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STREET REFORMS SMEiBWNTO ffIOMLL : Sweeping Investigation of Im provement System to Result From Charter Changes. With Gcfvernor Brown's approval of Atlanta's charter amendment bill, which was passed by both branches ot the general assembly yesterday, the council will begin a sweeping investi gation of the city's street improvement system. Mayor Winn and Councilman Aldine Chambers both said today that Gov ernor Brown had given them assur ance that he would approve the bill. On account of the limited time before ) the city election, a special meeting of i the council will be called to appoint an > investigating committee. The charter I amendment gives the council authority I thoroughly to reorganize the chief of j construction department and make many other changes. Many officials today expressed the opinion that The Georgian's campaign for better atreets would soon show gen uine material results. Aiderman John S. Candler said that there was no doubt that the real troubles with the street Improvement system would be revealed by the Investigation and the necessary adjustments made. A majority of the city fathers are agreed that drastic ac tion must be taken. Special Session Necessary. The city council meets Monday, but on account of the many bills Governor Brown will have submitted to him it is not expected that he will have an op portunity to approve the city bill be- . fore the middle of next week. There- j fore, a special meeting of the council ; will probably be called. The bill also gives the council the right to close the Forsyth street under pass. provided an outlet for the stores fronting on the railroad tracks can be secured of which the governor will ap prove. This will help to make Forsyth street one of the principal thorough fares of the city. Authority to tax locker clubs SSOO each and to close them through the revocation of permits is granted. It is expected that his provision will result Jn the closing of a number of alleged chibs by the city council. The bill submits the annexation of Capitol View to a vote of the people of I Capitol View. HUNT STEPFATHER IN SEARCH FOR SLAYER OF SIX-YEAR-OLD GIRL LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14.—Police In- ' vestlgation following the discovery of ’ the dead body of Vivian Greenfield, a sdx-year-old girl, tn a room of a Venice hotel late yesterday has led to a search for Charles E. Greenfield, her step father, as the alleged murderer. T'ne body, covered up in bed, was found by : a maid a few minutes after Greenfield left th® room. The child had been dead eeveral hours. No motive cam be given for the crime. Greenfield came here from Chicago four months ago. He was a sheet metal worker and had been out of employ ment for some weeks. linerTn port 7 with PASSENGERS TAKEN FROM SHIP ASHORE BOSTON. Aug 14.—The Dominion Atlantic line steamer Prince Arthur, with the 172 passengers of the Prince George, which ran ashore in a thick fog off Yarmouth. N. S.. on board, docked at Long wharf this morning. Hundreds of friends and relatives of the passengers were at the pier. The transfer of the passengers from the Prince George to her sister ship, which had been called by wireless, was effected In a thick fog. All the pas sengers were safely transferred. The Prince George is reported still ashore, badly damaged, SALVATION ARMY IS PRAYING LIFE OF ITS FOUNDER BE SPARED LONDON, Aug. 14. —Prayers for the re covery of General William Booth, founder and head of the Salvation Army, who is seriously ill here, were spoken In thou sands of Salvation Army barracks throughout the world today From num berless street corners, where open air meetings of the Salvationists are held daily and nightly, petitions were directed in the course ot the service for a pro longation of the useful life of the aged < vangelist. General Booth's condition according to a morning bulletin showed little if any improvement. Be was unable to sleep last night from insomnia which added to his nervous condition SIXTEEN 8188 CANDIDATES PAY PRIMARY ASSESSMENT MACON, GA.. Aug. 14.