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VOL. XXII. NO. 64
MANY POINTS REPORT RETURN OF RAIL STRIKERS
CARRANZA WESTS
RIGHT TO ATTACK
SONORATHROUGHU.S.
No Action Is Yet Taken on
Application—Four Towns
Fall Before Advancing.
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Rebel Forces
WASHINGTON, April 16.—Mexico
has asked permission from the Unit- •
ed States to move troops through I
American territory so as to attack ■
the state of Sonora from the north. '
No action on the request has yet ;
been taken.
Carranza wants to send his troops, ;
on American railroads, across so’uth- i
ern New Mexico and Arizona from !
Chihuahua to Sondra.
Nnder the Mexican plan, Carranza
troops would go to El Paso on the
Mexican Central railroad, thence
across American territory to Doug
las, Ariz., by the El Paso and South
western railroad. From Douglas the
troops would expect to proceed into
the revolting state of Sorona and the
results of this movement would like
ly be a battle on the border, It is
believed here.
FOUR TOWNS FALL
BEFORE SONORA ARMY
AGFA PRIETA. Mexico, April 1«.
Pour towns in Sinaloa have fallen
before the invading Sonora troops,
according to reports to divisional
headquarters today from General
Fores, commanding the invading
column. _
The first battle between Cai
ranzista troops and the Sonora seces
sionists took place at the town, of
Choix, Sinaloa, where the Carran
zista garrison surrendered after one
hour’s resistance and joined the
Sonora movement.
THEODORE N. VAIL,
A. T. & T. OFFICIAL,
DIES IN BALTIMORE
BALTIMORE, April 16.—Theodore
N. Vail, chairman of the board of
directors of the American Telephone
and Telegraph company, died at
Johns Hopkins hospital this morning
of a complication of cardiac and
kidney troubles.
Mr. Vail was brought here frory
Jekyll Island, Ga„ last Sunday, in
his private car. At the hospital it
was stated that he was in a serious
condition, wken he reached there and
his death was not unexpected to the
physicians. _ _
Mr. Vail became chairman of the I
board of directors upon his retire- ,
ment as president and held that po- .
sition at the time of his death. |
Mr. Vail was a pioneer in telephone '
and telegraph organizations, and •
was known throughout the world.
Born in Carroll county, Ohio, July
16. 1845, he was educated in Mor
ristown. N. J., academy and studied
at Dartmouth. Middleburg college,
Princeton and Harvard universities.
He married Mabel Rutledge San
derson, of Boston, in 1907. His
home was listed officially as Lyndon
ville. Vernfont. He maintained offi
ces in Boston and New York.
Beginning life as a medical stu
dent, Mr. Vail soon branched into
general science with a particular
bent for electricity. He was a friend
t>f Thomas A. Edison.
Mr. Vail first entered the tele
phone business in 1878. He intro
duced the American system of elec
trical street railways in Buenos
Aires in 189 G and installed telephone
svstems in the principal South Amer
ican cities. He became president of
the American Telegraph and Tele
phone company in 1907. He also was
a director in several European elec
trical enterprises and was widely
known in London, where he was a
member of the Royal Automobile
club. He was a member of the
American Academy of Politics and
Social Science (Philadelphia), the
American Institute of Electrical En
galectS", the American Geographical
society and many social clubs.
Hoke Smith to Carry
County of Chatham
MACON, Ga.. April 16.—Senator
Hoke Smith will carry Chatham coun
tv by a large majority in the pref
erential primary next Tuesday, ac
cording to a number of leading Sa
vannahians who are here attending
the T. P. A. convention. S. N.
Harris, Louie Garfunkel and others
who have been active in politics in
Savannah for years, declared the
senator is gaining strength there
every day in spite of the opposi
tion of both Savannah daily papers.
There are a few supporters of Attor
ney General Palmer in the Savannah
delegation and some of them reluc
tantly admitted that Senator Smith
would carry the county.
Mayor Murray Stewart, one of the
warmest supporters of Senator Smith
.In Savannah, arrived today to at
tend the T. P. A. convention.
Palmer Will Not
Return to Georgia
Attorney General Palmer will not
return to Georgia to make further
speeches in behalf of his candidacy
lor president. He has wired Hon.
Pleasant A. Stovall, chairman of the
Palmer state campaign committee,
that on account of his public duties,
particularly in connection with the
tailroad strike, It will be impossible
for him ‘o come back to Georgia be
fore the primary on April 20. He
expresses the confident belief in his
telegram that the issue in Georgia
already has been so clearly present
ed that there can be no doubt of the
o u t co me.
