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BIG CROPS WILL CUT LIVING COST—SECY WILSON
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12—-Secretary Wilson of the department of agriculture
today promised the people of the United States that the high cost of living would
be reduced. He declared that the crops of this year would be bountiful and that
the price ot beef would be materially decreased next winter. He stated, however,
that the cheap meat of a decade ago would never return.
“Beef will be cheaper next winter than it has been for a number of years”, he
said. “The high cost of beef through last winter and at the present time is due. to
1 PRIMARIES FOR
MAYORALTY RACE
If One Candidate Gets Majority
of All Votes Only One Will
Be Necessary.
The consensus of opinion among city
politicians today was that there would
be no more announcements for mayor,
and that probably all the five candi
dates now in the race would keep in
the running until the Democratic pri
mary. It was agreed that there neces
sarily will be a second primary be
tween the two candidates receiving the
•highest number of votes in the first
primary, for the nominee for mayor
must receive a majority of all votes
cast.
With the adjournment of the legis
lature in sight, the candidates today
were preparing formally to launch their
campaigns. The formal announcements
of Mayor Winn and Aiderman John S. !
Candler that they will not.in.er the
contest has greatly simplified matters.
But the alignment of the different po
litical forces still is complicated.
Councilman Aldine Chambers has de- '
dared his platform to be progressive
ness in city affairs. He says the city
must have better streets and carry out
other big developments. He has been
pledged the support of a majority of
the council and other city officials.
Aiderman John E. McClelland's
friends claim groat strength for him
on the grounds of his advocacy of mu
nicipal ownership of an electric light
and power plant. He promises to con
duct a sensational campaign, revealing
the alleged influence of the Georgia
Railway and Power Company on city
politics.
Or. Brown’s Platform.
Dr. George Brown has been actively
campaigning for many weeks. He has
the support of <'.trios H. Mas<m. chair-i
man of the city polite board, end he I
declares that his fight for a m >re bin .
ocratic city administration will carry i
him to victory.
Steve R. Johnston is running on the i
issue of more money lor schools and a ;
more vigorous tight for sanitation and |
health. Ho served five years in thf |
council, and has a wide acquaintance. ;
James G. Woodward twice has been |
mayor, and in the last two races in;
which he was defeated he received a
substantial vote. His friends declare I
that he undoubtedly will be in the race. I
Os the city ministerial officials who I
are to bo elected this year. Electrician |
R. C. Turner alone of the incumbents
has opposition. Fred Miles, former
city electrician, is running against him. ■
J. H. Harwell will run for alderman 1
in the First ward, anti S. A. Wardlaw I
will be a candidate for re-election to 1
the council from that ward. Aiderman '•
A. J. Johnson will retire 'to private 1
life.
Thomas Lynch is a candidate to sue. '
ceed t'ouneilman Harvey Hatcher from
the Second ward. Mr. Hatcher having] l
announced that he would not be a can- .
didate | •
Guess Seeks Re-election.
t’arl N. Guess has announced for : -
election to council from the Third ward.,
<L. Ashley is running for council]
from the Fourth ward.
Aiderman J. W. Maddox and Conn-|
cilman J. D. Fisson are candidate's fori
re-electiop from the Fifth ward. .
t'ouneilman G. H. Boynton is asking ■ j
for re-election from the Sixth ward.
There is a spirited content between (
Councilman .1. H. Andrews and A. R. (
Colcord for the count ilmanic place from .
the Seventh ward. I
W. G. Hum ph icy has announced for ,
re-election as councilman from the |
Eighth ward. It is said 'hat Joseph (
Nutting will oppose him. I
J. P. Wall I'm’ W l>. White ire can- t
didates for tile Ninth ward council- (
manic seat, which w ill be made vacant
by the retirement of Councilman Al- (
cline Chambers. ,
J T. Kimbrough and T. A. Wells are | |
candidates for tile Tenth ward council-| ,
manic seat. I). J. Baker retiring, and I
Aiderman 1. N. Ragsdale asks re-elec
tion.
