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WANTED--A SUB
FDR IN. 0. TIFT
He Must Be a Reactionary and
Run Smoothly in Presi
dential Harness.
By JAMES J. MONTAGUE.
Washington. May 4.
WANTED— A widely known and
popular reactionary Republican.
bom in the United States at least
35 years ago, who can speak like
Daniel Webster, work like a horse
and fight like a- wildcat, to take
presidential nomination. APPLY
QUICK to
Penrose, Root, Crane & Smoot,
Washington. D. C.
Anybody who can ansn-er the fore
going and qualify can have the job. If
nobody applies the present incumbent
will hold over. Just now, being weary
from an unavailing assault on Massa
chusetts. the said incumbent. Mr, Wil
liam H. Taft, has gone to Georgia to re
cuperate.
While he is gone is a good time to
apply, for there is real, honest, serious
consideration of asking him to with
draw from the race, and only the fact
that there Is no other dark horse in the
paddock eaves his managers the em
barrassing necessity of doing so.
Primaries Taft's Doom.
Direct primaries have done for Mr.
Taft. His managers were bullied into
accepting them by Roosevelt. They
fought them in Massachusetts, Illinois,
Maryland and Michigan for a long
time.
Then suddenly, convinced that Roose
velt had no real strength, they changed
their tactics and invited and invited
them. Now they know that direct pri
maries furnish the people with means
of voting not only FOR a man, but
AGAINST him.
Not enough people voted for Roose
velt In Massachusetts, Pennsylvania or
Illinois to help him much. Rut a suf
ficient number voted against Mr. Taft
to put that gentleman in a very deep
hole.
The Taft people are still hopeful, or
were this afternoon. They say that
■with 123 more delegates they have got
Taft nominated. They say that with
their own delegate estimate before
them. Rut that estimate is based on a
loyalty in the South that does not ex
ist. Furthermore, it is based on a bet
that the national committee will seat
only Taft delegates in case of con
tests.
Afraid of Steam Roller.
Rut the national committeemen have
had their ears as close to the ground as
anybody else during the last few weeks,
and they are going tn take no chances
in starting a steam roller that may run
over their own ambitions before they
can stop it.
As soon as Mr. Taft returns to Wash
ington a grave and earnest conference
will be held at the white house. It has
been learned that the actual facta, as
they present themselves to his man
agers, will be presented to him, in plain
language.
He will be told that, while he still has
a chance at the nomination, provided
he can hold the South and keep the na
tional committee in line, even this
seems to Indicate that he will have
very little chance at the polls.
New Man Not Yet Found.
He will be asked if he still wants to
gtay in the game. If he does, he will be
permitted to —provided the bosses be
hind him can't find somebody else. If
he says he is sick of the whole busi
ness and wants to get out. his aid will
be solicited in finding a substitute.
Then there will be quick work. The
new man will be boosted in every ad
ministration newspaper, thousands of
letters to political leaders will be writ
ten instructing them to throw Tass
delegates to him, the president himself
will make a public statement, bespeak
ing the support of his friends for the
understudy.
But the new man has not yet been
found. Xou can take your pick among
any of the following: Borah. Fairbanks,
Nagel, Knox. Hughes -all reactionaries
or near reactionaries. And if you don't
like any of these you can suggest some
body.
3 BURNED TO DEATH
IN A WEST VIRGINIA
MINE HOUSE BLAZE
BEGK'LEY. W. VA . May 4 —Three
persons were burned to death when five
company houses of the E E. White
Coal Company were destroved by fir
near here today. The victims were
John Maxon, a miner, his wife and
child.
Helps a Judge in Bad Fix.
Justice Eli Cherry, of Gillis Mills.
Tenn , was plainly worried. A bad sore
on his leg had baffled several doctors
and long resisted all remedies. -'I
thought it was a cancer.” he wrote. "At
last i used Bueklen's Arnica Salve, and
was completely cured.” Cures burns.
b !s, ulcers, cuts, bruises and piles. 25
cents at all druggists.
Lame back is usually caused by rheu
matism of the muscles of the back, for
w'-inh viu will find nothing better than
Chamberlain's Liniment. For sale by
e dealers. •
4 performances daily at
the Bijou -admission 10c.
WINDOW BOXES FILLED.
ATLANTA FLORAL CO.,
Call Main 1130.
White City Park Now Open
Sunday rate $1.50 Athens
now on via Seaboard.
Water Wagon Drives
Chicago Saloonists
Out of Their Business
CHICAGO. .May 4—So popular has
the “water wagon" become in Chicago
that saloon keepers by the score quit
business May 1.
Never before In the history of the
city have so many drink dispensers
planned to throw aside the white apron
at one time It was predicted by saloon
keepers themselves that fully 500 out of’
more than 7,000 owners of drinking
places nil! step out.