CURED HER FITS
, Mrs. Paul Gram, residing at 916
Fourth street, Milwaukee, Wis., re
cently gave out the following state
ment: ”1 had suffered with Fits
.SJpilepsy) for over 14 years. Doctors
and medicine did me no good. It
seemed that I was beyond all hope
of relief, when at last I secured a
preparation that cured me sound and
well. Ovw AO years’ have passed
and the attacks have not returned. 1
wish every one who suffers from this
terrible disease would write R. P. N.
Lepso. 13 Island avenue, Milwaukee
Wis., and ask for a bottle of the
saw*- vLnd vX Aftedicine which he gave
. He nste “'eaeroasly promised to
send it prepaid, free to any one who
writes him." —(Advt.)
"He Reached So High
He Touched the Sky”
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CINCINNATI.—CharIes Sims,
20, literally “became great” when
he was 17. At that age he was 6
feet 8 inches tall in his stocking
feet and since that time has
grown one inch. Sims, his friends
call him “Admiral Sims,” is a stu
dent of the reserve officers’ train
ing corps, studying engineering at i
the University of Cincinnati. He
sleeps diagonally in ordinary beds
and at home in a bed made to or
der. His clothes are tailor-made.
PALMER’S FIGHT
ON LIVING COSTS
WITHOUT EFFECT
(The Atlanta Journal News Bureau)
623 Riggs Buildiner.
BY TH2ODOBE TILLER
WASHINGTON, April 16.—Figures ;
on the cost of living published by the ■
bureau of labor statistics. United i
States department of labor, show
that little progress is being made in '
the announced campaign of the de-'
partment of justice and attorney gen-'
eral to bring down high prices.
Gathering statistics from fifty |
principal cities, the labor depart
ment's records show that twenty-nine
out of forty-four articles of food have
increased in price in recent weeks,
while there has been slight reduc- ■
tions on eleven articles and four have
remained stationary.
Some of the increases during the
month from December 15 to January
15 ranged from 23 to 33 per cent.
These increases affected such food
as granulated sugar, potatoes and
cabbage, necessities which the av
erage consumer purchases.
Relatively speaking, the few de
creases were out of step with the in
creases. For instance, the greatest
reduction during the period covered
was 8 per cent on fresh eggs, and
eggs go up and down at intervals.
Most of the eleven so-called decreases
in cost were only one, two or three
per cent, almost negligible.
Published statements and adver
tisements that the attorney general
and the department, of justice have
brought down the high cost of living
are out of tune with the investigation
made by another executive branch of
the government, the department of
labor. So far, the department of jus
tice has not furnished a detailed,
statement of the reductions it i*
claimed have been affected.
Green’s Lunacy WrL
Dismissed by Judge
On Counsel’s Motion
It was announced Friday by At
torney H. A. Allen, counsel for
William B. Green. the Fairburn
banker under sentence of five years
tor embezzlement, that the writ of
lunacy taken out against Green by
his brother, Dr. Albert J. Green, of
Union City, had been dismissed on
motion by counsel for the defense.
This was done, said Mr. Allen, be
fore Judge Hutcheson, of the Stone
Mountain circuit, sitting in cham
bers at Fairburn.
A hearing' was to have been held
Saturday before Judge Hutcheson on
a writ of prohibition taken out by
Attorney Reuben R. Arnold, special
counsel for the prosecution, to pre
vent the lunacy commission of Camp
bell county from passing on Green’s
sanity at this time. This hearing
will not be held, said. Attorney Allen,
for the reason that Che lunacy writ i
has been withdrawn.
Bolsheviki Meet
Strong Resistance
LONDON, April 16.—The Bolshe
viki are meeting with strong opposl
tion in their attempt to penetrate the
Crimean peninsula, it is indicated in
an official statement on the Soviet
operations received from Moscow to
day. The statement says:
“In the Crimean sector our troops
are advancing and are engaged at
Perekop (at the neck of the penin
sula* where obstinate resistance is
being offered.
"On the Caucasian front our regu
I lar troops have entered Derbent (on
the Caspian sea about midway be
-1 tween Petrovsk and Baku).”
FIVE KILLED IN
WRECK OF THREE
PASSENGER TRAINS
Tl’.e cause of the derailment of
Southern railway passenger train No.
24 Thursday afternoon at Ellenwood,
Ga., thirteen miles south of Atlanta,
resulting in the death of Engineer
J. A. Acree and Fireman R. E. Cain,
Atlantians, and minor injuries to ten
passengers, had not been determin
ed Friday, officials of the railroad
said.
