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VOL. XXII. NO. 133.
Japan Plans Law Suit
Hgainst California and
Hsks U. S. Intervention
Violation of Treaty Rights
Will Be Alleged If State
Passes Act, Tokio News
papers Say ‘
TOKIO, Sept. 23.—(8y the Asso
ciated Press.) —_J"he Washington gov
ernment will be asked to appoint
a commission to effect a solution
of Japanese-American problems, and
in the event of the passage of the
California anti-Japanese legislation
the Japanese government will ar
range for a law suit against the
California legislature on the ground
that the bill is unconstitutional and
a violation of the treaty rights of
the Japanese, according to the lead
ing newspapers here.
V. S. WILL MAINTAIN
STAND ON IMMIGRANTS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23. —The
state department will maintain the
position of the United States to
ward exclusion of all Japanese im
migrants in negotiations with Am
bassador Shidehara, of Japan, of
ficials said today.
At the same time, the department
will do' its best to avoid a conflict
in the negotiations which were
brought about by the Japanese pro
test against the proposed California
law prohibiting land holdings by
Japanese.
The official position of the United
States is now set forth in the Lans
ing-Ishii agreement. Under this
agreement Japan voluntarily under
takes to prevent her citizens coming
to this country.
It was suggested today that in
the event the negotiations failed to
eettle the California controversy the
Japanese would have recourse to the
American supreme court in an effort
to overthrow the California laws as
Unconstitutional.
William Jennings Bryan, as secre
tary© f state, suggested this plan
when the first California anti-Jap
anese laws were passed. The Jap
anese rejected the suggestion.
State department officials said
that Shidehara had not proposed a
joint American-Japanese commission
to be appointed to take up the Cali
fornia questions if the present ne
gotiations fail to bring an agreement.
* Tokio dispatches reported that the
Japanese cabinet had so instructed
the ambassador here.
Actual negotiations on the Cali
fornia question were opened between
the state department and Shidehara
a few days ago.
STORM DAMAGE
HEAVY IN GULF
COAST PLACES
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 23.—Dam
age approximating $500,000 was done
in the vicinity of New Orleans by
the tropical hurricane of Tuesday
night and Wednesday morning. Mis
sissippi’s gulf coast between Dunbar,
La. and Biloxi, Miss., appears to
have suffered most, according to re
ports received here today. Conserva
tive estimates place the damage in
that section at close to $200,000.
Western Louisiana towns, particular
ly Morgan City, Houma, Franklin,
Week's Island, Donaldsonville, West
Baton Rouge and Terrebonne parish
suffered another $200,000, while in
New Orleans the damage was esti
mated at $60,000. The Illinois Cen
, tral railroad reported that its dam
age at Napton, La., was $30,000.
As a result of the storm every
train on the Louisville and Nashville
in and out of New Orleans has been
annulled. Instead of its regular
schedule the L. & N. will run orfe
accommodation train daily, via Hat
tiesburg, between here and Mobile.
All New York and other passengers
will be transferred to the Southern
at Atlanta. Because they were un
able to get pile drivers here the L.
& N. had to bring two pile drivers on
a special train over the Illinois Cen
tral from Louisville, as well as
bridge crews and construction forces.
They began work today on the Chef
Menteur and Rigolet bridges, but
officials say it will take eight days
to put them back in commission.
The reports from the Mississippi
gulf coast said that the storm had
demolished practically every bath
house. had driven motor boats to
nieces, had sunk sailing craft, wreck,
ed piers, ruined the lines of the Mis
sissippi Traction company, between
Biloxi and Pass Christian, Miss., and
V>re up the fine roadway that skirts
the beach all along the coast.
ATLANTIC WARNINGS
ARE ORDERED DOWN
WASHINGTON. Sept. 23—The
weather bureau announced at 9.30 a.
m that storm warnings from Cape
Henry to Charleston were ordered
down Disturbance reported alst night
off the South Carolina coast, the
bureau said, nas moved inland, and
will diminish in intensity.
The gulf storm moved rapidly
northward, and this morning there
were faint indications of its presence
over lowa.
Os 12 Ex-Service
Men Killed by Blast
But 2 Had’lnsurance
The Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
623 Riggs Building.
BY THEODOR? TlX.J.r'St
WASHINGTON. Sept. 23.—The
war risk insurance bureau treasury
department cites the fact that out
if twelve former service men killed
last week in the New York bomb
•XJOlOsjun, only two. including Col
onel Charles Neville, of Savannah,
Ga., had kept up their government
life insurance.
