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COOLIDGE LEO
DISCARDING FRIENDS
OE LATE PRESIDENT
BY ROBERT T. SMALL
(Copyright. 1924. by th«* Consolidated Press
Association—Special Lensed Wire
to The Atlanta Journal.)
NEW YORK. Feb. 23.—At this end
Os a hectic week, the political por
tents of the hour are a determined
effort by the Republicans to clear
the road for Calvin Coolidge and a
breaking open of the Democratic
race.
The drive for President Coolidge is
hot without its handkips and pit
falls, for in their struggle to
strengthen Mr. Coolidge, his friends
and some of the party managers are
trampling in the dust some of the
closest associates of the late Presi
dent Harding. This makes for a
Very sensitive situation and one
Which the Democrats will not handle
in any too considerate fashion.
The reply to William G. McAdoo’s
mandate from his supporters to stay
in the race for the Democratic nom
ination was announced from James
Cox. former governor of Ohio, that
he would permit the use of his name.
In the Ohio state primaries for presi
dential preference.
Thus Mr. McAdoo's ascendancy In
the Democratic race is challenged by
the man who beat him out -at San
Francisco in 1920. The result is a
tightening of the Democratic lines.
Cox Refuses to Fight
Governor Cox has announced time
and time again, however, that he
W<?uld make no fight for the nom
ination. It has been intimated by
his friends, nevertheless, that if
the democracy should issue a clarion
call for hinj he would respond. The
first call has come from Ohio. It
Is emphasized, and rightly so, that
Governor Cox merely has “consent
cd” to the use of his name. He
made no such demands. If the re
eponse to the Cox declaration In
Ohio is all that his friends expect it
to be, there may be an influence on
the primaries in other states and the
former governor may come to New
York with as much preliminary sup
port as he had in San Francisco
four years ago.
It is impossible for the political
forecasters at this time to tell whut
effect the Cox announcement will
have upon the candidacy of Senator
Underwood. Probably the Under
wood people welcome it, for it is an
other .stop in the anti-McAdoo cam
paign' and an effort to scotch the
McAdoo glide is the all important
thing to the others in the Demo
cratic possibility list.
There is one phase of the Demo
cratic. situat on, which can not be
overlooked. Taking advantage of the
silence of Governor Cox and of his
decision to make no fight for the
nomination, the McAdoo people have
made advances to a number of ths
most influential of Mr. Cox’s former
adherents and in some instances
have obtained pledges of Mr. Mc-
Adoo’s support from these men.
Judge David Rockwell, of Ohio, who
is general manager of the McAdoo
boom, was himself a Cox enthusi
ast in 1920.
Might Hurt McAdoo \
If the movement for Governor Cox
should grow formidable, it is, cf
course, possible that those of his
friends who had agreed to support
McAdoo could obtain releases from
their promises on the ground that
these promises were given under tne
assumption that Mr. Cox would not
be in the race. The effect, there
fore, of the Cox consent to stand
for delegates from Ohio may mean
piuch more than local.
The result of the McAdoo conven
tion in Chicago was just what was
expected. The telegram from Sena
tor Walsh of Montana, saying he
still -was for McAdoo was all that
was needed by the supporters of the
former secretary of the treasury to
start their enthusiasm full speed
ahead. -_“lf he's good enough for
Walsh he's good enough for us,’’
they sang, and all ended well. So
all who counted McAdoo out of the
race have to revsie their prognos
tications.
There has been still another de
velopment In the Democratic situa
tion which is filled with significance.
“Al’’ Smith has helfl a “dry” confer
ence at Albany and has made a plea
for law enforcement worthy of a
Wayne B. Wheeler. Governor Smita
has let it be known before this that
he believes the Volstead law should
be modified, but inasmuch as that
tnodification seems to be out of the
question for the time being, he now
declares the prohibition act to be as
sacred as any other law and he has
shown wilb figures that the state
police havo been more active than
ever against rum runners since the
repeal of the state prohibition law
which the governer signed. Pro
hjbition enforcement has not lag
ged in the empire state, the gover
i)or .declares, for any want of co
operation from the police. The fed
e|S authorities, he says, have not
the police any too much sup
phy 1 . The governor also has charged
that the counties of the state
which are lax in prohibition en
forcement are rock-ribbed in their
Republicanism. One of the criti
cisms leveled against Governor
Smith has been that he was “too
wet" ever to be president. The gov
ernor has now confounded some of
his critics on the point of law en
forcement.
