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SCHOOL GIRLS IN
ATHLETIC MELT
Two Thousand Children From
Grades to Participate in Field
Day Next Saturday.
A calisthehlc drill, in which more
than 2,000 children from the fourth and
fifth grades will take part, will be the
feature of the field day of the grammar
schools this year.
Field day will be held next Saturday
on the ball field at Ponce DeLeon park.
The competitive athletic contests will
start at 9 o’clock in the nlorning and
the exhibition drills will start at 3
o'clock that afternoon.
Besides the large drill, a number of
individual drills by schools will be
given. Boys and girls will take part.
The Fifth regiment band will furnish
music.
No Pole "Chinning” For Gir s.
In the morning contests the boys and
girls will be separate and will also be
divided into two classes. Those over
thirteen years will be in class A and
those under thirteen years In class B.
The boys will compete in the running
high jump, the standing broad jump,
foot races and chinning the pole; the
girls will have the same contests among
themselves with the exception that
tossipg a basket ball will be substituted
for chinning the pole.
Gold, silver and bronze pins will be
awarded to the girls for first, second
and third prizes and for the boys golds,
silver and bronze buttons will be
awarded. The prizes will be awarded
on points Colonel Walter R. Daley,
president of the board of education, will
present the prizes in the afternoon. The
exercises will be under the direction of
Professor Theodore Toepel, physical
director.
MILL II ON AIRE JUDGE
QUITS BENCH TO HEAD
BIG POWER COMPANY
MACON, GA., May 9.—W. H. Felton,
judge of the superior court of the Ma
con circuit for seventeen years and re
elected each suc-eeding term without
opposition, has tendered his resignation
to Governor BroVn, so as to accept the
presidency of the Central Georgia Pow
er Company, wiich controls and di
rects the local gts. railway and electric
light companies.
Judge Felton is one of the state’s
most distinguisied jurists and Okie of
the most wideV beloved men of this
sectl on. He is a millionaire. He has
held the judgehip simply because he
liked the officeand wanted to serve the
public. His retirement from the bench
is deplored by the entire bar.
There will, <f course, be a number of
applications f<r the appointment which
will be made by the governor for the
unexpired tern.
COW GOES SHOPPING
IN DEPARTMENT STORE
NORWICI, N. Y.. May 9. —A fine
Holstein cor being driven through the
village boled at Main and Broad
streets andentered a large department
rtjore. Theanimal ascended the stairs
to the secoid floor, poked her head into
the law oice of William H. Sullivan,
state tax ommissioner, bellowed plain
tively and proceeded on up the next
flight of lairs and into the cloak de
partment of the store.
The women clerks were In hysterics
as the poprietors tried to get the cow
into the elevator and take her to the
ground loor. She had started up the
stairs o the fourth floor when her
owner irrived. threw a rope about her
neck nd with help got her to the
street
Miss Elizabeth Shaw.
Th funeral of Miss Elizabeth Shaw.
?1 j-ars old, who died yesterday at her
resitence, 67 Oak street, Capitol View,
was held this afternoon at Poole’s
chael. and interment was in Green
wort.
"■ '
BABY’S ECZEMA
RAPIDLY SPREADING
Face Almost a Solid Sore. Mother
Thought He Was Disfigured for
Life. Cuticura Soap and Ointment
Cured Him. Now a Prize Winner.
-- —> 111 ■
804 College St. Greenville, Tenn. "The
disease began unnn baby's ears at about six
month-- old by little pimples forming, which
be would scratch and make sores. It became
more deeply seat' d and was rapidly spread
ing. His face was almost a solid sore. He
would bring the blood from his face till it
would ran down and stain his dress. His
hands and legs had begun to break out the
same as hts face and you can imagine how it
I; would disfigure a big fat baby to have hts face
I almost a solid sore. I thought he was dis
< figured for life.
"I used all kinds of salves and remedies,
Ei but nothing a cure. Then I gave him
f| lis bath with the fSlticurs Soap and used the
X intment, which began to dry the sores and in
days they were healed and scaled off,
am' he was well, with only red scars showing
wli re the deepest sores had been. Now you
coidn’t tell he ever had a scar on his face.
Cutk-ura Soap and Ointment cured him com
pleteu. Nhw he is sixteen months old and
weighs thirty-five pounds and carried off the
blue rlibon at the Greene County Fair for the
finest looking boy under two years.” (Signed)
Mrs. M B. Verran. Nov. 27, 1911.
Not inly are Cuticura Soap and Ointment
most valuable In the treatmeat of eczemas
and ofhar distressing eruptions of skin and
scalp of infanta, children and adults, but no
other eipoiUents do so much for pimples,
blackheads, red. rough skins, ftchfng. scaly
scalps, dtadruff, dry, thin and falling hair,
chapped bands and shapeless nails, nor do it
so economicaMy. A single eake of Cuticura
. Soap (25c.) and box of Cuticura Ointment
(50c.) are often sufficient when ail else has
failed. Sold by druggists and dealers through
out the world. A liberal sample of each mailed
free, with 32-p. book Address. '‘Cuticura.”