Colonel Neville, after leaving the
army continued his government pol
icy and his widow will receive ten
thousand dollars. The other insur
ed man was William Joyce, ;fn em
ploye of Morgan and company,
whose mother is beneficiary. The
ten other ex-service men killed by
the bomb had allowed their govern
ment insurance to lapse.
6 WILFUL ouija; new mystery serial, begins today
DEMOCRATS LIKELY
TOCWHMBY
SMALL MAJORITY
Optimism of Cox Puts Heart
Into Party Workers —Has
Stirred Voters Throughout
West
BY DAVID LAWBEKCE
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1920.)
RENO, Nev., Sept. 24.—Nevada is
a close state this year. Normally,
it is Democratic by a comfortable
majority, although the majority of
5,000 which Wilson got in 1916 was
Overwhelming. Only about 35,000 to
40,000 votes are usually cast; 5,000
is virtually a 10 per cent majority.
The Republicans who think Hard
ing will carry Nevada count upon
him to win by 500 votes. That is
how closely they figure majorities in
a small state
The Republican optimism is based
entirely upon the disaffection among
the Democrats and the continued
murmurings which have been goii>g
on against the Wilson administra
tion. The Republican leaders esti
mate the shift of Democrats to
Harding will be considerable, but
disinterested observers do not be
lieve it will be enough.
That Governor Cox will get Na
vada’s three electoral votes would
seem to Be a more reasonable ex
pectation than a Republican victory,
though it must be recorded here for
whatever significance it may have
that the political wayfarer encount
ers high Republican hopes in states
that are normally Democratic, and a
shake of the head and a bit of
anxiety, though by no means de
spair, among the Democratic leaders
in those same states.
Cox Stimulates Backers
The truth of the matter is that
Democratic prospects have been at
low ebb everywhere in the west for
many months, and that whatever Re
publicans may say about the effect
of Governor Cox’s trip this great and
vital influence has been exerted by
him over the campaign in the west.
He has stimulated the working Dem
ocrats everywhere. He has put
backbone and “pep” in the rank and
file.
Many of them were originally for
McAdoo and didn’t know a thing
about Cox until they read his speech
of acceptance. Now they have seen
the candidate himself and in nine
cases out of ten the effect has been
instantaneous, for as a political mix
er and enthusiast Governor Cox’s
magnetic personality is unexcelled.
Right here in Nevada, where Sen
ator Henderson, Democrat, is a can
didate for re-election and certain
to win, since there is \ factional
strife in the Republican party, and
Henderson, who is a conservative,
can count upon a big Republican
vote, the said Henderson is reported
to have been worried by Cox’s entry
into the state. Things were Tun
ing Henderson’s way without drag
ging the national ticket and its han
dicaps into the situation, even the
League of Nations was sort of taboo
as a topiij of discussion. But Gover
nor Cox surprised Henderson and
everybody else by the impressiveness
of his argument on the league and
by his own forceful character. Dem
ocratic leaders went away believing
that while it might be disputed how
many Republican votes were acquired,
there could be no doubt that the
Democrats and those instinctively
friendly to the Democratic cause, but
straying from Wilson leadership, now
are disposed to stick in line under
the Cox leadership.
Confident of Success
Henderson will run away ahead of
Cox on the Democratic ticket. So
will Senator Phelan, in California,
who. too, is understood to have been
worried about the effect of the Cox
trip on his own chances.
He is reported to be feeling much
better since Cox himself put punch
into the Democratic camp and said a
few stirring words about Senator
Phelan’s record. Californians who
will tell you that Phelart has a good
chance of re-election will hardly say
that Governor Cox has as good an
oppportunity to carry the state’s
electoral vote.
As a matter of fact, Governor
Cox’s whole attitude is one of con
fidence. Se shows in his speeches
that he believes absolutely in vic
tory. Instead of saying: “If I am
elected I will appoint a secretary of
interior from the west,’’ he says flat
ly: “After March 4 next I will ap
point,” etc.
He doesn’t use the potential mood
at all. He takes it for granted that
he will be elected. That is one way
to stimulate Democratic workers
that Republicans even in the doubt
ful states have worked with twice
as much energy as they normally do
simply because the betting and oth
er signs indicate to them a Republi
can victory.
Conversely, depression in the Dem
ocratic ranks is due to the apparent
certainty of Republican triumphs
which has -been produced by Repub-
I lican newspapers on the theory that
I the country wants a change.
It tomorrow some sensational
campaign happening turned the tid.4
toward •the Democrats they would
work JOO per cent harder.
