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I PRIMARIES FDR
MAYORALTY RACE
Five Candidates Now An
nounced Believed to Com
plete Entry List.
The consensus of opinion among city
politicians today was that there would I
be no more announcements for mayor, i
and that probably all the five candi- i
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 enter the
contest has greatly simplified matters.
But the alignment of the different po
litical forces still is complicated.
Councilman Aldine Chambers has de
clared 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 great 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
Ball way and Power Company on city
politics.
Dr. Brown’s Platform.
Dr. George Brown has been actively
.campaigning for many weeks. He has
the support of Carlos H. Mason, chair
man of the city police board, and he
declares that his fight for a more dem
ocratic city administration will carry
’him to victory.
Steve Ft. Johnston is running on the
issue of more money for schools and a
more vigorous fight for sanitation and
health, tfe served five years in the
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
that he undoubtedly will be in the race.
Os the city ministerial officials who
are to be elected this year,
B. C. Turner alone of the incumbents
has opposition. Fred Mlles, former
city electrician, is running against him.
J. H. Harwell will run for aiderman
in the First ward, and S. A. Wardlaw
will be a candidate for re-election to
the council from that ward. Aiderman
A. J. Johnson will retire to private
life.
Thomas Lynch is a candidate to suc
ceed Councilman Harvey Hatcher from
the Second ward, Mr. Hatcher having
announced that he would not be a can
didate.
Guess Seeks Re-election.
Carl N. Guess has announced for re
election to council from the Third ward.
C. L. Ashley is running for council
from the Fourth ward.
Aiderman J. W. Maddox and Coun
cilman J. D. Sisson are candidates for
re-election from the Fifth ward.
Councilman G. H Boynton is asking
for re-election from the Sixth ward.
There is a spirited contest between
Councilman J. H. Andrews and A. R.
Colcord for the councilmanic place from
the Seventh ward.
W G. Humphre.v has announced for
re-election as councilman from the
Eighth ward. It is said that Joseph
Nutting will oppose him.
J. P. Wall and W. D. White are can
didates for the Ninth ward council
manic seat which will be made vacant
by the retirement of Councilman Al
dine Chambers.
J. T. Kimbrough and T. A. Wells are
candidates for the Tenth ward council
manic seat. D. J. Baker retiring, and
Alderman I. N. Ragsdale asks re-elec
tton.
The city Democratic executive com
mittee wil meet and name the date for
the city primary immediately after the
gubernatorial primary of August 21.
WITH HER FOOT BROKEN.
GIRL IN ST. LOUIS ELOPES
ST. LOUIS. Aug. 12.—The pain of a
broken foot did not deter Miss Evelyn
Burns and Patrick Grace from eloping
to Belleville.
It was the first time Miss Burns had
been out of the house since the swing
at her home fell with her and broke
her foot two weeks ago.
The couple informed her sisters and
brothers that they were going to a
summer garden in St. Louis. The sis
ters protested vigorously, declaring
that they feared if she ventured on'
she would injure her foot again.
HE SEARCHES BOSTON IN
VAIN TO MAKE SKETCH’
PHILADELPHIA. Aug 12.—Joseph
Pennell, the artist, after three days ir.
Boston, has been unable to find any
thing worth sketching, so Boston wil;
not be represented in the Pennell gal
lery of lithographic fame. He went ti.
Boston to make a series of "old Boston
sketches” and he has come back with
out a scratch on his paper.
28TH CHILD BORN TO
WOMAN 44 YEARS OLD
NIAGARA FALLS. N V. Aug. 12.-
An pight-pound h-\. her twenty-eighth
child, was horn • Mis. Philip H. Web
ster. Mrs. W. U- r ■ is 4 1 yems old *
was married when she was sixteen I
and <>f h ! children there were three
pai-s of u ins .mF two sets of triplets.
Eight nt me .still alive.
Big Atlanta Business Men Masters of Their Craft
□ GENTRY CAN PLUG THEM IN
Southern Bell, oper- I Day- But He Could Take a
ntins a swtchboanl. k-A JxWMu. % \\| CJ n n i« m
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William T. Gentry, president of the i
Southern Bell Telephone Company ami
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
, working for him.
Now, there isn't anything very strik
ing about that, but it simply illustrates
the well known fact that the biggest
business men in Atlanta know their
THIS MAN’S MARRIAGE
NOW MAKES HIM HIS
OWN FATHER-IN-LAW
NEW YORK. Aug. 12.—Members of
the respective family circles of George
J. Jordan, of Brooklyn, and his wife,
who previously had been his mother
in-law, are today tiying to figure out
their relationships to each other.