Saloon keepers, especially those out
side the Loop district, were unanimous
in declaring that the “water wagon”
was no longer a joke with them, but
a serious proposition—a matter of bread
and butter.
Saloon men who have made a study
of conditions gave it as their opinion
that drunkenness was slowly but surely
dying nut. because of enlightenment on
the evil results of excessive drinking of
alcoholic liquors.
N. Y. POLICEMAN FATALLY
SHOOTS BROTHER OFFICER
NEW YORK. May 4,-,-Policeman M.
Dowland, of the Far Rockaway station,
was accidentally shot and fatally
wounded in the dormitory of the sta
tion house today. A. Atkins, an
other policeman, entered the apartment
where Dowland lay sleeping. In re
moving his uniform, hjs revolver swung
against an open door and was dis
charged. The bullet struck Dowland
in the mouth, inflicting a mortal in
jury.
DEATH TAKES COUPLE
WHO NEVER PARTED
NEW YORK. May 4.—ln Woodlaw;-,
cemetery yesterday were burled Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Knoche, who during
their thirty years of married ‘life never
had been separated more than twenty
four hours at a time, and who both
died within five hours of each other.
ADEL VETERAN DIES.
ADEL. GA.. May 4 T. L Wiseman
died nt his home here suddenly He was
one of the few Confederate soldiers liv
ing here He leaves two children, A. T>.
Wiseman, of this city, and Mrs <>. P.
Juhan, of Macon. Mr. Wiseman was 75
years old.
Minim
CASTOR OIL UGH!
Delicious “Syrup of Figs”
best for their little stom
achs, liver and waste
clogged bowels.
Look back at your childhood days
Remember the physic that mother In
sisted on—castor oil. calomel, cathar
tics. How you hated them, how you
fought against taking them.
With our children *it's different. The
day of harsh physic is over. We don't
force the liver and 30 feet of bowels
now, we coax them. We have no dread
ed after effects Mothers who cling to
the old form of physic simply don't
realize what they do. The children's
revolt is well founded. Their little
stomachs and tender bowels are in
jured by them.
if your child Is fretful, peevish, half
sick, stomach sour, breath feverish and
Its little system full of cold; has dlar
rhoe, sore throat. stomach-ache,
doesn't eat or rest well—remember—
look at the tongue, if coated, give a
teaspoonful of Syrup of Figs; then
don't worry, because you surely will
have a well, smiling child ih a few
hours.
Syrup of Figs being composed en
tirely of luscious figs, senna and aro
matics sffnply can not be harmful It
sweetens the stomach, makes the liver
active and thoroughly cleanses the lit
tle one's waste-dogged bowels. In a
saw hours all sour bile, undigested, fer
menting food and constipated waste
matter gently moves on and out of the
system without griping or nausea.
Directions for children of all ages,
also for grown-ups, plainly printed on
the package.
Ry all means get the genuine. Ask
your druggist for the full name, “Syrup
of Figs and Elixir of Senna.” prepared
by the California Fig Syrup Co. Ac
cept nothing else.
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS t SATURDAY, MAY% 191?
FIGHT TO DEATH
IN AN OLD H
Kentuckians Engage in Des
perate Duel With Revolvers.
Relatives Find Bodies.
TOMPKINSVILLE, KY„ May 4—Prop
ped against the walls of a shack on
Kettle creek, their lifeless hands still
clutching their revolvers, and the last
looks of defiance on their faces, the
bodies of Albert Stephens and William
Mayberry were found by relatives who
had missed them. Each body was pierced
by four bullets
Stephens had sold the shack and Its
contents to Mayberry and it Is believed
they went to have a final settlement,
quarreled and fought to the death with
out anyone hearing the -shots
TILLMAN ASKS TO STAY.
SPARTANBURG, S. C., May 4—Al
though broken In health. Senator Ben
jamin Tillman has appealed to his state
to retain him in office, saying he desires
to, die in harness, for sentimental rea
sons.
SPIRIT SAYS CLARK WINS.
TOPEKA. KANS, May 4.—The wid
ow of Jerry Simpson, who is a. spirit
ualist. says that her late Husband has
prophesied to her that Champ Clark
will be'the next president of, the United
States.
If I had on//had
. mBRb that money in the
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Specu/a/ion
How many times have yott said, or your
friends saidt “I cannot,- because I HAVE IVOT
GOT THE MONEY?” Ho w many good business
chances have had to be passed up because you
did not have the money? “Get-Rich-Quick”
speculation is the worst thing a man can do with
Ids money. If the enterprise into which some
smooth stranger asks you to put your money
were such a good one, he would keep it—not sell
it to you.