The Democratic morale has been
low duo to disorganization at na-
I tional headquarters and lack of
funds It may have been wise to
make virtue out of poverty when the
senate, investigation committee be
gan studying campaign finances but
it gives many a Democrat out west
the impression that the Democratic
campaign was a failure at the very
start.
Psrbaps the greatest handicap, on
the other hand, that the Republicans
suffer from in this state is apathy.
Dissatisfaction with the present ad
ministration is current but it hasn’t
been enough to arouse all the voters.
The Republican leaders fear they
will not be able to get out the Re
publ’can vote. The Democratic ap
prehensions are based upon the de
population of certain Democratic
counties on account of mining condi
tions. What has been lost to the
Democrats, however, in the gold field
district may be made up by the new
arrivals at Elko. This state is close
but the chances are it will go Dem
ocratic by a narrow margin.
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U. S. COMMITTEE
FORMED TO PROBE
IRISH CONDITIONS
NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—Oswald
Garrison Villard announced today
that the selection of the member
ship of the committee of 100 on Ire
land, formed on invitation of The
Nation for the purpose of investigat
ing and reporting publicly upon con
ditions in Ireland with especial ref
erence to atrocities, has been com
pleted.
Public hearings are to be held In
Washington by a commission of five
members of the committee. The per
sonnel of this commission has not
been announced. Five United States
senators, Johnson and Phelan, of
California; Spencer, of Missouri;
Ashurst, of Arizona, and Walsh, of
Massachusetts, as well as four gov
ernors, Edwards. of New Jersey:
Carey, of Wyoming; Frazier, of
North Dakota, and Campbell, of Ari
zona, have accepted places on the
committee, which is made up other
wise of persons prominent in the
discussion of public questions.
It is announced that Sir Auckland
Geddes, the British ambassador, and
Professor Eamonn De Valera, as rep
resentatives of England and Ireland,
have been invited to provide the com
mittee with information and to sub
mit lists of persons who should be
called as witnesses.
The Nation states in reply to both
favorable and adverse comments*
with respect to the proposed investi
gation that “it has undertaken the
project in the conviction that any
thing which jeopardizes the relations
of the United States with foreign
powers, or which tends to breed in
ternational ill-feeling, is a proper
subject of inquiry by any group of
American citizens.
“The object of such inquiry should
be the determination, so far as pos
sible of the truth or falsity of the
allegations which tend to cause ill
feeling to the end that, if true, re
sponsibility for the unhappy condi
tions may be made clear, and that,
if false, tl]£ allegations may be pub
licly shown to be such.”
INDUSTRIES BILD PASSED
BY IRISH PARLIAMENT
DUBLIN, Sept. 23.—Young Ire
land today reports passage of the
industries bill at a secret session of
the Irish parliament. The newspa
per adds that the parliament re
corded its appreciation of the loy
alty and devotion of Lord Mayor
MacSwiney, of Cork, and ordered a
copy of the resolutions sent to him
in Brixton jail.
Southern Counties
Show Increase in
Census Enumeration
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—The
census bureau today announced the
following 1920 population results:
Palestine, Tex., 11,093; Marinette,
Wis., 13,610; Lake Forest, 111. (re
vised figures). 3,657; Rock Springs,
Wyo., 6,456; Baraboo, Wis., 5,538.
Increases since 1910:
Palestine, 557 or 5.3 per cent; Lake
Forest, 111.. 308 or 9.2 per cent; Rock
Springs, 678 or 11.7 per cent.
Decrease: Marinette, 1,000 or 6.8
per cent; Baraboo, Wis., 786 or 12.4
per cent. „„„
Counties: Calhoun, Ala., 47,822;
Marengo, Ala., 36,065; Bolivar, Miss.,
57,669; Oktibbeha, Miss., 1,6.872; Ca
barrus, N. C., 33.730.
Increases: Calhoun, 8, 1 07 or 2_.3
per cent; Bolivar, 8,764 or 17.9 per
cent; Cabarrus, 7,490 or 28.5 per cent
Decrease: Marengo, 3,8n8 or 9.7
per cent, Oktibbeha, 2,804 or 14.3
per cent. '
County populations: Barbour, Ala.,
32,067; Houston. Ala.. 37,334; Wash
ington. Ala., 14.279; Avoyelles Parish,
La., 35,300; Webster. Miss., 12,644;
Avery count”. N. C., 10,335.
