sorts of
Offers and Fancy Prices Have Been
Made State for the Property.
ATLANTA.—One of the interest
ing things which the next legislature
will have to do is to solve the-prob
lem of the present governor's man
sion. The question has been up be
fore the last two legislatures, and
they have simply sniffed at it without
getting anywhere near a result.
The situatiom is just this: The
state owns an old brick house built
nearly half a century ago, which is
now situated on a valuable business
lot worth close to a half million dol
lars. Year after year money is spent
on the building in the effort to make
it more comfortable; but it is so near
worn out that nothing which can be
done to it seems to make any appre
ciable improvement. It has been
known to leak during rains, and one
time a lot of plastering fell fell just
before Gov. Brown moved into it.
All sorts of offers have ben made
to the state for this property, and
one real estate concern has gone so
far as to offer the state a site for a
new governor’'s mansion free of
charge. On one occasion a legisla
tive committee was appointed to in
vestigate as to what should be done
with the mansion property and it re
ported in favor of a proposition
which had been made to purchase it
and another to lease it for 99 yeavs,
so that the legislature might take its
choice. This report was never acted
upon. “
Now a new legislature is coming
into existence. It will be gn a far
better position: to make some dispo
tion of the old mansion than any
which have preceded it, for the prop
erty has appreciated immensely in
value. It might be sold today not on
1y for enough to build a new mansion
in a near-in residence section but to
!10:1\‘9 a bhalance of nearly a quarter
10( a million dollars to be turned into
'the treasury. This balance would
ieasi],\' pay for an annex to the state
| capitol, which will have to be built
| within the next few years.
One of the proposals which was
made to the state contemplated fur
nishing Georgia a new executive man
sion and an annex to the state capi
tol in exchange for the present prop
erty.
very . far indeed from the field in
which our prosperity might have had
a normal growth and stimulation. No
one who looks the facts squarely in
the face or knows anything that lies
beneath the surface of action can fail
to perceive the principles upon which
recent tariff legislation has been
based. We long ago passed beyond
the modest nqtion of ‘protecting’ the
industries of the country, and moved
boldly forward to the idea that they
‘were entitled to the direct patronage
of the government. For a long time—
‘a time so long that the men now act
iive in public policy hardly remem
‘ber the conditions that preceded it—
'we have sought in our tariff sched
‘ules to give each group of manufact
;urers or producers what they them
selves thought that they needed in
order to maintain a practically ex
clusive market as against the rest of
the world. Consciously or uncon
sciously we have built up a set of
iprivileges and exemptions from com
petition behind which it was easy by
any, even the crudest forms of com
‘bination, to organize monopoly; ui
til at last nothing is normal, nothing
is obliged to stand the tests of effi
ciency and economy, in our world of
big business, but everything thrives
by concerted -arrangement.. Only
new principles of action will save
us frem a final hard crystalization of
monopoly and a complete loss of the
influences that quicken enterprise
and keep independent energy alive.
“It is plain that those' principles
must be. We must abolish every
thing that bears even the semblance
of privilege or of any kind of artifi
cial advantage, and put our business
men and producers under the stimu
lation of a constant necessity to be
efficient, economical and enterprising
masters of competitive supremacy,
better workers and merchants than
any in the world. Aside from the
duties laid upon articles which we do
not, and probably cannot, produce,
therefore, and the duties laid upon
luxuries and merely for the sake of
the revnues they yield, the object of
the tariff duties henceforth laid miust
be effective competition, the whet
ting of American wits by contest with
the wits of the rest of the world.
Go Slowly.
“It would be unwise to move to
ward this end headlong, with reckless
haste, or with strokes that cut at
the very roots of what has grown up
MRS. REDDICK GETS $6,500.
As Result of Compromise in Damage
suit Against the Seaboard.
As a result of a compromise reach
ed between the counsel representing
Mrg. C. A. Reddick in her suit for
$30,000 damages against the Sea
board railway for the death of her
husband, C. A. Reddick, an award of
$6,500 was accepted by Mrs. Reddick.