Smith’s Denial Ignored
Just before the conference be
gan at Albany, Governor Smith
made the announcement that he
was “a candidate for nothing," but
the politicians insist upon connect
ing up the dry powwow with major
political aspirations on Al’s part.
On the Republican side of the
fence there appears to be a will
drive to cut loose from President
Coolidge any person or thing which
may be weighting him down in his
dash for the presidential nomina
tion. The demand of numerous Re
publican senators that the president
request the resignation of Attorney
General Daugherty “for the good
of the party" is unprecedented tn
Washington and the Democrats are
claiming it is an indication of the
fright which has taken hold of some
members of the G. O. P.
Mr. Daugherty was here Presi
dent Harding’s best friend—the man
who made him president—that
counts for little today. The elec
tions of November next are ap
proaching.
Secretary Denby, another close
friend of Mr. Harding, has resigned.
Georgq R. Christian. Jr., secretary
to Mr. Harding, has been turned
down . by the senate for a place on
the federal trade commission.
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THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
Love of Mother, 92, Saves Son, 72
George Doty, found in jail cell by his aged parent, promises
to direct energies into path of usefulness from now on.
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SON, AT 72, IS “COMING BACK”
BECAUSE HIS MOTHER ASKS IT
Will Get a Job, Fight to Re
gain Self-Respect and
Then Hunt Up His Two
Children
BY ALEXANDER HERMAN
BROOKLYN,'N. Y., Feb. 2.—Lost
without his mother, a 72-year-ola
man went astray. He went down
the trail that winds through the
Bowery and ends in jail.
There she found him, after a lapse
of ten years. And now he is coming
back—to work, dignity, and respect
in his own eyes.
“And that is the chief thing in
life,” says George Doty, this wan
dering boy of more than three-score
and-ten. “That and mother love.”
He was sitting in the pen of the
courthouse, awaiting action on a
charge of theft.
“Sure, I broke the window of the
phonograph sfiop and stole a talking
machine,” he says. “I,had to. I
was so cold and hungry.
"For I’m old. And this world
doesn’t want old men to work for it.
“But it forgets that I once was
young, and that it will grow old in
time, too. And it becomes so cold
that everything good in man be
comes frozen —so frozen that love
alone can thaw it out.”
Love Brings a Thaw
That love came when a neighbor
of Mrs. Margaret Lateer. little grand
lady of 92. showed her a little clip
ping about the tragedy of this old
man.
She read it slowly and then be
gan thinking. She once had been
married to a man named Doty. And
they had had a son named George
who went to Brooklyn and dropped
out of sight. A little figuring and
she decided that he. was of the same
age as the unfortunate held by the
police.
With a speed that sh’e hadn’t been
able to command for years she bun
dled up a few things and took the
first train out of Branchville, N. J.,
where she lives, and went to the
Brooklyn jail.
A few hurried words to the war
den, and she was ushered into a lit
tle room where George sat silently
thinking about the cruelty of life.
Dog, Lost in Indiana,
Returns, Footsore, to
His Home m Oregon
SALEM, Ore., Feb. 22.—Last sum
mer G. F. Brazier, of Silverton,
near here, end his family, 1 visited
at Wolcott, Ind., and took with
them their dog “Bob,” a collie.
While the family was in the In
diana city Bob disappeared. They
searched and advertised for him,
but without results, and the Bra
ziers came home without him. Thar
was more than six months ago. A
few days ago Bob arrived in Sil
verton, weary and sore-footed, but
otherwise healthful. It is believed
he came home without a “lift,”
half way across the continent.
British Spinners Cut
Work Hours on Cotton
MANCHESTER. England, Feb. 22.
The Federation of Master Cotton
Spinners has decided to reduce the
weekly hours of work from 48 to
261-4 in the section engaged on
American cotton. The systematic
short time, which was dropped in
November, will be resumed immedi
ately, it is announced, affecting 100,-
i 000 workers.
Young Man: Read This
I LONDON. —Sir Arthur Yapp, na
I tional Young Men’s Christian asso
. ciation secretary, advised all young
i men to make the Book of Proverbs
[their giiide in life.
She hadn’t seen him for ten years
And time changes a man rapidly Id
old age. But there was the same
old strawberry mark near his mouth.
The mother’s heart knew its boy.
“George! My George!” A momen
tary silence. And then a gleam in
the old man’s eye.
“Mother! My mother!”
And the two were left alone.
“I’fi grow young again despite my
years,” smiled George happily, after
his mother' left.
“She fixed me up. Just a few
words from her and 1 forgot all about
wanting to give up. I want to go
on. And say—
Going Back to Work
“I’m going.”