Dent. T, Boston. Tender-faced men should
ahave with GuUcwa bp*j>
HOWELL HAS FOUGHT
20 YEARS TO HOLD HIS
PLACE ON COMMITTEE
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
Clark Howell, who is to be re-elect
ed a member of the national Demo
cratic executive committee, is the sen
ior member of that committee in point
of continuous service. He is now com
pleting his fifth term as Georgia's
member of the committee. At the ex
piration of his next term he will have
served exactly 24 years.
By reason of this long service. Mr.
Howell is easily one of the most influ
ential members of the committee. He'
frequently is the one authority avail
able for settling matters within the
committee controlled largely by prece
dent.
Howell's First Election.
Mr. Howell’s first election to the na
tional committee took place in the sum
mer of 1892. It came about through the
most surprising—and, in many aspects,
amusing—combination of circum
stances ever recorded in Georgia poli
tics.
Early in the year 1892 an aggressive
movement was started for the presi
dential nomination of David B. Hill, of
New York, by the Democrats. An ear
ly convention was called in the Empire
State, and Hill was handed the New
York indorsement on a silver waiter.
The Atlanta Constitution, of which
Mr. Howell is the editor now and of
which his father, the late Captain Evan
P. Howell, was editor then, warmly
espoused the cause of Hill.
Hoke Smith, then the owner of The
Atlanta Journal, long Mr. Howell's
dearest political enemy in Georgia, took
to the Hill movement not at all.
Through Mr. Smith, The Journal began
clamoring for "a Western man" for the
presidency, suggesting with great em
phasis Palmer, of Illinois, then a strong
man in his section.
Cleveland Movement Appears.
Later along, however, the Grover
Cleveland movement in New York got
under way, and finally swept the nation
off its feet and Mr. Cleveland into the
white house.
The Journal promptly dropped Mr.
Palmer and seized upon Mr. Cleveland.
It put up a great battle for Cleveland
in Georgia—and it won, by a narrow
margin. When the state convention
came together it was found that
Smith's candidate. Cleveland, had won
over Howelj's candidate. Hill, by about
25 votes. It proceeded to elect national
delegates and to adopt ironclad <'leve
land Instructions
When those delegates came together
for the purpose of electing a national
committeeman, however, it was discov
ered that Howell had a majority of
them favorable to himself as national
committeeman, notwithstanding his loss
of the Hill tight and loss of control In
the convention.
Much to Mr. Smith’s chagrin and
mortification, the delegates proceeded
to elect Howell national committee
man!
Chase of Howell Begins.
From 1892 to 1912 the chase for Mr.
Howell’s scalp has been in progress.
From 1892 to 1906 repeated efforts were
made to shake Howell loose from that
national committeeman’s job. hut never
with any promise of success until 1906.
In that year Hoke Smith swept the
state of Georgia in an election in which
Clark Howell was one of his oppo
nents. Smith’s victory; was over
whelming. and when his convention as
sembled in Macon to declare his nomi
nation, adopt a platform and do the
other usual stunts, there was precious
little minority representation to make
a fuss of any sort.
It was an off presidential year, how
ever, and there was nq way of ousting
Howell immediately from the national
committee, so Congressman Hardwick
introduced a resolution, which was vo
ciferously passed, declaring it to be the
S e nFe o f the Georgia Democracy In con
vention assembled that the name of
James R. Gray should be presented at
the expiration of two years for the na
tional committeemanship held by How
ell!
This all looked pretty squally for
Howell, for it had been the unbroken
custom for 50 years in Georgia that
every’ Democratic governor should have
two terms, and there seemed to be no
way to head Smith off from a second
term and the control of another con
vention. In which event, fare-you-well
Howell!
Joe Brown Gets In.
Pretty soon after Gov. Smith was seat
ed he had a falling out with Railroad
Commissioner "Little Joe” Brown. And
right there was where grand, gloomy
and peculiar things began to happen in
Georgia!
"Little Joe” Brown refused to agree
to something Governor Smith demand
ed of the railroad commission. More
over, Brown hadn't been particularly
friendly’ to Smith's election, anyway.
Before long Governor Smith began to
talk pretty rough to Brown —and Bro-wn
to talk back rough to Governor Smith.
And so, in a moment of aggravated
impatience Governor Smith fired
Brown.
Brown then said, all right, but he
would see what the people of Georgia
thought about that firing business.
Governor Smith pooh-poohed and
tut-tutted that whole Brown mix-up
and proceeded to relegate to his forget
department the entire affair.
Little Joe Wins Out.
"Little Joe” announced for governo:
in 1908. And he made no campaign
other than to write a few newspaper
cards —since become classics In Georgia
political annals. In the election he beat
Governor Smith “over the ropes ”
But. before the election. Smith had
had his state executive committee call
a primary in which, over the protest of
the Smith opposition, The Atlanta,Con
stitution included, it was ruled that
the candidate winning the state elec
tion should have all the delegates to
the convention, no matter how the sev
eral counties should go. It was figured
that this would give Governor Smith a
unanimous Sfipogd convention, with no
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS:THURSDAY. MAY 9. 1912.
pestiferous minority’ to make a nuisance
of itself.