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Saturday Night Club
CL K/s Miss Ormond's
Views on Suffrage
After listening to an address by Miss
.Alice Ormond, a former Atlanta girl,
who has be»n an ardent suffragist since
making her home in New York, the
Saturday Night club unanimously in
dorsed all that.the speaker had said at
its meeting last night.
■The subject chosen for debate was
"Resolved, That tho legislature of
Georgia should pass a statute giving
women the right to vote.” Miss Or
mond was invited to address the club
previous to the debate. Rhe took for
her subject the many reasons which
have been advanced against the ques
tion of women’s rights and so thor
oughly did she answer them that when
the debate started the second speaker.
J. XV. I.eCraw. leader of the negative
side, stated that ail his arguments had
been answered beforehand and that he
had no speech to make.
No other speaker rose to champion
the negative side of the question and in
the dozen or more speeches that fol
lowed all advanced reasons why women
should he allowed to vote. The leader
of the affirmative was H. H. Wilson.
What Texans Admire
is hearty, vigorous life, according to
Hugh Tailman, of San Antonio. "We
find,” he writes, "that Dr. King's Nev.
Life Pills surely put new. life and en
ergy.into a person. Wife and 1 believe
they are the best made." Excellent for
stomach, liver or kidney troubles. 25
cts. at all druggists.
A Talk on the Need of Laboratory
Work by Doctors and the Cause of
Failure in Many Cases of “606”
T F you have any prejudice against an adver
tising doctor or against an advertising
doctor’s office, come and see me. take time
enough to investigate me, my associates and
our methods, bring your family physician with
you, and all I will ask him is NOT to keep his
criticisms for the “soap box
brigade,” but to state them
to me personally. If they
have merit in them he can
rest assured I will try to
correct them.
I am writing this espe
cially for the reader who has
been trained and educated
into what I believe to be
the erroneous idea that phy
sicians should not advertise
and that all advertising doc
tors must necessarily be
quacks and humbugs. lam
writing this for the intelli
gent man and woman.
I am free to admit that
much has crept into the ad
vertising columns that might,
with benefit to suffering hu
manity, he eliminated. But
at. the fw time there is not
only a little, but a great big
lot of quackery—yes, I mean
quackery—among the so-call
ed regular profession, or the
"'*n-advertising doctors. I
have believed always in
science being the real foun
dation of all that is best in
- '’“ctor’s practice.
The day has gone by when
new and marvellous cures
can be foisted, on an unsus-
pccting public.
I COURT INVESTIGATION.
I might add, an ignorant public. For no
matter how brainy or how well educated the
layman may be, it is quite probable that when
it comes to discussing physiology or disease,
he is in all probability absolutely ignorant and
may be deceived by statements that, to the
man well posted on the subject, will be known
to be arrant nonsense.
What I want from anyone having doubts
about this office or its conduct, is a thorough
but unprejudiced investigation. For any of
fice, any personality that bids for the public’s
clientage and that docs not bear the closest
scrutiny, is not worthy of the public’s confi
dence.
I have certain opinions that I believe have
been pounded into me by experience—that
have thoroughly saturated every fiber of my
physical being. For instance, I believe that
the study of disease and the practice of medi
cine is so hard, and there is so much necessary
to be learned and our responsibilities to our
patients are so great, that it takes all the
brains and all the good health of the best and
ablest sort of man to keep abreast of the times.
I believe it naturally follows that no man can,
by dissipation, waste any of it and be a good
doctor. So no man can ever be a drinking
man and be a good doctor. I have heard of
them, but I never knew one in my more than
35 years' experience in the profession.
Recently a gentleman spoke to me of a cer
tain doctor and said:
“What a pity he drinks! If it wasn’t for
that there wouldn't be a better doctor any
where.”
Now I happened to know this doctor’s abil
ity as a physician and know that among those
qualified to judge, his opinion would not be
worth the expenditure of enough energy to
snap your finger.
Then, too, I am a firm believer in the fact—
at least I believe it to be a fact—that true
morality and true physiology are hand maid
ens. Necessarily no true physician can coun-x
tenance or encourage in his patients anything
but the straight path physiologically or
morally.
THE IMPORTANCE OF DIAGNOSIS.
I most earnestly believe that ’diagnosis is
the most important thing to the invalid who
has probably been in the hands of several phy
sicians without benefit. I have found this il
lustrated daily for the past four decades, and
so I KNOW it is true.
Only today a gentleman tn]d me his expe
rience, bow be had. suffered with rheumatism,
hew several doctors had treated him without
success, how he went to Hot Springs, Ark., and
took the baths for several months, how he
went home and a doctor after examination
(and the doctor was a celebrated nerve expert)
told him it vas rest he. needed. Then he went
to bed for weeks and hired an attendant to
feed, rub and massage him daily, but after all
he was unable to even walk. In desperation
he consplted a young physician who, after an
examination, found the arches of his feet
broken down, or what is popularly known as
flat foot, fitted him with arch supports. Then
his “rheumatism” was gone and he has been
walking ever since.
