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SREAT WASTE IN BUIIDINGPUBIIC STRUCTURES House Committee Raps Depart ment Charging Extravagance and Possible Fraud. WASHINGTON, July 20.—Extrava gance. waste and possible fraud are the points of criticism made in the report n f the house committee on expendi tures in public buildings which has just been submitted to the house. The committee says it went into the build ing department probe without any plan to discover any scandal. The committee makes the recom mendation that government buildings be standardized and endeavors to put out what it.considers the folly of main taining a big force of draughtsmen and architects to make plans for every building constructed by the govern ment. The report finds that since 1902. 721 buildings have been erected and that there are pending bills for 750 more at a proposed aggregate cost of $70,000,000. "If this keeps up," the committee says, "there will be 1,520 public build ings inside of fifteen years." The cost of maintenance alone will be $11,000,000 annually. The office of the supervising archi tect of the treasury is criticised. This office is maintained at an annual cost of $3,000,000. It has had no definite policy, the committee finds, and blame is attached to former Supervising Ar chitect James Knox Taylor for some mistakes discovered. The committee urges congressmen be less zealous in efforts to get public buildings for their districts and recom mends legislation making it illegal to erect a public building in any city less than 5.000 inhabitants or whose post office takes in less than SIO,OOO annual ly. The practice of employing outside architects is condemned. Insect Bite Costs Leg. A Boston man lost his leg from the bite of an Insect two years before. To avert such calamities from stings and bites of insects use Bucklen’s Arnica Salve promptly to kill the poison and prevent inflammation, swelling and pain. Heals burns, boils, ulcers, piles, eczema, cuts, bruises. Only 25 cents at all druggists. •»« If j-ou are a housewife you can not reasonably hope to be healthy or beau tiful by washing dishes, sweeping and doing housework all day. and crawling into bed dead tired at night. You must set out into the open air and sunlight, f you do this every’ day and keep your stomach and bowels In good order by taking Chamberlain's Tablets when needed, you should become both healthy and beautiful. For sale by all dealers. MR. 0. B. DAVENPORT PRAISES THE SOUTHERN BUSINESS COLLEGE He Investigated the Merits of Va rious Business Colleges and Then Selected the Long Estab lished Southern Shorthand and Business University at Which To Take a Business Course. The Graham-Pitmanic Shorthand, Taught at the Southern, Best in Existence For Making Experts. A school of reputation! It pays to attend such an institution. Yesterday a young man came to At lanta from Alabama with a scholarship in his pocket which had been given him free ,f cost, but after examination of conditions and a diligent inquiry here, b c preferred to enter the Southern Bnslmss College, and accordingly paid the full price for a scholarship in this famous school. Mr. O. B. Davenport, who came to Atlanta from Richland, Ga.. about three months ago, has already taken a course in Bookkeeping and Typewriting at the • outhern Shorthand and Business Uni versity, Id 1-2 West Mitchell street, and hew occupies a responsible position ">■'! the Supreme Lodge, Masonic Ben rfii Association. of this city, as a result of his business training in this long fstablished Business school. • in order that his friends, acquain tnrii'es and the public generally may •'ii"A more about the many advantage o n " th" college he attended, Mr. Daven port writes the following letter, ex pressing his gratitude and telling of us good fortune in selecting a school of fii'h favorable reputation. 1 1 s a great thing to attend a Business F p ?,?' l ' l,J business men like—they ■' 'k- the Southern, because, they say, 'y -tudents are more thoroughly tralq- better satisfaction as ste "’-'iiiphers and bookkeepers. It is, ’"’ i more, more advisable to attend the • miihern, at its moderate cost, than to i<nd some schools if tuition could be "bt.lined free. Atlanta. Ga.. July 18, 1912. • rn Shorthand and Business I’ni ■'..■■slty, Atlanta, Ga.: t 1 ' JhJcpien —After having written to s ’. business colleges, I selected the rn - | took the business course typewriting; I was about three U. ,' hs eom Pleting the course. The • ",* bern secured me a splendid posi n with the Masonic Benefit Associa- , ' I found the Southern to be all 1 it claims, and I invite any of my ini U . l nt ! lnces to "rite me for special 11 mation. Yours truly T . . „ O. B. DAVENPORT. Mr. Davenport is filling his po- 1 satisfactorily Is shown by the oyvmg letter: ’ supreme lodge, masonic benefit association. .... Atlanta, Ga., Jul • 18, 1912. • ' ’’hern Shorthand and Business Uni- O' sity, Atlanta, Ga.: s. o. B. Davenport was co from a large number of appli- South Carolina's Picturesque Character COLE L. BLEASE: THE MAN Governor-Candidate Is Carrying on Tempestuous Campaign Among “Wool Hat Boys.” COLUMBIA, s. C., July 20. South Carolina is undergoing now the most tempestuous politi cal campaign in her history since Ben I illman grew old and quit the fight of oratory and anathema and guns. Cole Blease, governor for a year and ten months, charged now with selling