The city Democratic executiv' com !
rnittee wil meet and name the date for j
the city primary immediately after the ;
gubernatorial primary of August 21.
MARIETTA YOUNG FOLK
HAVE SURPRISE WEDDING
MARIETTA. GA.. Aug. 12.—John L j
Barnes and Miss Nellie Scott, two pop- ,■
ular young people of .Marietta, sur- ]
prised their friends yesterdaj when '
they were married by Rev. A. S. Turn- !.
lin, pastor of the Marietta Baptist .
church. Mr. Barnes is employ, d by .
George R. Law, of Atlanta, but makes
his home in Marietta. His wife came
to Marietta about a year ago from I
I nion Point. G i., and has b< ■ n book- !
keeper for the Southern Bell Telephone !
and Telegraph Company. During Iler 1
reshb ne. here sin has made many ,
friends.
Big Atlanta Business Men Masters of Their Craft
m GENTRY CAN PLUG THEM IN
T Expert Advice Worth SI,OOO a
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William T. G 1 ntry, president of the
Southern Bell Telephone Company and
one of the biggest salaried men in the
South, can plug a switchboard (if that's
the way to speak of it) as dexterously
as any one of the hundreds of girls
w orking for him.
Now, thero isn’t anything very strik
ing about that, bn it simply illustrates
the well known fact that the biggest
business men in Atlanta know their
TRUSTS DIDN'T AID IN
1908 CONGRESSIONAL
CAMPAIGN—M’KINLEY
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. —That con
tributions to the Republican congres- '
sional campaign of 1908 totaled $60,000, 1
"$5,000, or $6,000. or $7,000," of which
lie contributed and that conributions
for the congressional campaign of 1910
were SIO,OOO. was about all the infor- >
motion the senate committee investi
gating campaign funds obtained from
Representative W. B. McKinley today
when it continued its inquiry. McKin- r
ley was treasurer of the Republican
congressional committee in 19<>6 and
became its chairman, which position
he still holds, in 1908, when he sue- ,
ever cd Vice President Sherman.
The witness testified he knew of no '
contributions from the steel, harvester,
sugar and tobacco companies or oil in
terests. or ft om any association of
ma nufacturers.
FIRST DISTRICT MEDICAL
SOCIETY IN CONVENTION
SAVANNAH, GA.. Aug. 12.—The
First District Medical society con
vened tn annual session at Tybee to
day. In the absence of Mayor George
\V. Tiedeman, the address of welcome
,ns delivered by t'ity Attorney H. E.
Wilson. Following a brief routine ses- 1
sion, membets of the society read in- 1
let' sting papers on medical subjects.
The tn. 'ting adjourned in time for the' '•
metfibers to catch high tide at Tybee.
A dinner will he tendered the visitors
at Tvbee tonight by Savannah physi
cians.
NEW HOME FOR MASONS.
VALDOSTA. GA.. Aug. 12.—St.Johns
Masonic lodge will occupy its new
home, formerly the Vidette*' armory,
in a short while The lodge has out
grown its pt esent qua'tors, and when
the Valdosta Vidette* were recently
disbanded it secured th< armory for its
lodge room.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY. AUGUST 12. 1912.
line from A to izzard. If the "Number
please," girls should some time decide
to all quit at once, it wouldn't he at
i all difficult for the man whose expert
advice is worth SI,OOO a day to fill the
place of one—or rather a dozen.
One thousand dollars a day for ex
pert advice about telephones is the
price put on his knowledge in England,
where his testimony was sought in a
big court ease.
MARIETTA PREPARES
FOR STATE REUNION
OF VETERANS AUG. 28
MARIETTA, GA . Aug. 12.-Plans for
the entertainment of more than 1,000
Confederate veterans during the state
reunion on August 28 and 29 ate being
rapidly completed.
In anticipation of the reunion a camp
of Sons of Vet< r ans .has been organized,
more than 50 joining. The Sons of
Veterans are interesting themselves in
the reunion plans, and will be a big as
set to the committee in arranging for
the entertainment.