The train was en route from Ma
con to Atlanta, running at a. moder
ate speed, it is stated, when the lo
comotive left the rails while passing
a water tank at Ellenwood, turning
complete!} - over and instantly killing j
the two trainmen. Injuries to pas- |
sengers were mainly bruises and j
shock.
Engineer Acree was forty-five |
years old and lived at 186 West
North avenue. He is survived by
his wife; his mother: a daughter,
T ouise; a sister, Mrs. H. G. Hollings
worth; and a brother. Earle T. Acree,
all of Atlanta. Funeral services were
conducted Friday afternoon at 3
o’clock from the home, with Dr. R.
O. Flinn officiating. The burial will
be at Macon.
Fireman Cain was twenty-three
years old and lived at Inman Yards.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. James W.
Cain, are the only survivors. Funeral
arrangements have not been an
nounced. The bodies of both of the
wreck victims were taken to the
Patterson chapel.
The list of injured announced by
railway officials includes:
G. R. Grant and Miss Lillian Wood
ward, Locust Grove, Ga.; Mrs. Sallie
Eidson and R. W. Eidson, Fort
Payne, Ala.; Baylor Smith and wife,
McDonough, Ga.; E. H. West. C. K.
Gilbert and John A. Roush, Atlanta;
J. A. Cook, Stockbridge, Ga.
THREE KILLED, 3 HURT t
IN L. & N. COLLISION
MOBILE, Ala., April 16. —Three
persons were instantly killed and
three injured, two perhaps fatally,
in a head-on collision this morning
at 3:35 a. m., near Pinchona, a sid
ing on the Louisville and Nashville
railroad between train number 2,
northbound, and train number 3,
southbound.
Both engines of the two _ trains
and the express cars were demolish
ed completely. The wreck took fire,
but was extinguished by passengers.
The wreck occurred in a blinding rain
end electrical storm. The escape of
the remainder of the train crew and
passengers from death or injuries is
regarded as miraculous.
The dead:
John A. Spruell. 35, engineer of
number 2, Montgomery, survived by
wife.
L. A. Culver, 35, express messen
ger, number 2, Montgomery, surviv
ed by wife and child. ■
Harry Scott, negro porter, Mont
gomery, on train number 2.
The injured:
Major Saxton, negro fireman, trail
number 2, badly injured, slight
chance recovery; George Carter, ne
gro, fireman, train number 3. badly
injured; Leila King, negro woman,
of New York, passenger, slightly in
jured.
MOREFIGURESON
1920 CENSUS ARE
GIVEN TO PUBLIC
WASHINGTON. April. 16—The cen
sus bureau today announced the fol
lowing 1920 population results:
Battle Creek, Mich., 36,164; Enid,
Okla., 16.576; Bowling Green, Ky..
9,638; Hillsdale, Mich., 5.476; Owos
so, Mich., 12,575; Muskegon Heights,
Mich., 9,514; Phillipsburg, N. J., 16,-
923; Gloucester. N. J., 12,162; Alva,
Okla., 3,912: Southbridge, Mass., 14,-
245; Grafton, Mass., 6,886; Millbury,
Mass., 5,652;, Oxford, Mass., 3,820;
Norwich, N. Y'., 8,209; Moorhead,
Minn., 5,720; Eveleth, Minn., 7,205;
Anoka, Minn., 4,287; Whittier, Calif.,
7,997; South Pasadena. Calif.. 7,648;
Macomb, 111., 6,714; Bedford, Ind.. 8.-
963; Perry, lowa, 5,642; Fitzgerald,
Ga., 6,870; Hammond, La., 3,855; Luf
kin, Texas, 4,878.
Increases since 1910:
Battle Creek, 10,897, or 43.1 per
cent: Enid, 2,777, or 20.1; Bowling
Green, 465, or 5.1: Hillsdale, 475, or
9.5; Owosso, 2,936, or 30.5; Muske
gon Heights, 7,824, or 463; Phillips
burg. 3,020: or 21.7; Gloucester, 2,-
700, or 28.5: Alva, 224, or 6.1; South
Bridge, 1,653, or 13.1; Grafton, 1,-
181, or 20.7; Millbury, 912, or 19.2;
Oxford, 459, or 13.7; Norwick, 847, or
i 1.4; Moorhead, 880, or 18.2; Eveleth,
.69, or 2.4; Anoka, 315, or 7.9; Whit
tier, 3,4-17, or 75.8; South Pasadena,
2,999, or 64.5; Macomb, 940, or 16.3;
Bedford, 247, or 2.8; Perry, 1,012, or
21.9; Fitzgerald, 1,075, or 18.6; Ham
mond, 913, or 31; Lufkin, 2,129, or
77.4. „
To Charge Conspiracy
In Suit to Set Aside
Mary Pickford Divorce
CARSON CITY, Nev., April 16.
