SCHOOL GIRLS IN
ATHLETIC MELT
Two Thousand Children From
Grades to Participate in Field
Day Next Saturday.
A caHsthenjc drill, In which more
than 2,000 children from the fourth and
fifth grades will take part, will be the
feature of the field May 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 morning 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 Girls.
Tn 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
1 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
gifts will have the same contests among
themselves with the exception that
tossing 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.
MILLIONAIRE JUDGE
QUITS BENCH TO HEAD
BIG POWER COMPANY
MACON, GA., Mat 9.—W H. Felton,
judge of the superior court of the Ma
con circuit for seventeen years and re
elected each succeeding term without
opposition, has tendered his resignation
to Governor Brown, so as to accept the
presidency of the Central Georgia Pow
er Company, which controls and di
rects th© local gas, railway and electric
light companies.
.' Judge Felton is one of the state's
most distinguished jurists and one of
the most widely beloved men of this
section. He is a millionaire. He has
held the judgeship simply because he
liked the office and wanted to serve the
• public. His retirement from the bench
is deplored by the entire bar.
There will, nf course, be a number of
applications for the appointment which
will be made by the governor for the
> unexpired term,
COW GOES SHOPPING
IN DEPARTMENT STORE
NORWICH, N. Y.. '.May 9. -A fine
Holstein cow being driven through the
village bolted at Main and Broad
streets and entered a large department
store. The animal ascended the stairs
to the second floor, poked her head into
the law. office of William H. Sullivan,
state tax commissioner, bellowed plain
tively and proceeded on up the next
flight of stairs and into the cloak de
partment of the store.
The women clerks were in hysterics
as the proprietors tried to get the cow
into the elevator and take her to the
ground floor. She had started up rhe
stairs to the fourth floor when her
owner arrived, threw a rope about her
neck and with help got her to the
street.
Miss Elizabeth Shaw.
The funeral of Miss Elizabeth Shaw,
81 years old, who died yesterday at her
residence. 67 Oak street, Capitol View,
was held this afternoon at Poole's
chapel, and interment was in Green
wood.
BABY’S ECZEMA
RAPIOLUMING
Face Almost a Solid Sore. Mother
Thought He Was Disfigured for
Life. Cuticura Soap and Ointment
Cored Him, Now a Prize Winner.
804 College St., Greenville, Tenn. "The
disease began upon baby's ears at about six
months old by little pimples forming, which
he would scratch and make sores. It became
more deeply seated 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
bands and legs had begun to break out the
same as h*s face and you can imagine how it
would disfigure a big fat baby to have his face
almost a solid sore I thought he was dis
figured for life.
"I used al! kinds of salves' and remedies,
but nothing effected a cure. Then I gave him
his bath with the Cuticura Soap and used the
Ointment, which began to dry the sores and in
a few days they were healed and scaled off,
and he was well, with only red scars showing
where the deepest sores had been. Now you
couldn’t tell he ever had a scar on his face.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment cured him com
pletely. Now he is sixteen months old and
weighs thirty-five pounds and carried off the
blue ribbon at the Greene County Fair for the
finest looking boy under two years.” (Signed)
Mrs. M B. Verran, Nov. 27, 1911.
Not only are Cuticura Soap and Ointment
most valuable in the treatment of ecsemae
and other distressing eruptions of skin and
scalp of infants, children and adults, but no
other emollients do so much for pimples,
blackheads, red. rough skins, itching, scaly
stalos, dandruff,'dry. thin and falling hair,
chapped hands and shapeless nails, nor do it
so economically A.single cake of Culieiira
Scan (25c.) and box of Cuticura Ointment
(50c) are often sufficient when all else has
failed. Sold by druggists and dealers through
out the world A libera! sample of each mailed
(’• free, with 32-n book Address. ‘’Cuticura.”
Dent. T, Borton Tender-faced men should
Shave with Cuticura Soap Shaving Stick.