Not back to his mot|ier”s home,
nor any charity institution. But
back to his own work. ,
“I’ll get my tools out of hock,”
George went on speaking rapidly.
“I’ll go back to my little place in
New York —a clean room, and
warm-r-and I’ll get another job.”
If experience means anything, he
should have little difficulty in get
ting work, for he has been a car
penter for more than 50 years.
“And in my spare time, I’ll finish
my invention—a device for saving
human life.” he'went on. His eyes
were sparkling now. “It’s a mecha
nism which will enable persons in a
fire to get to safety.”
Further details will have to ba
held up until Dotv srets his natent,
“And then, ma.ybe.” the old mar:
grew wistful, "I will look up my
children.”
There are two of them living in
comfort with their own children.
One is married to a. ranchman in
Oklahoma and the other lives in
“But I don’t want them to hear of
me, until I’m back on my feet,” says
the father.
Even in his (darkest despair, he
put his own pride and dignity above
all else. %
“Every man should,” he went on.
“For the moment that one loses his
own respect, he loies everything
that’s worth living for. And deatb
alone remains.
“And no man should want to die.
“I know that I don’t. And I won >
—for a long, long time, I hope.
“For I’m coming back—
“ Mother wants me tn."
i Texas Representative
Answers Charge Against
South Made in House
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. A re-
I cent statement by Representative
I Tinkham, Republican, Massachusetts,
alleging discrimination by eleven
i southern states in granting the right
|of suffrage, was declared today by
Representative Sumners, Democrat,
Texps, to be “an unfair statement of
the actual and comparative facts as
among the states calculated to arouse
prejudice against one section of the
country.”
Mr. Tinkham’s statement accom
panied a resolution seeking a con
gressional investigation and recom
mending. if discrimination were
found, that a reapportionment be
made in congressional representation.
Mr. Sumners, in a statement, said,
as to Mr. Tinkham’s state, the con
stitution and laws “impose upon suf
frage conditions more difficult to
comply with them than do most ob
the southern states enumerated by
him, and it seems all right for Mas
sachusetts to require that its con
stitution shall be read in the English
language."
Alabama. Georgia and Louisiana,
Mr. Sumners said, have the same re
quirement as Massachusetts, but pro
vide a property clause for those un
able to comply with the educational
provisions. Arkansas, Florida, Ten-
I nessee and Tex s require only a poll
; tax, he declared, anil the two Caro
linas and Virginia require a poll tax
and ability to read and write.
Mr. Sumners asked why Mr. Tink
ham did not name Massachusetts’
neighboring states, adding “that’s
fiot a fair assumption that it was be
cause their enumeration would weak
en the appeals."
Oklahoma Banks Merge
ML SIvQGEE, Ok.a.. Feb. 23.—The
Security National and the Musko
i gee National banks, of this city,
were merged today, and Mondav
morning will he doing business as
i ore bank, under the name of
A'askooee Security N.-.t.. r.a‘. bank
M G. Young will be presidentuf the
new ha-k. and X r- Trumbo w!''
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OOM PROMISED
M'fiDDO LAW FIRM
FEE OF MOM
LOS ANGELES, Calif., Feb. 23.
William G. McAdoo, candidate for
the Democratic presidential nomina
tion, declared today that his law
firm would have received a fee of
$1,000,000 from the Doheny interests
if Its negotiation in the Doheny
company's Mexican affairs had
successful.
McAdoo made this statement in a
telegram to the New York World,
replying to a telegram from the
World, In which he eaid it was as
serted that he had not been fully
cross-examined at his recent appear
ance before the senate oil leasing
investigation committee.
He pointed out that his law firm
had accepted a fee of SIOO,OOO from
the Doheny interests for Its work in
the Mexican negotiations and ex
plained that there would have been
“an additional fee of $900,000 if my
firm had succeeded in getting a sat
isfactory settlement” for the Doheny
companies in Mexico.
Would Welcome Inquiry
The former secretary of t»he treas
ury and director general of rail
roads declared that if a congression
al committee would start an investi
gation of the private business con
nections of all presidential candi
dates, he would be glad to submit
himself unreservedly to such an in
quiry. He assailed what he termed
“a continued effort to make my pri
vate law practice a political issue,’’
and declared:
“The matter of my employment
in connection with Mexican affairs
by the Doheny companies already
has been covered in my testimony
before the senate committee. This
matter has nothing whatever to do
with the rfaval oil leases under in
vestigation by the senate.”