pardons, accepting bribes from the liquor Interests and sending his con victed clients scot free from prison, is out upon the stump to save his political life and possibly his personal liberty. The other prominent candidate, former Chief Justice Ira B. Jones of the South Carolina supreme- court, has taken the stump against him, sometimes in joint debate declaring that he is running for office not because he wants to be gov ernor. but to rid South Carolina of Bleaseism and demagogy, to stamp out the pardon graft and the blind tiger graft that he charges have found their way to Blease’s own pocket. He de clares that Blease is prostituting the powers of a sovereign state’s chief ex ecutive in any way he can devise to fill his till with campaign funds and to finance his personal dissipations. During a debate at Florence the for mer chief justice advanced upon the governor with clenched fists and the lie direct, and was only prevented from striking him in public by the interfer ence of friends. Shooting Occurs at Blease Meeting. At Kingston, still later, a shooting affray followed a hectic meeting, and one man lies still dangerously wounded as a result of the things that the gov ernor said about Justice Jones. Blease still is upon the stump in a campaign custom that prevails in South Carolina and will keep both the chief candidates in debate until five days be fore the primary. “He's a cowardly liar" is the nightly denunciation Gov ernor Bh-ase hurls against the more conservative Judge Jones, and from the same stage Jones'nightly shouts back, “Down with the demagogue and the pardon grafter." Friends of both men declare that a personal encounter of most serious na ture is inevitable before the primary determines whether Blease oV Jones is to win. Meantime, while they barnstorm around the state, South Carollnans are finding out thoroughly for the first time what Bleaseism and anti-Bleaseism means. Blease is a combination type of “small town sport” and court house, politician. He wears the iong frock |a| VKI I‘ ■ yAIMgmWMt »■ • ■ O. B. DAVENPORT, Just finished course in the Southern Shorthand and Business University and is now Bookkeeper for the Ma sonic Benefit Assocication. cants for a position with our associa tion. We selected him on account of his special training. His work is giv ing entire satisfaction. Yours truly,, MILTON PLEDGER, Secretary. Students of the Southern are going out into positions every day. Miss McMillan accepted a position today with the Empire Life Insurance Company. Mr Anderson, Mr. Cunningham. Miss Weems and Miss Goldsmith have just secured nice places. Yes, they get through at the South ern as soon as at any other school, and, what is better, the students are more competent —they develop into experts, while it is Impossible to become an ex pert with the so-called qulck-to-learn systems, ’.Mr. Sigmund Tltlebaum, the expert Atlanta reporter, who is now reporting the famous Governor Blease case, is a graduate of the Southern Inquire around Atlanta for the expert stenographers and high-class book keepers, and then you'll go where they learned—to the Southern. No trouble to find a pleasant and lucrative position if you've been trained at the Southern. Make a start now; others will begin next week. Largest summer class in the school’s history. Call, phone or write for information. Address A. C. Briscoe. Pres., or L. W. Arnold. Vice Pres., Atlanta. Ga. Prof. Thor. L. Bryan, lecturer and special representative. CHE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND REWS. SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1912. Sr WA It® _ w MB -mnr_. < I I On Cole Blease, in the face of charges of accepting bribes and selling pardons, is making a whirlwind campaign for re-election. coat and the wide slouch hat of the near-statesman. He wears the high standing collar of the vintage of 1886, and, habitually giving his bristling mustache a few extra upward tw-ists, he easily suggests the composite picture of the country dude and pirate on pa rade. He’ll Take a Drink With Anybody. He takes a drink with anybody who comes along and makes no objection; anywhere, upon visits to the small towns of his constituencies, he will strike an attitude in front of the village hotel and entertain a semi-circle ijof idlers with loquacious answers to all the questions that may be asked him, barring none, replete with profane and abusive references to people who have criticised or opposed him. His paramount political principle, ac cording to his own version. Is to “stand by his friends.” He has made that principle of "sticking by my friends at any cost” the cry of his political cam paigns. Al! men who aren't his friends he has frequently declared to be his en emies for whom he will do nothing. Blease is a native of Newberry, S. C. He came of good parentage, and though he was a bit bombastic in the schools there and used to bully some of the smaller boys, nobody ever thought anything about it and nothing serious cropped out in his youth’s career until he was just about to graduate from the South Carolina university. He had been a prominent student in the university—a ready debater in pri vate tilts as well as in the debating so ciety. One night they held a great col lege meeting at which Cole Blease de livered an oration which the judges all said had easily taken first prize. They gave him a gold medal amid a great cheering, but