A camp of the Boy Scouts of Amer
ica has also been formed with the spe
cial view of having them act as cour
iers and escorts during the reunion.
The boys have shown much interest in
their part in the reunion.
During the past week the entertain
ment committee has canvassed Ma
rietta and has seemed accommodations
for nearly all of the 1,000 veterans who
are expected to attend. Other visitors
will be accommodated in the hotels of
Marietta and Atlanta.
28TH CHILD BORN TO
WOMAN 44YEARS OLD
NIAGARA FALLS. N. Y.. Aug. 12.
An eight-pound boy, her twenty-eighth
child, was born to Mrs Philip E. Web
ster. Mrs. Webster is 44 years old
was married when she was sixteen,
and of her children there were three
pairs of twins and two sets of triplets
Eightj,of the 28 are still alive.
LEON MEYER. THEATRICAL
MANAGER, KILLS HIMSELF
NEW YORK. Aug. 12.—Leon Meyer,
a theatrical manager, committed sui
cide by shooting in his room at the
Courtland hotel today. A chambermaid
heard the shot and gave the alarm.
Meyer was found dead when the door
was broken down.
Mr. Gentry only recently returned
• from Europe, where he made a careful ;
study of the telephone systems in Lon- I
don and various continental cities. He 1
■ came home thoroughly convinced that
America was maintaining its long lead ]
and that Europe had few ideas to of- j :
1 for it. Those few ideas, however, will
, be put into operation in Atlanta and ]
eventually throughout the Bell com- I
pany's entire enormous territory.
PRICE OF GRAINS AND
MEATS HIGHER, SAYS
GOVERNMENT REPORT
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. A report ,
just issued by the department of
agriculture shows that there has been
a large Increase in the price of grains 1
and meats in the United States during '
the. last year.
The report also shows that the gen
eral crop average on that date was 12.2
per cent more than on the same date
last year and 3 per cent more than the
average of recent years.
Pices paid to grain producers on
August 1 of 1912 and 1911, respectively
averaged as follows: Corn, 79.3 c and
65.8 c a bushel; wheat, 89.7 and 82.2 c a
bushel; oats. 44.3 and 40.2 c per bushel,
barley, 66.8 and 69.3 c per bushel; rye,
77.9 and 75.5 c per bushel. Meat prices
July 15, 1912 and 191 I, respectively,
averaged:
Hogs, $6.64 and $5.92 per hundred
pounds; beef cattle, $5.44 and $4.28;
veal calves, $6.33 anil $5.74; sheep, $4.21
and $4.19; lambs, $5.73 and $5.42.
TAFT SAYS HE’LL VETO
APPROPRIATION BILL
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—President I
Taft has announced that lie would
veto the legislative, executive and ju
dicial appropriation bill, carrying $34,.
000,000 for the expenses of the govern
ment for the current fiscal year, be
cause it includes the "seven-year ten
ure” clause and makes no provision
for the commerce court.
TOOMBS TO HAVE EXHIBITS.
VIDALIA, GA., Aug 12.—Toombs
county will be well represented at the
Twelfth District fair, which will be
held in Dublin this fall. The farmers
are already making preparations to
win a good share of the prize money '
Vice President Simmons, of the fair
association, is in active charge of the 1
work in Toombs county. r
the small corn crop of last year. The best beef is fed on corn.
“This year the corn crop will reach more than 2,Soo,cco,cco bushels, or the
third largest in the history of the country. his will lower the price of beef an
appreciable degree.
“ I he oats crop is expected to be the largest we have ever harvested, while the
hay crop will be tremendous. Cotton alone will fall slightly below the average.
The wheat crop will total about 680,000,000 bushels.
COURSE IN HIGH
SCHOOLS FIXED
English, Mathematics, History,
Science, and One Elective
Subjects Are Required.
Courses of study prescribed by the
state board of education for the high
schools have been sent out by M. L.
Brittain. state superintendent of
schools. They include 25 periods of one
hour each, making up five hours on the
five school days of the week, and the
required subjects are English, mathe
matics, history, science and one elec
tive.