Increase since 1910: Houston Ala.,
4,920, or 15.2 per cent; Avoyelles
Parish, La., 1.198, or 3.5. 1
Avery, N. C.. organized 1911. \
Decreases since 1910" Barbour,
Ala., 661, or 2.0 per cent; Washing
ton. Ala.. 155, or 1.2; Webster county,
Miss., 2,209, or 14.9.
Taylor, Tex., 5,965, increase 651 or
12.3 since 1910; Vernon, Tex., 5,142,
increase 1,947 or 60.9.
Counties: Ellis. Tex., 55,700; Col
lin, Tex.. 49,609; Corell, Tex., 20.601;
Denton, Tex., 35,355; Karnes. Tex.,
19.049; Bibb, Ala., 23,144; Alachua,
Fla., 30,115; Clay. Fla., 5,621; Put
nam, Fla., 14,597; Gallatin. Ky., 4,664;
Nelson, Ky., 16,137; Washington, Ky.,
14,773.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1920.
NEW TRIAL MOVE
OF KELLOY TO BE
HEARD OCT. 23
GRIFFIN, Ga., Sept. 23.—-The new
trial motion of J. L. Kelloy, sen
tenced to be hanged October 29 for
the murder of Leßoy Trexler, Atlanta
taxicab driver, is set for hearing be
fore Judge W. E. H. Searcy, Jr., Oc
tober 23. Published reports that the
hearing was set for today are er
roneous. Judge Searcy is'holding
superior court in Fayetteville this«
week.
Kelloy when seen at his cell today
stated that he would sing no more
for the edification of the prisoners
who had been regaled dally with
selections from grand opera and
vaudeville hits. He resents the in
timations which have been published
that he is in a more or less hilarious
frame of mind all the time and
spending no anxious moments regard
ing his fate.
, “H— l, no, I’m not happy,” he ex
claimed in referring to what he said
had been misleading reports. How
could anybody be happy in here on
such a day as this, when folks out
side are enjoying glorious sunshine
and I am genned up in this narrow
cell? I’ve got to do something to
keep from going crazy. If Y were
to sit here and brood over my luck
I would be out of my head in three
days. Three weeks more of this
and they’ll have to take me to the
madhouse. But I won’t sing any
more. I fear that the reports which
this causes will prejudice my case.”
Deputy Sheriff J. D. Huckabee and
jail attendants all say that Kelloy is
a courteous, polite and well-behaved
prisoner. They back Kelloy in his
denial •that he has broken up jail
furniture, and that he had to be put
into a small cage off to himself. He
is in a full corridor cell.
The condemned man still holds
firmly to the belief that he yet will
be found innocent. He says that he
has been reading up on a number
of cases in which new trials were
granted, and he thinks that he has as
good cause for new trial as any of
them. tie expects help from his
mother as soon as the authorities
can get in touch with her, and lie
says that besides Mrs. Roche, a mar
ried couple in Atlanta has joined
other friends in working for a new
trial for him. He talks intelligently
and seriously of his case, trying to
keep as cheerful as possible, although
there is nothing of the hillarious in
his manner.
JViacSwiney Sleeps
Well but Has Pain
And Is Very Weak
LONDON, Sept. 23.—Lord Mayor
MacSwiney, of Cork, had a few hours
of restful sleep last night, but was
suffering severe pains in his head
and was very weak this morning,
according to a bulletin issued by the
Irish Self-Determination league at
Brixton prison.
Reports to the home office by the
prison physician stated there was
no apparent change in the condition
of MacSwiney.
This is the forty-second day of the
lord mayor’s hunger strike.
FURTHER AMBUSHES
OF POLICE REPORTED
LONDON, Sept. 23.—Irish clouds
grew blacker today. Reports of fur
ther ambushes of government police
and troops by Sinn Feiners and re
prisals by "black and tans” indi
cated approach of stormy times.
Developments included another am
bush at Milltown Malbay, County
Clare. A police automobile was re
ported held up there with two of
ficers killed and four wounded. In
County Carlow was found the body
of an unknown man labeled “spies
beware.”
From Dublin it was reported an
other soldier died as a result of
wounds sustained in a fight on
T u e s d ay.
French to Pay Loan of
$250,000,000 in Full
PARIS, Sept. 23. —France will pay
every dollar of the $250,000,000 loan
due 'in New York October 15, M.
Francois-Marshal, minister of fi
nance, officially announced to the
cabinet council today.
This sum is France’s share of the
$500,000,000 Anglo-French loan float
ed in the United States during the
war.