Suit to set aside the Mary Pickford-
Owen Moore divorce decree will be
filed in the Douglas county district
court at Minden this afternoon, it
was definitely announced at the of
fice of the attorney general today.
The complaint which he made pub
lic charges conspiracy on the part
of Douglas Fairbanks, Owen E.
Moore and Gladys M. Moore, to evade
Nevada divorce laws and names
Moore and his former wife as de
fendants.
offersfree
I PELLAGRA TREATMENT
A new treatment which is said to
ibe the most scientific method ever
I known for overcoming PELLAGRA
or a general run down condition is
being distributed by the Argallep
company, Dept. 601, Carbon Hill.
Ala. This remarkable treatment has,
according to the reports of hundreds
of users, cured some of the worst
cases imaginable, one patient re
porting a gain of thirty pounds in
weight in sixteen days. The Argal
lep company are so proud of their
treatment that they offer to send a
full sized $2.00 package free to any
suffererer who will write them. All
they ask is that If it cures you, you
recommend it to your friends. If
you suffer from PELLAGRA or a
run down condition send them your
name and address today for the free
treatment. —(Advt.) _ __
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ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1920.
Buddhist Fanatic, Toes Cut Off, Who Is
Rolling 1,800 Miles to Sacred Mountain
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This unusual photograph, just received from Tibet, shows a
Buddhist fanatic, his toes cut off, who is rolling up the course of
the Yangste river to the Sacred Mount Omei, a distance of 1,800
miles. When this picture was taken he had rolled half the distance
and was at Ichang, in the province of Hupeh. It had taken him
seventeen months to roll the 900 miles. He is living on charity en
route.
SAYS BRITISH ARE
WORKING AGAINST
SOUTHERN PORTS
(The Atlanta Journal News Bureau)
623 Riggs Building.
BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, April 16.—Direct
ing attention to an alleged British ■
propaganda for the sale of ships be
longing to the American merchant
marine, Matthew Hale, formerly of
Wilmington, and president of the re
cently organized South Atlantic
States association, has written the
senators -of North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia and Florida, sug
gesting congressional inquiry.
Mr. Hale says there are evidences
of an organized effort by alien in
terests to check development of new
trade routes through cancellation of
certain export rates, as well as
through bringing about sale of the
He asserts that certain Britishers
have joined in the efforts of the
northern trunk line railroads in this
country to disturb export rates
through South Atlantic ports grant
ed by the railroad administration.
Mr. Hale’s Letter
As head of the South Atlantic
States association, which Mr. Hale
says represents forty trade bodies
in the four states named and was
formed following the trade confer
ence at Greensboro, N. C., Mr. Hale
sent a letter to the senators from
the four states, saying in part:
“We wish to call your attention
to something serious enough in our
judgment to warrant prompt con
gressional investigation. We refer
to what seems to be definite British
propaganda designed to handicap the
development of our new trade routes
so necessary to the commercial ex
pansion of the middle west, the South
Atlantic ports and the Gulf ports:
First, by attempting to bring about
the immediate forced sale of our
government-owned vessels; and sec
ond, by opposing the recent export
rate revision which gives manufac
turers and shippers of the Mississip
pi valley freer access to foreign mar
kets.
“As you know, the south Atlantic
states are now enjoying increased
prosperity due to the export freight
rates recently estaolisiied by the
railroad administration to the south
Atlantic ports. These rates place
southern ports, for the first time in
their history, on a parity with New
York. The great English steamship
lines do not relish the diversion of
traffic which results. Apparently,
with their approval, Delos W. Cooke,
associate director of the British
Cunard lines, second in command to
Sir Ashley Sparks, has joined with
him some of the more selfish and less
broad-minded shipping and railroad
interests of the north Atlantic, and
is actively striving to obtain the can
cellation of these rates. The tact
that certain commercial organizations
in various north Atlantic ports have
been induced by this representation
of the facts to co-operation should
not disguise from us the essential
pro-British character of this activity.
“The effrontery of these forces
does not stop here. At the same time
they are agitators for the cancella
tion of export rates to south Atlantic
ports, not served by their steamship
lines, they advocate the continuance
of similar export rates to Halifax, a
British port, which is served by their
lines. They ask, in substance, that
export freight from the middle west
be hauled to Halifax at practically
the same rate as to New York, al
though Halifax is obviously much
farther from the middle west than
our south Atlantic or gulf ports.
The British Attitude
“In regard to the British attitude
toward the American merchant ma
rine, Lord Inchcape disclosed the defi
nite interest which British shipping
firms have in the precipitate dissolu
tion of our huge new merchant fleet.