Mr. Jordan, who is 32 j ears old, mar
ried his mother-in-law a year ago. He
is celebrating the anniversary of the
marriage. Mrs Jordan is several years
her husband’s senior.
Seven and a half years ago he mar
ried her daughter. Miss Blanche New
mark. Their domestic life was happy.
The bride’s mother Was much with
them, and for once at least the pres
ence of a mother-in-law was congenial
to both sides.
Finally Mrs. Newmark came to live
with Mrs. Jordan, the latter having
made a stipulation to that effect be
fore her wedding.
When his first wife died she made
her husband promise that he would
take care of her mother. He kept his
word and a year ago married her.
Just around the corner from Mr. Jor
dan's home lives Mrs. Philip) Newmark,
whose husband is the son of Mr. Jor
dan’s wife. She opened her eyes wide,
in surprise when she was asked today
whether her mother-in-law had mar
ried her late sister-in-law’s husband.
“It’s news to me," she said.
Mr. Jordan was engaged in his duties
in a commission house at the Walla
bout market, but when called up by
telephone he said:
"I am Mr. Jordan and it is true 1
married my mother-in-law. I meant
to keep it quiet. There isn’t anything
further to say about it, except that we
are happy."
FUNERAL OF JAMES MILLER
HELD AT WEST END HOME
The funeral of James Miller, mem
i.er of the United Commercial Travel
ers, who died yesterday, will be held at
the residence, 374 Gordon street, at 4
o'clock this afternoon. Interment will
be in Westview cemetery. Mr Miller
was taken ill at Winston-Salem. N. C.,
about three months ago when on a
busimss trip. He is survived by three I
children, John C. Miller. James T. Mil
ler and Miss Lillian Miller, all of At
lanta.
JUDGE DELL RESIGNS.
BRUNSWICK. GA . Aug 12.—That
he may have more time to devote to
his campaign for solicitor of the Bruns
wick Judicial circuit. Judge S. I). Dell,
of th<' city court of Hazlehurst, has re
signed that position, effective today.
opp< sing Mt. Deli nn- E Dart, of this
■ ity. it i E H. Thomas, of Baxley, tin
incumbent
HIE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY. AUGUST 12. 1912.
: ’it:.* from A to Izzard. If the "Number
please," girls should some time* decide
to all quit at once, it wouldn't be at
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 case.
! ONLY ONE CONTEST FOR
OFFICES IN McINTOSH
DARIEN, GA., Aug. 12.—Until a few
days ago there were no announced can
didates in Mclntosh county for county
offices. F. H. McFarland, the present
representative from Mclntosh countv,
will not be a candidate to succeed him
self, and D. R. Mclntosh ami George E.
Atwood are both asking for the place
Charles M. Tyson, the present county
school superintendent, is a candidate
for state senator, this being Mclntosh’s
year to furnish the senator. He has no
opposition. Professor William A. Bran
son, principal of the school at Ridge
ville. is the only candidate for county
school superintendent. The other coun
ty officers are seeking re-election with
out opposition.
SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS
TEACHER’S PALLBEARERS
Miss Belle Kennedy, assistant princi
pal of the Girls High school, who died
yesterday morning at her home. 166
Park avenue, will be buried at Oak
land cemetery Tuesday morning. For
several years she had been a teacher in
Atlanta schools and recently was elect
ed assistant principal of the Girls High
school, from which she graduated a
number of years ago.
Rev. Dunbar Ogden will conduct the
funeral services at the home Tuesday.
Messrs. J J. Eagan, Frank Hill. A. B.
Gartrelle, Robinson. Dr. W. S. Ken
drick and Dr. Toepel of the school
board, will bear the casket.
GEORGIA SWINE HERDS
RAVAGED BY CHOLERA
VIDALIA. GA . Aug. 12.—Reports
have arrived from north of here that
cholera in hogs is responsible for a
large loss to the stock raisers of that
section. Practically no cholera was
known here up to a few years ago, but
since the crops have become more di
versified. corn and incidentally stock,
taking the place of cotton in many lo
calities, this disease has become more
common. Strenuous efforts are being
made* to check and eliminate the
scourge.
TRAVELING MEN IN KANSAS
SEND IN VOTES BY MAIL
TOPEKA, KANS., Aug. 12.—Hun- i
dreds of traveling men and other per- i
sons, forced to be away from home, ■
took advantage in the primary of the
new Kansas law permitting transients
to vote in any precinct in the state.