GOV. COX’S TRAIN
IS WRECKED; HE
ESCAPES INJURY
PHOENX, Ariz., Sept. 23.—Gover
nor Cox’s presidential compaign
train was wrecked about 4:30 o’clock
Wednesday, fourteen miles north of
here, while en route to Prescott,
Ariz. The governor and his party
were severely shaken when an en
gine and four, cars of the special
train were ditched, but all escaped
serious iniurv. The most seriously
hurt was Charles A. Nicholls, engi
neer, of Prescott, who had a leg
broken in jumping from his cab
when his engine toppled over.
Spreading rails were assigned by
railroad men as the cause of the
wreck, which compelled the governor
and party to return here and cancel
his evening address at Prescott. His
future itinerary also was upset.
The accident occurred a half mile
out of Peoria, a village on the Santa
Fe railroad. After Governor Cox de
livered several addresses here the
train, consisting of six cars and
drawn by two heavy engines, needed
for the upgrade to Prescott, left here
at 4 o’clock. About half an hour
later while running at a speed esti
mated at between thirty-five and
forty miles an hour, the train jarred
suddenly, and the careening of cars
told passengers the story.
The four forward cars were ditch
ed, the governor’s private car at
the rear and the adjoining compart
ment car of newspaper men, except
for its forward truck, remained on
the rails.
Governor Cox’s stumping campaign
was back on the right of way to
day, headed for Albuquerkue, N. M.
Governor Cox was thrown against
a wall in his private car when the
train hit a spot where the rails
had spread. Engineer Nichols was
the only one hurt, although the
track was plowed up for a distance
of 300 yards. Members of the gov
ernor’s party crawled through win
dows of the coaches to safety.
100 Cotton Warehouses
Os Georgia Bonded
Under Act’s Provisions
Since the state bureau of markets
inaugurated its campaign a few
months ago more than 100 cotton
warehouses of Georgia have bonded
themselves under the requirements
of the United States bonded ware
house act.
In co-operation with the federal
bureau of markets, the state bureau
is bringing to bankers, warehouse
owners and farmers the superior ad
vantages of a bonded warehouse, as
distinguished from a non-bonded
warehouse, and the movement is
meeting with encouraging success.
L. B. Jackson, director of the state
bureau of markets, states that the
banks are insisting more and more
upon the bonding of cotton ware
houses for their protection in han
dling cotton loans.
In connection with the bonding of
warehouses, the state bureau of mar
kets has recently established a free
grading service for the benefit of
warehouse owners and farmers.
There has been established also a
bulletin service showing the prices
paid by cottton buyers from week to
week in the principal spot markets
of the state.
Senator Harding Will
Speak at Chattanooga
During October Tour
MARION, Ohio, Sept. 24.—Flans
for two campaign trips for Senator
Harding during October, made pub
lic here today contemplate a swing
into the border states as far south
as Chattanooga, and one into the
middle west as far as Kansas City
and Omuha.
The first trip will start on Oc
tober 6, and the candidate will de
liver addresses at the following
Des Moines, October 7: Omaha, Oc
tober 7: Kansas City, Mo„ October
8; Oklahoma City, October 9.
Leaving Marion again on October
12. he will speak at hCattanooga on
the evening of October 13; at Louis
ville on the evening of October 14;
at Indianapolis on the evening of Oc
tober 15, and at St. Louis on the
evening of October 16.
Cotton Men Put Blame for
High Cost of Living on
Federal Taxation System
SEVEN KILLED WHEN
BEDS HMD SOLDIERS
BATTLEJN ITALY
Blood Spilled In Clashes
That Arise From Indus
trial Upheaval in Various
Cities
BY CAMILLO CIANFARRA
(United Press Correspondent)
ROME, Sept. 24.—Seven lives have
been lost in the preliminary stages
of Italy’s industrial experiment, ac
cording to a dispatch from Turin to
day. Blood was spilled in clashes
between royal forces and “red
guards,” the latter supporting work
men in their occupation of seized
factories. Four police and three
“reds” were killed.
The industrial situation through
out Itajy was unchanged today ex
cept in minor details. Premier Gio
litti was reported much annoyed at
labor’s failure to keep Its agree
ment to evacuate factories pending
enactment of a labor control bill, but
no government action to compel
obedience was anticipated.
Workmen said their refusal to va
cate the plants was due to failure
as their leaders and the premier to
arrange payment for work done in
the period of occupation.
Only one plant in Milan hauled
down the red flag ot occupation.
Additional seizures were reported
from other sections of Italy. Every
where the statements echoed those
of the Leghorn occupants of ship
yards—“there must be payment for
the period of occupation before we
will leave the yards ”
Senator Conti arrived here today
to discuss with the premier the mat
ter of prosecuting strikers guilty of
crimes during occupation.