He said:
“ ‘lf the United States government
will only turn the ships in which the
United States shipping board is in
terested over to private owners and
leave the owners to compete with
private enterprise in this country, 1
am not afraid, but if the government,
on the other side of the Atlantic, is
out to tax the people to build up a
mercantile marine at all costs, the
outlook for the shipping industry of
these islands is anything but rosy.
1 am hopeful, however, that the gov
ernment of the United States will
leave the shipping industry of the
world, including their own, to look
after Itself.’
“The agitation for the immediate
sale of our merchant marine started
from big New York shipping compa
nies, which formerly operated to a
largte extent under the British flag, or
were financially allied to British
shipping interests. Their aims are,
perhaps, naturally, in complete ac
cord with Lord Inchcape’s wish that
the huge fleet owned by the govern
ment be broken up into smaller units
under private control, with which
competition is easy.”
BONUS WOULD
BOOST PRICES,
SAYS EXPERT
WASHINGTON, April IG.—Soaring
I prices would be given a new impetus
I by the proposal to lay a tax on all
sales to get money to pay a $1,000,-
. 000,000 bonus to ex-service men, Dr.
Royal Meeker, government price ex
pert, said today.
The new tax proposal is being con
sidered by the bonus subcommittee
of the house ways and means com
mittee.
“It certainly would increase
prices,” said Dr. Meeker.
The subcommittee proposed to lay
a tax of one-half of one per cent on
all sales. This tax would be paid
by all dealers in four installments.
Committee members estimate it
•would raise at least $1,500,000,000.
“It would simply increase the cost
operation of all' jkauLDr_
Meeker. “The dealers would pass
the increased cost along to consum
' ers. The consumer would pay far
i more than the one-half per cent. The
dealer would add enough to the price
iof each article he sold to make
i doubly sure of getting the tax back.”
Treasury department experts now
: are preparing estimates on the pro
posed tax for the house subcommit
tee. Officials pointed out that it
probably would increase the tax of
every article offered for sale in the
United States. On commodities val
ued at SIOO the increase would be
SUOOO. For commodities worth
SI,OOO, the increase would be $5.
This would include automobiles, real
estate and a score of like commodi
ties of every day use. Gasoline sta
tions doing- more than $2,500 worth
of business a year would find their
operating costs increased. This cost
would be passed along to the public,
officials said, but probably in greater
proportion than the half of one pei’
cent.
On articles selling for $1 or less,
the resulting price increase would
be most felt, officials said. It would
•be impossible to assess the tax on
articles selling for less than $1 be
cause the tax would be one-half cent.
The dealer would be inclined, offl
• cials argue, to add at least one cent
to all such articles.
637 Killed in Fight
Between and
Japanese m Siberia
LONDON, April 16. Japanese
forces lost 237 killed in fierce fight
ing with Russian troops at Khaba
rovsk, Siberia, last Monday, a News
' Agency dispatch from Tokio said to
, day.
The Russians lost 400 killed. Jap-
■ anese claim 1,500 prisoners. Fight
ing continued throughout the day in
i the streets of the city, the dispatch
i said.
I
The Russian forces presumably
would be social revolutionaries (in
i sympathy with the Moscow soviet
* government). This element recently
\ clashed with the Japanese at Vladi
, vostok.
* Khabarovsk is an important Sibe
; rian city, formerly seat of the gen
; eral government of the Amur. It is
; at the junction of the Amur and
Ussurri rivers and on the Ussuri”.
, branch of the trans-Siberian rail
i way.
; Gardner Expects
Every County Will
Vote in Primary
j
> Hiram Gardner, of Eatonton, sec
. retary of the state Democratic execu
l tive committee, announced Friday
i morning that in his judgment every
L county in Georgia will participate in
, the presidential preferential primary
; next Tuesday, April 20.
i “I have heard from something
» more than 100 counties, and all have
: signified their purpose to hold elec
. tions,” said Mr. Gardner Friday
. morning. “The malls are bringing in
I assurances from other counties, and
j these, with the counties in which lo
: cal primaries are to be held, will in
clude the entire state.”
» Secretary Gardner added that the
1 official form of the ballot has been
■ forwarded to every county chairman,
i “The tickets will be printed in the
- several counties,” he added, “and will
i contain the names of only three pres
, idential candidates—Hoke Smith, A.
- Mitchell Palmer and Thomas E. Wat
t son. The county chairmen have been
- instructed that no ballot containing
s another name is to be counted or con
i sidered in the consolidation of the
returns.”