—N0 candi dates withdrew from the races In Bibb county, all paying their assessments. Those who will be voted on next week, sixteen In all, are as follows: Congress —C. L. Bartlett, J. W. Wise, John R. Cooper. Judge of Superior Court —H. A. Mat thews Robert Hodges. <'laud Estes. State Senate —W D McNeil, < diver C Hancock Solicitor General —John P Ross. Ro land Ellis Representative Minter Wimberly, Aithur L. Dasher, Ben .1. Fowler. Nat R Winship, Wallace Miller and W. R. Barnes. Atlanta Business Men Masters of Crafts 10 MORGAN A CANDY MAKER i i J . - ~ ~x\ ! "A Ml Bi* ‘ I 1" Mi 111 _ < » P 1 Wft* • - t« ' JauiaaMl 1 V k | a z * 'll . II ; f I I V *dK fl JU r-v — H| ■ ■ j* i Uh i I w| taWOBIMIf 1 ‘•ill B I ft A SKEW flat , 'lOkm? wWb.g* Via* TfaL • mH m.THaPIIW* IKlflHsOn ' *v ft WHI . wags bK i , " Brooks Morgan, dee president ami manager of the Frank E. Block Candy Company, wiio knows as much about making candy as his most skillful employees. FEE BILL GOES T 0 GOV.J.M.BROWN Watchful Wohlwender. of Mus cogee, Finally Puts “Old 88” Across in the House. A long sigh of relief is on its way heavenward today, for senate bill No 88, the pride and erstwhile pet anxiety of Representative Ed Wohlwender, of Muscogee, has passed the house of rep resentatives, and now awaits the sig nature of Governor Brown! This Is a bill to require all officials receiving fees in Georgia to keep ac curate records thereof, and to submit them to public inspection from time to time. There was much opposition to it, and for a while it looked as if it surely would fail of passage. It doubtles would have suffered that sad fate had some one other than Watchful Wohl vender been behind it. On the first day of the present ses sion Wohlwender moved to take old bill 88 out of the pigeonhole, where it had reposed a year or so. and "shove her through." There was objection, and Wohlwender sat down. Three days aft er that. Wohlwender tried it again— nothing doing. Always the Same Clamor. Then Wohlwender. who has a voice ike a—fog horn and a vocabulary three degrees finer than Elbert Hubbard’s, settled right down to a steady thrice a-week viewing- wlth-alarm that Old 88 never had been brought to the house 'or its august and distinguished con sideration. Finally, the rules committee got hold »f the thing, and Wohlwender changed his thrlce-a-week viewing- wlth-alarm to a twlce-a-week performance. - He ripped that rules committee up the back, on the bias, and across lots. He said things about It that can not be printed in any newspaper hoping to get by the postal authorities. There was hardly a night that "passed in which Wohlwender did not toss and groan In nightmare about Old 88. and the rules committee coming out of its lair every few minutes and sitting heavy and de pressing-like on Wohlwender’s manly chest. At last the pressure got too stout for "Bob" Hardeman and his crowd, anti they resolved that the rules commit tee must report Old 88 for a hearing in the house, or Wohlwender would organ ize a lynching party, and there might not be any rules committee soon. So the bill was put on the calendar Tues day. and Wohlwender was happy an 1 the thing passed with a whoop! Now. “Bob” Hardeman, who engi neers the rules committee’s steam roll er. has a neatly framed motto hanging over his desk in the speaker's room, which reads "Oh, peislstency, thy name Is Wohlwender. of Muscogee!” THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 14. 1912. I | i Vice President and Manager of ; Block Company Learned the i Business From Ground Up. Brooks Morgan, vi p pr side it anil ■ manager of Frank E. Block 6’- <’• .. man- ■ ufacturers of candv at 1 crackers. ; knows just as much about the manual work of his big shop as do the em- I ployees who daily earn their living 1 there With all the skill of one of the deft fingered girls in the shop, he can set tiny little blocks of candy to running through a big machine that Covers them with chocolate coating, brushes them off and sends the sweet morsels on their way to the drying and cooling room. He can take a look at a monster cal dron of boiling syrup and tell just when it should be cooled off. and that takes skill, the candy makers say. For if you take it off the fire too soon there is going to be sugar instead of candy when you cool it Candymaking hasn't been Mr. Mor gans lifework. He started out as a young clerk with the Southern Rail way Company and worked his way up to the position of assistant general pas senger agent. "That young Morgan is going right along and he’ll be at the head of the road some day," was the prophecy of old-timers, who knew by experience when they saw a railroad man. About that, time the young man mar ried. His wife was the daughter of Frank E. Block. Soon afterward