7-MONTHS-OLD
BABY CUTS GOLD
' FILLED TOOTH
Atlanta has one of the biggest sen
sations of the century—a baby with
a gold tooth.
The baby is Eva Catherine Lee,
child of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Lee,
of 117 Ocmulgee tsreet. She is seven
months old; she has just cut the
tooth, and there is no explanation
to be offered for the phenomenon,
except that she was, as it were,
“born with it.”
Hundreds of people are visiting
Ocmulgee street to behold the gold
tooth. They have come in such
crowds and pried open Eva’s mouth
so often that the parents have had
to call a halt. No more will be al
lowed to see Eva’s gold tooth exr
cept by special permission.
No. 117 Ocmulgee street is a little
street off Stewart avenue In the rear
of the Atlanta Woolen Mills, where
Mr. Lee is employed as a weaver
They have two other chilrren, none
with gold teeth.
Eva’s gold tooth is the upper left
hand molar. It hasn’t been assayed
yet. but several doctor and dentists
declare It’s gold. When Mrs. Lee dis
covered it two days ago, she took
Eva to a doctor. He called in four
other doctors. They all agredd it was
gold, but when it came to explana
tions, they were as much in the dark
as Mrs. Lee.
Mrs. Lee herself has three gold
teeth in the front of her mouth. The
theory has been advanced that pre
natal influence gave Eva her gold
tooth. Other theories have likewise
been advanced. What’s yours?
Herd of Twenty Pigs
Enjoys Royal Time
On Mash From Still
A herd of twenty pigs, ordinarily
well behaved, on the farm of Henrv
Vanderpool, 1 1-2 miles from McFaul
lowa, were found lying around in
the shade with large heads and un
settled interiors. “What a night,
what a head!” is the general inter
pretation of thez'grunting.
One night Sumner Knox, who
takes care that the Eighteenth
amendment transgressors in lowa
find the path sufficiently hard, raid
ed the home of Vanderpool and
found two stills, ten gallons of corn
“licker” and 250 gallons of mash.
The stills and the whisky were tak
en to Council Bluffs with Vander
pool, but the mash was another
proposition. Knox has had a plen
tiful sufficiency of fermenting corn
and raisins thickening the air of the
federal building. Postmaster George
Hughes and Deputy United States
Marshal Fred Shoemaker have
threatened to shoot him on sight it
more of the mash were brought in.
So one night he ordered the 250
gallons dumped in the hog feed yard
on the Vanderpool farm. The pigs
meant well. How were they to
know that the law forbade the con
sumption of the stuff that was be
fore them? They ate it all.
A large night was the result.
Some of the pigs were completely
anaesthetized and spent the latter
part of the night lying in the
troughs, feet vertically extended.
Others leaned their backs together
and staggered round the lot grunt
ing their best attempts at “We won’t
go home until morning.” Others
waxed pugnacious and attempted to
“clean up” the herd.
Vanderpool’s lot is identical with
that of his porkers. He faces a
heavy fine in the federal court. The
stils, which he said he had been
using as a means of paying off a
$4,000 mortgage on his farm, are de
stroyed.—Omaha World-Herald.
Quart of “Booze”
Was Just Coffee
PORTSMOUTH, O.—Coffee broke
all records for cost here, when sl7
per quart was paid by a number of
thirsty. They thought they were
buying “bonded whisky.’’
Prominent Manufacturers
Advocate Constructive Re
vision as United States
War-Time Schedules
MAPLEWOOD. N. H., Sept. 23.
The present system of federal taxa
tion was declared to have created “an
intolerable situation” and 'm> be re
sponsible for the continued prices of
many articles, by speakers at the
opening session of the semi-annual
meeting of the National Association
of Cotton Manufacturers. Suggested
substitutes included an employers’
privilege tax, outlined by Theodore
H. Price, editor of Commerce and
Finance, of New York, and a gross
sale tax, explained by William E.
Cornwell, of New York.
The people of the country, Mr.
Mr. Cornwell said, are becoming edu
cated to the fact that the whole sys
tem of taxation In the United States
is wrong, adding that the system was
“founded on class and sectiortal
bias.”
Two important sources of the
country’s progress are being dried
up by operation of the excess profits
tax and heavy sur-taxes on incomes,
the speaker said. These sources
were surplus capital and intelligent
enterprise.
“As to the first,” he continued, “the
high taxes are driving people with
large Incomes to invest as much as
possible in tax exempt securities In
stead of furnishing capital for new
business and general Commercial and
financial development.