Hoke Smith’s Speeches at
Quitman and Thomasville
Stir Farmers Enthusiasm
Hearty Indorsements Given 1 ;
Senator by One Big Audi- ’
ence After Another Indi-'
cate He Will Sweep South'
Georgia
BY ROGERS WINTER
(Staff Correspondent of The Journal)
•THOMASVILLE, Ga., April 16.
That the Hoke Smith tide Is rising
rapidly in Georgia was plainly evi
denced by the reception accorded the
senator In Quitman yesterday morn
ing and Thomasville yesterday after
noon. In both of these places he was
heard by audiences that filled the
courthouses and his friends in both
were fully confident that he would
carry Brooks and Thomas counties
as the result of his powerful pres
entation of the issues to be settled
by the Democrats of Georgia when
they vote next Tuesday in the presi
dential primary.
Neither Senator Smith nor his sup
porters had expected he would carry
Brooks county. The town of Quit
man is not noted for large audiences
or vociferous enthusiasm when po
litical campaigns are concerned.
Practically all of the organized ef
fort put forth In the city and the
county had been on the side of At
torney General Palmer. Contrary to
his own and local expectations Sen
ator Smith had an audience that
filled the courthouse to its capacity,
gave him the most earnest and
friendly hearing, Indorsed unani
mously his stand on the League of
Nations, and promised to support
him on next Tuesday.
One of the features of the Quit
man meeting was the introductory
speech delivered by Dr. S. S. Gauld
in, one of the leading physicians of
Brooks county.
“I cannot agree with President
Wilson in his assertion in his Kan
sas City speech a few months ago
on his western trip,” <said Dr. Gaul
din, “that the League of Nations is
greater than our government.” Here
the doctor read an extract from an
official record of the president’s
speech byway of showing that he
quoted from, the text and not from,
memory . .
Senator on Aggressive
Senator Smith was on the ag
gresive throughout his speech,
knowing that certain of hia politl
caf 1 opponents had been active
against him in Brooks county, and
had utilized to the fullest advantage
the publications put out against
him by such papers as the Atlanta
Constitution and the Macon Tele
graph. He went after the Brooks
county situation in hammer and
tongs style. The audience was com
posed in the main of farmers who
had come to Quitman for the spe
cial purpose of hearing him pres
ent his side of the case. There was
also a representative sprinkling of
business men', lawyers and other
citizens residing in Quitman. He
cleared away the whole underbrush
of campaign misrepresentation and
criticism, converted his audience ab
solutely to his position on the
League of Nations, presented the
candidacy of Attorney General Pal
mer in the light of its weakness as
revealed in the Michigan primary
and received a unanimous vote of
approval when he submitted the
whole issue in all its phases.
“I was forced to enter this cam
paign,” said Senator Smith, “to
prevent Mitchell Palmer from tak
ing to the San Francisco a delega
tion which he would deliver up to
indorsement of the League of Na
tions without reservations and de
liver up to Woodrow Wilson for a
third nomination. I am fighting for
the preservation of the Democratic
party. I am fighting to prevent
Georgia from being exploited though
a false pretense of loyalty into sup
porting- a program that will break
the party down. If Palmer were
nominated on his platform, indors
ing the League of Nations and ev
ery other phase of the administra
tion, he would be such a load upon
the party that he would break it
down, even in the south. If Presi
dent Wilson should be nominated
the load on the party would be even
greater. What Palmer asks of the
Democrats of Georgia is an Indorse
ment of a program that would cru
cify» the party.”
Weakness of Palmer’s Position
The senator then emphasized the
weakness of Palmer’s position as
conclusively demonstrated by the
Michigan primary. He gave the
facts concerning Palmer’s record in
Pennsylvania where Democratic
leaders charge him with bolting the
Democratic nomination for governor
two years ago, charge him with
bolting numerous other nominations,
charge him with costing his party
five out of ten Democratic congress
men by his gross mismanagement of
party affairs, and charge him with
forfeiting the confidence of the party
in his state by his selfish manipula
tions and habitual desertion of
Democratic nominees. Though not
in any way personal to Mr. Palmer,
the senator's discussion of the at
torney general’s record was without
gloves and straight from the shoul
der.
Reviewing his fight for the freedom
of the seas to send cotton abroad in
the_ fall of 1914 and the spring of
1915, Senator Smith demolished com
pletely the charge by his enemies
he was actuated by motives of
friendship for the Germans. He
showed that the president supported
his position in a note to Great
Britain, cind that British interests
virtually acknowledged the justice of
the protest by buying in Liverpool
and New York the equivalent num
ber of bales which their govern
ment had blocked from the neutral
ports of northern Europe.