This prevented the case from going
to trial in the Webster superior
court, which met in Preston Mon
day.
As the eriginal claim, made by Mrs.
Reddick was for $30,006 damages
the suit aroused much interest in
the county. Finally, however, a
compromise was agreed upon where
the plaintiff is to receive the amount
named and the defendant companay
must pay the costs of the suit.
POPE PIUS PLANS HIS TOMB.
Desires to Be Buried in the Crypts
of St, Peter’s,
It is the desire of Pope Pius X to
be buried in the erypts of St. Peter’s,
and for that purpose he has already
given directions concerning the.build
ing of his tomb. His holiness has
also decided that the body of Leo
XIII, his predecessor, shall continue
to remain in St. Peter’s, notwith
standing that a tomb had already
been prepared for its reception at St.
John Lateran’s. Thus there will be
no chance of an outbreak of mob
violence which attended the transfer
of Pius«YX’s body in 1878.
The tomb planned by Pius is
simply a recess lin the wall
of the crypt and it is being made
large enough for the reception of a
coffin. The recess after the latter
has been put in place will be sealed
by a simple slab of white marble
STOLE PEST HOUSE BLANKETS
An Unusual Theft Is Committed at
Brunswick. Covering of Small
pox Patients Taken.
BRUNSWICK, Ga.—Entering a
pest house and stealing the blankets
which had been used to cover small
pox patients is no doubt the very
hight of robbery, but such a theft
was commitied in Brunswick last
night, when a thief went into the
local pest house, which is without
any patients at present and stole
practically every blanket on hand.
Who could have committed such a
robbery is beyond the thinking power
of the local police. Fortunately all
of the blankets had been thoroughly
fumigated by the city, therefore there
is no likelihood of the disease being
contracted by the thieves, and conse
quently a spread of the disease is not
feared. s
amongst us by long process and at
our own invitation. It does not alter
a thing to upset it and break it and
deprive it of a chance to change.
It destroys it. We must make
changes in our fiscal laws, in our fis
cal system, whose object is develop
ment, a more free and wholesome de
velopment, not revolution or upset
or confusion. We must build up
trade, especially foreign trade. We
need the outlet and the enlarged field
of energy more than we ever did bhe
fore. We must build up energy as
well, and must adopt freedom in the
place of artificial stimuplation only
so far as it will build, not pull down.
In dealing with the tariff the method
by which this may be done will be a
matter of judgment, exercised item
by item. To sOme not accustomed to
the excitements and resposibilities of
greater freedom our methods may
in some respects and at some points
seem heroic, but remedies may be
heroic and yet be remedies. It is
our business to make sure that they
are genuine remedies. Our object is
clear. If our motive is above just
challenge and only an occasional er
ror of judgment is chargeable against
us we shall be fortunate. -
“We are called upon to render the
country a great service in more mat
ters than one., Our responsibility
should be met and our methods
should be thorough, as thorough as
moderate and well considered, based
upon the facts as they are, and not
worked out as if we were beginners.
We are to deal with the facts of our
own day, with the facts of no other,
and to make laws which square with
those facts. It is best, indeed it is
necessary, to begin with the tariff.
I will urge nothing upon you now at
the opening of your .session which
can obscure that first object or divert
defined duty. At a later time I may
take thé liberty of calling your at
tention to reforms which should press
close upon the heelg of the tariff
changes, if not accompany them, of
which the chief is the reform of our
banking and currency laws, but just
now I refrain. For the present I put
these matters on one side and think
only of this one thing—the changes
in our fiscal system which may best
serve to open once more the free
channels of prosperity to a great peo
ple whom we would serve to the ut-
TWELVE THOUSAND GEORGIANS ARE AFTER JOBS
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PLAYMATES AS PALLBEARERS.,
Eight Little Boys and Girls Carried
Auto Victim to Grave.