it was afterward charged on the stump that the wonderful ora tion Blease had spoken was not Blease’s oration at all, but had been almost bodily culled from the earlier speeches of one of the most gifted statesmen in America Blease was expelled soon after and he went from Newberry to the little town of Helena, near by, and began to prac tice law. He had married a Miss Lil lian Summers, of Helena, and he made his home in her father’s house and en tered into politics. Always, from that early- day to this. Blease mixed polities with his practice of the law. That is why Judge Jones is charging on the South Carolina stump that Blease elected governor of South Carolina' pardoned his old client. Wash Hunter whom, as lawyer, he could not acquit of a manslaughter charge. That is why he is now being charged' in South Carolina with representing as state senator the liquor interests in the dis pensary graft while his law partner Dominick, openly represented them as their lawyer. Asa South Carolina legislator Blease had a stormy career. Ho told the peo ple frankly that he was not a prohibi tionist, but he introduced a prohibition STERLING PAINT IS PLEASING EVERY USER. IT IS MAKING FRIENDS FOR US DAILY, AND WE WANT ALL THE WELL-WISHERS WE CAN WIN. ITS COVERING QUALITIES ARE SURPRIS ING THE PAINTERS. LET US EXPLAIN ITS MERITS TO YOU. bill and saw it passed after the pro hibition element had elected him. Then he went over body- and soul to the dis pensary- system. Judge Jones charges that as a member of that dispensary purchasing committee his whole career was lined with distillery graft and that that graft is still going on. A fluke elected Blease governor— through a second primary, after the first had failed of party nomination. Since ,he has been state executive he has been continually warring with his department heads. AU of them he has told in effect that he was going to run South Carolina and that he must be consulted in every act by every state head, from the commissioner of agri culture to the attorney general. In the year and eight months that Blease has occupied the executive chair of South Carolina he nas given that commonwealth the most remarkable social and political administration it has ever had. At the outset of his ad ministration ho began issuing pardons on a scale never before known in the South. More than 400 pardons stand above his signature up tp date, and he has warned the state constituency- that he will not stop issuing pardons upon the same scale as long as he still is gov ernor. Socially- be has been virtually ostra cized and since he has been governor the ancient functions which have graced the capital city of that stat* for years have been invariably without the presence of either the governor or his wife. As to the character of campaigning Blease is doing, his speech here last night is a typical example. He ad dressed a conglomerate audience from the state house steps. The crowd was drawn very largely by the expectation that he would denounce T. B. Felder, William J. Burns and others behind the charges of corruption recently made against him. But he deliberately avoid, ed them, except to declare that "the subject of Tom Felder is too indecent to discuss before ladies." ’ 1 Attacking the cotton mill Interests in the state, Blease declared that he would pay the fine or pardon any cotton mill worker who whips any man threatening him about his vote. Here is how Blease attacks his polit ical enemies: "If John Graham, who operates that mill (referring to the hosiery- mill in the state penitentiary) were to die tonight, there is not enough coal in all the Clinchfield mine for the devil to put on his dead body. "That mill, operated by a Yankee, who walks about the streets in Colum bia, drinking his fine liquors, is an in cubator of tuberculosis and a disgrace to civilization.”. READ THIS. Tbs Texas Wonder cures kidney and bladder troubles, removing gravel, cures diabetes, weak and lame backs, rheuma tism, and all Irregularities of the kidneys and bladder In both men and women Regulates b'udder troubles In children If not sold by your druggist, will be sent by mall on receipt of JI.OO. One small bottle is two months' treatment and sel dom falls to perfect a cure. Send for tea tlmonlals from this and other stl.es. Dr E. W. Hall. 2926 Olive-st . St. Louie. 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DORSEY To the Voters of Fulton County: I am a candidate in the primary to be held August 21 for the position of Solicitor General of the Atlanta Circuit, to which office I was appointed by the Gov ernor of Georgia upon the death of Hon. Charles D. Hill, who for twenty-five years so ably filled this posi tion. Since my appointment I have earnestly endeav ored to so discharge the duties of the office as to merit and receive an indorsement at the hands of the people. I invite the closest scrutiny of my record as Solici tor General for the fractional term I have served, and upon this record I bespeak your votes and support, Respects ully, /. J HUGH M. DORSEY./ Atlanta, Ga., July 20, 1912. / ITALIAN ADMIRAL DENIES TURKS SANK TWO WAR VESSELS ROME, July 20. —Flat contradiction of the Turkish report that two Italian torpedo boats had been sunk while trying to run the Dardanelles was ma<)e here today in a message from Admiral Viale of the Italian fleet in the Aegean ‘ sea. 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