Mr. Block's health failed and he was unable to attend to the business which he had made one of the largest in the South, so he persuaded his son-in-law to Join forces with him. Despite the fact that hts early train ing and tastes were for railroading. Brooks Morgan started in to help out the man whdse daughter he had mar ried. He learned the business from the bottom up. while managing it. In over alls, he studied the actual work of mak ing candy and learned it so that his old employees acknowledge that he can tell them many things about the work which they learned In their youth. Mr. Morgan has also taken a great Interest in the doings of other whole sale confectioners and knows many of I the leading men in this country per sonally. He has attended conventions and made himself felt, there as much as he has made the force of his personal ity felt in the office at his factory —— ■ ■ ■■ - ■ THOMAS SHOWS TAX GAIN. THOMASVILLE. GA., Aug. 14.—The tax returns of Thomas county show a gain of *80,061 for 1912. Last year there was a gain of $250,000. The largest increase this year is from the Boston district, with $.’.0,167. Meigs comes next with an increase of $44,- 889. Thomasville shows a decrease. The returns this year for Thomas coun ty total $7,259,562. TAYLOR VETERANS MEET. BUTLER. GA.. Aug. 14.—The Con federate veterans of Taylor county held their annual reunion at Butler y ester day. The resignation of A. G. McGee as commander of this camp was ten dered and accepted. Colonel .1 A. Steed yvas unanimously elected to fill this place. charge is false? ; MATTHEWS SAYS Candidate for Macon Judgeship Denies Being in League With Saloon Men. MACON, GA.. Aug. 14 —The charge that Solicitor Genera! H. A. f.latthews, of Fort Valley, who is a candidate for judge of the superior courts of the Ma con circuit, promised protection to at least two violators of th° prohibition law in exchange for their votes and support has been made and denied However, there will probably be more interesting developments. depending upon whether Mr. Matthews can ascer tain yy ho paid for an advertisement in a Macon paper yesterday that contained this charge against him. The advertisement asserted that Ike Rashinski, a saloon keeper, who has been convicted several times, and against whom a case is pending now, is managing Mr. Matthews* campaign for judge. it further asserted that Bashinski and Mr. Matthews went to gethei to \t . T. Amerson, another sa loon keeper, and Bashlnski. with the candidate for judge acquiescing, as sured Amerson he would be protected in the future if he voted for Mr. Mat thews and worked against Judge Rob ert Hodges. Who is also a candidate Mr. Matthews immediately declared that the charge was a canard, and that the man who made it was "a contempt! ble liar." Bashlnski said he did n>t know any - thing about it. and declared he had no connection with Mr. Matthews or his campaign. Amerson also denied completely his alleged part in the affair. BAXLEY TO HAVE LIGHTS BAXLEY, GA., Aug 14.—The ma chinery f<„ , t i„. new electric light and waterworks plant for Baxley is being placed in the power house near the Southern railway. The poles ar.- up and most ot the wires strung Resi dences and stores are being wired for electric lights. The plant is owned by the city. Lights will he turned on In , September. TOM WATSON TO SPEAK. \ IDALIA. GA., Aug. 14. Immediate ly after the election is over the friends of Tom . Watson will be given an oppor tunity to hear him deliver an address. An engagement has been made for him to speak at Tiger Springs, six miles north of here on the Georgia ami Flor ida road. FARMERS HEAR UNION SPEAKERS VIDALIA, GA.. Aug. 14 A number of the farmers of this section met .ft Glenwood to hear President Lawton Brown of the Georgia Slate Farmers union and L. B. Cheatham, traffic man ager of the National Warehous. Com pline. apeak In the Interest of a mor. scientific marketing of the cotton crop MES TAFT'S CHIEF ADVISER New York Boss Heads Commit tee to Inspect Plans for G. 0. P. Campaign. NEW YORK. Aug 14—Charles D Hilles, chairman of the Republican na tional committee, has announced the names of all the members of the ad visory committee for the campaign. William Barnes. Jr., chairman of th. New York Republican state committee, is at the head. The other members are S< nator Theo, i E. Burton, of Ohio: State Senator Colo- I nel Austin Colgate, of New Jersey: Thomas H