His review of his fight against the
price fixing raid by Bernard
Baruch in the fall of 1919 was even
more effective, for the history of
that raid was fresh in the memory
of the farmers in the audience.
Likes President Wilson
In the course of his attack upon
certain provisions of the League of
Nations, Senator Smith took occa
sion to say something with reference
to his relations with President Wil
son. “Get out of your minds the
idea that I dislike the president,”
said he. “In both of his campaigns
I made speaking tours for him at
my own expense, expending about a
’thousand, dollars on each of the
j trips. I contributed in his first cam
. paign about a thousand dollars to
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NEW-YORK. —How does Theda
Bara do it? Everybody eays the
new show in which the “world’s
greatest vampire” is appearing,
is n. g. and yet people are turned
away nightly. Theda was snapped
on the street on htjr way to
church.
the national committee and in his
second campaign about five hundred
dollars. I have always liked him per
sonally and my relations with him
have been most cordial. He is gift
ed with one of the brightest minds I
have ever seen. I have never failed to
make him see my point of view when
I could go to him in his studio and
discuss a matter quietly with him
without intrusion. Only when in
company with other people was the
president averse to changing his
mind.
“Contrary to some of the false
statements circulated in south Geor
gia, there was never the slightest
friction between us on the federal
judgeship. Mr. McAdoo came to me
and told me the president would ap
point any man I suggested, but I de
clined to accept the offer, and told
him south Georgia was Senator Hard
wick’s territorv and I would not in
terfere with him. There was never
the semblance of an acute difference
between myself and the president un
til the fall of 1918, and then I did
differ with him most emphatically,
when he authorized Bernard Baruch
to raid the cotton market, costing the
farmers of my state more than fifty
million dollars on their cotton crop.
I am satisfied that if I could see him
now and if he were well. I could
show him I was right, but nobody
sees him except his wife, his physi
cian and his secretary. When 1 left
Washington, no member of the cab
inet, with possibly one exception, had
seen him in months. Senator Hitch
cock had begged to see him on the
peace treatv matter. McAdoo lias
been to the White House twice in re
cent weeks and has not seen him. He
is isolated from the world, isolated
from the country, isolated from the
government, isolated from the lead
ers of his party.”
Obligations In League
The senator’s exposition of the ob
ligations placed upon the United
States by Article X of the League of
Nations covenant was one ot tne
most powerful ho has yet delivered.
He showed that President Wilson
went to Paris with announced inten
tion o& giving subject peoples the
right of self-government. He read
an extract from the president s fa
mous speech before the plenary coun
cil in Paris in January, 1915, in
which he declared that the founda
tions of the war must be swept away,
that those foundations were the hold
ing together of empires of unwilling
subjects by the duress of arms.
But Instead of a treaty giving
subject peoples the right of self-gov
ernment, as the senator showed, there
was brought forth a settlement giv
ing Afrffifn colonies Mesopo
tamia, the Islands of thdrpacific and
other colonies to Great Britain, gi -
ing Syria to France; giving Shantung
Io Japan. And there was brought
forth a League of Nations that
obligates the United States in Ar
ticle X to protect and preserve the
control of those nations oyer those
subject peoples for the balance of
time. “Everybody got something,
said the senator, “but the United
States.” .
“What we got was the
p Vtoiviinp’ thorn keep wnat uney &v
We may be obliged to cross the seas
acain toVrush some barbarous enemy
iVviPzntion but I insist that we
wait and let the folks who
will then do the fighting, and bear
?he burdens and endure the sorrow,
decide the question for themselves
when Save Party
Concluding this argument, the sen
ator said:
“I do not want our party to in
dorse the League of Nations with
out reservations. I do not want our
party to nominate President Wilson
for a third term. I am in this pri
mary to prevent Mitchell Palmer
from delivering Georgia’s delegates
to either proposition, for such a pro
gram would destroy the party. No
man can stand before the American
people and defend the League of Na
tions as the president brought it
back. If you are Interested in this
great issue, go to the polls next
Tuesday and vote your convictions.
You will render your party a splen
did service. And now I would like
for all of you who agree with my
line of reasoning to hold up your
hands.”
Nearly every hand in the audience
went up. There was not a single
vote on the other side. At the close
of the speech the audience gave the
senator a prolonged ovation. Scores
of men flocaed around him and told
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Crumbling of Strikers in
West Indicated Labor >
Board Takes Up Question
of Wage Demands
WASHINGTON, April 16.—(Sum
mary of News to the Associated
Press.) —Return of strikers and Im- :
provement in service was reported I
today by railroads in various sec- I
tions of the country as the newly- i
appointed railroad labor board as
sembled in Washington for its first I
session to consider wage demands ’
of rail workers.