He added that under his arrange
ments with the Doheny company “if
my firm had succeeded in getting
a satisfactory settlement of the
Mexican question, Mr. Doheny’s
companies would have paid an ad
ditional fee of $900,000. As I stated
to the senate committee, my firm re
ceived a fee of SIOO,OOO, but with
several hundred million dollars of
property at stake, our services, had
they been effective, would have been
lightly compensated by the addition
al fee.”
Beside the Issue
In conclusion, the statement said:
“Any discussion of the business or
affairs of the clients of my New
York flrm, unrelated to the oil in
quiry and without the permission of
such clients and the conduct of my
former law partner, is clearly inad
missable.
“If the law practice and the pri
vate business of candidates for the
presidency, Republicans and Demo
crats alike, are to be the issue in
the forthcoming campaign, instead of
principles and policies which concern
the welfare and future of the Ameri
can people, then I suggest that all
candidates for the presidency be ask
ed to appear before an investigating
committee of the senate and 'the
house and give intimate details of
their professional and private affairs.
I will make no objection to the juris
diction of such a committee if all
other candidates will do likewise.
x“Of course, all this has nothing to
do with the oil scandal. The real
point is to discover and to punish
all responsible Bureau officials who
have betrayed the public interest and
all others who have been guilty of
wrong-doing in this connection.”
Mother Hurls 2 1 ots
From 300-Foot Tower
And Leaps to Death
LONDON, Feb. 23.—Hurling her
two little girls from the campanille
of Westminster cathedral 300 feet to
the pavement below, Mrs. Margaret
Davey, an Irish leaped to
death after them today. All three
bodies were smashed almost beyond
recognition.
The first intimation of the triple
tragedy came to passersby when a
child’s body came hurtling down
from the high tower of the cathe
dral and thudded into a heap of
broken bones and mangled flesh on
the sidewalk.
While some ran to the victim and
others scattered several women
fainting at the sighs, the body of
another young girl fell a short dis
tance from the first.
Then those near the scene, gazing
aloft to the top of the cathedral
tower, saw Mrs. Davey leap off and
smash upon a curbing, near where
the bodies of her children lay.
Eye witnesses told police that they
saw the woman deliberately lift one
child after the other to the railing
of the campanille and hurl them off.
The girls were Margaret and Kath
leen Davey. The mother was an
Irish woman who made her home in
London.
At a late hour the police had not
discovered a motive for the doubls
murder and suicide.
Cold Silence Greets
Bryan’s Appearance
At Florida Meeting
ST. AUGUSTINE. Fla., Feb. 23
The arrival of William Jennings
Bryan during the meeting of the
state Democratic executive commit
tee yesterday in Jacksonville was
greeted by silence, according to
members of the committee who re
turned here today. The distin
guished Miamian, three times Demo
cratic candidate for president, ad
dressed the chair after being intro
duced for tl.j purpose of asking a
question, was, respectfully answered
by the chair and took, his seat with
out a hint of applause. Soon after
wards the meeting adjourned.
“It is not likely that Col. Bryan,
in view of his long services for the
party, could attend a gathering of
Democrats in any. other state with
out receiving some sort of demon
stration or beincr asked to speak’’
say local citizens who were in at
tendance upon yesterday’s session.
He is one of the Florida candi
dates for delegate-at-large to the
national convention in New York
June 24.
16 Under Treatment
After Dog Runs Amuck
CLEVELAND. Feb 23.—Sixteen
Cleveland Heights persons, mostly
children, are undergoing the Pasteur i
treatment as results cf com.ng in
contact w?r. pet dog.- that are i
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JESSE LIVERMORE, YOUTHFUL
BROKER MARVEL, NO PLUNGER
"Boy Wonder” of Wall Street
Says He Merely Leads
Speculators Around Like a
Flock of Sheep
BY ROBERT T. SMALL
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1924.)
NEW YORK, Feb. 22.—Very few
persons in Wall Street know Jesse
Livermore by more than a name. He
never appears on the floor of the
stock exchange. Yet his Influence
over the trading, when he chooses
to exert It, is such that stocks rise
or tumble at a word reported to
come from his lips.
Jesse Livermore Is not the spec
tacular figure that other wizards
of Wall Street have been. He is
not a “plunger,” nor is he a “gam
bler” in the commonly accepted
meaning of that word. Jesse Liver
more would not bet you a million,
as one of his prototypes in the street
would have done, at the wink of the
eye. Livermore is what the street
knows as a shrewd trader and he
has figured out a system to beat
the other fellows who are like so
many sheep, always waiting around
to follow a leader, no matter which
direction he may take.