Devine, of Colorado; Gov ernor Philip Lee Goldsborough, of Maryland; John Hays Hammond, J. B 'Keating, of Indiana; former United I States District Attorney Adolph Lew [ isohn, of New York; Henry F. Lippitt. senator from Rhode Island: David W. Mulvane, of Kansas: Colonel Harris I New, of Indiana; Herbert Parsons, of New York; Samuel L. Powers, former congressman from Massachusetts; Eli liu Root, senator from New York. John Wanamaker, of Pennsylvania; George R. Sheldon, treasurer of the Republican national committee in 190$; Otto Stif fel, of Missouri, and Fred W. Upham, of Illinois. Ax for Surveyor Favoring Roosevelt NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 14.—Having been request< d to resign as surveyor «»»' customs at New Orleans Ijy Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagli. Louis P I Bryant h is refused to quit, charging I that the action of the secretary ij< the result of his active support of Colonel ! Roosevelt for the presidency. Calling upon Surveyor Bryant to va- I cate the office, "for the good of the | service," Set t -tary MacVeagh suggests | that the resignation become effective “at tlie earliest convenient time." Mr. | Bryant deviated that he resented the ' request for his resignation on the j ground stated, and that while he ex . pected to have to give up the office, he would rot do so In accordance with the secretary’s request. "There is no doubt in the world that polities, pure and simple, led to the ac tion of the secretary In demanding my resignation.” asserted Mr Bryant. "It is an open fact that 1 am for Colonel Roosevelt, and they have determined to decapitate all the Roosevelt men. I am one of the first to get the blow.” Mr. Bryant was appointed surveyor of customs at New Orleans by Presi | | dent Taft on June 19. 1909. CAPT. W. P. MANLEY ( DEAD; WAS CHIEF OF POLICE FOUR YEARS The body of Captain W. P Manley, former chief of police, who died last night after a long illness, lies at Green berg & Bond’s chapel awaiting funeral arrangements. Captain Manley, who was 92 years old, was widely am! favorably known in Atlanta. He entered the police de partment as a young man and saw it developed from a handful of men to the present organization. Through succes sive promotions he was made chief in 1897 and held that position for four years. During the past few years he had been living quietly with his wife and son at Austell, Ga. He belonged to the Masons and the Odd Fellows. DIAMOND JIM BRADY ABLE TO EAT AGAIN; $220,000 HIS THANKS BALTIMORE, Aug. 14. His appe tite restored, “Diamond Jim" Brady, of New York, has given $1'20,000 to Johns | Hopkins hospital here. After suffering for nearly six months ! from stomach trouble, during which he ! could not indulge even in the luxury of I dry toast without being savagely re- j venged during digestion. Mr. Brady ‘ was able to sit down to his first big meal last Thursday night. The menu was as follows: ('anta loupe. cherry stone clams, chicken j gumbo (strained), sea bass, wine, j ' broiled squab, turkey, string beans, | I salad, demltasse, cigars, champagne. HATS MUST COME OFF IN MACON'S PICTURE SHOWS MACON. GA., Aug. 14.—Astor lying j dormant in the city code for twelve years, an ordinance requiring women to remove their hets In theaters will he enforced hereafter by the picture show proprietors. The ordinance was passed by council in 1900 before*moving pic- I ture theaters came into existence, but I it says that “ladies in any theater must remove their hats.'’ and this is con ] st rued by the city authorities to apply to the present playhouses. There has been so much complaint against big hats in the picture shows that the ordi nance was dug up and will now be put into effect. NO BAD BOYS AND GIRLS IN MACON. SAYS POSTMASTER MACON. GA, Aug 14 Postmaster Harry Stillwell Edwards declares that there Is no need foi’ enforcing in Ma con the recent postoffice order against the abuse of the general delivery win dow system. There are no bad boys and girls tn Macon, and few. if any. crooks in Ma con who patronize the general deliv ers," he says, "and thus th< order will not result in any changes here " PRESIDENT IS LOYAL TO CONSERVATION POLICY, SAYS CHAS, D. HILLES By CHARLES D. HILLES. Chairman of Republ’can National Committee. President Taft’s record as a conser vationist must convince every unprej udiced inouirer of Ills unswerving loy- alty to that great policy. He has p 1 a c ed measures