The course is given below in detail:
First Year—(lt Grammar, composi
tion and spelling, 4; classics, 1. (2)
Algebra, review arithmetic with ac
counts. 5. (3> Ancient history, 5. (4)
Physical and commercial geography, 5.
(5) Elective, (a) agriculture and man
ual arts or domestic science, or (b)
languages, either Latin, French, Ger
man or Spanish, 5.
Second Year—(l) Rhetoric, composi
tion and spelling, 4; classics, 1. (2)
Algebra and plane geometry, 5. (3)
Modern history. 5. (4 > Biology, 5. (5)
Elective, (a) agriculture and manual
arts or domestic science, or (bi lan
guages continued, or (c) stenography
and bookkeeping, 5.
Third Year—tl) History of English
literature, composition and classics, 5.
(2) Algebra and geometry, 5. (3) Eng
lish history, 5. (4) Physics, 5. (5)
Elective, (a) agriculture and manual
arts or domestic science, or (b) lan
guages continued, or (c) stenography
and bookkeeping. 5.
Fourth Year—(l) History of Ameri
can literature, composition and clas
sics, 5. (2) Trigonometry and survey
ing or an elective, 5. (3) American his
tory and civics. 5. (4) Chemistry or
an elective. 5. (5) elective, ta) agri
| '-ulture and manual arts or domestic
science, or (bl languages continued, or
(c) commercial law and history of
commerce, 5.
For two-year high schools in second
year for modern history substitute
\inericnn history and civics; for three
year high schools, substitute English
history with American history for third
yea r.
JAPANESE IDOLS SOLD
TO BUY FOODSTUFFS
PASADENA. CAL., Aug. 12.—Fifty
seven Japanese idols, the result of
years of collecting, are en route from
San Francisco to Henry E. Hunting
ton's mansion here and will find a rest
ing place in the oriental corner of the
gardens of his estate. The idols were
purchased by Huntington through N. D.
Sargent, of Pasadena, expert in Asiatic
art and religion, t
They embrace the entire collection at
the Temple of Ten Ben Ji. a Buddhist,
in the suburbs of Tokio. The faith of
the Buddhist forbids selling religious
tokens, but starvation intervened and
the idols were disposed of.
THIS SLAYER TRIES FOUR
TIMES TO KILL HIMSELF
LOS ANGELES, CAL., Aug. 12.—R.
C. ( "Big Bob") Snipes, confessed North
Carolina "moonshine" distiller and
murderer, held until Southern officers
can come for him. is in a serious con
dition as a result of four desperate at
tempts to kill himself.
First, he tried to cremate himself
while in his bunk in a Jail cell. When
taken to the receiving hospital, he tried
to escape, and threw himself under a
passing electric car, and a few minutes
after that attempted to strangle himself
with a handkerchief. Snipes tried Mon
day to sever an artery in his left w rist
with a piece of tin.
MGR. BONZANO TO ATTEND
LOUISVILLE CONVENTION
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—Monsignor
Bonzano, the papal delegate, will at
tend the eleventh annual convention of
the American Federation of Catholic
Societies, which opens at Louisville on
Sunday. The pope’s envoy will leave
Washington for the convention city on
Friday.
SHOT BY WOMAN WHEN HE
PLANNED TO WED ANOTHER
NASHVILLE. TENN., Aug. 12.—03-
car Harrington, aged 27. was shot five
times at his home here today "by Mar
garet Campbell, aged 33, because he
was going to marry another woman. He
will die.
VALDOSTA INSURANCE CUT.
VALDOSTA, GA., Aug. 12.—A reduc
tion of ten per cent in fire insurance
rates on all risks in the business sec
tion of the city has been ordered by the
Southeastern Tariff association, effect
ive at cnee. The reduction is granted
as the result of the installation of an
auto fire truck.
FRIENDSHIP FOR LABOR ;
WILL GET TAFT VOTES ;
OF WORKE RS—H ILLES :
By CHARLES D. HILLES.
Chairman Republican National Com
mittee.