Eight little playmates, boys and
girls who romped and played with
Dolphus Casey, acted as pallbearers
when the little fellow was laid to rest
at Buckhead. The public school
which the lad attended was let out
at noon, and all the boy's school
mates attended the funeral.
. The little fellow was run down and
killed by a joy-riding autoist, Earl
H. Dell. Dell is held on a homicide
charge, in default of $5,000 bond,
in Fulton county jail. He i§ said to
be in a state of nervous collapse in
his cell.
SEIZED BY SHERIFEF AND DEP
UTY IN SUMTER COUNTY.
Is Believed to Belong to H. D. P‘ra-;
zier, Who Has Been in Numerous
Blind Tiger Scrapes, ‘
AMERICUS.—As a result of a raid
made yesterday morning by Sheriff
Fuller and Deputy Sheriff Harvey
eight barrels of whiskey in bottles
were seized in an outhouse on the
Guerry place about two and a half
miles west of the city,
1t is claimed by Sheriff Fuller, with
what is thought to be excellent evi
dence, that the whiskey was the
property of H, D, Frazier. The key
to the outhouse, which is an old
building remote from the publie road,
was found on the person of Frazier.
It is said that the raid was made
within a very short time after the
whiskey was taken to the outhouse
by Frazier, as he is believed. to have
taken it there at some hour between
midnight and dawn yesterday morn
ing. Sheriff Fuller followed the
tracks of the wagon in which the
whiskey was moved to the building,
and these weré still fresh and plain.
This makes a total of about nine
barrels of whiskey which the sheriff
has seized from Frazier rencently,
the other having beeu taken when
Frazier's stand just outside the city
limits was raided.
| Frazier has just finished serving a
‘term in jail for contempt of court,
his sentence having expired about
two weeks ago.
Frazier has persistently violated
the prohibition law for more than a
year, as is shown by the actual dates
of the cases docketed against him
by the municipal and county author
jties. He was driven from the ity
by the repeated raids made upon him
by the city authorities.
A HUNDRED YEARS AGO. |
A London Paper’s Comment on Fa
mous Battle in 1813,
Here is now one London paper
commented March 21, 1813, on a fa
mous battle: “We this week record
another humiliating fact—another
success of a contemptible foe upon
that element where before this was
Britain for ages has reigned almost
without a rival., The Java frigate
of 46 tons sailed from Spithead early
in November last for the purpose of
conveying Lieutenant General Hislop
and suite to Bombay. She was met
off the coast of Brazil by the Consti
tution, and after a furious action in
which Captain Lambert of the Java
and many of his officers and men
were killed, was taken; but like the
Guerriere she was reduced to such a
state of wreck that the enemy could
not ecarry her into port. She was
therefore destroyed, according to
some accounts having been sunk, ae
cording to others set fire to and
blown up. It is with pain we state
the great loss sustained on board the
Java—69 killed and 170 wounded,
whilst the loss on board the Consti
tution is said to be but nine killed
and 25 wounded.” ;
A PLEA FOR EVERY MEMBER,
“Votes for Women" Messengers Be
siege the Congressmen.
\\‘ashington.——Ffve hundred and
thirty-one women advocates of egual
suffrage took the United States capi
tol by storm here today and delivered
into the hands of the 531 senators
and representatives messages of ap
peal, demand and expectation from
members of their various constituen
cies concerning an amendment to the
constitution to give women the right
to vote.
Some of the messages were from
prominent individuals; some from
societies and some from political or
ganizations. The personal note was
sounded in some, but most were res
olutions asking equal suffrage, adopt
ed by the home folks. The object of
every one was votes for women.
Each woman was dressed in a street
dress of white and marched under a
banner bearing the name of the con
stituency she - represented. There
was no attempt at the fancy costum
ing which made the suffrage pageant
YOL. 31. NO. b 5
SENATORS BACON AND SMITH
OVERWHELMED WITH APPLi-
CATIONS FOR POSITIONS.