Now I was not the Doctor who discovered
the condition, so I do not tell this as a cure by
myself, but only to illustrate the truth of what
I have so long contended to be the most im
portant part of a doctor’s education and prac
tice —diagnosis.
HOW THE SCIENTIFIC PHYSICIAN
WORKS
But diagnosis is not the easy thing it seems
to be to the layman. The time was when all
By DR. WM. M. BAIRD
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DR. WM. M. BAIRD,
56 Marietta Street.
Brown - Randolph Building.
Atlanta, Ga.
that was thought necessary was to feel the
patient’s pulse, look at his tongue, possibly
listen to the breathing or ’he sound of his
heart, and give a decision. The scientific physi
cian of today knows there is much more than
this. He knows that the methods of the
laboratory are intricate and
complex and can only be car
ried out by one who has been
thoroughly trained in the
details of these methods.
There lies before me an
article by a doctor who ad
mits the value of these meth
ods, but says they are so ex
pensive and so complex and
often take so much time that
very few doctors can employ
them. I thought while read
ing it that here was an argu
ment in favor of advertising,
for it is only in seeing and
treating a large number that
it is possible to do this at
fees which can be paid by
the average person.
MY NEW SCIENTIFIC
EQUIPMENT.
Right now I am adding to
the equipment of this office
certain laboratory facilities
that will cost several hun
dred dollars. They will not
make any great show. There
will be nn brilliant display of
electrical fireworks—no fake
violet ray business. But
they will be useful adjuncts
which no doctor with an av
erage practice can afford to
employ.
There are tests we can make here at a rea
sonable price, because of the large number of
patients we see daily. If, however, we were
seeing only a few patients each day it would
be so expensive as to be prohibitive. Bacte
riological tests, examinations and laboratory
methods are today revolutionizing medicine
and surgery, and I can say without fear of
contradiction that 90 per cent of physicians
are not keeping up to date.
When I was recently forced to move on ac
count of lack of room I thought when I took
5 000 feet of floor space, subdivided into 12
rooms, with other space making practically 3
rooms more, that I was amply provided for.
But I soon found that I had to give up my own
consultation room in order to make room for
increased laboratory equipment which I was
determined should be the best in the South.
Under the methods for caring for patients in
vogue even 10 years ago, four or five small
rooms would have been amply sufficient.
WHAT I THINK OF “606.”
That bacteriological examinations are nec
essary has been very forcibly illustrated during
the past couple of years in the history of Ehr
lich’s Salvarsan, or “606.” I have been quot
ed as being opposed to it and as condemning
it which is not true. I simply told the public
the absolute truth, and every criticism I made
has been shown to be absolutely true m every
respect. I have said it was only another one
of the arsenic preparations, all of which we
knew to be of value in relieving symptoms, and
nearly all were dangerous.
The methods used at first have all been dis
carded on account of its danger, and every day
wc see in this office evidences of the results of
its use by incompetent physicians, who see m
it only a means of adding to their bank ac
counts But what the public does not fully
understand as yet is that there are very few
of the men who give it who are really compe
tent to prepare it.
Ehrlich pointed this out long ago and has
always expressed a fear of this being the cause
of had results that would follow its use. This
has been proven to be the case, and then there
are a few so unscrupulous as to use it and
promise the patient that one, or at the most,
two doses would be a cure, and they gamble on
its relieving temporarily and long enough for
them to collect their fees. Then, too, in the
treatment of this disease, certain tests must be
made to determine the result and here is where
the bacteriological laboratory comes in.
I NEVER HAYE SOLD CURES.
BUT—come to see us —see whether I tell
the truth in my advertisements or not. All
ordinary examinations and tests are made free
of charge. Go and see first whether or not you
like the methods and equipment of others.
Then come to me and use your common sense.
We don’t promise you a cure for a certain sum,
and neither does any honest doctor. And if
there is anyone who does this I dare him to
come out in print and deny that he is anything
but a fraud and a faker.
But YOU, who have been under the care of
several physicians for a long time without
success, come and see me, and the evidences of
vour own sense will, I believe, convince you.
The chronic invalid needs and has a right
to demand not only the best that science can
give, but the attention and conscientious service
and intelligence of those who think of the good
of the patient above all else. This kind of ser
vice I have been giving and shall always be
determined to give my patients.
I am the public’s obedient servant for add
ing to its health and strength (and that means
happiness).
WM. M. BAIRD, M. D.