above men, but never in the slightest degree has he yielded one iota from that pol icy, and the fact that millions of acres of oil. gas. phosphate and mineral lands are lying idle because congress has not seen tit thus far to enact proper leas ing laws consti t u t e the most striking testimo nial to his un- Jet J w- swerving loyalty to the policy. There ate some conservationists who would have the public believe that a majority of the conservationists are op posed to the president. This is not the fact. A few conservationists who have been able to make much clamor and to deceive people Into believing that they constituted a majority are opposed to the president—not because he is not a conservationist, but because he could not and would not approve illegal meth ods and because when they came to re gard themselves as larger than the pol icy Itself and even as above the law, Mr Taft promptly dispensed with their services. But if you will look into the subject you will find that they consti tute a very small minority. Results Have Been Obtained. The conservation movement is one of the most important in this country, and that policy has been one of the most important and the most strictly adhered to of this administration. A great part of the conservation work of this gov ernment has been done by tlie scientific experts of the geological survey. Os course, in the eyes of'certaln persons who can see no good outside of the for est service, that in itself is a crime. But the great army of conservation ists want results, concrete results, and these they have obtained under the Taft administration. For instance, the survey's classification of coal lands has nearly trebled the valuation of 15,000.- 000 acres of coal lands. These lands have been segregated, and not an acre is passing to private ownership. Pres ident Taft has declared himself un equivocally for the leasing of coal lands, and sooner or later congress will enact the necessary legislation. And until it does, President Taft will protect these lands, as he will all similar mineral lands, from passing into the hands of private individuals, to pass in turn, as they surely would, into the hands of monopolists. How important is the president’s stand in this regard may he judged from the fact that the geological sur vey has found 20.000.000 acres of ex ceptionally rich llgnate lands In Mon tana. of which oni- 40-acre tract con tains more than 2.500,000 tons. The withdrawals made by order of President Taft include 68.215,489 acres of.coal lands, 4,774,182 acres of oil lands. 3.340.561 acres of phosphate lands. 1,813,753 acres of land available for power sites. 97,228 acres set apart for water reservoirs and mole than 300.000 acres set apart for public waterworks, experimental station purposes, etc. ('an you beat this? Trbute For Potash. Do you realize that this country pays foreign producers of potash $10,000,000 a year and that this sum all comes ■ nit of the po( kets of the American farmers.' President Taft has directed that all tlie available scientific knowl edge of the government be directed to finding a method of producing this pot- I “Were (ill medicines as meritorious iis <'hamlx rlain's Colic, Cholera and | Diarrhoea Remedy, the world would be i much better off and the percentage of ' suffering greatly decreased,” writes | Lindsay Scott, of Temple, Ind. For 1 -ale by all dealers. ’»• [rwaOTwwMaHHHBWMnmmHaHMMMBH How Will You Stand The Summer? P)R- KING'S Royal Germeturr purges the body of poisons se creted by inactive or over-worked organs. It destroys disease germs before they weak en the vital parts. It fortifies the whole sys tem against sickness. GERMETUER Is recommended for fevers, rheumatism, bowel troubles, blood, skin and nervous diseases, etc. Its effect is lasting and beneficial. Germetuer will help you. SI.OO per bottle. For sale by all drug gists, or Ellis-Lilly beck Drug Co. MEMPHIS, TENN. ash right here in the United States. If we succeed, not only will $10,000,000 be kept here in our own market, in stead of going to Germany, but an im mense saving will be effected for the benefit of the farmer. What better kind of conservation is there than that? Besides potash the farmer has io buy phosphates. President Taft ha» withdrawn from entry, as I have said, more than 3,000,000 acres of phosphat* lands in Wyoming. Idaho and Utah. As soon as congress can be induced to en act the proper legislation these