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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. Insect Bite Costs Leg. 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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! ■Mi 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. JU I ;s w * I w If ; 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 FRIENDS FOR US DAILY, AND WE WANT ALL THE WELL-WISHERS WE CAN WIN. 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.” READ THIS. 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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. 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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. 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. 5