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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 try. president ot Ihe ' \\ Southern Bell, oper- , t \\z~X Oay ’ BUt He CoUld Tal<e 3 atino fl switchboard H Hello GiITS Place. lie knotvs how Jy / f W., lUL - \\ \ JLW / / O&Wg » S NHMe . x aSMt i 1 // mw ; ’’< < lEw X" Wass*. / \ V wffe. t 5 < / . / •JrßlWra 9 » 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. ••• 3