Under the new law the county in
which the transient voter casts his bal
lot must mail It to his home polling
place, there to be > tainted as if it had
been cast at home
Mr. Gentry only recently returned
* from Europe, where he mad.* a careful
study of the telephone systems in l.**n-
: don and various continental cities. 11**
* came home thoroughly convinced that
America was maintaining its long lead
and that Europe had few ideas to of
fer it. Those few ideas, however, will
. be put into operation in Atlanta and
eventually throughout the Bell com
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 laige increase tn the price of grains
and meats in the United States during
the last year.
The report also shows that the gen
eral crop average on that date was 12.3
per cent more than on the same dat**
last year and 3 per cent more than the
average of recent years.
Prices 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** per bushel,
barley. 66.8 and 69.3 c per bushel; rye,
77.9 and 75.5 c per bushel. Meat prices
I July 15, 1912 and 1911, respectively,
averaged •
Hogs, $6.64 and $5.92 per hundred
pounds; beef cattle, $5.44 and $4.28;
veal calves. $6.33 and $5.74; sheep. $4.21
and $4.19; lambs, $*.73 and $5.42.
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 once The reduction is granted
as the result of the installation of an
auto fire truck.
Toasties served for supper, almost every night,
How ‘ The Memory Lingers,” dreams are always bright.
Wake up in the morning feeling fine and gay,
Breakfast on Post Toasties, happy all the day.
Written by MRS. G E. FEAMSTKR
Wapping St., Frankfort, Ky.
One of the 50 .Jingles for which the Postum Co.,
Battle <’reek, Mich., paid SIOOO.OO in .lune.
Dr. E. G. Griffin’s
Over BROWN & ALLEN’S DRUG STORE, 24’/, WHITEHALL ST.
$5 Set 01 Tee,h ss
_ COMPLETED day ordered
22k Gold Crowns. S 3
Special Bridge Work, $4
All Dental Work Lowest Prices.
COURSE IN HIGH
SCHOOLS FIXED
l
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 tht
five school days of .he w< ek, and the
required subjects are English, mathe
matics, history, science and one elec
tive.
I he course is given below in detail:
First leap—fit Grammar,* composi
tion and spelling. 4: classics. 1. (21
Algebra review arithmetic with ac
counts. 5. Gl» Ancient history. 5. <4>
Physical and co.nmeuial geography. 5.
(5) Elective, (a) a rriculture and man
ual arts or domestic science, or (b>
languages, either Latin. French. Ger
man or Spanish, 5.
Second Year—< I > Bhetoric, 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 (b> lan
guages continued, or (c> stenography
and bookkeeping, 5.
Third Year—fit History of English
literature, composition and classics. 5.
(2> Algebra and geometry, •(At Eng
lish history, 5. (41 Physics. 5. (5)
Elective, (a) agriculture and manual
arts or domestic science, or <l>> lan
guages continued, or (c) stenography
I and bookkeeping, 5.
Fourth Year—(lt History of Ameri
can literature, composition and clas
sics. 5. <2t Trigono'.netry and survev
’ ing or an elective. 5. (3) American his.
lory and civius. 5 (41 Chemistry or
lan elective. 5. (5) elective, (at agrl-
I culture and manual arts or domestic
j scien *e. or (bl languages continued, or
(<•) commercial law and history of
commerce. 5.
F'or two-year high schools In second
year for modern history substitute
American history and civics; for three
year high schools, substitute English
history with American history for third
y eat.
JAPANESE IDOLS SOLD
TO BUY FOODSTUFFS
I
PASADENA. CAL., Aug. 12.—Fifty
seven Japanese idols, the result of
years of collecting, ate en route from
I San Francisco to Henry E. Hunting-
I ton’s mansion here and will find a rest
ing place in the Oriental corner of the
. gardens of his estate. The idols were
t purchased by Huntington through N. D.
I Sai gent, of Pasao* na. expert in Asiatic
art and religion.
I They embrace the entire collection at
I 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
t’lC idols were disposed of.
THIS SLAYER TRIES FOUR
TIMES TO KILL HIMSELF
I.OS 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 rs a result of four desperate at
tempts to kill himself.
F’irst. he tried to cremate himself
while in his bunk in a jail cell. When
laken to the receiving hospital, he tried
to escape, and threw himself under a
passing elect) fit 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 wrist
with a piece of tin.
* 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
(’oast Line and Atlanta, Birmingham
and Atlantic railroads, the three sys
tems entering this city, for traffic ar
i rangements here. The new road has
also made arrangements to use tht
• passenger station of the A.. B. & A
and side-tracks of the three roads
i along Bay street, which will not neces
: sitate the laying of new tracks along
I his street.