“And as to the second, extra prof
its in business are being appropriat
ed by the government instead of be
ing used to strengthen business con
cerns and to provide against losses
in lean periods which are bound to
come.”
• The requirements of a good tax
system, Mr. Cornwell said, were:
That it be fair to all; that the bur
den be universally distributed, and
that the collection be simple and
easy instead of being complicated
and Irritating.
“A tax on gross sales Is an ideal
development of these requirements,”
he added. “It is passed along in very’
small fractions and added through
the various processes from the pro
ducer of raw material to stage after
stage during manufacture, the tax
almost collecting itself, accumulating
automatically as it proceeds, and is
finally paid by the consumer prac
tically without his knowledge, and
the additions are so trifling as not
materially to affect; prices.”
Mr. Price in his address declared
that the present sur-taxes penalize
success and compel an enterprising
man to pay the government an im
moderate share of his gains in a
profitable year, leaving him to bear
the losses of an unprofitable year
alone.
Explaining the employers’ privi
lege tax which he proposed as a sub
stitute for the present system, Mr.
Price said in part:
“By and large, the great mass of
things manklrfd consumes are the
product of work on the farm and in
the mines, factories and offices.
Therefore, if the labor cost of these
things was taxed we should approx
imate an equitably distributed con
sumption tax, and if it were supple
mented by a reasonable income tax
plus moderate surtaxes, we would, it
seems to me, be coming about as near
as we can get a painless and fairly
apportioned tax.
“A manufacturer or merchant
whose monthly disbursements for
wages, salaries or piece work totalled
SIOO,OOO, would at the end of
month send a statement to Washing
ton with a check for the amount of
his tax. If the tax were 5 per cent,
his check would be $5,000, which he
would include in his overhead
charges and add to the selling price
of his product.
“The price paid by the manufac
turer of an entirely finished or mar
ketable product for the raw or par
tially finished material that he used
would have been correspondingly In
creased by the employers’ privilege
tax paid upon the wages paid to those
employed In its production, and thus
the price at which the article was
sold for consumption would include
all the employers’ privilege taxes
that it had to bear in its progress
from the first producer to the ulti
mate buyer.”
New York Socialists
May Make Effort to
Re-Enter Assembly
ALBANY, N. Y., Sept. 23. —Compli-
cations in the ouster of the Socialist
members of the assembly continued
to pile up today.
The three ousted men, Charles
Solomon, August Claessens and Louis
Waldman, now take the attitude that
they were not legally members of
the assembly when they were oust
ed the second time Tuesday night,
inasmuen as they had been sworn
in without certificates of election.
Today they planned to secure the
certificates and present themselves to
the secretary of state a second time
to take the oath of office, if their
counsel approved the idea.
Governor Cox Will
Speak in Tennessee
NEW YORK, Sept. 23. —Senator
Harison, chairman of the Democrat
ic national speakers’ buraau, an
nounced today that Governor Cox
had made a special request to be al
lowed to make one speech in Ten
nessee because of his “great desire
to compliment the south and con
gratulate ’ Tennessee for being the
state to ratify the wom
an suffrage amendment to the con
stituution.”
Governor Cox will start on the
last of his tour October 8 through
the middle west and east. The first
speech in the “second lap” will be
somewhere in Kentucky.
STOPPED HER FITS
Mrs. Dellia Martin, a resident of
Wurtsboro, N. Y., writes that she
stopped her fits with a medicine
that, ’she read about in the paper. She
says she ha s not had a fit since she
took the first dose and that she
wants every sufferer to know about
this wonderful medicine and what
it did for her. If you. a friend, or
relative, suffer from these dread
ful attacks, you are advised t > send
name and address at once to R- P.
N. Lepso.\ 895 Island avenue. Mil
waukee. W‘is., who is geperously of
fering to send a bottle of the same
kind of medicine he gave Mrs. Mar
tin. free, to any sufferer who
writes in.—(Advt.)
5 CENTS A COPT.
$1.50 A YEAH.
STARS AND STRIPES
IS DOMINATED BI
DEMOCRATS, CLAIM
Assistants to Attorney Gen
eral Palmer Explain Trips
to San Francisco Duftna
Convention
WASHINGTON. Sept. 24. -,s?he
Stars and Stripes, a soldier publica
tion, is controlled by the Democratic
national committee, and the Ameri
can Legion Weekly, another soldier
publication, is controlled by the Re
publican national committee, Joseph
L. Heffernan, secretary-treasurer of
the Stars and Stripes Publishing
company, testified today before the
senate campaign investigating com
mittee.