NEW YORK, Aug. 12. —President
Taft will be re-elected because he has
never failed to prove his friendship Apr
labor. When he was first nominated,
in 1908, his enemies said he could not
be elected because as a judge on the
bench he had rendered certain deci
sions against labor leaders. The presi
dent met the issue squarely, just as he
does all others. He did not deny; he
did not flinch. He told the exact truth
to the great audiences of labor men
who came to hear him. What was the
result? Their animosity turned to re
spect and admiration, and it was large
ly the labor vote which elected Mr.
Taft president. He will get that vote
this year, and it will do its full part in
electing him president, for labor is fair.
It knows what the square deal is. and
when it comes to examine Mr. Taft’s
record it will find that he has made
good his word and has procured the
enactment of more good labor legisla
tion than any of his predecessors.
President Taft has procured for the
workingman who is injured while
working on an interstate railway the
right to have his widow and children
sue to recover damages should he die
before such suit was begun or com
pleted. He has procured from congress
larger authority for the interstate com
merce commission to compel railways
to use safety appliances for the protec
tion of employees. He has procured
an amendment to the law making the
frequent inspection of boilers compul
sory and forbidding the use of any boil
er found defective. He has secured the
establishment of a bureau of mines,
which Is devoting its chief energies to
improving mine conditions in the in
terest of the safety of the miners, to
teaching the best methods of rescue—
-5,000 miners are being trained in res
cue work—to inculcating the use of the
safest explosives and the most ap
proved appliances and to the mainte
nance of seven Pullman cars, each with
' a rescue corps, to go to the actual as
sistance of entombed miners
Children's Labor Bureau.
He has procured the establishment
of a children’s labor bureau for the
protection of children who are obliged
to work and the improvement of the
conditions under which they work. But,
above all, he has sent to congress, and
it is in a fairway to become a law, an
employers’ liability law which will gain
for the workingman who is injured in
the performance of his duty not only
the most generous possible compensa
tion for injuries he receives, which
wipes out the pernicious doctrine of
"contributory negligence,” but which
will save to such employee all the vast
sum he is now obliged to spend for law
yers and court costs, too often half or
| more of the total damages he receives
-for his injury.
This measure has been pronounced
I by all who have studied it —except those
lawyers who will lose their fees —the
most generous, humane and progres
sive piece of labor legislation fathered
by any administration in the history of
' the country. It would have been a
law by now had there not been a po
litical division between the two houses
of congress. It is so essentially a Taft
measure that the Democrats probably
will not permit it to become a law un
til after the election, but its ultimate
enactment is assured.
Another important progressive meas
ure which is still in the process of en
actment, but for which Mr. Taft de
serves the credit, is a model child labor
law for the District of Columbia. There
is grave question as to how far con
■ gress can go in enacting a law to gov
ern child labor within the states, but
it is believed that if the national leg
islature enacts a model law and it is
seen to work well within the District
it will be rapidly copied by the states,
for In such matters a good example
goes a long way.
His Warfare on Trusts.
These, briefly, are the laws which
most directly affect labor for which the
president is responsible. But there are
numerous other laws and achieve
ments which, although they affect labor
indirectly, benefit it hardly less. The
enforcement of the anti-trust law is of
incalculable benefit to labor. First, it
stops the extortion whereby these great
monopolies are able to exact unreason
able prices from the workingman and
thus increase his cost of living until he
has nothing left from his wages after
paving for the actual necessities of life,
and, secondly, by compelling the trusts
to split up into their component parts
a variety of employers of labor are
provided instead of a single one, and
the many can not fix the price of labor
or enforce arbitrary and unjust rules,
as could the single great corporation.
Then, too, the foreign relations of
this government have been conserved
in a manner beet calculated to pro
mote the interests of labor. The ex
clusion of cheap Japanese labor has
been accomplished through the enact
ment of a new treaty with Japan. And
not only has the wise diplomacy of
President Taft made the exclusion of
Japanese labor as certain as the exclu
sion of the Chinese labor, but it has ac
complished that, and so diplomatically
that none of the friendship ot Japan j
has been lost. One the contrary, it has*
so increased the friendly relations that
in the first nine months after the treaty
with Japan went into effect Japan
bought from the United States almost
twice as much as she had bought in the
entire previous year. And, roughly
speaking, half bf all she paid to this
country went for the labor in the things
she bought.