FRIENDSHIP FOR LABOR
WILL GET TAFT VOTES
OF WORKERS-HILLES
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 for
labor. When he was first nominated,
in 1908. 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 lie
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 v. ill 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 examin. Mr. Taft’’
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 whilg,
working on an interstate rail ay the
right to have his widow ami 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. Hi* 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 niners, 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 cats', 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 lite
protection of children '*. ho a. oblig'd
to work and the improvement of the
conditions under wh! It they work. But,
above all, he has s. nt 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 duly 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
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 Yaft
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 ih process of en
actment. but for which Mr Taft de
serves the credit, is a model child labor
law for the District of Columbia. Then*
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 foi which the
president is responsible. But theieare
numerous other laws ami 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
The Key to
the Door of
Biismess
is the
Telegraph
Every channel of commercial
life opens to receive a telegram.
The Western Union DAY and
NIGHT LETTERS place the
keys in your hands.
Full Information by Telephone
THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY
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
paying for the actual necessities of life,
and, secondly, by compelling the trust*
to split up into their component part*
a variety* of enifroyers of labor ar*
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 best 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
no( onlv has the wise diplomacy of
President Taft made the exclusion of
Japanese labor as ce’tain as the exclu
sion of the (’him sc labor, but it has ac
complished that, and so diplomatically
that none of the friendship of lapan
has be**n lost, one the contrary, it has
so increased th** friendly relations that
In the first nlre m nths after the treaty
with Jap.in '..ent into •f r < t i.ipan
bought from the United States almost
tw’iee as much as she it *.d bo*’ght in the
entire previous oar. And, ro ighly
spc.iking, half i f all s te p LI to this
country* went for tite labor in the things
she bought.
And in all its relations with foreign
countries the administration has sought
to promote th** d< m tnd f r * American
; oods. This has b*. -a . ,*.ii what con
temptuously called "dollar diplomacy."
,’*.it do you know v *’■• ' tb *• means?
"Dollar di|. m * *y” i leans tot dollars
to bi* distr!’ ated ; s w ge> among
Vnerit *n > ork nen Is I *t . subject
**r t'oiiit-mpi : Il wa this .oliar di
plomacy" which procured from Argen
tina an ord for two ' **ge battleships,
to be built, of < ourse. with American
labor. It har me n; the pr*** r:' ’g of
orders so Ani* ri. n .toons ci: ing the
Taft administration amounting to not
le.* s lh".t s’o'.Otlo too. n ’ * f ’h it
3100,000.000 approximately half has gone
lot nwi : ial an I 'bo other hal. i :.s
gone, or will go. for labor.
Squeezing Out Water Helps Labor,
And. finally, tie < ;ifi .■ cm n. i*f ’’ie
anti-trust law* has cheeked over-eapi-
Ir.lion. Ev* r time a trust was or
ganized there was an addition of an
immense amount of "watet" to its cap
ital sto*. k that is, puri ly fictitious
value. Then, when the workmen de
manded increased wages, it was pointed
out to them that the company could not
pay any more for Yheir labor because
! it could not now pay reasonable divi
, dends on its stock. Os course it could
, not. bi cause a small dividend on ita
nominal stock would have meant an im
mense profit on the money actually in
vested. But w ith the dissolution of she
trusts the water is being squeezed out
of them, and v hen they are obliged to
bid against each other for labor, they
not only i nn. but will have to pay just
wages for the labor they employ.
We hear a good deal these days about
the "pernicious activity of the depart
ment of justice." Do you think that
men who work for their living will
regard that sort of activity “perni
cious?" Wall Street regards it perni
cious. of course. The Harvester trust
and the Steel trust and the Beef trust
regard it as "pernicious" to the last de
gree, a gross Interference of-w hat some
one—l think it was one of the members
of the Anthracite Coal trust—called
the divine right oi' ownership,”
The persistence '.vfth which the de
p tment of. justice has enforced the
safety appliance ; t has b t r *.* r **d
as “pernicious activity" by a certain
class of railway’ directors and trust
magnates. But do you : ttigine for ine
moment that the American workman,
with his intelligence. Is going to re
gard such activity as pernicious, or
even that he w ill fail to a rirei i te the
wi*'*\ which has been done in his be
half .and to approve it with his vote on
next election day?”
Mr. W S. Gunsalus. a farmer living
mat Fleming. I’a., sets he has used
chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diar
rhoea Remedy in his family foi four
•ecn years, ami that In* has found it to
be an xcellent remedy, and takes
pleasure in recommending it. F’or sale
by all dealers. ’*’•
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