The astonishing result was that un
der Smith's own rules and over Brown's
original protest the convention, assem
bled, was a solid Brown convention —
arid it was a presidential year.
Howell Wins Again.
When the Brown delegates to the
state convention got through electing
delegates to the national convention of
1908, Clark Howell was again elected
his own successor on the national com
mittee, notwithstanding the Hardwick
resolution in favor of Gray adopted two
years before.
This carried Howell's term of service
on the national committee over to this
year, 1912. He had had several close
calls, but the Smithites hadn't cap
lured him yet.
In 1910 Hoke Smith was again elect
ed governor, this time beating “Little
Joe" by 3.0H0 votes That wasn't many',
hut it put "Little Joe” out of business,
and again the guns were loaded for
Howell.
Not long after Smith was inaugu
rated governor. Senator Clay' died, and
the question of his successor was
thrown into the legislature. It was a
Smith legislature, and Governor Smith
soon became Senator Smith. This
brought on an unexpired term guber
natorial election, and "Little Joe”
bobbed up again.
He not only hobbed up. but h? bobbed
into the governor’s office once more,
notwithstanding the fact that Senator
Smith backed Pope Brown against him,
and "Blain Dick” Russell threw his hat
into the ring.
One Chance at Howell Left.
The only way to get Howell’s scalp
now was to capture the next conven
tion, charged with the duty of electing
presidential delegates to Baltimore.
These delegates must elect the national
committeeman.
So again the county unit plan was
abolished by the Hoke Smith commit
tee, and it was ruled that all delegates
to that convention must be favorable to
tiie candidate winning in the presiden
tial primary. Howell, Brown and others
protested that this was undemocratic
and unfair, but without avail. The rule
was adopted, and Smith plunged into
the fight to win Georgia to Wilson and
get ihat national committeemanship
Toi Gray.
Again the .Brown-Howell forces won
at the precise psychological moment for
Howell —and Howell wlll.be unani
mously elected his own successor one*
more on the national committee.
This carries Howell over to 1916—at
which, time, presumably, another reaer
for his scalp will be made, with whai
result remains to be seen.
POST-INVENTORY PRICE-REDUCTIONS!!! ON
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- $60,000.00 -
Worth of Men’s and Women’s
FINE SHOES
1912 OXFORDS, BUTTON and BLUCHER STYLES,
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50 STYLES TO SELECT FROM
POSITIVELY NOTHING RESERVED!!!
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GUO STRIKE
•15 FIZZLING OUT
Typographical Union Refuses
to Join Pressmen’s Walkout.
Papers Circulate on Time.
CHICAGO, May’ 9.—With morning
papers issued as usual and circulated
in practically’ every’ part of the city,
with members of the Typographical
union voting not to strike in sympathy
with the pressmen and wagon drivers,
and with violence practically at an end,
it is believed she newspaper strike here
will soon be settled.
The Typographical union at a big
meeting held in the Bricklayers hall
voted against a strike.
The resolution which declared against
violating the contract with the various
Chicago newspapers will be submitted
formally before the various locals at
the regular Sunday meetings.
No cases of violence were reported
during the morning. Police guards in
the Loop district at the news stands
were reduced today. The early country
edition of the afternoon papers was is
sued as usual. It was planned to issue
the next edition at noon.
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$5 =
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■ PRICES JUST
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abIe
all my workis quarantbed—keep that in mind.
DR. Ei G. GRIFFIN’S dental rooms
I 24'/ a WHITEHALL ST.—OVER BROWN AND ALLEN’S.
Illiteracy in South
Is Decreasing Now,
Says NL L Brittain
M. L. Brittain, state superintendent
of schools, is authority’ for the state
ment that statistics show illiteracy in
Georgia to be less now than it was be
fore the Civil war. arguments to the
contrary notwithstanding.
“The statistics of 1860 show white
illiteracy in Georgia to have been
twelve per cent. The census figures of
1910, recently made public, show that
the percentage for 1910 is but seven.
“Os course, in 1870. during the lean
years, the illiteracy crept up to 25 per
cent, but it has been reduced steadily.
In 1900 It was eleven per cent.
Illiteracy among the negroes has de
creased from 92 per cent in 1860 to 35
per cent In 1910. The illiteracy among
negroes tn 1900 was 52 per cent.
SUPREME COURT
(May 9. 1912.)
Announcement.
The beginning of the call of the re
mainder of the civil docket of this
term for argument of cases has been
postponed from May 21 to June 18.
when the call will commence with No.
38 of the Atlanta circuit and will pro
ceed through the docket.
The civil docket of this term will
close on June 25 and the criminal dock
et will close on July 1.
White City Park Now Open
MORE BALDHEADED WOMEN THAN
MEN, SAYS ADTHORITT
That’s Why Women Should
Abolish Dandruff and End
Scalp Itch.
One noted authority says that there
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four baldheaded men, and loss of hair
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