After Jesse Livermore has “sold”
the market at high figures), he lets
it be known that he is selling and
then everybody sells. The result
is a big tumble in security values
After Livermore has “bot” the mar
ket at low figures he lets it be
known that he is buying and. then
the sheep fall in line and open their
purses.
“Whip-Saws” Market
The result is a great rise in val
ues, and thus far, Livermore has
been able to “whip-saw” the mar
ket, beating it up and down.
Livermore is known some times
as the “boy wonder,” because he is
only forty-seven years of age. This
is young for a man to know all that
he does about Wall. The dominant
men of the bygone days were much
older. They were John W. Gates,
of the million dollar bets, and John
A. Drake, two plungers, who, like
Lochinvar, came out of the west.
But they were men of mature age.
grizzled in their battle of the years
for money and position. Then, too,
there was the-: austere James R.
Keene. Wall Street once waited
upon his word, as today it waits
upon Mr. Livermore. But Mr. Keene
was what might be called a market
manager. He represented a known
group of clients.
No one knows just what interests,
if any, Livermore represents. There
was also Jim Fiske, who met a
tragic fate. Fiske was a tremendous
power, but he gained it largely
through the fact that he represent
ed Jay Gould and his crowd. Liver
more is a “flashy youth” compared
to the old campaigners of other days
among the friendly bulls and the
rapacious bears of Wall street.
Jesse Livermore has not always
been “sitting pretty” in the stock
market. He has had his “bumps.”
He has stated that he has been
“broke” seven times in 16 years.
Started at Very Bottom
Because- he was an office boy in
a broker’s office in Boston, Jesse
Livermore as a lad of 13 and 14
began reading all the financial news
he could find. When he first started
to play the market, he took his
week’s salary, $3, and ran it up to
SIO,OOO, only to lose it again. He
borrowed sls after his first meteoric
flight and ran that up to a figure
which he never has revealed.
Livermore’s ups and downs con
tinued as he operated in Denver and
Chicago before finally coming to
New York about 16 years ago. His
first spectacular transaction here
was in “bucking” the cotten mar
ket in 1917 when prices began to de
cline. Livermore .was credited with
losing $5,000,000 in six weeks.
“It was bad judgment,” he said.,
“There I was, on a falling market,
collecting bales and bales of the
stuff.” *
One of the mysteries of Wall
street, Livermore said recently, was
why men should hang on to stocks
on a declining market. He was
speaking, of course, of men who hold
stocks for speculative purposes. In
denying that he is in any sense a
“gambler,” Mr. Livermore chose his
own designation.
“I am a speculative investor,” he
said.
As a result of his disastrous cot
ton transactions in 1917 it is said,
that Jesse Livermore was $2,000,000
in debt in May of 1917. On sheer
nerve, it is said, he plunged on U. S-
Steel and made $3,000,000, so once
more he was riding the crest of the
wave.
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$8,200,000 Cattle Scourge
LONDON.—The total cost to the
government from the foot and mouth
disease among cattle is over $8,200,-
000, paid to owners whose cattle had
to be shot.
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EFFORT TO RESTORE
EXCESS PROFIT TAX
DEFEATED IN HOUSE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—The rev
enue bill withstood successfully all
assaults in the house today, the most
determined attack in the form of an
amendment proposing a restoration
of the excess profits tax, being de
feated 157 to 7-4.
A stubborn fight for-the amentf
ment which would have re-enacted
the law repealed in 1921 with slight
ly different rates so prolonged con
sideration of the measure that lead
ers predicted a final vote on it could
not now be expected before the lat
ter part of next week.
Representative Frear, Republican
Insurgent, Wisconsin, submitted- the
amendment and was supported in de
bate by Representative Oldfield,
Democrat, Arkansas. Democrats,
however, divided on the question,
only about half of those present vot
ing with the Republican insurgents
for it.
The estate tax section was then
taken up but with another fight im
pending for increase of these rates,
final consideration of it was put over
until Monday.
The Frear amendment was sub
jected at the outset to a point of
order by the Republicans who
claimed it was not germane to the
bill, Representative Graham, Repub
lican, Illinois, presiding officer, left
settlement of this issue to the house
which had overruled him Thursday
when he declared a proposed amend
ment seeking to tax undistributed
profits was not in order. Again the
Democrats joined with the insur
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in order, 148 to 111.
Republicans, led by Representative
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same allowed in the old »law and 50
per cent on profits over that
amount. They declared it unfair,
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Republicans Divided
Mr. Frear said the 'tax would
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nually and argued this would permit
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mal tax from 12% per cent to 10
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An amendment to the Frear pro
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{before the final vote.
| Republicans have divided over
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