——
11,988 WILL BE DISAPPOINTED
If Senator Smith Has Opposition in
1914, It Is Said, It Will Be Based
Upon the Office Seekers for Whom
He Is Unable to Do Anything.
ATLANTA.—A man who stands
close enough to one of Georgia’s
United States senators to see and con
fer with him practically every day in
Washington made the statement here
that there are on file with Senators
A. O. Bacon and Hoke Smith at least
12,000 applications for appointments
under the federal government from
true and tried Georgia democrats.
“They have been counted,” he said,
“and T know for a fact that there
are around 12,000 Georgians who
have applied for federal johs.
“What is puzzling Senators Smith
and Bacon is where they are going
to get even twelve jobs to satisfy
this demand. This would mean only
one in a thousand, but if they get
that many they will be doing well.
‘Of' course, there are many minor
positions under the federal govern
ment with which not a few of this
12,000 Georgia applicants would be
satisfled; but it must be remembered
that practically all-of these positions
are under civil service, and are filled
only from the classified service list
made up from those who have stood
the required examinations.
“] don't refer to. the court and
postoffice appointments within the
state. There are, of course, many
of these, and while some of them
will be distributed by the two sena
tors the majority of them will natur
ally be the patronage of the congress
men in whose districts they are lo
cated. .
‘What I am speaking of is general
federal appointments. Such, for in
stance as that allotted to Chairman
W. J. Harris of the state democratic
executive committee as director of
the census.
What They May Get.
“1f Senators Bacon and Smith suc
ceed in getting a dozen appointments
of this sort outside of the civil ser
vice, allotted to them, they will do
better than most of the other sena
tors.”
According to the foregoing state
ment there are going to be some
thing like 11.988 dissatisfied federal
office seekers in Georgia. Some of
the ])oliticians'iu Georgia are already
basing hopes of political preferment
upon this widespread dissatisfaction.
It is said if Senator Smith has op
position in 1914 it will be based
largely upon the disappointed horde
or office seekers for whom he has
been unable to do anything. Sena
tor Bacon’s position is a little bit
different, inasmuch as he has just
neen elected for a new term of six
vears and will not have to 80 before
the people again until 1918.
In the meantime stories are being
sent out from Washington regarding
the “large and influential part” which
Senator Hoke Smith will play in the
next congress. It is being pointed
out that he is likely to be the spokes
‘man for both President Wilson and
}Secretary of State Bryan in the com
ing session. He has predicted that
lthe new administration will be pro
gressive throughout.
All of which is taken to mean, by
some at least of the Georgia politi
cians, that Mr. Smith is seeking to
hedge against the disappointment of
Georgia democrats who would like
to hold federal jobs. -
SCARED HER INTO HYSTERICS
Young \\'o'l‘han in Atlanta Awoke to
Find Elephant With Its Head in
Her Bed Room Window,
ATLANTA, Ga.—A young woman
named Miss Gardner, living on Ellis
street in the rear of the Grand op
era house, was frightened into hys
terics a day or two ago when she
awoke from her night's slumber to
find a full grown elephant with its
enormous head poked through the
window of her room, which was on
the ground floor. The elephant had
escaped from a nearby stable, and
was evidently prowling around for
something to eat. It was its lusty
trumpeting that awakened the young
woman,
She was not in the slightest dan
ger, for the elephant would have had
to tear down the whole house to get
more than his head through the win
dow, but the head ' itself appearing
in that marvelous and unexpected
way was enough to get on any wo
man’'s nerves. Her screams brought
the whole neighborhood and inci
dentally the elephant’s trainer, who
apologized most humbly and offered
to pay for the window sash, which
the elephant was wearing around its
neck as a souvenir.
THE KITCHEN QUEEN,
The Savannah News complains that
the people of that city are dominated
by their cooks. The Dublin Dispatch
says: “This happens whether, a
man’s wife does the cooking or
whether she OnA-slss ta
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