And in all its relations With foreign
countries the administration has sought:
to promote the demand for American
goods. This has been somewhat con
temptuously called “dollar diplomacy.”'
But do you know what that means?
"Dollar diplomacy” means more dollars
to be distributed as wages among’
American workmen, is that a subject 1
for contempt? It was this "dollar di
plomacy” which procured from Argen
tina an order for two large battleships,
to be built, ot course, w\th American
labor. It has meant the procuring ot
orders for American goods during the
Taft administration amounting to not
less than $100,000,000. And of that
$100,000,000 approximately half has gone
for material and the other half has
gone, or will go, for labor.
Squeezing Out Water Helps Labor,
And, finally, the enforcement of the
anti-trust law has checked over-capi
talization. Every time a trust was or
ganized there was an addition of an
Immense amount of "water" to Its cap
ital stock—that is, purely fictitious
value. Then, when the workmen de
’ mantled increased wages. It was pointed
out to them that the company could not
1 pay any more for their labor because
it could not now pay reasonable dlvi
’ dends on its stock. Os course it could
not. because a small dividend on its
nominal stock would have meant an im
mense profit on the money actually in
vested. But with the dissolution of the
trusts the water is being squeezed out
' of them, and when they are obliged to
bid against each other for labor, they
not only can, but will have to pay just
wages for the labor they employ.
We hear a good deal these days aboutj
tlie "pernicious activity of the depart
ment of justice.” Do you think that;
men who work for their living will!
regard that sort of activity
clous?” Wall Street regards it perni-j
clous, of course. The Harvester trusts]
and the Steel trust and the Beef truertj
regard it as "pernicious” to the last de—i
gree, a gross Interference of what some:
one —I think it was one of the members]
of the Anthracite Coal trust —called
"the divine right of ownership,”
The persistence with which the de-,
partment of justice has enforced the{
safety appliance act has been regarded;
as "pernicious activity” by a certain!
class of railway directors and trust!
magnates. But do you imagine for ones
moment that tfit American workman,
with his intelligence, is going to re-'
gard such activity as pernicious, or!
even that he will fail to appreciate the’
work which has been done in his be-,
half and to approve it with his vote on]
next election day?”
19 SAVED FROM BOAT
OVERTURNED IN BAY;
2 BELIEVED DROWNED
BOSTON. Aug. 12.—The harbor po
lice today dragged the bay at the spot
where the motorboat Pippin overturned
last night with 21 aboard In an effort
to recover the bodies of two men
thought to have been drowned.
Heroic rescuers saved ten girls and
nine men in the party.
NEW ROAD ARRANGES FOR
TERMINALS IN BRUNSWICK
BRUNSWICK. Aug. 12.—The Geor
gia Coast and Piedmont railroad, which
is extending its line from Darien to
Brunswick, has just entered into an
agreement with the Southern, Atlantic
Coast Line and Atlanta. Birmingham
and Atlantic railroads, the three sys
tems entering this city, for traffic ar
rangements here. The new road has
also made arrangements to use the
passenger station ot the A., B. & A.
and side-tracks of the three roads
along Bay street, which will not neces
sitate the laying of new tracks along
this street.
, The Trials of a Traveler.
"I am a traveling salesman,” writes
E. E. Youngs, E. Berkshire, Vt„ "and
' was often troubled with constipation
and indigestion till I began to use Dr,
' King’s New Life Pills, which I have
found an excellent remedy.” For all
stomach, liver or kidney troubles they
, are unequaled. Only 25 cents at all
druggists.
"Were all medicines as meritorious
, as Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy, the world would be
much better off and the percentage of
suffering greatly decreased," writes
I Lindsay Scott, of Temple, Ind. For
sale by all dealers. •••
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