Mr. Heffernan also testified that a
man named Waldo, purporting to
represent the DuPont interests, had
sought to obtain control of the Stars
and Stripes and when he failed to do
so, he threatened that the publica
tion would receive no advertising
from large interests. The witness
added that the paper had been Un
able to obtain advertising from such
interests.
Mr. Heffernan told the committee
that “ten of us who got out the
Paper on the other side” had or
ganized the publishing company here
and owned most of the stock. Ef
forts were made, he said, to prevent
the use of the name, among others
opposing it being Secretary of War
Baker.
Sought Aid
When organizing the paper, the
witness -said, he went to Democratic
national headquarters as he wanted
to get some assurance that congress
would not pass a law prohibiting
the use of the name.
"I saw there Mrs. E. M. Parks, told
her of the situation, and asked for
some help,” Mr. Heffernan said.
She was the secretary of W D
Jamieson, director of finance for fin
Democratic national committee
wasnt she?’ asked Senator Edge
Republican, New Jersey.
“I think so,” Mr. Heffernan con
tinued. ’We came to an arrangement
y which 100.000 shares of the cor
poration stock were issued. The ten
49 0 U 0 S o e T ged the PUbl,catlon took
49,000 shares, and 51,000 were a »-
signed to her. She has so far fj r
nlshed $48,000 for the publication.”
Does that come from Mra, Parks
Ue™”’cha’i’r nat,onal commit- ’
e- Chairman Kenyon asked
I have no way of knowing,” Mt
Heffernan replied.
"So we have situation by which
this paper is controlled by the Dem
ocratic national committee?” asked
Chairman Kenyon.
O , p - Control » legion Weekly-
1 es, ’ was the reply.
‘‘And Mr. DuPont of the Repub
lican national committee, is endeav
oring to get that control?” asked
Senator, Reed’ Democrat, Missouri.
i es,” Heffernan replied.
„ The witness then declared that the
American Legion Weekly”' la con
trolled by the "Republican national
comajjUttee.”
< " ?£ow can you make that state-
ment?” demanded Senator Edge.
Mr. Heffernan mentioned Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr., and other organizers
of the American Legion and declared
that Scott C. Bone, director of pub
licity for the Republican national
committee, has stated that the Re
publican committee controlled the Le
gion weekly. J
Mr. Heffernan challenged the right ’
of Senator Edge to question him, de
claring he had “information the New
Jersey senator had participated in
conferences with men Interested in
preeynting the Stars and Strips from
obtaining advertising.
Unjustified, Says Reed
He named Richard S. Jones, an as
sociate in the Stars and Stripes, as
his informant.
Mr. Jones was called and told the
Co J7 n ? Utee that he had no knowledge
u would justify Heffernan in
challenging Senator Edge’s right to
question the latter.
Pressed by Senator Edge, Mr.
Jones said he had heard that a rep
resentative of the American Legion
weekly had been hastily summoned
to New York” last Monday and that
he knew Senator Edge was in New
Jork at that time. The witness said
he had no other basis fbr assum
ing that the senator had been in con
ference with the business rivals of
the Stars and Stripes.
Senator Reed, Democrat, Missouri
closed the incident with the state
ment that he believed Heffernan’s
statement to have been "utterly un
justified.’’
Mr. Jones denied the Stars and
Stripes was in politics and said the
paper was not controlled by the
Democratic national committee in
any way, although the stock was
controlled by an employe of the com
mittee He said the inference was
very damaging.
Palmer Testify!
Assistants to Attorney General
asked , t . he committee to allow
them to explain trips they took to
San kranclsco at government expense
at the time of the Democratic nZ
tional convention. Vouchers showing
that their expenses were paid were
presented at yesterday’s hearing.
R. P. Stewart, assistant attorney
general, the first to testify, said he
made a trip to Chicago and Seattle
in June m connection with Seattle
shipyard cases, and to consult local
agents of the department in Chicago
concerning the outlaw railroad strike.
He went to San Francisco, he said,
because some of the department’s
agents he wished to consult there’
could not go to Seattle. While in
San Francisco, Mr. Stewart said, he
decided to take a vacation and was
on leave from June 25 to July 5.
The Democratic convention began
June 28. During that time Mr. Stew
art testified, he charged no expenses
to the government.
Stewart Questioned
Senator Kenyon questioned Mr.
Stewart closely about his reasons for .
the trip. Mr. Stewart said fourteen
or fifteen special agents of the de
partment were working on the ship
yards case in Seattle at the time.
"How many of these special agents
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