lands will be worked—not for the benefit of a few monopolists, but under such re strictions as will insure competition and a fair price to the farmer for this, one of the essential elements of plant food. Then look at the 4.700,000 acres of oil lands which have, been withdrawn from entry. Do you think the Stand ard Oil trust would have been possible had the government pursued the wise policy of conservation when that insti tution was In Its formative period? Os course, the policy was not known then, but it is now. and it has no more val iant champion than President Taft. Fear Democratic Rule. I hate to think what would become of these e valuable lands which have been so carefully withdrawn from en try were there to be a Democratic ad ministration; but 1 know, and every man who wants to exploit these lands for his own pt ivate gain knows, that, as long as William H. Taft is in the white house the monopolists will get no chance. And while I am discussing the sub ject of conservation, I want to point out to you what economies have been effected in the administration of the general land office under President Taft and through the agencies of Secretary Fisher and Commissioner Dennett. I will not bore you with more figures, but take just one item. A saving of $194,- 000 a year in salaries alone has been effected, and the land office is more ef ficient today than it ever was in its history. I have frequently had put to me a delicate question as to why. if Presi dent Taft is a loyal conservationist, he appointed R. A. Ballinger as secretary of the interior President Taft ap pointed Judge Ballinger secretary of the interior because he had had useful experience as commissioner of the general land office, having been ap pointed by President Roosevelt on the recommendation of Secretary Garfield, who had known him from their college days at Williams. Garfield congratu lated the country upon the accession to public life of a man of Judge Ballin ger's preparation, probity and patriot ism. Why Taft Backed Ballinger. Certain enemies of Judge Ballinger, notably the head of the forest service, attacked Judge Ballinger— not on the ground that he was not progressive or a loyal conservationist, but with the charge that he was dishonest. Presi dent Taft was convinced that Mr. Bal linger was an absolutely honest man and he could not then have asked for Judge Ballinger's resignation without seeming to confirm the charge agafrst his integrity, even if persuaded that he was not heartily in sympathy with the president's conservation program. There are those who think ft would have been good politics for President Taft to have demanded Judge Ballin ger's resignation at once, but Mr. Taft is too manly and too just a man to cast such a reflection on any man's reputa tion without warrant. , But conclusive proof of Mr. Taft’s loyalty to the conservation policy is afforded by his selection of Walter L. Fisher, a former president of the Na tional Conservation association, as Judge Ballinger’s successor. And. mark you, when Secretary Fisher assumed the office he found that not one back ward step had been taken, not one acre of land had been lost, not one power site had passed into private ownership since Secretary Garfield had retired front the office. Clogged-Up Liver Causes Headache It’s a foolish proceeding to suffer from con stipation, sick headache, btltousaeaa, duzineu, indigestion and kindred ail meats when CARTER’S LITTLE UVER T X PILLS will end all miter y in a few yypgrie hours. Purely vegetable. • ILVes Act gently ■ IVER on liver Iff PLLCS •nd Wt bowels. - -•■- i nnrt Smfttl Pill. Small Do»«, Smail Price. The GENUINE must bear signature Diseases of Men MY experience of 36 yearn has shown me that more human wrecks am caused by a chronic local disease than Bby any other. No disease needs more careful or scien tific attention to effect a cure. I also know there Is no quick cure for specific blood poi son. Temporary removal of symp toms is not a cure. Experience. care ful attention to de tails and a thor ough knowledge of how and when to use the remedies known to be bene ficial in the treat ment of this dis ease. produce re- I DR. WM. M. bairp suits. Honest bus | grown• Randolph Bldq.| n oss methods and Atlants. Qa. conscientious treat ment are features of my office. Exam inations free Office hours 8 to 7; Sun days and holidays, 10 to 1. My mone -1 graphs tree in plain, scaled wrapper. . 3