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GREAT WASTE IA
BUILDING PUBLIC
STRUCTURES
House Committee Raps Depart
ment. Charging Extravagance
and Possible Fraud.
WASHINGTON, July 20.—Extrava- j
gance. waste anti possible fraud ate the |
points of criticism made in the report
of 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 draughtsman 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 "50
more at a proposed agg-egate cost of
$70,000,000.
“If this keeps up.” the committee
rays, "there will be 1,520 public build
ings inside of fifteen years.” The cost
of maintenance alone- will be $11,000,00 '
annually.
The office of ‘he supervising archi
tect of the treasury ts criticised. This
office is mainta'ned at an annual cost
of $3,000,000. Jt has had no definite
policy, the committee finds, and blame
is attached to former Supervising Ar
chitect James Knox Taylor for sorm
mistakes discovered.
The committee urges congressmen b>
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 les- ;
than 5,000 inhabitants or whose post - !
office takes in lets than SIO,OOO annual
ly The practice of employing outside
architects is condemned.
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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 -rhocl of reputation!
It pays to attend such an institution. :
Yesterday a young man came to At-i
lanta from Alabama with a scholarship!
in his pocket which had been given him ‘
free of cost, but after examination of
conditions and a diligent inquiry here,
he preferred to enter the Southern
Yiis’c ss College and accordingly paid
the full price for a scholarship in thi.s
famous school.
Mr. O R. Davenport, who came to
At anta from Richland, Ga., about three
months ago. has already taken a course
In Bookkeeping and Typewriting at the
Southern Shorthand and Business Uni
v> >ity. 10 1-2 West Mitchell street, and
now occupies a responsible position
• h the Supreme Lodge, Masonic Ben
efit Association, of this city, as a result
of his business training In this long
est.'ihlished Business school.
in order that his friends, acquain
'r s and the public generally may
know more about the many advantages
the college he attended, Mr. Daven
port writes the following letter, ex
“sing his gratitude and telling of
■' good fortune in selecting a school of
" i h favorable reputation.
It’- a great thing to attend a Business
school that the business men like —they
Ik' the Southern, because, they say.
' 'ta lents are more thoroughly traln
f md give better satisfaction as ste-
■ 'graphers and bookkeepers. It I s ,
efore, more advisable to attend the
■ thorn, at its moderate cost, than to
d some schools if tuition could be
1 otamed free.
v Atlanta, Ga., July 18, 1912.
c' athern Shorthand and Business I'nl
'■•erslty. Atlanta, Ga.:
' "-nt lemon— After having written to
business colleges. I selected the
dhern. I took the business course
'ypewriting: I was about three
ths completing the course. The
'hern secured me a splendid posi
■' with the Masonic Benefit Assocla
"ti. i found the Southern to be all
it claims, and I Invite any of my
,'. Intances to write me for special
rotation Yours truly.
O. B. DAVENPORT,
tat Mr. Davenport is filling ills po
, m satisfactorily is. shown bv tiie
■' ■ ing letter:
’*■ i'I’PREME LODGE. MASONIC
benefit association
K Atlanta. Ga., Jul'- 18. 1912
■ tn Shorthand and Business Tni
'»i sity, Atlanta, Ga.:
'wntlemen—Mt O. B. Davenport was
‘ r cted from a large number of appll-
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 ( arolina is undergoing
now the most tempestuous politi
cal campaign in her history since
Ben 1 illman grew old and quit
the of oratory and anathema
and guns.
< ole 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
< hies 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
Bleascism 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
ecutit e 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 Blease hurls against the more
conservafiv° 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 or Jones is
to win.
Meantime, while they
around the state. South Caroilnans are
finding out thoroughly for the first time
what Bleaseism and anti-Bleaselsm
means.
Blease Is a combination type of
"small town sport” and court house
politician. He wears the long frock
Bi!
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0. 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, thev get through at the South
ern as «oon as at any other school, and,
v. hat is better, the students are more
competent—they develop into experts,
while it is Impossible to become an ex
pert with the so-called quick-to-learn
systems,
Mr. Sigmund Tltlebaum, the expert
Atlanta reporter, who is now reporting
the famous Governor Blease ease. Is a
graduate of the Southern.
Inquire around Atlanta for the expert
stenographers and high-cla-s book
keepers. and then you'll go whe-e 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
i'all. phone or write for information.
Address A. C Briscoe. Pres., or L. W.
Arnold, Vice Pres., Atlanta, Ga.
