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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 .. ; , | ry isL*'-<0- 'Hi Helo Girl s Pace, lie kim\how. j L// < Mpu \\ \ /I / ..* I / VvK <y*** l * ; U * /z i|WaT* w7 x//.*-■--■. /SW- x ' A ■/ I \vmO-. / \ \ HBhl ® / \w Ek i V\ & 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. 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