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 De'mo
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.
?dr. Howell’s first electiop 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 nas hatided the New
York indorsement on a silver waiter.
The Atlanta Constitution, of which
Mr. Howell is the editor how 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 pm
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 Anally swept the nation
off its feet and Mr. Cleveland into the
v bite 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
ov?;- Howell's candidate. Hill, by about
25 'rotes. It proceeded to elect national
delegates and to Adopt ironclad Cleve
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 fight 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 Howel! Begins.
From 1892 to 191'2 the chase for Mr.
HowelTs scalp has been in progress.
From 1892 to 1906 repeated efforts were
made to shake Howell loose from that
national committeeman's job. but 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 bis 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 no way of ousting
Howell immediately from the national
comniittee, so Congressman Hardwick
introduced a resolution, which was vo
ciferously passed, declaring it to be the
sense of 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 eommitteemanship 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 Smithy 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
Pretty soon after Smith was seated
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 Brown
to talk back rough to Governor Smith.
And so. in a. moment of aggravated
impatience Governor Smith Area
thought about the matter
Brown then said, all right, but he
would see what the people of Georgia
thought about that firing business.
Governor Smith pooh-poohed ano
tut-tutted that whole Brown guberna
torial suggestion, and proceeded to rel
egate to his forget department the en
tire affair.
Little Joe Wins Out.
“Little Joe” announced for governor
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 rppes."
But, before the election, Smith had
had his state executive committee cal!
a primary In which, over the. protest of
the Smith opposition, The Atlanta Com
stitution included. It was ruled, that
the candidate winning the stat© elec
tion should have al! 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 second convention, with no
THE ATLANT A GEORGIAN AND NEWS: THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1912.
pestiferous minority to make a nuisance
of itself.
The astonishing result was that un
"er Smith s own rules and over Brown’s
rigina! protest the convention, assem
bled, was a solid Brown convention —
and it was a presidential year
Howel! Wins Again.
When the Brown delegates to the
state convention got through electing
delegates to the national convention of
’.9OS. Clark Howel! was again elected
bis own successor on the national com
mittee, notwithstanding the Hardwick
resolution in favor of Gray adopted.two
t ears 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
tured him vet.
In 1910 Hoke Smith was again elect
ed governor, this time beating “Little
Joe bv 3.000 votes That wasn’t many,
but it put "Little Joe" out of business,
and again the guns were loaded for
How-ell
Not long after Smith was inaugu
rated governor. Senator Clav died, and
the question of his successor wes
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 bobbed up. but he bobbed
into the governor’s office once more,
notwithstanding the fact that Senator
Smith backed Pope Brown against him,
and ‘ Plain Dick" Russell threw hishat
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 auty of electing
presidential delegates to Baltimore.
These delegates must elect the national
committeeman
So again the count? unit plan was
abolished by the Hoke Smith commit
tee. and it was ruled that all delegates
to that convention must be favorable to
the candidate winning in lhe 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 w in Georgia to Wilson anti
get that national eommitteemanship
for Gray.
Again the Brown-Howell forces won
at the precise ps? ehologieal moment for
Howell—and Howel! will be unani
mously elected his own successor on' ■
more on the national committee.
This carries Howell over to 1916—at'
which time, presumably, another react,
for his scalp will be made, with whai
result remains to be seen.
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CHICAGO STRIKE
IS 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 ever?- 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 the newspaper strike here
will seon be settled.
'The Typographic®! 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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Z*/e WHITEHALL ST.—OVER BROWN AND ALLEN’S.
Illiteracy in South
Is Decreasing Now,
Says Me 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 in 1900 was 52 per cent.
SUPREME COURT
(May 9, 1912.)
Announcement.
The beginning of the cal! of the re
mainder of the civil docket of this
term for argument of cases has been
postponed from May 2'l to June 18.
when the cal! will commence with No.
38 of the Atlanta qircuit 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 How Open
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