Prof Thos. L. Bryan, lecturer and
special representative.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, JULY 20. ini 2.
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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 twists, he
easily suggests the composite picture
of the country dude and pirate on pa
rade.
Hell 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 of
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. All 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 (.ration 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 th,e 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 politics
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 a«
th fir lawyer.
Asa South Carolina legislator Blease
had a stormy career. He told the peo
ple frankly that he was not a prohibi
tionist, but he introduced a prohibition
STERLING PAINT
BIS PLEASING EVERY USER. IT IS MAKING
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ITS COVERING QUALITIES ARE SURPRfS
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 stat, executive he
has been continually warring with his j
department heads. All 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 he began issuing pardons
on a scale never before known in the
South.
More than 400 pardons stand above
his signature up to date, and ho has
warned the state constituency that ho
will not stop issuing pardons upon the
same scale as long as hi- still is gov
ernor.
Socially he has been virtually ostra
cized and since he has been governor
the ancient functions which have
graced the capital city of that state for
years have been invariable without the
presence of either the governo- or hi«
wife.
As to the character of campaigning
Blease is doing, his speech here last,
night is a typical examplq. 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. R. 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 ladles."
Attacking the cotton mill Interests in
the state, Blease declared that he would
pay the fine or pardon- any cotton mil!
worker who whips any man threatening I
him about his vote.
Here is how Blease attacks hfs polft- I
leal enemies:
"If John Graham, who operates that
mill (referring to the hosiery mill in the
state penitentiary) wore 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.”
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PHYSICIANS SEEK
MEDICALREFORM
Bill Pending Before Legislature
to Raise Standard of Profes
sion in Georgia.
Physicians of Georgia are very much
interested in the bill introduced In the
legislature by Senator Douglas, provid
ing for a reorganization and consoli
dation of the state medical examining
boards, and raising the standard of the
medical profession by more rigid re
quirements for medical license.
At present Georgia lias a separate
medical examining board for each of
the schools of medicine. Atlanta physi
cians say this is the only state in the
I’nion with separate boards for each
school. The pending bill provides for
the abolition of the existing boards and
tile creation of one board composed
■f regular, eclectic and homeopathic
physicians, to be appointed by the gov
ernor from lists furnished by the re
spective medical societies.
Tile bill lias been recommended for
passage by a conference committee of
senate and house, and is expected to
come to h. vote in the senate on Monday
or Tuesday.
The bill provides that every appli
cant for license must not only have a
diploma from a reputable medical col
lege, but must have a minimum pre
liminary educational requirement fo>
admission to the freshman class of a
state university. Moral character is also
a requirement.
The bill provides that license to prac.
tice can lie revoked where the holder Is
guilty of fraud in securing a license or
in practice, crime involving moral ter
•iliiide, habitual Intemptrance, crlmina
operations, or unclean advertising,
MASSEE STARTS WAR ON
MACON ELECTRIC RATES
MACON, GA., July 20. Competitive
with the Macon Railway and bight Com
pany became a positive fact today when
W. J. Massee announced tn glaring ad
vertisements that his new electric light
company will be ready to furnish cur
rent, beginning October 1. at. Just one
half the rate charged by the present cor
poration.
A war on rates is now expected to fol
low between the two companies, and a
reduction of even more than one-half is
anticipated by users of electricity.
Mealtime
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A “don't care" sort of feeling
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Some disturbance of the
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We do not depend on any one to look after this MOST IMPORTANT PART of our
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ROGER C. SULLIVAN
IN RECEPTIVE MOOD
FOR LORIMER’S SEAT
CHICAGO, July 20. -Roger C. Sullivan,
retired Democratic national committee
man from Illinois, may seek the toga
doffed by William borimer when the sen
ate held Lorimer's election Illegal. Sul
livan is not an open and avowed candi
date for the plate, but lie has considered
it and is in a receptive frame of mind.
"I might be a candidate,” was his re
ply to a question about the possibility
of his entering the race.
Sullivan opposes the idea of calling a
special session to till the vacancy, lie. be
lieves that the next legislature will be
Democratic.
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SOLICITOR GENERAL HUGH M. 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.
Respectfully,
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 made
! here today in a message from Admiral
'Viale of the Italian fleet in the Aegean
■ sea.
A wireless message from Admiral
' Viale, printed In the newspaper Messa
. i gero, states that all the Italian war
| ships In the Aegean fleet are safe.
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