The New York district, where vol
unteer crews continued to man
trains in increasing numbers, there
were conflicting reports concerning
the number of men who had returned
after the railroads last nighty had
delivered an ultimatum that their
last chance would expire tomorrow
noon. Some roads announced that
strikers were flocking back, but
others reported sporadic walkouts.
Some brotherhood officials express
ed fear that the men might regard
the ultimatum as a challenge and
prolong their walkout. Efforts at
conciliation in Jersey City this morn
ing were without result.
Crumblln'g strikes In the cen
tral and far west was indicated fol
lowing the action of the government
in arresting twenty-five strike lead
ers in Chicago. Improvement In serv
ice also was reported in the middle
west, one of the sections hardest
hit. Almost normal operation was re
ported by many roads leading into
Pittsburg.
Fassenger Service Better
With passenger service generally
Improved throughout the country,
increased freight shipments were re
ported In the New York and New
England districts. Officials of the
New York Central announced that
freight service was so much im
proved that the embargo had been
lifted east of Buffalo and north ot
Yonkers on the New York Central
and north of Newburgh on the West
Shore railroad.
New England poinU repented ft:
rival of more freight, including coal,
than any day since the strike spread
to the east. Proposed drastic cuts
In railroad passenger schedules and
a general industrial shutdown were
believed to have been averted.
Take Up Wage Demands
Wage demand of the 3,000,000
railroad employes of the country
were taken up today by the newly
appointed labor board, which held
its first session at the railroad ad
ministration with seven of the nine
members present.
The absent representatives, Judge
R. M. Barton, of Memphis, Tenn.,
of the public group, and A. O. Whar
ton, of the labor group, are expected
to arrive later in the day.
Both arbitration and railroad of
ficials believe that the prompt as
sembling of the board will have Its
influence on the present strike of the
railroad men. Many of those who
walked out already have returned
with the understanding that their de
mands would receive prompt atten
tion.
At the railroad administration it
was said that the demands of the
strikers would not be given prefer
ence over those of the other rail
employes; that the wage question
would be considered as a whole.
The board perfected a temporarv
organization at its initial meeting
by electing Henry Hunt, former
mayor of Cincinnati, as chairman,
and G. Wallace Hanger, of this city,
as secretary. Both are members of
the public group.
The wage dispute, as It stood with
the breaking up of the bi-partisan
wage conference here two weeks ago,
was submitted to the board, Mi-
Hanger announced, and the board
will begin consideration of the dis
pute as it now exists.
The board will-meet again tomor
row and by that time the two absent
members —Judge R. M. Barton, of
Memphis, Tenn., representing .the
public, and A. O. Wharton, of the
labor group—are expected to be
present. After their arrival the or
ganization of the board probably will
be made permanent.
Secretary Hanger’s announcement
made it clear that the. hoard would
not consider separately the wage de
mands of the railroad men now on
strike. The bi-partisan conference
here between the representatives of
the roads and the unions
a settlement of the whole wage ques
tion and the board will take the neu
ter up where that conferencelt.
NEW YORK SEES SIGNS
OF WALKOUT ENDING
NEW YORK, April 16.—Indica
tions that the unauthorized rail
strikes were nearing an end in this
vicinity were declared to be visible
today by railroad officials and offi
cers ot the “big four” brotherhoods.
They said the ultimatum of the
railroad managers yesterday, giving
the men until Saturday noon to re
port back for work on penalty of
tw*ng dropped from consideration,
was a body blow to the morale of the
strikers. As an indication of the ef
fect of the decision, Hoboken rail
road men belonging to the brother
hoods, as well as the men on strike,
hate voted to stick by the loyal
uj ions. They have asked Vice Pres
ident Timothy J. Shea, of the Broth
erhood of Firemen, to request Mayor
Hague, of Jersey City, to use his 'in
fluence with the roads to have all the
men taken back.
Other rebellious strikers were ex
pected to take action during the day.
Meanwhile, the brotherhood leaders
continued their efforts to induce the
men to return and submit their
grievances to the new railway la
bOt board. F. A. Dodge, assistant
president of the Brotherhood of Rail
:oad Trainmen, said “the men had
better go back while the going is
good.”
A gradual improvement In the
transportation situation was report
ed by the railroads. The number of
ccllege students and business men
who volunteered their services In
creased greatly today. Two young
women applied for positions as fire
men on the Long Island railroad.
They admitted they did not have the
strength to fire an engine, but they
were hired by the traffic manager on
the ground that “they had the right
spirit.”